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Monday Mini Classics: Daylight Saving Time · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and smitha I don't come stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Never told you aflection buy Heart Radio. And for today's classic,
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  Speaker 1: we are bringing back a semi recent one, but it's
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  Speaker 1: timely and I just thought we should bring it back
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  Speaker 1: because it's daylight saving style again. I know I.
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  Speaker 2: Need that sun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so torn about it because it's like, you lose
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  Speaker 1: the hour and that's misrule, but you get the sun.
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  Speaker 1: I yes, we do. However, this episode is actually a
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  Speaker 1: kind of dark. I'm not even trying to make a joke,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a little more intense than I intended
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  Speaker 1: it to be, just about the way daylight savings time
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  Speaker 1: can infect martialized communities. And actually, right after we did this,
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  Speaker 1: it happened in my neighborhood, like a block from me. Somebody,
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  Speaker 1: a woman was attacked and it was at seven am
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  Speaker 1: and it was pitch black outside because of the light.
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  Speaker 1: It's horrible. But after that I started carrying my license,
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  Speaker 1: even if I was just going to do my laundry,
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  Speaker 1: because she apparently was just like going to take the
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  Speaker 1: trash out. But anyway, it made me think of it
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of people are like, well, it was
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  Speaker 1: still really dark outside, not that that necessarily will prevent
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  Speaker 1: anybody from attacking anybody. But yeah, anyway, hopefully, hopefully daylight
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  Speaker 1: Saving Time is not miserable for all you listeners, please
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  Speaker 1: enjoy this classic episode. Hey, this is Anny and Samantha
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  Speaker 1: Stefan never told you a prediction of iHeartRadio. And today
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  Speaker 1: as this comes out, it is the day after daylight Savings. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I just learned it's daylight saving Time. It's not saving time.
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  Speaker 1: You do not put the s on there.
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  Speaker 2: So one of those things that everybody does with the items.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not that it's Kroger not Kroger's.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I've been doing it my whole life.
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  Speaker 2: But what's coming how I said the internets and about like.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that is like we make that joke a
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  Speaker 1: lot about my mom, So I wonder if I'm slowly
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  Speaker 1: becoming more like my mom. Yes we are, Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I so originally, as you heard me talk about in
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  Speaker 1: our last happy hour where I was an anxious mess. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: this was going to be a different episode this Monday, Mini,
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  Speaker 1: and it's about self disclosure. But that's big enough to
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  Speaker 1: be a full episode. So that's going to be coming
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  Speaker 1: out later this week. And I just got this idea
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  Speaker 1: of ours, like it's daylight saving I want to look
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  Speaker 1: up women in daylight saving time, and it turns out
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  Speaker 1: there is some research about it, so we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. It also cracked me up because okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: first a content warning. We are going to be talking
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  Speaker 1: about sexual assault and harassment. Yep, but nothing in depth.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing in depth. But one of the arguments against it
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  Speaker 1: is when it is darker earlier than for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of women who don't feel safe like going out in
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  Speaker 1: the dark, it's like curfew. But that made me think
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  Speaker 1: jokingly much less seriously about hocus Pocus because there's that
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  Speaker 1: scene at the end where Max is like daylight saving
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  Speaker 1: time and they fake the sunrise and the wishes are
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  Speaker 1: like a dying but not really, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: if that was true, those witches would have been in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: It would have really gotten them. So it's messing up.
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  Speaker 1: And I know we've talked about this. What are your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on daylight saving time?
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  Speaker 2: I hate it, point blake, point blank. I hate it.
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  Speaker 2: I think the one reprieve is like having the sunback,
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  Speaker 2: but trying to adjust. I am not good about time adjustments,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's traveling or anything like it knocks me out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why. I am a sleepy, sleepy person,
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  Speaker 2: so this does not help a very sleepy person. Also,
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  Speaker 2: sad is real and I do have it, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't like it. And as a as a depressive personality,
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  Speaker 2: this is not okay. So I think we need to
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  Speaker 2: go away from it completely because it's also confusing, like
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  Speaker 2: it really wreaks havoc on you, and I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: why it's not necessary, Like we've talked about it too
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  Speaker 2: many times. We know it's not necessary anymore. Y'all are
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  Speaker 2: just trying to fool us because you like tradition. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know who you is, but I know.
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  Speaker 1: You you come out strong against some opponent that's not really here.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, the government, the government, Well, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that a little bit because I know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you have heard about this, because there's been
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people like Samantha who do not like it,
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  Speaker 1: who really don't like it. There's been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: research about how it does impact our bodies and like
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  Speaker 1: the history of it and why are we still doing it.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to talk about that a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I used to like it. Interestingly enough, I liked Fall.
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  Speaker 1: I liked the one in Fall, which is fallback, because
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  Speaker 1: I got the extra hour.
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  Speaker 2: The extra hour does seem nice because it's all dark
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  Speaker 2: at like four pm. You're like, this is not okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So as I got older, the extra hour meant
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  Speaker 1: less so less and less, so I don't like it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I really really don't like it. And I never liked
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  Speaker 1: the Spring spring Forward one because then you lose the hour,
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  Speaker 1: but you get the extra hour of some list. What
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  Speaker 1: is the thing? I used to run wine and dine
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  Speaker 1: the Disney Race every year. It happens over daylight saving
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  Speaker 1: and I'd be so scared my phone alarm wouldn't go off,
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  Speaker 1: or like it wouldn't go off at the right time,
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  Speaker 1: even though most phones update automatically. But that meant I
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  Speaker 1: would like lie awake all night worried if my phone
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  Speaker 1: wasn't gonna do the thing, and I wouldn't wake up.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't like it anymore. I had a
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  Speaker 1: friend I think I've told this story before in college.
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  Speaker 1: She would throw what was called the Party that Never
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  Speaker 1: Was in between two am and three am. It was
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  Speaker 1: a huge party, drink responsibly. We were supposed to finish
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  Speaker 1: a keg like it never existed, because the time would
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  Speaker 1: go back and that would be two am again. It
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  Speaker 1: was like a thing she did every year, the party
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  Speaker 1: that never was interesting. So I did want to go
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  Speaker 1: over some brief history about this, even though I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us are familiar from John Hopkins quote.
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin invented the concept in seventeen eighty four, believing
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  Speaker 1: that rising earlier would economize candle usage and save people
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  Speaker 1: money money pushing glogsfoord to make greater use of daylight
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  Speaker 1: during the warmer months. Was formally adopted during World War
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  Speaker 1: One as part of a global attempt to conserve energy. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's been around for a while, but you know, people
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  Speaker 1: do actually still make arguments similar to this when they're
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  Speaker 1: saying this is why we keep it. But a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are like, no, this, it doesn't work like
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  Speaker 1: that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: We have to use more electricity during the time. Soon,
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  Speaker 2: we're act rude.
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  Speaker 1: We're actually capturing kind of the how it plays out.
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  Speaker 1: What a lot of people argue about this. Right now.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I hate it so much. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: studies have found it is not good for our health.
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  Speaker 1: Including increased risk of heart attack and stroke. It has
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  Speaker 1: been shown to impact our sleep end more so for women,
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  Speaker 1: and less sleep also increases health risk. However, there are
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  Speaker 1: conflicting studies or maybe more accurately like counterpoint studies that
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  Speaker 1: are about mostly about the light part, about having more
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  Speaker 1: light and how that impacts our health and for the better.
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  Speaker 1: So there are there are arguments on either side that
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  Speaker 1: as well, but a majority of Americans do want to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of it. There has been legislation, like the
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  Speaker 1: Sunshine Protection Act to do so, and there has been
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  Speaker 1: a history of trying to get rid of it and
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  Speaker 1: even trying to reinstate it, going back to at least
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  Speaker 1: the seventies. So here's a quote from CNN. During the
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  Speaker 1: energy crisis of the nineteen seventies, we tried permanent daylight
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  Speaker 1: saving time again in the winter of nineteen seventy three
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  Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy four. The idea, again was to conserve fuel.
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  Speaker 1: It was a popular move at the time when President
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  Speaker 1: Richard Nixon signed the law in January nineteen seventy four,
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  Speaker 1: but by the end of the month, Florida's governor had
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  Speaker 1: called for the laws repeal after eight school children were
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  Speaker 1: hit by cars in the dark. Schools across the country
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  Speaker 1: delayed start times until the sun came up. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like there's another argument to be made there though, about
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  Speaker 1: how early we're getting these kids to school.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't matter if you're on a bus. Some
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  Speaker 2: routes start at five am, and that's just what time kids.
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  Speaker 2: I had to be up and out onto in the road,
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  Speaker 2: not even from my house. I had to walk down,
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  Speaker 2: so like we had to be way ahead of time
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  Speaker 2: because we couldn't see it coming. It wasn't like you
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  Speaker 2: hear it or see it coming, you run out the door,
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  Speaker 2: they wait for you. It was a five minute walk
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  Speaker 2: from my house to that and it's not that far.
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  Speaker 2: But again, I'm in the country. Yeah, so there's no
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  Speaker 2: bus stops. It's a two lane road, very much a
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  Speaker 2: curvy area, and I would have to get out there
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  Speaker 2: at seven am. And sometimes sun doesn't rise toll like
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  Speaker 2: six forty five, right, stupid daylight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I guess what I'm saying is I've long felt this.
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  Speaker 1: This is a different podcast. I feel like we're if
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about messing with sleep schedules and the school schedules,
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  Speaker 1: we have kids on young kids you're messing with their
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  Speaker 1: sleep schedule and you know, having to get up early
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  Speaker 1: before the sun has risen. I'm not sure like daylight
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  Speaker 1: saving time is the answer to that. It could be
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  Speaker 1: maybe we shift the schedule of the school right or
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  Speaker 1: or something else. I'm just saying, like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that that's the one thing to blame for that.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much because bus riding accessibility. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of conversations when it comes to buses in itself, transportation.
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  Speaker 2: Who's protected, who's not? Like there this is a whole
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  Speaker 2: socioeconomic conversation yep, that has to be had in general.
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  Speaker 2: But darkness does not help.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, it doesn't. Here's another quote from CNN. In
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  Speaker 1: the US states are not required by law to fall
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  Speaker 1: back or spring Ford. Well, why e. Most of Arizona
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  Speaker 1: and some territories in the Pacific and Caribbean do not
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  Speaker 1: observe daylight saving time. The twice yearly switch through is
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  Speaker 1: irritating enough to lawmakers of all political stripes that the
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  Speaker 1: US Senate passed legislation in March twenty twenty two to
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  Speaker 1: make daylight saving time permanent. The bill passed by unanimous consent.
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  Speaker 1: It would need to pass the House of Representatives and
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  Speaker 1: be signed by President Joe Biden to become the law.
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  Speaker 1: It did not pass the House of Representatives. Then they
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  Speaker 1: reintroduced it and that's where it is now. I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 1: And it was confusing because my older brother was swearing
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  Speaker 1: me up and down, like, no, daylight saving doesn't it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't exist anymore. I was like, I'm pretty sure it does. Like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I would have heard of that if
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  Speaker 1: it had gone away. No, it is still in effect
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  Speaker 1: right now. But this brings us to women specifically and
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  Speaker 1: daylight saving time because I found a lot of articles
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  Speaker 1: around tips yes for women on making the most of
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  Speaker 1: the quote extra hour or for spring ahead the extra
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  Speaker 1: hour of light, whether it is going for a run,
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  Speaker 1: working on a skill, or even just being able to
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  Speaker 1: do something safely as a woman. So from WRC, here's
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  Speaker 1: a quote. The joy was for us as women feeling
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  Speaker 1: more independent because the daylight allows us to do what
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  Speaker 1: we always want to do after work instead of feeling
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  Speaker 1: so unsafe, which used to just go home, go to
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  Speaker 1: the gym, or a lie on friends and family for
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  Speaker 1: safety in numbers. A large part of that is because
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  Speaker 1: we live in a culture that does not take street
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  Speaker 1: harassment or sexual assault seriously. Not only are we truly
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  Speaker 1: frightened of being attacked on a regular basis, but we
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  Speaker 1: are also acutely aware that society still holds us responsible
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  Speaker 1: in many ways if and when we are assaulted. So
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  Speaker 1: this article they it opens with them having kind of
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  Speaker 1: a fun what are you going to do with this hour?
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  Speaker 1: But it quickly became apparent that they were all a
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  Speaker 1: talking about safety. So the quote goes on, women and
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  Speaker 1: men need to ask and listen to the women in
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  Speaker 1: their lives to really understand the constant fear we all
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  Speaker 1: feel when we are alone on the street, particularly at night,
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  Speaker 1: the restriction we have with the amount of time to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy activities after work. How we need to strategically park
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  Speaker 1: our cars and well lit areas because it will be
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  Speaker 1: dark by the time we finish happy hour with our friends,
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  Speaker 1: or deciding to play inside with our kids and wait
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  Speaker 1: until our partner comes home to go for family walks.
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  Speaker 1: This fear is real. Street harassment is scary, and the
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  Speaker 1: fear of being attacked always looms. And yeah, I do
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  Speaker 1: take that into account darkness. I hadn't really thought about
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  Speaker 1: it in terms of daylight savings daylight saving, Oh no, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I also found a lot of students, college students that
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  Speaker 1: have written about this, describing daylight saving as a curfew.
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  Speaker 1: As I said, basically, like if you have to be
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  Speaker 1: alone at nights, out alone at night, telling people where
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  Speaker 1: you are, facetiming friends, having nine to one one already up,
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  Speaker 1: so it when it gets darker earlier, it does feel like,
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  Speaker 1: oh a new curfew has when put place. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's actually could be the implication of like a racist
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  Speaker 2: standard too, because we know sundown Town's existed and still
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  Speaker 2: exist today, and that is a very big implication of
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  Speaker 2: what kind of danger you hit into, So you lose
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  Speaker 2: a whole hour. So if you're a personal clubor if
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  Speaker 2: you're a black person in general, if you're a part
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  Speaker 2: of the black community that lives or goes going through
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  Speaker 2: an area, don't don't realize that there's daylight saving sound
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  Speaker 2: the way just or whatever whatnot, especially like before digital
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  Speaker 2: where we couldn't just automatically know, right, I couldn't imagine
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  Speaker 2: the level of danger and like, oh yeah, there's so
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  Speaker 2: many things. So that's just like like that makes me
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  Speaker 2: scared for people. But like in general, like it is
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  Speaker 2: kind of an if you think of in that terms.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, it has a lot of locations. I
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  Speaker 1: did want to end with. I found this article and
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  Speaker 1: at first I was like, this isn't serious, right, it's satire.
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  Speaker 1: But I did see these legitimately in several articles, so
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  Speaker 1: they're kind of making fun of these tips. It was
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  Speaker 1: an article called for Today's Woman, make the most of
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  Speaker 1: daylight saving time or die trying by rl Mazes. I
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  Speaker 1: hope I got that somewhat right. Quote work overtime to
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  Speaker 1: increase your earnings. You need to make up for the
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  Speaker 1: wage gap and for spending half of what you earn
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  Speaker 1: on overpriced dry cleaning razors, personal care products, your new
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  Speaker 1: business suit, that automatic clelans in and the primal scream
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  Speaker 1: therapy you signed up for after your insurance stopped covering
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  Speaker 1: birth control. And just kidding about extra pay for working overtime.
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  Speaker 1: You're a woman working extra as your thing. Two. Cook
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  Speaker 1: a gourmet meal that's vegan, gluten free, nut free, ketogenic,
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  Speaker 1: and low carb to meet the needs of your low
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  Speaker 1: matenance family. Hit yourself on the head with the skillet.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only way you're getting to bed early. Pree
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  Speaker 1: engage in some emotional labor. Four plan your political campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Bake cookies and brandish them at a press conference where
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  Speaker 1: you shout we can have it all. Go home and
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  Speaker 1: binge on the cookies in the back of a dark closet.
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  Speaker 2: Five.
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  Speaker 1: Run twenty miles and take a dozen step classes. Six
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  Speaker 1: if you're a young woman, practice walking in heels, putting
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  Speaker 1: on mascara, lipstick, eyeliner, foundation, blush, and shaving and waxing everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Seven if you're no longer young, dye your hair and
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  Speaker 1: have a procedure. So yeah, I mean, it's so true.
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  Speaker 1: So many times when I find these articles for women,
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  Speaker 1: the advice is like, work harder.
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  Speaker 2: Right, do something creative, be eight things, be busy, yes,
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  Speaker 2: hate yourself, and of course while it's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: With you, right, figure out what is wrong with you,
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  Speaker 1: your whole thing. And I should have known, like this morning,
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  Speaker 1: because I did this research this morning. When I typed
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  Speaker 1: in women in daylight saving time, I would find these articles.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, make use of your extra hour. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to take use of that by sleeping in.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I love it, like you can an extra hour disk,
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  Speaker 2: like of what of sadness of being in the dark,
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  Speaker 2: right of going into a fetal position, hoping that the
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  Speaker 2: sun will come to rescue you. I don't know what else.
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  Speaker 1: Man. It's sad but true because we can't. We don't
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  Speaker 1: want to cry exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's going well for you, listeners. I hope
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  Speaker 1: it's going well for future you and I Samantha. Because
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  Speaker 1: it hasn't happened yet, I'll let you know, Okay, cool,
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