Shiloh: Hi, everyone, and welcome to our podcast, Control Alt Health, the podcast that goes over the digital wellness of our world and how it may affect you as well as maybe helping you better understand it from two people that grew up with it. My name is Shiloh. 

Jared: And I'm Jared. We are two students at Middle Tennessee State University who have created this podcast as a project for our class. 

Shiloh: Two students who are just trying to get a good grade. 

Jared: True. And the reason we decided to do this topic is because we are part of the generation that lives with technology for most of our lives. And so it'd be interesting to talk about it and share some personal stories and how everyone can relate to these topics. 

Shiloh: Yeah. So look forward to us talking about topics that are part of mental and physical health since there's stuff we deal with every day like:
- Eye straining from staring at a blue light.
- Staring at a screen too long and not being able to sleep.
- Online bullying.
- Online trends.
- Maybe like some of the psychology that makes us fascinated with it.

Jared: We'll also be getting questions from Reddit and answering them as questions of the day segments. So be sure to stick around to the end of the episode to hear them. These episodes won't be very long either; they'll be, they won't go past 15 minutes. So it'll be short and sweet.

Shiloh: I guess we should introduce ourselves a little bit more since, you know, this is the first episode technically and all that. 

Jared: All right. My name is Jared and I'm a film major transferred here in fall of 2023. 

And I'm Shiloh. I am an interactive media major. I transferred here this semester at the beginning of 2025. So it's kind of insane that this is my first project here. Never thought it would be my first project, but here we are. 

Jared: Well, to be fair, this project in general is pretty insane. 

Shiloh: True. You know, I'd like to see someone else have being a podcast, their first project. Yeah, this is just an intro guys. So you know what we'll be doing and why we're doing it and how we're doing it and all that kind of stuff. 

Jared: So next time you hear from us, it will be a full episode. The next thing we'll be doing is the physical toll of screen time. So tune into that and we'll see you guys next time. Bye.

Shiloh: Bye.