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Phone Calls

David Mitchell's SoapBox 2011 Season 3 Episode 1

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

David Mitchell wonders how answering a phone became more objectionable than negotiating an entire evening through text messages.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Mitchell defends the simple phone call against the idea that every conversation should become a text exchange. He imagines the work of typing out a complicated set of available dates, objects to people returning missed calls without listening to voicemail, and compares that habit to replying to an unopened letter. Memories of rushing to a ringing landline bring his argument around to an uncomfortable realization about his own age.

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