🎙️ BONUS | Do People Actually Call on the Phone in 2026?

**Nick** (0:05)
Hey, it's Nick, Luttsy & Susie. Welcome to the Bonus Podcast, everybody.

**Luttsy** (0:10)
We've got a camera crew in here as well. I was wondering how quickly we'd say we had a camera crew. Straight away, so I feel like we've got to act to be like a radio show now. Yeah. Do you reckon you have that feeling? It does feel a bit that way. Not even filming me, thank God.

**Nick** (0:24)
They're filming a little bit of your back of your head, Sue. But, oh, we're on, she's on the camera now. So they're doing a day in the life.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:29)
Okay, guys, where are we going to go with this? I'm like, we don't talk like this, Nick.
We're new friends. We just roll in.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:38)
Yeah, I know.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:38)
We never. You're a professional.

**Nick** (0:41)
We actually never talk like this for the podcast.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:43)
I never do that. You're right.

**Nick** (0:44)
It was just having the camera in front of your face. You just feel like you've got to do something.

**Luttsy** (0:48)
We put your telephone voice on. You know how your parents do that? Mum will speak like this and then she'll go, I don't know, hello. How are you going?
I mean, she used to. She doesn't anymore.

**Nick** (0:58)
Well, I used to go, hello, Nicholas speaking. I used to do that.

**Luttsy** (1:02)
You can find it. Producer Ash said the other day that the only thing we really don't use our phones for is telephone calls.

**Nick** (1:10)
Yeah.

**Luttsy** (1:11)
How often? I rarely talk on my phone as a telephone.

**Nick** (1:15)
I still like calling people. I still like the old call. But people don't like it. You barely get people picking up these days.
I rarely answer my phone.

**Luttsy** (1:23)
Would you prefer to call than text?

**Nick** (1:25)
Text is fine, but if you actually want to get something out of someone or get an answer, I'll just call straight away. And they don't pick up. How often do people on their phones now? If they don't pick up, you're like, well, they're just screening it.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:35)
You know what pisses me off? When people call you in their car, and you know they just want to, they've got nothing else to do. There's literally nothing else they can do other than talk and drive.
If they're on a 45-minute commute, they've got you. They don't care. They've got nothing else to do. They'll just, and you're like, what do you want? What are you doing?

**Nick** (1:58)
I do that.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:59)
If I'm driving, if I get a big drive, I'll go through and call people.

**Nick** (2:02)
I'll go through my favorites and just call people.

**Luttsy** (2:03)
Do you?

**Nick** (2:04)
Yeah.

**Luttsy** (2:04)
Oh my God.

**Nick** (2:05)
A few friends, you try them. I usually try three people. If three people don't pick up, then I'll stop. Because eventually those people will call you back at some stage, and you don't want to talk when they call you back.

**Luttsy** (2:14)
Okay.
Well, I got to do a call today that I don't want to do. I'm thinking about doing it in the car, but I can't hear very well in my car.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:22)
In the gym?

**Luttsy** (2:23)
Yeah. Is the blue-

**Nick** (2:24)
That's too loud.

**Luttsy** (2:26)
I don't know.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:27)
It's so little and light. You can hear all the wind.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:30)
The walls are made of the alfoil.

**Luttsy** (2:32)
I mean, that's what it is. Probably.

**Nick** (2:36)
I always wonder, on the other end too, if you're on the phone in the car, is the quality shit for the person who you're talking to? Like, is it annoying for them?

**Luttsy** (2:43)
It is in my car as well, they tell me. It's just my car, isn't it?

**Nick** (2:46)
Yeah, it's just your little car. Dude, you were telling us how much petrol your car took. It was like a 40 litre tank.

**Luttsy** (2:51)
35 litre.

**Nick** (2:52)
So little.

**Luttsy** (2:52)
I've seen it, because you can get...
Weirdly, Cliff was getting another tank put in his other car. You can double... We were doing some camping, and Cliff wanted a fuel tank, an extra fuel tank in his other car, his Land Cruiser. And when we were there, they said, do you want an extra fuel tank in your Jimny? I was like, oh, that'd be good, because you'd literally run out of petrol really quickly. And they showed me the size of the tank. It's 35 liters. It's not much bigger than, you know, the red Jerry cans that you get. I think they're 20