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Mit dem früheren Berufspolitiker Kevin Kühnert schaut Yasmine M'Barek auf seine Karriere zurück. Und sie diskutieren, ob unser politisches System reformiert werden kann. Klima, Migration, Pandemien und autokratische Herrscher, die die internationale Ordnung infrage stellen. Sind die westlichen Demokratien wie Deutschland noch dafür gewappnet, den globalen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart zu begegnen? Kevin Kühnert ist skeptisch, dass Politiker, die alle vier Jahre für ihr innenpolitisches Programm geradestehen müssen, das leisten können.  "Ich glaube, es ist vielleicht auch der Punkt verpasst worden, dass das mal jemand gegenüber der Bevölkerung so feststellt", sagt er. "Ich habe ein bisschen die Befürchtung, dass ich Teil einer Generation gewesen bin, die Politik in vergleichsweise gemütlichen Zeiten gelernt hat und die heute Politik cosplayt zum Teil." Fragen, Kritik oder Anregungen? Schreiben Sie uns an: ehrlichjetzt@zeit.de. [ANZEIGE] Mehr über die Angebote unserer Werbepartnerinnen und -partner finden Sie HIER. [ANZEIGE] Mehr hören? Dann testen Sie unser Podcast-Abo mit Zugriff auf alle Dokupodcasts und unser Podcast-Archiv. Jetzt 4 Wochen kostenlos testen. Und falls Sie uns nicht nur hören, sondern auch lesen möchten, testen Sie jetzt 4 Wochen kostenlos DIE ZEIT. Hier geht's zum Angebot. 

Die Themen: Limitiertes "Edding"-Parfum sorgt für Furore; Kennedy Center Honors; „Decolonizing Christmas“ mit Förderung vom Senat; Kevin Kühnert tritt neuen Job an; Rentenreform; Die besten Romane des Jahres 2025, laut Anthony Jeselnik; Abschied von MTV; Britischer Fotograf Martin Parr mit 73 Jahren gestorben; Traditionscafé in NRW-Innenstadt schließt nach 40 Jahren. Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/ApokalypseundFilterkaffee

Die Themen: Nicolas Sarkozy schreibt Buch über Gefängnisaufenthalt; Kevin Kühnert bekommt einen neuen Job als Gegengewicht zur Finanzlobby; die EU beschließt russische Vermögenswerte weiterhin einzufrieren; Brüssel will das Verbrenner-Aus für 2035 doch wieder aufweichen; das ifo-Institut dämpft Hoffnungen auf einen Aufschwung und erwartet nur Mini-Wachstum und Peter Huth zeichnet in seinem Roman „Aufsteiger“ ein düsteres Bild der Medienbranche Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/ApokalypseundFilterkaffee

Im Oktober 2024 verkündete Kevin Kühnert (SPD) überraschend seinen Rückzug aus der Politik. Im Jahr darauf wandert er 1000 km von Wien nach Bregenz - ein Neuanfang fern der Politik, über den er mit Bergfreundin Toni spricht.

Die SPD muss immer wieder Verluste einstecken. Zuletzt erreichte sie bei den Kommunalwahlen in NRW ihr historisch schlechtestes Wahlergebnis in diesem Bundesland. Bei der vergangenen Bundestagswahl verlor sie zudem bei fast allen Kompetenzzuschreibungen, auch bei ihren Kernthemen: Soziale Gerechtigkeit, Altersversorgung, Steuer- und Finanzpolitik. Im Oktober hat sich die SPD mit der Union auf Verschärfungen beim Bürgergeld geeinigt, dabei galt gerade das Bürgergeld zu Zeiten der Ampel als großer SPD-Erfolg. Weiß die SPD noch, wer sie ist? Und wenn ja, warum kommt es bei den Wählerinnen und Wählern nicht an? Das möchte Anne Will in dieser Folge von Tim Klüssendorf, dem Generalsekretär der SPD, wissen. Er hat ein klares Bild von der SPD: Kümmererpartei soll sie wieder sein, ein Aufstiegsversprechen und eine positive Zukunftserzählung liefern. Er glaubt daran, dass die Sozialdemokratie den Kampf gegen Rechtspopulisten gewinnen kann. „Man kann Dinge wirklich verändern“, davon ist Tim Klüssendorf überzeugt. Als Generalsekretär hat Tim Klüssendorf eine Doppelrolle: Er organisiert die Partei, leitet das Willy-Brandt-Haus, bereitet Wahlkämpfe vor. Er muss die Politik seiner Partei aber auch nach außen vertreten. Kevin Kühnert, der von 2021 bis 2024 Generalsekretär war, fühlte sich am Ende seiner Zeit auf dem Posten nicht mehr wirksam und hatte keine Kraft mehr für den Job. Wie Tim Klüssendorf auf Kühnerts Erfahrungen blickt und woran er seine Wirksamkeit festmacht, auch darüber sprechen Anne Will und er in dieser Folge. Redaktionsschluss für diese Folge war der 4.11.2025, 17:30 Uhr.

Die Themen: Der neue Rocky Film; Die „Ick“ Abtörner; Kevin Kühnert schreibt jetzt für den Rolling Stone; 40 Jahre Schwarzwaldklinik; Goodbye MTV; die neue Haftbefehl Doku; Die Zukunft der Popkritik; Das Phänomen der Biopics Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/ApokalypseundFilterkaffee

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Hazel und Thomas gehen mal wieder zum Lachen und Sprechen in ihren (eigenen, fast fertig renovierten!) Keller. 00:00:00 Karriere-Steps, Krankheiten & Köln 00:10:45 Pudding mit Gabeln & Geschwister 00:20:12 Amerika, Harvard & Privatflugzeug 00:30:52 Wiesn-Erfahrungen 00:38:10 Jimmy Kimmel & Charlie Kirk 00:49:55 Nura vs. Böhmermann 01:02:24 Riyadh Comedy Festival & Empfehlungen Zeitstempel können variieren. HTH Podcast Show mit Josef Hader in Zürich https://kaufleuten.ch Josef Hader Stefan Zweig Film https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vor_der_Morgenröte Tag24 Sächsischer Horrorfilmer dreht mit Hazel Brugger http://bit.ly/42ZJpmf Hazel interviewt für Heute Show jmd aus Zwickau https://youtu.be/SHyxzHuMvFc?si=JZdXc_W3Cf5aOi3o Nein Marius Kanal mit Popkultur-Analysen https://www.youtube.com/@neinmarius Easy Apotheke https://dieburg.easyapotheken.de Young Thug Computer Meme https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/158815614/young-thug-computer Notschlafstelle für Studierende http://bit.ly/3WkvnrB Anne Will und Kevin Kühnert (mit Hazel) in Köln http://bit.ly/46BlZG3 Trend Pudding mit Gabel essen http://bit.ly/4pTuynj Paul Bocuse https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bocuse Keine 2 Geschwister gleiche Kindheit https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNRLiUhixek/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Aktueller Arbeitsplatz von Brooks Casas https://fbri.vtc.vt.edu/people-directory/primary-faculty/casas.html Das Lederhosen Kartell https://das-lederhosen-kartell.podigee.io Die Ökonomie hinter Stephen Colberts Cancellation https://youtu.be/BKCAXQTQSMk?si=R7vrJymO5uP6IUyR Hintergründe zu Jimmy Kimmels Cancellation (schlechter Video-Titel) http://bit.ly/4nxcduz FCC USA https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission Trump droht Chicago mit Militär https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/trump-chicago-militaer-100.html Trump nach Mord an Charlie Kirk https://www.lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/usa-trump-antifa-charlie-kirk-attentat-radikale-linke El Hotzos Tweet über Trump und Konsequenzen http://bit.ly/3KTc1aw 3 Quellen zu absurden Takes von Charlie Kirk zu den Themen.. 1. Waffengewalt https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/charlie-kirk-assassination-gun-violence-to-china-virus-look-at-charlie-kirks-controversial-takes-9256666?utm_source=chatgpt.com 2. Misstrauen gegenüber Schwarzen Piloten und „Civil Rights Act“ als „Riesenfehler“ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/22/charlie-kirk-black-christians/?utm_source=chatgpt.com 3. Steinigung von Schwulen und Transbewegung Grund für Inflation (?) https://www.advocate.com/politics/charlie-kirk-anti-lgbtq-quotes?utm_source=chatgpt.com Turning Point USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA JK Rowlings Kritik an Emma Watson https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/j-k-rowling-ueber-emma-watson-sie-weiss-nicht-mal-wie-ignorant-sie-ist-accg-110710284.html Nura vs Böhmermann https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/panorama/berliner-rapperin-nura-wirft-jan-boehmermann-und-olli-schulz-doppelmoral-vor-li.2360013 Terrorangriff der Hamas der Israel 2023 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorangriff_der_Hamas_auf_Israel_2023 Riyadh Comedy Festival https://youtu.be/hw6Frd0NcdA?si=cjjTYdsJLXuq7MVF Shahaks Reel zum Thema Riyadh https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPO9beAjDlY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Thomas empfiehlt die Filme „Flow“, „The Shawshank Redemption“, „One Battle After Another“ Peacemaker Intro https://youtu.be/_mrr3UNALww?si=RKacPwatqmVUnwds Hästens Bett https://www.hastens.com/de/bet Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/hoererlebnis Du möchtest Werbung in diesem Podcast schalten? Dann erfahre hier mehr über die Werbemöglichkeiten bei Seven.One Audio: https://www.seven.one/portfolio/sevenone-audio

Wir sind live! Die erste Ausgabe von „Politik mit Anne Will“ vor Publikum in Köln – und das ist etwas ganz Besonderes für uns. Zu Gast sind die Komikerin Hazel Brugger und der ehemalige SPD-Generalsekretär Kevin Kühnert. Mit den beiden Ausnahmetalenten diskutiert Anne Will die Frage, ab wann Politik eigentlich keinen Spaß mehr macht – und woran das liegt? Was kann Comedy in einem verhärteten Diskurs ausrichten? Und was tut man, wenn man keine Kraft mehr hat für die eigene Arbeit? Wir blicken zurück zu Kevin Kühnerts Anfängen bei den Jusos und erfahren, warum das eigentlich seine beste Zeit in der Politik war. Außerdem hören wir, wie Hazel ihr Praktikum bei der SPD gefallen hat und warum sie froh war, als es dann wieder vorbei war. Und die beiden sprechen mit Anne Will über persönliche Grenzen, wann der Spaß aufhört und wie man nach Tiefpunkten weitermacht. Zum Schluss gibt es Fragen aus dem Publikum. Redaktionsschluss für diese Folge war der 01.10.2025, 19 Uhr.

Angst zu scheitern, Angst Erwartungen anderer nicht zu erfüllen, Angst Verantwortung nicht angemessen tragen zu können. Die Beispiele die Michael Roth nennt, kennt er aus eigener Erfahrung sehr gut. Fast sein halbes Leben lang war er Berufspolitiker, unter anderem als Außenpolitiker der SPD, zuletzt als Vorsitzender des Auswärtigen Ausschusses im Bundestag. Jetzt hat er ein Buch veröffentlicht - "Zonen der Angst". Im Gespräch mit SWR Kultur plädiert er dafür, mehr Gefühle in der Politik zuzulassen: „Die Zeiten sind so kompliziert und so komplex, dass wir alleine mit Sachargumenten Menschen nicht mehr erreichen. Und wenn wir das Emotionale nationalistischen, populistischen, bösen Kräften überlassen, die mehr auf Hass und Lüge setzen als auf Wahrhaftigkeit und auf Respekt, dann haben wir als liberale Demokratie verloren.“ Angst dürfe kein Dauerzustand werden, sondern müsse überwunden werden, so Roth mit Bezug auf das Ausscheiden von Ex-SPD Generalsekretär Kevin Kühnert. „(…) Deshalb ist es wichtig, dass wir nicht nur den Lauten und den Wütenden und den Zornigen den politischen Raum überlassen, sondern dass auch die Sensiblen weiter an Bord bleiben.“ Hierfür appelliert er gegenüber Politker*innen für eine Kultur „der Nachsicht und des Verzeihens“. In Bezug auf Ängste die Russlands Präsident Putin bewusst schüre erwidert Roth: „Die einzige Sprache, die solche Typen verstehen, ist die Sprache der Stärke. Nicht frech werden, aber stark sein, wehrhaft sein.“

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Hallo, ich bin Ariana Baborie und das ist trotzdem Deutschland3000 – ein Podcast von N-JOY. Hier verbringt Eva eigentlich jeden 2. Mittwoch so ne gute Stunde mit Menschen aus ganz verschiedenen Bereichen, irgendwo zwischen Pop und Politik. Ihr Ziel ist es, diesen Leuten so zu begegnen, wie ihr sie vorher noch nie gehört habt. Deutschland3000 soll euch, mich und meine Gäste und auch Eva auf neue Gedanken bringen. Weil man, wenn man jemand anderes kennenlernt, auch immer ein bisschen was Neues über sich selbst erfährt. Heute ist es ein bisschen anders,wie ihr schon hört, denn wir feiern heute die 150. Folge mit euch. ►►► Deutschland3000 Instagram: @deutschland3000 https://www.instagram.com/deutschland3000 Ariana Baborie Instagram: @ariana_baborie/ https://www.instagram.com/ariana_baborie/ Eva Schulz Instagram: @evaschulz https://www.instagram.com/evaschulz/ ►►► Hier der Podcast von Anke Engelke und Kristian Thees: Wie war der Tag, Liebling? https://www.swr3.de/podcasts/wie-war-der-tag-liebling-100.html Zum Podcast von Ariana Baborie & Judith Rakers kommt ihr hier: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/baborie-und-rakers-was-war-los-gewesen/urn:ard:show:ae22215d2ae085cf/ Das Reel mit Robinga Schnögelrögel könnt ihr euch hier ansehen: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKzwWAds43c/utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Die folgenden Deutschland3000-Folgen findet ihr hier: Satou Sabally: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:4b9ba574c6dcec28/ Riccardo Simonetti: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:035dddfb0c776167/ Kevin Kühnert: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:9ab86f14cc107da6/ und https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:b3349f9ecf63ef35/ Fahri Yardim: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:a8de386b187d182a/ ►►► Redaktion: Sabine Lebek, Merle Hömberg und Ruby-Ann Schwiethal Gäste-Management: Axel Schöning Produktion: Merle Hömberg und Axel Schöning Social Media: Kim Vanessa Schang und das Sounddesign kommt von Soundquadrat. Deutschland3000 – ‘ne gute Stunde mit Eva Schulz" ist ein Podcast von N-JOY vom NDR.

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Berlin, Berlin, wir reden über Berlin! Für die After-Pokalfinal-Folge ist kein geringerer als Armine Kevin Kühnert vorbeigekommen. Er berichtet Tommi und Gregor von seinen Erlebnissen rund um das größte Spiel in der Geschichte des DSC. Auch Tommi war vor Ort und hat einige witzige Stadionerlebnisse im Gepäck. Weitere Themen: Der Wirtz-Wechsel, das langweiligste Europa-League-Finale seit langem und witzige Beleidigungen bei sächsischen Sechstliga-Partien. Hört euch diese Folge an, die so scheppert wie beide Kurven am Samstag im Olympiastadion. Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/copa_ts

In der 190. Folge von Lauer und Wehner reden Ulrich und Christopher über Formulierungen, die nicht mehr verwendet werden sollten, den Landwirtschaftsminister Alois Rainer und seine Ansichten zu Fleisch, die Einstufung der sogenannten Alternative für Deutschland als gesichert Rechtsextrem durch das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, die Wahl Friedrich Merz' zum 10. Bundeskanzler der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die Mitglieder der neuen Bundesregierung und Kevin Kühnerts Einlassungen zu seinem Ausstieg aus der Politik

Europa droht in einem Wirtschaftskrieg zwischen den USA und China unterzugehen. Prof. Ole Döring von der Hunan-Universität im chinesischen Changsha erklärt, welche Chancen eine wirtschaftliche Annäherung an China für uns bedeuten könnte. Die ehemalige Bundestagsabgeordnete Valerie Wilms saß acht Jahre für die Grünen im Parlament. Was jedoch niemand dort wusste: Sie ist eigentlich als Mann geboren. Transsexualität nennt sie selbst eine psychische Erkrankung, mit den Grünen hat sie mittlerweile gebrochen. Die AfD wird von der Regierung immer stärker bekämpft. Der freie Journalist Olaf Opitz berichtet unter anderem von Anti-AfD-Schulungen beim Technischen Hilfswerk. Markus Vahlefeld blickt in seinem Kommentar auf den ehemaligen SPD-Generalsekretär Kevin Kühnert und wie dieser anscheinend gezielt die Öffentlichkeit belog.Prof. Ole Döring: Europa zwischen China und den USAValerie Wilms: Transsexualität ist eine psychische KrankheitOlaf Opitz: Staatsfinanzierte Schulungen gegen die AfDMarkus Vahlefeld: Der Fall Kevin Kühnert

Merz und seine Minister. Was erlauben Toni Rüdiger. Faszination Sauerteig. Gut gelaunt präsentieren Paul und Hajo Schumacher aus dem Shöneberger Hinterhofstudio die frischgebackene Wochenschau. Unsere Themen: Ist der SPD-Mitgliederentscheid demokratisch? Spielt Trump mit Selenskij? Kevin Kühnert und der Risikoberuf Politik. Auf der Jagd nach dem Pilz und das Rätsel von Baunatal. Wie Elon Musk zur AfD kam. Elefanten-Konzert. So gehen wir richtig. Plus: der Lieblingswitz von Papst Franziskus. Folge 932.Michael Meisheit + Hajo SchumacherLügen haben schnelle Beine – Laufende Ermittlungen, Band 2Droemer Verlag, 2025.Suse SchumacherDie Psychologie des Waldes, Kailash Verlag, 2024Michael Meisheit + Hajo Schumacher Nur der Tod ist schneller – Laufende Ermittlungen, Kriminalroman, Droemer Knaur Verlag.Kathrin Hinrichs + Hajo SchumacherBuch: "Ich frage für einen Freund..." Das Sex-ABC für Spaß in den besten JahrenKlartext Verlag.Kostenlose Meditationen für mehr Freundlichkeit (Metta) und Gelassenheit (Reise zum guten Ort) unter suseschumacher.deDem MutMachPodcast auf Instagram folgen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kevin Kühnert (SPD) begründete seinen Rückzug aus der Politik mit Bedrohungen gegen seine Person. Damit ist er nicht allein. Nehmen wir Angriffe auf Politiker zu leicht? Diskussion mit dem Soziologen Holger Lengfeld und Julia Schöning. Von WDR 5.

Die Themen: Lieblingswitze des Papstes; “Friedensplan” der USA schlägt Krim-Annexion und Sanktionsende vor; Kevin Kühnert erklärt Politik-Rückzug mit Angst vor Gewalt; So knapp stand Pistorius vor der Kanzlerkandidatur; Söders Kabinettsliste folgt auf Oster-Wahnsinn; Trump will Frauen 5000 Dollar Baby-Prämie zahlen; Musk will sich weitgehend aus Politik zurückziehen und Obdachlose stehlen Yacht und geraten betrunken in Seenot Hosts der heutigen Folge ist Markus Feldenkirchen (Der SPIEGEL) Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/ApokalypseundFilterkaffee

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Mehr tödliche Unfahrer mit Rad- und E-Bike-Fahrern. Erstes Interview von Kevin Kühnert zu Rückzug aus der Politik. Von Caro Köhler.

Elon Musk will seine Arbeit für Donald Trump stark zurückfahren. Kevin Kühnert äußert sich erstmals zu seinem Rückzug aus der Politik. Und in Istanbul bebt die Erde. Das ist die Lage am Mittwochabend. Hier die Artikel zum Nachlesen: Miese Zahlen für Tesla: Musk will seine Arbeit für Trump ab Mai stark zurückfahren Ex-SPD-Generalsekretär: Am Schluss hat sich Kevin Kühnert im Urlaub nicht mehr sicher gefühltAuch in Griechenland spürbar: Erdbeben erschüttert die Millionenmetropole Istanbul+++ Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier. Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich. +++ Den SPIEGEL-WhatsApp-Kanal finden Sie hier. Alle SPIEGEL Podcasts finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie mit SPIEGEL+. Entdecken Sie die digitale Welt des SPIEGEL, unter spiegel.de/abonnieren finden Sie das passende Angebot. Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

Die Themen: Petition: Hunderttausende Dänen wollen Kalifornien kaufen; Kevin Kühnert hält letzte Rede im Bundestag; Holocaust-Überlebender Weinberg und Fotograf Toscano geben Bundesverdienstkreuze zurück; Kanye West verkündet Liebe zu Hitler und verkauft Hakenkreuz-T-Shirts; In China gibt's nur Weidel; Linkspartei meldet Mitgliederrekord und Ingwershots bestehen fast nur aus Saft Host der heutigen Folge ist Yasmine M'Barek (Zeit Online). Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/ApokalypseundFilterkaffee

Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius spricht über die Zukunft der Bundeswehr und seine Rolle in der SPD. Er fordert Realismus in der Sicherheitspolitik – ohne Panik, aber mit Konsequenz.Vor allem geht es ihm darum, die Bundeswehr künftig verlässlich aufzustellen: "Alle wissen: Eine dauerhafte bessere Ausstattung der Bundeswehr wird nicht einfach so aus dem Haushalt zulasten anderer Politikbereiche zu stemmen sein.“ Ein neues Sondervermögen sei aus seiner Sicht nicht der richtige Weg, sagt er im Interview mit Michael Bröcker.„Schwarz-Grün ist nicht möglich“ – daran lässt CSU-Generalsekretär Martin Huber im Interview mit uns keine Zweifel.Die Grünen lebten in Sachen Migration in einer „Parallelwelt“, sagt Huber. Auch in der Wirtschaftspolitik sieht er keine Gemeinsamkeiten.Kevin Kühnert verabschiedet sich mit einer scharfen Attacke auf Friedrich Merz aus der Politik. In nur vier Minuten greift er die CDU wegen der Zuwanderungs-Abstimmung mit der AfD an.Table.Briefings - For better informed decisions.Sie entscheiden besser, weil Sie besser informiert sind – das ist das Ziel von Table.Briefings. Wir verschaffen Ihnen mit jedem Professional Briefing, mit jeder Analyse und mit jedem Hintergrundstück einen Informationsvorsprung, am besten sogar einen Wettbewerbsvorteil. Table.Briefings bietet „Deep Journalism“, wir verbinden den Qualitätsanspruch von Leitmedien mit der Tiefenschärfe von Fachinformationen. Professional Briefings kostenlos kennenlernen: table.media/testen Audio-Werbung Table.Today: jan.puhlmann@table.media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nicht alle Menschen nehmen Zeit gleich wahr. Für Emily ist Zeit eher eine Welle, deshalb fällt ihr Pünktlichkeit zwar schwerer, dafür kommt sie viel besser in den Flow bei längeren Aktivitäten. Therapeutin Mila Ould Yahoui erklärt, woran das liegt und gibt Tipps, wie der strukturierte Alltag trotzdem gelingt.**********Ihr hört: Gesprächspartnerin: Emily, kommt häufiger zu spät, ist aber mittlerweile deutlich pünktlicher geworden Gesprächspartner: Ulrich Ansorge, lehrt Psychologie an der Universität Wien Gesprächspartnerin: Mila Ould Yahoui, Kinder- und Jugendtherapeutin, hostet den Podcast KJPsy**********Quellen:Birth, Kevin K. (2017). Time blind. Problems in Perceiving Other Temporalities. Palgrave Macmillan Cham.Nejati, V., & Yazdani, S. (2020). Time perception in children with attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Does task matter? A meta-analysis study. Child Neuropsychology, 26(7), 900–916.**********Mehr zum Thema bei Deutschlandfunk Nova:Immer zu spät: Wie wir mit Unpünktlichkeit umgehenPünktlichkeit: Warum wir so viel Wert darauf legenSelbstorganisation: Wie wir lernen, unsere Zeit gut zu nutzen**********Den Artikel zum Stück findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: TikTok auf&ab , TikTok wie_geht und Instagram .**********Meldet euch!Ihr könnt das Team von Facts & Feelings über WhatsApp erreichen.Uns interessiert: Was beschäftigt euch? Habt ihr ein Thema, über das wir unbedingt in der Sendung und im Podcast sprechen sollen?Schickt uns eine Sprachnachricht oder schreibt uns per 0160-91360852 oder an factsundfeelings@deutschlandradio.de.Wichtig: Wenn ihr diese Nummer speichert und uns eine Nachricht schickt, akzeptiert ihr unsere Regeln zum Datenschutz und bei WhatsApp die Datenschutzrichtlinien von WhatsApp.

Wir haben in diesem Jahr gemeinsam viele Menschen empfangen, ihnen zugehört, sie hinterfragt, sind ihnen manchmal nahe gekommen.Und wir haben von ihnen gelernt.Deswegen wollen wir heute das Jahr nicht in einem klassischen Jahresrückblick zusammenfassen, sondern in den sieben Lehren des Jahres destillieren.Hören Sie zum Beispiel Auszüge aus dem Gespräch mit Kevin Kühnert über Druck – vier Monate vor dessen Rücktritt. Oder mit Ricarda Lang, eine Woche nach ihrem.Außerdem: Wie Moral als Statussymbol verkommen ist; warum Jungs und junge Männer in vielerlei Hinsicht stärkere Probleme aufweisen; was toxische Weiblichkeit ist; wie wir den Klimawandel bremsen könnten; und wie würdevoll es sein kann, irgendwo zu sitzen, vielleicht aufs Meer oder in den Wald zu blicken, und einfach nur zu schauen.Auf dass uns diese Gespräche auch im kommenden Jahr inspirieren mögen. ID:{73o7OeE3OAFjjKLnkhZRDT}

It's the post-Thanksgiving show! Not all of the books got read but the show got done anyway. Plus, one host has a family-induced sore throat and the other host is special guest Paul Montgomery! Note: Time codes are subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Running Time: 01:14:22 Pick of the Week: 00:02:43 – Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #4 Comics: 00:13:31 – Justice League Unlimited #1 00:20:46 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #4 00:26:35 – Black Canary: Best of the Best #1 00:38:13 – Batman: The Long Halloween – The Last Halloween #3 00:43:12 – Hornsby & Halo #1 00:47:00 – Absolute Wonder Woman #2 00:51:11 – Green Arrow #361 (18) Patron Pick: 00:54:08 – West Coast Avengers #1 Patron Thanks: 00:59:01 – Dan Clark Listener Mail: 01:00:56 – David C. from Springfield, Massachusetts wants to know how former host Paul Montgomery is doing. 01:04:28 – Kevin K. asks about a certain word that Conor tends to use a lot. Brought To You By: • iFanboy Patrons – Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or join for a full year and get a discount! You can also make a one time donation of any amount! • iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch – Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We've got seven BRAND NEW designs — twenty in all! Music: “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” Darlene Love You can read Paul's weekly recaps of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (as well as other writing) on the new pop culture website Pop Heist. You can listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron discuss The Crow (1994) on Cradle to the Grave. You can listen to Conor discuss Swingers on Movie of the Year: 1994. You can listen to Conor discuss Ghostbusters on Movie of the Year: 1984. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many of us are experiencing despair following the 2024 general election. For the fate of our country, for bigotries laid bare, and for a deep grief over who we thought we could be. How should we name this moment, and how can we talk to our loved ones about what we're experiencing? Dr. Kevin Kumashiro, a most qualified returning Pencil Buster and all around excellent human, joins Tim and Johnny to check in on all this and more. If, like Producer Jess, this is your first time meeting Kevin K, know that you will leave this hour more at peace and in better spirits than you arrived! If you're an educated educator looking to get educated with Kevin K, check out the 14th International Conference on Education and Justice, coming up December 6-7 in Honolulu, Hawai'i. BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message! Guest: Dr. Kevin Kumashiro

In this episode of The Real Estate Investing Podcast, Ron Apke welcomes back seasoned land investor and coach Anthony Weiler! Together they map out effective, achievable land investing goals for 2025—whether you're just starting out or aiming to scale up for bigger deals. They dive into three actionable areas to focus on: marketing strategies, continuous education, and building valuable connections within the land investing community. They emphasize how crucial education is if you want to reach impressive success, sharing real-world examples like Landon B. and Kevin K., whose commitment to learning set them apart. Anthony also offers an insider perspective on the Land Investing Online Coaching Program, which he helps lead. He explains how this program gives students the strategies and support needed to succeed, helping them achieve goals like transitioning from a 9-5 job to land investing full-time or reaching $2 million in profit by the end of 2025. Drawing from his experience, Anthony encourages investors to “bite off a little bit more than you can chew, you'll get stronger,” referencing how Landon surpassed his own ambitious goals. This episode is packed with practical advice for all land investors, setting you up to build a stronger, more successful business in 2025. Don't miss out! ================================ 

Hey Horror Fans!This week, Steve and Sean are joined by directors Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch for a deep dive into their chilling films Starry Eyes and the 2019 remake of Pet Sematary. In this episode, we explore their unique path into the film industry, what it was like to adapt one of Stephen King's most haunting stories, and the cult status Starry Eyes has achieved in the indie horror scene.The conversation covers everything from their creative process to their thoughts on modern horror, and they even drop some exclusive, breaking news that you won't want to miss!If you're a fan of unsettling horror with a psychological edge and/or King adaptations, this one's for you. So...Come Hang Out!!!Follow Us on Social Media:Instagram & Threads: @mostlyhorrorpodTikTok & Twitter/X: @mostlyhorrorSteve: @stevenisaverage on all socialsSean: @hypocrite.ink on IG/TikTok, @hypocriteink on Twitter/XEnjoy this episode? Don't forget to subscribe, rate and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! For early Access and ad-free episodes, subscribe on Wondery+.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of The Real Estate Investing Podcast, Ron Apke sits down with Kevin K., an experienced land investor and active member of the Land Investing Online community. Kevin shares his journey from starting in the housing industry to making the life-changing decision to flip land after one deal brought in $100k. Realizing the potential for both financial freedom and personal fulfillment, Kevin dove into land investing and discovered the LIO podcast. Over the past six months, Kevin has built a thriving land business, sharing insights on how he manages cold calling, customer service, and leads while steadily outsourcing tasks. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow, Kevin provides actionable advice on overcoming roadblocks and building strong relationships with funders, setting you up for long-term success. Tune in to the full episode to hear Kevin reveal his monthly profits, goals for 2025, and strategies for scaling his business! TIME STAMPS ================================ 0:00 Intro 1:05 Kevin's Journey into Land Investing 3:28 Understanding The Business 5:46 Marketing Strategy 8:00 Kevin's Deal Volume 11:18 Kevin's 2025 Goal 14:49 Roadblocks & Hurdles 18:41 Essential Advice for Starters 21:23 Business Freedom 23:06 Kevin's Advice 25:27 Final Thoughts WANT TO GET STARTED?  ================================  https://landinvestingonline.com/starter-guide-phone/ SOCIAL ================================ Ron's Instagram

In dieser besonderen Live-Folge von GYSI GEGEN GUTTENBERG treffen Gregor Gysi und KT Guttenberg in Braunschweig aufeinander, um über ein Spannungsfeld zu sprechen, das unser Leben ebenso prägt wie die Politik: Romantik versus Rationalität. Sind unsere Hosts eher Träumer oder eher Pragmatiker? Dabei analysieren die beiden ganz nebenbei auch die Ära von Angela Merkel und diskutieren über den Rücktritt von Kevin Kühnert – ist dies ein Zeichen von Realismus oder verlorener Romantik in der Politik?  Sie haben Anregungen, Kritik oder Fragen an Gregor Gysi und KT Guttenberg? Schicken Sie eine Mail an ggg@openminds.media Contra Create & Open Minds Media präsentieren: GYSI GEGEN GUTTENBERG LIVE 2024. Zu den Tickets: https://linktr.ee/gysigegenguttenberg Infos zu ausgewählten Werbepartnern finden Sie hier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Die Belastung für Politiker ist extrem. Das zeigt auch der Fall von Kevin Kühnert diese Woche. Was müsste sich ändern?

Warum das Nobelkomitee den Friedensnobelpreis an eine Initiative gegen Atomwaffen vergibt. Was der Rücktritt von Kevin Kühnert über die Härte des Politikbetriebs aussagt. Und wieso ein 18-Jähriger alle Achttausender besteigen wollte. Das ist die Lage am Freitagabend. Die Artikel zum Nachlesen: Auszeichnung für Nihon Hidankyo: Friedensnobelpreis geht an japanische Anti-Atomwaffen-Organisation Ex-SPD-Chef Martin Schulz: »Politik ist schwer erträglich geworden« Homophobie und Sexismus unter Muslimen: Die neue deutsche Realität Rekord der Extreme: 18-Jähriger erklimmt als jüngster Bergsteiger alle Achttausender+++ Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier. Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich. +++ Den SPIEGEL-WhatsApp-Kanal finden Sie hier. Alle SPIEGEL Podcasts finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie bei SPIEGEL+. Jetzt für nur € 1,- für die ersten vier Wochen testen unter spiegel.de/abonnieren Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

LdN401 SPD nach Kevin Kühnerts Rücktritt, Dänemarks Migrationspolitik, Nachhaltige ETFs, Frieden für die Ukraine (Franziska Davies, Osteuropa-Historikerin), Wann darf die Polizei Handys auslesen?

Kevin Kühnert ist aus gesundheitlichen Gründen als SPD-Generalsekretär zurückgetreten - ein Jahr vor der Bundestagswahl. Die Frage ist, ob die Ampel so lange hält. Und nicht nur bei der SPD stehen jetzt wichtige Personal- und Richtungsentscheidungen an. Wurzel, Steffen;Hamberger, Katharina;Geuther, Gudula;Capellan, Frank

Nach dem Rücktritt von Kevin Kühnert erklärt Nachfolger Matthias Miersch, wie er die Sozialdemokraten wieder zu Wahlsiegen führen will. Außerdem: Warum Politik krank machen kann (11:15). Und: Den Wäldern in Deutschland geht es schlecht. (22:58) Schulz, Josephine

Der 55-jährige Jurist Matthias Miersch ersetzt Kevin Kühnert, der am Montag überraschend seinen Rücktritt als Generalsekretär der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands (SPD) bekannt gegeben hat. Auf Miersch wartet viel Arbeit, denn nächstes Jahr wird der Deutsche Bundestag gewählt – und die SPD ist arg im Rückstand. Weitere Themen: (05:58) Deutschland: Ein neuer Generalsekretär für die SPD (11:29) Haiti: Die Krise spitzt sich weiter zu (17:11) Das Parlament und die Schweiz im UNO-Sicherheitsrat (22:05) Physik-Nobelpreis geht an KI-Grundlagenforscher (27:46) Portugal führt strengeres Einwanderungsregime ein (34:20) Notre-Dame: Die Wiedergeburt eines Monuments

In der Ampelkoalition bricht wegen der Prämie für Langzeitarbeitslose erneut der Streit aus. Die SPD stellt nach dem überraschenden Rücktritt von Kevin Kühnert einen Nachfolger vor. Und die israelische Armee weitet ihre Angriffe auf den Libanon aus. Das ist die Lage am Dienstagabend.  Die Artikel zum Nachlesen: Regierungsplan zum Bürgergeld: 1000-Euro-Prämie für ein Jahr im Job – wie sinnvoll ist das? Neuer SPD-Generalsekretär: Kühnert-Nachfolger Miersch kündigt Diskussionen mit Scholz an Krieg im Libanon: Nun ruft das ganze Land nach der Armee+++ Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier. Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich. +++ Den SPIEGEL-WhatsApp-Kanal finden Sie hier. Alle SPIEGEL Podcasts finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie bei SPIEGEL+. Jetzt für nur € 1,- für die ersten vier Wochen testen unter spiegel.de/abonnieren Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

Matthias Miersch folgt Kevin Kühnert als Generalsekretär der SPD. Was jetzt seine größte Aufgabe wird.

Heute mit weiteren Stimmen zum Jahrestag des Angriffs der Terrororganisation Hamas auf Israel. Daneben ist die finanzielle Situation der Pflegeversicherung Thema. Im Mittelpunkt steht jedoch der Rücktritt von SPD-Generalsekretär Kevin Kühnert. www.deutschlandfunk.de, Presseschau

Die Themen: Small-Talk-Tag; SPD-Generalsekretär Kevin Kühnert zurückgetreten; Juden in Deutschland erleben bedrohliches Klima; 1000 Euro für Jobaufnahme; Wirtschaftsweise wollen Kindern Geld für Fondskauf geben; Zuwanderer äußern Kritik; Neue Autokennzeichen?; Ehepaar klaut Schweinebraten vom Balkon ihrer Nachbarn. Hosts der heutigen Folge sind Markus Feldenkirchen (DER SPIEGEL) und Yasmine M'Barek (Zeit Online). Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/ApokalypseundFilterkaffee

Was der Medizin-Nobelpreis mit richtigem Erinnern zu tun hat. Wie Kevin Kühnert seinen Rücktritt als SPD-Generalsekretär begründet. Und warum Kamala Harris nicht an alte Überzeugungen erinnert werden möchte. Das ist die Lage am Montagabend. Hier geht's zu den Artikeln: Nobelpreis für Medizin geht an Genforscher Victor Ambros und Gary Ruvkun Gesundheitliche Gründe: Kevin Kühnert tritt als SPD-Generalsekretär zurück Kamala Harris' Fracking-Wende: Klimaretterin a.D.+++ Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier. Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich. +++ Den SPIEGEL-WhatsApp-Kanal finden Sie hier. Alle SPIEGEL Podcasts finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie bei SPIEGEL+. Jetzt für nur € 1,- für die ersten vier Wochen testen unter spiegel.de/abonnieren Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

Jahrestag des Terrorangriffs der Hamas auf Israel, SPD-Generalsekretär Kevin Kühnert tritt aus gesundheitlichen Gründen zurück, Matthias Miersch wird neuer Generalsekretär der SPD, Medienbericht warnt vor Zahlungsunfähigkeit der Pflegeversicherung, Nobelpreis für Medizin geht an zwei US-Gen-Forscher für Entdeckung der "microRNA", Europäische Raumfahrtorganisation ESA schickt Sonde "Hera" zur Erforschung von Schutz vor Asteroiden-Einschlägen ins All, Das Wetter

Israel ein Jahr nach dem Terrorangriff der Hamas, Israelis und Palästinenser in Deutschland, Die Meinung, Matthias Miersch wird neuer SPD-Generalsekretär nach Rücktritt von Kevin Kühnert, Europäische Raumfahrtorganisation ESA schickt Sonde "Hera" zur Erforschung von Schutz vor Asteroiden-Einschlägen ins All, Das Wetter

A season FULL of incredible individual performances! How do you even begin to figure out who deserves to be recognized for their play? Kevin “K-Dot” Lewis of The 9450 stops by to discuss the 2024 WNBA awards!  Starting off with the rookies, Caitlin Clark figured things out quick, fast, and in a hurry. For her amazing rookie campaign, she earned Rookie of the Year honors. However, the race was much closer than the vote would have you believe. How close was Angel Reese to winning it, who else came on strong at the end, and did the voters get the All-Rookie Team selections right?  Then, there was no question who was coming away with MVP this season. It was simply a matter of whether or not it would be unanimous, and it was! K-Dot puts A'ja Wilson's historic career into perspective. How in the hell was she able to level up after already being at the top of the league? Also, I tell you which player I was shocked to see not make it onto anybody's ballot. The Defensive Player of the Year Award is always one of the toughest for voters to decide. Kevin tells us why that is and his own personal criteria for making the pick. We also discuss the challenges of evaluating post defenders versus perimeter defenders, which may have led to DiJonai Carrington only receiving one vote.  However, DiJonai did come away with the Most Improved Player Award. Which teammate of hers should have received some recognition as well? And who should or shouldn't be eligible to win this award?  We finish up with the Coach of the Year Award along with an epic rant about the Chicago Sky's decision to fire Teresa Weatherspoon after one season. K-Dot also puts on his Nostra-Dot-mus hat and tells us what to expect from the rest of the playoffs! Tap in!  For more from Kevin “K-Dot” Lewis: -Twitter: https://x.com/kdotlew3H -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kdotlew3h/ -TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kdotlew3h Want more of what I'm doing? Tap into my Screen Shots weekly sports watch guide: https://theshownotes.beehiiv.com/ The Rundown:  00:00 Intro  01:21 The Rookies 16:27 U'nanimous MVP  30:07 Defensive Player of the Year 40:47 What does “Most Improved” mean? 47:25 Coach of the Year and the Sky fail us all 55:46 Playoff Predictions Don't forget to support Catch Da Beat Apparel Co.!  Website: https://catchdabeatapparel.com/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/catchdabeatapparel/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catchdabeatapparel/  Listen to the Beyond The Arc with Brandon Silvers podcast at:  Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-arc-with-brandon-silvers/id1611971780  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2LeRaBW3J2yJSA0kU4WS3j  Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84M2Q2NjBlMC9w b2RjYXN0L3Jzcw  Anchor: https://anchor.fm/byabrandonsilvers  Send us an email at: beyondthearc843@gmail.com  Follow us on Twitter at: BeyondTheArc843  Beyond The Arc with Brandon Silvers breaks down today's hottest sports topics in a way that makes sense whether you're a rookie or a vet! Tune in to hear in-depth analysis, unique commentary, and more! Follow BTA on Twitter @BeyondTheArc843! For more from Brandon, follow him on Twitter @1brandonsilvers and on Instagram @thebrandonsilvers!

In this conversation, Chris and Angelo sit with Chris's buddy Kevin K to discuss competitive archery and its relation to hunting archery. Kevin shares his background in archery and how he got into competitive shooting. They talk about the importance of mental preparation and the challenges of shooting in big competitions.  The Boys also discuss the significance of anchor points and the importance of consistency in form. They touch on the practice and preparation required for both competition and hunting, including the use of timers and the need to adapt to different scenarios. The guys also mention the benefits of shooting at 3D courses and replicating realistic hunting scenarios. In this part of the conversation, Kevin and your hosts discuss the differences between training for target shooting and hunting. They emphasize the importance of training for longer durations and always leaving the dog or shooter wanting more. They also discuss the challenges of transitioning from target shooting to hunting, including the unpredictability of hunting scenarios and the need for quick and accurate shots.  Maybe most importantly, your hosts go on to ask Kevin about the importance of mental preparation and the pre-shot and post-shot processes. They also discuss the differences in gear requirements for target shooting and hunting, including draw weight, comfort, and forgiveness. In this portion of their chat, Kevin discusses the differences between the arrows he uses for competition shooting and hunting. The conversation also touches on the importance of broadhead selection and shot placement for hunting success. To wrap things up, Kevin shares his advice for beginners and veterans, emphasizing the importance of practice and confidence. Lastly, Kevin talks about his fly fishing company, Bonnie Brook Fly Co., and his passion for fly fishing. He has some BEAUTIFUL new flies out and available for sale VERY SOON! Be sure to visit his website and check them out!  And remember… “Success is Just a Commitment Away!”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monte Anderson of Neighborhood Evolution and Options Real Estate in Duncanville, Texas joins me to talk about extremely practical matters: making money in real estate. That is, as a small developer, how is it actually done? What are the pros and cons of different approaches, such as buying and holding vs selling?We start this by discussing a YouTube video from The Real Estate God. Yes, that's the real channel. Titled, “The best way to 3x your money in 2024,” the video is a good jumping off point for how to structure deals in an ideal world. And, it goes over the differences between general partners and limited partners.Monte talks about why nothing ever works as quick as he thinks it should, and the realities of development fees. We discuss the challenges, but also the joys, of working in development. Find more content on The Messy City on Kevin's Substack page.Music notes: all songs by low standards, ca. 2010. Videos here. If you'd like a CD for low standards, message me and you can have one for only $5.Intro: “Why Be Friends”Outro: “Fairweather Friend”Episode Transcript:Kevin K (00:01.733)Welcome back to the Messy City podcast. I'm Kevin Klinkenberg. Got our returning champion, Monte Anderson in the house here today. Monte, it's always great to see you and talk to you. Where are you in Dallas? Are you roaming around the country somewhere?Monte Anderson (00:16.022)Yeah, I am in Dallas today. Glad to be here with you, but I am in Dallas. I'll be in Lafayette, Louisiana tomorrow morning and Elkhart, Indiana next week. So lot of traveling coming up, but I'm home for this afternoon. It is. It is. We've been going down there for, this is our second year. And so yeah, there's a lot of good food down there. Yeah.Kevin K (00:26.257)Cool, Lafayette's a really cool town.Kevin K (00:39.449)Yeah, was going to say amazing food, fun people, it be a great time.Monte Anderson (00:43.647)Yeah, they are fun people. lot of entrepreneurial spirit down there, know, they've had to do a lot with a lot of things against them, know, hurricanes and, you all the things that you've got in that part of the country.Kevin K (00:53.627)Yeah. Yeah.That's right. That's right. Well, guess depending on where you are, you've got something. like we don't have hurricanes, but we've got tornadoes and floods.Monte Anderson (01:06.668)Yeah, yep, that's right. There's something always out there, the unknowns.Kevin K (01:10.245)Yeah, I know. I think I texted you a couple of weeks ago, we were up in Dubuque, Iowa, where I know you're also doing some work and they were dealing with the Mississippi is flooding this year. It's been very, very high. And so they've had some flooding in different portions. So in fact, we were going to take like one of their riverboat cruises and we couldn't do it because the river is too high.Monte Anderson (01:28.705)my.Yeah. my, that's because that town is right in between the river and the bluffs. The downtown is right there in the valley, if you will, between the two hills. Yeah.Kevin K (01:37.67)Yeah.Kevin K (01:42.063)Yeah. It's really cool. had not spent a lot of, I've driven through, I'd driven through before, but I hadn't really spent any time there. And it's really a neat, neat little town with like incredible bones and, just a really pretty setting there on the river.Monte Anderson (01:52.802)Yeah.Yeah, the great thing is it doesn't have any major interstates that go through it.Kevin K (01:59.569)But they had a lot of urban renewal. I'll say that. For a small town, boy, did they have a lot of urban renewal that was done to them. anyway, Monty, I wanted to talk to you today. We were exchanging some emails. I sometimes subscribe to these just kind of random YouTube channels or blogs or whatever that touch on real estate or design or planning or whatever.Monte Anderson (02:03.544)Yes.Monte Anderson (02:07.554)Yeah. Yeah.Kevin K (02:27.953)this is one, that I shared with you that is a YouTube channel, from somebody who calls themselves the real estate God, which, of course kind of made us laugh, but it was a really interesting short video. has some pretty interesting content, especially for, newbies, in this video that, I wanted to talk about today, the email, called it the best way to three X your money in 2024.but really it was like a seven minute video that was about a basic investment strategy for real estate that I think is real, that is similar to what you teach. And I wanted to kind of walk through this and talk about it because I think it is, it's interesting. we've talked about financing before we've talked about different aspects of development. It's interesting to take it kind of step by step.and help people understand how, you know, where you put money in, how you get money out, how you make money doing some of these smaller projects.Monte Anderson (03:30.506)Yeah, that's a really big deal for people getting started, you know, in this business. I mean, how do you get money out? Right? You put it in, but where does it go? And how does it come out fast? And it doesn't come out fast unless you buy and sell. That's basically the bottom line. If you don't buy and sell, it doesn't come out fast. You know, because if you buy a, you know, if you buy a property and you get a loan and you restore that property,Kevin K (03:37.969)Yeah.Monte Anderson (03:59.286)and you run it and you get it leased up over time. It's not going to cashflow really great in the beginning. It's going to take, it's going to take a while where I find myself these days and making money as far as making, pulling money out is, and this is what the big, developers do, buying something, fixing it up, getting it all rented up or, or, or buying something and getting it ready to sell, you know, and then selling it. And that's where.A small developers have to do more like buying and selling. And in my case, you know, I charged myself, you know, brokerage fees and management fees and things like that. So my operating company, you know, gets commissions and gets development fees. And that's how we live. And big, big companies do the same thing. You know, the big developer will buy, you know, build a 200 unit apartment complex, lease it up and sell it to the Ohio state teacher pension fund.You know, and that's where the money's made. That's where the big quicker money is made. But it's, it is really difficult as a small scale developer to buy a property, fix it up, build it and get, and I mean, you're building wealth. Okay. Because usually the property is going up in value, but you don't get a lot of cash flow out of it really quick. It's just, that's just, I think in my opinion, and you know, of course, I don't know everything. It's kind of unrealistic thinking. It looks good on paper.but it's unrealistic thinking.Kevin K (05:29.967)Yeah, it seems like so generally when we talk about making any money in real estate is either you're making money off of the cash flow of the project itself, whether it's a residential project or a commercial project, you know, it's producing more income than your expenses. So you're making a little money year after year on that, or you make money when you sell it to somebody else, assuming you've added value along the way and you're selling it for substantially more than what.you put into it.Monte Anderson (06:01.614)That's correct. And then depending on how much equity you put in in the front and how much leverage or how much debt, how much loan you put on the property, you know, will depend on what your cashflow is going to be. So if you've like in the, I've always been one for putting as, you know, having as little debt as possible because you can go through the times like we just went through in the last year or two when interest rate, like on one of my properties went from four and a half to seven and a half percent.like it renewed and just went up. mean, they could have went up to 8 .5%, but my bank lacked me, so they did 7 .5%. But if you have much debt, if you have a lot of debt, first of all, you're not going to probably cashflow for a while. And then secondly, when the markets change, when the markets change or when interest rates go up or when vacancy goes up, then you're going to be in trouble.And that's when you see foreclosures and that's when you see, like right now we're seeing a lot of properties on the market right now, either not so much in foreclosures, but people just needing cash. So they're selling their properties. So.Kevin K (07:13.233)Yeah. So like, you know, let's just say if you, random project that you're a small developer and you scrape together $50 ,000 and you, you put that into a deal and then you have debt on the back of it for the balance of the project. You're, you're either getting that 50 ,000 back to you when you sell it. Hopefully plus a profit or you're getting it like drip, drip, drip over time, over a number of years.Monte Anderson (07:43.211)Exactly.Kevin K (07:43.429)which like you said, at that small of a scale, that might be maybe make a few thousand bucks a year, but you can't make a living off that.Monte Anderson (07:52.47)Right. Well, you can't make a living off the drip, drip, drip part. You can't really make a living off that, but you can if you have a hundred units then. Okay. Then you have it. And you can, if you're in the real, if you have a real estate operating company, like I do, where we do our own leasing and management and development and construction. So we pay ourselves to do those, do those things. If, if the money is available, you know, if there is enough, you know, to do that, butAnd many times these days, I put myself in better positions. You know, I should have learned after 30, you know, 35 years, I should learn, but I put myself in better positions where I can get those fees mostly. So even if the property is dripping, I'm still getting the fees for operating the property. Now I've got a big one that I'm sitting in right now in Duncanville, Texas. It's called Wheatland Plaza, which is an old strip center, know, with some townhomes I'm going to put on the parking lot.And right now I've got all my fees into it. got, you know, I've got, I sold another property to, you know, make the cash calls to keep this thing going because I didn't want to get more debt right now while interest was high. So I made a conscious decision not to add more debt on. In fact, I may not have even been able to get more debt on because I'm in a leasing upstage and I bought aKevin K (09:06.673)MmMonte Anderson (09:17.87)strip center that was 60 % least and it went down to 28%. Now I'm back up to 80, but I'm still not up to really breaking even, know, nearly up to breaking even. And when I put the 20, the 19 townhomes on the parking lot, you know, I'm to have a mixed use building. And then now I've got something that's operating, but it takes, it takes time. So that'll probably take me, what I just described is probably take me four or five years to get that done. So you got to last that four or five years.Kevin K (09:47.589)Yeah, yeah. Yeah.Monte Anderson (09:47.736)you know, negative cashflow and you've got a cash negative cashflow has got to come from from somewhere. So it's, it's funny to hear like in the, the podcast or the, the YouTube we were talking about, it's funny to hear some of the people talking about this stuff because they, this would be the way I would put it on paper to show you a deal. I would show you that in reality, it's just not that easy. And you're constantly having to,You're constantly having to look for new ways of financing or finding another property to buy and sell to make cash flow or buy and sell something you've already got or raising capital from what we call community impact investors who don't expect huge high returns but are also, they expect a little return but they're as interested in the community impact as they are the return. They're interested in both.Kevin K (10:45.541)Yeah. Well, so let's look at a couple of the basics that he talked about just to clarify. He described the way he looks at it as like being a real estate private equity company. I think, I mean, that's clever, but I think it's just basically kind of the way a lot of real estate deals happen. And that is you have general partners and you have limited partners. And I wonder if you could talk a little bit about like in your experience, how those, what's the difference between the two?What roles do they play?Monte Anderson (11:16.29)Yeah, like I'm the general partner or the managing partner in, in, you know, nearly all the deals I do. And I have partners, limited partners or, or members. These days we call them members of the LLC. Same thing, same, but they're passive, passive investors. And so in any real estate deal, you really need two things. And this is what I talk about in all small scale developers need two things. Really. We need really a good, decent loan from a bank.And I always say a bank, bank servers are still our best partners. They're going to be the probably lowest interest rate. They're also be the toughest to underwrite you, know, looking at your paperwork and, you know, looking at you closely and asking you questions. And then you need, you need affordable equity. You're either providing that equity or the down payment or your investor partners are providing that down payment.Kevin K (12:09.617)Right. Just like if you're buying a house and you have to put 5 % down, 10 % down, 20 % down, whatever it is. For a real estate deal, it's the same way. And a bank is probably going to require 25 % down pretty typically or more. Yeah. Yeah.Monte Anderson (12:14.079)same thing.Monte Anderson (12:23.726)or 35 % today, or you may want to put 35 or 40 % today at seven and a half or eight, eight and a half percent interest. I can remember years ago that used to be not be that bad of a rate, but we got used to this low rates. we kind of, you know, below 5%, I kind of call that free money. It's kind of free, you know, really. So it really makes deals easier to do. when they go up, butKevin K (12:45.265)YouMonte Anderson (12:51.822)Yeah, it's the same thing. You you buy a piece of property, you need a loan, you need equity, whether it's 5 % on an FHA loan to buy a house or whether you got a commercial loan at a bank and you need 25, 35%. We used to say 20 % down on commercial loans, but now these days I would say it's minimum 25 to 35 % down that banks are requiring. Not such a bad thing either, to tell you the truth, but it's kind of going back like a hundred years ago when we didn't have financing.Kevin K (13:21.211)MmMonte Anderson (13:21.678)Cause if you think about most of you're in my friends, not wealthy, you know, we didn't grow up with extreme amounts of wealth. 35 % might as well be, you know, might as well be a hundred percent, know, we got nothing, you know, you got nothing, you know, it's still a, still a lot of money. But once you get your, your, your investors, your limited partners, your, your members of your LLC, your passive investors, the passive investors don't, don't operate.Kevin K (13:33.859)Yeah.Monte Anderson (13:49.806)on a day -to -day basis. They're just like they have stock in your deal. And they need to be accredited investors, which means they have to have a certain amount of knowledge or net worth or wealth. They have to make a certain amount of income. They have to be sophisticated and accredited investors of sophisticated investors. In fact, it's a business person that it's not like a little old lady with their last $50 ,000 in the bank.That's a non -accredited investor or somebody that makes less than a hundred thousand a year. That would be non -accredited investors. So you want accredited investors and these accredited investors, that means they're sophisticated and if they lose their money, they're big boys and big girls. they, buyer beware kind of beware. So they're going to be passive partners. The general partner or the managing partner operates the real estate venture.hires the contractors, hires the leasing agents, hires the property managers, hires the architects, negotiates with the bank. Quite often in my case, the general partner would personally guarantee the real estate notes, which I do just about on everything I do. I hear people talk about not personally guaranteeing these commercial real estate deals. It's not in my world, really. That's just not realistic. I have to personally...Kevin K (15:14.949)Yeah, how does that even exist? Who gets away with not guaranteeing a deal?Monte Anderson (15:21.514)I hear people talk about it on YouTube and things like that. But it's just not realistic. there are different kinds of loans where a lender looks at a bigger real estate deal, big, where the asset is so strictly regulated by the bank or by the lender that you may get.Kevin K (15:25.125)Hahaha.Monte Anderson (15:48.098)you know, a situation that we, know, that you don't have to personally guarantee. So the asset is lots of equity. You know, it's the lender is really looking at everything you do, commissions paid, finish out, you know, construction, you know, things like that. They're approving everything, approved leases. They might as well be the owner. That's the only time I see that where you don't personally guarantee, you know, your real estate in that case. But.Generally speaking, is general partners got to guarantee the loan, got to run the operation. Also it's got to get, can get paid for running the operation. We get paid a leasing fee, a property management fee. We get paid a development fee. We get paid all these fees if there's enough cashflow. And since I'm the one putting the deals together, I always feel responsible when there's not enough cashflow and end up leaving my fees in.because I feel responsible if I didn't make the projection quick enough. it seems we just never make the, nothing ever works as quick as I think it should. It never works as quick. It's the nature of the beast. There's so many different things that can happen, whether it be.building permits or zoning or platting you know, a supplier, subcontractors, or didn't get a tenant, you know, early enough. mean, these days in most cities have hard trouble, have a hard time with building inspectors. So you may not get, you know, inspections as quick. We used to get building permits in two weeks and, you know, we could build a building in six months. That's just no longer the way it is. You know, it just takes a lot longer than that.You know, it just, and I used to go to California and they'd say, well, it only took me two years to get a permit. And I said, well, we're from Texas. We got a permit in like two weeks. You know, well, we're like California now. It takes us forever. It takes us forever to get things. So all of those things compile up and can cause you delays and stuff like that. And delays are going to cost you money, you know, and, andKevin K (17:51.985)Yeah.Monte Anderson (18:07.692)You know, I'm always changing things too. My projects are done incrementally. So we might start in one end and by the time we get through, it's different than what we originally conceptualized. And that's, it's got, it's good and bad. mean, bad is that it's changed and it's different and likely costs more. Good is it might be a better project because we're more curating the type of businesses or people that are there than we are just filling spaces.Kevin K (18:33.615)Yeah. I mean, just like on a personal note, the town, like as an example, the townhouse project that I'm working on with my partners, you know, we, as we have progressed through construction, we have found a lot of things that we decided we wanted to change. And a lot of that was really based on, we know like the price we're going to end up selling these at.And so it kind of changed our minds about who we think like the buyers are. It's a, it's a more expensive, home now than, it was originally. so, you know, we, for example, during the course of construction, we're like, well, you know, maybe we should change that kitchen. maybe that pantry should be different. Maybe we should have a different kind of countertop or finish. And, you would think that all that would be figured out ahead of time. But like you said, during the course of the project,Monte Anderson (19:04.589)Yeah.Monte Anderson (19:14.98)Yeah.Kevin K (19:28.355)you know, especially something I'm at take two or three years, things change.Monte Anderson (19:32.908)Yeah, they do. know, time, time happens so fast these days and with AI and other things, mean, the, the speed of, of everything that's happening is, you know, if you're copying something somebody did yesterday, you're already behind. I mean, you've got to be figuring out, you've got to understand this business and know where it's going rather than copying where somebody's been. can, you can learn from someone, but you really can't copy from place to place. know, you principles are the same, butKevin K (19:48.027)Hehehe.Monte Anderson (20:02.318)Yeah, like in the center I'm working in now, it's a 90 ,000 square foot shopping center built in the 60s. And we, you know, it was, we're converting it to mix of uses from retail and restaurants to coworking, you know, school and, you know, state of Texas lease and things like that. And we start off thinking we're going to get, you know, $16 a square foot or $18 a square foot. And we'll put a little lipstick on it here and a little, you know, fix some roofs here and stuff. What we find is if weIf we cut the spaces up smaller and we really gut them out and really make them nice inside, we can get $24 a foot. So $24 a square foot versus 16's a lot of money, you know, to the bottom line, which makes the property a lot more expensive. It's just what you just described with the townhome. You got a better kitchen in, you know, we're going to, we can get more money. In fact, if we keep the cheap kitchen in, we may not sell it.because we found out that the market was a little bit different. And by being an incremental or a nimble type developer, you can make those decisions on the fly and adjust and hopefully profit, you know, hopefully profit from that. In the meantime, you got to get more money somehow. So where do you get it? You either get it from your equity partners or you get it from your, from your bank. And this is a good reason to have community at your partners you want to have. You don't want to have poor partners.Kevin K (21:17.521)Yeah. Yeah.Kevin K (21:30.907)Yeah.Monte Anderson (21:30.958)You want to have rich partners because poor partners can't help you if you get in a situation.Kevin K (21:34.362)Yeah.Kevin K (21:41.297)Well, and I like your point about the fees part of it, because I think that was something I didn't really know anything about related to development 15 years ago, was that, if I'm the managing partner or the developer of this project, then I essentially pay a percentage fee to myself, and that's part of the construction loan and everything. And I remember in the first workshops that John Anderson did that Ipaid attention to, he was like, you know, it's kind of 5 % of hard construction costs in the ballpark. And so I was like, that sounds good. You start to bookmark that. then, you just like you said, that can evaporate during, you know, if things go a little bit sideways. And like on our project, we had budgeted a development fee for all, for the three of us who are managing partners and the construction costs changes and the inflation that's happened over the last few years have really caught up with us.And we basically having to contribute those fees back to the project to cover other things that we would like to do to it. So we hope to get paid out at a later date, but the reality is we're not going to make that fee during the course of the project.Monte Anderson (22:53.218)Yeah. And that's, I would say that's more normal than not. I would just say that's more normal than not. Cause I don't know something about in the idealistic stage, you remember when you were getting ready. I remember when you were getting ready for the townhomes and stuff. And it's the idealistic stage. It's fun during that stage, you know, it's like, it's like new love, right? It's like falling in love and you're in love, you know, all of sudden and everything is, you know, right. Unicorns and rainbows, you know, and then, and then all of sudden, you know, the reality.Kevin K (23:07.483)Yeah.Yeah.Monte Anderson (23:22.414)the reality kicks in. But I think that's more normal than not. In fact, I'm embarrassed to say this, but in my one, I had a hotel project in Dallas up here and the, was paid my development fee. I did the project in 2004 and 2005 and I sold it in 2015. And that's when I got my development fee in 2015. And it was my own fault.Kevin K (23:46.233)Yeah.Monte Anderson (23:52.586)In fact, my own arrogance, my own thinking I knew everything when I started that project that caused that to happen to me. And I wanted to do the project no matter what. I was just going to do it no matter what. I just wanted to do it. And that, and I was like kicking the can down the road, but that own arrogance.I tell Bernice and I talk about this all the time, Bernice Riedel and I, don't fall in love. She says fall in love with these projects. I say, don't fall in love with them until you own them. Don't fall, because it excuse your, and I fell in love with this project before I did it. And so I just had to do it anyway. Sometimes you just, you and I were talking earlier, sometimes you just, and if you're going to do that, that's fine. Just know that the pain is coming. Just know the pain is coming with it.Kevin K (24:32.145)MmMonte Anderson (24:51.178)I understand it. I understand loving a project more than anything and you want to do it. I understand it. Just be prepared, you know, for the stress and the high level of anxiety that will come with that.Kevin K (25:02.481)So, Monty, that begs the question then. If you didn't get paid your development fee for 10 years, if that's more common than we'd like to admit, how do you live? How do you make a living during the course of doing these projects? Because you have to have some cash flow to pay the bills on.Monte Anderson (25:21.774)Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I started off as a real estate agent leasing and selling space, you know, and buildings in my commercial real estate agent. And so all in the beginning days back in the early years, 100 % of my business was third party broker. I was doing this for somebody else, you know, and that was easy. You know, I had an easy life back then. And then I decided to be a developer.Kevin K (25:48.667)Yeah.Monte Anderson (25:51.406)So, but what happened now today, I have about 80 % is my own stuff and 20 % is other people's about 80 % today. And so you still need to be working. We call it working in the flywheel or working in the area. You're still working to crank that flywheel to move your company along, to move your own personal life along. You still got to make income. So I always kept brokering space for others.people. And if you're an architect, so you would still keep doing architectural work for other people or doing your podcasting or doing your, you know, if you're an IT guy, you still, you know, you're working on your IT in these buildings, you're doing, you're doing work in other buildings, you know, but you're doing in hopefully in your farm or in your community, or anywhere you're where you're, you know, you're committed to where you're committed. That's a really key to this is, is working in an area that you, you know, that you commit to as a small scale developer, you need toYou need to stay close to home and not try to be working in, you know, Kansas city and St. Louis and Oklahoma city and, you know, Dubuque, you know, you'll be, you'll, that's a good way to go broke. You know, it's being too scattered out, you know, like that. You, and some people may can do it, you know, I'm just not capable of doing that. You know, you have to stay close and that's how I make a living. And I keep my, another thing is, you know, you want to keep.I mean, it's just silly stuff to say this, you know, live on half of what you make, try to get used to that, you know. That's a really hard thing to tell people and that's, you know, try to live on half, you know, try to really live, you know. I've had to sell my houses before. I've had to sell my cars. I mean, I've had to, you know, when the going gets tough, you know, sometimes you got to do what you got to do. Now, on wood and thankfully.And by the grace of God, I've been able to build my net worth continually. But when you sell a property and you make a lot of money on it or you make a profit, you've got capital gains, you know, then. And so the only way not to pay those capital gains is to do, you know, to trade that property or do a 1031 tax deferred exchange and put the money into another property. So I sell a property and I get some money and I either pay a bunch of taxes on it or I have to re -spend it.Monte Anderson (28:17.826)But if I respend it, hopefully I can get a brokerage fee, an architectural fee, construction fee. And so I end up living on these fees. You know, I'll end up in these fees I pay myself. I'm able to pay myself. they're not, you know, they're market fees. They're fair to my partners, fair. You you always want to put these fees and stuff in your partnership agreements.You want to put what you're going to get paid. You always want to put that in your partnership agreement. So your partners know what you're getting paid. You want to have that upfront. You don't want that to be a surprise. You know, as you're putting, I've got partners for like over 20 years, financial partners, and they just, trust me. It's whatever you want to do, do it. You know, and because they're used to me, you know, taking care of them. And that's really important as you take care of, you know, youryour people that invest with you like that. gotta take, I would, if I had to, would sell everything I had to make sure my people are whole and my banks are paid if I had to. And I'd just start over again. I haven't had to, but thankfully, but I've sold things along the way when I really didn't want to sell them, you know, to be able to keep on going.Kevin K (29:31.323)So, I mean, I think it sounds like then, if this is a fair way to say it, that if you're doing this sort of thing, first of all, it's probably, especially for a lot of people, it's better to think of it as like a side hustle, at least initially. But more importantly, it's it's great to be able to have one of those people in the flywheel that you would normally pay a fee to.it would be great to be able to replace yourself with at least one of those. So whether that's brokerage, property management, design, engineering, anybody that you might normally be cutting a check to, if you have an expertise in one of those areas and you can claim that fee, then that is a way to keep getting yourself paid.Monte Anderson (30:13.302)Yes.Monte Anderson (30:18.538)Yeah, yeah, think about this. Think about this in your farm up there and your Kansas City farm up there. You're working on this project right now. You're having to put your fees back in, but you're also working on a project for another guy, John Doe and Jane Doe down the street. You're doing the same things. You're still improving the neighborhood. So it's really, I don't look at it as a side hustle. You're doing architecture for yourself and you're doing it for Jane and John and these other people.Kevin K (30:39.91)Okay.Monte Anderson (30:45.42)And then every third or fourth or fifth deal is your deal. And every third or fourth or fifth deal, it's your deal. And then the more you get going over time, every other deal is your deal. And then every two deals is yours and one is somebody else's. And every three deals is yours and then one is somebody else's. So over time, it becomes, but I think it's good as a small scale developer to have.the term used, side hustle, is true to be able to start right now. Because right now you can adopt a place, start doing your architecture in that place, stop building, know, start working on hospitals all over the country, just work in your own farm, and do small jobs, do storefronts, come and help people do their lettering on their windows if you're an architect. You know, help them just fix things up.You you make enough money to make a living and at the same time, now you're working on your townhomes. You know, you're working on your townhomes and now you find another project and I'm always looking for an opportunity. Because if I can find an and what is an opportunity? An opportunity is where something is below the market. Like the shopping center I bought, 90 ,000 square feet, 60 % occupied, the rates were like six or $7 a foot per year. You know.When I get through, it's 90 ,000 square feet. The rates are 22, $24 a square foot. So I bought it. It was way below the market, but the market site is a $6 building. The market didn't see it as a $24 building because it had the cheap kitchens. Like you say, in the townhouse, had, so we put good kitchen, you know, we did better and we had to do, we had to spend more, but it was, we were able to make a lot more money.And in the long run, it will be. I can tell you this on all of my projects, all of them, just a hundred percent. If I keep it long enough, I will get all my fees and a really good return because what I'm doing is improving a farm. I'm improving a community together. And as they say, it's the tide rises, so to all chefs. So every time I'm improving something in that farm, the one I've got is going up in value.Monte Anderson (33:10.412)And over time that'll go up. If we look at it at three or four years, that's where the problem is on the YouTube video that we talked about is looking at stuff that could get rich quick scheme is, don't know. There's guys who flip houses and do things. Gals that flip houses and do things that probably they get rich. They get somewhat rich, you know, I guess. And some of them get rich, I guess. And you know, you can do that.Kevin K (33:22.523)Yeah.Monte Anderson (33:38.552)That's just never been my goal in doing real estate. My goal has been one of a townmaker, you know, of making our lives better. And I know you have the same goal in mind. So do most of our friends have that goal. We want to make the built environment better. Money's important, but it's not always the only important thing.Kevin K (34:02.363)Yeah, I think it's, kind of took the words right out of my mouth. That's like, you're not, you're not describing a, get rich quick scheme at all. But you're describing something that has a different kind of reward that somebody had. Obviously your, your goal is still to make money and make good money if you, know, if you're smart about it, but you're not going to be rolling up in a brand new Maserati in two years or something like that. It's because your goal is really to improve.Monte Anderson (34:08.93)Yeah.Monte Anderson (34:28.098)Yeah. Yeah.Kevin K (34:31.525)your place and lift your own community up and do really good stuff along the way.Monte Anderson (34:39.084)Yeah. And, and like you said, make making money. always tell people wherever I go these days, making money is the most important thing. Doing good is equal, but I didn't say doing good is the most important thing first. And then make it my, you know, I said, making money, said most of them, because without making money, you can't continue. You're going to be stuck. You know, if you build those townhomes.all your money's gone and all your credit's tied up and you weren't able to sell them or you weren't able to get the rents, then everything you got's tied up. And I can't tell you how many friends I've got all over the country right now that are one time, developer and out. They're one deal and out, you know? And so when I get stuck on a project and I do, I'm on one of those right now, it's just big and it's bulky, you know, and it's hard.So I've got to continue to do these littler projects around that keep me. That's what keeps me making, know, my own salary, you know, making, you know, got to, we, had a meeting with my staff this morning and said, okay, what are we going to sell right now? What's, what's on the board that we can sell? You know, what can we do? That's when we make our fees, you know, brokerage fees and development fees when we sell these properties. And then we can do another one. We'll fix them up. And hopefully we get to.sell them to somebody good, you know, that hadn't been the case always with me. I sold some stuff to some people I didn't, I wished I wouldn't have, but sometimes I have no choice. You know, sometimes I have no choice. have to do, but the difference too, in what you and I are talking about today, you're in the middle of it yourself right now. And I am in it all the time constantly is that we're in the middle of this, you know, ofvery difficult, you know, complex, you know, maybe more complex than somebody doing a big, you know, $100 million building over here. Because a $100 million building, you've got lawyers and lobbyists and architects and planners and engineers and contractors, and you've probably got a big bid and you're going to build it all at once and it's going to be over and it's financed by the Ohio State Teacher Pension Fund.Monte Anderson (36:57.602)know, has financed it and it's probably easier because the developer didn't have to be the developers more of a financial architect, more of a financial wizard, you know, if you will, whereas a small scale developer like us, you know, we're the, you know, we're everything. Yeah, we're quite often we're the contractor, you know, handling leases, we're going to raise the money, we went to the bank to sign the note, you know, if the plumbing's broke, you know,Quite often I might be the one that's called depending on when it is, if it's in the middle of the night or something like that. We're very close and these are personal. We know the names of our tenants or our buyers. kind of, know our people. That's the big difference. And so you gotta be, you gotta really be, I think more knowledgeable sometimes about building, about developing and building. And I would think that this is the way people were a hundred years ago. I would think.100 years ago when there was no financing, or maybe a little longer, but 100 years ago when there was no financing and you're building these projects in towns with all cash or borrowed money from the attorney in town who had a little money, or that's quite often who's building those things back in those days. Quite often it was bankers and attorneys back then, bankers built.We're developers. can't do that these days because of the laws, but quite often bankers and things were developers. And you were raising all cash and you're doing it. That's why all of the buildings are small, a lot smaller back in C. And they were built incrementally. When we talked about incremental development, we didn't invent incremental development. That's the way the beginning of time. Yes.Kevin K (38:48.143)Yeah. Yeah. That's the way all development was until really fairly recently. I'm curious about if you could talk about some of the ways things go wrong. So you mentioned you have some friends who are like one project and out. What's going on? How does something like this really go wrong for somebody where, or are there a couple of key mistakes to just really watch out for?Monte Anderson (38:55.5)Yeah, it was.Monte Anderson (39:16.748)Yeah, the biggest mistake is humility, not enough humility. I mean, really to have that open mind to really look at the reality and the facts, know, really have your ego checked and the reality of facts. You really need to look at those facts. Do not try to, you know, cherry coat it. not try to do that.What happens in these cases is be a guy like you or me was starting out, you you put together a deal and you put all your money in, you put all your money in just to get the plans done and, you know, know, down payment on the property and engineering and, you know, bank fees and attorney's fees. And you put all your money up, you got your money. And then now you got a couple of partners and you've promised these partners. You've promised them certain things, you know, that are probably too good to be true.Kind of like the guy on YouTube. Probably too good to be true. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And we've promised those. And we've promised those things and now it's not the right, we said it was. Or we want to upgrade the kitchens. Or I want to change the spaces. In fact, I have a meeting this afternoon at four o 'clock after this to talk to one of my partners about this exact.Kevin K (40:21.903)Yeah, if it sounds super easy, watch out.Monte Anderson (40:44.318)banking today and saying we need more, we need more money. And then you, then you, can't get much more money. You, you, you spend two or three years getting their project together. You used all your money, you used all your in -laws money to part of your investors. You got your credit tied up. You finally did get, say that in the best cases or in some of the best cases, you got it all built. It's built and you're not, you're for one thing, you're brain dead.your brain dead, you're just deal dead. And secondly, you've got no more money. You got no more credit. You've got to go back to work wherever you are, doing whatever you can to make money. Because you still had your house and your wife and your kids. You still had to, and so that's actually best case in some scenarios, you didn't go broke. But in many cases where the deal maker, the promoter, the developer promises things.They might even lose their interest because they can't, especially if it depends on how they promise the payback to the investors. You could actually lose your interest. call that, you there's a preferred return. A preferred return is when you would maybe guarantee an investor return. You would guarantee them maybe a 6 % preferred return, which means you're going to get 6 % from day one in the deal. And if you can't pay me back, that's 6 % plus a percentage of the profit.then I take your interest. And that happens, that happens a lot. And that's not as bad as a bankruptcy or a foreclosure, but you ended up doing all this work and you end up with nothing. And so I never do preferred returns with anybody. I never do those, just don't do them. There's too many unknown things. There's just too many things that can happen. Preferred returns sometimes it's like having a bad credit card. You can't get the interest, you know, paid.And it just keeps going every day while you're having delays or not getting the project done quick enough.Kevin K (42:51.697)So then for your, do you have a recommendation then for dealing with investors so that you don't have to do the preferred return? How would you structure, recommend structuring?Monte Anderson (42:59.246)Yeah, I do. I do. have a, what I call the whole pie. I'd say it's the promoter. And this is, I'm going to oversimplify this, promoter, the developer, you put up the money to pursue all the money to do the deal, the architecture, the due diligence, the earnest money, the legal money, and you sign the note. And then the investors, which you may be an investor in your own deal. If you put cash in your own deal, your investors get 50 % of the deal.And they put up 100 % of the cash needed, the equity needed. And as the cashflow is there, they get their equity, they get their equity back first. No percentage return. They get their equity back first. And once their equity is all paid back, then you split 50 -50. So you're 50 % going in, you're 50%. But they get all their money back. And here's the thing about investors. Most of time, once they get their money back, they're very...They're very flexible then once they get their principal back. And then in the meantime, you say, well, I got no fees. How am I going to make a living? Well, you make your living off the development fee, the leasing fees, the management fees. So you're making those fees back. then, then if you get the building leased up and this is what I'm doing here at where we speak right now, is I'll get this thing leased up and stabilized with no more construction going on. Then I can go out on the market and get a better loan.So I can get a better loan. know, lenders during construction, you know, you've probably experienced this. You lenders are very nervous during construction.Kevin K (44:35.218)yeah, that's the riskiest time period.Monte Anderson (44:38.252)Yeah. And so they're in, this way, this way people get back, they get back to their percentage when they get it here, when it comes back, you're going to get it when it comes back. Now I got to treat them right. And I got to do my best to get their money back. And that taking me time to build relationships where I can, where I can get this done. And these are also community investors. And I would say, what is a community investor? It's a person that's, it's typically a baby boomer, generally speaking between.It's worth between three million and $20 million net worth. That's gotta have 100, 200, 300 ,000, 1 ,000 they can put in one of your projects. Maybe there's three or four of them if you need a bigger amount. they're gonna be like around, it's somebody you can have coffee with and talk to. No, they're gonna be...more empathetic with you, you know, if you're honest with them, you know, always be honest with them. Always telling the bad news and the truth. Always. Don't hold, don't hold back and surely don't hide it. Don't hide. Don't, don't do that. Don't do that. People are, people are, people are forgiving and better when, the truth, when you're, when you have a true, you know,You have a true relationship that's not full of hidden things and it's just a, it's better. And it always comes out in the end. It always comes out better for you. And they know you're committed.Kevin K (46:21.263)Yeah, was gonna say eventually you might be able to hide something for a little bit, but it's gonna come out.Monte Anderson (46:26.604)Yeah. Yeah. You're not going to be able to be careful with your numbers. And I've done this. mean, I've, you know, I've been too optimistic on my numbers, you know, I mean, cause I wanted to do the project, you know, and, I have people around me that keep me balanced in that place. said my long time CFO here, he's an old banker back when he he's been with me forever, I always give him proformas and stuff. do. said, look,Kevin K (46:46.16)HaMonte Anderson (46:56.27)shoot holes in this, really, just really take my stuff apart. Really look at it, critique it, challenge it. Tell me I can't lease that space for this much, or I can't resell it, or I can't know why I can build a restaurant for $100 a square foot. It's gotta be 150, no matter how you look. Tell me those things. Tell me I can't manage this thing for $5 a square foot. It's gotta be, critique me.Yeah. Keep me balanced.Kevin K (47:27.867)So yeah, I think that's great advice. Always have somebody that you have a relationship enough with that you can ask them to poke holes in what you're doing. So I mean, we've talked about some of the downside, there's also, mean, the reality is we're interested in this and a lot of people are interested in this because there's a ton of enjoyment that comes out of it as well. Some financial, but a lot of it non -financial. I think one of the things justMonte Anderson (47:37.88)Yeah.Kevin K (47:57.243)For me personally, I'll never be able to shake loose the architect inside me and I just love seeing buildings going up. the incredible reward you have to know that you worked on something and you can see it manifested physically is pretty awesome. So there's all those things and it kind of like we were talking a little bit about earlier, I think one of the things that I remind myself of.Monte Anderson (48:16.92)Yeah.Kevin K (48:26.845)frequently is that sometimes you just have to make a decision to just go and to just do it. And you can definitely get paralysis analysis here in this always hoping for the perfect timing and the perfect deal. But there's never really any such thing. at some point, you want to do your homework and everything. there comes a point where you just got to pull the trigger and try it and do something, right?Monte Anderson (48:33.186)Yeah.Monte Anderson (48:54.402)Yeah, yeah, I'm very instinct guided by instinct. I mean, I'm very guided by instinct. Now, mean, you've seen me before work on numbers and stuff, you know, I'm constantly running numbers. When I see projects, I can see it with numbers. I see the numbers and the spaces and the sizes and what the rents should be and.operations that cost and stuff like that. yeah, at some point, there's no way you're going to be able to prove it and you just got to go for it. You just got to. And to your right to see a project go from like you've seen, you know, go out of the ground to see it come up. mean, to watch the framing and, know, from the plumbing, watching the plumbing stick up and the framing. mean, there's, there's something so great about that, especially when you're doing a project that's worthy, you know, worthy project. It's something.I mean, we were meant to be builders, think, as humans, especially. I mean, we were meant to build and to do good things upon the earth. Hopefully we could do better things than we've done upon the earth, than some of the things we've done, but we were meant to be builders. And there's nothing like it to see.project. have photos all around my office of projects and things that and it's just so good to see all of that and to also have made a decent living and built some wealth you know and today I have my daughter and my granddaughter both work with me and to have that that legacy or that start of something isIt's like there's no way any amount of money could make me feel as good as looking at some of these projects and just seeing businesses thrive and people have decent places to live. There's something so special about that. Otherwise, I'd just be a broker today, just brokering deals and wouldn't care. I think there's something in us that wants us to be townmakers.Kevin K (51:00.581)MmMonte Anderson (51:00.704)It wants us to make our towns better. And maybe it's you're not the developer. Maybe you're just one of the champions, the community champions, or you're just an activist in the community that supports this. It's nice to have people like that. Those are very important people to me. People that cheer me on and don't just criticize me. They're very important, you know, to me. They're just as important as anybody, you know, but that, but there's something so good about that. And then, then you will, if you can, if you can.If you can commit, here's why committing to your neighborhood or your farm or your place for the rest of your life is so important. Because once you commit to that place like that, you commit. The universe changes around you. It makes things easier. Well, I don't know about easier. It makes things doable. It gives you resources. It gives you things that you wouldn't have had when you make that.when you don't have that commitment. gives people come to you and they want to sell you a property cheaper or they want to, you know, people will invest with you. People will do things with you when they know that you're a true, you're champion like that. And then you will make money. And I think people and my partners and stuff, they want me to make money. They allow me to make money on these projects. They want me to make money. You know, I have to make them money too, but, and to...see all the small businesses that I deal with and the people that I've seen in housing that may not have had housing and subcontractors and welders and carpenters and know painters and people that around me help them build their businesses and stuff I'm involved in all of that there's I mean I can't imagine doing anything better I don't know what it would be maybe I could be a missionary or something do better work or something but I don't know this is good stuff well this is just goodKevin K (52:49.563)Yeah. Well, you're a missionary of sorts. You're a certain.Monte Anderson (52:57.312)It's good stuff, it's good, you and it helps you help people. You help build a better, you hope you do. Not everything I've done is always the best for sure, because I've made a lot of mistakes, but that would be the hope that you are able to leave something decent. By the way, my other granddaughter just graduated from Stephen F. Austin in Texas to be an architect.Kevin K (53:24.729)wow. All right.Monte Anderson (53:25.644)So that was really cool. she's, you know, I got kids, so there's family trees, you know, starting to be architects and developers and stuff. it's a good.Kevin K (53:36.625)I feel like we're starting to brainwash our kids in that regard too. We've got them, you know, all those like HGTV type shows. We got them watching those and they're really enjoying them. And it's fun to watch with them. The latest one that we found, which I guess is not a new show, I guess it's like seven years old, but there was a show called You Can't Turn That Into a House. And it was actually three guys from Kansas City whoMonte Anderson (53:40.994)Alright.Monte Anderson (53:46.396)yeah.Monte Anderson (54:01.6)Yes.Kevin K (54:05.821)made the show and they take these things like, you know, they'll take a couple of school buses or a grain silo or a horse trailer or whatever, and turn it into like a little house. and it's just like the coolest thing. And they do it on these ridiculous schedules and ridiculous budgets, but that act of creativity is so just, you know, incredible. And I remember actually, I think the first one we saw that it was like this, this stuff kind of reminds me of Monty because.Monte Anderson (54:20.78)Yeah.Kevin K (54:34.489)you have done some really cool, creative, unique stuff with your projects that are way outside the box on what people would normally look at, especially for your retail stuff.Monte Anderson (54:44.15)Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We use a lot of trailers and stuff like that. love buses and trailers and things. Yeah. Kind of cool. Yeah.Kevin K (54:49.435)Yeah.Kevin K (54:52.977)So it's fun work and I agree it's fun to share it with others and everything else.Monte Anderson (55:00.111)Yeah. We do need to make more money as small middle class developers and stuff. We do need to make more money. So we need to continue to teach each other and help each other. That's another thing about the friends that you and I have. I think we all pay it forward. We're all always trying to help each other, I think. And that's a good thing.Kevin K (55:21.477)Yeah. Well, Monty, where can people find you next? Or you mentioned earlier some places you're going to be roaming around to. Where else are you working these days?Monte Anderson (55:34.934)Let's see, South Bend, Indiana, Elkhart, Indiana, Denton, Texas, Regina, Canada, Dubuque, let's see, Lafayette, Louisiana, getting ready to start in Orlando, Florida. Of course, Bernice Riedel is working in Buffalo and Jim Cooman in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And then we've done a little bit of work or still doing work in Kansas City or in Grandview.Missouri with an abandoned golf course down there that you remember. We're still working on that. They got their financing and bought that, the people that were helping. And then you can always reach us at neighborhoodevolution .com and optionsre .com. And we're always here. We do, we only do development, you know, in my farm, in my local area of Southern Dallas County. Southern Dallas County is where I work. And then we...Kevin K (56:11.867)Good. Good.Monte Anderson (56:32.022)Then we coach and teach and train, help cities create ecosystems all over the country through neighborhood evolution.Kevin K (56:44.571)Well, we just ran into Bernice recently. was here in Kansas City giving a keynote speech for a Missouri Main Streets Conference. So that was kind of cool to see. terrific. All right. We'll say hello.Monte Anderson (56:51.916)Yeah, and she's right outside my door right now here in Texas. She's riding with me to Lafayette tomorrow. yeah, we're meeting Marcus. Marcus King in Detroit will meet us in Lafayette. So Marcus is coming.Kevin K (56:59.451)Good, good. All right, Monty.cool, good, good. All right, well I'm jealous. Sounds like a fun crew. So. All right, Monty, thanks so much. This was great, very informative and I'm sure we will do it again.Monte Anderson (57:09.218)Yeah.Monte Anderson (57:17.762)Yeah, thank you, Kevin. See you soon. Bye.Kevin K (57:19.205)All right, take care. Get full access to The Messy City at kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/subscribe

Truth is, I wish we talked a lot more about making cities as kid-friendly as possible. The topic is often overlooked. That's why it was fascinating to see Derek Thompson's article, “The Urban Family Exodus Is a Warning For Progressives” get so much traction. He clearly touched a nerve.Today, I give my take in this solo podcast. As a father, as someone that loves cities, and someone that is in fact deeply concerned about the trendlines, I share my observations. This one gets a little personal. Ground I cover includes: 1. How parents really feel about their kids 2. What life in American cities is really like 3. How things are different now from the historic norm in the US 4. What parents really prioritize, not what we wish them to prioritize 5. What cities can do 6. How cities *could* be amazingFind more content on The Messy City on Kevin's Substack page.Music notes: all songs by low standards, ca. 2010. Videos here. If you'd like a CD for low standards, message me and you can have one for only $5.Intro: “Why Be Friends”Outro: “Fairweather Friend”Episode Transcript:Kevin K (00:01.824)Welcome back to the Messy City podcast. This is Kevin Klinkenberg flying solo today, doing an episode in a way that I've done occasionally in the past, but I haven't done a little while. I've had some amazing guests. I've got some more coming up and I love talking to people other than myself primarily in this gig, but it is fun once in a while to just riff on something that's in the news or on my mind.And that's what I'm going to do today. I do want to take a second and say thank you to all of you who are listening and following. The podcast has really grown a lot in audience the last six months. And I really appreciate everybody tuning in. And if you get a chance, please hit that like or follow button. Leave me a review on your podcast platform, especially if you're on Apple. Apple is the biggest podcast platform by far.So if you're listening through Apple podcasts, I'd really appreciate it if you gave the show a rating. All of that stuff helps get attraction and grow the audience. And the bigger the audience, the better I will be able to be at providing you all with really good programming and interesting guests and the ability to try to help us all out as we navigate how to improve our cities, how to improve our own situation.if you're a, a small developer or an aspiring small developer, try to become one. if you are someone who's just interested in cities and planning to do whatever you can do to make your community a better place to live and, and, help us, help us all out in our own little world. So that's the point. That's what I'm trying to do here. And, I hope you enjoy it judging by the numbers. A lot of you are enjoying it. So that's really cool. And, it's,It's definitely a lot of fun for me. So with that, I want to talk about an article that's made the rounds a lot lately and a topic that I've seen discussed in social media and elsewhere. And it really has to do with the subject of families and big cities. And a lot of this most, the most recent flurry of discussion happened atKevin K (02:25.002)as the result of an article in the Atlantic by Derek Thompson titled, The Urban Family Exodus is a Warning for Progressives. And I'm going to commit a cardinal sin here today where I'm going to talk about this topic without having read the actual article. So forgive me for that, but I will say I have read many, many articles on this topic.And what I really want to talk about today is just kind of my own experience as a father, as a parent, and my own interaction and evolution on this issue. Because I think there's an awful lot in the context of this subject that we just don't talk very much about. Especially those of us who are in this tiny, tiny niche ofpeople who call themselves urbanists, who care about cities, who care about development in cities. There's an awful lot tied into this issue that overlaps with others that we've talked about here before, but I think there's some that's really specific about having kids that I'd just like to dive into. So the context really in Derek's article, I did see some of the numbers. I don't have them in front of me. You can find them.out there, it's not hard to find. But the context was that people with children are continuing to move out of big cities. That this trend really started in the early COVID years, 2020, 2021, and has not really abated. so the article really was kind of a warning, especially to people in some of the largercities in the country, the places like New York, San Francisco, Chicago, et cetera, that people who have a choice, who have kids have continued to leave. And so that is why he says it's a warning. I guess I would say right off, right up front, I think this should be a concern for everybody. I don't think it should be a concern just for somebody who calls themselves a progressive. I've always had the opinion thatKevin K (04:42.818)Communities and cities are for everybody in every age group, every kind of background, every interest. The best kind of communities really embrace everybody. And it's a little strange to me when we say that, when we just kind of dial it down to like a political impulse. I understand why he's doing that. the reality is that most big cities are run by progressives.And so I think he's talking to progressive policymakers. But I think this issue really should concern everybody because honestly, when you don't have children living in your city, you have to ask yourself, like, what future does your city have? This is often talked about in relation to like places that are like retirement communities. And a lot of retirement communities also go through phases and fads.And if they don't evolve, since they're not replacing people themselves, there are no children in retirement communities. And so people aren't growing up there. What happens as people die off and those populations change? Well, the same is true of cities. If children are not growing up in cities and having, or if they're not growing up in your community and having a good feeling about it, it lowers the likelihood that they will want to be there as an adult.And if you're not going to be there as an adult, it's going to hurt your future population as well. everything in cities is a function of time. And there is that fourth dimension that we often neglect, that things change a lot over time. And we don't think about what might happen 10, 20, 30 years down the road. But if your community doesn't have children in it, that's a big red flashing warning sign.for what happens in the next generation. So I think this is an issue that should concern everybody. And again, I'd say right up front, I am terribly, terribly biased on this because I do have children. I have two young children, two daughters that are six and eight years old. And so I want to share, I think what might be useful for me, first of all, is to share a little bit of a personal perspective on having kids.Kevin K (07:09.09)And then I have some thoughts related to what's going on in terms of evaluating and understanding cities and the landscape of cities in the United States. And then also what we might do, what cities might be able to do to course correct. What can they do to turn this around so that cities can be attractive to people who do have kids and reverse that population loss. So let's just start off with the personal.not a young person anymore. I certainly don't feel old, but I can't deny the math, but I'm not somebody who's in my 20s or 30s. And I have kids, but I came to having kids pretty late in life compared to most people. So my oldest was born when I was 45 and then my youngest when I was 47. So I'm not in...What is it? Al Pacino world here? Is it Al Pacino that like that recently had a kid or something and he's about eight years old? I'm not in that world, but I am definitely in the category of people who had kids late in their adult life. And so I lived a long period of time without children in cities and now I'm living with children in a city environment.and I think the thing, you know, the thing, the way I would like to talk about this first and foremost, there's so much about this that changes. You know, there's a lot of cliches about the things that change. And when you have kids and I knew all those cliches, I heard them a million times. It's really hard to fully understand that until you go through it. And, having children completely rewires your brain.and your priorities in a lot of ways that have really surprised me as a person. And I have often found myself just like shocked at things that are different about me now that I am caring for and responsible for these two young people. Just, you know, one silly thing is just like...Kevin K (09:29.184)you know, my wife and I have talked about this, like anytime there is like a movie or a show on TV and there are children that are like at risk, they're abducted, they're being hurt or harmed in some way. It's like, you know, I just lose it now. And it, the emotion that that creates in me and us is, it's hard to describe. It really,It affects me in ways that are, they seem kind of silly, but I understand and I empathize much more with the families and people in those situations than I ever would have otherwise. And so it's really kind of bizarre, but it's like an incredible way to just like make me all of a sudden choke up, you know, watching a movie, having some harm come to a small child. But I mean, the reality is,I will tell you from my experience, you do become much more emotional when you have kids. At least in my experience, I have found a protective impulse, the desire to protect them from harm and from the world that I just wasn't sure that I had that. When I was younger, I didn't know about that, but when once you have those children in your care,It's incredible how protective you are of just every aspect of their life. so I get why we don't want to become helicopter parents. We are not like that. But I get why people have that reaction. I get the instinct that a lot of parents have to really deeply care for every aspect of what happens in their child's life. And I would say,If you don't have that kind of reaction, if having kids doesn't change you in some meaningful way, then you should probably take a long look in the mirror. I mean, you might be a sociopath, I'm just saying. And it should change you. because it's an incredible thing to have to care for another human being. It's an incredible joy. And there's definitely the part of me that says, God, I wishKevin K (11:54.036)I had done this when I was younger and even had more kids than just the two of them because they really bring you incredible joy into your life. I would say that probably the highest highs and lowest lows come from being a parent. The moments you have them with them that are really great or fun or memorable from a good standpoint, stand out above and beyond anything else thatyou I did for myself in the years before I have kids. So it really is very different and it does tend to make you think that the life you led before kids was very like self -centered and maybe selfish. And I'm not saying that as like an accusation to anybody because, I lived it. I lived it myself for a very long period of time, but it is just really different. Sohaving kids that you care for really does change your priorities in ways that you probably can't communicate perfectly in an article, especially if you're like a childless person and you're just trying to describe like statistics that are happening and analyze what's going on. If you can't understand the emotion of it, then you're really missing something really important. So one aspect of thatis that with small children especially, you spend an awful lot of your time and mental energy trying to come up with activities for them and trying to entertain them, trying to do these things in ways that you're not worried about their safety. mean, you're literally worried about them surviving every moment.And so we spend a lot of time like trying to chase down those different activities. And for a lot of small kids in particular, in American cities, a lot of those places are in the suburbs. And I'll talk more about that in a little bit and the evolution of all that. But that is part of the day to day that most parents deal with is, you know, maybe you're going to a kid's play area or a play date.Kevin K (14:21.192)or a daycare or a swimming pool or aquatic center or whatever it is. And in American cities, most of those are in suburban locations because that's where most of the kids are. so there is this kind of challenge that you have as somebody who lives in an urban area that there isn't as much just kid -focused amenities as you would have in a lot of suburban areas.So it's true that if you live in the suburbs, you're still driving a lot to all these places, but it is closer and there's just a lot more of it. And so, you know, as a parent, we do find ourselves getting in the car a lot and driving out to suburban locations for any number of activities. And frankly, the family oriented events and activities, there's just so much more of them that are in businesses and other things in the suburbs.And it's just, one of the things that I think you can't really describe very well is going to, when you have small children, going to a place where you can kind of just let the kids free and roam around and play with other kids and not worry that they're going to be harmed. there's a, there is like a stress reduction on your own life that happens there. And so you're kind of always looking for those opportunities and there's just not much of that in a lot of urban areas or.urban locations. Now I think cities have gotten better for families in my lifetime. And there are more things. So like in my city, there's something we call Science City, which is basically just like a kids play area that is in the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, that's in the city. It's a really cool place. The kids love going there. That's an example of like a very family and kid focused activity.And there are some people working on creating more activities nearby and adjacent to it that I think will be really cool. We obviously have parks, we have playgrounds, we have a fantastic park that is a block away from our house that the kids walk down to and it's got a playground and everything. So we've used that a lot. We've got some of those types of things. And we have a neighborhood main street that is just up the block from our house.Kevin K (16:45.054)And if we walk a few blocks in one direction, you know, we can hit the ice cream place and there's a taco place and there's, there's, there's some places that are, that are fun to hang out. Now, I will say in our area, most of there are some, most of those businesses are not what we would call like kid friendly places. and maybe that's a, that might be an especially American way of looking at businesses. but they aren't.And they're generally focused on the demographic of people who live in the cities, which tends to be younger and just certain crowds of people that are not dragging their kids around. we have some of those things. It is better. But we also lack a lot. We don't have a swimming pool, for example, in our neighborhood or anywhere near us.By contrast, both of my sisters live in suburban subdivisions in our metro that both have neighborhood pools. And they can just walk over any time when they visit their aunts and uncles and they can just go swimming all day. Granted, they pay for that. It's part of your HOA dues if you live in one of those subdivisions. But we don't even have that option in our area at all.in our part of the city. Now, some cities are better than others. Our city is not particularly good at having those kinds of amenities. And that's really something that is very lacking, not to mention some of those kid play areas. And there's just also very little programming of events that are specifically for kids and families in the city.Parks department is doing a little bit more of that than they used to, but, it's great. We love, we do as much of that as we can. But when you compare it to the sort of routine events that happen in a lot of our suburban jurisdictions, it just doesn't compare. and, and it's frustrating. It's frustrating for us because we wish we had a lot more of that. Cause we don't want to get in the car and drive for 20 or 30 minutes to another location. But we often find that.Kevin K (19:07.116)that's just kind of what we have to do. So that, I mean, that's one aspect of all this is, you know, when you are in middle -class family and you are trying to balance, you know, a lot of these needs and really care for your kids and provide them with fun things to do and go to places where you can kind of relax too, it's really important to have those things nearby. So, you know, another aspect of thisI think if you're to step back a little bit, and that's all kind of like personal experience. If I were to look at like, are the things that most normal families really care about when it comes to choosing a place to live? And I've mentioned this before, but one thing that I think almost anybody listening to this podcast would have to understand is that like,Those of us who are in our little world here are not normal. If you are a quote unquote urbanist, you are probably not normal. You probably do not have like the same value system as the vast majority of people in your city or in our country. I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's just, it just is. It's just different. A lot of us put a high priority in our own life.in living somewhere where you can walk around to some things or ride a bike to some things. And I love all that. I put a high priority in that. I wish more people did. I wish that was normative in our culture that like the idea of using your body to get around to most things in your daily life was like normal. It used to be normal in our cities. And if I were to say a little sidebar here,one of the things that's really kind of unique about American cities and culture is that we conflate urban with big city. and by urban, mean like places where you might like walk around to things. so this is, this is different than most countries in the world where, where people small town, whether you're in a small town or a big city, most people walk around, to get around.Kevin K (21:36.69)And it's different from our historical legacy as well in the United States, because prior to the 1920s and the beginning of the suburban experiment or the revolution in city planning that happened at that time period, every community in our country was a walkable place. Everything that a lot of quote unquote urbanists would love was normative.And if you don't believe me, just look at pictures and postcards from literally any community in America prior to the 1930s. And you see that they are all what we would call urban today in terms of how people actually lived. So that was our legacy and that was how our country developed for a couple of hundred years.until we embarked on this experiment to basically destroy it all and destroy it all kind of on purpose with big money and big policy and for many decades of intentional destruction. And so we're left with this situation now where people tend to conflate like, if you mean walkable and urban, well, that's only in like the big city. And that's just not true.that's never really been true historically. But on the ground today, that is how a lot of it feels, that you have big cities that are kind of walkable and maybe people take public transit, maybe people ride bikes. And then you have suburbs where people drive cars. And very simplistically, that's how a lot of people look at the world. And I've always been frustrated by that.And it certainly doesn't have to be that way. But that is how a lot of people look at it. one substacker who I've talked about before here, Addison Delmastro, he does a really good job of writing about this. He kind of talks about this topic frequently on his substack, which I think is called the deleted scenes. Just the notion that small towns, as we think of them today, really are just big cities that haven't matured orKevin K (24:03.778)didn't mature or grow into being bigger places, but they all have the same DNA. The little town where I went to high school, Marshall, Missouri, has this lovely courthouse square and beautiful older neighborhoods from before the 1930s. And it has the exact same DNA as like the neighborhood that I live in now. It's just that Kansas City, Missouri grew to become a big city.Marshall, Missouri did not grow to become a big city. It kind of stagnated at a certain population and it's been more or less the same population for about a hundred years. So big cities grew and changed and a of small towns did not. And then we also had the growth of suburbia, which was a completely new way of living that was in many ways organized around needing a car to get to places. So.So anyway, I guess that's a bit of a sidebar. It's kind of thinking about how cities are in America today. But historically, they weren't that way. So anyway, setting that aside, for most normal people in our country today, they look at the landscape and don't really think about these issues. It's just like, it is what it is. You live in America, you have a house, you have a car, you drive to places. And that is baked in to the cake.that like that's part of the lifestyle. And so as a result, a lot of people, especially families with kids, they're not really like thinking about like urbanism or walkability as a thing necessarily for their children or for their family location. Some people do. I think there's more people that think about it now than used to. There's probably more people who think about it from the standpoint of like, it'd be cool to have like bike trails nearby.because a lot of suburbs have done a great job of building like bike trail networks. But not many people are thinking about, you know, I want to live in a place where they have like a neighborhood main street that we can walk to with the kids. Again, I wish they would, but it's just not in the minds of most people. What is in the minds of most people, especially people who have a choice in where they want to live, not everybody has a choice, not everybody can afford to move. But for people...Kevin K (26:29.996)For middle class people especially who have a choice, and if you have kids, this is the reality. You're thinking about crime and safety first and foremost because you're trying to protect your children from harm. That is first and foremost in the minds of nearly every parent that I know. How do I protect them from harm? And yes, that can include, you know, there are,can include walking and biking as a part of that, but what most people are thinking about is, I want to live somewhere where our house isn't likely to get broken into, where our car isn't likely to get stolen or carjacked, where it's less likely to run into violent crime, especially in public. Because violent crime is a reality in our society. We have a lot of it. My city is a particularly violent city.unfortunately, and we can't ignore how prominent that is in the minds of most people who have a choice. So I always put that up there, like that's number one. If people aren't thinking about that or factoring that into, you know, why people might be leaving cities, then they're completely missing the boat. The second thing that people think about really are the quality of the schools when you're thinking about your kids. Andsure that's a loaded topic. We all know the history of public schools is fraught with a lot of different issues. But there's just simply no question that every parent is trying to get their kids into the best possible school that they can, the best one that they can afford. And by afford meaning whether it's a private school that they want to pay for or it's a public school in the place with the house that they can most afford with the best public school.so that is a major consideration and, you know, frankly, most big cities fail in this area. Most of our big cities in the country, including my own have public school districts that are often at the bottom of the list in terms of rankings for schools in their Metro areas. you can argue with me whether you want, if you want to, about whether that's fair or not fair. It doesn't matter. All people know is.Kevin K (28:56.65)school, those schools bad, other schools better. And people are going to act on whatever they think is best for their kids. Because you're a really weird person, I think, if you want to experiment with your children by sending them to a school that is potentially subpar. So again, there are a lot of factors involved with why schools are better or not.You know, in our city, we happen to have a unique network of charter schools that was started 20, 25 years ago. And so charter schools are public schools, but they each operate as their own independent school district, essentially. And our kids go to a charter school in the city that is an excellent school with some of the best academic ratings in the state of Missouri.really great school. a foreign, it's a unique foreign language immersion school and we really like it. We're very, happy with it and we have many friends who have had their kids there and have their kids there and so it's kind of a unique situation. That was an incredible enticement. I will tell you before we had charter schools in the city as a choice, people as soon as they had it, as soon as their kids hit like elementary school age, they were out of here.they were moving to the suburbs. And now that we have a whole selection of charter schools as an option where people don't have to pay, we have many, many more families that are choosing to stay in the city and keeping their kids in those schools. So that's an encouraging thing. That's generally been a good thing. But a lot of cities don't have that choice. A lot of parents don't have that choice.When we lived in Savannah, Georgia, we didn't really have that choice. think there were two charter schools in the city of Savannah and they were both just unbelievably oversubscribed and very, very difficult to get into. And again, you have to ask yourself as a parent, you know, are you going to just like play a lottery game with your kid's future? And most parents are not. They're not going to if they have a choice. Again, many parents don't have a choice, but if you do have a choice,Kevin K (31:20.694)you're just not gonna play that game. And you'll make whatever sacrifice you need to for your kids, if it means moving, if it means moving to somewhere that's more expensive, whatever you have to do for your kids' future. So that's a big deal. The other aspect of schools, things we can't, the discussion we can't avoid, although I think a lot of people would love to avoid it, is that there is still a tremendous hangover from the COVID policies. And the schools that were closed,the longest during COVID were almost all schools in major cities and especially schools in large school districts in inner cities. And there are many, many parents who have just not forgotten that and have not let go of it and will not let go of it. I think obviously there was plenty of evidence thatpeople left, a lot of people left those districts during the COVID era so they could be somewhere where their kids could be in school. And I would suspect that there is a hangover from that for a lot of people still looking to get out who are still very angry about what happened during that era, kept keeping their kids out of school for a year, some places, two years. And they want to be somewhere where they know that's not going to happen.again or where they suspect that won't happen again. that's another aspect of the school situation that in the current era is a big deal. So again, top of the list when you have kids, crime and safety, and schools. I think the third thing after that is cost of living. And this is where the affordability discussion comes in.You know, this has everything to do with housing affordability primarily, but it also has a little bit to do with taxes and overall cost of living. You know, I live in a city where our city has an income tax, a 1 % income tax. It's the only city in our metro area that has that. And so I get it when people don't want to be part of that.Kevin K (33:41.068)when they say to themselves, well, I can live somewhere else in this Metro and not pay an income tax. I can be in a better rated school district and I'm going to have lower crime. I mean, honestly, that's the logical choice. Who wouldn't? You really have to be a weirdo or like me to say we want to like live in the city when those are your basic choices. And it's funny that any of these things get framed otherwise.Like that is the normal rational choice to make is to live somewhere that's less expensive where you get more for your money that is safer for you and your kids. So that's just the hard truth for how all these things work out that a lot of American big cities fail in those key areas compared to their suburbs. And then unfortunately what's happened over the yearsis that the primary political constituencies have adjusted to all this to kind of reflect their populations. big cities tend to focus on policies that are the people who are left in those cities who like them, wealthy people, childless people, and oftentimes people who don't have a choice to move somewhere else. And then suburban cities tend to keep reinforcing and focusing onlike families and kids, oftentimes to the exclusion of attracting younger people and single people and childless people too. So they have that blind spot in a lot of suburban areas. And so there's that issue as well. I think in the minds of a lot of city and urban policymakers, what's really great for kids is just not top of mind. And so it kind of becomes like a self -licking ice cream cone.in the policy world. And it's just an unfortunate side effect of where we are. So what can cities do? What can urban areas or major cities do about all this? Honestly, that's always a question. I've just never been the kind of person that I am satisfied with stating a problem and not trying to give.Kevin K (36:03.458)some concrete ideas on like what to do, what else could be done. And so I'll take a shot at a few things here. I mean, I think a lot of this is kind of going to logically follow from the other part of the conversation. But first and foremost, cities need to be serious, and I mean really, really serious about public safety and crime. And too many cities just are not. My city is not.just flat out not serious about it right now. We have one of the worst murder rates and crime rates in the country. There is no sense of urgency on this issue from our leadership at all. There are people who care. There are people who are trying to do things. But there's no sense of urgency related toHow do we deal with this immediately and today? It's mostly like about like longer term solutions. And I'm, you know, long, I'm all for the longer term solutions. Those are great. But if you don't deal with things immediately, then you lose people. People just leave and they get fed up and they're going to move on. So if your city is in that category that it's not really serious about crime and safety, you're going to lose people and you're especially lose middle -class families with kids. That's just part of the reality.Another thing that cities can do is try to find ways to support innovation in education. I'm going to write about this more at a future date here, but I've had long had some thoughts about ways that public school districts, especially really large ones, could be reformed. And I think there's a lot of reform needed in public school administration and education.And if you are a logical person, you would start with the ones that are the most underperforming. And we are fortunate here in Kansas City, Missouri, that we have more choices than most with charter schools, with private schools, and a public school district. But our public school district needs to be better. There's just no other way to say it. It's got to be better. And we've got to find ways to just innovate much more quickly.Kevin K (38:28.41)and in more thoughtful ways than what we're doing right now in education. Or again, people will leave. It's just that simple. If the schools suck, people are going to move somewhere else. So the third area, not really all that surprising, but when we talk about cost of living is cities need to get really serious about trying to be affordable with, and to try to make their housing as affordable as possible.I've stated this here before in this podcast, but as a refresher, I don't think that means like we need to build capital A affordable housing. That is just generally not as, that's not what I'm talking about. We're talking about housing for middle -class people generally that have kids. The path to affordability there is to do what a lot of cities have started to do, which is really reform their codes and processes.to actually make it easier to produce new housing and produce it at scale. So whether you're talking about single family houses, townhouses, duplexes, missing middle housing, whatever it is, most cities have become really, really difficult to work in to produce new housing. And their suburban counterparts are quite easy to work in.For somebody like me, I don't like the housing that is being produced in most of our suburbs. The standard suburban format, industrially spit out house in community. That doesn't appeal to me. But it sure would be nice if our city, if we could produce housing at the pace and ease at which it happens in a lot of suburban places. So that is something that we're seeing progress in.We're starting to see reform in a lot of cities, but we've got a long, long ways to go to get that better. And obviously the last thing, I think this is a little more challenging, it's probably more from an entrepreneurial standpoint, but we really need more amenities for kids and families in urban places. Like if you really care about having and retaining kids and families in urban places, they've got to have those.Kevin K (40:52.546)amenities that families come to expect nowadays. You know, this isn't this isn't 1950 anymore where a lot of places just didn't have amenities. Now there's an expectation and if people don't have it, they're going to go where where those expectations are being met. So, you know, neighborhoods should have pools. They should have swimming pools. They should have play areas and playgrounds and park spaces.It would be nice if there were more businesses that were more welcoming to families and kids and more like family focused businesses. So those can't be mandated. I'm not saying like those can be mandated from the top down, but it would be smart for people who care about those things to encourage them, try to create them. So I'll just like sum up here by saying thatI think the frustrating part here, and I think probably a lot of you may feel this way as well, is that a lot of our cities could be absolutely amazing for families and for kids. And they can be amazing in ways that our suburban communities cannot be and may never be able to be. By having the freedom of movementon foot or bicycle and the free, ability to explore and be independent in a really well functioning place that was historically available for kids to be able to like actually walk to a neighborhood school or a neighborhood park or a pool. And there's just an awful lot of suburban communities that will never ever have that.because of the built pattern that exists, which makes it virtually impossible without like radical change. The built, the physical DNA of a lot of cities is ideal for incorporating all that. But we have an awful lot of policy problems, administrative problems, and just intransigent thinking that is holdingKevin K (43:19.57)us back and holding our cities back. time marches on. If you are a parent and you live in a city and you haven't thought about like going somewhere else where a lot of that could be easier, then you're probably unique in that regard. I've thought about it. My wife and I have thought about it. We have had discussions about, know, we are city people. There's a lot we love about the city.But might it just make more sense for us to live in one of the suburbs in the area? And there's a list of things we just really wouldn't have to think about or worry about very much. And we have never pulled the trigger on that. I don't know if we ever will. We really love our neighbors and our community. And we love the school that our kids are in, which really helps. That's a major.major factor that would keep us in the city. But the other things are a real source of frustration. We absolutely worry about the crime and safety issues. They are real and extremely concerning for us. We do get frustrated with the cost of living. That is just, it's just more expensive to live in the city and we have fewer amenities.I mean, that's just the reality. you know, is that the end of the world? No, it's not the end of the world. And we're in a pretty fortunate position compared to a lot of people. But my point is that I think that many, families, the majority of families think about things this way. They're not thinking about, boy, it would be cool if our kids could walk somewhere, you walk down the street to the neighborhood ice cream shop.and live in sort of an urbanist paradise. You're not thinking about that. You're thinking about very basic things like the safety of your children, the education they're going to get, and how much things are costing you. And that's the part of the discussion that if we want to be honest and if we really want to make things better and fix things, we have to be aware of these and have real frank discussions about.Kevin K (45:48.332)That's what I have for you today. This is Kevin. Thanks again for listening to the Messy City Podcast. And please hit that like or follow button and leave me a review if you can. Send me a note. Let me know what you think. Leave a message on the Substack page. Thanks everybody. Talk to you later. Bye. Get full access to The Messy City at kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/subscribe