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Speaker 1: New Jersey and Amanda gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran is only thirty three, he seems older. He

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Speaker 2: looks like a baby, looks like something from Rugrats. But

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Speaker 2: he's been around for so long, but he's only thirty three.

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Speaker 2: He says he hasn't owned a telephone or a mobile

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Speaker 2: phone since twenty fifteen. This is what he said on

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Speaker 2: a recent podcast with the phone.

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Speaker 3: I just spent my whole time just in a very

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Speaker 3: low place, and I got rid of it, and it was.

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Speaker 1: Like a veil just aren't lifted.

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Speaker 3: I didn't so much cut contact with people, I just

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Speaker 3: limit contact with people.

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Speaker 2: What he said really struck a chord with me. He

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Speaker 2: said that he's had the same phone number since he

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Speaker 2: was really young, and so when he became mega famous,

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Speaker 2: everyone in the universe pretty much had his phone number.

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Speaker 2: But separate to that, he said, sometimes I'm just not

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Speaker 2: in the headspace to reply. You're busy, you're doing whatever,

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Speaker 2: So people text you and you don't get straight back

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Speaker 2: to them. And then you do reply, and then they

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Speaker 2: reply back, and suddenly you're in like forty conversations at once.

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Speaker 2: And it really hit me that's exactly what happens. Someone

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Speaker 2: reaches out to you and you say hi, all's well,

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Speaker 2: thank you, blah blah blah, and then they text back again,

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Speaker 2: and so you text them back again, and it just

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Speaker 2: never stops. And it's a wonderful thing because all our friends,

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Speaker 2: all amongst all of us, we're all looking for connection.

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Speaker 2: But it's exhausting. I think our old village selves would

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Speaker 2: probably meet forty people in our entire lives. Now we're

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Speaker 2: having conversations with that many people every day, and everyone

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Speaker 2: wants something of you in the nicest way, want friendship, connection,

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Speaker 2: help something, but no wonder we're all living on the edge.

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Speaker 1: And then you stack that on top of social media.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, you are on Instagram, for example, then you've

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Speaker 3: got comments to deal with as well. I don't look

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Speaker 3: at comments because I don't know it's never going to

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Speaker 3: you don't and you don't even know if the comments

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Speaker 3: are real. You don't know if it's a.

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Speaker 1: Bot or something like that. Say it's just too much.

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Speaker 3: So you've got your own village, your family, Yeah to me, everybody.

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Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, people's outside and it just

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Speaker 1: doesn't stop.

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Speaker 3: Like my emails literally, I now right now have seventy

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Speaker 3: five thousand emails in what world.

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Speaker 1: Am I ever going to read through seventy five thousand emails?

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Speaker 2: But you know I don't ever read any email.

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Speaker 1: You don't even have your emails. Your emails is crashed.

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Speaker 3: You can't even contact you at this radio stage anymore

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Speaker 3: because you've got too many emails.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm finding this very hard too, with what Harley's

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Speaker 2: going through, because I'm going to have to take over

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Speaker 2: those parts of our lives that he was doing. But

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Speaker 2: I just don't look at emails. It's not in my

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Speaker 2: nature to do it. And all this stuff's falling through

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Speaker 2: the cracks. So there's hyper vigilance that I feel I

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Speaker 2: now have to do separate to the emotional admin that

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Speaker 2: goes with our lives. At the moment, we're all exhausted time,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. But knowing that there's a whole lot of

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Speaker 2: texts there that you haven't got back to, it gives

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Speaker 2: you anxiety.

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Speaker 1: You know, you should do throw my.

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Speaker 2: Phone in the river.

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Speaker 3: That But give me all your money and I'll sort

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Speaker 3: of that for you, and I'll set you up on

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Speaker 3: a nice little I'll give you some pin money so

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Speaker 3: you've got some spending money each week, and you know

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Speaker 3: you could get you know some housekeeping things.

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Speaker 2: Things Brandon, I've seen how you do maths. I think

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Speaker 2: you and I would both both jump into the river together.

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Speaker 1: But one of us had have a jet ski. I

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Speaker 1: know that's right.

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Speaker 2: No, you'd think you would, and you'd end up with

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Speaker 2: something quite different, because you're as.

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Speaker 3: Bad as I am.

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Speaker 1: It's a snowmobile.

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Speaker 2: But I've got a friend. I've got a friend though,

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Speaker 2: who says, let's not say thanks on the end of

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Speaker 2: our text. Thanks are implied, and so to all the

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Speaker 2: groups she says, thanks implied. Don't text back saying thanks

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Speaker 2: just about out one bit, not even a thumbs up,

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Speaker 2: not even a thumbs up. Don't you don't have to

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Speaker 2: keep the conversation going yep, or I'm stopping mine with

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Speaker 2: you right now.

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Speaker 1: Throw your phone in the river.