This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Uncalled For in the Summertime Part 1

Episode Date: September 28, 2026

In summer 2026, Mike did a series of Facebook shorts called "Uncalled For in the Summertime."  You can hear them in this three-parter.

This podcast, uncalled for in the summertime, sun on the porch, truth on the line. Grab your drink, let the chaos shine. Uncalled for. All right, good morning, everybody. So welcome to uncalled for in the summertime. I'm going to call for this. So we just got a lot going on this summer. We're transitioning to production on the 12th season.

And we're already booked for the rest of the year. Yeah, it's current events still happening. So it's just a good idea to do like an occasional vlog type of video like this. And like we did with the Annapot Pomo, we edit it and make it part of the podcast. So since it is summertime for a third summer row, I'm having made. major I've had major car troubles. This vehicle them sitting in was

had commissioned for last for a couple of days as squirrels were eating at the wiring and the fuel pump had to be replaced completely again. So it started great with the new fuel pump

that's starting in. It starts great and Everything is so yeah While I'm here Today I'm going to shout at a couple of local museums I got to go to

during the past week First is the media tech in the Crossroads District In fact there's one block west of the

Kaufman Center Streetcar stop that was a that's my film friend John Trasolo and then started

trying to reconnect again okay so we're reconnected and yeah my my film friend John Trasolo is the

proprietor of that establishment and he wants to come on the podcast so we'll go on the podcast another museum

I'm going to give a shout to is called Atlas 9. It's on KC.K. near the Village West, area of Ventures east of Village West, on State Avenue. The best way for me to describe it is Science Fiction Funhouse. I was there for Planning Comic-Con,

volunteers party was there. So I went to that. And also the same day I went to Midwest Game Fest volunteers, but that was over at Westport Flea Market. And they had the burger bar. There she gets in some of your own burgers.

So I went to that one. The first time went to Adeline's that for that. Yeah, it starts off as a very movie theater style of setting but the rest of this there's an interactive game

that you're supposed to play while you're a special wristbands to like tap in and so if I do recommend checking the place out at least once I don't know if I

go there I don't know if I would go back again just just because it's to expend that charge like 40 bucks ahead

just for a general admission I only guy going for free because it's part is part of the volunteer party but still

check it at least once and I checked out their website Seahall was involved with it and turned out we have a friend of the podcast was involved with it Jamie Morrow

so but yeah great stuff at various minutes to check out at least once. Check at least once. We, of course, have the World Cup coming up. If you have not listened to David Chimhasa. You can't please do that soon.

We've got another episode coming tomorrow. And we've got another World Cup episode coming up on Tuesday. We have the Architines in downtown. They're training at sporting facility in KCK, but they're staying at the origin right across the street from the riverfront stop that just opened last month. And I have heard, I had heard, I can't confirm this, but I had heard that Messi took around the streetcar, which would have did awesome. awesome

we'll just got to see us uh lay in now you're doing that um I know the Dutch are in town they check their training in Riverside

at the women's facility and staying on the plaza which of course we had the English coming in a day or two the Dutch and the Argentines

are all right here but the but the um English, they're supposed to come in either today or tomorrow. They're staying at the Melbourne Inn, which is not too far from me, actually. And, yeah, stop in here. Go to get some of stuff.

Yeah, the Mabba. And then they're training at Soul Park. Where, yes, sporting. Oh, those the fields. out there. And Algeria is in Lawrence just as a sign that they flew into KCI. But, but, uh, but this is the part of the conversation. Can we stop trying to make Lawrence a Kansas City suburb already, all right?

Um, unless, um, unless developments were to spring up overnight between, uh, Monticello and Lawrence, shut the fuck up about Lawrence, uh, being part of the. the metro area it's not going to happen. It is very rural between the two. So, all right. So yeah, I'm not going, these are going to be very irregular little videos and we'll save the audio for the, because there's some political stuff I want to talk about. And, and much like I did it with Napot.

Obama with the MLB and NHL, we need to do one for the NBA 2, and the timing could not be more perfect. And yeah, there's pretty cool summertime shit I want to document.

This is going to have to be the way to do it because we are books until the end of the year. Season 11 is already, mostly in the books where I'm finishing one episode. the National Nude Day episode, which will be released on the National Nude Day, which is July 14th.

So keep out for that one. All right. So I'm going to go get some stuff, and we will be back with my thoughts on their free NBA team. All right. So this is the seconds of our summertime. Series C What that's going on? Got sunlight behind me, unfortunately.

So I did promise, yeah, my thoughts on every team in the NBA because I already did for baseball and I already did for hockey, so why not do it for basketball, especially with the finals happening and those fucking Knicks one game away from winning it.

So, let's get the Canadian team out of there, Toronto. Toronto Raptors. I own a Toronto Raptors Jersey from when Trucey McGrady was with the team

and McGrady's always been one of my favorite players probably and and they won a title a few years ago so so yeah

so yeah Raptors Alabama Arizona Phoenix Sons I won't I'd call myself a son's fan, mostly because I'm...

I was not particularly fan of Barclay, even though he is one of the more entertaining guys in NBA history. I love the opening scene from Forget Paris, the Billy Crystal film where he plays a NBA ref, the very first scene. It was San Antonio and Phoenix. It was in Phoenix. Phoenix.

Barclay was just a tad late. He got the buzzer for the winning shot. He gets whistled. He has whistled. That is all bullshit. Flaky white stuff. California. Oh, boy.

California. There are I think four teams in California. Lakers, let's get them out of the way. Lakers. I don't think it gets a moralage date than the Lakers. Depends on the era, I don't necessarily call myself a Laker fan. You can't deny their history. And, of course, how are they the Lakers?

If there are no lakes in Los Angeles, they were originally from Minneapolis, the land of 10,000 lakes. Some clippers. To describe the clippers, aside from chronic underachievers. Cool, they have their own arena now. Now let's translate that into winning. It's being a winning Golden States, the Warriors themselves transplanted from Philadelphia.

And they've been fairly successful in recent years with Curry and all that. There was that four-year stretch where the finals were Warriors and... Cavaliers with Golden States winning three of them because Cleveland did win the one.

So they also gave us literally a three rolls. Kings, Second Amendment of Kings, I Spoiler to anyone who's new to the podcast.

I'm based in Kansas City and the Sacramento basically stole them from us but we stole them We shared them for a little bit with Omaha, but we stole them from... But we stole... Am I still here? Come on. There we go. Yeah, we stole the Kings from Cincinnati.

Please wait while your transaction is being promised. Thank you. Okay. Yeah, we're getting the car. Getting the car wash, that's right. So yeah, I'm actually a Kings fan because they were stolen. Colorado, so we're talking Denver, and that is the Hockey Cronkies. So right now they can go fuck themselves.

But historically, they got us Carmelo Anthony, who I was a fan of in his college days. because they beat KU and the championship. So, yeah, that's that's ever connected. D.C., Washington, I don't know if I have a, I don't know if I have a

strong opinion about the wizards. I do like the name of Wizards better than the bullets. Lebole. The curse Le Bule. that team is cursed Florida that's

well Miami heats they've won they made them their relevant team on the backs of D Wade and LeBron and Shaq yeah

so no really ill feelings towards the heat no magic same thing for the most parts although uneasy with

their association with Amway A free-sclean product is now being applied to your vehicle. Georgia, Alan Hawks. Don't really concerned myself a fan. I'm also very well aware that their only championship game when they were a St. Louis team. So, how good is that? How interesting is that?

St. Louis has won in every major sport, but they can't see the game. certain teams around, like the Hawks. The Hawks, the Kama'emba, the late Kama'ememu, play for them. North Thursday. He also played for, Sanford, in Philadelphia and Houston. The Hawks. Of course, but I'm not a Bulls fan. The Bulls lost me officially in 2003 when they drafted that.

bread piece of garbage out of the chicken hawks. And the Hunt Family Association doesn't help at all. That's about Indiana. This is my team, Indiana Pacers. And I wish we didn't want a year ago, but we came close and then Halmarket's hearts, unfortunately.

And I would love to see us when in 2000, when the Lakers beat us. But, yes, I am a Pacer's fan. I'm a big Reggie Miller fan. Reggie doing this towards Spike Lee. Still very much a Reggie fan.

There's a great video. I think it was within the last year of Reggie talking with Obama. Very well-known Chicago. fan Barack Obama. That's the Pacers. Pelicans, terrible name.

Terrible name, but I would say a new name, but they already found it because these were the original Charlotte Hornets. But, you know, I am not a fan of the name. Pelicans at all.

So, the two straight on the courts. Come up with a bad name. That's just Celtics, much like the Lakers classic gold standard team in the NBA

I own a Rajon Rondo Jersey In fact the awards during the French festival previews a couple years I was trying in podcasts

for French yeah that's the Celtics Michigan Pistons fuck off Minster, Timberwolves. Fun fact, I actually got to walk into the Tarjeet Center when I was in Minneapolis. Because, yeah, that arena is actually in the Minneapolis sky block system.

So I walked from the convention center to Tarje Center, which is right across the freeway from where Tarje Field got built. So how cool is that? Got to see that. I wish the team was better. Got an asterisk there, because Vegas is supposed to be in a team. Sure, not anymore.

No, okay, two teams with New York. So fuck the Knicks. Be hit Pacers fan. Fuck Spike Lee. The Nets, the Brooklyn Nets, no strong opinion. Very interesting design for their

Barclays at the center arena. Where? Charlotte? I think they're a case as ancient because you're a great player. Does it make you a great owner? To one Michael Jordan

specifically. That's the one that used to hate the cavaliers and then they tried to LeBron and they start getting good under LeBron. So one of those scenes that I'm fairly I'm fairly neutral on, but this goes out to the future.

Mrs. Kelsey, I would rather pull for the Cavaliers than the next any day in the week. Yeah, I saw the photos from last night. Travis clearly failed in the beginning to like the Cavaliers thing. That's all. So that's Ohio. Oklahoma, the Oklahoma State Thunder. should never have left Seattle. And I'm still a little butt hurts

than beating my Pacers last year in the final. Yeah, that's, I don't know what I'm saying? Morgan, that's the Portland Jail Blazers. Cool logo, but probably the coolest logo in the NBA, if he has me, but jail brother Blazers, he gave us Rossweed, Wallace, Pennsylvania is 76ers.

I recall my first basketball had Dr. J. J. Julius serving his signature on it. But when one of those standing things, they put the athlete signature on, with not having a Viverson from the most parts. So I'd say I'm neutral in the Sixers. South Carolina, South Carolina, so that's good. Tennessee, Memphis Grizzlies. Hey, Memphis can support a team, just not in the NFL, unfortunately. I'd say I'd say I'm mixed on the grizzlings, because they haven't been great.

But they've had that moments. Texas, okay, we got three to knock out for Texas. Mavericks. Certainly when Mark Cuban bought the team definitely a fan. They've won. San Antonio and they had the Spurs.

And certainly when they had Robinson, the fellow Navy man, and Duncan that has them at their finest, I think. And hopefully they turned shit around. And then next

three games because I'll be god-dand if the fucking Knicks winning. And Houston, that was the only NBA game I ever attended was a Houston Rockets game. I have family in Houston and

this is when Yom McGrady were playing for them in 2006 and I got to them play at so I know it's at so that there. Never got to see them play at the sum of those, which is a shame, especially since that is a church now.

So that's Texas. Utah, the Jazz. Every Mormon I know is a jazz fan. They are basically the official team of the Church of Jesus Christ, the Latter of the Saints. But they've had their moments. Wow, the sun is bright today. That's Utah from my first.

Washington Seattle, let's get those Sonics back in that's just like I said for Vegas an asterisk well put an asterisk for Seattle

getting the supersonics back no I was Virginia and we end with Wisconsin with the Bucks

and a good job winning a title a couple of years ago I'm neutral on the Bucks but I will I will tell you this is a preview

for season 12 coming up we had Mandy Bryce as one of our Snowden guests and this is

probably to tell you won't here because I stopped the recording before she brought this up but

she told me that her husband is the personal trailer of Janis on that on that

team I'm not going to try to pronounce his last name but you know what I'm talking about so

Yeah, I think that's everyone in the NBA. All right. All right, here we go. So, hey, everybody. So I am at the Sugar Creek Slothic Festival. Helen Annual, here in the Sugar Creek, Missouri, just north of Independence. Very near where the Truman Library is. Got here really early, but they are already set up.

We got stage right there. The Kabasi shop. Oh, we got some baked goods right there. We have the liquor. How's going? The shirt. The Pulska. Peace love of Pulska.

I'm still not quite sure what that is. Here's a Kabassi shop. I'll be back with you in there a little bit. And it's just a small sampling of what we got going on. A lot more has happened just up the hill. This is the Mike Onka Community Center. And a lot of stuff goes on in here. So we're going to march on up the hill.

and yeah let's take a look so yeah this is a pan-slovak thing we'll see Russian

no no we want to see Russians here why am I thinking probably we should see Russians but we don't want some of Polish we'll see Ukrainians Czechs

Slovak's I'm going to turn the camera around You want water? Alright. Cool. Really cool guy. Got some more beer. Pove Tizza.

We got out here. Alright, thank you. Alright. We got Croatians in it today. That's just smells pretty good. Yeah. Just turn this back around. So we have that.

Nice little haul. It smells really good. I see a Ukrainian flying over there. And there has a folks in front of me that show these I would love to show you from this. But it's going to show you. So this cool stuff. This is the South of American patrons. Wall of Honor. That's cool.

You have some Viz Czechoslovakian pottery. There's some Slavic Nessi. I know you were a half a merit of these. We usually associate these with Russia. There we got. Slavic missions Oh yeah, I know about

All right, oh here's the cool part, so Slavic missions We have Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech North Missileia Yeah Forbes, Ethianians, Polish, Russian, Serbia, and Slovakia. And I'm not with the Slavic countries as well. And flags.

All right, so I hope I have a good time here for the next couple of hours. I probably not to drink this time, just because it is hot and I got a drop on afterwards. Alright So, I still at Slavic Fest, so again be here for a while. But, uh, apple's, it's particular some food. So big old, uh, kabbassi dough right here. Got some mustard kitchen and chips. This is a povite-a.

It's a dessert loaf. This one, this particular one is an apple cinnamon. cinnamon. Shout to Strawberry Hill, Petitza for being here to... There are a lot of flies here, so I'll go ahead and eat this and watch, hey Ray, which is one block east because we're starting our journey today down the streets from the very big hill

Museum of the Memorial Stop on the streetcar which is currently set up for FIFA. That's there. I guess you could get it for free, but I haven't tried yet. But that part of the Main Street is blocked off to anything that is now a streetcar. Is it driving?

You gotta go around. And that doesn't probably work on. Move it, bitch! Sorry, there's someone in front of me that's taken their sweet time. Okay, I do it. But yeah, on Gillam Road, Our Lady of Sorrows, Catholic Church. I'm going to have to step in, to turn this place out.

This is a longer a Protestant Catholic. But to my left right now, this is where the Royalty Ballpark, who are going to go, where Hallmark's headquarters is. Of course, building itself is actually quite large. This break in the road office building. I'm still on Gillum, but I could have turned around. and that becomes Pershing. It's a Sharton now,

but this is, when you hear about the Hyatt incident, that's immediately what the hell. That's immediately to my left right now. And this one is to, oh, fuck you to, talk about what's going on with the North Rail Projects. So, yeah, we've got the two extensions now open. So you take a, so yeah, yeah, can take a streetcar from you know KC to the front and then back.

The series of the city's street judge Marshall just past where a Gillen becomes oak but yeah they held a open house they as they'll hold an identical open house said this week if you're in the Kine City you want to learn more about about it was told better than I could describe it. The North Market area. The one I went to on Thursday, and it was actually up north in the North Cape C, which is also the streetcar over Timo Ma Center to my left here.

It would take the streetcar over the Missouri River into North Kent City. And as a friend of the matter, it's all Northland, not the Missouri River, but North Kansas City is its own own suburb Unclosed by Kansas City Kansas City North is Kansas City proper North of Missouri River So that's out of the way They broke out up in the three stages

The first stage How are we going to get the track across the Missouri River There was a lot to talk for a long time I'm just putting it's on the heart of America bridge, which is the bridge I'm heading to. I'm going to use to cross the Missouri River. I can see City Holmes my right now. So for a while, they actually talked about putting track

in the Heart of American Bridge. But now it sounds like they're just going to build a new... They're thinking about just building a new bridge that we have a streetcar home that would cross. across the railroad. How that, and it would run parallel to the Harvard America, like right next to it, you know. Similar to how with this,

with the riverfront extension just opened last month, actually, so the road front hasn't been open very long. But to go with that extension, they built a pedestrian bridge right next to the bridge that already exists that they put the bridge in looking still a drive and they looked at all different types of bridges including bridges to the west of our America and even they even looked at a bridge spring and starting off from the riverfront stop but okay that's probably going to cause

some problems but I like the idea of a guy if that's the way they didn't Yeah, is it really like, no, you know, to do the, do the separate river. And then north of the river into actual North Kansas City, it's pretty straightforward that they want to do. So it would be five stops. North of the river, the first one would be at 10th in Burlington, which is the first lights that you go across the river. Burlington being the main streets, I'll take care of that, Texan, a moment, across street. East West. So turn on then.

So from that stop, you'll turn on the 10th Street and then go a couple of blocks before. It turns again on to Swift Street, Taylor version, flipped with four stops, I think it's 14th to 18th, the 23rd and then 29th would be determinists with the provision that they could go

with future developments up North Oak traffic way. And then off to Riverside and Parkville, which to me suggests that is the possibility of how you could get to the airport. It just makes more sense doing it that way than trying to go north of over. So yeah, basic geography to that idiot who tried to shout me down on that, on Reddit. South the River, they want to stop that at Columbus Park. The neighborhood, they were on the other side of the

of the Arab of America from the River Market and I'm just getting on the Heart of America right now. So Columbus Park is to my and the question splits. Two of them, I would say one of them, definitely I would not say because I would take away the phone. Preserve that functionality of that.

And cross different parts of the such. That's something I think could happen. They're going to try the normal. Bowers, Kansas City. It's an avenue, okay. I thought it was 10th Street, so no, it's 10th Avenue. This couple blocks, Swift is the next, Swift Street is pretty wide,

but safely put street cars here. And the drawings I'm seeing they're looking more at central running, center line running. Pretty cool. So these are not streets, these are avenues. Tenth Avenue.

10th Avenue, well I guess 14th Avenue, 18th Avenue, 23rd Avenue. Yep, 14th Avenue, so there'd be a stop right here. And they're also looking at center platforms, in a double-sided center platform along this route in the middle of the street. Tell them the guy, if they did continue up a north boat, I might not even have to make this drive anymore, especially if it's in Norfolk and Englewood and I was on the reception of the way

walked in let's get Johnson County and blind stud study started already at all to a front of office still to drive to all the schools but the office they could just

to trick our systems he did not have a timeline on when they wanted to do this the extra time for the bridge now so all right once again it's summertime on call for style summertime and if you're in the United States I hope you're having a good time and it sounds like so you are having a good time with our cuisine and all that stuff so

So let's read this. So from, this is USA Today.com from in and out to Taco Bell. Europeans discover American food on World Cup trips. One German has gotten so much attention

documents in his love of Waffle House and Taco Bell that he's gained more than half a million followers including NFL great JJ Watts. Credit to Amanda Lee, for writing this dated today, June 14. All right, so AI overview.

Let's read this summary. So, oh, what the hell? Okay. Or maybe not. I would just read the article. So, or what the fuck are you people doing to me? Okay. At, as soccer fans from all around the world,

descend on American cities for the World Cup, They're falling in love with a huge part of U.S. culture. Cranchrap Supremes, bagmacks, triple dippers, and the condiment beloved by even the snobiest American. Germand, I've never seen that word before in my life. Ranch dressing, or as the Swifties would call it, seemingly ranch. So we have visitors from Ireland, England, Scotland, Germany, and more are documenting their world wind food tours of the U.S. in social media posts that are going viral and injecting U.S. viewers with a healthy dose of American pride,

just in time for the nation's 250th birthday, fuck Trump. so we have Leia Ray I'm a British I'm an English girl in and out and trying to double double cheeseburger for the first

time look how cute it comes in this little tray apologies Leah we actually don't have in and out here in Kansas City so so

So you're our first, I will have to live through vicariously, Miss Ray. It was massive. A term I've learned that the English really love massive. So it's crispy, salty, fluffy, everything in one. And Ray has been thoroughly documented American travels with the to the lie for many new new viewers. She thought Chipotle was so good.

For those of you who are South Park fans, you probably know that Chipotle makes you crap blood. Why the hell would you keep eating something? It makes you crap blood. I enjoyed chicken and waffles and ranch dressing for the first time at IHop. The pancake place,

not the cult. Where's she? she initially where she initially thought a side of butter

was ice cream much the amusement of American commenters who are still teasing

her about it so you're not the first person that Ms. Ray to have

a mistaken identity at at IHop I seem to recall ordering fried

shrimp there and expect cocktail sauce and was given ketchup. Here's her... Oh, they posted her tweets here. Everyone's been asking for it,

so here's a British girl's full review of In-It Out. For America, I thought it was quite affordable at $4 a burger. It's similar to five guys, but it definitely edges it. And we do have five guys around here. And it's actually, a person for the girl of Dordash orders from.

Everyone everyone's saying that I should try animal style next time. What should I try? Okay. There we go.

She's cute. Anyway, now we have let's move on. One German whose handle is at Freddie L.A. 7 has gotten so much attention documenting his love of Waffle House and Taco Bell.

They gained more than a half million followers, including an NFL great J.J. Watt, who apparently just hooked him up with a luxury hotel room in Houston. I have the Sunday, June 14 match between Germany and

Carousal. Fun facts, today I learned my dad didn't even know where Carousal was located. It is in the Caribbean. It is a country within the kingdom of the Netherlands near Aruba.

and Bonner off the coast of South America and oh yeah so these places was a waffle I've actually never eaten in a waffle house and I know we have a couple in our area

including one in the KC King but never eaten there Taco Bell Taco Bell is perfect two quotes Big C on this podcast got to put away that Taco Bell

Oh, talk about it. And JJ Watts, yes, legend in American football played for the Houston Texans and the Arizona Cardinals, is now part owner of Burnley Football Club, which just got relegated from the Premier League. And it's also been known to ask about people's wiping habits. going to one fucking menace to society A.J. Hawke. David Watts said, Welcome to Houston, Freddie.

Freddie, whose last name is unclear. That's fun. You just have your handle to go by. That's fine. I coined a phrase being spread far and wide on social media. The European mind can't comprehend this. Brady wrote on a post of a picture

of a massive stadium on Auburn, Alabama with a jaw-dropping sunset in the background. The phrase is now being used to describe the awesomeness of things that are uniquely American from the size of a Bucky's gas station to the huge selection of electric fans at Walmart. We are currently getting a Buckees built in KCK near the

race track and Walmart well you know my opinion on Walmart so then I have my business in 10 years and counting so if I want an electric fan I'd probably sooner go to a tarje than

Walmart but early in this trip Freddy posted a picture of a fisiad ordered a Taco Bell and captured it, the Holy Land. I don't know about that. Yeah, you can get a lot of good food at

a Taco Bell, but don't expect it to be actually Mexican or authentically Mexican. That's where you go to locally for us. We have this thing called the KC Taco Trail. Plenty of Mexican restaurants.

authentic Mexican restaurants throughout Kansas, and a long place called Rudy's. There's Tanampa Takaria. So I'll give them a shout out because they have a couple locations called one in Lenoxa I'm into. And they kind of sort of got a shout out on New Heights from Travis, you know, the Kelsey that lives here in that place here. where is it jason was like

no I'm not going to a taco spot called Rudy's okay so yeah he called Taco about the Holy Land and another post showing chicken tenders and fries at Raisin Cains he wrote

Lives were changed so Raisin Cains oh he Oh eyes were changed so yeah that's

Raisin Cains and has he exterior of raising canes uh raising canes that's one i haven't tried myself but we had plenty of requests for that on

Doordash and uh what's an able about them is we have to go in and place the order ourselves so but uh my two of the credits uh raising canes folks are quite nice people

so other posters have uh praised the U.S. for his air conditioning. Thank you for that. I agree. I tend to agree. The general kindness and openness of its residents. Well, we try.

I try. And for us, how seeing things like school buses and Twinkies were just like the movies. Yeah. I agree there. Twinkies. Meanwhile,

Americans are loving the positive attention from my nations that have been known to poke fun and it's much younger neighbor across the pond. Do I care about soccer? No. One woman wrote on one of the posts.

Do I love the World Cup content right now because it makes me feel patriotic? Yes. All right. Soccer is not that hard of a sport to get into, folks. One Texas lawyer observed, it made me realize we do have culture

and some of it's weird but still culture and I would agree there too I agree there too we've been taught our as I've been taught my whole life

that America is a cultural melting pot you know we and I think that's that I think that's proven by exactly these experiences that

everyone's writing about, we just take it for granted on 420%. So yeah. Sam Mandel in American content created a living in Winchester, Virginia has been so entertained

by the foreign tourists trying U.S. food that he even created a believable parody about it, pretending to be a Brit, eating Jesus chicken, aka Chick-fil-A.

for the first time and the post has nearly 650,000 views and oh I'm sorry I'm sorry this guy's not giving me by the way

I am currently holding on to a a gift card for free Jesus chicken courtesy of San Faye Wanderers so I will be making use of that this week perhaps

everyone just don't hate me for uh i like i do like the occasional jesus chicken but no i just don't make it habits of it because it is insanely expensive uh trying to compare to um sort of compared to like a kFC or something um so with the world cup lasting until july 19 final at metlife stadium in new jersey He expects there to be plenty of more Foreigner Food Reviews. I'll be seeing it all over my feed. He told him to the USA Today on June 14.

Honestly, I can't stop watching something about it so riveting. All right. So, and I thought I saw something about, or heard something about Golden Corral. the buffet chain and full disclosure here. I do like the Golden Corral. When Rick Daniels was on, we talked about the Golden Corral. I like buffets in general.

The big two, yeah, Golden Corral is a big one. Get your salads, get your nachos. and how are you like it burgers, steaks, shrimp, why everyone, for the most part. I think that's a great experience

of American food culture, the Golden Corral. And the other buffet, of course, is Louisiana and Blue Springs, which, of course, is a Pan-Aussian buffet, mostly Chinese

but they do serve sushi and they have a Mongolian grill there as well so yeah

buffets are a great way to experience American culture I am surprised no one's written about KC barbecue yet but again I'm recording this before

Dave family played a match at Airhead. They're supposed to play. I think their first game is on Tuesday this weekend. But I've heard good things, but

the fan fest they're doing at the Ream Memorial. And all that. And I will agree with a lot of the criticisms. 18 bucks is too much for a beer. 7 bucks is too much for a soda. But the

trade off of making the thing free to attend provide you have the rights the right credentials and stuff so so it's similar to my experience at the draft a couple years ago before the street car extension was even open

all right it was still in the middle being built at the time but that was my experience yeah we got it for free but the trade off is all the food was

ridiculously overpriced you know so so yeah I totally get from that that point of you all right I think I'm going to pause here I'm going to see if I can find any more

article on this to read and if I do, there'll be a part two. All right. Everybody, we are once again uncalled for in the summertime. I promised a part two if I found more oracles regarding the World Cup and fans experience there. But before I do that, I do want to give a quick shout to the fans of Japanese team the samurai

blue and they're a very interesting custom of after the game is over you know what they do they

do after the games they clean up after themselves they actually they actually I saw photos where they were they had trash bags laid out at Jerry World before the game

and then after the game they're cleaning up after themselves it's just a really interesting quirk of Japanese culture one I wish I'd dip to the

before taking Japanese but is what it is but yeah let's talk more articles about the World Cup so this is Newsweek via Yahoo

What World Cup tourists discovering about America from fast food to costs by Alice Gibbs and Newsweek? So 26 World Cup is bringing millions of international visitors to the U.S., and many are finding that everyday American life is almost as entertaining as the soccer self. from locked up shampoo and giant portions to Bucky's pit stops and eye-watering Uber fares. Fans are turning their culture shocks into viral content. The tournament expanded from 32 to 48, making this the biggest World Cup ever staged and drawing more than a million international visitors across North America. as fans move between host cities across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Panama, Jamaica, Peru. Social media has become an unofficial travel diary,

capturing real-time reactions to American food prices, transports, and culture far beyond the stadiums. From mac and cheese to megacize, everything. So one of the visitors documented in his journey is Scottish fan Sean Cumming, whose video is exploring American food and culture have attracted widespread attention online. The food here is very, very good. I think in general, the food here is just better seasoned than that in the UK. Here, you get flavor, you get fed well.

they put a lot of spices herbs and seasoning into the internet food in general which just makes it really good to which i'll just go i acknowledge the british comic eddie isa who uh wants a dear regina uh which you can find on YouTube comparing British English with American English he said well you in America you say

herbs and we say herbs because there's a fucking H in it so a coming who arrived in New York after traveling from Enberg said differences in day-to-day life

are immediately noticeable. And here's the guy in front of Buckies. Which once again, we're getting one of those in Kansas, just south of

the racetrack. On the way to Conrados, but not quite people are very positive, enthusiastic, and they're not shy at all. They will tell you how they feel for good or for bad.

And sometimes for British people that could catch us off guard a little bit. Yeah, the American culture can feel more open than in the UK. Like I said yesterday,

the U.S. culture is a melting pot of cultures from around the world. So it's kind of part of our DNA. I think people are generally speaking more open here in the States. I think in the UK we can be a bit closed sometimes. Scale is another defining feature. Everything's bigger in every

way. The vehicles are bigger. The buildings are bigger. Similar observations are flooding social media as visitors documents everything from store layouts and restaurant portions to road trip culture and everyday interactions. Some posts have generated millions of views. And one German fan, this might be the same guy that we were talking about earlier, chronicling six-week road trip across America. It's built a large, following by reacting with amazements to late-night Welfa-house visits, Walmart runs, stops at Buckees,

places many Americans barely think twice about. The locked up shampoo mystery. So this is Swedish fan Elsa Thora. Went viral after discovering toiletries

locked behind anti-theft cabinets in a U.S. store a practice uncommon in much of Europe. Okay, I guess this was going to

eventually my first negative experience why is one item locked up yet others other items the same price isn't I believe clearly English is not our first language I mean they did say just as she's Swedish I think so English lesson here so why is one item locked up yet other items of the same price aren't. This is clearly at Walgreens, and yes, Walgreens does lock certain things up

to give them from being stolen because these are higher quality products, I guess. It's a practice that baffles me, too. And I'm someone who practically lives at Walgreens. The post on

Twitter, we're not calling it X. Here. Gained more than 920,000 views as Elsa revealed the unexpected culture shock. Falling in love with US food and there's that video with the

cute British girl again. If there is one area where visitors seem United's food coming. So the variety across different regions stood at the most. The food changes depending on where you are. Knowing regional traditions and immigrant influences create very different experiences from one state to another. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I agree. And, oh, there's a different video with this girl.

So, all right. Might be the first British school to try this video. Well, since we're getting Brits on the podcast, we might as well reach out to this gal. But there we go again. Hang on. And I hope. You've never seen this before in my life.

It's got ranch dressing and ice cream. And we've got all these sources to try here. I've never tried Rance before either. say that's just try the rancher. That's good chicken. That's good chicken. I did hear that. Yeah, that's good chicken.

I'm pretty sure that's not ice cream. That looks like butter. And I think that was addressed as the other day. That's better. Of course, any swifties seeing this would probably know that as seemingly ranch. You know, from the first time Taylor went to a chief scheme. seemingly ranch

high costs and unexpected fines not all reactions have been positive particularly when it comes to price as an American I will agree especially with the jackass in chief taking a second run

and on this shit but it is extremely expensive here is a shock to the system for people arriving here for the first time says coming. It also pointed to transport costs as a standout

example. We came into Brooklyn and cost $150 in an Uber. If we paid $130 for a Uber in the UK, you'd go a lot

further distance. And to this, I will agree that well, A, is Brooklyn. Brooklyn in general is going to be much more expensive than other parts of the country. Just last week, I had to take an Uber from my auto shop. If you saw the first summertime video, we did here, yeah, the fuel pump removed and the squirrels were eating at my wires.

That only cost $15. 15 bucks just for two miles so it so Uber costs are going to vary depending on the where in the country you are what time of day what's available because they'll so Uber will give you another number of options and also you can also time it so that could be cheaper Um, but let's continue with the article. Another visitor posting on X, Skyler Sky 3, shared how she saw someone get fined for jaywalking. I just saw someone get fined $100 for crossing the middle of the road in America.

Does this happen often? I've never seen it happen in the UK at all. to which I will address Ms. Skyler here. Yes, especially in Kansas City. I see way too much people not using the crosswalk properly or using a crosswalk at all, especially along the streetcar corridor. You'll see a couple of idiots. I swear to God, every time I drive the streetcar corridor I see at least one or two morons

trying to cross the street not a crosswalk or try to cross at crosswalk when their fucking light is red that you don't get killed doing that you don't get killed doing that shit so obey the traffic lights folks that's it's very simple

stuff and I've also learned in the last year that jaywalking actually originated from Kansas City because of shit I just described American America through foreign eyes for many of visitors however the appeal is simply seeing everyday America up close

soccer journalist from Japan Tetsuya Takeuchi shared a photo of Tennessee Streets with a caption It's a fair It's view so stunning It feels like a lie And yet another Japanese journalist

Maai Kozugi Was in Nashville Where she wrote From the perspective of a Universal Studios annual pass holder It feels so Similar that you'd think You'd come home

there's a Takayuchi son photo it just looks normal to me

unfortunately I don't know all those kanji so I but uh mitain

uh I can read here Ghana I can't read all kanji but this kanji

right here does mean uh color you know as millions of fans continue arriving throughout the tournament their videos are creating an unexpected side story to the World Cup one focus not on goals and results but giant pickup trucks supermarket culture diner food and the quirks of daily American life for visitors like coming that's exactly what makes this trip memorable

I share my experiences of traveling and other stuff, and I really enjoy doing that. He said, should we try to get this? So, yeah, this is the second time we've appeared in some of our media. So I'll consider a... And I am clearly not shy about having Brits on

so this is a delish.com a delish.com I guess we're calling it seven American foods international World Cup fans can't stop raving

about online all right so key points international world cup fans are discovering classic American foods and chains across the U.S. Buckees, Taco Bell,

ranch dressing Waffle House and big gulps are among the biggest culture shocks Many visitors are especially stunned by the portion size Free refills and sheer excess of it all Delish.com You've probably had Taco Bell Waffle House and the good old 7-11 Big Gulp and many times in your life I will repeat why said previously

I have never been to a Waffle House. But Taco Bell I've absolutely been to. And 7-Eleven, I don't do 7-Eleven much anymore, but I am very well aware of the big gulp, the big, the monster drinks. That said, if you have taste and grew up in the United States, as I did, for people who have, fall into the latter camp,

though, our most quintessential American foods are apparently thrilling novelties. The former group is simply a lost cause. Oh, geez. As international

fans descend on the U.S. for the 2026 World Cup, they're discovering a whole new way of life one built around 30-ounce sodas, seemingly ranch dressing. I added this seemingly part. And crunch wrap Supremes. CrunchRope Supreme, by the way, for those of you outside of the United States, that's a Taco Bell dish. Basically, the best way to describe it is a to stata with all the

fixings on it wrapped in a tortilla. When many of us take granted international visitors treat as full-blown cultural landmarks. I assume the same way Americans would a few international cuisine. So the best analog here is I don't think we do have Japanese restaurants here and we do have sushi here in the States. but I don't think outside of maybe New York I don't think you'll find any place

in the United States that's going to serve you Fugu that would be blowfish which famously will kill you if you

if you prepare it improperly which is why Japanese ships trained for years to properly prepare that fish. So,

so yeah, one of us take for granted international visitors treat as full blown cultural landmarks across social media. Travelers have been documenting their fascination with these American staples and marveling

at portion sizes that seem to defy both physics and nutritional labels. Without further due, here are the foods, restaurants, or fast food stops, World Cup fans cannot stop rafing

about online. Sean, Mr. Cumming again, the European mind cannot comprehend intoxicatingly good these things are. Yes, I am,

yes, I was the European mind. Wrote on X about Bucke's Beaver Nuggets while documenting his work World Cup trip around the U.S. A place like this can only exist in America, and I love it. Yeah, it in front of stuff, the famous fruit stack.

So, Beaver Nuckets. Again, there's a no one on me. A wild Korean explores Buckees. Another visiting FIFA fan wrote on the platform, the Texas cheese steak what the okay

the Texas cheese steak burrito is to die for okay so we're taking the Philly cheese steak and putting it in a burrito now and misappropriating it to Texas

oh no so one buckies does finally open around here I'll have to check that out because that's a seems like a crime for Texas to appropriate to Philadelphia culture. Even Americans are enjoying the whole timeline. Threat to be alive for the Europeans discovering Bucky's timeline.

My favorite thing about the World Cup this year is seeing all the Europeans experiencing American things like Buckees or condiments for the first time. and we have a this is uh freddie and this is the uh freddie guy that j jay watt dinner from buckies at 1 a m it's a bunch triple

clean corn that's a new one on me too so of course ranch dressing once again Swifties know about it because uh Taylor had it the first time she was at Arrowhead

for Travis Europeans are losing it over ranch so much they'd probably be smuggling bottles of Hidden Valley back home

why did no one tell me ranch dress is like crack Europe we need ranch ASAP once Swedish

fans said oh it's Elsa again and follow up she added I think my trip just turned into the

Find the best ranch in America So why did no one tell me Ranch dresses like Ranch sauce is like crack Europe we need Ranch ASAP This is so surreal Just had the best food ever And this is a video

And we'll have to Do like this Oh it is actually taking me to Twitter Okay, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. And while we're doing this, personally, I find ranch dressing. It's not my favorite. I'll eat if I have to, but I would prefer not. So in that regard, I'm kind of like to, one more time.

For those of you just listening, yeah, there's not much to the video. It's just a wide shot of a diner somewhere. I'm assuming Indiana simply because I'm assuming in Indiana because there's a cult's neon sign there so okay then

yeah yeah personally not fan of ranch but okay bacon wrapped hair tots with ranch oh my effing gut and ketchup and of course

I would be remiss to not point out that's when Heinz first heard about Travis and Taylor they briefly sold ketchup mixed with seemingly ranch but that actually looks

that actually looks good and yeah we are addicted to bacon I didn't know what's on me ranch sauce is like crack Europe we need ranch ASAP next we have Taco Bell

I totally agree with Freddie here it is in fact the Holy Land again not authentically Mexican but

still good within reason with any reason especially especially yeah it's been interesting in seeing old photos

of Taco Bell and remember and now being a child at Taco Bell they only had tacos and burritos and bell burgers which no longer exists on their menu but that has really diversified since then clearly but nachos and crunch rap Supremes and Doritos tacos oh let's make a fresco too so maybe then so maybe they need to start

and the Taco Bell franchises and chimony Chicago style classics I'm assuming the writer is Chicago born because it says as a native Chicago one this one feels especially

important to me the Europeans have discovered our local cuisine and they get the hype some proper Chicago food bro they have a milkshake with cake in cup it's ridiculous and the tree trees right there from a german guy named viago viago seven is the handle

post about portillo's which is said i have not had uh i'm once again state my opinion about chicago uh we had a piece of erinos here you know well you traditionally think of a steep tish and that was pretty good the city of chicago itself my personal opinion so do not hate me is hell hell on earth so that is uh my opinion my experience uh your violence may vary let's continue with the article uh got a lot of uh dns about my partillo's experience so we uh wait about 30 minutes for our food but the location itself is a highlight with so much cool off old stuff that they had some interesting

beers at the bar that made our waiting time amazing and a follow up a self-reclaimed huge fan of the

bear also stopped by Mr. Beef in the Windy City with for another local specialty Italian Beef. Mr. Beef, huge fan of the bear so this is definitely a bucket list item that Italian beef sandwich was approved shout out to Lionfield the Italian guys commenting on the people attempting

attempting Italian food especially pasta yes visitors also made time for both Tavern style and deep dish pizzas. So we have Joey at Caleb Goats QB1. This just

blew my mind. Wow. It's got St. Louis style. So it won't be surprising. This is the St. Louis-style pizza.

There we have Vipar Castle Z-N at Viper I-L-7. Joey, have you tried Chicago's pizza yet? I'd be heard I be heard

Don't you mean? I've heard The Americans have some funky kind there. Readers added context of the accounts Caleb Goats QB1 belongs to a long time Chicago Bears fan pretending to be a German

visor discovering the city I feel sorry for the game they have Kate Cornell the Europeans have found Chicago style pizza everybody welcome

friend enjoy your life will never be the same and Tomo another English bloke at L UFC 1992 underscore

V2 Oh my days I may not eat for a week It's a picture of a Chicago Deep dish Waffle House

Another favorite Waffle House Clearly Someone gave them good recommendations Just had our first Waffle House experience At 1 AM

And this is Freddy again great food, great prices, and friendly staff, 10 out of 10, we will be coming back. He apparently kept that promise with another visit later that same week. And once again, something I have never tried. Chili's! Chili's, I love chilies.

I love chilies, but it's just... It can be quite expensive, unfortunately. And it's our guy, Freddie, again. It just says for Chili. He said, just wait until they discovered the triple dipper. Chili's and NBA finals. Fuck off. Clearly having some drinks.

I see some fajitas. Chili's makes great fajitas, folks. And see some fries. Free Reef. They cannot believe the free refills And have been getting genuinely emotional About the tradition online I can refill this a thousand times

One European Visor S in that disbelief So yeah I don't recommend it Maybe two or three Max But yeah in theory you could But it depends on the So we have the correct

Crickle dry one. It's the handle Crickle, critically thinking and drinking Europeans discovering the joy of free refills. There's a video here. We're going to try a play. I can't get through the diesel

a thousand times. Yeah, but you won't drink a thousand cups of coconut. And it's free. You paid for it. You paid it. One, sir. Bro, slow down. It's not down. It's cold.

Slow down. Slow down. Why? That's good. It's free. Yes, please. Right. Thank you.

I mean, paradise. Brother. Cheers. Another one. Did I finish this one too? I'm going to explode. That's too much sugar. You don't need that.

That's true, but it's free. Brain freeze, yes. That's what's happening to me. But it's so good. That is funny. That is funny. Yeah, but I'm glad you're enjoying it, dude. Glad you're enjoying it.

Barbecue. Sean, the Scotsman from, yeah, Mr. Cumming, tried Carolina-style bar. barbecue ribs for the first time and promptly declared that all other meat has been run for him. I have discovered barbecue ribs in America, Carolina style with a vinegar sauce, and frankly, every other meat is run for me. Now, Sean, you need to get your ass to Kansas City. We'll show you a real barbecue. And more than just ribs, we'll do the beef for you. We'll do the chicken. We'll do just about everything.

So, yeah, get your ass to KC. Big Gulp's. Look, we knew our portion size was a novelty, but the Europeans' genuine wonder over the Big Gulp really confirms it. So you have John at BRFC, John. Because of Bristol Rovers, Ben, from the photo. not going to lie, big gulps from 7-Eleven are easily one of my favorite things I've discovered in America so far. And he'll picture the big gulp.

So, yeah, I'm glad they're enjoying our food. And one more. So this is a bro Bible. European soccer fans posting American food reviews. has been the perfect precursor to the World Cup by Jacob Elsie, pro-biblical then come. The World Cup gets underway this week in North America, many host cities are in the U.S., and as a result, thousands of Europeans are gaining taste of the culture. That includes American cuisine, travelers have been posting food reviews

after making the trick across the pond. It's made for A-plus social content. since Europeans have tested everything from Buckees to Barbecue and anything in between. It is entertainment in its purest form. There are 11 American cities hosting games with each featured in an NFL stadium. Depending on which team your phone, the cuisine can differ greatly. California, for example, won't have the same options as, say, Georgia. Texas has different things to offer than Washington.

Regardless of location, everything can be new to European visitors if they try it. Many are getting outside their comfort zones to eat food to unique to the area. We just talked about this guy doing a Carolina-style barbecue. Once again, Sean, get your ass to Kansas City. City. So Sean's made sure to hit a few spots. He unintentionally sparked an online war in the process. We take our barbecue seriously. Carolina muster his hands down the best. You're an idiot. Sean's vlogging who stops in Texas and North Carolina. Where?

He plans to try more, but for now, Texas, Lee. Once again, get your ass to Kansas City. Look how I is a Scottish guy in America. for the World Cup is welcome to a Texas barbecue okay sorry other barbecues but Texas takes the lead oh let's play this this video right here someone will let me come on what the hell is that alright let's try this again uh for some reason this video ain't playing so we move on Sean also gave the mac and cheese a try while on the East Coast he puts into the top of his all-time list the perfect size

the perfect side to a perfect meal his reviews American cuisine were overwhelmingly positive he is far from the only person documenting his food-based exploration Europeans try American food a German fan Freddy, we've been talking about Freddie this whole time.

Bus and Adventures in his stay in North Carolina over the last few days and it's trips to Oh, Wendy's, that's a new one. It's sad. But yeah, it looks like Yeah, there's a German guy named Freddy here for the World Cup.

As far as I could tell, his meals on Monday, where Walfa has at 1 a.m. Wendy's for lunch, Chili's for dinner. Little did he know, he just earned his citizenship. That was a secret meal combination to a lot.

So, you're going to revoke my citizenship because I haven't been to a waffle house. And, yeah, there's, yeah, he went to Wendy's, but a bunch of burgers and some fries and baked potato. God, yeah. Now we have Elsa again Recapture a visit to California

Where the Swedish team was stationed That had the World Cup We went to Coupinos and tried their Signature dish which is crab legs Clams, mussels, snapper calamari, shrimp All cooked in a red soup

Then headed to Girardelli Square And had some oysters and beer in the sun. Amazing recommendations, thank you all. So clearly, Bay Area. Arrived to San Francisco, did a tour of Alcatraz, and had a look around Trader Joe's.

Too healthy for my liking. But I did have a huge model of the Golden Gate Bridge. Any food recommendations, ideally something local family-owned. Her vlog also includes stops in Indiana, so that explains the cult's neon sign. And once again, talking about

the ranch. There have been some negatives for teams and fans that are traveling to the U.S. Some have revealed visa issues. Fuck you, Donnie. Others have

no extreme weather conditions. Once again, fuck you, Donnie. And to the decades of pumping bad stuff into the atmosphere. Beer prices are sure to be a talking point. I've heard $18

at the fan fest they're doing at Library Memorial. These fans are overlooking those drawbacks. They've enjoyed their stays. To this point, it's provided an awesome lead-up to the event. We'll go

and stop share here. And yeah, that's pretty awesome that I'm glad they're having a good time here and uh yeah they will go and end it there until next time folks hello everyone once again we are uncalled for in the summertime oh I want to take it look some races today we'll start with some friends of the podcast. So we'll start.

State legislative. I can't talk. Legislative. It says we a state legislative races. No, I don't want targets. And we'll start with California House District. A friend of the podcast, Matthew Adams. won his primary for the California House or California State Assembly, they call it,

which is firmly in Democratic control, 60 Dems, 19 Republicans, one vacancy. So 80 seats total. Wow, small in Kansas' house. We are looking at District 9. So District 9, he is running against an incumbent's Republican named Heath Flora. And let's look at that 9th district. Which I know he said it's like south of Sacramento. So, area, district nine.

I want the district maps to show you all about whereabouts this is. The internet is incredibly slow today. Come on, come on. Non-partisan primary. This is how you got there. So non-partisan primary, Matthew got 25% of the vote. Nice. but Mr. Flora got 30% to create this

All right, and there was one other Democrat, one Michael Perez who I know nothing about. So maybe, okay, here's our map. Here's our map. So we have a Sacramento at the top there. Modesto at the bottom. Stockton is right there. So Northern California area, basically this area between Sacramento and Modesto and all that.

So, yeah, good luck to Matthew on his race. But now we need to look at a state that was very heavily gerrymandered. and we're going to congressional elections because one of our co-hosts, Heather Marie, is running for Congress in Missouri. As you probably heard in the news, Missouri got heavily gerrymandered in this past election a year.

U.S. House It was house 212 Democratic 218 Republican 1 Independent for vacancies And I'm not I'm not interested in the

Senate just yet But Comments to But because our DIP Because Missouri is currently under the Total Control of Dips shit

Missouri got heavily gerrymandered, and, yeah, Missouri was heavily gerrymandered, and Kansas City is now broken up in a way that's Cleaver will not likely not get reelected. Unfortunately, a long-time mayor of Kansas City and then followed up with being a long time. Congressman out of Kansas City. We have a street named after him. And he, and this is the breakdown in Missouri. Two Democrats,

six Republicans for eight House seats and both Senate seats are Republican. So I believe it is District 4. that Heather is running in District 4 so general general elections

she's as a Republican and and the incumbent is Mark Alford I got some things to say about Mr. Alford

but if you choose to run the Democrats I hear the and if you're watching this video here the candidates on the Dem side of

the ledger as well but if you are on the Republican side oh please read us of Alford and beg Heather Shelton as your candidates said there

well I can't tell you about Heather Heather's the reason we had Samantha Salem on the podcast for fringe so I think it's safe to say she's probably not taking money from those A-PAC bastards. But, yeah, I said that is a heavily gerrymandered district now. And I hope she, I definitely hope she wins in the primary.

All for those, well, fortunate enough to not know before you ran. for Congress. He was running. He was in media. He was a TV news guy for the Fox station. Go figure. And I had a, I had the chance to work with him during my internship. I'm not pretty particularly pleased with the guy

But then again Only a doctor's convention in San Diego Will ever see that's We'll ever see the footage we shot There So So we're good And now we've got to shift over to my states

Of Kansas We have a few have a few thoughts on some of these races. So we'll talk first about the governor's race. There are three Democrats on the ballot. Ethan Gorson, Cindy Holshare and Kurt Skug. First of all, I'm surprised to see Scoob's name here because this whole time I thought it was a Republican.

apparently he switched to Democratic and time to run for mayor um mayor so uh he didn't I get my

votes uh I didn't I I vote for neither time for for uh the mayor of Ovo Park so so you know how I feel about that guy

uh Corson is a way too corporate for my... In fact, I'm going to call out Lar Kelly right now, the current governor of Kansas. Shame on you for picking sides in a primary. Yeah, I guess it's okay to pick sides, but you can't heavily endorse someone, especially if there's a primary situation.

That's the... that you're up to try and put your thumb on the on the scale of who uh can who uh people should vote for and uh frankly the party's been doing that for quite a while

all right uh it's because uh my understanding from one I'm hearing is because she has beef with Cindy and uh that ain't right So my

So logically my support is for Cindy Holcher Who by the way I first met When we're both running for I choose run for state house I ran for state senate in 16 When this tip in the scales bullshit Really started and that was the first victim But fortunately it sounds like

Cindy has a lot of Grand Swell support grassroots support rather and yeah with that that said she will give my votes

now on the Republican side there's one guy that well many of these people are unlectable so we'll start with Ty Masterson Time Masterson is the sole reason Kansas still has not legalized

not even medical marijuana is this jackass right here so I want to vote for a shout out here why is this crazy lady running

again so yeah the town governor we're not going worry too much bad because everyone has their own but we're going

scroll down don't crack him and as for why we're not seeing Lord County here she is term limited, two terms. It's going to be a close race, but keep that in mind if Masterson gets the Republican nod to that jackass,

it's the reason we do not have legal weed here. So let's look at some of these other... Who's right for Secretary of State? I'm doing a lot of searching here. Scott Morgan United Kansas Party. So I talked about the Kansas Party at one point. They merged with another part. Okay, so we have two Democrats on the balance.

Jennifer Day, who I know has held office before, and Sam Lane, who I know nothing about. Insurance commissioners and interest in one, two. And we have Dinah Sykes running for insurance commissioner. remember dinah in 2016 she was a republican when she ran in 16 and yes i did uh support and i'm never going to apologize for that all right you know the story why uh if you are a regular listener and she was running against stan hawkins fuck that guy too so yeah dinah is your choice there. Dina

of course ran in switched parties in 2018 so she's now a Democrat and has held on to the seat as a Democrat so greatly appreciates

that and actually she's someone else I would love to have on the podcast. I'm not going to push it because she's a very busy person and We're going to look at specific races for State House. The whole Senate gets reelected every four years, so we won't see any state senate races open.

Try to find the races that impact me most here in the area. But I'll stop with District 7 real quick. just uh by the way where it's pointing out it's 125 in the

uh in the uh kansas house uh the incumbent is a Republican named uh Dan Goddard and uh

let's look at that district's map um the candidate I'm going to push here her name is Taylor Morland uh

endorsed by the uh by an organization just recently paid money to call the the Social Democrats USA and here it is

that includes Chinute and Parsons and probably Coffeeville if I'm reading this correctly but It's southeastern Kansas is this district.

All right. District 8. I'll just talk about this, because this is a local district for me, and this guy's got to go. Chris Croft got to go. And this district, I think it's South O.P.

We'll take a look here at the map. And I'm sorry if this is a state. Yeah, so, like I said, the bulk of it, I think that says Switzer Road. Yeah, that's Switzer. And then to about this point, yeah, so Switzer, a little bit north of 105th and it's south of Hunter 335th. And that's Quivera Road right there, 1005th. this the apartment complex and then flum includes

the executive airport right there and then goes back over to Cuvera down that way and then down that way and then up Antioch this little neighborhood right here

I think it's an 159th yeah this is 159th right here I'm not quite sure what 163 maybe but but this is the this is the district right here

and the Democrat running in this district is a woman named Megan Phillips so consider so please consider her if you live in that district alright

some moving on 15. I'll go on point out 15 because I believe on Facebook friends with the Challenger. Allison

Hoagland. Yeah. Yeah. As in the Hoagland her district. This is Alatha and because not quite

to I think of Gardner. Yeah. It's a little east of Gardner, but includes a lot of Aletha in south there. Includes the old Great Mall side, I will tell you that right here. And I hope she does well there. So, um, all right. My good friend, my old friend, Cindy neighbor, another Republican turned Democrats, right from her election in 18, that is Shawnee area.

Stephanie Clayton, who was on a sunflower brew. Initially, another Republican turned Democrat, and her husband is a Democrat. she is run once again for religion District 19 and her district is I pray village

and parts of Leewood area my good friend Jersey Stogstill right District 21 Reed Cruson this is my district 22 Reed Cruson I do not know

Mr. Cruzen but as good to not see Lindsay Vaughn there she was never going to get my support I do not know. I do not know Reed. Hopefully he is not completely corporates, but, yeah, I will take a look at his page, but if he is corporates, I will be running against him in 28th if I find out that he's corporate as hell. Which brings me to another beef I have with the county party now. And we'll talk about it when I get to Senate races.

And the fact that they're trying to push Cindy out of there for governors that said they have clearly gone full corporates and are kicking and are discouraging people who can't raise money. That is unfortunate. and quite disgusting. And it leads credence to what I've been saying on a wrong, Republican light. Jared Owsley

is running again. Of course I'm gone. Pope Jared wins. He represents his territory immediately north of mine and includes marium

parts of johnny parts of uh... op i believe and uh... and uh... and uh... his wife is on the is an education advocate and she's on the

uh... Shime Mission School board they have at least one son who uh... plays chess and has been to our uh... tournaments

and uh... I hope he's oh we're still playing Chess and everything. And that's actually a very good family overall. His brother, I believe it's his brother, runs a gallery in the crossroads called Mod. So check that out too. Rishu, he's opposed.

My good friend, Heather Meyer, and the 29 ring. We have a stacked primary in 30. none of those Guinness 3-1 3-1 all right still looking here for

races I can comment on and I'm sorry if I'm not talking right now just laser focused on goodness a time but there are a lot of seats

unfortunately that don't have dark rats running in them that's unfortunate hopefully that changes hopefully that changes the next cycle our 83 that is clearly a Wichita seat because I see

Brandon Whipple the former mayor of Wichita is a candidate for that seats my good man Jason Probst and uh

uh The 100 seconds. And I think that's Hutchinson area. We will go ahead and take a little. See. Jason has held this seat before. There's absolutely no reason he can't try to get back now. And there is the map.

Yeah, it's Hutchinson area. So I will Yeah So 102 Hutchinson Let's re-elects Jason Probst Please

Okay 108 All right Stop right there 108 This guy belongs in prison Period All right

You heard me talk about What happens During the Primary in 16 and the volunteer who is telling people, oh, if you don't sign the petition, you can't vote. That's Brandon Woodard. He does not belong in elected office.

He belongs in fucking jail. Now, of course, he's lucky that the statute of limitations probably doesn't. Yeah, there's this smug face right there. He's lucky that. statute of limitations is passed, otherwise I would say he should be in jail. But here's his district. So this is Shine Mission Parkway, northernmost 35, this little bit right there. K-10.

Right. K-10 is right there. So we need to find people who run in this district especially. So, okay, this is college, this is Guevera right there. That's 35. That's still 35. That's 9, so 87th Street, South,

Renner, East, 75th, except for this development right here. And then all the way down, full of includes all this, and then this little bit of, Olathe, what's the black bomb? We need to find candidates to run here against this guy. He has, again, he has no business being anywhere near elected office.

All right. So someone who is running against this guy that lives in that area, preferably with the D next to their name. Because that's inexcusable. That is inexcusable. And now we can talk about the. yeah let's talking about that Senate's race so I'm going to go

Congress going back to Congress and and I'm sorry that dude really pisses me off about as much as the guy he was helping

so all right we want the United States Senate and we have 11 people running for Senate in Kansas on the Democratic side of things and a lot of them were this is the county party playing favorites for corporate interest and they're flat out telling less money to candidates we won't bother helping you out and I know how I feel

about that. Fuck them. I'll over whoever I want, whoever best fits what I'm looking

for in candidates. And I'll support whoever comes out of that primary because I want Roger Marshall to fuck out of there. Okay, so we're going in Senates, we're going

Kansas. We have a libertarian candidates and David Graham maybe he'll take some votes away from Marshall but here's your

here's our primary so Damon Anderson I know nothing about him Chrissy Davis Adam Hamilton so I'll talk about Mr. Hamilton for a little bit because his

entering the race causal buzz should I say he is the he's a pastor of a megachurch here not

from why I'm hearing quite a mainstream megachurch but megaturch nonetheless so

so yeah this megat church about the church that my old Boy Scout troop

was based out of so I don't have any strong feelings for or against him I'm just know I'm not support him in the primary Jason Hart know nothing about Kevin Lanslats sorry no nothing about

Eric Murray I'll touch on him for just a little bit as I'm part I'm now officially part of the Social Democrats who was saved they had a meeting a national level about a week ago and they decided because he joined the meeting that yeah we like you

so we'll we'll see what happens with the race but Eric you are more welcome to come on the podcast at some points Sandy Newman I know nothing about and Paral Carr that's who I'm supporting

for this race and And Anne has expressed interest in being on the podcast. So that will be well after. That won't come until well after the primary is over and done with. But as I point that out, Patrick Schmidt, I think, is a current state, either state rep or state senator, one of the two. Michael Sotertz know nothing about him.

Although that name is quite plastered around Shawnee. And Noah Taylor know nothing about him. And all these people are trying to unseat this jackass. And I think it's safe to say that he is a jackass because he is a comport himself, lessly in national media talking out of his ass. and if a Democrat does win that, see it'll be the first time in since the depression

that this state has sent a ad dem to the Senate and it's time. It's beyond time. We've got to get rid of this guy. And I'll leave it with that. That's our

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