You see that countdown clock over my shoulder?

Pay attention to that.

If you're listening to this podcast, take my word for it.

It's there.

Perfect.

You all passed my eight-second experiment.

Today, the human attention span is, wait for it, that's shorter than a goldfish that's shorter

than a squirrel get me one of those squirrels i want one now is that because we're stupid

mama says stupid as stupid as a stupid do you maybe some of us. But it's because we're drowning, fried, numb. Or as

Gen C calls it, we've got brain rot caused by mindless hours of scrolling on social media.

You probably said, okay, okay, yeah, I saw that coming.

However, the real story is BrainRot may be the most dangerous cultural shift of the decade.

Here are some headlines.

BrainRot is Oxford's 24 word of the year.

What does that say about society? Here's the next headline. Why

teenagers are deliberately seeking brain rot on TikTok. TikTok rewires the brain. Short video

addictions show structural brain changes in emotion and reward centers.

The key words there are structural brain changes.

That means your brain is changing its shape.

It doesn't look like it did if you did an MRI five years ago.

You're doing something that is actually rewiring your brain,

and it's in the emotion and reward centers. That's the amygdala, the nucleus accumbens.

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