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Get Off My Lawn Podcast w/ Gavin McInnes

Get Off My Lawn Podcast #50 | My phone addiction has reached critical mass

Get Off My Lawn Podcast w/ Gavin McInnes

303246

Getoffmylawn, Comedy, Podcast, Society & Culture, Gavinmcinnes

4.75.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

I am on my phone almost as much as you are and we need to stop. It’s preventing us from having deep thoughts and it’s removing us from ourselves. This is making us weaker when we meet new people. Not to sound too LA but when you’ve worked on yourself, you’re more comfortable around people. Like America, if people don’t like you, they can leave. You have to like you first and that begins with getting away from your damn phone (I typed this on my phone BTW).

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0:00.0

My phone addiction has reached critical mass.

0:03.6

I'm now a crack head. I'm a junkie. And it's ironic because my job in this family

0:09.0

is to take away screens from children and get them in my lock box.

0:12.8

Which, by the way, gets more intense every day.

0:16.5

This morning, I see them skulking around at 6.30 in the morning, the youngest one,

0:21.3

trying to build a wall not to keep on immigrants, but a wall of pillows that can get up to the

0:26.6

lock box where all the screens are locked away. I don't know what you're going to do when you get

0:29.9

up there, shrimp. Pick the lock. Good luck with that. And I also got to get the kids away from this,

0:38.8

especially my middle son there, from this game fortnight. And when you take it away,

0:44.7

holy shit do you ever realize what a drug this is? I mean, he'll be in a bad mood for a day and a half

0:53.1

because there's no screens at all now, Monday to Thursday. So I take it away, Sunday, he knows

0:58.2

he's about to go into withdrawal systems as a dumb chick once said to me. So it's like it's the

1:05.5

last hit for a junkie. You know, when he's going to prison, they'll do a nice little skin pop

1:10.4

with the syringe, right at right at rikers. I'm going with a good buzz. That's his Sunday nights.

1:17.2

And you think, dude, I'm not taking away your insulin, you diabetic. You're not going to die,

1:23.7

but it's a it's a brutal addiction with these kids. And the problem too is you take it away and

1:30.4

they just go to their friends house and play it. But what am I going to do? And I'm just as bad.

1:38.8

If there's an excuse I can find, like the kids are bouncing on the trampoline or something,

1:45.2

I can see them on I have cameras all over the property. So I can see them bouncing. I know I'm safe.

1:50.8

I could be fixing something in the house or here's the crucial thing. Having a deep thought,

1:56.4

just having a thought. But I'm not I'm just flipping through stuff. Some of it's important.

2:03.3

Some of it's major deals. Sometimes I'm organizing tours. My most recent job that pays very,

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