I talked to the kids tonight about cell phones

Those two specials are sticking with me. I hope they bring about a healthy degree of correction without swinging the pendulum out of control the other way again.

I loved the Bill Burr/Dave Chappelle mention by Matt. Doesn’t surprise me but I like knowing Matt enjoys them too

Also - Winged Hussar pin arrived in Sabaton's home town of Falun, Sweden today - it's awesome!

Regarding the "Gramma Whitman" and home movies bit, I highly recommend the podcast, Ephemeral. It's about all those fleeting things, that hold hold an imprint of someone's life, that disappear forever and are forgotten. If you like feeling reflective and melancholy and thinking about what is lost.

I absolutely loved Matt's rant about talking to his younger self, It's clearly something he has thought about a lot and has strong feelings about. I don't have kids myself, but I felt I could agree with everything he said. Sure, you can argue that Yes, we as adults made mistakes as kids and we turned out OK after all, but we don't have to live with those mistakes sitting around online, waiting to be found as public opinion changes. Today's call-out culture society scares me.

Every time I hook my phone up to a rental car (cabled or bluetooth) it for some reason plays the first song it finds in iTunes - sorted by track name, alphabetically. I mean, I must have put it there because I liked it at some point, but I'm getting sick of hearing Aan de kust by Bløf. I moved from The Netherlands in 2007.

I'm curious to know what your thoughts are on other devices in the world that can ruin a life with one mistake. Cars and firearms come to mind. Assuming that you're comfortable with your children using these, with proper guidance and respect for their consequences, is there a reason that you would treat cellphones and/or social media differently? Have you considered that you're more uncomfortable with social media because you didn't have to learn about growing up, unlike cars and firearms? Not trying to backseat parent, legitimately curious. Enjoyed the episode.

I stopped my lawnmower and grabbed the phone out of my pocket when Destin got A incoming call from the trash pandas 🥴

Lonnie miller

This was a great episode! We listened to the episode around the dinner table! My parenting style is also very conservative and it was good for my children to hear that it's not just mom 'n' dad who think like this! Thanks for your help!

Omar Schrock

My dad has his own business and the home phone was also the business phone so we would answer with the business name.

I'm with you guys on the bluetooth thing. Every time I turned my car on it would play a random song from my phone over the speakers. If I was streaming a podcast, it would actually pause that to put my music on so that I would have to go in, turn off my music, go back to the podcast and hit play again. I eventually disabled that feature and just started driving with my headphones plugged in to save myself the time and patience.

Mat Brady

"Shove it!" I died for like two miles listening to that on my commute.

"Why would I say 'hi' to my mom for you...?"

Jesse Tomlinson

The beginning of the podcast killed me. Nice job guys! We used to answer land lines with "[lastname] residence, [firstname] speaking" worked whether we were at home or at a friend's house. Just a different world at that time. I would never answer a friend's phone now!