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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

1 in 10 adults have missed a once-in-a-lifetime moment because of their phone

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

We've had some cars run into the bury wall, not paying attention, they were on their phone. Taxing, scrolling, yeah, that's bad. Most often they be on their phones or they're not paying attention, they can cause a crash. We could stand on the side of the road and watch every other vehicle looking down into their lap as they're passing us. You know what they're looking at. They're looking at their phone. Phones. On their phones, not paying attention.

0:21.9

Phones. I'm not a mathematician, but I say probably about 80% of the people who pass me

0:26.8

are on their telephones. No call, text, or video is worth putting yourself for a road worker

0:32.6

in danger. When driving through construction, Lyuna members ask you for your sake and hours. Slow down, stay off your phone, please. Be aware where we're at, where the cone zones are at. Stay off your phones and buckle up and drive safe. We're not asking for much. This is Brian Short, business manager for the Indiana Labor District Council. Everyone deserves a safe place to work. Do your part in the cone zone slow down save a life

0:55.3

we're all in this together a message from lepers international union of north america and affiliated locals

1:00.0

a one in ten adults actually say they missed out on a once in a lifetime moment because they were too

1:05.3

busy scrolling on their phone it's not once in a lifetime but this sort sort of happened recently. I was on a boat with my

1:14.5

wife. We were traveling. It was actually like a ferry from one spot to another spot. So we had our

1:20.2

car. We got out of the car. We were kind of standing on it and just kind of watching the water.

1:24.8

And my wife was on her phone. She's just scrolling. And we've done this before. Like this is pretty common in places where you use a ferry to cross a small body of water, which I know doesn't happen often in Indianapolis. But it does happen other places. I'm in Galveston crossing over when I did this in Texas. And I saw two dolphins just randomly pop out of the water and then jump back into the wall. Like it was really cool. I was watching the water, wasn't expecting anything. I've heard before the dolphins sometimes chase fairies. And I watched it occur. And I was like, that was amazing. And I reacted. And I looked at my wife and she's like, what, what happened? I didn't see anything. I was paying attention to my phone. That's not once in a lifetime. I'm sure at some point she'll see the dolphins again if we use that ferry again.

2:05.3

But it was just funny. And then to see this story and all the moments where people say like 66%

2:10.9

of the time, they've been on their phone where they had no clear reason to be and they missed out

2:15.0

on something. 47% of people wish they could reclaim time they've wasted on their smartphone back, even when

2:21.6

nothing important happened.

2:23.3

There are so many moments where people say out loud that, you know, the thing they did was

2:28.9

dumb.

2:29.9

But in the moment, and this, I think about this a lot actually when i go to sporting events and i see

2:35.0

people i actually saw somebody do this at church the other day which was weird do but i see people at

2:39.6

sporting events all the time pull their phone out turn the camera on i hold it up at whatever the

2:44.6

thing is happening in front of them on the field or you know wherever and kind of like keep looking

2:50.2

at the phone to make sure the

2:51.3

picture of the video is going well. And they miss the thing. And it's so funny to me because it's so

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