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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:24.0	is back welcome to the program hello hi how can I help you
0:30.3	me and my wife are having a bit of a disagreement and could use some help
0:35.7	mediating regarding my 15-year-old son and getting
0:39.5	him his first cell phone. No, no cell phone. Have you not been keeping up with the news and the
0:45.5	reports? Kids who have access through cell phones, very bad, psychologically, very bad socially,
0:53.7	very bad in terms of bad socially, very bad,
0:54.9	in terms of getting addicted.
0:57.9	I mean, Zuckerberg is now on, he's being sued,
1:01.2	and so are other people running all these social media things
1:06.4	that suck kids in.
1:08.1	All you have to do is go on the net and say,
1:10.7	is having a cell phone good or bad for
1:12.5	kids? Just do it yourself. There's no argument here. Whoever is saying he should have a phone
1:18.3	is a bad parent and ignorant about the realities of how this impacts kids. Now, there are phones
1:26.6	that all they do is make a call, take a call. That's a phone.
1:32.1	That's what we're looking into, yeah. That's the only phone a responsible parent would give their
1:38.6	child. Yeah, so he was looking to apply for his first job here. So I'm the one who thinks he should have a contact number of his own.
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