The headline story this morning continues to be a post from the president to the United States that came down at 7 o'clock this morning. And this came 12 hours prior to the self-imposed deadline that has been put out there by President Trump about a deal with Iran. If not, they're going to start bombing bridges and power plants. The president writes, a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. He doesn't want that to happen, but it probably will. He heads here at the end of the post. We'll find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end. God bless the great people of Iran. So if your actual takeaway here is that Trump is going to commit nuclear genocide against the Iranian people, you're a fool. You can disagree with the post. I do. I don't see the upside to it. In fact, the first line of the post and the last line of the post are antithetical towards each other. So it's a valid criticism because the first line says, a whole civilization will die tonight. The last line says, God bless the great people of Iran. They're inherently antithetical towards each other. But if you think that Trump's got his finger on the nuclear button, that's something else that you just might need some help with. He's in that job. Seriously. You just might need a little bit of help. You think Trump's the nut job. I think the nut job might be looking at you in the mirror here. But listen, if I'm wrong and the president decides to wipe out millions of civilians, I will happily join you in escorting him to the Hague where they try people for international war crimes. Okay? I will. I need tomorrow off. Yeah. I forgot to ask you for tomorrow off. Good timing, John. Can we talk about this after the show, please? All right. Yeah. Or after tonight. Yeah. Yeah. Can we talk at eight or seven or one central time tonight? All right. Before we put in that official request for a day off, if you don't mind, if we can wait that long. But yeah, tomorrow is going to be nuts on the phones too. Today's been a little kooky on the phones. Tomorrow is going to be even crazier, I'm sure, on the phones. So we'll just have to wait and see how it works. Or not. Or not. Oh my gosh. Or not. Yes. Or not. Oh my goodness. Okay. We're obviously watching, of course, the earnings tax in Kansas City. That's on the ballot today. People are going to vote on that across Kansas City. Expecting it to pass. It got 70% of the vote five years ago. It's on the ballot every five years. I would expect it to pass again today. Now in Overland Park last night, I want to touch on this. In Overland Park, there was a vote last night that got a lot of local attention. And I have been very critical of how Overland Park has seemingly handed over every empty parcel of land to a developer who wants to build apartment complexes and make them all look like modern day prisons. Go down to 135th and Antioch and tell me what you think of that building. It's hideous. And they're rezoning. They're allowing four, five, six-story apartment complexes. They're changing the character of neighborhoods all over Overland Park. And I just, I find it gross. It's all in the name of growing government. It's all in the name of adding to the bottom line of Overland Park City governments. And I don't think it's good for the long-term future of Overland Park. But I'm not as bothered by what happened last night. I got a lot of emails about this over the weekend. And then last night, the city of Overland Park voted 11-1 on a motion to amend an ordinance that kick-starts an affordable homes project all around the city. Now right away, I know that we hear the phrase, affordable homes. And some people think that means, like, you know, bottom of the barrel, low income, who's coming in, what's that mean, the whole deal. I get it. But that's not what I perceive this program to be. It's not. So the All Portfolio Homes Development Projects is the name of the plan. And this is a pilot program that's designed to support a select number of development projects in exploring ways to expand the overall housing supply as well as make housing affordable. And there are two locations of these homes and these duplexes that are going to be on the northwest corner of 167th and 170th in Switzer. The projects would bring six new homes each on one acre of land. And the pilot program shall extend through June 30th of 2027, so next year. Now I'm all about ownership. Okay? If they actually made condos in Overland Park instead of just apartments, I'd say, you know what? Ownership is critical. That's how you build some equity. That's how you then upgrade from a condo to a home. That's how you go from a two or three bedroom home to one day a three or four bedroom home. You build up that equity. And my biggest problem right now is we're not building homes quickly enough, especially in places like Overland Park, to naturally allow supply and demand to figure itself out, bring prices down, and allow people to get into the game of equity. We're not doing that. And while I'm still critical of that, I don't view this pilot program as like the thing that's going to destroy neighborhoods in Overland Park. If people have equity and they're talking about these pilot program starter homes running upwards of $400,000 a year, I mean, this is not a $120,000 house, which doesn't really even exist anymore. Certainly doesn't exist in Johnson County. It doesn't exist in most parts of the metro. You're not going to get some low brown neighbor on an entry point of $400,000. And by the way, you know, I've lived in many different places. I've owned homes in different states. I promise you the quality of your neighbor is oftentimes not defined by what their income is. Okay. I've had a lot of schleppy neighbors in my life who you would expect based on their home. They're doing all right. I've had great neighbors who find themselves retired, but care for their property and care for their home and are great people to live near. So if you have now this 167th and Switzer area, that's going to be, you know, building six homes for a pilot program to try to get some more affordable houses and affordable as a relative use of the word. A lot of people still can't afford a $400,000 home, can't make the payment on a $400,000 home. I'm not going to sit here and go nuts about this. I'm not. If Overland Park is actually going to do something to get more homeowners into its city, that's a, that's a good thing. And I've heard from a lot of people who live down there that are really hot and bothered by it. But I'll tell you right now, as someone who lives in a part of Johnson County, where I went from three out of the four corners where I live that had greenery and cows and rolling hills to now having four story apartment complexes, senior living centers and mixed use developments. You know what? I'll take half a dozen homes with a $400,000 entry point over what I've seen happen in the seven years I lived in my house. I would. I would. So some of you, I understand, you know, we don't want to necessarily see the change in our backyards that we're seeing all over Johnson County. Part of that is naturally organically going to happen. It's just the way of the world. It's the way of life. But there are much worse things that could be on the corner of 167th and Switzer than six homes that are going to start upwards of $400,000. Got a little data center there. Yeah. Yeah. Seriously. Yeah. 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