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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our phones are always open, you know that.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Come on at anytime you'd like two, five, four, three,
nine seven two Todd and Liam in Hoover this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Todd, good morning, Good morning, my buddy.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
How are you, mister j T?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm doing fantastic. It's a Friday. Can't be any better.
How about yourself?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey? You know what, if Liam and I were any better,
we would beat JT?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
How's Liam doing? I met you guys before, I think.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Absolutely so. Yeah, so we've all met it at Biscuit Belly.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I met you be born, that's right.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
And then Liam, Liam met you when we had Nick
durs Is there on your show and so and then
obviously you know you got a hug from you and
so we listened to it every morning, and he said, hey,
let's call JT.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Six.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It's Friday, on my way to school, so lemme's s
good morning to him.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Liam. What's going on, buddy? How you liking school? You
fired up to go back?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
All right?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, Liam, I hope you have a great day to
day and I appreciate you calling me this morning. Thank you,
roll time, hey, roll Tid that's right, all right, Todd,
thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Tell Liam we love them for listening to all right,
joining us now about something crazy going on up here. Yeah,
the apparently the diversity Equity Inclusion program is still existing
at the University of West Alabama. The dean up there
Byron Thetford, even though it's not allowed in our state anymore,
came out with this little video and about how he's
going to do it anyway.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
We can't directly fund the programming, so we have been
looking for on loophole. So part of this position would
be working with some of that. We have some funds
through our pd agram that we would like to dedicate
to that, and we do still have a chief We
have somebody who's serving with our chat to be careful
and to be somebody who serving is our chief diversity officer.
Currently they're flexing out of that role because after your
(01:55):
first state purposes, if we want to extend you have
state funding, we had to discontinue.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
All Yeah, so we got to get rid of DEI
I don't even mention it anymore. After that, who puts
this on video saying I'm going to find a loophol,
We're going to cheat the system, and we're still going
to do DEI, but we're not going to call it that.
Joining us now to talk about this as Adam John,
President of Accuracy in Media. Adam, welcome in, Thanks for
being here.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Hey, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, I thought the woke wave was over, but apparently
they're still still people wanting to surf on this whole
wave of craziness.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But your thoughts on what you just heard.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
There, well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
We go to university after university in rid states across
the country to see if they're following laws banning DEI
and Byron Thepford might be one of the worst. He said,
they're getting around the state band and instead of using
state funds to pay for it, they're using payroll funds.
When I confronted him on campus, if you expect I
asked him about that and he said, well, yeah, there
(02:51):
weave payroll funds. And I said, well, aren't the payroll
funds don't they also come from the state. He didn't
have a very good answer for that.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
M No.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I saw the video and it was pretty alarming when
he said play the video, and then the video gets
played and he's like, oh, what did he say?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
On the back end of that. I mean, it's just insane.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
These people are on an evangelical mission to push their
radical ideas. I think they probably enjoy it most in
Red states. They probably think they're spreading the bad word
to us or something. But they will not be stopped
by any law. And in fact, many of these bands
on DEI are worse than worthless because they provide a
false sense of security. Alabama needs a law like Kansas has,
(03:34):
where there's a reporting mechanism for this sort of thing,
and where there are actual penalties for the individuals who
break the law in for the university. Because it's not
just one bad apple. We see this everywhere. He's not
the only person.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It's not like this.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Goes on in his colleagues and his supervisors don't know
about it, and it's not like he's an entry level staffer.
The guy is the dean of students of the university.
So I imagine that people reporting to him, and if
they even want to push this garbage, would be expected
to push it. We need wholesale changes at these universities.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I remember when my kids were going to Alabama and Tuscaloosa,
and I get calls every once in a while. You're
not going to leave what the professor had to say today,
and anybody that stands up and wants to go the
other direction with it, into a conservative direction versus the
woke wave, a push down academia's throat is or you know,
the student's throat from left academia. It was, you know,
(04:28):
I mean, just hurled upon and you know a lot
of times told to sit down, to be quiet, or
leave the class or whatever. Is there anything that you know,
I'm not sure the board at that university is going
to do it much about it.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I mean, is there anything the.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Governor of the state k Ivy can do about something
like this if they're blatantly just ignoring the policies?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Yeah, well, I want several things down.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
As I said, I want a law like they have
in Kansas, where there's actually teeth to it. In addition,
we've all bemoaned the left weight faculty on our campus
side with the Florida we had a your left wing
faculty than these days, the faculty is the least of
the problems.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
They haven't gotten better.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
But instead administrative staff has grown twenty times faster than faculty.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
In the past ten years, in.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
All these administrative positions they created out of thin air
are activist positions. These are your DEI jobs, your LGBTQ,
your feminist jobs. Essentially, they're taxpayer funded activists on our universities,
and they now become the bulk of employment on these universities.
You know, they used to be a left wing college, okay,
(05:33):
now to taxpayer funded activist organization that runs the med
school on the side. That's essentially what we're dealing with
with Higher ED. So we need to wipe out the
presidents and provost of these universities, cut the administrative staff
at least in half, and restore them to focusing on
academics instead of being a taxpayer funded activist organization.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Amen to that.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And I see your nine oh four airy code. You're
obviously in Florida. DeSantis, you know, took this the horns
as well, and he took charge of it. And if
it continues, there's action that's taking place. Do you find
a lot of times that there's zero action being done
and people just kind of look the other way on.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
This, Well, what we consistently find is that they try
as hard as they tend to look the other way
next have been broken in an attempt to look the
other way for this sort of thing, and when forced too,
they fire the person. We've got a lot of people fired.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
If the quarterly.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Unemployment rate is up, it's probably our fault. I'm sorry,
but they fire the person and claim, well, that's just
one bad apple, as if these folks are acting alone,
just seem just did the right thing. Most notably with
New College in Sarasota, famously.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
With left wing county.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
He wiped out the board and put people in there
focused on academics, and they wiped out administrative positions and
made it clear we're going to focus on educating here.
We're not going to be a crazy, wacky, lift wing
organization funded by the taxpayers that's going to happen in
every university. Because people want to think this doesn't happen
in our raid states. I've been to college campuses in
(07:00):
forty eight states again and again for twenty years.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
It's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, Well, just like a firm inveaction, DEI is a
failed policy, and you need to hire people based on
merit and nothing else.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And the state has spoke loud and clear about these
policies going away, so hopefully something will start to change
here at West Alabama.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Thank you, Adam Jellette, appreciate you. A good job man.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
President Accuracy and Media for US
Our phones are always open, you know that.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Come on at anytime you'd like two, five, four, three,
nine seven two Todd and Liam in Hoover this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Todd, good morning, Good morning, my buddy.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
How are you, mister j T?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm doing fantastic. It's a Friday. Can't be any better.
How about yourself?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey? You know what, if Liam and I were any better,
we would beat JT?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
How's Liam doing? I met you guys before, I think.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Absolutely so. Yeah, so we've all met it at Biscuit Belly.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I met you be born, that's right.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
And then Liam, Liam met you when we had Nick
durs Is there on your show and so and then
obviously you know you got a hug from you and
so we listened to it every morning, and he said, hey,
let's call JT.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Six.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It's Friday, on my way to school, so lemme's s
good morning to him.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Liam. What's going on, buddy? How you liking school? You
fired up to go back?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
All right?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, Liam, I hope you have a great day to
day and I appreciate you calling me this morning. Thank you,
roll time, hey, roll Tid that's right, all right, Todd,
thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Tell Liam we love them for listening to all right,
joining us now about something crazy going on up here. Yeah,
the apparently the diversity Equity Inclusion program is still existing
at the University of West Alabama. The dean up there
Byron Thetford, even though it's not allowed in our state anymore,
came out with this little video and about how he's
going to do it anyway.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
We can't directly fund the programming, so we have been
looking for on loophole. So part of this position would
be working with some of that. We have some funds
through our pd agram that we would like to dedicate
to that, and we do still have a chief We
have somebody who's serving with our chat to be careful
and to be somebody who serving is our chief diversity officer.
Currently they're flexing out of that role because after your
(01:55):
first state purposes, if we want to extend you have
state funding, we had to discontinue.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
All Yeah, so we got to get rid of DEI
I don't even mention it anymore. After that, who puts
this on video saying I'm going to find a loophol,
We're going to cheat the system, and we're still going
to do DEI, but we're not going to call it that.
Joining us now to talk about this as Adam John,
President of Accuracy in Media. Adam, welcome in, Thanks for
being here.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Hey, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, I thought the woke wave was over, but apparently
they're still still people wanting to surf on this whole
wave of craziness.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But your thoughts on what you just heard.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
There, well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
We go to university after university in rid states across
the country to see if they're following laws banning DEI
and Byron Thepford might be one of the worst. He said,
they're getting around the state band and instead of using
state funds to pay for it, they're using payroll funds.
When I confronted him on campus, if you expect I
asked him about that and he said, well, yeah, there
(02:51):
weave payroll funds. And I said, well, aren't the payroll
funds don't they also come from the state. He didn't
have a very good answer for that.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
M No.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I saw the video and it was pretty alarming when
he said play the video, and then the video gets
played and he's like, oh, what did he say?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
On the back end of that. I mean, it's just insane.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
These people are on an evangelical mission to push their
radical ideas. I think they probably enjoy it most in
Red states. They probably think they're spreading the bad word
to us or something. But they will not be stopped
by any law. And in fact, many of these bands
on DEI are worse than worthless because they provide a
false sense of security. Alabama needs a law like Kansas has,
(03:34):
where there's a reporting mechanism for this sort of thing,
and where there are actual penalties for the individuals who
break the law in for the university. Because it's not
just one bad apple. We see this everywhere. He's not
the only person.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It's not like this.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Goes on in his colleagues and his supervisors don't know
about it, and it's not like he's an entry level staffer.
The guy is the dean of students of the university.
So I imagine that people reporting to him, and if
they even want to push this garbage, would be expected
to push it. We need wholesale changes at these universities.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I remember when my kids were going to Alabama and Tuscaloosa,
and I get calls every once in a while. You're
not going to leave what the professor had to say today,
and anybody that stands up and wants to go the
other direction with it, into a conservative direction versus the
woke wave, a push down academia's throat is or you know,
the student's throat from left academia. It was, you know,
(04:28):
I mean, just hurled upon and you know a lot
of times told to sit down, to be quiet, or
leave the class or whatever. Is there anything that you know,
I'm not sure the board at that university is going
to do it much about it.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I mean, is there anything the.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Governor of the state k Ivy can do about something
like this if they're blatantly just ignoring the policies?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Yeah, well, I want several things down.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
As I said, I want a law like they have
in Kansas, where there's actually teeth to it. In addition,
we've all bemoaned the left weight faculty on our campus
side with the Florida we had a your left wing
faculty than these days, the faculty is the least of
the problems.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
They haven't gotten better.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
But instead administrative staff has grown twenty times faster than faculty.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
In the past ten years, in.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
All these administrative positions they created out of thin air
are activist positions. These are your DEI jobs, your LGBTQ,
your feminist jobs. Essentially, they're taxpayer funded activists on our universities,
and they now become the bulk of employment on these universities.
You know, they used to be a left wing college, okay,
(05:33):
now to taxpayer funded activist organization that runs the med
school on the side. That's essentially what we're dealing with
with Higher ED. So we need to wipe out the
presidents and provost of these universities, cut the administrative staff
at least in half, and restore them to focusing on
academics instead of being a taxpayer funded activist organization.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Amen to that.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And I see your nine oh four airy code. You're
obviously in Florida. DeSantis, you know, took this the horns
as well, and he took charge of it. And if
it continues, there's action that's taking place. Do you find
a lot of times that there's zero action being done
and people just kind of look the other way on.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
This, Well, what we consistently find is that they try
as hard as they tend to look the other way
next have been broken in an attempt to look the
other way for this sort of thing, and when forced too,
they fire the person. We've got a lot of people fired.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
If the quarterly.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Unemployment rate is up, it's probably our fault. I'm sorry,
but they fire the person and claim, well, that's just
one bad apple, as if these folks are acting alone,
just seem just did the right thing. Most notably with
New College in Sarasota, famously.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
With left wing county.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
He wiped out the board and put people in there
focused on academics, and they wiped out administrative positions and
made it clear we're going to focus on educating here.
We're not going to be a crazy, wacky, lift wing
organization funded by the taxpayers that's going to happen in
every university. Because people want to think this doesn't happen
in our raid states. I've been to college campuses in
(07:00):
forty eight states again and again for twenty years.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
It's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, Well, just like a firm inveaction, DEI is a
failed policy, and you need to hire people based on
merit and nothing else.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's all there is to it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And the state has spoke loud and clear about these
policies going away, so hopefully something will start to change
here at West Alabama.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Thank you, Adam Jellette, appreciate you. A good job man.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
President Accuracy and Media for US
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