Time to Self & Navigation

How much time do you get to yourself? Dangerous Dave looks at a poll that says most people get around just 20 minutes a day. Plus, can you navagate without GPS? Most people say "no".

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please, he's deeper in the din with dangerous day. You know,
everybody has stuff to do with their free time, but
not everybody has free time to do it in. According
to a new report, the average American gets about nine
and a half hours to theirselves a month, which isn't
a lot, as five hundred and seventy minutes breaks down
about two hours twenty minutes per week or twenty minutes
per day. The most common thing to get in the

(00:22):
white family obligations, work commitments, financial constraints, social obligations, and guilt,
and people are willing to cough up major cash for
a full day of peace and quiet. The average American
would pay twenty five hundred and twenty one dollars for
a total free day, parents willing to spend eleven hundred
and forty seven more at thirty six sixty eight. That's

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I guess shows how desperate our parents are these days.
The report also showed people are willing to pay an
average of three hundred and forty dollars just for one
extra hour of sleep. Overall, fifty three percent say they
need more alone time than they're currently getting. Nearly thirty
eight percent admit they're lying to their partner, friend, or
family to get more time to themselves. Top excuses I'm

(01:05):
not feeling well, I have a lot of work to do,
I have a headache, I have an appointment, and oh shoot,
my phone's about to die. I cannot talk. Just to
get some time to themselves. I'd tell you more, but
I can't come up with an excuse. Deeper in the
two well, cell phones have made it so nobody remembers
phone numbers anymore, and GPS has made it so we're

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useless without maps. There's a new poll on navigation skills,
and only sixteen percent of people are confident or excellent
navigators without turn by turn GPS directions. Thirty seven percent
of people said they'd be good, twenty seven percent just
fair and navigating on their own, ten percent said poor,
and seven percent said terrible without GPS. GPS is more

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helpful when you're driving in areas you're not familiar with.
But even though eighty seven percent of people said they
know their own community pretty well, fourteen percent said they
usually are always leave their GPS on anyway. They also
found seventy two percent of people claim they're very good
at reading physical and digital maps. Sixty eight percent have
a sense of direction. Sixty three percent can usually remember

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a route after having traveled at once. Sixty one percent
said they're very good at giving directions, fifty nine percent
enjoy reading maps, fifty one percent don't enjoy giving directions,
and forty five percent don't remember routes well enough. If
they're riding as a passenger in a car. It does
make a difference if you're driving the route instead of
riding as a passenger, because you pay a lot closer attention.

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Twenty eight percent said they don't have a very good
mental map of the environment. That's what I like to do.
I actually like to look at maps in an area
I've never been before, kind of get the lay of
the land, and then even if I'm using GPS, I
kind of understand the layout a lot better, so I'd
never get lost because people are always telling me where
to go to me they can. For another episode of

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Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Dave light Year,