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Hey, it's Bubba. Hey Bubba. Bubba on the lake. Bubba, Bubba on the lake. Jay's got it going on. Gotta come and check this. Talking people, talking places From Bubba's perspective. This is Bubba, Bubba, Bubba, Bubba, Bubba on the lake. Hey. Hello, hello, hello and welcome back to Bubba on the Lake. I am your semi retired, mostly washed up host, formerly the Rick and Bubba Show, Bill Bubba Bussy. I want to take just a minute before we start today and say a special thank you for all of the very kind emails, text comments on various social media about the first episode and being back out there so to speak. Very, very thoughtful, very, very kind and Betty and I both were very much touched by it. Thank you. That did mean a lot and we appreciate it. As a matter of fact there's somebody, you know sending another one right then. It's the gift of encouragement. We talked a little bit about it. It's very important and some of you have a gift for it and we really, really appreciate it. Alright, I want to get right into what's going on this week as we're recording this podcast. We set the clocks forward again. As we sprang forward we lost an hour and this thing, we have ranted about this for gosh, 40 years now and to no good. We're still tampering with the clocks twice a year and to me it's just an absolute no brainer. I want to stay on daylight savings time year round period. I don't mind the sun being up at 8:30. I do mind being in total darkness at 4:30 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 4:30. I have relatives that live in Texas, I have spoken with them. Doesn't get dark there in December to 6:30 which is totally acceptable because the seasons cause more and less light anyway. But they 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 5050 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, but couldn't we just land on that 30 minutes split the difference, we'll call it even if we're not going to get a win. Really. The wind to me is not the time, even though I hate being dark at 4:30 in December. However, 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 a 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 attacks, strokes and other ailments that send you to the emergency room goes up by 24%. Okay? Heart attacks, strokes, those kind of things. 24% increase the day after we tamper with the clock in the spring, when you get. Or when you. 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 overnight, 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, 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 got plenty. I cannot believe that this is still on the table.