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What's Old is New! · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: What's old is new. It's one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm one more thing.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about summertime for kids coming up in
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, and a hot new phrase that everybody's
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  Speaker 1: discussing thanks to the New York Times. See if you
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  Speaker 1: agree or disagree. But we'll get to that in just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. We don't. We don't do what Katie why.
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  Speaker 1: It was show's favorite catchy new words. Yeah, catch a
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  Speaker 1: new phrases.
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  Speaker 2: Used to be they would have to like reach you naturally.
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  Speaker 2: Now some wise ass little thirteen year old punk can
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  Speaker 2: come up with a phrase in Bayonne, New Jersey, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm it's inflicted on me by the next afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want it, not in the market. So we
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  Speaker 1: don't usually do breaking news on the podcast. He's here.
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  Speaker 1: He will be listening to this days or years later.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know when. But this is pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: It really is something, And if you're listening in the future,
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  Speaker 2: this will remind you of Trump's crazy style of communicating.
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  Speaker 2: we know what you mean by tak him out. We
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  Speaker 2: didn't assume we meant take him out for dinner. We
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  Speaker 2: kill chains. We're not going to take him out kill
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  Speaker 2: at least not for now. But we don't want missiles
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  Speaker 2: shot at civilians or American soldiers. Our patients is wearing thin.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for your attention to this matter. No, that's
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  Speaker 2: actually the end of it for you for your attention
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  Speaker 2: Appy email.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little of his old CEO days slipped in
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  Speaker 1: there at the end.
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  Speaker 2: your attention to this matter.
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  Speaker 1: People are using too many paper cups at the water dispenser,
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  Speaker 1: please try to cut back. Thank you for your attention
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  Speaker 1: to this matter.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly that's like after Israel blows up a building Iran
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your attention to this matter. Was he
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  Speaker 1: trying to be funny? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously he's got to understand how horrifically funny
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  Speaker 2: that is.
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  Speaker 1: You think, all right, well, we'll see where that goes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna skip the other thing we're gonna do right
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  Speaker 1: to the hot phrase for summertime. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you read this article in the New York Times. It
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  Speaker 1: caused many tongues to wag and columns to be written
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  Speaker 1: all around the world. Really, as New York Times unleashed
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  Speaker 1: upon us the term kid rotting for the summertime and
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  Speaker 1: rotting as is, your kids are rotting, And it's ended
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  Speaker 1: up going back and forth with a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where I am on this, but uh,
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  Speaker 1: the idea of not having a whole bunch of planned
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  Speaker 1: camps and activities for your kids, and they just hang
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  Speaker 1: out on the couch doing nothing all summer, to which
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people the kid rotting, to which a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people have replied, that sounds like what my
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  Speaker 1: summers were like, And I freaking loved them. Yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: hanging out doing nothing with no plans whatsoever. I remember
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  Speaker 1: those days. You get up, you had no idea what
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna do today, and and it was just a
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  Speaker 1: variety of things and are kind of nothing or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And it was awesome. The sense of freedom was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Was the modern version of that staring at a screen. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's where it gets interesting. None of that stuff you
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  Speaker 2: said will happen. It'll just be staring at screens, he says.
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  Speaker 1: But and I'm I'm I you know, I lean real
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  Speaker 1: far toward that is it's not only it's not just
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  Speaker 1: a waste of time. It affects your brain and your
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  Speaker 1: attention span. But that aside, if the if, the if.
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  Speaker 1: The alternative is all kinds of camps and planned activities
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  Speaker 1: versus just hang out and do whatever all day long.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know why I've got this weird resistance
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  Speaker 1: since I got to do that a lot as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: my my oldest, my high school son. He is not
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  Speaker 1: into video games and stuff like that near as much.
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  Speaker 1: He does a lot of bike riding with his friends
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  Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. But man, I picked
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  Speaker 1: him and his friends up yesterday. He texted me and said,
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  Speaker 1: we are just too worn out. We're over at my
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  Speaker 1: friend Zach's house. Could you come pick us up and
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  Speaker 1: bring us over to our house. We're just we've been
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  Speaker 1: riding and it's hot, Okay. I said, give me twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple of things that could do. But
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  Speaker 1: I went and picked them up. And I hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: around this vibe in forty years, but fifty years. But
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  Speaker 1: just the level of happy, relaxed the world is our
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  Speaker 1: oyster these three fifteen year olds had with their bikes.
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  Speaker 1: He loaded them up in my truck and they got in.
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  Speaker 1: They were just joking and laughing and they were just
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  Speaker 1: doing nothing all day long and they're gonna do nothing
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the day but just hang out and
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  Speaker 1: be teenagers. And it just looked fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Well I love that, Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that too. But I'm wondering if parents are.
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  Speaker 3: Signing their kids up for so much stuff because they
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  Speaker 3: don't want them on their screens all summer. You know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean, because I, as a kid, I got
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  Speaker 3: signed up for stuff, but my parents didn't have to
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  Speaker 3: worry about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well right, Sometimes signing kids up for stuff is
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  Speaker 1: your daycare for the summer since the school is out,
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  Speaker 1: and you need to put yeah yeah, and that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Although the you know what's happening around those schedule activities
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  Speaker 2: have changed. Back in the day, it was what Jack
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  Speaker 2: was describing. There's nothing scheduled. You're just free to do
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  Speaker 2: what you want, or you can invent or hook up
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  Speaker 2: with your friends, be bored together. Invente gave blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: Now the you know, the surrounding of the scheduled event
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  Speaker 2: is many more scheduled events. And as a fierce advocate
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  Speaker 2: of free range parenting, I totally agree with you in principle, Jack,
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  Speaker 2: is just the screen thing.
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  Speaker 1: What would you wing out? What would you do? What
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  Speaker 1: would you recommend?
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  Speaker 2: Because I carefully scheduled free time, you will absolutely show
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  Speaker 2: up on time ten a m. For the do whatever
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  Speaker 2: you want.
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  Speaker 1: Man. I go back and forth with this, my thirteen
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  Speaker 1: year old all the time. I've gotten to the point
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  Speaker 1: where I say, I can't say it again. I can't
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  Speaker 1: say it for the eight millionth time because I tried
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  Speaker 1: it to limit his screen time. I don't like I'm
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  Speaker 1: not as disciplined on it as a lot of my
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  Speaker 1: friends are, where they've got like a timer on their
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  Speaker 1: Internet or you know, their stopwatch going on it or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and they limit to that however many hours. But I
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  Speaker 1: just like, when I feel like it's been enough, to say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's enough screens, So find something to do with that.
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  Speaker 1: But what will I do? And I always say I can't.
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  Speaker 1: Now I say I can't say it again. I just can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't. I can't list the things again. Walk the dog,
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  Speaker 1: ride a bike, write something, play a musical instrument, draw, run, exercise,
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  Speaker 1: I swim, we got a pool. Just I can't list
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  Speaker 1: the million things you could do that aren't looking at
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  Speaker 1: his But do one of them, you know.
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  Speaker 3: One of those four hundred and eighty five.
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  Speaker 1: Videos you just watched. Do one of those things, those
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  Speaker 1: like the things. You're the guy in the video, not
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  Speaker 1: the guy watching the video.
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  Speaker 2: You know, asking that question that way is as natural
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  Speaker 2: as like your fingernails growing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what am I supposed to do. It's true.
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  Speaker 2: I remember asking my mom that, Yeah, George Washington's kids,
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  Speaker 2: we're asking him, what.
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  Speaker 1: Am I supposed to do? Kids? Get out of the cave,
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  Speaker 1: your mom and I need to make your brother.
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  Speaker 2: Right right, Go play with the other you know, pre syllabic,
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  Speaker 2: non language speaking, grunting cave kids.
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  Speaker 1: But there's dinosaurs out there. I don't care. Get out
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  Speaker 1: of the cave.
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  Speaker 4: Jack, when the kids were in the backseat the car,
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  Speaker 4: did you tell them that life goes downhill?
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  Speaker 1: And it's just all that I have had that conversation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're happy. Now enjoy it while you can, because life
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  Speaker 1: is nothing but a big disappointment.
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  Speaker 2: Grind it out as you work for some bastards you
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  Speaker 2: don't like, You don't respect that. He hasn't care.
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  Speaker 1: About I have said that day I bed year old.
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  Speaker 1: Like me, I have said to my son which I
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  Speaker 1: probablyhouldn't say, because he wants, he wants to get Next
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  Speaker 1: year he'll be able to get a job at a
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  Speaker 1: variety of places that he wants to go, because you
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  Speaker 1: have to be sixteen. But anyway, I say, and then
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  Speaker 1: you'll start working, and then you will work until you're
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  Speaker 1: sold and nearly dead, that none of this will matter anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you'll never stop ever again. And it's true,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know if you need to lay that
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  Speaker 1: out when you're sixteen years old.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's so funny. We just got an email from
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  Speaker 2: some pr group pitching a guest who wants to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the kid rotting.
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  Speaker 1: It's the hot phrase, man's thing. Kid rotting is a
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  Speaker 1: hot phrase. So New York was really on the time
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  Speaker 1: on the side of uh, you know, we used to
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  Speaker 1: call we didn't used to call it rotting. We used
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  Speaker 1: to just call it summertime. And then there's been the pushback,
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  Speaker 1: obviously with the screen stuff, and so yeah, it's become
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  Speaker 1: a whole thing. But I do even if you eliminate
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  Speaker 1: the screens, I know a lot of parents who would
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  Speaker 1: think it would be horrible if their kids just hung
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  Speaker 1: out with no plans every day and did nothing. Using
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  Speaker 1: my finger quotes, it's impossible, as my son always points out,
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  Speaker 1: to do nothing. Even if you're doing nothing, you're doing something,
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  Speaker 1: and you lay around and do nothing for a while,
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  Speaker 1: but you'll come up with something because you just out
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  Speaker 1: of necessity.
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  Speaker 2: So it's interesting this guest pitch is actually a woman
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  Speaker 2: with Campfire. I think it used to be Campfire Girls
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, but it's Campfire. It's a youth development organization.
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  Speaker 2: And she believes the conversation misses the real distinction. Not
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  Speaker 2: all boredom is created equal. There's a huge difference between
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  Speaker 2: head down boredom, head down boredom zoning out on screens,
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  Speaker 2: disconnected from others, and head up boredom that sparks activity,
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  Speaker 2: problem solving, and self discovery.
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  Speaker 1: That's an interesting turn.
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  Speaker 2: And then she pitches that camp boredom isn't a problem.
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  Speaker 2: It's a portal drift. What becomes a fort, seashells become currency,
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  Speaker 2: and a toilet paper roll becomes binoculars.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not gonna help you see anything up close.
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  Speaker 2: It's just ineffective binoculars.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly, yes, the distance will seem exactly the same. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think these are working.
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  Speaker 4: Jack could have just said, you know, kids, sometimes I
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  Speaker 4: feel like just taking this car and driving it off
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  Speaker 4: a cliff.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it.