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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The results of President Trump's recent MRI were released yesterday,
and this is what White House Presecretary Caroline Levitt had
to say about them.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Overall, his cardiovascular system shows excellent health. His abdominal imaging
is also perfectly normal. The purpose of this imaging is
preventative to identify any issues early, confirm overall health, and
ensure the president maintains long term vitality and function.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Now, Trump was asked about the test the Board Air
Force one on Sunday and said they weren't for the brain,
adding that he had taken a cognitive test and he
ace that there's no reason to do an MRI of
the brain. But you know, Trump became the oldest president
ever inaugurated when he took office in January seventy nine.
I do think it's interesting that there are so many
people Democrats and members of the media who were concerned
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about the president's health. Didn't seem all that concerned when
Joe Biden was in office and he could barely function.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I don't remember those.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Questions being asked until much later in his administration.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Right, And I wonder if they do these tests because
he's got the swollen ankles, the swollen legs. Whatever's going
on with his veins like that is water retention. That
could be a heart issue or something.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So is he the healthiest guy in the world. I
don't think so.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
But you know what, he's seventy nine and he's able
to run laps around me, like I couldn't keep up
with his schedule. Now, there was a New York Times
piece recently that highlighted how his schedule has been scaled
back a bit. I mean, not to the extent that
we saw with President Biden, where he was only you know,
functional from like eleven am to two pm. Yeah, but
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you know he's not doing as many events and things
like that.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
He's seventy nine, yeah, yeah, and he doesn't sleep.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Shady van said that he's glad he doesn't have to
travel on a plane with him, right, because he keeps people.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Up all night.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's not just Shady Vanser said that, You've had members
of the White House Press Corps who have said that.
We talked to our own White House correspondent, John Decker
about that, and he said, no, it's true. He's always
coming in like the middle of the night during a
flight and talking to people.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well, and he was up last night. Is sending out
one hundred and sixty posts. Untruth put out one hundred
and sixty posts last night.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
That's the thing. That's what I'm concerned about.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Sometimes he gets so warked up about things, you hope
that he doesn't like stroke out over it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
He's supposed to be sleeping.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
In bed like the rest of us thought it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Let me get to the latest on the DC National
Guard shooting, and I want to start with an update
on the condition of Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe. West Virginia
Governor Patrick Morris. He says wolf recently gave a thumbs
up and wiggled his toes, so maybe some early signs
that he can hear and respond. Wolfe's family continuing to
ask for prayers as he is still fighting for his life.
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It's first update we've gotten in a couple of days,
and a positive one at that. White House Press Secretary
Caroline Levitt spoke about the shooting during her press briefing yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We continue to live with the deadly consequences of Joe
Biden's horrific leadership. Nearly one hundred thousand Afghans were recklessly
released into the United States with little to no vetting.
There was no regard for the disorder and violence that
this would unleash on American communities and American culture. The
tragedy that we just witnessed the day before Thanksgiving as
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a reminder that untold thousands of terrorists, gang members, and
criminals were invited into our country and remain here to
this very day.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Now, one thing Levit didn't do is acknowledge that the
Trump administration approved the suspect's request for asylum. She also
added the administration now re examining all Afghans admitted under
the Biden administration, which is the smart thing to do.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I think you have to look at everything in the afternoth.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Of thisylum who else got.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And she said Trump has halted migration from third world
countries viewed as high risk. I don't think we should
be taken anyone from anywhere where we can't properly vet them.
That's just common sense. But and look, I think the
Biden administration deserves all the criticism it gets on that
botch withdrawal from Afghanistan and the borders. How many people
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were let into this country who we didn't even know
who they were. I do think though the Trump administration
they're going to have to answer at some point why
this person was granted asylum just a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, what is the There must be some type of
a report on him, like they if they vetted him,
what does the vetting say?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Or if if your point is the Biden administration did
a horrible job vetting people, then are you not like
revetting them before you grant them asylums?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
So there's a lot of questions.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, we posted a video kind of breaking down all
the latest on TikTok yesterday. You can follow us at
Ryan Gorman Show, WFLA, and WIOD on TikTok. Just search
for all three because we post different videos.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
WFLA News or WYOD News is the exact name.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And some of the comments that we got from people
who checked out the video on TikTok, lots of people
want to know how the suspect had the money to travel.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
When he wasn't working.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So it wasn't just this trip from Washington State to
DC that he took. He had taken a couple of
other ones. And I think that's a good question, it
really is.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Yeah, because he couldn't hold a job and he was
having money.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Issues, and another person post question because we don't have
information on a motive yet, could his anger have had
something to do with what happened in Afghanistan after that
botched withdrawal, Like what's going on in that country that
he fought alongside American soldiers in the CIA to help
make free We don't have again, any information on the motive.
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We've had no update, but I did think that was
an interesting thing that I hadn't thought of. Right now,
let's bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neil, who supports
brought you by Mark Spain real Estate. So, Rory, the
President held an Oval Office meeting yesterday on this pressure
campaign against Venezuela. That comes as the pressure has increased
on the White House to explain what happened during a
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September second military strike on alleged Narco terrorists.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
What's the latest.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Yeah, we don't really have a readout of what was
discussed in that meeting last night in the Oval with
the President and military leaders.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
The President does.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Have a cabinet meeting today and often takes questions at
the beginning of that, so we might learn some more then,
But it has been this pressure campaign that so far
doesn't seem to have impacted Venezuela's President Maduro very much.
He's been holding rallies out to show that he has
not fled the country and actually having almost Trump style
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rallies in Venezuela, despite the fact there's an unprecedented military
build up with our largest aircraft carrier among the ships
all gathered there, not far off that coast.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, and there are growing questions about these operations against
alleged Narco terrorists, And it sounds like Congress and this
is a bipartisan effort they are looking for more information
on exactly what's going on. What is the evidence that
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these people are narco terrorists? What happened with that second
military strike where there were apparently survivors from the first strike.
Was there a kill order? The White House offered a
little bit of new information yesterday about that, saying that
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wasn't the one who gave the
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order for the second strike. It was actually someone else,
the commander of US Special Operations.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Right, So the admiral may be getting hung out to
dry here, but it's let's see what happens with these hearings.
Both the House and the Senate Republicans and Democrats have
said they want to have these hearings and exercise oversight
of the Pentagon to figure out what happened here and
were any laws broken. So yeah, and again this is
bipartisan which is pretty interesting.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
And it's also this undercurrent too.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
I think of like, well, wait a minute, what are
we doing Againuela?
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Why are we trying to get rid of Maduro?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Yeah, Narco terrorists? That's the bar now for a president
to launch an invasion? Is that what's going to happen.
He hasn't gotten the consent of Congress, so you know.
So I think that's some of the pushback here as well,
this whole idea of why are we getting involved in
Venezuela all of a sudden, Well.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Maduro is a bad dude, and and let's be ho,
there are a lot of bad dudes in the world.
There are, but there's not a lot of bad dudes
that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been looking to
get rid of for.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
A long time.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So I think that I think that plays a role
again with oil, Yes, that is a component, and we've
seen in the past that US interests when it comes
to oil have an impact on our foreign policy. Look,
I don't have a problem with a pressure campaign to
get rid of Maduro. I don't have a problem with,
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you know what I'm seeing in terms of the military
build up to try to send that message to him.
And I don't even have a problem taking out, you know,
alleged narco terrorist boats. I just want to see some
evidence that, like, how do we know that these aren't
narco terrorists? What is the intelligence showing us? And I
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want to know, you know, what is the overall strategy
here in terms of you know, what we're trying to
accomplish with all of this. And I think because it's
ramped up so much, there is not going I don't
believe there's going to be a war. I don't believe
there are going to be boots on the ground in Venezuela.
I'm not saying there won't be maybe some special operations
or or things like that that take place, but in
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terms of some full scale invasion, I don't think that's
going to happen. I don't think the American people have
the appetite or anything like that, but I think we're
at a point now where the President should explain more
about what the administration is looking to do here.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
And what if Maduro doesn't blink?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Right, Yeah, what's next?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
What does that say about President Trump and the administration
and the policies and yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
There are a lot of other things that play here.
You've got Russia backing Maduro. It's a lot of dynamics happening.
But I think we've reached a point now where some
more information for the American people is warranted and hopefully
we get that, and it sounds like Congress is finally
looking to seek it.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
And especially because President Trump has gone so far to
try to.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Reach so many peace deals Russia and Ukraine, Israel and
the eight of the wars he's prevented.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
You like, why are you starting this one? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
All right, let's get to another story you're covering this morning,
how weight loss drugs are changing more than just waistlines.
They're having a big impact on a lot of different things.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Washington Post wrote this down.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
It's a fascinating article that looks at how because we've
got twelve point four percent of the population is on
these drugs already imagine what happens when they become readily
available in pill form rather than injectables.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
The price comes down.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
We're seeing things like people are buying different sized clothes,
they're eating out less at fast food restaurants. What does
that mean for the lights of McDonald's and Chick fil A?
Even going to thrift stores more because well, look, I
may have lost two sizes, but I'm going to be
down four more sizes, So we don't want to spend
a lot of money on clothes.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Let me just get something to hold me over for
a couple of months.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I remember those days.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Store even thrift stores are seeing big spikes.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
And then air travelers another one.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
People will feel better about themselves, better about taking trips
you halfway way around the world, because they won't be
spilling into my seat on the plane.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I remember those days when I was worried about Boy,
if I buy new clothes because I'm going down.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
A few are like falling off of.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah, now not so much, and they're clinging
to me, and and I no, I gotta say no.
I could have used one of these drugs before Thanksgiving
because I still feel sick from all the food that
I ate on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I tracked my calories in chat chip.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yesterday I ate six hundred calories and I feel great
today because I didn't stuff myself.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I didn't stuff myself either yesterday I finished, but I
finish everything on Sunday like too much, because they want
to throw anything out and because there's.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
A delicious Saturday all.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I had a huge plate of mashed potatoes and stuffing
and that's it, Like.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I didn't even have any meat with that.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I still don't feel good. So I needed one of
those Rory.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Apparently these drugs they help prevent you from stuffing your
face like that, so.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
They prevent the cravings in the first place.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, yeah, all right, I might have to think about
that before the Christmas holiday because it's nothing but good food,
like from Thanksgiving through the end of the year.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
And I'm making a bunch of cookies because now I
have my nice new kitchen and I want to make
cookies this year.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So yeah, don't bring in any I can't even fit
into my pants as it is right now. Rory O'Neil,
our national correspondent with US this morning. Rory, thanks so much. Hey,
Thanks Ryan, Let's go back to the hotline and bring
in our White House correspondent John Decker. So, John, these
negotiations continue to try to bring it in to the
Russia Ukraine War.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
What's the latest on this peace process?
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Well, the latest is over the weekend, US negotiators met
with Ukrainian negotiators. Those meetings happening in South Florida, and
now two of the US negotiating team. Two members of
that negotiating team, including Steve Wikoff, the President's Special envoy,
and Jared Krishner, the President's son in law, who was
one of the authors of that original twenty eight point
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peace plan proposal. They are now in Moscow and they
will meet today with Russian President Putin seeing if Putin
can agree to what the Ukrainians have already agreed to
to move this peace process along.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So the twenty eight point plan that has undergone some adjustments,
and now it's going to be up to Russia to
either agree to that. I'm assuming that's probably not how
it's going to go. They're going to want some changes
made and then it'll go back to the Ukrainians. So
that's kind of where we're at this back and forth.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Yeah, that's where we're at the twenty eight point plan
apparently is now in nineteen point plan refinements to the
original plan. And I think that all of this will
come down to the issue of territory, what the Ukrainians
call territorial integrity. And obviously it's going to be a
deal breaker if the Ukrainians have to give up land
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that they already have and is instructed to give.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Over hand over to Russia.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
That's going to be a non starter for President Zelensky
and the Ukrainian negotiators.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And last thing, this is all coming at a time
when there's been a little bit of upheaval in Ukraine.
You had I believe it was Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski's
chief of staff resigning over corruption issues, and he was
central to these negotiations.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
He was, you know, when you think about the various
rounds of negotiations, the person you're referring to was the
lead negotiator on behalf of Ukraine. Over the weekend, a
new individual who represents the National Security Council in Ukraine
took over as the lead negotiator for Ukraine. That individual
resigning caught up in a corruption investigation in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So yes, some upheaval.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
But despite that, you know, I think that people can
be you know, interchanged, and that's what happened with the
Ukrainian side, and President Zelensky says it doesn't in any
way impact what their goal is in terms of ending
this war.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Very soon, all.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Right, Our White House correspondent John Decker with us this morning. John,
thanks so much, appreciate.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
It, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
A leaked t one hundred and fifteen page report from
two GOP led committees paints the FBI under Director Cash
Pattel as a quote rudderless ship, end quote, all fed up.
That's based on interviews with two dozen current and former agents. Now,
this report was first published by a very pro Trump
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columnist at the New York Post.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yeah, Marianda Devine. I listened to her podcast and she's
very pro Trump.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Oh yes, I think that's important to note. The report
paints Patel as insecure, you're an unfit for the job,
while Deputy Director Dan Bongino is described by some agents
as a clown. One agent says Patel refused to leave
a plane in Utah after the Charlie Kirk assassination until
someone found him a medium sized FBI jacket eventually taken
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from a female agent. He then held up departure again
because the jacket was missing velcrow patches, prompting SWAT members
to track some doubt. I do have to say this
every time I see Cash Pattel, especially you know, at
these press conferences, he always has a lot of really
cool FBI swag.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Oh yeah, of course, and now we know that it's
very important to him to make sure he's got the
look going.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
He's got all kinds of different outfits and hats and
accessories with the FBI logo.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Pretty cool stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Agents also said Pateel is personable, but they argue he
created mistrust by purging senior officials early on, including a
longtime special agent whose wife had just died, and several
accused Patel of giving premature public comments about investigations. Now,
some of the accusations in this report, they're subjective. I
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think that last one is not.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
So.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
We have seen Patel claim that Charlie Kirk, suspected killer,
was in custody when he wasn't.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
Mm hm.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
We saw him prematurely announced the FBI had thwarted a
potential terror attack, allowing suspects to flee, and he announced
a full force manhunt for the National Guard shooter was
underway when the shooter was actually in custody. So he
has done this a number of different times where he's
gotten ahead of the investigation or just given out the
wrong information.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Well, and with the Charlie Kirk thing, it makes me
wonder if he's getting his information from social media because
that video of that one guy being arrested right went
viral and then he makes the announcement that somebody had
been arrested.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, and then there's this other issue, which I don't
find nearly as important. You've got House Democrats opening up
an inquiry into whether or not cash Btel has used
the bureau's Gulf Stream jet for personal trips. There's reporting
from The New Yorker that says he used the jet,
and you talked about this yesterday. We did a story
on this to visit his girlfriend and to attend fundraisers
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and sporting events and things like that. Again, it seems
a little excessive. It seems like it's happening more than
what we saw under Christopher Ray when he was FBI director.
And why that's important is that Cash Battel criticized Ray
for his use of the private jet, But again, I
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don't think that's as important. The thing that I think
is important to note about Cash Battel, and this is
why I don't think he's gonna last as FBI director.
He's doing what Trump wants, which is important. But something
else that I think is really important to Trump. And
this is based on years of observing him, listening to
him how people perform in front of the camera.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
He looks like a deer in headlights.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
He really does.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Like if you watch that press conference after the DC
National Guard shooting, Uh, he just doesn't sound confident.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, And that's what they said in this report, that
he's secure. And I think that all the wanting to
have the FBI logo on, I think he needs that
like his armor to go stand in front of the camera.
He wants to look official because it doesn't sound official.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Honestly, I feel like and I would not have picked
Cash Btel for that particular role. I feel like Dan
Bongino would probably be better in front of the camera.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Absolutely, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
We don't really see much of him at all after
that Epstein stuff happened.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
He's just kind of.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
He puts out a lot of posts on X. Other
than that, Yeah, we don't see.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Him at all.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But I think that's why cash Betel's job is in jeopardy.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
There were some reports that that's the case. Look, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I think there's going to be turnover within try administration
next year. But I feel like if you're watching him
on TV, and that's something that Trump pays close attention to,
how people look, are they out of central casting, how
are they performing? And I just don't think he's performed
well in front of the camera, let alone. You know,
all this other stuff again in geop led committee reports
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leaked by a pro Trump columnist at the New York Post.
So this doesn't come from the New York Times or
something like that or some democratics committee.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Let's get to news you need to know to start
your day.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Democrats hoping to keep their off year election momentum going
with an upset in today's Tennessee special House race between
Democrat Afton Bain and Republican Matt van Apps. The race
is titaned new polling showing much closer race than expected.
President Trump won that congressional district by twenty two points
last year, but a recent Emerson poll shows van Apps
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leading by just two points. Today's vote comes after Democrats
we have key races in Virginia, New Jersey, and New
York on November fourth. The fact that this is a
close race, I think tells you something. Democrats are more
energized right now than Republicans. That's to be expected. Republicans
are in power and Democrats are not. If aft in
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Main were to win, I think that would be along
with what we saw on November fourth, bit of a
warning sign for Republicans. Heading into twenty twenty six, Pinterest
is throwing at support behind a bill that would require
app stores to verify users' ages. The company has joined
Meta Acts and Snapchat in backing the App Store Accountability
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Act and is urging Congress to pass it. The proposal
would shift age verification responsibilities to app stores like those
run by Apple and Google. Both of those companies argue
that app developers are better suited to handle that job.
Pinterest's endorsement comes as the House Energy and Commerce Committee
prepares to take up a series of child online safety
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bills today, and on that topic, New Universe City of
Pennsylvania studies has preteens with smartphones more likely to have depression, obesity,
and poor sleep kids. Yeah, let me run through these stats,
which I thought were really alarming. Kids who had a
smartphone at age twelve showed thirty one percent higher odds
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of depression, forty percent higher odds of obesity, and sixty
two percent higher ods of not getting enough sleep. They
also found that about half of American kids now have
a smartphone by age eleven. And this wasn't a small study.
This was like almost eleven thousand kids over the course
of six years.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Yeah, so my daughter who's twenty one now got a smartphone.
I think when she was well, not a smartphone, but
she had a cell phone when she was ten, and
then by the time she was a teenager, she definitely had,
you know, an iPhone, And I think it's awful for kids.
So my son who's thirteen, not getting one for a while,
and he's kind of mad about it because he's left
out of some group chats and his friends have phones
and stuff. But we're just not doing it. My daughter
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with the social media stuff and just the fact that
now at twenty one, she's so addicted to the phone. Yeah,
I mean we are as adults too to some degree,
but I mean, we went to Disney World a couple
of years ago and she's walking through the park hunched over,
looking at her phone the whole time, and I was like,
put that damn thing away.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
What about I guess they're called dumb phones, like for
your son one where you can can have all.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
So he has a watch that lets him make phone calls.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
He can text on it, but it's a little tough
to text because it's such a small little screen. Yeah,
and we can approve people for him to call. So
he's got some friends that are on there, but we
have to approve it. And then back to the Pinterest
thing for a second. We have on on Google on
his computer and his tablets. If he wants to download
an app or something, he has to get permission to
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do it, so that protection is already there. If your
kid has a Gmail account, and I'm guessing that on
Apple products you have the same. Yeah, he has an iPhone,
so that is already there where it has to be
approved before he can buy something in the app store.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I'm guessing this would be like an extra level of protection.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, And to me, I mean Meta X Snapchat, come on,
like you can do the age you have the money
to figure out the age fairfication.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I also find it funny that it's pinterest, because pinterest
is where they get like recipes and outfit ideas of
what else is there, like some some dark underground pinch.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah yeah about TikTok, I think that's a bigger concern
than Pinterest.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
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