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Breakfast Bonus: We're more bored than ever · Toni, Jase & Sam - Breakfast Catchup

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  Speaker 1: The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having to listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about a study out of a New York
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  Speaker 2: Post saying that people are now more bored than we've
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  Speaker 2: ever been before.
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  Speaker 3: What does that say about us as a society? Because
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  Speaker 3: there is more on offer than ever before, So what's happening? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 4: Could you imagine when you're young, having a computer game,
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  Speaker 4: having a calculator, having a TV with unlimited programming, just
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  Speaker 4: sitting in your pocket. I do, Yet we're still bored.
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  Speaker 3: I do remember as a kid though, go I'm bored,
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  Speaker 3: and my mum would go, don't you give me bored?
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  Speaker 3: You've got a whole farm to explore.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it. Do you know we've lost mindfulness? And
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  Speaker 4: there is that comedian online joking about the fact that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, back in his day, we always practice mindfulness
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  Speaker 4: when we're sitting on a bus, would watch a drip
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  Speaker 4: roll down the window. And we no longer do that.
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  Speaker 4: We don't practice mindfulness, and with that we've lost the
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  Speaker 4: ability to entertain ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: It's an ersatiable need to be entertained constantly. So then
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  Speaker 3: that's why we then think we're bored, but we're not. Actually,
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  Speaker 3: more than.
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  Speaker 2: Ever before, we've got all the stuff on our fingertips.
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  Speaker 2: But now they're saying it's because of that the digital
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  Speaker 2: media is to blame. So since two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 2: our bottom levels have gone through the roof, which is ridiculous, right,
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  Speaker 2: But because our attention span is so short. Now you
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  Speaker 2: think about it, how for are you watching TV? You're
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  Speaker 2: watching a TV. There's a screen in front of your
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  Speaker 2: showing stuff, and you got your phone in your hand.
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  Speaker 3: Jase, I'll give you a prime example. This literally happened
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  Speaker 3: to me yesterday. Okay, so my nine year old was
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  Speaker 3: on her iPad. I said, that's it, iPad times over.
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  Speaker 3: And she turned to me and she goes, what am
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  Speaker 3: I going to do now? I said, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Read a book, do a coloring in, do a puzzle,
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  Speaker 3: ride your bike? Do you want me to keep going on?
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  Speaker 3: These are a million other things in this house you
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  Speaker 3: can do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned reading a book because the actually
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  Speaker 2: said this in the study as well. We can no
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  Speaker 2: longer read a book anymore the way we used to,
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  Speaker 2: because they said that Earlier studies have proven that frequent
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  Speaker 2: interruptions would bother us. We get back to the book
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  Speaker 2: and when it's fine. Now though our frequent interruptions are
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  Speaker 2: our own fault. We will pick up the phone, We'll
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  Speaker 2: do scrolling, We'll just wander off the page and just
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  Speaker 2: do something else.
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  Speaker 4: Said.
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  Speaker 3: You're reading a book and then you have to check
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  Speaker 3: your phone. I know I've done that.
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  Speaker 2: I take a photo of yourself and post there because
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  Speaker 2: you're reading a book and put that on Instagram.
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  Speaker 4: Why just read that?
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  Speaker 3: Bove done that too.
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  Speaker 4: It prohibits your planning as well, though, doesn't it, because
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  Speaker 4: all your time is taken up just with mindless chatter
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  Speaker 4: on social media. So when you actually do get I've
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  Speaker 4: got enough too, and the kids aren't here, I'm often
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  Speaker 4: like I do not to do with myself.
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  Speaker 3: I'm exactly the same, And you know you've got a
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  Speaker 3: list a mile long. I'm like, why am I paralyzed?
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  Speaker 3: Why can I do anything?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't know, I'm exactly, But I.
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  Speaker 2: Also feel like I'm the weak in stuff. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to do, just do nothing. I want to do something,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And then I think to myself, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: sitting They're doing not much. Even the mindfulness? What else
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  Speaker 2: good luck?
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  Speaker 4: Could it's because it's boring, it's because so good?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe, but you do get to a point that you're
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  Speaker 4: sick of it and you actually want to live in
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  Speaker 4: the real world. And that's the conundrum.
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  Speaker 3: And do you know what? Our phones aren't actually that good?
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  Speaker 4: Are they?
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  Speaker 3: Not? Watching people break their legs in soccer videos? Thanks
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  Speaker 3: Sam for sending me those. That's not fun.
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  Speaker 4: What about the guy that went down the air?
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  Speaker 3: No, don't talk about him the multi I've tried to
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  Speaker 3: ignore that.
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  Speaker 4: Now. Is there not better than you know, doing an
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  Speaker 4: older school task like I don't know, you're a sick man,
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  Speaker 4: roll with you?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 4: No, I like to look at these gruesome videos and
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  Speaker 4: send them to people as warnings.
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  Speaker 3: Well, how come you never put a warning on the
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  Speaker 3: ones you send me? Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I blame Instagram for that, but I think you know,
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  Speaker 4: when you see someone break a league in a specific way,
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  Speaker 4: we'll get caught up in a swing or entangled in
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  Speaker 4: a wood chipper. I always think, well, there was a lesson.
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  Speaker 4: I will never put my foot in a wood chipper.
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  Speaker 2: Until that moment.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast. Get
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