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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1034 - Sebastian Junger

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2017

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Sebastian Junger is the author of The Perfect Storm, War, and Tribe. He also is the co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Restrepo.” His latest documentary “Hell On Earth” can been seen on NatGeo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Four, three, two.

0:10.0

Welcome back, man. Hey, thank you.

0:11.0

Good to be here.

0:12.0

Great to see you again. Yeah, I like your new spot. Thank you. Thank you very much man. You have a real flip phone. I do have a real flip phone. And you said that you didn't go back to it. You never left. I never left her. So you never went like iPhone, Android? No. No. Never even

0:26.6

even thought about it. Never even thought about it. No. You see people taking pictures and using

0:31.2

apps? Nothing. Nothing. I don't need the apps, I'm good.

0:36.5

There's no draw at all, nothing

0:38.3

using the internet, answering email,

0:40.3

and I have a laptop at home, and I do access the internet yes. But when you're out you don't want to mess with it.

0:48.0

No, when I'm out I want to be out. I'm in the world you know right if you're if you're looking at your phone, you're not in the world and so you don't get either. You don't get either thing. You would get along very well my friend Ari. He went back to a flip phone and he looks disdainfully, sort of like former alcoholics, look at everybody

1:05.8

with a drink, like there's no way you could just enjoy one drink, you loser. You know that?

1:10.1

Right. Yeah, no, I just look around at this, I mean I'm an anthropologist and I'm

1:17.0

interested in human behavior and I look at the behavior like literally the

1:20.1

physical behavior of people with with smartphones and it doesn't it looks

1:25.2

antisocial and unhappy and anxious and I don't want to be I don't want to look like

1:29.6

that and I don't want to feel like I think those people feel.

1:32.0

Wow that's deep I think those people feel.

1:32.8

Wow, that's deep.

1:34.3

I'm a junkie.

1:35.3

You know, it's really interesting because I was at a restaurant the other day and I was looking around

1:39.6

and literally everyone in the restaurant was looking at their phone.

1:42.0

No one was talking to anybody.

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