Drop Phone & Perfect Salary

People drop their phones an average of 10 times a year. Dangerous Dave talks about a poll that says some people are willing to pick their phone out of a port-a-potty if necessary. Plus, what is the perfect salary? $74,000 is the magic number.

Episode Transcript

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This is deeper in the din with dangerous deed. A
new poll found that we drop our phones a lot,
even though they've become more prize possessions. Average American will
drop their phone at least ten times this year sixty
percent ten times or more. How about ten times a week?
If it breaks, we're devastated. But just under a third
of people have cried because their phone broke. Thirty eight

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percent would rather lose their wallet. Twenty five percent said
breaking their phone would be more upsetting than crashing their car.
Twenty five percent said they'd be more upset than losing
a child at the supermarket. Is that for good or
just temporarily? They also ask people if they're willing to
do five uncomfortable things to rescue their phone from disaster.
Here's what people said. Would you dive into a pool

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fully clothed at a wedding to save your phone? Fifty
nine percent said absolutely? Would you climb into a dumpster?
Fifty six percent again said yes absolutely. Would you reach
down in a porta potty at a big music festival?
Fifty four percent of people said they would. That's a
funny story. A guy used to work with he used
to be one of our sales guys, we're golfing at

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the country club. His phone fell out of his pocket
into the porta potty and we're walking around trying to
find it. I said, we'll call it. Well, we could
hear it vibrating inside the porta potty. Guess what he
went and got a new phone. Would you miss an
international flight? Fifty one percent said they would catch another
flight just to get their phone back. And would you
risk climbing down on subway tracks? Twenty percent said they're

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dumb enough to do it if we dropped our phone
down there. Well depends is there any subway trains coming?
Or are there any sandwiches down there deeper in the two? Well,
these days, getting any job as a win. But imagine
three companies offering three different salaries for basically the exact
same job, one offering fifty five grand, one offering seventy

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four grand, and one offering two hundred and fifteen grand.
So which one would you accept? Seventy four grand? Well,
according to a report, the average American says the perfect
salary is seventy four thousand dollars. Unclear why it's the
perfect picked amount, especially with how expensive everything's gotten right now,
but it's possible that we're just asking for a sweet

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spot where you're able to make all the ends meet comfortably,
they said. Nineteen percent of people said they'd have to
make at least one hundred thousand dollars or more. About
half the employed Americans said they should be making more
to support their lifestyle, but twenty four percent said they're
unhappy with their current salary. Sixty nine percent of Americans

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are looking ways to make extra money, thirty two percent
of people are interested in starting a side hustle, and
twenty nine percent of people in that survey said they
already have a second job or a side hustle. I guess, obviously,
seventy five thousand stretches further in some places than a
dozen others. It would depend upon age, or family dynamics

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or lifestyle. So what do you think your perfect salary
would be? And by the way, there's a commercial from
nineteen ninety six that's going viral right now. It says,
in thirty years, a burger friese will cost sixteen dollars,
a vacation twelve thousand, five hundred, and a basic car
sixty five thousand. So I guess they're not very far

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off as far as that's concerned. You mean we were
supposed to get Raises two minut again for another episode
of Deeper in the Den with dangerous Davey. Dear