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

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: I'm welcome to Stefan never told you a prediction of iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: And today as this comes out, it is the day
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  Speaker 2: after daylight savings. Oh, I just learned it's daylight saving time.
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  Speaker 2: It's not savings time. You do not put the S on.
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  Speaker 3: There was one of those things that everybody does on
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  Speaker 3: an item, so like, it's not that it's Kroger not Kroger's.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I've been doing it my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: But what's coming how I said the internets, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that is like we make that joke a
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  Speaker 2: lot about my mom, so I wonder if I'm slowly
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  Speaker 2: becoming more like my mom. Yes we are, Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I so originally, as you heard me talk about in
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  Speaker 2: our last Happy Hour where I was an anxious mess,
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  Speaker 2: this was going to be a different episode this Monday, Mini,
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  Speaker 2: and it's about self disclosure. But that's big enough to
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  Speaker 2: be a full episode. So that's going to be coming
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  Speaker 2: out later this week. And I just got this idea
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  Speaker 2: of ours, like it's daylight saving I want to look
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  Speaker 2: up women in daylight saving time, and it turns out
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  Speaker 2: there is some research about it, so we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about it. It also cracked me up because okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: first a content warning. We are going to be talking
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  Speaker 2: about sexual assault and harassment. Yep, but nothing in depth.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing in depth. But one of the arguments against it
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  Speaker 2: is when it is darker earlier than for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of women who don't feel safe like going out in
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  Speaker 2: the dark, it's like curfew. But that made me think
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  Speaker 2: jokingly much less seriously about hocus Pocus, because there's that
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  Speaker 2: scene at the end where Max is like daylight saving
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  Speaker 2: time and they fake the sunrise and.
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  Speaker 4: The wishes are like, ah.
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  Speaker 2: Dying but not really, and I was like, if that
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  Speaker 2: was true, those witches would have been in trouble. It
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  Speaker 2: would have really gotten them. So it's messing up for
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  Speaker 2: I know we've talked about this. What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on daylight saving Time?
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  Speaker 1: I hate it, point blake, point blank. I hate it.
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  Speaker 3: I think the one reprieve is like having the sunback,
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  Speaker 3: but trying to adjust. I am not good about time adjustments,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's traveling or anything like. It knocks me out.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why. I am a sleepy, sleepy person,
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  Speaker 3: so this does not help A very sleepy person. Also
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  Speaker 3: sad is real and I do have it, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't like it, and as a depressive personality, this is
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  Speaker 3: not okay. So I think we need to go away
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  Speaker 3: from it completely because it's also confusing, like it really
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  Speaker 3: wreaks havoc on you, and I don't understand why it's
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  Speaker 3: not necessary, Like we've talked about it too many times.
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  Speaker 3: We know it's not necessary anymore. Y'all are just trying
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  Speaker 3: to fool us because you like tradition. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: who you is, but I know.
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  Speaker 2: As you you come out strong against I have some
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  Speaker 2: opponent that's not really here, but yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The government, the government.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're going to talk about that a little bit
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  Speaker 2: because I know a lot of you have heard about this,
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  Speaker 2: because there's been a lot of people like Samantha.
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  Speaker 4: Who do not like it, who really don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: There's been a lot of research about how it does
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  Speaker 2: impact our bodies and like the history of it and
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  Speaker 2: why are we still doing it. I am going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about that a little bit. I used to like it.
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  Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, I liked Fall. I liked the one in Fall,
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  Speaker 2: which is Fallback, because I got the extra hour.
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  Speaker 3: The extra hour does seem nice foolery because it's all
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  Speaker 3: dark at like four pm.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, this is not okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So as I got older, the extra hour meant less.
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  Speaker 4: So less and less, so I don't like it anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I really really don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: And I never like to the spring spring forward one
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  Speaker 2: because then you lose the hour and but you get
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  Speaker 2: the extra hour of sun. List sort of the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I used to run wine and dine the Disney Race
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  Speaker 2: every year. It happens over daylight saving and I'd be
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  Speaker 2: so scared my phone alarm wouldn't go off, or like
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  Speaker 2: it wouldn't go off at the right time, even though
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  Speaker 2: most phones update automatically. But that meant I would like
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  Speaker 2: lie awake all night worried if my phone wasn't gonna
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  Speaker 2: do the thing, and I wouldn't wake up. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't like it anymore. I had a friend, I
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  Speaker 2: think I've told this story before in college. She would
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  Speaker 2: throw what was called the Party that Never was in
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  Speaker 2: between two am and three am. It was a huge party,
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  Speaker 2: drink responsibly. We were supposed to finish a keg like
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  Speaker 2: it never existed, because the time would go back and
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  Speaker 2: that would be two am again. It was like a
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  Speaker 2: thing she did every year, the party that never was interesting.
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  Speaker 2: So I did want to go over some brief history
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  Speaker 2: about this, even though I'm sure a lot of us
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  Speaker 2: are familiar from John Hopkins quote. Benjamin Franklin invented the
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  Speaker 2: concept in seventeen eighty four, believing that rising earlier would
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  Speaker 2: economize candle usage and save people money money pushing glogsfoord
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  Speaker 2: to make greater use of daylight during the warmer months.
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  Speaker 2: Was formally adopted during World War One as part of
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  Speaker 2: a global attempt to conserve energy. So, yeah, it's been
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  Speaker 2: around for a while, but you know, people do actually
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  Speaker 2: still make arguments similar to this when they're saying this
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  Speaker 2: is why.
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  Speaker 4: We keep it. But a lot of people are like, no,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't work like that anymore.
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  Speaker 3: We have to use more electricity during the time darker, sooner.
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  Speaker 1: We're act rude.
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  Speaker 2: We're actually capturing kind of the how it plays out.
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  Speaker 2: What a lot of people argue about this Right now.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I hate it so much.
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  Speaker 2: So Yes, studies have found it is not good for
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  Speaker 2: our health, including increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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  Speaker 2: It has been shown to impact our sleep end more
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  Speaker 2: so for women, and less sleep also increases health risk. However,
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  Speaker 2: there are conflicting studies or maybe more accurately like counterpoint
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  Speaker 2: studies that are about mostly about the light part, about
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  Speaker 2: having more light and how that impacts our health and
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  Speaker 2: for the better. So there are there are arguments on
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  Speaker 2: either side that as well, but a majority of Americans
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  Speaker 2: do want to get rid of it. There has been legislation,
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  Speaker 2: like the Sunshine Protection Act to do so, and there
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  Speaker 2: has been a history of trying to get rid of
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  Speaker 2: it and even trying to reinstate it, going back to
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  Speaker 2: at least the seventies. So here's a quote from CNN.
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  Speaker 2: During the energy crisis of the nineteen seventies, we tried
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  Speaker 2: permanent daylight saving time again in the winter of nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy three to nineteen seventy four. The idea, again was
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  Speaker 2: to conserve fuel. It was a popular move at the
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  Speaker 2: time when President Richard Nixon signed the law in January
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  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy four, but by the end of the month,
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  Speaker 2: Florida's governor had called for the laws repeal after eight
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  Speaker 2: school children were hit by cars in the dark. Schools
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  Speaker 2: across the country delayed start times until the sun came up.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like There's another argument to be made there though,
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  Speaker 2: about how early we're getting these kids to school.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't matter if you're on a bus. Some
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  Speaker 3: routes start at five am, and that's just what time kids.
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  Speaker 3: I had to be up and out onto in the road,
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  Speaker 3: not even from my house. I'd walk down so like
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  Speaker 3: we had to be way ahead of time because we
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  Speaker 3: couldn't see it coming. It wasn't like you hear it
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  Speaker 3: or see it coming and run out the door. They
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  Speaker 3: wait for you. It was a five minute walk from
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  Speaker 3: my house to that and it's not that far. But again,
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  Speaker 3: I'm in the country, so there's no bus stops. It's
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  Speaker 3: a two lane road, very much a curvy area, and
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  Speaker 3: I would have to get out there at seven am,
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  Speaker 3: and sometimes sun doesn't rise like six forty five, right,
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  Speaker 3: stupid daylight saving.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I guess what I'm saying is I've long felt this.
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  Speaker 2: This is a different podcast. I feel like we're if
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about messing with sleep schedules and the school schedules,
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  Speaker 2: we have kids on young kids, you're messing with their
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  Speaker 2: sleep schedule and you know, having to get up early
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  Speaker 2: before the sun has risen. I'm not sure like daylight
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  Speaker 2: saving time is the answer to that.
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  Speaker 4: It could be maybe we shift the schedule of the
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  Speaker 4: school right or or something else.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, I don't know that that's the
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  Speaker 2: one thing to blame for that.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much because bus riding accessibility. There's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of conversations when it comes to buses in itself transportation.
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  Speaker 3: Who's protected, who's not? Like there this is a whole
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  Speaker 3: socioeconomic conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, that has to be had in general. But darkness
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  Speaker 1: does not help.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, it doesn't. Here's another quote from CNN. In
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  Speaker 2: the US States are not required by law to fall
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  Speaker 2: back or spring Ford.
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  Speaker 4: Well, why e?
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  Speaker 2: Most of Arizona and some territories in the Pacific and
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  Speaker 2: Caribbean do not observe daylight saving time. The twice yearly
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  Speaker 2: switcherugh is irritating enough to lawmakers of all political stripes
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  Speaker 2: that the US Senate passed legislation in March twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: two to make daylight saving time permanent. The bill passed
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  Speaker 2: by unanimous consent. It would need to pass the House
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  Speaker 2: of Representatives and be signed by President Joe Biden to
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  Speaker 2: become the law. It did not pass the House of representatives.
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  Speaker 2: Then they reintroduced it, and that's where it is now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 4: And it was.
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  Speaker 2: Confusing because my older brother was swearing me up and down, like, no,
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  Speaker 2: daylight saving doesn't exist anymore. I was like, I'm pretty
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  Speaker 2: sure it does. Like, well, I feel like I would
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  Speaker 2: have heard of that if it had gone away. No,
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  Speaker 2: it is still in effect right now. But this brings
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  Speaker 2: us to women specifically and daylight saving time because I
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  Speaker 2: found a lot of articles around tips for women on
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  Speaker 2: making the most of the quote extra hour or for
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  Speaker 2: spring ahead the extra hour of light, whether it is
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  Speaker 2: going for a run, working on a skill, or even
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  Speaker 2: just being able to do something safely as a woman.
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  Speaker 2: So from WRC, here's a quote. The joy was for
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  Speaker 2: us as women feeling more independent because the daylight allows
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  Speaker 2: us to do what we always want to do after
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  Speaker 2: work instead of feeling so unsafe, which used to just
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  Speaker 2: go home, go to the gym, or rely on friends
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  Speaker 2: and family for safety in numbers. A large part of
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  Speaker 2: that is because we live in a culture that does
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  Speaker 2: not take street harassment or sexual assaults seriously. Not only
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  Speaker 2: are we truly frightened of being attacked on a regular basis,
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  Speaker 2: but we are also acutely aware that society still holds
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  Speaker 2: us responsible in many ways if and when we are assaulted.
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  Speaker 2: So this article they it's opens with them having kind
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  Speaker 2: of a fun what are you going to do with
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  Speaker 2: this hour, but it quickly became apparent that they were
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  Speaker 2: all like talking about safety. So the quote goes on,
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  Speaker 2: women and men need to ask and listen to the
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  Speaker 2: women in their lives to really understand the constant fear
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  Speaker 2: we all feel when we are alone on the street,
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  Speaker 2: particularly at night, the restriction we have with the amount
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  Speaker 2: of time to enjoy activities after work, how we need
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  Speaker 2: to strategically park our cars and well lit areas because
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  Speaker 2: it will be dark by the time we finish happy
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  Speaker 2: hour with our friends, or deciding to play inside with
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  Speaker 2: our kids and wait until our partner comes home to
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  Speaker 2: go for family walks. This fear is real. Street harassment
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  Speaker 2: is scary, and the fear of being attacked always looms.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I do take that into account darkness. I
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  Speaker 2: hadn't really thought about it in terms of daylight savings.
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  Speaker 2: Daylight savings, oh no, but yeah. I also found a
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  Speaker 2: lot of students college students have written about this, describing
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  Speaker 2: daylight saving as a curfew, as I said, basically, like
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  Speaker 2: if you have to be alone at night, out alone
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  Speaker 2: at night, telling people where you are, facetiming friends, having
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  Speaker 2: nine to one one already up, so it when it
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  Speaker 2: gets darker earlier, it does feel like, oh, a new
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  Speaker 2: curfew has put place right.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's actually could be the implication of like a
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  Speaker 3: racist standard too, because we know sundown towns existed and
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  Speaker 3: still exist today, and that is a very big implication
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  Speaker 3: of what kind of danger you hit into, so you
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  Speaker 3: lose a whole hour. So if you're a personal club,
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  Speaker 3: if you're a black person in general, if you're a
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  Speaker 3: part of the black community that lives or goes going
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  Speaker 3: through an area, don't don't realize that there's daylight saving
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  Speaker 3: sound the way just or whatever whatnot, especially like before
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  Speaker 3: digital where we couldn't just automatically know, right, I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: imagine the level of danger and like, oh, yeah, there's
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  Speaker 3: so many things. So that's just like like that makes
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  Speaker 3: me scared for people. But like in general, like it
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  Speaker 3: is kind of an if you're thinking in that terms, mm.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm, yeah, it has a lot of implications. I did
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  Speaker 2: want to end with. I found this article and at first,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this isn't serious, right, it's satire. So
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  Speaker 2: but I did see these legitimately in several articles, so
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  Speaker 2: they're kind of making fun of these tips. It was
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  Speaker 2: an article called for Today's woman, make the most of
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  Speaker 2: daylight saving time or die trying by rl Mazes. I
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  Speaker 2: hope I got that smote right quote work over time
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  Speaker 2: to increase your earnings, you need to make up for
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  Speaker 2: the wage gap and for spending half of what you
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  Speaker 2: earn on overpriced dry cleaning razors, personal care products, your
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  Speaker 2: stopped covering birth control, and just kidding about extra pay
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  Speaker 2: for working overtime. You're a woman working extra as your thing.
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  Speaker 2: Two Cook a gourmet meal that's vegan, gluten free, free, ketogenic,
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  Speaker 2: mate and his family. Hit yourself on the head with
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  Speaker 2: the skillet. That's the only way you're getting to bed early.
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  Speaker 4: Three.
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  Speaker 2: Engage in some emotional labor. Four plan your political campaign.
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  Speaker 2: Bake cookies and brandish them at a press conference where
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  Speaker 2: you shout we can have it all. Go home and
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  Speaker 2: binge on the cookies in the back of a dark closet. Five,
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  Speaker 2: run twenty miles and take a dozen step classes.
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  Speaker 4: Six.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a young woman, practice walking in heels, putting
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  Speaker 2: on mascara, lipstick, eyeliner, foundation, blush, and shaving and waxing everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Heaven.
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  Speaker 2: If you're no longer young, dye your hair and have
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  Speaker 2: a procedure. So yeah, I mean, it's so true. So
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  Speaker 2: many times when I find these articles for women, the
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  Speaker 2: advice is like, work harder.
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  Speaker 3: Right, do something creative, create things, be busy, yes, hate
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  Speaker 3: yourself and of course yeah, wow, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong with you, right, figure out what is wrong with
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  Speaker 2: you, your whole thing. And I should have known, like this
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  Speaker 2: morning because I did this research this morning. When I
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  Speaker 2: typed in women in daylight saving time, I would find
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  Speaker 2: these articles.
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  Speaker 4: They're like, make use of your extra hour. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: take use of that by sleeping in right.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, like you get an extra hour, this
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  Speaker 1: like of what of sadness.
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  Speaker 3: Of being in the dark, right of going into a
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  Speaker 3: fetal position hoping that the sun will come to rescue you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what else.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: It's sad but true.
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  Speaker 1: Because we can't we don't want.
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  Speaker 2: To cry exactly exactly well. I hope it's going well
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  Speaker 2: for you, listeners. I hope it's going well for future
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  Speaker 2: you and I Samantha. Because it hasn't happened yet, I'll
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