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🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | My name is Steve Curzy, I am a journalist and spend more than a decade that I've been |
0:06.6 | living without a cell phone. |
0:10.0 | You heard that right. |
0:11.0 | Stephen Curzy has been living without a cell phone for about 12 years. |
0:15.9 | This choice led Stephen to discover a surprising place where he was not alone. |
0:22.6 | And we will take you there, but first we have to go back to 2009 when Stephen was living |
0:26.9 | in Cambodia. |
0:27.9 | I was working for a newspaper there called the Cambodia Daily, and I remember going |
0:31.3 | to sleep with this old flip phone, checking it through the night, you know, dreading |
0:35.2 | that call or text might or are saying, you know, Stephen, what the hell is this made |
0:38.9 | in your article? |
0:39.9 | And so when I left Cambodia, I just threw the device away. |
0:43.7 | When I got back to the United States, like I found myself all of a sudden surrounded |
0:47.5 | by people with smartphones, and I was just a struggling journalist, I didn't want to |
0:51.5 | pay for all that. |
0:52.5 | So I was like, I'll just put it off. |
0:54.5 | This has been like over the last decade in a world where everything has become increasingly |
0:59.6 | dominated by smartphones. |
1:01.2 | You know, people are often, they tease me about it, and they're annoyed about it. |
1:04.6 | It's like, well, you know, text me when you arrive at whatever we're going for a hike |
1:09.6 | or rock climbing, and I'll let you know where I am. |
1:12.0 | I have to say, well, I don't have a cell phone, so if we just say a time and a place |
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