BONUS: How To Make Your Phone Less Appealing!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Turns and your morning shows.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Intern? John is my name, I'm Sauce. I'mas got Rose
over here. Hello, Chuckley's birthdays today the.

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I was gonna say, I was gonna say happy birthdays
then first, and I was gonna be like Hoodie Eric
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Back, Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the show. Intern John is
my name, Mes Sauce, Hi Rose, Hello, Eric, Hoodie, Severa
all here, Gang's out here. It is Chuck Lee's birthday today.
Wow nine eight to tanks. I wanted this real quick
free Tuesday. Uh So. New research says the average cell
phone usage is up to three hours and twenty minutes
a day. That seems low.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I was gonna say, I feel like that it's kind
of low because if it doesn't mean like you're consistently
on it though, like checking messages, emails and stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
But I think you can rack up half an hour
on TikTok easily. Oh yeah, ease, like minimum.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I'd like actually been trying to not go on TikTok
as much because I get so invested.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah. Yeah, they put out tips to make your phone
addiction less addictive. I guess that makes sense. I to
make your phone less appealing, starting with make your phone boring. Okay,
so they say there's a bunch of minimalist launchers designed
to make your phone's interface more boring, so it will
swap out enticing icons for a joyleist listen names. Oh
so it's like it makes it seem more like it's

(01:21):
not a fun.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Like a widgets or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, it's like this is a bland okay, work server,
not a fun place of color and distraction. That makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
I have had friends that have set that up. It
seems like too much work for me.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
They also say make it black and white, so taking
the bright colors away through your screen make it less
attractive and inviting. Kind of like I mean, you open
your phone, it is kind of candy land.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
I had my phone set to black and white a
while ago, and I just.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Did not like it. I don't think I could do it.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I just wasn't. I couldn't get used to it. I
tried it for a few days and I was like,
not for me.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Let me ask you this. You are a dark mode girl,
I am phone. Do you think that changed anything? I'm
still a light mode girly.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Do you do I think that would change anything?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Do you think that change? I mean it's hard to
well now you've had for so long, But did that
make your phone seem less appealing because it was dark?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I would say so, because I felt like when it
was bright, like it was just too much.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, it was too bright? Yeah, I mean that's also
like the point. Yeah right. They also say by a
non smart watch, Oh sure, checking your phone.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
I've had a lot of friends have just been going
to the ring so that they would stop getting not
because even when you turned to know ocasions off there,
like it was just too much.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I think that's fair. Yeah, if you have something you
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