Scott Yates

I'm the leader of the Lock the Clock movement, trying to stop people from having to change the clocks twice a year.

People in general like that extra hour of sunlight, but for some people, it's really deadly. Traffic accidents go up, strokes, heart attacks. More people actually just die in the few days after the spring-forward time change. Wow.

There really isn't any argument to change the clock twice a year.

No, the whole story about the farmers, it's the biggest PR con job ever. The farmers have always been against changing the clocks for daylight saving time. And they've been like, hey, stop blaming us. We don't have anything to do with this.

Daylight Saving Times. No S's. Daylight Saving Time.

Well, it was first proposed here in the United States by a retailer that found that if there's more sunlight, people would have more time to shop.

Well, he came up with the name Daylight Saving Time, but it actually started during World War I. The Germans started doing it, and then the Brits, and then the U.S. fell into it after that. It was called wartime.

After the war, we stopped doing it because everybody hated it. And then in the 60s, the golf industry became a really big industry. So golf lobbyists were able to convince politicians that we should have Daylight Saving Time so that there's more time to play golf after work.

Yeah, that's right. They make hundreds of millions of dollars for every extra month that the country is in Daylight Saving Time. And then the candy lobbyists went to Congress and said, we should have Daylight Saving Time extend into the first weekend of November. And that way, on Halloween, they sell more candy.

Things are actually really improving. There's a bill that has both Republican and Democrat support to actually make the change to the law so that the states can go on permanent daylight saving time.

It's totally bipartisan.

Well, the basic idea of time is really just an agreement. We all have to come together to decide when 10 a.m. is. And that agreement shouldn't kill people.

What? Uh, can I go now?