Traits 23-24: Michael Mann collections, phones, and selfies
#23 (owning all Michael Mann films on Blu-ray) sends the hosts Googling Mann's filmography (Heat, The Insider, Miami Vice, Manhunter, Last of the Mohicans, Collateral). Verdict: the urban gentleman may stream or collect whatever he genuinely likes; one host defends his Jurassic World disc as shelf decoration. #24 (not fussing over phone battery) becomes a phone-etiquette debate: don't burn battery on games, texts-versus-calls (letters were impersonal too), and the definitive ruling that the urban gentleman takes no solo selfies on his phone — classy photos with other people are fine, duck faces are not.
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