Speaker 1: Get your hand us together, and we're going to start
Speaker 1: to party.
Speaker 2: Start part I'm ready to party.
Speaker 3: The Elvis Duran after Party.
Speaker 2: It's the after Party Podcast. Don't we love a podcast
Speaker 2: after the party? Yeah, well, because that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine podcasting after an actual party?
Speaker 2: No, not at all. So we were talking about the
Speaker 2: need to detox from our phones, put them down. We're
Speaker 2: so locked into our phones. We are forgetting about ourselves,
Speaker 2: you know, because every time you pop online, you're really
Speaker 2: not paying attention to yourself at all. You're paying attention
Speaker 2: to something else always. Yeah, a lot of people are
Speaker 2: calling in about this. Joanne on line nineteen. Joanne just
Speaker 2: admits that out loud she hates her phone, and so
Speaker 2: you actually give it up every Sunday a Sunday phone
Speaker 2: free day for you, Joanne.
Speaker 4: Yes, Digital de Talks Day.
Speaker 2: When and why did you start this?
Speaker 4: I started it. I'm going to say about nine years ago.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, Okay, my uncle sent me a video from
Speaker 4: YouTube and it's like this love story that wouldn't have
Speaker 4: happened if we were looking down at our phone. This
Speaker 4: man walks around the park. He asked this woman for directions.
Speaker 4: They fall in love, they have this great life. If
Speaker 4: you were looking down at your phone, you wouldn't have met,
Speaker 4: You wouldn't have had gotten married and had this wonderful life.
Speaker 2: Wow. Kind of makes you wonder what we were all missing.
Speaker 2: What we're all missing when we're on our phone all
Speaker 2: the night. We'll never know because we're not paying attention.
Speaker 2: There's a whole world going on out there. You do
Speaker 2: know that, right? Scary there's a world going on out
Speaker 2: there while you're on your phone. Something I said, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: okay somehow So so Joanne, if someone needs to get
Speaker 2: you on a Sunday, they have to call you. There's
Speaker 2: no texting. Yes, your phone has to ring.
Speaker 4: It actually has to ring if you text me. I
Speaker 4: wake up on Monday morning and I have text messages.
Speaker 4: I haven't responded to Facebook, you know, comments, all these
Speaker 4: things that I just I don't respond to it, and
Speaker 4: I tell them, you know, if you need me, you
Speaker 4: better call me.
Speaker 2: Wow, So you had to train people over nine years.
Speaker 2: It took nine years to train them to call you
Speaker 2: on Sunday.
Speaker 5: Correct.
Speaker 4: And so my new friends do not like this, well, of.
Speaker 2: Course, but let me ask you this, how does it
Speaker 2: affect your life? Monday through Saturday. I mean, are you
Speaker 2: using your phone less during those days as well?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: And it is my goal. You know how you get
Speaker 4: like the uh usage once a week?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it.
Speaker 4: Is my goal to have that less every week. And
Speaker 4: when it's higher, I'm like, what the hell did I do?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Why was I on my phone?
Speaker 3: I have a question, do you on Monday, when you
Speaker 3: have all of these other texts and everything that came
Speaker 3: in on Sunday that you ignored, do you have to
Speaker 3: play catch up on Monday? Or do you just not
Speaker 3: answer those at all?
Speaker 4: Depends on if I feel it's important enough. Okay, Like
Speaker 4: sometimes I'm just like I don't care about you, move on.
Speaker 4: But if it's like you know someone something somewhat important, sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's fair.
Speaker 2: Wow. You know it's interesting, Joan, because we're about to
Speaker 2: talk to someone else who is from what their parent
Speaker 2: company they work for is in Germany, where they I
Speaker 2: think legally not allowed to have their phones on nice
Speaker 2: or even their company at least says you you cannot
Speaker 2: respond to anything business wise on the weekends.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that in just a second. All right,
Speaker 2: any of the thoughts for Joanne, It sounds like she's
Speaker 2: onto something pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a great idea. I might have to implement something
Speaker 1: like that myself. Yeah, I'll talk to me. She just
Speaker 1: doesn't want you to talk to her.
Speaker 2: The question why, I mean, I feel like Sunday is
Speaker 2: an important day. Why day? But aside from that, but
Speaker 2: why not like a random weekday? I mean, I feel
Speaker 2: like Sunday would be the day that you would really
Speaker 2: want to connect with people.
Speaker 4: That's really my day to like recoup and get ready
Speaker 4: for the week. You know, I work Monday through Friday.
Speaker 4: I work at a town hall. I don't want to
Speaker 4: be bothered. If you want to bother me and you're
Speaker 4: like my dad, you know you're going to call me
Speaker 4: and you want to hang out with me, and you're
Speaker 4: going to pick up the phone. You want to hear
Speaker 4: my voice. Yeah, I need to reset. I want to
Speaker 4: be home on Sundays. I want to chill. I don't
Speaker 4: want the stress of the phone. The phone is stressful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you did, you took charge. You took charge
Speaker 2: of your life, and it is your your rules. People
Speaker 2: will follow them, including yourself, because you have to follow
Speaker 2: your own rule as well. Joanne, thank you. That was very,
Speaker 2: very very eye opening. We appreciate you being part of
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thanks for talking to me.
Speaker 2: You're very welcome. Arleen is online eighteen, who I was
Speaker 2: talking to earlier. Hi Arlen, how you doing good? You
Speaker 2: doing well? So, Arlene says, my parent company is in
Speaker 2: Germany not allowed to have their phones on or even
Speaker 2: smart watches or anything like that during the workday. They
Speaker 2: need to lock up these phones in their desks. They
Speaker 2: can check them at breaks only. And you always find
Speaker 2: it crazy when people visit you in the US and
Speaker 2: they see you wearing no you find it crazy when
Speaker 2: you visit the US and you see people wearing their
Speaker 2: smart watches and have their cell phones on them at
Speaker 2: all times, you do find it crazy. What we're doing
Speaker 2: here is insanity, right, Arlen?
Speaker 4: Agree? Agree?
Speaker 5: I mean I'm in the US here, and you know
Speaker 5: we're I g said, like you guys, you're used to it.
Speaker 5: It's with you. We even are company in the US.
Speaker 5: Most of us work from home. We need our phone
Speaker 5: to just log into our computers. But still, of course
Speaker 5: you use it for that, but then of course you're
Speaker 5: checking it throughout the day. Anytime the Germans come here
Speaker 5: and they see us, they're like, what are you doing? Like,
Speaker 5: how can you have that out? You know why? You know,
Speaker 5: why do you need it? You know the interesting and
Speaker 5: logging on? But then why do you need it? After that?
Speaker 2: Wow? Didn't even know that? Do we know this?
Speaker 1: No? No?
Speaker 5: And I don't know if it's every company out there,
Speaker 5: but like, I mean, this is a pretty big company
Speaker 5: in Germany that I work that we're the parent company of.
Speaker 5: And yeah, they even they're smart watches like they The
Speaker 5: first I got introduced to it to them was a
Speaker 5: few years ago. One of their interns was here, which
Speaker 5: is a college student, and she was like, you guys
Speaker 5: who were smart watches? Were like, what do you mean?
Speaker 5: And then she explained to us they have to walk
Speaker 5: them up. They're not allowed to.
Speaker 1: Have Now I like it. Yeah, but also how many
Speaker 1: times are we in here and we're talking about something
Speaker 1: and you look around and people are on their phone,
Speaker 1: not paying attention anything the time, and then we repeat,
Speaker 1: we repeat what someone just said because we're not paying attention.
Speaker 1: This is the first place I've been where the phones
Speaker 1: were allowed to be out during the show. The other
Speaker 1: shows that I was at, if you had your phone out,
Speaker 1: one of the hosts saw you oh my god, the
Speaker 1: end of the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get scary sweating now he's sweat.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you use this the phone for research though, I
Speaker 2: mean in the moment stuff. Yeah, sometimes, But how do
Speaker 2: we how do the rest of us know that? I
Speaker 2: won't tell you this, Arlene. Back when people started bringing
Speaker 2: their laptops into the room, and I used to get
Speaker 2: all pissed off because I would try to get people's
Speaker 2: attention and they were on their laptop doing something I
Speaker 2: don't know. And we were considering making it illegal to
Speaker 2: have your laptop on in the room. That's and that's
Speaker 2: back before cell phones were you know, they took the
Speaker 2: place at the laptop.
Speaker 5: Actually, yeah, your small laptop.
Speaker 2: We can always bring it back.
Speaker 5: I like it. Yeah, I mean we have done. We've
Speaker 5: done in the US here because most of what's were remote.
Speaker 5: We have you know, company meetings online, you know, via
Speaker 5: our WebEx we use. And they started now we have
Speaker 5: to have our cameras on because they knew people were listening,
Speaker 5: but what else were they doing on their phone or
Speaker 5: something else and not really engaging. And so now unless
Speaker 5: for some reason you have some reason you can't put
Speaker 5: your camera on. Your camera's got to be on.
Speaker 1: That's so funny.
Speaker 3: Whenever we have like a big iHeart meeting, I'm at
Speaker 3: home and sometimes I'm cleaning and my camera off and
Speaker 3: i have my airpot in and I'm listening. But I'm
Speaker 3: cleaning and I'm doing this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're not. You're not paying attention to one. No,
Speaker 2: that's that's why. That why it's illegal for us to
Speaker 2: be on our phones while we're driving. Yeah, because I
Speaker 2: mean I've done to myself. I'll be on the phone
Speaker 2: with someone and I'll find myself running a red light.
Speaker 2: I mean, and so I stopped doing it because you
Speaker 2: need to be paying attention. And so I don't think
Speaker 2: it's anything. They're not asking for too much for your
Speaker 2: full attention while you're on their dime and you're working
Speaker 2: for them and trying to problem solve for the company.
Speaker 2: I get it, all right.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, go back ten twenty years ago, we
Speaker 5: did not have it, and come we had no problem with.
Speaker 2: It then, you know, yeah, right, all right, any of
Speaker 2: the thoughts for Arlene or questions, no.
Speaker 1: I like this. I like this idea though.
Speaker 3: We're moving to joy right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Arlene, thank you and thanks for listening
Speaker 2: to you so we sure do appreciate you very very
Speaker 2: very much.
Speaker 5: Thanks you guys have a great days after party.