Trivial Skills & Peak Stress

What trivial skill do you have that people born after 2000 don't? Dangerous Dave talks about the list going viral online. Plus, 41% of people have hit peak stress and it is not even the holidays. Best remedy? Music.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Uber in the den with Dangerous Day. You know,
the world's changed a lot since two thousand. Everybody thought
y two k the computers were going to inhumanity as
we know it, and now we know it's AI that's
going to do that anyway. Somebody on exposed the question
to the Internet people before in two thousand, what trivial
skill do you have that nobody uses anymore? It's gone viral.

(00:21):
Some of the best responses include the ability to rewind
a cassette tape using a pencil, proper grammar and punctuation,
how to write in cursive. One person even joked, I
can drive a stick shift and write in cursive, so
can I. How to use a rotary phone made the list.
How to write a complete website sentence using HTML. How
to fix the CD that skips. How to get a

(00:41):
game cartridge to work by blowing on the inside of it.
Why did that work? By the way, did it just
remove the dust or did this spittle on the game cartridge? Help?
How to we fold a paper Matt made the list.
Other things that are skills before the people were born
before two thousand and nobody uses anymore, being able to
parallel park without a backup camera, knowing how to load
film into a camera, knowing shorthand programming of VCR, being

(01:05):
able to survive the Oregon Trail, and using the word
literally correctly, really literally Deeper in the tea. It's kind
of scary when we think we haven't even gotten to
the holidays yet, but two and five Americans say they've
hit peak stress. Forty one percent of people say they're
stressed more now than any other point in twenty twenty four.
The average person feels totally overwhelmed one hundred and fifty

(01:26):
six times a year, roughly about once every two and
a half days. There's top ten things we stress about.
Money tops the list, followed by the economy or physical health, family,
mental health, election, the news, everything happening around the world, work,
unexpected life events, and our relationship. The good news is
we do have some strategies for dealing with all that stress.

(01:46):
The number one thing people do to deal with stress
is something I can help you with. Top remedy when
we're feeling stressed out is simply turning on some music.
You're welcome to me. They came for another episode of
Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Daved right here,