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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hot topics, or you could just say hi to Maria Durant,
who's filling in for Mandy today six one four eight
two one nine eight eighty six. That is six one
four eight two one WTVN. So Maria, you told me
something that I didn't know because I have been gone
for like the last seven or eight days and not
paying attention to headlines as much.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And yeah, that's good though, it is good.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I feel like connect.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I feel like this headline has been trolled so many
times over the last year or two.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
This really happens.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes, the passing of Val Kilmer.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
He dies, It's true, it is very true.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And I was I was shocked. I mean I knew
that he had been sick.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
But yeah, quite the actor and well, of course, I
mean I'm a Top Gun fan. Not sure how many
people out there are, but I'm sure they are.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
There are, yes, and there there are many of your age,
my age who watch Top Gun. Oh, and many of
his other movies as well. He was like a nine
He's mainstay.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
You know, Tombstone, we had Batman forever and yeah, and
when you just hear about his career, I had no
idea he was the youngest to be in Juilliard.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
What, Yes, he went to Juilliard.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Okay, yeah, so and so quite the career.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Quite the career.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And we were Boots was in on the back at
us from Tombstone.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What's the line.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm your Huckleberry.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, I mean I remember my guy like that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It was that. That was it.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I remember my guy friends watching that movie probably my
junior senior year of high school. It was like one
of those that in Shawshank Redemption were like on repeat,
you know, when we were over at their houses. He
was so good, and I feel like it's a life
lost too early.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, yeah, I believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Was only what sixty seven. I mean, he wasn't that old.
And I was trying. I was going to try to
look it up here.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But his health had been, to your point, not great.
You know, he'd been struggle. I don't know what he
was struggling with prior to the throat cancer, but he
really did struggle.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
And I think the last time you really saw him
in his world and you know, acting was in Top
Gun Maverick, and you know, such a poignant scene when
he's there and he gets this great big hug from
you know, Tom Cruise, I was tearing up while I
was watching it, and then you know, of course he
passes away there.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And at that point he was not he didn't have lines,
correct he couldn't talk. Am I remembering that correctly?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
A couple of lines but.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Hard to understand. Yes, Yeah, because of all that he
had been through.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, I do feel like for several whole throat cancer.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, for several years Zacher Chris is saying, yeah, he
was sixty five, sixty five for the for the last
couple of years, I would see headlines about him passing.
And you know what they do on social media, like
they'll make you think like, oh, this happened, and then
you'll click on.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
It and click it like that clickbait.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, something else and did you click on something? I
did not? No, Okay, I didn't. That's the good news,
the good news.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But other people may not have the background that you
and I have to know to not click that time.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But we know all too well what happens when you click.
But rest in peace. Valcomers.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Lots of classic iconic roles in movies that hopefully at
some point my boys will enjoy Does don Have?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Does donn has done?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Have?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Been watched?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Top He has not seen the first one. He has
seen the second one, and.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I have both.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So I'm like, maybe maybe this is a summer par
Like we're gonna watch Top Gun, We're gonna watch Tombstone.
We're gonna do these.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean they're well, they're boy movies too.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
They are boy movies. I will totally agree with you
on that.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean we're brought in and we enjoy them, but like, yeah,
they're totally boy movies. Speaking of boys, I was sharing
with Maria while I was on vacation. I did decide
to click on something that I thought was quite interesting
because it kept being presented to me on Instagram. It
wasn't like this fake Facebook post. It was like in Instagram,
(04:15):
it looks legitimate.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I'll take a look.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But there is a class action lawsuit being filed over
video game addiction.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, tell me about this.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And as a mom of boys who have played quite
a few video.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Games, especially, I'm terrible.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I'm terrible, and I'm alright with that. I am so
okay with that. I like like Nintendo, like, yeah, we
got one of those older boxes, you know where you
could play like fifty five. Are you playing a pong
I played Pong recently when we were down in Georgia.
Like it an old school arcade, but like this Call
(04:55):
of Duty Rainbow Sage six seven, whatever it is that is,
that is not me. So yes, I clicked on it
to learn more about it because I believe that I
have a kid who probably is addicted to video games.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Now he's not watching or playing.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I guess I should say he's not playing more than
four hours a day, but I think he fits four
hours in somehow, and getting him up from the basement
can be really, really hard.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I mean four hours sounds like a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It is, okay, and I know he's getting a lot
of work done at school based on his schedule, but
sometimes it can be really hard to pull back. So
there's a company, or not a company, there's a law
firm called Kraus and Kinsman that are taking these claims,
and so there's a questionnaire that people fill out. And
(05:53):
I've never done anything like this before, so I don't
know if this is how this works with class action laws.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So did you fill it out? I mean, so I
have not yet. But let's let me get out of
my time limit. See, I try to limit myself on my.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Own phone, So it's they're calling it an injury claim gaming.
Is the person filling out this form over the age
of eighteen or you or the injured party currently being represented? No,
I'm not, and I'm just curious about this. Do you
have legal authority? So it's gonna ask me all these questions.
It's gonna ask me my first and last name. Was
(06:27):
the injured party seventeen or younger when they first started
playing video games?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well, the answer is yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Inquired parties social Security number? Has the injured party experienced
any physical or mental health problems that you believe are
linked to gaming? So Logan is an ADHD kid, which
I talked pretty openly about on this show, and I
think it's definitely exacerbated by this. And then which of
the following have they experienced? I'm gonna give you this
(06:56):
list ADHD ADD, Oppositional defiant disorder, depression, anxiety, suicide, attempted suicide,
Individualized education plan so an IEP is part of this list.
Loss of education, changes in ct MRI, brain seizures, lives
(07:17):
at home due to inability to support self due to gaming,
criminal records, psychosis.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Computer vision syndrome. I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So did you look this up? I mean, is this
a legit claim?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
It is, and they're advertising to parents right now on
Instagram to try to get parents to enter into this
class action lawsuit. I have no clue what they want
to do with it, but it is legitimate, and they're
they're now calling me as well, like I've had a
message left since I went to learn more information. I mean,
I suppose law firms probably have a budget to work
(07:53):
on this kind of thing when they're trying to gather claims.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I just find it super interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I mean, this is where we are with video games
now in our society.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Well, and I don't know, you know, for me, it's
more of too well now that they're they're hounding you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You know, a now they know where I am.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Right, it comes up on your feed probably more than once.
It came up once, and now it continues to pop up.
They're calling you.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's what that was my question on. So is this legit?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It looks legit, but I've yet to fill it all out,
and I'm really skeptical to give an SSN.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I mean, I don't feel good about.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Putting that on.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
No, you should not, and I think if you should not.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Did it say partial?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I feel like it said it might have said partial,
but still I don't feel good.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But more to come. I just thought it was.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Interesting, was curious if any of you had seen that
out there. And I'm probably the exact target for this group,
anyone who has a kid, probably between my kid's age
and probably like twenty five, because it could have been
seventeen or younger.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Well, and that's a lot of parents right now. And
the parents, I mean, you're not the only ones struggling
with trying to get their child, you know, away from
a video game.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, so it'll be interesting to see what this is
and where it leads.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Do we know where the law the law firm is
out of We'll look at it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I had these, you ask, so we'll look it up.
Because we're up against the break, but we will look
it up.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
We've got also speaking of safety security, all those things,
we got tattletale portable alarm systems, and Brian has coming
up next uh to talk a little bit about community
safety and more. This is what Matters on six ten
w t V in
Speaker 3 (10:00):
East
Hot topics, or you could just say hi to Maria Durant,
who's filling in for Mandy today six one four eight
two one nine eight eighty six. That is six one
four eight two one WTVN. So Maria, you told me
something that I didn't know because I have been gone
for like the last seven or eight days and not
paying attention to headlines as much.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And yeah, that's good though, it is good.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I feel like connect.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I feel like this headline has been trolled so many
times over the last year or two.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
This really happens.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes, the passing of Val Kilmer.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
He dies, It's true, it is very true.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And I was I was shocked. I mean I knew
that he had been sick.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
But yeah, quite the actor and well, of course, I
mean I'm a Top Gun fan. Not sure how many
people out there are, but I'm sure they are.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
There are, yes, and there there are many of your age,
my age who watch Top Gun. Oh, and many of
his other movies as well. He was like a nine
He's mainstay.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
You know, Tombstone, we had Batman forever and yeah, and
when you just hear about his career, I had no
idea he was the youngest to be in Juilliard.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
What, Yes, he went to Juilliard.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Okay, yeah, so and so quite the career.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Quite the career.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And we were Boots was in on the back at
us from Tombstone.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What's the line.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm your Huckleberry.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, I mean I remember my guy like that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It was that. That was it.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I remember my guy friends watching that movie probably my
junior senior year of high school. It was like one
of those that in Shawshank Redemption were like on repeat,
you know, when we were over at their houses. He
was so good, and I feel like it's a life
lost too early.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, yeah, I believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Was only what sixty seven. I mean, he wasn't that old.
And I was trying. I was going to try to
look it up here.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But his health had been, to your point, not great.
You know, he'd been struggle. I don't know what he
was struggling with prior to the throat cancer, but he
really did struggle.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
And I think the last time you really saw him
in his world and you know, acting was in Top
Gun Maverick, and you know, such a poignant scene when
he's there and he gets this great big hug from
you know, Tom Cruise, I was tearing up while I
was watching it, and then you know, of course he
passes away there.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And at that point he was not he didn't have lines,
correct he couldn't talk. Am I remembering that correctly?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
A couple of lines but.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Hard to understand. Yes, Yeah, because of all that he
had been through.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, I do feel like for several whole throat cancer.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, for several years Zacher Chris is saying, yeah, he
was sixty five, sixty five for the for the last
couple of years, I would see headlines about him passing.
And you know what they do on social media, like
they'll make you think like, oh, this happened, and then
you'll click on.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
It and click it like that clickbait.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, something else and did you click on something? I
did not? No, Okay, I didn't. That's the good news,
the good news.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But other people may not have the background that you
and I have to know to not click that time.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But we know all too well what happens when you click.
But rest in peace. Valcomers.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Lots of classic iconic roles in movies that hopefully at
some point my boys will enjoy Does don Have?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Does donn has done?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Have?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Been watched?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Top He has not seen the first one. He has
seen the second one, and.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I have both.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So I'm like, maybe maybe this is a summer par
Like we're gonna watch Top Gun, We're gonna watch Tombstone.
We're gonna do these.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean they're well, they're boy movies too.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
They are boy movies. I will totally agree with you
on that.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean we're brought in and we enjoy them, but like, yeah,
they're totally boy movies. Speaking of boys, I was sharing
with Maria while I was on vacation. I did decide
to click on something that I thought was quite interesting
because it kept being presented to me on Instagram. It
wasn't like this fake Facebook post. It was like in Instagram,
(04:15):
it looks legitimate.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I'll take a look.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But there is a class action lawsuit being filed over
video game addiction.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, tell me about this.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And as a mom of boys who have played quite
a few video.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Games, especially, I'm terrible.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I'm terrible, and I'm alright with that. I am so
okay with that. I like like Nintendo, like, yeah, we
got one of those older boxes, you know where you
could play like fifty five. Are you playing a pong
I played Pong recently when we were down in Georgia.
Like it an old school arcade, but like this Call
(04:55):
of Duty Rainbow Sage six seven, whatever it is that is,
that is not me. So yes, I clicked on it
to learn more about it because I believe that I
have a kid who probably is addicted to video games.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Now he's not watching or playing.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I guess I should say he's not playing more than
four hours a day, but I think he fits four
hours in somehow, and getting him up from the basement
can be really, really hard.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I mean four hours sounds like a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It is, okay, and I know he's getting a lot
of work done at school based on his schedule, but
sometimes it can be really hard to pull back. So
there's a company, or not a company, there's a law
firm called Kraus and Kinsman that are taking these claims,
and so there's a questionnaire that people fill out. And
(05:53):
I've never done anything like this before, so I don't
know if this is how this works with class action laws.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So did you fill it out? I mean, so I
have not yet. But let's let me get out of
my time limit. See, I try to limit myself on my.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Own phone, So it's they're calling it an injury claim gaming.
Is the person filling out this form over the age
of eighteen or you or the injured party currently being represented? No,
I'm not, and I'm just curious about this. Do you
have legal authority? So it's gonna ask me all these questions.
It's gonna ask me my first and last name. Was
(06:27):
the injured party seventeen or younger when they first started
playing video games?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well, the answer is yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Inquired parties social Security number? Has the injured party experienced
any physical or mental health problems that you believe are
linked to gaming? So Logan is an ADHD kid, which
I talked pretty openly about on this show, and I
think it's definitely exacerbated by this. And then which of
the following have they experienced? I'm gonna give you this
(06:56):
list ADHD ADD, Oppositional defiant disorder, depression, anxiety, suicide, attempted suicide,
Individualized education plan so an IEP is part of this list.
Loss of education, changes in ct MRI, brain seizures, lives
(07:17):
at home due to inability to support self due to gaming,
criminal records, psychosis.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Computer vision syndrome. I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So did you look this up? I mean, is this
a legit claim?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
It is, and they're advertising to parents right now on
Instagram to try to get parents to enter into this
class action lawsuit. I have no clue what they want
to do with it, but it is legitimate, and they're
they're now calling me as well, like I've had a
message left since I went to learn more information. I mean,
I suppose law firms probably have a budget to work
(07:53):
on this kind of thing when they're trying to gather claims.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I just find it super interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I mean, this is where we are with video games
now in our society.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Well, and I don't know, you know, for me, it's
more of too well now that they're they're hounding you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You know, a now they know where I am.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Right, it comes up on your feed probably more than once.
It came up once, and now it continues to pop up.
They're calling you.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's what that was my question on. So is this legit?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It looks legit, but I've yet to fill it all out,
and I'm really skeptical to give an SSN.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I mean, I don't feel good about.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Putting that on.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
No, you should not, and I think if you should not.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Did it say partial?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I feel like it said it might have said partial,
but still I don't feel good.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But more to come. I just thought it was.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Interesting, was curious if any of you had seen that
out there. And I'm probably the exact target for this group,
anyone who has a kid, probably between my kid's age
and probably like twenty five, because it could have been
seventeen or younger.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Well, and that's a lot of parents right now. And
the parents, I mean, you're not the only ones struggling
with trying to get their child, you know, away from
a video game.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, so it'll be interesting to see what this is
and where it leads.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Do we know where the law the law firm is
out of We'll look at it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I had these, you ask, so we'll look it up.
Because we're up against the break, but we will look
it up.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
We've got also speaking of safety security, all those things,
we got tattletale portable alarm systems, and Brian has coming
up next uh to talk a little bit about community
safety and more. This is what Matters on six ten
w t V in
Speaker 3 (10:00):
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