Dependence on Technology

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six one seven two six six, sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay. My sister Jennifer, Jenny out in Arizona,
out in Tucson, very passionate about this topic. So here's
what she texted me on my private cell on my iPhone. Yeah,
the one I'm addicted to, Jeff. Young mothers and fathers

(00:24):
cannot cook anymore. They both work and all they can
do is either eat frozen food or have takeout. It
is very expensive to feed kids this way. That's why
they ask the kids what they want. Otherwise it's very
costly and expensive. What we're now watching is the total

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breakdown of the family. And this is a multifaceted problem.
For example, Jeff, I know a young lady with four kids,
three different fathers. There's no authority because kids don't even
know who the parent is between all the stepfathers, stepmothers, girlfriends, boyfriends,

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and honestly, Jeff, final point, teachers are not a substitute
for parents. I never said they were, but I do
think you know, teacher authority has to be respected and upheld.
But no, I hear you, Jen, I hear you loud
and clear. Six one seven two six six sixty eight.
Sixty eight is the number. This is from six 'zho three. Jeff.

(01:36):
The point you were just making about turning out a
nation of uneducated, illiterate idiots, and that a nation or
any functioning society cannot survive. This reminds me of a
favorite saying of mine. Never underestimate the danger of stupid
people in large numbers. In this case, it's completely again necessary,

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absolutely preventable because they're being dumbed down through neglect. And
I would say by design, bingo, bingo. This is all
being done by design, because an uneducated, dumb down, illiterate

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country is a country and a population that you can control.
And when you understand liberalism, which is really another word
for communism or progressivism, which is another word for Marxism,
what it's ultimately all about is power and control. Gwen

(02:42):
in Waltham. Thanks for holding Gwen, and welcome.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh, thank you for taking my call, Jeff. I have
listened to you forever and it's so nice to talk
to you. Thank you for what you do.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
My pleasure, My pleasure, Gwen is so oh.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I am a retired nanny. I have raised three families,
my own and I had two children, I was in
Nannieve for twenty years.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
They kept me because they wanted me to.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
They loved me, and they I'd let the dog out basically.
But and I had other children also, the ages of
ten and eight now, so I've had a lot of
experiences with schools and security. I come from a police family.

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And what I want to say is that you are
You and Grace are doing a great job. I am
five O one.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
I the second family that I raised, The son is
a CPA and the girl is going to be a doctor.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
So and I was with them for nine hours a day. Now,
what I want to say is with the cell phone issue,
they they had rules like you and Grace do. Exactly
like you and Grace do. Actually, they couldn't have their
phone at night. They had to check and they were

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pretty strict with that. And they did not and they
do not today as adults. Now they're twenty eight and
twenty six and I went for Thanksgiving and they do
not use their phone at dinner. They do. They respect
their parents and they respect me.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
And what I was saying.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
About authority, Oh one issue in school, Please tell me
why they can't be cameras in the classrooms and why
the teachers are against that, and also I hope the

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cameras in the corridors. And another question I have is
why can't we have metal detectors at the doors and
as retired policemen at the door for authority reasons?

Speaker 1 (05:33):
I agree, no, Gwen, I completely. I agree with you. See,
that would solve the issue of school shootings and the
kind of violence and chaos that you see in many schools,
middle schools and high schools. But you see, the Democrats
don't want to solve problems. I mean, I'm being serious.
They want to create problems so they can have themselves intervene,

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so they can expand their power. That's what this is
all about. You're right, there should be metal detectors in schools.
Of course, there should be. There should be cameras in
the hallway, there should be, frankly, cameras in the classroom.
I want to see what my student is doing in class, sorry,
what my child is doing in class. I also want
to see what the teacher is teaching in class. There

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should be cameras in the classroom, no question, absolutely, no question.
But you see the liberals won't allow it because then
the parents will see whoa, what is voting for Barack
Obama or what is voting for Kamala Harris have to
do with biology? Or what does that have to do

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with you know, algebra. That's and they don't want to
get that exposed. So that's why they'd rather, you know,
keep the cameras out, keep the metal detectors out, and
keep police officers out. I look forget retired. I like
the idea of having armed security, have retired police officers. Okay,
just very very quickly, I just want to exclamation point

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to what I was just saying in response to that
excellent call. No, I definitely want retired police officers at schools. Hell,
I'll even take regular police, active police officers at school.
We need to call what they call harden the target.
No more gun free zones. That's why I believe so
many of these school shootings continue to take place if

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these school shooters knew that there was armed personnel. Again,
these are trained people. They could be ex military, they
could be retired police. If you want school resource officers,
put a couple of patrol cars or at least one
patrol car right on campus. That will deter ninety to
ninety five percent of the school shootings. Why because they

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know they come in one shot, they fire one or
two shots, there's going to be shots coming back. And
if you look at many of the mass shootings of
the last thirty forty years, it's all it's either in schools,
it's in shopping malls, it's in movie theaters where the
shooters knew they were gun free zones. Because ultimately they

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are a bunch of cowards. So no, there's it's you know,
no one is gonna tell me that we can't protect
our children if we want to, but they don't want to.
That's the problem. Six one seven two six, six sixty
eight sixty eight is the number. Okay, very quickly, my

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sister again, Arizona, Jennifer, she this is what she wrote,
and I think she's completely right. Jeff, do you remember
during COVID when kids were taking online classes. This is
when parents were astonished at what was being taught in
the classroom. And that is very true. By the way,

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this is why they don't want cameras in the classroom.
Ingle and then my sister adds, instead of teaching DEI
and how evil America is, how about they teach basic
skills like I don't know how to open a bank account.

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Cook sew a button. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, Jen,
call me crazy. Maybe a little reading, a little writing,
a little arithmetic. I don't know. Maybe they can learn
a little bit about our Constitution. I mean, it is
just the greatest document for human freedom and personal liberty
in the world, in the history of the world. So

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I don't know. Maybe teach them a few of the amendments.
You know, the Bill of Rights. I don't know three
of them. How about three three three amendments in the
Bill of Rights first Amendment, second Amendment, and throw into
tenth amendment six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight. Okay, I'm not going to mention the town.

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It's a town in Massachusetts, but I won't mention it
because this person is asked for anonymity, So I will
not mention a specific town. But I trust this person.
I know this person. I trust this person impeccably. Jeff.
The public schools in this town, now listen to this,

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have two thousand, eight hundred and fifty five students around
one thousand, nine hundred. Remember we're talking about two thousand,
eight hundred students. One thousand, nine hundred of those students
need behavioral health assistance in school, and a majority of

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those nineteen hundred students either do not speak any English
or are learning English as a second language. This is incredible,
that is unsustainable. When it was brought up at the
last town meeting, the school superintendent and other town meeting

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members could not handle talking about how to solve this
problem and instead shouted down, slash shamed the few people
who questioned this madness. A town where the public schools
have two thousand, eight hundred and fifty five students, one thousand,

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nine hundred need behavioral health assistance, most of them can
speak English or English only as a second language. Now
you tell me, how are the children going to learn?
How are the kids? How can you learn in this environment?
I mean, this is a disaster. And this person and

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ads Jeff, I was shocked when I saw those numbers.
But these Towent committee members all defended it, and they
think it's fine. All of this tax money being wasted
and the kids who want to learn get shafted because
half or more than half of the students need constant

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extra attention and assistance. Bingo, bingo. And this is what
we call the dumbing down of America. So you have
to spend all your time, energy, resources trying to teach
kids who have mental health issues, behavioral issues, psychological issues,

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can't speak English, a word of English or very poor English,
and that holds back the rest of the classroom. And
just keep you know, wash rints, repeat same thing over
and over and over. And this is happening in town
after town, city after city all over the country. But no,

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I'm I'm the extremist. No really, I'm the extremist. Six
one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight Dave
in Vermont, Thanks for holding Dave, and welcome.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Hey, bonjeur Michel cooner.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Boujeour Dave, my French Canadian friend.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Uh me, Dave? What do you?

Speaker 1 (13:29):
What do you make of all this?

Speaker 5 (13:34):
And the first point, if I ever was the eleven
or twelve year old person and talk to my parents
that way, it'd be on my record, my dental record.
And the second point is you're right about the addiction.
It's become almost cocaine because when I was growing up,

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we had a vacuum tube capacitor, big console radio with
PHONEO graph and we could listen to records. But there
was a lot of short shortwave radio that when we
listened to mostly, and then all of a sudden, the
transistor radio came out, and we.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
Had this little pocket thing that would fit in our
pocket like a deck of cards, where we could listen
to AM radio and man, that was addictus. And then
all of a sudden, FBM came out and it was
sure Radio and we.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Could listen to that, and there was something on that
we had never been a custom to, and it was
something that we didn't have to inject into our system,
but just turn it on and we got it.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
We got the indoctrination started coming through started way back
with radio.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Hey, that's interesting. I never looked at it that way,
but that is very very interesting. Look I do. I
mean I read about this that in the forties and fifties. Again,
this is what you know. Seventy five years ago they
called it the boob tube, that it was the introduction
of mass television when TV was in almost every living room,

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and they were all coming out saying this is going
to you know, eventually destroy Western civilization. And you know,
these were very intelligent critics, and they said, well why,
I mean, come on, what's the harm. I mean, people
want to watch a little TV and they're like, no,
it's not going to be half an hour or an hour.
They go, you watch, it's going to be two hours,
and then three hours, and then four hours, and pretty

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soon all you're going to do is have a population
where they just watched TV for four or five six
hours a day. And apparently I've been seeing these stunning statistics.
Whether it's computers, whether it's iPads, or whether it's television,
the average American spends over six to eight hours a
day Verna in Arlington. Thanks for holding Verna and welcome.

Speaker 7 (16:16):
Thank you very much, Jeff, it's great to be with you, folks.
I wanted to share some information that might be very
important for some of the listeners, and I wish I
had gotten on earlier. I knew people that actually go
to Catholic Math at nine am and they're off the radio,
stop listening. But what I wanted to a couple of
introduction first, and then my basic point. This is very

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addictive and as people, a lot of people out there
probably know, there are twelve step recovery programs for every
form of addiction. Primarily people will know AA for alcohol,
NA for narcotics, OH for food, alan On for friends
and family of people of addiction, and there's other many

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many programs to worcoholics anonymous and so on and so forth.
There is five years ago it was started a specific
twelve step recovery program for this specific addiction. It's called
Media Addicts Anonymous, and literally that is the website to
Media Addicts anonymous dot org. And it's for addictive compulsive

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use of all forms of media and technology. They're actually
having their fifth anniversary big conference this fall October thirty
first in Washington, d C. I actually know the two
people that founded the program that started it as well.
So all forms of addiction of media, TV, cell phone, computer, TikTok,

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every form that you can imagine, all of the things
that are part of technology and media addiction. So again
Media Addicts Anonymous dot org. It's very powerful. It has
spread like wildfire. It is among all adults and obviously
the younger generation as well. And so I just really

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wanted to let people know if people want to look
it up again, look it up Media Addicts Anonymous dot org.
And it's twelve step recovery. As people know, twelve step
recovery does not cost anything. It's not specific therapy or
anything like that. It's a twelve step recovery support system
for different focuses based on the principles of that started

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with alcoholics. Anonymous Verna.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
I'm just curious, if you don't mind me asking, where
do you stand on this issue of cell phones in schools.
Do you think they should be banned?

Speaker 7 (18:47):
They should be at least reduced. I would have to
ask my daughter in law more. She's actually they're up
here visiting and her kids have no problems, and they're
in their teens. I would think it needs to be reduced,
possibly banned, and to a certain extent where, you know,
if needed. But then obviously, you know, basically stopped because
it shouldn't. I'm against it ninety percent because I don't

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think it should get an interfere in people's lifestyles and
their learning and their training. None of us had this.
I was just talking with her about that. I forgot
myself phone at home last night, you know, and it
felt strange. But yeah, I think the specific facts that
it's getting this much in involved in and interrupting people's

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learning and their ability to focus, I think is a
huge thing, and so to ninety percent, I think it
should be stopped.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Interesting interesting Verna. As always, thank you very very much
for that call, Mike Charles in Wilmington. Thanks for holding
Charles and welcome.

Speaker 8 (19:54):
Oh Jeff, I'll make it quick, yes, said Panning it.
But then she said she launched the show because it
makes you think. And I agree with her because you know,
as you said, you see both sides. So I'll make
it quick. I'm a medical carry up and I go
to a lot of file places and sometimes some tverment places,

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and they bought your cell phone. So a very simple
thing to a cause nothing is it? Would you know
both sides? Would we had you with it? They kids
could have their phone in class, but they could only
call you. The family have a emergency button, okay, our

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third you know, like like option, and so that would
solve your concern about you know, you want your kids
to be able to call you, all right. And then
it was also you know, solve the problem with people
because I agree that kids on like a lot of

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the kids, but everyone's addicted to it, and I don't know.
I'll just say if I had a sophoe when I
was younger, I would have been like Einstein because I
would have shoot it. I want to step on stuff,
and uh you know so, I mean it's very simple.
It would cost nothing. You know. You know your kids
have the phone. They're in the school and you know,

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uh it the phone is like they put in a
place that you know that they could call for guergency
or like uh two police on to the family.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
I love it, Charles, I love it, I really do.
I love it, and I think you're right. Look, they
do it in government buildings, they do it in all
kinds of other buildings.

Speaker 8 (21:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
So you know they block access to the internet, they
block access to all sorts of things.

Speaker 7 (21:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
But if you need to make an emergency call God forbid,
there's a school shooting, I don't know whatever. Uh, something
is breaking out. You need to reach nine one one,
or you to reach your father or your mother. It's there.
And I love it. I think it's a it's a
great compromise.