40 percent of Americans stay home on the weekend
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | What do you have going on this weekend? |
| 0:02.2 | Big plans? |
| 0:03.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:03.7 | Kevin, what about you? |
| 0:04.4 | Stay in my house, probably. |
| 0:05.4 | Yeah? |
| 0:05.6 | Yeah, it's going to be pretty low-key. |
| 0:07.3 | Okay, so most Americans choose to chill at home on the weekends. |
| 0:11.0 | There's new data saying this. |
| 0:13.2 | You can read about it at WIBC.com. |
| 0:15.7 | 40% of Americans are now just staying home on the weekend. Most don't go farther than 6.21 miles from |
| 0:22.6 | their house on the weekend. Yeah, you know me. I don't, I very rarely ever leave my house. |
| 0:27.8 | I certainly very ever, rarely ever leave the greater Brownsburg area. I'm home. I pay for the |
| 0:32.9 | house. Why wouldn't I want to spend all my time there? The United States ranks third among countries where people stay home the most on the weekends in the entire world. |
| 0:42.4 | And you can mark this up to high costs, right? |
| 0:46.1 | People cite inflation, gas prices, tighter budgets, making weekend plans harder to afford. |
| 0:51.8 | So they're just saying, you know what? |
| 0:53.7 | Couch, blanket, maybe a marathon streaming session and calling it to afford. So they're just saying, you know what? Couch, blanket, maybe a marathon streaming session, and calling it the weekend. |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah, I mean, it's basically free. |
| 0:59.8 | I mean, the house is a cost regardless of whether you're in it or not. |
| 1:03.3 | You got the apps or the TV, whether you're using them or not. |
| 1:07.3 | So, yeah. |
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