After the Show: Why Sam Is Taking A Break From Social Media

Sam has done the most positive thing for himself this week. And it's something Jodi really wants to teach her kids.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the after the show podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hang out with us a little longer for a more
I don't know, in depth conversation. You know, Sam, you're
doing something that I think is super positive for yourself
this week.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Quit drinking.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's that was several weeks online dating. No, you're not
doing that.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
So those are positive things. Yeah, now you're on a
roll of positive things now.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Took a break from social media this week.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, personally because for obvious reasons, it's been too much
and it has been a.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Lot, because it's been a tough week.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, which you actually are, Sam, a sensitive soul, and
you just got to where you couldn't well, you see
any more of the Vegas.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Because the Vegas stuff. Usually when stuff like that happens,
I tend to scan over it and just know that
I can come back at some point. But it's just
been so there's so much of it, and you can't
right now. That's just like just you know I'll have
to do is turn it off for a few days
and come back next week.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, And there's still going to be play of that
in the world. And we talk about this a lot,
and I tell it, I'm swear if I could teach
my children anything. When they were little, I used to think, man,
I want I want them to have confidence, and I
do all that's still true, but in this world, I
feel like if I can impress upon them anything, it's
to self regulate what you absorb from this electronic media.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
World, like you have God.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
To self regulate and stop looking at social media so
often because there's no happiness and it's not real.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's not that it's not real.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
It is real, and it is how people connect and interact,
but it's just not it's not you living your life, right,
you know.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, I mean it is you being a sponge. That's
one thing. The other thing, as I mentioned earlier this morning,
you just picture yourself being in a room with people
having the same discussion about the same dire things. Right,
that would be difficult, and so it's natural to disconnect.
You can't be into anything that heavy for that long
and not take on some of it, right.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I mean maybe because it's so in our face and
it's overdone, Eventually, hopefully you'll naturally self regulate. So it's like,
I'm sorry, I'm closing all this down. I'm gonna read
a book. Yeah, I'm gonna go outside and walk the dog,
do something natural and real and self regulate how much
you let in. And it's not just the headlines and

(02:22):
the news and what's hard for us to accept about
this world that we're in, but it's also the arguing
back and forth.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, and that's so.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Tiring, honestly. That takes a different that takes it to
another level too, because it's not always just social media.
You could have just like you're saying, disconnect and don't
be so submerged into it. But if your kids have
friends that are submerged into it, they're gonna be sucked
out what they've seen. And it's like, now your kids
were exposed to real people who've been subjected to it,

(02:53):
and yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's too much.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
You do.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
And I think that it's completely normal our kids haven
are growing up in this world where this is the norm.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
You got a minute, you have five seconds?

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Look at your video?

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah you got five seconds? Who said what about about?
What about this?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
And it's just people's feelings or or and yeah, people's feelings.
You have a right to post them and you have
a right to share them, and but you don't have
to get sucked into them. You have to self regulate.
It comes down to that.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, I you know, and I still have several friends
who are not on any form of social media at all.
They don't have Facebook pages, they don't have any of that.
And I remember thinking to myself, Yeah, I remember thinking
to myself, Wow, how does anybody not you know have
their own social media account? And then I realized it's
pretty healthy. Even though there are probably some things that
they do miss that get shared, they are important. You know,

(03:51):
when times get really difficult like this and there's so
much heaviness and you know, sorrow and over communication and
all that kind of stuff, it's probably good that have
to worry about.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I mean, there's a lot of good out there too,
but constant information from so many people, no wonder. We
all have weird attention spans. We're emotionally fatigued. If you
let it in, you will be emotionally fatigued. I am
so grateful that I grew up running around outside barefoot,
which I.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Know is not safe.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Whatever, Murphy, but you know, that's how I grew up.
When we got home from school, when homework was done,
we went outside and played for hours, and I never
thought of looking at a screen. I didn't even know
what the atari was when my dad and mom said,
you guys want an atari.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
It didn't occur to you at the time. It wasn't
as prolific as it is now.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Right.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I'm just saying, I'm so grateful for that because I
feel like there's a part of me that it calls
me every day, especially you know, we work, you know,
and do this and it's very there's a lot of
social media aspect to it, and it's very connected. So
I have that pull literally in my soul every day.
Take off your shoes, go outside, listen to the birds,

(05:04):
do something natural, get back to who you really are.
You're gonna find that in social media.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
No, but you can't disconnect for too long and then
you'll miss all the cool memes, a lot of funny memes.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
So it's in the cup. It's a battle. Well, we're
all in none of my business battle.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
We're all in constantly, yes, But anyway, so Sam, I'm
glad that you're doing this because that shows that you're
at least taking care of yourself.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Okay, I'll be day missed

Speaker 2 (05:32):
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