Moncrieff
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Then V Now with Moncrieff: Episode Two - Are We Better or Worse At Communication Now?
28 minutes Posted Jul 2, 2026 at 3:00 pm.
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Are we better at communicating than we used to be back in the day? We can send a message across the world in seconds, stay in constant contact, and never be more than a phone call away. But are all those ways of connecting actually bringing us closer together? From texting versus calling, to the art of letter writing, Sean is joined by author Barbara Scully and comedian Shane Daniel Byrne to explore whether modern life has made us better communicators or whether we were actually better at it in the past.