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Is it officially the death of our attention spans?

Season 1, Ep. 201

On this week's Gargle, Alice is joined by the two Toms as she is joined by Tom Ballard Realms Unknown regular Tom Neenan. The trio jump into this week's science and tech news as Children losing their attention spans, Driverless cars and AI software Claude going rogue!


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Tom Ballard: https://www.instagram.com/tomcballard/


Tom Neenan: https://www.tomneenan.com/


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Produced by Harry Gordon, with Executive production from Chris Skinner

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