Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 02/15/19 - Thom Hartmann presses snooze on politics while exploring the history and implications of Daylight Savings Time. Callers respond with amusement and insight. Greg Palast phones in to report that sanctions may be starving Venezuelans into backing a white supremacist coup.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 15 February 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
CA voters approved an initiative to drop Daylight Savings Time changes. Now other states are considering doing the same. Ben Franklin had nothing to do with this, but LBJ did. Is it time to drop the whole thing? - For the book club, Thom reads from "In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones" by Nina Khrushcheva. - DST discussion continues. - Andrew Yang asks if Americans are ready to vote for Universal Basic Income in the 2020 Election? - Reading from "The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future" – by Andrew Yang - Greg Palast, the investigative journalist, joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss the ongoing coup in Venezuela against the democratically elected government.
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| 0:41.9 | To step just a little bit out of the frame of politics for a moment, I |
| 0:45.4 | wanted to talk to you about daylight savings time. Spring is coming in another |
| 0:50.1 | month or so. We're all going to get an hour of jet lag whack. People will die. |
| 0:56.0 | Daylight savings time every year does cause some people to die. |
| 1:00.0 | You see a spike in heart attack rates, you see a spike in car accidents, the loss of productivity |
| 1:05.8 | in the first week or two after daylight savings time comes into effect in the spring. |
| 1:10.3 | Should we do away with the change twice a year to and from daylight savings time? |
| 1:16.4 | Should we do away with that? |
| 1:18.6 | The states are starting to pick and this was a ballot initiative in California, I think it was also in Florida. |
| 1:25.0 | Nearly 60% of California voters, November of last year, said let's just keep the state on |
| 1:31.8 | daylight savings time all year round. Now that's |
| 1:36.3 | really great for people who are night owls but for morning people morning |
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