Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. Got a great show plan for you. I'm going to probably

be calling most of you out with this first topic. I was, excuse me, preparing for tonight's show.

As you can tell, I still have a cold because 2022 is literally relentless. We'll not let up with the deluge of issues and problems. So health is one

of those, which is why I'm basically living in a cave under Iraq so I can avoid all that's

going on around me. I don't want to get anyone sick. I'm tired of getting sick myself. But the topic is phone snubbing, also known as fubbing, because like I was saying in the

tease, this was last week, but every time we have technology, a technological advancement,

I should say, it always trickles down into media, sexuality, relationality, and that's a good thing.

You know, these technological advancements have a pervasive impact and it kind of pushes every industry forward, new expectations, but also new pathologies, new ways of harming ourselves and others and our mental and relational lives.

Why, oh, why should cell phone

innovation be any different? You know, in the beginning, people thought, how great, super rad,

just to have your phone in your hand in your pocket. Oh, we can text now, we thought, because I

remember when cell phones came out some people some of our listeners

only know cell phones but I'm of the generation where they didn't exist in my teenage years

honestly thankfully in some ways harmfully in other ways I'm on the fence as to whether or not

my teenage college years would have been made better or worse, probably worse, to be honest.

Back then, we had to really get ourselves out of the house.

We had to tap into self-worth and self-esteem to kind of interface with the world.

And that, again, that worked for many of us and worked against others of us.

Really depended on your privilege and your level of, you know, market value as per what the

culture has decided,

right? Because we definitely live in a world where there's a vast list of norms and values and

aesthetic expectations that determine how worthy we feel and how we're treated. And we have to

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