Warning: This Discussion Of Warnings Might Cause Googly Eye At Night

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Surgeon General proposes warning labels for social media; we ask, "Do warning labels even do anything?" Plus, Dispatch Editor-in-Chief Jonah Goldberg talks about the decimation of political parties, the decency to lie about your principles, the slogan "Democracy is on the Ballot”, and great TV theme song bass lines. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.0	The Surgeon General Vake Murphy has proposed a warning label be attached to social media
0:41.1	say some version of the cigarette warning label, where you would tell the kids
0:47.0	who are on the socials that smashing the like button may cause impotence, birth defects, and
0:51.6	low birth weight.
0:52.5	Well, maybe that description will be more targeted
0:55.2	to the actual substance in question.
0:57.7	On the New York Times, The Daily Podcast,
1:00.4	Murphy was talking less like a scientist and more like a politician, but a very, very even-tempered one.
1:06.5	I remember stopping at a college and one young woman said to me, I feel like I'm on this campus grounded by thousands of other students but nobody really knows me and I feel like I can't be myself and I feel all alone.
1:20.0	The classic, I met this person who exemplifies the problem. I met that exemplification
1:25.9	illustration of the problem.
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