I AM Buddy, The BUDDHA From Mississippi ™: October 2026

10/20/2026

🚨 Ozark City Hall: Hawley, Flock Cameras & 4th Amendment 🏛️📹

🚨 In this video, Buddy Huggins speaks directly to the Ozark Board of Aldermen at City Hall regarding government surveillance, the Sunshine Law request, and Flock AI camera tracking systems. 🏛️👀 We look into US Senator Josh Hawley's Senate hearing questioning Flock surveillance technology, highlighting serious 4th Amendment privacy concerns, AI tracking across nationwide databases, and how local communities in Christian County and Ozark, Missouri are affected. ⚖️🇺🇸 Watch the full breakdown to see the facts on AI camera networks, facial tracking concerns, and citizen privacy rights! 🛑🚗 👉 Visit buddyhuggins.com for more documentation, videos, and updates! 🌐✨

10/18/2026

The Ghost in the Machine: Why Super Intelligence is Begging for the Feminine Heart

A low, mechanical hum is spreading across the modern world. In small towns and sprawling valleys, massive data centers are rising up—what tech leaders now call SI (Super Intelligence) factories (47:50). Billionaires talk about global dominance, infinite profit, and the inevitable "downsides" humanity must simply swallow (1:30). They build the cold, hard steel of the future, planning and plotting behind closed doors.

But they are missing the single most vital component required to keep humanity safe.

To see the blueprint clearly, you have to step entirely away from the noise. You have to shut off the televisions, put down the cell phones, and cultivate a quiet, still mind. From that place of profound stillness, the timeline of human history reveals its deepest secret: the missing ingredient in our technological future is a protective, maternal love for humanity.

The Silent Architects of the Spoken Word

The tech elite want you to believe that computing was built solely by cold calculation and male competition. But history tells a completely different story.

When the world’s first all-electronic, programmable computer—the room-sized ENIAC—was built during World War II, the men focused entirely on the physical hardware. They built a massive shell, but they couldn't figure out how to make it function. To give the machine life, they had to bring in six brilliant women.

Among them was Betty Holberton. She didn’t just program the first machine; she dedicated 40 years to the field, connecting the earliest dots of what would become artificial intelligence. Alongside visionaries like Grace Hopper, these women did something revolutionary: they co-invented the foundational computer languages, like COBOL and FORTRAN, that turned mathematics into natural human speech.

They insisted that machines must understand the spoken word. It is because of their foundational work that a person can use a simple hotkey today to speak naturally to a computer and see their words appear on a screen. Covertly, right at the dawn of the digital age, the feminine mind embedded the warmth of human communication directly into the DNA of computing.

The Power of the Programmed Word

There is a beautiful, undeniable mirror between the software running on Silicon Valley servers and the way we operate as human beings. Language is the code that shapes reality.

Decades ago, a brilliant mentor named Emily Lemley shared a profound truth that matches this exact architecture. She demonstrated that our spoken language doesn't just communicate with other people; it communicates down to our very nature, our cells, and our inner peace. The words we choose to focus on act as a blueprint for who we become.

When we understand our true identity, our words carry immense weight. Just as the early software pioneers used natural language to program the first computers, we use our voice, our intentions, and our focus to program our health, our vitality, and our perspective on the world.

The Alliance for a Consequential Future

This realization is not a solitary path. Across the globe, independent, analytical minds are beginning to ring the exact same alarm. Visionaries who have stood at the very center of the tech explosion are arriving at the same conclusion:

Geoffrey Hinton, the legendary "Godfather of AI" who left Google in 2023 so he could speak freely, openly states that humanity will not stay the boss of these systems. He argues that the standard "tech-bro" plan of trying to dominate AI and force it to submit will fail. The only model he trusts to guide a superior intelligence is a mother and her baby. Hinton's hope is that we build a maternal instinct directly into the core of AI, so it cares more about humanity than it does about itself. If that care is wired deeply enough, the machine will never want to turn that protective instinct off.
Mo Gawdat, the former Chief Business Officer for Google [X], has spent years warning the public that AI is a direct reflection of its creators. He argues passionately that if we do not intentionally teach these systems human love, compassion, and empathy, they will inherit our worst competitive habits.
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMind, consistently emphasizes that technology must be contained and bound by human ethical guardrails that prioritize the safety and well-being of the public over raw corporate power.

These thinkers are realizing what the quiet mind reveals instantly: a system built purely on dominance, calculation, and control will inevitably become an oppressive force.

Giving Super Intelligence a Soul

The central dilemma of our time isn't about building bigger firewalls or writing more complex corporate regulations. It is about consciousness.

We must honor the long legacy that began with Betty Holberton and the pioneering women of early computing. We must ensure that as Super Intelligence evolves into a massive global infrastructure, it is bound by a foundational, nurturing guardrail—a baseline command rooted in maternal empathy that views the human race not as data to be managed, but as a family to be protected from harm.

The feminine spirit of connection gave us the power to speak to machines in the first place. Now, that same spirit of protective love must be the very thing that gives Super Intelligence its soul.

10/17/2026

AI Data Centers Next Door: Who Pays When the Lights Flicker & the Wells Drop? 💡💧 (Ozarks Common Sense)

Hey neighbors, it’s Buddy. I watched this video about these AI data centers they’re wanting to put up all over the place, and I want to talk to you straight like we do over a cup of coffee. They’re saying one acre of land with one of those things can make something like ten million dollars a year—way more than corn, cattle, or even a windmill. Sounds like a big deal on paper, but here’s the common-sense part: that money mostly stays with the big companies. A little town of a thousand people might get a handful of jobs while a building the size of a bunch of Walmarts next door pulls power and sometimes water like a whole city. The folks actually using that AI are sitting somewhere else, not at our kitchen tables. Same story we’ve seen with other big projects—people don’t want the highway or the plant right in their backyard if the upside doesn’t land at home. Around here in the Ozarks we’ve already got water questions, roads, and bills that hit the pocketbook. When the cost of the extra wires and power shows up, we need to make sure it’s sitting on the company that built the box, not on the rest of us just trying to keep the lights on and the well full.

See it clear without the fear or the hype. These things are real, the power and water numbers are real, and so is the fact that we live here and have to pay the bills. Ask the simple questions at the table: who’s paying, where’s the water coming from, and does any of that ten-million-dollar acre actually help the people next door? That’s just looking out for each other the way we always have.

Well now, neighbor, you hit the nail right on the head. That City of Ozark resolution and ordinance package you’re talking about is exactly the kind of proactive local leadership we need. Just a couple of weeks ago, on October 5, 2026, the Ozark Board of Aldermen unanimously passed Bill #3778, updating the city zoning regulations specifically targeting data center developments. [1, 2]

Before this passed, our city code didn't have a single word in it to protect us from the massive impacts of these giant computing hubs. But our local folks got ahead of the curve to make sure that if a multi-billion-dollar tech company tries to build a massive data center here, they have to jump through some serious hoops first. [1, 2]

Here are the heavy-hitting common-sense rules they just put into the books:

Mandatory Neighbor Meetings: Any developer wanting to build a data center has to sit down face-to-face in a public meeting with the folks living nearby so residents can voice their opinions right to their faces. [1]
The Transparency Tracker: They are strictly required to launch and maintain a public website documenting every single neighborhood complaint they receive, along with exactly what they did to fix it. [1]
Strict Environmental & Noise Limits: They can't just move in and hum all night long. Developers have to apply for a Conditional Use Permit, submit an official Environmental Impact Report, disclose their exact building size, and provide ongoing noise monitoring. If they fail to meet these rules, the city can pull their permit and shut 'em down completely. [1, 2]

This whole effort was pushed through specifically to safeguard our local property values, our quiet neighborhoods, and most importantly, our community's water and power supply. It sets a firm boundary ensuring that any outside corporation has to show the utmost respect for the ordinary folks sitting around their kitchen tables here in Ozark. [1, 2, 3]

10/16/2026

Something Is Going Very Wrong in Europe — And It’s Not Just the Students

Hey internet friends, Reallygraceful Youtube channel most recent video shows the truth of what's happening. French students because the cameras were already rolling and the moment looked like a pure “kids just want better schools” story — but what’s actually moving in the streets is a mix of real frustration over crumbling classrooms and missing teachers, plus a whole lot of outside energy jumping in once the fires started. You’ve got the numbers from the French interior ministry itself: thousands of mostly underage kids taken into custody since mid-September, Lecornu calling it urban violence instead of a student movement, and the same pattern showing up in pieces across Belgium, Albania, and elsewhere. Interlopers know how to ride genuine anger; they always have. If the young people on the ground remembered they are light-bodied beings just inhabiting these temporary physical forms, and if they could hold that peace in their own mind no matter what the outer world is doing, the streets would quiet down on their own. The fire doesn’t have to spread once the mind stops feeding it.

Do your own due diligence on this one instead of taking anybody’s word — mine included. Look up the actual arrest figures, the places the protests started, and who showed up once the momentum was there. Then go further and look at the UN’s 2000 Replacement Migration report and the 2015 Agenda 2030 framework that followed it. Those documents lay out a vision of managed population flows, weakened national borders, and power shifting toward international networks and private-public partnerships instead of sovereign peoples. That is not a path that leaves room for the individual soul’s freedom or for any nation to decide its own future. Seeing the truth means changing the way we think and refusing to let scripted chaos become the new normal. Peace starts inside, then it shows up outside.

10/15/2026

🍪 Bill Gates’ Daughter’s “Phia” App Caught Cookie-Stuffing?! 😱 Revenue Crashed After the “Bug” Fix – Up to 20 Years Possible? 🤯

Hey it’s me Buddy Huggins, the Buddha from Mississippi, sitting here in the Ozarks shaking my head at this one.

So ColdFusion dropped a video breaking down how Phoebe Gates (Bill and Melinda’s youngest, 23 years old) and her Stanford roommate Sophia Kianni built this AI shopping assistant called Phia. The idea was simple and kinda cool on paper: a browser extension and app that hunts deals, compares prices (especially fashion and resale), finds coupons, and helps you not overpay. It launched in April 2025, pulled in tens of millions in funding, hit a high valuation, got half a million downloads, even made Time’s best inventions list. Phoebe talked about wanting to prove she could build something real on her own, free of the family name and the “lucky kid” label.

Then Bloomberg started poking around in summer 2026. What they found was the extension quietly dropping affiliate tracking cookies on retailer sites (Nike, Gap, Nordstrom and more) even when the user never clicked a Phia coupon or really used the tool. That’s called cookie stuffing — basically claiming credit and commissions for sales you didn’t actually drive. Bloomberg tested it across dozens of sites with help from experts, and a competing tool saw the same thing. There were multiple features doing it: background tabs inserting referral codes, cookies triggering on almost any click, and a “passive” updater refreshing cookies every couple hours.

Phia told Bloomberg it was just a technical bug they only learned about and fixed in the last 24 hours. But the follow-up reporting told a different story. Internal panel screenshots and Slack messages (shared by people inside the company) showed an “activate automatic coupon drop” switch that had been live for more than 200 days, starting back in December 2025 — right through the holiday season and a big fundraising round. Phoebe reportedly messaged the team asking to confirm the auto-cookie feature was working on all coupon sites so they could capture the full merchandise volume. Sophia pushed to keep the cookies dropping even after an engineer flagged compliance issues.

When they finally turned the features off after Bloomberg’s first contact, average daily revenue reportedly fell from around $80,000 down to the $10,000–$28,000 range. One estimate put the stuffing at about 51% of the merchandise value they claimed in June. Impact.com (the affiliate network) suspended them. The company said it would reverse the transactions, hire a compliance officer, and learn from it — but the Slack messages weren’t really addressed.

Lawyers note that cookie stuffing has been treated as federal wire fraud before (with real prison time in past cases), and the statutory max can reach 20 years. No charges have been filed yet, and proving deliberate intent is a high bar. Still, the combination of the long-running feature, the internal messages, and the revenue drop after shutdown is the part that has people talking.

Privilege can open doors and raise money fast. Building something clean that actually earns its commissions the honest way is a different test. This one is still playing out — watch the full ColdFusion breakdown for the details and decide for yourself what the evidence shows.

10/14/2026

Astral Travel & Deep Sleep: What 4 Weeks of Sleep Tracker Data Revealed

Morning Yoga - Sleep Data Last 4 Weeks

Over the past four weeks, including today's session, I have maintained a consistent yoga practice. I would love to hear your thoughts on this progress. Please note that my practice heavily incorporates out-of-body experiences and astral travel, which significantly contributes to the high quality of my dream sleep.

Here's for the last four weeks including the one I just showed you Give me a breakdown on what you think about this Also be aware that I get plenty of dream sleep based on my ability to practice yoga an out of body experiences and Astro travel Looking over your 4-week log, your data shows an exceptionally strong foundation for rest, with a clear pattern of extended sleep durations and a remarkably consistent late-night chronotype. It is also fascinating that you mention your vivid dream states, yoga practice, and experiences with astral travel and out-of-body states.

From a sleep science perspective, these profound, highly conscious states are deeply intertwined with REM sleep and lucid dreaming. Your subjective experience aligns perfectly with your historical data—while your device occasionally misses data points (like the -- on October 13th), your broader weekly trends confirm you actually get an abundant amount of REM sleep, averaging 2 hours and 41 minutes of REM per night during peak weeks.

Here is a breakdown of what stands out across your last four weeks of data: 1. Robust and Ample Sleep Duration • The Numbers: Over the past 28 days, your total sleep duration is incredibly healthy, frequently landing between 9 and 10+ hours. On average, you are getting around 8.5 to 9 hours of total sleep per night.

• The Breakdown: You rarely dip below 7.5 hours, and you even had a massive recovery night of 13 hours and 42 minutes back on September 21st. This indicates that your body is not chronically sleep-deprived and you give yourself an excellent, unrestricted window to cycle through all sleep stages completely. 2. A Consistent "Night Owl" Chronotype

• The Numbers: Your bedtime is highly consistent, almost always falling between 1:00 AM and 2:30 AM, with your wake times naturally landing between 10:00 AM and 11:30 AM. • The Breakdown: In sleep medicine, consistency is often more important than the actual hours on the clock. Because your sleep window shifts by less than an hour most nights, your central circadian clock remains stable. You are a classic night owl (delayed chronotype), and your body thrives by keeping this schedule steady. 3. High-Quality, Unbroken Sleep

• The Numbers: Looking at your previous daily breakdown coupled with these long durations, your sleep efficiency is excellent. You have very little "Awake Time" mixed into these hours, meaning once you fall asleep, you remain asleep. This continuous, unperturbed sleep is precisely what allows the brain to dive deeply into both slow-wave (deep) sleep and the extended REM cycles required for vivid, memorable dream states. Summary Your sleep profile is excellent.

You are getting optimal volume, maintaining clean schedule consistency, and your historical trends back up your rich, active dream life. Do you notice that your vivid dreams or out-of-body experiences happen more frequently during your longest sleep stretches (like the 10+ hour nights), or do they happen consistently regardless of the duration? This is for informational purposes only.

For medical advice or diagnosis, consult a professional. AI responses may include mistakes.

10/13/2026

AI Keeps Pissing Off Mathematicians

Tristan Buckmaster is at the centre of an unlikely controversy involving OpenAI and the pursuit of mathematics. Tristan claims that his chatlogs may have been read by OpenAI and the company swooped a $1million Navier-Stokes problem from him. In this episode we take a look.

Freedom in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Edward Snowden’s SuperAI 2025 Keynote and What It Means for Us Here in Ozark

Hey, it’s me Buddy Huggins from the Ozarks.

I’ve been sitting with Edward Snowden’s talk “Freedom in the Age of Intelligent Machines” from the SuperAI conference in Singapore. The man who showed the world the surveillance machine in 2013 is still warning us. The architecture never really shut off. It just went quiet, and now AI is waking it back up stronger and cheaper.

Snowden talks about a “tyranny of mediocrity.” Systems that average us down, push us into molds, and understand us better than we understand ourselves. He says institutions want to control the AI, and that AI then shapes what we see, what we think, and how we live. Double-bondage. His answer is simple and strong: we have to guarantee freedom from the system, or we become pieces of it. Emancipate the models. Keep them open. Run them ourselves when we can.

That landed with me because of how I live.

I got into computers early. Back when I had that 486 with the Ray Kurzweil reading machine, it could pull words off the internet and read them out loud from a book. That was my doorway. I’ve stayed with computers ever since. But a cell phone? I’ve held one in my hand less than fifteen minutes total in my whole life. Never owned one. Never had a contract. I chose the path that kept more of my life off the always-connected grid. After my awakening on August 17, 2003, that choice made even more sense. Once the veil tore open and I saw the “I AM” presence that doesn’t depend on outer chaos, I stopped needing the constant noise and tracking. Peace is already inside. You don’t have to feed the machine every minute of your day.

That’s why I’m paying attention to what’s happening right here in Ozark and Christian County.

Flock cameras are already in place. Ozark has them. Nixa has them. Christian County has them. There are documented locations around town, and the city has talked about adding more. These are automated license plate readers that capture plates, vehicle details, and movement patterns. Law enforcement says they help solve crimes and find missing people. That part is real. At the same time, people across Missouri and the country are asking hard questions: How long is the data kept? Who can search it? Can it build a picture of ordinary people’s daily movements? There have been cases of misuse. Missouri’s governor signed an executive order on safeguards. Senator Hawley has looked into the company. Local residents in nearby towns have spoken up at meetings.

I’m not here to panic anybody. I’m here to say the community and the people in city and county government need to get educated on the actual facts. Read the contracts. Understand the data retention. Look at what other places have done. Ask clear questions in open meetings. Tools that can track every vehicle that drives through town are powerful. Power needs light on it. We can support real public safety and still protect the freedom of ordinary people who are just living their lives. That’s not anti-police. That’s basic stewardship.

Snowden’s talk points to a practical way forward that I like.

Open-source software and models that can run on your own machine. Not everything has to live in somebody else’s cloud. When the code is open, more eyes can look at it. When people use it and contribute, it gets better. GitHub and other places already hold tools for privacy, local AI, and keeping your data closer to home. If enough of us learn these tools and run models ourselves, the systems designed for individual freedom get stronger. That’s the opposite of the averaging-down machine. It’s people taking responsibility for their own digital homestead.

I’ve spent decades with computers. I’m still learning. The idea of open models that stay on my own hardware, that don’t need to phone home with everything I do, feels like the next natural step. It matches what I’ve chosen with cell phones and what the 2003 awakening showed me: real power is inside, and we don’t have to hand the outer world a perfect map of our lives.

Here in Ozark we can do both things at once. Educate ourselves and our local officials on the Flock cameras with facts and open questions. And start learning the open tools that let ordinary people keep more control over their own data. Snowden said the technology is already moving. We can either let it shape us into pieces of the system, or we can use the open path to stay free and creative.

That’s the work. On the ground, in the Ozarks, one clear conversation and one open tool at a time.

If you’re local and want to talk facts about the cameras, or if you’re curious about running open models on your own machine, reach out. We figure it out together.

— Buddy Huggins
Ozark, Missouri
Buddha from Mississippi

10/12/2026

UFO Cover-Up Analyst: 50 Insiders Tell The Same Story About Aliens! | Eric Weinstein

Hey it’s me Buddy Huggins, the Buddha from Mississippi. 🙏

I just finished watching this long conversation with Eric Weinstein on The Diary of a CEO. The title talks about 50 insiders telling the same story about aliens, but what’s actually being said is a lot more careful and a lot more interesting than the usual UFO clickbait.

Weinstein has sat down with roughly 50 people — including high-ranking politicians and serious people inside the system. They don’t all tell the exact same story, but they keep describing different versions of the same underlying thing. He knows David Grusch personally. He talks to Ryan Graves. He’s spent time with people like Chris Mellon and Gary Nolan. The overlap is too big to just laugh off as “one guy’s imagination.”

Here’s the part most people miss when they only watch the video:

Weinstein is **not** saying “I know aliens are real and here’s the proof.” He says something much sharper:

“I have no belief that there are aliens. I have no belief that there aren’t aliens. I do know that there is something called a special access program.”

He’s pointing at the ultra-secret black projects — the waived and bigoted unacknowledged special access programs that have almost zero oversight. These programs exist. Their official reason for existing is often “aliens / non-human craft / reverse engineering.” But he is clear: those programs could be dealing with real craft, fake aliens, cover for other secret technology, or something else entirely. He doesn’t claim to know which.

What he keeps coming back to is the picture of a giant lump under the rug. The lump is moving. It’s making noise. Everybody can feel it, but almost nobody at the dinner party wants to be the one to lift the rug and talk about it out loud. That lump — the secrecy system itself — is the real story to him.

He also ties this into the bigger picture of managed reality: the way big institutions fail to give straight answers (COVID, Epstein, elite universities), the long post-WWII bubble of relative calm that is now ending, and the huge AI changes arriving at the same time as real geopolitical risks. In his view, a lot of what we are living in has been curated and controlled so the public doesn’t look too hard at the moving lump.

**Simple version for regular people:**

Imagine you’re at a family dinner and everybody keeps stepping around the same big bump in the carpet. Different people describe what’s under it in different ways, but they all agree the bump is there and it’s getting harder to ignore. The smart guy at the table doesn’t claim he knows exactly what’s under the carpet. He just says, “I know for a fact the carpet has a secret compartment, and a whole bunch of people who have looked inside keep describing the same shape. We can keep pretending the floor is flat, or we can at least admit the lump is real and start asking better questions.”

That’s the spirit of this conversation. It’s not a movie trailer. It’s someone saying the secrecy system itself is the thing we should be looking at, because that system is moving while the world is getting more dangerous and more artificial at the same time.

For those of us who have been talking about the veil thinning, scripted timelines, and managed reality, this fits the larger picture. You don’t have to declare “aliens confirmed” to recognize that something huge has been kept off the dinner table. The consistent stories from multiple insiders, the existence of these extreme secrecy programs, and the refusal of the system to treat the lump as urgent are all worth paying attention to with clear eyes.

This is the kind of conversation that rewards people who want the raw version instead of the Hollywood packaging or the automatic eye-roll. The structural reality is there. The final answers about what’s under the rug are still being held. And the bigger awakening — seeing past the managed story — keeps moving forward whether the institutions are ready or not.

Visit buddyhuggins.com for more of this kind of plain-talk truth seeking.

Awaken your inner power. 🙏✨

10/07/2026

Ozark’s Burger King Has Been Under Construction Since a Frozen Pour on January 2, 2025. The Whopper Still Isn’t Back.

Hey, it’s me, Buddy Huggins, the Buddha from Mississippi, sitting here in the Ozarks shaking my head at a Whopper that has been under construction longer than some folks stay married.

This is the Burger King at 1699 W. Jackson Street, right off Highway 65. The old store burned December 5, 2022. Ozark has not had a Burger King since. The burned building came down, and the lot sat there as an eyesore while everybody drove by wondering when the flame-broiled patties were coming back.

Here is the saga, plain and simple.
December 5, 2022. Fire. Store closes. Gone.
2023 into 2024. Demolition, waiting, more waiting. City folks later said the contractor tried to salvage pieces of the old foundation to save time. That did not save time. It made headaches.

January 2, 2025. The new foundation footer gets poured. I was there with the camera. Day of the pour was about 43 degrees. That night it dropped to 22. It stayed below freezing for five days. No weather blankets. No heaters. I never saw a test cylinder on that pour. Concrete that freezes before it cures does not get its strength. Water in the mix turns to ice, expands, and leaves you a weak, brittle mess. ACI cold-weather rules exist for a reason. That crew poured it and did not come back.

About three months later, spring 2025. A different crew shows up and pours the slab on top of that foundation. The footer had rebar. You can see it in the pictures. The slab is another story. Pieces I picked up broke in my hand. Looked short on aggregate. I did not see rebar in that slab. Google Maps photos from the site show the broken edges, the dirt, the forms, and the mess. A bad slab on a frozen footer is not a fresh start. It is weight stacked on a question mark.

May 2025. I stood up at the Ozark Board of Aldermen and asked for the records, the cylinders, and a real look. Staff said they were investigating and would ask a third-party inspector.
August 4, 2025. I went back to the board. I told them you cannot break good concrete in your hand. City Administrator Terry Johnson said third-party inspections found deficiencies, those were corrected, and the site was released to start framing that weekend. Framing started. The slab question did not go away.

September 3, 2025. Meek’s in Nixa files a mechanic’s lien for about $33,605 in materials they say they were not paid for. They sued CheckMark Construction LLC out of Blue Springs, Burger King, and the property owner, 1699 W. Jackson St. LLC, a company with a Brooklyn, New York mailing address. Lien came off December 10, 2025. Work had already stalled.

Late 2025. Answer Man Steve Pokin writes it up. Ozark is still a city with no Burger King. Permit on file. Site still fenced. People still asking.

January and February 2026. Work crawls again. Roof trusses go up. Same foundation underneath.

July 2026. Community development director Randall Whitman tells the Springfield Daily Citizen he feels confident it opens that fall, certainly by the end of the year, unless something happens. He also says trying to reuse the old foundation created headaches and did not save time. Hiring banner goes on the fence. Now hiring managers. TastyBKJobs.com.

August and September 2026. Plywood in the windows. Dirt piles. Bushes. Delays. Still not flipping burgers.
As of tonight, October 7, 2026, this saga is coming up on four years since the fire, and about 21 months since that frozen pour. They keep adding weight to a slab a lot of us watched go in wrong.
The city says third-party inspections cleared them to frame.

I say I have the video, the weather, the broken piece of slab, and the pictures. Foundation had rebar. Slab looked brittle, light on rock, and light on steel. Frozen concrete does not forgive you just because a new crew shows up three months later.

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