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Oct 7, 2026

Kevin KietzmanHOST
15:25
The only thing I know that will work right now is technology, 'cause these companies can't find places where there's concentrations of good people, um, prospective employees, and places where people would move for these jobs and wanna work.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
15:39
All due respect, you know, we've got, like, the project going on in Osawatomie and places like that.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
15:44
Nice little town, but if you're a tech dude and you're, you know, gonna be having some five hundred thousand dollar a year job at a tech center, some line manager on a chip plant or something, like these guys are brainiacs, make big money.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
15:56
Would you rather live in Osawatomie or somewhere in the Kansas City area and work there? I think we know the answer to that for most of the tech people.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
16:03
I'm not saying they're making the right choice, and I'm not saying that's a better way to live than Osawatomie.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
16:08
I'm simply talking about the kind of people that work there and where they'd wanna go.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
16:11
This would be a very attractive place for tech workers to come work.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
15:02
The only thing I know that would work right now is technology, 'cause these companies can't find places where there's concentrations of good people, um, prospective employees, and places where people would move for these jobs and wanna work.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
15:16
All due respect, you know, we've got, like, the project going on in Osawatomie and places like that.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
15:20
Nice little town, but if you're a tech dude and you're, you know, gonna be having some $500,000 a year job at a tech center, you're some line manager on a chip plant or something, like these guys are brainiacs, make big money.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
15:33
Would you rather live in Osawatomie or somewhere in the Kansas City area and work there? I think we know the answer to that for most of the tech people.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
15:40
I'm not saying they're making the right choice, and I'm not saying that's a better way to live than Osawatomie.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
15:44
I'm simply talking about the kind of people that work there and where they'd wanna go.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
15:48
This would be a very attractive place for tech workers to come work.
TimAUDIENCE
14:38
So that's-
Kevin KietzmanHOST
14:38
Well, we had a guy on a few weeks ago on the show who they're, they're talking about building this data center in Osawatomie, Kansas, and he said-
TimAUDIENCE
14:45
Yeah
Kevin KietzmanHOST
14:45
... "You don't need, you don't need water." They use 130th the amount of water now as a golf course.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
17:24
They want them in places where people want to work.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
17:27
They'd...
Kevin KietzmanHOST
17:28
O- hon- no, no fault of Osawatomie, but they'd rather have that data center out there than Osawatomie, just based on the people they want to come work there.
Kevin KietzmanHOST
17:35
People would want to work in Kansas City at one of these things.
Frank HendersonGUEST
34:41
Well, I'm Frank Henderson.
Frank HendersonGUEST
34:43
I'm running for Kansas House District 6. which covers Lewisburg, Paola, half of Osawatomie, Bucyrus, and Weah.
Frank HendersonGUEST
34:55
I just got into this politics.
Frank HendersonGUEST
34:59
I don't see myself as a politician, but...
Elias GarciaHOST
38:24
Like, you know, what is what is on the minds of your potential future constituency on, you know, on the ground?
Frank HendersonGUEST
38:31
My district right now is fighting a data
Elias GarciaHOST
38:34
center right now in Osawatomie,
Frank HendersonGUEST
38:36
which the data center has promised to bring in a lot of money to help the city and the county and the school.
Frank HendersonGUEST
34:41
Well, I'm Frank Henderson.
Frank HendersonGUEST
34:43
I'm running for Kansas House District 6. which covers Lewisburg, Paola, half of Osawatomie, Bucyrus, and Weah.
Frank HendersonGUEST
34:55
I just got into this politics.
Frank HendersonGUEST
34:59
I don't see myself as a politician, but...
Elias GarciaHOST
38:24
Like, you know, what is what is on the minds of your potential future constituency on, you know, on the ground?
Frank HendersonGUEST
38:31
My district right now is fighting a data
Elias GarciaHOST
38:34
center right now in Osawatomie,
Frank HendersonGUEST
38:36
which the data center has promised to bring in a lot of money to help the city and the county and the school.
Nomin UjiyediinHOST
5:59
But KCUR's Frank Morris reports data center development can look a lot more attractive in a struggling rural town.
Frank MorrisCORRESPONDENT
6:08
A weedy soybean field on a brick road two miles from the half-empty downtown tiny Osawatomie, Kansas, has long been a headache for city manager Brett Glendening.
Frank MorrisCORRESPONDENT
6:18
It's an unused business park, one of many scattered across rural America.
Brett GlendeningSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
6:22
The two parcels that the city owns have been zoned industrial for well over 20 years.
Brett GlendeningSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
6:28
It's always been planned and hoped that this would eventually happen, not necessarily a data center per se, but any sort of commercial development.
Frank MorrisCORRESPONDENT
6:36
It's not easy drawing any sort of commercial development to a place like Osawatomie, a working class town of about 4,000, just a little too far from Kansas City.
Frank MorrisCORRESPONDENT
6:45
But now developers have targeted this field for a mid-sized data center.
Frank MorrisCORRESPONDENT
6:49
One they say could bring as much as $10 billion worth of new buildings and equipment.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:06
And it had bullet holes in it.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:07
And so from being wrapped in this shawl that that, uh, to, uh, to, uh, uh, hearing the stories of John Brown, um, and point of fact, um, they were invited to, uh, hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at Osawatomie, Kansas, where John Brown made his name, uh, uh, in, in, in, uh, killing, uh, uh, people in a sort of, um, where that name Jayhawkers came from, Roosevelt gives a speech of new nationalism.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:52
Langston must have been about four years old with his grandmother because as one of the kind of surviving people of that brown race.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
14:01
So this stuff is all in his life.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:06
And it had bullet holes in it.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:07
And so from being wrapped in this shawl that that, uh, to, uh, to, uh, uh, hearing the stories of John Brown, um, and point of fact, um, they were invited to, uh, hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at Osawatomie, Kansas, where John Brown made his name, uh, uh, in, in, in, uh, killing, uh, uh, people in a sort of, um, where that name Jayhawkers came from, Roosevelt gives a speech of new nationalism.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:52
Langston must have been about four years old with his grandmother because as one of the kind of surviving people of that brown race.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
14:01
So this stuff is all in his life.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:06
And it had bullet holes in it.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:07
And so from being wrapped in this shawl that that, uh, to, uh, to, uh, uh, hearing the stories of John Brown, um, and point of fact, um, they were invited to, uh, hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at Osawatomie, Kansas, where John Brown made his name, uh, uh, in, in, in, uh, killing, uh, uh, people in a sort of, um, where that name Jayhawkers came from, Roosevelt gives a speech of new nationalism.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:52
Langston must have been about four years old with his grandmother because as one of the kind of surviving people of that brown race.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
14:01
So this stuff is all in his life.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:06
And it had bullet holes in it.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:07
And so from being wrapped in this shawl that that, uh, to, uh, to, uh, uh, hearing the stories of John Brown, um, and point of fact, um, they were invited to, uh, hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at Osawatomie, Kansas, where John Brown made his name, uh, uh, in, in, in, uh, killing, uh, uh, people in a sort of, um, where that name Jayhawkers came from, Roosevelt gives a speech of new nationalism.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
13:52
Langston must have been about four years old with his grandmother because as one of the kind of surviving people of that brown race.
Randal Maurice JelksGUEST
14:01
So this stuff is all in his life.

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