- (groans) Guys, I just woke up, 9:00 a.m.,
and I've been scrolling on my phone for, like, 30 minutes.
It's super unproductive, it happens almost every morning.
I'm sick of being addicted to my phone!
I honestly think it's taking over my life.
So I just checked, and on average,
I spend 20 hours on my phone, a week.
20 hours, that's almost an entire day
wasted on my phone, that's insane.
I recently saw a video that Emma Chamberlain made
where she didn't use her phone for 24 hours,
and I was really, like, inspired by that video.
I was like, wow, I need to try that.
I think this is gonna be really hard,
but I think it's gonna do a lot of good for my life,
and I'm gonna realize how much better life is
when you're not sitting on Instagram and Facebook
and just scrolling mindlessly and distracting yourself
the entire time.
Hey, baby, I'll see you in 24 hours.
We'll get through this, distance is good sometimes,
taking breaks is important.
We need to discover ourselves,
we need to figure out ourselves, you know?
I'm with you so much, and I'm growing and I'm changing
and I need time for myself.
I need to know who I am without you.
I'll see you soon.
(thumping) Oh, (censorship bleep)!
Before I put my phone away, I need to call my mom
and let her know that I'm doing this challenge,
because one time, my mom didn't hear from me for an hour,
and she called the police. (ringing)
- I was just gonna say, I'm doing a 24 hours
without my phone challenge for a video.
- Okay, I love you.
- Bye.
She didn't really seem to care.
She seemed like she had more important things
going on in her life, but, okay, here's what I'm gonna do.
Not only am I gonna put my phone away,
I'm actually gonna cover it in a (censorship bleep) ton
of Saran Wrap.
(light jazz music)
Bye.
Now I'm just gonna put it in a cupboard.
I'm not gonna go to that cupboard.
That cupboard's the no-no zone, okay?
Sorry, I don't have pants on.
It's too early for pants.
(light jazz music) Okay, let's start the day!
(distant machinery humming)
What am I gonna do?
I have nothing to do.
Woo!
The day's so fun now, without a phone!
I can do so many things!
Woo!
This is gonna be hard, I'm gonna be so bored.
Wow, guys, pooping without a phone
is the hardest thing I've ever done.
What are you supposed to do?
You're just supposed to focus on the poop
coming out of your butt?
(playful electronic music)
Okay, so what I'm gonna do is make a quick,
delicious breakfast.
This is Cooking with Eric Tabach.
Maybe I'm just literally gonna make a smoothie.
Nice.
Boom, a banana-na, boom.
Some mayonnaise and some tuna, almond butter,
and some good old fashioned oats, boom.
I'm just kidding about the mayonnaise and the tuna.
I'm just being silly.
(upbeat flamenco music)
(banging)
(motor buzzing)
This is like one of those inspirational YouTube videos
where it's like, this is my morning routine.
I wake up, I brush my teeth 25 times!
I make myself a healthy smoothie,
then I stare out the window for 45 minutes
and think about how incredible my life is
and I manifest. (slurps) (dramatic music)
I manifest my future, I think about, hey,
I'm gonna have a Lamborghini today.
Then I go and buy a Lamborghini. (slurps)
Mm-mm.
This isn't that good, this really isn't that good.
(sighs)
My brain is confused.
So I just laid in bed for about an hour,
doing nothing, just like daydreaming and thinking.
It actually was kind of nice.
It was like unintentional meditation.
It's getting late already, so what I need to do is,
I need to plan some activities, I need to do something.
I need to be adventurous, I need to experience life
outside of the screen, you know what I mean?
So I'm currently in San Francisco.
I'm doing a play here, it's called The Jungle
at the Curran Theater, so I haven't even had time
to explore San Francisco, I haven't seen anything.
So what I think I'm gonna do is,
I'm gonna organize a little trip to a national park.
That should make it a lot easier,
because there's gonna be so much to do
and I'm not gonna need my phone.
So I'm gonna organize a trip, let's do this.
How do I organize a trip without a phone?
Okay, so the plan was, I was gonna text my castmates
and see who wanted to go to the national park,
but now, I think I'm gonna have to go to their apartment
and knock on their door and physically, like, invite them.
(adventuresome music) It's so weird,
leaving the house without the phone,
'cause I keep, like, checking my pockets
making sure that I took my phone,
and then I realize that I'm doing this challenge.
Don't have a phone anymore, going in an ancient elevator.
I have to get let into the apartment by a stranger,
and then I have to go into their apartment
to use their phone to call Bissaret
because I forgot what apartment she lives in.
So we're off to a great start.
(clanging)
I literally already forgot
what apartment she said she was in.
This is what phones do to you.
Your memory goes super bad.
10, 10, no.
Bissaret?
- (laughing) Oh, is this the one.
- You're such a creeper, hi!
- So, text whoever you want.
I don't care who you invite,
and we're gonna go to a forest place.
- Yeah, okay, nature, let's do it.
- [Eric] What do you think of smartphones?
- I think they're addictive and distracting.
It's always in my hand, it's like an extension of me,
and that's a problem.
- [Eric] This is Natalia.
This is Jonathan.
We're splitting an Uber, but I don't have my phone,
so that means I can't pay, right, Jonathan?
This is John, by the way, he's in the play, too,
but he's not coming on the trip 'cause he sucks.
- Because they didn't invite me,
(censorship bleep) bastards.
- [Eric] We ended up inviting John.
- Yeah, they didn't want to invite me, I invited myself.
(upbeat folk music)
- So we're meeting up with a San Francisco local here,
Michelle, and she's gonna take us to the national park
and give us a little tour.
(folk dance music)
- So we're at this restaurant where it's one order,
everyone gets the same thing.
Oh yes, John.
(folk dance music)
- Smartphone, right, okay.
Do you know sometimes smartphone for stupid people?
- For stupid people. (laughs) - Yeah, 'cause it control.
You control yourself, you control everything.
First, control your part thinking.
Second, control what you say,
and third, control your action, what you do.
Open your mercy, love them all,
even your enemy, you will be free.
(meditative music)
- [Eric] What are the chances?
(woman laughs) Look at this.
So, what were you just saying?
- I was just saying that I don't have a smartphone
and never will, because I see what it does
to people's minds, I don't wanna do that to myself.
- [Eric] So, what do you have, what do you use instead?
- I have a little flip phone, like a 1998,
2000 flip phone that I'm keeping alive.
- [Eric] That's what we were just talking about.
- When you're on a cell phone and playing a game like that,
or even social media, your brain produces dopamine,
which is the neurotransmitter associated with, get this,
achievement, and look into this.
Some of the top executives in IT and in the field,
they do not let their children have a smartphone.
They're marketing that stuff to kids,
but they don't give it to their own kids.
(upbeat electronic music)
- Michelle, is this a national park?
- It might be a state park. - State park.
It's a park, it's nature, it's beautiful, it smells good.
Time to rest the brain from social media.
(slow folk music)
(Bissaret yelps)
♪ Hey ♪
- I'm not on my, I'm just taking a picture, don't judge me.
♪ Hey ♪
- [Eric] Pass walking, pass walking!
♪ Hey ♪
(drowsy orchestral music)
- [Woman] Look at you, you're beautiful.
- Hi, Rocky!
Oh, he's got blue eyes!
So I went to grab some food real quick
before the performance, and I feel so tempted
to call someone or text or scroll,
and now that I'm alone, it's kind of hard
being without a phone, but it's nice,
'cause I get to pay attention, like, to things around me
and things that are going on,
but it is very, it's like, it feels like an addiction,
like my body is craving having a phone
and being able to call someone.
So we're doing the show and I have to go to the bathroom.
The bathroom is the only challenging part of this video,
taking a poop without a phone,
definitely the hardest part.
Okay, guys, so, I just got home from the show.
What a day, I still have not used my phone.
Well, I have had the most incredible day,
and another weird phone thing happened.
One of the actors in the show missed his cue,
so he didn't make it on stage in time
because he was on his phone,
and he was distracted backstage.
This is all signs that we should be using our phones less.
I had so much time to think and feel my emotions
and like, I just felt like I was living more.
I don't know if I sound crazy
or how to explain it any better,
but I just felt like I was seeing the world.
I was noticing things, I was connecting with people,
filling my day with other activities
so that I could get endorphins that I get from scrolling
on Instagram, from other things.
I'm very tired, what I'm gonna do right now,
hop in the shower, go to bed,
and then wake up in the morning,
and I guess, check my phone.
Good morning, guys.
I just woke up and I realized,
I spent more than 24 hours.
Since I don't have a cell phone,
I didn't set up an alarm to wake up,
so I slept in super late, but I feel so refreshed.
Oh my be-jeez, my hair, my face, everything.
I usually don't dream,
and I had so many vivid dreams tonight,
and I slept really well, knocked out, like, boom.
I don't feel a need to check my phone.
The only reason I am is because I need to for work.
Because everyone else is using these cell phones now,
you have to to just stay updated,
but I'm gonna start using it way less.
I'm gonna set up limiters, I'm gonna delete apps,
and I'm just gonna start using my phone less,
and using it more as a phone instead of as a toy.
(soft orchestral music)
(frantic electronic music)
Wow!
I just spent so much time on the phone.
I need this, and most people need this,
but I am going to limit my time on this thing,
so, you do what you wanna do.
Hope you enjoyed the video.
Peace.
(soft dramatic music)
(clattering)
Oh, why did I do that for real?
It's broken, no!
No!
(drowsy orchestral music)