Are you old enough to remember a world without cell phones or text messaging - where the only phone you had was attached to a wall in your house, most likely in your kitchen, and if you wanted a private conversation you needed to stretch the phone cord all the way into the bathroom and shut the door.  

You’d think with all the advances in cellular technology that we would be better at communicating with each other - but the opposite is true. The original definition of the word phone comes from a Greek word meaning “distant voice”. But we very rarely use our voice when we use our cell phones, we generally use our phones to send emails or texts, sometimes texting someone who is in the same exact room as us instead of using our own voice to communicate with them. 

Drink of the Week,

Call Me, Honey

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Are you old enough to remember a world without cell phones or text

messaging where the only phone you had was attached to a wall in your house?

Most likely in your kitchen.

And if you wanted a private conversation, you needed to stretch

the curly phone cord all the way into the bathroom and shut the door.

Welcome to episode 80.

One of this shit works.

I'm your host, Julie Brown.

And today we are discussing have all the improvements and phone technology over

the last four decades actually made us.

Worse at communicating with each other.

This episode is sponsored by Nickerson.

A full service, branding, marketing PR and communications agency

with team members in Boston.

Los Angeles.

Miami and New York city.

Visit them@nickersoncos.com.

When I was growing up.

There are no cell phones.

And until I was in high school, and caller ID was invented.

I had absolutely no idea who was going to be on the other end of the line.

When a phone call came in.

It could be one of my friends, one of my sister's friends.

Uh, someone else in my family, a bill collector.

Publisher's clearinghouse.

No idea.

No idea.

Back then you simply picked up the phone and said hello

to whoever was on the other end.

And then you found out who it was in real time.

On the flip side of that.

When you wanted to talk to one of your friends, you had to call their

a house and you had no idea who was going to pick up the phone.

It could be their parents.

Could be one of their siblings or it could be the actual friend

that you called to talk to.

Because of this.

We got used to talking with whoever answered the phone.

We got used to having to talk to other people in order to get to the

person we actually wanted to speak to.

As kids, we became comfortable talking to adults or other people in our

friend's house that we didn't know.

That doesn't happen anymore.

Every kid has a cell phone.

Hell, most families don't even have a landline anymore.

Each family member has their own cell phone and their own number.

No more wondering who is calling or who is going to pick up the

phone when you call your friend.

No more mystery on the other end of the line.

I mean.

We don't even really talk on the phone anymore.

It's mostly text messaging or voice messages sent via text.

When was the last time you called someone on their phone and just had a

good old fashion conversation or hell.

When was the last time your cell phone rang and you didn't recognize the

number, but you answered it anyway.

Woo Savage.

I'm sure you just hit decline on that.

Didn't you?

Yes, you did.

So.

Has the cell phone made us less adept at communicating.

Do we actually spend less time talking to less people because we have cell phones.

Should they even be called phones since we hardly ever used them as a phone.

The original definition of the word phone comes from a Greek word,

meaning distant voice, but we rarely use our voice with cell phones.

It's emails.

Texting.

Sometimes texting someone who is in the same exact fucking roam as us, instead

of using our own voice to communicate.

Technology gives us the opportunity to communicate with more and

different people, but eventually it can create further problems

in our existing relationships.

We see it happening around us every day, friends sitting at a table in a

restaurant and instead of talking to each other, they're lost in their phones.

Flirting and dating through social media and dating apps instead of

going out and actually meeting people.

Our obsession with taking selfies or updating our location anywhere

we go, instead of noticing the beauty of our surroundings.

I

have the advancements in technology helped us shit.

Yes.

Do you remember trying to drive places without GPS with handwritten

directions, like take a left at the house with the red door.

If you see a house with a statue of a horse out front, you've gone too far.

Those days sucked.

But there needs to be a balance in everything we do in, in all the

ways technology has infiltrated our lives in order to not lose

the beauty of human interaction.

We should be able to recognize when we need to take a step back from

our different forms of electronic communication and focus and invest

on our real life, friendships and relationships in real time.

Even if that is just a phone call, a real old fashioned phone call.

Then we will be able to separate when technology and

phones are beneficial for us.

And when they start becoming threatening.

So maybe, maybe today you just pick up the phone and call somebody.

Somebody you haven't talked to in awhile, somebody you normally text.

I will say, I really do love looking for cocktails that go

with the theme of my episodes.

And today.

I have a great one and it's called.

Call me, honey.

It was the signature cocktail of the San Antonio cocktail conference

in 2019, which is one of the country's premier cocktail shindigs.

I've been to a party or two in San Antonio, and they do know how

to make a cocktail down there.

Here's what you're going to need.

One green cardamom pod.

Yes.

I always have cardamom in my house.

Two ounces of vodka.

The recipe specifically called for deep Eddy vodka, but I didn't have that.

So I just used what was on the bar.

Half ounce of lemon juice, one ounce of orange juice, a half ounce of honey syrup.

We've made this on previous episodes.

A lemon wheel for garnish and cinnamon powder for garnish as well.

What you're going to do is muddle that cardamom pod in a cocktail shaker.

At remaining ingredients and two ice cubes, shake, shake, shake,

and then strained into a chilled rocks glass filled with ice.

What you're going to do then is garnished with that lemon wheel.

But first, what you're going to do is you're just going to dust that lemon

wheel with a little bit of cinnamon first.

Delicious right.

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