Hey, the bird show.

Do you guys have friends that you kind of avoid their phone calls?

Yes.

I hate to say that, but I do too. It's usually the long talkers. Yes. It's not necessarily the long talkers, but it's sometimes the friends that you don't talk to for a long time. So you know it's going to be a long conversation trying to get caught up on everything. It's like, because there's some friends I don't talk to for a while where we can just pick up real quick and have a five-minute conversation, no big deal. You know, like one of my friends in Florida will be like, yeah, I'm running around with my kids. Okay, great to talk to you. Okay, got to go. Bye. Whatever. And it's great. And we'll always pick up each other's phone calls because it doesn't feel like it's going to be an hour-long investment. Sure. But then there's other friends that once you get on the phone,

you feel like you're always the one who's ending the conversation. Yeah. This is the email version of like when you open up an email and there's something that's going to take a lot of time, you just save it. And then you think you're going to get back to it with a voicemail or a call like this. Oh, I know I'm going to be on the phone with this person 20 minutes, so I'll just call them back. And you never do. Or they're the people that refuse to acknowledge the wrap-up. Yeah. Like when you're at the end of the call and you do that. Well, it's really cool. Tell your mom I said hi. Oh, I will. you know she went to Connecticut last week to go up to the casino Oh that's great really how'd she did she do good?

Oh yeah she did? Okay, great. Well, give her my best and I'll talk to you later. I will. Hey, you know, we might be down that way in a couple of days. Oh, my God. Don't you get the hint? That's what text messaging is for. Yeah. I text those people. It's the friends, too, that will be doing something. So you try to allow them doing something to be the excuse to get off the phone.

Like, a friend of mine was like... I text those people. And then it's the friends, too, that will be doing something. So you try to allow them doing something to be the excuse to get off the phone.

Like a friend of mine was like, oh, I'm going into the bank real quick.

Hang on one second.

Oh, that's okay.

Just call me back later. It's all right. You know, what I? Oh, no, no, no. Just hold on. And then they're like talking to the bank teller while you're still on the phone with them and they're like doing their thing.

You're like, no, really, we should get off the phone right now, you know?

That's one of my pet peeves when somebody You're like, no, really, we should get off the phone right now, you know?

That's one of my pet peeves when somebody says to me, okay, I'll let you go. You don't let me go. You want to go. You don't let me go because I want to go. I'll let you go because I don't want to talk to you anymore is really what they're saying. Exactly. I was on the phone with somebody yesterday and was actually thankful because they were having a random conversation.

Actually, it's fairly important. We were talking about something. And in the middle of the conversation, she said, okay, I just walked into the dentist office. I have to go. And I said, all right, talk to you later. And appreciated that because the day before yesterday I got stuck on the phone with somebody who did exactly what Hobby just said. Like they're like, hold on a minute. And then I hear them walk up and they like paid for their gas. Yeah. Which who doesn't buy gas at the pump, you idiot? Hide your card. Yeah. So they paid for the gas. Then they bought scratch off tickets. And they weren't even 60. I'm like, what are you doing? And I'm listening to the whole thing. Because you're ready to get off the phone.

Sure, yeah. off tickets and they weren't even 60. I'm like, what are you doing? And I'm listening to the whole thing.

Because you're ready to get off the phone. You're like, if you got something else going on, it's okay. We can end this conversation, you know? And what Katie does is she acts as if something just came up. Like, oh my God, okay, I have to call you right back. And then she never goes. That's good. And then when she does it on me, though, I get mad because I think, wait a second.

I know your trick, but that's what. And then when she does it on me, though, I get mad because I think, wait a second.

I know your trick, but that's what she does.

It makes it sound like an emergency. And the person's like, oh, okay. Have you guys ever faked having a bad connection and then hung up? Yep. Like you're talking just like this. Yeah. And then yesterday, and then you hang up, and you're right in the middle of the sentence, and it just appears as though the phone went dead, but it relayed in.

You never done that?

No. And then yesterday, and then you hang up, and you're right in the middle of the sentence, and it just appears as though the phone went dead, but it relayed in.

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