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if some people were born with rare types of diamonds for teeth too, not
just your traditional clear diamonds, like the rarest the red, the vivid red
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like pure bread, or you just have one red die, like, oh
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He's got a ruby, Well, rubies aren't worth as much as diamond
He's got a diamond, a red diamond, fire, a beautiful red diamond
or pink blue, yellow, green diamonds come out. And also also,
scientists believe that a quadrillion tons of diamonds lie deep within the surface of the
Earth. Earth. No, all that is wild. They're like not rare
at all, but we just can't reach these quadrillions of diamonds. Well,
I learned a lot about diamonds when I bought one, and you know what,
you can kind of get mesmerized by it. I kind of always rolled
my eyes at it, and then I went and I looked, and you
look at it and it's like, how is it so bright? You go
down? Do the layers? Beautiful? Kind of insane and then she gets
off your ass. Just think about dump. Somebody texted in Diamond Teeth is
actually making me look forward to the masked Singer update. Oh I'm gonna read
that one. Don't read that one. Don't read that one. Jabs and
body shots coming at you at nine today. Don't read that one aloud.
Jabs and body shots, the return of jabs and body shots. Yeah,
it's been a while, it's back at nine. Of course. The headliner
today though, is the Downbeats Pot of Gold eight o'clock. Yeah, oh
hey, Mike, Cowboys signed a free agent. That's seven at seven.
Also, can I tease seven thirty real quick? Because I have all something
in the scuttle. But so, there is a mysterious building that is housing
a future food and drink spot in Dallas. But the wind blew the tarps
up, and someone saw the logo on the building. They had tarps covering
this building. Yeah, and the wind blew the tarps up, and someone
got a peeza and someone goes, oh, I know what it is.
Now so we know what it is and we'll tell you it's seven thirty.
Oh that is a really good tease. Someone's been listening to the news junkie
or although sabrinas you know that's the hit, that's the star Sabrina. Yeah,
Seeli, Big Dave Matthews band fan though, well, they're on our
station. Twenty four hours will be pretty soon. It's unreal like at six
and then like again at ten, it's nuts. I mean not last Time's
bed MAVs, but oh yeah, MAV's one last night one of that seven
Right now, it's time for this. JJ went ten dollars on the pottery
ticket. Good job, JJ, JJ you scratch yours yet? Bro?
I did the first couple and then I got four. Did you do you
have a nickel? I need a nickel. That bar of your nickel I
used my keys key doesn't work. You don't have a traditional key on you.
It's bobby, it's super What about your house. I don't carry house
keys. Where's your house in the house? What do you have some sort
of I have a garageler. Mikey boy, you open the garage when you
go home? I know, I get out of the car like don draper
and lift up the handle and let myself in. No, your garage and
you just pull right in. Yeah, just pull right in. You walk
right in the back door. No need for it. Why would I ever
use the front door? That's amazing. I'm a back door man, Kevin.
What's that JJ? Oh yeah, yeah cool. Do you have a
garage, Yeah, but you do house key? I have a house key.
I just don't ever tarry. No, do you park in the garage.
I don't want to ask you. No, I don't. You got
a tarf that's blowing up and everyone sees all your stuff in So yeah,
twenty five seconds to lock Mike, twenty five seconds. I'm doing it,
Scotty, Scotty, twenty twenty seconds? Are you changing it? Don't change
it? I think I'm gonna leave it. Markwa we're locking in our mark
Kawa. Yeah, all right, GA one and done. Tournament starts in
ten. I was gonna switch to Rory. I don't have a courage seven.
Rory's gonna be three percent. Change change it. Change what's the button?
Press the button? It stuck? You have no entry. Lie,
you're listening to Live Gambling on the air. Well you get that a lot
right, you just locked five ago. Now look and then right on TV
on the T box our Heroes at TPC Sawgrass Marca was the play How fun
is that? All Right, it's Scottie Scheffler. I'm going to read you
something. Today's most important thing in the world. I'm not going to tell
you who presented this until we get going a little bit, because I want
you to hear it with a clear, unvarnished ear. Okay, So a
bill was introduced in the United States Senate and it is called the Thirty two
Hour Work Week Act. Obviously something that we have all kicked around, considered,
talked about, looked at other countries, and I don't know that something's
actually been presented in the past, but it was presented yesterday, the Thirty
two Hour Work Week Act. A few DFW schools have done that, some
have backed off of it, but it has been tried out by you know,
a few schools here in DFW two probably two excellent results. The bill
introduced to establish a standard four day work week in the United States without any
reduction in pay. The idea is the bill, over a four year period
would lower the threshold required for overtime pay from forty hours to thirty two,
and it would require overtime pay at the rate of time and a half of
a workers regular salary for work days longer than eight hours, and it would
require overtime pay at double a workers regular salary for work days longer than twelve
hours. The thirty two Hour work Week Act would also protect workers pay and
benefits to ensure no loss in pay at all. I mean, it's pretty
cut and dry. It's screaming out loud. F the forty hour work week.
We don't need it. It's antiquated, and let's stop it. Let's
have a four day work week Monday through Thursday. It's in the Senate and
that is juicy. Yeah, I know. I wonder, let's, you
know, suspend disbelief because I don't believe this will happen in any of our
lifetimes, to be quite frank, now, I wonder how that would affect
us people. Is there certain? Because as far as our time up here,
we're not up here forty hours already. As far as our time in
this building now, our work transcends being in this room for four hours and
maybe the hour that we get here prior combined with a few minutes or thirty
minutes we hang out afterwards. But if they there was no way they would
shut us down to broadcast Monday through Thursday, well, I mean we would
still work afore or a five days. It depends on society, you know.
I mean, no one on and everyone knows Saturday Sunday that's the weekend.
That's just because that's how it's always been. And if it was slowly
changed to Friday Saturday Sunday, there's your weekend. You work four days,
then you get the three days off. I mean it would take generation or
two to make it comfortable conversation like obvious, that's just what it is.
But if no one was going to work on Friday, then yeah, we
would fall in line with that, I would imagine. But yes, I
mean in our it won't. I wouldn't think it would affect us in our
working lifetimes. Would you do a five hour show Monday through Thursday to have
a three day weekend, Yeah, yes, I would, Although people that
have done the five hour show that I know haven all big one of them
just absolutely it's got to be yeah awful, it's a half a free fall.
Yeah, a day the idea behind this say. They say it's an
important step toward ensuring that workers share in the massive increase in productivity driven by
artificial intelligence, automation, and new technology. Moving to a thirty two hour
work we with no loss of pay is not a radical idea. Today,
American workers are over four hundred percent more productive than they were in the nineteen
forties, and yet millions of Americans are working longer hours now for lower wages
than they were decades ago. That has got to change. I also believe
that the forty hour work week, if you analyzed productivity, you would probably
be able to shave eight hours out of someone's five day work week that they're
absolutely doing nothing or fake working, cutting corners, taking long breaks, whatever
the case may be. In a forty hour work week, you're not You're
not getting a jgitimate forty hours of actual work, unless maybe you're on a
very monitored assembly line where if you're missing, you know, well, that
carburetor doesn't get this gasket adhered to it, so that house cannot built without
a dish works. Well. There's yeah, where there's actual real accountability,
but in most cases it's hard to account for every minute of every day for
every employee and correct left to our own devices. We're human beings, and
I fully believe it's my belief that we all find ways consciously or subconsciously to
shave off. We cut corners as much as possible Boeing. But yeah,
I will say so. Forty hour work week began by the Ford Motor Company
in nineteen twenty something. I've mentioned this a million times in the air whenever
these stories come up. But it is a little crazy to me that in
twenty twenty four we still abide by the rules of an auto plant manufacturer a
manufacturer in the nineteen twenties. That is crazy to me. But what companies
benefit from that being the status quo and we can't stick together and yell enough
to change it. The things that I think could help, though, are
unhappiness in this world nation. Maybe we keep it here, mental health stuff
and all that, and people realizing, well, you know what, I
do think more people are realizing across the board are going, I'm working this
job for who. I think more people are saying that, and that allows
you to not care as much and then to hide out at your job.
Therefore, that's just another way of saying less productivity and thirty two hours a
little benefit for you there. You get a bigger weekend, you're not at
work as much, have a little more healthier work life balance, all that
stuff. And I know there's gonna be a portion of the audience who says
this is the wlassification of America and all that stuff. I also think four
factory work for what needs to be made. Yeah, forty hours might be
what needs to be done for the two companies that make airplanes, the bowing
in the airbus. Everyone hearing this is applying it to their job. Yeah,
right, some people, it applies to some people, it doesn't.
Some people it's realistic and obvious that it would work, and some people are
like, that's crazy. You just can't lose that productivity. I get it.
But that's why the baseline would be thirty two hours. And if you're
hourly in any way, then yeah, if you're working more because it needs
to be done, guess what you get time and a half. Well.
It would also open up opportunities for jobs. Just because the individual has a
limit on the number of hours they can work in a week doesn't mean that
factories have to shut down on Fridays, you would just hire more employees to
work like those. Yeah, those extra eight hours. You know, you
would stagger that to where one guy works Monday through Thursday. Well, the
other guy works Tuesday through Friday, and so on and so on. So
the factories could stay open twenty four hours a day if they wanted. You
would just have to hire employees to replace those staggered eight hours that you're losing.
I wonder what happened. What was the country like before the standardized forty
hour work week was kind of implemented. What did we do before then?
Was there a standard? Was that we only work thirty hours a week?
Or did you just kind of work whenever you wanted? Was everybody salary based?
I don't even I mean, was it even something you had to consider
prior to the Industrial Revolution? I guess or did everything was just privately smaller
and privately owned, and you may have had someone work for you, but
then it was whatever your agreement was with them. I don't know. It
seems so long ago, Mikey. I think it's before factories. You didn't
need to make sure someone was here walking in at this time and walking out
at that time, right, I think I'm looking it up. What did
you just search verbatim telling me what you wrote in there? You just typed
in how many hours? Typed in boobs? How many hours were work weeks?
Are you looking at a boob in nineteen ten? Aka boobies? Now?
How many hours were work weeks in nineteen ten for manufacturing fifty seven,
for construction forty five. That's loose, but again that's manufacturing Internet. Yeah,
so the factory the fact factory work changed everything. Okay, so fact,
look the factory work, you know, for the forty hour a week,
standardized factory template that may have been lowering hours from what they were before.
Kind of what maybe they're recommending now it's just an elongated trend, possibly
in eighteen twenty sixty to ninety hours per week your whole life in the world.
It's what I can't it's so here's a quote. While CEO's wages continue
to increase, our workers are finding themselves doing more, earning less than they
have in decades. This thirty two Hour Work Week Act would allow hard work
in Americans spend more time with their families while protecting their wages and making sure
profits aren't the aren't only going to select few. I mean, it's a
far larger conversation. But yeah, I don't know how this or if we
are just on a collision course with some sort of massive revolt of CEO wages.
And because if you work and then they get a twelve billion dollar bonus,
twelve dollar bon this sounds like they're trying to put a horse back into
a barn and maybe add a friend for him to have a friend with him.
Because look, when things get taken away for the benefit of presidents,
CEOs and shareholders of companies, that doesn't they're not going to give up piece
of their pie to accommodate us the common people. We know how this world
works, and those in power that have that ability to make those types of
decisions aren't gonna say, yeah, you know what, I'm going to take
a five million dollars a year pay cut to so these people can work less.
Right, But that's what labor unions are for. I mean, we
collectively are the people doing the work that makes them those bonuses in that money.
Right Thereby holding the power in our hands, we choose not to wield
the sword though, Well, it's because of fear that you're going to lose
your job if you do. That's why if the government steps in and makes
it baseline, that's I guess how a change like that could happen. There
are a lot of countries who've done this, made the move. France has
a thirty five hour work week. They're considering a move to thirty two.
Norway, Denmark, always among the highest happiest countries in the world, have
work weeks of thirty seven hours or less. I mean, I think it's
fascinating, especially when legislation gets proposed and someone's gonna have to actually look at
it. But what I don't get is people hearing this, who this would
benefit. You'd get a three day weekend every week, and they're like,
nah, That's what I don't understand is the is fighting for things that don't
benefit you. But then you can look at the entire political yeah, sure
situation and scratch your head at that all day. Just someone text in definitely
not realistic in the medical field because there's not enough doctors nurses. Is that
that I wonder? I mean, in theory, it does open up more
opportunities and open up more places for people to work because you're gonna have those
hours that there's a chunk, you know. Yeah, hospitals have to remain
open twenty four to seven. Of course, maybe that inspires more people to
go into the right they're going to those public service fields. I don't know.
There are plenty of things that doesn't exactly apply to and couldn't apply to.
But my point going back to putting the horse back in the barn.
We remember what happened in two thousand and eight when you had the big real
estate collapse and we hit that massive recession and there were massive layoffs. We
saw it in our old company, where I think they ended up laying off
around thirty to forty percent of their staff. And the mantra back then was
do more with the same do more with less, do the same job with
less, and once this thing turns around, yeah, we'll get back to
what we were before. That never happened. You know, all those people
that got fired at our old job didn't get those jobs back once the economy
regained its strength. They just realized, whoa, Okay, so we're now
flush and doing better financially, but all these people are doing the same job.
Let's just keep it like it is. And yeah, and once that
cycle came back around to where you know, these corporations were healthy, they
were making more money than they were before the recession. I thought COVID was
the most convenient excuse ever for people to really cut costs. And I do
think it affects the product of a lot of things. But I thought that
was like tried and true, right there, here is an easy way to
save a ton of money. Pandemic. You know, that's a fifteen year
cycle, and we'll probably have something else crazy happening twenty thirty eight or twenty
thirty five or whatever. But I thought, I'm surprised that there wasn't just
an absolute collapse in commercial real estate after the pandemic, because one thing that
did show is not only do we not need to come in a lot of
people don't need to come into an office. They can work remotely and be
just as effective. We don't need to go to meetings. We can do
these via email or zoom. We don't have to be in person to be
your audience. You know, all of this stuff can be done elsewhere.
I was really surprised that the commercial real estate world did not just completely the
bottom fall out from under it because they realized how much money are we saving
by not paying ridiculous leases on these giant buildings when people can just do the
crap at home. I started working here a month before the pandemic hit,
so I'm here for four weeks. But the entire cell staff was full of
people and they were all on the floor below us. There was a huge
space for them. And now we're all condensed up on one floor and they're
renovating the other side of the building just to you know, create room for
all sells people because they do want them coming back into the office and things
like that. But they're not no nuts because I would be like, Okay,
let's go down and see what it's doing. It's a party down there.
They've cut they've cut their they've cut their rent in half by doing that.
Yeah, yeah, well yeah. And I don't think this is a
topic that's ever going away. Honestly, this is gonna keep popping up a
lot. But it's on the on the floor of the Senate. The thirty
two hour work week bill probably gets swatted, and some companies have experiment with
that. I know a company and didn't I know a guy who runs a
company and they switched to four day work week, and he's like, we're
getting more production, my employees are more happy. Yeah, granted out running
company that has eleven people, I'm not working in a factory. It was
kind of his point, if you own a something small like that and you
do not lose productivity, I think it's amazing to do that. Take care
of your people. Yeah, and you're like, dude, four days a
week, just bust ass. Yeah. But but that's a far vast minority
of country of companies that could can do that. And for those asking,
I didn't say the name of who proposed it because I didn't want it.
You know, you don't want me to do an impression of him. I
think he's I think he's on your list. The former Detroit lines running back
Barry Sanders. It was Bernie Sanders. You know which side you're on?
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