About this episode
Jeremy Rellosa experiments with living without a smartphone for two weeks, relying solely on a landline for communication.
Jeremy Rellosa used to watch TV shows and movies from the '90s and revel in how the characters walked around untethered to a smartphone, with no expectations of constant connectivity. So he decided to run an experiment on himself: he'd live for at least two weeks without a smartphone. No Slack. No text messages. No Instagram or WhatsApp. If his friends, family, or boss wanted to reach him, they'd have to call him on his landline. Sure, landlines were the norm just a couple of decades ago. But in our always-online world, how feasible is the landline life, really? Ben and Amory call Jeremy up to find out. Show notes: "I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline" ( New York Magazine ) This episode was written and produced by Grace Tatter and edited by Meg Cramer and Dave Shaw. It was co-hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson. Mix and sound design by Paul Vaitkus.
People in this episode
Hosts: Ben Brock Johnson, Amory Sivertson
Guest: Jeremy Rellosa
Topics covered
- smartphone addiction
- landline communication
- digital detox
- 90s nostalgia
- social connectivity
Keywords
- smartphone
- landline
- digital detox
- communication
- 90s TV
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: New York Magazine
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