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and use the code Scaries at checkout. But without further ado, my name is Will DeFrees,

and this is the Sunday Scaries podcast, your cure for the Sunday Blues.

There's a moment when you realize what you've done. The only light in your bedroom isn't coming

from the television your alarm clock or even the streetlight outside. Instead, it's being

directly from your hand into your face. When you laid your head down to rest, you had ambitions of

making it to bed at a reasonable time. Instead, you've now found yourself endlessly scrolling through

an app that's designed to make you do just that. Lose track of time and keep you up at night.

Of course, I'm talking about TikTok. The app that's taken over, well, pretty much everything.

A few months back, I discussed how hilariously dangerous going on TikTok can be at night. One moment

you're turning your Apple TV off and the next you're watching some college kid drink 12 beers

consecutively before drunkenly raiding them. However, I'm actually somewhat proud of myself. Over

the last month or so, I've reduced my time on the app nearly 10 fold. There's been no strategy to

it other than knowing I shouldn't open it, but it's lowered my overall screen time by at least 10%

since making the change. And in doing so, I've also identified the various wormholes that the

app gets me stuck in. These, my friends, are the most dangerously relaxing TikTok wormholes

that will waste your time. Our first is the most old man one that there could be, landscape

talk. I, much like everyone else, love a perfectly manicured lawn. In fact, I'd go as far to say that

lying on a blanket on a well-managed lawn is a perfect hangover cure. And perhaps that's why

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