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In today’s episode of Simple Joe, I share a quirky little nugget about a Swiss inventor who built a fully functional clock made entirely out of cheese. Then we look at Thanksgiving week weather in Lansing, Michigan and here at home in Cincinnati. I celebrate a few big birthdays, including Charles M. Schulz, Tina Turner, Dale Jarrett, and Peter Facinelli, and we have some fun with National Cake Day, National Jukebox Day, and the wonderfully conflicting Anti Obesity Day as I ask you to choose your winner between cake, pie, and cookies.

From there, I tell a personal story from a long flight between Manchester, England and Orlando, Florida, where I made an unusual decision in our always connected world: I turned off every screen, put both of my phones away, refused Wi Fi, and let myself be completely, intentionally bored. Out of that came some honest reflections about doom scrolling, the way the algorithm mirrors our behavior, and what happens to your mind when you finally stop feeding it constant stimulation. If you have ever felt glued to your phone or forgotten what it feels like to simply sit and think, this one might speak to you.

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