How to Put Your Phone Down and Live More with Darren Whitehead—The Digital Fast

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Studies are clear: screens dominate our waking hours. It’s not uncommon to spend 7-10 hours in front of one, every single day. We don’t like it, but feel powerless to change it. That’s where Darren Whitehead comes in. A pastor, and author of “The Digital Fast,” Darren leads others to experience the power and life change he discovered through intentional disconnection. In a hyperconnected world, a digital detox is an incredibly aggressive move. It’s time to put your phone down and start living.

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0:00.0	I'm really freaked about deleting YouTube.
0:04.0	I don't, that's where all my screen time is YouTube.
0:08.0	And I don't, I haven't taken a dump without my phone for 15 years.
0:14.0	I don't even know if my rectum works if I'm not holding a phone in my hand.
0:18.0	Honestly, I don't know the word.
0:21.6	I can be, I could be turtle-dogging it, a prairie dogging it, turtling it, going to the,
0:27.1	going to the bath, like, oh, I hope I make it.
0:29.0	Oh, where's my phone?
0:29.9	And I'll risk it and turn around and go find my phone because I cannot stand, sit, and not watch car restoration videos or hunting videos.
0:36.7	I'm concerned about that one.
0:53.3	So I'm talking with here with, I would say, one of my good friends, even though we've only spent, I don't know, five or six times in person with one another.
1:02.8	We see each other at a sort of pastoral event.
1:05.6	We keep up.
1:06.9	I really enjoy this dude a lot.
1:08.2	I think he likes me, or at least he humors me.
1:10.5	I like you a lot. You like me. You like me a lot. I like it a lot.
1:14.8	Yes. Name that movie.
1:17.7	Dumb and dumber, of course.
1:19.0	Very good. An American classic that an Aussie actually nailed.
1:23.7	Yes.
1:24.4	How long have you been in America, by the way?
1:26.5	27 years. Okay, so you were... America, by the way? 27 years.
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