Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's up, guys? Welcome to another episode of the Parish Circuit. I'm Stuart Amadon. With me is David Riley. Hi, David.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:00:06] Speaker A: Are you getting sad in the evenings in winter?
Do you feel as though the day just comes to a close too soon sometimes in February?
David, do you wish that you could just go outside and cut your grass real quick after you get home from work at 5 o'? Clock?
[00:00:27] Speaker B: The grass doesn't grow in the winter. Oh, Stuart.
[00:00:30] Speaker A: Well, this is Louisiana, so maybe fall.
[00:00:33] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: Do you ever feel like that?
[00:00:35] Speaker B: You're talking to the wrong guy, though, because I actually grew up in Northwest Washington where in the winter it was dark at 3. First off, it would rain for 90 days straight in the winter and it would be pitch black by 4 in the afternoon.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: Nice in the winter, so you don't even care.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: But then it'd be light till 10pm in the middle of the summer.
[00:00:59] Speaker A: Wow. Yeah, that's.
That sounds awful. Actually now I think that that sounds terrible.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: I know growing up it was great because you loved it because we had summers off and stuff. I mean, as a.
If I was, like, working all summer in a. In a desk job, what if I
[00:01:12] Speaker A: told you that you could get close to that here in the wintertime? What if I told you that I could. I could make your days longer? David, would you be interested in that proposition?
[00:01:26] Speaker B: Stuart, that reminds me of a quote by an anonymous Native American chief who once said, only the government would think that it can take a piece of a blanket and put it at the bottom and call it longer.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: Well, let me tell you about the blanket that we're about to try to move.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: That's an actual quote, by the way.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: That's a wonderful quote. Thank you. I'm glad that you had that.
[00:01:53] Speaker B: I butchered it. I wasn't read. But that is the gist of.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: Only the government would think that you could make it blanket longer by taping it lower, basically. Right. Is that what he's saying?
[00:02:02] Speaker B: Well, he's saying, like, you cut a strip off one end and put it on the other end.
[00:02:05] Speaker A: Oh, and now it's longer. Yeah. So if you haven't caught on already, we're talking about daylight savings time.
I know. This is a really spicy episode.
[00:02:14] Speaker B: No, look, okay, so this could just be. Do you think the government is just trying to distract us by this?
[00:02:21] Speaker A: I haven't heard anything about Iran in a while. You know, like, in all seriousness, what's going on in Iran?
Yes.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: We're not talking about the Strait of Hormuz, but we are talking About Daylight savings, which is in line with our goal here at the Parish Circuit to talk about things that relate more, you know, directly to you. Though I suppose Strait of Hormuz does affect the gas prices.
[00:02:44] Speaker A: Oh, it does. And it also affects oil, which is a major industry for us. Major industry.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: So we could be talking about that too, I guess.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: But let's not get off topic. Let's not get off topic. We got to talk about Daylight Savings time. So what's happening? It just passed the House, right?
[00:02:56] Speaker B: All right.
Yes. It passed house on Tuesday. Tuesday passed the House. So if it passes the Senate, we have no doubt that Donald Trump will sign it into law, because he's been.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: He's already said that he will about this.
[00:03:08] Speaker B: This is one of the things, like he ran on.
[00:03:10] Speaker A: We're gonna fix daylight savings.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: Not a major thing.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: Where's the Epstein list?
[00:03:15] Speaker B: Yeah, but no, so. So this, I don't know, this will probably go through.
And personally, I'm excited about it.
[00:03:22] Speaker A: It's hard for me to not be cynical about this.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: You said, who cares? But I, I got legitimately excited when I saw this. I hate having to change the clock. Not that I actually have to physically do that anymore.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: That's fair.
[00:03:34] Speaker B: I just hate the, the nights, whether, whichever way it goes, that you have to worry about the time change.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: Which ones have. Am I going to be tired tomorrow or well rested? Yeah, that's my question every year.
[00:03:43] Speaker B: Right. And then you got to adjust to the different light, whether it's later or early or whatever. And yeah, I'm just like, why, why,
[00:03:50] Speaker A: why change it all?
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Why?
[00:03:51] Speaker A: Why did we do this? Like, why did we do this?
Whose idea with this?
[00:03:56] Speaker B: World War I. Oh, I thought this
[00:03:58] Speaker A: was Benjamin Franklin's idea.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: No, no. He might have had a quote related to something, you know, to do with. He had some advice to the Parisians that they should, you know, wake up earlier.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: The Parisians? Well, of course, the French would need to hear that.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: Something like that.
[00:04:13] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right. French.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: He wasn't actually. He wasn't actually advocating for a government controlled system of telling you when to set your clock.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: But no. So this happened with World War I in the United States. 1918 was the first, which is right at the, you know, tail in there of World War I. Okay. They implemented daylight savings. The goal was to help farmers in World War I. Yes.
[00:04:35] Speaker A: Really?
[00:04:36] Speaker B: Well, part of it was farm farming related.
The later sunlight would allow basically later work in the fields, things like that. They also theorized that it would help with fuel consumption. Because basically if you are sleeping more during the dark hours and you're simply, you know, staying up without having to worry about as much lighting and stuff like that.
I think that was the theory. You would consume less, you know, oil or gas, whatever. Electricity.
[00:05:09] Speaker A: I just don't understand. I don't understand how there's literally the same amount of hours in the day. Right.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: Yeah. I've always thought.
I know farmers change your schedule slightly, like wake up a little earlier or later, you know.
[00:05:22] Speaker A: Yeah. So farmers wake up and get to work when they can see to do the work, and they now work into the night when they can't see, and they work until it's done. Like, I don't. Like. I know farmers. Farmers are not sitting there and saying, man, if somebody would move these clocks, it would be way better for us.
[00:05:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Now that you say that, I mean, that's been the, like, that's been part of the discussion the whole time for the last 108 years. Wow. Since this first happened, farmers. Okay. And apparently there's some of the ones who are resisting this, this shift now, away from it. Well, but I think it comes down to this is where I'm just kind of speculating a little bit or guessing it was either I forget which way they're going because there's the two decisions or there's the two options. We can either go back to normal time, which would be where it's darker earlier.
[00:06:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:14] Speaker B: Or we can stay in daylight savings time, which means it's lighter later.
And that's what this vote is. That's. That's the direction we're going. It sounds like.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: Where we stay as it is now and don't go back. We never go back to normal time.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay.
[00:06:29] Speaker B: We'll have successfully achieved time travel as a nation later.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: Lighter later.
Time frame.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I like it. It's light until like 8 o' clock at night.
I enjoy that. Yeah. I enjoyed that when I was a kid. I'd go ride my bike like crazy. I had a great time.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: It's like, wow, I can still play outside.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: I think this is most people's preference. Yeah, Most people's preference.
[00:06:54] Speaker A: But not the farmers, apparently, again.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: And maybe they're in favor of this one, but not the other option. I forget, though.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Oh, okay. They're in favor of something.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: They're in favor of one.
[00:07:01] Speaker A: People have opinions.
[00:07:02] Speaker B: One of them.
[00:07:03] Speaker A: All right, so if you had to pick one, David, which one are you picking?
[00:07:05] Speaker B: Lighter later.
[00:07:06] Speaker A: Lighter later. Stay daylight savings.
[00:07:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:09] Speaker A: But keep it like you hope the vote passes, in other words.
[00:07:12] Speaker B: Yes. Now, again, mostly just cause. Just so that there's no changes. That's mostly what I'm concerned about.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: Cause we're in daylight savings now.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't care actually too much about whether it was the regular or daylight savings. I just don't want the clocks to change twice a year. That's just stupid.
[00:07:26] Speaker A: Got it. Now, I did see one thing that was interesting.
There was a meteorologist. I can't remember who he was. And he posted on the socials and he said, hey guys, listen, if we do this, you got to recognize that in the winter he's like a local meteorologist, like in the Louisiana Gulf south area. He was like, if you do this in the wintertime, the latest sunrise you'll ever have will be after 8:00am it's like 8:05. 8:05am Will be sunrise. Does everybody know that or.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: Oh, that's latest or earliest.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: That's the latest sunrise. In other words, the sun.
[00:08:02] Speaker B: That's how bad it's gonna get.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: That's how far it will be. Pushed the other direction.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's legit. There's one.
One of the.
[00:08:07] Speaker A: I wonder that'll do to people.
I wonder what that'll do. I don't know.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: One of the arguments I heard against this was that they were referencing winter and like kids who have to walk to school and then stuff like that. That. Especially not in Louisiana, but in northern states here it might be an 8am sunrise. In northern Minnesota, you know, it might be like a 9:30am sunrise or something like that.
And so that's, you know, I think there's something.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: You shouldn't live in northern Minnesota anyway.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: There's some beautiful lakes up there.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: I'm sure there are Rent.
Sounds like a great vacation spot. Isn't that where like you throw the water outside in wintertime and it just turns into snow before it hits the ground?
That just sounds terrifying to me. I'm just not built for it. Give me Louisiana all day. I'm happy here. So.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: Hmm.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: If I had to pick one, I'd probably be with you. I'd probably say, yeah, let's just keep it. Give me the late. Give me the late days. Give me the days with sun until 8:30 at night. That sounds wonderful. Or 8:30 at day, I should say.
Yep.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: Yeah. No, I agree. But I think, yeah. That there, there's been some, you know, evolution of this over the decades. They. They got rid of it after World War I. One of the few times that the government did something by law, and then once it was no longer necessary or it was no longer perceived to be necessary, they just took it right back.
[00:09:31] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: If only they would do that with taxes, Income tax.
[00:09:34] Speaker A: That would be wonderful.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: Same legislature were the ones that put in, like, the income tax.
[00:09:39] Speaker A: Yeah, they got rid of the daylight savings stuff, but they said, no, let us keep the taxes.
Yeah, it was. It was that same legislature. Don't worry, guys. Well, that's a whole other episode.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: I know. Don't get us started on Woodrow Wilson.
[00:09:53] Speaker A: We should do a special episode one day just on Woodrow.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: Yeah, well, we'd have to, like, hit the. Get the sound effects going, though, with, like, a boo and hiss every time we say Woodrow Wilson.
[00:10:04] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. Amazing.
[00:10:07] Speaker A: Preloaded.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: First time ever on the parish circuit.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: Sound effects up and to the right. Well, guys, thank y' all so much for listening to this episode. If you got questions or things that you would like us to also discuss, you can go to theparishcircuit.com, reach out to us via contact form, hit us up on Facebook. We would love to hear from you. Thank you so much for listening, and we'll see you next time.
