1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet, And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:33,399 much for your support. Breaking news. I feel like I 10 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:35,200 say that a lot in the last I've been saying 11 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,600 that a lot in the last few days. Right, we 12 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:43,679 have breaking news the USDA, or as I like to 13 00:00:43,719 --> 00:00:48,399 call it, usday, They have an inspector general. Have you 14 00:00:48,439 --> 00:00:50,960 heard of these igs? These are the guys that come 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,719 in and gals that come in and you know, review 16 00:00:54,799 --> 00:00:57,320 things and you know, oh, we took a look at this, 17 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,479 and malfeasans that or whatever. Right and general and you'll 18 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,920 recall maybe although there's been a lot of news that 19 00:01:05,719 --> 00:01:09,439 Donald Trump fired a whole bunch of inspector general or 20 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:16,079 inspectors general. And the breaking news from Reuter's is that 21 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,920 the USDA Inspector General had to be escorted out of 22 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:29,000 her office because she refused to comply with her firing. Like, 23 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,120 I know you work in the public sector, but I'm 24 00:01:31,159 --> 00:01:33,239 not sure you understand what it means to get fired. 25 00:01:33,519 --> 00:01:39,599 Trust me, I can tell you they generally don't allow 26 00:01:39,719 --> 00:01:43,319 you to refuse. That's not how that works. Like you 27 00:01:43,879 --> 00:01:46,439 you no longer have a job here, you are no 28 00:01:46,519 --> 00:01:49,799 longer permitted in the building. We will take your key 29 00:01:49,879 --> 00:01:53,319 card and maybe, if you're lucky, we'll give you like 30 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,760 five minutes to throw a bunch of stuff in a box, 31 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,560 or maybe you can come back after hours and will 32 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,680 hire some security to stand over you while you fill 33 00:02:03,719 --> 00:02:07,640 your box with stuff, right, Like, that's kind of how 34 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,199 that goes. And by the way, the security people do 35 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,000 not know what you are putting in the box, whether 36 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,240 it's yours or not, which is always hilarious to me, 37 00:02:16,719 --> 00:02:18,719 Like they're going to be there to make sure I 38 00:02:18,759 --> 00:02:21,439 don't what steal something or do something that I look 39 00:02:21,439 --> 00:02:23,479 all right. To be fair, I have never had security 40 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,919 have to monitor my exodus. Okay. I have been relieved 41 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:34,759 of my my broadcasting duties twice in my career, once 42 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,680 here and that was like ten years ago, and then 43 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:43,280 once in Ashville, and both times. It was nothing I did. 44 00:02:43,319 --> 00:02:44,840 So it's not like I ever got fired for calls. 45 00:02:44,879 --> 00:02:47,520 It was always budgetary. It was like, we can't afford 46 00:02:47,599 --> 00:02:50,280 to pay you anymore. We're making cuts, and so they 47 00:02:50,319 --> 00:02:54,639 let me go. And when I got let go here, 48 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,719 they let me actually stay on the air for the 49 00:02:56,719 --> 00:02:59,719 rest of the term of my contract for another almost month, 50 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,520 which I was very grateful for. I appreciate that to 51 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,919 this day, I still appreciate that. It is such, it 52 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,199 is so out far outside of the norm. You know, 53 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,680 usually when you are told that you've been let go 54 00:03:14,439 --> 00:03:17,919 by a broadcast company, they don't let you go back 55 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:21,879 on the airwaves because they don't know what you're gonna say, 56 00:03:22,199 --> 00:03:24,639 you know, and they would prefer you not say anything 57 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:30,479 bad about them, what being in a heightened emotional state 58 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:35,599 and all. But I never had a security guard. But 59 00:03:35,919 --> 00:03:38,560 I did have when I was in Asheville. They had 60 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:43,000 me come back in after hours and the boss was there. 61 00:03:43,319 --> 00:03:45,360 But it's not like he stood over me watching me 62 00:03:45,479 --> 00:03:47,439 or anything. But because I had a lot of stuff 63 00:03:47,439 --> 00:03:49,919 in my little office, and so I had a box 64 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,039 and I put a bunch of stuff in there, stole 65 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,560 a couple of computers, just the normal, you know, the 66 00:03:54,599 --> 00:04:00,960 normal thing. Then maybe some accessories and stuff, some historical 67 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,680 things from the front lobby. But other than that, no, 68 00:04:03,719 --> 00:04:06,800 there was I'm just kidding. I did not do that. 69 00:04:07,919 --> 00:04:10,080 But you know, you bring stuff into the office, and 70 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,199 I keep a lot of paper records of things and 71 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,639 so anyway, but this idea that the security people are 72 00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:18,800 going to be there, they're going to know what you're doing, 73 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,920 and way, way, wait, that's not yours, Like really the 74 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,639 bibblehead do you think that's the stations that No, that's mine, 75 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:28,920 you know. Anyway, So this USDA Inspector General had to 76 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,000 be escorted out of her office. This is just breaking 77 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:38,199 from Reuter's News and apparently, uh oh, hang on a second, 78 00:04:38,199 --> 00:04:42,600 there's a Wikipedia about this person. Her name is Thong, 79 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,240 her last name is Thong. I don't know her first name. 80 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,879 Born in Philadelphia, raised in Honolulu. Earned a Bachelor of 81 00:04:51,959 --> 00:04:58,240 Arts degree in Asian Studies and a jd from Vanderbilt 82 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,800 University Law School. Began her career as a staff attorney 83 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,360 for the US Commission on Civil Rights. Served as Assistant 84 00:05:06,439 --> 00:05:10,920 General Counsel for the Legal Services Corporation, Assistant Inspector General 85 00:05:11,079 --> 00:05:16,959 for Management and Policy. Nominated to serve as Inspector General 86 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,279 of the Small Business Administration in nineteen ninety nine. She's 87 00:05:20,319 --> 00:05:29,920 been there a long time. Yeah, she was. Yeah, she 88 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,160 was initially put in there by Clinton. She doesn't have 89 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:43,240 any experience in agriculture. She's the IG for agriculture. So yeah, 90 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,959 I don't like the igs shouldn't be a permanent thing, 91 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,360 should they? Like, you should put an inspector general in 92 00:05:49,399 --> 00:05:54,519 there when there's some whistleblower report of malfeastins or something. Right, 93 00:05:54,519 --> 00:05:56,759 This shouldn't be a career post, should it. I don't 94 00:05:56,759 --> 00:06:02,439 know now. The Trump administration also announce yesterday that it 95 00:06:02,519 --> 00:06:07,680 is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to 96 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:12,480 leave their jobs by next week. And if I recall correctly, 97 00:06:12,519 --> 00:06:17,279 this is exactly what Elon Musk did at Twitter. When 98 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,639 Elon Musk came in, and you had all these Twitter 99 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:24,040 employees that were, you know, uh, predicting the end of 100 00:06:24,199 --> 00:06:27,560 Twitter as we know it. The whole thing is gonna 101 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,879 come crashing down, which, by the way, last I checked it, 102 00:06:29,879 --> 00:06:31,480 you know it's still I'm actually looking at it right now. 103 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:35,800 It's still up. It's still working. This gets to the 104 00:06:35,879 --> 00:06:39,360 and this was also evident in the reporting on the 105 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,959 Federal freezing Fund or sorry, the federal funding freeze. The 106 00:06:43,959 --> 00:06:48,720 freezing fund is different. That's for refrigeration outreach, but the 107 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:55,279 funding freeze. All of the stories are framed in this 108 00:06:55,480 --> 00:07:00,120 speculative way, like this could do that, this, may they 109 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,959 do this other thing. Oh, the impacts are far reaching. 110 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,120 We have no idea. It's like all of these predictions 111 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:11,319 of dire consequences, and it is the laziest form of 112 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,360 what I call journalism ing. That's what it is. It's 113 00:07:15,399 --> 00:07:20,319 not journalism. You predicting something could happen. Yeah, well, what 114 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,000 about all of the other things that could happen? How 115 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,199 Come that doesn't get any space in your story? Right 116 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,160 when they were making these same predictions about Twitter, and 117 00:07:29,199 --> 00:07:31,480 it turns out, actually you don't need all of that 118 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:37,800 staff to run Twitter, Elon Musk stripped it down, saved 119 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,759 a bunch of money, right, did a bunch of changes 120 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,519 and such, and people who want to work there and 121 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,160 who are doing the work. We played this clip yesterday 122 00:07:47,199 --> 00:07:51,279 from a former federal employee who talked about the eighty 123 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,279 twenty rule. Eighty percent of the work is done by 124 00:07:53,319 --> 00:07:57,439 twenty percent of the people that is not restricted only 125 00:07:57,519 --> 00:08:02,920 to a public sector agencies or employers. This happens in 126 00:08:02,959 --> 00:08:05,759 the private sector too, which is why, like Elon Musk 127 00:08:05,839 --> 00:08:09,079 has talked about this like it it is important to 128 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:13,240 go through and clear out because once a company or 129 00:08:13,639 --> 00:08:16,279 a government agency starts doing something and they get good 130 00:08:16,279 --> 00:08:20,160 at it just getting into government agency, but like, okay, 131 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:25,519 they they they get kind of okay, maybe they've hired 132 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:26,920 a bunch of people and they got a big budget. 133 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:32,000 That the mission creep is a natural thing. It happens everywhere, 134 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:34,960 right If you want to say, okay, we're going to 135 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,759 set up a little government here and it's going to 136 00:08:36,759 --> 00:08:39,320 be meant to you know, take some taxes, build up 137 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,840 an army, you know, or police force, fire department, pave 138 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:45,840 some roads, that kind of thing. And as they start 139 00:08:45,879 --> 00:08:50,120 doing that and people are okay with the the service 140 00:08:50,159 --> 00:08:54,080 they're getting for their money, then what happens, more economic activity, 141 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,480 more revenue comes in, and then the gov code people 142 00:08:56,519 --> 00:08:58,159 start saying, well, you know, we could also do this 143 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,080 other thing over here. It's like wholl whoa whoa, oh, 144 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,799 whoa whoa. No, just keep doing the thing that you 145 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:08,840 are doing. And then as efficiencies are introduced, problems get addressed. 146 00:09:08,879 --> 00:09:11,320 And so now it's not like draining the budget. You 147 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,200 get things short up, and then the private sector like, hey, 148 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:16,320 you say, hey, I made a widget and the widget's 149 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:18,600 working really well. It's why I call it well widgets 150 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:22,919 or well working widgets. And now we're on sort of autopilot. 151 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,000 And then you start looking to do other things and 152 00:09:26,039 --> 00:09:29,000 you start expanding, and then you lose sight of the 153 00:09:29,039 --> 00:09:34,799 core mission. And then every now and again it's important 154 00:09:34,799 --> 00:09:38,919 to come out and clear out the deadwood and refocus 155 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,919 on the core service that you're supposed to be providing. 156 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:46,600 So Trump comes in and there are all sorts of 157 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,200 laws and stuff about civil service protections and the union 158 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:52,639 and all this other stuff. But he says you got 159 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,159 to come back to work or come back to the office. 160 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,639 And you got federal employees that don't want to do it, 161 00:10:00,399 --> 00:10:03,799 and so this is their offer, like okay, And companies 162 00:10:03,799 --> 00:10:06,240 have done this over the last year. They've said, if 163 00:10:06,279 --> 00:10:08,399 you don't want to come back to the office, that's fine, 164 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,799 here's a severance deal, right, And this deal that they 165 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:20,360 are offering employees is eight months of pay. Eight months 166 00:10:20,399 --> 00:10:23,639 of pay and you don't even have to come back, 167 00:10:24,919 --> 00:10:28,639 just go here's a check for almost a year of 168 00:10:28,799 --> 00:10:31,960 work that you're not going to do, and truth told, 169 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,399 you're probably not doing anyway. So like, here's a check 170 00:10:35,039 --> 00:10:39,480 buy and this I'm supposed to believe is outrageous. It 171 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:42,200 is not outrageous, and in the long term, it's going 172 00:10:42,279 --> 00:10:44,559 to cost us less money. How many people take advantage 173 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:46,799 of it? I don't know. Here's a great idea. 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We are deeply honored to be joined 200 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,679 today by Lincoln's parents, Alison and John and her sister Lauren. 201 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:18,039 Thank you very much. 202 00:12:19,759 --> 00:12:23,159 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is signing the Lake and Riley Act into law. 203 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,000 This is the ceremony you're listening to. 204 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:31,559 Speaker 2: So so we were together right after that happened, and 205 00:12:33,039 --> 00:12:37,159 it's a tremendous tribute to your daughter. What's taking place 206 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,200 today that's all I can say. But so said, we 207 00:12:40,279 --> 00:12:42,240 have to be doing it at all. Thank you very 208 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,039 much for being here. To Lacoln's family. We will keep 209 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:51,519 Lincoln's memory alive in our hearts forever, Everyone's hearts. With 210 00:12:51,639 --> 00:12:55,600 today's action, her name will also live forever in the 211 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,360 laws of our country. And this is a very important law. 212 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,720 This is something that has brought Democrats and Republicans together. 213 00:13:02,879 --> 00:13:07,320 That's not easy to do. Lincoln, Lacoln did it. America 214 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:12,559 will never ever forget Lacln. Hope Riley, the vicious criminal 215 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,879 who murdered precious Lacan, was an illegal alien member of 216 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:21,080 the barbaric Venezuela in prison gang known as Trendy or Ragua. 217 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,320 He trespassed across our southern border in twenty twenty two 218 00:13:27,279 --> 00:13:30,720 and was apprehended by border patrol, but under the cruel 219 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,639 policies of the last administration, instead of being deported as 220 00:13:34,639 --> 00:13:38,360 he should have been, he was released into the United States, 221 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:44,039 as were millions of other people, many of them very 222 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,360 dangerous people. And you see what we're doing. We're getting 223 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:57,960 the hell out of here. He was soon arrested again 224 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:03,039 in New York City charges of endangering a child, but 225 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:07,120 because of New York City's deadly sanctuary policies, as we 226 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,519 have in California and many other places which we're ending. 227 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,679 We're going to end them. He was released again to reoffend. 228 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,200 The Biden administration then provided this illegal alien criminal with 229 00:14:19,279 --> 00:14:22,600 a free taxpayer funded flight from New York to Georgia, 230 00:14:23,279 --> 00:14:27,039 where he was arrested yet again constantly, this time for 231 00:14:27,159 --> 00:14:30,799 stealing from a walmart along with his gang member brother 232 00:14:30,879 --> 00:14:34,720 who was a bad one. Only after being released a 233 00:14:34,759 --> 00:14:37,879 third time by the US law enforcement did this cold 234 00:14:37,879 --> 00:14:41,960 blooded criminal go out and that fateful morning hunting for 235 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,919 women on whom to pray. That's what he did. He hunted, 236 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,600 He hunted. It was like a hunter. I'm going to 237 00:14:49,639 --> 00:14:53,320 show them who the hunter is. This horrific atrocity should 238 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,200 never have been allowed to happen, and as President, I'm 239 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,279 fighting every single day to ensure that such a tragedy 240 00:14:59,399 --> 00:15:08,639 never happened again. You don't want this to happen, and 241 00:15:08,799 --> 00:15:12,000 under the law factor, under the law I'm signing today, 242 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:16,039 the Department of Homeland Security will be required to detain 243 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:21,240 all illegal aliens who have been arrested for theft, burglary, 244 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:27,480 larcity shoplifting, assaulting a police officer, murder, or any crime 245 00:15:27,519 --> 00:15:30,480 that results in death or a serious injury. In addition, 246 00:15:30,639 --> 00:15:33,919 for the first time ever, this Act gives state governments 247 00:15:33,919 --> 00:15:37,600 the ability to sue the federal government for immediate injunctive 248 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:42,159 relief if any future administration ever again refuses to enforce 249 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,159 the immigration laws of the United States like happens. 250 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,519 Speaker 1: And that, my friends, that's the key. That's the key 251 00:15:50,679 --> 00:15:52,879 of the Lake and Riley Act. I know the critics 252 00:15:52,879 --> 00:15:55,879 are focusing on oh jantee immigrant and alist. The key 253 00:15:55,919 --> 00:15:58,759 here is that states will be able to sue the 254 00:15:58,759 --> 00:16:03,879 federal government if the federal government isn't doing its freaking job, 255 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,240 which they only they are empowered to do. Remember, Democrats 256 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:12,360 sued and they argued all the way through the courts 257 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,440 that you can't force us to follow federal immigration law. 258 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,679 When Texas started doing their stuff right with the floating 259 00:16:21,759 --> 00:16:26,080 barriers and trying to put patrol along the border, and 260 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:27,919 they were like, you can't do that. That's our job. 261 00:16:27,919 --> 00:16:29,519 We're supposed to be in Texas Like, well, you're not 262 00:16:29,559 --> 00:16:31,879 doing it. They're like, so what, you can't do it either, 263 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,159 we don't want it done. That's the position they took 264 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:40,000 and they were successful, and so now this law not 265 00:16:40,159 --> 00:16:45,440 an executive order, this is now a law. Now people 266 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:48,399 or states will have standing to sue the Feds if 267 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,960 they do that again. All right, I hope you had 268 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,679 a happy holiday season. But tell me if something like 269 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:56,360 this happened at your house. Your family and friends are 270 00:16:56,399 --> 00:16:59,279 gathered around, maybe y'all are in the living room, You're laughing, 271 00:16:59,399 --> 00:17:03,879 swapping stories, reminiscing, and then somebody says, hey, Dad, remember 272 00:17:03,879 --> 00:17:06,880 those old VHS tapes? Did you ever get them transferred? 273 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:09,960 And then the room gets all quiet. All eyes are 274 00:17:10,039 --> 00:17:12,759 on Dad, who says, oh, you know, well, I've been 275 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:15,640 meaning to but I just having gotten around to it. Look, 276 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,960 don't let those priceless memories sit in a box for 277 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,759 another year. All right. Create a Video has been helping 278 00:17:21,799 --> 00:17:25,039 families in the Charlotte area preserve their history since nineteen 279 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,359 ninety seven. 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All right, 288 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,640 So the Trump administration announces that it is offering buyouts 289 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,960 to all federal employees who wish to leave their job, 290 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,440 which is basically all of them, I think by next week, 291 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:12,160 so they're on a deadline. A memo from THEPM not 292 00:18:12,279 --> 00:18:15,559 to be confused with the OMB okay, that is a 293 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:18,240 different thing. That was their memo that they sent out 294 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,720 that caused all the hullabaloo. This is another government agency, 295 00:18:22,759 --> 00:18:25,559 the Office of Personnel Management, which, by the way, did 296 00:18:25,559 --> 00:18:27,440 you hear this story too? That I don't have anything 297 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,440 printed down on it, but I saw it. I read 298 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,200 a little bit about it, where like there was some 299 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,079 some employees, some federal workers, and I don't know, they 300 00:18:36,079 --> 00:18:39,000 may have gone through their union or something to complain 301 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:46,839 at the suggestion that the administration wants to be able 302 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:51,640 to send messages directly to all workers rather than having 303 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,680 to send them to an agency first and then rely 304 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,400 on that agency head or whoever's in charge of the 305 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,599 email distribution, which is probably a freaking standalone position, but 306 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,680 they send it to them in every agency and then 307 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,119 have them distribute. And so they're like, why don't we 308 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,119 just have one big distribution list and will send it 309 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:11,599 to everybody. We want to be able to send it 310 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,279 to everybody, And they're like, you can't talk to me directly. 311 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,160 Try to pull that at your gig, right, do you 312 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,799 think your boss would put up with that? I don't 313 00:19:22,839 --> 00:19:26,319 know about you. Every place I have ever worked, the 314 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,599 top person in the company has always been able to 315 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:36,640 directly email everybody all at once mass distribution list. They've 316 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:40,519 even been able to email me personally if they so choose, 317 00:19:40,519 --> 00:19:42,480 But they never know who I am. So like they 318 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:45,160 could just send me an email like Pete heard your show, 319 00:19:45,279 --> 00:19:47,559 you stink Like they could have just done that, but 320 00:19:48,079 --> 00:19:52,880 nobody ever did. Maybe I don't stink that could be it, 321 00:19:53,839 --> 00:19:55,599 or they don't know I exist, they don't listen that 322 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:59,279 either way. But the idea that I got to go 323 00:20:00,559 --> 00:20:03,079 through as a boss, I would have to go through 324 00:20:04,519 --> 00:20:11,200 different layers of protection. I can't take an email directly 325 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,799 from the boss. I might feel anxiety if I get 326 00:20:13,839 --> 00:20:17,720 a message from the top man because he's orange and 327 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:23,440 he's scary. So anyway, a memo from the OPM, the 328 00:20:23,519 --> 00:20:27,920 Office of Personnel Management, which is the government's HR agency, 329 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,279 said that it would begin subjecting all federal employees also 330 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:43,559 to quote enhanced standards of suitability and conduct enhanced standards 331 00:20:43,599 --> 00:20:49,200 like wait, did you say standards? I'm out? And then, 332 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:55,519 according to the AP, it ominously warned of future downsizing 333 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,119 ominously What I say the other day talking about media bias, 334 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,680 whenever you're reading a story or listening to a story, 335 00:21:05,279 --> 00:21:09,079 look for or listen for the adjectives that are used. 336 00:21:10,279 --> 00:21:15,240 That will tell you what the sentiment of the reporter is, 337 00:21:17,279 --> 00:21:22,640 right when they are ominously warning of future downsizing rather 338 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:27,200 than just warning of future downsizing or telling employees to 339 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:33,839 expect future downsizing. Now, look here, I have to acknowledge 340 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,400 I have a bias. I say this about a great 341 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,079 many different types of work out there that because I 342 00:21:40,279 --> 00:21:43,039 work in radio, I have worked in radio for twenty 343 00:21:43,039 --> 00:21:49,240 plus years, and I might not have the softest shoulder 344 00:21:49,559 --> 00:21:54,319 to cry upon when it comes to this stuff. Okay, 345 00:21:55,200 --> 00:22:01,200 because in my industry, and really I mean accept probably 346 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:09,519 in the mortuary services and probably tax preparation, the threat 347 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:14,119 of downsizing is always there. Talk to some of the 348 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:19,440 people that work in manufacturing about whether or not they 349 00:22:19,519 --> 00:22:23,160 think that their job could be eliminated at any given moment. 350 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,640 Talk to all the mill workers and the families of 351 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,079 the mill workers over the last oh I don't know 352 00:22:29,279 --> 00:22:34,119 forty years around the Carolinas right whether their jobs were 353 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,119 safe from downsizing. I know, I know media learned to code. 354 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:44,079 Blah blah blah. The email was sent out to millions 355 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,720 of employees and said those who leave their posts voluntarily 356 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:51,960 will receive about eight months of salary, but they have 357 00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:57,440 to choose to take the deal by February sixth, which 358 00:22:59,519 --> 00:23:03,039 I was just say this to somebody yesterday. I don't 359 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,640 like the arbitrary deadlines for these types of big decisions. 360 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:12,000 I don't appreciate that, but I understand these are tools 361 00:23:12,079 --> 00:23:15,640 in negotiations. It is like you go into the car 362 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,400 dealership and they're like, oh, I can give you this offer, 363 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,359 but you got to do it now. Like, no, you don't. 364 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:22,920 If you're making me this offer, you can make that 365 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,200 offer any given day of the week. It's just that 366 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,400 you want this sale right now, and you think that 367 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,359 by giving me a fake deadline, you will increase the 368 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,319 pressure on me. To say yes. So usually it does 369 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,319 the opposite to me. It makes me want to say 370 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:43,480 no because now I know that i'm the mark. Why 371 00:23:43,519 --> 00:23:45,759 didn't you just give me this deal and let me 372 00:23:45,839 --> 00:23:48,680 think about it. If it's a great deal, I'm going 373 00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:51,680 to come back and say yes. But when you say 374 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,000 you got to decide before you leave the showroom, that 375 00:23:54,079 --> 00:23:56,240 I say, okay, well then I'm leaving right now. Bye. 376 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,160 You just made my decision for me. There's another when 377 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,440 I learned a whole bunch of these things, Like one 378 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,880 of them is called the silent treatment, where you just 379 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,319 sit there and when someone's like trying to pitch you 380 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,559 or or you know, give you prices on stuff, and 381 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,319 you just sit there and you don't say anything, just 382 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,119 keep staring at him, maybe do a little bit of 383 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:19,880 a squint, like a half squint hmm, And then it 384 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,759 becomes uncomfortable for them, so then they counter themselves. And 385 00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:27,279 then there's another one the you can do better than that. 386 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:30,720 I don't know what it's called, but that's that's what 387 00:24:30,759 --> 00:24:33,880 you say. And you can just change your tone of 388 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,559 voice as you say these things. I learned this from 389 00:24:36,599 --> 00:24:40,799 a guy he wrote wrote several books. Weekend Millionaire series, 390 00:24:40,839 --> 00:24:43,359 Mike Summy up in Ashville, Millionaire Guy, and I would 391 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,519 have him on the show and we would talk, and 392 00:24:44,519 --> 00:24:47,880 he wrote about these things in his books, and one 393 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,200 of the tactics that he talked about was he and 394 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,880 one time he went in to buy a car and 395 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,400 he literally just sat there and he said, Oh, you 396 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,599 could do better than that. He said it like half 397 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,880 a dozen times, back to back to back to back 398 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,200 to back to back, and the guy just kept low 399 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,519 balling himself, which sounds kind of gross, but you know, 400 00:25:07,759 --> 00:25:11,839 he just kept undercutting his own price because he could 401 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,880 do better than that. And Mike, he said, I would 402 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,119 just change the tone of voice. I would say it 403 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,559 in different inflection, you know, Oh, come on, you can 404 00:25:21,599 --> 00:25:23,759 do better than that, or you could do better than that. 405 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,240 You could do better than that. And he just keeps 406 00:25:26,279 --> 00:25:28,240 saying it, so it sounds like a new sentence and 407 00:25:28,279 --> 00:25:30,160 it's not a new sentence. So there are ways to 408 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,000 count to these things anyway. So the false deadline, the 409 00:25:32,079 --> 00:25:36,359 arbitrary deadlines, I tend to not like and I react poorly, 410 00:25:36,599 --> 00:25:40,079 but I know this about myself. Self awareness is essential. 411 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:45,279 The email was sent to more than two million federal employees. 412 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,359 The federal government employees more than three million people, so 413 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,839 two out of three people got this email. Basically, By 414 00:25:52,839 --> 00:25:55,720 the way, the average tenure for a federal employee is 415 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:01,720 almost twelve years that according to a Pew analysis of 416 00:26:01,839 --> 00:26:06,279 data from the OPM. And then we get to the 417 00:26:06,319 --> 00:26:09,880 speculative fear mongering over at the Associated Press story that 418 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,160 the sky is falling if people take this option, if 419 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,440 they take the buyout, what will we ever do again? 420 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,200 Same reaction when Twitter said they were doing this and 421 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,720 they fired a bunch of people, gave them early exit 422 00:26:24,759 --> 00:26:26,960 packages and the like. There have been companies that have 423 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,160 done this. They're still in business. In fact, they're doing better. 424 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,680 They do better. You don't want some of the people 425 00:26:33,759 --> 00:26:37,319 that take these severance deals, are these options? They weren't 426 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,759 really doing bang up work to begin with. All right, 427 00:26:39,759 --> 00:26:41,559 if you're listening to this show, you know I try 428 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,400 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 429 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,519 I know you do too. And you've probably heard me 430 00:26:45,559 --> 00:26:49,759 say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because 431 00:26:49,759 --> 00:26:52,480 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 432 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,799 been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and 433 00:26:56,039 --> 00:26:58,960 it's a website. And it combines news from around the 434 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,680 world in one place. You can compare coverage and verify information. 435 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,160 You can check it out at check dot ground, dot 436 00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:09,440 news slash Pete. I put the link in the podcast 437 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,480 description too. 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Okay, char let's take James. 448 00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:48,480 Hello James, welcome to the program. 449 00:27:48,759 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 3: Hey Pete. Thanks, good to hear you. Yeah, I'm delighted 450 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,839 to hear you talking about making comparisons in the business 451 00:27:54,839 --> 00:27:58,559 world what Truck's trying to implement with the government. Because 452 00:27:58,599 --> 00:28:01,559 I've worked for a manufacturer for thirty eight years, I've 453 00:28:01,599 --> 00:28:06,440 seen rounds of trimming and job reduction, and you're right. 454 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,359 Usually it's people that you knew weren't hitting on much. 455 00:28:09,519 --> 00:28:11,960 There's exceptions, but they're usually the ones that have to go. 456 00:28:12,759 --> 00:28:14,920 And then budgeting is interesting too because there's a lot 457 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,440 of discussion about that with the government. But every year, 458 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,680 if your department had a budget, you could just count 459 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,039 on a five percent cut every year and every third year. 460 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,839 We would do zero based budgeting, where you start with 461 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,720 a clean slate and you justify every single bucket that 462 00:28:30,759 --> 00:28:33,559 you need to function for that year. And we were 463 00:28:33,559 --> 00:28:36,000 a profitable company, and that's how it's done. And the 464 00:28:36,039 --> 00:28:38,400 government do you remember a few years ago when they 465 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,519 talked about eliminating Saturday delivery for the mail service. You 466 00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:45,480 talk about a no brainer. They couldn't even do that. 467 00:28:46,519 --> 00:28:49,519 In fact, they could probably cut it out Tuesdays, Thursdays 468 00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:52,240 and Saturdays and reduce the size of the postal service 469 00:28:52,799 --> 00:28:55,480 seventy percent. No one would notice, but they won't do it. 470 00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:01,519 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no. Zero based budgeting would be a massive 471 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:06,559 change to the way government functions versus what is currently used, 472 00:29:06,599 --> 00:29:10,599 which is continuation budgeting, where whatever we spent last year 473 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,960 carries over to this year, continues over and then you know, 474 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,599 we obviously have to increase by you know, cost of 475 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,119 living and inflation and everything else. And so it's just 476 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:25,039 this natural, built in mechanism to keep the agencies growing 477 00:29:25,079 --> 00:29:28,240 and growing and growing, and there's never any kind of 478 00:29:28,519 --> 00:29:31,240 a fresh look at the numbers to say is this 479 00:29:31,279 --> 00:29:34,559 even doing its job? Is this is this accomplishing the mission. 480 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,599 Speaker 3: It's just discipline and you know, and whenever we had 481 00:29:38,599 --> 00:29:41,079 to face you're right, the cost of everything goes up. 482 00:29:41,119 --> 00:29:43,559 But also after you've done things for a year or two, 483 00:29:43,599 --> 00:29:45,799 you realize you have to prioritize and like, all right, 484 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,480 this bucket went up five percent, but man, I'm going 485 00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:49,759 to take it out of this thing that we don't 486 00:29:49,759 --> 00:29:52,359 even do anymore. And then then that's how it's no 487 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,000 different than you run your household. You just you just 488 00:29:55,079 --> 00:29:58,200 have discipline and you spend on what's important and you 489 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,359 don't spend just because yeah. 490 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like okay, think of it. Like all of 491 00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:06,599 the apps, right, people pay for various uh, you know, 492 00:30:06,759 --> 00:30:12,039 video streaming, television apps, and at some point you realize like, 493 00:30:12,119 --> 00:30:15,000 oh my gosh, this thing is auto drafting every single 494 00:30:15,079 --> 00:30:17,480 month for nine to ninety nine, and you add them 495 00:30:17,519 --> 00:30:19,559 all together and before you know it, you know, you're 496 00:30:19,599 --> 00:30:22,200 spending one hundred dollars on apps that you don't even watch. 497 00:30:22,519 --> 00:30:25,400 So you go through and you're like, cancel, cancel, cancel. 498 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,759 I don't want these apps anymore. It's the same same 499 00:30:28,799 --> 00:30:32,279 sort of approach, same idea, and then it's the ones you. 500 00:30:32,279 --> 00:30:34,359 Speaker 3: Care about go up five percent. You got it. 501 00:30:34,319 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: Covered, right, yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, James, I appreciate the call, buddy, 502 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,319 thank you. Yeah, man, all right, take it easy. This 503 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,400 is this is interesting too. I just saw Elon Musk 504 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:50,200 tweeted out or xed out, tweeted out support for Trump's 505 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:57,359 executive orders and proposed actions. And let's see the one 506 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,960 with the let me see delaying Oh here is uh wait, 507 00:31:01,039 --> 00:31:06,519 no ending federal effort, no birthright citizenship MM, Gulf of 508 00:31:06,559 --> 00:31:11,920 Mexico not very popular to call it the Gulf of America. 509 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:19,839 Closing all Yeah, so closing all federal government DEI offices 510 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,039 and firing all federal employees working in DEI initiatives as 511 00:31:23,039 --> 00:31:27,039 a forty four percent support rate fifty one percent to 512 00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:33,759 pose and that's like, yeah, that's the highest, tied with 513 00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:37,759 delaying the ban of TikTok. And then I got an 514 00:31:37,799 --> 00:31:43,559 e or a Yeah, I got a message here from Ashley. 515 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,359 It's a Pete tweet. Ashley says, I just wanted to 516 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,920 let you know that. On Glenn Beck's program this morning, 517 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,680 he stated that federal employees percentage at home rate was 518 00:31:54,839 --> 00:31:59,640 ninety six percent. Okay, So if I understand that correctly, 519 00:32:00,799 --> 00:32:03,720 ninety six percent of federal workers are working at home, 520 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:12,960 that seems very very high. Not unbelievable, that's very high. 521 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:18,000 It's like at that point, who's in the office. Who's 522 00:32:18,039 --> 00:32:21,319 the schlub that's actually going into the office at all? 523 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,559 Think about that, you haven't You got an office of 524 00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:29,119 one hundred workers and four of them are showing up. 525 00:32:29,799 --> 00:32:38,880 That's crazy. So even this is the ap even a 526 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:43,000 fraction of the workforce, were they to accept the buyouts here, 527 00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:48,119 it is speculative, could send shock waves through the economy 528 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:56,440 and trigger widespread disruptions throughout society as a whole. Oh 529 00:32:56,559 --> 00:32:59,920 my gosh, wait a minute, they're getting eight months of 530 00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:06,440 pay for not working. Couldn't they, I don't know, take 531 00:33:06,519 --> 00:33:08,759 the money that they're getting for the eight months worth 532 00:33:08,799 --> 00:33:11,559 of pay and maybe travel around and wouldn't that boost tourism? 533 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:16,359 What about the economic multipliers? We always hear about the 534 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,279 multiplier effect. Whenever they want to tax us to build 535 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,759 sports arenas in Stadia, they're like, oh, but the multiplier effect. 536 00:33:24,759 --> 00:33:27,359 These people are coming and spending money and blah blah blah. 537 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,720 Where is that these people are? Now? This is I thought, 538 00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:33,799 this is what Democrats wanted. That's why we got Obamacare. 539 00:33:33,799 --> 00:33:36,440 Remember Nancy Pelosi, She's like, now they'll be able to 540 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,319 go be artists and stuff and stuff, and they don't 541 00:33:39,319 --> 00:33:42,000 have to worry about paying for their health insurance. They'll 542 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,160 be free to create what maybe maybe we get Pelosi 543 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,599 to lead this branding effort. Right, let's free the federal 544 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:56,720 workforce up to go and paint. They can join Hunter Biden, 545 00:33:57,559 --> 00:33:59,640 who now has to paint a lot more because all 546 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,119 this pain burned up in California worth billions of dollars. 547 00:34:03,119 --> 00:34:08,719 As I understand it, he submitted an insurance claim. Yeah so, 548 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,599 but they do acknowledge the AP acknowledges that that all 549 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:15,880 of this the shock waves throughout the society, bringing us 550 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,320 to our knees in eight months. It could trigger wide 551 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:26,199 ranging and as yet unknowable implications for the delivery, timeliness, 552 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,079 and effectiveness of federal services across the nation. And I 553 00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:34,880 would just submit. Okay, yeah, all right, let's see what 554 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,400 it looks like. That's I'm okay with this. Yes, I 555 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,320 will run the experiment. Let's run this experiment and see 556 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,920 what happens. I'm down, all right. That'll do it for 557 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,639 this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could 558 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:47,920 not do the show without your support and the support 559 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,800 of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if 560 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,840 you'd like, please support them too and tell them you 561 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,000 heard it here. You can also become a patron at 562 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,039 my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, 563 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,840 thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything 564 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:02,480 while I'm gone. 565 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 2: M hm.