U S Marshalls raid AMISH over FOOD! Small homesteads next?
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Maybe it's a flip phone. I think the level of technology depends on the group of Amish. Some technology may be used if it helps with productivity. Technology that causes distraction is a no go.
I don't believe the host is Amish. He may just be a Pennsylvanian German. Which are of the same ethnicity of Amish folk but follow different traditions.
Amish are anabaptist anyway. I think the word you were going for is Hutterite; they tend to work with new technology (cars, farm tractors, telephones, electricity, computers) but take care in using them.
Recently though, I don't think it's uncommon for Amish kids to have small dumb phones.
Sidenote: I'm the de-facto lead engineer for a national IT company that takes care of key infrastructure in our country and still use a dumb phone (the same one I used since 2010). As my mentor used to say: "One tool for one job".
The beard and clothes threw me off at first as well. I've watched a few youtube channels exploring the lives of Amish, Mennonites, Hutterites and such. The Amish are fine with documenting some of what they do. For the most part nobody films their faces. Photographing and filming is taboo.