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Post your free job on LinkedIn.com slash select today. Welcome to Pod Water, the official podcast of Watcher Entertainment. I'm Ryan Bergara.

I'm Shane Meday. I'm Stephen Limb. And this is a show where we chat about whatever's in our minds every week.

But this week is a special week because we've just opened up our phone line and folks,

the calls are pouring in. They're pouring in.

And we're going to be taking some voicemails this week. We are. And emails. And

emails? We love it for getting it. Well, emails not as excited. I know emails newer. It's a new fad and everyone's so excited about email but me I love

phone yeah I think phone is very fun we got to bring phone back I don't like talking on the

phone I never have and let's unpack that I just don't like talking on the phone. I never have. And let's unpack that. I just don't like talking on the phone. There's an anxiety thing. I used to hate it. I used to hate it. I used to hate it and then right after college I had a job where I just had to call people all the time.

Yeah. And it just worked wonders for me.

I think the further I get away from that job though,

the less I am at, the less skilled I am at talking on the phone.

Well nowadays when you call up any business you're not really talking to a person

until you go through a gauntlet of robots and for like an hour and by the time you get to the person my brain is so

scrambled I don't even remember why I started calling them well that sounds like a

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