11/14 Our Governor travels to Austin TX to inform a panel that we once had a racist state flag

Summary

Garage Logic – Episode Summary (Nov 14, 2025)

Episode Overview

This episode, hosted by Joe Soucheray and the Garage Logic crew, zeroes in on several timely themes: Minnesota’s social and political climate, the symbolism (and controversy) surrounding the old and new state flags, government priorities, and the latest government-driven “pronoun training.” There’s plenty of signature Garage Logic banter, skepticism toward government action, and the crew’s wry observations about life in Gumption County.

The main focal point: Governor Walz’s appearance in Austin, TX at the Texas Tribune Festival, where he made national headlines by referring to Minnesota’s former state flag as "racist." The team dissects not just the historical context of the flag, but what they see as misplaced governmental focus amid more pressing issues facing Minnesotans.

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Key Discussion Points

Local Color: Rainforest Highways & Hardware Store Nostalgia

• The episode begins with an email referencing the carving of highways through South American rainforests—drawing a parallel to fiction becoming reality and the 1992 movie "Medicine Man" ([02:00]).
• Nostalgic discussion of small-town hardware stores, specifically Gamble's in Boscobel, Wisconsin; listeners write in with memories and correct the hosts’ pronunciation ([05:49]).

"Ray of Hope" in High Schools

• Dover-Eyota Public Schools get praised for a “game class” where students process deer as part of curriculum—a modern example of practical skills in schools ([08:44]).

"Pronoun Training" in Hennepin County

• The hosts play and critique Hennepin County’s video for employee pronoun training, including directives on apologizing for misgendering coworkers ([12:05]-[16:40]).
• Soucheray and the crew debate what happens if you "misgender" someone at work, joke about the expanding list of pronouns ("Z", "they/them", etc.), and bemoan the time/money used on such HR trainings ([13:47], [15:29]).
• Memorable moment: “What threatens your freedom as an American citizen? This is right there.” (Joe Soucheray, [15:10]).
• The segment ends with a wider take on "pronoun signatures" in hiring and cultural confusion in everyday interactions ([19:12]).

The Everyday (and Bizarre) Realities of Customer Service

• Amused discussion of navigating fast food drive-thrus, the ubiquity of face piercings/hardware, and the etiquette of dealing with name tags and pronouns ([20:03]-[23:27]).
• Despite underlying skepticism, Soucheray and others stress the value of kindness: "It's easy to be nice and it's free." (Chris Reivers, [22:36]).

Government Waste, Priorities, and Nods to Common Sense

• Recurrent scorn for governmental spending on things like pronoun training—"What a waste. That's money that comes out of property taxes" (Joe Soucheray, [24:34]).

Second Amendment, Regional Divides, and Gubernatorial Governance

• Email from listener Krista in Maryland reflects on gun culture and policy disconnect between urban and rural communities, and how national or state policy often ignores country realities ([28:16]).
• Soucheray: “He [Walz] governs the metropolitan area. He’s not getting anywhere with somebody in Eyota where they’re skinning a deer in class.” ([32:03])

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Major Segment: Governor Walz at the Texas Tribune Festival

Background ([32:08]–[38:08])

• Governor Walz traveled to Austin, Texas to address the Texas Tribune Festival as a “change leader.”
• Soucheray and Mike Fratelloni set the stage, describing the festival as a "left-leaning AlphaNews" and musing on who would actually consider Walz a "change maker."

Governor Walz’s Flag Remarks ([34:01]–[35:53])

• Walz asserts Minnesota "had a racist flag, so we got a new flag in Minnesota and got rid of it."
• Soucheray’s take: "No Minnesotan other than a mysterian could have looked at that flag and deemed it racist… This is what they—traffic in darkness for purposes of sustaining the racial industry."
• Critiques the process and meaning behind the new flag: "This miserable, meaningless, ridiculous, pointless flag with a star on a blue field. It means nothing." (Joe Soucheray, [35:53])
• The panel speculates that the real audience for this announcement—Texans—would have no knowledge of Minnesota’s flag or its supposed “racism,” but would still join the applause.

Broader Critique of Government & Media

• Comparison: If Walz made these remarks in Austin, Minnesota ("he would be booed off the stage" – Mike Fratelloni, [36:51]).
• Judges the new flag as bland and “void,” and dismisses the idea of a design conspiracy.
• Links the "race industry" (and this flag change) to a governmental tendency to focus on symbolism over substance.

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State Priorities: Fraud Enforcement & Political Accountability

Walz’s NPR Interview: Fraud in State Programs ([38:15])

• The crew play and dissect Walz’s NPR remarks, where he blames a lack of authority for failing to combat fraud—specifically in the state's food assistance programs ([39:47]).
• “He’s lying. He’s the chief executive officer of the state. He could stop it. He did not.” (Joe Soucheray, [39:59])

Frustration with State Media

• Soucheray criticizes NPR reporters for failing to challenge Walz’s assertions: “Are you proud that you sat there and let him get away with this utter BS—‘we have no authority’?” ([40:56])

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Out-of-Touch Lawmaking: The Hemp/THC Industry Debacle

• Federal law surfacing during the appropriations deal could wipe out the Minnesota hemp-derived THC industry by capping THC content at 0.04mg ([52:37]-[58:16]).
• Multiple local breweries and liquor outlets now face existential threats after investing heavily, thanks to legislative oversight.
• Soucheray: “We spent all this time creating this supposed industry for Minnesota, and no one bothered to wonder what the strength of the product would pass federal muster.” ([58:16])
• General sense: the state is poorly governed, with excessive attention on identity politics over practical administration ([60:02]).

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Lighthearted Banter, Sports & Local History

• Pat Reusse joins to discuss high school football playoffs and stadium gripes—the cost of parking, building design, and local team performances ([61:54]).
• Friday’s “scramble” includes ads, good-natured ribbing, housekeeping, and listener trivia ([76:11]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On government’s focus: "The basics are not being taken care of, because too many people are involved in creating pronoun seminars." (Joe Soucheray, [50:39])
• Regarding the flag flap: "All I know is I immediately bought two of the real flags the minute they changed it—and so did about 10 million other people." (Joe Soucheray, [35:51])
• On pronoun protocols: "It's easy to be nice and it's free." (Chris Reivers, [22:36])
• On accountability: “He’s lying. He’s the chief executive officer of the state. He could stop it. He did not.” (Joe Soucheray, [39:59])
• On Minnesota government: "This is a poorly governed state. It is just amazing." (Joe Soucheray, [60:02])

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment / Quote | |-----------|----------------------------------------------------------| | 12:05 | Beginning of Hennepin County Pronoun Training audio | | 15:10 | “What threatens your freedom … It's right there.” | | 19:12 | Pronouns in hiring, cultural confusion | | 20:03 | Fast food drive-thru anecdote; etiquette and pronouns | | 32:08 | Introduce Gov. Walz’s trip to Austin, TX | | 34:01 | Walz’s “racist flag” comments at Texas Tribune Fest | | 39:47 | NPR audio on fraud, discussion of government authority | | 52:37 | THC/Hemp federal law and impacts in Minnesota | | 61:54 | Pat Reusse joins – sports & stadium talk |

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Conclusion

The episode exemplifies Garage Logic’s classic tone: irreverent, skeptical of political posturing, and rooted in common sense. The hosts unpack the political theater of Governor Walz’s comments about Minnesota’s flag, juxtaposed against unresolved problems like government fraud, inefficient lawmaking, and the rise of identity-focused HR training.

Listeners get a blend of local quirks, national-level culture war conversations, and a heavy dose of humor and nostalgia. For regulars and newcomers alike, it’s an engaging take on why the Garage remains a retreat for “common sense” amid Minnesota’s political muddle.

Transcript

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[Mike Fratelloni]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[American Experiment Host]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm rolling, bro.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

Hail the Flashlight King.

[Joe Soucheray]

And now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Lod Magic with Chris Reavers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the Krabby 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 mayor, Joe Sushere. I. I told you the other day about my loathing for these climate change fraudsters who are carving up the rainforest to create a highway to get to Bellum, Brazil, so they can have one of their meetings. Joe, on Tuesday, you were discussing the new highway through the rainforest. That reminded me of a 1992 movie called Medicine man starring Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco. The premise is that Conway's character is a scientist who has inadvertently found the cure for cancer in the rainforest. But they are on a race against time to discover the cure's true source before a highway comes through. Just an incredible situation where fiction is becoming reality. Good luck. Glenn Mohling, garagelogic power and light stationary engineer and part time propulsion engineer aboard the Spoon Lake Fairy. The. I bet he's laying up today. Be a good day to lay up the ferry for winter because you've got great working conditions.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, you got to get the yard.

[Joe Soucheray]

Work done because that fury doesn't stay in the water all winter.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Sorry, who. Who was the actor in that movie?

[Chris Reivers]

Sean Connery.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Sean take whore ad for 200.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, it was a different. He had different role.

[Chris Reivers]

I'll take a look.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's who?

[Chris Reivers]

Let it snow. Let it snow.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Who reads.

[Joe Soucheray]

I also thank you for your help. G. Ellers. I've got a number of emails regarding yesterday's announcement that there was a hardware store down in Wisconsin having its going out of business auction. And the town is Boscobel. I spent time apparently mispronouncing it. And then this fellow who's taken telling me how to pronounce bascoble. This is Jesse. He said I spent some time in my formative years across the river in Iowa, right in that area. Also you had from a few days ago regarding the rainforest again, the farmer who I said a kai berry. He was raising berries and the highway was going to wipe him out of business. He said that berry is pronounced asahi. Asahi. Acai berry. Think of it as being. You can go bleep yourself too. Think of it as being a Spanish word. Excuse me.

[Chris Reivers]

Pardon me.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, where were we?

[Chris Reivers]

I was looking for the pronunciation.

[Joe Soucheray]

Think of it as being a Spanish word and it makes sense. Well, not to me.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I don't know any Barry.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know any Barry. I don't know any Barry. What's this one? Oh, I know the store well. My wife of 57 years was born and raised there. This is in Boscobel. Is that how you say it? Sure.

[American Experiment Host]

Acai berry.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you. Huh? It's Basco Bill. Ah, Boscobel. Bascobel, not Boscobel. It's Bosco bill. Emphasis on the first syllable.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, the first syllable.

[Joe Soucheray]

I know the store well. Writes Ralph. Ralph Peterson. My wife of 57 years was born and raised there. Over the years there Were many trips to the town. We always drove U.S. highway 61. A beautiful trip in any season. The town is located where 61 crosses the Wisconsin River. The town was incorporated in 1854 with a few hundred people. It grew to a high of just over 3,000 people in the 1960s. Now she's down to about 2,500. Oh wow. The hardware store was Gamble's in the 1960s. The building was built prior to 1900 and is a two story structure with a full basement and a stone facing. It has all the features of an old time hardware store where you could sift through the nuts and bolts of life. As well as the latest kitchen appliances, radiups, oh, radios and televisions in small town fashion. My father in law found out on a Sunday afternoon that we did not have a television. I suppose he had. It wasn't working. I think he meant a phone call to Crumpert Croghan's home. And we had a brand new B&W TV, black and white. I guess time has changed most of the downtown area. Gasser's Hardware was downtown near Gamble's but moved years to the outskirts in a large single story building. The town is still thriving and still has its quiet hot summer days. The town's claim to fame, that it is the birthplace of the Gideon Bible. It is also a great wild turkey hotspot filled with hunters filling the motels for miles around. Thank you, Bosco. Bill.

[Chris Reivers]

Lot of information.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I brought this up with our hardware store guy yesterday on the weekly scramble podcast. He's very familiar with that family.

[Joe Soucheray]

Really?

[Mike Fratelloni]

And I even said. I said, well, is this common with an online auction for all these really neat things? You hear what he said? Yeah, it's called ebay.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, thanks Mike.

[Joe Soucheray]

Make sense you keep calling it an online auction. I'm of the mind that you could drive there and go in the store and also get stuff. Right. Okay, I have this too. And it's about time because we certainly need one. Oh, that's. That's a different ray.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Thanks, Ray.

[Joe Soucheray]

Where's the ray of hope thing on here?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm gonna guess you double clicked.

[Chris Reivers]

Spacious.

[Joe Soucheray]

Get that back on here please.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes, sir. Okay, Skipper.

[Joe Soucheray]

I got an email providing this ray of hope from the Dover Iota Public schools. What a blessing it is to have this room available to our students. And it's full of photographs. As part of the building project completed in 2024. This was the exact vision for this room. The Minnesota game class is hard at work processing a student's deer while another group is grinding up meat to make sausage. Students are all engaged, happy working together and fine tuning life skills. I enjoyed my visit today. It's amazing to see the progression from blueprints to real life. Well done, Eagles. Superintendent Fry or Free. Isn't that something? They have a room in the Dover Iota public school system where they can process a deer. That's a ray of hope.

[Chris Reivers]

It's a ray of hope. Is it a pushback? Is it a. What is. I mean, other than just a ray of hope?

[Joe Soucheray]

I just think that probably out Dover Iota way. That wouldn't be that unusual. Okay. I think at Minneapolis south, for example, it would really be unlikely to have a deer dressed.

[Chris Reivers]

An urban deer.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't think that would happen.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Do we have the. I think I got a note from a guy who thinks he's the giller of the week, but I don't remember his name.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, does he have the same.

[Mike Fratelloni]

We haven't announced it.

[Chris Reivers]

This is the current address.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, how would he know already?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I don't know.

[Joe Soucheray]

We don't. Should I hang on to this?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, no, go ahead. I mean, that's fine.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, let's see if. Do you have the current gler of the week?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm trying to go through my email here from Roscoe.

[Chris Reivers]

Is it the current address that he lives at? His address, Current residence.

[Joe Soucheray]

Huh.

[Chris Reivers]

A lot of times they've, you know, moved in.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, I see what you're saying.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I'm going to set this aside. We could. Because you're. You're. You're taking too long. It's very irritating and I can't stand you. Got it.

[Chris Reivers]

Come on, come on.

[Joe Soucheray]

So let's move on to. We have some audio today.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I do have this week's giller of the week, but he is not a resident of the state of Minnesota, if that helps.

[Joe Soucheray]

See, I think this guy thinks he's the.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Or maybe he was a previous.

[Joe Soucheray]

Let me just read it. Hail the flashlight King.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Hail you.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you for choosing me as the Gler of the week. Your show is a true ray of hope in Minnesota. When bad news breaks, I listen to the show to help get the information parsed out correctly in my mind. When good news breaks, I listen to you and the crew celebrate and laugh. Thank you for that. I'm already enjoying the gift from Masters Maples.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, yeah, then he was a previous one.

[Joe Soucheray]

Keep up the good work and thank you again, Ron Louderback of Shoreview.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, sure, I remember that name, but that was a couple of weeks ago.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, well, thanks Ron, I'm glad you were a jailer of the week. We have audio of how your tax dollars are spent. And this comes from, I believe, Hennep County.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

You just need another five minutes for this.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm ready.

[Joe Soucheray]

Joe, this is. Apparently he set it up for us, Chris.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Joe. Yeah, Hennepin County. That's here in the great state of Minnesota.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's right over here.

[Mike Fratelloni]

They have a brand new program for all of their employees and it's called pronoun training.

[Joe Soucheray]

Pronoun training. I use he, him, and his, and when someone uses my pronouns, it makes me feel respected. I use he, him, and. Asking for someone else's pronouns helps me avoid misgendering my co workers.

[American Experiment Host]

I use they, them pronouns because sharing my pronouns creates an inclusive environment. I use she, her, hers. And when someone uses my pronouns correctly, it tells me my co workers care about me.

[Joe Soucheray]

Welcome to the why pronouns Matter video training. By the end of this training, you will be able to identify commonly used pronouns, connect correct pronoun usage with creating a respectful workplace, how to normalize sharing and asking for pronouns, and how to apologize when you make a mistake. Here are examples of personal pronouns. I'm sure you know most of them, but some are probably new to you. Also, some people may use their names instead of pronouns, or many use multiple sets of pronouns. For example, someone might tell you, my pronouns are she, her, or they, them. That means either is fine. You can ask them if they have a preference. Go. If you don't know how to pronounce certain pronouns, you can look them up.

[American Experiment Host]

Using the correct pronouns for a coworker. Client tells them, can you stop for.

[Joe Soucheray]

Stop blows up. Sure. You know, you had a. That's Hanneman County.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes, it is. I'm state's largest, if I'm not mistaken.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm reasonably confident that this is the same kind of activity you would get at the state level with various agencies.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

And the department of education, for example, thought nothing of somebody in a cubicle saying, boy, we better pay these people. They just fed 250,000 people in a town of 12. But I bet, I bet they are right at the. I bet they're cracker jack with their pronoun knowledge.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Heavens. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

I can't take it.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I have a question. Yeah, what's, what's the.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm gonna look through this like a little spy girl.

[Mike Fratelloni]

What's gonna happen, you know, at the. At the Hennepin county level? Like, let's just say since you had a three minute training video what do.

[Joe Soucheray]

You think that if you.

[Mike Fratelloni]

If you misgender someone.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, they teach you in there how to apologize.

[Mike Fratelloni]

There was a pronoun, too, called Z, as in Z E, dash, H, E, a.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sure.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I don't know. I've never heard of that Z here. Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

I've never heard the Z.

[Mike Fratelloni]

But I'm wondering, is it. Will there be fines and suspensions if you.

[Joe Soucheray]

Does the. Does the audio take us to how to apologize? I wonder.

[American Experiment Host]

It shows that you listen to them, and it actively demonstrates the core value of customer service and diversity, equity and inclusion. When we use correct pronouns, we help.

[Joe Soucheray]

Create a welcoming workplace. You remember yesterday we were assembling lists of things that threaten our freedom. Well, this is right there. Keep going.

[American Experiment Host]

And avoid unnecessary harm by allowing everyone to feel more comfortable and to be their authentic self.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know what pronoun to apply, for example, to the person who's talking. She goes by I can't tell.

[Mike Fratelloni]

They them.

[Joe Soucheray]

I couldn't. I'm serious. I just couldn't. This is a they them.

[Mike Fratelloni]

She refers to herself as they them.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[American Experiment Host]

We can build stronger teams. The pronouns someone uses are often connected to their gender identity. Gender identity is a personal sense of one's own gender, which can correlate with a person's assigned sex at birth, or it can differ from it.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's important to know that the pronouns.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Someone uses do not necessarily match their.

[American Experiment Host]

Name, how they dress, or how they openly express themselves. And the choice of pronouns can change and adapt to their identities over time.

[Joe Soucheray]

If you decide to share your pronouns, here are some ways you can do it. Share your pronouns. When introducing yourself, include your pronouns in your email. Turn it off. Introduce new team members with their pronouns. If you are not sure about someone's pronouns, you can just ask or use gender neutral pronouns or the person's name. Try not to guess, because we don't know someone's gender until we ask.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You gotta ask.

[Joe Soucheray]

Or someone shares that information about themselves. What if you use the wrong pronouns?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, here we go.

[American Experiment Host]

You should apologize. But try to avoid centering the apology around your feelings and focus on your impact rather than the intent. Apologies can be made in the moment or after the fact, but remember that it is your responsibility to remember, not.

[Joe Soucheray]

The other person, and commit to doing. Never mind that we just wrote a check for $2 million to somebody claiming to feed 4 million people in one day.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Doesn't matter, Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay?

[Mike Fratelloni]

They use the right pronoun.

[Joe Soucheray]

In the future, all Hennepin county employees and volunteers have a responsibility to Create, promote, and maintain a work environment in which we respect, value, and welcome everyone. We hope this training helped you understand why using correct pronouns matters.

[American Experiment Host]

Like any habit, the more you practice, the more comfortable you will be asking about someone else's pronouns and sharing your own.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm in a practice. I can tell you what I've learned. Yesterday you had this fellow in Michigan who identifies as a honey badger.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes, sir.

[Joe Soucheray]

He has a little costume he wears.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep.

[Joe Soucheray]

And he's gonna run for Congress.

[Chris Reivers]

Honey badger don't care.

[Joe Soucheray]

I know he doesn't. And then you have these characters.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes, sir.

[Joe Soucheray]

We. We, meaning the American citizenry.

[Mike Fratelloni]

They them or we us.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm just gonna use we. Okay. We've allowed this to happen. Politics has become the last refuge of crackpots. It's a safe environment for screwballs to actually get a paycheck. What? All else fails, they're not doing anything.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Run for office.

[Joe Soucheray]

Exactly. It's almost like on the dating scale. It's almost like a zombie pub. Girl.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

What are you going to do? I can't.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I've run out of ideas.

[Joe Soucheray]

I can't do anything. Well, then why don't you run for the school board? Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. I can't do anything. Well, why don't you get a job at Hennepin county? And then, you know. Because your pronouns are he, z, or whatever the hell they are. And that's all taken seriously by crackpots who aren't accomplishing anything on behalf of the people paying the bills except pulling off this bs.

[Mike Fratelloni]

There is one silver lining that I'm just realizing right now. I know someone that is in the hiring business for a very large scale company. It's not Mike Fratelloni. And he basically told me, they make it real easy. You see the pronouns in the bio or you see the pronouns on the signature. Yeah, that one's getting us set off.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. But the fear, if you want to get back to what threatens your freedom as an American citizen, the fear is that the day will come when that hiring manager will not be able to discriminate against crackpots.

[Mike Fratelloni]

But it can issue some of the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Then you got a doctor who's gonna take your gallbladder out when it's your knee that needs replacement.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I got an idea. Social experiment. You ready? The next time you run to the bank or you do whatever and someone says, are you gonna have a nice weekend? Or whatever, you look at them dead in the eye and say, well, I'd like you to use my pronouns. I go by he. Him.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And see what the reaction is.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, they, they'd fall for it. Yesterday. Not the yesterday. The other day I was. I was dispatched on an errand to get three large orders of McDonald's french fries.

[Chris Reivers]

All right.

[Joe Soucheray]

And I don't like doing that. Why? Because of the drive through. I just don't like the hassle of going there. But I said, sure, okay.

[Chris Reivers]

You know, did you use your, the, the app?

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't have the app. But I'm asked, are you, Are you ordered? No, I'm not. Anyway, I got them. And then they move you a window ahead at a time. You pay at one window.

[Mike Fratelloni]

We're aware of the process.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. Right.

[Chris Reivers]

Deeply, deeply.

[Joe Soucheray]

I went to the second window and she said, you need to go to the third window.

[Mike Fratelloni]

There's three.

[Joe Soucheray]

There's three. So I did big time operation. I did. And I waited. I was growing a little impatient, but I handled it.

[Chris Reivers]

How long could it take to get some fries?

[Joe Soucheray]

That's what I'm thinking.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm on the move. I'm not asking for a double cheeseburger.

[Joe Soucheray]

So finally, the person who handed me the bag, because I've already been paid for the person who handed me the bag, I don't know what the gender would have been. It was a lot of hardware on the face screwed in here and there and hanging purple hair, a very frizzy, okay, half purple and half some other color. And I, I said, hey, how you doing? Thank you.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And, you know, have a great day.

[Joe Soucheray]

I was cool, but I just thought you ain't, you know, you're going to be there when you're 70 because who in that God's name would allow you out here? Yeah, yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

You're not going to be using the executive washroom anytime soon.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, but there. See, there won't be any of that anymore. We just haven't gotten there yet.

[Chris Reivers]

That's the oppressor.

[Joe Soucheray]

We just haven't gotten there yet. Okay. So God loved this person. I don't know biologically what the person was. Sure. I couldn't tell. It's none of my business.

[Mike Fratelloni]

No, it's not.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's not something you ask, but I thought there had to be 40 or 50 bucks worth of loose screws and nuts and hardware on the face.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oftentimes in that particular situation, it'll appear on the name tag, you know?

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, I'm a name tag looker. I am.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You gotta be.

[Joe Soucheray]

And you're right. And I. If there was a name tag, I didn't see It.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I was helped yesterday by someone said, thank you very much, Alicia.

[Joe Soucheray]

She said, oh, yeah, you know, see, it's our duty, isn't it, to be kind?

[Mike Fratelloni]

It is.

[Joe Soucheray]

It doesn't cost anything new. Doesn't hurt anything to be kind. I've learned that from you.

[Chris Reivers]

It's easy to be nice and it's free.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's free. Yes. And so whatever this walking hardware, whatever this walking hardware store was, I was polite sifting through the nuts and bolts of life in order to buy them to put on my face.

[Mike Fratelloni]

If you did want to go down the pronouns route, which ones would you select?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, I have something else I'd rather say. It didn't on this occasion, but sometimes I think I would let that worry me about the food. You know, do I want my food handled by a walking hardware store? But I didn't because they're in the bag. I'm sure they came out of the.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Fryer, got the gloves on.

[Joe Soucheray]

They got, you know, went right in the deal. And. And so I. I didn't let it. I didn't get too worked up, you know, that's good.

[Chris Reivers]

We're slowing down in your middle aged.

[Joe Soucheray]

Plus, I have a status. I have a way of getting there that avoids a lot of traffic problems. I have secret routes that.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I got a secret route to McDonald's.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, four times a year I might be asked to go down there and get to fetch because they make a great accompaniment for various meals, for sure. So I do that.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's your duty.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes, it is.

[Chris Reivers]

You close up the bag nice and tight so it's still hot and fresh when you get back. I eat a few on the way home to mainstream.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, that's the finder's fee.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think so.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, that's what I think so. That absolutely is.

[Joe Soucheray]

And then I fold it up as though I didn't tamper with them.

[Chris Reivers]

Got it, got it. Just kind of. You kind of shake it up so they're randomly even. Yeah, yeah, I got you. I got you.

[Joe Soucheray]

Because the earth is uneven.

[Chris Reivers]

Can't get in the onion rings at McDonald's though.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't care for the M's. Good eating. I wonder what that cost to train those people. But pronouns.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Not sure.

[Joe Soucheray]

What a waste. That's money that comes out of property taxes.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

But you know what? You don't live in Hennepin County.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, it's just as bad where I am, though. Just as bad.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, what are you gonna do on a Friday afternoon when you're sitting around?

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

Here's a man who spends hours in.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hardware stores sifting through the nuts and bolts of life.

[Mike Fratelloni]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Joe, you know, we have a great friend out in Western Maryland, Krista, who who was referring to yesterday's test about what you think might threaten your freedom. And she said, I wonder where you were going with it. I wrote down free speech, socialist and election fraud. Of course, living across the country, I had no knowledge of the gun ordinance and thus did not write that down. That being said, I agree with your assessment of its importance in the grand scheme of things. I believe I've mentioned before that I'm a former police officer.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I did not know that.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, didn't know that.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think she has mentioned it.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

So I assumed immediately that Rook and Gabe were in possession of a Remington 870. Is that what you have?

[Chris Reivers]

870? Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

My next question would naturally have been whether or not they are using slugs or buckshot.

[Chris Reivers]

Buckshot.

[Joe Soucheray]

All right.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Thanks Brooke.

[Chris Reivers]

I second that.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yep. He had no idea.

[Chris Reivers]

Right on top of that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Anyway, As a Marylander who lives in the Appalachian Mountains, I grew up in a family in which all of the males around me are hunters. Growing up, there were always at least 20 guns in my home at any given time. My father took two weeks of vacation in the spring to fish and two weeks of vacation in the winter to hunt. There was no time set aside for the family because we needed fish to eat in the spring and venison to eat during the winter. I married a man who has never missed the first day of muzzleloader season and spends two weeks a year deer hunting. I am aware that he leaves me on thanksg day every year and that I won't see him for a week. That is not changed by any life event nor have I expected anything else in our 30 years of marriage. It is a non negotiable aspect of our life. As such, currently in my home I have two handguns that I wear and carry in certain situations. Additionally, my husband has two handguns as well as at least 18 long guns. We are a gun family. Always have been, always will be. The county that I live in as well as the county to the west is full of gun toting, off duty and retired police and an immense amount of game hunters. What I have learned in my time as a country gal as well as a police officer and private citizen is that the threats of gun laws changing are a way for those in charge to give credence to the BS that the extreme left wing tries to churn up. I don't believe there will ever be a circumstance in which someone will come knocking on our doors for guns. First of all, anyone in the hillbilly counties that I live in who thinks he or she are going to roll up to someone's front door and try will likely be disappointed in the outcome. I live in a blue state surrounded by lawmakers and politicians who claim to know their constituents, but they only care about those in the Baltimore and D.C. area. They appease those people because they know they're not getting anywhere with the rest of us. I don't think that ordinances will be the demise of our right to bear arms. What else did you say here? Oh, she liked the. She liked my rant on the barred owl, but she's absolutely correct. Look at the way Walls governs, for example, he governs the metropolitan area. He's not getting anywhere with somebody in Iota where they're skinning a deer in class. Right. So what we learned is the governor has been traveling. Chris.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes, sir.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes, yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Can you, can you help set this up for us, please?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I can. He was at an event called Bear with Me, the Texas Tribune Festival.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, Texas Tribune, Joe.

[Mike Fratelloni]

The Texas Tribune Festival is going on its 15th year and Minnesota Democratic governor and 2024 vice presidential nominee. He sat down with a woman by the name of Jennifer Palmieri. She's a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and also co host of Showtime's the circus at 2:30pm on Thursday.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm unaware of that show.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, here's the deal, Joe. It's the 15th annual Texas Tribune Festival.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is the Texas Tribune an entity?

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's almost like an Alpha news. A left leaning version of an Alpha news.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. Is it in Austin, Texas?

[Mike Fratelloni]

It is based in Austin, Texas. And this festival, Joe, what they do there is the breakout ideas and politics event that brings 300 plus inspiring leaders and change makers to downtown Austin from November 13th.

[Joe Soucheray]

And they consider this fellow of ours a change leader and a what?

[Mike Fratelloni]

And on this website, there's still a seat waiting for you, Joe. You can see the full schedule and you can get your tickets today [e-mail].

[Joe Soucheray]

So I hope to God they paid for him to fly down there. I hope I didn't Trim Fest, as.

[Mike Fratelloni]

We like to call it here in Austin.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

2025 is presented by JP Morgan Chase.

[Joe Soucheray]

Really well, they know where their bread's buttered, don't they? They sure do. So our governor was among panelists who might have been there. Change makers, change makers and leaders. He's quite a leader.

[Chris Reivers]

I didn't know that. Yeah. What has he changed? What has he led?

[Mike Fratelloni]

But okay, he had some thoughts to share.

[Joe Soucheray]

He changed us from a solvent, functioning state into a corrupt basket case the last eight years. When we do better, we all do better. And the idea is of working together, lifting all boats. It works. And so one vote majority continued to pass those things all the way down. The last one on the thing was, is we had a racist flag, so we got a new flag in Minnesota and got rid of it. So it it mattered. We didn't have a racist flag. No Minnesotan other than a mysterian could have looked at that flag and deemed it racist. But that's an insidious, important function of the race industry in this country. We have people seeking out examples of what they can sell you as racism. They're called dark people. As in absence of light, they're dark and they present darkness. This is what they. They traffic in darkness for purposes of sustaining the racial industry. And along came darkness. And it got applied to the Minnesota state flag because an Indian on horseback is waving to some guy who's plowing a field. And this was considered racist. There's nothing racist about it. The word is used by people who don't even know what it means, including walls. And we got this miserable, meaningless, ridiculous, pointless flag with a star on a blue field. It means nothing. And all I know is I immediately bought two of the real flags the minute they changed it, and so did.

[Mike Fratelloni]

About 10 million other people, because the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Flag is a pathetic example of what people like walls are up to. And he got a nice hand for that. Apparently the room was, without knowing a bleeping thing about the flag in Minnesota, zero. I would venture to guess that these saps who showed up to listen to this character didn't have a clue what the flag was in Minnesota. But just like sheep, applauded that. The idea that this magnificent leader, so highly ranked in our country that he was even chosen as a vice presidential candidate, he got rid of a racist flag. So they all gave him a big hand.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Let's say this event doesn't take place in Austin, Texas. Let's say this event takes place in Austin, Minnesota. And he says that same exact thing to a delegation of people. He would be booed off the stage.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, I believe the flag right now. I just. I'D see.

[Joe Soucheray]

Absolutely means nothing. It's, It's. It means nothing. And I've always let the designer off the hook because I don't think he was in on some conspiracy to. To create the flag that he created. It was just some guy and.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, didn't they. They had it up for. You could vote on it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, no, you could. You could submit designs.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, because didn't we do one?

[Joe Soucheray]

I think we did. It was ding ding.

[Chris Reivers]

Really was the ding ding is the one that ended up.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, ended up. They picked it. You call that a flag? That's a ding, ding, ding.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, it's, it's not even. Is it debatable that it does look very similar to the Somalian flag?

[Joe Soucheray]

It's not debatable. It looks similar to the Somali flag. Yes. But again, I. I find it hard to. To suggest that the. Some young guy in Otana or wherever the hell he was with the winning design. I. I have a hard time imagining that. That he said, I gotta make this look like a Somali flag. I don't think that happened. Sure. But it happened.

[Chris Reivers]

It is ugly, though, boys. You ugly?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, it's. It's not even ugly. It's. It's nothing. It's just. It's.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's empty.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's.

[Chris Reivers]

It's meh. It's meh.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's void. It's devoid. But here is this.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Careful.

[Joe Soucheray]

Buffoon. Here's walls, who you would think would not have this kind of time on his hands given the horrible, horrible condition of this state and what he's responsible for, which is all of it, every single bit of it. Do you still have the NPR audio of him talking about fraud? I believe that also was very recently. And when you listen to this, did it occur to anybody interviewing him or was there an audience in this case where. Where anybody might have raised their hand and asked to speak? I'm going to ask them to think about things like increased penalties for these types of crimes. And I think some of them border very closely on organized crime, where we got the federal government involved, these RICO crimes and things. So, yes, the answer is yes, until we stop this. And I think every business would tell you this. We can do more. These folks try and stay one step ahead of us. We in government need to be given the authority. In some cases, we're pretty certain these people are doing it, but we don't have the authority to stop it in America. He's lying. He's the chief executive officer of the state. He could stop it. He did not. Right and to say we don't have the authority is. It's just.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That's a lie.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's just a lie. These are the people you hired. Now you've got an extraordinary mess to clean up, which you are failing to do, just like you failed in every other aspect of your tenure. But you have time to go down to Austin and incur this cheap, low hanging fruit applause by pointing out that you got rid of a racist flag. This guy is hopeless.

[Chris Reivers]

He really is.

[Joe Soucheray]

He's hopeless.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And I meant to go back and listen to the entire NPR interview because I'm assuming it's posted on their website, but I'd love to hear the follow up question to that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, do we know who was interviewing?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I was actually going to look this up. I'd like to know how he forgot to yesterday. I don't know.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know what the context of this was in Texas. No, no, he's not talking about the NPR now. Okay. I don't know what the context of the NPR interview was. Obviously they would have more agreeable access to the governor than we would. He's never going to come on this show.

[Mike Fratelloni]

No, no.

[Joe Soucheray]

Especially now. So it's a shame that he wouldn't. But you mean to tell me, check this out. You mean to tell me that, Are you NPR News people? Are you proud of the fact that you sat there and let him get away with this utter B.S. we have no authority. Somebody at MPR, NPR's got some great, great newshounds. Are they that, are they that loyal to the lust?

[Chris Reivers]

Loyal to the lust?

[Joe Soucheray]

I guess that's what I'm trying to say. Are you that blind and deaf? You have a great opportunity here to do some great service for the state of Minnesota and all you do is aid and abet this guy's folly. That's a shame. It's just a shame. Whoever NPR had, well, I assume questions were asked of the fellow.

[Mike Fratelloni]

The most recent one I could find on their website, which by the way is a dumpster fire, but that's fine too, was back in September 19th. But I think this was more recent than that because this was just posted.

[Joe Soucheray]

2 days ago by NPR.

[Mike Fratelloni]

No, this was posted by someone that would cover media in that regard. Well, but cut out this snippet to say, wait, what? You don't think you have the authority?

[Joe Soucheray]

That. And nobody said, well, wait a minute, what do you mean by that? What do you mean you don't have the authority? You hired these people, you put these people in place, they answer to you. If lie is too strong, I don't.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Think it's strong enough.

[Joe Soucheray]

He's obfuscating. Bleep that word.

[Chris Reivers]

Obfuscation. That one's come up before, hasn't it?

[Joe Soucheray]

Obfuscating.

[Chris Reivers]

That's what you do when you're, you're, you're in the cold. You go out and you put your, your blades on and you go to obfuscate.

[Joe Soucheray]

You want to take a break?

[Chris Reivers]

Obfuscate.

[Mike Fratelloni]

What if I was cold?

[Chris Reivers]

That one's already came up though. Isn't it obfuscating?

[Mike Fratelloni]

If I was cold and I wanted to heat up my home, I would.

[Chris Reivers]

Do the only thing that an obfuscator would do.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, an obfuscator would. Well, I don't know if obfuscation has anything to do with heating your home.

[Chris Reivers]

It does. I've talked to Rick Welter earlier. It's in the playbook to tell me about it. Obfuscating. And he said if your furnace sounds like it's obfuscating, then what you need to do is you need to get in touch with the welter family. Why is that?

[Joe Soucheray]

That'd be if your furnace is misleading you or lying to you.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

You cannot stop him. He'll just make a move.

[Mike Fratelloni]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Joe Significant, significant rains are forecasted for Southern California and I just looked on radar and yes, they appear to be on the way. And what that's going to result in is horrible mudslides in the Pacific Palisades area, for example, that burned last winter. And this will all be called climate change again because because there's no vegetation left, the homes are gone, there's nothing for the to stop a mudslide. Pacific Palisades. You can go on YouTube and look up a fire in the early 1960s, similar devastating fire in the Pacific Palisades. People want to live there because it's the views are so enticing that they're going to build there. And then risk they take is this the mudslides and the fires and what have you. And when this was a sane country and when this country worked, functioned, people understood the risks and took precautions and did what they had to do, but it did not stop them from living there. Now when the country is in the hands of a really inadequate political class like Gavin Newsom and the mayor of la, what's her name, Karen Bass. Karen Bass, this will be the nightly news is complicit. They'll lead off with this is climate change. When is the truth, of course is that fires and mudslides have been devastating California since the beginning of time. The difference being now that people live.

[Mike Fratelloni]

There much like that. I'd like to play this audio from you because I know you said you didn't want to hear it, but I think it's apropos.

[Joe Soucheray]

All right.

[Mike Fratelloni]

This is California Governor Gavin Newsom at a very similar conference to the one that Tim Walz was at talking about.

[Joe Soucheray]

Those fires in my state included, which.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Is one of the most blessed and.

[Joe Soucheray]

Cursed states as it relates to climate. We're on the tip of the spear of climate change. Simultaneous droughts and simultaneous floods stop one of the most, do we? What is the context of this speech? Is he being asked questions by reporters?

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's very similar to the setup that. No, it's just a one on one sit down.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, because no one apparently bothers to say, well wait a minute, this is what has happened in this geography since the beginning of time. No one says that to him. He gets away with this utter BS in his droughts and simultaneous floods. The hots are getting a lot hotter, the dry is drier. You saw one of the most devastating wildfires in American history. In the middle of winter. Stop. Because the reservoir to fight fires was not full of water.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It was bone dry.

[Joe Soucheray]

It was bone dry. The basics are not being taken care of because too many people are involved in creating pronoun seminars. I'm not exaggerating. That's what's happening to this country. You have to have a pronoun training session. In the meantime, the fire truck's got a flat tire. Angeles in January. Hundred mile hour winds attached to fire. Stop. Read Raymond Chandler. They're called the Santa Ana winds. A great line is the kind of wind. Is the kind of wind that can make a wife look at a kitchen knife and then study her husband's neck. Well, it's just these are common things that happen in la. Keep going. Okay. And as we rebuild, the number one concern people have. How do I get. Get my home insured? Well, in your state. And how do you get a developer to develop a home that can't get.

[Mike Fratelloni]

A mortgage, which is.

[Joe Soucheray]

Requires home insurance. So from across the spectrum, from financial risk to the issue of cost of living, which is universal, to global competitiveness, this is a no brainer. What is. We don't even know what he's talking about.

[Mike Fratelloni]

The thing I love about listening.

[Joe Soucheray]

What is he talking about? What is a no brainer?

[Mike Fratelloni]

The efforts to pursue fighting climate change. That's what this was all about. But the thing that I love about how he's. He's very influenced. Emphatically talking with his hands. But the thing I love about it the most is he's citing all of these problems that California residents and taxpayers are facing, which is the direct result from policies that he has instituted in that state.

[Joe Soucheray]

Same thing with Walz. If you had to choose between Walz and Newsom, oh my God, you couldn't. They're both the worst governors their states have ever had. I would not trade one for the other. Let's get back to Walsh, shall we?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Are you aware that as part of the vote that relieved the shutdown, that as politicians do, they tack all kinds of other stuff onto the bill? And among the things tacked onto the bill was this. No hemp products. You know, the, the bruise and the gummies and whatever they are. No hemp products can contain more than 0.04. What would that be? Milligrams of. Of the good stuff of the juice, you know, and. And that is immediately alerted. Everybody in Minnesota who was banking on this is going to be the source of their fortune was selling these marijuana laced products, they would not be legal under this new federal law.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Nope.

[Joe Soucheray]

Now presumably it'll be fixed. But it's another opportunity to say to Walls and his minions and the people in such a such a rush to create we've got to legalize marijuana, did they ever won? If you know what, what should we set the strength limits at of these, of these brus. And what should we set this. So did they just pull one out of their butt?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Pretty much.

[Joe Soucheray]

And what motivated Congress? What knowledge do they have to say that point zero four is too strong? Why wasn't that known when our legislature wasted all this time putting this stuff together? So the deal that ended the shutdown will end the Minnesota hemp industry in one year. Minnesota hemp industry faces a potential crisis. With a new federal law, they threatening to make intoxicating hemp products illegal. The THC beverages have become a significant part of the business for Minnesota breweries like Utapils Brewing in Minneapolis. Dan Justison from I'm reading from a Fox 9 piece Dan Justison from Utapills noted that these beverages account for more than 15% of their business. Similarly, John Helpers, CEO of Top 10 Liquor, said that the THC drinks make up almost 15% of their overall sales. My liquor store sells as much of that stuff as they do real beer.

[Chris Reivers]

Right?

[Joe Soucheray]

Minnesota's hemp industry faces that's a cut line. Many Minnesota brewers have invested heavily in the production of THC beverages, with Utapils even purchasing faster canning machinery. This year, hundreds of businesses have applied for hemp business licenses. What they're saying is we've seen significant volume drops in beer being sold to the hospitality industry, bars, restaurants and we're also seeing drops in sales to off premises liquor store, said Justison. Helper added, it's become almost 15% of our overall sales because so it's becoming a tremendous amount of what we do. The Backstory if the federal law takes effect, cannabis products could still be sold in states with legalized marijuana, but only by licensed cannabis retailers. This means they would not be available at liquor stores or through traditional banking systems, effectively ending the sale of hemp derived products. So these little storefronts that want to sell you this stuff, you're done.

[Chris Reivers]

If this, the little guys across the street, the N2 or whatever those this.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is a ban at this point and if we can get the government, if we can't get the government to enact law to allow this category to exist, it will not exist a year from now. So it's a real threat, said Helper well, let's look up Helper. Who's Helper? Oh, that's helpers, the CEO of Top 10 Liquors. And he's saying if this doesn't get changed, we're, we're done. What's next? The industry is advocating for a new law with regulations to address safety concerns raised by lawmakers. However, there is uncertainty about whether the business will survive the this coming year. What we don't know. It remains unclear if the government will enact a law to allow the category to exist or if the industry will find a way to adapt to changes. So you're telling me, check this out that we spent all this time creating. We have an office of cannabis. The first Walls hire wasn't any good. We had to get rid of that. That was a mistake. We spent all this time creating this supposed industry for Minnesota and no one bothered to wonder what the strength of the product would pass federal muster.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And this surprises you? No.

[Joe Soucheray]

This is because there were too many pronoun training sessions.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Did you want to hear that?

[Joe Soucheray]

No.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wouldn't that be fairly critical to. One would think it'd be. I'm trying to think of an analogy. Would be like us saying we're going to create a new dog food agency.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Using state meat and we're going to use it. That's a bad analogy. Never mind.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I. I guess you were going.

[Joe Soucheray]

I. I guess I don't need an analogy. We what. What they didn't do was their homework.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Right.

[Joe Soucheray]

It must have been known somewhere by someone that point zero four milligrams of of THC is too much. I don't know anything about it. I'm. My day for that has come and gone. I don't give a bleep one way or another. I don't care. But it's just more sloppy governing that now you've got all these people who've invested in storefronts and buildings and products and staff and had to buy a cash register and a computer and copy paper and on and on and on and on only to say, wait a minute. The federal government just said we can't even sell this stuff.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Think of how many people at that agency are just being deprived of the chance to commit state level fraud. Yeah, we are robbing them of that opportunity.

[Chris Reivers]

Equal opportunity. Fraudulent. Fraudulent.

[Joe Soucheray]

Man, this is a poorly governed state. It is just amazing.

[Mike Fratelloni]

But thank God.

[Chris Reivers]

Down to Texas, baby.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's supposedly a $200 million industry in Minnesota.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, it was.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, when you selling these. Are those cans in the liquor store? Are they alcohol?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Th. Well, it depends.

[Joe Soucheray]

Or just THC.

[Chris Reivers]

Just THC.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Typically, just THC.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's a $200 million business.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Because I believe we know someone that was going to make one that had both. And they were. The state said nin, ninh, ninh, ninh, na, na. Or maybe it was the strength. I'm not exactly sure. And I don't want to be out over my skis here.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, the strength according to the Feds, can't be past.04.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Just drink more of it.

[Joe Soucheray]

So it's. That sounds like three. Two to me. I mean, how many cans you gotta drink to get a little hit, Joe?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I think I'm gonna get into cannabis.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, Pat tried it. I bought the pack of gummies and I didn't know you're supposed to cut them up. Ate the whole thing and I conked out of the couch.

[Chris Reivers]

That was a good. What do you call them?

[Joe Soucheray]

I got high.

[Chris Reivers]

I've got a.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Speaking of that, should we check in?

[Chris Reivers]

I've got a brother that's represents THC drinks, the Jinx brand. Well, he just started.

[Joe Soucheray]

Good luck to him.

[Chris Reivers]

Good luck poor.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Is he delivering that over to Bob's?

[Chris Reivers]

No, he's marketing for them, I think nationally.

[Joe Soucheray]

Pat's on the clock.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes, sir.

[Joe Soucheray]

So we better get him.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And we should thank North American Banking Company that normally would be sponsoring this segment of Johnny Heights newscast.

[Chris Reivers]

So you said fried colog Meatloaf, Is that it?

[Joe Soucheray]

Hey, Pat.

[Pat Reusse]

Yes, Joe?

[Joe Soucheray]

Are you at the Ziggy?

[Pat Reusse]

I AM at the $1.2 billion collection of nonsense that isn't as good as the Metrodome was. That's where I am. Yes, I am. Yeah, you know, watching Ziggy, where they. Where the. This year the state high school league is pop for popcorn in the press box.

[Joe Soucheray]

So that's good. I'm looking at the schedule of games. I believe you've got one tonight that will settle the big schools. Edina will have to play the winner of Moorhead, Lakeville South.

[Pat Reusse]

Yes, hello, Edina down 28. 7 yesterday. Wow, one of the great stories ever. Mason west, the quarterback, is a first round draft choice in the NHL, Right. His team doesn't want him playing football, but he said, to hell with it, I'm playing football. And he died. I had another kid like that, what, 15 years ago. Anders Lee did the same.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes, yes, he did.

[Pat Reusse]

He stayed and played football and he had about. I think he just got done now after like 12 or 13 seasons. So you can play two sports. You don't have to ruin your whole life. Just to play hockey in the off season.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did. Did he dine out? They squeaked by Minnetonka, 42 to 41 1.

[Pat Reusse]

Minnetonka went for two to try to win the game after blowing a 28. 7 lead. It must have been a hell of a game. Game. Unfortunately, these are not like on local TVs or on streaming. They don't. They don't really. Channel 45 doesn't really get involved until championships, the Prep bowl games. So it would have been fun to have those on. Last night. Right now we got Cassin Manterville playing Grand Rapids. I was kind of hoping for Grand Rapids because the Iron Range last. There won their last non nine man championship in 1973.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, boy.

[Pat Reusse]

Evolet Evolution. They. They haven't won once, which we got this big image of the big Bronnie Range, but apparently all the sissies are just playing football, hockey or something.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I don't know.

[Joe Soucheray]

Say, was that Minnetonka Edina game? Was that in the Ziggy yesterday?

[Pat Reusse]

Yes, last night. They got three days here.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Pat Reusse]

The semifinals. They got four yesterday and then five each of the next two days. There's. I think there's no way.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know.

[Pat Reusse]

12 maybe. You know who's playing tomorrow? Murray County Central. And you know what Murray County Central really is? They're trying to hide it, but you know who they really are?

[Joe Soucheray]

Folded. Slayton. Slayton hated Slayton.

[Pat Reusse]

They are hated Slayton. I don't know who they're playing, but I'm rooting for the other team. I don't know who they're playing, but they. They can't fool me. They're still slayton.

[Joe Soucheray]

Now, at 2 o' clock today, you got St. Thomas Academy and Spring Lake park in 5A.

[Pat Reusse]

I would guess those underfunded cadets are probably gonna put a low weapon on them. They are. They are great, aren't they, Ruck?

[Joe Soucheray]

They're.

[Pat Reusse]

They're. I mean, they are loaded. They've been rolling over everybody.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, they have. And I'm. I'm kind of glad that they didn't have to play my CDH Raiders, because it may not have been a good outcome.

[Pat Reusse]

Did they play? They had to play during the regular season, didn't they?

[Chris Reivers]

They do have the tackle for cancer at. At Ziggy's practice stadium in the early fall, St. Thomas handed them a lot. A heavy loss.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, and tomorrow, Elk river in Chanhassen. So the winner, the winner of St. Thomas, Spring Lake park will play the.

[Pat Reusse]

Winner of Elk River Chanhassen yes, And Elk river is. Elk river has created the finest contribution to prep sports writing in Minnesota history. By about 12 years ago, they started running on every play.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, boy.

[Pat Reusse]

They throw like three passes a game. And all of a sudden, those two hours and 35 minute games became about a buck 50. So we love Elk River. They just keep that clock running. First down, they get 50 points, and they only take an hour and a half.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Pat, I will reach out to the Breckenridge football staff, that is, who's taking on Murray county to see if I can get you a sweatshirt.

[Pat Reusse]

Go Breckenridge.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hey, Pat, what's the crowd?

[Pat Reusse]

Stomp on him, Pat.

[Joe Soucheray]

What's the crowd like today?

[Pat Reusse]

I would guess there's 800 people here from Cason and 500 from Grand Rapids, and then a few other citizens, maybe 1500. I would guess 2000. But it'll, you know, they leave during the day. But you know why the. You know why Outstate hates Minneapolis? For one reason. I mean, there's several reasons, but, you know, one reason. The ramp right across the street. 30 bucks to park.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You're kidding me.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wow.

[Pat Reusse]

30 bucks, like a couple years ago. It's 15.

[Joe Soucheray]

But they're.

[Pat Reusse]

They're, you know, you drive in here from Grand Rapids, you make the log hump. You get down here. You don't want to walk 12 blocks and try to find a parking spot. Hey, there's a ramp right here. 30 bucks cash, baby.

[Joe Soucheray]

Holy crap.

[Pat Reusse]

It's.

[Joe Soucheray]

Do you like that building?

[Pat Reusse]

Hate it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Pat Reusse]

Can't stand it.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Is it the glass? Is it too much glass?

[Pat Reusse]

No, it's too high. It's too high. It's, you know, it's just, you know, they fall away from the stands. I don't like it.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't mind the glass. I don't like what. What. What failed to impress me were such mundane concourses. They're just.

[Pat Reusse]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

I couldn't believe it. They're just terrible.

[Pat Reusse]

I went down to talk to Cashman, Cashman, the linebacker's family, before a game last year, one of my two appearances in a Viking game in the last five years. And. And I'm walking. I waited till, like 10 minutes before kickoff. I'm walking back. Took me 30 minutes to get around the stadium. And because the corridors are so cramped, and they. They built, you know, they built corridors like they had in the Metrodome, and they got 15,000 more people in here, plus they put out these extra carts in the. In the hallways were to cause tremendous congestion. It's. I know. Don't know, it's. It's overbuilt. Overrated. And plus the. The whole scale gold chant. Let's. Let's shorten that up like. Like maybe 30 seconds. 30 seconds. We don't need five minutes of school.

[Mike Fratelloni]

So you're not going to be invited to blow the Gallahorn. Is that what you're trying to say to us?

[Pat Reusse]

No, I don't think so.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I am seeing. Scott Nelson just sent me a link. Loyal listener. Scott sent me a link. Apparently, KSTP is streaming the game.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, really? Good.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm seeing a link for the minute.

[Joe Soucheray]

What does that mean? You got to go to a computer.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah. Like csu.com.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, but everybody has a smart TV. You can pull up the KSTB website on your. On your television. I mean, you can't.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't think Pat. Good. Or I could.

[Chris Reivers]

Maybe you could.

[Pat Reusse]

Couple of us St. Thomas assistant coaches just walked by. They look very confident.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Out here in the hallway, I think. Do you think.

[Pat Reusse]

Confident?

[Joe Soucheray]

You think PJ Flex Gang is confident tonight in Oregon?

[Pat Reusse]

I think it'll be closer than you think. I don't think they're not going to score a lot, but, you know, Oregon had the game at Iowa. There was a battle. They and the Gophers have been off a week. And Oregon's not that explosive offensively. They're really good defensively. But PGL covers.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm looking for him to. I'm looking for him to protect the margin of defeat.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Absolutely.

[Pat Reusse]

There's no doubt about that. If. If he's down 3110, eight minutes to go. We're running the ball, baby. We're trying to make sure we.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Let's get out of here.

[Joe Soucheray]

Or got 25 point favorites.

[Pat Reusse]

Yeah, I know they are. I just had to tell somebody to leave the chair here. Look out.

[Joe Soucheray]

What happened?

[Pat Reusse]

I got a door here to keep a door open so I can get back in the press box. These guys were going to do a public service and remove the chair.

[Chris Reivers]

Hey, leave that utensil there.

[Pat Reusse]

Yeah. Come on.

[Joe Soucheray]

Come on.

[Pat Reusse]

I'm an old guy. I'd have to walk 500 miles to get back in the press.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, but they got elevators there, right? You didn't. You didn't.

[Pat Reusse]

Yes, they do, but I'm out in the hallway where like would be locked out, and I don't know where the hell I'd have to go.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Anyway.

[Pat Reusse]

Anyway. What? What else?

[Joe Soucheray]

That's all we got. Don't worry about it. Have a great time at the Ziggy.

[Pat Reusse]

Did you See where they have the baseball owners meetings or whatever.

[Mike Fratelloni]

GM meetings? Yeah.

[Pat Reusse]

Vegas. They got them in Vegas. And we got a. Why don't we save a little money and do that? Remote fired all the scouts, but we got 25 people out there. Pete Mackey saved his job, by the way.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I don't any idea.

[Pat Reusse]

We were talking today though, we thought maybe nobody can whisper when they get to the mountain quite as good as Pete can.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Pat, the best clip I saw this week Dan Patrick had. Is it Jeff Passon? Is that his name? Is that how you pronounce it?

[Pat Reusse]

Yes.

[Mike Fratelloni]

So he had him on at the GM meetings talking about the class a gambling scandal. And you see Vegas in the background. Spectacular.

[Joe Soucheray]

I got a question for you. Was Drake May drafted before J.J. mcCarthy? No.

[Pat Reusse]

Yeah, he was. Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh yes. I'm sorry.

[Pat Reusse]

Yes. Wasn't.

[Mike Fratelloni]

He was third overall. The Vikings tried desperately to go up and get him.

[Joe Soucheray]

He is really good. Yeah, I saw him last night for the first time.

[Pat Reusse]

You know, they're patting themselves on the back for wanting him. Who didn't?

[Joe Soucheray]

For God.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, the Bears didn't. Washington didn't.

[Pat Reusse]

Well, yeah, because the. They both had what they considered to be their quarterbacks.

[Joe Soucheray]

And the Bears quarterback, Justin Fields went to the Jets.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Correct.

[Joe Soucheray]

And he went to the Steelers first.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And then he went to the Jets.

[Joe Soucheray]

He went to the Jets. Yeah.

[Pat Reusse]

And he stinks.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh God.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is he bad?

[Pat Reusse]

He's terrible.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, he also was thrown to some guys who couldn't catch the ball last night. That was a problem. Yeah, that was a problem.

[Pat Reusse]

All right, up.

[Joe Soucheray]

All right, thank you. Pat's at the new ZEGI. The First National Bank Stadium. What's it called? U.S. bank Stadium.

[Chris Reivers]

Right.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Not North American Banking Company Stadium.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's too high.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes, it's way too high up there.

[Joe Soucheray]

Too high.

[Chris Reivers]

That's a good one.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did you want to take a timeout?

[Mike Fratelloni]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

Sure.

[Joe Soucheray]

Finally. Thank God. Today is Friday.

[Chris Reivers]

Tgti Friday.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's the scramble.

[Mike Fratelloni]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Let's go.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That sounds pretty good.

[Chris Reivers]

They're running.

[Mike Fratelloni]

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[Joe Soucheray]

I got a note from Elizabeth in Michigan who sent a picture of a case of Garage Beer. Oh, yeah, it's called Garage Beer.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Isn't that Kelsey's bed?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, isn't it. Isn't that. Isn't that supposed to be our beer? It's only 4% alcohol content.

[Mike Fratelloni]

We are.

[Joe Soucheray]

She wonders, is this the same as garage wood? No, you can't drink garage wood.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Thank you.

[Chris Reivers]

We are. Common sense Surface. No, we are. What's the beer?

[Joe Soucheray]

Common Surface Savings and Loan.

[Chris Reivers]

No, that's the bank drink.

[Joe Soucheray]

I didn't know.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, my gosh. We have a beer, and it's driving me crazy. I will find.

[Joe Soucheray]

Here's one called Garage Beer. And you know what? This transgender thing is sometimes very confusing. Yesterday we learned that in England, the BBC was advocating that. What? Transgender milk is as good as any other kind or whatever.

[Mike Fratelloni]

As breast milk. Regular breast milk. By the way, Jason and Travis, Kelsey are heavily invested in Garage beer. I knew there was a connection somehow.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, there you go. Now they're ripping us off. Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Care. Modern, caring, sensitive male Pale ale.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's it. Yes. Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

The official beer. There might be, like, a Hebrew light.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Or Israelite.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Israelite.

[Chris Reivers]

Like Hebrew for our Jewish friends in jail.

[Joe Soucheray]

A trans identifying male. All right. Would that be what a start. What, what, what did we start with there?

[Chris Reivers]

You know, if you have to decipher.

[Joe Soucheray]

It'S really just, you know, a trans identifying male. Did that mean. Mean that person started as a female? Well, it's a trans identifying male. TSA officer at Dulles International Airport that's in Washington is suing for the right to pat down female travelers. See, I would too, I guess. Danielle.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Here we go. I gotcha. A trans identified male, also known as a trans man.

[Joe Soucheray]

Not.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Not to be confused with the trans am. A trans man is an individual who was assigned female at birth, but has a male gender identity and also lives as a man. There you go.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, Danielle. Mitterador is alleging in his lawsuit that the Transportation Security Administration is violating his civil rights due to his. Due to its implementation of President Trump's executive order ordering that male female sex binary be affirmed in all federal government roles. Mitterer alleges that it is sex discrimination that only female agents are allowed to pat down female passengers. He says this causes him fear, anxiety, and depression. Oh, wait a minute. On the one hand he's identifying as a male, but then he wants to what? Say, but I'm really a female, so let me pat down female agents. Female. See, this is why it's too confusing.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes, this is the problem.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I can help both of you. Here's how you make it not be that. That big. That complicated. Complicated.

[Chris Reivers]

It's complicated.

[Joe Soucheray]

I use he, him, and his.

[American Experiment Host]

Oh, and when someone.

[Joe Soucheray]

I like my pronouns. It makes me feel respected. I use he, him, and. Asking for someone else's pronouns helps me avoid misgendering my co workers.

[American Experiment Host]

I use they, them pronouns because sharing my pronouns creates.

[Joe Soucheray]

You can take that down now. I can't. I can't take that. I don't know what to tell this guy. I don't care.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I guess I know what to tell this guy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I do too, but I can't.

[Chris Reivers]

Get your act together. That is why Trump got elected. Those pipes. Fantastic.

[Joe Soucheray]

Where are we? We're still at port of call in Cape Town, South Africa. They're starting a second cruise today, I believe. But this is the traveling Lymans. And it's only because these come to us all the way from Cape Town, South Africa. It was on this day, November 14, in 1766, Englishman Jonathan Carver entered Walk on Teacher, the cave and sacred site in present day St. Paul, long used by Dakota people, that white settler colonists came to call by his name, Carver's Cave. Carver wrote in his diary, came to the great stone cave Called by the Dakota the house of spirits. This cave is doubtless a greater curiosity than my short stay and want of convenience allowed me to sufficiently explore. People could write in those days. Yeah, they could. They could. They could really speak. My short stay and want of convenience.

[Chris Reivers]

Ah, want of convenience, yes.

[Mike Fratelloni]

On this day, Joe, today's November 14th.

[Joe Soucheray]

In 1860, telegraph service reached Minneapolis. On this day, November 14th in 1908, Allison Salisbury was born in Minneapolis. A reporter and author, he was especially noted for his writing on the Soviet Union. And in 1955 he won the Pulitzer Prize for international correspondence. Harrison Salisbury doesn't say. Oh, it said he was born in Minneapolis.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Inventor of the stake.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's right.

[Chris Reivers]

There you go.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day, November 14th, Mike O', Dowd, the Cyclone of St. Paul, defeated Al McCoy to win boxing's middleweight title, which Mike O' Dowd held until 1920.

[Chris Reivers]

The real McCoy.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And on this day, Joe, today is November 14th.

[Joe Soucheray]

Author Meridell LeSueur died in Hudson, Wisconsin. Born in Murray, Iowa, on February 22, 1900, LeSueur moved with her family to Minnesota when she was 12. A reporter and author of novels and short stories, she was blacklisted for being a member of the communist party. She's a commie. Her work was rediscovered and heralded by feminists in the 1970s. Eh, I don't think much of her. What are you gonna say on this day in Minnesota? Sports disappointment, history.

[Mike Fratelloni]

By today's standards, she'd make a great political candidate.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, hell, she'd be a rock rib Republican.

[Mike Fratelloni]

November 14th, Joe, who'd we lose to?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, on this day in 2001, Minnesota legislators filed a lawsuit to break baseball's federal antitrust exemption. They were trying to prevent contraption of.

[Mike Fratelloni]

The team that worked.

[Chris Reivers]

Contraction comes up quite a bit, doesn't it, in the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, in this era it does, yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Maybe we would have been better off on this day. On this day, November 14th in 2014, the Timberwolves lost to the Pelicans by 48 points.

[Chris Reivers]

Should never lose. The Pelican. The Pelicans still around?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

And on this day, November 14th in 2017, Twins manager Paul Molitor was named manager of the year. And then they fired a year later. Wow.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Wasn't that going to be your radio name? The Pelican.

[Joe Soucheray]

The Pelican.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

See, because I haven't won any major awards because I don't have a nickname.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That's right. Joe Sucre.

[Joe Soucheray]

The Pelican. The Pelican. I think that would have skyrocketed to success thank you. G. Ellers, you got any big plans for the week? Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes. I'm gonna mind my own.

[Chris Reivers]

I gotta rake some leaves.

[Joe Soucheray]

I never rake leaves.

[Chris Reivers]

I gotta move. Gabe.

[Joe Soucheray]

Gabe's on the move today. Since I was born, I've never believed in raking leaves. Seriously, what's the point?

[Mike Fratelloni]

You know, who tells you not to? Naples Fratelloni. He says it's really good for the soil.

[Joe Soucheray]

What do I care if there's leaves here? Big deal.

[Chris Reivers]

Come on, Mike.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right here.

[Chris Reivers]

I got it right here.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Hey, do us a favor. If you haven't done so already, hit subscribe. Subscribe on the Garage Logic YouTube channel.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, I don't.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Hey, we have a Garage Logic YouTube channel where you can watch the show each and every single day.

[Chris Reivers]

You know, starting right around noon.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Because when it goes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, it says who?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, you can find it.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Facebook, Instagram, X. It's all there for you. Hey, have a great weekend, everybody.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah. What are you doing?

[Joe Soucheray]

What are you doing? Hey, can I come over?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Look out now. Look out.

[Chris Reivers]

Here comes. Hit that, Johnny. I do love that out music.

[American Experiment Host]

Hey, Garage Logicians, stick around for a preview of American Experiments latest podcast with Grace Keating and Katherine Johnson. This week we tackle the explosion of SNAP benefits under Governor Walz. The 90 violations found in a Hennepin county agency, and the nightmare inducing puppet and dancing robot promoting the Blue Line Boondock goggle. Plus our four not so esteemed Golden Turkey nominees. The biggest story that we wanted to cover this week is John [e-mail] did a deep dive into the growth of SNAP benefits. Since 2018, when Governor Walz took office as governor in Minnesota, SNAP benefits have exploded, basically is the long and short of it. So snap, as you might know, stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. They used to be called food stamps. And it's the largest federal program aimed at combating hunger and food insecurity among low income Americans. So this program is administered by the Department of Agriculture and they issue an annual SNAP activity reports, which is what John Phelan is looking at here. Now the most recent is from 2023. So all of these numbers are actually a couple years old by now. In 2018, SNAP issuance, which is the amount the federal government is sending to states to finance the program, totaled 660 million in Minnesota. This is 2018. By 2023, that had increased in real terms to $1.5 billion. This real terms increase of SNAP issuance in Minnesota is of 128%. It's the biggest of all of the states. Okay. Make more work for Isaac. Maybe throw that chart up on the screen if you're watching. It shows all of the states. Some states even have fewer people on snap. A lot of them have, you know, I would say a wide variety of growth. But Minnesota, Minnesota has by far the most growth in our SNAP program.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[American Experiment Host]

And what's interesting is Governor Wallace has made it clear in statements that he's given interviews he's been a part of, saying that he sees this as a good thing. He sees this as, you know, Minnesota is helping out more and more needy people who need our assistance, which, like, yes, that's true. Like, if there are people who are in need, giving aid, good thing. But the fact, it seems like he's overlooking the fact that more and more people under his administration are in that position financially, to not be able to buy groceries without federal assistance, like, that's not. That's not a good thing. That's not something we should be celebrating. Yes, exactly. No, not at all. And it's also, I mean, I just think it's indicative of him, you know, in his idea that the more people on government, the better, when in reality, it's not good for people to be on these things long term. And in the context of everything we know going on in Minnesota with the explosion of fraud under Tim Walls, I don't have a ton of faith that the growth, the massive growth of this program is fully legitimate. That was a quick preview of the content you'll find on the American Experiment podcast. Come check out the rest of our [e-mail] podcast or by searching American Experiment Podcast on YouTube or any major podcasting platform. New episodes drop every Tuesday afternoon. See you soon.