Call A Boomer!

0:00All right. Wake up with Sarah and Vinnie. They're great. They're awesome every morning. Every morning on Ellis, 97-3. This story is kind of funny. It's a, it's a, it's... A new pay phone. Outside a coffee shop on a Boston University campus is a strange site, a pay phone. It's a canary yellow box with a sticker pasted across the top that reads, call a boomer. On campus, on a college campus outside a coffee shop. And all their parents are boomers. The other phone is across the country in Reno, Nevada. This pay phone box sits in a common area at a senior housing community. It's sticker in contrast as call a zoomer. I love it. So it's an immediate hotline outside a coffee house on a college campus. And inside what would be considered, I guess,

1:04the meeting place, the rec center, the senior housing community. It's the common area. I love this. And so here's an old lady picking up her side of the phone. Hello? Hello, dear. Now, who, who, who am I talking to? This is an experiment. I love it. Designed to bridge the generational divides, also known as bridge gap. They say they, they're, they've done this test to address loneliness in the two groups that experience the highest level of social isolation, young adults and seniors. I hear this about young adults. I don't see this about young adults. I just don't see it. Because they're all in the rooms alone. I know that on my street, and this is just what I've seen. And I, you know, I'm not around and I go to bed early. And so maybe I'm completely wrong. The young ladies in my neighborhood never were out of the house and hanging out ever.

2:07I, I think as they hit teenage years, it was like they locked it down or something. And I just, they, you're saying they ran around as kids and then you never saw them. I never saw them again. And then I see them now. I'm like, that could grew up in their bedroom. I saw them in the bedroom. In the dark in my bedroom. And I don't know what that is. I, but in general, I see most kids are out. They're playing. They do things. I, I don't know this anti social thing, but maybe it's the computers. Maybe it's tech. Maybe it's, I just have a good neighborhood. I don't know. It's, I, I see kids in high school. They're all that I live near a high school. They're all chatting and play in and on their ebikes. I, this kid, I just did the story about the ebike, the new ebike rule. Yeah. Well, that they're trying to get that they're trying to pass. And yet there I am driving to pick up my kids yesterday as the high school's letting out. And they're all, you know, jumping in front of me. Yeah. And this kid's on an ebike and he just hugs a wheelie and rides

3:07in the lane forever. And I'm behind him gone. This kid's so rad. Like I realized that he could get hurt. And it's not smartest thing that, but he wheelied the whole street on it. He had a helmet. I think, but it, but it didn't matter because he was so cool in control. And just Hocking a wheelie the whole way. And that, you know, he's the hot guy. He's got to be like all the girls are probably all swoon. Right? Sure. If you say so, Ben, don't they would name he sounds dreamy. He does sound dreamy. Anyway, back to this thing, this, if a zoomer picks up the phone outside of the pavement coffee house, it automatically calls the phone in the rec center. And vice versa. In vice versa. Exactly. So they pick up the phone. They get an old person or in Reno. They pick up the phone. They get a young person. If they pick up, like that's the deal.

4:12You got to pick up the phone. How interesting. You know, once the novelty wears off, I wonder if there'll be actual connections made and interesting deep conversations like to talk to someone who can tell you some stories and hear about the hopes and dreams of someone young. Like I think that's a, that's a really, it's actually very sweet. I think it's fun. I got a couple texts from the 408 saying there's a similar phone in San Francisco. It's outside of a bar. It says call a Republican and the opposite phone is in Texas. And it says call a Democrat. It actually work. I'm assuming it does. Yeah. I mean, it's outside of our someone definitely demolished it. Oh boy. Well, that's funny. Oh my god. That's a great idea. You're waking up with Sarah and Vinnie. Wake up. Alice 973. All morning.