24: When Did We Stop Talking to Strangers?

<p>Anji can make friends with a lamppost. Annie rehearses her coffee order in her head before she says it out loud. So what actually happened to the lost art of talking to strangers?</p><p>This week we&#39;re unpacking everything the gap between 24 and 54 has quietly taken from us - good old-fashioned conversation, being bored, delayed gratification, and the freedom of a night out that <em>isn&#39;t</em> filmed from four angles. </p><p>Anji remembers staring out a car window for three hours and taping films off the telly. Annie&#39;s navigating burner-phone trends, &quot;send me your location,&quot; and the very real fear of ending up in someone&#39;s flattering-but-incriminating party video.</p><p>Plus: atelic activities (the Aristotle-approved reason to put your phone down), a tribute to Francis the Arsenal fan who rescued Anji off the Tube floor, and a quick-fire round that proves nobody under 30 knows a single phone number by heart.</p><p>Two women, thirty years apart, asking the same question: is life actually <em>better</em> now - or just louder?</p><p>🎧 Homework this week: talk to one stranger a day, and give yourself five minutes of doing absolutely nothing.</p><p>Thank you to our sponsor <strong>Mike Roberts at Making Digital Real</strong> for editing every episode (and hearing more of us than most people who actually know us).</p><p><em>Too young, too old, or somewhere in between - you&#39;ll fit right here.</em></p><p></p>