December 1, 2025 • 9 mins
Our caller Kelly tells us about her 3-week social media cleanse, and another caller, Beth, about secret Christmas Tree Farm..?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It ain't Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The phones are bulging. It's going to line fifteen. Talk
to Kelly. Kelly uh is going on week three without
social media? Week three? What made you unplugged social media?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Kelly Oki. Oh my gosh, I'm from nervous right now.
I'm so sorry. It's perfect. So I don't really know.
I just I decided one day that I was spending
way too much time on my phone when I could
have been doing literally anything else, you know how like
on Sundays, I think as well, for me, it's Sundays
(00:36):
you get that notification pops up and tells you how
long you spent on your phone this week. It was
like just it kept being a ridiculous amount of time,
and I realized I was not even accomplishing anything. I'm
just scrolling and like doom scrolling, I guess, and just
kind of staring and closing the app, opening the app,
closing the app, opening the app, And I just decided,
I'm also that with it. I'm gonna do something else.
(00:58):
So I just I deleetve of Instagram, I deleted Snapchat,
I got rid of everything that I had and I've
just been without it ever since, and I just like
I believe you were saying it. It's like the difference
it makes is just crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You just don't even realize it until it's gone and
you feel like you feel clarity, like it's weird.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's like this weird. Yeah, the thing that's that article. Okay,
the article. I've got to find that article. I'm gonna
find it in a minute. They do say that, as
I said before, it rewires your brain. It rewires where
you think you are in this world. It's kind of
kind of a kind of a heady thing. Yeah, but uh,
you don't realize it until after you unplug from it,
like you've done on three weeks now. Jeez damn. Yeah,
(01:38):
I guess. I guess it's the same as if you
if you drink every day, if you if you get
a buzz every day, you don't really understand what's going
on until you stop drinking every day and you're like, okay, yeah, okay,
it's obvious. So but comparing social media to alcohol or drugs,
I guess I guess you can there are similarities there, so.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Crazy, sure, yeah, absolutely, How long are you gonna go?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I mean, are you just are you just on hold?
Are you ever going to turn it back on? I mean,
what's your plan?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You know, I haven't decided yet. It's actually so funny
because my boyfriend every day I'll be like, well, who
am I supposed to send these funny videos to that
I'm looking at? And are you going to get Instagram
back yet? When are you going to get everything back?
And my friends for the first like three days, I
was getting texts like, what's wrong? What happened? Why can't
I find you on Instagram? What's going on? Nothing's going on.
(02:28):
I just decided to kind of take a break.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I don't know. I'm going to go back on eventually,
but right now it's scary.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Hold on it. Look at Scary's face. You look like
you just saw a ghost around.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I'm breaking down to Colt sweats here for her And
it's not even my social.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Media are you Gary?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
No? No, listen but listen to what she's saying. And
now Gandhi sent an article from the New York Times.
Study finds mental health benefit to one week social media break,
and I'm quoting from the article Young adults who engage
in the social media detox reported reductions in depression, anxiety,
and insomnia, though it was unclear how long the effects
(03:07):
would last. I'm gonna read this article. I gotta get
through this thing. Did you see anything else in the article?
Did you read the whole thing?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yeah, it was basically saying what you were saying, that
it's like a detox, like actually detoxing from alcohol or
something else that you're dependent on, because it has rewired
our brains to just seek constant gratification in a lot
of ways. You want something, you can search it and
find it. You get that gratification from the likes and
the shares and people trying to talk to you, and
that it does have the same impacts as some addictive
other substances in our lives.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And so you can see a clear difference after going
on three weeks right of social detox.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh yeah, like what like, tell me, tell.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Me what what's different?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I feel like I just spend more time actually being present.
I'm not worried about what's going on on my phone.
So I've just you know, throughout my day, I'm paying
more attention to what's going on around me, which is great.
I'm taking up different hobbies so instead of being on
my phone all the time, I got back into reading
a lot, which is something I used to do all
the time, but then I just kind of I kind
of fell off, and now I'm back into that. So
(04:06):
just doing different things, being more aware of being present,
not worrying about scrolling on social media, because what's the
point anyway, I feel. So it's just been it's been good,
and I never really thought I would feel that much
of a difference, but you do. It's just kind of wild.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
All right. You may be sitting there listening to this
from our friend Kelly and like, I would never do that. Well, okay,
then don't we try it?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Honestly, I did it just for two days, and I
felt like it made the biggest difference in the world
just one day.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I would definitely recommend it, at least for a little while.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Scary, you're gonna do it?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
No, I can't.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
How am I going to promote my appearance at Margaritaville
Wednesday if I don't social media?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I'm doing this a jingle ball ticket rate there? Okay,
all right, social media? Okay, all right, Margeritaville is awaiting
your arrival.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Scary, but I suggested it for anybody else all.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Thank you so much, Kelly, thanks for spending time with us.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Thank you guys. Have a good day.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, thanks for deleting us from your day. That would
you know? I gave up I gave up radio for
two weeks. No, don't do that. What are you crazy? Hey?
Over the weekend we were talking about Scotty actually living
in a Hallmark movie. Uh, he went out to a
Christmas tree farm out in New Jersey and worked. He
worked the Christmas tree farm. I did they put me
(05:25):
to work?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It is?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It is a Hallmark movie. How much fun was that?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
It was so much fun. I mean it's something I've
never experienced before. I mean I've been on the farm,
playing with the animals and stuff, but to actually, you know,
cut a tree down and bring it up to a
car and bail it and.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Put it on top of the car. I mean that
was really cool. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I got this every weekend though.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
They're only open for two weekends, so I'll probably go
back and help out this weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
A lot of people we've heard from are there are seasonal.
Of course they are seasonal. They loved the seasonal work
just but it's festive. We have a Who's a Beth
Bath from Lancaster, a teacher also works on a Christmas
tree farm during the weekends from Thanksgiving to Christmas. I
how many years have we've been doing this, Beth?
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Probably about twelve years?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Wow? Now, why why did you start doing it?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Well?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
I knew somebody that was working there and they just
needed some extra help. And that's kind of how I started.
And then it just kind of kept evolving. It's like
we start Black Friday and then go right up until
right before Christmas on the weekends, and it's just something different.
I'm a teacher and it's just something different outside of
(06:34):
you know, working in the classroom and being on the
computer and stuff all day.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Well, I'm taking you have to be in a really
bad bad mood to be in a bad mood at
a Christmas tree far. I mean, I don't know. I
would love to. I'm want to come back to the
farm next weekend if you're working Scotti, maybe I'll do
fine a tree. What do you think, Gonde do you
want to go?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I would love to go, But I also want to
know how many people do the thing where they buy
the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Is that still a
thing and then you great?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Right, I think there are still people that do that,
but we don't sell them right up to Christmas Eve.
But some people will get them and you know, maybe
just have them undecorated in their living room. And then
I know some people have like Santa comes and decorates
the tree.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I've heard that before.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Those people are lucky.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, that's it. I'm quitting ready. I'm going to work
at a Christmas tree farm. Yesterday too, we had snow.
It snowed at a Christmas tree farm. I mean, hello, yeah, Nate,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I love the concept of Christmas tree firms because here
in New York City they have the little stands where
they have the poor, sad already cut Christmas trees and
it's just so I pass one every day on my
way home, and it's just so sad. It's like those
those ducks hanging in the window in Chinatown. It's like
these poor things are dead, just laying there, like but
(07:56):
have you can you pee all over Christmas?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Just a little more problem.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
What I'm saying is I love a Christmas tree farm.
I feel bad for these poor trees that get cut
cut down preemptively, and some of them don't get in order.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I was gonna say, so, if you don't get somebody
to adopt you, and you don't get an owner, then
you just die on the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Exactly. Okay, we have gone from the most fascinating festive
Christmas conversation into like this, sad, sad. I'm sad.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
I found out today that all Christmas trees are priced
the same. I didn't know that you get a little
one or you get a big one and the same price.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Some places, a lot of places will charge by the foot.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Is it your place?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
No, my girlfriend's place is.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
It's seventy five bucks a tree, no matter what size,
either a four footer or a twenty five foot or
whatever it is, It just is.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And what is it Taylor Swift that he has a
song called Christmas Tree Farm? It was Taylor Swift. Absolutely,
I'm gonna play this. I'm gonna play it for for Beth.
Can I play a song for you? You want to hear
a Christmas Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Absolutely, I would love it. I would love it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
How old is this? I mean this song? She sounds
like she's like ten years old. Well, I was thinking
of the other one. This is from like six years ago, nineteen.
All right, do you want to give the name of
your Christmas tree farm? Kelly?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Sorry, it's Metzler Tree Farm. It's a family run business.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Yeah, it's an awesome, awesome group of people to work for.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, there you go. We'll see you this weekend. It's
the Christmas Tree Farm. Are you gonna work again this weekend, Scotty? Yes,
I'll probably be there on Saturday. What's the name of it?
Can we give the name? I don't know if I
want to do that?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Why because they don't probably don't have enough inventory for
everybody that Yeah, No, there's okay.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's a very it's a very top secret. Yes, it's
like a like a what do you want to call it?
The secret Christmas Tree. It's way up the hill. It's
the one. It's the one on the hill. Yes, that one.
It's it's like a boutiquey Christmas tree farm. Sure, just
only only a select few can know about it.
It ain't Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The phones are bulging. It's going to line fifteen. Talk
to Kelly. Kelly uh is going on week three without
social media? Week three? What made you unplugged social media?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Kelly Oki. Oh my gosh, I'm from nervous right now.
I'm so sorry. It's perfect. So I don't really know.
I just I decided one day that I was spending
way too much time on my phone when I could
have been doing literally anything else, you know how like
on Sundays, I think as well, for me, it's Sundays
(00:36):
you get that notification pops up and tells you how
long you spent on your phone this week. It was
like just it kept being a ridiculous amount of time,
and I realized I was not even accomplishing anything. I'm
just scrolling and like doom scrolling, I guess, and just
kind of staring and closing the app, opening the app,
closing the app, opening the app, And I just decided,
I'm also that with it. I'm gonna do something else.
(00:58):
So I just I deleetve of Instagram, I deleted Snapchat,
I got rid of everything that I had and I've
just been without it ever since, and I just like
I believe you were saying it. It's like the difference
it makes is just crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You just don't even realize it until it's gone and
you feel like you feel clarity, like it's weird.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's like this weird. Yeah, the thing that's that article. Okay,
the article. I've got to find that article. I'm gonna
find it in a minute. They do say that, as
I said before, it rewires your brain. It rewires where
you think you are in this world. It's kind of
kind of a kind of a heady thing. Yeah, but uh,
you don't realize it until after you unplug from it,
like you've done on three weeks now. Jeez damn. Yeah,
(01:38):
I guess. I guess it's the same as if you
if you drink every day, if you if you get
a buzz every day, you don't really understand what's going
on until you stop drinking every day and you're like, okay, yeah, okay,
it's obvious. So but comparing social media to alcohol or drugs,
I guess I guess you can there are similarities there, so.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Crazy, sure, yeah, absolutely, How long are you gonna go?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I mean, are you just are you just on hold?
Are you ever going to turn it back on? I mean,
what's your plan?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You know, I haven't decided yet. It's actually so funny
because my boyfriend every day I'll be like, well, who
am I supposed to send these funny videos to that
I'm looking at? And are you going to get Instagram
back yet? When are you going to get everything back?
And my friends for the first like three days, I
was getting texts like, what's wrong? What happened? Why can't
I find you on Instagram? What's going on? Nothing's going on.
(02:28):
I just decided to kind of take a break.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I don't know. I'm going to go back on eventually,
but right now it's scary.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Hold on it. Look at Scary's face. You look like
you just saw a ghost around.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I'm breaking down to Colt sweats here for her And
it's not even my social.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Media are you Gary?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
No? No, listen but listen to what she's saying. And
now Gandhi sent an article from the New York Times.
Study finds mental health benefit to one week social media break,
and I'm quoting from the article Young adults who engage
in the social media detox reported reductions in depression, anxiety,
and insomnia, though it was unclear how long the effects
(03:07):
would last. I'm gonna read this article. I gotta get
through this thing. Did you see anything else in the article?
Did you read the whole thing?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yeah, it was basically saying what you were saying, that
it's like a detox, like actually detoxing from alcohol or
something else that you're dependent on, because it has rewired
our brains to just seek constant gratification in a lot
of ways. You want something, you can search it and
find it. You get that gratification from the likes and
the shares and people trying to talk to you, and
that it does have the same impacts as some addictive
other substances in our lives.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And so you can see a clear difference after going
on three weeks right of social detox.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh yeah, like what like, tell me, tell.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Me what what's different?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I feel like I just spend more time actually being present.
I'm not worried about what's going on on my phone.
So I've just you know, throughout my day, I'm paying
more attention to what's going on around me, which is great.
I'm taking up different hobbies so instead of being on
my phone all the time, I got back into reading
a lot, which is something I used to do all
the time, but then I just kind of I kind
of fell off, and now I'm back into that. So
(04:06):
just doing different things, being more aware of being present,
not worrying about scrolling on social media, because what's the
point anyway, I feel. So it's just been it's been good,
and I never really thought I would feel that much
of a difference, but you do. It's just kind of wild.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
All right. You may be sitting there listening to this
from our friend Kelly and like, I would never do that. Well, okay,
then don't we try it?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Honestly, I did it just for two days, and I
felt like it made the biggest difference in the world
just one day.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I would definitely recommend it, at least for a little while.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Scary, you're gonna do it?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
No, I can't.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
How am I going to promote my appearance at Margaritaville
Wednesday if I don't social media?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I'm doing this a jingle ball ticket rate there? Okay,
all right, social media? Okay, all right, Margeritaville is awaiting
your arrival.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Scary, but I suggested it for anybody else all.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Thank you so much, Kelly, thanks for spending time with us.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Thank you guys. Have a good day.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, thanks for deleting us from your day. That would
you know? I gave up I gave up radio for
two weeks. No, don't do that. What are you crazy? Hey?
Over the weekend we were talking about Scotty actually living
in a Hallmark movie. Uh, he went out to a
Christmas tree farm out in New Jersey and worked. He
worked the Christmas tree farm. I did they put me
(05:25):
to work?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It is?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It is a Hallmark movie. How much fun was that?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
It was so much fun. I mean it's something I've
never experienced before. I mean I've been on the farm,
playing with the animals and stuff, but to actually, you know,
cut a tree down and bring it up to a
car and bail it and.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Put it on top of the car. I mean that
was really cool. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I got this every weekend though.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
They're only open for two weekends, so I'll probably go
back and help out this weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
A lot of people we've heard from are there are seasonal.
Of course they are seasonal. They loved the seasonal work
just but it's festive. We have a Who's a Beth
Bath from Lancaster, a teacher also works on a Christmas
tree farm during the weekends from Thanksgiving to Christmas. I
how many years have we've been doing this, Beth?
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Probably about twelve years?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Wow? Now, why why did you start doing it?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Well?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
I knew somebody that was working there and they just
needed some extra help. And that's kind of how I started.
And then it just kind of kept evolving. It's like
we start Black Friday and then go right up until
right before Christmas on the weekends, and it's just something different.
I'm a teacher and it's just something different outside of
(06:34):
you know, working in the classroom and being on the
computer and stuff all day.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Well, I'm taking you have to be in a really
bad bad mood to be in a bad mood at
a Christmas tree far. I mean, I don't know. I
would love to. I'm want to come back to the
farm next weekend if you're working Scotti, maybe I'll do
fine a tree. What do you think, Gonde do you
want to go?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I would love to go, But I also want to
know how many people do the thing where they buy
the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Is that still a
thing and then you great?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Right, I think there are still people that do that,
but we don't sell them right up to Christmas Eve.
But some people will get them and you know, maybe
just have them undecorated in their living room. And then
I know some people have like Santa comes and decorates
the tree.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I've heard that before.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Those people are lucky.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, that's it. I'm quitting ready. I'm going to work
at a Christmas tree farm. Yesterday too, we had snow.
It snowed at a Christmas tree farm. I mean, hello, yeah, Nate,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I love the concept of Christmas tree firms because here
in New York City they have the little stands where
they have the poor, sad already cut Christmas trees and
it's just so I pass one every day on my
way home, and it's just so sad. It's like those
those ducks hanging in the window in Chinatown. It's like
these poor things are dead, just laying there, like but
(07:56):
have you can you pee all over Christmas?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Just a little more problem.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
What I'm saying is I love a Christmas tree farm.
I feel bad for these poor trees that get cut
cut down preemptively, and some of them don't get in order.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I was gonna say, so, if you don't get somebody
to adopt you, and you don't get an owner, then
you just die on the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Exactly. Okay, we have gone from the most fascinating festive
Christmas conversation into like this, sad, sad. I'm sad.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
I found out today that all Christmas trees are priced
the same. I didn't know that you get a little
one or you get a big one and the same price.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Some places, a lot of places will charge by the foot.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Is it your place?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
No, my girlfriend's place is.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
It's seventy five bucks a tree, no matter what size,
either a four footer or a twenty five foot or
whatever it is, It just is.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
And what is it Taylor Swift that he has a
song called Christmas Tree Farm? It was Taylor Swift. Absolutely,
I'm gonna play this. I'm gonna play it for for Beth.
Can I play a song for you? You want to hear
a Christmas Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Absolutely, I would love it. I would love it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
How old is this? I mean this song? She sounds
like she's like ten years old. Well, I was thinking
of the other one. This is from like six years ago, nineteen.
All right, do you want to give the name of
your Christmas tree farm? Kelly?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Sorry, it's Metzler Tree Farm. It's a family run business.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Yeah, it's an awesome, awesome group of people to work for.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, there you go. We'll see you this weekend. It's
the Christmas Tree Farm. Are you gonna work again this weekend, Scotty? Yes,
I'll probably be there on Saturday. What's the name of it?
Can we give the name? I don't know if I
want to do that?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Why because they don't probably don't have enough inventory for
everybody that Yeah, No, there's okay.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's a very it's a very top secret. Yes, it's
like a like a what do you want to call it?
The secret Christmas Tree. It's way up the hill. It's
the one. It's the one on the hill. Yes, that one.
It's it's like a boutiquey Christmas tree farm. Sure, just
only only a select few can know about it.
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