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Outside/In

32 Is the New 40

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The 40-hour workweek is as American as apple pie, and it’s been around almost as long. So, is it finally time to re-think our Monday-through-Friday lifestyle? With modern mechanization and automation, should we all have more leisure time? And what would that mean for the environment? Producer Jimmy Gutierrez looks into the history of work culture, where it’s being challenged, and makes the argument that we ALL should be working less, you know, to save the planet.  Sign up for our newsletter Find more Outside/In at outsideinradio.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning. The house passed a set of bills to reopen the government but with no money for a border wall.

0:05.0

Hey, there I am. I forgot the plug in my headphones.

0:10.0

Hey, Wirl, this is producer Jimmy Gutierrez and I recorded myself one early

0:16.8

early morning a few weeks ago on a hunch. So I'm here early in the morning and I

0:21.7

just want to check out two Pillsbury Street and I want to see how much energy we're wasting and I want to see how Sam Evans Brown feels about it.

0:30.0

How would you describe the office building at two Pillsbury Street it is a new

0:36.8

nondescript rectangle it's just a chunk of chunk of brick.

0:43.0

Yeah. It's not like Soviet Russia, but it's not, you know, it's not interesting.

0:48.0

So what do you think goes on in there when no one's around?

0:51.0

I can only imagine.

0:53.8

Parties?

0:54.8

Dance parties.

0:55.8

Dance parties.

0:56.8

Standing in the parking lot from the sixth floor,

0:58.5

it looks like the entire newsroom all the lights are still on. Which is cool, because that means they've just been chilling like that for the entire night.

1:08.0

So I went inside of our Nautescript building.

1:10.0

So I'm isn't going to like this either, but I'm taking the elevator up.

1:15.0

Sorry Sam, no stairs this morning.

1:18.0

Right as I step off of the elevator into the lobby, the entire lobby is like extremely well lit like burning my redness. I don't even think you can turn those off. They just don't have a switch just on forever. Another thing that really stood out was how G.D. Warm it was.

1:34.8

G. Dern. Kildane warm. It's warmer than my apartment. I could lay down on the floor

1:41.7

without a blanket and knock out.

1:43.2

Like a building this size, you could probably turn the heat off all night

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