Given the amount of time I spend participating in the podcast this way, I would rather say that I sometimes pause my thoughts for a little podcast rather than the opposite

If you are not social and want to be, this is actually a good way to practice conversations. The idea is to pretend to be one side of a conversation and try to mimic what a person would say in a situation. It’s more practical with planned conversations, like TV shoes because those conversations are designed to lead to something. Casual podcast conversations may have more conversation threads that may end abruptly.

Ah, yes. I like to call it “my social life” for short.

There is a picture where a boy sits next to a commercial with talking people and first you think he is part of the group but then you realize he’s sitting next to the tv