Welcome to the Rush Hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride.

Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal.

All right, hey, everybody. It's Dave Neal, host of the Rush Hour podcast with a nice weekend treat for you.

Today's guest on the podcast is the creator of the social media

detox, a 14-day program designed to help you break free from your attachment to social media.

It's Teague Dooley Penco. How are you? Hi, I'm so good. Thanks so much for having me. This is

exciting. Yeah, it's so nice to talk to you. I saw your social media post that you launched this program,

a book regarding our addictions. We always talk about how bad social media can get, but like,

what are we doing about it? Like, how did you go from the concept of wanting to make this to where

we are now? Yeah. You know, I realized I myself had a problem and I wanted to start finding tools and tricks to

help myself get offline and start being more mindful in my own, you know, existence. And so honestly,

it was like a conversation with my therapist. And then we started talking about tools and tricks.

And then I started putting this program together.

And that's kind of how it snowballed.

And I talked to a lot of really smart people to put it together.

So I'm really proud of what we came up with.

Now before the before we get into like what the book's all about in the detox, what is that feeling that you get when you know like I'm on this thing too long? Or is it just like,

do you feel like depleted? Right? Because it's like we only have so much of that feel good

energy in our body and it almost feels like it robs it from us. Yeah, absolutely. I mean,

I think it's that compulsion, right? It's like that that constant need to be stimulated which is everywhere you know like even when I go

on a walk outside it's hard for me to not listen to a podcast or listen to something it's like we're

always we just want to like be locked in on something and have that dopamine at all times um but yeah

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