Put The Phone Down, Granny
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
4.8 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Boomer have a serious problem with their phones...
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| 0:00.0 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
| 0:04.7 | Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn. |
| 0:08.5 | In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, |
| 0:14.0 | the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. |
| 0:21.4 | So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. |
| 0:25.9 | Listen on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:31.0 | So now you've got teenagers yelling at Granny. Hey, put down your phone. It's one more thing. |
| 0:36.6 | Armstrong and Getty. One more thing. It's one more thing. Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:39.1 | One more thing. |
| 0:42.3 | It's funny you should say that. |
| 0:46.7 | I have no idea what you're about to talk about, but I was at IHop with Henry, |
| 0:53.5 | and there was a couple in the booth next to us that must have been 70, married couple, I assume. |
| 0:55.8 | They're both staring at their phones a whole time. |
| 0:59.3 | I thought, you know, always talk about millennials or young people or whatever. |
| 1:02.9 | There's a couple of 70-year-olds staring at their phone, not talking to each other. |
| 1:05.1 | Wow. |
| 1:06.4 | Why'd you even go to the same restaurant? |
| 1:09.2 | If one of you wanted to eat somewhere else, you might have just gone to separate places. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, but the headline is baby boomers can't stop staring at their phones, and it contains a bunch of stories. |
| 1:25.7 | And we just heard one from a coworker who is sharing that, uh, mom, uh, just stares at her phone when the grandkids are around. |
| 1:28.6 | Well, so you can rewire your brain even when you're older, apparently? |
| 1:29.9 | I know, I have. |
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