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Daily 180: Millions Monday - Bored Americans

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Beautiful day, snowball action. Monday announcements: year-long clerkship changes, beach trip Thursday, Article Club Friday 1pm, end of year show prep. Staff mapped summer stuff and next year calendar. Assembly July 15th (hopefully rolling back COVID stuff). JC team duty. Last visiting week - 2 students, 1 returning. No more interviews until summer. Millions Monday: boredom theme - estimated ~13 million bored Americans at any moment (1% severely bored, 20% never bored, rest ~30 min/day).

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0:00 welcome to ANI in the air under the tent and around Baltimore your daily podcast
0:04 briefing of all the goings-ons ins and rounds our thirtieth Sudbury School so
0:09 today was a really beautiful day I'm sitting out here it's well just about
0:15 four o'clock pretty empty I think it was yeah I don't know maybe something by
0:23 heat maybe everyone's gone home I don't know definitely had some snowball action
0:27 today had some running around and all sorts of things like that we had our
0:34 usual Monday announcements which was was good I mentioned the changes to the
0:41 year-long clerkships and their schedule and both of those things still need to
0:45 put that on discord and we've got a beach field trip on Thursday article
0:52 club at one on Friday and end of your show prep going on so talk to Caroline
1:00 about that and yeah end of your show will be next Friday on our last day of
1:09 school so that's all exciting and let's see we the staff have just kind of mapped
1:23 out a bunch of summer stuff and put in the calendar for next year I have to
1:29 update the website it's mostly specified in our rule book but is all that we're
1:39 looking forward to you know hopefully rolling back some COVID stuff next year
1:46 and we've got a assembly scheduled for July 15th so hopefully we can see what's
1:54 going on then with the numbers they're looking really quite good and fantastic
1:59 right now so yeah all righty that was some of the day I had a nice little JC
2:12 team today I was actually on the team so that was fun and yeah admissions we've
2:20 got our last visiting week students this week two of them one of which is a
2:26 returning student and we also no longer doing any more interviews for over the
2:36 next two weeks we're just going to focus on finishing out the year and then over
2:40 the summer we'll start doing admission stuff then all right well what do we
2:50 got let's see so oh yeah it's millions Monday the theme of the week is boredom
3:05 it's an honor of the upcoming summer where a lot of our students have boredom
3:10 of not being here but so I thought I'd get the ball rolling with an exciting
3:17 computation about how many bored people there are in this in this country I like
3:22 sticking with the country because I don't really know too much about the
3:26 emotional life of people elsewhere and to be honest I don't know that much
3:31 about the emotional life here but I at least am know a little bit of it so the
3:39 basic question is who gets bored and for how long so I would say that there are
3:46 people who are kind of very bored in general for a period of time a few
3:53 months half a year so kind of cater on cater crater no I don't know word
4:03 bouncing back and forth teetering on on the edge of like depression or whatever
4:13 but certainly there are people who just really find their lives boring and they
4:21 want a new kind of direction to go so and then there are most of the rest of
4:32 us there are you know times of boredom unfortunately I think most of us now
4:38 including myself fill spots of boredom with noisy chatter on the YouTube before
4:46 the YouTube there was TV and before the TV there were books you know people
4:51 always trying to fill in those moments of boredom with something but let's just
5:00 say that I don't know 10% well I don't know maybe 1% of people have are in a
5:11 severe bored state 1% so 300 million people or so so that's 3 million people
5:20 and that's just going to be kind of constant and then you know maybe like 20
5:31 percent of people are just so busy and on fire that they're not bored even a
5:35 single moment right so we'll just take out those crazy people at 60 million
5:39 gone so now we're kind of like at 250 million or so and maybe another 50
5:48 million for I don't know people who just don't fall into that category very I
5:57 don't can't even express themselves well I don't know yeah I like 200 million
6:04 anyway so two hundred and million and of those people basically normal I'm gonna
6:21 say who maybe they spend half an hour a day bored various points waiting for
6:35 things maybe in a meeting or sitting around or just waiting for something or
6:41 just taking a moment just look a little bit so half an hour 200 million people
6:49 half an hour in a day I'm just gonna say this is spanning over these 16 I mean
6:58 let's go 12 hours so we are talking about a half an hour out of 12 hours
7:09 24 100 so yeah like four or five percent that's it yeah it's a 10 million so I'm
7:30 gonna say right now there's 13 million bored Americans 13 million right now
7:39 it's what I'm gonna say I have no idea if that's true but it sounds sounds why
7:48 not all right well I hope I didn't bore you 13 million and two for the two
7:54 listeners anyway so that is my millions Monday look forward to more exciting
8:03 topics in the topic exciting discussion on the topic of boredom that's coming up
8:09 to a podcast near you all right you have a good one and I will see you when I see
8:15 you