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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'd love to get a winner on my show too.
So if you're tuned in, which by the way, you'll
never guess who won the hour after our winner, Mark
one listening to Scott this morning on kfab. The next
hour you'll never guess what station got another winner, The Cat. Yeah,
Dawn was listening to the Cat. The double ups continue continue.
(00:22):
Oh right, should we stop talking about that? Probably, I
mean it's not helping. So, oh well, you know, at
least kfab got another winner, but still the double up.
It is the double up. Okay, so this plane, you
see the pictures, the thing is just like upside down.
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Toronto Airport is from Minnesota. That's a pretty short flight.
It was a plane of about eighty people on board.
Everybody's accounted for, we don't It doesn't sound like anybody
seriously injured. Everybody was evacuated afterwards. And then it's just
a matter of like, how did this happen? Five hours
before this landed, they were post on the Toronto Pearson Airport,
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which is what it's called social media, that they had
been clearing off ice on the runways throughout the entire day.
I mean, I guess it lends itself to the fact
that maybe it was slack on the runway it slipped.
I don't know. I mean like that's we are complete
speculation mode because they're investigating right now. It happened an
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hour ago, so like I don't know, but I was
just looking through their Twitter log basically, and that was
one thing that kind of stuck out. That's like this
morning is like, hey, we've we've been cleaning off all
morning the runways. We should be good to go kind
of thing. I don't know how busy this airport generally
is and why this plane. I don't know how many
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other planes are landing there, but I don't know why
this plane is dealing with this right So I don't know.
We'll love more for you. I mean, well, we're sitting
here until six o'clock. I'm hopeful that we'll have a
bit more answers exactly what happened, and maybe they're'll be
some pictures of what was going on before the thing
flipped over, because I still can't find a video of that.
(02:06):
How does a plane just flip upside down?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah? And I mean like the what would have been
the right wing just looks like to be folded up
underneath so I'm guessing that like tried to like land
on top of that and then the wing just kind
of like folded up upon the weight of the plane.
I guess.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I don't know what if it got swallowed up by
a wormhole and then it came out the other side,
but it was upside down, just one of the many possibilities.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I mean, it doesn't explain why the wing would be gone,
but I appreciate the effort there. So anyway, that's that's
a big thing. That's a big deal. We'll keep you
posted on that. The other thing. Oh, by the way,
it happened in Canada. Okay, so now they're saying three
people are in critical condition, so we will keep you
posted on that. So three people do have I was
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gonna say, how did eighty people in that situation come
out completely or almost unscathed? I mean that sounds like
a very dangerous like it's not quite going from two
hundred miles an hour to zero very quickly, right, because
that obviously would be horrific in so many different ways.
But depending on how this happened, you would think landing
on its top I mean, especially considering that the seat
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belts on a plane right, I mean not the most
secure kind of seat belts that you're ever going to
have in your life, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I mean it's not like a seat belt in a
NASCAR no racing car, you know, like, yeah, it's just
a lap band kind of yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, Like it feels like something you could slip out
of in a situation like this if it's not properly
tightened around your waist.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And they're not going around like a roller coaster and
making sure they're nice and tight.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You know, No, they're not. And there's a chance that
people probably you could get away with not even put
it on, honestly, Like I know that they kind of
walk through. But how do we know How does anybody
really know that everybody's buckled up properly? I don't know,
we'll find out anyway. I wanted to get to this.
(03:59):
Did you see on Friday the amount of like did
you see this? The there was a group of people essentially,
I mean, this is a large group of people that
have gone out of their way to say I was
fired from my job in the National Park Service, like
you know, national parks and forests and monuments and all
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that stuff. Like a thousand people were fired. Now these
were jobs that were I supposed, I mean they were
on probation, probably as part of like the freeze. But
these are I mean, this is not this is not
good to me that we're just like axing this many
groups of people. So I was seeing and I have
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a lot of Iowa connections. So a guy from Figy Mounds,
which is a national monument in northeast Iowa, it was
a really interesting place. He posted and said that, you know,
he was an education park ranger there and said I've
been like, go of my job. And that's one thousand
National Park Services employees. Now this is again an effort
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to try to limit government spending at the federal level.
I get it. This one thousand workers about five percent
of the workforce of the National Park Service. So they
didn't just decimate everybody, right, but they did take out
five percent of their workforce. Which people did they decide
to do that with? Is this something we're all right with?
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They did also say in the same breath essentially, at
least according to somebody who follows this stuff, and it's
called Nationalparkstraveler dot org, which is a website where this
person or the people that run this essentially talk about
news with all these great places. But they say they
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have an email. Okay, can should I read the email
just like the email these people would have gotten so
we get a little bit more context. Yeah, the Department
determined that you have failed to demonstrate fitness or qualifications
for continued employment because your subject matter knowledge, skills, and
abilities do not meet the Department's current needs, and it
is necessary and appropriate to terminate during the probationary period
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your appointment to the position of blank at Blank Park
within the National Park Service end quote that is, I mean,
imagine being one of those thousand people and just getting
that email from somebody that you wouldn't have talked to.
How does that? How do you even know? And our
national parks, which make up like one sixteenth of one percent,
like the whole thing, one sixteenth of one percent or
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something like that of the entire federal government spending like
it is a small amount. Is this where we really
want to just be like shedding and slashing this quickly?
I don't know. I feel weird about it because it's
something I'm passionate about. Again, I'm going to practice what
I've preached about. I'm going to be patient. I'm going
to let see how play out in the same swiping move.
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It sounds like, according to the person that you know
is writing this blog on Nationalparkstraveler dot org, that they
have sources that say there are going to be five
thousand seasonal employees that are going to be hired by
the National Park Service. And riddle me that we're firing
on thousand full time people to hire five thousand seasonal employees.
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Is that really going to save us much money? Or
did somebody just in the last couple of weeks just
like sift through every single person that works for the
National Park Service and fired the ones that they determined,
according to this quote, failed to demonstrate fitness or qualifications
for continued employment because your subject matter, knowledge, skills, and
abilities do not meet the department's current needs. End quote.
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Imaginely being told that yeaesh, well, if you've got opinions
on this, or you know somebody who's been affected by this,
or you saw something that you know like it was
affected by this, you can call us four h two
five five eight eleven ten. Four h two five five
eight eleven ten. I'd love to hear from you about this,
and we'll give you more information on what we're seeing
out there on the roadways, and of course with this
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plane in Toronto that landed upside down. We'll talk to
you about it all coming up on news radio eleven
ten KFAB. Emory's songer what's going on here? On news
Radio eleven ten KFAB. They keep doubling up and I
don't like it a lot of different places around the
country to a thousand or so National Parks Service employees, which,
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of course it hits me a little close to home
because that's something that I greatly enjoy going to state parks,
national parks, monuments, forests, et cetera. And uh, you know,
five percent of the workforce just kind of laid off
in one fell swoop. That's not unlike the world that
a lot of us live in corporate world. But I
just kind of was thinking, do we know why these
thousand people and not somebody else was fired in this
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situation and whatnot? And I love to get your thoughts
on it. You can call us at four h two
five five eight eleven ten. Four h two five five
eight eleven ten. Mick is on the line. Welcome in, Mick.
What do you think, Well, how do.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
We know unless we do it on AUDI. I work
in a technical environment and our customers come in to
evaluate us on a regular basis to make sure that
the contracts that we have signed are being provided, you know,
to their best interest. So we're talking about tax dollars,
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and how do we know without an audit, without an
investigation of some sort of whether their money or our money,
tax dollars are going to the right place. I'm like you,
I've been to many national parks. I was a boy scout.
I've been to national parks in Canada. So what do
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we know. We need to know where the money's going.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
That's my point.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, that's a good point, Mack. I appreciate you for
calling in Man. Thanks for listening to us today.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I mean, we can sit here and we talk about
this and I understand that as well. Brian from Montana
or in Montana. Brian, thanks for listening in Montana. But
he said, the Forest Service let over thirty five hundred
probationary employees go and they got converted to permanent seasonal
jobs less than a year ago after working as temporary
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employees for many years. So it was not really a
fair way to do things. Think about that. Okay, so
you're a temporary employee or a probationary employee, you got
converted to a permanent, seasonal job a year ago, and
then basically the new administration takes place or comes in
and they want to do as much, you know, slashing
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and cutting of what they feel like is unnecessary. And
maybe that's a lot of what these people are, you know,
and that was the Forest Service. This is the National
Park Service and I'm talking about I would imagine they
operate somewhat similarly in that regard. Although some of the
people that are saying they lost their job, they've been
at that job for years. It's crazy to be at
your job for a eight to ten years, like some
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of these people that I'm seeing get like go from
the Park Service and the email comes in and says,
you just don't know enough about this for us to
keep you kind of thing. It's like, but how would
you know. Mike's on the phone line of four h two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Welcome in, Mike, What do you think
about all this?
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Hey, Amery, thanks for having me on. So isn't it
a wonderful thing to have these thousands and thousands and
thousands of federal workers being laid off to save this money.
Because the way I look at it, all of these
people are going to be getting unemployment benefits, You're going
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to be paying out for that, And then where are
these people going to find new jobs at? Because with
inflation being what it is and the economy being in
this awful, awful shape that President Trump has taken over,
how is having all these unemployed people going to be
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good for our country. I'm just curious to get your
opinion on that.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I know I have no good answer for you, Mike,
I don't know. And that's what I'm saying is like
I got to tell myself to be more patient about
what the plan is because, in the same sense, like
in the same paragraph, essentially as people who are reporting
on this that a thousand of these National Park Service
employees are let go, five thousand seasonal employees are going
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to be hired for National parks around the country. So
explain to me how we're actually saving money except for
maybe benefits I guess, or not paying people in off seasons. Like,
I just don't know. I don't know where it goes
from here.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Well, we do know that fortunately this administration doesn't have
to answer any questions or have any accountability on what
they're doing because those darn Democrats are probably to blame
for all of this. So I want to know why
eil On Musk is going to be getting my tax information.
(13:01):
I thought that information was supposed to be secure in private.
But anyway, thanks for having me on. I enjoy your show,
and I know all the Hillbillies will be on to rebukeee.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Thank you, Dang Mike.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Okay, I appreciate the compliment, but dang the Hillbillies to
rebuke you. I don't know where those coming from. Didn't
know we had many Hillbillies here. But this is the
administration should answer questions, and I think they've been pretty
transparent to this point. I would love to hear what
they have to say about this, though, because this is
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something like that. We're not just slashing and cutting random
government jobs anymore. Right, It's just like, oh, you don't
want to come work in the office, Okay, well your
job you're let go or this, that and the other
thing is wrong and your department shouldn't even be a thing.
So we're gonna slash this entire department. But now we're
talking about slashing a thousand jobs of people that probably
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generally we're doing doing good work working at the National
Park Service. And I know I enjoyed the National Parks,
and I don't know what losing five percent of that
workforce will do because that, I mean, that's not a
small number. And I understand trying to save as much
money as possible. I just don't know, like how we
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got to this point with these one thousand people, especially
with the email that they received. Beth is on our
phone line at four h two five, five, eight to
eleven ten. Welcome Beth. What do you think?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, your caller before that said that they're going to
blame the Democrats. The only people we have to blame
is ourselves by looking in the mirror. But what we
have here is a giant administrative welfare state. I mean,
we pay so much. If you don't look at it,
and you got to look at everybody, everybody's going to
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be saying, hey, that's my favorite thing. I like the
National Parks. I like parks.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
I like all kinds of things.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
But you know what, so point, everybody's going to have
to take their cut, and it might push somebody to
be more entrepreneurial. I look at it like, we've got
your first line to taxpayers. They're kind of your entrepreneurs.
They create things, they create products. Then you have your
second line. Those are the administrative state. And it's not
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that you don't need some of them, but you don't
need all of them to do what they've done. And
what they've done is you can see what they've done.
It's thirty six trillion counting and all kinds of problems.
If that's doing a good job, whether it's Republican or Democrats,
I wouldn't hire.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Any of them, right well, Beth, I guess my only
thing would be is firing a thousand people who work
for the National Park Service and one fell swoop. Is
that going to like resolve a lot of this? Like
That's that's what my question is, Okay, so how did
we guess how do we decide on these people in
this sector.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I'm not inside of what the aggregation of how they're
thinking about it, but just think about when they lay
off people. People get laid off, People lose their jobs.
If you work for the government, though you might be
able to stay there twenty years. I just saw somebody
on television says, I mean people don't keep their jobs
and have jobs like that because it's tough out there
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for business to try to make a living. And then
you top it off with all the lobbyists. They haven't
even touched the surface of how everything works. I mean,
you have lobbying firms, you have all kinds of influence
that creates this nonsensical, dysfunctional thing that we pay into,
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and they hide behind Oh the law and all this right,
it could be against the law what they've done to
the country.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well really, yeah, And it's a good point best. I
know that we're overspending, and I appreciate the call, but
I guess my bigger question on this specific topic is
I want to know, like we don't exactly know why
they are going out to certain departments before they attack others,
and I don't know. I just would like to know
more details. We can talk more about this, Sunny Sam,
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Larry Marsha, everybody that's on the phone line, stay there,
We will talk more with you on news radio eleven
ten kfab Looking at this Toronto plane crash. It was
a plane that you know, flipped upside down as it
was landing apparently, and we'll give you more updates as
we get more information on that as well. As of
right now, though we are talking about federal money being
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spent or slashed or you know whatnot in regards to
the National Park Service, which one thousand employees from the
National Park Service were fired on Friday. And as somebody
who loves conservation or national parks and all the stuff
that goes around there, you know, I was startled by
that information and tried to figure out exactly why that
was the case. We're talking about it with you today.
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Larry is on our phone line of four h two
five five, eight eleven ten. Welcome to the show, Larry.
What's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Well, I don't have the answers why those people might
have been selected. It might be because they were the
newest and if they're going through and slashing all the departments,
that that may.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Be the way they did it.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Don't know. But what I really called for the three
callers ago indicated that the government was going to pay
them unemployment. All employers pay money in as an expense,
and that unemployment that people get comes out of money
is that the employers have paid in. There shouldn't be
any money coming out of the out of the tax
kitty to pay those folks unemployment. So it you know,
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it's kind of it's kind of like income tax refunds
and everybody say, oh, I got I got five thousand
dollars back. You're only really getting your own money back
because you have to have it paid in before you
can get any money back on your income tax return.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, and that's a good point.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
That's one thing I've learned about our taxes as we've
kind of bounced between tax brackets the last few years,
is trying to figure out exactly how much we've actually
even paid, and that does make a huge difference on
how much you get in your return or how much
you oh at the end of the year. A good point, Larry,
appreciate you calling it, man.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Let's go to Sonny on the phone line four two
eight eleven ten. Sonny, how are you today?
Speaker 8 (19:10):
Well, my friend, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I'm fantastic. What do you think about all this?
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Well, that five thousand part time employees during the they
do that every year. I had a friend that you said, weekend,
she'd go out there and work. There's part time employees.
Tree huggers everybody gets into that, into that pile as
the part time, and that's what they look forward to
every year. So it's not like they're pulling out and saying, Okay,
then we're going to put it back in. That five
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thousand happens every year. Yeah, all the people out there
are doing.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Vacationing, right, right?
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Two, how do you how do you eat an elephant?
One piece of the time, And that's what they're doing.
Take a little piece here, a little piece there, a
little piece there. One of the politicians the other day says,
we're only talking pennies on the dollar. Well, you're talking
a trillion dollars and three pennies that's thirty billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah. I guess, Sonny, my only, like, my only retort
to what you said there, because you're right. I mean,
if you're trying to reduce government spending, it's going to
have to be collectively from a bunch of different places.
But I guess my opinion on this particular conversation is,
you know, we're talking about a thousand employees, and these
are not the seasonal employees that we're talking about, like
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you mentioned, and I've I've mentioned this too, they're still
planning on hiring five thousand seasonal employees for the National
Park System this year when we get into the actual
you know, spring season. But the thousand people were full
time employees, and again they were on probationary period for
the way that the government was kind of like looking
at this stuff and they've frozen in this thing. And
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I guess it's just a little stark to see that
five percent of an entire workforce is basically just cut
from something I don't even really think about as government spending,
although it certainly is. But you know, it's just kind
of fascinating to me as to how we decide on
which ones and which people of this, you know, in
these conversations are the ones that are selected as hey,
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your job no longer is necessary or you are not
going to be filling this job any longer.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I just want the transparency of how they made that determination,
if that makes sense.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Yeah. And one of the other things, people can't get
personal about firing people. You know, you can't. You can't
feel bad about this is business and leave it at that.
And that's that's the type of people you need. They're
gonna be laying people off. I've been I've done probationary
period and at the end he says, uh, we like it,
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but the Union doesn't. So I didn't get the job. Yeah,
because I told the joke. The only reason the horse
is a similar for teasters. The only animal I know
can seek standing up.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That makes sense, makes sense, Sonny, fight fight or flight,
and mostly flight in that regard, that's for sure. Yeah, Sonny,
appreciate it. Thanks for listening to us.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Safe journey everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, yeah, definitely stay safe out there. Yeah, just to
to just finish that point that he made up there.
You can't get personal with this. I mean you've watched Moneyball,
you know Moneyball Brad Pitts the GM really being of
the a's and he's teaching Peter Brand who's apprentice essentially,
who's played by Jonah Hill, and he says he can't
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get close with these guys. You got to be able
to cut them. You've got to be able to you know,
like very quick.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Just it does kind of make you feel a little
anti human though, that's for sure. Marsha's on our phone line, Marsia,
thanks for holding and being a part of our show today.
What do you think about all this, Well, I.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Really appreciate the National Park Service and Joey all the
National parks. I don't believe I've ever looked around when
I'm at a park and thought pointed that too many
people here. You know, In fact, many of the parks
rely on a lot of volunteers during their busy season
to even make things run. So what I'd like to
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know is if the playdoff people were Republican or Demo.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
That's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, well, I I if I had those stats, those
would be pretty fascinating, wouldn't they What it might be
able to tell us a bit more of this story
into whether or not some of this was retaliatory. And again,
I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I
know exactly how the National Park System works. Obviously, we
know that they hire people on a seasonal basis, and
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that's that makes up a lot of the people that
work there. And again, like you said, you know, I'm
not so sure about how many people it takes to
actually keep the trails clean or to make sure the
campsites are you know, usable, and the water and all
this stuff. I don't know the answers to those questions.
But it would be fascinating to understand or learn about
how they got to these one thousand people, that's for sure.
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Thanks Marsha, I appreciate you for calling in today. Mark's
on our phone line at four oh two five five,
eight eleven ten. Welcome in, Mark. What do you think?
Speaker 10 (23:55):
Hey, how you doing? First off to her comment, I
do have a friend of mine that works for in
their nineteen and a half years, he got the original
email of avig cancer retirement. But and he's Republican. But
the funny thing is he said, look, as I got
to do stick it out six months, I get full retirement,
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and it'll take him a year to process my paperwork,
just like Elon must pointed out. And he goes and
you get paid for that year he goes, and everybody
who's the government employee knows it, and only including him.
Only six percent of federal employees work in DC. The
real scary number is there's thirty eight thousand federal employees
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in Kansas City and it does appear. I mean, this
is normal. I hate to say this, but for a
normal business, you can pick any business. In a lot
of big business, what they do is they overhire because nobody.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Hires well, including me.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
And you know, just coincidentally, I fired an employee today
because of lack of work. That doesn't make me happy
because I'd rather have the work and have them employed.
But you know, life is a reality, you know, and
big businesses over higher and they don't hire well. And
then every time there's a downturn in the economy, they
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use that as an excuse or a reason to lay
people off, and they lay off people that they kind
of knew they already wanted to lay off. Do they
sometimes pick the wrong person and make a mistake. Absolutely,
The federal government is absolutely going to you know, terminate
people that probably shouldn't have been terminated. But at the
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end of the day, if you get a chance, there's
some you know, we realistically have a year to maximum
three years to fix our deficit and our debt problem,
and if we don't fix that, they're all going to
be laid off. So you know, sometimes you got to
make a really bad choice. That The best analogy I've heard,
which is not mine, but I have had open art surgery,
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is you know, we got to open heart surchy on
the patients. The United States government and the challenges. We
got to do open and we know the patient needs
open our surgery, and we got to do it without
killing the patients. So you know this is going to
be rough, you know. And I'm me personally. I had
some status South Dakota work that was coming up that
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they canceled because part of it was funded by a
federal grant, you know. And everybody's going to pay a
little bit, either inconvenience or their job, you know. And
I hate to say that, but even like my friend,
the FEMA employee said, look, I don't blame them. They
need to burn down the house and start over now.
He said, up till last year, they were managing all
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a SEMAS inventory on spreadsheets. Can you imagine they're managing
all this emergency supplies on Excel spreadsheets?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, it's hard to imagine. There, Mark, all of what
you just said, great points. I really appreciate you for
calling in on that. Thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 10 (26:58):
You bet, I have a great day.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, you too. It's hard to disagree with a lot
of what we're talking about here, and this is why
I welcome the conversation. For the different angles of the
different opinions, especially when you talk about a federal employee
who's been laid off or at least offered, you know, retirement,
saying I get it. I understand. We're gonna have this
issue and we're gonna have to deal with it. Appreciate
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everybody for being a part of this conversation. It is
right now three forty eight. When we come back, let's
see a little celebration. Let's talk to somebody who's actually
picked up a victory here recently, including today on our
station during our thousand dollars cash contest. We'll talk about
that next on news radio eleven to ten kfab cash contest,
and you just put the keyword in at kfab dot
(27:41):
com you'll have a chance to win. And wouldn't you
know who won? The pony Mark from Omaha was a
winner this morning listening to Scott Vorhees on this radio station,
and we are pleased to be joined by the winner himself, Mark. Mark,
congratulations and thanks for being on our show today.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Thank you very much. I appreciate it all.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Right, Mark, tell me about the journey here. How often
do you play this cash contest?
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I play it. I listened to KFB all the time.
I enjoy Gary Statlemyer when I'm up that early, Scott Voorhees,
and I actually was listening to you this afternoon. Yeah,
and so I've been listening for many years and really
like the station.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Well that's awesome, man. We appreciate you for listening to
us today. Very thankful to have people like you that
are part of our family here at KFAB, which is
one of the reasons why it's so rewarding for us
to be able to have winners of one thousand dollars.
So what was that process like for you? What was
the phone call like? Did it come from a restricted number?
Is that what happened?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Yeah? Actually, it took them three phone calls before i'd
answer because it said private number, which I normally won't answer.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Oh you got lucky. They called you that many times,
Mark yee.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Yeah. They on the third run. I picked up because
I thought, well, this is just going to keep going,
so I'm better answer it and get this over with.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And then you were like, oh you're giving me money, okay.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Yeah, yeah, so that was that was great. I was
expecting a five to one three number if they did call, yeah,
because they're in Cincinnati. But the private number thing threw
me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, so I think that's the way they're doing it nowadays,
is the private number or the restricted number access or
something like that. But I'm glad that you picked up,
and I'm glad that you were able to be informed
that you were the winner of the one thousand dollars contest.
So you've had a few hours to think about it.
You know what you're going to be doing with this money?
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Well, I have a bunch of grandkids so and I
have one graduating high school this year, so that'll cost
me some money. Oh and got several birthdays coming up
throughout the year, and and then the rest I'll probably
put towards a vacation. I'm planning in October.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
That's what I like to hear. Where's the vacation do
you know?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Yeah, I'm going with my church to Italy.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Oh well, that's not a small trip. You can use
every last dollar that you could find for that. That
sounds like a lot of fun. What do you doing
in Italy?
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Well, it's the Catholic Church's twenty fifth jubilee year, and
so a bunch of us from our church are flying
over to Rome and then we're going up to a
CC and several other places in the northeast part of Italy.
And then because are pre studied in Rome for seven years,
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I think we're going to get some private tours in
the Vatican and some other places. So that'll be a
lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
That's like I once in a lifetime trip there. Mark,
this sounds like a lot a lot of fun. I
appreciate you for listening to us. We always are so
thankful and love to talk to people who have had
such a long history listening to our radio station. It's
an honor for me to even be on this radio
station to get a chance to talk to people like you.
But I'm really really excited for you, Mark, congratulations, Thanks
so much for playing our contest, and hopefully we to
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hear back from you about some of the great things
that you've done with that thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Okay, and that would be great.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Man.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
I'm proud to represent AFAB as a winner.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
So yeah, oh we needed one, I tell you what. Mark,
I'm so glad that you were a part of the
show today because we were definitely feeling a little dry.
It'd been it'd been a while, so you're you're the
guy that broke the broke the dam. We're going to
flow through. We're going to have like five or six
more by the end of this contest. I just know it.
So thanks for waving our flag. Mark you have a
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great rest of your day, you too, Thanks a lot
ah good stuff. Congrats to him, Congrats to everybody who's
a winner, especially here in the Omaha area. And we
will continue to try to give you a winner. We'll
have another keyword for you here when we come back
after the top of the hour, news and traffic and
weather and whatnot. And of course when we come back,
we'll continue our conversations about different things that are happening
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in the Omaha area, like our traffic. We will give
you an update on the roads as the traffic reports begin.
And also, you know, if we can get more details
on that strange plane crash in Toronto, all of that
and more on the way stay with us. Emery Sunger
with you on news radio eleven tin kfab
I'd love to get a winner on my show too.
So if you're tuned in, which by the way, you'll
never guess who won the hour after our winner, Mark
one listening to Scott this morning on kfab. The next
hour you'll never guess what station got another winner, The Cat. Yeah,
Dawn was listening to the Cat. The double ups continue continue.
(00:22):
Oh right, should we stop talking about that? Probably, I
mean it's not helping. So, oh well, you know, at
least kfab got another winner, but still the double up.
It is the double up. Okay, so this plane, you
see the pictures, the thing is just like upside down.
(00:42):
Toronto Airport is from Minnesota. That's a pretty short flight.
It was a plane of about eighty people on board.
Everybody's accounted for, we don't It doesn't sound like anybody
seriously injured. Everybody was evacuated afterwards. And then it's just
a matter of like, how did this happen? Five hours
before this landed, they were post on the Toronto Pearson Airport,
(01:04):
which is what it's called social media, that they had
been clearing off ice on the runways throughout the entire day.
I mean, I guess it lends itself to the fact
that maybe it was slack on the runway it slipped.
I don't know. I mean like that's we are complete
speculation mode because they're investigating right now. It happened an
(01:25):
hour ago, so like I don't know, but I was
just looking through their Twitter log basically, and that was
one thing that kind of stuck out. That's like this
morning is like, hey, we've we've been cleaning off all
morning the runways. We should be good to go kind
of thing. I don't know how busy this airport generally
is and why this plane. I don't know how many
(01:46):
other planes are landing there, but I don't know why
this plane is dealing with this right So I don't know.
We'll love more for you. I mean, well, we're sitting
here until six o'clock. I'm hopeful that we'll have a
bit more answers exactly what happened, and maybe they're'll be
some pictures of what was going on before the thing
flipped over, because I still can't find a video of that.
(02:06):
How does a plane just flip upside down?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah? And I mean like the what would have been
the right wing just looks like to be folded up
underneath so I'm guessing that like tried to like land
on top of that and then the wing just kind
of like folded up upon the weight of the plane.
I guess.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I don't know what if it got swallowed up by
a wormhole and then it came out the other side,
but it was upside down, just one of the many possibilities.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I mean, it doesn't explain why the wing would be gone,
but I appreciate the effort there. So anyway, that's that's
a big thing. That's a big deal. We'll keep you
posted on that. The other thing. Oh, by the way,
it happened in Canada. Okay, so now they're saying three
people are in critical condition, so we will keep you
posted on that. So three people do have I was
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gonna say, how did eighty people in that situation come
out completely or almost unscathed? I mean that sounds like
a very dangerous like it's not quite going from two
hundred miles an hour to zero very quickly, right, because
that obviously would be horrific in so many different ways.
But depending on how this happened, you would think landing
on its top I mean, especially considering that the seat
(03:14):
belts on a plane right, I mean not the most
secure kind of seat belts that you're ever going to
have in your life, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I mean it's not like a seat belt in a
NASCAR no racing car, you know, like, yeah, it's just
a lap band kind of yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, Like it feels like something you could slip out
of in a situation like this if it's not properly
tightened around your waist.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And they're not going around like a roller coaster and
making sure they're nice and tight.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You know, No, they're not. And there's a chance that
people probably you could get away with not even put
it on, honestly, Like I know that they kind of
walk through. But how do we know How does anybody
really know that everybody's buckled up properly? I don't know,
we'll find out anyway. I wanted to get to this.
(03:59):
Did you see on Friday the amount of like did
you see this? The there was a group of people essentially,
I mean, this is a large group of people that
have gone out of their way to say I was
fired from my job in the National Park Service, like
you know, national parks and forests and monuments and all
(04:21):
that stuff. Like a thousand people were fired. Now these
were jobs that were I supposed, I mean they were
on probation, probably as part of like the freeze. But
these are I mean, this is not this is not
good to me that we're just like axing this many
groups of people. So I was seeing and I have
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a lot of Iowa connections. So a guy from Figy Mounds,
which is a national monument in northeast Iowa, it was
a really interesting place. He posted and said that, you know,
he was an education park ranger there and said I've
been like, go of my job. And that's one thousand
National Park Services employees. Now this is again an effort
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to try to limit government spending at the federal level.
I get it. This one thousand workers about five percent
of the workforce of the National Park Service. So they
didn't just decimate everybody, right, but they did take out
five percent of their workforce. Which people did they decide
to do that with? Is this something we're all right with?
(05:29):
They did also say in the same breath essentially, at
least according to somebody who follows this stuff, and it's
called Nationalparkstraveler dot org, which is a website where this
person or the people that run this essentially talk about
news with all these great places. But they say they
(05:52):
have an email. Okay, can should I read the email
just like the email these people would have gotten so
we get a little bit more context. Yeah, the Department
determined that you have failed to demonstrate fitness or qualifications
for continued employment because your subject matter knowledge, skills, and
abilities do not meet the Department's current needs, and it
is necessary and appropriate to terminate during the probationary period
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your appointment to the position of blank at Blank Park
within the National Park Service end quote that is, I mean,
imagine being one of those thousand people and just getting
that email from somebody that you wouldn't have talked to.
How does that? How do you even know? And our
national parks, which make up like one sixteenth of one percent,
like the whole thing, one sixteenth of one percent or
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something like that of the entire federal government spending like
it is a small amount. Is this where we really
want to just be like shedding and slashing this quickly?
I don't know. I feel weird about it because it's
something I'm passionate about. Again, I'm going to practice what
I've preached about. I'm going to be patient. I'm going
to let see how play out in the same swiping move.
(06:57):
It sounds like, according to the person that you know
is writing this blog on Nationalparkstraveler dot org, that they
have sources that say there are going to be five
thousand seasonal employees that are going to be hired by
the National Park Service. And riddle me that we're firing
on thousand full time people to hire five thousand seasonal employees.
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Is that really going to save us much money? Or
did somebody just in the last couple of weeks just
like sift through every single person that works for the
National Park Service and fired the ones that they determined,
according to this quote, failed to demonstrate fitness or qualifications
for continued employment because your subject matter, knowledge, skills, and
abilities do not meet the department's current needs. End quote.
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Imaginely being told that yeaesh, well, if you've got opinions
on this, or you know somebody who's been affected by this,
or you saw something that you know like it was
affected by this, you can call us four h two
five five eight eleven ten. Four h two five five
eight eleven ten. I'd love to hear from you about this,
and we'll give you more information on what we're seeing
out there on the roadways, and of course with this
(08:01):
plane in Toronto that landed upside down. We'll talk to
you about it all coming up on news radio eleven
ten KFAB. Emory's songer what's going on here? On news
Radio eleven ten KFAB. They keep doubling up and I
don't like it a lot of different places around the
country to a thousand or so National Parks Service employees, which,
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of course it hits me a little close to home
because that's something that I greatly enjoy going to state parks,
national parks, monuments, forests, et cetera. And uh, you know,
five percent of the workforce just kind of laid off
in one fell swoop. That's not unlike the world that
a lot of us live in corporate world. But I
just kind of was thinking, do we know why these
thousand people and not somebody else was fired in this
(08:45):
situation and whatnot? And I love to get your thoughts
on it. You can call us at four h two
five five eight eleven ten. Four h two five five
eight eleven ten. Mick is on the line. Welcome in, Mick.
What do you think, Well, how do.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
We know unless we do it on AUDI. I work
in a technical environment and our customers come in to
evaluate us on a regular basis to make sure that
the contracts that we have signed are being provided, you know,
to their best interest. So we're talking about tax dollars,
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and how do we know without an audit, without an
investigation of some sort of whether their money or our money,
tax dollars are going to the right place. I'm like you,
I've been to many national parks. I was a boy scout.
I've been to national parks in Canada. So what do
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we know. We need to know where the money's going.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
That's my point.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, that's a good point, Mack. I appreciate you for
calling in Man. Thanks for listening to us today.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I mean, we can sit here and we talk about
this and I understand that as well. Brian from Montana
or in Montana. Brian, thanks for listening in Montana. But
he said, the Forest Service let over thirty five hundred
probationary employees go and they got converted to permanent seasonal
jobs less than a year ago after working as temporary
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employees for many years. So it was not really a
fair way to do things. Think about that. Okay, so
you're a temporary employee or a probationary employee, you got
converted to a permanent, seasonal job a year ago, and
then basically the new administration takes place or comes in
and they want to do as much, you know, slashing
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and cutting of what they feel like is unnecessary. And
maybe that's a lot of what these people are, you know,
and that was the Forest Service. This is the National
Park Service and I'm talking about I would imagine they
operate somewhat similarly in that regard. Although some of the
people that are saying they lost their job, they've been
at that job for years. It's crazy to be at
your job for a eight to ten years, like some
(11:01):
of these people that I'm seeing get like go from
the Park Service and the email comes in and says,
you just don't know enough about this for us to
keep you kind of thing. It's like, but how would
you know. Mike's on the phone line of four h two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Welcome in, Mike, What do you think
about all this?
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Hey, Amery, thanks for having me on. So isn't it
a wonderful thing to have these thousands and thousands and
thousands of federal workers being laid off to save this money.
Because the way I look at it, all of these
people are going to be getting unemployment benefits, You're going
(11:37):
to be paying out for that, And then where are
these people going to find new jobs at? Because with
inflation being what it is and the economy being in
this awful, awful shape that President Trump has taken over,
how is having all these unemployed people going to be
(12:01):
good for our country. I'm just curious to get your
opinion on that.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I know I have no good answer for you, Mike,
I don't know. And that's what I'm saying is like
I got to tell myself to be more patient about
what the plan is because, in the same sense, like
in the same paragraph, essentially as people who are reporting
on this that a thousand of these National Park Service
employees are let go, five thousand seasonal employees are going
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to be hired for National parks around the country. So
explain to me how we're actually saving money except for
maybe benefits I guess, or not paying people in off seasons. Like,
I just don't know. I don't know where it goes
from here.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Well, we do know that fortunately this administration doesn't have
to answer any questions or have any accountability on what
they're doing because those darn Democrats are probably to blame
for all of this. So I want to know why
eil On Musk is going to be getting my tax information.
(13:01):
I thought that information was supposed to be secure in private.
But anyway, thanks for having me on. I enjoy your show,
and I know all the Hillbillies will be on to rebukeee.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Thank you, Dang Mike.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Okay, I appreciate the compliment, but dang the Hillbillies to
rebuke you. I don't know where those coming from. Didn't
know we had many Hillbillies here. But this is the
administration should answer questions, and I think they've been pretty
transparent to this point. I would love to hear what
they have to say about this, though, because this is
(13:35):
something like that. We're not just slashing and cutting random
government jobs anymore. Right, It's just like, oh, you don't
want to come work in the office, Okay, well your
job you're let go or this, that and the other
thing is wrong and your department shouldn't even be a thing.
So we're gonna slash this entire department. But now we're
talking about slashing a thousand jobs of people that probably
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generally we're doing doing good work working at the National
Park Service. And I know I enjoyed the National Parks,
and I don't know what losing five percent of that
workforce will do because that, I mean, that's not a
small number. And I understand trying to save as much
money as possible. I just don't know, like how we
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got to this point with these one thousand people, especially
with the email that they received. Beth is on our
phone line at four h two five, five, eight to
eleven ten. Welcome Beth. What do you think?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, your caller before that said that they're going to
blame the Democrats. The only people we have to blame
is ourselves by looking in the mirror. But what we
have here is a giant administrative welfare state. I mean,
we pay so much. If you don't look at it,
and you got to look at everybody, everybody's going to
(14:51):
be saying, hey, that's my favorite thing. I like the
National Parks. I like parks.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
I like all kinds of things.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
But you know what, so point, everybody's going to have
to take their cut, and it might push somebody to
be more entrepreneurial. I look at it like, we've got
your first line to taxpayers. They're kind of your entrepreneurs.
They create things, they create products. Then you have your
second line. Those are the administrative state. And it's not
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that you don't need some of them, but you don't
need all of them to do what they've done. And
what they've done is you can see what they've done.
It's thirty six trillion counting and all kinds of problems.
If that's doing a good job, whether it's Republican or Democrats,
I wouldn't hire.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Any of them, right well, Beth, I guess my only
thing would be is firing a thousand people who work
for the National Park Service and one fell swoop. Is
that going to like resolve a lot of this? Like
That's that's what my question is, Okay, so how did
we guess how do we decide on these people in
this sector.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I'm not inside of what the aggregation of how they're
thinking about it, but just think about when they lay
off people. People get laid off, People lose their jobs.
If you work for the government, though you might be
able to stay there twenty years. I just saw somebody
on television says, I mean people don't keep their jobs
and have jobs like that because it's tough out there
(16:18):
for business to try to make a living. And then
you top it off with all the lobbyists. They haven't
even touched the surface of how everything works. I mean,
you have lobbying firms, you have all kinds of influence
that creates this nonsensical, dysfunctional thing that we pay into,
(16:39):
and they hide behind Oh the law and all this right,
it could be against the law what they've done to
the country.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well really, yeah, And it's a good point best. I
know that we're overspending, and I appreciate the call, but
I guess my bigger question on this specific topic is
I want to know, like we don't exactly know why
they are going out to certain departments before they attack others,
and I don't know. I just would like to know
more details. We can talk more about this, Sunny Sam,
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Larry Marsha, everybody that's on the phone line, stay there,
We will talk more with you on news radio eleven
ten kfab Looking at this Toronto plane crash. It was
a plane that you know, flipped upside down as it
was landing apparently, and we'll give you more updates as
we get more information on that as well. As of
right now, though we are talking about federal money being
(17:29):
spent or slashed or you know whatnot in regards to
the National Park Service, which one thousand employees from the
National Park Service were fired on Friday. And as somebody
who loves conservation or national parks and all the stuff
that goes around there, you know, I was startled by
that information and tried to figure out exactly why that
was the case. We're talking about it with you today.
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Larry is on our phone line of four h two
five five, eight eleven ten. Welcome to the show, Larry.
What's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Well, I don't have the answers why those people might
have been selected. It might be because they were the
newest and if they're going through and slashing all the departments,
that that may.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Be the way they did it.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Don't know. But what I really called for the three
callers ago indicated that the government was going to pay
them unemployment. All employers pay money in as an expense,
and that unemployment that people get comes out of money
is that the employers have paid in. There shouldn't be
any money coming out of the out of the tax
kitty to pay those folks unemployment. So it you know,
(18:33):
it's kind of it's kind of like income tax refunds
and everybody say, oh, I got I got five thousand
dollars back. You're only really getting your own money back
because you have to have it paid in before you
can get any money back on your income tax return.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, and that's a good point.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
That's one thing I've learned about our taxes as we've
kind of bounced between tax brackets the last few years,
is trying to figure out exactly how much we've actually
even paid, and that does make a huge difference on
how much you get in your return or how much
you oh at the end of the year. A good point, Larry,
appreciate you calling it, man.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
You bet.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Let's go to Sonny on the phone line four two
eight eleven ten. Sonny, how are you today?
Speaker 8 (19:10):
Well, my friend, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I'm fantastic. What do you think about all this?
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Well, that five thousand part time employees during the they
do that every year. I had a friend that you said, weekend,
she'd go out there and work. There's part time employees.
Tree huggers everybody gets into that, into that pile as
the part time, and that's what they look forward to
every year. So it's not like they're pulling out and saying, Okay,
then we're going to put it back in. That five
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thousand happens every year. Yeah, all the people out there
are doing.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Vacationing, right, right?
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Two, how do you how do you eat an elephant?
One piece of the time, And that's what they're doing.
Take a little piece here, a little piece there, a
little piece there. One of the politicians the other day says,
we're only talking pennies on the dollar. Well, you're talking
a trillion dollars and three pennies that's thirty billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah. I guess, Sonny, my only, like, my only retort
to what you said there, because you're right. I mean,
if you're trying to reduce government spending, it's going to
have to be collectively from a bunch of different places.
But I guess my opinion on this particular conversation is,
you know, we're talking about a thousand employees, and these
are not the seasonal employees that we're talking about, like
(20:20):
you mentioned, and I've I've mentioned this too, they're still
planning on hiring five thousand seasonal employees for the National
Park System this year when we get into the actual
you know, spring season. But the thousand people were full
time employees, and again they were on probationary period for
the way that the government was kind of like looking
at this stuff and they've frozen in this thing. And
(20:41):
I guess it's just a little stark to see that
five percent of an entire workforce is basically just cut
from something I don't even really think about as government spending,
although it certainly is. But you know, it's just kind
of fascinating to me as to how we decide on
which ones and which people of this, you know, in
these conversations are the ones that are selected as hey,
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your job no longer is necessary or you are not
going to be filling this job any longer.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I just want the transparency of how they made that determination,
if that makes sense.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Yeah. And one of the other things, people can't get
personal about firing people. You know, you can't. You can't
feel bad about this is business and leave it at that.
And that's that's the type of people you need. They're
gonna be laying people off. I've been I've done probationary
period and at the end he says, uh, we like it,
(21:33):
but the Union doesn't. So I didn't get the job. Yeah,
because I told the joke. The only reason the horse
is a similar for teasters. The only animal I know
can seek standing up.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That makes sense, makes sense, Sonny, fight fight or flight,
and mostly flight in that regard, that's for sure. Yeah, Sonny,
appreciate it. Thanks for listening to us.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Safe journey everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, yeah, definitely stay safe out there. Yeah, just to
to just finish that point that he made up there.
You can't get personal with this. I mean you've watched Moneyball,
you know Moneyball Brad Pitts the GM really being of
the a's and he's teaching Peter Brand who's apprentice essentially,
who's played by Jonah Hill, and he says he can't
(22:17):
get close with these guys. You got to be able
to cut them. You've got to be able to you know,
like very quick.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Just it does kind of make you feel a little
anti human though, that's for sure. Marsha's on our phone line, Marsia,
thanks for holding and being a part of our show today.
What do you think about all this, Well, I.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Really appreciate the National Park Service and Joey all the
National parks. I don't believe I've ever looked around when
I'm at a park and thought pointed that too many
people here. You know, In fact, many of the parks
rely on a lot of volunteers during their busy season
to even make things run. So what I'd like to
(22:56):
know is if the playdoff people were Republican or Demo.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
That's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, well, I I if I had those stats, those
would be pretty fascinating, wouldn't they What it might be
able to tell us a bit more of this story
into whether or not some of this was retaliatory. And again,
I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I
know exactly how the National Park System works. Obviously, we
know that they hire people on a seasonal basis, and
(23:26):
that's that makes up a lot of the people that
work there. And again, like you said, you know, I'm
not so sure about how many people it takes to
actually keep the trails clean or to make sure the
campsites are you know, usable, and the water and all
this stuff. I don't know the answers to those questions.
But it would be fascinating to understand or learn about
how they got to these one thousand people, that's for sure.
(23:47):
Thanks Marsha, I appreciate you for calling in today. Mark's
on our phone line at four oh two five five,
eight eleven ten. Welcome in, Mark. What do you think?
Speaker 10 (23:55):
Hey, how you doing? First off to her comment, I
do have a friend of mine that works for in
their nineteen and a half years, he got the original
email of avig cancer retirement. But and he's Republican. But
the funny thing is he said, look, as I got
to do stick it out six months, I get full retirement,
(24:16):
and it'll take him a year to process my paperwork,
just like Elon must pointed out. And he goes and
you get paid for that year he goes, and everybody
who's the government employee knows it, and only including him.
Only six percent of federal employees work in DC. The
real scary number is there's thirty eight thousand federal employees
(24:37):
in Kansas City and it does appear. I mean, this
is normal. I hate to say this, but for a
normal business, you can pick any business. In a lot
of big business, what they do is they overhire because nobody.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Hires well, including me.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
And you know, just coincidentally, I fired an employee today
because of lack of work. That doesn't make me happy
because I'd rather have the work and have them employed.
But you know, life is a reality, you know, and
big businesses over higher and they don't hire well. And
then every time there's a downturn in the economy, they
(25:13):
use that as an excuse or a reason to lay
people off, and they lay off people that they kind
of knew they already wanted to lay off. Do they
sometimes pick the wrong person and make a mistake. Absolutely,
The federal government is absolutely going to you know, terminate
people that probably shouldn't have been terminated. But at the
(25:35):
end of the day, if you get a chance, there's
some you know, we realistically have a year to maximum
three years to fix our deficit and our debt problem,
and if we don't fix that, they're all going to
be laid off. So you know, sometimes you got to
make a really bad choice. That The best analogy I've heard,
which is not mine, but I have had open art surgery,
(25:56):
is you know, we got to open heart surchy on
the patients. The United States government and the challenges. We
got to do open and we know the patient needs
open our surgery, and we got to do it without
killing the patients. So you know this is going to
be rough, you know. And I'm me personally. I had
some status South Dakota work that was coming up that
(26:18):
they canceled because part of it was funded by a
federal grant, you know. And everybody's going to pay a
little bit, either inconvenience or their job, you know. And
I hate to say that, but even like my friend,
the FEMA employee said, look, I don't blame them. They
need to burn down the house and start over now.
He said, up till last year, they were managing all
(26:39):
a SEMAS inventory on spreadsheets. Can you imagine they're managing
all this emergency supplies on Excel spreadsheets?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, it's hard to imagine. There, Mark, all of what
you just said, great points. I really appreciate you for
calling in on that. Thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 10 (26:58):
You bet, I have a great day.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, you too. It's hard to disagree with a lot
of what we're talking about here, and this is why
I welcome the conversation. For the different angles of the
different opinions, especially when you talk about a federal employee
who's been laid off or at least offered, you know, retirement,
saying I get it. I understand. We're gonna have this
issue and we're gonna have to deal with it. Appreciate
(27:21):
everybody for being a part of this conversation. It is
right now three forty eight. When we come back, let's
see a little celebration. Let's talk to somebody who's actually
picked up a victory here recently, including today on our
station during our thousand dollars cash contest. We'll talk about
that next on news radio eleven to ten kfab cash contest,
and you just put the keyword in at kfab dot
(27:41):
com you'll have a chance to win. And wouldn't you
know who won? The pony Mark from Omaha was a
winner this morning listening to Scott Vorhees on this radio station,
and we are pleased to be joined by the winner himself, Mark. Mark,
congratulations and thanks for being on our show today.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Thank you very much. I appreciate it all.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Right, Mark, tell me about the journey here. How often
do you play this cash contest?
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I play it. I listened to KFB all the time.
I enjoy Gary Statlemyer when I'm up that early, Scott Voorhees,
and I actually was listening to you this afternoon. Yeah,
and so I've been listening for many years and really
like the station.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Well that's awesome, man. We appreciate you for listening to
us today. Very thankful to have people like you that
are part of our family here at KFAB, which is
one of the reasons why it's so rewarding for us
to be able to have winners of one thousand dollars.
So what was that process like for you? What was
the phone call like? Did it come from a restricted number?
Is that what happened?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Yeah? Actually, it took them three phone calls before i'd
answer because it said private number, which I normally won't answer.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Oh you got lucky. They called you that many times,
Mark yee.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Yeah. They on the third run. I picked up because
I thought, well, this is just going to keep going,
so I'm better answer it and get this over with.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And then you were like, oh you're giving me money, okay.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Yeah, yeah, so that was that was great. I was
expecting a five to one three number if they did call, yeah,
because they're in Cincinnati. But the private number thing threw
me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, so I think that's the way they're doing it nowadays,
is the private number or the restricted number access or
something like that. But I'm glad that you picked up,
and I'm glad that you were able to be informed
that you were the winner of the one thousand dollars contest.
So you've had a few hours to think about it.
You know what you're going to be doing with this money?
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Well, I have a bunch of grandkids so and I
have one graduating high school this year, so that'll cost
me some money. Oh and got several birthdays coming up
throughout the year, and and then the rest I'll probably
put towards a vacation. I'm planning in October.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
That's what I like to hear. Where's the vacation do
you know?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Yeah, I'm going with my church to Italy.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Oh well, that's not a small trip. You can use
every last dollar that you could find for that. That
sounds like a lot of fun. What do you doing
in Italy?
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Well, it's the Catholic Church's twenty fifth jubilee year, and
so a bunch of us from our church are flying
over to Rome and then we're going up to a
CC and several other places in the northeast part of Italy.
And then because are pre studied in Rome for seven years,
(30:31):
I think we're going to get some private tours in
the Vatican and some other places. So that'll be a
lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
That's like I once in a lifetime trip there. Mark,
this sounds like a lot a lot of fun. I
appreciate you for listening to us. We always are so
thankful and love to talk to people who have had
such a long history listening to our radio station. It's
an honor for me to even be on this radio
station to get a chance to talk to people like you.
But I'm really really excited for you, Mark, congratulations, Thanks
so much for playing our contest, and hopefully we to
(31:00):
hear back from you about some of the great things
that you've done with that thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Okay, and that would be great.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Man.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
I'm proud to represent AFAB as a winner.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
So yeah, oh we needed one, I tell you what. Mark,
I'm so glad that you were a part of the
show today because we were definitely feeling a little dry.
It'd been it'd been a while, so you're you're the
guy that broke the broke the dam. We're going to
flow through. We're going to have like five or six
more by the end of this contest. I just know it.
So thanks for waving our flag. Mark you have a
(31:30):
great rest of your day, you too, Thanks a lot
ah good stuff. Congrats to him, Congrats to everybody who's
a winner, especially here in the Omaha area. And we
will continue to try to give you a winner. We'll
have another keyword for you here when we come back
after the top of the hour, news and traffic and
weather and whatnot. And of course when we come back,
we'll continue our conversations about different things that are happening
(31:52):
in the Omaha area, like our traffic. We will give
you an update on the roads as the traffic reports begin.
And also, you know, if we can get more details
on that strange plane crash in Toronto, all of that
and more on the way stay with us. Emery Sunger
with you on news radio eleven tin kfab
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