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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Put The Phone Down, Granny

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

News

4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

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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