Fred's Fun Fact: The Mobile Phone

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, Fread's fun.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Fact bread fun.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Learn so much, you guys.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
This is a real thing. By the way, I've suffered
from it before. But there is an actual word, key,
I believe you probably suffer from this, an actual word
for the condition associated with the fear of not having
your mobile phone with you or if the battery dies.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Oh yes, it's called nomophobia. No mophobia, no mophobia, no
mobile phone phobia, pa nomophobia. Wow, it's for real, the
fear of not having their phone on them. They get
equally freaked out when their battery dies or there's no
network coverage available, talk about it. Thirty four percent of
men and fifty two percent of women currently deal with

(00:52):
some form of the condition.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
No mophobia. Yep, that was me on that cruise ship.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, you thought about my man. I
thought about jumping bro.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
It was only three G. It was only three G.
What are we gonna do a more Fred show next?