Are Smartphones Our Biggest Problem?

The Rob Carson Show

Newsmax Radio

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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*Former Rush Limbaugh Guest Host Ken Matthews is in for Rob today. -A warning that smartphones and connected devices enable external control and surveillance. -Ken raises concerns about the mental health effects of early smartphone use in children, citing studies linking it to suicidal thoughts and emotional struggles. Today’s podcast is sponsored by : BIRCH GOLD - Protect and grow your retirement savings with gold. Text ROB to 98 98 98 for your FREE information kit! To call in and speak with Rob Carson live on the show, dial 1-800-922-6680 between the hours of 12 Noon and 3:00 pm Eastern Time Monday through Friday…E-mail Rob Carson at : [email protected] Musical parodies provided by Jim Gossett (www.patreon.com/JimGossettComedy) Listen to Newsmax LIVE and see our entire podcast lineup at http://Newsmax.com/Listen Make the switch to NEWSMAX today! Get your 15 day free trial of NEWSMAX+ at http://NewsmaxPlus.com Looking for NEWSMAX caps, tees, mugs & more? Check out the Newsmax merchandise shop at : http://nws.mx/shop Follow NEWSMAX on Social Media: -Facebook: http://nws.mx/FB -X/Twitter: http://nws.mx/twitter -Instagram: http://nws.mx/IG -YouTube: https://youtube.com/NewsmaxTV -Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsmaxTV -TRUTH Social: https://truthsocial.com/@NEWSMAX -GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/newsmax -Threads: http://threads.net/@NEWSMAX -Telegram: http://t.me/newsmax -BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/newsmax.com -Parler: http://app.parler.com/newsmax Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hold it now.
0:03.4	You are about to hear the most interesting, informative, thought-provoking, and funny show in America.
0:13.9	On air and on the World Wide Web, this is the Rob Carson Show.
0:29.2	The numbers 800, 922, 660.
0:31.9	My name is Ken Matthews, and for Rob today.
0:35.5	Thank you for joining us in hour three,
0:42.5	in action-packed week so far in trump land trade deals and some other things happening i'm going to uh revisit that memo from the united states office of personnel
0:49.5	management from scott cooper the director of uh.S. office of personnel management.
0:56.0	It's called protecting religious expression in the federal workplace.
1:00.0	And there are some people melting down over this.
1:04.0	And I don't think it warrants a meltdown.
1:07.0	I think critical thinking would be, I'm always for replacing melting down
1:12.5	with critical thinking, but that doesn't happen much online or in real life. But I think we'd all
1:19.5	be better off for it if we replaced it with critical thinking. Here's one to think about,
1:24.6	should a federal law require GPS tracking to automatically control throttle of cars in school zones
1:35.2	near senior centers or mountain curves or other areas where people want to control your speed?
1:42.0	Now, the reason this came up, California State Bill 1271,
1:52.4	it has evolved. It's start, here's how it started out. This is my theory. And again, if you're one of the four
2:00.5	people that follow me on podcast or one of the four people that follow me on podcast, or one of the
2:02.9	seven people that have heard of me or the three people on social media, you know I'm obsessed
2:11.7	with this fact that laws are not made to keep us safe.
2:18.8	They're made to control us.
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