1/16 Minnesota finds itself in what is basically a war between Donald Trump and Tim Walz

Summary

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Garage Logic – Episode 1696

Date: January 16, 2026
Title: Minnesota finds itself in what is basically a war between Donald Trump and Tim Walz

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Episode Overview

Minnesota's most downloaded podcast, Garage Logic, returns with Joe Soucheray and the crew delving into what they frame as an ongoing political and law enforcement "war" between former President Donald Trump and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Against a backdrop of rising ICE enforcement, contentious state vs. federal clashes, and a recent violent incident in Minneapolis, the hosts unpack how political showdowns are affecting everyday life in Minnesota. Known for its blend of wry humor, local flavor, and "common sense," this episode features deep dives into immigration enforcement, public safety, and shifting political narratives, all with characteristic banter and listener correspondence.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Sleigh Rides, Nostalgia, and Banter

(02:00–06:00)

• The episode opens with the crew's characteristic banter, discussing the charm and impracticality of owning a horse-drawn sleigh in modern Minnesota.
• This section is a warm-up with local anecdotes, establishing the show’s tone.

2. Law Enforcement and ICE: Where Minnesota Stands

(06:06–13:30)

• Joe Soucheray introduces a notable email from a reliable ICE source about local law enforcement's relationship to federal ICE detainers.
• Core issue: Local Minnesota law enforcement (LEOs) can inform ICE when someone with a federal hold is being released, but in practice, they often do not. There's no law preventing them from doing so, but political will is apparently lacking.
• Quote:

  "There's no law in Minnesota preventing law enforcement from calling ICE and saying, ‘We've got so and so here... we're releasing him at 10am at the southeast entrance to the building.’" — Joe Soucheray (08:47)

• Reason for non-cooperation: Local political leadership (mayors, police chiefs, sheriffs) often choose not to contact ICE, especially in the current climate.

3. Political Dynamics: Walz vs. Trump, and the Fallout

(13:30–21:19)

• Listener email from “Jonathan in Plymouth” argues that Trump has deflected attention away from a fraud scandal that jeopardized Walz, turning it into a battle about law and order and immigration, thus allowing Walz to regain his footing.
  • Quote:

    "Trump has managed to take what he assumed would be a death blow to the Walz administration and instead turned it into a way for our state to quickly revert back to its ingrained tribal differences." — Listener Jonathan (16:33)

• Soucheray and Kenny Olson agree it's become a destructive "wrestling match" between Trump and Walz, with real consequences for Minnesotans.
• The hosts lament that public safety isn’t the top priority for either politician.

4. Case Example: ICE, Releases, and Optics

(21:55–34:55)

• Discussion of a recent Minneapolis incident where a Venezuelan man, Julio Cesar Sosa Salus, was shot in the leg during an ICE operation. Details reveal miscommunications and reluctance to notify ICE before release, leading to chaotic and dangerous street apprehensions.
  • Quote:

    "All of that could have been avoided. That could have been avoided." — Joe Soucheray (34:55)

• The crew analyzes the rules:
  • Local jails can't detain people solely on ICE detainers.
  • However, they can tip off ICE on release—but often don't, especially for nonviolent offenses.

5. Societal Impact: An Atmosphere of Fear and Avoidance

(23:29–26:44)

• Anecdotes from listeners reveal mounting public anxiety: masked individuals in stores, DACA recipients staying home, empty streets, and closed restaurants—possibly as immigrants steer clear of possible trouble.
• Discussion of how both sides' actions (Trump's ICE surge, Walz's non-cooperation) translate to fear and instability for ordinary people.

6. Political Theater Over Policy

(28:02–31:43)

• Soucheray draws a parallel between Trump and Walz, suggesting both are playing to their bases without intent to actually address the underlying issues.
  • Quote:

    "I think Walz and Trump are the very same person addressing completely different audiences." — Joe Soucheray (28:02)

• Both are accused of inciting rather than resolving division and unrest.
• The audience is asked to recognize the destructive nature of entrenched political standoffs.

7. Culture and Law Enforcement in Minnesota

(36:24–37:45)

• Soucheray argues that Minnesota’s “anti-law enforcement culture” has enabled Walz’s stance and compounded the crisis.
  • Quote:

    "Walz continues to play to his mass of humans because he has successfully been the leader of this anti law enforcement movement." — Joe Soucheray (36:24)

8. What’s Next? More Confrontations, No Solutions

(37:43–38:43)

• Speculation about the coming weeks includes predictions of more street standoffs, flashbangs, and possibly more violence.
• Political positions are hardening, with little hope for de-escalation in the short term.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the standoff:

  "It's a Mexican standoff. Can we still say that, or is that racist?" — Joe Soucheray (23:29)

• On political motives:

  "He [Walz] might even be pinning his political future on this. That boy, I could, I could end up being the guy that rides in on the white horse. Cuz I'm really appealing to all the progressives who think no one's illegal on stolen land." — Joe Soucheray (30:16)

• On leadership:

  "As the governor of the state of Minnesota, he has done nothing to calm the waters for the people he supposedly governs. Trump, on the other hand, doesn't give a rat's ass about the people Walz governs." — Joe Soucheray (30:37)

• On public mood:

  "There's another way to look at this... businesses are closing, either closing or closing early. And the stores aren't as crowded. If that's true... that means maybe there's a hell of a lot more illegals than you think." — Joe Soucheray (25:24)

• On failed leadership:

  "Both camps are not ever considering fact. They're only considering their political allegiance." — Joe Soucheray (46:11)

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Segment Timestamps

• 02:00–06:00 – Local color: sleighs, nostalgia, and small-town events
• 06:06–13:30 – ICE/local law enforcement protocols, detainers, and communication gaps
• 13:30–21:19 – Listener analysis: political framing and the Trump-Walz dynamic
• 21:55–34:55 – Case study: recent ICE arrest gone wrong, process breakdown
• 23:29–26:44 – Societal impacts: fear, empty streets, and closed businesses
• 28:02–31:43 – Analysis: Political games and leadership critiques
• 36:24–37:45 – Commentary: Culture, political climate, and law enforcement
• 37:43–38:43 – Predictions: Ongoing unrest, entrenched positions

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Episode Conclusion

After extensive coverage of the ICE/Walz/Trump controversy, the show transitions into the lighter fare of sports, local trivia, nostalgic stories, and sponsor segments, but the core message remains: Minnesota currently finds itself trapped in a political and law enforcement tug-of-war, with ordinary residents and neighborhoods suffering most from the fallout. The crew expresses frustration, skepticism, and wry humor, urging listeners to recognize the real-world effects of political gridlock and the value of common-sense solutions.

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For New Listeners

Garage Logic's distinctive blend of local wit, skepticism about political maneuvering, and bottom-up “gumption” offers a unique window into how big-picture politics ripple through everyday life in Minnesota, especially in times of crisis. Whether you’re newly tuning in or a long-time fan, this episode provides essential context on why so many Minnesotans feel caught in the crossfire of ideologically-driven policymaking, and why, now more than ever, the need for real leadership is on full display.

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Transcript

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[Chris Reivers]

Hail the Flashlight King.

[Joe Susher]

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 crabby coffee shop, John Hight in the newsroom, and of course the rookie. Here is your Flashlight king, fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Susher. You know what? I'd like to own a sleigh. But then you'd have to have a horse.

[Chris Reivers]

I'd have a horse to pull, and.

[Joe Susher]

I have no place to keep the horse. But wouldn't a sleigh be nifty in the old days?

[Kenny Olson]

For what curtain to go for a sleigh?

[Joe Susher]

Yes, Kenny, a cutter. Now, in the old days, the plowing could not have been better than it is today, right?

[Rookie]

It would.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, which city?

[John Hight]

St. Paul?

[Joe Susher]

Well, anywhere. Wouldn't the plowing have been primitive? And so how did those. How did those cutters get over traverse all of the horrible ice that would.

[Rookie]

Develop and people must cutters had very, very narrow rails.

[Joe Susher]

They must have fallen out of those things. You know, they were all. They were in their lap robes and all bundled up and had heated bricks at their feet that probably burned right through the bottom of the cutter. But they would. That's how they got around, see. And I think it'd be neat to have an authentic old sleigh. I bet there's a lot around my garage. Hunting has never included sleighs and I've never included. Encountered one. But I bet there are people that really zero in on sleighs.

[Chris Reivers]

My grandfather owned a sleigh.

[Joe Susher]

I bet it was neat.

[Chris Reivers]

It was kind of cool. We didn't. I don't remember ever riding in it as a youth. But I know that they did sell it when my grandfather passed away.

[Joe Susher]

I'll be damned.

[Kenny Olson]

I will tell you that in Coon Rapids in Johnny's neck of the woods, there is a company that will give a family a huge group sleigh rides, horse drawn sleigh rides. And I must say it is a lot of fun.

[Joe Susher]

Can I tell you something?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Susher]

I. I don't think that's unique. I. I think there are a number of places.

[Kenny Olson]

No, you think it's. They go around the strip mall and they. They pass quick trip and got.

[Joe Susher]

I think there are plenty of places where you can book a sleigh ride. Plenty.

[Kenny Olson]

But I have several times.

[Joe Susher]

I'm sure you have a blast. I'm sure you have.

[Kenny Olson]

Whatever. Coon Rapids. Hand in hand.

[Chris Reivers]

Hand in hand.

[Kenny Olson]

They love Fireball and you know, keep you one.

[Joe Susher]

Yeah, yeah. Hey, you got plans for the weekend?

[Chris Reivers]

You mean Harmony Spirits?

[Joe Susher]

Hey, big plans for the weekend? None of your business, John. Big plans.

[John Hight]

It's also none of your business.

[Kenny Olson]

Kenny, do you have a Harmony today?

[Joe Susher]

Nothing. He's just gonna shake it.

[Chris Reivers]

He's already out of material.

[John Hight]

Rook.

[Joe Susher]

No, no, there's a method. There's a method to my madness. Rook, do you have big plans for the weekend?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, big plans. Start out at about 7:30 at the airport for a spell and then I think it's a honeydew list at home.

[Joe Susher]

I might go to the RV and trailer show.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, I'm not joking. I would go with you. Yeah, it's fun to go in those RVs.

[Joe Susher]

Well, no, hold on.

[Kenny Olson]

Pretend you're camping.

[Joe Susher]

No, see, you sit in the chair.

[Chris Reivers]

Joe, you get the top bunk.

[Kenny Olson]

People are like, this guy's been here for 20 minutes. Get out of my camper.

[Joe Susher]

Were they like that?

[Kenny Olson]

They are. I have done that before before you.

[Chris Reivers]

Get to serious matters. Can we address one?

[Joe Susher]

I don't even want to get to serious matters.

[Chris Reivers]

Can we address the I'm tired Sherlock.

[Joe Susher]

Holmes in the state bleeping bleeper over.

[Chris Reivers]

Here with that shirt.

[Kenny Olson]

Sherlock Hemlock. Sherlock Hemlock. Yeah.

[Joe Susher]

You do wear some odd shirts. Man, they're thick.

[Kenny Olson]

This is like a shacket.

[Joe Susher]

Yeah, another shacket.

[Kenny Olson]

I had a shacket on yesterday. You know what they are? They're cozy, like your covered wagon.

[Rookie]

Is it thick or is it insulated? Is there insulation?

[Kenny Olson]

This one is not my other.

[Joe Susher]

Just a lot of material.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

But I do have a lot going on. Thank you for asking. Mass on Sunday, probably 9 o' clock at Nativity. You asked at 9 or 9?

[Chris Reivers]

30?

[Rookie]

Donuts Management Today, Donut Sundays.

[Kenny Olson]

Every Sunday now at Nativity.

[Rookie]

Really?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

Can I just come for the donuts?

[Kenny Olson]

You got to throw a little five spot or something in there.

[Joe Susher]

Well, yesterday we tried to create some understanding of what's taking place on the streets. I don't think there's any doubt that there's a lot of bad blood between walls and Trump.

[Kenny Olson]

You think?

[Joe Susher]

I got this note from a source who is a. An agent with ice.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay.

[Patrick]

All right.

[Joe Susher]

Oh, wow. And he's a friend of a friend of mine.

[Kenny Olson]

Got it. I wish I had a mole.

[Joe Susher]

In fact, he's a friend of a friend of the show, and I find him trustworthy.

[Kenny Olson]

Why don't I know this?

[Joe Susher]

Not holding individuals with ICE detainers is one of the issues at play here. All right. The other issue is the communication to ICE when an individual is jailed and held.

[Rookie]

Okay, who's not holding ICE detainers? You didn't make that clear. We know, but say that again.

[Joe Susher]

Well, I'm getting to that. I'm trying to lay it out the way this guy told my friend. Local LEOs, law enforcement officers can contact ICE if they have an individual with an ICE detainer, although the local LEO cannot detain the individual longer than they would for the charge they were arrested for in the first place. You with me? So, Juan. I hate to pick on Juan, but that Eduardo is picked up for shoplifting. Let's say it's his third offense. He's arrested, he goes to jail.

[Kenny Olson]

Yep.

[Joe Susher]

His lawyer tries to get him out. Of course, it's $5,000 bail. He can't afford it, so he has to sit there until his next court hearing. Let's say it's 48 hours. At which point the LEO, the sheriff's office, is required to release him to his attorney, presumably.

[Kenny Olson]

Yep.

[Joe Susher]

All Right. There's no law in Minnesota. And in the meantime, they're looking up Eduardo and they see, oh, he's got a federal detainer note here. He's got a federal hold on him there. If I'm understanding this correctly, and I want to have a peaceful show today, if I'm understanding that correctly, that means there is no law preventing law enforcement from calling ICE and saying, we've got so and so here. We note that he has a federal hold on him. We have to release him tomorrow on a different matter. We're releasing him at 10am at the southeast entrance to the building. Thank you. Goodbye. ICE can take that information. They can be waiting there at 10am the next morning, and they can intercept the fellow as he comes out onto the street.

[Kenny Olson]

That's not aiding. They can communicate with ice.

[Joe Susher]

I don't think that's against. I don't think that violates Minnesota law.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't either. I think that's a.

[Joe Susher]

What would violate Minnesota law, apparently, would be ICE knowing Eduardo's in there on a shoplifting charge, from showing up and saying, we want him right now. Elio says, no, we got him for 48 hours. Do you have a warrant? And if they didn't have the warrant? No. Eduardo stays in the custody of local law enforcement. Everybody with me so far?

[Chris Reivers]

Yes, sir.

[Joe Susher]

So what might very well be happening in Minnesota, and I do not know to what extent is. We are not calling ice, when calling them, might very well prevent these scenes in our streets, in the neighborhoods. Okay, let me continue with this guy's letter. Although the local LEO can not detain the individual longer than they would for the charge they were arrested for, they may contact ice. They can. When the name appears on a federal hold list. This, as I say this, allows ICE to arrest the person as they are being released from jail, at the holding facility or just outside the door, thus securing the individual at a relatively controlled location. The local leadership. This is from our source. Mayors, county attorneys, governors, sheriffs, police chiefs are choosing not to contact ICE when these individual names are flagged. They are choosing not to contact ICE and give ICE the opportunity to meet the suspect at the door.

[Kenny Olson]

They are not doing that.

[Joe Susher]

They are not choosing to do that. I don't know to what extent. I would imagine they have on some occasions.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay.

[Joe Susher]

This is what I understand is one of the biggest concerns and problems with Minnesota, and it is leading to the conflict and chases the. Based on conversations with my contact who works for Homeland, there is a window of time for ice to react 36 to 48 hours, where, if contacted, they could arrest the individual without conflicting with Minnesota law staff.

[Rookie]

I read something that corroborates that this morning. I've been looking for it feverishly here, and I'm sorry, I cannot find it. I can paraphrase it, but I. I know I'll get something wrong.

[Joe Susher]

I'll go ahead and maybe we can help parse.

[Rookie]

In the past, an ICE agent would go to, say, for instance, Hennepin county lockup in the morning, go through the list of detainees. If there was an illegal alien in there, he would return. That ICE agent would return. When that detainee was about to be released, they'd pick him up. No fuss, no muss. Things have changed, and that is no longer the practice. That's what I remember of the piece. I really wish I could find it so I don't sound like such an ass.

[Joe Susher]

Okay, okay. The. The part that needs explanation. There is. Are ICE agents forbidden to wander into jails and look at the records?

[Rookie]

That's what I'm looking for.

[Joe Susher]

That must be the case.

[Rookie]

Yeah.

[Joe Susher]

No.

[Kenny Olson]

Our ICE agents forbidden from wandering into jails and randomly looking for Julio.

[Joe Susher]

That's what Kenny is surmising from what he read. Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

What would be advantageous for the MPD not to contact ICE and say, we've got John Smith here, he's a serial child molester, and he leaves at 10:15?

[Rookie]

We can make an assumption, Matthew.

[Joe Susher]

I would make. I would make the assumption that if he was a serious serial child abuser, ICE would be contacted. Okay, that's my whole.

[Kenny Olson]

If he's shoplifting at Walmart, most likely.

[Chris Reivers]

But to answer rookie's question directly, you do have a police chief that has publicly said, we will not cooperate.

[Rookie]

That was my answer, yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Is that for the cameras and then to wink, wink, nudge, nudge. He doesn't want bad guys running around either, because he needs to have the faith of the people.

[Joe Susher]

Well, the faith of the people in Minnesota has been lost.

[Chris Reivers]

Hi, I'm Chris.

[Joe Susher]

Either to one side or the other, the faith of the people in Minnesota has been lost.

[Kenny Olson]

How are you going to repair this?

[Joe Susher]

Okay, we're not. We're going to stick to this topic for a moment, and then we'll figure out the repairs, we'll circle back.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, noted.

[Joe Susher]

Let's see. What does this say? I'm trying to read the ones that maybe corroborate the source. I, who I have no reason to doubt.

[Rookie]

Okay.

[Joe Susher]

Joe, I'd argue what's happening here in Minnesota with ICE aligns. Well, with your premise of how Trump ineffectively and often damagingly over corrects. Just a mere ten days ago, the primary news topic in this state was fraud. Not just here, but increasingly so on a national level. Walls had been forced to step away from his reelection bid and was very likely on a path of having to resign from the office entirely. Sure, he would always have his unwavering base support of, let's say, re Secure the middle. In just this short time, Trump has managed to take what he assumed would be a death blow to the Walz administration and instead turned it into a way for our state to quickly revert back to its ingrained tribal differences. Difference is that when the dust settles, will not allow fraud outrage to return from the back burner. It will make it easier to insulate those who negligently allowed it to flourish unchecked in the first place. Jonathan in Plymouth, Minnesota. I can find no way to pick apart his email. I can find no way.

[Kenny Olson]

I would agree. I said last night when I said Walz is the happiest guy in the world.

[Joe Susher]

Now, look at it this way. I think this fellow was onto something. I do think this has become a wrestling match between Walls and Trump with such unfortunate consequences. So far, a death already, for God's sakes. Another shooting in which someone was. And. And both characters, Walls and Trump apparently can live with that. The rest of us are struggling to understand. Yeah, my God. We don't. We can't be shooting people. And, and, but these two, these two don't care. That's. That's my opinion. They don't care. What? Oh, I shouldn't do that.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, you should do that.

[Joe Susher]

That's the break I held up this side.

[Kenny Olson]

Peace be with you.

[Joe Susher]

So what does Trump do? He doubles down and sends 2,000 more ICE agents here. What is Walls do? He's doubling down and riding very hard. That horse that says don't tell ICE anything. So we don't know to what extent, but it is in all probability true that on many occasions ICE could be called and said so and so is being released. Our 48 hours up, we have to let him go. But we've noted there's a federal hold on him. We're calling you as a professional courtesy. If you want to be at the east door at 10am tomorrow, he'll be released. We're not doing that because that would be seen as aiding Trump. And Trump hasn't cared about our fraud problem because it didn't work out for him. Most of the fraudsters are probably American citizens. So he comes to town, he discovers that fraud is now pushed aside. I'm here for illegal immigration only. We don't even rank high in the nation for the number of illegal immigrants. California's first, Texas, Florida, on and on and on. We don't rank highly. But. But Trump's action right now is focused on Minnesota and Walz's action is focused on thwarting Trump. That does nothing for those of you who lived at 24th and Lyndale the other day. That does nothing for Renee Goode. That does nothing for the people who live on Portland and 34th in that area. These two are having their war and it's the rest of the people who will suffer.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, what a short attention span we have.

[Joe Susher]

It's bad leadership on both fronts. Trump doesn't have the ability to back off and say, you know, that fraud, we don't need to be there for immigration purposes. On the fraud, we don't need to be there for that. We better. Let's put our manpower where there are more problems. And Trump and Walz doesn't have the leadership ability to say, I could really calm things down by instructing law enforcement and they wouldn't even be breaking law. I can really calm things down by telling law enforcement, if you ever see a federal hold on anybody you happen to have arrested lately, you call ICE and tell them when your time is up with them and maybe they can be greeted at the door and we'll avoid the flash buyings and the fireworks and the snowball throwing in the streets. Is that, is that a reasonable analysis of what's taking place?

[Rookie]

He won't, though.

[Joe Susher]

Well, they both won't.

[Rookie]

He's too far in it.

[Joe Susher]

Yeah, they're both, they're both too deep now. They're both too deep.

[Rookie]

The only thing I would add is I think that President Trump can fall back by saying, and defend himself, I should say, by saying, were picking up illegal aliens that have done crimes, you know, and I'll acknowledge the way they're doing it, door to door, pulling people over, et cetera, et cetera, is bad optics. But I don't see anything that Walls can defend himself with, is there? I can't come up with anything.

[Joe Susher]

No. The reason they're going door to door and stumbling around in the middles of streets is because of what Walls is doing. The other, the Venezuelan the other night who got shot in the leg. He's probably a wonderful example of this. Do we know, John? Do we know why he was arrested in the first place?

[John Hight]

I have never Seen that. And I looked that up when we were talking about it the other day.

[Rookie]

Wait, what? The guy that got shot in the leg? Yeah, that was part of. I read something over and over. I saw the words shovel attack.

[Joe Susher]

Yeah, no, no. I want to know why he was in jail in the first place.

[John Hight]

Oh, oh, the guy who got shot in the leg and why they wanted.

[Joe Susher]

Yeah, but that might have been a perfect example of a guy who. Maybe he was in there because it was his third DWI or something, we don't know. And his lawyer couldn't arrange the bail. So now we're going to hold him for 48 hours. In the meantime, they say this guy has a federal hold on, which we now know was true, but they don't call ICE. At the 48 hour mark, this guy is released because he has to be. And now ICE has to find him. They're not gonna find him at the door. They gotta go to his neighborhood, they gotta knock on doors. They gotta. I'm not. I think that the optics are horrible, too. But this is what. What this state has compelled. How this state has compelled ICE to behave. They have no other options. So it's a fight. You know what it is? It's a fine. How do you do?

[Chris Reivers]

That's right.

[Joe Susher]

It's a Mexican standoff. Can we still say that, or is that racist?

[Rookie]

Probably not. Yeah, you know how it is. Now, have you noticed or do you. Maybe that's not a good. Do you feel any different now when you're out in public going from, you know, store to store location, job to home, etc.

[Joe Susher]

No.

[Rookie]

The reason I ask is because I talked to a few people from Minneapolis yesterday and they told me different stories. One was going into a store and seeing a man in a mask just standing there looking at everybody. And then shortly thereafter was joined by a woman in a mask, covered up, wearing hoodies, no identification on them, but sunglasses and a mask. And she felt that they were casing the place, looking for illegals. And she said, I never would have felt this way last week. And now I'm wondering, were they ice? And I talked to my son and his girlfriend, and they live on the south side. And he just said, we're keeping our heads down, we're staying away from the action, going from job to work and trying to avoid everybody.

[Joe Susher]

Well, there's another way to look at this, which is odd. If I talk to a woman this morning who was noting an absence of. Have you noticed an absence of traffic?

[Chris Reivers]

150%.

[Rookie]

Wait a minute. I have But I do every year between January and the end of spring break. It's light rush hours, Mondays and Friday, really, really light. Mondays and Fridays are like Sundays. So it's to me, this is normal, what we go through every winter. And I've always, and I don't know if I'm right or not, but I've always attributed to people being on vacation.

[Joe Susher]

Well.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, it is Martin Luther King weekend this week.

[Chris Reivers]

No, but I will say I agree with you.

[Joe Susher]

I never got to make my point.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, please do.

[Joe Susher]

I talked to a woman who was noticing the quietude on the streets as she went to work today. And businesses are closing, either closing or closing early. And the stores aren't as crowded. If that's true, and it's just anecdotal, that means maybe there's a hell of a lot more illegals than you think.

[Chris Reivers]

Or many people choosing to stay home. Yeah.

[John Hight]

Yeah, I think there's people. I know one person who's a friend of somebody in my house, obviously who's a young man who's here on Dhaka daca. Was the. When you were young.

[Joe Susher]

Is he of a. Is he a foreigner?

[John Hight]

He. Well, he was born outside the country, was brought here when he was 2 years old and has lived here ever since.

[Joe Susher]

He's now American citizen.

[John Hight]

He's Dylan's friend. He's Dylan's age. He's not an American citizen.

[Joe Susher]

He's not.

[John Hight]

He's here on the DACA program. That was the Obama program.

[Joe Susher]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

And he will not leave the house unless you absolutely have to. And he's not probably going to get arrested. I mean, there's no reason for him to, but.

[Rookie]

And, oh, wait a minute. A friend of mine who lives in Alex sent me pictures of the Mexican restaurants in Ferguson and Alec. They're all closed. You can get through the drive through, but you can't walk in the store. And I, I'm wondering, do Mexicans only work in Mexican fast food restaurants?

[Joe Susher]

What's going on here? Really?

[Rookie]

I didn't know that.

[Joe Susher]

What do you know?

[Rookie]

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[Joe Susher]

I think Walls and Trump are the very same person addressing completely different audiences. Yeah, and the two audiences haven't caught on to the scam yet because both of them are failing to restore calm to this. The Trump audience believes we must enforce this law. If you're here illegally, we're going to find you and deport you and we're going to do whatever it takes. And there's a great mass of American humanity that applauds that. That's the way to go. The Trump voice is, we don't care about the law. We're not gonna help you enforce it. We're not gonna make life easier for ice. The Walz view, you said, I'm sorry, The Walls view is, we don't care what Trump is saying about the law. We're not going to adhere to the law. We're not going to help the law do its duty. Walls can probably get away with saying, I'm not. We're not breaking any laws. No, you might not be, but you're also bending over backwards to not accommodate the law. And that in itself results in its own set of problems. So you got two guys who are basically championing completely different causes in appealing to two different audiences, which haven't caught on yet to the destructive nature of both views. Now, the law against the law enforcing immigration could be accomplished in far better ways, but that would require Walls to help enforce the law in far better ways.

[Kenny Olson]

He'd rather fight Trump, but he, he.

[Joe Susher]

Might even be pinning his political future on this. That boy, I could, I could end up being the guy that rides in on the white horse. Cuz I'm really appealing to all the progressives who think no one's illegal on stolen land.

[Kenny Olson]

There's no other. There's no other possibility. That's what he's doing. Yeah, and he's a cornered rat, and that's why.

[Joe Susher]

But as the governor of the state of Minnesota, he has done nothing to calm the waters for the people he supposedly governs. Trump, on the other hand, doesn't give a rat's ass about the people Walls governs. That's not his problem. I agree. He's going to do what he has to do to appeal to the mass of humanity who applauds what he's doing. Walz thinks he's appealing to the mass of humanity who applauds what he's doing. Thus, what do you have? Flash bombs on the streets? Flash grenades? What are those things called? Flash.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, flash bombs.

[Rookie]

Flashbangs.

[Joe Susher]

Flashbangs. Flashbangs. So what's our immediate future? Flashbangs? Snowball fights? God forbid. Gunplay. This is where we are.

[Kenny Olson]

Stolen FBI trucks.

[Joe Susher]

What, they were stealing the guns?

[Kenny Olson]

A Latino gang member. I don't know how they know that, but.

[Joe Susher]

God, I saw a funny, funny video of. Of a Latino comedian whose name. I didn't catch his name, but he's. He's cool.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes. I think I know what you're gonna say.

[Joe Susher]

He's saying, you know, you people, you white Americans, you really fear Latinos. You know, what do you think, we're gonna come to your country and steal children and lock them in the basement? He says, that's your thing.

[Patrick]

And it went on.

[Joe Susher]

I can't remember what else he said, but it was just funny.

[Kenny Olson]

That wasn't the guy I saw. The guy I saw said, hey, white people, stop helping out the Latinos. If the tables were turned, we're not gonna help you guys, so just stop helping us. We're not.

[Chris Reivers]

We're out.

[Joe Susher]

Oh, man.

[John Hight]

I did find Joe. The. You asked the event as a whale and who was shot in the leg, what he was wanted for. DHS says that his name is Julio Cesar Sosa Salus.

[Joe Susher]

Right.

[John Hight]

Illegally entered the U. S. From Venezuela in 2022, has a conviction for driving without a license and a previous arrest for giving a false name to police.

[Joe Susher]

Okay. Are we to conclude that on this occasion he was in jail for giving a false name to police? That's his most recent.

[John Hight]

That's the most recent one they list? Yep.

[Joe Susher]

Okay. And he probably had a. Probably had a public defender. And, you know, they said, well, you know, he already did drive without a license, and now he's not telling the cops who he is. So you. You come Back I setting bail at five grand. Well, he can't afford that. Okay, I'll come back in 48 hours. In the meantime, the 48 hours expires, they release this guy onto the. Without first having informed ICE when they were going to release him.

[Kenny Olson]

Because that's not enough of a.

[Joe Susher]

That's a reasonable scenario.

[John Hight]

That's what it sounds like. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

He doesn't pose a threat. So ice or they're not going to call ICE and say we released him.

[Joe Susher]

And because there's a federal hold on him, ICE has some basic information to work with. They probably know where he lives or at least an address that he's been using. And they end up in that location Wednesday night. And the next thing you know, it's a circus.

[Kenny Olson]

Party time.

[Joe Susher]

And what's his last name? Silas Sosa. Silas has friends who come to his aid. They're out there with shovels and brooms and the ICE guys getting attacked. And the next thing you know, Silas Hosas. Silas is shot in the leg. The ICE agent is hurt. They both go to the hospital. They'll both be fine. They had no life threatening injuries. And then. And then there's the hours of lingering and chanting and yelling and screaming and the ICE agents pushing people back and the people pushing forward. And the news reporters are out there choking on the gas, sounding like they're coughing up a lung, remade for great TV as far as they were concerned. And all of that, it seems to me, all of that could have been avoided. That could have been avoided.

[Chris Reivers]

When you say come to his aid.

[Joe Susher]

He had buddies that I think ran.

[Chris Reivers]

To his aid, but I think that's way too kind of a phrase. This cop was ambushed.

[Joe Susher]

Well, okay. He had buddies who showed up to help him avoid arrest. How's that? Well, what do you want to say?

[Chris Reivers]

Ambush?

[Joe Susher]

Well, that's what happened.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, okay.

[Joe Susher]

Oh, I got a letter from some lady who won't listen anymore because she thinks I'm too mean to you. Mean to me? Yeah, that's part of the job.

[Kenny Olson]

Hey, lady.

[Joe Susher]

Hey, lady.

[Chris Reivers]

I've been here since my job description.

[John Hight]

We've all had our two.

[Kenny Olson]

Thanks for the fan mail.

[Chris Reivers]

Can I point something out? Speaking of a lady that emailed you, Linda sent in a great email. She said, reivers, I thought of you right away and I thought I'd bring this to your attention. KSTP News had a video of kids that participated in the school walkout yesterday. The ICE out.

[Joe Susher]

Right.

[Chris Reivers]

Remember we mentioned this yesterday on the show at the state capitol? Some of them carrying signs. I Had to laugh. One sign was being carried by a student who was proudly waving the sign around. Not sure I would have been so proud if I were that student. The sign read, abolish ice. A B O L S H. Oh, no. Well, we got a lot of misspelling on the failed.

[Kenny Olson]

A cat is a plant. Is he a double agent? Is he a Bolsh ice?

[Joe Susher]

The failed academy ain't what he used to be.

[Chris Reivers]

Linda, you're the best.

[Joe Susher]

Okay, here's the deal.

[John Hight]

Deal.

[Kenny Olson]

Here in my shirt.

[Joe Susher]

Here's the deal.

[Kenny Olson]

Hey, what do you got?

[Joe Susher]

Compounding this was the remarks from. Was it Tuesday? I had the soliloquy about our culture. Yes, our culture. I think it's indisputable. Our culture, meaning Minnesota, meaning most principally the seven county metro area, has comfortably embraced an anti law enforcement culture. Yes. Walls plays on that. He knows that. He's helped create it. He's a kingpin in the creation of that culture. So that's, that's why Walls continues to play to his mass of humans, because he has successfully been the leader of this anti law enforcement movement. And that's why Trump successfully plays to his mass of humans, because there are masses of humans in the United States who want law and order. I don't.

[Kenny Olson]

So we're at a chess match.

[Joe Susher]

So we're, we're, as I say, we. We face a near term scenario of more flashbangs, snowball fights and God forbid, drawing guns. This is a standoff.

[Kenny Olson]

So if we fast forward two to three weeks down the road, which ISIS said, we're going to have a heavy presence the next two to three weeks. What happens on week three and a half or four?

[Joe Susher]

I don't know. And Walz is also getting away with what he's getting away with because he is zeroing in on Trump as his enemy. And Trump is the enemy of progressives. Mysterious. Anyone else who doesn't believe in law enforcement. So it's a. I'm moving to Greenland. It's a conundrum. Wait.

[John Hight]

Got bad news for you, Russ.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, sorry. Iceland.

[Joe Susher]

Thou shalt not steal. Well, except for Greenland, unless it's a.

[Kenny Olson]

Big country that's not very populated.

[Joe Susher]

So that's where we are, folks. Have a great weekend and we'll see you later.

[Chris Reivers]

Speaking of that, I heard this yesterday and I was astounded by this. Do you guys know what the population of Greenland is?

[Joe Susher]

56,000 people.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, well, you ruined the fun.

[Joe Susher]

Well, I happen to know these things.

[John Hight]

We've all read it to you.

[Kenny Olson]

I did know that too. Yeah. I'm glad you had your revelation, but didn't know I was gonna make me aims. Karen's gonna call again.

[Joe Susher]

Do you need one of those?

[Chris Reivers]

I do. Are we going to.

[Joe Susher]

Johnny, I would like to.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Rookie]

Yes, please.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Susher]

And do not constitute investment advice. Chris Reivers Is a paid endorser. It's the end of the world as we know it and he feels fine. Joe Sushere, here's John Height.

[John Hight]

Well, thank you, Smiley Joe, this news is brought to you by the North American Banking Company. Should I feel melancholy about this? I just met and seeing this online the last couple days. They tore down my high school this week.

[Joe Susher]

Oh, yes, you should.

[Rookie]

Yes, and it's going to last a few years. They tore mine down three, three, four years ago and I'm still not over it.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm kind of surprised it was still standing.

[Joe Susher]

Mine, Mine was turned into a completely different school.

[John Hight]

No, mine just. It's rubble. I've seen pictures. It's nothing but rubble at this point.

[Rookie]

I had a chance right before the wrecking ball came to walk through it, relive all the memories.

[John Hight]

They did that last year but I was here, so I didn't make.

[Chris Reivers]

Kenny, did you go have one more smoke by your smoking spot or were you quitting by that?

[Rookie]

I did look for all my. All my favorite spots were still there.

[Joe Susher]

John, what was the name of your high school?

[John Hight]

Mandan Senior high School.

[Joe Susher]

Mandan, Clever name.

[John Hight]

Home of the Braves.

[Joe Susher]

Oh, boy. And they were allowed to use the name Braves right until the end.

[Chris Reivers]

Was it still in operation?

[John Hight]

It's still a man Damn Braves. No, they built a new high school.

[Rookie]

I checked the window in study hall that we used to sneak through in the middle of the night that was still unlocked. I want to check.

[Joe Susher]

I want to check more for my cartoon bubble. John, what year was your high school built?

[John Hight]

1953 or 54?

[Rookie]

I don't remember.

[Joe Susher]

That's brand new, practically.

[John Hight]

And the new high school apparently is gorgeous. The pictures I saw, it's got like three gyms, a swimming pool.

[Joe Susher]

Okay, okay, now you're getting somewhere. In your gym, was your gym only had one bank of seats, like a theater? And then you viewed the gym floor from your bank of seats?

[John Hight]

No, it actually had bleachers on both sides.

[Joe Susher]

Oh, I see. That's too modern.

[Kenny Olson]

Was it multi function, your gym? Multifunctional. As the auditorium, the gymnasium?

[John Hight]

Yes. Oh, yes. The air Force jazz band would come through, they'd play in the gym.

[Joe Susher]

Boy, okay.

[John Hight]

That kind of thing.

[Joe Susher]

Continue, please.

[Kenny Olson]

All right, and what is your populate?

[Joe Susher]

Didn't I just say continue?

[Kenny Olson]

How many? I just want to know how many were in your senior class.

[John Hight]

My senior class. I know this only because I just had my 50th reunion. Was 298.

[Joe Susher]

That's pretty, pretty healthy.

[John Hight]

Okay, yeah, there's 100 and 190 left or something like that.

[Joe Susher]

I don't know.

[John Hight]

Let's move on.

[Kenny Olson]

Shall we get going here?

[John Hight]

The news the FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of those responsible for the destruction and theft of government property in Minneapolis Wednesday night. According to the agency, several government vehic were vandalized and broken into and government property stolen after the FBI responded to the scene of an ICE involved shooting. Federal officials did not provide info about what items were taken, but U.S. attorney General Pam Body said federal agents have arrested a man accused of stealing armor and weapons from the FBI alleging that he's a member of the Latin King's gang. Follow up to a story we talked about Monday A federal judge says immigration agents actions were illegal when they busted open a Minneapolis family's door on Sunday and detained demand. However, after initially releasing Garrison Gibson, he's now been rearrested. On Sunday morning, Gibson's family said federal agents presented them with a warrant signed by an immigration officer and not a judge. What that means is they couldn't enter the home because you'd need a judicial warrant for that. They did enter the home. Gibson was arrested a citizen of Liberia, but he's been legally residing in Minnesota. Court documents show he's been in the US for the last two decades. Four years ago he was placed under supervision by US Immigration officials, but court records say at no point has he ever been deemed a danger to the community, a flight risk or has he been convicted of any new crime warranting any detention. His attorney quickly filed a lawsuit to get an immediate hearing for his release, claiming his supervision was unlawfully revoked and his fourth Amendment rights were violated. On Thursday afternoon the judge agreed. The ordered federal agents to release Gibson. His lawyer said that ICE released him last night but ordered him check in at the Whipple Federal Building this morning. When Gibson got there there he was arrested again. It's not immediately clear if his most recent arrest will also be challenged in court.

[Joe Susher]

It should have been mentioned in the first segment that the other problem contributing to this standoff is that both camps are not ever considering fact. They're only considering their political allegiance.

[Kenny Olson]

That's what's wrong.

[John Hight]

Yep, it's kind of America right now, isn't it?

[Joe Susher]

In general it's the entire country.

[John Hight]

A district court Judge blocked the U.S. department of Agriculture this week from stopping payments to Minnesota for federal food assistance unless the state recertified all households receiving snap benefits. Last month, Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins gave Minnesota 30 day deadline to conduct in person interviews for more than 100,000 households enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The deadline would have come around yesterday. In a lawsuit seeking to stop the impending funding freeze, Attorney General Keith Ellison called the demand utterly impossible. Even with advance notice, the preliminary injunction issued this week means about 440,000 Minnesotans will continue to get their normal SNAP benefits. In her December letter to Governor Wall, Secretary Rollins said the recertification push was necessary to root out any fraudulent beneficiaries. Rollins wrote more accurate certifications of eligibility for SNAP benefits will ensure those that need them receive assistance. A USDA spokesperson said the department does not comment on any pending litigation. Star Tribune Reporting for Twin Cities, real estate in 2025 ended badly despite the most favorable mortgage rates of the year. In December, homeowners across the 16 county metro area retreated, causing a 10% annual decline in the number of signed purchase agreements. And according to new data from the St. Paul Area association of Realtors, those pending sales fell to the lowest level for any month since January 2008, the beginning of the subprime mortgage crisis. Sellers were nearly as scarce. There was a 4% decline in new listings during the month, leaving buyers with the fewest options that they had in all of 2025. That scarcity of listings helped boost prices as buyers in many parts of the metro found themselves bidding against others. On average, sellers got only slightly less than their asking price and houses sold within just a couple of months. While a December downturn isn't unusual, the depth of the most recent decline injects new uncertainty in the market that so far has been resilient amid the economic.

[Joe Susher]

Instability in the US Carl Anthony Towns just sold his house. It was out in Medina, 4.5 mil. It was a nice place, nothing out of the ordinary, just a big house.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay?

[John Hight]

In international international news, President Trump threatening to impose tariffs this morning on countries that oppose his efforts to take control of Greenland. The president speaking at the White see.

[Joe Susher]

I think that's a ray of hope that there's still some SAP left in Minnesota who would pay 4.5 million to still live here.

[John Hight]

Here, the president said. I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security. Speaking during a health care event, Trump said the threat of tariffs against countries like France and Germany had helped him address other things, like high prices for prescription drugs. Trump said that approach could help him gain control of Greenland. Meanwhile, European troops were arriving in Greenland yesterday in a show of support as leaders were scrambling to respond to President Trump's threats To take over Greenland. Trump pushed ahead with his aim of, quote, conquering one European territory. Denmark's top diplomat said after a high stakes meeting in Washington on Wednesday. The president then sided with the man who invaded another, casting Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky rather than Russia's Vladimir Putin as the obstacle to peace on that continent.

[Joe Susher]

Can you imagine the US at war with Greenland? Wasn't there a Marx Brothers movie where they were the principals in a mythical Fredonia? Fredonia, you know, 12 people there.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, that's what was astounding me. So basically the same number of people that live in the country of Greenland live in Mankato.

[Joe Susher]

Right.

[Chris Reivers]

I mean, it's the same number.

[Kenny Olson]

But is it true that if we try to overtake Greenland, it's gonna. NATO's gonna implode and we're in big trouble with worldwide?

[Joe Susher]

I would think so.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay.

[John Hight]

France and Germany just sent their troops there yesterday to help Greenland.

[Joe Susher]

The French don't bother me.

[John Hight]

What?

[Kenny Olson]

They got the white flags?

[Joe Susher]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

Venezuelan.

[Joe Susher]

Wavy.

[Kenny Olson]

I was a cheap joke.

[John Hight]

It really was. Yeah. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Karina Muchado presented President Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize award when she met him it at the White House yesterday.

[Joe Susher]

Kenny, I got a plaque for winning the second best triumph last year at the triumph convention. I'm going to give it to you first. I know you don't have one.

[Rookie]

Who did you lose to?

[Joe Susher]

Oh, somebody in Kentucky.

[Rookie]

Yeah, I've got enough second place trophies. I don't need your garbage.

[Joe Susher]

All right.

[Chris Reivers]

Did they base that the winner of the tramp convention on who leaks the least amount of oil?

[Joe Susher]

No. Because we were on grass. You couldn't tell.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, you couldn't tell.

[Rookie]

Is your second place plaque prominently displayed anywhere?

[Joe Susher]

No, not really.

[Rookie]

My second place trophies are prominently displayed.

[Joe Susher]

I've never won anything except a second place Joe. In anything.

[Rookie]

In two motorcycle races and in two snowmobile races, I was the first loser. I'm pretty proud.

[Joe Susher]

I would like one of your motorcycle trophies.

[Rookie]

I'll trade.

[Joe Susher]

You deserve one.

[Rookie]

Yeah, I'll trade it for a plaque.

[Joe Susher]

Can you imagine this guy actually accepted it? It, I mean.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Joe Susher]

Are you. What? Hello?

[Rookie]

It is embarrassing.

[Joe Susher]

It's beyond embarrassing. The Nobel committee said, hey, hey, forget it. She won it. And that's how the record is going to stand.

[Kenny Olson]

How do you not have that tact to say? Nice.

[Joe Susher]

You're surprised? Even I was surprised at this one.

[Rookie]

I know a snowmobile racer that a couple of years ago when he took second, he protested first.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Rookie]

And then the next day he gave up his protest. After all his friends and family talked to him. Oh, never mind.

[Kenny Olson]

Nobody deserves the Nobel Prize more than me.

[Joe Susher]

Well, she did.

[John Hight]

The meeting between Trump and Machado came as the US Made its first sale of Venezuelan oil since capturing Nicolas Maduro earlier this month. Details of the sale, reportedly valued at 500 million, were not available immediately. Separately, the US seized its sixth sanctioned oil taker with alleged ties to Venezuela. The ship, known by a variety of names, including the Veronica, the Galileo, the Pegas, was owned and managed by a company in Russia.

[Joe Susher]

Is he gonna scratch her name off the plaque and put. Put his name on there and then hang it in the White House?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. Just like with a screwdriver, scratching it out?

[Joe Susher]

Yeah.

[Rookie]

What's the medal for a second? Is it silver?

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Rookie]

I actually have. One of the races I lost is a silver medal with a green sash.

[Joe Susher]

That's pretty cool.

[Kenny Olson]

I agree with what your comments were a couple of minutes ago. Second place is the first.

[Joe Susher]

Patrick. Today we are having him under pressure.

[John Hight]

To address affordability issues in the country. President Trump yesterday released his long awaited health care plan, urging Congress to pass measures that would codify steps his administration has already taken to try and lower drug costs and providing what a White House official called broad direction to back health savings accounts. The plan was short on specific details and left much of the direction of how to finalize it up to Congress. It amounted to a few paragraphs on a webpage released with a video of the President promoting what he called the Great health care Plan. The plan rejects efforts to extend the enhanced Affordable Care act benefits that expired at the end of the year and have been the subject of intense debate on Capitol Hill. Remember way back during the campaign for the presidency? Two years ago, the President, when asked about his health care plan, said he has the concepts of a plan. A paper with a 165 year history of editorial independence is now getting orders from the Pentagon about the direction it should take. We're talking about Stars and Stripes. Founded during the Civil War, published continuously Since World War II, its independence now appears under strain after Sean Parnell, a Pentagon spokesperson, posted a statement on X and said the paper would refocus its content away from woke distractions that siphon morale. Currently, the paper operates as a modern multimedia outlet, featuring a website, active social media, channels, podcasts, and a print edition distributed to troops around the world from Monday to Friday. Shortly after the statement was posted, Stars and Stripes journalist Corey Dixon reported that the Pentagon suggested Thursday it would take over content decision making of the paper, highlighting that the statement appears to challenge the historical Historic editorial, independence of Stars and Stripes.

[Joe Susher]

We didn't execute that Washington Post reporter yet, did we?

[John Hight]

Not yet. Okay.

[Joe Susher]

All right.

[John Hight]

I was going to ask you. There's a very good documentary about. Oh, what the hell's his name? Saya Hirsch on Netflix. Very interesting.

[Joe Susher]

Seymour Hirsch.

[John Hight]

Seymour, yeah. Deals with a lot of. Of that issue.

[Joe Susher]

He was quite the Vietnamese Vietnam reporter.

[John Hight]

He broke the My Lai. The whole My Lai story.

[Chris Reivers]

I feel I should probably offer this up because we talked about it a couple of days ago.

[Joe Susher]

There's breaking.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, somewhat. This is from Liz Collin. A couple of hours ago we talked about the number of Minneapolis police officers that have applied for the paid family leave program.

[Joe Susher]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

Multiple sources are now confirming to Alpha News that this number has climbed to more than 100 Minneapolis police officers. Keep in mind that's a force that's less than 500.

[Joe Susher]

Now, does the state have the ability to decline based on the need for public safety?

[Chris Reivers]

I don't know. But according to the.

[Joe Susher]

Do you blame any of those cops?

[Chris Reivers]

There are no provisions in the law to limit the number of parties from any one. Excuse me, from any one entity from being granted leave all at one time. And the requests go through hr. So the entity doesn't know who's going until they are gone.

[John Hight]

Huh.

[Chris Reivers]

And also about a hundred and about 150 Minneapolis Police officers are currently eligible to retire.

[Joe Susher]

Oh boy. We're gonna be one hell of a place to live here.

[Kenny Olson]

Jobs and become a cop.

[Rookie]

I think I talked to Seymour Hirsch. I think Yatesy and I interviewed him.

[John Hight]

That could be.

[Rookie]

I mean, late 80s. Why would that have been just a book? Probably a book tour.

[John Hight]

He had books out. Yeah. And he. He's followed, you know, every major story, basically.

[Rookie]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

So. Yep. College basketball world rocked Yesterday after the U.S. attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania unveiled indictments of 20 people alleged to have hatched a game fixing scheme that impacted at least 39 players, 29 games and 17 Division 1 men's basketball teams during the last two seasons. Wow. The indictment paints a detailed picture of how a high of high stakes gamblers, Marvis Fairley and Shane Hennan worked with trainers, an AAU coach and a pair of former D1 players to recruit current players to fix game outcomes and both first half and full game spreads. Players were incentivized with bribes that the indictments said ranged from 10 to 30 grand per game. Results that gamblers often bet well north of $100,000 on. For the most part, the scandal steered clear of the sport's biggest, most successful programs. Instead, the gamblers recruited players from mid and low level schools. The lone high major team involved in the indictment was DePaul. With allegations that players tried to fix at least three games. By then, DePaul was already experiencing one of the worst seasons by a high major team in recent college basketball history. They finished the season 3 and 29 and did not win a single Big east game. Partnered with head coach Tony Stubblefield in late January, that Context tells how three Blue Demon players, DeSean Nelson, Jalen Terry and Macabre Etienne were allegedly convinced to join the scheme. In the first game in the indictment, the gamblers bet on Georgetown to cover the first half spread. The team's point guard was scoreless in the first half and Georgetown covered easily. Terry then scored 16 points in the second half to help DePaul nearly come back and win the game. To illustrate how invested the players were in the scheme. In a different game against St. John's the indictment says Eddie and was texting with the gamblers mid game about plans to keep the ball away from a player not involved in the scheme who was playing. Well.

[Chris Reivers]

There was Johnny. Did you see the story where the NBA guys that got busted a couple of months ago? One of the guys, the reason why he was caught was was he kept betting the over on the number of turnovers he'd have.

[Joe Susher]

Oh God.

[Chris Reivers]

So there was a video clip of showing him just basically going, throwing it.

[Joe Susher]

To the other team.

[John Hight]

One of those high stakes gamblers. Chris was involved actually in the NBA scheme too. So he was involved in both the college and the NBA.

[Patrick]

One man.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I wish we had that in radio. Don't they bet on radio?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, you could throw a segment.

[Kenny Olson]

What's the over under that? Reavers and Rookie are in trouble today. It's seven. Oh, whoops. Why isn't Rookie talking today? He took the under.

[John Hight]

That ailing astronaut came back to earth with three others yesterday, ending their space station mission more than a month early. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle of the night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego. Less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited the ISS, their first stop was a hospital for an overnight stay. It was an unexpected finish to a mission that began in August and left the orbiting lab with only one American and two Russians on board. NASA and SpaceX said they would try to move up the launch of a fresh crew of four. Liftoff right now. Is targeted for mid February.

[Rookie]

I missed it. John. Was it a guy or a gal?

[Joe Susher]

They were sick.

[John Hight]

They still did not identify who had.

[Rookie]

The medical issue could have been morning sickness.

[John Hight]

I don't.

[Joe Susher]

John, thank you.

[John Hight]

No, Kenny, you're welcome.

[Chris Reivers]

Thank you, Kenny.

[John Hight]

I got it.

[Chris Reivers]

That was fun, buddy. We're nuts, all of us. You know that? We are nuts and we are nuts. Amen.com made the stop. I had to go to Cub Food. Sorry, Mike. Fratelloni. You weren't a convenient stop for me this morning. I had to stock up on the cinnamon toffee peanuts for the kiddos for the weekend. And you know what? It's a wonderful family owned operation making quality handmade small batch snacks right here in the great state of Minnesota. The cashew is a big hit in the Sushiri household. The milk chocolate almonds, I personally love the maple bourbon toffee almonds. Those are fantastic. But you can see their entire lineup on the website, which is wearenutsmn.com the wasabi savory snack mix. Also wasabi. It's got a little kick.

[John Hight]

Got a little kick.

[Chris Reivers]

But you know what, it's pretty good. Let's see, what else are we gonna feature here today? I don't know. Like I said, the cinnamon ones, the hot nuts are also. I didn't think I'd like those, but I mixed those with the regular toffee peanuts.

[Kenny Olson]

Let's go get some almonds.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, the almonds are pretty good too. But Fratelloni's, hardwood and garden stores, Cub Foods, County Market, Lunds and Barleys, Kowalski's. Who am I forgetting? Kwik Trip Mac's Hardware. The list is growing because that's how fantastic these snacks are from wearenuts and weearnutsmn.com, but if you can't make it there, place your order online and let them know that you heard about them here on the garagelogic podcast.

[Joe Susher]

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[Patrick]

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[Joe Susher]

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[Patrick]

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[Joe Susher]

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[Patrick]

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[Joe Susher]

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[Patrick]

And book your no cost, no obligation.

[Joe Susher]

48 minute consultation, 952-925-5608. You'll be glad that you did meet with Josh and tell him that Ricey sent you. You know what, Pat? Yes, sir, we have five chances for weather, counting the college championship game.

[Patrick]

Well, not is.

[Joe Susher]

What.

[Patrick]

What are we going to have in Miami?

[Joe Susher]

They could have a big rain, but you got got a Buffalo. I don't like.

[Patrick]

I like. I like football and snow, but I don't like it in Rainbow. You can't see the numbers. And.

[Joe Susher]

All right, Buffalo. Yeah, Buffalo at Denver there's a chance.

[Patrick]

Oh, you can get rain. It's no there.

[Joe Susher]

San Francisco at Seattle, that'd be a rain chance.

[Patrick]

They got the open stadium there too.

[Joe Susher]

That's what I said. You got Houston at New England. There's a chance.

[Patrick]

Oh yeah.

[Joe Susher]

And Rams at Chicago. There's a chance.

[Patrick]

Oh God.

[Joe Susher]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

That's a night game. And did you see the daytime 5:30pm Daytime high in Chicago is going to be 10.

[Joe Susher]

I know we're having a cold show.

[Chris Reivers]

He's going to be a chilly one at Soldier Field.

[Joe Susher]

That's the kind of weather where Richard Royce would have sent letters to the Rams and said, look at this, look at that. What do you think?

[Patrick]

Yeah. Dear Dick, what happened to your. What happened to your great quarterback Roman's ex wife. That was the highlight of the old man's life. After the Super Bowl, Roman Gabriel's wife sent him a letter with the picture of Joe Cap being let off the field. I said I should I got tell that story one more time because he said it. Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles, California.

[Joe Susher]

It got there.

[Patrick]

You gotta have some address here. You can't just said that. And it got there. So that's when you could rely on the. That's why the post office didn't come up with reasons to throw your mail out. They came out with reasons to deliver it right.

[Chris Reivers]

Patrick, speaking of football, I feel that I owe you an apology because I cannot believe I did not call you the other day so that we could celebrate the 25th anniversary of 41 Donuts. Since we were both in attendance.

[Patrick]

It was. It was. Yeah, I was a little misty thinking about that. I most fun I ever had at a football game. 3, 4, 0 at halftime. The quips coming from press box row were unbelievable. And the Vikings officials were standing and sitting up behind us just looking claws. And Kevin Seifert, who's probably the most respectful, finest journalist I ever worked with, he said look at was why it looks like a dog chasing a frisbee down. They fake throw him a frisbee. Even Seaford was making smart ass pat.

[Chris Reivers]

It got so bad in the stands and trust me, we did not have good seats. We were about one row away from touching the top of the stadium. The Giants fans bought us a beer in the second half.

[Kenny Olson]

They felt so bad.

[Chris Reivers]

That's how bad they felt for us.

[Patrick]

It was what I remember, that guy. What I remember about that game, too, was before the game, I was walking towards the press box up there high, and this guy collapsed in. Out in the hallway, right? And all these Giant. This guy was there, and there was somebody trying to attend there. And all these Giants fans are just.

[Joe Susher]

Stepping over and I Gotta get to 232.

[Patrick]

Roast guy was there. They were. You know, nobody stepped on it. They, they. They were nice enough to step over him. They were.

[Rookie]

There you go.

[Patrick]

They were not.

[Joe Susher]

Hey, let's go through these. Let's go through these. Buffalo at Denver. Buffalo.

[Patrick]

I hope so, but I. I hope so, too. I think it's close, but it's going to be up to Josh to do it. I. I think. Yeah, let's go with Buffalo. All right.

[Joe Susher]

Buffalo. San Francisco at Seattle.

[Patrick]

Well, Darnold might be hurt. Yeah, you got some problems, but the.

[Chris Reivers]

Niners don't have anybody left.

[Patrick]

Yeah, that's right.

[Joe Susher]

Yeah.

[Patrick]

And Seattle didn't have to play last week. All right, let's go see probably Seattle because their defense.

[Joe Susher]

And now we turn to Sunday. Houston at New England. I'm going New England.

[Chris Reivers]

That's going to be the best game of the weekend, I think.

[Patrick]

Yeah, I. I like Houston a lot. I like them defensively. But New England had to play better than they did last week, that's for sure.

[Joe Susher]

I'm still going New England. Rams at Chicago. The Rams. I'm going to go Bears. I'm going Bears.

[Patrick]

If it's going to be 10 degrees. You know, the Rams, you think they're really good, but then they end up having fight like heck to beat a bad team last week.

[Joe Susher]

That's a good point. Yeah.

[Patrick]

I didn't. I know one thing. I'm glad I won't be there with those people.

[Joe Susher]

Oh.

[Patrick]

Because they would once again question my girth and sexuality.

[Joe Susher]

Plus, they all look like they've escaped from a zoo. Just terrible.

[Patrick]

Worse. I haven't been there for 15 years. They've gotten worse.

[Joe Susher]

Oh, it is worse.

[Patrick]

Drunker. It was unbelievable.

[Joe Susher]

And Monday, I'm taking Indiana over Miami.

[Chris Reivers]

Did you see the secondary market for.

[Joe Susher]

I don't think I'm on a limb, am I?

[Chris Reivers]

No, no. The Indiana should win handily. It's going to cost you about four grand to get into that game.

[Patrick]

Really?

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Patrick]

And 80% of them be Indiana.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Joe Susher]

Where. Where Is that ballpark the Joe the Hard Rock Stadium off the. Is it up as far as Fort Lauderdale?

[Patrick]

No, it's about halfway. All right, it's halfway.

[Joe Susher]

Yeah. So it's.

[Patrick]

Yeah, it's up there somewhere. They. Did. They played baseball there for. No. Did they play baseball there for a while?

[Joe Susher]

Two Stanley Cups that went to a team that has a rink somewhere in a strip mall by the Everglades. Maurice Richard is rolling over in his grave.

[Patrick]

You know, I'm glad you brought that up because, you know, I've been predicting a Stanley cup for the while. Well, I was at my first game of the year last night. I've canceled my. My cab.

[Joe Susher]

What has happened to them lately?

[Patrick]

Wallstead couldn't start a stop a beach ball last night for one thing. And then Caprio Kirill, Capri stuff didn't score, but he also didn't have a shot. He got three goals in the last 13 games or something like that. I don't know what's going on with boy.

[Joe Susher]

The boys have fallen on hard times, but watch him recover now on the road. They like the road.

[Patrick]

Yeah, that Hughes is fun to watch. Oh, man alive.

[Joe Susher]

You know what he can do, Pat? He can do stuff.

[Patrick]

He can handle the puck.

[Joe Susher]

He can do stuff.

[Patrick]

Got it about.

[John Hight]

He's.

[Patrick]

He got. He has the puck in his possession one minute more than any other player in the league.

[Joe Susher]

That's because he might be smarter than many players in the league and he's not going to throw it away way.

[Patrick]

Yeah, yeah, that's. That's probably true, but God, he. Look, he's something.

[Joe Susher]

It's.

[Patrick]

It.

[Rookie]

We really miss Ecker. We need him back. Does anybody know the extent of his injury?

[Joe Susher]

I don't.

[Patrick]

They just keep saying, yeah, can't eat lower body. But you're right, they do.

[Joe Susher]

He gives.

[Patrick]

He gives them an edge. He's a. He's a tough bird and I. I don't know. He keeps getting. He missed a hunk last year too, though, didn't he?

[Joe Susher]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, he did.

[Joe Susher]

He.

[Rookie]

Around the net.

[Joe Susher]

He.

[Rookie]

He really. There's no good way to put this. He really pisses the other team off. I love that so much.

[Patrick]

I was gonna say the same thing. Nobody likes to play against him because he's big and.

[Joe Susher]

And he's a Swede, isn't he? Is that a Swede?

[Patrick]

Swede, yeah.

[Joe Susher]

Well, that's rare for a Swede to be that orner.

[Patrick]

Oh, they've gotten tougher in their old age. Back.

[Joe Susher]

Back in the day, there were too many Swedes on The team?

[Patrick]

Yeah, Morganti. You know what's wrong with this Swedish team? They got too many Swedes.

[Chris Reivers]

Pat, you know what else we have tomorrow, don't you?

[Patrick]

By the way, Joe, I gotta imagine. Remember the first cup, Swede Noted. UL Samuelson. Yeah, Samuelson was the first stuff. Sweet.

[Joe Susher]

Go ahead.

[Patrick]

Chris.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Patrick]

Oh, wow.

[Joe Susher]

Outdoor hockey.

[Chris Reivers]

We got hockey day tomorrow in Hastings.

[Joe Susher]

Tomorrow?

[Chris Reivers]

It's tomorrow.

[Joe Susher]

Who's playing? The Raiders?

[Chris Reivers]

I don't know. But I was going to ask you.

[Kenny Olson]

The Academy.

[Chris Reivers]

Is our guy Manny Hill on the PA for that game?

[Patrick]

Could be. Hey, by the way, they got a beautiful. I guess they did a beautiful job of building that ice rink out there. Somebody was telling me last night at the Wild Game game that they did a great job with it.

[Chris Reivers]

Is it right where? The football field? On the football field?

[Patrick]

I don't really know, but they said they did a terrific job.

[Kenny Olson]

Hastings girls versus Park. Hastings boys versus East Ridge. Rock Ridge versus the Academy. And it is broadcast on Bally Sports north, ending with the Wild game.

[Joe Susher]

Well, the wild is at 11:30 in the morning. It went up there. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Tomorrow.

[Joe Susher]

Yes. Wild. I'm sorry. At Buffalo. 11:30am At Buffalo tomorrow, the Wild. So how do they fit into hockey?

[Patrick]

Are you guys there? You guys sure? It's this week.

[Kenny Olson]

So this is. Well, the dates are the 17th to the 24th. The main event, it says, does say January 24th. So the wild must be playing later on on the 24th.

[Joe Susher]

January 24th is a Monday.

[Patrick]

One of the games in Hastings. Saturday, I think.

[Chris Reivers]

I thought I read that they were.

[Joe Susher]

Tomorrow.

[John Hight]

The actual Hockey Day is January 24th.

[Joe Susher]

That's a Monday.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, so we gotta build up to it. But the. Those. Those games that I just mentioned are on January 24th.

[John Hight]

Huh?

[Joe Susher]

Is that MLK day?

[Kenny Olson]

No, MLK is Monday.

[Chris Reivers]

It's Monday.

[Joe Susher]

Is that.

[Patrick]

We don't have people completely confused now. Well, I never will.

[John Hight]

Be a test.

[Kenny Olson]

Go to hockey dayaman.com.

[Joe Susher]

Can I. Can I. Can I enter? Can I. Further complication.

[John Hight]

Here we go.

[Joe Susher]

Why would you have Hockey Day on a Monday?

[Chris Reivers]

The 24th is a Saturday, Joe.

[Kenny Olson]

So here, Saturday, the Minnesota Warriors.

[Joe Susher]

Hell, I'm looking at a calendar here.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, that's the Star Tribune. That might have been a paper you received a week ago.

[Joe Susher]

Wait. Yeah. That's a Saturday.

[John Hight]

Thanks, Joe.

[Kenny Olson]

Tomorrow at 8, the Minnesota warriors versus the Minnesota warriors at 10. Rochester Century. John Marshall versus Rochester Mayo. That's boys 1pm Lakeville versus Maple Grove. That's girls Wayzetta and Rogers at 4. And Rosemount, the Irish versus Holy Angels at 7pm Tomorrow. And then there's all sorts of games during the week.

[Patrick]

Oh, so they made it hockey week in Minnesota.

[Kenny Olson]

That is. That is correct.

[Joe Susher]

We've really screwed this up.

[Kenny Olson]

Hockey DayMN.com.

[Joe Susher]

Yeah, yeah. Find it on your own. Yeah, you're on your own for this.

[Chris Reivers]

For information.

[Patrick]

I gotta tell you a quick tale. Last night I met my first wild game of the year. You got the excuse, you know, out of action there for month. Yeah, everything. But I got to go down and say hello to Leopold, you know, at the end of the first period, just to say hello. I'm going to talk to him for two minutes. So I'm waiting. It's one. Oh, I'm waiting at the elevator. It's too old. Boom. They score while I'm waiting at the elevator. I get in the elevator, I walk over, go to the suite. Somebody comes out and I said, ask Craig if he'll come out and say hello. He comes out, I don't know that it's three. Oh, they got a score. They gave up a goal while I was in the elevator.

[Joe Susher]

Oh, no.

[Patrick]

So the owner wasn't in too good a mood. Fastest two goals on home ice in wild history. Eight seconds.

[Joe Susher]

Really?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, it was eight plus. And then they got it at one point. Six left the wall. Did not have a.

[Rookie]

Did he ever get pulled? Did they pull him finally?

[Patrick]

Yeah, they pulled him after two. Yeah.

[Rookie]

Okay.

[Patrick]

They allegedly. They played him, Kenny, because he was bad against New Jersey and they wanted to rebuild his confidence.

[John Hight]

Work out for you.

[Patrick]

They finally said, the hell you know what's sad about hockey, though? Like, he was the coach signs. He was asked about Wallstead. After the game, Russo asked him some elaborate question about the soft goal he gave up and. Well, I'm not going to talk about specifics. That was never a problem for hockey coaches. You know, even 10 years ago, they loved telling you how horse crap one of their players was. It was great.

[Kenny Olson]

His motivation.

[Patrick]

Yes, it was great. You gotta call them out. And you know, Mike Keaton had eight. Eight different teams. Eight different teams. He never said a good word about a player in his whole life. They all stunk.

[Joe Susher]

Who's the guy, the wild hat that went to Columbus because he just got bounced from Columbus. Dean. Yeah.

[Patrick]

Nice. Nice guy. He just got fired. I was talking the last year he's here at opening day and. And Dean said something. Well, second job. And I was. I said, dean, don't worry. You get fired there, you'll have three or four more. Don't worry. Well, you Know whoever gets fired now before the end of the year, don't be surprised if Dean's the replacement.

[Chris Reivers]

Says, don't look at the bright side. If you get gassed, you'll get another.

[Joe Susher]

Don't worry about it.

[Patrick]

This is hockey.

[Joe Susher]

They just keep shuffling around around.

[Rookie]

It's like being a consultant. You're. You're a specialist.

[Joe Susher]

You should get paid more.

[Patrick]

Boudreaux got fired at 10am in Washington from the Capitals one year. The next day was in Anaheim. Being the new coach of the doc, they put him on a plane that night. I miss that fat little guy.

[Chris Reivers]

God, Pat, there's a thing that keeps surfacing every time the Wild screws something up and it's him just throwing the biggest F word you've ever seen. And the caption reads, darn.

[Patrick]

Well, they have the old clip of him covered in to talk to the Washington team. They're between appearance.

[Joe Susher]

Nobody can do that like a hockey coach.

[Patrick]

The nicest thing he called anybody was an MFer.

[Rookie]

Kind of like Sid, actually.

[Patrick]

There's no greater documentary on sports, it's now 10 or 12 years old, than that one before the New Year's Day game when you had Tortorelli and Lavalette, the two biggest jackasses ever. And they. They did it like three weeks before they go to other games. And it's. It's. There's more cussing than that. That our documentary than. I think it was a four parter. And it was. It's fabulous. It's still around.

[Joe Susher]

Well, root for bad weather this weekend, son. All righty. All righty.

[Patrick]

I'm rooting for Reaver's team. I like to see Josh. Josh Allen deserves to win a Super Bowl.

[Joe Susher]

Yes, he does. This could be his year.

[Chris Reivers]

And I have it on good authority, Patrick, that if they do advance, there will be viewing parties at Highmark for both the AFC Championship and the Super Bowl.

[Patrick]

Oh, boy. Don't. You're not drive out for a.

[Joe Susher]

He's got to drive out there to watch it on tv. All right, Patrick. Thank you. Thank you. I'm. What?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, yeah, go ahead.

[Joe Susher]

If you.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm really.

[Joe Susher]

I don't know.

[John Hight]

I'm.

[Joe Susher]

I'm looking forward to. Yeah, well, here.

[Chris Reivers]

This is the best weekend of football of the entire year.

[Joe Susher]

Well, it is, but how do you do it? I'm gonna check. I need some snow.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm not gonna watch a game unless it's snowing. I don't like rain.

[Patrick]

I gotta.

[Kenny Olson]

I can't see the numbers.

[Joe Susher]

Too much mud.

[Patrick]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Hey, hey. Get that.

[Chris Reivers]

Who's got the ball.

[Patrick]

God bless you, Gabe.

[Joe Susher]

Well, I'm glad I'm not in Florida. 63 degrees down around Naples.

[Rookie]

What time is it down there?

[Kenny Olson]

Bring in your pets.

[Joe Susher]

2 o'.

[John Hight]

Clock.

[Joe Susher]

75% chance.

[Chris Reivers]

You actually answer.

[John Hight]

Oh, God.

[Joe Susher]

He actually gave the time. I gave him the time. Well, Kitty, I have to just.

[Chris Reivers]

Rookie Joe, good job.

[Kenny Olson]

Well played by the. Well played.

[Joe Susher]

Oh, I don't want to talk anymore about the frog.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, Ice. Let's bring it up to round it down.

[Kenny Olson]

What's going on?

[Joe Susher]

What are they doing now? We're in the middle of a urination match.

[Kenny Olson]

Who they got?

[Joe Susher]

And that's our guy.

[Chris Reivers]

Didn't even bring up Ice or Trump or anything in his weekly sports report. I'm proud of him.

[Kenny Olson]

Hey, how about that Mike Lindell?

[Joe Susher]

Well, he might as well win at this point. Doesn't make any difference.

[Kenny Olson]

I saw one poll. He's in the lead, unfortunately.

[Joe Susher]

Well, that can't be true. But I don't doubt you.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, 16 votes.

[Chris Reivers]

Closing the poll, right?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, 12 votes.

[Joe Susher]

You know, if you want to follow the traveling linemans on their world travels, you go to worldwide waftage.com. they're in Kaiwaka. Kaiwaka, New Zealand, right now where it's probably very warm.

[Chris Reivers]

What time is it there?

[Joe Susher]

I don't know. It was on this day.

[Chris Reivers]

Joe, today is January 16th.

[Joe Susher]

Well, it was on this day in 1874 that Wilmer was incorporated. It was called a Village in 1869. The township was named for. For Leon Wilmer, a Belgian agent for European investors in the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. Wilmer became a City in 1901. This is the part where you usually say they have a pretty good townball team.

[Chris Reivers]

No, they have an independent baseball team.

[Kenny Olson]

I will say they do have a talk. Juggernaut. KWLN is there this one 8.26am tomorrow in Auckland, New Zealand.

[Joe Susher]

Well, it's already tomorrow.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[John Hight]

Yeah, it's 73 degrees right now in Kiowa.

[Chris Reivers]

Hey, email the lineman. Get the winning Powerball number since it's tomorrow.

[John Hight]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Joe Susher]

Please say this has always been one of my favorite this days in history coming up because it really, really didn't deserve to be made a day in history. But it did on this day, Jan.16 in 1958. What a world we must have had in 1958, because it was reported that the Winona Daily News announced that 36 chinchillas, along with feed cages and other supplies, had been donated by a student and his dad to the biology department of St. Mary's College.

[Kenny Olson]

What year was this?

[Joe Susher]

1958.

[Kenny Olson]

I bet. It was probably my grandpa Peter Mahalski.

[Joe Susher]

I bet. Did he have a chinchilla farm?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Joe Susher]

And. And the chinchillas were to be used. He didn't, did he?

[Kenny Olson]

Right off a fifth, right just around from St. Cashmere's and East.

[Joe Susher]

Chinchillas were to be used.

[Rookie]

Did they dissect them and eat them in research?

[Kenny Olson]

Not all of them went to Uncle Gail's. He had an appliance store down in.

[Rookie]

You got a double boil, those chinchillas?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, we found that out. We found that out early.

[Joe Susher]

And the chinchillas were to be used in research on improving the breed.

[Kenny Olson]

Hard to catch.

[Joe Susher]

Whose fur.

[Kenny Olson]

Whose fur leashes on them as they're.

[Rookie]

Cruising around like little marmots?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Joe Susher]

Thank you. Whose fur is often made into expensive coats for women?

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, Grandma Gerd had very nice coats. And every once in a while.

[Joe Susher]

Were the feet still on them?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Joe Susher]

I never knew what those things were. Those make things that had the feet still on them.

[Kenny Olson]

You want to kind of shave down the toenails.

[Joe Susher]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

But other than that, they look good when you're going to a polka wedding.

[Joe Susher]

I see on this day in Minnesota Sports. So your uncle really didn't have a chill?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, it was Grant. Uncle Gail had the appliance, so that was for real. But Grandpa Peter, he did not. I didn't know that. What was the name of this man?

[Chris Reivers]

What was the name of the appliance store?

[Kenny Olson]

Gail's Appliance. Very clever.

[Joe Susher]

Very novel.

[Kenny Olson]

Gail Schultz. Gail's Appliance. He was my godfather. And you know what? They didn't show up to my baptism because they were probably playing golf.

[Joe Susher]

No, they're probably working on a stove or something.

[Kenny Olson]

So Grandpa Red stood in.

[Patrick]

Oh.

[Kenny Olson]

And the priest says, what is your name? And instead of saying Matthew Robert mi. Said, George Elmer Madoc. May not have been.

[Joe Susher]

He was half in the bag.

[Rookie]

Mostly in the bag. All the way in the bag.

[Joe Susher]

On this day of Sports Disappointment History, January 16th. Well, on this day in 1970, there was NFL realignment.

[Chris Reivers]

Was that the merger?

[Joe Susher]

I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

That's a fun fact.

[Joe Susher]

On this day in the year 2000, the Vikings lost a. Lost a divisional playoff game to the Rams. 49, 37. During the game, Randy Moss squirted an official with a water bottle and was fined 40 grand. Yep. Can't do that.

[Kenny Olson]

Handed to him by Sammy Casalenda, was it? Yeah, yeah. Sammy handed him the water bottle and.

[Joe Susher]

He squirted the ref. On this day, Jan.16, in 2005, the Vikings lost a divisional playoff game to the Eagles, 27 to 14. So these are real sports disappointments.

[Kenny Olson]

They are. They're bringing me back and I don't like it.

[Joe Susher]

I just, I can't get over the statistic I heard last week. It's just an amazing one. In four super bowl losses, the Vikings never scored a first half point. Isn't that amazing? Isn't that.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't like to think. I like to turn it around.

[Joe Susher]

Dedication.

[Kenny Olson]

It is dedication by the offense.

[Joe Susher]

Yes. Wow. That is amazing. Thank you, G Ellers. And just, just, you know, there's two war. There's a war going on. You know, you got one side and the other side. Be careful, streets. Be careful.

[Chris Reivers]

Have a care.

[Kenny Olson]

You think that'll change things? My proximity?

[Joe Susher]

Have a care. No.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Josh Arnold]

Right now I'm seeing sell, sell, sell. And there are only a few places where it's buy, buy, buy. But most of most of today's action I think is from large investors, maybe small investors concerned about a long holiday weekend and wanting to increase their cash cash position. This has happened frequently on we'll say long weekends where investors move to the sideline and then if I add in options expiration we get this added added benefit. This I'll say despite some reasonably good news this week on earnings, just a lot of profit taking and many stocks are trading down to the largest option position regardless of the company's prospects. Now next week we do have some more earnings coming including from Netflix and a few other tech names we'll start reporting following week. After that it starts getting a little bit more hot and heavy until we come to the end of the month with Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Meta reporting in the last last week. So we're also in, we'll say a semi quiet period where companies are not going to be coming out with a lot of new news and that creates some uncertainty on the part of some investors. So the answer is is sell first, wait to see what the earnings report is and then try to jump back in on that on that news. Plus there's again continued concerns about international affairs. What may or may may not happen in Iran, Greenland, Venezuela or, or China. So a lot of we'll say macro along with the micro and that's one of the reasons that I continue to say in terms of the asset allocation model, model that I use with with my clients of keeping up to 30% in cash both for safety and to take advantage of some of the pullbacks that will inevitable inevitably occur. And that does give you the opportunity to pick up companies, good companies on a pullback. Now one thing that could also be impacting technology shares and technology indices is the negative action in software stock which has been ongoing, we'll say for many months. We've seen companies from salesforce.com to Adobe to ServiceNow, to some extent even Microsoft being sold as concerns come up that their product could be replicated a lot cheaper through artificial intelligence. Now many of the straight up artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI, Graphic and and others have not gone public and are privately held. And the belief is that sometime later this year that those companies will be going public and there'll be tremendous demand for them. So that is just another bit of caution. On the flip side, hardware related companies, whether it be Taiwan Semiconductor, Nvidia, Marvell, Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Material, Seagate, Micron and Western Digital have all seen their shares move higher as I do believe that money has left the software space for some of these names as demand for we'll say the hardware, artificial intelligence, whether it's in memory, memory devices, equipment or semiconductors and it was so forth are exceeding supply. Add on to that a recent announcement that the US And Taiwan have completed a trade deal that would have Taiwan investing about $250 billion into the United States. Most of that's going to be led by Taiwan Semiconductor expanding their manufacturing facilities in the United States. Taiwan Semi, as I said before earlier this week, reported better than expected earnings as demand for manufacturing and chip is very significant both in terms of the hyperscalers which would include Amazon, Google Meta among others and the need for chips for smartphones affecting the likes of Apple and Samsung is is big and is only getting bigger. And at this, at this point in time, Taiwan Semi has hit a new a new high and probably be one of those companies that you would look for as a backbone for, I'll say, for manufacturing.

[Chris Reivers]

Excellent advice as always, Mr. MoneyTalk. You heard him G elers. Now is the time for you to pick up the phone and make the call for that free 48 minute financial consultation again with zero obligation. And you do that just like I did by dialing 9 5-925-5608 where you always get straight talk and never ever sugarcoated advice. Josh, as always, thank you so much for the time and the chat. Enjoy the rest of your day, have a fantastic weekend and we will talk to you again next week.

[Josh Arnold]

Look forward to it.

[Joe Susher]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Susher]

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