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Introducing Offline’s Unplug Challenge! Jon and Max reflect on how their screen addictions have worsened their focus, hijacked their social lives, and even broken some bones. Faced with damning screen time reports, the guys take a big first step towards overcoming their compulsive smartphone habits. Offline Unplugged is a multi-week series that will invite hosts and listeners alike to rediscover the world that’s beyond our fingertips. CHECK OUT THESE DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS: ZBIOTICS: https://www.zbiotics.com/offline use code OFFLINE Subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/crookedmedia?sub_confirmation=1 Crooked believes that we need a better conversation about politics, culture, and the world around us—one that doesn’t just focus on what’s broken, but what we can do to fix it. At a time when it’s increasingly easy to feel cynical or hopeless, former Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor have created a place where people can have sane conversations that inform, entertain, and inspire action. In 2017 they started Crooked with Pod Save America—a no-bullshit conversation about politics. Since then, we continue to add shows, voices, and opportunities for activism, because it’s up to all of us to do our part to build a better world. That’s it. End of mission. Learn more about Crooked at http://www.crooked.com Follow the pod on Twitter https://twitter.com/podsaveamerica Follow Crooked on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CrookedMedia/ Follow Crooked on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/ #offlinewithjonfavreau #crookedmedia #podsaveamerica
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**Title: Introducing Offline’s Unplug Challenge – Overcoming Smartphone Addiction**
Are you addicted to your smartphone? Join Jon and Max in Offline’s Unplug Challenge as they reflect on the negative impact of screen addiction, share personal stories, and take the first steps towards overcoming their compulsive smartphone habits. In this multi-week series, hosts and listeners are invited to rediscover a world that goes beyond our fingertips.
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Introducing Offline’s Unplug Challenge! Jon and Max reflect on how their screen addictions have worsened their focus, hijacked their social lives, and even broken some bones. Faced with damning screen time reports, the guys take a big first step towards overcoming their compulsive smartphone habits. Offline Unplugged is a multi-week series that will invite hosts and listeners alike to rediscover the world that’s beyond our fingertips.
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Subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/crookedmedia?sub_confirmation=1
Crooked believes that we need a better conversation about politics, culture, and the world around us—one that doesn’t just focus on what’s broken, but what we can do to fix it. At a time when it’s increasingly easy to feel cynical or hopeless, former Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor have created a place where people can have sane conversations that inform, entertain, and inspire action. In 2017 they started Crooked with Pod Save America—a no-bullshit conversation about politics. Since then, we continue to add shows, voices, and opportunities for activism, because it’s up to all of us to do our part to build a better world. That’s it. End of mission.
Learn more about Crooked at http://www.crooked.com
Follow the pod on Twitter https://twitter.com/podsaveamerica
Follow Crooked on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CrookedMedia/
Follow Crooked on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/
#offlinewithjonfavreau #crookedmedia #podsaveamerica
This is the funniest sh*t I have ever seen. Should have sold the content to Netflix.
I challenge Biden to secure the border for a week.
Do they expect us to watch this on television ?
Two weeks later, how did this experiment go?
284?
I want to do this..if my old flip phone had google maps and news/weather on it like theirs I'd be more likely to. Also music or access to podcasts…hmm.
I feel kinda mortified that when they said their screen time was 4 hours, I was like, "is that all? That doesn't seem like much."
I have a work issued iPhone … and ADD. “Constant checking with no purpose,” defined my life pre smartphone, REALLY out of hand now. 🙄
Maybe the next challenge could be Max not saying "like " for an entire sentence 😏 It would probably shave 10 minutes off the pod…
It's weird how this show is hyper-partisan, hyper-divisive, hyper-hateful of Repubs/Conservs, yet pretend they have none of those traits. They ❤ what their policies have done to San Francisco, which is the polar opposite of what the majority of society would support.
Hate this show, and these hosts 😃
You'll find an alternative! Weigh yourselves to see how much ice cream you eats
I can't believe when he said pick up one book and immediately pick up a second one!!! Thank you so much.
Car Radio? Brown bag lunch?
I bet you’ll sleep better
I miss dial phones.
Are you going to cheat with you wife’s phone? Twitter on your computer or iPad. Let’s get real guys.
Yessss!!!!
As much?
That’s some serious sobriety for 9 mths.
I deleted twitter when elon bought it
I have friends who take tech sabbaths. All electronics.
I love this. So subversive.
Acccckkkkkkk!!!!!
12 Steps for Phone addicts
Why don’t you make your own coffee? It’s better for the environment!
I've got news for you, Twitter always sucked!!!
Thanks to Offline for putting this episode out there.
I do have a slight issue with what is being proposed here. I am a musician, my current occupation is container Management, community organizer, and help with my church's FB Live Service.
Let's say we all toss aside our smartphones. What would we do?
Use our laptops to do the same things.
Use emails on the laptop or tablet.
Take pictures with a camera, upload it to a computer, and then put it online.
Now to everyone's credit, when my friends and I hang out, we talk to one another and play Switch/music/ board or card games. Some Friday's I jam with other musicians and we end the evening with RoundRobin YouTube.
I do have an addiction to podcasts but I've never been into books although I've read 1,000s of articles.
Can we get clarification that Jon’s screen time and pickups were just his iPhone and he didn’t have the setting turned on to combine the screen time stats of all of his devices logged into his icloud? If his kid is using an iPad logged into Jon’s icloud, it could be greatly skewing the data.
Dude, I love you, but I'm low-key judging the safari use.😂
👍
AI has already effected our lives. Nobody asked permission to hijack our brain stems. Asymmetrical attention that rewards aggression, hate, paranoia, and sustained attention is not a recipe for healthy being.
I very much appreciate this episode and your honesty about your screen time etc. It made me look at my own screen time and pick ups a week and it was eye opening. I wonder if there is any organization working on an AA format for social media addiction? I noticed on my own usage that most of my usage are audio book apps or podcasts (which would be vastly different a year ago for me). I think your comments on the need to do this with a community is imperative so it makes me wonder about whether there is a format of AA for all of us addicted to our phones/tech/social media?
You only have nostalgia for the blackberry because you don’t remember what trying to use the web browser was like on it
I have specifically had to delete certain games from my phone and/or iPad because I felt they were eating my life. And each time I have had to tell someone else I would delete the game, and give myself a deadline for when I would delete it.
Love this!
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Check out studying Buddhism for getting comfortable living in a way that you enjoy being alone with your thoughts. You don't have to shave your head and become a devotee to benefit from studying Buddhism and meditating. I found meditation impossible and frustrating before I studied Buddhist wisdom. Thank you for this wonderful discussion on smart phone addiction!
I’m watching this podcast on YouTube on my iPhone 😄 The smart phone is a great tool that holds all of the useful items that we always used to use, for example, the basic use of talking to someone, for text/email instead of paper/envelope/post office letters, for logistics instead of a paper map, used in place of an encyclopedias/library, in place of magazines beside the toilet, in place of trash novels/tabloid newspapers/television soap operas. Uncontrollable scrolling is a problem and I do spend less time reading good books and writing, so I’d like to try controlling my evening scrolling.
I have been wanting to switch back to a flip phone but afraid to leave google maps behind. I think the best tech era in my memory is when I had a pink razr flip phone in college (which I loved) and fb was only on the computer. Could also do Gchat on the computer. I just deleted fb, insta, twitter and Reddit off my phone inspired by you guys so we will see how that goes! At baseline I have notifications turned off for all apps except messages and gmail which helps a lot to avoid getting distracted by the phone. I could probably turn off gmail notifications too…
Really appreciate you guys doin stuff like this. I think it's important to monitor how the very recent social media age is constantly affecting and shaping us
Do not call addicts 'degenerate.' Not even as a joke. I thought you were better than that.
The British sold Indian opium to the Chinese, and demanded payment in silver. With this silver they bought tea for the European market, which was very profitable at the time. This business had the double benefit of impoverishing the Indians and addicting the Chinese, thus weakening them. seems like TikTok addiction is a form of revenge on the West. The Chinese have very long memories. lol
I'd have a major fail during baseball season since I live in a blackout area and listen on my phone — not negotiable.
I like tech intermittent fasting, only using tech for eight hours during the day.
Invite me to Blue Sky. Ready to turn the page on Twitter.
Hoo-boy. Good luck you guys. Looking forward to updates!
Omg T9 phones are the worst! Talk about a waste of time!