Hypocrites Complain About Sports and Politics, KC Considers Ban on Certain Liquor Sales and Mundo in KC Star? | 3-31-26

the game. Well, that was a nice win yesterday for the Kansas City Royals. The home opener, of course, out at the K. We were there broadcasting yesterday and what was a beautiful day for major league baseball Royals when their second straight there two and two on the season three one victory over the Minnesota Twins. It was extra nice to have the game on KCTV five here locally, which as a result I was able to watch, which I was able to watch. I was able to watch the board cutting services, Hulu YouTube TV. You just don't get the Kansas City Royals, but it was nice to have on the sounds of major league baseball yesterday as I'm walking around the house in between kids screaming and needing diaper changes at like 4 30 in the afternoon when my life is the most chaotic hearing the crack of the bat hearing Isaac Collins go yard and Kyle that was a lot of fun. Now mark, I don't think that the big parlay you cooked up at the end of Keatsman show hit yesterday. Did it? No, it was close. It was close. Yeah. Oh, okay. I needed a Bobby Whit hit. Oh, is that what you needed? Yeah. Okay, work out. Oh, well, I'm sorry about that. I'm sorry about that, Mark. It is a busy Tuesday. Harris Faulkner is going to join us from Fox News at 7 30 this morning here on KCMO. Do you want to share with us that conversation? It's been a little bit since we've had a chat with Harris, so she will join us in 90 minutes here on KCMO now speaking of baseball. We're all in the mood. We're all in the spirit of starting the season yesterday. Great win for the Royals. There was this piece in the New York Times. I want to share with you an opinion piece headlined help. My favorite athlete is an idiot. I'm going to talk about this article about this article, this opinion piece in the New York Times by a guy named Devin Gordon is him bemoaning the fact that he has found out too many athletes like and or voted for Donald Trump. Talk about a bombshell. Yes, I mean, it is a several hundred word article of this guy that not like, you know, remember when you go back 10 years to the Colin Kaepernick days and you go back to that era of professional sports, the idea was hey, do what you want, but we don't want you doing it on the field, right? That was the main thing that a lot of people who disagreed with Colin Kaepernick and his approach, which included myself, were upset with. Not that he had all these beliefs. I mean, that's America. I disagree with your beliefs. You can disagree with mine. That's what makes the world go round, but you have the right to have those beliefs. But now we're in a place where you've got big op-eds being written about and written in the New York Times by individuals named Devin Gordon and they're just mad that Trump people exist on their favorite sports teams. That's what they're upset about. There's an excerpt from this article that I wanted to share with you. And it's this guy, and it's pathetic to admit that he's a Mets fan like me, but you know what? It's okay. We can't all be perfect, all right? But it is pretty pathetic that this guy admits to being a Mets fan in this New York Times piece. But he goes on to note that he talked to all his buddies and, you know, his one friend who's a Yankees fan said the entire 2025 season was soured for him after the franchise decided to hold a pregame moment of silence at Yankee Stadium after Charlie Kirk's death. Conscripting all in attendance or watching from home into paying their respects to the memory of a political activist with highly polarizing opinions. My friend barely shrugged when his team later lost in the playoffs, he told me, because he'd already emotionally checked out of the season and could not recommit. What an absolute soy boy clown. So because your favorite team had a moment of silence for a young father and husband who was tragically assassinated for the world to see, you got so bent at a shape that you stopped caring about the New York Yankee season? Do I have that right? I think I do. The article goes on the note that there was a rumor that the New York Mets last year had a fracture in the clubhouse because you had a lot of Trump guys and then you had a lot of anti-Trump never Trump TDS guys, whatever you want to call them, and that led to the team collapsing down the stretch. Now anyone who's a longtime Mets fan knows that no, once you just put on the Mets uniform you naturally collapse down the stretch. You don't need to have divisions about politics in the clubhouse. You just don't need it. It's in your DNA once you put on that uniform. But this is how the real world works. You know, this idea of like, oh boy I don't really want to know what my favorite athlete thinks about politics and that doesn't make me feel good about my team as long as the athlete is not doing it on the field with the uniform on, you should not care. I compare it to what's going on right now with Bruce Springsteen, right? Springsteen is going on this tour that he has made it very clear is hyper-political anti-Trump derangement nonsense. Now he has every right to do it. I'm not paying a dime to go see it. And I've spent thousands of dollars during my lifetime to go watch Bruce Springsteen. I won't do it on this tour. I mean you could give me a ticket for free and I probably wouldn't go. I don't want to be subject to that. It's the same thing in sports. People don't want it on the field. What you do in your personal time, who you give your money to maybe you volunteer for an organization or a cause that you're passionate about. We see that with the Royals here in Kansas City. There are plenty of guys on the Royals who we all know. Maybe they're not die-hard MAGA guys but they certainly have no issue with Donald Trump and probably voted for him. That's also how the world works. I work in a workplace with six other radio stations. There are plenty of people that I work with who don't see the world the way I do. Don't see the country the way I do. Don't like Donald Trump. That's okay. We still work together. We do our jobs. We're adults. We're big boys. And you know when it comes to whether it's ratings or revenue for any of our radio stations, we work together to service our clients to make sure people are being taken care of. That's how the real world operates. But for some reason in sports, we have this belief that everybody has to be on the same page on every single thing. From the star player to the last guy on the roster to the thousands of fans. And that's just not the real world. And it never has been. And by the way, it shouldn't be at least not in America where we're a country that is literally a mixed bag of opinions from the left to the right to everything in between to libertarian. That's what makes it great in so many respects. So as we kick off and start the major league baseball season and the Royals now, of course, have a couple of wins under their belts and you have this absurd piece in the New York Times headline, help my favorite athlete is an idiot. And of course, that athlete is an idiot in the eyes of the author because well, some athletes on his favorite team may ultimately like Donald Trump is very telling very telling the same people cheering Colin Kaepernick are now mad that they found out some people in pro sports, some red blooded super testosterone juiced. All American guys like Donald Trump has just ruined their baseball season before it's even started. And guys, I'm here to tell you or gals, I'm here to tell you that was always the case. Okay. And by the way, once you got to a place where one political party started saying that dudes should play in women's sports, you definitely lost the plotline with a bunch of red blooded all American guys who just want to play sports for a living and be macho men. 913 408 795 7. Let's kick it off. We didn't get to many callers yesterday because we were out the day doing a bunch of interviews. So let's just say hi to Mike. He's in Kansas City. What's up, my man? You know, these kind of comments and more about the commenter than it does what the people are talking about. They're very insecure and they're hating Trump. Yes, they don't. They've been indoctrinated. They dogmatically say they hate Trump, but they don't really know why. I remember the interviews I was seeing on TV yesterday about the Trump. What do you call it? I know King's Pro-Kev, whatever silly thing they were doing. They were asking him, well, what don't you like about Trump? Well, I don't like anything about him. What did you do wrong? Well, there were 30 things published yesterday about him. What were they? Well, I don't remember them. All they know they've been conditioned dogmatically to hate Trump. And it really reminds me of some of that old footage that you saw at a Ku Klux Klan, the white people just think white people and it's not like they didn't like him. It wasn't anything. They couldn't pinpoint it. They just didn't like him. I just know I don't like him. And that's a mentality that you see in this Trump-Durranger syndrome. And that's why they get so upset when you challenge him because they have no valid answer. Well, it's always, we didn't even really talk about it. Thank you, Mike. Good call. We didn't even really talk about the No King's Nonsense yesterday because I didn't want to sour the day on an uplifting, but it's I could have played clips all day of losers all over Kansas City, not knowing to Mike's point what they're even protesting. And I do think there's an element of what Mike said that is absolutely true. People have been conditioned. They're just following the herd and they don't really know why. They don't. But it's communal for them. In a world where people are more isolated than ever before, families are smaller, people aren't getting married. We're human beings. We're naturally looking for community. And if you're not getting it from family, if you're not getting it from church, if you're not getting it from other sources, you're going to get it from politics. And you know, that's that's okay to an extent. But if it goes too far, it's not okay. If it allows you to impact what you think of your local Major League Baseball team, then that can absolutely be problematic as well. It's just it's the reality of the situation. And that's not a good thing for anybody involved when you're going down that road. 913-408-7957 is how you join us on KCMO. Let's hit up. Derek, he's an outgrow. What's up, Derek? Hey, how are you doing? I'm doing well. I wanted to articulate some reasons why I think Trump's a vast president. So number one, he parted many people from big hitter fraud. He just parted Joseph Swartz. He's a look that one up. Another one I don't like. He allows the Adelson to give him hundreds of millions of dollars to support illegal settlements in the West Bay. Do you know who Ben Gaviris or Ben Delos Motrich is? Have you heard of them? I don't know those names. Okay, well, they're very high up in the Israeli parliament. I mean, it's like the minister of defense and the minister of cybersecurity, maybe. Either way, they were just poppy champagne bottles they got this law passed where they can execute Palestinian detainees and they actually grew up doing illegal settlements in the West Bay and that's what Trump supports is that he takes money from the Adelson. That's what I don't like about him. And like I said, I don't like any part in fraudsters. What do you have to say about any of that, Pete? I'm really interested to hear your thoughts. Well, what I have to say about that, Derek, is that you should be the guy that gets interviewed at the No Kings rallies instead of some of the nonsensical, totally clueless people that get on TV. You've got to get yourself to the front of the TV line. That's what needs to happen. That's why I call into your show, man. I know and I greatly appreciate that. I really do. I mean, I... So what do you think about what I said, though? Can you actually comment on those things? Yeah, I just think that... Do you like it? Do I like what? The things I said. Do you like that he takes money to support illegal settlements in the West Bank or taking Lansing period out of the Bill on High? Well, I... He pardons people convicted of fraud like Joseph Ford. Do you like that? Well, no. I don't like that in theory, but I... Like I said, I don't know... He did it. He did that stuff. Why are you dancing around it? I don't know the two guys that you mentioned, Derek. I don't know the two guys that you talked about. So I will do... Those things aren't relevant to what I'm saying. Stop. Those things aren't relevant to what I'm saying. Are you listening? Oh, now you're interrupting me. It's actually silent. I was not interrupting you at all. It was silent. Listen, that's great. You have your reasons for not liking Trump. That's fine. That wasn't really the point of the conversation. I mean, it really wasn't. But Derek had his cup of coffee this morning or a handful of cups of coffee. He's fired up at 6.18. And that's good with me, man. That's good with me. Let's kick it off strong here in a Tuesday. All right? I love it. 913-408-7957. Once again, you took it in a different direction, but that's your prerogative. I don't know where it's going this morning. But Tyray Tuesday is two hours away. And if this is any sign of what's to come, we're going to be just off to the races on KCMO. 913-408-7957. That's how you join us on KCMO Talk Radio. 957 FM. We're streaming as always on the KCMO Talk Radio app. I do have to get to this here this hour. And that is what's going on here in Kansas City. There was a big protest that happened yesterday fighting back against the City Council. We'll get into that after your call is coming up. 624, good morning. It is great to have you here to start the morning here on KCMO 957 FM. We just started off the show. Little baseball talk. Royals get to win yesterday an opening day. And I weaved it into the story that was featured in the New York Times headline, Help My Favorite Athlete is an Idiot. And it's written by a guy named Devon Gordon, who goes on the right that he's very upset. He's found out that many pro athletes on his favorite teams happen to like Donald Trump. And this is not something that he has a lot of empathy for. He's not happy about this. And then we got it rolling with you at 913-408-7957. Jake is on KCMO in Odessa. What's up, Jake? Hey, thanks for taking my call. That last caller, I don't know. It just some stuff about it seems like his whole problem with Trump is just that he supports Israel and apparently that's a problem now with some people. But I mean my two cents is that, you know, my ever since I've been old enough to vote I voted Republican. And it seems like every time I voted Republican, particularly in the presidential elections, it always just, I know I got a hold of my note of vote for this. Jake, you might be hitting a dead spot there in Odessa. Oh, boom. You there, Jake? Yep. You got me? We got you loud and clear now, brother. Okay. Oh, sorry. So now I was just saying, you know, ever since I've been old enough to vote, I was GOP. And it seems like every time I've had to vote GOP, I just have to hold my nose because it's always some career politician and it's like, well, you know, they're going to do a lot of stuff I don't like, but I might get some things I do like and they're not as bad as the Democrat. You know, particularly voting for John McCain, voting for Mitt Romney. And the thing, the thing is it seems like a lot of GOP politicians never push back. They never fight back. Trump does fight back, and that's why he gets such a visceral reaction from the liberals. And I mean, yes, I don't like that he's pardoned certain people. I don't like a lot of his personal shortcomings, but I do like that we have negative net migration for the first time in decades in this country. I like that he's finally doing something I ran, even though, you know, I hope it doesn't involve boots on the ground. But he's been by far the most consequential president in my lifetime, and I'm more than willing to take the bad with the good when it comes to Trump. Yeah, there's no perfect politician to your point there, Jake, great call. Thanks for making it. I completely agree with you on that. Mark and Independence, what's up, Mark? Hey, real quick to that young man. I wish I had more time, but if you're if he's spouting off stuff he doesn't like about Trump, I guarantee you I can spout off a list twice as long. Why don't like Obama Clinton, you name it, the Bidens, and you want to talk about corruption. They're far more corrupt. And as far as Israel goes, you don't see Israel having in their UN Charter kill all the Muslims, like I ran in several Middle Eastern companies having their charter to the UN, and the UN doesn't make them take it out. And Hamas and Hezbollah and their covenants just established their organization, the Houthis, they all have in there kill the Jews. So I don't know what I'm sure the young man doesn't know about that. Well listen. I love Trump, and by the way, I got the biggest return I ever got, the IRS reported yesterday returns thus far this year, or twice as much as that were last year. And I love Trump. Thank you. Yep, those those returns are looking good. Libby and Waldo, 30 seconds are yours, Libby. Oh, you know why it's actually your refund is not your return. We got your return. Okay. Pete, I want to address something really quick like about the herd mentality that you referenced. I think people are doing what they're doing, the haters, because I think they're afraid. I think they're doing it out of fear. They want to belong to something like you mentioned, but they're doing out of fear. And all we have to do to remember all that stuff is remember what happened in 2020 and how fast people gave in to fear. Yep, you're absolutely right about that, Libby. Well said. Okay, nice job. Have a great day. I appreciate the call. Yeah, a lot of good stuff here. We're only at 628 this morning. How about that? Coming up, what's going on in Kansas City when it comes to one group pushing back will tell you who the details of it and more coming up next. So there was a big rally yesterday in Kansas City 634 on a Tuesday. Thanks for joining us on KCMO. Business owners who are fighting back against a proposed ordinance that would ban single serve alcohol sales in high crime neighborhoods. Now, I admit I have been split on this. Now, the reason I've been split on this is because I'm sitting here and I'm saying to myself, you know, we don't need to be selling little bottles of liquor on every street corner. In my neighborhood, we got like a third liquor store in a two block radius. And I remember saying to Kate, why do we need this? There are two other guys right there. Like this is not a good sign when you've got all these liquor stores popping up all around your neighborhood. Like and they're nice liquor stores. One's been there forever. It was part of a gas station. The other one was the new fancy liquor store. Now the other one's the new fancy liquor store. It's like people are drinking that much these days. I don't get it. So I don't need more liquor stores. I don't think that that's something we should be advocating for. However, I also sit here and I said to myself from a Kansas City perspective, you know what? If this is something that can crack down on some of the petty crime happening outside of these gas stations where people are buying these little nips and then before you know it, gunfire's erupting in part because maybe they don't have the security that they should have on their property. Then you know what? You got a problem on your hands and someone's got to do something about it. And that's where I've been on this thing, John. You got a building. I mean, what are you supposed to do? You know, you're supposed to be there at 2 in the morning. If you're not open, right? So how much security can you provide? My point was going to be that if we had the local jail where the guy goes in and does 24 hours and you let him go, that might help the cycle. Yes, I agree. That's certainly something that Kansas City has dropped the ball on. And I don't like the fact that they have just basically made up this line of where theoretically you could not sell certain kinds of alcohol at certain times of day. You know, I just, I think that's inherently unfair where basically they picked, let's be honest, higher crime, oftentimes minority majority neighborhoods, I want to make sure I phrase that right, when they put these places and they put these restrictions in place and it's like, well, it's clearly geared towards a certain part of Kansas City. And yeah, crime is a problem in these parts of town. There's no doubt about it. But to John's point, what do you do at 2am? Right? What are you supposed to do? Have 24 hour security because the cops don't drive by? Yeah, well, there you go. That's just what I was going to say because, you know, when I was a kid, you would see a cop circle every once mile. You were on guard, if you will. So to the point, these would just be areas that were apparently you need more patrol. Yes. And then that would be something that if you had a fully staffed police department would not be a problem. So the chicken and the egg? Yes. That's exactly what we've got. A chicken or the egg conversation. Here's part of KCTV 5's reporting yesterday as you had local business owners fighting back against the ordinance in Kansas City that would ban single serve alcohol sales in high crime neighborhoods. How do you pick a line where you can sell single shots? Dozens of business owners rally Monday against the proposed ordinance arguing it would strip $130 million from the local economy and eliminate thousands of jobs. It would reduce my sales about 30%. Also the hiring of employees. That concern isn't just coming from gas stations and liquor stores. Distributors are raising it too. All we're asking for is a fair and impartial process that allows all of us to have a stake in what the city is attempting to do. And that was Duran Cherry, if you recognize that voice. I was watching the clip and I'm like, Duran Cherry, but yeah, Duran Cherry was in that. He works on behalf of United Beverage. He was out protesting that as well. I'll reach out and see if we can get him on the show. West Rogers, Kansas City Councilman in the Northland, 2nd District said in a statement, this is an incredibly well intended ordinance. The intent is to address important public health and public safety issues facing the city. As the ordinance is currently written, I do have some concerns that the damage it would cause to small business outweighs the concerns it would attempt to address. And that's where I'm falling on this thing. Where West Rogers is. I actually think that the people who are trying to push this are doing it for the right reasons, even though it might be unpopular. Mayor Lucas, I believe Melissa Robinson on the City Council, is the most important person in the city. I think that's the most important proponents of this ordinance. They're trying to figure out every way possible to reduce crime and high crime areas of Kansas City. That's admirable. But in many ways, it's kind of like the gun conversation. Is it the inanimate object that is really causing problems here? Or is it the person using it? And why are they consuming it? That's the problem here. And if you are able to have more proactive policing, which Kansas City has lost in part because of numbers, but also in part because people are like looking around and saying, okay, do I want to be the next Eric de Volcunerre? That conversation is being had around Kansas City with law enforcement. With the lay of the land in this town, those are the conversations that cops are having every single day. So with that environment in Kansas City, you've got a lot of things against you. And if there's a magical ordinance that's going to make it so certain liquor stores can't sell little bottles of alcohol, well, yeah, there's definitely an economic impact to it. Is it thousands of jobs and $130 million? That seems like a stretch to me. I'd like to see how they cook up those numbers, to be honest. I mean, that's a lot of booze in the hood at $130 million of nips and thousands of jobs. I mean, it's clerk jobs. I don't think it's thousands of jobs. I don't know how you get to that number, but that's not really the point. Doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter. 913 4087 957. So if you're a Kansas City resident, you can call up your council person because this ordinance is moving forward. And even if it's not your part of Kansas City, it shouldn't really matter. Like if you're in the Northland, it's not going to impact you, but there are parts of Westport that are going to be impacted by all this as well. Jim, you're on KCMO. What's going on? Hey, Pete, why don't we tax it like we do cigarettes? Well, I'm not sure that would really impact anything. It's not a bad idea. I don't know. But I think that's the same argument about cigarettes. Tax them to where they don't want to use it anymore. That's the same thing they said about cigarettes. Yeah, but you would agree with me that cigarettes are not popular anymore. Not really because of the tax, but more so because people have realized the health issues with cigarettes, right? Okay. If they did the same campaign with the liquors, they did cigarettes. They would be in the same situation. Would they not? I mean, listen, I think already, there's a lot of data out there right now that shows people are drinking less than ever before, especially younger people. Well, I get that, but I'm just trying to make the point that they always want to use taxation as a means to drive something down or out of the consumer's hands. Yeah. Why don't they do that rather than just banding it? It would generate more money. I see. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if Kansas City can just on its own decide to increase the sales tax on alcohol. I don't know how that would work, but then if you increase the sales tax on alcohol on the east side, but not on Ward Parkway, how does that look, right? Right. But see if you do it all across the board, then everybody gets it. Yeah. That's true. But then they'll have wine moms complaining about it. So you can't have it both ways. But I see your point there. I do there, Jim. Thanks so much. I mean, there's a lot of people who need a stiff drink at the end of the day working in this town. George, you're on KCMO. What's up? Hey, so my viewpoint on this, uh, like the single serve banding them, if they're going to ban the single serve, they really want to drink that bad. They're just going to buy the bigger ball. The wind tank. I would think so, too. Yeah. Again, with that, with the last guy said about the cigarettes, if they were to put more restrictions on cigarettes, if like, let's say they took away single serve cigarettes, the people that smoke cigarettes can buy them by the carton anyways. Yes. Uh, the one thing that they would probably say to that is that if these are individuals who do not have a lot of money, maybe, you know, living on the streets, they may not be able to afford the bottle versus buying the Nip to get them through the day. Well, so coming off of that, I could see them potentially trying to rob the place for the alcohol if they wanted that bad. These are the individuals they're targeting that are already causing crimes, you know. Yep. That's absolutely possible there, George. You're right about that. I appreciate the call. That's definitely a possibility, which is once again, what is the government's role in all of this as they consider banning single serve liquor sales at gas stations, but only in high crime parts of Kansas City. Amy is in Kansas City. Good morning, Amy. Hey, I was just curious that if this is about certain things like that, but in just a month or two when FIFA comes in, they're going to roll out almost 23 hours drinking. At Mars. Yes. Well, it probably gets back to what Jim was talking about out East, which is all about the money. Show me the money. You know how it is. Show me the money, Amy. Let's go. How great that That's, but listen, the hypocrisy, obviously, from politicians is always on full display. They want to get theirs, but then they also want to look like they're doing something about crime. Yeah, this all sounds like there's going to be a meeting at the lake house on OSARC with Marty Byrd. Oh, man, I haven't thought about that show in a while. I'm looking for a show. I may have to rewatch it. That was, oh, man, that was a great show. But you're right. It does have that kind of weird feeling to it all. And now you've got people that own some of these convenience stores in some of these parts of Kansas City who are fighting back against it. Do they have the juice? We'll find out. We'll talk to the mayor about it coming up when he joins the show Thursday at 7 30 on KCMO Fox News is Harris Faulkner will be here in 10 minutes on KCMO talk radio 95 7 fm. I want to clear the air on something that I've been asked about because of an article that was written in the Kansas City Star yesterday that mentioned something I have planned for this evening. So Kansas City Star was writing about Nathan Willett, Kansas City Councilman who is filing and did file yesterday to run for Congress to replace Sam Graves. We now know that Nathan Willett is going to be in this Republican primary to replace Sam Graves along with Chris DeGaulle. So they wrote here in the Kansas City Star that Willett is scheduled to host a special announcement, likely a formal campaign launch alongside radio show host Pete Mundo on Tuesday night. Now that is true. I will be a part of this special announcement for Nathan Willett tonight in the Northland and he promoted that and talked about it yesterday here on the show and it's all up on his social media. Now of course they can't say KCMO talk radio in the Kansas City Star because they'll melt down. I think it's against their guidelines to write about this radio station in the Kansas City Star, but whatever. I am doing it tonight. I was asked by Nathan weeks ago to MC an event for him in the Northland and at the time he was a state senate candidate and then things change and then Chris DeGaulle gets into this race as well which I had no idea was going to happen. No one tipped me off on that. I'm not saying anybody has to but no one did and then Nathan gets in and he says, will you still do the MCing for me? And I said yes because I'm a man of my word and I said I was going to do it for him several weeks ago and why would I not do it? It's not an endorsement. I told him that when he booked me to MC the event. I said you can promote that I'll be there. You can do whatever you want with me as the MC but you know just to be clear any MC event I've ever done is not some endorsement for a candidate. It's just hey if it works schedule wise and we come to a mutual agreement on what it's going to take to get me there then you know what that's great. I'm happy to be there for you and be a face for you and maybe bring a couple of laughs along the way and that's kind of what I do. But it doesn't mean it's some kind of endorsement. I'm not getting involved in it. I never have gotten involved in a primary going back almost 10 years now. We'll talk to people who are involved. Most of the people involved will have them on the show. We'll talk about when they have good days and bad days and good moments and bad moments and that's the arena that Chris is now in. And that Nathan is now in. If there's a debate to be had we'll try to be a part of that as well. But that's yeah that's that's what I'm doing but that's how it all came to be. This notion that like I'm picking a horse in the race between Nathan and Chris. No I think they're both really good guys. Who would do a really solid job in Congress and I think they each have their pros and their cons. I mean I think that's because we all do. So they're not any different. But it's now something that for a Missouri side of the state line that did not have a lot of juice to it going into this year. That has brought a lot of juice. To what's going to be a very fascinating race in Missouri's sixth congressional district now up in the north in the state. And that's where we're going to be going to be. And that's where we're going to be going to be between Chris the gall. And Nathan Willett and we'll see who else may jump in one of the great memes I saw over the weekend we didn't spend a lot of time on it yesterday since we were out of the cave for opening day but it's you know a bunch of geriatrics screaming no kings no kings no kings since we had another no kings rally over the weekend. And we had a dealer 10 no kings no kings oh my gosh it's just too good man. It's just too good. The stuff writes itself. It's crazy. So we were out at the cave yesterday and and John Sherman the owner was kind enough to join us obviously towards the end of the show at 9 30 if you missed that it's up on the podcast. And we talked a lot about the stadium because we are sitting here on another opening day with no idea what exactly is next for the Kansas City Royals. So a couple of things stood out to me about the conversation yesterday which happened at the end of the show and our comments kind of sparked different conversations around Kansas City and different questions that John Sherman answered throughout the day from other media members about what's exactly next for this ballpark. So two things first off if you missed it John Sherman did come out on the show yesterday and say that they're still looking at the Northland and they still have been having some conversations with the state of Kansas. How close were you to that Overland Park move? How close were we to it? You know we we've looked really seriously on the other side of the state line and we're still we're still in some conversations on the Kansas side. Oh really? So there still have been conversations with folks in Kansas? Yes. Okay. And are there still conversations up North or is it more just Kansas? Yes there are conversations up North. Okay. They've done a great job. I think you know the the Merrimans have done a great job with land assemblage up there. I would tell you that they've got a well organized effort and we're certainly talking to Kansas City, Missouri as well. Now from what I can gather in talking to sources Kansas City, Missouri obviously is still the favorite here. But John Sherman is smart to obviously make it seem like the door is still open for other parts of Kansas City. Because until he gets ink on a deal and until he figures out how the financing is going to go without a vote of the people and let's be honest I think that's part of the conversation. I'll explain why here in a second. He can't rule anything out. In business you'd be foolish to rule anything out. Why would you say not a lot? Kansas has done. Northland's not happening. Don't worry about it. Like you know it's Kansas City, Missouri or bust. Why would you box yourself in like that if you're John Sherman? That's just bad business. You wouldn't do that. You got to keep your options open. So that's what he's doing I think in part. But then you had yesterday Clay County Commissioner Jason withington come out and say hey there have been no conversations up here in the Northland in quite some time. I have not heard about conversations potentially on the Kansas side of the state line in quite some time either. But I do think the door is still open. How open is the question? I don't think open very far. But once again if Washington Square Park, this location near Crown Center and Union Station doesn't work, then you've got to be able to look at other possibilities and say what else makes sense? Because the one thing that you have to give John Sherman a lot of credit for whether you like how this process has gone with the stadium or not is that he has never wavered in keeping this team here. He has never said well if I don't get what I want I'm going to Nashville. I'm going to Salt Lake City. He's never done that. He's a Kansas City guy who wants to keep the team here. Have they dragged their feet on some things? Absolutely. Have they blown past their own timelines? Yes. To his credit he's not doing the timeline thing anymore and he shouldn't do the timeline thing anymore. But they've never wavered on their commitment to the Kansas City region. And there are a lot of owners who by now would have started to use the old well you know wink wink, not not Austin Texas looking pretty darn good this time of year. Not doing it. The other thing that Kansas City has going for it is that they've tried to figure out a way to do this without a vote. Without any kind of sales tax vote in Jackson County and or Kansas City, Missouri. And I asked John Sherman if he thinks he needs a vote to get a deal done, which he would need up in the Northland in Clay County where I think the Royals are scared to death of going on a ballot and dealing with a ballot initiative after what happened two years ago in Jackson County. And here's what he said. Whatever you do next do you anticipate some kind of vote or do you think that there are ways to do it without a vote? You know I think that's really not my decision. I think we're talking about different economic tools that are really traditional and big economic development projects like this. So I think that's somebody else's decision whether or not a vote will be required. Well it's really not though. I see what he's saying there. He's saying like it's going to be up to the municipality or the county to determine if they can do the financing without a vote based on whatever their laws are. However where you decide you want to be if it's determined by what's best for the team may require a vote. Kansas dozens, chiefs love that. You know they'll go fleece the Kansas taxpayer for 30 years and they don't care and you know they'll left all the way to the bank. They don't give a rip. We know that Clay County needs a vote. There has to be a sales tax component in Clay County to get the dollar figure to where the royals believe it needs to be. Do they want to risk that after what happened two years ago in Jackson County? Kansas City, Missouri is trying to be creative for lack of a better word on how they can try to cobble together a state plan with likely maybe Port Kansas City to put a package together that's appealing with incentives for the royals to move to say Washington Square Park and you know maybe 18th and Vine is still in the conversation. I heard some whispers about that the last 48 hours. I don't know how serious it is, but it may be a place that's getting a second look based on some people that I'd heard from here as of late. So I still believe the head and shoulders favorite is that crown center spot. But there are a couple of hurdles. The financing, the ancillary revenue streams around the stadium. How do they tap into that? Because that was obviously a powerful point of originally moving the ballpark as is. Oh, yeah, along with the concrete cancer. Yeah, about that concrete cancer. Can't forget that. Just got a bed batch of concrete, man. What are you gonna do? Arrowhead's fine, but just drew the short straw the concrete over there with the K. It happens. But that's that's really where this thing is at right now. And that's why I believe that John Sherman is just waiting to see what Kansas City, Missouri is able to bring to the table. And something that really is not getting a lot of attention in all this is that the FBI is sniffing around City Hall. I'm not saying that these two things necessarily work together, but you would be naive to not believe the FBI sniffing around City Hall, sniffing around a sitting council person who wants to be mayor. And her husband, Michael Shaw and Ray on a Park shot. He's the director of public work. She's a member of the city council. And who knows where that leads when it comes to Kansas City politics and what's going on downtown at City Hall. If you're looking to get a mega deal and get in the bed with the city right now with the FBI sniffing around, I'm not saying it's going to result in anything. I don't know that to be the case. But it's just got to be something that if you're the Royals and you're John Sherman, you'd be wise to keep an eye on. Because I know that the politics of all this, I believe, and John and I talked about this yesterday, have maybe caught some people off guard. And there was a moment of honesty yesterday when John Sherman said, hey, you know what, the problem with that vote two years ago is that we needed everybody to be on the same page. We needed everybody to be pushing full steam ahead and we just didn't get it. It didn't happen two years ago. You had a tepid support from the mayor like two days prior. You didn't really have all the lawmakers on board either and you needed that to get this thing across the finish line and it didn't happen. And then you had Sly James out there doing his thing and that really wasn't, I don't think, a good situation for anybody involved, unfortunately, even though, you know, personally, I don't have any issue with Sly, but I didn't think that the optics of that were great at the time two years ago and then the thing went down in flames. So everybody needs to be going in the same direction and that FBI investigation is at least something to just keep on your radar as it relates to the stadium process moving forward for the Kansas City Royals. We got an update on Iran, but before I get to that, I just want to put a bow on this last conversation. It's amazing to me how this is fascinating. This cell phone ban in Kansas, the bell to bell cell phone ban that's going in for public schools starting in September. It's weird. It's not partisan. There are Republicans who don't like it and there are Democrats who don't like it. In the school districts, you have some Democrats who insist it's going to cost a lot of money to fund this thing and then you have Republicans like this on the text line. I'm assuming this person leans to the right, but I don't know for sure. This person writes here cell phones can be a distraction. Do we need big government requiring compliance? Local boards of education do work. Well, first off, they don't. Okay, we've seen plenty examples of that around Johnson County in particular. And then number two, I mean, this is what state government should be doing. This is kind of part of the job. Protect kids. Okay. Remind me why we're here? Yeah. Why are we having this conversation? Exactly. I mean, how local do you want to make local government? Like should should cities just decide, you know, what the drinking age is going to be? And if marijuana should be legal and just let like, you know, Olathe and Overland Park have different laws and rules and regulations for booze and marijuana and sports betting and cell phone usage and everything else. No, there are certain things that the state should be in charge of. When the data is overwhelming about how the phones are a clear distraction, do not add anything positive to the classroom with the kids, then you know what? When you have the data to back it up, then get rid of them. It's that simple. Some people have brought up, you know, indoctrination in schools and even my kid to be filming the teacher because the kid's going to be indoctrinated. If you're that concerned, get him out of that school. There's now open enrollment in Kansas. You don't have to send them private. You don't have to home school. You can do those things if you want, but you can also enroll in a different public school in Kansas. That's an option for you now. I mean, you know, the tragic school shooting, if you have that little faith in people that run your school, then get them out of the school. If you don't trust the administrators, if you don't feel like you can trust your local police department, then that's on you. But these school classrooms, these teachers should not have to play babysitter to the cell phone because of those issues that are one in, you know, not just a million, even more than that and, you know, the odds of of every single adult involved, like what happened down in Texas a few years ago, going wrong. That's not a reason to not have this policy. It's not. You're concerned about government in the school. I see that ship sailed out there on the horizon. That's true, John. That's very true. I've calmed down though. Boy, did I need no one needed a commercial break like me. That was a pretty quick lap you took around the building. And it wasn't naked this time either. Okay, this morning Pete Hegseth gave an update from the Pentagon. The Secretary of War was speaking about the war in Iran and he followed up on a couple of very important truth social posts from the president of the United States when he said this about the Strait of Hormuz, which of course is where a lot of the oil is coming through or supposed to come through that goes to the rest of the world and because the oil has not been getting through, we're seeing gas prices as of this morning top $4 a gallon on average around the country. Here's what Pete Hegseth had to say. On the Strait of Hormuz, there are many more vessels flowing through today than there were as the president has arranged. The president's been clear to Iran open it for business or we have options and we certainly do. When you look at what the chairman laid out with the Navy with the Navy Industrial Base, with coastal cruise missiles with UAVs, with counter-mine capabilities, we've been focused from the beginning on attreading and defeating those capabilities and limiting their options. There's lots we're doing as well some of which is known, some of which is not known to set the conditions. And I think the president was clear this morning in his truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. It's not just the United States Navy. Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well. So he's pointing out this is an international waterway that we use less than most, in fact dramatically less than most. So the world ought to pay attention to be prepared to stand up. President Trump's been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world to address this threat of Iran. It's not just our problem set going forward even though we have done the lion's share of preparation to ensure that that will be open, which is an outcome the president's been very clear on. So you're seeing there what's actually happening as well in the world stage is all of the accusations that the president has lobbed against basically all of Europe going back 10 years that there are a bunch of freeloaders. They're actually proving themselves to be a bunch of freeloaders here over the last four weeks of this war. You know, they'll sit there and they'll say, well, we didn't start this so you open up the Strait of Hormuz. And the president says in a Truth Social this morning, all of those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you. Number one, buy from the U.S. We have plenty. Number two, build up some delayed courage. Build up some delayed courage with a strategist. Number three, find a strategist. Number three, find a strategist. Number four, find a strategist. Number three, find a strategist. Number four, find a strategist. Number three, find a strategist. Number four, find a strategist. Number three, find a strategist. Number three find strategist. Number three find strategist. Number three find strategist. Number three find strategist. Number three find strategist. In many ways, an opportunity for the UK's and the world, France, so many others, to step up and realize, by the way, that removing nuclear capabilities from Iran is, yes, beneficial to us in the United States. It's beneficial to Israel. It's also wildly beneficial to Europe. And these guys and gals in charge of these countries over there continue to prove that they just, they are not either wanting to have any long-term vision on this stuff. 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