- Hey guys!
- Hello!
We're gonna go without technology for an entire week.
- Everything that makes us functioning human beings.
- It'll be what it wants to be.
- Like in the 1900's?
- Yeah.
- Ew.
- I'm Dr. Kara Bagot and I'm an adult
and child and adolescence psychiatrist.
I'm an assistant professor as well as
Medical Director of the Addiction Institute
at Mount Sinai and center on addiction alliance.
Technology use has sort of increased over time,
especially during this time, during the pandemic
when we're all sort of indoors.
People are highly connected to screens.
We know that increasing technology use is
associated with depression, anxiety, irritability,
and that's just the normal use.
We can see increases in sort of
mental health symptoms with excessive use
as well as sort of withdrawal.
So kudos to them for taking this challenge
during probably the most difficult time to do it.
But there is still things to do.
So ladies, good luck to you both,
I hope you have a very enjoyable five days
and we'll see you on the other end.
- Day one, I think it's been going okay,
obviously Joyce and I vibe.
You have pretty cardinal!
- This is really (beep) dramatic.
(groaning in sync)
(laughing)
- I mean we busted out some hits.
♪ Like you should, my neck, my back, lick my ♪
- Tequila man, I mean.
(laughing)
(gagging)
- Then we partied.
We don't need technology, are you ready?
- I feel like I'm gonna regret this in the morning,
only because we have to wake up
and do a big activity and I'm definitely feeling
litty litty like a brown titty.
- Screen exposure leads to sort of release of the same,
like chemicals, the same neurotransmitters in the brain
that we see with drugs, some of the same.
When we think about what's important and reward,
we think about dopamine, so we do expect
to see some of this sort of brain related effects.
- So after last night of getting
too litty, we're still influencers.
- We're still influencers, we still need to get the shot.
- Yeah, so we're just gonna use this
Polaroid camera and then after that we're
gonna go try to get it developed?
- Yeah, what?
Looking hot.
Being able to immediately see how hot we look,
like right away and get that validation.
Oh yeah, see?
It's so (beep) easy, huh?
- Wait, wait.
- We realized we need to get them developed.
Joyce, you got the map?
- I'm tryna put my eyelash back on.
- Didn't know where to go.
- I'm still in Sacramento.
- Okay.
- Where the is Los Angeles?
This map is big!
- That's insane.
- This map is huge!
The Walgreen's store we tried on does not do development.
- We got rejected.
- Who the hell develops disposable anymore?
- I am born of the technologist age, I am the first Gen Z,
I don't know how to use this (beep).
- We had to wander around and that was difficult
but it was fun.
If I didn't have Joyce there with me,
I think I would have gone crazy.
- So we just got back from the TVS
and I gotta say it was a little bit of an adventure!
- We did good.
- You know I think it was a great
bonding experience for us, you know?
- So day one might be a little bit of a novelty,
I believe day two and day three will be
the most difficult for these ladies.
- I have been bored all day today.
- Day three has been rough.
- I need to check my phone, what if my mom called me?
- We hit some bumps.
- Yesterday we did a great job and now
I'm just gonna go pick up my phone.
- Joyce!
(laughing)
- What?
- What are you doing?
- Checking the bounciness of this wind chime.
- Joyce messed up, I messed up.
- What is this?
- Nothing!
- What is this?
That is for work only!
- No, it was just like ten minutes!
(beep) getting hard, I just gotta
get this out of me, you know?
So we're gonna try and meditate.
(peaceful music)
(bell ringing)
♪ My neck, my back, lick my ♪
Great.
- Thank you.
- When we're supposed to be socially isolating
and now layered on top of that a lot of cities have curfews,
so you can't get out quite as much.
But there's still things to do.
They can read magazines, again in paper,
newspapers come in paper print edition,
so there are lots of things that they can engage in.
- We had a successful day together.
Joyce and I cooked together a little bit
and that was entertaining.
Personal weaknesses.
- I wanna be on Tiktok right now.
- 'Cause we don't spend a lot of time in the kitchen.
- We're gonna make brownies.
- You can't show!
- Blur this!
- Blur it!
- Here's our beautiful, amazing thing.
We did get two divots in it taking it out, but.
- They look beautiful.
- I don't know, I'm kind of enjoying this and yeah.
- Now, I'm gonna enjoy this!
- We're gonna eat the hell outta this!
- Physical activity, go for a run outside,
go for a walk, a hike.
So lots of really wonderful things to be done,
even given the restrictions that
we are now sort of living under.
- So today was the last day and I think it went well.
We decided to go to the park and luckily
I did know how to get to the park,
so we didn't have to go like, oh crap we don't
have Google Maps, how do we get there?
- One, two, one, two, three, four.
- We just sat down, picnicked a little bit,
had a little bit of more of a reading sesh,
and you know, we jammed.
I brought my guitar, which I've never done.
That was very fun actually, I actually really enjoyed it.
Until the ants started tryna crawl
in our (beep) cracks, that really sucked.
- It's the end of day five and I think,
honestly I think the whole experience
definitely, we had our rocky moments.
(laughter)
Would I do this again?
- [In Unison] No.
- I think it really did connect me to myself,
- Yeah. - And what I am as a person.
- Yeah.
- But I don't need to spend all day with this (beep)
♪ My back, lick ♪
♪ My neck, my back, lick my ♪
♪ My neck ♪