Reading Is Bad For Women

Softcore History

History, Comedy, Improv

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

If you think social media is unhealthy for people, you’re right. But it’s not a new phenomenon. From the invention of the printing press kicking off 300 years of witch trials, to doctors blaming depression in young girls on unrealistic lifestyles portrayed in cheap 18th-century romance novels, it turns out people have never handled the ability to create and consume their own content well. Author of “The Social Media Detox” Tiege Dooley-Panko joins the show to help break it down.

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Rob Fox
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0:00.0	The best way to support this podcast is to go to patreon.com slash softcore history where you get two additional episodes every week on Wednesday and Friday.
0:08.6	And at this point, a three-year evergreen back catalog with hours, days, months of content to listen to.
0:18.0	So go ahead and check out patreon.com slash softcore history.
0:22.6	Thank you.
0:25.3	This week on softcore history, we are joined by the author of the social media detox,
0:30.5	Teague Dooley-Penko, to talk about how social media scares are not unique to the 21st century,
0:37.2	but have, in fact fact existed as long as the
0:40.9	printing press. From scandalous pamphlets about witches to CD novels about romance,
0:46.9	information has never not been dangerous to the youth and women in society. Enjoy the show.
1:00.3	Welcome to Softcore History.
1:06.5	What is up? Welcome back to SoftCore History. I am your host for the week, Rob Fox, joined as always by Dan Regester.
1:14.4	Thank you for having me on your show, Rob. It's so good to have you. It's always a pleasure.
1:18.3	What's been up to lately? What's going on with Dan in 2025? Yeah. Big things. Big things, Rob.
1:24.1	Golf bets. It doesn't matter. Okay. Great things.
1:28.2	Better things coming.
1:29.7	Down the pipeline.
1:30.8	Sure.
1:31.4	I want to keep it close to the vest.
1:33.1	Okay, yeah.
1:33.4	You don't want to tell the people.
1:34.3	There's not a lot reason to talk on a podcast.
1:36.8	No, strong silent type.
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