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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

The Age of Distraction and what to do about it

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Brooke and Ben go in-depth on a recent article in The Guardian that highlights the huge impact social media is having on our world.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast.

0:03.3

This is the podcast all about slower, simple living in a fast-paced complex world.

0:08.9

My name is Brooke McCallory.

0:10.3

Thank you for joining us.

0:11.2

My name is Ben McCallory and welcome to episode 208.

0:15.4

Indeed.

0:16.2

We are...

0:17.5

Where are we?

0:18.9

We're at the end of October.

0:20.3

Yep.

0:20.8

Wow. How time? It's going to make a comedy bang bang

0:26.1

reference, but it's highly inappropriate. I know exactly. Exactly. So yeah,

0:30.0

we're at the end of October. We've just done four weeks on our social media theme.

0:35.0

This is the fourth. Okay, so this is the fourth one?

0:38.3

Correct.

0:39.3

So this is the fifth one?

0:40.3

Okay.

0:41.3

So we did Instagram, we did Facebook and we did Twitter.

0:44.3

Apologies, massive apologies.

0:46.3

This is a pretty cool one to wrap out.

0:48.3

Yeah, so we actually didn't plan for this one to be part of the series.

0:51.3

We thought we'd just do the three episodes.

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