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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whipper podcast.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Albanezi is thinking about introducing banning phones schools.

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Speaker 3: Great idea.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it would be a lot of parents

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Speaker 1: that were put there. Oh yeah, I would have thought.

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Speaker 4: So, I mean, what's the rules. I mean, schools are

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Speaker 4: going to have their own rules anyway, but I would

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Speaker 4: have thought the rule was you can have a phone,

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Speaker 4: but it stays in the locker or wherever you keep

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Speaker 4: me bag, and you're allowed to turn it on after school.

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Speaker 2: Well it's just you know what, Like I must have

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Speaker 2: been dead Night wrote a great opinion piece on this,

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Speaker 2: and she said phones are constantly ping and vibrating and

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Speaker 2: learning you to something new. Most adults can't keep them

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Speaker 2: out of their hands. She said, I'm as guilty as

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Speaker 2: as anyone. So how can we expect our kids not

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Speaker 2: to be distracted by phones when they're meant to be

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Speaker 2: learning at school hundredercent?

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Speaker 4: Especially when a lot of the games they play, like

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Speaker 4: Roadblocks Roadblocks is on phones. Yes, they're all tablet games,

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Speaker 4: so you find yourself watching the kids. And we ban

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Speaker 4: games during the week so they're allowed to have school

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Speaker 4: time on the weekend, and that's when they play their games.

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Speaker 3: But it sort of generates this frantic behavior. So if

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Speaker 3: they don't have it at school, it's not this whole

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Speaker 3: I've got to check it. I'll rush back to my locker,

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Speaker 3: pretending I need something to have a look. If they're

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Speaker 3: just gone, you just stopped thinking about it for that

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Speaker 3: eight hours, don't worry about it.

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Speaker 4: No one I can't access it, that's right. John was

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Speaker 4: thinking the other day. I mean, social media is so

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Speaker 4: big in our world and our job as well. But God,

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Speaker 4: the amount of time you spend on social media and

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Speaker 4: you're looking at the gram or you know, thanks to

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Speaker 4: TikTok you're gone for hours, you get lost. If you

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Speaker 4: could remove social media now forever, like it never existed

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Speaker 4: in this hypothetical question I'm asking, and therefore it was

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Speaker 4: gone out of your kids' lives, knowing what it could

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Speaker 4: present later in life for them as they get older,

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Speaker 4: would you do that.

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Speaker 1: Deal for sure?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? If you could click your fingers and it was gone.

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Speaker 1: The is though, would everyone know that you're the guy

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Speaker 1: that did it?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: Would?

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Speaker 3: Like when my parents were got sugar band from the

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Speaker 3: school canteen, did they Yeah?

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Speaker 1: That went down a check that.

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Speaker 4: Would have go, you would have been really popular. But

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Speaker 4: if you could wake up tomorrow morning and the alarm

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Speaker 4: goes off using an old normal alarm clock, so's phone

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Speaker 4: whatever it is. I know you've still got your phone.

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Speaker 4: What am I talking about? But social media never existed.

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Speaker 2: Talking to a guy in Baomain yesterday invented and make

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Speaker 2: a fortune and he said he's got a twenty year

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Speaker 2: old and an eighteen year old daughter and he said,

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Speaker 2: my biggest hassle, my biggest problem now as a parent

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Speaker 2: is managing their social media. It's not just he said, Look,

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Speaker 2: it's not like I'm on there going you can't post this.

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Speaker 1: Or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: He goes, it's just their moods and it's like, you know,

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Speaker 2: one minute there on.

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Speaker 1: Top of the world because they've put up a photo

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Speaker 1: with their friends.

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Speaker 2: Next minute that it's the end of the world because

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Speaker 2: they just you know, everyone's slagging them off on social media.

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Speaker 3: And proven mental health in adults, let alone in teenagers,

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Speaker 3: particularly with women, but not isolated to things like Instagram

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Speaker 3: and this whole living and seeing other people living their

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Speaker 3: best life and feeling as though you're an audict.

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Speaker 4: And especially when the brain's developing as well as a

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Speaker 4: young teenager. You're still growing. You're still growing, and you're

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Speaker 4: taking in and absorbing everything, so negative comments will stick totally.

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Speaker 1: This would be a big one for the Prime Minister.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there'd be would there be many too

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Speaker 2: many parents out there that would say no to this?

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Speaker 4: You wouldn't have thought, so, you know, in terms of screens,

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Speaker 4: I said to our teacher or Ted's teacher last year,

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Speaker 4: I said, I'm thinking about possibly.

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Speaker 1: Wearing a Batman suit and rocking up with Amy Shark.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, or maybe I'll turn up as an astronaut.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about those?

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Speaker 4: I do this for the next year and she loved them.

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Speaker 4: But I said, you know, the kids are thinking about iPads,

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Speaker 4: they want iPads. What do you think? And she said,

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Speaker 4: keep them away from the house for as long as possible,

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Speaker 4: Just for as long as possible, because you know they're

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Speaker 4: going to come. You know they're going to turn up.

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Speaker 4: You know they're going to enter your world and there's

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Speaker 4: going to be games and screen time. And I even

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Speaker 4: hate the way when I see them, the way they're

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Speaker 4: hunched over looking down at the screen and their heads

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Speaker 4: tilted down. And I think, your body's growing and you're

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Speaker 4: in this awkward, an unnatural arch Whey you sit there

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Speaker 4: on the couch staring at a tiny screen.

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Speaker 1: As you're making content with ed Cheering's giant members. Do

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: And I'm out I have a look at I'm going, Hey, guys,

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Speaker 4: pick up your phones and have a look what Dad's

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Speaker 4: done with a giant Marble member.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be really proud of me.

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Speaker 4: I mean, focus on my content, your game, scrub them.

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