Before you turn on the TV

Before Breakfast

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Education, Self-improvement

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Think about what other leisure options might feel satisfying

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Chelsea Peretti. Do you feel chronic existential dread but love talking about delicious snacks? Call me! My podcast is relaunching!
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0:21.4	Listen to call Chelsea Perretti on Will Farrell's Big Money Players Network on the I Heart
0:25.6	Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:30.1	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:37.0	Good morning.
0:40.0	This is Laura.
0:42.0	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:44.0	Today's tip is to consider more engaging forms of leisure
0:49.0	before you turn on the TV.
0:51.0	Think effortful, before effortless, and you'll have a lot more fun in
0:56.1	your life. Every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its American Time Use Survey.
1:03.0	A large time diary study that asks thousands of Americans
1:08.0	to recount how they spent yesterday.
1:11.0	Not a typical day.
1:14.0	Yesterday.
1:15.0	And this year, just like always,
1:17.0	it turns out that yesterday, people watched a ton of TV.
1:21.0	The average was almost three hours a day. That compares to just 20 minutes
1:26.7	spent participating in sports, exercise, or recreation. Even people working full time spent on average more than two hours per day watching TV.
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