Royals/Crown Center Meeting Bombs, Data Center Disconnect Between Trump and GOP Voters?! | 7-28-26

Well, the stadium mess continues in Kansas City. Good morning. It is 604 on a Tuesday. And what? An embarrassing scene it was last night in Kansas City where the Royals and Crown Center officials discussed plans for rezoning, parking arrangements, flow of traffic, ingress, egress, for their new stadium that they have planned right there at Crown Center. And it was not an embarrassment for the Royals. It was not an embarrassment for the Crown Center officials. It was an embarrassment for many in the community. who questioned the project itself. That's who it was an absolute embarrassment for. And on behalf of, you had people last night who literally could not keep their mouths shut. And they're people that I'm actually somewhat sympathetic towards, but they're there last night and they're chanting. and they're hooting and hollering. And they had to actually end the meeting early after repeated disruptions were taking place from various groups and organizations who wanted to have their voices heard. Instead of just letting adults do what adults do, which is, hey, here's our proposal, here's our idea, here's what we think will make this beneficial to you and to all of Kansas City. Instead of that, What you got was a bunch of people screaming like school children, screaming like my 7-5 and 2-year-old Mike when they don't get exactly what they want. So we all know that there have been some of these organizations like Stand Up KC. who have been like, hey, we want to vote on the Royal Stadium. And I am sympathetic to their cause, okay? I am. I believe that the city and the Royals should put this to a vote. And by the way, I think it would pass. I do. I think it's a better proposal than the Royals project that was proposed up in the Crossroads area. I think losing the Chiefs is a reality for many Missourians and Kansas Indians to be like, all right, well, we don't want to lose both these teams. Let's keep them here. And by the way, the horrific deal that Kansas offered the Chiefs makes the Royals deal look semi-reasonable. So put it to a vote. Put it to a vote of the people. So I'm sympathetic to those who want to vote. I am. But what I'm not sympathetic towards is adults treating other adults who are trying to have a conversation like absolute dog crap. That's what I'm against. And that's what happened last night because these Union Station officials, or excuse me, the Crown Center officials and the Royals officials, they didn't have to do this. We don't know if this thing is going to have to go to a vote.

We don't know exactly what the next steps are on the project. Mayor Lucas insists he doesn't need a vote. I'm not convinced he's in any way right about that. I think we're in a unique holding pattern to see what the next legal step is going to be here. But can you just go to a meeting, ask your question, make your point, hold your rally outside of the venue. You'd get all the media publicity that you want. I'd talk about you. TV would show you on the nightly news. You'd get all the attention. But now you just look like petulant children. That's what these stand-up KC people and all these different groups and protesters who actually have a case to make. that people on the left and the rights oftentimes agree with, which is, is it the job of a city? Is it the job of a county to fund a billionaire's playground? It is a very fair and reasonable conversation to have. The problem is they can't act fair and reasonable. So they hurt themselves and they hurt their own argument. Fox 4 had some of the reporting last night live on the scene, and here is what that sounded like.

And we'll get to that here in just a moment on KCMO Talk Radio. Just let me know, Mark, when you're all lined up. It's all good. So I just want to play this for you because if you weren't there last night, they were in the big movie theater at Union Station, so it holds about 400 people. It wasn't totally full. It seemed like it came down at the last minute. I just, listen, I know I was off a couple of days last week, so I may have just missed that part of the story that they were planning this whole deal. But it seemed like it was somewhat thrown together at the last minute, didn't get a ton of media publicity until yesterday. And by the time we got to yesterday, you know, listen, Monday night, in late July, people wrapping up summer vacations, people have their plans. They're not really like, let me drop everything and go to Union Station to watch the Royals and the Crown Center officials talk about their stadium plans. But I appreciate them doing it. Even if I don't necessarily agree with everything about the deal itself, I appreciate them doing it. And I actually think they did it in part for the right reasons. It's not clear to me they even had to do this. Because if the project's going through anyway, then they could just hide. They've been more transparent than anything involving the Kansas City Chiefs. who were about to soak generations of Kansas taxpayers for this, you know, 10-day-a-year stadium in Wyandotte County. Here's what it sounded like last night at Union Station, this Royals Crown Center meeting where they were talking about the future of the ballpark. Crown Center engagement meeting for the baseball stadium was cut short Monday evening after residents demanded this stadium be put back on the ballot for vote. Let us vote! Let us vote! Residents like Tomas Moran, who lives in the San Francisco Towers near the potential site, say this project would be beneficial to the community. But with the lack of transparency, it's hard to get behind. Parking is essential. Chilled water. We get the chilled water through these services. So there's a lot of things that are not specified in the proposal. I know there will be other faces. but I think they can be a little clearer than what they've been today. On the other hand, union workers are advocating for this project because they say around 1,000 construction jobs will be brought to the area. You're telling me then, or you're asking me, that the small businesses that are going to be surrounding here are not going to have a direct impact. They will because those 1,300 construction workers are going to shop. They're going to buy something every single day. They're going to eat somewhere every single day. The Royals filed a... That's good, Mark. Thank you. John, where do you want to take that? Well, I find it interesting that people bitch and whine about no transparency when they walk out on a meeting. Well, thank you. Thank you. I'm being the old man. No, no, no, no, no, no. Is that common sense, right? It's common sense. Okay. It is absolute common sense. These people are whining about we don't have a voice. We want to vote. First off, The Royals and the Crown Center folks have nothing to do with whether or not you get a vote. Go to City Hall. Mayor Lucas is the one who right now appears to be blocking you from having a vote. Go to Mayor Lucas's office. Go down the 12th and Oak. That's where you got to go. Don't abuse the Royals and the Crown Center officials. Okay?

against the proposed data center on Central Street. So this is one that we've talked about on and off for the last few weeks. It's going to be potentially at 934 Central Street. That's the proposed side of a controversial 20-story data center tower in downtown Kansas City. It is facing pushback from a lot of groups. You'd have first floor retail, and then the upper floors would be dedicated to data infrastructure, closed loop water system, and on-site natural gas fuel cell power generation. There are issues as it relates to... the fact that the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. So that's part of the problem as well, the historic preservation angle. There is obviously political issues here. There's power and energy costs and what that means for people in the neighborhood. All the things that we've talked about as it relates to data centers. And Chris Ben Rea, who's going to be on the show this morning at 850, And Eric Bike Boy Bunch, I figured I wouldn't reach out to the bike boy since I don't think he likes the nickname that we've given him the last few years on this show. But they put out a joint statement and here's in part what it reads. Kansas City has a rich and architectural history that's important to preserve for future generations. This proposal would replace rather than preserve.

that location for future generations. They go on to note here in their statement. Our goal is to carry that stewardship forward while activating the building in a way that supports the surrounding community. They say here city leaders and civic partners have worked hard to build a thriving downtown. This requires growth that adds more residents, employees, and visitors. This proposal does not contribute to downtown Kansas City's growth. That is the statement from Crispin Rea. And from Eric Bunch. Now, I respect these guys for taking that stance. I think that's the right stance. I'm not opposed to a data center being somewhere in KC Mo. But I fail to see why even the data center would want it to be in a historic building in the heart of downtown. I fail to see why that is a thing that is beneficial for anybody. Now, of course, you know, like I know, there is going to be, and there will be asks for major tax breaks in any of these data centers. That's just how it goes, right? So I won't even get into that side of it. But just physically, what do you want your downtown to be? ideally you want population density that that's the goal of any downtown okay you want population density that grows not just residential but also grows commercial grows small business that's what you want that's how a downtown wins Not by putting a hollowed out data center that's 20 stories tall in an old historical building, having a couple of retail stores on the first floor and calling it a day. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. So I don't know. where exactly this project's going to go, but you've got Chris and Raya and Eric Bunch, who are, you know, the in-district council member and the at-large district council member, both coming out and saying, we're against this, and it doesn't contribute to downtown's growth. So we've had data centers be fought in Spring Hill successfully. We've seen independents not have a successful bid to fight their big data center that's going up. We've seen it fought in places like Liberty and KC. Moe, I mean, east, west, north, south, everywhere around Kansas City. The fight's been on with these data centers.

And believe it or not, you can be pro technology and understand the future of having data centers and how, yes, it's going to be part of our future for a very long time and we need them. Well, at the same time, being like, you know what, they need to be put in places that don't have major impacts on neighborhoods and communities. You know, it's interesting you bring up the independence one kind of got out in front of people before they knew what was happening. So they've had to kind of react to that, but it has been. a bellwether or what's the word of look for a harbinger for other communities who have been able to get out in front of it so that's one thing with the nebius project out in independence Yes, they were kind of late to the party because they kind of slipped that one under the rug. We've got the city council members over there being held accountable, I think, on that. Yeah, they got a recall election coming up here, and I think it's about a month for one of their independence council members. So they were just a little bit behind the curve there in independence, which is why they couldn't stop it. But we've seen many other communities slow these things around Kansas City. What's really interesting is that President Trump may be... actually not in touch with a large part of his base on the issue of data centers. So Trump has been a pro data center guy for a long time. And I get why, like he's not wrong in saying that we are in this AI race against China. We've got to beat them in this data center race. And, you know, there's value in having these in America. He's not wrong about that. But as Trump can sometimes do, he takes things to the next level. And here's what he said in the last couple of days about these data centers that are very controversial in communities that overwhelmingly vote and love President Trump like many around Kansas City. Here's the president to the United States a couple of days ago. And even communities compared to other communities. You have some communities that really want this. This isn't all negative stuff. This is you have communities that really want the data centers. And frankly, those are the smart communities because it means tremendous numbers of jobs, very little actual disruption. And the ones that don't want it, you know, the happiest people in the world are foreign countries, number one, and number two, other communities within our country because they're begging for them. to be there. And some of them are great communities, very, very forward-looking communities, very smart communities. Do you know anyone begging for a data center in their community? I mean, we've had many more of these conversations with regular folks in Kansas, Missouri, than with all due respect, the president of the United States has ever had. And I don't know anybody who's begging to have a data center in their neighborhood, in their backyard. Not a single one. And by the way, I wouldn't want one either.

I see the value in them. I understand why we need them. But to suggest that, you know, if you don't want this thing, well, you're just falling behind, you know, I had this debate last week with Steve Moore on this show. The problem is for these guys in D.C. and New York, they're not going in their backyards. They're putting these things in Middle America. They're putting them and they're wanting to put them here in Kansas City in places like our backyard. where there's potentially agricultural issues for our farmers and our ranchers. There are issues as it relates to electric costs and water costs. There are a lot of problems around this that with all due respect, I don't think the guys and gals in the Beltway. are really in touch with. And I think that they are completely missing the mark as to where a bulk of their base is right now. And they've got to get back in touch with what's going on here. Because if not, you know, you had some protesters yesterday in Michigan. where the president did a rally, and they were protesting him over this very issue of data centers. We'll get to it coming up. I'll play the audio and your calls 911-408-7-95-7. So we're keeping a close eye on the data center proposal downtown Central Street, old historic building yesterday. Crispin Rea and Councilman Eric Bunch came out against that data center proposal. And just the broader conversation here. is fascinating because you're seeing these data centers want to go to many rural parts of America because they realize they can get cheaper land and cheaper electricity in Kansas and Missouri than they can in places like Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and California. So they're building these things at record pace. They're bringing in, yes, temporary jobs, but... The pros versus the cons for the immediate communities that they reside in, at best, are still TBD. But Trump has been very much pro data center. And he's saying we've got to beat China in the AI race. Well, just to share the numbers with you, we've got about 5,000 data centers in this country. China has less than 500. So we're winning. Okay? We're winning. The notion that we must go out there, and we must make sure we do everything in our power to build every data center on every corner imaginable because of not China is going to beat us, I mean, we've got a several year head start. It doesn't mean I don't want to stay ahead of them. It doesn't mean that I do not want to see China. I certainly don't want to see them do well. But I also look at it and say to myself, you know, we're in a pretty good spot. It's like with my kids, I sometimes give them a head start when we're doing races, just to be that kind of a dad. But man, this is like we've got a 90 meter head start on a 100 meter dash, John. Absolutely. And we need to look into stuff. It's like.

It occurs to me now. We have these limestone caves up here by the river. It's like, so we talk about we need to cool them. Well, the ground temperature stays pretty consistent. That's one of the features of the underground cave storage system up there. So I don't know why we couldn't necessarily go downwards with our building, if you will. Yeah, I hadn't thought about that. That's a good point. You know, it's going to be cool. It's by the river if you need water, I guess. Yeah, I mean, that's very interesting because the amount of space these things are taking up is unbelievable. There's a 5,000-acre AI Data Center campus that is called the Big Sky Digital Infrastructure Campus that's been proposed near Broadview, Montana. 5,000 acres is about 8 square miles, which is larger than Prairie Village. Yes, that's how big some of these data centers are going to be, larger than the entire city of Prairie Village. That's just, that is unbelievable. And that's going to have legitimate impacts on some of these more rural communities, right? And for years, Republicans have championed what? Property rights, local control, protecting rural communities, skepticism on government subsidies. But now for data centers, we're kind of supposed to throw all that out the window because, well, China. And trust me, I have no interest in losing the China in anything, but you got to give me more. I don't think the sales pitch from whether it's Steve Moore on this show, the president of the United States, or others are really connecting with regular folks. And yesterday, the president was in Michigan doing a rally up there around manufacturing and whatnot. But there were a bunch of people protesting the president. And these were, I mean, They look like his supporters. And they were, yeah, they were protesting the Data Center issue. So take a listen to what this sounded like.

So that was yesterday in Michigan. And you can tell this issue is one that I think there's just a major disconnect right now. between the powers that be in Washington, D.C. and many in the supposed like conservative media space, because they're kind of caught in that bubble, whether they admit it or not. They're caught in that bubble. They're in D.C. They're down in South Florida. They're going to the cocktail parties. They're hanging out with a lot of those White House people far more than they're hanging out with like us on the streets in Kansas City. Trust me. And there is a huge disconnect between these data centers, what they actually can do for communities, what the communities think about them, and what right now the political establishment thinks about them. 913-408-7-95-7. And this one in Kansas City is just the latest example when you've got, you know, more liberal-leaning councilman in Eric Bunch and Chris Ben Rea coming out and being like, this central street location, this 20-story data center proposal on Central Street is a bad idea, is not how we want to build up downtown. And I'm sitting here and I'm like, you know, these guys are right. Steve's in KCK on KCMO. What's up, Steve? Morning, Pete. One of my biggest concerns is the use of eminent domain, and there's people losing their land in red states like Alabama. They're losing their land to some of these data centers. I don't care who the president is, Republican and Democrat. That's not cool. And this also is a big concern with me. In my opinion, I think Ty Masterson could be what Trump wants. You know, I'd like to hear some promises out of Ty Masterson that there's going to be no eminent domain being used to take Kansas land from the Kansas property owners. Yeah, he seems to be pretty proud of those Chiefs deal. I'd like, that's a good thing. I could see Ty Masterson being that guy. It's just my opinion. Yeah, you know, I hadn't thought about that. Listen, I don't think the Trump endorsement of Masterson was that, and I don't mean this in any disrespectful way to either guy. I don't think it was all that deeply thought out in the sense that I just believe the right people were in charge of the campaign who had the right connections and there was a case to be made. that ties the best guy in a general to help Roger Marshall, you know, win re-election. I think it was more about the exes and those of politics than it was any policy per se. But I understand what you're saying there. I'll have Philip Sarnicky on at 905 this morning. Do you know who you're voting for yet, Steve? Right now I'm with Sarnicky. Ty Maschison just kind of has that bit rummy, greasy hair, car dealer salesman vibe to me. You know, it rubs me the wrong way.

Okay. All right. Thanks so much. Appreciate you, man. 913-408-7-95-7. Let's go up to Gladstone. That's where Jay is on a Tuesday morning. Go ahead, Jay. Good morning, Pete. I think Kansas City is a great place for data centers, but I don't think they're putting them in the right places. Something like the underground there that's under Worlds of Fun or GeoCities, you know, one of the caves. Then you don't have to worry about, you know, messing up any agriculture. As far as water goes, if they're just pumping it out of the Missouri River. And if it's an open loop and, you know, then the more purified water is getting put into our system. So our systems don't have to, you know, purify as much water for our drinking. Beautiful. Where I do see the failing is in power. If somebody like Google wants to build a data center, if they... put up a lot of money to, say, expand Wolf Creek, you know, or another nuclear power center, then it'd be a win-win-win. If they're not willing to put up anything to, you know, build out their power infrastructure, then I don't think they should have a data center. You know, the biggest thing is, you know, our electricity prices. But if we can get more nuclear power for Kansas City, so all of our power is cheaper and secure for the next, you know, several centuries, beautiful. Well, listen, I'm with you there. I wouldn't hold your breath on that more nuclear power coming to Kansas City. But here's where I like your thought there, Jay, and I appreciate the call. Where I like your thoughts is when it relates to and how it relates to Kansas City in general, which is 320 square miles. We've talked about it. I mean, I've said this seriously. It'll never happen. The mayor laughed at me when I suggested it to him. But Kansas City's 320 square miles has about half a million people. It is the same geographical footprint square mileage-wise as New York City where there are 8 million people. There are 16 times as many people in New York City as there are in Kansas City, but you still have to maintain the land, right? You've got to clean the roads when it snows. You've got to fill the potholes, and you just don't have the tax base oftentimes to do all of that. The data centers can bring you. if you don't give them the farm in tax incentives, can bring you revenue on land that you otherwise would not be making money off of. And there's a lot of open land, right? Whether you're talking up north where Jay was talking by World's Fun, you can go down south. There's certainly land where you can utilize it better and there's a lot more money to be made on property taxes with the data center than there is with, say, farmland or just, you know, open space. So I understand that. That could be good for Kansas City. But that gets back to the original part of the conversation.

Putting it right there in downtown on Central Street in a historic building that's going to be 20 stories, when you really want population density to build a robust downtown doesn't make any sense for anybody. Unless the city is just so desperate in trying to find every nickel that they can between the couch cushions that they feel they have to make this deal, it's a terrible location. There's really no way to spend that location as a good place for a data center, none whatsoever. But we will have this conversation with Chris Ben Reya. He's going to be on the show at 850 this morning, city councilman who came out against the data center there downtown. And Philip Sarniky's going to be on the show. He has called for a moratorium on data centers in Kansas as part of his pitch to be the next governor. So we'll talk to him about that at 905 as well. Karen Sarkovich is going to be here at 705. She wants to be the Johnson County chairwoman. And she's got to get to the general first. coming up next Tuesday. Well, obviously, the sports world in Kansas City. was shocked yesterday with this story that Eric B. Enemy's son is allegedly the one who shot his own mother, Mia, as Eric B. Enemy, the chief's offensive coordinator, was here in St. Joe to start training camp for the chiefs. Of course, he's back after a four-year hiatus to be the offensive coordinator. And already, listen, you've got people lining up. What does this mean for the chief season? What does it mean for the offense? What does Mahomes think? How are the chiefs going to handle this? How long is E.B. going to be gone? And I'll get to my thoughts here in a second. But listen, I have a feeling that uncanceled today coming up at 10 with Kevin Keatsman is going to be absolutely wild. And I mean that in a complimentary way, because Kevin just gives you stuff that other people either aren't thinking about. or just simply won't say. You will never have to wonder. where Kevin's at on almost any issue. And that's what makes him one of the best to ever do it. And I don't just mean in Kansas City, I mean in all of sports radio. And certainly now he's made this transition to more news talk radio. But listen, sports is obviously part of what we do on a regular basis when it's leading the news. So Kevin, he got a lot of flack for some of his takes yesterday on social media. He wrote here,

Does the offensive coordinator, meaning Eric B. Enemy, after what happened yesterday, still have the endorsement of Patrick Mahomes? We know Andy doesn't care. Does QB1 still want to do all of this? Keats writes, Eric B. Ename needs to go. Statt. He didn't do it, meaning obviously shoot his wife, but a life of violence and crime has to end with consequences. I'm praying for the mom, but this wasn't out of nowhere. That was from Keatsman yesterday on social media. And listen, the enemy does have, and I know Kevin's going to lay it all out at 10 o'clock, does have a history. He's got domestic violence. He's got DUIs in his background. So he does have some stuff in his background. And it's believed to be one of the reasons that he's never. been a head coach in the NFL. Well, then I see this from her own and his producer, Mark Van Sickle, Mark writing here this morning. on X. I endorse keeping Eric B. Enemy as Chiefs O.C. And taking as much time as he needs to be with his wife at this time. I endorse Andy Reid's handling of the situation. I endorse Mahomes looking like he's in shape at the start of training camp. I will not be taking questions at this time. Well, Mark, you will be taking questions from me. I just want to know. I need to know whether or not. I need to hire security in the studio today when Keatsman rolls in at about 9 or 915. Are you guys going to be able to work together during the 10 o'clock show? Oh, no, it's all good. I know Keatsman has his hot takes from time to time. And last year it was the Mahomes on the Taco Bell diet. You know, we had off-air conversations about that. So we... It's fine. I know Kevin's going to do his thing. And I'll let him cook. I'll not open my mic until I'm requested to. So it'll be okay. All right. You got to let him cook. So I could hire a security for the day. I could just have John Anthony play bouncer. I'll say I'll go down the hall and get Doug from a box. We'll get midlocking on the. Well, he could be a good bouncer, although he wanted to fight me at one point, too. So I don't know about that. Okay. But we got to get that all straightened out first. But anyway, okay, all right. We could grab Michael Riley from 94-9, K-CMO. Although Mike's able to talk anybody off the ledge. He's a very smooth talker. That's true. So everybody likes Mike O'Reilly. So he might be the guy to just calm things down here at KCMO Talk Radio if it gets ugly when all of us are together later today. All right. Well, I just want to make sure you're okay, Mark, and everything's going to be all right when Keats rolls in at about 9 o'clock this morning. Oh, yeah. It's going to be all good. I'm not reaching as far as he is on some of this stuff. I don't think that he needs to be fired over this stuff. But we'll see what Keatsman has to say. Listen, I will say this much. And there are plenty of things that Kevin and I disagree on, right? But he...

Almost always, because I know he disagrees with me, I disagree with him, but that's what makes this amazing. Everyone thinks like this format is just, you know, 13 hours a day, 6-8-7p of every host banging the same drum and saying the same thing. And that's just not true at all in this format. But he always is typically able to make his case in a compelling, certainly compelling, absolutely entertaining. And he's got, he's got, you know, his facts to support his beliefs. And I assume that's what he's going to do coming up at 10. Now, what I would say about this whole case is the following. There are plenty of people I know in my life, personally and professionally, whose children have been complete knuckleheads, sometimes criminals. And... You look at the siblings and you say, how did these kids grow up in the same family? So I am never one to jump on the, well, boy, you know, mom and dad really screwed this up and should have seen this coming. I'm not saying that's not the case with the enemy. I don't really. have enough to know about the inner workings of their family to have any opinion on that, to be honest. I just know that there are people in my life where one kid's a total screw-up sometimes ends up, you know, spending time in jail, maybe worse. And the other kids are choir boys or girls. And you're like, how do these kids get raised by the same parents? How are they biologically from the same two people? So that's always where I'm at on those issues. And so far, until I get more evidence, that's where I'm at right now in this B-enemy case. But I will say the last thing the chiefs need right now is another off-field headache when they're trying to hit the reset button on the disaster that was 2025. John? Final word here? Yeah, sometimes we have the crop duster plane mentality. They go real low to spray the crops, and then all of a sudden they shoot up for the 30,000-foot view. I was thinking of the low view here, but I'm sure Kevin's going to present that 30,000-foot view on coming up on uncanceled. Yep, 10 o'clock. Don't miss it on KCMO Talk Radio. It is going to be outstanding. There's no doubt about it. And I can just, I can feel it. You know, you get those days when you just feel it. I can feel it. We were just talking about Eric B. Enemy, what's coming up with uncancelled at 10 o'clock? Keatsman wants Bianami out as the Chiefs O.C after his son allegedly shot their mother. yesterday in Virginia. Alfonso's in Blue Springs. I wasn't going to take the call Alfonso because I want you to call Keatsman, but I was told by our producer extraordinaire, John Anthony, that you are going to be in a meeting later during Uncanceled, so I'm giving you the floor right now. Go. I'm going to try to get into the bathroom for this at 10 o'clock. That is the worst force take ever.

I come from a family where I'm like oil and water and I got a bad sibling and you never know it. But we didn't fire Andy Reid when his son killed somebody or did whatever with the joint driving. So why would we fire Airbnb for something that his kids did? That's the worst take ever. You know, listen, I'll let Kevin defend it at 10 o'clock. I think his take will be what does it all mean for the culture of the chiefs? And just to be clear, Andy Reid's kid didn't kill that young girl, but obviously her life was changed forever. We know what happened there a few years ago coming out of that, I guess, party they had at Arrowhead Stadium. But listen, I don't agree either just because to your point, I know people in my personal life whose kids have been knuckleheads, thugs, criminals. The siblings are totally normal, and you can't point to the parenting or the upbringing for why some kids just don't turn out the right way. So, you know, that's been my personal experience, but what I want you to do is go to the bathroom at 10 o'clock and make sure you are streaming uncanceled on the KCMO Talk Radio app. Deal? I would definitely try to call back. Okay. All right. Well, there you go, Alfonso. Appreciate you, man. So last night, I'm watching Fox News, and I normally... Don't watch Fox News at that time of night. But I am visiting some family. My schedule's just a little different, little thrown off. So I'm not in my usual routine, right? Where I'm at home, get the kids down, kind of get researching. There's moving parts. Just kind of how it is right now. Nothing good or bad, just different. And I stumble upon Sean Hannity. And listen, I respect Sean and what he has built. But I don't watch Sean Hannity. There is nothing new there. There is nothing different outside of banging. and hitting the company line over and over and over again. And I know it's been very good to him, and it's obviously made him a great success, but there's not a lot of depth, there's not a lot of new, there's not a lot of difference, and it's kind of the same thing every day. But I'm watching it last night. It was on, and within the first five to ten minutes, I was watching the Republican midterm strategy play out in a way that I told you and predicted that it would yesterday, with yesterday being, you know, 100 days until the midterm elections. And Sean Hannity opens up his show. And he's going off about how the Democrats have all these socialists who are now winning primaries. And there's whatever, 38 of them potentially that could be in Congress. And this is the biggest midterm of our lives.

And they're not actually socialist, they're communists. And I'm like, dude, there's got to be something more than this. There just, there has to be. I know that fear is what you use to try to get people off the couch, to try to get them to vote. But it's much easier to do that when you're the party that's not in power. It is so much easier for right now Democrats to be like, Trump's a dictator, get to the polls in November. Because they have no power. Then it is for Trump or Sean Hannity to be like, get to the polls so the commies don't take over. It's just a much more difficult pitch. But within five minutes, because here's the thing. I know for a fact. that Sean Hannity talks to the president of the United States multiple times a day. And I just, I've heard it from multiple people. So my point is, if you want to know what the... party line is, or if you want to see what the party strategy is, I'm kind of taking you behind the scenes a little bit here, but you will get it every day from Sean Hannity. Like, people think that I get this blueprint of, here's what the Republican Party is going to say today. No, and honestly, There are people from the RNC, the Republican National Committee, who always want to like, you know, come on this show. And I'm like, why? I mean, if Trump wants to come on, of course, I mean, sign me up for that. If somebody from the administration wants to come on, I'm all ears. Some no-name spokesperson from the RNC is going to come on and just give you the company line. Who's interested in that? Like, who wants that content? I'd rather hear from you, and I mean that as a compliment as the caller here in Kansas City. I'd rather have the conversation with you and go back and forth and get your thoughts than someone who's paid by a political party to come on the show and say the most predictable stuff of all time. I have zero interest in that. But the closest thing that you'll get is how Sean Hannity's program is set up and laid out. And within five minutes last night, you were seeing with 100 days to go the midterm strategy playing out in real time. And it was fascinating because we did a lot on this yesterday since I was a couple of days off last week and kind of got a chance to take a step back and realize that the Republican Party feels like it's lost its swagger. And that's the swagger that it had coming out of 24. win the House, win the Senate, win the White House, sweep all the swing states. I got some mojo in 24 into 25, and it feels like now they're trying to find their footing once again. They're trying to figure out what that line is going to be or what that sales pitch is going to be to the American people. And I'm not saying they shouldn't go out there and say, hey, this Democratic Party has changed a lot. This is not Bill Clinton. Heck, this is not even Barack Obama.

This is a completely different party with a very far left base in it that continues to gain power. I'm not saying they shouldn't do that, but there's just got to be more to it than that, because that in and of itself is not enough to win coming up in November. And if they think it is, they are kidding themselves. 913-408-7-95-7. On the text line, Pete, Sean Hannity was at his best when he had Alan Combs. I agree. I completely agree. I think it kept him sharp. I think it kept him on his toes. And I think that we all need that at times. Like talk radio has that because of you, the caller. You can call up and say, I don't even know what. I don't know where you're going to go. That's what allows this format to really stay fresh and not become repetitive. That's you. and the guests that obviously we try to book for the show as well. But, you know, if you're a one-man band on TV and you're not going to find the right guests, like O'Reilly during the heyday of the O'Reilly factor, boy, he had some blowups with his guests, and it was amazing television. He sought that. He seeked that out. He wanted that. Now, it's harder to book those guests today, but it was good for the show and it was good for the host of the show as well. That's just indisputable. So that is a good point on the text line. 911-408-7-957. That's how you join us here on K-CMO Talk Radio 957 FM. We're streaming on the KCMO Talk Radio app as always. And yes, as many of you are noting on the text line, the Iran War has got to come to an end here. Whatever the strategy is, they've got to wrap it up before November because if not, I don't see the pathway to holding the House. Senate, yes, I think they can do it. It's going to be very tough to hold the House. All right, Mayor Lucas has just come out with an endorsement one week to go until the primaries in Kansas and Missouri. And... Two days after Mayor Kew decides he's going to give his endorsement of voting no in Kansas on Supreme Court justices, he has now dove in headfirst to the Kansas U.S. Senate race, where he posted a video moments ago on Facebook.

alongside Pastor Adam Hamilton with this endorsement. Let's roll it. Proud to be in Kansas today with Adam Hamilton, a good friend and a person who stands up for our entire region, all of us in Midwest. And as a kid who used to live in Hutchinson in Kansas, cared a lot about our entire region. Proud to endorse Adam Hamilton, the United States said. Mayor, I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. I've appreciated you for a long time. Your friendship, your encouragement, and I appreciate your leadership, her awesome leader, and I'm really proud to have him a little bit of a lot of time. Thank you. We'll vote for Adam Hamilton and eat some good barbecue here in KC. Absolutely. Wow. That doesn't make sense for anybody. Anybody. Unless Adam Hamilton thinks that he's in a very tight primary race ahead of next Tuesday, wrapping himself around Quentin Lucas as a guy who's trying to win statewide in Kansas is honestly one of the more head-scratching, just pure political decisions you can make. How are you possibly going to shift to in a couple of weeks? I'm nothing but a moderate when I'm, you know, slapping the back of Mara Lucas. And listen, we have Mara Lucas on the show every Thursday. And yes, he will say I'm a moderate. And maybe compared to Zohran Mamdani in New York City, he is. And I respect the mayor. He comes on this show every single week. I wouldn't say, I've been talking to the guy every week for six and a half years now. I've known him for almost 10. I don't think he's a moderate. I think he's a solid Democrat. He's a solid liberal. He's not a Democratic socialist. No, he's not in that lane at all. But I wouldn't say he's just a hair left of center either. He's just solidly in the middle of where the Democratic Party is today, and that is solidly liberal. But if you're Adam Hamilton and you're serious about winning state riding in Kansas and you think that you can be the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat in the state in 100 years, why would you want the endorsement publicly of Mayor Lucas? Unless you don't think you can get through the primary coming up next Tuesday, which I don't see how he doesn't. Honestly, I think he's going to cakewalk through the primary. Why do this? Now, I kind of get it for Mayor Lucas. He wants to play Kingmaker in not just Kansas City, but the region. I think that he knows he's going to have to take a break from running for office here when he's done coming up next year. He'll be done as mayor almost one year to the day. He'll be done as mayor. I think it's August 1st or something like that. Quentin Lucas will officially be out as the mayor of Kansas City. I think he likes the idea of playing Kingmaker.

at least for a period of time to keep himself top of mind around Kansas City. So that's going to be his role. And listen, I understand why he would do that. And I understand the short term and the long-term political play for the mayor of Kansas City. But for Adam Hamilton, I don't see how he benefits at all. Because if he gets through the primary, you know what I do if I'm Roger Marshall? I play that. Like, I don't even have to do anything. I just play that on loop, and I think you win fairly easily. It just, that was just cringe. And the strategy to me doesn't make any sense. And the video is on Facebook right now, on the Mayor Lucas Facebook page. It's not on X. I don't know if there's a reason for that or the team just hasn't gotten around to posting it yet on X. But that was beyond bizarre to me. I don't get that for the life of me. I really don't. But, you know. I guess that's why someone makes the big bucks on the campaign side to figure out why that's a good idea for anybody. But here we are. Tiread Tuesday is coming up right around the corner on KCMO. So last night in Kansas City, before we get to your tirades, there were tirades happening at Union Station. And this was a really bad look for the people involved. So credit to the Royals, credit to Crown Center. They had officials that came out last night and showed up. and wanted to discuss with the folks. Here are the plans for the new stadium. Here's the parking set up. Here's the ingress, egress. You know, here's how we're going to do all this when we hopefully build this new stadium come, what, 2031, give or take, right? And you had protesters who showed up and ended the meeting early. They forced the meeting to end early because they were protesting not getting their vote on the stadium. Now, I have been sympathetic to these people. They oftentimes lean left. But I've been very sympathetic and actually agree with them on the idea of put the stadium to a vote. I think if you're John Sherman, if you're Quentin Lucas, I think you benefit from putting it to a vote. And by the way, I also think that it will pass. I think it will pass for a couple of reasons. This Crown Center location is much better than the one at the crossroads, much less controversial. I think the Chief's deal helps Kansas City because that deal in Kansas is such an unmitigated disaster on so many levels, financially speaking. The Royal's deal does not look nearly as bad. And there's also going to be an element of, I just don't want to lose another team potentially to Kansas. Even though I don't think Kansas is an option, because as I told you yesterday, the Chief Steel is going to have to expand on the Starbond District. The size and the scope of the Starbond District is going to grow. So I see no way.

that Kansas could even afford to have two teams right now. But either way, I do think there's an element of it that people will just say, fine, keep the team here. We want to do what's in the best interest of Missouri, and they'll vote yes, right? Like, I think that's coming. But at the same time, you've got to just sell it to the people. And I do think they could do it actually pretty effectively. I don't think it's a hard pitch. So I'm in favor of it going to a vote. But these people that are out there screaming and hooting and hollering and interrupting meetings like their little kids, They're not doing themselves any favors whatsoever. They're not, John, and they should be embarrassed by what happened last night at Union Station. Sir, this is a Wendy's. Yes, yes, you're right. Voice or displeasure at City Hall. Exactly. Go to 12th and Oak. Those are the people not giving you a vote, not the Royals, and not the leadership at Crown Center. I mean, it's just, it's so bad, and it was such a horrible look on so many levels.