I don’t think Elias was lying when he said he listened to Ghosthunt UK, specifically because of a turn of phrase he uses in MAG 160: he qualifies the extraction of Melanie’s bullet as “surgery gone wrong”, a typical YouTube clickbait construction that could also be construed as a nod to her former profession. (He clearly loves his ironies.) So intriguing.
He’s an old man! He has hobbies! He’s unrelentingly chasing after the goal of breaking reality itself so no one can do it to him first! He’s nerdy!