Get a flip phone
Summary
A straphanger champions flip phones as the cure for smartphone-induced depression, though there's a catch: his doesn't actually work. He insists that ditching an iPhone means sending just three words per text, avoiding endless fights, and simply looking around the room instead of watching content. Kareem's skeptical. The rider argues that every cool future in movies is analog, pushing buttons and turning knobs, not digital like Minority Report. "Therapy wasn't an option," he explains about his flip phone switch. But when pressed to demonstrate, he admits he had to get an iPhone for work anyway. The whole pitch unravels beautifully.
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So, what's your take? Get a flip phone. 100% disagree. Get a flip phone. Why would I want to live in a caveman world? Feel it. Take it in your hands. It feels like plastic. It's heavy. Look at this. Bam. No, no, no, no. Let me show you what's—let me show you what's worth your money. Something that looks like it came out of the future. Every movie you watch where they're in the future and it's like dope. It's an analog future. Other than Minority Report, it's not digital. Alien, Back to the Future, they're still pushing buttons and turning knobs. Nobody has a flip phone.
No. What are the benefits of this flip phone? Well, okay. Why did I get a flip phone? Yes. It's because anytime I got super depressed over the course of like five years, I was like, "I got to get a flip phone." Therapy wasn't an option. Uh, you know, how is this—online therapy? I tried to touch it and you literally whimpered.
Yeah, I needed like a little dog. How many fights through text do you get into? I get into a lot of fights over text, right? And this is like you send like three words. That's it.
How do you watch content on that? I don't. I sit and I—and I—I look around the room.
That's cool. What if we weren't talking on the subway or filming and we just like looked around and we're like, "Look at all these interesting people." I feel like that would get you more depressed.
Uh, no. Sitting around thinking is bad. Here's the thing: as soon as you get rid of your iPhone, you don't miss it at all. So if somebody calls you, you whip that thing open. Yeah. You just—bam. Look at that. Let me see the screen. I mean, actually, it—it doesn't work. I had to put it—do you have another phone?
Uh, I do. I had to get an iPhone for work.