Sep 1, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 15 segments
Can you remember a time before smartphones, before social media, before the internet? Our guests on this episode can't, and they sit down with Jacob to describe what it's like growing up in a world…
Jacob GarrettHostEllaGuestChelseaGuestJoanneGuestBerriganGuest
I could imagine it, but there'd be a lot of, like, I guess blank spaces of, like, when you're doing... screens in everyday life today it's just sort of like I feel personally that like that's sort of part of your daily rhythm it's like that's part of your life and if you take that away then there's gaps there and then you have to fill up with other things either extend the things you're doing Like, do more schoolwork or do more exercise or do more things to fill up that gap.
And with that gap there, it, I guess, shortens the amount of time you do for other things as well.
Yeah, they did.
What are those? Usually...
It's usually one hour a day for games and videos and watching.
And how does that feel? Does that feel like a good amount? Is that not anywhere near enough? Do your friends get more?
It definitely varies with my friends.
I know one of my friends, they have to do some chores to be able to do that screen time.
And... another one of my friends he gets to um he just he as long as he gets his school work done in the day then he can do as much as he wants but yeah so there's definitely a lot of diversity in
that and is that hard if like say you want to play minecraft together And you've got an hour.
You've got to find that hour when other people have got that hour or some of them have got more than an hour, but you've got to overlap it.
Yeah, really.
Yeah, yeah.
But I know you well enough to know that you like doing a lot of other things that aren't on a screen.
Basketball, reading books, riding bikes, even working on woodwork and camping skills.
How do you decide how to spend your time in the day? You said if there weren't screens, there'd be gaps.
Do you fill up all the screen time you've got and then decide, all right, I guess I'll read a book now? Or do you read the book and then go, all right, I'm done with reading, maybe I'll play Minecraft? Or how does it work?
Oh, it definitely depends on the day because I do a lot of, like...
I could imagine it, but there'd be a lot of, like, I guess blank spaces of, like, when you're doing... screens in everyday life today it's just sort of like I feel personally that like that's sort of part of your daily rhythm it's like that's part of your life and if you take that away then there's gaps there and then you have to fill up with other things either extend the things you're doing Like, do more schoolwork or do more exercise or do more things to fill up that gap.
And with that gap there, it, I guess, shortens the amount of time you do for other things as well.
Yeah, they did.
What are those? Usually...
It's usually one hour a day for games and videos and watching.
And how does that feel? Does that feel like a good amount? Is that not anywhere near enough? Do your friends get more?
It definitely varies with my friends.
I know one of my friends, they have to do some chores to be able to do that screen time.
And... another one of my friends he gets to um he just he as long as he gets his school work done in the day then he can do as much as he wants but yeah so there's definitely a lot of diversity in
that and is that hard if like say you want to play minecraft together And you've got an hour.
You've got to find that hour when other people have got that hour or some of them have got more than an hour, but you've got to overlap it.
Yeah, really.
Yeah, yeah.
But I know you well enough to know that you like doing a lot of other things that aren't on a screen.
Basketball, reading books, riding bikes, even working on woodwork and camping skills.
How do you decide how to spend your time in the day? You said if there weren't screens, there'd be gaps.
Do you fill up all the screen time you've got and then decide, all right, I guess I'll read a book now? Or do you read the book and then go, all right, I'm done with reading, maybe I'll play Minecraft? Or how does it work?
Oh, it definitely depends on the day because I do a lot of, like...
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