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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Think, uh, think tidy tight tiede e tied e tied
like Crimson Tide. Maybe you know it's down there in Alabama. Birmingham.
It is in Alabama. It is not Birmingham, though, Tuscaloosa.
It is not Tuscaloos. So there's no bowl game in Tuscaloosa.
That's where the Crimson Tide play. But that's not where.
(00:20):
I don't really know. A whole lot of other Alabama
muscle shoals. That's also an Alabama place, but that's not
where this is. Uh it is Uh. You use this word,
but say it differently when talking about a trailer that
someone may live in a double Why, No, that's not
a name of a city. Uh, Grandpa's a trailer?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Get away on with you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
A trailer is also known as a It can be
a trailer like a trailer you live in. Could be
used as a like you can call it it's it's
something that you know you can't it is a Can
you use it in a sentence? No, because then I'd
give you the answer. Another word for trailer, yeah, Like
like a trailer is a what home? Oh, motorhome? Almost
(01:05):
a motorhome is like an RV. Like I'm talking about
like a troble mobile mobile Outyama. You got it. Good job.
Wait to hang in there. Yeah, I got there. There
you go. Yeah, I wasn't gonna let you out there.
By the way, if you want to see Matt Cason George,
he did wear the George today. He's still wearing them,
you know, So for whatever that's worth. With a polo
(01:27):
that you can barely see the collar of underneath a
sweater that he says he wore yesterday, but I didn't
notice it, and he didn't wear his glasses today, which
I thought. I think it's a good look for you.
But you say you can't see without him, So you know,
I'm mister magoo over here. But hey, if I got
to do it, I'll do it. Yeah. So find that
on the kfab Facebook page, among other things. So a
(01:51):
lot of different things going on in the news today.
We were talking about Iowa and this deal with the
drag bill. We'll see if that continues to move up,
I'm sure with the conservative leadership in the state of
Iowa at will despite all of the protests. Something that
was reported this afternoon that John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Museum in Boston Massachusetts was unexpectedly closed today as of
(02:14):
two pm Eastern time. And here's what they said, and
I quote, due to executive order, the JFK Library is
closed until further notice. Now I don't know what that means.
Is that we know of several presidential libraries, right, I mean,
you've heard of presidential libraries. The Reagan Presidential Library is
(02:36):
one of the you know, great great library. There's George
Washington Library in there. Yeah, you know, there's a lot
of different libraries. And we're not exactly sure exactly which
executive order they are citing as part of this, but
there's a sign on their door that says due to
executive order as well, the JFK Library is closed until
further notice. Is this just some like some sort of
(02:56):
we know Massachusetts to be pretty blue. Is this some
sort of like protest to something. And if it's not,
what is this about? Like I don't get it, Like,
how would any executive order just close a library? And
if it did, and if we if we if it did,
we have to talk about this stuff. We have to
talk about it. I get that we're like we want
the president to do a job and stuff, but you
(03:18):
have to control the narrative. By the way, this JFK
Library is one of sixteen presidential libraries administered by the
National Archives and Records Administration, so they're only sixteen of
these things. If you do not control the narrative, this
goes back to what we were talking about earlier this hour.
My entire point when I brought up that drag bill
was if you do not control the narrative properly, people
are going to just create their own opinion about why
(03:39):
this thing is a thing. Just like the Ukraine Russian negotiations.
When Ukraine is not there and you're not telling us
why Ukraine is not there, it looks like you're just
trying to help Russia. That's not that you are helping Russia,
but it is like, hey, you know, maybe we need
to explain why we're only talking to Russia here. I
trust this administration to be as transparent as possible, but
(04:00):
sometimes if you're not out in front of it, the
political left is going to grab it. They are going
to twist it, they are going to make it theirs,
and you're giving them fodder to run on in the
midterm elections. You're not going to have as much stuff
to be able to do when you lose the majority
in the House and the Senate, and it's not going
to set you up to have another successful Republican president
(04:21):
in office in twenty twenty eight. That's just not how
it's going to work. So I look, it's early. It's
only we're about a month into Donald Trump's second term
in office. He's signed a ton of executive orders. We
talked about this the end of last week, and I
understand why there's a lot that has to be addressed
and all that stuff, But I talked about how I
(04:43):
feel about how did we get to the part where
we're firing people from the National Park System. Okay, we
talked through some of that. I don't disagree that maybe
cuts could have been made there, but how did we
get to that point? Can you explain it to me?
They're not explaining it here now. And again, this could
be political, and this could be on the JFK Presidential
Libraries perspective, and they could just be doing stuff. I
(05:03):
haven't seen this from anybody else yet, but today an
announcement on the JFK Library Foundation's website and social media
says due to executive order, which again we're not sure
which one, But they say, due to executive order, the
JFK Library is closed until further notice. This is an
important place with important documents in Boston, Massachusetts, which is one,
(05:25):
whether you like their politics there or not, one of
the most historic places in America. And I need answers
from this administration if this is something that's going to
continue to happen. That's all I'm saying. Just tell me
why this is happening. If this is happening, and I
just need answers anyway, four to forty five. If you
want to call in, you can four h two five
five eight eleven ten. Four h two five five eight
eleven ten it's news ready to eleven ten. KFAB The
(05:45):
Boston News outlet has learned that the Kennedy Library got
a call from National Archives this morning and informed them
all of their probationary employees were being laid off immediately.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
All the employees, according to this report, have all worked
at the library less than a year. It was something
like nine people were let go from this library. And
you might be saying, Okay, that's fine, you know, no
big deal, no big laws. These are not like people
who've been doing this for a long time. Right. Well,
Joe Kennedy, the third which of course he's a former
congressman and is in the family, said that it's about
(06:19):
a half dozen positions that are no longer filled and
those are critical to the daily operations. So Kennedy said
this in an interview locally, and I quote, I would
like to think that this was not a deliberate target
at the Kennedy Library. But I think we've seen is
that there's not exactly a whole lot of thought given
to what are the consequences of these actions. So the
(06:41):
idea that somehow targeting libraries is going to be the
right way to balance the budget or address efficiencies across government. Folks,
when we start shutting down libraries in the name of
government efficiency, we have got a problem. End quote. So
members who are in the library or people who were
you know, just regular people imagine this. You're in there
and you check a book out, or you're reading a book,
(07:03):
you're sitting there reading a newspaper or something. You know
what people do in the library these days. And you
may not personally go to the library much. My wife
loves the library, but you know how she goes to
the library. There's an app for that. Now you gotta
let you know, you can just kind of like figure
out what books you want to check out and put
get put on waiting lists and stuff for different books,
and then when they become available, you get like the
ebook or audiobook or whatever that you can check out.
(07:23):
That's kind of how these things work these days. If
you don't want to go and get the physical hard
copy book, which is more of my style. When I
go to the library, I like to have the book
in my hand. I like to read the book and
then return the book on time. I like the old
fashioned way.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, you know what, you know what, man, this is
what I've been saying, and this is what I said
yesterday when were talking about the National Park System and
I had a guy who called in and he did
it want to be on the air, of course they don't.
But he said he was mad at me because I'm
taking a side that might challenge what this current administration
is doing. Look, guys, I've said this from the first
day that I got this job. I am not beholden
(07:54):
to any political party, any political movement, any politician at all.
I talk about things the way that I feel, and
we can talk about things. How you feel too. This
is an open ended conversation. I am not like in
cement on the way that I feel about things. I
do feel differently about different issues. I do think though,
(08:15):
as much as we need to cut some jobs and
we need to cut payroll for the ability for the
rest of our government to cut the fat, hammering our
national park system, our National Park Service, you know, taking
five percent of their workforce. Like, yeah, we can talk
about how that can help efficiency and it's not going
to be the end of the world for the National Parks.
Well I'm not sure we know that, but it still
(08:37):
is like, okay, so that's where we're going to cut
where this money comes from. And now we're learning that
there's executive orders. The National Archives has informed of the
JFK Library, and that leads me to think that maybe
it's got to be other libraries too. It can't be
just this one. But the National Archives said we need
to cut the fat. We've been told that we have
to lose positions. Six to nine of your people need
to go. And yes they're not people that have a
(09:00):
lot of experience, and yes they are in probationary jobs,
but it's enough people that the library cannot even function.
You can't even go into the library now. And again,
I'm not trying to be anti Trump here. For anybody
who's like, where are you going up against what Trump wants?
I'm just saying, is there not better ways to go
about doing this? And if you have to do it
this way, you have to tell us why closing libraries
(09:23):
and firing people from the National Park Service doesn't seem
like where we should be starting to slash this kind
of thing. I thought we were talking about people who
were working remotely that we're going to be actually in
person at all these places. These are places that people
are working in person. Dan's on a phone line four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Welcome Dan.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Hey, You're just you're not getting what's happening here. The
reason why all these probationary employees are being fired is
because they were hired under the DEI premise. It has
nothing to do with the budget at this point. It
has to do with getting rid of DEI and anybody
(10:06):
who was hired under DEI. That's my comment.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Okay, I you think the RFK or sorry, the JFK
Library in Boston can't function because probationary employees over the
last year were hired through DEI, and because we're getting
rid of the DEI situation, we like we have to
(10:32):
fire all of these people so the library can no
longer function. That's why we're doing this. Uh, everybody okay
with that?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Are we all a good with that? Like, Okay, if
it's DEI, these people were hired a d I, let's
just fire them all so the library can't can't function, Okay. I.
I don't know what to say to that, because if
that's actually the case, then I can't agree with that.
That doesn't make enough to me. You're just gonna basically
shut a library down because you don't like the way
certain people were hired at a library. Anyway, if you
(11:07):
want to call in four O two five five eight
eleven ten four or two five five eight eleven ten,
I don't care if you disagree with me. We'll talk
about it on news radio eleven tin KFAB
Think, uh, think tidy tight tiede e tied e tied
like Crimson Tide. Maybe you know it's down there in Alabama. Birmingham.
It is in Alabama. It is not Birmingham, though, Tuscaloosa.
It is not Tuscaloos. So there's no bowl game in Tuscaloosa.
That's where the Crimson Tide play. But that's not where.
(00:20):
I don't really know. A whole lot of other Alabama
muscle shoals. That's also an Alabama place, but that's not
where this is. Uh it is Uh. You use this word,
but say it differently when talking about a trailer that
someone may live in a double Why, No, that's not
a name of a city. Uh, Grandpa's a trailer?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Get away on with you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
A trailer is also known as a It can be
a trailer like a trailer you live in. Could be
used as a like you can call it it's it's
something that you know you can't it is a Can
you use it in a sentence? No, because then I'd
give you the answer. Another word for trailer, yeah, Like
like a trailer is a what home? Oh, motorhome? Almost
(01:05):
a motorhome is like an RV. Like I'm talking about
like a troble mobile mobile Outyama. You got it. Good job.
Wait to hang in there. Yeah, I got there. There
you go. Yeah, I wasn't gonna let you out there.
By the way, if you want to see Matt Cason George,
he did wear the George today. He's still wearing them,
you know, So for whatever that's worth. With a polo
(01:27):
that you can barely see the collar of underneath a
sweater that he says he wore yesterday, but I didn't
notice it, and he didn't wear his glasses today, which
I thought. I think it's a good look for you.
But you say you can't see without him, So you know,
I'm mister magoo over here. But hey, if I got
to do it, I'll do it. Yeah. So find that
on the kfab Facebook page, among other things. So a
(01:51):
lot of different things going on in the news today.
We were talking about Iowa and this deal with the
drag bill. We'll see if that continues to move up,
I'm sure with the conservative leadership in the state of
Iowa at will despite all of the protests. Something that
was reported this afternoon that John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Museum in Boston Massachusetts was unexpectedly closed today as of
(02:14):
two pm Eastern time. And here's what they said, and
I quote, due to executive order, the JFK Library is
closed until further notice. Now I don't know what that means.
Is that we know of several presidential libraries, right, I mean,
you've heard of presidential libraries. The Reagan Presidential Library is
(02:36):
one of the you know, great great library. There's George
Washington Library in there. Yeah, you know, there's a lot
of different libraries. And we're not exactly sure exactly which
executive order they are citing as part of this, but
there's a sign on their door that says due to
executive order as well, the JFK Library is closed until
further notice. Is this just some like some sort of
(02:56):
we know Massachusetts to be pretty blue. Is this some
sort of like protest to something. And if it's not,
what is this about? Like I don't get it, Like,
how would any executive order just close a library? And
if it did, and if we if we if it did,
we have to talk about this stuff. We have to
talk about it. I get that we're like we want
the president to do a job and stuff, but you
(03:18):
have to control the narrative. By the way, this JFK
Library is one of sixteen presidential libraries administered by the
National Archives and Records Administration, so they're only sixteen of
these things. If you do not control the narrative, this
goes back to what we were talking about earlier this hour.
My entire point when I brought up that drag bill
was if you do not control the narrative properly, people
are going to just create their own opinion about why
(03:39):
this thing is a thing. Just like the Ukraine Russian negotiations.
When Ukraine is not there and you're not telling us
why Ukraine is not there, it looks like you're just
trying to help Russia. That's not that you are helping Russia,
but it is like, hey, you know, maybe we need
to explain why we're only talking to Russia here. I
trust this administration to be as transparent as possible, but
(04:00):
sometimes if you're not out in front of it, the
political left is going to grab it. They are going
to twist it, they are going to make it theirs,
and you're giving them fodder to run on in the
midterm elections. You're not going to have as much stuff
to be able to do when you lose the majority
in the House and the Senate, and it's not going
to set you up to have another successful Republican president
(04:21):
in office in twenty twenty eight. That's just not how
it's going to work. So I look, it's early. It's
only we're about a month into Donald Trump's second term
in office. He's signed a ton of executive orders. We
talked about this the end of last week, and I
understand why there's a lot that has to be addressed
and all that stuff, But I talked about how I
(04:43):
feel about how did we get to the part where
we're firing people from the National Park System. Okay, we
talked through some of that. I don't disagree that maybe
cuts could have been made there, but how did we
get to that point? Can you explain it to me?
They're not explaining it here now. And again, this could
be political, and this could be on the JFK Presidential
Libraries perspective, and they could just be doing stuff. I
(05:03):
haven't seen this from anybody else yet, but today an
announcement on the JFK Library Foundation's website and social media
says due to executive order, which again we're not sure
which one, But they say, due to executive order, the
JFK Library is closed until further notice. This is an
important place with important documents in Boston, Massachusetts, which is one,
(05:25):
whether you like their politics there or not, one of
the most historic places in America. And I need answers
from this administration if this is something that's going to
continue to happen. That's all I'm saying. Just tell me
why this is happening. If this is happening, and I
just need answers anyway, four to forty five. If you
want to call in, you can four h two five
five eight eleven ten. Four h two five five eight
eleven ten it's news ready to eleven ten. KFAB The
(05:45):
Boston News outlet has learned that the Kennedy Library got
a call from National Archives this morning and informed them
all of their probationary employees were being laid off immediately.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
All the employees, according to this report, have all worked
at the library less than a year. It was something
like nine people were let go from this library. And
you might be saying, Okay, that's fine, you know, no
big deal, no big laws. These are not like people
who've been doing this for a long time. Right. Well,
Joe Kennedy, the third which of course he's a former
congressman and is in the family, said that it's about
(06:19):
a half dozen positions that are no longer filled and
those are critical to the daily operations. So Kennedy said
this in an interview locally, and I quote, I would
like to think that this was not a deliberate target
at the Kennedy Library. But I think we've seen is
that there's not exactly a whole lot of thought given
to what are the consequences of these actions. So the
(06:41):
idea that somehow targeting libraries is going to be the
right way to balance the budget or address efficiencies across government. Folks,
when we start shutting down libraries in the name of
government efficiency, we have got a problem. End quote. So
members who are in the library or people who were
you know, just regular people imagine this. You're in there
and you check a book out, or you're reading a book,
(07:03):
you're sitting there reading a newspaper or something. You know
what people do in the library these days. And you
may not personally go to the library much. My wife
loves the library, but you know how she goes to
the library. There's an app for that. Now you gotta
let you know, you can just kind of like figure
out what books you want to check out and put
get put on waiting lists and stuff for different books,
and then when they become available, you get like the
ebook or audiobook or whatever that you can check out.
(07:23):
That's kind of how these things work these days. If
you don't want to go and get the physical hard
copy book, which is more of my style. When I
go to the library, I like to have the book
in my hand. I like to read the book and
then return the book on time. I like the old
fashioned way.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, you know what, you know what, man, this is
what I've been saying, and this is what I said
yesterday when were talking about the National Park System and
I had a guy who called in and he did
it want to be on the air, of course they don't.
But he said he was mad at me because I'm
taking a side that might challenge what this current administration
is doing. Look, guys, I've said this from the first
day that I got this job. I am not beholden
(07:54):
to any political party, any political movement, any politician at all.
I talk about things the way that I feel, and
we can talk about things. How you feel too. This
is an open ended conversation. I am not like in
cement on the way that I feel about things. I
do feel differently about different issues. I do think though,
(08:15):
as much as we need to cut some jobs and
we need to cut payroll for the ability for the
rest of our government to cut the fat, hammering our
national park system, our National Park Service, you know, taking
five percent of their workforce. Like, yeah, we can talk
about how that can help efficiency and it's not going
to be the end of the world for the National Parks.
Well I'm not sure we know that, but it still
(08:37):
is like, okay, so that's where we're going to cut
where this money comes from. And now we're learning that
there's executive orders. The National Archives has informed of the
JFK Library, and that leads me to think that maybe
it's got to be other libraries too. It can't be
just this one. But the National Archives said we need
to cut the fat. We've been told that we have
to lose positions. Six to nine of your people need
to go. And yes they're not people that have a
(09:00):
lot of experience, and yes they are in probationary jobs,
but it's enough people that the library cannot even function.
You can't even go into the library now. And again,
I'm not trying to be anti Trump here. For anybody
who's like, where are you going up against what Trump wants?
I'm just saying, is there not better ways to go
about doing this? And if you have to do it
this way, you have to tell us why closing libraries
(09:23):
and firing people from the National Park Service doesn't seem
like where we should be starting to slash this kind
of thing. I thought we were talking about people who
were working remotely that we're going to be actually in
person at all these places. These are places that people
are working in person. Dan's on a phone line four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Welcome Dan.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Hey, You're just you're not getting what's happening here. The
reason why all these probationary employees are being fired is
because they were hired under the DEI premise. It has
nothing to do with the budget at this point. It
has to do with getting rid of DEI and anybody
(10:06):
who was hired under DEI. That's my comment.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Okay, I you think the RFK or sorry, the JFK
Library in Boston can't function because probationary employees over the
last year were hired through DEI, and because we're getting
rid of the DEI situation, we like we have to
(10:32):
fire all of these people so the library can no
longer function. That's why we're doing this. Uh, everybody okay
with that?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Are we all a good with that? Like, Okay, if
it's DEI, these people were hired a d I, let's
just fire them all so the library can't can't function, Okay. I.
I don't know what to say to that, because if
that's actually the case, then I can't agree with that.
That doesn't make enough to me. You're just gonna basically
shut a library down because you don't like the way
certain people were hired at a library. Anyway, if you
(11:07):
want to call in four O two five five eight
eleven ten four or two five five eight eleven ten,
I don't care if you disagree with me. We'll talk
about it on news radio eleven tin KFAB
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