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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it's a new food combo. It's they're claiming it's
going viral on TikTok. It's the latest food craze. And
you know, somebody who knows a lot about TikTok is
Alex Stone, who from a.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, welcome back. We missed you.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Thanks brother, Thanks.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I'm sure you've been back force since Monday, but I
don't think we've talked.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So yeah I have. Yeah, I started back Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Nice of you to decide to come back.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, yeah, I'm absolutely and thank you it. Uh yeah,
it's great to be back. There's no question except for
you know, when it's nine degrees at night. Other than that, ye, no.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Anyway, so on TikTok, I am. I'm not a member
of TikTok or Instagram, but but okay, keep going.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Nor am I I am not on TikTok. I am
on Insta, but I don't I can't remember the last
time I even opened that app.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, look at Twitter.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Everybody here at work is like, how can you not
use Instagram every day?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And like, I just don't. I don't need another thing
to post.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
On it that I know. I exactly one.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Early days before everbody got all this this. Uh you know,
what do you call it? The everything's self contained?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
You just no.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But when you get what's the word apple? I used
to say Apple did it with the ai F files
instead of MP three files. Proprietary. Okay, you used to
be able to do things like tweet deck, where you
could put it on tweet deck, go to all your
social media pages. Yes, but now everybody's firewalled. It has
to be just their platform, and it's annoying.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It's because all the different owners are going like, no,
I'm not sharing you know whatever I want my you know, single.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
To have or to have me.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Uh So anyway, it's called dessert chips and Salsa is
a thing that they're doing now, and it says, unlike
a lot of trendy social media treats, this one simple
doesn't require special ingredients, and when you look at it,
it doesn't. It's chopped fresh strawberries that you scoop up
using a triangle shaped piece of chocolate. But there there
(01:58):
somehow I've turned this into some thing, but it's nothing.
It's literally nothing, and they've turned it into chip dessert
chips and salsa. I am so tired of the renaming
of things and going, look what we came up with.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's a like a triangle piece of chocolate and you
dip it like a chip into guacamole and then eat.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The strawberry exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It just sounds great.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well, yeah, what's not to like about it?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Think about golf of Salsa. I kind of like the
sound of that.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Golf of Salsa as opposed to golf of America. Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
See what you do with sala.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So to answer your question to Alex, to make those chocolate,
they to make those the chocolate chips, they melt almond
bark or chocolate chips on a pan, then they freeze
before cutting it into chip shaped pieces. So there's a
little bit of work involved with it, I guess. And
so they go on to talk about it's really funny
(02:55):
how and in this day and age they try to,
I guess, figure out a way where you can talk
about literally everything or anything that's going on. But they
claim it's a viral TikTok food trend. Now on, Yeah, TikTok.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Just come out of California, did it? Just wondering how
they are out here?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
We probably did.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Are the strawberries like they must be like really jam
like and soft to be able to go in without
breaking it, or are they like chunky big strawberries.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, your pieces of chocolate are relatively thick, probably candy
bar thickness or like a Hershey's or something along those lines,
is my guess. In order, so because they have to
be a little bit hearty, you're right. But then they
claim that it's just chopped fresh strawberry, so it's not
even jam like. But you're right. Depending on how chunky
it is and how big the pieces are, you just
(03:44):
be chasing it around or how do you get it
to stay on there?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Or you know, well, I'm sitting here taking notes on
your recipe so I can make it tonight and make
a video about it. Yes, I'll dance while I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I love it, I love it, Love it, love it.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
We've had conversations. Chuck and I were kind of at
odds at one point about cell phones in schools. I
was kind of the thinking I was good with banning
them because it felt like, especially my high schooler when
Josie was in high school, she's out, she's been out
now for a little while, but it just felt to
(04:25):
me like she would talk about how things would go
on there with you know, distractions and so on, and
the teachers, I don't know that they were looking the
other way, but it would be something maybe they weren't
as strict on or whatever. And I used to think, like, man,
it's just a distraction. And and you know Stone has
one now he's eleven, and he he does take it
(04:48):
to school with him. But I can tell you we
haven't had one time where the teachers because if we
warned him, we were like, look if you if you
get busted, and the teacher says, hey, you know, Stone
was on it. So he's been very adamant about making
sure but he does take it with him. And then
there's the safety aspect. That's where Chuck kind of kind
of came down on with this. But it's interesting that
(05:10):
the second largest school district has banned cell phones.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Now, yeah, and this is something it's being debated everywhere
right now in states, conservative and liberal are banning cell
phones on school campuses, and schools are individually implementing bands
and places where states aren't doing it because there are
so many kids using them at all times in classrooms,
at lunch, not paying attention to teachers, texting each other,
(05:34):
looking up answers to things, you know, cheating on math
tests and different things. So it's gotten out of control. Illinois, Yes,
today started talking about a ban. California has one coming
out next year. There are a bunch of others. Texas
either has one or has been working on one. But
in the meantime of all of this, LAUSD, the second
largest school district in the country, almost eight hundred campuses,
(05:56):
five hundred thousand students, just shy of it. They are
this implementing a full band now even at lunch on
using a cell phone. This is Alberto Carvallo, the superintendent,
and he says they've got to do it.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Flee students are paying more attention in class, there will
be fewer distractions. Students will be able to actually lift
their faces from their cell phones and visually socially interact
with their age appropriate peers in their schools.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And this is one topic that does seem to go
across political lines that a lot of it is kids
bullying each other over texts during school that have become
issues mental health in different ways of what they're doing
on their phones, just generally not paying attention in class.
A lot of students will tell you that. You look
around and kids are looking at their phones as teachers
are teaching, and the teachers don't have a lot of
(06:44):
ability to force them to put them away, even though
they can tell them to. What are they going to
do about it? And again, the mental health part has
been a big part of it. So in some school
districts where they have done this, they say that it
has worked, wonders that they feel like it's been a
big deal and it's really worth well.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
During lunchtime in passing period, kids are talking to one another,
they're getting to know people. They're like, they got to
sit down and talk. When they have their cell phones.
You'll see them. They'll be at a table and everyone
will just have their face and the phones. No one's
talking to each other, no one's doing things, And this
just kind of takes that away.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And in LA it's going to be up to each
individual school how they want to enforce it. They've got
to enforce it, but how they're going to do it,
it's going to be up to them. Some are going
to ban phones completely and say not allowed on campus.
Some are going to have these locking bags that they've
got now that a lot of schools are using where
they they've got a big magnet thing that they lock
it with and when it's in the pouch, it can't
be used, and then it gets unlocked at the end
of the school day. Some are going to use the
(07:38):
honor system and just say look, you'll be in trouble
if it comes out to keep it in your backpack.
This is going to include smart watches as well that
are also going to be banned, So no texting is
going on, no phone calls, and not surprisingly LAUSD students
that at least many of them are not for it,
Like if I didn't have my phone with me, it
would make me feel stressed.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Kind of like it because like if I have something
to say to my parents or tell them and I
can use my phone, Like what's the point do.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
You really think he wants to communicate with the Like
we know the real truth there. But there was a
lot of pushback from parents because they say they do
want to communicate with their child through the day for
any number of reasons, to say, hey, you know, somebody
else is going to pick you up or check on them,
or to be able to track them. And some have
argued like you guys are bringing up what about during
an emergency like an active shooter or something else, But
(08:29):
it's so unlikely that that is going to go on
that a lot of school districts are are deeming it
more important to get learning done. And there are going
to be exemptions for say, students with diabetes who have
to have a phone nearby to track their blood sugar
if they have one of the Bluetooth devices, or somebody
who needs translation help or something else. But for most
of the kids, they no longer can have their phones
(08:52):
on campuses.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I wonder if they make a you know, they make
a special you know, they.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Like an iPod that reads your glucose.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Well, I wasn't even going to say that. I was
going to say an exception, a special exception for people
who medically can prove that they use it for that,
and then if they.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Get caught, they will get exemptions for for that like diabetes,
right if they can show that they've got to have
it to track whatever the condition is that they've got
to track. Maybe they have a heart monitor of some
kind that speaks to their phone, and then that typically
will go to their doctor where it keeps track of
what's going on, then they would be allowed to have it.
But if it is a child who has no medical
(09:33):
need for it, then they're not going to be allowed
to have it.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I can't help but think back to when you know,
we didn't have any of that and then kids were
having What were they doing then if they were in.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
This boat, not drive by shootings, not that that one
in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, I'm talking about the medical part of this, like
that we were just disc.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
The world is a different place.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I got that part.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I got that technology wasn't even around, right. My point
is like they knew that they were missing it, whereas
now we can do it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, and it's just like with the medical reasons, it's like, man,
you know, for the longest time that wasn't available, and
now all of a sudden, it's like they can't live
without it. The other part that you're talking about, Chuck,
I I one hundred percent understand what you're saying there.
And look, who what parent wouldn't say, I mean, Alex,
you're a parent. What parent would not say? I absolutely
(10:21):
would like to have my kid with a cell phone,
God forbid, if the unthinkable happens. I can't what one
parent would go, I'm alright with it, you.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Know, not even at school. I mean we're talking about
not having them at school, not keeping them in your locker,
not keeping them in your book bank, not having them. Well, Alex,
when your kid is walking home from school, well you
know what they.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, most of them are going to say.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Either you put them in a palace till you get
it at the end of the day, or keep them
in your backpack so once the school bell in or
once it rings and the day is over, that then
they can pull them out and then they've got them
and for whatever they want to do at that point.
So it would really be But still, think of us
if you were at an airport or is sitting in
a waiting room or in a class of some kind.
(11:03):
Think about when we go into a meeting. Now, how
often are we looking at our phones as we're sitting there.
If somebody said to you, for seven hours a day,
you're going to give up your phone, even on breaks
and even on lunch, that would be tough to do.
And if you're seventeen eighteen years old, that's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Get our planes. Remember when we used to sit on
there and have no communication. And now it's like you're
sitting at home and you can text and you can email,
and yeah, you can stream videos, you can do whatever
you want to do.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, there's the point to be made in school for
seven hours. It's like, well, what you would have to
do is.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Learn is that you know?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Can you imagine you remember those old graphic calculators that
we had, I mean now compared to a cell phone,
like everything that they can do and what you could
look up if you needed to or text a buddy
to be like hey, number number three is c is
the answer CEA?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You know?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Ah, yeah, that's bad. Clearly that's a bad But does
your son have a phone?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He does not. He's going to graduate sixth grade this year.
He will get one when he graduates.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
And your daughter, who's younger, she doesn't, No, she.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Doesn't have one.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
We have one Apple Watch that they share if they're
going to go over to a friend's house or go
to the park or something else, so we can communicate
with them, knowing that they can't do much on the
Apple Watch. It's it just is an Apple watch not
connected to a cell phone, but it's got its own
phone number on it. So we can call them and
say hey, come.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Home or send a text and say yeah and.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Send a text. So that has worked out great. But
I mean he's jones and for a cell phone really
really badly by now, and so we've said all his
friends and everybody else has him. So when he's done
with sixth grade, he'll get one. But California, beginning next year,
we'll have a law of no cell phones on campuses,
so he won't be able to use it at school.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Hey, those pouches, by the way, I know, I remember
seeing that when I first started here six years ago,
that those were stories where for instance, Chris Rock's doing
stand up you had to put those in They're called
like yonder pouches.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, I had to use one number that Firt House
and I went to cover and THENDZ brothers like a
month or two.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Who's paying for those, by the way, you know, like
because that's our cheap right, I mean yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
And they put our phones into these pouches and lock
them and you could not see your phone inside there.
You could not use it like it it is. Once
it goes in there, you're done, right.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And if they do that at school, they you know,
that's a whole thing. You got to have somebody specifically
who is in charge of that, because that's about hundred court.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Here, and we had to stand in line and waited
them all to get unlocked. I was like, I'd rather
you just take my phone, just get and then hand
me my phone back instead of standing in this line
waiting to get them unlocked.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Exactly, very very very interesting. TikTok star there, Alex Stone
joining us. Thank you, very thank you guys to see
Alex
Well, it's a new food combo. It's they're claiming it's
going viral on TikTok. It's the latest food craze. And
you know, somebody who knows a lot about TikTok is
Alex Stone, who from a.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, welcome back. We missed you.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Thanks brother, Thanks.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I'm sure you've been back force since Monday, but I
don't think we've talked.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So yeah I have. Yeah, I started back Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Nice of you to decide to come back.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, yeah, I'm absolutely and thank you it. Uh yeah,
it's great to be back. There's no question except for
you know, when it's nine degrees at night. Other than that, ye, no.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Anyway, so on TikTok, I am. I'm not a member
of TikTok or Instagram, but but okay, keep going.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Nor am I I am not on TikTok. I am
on Insta, but I don't I can't remember the last
time I even opened that app.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, look at Twitter.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Everybody here at work is like, how can you not
use Instagram every day?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And like, I just don't. I don't need another thing
to post.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
On it that I know. I exactly one.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Early days before everbody got all this this. Uh you know,
what do you call it? The everything's self contained?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
You just no.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But when you get what's the word apple? I used
to say Apple did it with the ai F files
instead of MP three files. Proprietary. Okay, you used to
be able to do things like tweet deck, where you
could put it on tweet deck, go to all your
social media pages. Yes, but now everybody's firewalled. It has
to be just their platform, and it's annoying.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It's because all the different owners are going like, no,
I'm not sharing you know whatever I want my you know, single.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
To have or to have me.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Uh So anyway, it's called dessert chips and Salsa is
a thing that they're doing now, and it says, unlike
a lot of trendy social media treats, this one simple
doesn't require special ingredients, and when you look at it,
it doesn't. It's chopped fresh strawberries that you scoop up
using a triangle shaped piece of chocolate. But there there
(01:58):
somehow I've turned this into some thing, but it's nothing.
It's literally nothing, and they've turned it into chip dessert
chips and salsa. I am so tired of the renaming
of things and going, look what we came up with.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's a like a triangle piece of chocolate and you
dip it like a chip into guacamole and then eat.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The strawberry exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It just sounds great.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well, yeah, what's not to like about it?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Think about golf of Salsa. I kind of like the
sound of that.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Golf of Salsa as opposed to golf of America. Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
See what you do with sala.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So to answer your question to Alex, to make those chocolate,
they to make those the chocolate chips, they melt almond
bark or chocolate chips on a pan, then they freeze
before cutting it into chip shaped pieces. So there's a
little bit of work involved with it, I guess. And
so they go on to talk about it's really funny
(02:55):
how and in this day and age they try to,
I guess, figure out a way where you can talk
about literally everything or anything that's going on. But they
claim it's a viral TikTok food trend. Now on, Yeah, TikTok.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Just come out of California, did it? Just wondering how
they are out here?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
We probably did.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Are the strawberries like they must be like really jam
like and soft to be able to go in without
breaking it, or are they like chunky big strawberries.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, your pieces of chocolate are relatively thick, probably candy
bar thickness or like a Hershey's or something along those lines,
is my guess. In order, so because they have to
be a little bit hearty, you're right. But then they
claim that it's just chopped fresh strawberry, so it's not
even jam like. But you're right. Depending on how chunky
it is and how big the pieces are, you just
(03:44):
be chasing it around or how do you get it
to stay on there?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Or you know, well, I'm sitting here taking notes on
your recipe so I can make it tonight and make
a video about it. Yes, I'll dance while I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I love it, I love it, Love it, love it.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
We've had conversations. Chuck and I were kind of at
odds at one point about cell phones in schools. I
was kind of the thinking I was good with banning
them because it felt like, especially my high schooler when
Josie was in high school, she's out, she's been out
now for a little while, but it just felt to
(04:25):
me like she would talk about how things would go
on there with you know, distractions and so on, and
the teachers, I don't know that they were looking the
other way, but it would be something maybe they weren't
as strict on or whatever. And I used to think, like, man,
it's just a distraction. And and you know Stone has
one now he's eleven, and he he does take it
(04:48):
to school with him. But I can tell you we
haven't had one time where the teachers because if we
warned him, we were like, look if you if you
get busted, and the teacher says, hey, you know, Stone
was on it. So he's been very adamant about making
sure but he does take it with him. And then
there's the safety aspect. That's where Chuck kind of kind
of came down on with this. But it's interesting that
(05:10):
the second largest school district has banned cell phones.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Now, yeah, and this is something it's being debated everywhere
right now in states, conservative and liberal are banning cell
phones on school campuses, and schools are individually implementing bands
and places where states aren't doing it because there are
so many kids using them at all times in classrooms,
at lunch, not paying attention to teachers, texting each other,
(05:34):
looking up answers to things, you know, cheating on math
tests and different things. So it's gotten out of control. Illinois, Yes,
today started talking about a ban. California has one coming
out next year. There are a bunch of others. Texas
either has one or has been working on one. But
in the meantime of all of this, LAUSD, the second
largest school district in the country, almost eight hundred campuses,
(05:56):
five hundred thousand students, just shy of it. They are
this implementing a full band now even at lunch on
using a cell phone. This is Alberto Carvallo, the superintendent,
and he says they've got to do it.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Flee students are paying more attention in class, there will
be fewer distractions. Students will be able to actually lift
their faces from their cell phones and visually socially interact
with their age appropriate peers in their schools.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And this is one topic that does seem to go
across political lines that a lot of it is kids
bullying each other over texts during school that have become
issues mental health in different ways of what they're doing
on their phones, just generally not paying attention in class.
A lot of students will tell you that. You look
around and kids are looking at their phones as teachers
are teaching, and the teachers don't have a lot of
(06:44):
ability to force them to put them away, even though
they can tell them to. What are they going to
do about it? And again, the mental health part has
been a big part of it. So in some school
districts where they have done this, they say that it
has worked, wonders that they feel like it's been a
big deal and it's really worth well.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
During lunchtime in passing period, kids are talking to one another,
they're getting to know people. They're like, they got to
sit down and talk. When they have their cell phones.
You'll see them. They'll be at a table and everyone
will just have their face and the phones. No one's
talking to each other, no one's doing things, And this
just kind of takes that away.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And in LA it's going to be up to each
individual school how they want to enforce it. They've got
to enforce it, but how they're going to do it,
it's going to be up to them. Some are going
to ban phones completely and say not allowed on campus.
Some are going to have these locking bags that they've
got now that a lot of schools are using where
they they've got a big magnet thing that they lock
it with and when it's in the pouch, it can't
be used, and then it gets unlocked at the end
of the school day. Some are going to use the
(07:38):
honor system and just say look, you'll be in trouble
if it comes out to keep it in your backpack.
This is going to include smart watches as well that
are also going to be banned, So no texting is
going on, no phone calls, and not surprisingly LAUSD students
that at least many of them are not for it,
Like if I didn't have my phone with me, it
would make me feel stressed.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Kind of like it because like if I have something
to say to my parents or tell them and I
can use my phone, Like what's the point do.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
You really think he wants to communicate with the Like
we know the real truth there. But there was a
lot of pushback from parents because they say they do
want to communicate with their child through the day for
any number of reasons, to say, hey, you know, somebody
else is going to pick you up or check on them,
or to be able to track them. And some have
argued like you guys are bringing up what about during
an emergency like an active shooter or something else, But
(08:29):
it's so unlikely that that is going to go on
that a lot of school districts are are deeming it
more important to get learning done. And there are going
to be exemptions for say, students with diabetes who have
to have a phone nearby to track their blood sugar
if they have one of the Bluetooth devices, or somebody
who needs translation help or something else. But for most
of the kids, they no longer can have their phones
(08:52):
on campuses.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I wonder if they make a you know, they make
a special you know, they.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Like an iPod that reads your glucose.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Well, I wasn't even going to say that. I was
going to say an exception, a special exception for people
who medically can prove that they use it for that,
and then if they.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Get caught, they will get exemptions for for that like diabetes,
right if they can show that they've got to have
it to track whatever the condition is that they've got
to track. Maybe they have a heart monitor of some
kind that speaks to their phone, and then that typically
will go to their doctor where it keeps track of
what's going on, then they would be allowed to have it.
But if it is a child who has no medical
(09:33):
need for it, then they're not going to be allowed
to have it.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I can't help but think back to when you know,
we didn't have any of that and then kids were
having What were they doing then if they were in.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
This boat, not drive by shootings, not that that one
in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, I'm talking about the medical part of this, like
that we were just disc.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
The world is a different place.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I got that part.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I got that technology wasn't even around, right. My point
is like they knew that they were missing it, whereas
now we can do it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, and it's just like with the medical reasons, it's like, man,
you know, for the longest time that wasn't available, and
now all of a sudden, it's like they can't live
without it. The other part that you're talking about, Chuck,
I I one hundred percent understand what you're saying there.
And look, who what parent wouldn't say, I mean, Alex,
you're a parent. What parent would not say? I absolutely
(10:21):
would like to have my kid with a cell phone,
God forbid, if the unthinkable happens. I can't what one
parent would go, I'm alright with it, you.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Know, not even at school. I mean we're talking about
not having them at school, not keeping them in your locker,
not keeping them in your book bank, not having them. Well, Alex,
when your kid is walking home from school, well you
know what they.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, most of them are going to say.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Either you put them in a palace till you get
it at the end of the day, or keep them
in your backpack so once the school bell in or
once it rings and the day is over, that then
they can pull them out and then they've got them
and for whatever they want to do at that point.
So it would really be But still, think of us
if you were at an airport or is sitting in
a waiting room or in a class of some kind.
(11:03):
Think about when we go into a meeting. Now, how
often are we looking at our phones as we're sitting there.
If somebody said to you, for seven hours a day,
you're going to give up your phone, even on breaks
and even on lunch, that would be tough to do.
And if you're seventeen eighteen years old, that's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Get our planes. Remember when we used to sit on
there and have no communication. And now it's like you're
sitting at home and you can text and you can email,
and yeah, you can stream videos, you can do whatever
you want to do.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, there's the point to be made in school for
seven hours. It's like, well, what you would have to
do is.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Learn is that you know?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Can you imagine you remember those old graphic calculators that
we had, I mean now compared to a cell phone,
like everything that they can do and what you could
look up if you needed to or text a buddy
to be like hey, number number three is c is
the answer CEA?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
You know?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Ah, yeah, that's bad. Clearly that's a bad But does
your son have a phone?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He does not. He's going to graduate sixth grade this year.
He will get one when he graduates.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
And your daughter, who's younger, she doesn't, No, she.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Doesn't have one.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
We have one Apple Watch that they share if they're
going to go over to a friend's house or go
to the park or something else, so we can communicate
with them, knowing that they can't do much on the
Apple Watch. It's it just is an Apple watch not
connected to a cell phone, but it's got its own
phone number on it. So we can call them and
say hey, come.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Home or send a text and say yeah and.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Send a text. So that has worked out great. But
I mean he's jones and for a cell phone really
really badly by now, and so we've said all his
friends and everybody else has him. So when he's done
with sixth grade, he'll get one. But California, beginning next year,
we'll have a law of no cell phones on campuses,
so he won't be able to use it at school.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Hey, those pouches, by the way, I know, I remember
seeing that when I first started here six years ago,
that those were stories where for instance, Chris Rock's doing
stand up you had to put those in They're called
like yonder pouches.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, I had to use one number that Firt House
and I went to cover and THENDZ brothers like a
month or two.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Who's paying for those, by the way, you know, like
because that's our cheap right, I mean yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
And they put our phones into these pouches and lock
them and you could not see your phone inside there.
You could not use it like it it is. Once
it goes in there, you're done, right.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And if they do that at school, they you know,
that's a whole thing. You got to have somebody specifically
who is in charge of that, because that's about hundred court.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Here, and we had to stand in line and waited
them all to get unlocked. I was like, I'd rather
you just take my phone, just get and then hand
me my phone back instead of standing in this line
waiting to get them unlocked.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Exactly, very very very interesting. TikTok star there, Alex Stone
joining us. Thank you, very thank you guys to see
Alex
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