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Landlines Are Making A Comeback · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One of six Points. I at LIGHTFM with Kebby and Christine
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  Speaker 1: in the morning producing Christen and you you're tuned in,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Happy Friday. So we did a story last week,
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  Speaker 1: Christine about the younger generation gravitating to old stuff. Yeah, technology, CDs,
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  Speaker 1: VI and all.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of like our old tech.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how about this story that just came out. Believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not, landlines are making a comeback thanks to
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  Speaker 1: a growing number of parents who want their kids to
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  Speaker 1: socialize without the distractions and risks of screen time. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of handing over an iPhone, they're given the kids a
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  Speaker 1: retro style phone that works off of Wi Fi and
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  Speaker 1: only calls approved contacts. So it's not like you see
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  Speaker 1: the return of the landline as a headline. Maybe not fully,
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  Speaker 1: but it has that feeling of a landline. And I
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  Speaker 1: like that because when you had to call somebody, you
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  Speaker 1: had to kind of go out of your way, You
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  Speaker 1: had to get up, you had to go somewhere, you
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  Speaker 1: had to go in the kick.
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  Speaker 2: Pick pick up a phone, not necessarily know who's on
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  Speaker 2: the other side to a call or ID came along right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they said it's also helped kids learn basic phone etiquette
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  Speaker 2: because we had mentioned recently, like they're kind of I say,
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  Speaker 2: they answering the phone without going hello.
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  Speaker 1: They don't say anything.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they just answer the phone because they see your
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  Speaker 2: name there, right, so they're like, well, you called me,
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  Speaker 2: so you start the conversation. So this kind of reminds
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  Speaker 2: you like when you pick up the phone to say hello.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Some kids, right, we used to say hello, we
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  Speaker 1: answer the phone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. Guess who do.
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  Speaker 1: You like the idea, Kristen? You have kids like me.
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  Speaker 3: I do. I mean, we're we're kind of far away
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  Speaker 3: from cell phones in general, I feel, but it's crazy
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  Speaker 3: to not like my son who's almost four and a half,
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  Speaker 3: knows how to use my phone, which is scary, probably
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  Speaker 3: better than I do, right right, exactly exactly this.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what about an actual landline though, let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: an actual landline? You have one, Christie, I still have one.
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  Speaker 2: I question it because I do mention that it's part
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  Speaker 2: of the bundle, right, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Usually when you get cable, you get cable and you.
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  Speaker 2: Get your internet, and then I held onto the landline,
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  Speaker 2: and I keep thinking to hold on to this because
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  Speaker 2: really the only people who call that my aunt Helen,
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  Speaker 2: which I love, which I can direct her to the
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  Speaker 2: cell phone and maybe if there's like an emergency and
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  Speaker 2: somebody's trying to reach me and they can't get me
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  Speaker 2: on the cell phone, then they'll try the land line.
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  Speaker 2: But that's that's it. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Do you get spam calls like you do on your
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  Speaker 1: cell on your landline?
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  Speaker 2: They always just hang up right, you know, like there,
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  Speaker 2: they don't leave a message. You can tell they're waiting
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  Speaker 2: for the for the hello for me. Yeah, yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 2: what do you guys think?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Four four three six three, give us a text? Actually,
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  Speaker 1: do you still have a landline? And maybe you can't
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  Speaker 1: text if you have a landline? Yeah, yeah, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you have the option in your house.
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  Speaker 2: Should I, I mean, should I dump it? At this point?
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  Speaker 2: I feel funny like I've had that number forever.
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  Speaker 1: But if your bill's gonna change, like go up if
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  Speaker 1: you drop that, if you have the bundle, it's not
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  Speaker 1: bother anybody. Just keep it.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, you know what, give it out right now on
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  Speaker 1: the radio? What is your landline number?
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  Speaker 2: Christie can get some doesn't need to sleep?
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember I'm sorry, I know we need to
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  Speaker 1: go to break. Do you remember during the pandemic. We'd
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  Speaker 1: be working from our houses and I knew your landline.
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  Speaker 1: I still have it on my phone, and I would
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  Speaker 1: we'd be on Zoom Kristin and I would see you know,
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  Speaker 1: Christine at home, and I would call her landline without
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  Speaker 1: her seeing me dial her number, and she'd.
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  Speaker 2: Be like, oh, oh, nineteen eighties calling, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: Never rings?
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  Speaker 1: What is going on all right? Do you have a
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  Speaker 1: landline at home? Four four three six three on text