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December 2, 2024 • 13 mins
On today's P1 Podcast, Eddie tells us about how his son was glued to his phone during their trip to Disneyworld last week
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you have kids, you will catch yourself at some
point sounding like your parent. Right, Yeah, you'll say the
things like, you know, if you don't know at all
full term news corone and you know, something goofy like that. Well,
this whole last week we were in Orlando. I was
there with my teenage kids, and I got locked into
something and I know I sounded old, but I didn't

(00:24):
give a ship because I was really locked in. When
it came to my son and his phone.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
We ain't done yet.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's time for the podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yet, completely uncensored and uncting, filtered except for that part
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Speaker 3 (00:47):
Now.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, I knew at one point that I was kind
of being an asshole, but I didn't really care because
I was trying to make a point and it was
It was very difficult because you know, we're spending all
this money to go to Orlando. We do this every year.
Now where we're going to Orlando, We're going to all
the theme parks, we're doing all these things. Well, my son

(01:09):
is twelve and he's got his own cell phone. Now
obviously he's at it for a couple of years, and
he's kind of addicted to it, and so I thought,
you know, I understand that. But at some point I
was like, well, we're here at Disney World. He's not
gonna be on his phone.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
No, it's a kid's dream and we.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Look forward to it every year. We talk about it
for the rise and anything like that. I couldn't have
been more wrong. Really, this fucking guy was on his
phone non stop. And it's not like he's texting anybody.
It's not like he's, you know, doing anything like that.
He plays Pokemon go. Oh really, and I don't I

(01:49):
don't even know how it works, to be honest with you,
I don't know anything about Pokemon. It's not my thing.
But he's always on it doing something, looking for these pokemons.
I think, I don't even know you catch them, right, Yeah,
if you go in new areas, you're gonna find out. Yeah.
I don't. I don't really get it or whatever. Yeah,
And so he's always on it, always checking it. I
mean literally from the moment he wakes up in the morning,

(02:12):
you know, that's the first thing he does. He gets
on the phone and starts sticking around with it and whatever.
And I'm like, some parts I don't really care but
then we're here at a theme park. Yeah, and it
was really bothering me for some reason. And I know
I was sounding old and it really that bothered me too,
Like I don't want to be that guy. Yeah, but
I couldn't help myself.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Because you are immersed in dizzity when you go.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
To Oh, I mean, I'm paying a lot of money
to be here. Plus, I mean there's it's too much
much for your senses. To be honest with you, you
go to these theme parks, there's shit everywhere, and right now,
you know, the holidays are going on, so it's all
decked out for the holidays, and there's just so much
to see. To be on your phone looking down when
everybody's doing it, I mean it's not just my son.

(02:53):
You look around and everybody's walking around on their phones
and it's kind of fucking crazy. Yeah, you know, but
whatever for me though, I'm not having it. Oh no,
I am not having it. Wow. I noticed this was
happening quite a bit where we would be walking around
or in line or whatever and he's on his phone.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Now can I ask?

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Because your daughter is, you know, fifteen, so I would
think she would be worse about this. Than your twelve
year old son. But but no, she's not. She's not
doing it like that, not really.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
She is about taking pictures in certain spots for Instagram.
She'll definitely be doing that, but she's not on it
constantly like looking at it.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
She's like November and then and then I gotta be
staring out at like the Epcot ball, but I'm looking
at it from a difference, Yes, looking at it take
over her.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Why do the kids love pictures of them from behind?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I don't know it's aesthetic.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
My daughter tells me, it's just you're looking.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
But it's so stupid, like a picture.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Of me looking at something, because I do you think
it like brings people into their experience, But no, people
want to see you.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
They want to see your face.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
And we know, and we know it's not a real photo.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, we know you're posting it.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
You're posing.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Do you realize how old we sound? Every kid does?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
You're so right, it's so stupid. I mean, the fake
action shot is the dumbest shot. It's not as planet. Yeah,
it's not as dumb as the fake video when you
don't know the cameras on. Oh hey, and do you
like the tweets piece. It's not as dumb as that,
but it's still it's pretty dumb.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
But that's what they all do.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
The amount of behind photos I've taken of my daughter
out aquariums, like walking through the tunnel with the sharks
over her at Sea World, is she posted those? I
think that's like she rarely posts and the few things, no,
she does. But the three things she does post is
her aquarium pictures and so those.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, so I gotta see those because guys are terrible photographer.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
She's so bad, she's not even in the picture.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Also, I want know does her daughter have the patented
head tilt, because this does it. There is some tail.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh my god, a little bit till the.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Till has to run the family. Her mom probably has it.
Her great grandfather has it. He was in Italy with
the till.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
Yeah, yeah, okay, she.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Is terrible, you know, I mean if obviously, So here's
the if we are in line and like, you know,
waiting to get into the park for rope drop, which
we were at every single work we were. We were
there for rope drop every single park. So you got
to realize though.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Too, it's three different because of the.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
I would and I don't why I'm always the guy
that has to wake up first, probably because I take
a shower every morning, and so I'm waking up at
six six thirty in the morning, which is three o'clock
three already our time. But it didn't affect me that
much because that's what time we normally wake up. So

(06:07):
and we got to get ready for rope drop. So
I'm the guy that goes and wakes everybody up and
gets everybody all right, we gotta get going.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
We got you guys call it rope droppers.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's the Disney. We got to be there for rope drop.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
No they make of it.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
We are not, Yeah, we are not. We're not late
night disneyers. Like there's people that close down the park.
We are the ones that go in the morning and
we open the park and then ride shit all day
and then we're done by like seven thirty o'clock.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Now, when you're going to get your family awake at
six am, Flora the time? Is there any grumblings? Is
there any five more minutes?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
That sun is kind of tough to get up in
the morning. Yeah, Taylor was pretty good. Taylor was pretty good,
which was special.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Instat Yah yeah, gotta get ready photos.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, and as soon as I wake up Deborah, it's
like ready to go. She's ready to go. She loves it. Yeah,
And so that's that's kind of how it works. And
so I am fine with. Once we get to the park,
you know, you get in line for rope drop, and
you kind of have to wait there for however long.
You know, usually it's about thirty minutes, but we'll try

(07:19):
to get there at least that early to be there
ready to go. And so you're standing around for thirty minutes.
At that point, there's nothing to do, there's nothing really
to see. You're just standing there waiting, be on your phone.
I don't give a shit.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Why can't you get there like five minutes before?

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Understand, just standing can. But then you're going to be
fucked as far as like whatever ride you whatever, the
biggest ride is, we are front of the line, so
we're there so early, we're there probably twenty people deep already,
and then you know, everybody heads right to the biggest.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Ride, like Space Mountain.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Whatever. Space Mountain is not even really the biggest ride
in a Magic Kingdom, No, no, I mean there's so
many other big rides now it's like crazy, and so no,
it's good. Actually Space Mountain so we have like fast
passes for some of the big rides. So Space Mountain
was the first ride we went to and walked right
on because there was nobody in line. It was great
and so like we have this thing down to a science. Honestly,

(08:18):
it's magic.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
You guys around on this trip, do you do rides
multiple times?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
No, we are goal is always to ride everything, so
you can't. I mean there'll be things if like there's
no line, we'll be like, all right, let's ride that again.
Or like when we go to Animal Kingdom, everybody goes
over to the Avatar ride, which is huge. We go
over to the Everest ride, which is basically like their

(08:43):
Matta Horn, and nobody's there. Nobody's there, so literally no,
we just walked right on Avatar. So so we don't
even have to worry about it. And so boom, my
kids wrote it like five times in a row because
like there's nobody there and we're there. Rope job. So
it's great. So we got all kinds of different We
know exactly where to go and which rides to go on,

(09:05):
and which rides to fast pass and all that.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
You never have a map, I always get lost, You're
so I'm always I want to be in tune Land,
but I'm in Pioneer Land.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
At everything you just said, literally every word out of
your mouth is wrong. So if we're there for rope
Chop thirty minutes ago, there's nothing to see, there's nothing
to do.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Your phone, you want, find some Pokemon.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Do whatever you want. I don't care. Okay, yeah, free rain.
But as soon as we get into the queue for
whatever ride we're on, I mean there's a lot to see.
These some of these cues are incredible.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah, the new rides, the way Disney does these, God,
it's like entertainment throughout the whole time you're waiting.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
Kind of need not like these places Old Space Mountain
in Anaheim where when you're in those some of those hallways.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah yeah, yeah, No, I mean the cues, like like
the Peter Pan ride in Disneyland is just outside. There's nothing.
You go into disney World, it's like you're inside the
movie where you're walking into the different you're in the nightgown.

(10:22):
It's crazy. So like a lot of these cues are incredible,
and so you know, and obviously you're kind of standing
and then you're move, then you stand in the move
and you know through it pretty decently. But whatever. But
I looked every once in a while, I see Jack
is on his phone and I'm like, dude, what are
you on your phone for?

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Look around?

Speaker 1 (10:39):
But there's all kinds of stuff, you know, I mean,
like it's kind of crazy, like in that particular cue,
like there's a crazy point where there's a shadow up
above and you can interact with the shadow where it's
like there's bells and you can move your hand and
you're like hitting the bells with a shadow. But there's
all kinds of crazy ship now.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Catch them all on his iPhone.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
This fucking guy his phone, and I'm like, what are
you doing? Pal? I go, dude, there's so much crazy stuff,
like why be on your phone? And so it started
to bother me so much that I finally am like, dude,
if you're going to just be on your phone, like
you don't need to come anymore, dad, sorry, Like hey,

(11:23):
like I'm not paying thousands of dollars for you to
be on your phone.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
You you you need to be in this I'm at home.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Otherwise you're good, like you don't need to go.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
You, you, your wife, and your daughter go. He stays
at home with cocoa with he can catch them all
at home.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah, him all there. So so this was happening throughout
the trip, and that little threat didn't really like.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
He wouldn't he didn't care.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Said wow, you know he wasn't thinking. He just you know,
he get bored and all of a sudden, he just
go to his phone. And so, uh, I know I
sounded I sounded so old and I hated it. But
I'm also like, there's there's something to that, Like look around, dude,
We're here at the craziest place ever, and you want
you're looking down at your phone. So I got it, Like,
I don't know how to break him out of that.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Did you just take it away?

Speaker 1 (12:14):
No?

Speaker 2 (12:15):
You think about taking it away completely?

Speaker 1 (12:16):
No, I thought that thread of him not coming was
gonna be enough, or it really wasn't.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Maybe maybe yeah, I'm not taking away. But like, next
time you go to Disney, just do like at Disney,
no phones or you have a time limit on phones.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
It's so hard though, because there are boring parts.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
If you're standing in line, then you give him a
time limit of like two hours of screen time while
you're at Disney. So then so then you got to
pick and choose when you want to use it and
at two hours, donezo.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's tough.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
You guys.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
Ever, are you the family that plays heads up in
line with the phone?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
There's so many Okay, there's so many fucking people.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
I think that would be fun, right.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
I watched the families doing that, and I play.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Along with him.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Fucking despise those this because it's like it's so over
the top.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
And you're kind of loud when you're doing it.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, and I'm just like, holy ship, dude. And then
there's also the families that have like there's like teenagers
or kids that have like these clapping things that they do.
Have you seen this? Yeah, it's like these weird claps
that they do, and they have this whole thing and

(13:28):
I'm just standing there looking at him like, what the
fuck is wrong with you? Stop doing that?

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Just waiting line.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
They can't.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Maybe your son's going to start doing that if you
take his photo it.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, I don't want any I don't want
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