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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That song's about, you know, somebody got stood up. He'd
been waiting in the rain for hours. She was not
only late, she just didn't show up.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm gonna be honest with you. I just happened to
have this song here and we needed to play a song.
I wasn't trying to make a statement or a point.
It was just still sitting here this week. Let it go, man,
let it go, Let it go. You gotta let it go.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
No, really, I wasn't. No, not really, no, really see
Camucye by Don serly, Lie who wants so proudly we
have the Twilight, Ask.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Me, I've got this if we if we play the
whole thing, we're gonna get a ding because we don't
own the rights to this recording. I know that sounds stupid,
but we just I hate to interrupt the star Spangled banner, but.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's one of those technical things we don't want to
have to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'm looking at the liberty score ratings here for Ran
Paul and Lindsey Graham. They've been arguing a lot lately.
Ran Paul's liberty score is ninety three percent. That's an
am Lindsey Graham's liberty score is forty three percent.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's a double f's, that's an F minus.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And even if you doubled it, he'd still have a
lower score than Ram Paul. Exactly do we still have
to pretend Lindsay Graham's not a closeted homosexual?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
When does everybody?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I haven't pretended that for a while now. And how
is it he's such the warhawk, isn't he the one
that's always up there talking about how we gotta get
gonna be tough and we gotta do the war thing
and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Someday, maybe later in my career, when I start writing,
instead of writing short articles for the Houston Chronicle and
social media, I'll start writing books. And one thing I
want to write about why are so many neocons closeted homosexuals?
And I think it has a lot to do with
rockets and missiles. Ooh, okay, you get what I'm driving it? Bezos?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You get it?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, because you know you know, yeah, bait? Why are
Bezos's rockets? Why do they all look like?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I mean, all the rockets are long, cylindrical and kind
of point, but his more pholic than ever.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh, Now, I know in the news and this kind
of business that we're in, they say, if it bleeds,
it leads, because that's the kind of stuff that people
really want to hear about. But it's Friday morning, heading
into a fun weekend. You do you want to stories
about you know, sad and depressing and death and all that,
or do you want more fun, lighthearted stuff. I mean,
(02:26):
we can do both, but I'm just wondering where you
lean on this little.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Lighthearted Please, it's Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I wanted to listen to that song again about the
hantavirus at some point this morning.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
All right, so we'll save the dead babies and the
dead tourists for later in the show.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh, Monday morning, we'll do dead Baby. We'll do dead Baby. Mondays.
That'll be what about nothing but beatles and dead babies
on Mondays?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, I'm gonna be sick. What about the Chernobyl bears?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay, Oh, chernobyls fascinating because remember those weird looking dogs
that turn Yeah I do. Yeah, we'll get to that
in a minute. Tell me about Chernobyl bears. Well, there's bears.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Like they said in the story, there's something going on
in the forest and it's very disturbing. One of the
things that's going on there is that animals have returned
to Chernobyl after you remember what happened there with the
nuclear you know, the meltdown kind of thing and the leak,
and everybody had to leave, and the animals took off
(03:27):
because they're smarter than we are about that stuff. But
the animals have started returning. Problem is they they a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Not normal.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
They a little bit mutated now that it's been a
long time, but they said that that stuff doesn't go away.
And they were just looking at some of the pictures
of the mutated animals. I mean, dogs, sure, but birds
have distorted beaks. Now they've got these little red insects
that kind of look like lady bugs. But the design
(04:01):
on the back, you know, they got that little design
on the back on their little little red hatch back there.
The design's all warped and wobbly looking. It ain't normal anymore.
And the bears, they said, first thing you notice is
their eyes. I mean, I can just show you a picture,
but you can't see it on the radio. These things
are creepy looking. Spider webs aren't symmetrical anymore. Oh my god,
(04:27):
it's insects, birds, bears. There's a spider web in a
tree here, and it's all like lopsided and messed up.
Spiders used to be able to make perfectly symmetrical webs.
It's really impressive. Yeah, So the whole dang place is
just gone to hell, and I wouldn't go near it
(04:49):
if I was you.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Back in twenty twelve, Vice Vice used to be cool
before they were ridiculous, And back in twenty twelve they
actually did a documentary called Hunting the radio act Beasts
of Chernobyl. It's hard to.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Believe, but the same guy that created The Proud Boys
created Vice. His name is Gavin mckinnis, and he kind
of now he kind of says he regrets creating both
of them for totally different reasons. He also created the
hipster movement, but that's a totally different thing altogether. Anyway,
in the Hunting of the radio Active Beast to Chernobyl,
they go into wildlife abandoned areas and they explore the
(05:22):
wildlife there and some of the stuff they discover is
that there's weird fungus growing around Chernobyl. Now that didn't
exist forty years ago, and it was forty years this year.
It was eighty six, and it happened, and it doesn't
exist anywhere else on Earth. They also there's also been
a little bit of fake news. There was an issue
involving wolves of Chernobyl that they were starting to have
blue fur. And what they discovered was the reason they
(05:46):
had blue fur wasn't necessarily because of the radioactive waste
they were putting there. It's because there were other chemicals
they were putting there to deal with the radioactive waste,
and the wolves were getting into it, and it had
blue dyes in it. But still it's all connected to
each other. It makes for a very bizarre ecological crisis.
And I'll add end with this because it makes the
(06:07):
whole thing seem a bit tame. If you put it
into perspective, you could count all the nuclear disasters on
one hand. Of course, the disaster is caused by things
like a pipeline incident, yeah, wind and solar issues. They
kill wildlife much worse. Now, this isn't a bear. This
looks like it might have been a cow or a donkey.
(06:29):
I'm not even sure.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Can you tell? Bro?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Look at that weirdrase.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's a mutated thing where it's it's upper the upper
part of its jaw, its face and nose. It's muzzled
if you I don't know what it is, is all
off to the side, and then the lower jaw sticks up,
you know, like the reverse a book tooth, and then
the tongue goes up and it's just the craziest looking
(06:53):
thing you ever saw.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh, I'm sorry, I just got a note here. It
turns out that that looks like that because of reading.
Apparently that's called a Pakistani calf packy cow.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's the new useful idiot action figure, loaded with megaphone, protests,
sign and paper pack.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
He shouts, he.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Marches, he never thinks twice what.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Put him against authority or make him run from it?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Useful for more Waltman Johnson, you know about the mutated
bears and stuff and churned over. I feel like that
was as light hearted as I was asking for.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Pro I thought it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It's way more lighthearted than the dead scuba people or
the woman from Katie that has the two dead babies. Now, okay,
but here's what I was thinking. This is more lighthearted
than any of that study on gen Z. Are you
familiar with gen Z?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Kenny, very familiar with him, as I briefly dated some Yeah,
I know about him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Why yeah, Well, the study was about them and their
phones and why gen Z doesn't take calls.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I saw that too.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It's and it's a big study that they talked to
an interviewed about ten thousand gen Zers and bottom line
from it, I mean, you could go all through it
and extrapolated all that and it'd be boring and long
and we'd run out of time. But the bottom line
result is about seventy five percent of gen z ers
don't answer their phone when it rings, when it doesn't
even ring, they keep it on silent most of the time.
(08:20):
And they said it's because the phone these days basically
brings you nothing but spam, scam and extended warranties.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
There's nobody call. And for their generation, it's always been
that way. There's no one calling you most of the
time that you don't already know who's not a scam
artist or a you know, a Pakistani phauy.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They want to waste your time. And when we were
their age and the phone rang in the house, people
would run to see if they could get to it
faster than you know. It's like if you you had
multiple people in your family, I'll get it, I'll get it.
Except for my dad, who would always say, after a
long day, if it's for me, tell them, I bro
I told It was kind of gym z and way
(09:03):
back in those days.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And texting has become that way.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I could remember ten years ago the Democrats started doing
it first, but now they both do it.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
The junk texts you get, God, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
More aggravating, I think than the phone calls because you
have to at least read it to see that it's
something you didn't want. But on the phone calls you
can just get ignore.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
In the newer iOS updates for Apple iPhones, it's getting worse. Well,
I was going to say, there's now it now separates
all your text into folders, so if you don't know
the person, it puts it somewhere else. And when I
look at that folder, it's nothing but tax that.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Go.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Hey, Governor Rabbit wants you to know.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The funniest thing about all that is, I'm sure you
get it on your phones too, is as a place
where you can report at spam. Sure that does nothing.
It does nothing actually increase. I think when you report
it as spam, other people find out and they start
spamming you too, and you can delete that or block
a call, and it just gets worse.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And it really does. Now, getting back to the report
you were just reading to us, I read this too.
The phone call, according to this report, peaked sometime around
two thousand and nine. Sometime around two thousand and nine,
it shifted from getting actual phone calls to nothing but robocalls, scams, spams,
extended warranties on cars, nobody remembers buying.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And that's about the time gen Z was getting their
phones and coming up in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
At the oldest gen Z, right, because then you know
they're in their twenties now.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
In that the weirdest thing. Phone calls are irrelevant and dated.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
If the phone is great, except we don't use it
as a phone anymore. We use it as a messaging device,
we use it as a camera. And what it's really
I think it's not just annoying. I find it to
be crippling. Some of these young people today that live
in the same city where they were born and have
lived their entire life. Yeah, don't know how to get
(10:53):
from one place to another without a map, without the
phone giving them step by step left right directions. I
talked to some lady the other day and she's like, Oh,
I've been to my friend's house like thirty times. I
couldn't find it without the phone.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
There was a brief.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Window of time where we went from maps to what
we do now, where you would print out directions from
MapQuest dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I've been doing that on a long road trip. Yeah,
you print them out and you follow along. And now
the phone in your car, the screen will also tell
you the same stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Steve's car's got four GPS, said, it isn't it. There's
one from the car manufacturer, one from Google, one from Apple.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Why don't the.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Car people make one as easy to operate as the
phone people?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
The car one suck. Oh yeah, they're not going to
use it and it cost extrah. The etiquette this I
thought this was interesting from the report too. It said
the etiquette is pretty clear. Texting asks for someone's attention,
calling demands, it a little ringtone, sirens attached, and that
can be triggering to gen Z.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And then you get to that part of the report
and you're like, you pussies. The phone ringing triggers you.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh boy, oh no, oh, poor you.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You never heard a phone ring.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Let's face it. The phone if it does ring, it's
usually at an inappropriate time another in the movies, or
at a concert or you know, a meeting with the
big balls, and you know, people look at you like
you killed your mom if your phone rings.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
While we're on the topic of how we're you know,
new technology versus all technology from one generation to the next.
One of the unintended consequences of everything being on your
phone now is doom scrolling. Does everybody get what doom
scrolling is?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I think I did it, but I'm not sure if
I get it or not.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
People will spend hours a day just scrolling social media.
And because it's it's a bit like channel surfing in
the nineties, your attention becomes shorter.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's doing something to your brain, not unlike what a
slot machine does.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They're very addictive where you're getting a serotonin rush.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And I have to admit I get caught up. In
a time or two. I will suddenly look up and go,
oh my god, twenty minutes has just passed and I've
just been sitting here staring and my phone is my
thumb is starting to cramp up because I'm scrolling.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well, we mentioned adderall earlier. Imagine as someone who abuses
adderall doom scrolling. It could be hours of doing nothing
but just looking at TikTok videos. And apparently there's now
a cure for this or a treatment. A new trend.
Tell me if you believe this. It's called dark showering,
they say, the way to detach from all your tack.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
It's hard to put.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Down your phone sometimes when you want to go to sleep,
do a mental reset, go into the shower and turn
the lights off late. It's called dark showering. Exactly what
it sounds like? Lights off, water on, brain shutting off
for a minute.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Sounds like you're just begging for somebody to have a
slip and fall accident.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I thought the same thing. Or you're going to be
a little vulnerable in there, but maybe, well maybe there's
something to this.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Make sure all the doors and windows are locked first,
so you don't have a creeper come in while you're
dark showering. It does sound relaxing, though, doesn't it. I'm
gonna try that this weekend. Listen to this part of
the report. Phones have turned into a have turned bedtime
into a flood of information. Oh yeah, staring at that
light's not good for your brain. Reading or seeing these
(14:14):
videos over and over and over again stimulating, not sleep enhancing.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, you think you're gonna unwind by looking at your
phone before you go to bed. For me, you guys know,
I'm a news junkie just as much as I'm into
social media. I mean, maybe even more so. If a
big news story breaks a few minutes before I'm going
to bed, oh god, m I'm not gonna sleep tonight.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I just sit here getting all the details.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And funny you mentioned that the doom scrolling thing has
taken the place of channel surfing. Well, you know how
that went away. There's nothing on TV anymore. Everybody just
goes and streams and picks out a show that they
want to watch. Who's sitting there flipping from ABC to
NBC to CBS to Fox to the USA to T whatever,
TNN and T and T whatever. There's nothing on any
(15:00):
of those channel's worth scrolling too anyway? Why bother looking?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Of course, there is an alternative solution to all of
these problems. Apparently you follow me here for a minute.
There's this thing you can watch for about two and
a half minutes if you're a man, and then right
at the end of it, it makes you very tired
and disinterested.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Is that right? Yeah, I'll send I'll send you.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
In everyday life, there is more than meets the eye.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
To reach the depths of truth, we must drag the waters.
Walton and Johnson Radio Network
That song's about, you know, somebody got stood up. He'd
been waiting in the rain for hours. She was not
only late, she just didn't show up.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm gonna be honest with you. I just happened to
have this song here and we needed to play a song.
I wasn't trying to make a statement or a point.
It was just still sitting here this week. Let it go, man,
let it go, Let it go. You gotta let it go.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
No, really, I wasn't. No, not really, no, really see
Camucye by Don serly, Lie who wants so proudly we
have the Twilight, Ask.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Me, I've got this if we if we play the
whole thing, we're gonna get a ding because we don't
own the rights to this recording. I know that sounds stupid,
but we just I hate to interrupt the star Spangled banner, but.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's one of those technical things we don't want to
have to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'm looking at the liberty score ratings here for Ran
Paul and Lindsey Graham. They've been arguing a lot lately.
Ran Paul's liberty score is ninety three percent. That's an
am Lindsey Graham's liberty score is forty three percent.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's a double f's, that's an F minus.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And even if you doubled it, he'd still have a
lower score than Ram Paul. Exactly do we still have
to pretend Lindsay Graham's not a closeted homosexual?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
When does everybody?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I haven't pretended that for a while now. And how
is it he's such the warhawk, isn't he the one
that's always up there talking about how we gotta get
gonna be tough and we gotta do the war thing
and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Someday, maybe later in my career, when I start writing,
instead of writing short articles for the Houston Chronicle and
social media, I'll start writing books. And one thing I
want to write about why are so many neocons closeted homosexuals?
And I think it has a lot to do with
rockets and missiles. Ooh, okay, you get what I'm driving it? Bezos?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You get it?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, because you know you know, yeah, bait? Why are
Bezos's rockets? Why do they all look like?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I mean, all the rockets are long, cylindrical and kind
of point, but his more pholic than ever.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh, Now, I know in the news and this kind
of business that we're in, they say, if it bleeds,
it leads, because that's the kind of stuff that people
really want to hear about. But it's Friday morning, heading
into a fun weekend. You do you want to stories
about you know, sad and depressing and death and all that,
or do you want more fun, lighthearted stuff. I mean,
(02:26):
we can do both, but I'm just wondering where you
lean on this little.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Lighthearted Please, it's Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I wanted to listen to that song again about the
hantavirus at some point this morning.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
All right, so we'll save the dead babies and the
dead tourists for later in the show.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh, Monday morning, we'll do dead Baby. We'll do dead Baby. Mondays.
That'll be what about nothing but beatles and dead babies
on Mondays?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, I'm gonna be sick. What about the Chernobyl bears?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay, Oh, chernobyls fascinating because remember those weird looking dogs
that turn Yeah I do. Yeah, we'll get to that
in a minute. Tell me about Chernobyl bears. Well, there's bears.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Like they said in the story, there's something going on
in the forest and it's very disturbing. One of the
things that's going on there is that animals have returned
to Chernobyl after you remember what happened there with the
nuclear you know, the meltdown kind of thing and the leak,
and everybody had to leave, and the animals took off
(03:27):
because they're smarter than we are about that stuff. But
the animals have started returning. Problem is they they a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Not normal.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
They a little bit mutated now that it's been a
long time, but they said that that stuff doesn't go away.
And they were just looking at some of the pictures
of the mutated animals. I mean, dogs, sure, but birds
have distorted beaks. Now they've got these little red insects
that kind of look like lady bugs. But the design
(04:01):
on the back, you know, they got that little design
on the back on their little little red hatch back there.
The design's all warped and wobbly looking. It ain't normal anymore.
And the bears, they said, first thing you notice is
their eyes. I mean, I can just show you a picture,
but you can't see it on the radio. These things
are creepy looking. Spider webs aren't symmetrical anymore. Oh my god,
(04:27):
it's insects, birds, bears. There's a spider web in a
tree here, and it's all like lopsided and messed up.
Spiders used to be able to make perfectly symmetrical webs.
It's really impressive. Yeah, So the whole dang place is
just gone to hell, and I wouldn't go near it
(04:49):
if I was you.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Back in twenty twelve, Vice Vice used to be cool
before they were ridiculous, And back in twenty twelve they
actually did a documentary called Hunting the radio act Beasts
of Chernobyl. It's hard to.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Believe, but the same guy that created The Proud Boys
created Vice. His name is Gavin mckinnis, and he kind
of now he kind of says he regrets creating both
of them for totally different reasons. He also created the
hipster movement, but that's a totally different thing altogether. Anyway,
in the Hunting of the radio Active Beast to Chernobyl,
they go into wildlife abandoned areas and they explore the
(05:22):
wildlife there and some of the stuff they discover is
that there's weird fungus growing around Chernobyl. Now that didn't
exist forty years ago, and it was forty years this year.
It was eighty six, and it happened, and it doesn't
exist anywhere else on Earth. They also there's also been
a little bit of fake news. There was an issue
involving wolves of Chernobyl that they were starting to have
blue fur. And what they discovered was the reason they
(05:46):
had blue fur wasn't necessarily because of the radioactive waste
they were putting there. It's because there were other chemicals
they were putting there to deal with the radioactive waste,
and the wolves were getting into it, and it had
blue dyes in it. But still it's all connected to
each other. It makes for a very bizarre ecological crisis.
And I'll add end with this because it makes the
(06:07):
whole thing seem a bit tame. If you put it
into perspective, you could count all the nuclear disasters on
one hand. Of course, the disaster is caused by things
like a pipeline incident, yeah, wind and solar issues. They
kill wildlife much worse. Now, this isn't a bear. This
looks like it might have been a cow or a donkey.
(06:29):
I'm not even sure.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Can you tell? Bro?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Look at that weirdrase.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's a mutated thing where it's it's upper the upper
part of its jaw, its face and nose. It's muzzled
if you I don't know what it is, is all
off to the side, and then the lower jaw sticks up,
you know, like the reverse a book tooth, and then
the tongue goes up and it's just the craziest looking
(06:53):
thing you ever saw.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh, I'm sorry, I just got a note here. It
turns out that that looks like that because of reading.
Apparently that's called a Pakistani calf packy cow.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's the new useful idiot action figure, loaded with megaphone, protests,
sign and paper pack.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
He shouts, he.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Marches, he never thinks twice what.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Put him against authority or make him run from it?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Useful for more Waltman Johnson, you know about the mutated
bears and stuff and churned over. I feel like that
was as light hearted as I was asking for.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Pro I thought it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It's way more lighthearted than the dead scuba people or
the woman from Katie that has the two dead babies. Now, okay,
but here's what I was thinking. This is more lighthearted
than any of that study on gen Z. Are you
familiar with gen Z?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Kenny, very familiar with him, as I briefly dated some Yeah,
I know about him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Why yeah, Well, the study was about them and their
phones and why gen Z doesn't take calls.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I saw that too.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It's and it's a big study that they talked to
an interviewed about ten thousand gen Zers and bottom line
from it, I mean, you could go all through it
and extrapolated all that and it'd be boring and long
and we'd run out of time. But the bottom line
result is about seventy five percent of gen z ers
don't answer their phone when it rings, when it doesn't
even ring, they keep it on silent most of the time.
(08:20):
And they said it's because the phone these days basically
brings you nothing but spam, scam and extended warranties.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
There's nobody call. And for their generation, it's always been
that way. There's no one calling you most of the
time that you don't already know who's not a scam
artist or a you know, a Pakistani phauy.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They want to waste your time. And when we were
their age and the phone rang in the house, people
would run to see if they could get to it
faster than you know. It's like if you you had
multiple people in your family, I'll get it, I'll get it.
Except for my dad, who would always say, after a
long day, if it's for me, tell them, I bro
I told It was kind of gym z and way
(09:03):
back in those days.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And texting has become that way.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I could remember ten years ago the Democrats started doing
it first, but now they both do it.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
The junk texts you get, God, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
More aggravating, I think than the phone calls because you
have to at least read it to see that it's
something you didn't want. But on the phone calls you
can just get ignore.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
In the newer iOS updates for Apple iPhones, it's getting worse. Well,
I was going to say, there's now it now separates
all your text into folders, so if you don't know
the person, it puts it somewhere else. And when I
look at that folder, it's nothing but tax that.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Go.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Hey, Governor Rabbit wants you to know.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The funniest thing about all that is, I'm sure you
get it on your phones too, is as a place
where you can report at spam. Sure that does nothing.
It does nothing actually increase. I think when you report
it as spam, other people find out and they start
spamming you too, and you can delete that or block
a call, and it just gets worse.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And it really does. Now, getting back to the report
you were just reading to us, I read this too.
The phone call, according to this report, peaked sometime around
two thousand and nine. Sometime around two thousand and nine,
it shifted from getting actual phone calls to nothing but robocalls, scams, spams,
extended warranties on cars, nobody remembers buying.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And that's about the time gen Z was getting their
phones and coming up in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
At the oldest gen Z, right, because then you know
they're in their twenties now.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
In that the weirdest thing. Phone calls are irrelevant and dated.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
If the phone is great, except we don't use it
as a phone anymore. We use it as a messaging device,
we use it as a camera. And what it's really
I think it's not just annoying. I find it to
be crippling. Some of these young people today that live
in the same city where they were born and have
lived their entire life. Yeah, don't know how to get
(10:53):
from one place to another without a map, without the
phone giving them step by step left right directions. I
talked to some lady the other day and she's like, Oh,
I've been to my friend's house like thirty times. I
couldn't find it without the phone.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
There was a brief.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Window of time where we went from maps to what
we do now, where you would print out directions from
MapQuest dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I've been doing that on a long road trip. Yeah,
you print them out and you follow along. And now
the phone in your car, the screen will also tell
you the same stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Steve's car's got four GPS, said, it isn't it. There's
one from the car manufacturer, one from Google, one from Apple.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Why don't the.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Car people make one as easy to operate as the
phone people?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
The car one suck. Oh yeah, they're not going to
use it and it cost extrah. The etiquette this I
thought this was interesting from the report too. It said
the etiquette is pretty clear. Texting asks for someone's attention,
calling demands, it a little ringtone, sirens attached, and that
can be triggering to gen Z.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And then you get to that part of the report
and you're like, you pussies. The phone ringing triggers you.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh boy, oh no, oh, poor you.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You never heard a phone ring.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Let's face it. The phone if it does ring, it's
usually at an inappropriate time another in the movies, or
at a concert or you know, a meeting with the
big balls, and you know, people look at you like
you killed your mom if your phone rings.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
While we're on the topic of how we're you know,
new technology versus all technology from one generation to the next.
One of the unintended consequences of everything being on your
phone now is doom scrolling. Does everybody get what doom
scrolling is?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I think I did it, but I'm not sure if
I get it or not.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
People will spend hours a day just scrolling social media.
And because it's it's a bit like channel surfing in
the nineties, your attention becomes shorter.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's doing something to your brain, not unlike what a
slot machine does.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They're very addictive where you're getting a serotonin rush.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And I have to admit I get caught up. In
a time or two. I will suddenly look up and go,
oh my god, twenty minutes has just passed and I've
just been sitting here staring and my phone is my
thumb is starting to cramp up because I'm scrolling.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well, we mentioned adderall earlier. Imagine as someone who abuses
adderall doom scrolling. It could be hours of doing nothing
but just looking at TikTok videos. And apparently there's now
a cure for this or a treatment. A new trend.
Tell me if you believe this. It's called dark showering,
they say, the way to detach from all your tack.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
It's hard to put.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Down your phone sometimes when you want to go to sleep,
do a mental reset, go into the shower and turn
the lights off late. It's called dark showering. Exactly what
it sounds like? Lights off, water on, brain shutting off
for a minute.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Sounds like you're just begging for somebody to have a
slip and fall accident.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I thought the same thing. Or you're going to be
a little vulnerable in there, but maybe, well maybe there's
something to this.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Make sure all the doors and windows are locked first,
so you don't have a creeper come in while you're
dark showering. It does sound relaxing, though, doesn't it. I'm
gonna try that this weekend. Listen to this part of
the report. Phones have turned into a have turned bedtime
into a flood of information. Oh yeah, staring at that
light's not good for your brain. Reading or seeing these
(14:14):
videos over and over and over again stimulating, not sleep enhancing.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, you think you're gonna unwind by looking at your
phone before you go to bed. For me, you guys know,
I'm a news junkie just as much as I'm into
social media. I mean, maybe even more so. If a
big news story breaks a few minutes before I'm going
to bed, oh god, m I'm not gonna sleep tonight.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I just sit here getting all the details.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And funny you mentioned that the doom scrolling thing has
taken the place of channel surfing. Well, you know how
that went away. There's nothing on TV anymore. Everybody just
goes and streams and picks out a show that they
want to watch. Who's sitting there flipping from ABC to
NBC to CBS to Fox to the USA to T whatever,
TNN and T and T whatever. There's nothing on any
(15:00):
of those channel's worth scrolling too anyway? Why bother looking?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Of course, there is an alternative solution to all of
these problems. Apparently you follow me here for a minute.
There's this thing you can watch for about two and
a half minutes if you're a man, and then right
at the end of it, it makes you very tired
and disinterested.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Is that right? Yeah, I'll send I'll send you.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
In everyday life, there is more than meets the eye.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
To reach the depths of truth, we must drag the waters.
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