Gary Brecka

And I'm none of those.

So for you to set your North Star at four and be sitting here now in the office of the Surgeon General, that's pretty, I mean, that's commitment.

When we were having lunch earlier today, we talked about just some of the basics, right, that—

go missed in modern medicine.

And one of the things I really enjoyed about our conversation was we started to talk about community connection, how children are becoming isolated.

They're missing that real human connection because

we've developed a dependency in the sense that we're connected through our screens and our phones and our laptops and our iPads, and that's actually not true.

And I think a big concern of parents today is, my children are spending so much time on screens,

But what is coming through those screens?

And what are they learning?

What are the threats?

How is this helping or hurting the developmental cycle of their brains?

And I know this is a big passion project of yours.

And I wonder if you might just talk about what is the Office of the Surgeon General doing

With respect to screen times.

Yeah, I'm really excited to talk about it because I think that, you know, hardly a parent in America today would say, I have no concerns at all about what my child is consuming on social media or

or the amount of time that they're spending on their phones, or what they're communicating, what's being communicated to them.

And there's so many stories about the scary issues around predators, but even without the direct dangerous risks of social media, you're talking about the amount of time they're spending on screens and neurodevelopmental issues.

You seem to be a big willing participant in tech companies.

Look, I mean, you and I grew up in an era with no cell phones and we did just fine.