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do you want the Senate to pass a bill for a shorter work week.
There's a revived effort to make a shorter work week the new norm the law
of the land, and it was introduced by none other than Senator Bernie Sanders.
It will sow that that does work, it is more productive when other
places have tried it out. I just don't think that it is a viable
option for all industries. If that means I think you are correct. So
one size does not fit all. It's like a minimum wage, one amount
does not fit all. There are some companies that can get by or do
with a lower minimum wage because of what they do, what they sell,
what they have, and then there are other companies that need to have more
people paying better attention to what they're doing. I find that it's not the
hours and that it makes I'm not, as you know very well having been
with me for a while, I'm not a clockwatcher. I think that's very
anti productive. So you look at you're watching. Okay, it's eight o'clock,
let's start, and then at six o'clock at six o'clock, let's stop.
And what have you done in between? It isn't so much that there
is productivity or a lack thereof. It's that you focused on the clock more
than you have your work, which means to me, you don't really like
what you do. And so to go one step further, if you don't
like what you do, you should go get another job, go find And
then people say, oh, it's easier said than done. Nah, I
don't think it is. I think it'll be really a focused anyway. Really,
the reason behind Bernie Sanders coming up with this, he'd, by the
way, is chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor,
and Pensions, is that workers are four hundred percent more productive than they were
in the nineteen forties. That's pretty broad general statement that isn't really true.
There are many people who are very productive, more so than ever, motivated
by their own their way of thinking. They're motivated because they want to do
a good job, or they want to get paid more or whatever. A
little of all of those all the above, and so I think, as
usual with Bernie Sanders, it's his way or the highway, and he'll look
at you and yell at you and tell you that if you don't believe what
he tells you, then you're wrong, which of course is not a great
way to get things passed. But anyway, I find all of this focus
on this cookie cutter solution to stuff. We have to do this because of
that that doesn't it may work for some people. Yeah, it's like a
four percent interest rate on a credit card that may be too much for some
people to pay, and twenty four percent it may even be okay with some
people, because everybody's got a different way of looking at things, different way
of using money, different way of paying things back, and the same I
think holds for work. Be he's a socialist and this is a socialistic idea,
and as you've said, it does work depending on if you go to
France, there's sound companies or Spain is pretty well known for having a thirty
two hour work week. I'm trying to think of what they do in Italy.
I don't think they there's a hard and past rule in Italy a lot
more they also practice a better work life balance too, like once they are
once they leave their job, they don't still answer phone calls or emails or
anything like that. They don't have what do you do for a living?
Is not part of small talk when you are at gatherings. They do actice
more regularly that work life balance where I feel like it's gotten lost here because
for the most part, we were always told, well, this is your
job, and even though the hours maybe from this time to this time,
you still have to be available after hours. You still if there's something that
needs to be done, you have to you have to stay longer and do
it because that's part of your job. But not everywhere has overtime pay.
Well, that may be, but if you don't want to do, somebody
else waiting and we'll hire them instead. Like that mentality, there's some truth
to that. It depends on the industry, depends on the job, tends
on what you're trying to get done. But thirty two hours out of one
hundred and sixty eight is one fifth of the week, So that means four
fifths of the week would not be spent working, it would be spent in
recreation, it was be spent in sleeping. It would be spending things other
again, using this formula other than work, I think many of us and
that's why I find this a little difficult. Many of us, or many
of you, many of us are motivated in our lives by our work.
And if you like your work and you like what you do, then you
should have the opportunity to work at it as much as you want. If
you don't like and the boss is saying you must do this, and then
maybe that's the that's the formula. Maybe that's the way to look at it.
It still is, you know, I guess I wonder whether this thing
really has a chance to be passed, is it? Or can it be
a law? Can it really? Can he get it through? It could
be, but again it would have to come with stipulations, because this is
just not feasible for every single industry. No, it isn't. It's like
the farming industry, of which I know a great deal. All of the
labor laws that have been put into effect to affect agriculture have not worked.
As a matter of fact, in many cases they worked against the well being
of fun and the people that work on the farms. The farm income is
down partially because of the rules and regulations that have been put forth by the
federal government, and it's another way of screwing over the food supply. But
people don't look at deeply into some of these things, especially the folks that
come from California. There are a couple of people in California who are as
socialistic as he is, because that seems to be the heart of socialism,
these parts of California are. And so here's a couple of supporters. There
are those who want They want this because they want it. They don't give
you a reason for it. So an example of some group of people,
let's take flight attendants for example. They work on average thirty two hours a
week, and that's a high number for many or most of them. Now
you can say, well, what does the thirty two hours mean? In
some circumstances. It used to mean up to wheels down. Now it means
when you're in the plane for the most part. And the average pay for
it depends on your seniority, really and the airline business, it really does.
Seniority is everything, and so you get paid. Some of the flight
attendants make forty five fifty bucks an hour. It's like pilots. Some of
the younger pilots that are flying for the regional airlines, again, they average
about well. Some of the regional airline pilots average more time than the pilots
that work for the bigger airlines, the ones that we all know Delta America,
and those guys, depending on the size of the plane, they're paid
by the size of the pain the plane, the passenger load, how much
they are carrying in cargo, that sort of thing. And there are many
who make one hundred and fifty, one hundred and seventy, you know,
in that range, depending on where they're flying and what kind of a plane
they're flying. And then the guys that fly the big planes, guys women
now are they're four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. I'd rather have
some guy flying the planes making four hundred grand a year kind of guy who's
making forty I'll tell you that for sure. I'd rather have somebody had gray
hair flying the plane and somebody who's you know, looks like you just got
out of college. But that's just me. And but there's so many differences
I'm trying to point them, trying to make is that it is a it's
a union thing in some respects. If you have a union, it's up
to them to determine how many hours a week you work and or how you
to ratify whatever contract does agree to and how much you get paid. So
anyway, well we'll sort of see. There are a lot of comments I'm
sure that will come from this as it continues to unfold, focusing now on
social media. Things that are trending names mostly in the news, and Eddie
van Halen is in that list today, not because he's still with us,
because he's not still with us, right, didn't he pass away like a
twenty twenty. So his son has done something that sort of puts the van
Halen name back into the search light, if you will, And so we're
going to talk about what he did is pretty beneficial and pretty good idea frankly,
as a charity supported that had been supported by Eddie van Halen, now
his son Wolfgang has sent one hundred grand two. They want to launch a
special program that supports public schools acquiring instrument by instrumentation, if you will,
instruments for their music program, which of course is something that's been boggled and
bungled by the federal government under George Bush. They needed money to fight the
people that didn't need to be fought in Iraq. So that screwed over a
lot of programs like music programs, his ed programs, Civics programs, that
sort of thing. And so for decades now there's been a whole and this
has been a heated debate a lot not by people who know anything about school
and education, but by people who are fairly ignorant about saying so along comes
mister van Halen, who's stepping up now to ensure educators who are on board
with him understanding the power of music and how it does such great things and
it brings us great pleasure. And it also is something the gift that people
have students who can play a instrument anything, or who can sing. It's
huge. And not every family can afford to buy the instrument, and that's
the way a lot of times schools will supply them. But then if schools
don't even have the funding to get these instruments. And that's what's just so
great about what Wolfgang ben Halen is doing is because he is making sure that
a lot of these all these schools has something he's working with mister Holland's Opus
Foundation and also launched the Adopt a School campaign where he's not just putting his
money where his mouth is, he's also urging other people to help funding as
well and get this kickstart charity going. It really is great when you think
about that, mister Hall. Remember that movie Richard Dreyfus was the teacher Drivesy
That movie I did. It was a very good movie. Oh yeah,
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having something that is different oftentimes puts people off, like the just to go
back for a few minutes to the thirty two hour workweek that's been proposed by
somebody who's never had a job that had to work thirty two hours a week,
I mean, Bernie Sanders. I was looking at some of the comments
that came from some of the people that quickly weighed in. Here here's the
guy who says, about eight minutes ago, how can a man who has
never run a business run a payroll, been responsible for employees and any other
thing that comes from running business to be expected to produce anything other than a
benefit for himself, which is kind of an interesting way of looking at it.
He believes in government only solutions, which is not a great way.
How do people, I guess my question would be how do people get that
way? How do you? How is it that you think that that's the
way to fix problems. It's like throwing the government throws money at everything,
right, can't fix it? Spend more money, buy more buses, buy
But does that fix it? No? Well, the whole thing like money
can't fix your problems. And that's true, and they cannot fix your problems
unless your problems are money related problems like money can't buy me love. Richard
says, leave it to a politician to suggest something they have been avoiding for
decades, yet getting paid handsomely for doing it. That is an honest week's
work. There are a lot of people and they leave themselves open for this,
the people who are in Congress and the Senate, because they treat themselves
differently. They have different benefits, different circumstances. It's a club, and
we, as the people who pay the bill, let them get away with
it. I always say, whenever anything like this comes up and you're not
happy with it. Look in the mirror, who did you vote for,
who did you support, how did you get involved in the electoral process.
There are a lot of people now who are complaining that we have Biden and
Trump again in a rematch, and what happened, what went wrong? What
went wrong? Is not enough people really know how it work. And that
goes back to what I said before. Far more important than a thirty two
hour work week is supplying the money Wolfgang van Halen and one hundred thousand bucks
he just gave to provide musical instruments to school systems here and there. And
then you go back to why do they need that? Well, because George
Bush decided that he was going to go to war with Iraq and borrowed three
trillion dollars and took another three trillion out of the government circulation of programs and
ideas, which included JIM classes and music classes and civics classes, so that
all went down the tube as a result of what happened after the September eleventh.
It was like a domino effect and certainly didn't help one more thing that
did not help America or Americans. So anyway, I mean, I can
go on with this. Here's a guy that worked a four day week,
ten hour shift. Let's see how many decades ago thirteen huh, I couldn't
have been thirteen decades, may have been thirteen years ago. He loved it.
He said, no decrease in pay, and I chose to work over
time on the fifth day I worked, but I got paid eight hours and
overtime. So well, does it amount to having fewer people driving back and
forth on the highways? Maybe that depends on where it is, much as
anything else. Here's a guy named Ed who says this could be an alternative
work schedule and be very effective. However, it's not what That's not what
we're looking at. What we're talking about is not what Sanders has proposed.
He's saying, work for eight hour days and get paid for forty hours,
which is not going to work for those of us who are employers. And
I say that more or not for me, but for because I have a
small shop and everybody works under different circumstances. But if you have hourly employees
and you expect them or they expect to get paid for a forty hour week
and the only working that's like getting a twenty percent raise. People that run
businesses are going to go for that. This will be squashed in two seconds.
Well what about the idea too, of which again it wouldn't work for
every industry, but the idea that you still work the same amount of days,
but it's split in part of the time you are at the office and
then the other half of the time you work from home, like three days
in the office, two days at home, so you're still working all the
stars. And again it wouldn't work for every industry, Like there are just
some jobs you cannot do at home. But if that is a position that
you can, then why not that's still good. I feel like that would
still can thing of like the what the four day work week does? You
can't cookie cutter this. It's an individual. Every businesses are so much different.
I mean, if I we have our conditions for work. Here,
James shows up at the studio at four o'clock in the morning and goes through
and he's there until about ten, and then he can go off and do
other things, which he does. It's not required. He has to be
focused, though, paying attention to what we're doing on the air to make
sure that it sounds the way it's supposed to sound. So there's a focus,
there's a concentration, there's a I can't leave my position for six hours
and okay, so that's intense. And I suppose you could say the same.
I don't feel the same intensity. I don't know. You don't sound
like you have the same intensity, even though we are acutely aware of what's
going on around us, and we talk about the things that are important in
the day, and that means that we have to be alert and attentive to
what's going on, and our minds and our mouths have to work together.
Is that tough for some people? It's impossible and the other day. Yes,
it's harder for some of us some days than others. Yeah, And
so in league with that, you know, I was talking to a friend
of mine who's the city manager in my town of framing him yesterday about everybody
having come back to work. He was dead set on getting everybody, all
the staff back into the office five days a week. And so they've done
that. They changed the policy here to have people work eight and a half
hour days Monday through Thursday. And then, excuse me, they work four
and a half hours on Friday, or is it five? Maybe it's five,
but it's thirty eight. I think it's thirty seven and a half or
thirty eight hours a week. But that was something that's been in effect for
quite a long time, and as such it seems to have worked. One
of the things that they that isn't part of that situation the office is stay
open one night a week, and there are all of the meetings that people
the mayor's office have to go to several times a week, people on the
staff, so it's kind of a different reality. By the time they've done,
most of the people, at least in quote unquote management, the people
that work in city Hall are there longer than thirty seven thirty eight hours.
Ninety two percent of companies have some kind of mandatory and polly in office policy
these days, and I think that's appropriate. I think if you feel if
it's your business and you feel like you want to have the people in the
office for whatever the reason, that's your call. It's not the employees call.
Now, they can go on strike, or they can quit, they
can go somewhere else, find that's up to them. But if it's your
business, you're running it. You tell them what you want them to do,
pretty strimp, straightforward. Don't think it sounds about right. Yeah,
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on technology, which is the case right here, because everybody's talking about this
House bipartisan bill that would force TikTok, the Chinese owner of TikTok to sell
the app or to be banned in the United States. The bill passed like
by huge margins, what was it three eighty to twenty or some night it
was really it was over. It is the first time these two parties,
these guys were gotten together for ages to go get the damned Chinese. And
so now it goes to the Senate. There are some lawmakers there that are
posed. But aside from the people in California, the fate of TikTok seems
to be sealed. It's owned by a company called byte Dance, and they
have to decide whether to sell all of it or maybe just the US part
of the business. But wouldn't that be kind of messy, wouldn't you think
it would be hard to separate outlook on social media doesn't fix the bigger issue.
It still doesn't fix the bigger issue of the data that is being collected,
which is also it's a similar way that Facebook, Instagram, X,
all of those others. Google does the same thing. They sell it the
data to the third parties. It's all happening. And even if yes,
TikTok is Chinese own, but we also know that hackers can do anything that
they want to do, so the whole security issue bill isn't actually solved.
Yeah, there's an interesting article in the New York Times today. Jay the
fellow who writes this article talks about this is way beyond my pay grade.
TikTok's algorithms. He says he philosophizes based on his research that the algorithms are
more of a security threat than who owns the company, which is probably true.
So if the wrong people still own it, they can do what they
do with the algorithms, and it'll take a while for people to figure that
out. So is this another simplistic approach by people who don't, excuse me,
really understand technology. So they've pushed this through because it's like one of
those things, Hello, hit this target over here. It's big as the
side of a barn, and they do, But do they really address the
problem? You ask the right question, and especially when it comes to Facebook.
Nobody likes Zuckerberg and nobody likes Facebook, yet we're all still on it.
So here's something for you to think about, folks. This is the
story of a Facebook page belonging to a fella, a Matt Bell, who
is a chef in Nashville. You might even know this guy, Jay,
I mean lived in Nashville for as long as you did. He has filled
up his Facebook posts with a focus on large sums of money that he's helped
people make off of crypto and so this you know, there are a lot
of red flags. Apparently according to people who watch this stuff. Apparently mister
Bell is a very savvy businessman, and he figured out how he could get
people. He wasn't so interested in his restaurant as he was the cryptocurrency craze.
So he started the process and some therapists looked at it and said,
this is really dangerous. Look out for this. The therapist spoke on the
kiddition of anonymity, citing concerns that his reputation might be negatively affected. Doesn't
know he's exchanging messages with this guy who is a scammer who's taken over mister
Bell's account, and so this guy has lost five thousand dollars so far that
he put in. So that's why he's calling the attention everybody else do this
guy and trusted him thinking that this was him posting to his account, not
realizing because it seemed like it seemed like him not realizing that this was a
scammer who hacked into the account and then they lost money. Yeah, there's
a lot of that stuff around. Stephen JJ Wiseman, who's an important part
of our broadcast week here on the program he contributes to the talk radio Countdown
show. Money is a focus of all evil and he will happily warn you
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