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R2RO Radio Show Week 8: Louisiana Nostalgia, Lafayette's Transformation, and the Intricacies of Bonfires
As children growing up in the heart of Louisiana, the joy of bonfires was an integral part of our lives. However, times have changed and now, more than ever, it's vital to navigate the fine line between joyful nostalgia and safety in the unpredictability of Southern weather. From sharing stories of fires in our backyards to dissecting local fire restrictions, our journey takes us from memories of the past to the realities of present-day outdoor cooking.
Bringing our childhood reminiscences to life, we also immerse ourselves in the local traditions of Louisiana; the harvest-driven rhythms of sugarcane fields and the culinary magic of the sassafrasch tree. Do you remember the smoky haze that engulfed the highways after the burning of the sugarcane fields? Or perhaps, the root beer and Cajun dishes that wouldn't be the same without the touch of sassafrasch? As we delve into these memories, we reaffirm our commitment to uncover more about Lafayette in our future episodes.
Fasten your seatbelts as we transport you through time, charting the remarkable transformation of Lafayette over the past two decades. From being a serene hunting property to emerging as one of the fastest-growing cities in America, Lafayette's journey is nothing short of extraordinary. We'll guide you through its landmarks, like the iconic Petroleum Tower and North Gate Mall, and discuss the city's incredible population growth. And while we're at it, let's pause for a moment to reflect on the political climate and its implications. Join us next week as we continue this thrilling journey on the R2R show, your favorite spot on Planet Radio.
I'm playing already a one of six point seven the best rock on the plane. Welcome back to the R2RO show. So the weather was for me, got nice for a little while when it got super cold. I love that stuff. It was a very nice weekend because I got like a real fireplace amount. So I was like, loaded that thing up a wooden, had me a real fire going, since you know y'all aren't allowed to have one.
Speaker 2:You can't have a fire. You can have a fire in your house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I hope so, because I'd let one. But what if?
Speaker 2:I ask those three of you and falls in my backyard? I have a big pile of wood ready to burn in my backyard.
Speaker 3:I have a lot of wood to. I'm ready, I need it. I need it to burn.
Speaker 2:But my neighbor's called the fire department on me when there wasn't a burn band, so I know.
Speaker 1:I mean, look, that stuff's pretty serious, because me especially with all the grass and stuff gets super dry.
Speaker 4:I hope you'll.
Speaker 1:I know we live some fields on fire. When I was a kid, on accident, yeah.
Speaker 3:And everywhere you look, everything's brown, everything's mostly dead, except for the trees. Yeah, so I get it. I understand that reasoning, but it's almost too cold for this and it was too cold for this.
Speaker 2:The other day yeah, we need to be able to burn. I mean, that needs to be a temperature rule, right, like they made all these rules and all these regulations but the one rule and regulation. Then it kind of was like hey, it is south Louisiana. It gets. What if it gets under 65? And it's still.
Speaker 1:That was what's the 60. You have?
Speaker 2:to let us burn some stuff, man, we need. We need a bonfire. I'm sorry. Yeah, we invented the word like it's ours.
Speaker 3:We'll find a way to maintain it or keep it close.
Speaker 1:I mean, can you have any kind of flame open outside, just barbecue pit, just cooking? You can do a barbecue yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I read the, I read the rules. Oh, you did. Yeah, because I really was going to go right up to the line. Well, so I was trying, well, I was going to go over the line, but just be able to, like, see the line.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so you can step back.
Speaker 3:So I kind of read through everything and the rule is if you're cooking outside, outdoor cooking is fine, it's not, you're not going to get a citation, ok. But it also says that it's got to be in something enclosed like a barbecue pit, a grill or something.
Speaker 1:And then it said so no, like s'mores over the fire pit and be like I'm cooking. That is correct. No s'mores over the fire pit. They found that they caught the one thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, did they use the word s'mores? They did not use the word s'mores. What they used is no fire pit, so they got all of it and then, whenever they were talking about the thing you can cook in, it said the word enclosed. Then it also said that it had to be on a non combustible surface and you have to either have a water hose or fire extinguisher.
Speaker 2:Like next to it or nearby.
Speaker 4:It doesn't say I don't know I mean look, you can put it on, see I can put my fire pit on.
Speaker 1:And it does more Right?
Speaker 2:Well, that's I did.
Speaker 1:It still has to be enclosed, it would be enclosed.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's one of the round far pitch, you know, like the oh, you got the little lid for it. You guys a little lid.
Speaker 1:Like a chimney.
Speaker 4:How do I?
Speaker 2:do s'mores and have it enclosed at the same way.
Speaker 4:How do you put?
Speaker 2:your stake on there? Would it open? I don't know, like, if you don't open it, I don't know, I don't know, I'm confused.
Speaker 1:Oh, they must want you to like.
Speaker 2:I was one of them. Crazy government rules.
Speaker 1:You got to use some quantum mechanics to get your stake inside the pit without opening it.
Speaker 3:They did say the fire. What would they call that, the? Whether you use wood charcoal pellets, none of that matters. All that matters is that it's a. Oh. That's what it was designed to cook with.
Speaker 1:Oh so like me, yeah, I can't have a fire pit and be like this. Well, I'm cooking.
Speaker 3:Right, it wasn't. It says I'm trying to quit.
Speaker 2:My fire pit came with a grill grill top.
Speaker 3:As long as it says designed to cook with, I guess you got a case.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just saying it has a grill top and what the grill top was not for putting more wood on top the grill Right.
Speaker 4:I mean that don't make sense.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:It seems like it's made for hey, you want to cook some steaks on an open flame? Before you still got the box I'm not trying to cook it on some pecan branches.
Speaker 3:So that's what a lot of my are pecan branches. So yeah, mine too.
Speaker 2:A little oak. I mean the oak might be pretty good, but some pecan oak.
Speaker 4:Try something new.
Speaker 1:I got like chicken tree I don't know what that tastes like chicken I got a lot of chicken. Drink, drink, drink maybe some crepe Myrtle house. Crepe Myrtle, how do you smoke that?
Speaker 3:Hmm, I don't know but, I'm ready.
Speaker 2:I'm ready to start burning stuff. Dude, I have some big piles back in our old burning days.
Speaker 1:Man, we used to have so many bonfires for New Year's Eve. It was so fun out of out of Chuck's house.
Speaker 2:I have two of those piles right now, ready to go, ready to go. So as soon as they say, oh yeah, y'all can burn something, one of those, y'all come by, it's on.
Speaker 3:I remember one of those piles was burnt right before they opened up Ambassador Extension Pass Verrat. Yeah, it was already ready, it was all done, but it was still closed. The road was still closed because we went all the way down there to get firewood from some property.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we. We snuck on Ambassador Caffrey to get some firewood.
Speaker 1:I remember one year I think that I guess somebody that worked in the volunteer fire department lived in the neighborhood across from you over there in Scott.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it wasn't us, because every once in a while he would leave and run down the street and then come back in a fire truck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I'm guessing somebody did something done with a firework or a bonfire somewhere around. It was not us. It was never but it was funny because we kept seeing the guy leave and go, and then didn't you see the fire truck come back.
Speaker 2:And, but he just kept passing up our house. Yeah, kept going.
Speaker 1:So we are responsible with our fires, Lafayette Fire Department. You know, please don't come try to find us and find us.
Speaker 3:So Lafayette can opt out of it too. Oh, lafayette decided to, because there are several like Bozier does not have a fire. Burn a ban. Burn fire burn fire, burn.
Speaker 1:Shreveport does not have a.
Speaker 3:So that would be Cato Parish, but there are multiple parishes that have already opted out. So who do we talk to about this?
Speaker 2:I don't know. You probably just need some more rain.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2:What if we get one day of rain, and let me burn some.
Speaker 1:Is it Rob Pirillo? I mean is Rob's fault. Huh, are you saying it's his fault? I think he just makes a decision right If we can have a burn then yeah, yeah. Somebody's got to be in charge of this, somebody has to be the expert.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean, Rob. Tell us when we've had enough rain, Rob, let's get it, bro, hey.
Speaker 1:Rob, let us know when we come back.
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Speaker 2:So talking about burning things and whatnot, this time of year is always a big discussion Sugarcane fields getting burned.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, I grew up in Broussard and then I grew up in Copperfield. When it just started, so there was like three little roads and then we were surrounded by cane fields as far as you could see. So I remember like, yeah, december, I felt like it was like the apocalypse. Yeah, like the skies were black and there was floating embers and things were on fire, like the opposite of snow. Oh, dude, it was wild.
Speaker 2:Well, that's Louisiana snow.
Speaker 1:That's South Louisiana. Snow right there sugarcane fields burning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I grew up three streets in the middle of Sugarcane Fields.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you rocked down Mary Willard's Sugarcane country.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we would St Mary willard's all through there, get fusted by the farmers all the time riding on their head lanes and tearing stuff up.
Speaker 1:Oh, I mean, that's any good boy that gets anything with any kind of mud tire on it. The cane fields the first place.
Speaker 2:It goes right oh man, nothing like a good three-wheeler in the cane field man.
Speaker 1:I remember cutting cane with my pocket knife and chewing on that for the afternoon here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'd always bring my grandmother's go down to Cameron and bring have to bring some sugarcane, then she would grow it, obviously because she can turn, make anything grow from. They can turn an oak tree from a branch kind of stuff, like I mean they would. Just they could figure it out, man. They just knew, did she have a sassafrasch tree? She had plenty sassafrasch, oh man Still has.
Speaker 1:That's where you get that feeler from.
Speaker 2:She still has the sassafrasch trees.
Speaker 1:I think it's the sassafrasch root that you get root beer from.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the old-time root beer is the root of a sassafrasch tree. I don't even know the sassafrasch tree.
Speaker 1:It looks like a little bush up man. It's not even a big tree. It's not a tree tree.
Speaker 2:Not very big. You may have had one in your yard and tore it down like cut it down, didn't realize it looked like a it looks like a ratty bush and it was just ugly.
Speaker 3:It was like trash, kind of a trash bush. I was like why would somebody have that?
Speaker 1:Maybe take the leaves off of them and dry them and ground them up, and then dry them and ground them up again, Then dry them and ground them up one more time.
Speaker 2:Then you got some good seasoning.
Speaker 3:Or you can just go to the store and buy some filet. It's got all the preservatives in it. That's not gonna be the same.
Speaker 1:That's why we said, it's why you came in. If you walked in anybody's house and they were a self-respecting person from Camper, they had a jar of filet in their freezer that just had a little masking tape on it with the date yeah, go to Rousas and go buy some zatarans or whoever they can have the most coon-ass name ever, and then I'll bring you my grandmothers and you'll taste the difference.
Speaker 3:That's amazing, did you?
Speaker 4:just put that on gubba.
Speaker 1:Oh, we put it on other stuff too.
Speaker 3:Oh, you could put it on a gubba. I've only ever had it on gubba.
Speaker 1:Yeah. It's a different kind of spice but it can add to some other Cajun dishes. Sometimes I've added it to an A2Fa. Here and there it's a little different.
Speaker 2:but yeah, you could put a little sprinkle, a little bit on your rice on your top before you put the A2Fa on.
Speaker 1:Beacon and sugar cane. I know y'all had some steamed syrup in your house at some point. Oh yeah, no doubt I still do. I put that on some pancakes. Everyone's got some good stuff, man.
Speaker 2:That's some good stuff. That's some good stuff, not waffles a cadiana.
Speaker 1:Definitely not how I thought you would spell sassafras.
Speaker 3:But it sounds exactly like you would spell sassafras, yeah.
Speaker 1:We have to get you one. I know you like to touch the ground. I do like to touch the earth and the trees.
Speaker 2:You probably need three sassafras trees and you can make a root beer with this thing.
Speaker 1:That's what the old-school root beer was. The old-school root beer wasn't carbonated either.
Speaker 3:No, oh, I remember that my mom would make it in one of these plastic jugs. That probably, yeah, like an old Tupperware shirt. Yeah. Tupperware plastic Tupperware thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd grow it up. My parents had got divorced but I'd go see my dad and when I'd get over there it was part of the little routine as he'd get out the Gatorade jug the big five-gallon went with the spigot on it and break out some root beer here.
Speaker 3:Like the water jug.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then break out some root beer extract and we'd make a big old thing of root beer.
Speaker 3:Like the thing they pour on the coach whenever he wins. Yeah, oh my God, that's a lot, I mean he drank
Speaker 1:a lot of root beer, yeah, and dude all it was, was this root beer at Shrek, and I think it was actually made by Zatarans.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, that's what mom used to make.
Speaker 1:But it's satsfrash, which is what I think it is.
Speaker 3:But yeah, with that and then, it was like they still have that.
Speaker 1:Dude, it was a whole bag of sugar. Yeah, I mean, you can still buy it. It was a whole bag of sugar.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:It was that and satsfrash, and it was the root beer extract and some water.
Speaker 2:It was wild. That's how we used to drink sweet tea. Would be that much sweet tea with that much sugar? The spoon stands up in there. Yeah, you had to stir it every time before you drink a little bit, or all the sugar was at the bottom. Good stuff, good stuff, yeah. The burning of the sugar cane fields, though, was definitely a highway 90. I remember driving from Franklin to Lafayette and everyone would stop like he was that super thick morning fog. Oh yeah, just the smoke going across the highway, oh my God.
Speaker 2:That's absolutely nuts. All by by Patuville and all that.
Speaker 1:I remember and I know it's not quite the same comparison I saw some videos when they had all those wildfires going on in California. People were filming it from the interstate. You, know, just look crazy and I'm like I was like every December in Yongeville.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, it is.
Speaker 1:Well, when we come back, we're going to talk about some other things going on in Lafayette.
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Speaker 1:Planet radio, one of six point seven, the best rock on the planet. Welcome back to the R2RO show. Got Chuck and Eric. Yeah, and it's me, scott. And today I was man. Today I was looking on Facebook. There's a Facebook group out there called Lafayette Memories and I know y'all didn't grow up in Lafayette, but you were close.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And now you know what it looks like these days and we've talked about all the development and how it doesn't look the same than it did 20 years ago. But I sent you all those pictures today. These were pictures from looking down. What was Flanders Road back then, which is now ambassador? Like if somebody was sitting right there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, new Flanders.
Speaker 1:And it was looking towards the river, you know, with the mall on your right. And what is that? Petroleum tower was just being built, the big glass tower. Yeah, that was pretty cool, and this is the late 70s, early 80s, like when we were born. Basically, yeah, and after that it was just forest hunting property. It was wild. Like right there where I guess courtesy Lincoln is the you know, the old Saturn dealership. That's where the woods just started.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so my father-in-law was telling me how pretty much where we live now was hunting lease for some of the people in town, wow, wow, so they would come out here. They would come out here, so south of the river, where ambassador is now Correct, correct To come, this was all. There was a big hunting property. I hear they were at a camp out here and everything and actually the camps across Kali Sallum from where we live and they think the camp's still there, the old camps close to the river.
Speaker 1:Back there, wow, old hunting in the middle of the city no.
Speaker 2:Now it's, yeah, it's in the middle of everything. Yeah, pretty pretty interesting, I know coming up here, or, yeah, up here from Franklin area. I mean, we had to come here to get to the mall. Well, started off with the Northgate mall Then, as that picture showed, the kidney animal was coming around at that point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the picture they were just starting to build the mall. So it was like I think some I said it was like 1978, 79.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's an amazing picture.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and there was another one in there and it showed the intersection now that is probably the worst intersection that everything's moved south Kali Sallum and ambassador and they were showing how they had just finally changed over the stop sign. It was a one way stop sign for everybody going down. Ambassador and Kali Sallum could just go all they wanted. Yeah, yeah. And only thing that had happened in like 1978 was they said OK, no, now ambassador gets to go and Kali Sallum has to stop. But it was like they were both two lane rows. They showed it was just a little stop and there was a state police out there like reminding people who to stop.
Speaker 1:And then it only went down to Verot or right, yeah Well, it only went down to Verot when.
Speaker 2:I was growing up, right yeah, until 20.
Speaker 3:was around 2008. Yeah, it's when we had a barn fire, so yeah, it might have been eight to 10.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because Rebecca could have been born by then too. Yeah, I remember in high school, in college, they four-lane college saloon. Oh yeah, but there was nothing on it from highway 90 all the way to ambassador and we would come up for like either skip out what school day is?
Speaker 1:Well, it still is. There's a little driving range right there on high saloon, but it used to be surrounded by nothing but fields.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we were just and cattle. There was cattle right off of college saloon, yeah, not that long ago. There still is some actually yeah not much, not much.
Speaker 3:There was cattle right before that. Chick filet was just built on Jocelyn Street too, yeah.
Speaker 2:Just a year.
Speaker 1:In the middle of everything. Because, yeah, I'm sure you know our kids are going to go look at some pictures one day and look at them like there was cattle in the middle of the city still yeah, yeah so whatever I was looking at them.
Speaker 3:I looked at the population. Lafayette was at 150,000 right then in the late 70s and well, in 1980, it's got 150,017. Wow, the city. No, this is parish. Oh, the whole. Oh, wow, this is the parish. I stopped worrying about the city, the city's right. Where does it end? Yeah?
Speaker 1:you kind of can't tell anymore. I mean back then obviously you could tell when you're right. Lafayette Right.
Speaker 3:So you got Lafayette, then you got nothing, but you're still in Lafayette. Then all of a sudden you get to Youngville. Yeah, Like I just so I just been looking at the parish stuff lately Right. So you got 150,017. And right now, according to whatever this is the internet, Lafayette Parish is estimated at 247,807. So almost 100,000 people. Wow, In our lifetime.
Speaker 1:I mean, I looked at this one day and from 2000 to 2020, Lafayette was the fifth growing, fifth fastest growing city in America.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It was right, I think, either ahead or behind Austin. Texas it was above. Austin was sixth on that list.
Speaker 3:That's amazing, that's in the last 20 years, I mean it's amazing the way things are going around here Right, and now we got a Dave and Buster's.
Speaker 2:Oh, oh and a.
Speaker 1:Topgolf and a Topgolf Dave and Buster's did announce their opening date the 27th. Oh, right around Thanksgiving. Oh, is that like Black Friday?
Speaker 2:Or right around there. I think it's the Monday after.
Speaker 1:Black Friday oh, nobody's going to work that day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I know, opening on Black Friday would have been a pretty smart.
Speaker 3:That would have been pretty good.
Speaker 1:Speaking of all the boomer Lafayette probably right there in the 80s with all the oil field stuff that started going on. I mean, I know we had a bus period there too, but those pictures I sent also they had people that would land Because they used to have like Lago it wasn't Lagco yet, but it was LAGO and they had that big oil symposium thing at the Blackham Coliseum back then.
Speaker 1:And people would fly their planes in and land them their private planes, yeah, and land them on what is now Ambassador and then taxi them down what is now Johnston Street all the way to Blackham to go to the thing From Ambassador to Blackham.
Speaker 3:They would land on Ambassador. That takes five minutes at 50 miles an hour.
Speaker 1:I'm just I had multiple pictures of planes sitting on that exact same road.
Speaker 3:I guess that taxi they can go pretty yeah.
Speaker 1:Now, one of them was some big twin engine prop that they like dragged down Johnston Street Wow.
Speaker 2:That's four. Yeah, that's amazing. That's a long trip, but I mean, I guess there was really nothing there for the longest time.
Speaker 1:Man. I couldn't imagine if I saw a plane landing on Ambassador these days, or on any road. It wouldn't be in a fit Maybe it was landing on top of somebody's home, nobody would let him in. That is in our lifetime that they were allowed to just land a plane on a road.
Speaker 3:Listen, to this.
Speaker 1:That is crazy. That's crazy. When we come back, we'll talk about some other things going on in life here.
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Speaker 1:Planet Radio 106.7, the best rock on the planet. Welcome back to the R2RO show. So I know everybody just had to go change their clocks again.
Speaker 2:Man, it's dark outside too early.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 3:This is way too early, but I got to sleep a little later this morning.
Speaker 2:I enjoyed that extra hour sleep Sunday morning only because we were at a softball tournament and we stayed up late and but that feeling only lasts for like a week, and then your body gets used to that one too.
Speaker 3:Well, I did.
Speaker 1:I didn't enjoy that extra hour at all why I was driving back from Tuscaloosa, so I'd already had a bad night, and then I had to spend an extra hour of it in the car.
Speaker 3:And then when you got to Mississippi at 2 AM, it bounced you back to.
Speaker 1:Alabama. Yeah, it was like all the way back there Like, hey, go back to Tuscaloosa for a little while. I'm like no, try again. I didn't want to get targeted, no doubt, no doubt. But yeah, so this time is not my favorite way. I like it better when it was like even I know, I know the days get shorter with the seasons, that's just how nature works, right. But I would rather, from a time perspective because we're nobody's work schedule change.
Speaker 3:No, I would prefer we just don't change it at all.
Speaker 1:Ever again, ever again. But which one do you want to stay on? I don't know where we're at right now, or do you want to my number?
Speaker 3:one is I wanted to stop changing oh.
Speaker 1:I'm the hundred. I the reason for it. What was it? It was about saving energy, I think.
Speaker 2:Well, I thought it was like lights and AC, farmers and stuff, just to give them more.
Speaker 3:I don't understand. Give them more hours. They can go for whatever the hell they want.
Speaker 4:That's why the clock got to change.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if they want to farm at 3 am, they can go for a 3 am when it would like comes up Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree so.
Speaker 2:I'm up to sundown.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think most of America wants it to be one time and stop changing it, right.
Speaker 3:I do think the most of America wants it to be David Light saving stuff. I know that's just what.
Speaker 1:I mean I know one of the studies I saw said like 75 percent of Americans wanted to just just pick one.
Speaker 3:Right, pick one. That's the number one. If I have to have anything, just pick one. Just stop wherever you at so.
Speaker 1:So actually in 2020,. We passed a law in Louisiana that says if the fact because it comes down the way this all works is you can actually choose as a state to not change, you don't have to go back and forth. Right, that Arizona does, that Arizona does not change time zones.
Speaker 3:Right, they don't recognize daylight saving stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, as you just have to do some work with people in Arizona and it was. It was weird because you had to remember what time of year it was, because their time difference changed. Sometimes they were an hour behind me, sometimes there were two hours behind me. Oh yeah, that's weird. It was a little weird, yeah, because whenever we changed, they didn't. Oh yeah, so then there was an actual difference in our time, so you can actually choose to stay on. What is the time we're in right now? Right, this is standard time.
Speaker 3:Right, that's not other than Arizona who has chosen to do so.
Speaker 1:Um, I think there might be some other states, and then there's actually even, in some cases, counties that don't recognize the change in times.
Speaker 2:So certain counties in certain states would say oh no, no yellow five o'clock, we're a six o'clock.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like it, I like it.
Speaker 2:Super weird. That's gangster. Yeah, so what I'm reading is Germany came up with this way back in the early 1900s. I think it was just a mess with everyone In the in the early 100s and the early 1900s, you know, like 3000 years ago, germany believed that clocks changing would save 23.8 million dollars back then, which is a equivalent to about 685 million in today's times. By limiting limiting limiting limiting, limiting the use of artificial light.
Speaker 1:But we did it first in 1918 during wartime.
Speaker 3:Okay, so Hawaii is the only other state and it says most of Arizona. It doesn't say Arizona.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so the bigger deal is is that, if you wanted to stay on the time we were at where the sun sets at a later time in the day, yeah the only way for you to do that is for the federal government to actually say it's okay, they have to allow that to happen.
Speaker 1:So Louisiana is ahead of things here because they did go and pass a law in 2020 that says as soon as the federal government lets it happen, ours automatically changes, and we only go to one time a year and it will be on daylights. What is daylight savings time? Nice.
Speaker 3:So all we have to do is wait for the federal government to do something. The lad is do it Right, yeah, so we're like yeah we might as well just pick the other one.
Speaker 2:We might as well just pick the other one. Uncle Sam, can we please, please, please? Just use one time.
Speaker 3:Just use one time.
Speaker 1:Well, look, I mean, if nothing else we got, the speaker of the house is from Louisiana now, so let's at least get this time thing figured out. Yeah, we should. We're going to put that in, that's. I mean, that's my priority.
Speaker 3:I want to be able to sleep a little bit later, I feel like we can all have that priority, real, like for one week and get it done and then move on.
Speaker 2:He sent me a text message the other day. I'm going to text them back.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I use that to get for money, but I'll send you $5. I will send you $5.
Speaker 1:I mean look, hey, Mike, we just 75% of America wants this Right. It's a way to reach. This is not right. Reach across, I'll run for president.
Speaker 3:Nobody likes what you're doing right now at all.
Speaker 1:So 75% of us would be super happy if you just do this and then y'all can go on and do whatever you want, everybody's going to stop paying attention, and then y'all just do whatever you want to ruin oh by you. So much goodwill, if y'all just get this time thing straight now. Well, that was good times, guys. We'll see y'all next week on the R2R show on Planet Radio the best rock on the planet. Radio at it.