Online & Tourism

How much time do you spend online everyday? Dangerous Dave talks about a poll that says 10 hours a day. That sounds like a lot, but not when you break it down. Plus, the state most overrun by tourists.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please Steber in the din with dangerous day. Well, humans
need at least seven hours to sleep, recover, and restore enters,
a reprieve from constant doom scrolling. According to a new poll,
Americans spend nearly half of their entire day online between work,
jobs and tasks, entertainment, and socials. Here's the breakdown. The
average American spends more than ten hours a day online.

(00:23):
Five point four of those hours spent at work, reading emails,
paying bills, browsing, gaming, and looking at social media, and
then they spend another five hours streaming entertainment, watching movies, shows, videos.
Fifty five percent of them use their TV to stream content,
followed by twenty five percent we use computers and tablets,
and twenty percent of people using their phone. I thought

(00:45):
this number seemed extremely high, and I started thinking about it. Okay,
I get here at four, start looking right away online
for news, sports, content like this to talk about, and
then I'm online because our all of our computers, I
have four screens in front of me right now, online
the whole time, getting updates on weather and stuff like that.

(01:06):
Plus our actual on air computers are online as well technically,
so there's another six hours before I'm even off the
air in the morning. And then when we do stuff
like production and our web stuff and our social media stuff,
it's all online as well. So yeah, ten to twelve
hours a day is easy. And then you know, when

(01:26):
I get home, there's of course streaming and all of
that stuff. Yeah. I think ten hours I thought sounded
like a lot, and now that I think about it,
it really isn't. Maybe that's why I enjoy fishing so much,
in golf and stuff where a computer isn't involved, because
that's not online, because if it was, you'd be embarrassed
in the where's your ideal vacation? Does it include whitewater rafting,

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coal mining, pepperoni rolls, moonshine, and being forcibly unplugged? Well,
if you said yes, you're not alone. According to the
new report, the US state with the most overrun tourist
is West Virginia, at least compared to the number of
locals see Researchers determine the visitor to local ratio for
each state by dividing the annual tourist population by the

(02:10):
annual residential population. So it's not the most popular tourist destination,
but the most tourist traffic compared to the people who
actually lived there. So West Virginia was the highest ratio.
That was followed by North Dakota. So West Virginia had
forty two point four to one. North Kota had forty
point five to one. That was followed by Delaware, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, Tennessee,

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New Mexico, Idaho, and Wisconsin. Now Texas had the lowest
visitor to local ratio two to one. Arizona was second,
followed by Alaska, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida,
Minnesota sat fourteen to one. When they expanded it to countries,
Vatican City had the highest visitor to local ratio. Other

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top tens include Bahamas, Morocco, Malta, Hong Kong, which I
guess country is a loose term. Vatican City has fewer
than nine hundred permanent residents, including the pulp, but millions
of people visit every year, so worldwide, Vatican City ranked
at number one. No way add that number of tourists
in North Dakota. That explains all the directions. Just head

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west till you see a tree. Tu it again for
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