Charlie Hustle opening soon in Oak Park Mall with a new line of World Cup merch ⁠68%

By Joyce Smith⁠0%

4/19/2026, 9:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Optimism Bias, and Halo Effect, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 25.5% saturation with 86 hits. Analysis detected 504 faulty-reasoning hits from 337 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 61.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠68% (6,824 of 21,198 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 67.80% of the article peer group.

Kansas City’s iconic clothing brand Charlie Hustle has a new World Heart Collection in the works for FIFA World Cup 2026 — debuting the collection in June at its new Johnson County pop-up store. 
A year after buying the company, brothers Matt and Michael Gary are opening a Charlie Hustle location in Overland Park’s Oak Park Mall, at 95th Street and Quivira Road. 
A soft opening is planned for May with a grand opening in June with the new collection. 
The lease runs through the end of the year. 
“We wanted to take advantage of the traffic that the World Cup brings to see how we do in Oak Park,” said Joey Mendez, manager of Charlie Hustle’s flagship store at 419 W. 47th St. on the Country Club Plaza, as well as the new location. 
Charlie Hustle is taking the former Chico’s space on the mall’s lower level, near the center court. 
Chico’s closed earlier this year. 
The pop-up spot will carry Charlie Hustle’s T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, hats and accessories, along with jackets in the fall. 
Founder Chase McAnulty was especially fond of vintage T-shirts. 
He started making similar styles in the basement of his parents’ home in 2011 and the brand quickly became known for its signature KC Heart T-shirts. 
The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce honored the company with its 2021 Small Business of the Year (Mr. 
K Award). 
It was the third time Charlie Hustle was one of the Top 10 Small Businesses of the Year, having earned recognitions in 2018 and 2019. 
(It did not participate in 2020 so it could focus on steering the company through the COVID pandemic.) 
McAnulty was named to the Junior Achievement of Greater Kansas City’s Business Hall of Fame in 2023. 
The Gary brothers bought the brand in April 2025 and serve as co-presidents. 
This article was originally published in Startland News, a fellow member of the KC Media Collective. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 1.2%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 21.4%Joyce Smith: 4.6%Columbia Missourian: 2.7%Availability Heuristic21.4%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.4%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 1.2%Columbia Missourian: 5.5%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.5%Columbia Missourian: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.9%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 20.8%Joyce Smith: 6.7%Columbia Missourian: 4.5%Optimism Bias20.8%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.7%Columbia Missourian: 1.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 3.2%Columbia Missourian: 5.4%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 5.3%Joyce Smith: 1.7%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Self-Serving Bias5.3%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 4.7%Joyce Smith: 0.3%Columbia Missourian: 1.6%In-Group Bias4.7%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 20.8%Joyce Smith: 8.8%Columbia Missourian: 2.4%Halo Effect20.8%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.9%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 10.7%Joyce Smith: 2.0%Columbia Missourian: 2.9%Appeal to Authority10.7%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.6%Columbia Missourian: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.7%Joyce Smith: 1.3%Columbia Missourian: 3.6%Hasty Generalization7.7%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.4%Columbia Missourian: 5.3%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 2.4%Columbia Missourian: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.5%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 1.8%Columbia Missourian: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 5.3%Joyce Smith: 2.4%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)5.3%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 13.6%Joyce Smith: 0.9%Columbia Missourian: 0.8%Unattributed Quote13.6%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.5%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 13.6%Joyce Smith: 2.3%Columbia Missourian: 2.9%Biased Writer Voice13.6%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.6%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joyce Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 25.5%Joyce Smith: 14.2%Columbia Missourian: 1.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…25.5%

337 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers20%attributed speech270writer words
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Writer's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 34 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageJoey Mendez • 46 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageGreater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce • 19 words • 0.0% coverageGreater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Joey Mendez

100%flagged-word coverage
46 attributed words69% of attributed speech73% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Joey Mendez: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Joey Mendez: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -31.9 ptsWriter: 31.9%Joey Mendez: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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