TQ49: When you just want to be left alone, where is your favorite place to be?

What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.

Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Every other Tuesday, we grab a past question from the Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers given by other listeners. The question for this episode: When you just want to be left alone, where is your favorite place to be? Links for this episode: Merlin bird identification app: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ Meredith’s Foot fetish episode https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UinWG6euM0KCEK8L9wwbY?si=2QnDapnsQVOxJxvy7Agg3Q Meredith’s Barefoot episode https://open.spotify.com/episode/6PWbBwx8F3m7b77lcQ9GJ5?si=6CzYFD3ER5CMRVY4brYTvg Meredith’s Brother Label Maker https://a.co/d/bdTtrID Billy Crystal audiobook https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/still-foolin-em-where-ive-been-where-im-going-and-where-the-hell-are-my-keys/194423 Meredith’s podcast is Meredith For Real – the Curious Introvert: https://MeredithForReal.com To check out the new Tuesday Question and get in the discussion, join us at WhatWasThatLike.com/facebook. Sponsor deals: If you’re 21 or older, get 25% OFF your first order + free shipping @IndaCloud with code [WHATWAS] at https://inda.shop/[WHATWAS]! #indacloudpod Go to ThriveMarket.com/WHATWAS to get 30% off your first order, plus a FREE $60 gift just for signing up. Go to Quince.com/whatwas for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns! Get 15% off OneSkin with the code [WHATWAS] at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Try Mint Mobile for 3 months, for just 15 bucks a month - MintMobile.com/WHAT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Scott, and you're listening to What Was That Like?
0:05.1	New episodes with guests telling their amazing stories are every other Friday, but today we have the Every Other Tuesday, Tuesday question.
0:13.9	In the podcast Facebook group, we have a new thought-provoking question every Tuesday, and it generates some really interesting and sometimes deep discussions.
0:22.3	We'd love to have you join us. Just go to what was that like.com slash Facebook.
0:27.0	But if you're not in that group, we bring it to you here in a short episode every other Tuesday.
0:32.6	We dig into the group archives and find one of the past Tuesday questions that we've discussed.
0:38.2	Then Meredith and I answered that question, and we talk about some of the answers that came in from other
0:42.3	listeners. And in a few days, I'm talking this coming Friday, a brand new, what was that
0:48.1	like episode. Let's do it. Okay. I just have to say this, okay. I'm really enjoying having an iPhone. I know you're not an iPhone user. No. But I, and Android probably had this. I've had an iPhone now for maybe six months. Android probably had the do not disturb function.
1:13.9	I didn't really use it, but I know it was probably there.
1:18.4	But on iPhone, they have Do Not Disturb, and it's so easy to use. But what always, I always get worried that, like, when, you know, when you and I are
1:23.8	recording now, I have it on Do Not Disturb, but I get worried that, okay, we're done
1:27.7	recording and I forget. And now three hours from now, I'll realize, oh, I'm still on Do Not Disturb.
1:32.6	And then I see somebody's been trying to call me for an hour and nothing comes through. But when I hit Do Not Disturb,
1:39.5	I can set for one hour if I want to or or until I restart the phone, or it sees my calendar.
1:49.2	And the time that I have blocked off for you and I to record, and it says, okay, do not disturb
1:54.8	until the end of this event.
1:56.6	And then it's automatically back on for me.
1:59.6	Well, I've had my phone on,
2:01.3	do not disturb since 2017.
2:03.9	So.
2:06.4	You just never want to be disturbed.
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