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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six one seven two six six, sixty eight sixty eight
is the number.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Okay, let me ask all.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Of you, just from your own personal life experience, do
youth would it help you?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Would you be better off.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
As a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, whatever. We have a
lot of young people, by the way, who do listen
to this show. I would love for them to call
in as well on their way to school or whatever.
Those even under sixteen. Would it make your life easier
if you weren't able to use social media? One of
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the stunning things in these surveys is fifty one percent
of US teenagers say they favor a band, which begs
the question, well, if you hate it that much, why
are you on it? And I think it's because their
answer would be, well, everybody else is on it, and
(01:01):
you know that's just how you stay plugged into your
friends and to school. You know, people will go to
school and your community and just you know whatever. Young
people in general, but that they feel a lot of
pressure to be on social media and to be on it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
For hours and hours and hours at a time.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And again, I know I said the stats in the
opening monologue, but just please, I want to repeat them,
just very quickly to kind of reinforce our conversation. The
average number of hours, By the way, it's not just
for Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Europeans, in Japan, South Koreans,
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in other words, the developed world four point four hours
a day for those that are thirteen years old, four
point four hours a day on social media a day.
It gets more addictive. You can see it because by
seventeen the average now is an incredible five point eight
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hours a day. That's basically, that's not quibbled, six hours,
six hours a day on social media staring at a screen.
God knows what they're watching, God knows what they're consuming,
God knows what their brains are taking in a ya yai.
(02:29):
I'm sorry, where are the parents, like I my god,
just the lost time, never mind, never mind anything else.
By the way, for whatever reason, and all the surveys
show this, girls or whatever, young women, however you want
to call them, teenage girls spend on average an hour
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more a day than teenage boys.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Boys are spending a lot of time, don't get me wrong,
but it appears that girls, for whatever reason, on average,
everyone's different, but on average are spending an hour more
a day.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Than boys.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Six one seven two six, six sixty eight sixty eight. Now,
look to me, the answer is not a ban. I
don't want to keep repeating myself. We have ava on
a timer. One hour a day, that's it on social media, Ashton,
one hour a day, that's it on social media. But
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you know that's up to the parents. Every parent is different,
every child is different. But look, it's it's a crisis.
There's no question.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Now this is a crisis.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
If they did implement such a ban, would it make
your life easier? Would it make your child's life easier?
Would you get to see.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
More of your children?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Would your children actually, I don't know, read a book,
go outside, I don't know, breathe some fresh air, play
a sport, play an instrument. I don't know, talk to
other live human beings, actually have conversations, you know, I
don't know, live a little, just do actual living. Are
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we robbing and destroying the childhood of our children? And
I think that's what's driving this band. In fact, almost verbatim,
that's what the Prime Minister of Australia said we are
gonna give the childhood back to our children. And when
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he said that, parents were just like it, they were
like they were all clapping. At the big press conference
that he held announcing Wednesday as today is the day
this band.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now goes into effect.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Anyway, I want to hear from you six one seven
two six Sex sixty eight sixty eight Charles in Wilmington.
Thanks for holding Charles, and welcome.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Ohia. I had two or three things I just wanted.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
To talk about, but yes, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Great audience has has expanded that, so I'm just really
say things quick and then I'll hang up. And you
know you can't spand on. I'm sixty one, I believe
you're fifty six. Yes, and the way that I was
brought up, and I think how you were and how
you raising your kids. Unfortunately, sadly but true argument does
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not hold water. Involve because I will hide ball it
the way you raise your kids. Less than ten percent
of parents do that. And I think about one call
I was talking about with COVID and by the way,
that was such grace. I didn't clause you with it, it,
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but parents weren't home and the excuse all the time
was that you don't have enough time to work and
they were home for two years, and not blaming COVID
for them being on the phone, I mean, what the heck?
I mean, why weren't they out playing with them? And
you're a big person about you know how history repeats
itself that we all learned for it. I remember when
I was growing up, people will say, don't put your
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kid in front of the move to I don't know
if you remember that, yeah, you know. And then also
you know, I don't you know, I don't like when
people sue, like big companies, you know, when it goes
back to their parents. But it's very easy to do.
Like if you want to set up your iPhone, you know,
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so when you pick it up, you want to come
to cod it goes to your face, but it goes
to your eyes. Okay, so get around. If the kid
is sixteen years old or undone, you know, they can
just stare into it. That might be a little extreme.
And another thing my mother when she got old on
I want that uh thing. Uh you know, if I
fall and I can't get up again, it's a little.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Charles.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We're up against a hardbreak please hang on six one
seven two six, six sixty eight sixty eight is the number.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I want to go back to Charles uh in Wilmington,
But just before I go, a fascinating conversation with Mike.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You know, Mike, what are you going? Twenty seven twenty eight? Mike?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, are you twenty seven or twenty eight twenty seven?
So Mike's twenty seven, you know, obviously he's not sixteen.
I'm staying in the obvious. Uh, but you know he's still,
you know, very young man.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He's grown up with social media now pretty much his
entire life. And we were just talking. It's just fascinating,
really how different it is for me and I suspect
my generation than his. Mike is a big football fan, professional, college,
you name it. And he says, no, no, I mean
I watch TikTok all the time. I go where do
(08:03):
you get the time?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
He says, Well, just give you an example.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
If I'm watching a game on Saturday, say college football,
and there's a commercial, there's a break in the game, Well,
then I'll just scroll on TikTok, you know, a couple
of minutes whatever, and then when the game starts again,
I'll just you know, start watching the game, or I'll
go on Instagram, or I'll go on X or you
know whatever, or even when my friends are over. I said,
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but Mike, don't you have friends come over and watch
the game together. He goes, yeah, so I said, well, Mike,
I'm sorry. Don't you talk to your friends right? You
know whatever? It's the second quarter. Oh, Michigan looks really
good here or whatever, Ohio State looks good.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
He goes, well, yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Talk obviously, but we're also scrolling Instagram and Twitter whatever X.
As we're talking to each other during the break in
the action, Mike is, okay, Mike is getting a tad defensive.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Mike is like, you know, it's not twenty four to seven.
It's not like I'm watching TikTok. But when I mentioned
to him six hours a day, he says to me, yeah,
that sounds about right. I go, Mike, where you get
the time to like be on social media for six hours?
And his answer was, well, it's kind of like filler time.
He goes, It's not as if I say, hey, you know,
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I'm going to block out twelve to two and I'm
gonna lie on my sit on my couch and watch TikTok.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's just it's just there.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's just, you know, whenever there's a break in anything,
I just, you know, I start looking at my phone.
Now I've noticed that. You go to a restaurant, everybody's
on their phone. It's to me, I think it's very sad.
The mother, the father, the children. The mother's on the phone,
the father's on the phone, the kids are on the phone.
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Nobody's talking to each other. It's like four individual you
in the morning.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Let's say kids are waiting at a bus stop. I
don't want to do the back in my day, but
you know, kids ran around, kids played, kids talked that,
they play tag, there was energy life. It's twenty kids
waiting at a stop. Every single one of them head
into a screen. Nobody looks left, nobody looks right. They
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don't talk to each other, they don't say a word
to each other. And then they get onto the bus,
and then everybody on the bus is on the screen.
Social media has not brought us together. It has brought
us apart. And we're going to see the long term
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consequences of this. We're already seeing it. The isolation the loneliness,
the depression, the lack, the alienation, the lack of human connection.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It's so obvious.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
People need companionship, people need friends, people need human contact.
You know, as Aristotle famously said, man is a social
man is men and women. Man is a social animal.
Like we're born to be with each other, to interact
with each other. And I think that's what Charles is
getting at. You know, he's sixty one, I'm fifty six,
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and he's like, does anybody go out and play anymore?
Do parents even encourage their children to go out and play?
Do they even play with their children? Notice you rarely
see parents now playing with their kids. You can tell
we're in the midst of a societal revolution. Anyway, Just enough,
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I want to go back to Charles in Wilmington. Charles, please,
you were on a roll pick up where you left.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Off, like you kind of just uh uh stole with
like what you like? What I what? I was just saying,
like any idiot with a pair of eyes, I'm shocked
by when you told the stats say that people were
like shocked by it. Anyone who can see just like
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you said at a restaurant, you know, kids are on
the phone you know that you know wherever it is, here, there, whatever,
And you said it's sad myself, I agree, but I
also find it so damn rude.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I think the parents would say, put your phone down,
we're here to eat, you know, We're here with your uncles,
your aunts, friends, you know. And then people talk about isolation.
Will the kids realized and that's why, you know they
get preyed on? Yeah, I wonder why, because there's no
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have you seen any kids out of the playground in
the last ten years, I haven't no in like and
another thing like let the parents you know, I'm you know.
Another I don't really love this one, but let the
parents decide opt in and go out to bid. If
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they opt if they let the kid opt in, something happens,
then yeah, then they should be responsible because they made
a decision. And like kids can go I mean, you
can go to Walmart and get a throwaway phone, okay,
or even like you know, like a smartphone or like
thirty forty bucks with like you know, five hundred minutes
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on it and you can read it every but like
twenty five bucks like every month, you know, So like
they said, the kids can get around it. Yeah, they
can get around it. So like you're saying, like take
the phone, like your wife said, take the phones away. Yeah, yeah,
that's a good thing. But again it goes back to parenting. Okay,
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the parents the because that's home, because they aren't bothering,
and that goes back to COVID. You know again, I know,
you know a ton of people that work from home,
and they were loving because they were saying, I only
really worked about three hours a day.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
The rest of the day, you know, I do law
this and that. Okay, So, uh, you had two years
you're saying that, you know, you couldn't play with the
kids before I picked them up in school nanny, I
got prom in you know, like at you know, preschool whatever. Uh,
And that was your excuse. But now you have two
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years and now what's the next. Well, I can't tell you.
I'm too busy work and I'm never home. Oh I believe,
you know, like.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Charles, I have to say, no, it's true, No, No, I
mean just they were home. Many parents were home during
COVID for a couple of years, and they never I
don't know, I'm not god, I can't see through every home,
but I didn't notice that change in parents playing with
their kids. I didn't notice. Look, I can tell you
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this on my look. When I was growing up, just
it was a staple of growing up. My father played
with me outside. Everybody's father or mother, whatever, the parents
played with the children outside.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Everybody did the whole street. My street.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'm not criticizing my street. My street is very typical.
I've never seen parents playing with their kids ever. Ever,
when I go to the park, I used to go
to the park. Action's a bit older now, so we
don't do as much. Frankly, like he's into weightlifting now,
so he's going to the gym quite often. But when
he was a bit younger, we got a couple of
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baseball gloves. We had a baseball. He and I would
always throw the baseball. We were the only father and
son throwing a baseball. Frankly, there were very few people
at the park to begin with. But the few people
that at the park, you know, they're walking the dog
or whatever. I don't think I saw another. Maybe once
I saw another father and a son throwing the baseball
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around or throwing a football around. When I was growing up,
my dad and I threw the football around all the time.
That's some of the dearest memories.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I have with my dad.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I just I mean, you know, one year anniversary of
his death is coming up, and at the funeral, I
just kept being flooded with images of him playing with me,
whether we played baseball, football, soccer, whatever. You just don't
see that anymore. And honestly, I think we're depriving our
children of something very sacred and very important, and I
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think that's why they have this, this craving.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You can see it on them.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Six one seven two six, six sixty eight. Sixty eight
is the number. Okay, it's the Kooner Country Pole Question
of the Day sponsored by Mario's Mariosquall Roofing, siding and Windows.
As many of you know, we've talked, been talking about
it all morning. Australia now has passed the first ever
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in the world ban social media ban on children under
the age of sixteen. If you're under sixteen in Australia,
you are banned. You cannot be on Facebook, Instagram x
formerly known as Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Kick. I could go
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on and on about ten of the biggest social media
platforms in the world. Now many countries say they want
to follow Australia's lead, Denmark, Norway, maybe the whole European Union.
New Zealand, Canada is now looking at it, so is Malaysia.
The big thing for US Congress now says both Democrats
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and Republicans that we need something very similar here in
the United States.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So my question to.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You, should the US follow Australia's example and band kids
under sixteen years of age from using social media? A yes,
B No. I may no. Not that I'm not saying
there aren't. It's not toxic. It's that there aren't many
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very negative things about social media. There clearly are. But
I believe it's up to the parents. I'm a big
believer in parental sovereignty, parental authority, parental oversight, parental control.
I don't believe it should be the government. It should
be parents that do it, because I don't trust the government.
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But that's me. I want to hear from you. By
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forty five point five percent No. So I'm going to
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Speaker 2 (19:26):
N e R.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Let me ask all of you has social media with
your children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, your family, everything
that you've seen in your life. Has it enriched you
or has it been a real source of pain and trouble?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Do you, as a.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Parent feel overwhelmed with your children's addiction to social media?
And do we need to have more regulation and restrictions
on social media use?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Just like we have all.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Kinds of laws for drinking, you can have to be
twenty one to drink, eighteen to vote, eighteen to serve
in the military most states, twenty one to smoke. So
if we can pass laws regarding younger people for drinking,
for smoking, for voting, for driving sixteen seventeen in some states,
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depending which state, but sixteen seventeen years old you can't drive.
You know you can't drive if you're under that age,
why not for social media use? Now, my argument, a
phone is not a car. Car is a very deadly weapon.
You can kill people with a car. You don't want
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a fourteen year old behind the wheel because they're not
mature enough to be behind the wheel. I could go
on and on for many other things. To me, yes
it's damaging, Yes it's toxic. Yes it's bad, it's a
horrible influence. But in the end, we're still talking about
social media, watching a screen and consuming information. And that's
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why I don't like the government getting involved.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But again that is me.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
Eddie in Charlestown.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Thanks for holding Eddie, and welcome.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Good morning, Jeff Hyati. A couple of things I'd like
to point out. This country has to get back to
good family values and with the PHAM. Like you said earlier,
the separation is they're alone. They're not communicating with their
fellow teenagers or whatever. When I was a kid, I
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was involved in organized sports, even organized pop Wanna mill
Schmid hockey teams in Boston. It's dwindling down.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They don't have the.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Participation like they used to the playgrounds. I used to
go to the playgrounds and go to pick up hockey,
street hockey thing or basketball or football. And the parents
have to keep their kids busy at all times. If
they don't keep their kids busy and on top of them,
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they're going to go in the wrong direction. And thank
God for my mother grown up in Charlestown, a very
rough community. I won't say all bad people. There's some
very good people in Chilesund, but there's some very bad
people in Chilesund. And if my mother didn't keep on
me and she had times and because back then you
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could survive on one income, and my mother was on
top of me and my sister and we turned up
to it because she did a job. And today I
see parents, especially young parents, I want to call them something,
but I know people get easily offended today, but they
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lack two things. They whack so they lack common sense
and they're lazy. They don't want to stay on top
of their kids, and that's why they go. That's why
they go in the wrong direction because they're not And
I realized a lot of these younger parents today they
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do have to. It takes two incomes to support a
family today. That's the unfortunate thing. But still the bottom
line is you bring someone in this world, that's your
responsibility to make a good life for them, not just
bring them in the world and let them go on
their way, because that's not doing your job.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And that's all I have to I agree, Eddie, I
completely agree. And look, let me just piggyback off of
what you're saying. I gotta be careful because it's my son,
and there's a lot of very dangerous people out there,
really hateful moonbats, and they'd love to hurt me by
hurting my son. So I don't want to give the
name or the location. But he's fifteen. He wants to work,
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he really wants to work. He's done to get a job.
I'm like, Ashton, You're going to be working your whole life, son,
take it easy, you know, And I come on, enjoy
your childhood. No no, no, no, no no, I said,
come on, enjoy your teenage years. So anyway, you can
only work in Massachusetts with a few exceptions, but for
the most part until you turn sixteen. So he's going
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to be sixteen in about three months. He's working at
a gym. He's interning, I guess, is so what you
can call anyway, he's at a gym. They're going to
give him the job, they said, they love him so much.
He's such a great you know, he's very good with
the kids that when he turned sixteen, the job is his,
but they'd like him to do a little interning, so
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he knows the job and then boom, on day one,
he's ready to jump in. So he now works at
a gym with other trainers and they're working on young kids.
Their parents come in, drop them off, or they're there
watching them. And these are kids, now, this is very important.
Six seven, eight, nine, ten years old, that's it. And
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they break them up into little groups. What's the point
of my story? All of them are on social media,
Ashton says to me. The parents are there and all
the kids are staring at a screen. They all have
a phone, even the six year olds, And he says,
what shocks him the most. In fact, he just told
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us a horror story last night. This was last night.
There was a mother with a daughter who took the
phone away from the daughter. The daughter was eight years old,
and said, okay, you got to go exercise. Now, there's
a fifty minute exercise class and then said I love
you to the daughter. Gave the daughter a bottle of
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water and said here, you know, here's the bottle of water.
The daughter tells the mother in front of everybody, I
don't want I can't say it on the air. I
don't want the efing bottle of water, and you can
go f yourself. That's what an eighteen year old. Sorry,
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that's what an eight year old told the mother to
her face in front of everybody in the class. Ashton
said he was horrified. The other two instructors were horrified.
The other kids were laughing. They thought it was a joke.
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The mother tried to just dismissed it as a joke,
play it off and hah haha, just laughing. Now, let
me tell you what I told Ashton yesterday. If that
was my dad and I told him to go f himself,
it didn't matter if it's a gym, I don't care
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where it is, home, public, outside, inside. He would have
whacked me so hard right on the spot. I would
remember it for the rest of my life. In fact,
even Ashton said, Dad, if that was you, you would
have hit me in the back of the head.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
But he goes you were like, you know, he went.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Tush like I would have been like a slap or
a whack right in the head.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I go, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Now, the reason why I'm mentioning this is Ashton said
to me right away. Dad is the phone. The kids
are getting this off of social media because they're watching
other kids do it and they think it's funny, and
so now it's cool to tell your parents to blank off.
(28:06):
Now I'm sorry. Ultimately, I can't blame Facebook or TikTok
or Instagram or Reddit or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I blame the mother.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Your daughter just said I don't want the blanking water,
and you can go blank yourself. And your response is
to laugh. Now, you're raising an ingrate and a monster,
a spoiled monster, a braad forgive me a bee. You're
raising a little bee. That's what you're raising. Okay, rhymes
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with which. Now that's not a two income family. I
hear where you're coming from, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
That's not.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
My mother has to work so hard. My father has
to work so hard to put food on the table
to take care of us.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
So they're just not home a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
And you know, I'm watching too much social media. This
is a question of parental respect. This is a question
of respecting authority, respecting your parents, hell, respecting yourself. That's
your mother, And ultimately that respect comes from the mother
and the father and how they're raising and disciplining their child.
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So and by the way, Ashton's telling me, you hear
it all the time. This is him, Dad. I don't
know what's going on out there, Like, what do you mean, son?
They're all telling their parents that off and they think
it's funny. The kids think it's funny, and the parents
think it's funny.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Now, I'll be honest, you can't ban that. I mean,
you're gonna try.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
That's a parenting issue, and I think parents, younger parents
in particular, have to look at themselves in the mirror
because you don't respect yourself obviously, so why would the
kids respect you? And do you have any notion of
what kind of a child you're raising, who's going to
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be able to marry someone like that, who's going to
be able to hire someone like that, who's going to
be able to have lasting friendships with someone like that?
You're not doing your child any favors.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I'm just telling you this is how profound the crisis is.
And this is a nice gym, by the way, you
know it costs money to be a member at that gym.
It's not some you know, I'm not talking about it's
I don't aware, somewhere in some ghetto or something where
you say, wow, I don't know, there's gangs everywhere.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
No, this is a middle, upper middle class area and
this is a nice, little swanky gym. So their parents
are professionals, you know, they're they're good, they're good earners,
presumably with a good education. Six one seven two six
six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree, Okay, Friday, I'm
(31:14):
a little lake today eight ish. You know what that means.
Caller of the Week, Cooner's Call Log. It's time for
Coolers call Log, where we showcase our favorite color from
the week.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I can hear you? Can you hear me? Thanks for
holding Jeff.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
I'm down here in Florida, live relatively close to my dad.
I have a sister, a real moonbat sister lives out
in Santa Barbara, California. She had not been out to
see my dad for Christmas or Thanksgiving for many years.
All of a sudden, she decides to come out for Thanksgiving.
So she communicated that with my dad in about two
weeks before Christmas. We really didn't get along because she's
(31:59):
hardcore left. I'm hardcore right, and so he knew there
was friction in the family, and as most parents, their
dream is to have their kids get along and you know,
socialize and all of that, and he realized there was
subtension there. So he says to me, about two weeks
before Thanksgiving, So Pam just notified me she's going to
be off for Thanksgiving. Would you be willing to have
(32:19):
dinner with us? And he was expecting me to say no.
Me and my wife said sure, that would be great.
He was so happy and we said, okay, Dad, we'll
see you next weekend. Three days later, I get an
email from him. Unfortunately, your sister does not want to
have Thanksgiving with you. She does not want to socialize
with you on a personal level. However, she will still
communicate with you by email on personal matters. My point
(32:43):
here is, if you're on the right, you make sacrifices,
you're not a narcissist. You do good things for other people.
I stepped over my shadow for the benefit of my father.
These people can't make one sacrifice for anybody to make
somebody else happy. It's all about them and nobody else.
Are all one way. The name streets after one way.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Along last.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Be here every weekday.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
On the Coon Report between six and ten am, and
next week it could be you on Cooner's call log.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Please don't be a stranger. Call again, that was a
phenomenal call. I gotta tell you, a heartbreaking call, but
it was it was authentic, it was from the heart,
and everybody can relate to it because we all know
how the moonbats are, how intolerant they are, and how
they place politics and ideology above family. Anyway, again, best
(33:48):
audience in the business. Okay, this is what Sandy said
to me regarding that story I just told about, you know,
the daughter telling the mother to f off she's about
to take, you know, an exercise class with my Ashton
and talking about you know, it's bad parenting. And don't
(34:10):
blame social media as much as bad parenting. This is
what Sandy says, and I think she's got a point.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Jeff.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
It's a function of both lack of discipline and glorifying
bad behavior on the internet. Also, don't forget that the
mother would have probably been arrested or reported to DCF
if she disciplined her child in public. Well that's how
insane things have gotten. But you know, at a bare minimum,
(34:43):
I don't know you're coming home with me. Hey, young lady,
get your ass into the car. You're coming home. Okay,
we're going to talk to daddy about this. In other words,
you're in trouble telling your mother to go f herself
in public in front of all the other kids and
then running away laughing, you know, and and the mother's
(35:08):
laughing as well. Now Ashton Ashton said she was more
kind of an embarrassed laughing, like, you know, you're kind
of embarrassed and you just kind of chuckle and try
to laugh the whole thing off. But obviously the mother
is allowing her daughter. It's not the first time. Obviously
(35:29):
the mother is allowing the daughter to do this. Now,
my point is not to just pick on this mother.
It's Ashton is telling me Dad, it's all the time
with other kids as well. The disrespect for the parents.
He goes and the parents allow it, and they take it,
(35:49):
and he just shakes his head, you know, he's like
just and so he does say so, and I said,
where do they learned this? He goes, oh, Dad, it's
all social media. It's all social media. And obviously it's
bad parenting as well. So anyway, I'm just telling you.
I believe a lot of the problems stem from bad parenting.
(36:15):
To me, I always go back to that, if you've
got a disciplined home, it's got to be a loving home, obviously,
but you have to have a disciplined home. If the
mother and father are disciplining and controlling their kids and
raising them the right way, to respect authority, to respect them,
to respect themselves, the kid's gonna turn out okay. But
(36:40):
when you let them behave like absolute barbarians, savages, and
that's what this is. This is savagery. Well that's what
you're gonna get. You know, you raise a savage, you
end up turning out a savage. Ellie in Worcester. Thanks
for holding Ellie, and welcome. Oh how are you doing good?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
How are you Ellie?
Speaker 5 (37:06):
I'm just gonna switch for once here because pick out
a buzz.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Go ahead, Ellie. What's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Well, you know something, It says, be careful what you
wish for, because this is like a trojan horse trying
to muzzle its way in. They're going to use the
children as the excuse. But it's like who started all
this anyway? You know, governments and corporations and stuff like that. Now,
(37:36):
my thing is is like there's good and there's bad
on the net. Of course really bad stuff. There's good stuff,
but it's like, is the government getting nervous because I
trust the government like I trust a drunk driver. So
it's like, say, there are apps out there like Turning Point,
(37:57):
you know, Charlie Kirk and stuff like that helping thousands
of kids, you know, and all over the world, you
know apps. Now is the government going to tag a
app like Charlie Kirk who's actually helping kids as subversive
or a drug or harmful to kids because you know,
(38:21):
there is an attack on you know, Christianity pretty much worldwide.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
So Ellie, can you do me a favor? I'm up
against our heartbreak
Six one seven two six six, sixty eight sixty eight
is the number.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Okay, let me ask all.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Of you, just from your own personal life experience, do
youth would it help you?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Would you be better off.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
As a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, whatever. We have a
lot of young people, by the way, who do listen
to this show. I would love for them to call
in as well on their way to school or whatever.
Those even under sixteen. Would it make your life easier
if you weren't able to use social media? One of
(00:40):
the stunning things in these surveys is fifty one percent
of US teenagers say they favor a band, which begs
the question, well, if you hate it that much, why
are you on it? And I think it's because their
answer would be, well, everybody else is on it, and
(01:01):
you know that's just how you stay plugged into your
friends and to school. You know, people will go to
school and your community and just you know whatever. Young
people in general, but that they feel a lot of
pressure to be on social media and to be on it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
For hours and hours and hours at a time.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And again, I know I said the stats in the
opening monologue, but just please, I want to repeat them,
just very quickly to kind of reinforce our conversation. The
average number of hours, By the way, it's not just
for Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Europeans, in Japan, South Koreans,
(01:42):
in other words, the developed world four point four hours
a day for those that are thirteen years old, four
point four hours a day on social media a day.
It gets more addictive. You can see it because by
seventeen the average now is an incredible five point eight
(02:06):
hours a day. That's basically, that's not quibbled, six hours,
six hours a day on social media staring at a screen.
God knows what they're watching, God knows what they're consuming,
God knows what their brains are taking in a ya yai.
(02:29):
I'm sorry, where are the parents, like I my god,
just the lost time, never mind, never mind anything else.
By the way, for whatever reason, and all the surveys
show this, girls or whatever, young women, however you want
to call them, teenage girls spend on average an hour
(02:55):
more a day than teenage boys.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Boys are spending a lot of time, don't get me wrong,
but it appears that girls, for whatever reason, on average,
everyone's different, but on average are spending an hour more
a day.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Than boys.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Six one seven two six, six sixty eight sixty eight. Now,
look to me, the answer is not a ban. I
don't want to keep repeating myself. We have ava on
a timer. One hour a day, that's it on social media, Ashton,
one hour a day, that's it on social media. But
(03:35):
you know that's up to the parents. Every parent is different,
every child is different. But look, it's it's a crisis.
There's no question.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Now this is a crisis.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
If they did implement such a ban, would it make
your life easier? Would it make your child's life easier?
Would you get to see.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
More of your children?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Would your children actually, I don't know, read a book,
go outside, I don't know, breathe some fresh air, play
a sport, play an instrument. I don't know, talk to
other live human beings, actually have conversations, you know, I
don't know, live a little, just do actual living. Are
(04:25):
we robbing and destroying the childhood of our children? And
I think that's what's driving this band. In fact, almost verbatim,
that's what the Prime Minister of Australia said we are
gonna give the childhood back to our children. And when
(04:46):
he said that, parents were just like it, they were
like they were all clapping. At the big press conference
that he held announcing Wednesday as today is the day
this band.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now goes into effect.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Anyway, I want to hear from you six one seven
two six Sex sixty eight sixty eight Charles in Wilmington.
Thanks for holding Charles, and welcome.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Ohia. I had two or three things I just wanted.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
To talk about, but yes, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Great audience has has expanded that, so I'm just really
say things quick and then I'll hang up. And you
know you can't spand on. I'm sixty one, I believe
you're fifty six. Yes, and the way that I was
brought up, and I think how you were and how
you raising your kids. Unfortunately, sadly but true argument does
(05:40):
not hold water. Involve because I will hide ball it
the way you raise your kids. Less than ten percent
of parents do that. And I think about one call
I was talking about with COVID and by the way,
that was such grace. I didn't clause you with it, it,
(06:00):
but parents weren't home and the excuse all the time
was that you don't have enough time to work and
they were home for two years, and not blaming COVID
for them being on the phone, I mean, what the heck?
I mean, why weren't they out playing with them? And
you're a big person about you know how history repeats
itself that we all learned for it. I remember when
I was growing up, people will say, don't put your
(06:23):
kid in front of the move to I don't know
if you remember that, yeah, you know. And then also
you know, I don't you know, I don't like when
people sue, like big companies, you know, when it goes
back to their parents. But it's very easy to do.
Like if you want to set up your iPhone, you know,
(06:44):
so when you pick it up, you want to come
to cod it goes to your face, but it goes
to your eyes. Okay, so get around. If the kid
is sixteen years old or undone, you know, they can
just stare into it. That might be a little extreme.
And another thing my mother when she got old on
I want that uh thing. Uh you know, if I
fall and I can't get up again, it's a little.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Charles.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We're up against a hardbreak please hang on six one
seven two six, six sixty eight sixty eight is the number.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I want to go back to Charles uh in Wilmington,
But just before I go, a fascinating conversation with Mike.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You know, Mike, what are you going? Twenty seven twenty eight? Mike?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, are you twenty seven or twenty eight twenty seven?
So Mike's twenty seven, you know, obviously he's not sixteen.
I'm staying in the obvious. Uh, but you know he's still,
you know, very young man.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He's grown up with social media now pretty much his
entire life. And we were just talking. It's just fascinating,
really how different it is for me and I suspect
my generation than his. Mike is a big football fan, professional, college,
you name it. And he says, no, no, I mean
I watch TikTok all the time. I go where do
(08:03):
you get the time?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
He says, Well, just give you an example.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
If I'm watching a game on Saturday, say college football,
and there's a commercial, there's a break in the game, Well,
then I'll just scroll on TikTok, you know, a couple
of minutes whatever, and then when the game starts again,
I'll just you know, start watching the game, or I'll
go on Instagram, or I'll go on X or you
know whatever, or even when my friends are over. I said,
(08:29):
but Mike, don't you have friends come over and watch
the game together. He goes, yeah, so I said, well, Mike,
I'm sorry. Don't you talk to your friends right? You
know whatever? It's the second quarter. Oh, Michigan looks really
good here or whatever, Ohio State looks good.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
He goes, well, yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Talk obviously, but we're also scrolling Instagram and Twitter whatever X.
As we're talking to each other during the break in
the action, Mike is, okay, Mike is getting a tad defensive.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Mike is like, you know, it's not twenty four to seven.
It's not like I'm watching TikTok. But when I mentioned
to him six hours a day, he says to me, yeah,
that sounds about right. I go, Mike, where you get
the time to like be on social media for six hours?
And his answer was, well, it's kind of like filler time.
He goes, It's not as if I say, hey, you know,
(09:26):
I'm going to block out twelve to two and I'm
gonna lie on my sit on my couch and watch TikTok.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's just it's just there.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's just, you know, whenever there's a break in anything,
I just, you know, I start looking at my phone.
Now I've noticed that. You go to a restaurant, everybody's
on their phone. It's to me, I think it's very sad.
The mother, the father, the children. The mother's on the phone,
the father's on the phone, the kids are on the phone.
(09:56):
Nobody's talking to each other. It's like four individual you
in the morning.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Let's say kids are waiting at a bus stop. I
don't want to do the back in my day, but
you know, kids ran around, kids played, kids talked that,
they play tag, there was energy life. It's twenty kids
waiting at a stop. Every single one of them head
into a screen. Nobody looks left, nobody looks right. They
(10:26):
don't talk to each other, they don't say a word
to each other. And then they get onto the bus,
and then everybody on the bus is on the screen.
Social media has not brought us together. It has brought
us apart. And we're going to see the long term
(10:48):
consequences of this. We're already seeing it. The isolation the loneliness,
the depression, the lack, the alienation, the lack of human connection.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It's so obvious.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
People need companionship, people need friends, people need human contact.
You know, as Aristotle famously said, man is a social
man is men and women. Man is a social animal.
Like we're born to be with each other, to interact
with each other. And I think that's what Charles is
getting at. You know, he's sixty one, I'm fifty six,
(11:27):
and he's like, does anybody go out and play anymore?
Do parents even encourage their children to go out and play?
Do they even play with their children? Notice you rarely
see parents now playing with their kids. You can tell
we're in the midst of a societal revolution. Anyway, Just enough,
(11:50):
I want to go back to Charles in Wilmington. Charles, please,
you were on a roll pick up where you left.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Off, like you kind of just uh uh stole with
like what you like? What I what? I was just saying,
like any idiot with a pair of eyes, I'm shocked
by when you told the stats say that people were
like shocked by it. Anyone who can see just like
(12:19):
you said at a restaurant, you know, kids are on
the phone you know that you know wherever it is, here, there, whatever,
And you said it's sad myself, I agree, but I
also find it so damn rude.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I think the parents would say, put your phone down,
we're here to eat, you know, We're here with your uncles,
your aunts, friends, you know. And then people talk about isolation.
Will the kids realized and that's why, you know they
get preyed on? Yeah, I wonder why, because there's no
(12:55):
have you seen any kids out of the playground in
the last ten years, I haven't no in like and
another thing like let the parents you know, I'm you know.
Another I don't really love this one, but let the
parents decide opt in and go out to bid. If
(13:15):
they opt if they let the kid opt in, something happens,
then yeah, then they should be responsible because they made
a decision. And like kids can go I mean, you
can go to Walmart and get a throwaway phone, okay,
or even like you know, like a smartphone or like
thirty forty bucks with like you know, five hundred minutes
(13:39):
on it and you can read it every but like
twenty five bucks like every month, you know, So like
they said, the kids can get around it. Yeah, they
can get around it. So like you're saying, like take
the phone, like your wife said, take the phones away. Yeah, yeah,
that's a good thing. But again it goes back to parenting. Okay,
(13:59):
the parents the because that's home, because they aren't bothering,
and that goes back to COVID. You know again, I know,
you know a ton of people that work from home,
and they were loving because they were saying, I only
really worked about three hours a day.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
The rest of the day, you know, I do law
this and that. Okay, So, uh, you had two years
you're saying that, you know, you couldn't play with the
kids before I picked them up in school nanny, I
got prom in you know, like at you know, preschool whatever. Uh,
And that was your excuse. But now you have two
(14:35):
years and now what's the next. Well, I can't tell you.
I'm too busy work and I'm never home. Oh I believe,
you know, like.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Charles, I have to say, no, it's true, No, No, I
mean just they were home. Many parents were home during
COVID for a couple of years, and they never I
don't know, I'm not god, I can't see through every home,
but I didn't notice that change in parents playing with
their kids. I didn't notice. Look, I can tell you
(15:08):
this on my look. When I was growing up, just
it was a staple of growing up. My father played
with me outside. Everybody's father or mother, whatever, the parents
played with the children outside.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Everybody did the whole street. My street.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'm not criticizing my street. My street is very typical.
I've never seen parents playing with their kids ever. Ever,
when I go to the park, I used to go
to the park. Action's a bit older now, so we
don't do as much. Frankly, like he's into weightlifting now,
so he's going to the gym quite often. But when
he was a bit younger, we got a couple of
(15:46):
baseball gloves. We had a baseball. He and I would
always throw the baseball. We were the only father and
son throwing a baseball. Frankly, there were very few people
at the park to begin with. But the few people
that at the park, you know, they're walking the dog
or whatever. I don't think I saw another. Maybe once
I saw another father and a son throwing the baseball
(16:09):
around or throwing a football around. When I was growing up,
my dad and I threw the football around all the time.
That's some of the dearest memories.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I have with my dad.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I just I mean, you know, one year anniversary of
his death is coming up, and at the funeral, I
just kept being flooded with images of him playing with me,
whether we played baseball, football, soccer, whatever. You just don't
see that anymore. And honestly, I think we're depriving our
children of something very sacred and very important, and I
(16:42):
think that's why they have this, this craving.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You can see it on them.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Six one seven two six, six sixty eight. Sixty eight
is the number. Okay, it's the Kooner Country Pole Question
of the Day sponsored by Mario's Mariosquall Roofing, siding and Windows.
As many of you know, we've talked, been talking about
it all morning. Australia now has passed the first ever
(17:10):
in the world ban social media ban on children under
the age of sixteen. If you're under sixteen in Australia,
you are banned. You cannot be on Facebook, Instagram x
formerly known as Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Kick. I could go
(17:32):
on and on about ten of the biggest social media
platforms in the world. Now many countries say they want
to follow Australia's lead, Denmark, Norway, maybe the whole European Union.
New Zealand, Canada is now looking at it, so is Malaysia.
The big thing for US Congress now says both Democrats
(17:55):
and Republicans that we need something very similar here in
the United States.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So my question to.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You, should the US follow Australia's example and band kids
under sixteen years of age from using social media? A yes,
B No. I may no. Not that I'm not saying
there aren't. It's not toxic. It's that there aren't many
(18:27):
very negative things about social media. There clearly are. But
I believe it's up to the parents. I'm a big
believer in parental sovereignty, parental authority, parental oversight, parental control.
I don't believe it should be the government. It should
be parents that do it, because I don't trust the government.
(18:47):
But that's me. I want to hear from you. By
the way, yes now is winning fifty four point five percent, Yes,
forty five point five percent No. So I'm going to
know most of you slight majority raes. I want to
hear from all sides, obviously. Anyway, you can vote on
(19:08):
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com slash cooner. You can also vote via x one
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Kooner Report k U h.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
N e R.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Let me ask all of you has social media with
your children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, your family, everything
that you've seen in your life. Has it enriched you
or has it been a real source of pain and trouble?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Do you, as a.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Parent feel overwhelmed with your children's addiction to social media?
And do we need to have more regulation and restrictions
on social media use?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Just like we have all.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Kinds of laws for drinking, you can have to be
twenty one to drink, eighteen to vote, eighteen to serve
in the military most states, twenty one to smoke. So
if we can pass laws regarding younger people for drinking,
for smoking, for voting, for driving sixteen seventeen in some states,
(20:30):
depending which state, but sixteen seventeen years old you can't drive.
You know you can't drive if you're under that age,
why not for social media use? Now, my argument, a
phone is not a car. Car is a very deadly weapon.
You can kill people with a car. You don't want
(20:51):
a fourteen year old behind the wheel because they're not
mature enough to be behind the wheel. I could go
on and on for many other things. To me, yes
it's damaging, Yes it's toxic. Yes it's bad, it's a
horrible influence. But in the end, we're still talking about
social media, watching a screen and consuming information. And that's
(21:17):
why I don't like the government getting involved.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But again that is me.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
Eddie in Charlestown.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Thanks for holding Eddie, and welcome.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Good morning, Jeff Hyati. A couple of things I'd like
to point out. This country has to get back to
good family values and with the PHAM. Like you said earlier,
the separation is they're alone. They're not communicating with their
fellow teenagers or whatever. When I was a kid, I
(21:57):
was involved in organized sports, even organized pop Wanna mill
Schmid hockey teams in Boston. It's dwindling down.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They don't have the.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Participation like they used to the playgrounds. I used to
go to the playgrounds and go to pick up hockey,
street hockey thing or basketball or football. And the parents
have to keep their kids busy at all times. If
they don't keep their kids busy and on top of them,
(22:30):
they're going to go in the wrong direction. And thank
God for my mother grown up in Charlestown, a very
rough community. I won't say all bad people. There's some
very good people in Chilesund, but there's some very bad
people in Chilesund. And if my mother didn't keep on
me and she had times and because back then you
(22:53):
could survive on one income, and my mother was on
top of me and my sister and we turned up
to it because she did a job. And today I
see parents, especially young parents, I want to call them something,
but I know people get easily offended today, but they
(23:15):
lack two things. They whack so they lack common sense
and they're lazy. They don't want to stay on top
of their kids, and that's why they go. That's why
they go in the wrong direction because they're not And
I realized a lot of these younger parents today they
(23:37):
do have to. It takes two incomes to support a
family today. That's the unfortunate thing. But still the bottom
line is you bring someone in this world, that's your
responsibility to make a good life for them, not just
bring them in the world and let them go on
their way, because that's not doing your job.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And that's all I have to I agree, Eddie, I
completely agree. And look, let me just piggyback off of
what you're saying. I gotta be careful because it's my son,
and there's a lot of very dangerous people out there,
really hateful moonbats, and they'd love to hurt me by
hurting my son. So I don't want to give the
name or the location. But he's fifteen. He wants to work,
(24:22):
he really wants to work. He's done to get a job.
I'm like, Ashton, You're going to be working your whole life, son,
take it easy, you know, And I come on, enjoy
your childhood. No no, no, no, no no, I said,
come on, enjoy your teenage years. So anyway, you can
only work in Massachusetts with a few exceptions, but for
the most part until you turn sixteen. So he's going
(24:43):
to be sixteen in about three months. He's working at
a gym. He's interning, I guess, is so what you
can call anyway, he's at a gym. They're going to
give him the job, they said, they love him so much.
He's such a great you know, he's very good with
the kids that when he turned sixteen, the job is his,
but they'd like him to do a little interning, so
(25:03):
he knows the job and then boom, on day one,
he's ready to jump in. So he now works at
a gym with other trainers and they're working on young kids.
Their parents come in, drop them off, or they're there
watching them. And these are kids, now, this is very important.
Six seven, eight, nine, ten years old, that's it. And
(25:27):
they break them up into little groups. What's the point
of my story? All of them are on social media,
Ashton says to me. The parents are there and all
the kids are staring at a screen. They all have
a phone, even the six year olds, And he says,
what shocks him the most. In fact, he just told
(25:47):
us a horror story last night. This was last night.
There was a mother with a daughter who took the
phone away from the daughter. The daughter was eight years old,
and said, okay, you got to go exercise. Now, there's
a fifty minute exercise class and then said I love
you to the daughter. Gave the daughter a bottle of
(26:10):
water and said here, you know, here's the bottle of water.
The daughter tells the mother in front of everybody, I
don't want I can't say it on the air. I
don't want the efing bottle of water, and you can
go f yourself. That's what an eighteen year old. Sorry,
(26:35):
that's what an eight year old told the mother to
her face in front of everybody in the class. Ashton
said he was horrified. The other two instructors were horrified.
The other kids were laughing. They thought it was a joke.
(26:55):
The mother tried to just dismissed it as a joke,
play it off and hah haha, just laughing. Now, let
me tell you what I told Ashton yesterday. If that
was my dad and I told him to go f himself,
it didn't matter if it's a gym, I don't care
(27:16):
where it is, home, public, outside, inside. He would have
whacked me so hard right on the spot. I would
remember it for the rest of my life. In fact,
even Ashton said, Dad, if that was you, you would
have hit me in the back of the head.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
But he goes you were like, you know, he went.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Tush like I would have been like a slap or
a whack right in the head.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I go, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Now, the reason why I'm mentioning this is Ashton said
to me right away. Dad is the phone. The kids
are getting this off of social media because they're watching
other kids do it and they think it's funny, and
so now it's cool to tell your parents to blank off.
(28:06):
Now I'm sorry. Ultimately, I can't blame Facebook or TikTok
or Instagram or Reddit or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I blame the mother.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Your daughter just said I don't want the blanking water,
and you can go blank yourself. And your response is
to laugh. Now, you're raising an ingrate and a monster,
a spoiled monster, a braad forgive me a bee. You're
raising a little bee. That's what you're raising. Okay, rhymes
(28:45):
with which. Now that's not a two income family. I
hear where you're coming from, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
That's not.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
My mother has to work so hard. My father has
to work so hard to put food on the table
to take care of us.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
So they're just not home a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
And you know, I'm watching too much social media. This
is a question of parental respect. This is a question
of respecting authority, respecting your parents, hell, respecting yourself. That's
your mother, And ultimately that respect comes from the mother
and the father and how they're raising and disciplining their child.
(29:29):
So and by the way, Ashton's telling me, you hear
it all the time. This is him, Dad. I don't
know what's going on out there, Like, what do you mean, son?
They're all telling their parents that off and they think
it's funny. The kids think it's funny, and the parents
think it's funny.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Now, I'll be honest, you can't ban that. I mean,
you're gonna try.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
That's a parenting issue, and I think parents, younger parents
in particular, have to look at themselves in the mirror
because you don't respect yourself obviously, so why would the
kids respect you? And do you have any notion of
what kind of a child you're raising, who's going to
(30:17):
be able to marry someone like that, who's going to
be able to hire someone like that, who's going to
be able to have lasting friendships with someone like that?
You're not doing your child any favors.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I'm just telling you this is how profound the crisis is.
And this is a nice gym, by the way, you
know it costs money to be a member at that gym.
It's not some you know, I'm not talking about it's
I don't aware, somewhere in some ghetto or something where
you say, wow, I don't know, there's gangs everywhere.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
No, this is a middle, upper middle class area and
this is a nice, little swanky gym. So their parents
are professionals, you know, they're they're good, they're good earners,
presumably with a good education. Six one seven two six
six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree, Okay, Friday, I'm
(31:14):
a little lake today eight ish. You know what that means.
Caller of the Week, Cooner's Call Log. It's time for
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the week.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I can hear you? Can you hear me? Thanks for
holding Jeff.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
I'm down here in Florida, live relatively close to my dad.
I have a sister, a real moonbat sister lives out
in Santa Barbara, California. She had not been out to
see my dad for Christmas or Thanksgiving for many years.
All of a sudden, she decides to come out for Thanksgiving.
So she communicated that with my dad in about two
weeks before Christmas. We really didn't get along because she's
(31:59):
hardcore left. I'm hardcore right, and so he knew there
was friction in the family, and as most parents, their
dream is to have their kids get along and you know,
socialize and all of that, and he realized there was
subtension there. So he says to me, about two weeks
before Thanksgiving, So Pam just notified me she's going to
be off for Thanksgiving. Would you be willing to have
(32:19):
dinner with us? And he was expecting me to say no.
Me and my wife said sure, that would be great.
He was so happy and we said, okay, Dad, we'll
see you next weekend. Three days later, I get an
email from him. Unfortunately, your sister does not want to
have Thanksgiving with you. She does not want to socialize
with you on a personal level. However, she will still
communicate with you by email on personal matters. My point
(32:43):
here is, if you're on the right, you make sacrifices,
you're not a narcissist. You do good things for other people.
I stepped over my shadow for the benefit of my father.
These people can't make one sacrifice for anybody to make
somebody else happy. It's all about them and nobody else.
Are all one way. The name streets after one way.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Along last.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Be here every weekday.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
On the Coon Report between six and ten am, and
next week it could be you on Cooner's call log.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Please don't be a stranger. Call again, that was a
phenomenal call. I gotta tell you, a heartbreaking call, but
it was it was authentic, it was from the heart,
and everybody can relate to it because we all know
how the moonbats are, how intolerant they are, and how
they place politics and ideology above family. Anyway, again, best
(33:48):
audience in the business. Okay, this is what Sandy said
to me regarding that story I just told about, you know,
the daughter telling the mother to f off she's about
to take, you know, an exercise class with my Ashton
and talking about you know, it's bad parenting. And don't
(34:10):
blame social media as much as bad parenting. This is
what Sandy says, and I think she's got a point.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Jeff.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
It's a function of both lack of discipline and glorifying
bad behavior on the internet. Also, don't forget that the
mother would have probably been arrested or reported to DCF
if she disciplined her child in public. Well that's how
insane things have gotten. But you know, at a bare minimum,
(34:43):
I don't know you're coming home with me. Hey, young lady,
get your ass into the car. You're coming home. Okay,
we're going to talk to daddy about this. In other words,
you're in trouble telling your mother to go f herself
in public in front of all the other kids and
then running away laughing, you know, and and the mother's
(35:08):
laughing as well. Now Ashton Ashton said she was more
kind of an embarrassed laughing, like, you know, you're kind
of embarrassed and you just kind of chuckle and try
to laugh the whole thing off. But obviously the mother
is allowing her daughter. It's not the first time. Obviously
(35:29):
the mother is allowing the daughter to do this. Now,
my point is not to just pick on this mother.
It's Ashton is telling me Dad, it's all the time
with other kids as well. The disrespect for the parents.
He goes and the parents allow it, and they take it,
(35:49):
and he just shakes his head, you know, he's like
just and so he does say so, and I said,
where do they learned this? He goes, oh, Dad, it's
all social media. It's all social media. And obviously it's
bad parenting as well. So anyway, I'm just telling you.
I believe a lot of the problems stem from bad parenting.
(36:15):
To me, I always go back to that, if you've
got a disciplined home, it's got to be a loving home, obviously,
but you have to have a disciplined home. If the
mother and father are disciplining and controlling their kids and
raising them the right way, to respect authority, to respect them,
to respect themselves, the kid's gonna turn out okay. But
(36:40):
when you let them behave like absolute barbarians, savages, and
that's what this is. This is savagery. Well that's what
you're gonna get. You know, you raise a savage, you
end up turning out a savage. Ellie in Worcester. Thanks
for holding Ellie, and welcome. Oh how are you doing good?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
How are you Ellie?
Speaker 5 (37:06):
I'm just gonna switch for once here because pick out
a buzz.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Go ahead, Ellie. What's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Well, you know something, It says, be careful what you
wish for, because this is like a trojan horse trying
to muzzle its way in. They're going to use the
children as the excuse. But it's like who started all
this anyway? You know, governments and corporations and stuff like that. Now,
(37:36):
my thing is is like there's good and there's bad
on the net. Of course really bad stuff. There's good stuff,
but it's like, is the government getting nervous because I
trust the government like I trust a drunk driver. So
it's like, say, there are apps out there like Turning Point,
(37:57):
you know, Charlie Kirk and stuff like that helping thousands
of kids, you know, and all over the world, you
know apps. Now is the government going to tag a
app like Charlie Kirk who's actually helping kids as subversive
or a drug or harmful to kids because you know,
(38:21):
there is an attack on you know, Christianity pretty much worldwide.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
So Ellie, can you do me a favor? I'm up
against our heartbreak
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