AEE 1567: Are You Guilty of Doomscrolling?

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1567. Are you guilty of doom-scrolling?
0:08.8	Welcome to the All-Ears English Podcast. Downloaded more than 200 million times.
0:15.6	Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by
0:22.3	focusing on connection, not perfection. With your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English
0:30.0	adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York
0:37.2	City, USA. And to get real-time transcripts right on your phone and create your personalized vocabulary
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0:57.9	Doom-scrolling has become a huge buzzword and most people are guilty of it. Today,
1:03.2	learn our thoughts on doom-scrolling and get some new vocabulary to make sure you aren't all doom and gloom.
1:09.7	Hey Michelle, how's it going there? How are you doing? Hey Lindsay, I'm good, how are you?
1:18.7	Oh my gosh, it's springtime. I'm happy about that. I love the month of May because the sun comes out
1:24.0	and it gets a little warm, so yeah, I'm doing well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too. I'm loving it too.
1:30.6	Good, but one thing is for sure. What's that, Michelle? Tell me what is for sure? People like
1:38.7	I don't want to say people like bad news, but people get caught up in a lot of negativity.
1:46.0	The human mind, it's such an enigma, isn't it? I know. Why do we do that? Do you do that? Do you
1:52.5	find that you like are searching for information and you almost are like not looking for negativity,
1:59.1	but you're getting too much of bad things. Yeah, I think many bad things. Yeah, I do think there
2:05.2	is something that happens in the human brain. I remember this was happening more so for me during
2:10.3	the Trump era when all this bad news was coming out almost every three days. There was something crazy
2:16.2	that was happening. Not trying to express political views, but it was a roller coaster for me.
2:22.5	And it was just, it was really, but in a sense, I felt like I had to watch it to know what was
2:27.6	going on and I got a hit of dopamine. It's dopamine that we get. Right. And it's like adrenaline or
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