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Episode Date: March 6, 2026

Upland, CA Psychologist Dr. Stephanie Johnson digs into the nasty psychological effects of the time change, and how to tolerate the change better. Open phones and a D62 quiz follows.

This hour of the Bill Meyer Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausurrilling.com. With Bill Meyer. Every year when we have a time change in this weekend is no different. This is the time change weekend. Sunday morning you spring forward and then you fall back. And normally we say, oh, I look forward to the falling back.

Oh, I don't like the springing. forward. What does it actually do to us? How does it affect people psychologically? Well, I thought I would talk with Dr. Stephanie Johnson about this. SciD. What is the sci-D? What does that stand for, doctor? Welcome back. It's good to help you on. Thank you. Thank you for having me, Bill. The site is Doctor of Psychology. Doctor of Psychology. Good. And MSCP, see, this is it, I'm not in your industry, so I see MSCP and my eyes glaze over. What does that mean? It's a postdoctoral master's degree in clinical psychopharmacology. In other words, you are very intelligent and have done your homework.

Would that be fair? That's the way to think about it. I've had a lot of college, yes. Okay, good. All right. Let us talk about the actual physical and psychological effects here of springing forward and falling back. I don't know if either is necessarily helpful, but what is the science actually saying?

about what this does to us when we are artificially moving our clock, our rhythms around, so to speak? Well, actually, it disrupts what our body has is our circadian rhythm, so basically our internal clock. And it actually can create a stress response, and it's definitely not something to look forward for the springtime because we are actually losing an hour, and unfortunately it's timed for Sunday night instead of a Friday night. So our bodies aren't going to get the adjustment it needs.

We actually just have to wake up early for a work or a school day, which is unfortunate. It should be out Friday. So we have more time to adjust. But it actually can make us more grumpy, right? We're losing an hour of sleep. We're going to be probably a little bit more irritable, a little grumpy. Yeah. Well, you know, the part that I've wondered about here for quite some time, why was it on Sunday?

Because what you just talked about made much more sense. If you are going to do this stupid thing, which we were still going through this stupid ritual, yeah, Friday night, it would seem to make a lot more sense. You get a couple more days to get used to it. But I don't know, maybe it takes more than two days. Well, I mean, it typically will take about two or three days for us to adjust, which would make sense. For, you know, most of us actually have a weekend off. And it would be unfortunate for those that don't have the weekend off.

But if they did it on a Friday, we would have two days to actually help our body to transition better. But unfortunately, no. They have it on a Sunday night. Is the fall back – I read some research that said that falling back is just as damaging in a different way. Is that true? Or does your research and practice say otherwise? Actually, the fall back – granted, we do get an extra hour of sleep. But the fallback I see with my clients and just it's so much harder on us.

It really creates that winter blues effect. It increases depression, anxiety. Our days feel like we don't even have a day. We get out of work and it's pitch black. It's dark at 430. So the fallback, yeah, we get an extra hour of sleep, but it has a lot more negative consequences. The spring forward, yes, it's going to be difficult. I know the research shows that, you know, car accidents increase, has an impact on people with

cardiovascular health risks. It really impacts our physical and our, you know, biological. Now, you just said cardiovascular risks, so that seemed to indicate that, what, higher chance of heart attack or stroke? Is that what you're looking at? That's what the research shows. I mean, I wish we would be more like Arizona and not have this Because it has a really, you know, strong impact on our, not just our mental health, but our physical health as well. Dr. Stephanie Johnson here with me once again. 770563. You have a question.

You've got a lot of people seem to be lining up wanting to ask you a question about this. There's something about this. You know, well, you know, nobody wants to talk about the Iran war or the war action. It's just like, you know, that's been talked to death, I guess, lately. But how long does it normally take to start feeling normal again in your practice? About three days. Some people may take a little bit longer. But there are ways to implement.

There are things to implement to help you through the transition. What could you do? One is, I mean, it's a little late in the game right now. Typically, I would recommend like four days before the time change to start, you know, setting your alarm clock 15 minutes early each day. transition. Yeah. Really taking care of our body is important during this time because, one, we have the stress

of, you know, not looking forward to waking up an hour early on Monday, really working on sleep hygiene. So going to bed a little earlier, I myself actually use tea, chamomile tea, to help actually help me go to sleep a little earlier so that I actually am still getting my eight hours asleep because I need my eight hours of sleep. So Monday's going to be kind of hard for me. When the spring daylight saving times hit, it's actually darker in the morning now when we wake up. I do have an alarm clock that mimics the sunrise. So say you set your alarm for six o'clock. At 5.30, the light starts lighting up your room as if it's a natural sunrise.

Oh, you had that as part of your alarm clock then? Part of my self-care. Lights the room, okay. All right. Another really big tip is to, if it's too cold outside, make your coffee, stand in a window where you're getting sunlight. Sunlight actually does naturally help our circadian rhythm switch and change. And so the more sunlight you can get right when you wake up, it's going to make the transition a little, easier. Do we actually have a circadian rhythm of 24 hours, or is that an artificial

construct? I thought I read somewhere, I can't even remember what scientific journal was talking about, that we actually evolved to a different length day that the day was different back then. Is that true? Do you know? I don't know if you're aware of that or not. It's an estimate. It's kind of like a guideline. Everybody's maybe a little different, but it is a guideline. Okay, just a guideline. All right. Well, I know, I know that that earlier this week that I started waking up at three instead of, you know, 345 or so when I would normally, you know, get up because I was thinking, well, you know, I'm going to have to start switching it on on, you know, Monday morning anyway, trying to get myself used to it. I'm still feeling

like my eyes are little two pee holes in the snow still. Well, three o'clock in the morning is understandable. Yeah. Yeah. That's really. You know, since you're here, though, one question I've always wondered is that what sleep do we really need? How much sleep do we really need? And what is the difference of the quality of sleep? Because some people say, well, you've got to get into REM sleep and other people say you need to get into the dream state. And other people will know, they'll say, well, I don't remember any of my dreams. So I must never go into REM. What do we really need out there, doctor? That's actually a case-by-case basis. Some people do really, really well on six hours of sleep.

Oh. Some people do really well eight, and some people actually do need nine hours. And that's okay. It's based on what your body actually needs. So again, I'm one of the needs eight or nine. You need good for you. All right. Because have you noticed there's kind of almost like sleep shaming going on in the culture right now? Yes. You're not getting. And of course, somebody who needs eight or nine hours to sleep like I do, they're like, oh my gosh. That's so much sleep. And, well, that's what my body needs, and that's okay. I just have to make sure that I get that because I function better. So it's paying attention to how you function. Do you function better with six hours of sleep?

A lot of people do. But then a lot of people really do need that eight, nine hours of sleep. All right. Dr. Psychology, Dr. Stephanie Johnson here with me this morning. I'm going to grab a call here. Caller, did you want to talk with Dr. Johnson about this? You have a question about this? I couldn't clear it.

But who's this? Yeah. Yeah. this is Phil again. Sorry to double dip, but just a quick little kind of funny, you know, depending on the time of year, do you know how many times I've been either early, an hour or late, an hour to work? How many? It happens every time for you, huh? Every time?

Well, not every time, but I mean, sometimes you just forget to change your alarm clock Sunday night. And, you know, and so it's a financial thing, too, for the companies that are, you know, losing, and, you know, you get in trouble at work and all that other good stuff. All right. Hey, Phil, it's a good point. You know, Dr. Are we ever going to finally make some sense out of this and just do it nationally and just be done with the whole changing of the clock? It just makes no sense to me. You know, I would hope so.

I mean, I was doing research on it. I mean, this was created, what, in like 1918 for World War I to actually conserve coal and energy for the war. And I just don't see how it benefits us, especially since there's just so much research now that shows that it really. impacts us physically and mentally. I wonder if you were to choose, would you rather would be staying on standard time? That would be what I would prefer, or daylight savings time, which is what other people are looking for. They're liking this idea of having the sun up at 10 o'clock at night.

I don't quite understand those people. How do you weigh in on this? Well, then you don't quite understand me. You're one of those people, huh? I'm one of those. And, first, there's a psychological reason why, though. So, you know, with increased daylight, we actually, it helps us to increase more serotonin, so which is our feel-good hormones.

Oh, okay. We actually are happier, more energetic when there's actually more daylight. I know I personally don't like to leave the office, and it's being pitch black. So during spring and summer, we're leaving work, and it's still daylight. So it feels like we still have more of our day. We actually can go out and take a walk because there's still daylight. So it just feels like we have more of a life after work, whereas, you know, when it gets dark at 4.30 at night, 5 o'clock, your day is over. And it just feels like, well, all I got to do is go to work.

And it feels like you're just, okay, I'm trapped inside. You're just on the treadmill, yeah. Yeah, the 9 to 5. The 9 to 5 cubicle farm treadmill. You know, that kind of thing. Yes. Well, there's more day light. It's more fun for the weekend, too.

I mean, you get to stay out longer and do more fun things. It doesn't get dark in the middle of the day. Well, I think maybe the problem is that I sort of have a weird schedule compared to many people because I have to be an early riser because, you know, I've got to be prepped and ready to go on, do the news, everything else at 6 o'clock Pacific time. And so you end up living in what I technically call the toddler schedule. You go to bed at 7 or 8 o'clock and you hope to fall asleep and they get up at 3, 3, 3.35, you know, that kind of thing. And I don't know. I don't think that's not a natural rhythm I don't think for anybody, is it?

Not at all. And I would just strongly recommend some blackout curtains for you. Okay. And see, that's what it's like. I hate the summer. I hate the spring, summer, and fall for that reason. I love winter, at least when it comes to sleeping because, hey, Stark at 445, works for me. You know.

Where could people find out more about you and touch into what you're working on with your practice, huh? Well, I'm located in up in California. My group practice is Summit Psychological Services. They can look us up online. If they have any questions, you can contact me. You can actually Google Dr. Stephanie Johnson, Psychologist, California. You can find my LinkedIn. I'm easily accessible.

You can email me. me any questions you have. I'm more than happy to help. Do you do telehealth? I'm just kind of curious about that. I do. However, I'm not licensed in Oregon. Oh. Again, so, you know, I won't tell anyone. They make this weird thing where, you know, psychologists have to get licensed in almost every single state in order to actually see clients in every single state. Kind of a weird setup. But no, I'm just, I'm just here to help your listeners, transition through this difficult time or any questions that they have, I'd be more than happy to answer.

Dr. It's a pleasure talking with you again. And one more thing, as far as good sleep hygiene, could you define that for us before I take off? Good sleep. So really having a set schedule, so doing the groundwork, so no screens, no bright flashing lights, stay off your cell phones, don't watch TV an hour before bedtime, have a sleep route. So for, you know, you take your shower, you get ready, you turn on your fan in your bedroom, you make your bedroom a little cooler because people sleep better when it's a little cooler. Just really have your routine. Maybe it's a cup of tea right before you go to bed.

Same wake and sleep schedule. Maintain a sleep schedule. Same time. You go to sleep at the same time every day. You wake up the same time every day. So on the weekend, don't try to catch up on sleep. Is that what you're saying? Don't do that. Stick with the same schedule.

I mean, sleeping Saturdays can be nice. I'm not going to lie. But 20, if you're sleepy on the weekend, you know, typically a 20-minute nap isn't going to really hurt you, but anything longer than that is going to knock your body off of them. So, yeah. And then it makes Monday morning more hellish than it has to be. Correct, especially this upcoming Monday. All right, especially this upcoming one. We'll find out how grumpy I am this coming Monday, but I appreciate your tips and always a good talk with you. Thank you, Dr. Stephanie, Johnson.

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Brother Brad is here. Hello, Brad. It's on your mind today, huh? Bill, good morning, happy Friday. So on the discussion you're just having with the doctor about daylight savings, we have a champion of having one time zone, I think her idea was the daylight savings, it's maybe to your chagrin, but it's Kim Thatcher up in District 11, who is also one of the three senators that voted against that crazy bill

that Cliff from the rental association that you were talking about earlier, Yeah, and the other Republicans rolled over. I don't get that. Help me out, Brad. Help me understand this. Well, let's talk about that a minute. But Kim, Kim Thatcher has been a wonderful stalwart for conservatives during all of her service in the legislature, but this is her last term. She's, I think they just had her going away party. She's, she's, she's just been a powerful, wonderful advocate for common sense, family oriented, this, that, and the other. But she's, yeah, But every session she has introduced a bill to get Oregon out of this, hey, let's keep going back and forth, back and forth, but she's never been able to get it through. So instead, they vote for transgender protections so that, hey, the kids can get trafficked here and get transitioned with no harm, no foul, right?

It's insane. But one of those things that Cliff told you toward the end of your conversation with him is all of, remember he said this, all of this is being driven by lobbyists, right? Remember when he said that? Yes, I do. And there's a partial answer to what he said to your question of, what's the deal with these other senators? Well, keep in mind, legislative representatives are driven by two things. They're driven by the financial support that they get in support of this, that, or the other, and also what they're told by lobbyists who are paid to represent, you know, various other concerns.

what if I told you that these lobbyists are representing sometimes conflicting customers, and it often comes down to who gives them the most money? What if I told you that I personally knew about a situation where a lobbyist, a very well-known lobbyist in Salem, is getting paid by multiple clients hundreds of thousands of dollars to work on sometimes conflicting situations, and this is a lot of. going on on a daily basis. Now what part of that being not ethical and should be not legal, frankly? Tell me what's wrong about thinking about.

Your friend Brad may have raised that concern a couple of years ago, and your friend Brad may be encountering some consequences because of the concerns that he raised about that, Bill. So there's a connection, in other words. There sure is in my case. All right. Well, I don't want to do anything and get you in any additional legal trust. but that's an interesting, that's an interesting thread to pull on, though, is what you're telling me.

Well, what I'm saying is, is your friend clip is absolutely right. A lot of this stuff is driven my lobbyists and these lobbyists, you know, they're powered by hundreds of thousands of dollars of contributions from people who most of the time don't even know those lobbies are doing on their behalf. All right. Thanks for let me know. You've been involved in that. It's 836-770KMED. Let me go to the next line. Good morning. Who's this? Hey, Matt. Hey, Matt. It's on your mind, huh?

I'm voting on the daylight savings schedule. You are, huh? What are you voting? I am. I don't know. Do I get to vote for that, Bill? Where do I go to vote for that? There's nowhere right now, but you can just vote here. How about this? Yeah, that's good enough. Yeah, I just prefer that schedule. I like having more time at the end of my day. You do. I absolutely hate it. Well, you and I have a very similar schedule, by the time. the way in regards to when we

flee. Uh-huh. So, I see, I would have thought that, I would have thought that you would have liked it, most of all, that the sun goes down when the sun's supposed to go down, and just at the normal time. Just normal time.

Standard time. I like standard time. Nothing special. I don't need to save anything. Just if I'm going to save anything, I'll get your stock picks. Okay? All right. So does that, well, let me ask you this. So what time do you go to bed at night?

If I'm really fortunate or if I'm feeling really blasted because I had a rough day, I'll go at 7.30, but most of the time it's about 8.30 or 9. Oh, see, I don't go to bed until 11, 12 o'clock. Yeah. I get up at like 4.30 or 5. Yeah, well, I get up an hour and a half before you do. Okay. Yeah. So I'm on the toddler schedule.

I don't care if it's dark. Mm-hmm. Well, you are allowed to feel that way, but you're wrong. I'm going to the mat on that one, Matt. All right. All right, brother. Have a great weekend. Hi, good morning. KMED.

Who's this? Hey, Bill, Lucretia. Hi, Lucretia. Hey, wait a minute. If you're calling in, I'm supposed to have your line. Where is it? There it is. Okay, that's enough.

What's up? I want to leave everybody with a beautiful, magical thought for the weekend. Okay. What are you going to go like Stevie Nix on us and start twirling around on the stage in Chafon? I mean, what? No, it's things we're never taught in real life, but it's also an answer to the battle against all those that are demonizing carbon. So the question is, where does a tree, a 10,000-pound tree come from, an oak tree that's 100 years old? Where does it come from?

Where does all that math come from? Well, it comes from ultimately the fiber created through the transpiration. Is it transpiration? I think they call that term when it absorbs carbon dioxide and then metabolizes the sugars and various other nutrients to form wood. isn't it? Most people don't know that. They would say from the ground there was study in the 1600s by a physicist that took a tree that was just five pounds, put it in 200 pound pot of soil in a container.

Okay, say that again because your phone was cutting out a little bit. So there was this physicist that did what with the tree or did what? In 1600, it took a five-pound tree and planted in a 200-pound pot of soil. Right. And it grew up for five years. At the end of five years, it was 169 pounds. So it had gained 164 pounds, less two ounces. When they took it out of the pot and took all the roots out and everything and

remeasured the dirt, it was literally, it only lost two ounces. All of that mass of that 164 pounds had come from the seed or the tree, taking the electromagnetic radiation of the sun and converting. that throwing out the CO2, converting the CO2 in the air, throwing out the two molecules of oxygen, it's carbon dioxide. I'm saying that right. Sorry, I'm... Yes. Carbon dioxide is CO2, so it throws out the oxygen. It takes the hydrogen from the water, the H2O, throws out the one oxygen molecule, and takes that hydrogen to provide the ATP to then continue to take the chlorophyll and convert it to glucose,

and then with a step up, it turns it to cellulose and ligand. I mean, it's an amazing system when you think about it, Lucretia. It takes the invisible, the invisible of the air, and turns it into our houses, our tables, our wood tables, our wood chairs, our wood chips, everything wood that you see. All your food that you eat came from the carbon in the air. It took the invisible and made it visible. That's why you also know there's transmutation, that it's a lie that things can't be.

Transmutation, probably even so led to the gold. But they're hiding all this from us. Yeah, I appreciate your call. And you know something? Lucretia, we agree. 99% on this one, and I'm giving you a real American caller salute. Okay? So make the notes on the calendar.

Okay? That's a great thought going into the weekends as you have so many people that are, well, like the Socan people as an example, who are telling you that the invisible in the air, which actually builds everything around you, is somehow destructive to the planet. KMED, good morning. Hi, who's this? Steve, take it away. What's on your mind? Tell Lucrezia it's called the Krebs cycle. Crab cycle. All right? You just did. Yeah, I took that a long time ago in college. I don't know why I remember it, but I do. Okay, I'm calling about, you know, using a credit card for auto pays. Yes. Okay, I ran into a unique situation with that, and it's still driving me crazy. My wife died last summer, and we had a Costco credit card.

And so I went in December to have her taken off the card and found out that she was primary on it. Oh, which means you didn't have it. you couldn't really make any changes then, right? So they canceled the card. This was like the last week of December. I got a deal from a debt collector in the second week of January. For some reason, I've called all the numbers and everything. It said, you know, all you have to do is send me a statement.

And I've never actually got a statement for how much I owe. It's got a $750 fee, which they can't explain. So there can be complications from having a joint account or an account you thought was joined that wasn't really. Yeah. So just make sure that you both have power of being able to change that in the future or at least other people going through a similar situation right now. Make sure you have access, right? But it's a headache. Well, you wouldn't know it.

I mean, we had that card for as long as there's been at Costco here, so it's been. forever and how would you know that I have a card with my own name on it with my own account number so I thought it was a joint account but it's not she was primary and when when they had noticed that she died they canceled the account and immediately sent it to collections which was I've spent hours on the phone just trying to sort it out did they get rid of the collection fee here because that just sounds like it was a you know an error of sorts is understandable Well, yes and no. I mean, I have faxed in my trusted documents to prove that I have power of attorney, and they're still mulling it over and, you know, it's been since the 1st of January.

Well, you know, the thing is, though, is that if it was your late wife's card, and they're going to mess with you about it, don't pay it. I don't think you're responsible for it, are you? Well, it says on all the documents that I don't have to pay it, but I still don't want an unusual person in that I want to pay what I, what is a due amount? I don't want to rip them off. But be very careful because I know that other people have thought that if you just want to be a nice guy and pay off what your wife owed before she passed, then they end up, well, it's like you are affirming the debt that you are responsible and then they come after you. I hate this world when they do stuff like that. I know.

Why can't you just be honest about things? Anyway, I'm still fighting with them. I call them probably once a week and, you know, spend an hour on the phone getting to a person, and it's a frustrating deal. And nobody can actually give you an answer, and they're supposed to be sending me a copy of the statement. But I hadn't thought about the fact that if I agree to pay what I owe, literally what I do owe, then there's other further consequences. Yeah, and I would just be very careful about that.

And not that I'm saying not pay it, you should be able to, In fact, just to be honest, to pay what your wife owed, that's fine. You'd be okay with this. But all the other stuff is the financial grift in the gears right now. Well, it's like the parking thing and everything else. Somebody's already got their hand in your pocket and you don't know about it. So I just want to warn your listeners to kind of look over those auto pay accounts and see what the situation is because, you know, I'm retired and old and I still have a little bit of brain left.

And, you know, so I hassle them. It's kind of like the more time they have to spend fixing it, the more likely that they're going to eventually straighten it out. All right. Appreciate the call. And good suggestion here. You're making me think about my own accounts with Linda and I. We have separate accounts, though.

We don't, we have separate accounts, but like banking accounts is what we have. And then we have a joint account, a joint savings account that we can move money back and forth, but that way we're never really messing with each other, never having to worry about being overdrawn on one or the other. Okay. Hi, K-M-E-D. Good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hello? Good morning. It's DeFlorable Patrickville? DP. It's on your mind. Well, it's a little late in the week, and I didn't want to fail to show up on the show because being a caller on your show is the closest I'll ever come to being

famous. You are, no, listen. Hey, just for that, you already are famous. You get a real American salute because I have the power of the button bar. Boom, right here. That's right. So I'm walking a tightrope here. That's right.

Yeah. And so, you and I like to talk about a lot of the same things, trains, boats, and planes and women and weather and just about everything and try to sound knowledgeable. and your session with Dr. she was talking about the daylight savings time. Yes. And it reminded me of a little piece of goosey trivia that I've always wanted to spring on you. So for 20 extra points, what was the impetus for developing time zones?

Let's see. I know this. Give me just a second here. Yeah. I think, I believe that time zones were there to keep the trains running on time. Oh, because they were using local sun time for the longest time, and you had the railroads always having to adjust their clocks every, the time was different everywhere you went. But maybe I'm wrong about that. Well, it turns out that it wasn't, keeping him running on time is kind of it, but what it was. trying to do is to keep them from having a head on collisions because they had to get their time

right. And prior to that, you would walk outside and look up. And when the sun was straight up, that's noon. You watch it noon. Yep. Local time. It wasn't quite good enough. Yeah. And they would be sharing tracks and they didn't have a lot, they didn't have automated or automated systems to to take care of traffic like they do right now, that kind of thing. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, and what they did have was a lot of train wrecks. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you bet you.

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While you wake crowns available, Freeman Road right next to the Mazin-Lond Mexican restaurant, okay? And Keith writes me this morning about Iran. Bill, we are not at war with Iran. Keith, love you. It's nonsense. Just because you don't call it war doesn't mean that it isn't. As far as I'm concerned,

if you are bombing capitals out of existence and killing a country's leader and all the other leaders that are coming, up and you are doing this in partnership with another country and you're sending drones and bombs and missiles and blowing things out. What would you call it then? What is it a military-oriented urban renewal program? I mean, what is it? Okay. I know that people are, this is about the whether you're declaring war or not, you know, that kind of thing. But sorry, Keith, I can't, that just defies credulity. Okay. Don writes on the

time change. Hi Bill, why not just change the time a half hour and leave it alone? That'd be interesting. And Gar ends up weighing Bill. Canada beat us to the punch and eliminated the clock switching permanently. Lucky dogs, okay? And then George says, Bill, a good job on the talk about Dollar Mountain motorcycles would be a much bigger draw in much better people. I would agree with you on that one, George. It's 854. Let's grab a few more calls here before the end of the week, huh? Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Hello. Let me go to line two then. Hi, this is Bill. Who's this?

It's Jerry. Hi, Jerry. What's on your mind? Hey, just a quick thought regarding sleep, time change. Sure, what's that? I think that the people who are used to sleeping in and getting all their sleep, I would suggest if they really complain about traffic a lot here in Medford or the Valley, to get up about 5.30, 6 a.m., go for a drive in downtown Bedford, and you'll have an experience that you don't have probably any other time of the day

except maybe late at night. Oh, that is, you are absolutely right about that, Jerry. It's so true. Of course, I remembered it got kind of spooky. Remember back during the COVID time when everybody else was staying home during those days? Remember that? Right. It was spooky to come into work at 4.30 in the morning and realize, like, you're the only one on the road coming from your house.

You're the only one on Highway 62 that you can see in both directions. I don't ever want to see that little traffic again, all right? Right. Well, I'm just saying it's, you know, it's liberating. I'll tell you what I do. So, first of all, I don't really complain about the traffic too much because even though it's... Well, the worst of our traffic is nothing, Jerry, when you contrasted with urban areas, big urban areas, okay? Right.

I can take the back roads where there's hardly any traffic, and I get to where I'm going. Yep, indeed. Have a great weekend. I appreciate your call. 770KMED. Hello, who's this morning? Hey, Bill, Cliff. I wanted to follow up about that lady who talked right after I went off air.

about her fear of a criminal moving in next door to her an apartment. Yes. If most property managers and most landlords who educate themselves have a good, tight screening policy, and if something turns up in the background check of, you know, regular citizen or illegal immigrant or whoever, then the landlord has the right to deny the application. They do. Yes, that that is still law. Well, that's good, because I do get people who write me that say that they're amazed with dirt bags that nothing seems to be done by the property managers.

The money issue. Oh. Yeah, and, you know, I've talked to landlords who completely depend upon the money to keep them afloat. And, you know, that's a bad business policy. I appreciate the clarification and thank you for telling us more about those laws this morning, too, all right? Yeah, okay, and I appreciate Brad commenting on my presentation there. Indeed. Thank you.

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