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So our community feedback this week comes from Dale, who has this to say, your comments on getting too much news all at once reminded me of a conversation with my 81-year-old mother.

She said, everything is so much worse than it used to be.

Bad everywhere, all the time.

I said, not really.

You're used to getting news at 6 p.m. on the 6 o'clock news and a newspaper every day.

But Sunday, now you're getting inundated with everything every time you look at your phone.

Put the darn thing down.

It's always been this bad.

We just didn't know about it every minute of the day.

Dale, what a timely piece here, because I've been having this discussion.

I've kind of mentioned on the show a couple times about...

the kind of overabundance of news to the point where it's depressing.

And because that news is always sitting within a hand's grasp, there were times that I recall before I got better habits of like, if I would wake up in the middle of the night, like two o'clock in the morning, whatever, I would go and immediately grab my phone and then I would look at news.

like something was going to happen.

And of course, when you look at the news, everything is negative, even if it's social media, because I kind of consider that in some ways it's news.

A lot of it's like, individual journalists now which I think a lot of people were kind of going to like which is scary but in any case when you're looking at this stuff people are always reporting all of this negative stuff and it just makes you I don't think people understand the impact that it has on your mental state but there have been studies many studies done on the impact that it has on people's mental state And it's not good, uh, from social media aspect.

It's not good.

If that's your first thing to go to, or the overabundance of news, it's not good because you are seeing everything bad going on all across the world at once.

Whereas before generally, uh, back in my day, we would get news that was local.

And so, and there was like a lot of it.

I remember as a kid watching news would be, they would start with some good stories.

Every once in a while, you'd have a crime or something that happened and then it would be back to good news stories.

uh now they kind of figured out this algorithm especially with 24 7 news where it's like hey if it's doom or gloom it sells way better um and so everything is just very very negative so i guess this is kind of a psa that if you find yourself feeling sad a lot If you find yourself being overwhelmed with what's going on in the world, turn this crap off.

Not this show.

I mean, this show is perfect, but turn that other crap off and avoid it.

So our community feedback this week comes from Dale, who has this to say, your comments on getting too much news all at once reminded me of a conversation with my 81-year-old mother.

She said, everything is so much worse than it used to be.

Bad everywhere, all the time.

I said, not really.

You're used to getting news at 6 p.m. on the 6 o'clock news and a newspaper every day.

But Sunday, now you're getting inundated with everything every time you look at your phone.

Put the darn thing down.

It's always been this bad.

We just didn't know about it every minute of the day.

Dale, what a timely piece here, because I've been having this discussion.

I've kind of mentioned on the show a couple times about...

the kind of overabundance of news to the point where it's depressing.

And because that news is always sitting within a hand's grasp, there were times that I recall before I got better habits of like, if I would wake up in the middle of the night, like two o'clock in the morning, whatever, I would go and immediately grab my phone and then I would look at news.

like something was going to happen.

And of course, when you look at the news, everything is negative, even if it's social media, because I kind of consider that in some ways it's news.

A lot of it's like, individual journalists now which I think a lot of people were kind of going to like which is scary but in any case when you're looking at this stuff people are always reporting all of this negative stuff and it just makes you I don't think people understand the impact that it has on your mental state but there have been studies many studies done on the impact that it has on people's mental state And it's not good, uh, from social media aspect.

It's not good.

If that's your first thing to go to, or the overabundance of news, it's not good because you are seeing everything bad going on all across the world at once.

Whereas before generally, uh, back in my day, we would get news that was local.

And so, and there was like a lot of it.

I remember as a kid watching news would be, they would start with some good stories.

Every once in a while, you'd have a crime or something that happened and then it would be back to good news stories.

uh now they kind of figured out this algorithm especially with 24 7 news where it's like hey if it's doom or gloom it sells way better um and so everything is just very very negative so i guess this is kind of a psa that if you find yourself feeling sad a lot If you find yourself being overwhelmed with what's going on in the world, turn this crap off.

Not this show.

I mean, this show is perfect, but turn that other crap off and avoid it.