Are we addicted? Idol worship, expectations, and pushback
The phone discussion turns personal. Speaker-0 (Mike) says that about two weeks after getting a smartphone he decided it was the biggest mistake he had ever made, calling his constant checking 'idol worship,' and now deliberately leaves the phone lying around instead of carrying it. Speaker-2 explains he keeps an older flip phone because he knows his own tendencies toward games and notifications. A host notes the modern expectation of a reply within hours and treats an unanswered call as an insult. They cover more study stats (29% peek at others' phones, 72% stay within five feet of theirs), movie-theater rewards for shutting phones off, Nordstrom testing phone monitoring of shoppers, a family's phone-basket-at-dinner rule, and a host's daughter Danielle calling 'everybody, turn off your phone.' The segment closes with the Monday-night live show and Saturday 99.3 KTIA plugs.
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