October 11, 2024 • 38 mins
A lot of school districts in Massachusetts have been toying with the idea of a classroom cellphone ban. Smart phones have been competing with teachers for their students' undivided attention for quite some time now. According to the Pew Research Center, 72% of U.S. high school teachers say cellphone distraction is a major problem in the classroom. Where do you come down on banning cellphones in the classroom?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nice side with Dan Ray. I'm WBS cost me.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
I don't know if you have children or grandchildren in
a school, elementary school, high school, junior high school. But
every kid today, I think over the age of certainly
maybe six or seven, has a cell phone. And I
know that a lot of parents want their kids to
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have cell phones. And the reason that parents claim, and
I guess kids also claim that they want cell phones
is in case of an emergency, they can contact their parents.
I don't know what sort of an emergency is likely
to have. I know, I know you're gonna sit there's
a school shooter on the grounds, and the parents want
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to know their child is safe. Well, it could be
that the mere presence of a cell phone with your child,
if that extreme example happened, might put your child in danger.
Let's assume your child is hiding in a closet in
a classroom and at the moment that the shooter walks by,
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the child's cell phone rings. Think about that. Okay. The
bottom line, though, is that there are enough distractions in schools.
We've seen that there seem to be so many of
these tests which they're attributing to COVID, that the math
scores are going down, or the English scores are going down,
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or kids aren't learning as much as they should learn
the bottom line, and I don't think that I fully
appreciated it when I was in grammar school. I did well,
and went to high school and I did fine. But
every day that a child is in school is a
day in which they can lay a foundation or where
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they might go to college, or lay a foundation for
what work skills and interpersonal skills they will have when
they leave high school and perhaps they join the workforce
or join the military or whatever. So there has been controversy.
I'm looking at an article here from late August. These
articles were quite around quite a bit in August about
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Massachusetts schools cracking down on cell phones in class. Why
should kids have a cell phone in class? I mean,
the only thing that the presence of a cell phone
in the possession of a student in class is going
to cause distractions from whatever's being taught in that class.
You cannot tell me that some kids sitting up in
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the back of the classroom when the teacher is talking
about whatever they're talking about, whether they're talking about a
history class or an English class, that they're scrolling to
find out if the teacher is correct when they talk
about grammar or they talk about the election of eighteen sixty.
It just doesn't make sense. It just doesn't make sense.
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And I don't know if this is a subject that
parents are interested in or students are interested in, but
I would love to hear from parents, students, grandparents, and
also teachers. It would seem to me that if you're
a teacher and you're sitting out, you're standing in front
of a class of twenty five kids or whatever it is,
whatever the normal high school classes these days is probably
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less than twenty five, and you're teaching a subject that
you've prepared, You've got a lesson plan that you want
to get through, and you want the students to absorb
whatever subject you're talking about today, and you realize that
there's going to be some kids who are just sitting there,
and you can tell they're tough to reach because maybe
they're if they're not asleep, they're half unconscious, they're sort
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of just daydreaming. I think all of us have at
some point daydreamed in school. It's you can have a
teacher who's not particularly inspiring, but if you look back
at the back or at the front of the room,
in the middle of the room, and you see some
kid with his head down and you can tell that
he's texting. He or she is texting. You know that
that student is paying no attention whatsoever to what you're
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trying to teach them. And you know that that student,
whatever that subject is, and whatever that lesson plan is,
it'll be there once and then it'll be gone forever.
And if it is a subject where you need to build,
let's say, like math, you have to learn how to
do addition and subtraction before you can do multiplication and division,
before you can do algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, whatever. It's
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all important. So what I'd like to do is just
throw it open and have a normal conversation. I don't
think there's a right or wrong issue. I feel strongly
that cell phones have no place in the possession of
students during the class day. I don't think that the
suit I think the students can, on their own time,
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get up a little early. If you got to text
your friends and ask about if they watched the Awards
show or the MTV show last night on television, and
get all that stuff out of the way. Before you
go to school, while you run the school bus, you
can text away, have text your other friends going to
other schools or whatever. And then when you get out
in the afternoon three o'clock or whatever it is two
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thirty in many cases, you get your cell phone back
and you go ahead and you commence a texting all afternoon. Now,
the teachers in the administrators cannot force the kids to
do their homework without being distracted by cell phones. It's
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as simple as that. But during that period of five
and a half maybe six hours during the day, from
eight o'clock to two o'clock or from eight thirty to
two thirty or whatever, the school day is not only
in class moving from one if you're in high school,
and moving from one classroom to another, or for that matter,
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during lunch, when you should be making conversation and socializing
with other of your age in the you know, in
the dining room or cafeteria, whatever they happen to call
it in your school, it is not a time for
you to be sitting there texting. So that's my position.
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I'd love to know what you think as a parent.
Have you thought about it? I'll bet you have. As
a grandparent. Have you thought about it? I'll bet you
have as well most people who are grandparents today. I
don't think there are any grandparents out there today who
had cell phones when they were in school, because in
order to be a grandparent, I'm guessing you have to
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be at least somewhere in maybe at the earliest your
late thirties. Cell phones were not available a lot during
that period of time. But I'll I want to throw
it out there. I want to know cell phones. Are
they something that the school administrators have to crack down on?
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And they best they have to. When these kids arrive
at school, homeroom or whatever it is, they put their
cell phone, they turn their cell phone off, and they
put it in a location that they do not have
access to, no one else has access to. No one
wants to see their cell phones trashed or thrown away
or mixed up. I'm looking at a picture now. This
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must have been in the Globe article and it says that, well,
it looks to me as if it's almost like a
wall hanging that everybody puts their cell phone and they
leave it there off for the day, and maybe they
should put it in They should construct a glass case,
so they can see their cell phones, but they don't
have access to them. So that's the question of the hour. Again.
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If you're a student, call up your friends, tell them,
give us a call, and you can tell me why
it's so incredibly important for you to have your cell
phone in your hand or on your person throughout the
school day, just in case there's an emergency. Look, if
you get sick at school, call the school nurse, tell
the teacher. They'll send you down to the school nurse.
School nurse will call your parent, whatever, and you'll be
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all set. Maybe the parent will have an uber person.
I don't know how, but they'll figure it out. They
don't need you to make that initial call. The only
lines that are open right now are six, one, seven, nine, three,
ten thirty. I'm gratified that people have chosen to call
in on this. Whatever your point of view on it is,
I don't see what I don't see any benefit whatsoever
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for a student, high school, junior high school, elementary school
from being in the possession of a cell phone from
the moment they arrive at school into the moment they leave.
Call me old fashioned, I'm willing to take that. Tell me,
I'm unreasonable. I'm willing to take that too. I just
want to take your calls. Coming back on Nightside. It's
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Speaker 1 (09:31):
Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, let's see what people have to say. Let me
go to Frank in Boston. Hey, Frank, you were next
on Nightside. You were first this hour on Nightside. Actually, Frank, welcome,
Oh thank you.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I don't I don't understand why anybody has these these
phones that they nothing but nuisance. They everybody's staring down him,
walking down the road and looking where they're going. Is
the parents and the kids want to just get a
standard little flip phone. Twenty five dollars for the phone,
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twenty five hours a month, and all you got to
do is worry about picking it up when it rings.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, you and I think of like I loved my
flip flow.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah, it was a cheap thing in the world I give.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I get so many emails every day, and it's like
people are sending me stuff and it's like I can't
keep up. I kind of it used to be that
I couldn't answer everything. I try to answer the ones
that people send me repeated. It's tough. But if someone
sends me a nice email, says hey Dan, I like
your show, Thanks, I'll send them a quick little thank
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you email. We don't do mail anymore. We don't write
letters to our friends anymore. So it's all come down
to it got to be email. And now it's like
they don't even want you to take time at email.
They want you to text message.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Well, that's that's all right, as long as it's short
and sweet. But I don't I don't get it and
not only that, but what do it? I don't understand
why people don't realize that these phones are putting so
much junk in front of them, and you got enough
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stuff going on in your life that you need to
deal with. Why are you gonna put all this junk
in front of you? All this what is it? All
these want to be liked and all that stuff? Why
you gotta complicate your life when it's already complicated enough.
And then the parents are paying, not only buying these
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phones for them, but they're paying their monthly bills. It is.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
If you ever decide to run for office, would you
let me know because I think I'd like to manage
your campaign or at least contribute to it, because you
make more since been all these politicians, I'm serious when
I say that.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
It's it's because we complicate our lives. We just complicated
too much.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I think we do. Hey, Frank, I loved your call.
If you ever called me before, since your.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
First time, you know, twenty of times.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
You keep calling. Okay, and as they say you decide
can run for politics, you gotta let me know because
I want to manage your campaign. You your breath of
fresh air, my friend. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
How old breath of fresh air.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
No, it doesn't matter, no, no, no, no, your fresh
air is good, no matter where, at what age it is. Okay,
I really thank you, thank you, my friend, don't.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
You thank you?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I like that call. He's right to the point. Only
line opened six one, seven, two, four ten thirty. Chris
is in Chelmsford. Chris cell phones in schools. What say you?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I don't think I don't think that would be a
good idea. I think if you take it to the
rookieo school, the nun would take it in or I'm
not going to hit him with the ruler. But I'm
not sure what.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
They mean with the rule that then they hit you
in the head with it. I shouldn't say that, because
I'm sure the nuns are different back in the day. Though,
You're right, really you had to.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Because when my mother went to Saint Agnes and Arlington
to when when you would play, when she would play
the wrong note, you would get hit by the rule.
That's told me when she was alive.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Well, I don't know how how old your mom was,
but I played hockey against Saint Agnes in c Yo
hockey and they were always a good team, those guys,
those guys from Arlington, trust me on that.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
She would have been ninety three this past mate.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
No, she's a little older than I am. Let me
put it like that.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
But oh yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
My mom's birthday would have been It was October fourteen.
She had the same birthday as then President eisenhow which
as a young boy I thought was pretty cool. She wow, yeah,
she would have been well well over one hundred. So hey, but.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
They we have been home. Then they see, you know,
they'll teach, they'll they'll follow the education with the teacher
seeing what they're really teaching. They'll open the phone, and.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That's an interesting concept. That's an interesting concept actually listen
to what the teacher's saying and learn something.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Exactly how long ago were.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You in school, Chris? How old are you now?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I am fifty six next Saturday until the nineteenth, Thank
you and.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Happy birthday in advance. And when when you and I
were in school, there weren't cell phones. The only thing
that was distracting was probably some of the teachers who
were who you who you thought didn't know what they
were talking about. And as you get older, you realize
your teachers were a lot smarter than your thought at
the time. Let's put it like that.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, and who went to they had a pay phone.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Them they had to do what?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, they had a pay phone them.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Your payphone? Yeah right, I remember payphones. Uh, there aren't
many of those left. I haven't seen one of those
in about ten or fifteen years. But I will bet
you somewhere there's a payphone. I had a friend of
mine who I had a friend of mine who invested
in payphones. You actually could buy your payphones, and you could,
and it was just before cell phones came in. It
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was probably the worst investment investment the guy, the guy
ever made sadlls.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Chris, have a great week, okay, enjoyed the Patriots, geared,
don't you four?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
No, No, he didn't know, he didn't. But it was
a friend of mine who said, this is a great thing.
I just go around like collect the money out of
bay phones. Well shortly they were after there were no
pay phones to collect. Thanks again, Chris, I appreciate your calling.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Think would get anything everybody you do.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Let's go to John and drake it. John up on
the New Hampshire border and drake it. Hey, John, welcome
next on nightsick fraid hen Hawaii.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I think it's a great idea. I think it's a
great idea for them to, you know, take these phones
from the kids. You know, so like you said, you
know kids in the back of the room. He's not
even paying attention, you know, he is because his head's down.
They could have some type of device app of some
sort where if the kid walks through like a scanner
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in the school, that it dismantles the phone. He could
stay on, the phone could stay in this person, but
it dismantles it. Now, if there's ever a crisis or
something sort of issue in the school, it would send
an alert to the phone. I'm thinking of all this
weird stuff now because I'm not that I said, but
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I'm thinking that that would be an ideal thing. If
somebody could, you know, come out with that, some big
IT company or some sort that I'm sure they're already
looking into it, that it would send this particular stop
block thing to every phone in every person's possession and
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then turn it right back on at two thirty five
in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It would be I think that's reasonable. Yeah, And I
suspect that that technology probably exists Elon Musk probably invented it.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It might, it might be out there, right I'm hoping
that it comes that way, because you know, these kids
are decidened by it. But you know, it's only a
couple hours of your life, and you have to be
in there for curriculum. You don't have to be in
there to be texting or going onto your YouTube channel.
I mean again, I'd be honest with you if I
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was in school nowadays and that was the case and
I had a phone the way I am as an adult,
because I'm always scooping around on the phone based on
my background, as you know, being a comedian and everything else,
I'll be on that phone like nobody's business, even in school.
I mean it's just like I would be distracted by
the fact that someone's got to take this advice from me.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
John, here's the deal, Okay. I like to think of
myself as a fairly disciplined person, meaning I have to
put a show on every night. You as a comedian,
you've got to develop a new set periodically. You got
to work new jobs, and you got to work on
your time, and you got to keep your show yourself
in shape. Antaline people don't realize it. They think that,
oh yeah, comedians get out there. No comedians, Yeah, really
hard to develop, right. What I uh say is that
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when I have a couple of minutes and I'm just bored,
and all of a sudden, I'll click on something and
I'll see, you know, there's oh there's a baseball player.
It's a goofy baseball player, some guy right the wrong
way of the basis.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Okay, I look at that.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And then the next thing is, oh, there's a foot
ball play and I look at that, and then the
comedian maybe it's you, maybe it's someone else doing like
about thirty seconds like I guess you turn later and
you say, what what have I've been doing for the
last fifteen minutes? And dedictive? It is as they know
how our brains are wired, they know what to do
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to us. And this is.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Something I've been called well on a number of occasions
from family members and not just them, but my girlfriend
as well, saying well, you keep off that phone.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yep, we know exactly what you were going to that
you didn't say, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know how the time, Yeah, but
that's what she'd say, And I'll tell you you know,
it's just it's it's dishoveling because they're just sitting there
and you're not paying attention, you know, and it happens.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
John, let me let me ask you. When's your next
gig coming up? Where are you are you?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I'm all serious.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
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at four seventy Lowell Street Johnny Joycecomedy dot com or
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four seventy eight Lowell Street in Mavillain.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
My pleasure. If I was anywhere near there, I would
have dropped by to see the set. But I'm not
geographically close to where you are. But uh, just go
break a lake to ball night, have a great a
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It's in the wood.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yeah, right off the highway, right off the highway there. Yeah,
if they google that address, they'll realize that it's right
off the rimp. And guess what they gotta They gotta
shut their cell phones off, work.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Something into your your show tomorrow night on that you
can come up with something between now and then.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I know you can't, most certainly can. And I'll bring
up WBZ tevisary with Dan Baby.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
There be some people in the audience up there. We
have a lot of listeners up north of the city.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
No, you know, you know if.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Look folks, if you don't have something to do anight,
you know with your with your significant other. Yeah, where's
the club again, John, Let's give it one more time
in case they.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
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Speaker 3 (21:33):
I'll tell you you know how to plug a show. Great,
great job, John, Doug, you soon, buddy, Thank you, thanks
very much. Six one seven, two five, four ten thirty
triple eight nine two nine ten thirty. Cell phones Do
they belong anywhere in school during the school day? I
say definitely no. There is no redeeming social value for
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a kid in school at any age to have a
cell phone, period. End of story. Coming back right after
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Friday night. They were heading into a very nice fall weekend.
Patriots are at home, new quarterback. All of that A
lot to talk about, we a lot to experience this weekend.
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To stay with us, We'll be right back on nightside.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
All right, we're gonna keep rolling. He're gonna go to them.
I don't think I've ever had this name before. Maybe
I have Hawa in Boston. Hawa, How are you.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
How How am I pronouncing your name correctly? Is it
Hawa or Hawa Hawaii?
Speaker 8 (22:46):
I'm actually call it a long time listener and a
first time calling.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
First time caller. All right, let's get that applause going
from our Wadi's with the studio audi itself. Hawa, thank
you very much. You Sundly, you have some little ones
in there in the back. What's going on?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
And I've got eleven year old who you actually honed
in your message because I've been trying to explain to
her why she's not she shouldn't have a phone.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
She's not old enough yet.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
And it leads to a lot of distractions in school.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
But she, you know, she wants to always combat my
argument with hers, and why why why? But your example
of the fact that this could lead to, you know,
an even serious situation where if something was going on
in school, for example, the extreme example you gave from
the school, shoot that that that phone could really lead to.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You know, I need to talk to you eleven year
old right now.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
And yes, well she talks to her name is.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Rosie.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Okay, you can you be a phone with us at
the same time.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I'm going to be.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
I'm right here with you all so you can talk
to her.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Okay, Hi, Rosie, how are you good? What grade are
you in in school?
Speaker 9 (23:53):
I'm in fifth grade?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Wow? Fifth grade? Are you in a school in Austin?
I assume you got a lot of friends.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Yeah, I have a lot of friends, and I'm in
a school in Cambridge.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
In Cambridge, oh okay, a lot of smart people, a
lot of smart schools in Cambridge. So now my understanding
is that your mom has been trying to convince you
that having a cell phone with you can be distracting.
I think she's got a point. Well, tell me why
a cell phone is a good thing for you to
have with you all day long when you're in school,
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because I don't understand that. Can you explain that to me?
Speaker 9 (24:30):
Sometimes I used to think that having a phone on
you in school was helpful because just like how you said,
it could be helpful in an emergency. But after you
said that, like if it rings, the that guy could
like come towards you. Now I'm understanding that it doesn't
really matter and you don't really need it. And there's
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phones around the school for a reason, and the teachers
or the grown ups so the staff can call for you.
There's no need for a personal iPhone or phone.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, I think so do they have Are you allowed
to bring your cell phone to school or do you
have to put it in some sort of like a
pouch when you bring in when you go to school.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
At school, some people they have their phones and their backpacks,
so they just leave it in there.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, so they turn it off, So it's so it
does bring I hope right. Well, again, if the kids
are mature, you sounding a very mature eleven year old,
you're going to do really well in school. But I
think if I would just stick with that. The other
thing that I think is very very important, do you
guys have a cafeteria or a lunch room when you
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have lunch together. Yes, I think that's so important. If
everybody had a cell phone and everybody's looking at their
cell phone, there'd be no socialization. You have a great
opportunity to make lifelong friends in school, and the best
time during the day is it lunch when you get
a chance to talk to them and find out what
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they like and what you like. And this, I know
this sounds a little crazy because they know it's tough
to go to school. There were days when I didn't
want to go to school. But take advantage of every day,
learn something new every day, and you'll be it'll be help.
It'll help you in life so much that you can imagine.
And you're going to do really well. Rosie, thank you
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so much for talking to me. You've got a great mom. Okay,
thank you. Thanks, Thanks Rosie. I hope you're still there.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
I'm still here, and I'm so grateful for you to
help meet and get that in her head and so well.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I'll tell you I've had my kids are a little
older at this point. That's that's one sharp young lady.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
You're a very sharp young lady.
Speaker 10 (26:45):
She's exceptional in her class work and just her overall
maturity as an eleven year old and continues to doing
like just take us by surprise each day, so we're
very proud of her.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well, I'll tell you there are very few kids who
at the age of eleven, we'll be able to get
on the phone with an adult that they don't know
and haven't you had about something and respond all her
questions were so responsive. I was very, very impressed. I'd
love to know where she's going to be about ten
or twelve years from now, because she's going to be
graduating college. You how many children do you have?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
How I have three?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
I have eleven, seven and almost two year old.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Well, and that eleven year old is going to set
a wonderful example for your other two children.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
So she's already setting it.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Dan, I'm telling you so thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Well, thank you for listening to Night's side, and I'm
telling you keep us posted. She's she's something special and
I think you are a mom or something special.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Too, So thank thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I have a great weekend. I hope she gets a
long weekend. She doesn't have to go to school on Monday.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
No, she doesn't.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
She has a great long week.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
That's great. Thanks again. I'll look forward to your next call.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Okay, thanks absolutely, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Bye Dan, Bye, Rosie. Take any you're you're you're great, Rosie.
I'm telling you you're gonna be something. Someday you'll take
my job or something like that. But you're gonna you're
gonna have a great life. Just just keep keep working
hard and having fun. Thanks Rosie.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Thanks all right, thank you, good night, good night, ladies,
good night night.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Wow. I really enjoyed that call. I hope you enjoyed
it as well. If you want to comment, that's an
eleven year old with the maturity and the language skills.
She's gonna be going to great school and she must
have great parents. I can tell right now that she's
going to be something special. There's no doubt. I gotta
I'm gonna remember this call. I really will. Rosie eleven
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years old. Wow, look gonna take a quick break. If
you'd like to comment, why can't every kid be like that? Huh?
If every child was was like that, we would we
would be we would all know that I was so secured,
checks would be there for a long time to come. Anyway,
here's the number six one. I got a couple of
open lines six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
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six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I am
so proud of Rosie, so proud of how and I'd
love to hear your reaction to what that eleven year
old young lady had to say and how she comported herself.
And also big big kudos to the mom for basically
calling in, setting a great example and giving her an
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opportunity to be on the radio. We'll take a break,
but coming right back on Nightside, I can wide open lines.
Let's let's have a couple of comments on Rosie because
I think she was extraordinary, as was her mom, or
as is her mom, I should say, be right back
on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
to night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I hope you heard that call with Hawa, her mom
and her daughter, Rosie. How if you're still listening, a Rosie,
if you're still listening, please call back. I want to
send some night Side t shirts a Nightside tea shirt
to both of you. Okay, you need to call back
and give Rob your phone and your address. Rob will
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mail to you. Great friends at college Hype dot com
provide pink night Side T shirts this month. They'res in
recognition or breast cancer awareness, but they're great t shirts.
They'll say nice side with Dan Ray. They're very stylish.
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and the gang and College Hype over in Dorchester. They
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T shirts available for us. So please, if you're still listening,
or Rosie, if you're listening, just call back in call
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a T shirt for both of you to wear. That
was an outstanding phone call. I was so engrossed in
the phone conversation that I forgot just to have your
stay on and get the T shirt so called six.
It's called six one seven nine three one ten thirty.
Rob will wait for you. We'll get that information and
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we'll get that out to you, hopefully well by Monday. Okay,
we'll have a rosie and opportunity to wear the T
shirt proudly to school all right, let's keep rolling here.
I'm gonna go to Brianna in Everett. Hi Brianna, welcome
you next on night Side.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Hi Dan, this is my I'm a first time caller,
but my fallar listens to me all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Well, thank you very much. I'm honored. I'm honored. Tell
me what your thought is about cell phones. You sound
like you may have kids in school. I'm guessing I do.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
I'm thirty three years old, but I have a fifteen
year old in sophomore here, the sophomore in high school,
and I have an eight year old who was in
third grade.
Speaker 9 (31:50):
H huh?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
How how are they reacting to cell phones?
Speaker 7 (31:55):
My daughter does not have a cell phone. I do
not think that she's old enough her cell phone, and
she definitely wouldn't have in school, that's for sure. Okay,
my son, he has a cell phone, but he is
only allowed to. We have like a parental control thing
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on it, so he can only call like out to
like an emergency number, or me or my mother, my father,
his father during school hours.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I got confused. Which one is older, Brionni, your son
a daughter?
Speaker 7 (32:34):
My son is fifteen. His name is Christopher. My daughter
is eight she's Amelia.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
And so when I was in school, we didn't have
cell phones. We were allowed to bring cell phones to school.
There was no We had pagers and beepers. And I
just think that, like with all the school shootings that
are going on, I think that kids should be saying
that more focused on the awareness in their surroundings and
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paying attention not only to that classwork, but like I said,
to the surrounding, making sure like they're okay. And if
it only takes a second to look down at that
text message to for a bullet to go flying, and
that's that's a scary thought. Yeah, it's a very scary thought.
But that little girl, Rosie, that's I was gonna call
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you before you even said call and comments on her
that was amazing, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Okay, here's what I want to do for you, Brianna.
I want you to stay on the line. I want
to send T shirts to you, your daughter and your son.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
All right, we'll get a T shirt for you. We'll
get a pig nice eyed T shirt for you and
your daughter, and we'll get a great T shirt for
your son.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Fair enough, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Jan well, looking forward to it. Thanks for being such
a loyal listener. And also you can drop a note
if you want to Jack Doherty at College Hype dot
com in Dorchester when you get him, because we wouldn't
have them give out if he wasn't kind enough to
produce him for us. So if people are interested in
getting them, you know I'm going to send them to you.
(34:14):
Don't worry. Well and hopefully was that how all called back?
I hope, Bob. Okay, so how is called back? Get
she and Rosie a couple of T shirts as well,
and I just you may want to send a thank
you note. The guy that owns the company is a
good friend of mine, Jack Dougherty. So hang in there,
right there, we'll get all this information. Okay, thanks Brianna,
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have a great weekend. Let me go next to pal Dennis. Dennis.
How you doing tonight, buddy? You Dennis was a teacher
for years.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
That's why I was gonna comment. I know I'm breaking
the rules, damn, but.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
That's okay, that's okay. We make exceptions on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yes, I taught a Low high for forty years and
I've been substitute teaching for the past ten years at
Lowell High School. I have a little experience. The system
at low High is, you know, you can bring a
cell phone with you to school, but when you go
into a classroom, you put in what we call a
lock box locked up.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
That's what al go first, talk talk the phrase lock box,
the security number that goes into the lock box.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah right, yeah, So now that's the system we use
because otherwise it is too distracting, you know, to the students.
But I also have to comment on that eleven year old.
How impressive.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Let me tell you, I was so blown away I
forgot about a night's eye T shirt and said so.
But they've called back and we're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
All set excellent. They deserve them.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Dennis. Thanks man. I got to get you one at
some point, but we'll get.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I have enough shifts. I coached six sploits. I'm good.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Thank you. I know you played to baseball too.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I know that absolutely, all.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Right, Dennis, Thanks to talk to you soon. Dennis played
at Lowell State when all right, thanks, how much? We
got minute thirty. We're gonna get Jim in Maryland. In Hey, Jim,
I got a minute thirty for you. Go right ahead,
we're gonna wrap the hour.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Jim, you had no problem Dan that that girl was amazing,
just amazing.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Eleven years old, that presence just just wonderful. There's hope
for America as long as we have a few rosies
coming along.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Oh definitely. But I think that the the phones, you know,
I know you need them for emergency or whatever, but
just disengage the students as much as you can from
cell phones other than an emergency.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Right, Disengage from the cell phone and engage in the classroom,
simple as that.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Pabulus's have some more social skills going on.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, I got.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
You, You got your The social skills on that you
get on a phone call are not particularly good at best,
and they can be pretty dangerous at worst. I'm going
to get one more in, Jim, thank you much.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
We're talking to Okay, go get them.
Speaker 11 (37:14):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Thanks, thank you for listening down there in Maryland so regularly.
I appreciate it. All Right, final call, Brian, you called late.
I got thirty seconds for you. That's all I can do, Brian,
go right ahead.
Speaker 11 (37:25):
Yeah, this is Brian from wes Roxby. I called you
about the bag law and the bike laws and Wes Roxbury.
But these cell phones. I'm eighty one years old now,
Dave and Dan. But that's okay, Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
That's fine. I have a brother named Dave. He's smarter
than I.
Speaker 11 (37:46):
But anyway, at Christmas time, when I went to my
sister's house, she had a little basket in the hallway.
When they came in the door, they had to put
the cell phones in the in the basket.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
I'm with you totally. Your sister's a smart woman. Let
me tell you, hey, you called me. I got you
yet under the wire, but I gotta let you run
because I got the news coming at me. Brian, call again.
We'll get you. Give you more time, I promise.
Speaker 11 (38:13):
Okay, I'll talk to you again. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Thanks Brian, seeing West Roxbury. Thanks, good night. All right,
done for the hour. We come back. We're gonna talk
about another problem we gotta deal with. Uh, we'll talk
about that right after the ten
It's nice side with Dan Ray. I'm WBS cost me.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
I don't know if you have children or grandchildren in
a school, elementary school, high school, junior high school. But
every kid today, I think over the age of certainly
maybe six or seven, has a cell phone. And I
know that a lot of parents want their kids to
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have cell phones. And the reason that parents claim, and
I guess kids also claim that they want cell phones
is in case of an emergency, they can contact their parents.
I don't know what sort of an emergency is likely
to have. I know, I know you're gonna sit there's
a school shooter on the grounds, and the parents want
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to know their child is safe. Well, it could be
that the mere presence of a cell phone with your child,
if that extreme example happened, might put your child in danger.
Let's assume your child is hiding in a closet in
a classroom and at the moment that the shooter walks by,
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the child's cell phone rings. Think about that. Okay. The
bottom line, though, is that there are enough distractions in schools.
We've seen that there seem to be so many of
these tests which they're attributing to COVID, that the math
scores are going down, or the English scores are going down,
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or kids aren't learning as much as they should learn
the bottom line, and I don't think that I fully
appreciated it when I was in grammar school. I did well,
and went to high school and I did fine. But
every day that a child is in school is a
day in which they can lay a foundation or where
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they might go to college, or lay a foundation for
what work skills and interpersonal skills they will have when
they leave high school and perhaps they join the workforce
or join the military or whatever. So there has been controversy.
I'm looking at an article here from late August. These
articles were quite around quite a bit in August about
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Massachusetts schools cracking down on cell phones in class. Why
should kids have a cell phone in class? I mean,
the only thing that the presence of a cell phone
in the possession of a student in class is going
to cause distractions from whatever's being taught in that class.
You cannot tell me that some kids sitting up in
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the back of the classroom when the teacher is talking
about whatever they're talking about, whether they're talking about a
history class or an English class, that they're scrolling to
find out if the teacher is correct when they talk
about grammar or they talk about the election of eighteen sixty.
It just doesn't make sense. It just doesn't make sense.
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And I don't know if this is a subject that
parents are interested in or students are interested in, but
I would love to hear from parents, students, grandparents, and
also teachers. It would seem to me that if you're
a teacher and you're sitting out, you're standing in front
of a class of twenty five kids or whatever it is,
whatever the normal high school classes these days is probably
(03:25):
less than twenty five, and you're teaching a subject that
you've prepared, You've got a lesson plan that you want
to get through, and you want the students to absorb
whatever subject you're talking about today, and you realize that
there's going to be some kids who are just sitting there,
and you can tell they're tough to reach because maybe
they're if they're not asleep, they're half unconscious, they're sort
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of just daydreaming. I think all of us have at
some point daydreamed in school. It's you can have a
teacher who's not particularly inspiring, but if you look back
at the back or at the front of the room,
in the middle of the room, and you see some
kid with his head down and you can tell that
he's texting. He or she is texting. You know that
that student is paying no attention whatsoever to what you're
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trying to teach them. And you know that that student,
whatever that subject is, and whatever that lesson plan is,
it'll be there once and then it'll be gone forever.
And if it is a subject where you need to build,
let's say, like math, you have to learn how to
do addition and subtraction before you can do multiplication and division,
before you can do algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, whatever. It's
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all important. So what I'd like to do is just
throw it open and have a normal conversation. I don't
think there's a right or wrong issue. I feel strongly
that cell phones have no place in the possession of
students during the class day. I don't think that the
suit I think the students can, on their own time,
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get up a little early. If you got to text
your friends and ask about if they watched the Awards
show or the MTV show last night on television, and
get all that stuff out of the way. Before you
go to school, while you run the school bus, you
can text away, have text your other friends going to
other schools or whatever. And then when you get out
in the afternoon three o'clock or whatever it is two
(05:21):
thirty in many cases, you get your cell phone back
and you go ahead and you commence a texting all afternoon. Now,
the teachers in the administrators cannot force the kids to
do their homework without being distracted by cell phones. It's
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as simple as that. But during that period of five
and a half maybe six hours during the day, from
eight o'clock to two o'clock or from eight thirty to
two thirty or whatever, the school day is not only
in class moving from one if you're in high school,
and moving from one classroom to another, or for that matter,
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during lunch, when you should be making conversation and socializing
with other of your age in the you know, in
the dining room or cafeteria, whatever they happen to call
it in your school, it is not a time for
you to be sitting there texting. So that's my position.
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I'd love to know what you think as a parent.
Have you thought about it? I'll bet you have. As
a grandparent. Have you thought about it? I'll bet you
have as well most people who are grandparents today. I
don't think there are any grandparents out there today who
had cell phones when they were in school, because in
order to be a grandparent, I'm guessing you have to
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be at least somewhere in maybe at the earliest your
late thirties. Cell phones were not available a lot during
that period of time. But I'll I want to throw
it out there. I want to know cell phones. Are
they something that the school administrators have to crack down on?
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And they best they have to. When these kids arrive
at school, homeroom or whatever it is, they put their
cell phone, they turn their cell phone off, and they
put it in a location that they do not have
access to, no one else has access to. No one
wants to see their cell phones trashed or thrown away
or mixed up. I'm looking at a picture now. This
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must have been in the Globe article and it says that, well,
it looks to me as if it's almost like a
wall hanging that everybody puts their cell phone and they
leave it there off for the day, and maybe they
should put it in They should construct a glass case,
so they can see their cell phones, but they don't
have access to them. So that's the question of the hour. Again.
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If you're a student, call up your friends, tell them,
give us a call, and you can tell me why
it's so incredibly important for you to have your cell
phone in your hand or on your person throughout the
school day, just in case there's an emergency. Look, if
you get sick at school, call the school nurse, tell
the teacher. They'll send you down to the school nurse.
School nurse will call your parent, whatever, and you'll be
(08:18):
all set. Maybe the parent will have an uber person.
I don't know how, but they'll figure it out. They
don't need you to make that initial call. The only
lines that are open right now are six, one, seven, nine, three,
ten thirty. I'm gratified that people have chosen to call
in on this. Whatever your point of view on it is,
I don't see what I don't see any benefit whatsoever
(08:41):
for a student, high school, junior high school, elementary school
from being in the possession of a cell phone from
the moment they arrive at school into the moment they leave.
Call me old fashioned, I'm willing to take that. Tell me,
I'm unreasonable. I'm willing to take that too. I just
want to take your calls. Coming back on Nightside. It's
a Friday night. We're heading into the weekend. Lots going
(09:03):
on this weekend. People are going to be going up
leaf peeping, which is great. I know Patriots fans are
going to watch the debut of Drake May, the regular
season debut of Drake May. And we'll get it. We
could talk about a lot of stuff. I have some
other subjects I want to talk about as well. And
we have an eleventh hour coming up tonight and I'm
not exactly sure we're going to do for that. So
we have surprises, surprises for me and surprises for you.
(09:25):
We'll be back on Nightside. We got full lines right now.
I love I'm loving it coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, let's see what people have to say. Let me
go to Frank in Boston. Hey, Frank, you were next
on Nightside. You were first this hour on Nightside. Actually, Frank, welcome,
Oh thank you.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I don't I don't understand why anybody has these these
phones that they nothing but nuisance. They everybody's staring down him,
walking down the road and looking where they're going. Is
the parents and the kids want to just get a
standard little flip phone. Twenty five dollars for the phone,
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twenty five hours a month, and all you got to
do is worry about picking it up when it rings.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, you and I think of like I loved my
flip flow.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah, it was a cheap thing in the world I give.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I get so many emails every day, and it's like
people are sending me stuff and it's like I can't
keep up. I kind of it used to be that
I couldn't answer everything. I try to answer the ones
that people send me repeated. It's tough. But if someone
sends me a nice email, says hey Dan, I like
your show, Thanks, I'll send them a quick little thank
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you email. We don't do mail anymore. We don't write
letters to our friends anymore. So it's all come down
to it got to be email. And now it's like
they don't even want you to take time at email.
They want you to text message.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Well, that's that's all right, as long as it's short
and sweet. But I don't I don't get it and
not only that, but what do it? I don't understand
why people don't realize that these phones are putting so
much junk in front of them, and you got enough
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stuff going on in your life that you need to
deal with. Why are you gonna put all this junk
in front of you? All this what is it? All
these want to be liked and all that stuff? Why
you gotta complicate your life when it's already complicated enough.
And then the parents are paying, not only buying these
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phones for them, but they're paying their monthly bills. It is.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
If you ever decide to run for office, would you
let me know because I think I'd like to manage
your campaign or at least contribute to it, because you
make more since been all these politicians, I'm serious when
I say that.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
It's it's because we complicate our lives. We just complicated
too much.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I think we do. Hey, Frank, I loved your call.
If you ever called me before, since your.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
First time, you know, twenty of times.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
You keep calling. Okay, and as they say you decide
can run for politics, you gotta let me know because
I want to manage your campaign. You your breath of
fresh air, my friend. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
How old breath of fresh air.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
No, it doesn't matter, no, no, no, no, your fresh
air is good, no matter where, at what age it is. Okay,
I really thank you, thank you, my friend, don't.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
You thank you?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I like that call. He's right to the point. Only
line opened six one, seven, two, four ten thirty. Chris
is in Chelmsford. Chris cell phones in schools. What say you?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I don't think I don't think that would be a
good idea. I think if you take it to the
rookieo school, the nun would take it in or I'm
not going to hit him with the ruler. But I'm
not sure what.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
They mean with the rule that then they hit you
in the head with it. I shouldn't say that, because
I'm sure the nuns are different back in the day. Though,
You're right, really you had to.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Because when my mother went to Saint Agnes and Arlington
to when when you would play, when she would play
the wrong note, you would get hit by the rule.
That's told me when she was alive.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Well, I don't know how how old your mom was,
but I played hockey against Saint Agnes in c Yo
hockey and they were always a good team, those guys,
those guys from Arlington, trust me on that.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
She would have been ninety three this past mate.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
No, she's a little older than I am. Let me
put it like that.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
But oh yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
My mom's birthday would have been It was October fourteen.
She had the same birthday as then President eisenhow which
as a young boy I thought was pretty cool. She wow, yeah,
she would have been well well over one hundred. So hey, but.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
They we have been home. Then they see, you know,
they'll teach, they'll they'll follow the education with the teacher
seeing what they're really teaching. They'll open the phone, and.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That's an interesting concept. That's an interesting concept actually listen
to what the teacher's saying and learn something.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Exactly how long ago were.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You in school, Chris? How old are you now?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I am fifty six next Saturday until the nineteenth, Thank
you and.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Happy birthday in advance. And when when you and I
were in school, there weren't cell phones. The only thing
that was distracting was probably some of the teachers who
were who you who you thought didn't know what they
were talking about. And as you get older, you realize
your teachers were a lot smarter than your thought at
the time. Let's put it like that.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, and who went to they had a pay phone.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Them they had to do what?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, they had a pay phone them.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Your payphone? Yeah right, I remember payphones. Uh, there aren't
many of those left. I haven't seen one of those
in about ten or fifteen years. But I will bet
you somewhere there's a payphone. I had a friend of
mine who I had a friend of mine who invested
in payphones. You actually could buy your payphones, and you could,
and it was just before cell phones came in. It
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was probably the worst investment investment the guy, the guy
ever made sadlls.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Chris, have a great week, okay, enjoyed the Patriots, geared,
don't you four?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
No, No, he didn't know, he didn't. But it was
a friend of mine who said, this is a great thing.
I just go around like collect the money out of
bay phones. Well shortly they were after there were no
pay phones to collect. Thanks again, Chris, I appreciate your calling.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Think would get anything everybody you do.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Let's go to John and drake it. John up on
the New Hampshire border and drake it. Hey, John, welcome
next on nightsick fraid hen Hawaii.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I think it's a great idea. I think it's a
great idea for them to, you know, take these phones
from the kids. You know, so like you said, you
know kids in the back of the room. He's not
even paying attention, you know, he is because his head's down.
They could have some type of device app of some
sort where if the kid walks through like a scanner
(16:39):
in the school, that it dismantles the phone. He could
stay on, the phone could stay in this person, but
it dismantles it. Now, if there's ever a crisis or
something sort of issue in the school, it would send
an alert to the phone. I'm thinking of all this
weird stuff now because I'm not that I said, but
(17:01):
I'm thinking that that would be an ideal thing. If
somebody could, you know, come out with that, some big
IT company or some sort that I'm sure they're already
looking into it, that it would send this particular stop
block thing to every phone in every person's possession and
(17:21):
then turn it right back on at two thirty five
in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It would be I think that's reasonable. Yeah, And I
suspect that that technology probably exists Elon Musk probably invented it.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It might, it might be out there, right I'm hoping
that it comes that way, because you know, these kids
are decidened by it. But you know, it's only a
couple hours of your life, and you have to be
in there for curriculum. You don't have to be in
there to be texting or going onto your YouTube channel.
I mean again, I'd be honest with you if I
(17:56):
was in school nowadays and that was the case and
I had a phone the way I am as an adult,
because I'm always scooping around on the phone based on
my background, as you know, being a comedian and everything else,
I'll be on that phone like nobody's business, even in school.
I mean it's just like I would be distracted by
the fact that someone's got to take this advice from me.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
John, here's the deal, Okay. I like to think of
myself as a fairly disciplined person, meaning I have to
put a show on every night. You as a comedian,
you've got to develop a new set periodically. You got
to work new jobs, and you got to work on
your time, and you got to keep your show yourself
in shape. Antaline people don't realize it. They think that,
oh yeah, comedians get out there. No comedians, Yeah, really
hard to develop, right. What I uh say is that
(18:45):
when I have a couple of minutes and I'm just bored,
and all of a sudden, I'll click on something and
I'll see, you know, there's oh there's a baseball player.
It's a goofy baseball player, some guy right the wrong
way of the basis.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Okay, I look at that.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And then the next thing is, oh, there's a foot
ball play and I look at that, and then the
comedian maybe it's you, maybe it's someone else doing like
about thirty seconds like I guess you turn later and
you say, what what have I've been doing for the
last fifteen minutes? And dedictive? It is as they know
how our brains are wired, they know what to do
(19:20):
to us. And this is.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Something I've been called well on a number of occasions
from family members and not just them, but my girlfriend
as well, saying well, you keep off that phone.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yep, we know exactly what you were going to that
you didn't say, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know how the time, Yeah, but
that's what she'd say, And I'll tell you you know,
it's just it's it's dishoveling because they're just sitting there
and you're not paying attention, you know, and it happens.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
John, let me let me ask you. When's your next
gig coming up? Where are you are you?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I'm all serious.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I appreciate that. Tomorrow night, River Edge in Maseu and
at four seventy Lowell Street Johnny Joycecomedy dot com or
Boston's Best Comedians dot com. We're kicking off my new
comedy club tomorrow night right there at River Edge Restaurant,
four seventy eight Lowell Street in Mavillain.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
My pleasure. If I was anywhere near there, I would
have dropped by to see the set. But I'm not
geographically close to where you are. But uh, just go
break a lake to ball night, have a great a
great set and if anybody is. People always looking for
different things to do. So this is north of Boston.
It's in the wood.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yeah, right off the highway, right off the highway there. Yeah,
if they google that address, they'll realize that it's right
off the rimp. And guess what they gotta They gotta
shut their cell phones off, work.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Something into your your show tomorrow night on that you
can come up with something between now and then.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I know you can't, most certainly can. And I'll bring
up WBZ tevisary with Dan Baby.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
There be some people in the audience up there. We
have a lot of listeners up north of the city.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
No, you know, you know if.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Look folks, if you don't have something to do anight,
you know with your with your significant other. Yeah, where's
the club again, John, Let's give it one more time
in case they.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Miss River Edge at four seventy eight Lowell Street in
the Sewing on one ten just right there off the highway,
and you can check out Boston'sduscomedians dot com or Johnny
Joycecomedy dot com seven eight one eight two zero three
seven three eight.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I'll tell you you know how to plug a show. Great,
great job, John, Doug, you soon, buddy, Thank you, thanks
very much. Six one seven, two five, four ten thirty
triple eight nine two nine ten thirty. Cell phones Do
they belong anywhere in school during the school day? I
say definitely no. There is no redeeming social value for
(21:56):
a kid in school at any age to have a
cell phone, period. End of story. Coming back right after
the news at the bottom of the hour on a
Friday night. They were heading into a very nice fall weekend.
Patriots are at home, new quarterback. All of that A
lot to talk about, we a lot to experience this weekend.
(22:18):
To stay with us, We'll be right back on nightside.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
All right, we're gonna keep rolling. He're gonna go to them.
I don't think I've ever had this name before. Maybe
I have Hawa in Boston. Hawa, How are you.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
How How am I pronouncing your name correctly? Is it
Hawa or Hawa Hawaii?
Speaker 8 (22:46):
I'm actually call it a long time listener and a
first time calling.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
First time caller. All right, let's get that applause going
from our Wadi's with the studio audi itself. Hawa, thank
you very much. You Sundly, you have some little ones
in there in the back. What's going on?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
And I've got eleven year old who you actually honed
in your message because I've been trying to explain to
her why she's not she shouldn't have a phone.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
She's not old enough yet.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
And it leads to a lot of distractions in school.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
But she, you know, she wants to always combat my
argument with hers, and why why why? But your example
of the fact that this could lead to, you know,
an even serious situation where if something was going on
in school, for example, the extreme example you gave from
the school, shoot that that that phone could really lead to.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You know, I need to talk to you eleven year
old right now.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
And yes, well she talks to her name is.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Rosie.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Okay, you can you be a phone with us at
the same time.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I'm going to be.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
I'm right here with you all so you can talk
to her.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Okay, Hi, Rosie, how are you good? What grade are
you in in school?
Speaker 9 (23:53):
I'm in fifth grade?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Wow? Fifth grade? Are you in a school in Austin?
I assume you got a lot of friends.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Yeah, I have a lot of friends, and I'm in
a school in Cambridge.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
In Cambridge, oh okay, a lot of smart people, a
lot of smart schools in Cambridge. So now my understanding
is that your mom has been trying to convince you
that having a cell phone with you can be distracting.
I think she's got a point. Well, tell me why
a cell phone is a good thing for you to
have with you all day long when you're in school,
(24:26):
because I don't understand that. Can you explain that to me?
Speaker 9 (24:30):
Sometimes I used to think that having a phone on
you in school was helpful because just like how you said,
it could be helpful in an emergency. But after you
said that, like if it rings, the that guy could
like come towards you. Now I'm understanding that it doesn't
really matter and you don't really need it. And there's
(24:52):
phones around the school for a reason, and the teachers
or the grown ups so the staff can call for you.
There's no need for a personal iPhone or phone.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, I think so do they have Are you allowed
to bring your cell phone to school or do you
have to put it in some sort of like a
pouch when you bring in when you go to school.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
At school, some people they have their phones and their backpacks,
so they just leave it in there.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, so they turn it off, So it's so it
does bring I hope right. Well, again, if the kids
are mature, you sounding a very mature eleven year old,
you're going to do really well in school. But I
think if I would just stick with that. The other
thing that I think is very very important, do you
guys have a cafeteria or a lunch room when you
(25:38):
have lunch together. Yes, I think that's so important. If
everybody had a cell phone and everybody's looking at their
cell phone, there'd be no socialization. You have a great
opportunity to make lifelong friends in school, and the best
time during the day is it lunch when you get
a chance to talk to them and find out what
(25:59):
they like and what you like. And this, I know
this sounds a little crazy because they know it's tough
to go to school. There were days when I didn't
want to go to school. But take advantage of every day,
learn something new every day, and you'll be it'll be help.
It'll help you in life so much that you can imagine.
And you're going to do really well. Rosie, thank you
(26:21):
so much for talking to me. You've got a great mom. Okay,
thank you. Thanks, Thanks Rosie. I hope you're still there.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
I'm still here, and I'm so grateful for you to
help meet and get that in her head and so well.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I'll tell you I've had my kids are a little
older at this point. That's that's one sharp young lady.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
You're a very sharp young lady.
Speaker 10 (26:45):
She's exceptional in her class work and just her overall
maturity as an eleven year old and continues to doing
like just take us by surprise each day, so we're
very proud of her.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well, I'll tell you there are very few kids who
at the age of eleven, we'll be able to get
on the phone with an adult that they don't know
and haven't you had about something and respond all her
questions were so responsive. I was very, very impressed. I'd
love to know where she's going to be about ten
or twelve years from now, because she's going to be
graduating college. You how many children do you have?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
How I have three?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
I have eleven, seven and almost two year old.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Well, and that eleven year old is going to set
a wonderful example for your other two children.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
So she's already setting it.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Dan, I'm telling you so thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Well, thank you for listening to Night's side, and I'm
telling you keep us posted. She's she's something special and
I think you are a mom or something special.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Too, So thank thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I have a great weekend. I hope she gets a
long weekend. She doesn't have to go to school on Monday.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
No, she doesn't.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
She has a great long week.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
That's great. Thanks again. I'll look forward to your next call.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Okay, thanks absolutely, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Bye Dan, Bye, Rosie. Take any you're you're you're great, Rosie.
I'm telling you you're gonna be something. Someday you'll take
my job or something like that. But you're gonna you're
gonna have a great life. Just just keep keep working
hard and having fun. Thanks Rosie.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Thanks all right, thank you, good night, good night, ladies,
good night night.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Wow. I really enjoyed that call. I hope you enjoyed
it as well. If you want to comment, that's an
eleven year old with the maturity and the language skills.
She's gonna be going to great school and she must
have great parents. I can tell right now that she's
going to be something special. There's no doubt. I gotta
I'm gonna remember this call. I really will. Rosie eleven
(28:41):
years old. Wow, look gonna take a quick break. If
you'd like to comment, why can't every kid be like that? Huh?
If every child was was like that, we would we
would be we would all know that I was so secured,
checks would be there for a long time to come. Anyway,
here's the number six one. I got a couple of
open lines six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
(29:02):
six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I am
so proud of Rosie, so proud of how and I'd
love to hear your reaction to what that eleven year
old young lady had to say and how she comported herself.
And also big big kudos to the mom for basically
calling in, setting a great example and giving her an
(29:24):
opportunity to be on the radio. We'll take a break,
but coming right back on Nightside, I can wide open lines.
Let's let's have a couple of comments on Rosie because
I think she was extraordinary, as was her mom, or
as is her mom, I should say, be right back
on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
to night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I hope you heard that call with Hawa, her mom
and her daughter, Rosie. How if you're still listening, a Rosie,
if you're still listening, please call back. I want to
send some night Side t shirts a Nightside tea shirt
to both of you. Okay, you need to call back
and give Rob your phone and your address. Rob will
(30:07):
get all the information and I'll get those in the
mail to you. Great friends at college Hype dot com
provide pink night Side T shirts this month. They'res in
recognition or breast cancer awareness, but they're great t shirts.
They'll say nice side with Dan Ray. They're very stylish.
(30:27):
Good pal Jack Dougherty and Kathleen Hickey and Joe Foley
and the gang and College Hype over in Dorchester. They
produce great products and they're kind enough to make those
T shirts available for us. So please, if you're still listening,
or Rosie, if you're listening, just call back in call
in at this number six one seven, nine three one
(30:48):
ten thirty. Those lines are open. I want to get
a T shirt for both of you to wear. That
was an outstanding phone call. I was so engrossed in
the phone conversation that I forgot just to have your
stay on and get the T shirt so called six.
It's called six one seven nine three one ten thirty.
Rob will wait for you. We'll get that information and
(31:08):
we'll get that out to you, hopefully well by Monday. Okay,
we'll have a rosie and opportunity to wear the T
shirt proudly to school all right, let's keep rolling here.
I'm gonna go to Brianna in Everett. Hi Brianna, welcome
you next on night Side.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Hi Dan, this is my I'm a first time caller,
but my fallar listens to me all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Well, thank you very much. I'm honored. I'm honored. Tell
me what your thought is about cell phones. You sound
like you may have kids in school. I'm guessing I do.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
I'm thirty three years old, but I have a fifteen
year old in sophomore here, the sophomore in high school,
and I have an eight year old who was in
third grade.
Speaker 9 (31:50):
H huh?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
How how are they reacting to cell phones?
Speaker 7 (31:55):
My daughter does not have a cell phone. I do
not think that she's old enough her cell phone, and
she definitely wouldn't have in school, that's for sure. Okay,
my son, he has a cell phone, but he is
only allowed to. We have like a parental control thing
(32:16):
on it, so he can only call like out to
like an emergency number, or me or my mother, my father,
his father during school hours.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I got confused. Which one is older, Brionni, your son
a daughter?
Speaker 7 (32:34):
My son is fifteen. His name is Christopher. My daughter
is eight she's Amelia.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
And so when I was in school, we didn't have
cell phones. We were allowed to bring cell phones to school.
There was no We had pagers and beepers. And I
just think that, like with all the school shootings that
are going on, I think that kids should be saying
that more focused on the awareness in their surroundings and
(33:05):
paying attention not only to that classwork, but like I said,
to the surrounding, making sure like they're okay. And if
it only takes a second to look down at that
text message to for a bullet to go flying, and
that's that's a scary thought. Yeah, it's a very scary thought.
But that little girl, Rosie, that's I was gonna call
(33:28):
you before you even said call and comments on her
that was amazing, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Okay, here's what I want to do for you, Brianna.
I want you to stay on the line. I want
to send T shirts to you, your daughter and your son.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
All right, we'll get a T shirt for you. We'll
get a pig nice eyed T shirt for you and
your daughter, and we'll get a great T shirt for
your son.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Fair enough, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Jan well, looking forward to it. Thanks for being such
a loyal listener. And also you can drop a note
if you want to Jack Doherty at College Hype dot
com in Dorchester when you get him, because we wouldn't
have them give out if he wasn't kind enough to
produce him for us. So if people are interested in
getting them, you know I'm going to send them to you.
(34:14):
Don't worry. Well and hopefully was that how all called back?
I hope, Bob. Okay, so how is called back? Get
she and Rosie a couple of T shirts as well,
and I just you may want to send a thank
you note. The guy that owns the company is a
good friend of mine, Jack Dougherty. So hang in there,
right there, we'll get all this information. Okay, thanks Brianna,
(34:35):
have a great weekend. Let me go next to pal Dennis. Dennis.
How you doing tonight, buddy? You Dennis was a teacher
for years.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
That's why I was gonna comment. I know I'm breaking
the rules, damn, but.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
That's okay, that's okay. We make exceptions on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yes, I taught a Low high for forty years and
I've been substitute teaching for the past ten years at
Lowell High School. I have a little experience. The system
at low High is, you know, you can bring a
cell phone with you to school, but when you go
into a classroom, you put in what we call a
lock box locked up.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
That's what al go first, talk talk the phrase lock box,
the security number that goes into the lock box.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah right, yeah, So now that's the system we use
because otherwise it is too distracting, you know, to the students.
But I also have to comment on that eleven year old.
How impressive.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Let me tell you, I was so blown away I
forgot about a night's eye T shirt and said so.
But they've called back and we're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
All set excellent. They deserve them.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Dennis. Thanks man. I got to get you one at
some point, but we'll get.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I have enough shifts. I coached six sploits. I'm good.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Thank you. I know you played to baseball too.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I know that absolutely, all.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Right, Dennis, Thanks to talk to you soon. Dennis played
at Lowell State when all right, thanks, how much? We
got minute thirty. We're gonna get Jim in Maryland. In Hey, Jim,
I got a minute thirty for you. Go right ahead,
we're gonna wrap the hour.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Jim, you had no problem Dan that that girl was amazing,
just amazing.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Eleven years old, that presence just just wonderful. There's hope
for America as long as we have a few rosies
coming along.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Oh definitely. But I think that the the phones, you know,
I know you need them for emergency or whatever, but
just disengage the students as much as you can from
cell phones other than an emergency.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Right, Disengage from the cell phone and engage in the classroom,
simple as that.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Pabulus's have some more social skills going on.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, I got.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
You, You got your The social skills on that you
get on a phone call are not particularly good at best,
and they can be pretty dangerous at worst. I'm going
to get one more in, Jim, thank you much.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
We're talking to Okay, go get them.
Speaker 11 (37:14):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Thanks, thank you for listening down there in Maryland so regularly.
I appreciate it. All Right, final call, Brian, you called late.
I got thirty seconds for you. That's all I can do, Brian,
go right ahead.
Speaker 11 (37:25):
Yeah, this is Brian from wes Roxby. I called you
about the bag law and the bike laws and Wes Roxbury.
But these cell phones. I'm eighty one years old now,
Dave and Dan. But that's okay, Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
That's fine. I have a brother named Dave. He's smarter
than I.
Speaker 11 (37:46):
But anyway, at Christmas time, when I went to my
sister's house, she had a little basket in the hallway.
When they came in the door, they had to put
the cell phones in the in the basket.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
I'm with you totally. Your sister's a smart woman. Let
me tell you, hey, you called me. I got you
yet under the wire, but I gotta let you run
because I got the news coming at me. Brian, call again.
We'll get you. Give you more time, I promise.
Speaker 11 (38:13):
Okay, I'll talk to you again. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Thanks Brian, seeing West Roxbury. Thanks, good night. All right,
done for the hour. We come back. We're gonna talk
about another problem we gotta deal with. Uh, we'll talk
about that right after the ten
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