1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,320 The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:07,960 part by Keltren, which is the safe way for you to lose weight and 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:13,400 keep it off. I will start with a question, do you think and 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:18,359 do you want the Senate to pass a bill for a shorter work week. 5 00:00:19,679 --> 00:00:25,160 There's a revived effort to make a shorter work week the new norm the law 6 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:32,479 of the land, and it was introduced by none other than Senator Bernie Sanders. 7 00:00:33,359 --> 00:00:38,240 It will sow that that does work, it is more productive when other 8 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,280 places have tried it out. I just don't think that it is a viable 9 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:46,520 option for all industries. If that means I think you are correct. So 10 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:52,320 one size does not fit all. It's like a minimum wage, one amount 11 00:00:52,359 --> 00:00:57,159 does not fit all. There are some companies that can get by or do 12 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,920 with a lower minimum wage because of what they do, what they sell, 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,680 what they have, and then there are other companies that need to have more 14 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:10,680 people paying better attention to what they're doing. I find that it's not the 15 00:01:10,719 --> 00:01:15,040 hours and that it makes I'm not, as you know very well having been 16 00:01:15,079 --> 00:01:18,239 with me for a while, I'm not a clockwatcher. I think that's very 17 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,120 anti productive. So you look at you're watching. Okay, it's eight o'clock, 18 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,920 let's start, and then at six o'clock at six o'clock, let's stop. 19 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,599 And what have you done in between? It isn't so much that there 20 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:34,840 is productivity or a lack thereof. It's that you focused on the clock more 21 00:01:34,879 --> 00:01:38,840 than you have your work, which means to me, you don't really like 22 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,840 what you do. And so to go one step further, if you don't 23 00:01:42,879 --> 00:01:46,200 like what you do, you should go get another job, go find And 24 00:01:46,239 --> 00:01:49,599 then people say, oh, it's easier said than done. Nah, I 25 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:56,439 don't think it is. I think it'll be really a focused anyway. Really, 26 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,640 the reason behind Bernie Sanders coming up with this, he'd, by the 27 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,359 way, is chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 28 00:02:02,439 --> 00:02:08,080 and Pensions, is that workers are four hundred percent more productive than they were 29 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:14,520 in the nineteen forties. That's pretty broad general statement that isn't really true. 30 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,240 There are many people who are very productive, more so than ever, motivated 31 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:25,319 by their own their way of thinking. They're motivated because they want to do 32 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,479 a good job, or they want to get paid more or whatever. A 33 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:35,000 little of all of those all the above, and so I think, as 34 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,360 usual with Bernie Sanders, it's his way or the highway, and he'll look 35 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,199 at you and yell at you and tell you that if you don't believe what 36 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,080 he tells you, then you're wrong, which of course is not a great 37 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:53,919 way to get things passed. But anyway, I find all of this focus 38 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:58,800 on this cookie cutter solution to stuff. We have to do this because of 39 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,919 that that doesn't it may work for some people. Yeah, it's like a 40 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,960 four percent interest rate on a credit card that may be too much for some 41 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:12,159 people to pay, and twenty four percent it may even be okay with some 42 00:03:12,199 --> 00:03:15,919 people, because everybody's got a different way of looking at things, different way 43 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,919 of using money, different way of paying things back, and the same I 44 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:25,280 think holds for work. Be he's a socialist and this is a socialistic idea, 45 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:30,280 and as you've said, it does work depending on if you go to 46 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:35,680 France, there's sound companies or Spain is pretty well known for having a thirty 47 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,680 two hour work week. I'm trying to think of what they do in Italy. 48 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:43,639 I don't think they there's a hard and past rule in Italy a lot 49 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,159 more they also practice a better work life balance too, like once they are 50 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:52,080 once they leave their job, they don't still answer phone calls or emails or 51 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,240 anything like that. They don't have what do you do for a living? 52 00:03:54,319 --> 00:04:00,400 Is not part of small talk when you are at gatherings. They do actice 53 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,560 more regularly that work life balance where I feel like it's gotten lost here because 54 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:09,599 for the most part, we were always told, well, this is your 55 00:04:09,719 --> 00:04:13,000 job, and even though the hours maybe from this time to this time, 56 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,040 you still have to be available after hours. You still if there's something that 57 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:19,839 needs to be done, you have to you have to stay longer and do 58 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:25,040 it because that's part of your job. But not everywhere has overtime pay. 59 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,399 Well, that may be, but if you don't want to do, somebody 60 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:33,800 else waiting and we'll hire them instead. Like that mentality, there's some truth 61 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:38,360 to that. It depends on the industry, depends on the job, tends 62 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:42,560 on what you're trying to get done. But thirty two hours out of one 63 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,920 hundred and sixty eight is one fifth of the week, So that means four 64 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,399 fifths of the week would not be spent working, it would be spent in 65 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:54,959 recreation, it was be spent in sleeping. It would be spending things other 66 00:04:55,639 --> 00:05:00,360 again, using this formula other than work, I think many of us and 67 00:05:00,399 --> 00:05:04,839 that's why I find this a little difficult. Many of us, or many 68 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:10,879 of you, many of us are motivated in our lives by our work. 69 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,360 And if you like your work and you like what you do, then you 70 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,079 should have the opportunity to work at it as much as you want. If 71 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,560 you don't like and the boss is saying you must do this, and then 72 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:27,279 maybe that's the that's the formula. Maybe that's the way to look at it. 73 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,279 It still is, you know, I guess I wonder whether this thing 74 00:05:30,319 --> 00:05:33,120 really has a chance to be passed, is it? Or can it be 75 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:38,759 a law? Can it really? Can he get it through? It could 76 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,800 be, but again it would have to come with stipulations, because this is 77 00:05:41,879 --> 00:05:46,560 just not feasible for every single industry. No, it isn't. It's like 78 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,800 the farming industry, of which I know a great deal. All of the 79 00:05:49,879 --> 00:05:55,439 labor laws that have been put into effect to affect agriculture have not worked. 80 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,160 As a matter of fact, in many cases they worked against the well being 81 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:04,079 of fun and the people that work on the farms. The farm income is 82 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,759 down partially because of the rules and regulations that have been put forth by the 83 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:14,240 federal government, and it's another way of screwing over the food supply. But 84 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,360 people don't look at deeply into some of these things, especially the folks that 85 00:06:18,399 --> 00:06:24,600 come from California. There are a couple of people in California who are as 86 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:28,639 socialistic as he is, because that seems to be the heart of socialism, 87 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:33,639 these parts of California are. And so here's a couple of supporters. There 88 00:06:33,639 --> 00:06:40,319 are those who want They want this because they want it. They don't give 89 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,519 you a reason for it. So an example of some group of people, 90 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,319 let's take flight attendants for example. They work on average thirty two hours a 91 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:54,000 week, and that's a high number for many or most of them. Now 92 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,480 you can say, well, what does the thirty two hours mean? In 93 00:06:57,519 --> 00:07:01,399 some circumstances. It used to mean up to wheels down. Now it means 94 00:07:01,439 --> 00:07:08,759 when you're in the plane for the most part. And the average pay for 95 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,360 it depends on your seniority, really and the airline business, it really does. 96 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,639 Seniority is everything, and so you get paid. Some of the flight 97 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:21,399 attendants make forty five fifty bucks an hour. It's like pilots. Some of 98 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:26,759 the younger pilots that are flying for the regional airlines, again, they average 99 00:07:26,759 --> 00:07:30,920 about well. Some of the regional airline pilots average more time than the pilots 100 00:07:30,959 --> 00:07:34,680 that work for the bigger airlines, the ones that we all know Delta America, 101 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:40,439 and those guys, depending on the size of the plane, they're paid 102 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:46,279 by the size of the pain the plane, the passenger load, how much 103 00:07:46,319 --> 00:07:50,680 they are carrying in cargo, that sort of thing. And there are many 104 00:07:51,279 --> 00:07:55,639 who make one hundred and fifty, one hundred and seventy, you know, 105 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:58,519 in that range, depending on where they're flying and what kind of a plane 106 00:07:58,519 --> 00:08:01,240 they're flying. And then the guys that fly the big planes, guys women 107 00:08:01,399 --> 00:08:05,439 now are they're four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. I'd rather have 108 00:08:05,519 --> 00:08:09,600 some guy flying the planes making four hundred grand a year kind of guy who's 109 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,879 making forty I'll tell you that for sure. I'd rather have somebody had gray 110 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,120 hair flying the plane and somebody who's you know, looks like you just got 111 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:24,319 out of college. But that's just me. And but there's so many differences 112 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,240 I'm trying to point them, trying to make is that it is a it's 113 00:08:28,279 --> 00:08:33,080 a union thing in some respects. If you have a union, it's up 114 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,519 to them to determine how many hours a week you work and or how you 115 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,480 to ratify whatever contract does agree to and how much you get paid. So 116 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:45,480 anyway, well we'll sort of see. There are a lot of comments I'm 117 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:52,879 sure that will come from this as it continues to unfold, focusing now on 118 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,120 social media. Things that are trending names mostly in the news, and Eddie 119 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:03,840 van Halen is in that list today, not because he's still with us, 120 00:09:03,879 --> 00:09:07,440 because he's not still with us, right, didn't he pass away like a 121 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:16,120 twenty twenty. So his son has done something that sort of puts the van 122 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:20,919 Halen name back into the search light, if you will, And so we're 123 00:09:20,919 --> 00:09:24,240 going to talk about what he did is pretty beneficial and pretty good idea frankly, 124 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,000 as a charity supported that had been supported by Eddie van Halen, now 125 00:09:30,039 --> 00:09:35,679 his son Wolfgang has sent one hundred grand two. They want to launch a 126 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:41,799 special program that supports public schools acquiring instrument by instrumentation, if you will, 127 00:09:41,879 --> 00:09:45,759 instruments for their music program, which of course is something that's been boggled and 128 00:09:45,799 --> 00:09:52,240 bungled by the federal government under George Bush. They needed money to fight the 129 00:09:52,279 --> 00:09:56,519 people that didn't need to be fought in Iraq. So that screwed over a 130 00:09:56,519 --> 00:10:01,159 lot of programs like music programs, his ed programs, Civics programs, that 131 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:07,480 sort of thing. And so for decades now there's been a whole and this 132 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:11,200 has been a heated debate a lot not by people who know anything about school 133 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:18,039 and education, but by people who are fairly ignorant about saying so along comes 134 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:24,320 mister van Halen, who's stepping up now to ensure educators who are on board 135 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:30,279 with him understanding the power of music and how it does such great things and 136 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:35,679 it brings us great pleasure. And it also is something the gift that people 137 00:10:35,759 --> 00:10:41,399 have students who can play a instrument anything, or who can sing. It's 138 00:10:41,519 --> 00:10:46,279 huge. And not every family can afford to buy the instrument, and that's 139 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:50,559 the way a lot of times schools will supply them. But then if schools 140 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,200 don't even have the funding to get these instruments. And that's what's just so 141 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:58,320 great about what Wolfgang ben Halen is doing is because he is making sure that 142 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:05,440 a lot of these all these schools has something he's working with mister Holland's Opus 143 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:11,399 Foundation and also launched the Adopt a School campaign where he's not just putting his 144 00:11:11,399 --> 00:11:15,799 money where his mouth is, he's also urging other people to help funding as 145 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:20,759 well and get this kickstart charity going. It really is great when you think 146 00:11:20,759 --> 00:11:26,159 about that, mister Hall. Remember that movie Richard Dreyfus was the teacher Drivesy 147 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:31,399 That movie I did. It was a very good movie. 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Calitrin at top loss dot com thanks to Elizabeth Miller here, 164 00:12:43,159 --> 00:12:48,039 one of the great calitrinconsultants at top loss dot com. The idea of 165 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:56,840 having something that is different oftentimes puts people off, like the just to go 166 00:12:56,879 --> 00:13:00,519 back for a few minutes to the thirty two hour workweek that's been proposed by 167 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,799 somebody who's never had a job that had to work thirty two hours a week, 168 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:05,639 I mean, Bernie Sanders. I was looking at some of the comments 169 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:11,799 that came from some of the people that quickly weighed in. Here here's the 170 00:13:11,879 --> 00:13:16,759 guy who says, about eight minutes ago, how can a man who has 171 00:13:16,799 --> 00:13:22,320 never run a business run a payroll, been responsible for employees and any other 172 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:26,759 thing that comes from running business to be expected to produce anything other than a 173 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:31,919 benefit for himself, which is kind of an interesting way of looking at it. 174 00:13:31,919 --> 00:13:37,039 He believes in government only solutions, which is not a great way. 175 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:41,360 How do people, I guess my question would be how do people get that 176 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:45,039 way? How do you? How is it that you think that that's the 177 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,240 way to fix problems. It's like throwing the government throws money at everything, 178 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:52,759 right, can't fix it? Spend more money, buy more buses, buy 179 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:58,120 But does that fix it? No? Well, the whole thing like money 180 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,240 can't fix your problems. And that's true, and they cannot fix your problems 181 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:07,879 unless your problems are money related problems like money can't buy me love. Richard 182 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:13,679 says, leave it to a politician to suggest something they have been avoiding for 183 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:18,600 decades, yet getting paid handsomely for doing it. That is an honest week's 184 00:14:18,639 --> 00:14:22,480 work. There are a lot of people and they leave themselves open for this, 185 00:14:22,559 --> 00:14:26,080 the people who are in Congress and the Senate, because they treat themselves 186 00:14:26,639 --> 00:14:31,600 differently. They have different benefits, different circumstances. It's a club, and 187 00:14:31,639 --> 00:14:35,799 we, as the people who pay the bill, let them get away with 188 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,360 it. I always say, whenever anything like this comes up and you're not 189 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,759 happy with it. Look in the mirror, who did you vote for, 190 00:14:43,799 --> 00:14:48,039 who did you support, how did you get involved in the electoral process. 191 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,879 There are a lot of people now who are complaining that we have Biden and 192 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,679 Trump again in a rematch, and what happened, what went wrong? What 193 00:14:54,720 --> 00:15:01,080 went wrong? Is not enough people really know how it work. And that 194 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,879 goes back to what I said before. Far more important than a thirty two 195 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:11,480 hour work week is supplying the money Wolfgang van Halen and one hundred thousand bucks 196 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:16,480 he just gave to provide musical instruments to school systems here and there. And 197 00:15:16,559 --> 00:15:20,039 then you go back to why do they need that? Well, because George 198 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:24,200 Bush decided that he was going to go to war with Iraq and borrowed three 199 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:31,240 trillion dollars and took another three trillion out of the government circulation of programs and 200 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:35,879 ideas, which included JIM classes and music classes and civics classes, so that 201 00:15:35,919 --> 00:15:43,679 all went down the tube as a result of what happened after the September eleventh. 202 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:48,840 It was like a domino effect and certainly didn't help one more thing that 203 00:15:48,919 --> 00:15:52,320 did not help America or Americans. So anyway, I mean, I can 204 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,720 go on with this. Here's a guy that worked a four day week, 205 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:03,159 ten hour shift. Let's see how many decades ago thirteen huh, I couldn't 206 00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:08,080 have been thirteen decades, may have been thirteen years ago. He loved it. 207 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,759 He said, no decrease in pay, and I chose to work over 208 00:16:12,879 --> 00:16:18,000 time on the fifth day I worked, but I got paid eight hours and 209 00:16:18,039 --> 00:16:25,000 overtime. So well, does it amount to having fewer people driving back and 210 00:16:25,039 --> 00:16:27,559 forth on the highways? Maybe that depends on where it is, much as 211 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:33,120 anything else. Here's a guy named Ed who says this could be an alternative 212 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:37,320 work schedule and be very effective. However, it's not what That's not what 213 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,000 we're looking at. What we're talking about is not what Sanders has proposed. 214 00:16:41,919 --> 00:16:45,679 He's saying, work for eight hour days and get paid for forty hours, 215 00:16:47,159 --> 00:16:52,120 which is not going to work for those of us who are employers. And 216 00:16:52,159 --> 00:16:55,240 I say that more or not for me, but for because I have a 217 00:16:55,240 --> 00:17:00,399 small shop and everybody works under different circumstances. But if you have hourly employees 218 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:04,680 and you expect them or they expect to get paid for a forty hour week 219 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:11,799 and the only working that's like getting a twenty percent raise. People that run 220 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,960 businesses are going to go for that. This will be squashed in two seconds. 221 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,680 Well what about the idea too, of which again it wouldn't work for 222 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:23,720 every industry, but the idea that you still work the same amount of days, 223 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:27,720 but it's split in part of the time you are at the office and 224 00:17:27,759 --> 00:17:30,960 then the other half of the time you work from home, like three days 225 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,359 in the office, two days at home, so you're still working all the 226 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,559 stars. And again it wouldn't work for every industry, Like there are just 227 00:17:37,559 --> 00:17:41,759 some jobs you cannot do at home. But if that is a position that 228 00:17:41,799 --> 00:17:45,640 you can, then why not that's still good. I feel like that would 229 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,640 still can thing of like the what the four day work week does? You 230 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:55,759 can't cookie cutter this. It's an individual. Every businesses are so much different. 231 00:17:56,039 --> 00:18:00,480 I mean, if I we have our conditions for work. Here, 232 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:04,480 James shows up at the studio at four o'clock in the morning and goes through 233 00:18:04,559 --> 00:18:08,920 and he's there until about ten, and then he can go off and do 234 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,640 other things, which he does. It's not required. He has to be 235 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,799 focused, though, paying attention to what we're doing on the air to make 236 00:18:15,839 --> 00:18:18,559 sure that it sounds the way it's supposed to sound. So there's a focus, 237 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:25,359 there's a concentration, there's a I can't leave my position for six hours 238 00:18:25,839 --> 00:18:30,559 and okay, so that's intense. And I suppose you could say the same. 239 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,839 I don't feel the same intensity. I don't know. You don't sound 240 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,799 like you have the same intensity, even though we are acutely aware of what's 241 00:18:37,839 --> 00:18:41,599 going on around us, and we talk about the things that are important in 242 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,319 the day, and that means that we have to be alert and attentive to 243 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,359 what's going on, and our minds and our mouths have to work together. 244 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,519 Is that tough for some people? It's impossible and the other day. Yes, 245 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:57,279 it's harder for some of us some days than others. Yeah, And 246 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:02,519 so in league with that, you know, I was talking to a friend 247 00:19:02,559 --> 00:19:07,440 of mine who's the city manager in my town of framing him yesterday about everybody 248 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,960 having come back to work. He was dead set on getting everybody, all 249 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:17,240 the staff back into the office five days a week. And so they've done 250 00:19:17,279 --> 00:19:23,000 that. They changed the policy here to have people work eight and a half 251 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:27,759 hour days Monday through Thursday. And then, excuse me, they work four 252 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,400 and a half hours on Friday, or is it five? Maybe it's five, 253 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,799 but it's thirty eight. I think it's thirty seven and a half or 254 00:19:34,839 --> 00:19:40,480 thirty eight hours a week. But that was something that's been in effect for 255 00:19:41,599 --> 00:19:47,279 quite a long time, and as such it seems to have worked. One 256 00:19:47,279 --> 00:19:52,599 of the things that they that isn't part of that situation the office is stay 257 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:57,400 open one night a week, and there are all of the meetings that people 258 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:02,799 the mayor's office have to go to several times a week, people on the 259 00:20:02,839 --> 00:20:06,839 staff, so it's kind of a different reality. By the time they've done, 260 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:11,119 most of the people, at least in quote unquote management, the people 261 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:15,240 that work in city Hall are there longer than thirty seven thirty eight hours. 262 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:21,559 Ninety two percent of companies have some kind of mandatory and polly in office policy 263 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:26,000 these days, and I think that's appropriate. I think if you feel if 264 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:30,079 it's your business and you feel like you want to have the people in the 265 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,119 office for whatever the reason, that's your call. It's not the employees call. 266 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,160 Now, they can go on strike, or they can quit, they 267 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:37,960 can go somewhere else, find that's up to them. But if it's your 268 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,279 business, you're running it. You tell them what you want them to do, 269 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:48,880 pretty strimp, straightforward. Don't think it sounds about right. Yeah, 270 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:57,640 I'm doing my dance with the things that kept me in the night. Everything 271 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,839 is blooming here. Uff's coming out of the ground like you wouldn't believe, 272 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:07,200 flowers, buds on trees, and it's like being the attack of the spider 273 00:21:07,279 --> 00:21:11,119 Man in terms of what it does for those of us who have allergies, 274 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,920 which people say, that's kind of crazy. You're on a farm and you 275 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,799 got allergies. I've had allergies to this stuff all my life, and not 276 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,240 as bad as my son, who were for three or four years in his 277 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,079 high school working on the farm. He would come break out in hives and 278 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:30,000 all kinds of stuff. Brendan, this doesn't work anymore. Hey Fever used 279 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,559 to really get him. There's always something so special about getting the gift of 280 00:21:33,599 --> 00:21:37,880 Omaha steaks. 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They're pure ground burgers, comfort classics, 290 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,680 and easy to prepare meals that are perfect for those busy weekday nights. 291 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,200 Plus, as an added bonus, you'll get eight free Omaha Steak burgers on 292 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:33,880 select packages when you shop at Omaha Steaks dot com slash dug. Focusing sometimes 293 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,720 on technology, which is the case right here, because everybody's talking about this 294 00:22:37,759 --> 00:22:42,920 House bipartisan bill that would force TikTok, the Chinese owner of TikTok to sell 295 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,720 the app or to be banned in the United States. The bill passed like 296 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:53,079 by huge margins, what was it three eighty to twenty or some night it 297 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:57,640 was really it was over. It is the first time these two parties, 298 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:03,720 these guys were gotten together for ages to go get the damned Chinese. And 299 00:23:03,759 --> 00:23:07,200 so now it goes to the Senate. There are some lawmakers there that are 300 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:15,279 posed. But aside from the people in California, the fate of TikTok seems 301 00:23:15,279 --> 00:23:21,079 to be sealed. It's owned by a company called byte Dance, and they 302 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:26,759 have to decide whether to sell all of it or maybe just the US part 303 00:23:26,799 --> 00:23:29,440 of the business. But wouldn't that be kind of messy, wouldn't you think 304 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,119 it would be hard to separate outlook on social media doesn't fix the bigger issue. 305 00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:38,279 It still doesn't fix the bigger issue of the data that is being collected, 306 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,680 which is also it's a similar way that Facebook, Instagram, X, 307 00:23:42,799 --> 00:23:45,799 all of those others. Google does the same thing. They sell it the 308 00:23:45,839 --> 00:23:51,119 data to the third parties. It's all happening. And even if yes, 309 00:23:51,319 --> 00:23:56,160 TikTok is Chinese own, but we also know that hackers can do anything that 310 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:02,240 they want to do, so the whole security issue bill isn't actually solved. 311 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:07,759 Yeah, there's an interesting article in the New York Times today. Jay the 312 00:24:07,839 --> 00:24:11,000 fellow who writes this article talks about this is way beyond my pay grade. 313 00:24:11,039 --> 00:24:18,519 TikTok's algorithms. He says he philosophizes based on his research that the algorithms are 314 00:24:18,559 --> 00:24:23,960 more of a security threat than who owns the company, which is probably true. 315 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,759 So if the wrong people still own it, they can do what they 316 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:30,400 do with the algorithms, and it'll take a while for people to figure that 317 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:36,599 out. So is this another simplistic approach by people who don't, excuse me, 318 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:41,079 really understand technology. So they've pushed this through because it's like one of 319 00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:45,519 those things, Hello, hit this target over here. It's big as the 320 00:24:45,559 --> 00:24:48,640 side of a barn, and they do, But do they really address the 321 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:55,519 problem? You ask the right question, and especially when it comes to Facebook. 322 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,480 Nobody likes Zuckerberg and nobody likes Facebook, yet we're all still on it. 323 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,039 So here's something for you to think about, folks. This is the 324 00:25:06,079 --> 00:25:08,920 story of a Facebook page belonging to a fella, a Matt Bell, who 325 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,880 is a chef in Nashville. You might even know this guy, Jay, 326 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:17,960 I mean lived in Nashville for as long as you did. He has filled 327 00:25:18,039 --> 00:25:22,599 up his Facebook posts with a focus on large sums of money that he's helped 328 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:30,559 people make off of crypto and so this you know, there are a lot 329 00:25:30,559 --> 00:25:36,440 of red flags. Apparently according to people who watch this stuff. Apparently mister 330 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:41,400 Bell is a very savvy businessman, and he figured out how he could get 331 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:47,640 people. He wasn't so interested in his restaurant as he was the cryptocurrency craze. 332 00:25:48,039 --> 00:25:53,559 So he started the process and some therapists looked at it and said, 333 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:59,720 this is really dangerous. Look out for this. The therapist spoke on the 334 00:25:59,799 --> 00:26:04,799 kiddition of anonymity, citing concerns that his reputation might be negatively affected. Doesn't 335 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:14,160 know he's exchanging messages with this guy who is a scammer who's taken over mister 336 00:26:14,319 --> 00:26:19,799 Bell's account, and so this guy has lost five thousand dollars so far that 337 00:26:19,839 --> 00:26:23,559 he put in. So that's why he's calling the attention everybody else do this 338 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:29,319 guy and trusted him thinking that this was him posting to his account, not 339 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,240 realizing because it seemed like it seemed like him not realizing that this was a 340 00:26:33,279 --> 00:26:37,759 scammer who hacked into the account and then they lost money. Yeah, there's 341 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:42,359 a lot of that stuff around. Stephen JJ Wiseman, who's an important part 342 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:48,920 of our broadcast week here on the program he contributes to the talk radio Countdown 343 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,799 show. 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