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Oh Jonathan, good see you sir. Good to see you, sir.

Good to see you again, Joe.

The same problems that you talked about when you were here last that I referenced many times since on the

podcast have only exacerbated unfortunately and that's why you wrote this the anxious generation and it could not be more true how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness.

I don't think anybody can dispute that.

Yeah, when I was on last time there was a dispute. There were some psychologists who said, oh, this is just a moral panic.

They said this about video games and comic books and, you know, no, you know, this is not a real thing they said now they don't yeah I think

it was pretty obvious I think it was only their preconceived notions that were

keeping them from admitting it before or at least looking at it before.

Or maybe they don't have children.

You know, could be that.

I think a lot of older people, particularly boomers, they're a little bit disconnected

from them because they're not, unless they're addicted to Twitter. You know because they're not unless they're addicted to

Twitter you know they're not engaging in this stuff yeah and they're often thinking you

know when I was a kid we watch too much TV and we turned out okay yeah but part of

the message of the book is that social media and things kids are doing on screens are not really like TV.

They're much, much worse for development.

Yeah, and even watching too much TV, I don't agree that they turned out okay.

I think it had a pervasive effect.

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