‘Side Quest Dad’ goes viral showing off Kansas City (and its weather) to World Cup watchers ⁠31%

By Suzanne Hogan⁠0% Halle Jackson⁠0%

6/23/2026, 9:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Sunk Cost Effect, In-Group Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 26.2% saturation with 75 hits. Analysis detected 500 faulty-reasoning hits from 286 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 40.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠31% (15,273 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 69.80% of the article peer group.

Oliver Wright never thought he’d go viral for going about the heat. 
“I knew the humidity out here is something different. 
I've been here for 15 years,” said Wright, a British soccer fan living in Kansas City who makes videos online as @SideQuestDad. 
But ahead of the World Cup and the arrival of international teams and visitors, he posted videos talking about Kansas City’s hot, humid summers — and how soccer players might react to the conditions. 
He thought the weather updates were “throwaways,” but the videos found a global audience. 
“It’s the smallest things that resonate with people,” he told KCUR’s Up To Date. 
Wright has been a content creator for nine years, but started Side Quest Dad as a way to make space for joy in his daily life — like going to Casey’s for breakfast pizza or seeing how long it really takes to wear down soccer cleats on the concrete (around 160 days). 
Since that first viral heat video, where he lamented that European footballers really had "something to complain about" with the humidity, Side Quest Dad has made videos introducing World Cup fans and out-of-towners to many aspects of life in the Midwest, from Walmart snacks to lightning bugs. 
But he likes that his content is garnering local pride among Kansas Citians, too — like a simple video appreciating the Kansas City skyline driving north on I-35. 
“From their comments it showed that they wanted to rethink how they live parts of their life… to appreciate these things that (they) take for granted every single day,” Wright said. 
Oliver Wright, Kansas City content creator, @SideQuestDad 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 15.7%Suzanne Hogan: 3.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Confirmation Bias15.7%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.2%Columbia Missourian: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 3.2%Columbia Missourian: 2.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 11.9%Suzanne Hogan: 1.6%Columbia Missourian: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic11.9%This article: 4.9%Suzanne Hogan: 1.6%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Hindsight Bias4.9%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 1.8%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 5.6%Suzanne Hogan: 1.5%Columbia Missourian: 5.5%Framing Effect5.6%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.1%Columbia Missourian: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.2%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 18.2%Suzanne Hogan: 1.2%Columbia Missourian: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect18.2%This article: 4.2%Suzanne Hogan: 3.8%Columbia Missourian: 4.5%Optimism Bias4.2%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.7%Columbia Missourian: 1.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 3.7%Columbia Missourian: 5.4%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 9.8%Suzanne Hogan: 1.5%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Self-Serving Bias9.8%This article: 10.8%Suzanne Hogan: 0.6%Columbia Missourian: 0.6%Fundamental Attribution Error10.8%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 16.4%Suzanne Hogan: 2.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.6%In-Group Bias16.4%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.4%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 26.2%Suzanne Hogan: 4.5%Columbia Missourian: 2.4%Halo Effect26.2%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 1.1%Columbia Missourian: 0.9%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.3%Columbia Missourian: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 7.7%Suzanne Hogan: 2.3%Columbia Missourian: 2.9%Appeal to Authority7.7%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 1.3%Columbia Missourian: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.2%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 16.4%Suzanne Hogan: 4.1%Columbia Missourian: 3.6%Hasty Generalization16.4%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.3%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.6%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 2.0%Columbia Missourian: 5.2%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.4%Columbia Missourian: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 4.9%Suzanne Hogan: 5.7%Columbia Missourian: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)4.9%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.4%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.6%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 15.7%Suzanne Hogan: 2.5%Columbia Missourian: 2.6%Anecdotal15.7%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.2%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 1.2%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.1%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 3.1%Suzanne Hogan: 1.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.8%Unattributed Quote3.1%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.1%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 3.1%Suzanne Hogan: 3.8%Columbia Missourian: 2.9%Biased Writer Voice3.1%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.3%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.6%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 0.3%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Suzanne Hogan: 2.4%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

286 words analyzed.

Speakers

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Oliver Wright

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104 attributed words100% of attributed speech96% writer coverage
0%5.0%10.0%Unattributed Quote+8.7 ptsWriter: 0.0%Oliver Wright: 8.7%8.7%Biased Writer Voice+8.7 ptsWriter: 0.0%Oliver Wright: 8.7%8.7%

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

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Analysis

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