WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:04.919 It's nice side with Dan Ray. I'm WBS cost me. 2 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:06.559 So. 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:09.759 I don't know if you have children or grandchildren in 4 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:15.000 a school, elementary school, high school, junior high school. But 5 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:21.440 every kid today, I think over the age of certainly 6 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:25.800 maybe six or seven, has a cell phone. And I 7 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:27.480 know that a lot of parents want their kids to 8 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:33.119 have cell phones. And the reason that parents claim, and 9 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:36.079 I guess kids also claim that they want cell phones 10 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:39.840 is in case of an emergency, they can contact their parents. 11 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:44.439 I don't know what sort of an emergency is likely 12 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:47.079 to have. I know, I know you're gonna sit there's 13 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:50.320 a school shooter on the grounds, and the parents want 14 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:53.960 to know their child is safe. Well, it could be 15 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.960 that the mere presence of a cell phone with your child, 16 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:03.520 if that extreme example happened, might put your child in danger. 17 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.280 Let's assume your child is hiding in a closet in 18 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:14.319 a classroom and at the moment that the shooter walks by, 19 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:21.200 the child's cell phone rings. Think about that. Okay. The 20 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:25.519 bottom line, though, is that there are enough distractions in schools. 21 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:28.959 We've seen that there seem to be so many of 22 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:34.159 these tests which they're attributing to COVID, that the math 23 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:36.840 scores are going down, or the English scores are going down, 24 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:39.920 or kids aren't learning as much as they should learn 25 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:44.120 the bottom line, and I don't think that I fully 26 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:48.359 appreciated it when I was in grammar school. I did well, 27 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:51.719 and went to high school and I did fine. But 28 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:56.879 every day that a child is in school is a 29 00:01:56.959 --> 00:02:00.719 day in which they can lay a foundation or where 30 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:03.200 they might go to college, or lay a foundation for 31 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:06.879 what work skills and interpersonal skills they will have when 32 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.360 they leave high school and perhaps they join the workforce 33 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:14.879 or join the military or whatever. So there has been controversy. 34 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:19.039 I'm looking at an article here from late August. These 35 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:23.759 articles were quite around quite a bit in August about 36 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:27.280 Massachusetts schools cracking down on cell phones in class. Why 37 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:29.919 should kids have a cell phone in class? I mean, 38 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:32.599 the only thing that the presence of a cell phone 39 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:37.560 in the possession of a student in class is going 40 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:41.360 to cause distractions from whatever's being taught in that class. 41 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:44.879 You cannot tell me that some kids sitting up in 42 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:47.080 the back of the classroom when the teacher is talking 43 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:49.560 about whatever they're talking about, whether they're talking about a 44 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:54.000 history class or an English class, that they're scrolling to 45 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:56.080 find out if the teacher is correct when they talk 46 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:01.199 about grammar or they talk about the election of eighteen sixty. 47 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:05.039 It just doesn't make sense. It just doesn't make sense. 48 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:09.240 And I don't know if this is a subject that 49 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:12.439 parents are interested in or students are interested in, but 50 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:15.000 I would love to hear from parents, students, grandparents, and 51 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:17.840 also teachers. It would seem to me that if you're 52 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:19.759 a teacher and you're sitting out, you're standing in front 53 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:22.800 of a class of twenty five kids or whatever it is, 54 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.800 whatever the normal high school classes these days is probably 55 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:29.800 less than twenty five, and you're teaching a subject that 56 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.400 you've prepared, You've got a lesson plan that you want 57 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:35.879 to get through, and you want the students to absorb 58 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.960 whatever subject you're talking about today, and you realize that 59 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:42.000 there's going to be some kids who are just sitting there, 60 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:44.759 and you can tell they're tough to reach because maybe 61 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:49.199 they're if they're not asleep, they're half unconscious, they're sort 62 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:53.199 of just daydreaming. I think all of us have at 63 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.960 some point daydreamed in school. It's you can have a 64 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:59.280 teacher who's not particularly inspiring, but if you look back 65 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:01.199 at the back or at the front of the room, 66 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:02.800 in the middle of the room, and you see some 67 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:05.159 kid with his head down and you can tell that 68 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.639 he's texting. He or she is texting. You know that 69 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:13.439 that student is paying no attention whatsoever to what you're 70 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.839 trying to teach them. And you know that that student, 71 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:20.279 whatever that subject is, and whatever that lesson plan is, 72 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:23.399 it'll be there once and then it'll be gone forever. 73 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:26.680 And if it is a subject where you need to build, 74 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:29.319 let's say, like math, you have to learn how to 75 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:33.040 do addition and subtraction before you can do multiplication and division, 76 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:40.399 before you can do algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, whatever. It's 77 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:43.639 all important. So what I'd like to do is just 78 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:48.399 throw it open and have a normal conversation. I don't 79 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:51.079 think there's a right or wrong issue. I feel strongly 80 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:54.399 that cell phones have no place in the possession of 81 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.800 students during the class day. I don't think that the 82 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.519 suit I think the students can, on their own time, 83 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:03.319 get up a little early. If you got to text 84 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.480 your friends and ask about if they watched the Awards 85 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:09.439 show or the MTV show last night on television, and 86 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.480 get all that stuff out of the way. Before you 87 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:14.240 go to school, while you run the school bus, you 88 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:17.160 can text away, have text your other friends going to 89 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:19.399 other schools or whatever. And then when you get out 90 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:21.639 in the afternoon three o'clock or whatever it is two 91 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:24.439 thirty in many cases, you get your cell phone back 92 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:30.360 and you go ahead and you commence a texting all afternoon. Now, 93 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:36.439 the teachers in the administrators cannot force the kids to 94 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:42.519 do their homework without being distracted by cell phones. It's 95 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:44.800 as simple as that. But during that period of five 96 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:48.240 and a half maybe six hours during the day, from 97 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.480 eight o'clock to two o'clock or from eight thirty to 98 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:55.560 two thirty or whatever, the school day is not only 99 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:00.959 in class moving from one if you're in high school, 100 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:03.720 and moving from one classroom to another, or for that matter, 101 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:10.720 during lunch, when you should be making conversation and socializing 102 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:17.279 with other of your age in the you know, in 103 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.199 the dining room or cafeteria, whatever they happen to call 104 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:22.839 it in your school, it is not a time for 105 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:26.560 you to be sitting there texting. So that's my position. 106 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.480 I'd love to know what you think as a parent. 107 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:32.600 Have you thought about it? I'll bet you have. As 108 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.000 a grandparent. Have you thought about it? I'll bet you 109 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:40.680 have as well most people who are grandparents today. I 110 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.560 don't think there are any grandparents out there today who 111 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:45.920 had cell phones when they were in school, because in 112 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:47.959 order to be a grandparent, I'm guessing you have to 113 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:51.759 be at least somewhere in maybe at the earliest your 114 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:57.240 late thirties. Cell phones were not available a lot during 115 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.639 that period of time. But I'll I want to throw 116 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:04.480 it out there. I want to know cell phones. Are 117 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:09.800 they something that the school administrators have to crack down on? 118 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:12.920 And they best they have to. When these kids arrive 119 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.639 at school, homeroom or whatever it is, they put their 120 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.160 cell phone, they turn their cell phone off, and they 121 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:21.959 put it in a location that they do not have 122 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.959 access to, no one else has access to. No one 123 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:29.199 wants to see their cell phones trashed or thrown away 124 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:32.879 or mixed up. I'm looking at a picture now. This 125 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:37.560 must have been in the Globe article and it says that, well, 126 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:39.160 it looks to me as if it's almost like a 127 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:41.560 wall hanging that everybody puts their cell phone and they 128 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.879 leave it there off for the day, and maybe they 129 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.839 should put it in They should construct a glass case, 130 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.639 so they can see their cell phones, but they don't 131 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:55.279 have access to them. So that's the question of the hour. Again. 132 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:59.000 If you're a student, call up your friends, tell them, 133 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:01.160 give us a call, and you can tell me why 134 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:04.199 it's so incredibly important for you to have your cell 135 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.839 phone in your hand or on your person throughout the 136 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:10.839 school day, just in case there's an emergency. Look, if 137 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:13.279 you get sick at school, call the school nurse, tell 138 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:15.360 the teacher. They'll send you down to the school nurse. 139 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:18.279 School nurse will call your parent, whatever, and you'll be 140 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:22.240 all set. Maybe the parent will have an uber person. 141 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:25.600 I don't know how, but they'll figure it out. They 142 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:29.000 don't need you to make that initial call. The only 143 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:32.200 lines that are open right now are six, one, seven, nine, three, 144 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:35.320 ten thirty. I'm gratified that people have chosen to call 145 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:37.480 in on this. Whatever your point of view on it is, 146 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.360 I don't see what I don't see any benefit whatsoever 147 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:46.080 for a student, high school, junior high school, elementary school 148 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:48.480 from being in the possession of a cell phone from 149 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:50.799 the moment they arrive at school into the moment they leave. 150 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:55.440 Call me old fashioned, I'm willing to take that. Tell me, 151 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:58.480 I'm unreasonable. I'm willing to take that too. I just 152 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:00.720 want to take your calls. Coming back on Nightside. It's 153 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.559 a Friday night. We're heading into the weekend. Lots going 154 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:05.399 on this weekend. People are going to be going up 155 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.360 leaf peeping, which is great. I know Patriots fans are 156 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:11.360 going to watch the debut of Drake May, the regular 157 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:14.480 season debut of Drake May. And we'll get it. We 158 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:16.279 could talk about a lot of stuff. I have some 159 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:18.600 other subjects I want to talk about as well. And 160 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.120 we have an eleventh hour coming up tonight and I'm 161 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:22.759 not exactly sure we're going to do for that. So 162 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:25.759 we have surprises, surprises for me and surprises for you. 163 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:28.399 We'll be back on Nightside. We got full lines right now. 164 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:30.720 I love I'm loving it coming back on Nightside. 165 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:34.399 Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 166 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:37.679 Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio. 167 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:40.840 Okay, let's see what people have to say. Let me 168 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:44.519 go to Frank in Boston. Hey, Frank, you were next 169 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:47.919 on Nightside. You were first this hour on Nightside. Actually, Frank, welcome, 170 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:49.519 Oh thank you. 171 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:50.519 Yeah. 172 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:54.720 I don't I don't understand why anybody has these these 173 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:59.879 phones that they nothing but nuisance. They everybody's staring down him, 174 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:04.440 walking down the road and looking where they're going. Is 175 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:07.360 the parents and the kids want to just get a 176 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.039 standard little flip phone. Twenty five dollars for the phone, 177 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:14.039 twenty five hours a month, and all you got to 178 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:17.360 do is worry about picking it up when it rings. 179 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:23.159 Yeah, you and I think of like I loved my 180 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:23.919 flip flow. 181 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:27.639 Yeah, it was a cheap thing in the world I give. 182 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:30.720 I get so many emails every day, and it's like 183 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:34.120 people are sending me stuff and it's like I can't 184 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:36.600 keep up. I kind of it used to be that 185 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:39.120 I couldn't answer everything. I try to answer the ones 186 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:44.360 that people send me repeated. It's tough. But if someone 187 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:46.279 sends me a nice email, says hey Dan, I like 188 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:49.559 your show, Thanks, I'll send them a quick little thank 189 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.759 you email. We don't do mail anymore. We don't write 190 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:55.200 letters to our friends anymore. So it's all come down 191 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:57.039 to it got to be email. And now it's like 192 00:10:57.080 --> 00:10:58.600 they don't even want you to take time at email. 193 00:10:58.639 --> 00:10:59.960 They want you to text message. 194 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:06.000 Well, that's that's all right, as long as it's short 195 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:09.279 and sweet. But I don't I don't get it and 196 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:14.039 not only that, but what do it? I don't understand 197 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:19.759 why people don't realize that these phones are putting so 198 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:23.759 much junk in front of them, and you got enough 199 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:27.360 stuff going on in your life that you need to 200 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:30.000 deal with. Why are you gonna put all this junk 201 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:34.440 in front of you? All this what is it? All 202 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:38.039 these want to be liked and all that stuff? Why 203 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:41.639 you gotta complicate your life when it's already complicated enough. 204 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:45.399 And then the parents are paying, not only buying these 205 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:50.919 phones for them, but they're paying their monthly bills. It is. 206 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:54.159 If you ever decide to run for office, would you 207 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:56.200 let me know because I think I'd like to manage 208 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:59.440 your campaign or at least contribute to it, because you 209 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.960 make more since been all these politicians, I'm serious when 210 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:03.799 I say that. 211 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:09.039 It's it's because we complicate our lives. We just complicated 212 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:09.639 too much. 213 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.440 I think we do. Hey, Frank, I loved your call. 214 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:14.279 If you ever called me before, since your. 215 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:16.879 First time, you know, twenty of times. 216 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:19.919 You keep calling. Okay, and as they say you decide 217 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:22.159 can run for politics, you gotta let me know because 218 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:25.639 I want to manage your campaign. You your breath of 219 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:27.200 fresh air, my friend. Thank you so much. 220 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:29.799 How old breath of fresh air. 221 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.759 No, it doesn't matter, no, no, no, no, your fresh 222 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:36.960 air is good, no matter where, at what age it is. Okay, 223 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.320 I really thank you, thank you, my friend, don't. 224 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:41.519 You thank you? 225 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:44.559 I like that call. He's right to the point. Only 226 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:48.200 line opened six one, seven, two, four ten thirty. Chris 227 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.600 is in Chelmsford. Chris cell phones in schools. What say you? 228 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:55.559 I don't think I don't think that would be a 229 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:59.600 good idea. I think if you take it to the 230 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:08.360 rookieo school, the nun would take it in or I'm 231 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:10.039 not going to hit him with the ruler. But I'm 232 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:11.120 not sure what. 233 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:12.919 They mean with the rule that then they hit you 234 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.000 in the head with it. I shouldn't say that, because 235 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:17.519 I'm sure the nuns are different back in the day. Though, 236 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:20.320 You're right, really you had to. 237 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:25.919 Because when my mother went to Saint Agnes and Arlington 238 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:28.679 to when when you would play, when she would play 239 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:30.879 the wrong note, you would get hit by the rule. 240 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.320 That's told me when she was alive. 241 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:37.440 Well, I don't know how how old your mom was, 242 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.639 but I played hockey against Saint Agnes in c Yo 243 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:43.279 hockey and they were always a good team, those guys, 244 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:45.320 those guys from Arlington, trust me on that. 245 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.960 She would have been ninety three this past mate. 246 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.240 No, she's a little older than I am. Let me 247 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:50.919 put it like that. 248 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.720 But oh yeah, I understand. 249 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:58.120 My mom's birthday would have been It was October fourteen. 250 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.679 She had the same birthday as then President eisenhow which 251 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:06.399 as a young boy I thought was pretty cool. She wow, yeah, 252 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:09.559 she would have been well well over one hundred. So hey, but. 253 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:15.639 They we have been home. Then they see, you know, 254 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:23.840 they'll teach, they'll they'll follow the education with the teacher 255 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:28.000 seeing what they're really teaching. They'll open the phone, and. 256 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:34.120 That's an interesting concept. That's an interesting concept actually listen 257 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.080 to what the teacher's saying and learn something. 258 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:40.879 Exactly how long ago were. 259 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:42.519 You in school, Chris? How old are you now? 260 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:51.039 I am fifty six next Saturday until the nineteenth, Thank 261 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:51.879 you and. 262 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:55.600 Happy birthday in advance. And when when you and I 263 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:58.480 were in school, there weren't cell phones. The only thing 264 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:01.919 that was distracting was probably some of the teachers who 265 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:04.240 were who you who you thought didn't know what they 266 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:06.200 were talking about. And as you get older, you realize 267 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:08.120 your teachers were a lot smarter than your thought at 268 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:09.360 the time. Let's put it like that. 269 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.159 Yeah, and who went to they had a pay phone. 270 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:15.120 Them they had to do what? 271 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:17.679 Yeah, they had a pay phone them. 272 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:24.519 Your payphone? Yeah right, I remember payphones. Uh, there aren't 273 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:26.600 many of those left. I haven't seen one of those 274 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:28.919 in about ten or fifteen years. But I will bet 275 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:31.480 you somewhere there's a payphone. I had a friend of 276 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:35.200 mine who I had a friend of mine who invested 277 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:39.159 in payphones. You actually could buy your payphones, and you could, 278 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:42.080 and it was just before cell phones came in. It 279 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:45.360 was probably the worst investment investment the guy, the guy 280 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:46.480 ever made sadlls. 281 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:50.519 Chris, have a great week, okay, enjoyed the Patriots, geared, 282 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:53.720 don't you four? 283 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:57.360 No, No, he didn't know, he didn't. But it was 284 00:15:57.399 --> 00:15:59.320 a friend of mine who said, this is a great thing. 285 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:01.799 I just go around like collect the money out of 286 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:04.360 bay phones. Well shortly they were after there were no 287 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:08.240 pay phones to collect. Thanks again, Chris, I appreciate your calling. 288 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:10.960 Think would get anything everybody you do. 289 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:13.320 Let's go to John and drake it. John up on 290 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:16.240 the New Hampshire border and drake it. Hey, John, welcome 291 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:18.919 next on nightsick fraid hen Hawaii. 292 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:22.120 I think it's a great idea. I think it's a 293 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:24.799 great idea for them to, you know, take these phones 294 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:27.200 from the kids. You know, so like you said, you 295 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:28.639 know kids in the back of the room. He's not 296 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:31.200 even paying attention, you know, he is because his head's down. 297 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:35.519 They could have some type of device app of some 298 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:39.120 sort where if the kid walks through like a scanner 299 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:43.440 in the school, that it dismantles the phone. He could 300 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:46.879 stay on, the phone could stay in this person, but 301 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:50.279 it dismantles it. Now, if there's ever a crisis or 302 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:53.639 something sort of issue in the school, it would send 303 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:56.559 an alert to the phone. I'm thinking of all this 304 00:16:56.679 --> 00:17:00.559 weird stuff now because I'm not that I said, but 305 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:04.240 I'm thinking that that would be an ideal thing. If 306 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:07.119 somebody could, you know, come out with that, some big 307 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:10.000 IT company or some sort that I'm sure they're already 308 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:14.880 looking into it, that it would send this particular stop 309 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:21.119 block thing to every phone in every person's possession and 310 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:23.680 then turn it right back on at two thirty five 311 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:24.559 in the afternoon. 312 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:29.160 It would be I think that's reasonable. Yeah, And I 313 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:34.200 suspect that that technology probably exists Elon Musk probably invented it. 314 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:38.440 It might, it might be out there, right I'm hoping 315 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.640 that it comes that way, because you know, these kids 316 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:44.680 are decidened by it. But you know, it's only a 317 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:46.839 couple hours of your life, and you have to be 318 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:49.440 in there for curriculum. You don't have to be in 319 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:53.200 there to be texting or going onto your YouTube channel. 320 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.079 I mean again, I'd be honest with you if I 321 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:58.839 was in school nowadays and that was the case and 322 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:01.079 I had a phone the way I am as an adult, 323 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:04.279 because I'm always scooping around on the phone based on 324 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:07.559 my background, as you know, being a comedian and everything else, 325 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:11.559 I'll be on that phone like nobody's business, even in school. 326 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:14.160 I mean it's just like I would be distracted by 327 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:17.319 the fact that someone's got to take this advice from me. 328 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:22.279 John, here's the deal, Okay. I like to think of 329 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:24.880 myself as a fairly disciplined person, meaning I have to 330 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.119 put a show on every night. You as a comedian, 331 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:29.799 you've got to develop a new set periodically. You got 332 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:31.319 to work new jobs, and you got to work on 333 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.279 your time, and you got to keep your show yourself 334 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:35.880 in shape. Antaline people don't realize it. They think that, 335 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:38.920 oh yeah, comedians get out there. No comedians, Yeah, really 336 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:44.960 hard to develop, right. What I uh say is that 337 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:48.519 when I have a couple of minutes and I'm just bored, 338 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:51.640 and all of a sudden, I'll click on something and 339 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:53.680 I'll see, you know, there's oh there's a baseball player. 340 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:56.000 It's a goofy baseball player, some guy right the wrong 341 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:56.799 way of the basis. 342 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:57.880 Okay, I look at that. 343 00:18:58.279 --> 00:18:59.920 And then the next thing is, oh, there's a foot 344 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:01.960 ball play and I look at that, and then the 345 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:05.319 comedian maybe it's you, maybe it's someone else doing like 346 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:09.920 about thirty seconds like I guess you turn later and 347 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:12.079 you say, what what have I've been doing for the 348 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:17.039 last fifteen minutes? And dedictive? It is as they know 349 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:20.319 how our brains are wired, they know what to do 350 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:21.880 to us. And this is. 351 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:24.279 Something I've been called well on a number of occasions 352 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:27.119 from family members and not just them, but my girlfriend 353 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:29.920 as well, saying well, you keep off that phone. 354 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.519 Yep, we know exactly what you were going to that 355 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:34.000 you didn't say, thank you very much. 356 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:38.359 Yeah, yeah, I don't know how the time, Yeah, but 357 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:42.279 that's what she'd say, And I'll tell you you know, 358 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:45.799 it's just it's it's dishoveling because they're just sitting there 359 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:48.599 and you're not paying attention, you know, and it happens. 360 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:51.079 John, let me let me ask you. When's your next 361 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:52.799 gig coming up? Where are you are you? 362 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:54.559 I'm all serious. 363 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:58.759 I appreciate that. Tomorrow night, River Edge in Maseu and 364 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:03.599 at four seventy Lowell Street Johnny Joycecomedy dot com or 365 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.599 Boston's Best Comedians dot com. We're kicking off my new 366 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:12.039 comedy club tomorrow night right there at River Edge Restaurant, 367 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:14.839 four seventy eight Lowell Street in Mavillain. 368 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:18.319 My pleasure. If I was anywhere near there, I would 369 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:20.519 have dropped by to see the set. But I'm not 370 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:25.240 geographically close to where you are. But uh, just go 371 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:27.680 break a lake to ball night, have a great a 372 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:31.319 great set and if anybody is. People always looking for 373 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:34.279 different things to do. So this is north of Boston. 374 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:35.400 It's in the wood. 375 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:38.880 Yeah, right off the highway, right off the highway there. Yeah, 376 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:41.440 if they google that address, they'll realize that it's right 377 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:44.759 off the rimp. And guess what they gotta They gotta 378 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:48.839 shut their cell phones off, work. 379 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:51.440 Something into your your show tomorrow night on that you 380 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:53.400 can come up with something between now and then. 381 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:56.359 I know you can't, most certainly can. And I'll bring 382 00:20:56.440 --> 00:20:59.960 up WBZ tevisary with Dan Baby. 383 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:01.799 There be some people in the audience up there. We 384 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:03.880 have a lot of listeners up north of the city. 385 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:05.839 No, you know, you know if. 386 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:09.039 Look folks, if you don't have something to do anight, 387 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:13.440 you know with your with your significant other. Yeah, where's 388 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:15.279 the club again, John, Let's give it one more time 389 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:15.839 in case they. 390 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:19.920 Miss River Edge at four seventy eight Lowell Street in 391 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:23.960 the Sewing on one ten just right there off the highway, 392 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:27.759 and you can check out Boston'sduscomedians dot com or Johnny 393 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:31.960 Joycecomedy dot com seven eight one eight two zero three 394 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:32.960 seven three eight. 395 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:36.799 I'll tell you you know how to plug a show. Great, 396 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:41.279 great job, John, Doug, you soon, buddy, Thank you, thanks 397 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:43.799 very much. Six one seven, two five, four ten thirty 398 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:46.640 triple eight nine two nine ten thirty. Cell phones Do 399 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:50.400 they belong anywhere in school during the school day? I 400 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:56.559 say definitely no. There is no redeeming social value for 401 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:00.039