Science & Tech Quote by Phil McGraw

We have seen the biggest shift in lifestyle in the last generation or two than ever between two generations, certainly, since the Industrial Revolution, because when I was a kid -- I was born in 1950. When I was a kid, we had one telephone in the kitchen, on the wall. And if you wanted to talk to your girlfriend, you had to wait till everybody got out of the kitchen. Then you got under the table and talked to your girlfriend. We had three TV channels. You got to watch "The Ricky Nelson Show" or "Gunsmoke." And now we got 500 TV channels. Everybody's on the Internet, a word that wasn't even in our vocabulary when I was in high school. There was no such thing as the Internet.. I could verify a closely related earlier primary-source statement by Phil McGraw in a CNN transcript from March 23, 2002, where he uses the same setup about growing up with three TV channels and the Internet changing home life. However, the exact wording you asked about appears in a later primary-source transcript entry attributed by Quote Catalog to NBC's "Transcript for Dec. 26," which is almost certainly a Meet the Press transcript dated December 26, 2004. Quote Catalog reproduces the fuller passage and attributes it to that NBC transcript, including: "The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears." I was able to verify the attribution trail to the NBC transcript reference, but the NBC page itself was not directly retrievable in this environment. Based on the evidence found, the quote was spoken in a television interview/transcript context, not first found in a book. Earliest solid primary-source evidence I could directly verify is the CNN interview from 2002; strongest attribution for the exact quote points to NBC/Meet the Press on December 26, 2004.