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Because I'm 28 here. I saw you rocking some Auburn gear the other day on social media. I didn't know if you were tipping your hand there on where your daughter may end up going to school. Is she going to be a little bit more comfortable with that? Um the greatest thing that we can do for our kids is to let them make decisions and to drop little, you know, hints here and there was a shirt, dude. That's all I do. I just drop a hint, you know, um she and I want her to see other places as well, but we hit the two coast because those were the flights that were most likely going to fly because they were the most crowded. In the middle of this crazy shutdown situation, and we had to get the kids to leave. We had to get the kids to leave. We had to get the kids to leave. We had to get to leave now because that that was just now we got to get 500 plus people back and I don't blame them for leaving. Look, I get it. Um. Yeah, so that's why so now we're going to hit the middle. We'll do a little U. T. Austin will do some J Hawk country because you know my heart is there. So I just sprinkle it on. I don't come heavy with it. But um, yes, I think it's fantastic. Of course, but he's been there. Okay, he knows she knows it's different though when you're looking academically, but she knows as there's nothing like Alan Field House. I mean, come on. We'll be back next year. I think needed to take a break. It's okay. They're coming back. I'm not even worried. That's fantastic. Well, Harris, so you've been traveling obviously you talked about the DHS shutdown, the airport situation you've obviously been all over this on your show. How of politically motivated shutdowns, that it seems like the Democratic Party is actually getting rewarded for, despite the fact that even both sides of the aisle are more or less now admitting, they're the reason for it. Yeah, look, I don't give anybody a pass on this. This is a Democrat-led shutdown. It is the second. And now, again, we have reached a point where we say these awful words, the longest in US history. I mean, can you imagine within a six-month period, the Democrats leading everybody to a cliff with nothing to show for their side? Absolutely nothing at this point. ICE and the Board of Patrol were paid for in the big beautiful Bill Now! Law. So that wasn't even a contention point. And it's a lie to their voters to say, we're fighting to defund ICE. They're already funded. They're on the job. In fact, now they're doing a bigger part of the job at airports. I snapped a couple of pictures and showed my personal experience on the area yesterday because people were coming up and thanking ICE. And I remember, you know, we're old enough to remember six weeks ago when that didn't happen. But Democrats haven't gained the long game out. They just, they never do. So now ICE is rescuing you after you eviscerated them because they've always just been counting on one thing, doing their job. We're not gonna gloss over mistakes that have been made. We're not even inside the bubble. I mean, I don't know what the legality of all of what happened in Minneapolis will shake out to be. I'm not involved in those cases. But what I do know is that the president said, softer touch, he cleaned up the mess that was there to begin with. With so many violent illegals who needed to be picked up and not let out into Minnesota communities. Tom Homan, I mean, he stepped up and did what he did for Obama, to do Porter and Sheaf. He went in there and he did the work and quietly left and moved on to the next. And the next now is a new Democrat led crisis. I mean, first it was open borders. And now it's just no borders at all in our airports or any place guided by the DHS because we're at war. And our enemy would love to hit a crowded airport. Think about it, they hit Dubai, they hit Abu Dhabi's airports, they would love that. So they leave us bare again. They create a new crisis for no reason that they can control. Ice and Border Patrol already paid for. But then they stepped up and I snapped pictures of the ICE agents and people were smiling. And I saw a couple of Democrat liberals online yesterday saying, oh, I just walked through this, this line and ICE was processing security IDs so on and so forth. And it was super fast. Well, of course, of course, they're doing their job yet again. So I'm really confounded, but I think all of them, both sides of the ILP, they have too much of our money. They really do. They act like they don't have any boundaries around the credit that they, the debt that their credit thirst gets us into and then just tax us more so we can pay for it all. I'm thinking of Washington state right now, Governor Ferguson, not on Capitol Hill, a Democrat who's about to do what mom Donnie's gonna do here in New York. So he thinks 9.9% tax for million and above. Million dollars is a big thing. Now you're punishing the American dream. And by the way, all these jokes and insults about plumbers, plumbers are small to mid-sized businesses that hire a lot of people. I'm hoping they're making a million a year. I'm hoping the combined incomes of people in their houses can get to be that much so that they can continue to help sow the American dream for others who wanna jump in with innovation. There's gonna be a fight in Washington state politically over this because there's concern. What's gonna happen to the, you know, what I call the wealth migration. And it's real, ask California. I mean, Gavin Newsom won't talk to you about it because he's too embarrassed about how broken his policies are. But the people will tell you that those dollars are flowing out of that state. And now Washington is doing it too. But we'll see what happens. Combined income, can you imagine? So two people earning well, two attorneys, two doctors in a household who wouldn't be at a million perhaps, but together they would be. I think of those people who take care of special needs that we have some of in my extended family. Those people who depend on those types of medical professionals. They aren't millionaires, but they might be when they live together and marry. So what do we wanna destroy in marriage now too for people who earn? I mean, it's the darnedest thing. I don't know how they go into the midterms. I don't, and I hope Republicans are ready. They shouldn't have taken their paychecks. Republicans should have embarrassed Democrats and said, you know what? We're gonna go without, and we dare you to go without. You know what Democrats are doing, trying to cut in the front of the TSA lines until TMZ jumped in and said, oh, look at this video. That is so good. Harris Fockner, I just had to let you cook for the last couple of minutes. That was fantastic. My goodness. No, that was unbelievable. Harris Fockner's here on KCMO. It's always great to have her on the show. So to your point, you mentioned how it's all about the midterms. Is it just strategically right now for one side of the aisle? Everything that Trump does basically has to be bad and they're hoping that that pans out versus people kind of looking at them and saying, well, what exactly do you stand for? And frankly, can that be effective enough to get them the wins that they're looking for? Well, first of all, your question is, is that all that it's about for Democrats? 100%, 100%. This is all about being anti-President Trump, which by the way, lets you know how much Cache his name carries. They wanted an all of their ads too. I mean, Trump is all over the place in their ads. Watch as we see the new ones for this upcoming midterm election. We're in primary season right now. So some areas of the country are already seeing those ads. They're not even making it about their opponents within their own districts. It's all about Trump. It's Trump, Trump, Trump. So my question would be, what happens when he doesn't run in 2028? Yeah, yeah, they're out of material. They're out of material. Yeah, and they will have taxed their tax bases so much that the innovation and the wealthiest creators of jobs will have fled to Florida and other states that are red states. And I mean, Florida's gonna tip over. Everybody's going there. And in Tennessee too, because I think didn't Howard Schultz, the co-founder of Starbuck, I think just moved to Tennessee. Yes. Now he didn't take the corporation within out of Washington state, but that's a big statement. He's out. So I had on the education secretary, Linda McMahon on set with me yesterday. And we were talking about this big tour that she's doing all 50 states, she and her team. And she is quite, she is quite the mission orientor. I mean, I have never seen anything like it. She can set a mission, orientate to it and go get it. And so she's put kids in her site. They're doing these big auditorium. It's like a game show. And it's grade school all the way through high school. And she'll ask civics questions. And if you think you have the answer, you hold up the American flag. And if it's a civics question about not just the country, but your state, you think you have the answer, you hold up the card with your state on it. And these are big auditoriums, big just made placards that they could do in the classrooms was the way she taught me what was going on. But she dropped a statistic. And I just can't believe this. So if you opt in right now to the school choice, right? And this is at a federal level. If you opt in, you get $1,700 in credit as a parent of that child, full choice, go do whatever you need, you get a credit, right? On top of whatever you would get in your state, they've got to offer it, it's an incentive. She said, by the time you hit third grade, you are up until that point learning to read. And when you get to third grade, if you haven't become a good reader, you have to depend on whatever you've learned, which probably won't be enough because for the rest of your scholastic career, you are reading to learn, really for the rest of your life. You have to read to learn. But if you don't have that skill by third grade, how difficult is your life gonna be? And she said, this is nonpartisan this tour. She said, I want people to opt into this idea of school choice and get the credit for their own citizens. We showed a map of all the Democrat states, governors, school districts, they don't wanna opt in. You tell me that's not about Trump. She said it is, and I believe her. Why wouldn't they do that for their citizens? Why don't they care about the future generations of these kids? Like, look, it may not sound like a ton of money to people, but it also attracts categories of help for those school districts. Like, especially, you'll hear me lean on that a lot. I know people today maybe feel like we have a drug for everything. How about we don't drug our kids so much? How about we teach them? That is fantastic, Harris. I totally agree with you on that. You're right. And as you noted, my kids are younger, watching them learn, watching my oldest start to, figure out reading, which by the way, is harder than it seems as adults. When you're watching a child do something, you realize you need great parental involvement. You need great teachers. You need a great work ethic. You need all of those things to come together. And too many of our school options right now are not doing that. They're just not all coming together. So, Harris, I've got a couple of minutes here. We're obviously in the middle of Holy Week. You are a proud military brat as well. We're monitoring the war overseas. Pete Hegseth gave another press conference this morning from the Pentagon. What are you thinking about this week, and what's on your heart and your mind? Well, we just passed the day for Vietnam veterans. It's when we remember them specifically. That's always in the end of March. And so, I think of people like my father who loved this country so much. They went very far away places in her name, and they were dedicated. Of course, he did it as civil rights were still going on, the fight for civil rights, and then the 60s where we were gonna see the fruit of America coming together, and that's what we were prayerful about, but then we were in Vietnam. And I wasn't born for the time when he entered the military, but I do know that it didn't take perfection for my father to love this country. And because he said, I don't expect perfection, I expect production. We are the mightiest, we are the best. He said, things will change, and then they will change, and as long as that change is progressed, we'll remain the best. So what I think about right now are those people who, look, you don't have to agree with what we're doing in Iran. And in fact, you should express it if you don't do it in a peaceful manner, because that's what our democracy is built on. We are a republic. Express yourself, we have a constitution. But what I am concerned about are those people who express hate in the name of all of it, who would cozy up with our enemies and who would move against our country, who would say, no, no, no, no, we want a situation in the Middle East where we don't engage and we don't advocate. My gosh, Iranian-American population in Los Angeles, haven't we seen how big it is as they celebrate? Because their families are now no longer under the thumb of the Aitola Homeini. Now, we keep hearing about the next wave of whoever the leadership is gonna be. I mean, Operation Warring Lion, which is Israel's, you know, couplet with Operation Epic Fury, has taken out generations of people who call themselves leaders, both militarily and governmentally. So, you know, some of these were very older, you know, older people kind of in the back and then kind of middle-aged and even younger, trying to step up and fill those shoes so that they can keep what they had. But it's breaking apart now. And what I want to think about is we go into a point of resurrection, is that we are willing to, as Americans, admit that the soul of this country needs a bit of redemption and resurrection, that it shouldn't just be about politics, but that we see the bigger picture that the world's eyes are on us, we are still the beacon, that we resurrect that awareness of who we are, not pridefully, but boldly and with purpose. And with the idea that we can help others like no one else, we can be that shining light on a hill and that we aspire to be that even when we don't agree. That's what's on my heart. So, well said. As always, Harris Faulkner, of course, Kansas City loves you. Faulkner Focus coming up 10 o'clock central time. I love Kansas City. Come on, let's go. And I do wear that t-shirt often. I mean, I've got sleepwear, I've got everything. You talk about dropping a hint for my daughter. I do. Let's see what she does, Pete. Well, I can't wait. You gotta have a reveal on the Faulkner Focus, like the high school athletes do when she announces her college decision. You can lay that. That's hilarious. The hat's out on there on the desk and then she puts on the hat of her choice and boom, there you go. It'll be great. And then of course, you know- You are very funny. Well, Kansas City is gonna be rooting for one of our area schools. You know that too. No, I love that. Well, look, you and your little ones and your wife, God bless you all. Go Kansas City with everything you do, I root for you. All of you, not just the teams, but the whole Metro. We'll be watching at 10 o'clock central time. Harris, thanks for everything and we'll talk to you soon. Thank you, bye. There you go. Harris Faulkner, Faulkner Focus, 10 o'clock central time on KCMO Talk Radio. Hi, I'm Joe Salci. I host of the Stacking Veggermans podcast. Most economists agree small amount of inflation is actually good. 2% is what you're going for. But why is everybody freaking out? Oh, because it's the fallout. People don't track their budget. You have this slow slipping that happens every month. To all of a sudden you go, man, I don't have any money. The reason is now two people go to a restaurant. The bill is 60 bucks for two. Two guys walking to a restaurant. They start screaming. Isn't that hilarious? $60. Stacking Veggermans, follow and listen on your favorite platform. 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