Adam Buxton

And I think that podcasting has been

as big as it has been because people really, really want to connect now in the kind of social media age and their efforts to connect are being frustrated in so many ways by how we live and by technology and all these things that are supposed to actually make it easier to connect.

It's actually having the opposite effect.

So they end up, you know, I've been in that position before.

Certainly in the lockdown, I remember after my mum died, feeling really mad and isolated.

And rather than being with my family, I'd bugger off and listen to a podcast and enjoy listening to a couple of other people connecting, you know.

So sometimes it's a bit sad.

But in other ways, you know, there are times when you don't want to or can't or for whatever reason, you're not connecting with the people around you.

And in those moments, it is really valuable, I think, and comforting and heartening to be in the company of people who are connecting.

I mean, it sounds like the kind of boring shit I would say, but I don't think I did say it.

Because I know that I haven't done that.

Oh, you know, it makes sense.

Yeah.

I'm like, I don't stand in the shower and go, how are you feeling today, David?

I'm fine, thanks very much.

The hair washing's going great, by the way.

You've used a new conditioner, which I think really suits you and smells very nice, if you don't mind me saying.

Thank you, David.

Oh, I miss you.

I wish you weren't dead.