Intersex Microaggressions Against Govt Employees

That pretty much sums up the scope of today's discussion, I think.  I don't know.  I'm sleep deprived today.  Can you tell?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vorge, Lucy, how old are you and how much
do you weigh? You're you're in the same ballpark age age,
age is me.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, I'm a lot.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Heavier than you. But we've been around, We've met people.
I mean, you think about everyone, not only that you've met. Hey,
how you doing nice and meet I'm talking about people
with whom you've established a relationship, either as classmates in school,

(00:34):
playing in various sports teams, being involved in different clubs, organizations.
And then you start working all the jobs you've had
your entire life, part time jobs. When you were a
teenager and Lucy was making ice cream at Baskin Robbins
and looking so cute in that outfit. You know, you
think about.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
All the people that you and weird memory.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Then you go into your college and you meet a
whole bunch of people, and then now it's time to
you know, start your your life. By the way, you've
also been dating people this entire time, or in my case,
trying to and uh. And then you then you start
other jobs and you meet a lot more people. Your

(01:16):
networking capabilities expand. Uh, maybe end up getting married and
having kids that now you're meeting all of your your kids,
friends' parents, and then the people who are on like
the parents of the sports teams and so forth. You
end up doing all kinds of like all right, they

(01:37):
need someone to help with this, uh, you know, fundraiser
for the theater department, and they need someone to work
the concession stand for the baseball or the soccer or whatever.
And you meet more people, and and you like you
just I don't. I couldn't even begin to put a
number on how many people I've met in my entire life.

(02:00):
And whereas Lucy, your experiences are going to be a
little different than mine, you've also expanded the sphere of
how many people you have met in your life. I
mean we're talking about thousands and thousands of people.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, if you're just talking about a hello and nice
to meet you kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
No, I'm not. Oh, I specifically said, this goes beyond
the hello, nice to meet you, and people you have
some type of relationship with neighbors as well, people you
see all the time, and all this so not to
and they haven't even mentioned family members, got family members, cousin,

(02:41):
second cousins, they get married, you meet their families.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I mean, so.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Many people, how many of them. Do you think are intersects?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'm going to say point zero's zeros zeros some It
says here because I've heard the phrase all day that
President Trump is signing an executive order today to keep
people who were in The phrase I keep hearing is

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people who were assigned.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Male gender at birth from competing on female sports teams,
going into the locker rooms and going into federal prisons
as well. How many men are in female prisons according
to some estimates, let's see here. I got that information

(03:44):
right here. About fifteen hundred men are in female prisons.
Not because they ran out of room at the boys' prison,
but guys were like, oh, I'm going to prison for
a long time. Take, for example, the case of this
individual who years ago decided to attack a woman and

(04:09):
her adolescent daughter. This guy attacked and murdered both of
these people. When faced with going to life in prison,
this individual said, Wow, I don't know if I want
to do that. I don't know exactly what this guy
was thinking, but at some point the thinking then turned

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into you know, I can say that I identify as female,
and I can go to a women's prison, and we
America let someone who attacked and killed a woman and
her adolescent daughter decide that he's a female and he's

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now living out the rest of his life, and he says,
I love it. I'm so happy here living in a
female prison as a guy who has attacked and murdered women.
And the reason why they said, like, we think it's
okay is that this guy was upset about the confusion

(05:17):
related to his gender identity disorder. I don't know. I
don't care if he was upset because he couldn't get
his remote control to work, like I can't turn a
soundbar on it. If you're in prison and this is
your roommate, or this is the person in the locker room,

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locker room, the showers, person sitting next to you at
the cafeteria, this person shouldn't be around women. This person's
around tons of women. And what do you know, loves it? Oh,
I imagine he does. Fifteen hundred examples, not maybe to
that extent, but fifteen hundred dudes are living in female prisons.

(06:02):
This and the phrase, I'll get back to the phrasing.
The phrase is assigned male gender at birth. It's like
the doctor took a look and said, you got me Uh,
anyone got a coin, heads, Heads, it's a dude tails,

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it's a split tail. And you flip the coin and like,
all right, we're gonna put down mail on this birth
certificate and there you go. Good luck to you, sir,
because apparently that's happening to everybody. And according to the
statistics here, it says, now, remember this ridiculous diatribe started

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off with the sphere of all the people that we know,
not intimately, but we're more than just we have a
passing familiarity with all the people we've met and known
our entire lives. According to this stat about two percent
of all these people are born intersex. And that's described

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as meaning their physical gender characteristics. In other words, yeah,
I got one of these or you got one of those.
Their physical gender characteristics may not align with the typical
male or female binary gender characteristics, and they could be

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considered mistakenly assigned the wrong gender at birth, which means
that's now intersex. And they say that's roughly one in
sixty people.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh wait a minute, I don't think I understood the
initial question. You talked about intersex. Now, I thought, at
least at one time that meant that somebody was born
with actually both parts maybe internal. No, So you're saying
that every two percent.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
One point seven percent says one in sixty people are
born with they've got one of these, but they're really
one of those, Like they've got the male genitalia but
they have the female chromosomes. Is that what I'm understanding
this to me? If I'm wrong, don't tell me, because

(08:38):
I have already tried to learn much more about this
than I I just I'm trying to think all the
people I've met. We got sixty people working in this building,
which one And I'm not saying like find the person
and beat them or anything. I'm just saying, if it's
one in sixty, then someone in this building right now

(08:58):
is of the It was born with one set of
gender characteristics, but the chromosomes would be the other. Who
would that be?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
So? Okay, I want to understand this. You're saying that
people there are one in sixty persons are born with
let's just say male parts with female chromosomes. Is that
what I understand you to say.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
That's what I understand this to be. I don't believe
that it says there are many different types of intersex variations,
some more visible than others, you know, if you're going
to look for that kind of thing in affecting genitalia, hormones,
and chromosomes. Most experts agree that the rate of intersex
berths is around one point seven percent, and that's why

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they keep using the terminology the sex assigned at birth.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Okay, let's say you assigned somebody at birth, you assigned
them to be male and they have female chromosomes.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
That doctor should be disbarred.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
But they they grow up and they want to be
a male.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
That's not what we're talking about. That's a whole different
set of But if you.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Have male parts then and you want to be a male.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
We're talking about someone born with one of these and
the doctor sees it and says, congratulations, it's a boy. Okay,
And then to use the great line from the Simpsons
and what a boy, mister Simpson. That's the umbilical cord.
Still one of the greatest lines. So hey, I see this,

(10:52):
Congratulations it's a boy. And then later you're running back
to the doctor's office going, you idiot, you don't know
what the heck you're talking about. This is obviously a girl.
And you're like I could swear that. I mean, and
that apparently is happening in one in sixty berths.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I'm still confused.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Imagine how they feel.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
At any rate. Nobody is going to make the emotional
decision until this child is able to speak, whether it's
the child making the decision or as we have seen
parents pushing their agenda on kids sometimes. So nobody's going
to make this decision until somebody can speak about it,
somebody can think about it. Well, yes, so something is

(11:43):
going to influence this child in one way or another. Yes,
or you don't influence them on order, on anything. You
let a child be a child, right.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
No, that's again a very different conversation. I'm just going
with this this frame I've heard all day. You're the
gender assigned at birth. See, because I'm one of these idiots,
these dimwits that thought you know that was also known
as gender the gender assigned at birth. You know by
some know nothing doctor is not a biologist who's doing

(12:18):
all this doctor work anyway? Please have a penis gross
half of that China Scotties News Radio eleven ten kfab
one of the great movie quotes in all of history.
There's your eighties movie reference for this segment of the
radio program. Lucy, you know that that quote? Have you
even seen that movie? Do you know that?

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Uh, that's a vacation.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Really you don't know that famous movie quote, kindergarten, Cup,
kindergarten cu. Wow?

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Was I right?

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah? You're right? Do you want more dings? When Lucy
gets one, right, we give her the congratulations. You get
a heaping helping of kfab prize.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I only remember it's not a tulmost.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Right, two classic lines from that movie, that one and
then it's not a tuma.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
All right?

Speaker 1 (13:08):
What are we doing? Oh, we're looking at freezing drizzle,
ice accumulations from a light glaze to like a tenth
of an inch. If you're like, that doesn't sound like much,
you try and walk on it down. The steps are
up an incline. You put on your your your Penny Loafers.

(13:29):
One of my favorite Linel Richie songs, Penny Loafers, is
I walk on by? Isn't that what he's singing.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
I'm sure that's exactly what he's singing. I don't think
he's singing much of anything right now.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Penny loafers, he's I saw him last year.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, but he wasn't singing much. He was.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
He sang the whole time. He did great love me
some Linel Richie, say you say me say it together.
I just called to say, that's Stevie Wonder you racist.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
I am not racist. That's it.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
No, he says, Hello, that's not the song though.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
I just called to say hello.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
No, that's not how the song goes. You're conflating Hello
by Littel Ritchie with I just called to say I
love you by Stevie Wonder.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
I don't like that song racist. I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Okay, well you're the one singing it. Where was I?
You put on your dress shoes and walk down a
slight incline to go put the trash cart down, or
go get the mail at the mailbox. And you're like,
and I'm sliding and whoop bang right on the old
right on the old tushy, which is another song by
Linnel Ritchie.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I think that's true.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
He wrote that one for Kenny Rodgers. So winter weather advisory,
with the freezing drizzle, it's an effect for Lincoln up
to Omaha, over to Council Bluffs and areas just north
and south of CB. We've we got a slippery day

(15:09):
ahead of us Rick emails and the Zonker's custom was inbox.
Scott atkfab dot com says, does Lucy know ahead of
time what your topics will be? Or is she blindsided
like the rest of us, I don't know what my
topics are going to be ahead of time. Just to

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further show you though here all right, I'll give everyone
a heads up. Now, I may or may not actually
get to this. Sometimes I forget, but after a Fox
News update shortly. If you think that all this talk
that the terminology about the gender assigned at birth, which
as I said, is also known as gender like they
keep saying that biological mail otherwise known as mail. Why

(15:57):
are we anyway?

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Here?

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Is we have anti discrimination language, right, you are not
to discriminate based on and well, you know, just like
the phrase like lgbt Q has gotten bigger l g
b t Q I A two s plus. There's a

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lot in there. Well that language and anti discrimination language
apparently is not big enough. Why do you hear this?
This is the anti discrimination language to end all anti
discrimination language. I'll have it for you next. Dot by
News Radio eleven ten k F A anti discrimination language.

(16:48):
The standard is discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, disability, age will not be tolerated. Covers everything, right.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Seems to.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Oh not, we are not even close. That doesn't cover anything.
You might as well not even write it down. We
will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability,
and age. And there are a lot of people in
this country discriminating based on color. They don't like Trump

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because he's orange. It is weird, right, We don't discriminate
based on race, color, or ethnicity, Like, well, what does
one not have to do? It doesn't have to do
with the other. There are people like, oh, I'm African,
but you're white. Yeah, there are white people that live

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in Africa.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Right, so you're not talking about like Rachel Dolozl No,
not like that.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Well, they discriminated on her based on everything. They're just
like no, no, The answer is just no. That was
the white girl who masqueraded not just as a black girl,
but actually started running a division of the NAACP. I
believe up in the Pacific Northwest, a former guest on
this radio program. Anyway, discrimination is illegal based on race,

(18:23):
color and religion, sex, national origin, disability, and age.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
That's nothing seems fair.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
I have in my possession an anti discrimination policy that
puts that shame to shame. Now, I'm not going to
identify the organization or who sent this to me. It
is a regional group says we abide by anti harassment policy,

(19:00):
and our code of ethics says we are committed to
providing an environment free of harassment, bullying, microaggression, and discrimination
regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, abilities,
physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, those who do hold

(19:26):
religious beliefs, and those who do not hold religious beliefs,
method of communication, technology choices, or other protected categories.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Denied.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Someone was harassed based on their technology choices and method
of communication, and they apparently complained like hey, I've got
a flip phone, or I wrote someone a letter and
they said they couldn't read my handwriting. We got to
put it that. I feel like there's been a microaggression, Like,

(20:06):
what does mic rowe have to do with this? No,
not a mic row aggression.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Well, who determines what's a micro and what's a micro?
I mean, who's going to determine that this is a microaggression?

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Micro? You know what a microaggression is right, it's an
aggression so small is that it only exists in your
stupid brain? This this doesn't That was a macro aggression
by the way, Yeah, we had to put this into
the language here, this regional group. You want me to

(20:40):
read it again?

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yes? Please?

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Do you want to take all this in all?

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Right?

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Excuse me? We are committed to providing an environment free
of harassment, bullying, micro aggression. Now, harassment, bullying and microaggression
Are these not the same thing?

Speaker 2 (21:06):
It feels like it to me.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
And discrimination, Now, you could just say discrimination for any reason.
I mean, that seems to cover all of it. But no,
we have to specify what discrimination this regional organization will
not tolerate. So no discrimination regardless of gender, gender identity,

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and expression. Which that's that's kind of a hateful phrase
in and of itself, right, gender identity and gender expression.
That could be that let's say you're let's say you're
male and you identify as male, but you dress in

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what is stereotypically an old world thought of what a
female might dress like. How dare you get to decide? Like, oh,
I get it, you're a guy who dressed like a girl. Sir,
how dare you who says how girls dress and boys dress.
I'm a boy and I'm dressed like me, like you're.
You're dressed like Aunt Pearl, you dress like anti Mame?

Speaker 2 (22:18):
So is this a problem? Is this a big problem?
Are you guys dressing like anti anti Mame?

Speaker 1 (22:24):
I guess I mean they phrase gender expression though gender
identity and gender expression. I mean you wouldn't have to
say this. I mean, based on the whatever is happening now,
your gender is fluid. It's no one's job to define it,

(22:44):
especially not those no nothing doctors, biologists. You know you,
So you wouldn't have to specify gender identity or gender expression. Yeah, anyway,
committed to providing an environment for you Harassment, bullying, microaggression,
and discrimination, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age,

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sexual orientation, abilities, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, those
who don't do hold religious beliefs, and those who do
not hold religious beliefs, method of communication, technology choices, or
other protected category. I'm trying to figure out who I
can bully and microaggress.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Some method of communication that could cover if you identify
as a cat and all you do is now.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Oh I suppose it could. Yeah, that would be part
of your expression, I guess, But that's not gender.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
That's not gender though, that's species.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
It looks like we can, we can potentially bully and harass,
which again, this is all just for joke. I don't
I don't support bullying or harassing anyone. But I'll tell
you what else I don't support. It's so called microaggression,
where you just decided that someone has bullied or harassed you, like,

(24:07):
how well, because they told me that I couldn't dress
as a cat and and come to work here, like, well,
did you get hired by pet Smart? No? You know
it's a major, you know, international banking firm with important
clients coming to and fro and they have a certain

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standard that they want you to dress by. And you
came in dressed as a cat, and you didn't even
have the courtesy to dress as catwoman, which I think,
depending on your specifications, might be not only allowed but encouraged.
So you decided that they've they've they bullied and harassed you. Anyway,

(24:47):
who can we bully? I think you can bully people
who identify as as cats, so long as they don't
communicate as cats, because then you would not be allowed
to bully based on their method of communication. It says
you can't bully those who hold religious beliefs and those
who do not hold religious beliefs. What about those who
don't know? I mean, you've got your people of religious beliefs.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
And you've got to make fun of them because they
don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Right, You've got your atheists, But what about your agnostics?
They don't It seems like they neither hold nor don't
hold a religious belief They're just like, yeah, I don't know.
Can we bully and harass them? You know, those people
sitting there not hurting anybody, someone's got to be bullied
and harassed. You hear me, agnostic cat people, it's going

(25:34):
to be you. How did society unless unless they're black cats?

Speaker 2 (25:42):
How did society get to this point with all of
this terrible bullying and judging that has gone on for
the last few centuries Because it didn't because nobody called
it that. Because people were a more or polite, life
was better, People respected each other. And secondly, if somebody

(26:07):
did say something to you whatever, somebody was always going
to be mean. There are always so you could just
sum this whole thing up with don't be a.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, quit being a right, whatever you were gonna write,
I got a couple of words in my head, don't
be either any of those. You know that there are
young girls thirteen years old on social media right now
telling their classmates to kill themselves.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Right, I've heard things like that. I didn't know it
was actually true.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
This is a pretty common parlance on social media. You know,
you you dress it a certain way, you say something,
you look at someone what has perceived to be the
wrong way. You you tell a friend of yours I
like Bobby, Well, you know Teresa likes Bobby, so that
means you can't like Bobby, so it's time for Teresa

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to tell you to kill yourself.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Other than the last part that's been going on in
school forever, we had that yeah, well, people didn't like
the way we dressed.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
We had, right, but the phrase about why don't you
just kill yourself? Because then it wouldn't just be you know,
on social media, it's people piling on people who don't
even know you were like, oh, we're trying to get
someone to kill herself. I'm in, yeah, you should kill yourself.
You know, that's that's pretty aggressively going on a lot

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on social media, and a lot of them, you know,
they'll get your phone number, then they'll you just get
random text messages from people who are offering up for you.
If you have any time today, would you please find
some time to kill yourself?

Speaker 2 (27:51):
This is.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
This is happening all the time. Yeah, but we got
to have an anti discrimination policy here. Well, we're trying
to get grown. This is not for children, by the way,
this organization I read this policy from is for adults.
And we're trying to get other adults in this organization

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not to discriminate or harass based on technology choices or
method of communication or anything else. And meanwhile, we've got
real problems as we're saying, like, hey, you adults who
weren't going to bully each other anyway at this conference,

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don't bully each other like we weren't even going to.
We got young people on there that we're ignoring on
social media that are constantly bullying each other. And whereas
you know, that's just girls. Guys. It used to be like,
you know, hey, you know, forget you now, forget you

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and you throw a couple of punches and it's over.
Now they'll bring gun to school. It's of all the
things that are there are some things that are just
better now than they were years ago. I think the
air we breathe, largely the water we drink, even though

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there are people out there saying like, oh, it's all terrible,
it's it's just it's just better. We have several different
flavors of pop tarts that didn't exist when I was
a kid. I mean, there's a lot of stuff that's
just better. You still got the brown sugar cinnamon. But
have you tried s'mores pop tarts? Holy cow, are those good.

(29:41):
My wife brought home a snack for the family the
other night. It was chocolate covered marshmallows with little peppermint
sprinkles on them. Oh man, was that good. There's just
a lot of stuff that's better, but not everything. Yet

(30:01):
we seem to try and focus on problems that don't
actually exist, trying to make enemies out of friends or
at least people who weren't even really going to have
anything to do with each other. And then you got
people going out on the fifty fifty one protest day today.

(30:22):
You know, with the ice coming in Lincoln, you're gonna
have a slippery time getting to your Lincoln protest. I'll
explain next. Scott Voice got a protest that's supposed to
be going on across the country today. It's called the
fifty fifty one Protest, which, as we noted earlier, is
a great album by Van Halen. Right, that's the first

(30:45):
Sammy Hagar Album's got my favorite van Halen song.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Oh you're still doing it, bat names on it.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
It's the first Sammy Hagar van Halen album.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
That's not the name of the album.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
I know it's fifty one fifty, but we're just making joke.
So fifty fifty one, that's fifty protests in fifty dates
and one day today, and they're supposed to go out
there and tell people I don't like Trump. I'll save
you the time.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
We know.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
We have social media. We've seen you blocking streets. We
saw the vote tally. We've seen you out in the
streets this past Monday, this day without immigrants waving flags around,
not American flags, maybe some of those were being burned.
We know, we know you hate Trump, but today we
really hate Trump. Yeah, you know, he's been in office

(31:31):
for two weeks. We don't like anything he's done. Wow,
am I surprised. Thanks for letting us know.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Did we go to the streets four years ago today?
I didn't. I didn't. I wasn't sure about that, but yeah,
I hadn't.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
After Biden had been in office for two weeks. I know,
I remember what I did that day. I took my
kid to school and then I went to work. Let's
think about what it's like to be a federal employee
right now, and not just I mean, there are some
federal employees who do what I imagine is excellent work.

(32:06):
We have no idea who they are, what they do,
but we're told that we have some essential people in
various realms of federal government. You can't ever get any
of them on the phone.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
David Adam Berry is trying to find them. I said
a name, right, is it? David d Attenbury.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
I'm gonna let you think about that.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Who does the nature shows?

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Attenborough?

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah, that guy, he's on the hunt for um, he's
looking for him.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
I think his first name is Laslow.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
I think it's right.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
I'm just thinking about the federal employee who I reached
out to, who works with a member of government, and
I've never worked with this person before, so I'm sure
there's a little bit of yeah, I don't know you
so arm's length, but it was funny. I had a
very nice email and said, I would love to talk

(32:58):
with this particular member of Congress about something very specific
in his or her responsibilities, related to something that's in
the news, and I'd love to spend seven to ten
minutes on the phone with this person if this person
has a moment. I'm on the radio from five thirty
am to eleven am Central Time from today through the

(33:19):
end of next week. And I got an email back
and said, this congress member is busy, like very very
busy the whole time, very busy, very busy, couldn't possibly
spare a moment here. So I just emailed back, just

(33:41):
because I like to do this to these people. Emailed
back and said, I'm also available anytime in the afternoon
or even in the evening. I will come back to
the radio station if this person could spend Now. The
truth of the matter is, if they say, all right,
we can do an interview, you have to come back
at eight thirty tonight, I'm not going to I don't
care that much, but I just want to make their

(34:02):
life hard here's a five and a half hour window
of time every single day through the end of next
week that I'm on the radio. If they can join me. Sorry,
but the Senator is busy.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
You would think that they'd come up with something better
than that.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
I'm available twenty four to seven. We couldn't possibly anyway.
I'm told that these federal employees are very, very essential
and important. Not all of them are, though, I mean
that's true of any job. I'm not picking on federal
government employees. You go to any job and you find
people like me. I mean, could this radio station survive

(34:36):
without me? Maybe not for the next week and a half.
It's pretty thin after this, but I was gone for
most of last week. No one even knew I was gone.
I love the emails from my coworkers last week. Hey,

(34:56):
when you're going to be back in the office today.
I already emailed you twice and said I am out
of the office a reminder that I'm out of the office.
Had to keep sending that over and over. So could
could they survive without me? Yeah? Any everyone can survive
without no But I thanks, thanks, Lucy. I was gonna
keep going round and round on that conversational drain until

(35:18):
you said something. But you know, there are workers in
federal government like studying the mating habits of cocaine bear
and it's it's great. Maybe yeah, they is it. I
haven't seen it. It is they They like, they know
I'm gonna get fired. Trump's in Elon. They're gonna find
me eventually. I am. I'm probably gonna get fired. And

(35:43):
so President Trump has this email sent to them and
I have a copy it. It links to this website
from the Office of Personnel Management. So you're a federal
employee and you got the email says, perhaps you've heard

(36:07):
we're offering a buyout if you would like to leave
your government job. There's a buyout offer, so you click
on it. It says fork in the Road. This is
an email sent to federal employees January twenty eighth, presenting

(36:27):
a deferred resignation offer. If you didn't respond to that
email and wish to accept the deferred resignation offer, you
may do so by following these steps. You send an
email to this email address from your government account, type
the word resign into the subject line of the email,

(36:48):
and hit send. That's it. You don't have to say
I've learned a lot here, and I really appree. No
one cares, Hank, just leave just an email said to
this email address. I should do this. I'm gonna see
if I can get a buyout. I'm not a federal employee.

(37:10):
But how long until they find that out?

Speaker 2 (37:12):
You know that's probably well, I should try it. You
probably would have worked under former administrations. I don't know
with the doge. Yeah, you're right, I don't know that
it would work anymore.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
I don't need Elon Musk lighten me up on ex Twitter. Yeah,
so I just want to send an email to this
email address, subject line resign, and then just let the
money start flowing in. That's all you have to do.
So what happens if you accept the Trump administration's buy

(37:46):
out offer and the deadline is midnight tonight?

Speaker 2 (37:52):
That doesn't give people enough time to think about it.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
No, they got this January twenty fifth. How much time
would you need? I'm not asking you personally. I don't
need I don't need the two of us here on
our radio station talking about whether or not we like
our jobs.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
It will take me longer to tell you how much
time I would need than the actual time I would need.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
So I'm not talking about me. If you want to know, personally,
do I like my job? I'm here not because I
feel like I'm not qualified for anything else, though I
do make that joke a lot. I'm here because I
love this job. I love this team. Do I love
it every day? Oh God No? But generally, absolutely love

(38:42):
being a part of all of this. And I'm optimistic
about the future. So I'm not talking about me. I'm
talking about me being a federal employee. And I get
an email that says, look, how would you like to
accept the Trump Administration's buyout offer. We're going to target

(39:06):
We're going to cut the workforce of the federal government
by five to ten percent. If we don't get that
through your voluntary leaving and acceptance of our offer, we
will be cutting people. We will be laying people off.
And if you accept the deferred resignation deal by February sixth, tomorrow,

(39:29):
then you will get You get what do you get?

Speaker 2 (39:37):
A new car? A glugger? They didn't really smash them all.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
No, you get to therehouse here it is, I found it.
You'll get paid what you're currently getting paid through September thirtieth,
meaning you can email this email address in the government today,
tell them you resign, pack up your stuff and go
and continue to get paid through September thirtieth. And you're like,

(40:03):
I don't know if I can do that. What about
my benefits? I need health care benefits. You still get
your benefits through September thirtieth. This and maybe this news
story wouldn't have it. Maybe that's somewhere deep in what
you accept here. But I think that you can even
quit your federal job today, continue to get paid and

(40:26):
get your benefits through September thirtieth, and you can go
take a new job and start tomorrow. You can work
a new job, get a new salary, and get double
dip paid by the American taxpayer through September thirtieth. That's
a really good deal. How many people are jealous right

(40:49):
now that they're not being offered this deal. It's a
good deal. So now you work with the federal government
and you've got this option in front of you, and
the clock's ticking. You got to take it today. And
you've got people like your American Federation of Government Employees,
which is the largest federal government employee union, that's suing

(41:11):
to block the buyout and telling their employees don't take it.
Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat said, the president has no authority
to make this offer, and if you accept the offer
and resign, he'll stiff you. You won't get paid. Well
here's and I don't know if that's true or not.

(41:33):
I know that if you take the offer that they're
I believe that the deal will be honored. It'll certainly
be tied up in court. At some point, someone's going
to pay you something, right, It's not like the federal
government's going to run out of money. You ever been
at a workplace where they ask you to keep working

(41:55):
even though they can't pay you right now?

Speaker 2 (41:57):
You know I have not. I've heard the stories though you.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Ever been stupid enough to do that? Because I have.
I did it for a couple of months at some
radio station in Kansas City. I eventually got all my money. Well,
then it paid off for you fifteen dollars and eighty
six cents an hour, no total. Do you get your benefits?
I don't think I had benefits in that job. It

(42:21):
was not a big radio station like this one. So
you've got the option to take the buyout. Maybe you
get paid through the end of September with your benefits.
Maybe you don't. But Trump says I'm gonna cut the workforce.

(42:42):
Elon says we're gonna cut this workforce by five to
ten percent. As of this morning, a little under one
percent of the federal word workforce has accepted the Trump
buyout offer. It's about twenty thousand federal employees that said
I'm in.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
That's because they don't believe it's going to happen. If
this was absolutely one hundred percent guaranteed, you would have
your five to ten percent like that. But you've only
got one percent because you know, I don't know what's
gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
The attrition rate for the federal workforce is about six
percent a year, so you've got six percent of the
people any given year who are going to retire, quit
find something else to do anyway.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
M hm.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
They have an opportunity to do that today. And let's
just take Trump at his word and say, yep, you
will be paid. Or let's say you think, as I
think you're hinting here, that people really believe Trump's not
gonna pay. Trump's not gonna pay, all right, so you
don't take the deal, and then next Tuesday, you're fired.

(43:51):
Oh do I still get that deal? No, that was
good last week. You didn't take it, So we'll we'll
pay you through right now. GTFO, you know, how do you?
How are you? If you're rolling the die sque way
or the other going on? I don't know if I'm
gonna get paid or not. You stand a much better chance,

(44:12):
especially if you don't think you're gonna survive the cut.
And you know, right, you're a government employee. You've been
trying to figure out whether caterpillars can play chess with
government tax dollars for five years. It's a pretty sweet gig.
Turns out they can't. But they don't know that yet.
The caterpillars don't know it. Your bosses don't know it.

(44:34):
With the federal government so big and bloated, by the
time they get down to you, you can probably squeak
this out for another eight months or so. Take the deal, right,
You know they're gonna eventually find you, cut you loose,
probably make an example of you in the New York Post.
Why wouldn't you take the deal? You can start working

(44:57):
someplace else tomorrow and you'll you'll get paid from them
and you'll get paid from the federal government. I mean,
this is this, what they're offering right now is better
than what the University of Nebraska has been doing with
their football coaches. Please leave and we'll pay you from
now until the end of time. What if I take

(45:20):
another job, well, probably still pay you. I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Would they have done if fifty percent of the people
took the deal.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Well, at some point, maybe they cut it off. Well
if if let's let's see that, because that could happen.
I guess fifty percent people say I'm in. Then I
suppose if their goal was to cut the workforce by
let's say ten percent, sounds like we've got forty percent
of new people to hire and bring in their people.

(45:54):
If these people quit, it's because they don't want to
be there.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yeah, but we're still paying them for the next work
ten months or whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
We're good for it. We're apparently gonna rebuild Gaza. That's
the other funny thing about this. Trump's coming in there
and like, all right, we're trying to get rid of
all the government employees. And I don't know about that
aid to Ukraine, the Department of Education. That's gotta go
the US AID program. That's ridiculous. That's gotta go, and

(46:25):
we're cutting all of it. Meanwhile, we're gonna build an
incredible strip in Gaza. Gaza is gonna have a great strip,
Like you're gonna have the Las Vegas strip, You're gonna
have the New York strip, You're gonna have the Kaza strip.
It's gonna be amazing. And America's gonna run it. And
Benjamin Nutt and Yahoo didn't bat an eye yesterday and

(46:47):
they talked about this, and the media is like, wait what.
Trump's like, Yeah, look at this. It's a hellhole. It's
all reduced to bombed out rubble. Who the hell would
want to live here. So we're gonna rebuild it and
it's going to be incredible, and America is gonna build
it and we're going to run it. Then we're gonna
send it. We're going to sell it to Panama for

(47:08):
a dollar. So I and I'm like, I thought we
were looking to cut a bunch of money here. We're
going to rebuild the Middle East. We're going to add
that little component to the problems in the Middle East
where the the Hamas Hezbollah terrorists want to kill the

(47:30):
Israelis and they hate Americans too, and we're like, well,
we'll just add some Americans to the mix. That ought
to make things more calm. And they said, who's going
to live there? He said, everybody. The Palestinians live there,
as Raelis live there. Anyone can live there. It'll be
the riviera of the Middle East. Like I, I thought,

(47:56):
we were looking to kind of get out of this
kind of thing, and suddenly we're gonna rebuild the Gaza
Strip and what's it gonna look like? Vegas casinos and
hotels and big neon signsucks, palm trees, Starbucks across across
the street from another Starbucks, strip clubs. Meanwhile, the muscles

(48:21):
the strip, the musk Yeah, the Muslims are like, we
don't do any of this. You got your drinking, drinking,
you got your gambling, you got your your gentlemen's clubs
and so forth. There's all sind advice.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
We don't.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
We say we don't do it. We do a lot
of it, but we don't. We're not gonna do anything.
So I thought that was kind of an interesting move yesterday,
and a lot of people did, well, what's And that
was yesterday what's going on in the trumpet sphere today.
We'll get a Fox News update shortly. Scott Boys News
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(48:57):
the email address, and don email and says I am
all for them offering this buyout and trimming the fat.
Lucy said, what if fifty percent of the federal workforce
takes the deal, then where are we Well, since only
six percent of them actually go into the office, I
don't know that we really see a difference. My only

(49:18):
question really is what happens to the people who are
one or two three years away from retirement. How are
they going to handle it? Well, Yeah, but that's also
something that happens in the private sector all too often,
and sometimes it's so close to retirement, like you're almost

(49:41):
fully vested in this, or you're just a step away
from that, and it seems like it was purposeful, like, hey,
al is eligible for full retirement benefits and pension next Tuesday,
all right, fire them on Monday. I mean, it honestly
looks like it happens that way. Yeah, that sucks. I

(50:02):
don't have any less vulgar way of putting it. But
if you're I would say, if you, let's say you're
two years away from retirement, take the deal. You're gonna
get paid through September thirtieth, including those benefits, And then
do you have any idea how many people in this
country right now want to hire people who are close

(50:27):
to retirement because they know you know the value of work,
they know that you'll show up. For example, Oh, I
just remembered this. I went into Lucy. You ever been
down in like Kansas and Oklahoma? They've got a grocery
store slash burger joint slash ice cream place populated throughout

(50:49):
areas south of Salina, Kansas.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Is it the largest truck stop?

Speaker 1 (50:54):
No? No, no, there's lots of different locations and the
place is called Brahms, b r Au and apostrophe S.
Are you familiar with Broms?

Speaker 2 (51:03):
I am not.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Broms is so good, really, I mean, for a lot
of reasons. The biggest among them peppermint steak ice cream,
year round, year round, peppermint because there are sometimes it's August,
you want the candy cane peppermint steak ice cream At Broms.

(51:26):
It's just absolute flipping best.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
You're gonna be all right, I.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Don't know so good. So I go into yet another Broms.
When I was down that way last week.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Uh eat everyone on the way up.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
Do you know I spent of the nights and hotels?
I spent three of those nights. We're in a hotel
right next door to a Broms. Oh boy, do you
think that that was root beer? Freeze is the latest
thing I'm addicted to? Oh man. Anyway, I went into
one of these places and immediately panic look on all

(52:00):
of the workers' faces, except one lady who just looked
a little stressed and tired. Because she's older than me,
I think, or maybe she's younger than me, but based
on what had been happening for the last hour or so,
she suddenly looked a lot older. But she like me,
gray hair, wrinkles, lines on the face. You know she's

(52:22):
she'd been. She'd spin around a little bit.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Loved this description of herself.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Cowork. She was so old. Her co workers young people, teenagers,
early twenties. Now the first thing I get when I
walk in a few people kind of stand around. She
looks at me and she goes, it's cash, only our
computers are down. That's fine, I got cash. Now, her
young co workers are standing around. They don't have any

(52:48):
idea how to handle the situation. They're making the food
and the ice cream. She is exclusively now on cash
registered duty, and I think that traditionally she was working
someplace else in the store, but she was the only
one who could step in there and like, because they
couldn't even figure the tax on it. So she's got

(53:09):
a calculator. She's like, all right, you got a root
beer freeze, a large of course, because you know you're
a health nut. And that'll come to this and with tax,
all right, it's gonna be this, okay, that'll be like,
you know, seven dollars and forty six cents all right,
out of ten. That's four cents of fifty fifty cents
makes eight and two makes ten. Thank you very much

(53:29):
for coming. And her young co workers are watching her
do this, going, are you a wizard? How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (53:37):
So? Sad? I know, sad, sad, sad.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
So I know that you're feeling like, but I'm old
and I'm close to retirement and my usefulness is gone.
You go talk to the people hiring right now, and
once you realize kind of what you're up against, for
some of these jobs. You will be treated. They're gonna
have a parade in your honor. You won't even have
to walk.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Are you trying to rid of me? You won't.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
I'm not talking about you. I'm looking at you. I'm
not talking about you. You won't even have to walk
around the workplace, no matter where it is you're working.
They're just gonna carry you. Not because you're old, but
like you're some sort of golden god in some ancient
Aztec empire that's gonna put you up on a chair
and like carry you around and chant your name and
your honor because you know how to do stuff, and

(54:22):
you showed up to work, and you got pants on,
and you have some level of you know, a currency.
Even if you're having a bad day, you're still nice
to the customers. You treat the partners well, you're you know,
decent to your co workers. You got some level of
something's expected of me today. And I'm gonna do it
because you hired me and you're paying me to do it.
And I'm gonna do it because I wouldn't be able
to look at myself and my old wrinkley face in

(54:43):
the mirror if I didn't do any of this stuff,
and you're like, but I'm a year away from retirement.
You could get paid your weight in gold based on
these HR directors. Like we do these these interviews with
these younger people and they all seem to have the
right skills and so forth, but they don't even show
up for work. They don't even show up.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
So you're saying there's a career out there waiting for me.
I get.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
I'm not talking about you. You are young and svelt,
but you know old other people. Old people have outlived
their usefulness, you know, like Jim Rose, Scott Voorhees, News
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