and my good friend wendy walsh also a mom, a psychologist, and i'm sure deals with some of these same questions as well. personally and professionally. thanks for joining us, wendy. appreciate it. >> always happy to be here. >> an idea of how big social media companies are trying to address some of these problems and it seems a little ad hoc. it's a brave new world as they say. i want to talk about us parents. what is the obligation to protect? it's different in every household i know but what are your thoughts on that? >> i think the obligation is enormous. but the task is daunting. the problem is as soon as you put this little box in the hands of a child he have access to any piece of video or information in the world. it's very difficult to put parental controls on iphone specifically. and pretty much because of parental need it's a necessity for us now to have our kids sort of digitally wired for us so we can reach them. so i think more than anything it's about teaching kids what is appropriate, what is not, what is acceptable, what is not and how to self-regulate and also to keep

and also joining us, psychologist wendy walsh. ladies, thanks for being here.ust begin with you. we were just talking on commercial break and i was asking you when you first realized something wasn't quite right up here and it was ten years ago? >> yeah, it was about 10 to 12 years ago that i realized it. it was such that i never wanted to see daylight. because that would begin having to pretend that all was well. that's why i hated to see daylight come. and, you know, i had -- i had great difficulty getting up out of the bed. it would take me a long time to get up out of the bed. and at some point, i realized there was something wrong with that. that i would sit there -- lie there in a fetal position, and the tears would flow. and i just didn't want to get out of the bed. >> what about -- did you have people around you? i have to imagine you had people around you, and how did you handle them and push them away? >> i was silent, or i just lied. you just pretend. you wear that mask. you wear that mask and you pretend that all is well when, in fact, you're dying

wendy walsh's 50th birthday party. we both roasted her. and you were surprised that i had worst jokes than you did. and i wrote them myself. remember that? >> i was surprised. because i know you have a battery of people and that you can pay to write jokes. and i was stunned at how lame they were. >> oh, please. >> however, let's tell some of those jokes. >> no, no, no, no, no, no. there are some great pictures in the book and it shows you with everyone. from your parents, it talks about growing up, your being the product of divorce. i see you here with magic johnson. i see you in the book with who else here? there is mike tyson there is muhammed ali. and i also see you with your friend, your mustache as well, a huge part of your life. did you have that mustache as a baby? >> there is a good picture there. now listen, yeah, actually, there is my son sean, who is a good-looking kid. the irish people have no upper lip. i think that's how it began. and so a lot of -- that's why most cops and firemen have mustaches. and i shaved it off a couple

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