Quitting Social Media

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Quitting Social Media

Speaker 1 0:00

Welcome to hey Real Quick. Welcome to hey Real Quick. If you're looking for our Facebook page or Instagram, it's no longer there.

Speaker 2 0:32

Bye, that's a shout out to Smartless right there, sorry.

Speaker 1 0:35

Yeah, either is mine, because I've quit social media.

Speaker 2 0:38

I'm so proud of you Again. Mm-hmm, yeah, which the last time I think I was off there. You were off a while.

Speaker 1 0:41

At least a couple.

Speaker 2 0:42

Again, mm-hmm yeah.

Speaker 1 0:43

Which the last time, I think, I was off there.

Speaker 2 0:46

You were off a while.

Speaker 1 0:47

Two, at least a couple years.

Speaker 2 0:49

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 0:49

Maybe more than that Mm-hmm, but it's like I feel like it's like any addiction If you try to stop, there's no shame in like I tried to quit and it didn't work.

Speaker 2 1:03

No, so you do it again. There's no shame.

Speaker 1 1:05

Yeah, I feel like when you delete Facebook or you delete your account like. First of all, when you decide you're like you know what? I'm spending too much time on here. This is not healthy, healthy at all they make it. It took me probably 30 minutes. I had to Google like how to deactivate. Wow, because you have like hey, real quick was like a fan page, like your business side Business. That's hilarious.

Speaker 2 1:38

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:39

But like you have to delete that first, OK, and then? Like Instagram is kind of separate and you have to delete that first, okay, and then like Instagram is kind of separate and you have to delete that and then. But then they give you the whole. Well, I mean, even though you're deleting it, if you log back in you have like 90 days yeah. Otherwise.

Speaker 2 1:58

Your dealer will still be on the corner if you happen to be in the neighborhood. Right yeah.

Speaker 1 2:02

So like just taking the app off your phone, which? I've done that before oh yeah, that's kind of like to me, that's kind of like putting alcohol on a tall shelf like a tall cabinet. Yeah, but deleting all the apps that's kind of like pouring everything down the sink.

Speaker 1 2:17

Yes, yeah, it's like, I mean, you can get back on there if you want to yeah but yeah it, I was trying to think it drove me crazy because for every like one thing I saw that like put a smile on my face. I saw like a hundred things where I was like I guess I need to buy that or I'm angry right, yeah, like I never got off of it and was like oh, I feel better.

Speaker 2 2:44

No, ever no. But it's just that scroll like where they talk about, like the dopamine hit of, just like. Maybe I'll find something For me. It's oh, it's a puppy video or a baby video or or the guy cutting the grass, yeah.

Speaker 2 3:00

Watching somebody or like like hey, put these plants in the same bed together or whatever. And then you know I weather people losing their homes or war etc. And it's like why do I need to see that on Facebook? Now I feel like a big fat hypocrite. Take the plank out of your own eye, because right now I do have it on my phone and I'd taken it off my phone for probably I don't know six, eight months. But we're looking for a car on Facebook Marketplace.

Speaker 1 3:48

Yeah, it makes it easier to find stuff.

Speaker 2 3:50

I know, yeah, and my husband uses it for business.

Speaker 1 3:56

Which I get if you've got a business.

Speaker 2 3:59

But it's still a way to get on there. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 4:02

Yeah, it's all about sucking you in well, I was telling a buddy that I was getting off there. He's like you're gonna keep the hey real quick page and I was like I'm not because I will stray yeah, like I don't do anything. You're all in or nothing.

Speaker 2 4:18

I'm all in or I quit, yeah, I can't go like middle of the road it's like I just get on there for 15 minutes and set a timer or whatever.

Speaker 1 4:26

Like yeah, no, and I think I took it off First of all when I deleted the accounts, like as soon as they were all deleted, right, I felt lighter.

Speaker 2 4:39

Yeah.

Speaker 1 4:40

I was like okay.

Speaker 2 4:41

Yeah.

Speaker 1 4:41

But then, like maybe 30, 40 minutes later, I was in our room and I was walking to the kitchen. Oh, I'd left my phone, like on the bed or something. I go in there and I grab the phone as I'm walking to the den or the kitchen. I just I don't even realize I'm doing it. I opened my phone and I just I would have clicked on Facebook Right or Instagram and I just I would have clicked on Facebook Right or Instagram Just as I walk 20 feet just to scroll, for you know 30 seconds and just see Whatever.

Speaker 2 5:13

Yeah, but like.

Speaker 1 5:13

Yeah, yeah, if you it's not on there. Yeah, if it's not an addiction, I would challenge anybody.

Speaker 2 5:21

Yeah.

Speaker 1 5:22

Don't delete it, because that's I mean, you have to go through more stuff to do that. See if you can take it off your phone for 24 hours.

Speaker 2 5:27

Yeah.

Speaker 1 5:28

And not be jonesing after 30 minutes.

The Addiction Loop

Speaker 2 5:32

Yeah. Or coming home from work or whatever it is where you kind of just you know, because back in the day I feel like that space that was filled was either people went and did stuff with other people, maybe they definitely read more books, because they always talk about how now people don't read books.

Speaker 1 5:52

No.

Speaker 2 5:53

We had newspapers or you'd pop on the TV.

Speaker 1 5:56

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:57

Couch potato, you know, but there wasn't 5,000 channels and this many streaming things and you know there was no like binging Everything. Yeah, like now. It's just like do you want to watch three seasons of TV in a day? Do you want to order food and have it just pop on your porch?

Speaker 1 6:20

Yeah.

Speaker 2 6:20

You know, like man, I wish we could get McDonald's, but we didn't have to go get it. Okay, yeah, what do you want? It's everything and nobody. Yeah, you know, like man, I wish we could get McDonald's, but we didn't have to go get it.

Speaker 1 6:25

Okay, yeah, like, what do you want it's?

Speaker 2 6:27

it's everything and nobody's healthier for it.

Speaker 1 6:29

No, Well, the, and I knew I got not roped in but got too into it Because, like I don't know, we turn on a basketball game.

Speaker 2 6:39

Sure.

Speaker 1 6:40

All four of us are in there, the basketball game's on and then, like you know, there's commercial.

Speaker 2 6:45

That's the thing People don't even watch commercials now.

Speaker 1 6:47

They have no patience, but the kicker is like oh, it's a commercial, I'll just get on my phone.

Speaker 2 6:52

Yeah.

Speaker 1 6:52

So four people are on their phones, game's on, but then the game comes back on. Yeah, but you're on your phone. You're already scrolling.

Speaker 2 7:00

Notice that too, yeah.

Speaker 1 7:01

You'd be like it'll be March, Madness.

Speaker 2 7:05

Yeah, can you sit and wait and you'll look around, yeah.

Speaker 1 7:07

And people are like do you see that? Oh man, he made it. And like, oh, you don't even.

Speaker 2 7:12

No, yeah, you don't care as much. And then also, like I've done this with certain sporting event competitions, did you see the game? No, but I'll watch the highlights. Yeah, I mean some of that started with ESPN. But like you can pretty much scroll through on an ESPN app or even via Facebook and see all the oh, that was the crazy play.

Speaker 1 7:36

Yeah.

Speaker 2 7:37

It's like the live version of almost anything anymore is not as big of a deal, makes me feel a little bad. You know what I mean like well used to. Everybody talked about it because yeah, it was a water cooler conversation.

Speaker 1 7:52

That's what was on now everybody's go to a water cooler, somebody's on their phone they ain't gonna talk to you um they don't need one because they got the Stanley Cup, but anyway. Yeah, which I thought of it this way too. It's like I don't need to know what everyone thinks of everything I don't want to know.

Speaker 2 8:12

No, you don't want to know.

Speaker 1 8:13

I don't want to know what. Like if I went to Home Depot I wouldn't just walk up to somebody and be like, hey, what do you think about the political situation in the world today? I don't want to know, I don political situation in the world today. I don't want to know, I don't even know that person? No, but yet I'll get on facebook or instagram and be like what no? And then I'll click on something I get mad about. I don't know who posted it it's just some random thing.

Speaker 2 8:36

Oh, I know and then you're angry about it like your blood's boiling, your blood pressure's rising, yeah, and.

Speaker 1 8:42

And it's weird too, because, like you know, you used to go to a waiting room. I'm not saying I miss magazines, but they had magazines. But if you go to the waiting room now, everybody's just on their phone. Kids don't even. We went to the dentist. Dentist, two T's in there, but we don't say it like that, we say dentist.

Speaker 2 9:02

Yeah.

Speaker 1 9:05

Kids weren't even looking at the fish tank. It's like a giant fish tank.

Speaker 2 9:09

I know and you know, they pay a lot of money for the fish and the people come clean it.

Speaker 1 9:13

Yeah, just get rid of that fish tank. Put a charging station right there for phones. I know.

Speaker 2 9:18

Or iPads Kids on iPads Used to little kids would be like look Nemo or Dory. Now they're just like uh, I know.

Speaker 1 9:28

Yeah.

Speaker 2 9:28

I don't, it's not good. Yeah, I won't say enjoy it.

Speaker 1 9:29

I hated it.

Speaker 2 9:31

Yeah.

Speaker 1 9:31

Like it always made me I'm not going to say straight up depressed.

Speaker 2 9:35

Well, yeah, a little bit. Yeah, it is depressing. Well, all the like, all the counselors and therapists and stuff say oh, the research, the data, it's horrible for you, it's horrible, it's definitely horrible for kids no-transcript. Um, I am Ruth. I've only seen stuff about it but, probably on Facebook, Kate Winslet. So she plays a mother and her actual real daughter in real life plays the daughter and she's addicted to the social media stuff and so she.

Speaker 2 10:24

I'm not, there's no spoilers, but basically she takes her phone to try to get her to, you know, get healthy and stuff, and it is, you know, and I don't know if people have seen this and this is super like sad and serious, but like there's a video that was circling on the internet and probably social media for a while, where there's somebody on a plane with their teenage daughter and it's just. I don't know if she just had enough or what, but the mom said nope, give me your phone. I don't know if it was a consequence or what lost it and the daughter loses it.

Speaker 2 10:57

Like you know, she's in detox or something day one oh, yeah, I mean is screaming and you want to go. This is not. Not only is it not healthy for young people, but like I don't know, you know? I mean there's and there's talks about like do we allow social media only at a certain age? And then there's certain schools who are like nope.

Speaker 2 11:20

I think hand in the phones at the beginning of the day and they interviewed some high schoolers about it and they give them back at the end of the day and they were like it was actually like a huge weight lifted.

Speaker 1 11:33

Right, because you're not. You don't feel.

Speaker 2 11:35

They don't want to check their phone and like now, like people have like the phantom vibrating, Like was it my phone vibrating in my pocket? Well, they don't have their phone in their pocket.

Speaker 1 11:43

Yeah.

Speaker 2 11:44

Like it's. It's so subconscious. Well, they don't have their phone in their pocket. Yeah, Like it's so subconscious. I don't know it. Just I do want to watch that movie. I'm sure it'll be a hard watch. What's it called? Again, I think it's called. I Am Ruth.

Speaker 1 11:54

Well, it's also, I feel like the age thing is a cop out.

Speaker 2 11:57

Yeah, it's not good for anybody.

Speaker 1 12:12

You watch people in Washington or whatever, and of those people are on their phone 24 7.

Speaker 2 12:14

Yeah like, oh well it's. It's really addictive for children as they scroll.

Speaker 1 12:15

I'm like you're addicted more than the kid is I know yeah but I mean, I get their brains developmental stage. Yeah sure, like I don't know it's a way to pass the buck, to be like it's not my problem, I'm just I'm looking out for the kids, because this can be very addictive.

Speaker 2 12:32

We don't want them addicted, right? Yeah, well, I mean, and it's, I mean it's like the dumbing down of society. I mean, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm guilty, but I'm also calling myself on it because I'm not a huge reader. But I used to read, yeah, like I'd read at night, even if it was a few pages, until I get sleepy, like I love a good book, and there was some data about, like, how many books people read anymore, or you know whatever.

Speaker 1 12:58

We don't have time to read?

Speaker 2 12:59

No, we don't, because I'm on my phone and if I'm going to watch the news, well, I don't like to watch it because it's a it's depressing as heck. B I do kind of want to know. I do kind of want to know what's going on, because I don't want to have my head stuck in the sand like I probably should know. But I just hit the top five things on blankcom, whatever my news app is or whatever yeah, and do and do I read the whole article?

Speaker 2 13:28

Do you know how many times I've told my kid Well, I didn't read the whole article, but I saw where.

Speaker 1 13:34

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 13:34

Because my nobody has an attention span, and I do that.

Speaker 1 13:39

I would feel bad, or like I'd see a basketball video or something funny.

Speaker 2 13:45

Yeah.

Speaker 1 13:46

I'd be like, hey, y'all see this and I would show it to him, and then I'd pull my phone away.

Speaker 2 13:50

Right.

Speaker 1 13:51

It kind of feels that like, oh no, that's daddy's drink.

Speaker 2 13:54

Exactly, it's the same thing.

Speaker 1 13:56

It's like what are y'all drinking?

Speaker 2 13:58

Like oh well, this is for adults.

Speaker 1 14:01

It's the same way with the phone.

Speaker 2 14:03

It is, we show it to them like oh see, how cool that is yeah, that's mine, but I saw it on social media and you can't have it yeah, yeah, exactly it's twisted, it's real twisted and it's I was trying to figure out how much time I spent on such, because I wake up early.

Speaker 1 14:20

So especially on like a saturday, I wake up like five, five or probably 5.30, 5.30 or 6 and, like our boys, will sleep until like 9 10 whatever. Robin gets up. I don't know she would get up 8ish or whatever, but I'm just sitting in there a cup of coffee. I'm like you know, the TV's on turn on some show right but then the next thing you know like somebody's coming downstairs. It's 9 o'clock.

Speaker 2 14:44

And I'm still sitting there.

Speaker 1 14:46

Yeah, I've been on my phone for three. I'm like yeah. If I poured half of that time and like how to actually hit a golf ball well, or yard work?

Speaker 2 15:00

Yeah, whatever Anything.

Speaker 1 15:03

Or like just anything productive.

Speaker 2 15:05

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 15:06

And also I think I think you know when something's bad.

Speaker 2 15:12

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 15:12

Anytime you try to limit anything you know it's not good for you. Nobody's trying to tell themselves, like you know what I'm going to cut back on apples. Right, you know, I'm going to cut down on eating. No, yeah, exactly, everybody knows it's trash because they're like I need to get off my phone.

Speaker 2 15:29

Exactly. You don't eat six Oreos and go that was great for me, or say I'm going to pull back on the social media and then get back on it for a little bit and then come back and feel nothing, I can't do that. I mean, it's a little icky.

Speaker 1 15:46

Yeah, can't do that. I mean I've it's a little icky, yeah Well, and also like in the not saying days were better back then. But they were um like eighties, nineties, oh yeah, like even when you disagreed with somebody right. You didn't know everything. They thought you. You probably had a clue, Like I probably know where they land on this, and that's why I don't talk about it with them.

Speaker 2 16:07

Yeah.

Speaker 1 16:08

But now how they feel about everything. You read it, you see it, and I got guilty of that at the end, like I would start. That's how I knew I got kind of roped in Because I would get mad about stuff.

Speaker 2 16:21

I'm like I'm going to post something.

Speaker 1 16:23

Yeah, no-transcript. Somebody out and saw a long time, but you know everything they've posted on instagram and facebook and you don't agree with it yeah, are you gonna? Are you gonna greet them with the same like?

Speaker 2 17:04

oh good to see you, yeah, yeah, it's tainted the relationship.

Speaker 1 17:08

Right.

Speaker 2 17:09

Because you can't really still like.

Speaker 1 17:12

I don't know, that's just in the back of your head. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 17:18

Yeah, it's not a good thing yeah.

Speaker 1 17:21

I don't miss it.

Our Changing Attention Spans

Speaker 2 17:22

Yeah, no, there's not enough puppy videos or people scaring each other, but man does make me lose it. But yeah, I could scare people in my house. I could just start doing it and then I could laugh.

Speaker 1 17:34

Well, I mean just kidding, I won't I miss the.

Speaker 2 17:37

I mean, has certain people we'd send memes, or silly golf videos or stuff like that which I told my buddy I was like yeah, just print those memes and mail them to me. Yeah, yeah, you got some stamps.

Speaker 1 17:48

Yeah, yeah, but I mean, we still got which they also this came up. I was like, oh, I'll get rid of Facebook or Instagram. And then I'm Googling can you keep Facebook Messenger? Oh right, you know, I'm like. You know what? No, I. You know, I'm like you know what. No, I'm done with my phone numbers.

Speaker 1 18:05

This my emails, this you can write me or you can call and you should text me because I don't need to my email. But yeah, I guess there's that and then like but you try to justify it before you quit. I feel like that way with any habit.

Speaker 2 18:23

So I'm like trying to get off of it.

Speaker 1 18:24

I'm like, well, probably keep it, because you know, hey, real quick stuff and you know you kind of post something every now and then I'm like nope yeah, I can't do it like. Yeah, I'm like I'll just you know word of mouth or whatever.

Speaker 2 18:39

Yeah, like old-fashioned I'm done with.

Speaker 1 18:43

yeah, it's just yeah.

Speaker 2 18:47

And I mean since all that first came out, it's totally different you know, because people talk about it on the, the platform they talk about how, like this is mostly ads or just things that I agree with, or reels or whatever. And then a few people and like, even if you're using it for business or just a hobby or something you do maybe you're an artist I don't think you reach the same amount of people. No, now, I could be wrong. I don't. I've done all the analytics on it, but like it does not reach the same amount of people. Or hey, this family's and even if it's really good things and you're trying to get it out there.

Speaker 1 19:27

Yeah.

Speaker 2 19:27

It's not the same animal.

Speaker 1 19:29

No, there's no way. Well, like yeah, people will post something like, hey, we're trying to raise money for his family, or whatever.

Speaker 2 19:36

Yeah.

Speaker 1 19:36

And then like one person will like it.

Speaker 2 19:39

Yeah, like you're not, I don't know. Something wonky going on there yeah, it's basically qvc like. That's what I feel like toward the end.

Speaker 1 19:50

I would just get on there and I'm like I'm just watching infomercials yeah on what I should buy, and then every now and then I'll get a little news yeah and then, like it would throw me for a loop when I saw somebody I knew like post something.

Speaker 2 20:04

I'm like oh, I know there's people on here, yeah it's weird and you know how you would see, or see the. Hey, I reconfigured my settings because I was only seeing yeah kind of like a chain letter or something. It was so like stock um text, like this person didn't write it, they copied it. But like, are you only seeing ads and stuff? Me too, I wasn't seeing any of my friends, but now and I'm like what? Is that I don't know it was weird, it's just kind of weird.

Speaker 1 20:34

Yeah, sorry, mark, I do not trust you, but yeah, it was just.

Speaker 2 20:38

I don't know.

Speaker 1 20:39

Yeah, it was a different algorithm. But like I saw less personal, it's less personal, not algorithm. But like I saw less personal, it's less personal.

Speaker 2 20:47

Oh yeah, there's not people, as many people that you know, that you know your friends with on Facebook, right, unless you've unfollowed them or snooze them or whatever. Like you know you're friends, going to see something. It's just. I just don't. I just think it's picking and choosing for people or something. It's really weird.

Speaker 1 21:08

Well then you talk about something and then you get on Facebook and there's an ad for it. Like the first, I know they're listening. I'm not an idiot.

Speaker 2 21:14

Yeah, which is just like now we're at the point. That doesn't even bother us, we just yeah, that is weird.

Speaker 1 21:23

It's a little weird. Yeah, I know I know they're listening to everything I say. I know, I know.

Speaker 2 21:28

Yeah, and here we are. You know, it always makes me think of that movie, wall-e, the Pixar movie.

Speaker 1 21:36

Yeah.

Social Media and Mental Health

Speaker 2 21:36

Which a lot of people didn't like it. They thought it was a snoozer. But man back in the day we had that on repeat. And like people repeat, and like people are sitting around, they drink stuff out of 64 ounce cups. They drink their food. I mean, what's up, sonic, what's up, whatever, what's up, you know, who knows? Have you heard of this new place called swig by the way, I'm derailing for a minute swig it's a place no, no, no, no, no, hold on.

Speaker 2 22:04

They do have cups, but it's a place that just serves drinks and I was like what is this? It's like your nourishment no, it's just a drink place. I don't understand it. We need to look it up online while we're talking right here, but not on facebook. But so I've been trying to go to work the same route, and this happened five, six weeks weeks ago. For two weeks, franklin Road was so backed up that I thought there was a wreck.

Speaker 2 22:30

And it was Swig Every other day and somebody was like no, it's this fancy place called Swig. It's so dumb, it's overpriced.

Speaker 1 22:38

Swig Soda Shop.

Speaker 2 22:40

Yeah, they were like it's basically like Sonic drinks, but bougie. And people were in the drive-thru line that they were backing up all the way from, like you know where the Chewy's is. Sorry. Yeah, Sorry guys, brentwood, this is a locale, that little street that joins to Franklin.

Speaker 1 23:00

Road.

Speaker 2 23:00

They were all up, wrapped up all around in there. They should have had the police directing traffic.

Speaker 1 23:06

Can I read about it?

Speaker 2 23:07

Yeah, this is all Wrapped up all around in there. They should have had the police directing traffic. Can I read about it? Yeah, this is all.

Speaker 1 23:11

First of all, when you pull up Instagram or Facebook, Swig is going to be all over it.

Speaker 2 23:15

Yeah right.

Speaker 1 23:18

It's not the cups, by the way. It features customizable dirty sodas, water-based refreshers and reviver energy drinks.

Speaker 2 23:26

Or Sonic with extra money.

Speaker 1 23:29

Anyway, anyway, it's a bougie sonic I know it's all it is.

Speaker 2 23:31

It's all it is drinks, but why did I bring that?

Speaker 1 23:33

up, I don't know, but oh gosh, I feel like that's what social media is, what just happened yeah, we're talking. Oh yeah, we're drinking our stuff you're talking about something and the next thing you know yeah.

Speaker 2 23:45

You can't stay on topic. No wonder we have attention issues. But anyway, that movie WALL-E. Everybody's sitting because they're all overweight.

Speaker 1 23:54

Right, right.

Speaker 2 23:55

And they're all just drinking hey food in a cup. Remember, like.

Speaker 1 23:59

Scorny.

Speaker 2 24:00

Weaver is the voice of it. And then they have these little screens in front of them and that's how they talk to each other and they float around on these little chairs and they never look face to face. And something happens, because wally gets in the thing and yada, yada and finds a plant, and then little uh eva the little uh screens go bad and a guy and a girl, kind of like, notice each other and they're like whoa, can we stand up? I don't know, our muscles are so.

Speaker 1 24:29

It's where we're headed that's what, that's what the earth is full of trash.

Speaker 2 24:33

They're off in a spaceship. I mean, how close to reality are we getting with pixar?

Speaker 1 24:40

they knew something we didn't know that's what happens in a waiting room when you, when you put your phone down for a second and you make eye contact with another person, yeah, and they're like they had put their phone down. I will tell you what happens. They get a little weirded out.

Speaker 2 24:53

And they're like uh.

Speaker 1 24:54

And they kind of go back to their phone, right, or maybe they'll give you a nod or something.

Speaker 2 24:59

Yeah, but yeah, or they might be the only other person and the only other person and they kind of like you both know we're the only people not on our phones looking down and sometimes you'll talk to them, yeah, and you'll be like I'm at the nicest person in the waiting room. What's up with that, you know? Like we, yeah, no wonder we have anxiety and don't want to talk to people. We don't ever practice it.

Speaker 1 25:23

We, we're all socially awkward.

Speaker 2 25:24

And people are like call them, I'm not going to call, I love calling people. I love using the phone for what it's for, yeah, but anyway, I'm not saying you have to quit social media. I'm just saying it's good for your health.

Speaker 1 25:38

I'll say this I would challenge anybody.

Speaker 2 25:42

Yeah.

Speaker 1 25:42

Like I said, do it one day. Yeah, just take it off your phone go one day, and if you and see how addicted you are yeah because I was the same way yeah that's why I knew, because that's why I deleted it, because I'd taken my app off the phone before. I'd taken it off the ipad before, but I would just go the next step. I'd just be like there were days I would sit and I would be in the car line and I didn't have the app on my phone and I'd be like I'm just going to add it back.

Speaker 1 26:12

And I would add it back because I'm bored in the car line, right. I'm like well, I mean, there's no harm in looking at it now.

Speaker 2 26:18

Yeah.

Speaker 1 26:19

But I'll say that. I'll say this I don't think anybody's going to be on their deathbed and be like. I wish I would have posted more.

Speaker 2 26:28

No. Or you know what I'm saying. Like man, I wish I had scrolled a little bit longer. Like because.

Speaker 1 26:34

Braxton's in ninth grade. He's got three more years.

Speaker 2 26:39

Yeah.

Speaker 1 26:40

I'm like and I'm not saying I haven't set my recliner and scrolled and ignored my kids, because I've done it multiple times, probably daily, but I'm like that's how you got.

Speaker 2 26:51

They don't be here that much longer. No, and it goes fast. Yeah, yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 26:59

I mean you can get on. I think if you want to get on YouTube and watch funny videos and you can go down that hole.

Speaker 2 27:06

I mean we used to talk about getting on the internet and wow, went down the black hole of the internet.

Speaker 1 27:10

But used to. You had to go to the computer, get on there and, like I'm going to watch.

Speaker 2 27:15

Right Sit in a particular chair in front of a particular desk or screen table and all that stuff. And yeah, it's when it started traveling around in our pockets with us.

Speaker 1 27:26

I don mean, I have a smartphone.

Speaker 2 27:29

It's hard to not buy a smartphone, by the way.

Speaker 1 27:32

Oh yeah. Well, I mean, you kind of got to have it, but I'm like if I just use it for the things that are convenient and not for entertainment and just mind-numbing. It's like you've seen the old. You know those memes you see on those places. What is that? Social media? Don't sit too close to the TV you know, we heard that.

Speaker 2 27:52

Oh yeah, and now?

Speaker 1 27:52

they have VR. Now you've got an Oculus.

Speaker 2 27:55

You're wearing the TV.

Speaker 1 27:56

You have Oculus strapped to your eyeballs.

Speaker 2 27:59

And then they used to tell us you need to back up, back up, really yeah up. Really yeah Right.

Speaker 1 28:04

Now people are diving into televisions.

Speaker 2 28:07

Yeah Right, it's bonkers. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's like when you go somewhere that you don't have cell service and those places are few and far between, but like there's this retreat center we've been to in Texas before, or like if a kid goes to a camp or something they're like there's no cell service, the choice is made for you. If you want to call somebody, you got to go to the office for a landline.

Speaker 2 28:31

I love it the first day two, people are kind of like twitchy and stuff, because they're like I can't check my home, well, I don't know. Go to the office and check your email. If the work's not calling you, then I guess you can just relax. And it's like this about day two you just kind of go and you can't believe it and you don't want to go back to it no, that's the thing after you've been off for, like, go somewhere for a week. You know you can't have wi-fi or cell service.

Speaker 1 28:56

It's the best when I act like I can't leave the house without my phone.

Speaker 2 29:00

I'm like oh yeah, like what if?

Speaker 1 29:02

I break down. How many times have I broken down right? Not a lot.

Speaker 2 29:04

Well yeah, you know I'm like well, if there I break down, how many times have I broken down? Right, not a lot. Well, yeah, you know I'm like.

Speaker 1 29:07

Well, if there's a problem.

Speaker 2 29:08

Yeah, I guess I'll have to walk. Problem, I don't know what, right, yeah.

Speaker 1 29:14

Yeah, it is, it's nuts? I don't know it's nuts, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 29:24

You highly recommend it.

Speaker 1 29:25

Yeah, I would recommend it. I mean, it's only been a day or two. But also, after saying all this, yeah, yeah, I ain't getting back on there now. No, when I cut something off, I cut it off.

Speaker 2 29:35

You do, you are all in, that's right. Yeah, yeah, I like it. So, Hopefully I can find a car soon.

Speaker 1 29:43

I guess I can Turn it off. Oh yeah, Well, good luck with the car shop.

Speaker 2 29:47

I guess I got to buy a book now. I got some book recommendations.

Speaker 1 29:51

I know I got book. I got like 10 books I got to read. How's our?

Speaker 2 29:54

Harry Potter going.

Speaker 1 29:56

I ain't reading Harry. I've seen all them movies. Okay, yeah, I need to.

Speaker 2 30:01

See, that's what I do Some good books.

Speaker 1 30:02

Yeah, read some books, yeah, or just get better at golf.

Speaker 2 30:06

Or both.

Speaker 1 30:07

Or a lot of things. Yeah, cooking, see, I take cooking class.

Speaker 2 30:12

There you go. I ain't doing no cooking class no.

Speaker 1 30:15

Anyway, all right, all right, well, have fun scrolling.

Speaker 2 30:18

All right.

Speaker 1 30:18

So have a good one. Bye, bye, bye, bye, thank you.