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Sounds,20 Mar 2025,39 mins,

Calling vs. Texting

Pop Culture Debate Club
Contains strong language.

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Which is better: calling or texting? Comedians Selena Coppock and Chelsea White return to argue this one out. Selena peppers her argument with nostalgic props and says – at the risk of sounding like a Boomer – that calling is more efficient and you don’t have to feel like you’re always available like you do with texting. Chelsea counters that texting is actually the more efficient form of communication and it allows you to communicate in places and at times when you can’t speak on the phone. Plus, you can’t send a meme to someone’s home phone. With all that said, which form of communication will Ronald Young Jr. pick: calling or texting? Host: Ronald Young Jr. Associate Producer: Dani Matias Producer: Ronald Young Jr. Senior Producer: Kryssy Pease Supervising Producer: Jamela Zarha Williams Engineer: Noah Smith VP of New Content: Rachel Neel SVP of Weekly Content and Production: Steve Nelson Executive Producers: Stephanie Wittels Wachs and Jessica Cordova Kramer Music: Dan Molad Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts A Lemonada Media production for BBC Sounds

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