This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Uncalled For in the Summertime Part 2

Episode Date: October 5, 2026

Part 2 of our "Uncalled For in the Summertime" audio series from summer 2026....

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This podcast, uncall for in the summertime. Sun on the porch. Truth on the line. Grab your drink, let the chaos shine. Uncall for. So, uncalled for in the summertime. Once again, there was, there were a couple of things I left out of my election thing a couple of days ago. And this is an important one.
Starting point is 00:00:59 this is the more important the two this is about an amendment on the ballots in Kansas to change the way the courts are picked now
Starting point is 00:01:16 now unfortunately we are not a state that allows direct citizen petitions otherwise we would have had a legal marijuana by now.
Starting point is 00:01:34 It offers to actually vote on stuff like this. It has come Topeka and this is what they chose to try to force upon us. And there's some very... This is about
Starting point is 00:01:53 the way the courts are selected and there's a very historical reason for that. And it is discussed in this article. This is at KCURR our NPR station in KC. How could electing the Kansas
Starting point is 00:02:14 Supreme Court affects issues like abortion and school funding? Submitted by Zach Boblitt at Kansas Public Radio. And for ever, of course, watching you see the yard sign there vote no August 4 keep our courts impartial
Starting point is 00:02:42 couldn't agree more so in August constitutional amendment votes which change from merit-based nominations to electing Kansas Supreme Court justices it would give voters the ability
Starting point is 00:03:01 to directly pick Kansas Supreme Court justices but critics say the ripple effects will be massive and they will. I'll open that because I've felt on to read that. So Kansas used to elect justices, but that changed after a 1950s scam by scheme, rather, by then Governor Fred Hall.
Starting point is 00:03:35 Now there's a statewide vote in August that would return to directing directly. electing justices for the state's highest court. Hall's scheme went like this. So the Chief Justice, William Smith, retired abruptly because of health reasons. All right. Number one, we have a justice calling it quits.
Starting point is 00:04:06 Hall then resigned as governor just 11 days before leaving office because he wasn't nominated again. Part two. Finally, Hall's Lieutenant Governor John McEwish, apologies of on Ms. Brennan's in that
Starting point is 00:04:24 appointed Hall to the Supreme Court. So, so there you go. Chief Justice steps down. Governor steps down from his job. Lieutenant Governor gets promoted
Starting point is 00:04:37 to governor and appoints former governor to the court, basically what. Sounds a little fishy to mean. Well, that's it. Nothing Hall did was illegal, but after this scandal known as the triple play,
Starting point is 00:05:06 Kansas changed its constitution away from the direct election of justices to a merit-based system where panel screens candidates. The current system includes a nine-per- panel appointed by the governor and lawyers. All judges are start up as lawyers.
Starting point is 00:05:28 They know the law. The commission is composed of five lawyers who are elected by licensed attorneys in Kansas. Again, these people know the law, and the other four are picked by the governor. When there's a vacancy in the court, this commission vets candidates that sends three finalists to the governor to pick one.
Starting point is 00:05:58 Number three. I want to read, not to read. Number three. If you've seen the Simpsons movie, you get the reference. But this Constitutional Amendment vote in August would return to directly electing justices on the Supreme Court. Conservative lawmakers and business leaders argue that change. will lead to a needed check on judicial power. Activists and former justices oppose it, opposed to it, believe direct elections will lead to partisan justices
Starting point is 00:06:44 who make legal decisions on issues like abortion access and education funding based on campaign donations, not the rule of law. and uh and uh in case you can tell by the tone of my voice I am very much
Starting point is 00:07:03 uh if it ain't broke don't fuck with it so here we are it ain't broke and they want to fuck with it so let's start with abortion rights
Starting point is 00:07:18 some critics of the change to this as they're going to yeah some critics of the change point to this as a redo of the uh... 2020
Starting point is 00:07:31 votes on constitutional abortion rights, which Kansans rejected in favor of abortion access. It seems that's the one issue Republicans run on almost consistently. When we shouldn't have abortions. We're a pro-life.
Starting point is 00:07:59 George Conlon put it best. You know, why, why is it? Most of the people who are against abortion, are people who want to want to fuck in the first place. And they're not pro-life. They're anti-woman. So, move. Great Plains present.
Starting point is 00:08:17 I'm then Great Plains, Plains, maybe. And CEO, Emily Wales, said this time the strategy is restricting abortion through how justices are selected. This is about banning abortion and restricting rights that can have demanded they keep, she said.
Starting point is 00:08:41 May conservative lawmakers in Kansas have not been happy about court rulings on abortion rights and school funding. Whale says that this is what the August 4 amendment vote is really about. The end game is but justice on the Supreme Court that are going to be in line with their political values. A 2022 Wichita Eagle article, quoted Chris Kobach. I'm ashamed to say he's associated with
Starting point is 00:09:16 Yof-KC because he taught law there before being the worst elected partisan in Kansas history as he outlined a new path to an abortion ban which begins by directly electing justices. Colbach did not response to request.
Starting point is 00:09:39 for comments. During a recent gubernatorial debate, Republican Senate President Ty Masterson, remember him, the guy who's single-handedly made all marijuana illegal in this state, says the state should have like justice is because they would better represent Kansas. Here is my response to Mr. Masterson. I'm going to support whoever gives the people of Kansas is the biggest voice of that branch. That's the problem. We have a court that does not reflect the Kansas people's values. Again, which is why we can't have nice things.
Starting point is 00:10:35 Checks and balances. James Franco is the president of the right-leaning thing to take the Kansas Policy Institute, another group that can go fuck themselves. Franco says he does not believe there's currently a check on judicial power. Whatever, dude. It was just hard for me to think that that has really proven itself to be the cause of nine unelected people on this nominee commission. This guy said, says, judges do have to face retention in elections in Kansas. These yes or no votes give voters the ability to remove justices.
Starting point is 00:11:23 Franco argues that it is not enough. I think it is, dude. He says that the law of turnout numbers of these elections do not lend themselves to a true societal check on judicial. Power, one moron. Former Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss does believe in the power of retention
Starting point is 00:11:52 elections says electing justices will bring politics and campaign funding into the court. Thus was selected for the court in 2002, by then Republican Governor Bill Graves. He served as Chief Justice for most of the 2010s before retiring in 2019. Nuss noted that his last potential vote, they received more than 600,000 yes votes, which he described as democracy in action. Nuss does not think that directly electing judges would be a positive for Kansas. I agree. He points to a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court election,
Starting point is 00:12:41 which brought millions of dollars from a donor. like Elmo and Nuss said this could lead Kansas a dark money path where donors want rulings they agree with to which I will
Starting point is 00:13:05 go ahead and Kansas already has a dark money problem on the Republican side it's called the Koch brothers or Koch Brother because the other one's dead and
Starting point is 00:13:19 Americans for prosperity. Respect my fucking prosperity, bitch. And frankly on the left, it's the education lobby. Moving on.
Starting point is 00:13:39 They expect something from their investments says enough that compromises the entirety of the court. Business decisions. Kansas Chamber of Commerce, President, and CEO,
Starting point is 00:13:57 So Eric Stafford wants to allow Kansas direct to vote for their justices. So again, another guy who can go fuck himself. Stafford specifically appointed one issue that has been hurting the state's business climates, a 2019 decision which removes state caps on non-economic damages, including pain and suffering and personal injury lawsuits. Stafford said that decision led to uncertainty in driving up insurance costs for businesses. When there is no cap, there is no certainty. It makes it more difficult.
Starting point is 00:14:42 Stafford also pointed to a 2019 state legal climate ranking that pulls business executives and corporate attorneys from the U.S. Chamber Commerce Institute for Legal Reform. It asks how fair and reasonable each state's legal liability system is in that poll by the pro-business group. Kansas ranked 32nd. In the early 2010, Kansas was consistently ranked in the top 10, the business poll. Huh. So this jackass wants to take us back to Bram Pakistan. It was not good for the average candidate.
Starting point is 00:15:34 and period. I don't care how you try to spend that. Overall, Stafford S.Y. Lawyers should help choose who they put on the nominating committee while other professions are not given that same rights. He described it as a pretty elitist attitude because the judge is not the law and so do lawyers, idiot? Stafford says that educators do not get to choose that. their own school board and CEOs do not get to choose the state's governor. Why is one profession so smart and so educated? I think you just entered your own question, jackass.
Starting point is 00:16:26 Education funding impacts. Education advocates also worry that an elected Supreme Court could undo past rulings, determining what is adequate. education funding. This includes the lawsuit that eventually resulted in schools receiving an inflammatory, inflationary, rather adjustments in funding. This adjustment requires lawmakers to pass budgets that take into account the ever-increasing school district costs of fuel, food, and salaries.
Starting point is 00:17:13 Kansas Association of School Board's Assistance, Executive Director of Advocacy and Governmental Relations, that is a long title. Leah Fleeter said this allows schools to be treated equally by lawmakers. Prices go up for public schools just as it do for businesses in the state. some lawmakers want to consider changes to this inflationary adjustment. Kansas Republican state rep Troy Waymaster, I wonder if anyone's running against him, is one of the states' lead budget riders. Waymaster says earlier this year during the budget debate
Starting point is 00:18:09 that the Gannon decision is causing large annual increases, in school funding. Next year, this body will have the opportunity to look at the school finance formula, and there needs to be some changes made. Changes could mean new lawsuits over
Starting point is 00:18:29 education funding, you idiot. This guy never made it past high school. Education advocates wonder how the courts might rule on major issues like this in the future. If it's composed of elected officials.
Starting point is 00:18:52 And that's the end of that's by doing. This is humanitiescansas.org, TV, the triple play, and the man from Dodge. By Sam Zeff, who's a local journalist here, and Matt Hodap, archive for a podcast, fountain city frequency. I want to tell you about a scandal. It's the only scandal in the history of the Kansas court system.
Starting point is 00:19:31 It's the story of an ambitious politician that tainted both the governorship and the state's highest court. The story starts on September 23rd, 1952 at the Al Capitan Theater in L.A. there Richard Nixon would deliver his famous Checkers speech at the time he had just been nominated as Dwight Eisenhower's ringmate
Starting point is 00:20:03 but the press got wind of a secret fund Nixon's supporters created for him to pay political expenses not surprisingly at churches of improprieties
Starting point is 00:20:20 surfaced followed by calls for him to resign from the tickets. Oh, so they knew 20 years beforehand he was corrupt as fuck. So Nixon did something that's never been done. He went directly to the people on television. Going straight to the people seems so easy now with YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, this podcast.
Starting point is 00:20:55 But six years ago was unheard of to go around the media around the yeah it was not heard enough to go around the media
Starting point is 00:21:04 was revolutionary I can't we can't know for sure but it's a pretty good
Starting point is 00:21:11 bets that's 36 year old dot city Republican named Fred Lee Hall
Starting point is 00:21:18 was watching the night of the Nixon speech Hall was Kansas Lieutenant
Starting point is 00:21:26 Governor Hall was ambitious but unpopular among the GOP elite in Kansas. He would go on to be elected governor but find himself on the outskirts of the party. Hall, like Nixon, would go directly to the people and would change politics and the legal system in Kansas in a way that we are still feeling right this minute. So, yeah, that's the guy. There's two things that strike people about Fred Hall. First, there's a bit of Bernie Sanders in his politics. He's way more liberal than most Republicans in Kansas at the time.
Starting point is 00:22:12 He was for pumping more money into public education in prisons, and he was pro-union. While most Republicans in the States weren't as conservative as they are now, they certainly were not pro-union. That more than anything, drive the Fred Hall story. After two terms, and by the way, in the 50s, in the 50s, it wasn't like it is today. Back then, you had liberal Republicans,
Starting point is 00:22:53 and he had conservative Democrats. In fact, yeah, there's a phenomenon called Dixie. crats. We didn't get to the we really didn't get to the setup that we have today until about a decade later in the 60s with civil rights. But
Starting point is 00:23:17 let's continue with this article. After two terms as lieutenant governor, he won the Republican nomination before governor in 1954. I'll be out with little enthusiasm from the party. It was pretty clear the GOP went
Starting point is 00:23:36 tolerate another whole term in in 1956 and that was especially true after he battled the legislature in 1956 he had a tough GOP primary and
Starting point is 00:23:51 without party backing he did what virtually no politician had done before he went on TV to speak directly to the people the first of his 30 minutes
Starting point is 00:24:07 television specials aired on January 1956. These half-hour shows aired on W-I-B-W in Topeka K-A-K-E in W-D-A-F in K-C currently the Fox
Starting point is 00:24:24 Station. And the TV shows may have added to Hull's Troubles with the party. On one show, he talked about pumping more money into prisons. He wanted to not just
Starting point is 00:24:41 incarcerate people, but try to re-ealtate them with education and psychological help. In another, he went on about how important public schools are and how Kansas not only needed more teachers, but to pay them more money. No shit.
Starting point is 00:24:59 That's still an issue today. And in all of them, he talked about the cabal of men running the and how he was elected to throw the rascals out. But nothing helps. Hall became the only sitting governor in Kansas history to lose the Republican primary. He was the lamest of lame ducks, but all wasn't done.
Starting point is 00:25:26 He had a reputation being aggressive and pugnacious, but nobody could have predicted his next move. His next move was a conspiracy that was both sleazy and genius. Fred Hall had. had no plans to move back to Dodge City as a loser as a one-time governor. He concocted the only judicial scandal in Kansas history. It even has a cool name, the Triple Play. In addition to Hall, there were two other actors in the Triple Play. First, there was the Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, William Smith,
Starting point is 00:26:07 a longtime Republican Party stalwart. Remember, Kansas was elected. selecting judges back then. How long did Smith... How long had Smith been a player in GOP politics? Remember the archiver
Starting point is 00:26:25 episode on John Brinkley the goat gland doctors would ran a writing campaign for governor in 1930? Well, many believe Brinkley might
Starting point is 00:26:41 have won head not so many ballots been disallowed. The man in charge of deciding which bounds were legal, William Smith, who was state attorney general at the time. The other player was Lieutenant Governor John McEwish. He was a newspaper man by trade. He owns the Harvey County Times in his hometown of Newton. So here's the triple play.
Starting point is 00:27:10 On December 31st, In 1956, Smith sent a letter to the Secretary of State resigning as Chief Justice. Smith was ill and wanted to resign, but being a good Republican, he didn't want to quit and lead. Let the newly Democratic Governor George Docking pick his replacement. Then on January 3rd, 1957, Hall sent a similar letter, quitting just 11 days before his term ended. Bekewish was in the hospital in Newton, and Hall dispatched a highway patrolman to bring him back to Topeka.
Starting point is 00:28:01 Bekewish was automatically elevated to governor, and he immediately appointed Hall to the state's highest court, and the triple play was done. Hall was on the Supreme Court. where he hopes to launch a future bid for governor. But Kansas wasn't used to that kind of backdoor deal, and the backlash was immediate and severe. This is what the Kansas City Times,
Starting point is 00:28:35 signed note to A1-2 Youngton, we used to have two newspapers. The Times was in the morning, and the star was in the evenings and the weekends. But the Times went away and the Star is the primary paper today. So this is one of the Casey Times had to say in January 1957, the headline was a brazen raw deal for Kansas justice. The deal was close in deepest secrecy.
Starting point is 00:29:18 this indicated the participants were fearful of public reaction and did not believe it could stand in the latter day. If all was not merely a political appointment, it was an appointment to the highest court in the state. In the 1957 session, the legislature would pass a constitutional amendment requiring justices to be chosen with a merit system. the next day the appointment passed was 70% of the votes and everyone was happy at least until a few years ago. Fred Hall had no way of knowing that the triple play would directly affect one of the hottest issues in Kansas politics today. How the state funds public education. Up until the 1990s, nobody thought much about had Kansas picked Supreme Court justices. and judges for the Court of Appeals.
Starting point is 00:30:26 Except for the triple play, there had never been a scandal. Kansas courts generally had a good reputation, but in 1992, a lawsuit known as Montoy v. Kansas was filed. Alleged the state wasn't putting enough money into the school system, and that violated Article 6 of the state constitution. The case goes to the Supreme Court. and the justices agree. Kansas lawmakers needed to find more money for schools.
Starting point is 00:31:02 The state also lost a case called Gannon. The case that is now causing conservatives in the legislation and Hare Brownback to desperately want to dump
Starting point is 00:31:19 the marriage system that was born from the triple play for all the turmoil and trouble, Fred Hall would cause his stint and on the Kansas political stage was pretty brief.
Starting point is 00:31:40 He spent just two years as the justice resigning in 1958 to make another run at the Republican nomination for governor where he was trounced by 60 points by Clyde
Starting point is 00:31:55 Jr., who spent most of his life as the editor of the Parsons son. Hall would go on to a successful career as a lawyer in California in the booming aeronautics business. He eventually returned to Dodge to practice law, but in his fairly brief political career,
Starting point is 00:32:22 he introduced television to Kansas politics and a scandal to the court system. He would be responsible for radically changed, changing the way judges are picked and for the political battle over the same thing today. Hall
Starting point is 00:32:40 died in 1970, he was only 53. And I guess this is in a podcast form already. So we won't be hearing that portion.
Starting point is 00:32:59 But yeah, if if you are listening to this and happen to be voting in Kansas, phone no on this amendment, because it's bullshit. If it ain't broke,
Starting point is 00:33:14 don't fuck with it. Here they are, it ain't broke, and they want to fuck with it. So, talk again soon. There we go, so we're once again on call for in the summertime. I am at the Union Station. I believe I'm going to even Union Station 4.
Starting point is 00:33:47 Crown Center in that skywalk. There's the skywalk looking north. It's any streetcar just left. I took... I don't know what that music is a bad. I'll show you. That's pretty cool. Very festive music.
Starting point is 00:34:19 All right. And I do not mean for this to be dominating my podcast feed. That is cool. Yeah, that is pretty cool hearing Welcome to the United States and so many languages. Yeah, that that fan fest is not happening today.
Starting point is 00:35:15 It doesn't look like it's going to pick up again for a couple days. You know, that's fine. It's been quite interesting before. The city, street cars, saying limits, saying new records, rather, for the airport, send new records as well, I've read. Hands off. And hopefully it picks up from there. We'll see.
Starting point is 00:35:49 And I've noticed it's not picking them evenly. And we're in a place, I know all too well. all too well the western which is directly connected to the mall here for those nothing familiar with the area all right we go down the stairs here and boom we're in the mall so a couple of things i would love to check out today before going into work one is that Barbecue Museum that opened on the second floor here and the other is the Hallmark visitor center itself is a believe it not I've never actually been and I saw a video yesterday it's fun and free so that's something to look into today
Starting point is 00:37:06 so question is how we get there I think I have a pretty idea how. But yeah. So I'm here, Crowd Center. And probably doing another one that's in a little bit. So yeah, Beckett's Crown Center. Now I'm on the opposite side of where I was. So let me show you.
Starting point is 00:37:43 So yeah, that's the square. The ranks over there below me is the Sealand and Legoland. Grand Boulevard. The mall's right there. and that's the weston and i'm on the other side of this bridge and i'm heading to allmark preserve center which i understand is free it gives a good it gives a good view of what to expect uh that's really cool we go this way we are technically outside now american restaurant the private event today but that's where um
Starting point is 00:38:52 That's where the Royals made their announcements for the New Ball Park, which should be very close by. So under the Lunch Land, what the F is Lunch Land? What is the visitors there at Calliast? All right, so that's the end of the office park. Right there is the Hallmark H.Q. HQ and this is where the ballpark is going to be. Oh for in the summertime, just saw if I picked up a shirt, UNKC family. And I am on the UNKC campus pick up this shirt behind me is the administrative building.
Starting point is 00:40:05 Let me show you the brown little bit. So I probably couldn't see behind all those trees, but that's the law school. But next is the block business school. That's where I spent. So that's where I had a lot of my classes when I was here. And I said that used to, when I was here, that was the Chancellor's house. Now it's brought someone to the nursing. Right here.
Starting point is 00:40:33 That's still fairly new, certainly new to me. So, yeah. This is, in fact, where I went to college. And came here. Oh, yeah, I got one of the other. alumni emails and hey we got this festival going on and everything so we need volunteers okay I'll volunteer it'll be this Saturday evening it's not too far from where I'm standing right now or walking right now so it's gonna be up the stairs
Starting point is 00:41:16 over here let me show you to up these stairs that's the old dorm to your left new word dorms over here. But yeah, up these stairs. That's not where we're going today. Going back to the car because I have one hour of parking. So we're going to go down these stairs. And I actually took the back entrance to the administrative building. Because the front entrance, that's been worked on.
Starting point is 00:41:54 All right. So this is the dorm. and they do have elevators up and down here. Those are you who need it. And I'm coming close to Oak Street. And sadly we will not see the whole campus today and that's fine. They turn that into the driveway.
Starting point is 00:42:31 Go and turn things around. So yeah, this is Oak Street. Right here. This building is a... is dorms, the Aston services here, and is where Whole Foods is. Right here, this is Pizza Fishwine's Pizza, Shep Cricket set up for some reason. And that garage is being used for, if you want to take the street car. And it's, speaking of the street car, yeah, so we've got the shops.
Starting point is 00:43:18 now to my ride including first coffee which I think I'll stop by before heading out I do want to show you one other thing in the I have the Dutch
Starting point is 00:43:36 are in town unfortunately I'm going to miss that Dutch walk because reasons now we'll pass a couple more people that street car folks over here Oh, I want to show you this.
Starting point is 00:43:57 How cool is that? That's not me talking. Those are some streetcar folks. But yeah, we got two streetcars right now. This is the UNKC stop. Two street cars ready to go to the riverfront. And I'm going to go grab a coffee before I head back home and take care of some family issues. taking my brother to his appointment, a variety.
Starting point is 00:44:46 And I'll talk again soon. Hey, everybody. So I'm called for in the summertime. Donating blood. I've been doing this pretty much on a regular basis since 2020 with the whole pandemic thing. I donate exclusively through American Red Cross. I encourage everyone if you can to donate blood.
Starting point is 00:45:31 Go to a couple people who need it. So I'm thinking about it. On the UKC campus, it is uncalled for in the summertime. Here I got my volunteer shirt on and represent West Vikings. But yeah, yeah, back at the good old alma mater. I'm actually in the student. building right now mostly to stay cool if you are in the Kansas City area come on by we're actually on campus right now and I'm seeing some folks need
Starting point is 00:46:23 a little bit of help I've been helping with for a little bit take care of that and I'll probably do another one these here shortly in the summertime we'll take a little bit of a breather I'm in the ESJ I thought I'd show you a couple things. This one's interesting. Kangis. I don't think we ever called ourselves Kangis. It's got some house with one.
Starting point is 00:47:25 So most of the stuff that's here on campus, but not everything. Cool for now. More, I'll really give it more. Post vests, you know, so I just got done a little while in KC's a family hunker fuss. I had a great time. Podcasts, podcasts at the very least. Oh yeah, I heard about that.
Starting point is 00:48:24 Yeah. And all sorts of people with similar associations to the university. He had some really good conversations with people. And if an opportunity like this happens again, I will go ahead and jump one thing. I fucking love that school. Still to this day, you know, it's hot as hell. More countries too. With to Venus and everything, Ghanaians, and that's Giddians are. I've heard positive things about the
Starting point is 00:50:37 everyone's experience here in Casey. But yeah, so it was all sorts of stuff, especially in light of donating blood with and and a shout to the gown that helps me out with the last of little bit. Lucy, shout to Lucy. Once again, uncalled for in the summertime. We have news today regarding the Royals. in their ballpark district.
Starting point is 00:53:35 So to catch everyone up on what's going on a couple months ago, the Royals announced they were indeed doing the new ballpark downtown Crown Center area.
Starting point is 00:53:51 And today this is Kansas Journal. Royals downtown at Rolls Crown Center ballpark district plan shows where the stadium would go and parking uh excuse me as soon yeah so first off we have a map shows a 90.8 acre area
Starting point is 00:54:21 the royals could reason for the ballpark district and you see it contains most of the crown center uh district so orange areas show where new construction could happen blue depicts renovations purple
Starting point is 00:54:43 to my eyes it's pink but is what it shows potential plaza spaces and green areas
Starting point is 00:54:56 could have a mix project ties now before I go to the article let's take a look at this map. So right here is Washington Square Park. And
Starting point is 00:55:13 I heard those three buildings that that we thought would be the ballpark district initially. But these will not be affected. It looks like
Starting point is 00:55:26 right here, this is the Sheraton. I won't be careful there because it is the old Hyatt building where they at that disaster back in the 80s, but that and the conference center next to it are zoned blue, meaning renovations
Starting point is 00:55:50 of some sort. Shows existing garages. So this is a garage only for the Weston. Right here, it's all underground there. And this is a garage. for what's underneath the office building currently. You see a couple more entrances here and here. So this goes into the existing garage, I believe, and this goes.
Starting point is 00:56:22 So, yeah, all right, so continue on. Area 3 in blue here, that's the Weston. That's the Western Crown Center. And the green area next to it, this is the mall. and then there goes there it goes the skywalk
Starting point is 00:56:39 over there includes the area with the Lego land and the sea life aquarium and this area
Starting point is 00:56:51 where it says area 5 this is the plaza area with you can see the tent
Starting point is 00:56:56 like stretcher there for the the skating rink and the office
Starting point is 00:57:06 tower right there and the long office building and zigzagging
Starting point is 00:57:15 there along burshing road right there and yeah here you can see the skywalks so this is the skywork to
Starting point is 00:57:26 from the Hyatt to over here and this skywalk into the mall and actually it dumps into the west and then
Starting point is 00:57:37 kind of this guy walk right here that's the going into Union Station. This is the driveway for the Weston right here. This right here is the Western loading dock.
Starting point is 00:57:57 And yeah, we'll take care of work further. These will be garage entrances. The pink area, this will be a plaza. And it's kind of a plaza right now with a skyward connecting this to the exact building to the existing Hallmark
Starting point is 00:58:16 Headquarters and you see where Hallmark stands now this is where the bulk of the ballpark is going to go this area one
Starting point is 00:58:29 right here and they have a slightly northwest's orientation or home plate so though gets so it'll be a great
Starting point is 00:58:43 view of downtown there'll be most like there'll be stretchers here and here right this one would be right where the current callioscope and visitor center are located in fact this area too right here that's the same building that the visitor center is in so that so those two attractions will unfortunately be torn down and uh move moved. So right here, this is already a driveway area right here and goes into the garage. And this is the, this one goes into the garage for the mall.
Starting point is 00:59:32 So you have those, these two areas excluded from rezoning. So I believe I've got to look there. These two spots at a map. I'm pretty sure this is apartments. And this might be apartments to. Area 10. This is an office building right here with a parking garage. And I think this might be apartments too.
Starting point is 01:00:09 Don't call me on that. Yeah, we see. Yeah, this goes into a garage and this goes behind the scene. which is excluded from rezoning right here. That is the office building that houses, Shook Hardy and Bacon. One of the more prestigious law firms here in town. Shout out to my good friend Charlie Eblen,
Starting point is 01:00:33 who is a lawyer for that firm. Area four, that is a parking garage right there. Area seven, that is the church. So, yeah, we will have. an Everton-like situation. Here are Goodison Park, specifically. Their new grounds does not have a church. It's built on top of a dock.
Starting point is 01:01:04 So their old ground has the church. And it's a new ground. Not so much. But yeah, the Royals will have a church in the corner, in one corner of their stadium grand. with, oh yeah, yeah, it's, yeah, that's going to look in, that's going to be interesting. So, yeah, this could, this will be new. I could see this being a street level.
Starting point is 01:01:33 Because it, that, so the topography here is that, Ron Gillum Road, that is the top of a hill. That is the crest of a hill. And it's a very steep down hill. It's so steep that Hallmark just built into. the hill. All right. So this is all below hill level
Starting point is 01:01:57 right here. And 27th Street, that is a bitch to get up by a car. So, so yeah,
Starting point is 01:02:08 they said that would be something and that they did say in their press conference that along the old road, they could have entrances to the stadium along here.
Starting point is 01:02:21 As long as in the Plaza area right here and all right here this right here is parking garage this is a parking garage and I think part of the overall HQ as well the area
Starting point is 01:02:39 8 portion this could be Plaza as well area 9 so this could be new buildings right here it's currently parking lot so you could have yeah have a design a walk
Starting point is 01:02:58 this is this right here at the corner that is the World War I Museum Memorial stop for the streetcar so it could go you have a walking plaza
Starting point is 01:03:10 down 27th across the way here in between these two new buildings into what will be the ballpark so yeah that is pretty cool
Starting point is 01:03:26 so But so, yeah, the sign map shows the 90-point area, acre area, the rural security zone for the ballpark district's orange new construction, blue renovations, purple or pink from my point of view, potential plants in areas, and green mix of project types, I think. Just because of where the green is located, and I'm thinking just minor upgrades and stuff to make it a look a little nicer. Not that there's anything wrong with the Crider Mall or that Plaza in the first place, because it's all good. It's all good, but it has seen better days. No, it could stand a little bit of touch up. Anything. Yeah, it's a look.
Starting point is 01:04:29 Map Beth. Oh, there is. We'll look at it later, but let's read the article. Thomas Freestad wrote it for the FTC Business Journal. dated June 29, 26th. Royals, they're going to force me to pay money for this. Okay, then.
Starting point is 01:04:58 So we will just not pay money. for this. But that's essentially what the article is saying is that this rezoning is happening. Now let's take a look at Google Maps, find out what's been, what those other parts are
Starting point is 01:05:30 being excluded. Of course, I just show my neighborhood. First, because that's where I can. No, thank you. And this site is northeast of where I'm sitting right now.
Starting point is 01:05:52 So we'll have to scroll northeast. I believe, yeah, this is Prairie Village. Golf course, golf course. And while I'm scrolling here, I might as well also remind everyone the streetcar authority is doing a fourth study, specifically in regards to
Starting point is 01:06:31 what's going on with the royals. All right. All right. I think we found. I think we have our bearings. What the hell is going on here? All right. We're going up.
Starting point is 01:06:55 We're mid-turn. So, yeah, there's looking at capacity for, they're going to be looking at capacity for a Royals ballpark. What adjustments would need to be made in everything. And actually, the World Cup is a, is a good, test for what they would need to do because they're using that World War I stop for their fan fest.
Starting point is 01:07:25 Everything. All right, so let's zoom in here. So here is Crown Center as it currently exists. So right here, yeah, these are apartments, I believe. so we have the parking garage is right here and this is the office tower right there I believe these are
Starting point is 01:07:54 I believe these are yeah the Santa Fe Place condominium is this building right here you see yeah museum of parking that's actually inside the building I don't need
Starting point is 01:08:10 apartment 402 and San Francisco Tower I think I think this is apartments as well. Yeah, condominium complex. So yeah, so the two, yeah, these two, they are housing and are exempt. So the pool right here, that is part of the Weston.
Starting point is 01:08:33 Here's your, here's the Weston. That's part of the Weston. at the whole mall right here sea life but you can see yeah here's you know let's take a look specific yeah Panera bread in the office tower
Starting point is 01:08:55 right here at the base of the office tower they have this whole office block right here all right so this exists right now so So we have This is a street going to
Starting point is 01:09:13 This and this is This is all level Visitor Center is right here Klyas Scob is right next to us This whole thing is the Hallmark HQ where Which is where the stadium is actually going on Right here this driveway is
Starting point is 01:09:33 At level with Grant Boulevard so it goes this way and I think it goes into the garage underneath all this stuff so so this is likely gone and this is likely gone right so parking garage right here's a parking lot right there and that yeah here's their great separation right here we'll have to go to the street view here's the church not going anywhere here's the
Starting point is 01:10:17 as you can yeah you can see the shadow here yeah where the street stops right there that's a glass wall currently and then right here there's more parking I think this in a building right here
Starting point is 01:10:36 these apartments aren't going anywhere, but you can see right here where they Here's the streetcar stop, World War on Museum Memorial and where they have those new buildings there is currently
Starting point is 01:10:53 parking lot And I will take you on the street view Let's go Right here, A 7th and McGee Okay, so this is what the street looks like See is massive uphill right there on the 20th. There we have apartments, but we're interested in the standing side. So you see the parking, the Hyatt's, or I'm sorry, the Sheraton right there.
Starting point is 01:11:32 There's the Shikar and Bacon Building. There's the other office building. That's 27th Street, and you see crew guys. cleaning up in the parking lot. All right. So let's continue down this way. You see a car coming in into the parking lot. This is Hallmark Employee Parking Garage.
Starting point is 01:12:08 There's a school bus there. And you can see the slats there where parking. would be okay let's go into the intersection and right here is yeah employee parking and this is what looks like this is what looks like
Starting point is 01:12:34 at the end that street more part it says dead end because it is a dead end it just goes around the parking garage this stuff that's grand so this parking
Starting point is 01:12:53 structure right here probably gone this right here this is the actual armark HQ definitely gone we continue we continue I'm going to go through
Starting point is 01:13:14 and uh yeah okay yeah so this goes into the loading docks right here we go this way a little bit it won't let me go this way
Starting point is 01:13:27 but it looks like there's park access to parking over here And this goes into Yeah, the Plaza This building right here to my left Or your left If you're watching this
Starting point is 01:13:43 That is That contains the Fissor Center And you can see the skywalk Right there And That's Yeah, yeah, it's going to be in this building But you see a loading dot
Starting point is 01:14:06 Right there and honestly doesn't take a much room in that building to be if I'm going to be completely honest with you. It's a very short tour yeah and then yeah we've got the parking
Starting point is 01:14:21 and we're now behind the Shakarian Bacon building so that parking line is pretty much going to be gone once it's simple We're going to see new buildings in these parking lots.
Starting point is 01:14:43 Right there. So let's go on the other side of the building. So we're going to go up the freaking hill. And this is a very steep hill. I'm not going to lie. Up the freaking hill. We'll stop here. This goes, yeah, this goes into that part of the building.
Starting point is 01:15:20 Right there. this is yeah the apartments over there what was this sign say this signs oh there's a sign there I just can't read it even
Starting point is 01:15:45 okay let's zoom in there still says hallmark employee parking garage they see yeah right here
Starting point is 01:16:03 a couple more loading docks right there then we're going to turn on to uh gillam which is right here at the stoplight we're going to turn north it's going to be a long hard and you see they got a bill they got part of their headquarters behind uh yeah right here we can move oh we jump ahead 26th Street. See one way. This is the church. Arlesa Saras right, this building right here. It's the church. Yeah, it says one way, but guess what? This is, we're not actually driving this. This is Google Maps.
Starting point is 01:17:01 We are going around. We have to get this church in. I may have to look at this church at some time, John. It's a big my curiosity. But yeah, right here, it's a, we are above where we were earlier and see we're very much behind to the church
Starting point is 01:17:27 here so this is a bad word home plate which will be seeing some doors right there do they give chores of there is does Homer give chores of this place kind of pointless
Starting point is 01:17:49 soon but yeah I could definitely see this whole building being gone. Yeah, we're behind the church here. And I think, yeah, this is part of the church too.
Starting point is 01:18:14 More of the church, more parking lot there. And, ooh, we get a drive-through canopy. Walmart. Was this?
Starting point is 01:18:36 Was this sign say? This, by the way, I'm Please use Revolving Door Okay Corporate Interit's Headquarters
Starting point is 01:18:48 730 to 7.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. And as far as I know, I've never been in their corporate headquarters. Don't have a reason to. Yeah. Yeah, it's mostly parking lots as well as there, as the building.
Starting point is 01:19:18 Oh wow, the building actually wraps around this part of the parking lots and we're by the church again. So we're between the HQ there. We've got the... This little fountainway there. And, oh, you can see Liberty Memorial in the back there too. all right so yeah the church isn't going anywhere but that
Starting point is 01:20:02 that building as impressive as structures it is it's going all right so back to gillam and yeah you see right here it's a hallmark corporate entrance oh was this size
Starting point is 01:20:23 no bus no bus truck traffic load limit to tons somewhere around here it splits the road yeah oh yeah down there is where the
Starting point is 01:20:45 road splits it'll continue being Gillam Road and become oak straight head but the turn here that is Pershing so more there yeah more loading
Starting point is 01:21:02 docks more loading docks More loading docks And this is Children's Mercy Over here So we've got a hospital very nearby And you see the High at the Sharton building
Starting point is 01:21:15 Right there More Loading Docks And Oh yeah, I skipped ahead Let's go over here You see it says Collidoscope and Homemark Visors Center
Starting point is 01:21:41 It'll be down this alleyway See that's the into the building and there's a skywalk right there. So let's go this way. This is also the way I don't normally try, but more willing by the tax right there. There's your skywalk. And normally why am I at my current center? It's always around that grand and Pershing and everything.
Starting point is 01:22:12 So through the hearts of the district, I don't ever actually go this way. I don't really have a reason to. be yeah this sidewalk is likely gone or does that be just another way into the ballpark
Starting point is 01:22:35 yeah I got the garage entrance right here so this whole yeah that whole garage let's take a look it says interview parking
Starting point is 01:22:55 through there go and then there's a bit of a roundabout right here and yeah you see the other side right here where the mouse is right there that's where
Starting point is 01:23:20 callioscope and the visitor center are located we got this roundabout here's a Hallmark and then there's an entrance over there's interest this over here into the main building
Starting point is 01:23:38 this will likely unfortunately this will I believe we go on here. So the purple, where you can see the purple right here. That is the visitor center. Right next to it, right here. Yeah, Callioscope Arts and Activity. Studio for children.
Starting point is 01:24:02 So that's the other office building of Tongan Bats. You see the... So this is a bit elevated from everything else. As you can see, right. right there. This is a, that's an elevated walkway right there.
Starting point is 01:24:25 It's covered. It's an elevator right there. See someone walking right there. And there's a outdoor walkway that's covered at least right here. Serves in that part. And also learns that
Starting point is 01:24:46 in between the American restaurant, which is the thing right. up here and up we have a sea life and the aquarium and the legoland the two floors up below that on this floor that is at something called lunch land and that is a space where kids can eat their sack lunch when they do trips here so that's pretty cool usually don't have a reason to be up here. Yeah, right here, this covered walkway, it says halls on top. Some guy right there. This will likely be a ballpark plaza area. And, yeah, I could see them doing such a connect up here to down there.
Starting point is 01:25:52 And it's just a... So let's go back the way. way we came and we'll continue down pershing once again shows mercy and uh there's that whole office building uh to our left now to left to left have a few entrances uh yeah right there's right there the 1400 and then on that i've never tried to get in there again i don't need to I don't have business there So we continue Of course we're going the wrong way
Starting point is 01:26:54 Right there But okay we're back We're purchasing and McGee Here's the big skywalk Connecting Front Center right there This These office towers are not connected to the skyw
Starting point is 01:27:10 But the SkyWat empties into The Hyatt I'm going to keep continue continue to go this is McGee Street goes oh wait
Starting point is 01:27:21 630 670 uh in here is parking a lot of it so shut the fuck up about parking here there's plenty of it right there
Starting point is 01:27:34 and uh yeah it used to be a weekend say you know your shit when you parked there and uh you'd need to
Starting point is 01:27:45 you would sometimes I need a, if you were there during the week, you needed a parking pass to get in, and you can get validated for two hours. Well, that's the way it is now. Right. Right. So they got rid of free parking on weekends altogether. And instead, you can just have your parking permit validated. And that validation is good for two hours.
Starting point is 01:28:18 so you get two hours for parking. However, if you pay X number, I think it's $50 at one of the shops, you can get longer. So we're at Pershing and Grand right here. That's the Weston. This is the Washington Square Park. Mr. Otto.
Starting point is 01:28:41 These two buildings are not part of the Grand Center complex as well, but they're not. You see, here's more than the link, they call it. Let's go this way and show you the underneath there. So that's more the link. Why are you not letting me go to, but trust me, this goes underneath it. There's the, okay, okay, so let's grab our dude.
Starting point is 01:29:21 going to put our dude okay all right so this is the other side of a grant so that's yeah this whole thing is likely gone
Starting point is 01:29:38 unfortunately you see where it says sea life right there so yeah here's that driveway it's on the one side I don't recall seeing the hall's sign right there
Starting point is 01:29:53 but this is the garage into the mall right here and this is the way out and then yeah you have the condominiums right there sky i don't know i get to this skywalk so maybe that's just an entire so here that's the door into uh the mall on the second floor this is all on the third floor so this is the whole halls halls over here and then we had the skywalk right there and see it yeah see the leg of land should so we go well let us go
Starting point is 01:30:31 but yeah you can see even here it's a bit it's further it's a yeah you can tell the elevation right here as well
Starting point is 01:30:44 for for this part see we have the yeah There's Scott Walker and there's the open air walkway right there. See, it says parking and you see stairs. Stairs right there. And it's to the parking right there.
Starting point is 01:31:10 Another hall sign I didn't know existed. The American restaurants, Valley parking. Ooh, there we go. So this is the plaza area. the mall is right here and there's the Weston and the
Starting point is 01:31:40 there's a sea life and the Legoland's the entrance of both is right there and yeah you can see from here yeah that that's the skating rink
Starting point is 01:31:55 and it's behind the skating rink I don't think we can I don't think I'll just look at behind the skating rink right there but so right here we have yeah that's the Panera it is hard to
Starting point is 01:32:17 but yeah you can see more stairs right you can see stairs there's a fountain right there yeah you can see stairs right there oh yeah I can see I can definitely see stairs oh no those are railings
Starting point is 01:32:37 those are railings but I'll look at the site again at some time very soon and I think a better lay of the land. But yeah, a lot of elevation that we have to deal with here for the Royal's new ballpark and all these places that are talking about. And I think it's going to do it here. So we'll call Uncall for in the summertime.
Starting point is 01:33:09 Next part. Hello, we are Uncall For in the summertime. And today it's July now. And yeah, those car troubles I had, yeah, turned out the alternator was going bad. And when they're putting a new one in a relay fused, a relay sensor exploded, just shorted. They are doing their best to find the proper replacement park, but it's taking a while. Same as last year, but a different part, hopefully not as long, but in the meantime I have to go out and about.
Starting point is 01:34:06 And I got myself a rental. It's a Mitsubishi Mirage. Those of your West guys, let's just get out of the way. Mitu Bui. Alright. So yeah, I got this till Monday. and uh well just be i usually to get to and from work and i'm not going to do anything crazy and i told the uh brown car guys i'm not doing door dash in this car so um so it drives okay i do not
Starting point is 01:34:51 i'm so used to a v6 i am not too thrilled with the lack of acceleration with this finally it takes even longer to accelerate to speed limits and anything and that's because it's a three-cylinder engine so other than that it's all right you know when the car was in the job last year for the engine I had to drive a couple of these soon so I'm Uh, yeah, it was something about you have out of this. But, uh, yeah, that's the, uh, that's what I wanted to do today. I'll call for in the summertime. All right, folks are on call for in the summertime at Rose Down Barbecue.
Starting point is 01:35:59 Um, the, uh, one place I consistently say is the, uh, best barbecue in Kansas City. Um, a couple of things, uh, before we get started with the, uh, eating portion. Yeah. So we're in KCK on the South West Boulevard. Apparently this is a thing, the barbecue trail, just like the taco trail. We got diet agnostic beverage. We have a dough protocol.
Starting point is 01:36:32 We have these are fried making cheese bites, and this is called a combo sandwich. sandwich is burnt in this one this particular one is burn ends in church day and I'm going to eat up now so all right buddy so this is uncalled for in the summertime if you are an American like me happy 4th of July celebrate our independence all that and I'll know about you but I'm I definitely concern myself a Patriots. I do not think that the right half of monopoly on patriotism. And shame on them for trying to tell us otherwise. And that gets me to today.
Starting point is 01:37:57 So yes, today is the 250th anniversary of the year. signing of the Declaration of Independence, which you would think would be a good benchmark milestone, except we have a complete dipshit running this country. And he decided it'd be a good idea to attack
Starting point is 01:38:24 people like me. For those who knew to the program, right for office a couple of times, Oh, and when I was still in high school, decided it would be a good idea to sign up for military service. Less of two weeks, but still, that's a lot more patriotic than anything this dipshit
Starting point is 01:38:55 Donnie has ever done. But, and I guess, because dipshit Don decided yeah he's going to use part of this holiday to do
Starting point is 01:39:19 exactly this so sleepless Donnie, this is Daily Beast by the line begins July 4 with bizarre with bizarre attack on Dems
Starting point is 01:39:34 hours after Mount Rushmore speech. He turns to mocking Democratic rifles online. Thomas Thor Breaking News interned
Starting point is 01:39:56 earlier today. All right. Sorry, that chest came going on. So, Dottie decided to spend the early hours of Independence Day firing off
Starting point is 01:40:25 meme-like attack. acts at Dems who threaten Republicans and upcoming elections. At 2.11 a.m., Donnie shared a. side-by-side image on truth social, comparing Georgia Senator John Ossoff to Pee Wee Harmon, the eccentric fictional character portrayed by the late comedian Paul Rubens. Seriously, dude? seriously eight minutes later at 2.19 a.m.
Starting point is 01:41:11 Inspiration struck once again with the 80-year-old dipshit uploaded another post comparing Texas State Rep James Tilerico running forward the Senate in Texas to Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Newman the image of Taliico appears
Starting point is 01:41:33 digitally altered to show I'm missing a tooth. Neither post included a caption. The late night social media barrage came just hours after Donnie delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore, where he warned
Starting point is 01:41:51 supporters of a growing communist menace in America and framed the nation's upcoming midterms as a fight for the country's future. Well, first well, A, yeah, because you and Republicans have proven
Starting point is 01:42:07 time and again, you don't know how to fucking run a country or any government for that matter. And two, stop with this communist bullshit. I wish we were communists. The closer we can get is Democratic Socialists,
Starting point is 01:42:23 which is someone like me, like Bernie. And what's this communist shit coming from? Seriously. But by the middle of the nights, the president had turned his attention to two Democrats whose political riots has increasingly threatened the Republican Party. Also, who is a sitting senator in Georgia, seeking reelection, has emerged as one of Donny's most outspoken critics.
Starting point is 01:42:59 During a June 27 rally in Savannah, the senator accused Donnie of breaking promises to Lord costs and pursuing power rather than leadership and that's a good crux of what's going on here Republicans want power but they don't know how to fucking lead
Starting point is 01:43:20 or fucking govern rather so a president who's embarked on this unmistakable project not to lead us but to rule us and no he's right
Starting point is 01:43:39 the Georgia Democrat See here's Democrat being used as a noun Whereas An adjective If you're going to use the adjective It's Democratic But here it's being used as a noun So Democrat, that's fine
Starting point is 01:44:00 Has largely brushed aside Donnie's attacks after Donnie Recently dubbed him Oss Jerk Off And Ossoff told TMC that he did not care about nicknames. What I care about is that we have a disgraced president.
Starting point is 01:44:24 You god damn right we do. Humiliated on the world stage, you got that right. Making Americans pay more for gas and groceries and health care than he and his family, while he and his family raking billions of dollars. Yeah, that is disgusting. Yeah, everything's just
Starting point is 01:44:44 too expensive now because of this guy. So he's absolutely right. Ossov holds a major lead in polling for the Georgia Senate race. He is vastly outraised Republican Representative Mike Collins with 60 million donations to Collins 4.9 mil. Tolerico, who is the challenger in this case. Actually, it's an open seat because the incumbent Cornyn lost in the primary
Starting point is 01:45:21 has also found himself a frequent target of Donnie's taunts in March. Donnie called the Texas Democrat a fraud. And falsely claimed he was vegan. Once the last time he'd been to Texas, Donnie? I'm having trouble finding anything of anyone in Texas who claims to be vegan. After all, they do inferior barbecue. So, sorry, KC. Barbecue, best, period. And how the hell is this guy a fraud?
Starting point is 01:46:07 All right. He claims to be a Christian, and from what I can tell, actually acts like one, you know? Do what's best for your fellow man. Everything. Love thy neighbor is yourself. that's what Christ taught Not this
Starting point is 01:46:31 Give me all your money And oh Support genocide Bullshit And oh let's take the book of Revelation literally Fuck that That is not Christianity
Starting point is 01:46:47 Not as Christ taught Read the red letters Moving on After Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured the Republican Senate nomination. Donnie again attacked Tolerico, called him
Starting point is 01:47:05 insulting to Jesus Christ, and comparing him, Alfred E. Newman, the same joke he recycled on independent say. Once again, Jesus taught exactly the opposite of what these evangelicals are
Starting point is 01:47:21 preaching. So I would suggest reading the Bible and reading the four gospels, Matthew Mark, Luke, John, and read the red letters. Then you can tell me how antichrist this guy is. Because, I'm sorry, love thy neighbor, and love thyself, it is easier for a camel,
Starting point is 01:47:51 Sebastian and Ivan Neal than for a rich man to enter the kingdom. Talley go rightly dismissed the attacks. people across the spectrum across the state are tired of this politics as professional wrestling said in June at MS now appearance MS now for those who haven't been paid attention that was MSNBC so yeah these old guys lathered up in their fake tan throwing corny nicknames at each other and those corny nicknames they don't lower the price of groceries
Starting point is 01:48:29 and they don't lower the price of gas. I love this graphic take back taxes. The latest polling suggests Talley Co. could make what was once considered an unwinnable race. Conservatively competitive. The New York Times
Starting point is 01:48:53 Siena College survey found him tied with Paxon to 47%. Though other Texas polls show Paxon holding a narrow edge. And we saw a couple more months at this before
Starting point is 01:49:09 we all start voting. I think, but I am sick of this idiotic notion that we're communists, first of all, we're not. The
Starting point is 01:49:29 closest anyone's going gets to being electable in this country is Democratic Socialists, which again, is people like me, people like Bernie. We believe in capitalism,
Starting point is 01:49:43 but we believe capitalism needs to be coupled with some sort of socialism, like making sure people have free access to health care, making sure people are being paid a living wage. Make sure people are able
Starting point is 01:50:01 get from point A to point B without necessarily having to rely on private transportation. Those are the things that democratic socialism are all about. Shures how they make us commonest. I'll just say that. The president should not be profiteering off his office, and that's exactly what this jackass is doing. And he certainly doesn't know shit about Christianity. For all, Jesus himself would be pissed at this guy and all the people
Starting point is 01:50:44 who preach Jesus and also preach hatred towards Muslims. and frankly non-white people and these people preaching Armageddon and I think wanting continued wars in the Middle East thinking that somehow magically Jesus is going to make a second time. I would refer you to, as seen in family, guy that falls
Starting point is 01:51:28 Jesus. He comes up to a so I think a preacher or some sort of he says, you know nothing that might work. I think that's a good explanation. And I think Donnie has done
Starting point is 01:51:44 so much damage to our country especially within the country that people care less about what he's ways to try and pull off in DC with that fair
Starting point is 01:51:59 that no one's going to and more people are worried are paying attention to the a certain wedding that happens yesterday with local ties so yes
Starting point is 01:52:11 congratulations to Travis and Taylor on getting married yesterday and I I hope they talk a little more about it when New Heights
Starting point is 01:52:25 wraps up their season this coming week. Just the time for Travis to get his ass to choose training camp. But congratulations of those two. That's again, way more public praise and press than
Starting point is 01:52:43 Donnie's fuck-ups. Yeah, it's not just that fair. It's what he's done to that reflecting pool. because the guy doesn't know shit about how pools work is about him
Starting point is 01:53:01 tearing down the entirety of the East Wing to build a ballroom that nobody asked for without congressional approval and other fuck-ups and being told no, you can't tear up everyone
Starting point is 01:53:18 indiscriminately and and you can't say birthright citizenship is a bad thing because it is in the Constitution oh by the way with the World Cup going on
Starting point is 01:53:32 a significant number of players on the American team they are birthright citizens and they got us in the Iran of 16 at this point are you going to tell them you can't represent us
Starting point is 01:53:47 because yeah fuck you all right so So, end the rants. Happy Fourth of July, everyone. And just be safe and be careful with those fireworks, folks.
Starting point is 01:54:08 So we are uncalled for in the summertime. We're part to ask in KC. I'm the only one on the streetcar right now, the driver. Happy, a big KC fringe opening day. You got my button right here. Just a count some time before. the actual pre-cues which played tonight. The outpassed freight, you can check out.
Starting point is 01:55:17 The Olympics, too, I'll be here. Such we did two years ago at fringe. A lot of those of what I'm happening today. Unfortunately, I did hear about Girl 32 closing. I'm doing great. Perfect for me for me for a good. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I love Bernie days.
Starting point is 01:55:45 They're uncalled for him in the summertime. There's this post on the Missouri. subred that I have to share with you. It's a how hated it is Stan Crocky? If you're regular listening to the podcast, you know, very. And yeah, I thought
Starting point is 01:56:44 had a little fun with this too. So Swamp Wiz is the username here. It seems like he's a local boy that has portrayed his state. No fucking shit. So as we'll just read its
Starting point is 01:57:06 read some of the good ones here and the even someone I'm involved with so Grumpy Pigeon I'm curious how hated he is in Kansas City I assume over there that he had a kid who played for
Starting point is 01:57:24 our basketball team, right? In between mouthfuls of delicious Casey barbecue. He's referring to Josh Cronkey right there. who did play for the Missouri Tigers about the San Antonio Mousin school at Yom KC.
Starting point is 01:57:52 As you probably heard me as say, previous he would have been teammates with Kareem Rush, one of the better players in the Missouri Tiger history. Mike was, I'm a rare example of Casey area resident who was a ram fan and he disgusts me. Still and still does. The original poster of Swamp was
Starting point is 01:58:21 How'd that happen? Well, it happened when I was a child and really liked ironically the L.A. Rams helmets and colors and there was a certain run back there named Eric Dickerson on the team. I was in junior
Starting point is 01:58:38 in high school when the team moved to St. Louis and they made me even more of a fan. Never really did care for the Chiefs. The major exception would be Kelsey, big fan of his podcast, and one of my coworkers was, well,
Starting point is 01:58:50 his neighbors, that would be Coach Jason, listen to his episode, please. To which you're saying, do you think Kelsey's wife is hot? To which I respond. I think Travis and Taylor
Starting point is 01:59:06 are great together, and the music's pretty good. As attractive as Taylor is, she has way too many, sports related negas for me to have considered it specifically her fandom of those goddamn necks and the fact she owns KU chicken-hawk merch now we got we got that Como 369 who's a moderator in this form folks it's spelled the name but okay Stan Cronkey is a public figure our role about personal attacks applies to
Starting point is 01:59:50 Your intent against other Redditors, public figures like politicians, celebrities, and a billionaire sports magnets are fair game. So whoever reported all those comments, your outlook, probably some L.A. idiot. Very, extremely, a lot, thoroughly, in totality, profusely, extremely, just a tad. if I just had you mean with the intensity of a million sons superlatively just a tad in its audacious sarcastic
Starting point is 02:00:34 form it's going to force me to uh mucho I see full discussion mooch so yeah fuck stand crocky
Starting point is 02:01:09 all my always hate Stan Cronky. Dead to me. Scrawled for this. Yeah, fuck him. Let's see. Moves in the NFL team. Stoli have greed.
Starting point is 02:01:23 Tortures the city on the way at the door. Hides behind his lawyers and lackeys. He might be the most universally hated local product ever. Also doesn't contribute shit to Missouri. Uh, athletics. He doesn't have any sons warming the bench anymore, so that attracts to which I reply. Well, that son now plays the Kevin Demoff role to Arsenal fans and Denver fans, especially Arsenal fans from our discussion of the Kaki-out episode.
Starting point is 02:02:03 He specifically named after Josh Krakke. and then to be fair that was the page arena a different different air to the Walmart fortune
Starting point is 02:02:17 a different billion out of marriage in that family so the added kicker was dragging hope and putting the taxpayers in the city over barrel
Starting point is 02:02:33 to embarrass themselves to beg for the team to stay I think had he in the NFL been less manipulative in the move, things would be different. This is why I keep saying when they say the Rams were lied to St. Louis. That's what at their time about. Anyway, good riddance to both of them, though, we'll be glad to see the NFL. Totally out of Missouri, eventually.
Starting point is 02:03:05 Even the chiefs were still sort of kind of. be here, by which I mean the eventual move to Wyndy County. The hunts can get fucked too, but to a less extent than Cronkey. I wish support for the chiefs would collapse after the move, but people happily don't
Starting point is 02:03:31 chiefs gear shortly after Cronkey's antics, so I don't have much faith in people telling the league or owners to go fuck themselves. too much of my reply was yeah peacock and blitz that'd be Dave Peacock and Bobblitz the guys tasked with putting together that
Starting point is 02:03:53 stadium playing that never got them because of NFL interference they did what they needed to do which was what was asked of them by the league to have that referendum standing ready to go hence the lawsuit
Starting point is 02:04:10 and hence 719 million dollar settlements and this guy not a fan Provelle cheese but didn't move the team uh personally I like Provelle
Starting point is 02:04:24 in fact there's a container Prevelle in our fridge right now here's a list of positive things I can say and that's it you've got to list them seems like they cover them all
Starting point is 02:04:44 and then the Greg Simpson's me Dr. Jock This one's good The Cubs are more popular than Stan Crocky in St. Louis. Pitch Black Bones
Starting point is 02:05:07 He's a bastard in Columbia for sure. This one's good. Don't know if that goes back pre-1989 but we all hated Cronkey at Missouri when I was there. Fuck him. and yes he is headed worldwide
Starting point is 02:05:30 you know Arsenal fans hit FSC genital herpes have higher approval ratings and I like this one you must be new here
Starting point is 02:05:45 yeah a man named after Stan Musil completely trashed St. Louis on the way out yeah he's the worst and Ineslaught are disgraceful reminder the man's full name is Enis
Starting point is 02:06:03 Stanley Crocky We spit on the ground Every time his name gets mentioned Okay Okay this is good Hated heavily and will be forever You're talking about a guy born in Missouri
Starting point is 02:06:29 Who was literally named after Sandless Cardinal players Yet he still took control the Rams And moved him to L.A. to enrich himself even further He also spat on St. Louis on his way out Now he Now he's already suing LA for 400 million And stated that
Starting point is 02:06:48 If it's not paid It questions the strength of his business in LA He's only been there 10 years and already On his BS It's not even mentioned other morally questionable things He has done To which I will once again say That team has no business being in Los Angeles
Starting point is 02:07:11 periods. They left for a reason. And if you have to be a person in L.A., go fuck yourself. Don't even bother commenting on this as you will be blocked. If he comes back, well, Missouri, welcome back with open the arms. Crocky and the Rams, no way. He is not a trustworthy person. Wound is too deep. I welcome another NFL team or a new NFL team in a heartbeat. No NFL is a big hole in St. Louis, and people hear football. I'm still not offwork, to which I'll say.
Starting point is 02:07:56 Two things. One, it needs to be an expansion team. The Cardinals were relocated to St. Louis from Chicago. The Rams from Cleveland, by way. of L.A. That's another thing I'm sick of hearing from those people. They're just going on.
Starting point is 02:08:21 Well, home will be Cleveland. And I made a comment about because the original poster said, well, what about Jacksonville? Shot Khan, who ironically tried to buy the Rams in St. Louis. Has strong business sites of London. He owns another London
Starting point is 02:08:50 football club, Fulham. and toyed with buying a Wembley the National Stadium Brian take no of this think of the person you hate the most
Starting point is 02:09:11 then multiply that by 10 billion that's how much I hate Stan Crocky yeah hated it enough that will deem it a statewide holiday when he croaks I'm a case he native and I hand too. Thank you for service. Thanks to Stan and the collusion of the NFL owners in screwing St. Louis, I became someone who only watches the Super Bowl. It convinced me that
Starting point is 02:09:48 they truly allow players to get abused and laugh all the way to the bank. It looks like a slimy villain from a B-movie. He is scum. took the Rams from St. Louis, helped move the Chiefs at Missouri. I don't know how much she had to do with that. Things since Clark Hunt's played a role in the Rams also. What, the Rams are in Kansas now? They will be soon. My comments on that, yeah, they'll be in, they will be moving out in about four or five years.
Starting point is 02:10:44 again the New York team is playing in New Jersey is your comparison by the way Clark Hunts was on that
Starting point is 02:10:56 LA committee was the only owner on that committee to vote against Carson which for those who need a reminder was a joint
Starting point is 02:11:04 stamp venture for the Chargers and Raiders that ultimately served as the blueprint for the Raiders stadium in Vegas over Stan's
Starting point is 02:11:14 Englewood abomination and yes it is an abomination fuck stand cronkey fuck and walton cronkey fuck nancy walton lorry and fuck bill lorry so
Starting point is 02:11:33 foreign attorney one four seven I'll tell you a cronkey story this was before the whole ram's thing it just shows you what he always was there's a strip mall at the corner of Broadway
Starting point is 02:11:47 and profanence in Columbia on the western edge of downtown. In the 90s, it was anchored by an office depot and an Osco drug. There was nothing wrong with Osco. It's just not CVS or Walgreens. I think Osco got bought up by CVS, actually. Crocky decided one day he wanted Osco gone. He either owned the outlaw or bought it.
Starting point is 02:12:19 and signed the lease with Walgreens, but the out lot wasn't vacant. There was a historic diner on that spot. The owner of the diner somehow raised the money to pick up the diner and move about a block away. So that's why something called Broadway Diner is at Fourth and Cherry, not Broadway. It was bad in closing,
Starting point is 02:12:46 but completely unnecessarily. The diner is still in business. Osco, a license, bought that by CVS, but this particular location close within a few months since having a major
Starting point is 02:13:03 competitor shared the same parking lot usually decreases traffic. The former site of Osco sat empty for years as now wheat dispensary. What's Cronky has against
Starting point is 02:13:18 Osco remains mystery, but swapping Osco for Walgreens did nothing to make Columbia any better. Neither did forcing a beloved retro-looking diner to move to a more secluded intersection.
Starting point is 02:13:39 Oh my God, that motherfucker destroyed the Broadway diner. Fuck that piece of shit even more than I already hated him. The Asco is where Snooks is now, by the way, screw that guy. Well, wasn't
Starting point is 02:13:56 Osco bought up by CVS or something? But it did make more money for Cronky and that's all he cares about. Yes, the money almost certainly was the Movane factor in the end. It's easy to hate the largest private landowner
Starting point is 02:14:18 in the U.S. It's even easier to hate the guy. After all the despair, he put his home state through. Rams overpriced real estate and gives little to nothing back to the community and his family
Starting point is 02:14:33 called home for decades at least the Robert Barrens built museums and libraries Sickburn Look I were against the avalanche because Crocky owns him too Okay with the exception of the Rockies Every team in Denver
Starting point is 02:14:52 is now owned by either Cronkey or a member of his family and that includes Denver Broncos from Broncos who actually owned by another branch of
Starting point is 02:15:03 the Walton family who edit I looked him up yeah fuck that guy column lab 66 he owns
Starting point is 02:15:19 THF Realty which owns a lot property in the States that strip malls sip on the strip mall stores pay rent to THF
Starting point is 02:15:29 so while we talk about how much we hate him. We're still paying him every time we shop in one of those stores. In Columbia, it's hard to get away from THF and T-K-G. He owns most of the major
Starting point is 02:15:47 shopping areas in town. And as a... Which brings me to... I'm pretty sure they own properties here. So we'll look that up. T-H-F properties. in Kansas City area. THF does not have a
Starting point is 02:16:19 large active portfolio and retail or property properties. Okay, directly inside the KC Kansas or KC, Missouri metropolitan area, however there. Okay.
Starting point is 02:16:43 So, good to know, we are mostly safe from that bastard. I plan on urinating on this tubes. while making this face. That is the that is the Brian Kruppen
Starting point is 02:17:06 ad from right up which I believe was the Super Bowl ad which I will go ahead find right now just because it's legal doesn't mean it's right
Starting point is 02:17:48 that's not the one. Here it is. Here is. Okay, well do this. We were loyal to our football team. We bought their tickets, wore their jerseys, drank their overpriced beer. We cheered them year after losing
Starting point is 02:18:35 year. And in return, they trashed us, then left us. Stand. You're worth $8 billion. That's not enough? Well, here's some free advice. Just because it's legal and you're rich enough to do it, that doesn't make it right.
Starting point is 02:18:56 Goddain right? That doesn't make it right. Yeah, it's fucks and cranky, fucks me. You're not for a rat here, are you? He is a piece of shit named after two Cardinals Legends, Stan Mutual, and
Starting point is 02:19:21 the Slaunner. He could have helped build up St. Louis, but he decided to crap all over the city and pack up his toys and go home. The St. Louis Rams were major leads into moving back to L.A.
Starting point is 02:19:38 To which I'll point out, the L.A. idiots like to point out that that movie was a critique. of Georgia Frontier Once again Georgia moved the team
Starting point is 02:19:52 because A, San Luis was her home and B y'all weren't showing up to games so shut the fuck up you're still not showing up to games so shut the fuck up
Starting point is 02:20:05 ironically it was the Cleveland Indians and was the framing device for that movie because the team was originally from Cleveland The Cronky Group is one of the most vile institutions we have in Missouri. Being Missouri, he has very stiff competition. He is the only person whose effigy I would burn. Even Frank Cusamano can't tell a story about Cronkey without mentioning we all hate him.
Starting point is 02:20:41 Fuck San Cronky. I'm going to shop. This is funny. I'm going to shoplift a role of Charmin. from Walmart and take a big hangover shit on his grave before the grass grows over it someday. I'll leave the dirty wads and newspaper there for someone else to clean up like they deserve to. Fuck, stay and Kronky, I invite you to do the same after me. Enough for Ted Croupin to pay out the pockets for ads in the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 02:21:20 and we just heard that. And I lease commercial space from him. This is icy curve 5979. At least commercial space from him. It's as horrible as you might guess. Impossible to get repairs.
Starting point is 02:21:38 No common area maintenance. Unpredictable fee structure. Difficult staff to work with. Huge mistake on my part, but he owns the majority of commercial. property in Columbia. Hated more than a thousand Chicago Cuffs.
Starting point is 02:21:56 Yes. Fuck stand Krocky. Lazy Pascretzky. I am trying to lose weight and get healthier so I can live long enough to fly out to L.A. and chance Kronky sucks. Turn the most silence tells before
Starting point is 02:22:15 the first professional liar home game after he passes away. Also, so I can be around to see my son grow up, but the cronky thing as well. To a try to play, cronky sex is too tame. So you're out of our fans. It's too tame. Here's a good one from our friends at Arsenal Football Club.
Starting point is 02:22:40 Get out of... No, this I guess. Yeah. Get out of our club. Get out of our club. Fuck off, Stan Cronkey, get out of our club Get out of our club Get out of our club
Starting point is 02:23:03 Fuck off, Stan Cronkey, Get out of our club Get out of our club And Cronky out Here, okay, here it is here Yeah Fuck off, Stan Cronky, get out of our club
Starting point is 02:23:49 he's still in court trying to buy Rams Park for a dollar that's a weird work and that's a least that they like to harp about my mom always
Starting point is 02:24:05 taught me and never to trust Missouri men whose last name starts with a K and ends with a knee and not currently reading this comment. Fuck Stan Cronky, his entire
Starting point is 02:24:20 bloodline, the drone that's reporting people for talking bad about him on this post. I believe the moderator said it was okay. It links to the sub right at Fuck St. Cronkey, which is how
Starting point is 02:24:39 the Cronky episode Can't be. Fucking fuck stand Crocky side of Missouri. Not a fan of any of his teams, but I wouldn't urinate on him if he went on fire. So much to the point that
Starting point is 02:24:53 even here in KC are more likely to meet a Broncos fan than Kronky. They hate him in England as well. Yes, they do, especially the club he owns, which would be personal. Waiting for him to go teats up so I can step into Walmart again. Won't be sad.
Starting point is 02:25:14 Yeah, I haven't chopped at Walmart since the since he had lighten the show me it depends the community a lot the politicians he buys they love him um
Starting point is 02:25:31 I oh this is a good one okay comments 8409 I trick or treated at his house one year he gave me a power bar no kid wants a power bar for Halloween
Starting point is 02:25:45 I will never forgive you for this stand I hate you so much he's actually quite shocked. I made it to his door. He was completely and prepared. He probably realized he forgot to close his gates. When he saw him, he asked him for candy.
Starting point is 02:26:01 He was nice enough to rummish through his kitchen and try to come up with something. Not enough. And then my first kind of, yeah, very especially among four Ramsans, he's equally him on Arsenal fans
Starting point is 02:26:19 and Hayden and Denver and we have the two Crocky app episodes right there. World-class dickhead and the references that retirement committee he evicted from
Starting point is 02:26:36 his ranch which once again the guy committed suicide and blame staying in the suicide liar. I barely even care and still hate his guts. I see a picture of St. Crokey with a giant marijuana plant when he was I'm assuming he meant younger.
Starting point is 02:26:59 probably nearly universally unless someone doesn't know who he is let's just say the cubs are more alike than him satan gets an invite before stand he's right down in the sewer with karl icon if he was choking i would not perform the hymling maneuver neither would i i hate that he is named for he is slaterstein mussel yes Enis Stanley Cronky is the skin mark of St. Louis. He's a Sodomist. Sodomist is misspelled. As in missing the O,
Starting point is 02:27:57 the alternate word would be Sodomite. Our governor has taken his place in my mind. Kehoe has not done a good job, I don't think, but he's certainly not more evil than Stan. I think the only
Starting point is 02:28:15 politician that's the only politicians that could be more evil, Hardini, Dumbuck, and Hair, Brownback. Not enough, and still more than our terrible politicians are written in the state. I think it might be fair to say that if there was a video of him dying, a horrible, painful death, at least two or three in here, would probably crank it to that video more than. once, L.O.L. And hopefully it takes to get him down with him.
Starting point is 02:28:57 On a scale of 1 to 10, where one is most favorite son and 10 is Thanos incarnates. I rate him in 73. I used to hand an opinion. He relates with money, not
Starting point is 02:29:19 people's sad life. I used to hate him. I still do. If he was drowning, I would not lend me in. Oh, this is good one. Before they demolished and rebuilt the bridge over the Missouri River near Chesterfield on westbound 40, probably 1516, the construction crew hung a banner on it that said Stan Crocky Memorial Bridge and then blew it up. I'm laughing my ass off. It's been a decade and there's still an
Starting point is 02:29:52 all-timer for me as someone who grew up in Columbia, then moved to St. Louis. He's a statewide menace. The hate is not measurable is not measurable. It's off to scale. And that goes back to the initial thing. Not as much as you should be.
Starting point is 02:30:19 He's done so much. Blah, blah, blah. Why do you think? You mean you mean stink? How could you possibly still be a Rams fan at this point?
Starting point is 02:30:36 The only dinner is one of a Super World that's Yeah, I maintain the NFL Fixed that particular Super Bowl because it was right through the settlement and Cronky was on the hook for most of that
Starting point is 02:30:48 Selman. Do or did you watch every Cardinals game after the move? No, no NFL tickets, game day. So I became a Chiefs fan. Why? We almost all the games locally. Then the Rams got here in
Starting point is 02:31:07 95. So that's a card's move St. Louis became home territory for the chiefs? F. involved the way, baby. So much. So much. Flames.
Starting point is 02:31:23 On the side of my face. Oh, well. Well, the entire San Missouri hates his guts. So that's a good start. Oh, yeah, I blocked this idiot for being an idiot. We're not going to do the...
Starting point is 02:31:46 I believe he brought up the whole myth. Oh, San Luis is just a baseball town. Fuck him. Great business boo, but we're misleading and people who are taking it personally. People hate liars and he was a liar.
Starting point is 02:32:03 He took away something I deeply cared about. Does LA deserve a football team? Yes, but now they have two. Spread the wealth. They deserve nothing. L.A. couldn't care less about pro football.
Starting point is 02:32:17 They certainly don't care. anywhere near the level per capita and a lot of other places. Interestingly, the Raiders were big with the Latinos were in SoCal and NorCal.
Starting point is 02:32:32 And once again, the Chargers actually did a better job of following those NFL relocation rules. Not to mention they were actually born in L.A. Stan, definitely not, and that's why San Luis was able to get that settlement.
Starting point is 02:32:50 So fuck Stan Cronky. and it's a good time to close this edition of Uncall For in the summertime This podcast is Uncalled For In the Summertime Is posted, produced and edited by myself
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