Hey, welcome to Bright Part News Daily. Thanks for being here. Oh my goodness. The show today, the show today. We talked to

with Spencer Claven, author of How to Save the West, ancient wisdom for five modern crises.

Also, his podcast is The Young Heretics. It's always wonderful to talk to Spencer.

We talked to him because he is way more articulate with me, certainly about this issue of NeurLink and virtual reality.

And I wanted to bring him in first to set the table of what this social media conversation is really all about

and how we should be viewing it and how we should be protecting our kids, not just because they're

little people, but because they're souls and what that

means what is a soul and just how this is all ancient stuff there's nothing new under the sun so set the

table with that uh we want to play for you here though the segment after that where we talk a little

more about the hearing we didn't play any clips from the hearing i had clips from the hearing to play

they're kind of long it's just senators yelling So I don't really know how important they are.

I'd rather talk about you and hear from you. So we took a bunch of phone calls here as well.

So the question is, who do we blame for the evils of social media? And what do we do about it?

And what do you as a parent do about it? Here it is.

I know, Here it is. I'm thinking a lot about this, this hearing yesterday.

We talked to Senator Marshall Blackburn yesterday to preview the hearing and there was this

like four hour long Senate hearing at the Judiciary Committee.

And you know, these, you know my thoughts on these hearings.

It's all just like performance art, just yelling at the tech CEOs and never even giving

him a chance to answer, yes or no, yes or no.

And like they ask a really complicated big question, it's like, yes or no, and usually

I just hate this whole thing, but it didn't really bother me yesterday because I don't

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