December 16, 2025 • 6 mins
Joe found a very interesting study about people and their phones... is it true?!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did you know that eighty five percent of Americans it
meant that their smartphone is the last thing they see
in the first thing they see, and that that number,
the amount of Americans that are admitting to that has
gone up more than thirty percent from twenty twenty four
(00:21):
to twenty twenty five. They did like an end of
the year recap on Americans and their habits, and they
study a ton of people in eight hundred and four,
in nine ninety three, ninety three. I want to know
is that you and I also want to talk to
people who keep their phones out of their room.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
There are people that do that. I'm jealous of you
if you do that.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
There are people like me who, Yeah, I'm a part
of that eighty plus percent. I one thousand percent live
on my phone. And it's a bad habit. It's a
very bad habit it is. But it quite literally is
I keep my charger. It's one of those chargers where
it mag locks or whatever. It's cold, and then the
phone's pointing right at me. So when I wake up
(01:05):
this morning, I open my eyes kind of and I
see the Chase Bank notification. I'm like, oh God, what
is that?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Last night?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And immediately before my eyes even open, I'm like trying
to look at my phone. You ever do that where
you're looking at your phone but you can't open your eyes,
and you're like, what is going on? That's when I
wake up and when I go to sleep, it's the
last thing I see. Is that healthy? What do you
guys say?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I don't even have to read that's study to know
that about about And I don't know if this is
the case for me, because it takes me a while
to fall asleep.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I really got to lay there.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But about half of those people who said that say
that they fall asleep within ten minutes of touching their phone.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I don't believe that to be true. I think that
a phone is too much of a state.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
So oh, they're saying the phone puts some sleep.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yep, liar ya, I don't believe that. If I'm on
my phone, I'm on my phone right.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And I used to be like you, but I'm telling you,
since I've been putting my phone on, do not deserve
For the last year, I've been so good at like
not being on my phone, to the point where when
I come home from work, I just start cooking so
I'll keep my phone in the room and let it charge,
so I'll keep it in it for a few hours.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
See, I'm on the this.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I was cooking yesterday when I got home from work.
My phone is on at all times.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I get home around one yesterday. I started cooking right
when I got the first call. I was on a
four minute call. I got off at one sixteen. At
one seventeen, I got on another call Jesus for thirty
two minutes. Then the moment I was done with that one,
I got on another ten minute call probably what I saw. Yeah,
(02:56):
And by the way, I didn't cook for an hour.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I cooked. And then when I finished cooking. You know
what I did.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I ate the whole entire time. I ate while I
was on the phone. I had phone calls that I
had to get to. I had meetings and stuff on
the phone. Hey, Sarah, Hi, Hi, you are on your
phone all the time?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You are not.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Eighty five percent of Americans say that their phone is
the last thing they see and the first thing they
see every day. For sure, I'm a teacher.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I'm constantly checking my email on the phone.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
I'm checking Facebook, teaching apps, parent app.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, I definitely see my phone a lot, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Do you think like when people say, Hey, you know,
I went on a phoneless journey, I didn't touch my
phone for X amount of time. Do you think you
could ever pull that off?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's really tough.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Even going to amusement park not being at her phone
taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's a tough one too.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's impossible live in a moment, guys. I try to,
but it's hard. You know, will from stranger things that actor.
Did you know, Noah, did you know that he showed
his screen time it's over twelve hours a day at least.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I don't know that. That's a lot. Yeah, I don't
have that.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I can't do that in the classroom.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Cannot cannot Thank you, Sarah, and thank you for being
a teachers.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Hey, Lexi, he guys, is your phone the first and
last thing you see?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
It is? But there's a reason. It's because I set
my alarm, Like I make sure that my alarm is
set up before I go to sleep, and obviously it's
the first thing I see when I wake up, because
it's what wakes me up. But I'm not like immediately
look at like, oh my god, I gotta look at
my phone the first thing when I wake up. It's
just because that's how my alarm is set.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, if I am any of your guys' spouses, I'm
upset because why am I not the first?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
How do I do that?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Pull up your Just type in screen time in your
search bar, and then click on the first thing screen time.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I wonder if you talk a big game? Eight hours?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, exactly, Okay, thank you. She's by the way, Lexi,
she's talking all that crap. Mine is six hours. So
you're on your phone mark.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
A lot. But I use my maps for my job,
like I'm a I'm a driver for Advance Auto, so
like if I don't know where I'm going, I use
my map and so like I have a lot of
like fie on my phone, but not because I'm just
on my phone.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now, let's get down to the nitty gritty. What's the
most used app? Oh, mine is just Safari.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Definitely, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, I'm a radio app.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Oh I'm so boring.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Mine is notes, Safari notes and music and horsecopes.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Jeed is incognito mode on Google Chrome.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Mike, it was a naughty website joke filled with them.
First and last thing you see is your phone. Are
you like me and eighty five percent of Americans?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, that's why I'm just constantly watching videos on Facebook,
YouTube like food, stuff like NonStop. I take every second.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You can break it down for the week. You see
your how you go scroll it to the week? What's
your most used at for the week?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What it is?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
YouTube minus TikTok and then Instagram.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah minus minus. Actually, I don't, I don't. I don't
have any of that. I don't have no Instagram or TikTok. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Pretty quiet.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I cup that.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Out boat Yeah the greatest.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah,
Did you know that eighty five percent of Americans it
meant that their smartphone is the last thing they see
in the first thing they see, and that that number,
the amount of Americans that are admitting to that has
gone up more than thirty percent from twenty twenty four
(00:21):
to twenty twenty five. They did like an end of
the year recap on Americans and their habits, and they
study a ton of people in eight hundred and four,
in nine ninety three, ninety three. I want to know
is that you and I also want to talk to
people who keep their phones out of their room.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
There are people that do that. I'm jealous of you
if you do that.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
There are people like me who, Yeah, I'm a part
of that eighty plus percent. I one thousand percent live
on my phone. And it's a bad habit. It's a
very bad habit it is. But it quite literally is
I keep my charger. It's one of those chargers where
it mag locks or whatever. It's cold, and then the
phone's pointing right at me. So when I wake up
(01:05):
this morning, I open my eyes kind of and I
see the Chase Bank notification. I'm like, oh God, what
is that?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Last night?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And immediately before my eyes even open, I'm like trying
to look at my phone. You ever do that where
you're looking at your phone but you can't open your eyes,
and you're like, what is going on? That's when I
wake up and when I go to sleep, it's the
last thing I see. Is that healthy? What do you
guys say?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I don't even have to read that's study to know
that about about And I don't know if this is
the case for me, because it takes me a while
to fall asleep.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I really got to lay there.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But about half of those people who said that say
that they fall asleep within ten minutes of touching their phone.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I don't believe that to be true. I think that
a phone is too much of a state.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
So oh, they're saying the phone puts some sleep.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yep, liar ya, I don't believe that. If I'm on
my phone, I'm on my phone right.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And I used to be like you, but I'm telling you,
since I've been putting my phone on, do not deserve
For the last year, I've been so good at like
not being on my phone, to the point where when
I come home from work, I just start cooking so
I'll keep my phone in the room and let it charge,
so I'll keep it in it for a few hours.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
See, I'm on the this.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I was cooking yesterday when I got home from work.
My phone is on at all times.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I get home around one yesterday. I started cooking right
when I got the first call. I was on a
four minute call. I got off at one sixteen. At
one seventeen, I got on another call Jesus for thirty
two minutes. Then the moment I was done with that one,
I got on another ten minute call probably what I saw. Yeah,
(02:56):
And by the way, I didn't cook for an hour.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I cooked. And then when I finished cooking. You know
what I did.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I ate the whole entire time. I ate while I
was on the phone. I had phone calls that I
had to get to. I had meetings and stuff on
the phone. Hey, Sarah, Hi, Hi, you are on your
phone all the time?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You are not.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Eighty five percent of Americans say that their phone is
the last thing they see and the first thing they
see every day. For sure, I'm a teacher.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I'm constantly checking my email on the phone.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
I'm checking Facebook, teaching apps, parent app.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, I definitely see my phone a lot, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Do you think like when people say, Hey, you know,
I went on a phoneless journey, I didn't touch my
phone for X amount of time. Do you think you
could ever pull that off?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's really tough.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Even going to amusement park not being at her phone
taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's a tough one too.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's impossible live in a moment, guys. I try to,
but it's hard. You know, will from stranger things that actor.
Did you know, Noah, did you know that he showed
his screen time it's over twelve hours a day at least.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I don't know that. That's a lot. Yeah, I don't
have that.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I can't do that in the classroom.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Cannot cannot Thank you, Sarah, and thank you for being
a teachers.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Hey, Lexi, he guys, is your phone the first and
last thing you see?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
It is? But there's a reason. It's because I set
my alarm, Like I make sure that my alarm is
set up before I go to sleep, and obviously it's
the first thing I see when I wake up, because
it's what wakes me up. But I'm not like immediately
look at like, oh my god, I gotta look at
my phone the first thing when I wake up. It's
just because that's how my alarm is set.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, if I am any of your guys' spouses, I'm
upset because why am I not the first?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
How do I do that?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Pull up your Just type in screen time in your
search bar, and then click on the first thing screen time.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I wonder if you talk a big game? Eight hours?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, exactly, Okay, thank you. She's by the way, Lexi,
she's talking all that crap. Mine is six hours. So
you're on your phone mark.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
A lot. But I use my maps for my job,
like I'm a I'm a driver for Advance Auto, so
like if I don't know where I'm going, I use
my map and so like I have a lot of
like fie on my phone, but not because I'm just
on my phone.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now, let's get down to the nitty gritty. What's the
most used app? Oh, mine is just Safari.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Definitely, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, I'm a radio app.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Oh I'm so boring.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Mine is notes, Safari notes and music and horsecopes.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Jeed is incognito mode on Google Chrome.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Mike, it was a naughty website joke filled with them.
First and last thing you see is your phone. Are
you like me and eighty five percent of Americans?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, that's why I'm just constantly watching videos on Facebook,
YouTube like food, stuff like NonStop. I take every second.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You can break it down for the week. You see
your how you go scroll it to the week? What's
your most used at for the week?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What it is?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
YouTube minus TikTok and then Instagram.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah minus minus. Actually, I don't, I don't. I don't
have any of that. I don't have no Instagram or TikTok. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Pretty quiet.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I cup that.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Out boat Yeah the greatest.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah,
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