We Locked Our Phones Away For A Week

I'm going crazy guys Agata we're less than 37 minutes now guys we're posting the last video you guys saw we haven't posted it yet and we're posting it Matt yeah in less than an hour so the reason why that we are. Going crazy is because the videos were very important to us, yes, you saw that we like it, we said a lot of things that we normally don't do. You could take photos at any time. I'm a little afraid we're uploading last

week

's video in less than an hour and these are real general emotions right now we were excited it's been like two

week

s we've been working on this oh hello um no I know, I would disperse, although not a week I have never worked on a video on our channel for longer.

On top of that, we also filmed five different days. We drove to Ricky's house. I sat down with Ricky, we hammered out a few things and then we went back and filmed more and then I drove him to Ricky's house and we came back. and we filmed more or less, we've really been working on this trying to do this as best we can. I feel very proud right now, yes, and I haven't had that feeling in a long time because I just haven't had the time. excited as you can see I'm excited but I'm also nervous because we're bringing out a side of us that most of you may have never seen before but I'm sorry I shouldn't curse yeah you shouldn't.

Bad, but it feels good, so when we upload this video, we are about to upload last week's video, so many videos, everyone is probably so confused when we upload this video right now, last week's video right now, Look at me, you understand, it's okay. We're going to put our

phones

down as soon as we get up and we're not allowed to pick them up for a full week. We are doing this because for the last five years we talked about it with Shane and he really helped us realize a lot of things, the conversation gave us a lot of perspective and one of those insights we gained was that we let the numbers control our mood and , since we upload every week, okay, well, regardless of the performance of this video. our mood for the week, so if the video doesn't get as many views as we think we'll feel for a week, it's inevitable that everyone around me will see it, like all our friends and the whole experience I'm sure. like most people who have done YouTube like Rickey, long time friend, I want to interrupt you, but I literally set it up, it's wrong.

I'm in a bad mood all week so you know how it is and have you ever not seen a video after you? I uploaded it all, I know the numbers that all those youtubers have in common and it's not a healthy way to live, it's not real life numbers on a screen that control your happiness and I don't believe in that and I need to start practicing what preach and that's finally trapping this inside of you so what we're going to do is we're going to upload this video to grab my thigh for a second, we upload this video and for the first time in five years we're not going to look. the numbers we're not going to pay attention to any of this we're going to put down our

phones

and live life through our eyes for a full week without phones I think this week we're about to grow more than we've ever had, this It's our first real life practice, yes, we've been writing, we've been boxing for years, even when a video did you good.

I wasn't exactly proud of the video, so I did it. I don't feel great either, but now that I'm proud of a video, it's a whole new feeling, obviously we want to make the best things for you, but it also has to feel like the best things come from us, come from our heart and soul now guys, it's not like it wasn't in the past, it just is now, we're just rushing to make things work and that's evident, what we are practicing today is being proud of our stuff and not paying attention to the judgments we are emitting. our phones down for a whole week oh you already said I know but that's what I thought that's the title of the video I think how we're going to do this show me Grayson box me why your slap?

I was just showing that it's pretty sturdy anyway, guys. This is a safe deposit box, it's like a little mini safe type thing, the only way to get into the safe is with the key, our phones are going to go in the safe. Wow, they'll be

locked

up for a whole week and not this box. It doesn't belong to us, he handed over our equipment and our assistant is going to hold on to that box making sure we don't get in and they have the keys too, guys, we're going to do this for real. I would, but I won't quit yet.

I sell some time before uploading it, yes, that was just a little demonstration, if something goes wrong like in our family, okay, wait, if that doesn't want anything, if there is any emergency, we will have the box with us, but no will be in our possession, our assistants will keep it, every member of my family, every one of my friends and every member of my team has my assistant's number so they can contact her and if they need to talk to us, we will hold a phone call. on your phone and wouldn't consider cheating to be necessary.

I just want to say this. I want to make a disclaimer. We really appreciate your support last week before uploading this video. You guys have been nothing but supportive and it's really heartwarming, honestly, I've been watching everything winter related. I've read all your messages and there are countless amounts and I literally can't thank you enough for taking the time out of your day so that's not what we're trying. to avoid it, I can't wait to get back to my phone after we can read all your messages, but what we are trying to avoid is just the aspect of the numbers, the views, everything that doesn't really matter and it will also be the first time I haven't thought about oh, let me Snapchat this.

I need to use Snapchat with this. I might say you can say this, yeah, yeah, it's going to be the first time, but it's really going to be the first time I'm like, oh, let me Snapchat this. I have to take this and share it. It'll be like let me see this and appreciate it for what it is through my eyes for the first time in a long time. Let's enjoy the things there. We have an incredible travel plan. - we're not staying here in Los Angeles, going off the grid, yeah, oh, off the grid, we're warming up off the grid, okay, yeah, we've got about 30 minutes left, we gotta text everyone , that's where I'll be on our phones all week the kids travel to stick the planet on grandmas stuff all the new Snapchats for everyone it's bad if I copy and paste it to another gram on that I said hello grandma many are family video a thumbs up thanks guys right?

I can't, seriously, I'm not my her, video games, I love video, no response, probe, contact, just put it all on your phone, it was just me. I was texting a group. Chancellor, everyone has been notified that we will be leaving. so I don't need my phone anymore to text anyone here, we have minutes, are you guys going to be like in the Walkman store, you like to fly or are we going to make advanced rules, like no walkins, like CD boom or Walkman, they say is that good? I don't want to listen to music on the plane just read a book or sing oh I'll read a book I'll read Ricky Jones' book I didn't want to be now I just want to be time the same feeling is the anticipation is a minute Oh, sixty seconds now I just can't believe that opposing a child sees something about it.

I know, but we're proud of it, so proud of you, bro, I'm proud of you too, man, audience, oh, what's up? officially Wow, what's up guys? This week's video is available. I'm feeling a lot of things about this video right now. From box to box. Well, we have the box really, really open, and I just received a statue. I'm going to leave everything out there, so since we don't have phones, we no longer have a way to document our lives, but the same goes for this to film a video, but yeah, we don't know personally that Kyle is filming Ricky's filming, so since we go. off the grid, you know, we want to have something to remember our memories, we have these things here, we have these disposable cameras and these rolls of film for our movie camera, so when we come back from being stranded on an island, we will have some memories to look.

Come back and maybe we'll add a little bit, you know, both slideshows at the end of the video. This is all I have. I'm going to put this in my pocket. Normally I would be literally scrolling on my phone checking the numbers. for correction update that's not helpful I almost forgot we uploaded a video because I don't have my movie I'm not watching it I just feel like I have a less responsible guy I don't know if that's a good thing What we did right by doing this for the last five years was that we learned the number patterns and that the video should work fine in a certain number of minutes, so literally our movie will already be changed by the video if it was okay, okay, let's decide what to do and see you for the rest of the week.

Okay, why is it so greasy? I'm leading my mother to take the path, little one, your chamber of songs. Okay, I'm sorry, I haven't had a phone for a couple of hours and I feel crazy there with us guys, my mom is recording us on her phone or is it, because we don't have a phone. I feel pretty free right now. I feel like I'm a lot lighter, a little more stress free, yes I feel naked in a sense, the grace is building, oh that's going to be a nice thing, so I'm building it to entertain.

I do this anyway, so it's actually not that bad, here's the thing. The thing is, all the lights in the house are controlled by our phones. This life is off because I turned it on this morning. I'll build your dresser and I'll get a clip after it's not a dresser, it's a purse, it's a place like a bag holder, okay, wow, that's really nice, cool, thank you, we just got in the car. I got really excited about connecting my phone to an ox and obviously I don't have my phone so now we're going to play royalty free music.

It's nighttime we're just chilling I think he's a purer version of myself I don't know how I know your phone is on a bad day because you haven't seen porn all day He had his watch on because It was like three hours

away

and he didn't I had no idea it was French time, how do we navigate an airport without our phones? No, it's like we need a lot. I don't have to depend on myself, yeah, I'm going to wipe my ass. without my phone oh thanks we have four hours to sleep don't get up I don't have long clocks you have to wake us up right 6:54 in the morning time to wake up the kids normally that's not a bed brother oh holy friend are you up buddy, get up butt, get up, get up, get up, get up, my song, this might take a while, thanks mom, thanks for being there, I'll be able to send that text when we get there, I've got you, she worries about us Gracie, a little grumpy Without your phone, there, what are you?

You're not in a bad mood, she's just in a bad mood. I'll do it because I don't have a sweatshirt that matches my pants. Damn, I feel so bad it's going to be weird getting on the plane and I'm not listening to music and we have a five hour flight. Yeah, you've been mad about it since yesterday. I can't believe the music on the flight. I also forgot a book. Yes, you did it. Maybe there's a small bookstore there. I'm. acting like I know what I'm doing in a bookstore you know, I have to admit this is my first time in a book sources something like fourth grade you don't need glasses to read I swear it helps me see a lot better it's very clear now we have books I don't even know what this is, yes, yes, I'm reading the preface.

I'm reading a book about business and leadership. I'm excited. I am very excited to reach this destination that we don't even have. I said we're leaving, we're saying it now, let's get there and then we'll say you haven't even taken off, yeah, they're out, we made a long flight in my life, but now we're off the grid. I think this is our whip, I'm not even thinking about my phone right now. Yes, I want to go on some adventures. We are getting closer to her. Off-grid location. If we get coconut pineapple. I had never eaten a coconut pineapple before.

Definitely off the grid. network we are adding reusable straws that you guys can reach we are still here welcome we are in off grid locations on this what do you call this place? house is not a cabin because it is next to the ocean, why? Shall we not show them the place? Okay, let's go clean the rooms. I call this one. Why don't you take the bed sticks and the fan? They don't have a fan in Europe. Okay, whatever. Here this is my room, oh God. God, it's amazing guys, three Graysons are taking it, so I thought I'd show you guys myself that there are big ones, we have pigs.

I will never pet them. This is so beautiful. This really helped me stay busy and not really think about what's going on in me. phone talkingso many people care to see it is crazy. I'm so happy that a lot of people watched and saw what we needed to say, yeah and that a lot of people can possibly relate to, we've felt like sometimes no, this feels good bro. I know we actually put out something we're proud of and we're looking at it in a human way rather than just a robot like numbers. business oriented half a million like Sprout is crazy people like to see your real friend that's weird oh time I didn't think I didn't think that either see a lot of comments like Oh sixty four thousand comments the comment main no.

They've been 19 for like four years, admittedly this is all very nice right now. Shane is basically your mother, but he is perfect and has effects, thanks Shane. Hey, this has to be one of the most powerful awesome things you've ever created. kind, loving and hardworking, we want to be your family, not your audience, and I hope we can make you feel that way because we feel and understand many of the same things that we have around your age, if I can really talk about things in front of the camera without being like should we put that in the video?

You know, I'm just saying things, man. I feel so encouraged. I'm excited to use my phone again now because these are things I'm proud of. Okay, what's going on in my chest. A lot of people are reaching out to me and I haven't heard from them in a while to tell me that they are proud of me. I would say that among these hundred text messages probably half of them were concerned about the video and they are all very supportive of me. It's been a long time since I posted a video and how many people text me about it.

I feel so clean that I was like, "Oh, we've been on my phone and I never thought that." Once I could do this it was as refreshing as literally drinking a glass of cold water, but to my soul that is actually what it feels like. You know that feeling when you complete something. Got it right, so Kyle, apparently you sent the screenshots of what was going on with the video throughout the week, yeah, number one trending on Twitter, the Dolans announced the end of the weekly videos, so dramatic, that It's crazy, this is life changing, it really is, it's really changed my life, come on.

It was fun, we said this was going to be the beginning of a new beginning and it feels like it really is. It feels good, it feels pretty good, that good, yeah right, I don't know what's next, but I'm excited. for a high five, oh yeah, I have no idea what we're doing. Shane told us in our last video to take it one at a time and I really like that, we have no idea what we're doing next, but we're doing something that If you feel like something is getting too repetitive, something that maybe some Maybe you loved it, try taking a break for a moment.

I know it may feel uncomfortable at first, but once you do it, you realize why I love it and you will have a whole new energy, like going back to what I was bringing it for, eh, green fruit hug, bring it for a hug, you all, bring him back to hug him more and two incredible memories that were created in my brain. week you