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No Phone Parties · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mamas, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think of the trend of no phone parties
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  Speaker 1: at college campuses.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our Americ and mama's Mamma mama.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now are American mama is Terry Needeville
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  Speaker 1: and Kimberly Brothers. And you know, I'm reminded of college parties. Parties.
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  Speaker 1: They'll do these old timey things like you know, togas,
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  Speaker 1: like the Roman Empire parties.
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  Speaker 3: Right, is that what they're.
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  Speaker 1: Saying is that we're going to go back to when
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  Speaker 1: it was so old that they didn't have phones, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like the nineteen nineties. Because if so, I'm completely opposed
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  Speaker 1: to this trend. If you're saying that I'm just as
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  Speaker 1: old as a Roman, no, sir, we've got to talk.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what we're saying. I even saw that
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  Speaker 3: rotary phones are coming back in style and people are
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  Speaker 3: selling there's some company selling out of phones of rotary phone,
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  Speaker 3: rotary phones, and it's like like this is crazy, this
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  Speaker 3: is all life now.
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  Speaker 1: To be fair, those old phones were very elegant, like
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  Speaker 1: very beautiful looking devices, whereas today, you know, phones are
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  Speaker 1: just kind of like, oh, look a rectangle, right, that's
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  Speaker 1: so I can understand.
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  Speaker 3: I love this trend. I love that these kids are
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  Speaker 3: recognizing that there's a problem, because I feel like you've
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  Speaker 3: got to recognize it's a problem for you to do
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  Speaker 3: something completely opposite of that. I think it's a problem
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  Speaker 3: in everybody's household right now. It's a problem in my household.
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  Speaker 3: The day before I saw this article, my husband and
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  Speaker 3: I had a conversation and it was me getting angry
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  Speaker 3: at him because he loves to game on his phone.
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  Speaker 3: We had all everybody at our house. Everybody's talking and
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  Speaker 3: he's got his phone up the entire time and he's playing.
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  Speaker 3: He's just playing a video game. So to him, it's
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  Speaker 3: like nothing. But we would be telling a story, he'd
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  Speaker 3: catch the end of it and they'd say wait, wait what,
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  Speaker 3: and then we'd have to backtrack, and I was losing
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  Speaker 3: my mind, like trying not to lose it in front
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  Speaker 3: of everybody. But after that, I was like, Mike, come
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  Speaker 3: on now, and so he's like, you're right, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, yeah, if you're right, So he said,
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  Speaker 3: but you're on your phone all the time, you're scrolling,
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  Speaker 3: And I said, you're right, I am just not when
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  Speaker 3: we're all talking together. But yes, I have a problem
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  Speaker 3: with scrolling. So he said, how about my next week
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  Speaker 3: off we go without phones?
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  Speaker 1: And I went like, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Cold Turkey without phones, and he said, no, we'll give
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  Speaker 3: ourselves an hour hour and a half at night, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to kind of do whatever. But we are going to
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  Speaker 3: attempt to do this starting Wednesday for one week to
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  Speaker 3: go without phones.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: I know, well, it's kind of like mom's rule, you know,
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  Speaker 4: one hour of TV with us growing up. I love
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  Speaker 4: the idea of the no phone parties in college because
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  Speaker 4: I look back at pictures and I see videos of
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  Speaker 4: all of us in college at parties. Everyone's engaged in conversations,
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  Speaker 4: they're laughing, they're looking at other people. You know, there's
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  Speaker 4: some sitting there observing, and I think, gosh, this generation
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  Speaker 4: is missing something very important and very very special, because
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  Speaker 4: now you look at kids across college campuses at parties
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  Speaker 4: and they are they're on their phone. Most of them
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  Speaker 4: are on their phone. And so the idea of saying, look, we're.
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  Speaker 3: All in this together.
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  Speaker 4: That's why Summer loved to go to this camp one
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  Speaker 4: week in the summer because no phones and She loved
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  Speaker 4: it because everybody was engaged with each other. You didn't
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  Speaker 4: have to worry about this person over there texting the
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  Speaker 4: person over here talking about you, or which rare and
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  Speaker 4: or whatever. You know, you're all in it together. There's
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  Speaker 4: just so much that we've lost with the phones. There's
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  Speaker 4: so much that we've gained, of course, but the idea
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  Speaker 4: of having no phones, where everybody says we're all in
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  Speaker 4: this together. We're putting our phones over here. I love it.
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  Speaker 4: I think they will have a blast.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Chick fil A is doing something. I
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  Speaker 3: just remember this chick.
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  Speaker 1: Fil A because that's weird because I ordered my Chick
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  Speaker 1: fil A on my phone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Well, chick fil A is. Oh, it's called
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  Speaker 3: like the Chicken Coop or something where they're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: booths that are phone free booths, like you put your
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  Speaker 3: phone in the thing. So they're encouraging families to come
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  Speaker 3: or friends to come and eat at a certain booth.
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  Speaker 3: But how well I know when my order is ready?
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  Speaker 3: You'll know because you'll order it at the check out things.
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  Speaker 3: I give you a number, and yes, you will talk
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  Speaker 3: to and.
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  Speaker 4: They reward your family with free ice cream. They do
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  Speaker 4: they reward your family if they see that you have
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  Speaker 4: gone a whole meal out being on your phone.
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  Speaker 3: You get how crazy is that?
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  Speaker 1: Though? Oh I would, I would absolutely go full meal
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  Speaker 1: without using my phone. Ice cream?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been how crazy that that's a thing, that
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  Speaker 3: that's the thing that they're uraging.
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  Speaker 4: But there's yes, I get it because I also am
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  Speaker 4: one that will if I go and I'm in a
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  Speaker 4: waiting room or i'm you know, I pick up my
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  Speaker 4: phone to see what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's like a security blanket sometimes as well, when
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to talk to people or it's an
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  Speaker 3: awkward situation, it's become a security blanket. I think for
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  Speaker 3: most people, they just can like they're in the phone,
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  Speaker 3: so you don't talk to them, you don't, you know.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what, Kevin, I went to a crawfish
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  Speaker 4: ball the other day. I don't even think about picking
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  Speaker 4: up my phone when I'm with other people in a
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  Speaker 4: party setting, right, no one's on their phone, right, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're all the eighties, nineties kids, So it's I guess
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  Speaker 4: we'd go back to that because it is kind of rude. Sadly,
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  Speaker 4: I need to do that with my own family. And
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  Speaker 4: we're all together, because I will grab it and go,
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  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, look at this.
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  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, that's that's true.
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  Speaker 1: I'm more likely to use it when the family's around,
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  Speaker 1: but if I'm going to another event. On the rare
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  Speaker 1: occasions I get invited to those went to a crawfish spoil?
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  Speaker 2: Did you that's funny?
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  Speaker 1: Well, so you guys are in favor of this trend.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, love it, love it, love it.
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  Speaker 1: out of book, Kimberly Brother listen, thank you so much,
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  Speaker 1: thank you,