Our Hippopotamuses Are Shrinking?!
Armstrong & Getty On Demand
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Smart phones effects on the brain & new Harvard policy
- Sports injuries
- Hospice fraud in CA & Newsom's staff using gay slurs
- Artemis 2 moon mission
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.3 | Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio |
| 0:09.7 | at the George Washington Broadcast Center. |
| 0:12.2 | Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. |
| 0:14.5 | Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:15.8 | And now here's Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:27.1 | I broke up with my iPhone for two weeks and fooled around with an old school flip phone, |
| 0:33.0 | but this forces friction into your life. |
| 0:35.1 | It takes away all that ease. |
| 0:37.2 | It was really excruciating at first, |
| 0:38.9 | but then we went back and the brain test were really staggering. Even the experts are surprised by |
| 0:42.9 | the difference. Your hippocampus, the part of your brain that creates memories, |
| 0:47.4 | shrinking because we use Google Maps. We don't navigate the world the way our ancestors did. |
| 0:53.4 | Our focus has gone from about two and a half minutes. |
| 0:57.0 | People could focus on something year 2000 or so. |
| 1:00.3 | Now it's around 47 seconds. |
| 1:03.4 | Well, our hippopotamuses are shrinking. |
| 1:05.9 | That's correct, yeah. |
| 1:07.0 | Lack of water to the Nile. |
| 1:09.1 | That's Bill Weir. |
| 1:10.6 | Really interesting story. So what was the last stat they had there? I'm sorry, Katie. What was the last stat they had there about our attention span? Obviously, I couldn't pay attention. Oh, my God. The irony police had been alerted. Jack couldn't pay attention long enough to a story about |
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