Luke Thomas

I don't have it on my phone.

You don't?

I see the importance of the power of reaching and organizing people using this technology, but I'm not going to pretend to be, you know, extremely online hour by hour when that's actually not how I live my life.

I'm concerned about, first of all,

the mental health crisis that's impacting a lot of young people who experience intense loneliness and who struggle with addiction to social media.

And a generation of young people whose high school and college experiences were so disrupted by the pandemic

That at the same time, this technology was getting better and better at hooking us and drawing us in.

They were also deprived of the kinds of relationships and social interactions that bring meaning to life.

And I think we've got to make a decision as a society to re-engage in genuine togetherness, whether we're in our 20s or my folks' generation.

Because the...

The folks running Silicon Valley would be perfectly happy for us all to just sit on the couch with blue light in our eyes, scrolling mindlessly and consuming whatever the algorithm serves us and forgetting how to actually be with each other because that sells more ads and gets more engagement.

But they're spying on us and manipulating us and addicting us to these technologies.

And in order for us to, I think, achieve our potential together as a nation and in order for us to be happy and functional, we got to have to get back together in physical space and recreate shared experience.

So I grew up with Daniel Platzman, who is a very close friend of mine and was the founding drummer of that band.

So I have been a fan.

I have been a true fan since before they were...

you know, well-known and Daniel's an amazing musician and, and he's also a great film scorer and folks should look him up, look up Daniel Platzman.

Um, and, uh, the arms routine.

I just try to, I try to work out when I can every day, if I can actually told my, my team, I know you've been talking to some folks on my team.

I told my team like a year ago, as we were entering the election cycle that we can't treat, uh,