🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About Cold Calling Your Friends?

Does cold calling your friends pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The pub test.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Pub test.

Speaker 3 (00:01):
Does it pass the pub test?

Speaker 4 (00:02):
If something sounds unlikely, then it should fail.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
The pub test.

Speaker 4 (00:06):
Yeah, the pub test. Doesn't pass the sniff test. Stop it.
It's not helpful. Cold calling your friends, does it pass
the pub test?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
What kind of person are you and what kind of
friends do you have? A lot of the comments here
are saying, if you don't just pick up a phone
and call your friends, you're inhumane, you've disconnected from society,
what's wrong with you? I talk all day. And I
don't want to necessarily talk on the phone. And I
think modern society, it's not like the old days where

(00:33):
there's one phone in the house and that was it.
If you're home, you're home. If you weren't, you weren't.
And answering the phone is the most exciting thing in
the world. Now we are contactable 24 hours a day.
And sometimes you don't want to be contactable.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
I think it's.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Perfectly acceptable to say, hey, are you up for a
quick chat or whatever it is.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
But as soon as someone says, are you up for
a quick chat, you say no. You instantly say no.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I think no, but I say yes.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Unless it's an opportunity, it's something good.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
What about a friendship? I'm talking about, like, if Scott
Mays just calls you out of the blue.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Oh, I'd love to hear from him. Would you? He
hasn't rung me for some time.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, why don't you phone him out of the blue?

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Why, I do. Out of the blue? I ring him
all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Do you?

Speaker 4 (01:09):
I do. I ring him quite regularly. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
So you said before you like to text people beforehand.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
But he works in a place where, you know, he's
got a high-pressure job and there's a lot of, you know,
things that could blow up.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Why don't you phone him out of work hours on
a weekend, say? Your convictions are so strong.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
I rang him when I was painting my rudder. It
was your birthday a year ago. I was painting my
rudder and I rang him.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
And we had a good old chat.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
See, there you go. So what do you think? Cold
calling your friends, do you do it? Does it pass
the pub test?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yes, because if you don't want to answer, if it's
not convenient, don't answer. Just because your phone rings does
not mean you have to answer it.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
And you've got the discretion to know who you can
and who you can't and who you should maybe text
first to see if they're available.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh, of course it does because, you know what, with
the blokes, they can go months without talking to their
mates and then all of a sudden, bang, they ring
them and it's like we're talking yesterday.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah. That's what happens.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, and it's lovely.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
It is lovely. Thank you for all your calls. I
understand that it's lovely. I just got a message from
the scamp there, a big thumbs up.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Show me.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
My phone's off. Oh, what a shame. What a shame.
I could sense it.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I could sense it.