Gary Brecka

At four years old, that's just so awesome.

I think at four years old, I wanted to be a police officer, a cowboy.

I also wanted to be an Indian.

I think I wanted to be a fireman and an astronaut.

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