embrace yourself because you're about to dive into another free first hour episode of the

Hire Side Chats and we just want to let you know that whether you're looking for a companion

through your paranoid insomnia, entertaining yourself through one of life's mundane activities,

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which means you'll unfortunately never hear my voice. Again.

In the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the nation through a series of radio

broadcasts known as the Fire Side Chats. His aim was to reassure the common man that our society

would recover from its troubled times. Well, we're far from 1930 and I deal with a different kind of

fire. For a new era of worldly frustration, we offer a fresh conversation. I'm Greg Karlwood

and these are the Hire Side Chats. Here we go, Hire Side Chats, or some sunny San Diego Amgur

Karlwood. Most likely, coming to you through your own personal digital death machine,

the little black monoliths, Stanley Kubrick warned us about, and it's getting harder and harder

to live in the Western world without this little phone familiar sidekick, with many modern

conveniences completely cut off from those who opt out. Uber, Lyft, Bird Scooters, food delivery,

traffic, avoidance apps, making reservations, and even listening to yours truly,

are all made more difficult by trying to work around the smartphone invasion. Your social life

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