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Today on the show, screen time.

It's not exactly a new concept for those of us old enough to remember when parents worried about how much television we were watching.

Turn off the boob tube, a parent would shout from the other room.

And you know, even back in the 80s, parents were concerned about how much time their kids spent staring at a screen, now that I think about it.

And then, just like now, there were studies that implied too much TV is gonna be bad for kids, too many cartoons are bad for kids, sitting too close to the TV is bad for kids.

Now the scientific study, I think that part was actually true.

Now the scientific studies and experts are warning parents about the real dangers of a new kind of screen time.

And it turns out it's not just the kids, it's us adults as well, being told that we spend way too much time staring at our devices.

Now I get a screen time report every week on my smartphone, but honestly I'm not even sure what most of it means.

It just tells me that I'm spending too much time on Instagram or usually Reddit.

If I listen to a podcast like the one you're listening to right now, does that count as screen time even if I'm really not looking at the screen and I'm just walking around with the phone in my pocket using that app?

I don't know.

Which leads to the obvious question, what are we even talking about when we say screen time?

This week, comedian and skeptic Michael Regilio is here to cut through the glare and find out whether screens are draining our lives or just our batteries.

Yes, okay.

So people were worried that the phone, the regular phone, would destroy real human connection?

Yeah, familiar.

Wow.

So the same hangups and maybe different devices in a slightly different scale.