Step Away From the Screen

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

How much time did you spend on an anti-boredom gadget today? We watch entire seasons of television in a day, we scroll through infinite streams of social media, and we are transfixed by games designed as deftly as slot machines. Adam Alter says it's time to consider measures that will help everyone to cut back. His book is called Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. For the Spiel, your leggings have become a problem. Today's sponsor: Betterment,an automated investing service that makes investing easy. For a limited time, sign up for Betterment and you may qualify for a free Canary home security system to help secure your home. Visit Betterment.com/gist for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.6	It's Monday, March 27, 2017.
0:10.7	From Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:12.7	And it's a great day.
0:14.1	Oh, what a fine day because we could take a breath.
0:16.7	We can collect ourselves.
0:18.1	We can slow our role today.
0:20.1	There are no Russia bombshells.
0:21.8	There are no healthcare bombshells.
0:23.8	There are no bombshell bombshells, right?
0:26.2	No Korean missiles.
0:27.2	Can we confirm?
0:28.2	Confirmed.
0:29.2	So often in the last few days,
0:31.1	longed for the space to just look
0:33.9	to reate in the usual wackiness of the news,
0:37.3	not the dire Defcon 5 of events.
0:40.6	I wanted news.
0:41.5	I've been getting events.
0:43.3	And so in the spiel, I will turn my attention
0:45.0	to an issue that compels and unsourcals us all this time of year.
0:50.2	Those Charles Barkley, Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson
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