This is the Brand and Sherry podcast, sponsored by MetaShare. For more info about the show or about Brandt's book, Unoffendable, check out brantanson.com. Hey, what's going on? This is for the kids. Well, and by kids, I mean, people, like, younger than 30. Maybe even older than that. You're not going to believe this is the way we live.

We do this history segment every now and then just to teach you that this is the way humans actually live.

It's important.

This is an important segment.

There was a time.

Important segments.

Listen up, everyone.

We need everybody to calm down.

Sit down.

Okay.

I'm going to wait so everybody's quiet.

I'm going to raise my hand.

Okay, this means everybody needs to be quiet.

And when you're all quieted down, we can start.

Okay.

Here we go.

It used to be that when we wanted to know what time it was, we used our phones.

Now you may think, well, duh, Grant, that's the time it was, we used our phones. Now, you may think,

well, duh, Grant, that's the way it is now. No. We actually had to, and do you remember doing this?

I do remember doing this, yes. We actually had to call a number on the phone. Usually,

sometimes dial a number, and then there'd be a, like, a recording like this.

Good afternoon.

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