Cell Phones and Valentine’s

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Music.

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And Joe Vitale.

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We are officially recording. Hey, we are.

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A little red light is on. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Balancing Act

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podcast on human content.

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We are happy to join you guys again. I'm here with my wonderful host,

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Ms. Wanko. Hello, Ms. Wanko. How are you?

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Hello. I feel, you know, I'm feeling okay.

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I had one of my most favorite dinners of all time tonight

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oh what do we have what are your most

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favorite dinner tomato soup with noodles

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tomato soup with noodles okay oh man i

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mean nothing says loving like the like a bowl of tomato soup

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with noodles tomato soup campbell's but made with

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milk gotcha okay you you

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from your face you just threw up so no no not

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at all i i'm i'm not a huge tomato soup

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person i like it but it's one of those things i

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have to be like i'm kind of in the mood for it um that's

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kind of my thing i was i was also i was in

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the mood for some uh some good old velveta shells

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and cheese that's what i wanted i wanted velveta mac

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and cheese which they only had like the mini shells at the

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store and i was like i'm not getting that so i got like the generic brand

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it was still good oh it's not the same you gotta eat it with a spoon what

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would a spoon like little shells big spoon oh i

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know but it was like the really really tiny ones it was like i i

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made it once and i was like me i didn't really like it you could

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be a giant i'm a giant like i eat eat

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tiny food if you like giant um it's good stuff so yeah it still feels uh you

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know i i'm hopefully i i did have a nice pink shirt on today which i changed

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into a sweatshirt um so disappointing yeah it was a great color for you I was appreciative of that.

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I was radiant. You were radiant. I felt it.

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I'm radiating spring after the fact that it was so... I have two measurements

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of if it's too cold out. Okay?

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Number one is in New York during the recent cold stretch, they had five days

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where there were no shootings.

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No one got shot in New York for five days, which is amazing.

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It was so cold. It's not fun. And you're laughing Why are you laughing It was

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literally too cold for anyone to commit crime I know I'm saying that Because it was,

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No, I mean, it's true. It's, it was so cold that you just like,

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I can't feel my face when I'm with you.

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It was like, you could not just, you were just like running to the car and just couldn't.

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Oh my gosh. I mean, it was. And the second thing,

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the second thing that is a measurement of it's just too cold is when Bison wears

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closed toad shoes because my girl, who I know she's listening,

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always wears flippity floppities.

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All she's always the toes are always done.

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There's like, you know, some people like, oh, my God, I want to show my feet.

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But she's like, I'm wearing flip flops. I'm wearing sandals.

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I'm wearing everything. I want my toes in the water, ass in the sand,

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you know, the whole thing.

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So that's my measurement. If she's got closed-toed shoes on, it's cold.

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It's too cold. It's true. I always say, like, why do I live in a place where the air hurts my face?

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You know, though, it is a beautiful state. I do remind, you know,

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let's give a little love to the GS here.

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But I do tell the kids, you know, there are very few states in this great country

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of ours that you can ski if you so choose.

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That we have beautiful lakes. We have farms. We have gorgeous beaches and ocean.

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Um, just ocean for miles, um, beautiful sandy beaches.

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So, you know, we've got a corn, a plenty, right.

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You know, so, but yes, it is pizza and bagels are next level.

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You just can't compete. You can't.

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I have a good friend. I have a good friend of mine who lives out in,

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uh, Indianapolis. It's been my best friend since kindergarten.

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Um, and I, I go out there every year and I'm like, Hey, you guys need me to

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bring anything? I said, yes, I'm bringing bagels. So I have to bring like,

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I have to bring a bag, just everything bagels, a bag of everything bagels. That's right.

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It doesn't matter which bagel shop it's from, but it has to be like from a bagel

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shop in New Jersey, not a supermarket. You got to go to a bagel shop and get

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a baker's dozen of bagels. And I wrap them and I put them in things.

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And then you got to like double wrap the bag or your whole car smells like everything bagels.

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So, yeah. Great story. One of the first times he traveled home from college,

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he flew back to Indianapolis to go back to college.

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And in his carry-on, he took a bag of everything bagels.

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And his entire carry-on smelled like everything bagels. Forever.

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It's like, new bag. Get a new bag. Oh, Joey, you dummy. Oh, my goodness.

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Oh, God. Great story. Yeah. I mean, it's been very chilly. But I think that

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we're getting – I'm going to say we're getting out of it. Probably not.

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We'll probably be back into it.

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But it wasn't. Well, it's Groundhog Day. It's Groundhog Day on Sunday.

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February 2nd. Is it February 2nd Groundhog Day? Okay. A little shout out here

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to, you know, one of our viewers, faithful friend of the pod.

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I know where we're going with this. So in New Jersey, so of course,

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everybody knows Paxitoni Phil, right?

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Paxitoni Phil is that famous guy from PA, but we're in the NJ.

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Also highlighted in a phenomenal movie, Groundhog Day, with Bill Murray.

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Excellent movie. So good. Yes.

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And so there is a town in New Jersey, there might be more than one.

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I don't know. I've never heard of them. Only one where they have a groundhog,

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a beloved groundhog, like Miltown, Millstoneville or something.

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And so our good friend of the pod, her sister, it won't have to take a day off

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of work this year because it's on a Sunday.

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But she takes the day off of work to fully and truly appreciate the groundhog. Oh my goodness.

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I just Googled something. This just in.

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So apparently for the fifth year in a row, Milltown, New Jersey is canceling

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their Groundhog Day celebration because they can't get a groundhog.

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I think that there was like a stuffed groundhog in a box or something. No, no.

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She still celebrates it. Like someone has a little event in their house and

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they go and they do it. Maybe it's underground secrets.

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The problem started in 2021 when Milltown Mill died.

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Wranglers found a replacement in Tennessee.

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Wranglers found a replacement in Tennessee and brought it to town to assume

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the important role. But they had to surrender the replacement groundhog to state officials.

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Thanks to a state law that bans importing animals who have the potential to carry rabies.

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I've had a groundhog in my backyard for the last two years. We've given up trying

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to catch it. It just lays on a rock and suns itself taunting us each morning.

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Perhaps I can try one more time and deliver him to Milltown.

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Well, if you are still in need of your Groundhog Day fix in Essex County at

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the Turtleback Zoo, you can watch Edwina, the groundhog, make her weather prediction for this year.

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I was just listening to you give this entire huge story about Milltown and Milltown

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Mel and the groundhog. And for five years, it's been canceled.

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Yes, but it's not canceled in her heart. It's not canceled for her.

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What is happening? She still participates.

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I have a good friend of mine who also lives in Milltown. And it's a great town.

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It really is. It's a wonderful little town in New Jersey.

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It's so cute. Great little community. Do they get invited? Because I've been

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invited. I have not been invited.

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I also don't get invited to Mom's Pool Day. It's a thing.

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Um so keyword moms but yeah so i started messing around a couple years ago when

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they had mom's pool day and i'd be like oh i should go to mom's pool day i should

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show up at mom's pool day so every year our this viewer robin who posts a picture

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is like and she writes the most wonderful,

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things about people we've talked about robin before about how she should

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give lessons on empathy empathy towards others because she

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really is a just a gentle soul and a kind heart and also

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hysterical um so she posts

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this picture every year like hey mom's pool day ims everybody made it so i like

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of course take the picture and then i crop myself in the photo in some way where

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i'm like standing in the corner or i'm over someone's shoulder and then i always

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text the whole group be like hey had such a fun time today i mean they're a very inclusive group.

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But yeah so so it's groundhog day it's coming and of course you know i can't

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i was just telling um one of the younger gentlemen that we work with, um,

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recently about Groundhog Day.

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And I always have this, I have this paper, um, that I do, uh,

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just like a little piece of information for the kids and, you know, the, the, um,

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the history of Groundhog Day and how it was called Candle Moss,

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a Candle Moss view, uh, you know, fair and light and winter takes another flight.

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And really it's just the actual six week midpoint between the first day of winter

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and the first day of spring.

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So it's, you know, it's the exact midpoint.

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And he was like, what? I was like, this is this is silly.

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But also, don't we all know like this little apparently know this little tidbit about Groundhog Day?

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So, yeah. So I feel like we're halfway. We're getting there.

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We're almost halfway through the school year. Unbelievable.

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And, you know, and it's it's all, you know, we've been clicking up the coaster

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and we're just, you know, it's going to be. Yeah.

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We're going to be swinging into warmer weather. Yeah. I don't know if we,

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I think you were about to say smooth sailing, which would have been like,

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no, it's more like a white knuckle ride.

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Sailing takes me away. Oh, that's good stuff. Oh my gosh. Yeah. It's good stuff.

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So we, um, I really look forward to March 1st because that's the beginning of

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meteorological spring. Is that because of your B day?

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Uh, no, it really is because of meteorological spring. Like they start measuring

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like, like meteorological winter is over as of the end of February.

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So they start measuring like rainfall and stuff like that from March 1st to May 31st.

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And then June 1st starts meteorological summer. So that's what I like to.

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Nerds, nerds, nerds, nerds.

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Well, I think I think we found a soundbite for this clip.

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So you also are doing a Let's talk about your Valentine's Day project Because

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this episode is going to be coming out right before Valentine's Day So I know

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you're doing a Valentine's Day project Which I think is very adorable But I'm

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going to talk to our listeners And give the brief story about how Mrs.

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Wonko became Leslie Knope Oh my goodness, I mean bring me a waffle At that exact moment Yeah.

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I get these moments of time where I'm just filled with pure hope.

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For, for all good things. And, um, and of course,

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you know, I try to, um, we actually, I, and I think, I think there's,

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you know, people in school that are like this and I, we have a boss that is

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really super, um, like try new things and try new things and try new things.

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And, you know, we've talked about before, I do like to try new things in my

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classroom. I also really do enjoy things that I, I know work, right.

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You know, because you just are like, wow, this is the standard. I know it's going to go.

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Um, so I, I really liked my black history month project last year.

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You probably remember, um, it was born from the idea of the children, like whisper talking.

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I, I, I, if you weren't doing that, I want to do it. Uh, but if you're doing

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it, like I'll tell, like, that's fine. But I thought it was a great idea.

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Thank you. So I was like, I can see you guys whispering.

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So I called it the Tell Me Project.

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And I had them research three people.

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I told them about three people. I wanted them to research three people for Black History Month.

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And then they had to tell three adults and three children for each of the three

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people and then have the person sign that they told them. I don't want you to

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read it. I don't want you to.

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I want you to just conversationally talk about this person that you have information

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about. And it It can be anybody that you choose.

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So I'm going to do the Tell Me Project again, which is a repeat project from

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last year. So I thought, you know what, let me do something different for the month of February.

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So I do, you know, I do, I know that SEL, social emotional learning,

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has become, you know, in our school

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district, it was, there was a big push for it for quite a long time.

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And I think most, you know, good teachers just incorporate it into everything they do.

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I agree that they do anyway, but we had become, it had become like very formalized.

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And now our school district took it from the teachers and now it's just in gym.

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And so the description that I get like for my own kids is like,

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I don't know, sometimes we don't do, sometimes we don't play gym.

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We just fill out a, a, like a booklet, like a workbook.

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And I don't want, I don't want to comment on where it is or what the district policy is.

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However, at the middle school level, the one place where they get to blow off

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some steam, run around, release some endorphins, laugh, play a game,

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is in gym. They gotta be running.

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Let me say it. What the hell are we doing? I'll do it in social studies.

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Give it to me. I'll do it. Let them run around in gym. I would rather them run

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around in gym and play a game and have a good time to have them a little bit of a release.

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I mean, come on, adults think about it you some of you people

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work in offices or those of us that are teachers that

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are listening we get to a professional period and you're like uh

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nope i'm gonna sit and scroll on my phone or i'm

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gonna read a book or i'm gonna go walk on

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a treadmill or go for a walk outside or run

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an errand real quick like we like i just can i just say what one of the eighth

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graders that's me it's just so funny mark like as i know i know you want to

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jump in here and i if you're watching this on youtube you can literally see

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me getting angry it's like i know that this is not this is not my vibe wait

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come here i'll come back come back ready i'm here i'm good okay,

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maybe i need some sel in gym class we have another initiative in our school

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that's called movement monday yes to encourage movement so yes they need to

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go to gym and they need to run around and so the kids some are really you know

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um some are fine with it and then of course like anything else.

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They're like, I don't know. I can't.

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You know, they get like glued to their chair, embarrassed. I get like different

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environments. You're in your classroom, whatever.

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So I was like, it's not a big deal. We're going to do a little bit of yoga.

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Come on. You know, they say sitting is the new smoking.

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Right. Yeah. And one of the eighth graders is like, oh, I'd rather smoke.

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I'm sorry, but whoever that kid is, whoever that kid is, I want to be their

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best friend because that's that is comedy gold right there.

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That is that is literally comedy gold. I probably would have vomited from laughing

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so hard. I was like, no, no, no.

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But it was really, it was so funny the way she said it and just like, nope.

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That is hysterical. We got to get up. We got to move. But yes.

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So I do try to do some SEL as best as I can.

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So for February, I found this really cute little mug and it says like mug of love.

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And then you have these little hearts and you have to write almost like as if

00:16:01.768 --> 00:16:02.668
they were marshmallows.

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And you're just drinking like a delicious cup of cocoa, cocoa of love.

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And then you fill the hearts on top of the little paper mug.

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And, um, and you say, you know, what fills your, um, like just what fills you.

00:16:16.948 --> 00:16:21.668
Um, and horrible, love it. So cute. So I'm like, ah, you know what we're going to do?

00:16:21.908 --> 00:16:27.508
I'm going to buy lunch bags on Amazon and we are going to,

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I'm going to staple like all the mugs to the front of the lunch bags and then

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I'm going to make more of the little hearts and I'm going to let them write

00:16:35.288 --> 00:16:39.368
messages of encouragement to other kids.

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So I have about a hundred kids and everybody's going to be able to like,

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and I'm now I'm like, Oh my gosh, isn't this so cute? And what a great idea. And Mr. Vitale.

00:16:49.308 --> 00:16:52.968
So she immediately became Leslie Knope in that moment where she was talking,

00:16:53.028 --> 00:16:55.408
it's going to be so great. It's going to bring community together.

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Everything's going to be amazing and then i just snapped to her standing

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at the board in front of a group of students and i have my eyes closed

00:17:02.028 --> 00:17:04.628
as i'm telling you this story standing at the board in front of a

00:17:04.628 --> 00:17:07.308
group of students where she reaches into the bag and she pulls out

00:17:07.308 --> 00:17:10.108
one of the hearts she goes oh let's see what somebody says about someone oh

00:17:10.108 --> 00:17:13.748
buttholes why did somebody write the holes on this piece of like it's middle

00:17:13.748 --> 00:17:19.468
school kids i also know that they probably will not do that they might but they

00:17:19.468 --> 00:17:23.788
might i'm willing to pay like oh you're such a skibbity toilet ohio rizzler

00:17:23.788 --> 00:17:26.028
which apparently is a compliment, I guess.

00:17:26.748 --> 00:17:33.208
Of course it is. Yeah, on God, bruh. So, it is, there's another clip for the

00:17:33.208 --> 00:17:34.688
episode. It's all over the place.

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Wait, and you know how I have all these closets and the closets are wood,

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so you can't see into the closets.

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And so I had to make signs because people would come in and be like.

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Some color pencils. So I have a label. Right.

00:17:54.123 --> 00:17:57.143
So it was like, you got any books in here? So I have like one that says all

00:17:57.143 --> 00:17:59.243
the books and then one that says like Mrs.

00:17:59.323 --> 00:18:02.263
Wonko's personal cabinet, which now is going to have to include like,

00:18:02.463 --> 00:18:03.763
don't, that means don't touch it.

00:18:03.883 --> 00:18:07.683
I don't know where, we don't know that personal means like, don't go in there, but whatever.

00:18:08.323 --> 00:18:14.603
So of course my art closet, someone wrote F above the art.

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I also want to be that. kid's best friend when i

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first discovered it i was like and laughed and

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i don't know if like if it was one of my kids or

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i share my classroom or another but i they were like oh my gosh you're laughing

00:18:31.863 --> 00:18:35.203
and i was like i'm laughing i'm not taking it down i mean the closet says fart

00:18:35.203 --> 00:18:40.943
that is so funny it's not funny to face other people's problems it is not but

00:18:40.943 --> 00:18:43.423
if you got something when the door opened that it made a fart noise.

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That would just be the best thing ever.

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Challenge accepted. So anyway, now that we've bantered on and about.

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There's a lot of happenings. There's a lot of happenings. It's a big deal.

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So one of the things that's happened in the last few weeks is our governor,

00:19:00.683 --> 00:19:04.983
Phil Murphy, during the most recent state of the state address,

00:19:05.203 --> 00:19:06.803
talked about a lot of things.

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But one of the things he mentioned was having a more supportive environment.

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I want to make sure I get the wording correctly for schools to create policy

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that's going to limit cell phone use during the school day.

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And I think that's an important conversation for us to start having.

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We could probably talk for the next couple of episodes about this.

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What does limit use during the school day? Well, that's what I want to,

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I want to kind of. It's very wide open for interpretation. It's very wide open for interpretation.

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I'm going to try and find some more specifics on the exact wording of what he said in the speech.

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I mean, a lot of school districts already have cell phone policies,

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but like, are they enforced?

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I mean, honestly, I mean, my husband's school district, it's very strictly enforced.

00:20:02.818 --> 00:20:07.418
It is, you know, something that is on the very top of their priority list.

00:20:07.598 --> 00:20:14.278
My my kids, it would be like a yes, but then also a no. I think it depends on age level also.

00:20:14.458 --> 00:20:18.158
But my my girls just like they leave them in their lockers.

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They never think of taking them with them. So, you know,

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I would imagine that it would be impossible to have parents agree not to send

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their children to school without the phone.

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Yeah, that would be impossible. Just impossible. ball.

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I was trying to say today, it would make me so happy if we had no water bottles.

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And all your water bottles stayed in your locker with your phones.

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And that seemed like the most outrageous idea that they had ever heard.

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But I don't know. I mean, as a parent, I want my kids to have my phone, I'll tell you.

00:21:04.038 --> 00:21:08.878
Not in the classroom, but I like that they have it in their backpacks, I will say. Yeah.

00:21:09.158 --> 00:21:12.478
So New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy calling for a statewide ban on cell phone

00:21:12.478 --> 00:21:15.178
use in public schools for students in grades K through 12.

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If a kindergartner has a phone, it's a bigger problem. They're fueling a rise

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in cyberbullying, and they're making it incredibly difficult for our kids not

00:21:23.358 --> 00:21:25.738
only to learn, but to retain substance of what they learn.

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Honestly, is it any surprise that the rise in smartphone usage has coincided

00:21:30.418 --> 00:21:32.518
with a growing youth mental health crisis?

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Murphy said he doesn't give any facts or figures.

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We were supposed to read that book, remember?

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Yeah, we were. We've got to do that. That's on the list. We're putting it on

00:21:43.378 --> 00:21:45.698
the list. That is on the list. That is on the list.

00:21:46.218 --> 00:21:49.898
He says he will no longer sit back and watch kids suffer. But here's the thing.

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Don't get me wrong. I think this is honestly a great idea. There's been some.

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Locally in our local school district, there was a board member that asked,

00:22:01.438 --> 00:22:05.878
hey, parents, what would you think about the district banning the use of cell

00:22:05.878 --> 00:22:06.878
phones during the school day?

00:22:06.878 --> 00:22:14.438
And a lot of parents and teachers commented on that thread. And most of it was,

00:22:14.598 --> 00:22:16.638
yes, absolutely, from parents and from teachers.

00:22:16.798 --> 00:22:22.798
There were some parents that are also teachers, which is exactly where we are.

00:22:22.918 --> 00:22:27.198
So it becomes a very difficult thing to...

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It becomes a very, a very difficult thing for us to separate being a teacher and being a parent.

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It's, it's, it's a challenge for me literally every day when something happens

00:22:38.153 --> 00:22:41.033
in my kid's classroom and they come home and they talk about it.

00:22:41.193 --> 00:22:45.073
I try to react as a parent, not as a teacher in front of them.

00:22:45.193 --> 00:22:47.313
And then sometimes when I go behind closed doors, like what,

00:22:47.313 --> 00:22:50.773
what exactly was that teacher thinking? Like try to put myself in their shoes. Okay.

00:22:51.373 --> 00:22:57.153
Um, so I don't think there's a specific statewide policy.

00:22:57.353 --> 00:23:04.033
Okay. OK, but Indiana, Ohio, South Carolina, Louisiana is becoming a national issue. The U.S.

00:23:04.333 --> 00:23:07.033
Department of Education called on every state school and district on Tuesday

00:23:07.033 --> 00:23:09.593
to adopt policies on cell phone use in schools.

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I don't think that schools don't have. What are they doing with the phones?

00:23:15.513 --> 00:23:19.693
Like all day long? They're on them? What's happening? So, yeah,

00:23:19.713 --> 00:23:25.793
there are some districts that started to institute the yonder pouches.

00:23:25.913 --> 00:23:27.953
Have you heard about the yonder pouches? Do you know what those are?

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And so you put your phone in it, it locks. And then at the end of the day, it unlocks.

00:23:32.653 --> 00:23:35.553
Yeah. So there are some musical artists.

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I don't remember exactly where it started. There are some musical artists as

00:23:38.213 --> 00:23:43.073
well as comedians who basically were like, look, put the phones down.

00:23:43.473 --> 00:23:45.373
Enjoy the experience. Be here.

00:23:46.453 --> 00:23:50.233
Enjoy the moment. You know, it is someone's intellectual property as well,

00:23:50.633 --> 00:23:53.093
right? Some people, like some artists don't care.

00:23:53.313 --> 00:23:56.233
They want people to post on social media and get the notoriety out there.

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But there is a sense of like being in the moment.

00:24:00.491 --> 00:24:04.211
At the time doing that particular thing with all those people,

00:24:04.911 --> 00:24:09.551
like there is a, there's a sense of, of community and togetherness,

00:24:09.551 --> 00:24:13.351
like at a concert or at a comedy show where, you know, you're,

00:24:13.411 --> 00:24:15.451
you're literally viewing someone else's art, right?

00:24:15.611 --> 00:24:19.211
So they want people to be present and be in the moment and not be like on their

00:24:19.211 --> 00:24:23.571
phones, looking at stuff for, or, or recording and then looking at the stage

00:24:23.571 --> 00:24:26.191
through the recording. Like it's, it's, it's a challenge.

00:24:26.551 --> 00:24:31.291
Yeah. Um, but now that's been adapted in schools, it's cost prohibitive. It's not cheap.

00:24:31.851 --> 00:24:35.911
No, it's expensive. It is. I'm, I'm wondering, you know, if it,

00:24:36.251 --> 00:24:40.231
how much of a majority, you know, I would imagine this is like a,

00:24:40.511 --> 00:24:45.111
at the very earliest, like a fourth grade problem through, you know,

00:24:45.231 --> 00:24:49.911
high school, I would think it would probably reach like its peak in high school.

00:24:50.011 --> 00:24:54.591
Um, and though it, so between grades nine through 12, um, I'm curious also,

00:24:54.591 --> 00:25:00.351
as far as colleges is concerned, you know, how much of that is happening in colleges.

00:25:00.591 --> 00:25:05.671
The thing that I don't necessarily, you know, always understand with phones

00:25:05.671 --> 00:25:12.951
or something that does bother me, and it's a very like Fahrenheit 451 situation, are the AirPods.

00:25:13.491 --> 00:25:16.891
And I know that, you know, in the last couple of years, they've become,

00:25:16.971 --> 00:25:21.411
you know, so wildly popular and they were expensive. And now people,

00:25:21.591 --> 00:25:24.991
you know, it's Christmas and birthdays and everybody has them, right?

00:25:25.351 --> 00:25:29.671
And they're, you know, tucked into their tiny ears. And they don't even know

00:25:29.671 --> 00:25:31.631
sometimes that, you know,

00:25:31.791 --> 00:25:38.571
that there's a world going on around them because they're so stuck in this,

00:25:38.571 --> 00:25:40.491
whatever it is that they're doing.

00:25:40.731 --> 00:25:45.671
Is it, is it different? I mean, you or I in high school never would have sat

00:25:45.671 --> 00:25:47.931
at our desk with our Walkman.

00:25:48.131 --> 00:25:52.531
We had, you know, we had the capability of doing that. Would anyone have ever done that?

00:25:53.831 --> 00:25:59.051
I don't think so. Maybe the most musically inclined introverted kid.

00:25:59.251 --> 00:26:04.711
I don't mean it in any negative way. But I can't recall anyone ever having something

00:26:04.711 --> 00:26:07.471
like that in a classroom.

00:26:07.731 --> 00:26:13.811
So they're just, it was a 0%, right? It wasn't happening. So now we have kids that have devices.

00:26:14.291 --> 00:26:21.091
And on top of the devices, there's another level of now you have another device. So you have two.

00:26:22.291 --> 00:26:25.111
And then sometimes there's something happening in the front of the room,

00:26:25.131 --> 00:26:29.711
on a screen, and then you're on your own computer, and then you're also on your

00:26:29.711 --> 00:26:32.811
own phone with it in your ears.

00:26:32.811 --> 00:26:38.591
So there was a really great, I know you show CNN 10 sometimes too, to your classes.

00:26:38.751 --> 00:26:46.511
So there was a really great clip or segment rather last week about just exactly

00:26:46.511 --> 00:26:56.971
how distracted we have all become and how multitasking is essentially.

00:26:58.709 --> 00:27:04.729
Just wrecking our brains and what it's doing to us and how draining it is.

00:27:05.089 --> 00:27:11.629
Yeah. And I'm, I'm, you know, I've really been trying to be more conscious of that.

00:27:11.809 --> 00:27:15.269
I think as it struck me more as a teacher than anything else,

00:27:15.369 --> 00:27:19.289
because we are the very definition of multitaskers.

00:27:19.449 --> 00:27:20.929
I mean, are you ever just do it?

00:27:21.489 --> 00:27:24.149
No, ever doing one thing. You know what?

00:27:24.149 --> 00:27:26.909
It's interesting that you brought this up two things i just want to

00:27:26.909 --> 00:27:29.569
pop back to the yonder conversation okay what the

00:27:29.569 --> 00:27:33.029
yonder pouch is it's a pouch that a student is assigned yeah

00:27:33.029 --> 00:27:35.889
they put their phone in the pouch it gets locked via a

00:27:35.889 --> 00:27:41.989
magnetic thing kind of like those uh you know the the the sensors on the clothing

00:27:41.989 --> 00:27:45.169
right it's got like a little pin that locks did a full i think we did a whole

00:27:45.169 --> 00:27:50.029
episode on yonder pouches last year wasn't it linden yeah yeah there was all

00:27:50.029 --> 00:27:53.429
such apparent backlash and issues that were surrounding it.

00:27:53.589 --> 00:27:56.629
And then kids go to like stations that are by the door at the end of the day,

00:27:56.789 --> 00:27:59.489
they tap it and then they're out and they're gone. Okay.

00:27:59.949 --> 00:28:03.589
So of course, students that have medical needs, if they have to get blood glucose

00:28:03.589 --> 00:28:09.149
and stuff like that, but you know, even when like, there are certain things

00:28:09.149 --> 00:28:10.309
that are not enforceable.

00:28:10.489 --> 00:28:13.829
Like if you confiscate a kid's phone, they get the phone back at the end of the day.

00:28:14.089 --> 00:28:19.189
Like why is a parent after two times, three times, not required to come get their device.

00:28:19.589 --> 00:28:23.529
I don't know why. I don't know what the district stance is. I don't know what other districts do.

00:28:23.689 --> 00:28:29.649
I'm just saying in general, that doesn't seem unreasonable if you're trying to change behavior.

00:28:30.829 --> 00:28:34.169
That's number one. Number two, you talked about the multitasking aspect.

00:28:34.529 --> 00:28:36.689
I had this thing that I was doing about the executive branch,

00:28:36.769 --> 00:28:41.049
a little video about the president's plane because the kids were interested on presidential perks.

00:28:41.229 --> 00:28:44.429
We were talking about the White House and the Secret Service and his air

00:28:44.429 --> 00:28:47.129
force one air force one and then the limousine i was like oh there's actually

00:28:47.129 --> 00:28:51.909
a good documentary about now i said documentary and everybody's like i was like

00:28:51.909 --> 00:28:56.209
no no wait i was like and i was like i was like this is actually interesting

00:28:56.209 --> 00:29:01.409
i've actually watched it with my wife in the room um and i don't know if i actually

00:29:01.409 --> 00:29:03.649
watched that one and she was like achoo she,

00:29:04.169 --> 00:29:07.349
she's my barometer like if she stays awake it's normally interesting

00:29:07.349 --> 00:29:10.269
because she doesn't really like some of the same history stuff that i do yeah but

00:29:10.269 --> 00:29:13.109
like it's interesting so i gave them like this little thing to follow

00:29:13.109 --> 00:29:16.069
along like multiple choice questions just a couple and what

00:29:16.069 --> 00:29:18.849
is it what's it called i want to watch it uh it was the

00:29:18.849 --> 00:29:21.869
flying fortress air force one flying fortress it basically was the update

00:29:21.869 --> 00:29:28.009
of the um supposed to be updated by now but due to due the pandemic and boeing

00:29:28.009 --> 00:29:34.029
shutdown uh pentagon security issues all sorts of stuff uh the first flight

00:29:34.029 --> 00:29:40.129
of the new air force one is delayed to 2026 um but anyway they they were redesigning the color scheme.

00:29:40.669 --> 00:29:44.849
Um because it's a tool for legislation right so anyway i give them this little

00:29:44.849 --> 00:29:48.029
video it's got 10 questions on it and a question at the end and one girl at

00:29:48.029 --> 00:29:51.289
one point was like oh i like i'm missing parts of the video because i'm like

00:29:51.289 --> 00:29:53.149
trying to answer the questions above i was like,

00:29:53.659 --> 00:29:56.859
I stopped the video. I said, is this too difficult for some of you?

00:29:56.999 --> 00:30:00.279
And I said, and they kind of looked at me and said, I don't mean that in a rude way.

00:30:00.539 --> 00:30:03.159
Like, is this too difficult for you? Like, I meant that as like,

00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:06.559
if you're struggling with that, then let's like, forget about the multiple choice

00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:08.139
questions. Like, I know you're all paying attention.

00:30:08.339 --> 00:30:12.719
I'd rather us discuss the last question, right? Why is it? Why do you think it's important?

00:30:13.319 --> 00:30:19.339
And how does it allow the president to administer policy?

00:30:19.539 --> 00:30:22.139
Right? Because we talked about foreign policy and domestic policy. Like,

00:30:22.219 --> 00:30:25.379
how does it allow him to do his job i said so write some bullet points down

00:30:25.379 --> 00:30:28.999
as your as your if something pops in your head they were much more inclined

00:30:28.999 --> 00:30:33.439
to do that which is more less labor intensive than like multiple choice questions

00:30:33.439 --> 00:30:37.359
along yes the line because i think they struggle with that because.

00:30:38.739 --> 00:30:41.559
Of their ability with the phones in the hands

00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:44.339
like at the end of the school day it's phones in

00:30:44.339 --> 00:30:47.039
the hand airpods are in and we're walking out to the bus and we're

00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:49.879
walking home and we're flipping on tiktok and insta face

00:30:49.879 --> 00:30:52.659
and chat book and all those other things that they're on i sound like an old person

00:30:52.659 --> 00:30:55.359
um or discord i don't know what

00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:59.179
that is i've heard it mentioned yes you don't

00:30:59.179 --> 00:31:04.339
really really really i'm like you don't really grant my gears there's so there

00:31:04.339 --> 00:31:07.979
is and so the idea of you know how do you make it how do you how do you become

00:31:07.979 --> 00:31:14.399
more simplistic uh simplify do you see your day-to-day um do you have it like

00:31:14.399 --> 00:31:17.479
is that something that comes up i haven't seen one phone.

00:31:18.459 --> 00:31:24.819
I do. I do. Listen, the way it was stated to us is that the phones are supposed

00:31:24.819 --> 00:31:27.159
to be in their lockers. They're not even supposed to be carried on them.

00:31:28.739 --> 00:31:31.499
There are students that I know carry them around. They have them in their sweatshirt

00:31:31.499 --> 00:31:35.079
pocket. I can see it. They have them in the pocking of their leggings.

00:31:37.879 --> 00:31:42.119
What, like during hallway passing is when I see that. if you are my student,

00:31:42.379 --> 00:31:49.219
if you are on my roster of 100 students and I see you because I've been told

00:31:49.219 --> 00:31:52.139
to make sure that students have it in their locker.

00:31:52.339 --> 00:31:57.219
So if I see you when I'm teaching you or when I'm not teaching you with the

00:31:57.219 --> 00:32:01.499
phone in the pocket or in the waistband of your pants or in the pocket of your

00:32:01.499 --> 00:32:06.059
sweatshirt, I'm telling you to go put it away because I am a soldier, not a general.

00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:08.759
I've been told what I'm supposed to be doing and that's what I'm doing.

00:32:08.779 --> 00:32:10.459
I'm addressing the students that I teach.

00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:12.759
Now, if I don't teach you, I'm not going to get to that argument.

00:32:13.399 --> 00:32:18.739
It's a larger argument for me. It's a sword I want to die on that we all should

00:32:18.739 --> 00:32:21.999
be doing that because I look like.

00:32:22.917 --> 00:32:27.717
I look like the a-hole when I'm the one that's forcing kids to do it and no one else is.

00:32:27.917 --> 00:32:30.777
I'm not saying no one else is, but when people aren't like- Well,

00:32:30.777 --> 00:32:32.557
I think you have to- Well, I don't know.

00:32:33.057 --> 00:32:38.857
Maybe this will just speak a little bit to a guest that we had talked to,

00:32:38.857 --> 00:32:42.937
but it also has to do with how your brain is wired, perhaps.

00:32:43.137 --> 00:32:48.397
Oh, yeah. Of what you do see or don't see. I don't know if there's that we can

00:32:48.397 --> 00:32:53.217
say we can lump everybody together and say that they're just not paying attention

00:32:53.217 --> 00:32:55.217
to it. No. Yeah. I understand.

00:32:55.717 --> 00:32:59.417
Tons of adults who are just not even seeing it.

00:32:59.597 --> 00:33:04.097
Well, and the other thing is in my defense, also where I am in my building,

00:33:04.097 --> 00:33:08.397
I am not by lockers or I'm in a different part of the hallway where I don't

00:33:08.397 --> 00:33:11.657
get a lot of the hallway, the hallway mess, if you will.

00:33:11.797 --> 00:33:15.357
Like kids stopping at the lockers. Same. I love it. I do enjoy not having to

00:33:15.357 --> 00:33:20.797
deal with that. So I only see a certain amount of kids that are passing in my general area.

00:33:20.937 --> 00:33:24.277
But when they come to my classroom, that's my expectation. It doesn't matter

00:33:24.277 --> 00:33:25.757
when I see it or how I see it.

00:33:26.797 --> 00:33:30.317
It's being put back in your locker. Yeah. And if you're in a cafeteria and I

00:33:30.317 --> 00:33:31.977
see you, it's being put back in your locker.

00:33:32.157 --> 00:33:35.757
If they take it out and they're playing with it or they're doing something with

00:33:35.757 --> 00:33:38.197
it, then it gets confiscated. Right.

00:33:38.797 --> 00:33:41.857
And it gets put away. It gets sent to the office.

00:33:42.337 --> 00:33:48.277
Yeah. So I guess I'm looking at it more from the, you know, if it's not out

00:33:48.277 --> 00:33:50.177
and you're not on it and you're not using it.

00:33:50.457 --> 00:33:53.457
Although I have to say, like, I'm not supposed to be on my phone either.

00:33:53.697 --> 00:33:57.677
And today I, like, full disclosure, had a sick child at home and had to say

00:33:57.677 --> 00:34:00.557
to the kids, like, I have to check my messages.

00:34:00.997 --> 00:34:04.997
You know, and I had to fall. Right. Yeah. We recently got that about being on

00:34:04.997 --> 00:34:06.217
duty and not being on our phones.

00:34:06.217 --> 00:34:10.117
I said the other day, I said, guys, I, I put a call into my,

00:34:10.217 --> 00:34:14.477
um, my, my, my daughter has to have a minor surgical procedure and you know

00:34:14.477 --> 00:34:16.737
how it is when you call a doctor and you need them to call you back.

00:34:16.857 --> 00:34:20.677
When they call you back, that's your window. Like, and, and they're busy.

00:34:20.977 --> 00:34:24.657
Like, like I got to pick up, I said, if they call, I'm going to pick up the phone.

00:34:25.157 --> 00:34:27.877
Uh, just say, Hey, you know, hold on a minute. I'll pop out in the hallway.

00:34:28.097 --> 00:34:31.757
I'll have it. So another teacher come in. I said, so I got my phone on today. It's on my desk.

00:34:32.517 --> 00:34:36.077
So if it goes off, uh, you know, I got to take the call. It's one of those parenting things.

00:34:36.357 --> 00:34:40.017
And nobody, I got, um, got it. Yeah. Like the kids aren't going to say to you

00:34:40.017 --> 00:34:41.937
like, Ooh, what are you doing that?

00:34:41.977 --> 00:34:44.597
And I can't, I'm like, well, do you have kids? No. Okay. Well, be quiet.

00:34:45.197 --> 00:34:51.737
Um, no, I got an email from the school nurse. I thought this was just like, so beyond thoughtful.

00:34:52.037 --> 00:34:58.037
Um, so my, my, um, daughter had to come home sick and I got an email from the school nurse.

00:34:58.117 --> 00:35:01.617
Um, and it said, you know, I'm, I'm sure that it's, you know,

00:35:01.717 --> 00:35:03.637
impossible for you to use the phone.

00:35:03.857 --> 00:35:06.257
Um, I want you to know this is what's happening.

00:35:06.477 --> 00:35:09.417
This is what she, yeah. And I was like, gosh, that's so nice.

00:35:09.477 --> 00:35:13.797
And it really was so terrific because then I was able to like email, respond back to her.

00:35:13.957 --> 00:35:15.657
And then she emailed, respond back

00:35:15.657 --> 00:35:18.877
to me. And it was like, see you in 10 minutes. It was like, I gotta go.

00:35:19.057 --> 00:35:22.077
Um, but I just thought, wow, that was, that was really so thoughtful of her

00:35:22.077 --> 00:35:25.177
because it is, you know, we're in a sticky spot, but I get what you're saying.

00:35:25.217 --> 00:35:30.337
So you're making the distinction between not on it, but on you can see it.

00:35:31.057 --> 00:35:33.317
And I guess because of what we've been told by,

00:35:33.846 --> 00:35:38.806
A hundred percent. That's what the rule is. A hundred percent. So, yeah. Okay.

00:35:39.406 --> 00:35:44.166
So, um, the, I've actually used, I've actually used a line from you where you've

00:35:44.166 --> 00:35:47.666
said like, um, I like a good work environment, right?

00:35:47.746 --> 00:35:51.306
I don't exactly what, remember exactly what you said. Like, I like good work environment.

00:35:51.466 --> 00:35:54.726
This work environment is provided for me. And like, because I want to have that

00:35:54.726 --> 00:35:59.466
good work environment. I, I like, I often talk, we talk about law with our students

00:35:59.466 --> 00:36:03.886
all the time, even though it's a history class, like you can't be like, stop signs.

00:36:04.026 --> 00:36:07.586
I don't like stop signs. Stop signs are stupid. I want a red sign.

00:36:08.006 --> 00:36:12.886
Tell me what to do and where to go. Because if you do that, that causes disorder

00:36:12.886 --> 00:36:14.886
in society. I realize it's a phone.

00:36:15.046 --> 00:36:19.606
Like I realized that I'm just saying like there are sometimes we have to do

00:36:19.606 --> 00:36:25.006
things that we might not necessarily support or see the purpose of for quote unquote greater good.

00:36:25.726 --> 00:36:31.126
Right. Well, I mean, it's part of what's, you know, the basics of being part of a civilized society.

00:36:31.566 --> 00:36:36.746
So if the rule is this is what you're doing, then this is what you're doing.

00:36:37.426 --> 00:36:43.206
The difficulty, I suppose, with, you know, like being in a vehicle and running a red, you know,

00:36:43.346 --> 00:36:48.666
running a sub sign, it's a lot more difficult to police, you know,

00:36:48.726 --> 00:36:53.406
the small device that they're hiding on their person on purpose because a lot

00:36:53.406 --> 00:36:55.206
of them are really good at hiding it.

00:36:56.306 --> 00:37:00.246
You know, so that, that definitely gets in, um, you know, into a gray area.

00:37:00.626 --> 00:37:07.786
I, um, think that it really should be, um, you know, in enforced as, as much as possible.

00:37:08.466 --> 00:37:12.726
And, um, and I, I get it. Like, I do think that this, this situation becomes

00:37:12.726 --> 00:37:16.626
sticky because there's going to be so many parents who are not going to want

00:37:16.626 --> 00:37:21.866
them to, um, you know, a lot of parents will defend having them have the phones.

00:37:23.846 --> 00:37:28.686
I just don't know. I, I get it. I just don't understand the logic behind that.

00:37:28.826 --> 00:37:32.646
And now they can't really, I do, but they can't fight it now.

00:37:32.886 --> 00:37:35.526
Um, one of the parents, um, on that post that you had mentioned earlier,

00:37:35.526 --> 00:37:38.666
um, who works in the district and is a parent, um, here as well,

00:37:38.826 --> 00:37:43.146
brought up a really, really, really great point. Uh, because one parent had

00:37:43.146 --> 00:37:46.366
said, you know, um, I want my child to have their cell phone. It's a safety issue.

00:37:46.606 --> 00:37:50.466
And the, and the mom said, um, who happens to work in the district,

00:37:50.586 --> 00:37:54.786
her response back was, well, in our school district, they just installed new

00:37:54.786 --> 00:38:01.466
phones in every single classroom and every single classroom phone can now dial out 911.

00:38:02.446 --> 00:38:05.886
I thought, geez, there's no better, right? Like, shut it down.

00:38:06.166 --> 00:38:10.146
And that's a state mandate. I think the reason we got those new phones was because,

00:38:10.286 --> 00:38:13.706
I don't want to use the word mandate, but there's some kind of legislation or

00:38:13.706 --> 00:38:15.306
law that was put out there that we have to do it.

00:38:15.946 --> 00:38:18.486
But are we trying to put the...

00:38:19.326 --> 00:38:21.506
Like trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

00:38:22.521 --> 00:38:28.261
Like, is that what we're doing right now? No. And I think it's a very age level specific problem.

00:38:28.461 --> 00:38:35.621
I mean, maybe I'm, you know, misinformed, but I would say average child gets

00:38:35.621 --> 00:38:39.761
a phone, you know, at 10, 11 years old.

00:38:40.001 --> 00:38:44.921
However, it did say like kindergarten through 12th grade. I know you said like, what kindergartner?

00:38:45.421 --> 00:38:51.901
This is what I will say. Um, I know that in, you know, certain more affluent areas, um,

00:38:52.341 --> 00:38:56.621
and I do know this from, um, my sister's kids, um, they had,

00:38:56.721 --> 00:39:01.101
um, a very like ride your bike to school, um, sort of town.

00:39:01.101 --> 00:39:05.381
And so, um, the kids would ride their bikes in like first grade,

00:39:05.381 --> 00:39:06.581
you'd ride your bike to school.

00:39:06.741 --> 00:39:10.661
Um, they could leave for lunch, all that kind of stuff. Right. So they had watches.

00:39:10.841 --> 00:39:14.501
Um, I don't even know if, if something has replaced this, um,

00:39:14.661 --> 00:39:17.141
but they had these like specific watches. that were designed, right?

00:39:17.281 --> 00:39:20.621
And they could call, um, you know, you could get like three different numbers.

00:39:20.821 --> 00:39:23.481
You could call three. Now it was a very small, like, um, you know,

00:39:23.721 --> 00:39:26.741
community of people that could, could get you on your watch.

00:39:26.781 --> 00:39:33.821
But I'm just wondering like with smartwatches and, um, not just the AirPods,

00:39:34.101 --> 00:39:37.221
but the smartwatches and then those types of phone devices. And then even,

00:39:37.441 --> 00:39:41.441
you know, there's been some things I've been seeing about the, um, the glasses, right.

00:39:41.561 --> 00:39:44.941
So, you know, you can't legislate because they can be prescription and you can't

00:39:44.941 --> 00:39:46.781
tell somebody they can't wear prescription lenses.

00:39:48.261 --> 00:39:54.981
So it is sort of like, it's widening the like, but that's what happens, right?

00:39:55.061 --> 00:39:58.861
Is that like, give an inch, take a mile, give an inch, take a mile.

00:39:59.101 --> 00:40:05.841
So the practical reasons for things like not having the kids carry their phones around, number one,

00:40:06.041 --> 00:40:09.101
they, they're, if they're all one-to-one and they're on district devices,

00:40:09.101 --> 00:40:14.781
you know, most districts have GoGuardian or some kind of quote-unquote monitoring

00:40:14.781 --> 00:40:16.401
software that's on the computer,

00:40:17.181 --> 00:40:21.581
that both works inside during the school day and outside of the school day.

00:40:22.301 --> 00:40:26.041
Let me just make sure I preface that by saying things like, you know,

00:40:26.141 --> 00:40:30.501
GoGuardian do not allow you to look at a student's computer outside of the time

00:40:30.501 --> 00:40:31.461
that you have them in school.

00:40:31.621 --> 00:40:34.801
However, if a student decides on their.

00:40:37.231 --> 00:40:42.871
Suicide, shooting, you know, violence, pornography, stuff like that on their school device,

00:40:44.271 --> 00:40:48.131
the administrators in those buildings do get an alert that says they viewed

00:40:48.131 --> 00:40:51.851
this content, they've searched for this thing, or GoGuardian monitors that on

00:40:51.851 --> 00:40:55.491
their end, where they could, you know, send authorities to a house like that.

00:40:55.691 --> 00:40:58.091
That's a whole separate thing when we say like, it's monitored.

00:40:58.251 --> 00:41:02.131
Like, it's like, I tell them all the time, like, I can't look at your camera.

00:41:02.571 --> 00:41:06.991
Even if you're on a personal device on your Google account that's run by the

00:41:06.991 --> 00:41:12.731
school, we can't see what you're doing because that's GoGuardian going,

00:41:12.871 --> 00:41:14.811
uh-uh, that's not a school device, that's a personal device.

00:41:14.931 --> 00:41:19.051
Anyway, but if they're using their phone to turn on a hotspot so this way they

00:41:19.051 --> 00:41:24.571
could use their Chromebook and go on a hotspot so they're not on the district

00:41:24.571 --> 00:41:27.351
Wi-Fi so they can't be monitored, that's one thing.

00:41:27.351 --> 00:41:31.491
If they're taking something like a test review and they're reading it into a

00:41:31.491 --> 00:41:34.051
voice note and then listening to it in their AirPods and like,

00:41:34.151 --> 00:41:36.751
Oh, I'm just listening to music, but they're on their personal device,

00:41:36.971 --> 00:41:38.331
listening to the answers of a test.

00:41:38.911 --> 00:41:42.071
Cause these are all things that have been seen. Like, I'm not saying this is

00:41:42.071 --> 00:41:46.451
in all cases, but like, what's the biggest thing that kids want to know when

00:41:46.451 --> 00:41:49.411
they're on their Chromebooks and they're going to be working on something independently?

00:41:49.571 --> 00:41:53.411
What is the first question that they ask? Can I listen to music? Can I listen to music?

00:41:53.671 --> 00:41:56.551
And I always tell them, I have two rules for you. Okay.

00:41:57.031 --> 00:41:59.771
Please get a feel for the assignment before you do anything.

00:41:59.931 --> 00:42:02.531
Take five minutes just to read the directions, go through everything.

00:42:02.771 --> 00:42:05.911
Number two, if I'm asking you to do something and there's a video,

00:42:05.911 --> 00:42:08.751
I can't stop you doing this, right?

00:42:09.151 --> 00:42:12.051
You have to police yourselves. You have to pause your music.

00:42:12.411 --> 00:42:16.211
You have to watch the video, not read the captions, watch and listen to the video.

00:42:17.229 --> 00:42:20.189
Because the things that I've picked for them are curated. Like,

00:42:20.709 --> 00:42:24.449
oh, I have this specific part that I think you're going to learn something from.

00:42:25.969 --> 00:42:29.769
And then I said, then go back to your music. I said, that shows digital responsibility,

00:42:30.029 --> 00:42:32.089
right? I should be expecting you to do that.

00:42:32.389 --> 00:42:36.269
You also should be, you know, watching what music you're listening to.

00:42:36.569 --> 00:42:40.129
Because if you're listening things with objectionable terms or objectionable

00:42:40.129 --> 00:42:44.889
images, don't be surprised if you don't get a call from the office to be seen.

00:42:44.889 --> 00:42:49.669
Because you're viewing objectionable material. So please watch what you're listening to.

00:42:50.089 --> 00:42:53.469
A lot of kids, like I have one girl, like all she does is listen to Hamilton.

00:42:53.669 --> 00:42:56.769
All she does is listen to Hamilton or like show tunes or something else.

00:42:56.909 --> 00:42:58.309
I want to be her best friend.

00:42:58.589 --> 00:43:02.749
Yeah, I mean, which there's absolutely nothing wrong with. But like when it

00:43:02.749 --> 00:43:06.789
comes to listening to it on their personal device, they're already on their devices enough.

00:43:07.269 --> 00:43:11.989
Yes. How much more do they need to be on it? Okay. That is the question.

00:43:12.289 --> 00:43:15.009
That is the question. I wanted to find the graphic.

00:43:15.409 --> 00:43:22.529
Maybe this will be for another episode, but there was a graphic in a TED Talk

00:43:22.529 --> 00:43:27.769
that I looked at, and the gentleman basically put like every month is represented by a dot.

00:43:28.429 --> 00:43:34.309
And it's like nine years of your life is what you have left after sleeping and

00:43:34.309 --> 00:43:37.649
driving and going to school and working. You have nine years left.

00:43:39.189 --> 00:43:44.049
And of those nine years, like eight of them, it's projected if you live to a

00:43:44.049 --> 00:43:48.269
life expectancy of 90 years old, which is possible due to today's medical advances,

00:43:48.549 --> 00:43:53.089
that you'll spend eight of those nine years looking at a screen.

00:43:54.369 --> 00:43:59.809
Not for school, not for work, outside of those two activities.

00:43:59.809 --> 00:44:05.489
We're not even measuring screen time on a computer for school or for work.

00:44:06.409 --> 00:44:10.209
What could you accomplish and master if you had eight years?

00:44:11.149 --> 00:44:16.109
You have eight years to study, read, introspectively do something.

00:44:16.169 --> 00:44:19.129
You could be an expert and I'd be a hell of a lot of better golfer.

00:44:20.009 --> 00:44:24.409
I mean, and of course we say this as we are encouraging you to listen to our

00:44:24.409 --> 00:44:26.489
podcast, not discouraging you.

00:44:28.009 --> 00:44:32.069
No, I mean, I'm not saying we should all like throw our phones in the ocean

00:44:32.069 --> 00:44:33.609
and go live in an apple tree in Oregon.

00:44:34.349 --> 00:44:39.809
You know, that's not what I'm saying. so it's a healthy balance we're all about

00:44:39.809 --> 00:44:44.949
here i you know i reached out to the board member who actually made that comment

00:44:44.949 --> 00:44:47.869
it was like i would love to be involved in that conversation because,

00:44:48.869 --> 00:44:54.329
um and you too i think would be important but like having dove into ed tech

00:44:54.329 --> 00:44:58.109
and been part of the one-to-one everyone's got to be one-to-one but then seeing

00:44:58.109 --> 00:45:02.869
some of the effects of that i think i've kind of like backed off the gas a little

00:45:02.869 --> 00:45:04.989
bit and i can look at it through a vein of like, yeah,

00:45:05.129 --> 00:45:08.029
there are certain things technology-wise that are good, but we are doing our

00:45:08.029 --> 00:45:12.409
kids a disservice if we're not limiting their amount of access to certain things

00:45:12.409 --> 00:45:14.429
that they shouldn't have access to.

00:45:15.429 --> 00:45:19.309
A hundred percent. Yeah. A hundred percent. Well, so the conversation continues,

00:45:19.309 --> 00:45:22.249
uh, you know, it just keeps going on and on. Yes, it does.

00:45:22.429 --> 00:45:26.529
I'd be, I'm so excited to hear about how the mug of love, um,

00:45:27.009 --> 00:45:28.429
goes. I really want to hear that.

00:45:28.769 --> 00:45:34.449
I hope we can just pour from it and enjoy. Pour from the mug of love. Can I borrow a feeling?

00:45:34.789 --> 00:45:37.189
What is that? Is that the Simpsons? I don't know why that just popped into my

00:45:37.189 --> 00:45:39.349
head. I don't know. I don't know. I'll have to Google that.

00:45:39.669 --> 00:45:42.609
Uh, it is. I can't cause I'm off my device for the rest. Yeah.

00:45:42.669 --> 00:45:45.329
You're off your device for the rest of the day. Um, So as always,

00:45:45.689 --> 00:45:47.229
buddy, I appreciate you.

00:45:47.529 --> 00:45:53.269
As always, I appreciate you. And of course, we appreciate all of you listeners

00:45:53.269 --> 00:45:56.629
and we appreciate our new platform, Human Content,

00:45:56.969 --> 00:46:01.669
for all of their help and advice in these first couple of weeks as we have been

00:46:01.669 --> 00:46:08.549
exploring our new, you know, just so many new spaces, so many spots to receive

00:46:08.549 --> 00:46:10.409
us, right? Yeah, we are sponges.

00:46:10.629 --> 00:46:14.789
That's what we are. We're trying to soak it all in. So, and it's a good learning curve for us.

00:46:15.849 --> 00:46:19.929
And also a good lesson. We go back to value, my word of the year.

00:46:20.929 --> 00:46:24.569
This is adding value to our show because it's going to increase our listenership

00:46:24.569 --> 00:46:27.769
and allow us to help more people, which is ultimately what our goal is.

00:46:28.049 --> 00:46:31.749
So that to do Joe Rogan numbers. Okay.

00:46:33.149 --> 00:46:36.309
All right, guys, we'll see you all next time on the Bouncing X Podcast.

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