Bill Bubba Bussey
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I want to stay on daylight savings time year-round, period. I don't mind the sun being up at 830. I do mind being in total darkness at 430 in December. I've mentioned this many times before, but just to recap. We are the easternmost state in Central Time Zone. So in December, it gets dark at 430. I have relatives that live in Texas. I have spoken with them.
Doesn't get dark there in December to 630, which is totally acceptable because the seasons cause more and less light anyway. But there are people that don't like this idea, apparently. I don't know who they are. I run into one every now and then. But even President Trump called it a 50-50 issue. So I want to bring this forward.
Doesn't get dark there in December to 630, which is totally acceptable because the seasons cause more and less light anyway. But there are people that don't like this idea, apparently. I don't know who they are. I run into one every now and then. But even President Trump called it a 50-50 issue. So I want to bring this forward.
In the art of negotiation, why don't we move it forward 30 minutes, call it even, and never change the clock again? Anyone? Anybody? Anybody on board with that? We can work this out. Matter of fact, there's more votes coming in as we speak. I really don't know why it's doing that or how. Trying to find that button. I'm not even sure what's beeping in here now.
In the art of negotiation, why don't we move it forward 30 minutes, call it even, and never change the clock again? Anyone? Anybody? Anybody on board with that? We can work this out. Matter of fact, there's more votes coming in as we speak. I really don't know why it's doing that or how. Trying to find that button. I'm not even sure what's beeping in here now.
But couldn't we just land on that 30 minutes, split the difference, we'll call it even. Uh, if we're not going to get a win, really the win to me is not the time, even though I hate being dark at four 30 in December, it's changing the clocks twice a year. A lot of the clocks change themselves now, and that is just dandy, but there's a lot of them that don't.
But couldn't we just land on that 30 minutes, split the difference, we'll call it even. Uh, if we're not going to get a win, really the win to me is not the time, even though I hate being dark at four 30 in December, it's changing the clocks twice a year. A lot of the clocks change themselves now, and that is just dandy, but there's a lot of them that don't.
And a lot of them apparently at my house are in difficult places to get to and require ladders. So it's just it takes you a year or an hour, I should say, twice a year to get all these things set. And look, folks, there's more to this than we just think it's a bad idea. Everybody kind of gets that feeling when you change the clock.
And a lot of them apparently at my house are in difficult places to get to and require ladders. So it's just it takes you a year or an hour, I should say, twice a year to get all these things set. And look, folks, there's more to this than we just think it's a bad idea. Everybody kind of gets that feeling when you change the clock.
And there's a reason if you look at the stats and there's a lot of studies on this. But I will say the middle of the road is that when we lose an hour, when we lose an hour in the fall, heart attack, strokes, and other ailments that send you to the emergency room goes up by 24%. Okay? Heart attack, strokes, those kind of things, 24% increase. Okay? the day after we tamper with the clock.
And there's a reason if you look at the stats and there's a lot of studies on this. But I will say the middle of the road is that when we lose an hour, when we lose an hour in the fall, heart attack, strokes, and other ailments that send you to the emergency room goes up by 24%. Okay? Heart attack, strokes, those kind of things, 24% increase. Okay? the day after we tamper with the clock.
In the spring, when you would add an hour the other time of the year, you actually have 21% less problems at the emergency room. So, when you, I'm even confused now, are we spring forward? In the fall, we fall back, we lose an hour. In the fall, the problem actually goes down 21%. See how confusing it is? It's just a nightmare.
In the spring, when you would add an hour the other time of the year, you actually have 21% less problems at the emergency room. So, when you, I'm even confused now, are we spring forward? In the fall, we fall back, we lose an hour. In the fall, the problem actually goes down 21%. See how confusing it is? It's just a nightmare.
And when I used to work in the TV business and had to work overnights, when 2 o'clock hit, it was total confusion. You didn't know you had to go back and relive an hour. You had to miss an hour. I can only imagine the problem that the airline people have when this happens. What a nightmare. They've already got to deal with time zones. Now you're shifting the time zones.
And when I used to work in the TV business and had to work overnights, when 2 o'clock hit, it was total confusion. You didn't know you had to go back and relive an hour. You had to miss an hour. I can only imagine the problem that the airline people have when this happens. What a nightmare. They've already got to deal with time zones. Now you're shifting the time zones.
What about people, and I know this firsthand from my wife, Betty, being a former nurse, the fact of people giving medicine in the hospital. You're supposed to get your medicine every four hours. Oh, my gosh. Don't you know that's a head-scratcher? I mean, the nurses have this pattern down, and now they shift it an hour, one way or the other. Y'all, it's so archaic. I really can't believe...
What about people, and I know this firsthand from my wife, Betty, being a former nurse, the fact of people giving medicine in the hospital. You're supposed to get your medicine every four hours. Oh, my gosh. Don't you know that's a head-scratcher? I mean, the nurses have this pattern down, and now they shift it an hour, one way or the other. Y'all, it's so archaic. I really can't believe...
along with this gender argument, that we're still even discussing these. There's plenty of other problems out there we can fight about, argue about, debate. We're not going to run out of issues, folks. We've got plenty. I cannot believe that this is still on the table. It's just bizarre to me. I can't get over it.
along with this gender argument, that we're still even discussing these. There's plenty of other problems out there we can fight about, argue about, debate. We're not going to run out of issues, folks. We've got plenty. I cannot believe that this is still on the table. It's just bizarre to me. I can't get over it.
I thought for sure we would solve this in my lifetime, and here we are, tampering with the clock again. And I don't know about y'all. I got one on the microwave. It's a nightmare. That thing, I mean, it's like trying to solve Rubik's Cube to set the clock. I mean, didn't you like that, Dandy Don? So, yeah, it's just, can we consensus? I'm good. 30 minutes. I'm good.