1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Already and this is this is the daily This is 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: the daily. 3 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 2: Ohs oh, now it makes sense. Good morning and welcome 4 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: to the Daily OS. It's Tuesday, the tenth of September. 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 2: I'm Harry, I'm Zara. Weekends are sacred in Australia. Whether 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 2: it's kicking back to have a few beers with mates, 7 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 2: exploring the great outdoors, or putting your feet up. It's 8 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 2: a rite that work has fought for and was granted 9 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 2: by the courts seventy seven years on. We're starting to 10 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 2: look at four day work weeks. In today's rewind and 11 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 2: deep Dive. We'll look at how the Ausie weekend came 12 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,279 Speaker 2: to life and how the nature of work is changing. 13 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: But first, Sarah, what's making headlines? 14 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 3: The Royal Commission into Defense and Veteran Suicide has handed 15 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 3: down its final report, recommending a major overhaul of recruitment 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 3: processes and better regulation of veterans and defense departments. The 17 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 3: Royal Commission lasted three years, heard from hundreds of witnesses 18 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 3: and received more than five and a half thousand submissions 19 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 3: on the prevalence of poor mental health in Australia's military. 20 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 3: It found one thousand, six hundred and seventy seven serving 21 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 3: and ex Defense Force personnel had died by suicide in 22 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 3: the years nineteen ninety seven to twenty twenty one. That's 23 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 3: more than twenty times those killed on active duty. The 24 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 3: Royal Commission made one hundred and twenty two recommendations, including 25 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 3: reforming the culture of the military and strengthening accountability for 26 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 3: the health and well being of eighty f members. The 27 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 3: Government will now consider whether it will adopt any of 28 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 3: these recommendations. If this story has raised any concerns for you, 29 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 3: you can reach out to Lifeline any time on thirteen 30 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 3: eleven fourteen or open arms on one eight hundred zero 31 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 3: one one zero four six. 32 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 2: A group of Western Australian farmers are set to protest 33 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 2: outside Parliament House in Cambridge today against the government's ban 34 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 2: on live sheep exports. In July, legislation passed the Federal 35 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: Parliament to introduce a live sheep export ban by May eight. 36 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 2: Western Australia is the only state still conducting live sheep exports, 37 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 2: which have been criticized by animal welfare groups. Now advocacy 38 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 2: group Keep the Sheep is protesting the ban, which they 39 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 2: say will quote damage regional communities and impacted multiple industries. 40 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: Today's protest in Canberra follows rallies in Perth and Regional wa. 41 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 3: Multiple polls released this week show Kamala Harris and Donald 42 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 3: Trump neck and neck in the US presidential race just 43 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 3: two months out from the November election. A national poll 44 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 3: from The New York Times in Siena College showed Trump 45 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 3: ahead of Harris by just one percent, while CBS News 46 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 3: and Yugov polling in Key States showed Harris ahead of Trump, 47 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 3: also just by one percent. The candidates will officially face 48 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 3: off for the first time on live televis tomorrow morning 49 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 3: Australian time. That'll be the first debate since late June, 50 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 3: when Trump debated current President Joe Biden. 51 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 2: And Today's good news. It turns out galaxies are a 52 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 2: lot bigger than scientists initially estimated, according to new research 53 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 2: from Durham University. An image taken by the researchers showed 54 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 2: the gas around galaxies reaches much further into space than 55 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 2: previously thought. According to the research, the discovery could help 56 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 2: us to understand how galaxies build mass over time, and 57 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 2: could impact how different galaxies interact. 58 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 3: Harry, I saw your piece on this over the weekend 59 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 3: and thought that it was an excellent piece of trivia 60 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 3: that people could go and take to their Tuesday trivia 61 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 3: nights to say, hey, do you know how long the 62 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 3: weekend's been around formally in Australia. 63 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 2: Would you have gotten it right before? 64 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 3: Certainly not, would have theyiled that one. But I think 65 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 3: that this is so interesting because you know, us here 66 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 3: twenty twenty four believe that the weekend is this kind 67 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 3: of enshrined right that we have to turn off, and 68 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 3: you know, especially with right to disconnect laws, especially to 69 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 3: turn off. But it hasn't always been that way. 70 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 2: When I first thought about the weekend coming into existence 71 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: for the first time seventy seven years ago, I sort 72 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 2: of thought, Okay, that's a long time ago. It's been, 73 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 2: you know, seventy seven years. But then you look back 74 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 2: and think, nineteen forty seven wasn't actually that long ago. 75 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 2: I mean, my grandparents, I was going to say, any 76 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 2: about older listeners will take great offense to us. So 77 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 2: long ago exactly, and the whole concept of a work 78 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 2: is right to some knockoff time just didn't really exist 79 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 2: and there wasn't even really a word for it until 80 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: maybe the nineteen thirties nineteen forties when this idea of 81 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 2: a weekend actually started to spread and pick up around 82 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 2: the world. 83 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 3: And what was the typical day for an Australian worker 84 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 3: prior to to this weekend actually becoming a thing. 85 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 2: I'm sure a lot of people who are listening are 86 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 2: visual learners like me. So I wanted to put myself 87 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 2: into the boots of a steel factory worker. He and 88 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 2: I can say he, because it was a largely masculine 89 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 2: industry at the time, would get up at the crack 90 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 2: of dawn maybe year around five am and head out 91 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 2: to the factory floor slog away burning iron ore to 92 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 2: make steel and would clock off sometime in the evening. 93 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 2: Some factories days were even longer and squeezed even more 94 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 2: out of their workers, and people would normally work six 95 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 2: days a week and the only sanctified day off was 96 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 2: a Sunday because in Australia at the time we had 97 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: a predominantly Anglo Christian population who was running the show 98 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 2: and Sunday is the sacred day of rest. 99 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 3: And so then, how did this idea of the weekend 100 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 3: come to be? 101 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 2: It was many, many years in the making, and looking 102 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 2: back on it, Australia was actually comparatively late compared to 103 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 2: some other Western countries, so in the US, UK, New Zealand, 104 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 2: they had all developed the idea of the forty hour 105 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 2: work week before they entered the Second World War. Once 106 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 2: the war ended in nineteen forty five, Australian workers decided 107 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 2: to barrack for this right to reduce their hours. But 108 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 2: this had been a fight that had been going on 109 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 2: for decades, and many union groups and organizers brought legal 110 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 2: action against some industries, including car manufacturers, metal workers, tailors, stonemasons, 111 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 2: boiler makers. That's not a word I've heard in the 112 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 2: recent past, but at the time was a very big industry. 113 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 2: The unions had pushed for a reduction in working hours, 114 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 2: and on the eighth of September in nineteen forty seven, 115 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 2: the Commonwealth Court of Arbitration made a pretty important ruling 116 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 2: that gave life to the idea of the forty hour 117 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: working week, and in handing down its unanim decision, the 118 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 2: court actually said, and I quote, the future will be 119 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 2: watched with concern and interest. So I can't go back 120 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 2: and ask the judges what they were thinking when they 121 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 2: made this decision, But that kind of language just gives 122 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 2: you a sense of how they knew. There was a 123 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 2: lot writing on this. 124 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 3: Decision, and I mean that, as you said, betrays a 125 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 3: lot of the thinking at the time, which was that 126 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 3: it was this really novel concept and it was new 127 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 3: and untested, at least in the Australian market, whether people 128 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 3: who are posed it or groups that are posed it 129 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 3: at the time, i'd presume. 130 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 2: So, yeah, definitely. And in fact, some employer groups had 131 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 2: made pretty detailed arguments against introducing a forty hour work week. 132 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 2: So they said that it would devastate some businesses, It 133 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 2: would lead to lower productivity, there would be good shortages, 134 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 2: price increases, and they leaned on this idea that some 135 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 2: overseas trading partners were more competitive than Australia and so 136 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 2: reducing working hours would just see their overseas competitors dominate 137 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 2: an increasingly globalized trade in a post World War two era. 138 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 2: So while that might have been somewhat accurate when you 139 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 2: look at some parts of the world, as I mentioned earlier, 140 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 2: some big economies like the US and the UK had 141 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 2: already given work as a weekend, so it doesn't really 142 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 2: hold water entirely. The unions have pointed out that some 143 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 2: conservative politicians at the time were keen to avoid the 144 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 2: forty hour workweek. But I got to say the tune 145 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 2: has definitely changed over time. I was reminded of the 146 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 2: time when Prime Minister Scott Morrison in twenty nineteen, who 147 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 2: is from the more conservative side of politics the Liberal Party, 148 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 2: went against his more progressive opponent Bill Shortened for proposing 149 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 2: a way to get more electric vehicles sold and used 150 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 2: in Australia with this line. 151 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: Bill Shorten wants to end the weekend when it comes 152 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: to his policy on electric vehicles. 153 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 2: And Scott Morrison went on to beat Bill Shorten at 154 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 2: the election. Was it a line like this that helped him? 155 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 2: Very possibly, I would say, because the weekend is sacred 156 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 2: in Australia. And I spoke with Sally McManus, who is 157 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 2: the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and 158 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 2: she quite succinctly said, quote, you wouldn't want to get 159 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 2: in between an ordinary person and their right to a weekend. 160 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 2: You'd be hard pressed to find anyone fighting against the 161 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 2: right to a weekend in this day and age. 162 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 3: No, I would agree with that, But when you are 163 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,319 Speaker 3: listing the reasons why people at the time or business 164 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 3: groups at the time were rallying against this notion of 165 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 3: a weekend. It did sound eerily familiar and like the 166 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 3: same tune that people who are against the four day 167 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 3: work week. Now you know all of these ideas of 168 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 3: a loss of productivity, and you know what will happen. 169 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 3: It will devastate businesses those sorts of things. So, I mean, 170 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 3: it's been seventy seven years since the six day work 171 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 3: week turned into five, and now we are, as I 172 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 3: said before, kind of hurdling towards this idea of a 173 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 3: four day work week. Where are we at with that now? 174 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 2: Well, I was hoping you'd bring that out, Sarah. When 175 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 2: I first looked at this idea of a weekend first 176 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 2: coming into existence, some people said to me, the court 177 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,199 Speaker 2: should have barracked for a three day weekend instead of 178 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 2: a turns weekend. But that's where we're out now. So 179 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 2: the weekend was hard fought for, and the conversation is 180 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:19,719 Speaker 2: really increasingly focused on a four day work week and 181 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 2: whether it could improve productivity and work them morale because 182 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 2: we know, especially post COVID, that burnout rates are pretty 183 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 2: high in most industries. In fact, Australia has one of 184 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 2: the highest rates of burnout in the world, with Microsoft's 185 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 2: work Index trend showing around sixty two percent of workers 186 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 2: feel burnt out, compared to a global average of forty 187 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 2: eight percent. So a few workplaces have now trialed a 188 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 2: four day work week, like Manibank, the private health insurer, 189 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 2: and in twenty twenty two there were about two dozen 190 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:58,199 Speaker 2: companies that trialed the four day work week and recorded 191 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 2: a sixty four percent in burnout among staff, and more 192 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 2: than a third of workers also said they felt less 193 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 2: stressed at work. And it's trickled into politics too. The 194 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 2: act government is considering a four day workweek trial for 195 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 2: the public sector employees, and that was after a parliamentary 196 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 2: committee had recommended it. 197 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 3: I'm curious because in the forties the push was really 198 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 3: led by the unions. Are we seeing the unions behind 199 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 3: this current push for a four day working week in 200 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 3: the way that they were behind you establishing the weekend 201 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 3: back then. 202 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 2: They definitely are considering it. In fact, when I spoke 203 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 2: to Sally McManus, she said that they've been looking through 204 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 2: some ideas of reducing the work week from thirty eight hours, 205 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 2: which is what it's at now to thirty five, So 206 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: that would take the number of hours worked down three 207 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:54,239 Speaker 2: hours spread across four days, but incomes wouldn't be affected. 208 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 2: Salaries wouldn't be impacted by that kind of work week. 209 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,080 Speaker 2: So the unions are definitely looking at. 210 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 3: And I mean they did have quite a bit to 211 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 3: do with the right to disconnect legislation as well, So 212 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 3: I guess there are just different ways that this is 213 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 3: now being woven into the public conversation. 214 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 2: Absolutely, but you also mentioned a really important point that 215 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 2: I think is worth touching on, which is there was 216 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 2: some resistance to the weekend initially from some of those 217 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 2: employee groups, and there continues to be a little bit 218 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 2: of pushback when it comes to looking at the four 219 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 2: day workweek. There are some very genuine questions about how 220 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 2: that would actually play out, what that would look like, 221 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 2: and there are definitely some issues that some business groups 222 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 2: are concerned about. So you and I have also spoken 223 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 2: at length about the nature of the workplace as boss 224 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 2: to employee, and I think it's just important to note 225 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 2: that we as journalists also work in one of those 226 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 2: industries where it could be really tricky to bring in 227 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 2: a four day work week, just by the sheer nature 228 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 2: of the news cycle. It's a twenty fourth to seven grow. 229 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 3: If we could just switch it off one day of 230 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 3: the week, no news today, bragging news. 231 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 2: No, no one do anything interesting. But that would also 232 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 2: require people to just not die on Sat Days because 233 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 2: that's newsworthy. Significant events can occur at any time of 234 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,719 Speaker 2: the day. We just would never be able to predict it. 235 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,319 Speaker 2: So the four day work week's just definitely something we're 236 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 2: going to keep hearing about. And in the meantime, Zara, 237 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 2: Happy weekend anniversary to. 238 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 3: Happy weekend Anniversary, and thanks for jumping on the plot 239 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 3: again today, Harry. Thank you for joining us for another 240 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,199 Speaker 3: episode of The Daily OS. If you learn something and 241 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 3: want to take it to trivia on Tuesday, let us know. 242 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 3: We love hearing about all the fun facts that you 243 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,319 Speaker 3: pick up through the week. If you're listening on Spotify, 244 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 3: you can leave a comment there. Otherwise, if you are 245 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 3: watching on YouTube, can leave a comment on there. 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