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You're listening to the downbeaty the freak. Thank you for all the support via

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text for Soroy Industry's picture of diamond
teeth. Just one person said, what

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if some people were born with rare
types of diamonds for teeth too, not

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just your traditional clear diamonds, like
the rarest the red, the vivid red

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colored diamonds based on your background,
well at heritage. Ah, maybe that

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like pure bread, or you just
have one red die, like, oh

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my god, that thing's worth ten
times more than the rest of those teeth.

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He's got a ruby, Well,
rubies aren't worth as much as diamond

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He's got a diamond, a red
diamond, fire, a beautiful red diamond

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or pink blue, yellow, green
diamonds come out. And also also,

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scientists believe that a quadrillion tons of
diamonds lie deep within the surface of the

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Earth. Earth. No, all
that is wild. They're like not rare

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at all, but we just can't
reach these quadrillions of diamonds. Well,

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I learned a lot about diamonds when
I bought one, and you know what,

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you can kind of get mesmerized by
it. I kind of always rolled

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my eyes at it, and then
I went and I looked, and you

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look at it and it's like,
how is it so bright? You go

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down? Do the layers? Beautiful? Kind of insane and then she gets

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off your ass. Just think about
dump. Somebody texted in Diamond Teeth is

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actually making me look forward to the
masked Singer update. Oh I'm gonna read

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that one. Don't read that one. Don't read that one. Jabs and

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body shots coming at you at nine
today. Don't read that one aloud.

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Jabs and body shots, the return
of jabs and body shots. Yeah,

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it's been a while, it's back
at nine. Of course. The headliner

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today though, is the Downbeats Pot
of Gold eight o'clock. Yeah, oh

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hey, Mike, Cowboys signed a
free agent. That's seven at seven.

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Also, can I tease seven thirty
real quick? Because I have all something

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in the scuttle. But so,
there is a mysterious building that is housing

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a future food and drink spot in
Dallas. But the wind blew the tarps

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up, and someone saw the logo
on the building. They had tarps covering

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this building. Yeah, and the
wind blew the tarps up, and someone

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got a peeza and someone goes,
oh, I know what it is.

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Now so we know what it is
and we'll tell you it's seven thirty.

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Oh that is a really good tease. Someone's been listening to the news junkie

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or although sabrinas you know that's the
hit, that's the star Sabrina. Yeah,

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Seeli, Big Dave Matthews band fan
though, well, they're on our

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station. Twenty four hours will be
pretty soon. It's unreal like at six

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and then like again at ten,
it's nuts. I mean not last Time's

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bed MAVs, but oh yeah,
MAV's one last night one of that seven

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Right now, it's time for this. JJ went ten dollars on the pottery

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ticket. Good job, JJ,
JJ you scratch yours yet? Bro?

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I did the first couple and then
I got four. Did you do you

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have a nickel? I need a
nickel. That bar of your nickel I

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used my keys key doesn't work.
You don't have a traditional key on you.

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It's bobby, it's super What about
your house. I don't carry house

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keys. Where's your house in the
house? What do you have some sort

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of I have a garageler. Mikey
boy, you open the garage when you

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go home? I know, I
get out of the car like don draper

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and lift up the handle and let
myself in. No, your garage and

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you just pull right in. Yeah, just pull right in. You walk

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right in the back door. No
need for it. Why would I ever

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use the front door? That's amazing. I'm a back door man, Kevin.

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What's that JJ? Oh yeah,
yeah cool. Do you have a

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garage, Yeah, but you do
house key? I have a house key.

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I just don't ever tarry. No, do you park in the garage.

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I don't want to ask you.
No, I don't. You got

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a tarf that's blowing up and everyone
sees all your stuff in So yeah,

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twenty five seconds to lock Mike,
twenty five seconds. I'm doing it,

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Scotty, Scotty, twenty twenty seconds? Are you changing it? Don't change

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it? I think I'm gonna leave
it. Markwa we're locking in our mark

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Kawa. Yeah, all right,
GA one and done. Tournament starts in

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ten. I was gonna switch to
Rory. I don't have a courage seven.

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Rory's gonna be three percent. Change
change it. Change what's the button?

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Press the button? It stuck?
You have no entry. Lie,

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you're listening to Live Gambling on the
air. Well you get that a lot

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right, you just locked five ago. Now look and then right on TV

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on the T box our Heroes at
TPC Sawgrass Marca was the play How fun

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is that? All Right, it's
Scottie Scheffler. I'm going to read you

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something. Today's most important thing in
the world. I'm not going to tell

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you who presented this until we get
going a little bit, because I want

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you to hear it with a clear, unvarnished ear. Okay, So a

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bill was introduced in the United States
Senate and it is called the Thirty two

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Hour Work Week Act. Obviously something
that we have all kicked around, considered,

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talked about, looked at other countries, and I don't know that something's

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actually been presented in the past,
but it was presented yesterday, the Thirty

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two Hour Work Week Act. A
few DFW schools have done that, some

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have backed off of it, but
it has been tried out by you know,

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a few schools here in DFW two
probably two excellent results. The bill

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introduced to establish a standard four day
work week in the United States without any

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reduction in pay. The idea is
the bill, over a four year period

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would lower the threshold required for overtime
pay from forty hours to thirty two,

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and it would require overtime pay at
the rate of time and a half of

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a workers regular salary for work days
longer than eight hours, and it would

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require overtime pay at double a workers
regular salary for work days longer than twelve

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hours. The thirty two Hour work
Week Act would also protect workers pay and

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benefits to ensure no loss in pay
at all. I mean, it's pretty

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cut and dry. It's screaming out
loud. F the forty hour work week.

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We don't need it. It's antiquated, and let's stop it. Let's

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have a four day work week Monday
through Thursday. It's in the Senate and

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that is juicy. Yeah, I
know. I wonder, let's, you

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know, suspend disbelief because I don't
believe this will happen in any of our

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lifetimes, to be quite frank,
now, I wonder how that would affect

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us people. Is there certain?
Because as far as our time up here,

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we're not up here forty hours already. As far as our time in

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this building now, our work transcends
being in this room for four hours and

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maybe the hour that we get here
prior combined with a few minutes or thirty

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minutes we hang out afterwards. But
if they there was no way they would

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shut us down to broadcast Monday through
Thursday, well, I mean we would

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still work afore or a five days. It depends on society, you know.

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I mean, no one on and
everyone knows Saturday Sunday that's the weekend.

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That's just because that's how it's always
been. And if it was slowly

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changed to Friday Saturday Sunday, there's
your weekend. You work four days,

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then you get the three days off. I mean it would take generation or

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two to make it comfortable conversation like
obvious, that's just what it is.

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But if no one was going to
work on Friday, then yeah, we

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would fall in line with that,
I would imagine. But yes, I

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mean in our it won't. I
wouldn't think it would affect us in our

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working lifetimes. Would you do a
five hour show Monday through Thursday to have

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a three day weekend, Yeah,
yes, I would, Although people that

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have done the five hour show that
I know haven all big one of them

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just absolutely it's got to be yeah
awful, it's a half a free fall.

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Yeah, a day the idea behind
this say. They say it's an

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important step toward ensuring that workers share
in the massive increase in productivity driven by

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artificial intelligence, automation, and new
technology. Moving to a thirty two hour

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work we with no loss of pay
is not a radical idea. Today,

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American workers are over four hundred percent
more productive than they were in the nineteen

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forties, and yet millions of Americans
are working longer hours now for lower wages

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than they were decades ago. That
has got to change. I also believe

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that the forty hour work week,
if you analyzed productivity, you would probably

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be able to shave eight hours out
of someone's five day work week that they're

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absolutely doing nothing or fake working,
cutting corners, taking long breaks, whatever

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the case may be. In a
forty hour work week, you're not You're

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not getting a jgitimate forty hours of
actual work, unless maybe you're on a

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very monitored assembly line where if you're
missing, you know, well, that

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carburetor doesn't get this gasket adhered to
it, so that house cannot built without

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a dish works. Well. There's
yeah, where there's actual real accountability,

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but in most cases it's hard to
account for every minute of every day for

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every employee and correct left to our
own devices. We're human beings, and

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I fully believe it's my belief that
we all find ways consciously or subconsciously to

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shave off. We cut corners as
much as possible Boeing. But yeah,

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I will say so. Forty hour
work week began by the Ford Motor Company

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in nineteen twenty something. I've mentioned
this a million times in the air whenever

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these stories come up. But it
is a little crazy to me that in

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twenty twenty four we still abide by
the rules of an auto plant manufacturer a

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manufacturer in the nineteen twenties. That
is crazy to me. But what companies

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benefit from that being the status quo
and we can't stick together and yell enough

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to change it. The things that
I think could help, though, are

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unhappiness in this world nation. Maybe
we keep it here, mental health stuff

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and all that, and people realizing, well, you know what, I

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do think more people are realizing across
the board are going, I'm working this

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job for who. I think more
people are saying that, and that allows

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you to not care as much and
then to hide out at your job.

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Therefore, that's just another way of
saying less productivity and thirty two hours a

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little benefit for you there. You
get a bigger weekend, you're not at

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work as much, have a little
more healthier work life balance, all that

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stuff. And I know there's gonna
be a portion of the audience who says

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this is the wlassification of America and
all that stuff. I also think four

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factory work for what needs to be
made. Yeah, forty hours might be

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what needs to be done for the
two companies that make airplanes, the bowing

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in the airbus. Everyone hearing this
is applying it to their job. Yeah,

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right, some people, it applies
to some people, it doesn't.

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Some people it's realistic and obvious that
it would work, and some people are

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like, that's crazy. You just
can't lose that productivity. I get it.

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But that's why the baseline would be
thirty two hours. And if you're

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hourly in any way, then yeah, if you're working more because it needs

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to be done, guess what you
get time and a half. Well.

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It would also open up opportunities for
jobs. Just because the individual has a

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limit on the number of hours they
can work in a week doesn't mean that

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factories have to shut down on Fridays, you would just hire more employees to

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work like those. Yeah, those
extra eight hours. You know, you

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would stagger that to where one guy
works Monday through Thursday. Well, the

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other guy works Tuesday through Friday,
and so on and so on. So

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the factories could stay open twenty four
hours a day if they wanted. You

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would just have to hire employees to
replace those staggered eight hours that you're losing.

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I wonder what happened. What was
the country like before the standardized forty

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hour work week was kind of implemented. What did we do before then?

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Was there a standard? Was that
we only work thirty hours a week?

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Or did you just kind of work
whenever you wanted? Was everybody salary based?

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I don't even I mean, was
it even something you had to consider

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prior to the Industrial Revolution? I
guess or did everything was just privately smaller

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and privately owned, and you may
have had someone work for you, but

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then it was whatever your agreement was
with them. I don't know. It

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seems so long ago, Mikey.
I think it's before factories. You didn't

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need to make sure someone was here
walking in at this time and walking out

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at that time, right, I
think I'm looking it up. What did

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you just search verbatim telling me what
you wrote in there? You just typed

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in how many hours? Typed in
boobs? How many hours were work weeks?

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Are you looking at a boob in
nineteen ten? Aka boobies? Now?

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How many hours were work weeks in
nineteen ten for manufacturing fifty seven,

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for construction forty five. That's loose, but again that's manufacturing Internet. Yeah,

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so the factory the fact factory work
changed everything. Okay, so fact,

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look the factory work, you know, for the forty hour a week,

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standardized factory template that may have been
lowering hours from what they were before.

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Kind of what maybe they're recommending now
it's just an elongated trend, possibly

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in eighteen twenty sixty to ninety hours
per week your whole life in the world.

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It's what I can't it's so here's
a quote. While CEO's wages continue

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to increase, our workers are finding
themselves doing more, earning less than they

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have in decades. This thirty two
Hour Work Week Act would allow hard work

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in Americans spend more time with their
families while protecting their wages and making sure

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profits aren't the aren't only going to
select few. I mean, it's a

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far larger conversation. But yeah,
I don't know how this or if we

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are just on a collision course with
some sort of massive revolt of CEO wages.

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And because if you work and then
they get a twelve billion dollar bonus,

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twelve dollar bon this sounds like they're
trying to put a horse back into

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a barn and maybe add a friend
for him to have a friend with him.

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Because look, when things get taken
away for the benefit of presidents,

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CEOs and shareholders of companies, that
doesn't they're not going to give up piece

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of their pie to accommodate us the
common people. We know how this world

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works, and those in power that
have that ability to make those types of

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decisions aren't gonna say, yeah,
you know what, I'm going to take

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a five million dollars a year pay
cut to so these people can work less.

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Right, But that's what labor unions
are for. I mean, we

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collectively are the people doing the work
that makes them those bonuses in that money.

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Right Thereby holding the power in our
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the sword though, Well, it's
because of fear that you're going to lose

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your job if you do. That's
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it baseline, that's I guess how
a change like that could happen. There

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are a lot of countries who've done
this, made the move. France has

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a thirty five hour work week.
They're considering a move to thirty two.

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Norway, Denmark, always among the
highest happiest countries in the world, have

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work weeks of thirty seven hours or
less. I mean, I think it's

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fascinating, especially when legislation gets proposed
and someone's gonna have to actually look at

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it. But what I don't get
is people hearing this, who this would

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benefit. You'd get a three day
weekend every week, and they're like,

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nah, That's what I don't understand
is the is fighting for things that don't

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benefit you. But then you can
look at the entire political yeah, sure

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situation and scratch your head at that
all day. Just someone text in definitely

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not realistic in the medical field because
there's not enough doctors nurses. Is that

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that I wonder? I mean,
in theory, it does open up more

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opportunities and open up more places for
people to work because you're gonna have those

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hours that there's a chunk, you
know. Yeah, hospitals have to remain

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open twenty four to seven. Of
course, maybe that inspires more people to

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go into the right they're going to
those public service fields. I don't know.

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There are plenty of things that doesn't
exactly apply to and couldn't apply to.

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But my point going back to putting
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We remember what happened in two thousand
and eight when you had the big real

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estate collapse and we hit that massive
recession and there were massive layoffs. We

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saw it in our old company,
where I think they ended up laying off

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around thirty to forty percent of their
staff. And the mantra back then was

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do more with the same do more
with less, do the same job with

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less, and once this thing turns
around, yeah, we'll get back to

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what we were before. That never
happened. You know, all those people

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that got fired at our old job
didn't get those jobs back once the economy

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regained its strength. They just realized, whoa, Okay, so we're now

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flush and doing better financially, but
all these people are doing the same job.

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Let's just keep it like it is. And yeah, and once that

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cycle came back around to where you
know, these corporations were healthy, they

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were making more money than they were
before the recession. I thought COVID was

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the most convenient excuse ever for people
to really cut costs. And I do

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think it affects the product of a
lot of things. But I thought that

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was like tried and true, right
there, here is an easy way to

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save a ton of money. Pandemic. You know, that's a fifteen year

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cycle, and we'll probably have something
else crazy happening twenty thirty eight or twenty

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thirty five or whatever. But I
thought, I'm surprised that there wasn't just

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an absolute collapse in commercial real estate
after the pandemic, because one thing that

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did show is not only do we
not need to come in a lot of

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people don't need to come into an
office. They can work remotely and be

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just as effective. We don't need
to go to meetings. We can do

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these via email or zoom. We
don't have to be in person to be

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your audience. You know, all
of this stuff can be done elsewhere.

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I was really surprised that the commercial
real estate world did not just completely the

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bottom fall out from under it because
they realized how much money are we saving

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by not paying ridiculous leases on these
giant buildings when people can just do the

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crap at home. I started working
here a month before the pandemic hit,

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so I'm here for four weeks.
But the entire cell staff was full of

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people and they were all on the
floor below us. There was a huge

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space for them. And now we're
all condensed up on one floor and they're

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renovating the other side of the building
just to you know, create room for

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all sells people because they do want
them coming back into the office and things

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like that. But they're not no
nuts because I would be like, Okay,

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let's go down and see what it's
doing. It's a party down there.

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They've cut they've cut their they've cut
their rent in half by doing that.

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Yeah, yeah, well yeah.
And I don't think this is a

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topic that's ever going away. Honestly, this is gonna keep popping up a

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lot. But it's on the on
the floor of the Senate. The thirty

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two hour work week bill probably gets
swatted, and some companies have experiment with

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that. I know a company and
didn't I know a guy who runs a

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company and they switched to four day
work week, and he's like, we're

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getting more production, my employees are
more happy. Yeah, granted out running

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company that has eleven people, I'm
not working in a factory. It was

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kind of his point, if you
own a something small like that and you

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do not lose productivity, I think
it's amazing to do that. Take care

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of your people. Yeah, and
you're like, dude, four days a

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week, just bust ass. Yeah. But but that's a far vast minority

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of country of companies that could can
do that. And for those asking,

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I didn't say the name of who
proposed it because I didn't want it.

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You know, you don't want me
to do an impression of him. I

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think he's I think he's on your
list. The former Detroit lines running back

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Barry Sanders. It was Bernie Sanders. You know which side you're on?

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