I feel like we've gotten to a point now where discussing the reality of what it means to live today in 2024

in regards to technology has become cringe. It's very cringe. To be like, social media's rotting our brains.

Cringe. To be like, we're all overstimulated and addicted to our phones. Cringe. I know. I agree.

However, it is unfortunate that it's cringe because I am going to be talking about it today. Again, have I

talked about it before? Yes. Have I said everything there is to be said? Yes. Am I revisiting it today?

Because it's still sort of an issue in my personal life and I'm trying to work through it with all

of you. Yes. It's unfortunate that it's cringe because it's not a conversation that should be over necessarily.

I sound like, listen, I know I sound like your mom or your dad or your grandma or your uncle coming to at Thanksgiving being like, you need to get off that phone.

I know I sound like that.

I sound like that now.

I've sounded like that before and I'll sound like that again.

This is just the reality of who I am. I've sounded like that before, and I'll sound like that again. This is just the reality

of who I am. I've said this before also, but it's almost like I have a mom, like a built-in mom

in my own brain. I obviously have my mom, who I love and adore, but I also have like another mom

slash grandma slash older, wiser voice in my head,

telling me what's right, what I should be doing. And then on the other side of my brain,

I have 22 year old Emma. And those two sides of my brain are constantly fighting. But today I'm

going to be talking from the mom in my brain,

the grandma in my brain, for the most part. And then 22-year-old Emma will come in too.

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