Daily Highlight: Is It Time To Ditch Our Phones?

After a conversation about Gary Vee's latest prediction, we debate whether it's time to embrace a more analog lifestyle—and if vinyl records, handwritten notes, and cash are making a comeback.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, I'll reach around for a conversation we had yesterday.
Can we get our friend Gary Vee on the show?
Can we get kind of get him to come up
and see us next time he's in town. We're talking
about what's that we had him on so long ago.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
He was so awesome.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
He is awesome and definitely has an opinion. And his
latest opinion that I kind of floated toward is analog
versus digital. Living in an analog world versus digital world.
If you're not familiar with what that is, it's you know,
all things digital. Pick up your phone, everything that connects
to you are doing nothing but digital. At that point.
Analog would be like an old school turntable with albums

(00:43):
and but it needs to go through an amplifier that
is analog and not digital. Those are hard to find
and through speakers. So last night we were looking at
a scary story. He did Turntable Tuesday where you you
pulled out what a led Zeppelin album or something on vinyl.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Every Tuesday on my Instagram story and it's still up
there now at Gary Jones. You can just go up.
I'm gonna put on a new turntile, a new record
or no record. I have hundreds of records, and I said,
I'm gonna dust this off because of the inspiring conversation
we had about going back to analog, going back to
the basics, right, And I heard to crackle the record
and I put put the needle on the record, and

(01:23):
then they was playing Black Dog by led Zeppelin.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
We enjoyed it. We were watching here in Miami. It
was it was pretty awesome. And so Gary Ve's point is,
you know, more so than just turntables and albums and vinyl,
there's a whole world of analog things we could be
doing it. It slows it. It slows you down a
little bit. I think it makes everything a little more important.
If it's just digital, it's just a little blip on

(01:48):
a in a diode or whatever you want to call
these things. I don't know what do you call these things.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's the same as concert tickets. Like people say, I
wish I still had the concert ticket stubs. It was
cool to have those and take them away from what
a great example. Now you don't everything's on your phone
when it's where it's gone.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Do I want to pick up a printed newspaper and
get income my fingers. No, okay, I can draw the
line somewhere, but you can get news online through digital.
But you know, living this analog world and practicing a
little more during the course of the day. He really
thinks this is the trend. He really is hoping that
we'll push our lives away from digital a little and

(02:25):
go to an analog world like Scary attempted to do
using his vinyl and his sons speakers.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, that was the digital part.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oops, it's okay, it's okay, you did great. I love that.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Don't you kind of see it happening already, Like people
are going back to an actual handheld camera instead of
just taking everything on their phone.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Great, Yeah, like polaroid pictures.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
People actually reading more books, like a real book instead
of just a book on tape or on a kindle.
They're actually like holding a book and reading it. I
think that's maybe it's happening.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Even just writing with a pen, yeah, like having a
pen in your hand, writing like a thank you? Can
you still do that? I tried. I tried to write
a note the other night, and I could not figure
out how to form letters.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
And it's a day will help stave off dementia and Alzheimer's.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
If you write with a pen and spelling, we spell
like crap. But because your phone corrects it all the time,
you know how to spell stuff. It's more human. It's
like a human experience.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, yeah, it's it's the old school analog. Let's live
on analog life. Go look it up. Look up at
the word analog and maybe it'll it'll send you down
the right path, like scary. Let's be more analog. Let's
actually pay for things with cash.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Physical money, dirty smelly, crumpling money.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, exactly. Whip out that one hundred dollars bill that's
dripping in cocaine. If you if you go now to.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Like it, you know, in a big event, like they
don't even take cash at these venues anymore.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
You have to pay everything with your you know. You know,
there was a big, huge movement in the restaurant world
where they were trying to force everyone to pay with
digital in credit cards or on your phone, and they
would not accept cash. But I think there's I think
there's a law in New York City saying you do
have to accept cash. Is there not? They passed it somewhere.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
We'll look that up. There's a lot of a lot
of conspiracy theory behind this.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
And you know, you can you can think hooking up
your landline in your house is going analog. It's not.
It's all digital. It disappears to be analog.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
We went to a baseball game, to a raised baseball
game last weekend, and it says this is a cash
list facility, from the parking to the ticket to get in,
to all the concessions, no cash whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
What was the event the raised baseball game? Okay, well,
at least the game was still somewhat analog. Actually they
actually hit a ball with a bat. Yeah, that did happen.
And then the digital scoreboard tells you the Raise didn't
do very much of that, but the other team did
a lot of that, which you find out Gandhi.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
This says New York City law makes it illegal for
most retail establishments and food stores to refuse cash payments
or charge customers for more for paying with cash, But
it says most So I'm trying to figure out where.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well I think gas stations are could be I don't know,
I don't know. But anyway, so living in an analog world.
It would be great to have the excitement of Gary
Vee in this studio talking about it, because he would
light it up and inspire us all to you know,
slow it down. And I'm hoping that's where in many

(05:22):
parts of our lives we can move the trend that way.
You know, it's so easy to depend to depend on
your phone for every single thing in your life.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
It makes everything so much more disposable and, like you said,
less important.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Exactly who's with me? Gary V