I woke up this morning to an email in my inbox from my guy Bruce Springsteen saying, Hey, watch Bruce's first two songs from his Torah kickoff last night in Minneapolis. And I'm like, don't do it, Pete. Don't, what do you don't, don't do it. Don't click on the YouTube video. Don't click on the, do not click on the YouTube video. Well, I clicked on the YouTube video. I think Pete's behavior has been egregious. Yeah, I clicked on it. I couldn't help myself. And I'll never unsee and unhear what I heard. So now I have to abuse the audience. Okay. I now have to share it with you. I have no choice. So Springsteen opened up his Torah last night in Minneapolis. You know, of course, it's going to be very much about the political landscape of the moment. It's going to be basically one big TDS Torah. I mean, I love the guy's music, but he's killing me here with this. And I keep arguing with all my buddies who are, well, one in particular is insistent that he's going to go to the Torah. And this guy's like the biggest MAGA guy in my whole group of friends. He was MAGA. The second Trump came down the escalator. And he's the one who insists he's going. I don't know who he has a bigger man crush on, Bruce Springsteen or Donald Trump. But he's going to go to the Torah. And I'm like, dude, you're nuts. You're crazy. You're going to come out disappointed. I can go and I love going to Bruce shows when he's just doing the music, just like athletes. Like do your thing, do what you're paid to do, stay in your lane. If you want to rent and rave on social media on your Instagram, do whatever you want to do. But, you know, people are coming to see the music. They're coming to see you perform. Just do that. He obviously has thrown all that out the window here for this Torah is what he's done. Well, back in the day, he obviously had to skip civics class because he was playing the stone pony. But that's very parked. So the guy was busy. We'll give him a break. That's true. He's working while he was in school. So he must have missed a few things. You're right about that. And that was clearly on display last night. So I want to play a minute of audio from last night in Minneapolis from Springsteen, where he opens up the Torah. And before he even plays a chord of music, he is calling out the president of the United States. And here's what it sounded like. The American I know, the American I've written about 50 years that's been a beacon of hope and liberty around the world is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and crazy administration. Today, we as all of you who join with us in choosing hope over fear, democracy, over authoritarianism, the rule of law, over wrong-listness, ethics, over unbridled corruption, resistance, over complete unity, unison, over division and peace over law. Mark's got the air guitar going there on the other side of the glass. So that's how the Torah opened up last night in Minneapolis. I don't mind the lecture, but he lost me. I love this country or the country I love. I'm like, when was that? How long ago might that have been? Is that wherever true? Was that before or after puberty, buddy? That's what I want to know. Quick to explain that Born in the USA isn't a patriotic song. So, dot, dot, dot. And you know, I get it. Like it's clever to open up with war, but to think about today's moment and what's going on with Iran and somehow tie it to a song that was really an anti-Vietnam War anthem, as if there's any correlation today to what happened with Vietnam. Come on, wait. I mean, that is not what Edwin Star was singing about 55 years ago. Could be some cultural appropriation. Some may say that, John. Some would. Some may say that. So he opens up with war into Born in the USA. And that was all I needed to see this morning at about five o'clock. That actually got me, I didn't need coffee this morning. I was so ripped more and ready to go. No rock star for you, man. I thought I was going to be a little slow today because I had this MC event last night for Nathan Willett up in the Northland that I did. And I thought I might be dragging in here, but you know what? I watched Bruce go off in the open of his tour last night in Minneapolis and I'm like, nope, no coffee this morning. Let's go, baby. Let's get that microphone open at six o'clock in the morning. So that was Springsteen last night. And what I wish he would have done before he got on that stage last night, and I'm not going to go off on his like, you know, suddenly the rule of law over lawlessness. I mean, I just, I just got through four years of an open border, buddy. You want to talk about the rule of law? Really? Right now? I mean, just like Trump and his policies, all you want, but please don't preach to me about the rule of law coming out of the last four years and what we just saw most notably and most egregiously along the Southern border. But anyway, Marco Rubio last night put out a great statement. It was all of a minute and 48 seconds, which was shorter than Springsteen's open to his tour last night, his preachiness opening up his tour last night. And Marco Rubio succinctly explained why now was the time for Operation Epic Fury and listen to him and realize and understand that there was no inherent political benefit in a midterm year for this White House and this administration to do this right now. If they could have waited until next January, February, that timing would have actually been better for them politically. So the fact that they do it now knowing full well the political benefits were not going to be good for them gas prices up, food prices going to be up inflation potentially spiking, interest rates unlikely to be cut in any meaningful way while all this is going on. They obviously thought the risk was high enough to go ahead and do this. And Marco Rubio explained why in a video that I reshared on X last night at Pete Mundo and has been spread far and wide since then. Many Americans are asking why did the United States have to attack Iran now? Well, let me explain. Iran wants to have nuclear weapons. Of that, there is zero doubt. If what they truly wanted, which is what they claim is nuclear energy, well, they could have nuclear energy like all the other countries in the world have it. And that is you import the fuel and you build reactors above ground. That's not what Iran has done. They build the reactors and their facilities deep in mountains away from the public glare and they want to enrich that material. The same equipment that they could use to enrich material for energy, they could use to quickly enrich it to weapons grade. So it is clear that they've been offered every opportunity to have a nuclear program that allows them to have energy, not weapons, and every single time they have turned it down. But why the attack now? Well, what was Iran trying to do? Iran was trying to build a conventional shield in essence, have so many missiles, have so many drones that no one could attack them and they were well on their way. We were on the verge of an Iran that had so many missiles and so many drones that no one could do anything about their nuclear weapons program in the future. That was an intolerable risk. Under no circumstances can a country run by radical Shia clerics with an apocalyptic vision of the future ever possessed nuclear weapons. And under no circumstances can they be allowed to hide and protect that program and their ambitions behind a shield of missiles and drones that no one can do anything about. This was our last best chance to eliminate that conventional threat, that conventional shield that they were trying to build, and the president made the right decision to wipe it out now. That is the goal of this operation, to destroy their conventional missiles and their drone program so they can't hide behind it and finally have to deal with the world seriously about never ever having nuclear weapons. That's a minute and 48 seconds of Marco Rubio laying it out. Now people are going to believe what they want to believe. They are. But when you combine with what Marco Rubio just said there, along with the political ramifications that have not been good because, you know, obviously political opponents of the president were going to be ragging on this thing no matter what, but there's also a very populous base of the Republican party that was like, dude, you promised us no foreign interventions and what are we doing here? How long is this going to last? What's the point of this? There's some of that as well on the Republican side of the aisle, along with all the other issues that we just talked about. So when there's no inherent benefit politically in a midterm year, they clearly must have felt like the risk was high enough and the timing had to be now. And Marco Rubio last night laid out the why behind it. And with the president set to address the nation tonight, that's going to be happening at eight o'clock. We'll air it here on KCMO Talk Radio. I would imagine that part of the announcement tonight or part of the address tonight is going to be tied to what exactly a drawdown looks like. I don't think the president is going to address the nation tonight and be like, you know what, we're doubling down on Operation Epic Fury. He ain't seen nothing yet. I would be very surprised if that's the approach the president took because he has not done one of these in the 30, I believe we're on day 33 of this war. So I would imagine that is part of what the address is going to be tonight, 8 p.m. right here on KCMO Talk Radio. Patrick Tu is coming up at the bottom of the hour from the Show Me Institute. The e-tax is on the ballot coming up in Kansas City on Tuesday. I'd love to hear it if you think it's not going to pass. I think it's wishful thinking. Kansas City always passes this thing even when you think, yeah, maybe not. Like last time, five years ago, I remember thinking it might be close, not close, but it might be, I don't know, 55-45, something like that. But blew it out of the water, passes every time. Doesn't mean it's good policy, it just means it passes. Patrick Tu will talk about that coming up in 15 minutes right here on 957 FM KCMO, streaming on the KCMO Talk Radio app. Hey there, I'm Paula Pan. I help people make the smartest money decisions possible. Joe, you know what's been great about being a saver? For money to bank. And that money over the past couple of years has made a pretty good yield. Pre-pandemic, money was making zero. Now it's actually making something, but that's starting to go down, down, down. I love how we can play the fact that inflation's been really high as a positive. But if you're a saver, you know what that means? Cha-ching. So over lining, Joe, so over lining. Afford anything, follow and listen on your favorite platform. Hey there, I'm Paula Pan. I help people make the smartest money decisions possible. Joe, you know what's been great about being a saver? For money to bank. And that money over the past couple of years has made a pretty good yield. Pre-pandemic, money was making zero. Now it's actually making something, but that's starting to go down, down, down. I love how we can play the fact that inflation's been really high as a positive. But if you're a saver, you know what that means? Cha-ching. So over lining, Joe, so over lining. Afford anything, follow and listen on your favorite platform.
