01/21 Anti-ICE protestors invaded St Paul church, which led us to wonder what good does Progressive ideology lead to for a city

Summary

Garage Logic Podcast Summary – January 21, 2026
Episode Theme: Anti-ICE Protestors Invade St. Paul Church – The Cost of Progressivism on Cities

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Overview

In this Garage Logic episode, host Joe Soucheray and the regular crew (Chris Reivers, Kenny Olson, John Height, and Matthew) dissect a recent incident where anti-ICE protestors disrupted a St. Paul church service, targeting a pastor with a second job as an ICE agent. Using the event as a springboard, they ask: Where does progressive ideology lead cities like Minneapolis and St. Paul? The conversation dials into winter weather overhype, the changing resilience of younger generations, local politics, and a broader critique of urban progressivism.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Winter Weather Hyperbole & Fragility of Youth

[01:06–11:38]

• Joe opens with a historical perspective on Minnesota winters, referencing the 1888 record low of -41°F.
• New generations, the crew argue, lack historical context and resilience, making them easy targets for climate alarmism.
• Joe Soucheray: “These kids are already afraid of their own shadow, so you tell them it’s gonna be 20 below, they think it’s the end of the world. They have no idea of the history of Minnesota…” (02:09)
• Weather media (“principally the Weather Channel”) is critiqued for sensationalizing routine weather events.

2. St. Paul Church Disruption by Anti-ICE Protestors

[15:10–27:56]

• Joe and Matthew spotlight the Sunday incident at Cities Church, where protestors interrupted worship over a pastor’s work as an ICE agent.
• Nakima Levy Armstrong and other activists are named as agitators, chanting and creating chaos.
• Joe emphasizes the hypocrisy of left-wing activism entering spaces of religious freedom.
• Critique extends to public officials: Jamal Lundy (Hennepin County Attorney’s Office staffer) praised the protest, exemplifying the spread of “soft-on-crime” policies.
• Memorable Quote:
  “So what they’re really saying is we’re here on behalf of the ideology that no such thing as illegal immigration exists. We don’t want borders. …That’s all left wing Marxist radical Armstrong accomplished.” (Joe, 21:21)

3. Urban Progressivism’s Consequences

[27:56–34:31]

• Joe references Minnesota’s declining per capita income and blames the spread of left-wing politics for stifling prosperity and beauty in cities.
• Examples: Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago.
• Chris Reivers: “We’ve become a welfare city.” (28:20)
• The crew laments the absence of visionary leadership; instead, “anchors” pull cities down.

4. On Modern Activism & Victimhood

[33:04–34:31]

• The discussion invokes Daniel Strand’s essay:
  “The ideology of progressivism can never result in justice for all people because they only assign justice based on your status as a victim. So victimhood trumps common sense, victimhood trumps the law...” (Joe paraphrasing, 33:57)
• The hierarchy of victimhood is highlighted as corrosive to the “common good.”

5. ICE Enforcement, Local Politics & Law Enforcement Tensions

[39:38–46:44]

• News segment: Vice President J.D. Vance visits Minneapolis amid heightened ICE activity and protests.
• Local police share stories of tense encounters with ICE agents, often involving off-duty officers being stopped with guns drawn.
• Host questions why officers didn’t immediately identify themselves, but consensus is that such stops are inappropriate and dangerous.
• Kenny previews an upcoming “Crabby Coffee Shop” podcast segment with a retired ICE agent and video of a recent arrest.

6. Broader Political Landscape

[47:42–55:53]

• News updates:
  • Michelle Tafoya enters the Senate race.
  • President Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum, fixating on acquiring Greenland.
  • Concerns over the mental fitness of both Trump and Biden.
• Joe’s sardonic take on the country’s predicament:
  “Here’s what I want–the country deserved this, with Biden too… Would the country and the country so divided…what if you settle on a panel of recognized medical experts… and determine what they think of that?” (Joe, 53:39)

7. City Decline: Data & Trends

[72:32–78:36]

• Joe cites a John Phelan article: Minnesota’s per capita income growth has dropped from a substantial premium over the national average to almost flat.
• Kenny asks for a layman’s summary:
  Joe: “In Minnesota, our potential for growth and getting ahead is declining in direct correlation to the rise of progressivism.” (77:22)
• Chris Reivers: “All they do is keep creating more programs.” (77:41)
• The group asserts progressive politics bring little to nothing of value to civic life.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Progressive Activists:
  “They don’t have any rules… They accomplished nothing except demonstrate who they really are.” (Joe, 18:36)
• On Minneapolis’ Future:
  “I think the Twin Cities are lost to a future of continuing degradation and corruption and the absolute absence of law enforcement. ...I don’t see a recovery.” (Joe, 26:29)
• On the Lack of Civic Achievement:
  “What have they accomplished for… the richness of the Twin Cities? Zilch.” (Joe, 32:33)
• Daniel Strand’s Critique (read by Kenny):
  “The dirty little secret is that for all their talk of the public good, progressives do not have a conception of the common good because their conception of justice is rooted in a hierarchy of victimhood.” (34:05–34:31)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Time | Segment | |-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:06 | Winter weather, generational fragility, climate change skepticism | | 15:10 | Anti-ICE protestors disrupt St Paul church | | 21:21 | Dissection of protest motives; ideologies challenged | | 27:56 | Minnesota per capita income growth & city decline under progressivism | | 33:04 | Hierarchy of victimhood and critique of modern activism | | 39:38 | Law enforcement responds to ICE activity & police stops | | 46:44 | Political headlines (Trump/Greenland/Tafoya for Senate) | | 53:39 | Joe’s musings on national political dysfunction | | 72:32 | Deep dive into economic performance data; Minneapolis vs. North Dakota, decline linked to progressivism | | 77:22 | Layman’s explanation: “Potential for growth… declining in direct correlation to progressivism.” |

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Additional Features & Tone

• The episode is packed with the Garage Logic blend of sarcasm, nostalgia, and pointed skepticism toward both modern media narratives and left-wing urban policies, peppered with tangents about winter failings and sporting memories.
• Tone: Conversational, sometimes sardonic, grounded in middle-aged “common sense” and a yearning for the days of stronger civic spirit.
• Regular references to Minnesota culture, inside jokes, and the ritualistic banter of the cast keep the heavy topics approachable and engaging for regular listeners.

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Summary

This Garage Logic episode uses a church protest as a microcosm for a much larger critique: progressive ideology, in the hosts’ view, erodes the civic fabric, economic health, and public safety of urban America. The conversation weaves between news analysis and life’s everyday struggles, always filtered through the show’s signature mix of grumbling nostalgia and populist skepticism.

Transcript

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[Joe]

Where did he go?

[Chris Reivers]

Who cares?

[Joe Soucheray]

Let's just go.

[Joe]

Josh Arnold, investment Consultant, brings you Garagelogic podcast number 1699 January 21, 2020 six 48 degrees. The record high on this day. That was in 1900 and a few years before it was 41 below on this day in 1888. More about that in a moment. Call Josh Arnold at 952-925-5608 for a free 48 minute consultation.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe]

And now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's garagelogic with Chris Reavers manning Technology corner, Kenny Olson from the Crab Coffee Shop, John Height in the newsroom and of course the rookie here is your Flashlight King, fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your man Joe Sushi. A couple of things before we we find out what John discovered. John and I chatted this morning about that record low of 41 below in 1888. Yesterday we mentioned the the growing fragility of children. Callie Proctor wrote a piece for the Minneapolis Times saying that kids are being told they can't handle anything. And it struck me that that plays so well into the manipulative, manipulative efforts to get people to believe this climate change bs. These kids are already afraid of their own shadow, so you tell them it's gonna be 20 below. They think it's of the world. They have no idea of the history of Minnesota and what it's been as recently as the. Well, as recently as this winter will still have some. But I mean, I remember in the 70s just terribly terrible stretches of cold weather. And now we're being sold. The country is being sold most principally by the weather channel, which I have a love hate relationship with. We're being sold on the idea that any minute now a catastrophic storm will hit 180 million people in the middle to the southern part of the country. With cold temperatures 20 below, trees will explode. I even read that somewhere. Oh yeah, the trees are going to explode. I've never seen an exploding tree due to cold weather.

[Kenny Olson]

Even way up in the yukon where it's 80 below. You don't see it.

[Joe]

No, I do recall Freddy the gardener saying that lightning could cause a tree to explode.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, it's so cool when that happens.

[Joe]

Because the water gets. Gets superheated and then expands and blows up the tree. Yeah, I don't think cold weather blows up a tree. In any event, this. This catastrophe is on the nation's doorstep and we're being sold on the idea that you shouldn't leave home and hunker down and be ready for it. Anyway, on this day in 1888, it was 41 below. Did the newspapers have anything to say, John?

[Joe Soucheray]

They did. The Sunday Tribune for January 22, 1988. Because that was the end of the cold spell.

[Joe]

Right. Yesterday the record was also in 1888.

[Joe Soucheray]

And page one, there was nothing. The front page. And incidentally, if you've ever seen a newspaper from 1988.

[Joe]

Yeah, it will take you, John. 1888.

[Joe Soucheray]

1888. I'm sorry, it would take six hours.

[Joe]

Oh, they threw everything in there. There was no rhyme or reason.

[Joe Soucheray]

And the print was this big.

[Joe]

Right.

[Joe Soucheray]

Anyway. Anyway, you go to page two. January 22, 1888.

[Joe]

That was a Sunday paper. Right?

[Joe Soucheray]

That was a Sunday paper. There's 16 pages that day in the paper. On page two was a little headline that said fallen low. And then underneath it said the mercury falls to the bottom of the bulb and stays there. The. The record of many years smashed to all smithereens.

[Joe]

Isn't that something? You know what that tells me? Prior to 1888, when it was 41 below, back somewhere in the 19th century or 18th century, it was colder than that. I mean, it was cold. And then they set the new record.

[Matthew]

That's a synth.

[Joe Soucheray]

I then lost count. But there were then all Small paragraphs with different date lines from the region. You know, every city basically reporting in with what their low temperature was. And all of this. Apparently before that there was a blizzard in Iowa and South Dakota. So there was a lot of things there. That's where all the deaths occurred. The deaths. We only had one in our region and that was in the territory of Dakota because that was still a territory. It was not a state yet. Neither north or South Dakota were states yet. And in fact, on the date lines it said Fargo, Dakota, Headinger, Dakota, Huron, Dakota instead of north or South Dakota. And anyway, there were all these little things. And then there was a quote from the newspaper in Oana. Yeah, okay. And it started with, on account of the snow and cold, very few people are stirring out. On account of. That was the beginning.

[Joe]

Because on account of. You want to know why? Well, it stands to reason that you would die trapped in 41 below weather. That correct. That's horrible.

[Kenny Olson]

If you're a city, it.

[Joe]

I got news for you, my man Mountain Dean. You, you'd die too if you were trapped in it.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, let's have a contest tomorrow night. This will be like our ice skating. Our ice skating contest. It's going to be 17 below tomorrow night. That's nothing in the metro.

[Joe]

That's nothing.

[Kenny Olson]

It's going to be 29 below here. Yeah, let's the both of us spend the night outside.

[Joe]

I'm not going to. Well, I mean, I think.

[Joe Soucheray]

Silly.

[Joe]

That just seems silly.

[Matthew]

We didn't have tornadoes here until we.

[Josh Arnold]

Started putting into traffic circles. Because on the counter you want to know why? When people go round and round in circles, it causes disturbance in the atmosphere and causes tornadoes.

[Joe]

John, in any of your gazing at this old paper, did they use the word calamity, catastrophe, end of the world. You didn't see any of that?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, it was more basically a point of interest, kind of. This is kind of cool almost kind of thing. You know what I mean? Also page 12, if you went to page 12.

[Matthew]

What are you, Paul Harvey?

[Joe Soucheray]

Tons of letters with the headline Old settlers tell of the winters of the past. And it's all these letters from people saying, oh, when I was a kid, we had my day, that kind of thing.

[Joe]

Wow.

[Kenny Olson]

The same thing that you and Joe Kurt do now almost every show My.

[Chris Reivers]

Day since Rookie did request it. I do have audio of the news reporter reporting on the exploding trees.

[Joe Soucheray]

And I posted it on my Facebook page.

[Joe]

Soon I posted on my Facebook, he said kapuya, kapuya.

[Joe Soucheray]

That hell just came in. I looked out My opened my door.

[Joe]

And I looked out my door and started hitting me in my head I took off running ran to my wrist I called my mama to see what she all right. Yeah. Thank you. Back to the modern child. The modern child has no knowledge of this, no means to put this in context. Probably not even a parent to set them straight, because the parents are so young, they have no context. It's winter, and we've completely lost sight of the fact that this is what's supposed to happen. What's the temperature supposed to be? The nation is being sold on the end of the world over, you know, as far down as Atlanta, for example. Well, you'll be all right.

[Kenny Olson]

That's why I think it's a ray of hope every time I see a young dum dum walking into school or into the store when it's 10 above or 10 below, wearing shorts when I should be outraged, I'm like, go, America, usa.

[Joe]

I have a grandchild who knows better who refuses to wear socks even in the winter.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I know a few people like that. Wow.

[Joe]

For what purpose? He feels he gets a better feel of the. Of the. Of the. Of the ground of the.

[Kenny Olson]

Well. Do you wear socks in your. Do you wear socks in your skates?

[Joe]

I did. Very thin ones.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, same here. But a lot of players go barefoot.

[Joe]

A lot of players in the NHL go barefoot. Yeah, but they're not skating outside.

[Matthew]

I mean, did you wear socks when you pitched?

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Joe]

Did you wear socks today? Because you have some very.

[Matthew]

I got some polos on right now.

[Joe]

You have some very odd pants on.

[Matthew]

I got the polo. Yeah. I've got fancy pants on.

[Joe]

You have. There's snowflakes on your pants and.

[Matthew]

Yep. I've got a nice velvet blue sport coat to wear over my tuxedo shirt.

[Joe]

You know, think how easy it's. Think how easy the failed academy has it to get these kids to believe in climate change. BS in the sense that climate change is gonna ruin the world. These kids have no idea. They're gullible. They've been told since the day they were born that the utmost care must be taken about everything. Which is fine. I understand that. But my God, they can't handle anything. So a teacher of ill intent could easily say to them, kids, you be aware there's a storm coming in the middle of the country this weekend. It could be 20 below, and that shouldn't happen. Well, hell, it shouldn't. It happens all the time.

[Matthew]

So they're going to cancel school so they don't have to go to schools. But they can go out and protest now, apparently.

[Joe]

Minnesota, we're on the. We're on the northern third of the country. That's gonna miss all this. It'll be cold here, but we ain't getting the end of the world.

[Matthew]

The brunt of it.

[Joe]

Yeah, the surge.

[Kenny Olson]

We heard big stories yesterday about snow in northern Florida.

[Matthew]

Yeah, they had some.

[Joe]

You want snow, go to that Kamchatka or whatever that place is in eastern Russia.

[Chris Reivers]

Did you see the one? I think it must have been a resort on the hill.

[Kenny Olson]

It's gotta be AI. I can't believe it.

[Announcer]

Kenny. I thought the same thing.

[Joe]

I can'.

[Kenny Olson]

Believe it.

[Chris Reivers]

Everything is covered.

[Matthew]

Not Florida.

[Donald Trump]

We're.

[Joe]

Here's the problem of my Jesus, Matthew, Is it real or. AI right. Everything in Kamchatka, however you say that, wherever that is income, it's not AI. I think they even have the ability to do AI and Kamchatka. They're lucky to get a picture.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait a minute. Isn't Kamchat. That's a blend at custom roasting.

[Joe]

Please look it up. It's in eastern Russia. You know, you damn near can see Alaska from there. And it's out there on a peninsula and they got a lot of snow and the.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, it's lake effect.

[Joe Soucheray]

You are correct.

[Joe]

It is a peninsula. What's it. How do you pronounce it? It's the.

[Kenny Olson]

I think you're doing it right.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'd go with Kamchatka. Yeah, like you were.

[Joe]

Oh, my God. I was.

[Matthew]

You gotta say more like.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Matthew]

You can't say Kamchatka. It's not right. It's Russia. They're all. It's gray and dim. Contract.

[Joe]

There was a picture in the Star Tribune last week. I meant to point it out. It was a black and white picture. It was the backs of three people on the stone arch bridge. And it was hazy and misty and gray, and it might as well have been Russia. And I thought, isn't that politically fitting for what we're facing?

[Matthew]

Yes.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait a minute. It's with Joe. Kupka.

[Joe]

It's pronounced Kupka. Not to me.

[Chris Reivers]

How do you really. How do you spell it again?

[Kenny Olson]

I'm on the Wikipedia page.

[Chris Reivers]

How do you spell it?

[Joe]

Please spell it.

[Kenny Olson]

K A, M, C, H, A T, K A.

[Chris Reivers]

All right.

[Joe]

Kamchatka.

[Matthew]

How do you say you will find Kopka?

[Joe]

Hang on, hang on. Kamchatka. You were right. Kamchatka. Kamchatka. Kamchatka. Yeah. Look at the pictures. Of Kamchatka that ain't I A AI Kamchatka.

[Kenny Olson]

That's a disco band. Kamchatka.

[Joe]

There's kids that open the fifth floor window of their apartment, they're sliding down to the bottom. I think it's cool. Although it's getting to the point where you start to wonder maybe it is the end of the world.

[Chris Reivers]

Are we gonna get out of here?

[Kenny Olson]

We can only hope.

[Joe Soucheray]

Jesus.

[Kenny Olson]

Let's go.

[Joe]

Told you. I need my week's advance. I gotta catch up on some.

[Chris Reivers]

Where is your place that you'd buy the Luckies from?

[Joe]

You got a spot gas station with.

[Matthew]

My luck, where you have privileges.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

The asteroid would be approaching. We're five days away from imminent doom. I would go around burning every single bridge I a la Larry David. And then the thing would miss us and we'd be just fine. Everything would be fine.

[Chris Reivers]

Hey, about all that.

[Matthew]

Like, wrong lottery numbers on Reno911, right?

[Joe]

Right.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Joe]

I think we might have downplayed the significance of these left wing radicals who entered a church Sunday and caused a terrible disturbance. Apparently they were motivated by the idea that the pastor there also works for ice. Well, pastors can have other jobs. And these left wing radicals. Left wing Marxist radical. What's her name? Nakima Levy. She was terribly upset that this guy worked for ice. That's none of her business.

[Matthew]

Fox News has reported far left agitator Nikimi Levy Armstrong.

[Joe]

Well, they're left wing radicals. They always call the right wing right wing people. We gotta remember to keep calling the left wing what the left wing is.

[Joe Soucheray]

Correct.

[Joe]

So we might not have given that story the significance it deserved. We also learned from an Alpha story that anti ICE left wing radicals, I'm saying that. Stormed a St. Paul church Sunday morning and shut down the worship service after learning that one of the church's pastors works as an ICE agent. I'm not going to say allegedly anymore because I saw on the news last night Channel 5 had determined that he does in fact double as a pastor and an ICE agent, which is fine with me. You get to work for ice. This is unacceptable. It's shameful. The lead pastor of Cities Church, Jonathan Parnell, said to Don Lemon, meaning your presence here is unacceptable. And Lemon is not worth how much he weighs. He has just been so disgraced for his lousy work. He's a left wing radical and he was told it's shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians at worship. But the pastor, one of the church's pastors, is a guy Named David Eastwood and he works as an ICE agent. Left wing radical Nikimi Levy Armstrong said they were there to let the church know this will not stand. Well, it's not up to you. Left wing radical Nakimi. They cannot pretend to be a house of God while harboring someone who is directing ICE agents. Not up to you. Nakimi Armstrong was the individual Nakimi who initiated these disruption inside the church, yelling as the lead pastor finished a prayer. If I have my facts straight, David Eastwood, the pastor with whom they have differences, he wasn't even there was a different pastor on the altar.

[Matthew]

Let he who was without sin cast the first stone.

[Joe]

But the left wing Radical Nikkimi and 20 other left wing radicals chanted things like Renee Goode, hands up, don't shoot. The church emptied of most of its congregants and their left wing radicals dissipated about 45 minutes later once the St. Paul police arrived. Well, bleep. You people stay out of a church. They waited too, until the sermon started.

[Chris Reivers]

It's a different set of rules. It almost feels like, well, left wing.

[Joe]

Radicals have different rules.

[Chris Reivers]

Got it.

[Joe]

Well, I would say it this way. They don't have any rules.

[Chris Reivers]

True.

[Joe]

So they waited until the sermon started and then they started bitching and moaning and screaming and it was chaos. And they served their purpose, which was to disrupt the church service into chaos. They accomplished nothing except demonstrate who they really are. Nikima Levy has made a lot of money as a left wing radical.

[Kenny Olson]

She's gonna make more too with her book.

[Chris Reivers]

If you and Rookie are attending this particular mass and this gets interrupted.

[Joe]

It wasn't a mass, Chris.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, service.

[Joe]

Service.

[Chris Reivers]

Would you two look at each other?

[Joe]

Go.

[Chris Reivers]

Does this count?

[Matthew]

I already thought here. Hey, we're not gonna have a sermon today.

[Chris Reivers]

All right, let's go.

[Matthew]

Hey, let's shorten her up.

[Joe]

I went to that church the other day, refreshing my memory of it. And then.

[Matthew]

It used to be an Episcopalian church.

[Joe]

I don't know.

[Matthew]

I think so.

[Joe]

Left wing radical Armstrong posted on Facebook following the incident, listing several co organizers of the disruption, including Monique Cullors Doty Chantill Allen, who is a complete fake. Chantill Allen is a St. Paul School Board member. She's famous, of course, for that dust up she tried to create at a Japanese restaurant back in 2021 and 2022. She is a pathetic person to have on the school board. She has no background in anything. She's not terribly bright. Cetera Strong Allen. And they're saying it's time for judgment. And the judgment will begin in the house. Of God. Left wing radical Nakimi Armstrong said or wrote another individual who participated goes by the name Da Woke Farmer.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, da, da, da woke yo yo yo.

[Joe]

And he was complaining about white people living lavish, comfortable lives. Well, you go bleep yourself too, Woke Farmer. You have no bleeping idea what you're talking about. The point is people that these are left wing radicals who are telling you that they don't believe in immigration laws, they don't believe in borders, and they don't believe the country should exclude anyone and that the United States should be lived in by whoever wants to be here and they can do whatever they want. So you either have a country or you don't. Let's just cut to the chase with the presence of these left wing radicals in the church complaining because one of the pastors there works for immigration control enforcement. That A, it invalidates the church in the left wing radical's mind, B, it invalidates the congregants who just live lavish lifestyles. There's no cause and effect to prove that. So what they're really saying is we're here on behalf of the ideology that no such thing as immigration, illegal immigration exists. We don't want borders. We don't think there should be borders. Borders are merely an affectation of the corrupted founding of the country by the white people in Philadelphia. We don't like it and we're here to complain about it. That's all. Left wing Marxist radical Armstrong accomplished. So we also learned from another Alpha story. You're not going to read any of this in the other store and the other newspapers in town. You might get it in the American Experiment, the Daily, the Minneapolis Times, Sahara, Sahara Sahan Journal. But we learned from Alpha that a key staffer for the Minneapolis left wing radical county attorney, who would be Mary Moriarty, praised the anti immigration and Customs enforcement agitators who invaded the church service and suggested that he was present. His name is Jamal Lundy, an intergovernmental affairs coordinator for the Hennepin County Attorney's office. That's a job that cannot be measured for achievement. So he doesn't work. I'm serious. It's called the intergovernmental affairs coordinator for the Hennepin County Attorney.

[Joe Soucheray]

What?

[Joe]

He doesn't.

[Joe Soucheray]

What?

[Kenny Olson]

What? What?

[Joe]

Jamal Lundy, you don't have a job that cannot be measured for any. I want to see what you've achieved, Jamal. You're a left wing radical. Other than that, what have you achieved? And he said he met up with a group of protesters and got in Some good trouble highlighting that a church in the Twin Cities has a pastor who is an ICE field director. So what? That's what the guy does for a living, right?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. It gets worse. Keep reading.

[Joe]

When Minnesotans say we want ICE out, we mean it. Right. Lundy added his video included pictures of the incident in which agitators interrupted a Sunday service at City Church. It's an evangelical Christian church, Rook. I don't know if it used to be.

[Matthew]

It used to be. It was St. Paul, I believe.

[Joe]

All right. Lundy is. Oh, this guy. This guy who doesn't work. Jamal Lundy. Yeah. Left wing radical. He's running to represent District 65 in the Minnesota Senate as Intergovernmental Affairs Coordinator. Lundy serves as a liaison between Mary Moriarty and the state legislature. In other words, he doesn't do anything. Got it. According to the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, Moriarty's campaign received more than 500 grand from political groups funded by Hungarian American billionaire George Soros.

[Kenny Olson]

I think you can call him a left wing.

[Joe]

He's a left wing radical activist.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Critics have condemned the soft on crime approach they say Soros backed. Prosecutors have adopted. Moriarty, a left wing radical, announced last year that her office will decline to prosecute most felony offenses arising from low level traffic stops. We went through that last year, Joe.

[Matthew]

It was indeed St. Paul's Episcopal Church on the hill.

[Joe]

All right, I don't want to hear any more about it.

[Kenny Olson]

You guys are hyper focused on that.

[Joe]

Well, we got it straightened out. Okay, good.

[Kenny Olson]

Finally.

[Matthew]

You looking for a church, Kenny?

[Joe]

Neither Jamal Lundy's campaign, nor his office or nor the office of the Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty responded to a request for comment. State representative Harry Niska, the Republican leader in the House, condemned Lundy's support for the agitators. It is incredibly disturbing that a top Hennepin county staffer. Don't worry about it, Harry. He doesn't really have a job. Would encourage protesters to break the law. Niska said. I guess he told that to the Daily Signal. I don't know what that is. Hennepin county residents should be very concerned that this is how top leadership in their county prosecutor's office conducts themselves. I'm about to enter a long soliloquy. I'm about to have one.

[Kenny Olson]

All right.

[Joe]

Agitators walked directly into the middle of the sanctuary at that church and shouted, justice for Renee Good. As they surrounded various members of the congregation. The agitators targeted the church because one of the pastors works for ICE and it Was this dull woke farmer who posted videos. Jamal. What's his name?

[Kenny Olson]

Lundy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Joe]

What's District 65? Can anybody find.

[Kenny Olson]

I haven't looked it up yet.

[Joe]

District 65 has to be distinctly urban Minneapolis. I would imagine he'll probably win. I think. I think the Twin Cities are lost. I don't think there's a recovery in mind. The. What's happening now with ICE here has pushed fraud to the back burner that will easily be forgotten by voters. People who would vote for Jamal Lundy though wouldn't have cared about the fraud anyway. I think the Twin Cities are lost to a future of continuing degradation and corruption and the absolute absence of law enforcement. I think that's the future of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I don't see a recovery. I don't see it happening. I don't see any balance returning to the legislature. We were. We've become so disrupted that it's pretty much over. That would be my estimation. There's a story that goes side. Side by side with this. That was from the American experiment. I could have brought it up yester yesterday. Our per capita income growth is declining and it's been lagging since 2024.

[Chris Reivers]

Why is that, Joe?

[Joe]

Well, in other words. In other words that we're not a community of people gathered here to experience commerce and help each other and work and flourish and achieve. We've settled into this malaise of leftism and progressivism which has never offered anywhere anything to get excited about.

[Chris Reivers]

We've become a welfare city.

[Joe]

This progressive movement has nothing to offer in terms of beauty, achievement, accomplishment, success, the lifting up of more people. It has never accomplished that anywhere. Portland is foundering. Seattle is floundering. Minneapolis is floundering. San Francisco is floundering. Chicago is floundering. New York just elected a Marxist mayor. We have. The urban America has given itself away to progressive movements that are not accomplishing anything. And the movement encompasses so many people that it was nothing for them to whip up a gang of 25 and race over to this church Sunday. They're not doing anything else. And what they're accomplishing is the continued diminution of the city. There's nothing to point to as an example of wonder or beauty or greatness or achievement or commerce or glory or goodwill. Nothing. They offer none of that. And yet they're taking over. And they. They took over Sunday at this city's church. An evangelical non denominational which motivated by the ide. The idea that in their ideology the pastor had no business also having a job, much less A job with ice for all we know. That guy's a saint.

[Matthew]

Right.

[Joe]

No evidence has indicated, for example, that he was involved with the shooting of Renee. Good. For all I know, he was back at church that day.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right.

[Joe]

You know, so somebody's going to have to. And they can't remember. We always would ask. I've asked to get on Chavez many times. What's the guy's name?

[Chris Reivers]

Jason.

[Joe]

Jason Chavez. Nobody comes through for me. Plus, he won't respond.

[Kenny Olson]

He's not coming on.

[Joe]

He won't come on because that's my only question. Well, it could be him or anybody. Could be Nekima who won't come on.

[Chris Reivers]

He's not going to come on. You want to go down the list?

[Joe]

I want to know what can you tell us that you've accomplished for the common good? They all preach the common good and have done nothing about it.

[Chris Reivers]

Their only goal is to continue the grift and line the pockets.

[Joe]

Nothing you've ever done that has contributed to the wonder and beauty of people. All you do is diminish. Nothing. By the way, I guess, as Black Lives Matter, which has proven to be just corrupt as hell. She's made a lot of money from that far left agitator, Nekima. I guess her salary was a million bucks.

[Matthew]

Well, she made a million over the course of a couple of several years.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

And they only get grants of 150 grand a year or something like that.

[Joe]

Did you know this about her? She's founder and CEO of her own cannabis company called Dope Roots.

[Matthew]

There you go.

[Joe]

And she has led the nonprofit as executive director for six years from 2019 through 2024, according to tax filings by the Wayfinder Foundation. And according to the Wayfinder foundation, she has raked in over a million bucks during six years leading a Minneapolis civil rights nonprofit that addresses anti poverty issues. That wouldn't be dope roots. I imagine dope roots is a different scam she's got going. So other than other than making sure that they have food to eat.

[Matthew]

What.

[Joe]

Do these leftist radicals accomplish? Serious rhetorical question.

[Chris Reivers]

Financial gain.

[Joe]

What have they accomplished for the richness, not material richness, the spiritual and mental and emotional rich, what have they contributed to the richness of the Twin Cities? Zilch.

[Chris Reivers]

We feed kids.

[Joe]

They don't even do that well.

[Kenny Olson]

They've increased crime. They've. They further divided the community. Sorry about that.

[Joe]

It's like that quote I read yesterday from Daniel Strand. Gabe isn't here today, so I don't know if Daniel Strand got back to us. He was. He wrote something in a in a news post called First Things and he wrote, I'm going to paraphrase. He said the ideology of progressivism can never result in justice for all people because they only assign justice based on your status as a victim. So victimhood trumps common sense. Victimhood. Victimhood trumps the law. Victimhood trumps rules and regulations. Victimhood in their eyes, trumps everything. And the higher you can get on the ladder of victimhood, the more you should be compensated. It seems like left wing radicalist Nakima who got a million bucks over five years for running an anti poverty group.

[Kenny Olson]

I have Daniel's paragraph if you want it.

[Joe]

I do.

[Kenny Olson]

The dirty little secret is that for all their talk of the public good, progressives do not have a conception of the common good because their conception of justice is rooted in a hierarchy of victimhood. When one pulls back the rhetorical layers of leftist ideologues, one finds a constellation of ideas that are wholly an anthema to the public good of city, states or nation.

[Joe]

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[Joe]

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[Kenny Olson]

The Joe Sugiray Show GL or Sean had a shimmy problem and being a g ele, sat down, fired up the old noggin and figured it out. And Joe, by the way, figured is F I G G E R E D figured he figured it out. Let me explain. And by the way, I have not not seen Sean's tip on seafoamworks.com. sean writes, that tree rat wrapped its legs around the pole and shimmied on up to the bird feeder and went to town with the bird feed. Now, I want you in your mind's eye. Think about Reavers stuffing his face with a rodeo burger. That's what. That's what that squirrel was doing. After thinking about it for a couple of minutes, I decided to try my Deep Creep and I sprayed the pole. The children and I then enjoyed a day of watching squirrels jump onto the pole and slide right down. Problem solved. Thank you, Deep Creep. Now, if you go to seafoamworks.com you're gonna see a lot of products, a lot of tips and their various uses. I bet this one isn't on there. And I actually tried this out. I sprayed down one of our bird feeder poles. And we've had great fun mocking the squirrels here at Jackass Rants. Once again, Its record is 100%. Deep creep came to the rescue. Another wonderful product.

[Joe]

From friends at CFO, here's Mr. John Haidt.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you, Joe. This news, brought to you by North American Banking Company Vice President J.D. vance will be traveling to Minneapolis tomorrow for a roundtable with local leaders and community members. The details of the visit have not yet been released, however. It comes, of course, at a time when ICE agents continue to carry out ops here in Minnesota, prompting protests across the state. The vice president previously visited the state in September to pay respects to the victims of the Annunciation Church.

[Matthew]

I drove by Signature Aviation Yesterday, going from T1 to T2, and I saw an aircraft that had the United States of America emblem on it. Would that have been Christie Noem?

[Joe]

I have no idea.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, so what you're trying to. I know what your reaction was to this, by the way. Unlike a Major League baseball player, he has a kid. He gets right back to work.

[Joe]

What are you talking about?

[Chris Reivers]

They just had another child, correct?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, she's pregnant.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, she's pregnant.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, yeah. She hasn't. She hasn't had the child.

[Chris Reivers]

I thought they had the child. My apologies.

[Joe Soucheray]

They announced the pregnancy. The vice president.

[Matthew]

Vice president. To get right back to work.

[Chris Reivers]

Because you know, Joe and Patrick would always bitch when a Major League baseball player would go to the birth of the child.

[Joe]

You shouldn't have to. You should stay on the field.

[Matthew]

I think my paternity leave lasted about seven or eight minutes.

[Joe]

Yeah, well, there's a new Minnesota. Matt, we're paying you to be you.

[Joe Soucheray]

I want you to know that when my child was born, that was a Friday evening at 7 o' clock and at 6am I was in the studio doing news with Leighton Peck. So. Well, less than 12 hours later, after.

[Joe]

My second child was born, I got on a plane and left for New York to cover the US Open. Good luck. Yeah, see you later.

[Chris Reivers]

Let me know how everything works out.

[Joe]

Yeah, the kid's all right. She turned.

[Matthew]

On the contrary, she was happy about that.

[Chris Reivers]

Get him out of here.

[Kenny Olson]

It was actually very helpful.

[Joe Soucheray]

Federal officials discussed Homeland Security's ongoing immigration enforcement ops in Minnesota yesterday defended their agents actions. Marcos Charles, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement executive associate director of Enforcement and Removal Operations, and Border Patrol commander at large Greg Bevino, both slamming Governor Tim Walls and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry for spreading what they called he did rhetoric. But Bevino also called people protesting ICE operations anarchists. All of this, of course, comes amid the high tensions and multiple lawsuits over the immigration enforcement surge and federal agents conduct. Meanwhile, local law enforcement leaders in Minnesota called for more accountability and oversight of the ICE agents in the state. Officers from about a dozen Minnesota agencies stood with Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Brulee, St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry and Hennepin County Sheriff Dewana Witt at the state Capitol as they shared concerns about getting endless complaints from U.S. citizens. There were endless, including off duty police officers who they said are being stopped without cause by agents demanding proof of citizenship. Chief Brulee recounted an incident involving one of his officers who was boxed in by federal agents while driving off duty. They demanded her paperwork, of which she's a US Citizen, he said, and clearly would not have any paperwork on her. He added that when the officer tried to record the interaction, an agent knocked her phone out of her hand, really explained that the agents had their guns drawn, prompting the officer to identify herself as a Brooklyn park police officer. In an effort to de escalate the situation, the agents left immediately after without further comments. St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry also shared similar experiences faced by city employees, noting thankfully not with firearms drawn, but traffic stops that are clearly outside the bounds of whatever federal agents are allowed to do. Brulee emphasized the concern is not solely because off duty officers are affected by but because officers are generally more knowledgeable about their rights and the US Constitution.

[Joe]

I have one question about the stop. Is it Brooklyn center police officer Brooklyn park or Center?

[Joe Soucheray]

Brooklyn Park Park.

[Joe]

Why didn't she instantly tell them she was a copper? Don't they carry their badge with them usually?

[Matthew]

I think you would also. I think you would also always identify yourself just saying, hey, just so you.

[Joe]

Know, I think it's dreadful that she Was stopped.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Joe]

For apparently no reason at all. Why didn't she instantly say, hey, knuckleheads.

[Chris Reivers]

Or did she?

[Joe]

I'm one of you.

[Chris Reivers]

Did she maybe not do that because she didn't want to seem like she was trying to get a free pass? That would be my only free pass.

[Joe]

From what?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I mean, just saying, like, hey, I'm a cop. You can't stop me.

[Joe]

No, no, no.

[Matthew]

I'm an off duty police officer right now. Just a heads up.

[Kenny Olson]

May I?

[Joe]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

Today on news from the Crabby Coffee Shop, we are having a retired ICE agent on. He worked here in the twin cities from 97 to 2021. I'm not sure if we're going to divulge his name or not. I'm assuming we are, but since I don't know, I'm not going to say his name. And we're also working to get Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark on. And we'll ask both of them a whole lot of questions about this. On news from the Crabby Coffee Shop, we also have. Jay was able. Jay Coles, 5 Eyewitness News was able to obtain video, exclusive video that nobody else has, of an ICE arrest in St. Paul within the last five days. And it was very standard, not unusual. Nothing violent happened. And we're going to show that video.

[Matthew]

For the former ICE guy. Are you going to have that?

[Kenny Olson]

My name is Ray. Wouldn't that be cool? And then he's in the shadows.

[Matthew]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't think we have that kind of technology.

[Chris Reivers]

I can guarantee you we do.

[Kenny Olson]

We're gonna have to, like, put a bag over his head or something, start.

[Matthew]

Out talking like that.

[Kenny Olson]

My name is Ray.

[Matthew]

Yeah, because I would listen to that for sure.

[Kenny Olson]

And then I. And then numerous times through the interview, I will refer to him by his full name.

[Joe]

Yeah, I mean, Jack.

[Kenny Olson]

Like when Joe says. Joe reads the name and then he goes. By the way, don't read my name on the air.

[Chris Reivers]

No. If, Kenny, if we attempted to do something that you and Jay would be conducting the interview and the guest would be in a black room and then Joe would turn the light on, coming to look for a pencil on the ground.

[Josh Arnold]

Who are you?

[Kenny Olson]

We have also considered bringing Rookie in as a fake guest. You know, he could play J.D.

[Joe]

Vance.

[Kenny Olson]

He could play Kristi Noem, you know.

[Matthew]

Especially in these pants.

[Joe Soucheray]

Federal prosecutors serving grand jury subpoenas yesterday to Minnesota officials as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed or impeded law enforcement during that immigration operation in the Minneapolis. Minneapolis St. Paul area. The Subpoenas which seek records were sent to the offices of Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, St. Paul Mayor Kelly her and officials in Ramsey and Hennepin counties. The person said. Walls and Fry, both Democrats, have called the probe a bullying tactic meant to quell political opposition. Her among immigrant and a Democrat, acknowledged a subpoena, saying she's, quote, unfazed by these tactics.

[Joe]

They're investigating Walls for the wrong reason. Investigate them for fraud.

[Joe Soucheray]

Former Minnesota sports journalist and NFL sideline reporter Michelle Tafoya running for Congress. The former broadcaster and Emmy winning Emmy winner officially announcing this morning she's running in the US Senate seat in Minnesota that's currently held by Senator Tina Smith. Tafoya joins a field that already includes several other prominent names, including Republican Party Chair David Boy, I was told how to pronounce this and I already forgot. I think it's Han.

[Joe]

No, it's Han.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is it?

[Joe]

Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, also there in Congresswoman Angie Craig lead the Democratic candidates to Foya said, I didn't come to this decision lightly, but I'm not willing to stand on the sidelines while Minnesotans are let down by leaders who refuse to take responsibility. This campaign is about putting people first, not politics as usual.

[Joe]

Flanagan couldn't get a job dealing cards.

[Chris Reivers]

And by the way, all of those characters that John just mentioned went to social media when Michelle announced this run, I'm sure and basically just touted the same thing. Walls has been saying that we now need to fight this Trump backed MAGA Republican here. It's not gonna stop. It's just gonna be the same talking points.

[Joe]

It's over here. It's over.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Joe]

If you can. Get out, get out.

[Chris Reivers]

Good luck, Michelle.

[Joe Soucheray]

Why don't we take a quick break here before we have national and international news and hear from Chris Wheeler.

[Chris Reivers]

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Thanks Chris President Trump insisting he wants to get Greenland, including right title and ownership, but said he would not employ force to achieve that, using his speech today at the World Economic Forum to repeatedly deride European allies and vowed that NATO should not try to block U.S. expansionism. He urged NATO to allow the U.S. to take Greenland from Denmark. The president even added an extraordinary warning, saying alliance members can say yes and quote, we'll be very appreciative, or you can say no and we will remember. Despite that, Trump acknowledged, we probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be frankly unstoppable. But I won't do that. Okay, I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force. Instead, he called for opening immediate negotiations for the US to acquire Greenland. He said, this enormous unsecured island is actually part of North America and that's our territory. President came to the forum on the heels of threatening steep US Import import taxes on Denmark and seven other allies unless they negotiate a transfer of the country, a concession the European leaders indicated they won't make. The president said tariffs would start at 10% next month and climb to 25% in June. French President Emmanuel Macron, in his address to the forum, made no direct mention of President Trump, but urged fellow leaders to reject acceptance of the law of the strongest. The whole NATO situation does have one country happy, apparently, and that would be Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to undermine NATO for nearly two decades. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov appealed to Trump's ego this week as the president pressed the issue. He said by resolving the issue of Greenland's annexation, Trump will undoubtedly go down in the history books, not only in the history of the United States but in world history. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the alliance was in deep crisis, adding he hadn't previously imagined a scenario in which one member of the alliance would ever attack another. Lavrov said Russia was merely monitoring the situation. He dismissed the president's assertion that Russia would seize the island if the US didn't say Moscow had no such plans.

[Joe]

We have a bit of Trump audio here.

[Donald Trump]

We saw this in World War II when Denmark fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland. So the United States was then compelled. We did it. We felt an obligation to do it. To send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory. And hold it we did at great cost and expense. They didn't have a chance of getting on it and they tried. Denmark knows that. We literally set up bases on Greenland for Denmark. Denmark. We fought for Denmark. We weren't fighting for anyone else. We were fighting to save it for Denmark. Big beautiful piece of ice. It's hard to call it land. It's a big piece of ice. But we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere. So we did it for ourselves also. And then after the war.

[Joe]

Which we won.

[Donald Trump]

We won it big. Without us right now you'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese. Perhaps. After the war we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that?

[Joe]

But we did it.

[Donald Trump]

But we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now?

[Joe]

You know, Don. Somebody's got to tell him he was speaking to a room of people who do speak German. So here's what I want.

[Matthew]

Here we go.

[Joe]

Nine. Here's what I want.

[Chris Reivers]

All you Germans would be speaking.

[Joe]

And he sounded terribly sane in that.

[Kenny Olson]

Sounded tired to be honest.

[Joe]

But here. The country deserved this. With Biden too. Don't get me wrong. And it deserves it. With. With Trump. Would the country and the country so divided. I'm sure this is an impossible ask on my part. But what if you settle on a panel of recognized medical experts. Psychiatry, whatever fields would have to be included and have them listen to his press conference yesterday which was an hour and 45 minutes. Wasn't really a press conference. And seriously. And determine what they think of that. Is this a fellow rowing with one oar or is this this. Is this the real deal? Or. And it would have been. I said the same thing with Biden. It was never applied to Biden. It's never going to be applied to Trump. But I heard some things yesterday that. Well, at one point he absolutely praised the Hell's Angels and said how much they liked him and voted for him and they protected him. The Hell's Angels. I didn't know they were. I didn't know they had a good heart. I didn't know they were involved in anything.

[Joe Soucheray]

He was playing at Altamont. Don't you remember? Sorry.

[Joe]

I, I. And we'll never get that. We'll never get answers that are sane and reasonable. We'll just, we'll just keep going like this, right?

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, so he did run into some problems with Greenland and Iceland this morning. To that speech we just played the clip from. He kept calling Greenland, Iceland.

[Chris Reivers]

Ah, same thing.

[Joe]

You know what's pretty close enough, right?

[Chris Reivers]

It's a lot of ice. Big piece of ice is what I heard.

[Joe]

They even call it land. It's just a big piece of ice.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes, Air Force One had some issues as they were flying to Switzerland, was plunged into darkness and had to make a U turn in midair and come back to the United States. The crew of the modified Boeing 747 200B made the call to abort the journey less than an hour into the flight headed back to the U.S. white House officials said the decision was made.

[Joe]

Out of an abundance of caution.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you. And stressed the electrical issue was minor. The President and his entourage soon hopped on another plane, an Air Force C32 usually used for smaller domestic trips, and flew to the World Economic Forum. Doge. Remember doge?

[Joe]

I do.

[Joe Soucheray]

Implies employees with the Department of Government Efficiency who were detailed to the Social Security Administration last March. March shared sensitive data through a third party server that was non secure in violation of agency security policies. According to the Justice Department, the Social Security Administration does not know what data was shared on the server or whether it still exists there. 16 formal correction to statements that Social Security Administration officials made to a federal court in Maryland last spring made that admission. But the disclosure about the third party server confirms concerns among career government employees and data security experts that Doge's chaotic access to sensitive government data risks sharing the data broadly and without knowing what was exposed or who had seen it. Last August, the Social Security Administration's Chief Data officer, shortly before he resigned, filed a whistleblower complaint over Doge employees activities, saying they had shared a crucial database on a private server. A problem with too much oil and low prices is causing drilling in North Dakota's Bakken oil fields to be slowed down.

[Joe]

Isn't that a good problem?

[Joe Soucheray]

I would Think so. Except I know I first found out about this story from an employee who works for a company that he will not be working for a while. The company that brought fracking to North Dakota's Bakken oil fields is pulling back on activity, not ending operations completely. Harold Ham, founder of Continental Resources, recently told Bloomberg that he plans to halt drilling in the Bakken. Continental is among the largest oil producers in that area. The pullback is a sign of a low oil price environment, which has slowed production across the entire United States, not just in North Dakota, according to officials. North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong said Continental is not pulling up stakes and leaving the state, just slowing things down. Officials often attribute the low price to a global oversupply of oil outpacing demand by about 2, 2 to 3 million barrels per day. Getting enough vitamin D can help protect you against the flu, I believe. It's a new study, really. It revealed that people with a severe vitamin D deficiency were 33% more likely to be admitted to a hospital with a respiratory tract infection than those who were getting adequate amounts. Vitamin D is the only supplement recommended for everyone during winter months when exposure to sunlight, which the body uses to produce the nutrient, is limited. It's already known to help regulate the amount of calcium and phosphorus in the body, which is vital for bone and muscle health. But experts also think it may have antiviral properties.

[Joe]

Wasn't that. Is D what you get from the sun?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes. Yes.

[Joe]

Isn't that one of the words you did, Josh?

[Chris Reivers]

That your. Your buddy had trouble with the phosphorus? Wasn't that one of the ones.

[Joe]

Who are you talking to? You're not supposed to be talking to him.

[Chris Reivers]

Phosphates.

[Matthew]

No, no, no, no. That was the chick at Bridgman's.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I thought it was a bunch of yours. I'm sorry.

[Matthew]

Phosphate 55 or French fries. She had a bad tooth problem.

[Joe]

Well, I hope she's fine now.

[Matthew]

I think she sought some orthodontistry.

[Joe]

All right. Was it a natural tooth, Matthew?

[Matthew]

What?

[Kenny Olson]

Was it a snaggle tooth?

[Joe]

Yeah. She could mad.

[Matthew]

She could eat an apple through a. A picket fence.

[Kenny Olson]

That's a good one.

[Joe]

Be kind. Be kind.

[Matthew]

I hope she does. She cute red haired gal.

[Joe]

I'm sure she's Jim up there.

[Kenny Olson]

You of all people telling him to be kind.

[Joe]

Well, I don't.

[Chris Reivers]

That's really good.

[Joe]

Well, I'm not going after somebody with a snaggle tooth.

[Matthew]

He knows that. That we went up there maybe three, four times a week to inquire about the current price of a plate of French Fries, which she had to say 55. And then we giggle and go get some bubble gum. And James Pharmacy.

[Joe]

That's not kind.

[Matthew]

Don't even go on phosphates. Phosphates.

[Chris Reivers]

So wait a minute. You would do that multiple times a.

[Matthew]

Week just to go see if they change 55.

[Kenny Olson]

And then when she says it, you say what?

[Matthew]

Well, yeah. And Joe commented, I bet she was really happy when the price went to 60 cents.

[Joe]

Right. But we went to Sally.

[Joe Soucheray]

We went and saw Sally. I bring this up all the time. There's a lot of catchphrases at my house from this show.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

And that of course, 55. With your buck teeth until the day I die.

[Joe]

55. Thank you.

[Chris Reivers]

How old are you after your birthday on December 23rd?

[Matthew]

55.

[Chris Reivers]

Thank you.

[Joe]

It's hard to believe, isn't it?

[Chris Reivers]

It is.

[Matthew]

I can't believe I'm that childish and.

[Joe]

I'm that age childish.

[Chris Reivers]

At this point, it ain't getting any better.

[Kenny Olson]

I just love that the guy guy that coined the phrase some GD Mountain Dew drinker is defending this snaggletooth broad from 40 years ago.

[Joe Soucheray]

I have a question.

[Chris Reivers]

Joe goes to me when her one of her first days down here, he says, hey, someone was looking for you. I said, who was it?

[Josh Arnold]

I don't know.

[Chris Reivers]

One of those Mountain Dew drinking a holes.

[Joe]

I didn't say that. Oh my God.

[Chris Reivers]

It was one of the five funniest things you've ever uttered.

[Joe]

I don't. Thanks, Matt.

[Matthew]

Fine, gentlemen.

[Joe]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Chris Reivers]

So funny. Is.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is this irony? The dose of winter weather forecast for this weekend is too harsh for Winterfest on Broadway and Green Bay, Wisconsin on Broadway Inc. Has canceled.

[Joe]

No.

[Joe Soucheray]

The annual Winterfest on Broadway outdoor celebration because of the weather.

[Joe]

Okay, forget that. It's hockey day.

[Chris Reivers]

I was actually just gonna say the same thing.

[Joe]

Saturday in Hastings.

[Matthew]

Yeah, it's gonna be.

[Joe]

No, seriously. I wonder what they're gonna do.

[Chris Reivers]

I would think they'd almost have to. You can't sit outside.

[Joe]

Those kids can't take that. That's gonna be brutal. They should be in a warm room.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, there's a snowmobile race in Sauk center and it's gonna be 6 below for the high. And there's a snowmobile race in Wausau, Wisconsin where it's going to be below zero for the high. Either one of those will be canceled.

[Chris Reivers]

Nothing.

[Kenny Olson]

That's nothing.

[Chris Reivers]

Kenny.

[Advertisement Voice]

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[Chris Reivers]

It isn't snow cross at Canterbury this week?

[Kenny Olson]

Not snow cross. It's oval race.

[Joe]

You know what your hardcore runners say? There's no Such thing as bad weather. There's only bad clothes.

[Kenny Olson]

You know, speaking of that, I saw a runner out over the weekend when the wind was blowing 50 miles an hour. And this hooplehead city, it was out there turning a lap.

[Joe]

Yeah, but I bet he was well layered up. Yeah.

[Matthew]

It's not worth it.

[Chris Reivers]

He got frostbite.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes. Green Bay is expecting dangerously low.

[Joe]

Green Bay? Yeah, I'm sorry.

[Joe Soucheray]

Minus 30 to minus 40 this weekend. Wouldn't it be fun if the packers were playing championship games?

[Matthew]

Too bad they sucked it up and lost, huh?

[Joe]

They lost. That would be a great game at home. Now, will Denver be anticipating this serious storm that's bringing calamity and catastrophe to the middle of the country? Tell it's 60 degrees today in Denver. Yeah.

[Matthew]

Did you look?

[Chris Reivers]

They're not playing today.

[Joe]

You know what? Don't tell me that. I, I. No, that's not, that's.

[Matthew]

I like that. Denver. I was checking Miami too. It looks like. Bring your pets in tonight. It's 48°.

[Joe]

I'm curious about things.

[Matthew]

I know you are, Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

You must have liked the weather last week in the games, right? With the snow.

[Joe]

I did. It wasn't snowing hard. I would. The old Prince line. Can you make it snow harder? You know, he said, can you make it rain harder? I wanted to snow worse.

[Kenny Olson]

You know, Chris, that race you spoke of was a couple of weeks ago.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I thought it was this week. It might last week.

[Joe]

Okay.

[Advertisement Voice]

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[Matthew]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Joe]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Joe]

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[Matthew]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Joe]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Matthew]

Get some blood moving.

[Joe]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Joe Soucheray]

17% lower for those who did the most walking compared with those who did the least individually. Tennis. Squash. Who plays squash?

[Joe]

My old man was a very good squash player. Squash with a racket or It's a racket game? Yeah, it's a card game with a hard round ball. You could really.

[Matthew]

What's the difference between handball, squash and racquetball?

[Joe]

Well, you use a racket with squash and you don't use your hand. You use your hand with handball.

[Joe Soucheray]

What about racquetball?

[Joe]

He's racket racquetball. I'M not terribly familiar with it. Isn't it a bigger.

[Matthew]

What's all that racket?

[Joe]

The squash racket is a very. It's almost dainty looking looking.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's a ping pong paddle.

[Joe]

No, it's a racket. It has a handle like a tennis racket, but the. The head is not that big.

[Kenny Olson]

You should be allowed to beat each other with your rackets during racquetball.

[Joe]

Yeah, that's happened.

[Matthew]

Early 80s, there was a documentary about a mermaid where two. Two brothers were playing racquetball. One guy. Yeah, one guy was playing about 10 minutes and his heart was beating like a rabbit.

[Joe Soucheray]

And remember, he got. Got hit right in the head. Right back in the head.

[Matthew]

Yeah. It's a dangerous game.

[Joe]

How'd that turn out? A squash club at the Commodore in St. Paul.

[Kenny Olson]

That's fascinating, Joe. Anyway, how'd that documentary turn out?

[Matthew]

He went with the mermaid.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

And the big fat brother was jailed for impersonating a mermaid.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, it turned out okay, sort of.

[Matthew]

But they did print his letter in Penthouse in the first balloon.

[Joe]

You just. You just put up. You just put a little pin.

[Matthew]

I don't even know what movie we're talking about.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

I'll give you some Splash.

[Joe]

Okay.

[Josh Arnold]

Wow.

[Joe]

There you go.

[Joe Soucheray]

Chuckles.

[Chris Reivers]

How many times.

[Kenny Olson]

Here's a nickel. Why don't you go have a rat gnaw that mole off your face?

[Chris Reivers]

How many times did young Matthew Mikulski take in the fine film splash?

[Joe]

Probably zero because he's a success.

[Joe Soucheray]

Excuse me. Excuse me, Mr. Trump. Oh, I'm sorry.

[Joe]

Wow. That is a success. He didn't waste his youth watching mermaid movies. Police.

[Matthew]

Right. I was at the theater, so I saw. I suppose I was being paid to watch them.

[Joe Soucheray]

You had to work there, Joe.

[Kenny Olson]

It's not a movie, it's a film. Thank you very much.

[Matthew]

What film did you see today?

[Joe]

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[Joe]

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[Matthew]

I got something.

[Joe]

Just a minute. Here we go. Here's a man who spends hours in hardware stores sifting through the nuts and bolts of life. Joe Sushere.

[Matthew]

I hope at this party they have really good. What would you call them on the bar? What are those called?

[Joe]

Pickled pigs feet?

[Matthew]

No, the snacks. Snacks? Yeah, bar snacks.

[Chris Reivers]

You know, and that's the thing. You know how popular the garagelogic podcast has made? We are nuts.

[Joe]

How popular is it?

[Chris Reivers]

700 different quick trip locations they're in now.

[Joe Soucheray]

Holy moly.

[Joe]

Wow. 700.

[Chris Reivers]

700 quick trip locations.

[Joe]

Quick trip. You guys are crazy not to let us talk about you.

[Chris Reivers]

And by the way, I was in the Mankato area over the weekend and I took a picture of the display of the we are nuts thing that was there and then I saw. And I had the two boys with me and they're like, dad, let's get going.

[Joe]

I want to get in the car.

[Chris Reivers]

And I saw a guy with a GL shirt on. And I was gonna talk but I just said I gotta get going. I gotta get going.

[Matthew]

Anyway, you know who I am.

[Chris Reivers]

700 locations for Kwiktrip. They're also at Cub foods, County market, Coburn's, Lunds and Barley's, Kowalski's market, your Fratelloni's hardware and garden stores locations and Mac's hardware. And it's a wonderful family owned operation making quality handmade small batch snacks right here. In the great state of Minnesota. And you can see it for yourself. Go to their website online today it's wearer and see their entire selection, whether it's the cashews, the almonds, the cinnamon, toffee, peanuts, it's all there for you. And it's a wonderful, wonderful partnership that we have with WeAreNuts and WeAreNutsMN.com, place your order, let them know you heard about them on the garagelogic podcast, bruh.

[Joe]

Yesterday, in discussing the fragility of children, I mentioned I know some kids who are going to be facing the loss of their dog and that that's tough for anybody, isn't it? Yes, very tough. But they'll handle it.

[Matthew]

Yep.

[Joe]

So I get an email from Bob Bruce who writes boy Joe, with everything going on in your state, I never thought the subject of a family dog and kids would come up the Thursday before Thanksgiving. Our house had to deal with it. No. I've got two in college and a senior in high school. I could see the end was coming for a while. But that day I left my office to work out and when I got home at 5:30, I could see it was time. Texted that to my wife and she protested and I said, I'm not looking for opinions, I'm just telling you what you're about to walk into when you get home. Our hunting buddy gave us all he had. As soon as my youngest saw him, he texted his brothers. The one in Iowa City said I'm leaving now. I said, don't bother, you'll be late. The other goes to college in town. He was home in 10 minutes. Thank God I'm in a small enough town I can call our vet after hours and you become friends. He thankfully answered and said, I'll see you at the office in 30 minutes. All that to say, I told my wife I would take care of it and my boy said hell no, we're all going. I attached a pick that ripped my heart out, but I'm proud of him. He sent a picture of the family. We've all been there where you're all holding the dog.

[Matthew]

I cried like a baby taking my 14 year old old labradoodle. I was like, you can break the code, you can talk, you can talk. I'm sorry for I was sitting there playing and then they say you gotta leave. You know you can't leave, you can't.

[Chris Reivers]

Leave, you gotta stay with him. And that's that. My brother lost his black lab Mac, named after his semi, took Mac for one last trip around it was. And it was so cool.

[Joe]

Well, the dog the kids are gonna lose. It happens to be a favorite of mine, and he's got a crooked tail. And according to one of the kids, that's because he was shot dead when he was a puppet.

[Chris Reivers]

I remember that kid saying that it.

[Joe]

Was a rescue dog. And he has got the really bad tail, like it's the letter L. Yeah, exactly. It just bent and. But the dog has served him well. And I'm afraid he's fallen down the steps. He's losing his sight. So he's not in pain, though. He's not in pain. You can tell when they're in pain, right? Yeah, he's not in pain.

[Matthew]

But they do the circle of death, or they start pooping around, and then you gotta. It's time.

[Chris Reivers]

But Rookie's right aware of that. You cannot leave. You gotta stay with the dog.

[Joe]

Who doesn't?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, there are people that just because they don't want to be there, oh.

[Joe]

They just drop it off. You can't.

[Chris Reivers]

You can't leave them there by himself, Matthew.

[Kenny Olson]

That's how we're gonna know when it's time to put Joe down. When he's doing the poop circle walk.

[Matthew]

I'll call him vet.

[Josh Arnold]

We're gonna be okay?

[Joe]

Yeah, we're fine.

[Matthew]

Call Dr. McConville. Just give me some tranquilizers and we'll be good. Who was the dog? I used to always get hyper at your house. Was that Franny Paulie?

[Joe]

Good leap high.

[Matthew]

Yes. Great vertical jump.

[Joe]

I mentioned this before, and. And this will never be a point of intense significance in Minnesota, given our current political leadership, but I was reading a John Phelan piece in the American Experiment. Why has Minnesota's per capita income growth lagged that of the US for the last or since 2014? Since 2014, he said. Back in November, I noted that since 2014, gross domestic product per capita growth for Minnesota has ranked 38th out of 50 states. Indeed. And he's got a lot of figures. As the figures show, Minnesota's rate of real per capita GDP growth has lagged that of the United States generally in every year but one since 2014, only Wisconsin has lagged the nation for more years. And then there's all these charts that obviously don't equate into good podcasting. But as a result of persistently below average growth, the economic premium Minnesotans used to enjoy for living in the state, in terms of a level of per capita GDP significantly above the national level, has almost disappeared. As Figure 2 shows, you can go to the CenterOfTheAmericanExperiment.org and find these charts. In 2004, this premium stood at $4,973 per Minnesotan and was still $4,658 in 2014. Since then, however, it has fallen to just $239 per Minnesotan in 2024, meaning the premium for living here is no longer the premium. To investigate why Minnesota's economy has performed so poorly relative to the rest of the U.S. i wrote our recent report Accounting for Growth, measuring the source of per capita economic growth at the state level. Using a technique known as growth accounting, we broke down the growth rate rate of state capita of per capita GDP into its components. The per capita growth in human capital, physical capital and total factor productivity. The result of this Minnesota the result of this for Minnesota from The period shown 2014-24 are shown in this label. The total Minnesota rank 38th in GDP for states in human capital rates 44th physical capital 39 total factor productivity 26 we're right in the middle. We used to, didn't we used to not be in the middle.

[Kenny Olson]

And now for a translation of that.

[Matthew]

Here'S Matthew I saw a news report on Channel 5 that the average first time home buyer is now 40 years of age.

[Joe]

That story in the country or Minnesota?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know if it was specific in the country. In that story John also wrote another piece, companion piece headline adjusted for cost of living wages in North Dakota passed those in Minnesota. I tried reading both of those pieces. I wasn't able to decipher one thing from it. Can you Joe, dumb down what you just said about that story you read? None of that worked in my brain.

[Joe]

Here's how I would say it.

[Kenny Olson]

Dumb it down boy.

[Joe]

In Minnesota, our potential for growth and getting ahead is declining in direct correlation to the rise of progressivism.

[Kenny Olson]

All right, that works.

[Matthew]

Why does progressivism cost?

[Joe]

Because they bring nothing good to the table.

[Chris Reivers]

All they do is keep creating more programs.

[Joe]

They just take and take and take. Do you think that chart that John Phelan wrote, do you think radical leftist Marxist agitator Christy Nikima Levy, whatever Armstrong, do you think she cares about that?

[Chris Reivers]

No, she does not.

[Joe]

Do you think Del Woke Farmer cares about that?

[Chris Reivers]

Nope.

[Matthew]

No.

[Joe]

Do you think Robin Wansley cares about that? Do you think the governor who should care about it, do you think he cares about that?

[Chris Reivers]

He'll pretend to, but he does not.

[Joe]

We, we are not, we do not have motivating characters at the helm. We do not have, we do not have forward thinking achieving people at the helm. We have anchors at the helm. They're all, they're pulling us down.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, unless you like crime and, and.

[Joe]

Violence and it's a crying shame.

[Chris Reivers]

Social program kids that can't read at grade level.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Recently as 1973. Wendy Anderson on the COVID of Time in Minnesota. Living the good life. Living the good life in Minnesota. We're so far from that now it's unrecognizable.

[Kenny Olson]

And we are the vent of the country, if you know what that means.

[Joe]

We're a hole in the floorboard.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, it's 1:1. It's another way of saying it.

[Joe]

I got a note from Tom Lyman. The Lyman's will be glad to come on the show when they're back in town.

[Chris Reivers]

Nice.

[Joe]

And I can't wait to talk to them. I the more I think of their journeys which can be followed@worldwide waftage.com Think of the planning. Oh, and apparently they really plan well because they, they hardly ever have a hiccup. This is all smooth.

[Chris Reivers]

That was one of the coolest conversations ever on this show.

[Matthew]

Yeah, that's a question for them. What's the worst thing you've encountered? It sounds like you've had very good luck.

[Joe]

Yeah. Anything bad that they would encounter I would bet would not have been as their result of something. It would be an airline canceled on them or something, you know. But they're coming back. Their grandson's graduation is May 28th and they'll be back in town between May 16th and June 6th. And they say they're available any other than the date of May 28th. They're available any day. So we'll have them on. But right now we can't have them on. They're in Kaiwaka, New Zealand. Right. And it's only because these come all the way from Kaiwaka, New Zealand that we do that it was on this day, Joe.

[Chris Reivers]

Today is Jan.21 in 1844.

[Joe]

Jacob V. Brower was born in York, Michigan. After moving to Minnesota in 1860, he surveyed or surveyed the headwaters of the Mississippi river and played an instrumental role in the preservation of Itascus State Park. He died in 1905. Other than him getting mentioned last year on this date, I've never heard the guy.

[Matthew]

Yeah, I wasn't quick witted enough, but I was reminded by a advertiser on the broadcast that they probably use a travel agent. Maria chimed in with they probably use a good.

[Joe]

Well, I know Maria would because she wants to raise the flag for Travel agents. But I seem to recall that they don't. Don't seriously.

[Matthew]

How foolish.

[Joe]

What's Mrs. Lyman's name? It's Tom and Miss Linda. No, Linda. No, for pizza. I apologize.

[Matthew]

Their names are right out there.

[Chris Reivers]

Linda.

[Joe]

I think she does it. It's not Linda. She doesn't.

[Matthew]

Drusilla.

[Joe]

No, not Drusilla. On this day in 2017.

[Matthew]

Funny name.

[Joe]

About 100 people. I'm sorry. About a 100,000 people gathered in St. Paul to protest the policies of President Donald Trump. See, Tom does all the mailing, so I rarely see Mrs. Lyman's name.

[Chris Reivers]

Jessica.

[Joe]

Jessica.

[Matthew]

Jessica.

[Joe]

Thank you, Jessica. I think Jessica does most of the work. Yeah, we're going to find out when they're here.

[Matthew]

Tom's just along for the rest of the died. Oh, thank you, Jessica.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

How do we forget, wasn't it Tom and Jessica, that at one point Tom was talking and Jess put her hand on his arm and he immediately shut up?

[Joe]

Well, I'm telling you, they must like each other.

[Kenny Olson]

That was so perfect. What a great moment.

[Chris Reivers]

His nonverbal cue.

[Joe]

Yeah, that's enough for this day. On this day in 2017, about 100,000 people gathered in St. Paul to protest the policies of President Donald Trump, who was inaugurated the previous day. The ensuing march and rally at the State Capitol were part of similar events held nationwide to coincide with the 2017 Women's March in Washington D.C. on this date in sports disappointment history, who'd we.

[Chris Reivers]

Lose to on January 21st? First.

[Joe]

Well, on this day. In 2018, the Vikings lost to the Eagles.

[Matthew]

Dang it.

[Joe]

But that was on January 20th. What's the date today?

[Chris Reivers]

January 21st.

[Joe]

But this.

[Chris Reivers]

That was to go to the Super Bowl.

[Joe]

Jesus. Well, that. They lost on January 22nd.

[Chris Reivers]

So we got that to look forward to tomorrow.

[Joe]

Well, you read it. Tell me if it makes sense. Sense.

[Matthew]

I got.

[Joe]

It's not Tom Lyman's fault. He printed what he found.

[Matthew]

Breaking news.

[Joe]

They.

[Matthew]

They have captured the Prime Minister of Greenland. All right, see who it is.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, it's that guy from.

[Matthew]

Cornelius.

[Kenny Olson]

Is it from Rudolph the Red Nose or whatever?

[Matthew]

You're right, Joe.

[Chris Reivers]

That's not today. That's tomorrow.

[Joe]

Right?

[Chris Reivers]

January 22nd.

[Matthew]

Maybe that wasn't him.

[Joe]

They would have gone to the Super Bowl.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, it was here.

[Matthew]

And when the Philadelphia fans went home, they were just as mad as they were if they would have with win.

[Joe]

Why would that have been? Matt, they won the game.

[Matthew]

I know, but they were still jerks. Well, that's my point. They were jerks whether they win or.

[Kenny Olson]

Lose g. It is 127. 21 degree in the 26.

[Matthew]

Is it still above zero?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

What if I keep the time in the town? Got it.

[Joe]

Is it 21 degrees?

[Chris Reivers]

Do us a favor if you have not done so already and hit the subscribe button on my Garage Logic YouTube channel. That's right, Garagelogic has a YouTube channel and you can watch the show each and every single day starting right around noon. You can also see full segments, video shorts, there's even behind the scenes footage. Just search Garagelogic on YouTube along with all of our social media channels. That includes Facebook, Instagram and X. And also don't forget to subscribe to the Daily Logician. That is an email that comes right to your inbox each and every single day. And it includes the most recent episode of the podcast. Find out more and set up [e-mail] it is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold is with us once again right here in garagelogic. And now is the time for you to do the same. So do not delay, do exactly what I did and pick up that phone and dial 952-925-5608. That number once again is 952-92-55608. When you call that number you're going to get Josh and he is there for you for that. Free. Yes, I use the word free 48 minute financial consultation with absolutely zero obligation. And he will always give you the straight talk. He will never give you the sugar coated advice. And he is on the line with us once again right here in Gar Boy Josh. A historic turnaround for the Indiana Hoosiers football program and boy oh boy, I have a feeling that DraftKings and the like that you always tout. They probably had a big night last night, didn't they?

[Josh Arnold]

I'm sure the Draft Kings did have a big big night last night as did, as did fanduel having a big night and probably some of the other sports books and the predictions market but that is not reflected today in the south prices of DraftKings Flutter, which owns FanDuel or Robinhood which has one of the bigger predictions market game was very very close and probably we'll say somebody did not cover, cover the spread so to speak and maybe, maybe the betters thought the difference would be a lot bigger for Indiana over over Miami and there was a chance of a little bit of an up there, a very very good game and Indiana is the first team in about 130 years to have a 160 season. The last one was the Yale Bulldog back in I think 1897. Going that many games undefeated obviously is unprecedented. I'll say my two, two sons graduates of Indiana were extremely happy. My brother a graduate of the University of Miami. Not, not so much so a lot of, a little bit of money hands in the Arnold family over this particular particular game. And speaking of changing hands, the sell America trade is in force today as over the weekend the president threat significant tariff on several European countries over Greenland. He said unless he or the United States States wins Greenland the tariff will go with force. 10% tariffs on several European countries in February another event that increases to 25% in July if no deal is struck with with Greenland. Now there are many ways you can look at, look at this either. I'll say one is a show of power. Two, definitely a show of force. Three, but it could be extending say the Trump doctrine to minimize threat China and Russia. And four, this could be the start if it hasn't already happened of an unraveling I'll say relationship that has been enforced since, since World War II. And that could could change a lot of dynamic around the world. But the, and a big concern among several traders is that the Europeans start selling U.S. government bonds as well as U.S. stocks that they have in their portfolio. Now a lot of people say well this would be horrible and yes it would be bad. Should the Europeans start selling bonds or any other country start selling US Bonds in May, what would happen? Bond prices would go down and yields would go up. And as yields go up that means the cost of borrowing goes up. And that is definitely a hurt for a lot of, for a lot of, not all of but a lot of technology shares are those companies that need to borrow money. But if you are a bond holder and bonds go down and yield go up, bond prices go down and yield go up or if you own bond funds, your bond fund value goes down even though your yield goes up. And you're forced to wait either until interest rates come down or until countries start buying back a bond. And the selling of bonds creates what the Fed, the Fed has done this selling bond that is creates a quantitative tightening position with yields up and that can slow economic growth and that is that becomes negative. But the sellers of bonds as yield go up are not going to be winners at all. They're going to, they are going to, to be or could be we'll say significant losers. And we've seen this before. Just look at the long term US treasury index which is still significantly underwater even from last year's high. Much much less the 2022 high. So from the 2022 high till today, the long term treasury index is down close to 50%. That to me is very significant. And other bond we'll say bond indices are also down though not as much. So if you have bonds in your portfolio or bonds in your or bond funds within your 401k or even have in your 401k the target date funds, you're going to have a good position in bond funds. And my suggestion is don't as I've said previously, growth will out and you and yes, owning shares does subject you to volatility such as the volatility we've seen today with the indices down, big numbers, technology shares down, bank stocks down and only a few stocks trading trading in the green. Those are around energy and we'll say energy and beverages as well as a few defense oriented names. But bicycle within the 401k or even in your own personal portfolio or IRA. Stay away from the bond funds and gravitate to individual stocks or stock funds.

[Chris Reivers]

Excellent advice as always, Mr. MoneyTalk. You heard him G E Learners, now is the time for you to pick up the phone and make the call for that free 48 million minute financial consultation again with zero obligation. And you do that just like I did by dialing 952-925-5608 where you always get straight talk and never ever sugarcoated advice. Josh, once again, thank you so much for the time and the chat. Enjoy the rest of your day and we'll talk to you again tomorrow.

[Josh Arnold]

Look forward to it. Thanks Chris.

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[Joe]

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