12/4 Garage Logic gets into the nitty gritty of where this country happens to be at the moment

Summary

Garage Logic Podcast Summary – December 4, 2025

Episode: “Garage Logic gets into the nitty gritty of where this country happens to be at the moment”

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode of Garage Logic, featuring host Joe Soucheray (“The Mayor”) and the regular cast (Chris Reavers, Kenny Olson, John Height, and “the Rookie”), embodies a classic blend of homespun Minnesota humor, small-town anecdote, and pointed social commentary. The primary thread weaves between a lighthearted debate on the etiquette of "chunk kicking" (removing snowy/slushy build-up from vehicles) and a deep, somber analysis of concerns regarding American cultural assimilation—specifically referencing the Somali community in Minnesota, the fate of American traditions, and broader anxieties about societal drift. Sprinkled throughout are local news, guest interviews, and reflections on the current state of politics, local governance, and cultural change.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Chunk Kicking Debate: Minnesota Winter Ritual or Moral Breach?

Segment Start: 01:32

• Background: The episode starts with a discussion on whether it's acceptable to kick road slush "chunks" off someone else’s car. Joe admits to chunk kicking, prompting a deluge of listener emails and a lively roundtable debate.
• Ethics & Etiquette:
  • Many listeners consider kicking someone else’s chunk a moral violation—a “rite of passage” that belongs to the vehicle owner.
  • Concerns about property rights, social satisfaction, and even potential legal or physical altercations are raised.
  • Listeners react humorously but with conviction:
    • “That would be like going into the neighbor’s garage and taking something of theirs without asking.” – Dave McGuire [06:57]
    • “I am not a monster. I wouldn’t steal that satisfaction from anyone.” – Jay [06:57]
    • “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s chunk.” – Joe’s wry response [06:57]
• Joe’s Defense: Joe tries to clarify that he only kicked stranger’s chunks in the past, drawing blurry lines between public and private spaces, yet concedes to reformation pressure:
  • “I am guilty as charged. I will have to reform. I'm wrong. I'm sorry if you were offended.” [30:39]
• Consensus: The group informally agrees it’s best to leave a man’s chunk alone unless you have permission, solidifying a new Garage Logic etiquette standard.

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2. Snowblower vs Shoveling: Mandate or Manhood?

Segment: 14:48–17:32

• Listener Mark from Wisconsin asks if there’s an obligation to use a snowblower if you own one.
• Takeaways:
  • No, it’s not mandatory. There’s personal satisfaction in shoveling—sometimes merely for exercise or pride.
  • A nod to “the cylinder index” (the joy and prowess associated with using gas-powered equipment).
  • Affirmation: “[Shoveling] was merely just to get some steps in.” – Joe [16:14]

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3. Local Culture & Assimilation: A Soul-Searching Turn

Segment Start: 32:40, In-Depth: 40:00–101:00

• The United States, Assimilation & Identity
  Joe pivots sharply to reflect on why, in his view, children under 10 will “never know the United States that we knew.” This is triggered by recent news surrounding large-scale fraud in pandemic aid programs—especially implicated in Minnesota’s Somali community.

  • Ilhan Omar on CNN: Audio clips of Rep. Ilhan Omar responding to the pandemic fraud in MN. The hosts critique her as “deflecting” and avoiding accountability, blaming lack of “guardrails” due to rapid implementation.
  • Assimilation Concerns:
    • Joe asserts, controversially, that the Somali community (and newer immigrant groups) are not assimilating as earlier waves of immigrants did (e.g., Irish, Norwegians).
    • He laments what he see as a loss of shared civic identity, replaced by pockets of Balkanization.
    • Core quote: “If, in fact, Somalis have assimilated, why didn’t we hear from any of them during all of this fraud, including Ilhan Omar? Assimilation would suggest to me that our Somali brothers and sisters would have stood up as proud Minnesotans like we all are and expressed how appalled they were at this thievery.” [38:21]
  • Fear of Racism Charges: Joe attributes governmental inaction to fear of being labeled racist: “They would rather blow a billion dollars than be charged of racism, even though bringing it up would have never constituted racism.” [39:04]
  • Panel Pushback:
    • Some co-hosts suggest that it takes generations to fully assimilate, referencing past Italian, Irish, and Scandinavian immigrant experiences—“it takes three to four generations.” [48:39]
    • Others agree with Joe on the effects of “the failed academy,” i.e., academia teaching youth to disparage American traditions and promote identity politics and victimhood.
  • Broader Malaise: The group agrees institutions (academic, governmental, cultural) share blame for managed decline, apathy, and division.

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4. Political Commentary: Local & National

Segments interspersed, esp. 58:13–61:01, 85:02–91:41

• Minnesota Politics: Touches on city budgets, rising taxes, the “leftward” local councils, criticism of new candidates, and frustrations with fragmented Republican response.
• Managed Decline & the “Mystery”: Chris and Joe define the era’s problems as “managed decline”—the sense that decline is not accidental but administered, as described by right-wing thinkers like Soros (cited for his remarks on the decline of the dollar).
• Donald Trump’s Role: Joe criticizes Trump’s rhetoric as “indecent and amoral,” arguing it deepens divides and impedes reasoned debate: “Trump has not helped, by the way. He is so indecent and so amoral...” [39:34]

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5. Homespun Minnesota Life & Humor

Throughout

• Letters from Listeners:
  • Stories about kids “chunk kicking” and drawing on cars, guilt over damaging a stranger’s mudflap, and family routines.
  • Honoring traditions, such as shoveling, chunk-kicking, and winter survival.
• Notable Quote:
  • “Garage Logic is nothing more than the United States that we remember. That's what Garage Logic is. It’s a place where kids still kick chunks off cars and where people expect to stay home from school because it's five below and on and on and on.” – Joe [91:41]
• Recurring Humor:
  • Comparing kicking someone else’s chunk to “wandering into a guy’s bathroom while he’s taking a shower…” [29:24]
  • Playful self-flagellation: “I might have to go to chunk class.” – Joe [31:15]

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6. Local News & Weather

Segment: 58:13–67:02

• St. Paul Budget: A new property tax hike passes.
• ICE raids creating fear among the Somali community.
• Mountain lion sighting near Duluth schools (to much amusement).
• Obituaries: Steve Cropper, legendary Stax/Booker T. & MG’s guitarist/co-writer, passes away.
• “This day in Minnesota history”: Fire departments, telegraph offices, crime lore, and the scandal of 2013’s Timberwolves game in Mexico canceled due to an escalator fire.

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7. Final Reflections: Managed Decline, Liberty, and Hope

Segment: 101:07–end

• Joe delivers a closing “service road of life” soliloquy, expressing regret that the “silent majority” has been inattentive as ideologues have seized cultural and political institutions:
  • “We let this happen. We can’t claim to be victimized. This happened because we were enjoying life so much... we just let it happen.” [91:10]
  • “Liberty... is being trampled.” [99:40]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s chunk.” – Joe [06:57]
• “[Kicking someone’s chunk] would be like going into the neighbor’s garage and taking something of theirs without asking.” – Dave McGuire [06:57]
• “I'm a chunk kicker. All right? I am guilty as charged. I will have to reform.” – Joe [30:39]
• “If we attempt to hold so-called marginalized people accountable for anything, we're racist. We cannot overcome that.” – Joe [36:35]
• “People used to come to America to become Americans. ... People now come to America to live in America." – Joe [52:51]
• “Garage Logic is nothing more than the United States that we remember.” – Joe [91:41]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Chunk Kicking Debate: 01:32–31:31
• Ilhan Omar & Assimilation Discussion: 32:40–55:08, revisited 91:41–99:40
• Political Commentary: 58:13–61:01, 85:02–91:41
• Local News/Weather: 58:13–67:02
• Steve Cropper/Obituary & Musician Segment: 73:43–76:22
• Closing Soliloquy on American Decline: 101:07–end

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Tone & Style

In classic Garage Logic fashion, the episode mixes coffee-shop banter, dry sarcasm, and local pride with a serious cast of cultural concern and skepticism toward progressive trends. There’s affectionate ribbing, nostalgia, self-deprecation, and a palpable sense of loss for an America the hosts feel is slipping away.

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For First-Time Listeners

This episode is a representative microcosm of Garage Logic—part comic relief, part earnest cultural diagnostic. While the “chunk kicking” debate typifies the show’s embrace of the mundane, the long analysis of assimilation and decline spotlights its more provocative, sometimes controversial, heart, always couched in an “old Minnesota” worldview.

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Listener Takeaway

A classic episode: come for the snow chunk humor, stay for unexpectedly rigorous—if sometimes contentious—debate about what it means to be American, and what “common sense” looks like in rapidly changing times.

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[End of Summary]

Transcript

[Joe Soucheray]

Hey, Garage Logic fans. I do a podcast on the Garage Logic Network that comes out every Wednesday and Friday. Now twice a week. But here's an important caveat. There is zero logic available in my show. In the formal definition of logic, of course, life is a yin and yang kind of thing. There's the logic side and then there's the what the hell? Side, which needs to get its exercise. So come for the what the hell and stay for the. You've got to be kidding me. Mishki. Now, Wednesdays and Fridays, twice a week. Josh Arnold, investment. I want to get the term correct. Consultant brings you Garagelogic podcast, episode number 1673. 57 degrees on this day in 2017 and 15 below on this day in 1886. Call Josh Arnold at 952-925-5608 for a free 48 minute consultation.

[Kenny Olson]

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 Logic with Chris Reavers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the crabby 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 Sushore.

I can begin this episode one of two ways. I can either explain to you why anyone 10 years old or younger will never know the United States that we knew, or we can talk about kicking chunks off cars.

[Kenny Olson]

Are you taking an informal vote?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, I think.

[Chris Reavers]

I think you know where your staff lies.

Joe Chunks. Do you know what being ratioed means when it comes to social media?

[Joe Soucheray]

Of course not so.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, that's good. I applaud you for that.

[Kenny Olson]

We appreciate your honesty.

[Chris Reavers]

Being ratioed means you have more responses where people take to the keyboard than you do likes. In the case of the X tweet that Gabriel sent out yesterday, it was a picture of a car with a chunk on it. And the question is, do you kick chunks from someone else's vehicle? Yes or no? You got, as of right now, 59 responses. And 59 responses, 51 likes. And the responses, Joe, are hysterical. You have broken the moral code, my friend, by kicking a chunk or.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I'm afraid there is some admonishment here.

[Chris Reavers]

Did you get some emails, my friend?

[Joe Soucheray]

I have a number of emails before me. I take it the answer to the question is we're going to go chunking for a while here, huh? Oh, yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes, please. I've been waiting for this moment since.

[Kenny Olson]

5:00Am Joe, do I apologize for accidentally bringing this up yesterday? I'm sorry I didn't mean to derail everything.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't. No, you. You don't have to apologize.

[Chris Reavers]

What? Garage logic is okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Tenuous Greetings to you, Mr. Mayor.

[Josh Arnold]

Uh oh.

[Joe Soucheray]

I am writing in response to the sad revelation that you, as our mayor, are accepting of the kicking off of somebody else's chunk. When my family and I moved to Northern Virginia eight years ago, I knew that it would come with a price. Out here, we simply do not get enough snow for serious chunks. On the rare occasion they do appear, they are short lived and insipid. Therefore, for the past eight years, I have gone through CWS chunk withdrawal syndrome to compensate. Between December and March 1, I routinely go around my woods and kick dead tree stumps, fantasizing that they are the sludgy, ugly, sticky, hideous clumps of crap behind all four tires. How I long for the blissful satisfaction of a ritualistic and therapeutic chunk kicking. Imagine my disappointment in hearing that you of all people, would kick the chunks of others, let alone of those of your own constituents. Chunk kicking is a rite of passage, a tradition, and a source of pride that should not be usurped except for matters of safety. You of all people should know how Gumption county boys as early as the age of 2, watch how their fathers tactically approach each tire and artistically kick off a chunk to default off in one piece, a skill not anyone could master. For you to kick the chunks of another, especially those of your own constituents, perpetuates a kind of physical, social and emotional abuse that should be grounds for impeachment.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh no.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wow. An action that should be reserved for governors who defrauded the people of his state. So please, dear Mayor, for the sake of Gumption county and all GL residents, please reverse your behavior and stick to the kicking of your own chunks. Kelly Wing Cross Junction, Virginia well, Kelly, I'm going to answer all of you sooner or later. Here's from Sarah E.

Joe, you began the Monday 121 podcast stating that you never wanted your stories. You never wanted to hear stories of bouncy houses flying away.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

The dummies responded, noting that all banned stories you could suggest that was certainly not the one on their list. Prior to today's December 3rd podcast, responding to a discussion on chunk kicking was certainly not on the top of my list of potential topics to email you about. However, here I am. Hearing you state that it is okay to kick the chunks from strangers vehicles piqued my motherly instinct. I feel today's societal climate is too crazy and too opportunistic I fear kicking stranger chunks opens up one to violence, lawsuits, and potentially the now all too common protest. Am I overthinking this? Perhaps. Please just keep to your own chunks. Sincerely, Sarah, A Minnesotan residing in Wisconsin.

[Chris Reavers]

That was wonderful, Sarah.

[Joe Soucheray]

P.S. although a transplant from the land of rocks and cows to the land of rocks and cows, beers and cheese, Minnesota is still home. Listening to GL makes me feel at home regardless of the insanity discussed. Good luck.

[Chris Reavers]

May I before no, you can't.

[Joe Soucheray]

We're not.

[Chris Reavers]

Before you read the next one, I just want to read some of these to you. From Social From Redhead ranting no, car boogers are only for the car owner to kick. From Dave McGuire. That would be like going into the neighbor's garage and taking something of theirs without asking. And my favorite from Jay I am not a monster. I wouldn't steal that satisfaction from anyone. I myself, Joe responded, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's chunk.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hail the flashlight Came hail you on Wednesday's show before the topic of the right to kick chunks of winter from a stranger's vehicle reminded me of Dave Moore in the late 60s. He hosted the bedtime news on Channel 4 Saturday nights after the 10 o' clock news. I remember it well, but you have to be my age to remember that, and one skit showed him obsessed with chunk kicking, wandering down a St Paul street at twice the speed. He removed dozens in a minute. The show is sponsored by Sealy Posturepedic. The Moore had Moore doing ads with his brother from Russia, who was Moore on a split screen. It was SNL before its time. I'm a reformed chunk kicker. One time, while performing what I thought was an honorable task, the chunk came off along with a mud flap and a small piece of chrome. Feeling guilty, I waited for the owner and in the middle of my justification, she said, no big deal. I'm sure her roommate wasn't happy. From that time on, I kept my kicking to my vehicles exclusively. My slush buster has been part of the winter arsenal since. Hearing about it on your show saves a lot of mud flaps. Lawyer GL or Jim. Loyal listener since the first look. Got the treatment in the swamp behind the Maplewoods Luxurious Studios.

There's something in this email that also refers to United States. We'll never know again. He kicked a chunk, waited for the owner, waited for the owner out of an ethical and moral commitment. And then she in turn said, don't worry about it. That's never going to happen.

[Chris Reavers]

Is it ethical and moral, or is it, in my case, just flat out guilt. I wouldn't be able to live with myself.

[Joe Soucheray]

Guilt will suffice.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Mark Alley King Schroeder. You'll recall that he was emailing yesterday for a squeegee ruling. Mr. Mayor. Hail you.

Oh, that was terrible.

[Kenny Olson]

You addressed it improperly. You know what? That was inappropriate.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, that's terrible too.

[John Height]

You need the setup. Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

The bookkeeper and I have heard and will abide by the decision you rendered, much to my dismay. However, no appeal will be made. The bookkeeper is quite pleased and not surprised by your decision and thanks you. The safety factor of the garage floor becoming icy, as mentioned by Kenny, is not one that I had considered. As we celebrate our 43rd anniversary and await the next arriving snowfall, which will undoubtedly bring more dripping and pooling, I will keep the squeegee close at hand as the bookkeeper passes by it without a notice. It has been a fairly mild winter thus far and spring is only 17 days away. That's right. That's from.

Ally King Schroeder. He must be a 21st ER.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, here's one. No, that's not right. And you shouldn't even have to be told. That is wrong.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hail the Flashlight King. Hail you. I grew up listening to your show on 1500 and was delighted to hear from a friend from the Nativity Men's Club about the podcast. While listening to the discussion on Chunk kicking, Joe mentioned that youth do not partake in this time honored tradition. I am a proud father of three kids, ages 4, 6 and 9, all of whom are chunk Kickers. Teaching our kids to be respectful to our cars as well as others is important. We joyfully let them kick our chunks, but I have had to stop them on many occasions from kicking on other cars as the accuracy of a four and six year old is not that great. On the topic of respecting our own vehicles, two weeks ago, while I was on our roof putting up the Christmas lights, our 4 year old decided it was a good time to practice writing his name, which he is proud of being able to do. Upon my return to the ground, I walked to the side of my wife's van only to discover the driver's side had some fresh artwork on it. Without knowing which child did it, I loudly said, who did this? And then realized they had left their name on the van. Tommy. Tommy. Well, he felt bad and cried over the artwork. My wife asked him why he did it, to which he replied I wanted to write my name. He now knows that's paper and crayons or sidewalk chalk, not minivans with a fiberglass rod he had found in the garage.

[Bill]

Oh, I was hoping for maybe a finger or something like that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thankfully, it's just the top coat and come spring and some buffing coats compound, I should be able to get it out for through for the rest of the winter. We will enjoy his penmanship on the side of the van. The Tommy Mobile, Lifelong GL or Bill Tree lot Boss Hickey.

[Bill]

Yeah, I'm surprised that he didn't know about the Garage Logic podcast already.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think he did. He just didn't know about the chunk kicking. Oh, God.

[Bill]

Okay.

[Chris Reavers]

You okay?

[Joe Soucheray]

Are you gonna. I would. I, I. You know, I am never, never, as your mayor, going to be placed in the position of pulling a walls on you and. Okay. And backpedaling and detailing and obfuscating and deflecting. I will not do that.

[Chris Reavers]

Instead, what are you going to do?

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm going to offer two things in my defense.

[Bill]

Oh, here we go.

[Joe Soucheray]

One, I believe. I believe if you rewind the tape.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, here.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think I said I used to choke kick the cars of strangers.

[Chris Reavers]

All right.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, and I forgot the second thing about you.

[Chris Reavers]

You defended yourself to the bitter end.

[Joe Soucheray]

Joe, I think I.

[Chris Reavers]

You didn't act like you were reformed. You. You acted like you would go out in the parking lot right now and kick a chunk of a stranger.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right. Well, but I did make it clear that you can't kick chunks. See, the public street, I think, is okay to kick chunks, but that gets me into trouble because those are stranger cars on gas station aprons and soup on, you know, property that you don't own. You can't kick a chunk. I did say that. And I did say it's like the three prices. I mean, it's like the common surface savings alone. You can't go into somebody's garage and pick a dollar bill up the floor off the floor anymore. You can go in there and kick one of their chunks.

Tale of the. I said that. I said that.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, we'll see.

[Joe Soucheray]

I did.

[Chris Reavers]

Reavers is looking for it right now. I can see the drool coming off his lower lung.

[Joe Soucheray]

What came up in the beginning of the show.

In the meantime? Hail the Flashlight King.

[Kenny Olson]

Hail you.

[Joe Soucheray]

I am in need of a ruling in southern Wisconsin this past Saturday into Sunday. We received around 8 inches of snow Saturday afternoon, as I came back inside after my second driveway clearing, my handler suggested. Boy, we're getting a lot of names for the wife. The handler, the bookkeeper, the cp.

[Bill]

Everybody's being creative.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, the handler. I like that. My handler suggested that instead of shovel, I should wait it out and use the snow thrower in the back of the garage. I decided not to take her advice. Sunday morning, before the house was awake for the day, I bundled up and went out to finish my work as well as bust up the hump. Upon my re entry into the house, I was questioned as to why I shoveled instead of using the snow thrower. I explained that I didn't need the snow thrower to finish the work that I could finish myself. The ruling I humbly request. Is it mandatory to use the snow thrower if you own one? And if it is mandatory, what is the total amount of snow needed in order to pull it out of the garage? Thank you, Mark. Have Havelick.

It's. It's. It's not mandatory to use it. John Height, for example, always shovels by hand.

[John Height]

Always.

[Joe Soucheray]

So you don't own a snowblower?

[John Height]

I don't. I did for a while and then decided I didn't need it.

[Kenny Olson]

Same.

[Joe Soucheray]

I shoveled by hand yesterday, which was merely just to get some steps in. I scraped. There was no snow. It was a dusting. Well, I'm not done. Oh, I'm not done.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, I have. I have the audio ready.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Chris Reavers]

I have a feeling we're not gonna get to it, Chris.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, we run out of time.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, no, no. We're gonna get to it before I tell you why anyone under the age of 10 no longer will know the United States. Oh, wait a minute.

[Chris Reavers]

Now with me, when I lived in south Minneapolis, I just had a driveway pad in the back. It was my mood if I want. If it was a nice evening or a nice day, and it was just a skimming and I wanted to get right down to the concrete. I shoveled. It was just fine.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think we all share that outlook. Yeah. In terms of. Is there a mandatory amount of snow needed? I personally would have used a snowblower on 8 inches of snow.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

He did not.

[Kenny Olson]

That's his prerogative on Sunday morning.

[Joe Soucheray]

He is to be commended, though, for owning it. There was an old addendum to the cylinder index, and that is the almost the acceptance or the expectation of using cylinders at every possible opportunity. So he didn't take this opportunity to use a cylinder.

[Kenny Olson]

It's lightly misting. Gotta fire it up.

[Chris Reavers]

Right.

[Joe Soucheray]

And finally, it's not really apropos of.

Okay, play the audio. You want to take a break?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, I thought you were.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I have something from Jordy and he wrote a song.

Well, it's not terribly apropos of chunk kicking.

[Kenny Olson]

Are you going to sing the email?

[Joe Soucheray]

Medicaid fraud, child care fraud, food fraud, autism fraud, housing fraud, transportation fraud, CDL fraud. It's the most fraudulent time of the year.

[Kenny Olson]

Three different Christmas.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sorry, Chris. I'm really sorry.

[Kenny Olson]

No wonder they cut off your microphone.

[Chris Reavers]

That's Dueling Christmas Carols. Do you remember that bit?

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, how would you sing it?

Medicaid fraud, child care fraud, food fraud, auction fraud, housing fraud, transportation fraud, CDL fraud. It's the most fraudulent time of the year. Huh?

[Chris Reavers]

No. Rejected.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you. We'll take a time out.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, I see all this is going on the flashlight, kid. No, that's.

Wrong.

[Bill]

I'm there.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, it's so great when this doesn't work, isn't it?

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[John Height]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[John Height]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[John Height]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[John Height]

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[Bill]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Bill]

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[John Height]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Hardware stores sifting through the nuts and bolts of life. Joe Sushere.

[Chris Reavers]

It's positive Thursday already. And like usual, it's brought to us by Schoon Over Body Works and Auto Care. They're in Shoreview, 1060 County Road E. Mike Schoonover is here. Mike, we have something serious to talk about, but before we get to that, I would like to ask a question of you, by the way. Good afternoon, sir.

[Mike Schoonover]

Good afternoon, boys. It's good to be with you today.

[Chris Reavers]

Mike, do you know what a chunk is? It's that big, big snow booger that hangs off your car right behind the wheel.

[Joe Soucheray]

He knows what it is. He's a Minnesotan.

[Mike Schoonover]

I, I am. So I'm, I'm. I'm glad that you asked. Because I, I, I did want to weigh in on this since yesterday's pod.

[Chris Reavers]

Good.

[Mike Schoonover]

And I.

[Bill]

Number one.

[Mike Schoonover]

Joe, you got issues, pal.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Mike Schoonover]

You know, you're the mayor of garagelogic, the flashlight king, and the fireworks commissioner. And now a chunk kicker.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yep.

[Chris Reavers]

A kicker of other people's chunks, Mike, not just his own.

[Mike Schoonover]

Yes, yes. So ask away, Kenny. What, what would you like?

[Chris Reavers]

Where do you stand on that? I mean, is it okay for a stranger to come kick your chunk that you've spent miles and hours and days building up? Are you okay with that?

[Mike Schoonover]

No. That ranks right up there when your car is dirty and somebody has, has the, has the kahunas to type or not type, but.

[Chris Reavers]

Right.

[Mike Schoonover]

Wash me on it.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Schoonover]

I'm not, I'm not a fan, but you know where to do it is. You know, I don't think a gas station is appropriate.

[Joe Soucheray]

I said that. I said that.

[Mike Schoonover]

I know, Joe, I know. But it's like, okay, how about the parking lot? How about the grocery store?

[Joe Soucheray]

I, I even included them.

[Mike Schoonover]

But hang on, Hang on a second. Are we doing a. Are we doing a service to our fellow community members when you know that, that that particular chunk contains salt and, and sand, which might be helpful to our elderly, of not slipping as people drive over it?

[Joe Soucheray]

Good point. Good point. Well taken. Yes.

[Mike Schoonover]

So I'm so happy that I advertise on a podcast that talks about chunk kicking.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hey, look it. You're a body guy. You gotta be thrilled with it, because there's a lot of morons who dent the fender.

Yes, yes, yes.

[Josh Arnold]

Or hurt their foot.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. Or break their foot. Speaking of being a body guy, Mike, I think I've said on the air before, and this morning was a good example. Just plan on getting in a crash, because from what I can tell, everybody here is crashing this morning for no reason whatsoever. And I know we've talked about this in the past, but what should GL ers. How should a GL er approach this? Should they just be ready to be in a crash?

[Mike Schoonover]

Well, two things to avoid it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Let's.

[Mike Schoonover]

Let's make sure we got good tires on our cars. We are seeing so many customers that have just bad tread. So part of vehicle maintenance is you.

[Josh Arnold]

Got to replace the rubber.

[Mike Schoonover]

And if you can afford it, having winter tires and summer tires is really the best way to go. So especially for your spouse or your kids or whatever, you know, get some winter tires on those cars.

And then just common sense driving. Kenny. I think that makes all the sense in the world. And slow down. But.

Obviously for Glers who don't live near us, who can't bring their car to our shop. For those of you who live in outstate or in other parts of the country, or those of you who live in Anguilla, do your research, go on Google and find out what are the good shops in your area. What are the good shops in your market? Because you do not want to take a referral from your insurance company, they are going to send you to the lowest price provider and they're going to offer incentives of maybe even waiving your deductible if you send it to, if you go to their preferred shop because they're not going to do you any good. And, and so just do your own research. You're, you're entitled or you're free to bring your car wherever you want to go.

[Chris Reavers]

And I call that being in cahoots. And Schoonover, you guys are not in cahoots with any insurance company.

[Mike Schoonover]

No, we are not. We are not on the top of the Christmas card list for any insurance company because we, we, we call bullshit. I, you know, if, if it just. There's just so many shenanigans being played right now. And I'm not anti insurance, we need insurance companies but I am pro customer and we're going to stand up for our customers.

[Chris Reavers]

That's wonderful. And what I love about you guys and I know everybody here on the staff has experienced it. We don't have to, if I get in a crash, I don't have to deal with my insurance company at all. You guys do it all for us. That's so awesome.

[Mike Schoonover]

That's the way to go, Kenny.

[Chris Reavers]

You learn a few things when you've been around since 1938. They are the official shop of Garagelogic. And you all heard why. They're just awesome. Always rated as one of the top shops in The Metro Schoonover Bodyworks.com is the website. Thank you very much Mike.

[Mike Schoonover]

Thanks guys. Have a great Thursday and thank you. G Ellers.

[Joe Soucheray]

See you later.

[John Height]

See you Mike.

[Joe Soucheray]

You have some tape from yesterday.

[Kenny Olson]

Separate request for a ruling if you're done with this particular one.

[Joe Soucheray]

Because I am done. It's not a complicated ruling, Mark, you gotta take care of that.

[Kenny Olson]

Yesterday morning I was fueling up at my Quick Trip location which I love. And as I was.

[Joe Soucheray]

Don't they advertise with us? I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

They should be because I love Quick Trip.

[Joe Soucheray]

They all sing their praises.

[Kenny Olson]

So I'm at the Quick Trip and I will not reveal the location of said Quick trip. But I was standing there fueling up. The guy next to me had one of those gigantic chunks hanging from his. I think it was a. It was a Nissan.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Another guy walked up.

[Chris Reavers]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Bill]

Kicked it.

[Kenny Olson]

Not his vehicle. And I went, oh, boy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, man. I have thoughts about that. I have thoughts about that.

[Kenny Olson]

You can't kick his chump.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, no, no. I think chump kicking is a Minnesota rite of passage.

[Kenny Olson]

But not on somebody else's vehicle.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, you could. You certainly don't touch the vehicle, but you can touch the cho. Oh, I've kicked chunks all my life.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, that's like wandering into a guy's bathroom while he's taking a shower, sitting down and going to town.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't think it's that bad.

[Chris Reavers]

No, that is trespassing.

[Joe Soucheray]

A public street and you're walking by and there's a tempting chunk. No, you get to go for it.

[Chris Reavers]

No, you.

[Joe Soucheray]

You get the toxic chunks.

[Kenny Olson]

See, I'm with Kenny. I always thought the GL rule was you leave another man's chunk alone.

[Chris Reavers]

It's like blowing a guy's driveway before he gets a chance to come home and break out his brand new snowblower. You just ruined it for him. It just snowed 4 inches. The guy can't wait to get home and blow his driveway. And there you are just finishing up when he pulls in.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, you're. You're. You're conflating two issues. We're talk chunk kicking. I don't authorize nor lend my endorsement in any way, shape or form to anyone. Snow blowing someone else's driveway. That's the female fun limitation factor. That's the phone call you get at 3 o' clock in the afternoon. You're at work, it's been snowing for 10 inches. It finally stopped, and you get the call and she says, guess what I did the driveway. That's deflating. That's just a horrible.

[Chris Reavers]

Go to a hotel.

[Joe Soucheray]

I mean, that's just horrible. That's horrible. See, I. I'm chump kicking. I'm sorry. I'm a chump kicker. All right? I. I am. I am guilty as charge. I will have to reform.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, it's a big step.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm wrong. I'm sorry if you were offended.

[Chris Reavers]

I appreciate that, Joe. That's what I like about you.

[Joe Soucheray]

I.

[Kenny Olson]

The first step is acknowledging a mistake.

[John Height]

Oh.

[Chris Reavers]

Probably a problem.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm sorry.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes, you're right.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's almost like you're gonna need treatment. I mean, you see the whole chunk.

[Kenny Olson]

I guess the only reason I brought it up yesterday might have to go.

[Chris Reavers]

To chunk class because, you know, I.

[Kenny Olson]

Haven'T been attending the University of Garage Logic as long as the rest of you, but I always thought that that was off limits.

[Chris Reavers]

Can you see the group meeting? Ah, Joe, you were doing so good. You'd gone three weeks without kicking somebody else's chunk.

[Joe Soucheray]

I had a relapse today. I was at the store and I. I came out.

[Chris Reavers]

I was at Luns.

[Joe Soucheray]

I just. It was so tempting. I just could pass it up.

[Kenny Olson]

There are the ones, though, that are clearly overgrown to the point where, you know, that driver has no idea that those chunks even exist on their car.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, he brings up a really good point, Joe. What about those people?

[Kenny Olson]

I mean, the point where the. The tire can't even turn, it's so wedged in there.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Those are people who are chunk unaware.

They just have never factored the chunking into their.

Now, what you're telling me is that's too bad. I just look the other way. You don't want me to intervene.

[Chris Reavers]

They're the same people who don't shovel and. Or snow blow their driveway and don't.

[Joe Soucheray]

Take the snow off your rear window.

[Kenny Olson]

What if you seek permission?

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

Excuse me.

[Joe Soucheray]

Permission is always acceptable, ma'. Am. I. I know to get those chunks for you.

[Kenny Olson]

You have four chunks on your minivan.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'd like to take care of it.

[Kenny Olson]

I can take care of that for you with a simple.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think that's perfectly acceptable.

[Kenny Olson]

I think that that would be perfectly acceptable, yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Now, do you want to know why the United States is over or anyone can.

[Bill]

Please. Now that we've built it up, let's.

[Joe Soucheray]

Go and do a lot of thinking.

I think the best way to set it up is. Ilhan Omar was on CNN yesterday with Jake Tapper.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes, sir.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know. Was she anticipating friendliness or whatever?

[Kenny Olson]

She's always available for cnn.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, that's fine.

And I think what you're going to hear here is two different Ilhan Omars, and it will help me explain what I've been thinking about on the service road of life. So why don't you just start there? I haven't heard it. I was. I didn't know she was on there yesterday. I was made aware of that.

[Kenny Olson]

Oops. I'm sorry. Let me kick or kill the. The chump.

[Joe Soucheray]

Kicking. Yeah, I wish.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

First of all, Federal prosecutors say 59 people have been investigated in these schemes so far. Americans at large stole tens of billions of forms of aid during the pandemic all over the country. Minnesota's fraud scandal stands out according to federal auditors. What are you hearing from investigators right now?

[Ilhan Omar]

Well, I've been following the cases closely as they've gone through the courts, and we know that there are more indictments possibly coming. I think that number might go up to 73 as well. I'm hearing.

[Bill]

Okay.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

Can you shed any light on why the fraud got so out of control in Minnesota?

[Ilhan Omar]

I think what happened is that, you know, when. When you have these kind of new programs that are designed to help people, you're oftentimes relying on third parties to be able to facilitate. And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up, they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

Now, obviously, whatever the ethnic group, the actions of a few dozen should not impugn an entire community of thousands of people.

[Kenny Olson]

That was the first segment of that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. She is a bright, articulate woman. She could not possibly begin to explain the fraud. She. She would refuse. She's refusing to explain the fraud. She's. She's deflecting. She's blaming it on the quick creation of programs. And there no being. There being no guardrails, which is. She might as well tell me that you. You might as well rob a bank if there's no security guard there. Right?

[Chris Reavers]

Isn't that like saying it's the car's fault that it keeps getting ripped off?

[Joe Soucheray]

She. She's. She knows perfectly well who's to blame. She knows perfectly well what must be said about it. And she struggles. She's not gonna be able to do that. Now, do you have the second part?

[Kenny Olson]

Give me a quick second here, sir.

[Joe Soucheray]

Because you get a different Ilhan on this part, and that helps me explain my deep musings that I've had about what the hell's going on here.

[Bill]

Is that what you call those musings?

[Kenny Olson]

This is gonna take a second. Joe, I apologize. My thing just stopped playing, so.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's always a problem, isn't it?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, it tends to happen when I'm trying to play. A couple of things.

[Chris Reavers]

I don't like the direction that your thought process is going. I look to you to not give up. And that's what I'm sensing in your tone.

[Joe Soucheray]

You're not incorrect.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

You'Re supposed to be the fighter out front leading us. I'm the giver upper.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, I'll still fight. But I'm going to tell you what we're up against. I'm going to tell you what we're up against.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, just tell me. I can't wait for Reavers.

[Joe Soucheray]

If we, we being Western society us.

If we attempt to hold.

So called marginalized people accountable for anything, we're racist.

We cannot overcome that. We are racist. We're not. But that's how we're pegged. And if we could ever get to the second part of this audio, you'd send some hints of that. The idea of assimilation probably is a thing of the past. And I blame that on the failed academy. The failed academy has pretty much instructed the sheep of postmodernism in which every society and every culture is certainly the equal of any other. So rather than come to this country and assimilate, the Somalis will claim they've assimilated. I would submit to you they have not in Minneapolis that just yes, you're going to find a Somali lawyer and there's probably a Somali doctor and maybe there's a Somali guy who has a factory, but I really doubt it.

[Chris Reavers]

Are you saying on the whole. On the whole, you're painting with a pretty broad.

[Joe Soucheray]

I know I am. I'm suggesting to you that the Somali community has not assimilated the way.

Previous influxes of immigrants have assimilated. But they're no different than I'm sure there are Haitian communities and there are Somali communities and there are Hmong communities and there are Ecuadorian communities and there are Mexican communities and there are Pacific island communities.

One of the proofs I would have of this failure to assimilate is.

If in fact Somalis have assimilated, why didn't we hear from any of them during all of this fraud, including Ilhan Omar? Assimilation would suggest to me that our Somali brothers and sisters would have stood up as proud Minnesotans like we all are and expressed how appalled they were at this thievery. All we got was the typical boilerplate. A few rotten apples can't spoil the batch. Leave us alone. We didn't do this. It was just a few people.

Where was the idea that they were part of the fabric of the Minnesota community? And we all were afraid to say that. We're all afraid to say that because. And so was the governor, and so were the people that worked for him. What they were most keenly afraid of is they would rather blow a billion dollars than be charged of racism, even though bringing it up would have never constituted racism.

For me to question these things has nothing to do with racism. But we've been so trained and so gaslit by the left over the last 50 years that we bring up now, anything at all, we're racist. Trump has not helped, by the way. He is so indecent and so amoral that for him to toss around his eight year old playground language on this matter has not helped one bit.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay, now I'm thinking about the. The GL haters.

[Joe Soucheray]

Let them hate me. I don't care. I know I'm on the right path.

[John Height]

Okay.

[Chris Reavers]

How is your point of view different? Other than it's much more graceful, how is it different than President Trump's point of view? Aren't you basically both saying the same thing or not?

[Joe Soucheray]

It's different in the sense that I want Western society to quit being frightened of being called a racist and start treating everybody the same. The way Trump's going about it, there's no room there for repair. There's no room for repair. Is this the second part of her.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

During the pandemic, we're talking about dozens of people in a community of thousands.

[John Height]

Of course.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is here with me now. First of all, Federal prosecutors say 59 people have been investigated in these schemes so far. Americans at large stole tens of billions of forms of aid during the pandemic all over the country. Minnesota's fraud scandal stands out according to federal auditors. What are you hearing from investigators right now?

[Ilhan Omar]

Well, I've been following the cases.

[Joe Soucheray]

We already heard this part. I know the court bear with me.

[Ilhan Omar]

And we know there are more. I don't think we have any choice coming. I think that number might go up to 73 is what I'm hearing.

[Joe Soucheray]

A lot of problems. And you shed any light? She can't handle this one.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

The fraud got so out of control in Minnesota.

[Ilhan Omar]

I think what happened is that, you know, when, when you have these kind of new program that are designed to help people, you're oftentimes relying on third parties to be able to facilitate. And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up, they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

Now, obviously, whatever the ethnic group, the actions of a few dozen should not impugn an entire community of thousands of people.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

I want to make that very clear. President Trump has used this fraud to make, rather, to me, shockingly bigoted comments about Somalis in general, including you, but the entire Somali community in Minnesota. He did it yesterday and he did it again today. Let's run some of that.

[Joe Soucheray]

These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our Country. They've taken billions and billions of dollars. They have a representative, Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother. She should be thrown the hell out of our country. And most of those people, they have destroyed Minnesota. She should not be. And her friends shouldn't be allowed. Frankly, they shouldn't even be allowed to be congresspeople.

[John Height]

Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

They shouldn't even be allowed to be congresspeople because they don't represent the interests of our country. Country.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

It's pretty shocking to hear it, although I. I don't know how shocked you are at this, at this point anymore, but Somali immigrants in general, you in particular, have been the target of his attacks for a long time. What's your response?

[Ilhan Omar]

Yeah, I mean, I'm not shocked because we know that the president oftentimes resorts to very bigoted, xenophobic, Islamophobic, racist, fascist rhetoric when he is trying to scapegoat and deflect from the actual failures that he has himself. We know that this administration has not fulfilled majority of the promises that they've made, whether it is bringing costs down, whether it is the tariffs that are decimating businesses in. In the United States, whether it is the possible war crimes that his defense secretary is. Is committing. And so to me, it is important for us, one, to remind folks that we are Americans. We're not going anywhere, and we will continue to be in this country, and two, that Minnesotans are resilient and we will continue to thrive.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

What is the practical impact when a president of the United States demonizes an entire group of people based on. Based on ethnicity? And again, you can point to any ethnic group and find dozens of people in that ethnic group who are committing a particular crime.

The Mafia comes to mind, right?

[Bill]

Oh, for God.

[Joe Soucheray]

But. But no one.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

You don't hear people saying that about Italians they did 100 years ago, but they don't do it today. What is the practical effect on the Somali community? With the president says things like that.

[Ilhan Omar]

I mean, it creates fear, and there is a possible danger that.

[Joe Soucheray]

That'S enough.

[Ilhan Omar]

A lot of the people who follow the president have exhibited violence in many cases, especially in my case, whenever he has said something about me that is derogatory or says I'm a threat to the country, I have gotten death threats. There are so many people that have been incarcerated over the years that have been encouraged by the president's words. And so there is fear for Somalis, not just in Minnesota, but across the country, that some of these people might attack and harm them.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'd like to hear her say what she will never say. And that would be, look, we.

We fled a country that ranks last by any statistical measure in the world.

It's first in corruption, it's first in chaos. It has no government. You're left to scramble on your own. And then through the goodness of the U.S. many of us have been allowed to come here and about 80,000 of us have settled in Somalia. I'm sorry, settled in Minneapolis. But we have not changed our ways. We brought with us that idea that governments are corrupt. We've brought with us the idea that everything's chaos. We have not accepted the idea that you can excel here if you want, you can achieve. You can learn to speak English. You don't have to all stay in the Same Cedar Riverside, 12 square block area. You can have life here. She's never going to say any of that. And I think what's happened and why I say that if you're 10 years old or younger, you're never going to know. The United States is. I don't see this turning around. I see that all of the people who will come to the United States are just bringing their own culture with them and, and don't have any idea or any interest in adopting what we would know as Western culture. I just don't see it happening because we have been too thoroughly miseducated by the failed academy, too thoroughly gaslit to believe that if any culture strikes us as not see what's been sold in the failed academy is that any culture's as good as any others, which is just factually inaccurate. I don't want anything to do with a Somali culture. Not because I'm racist. It's because they don't have one. It didn't work. It doesn't work.

[Kenny Olson]

I didn't sign up for this.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's just warlords and gangs and corruption and thievery. And I don't blame anyone for trying to get the hell out of there. But they've brought it with them.

[John Height]

Them.

[Joe Soucheray]

Any culture that now comes to the US is merely bringing their own culture because they've been sold on the idea, this post modernism thought that your culture's as good as ours. No, it isn't. It isn't. But ours is the one that's getting diminished and diminished and diminished because, for example, you saw Fry stand up the other day. He's impossible. He can't say any of this. Mayor Carter's not going to say any of this. They're all afraid of being called racists. This has nothing to do with Racism.

[Bill]

It's just not like Somalia in the way they do business.

[Chris Reavers]

Joe, do you think assimilation will come naturally?

[Joe Soucheray]

No.

[Chris Reavers]

With more. With the passing of more generations?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, I do not.

[Chris Reavers]

I think I disagree with that.

[John Height]

Yeah, I do, too. And basically recently I've read. Because this question keeps popping up in my head and I started looking at the Italian thing. I know you guys scoffed when Tapping asked that, but it was a great question because Italians were looked at exactly like he said. And according to. If you read social, you know, whatevers they say it takes three to four generations.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, okay, then you could. You could say the same thing about the Irish and the Norwegians, correct?

[John Height]

Yeah, well, absolutely.

[Joe Soucheray]

But what they brought. But what they brought with them that might have hastened any assimilation is fleeing a country that essentially worked. They might have been hungry, they might have not had the job prospects that they imagine in America, but they did not. They weren't fleeing utter corruption and chaos. Scandinavian people who settled in Minnesota basically brought with them a sense of propriety that is not. Is not visible.

[Chris Reavers]

Now, I was going to bring up the Swedes and the Norwegians, which, from my understanding, they came for religious freedom and to free themselves from, I guess, indentured servitude. There was just more opportunities in this country, and that's what they came for. And.

You know, the people that came over, like my people in 1883, they couldn't speak a lick of English, but their kids did.

[Joe Soucheray]

Personally, I'll show you another difference. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. This is just me on the service road of life.

[Bill]

Remember?

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't even know how to pronounce it. But every summer, all the news gatherers on TV and the newspapers would the next day have pointed out that Sven Skarna's dog was held. Remember that name? It was usually a Minnehaha Park. And Scandinavians would wear some traditional outfits or something, and they'd cook whatever they eat. And it's Finn Skanisgar. Well, now, I don't even know if they cover that anymore. But the difference is the minute Sven Skarner's dog days, however you pronounce it, was over. They went back to being normal Minnesotans, functioning in Minnesota society. But now the difference is that's not the case.

The Somalis even have their own shopping center, the Carmel Mall. In the old Sears story, they don't. Again, I'm sure you can find a Somali doctor, and I'm sure you can find a Somali lawyer, and I'm sure you can find some Somali banking executives. But in the main, as Father Wayland used to say, in the main, it's a group that has remained clustered together and not intertwined themselves with Minnesota.

[Chris Reavers]

I think the show. I think we need a random Somali that we can talk to on a regular basis.

[Joe Soucheray]

I wouldn't mind that.

[Chris Reavers]

I have so many questions. Number one, are you proud to be an American and tell me why? What's better? I mean, I just have so many questions that really come from a sheltered, dumb angle stuff. I just don't know that I want to know.

[Joe Soucheray]

Every, every the, the local TV news gatherers are going out of their way to soften this blow. They're going out of their way to soften Trump's remarks. They're going out of their way to point out that all these are not everybody's. But every film clip I saw last night, a Somali flag was flying.

Where they would gather to talk to Somalis.

[Bill]

Why can't we say every clip was.

[Joe Soucheray]

A Somali, which is virtually identical to that ridiculous new Minnesota flag.

[Bill]

But why can't we say, I don't like the way you do things in Somalia. Why can't we say we can?

[Joe Soucheray]

And that's not racist.

[Chris Reavers]

And that's why they're here. That's why they're here, Matthew.

[Bill]

Right. So adapt. We're not saying you have to do everything American, but you should embrace.

[Joe Soucheray]

People used to come to America to become Americans. People, not just Somalis, other nationalities and ethnicities also. People now come to America to live in America.

[Bill]

Reagan was saying that in the 80s, you can be a go to France, but you can't become a Frenchman. Germany and people that come to America can become Americans.

[Joe Soucheray]

And that's not being done anymore. So what I foresee in the future is just this growing Balkanization of many different cultures existing in the U.S. none of them really appreciating that the American way of life was the best way way of life. It worked for the most people. You fled a situation where you had no shot and now you're here or you have a shot and all you're doing is retaining your old ways.

[Chris Reavers]

I think generations, it'll change. But I think right now, obviously it's really bad right now.

[Bill]

Serious question.

[Joe Soucheray]

Most fraudulent time of the year.

[Chris Reavers]

What's your question, man?

[Bill]

Is Christmas a target?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, it's been a target of the last year before Somalis entered. Sure.

[Bill]

They said, we're not going to have a Christmas program in school and we can't.

[Joe Soucheray]

God has been under attack.

[Chris Reavers]

Would you expect, would you expect somebody that practices Islam to come over here and turn into a Lutheran or a Catholic?

[Bill]

No, no. In fact, people that work for me love to work Christmas day because they get time and a half and it's. They. They're.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, that's kind of what you're asking. I mean, you can't ask people to assimilate religiously.

[Bill]

No, not at all. But what I'm saying is, will there be generations down the road here? Will Christmas be targeted to just.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, it's already is, Tara.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, it's already is.

[Joe Soucheray]

And it had nothing to do with Somali.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. Or Islam.

[Bill]

No, but I mean.

[Chris Reavers]

Or did it really target.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't just have a Christmas program. It's. The failed academy has done a successful job in targeting any American tradition or concept whatsoever.

[Bill]

I agree.

[Joe Soucheray]

Every single one of them. The failed academy has trampled on and predisposed the moron young people who can't even read and do basic math. They sail through the failed academy with degrees in gender studies and they've grown to hate, hate the United States. It's that simple.

[Bill]

But my question is, will it be removed?

[Joe Soucheray]

No. That's what I started the show saying. No. Okay. No.

[Bill]

That's a small ray of hope.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, it's not a ray of hope. It won't be. It won't be fixed. It's not going to be fixed that.

[Bill]

It won't be removed. That is my question.

[John Height]

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[Joe Soucheray]

The Earth is not your mother. The Joe Sushire Show.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

College students claim to be triggered by the American flag. I rest my case. Here's John.

[John Height]

Haidt. Thanks Joe. This news brought to you by North American Banking Co. Let's go. Go tax news first, shall.

[Joe Soucheray]

We? That's fun.

[John Height]

Too.

[Joe Soucheray]

Press. Let's just keep paying as much as possible while it's stolen from us by walls and by.

[John Height]

Thieves.

The St. Paul City Council voted 7 ZIP to adopt the city's 2026 spending plan, including the 5.3% property tax levy increase proposed by the mayor following some $6.7 million in last minute budget amendments. The added spending, you'll be happy to know, taken from $2.5 million in increased paramedic transport fees, will not result in further increase to the tax levy. Rebecca Noker, City Council president, said, we made changes that made sense. I hope that we can feel super, super satisfied. And we did that without raising the levy further. So they raised the levy, but she's proud that they didn't have to raise the levy.

[Joe Soucheray]

More. She's super happy about.

[John Height]

It. No Super Super.

[Joe Soucheray]

Joe. Super Super. Two.

[John Height]

Supers. That was a direct super.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sex. I'll take the.

[John Height]

Soup.

The Mayor's office, not the super the mayor's office in a written statement praised the what they called strong constructive partnership between the administration and council and said the new spending plan reflects responsible budgeting that positions the city to navigate potential federal policy shifts that could affect local services. For the median St. Paul home with a value of $289,000, the new levy will add about 107 bucks to property taxes with wide variation from neighborhood to neighborhood. Increased charges related to storm sewers, sanitary sewers, water and recycling will add another $125. So that means your $289,000 house would see a total increase of about.

[Joe Soucheray]

$232,000. You know.

[John Height]

What? That's.

[Joe Soucheray]

$232. That's nothing. That's just. That's how they sell it. What you have to do is realize you have to add that $289 to the previous year's $122 to the previous year's $179 to the previous year's $322 to the previous. Now, where are you? Your property taxes are about five grand more than they were five years.

[Bill]

Ago. Remember that one fun day when you had me keep adding them all up? Yes, that was.

[Chris Reavers]

Fun. Speaking of St. Paul, yesterday on the Krabby Coffee Shop, we had former mayor and Senator Norm.

[Joe Soucheray]

Coleman. He's no dummy. He left.

[Chris Reavers]

Minnesota. He has a place in Minnesota and in Florida and up north. He says hi to you and your.

[Joe Soucheray]

Family. Hi.

[Chris Reavers]

Norm. And he also told us two wonderful stories about cheating death. And he said he's really happy for St. Paul. He thinks this new mayor will change the direction of the.

[Joe Soucheray]

City. I'm.

[John Height]

Hopeful.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[John Height]

Yep. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O' Hara talked with our friends at 5 Eyewitness News last night and echoed comments he made at that press conference on Tuesday. The ongoing federal immigration operations in Minnesota targeting Somali immigrants living in the country illegally, he says have created fear and unease for many in the tw. Chief O' Hara reiterated police don't take part in U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement ops. Because of that, O' Hara didn't confirm any ICE operations, something that ABC News confirmed through multiple sources yesterday. However, O' Hara did note the city's 911 dispatchers have received a dramatic increase in calls reporting apparent ICE activities. The Chief says he's already noticed more businesses closed and fewer people out on the streets than normal. Says he can tell it's in his words making people scared and terrified. He said, I respect that federal law enforcement has a role to play and that's their lane. That's fine. What's troubling to me as a human being is interacting with Americans, the people in our community that are being terrorized the way some of this stuff is being handled. He also encouraged people again still report crime to 911 not be afraid of MPD responding. Finally, the chief echoed what many protest organizers have said in urging residents to remain peaceful if they are protesting. Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, has filed to run for governor of Minnesota as a Republican. He hasn't made an official announcement, but Canada filings show.

He submitted campaign paperwork on Wednesday. He, of course, has been a staunch supporter of President Trump. Lindell also made headlines for accusing multiple ballot counting software companies of rigging the 2020 election. He's been involved in court cases with those companies. Lindell has lost a defamation case filed by a Dominion Voting Systems executive, Eric Kuhlmann, for which Lindell has been ordered to pay $2.3 million in damages. Lindell was found in contempt of court in March of this year for failing to turn over documents as required in the Smartmatic defamation lawsuit. MyPillow, meanwhile, is experiencing severe financial distress due to the lost revenue from the major retailers and the mounting legal fees from the lawsuits. Lindell has described himself as in ruins and unable to pay his.

[Kenny Olson]

Bill. So run for.

[Joe Soucheray]

Office. That's a guy I'd vote.

[Kenny Olson]

For. Yeah, Mike, go sit this.

[Joe Soucheray]

Place. Go.

[Chris Reavers]

Away. What's. What's wrong with him mentally? Is he some. Is he a narcissist? What is this? Why would he do this? How does he not see the tea leaves? I mean, he admits he's a failure. Why is he.

[Joe Soucheray]

Doing. I have no answer for you. I don't.

[Chris Reavers]

Know. It's.

[Joe Soucheray]

Embarrassing.

It's.

[Ilhan Omar]

Ego.

[Bill]

Go. You know, he was down on his luck. He turned it around with the pillow thing and then went crazy and he.

[Joe Soucheray]

Went. Then the pillow went down on him.

[Bill]

Right? Oh, wait a.

[Chris Reavers]

Minute.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hello.

[Bill]

He. Is that on.

[Kenny Olson]

Tape? Didn't know he was in.

[Chris Reavers]

Town. How much does that pillow.

[Joe Soucheray]

Cost? Right. Try the brand.

[Bill]

New. You got to have the secret handshake for that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Pillow. You got to know the code.

[John Height]

Secret.

He is one of 10.

[Joe Soucheray]

Republicans. Yeah, there's a lot of them running, John. And. And I'm making a dedicated effort on this show to not bring any of them up yet. That's a year away. We got more fish to fry than.

[Bill]

That. Just put your head on the.

[John Height]

Pillow. So worked up.

[Chris Reavers]

Today. So much Fun. Quals in 2026. Daymouth Qualls.

[Joe Soucheray]

2026. If you can't beat this moron, you Republicans never show your.

[Chris Reavers]

Face. Don't call my Lisa a moron.

[John Height]

On. Yeah, from the Starter Tribune. Two schools on Duluth's east side were put on secure status yesterday after a mountain lion was spotted roaming the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Neighborhood. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking.

[Chris Reavers]

About.

[Bill]

Right? This isn't too much sunlight or it's really windy. We got a.

[Joe Soucheray]

Mountain. This ain't climate.

[Bill]

Change.

[John Height]

Right? A school resource Officer at Ordene East Middle School reported the mountain lion was. With 1/2 within. Within a half mile of the school. And that led school officials to keep students inside where classes continued uninterrupted. Nearby Congdon park elementary did the same. District officials consulted with the Minnesota DNR before canceling the emergency protocol after about 30.

[Kenny Olson]

Minutes. Wait a.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

Minute.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait. So. Yes, sir, I'm keeping score for the show summary here. You two meatheads are celebrating the fact that a mountain lion.

[Joe Soucheray]

Was. Yes. I think it's fantastic.

Put Kenny on our side, too. I love.

[Bill]

It. My question is, is there a. A mountain lion detector, A circle of friendship? Because they said it was found half a mile in. You.

[Joe Soucheray]

Know. Yeah. That's a long.

[Bill]

Way. Right.

[John Height]

Right. Well, they. They know all about this one. The DNR said they're very familiar with this.

[Bill]

Animal. He's very.

[Kenny Olson]

Casual. He.

[Joe Soucheray]

Frequent. This is Larry. He's shown up.

[John Height]

Before. The mountain lion has a tracking collar, making it.

[Chris Reavers]

Identifiable. Okay. You got to. You. You hit on a point. Because out here, we tend to take care of things on our.

[Joe Soucheray]

Own. I think I know what you.

[Chris Reavers]

Mean. And G L ers, you got to be really careful. Sometimes they have collars, sometimes there's a chip embedded. If. If you're gonna squeeze one off, make sure that animal is on your neighbor's property, not on.

[Kenny Olson]

Yours. Tracking collar's just across the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Pop. He lives next door to people who leave dead cows at the end of their.

[Chris Reavers]

Driveway. That's right off over there by the Russian's house, no questions.

[John Height]

Asked. It's Yuri dnr. DNR says it's not their collar. They don't know who put the collar.

[Bill]

On. Doesn't.

[Chris Reavers]

Matter. It doesn't matter. It's the government. Don't trust the.

[Bill]

Government. If found, return to Thomas.

[John Height]

The. Earlier this year, Duluth Lowell Elementary School went on secure status when a bear was seen on the school grounds. Although there have been two animal related events, they say it's. It is uncommon. Excuse me. For the schools to enact safety protocols because of animal.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sightings. Hell, a bear's been as close as St Agnes School, St Paul. Don't give me your bear stuff. Mountain lions I'm interested.

[Bill]

In. Where'd the bear come.

[Joe Soucheray]

From? The.

[Bill]

River. Got.

[John Height]

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[Josh Arnold]

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[John Height]

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[Kenny Olson]

Gifts. I got.

[Ilhan Omar Interviewer]

Three.

[John Height]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Sam.

Here's a man who spends hours in hardware stores sifting through the nuts and bolts of.

[John Height]

Life. Joe Sucere Some national and international headlines. This one, it broke this morning and now we're getting a little more information. A suspect has been arrested this morning. Morning in connection with the planting of pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican National Committees on the eve of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. And what they're saying so far is very limited. But they are saying that person may have had what they're calling anarchist leanings. Federal agents swarmed the Woodbridge, Virginia home of 30 year old Brian Cole Jr. Following the break in the case that has vexed and embarrassed the FBI for about five years. It's not immediately clear what charges Cole might face. And investigators have not gone public with any suspective motive. Calls to relatives of cold listed in public records were not immediately returned. But neighbors in the suburban Culdesac described a young man who didn't have a whole lot of interaction with everybody in the neighborhood and doted on his pet Chihuahua. A woman who said she lived in the neighborhood said, he's very anti social. Very. He just keeps to himself. He walks every day, twice a day to 711 with his Chihuahua and wears his.

[Joe Soucheray]

Headphones. Who's this? The.

[John Height]

Shooter? No.

[Joe Soucheray]

Shooter. What story were we.

[John Height]

Talking? Pipe bombs that they found five years.

[Joe Soucheray]

Ago. Yeah.

I got.

[Chris Reavers]

You. We're.

[Joe Soucheray]

Good. Yeah, I.

[John Height]

Know. Announced job cuts from U. S. Employers moved further ahead of 1 million for the year in November as corporate restructuring, artificial intelligence and tariffs help a pair job rolls down, according to the consulting firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. The firm said layoff plans totaled 71,321 in November. A step down from the massive cuts announced in October, but still enough to bring the 2025 total up to 1.17 million. Total is 54% higher than the same 11 month period a year ago and the highest level since 2020 when Covid rocked the global.

[Joe Soucheray]

Economy. You know what Sanibel Jim has? He has mats in his garage that catch everything. But it requires. Well, but it requires him to thoroughly get as much crud off the car in the driveway as possible before rolling it onto the mat. But he has a. He said you can go out in my garage in socks in Florida. No, he's here now.

Just one more thing, John. I'm sorry I'm interrupting, but Tom Wilson wrote us yesterday. I was saying how much I admire that scene in the train on north by Northwest with Cary Grant and. Did we really say her name was Sault Ste.

[Chris Reavers]

Marie? No, Eva.

[Joe Soucheray]

Marie. Yeah, but Tom Wilson says the female lead was Eva Marie. St. Sault Ste. Marie is a city in Michigan. Did we say Sault Ste.

[Chris Reavers]

Marie? No, but we did talk about the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Bridge. What.

[Kenny Olson]

Bridge?

[Joe Soucheray]

Mackinac. Oh, yeah, we did. Yeah, we.

[John Height]

Did. But we did get the actress's name.

[Joe Soucheray]

Correct. But Sault Ste. Marie is nowhere near the Mackinac Bridge. It's the other end of the.

[Chris Reavers]

Close. St. Cloud, this.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is. Here we go now.

[Chris Reavers]

Johnny. Like driving on ice, man. We're going all different.

[John Height]

Directions. I want those 30 seconds preserved in.

[Chris Reavers]

History. Yes, please. Yeah, Chris, like that, would.

[Kenny Olson]

You? Yes, I.

[John Height]

Will. The Navy admiral who reportedly issued orders for the US military to fire upon survivors of an Attack on an alleged drug boat arrived on Capitol Hill this morning for a classified briefing with top congressional lawmakers overseeing national security. The information from Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley, who is now the commander of U.S. special Ops Command, comes at a potentially crucial moment in the unfolding congressional investigation into how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth handled the military operation. There are mounting questions over whether the strike may have violated the law. Big musician death.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yesterday. Yeah, Stevie. Stevie went down.

[John Height]

Yeah. Steve Crocker has died. Even if you are not familiar with his name, you are familiar with dozens of records. He played on multiple giant hits that he wrote or co wrote. He was the guitarist for Booker T and the MGs, so obviously he played on all their hits. Green Onions, Time is tight. That band was the house band for Stacks Records. So we played on songs like Soul man and you might remember in that Sam Moore says, play it, Steve. Right before.

When something is wrong with my baby. Sweet soul music, I can't turn you loose and literally dozens more top 10 hits from the 60s and 70s. Now if that's not enough, he co wrote Sitting on the dock of the bay in the midnight hour. Knock on wood, 634-5789. Respect, hard to handle, Born under a bad sign. And many, many.

[Joe Soucheray]

Many. I heard a great story about Cropper. He got a call from the vice president of Atlantic Records saying that song 634-5789 has cost us $40,000 so far in telephone bills. Because people all over the country were trying. Were dialing that number and it turned out to be the number of Arrest Home. They didn't know that. They were just looking for numbers that.

[John Height]

Worked. Yeah, that sounded.

[Joe Soucheray]

Good. But they. Then they. The VP told him, don't worry about it. The song's so successful, we'll pay the.

[John Height]

Bill. If you look at a list of songs that he played on and.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wrote.

[John Height]

Yeah. You'd be stunned. Impossible to overstate his influence on popular.

[Joe Soucheray]

Music. Wasn't he on SNL?

[John Height]

No.

[Joe Soucheray]

Housebread.

[Chris Reavers]

Who? Initials G.E. something.

[Bill]

Smith.

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

George. There was a big white guitar player who looked like Steve Cropper in the SNL.

[Chris Reavers]

Band.

[Joe Soucheray]

Really? Or maybe he was just on there when they did the Blue Brothers stuff.

[John Height]

Can. Thank you. I was going to say. Can everybody be quiet for a minute? He was the Blues Brothers.

[Joe Soucheray]

Guitarist. There you.

[John Height]

Go. And when they did the B. The B thing. Remember the B.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thing?

[John Height]

Yes. He was the guitarist.

[Joe Soucheray]

There.

[John Height]

Yes. He toured with the Blues Brothers. And in fact, John Belushi very nicely did the same tribute Sam Moore did because remember, they had a hit with.

[Chris Reavers]

Soul.

[John Height]

Yep. He also went play it Steve right before that lick. He had a really good philosophy about playing guitar. Here's what it was. Quote, play your part, play it simple, listen to what the other guys are doing and compliment them. Make them look good too. If you do that enough times, they'll turn around and make you look good when it's your turn. That's the way I've always looked at.

[Joe Soucheray]

It. So he had. John, would you consider that a very successful.

[John Height]

Career? Are you kidding.

[Joe Soucheray]

Me? No. I mean, I hope he was well.

[John Height]

Paid. A hundred and ten. Successful. I don't know how it could get.

[Joe Soucheray]

Better.

[John Height]

Yeah. John, look, just he. I mean he co wrote Sitting on Deck of the band.

[Joe Soucheray]

Respect.

[John Height]

Right. Just take those two songs alone. Think how much money you got from that. And then he wrote dozens of other.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hits.

[Chris Reavers]

Yep. So John, that advice he gave it. It's not just for guitar players or musicians. You could take that out into the real world and use that in your office or maybe your. Your podcast talk show. That. That applies everywhere in.

[Joe Soucheray]

Life. It really does.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. Yeah, that's great.

[John Height]

Advice. I think you're right. Also he. If you read about him, you'll. Everybody has says he was one of the finest people you could.

[Joe Soucheray]

Meet. Why did he.

[Chris Reavers]

Die? Well, he was 84 in the.

[John Height]

Old. Only. Only thing I found was that he had gone to a rehab home for some physical ailments he had and he took a spill there. Apparently that was what one of his friends said. That is not.

[Joe Soucheray]

Official. Yeah, so there you.

[John Height]

Go. Speculation can continuing to swirl over the health. You know what? I'm going to skip that story. It was the Green. The Green River Killer. He might be.

[Joe Soucheray]

Dying. I don't think you can quit now, John. You gotta.

[Chris Reavers]

Go. Let him.

[John Height]

Go. No, I.

[Joe Soucheray]

Gotta. I.

[John Height]

Got. I gotta do this story because I had it yesterday. I didn't get to it and. And people want me to do it. They've actually been sending it to me even.

[Chris Reavers]

Though. Oh, it's gonna make us mad. I know it is.

[John Height]

Not. Not at all. In fact, this is funny as heck. Oh no, I can't find it. Where is it? Here we go. Masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf where the scotch and whiskey were stored. Sword the Bandit a menace. Bottles were smashed, ceiling tile collapsed and alcohol pooled on the floor. The suspect, a.

[Joe Soucheray]

Raccoon. I knew it. I knew.

[Chris Reavers]

It. I should have my mic on when I said.

[John Height]

It. There's no human would have done that on Saturday morning. An employee at the Ashland, Virginia area liquor store found the raccoon passed out on the bathroom floor at the end of the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Escapade. At least it made it to the bathroom. Bathroom. With his arms out on his back. Yeah, he had all four arms.

[Kenny Olson]

Out. And Johnny, the correct pronunciation of that animal is called a GD Trash.

[John Height]

Panda. Yeah. Or racking.

Yeah. Samantha Martin, an officer who works at the local animal control area, said, I personally like raccoons. They're funny little critters. Oh, my God. This guy fell through. Fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full blown rampage, drinking every everything. Martin said she took the raccoon back to the animal shelter, though she had her fair share of giggles along the way.

The Hanover county animal protection and shelter commended Martin for handling the break in and confirmed that the raccoon had sobered up after a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injuries. They said he was safely released back into the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering and drinking, too.

[Kenny Olson]

Much relief to the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wild. Well, I. I would have handled.

[Chris Reavers]

That. I would send him right to.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hell. He'd be in rat coon.

[Chris Reavers]

Heaven.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right. God, I hate.

[Bill]

Raccoon. I think he'll break the law.

[Joe Soucheray]

Again. Yeah. Thanks.

[Kenny Olson]

John. Repeat.

[Joe Soucheray]

Offender. You're.

[Chris Reavers]

Welcome.

You're so.

[Joe Soucheray]

Easy.

You cannot stop.

[Bill]

Him. He'll just make a.

[Joe Soucheray]

Move. Joe Sugiro, let me tell you what I think happened. I don't know when it started.

Started a long time ago.

That Americans, for the most part, really had a good deal going. You know, you could own a home and go up to the lake and send your kids to school and you had a decent job and had grocery stores everywhere. It was a hell of a place to live, America. And Americans went off and fought in wars and returned and travel, everything like that, Built their families and built their neighborhoods and towns that thrived in communities. There were sins, there were sins that we had to address, but for the most part, it was a hell of a place to be. And then.

Slowly but surely, in fact.

Everything was. We had it so good for so long that nobody really paid attention to city councils or mayors or governors or congressmen or senators. People paid attention. The president might be, why worry? But everything was going along. I mean, you know, and then slowly but surely.

The mystery was dropped on us. And that was a direct result of.

The academies becoming increasingly.

Increasingly bent on telling students, you know, well, it isn't that great of a place. You know, they capitalized on the sins of America. And rather than realize we were addressing Them. And they really rode that pony hard. And this is, you know, we're not that good of a place. It's unfair to a lot of people. And that grew into the whole oppression and victimization thing. And the kids were marching out of these failed academies pretty much convinced that because of colonialism and imperialism and flawed founding fathers, this place is really bad. This is not a good place. In the meantime, the rest of us who are didn't go to the field academy and pick that up. We're still cruising along, everything's fine. But in the meantime. Well, what happened? Well, a Chug tie gets elected in Minneapolis. Now stop and think to yourself, how could that be possible? How could it be possible that someone so unqualified, so vitriolic, so predisposed to hate capitalism and hate America, how did chug tie Robin Wan's.

How did the least diverse city council In America, the St. Paul City Council, how'd that happen? It happened because we weren't paying.

[Bill]

Attention. We were.

[Joe Soucheray]

Gaslighting. We just had it so good. We're going along. I got a new fishing motor. I'm going to be going at the. In the meantime, chug ties in there, increasing rents and demanding rent control and ruining her part of the city. And so was Wansley. And we weren't paying attention. What finally got us to pay a little attention is the billion dollar theft. But then we're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Because the one thing we did learn, even the whole time we weren't paying attention, was, well, don't say anything if you ever hear anything, because that's racism. You don't want to be a racist for pointing out anything. So we didn't ever say that. So along come the Somalis and a few of them, not a few of them, but hell, it'll be a hundred before we're.

[John Height]

Done.

[Joe Soucheray]

Done. Very organized. Stole a billion dollars. And that got our attention. We're paying attention. Got the attention of the president, who handled it as crudely as possible. Just as crudely as possible. So I don't find the way he's handling it helpful at all. And so here we are. And right now, rather than expect assimilation, rather than expect these different cultures from around the world to embrace what we all thought enjoyed all these years, it really worked great. We've been taught. Now we've been so gaslit that that was just. That was just oppression. You people are just oppressed and victimized. And these kids are buying it. They're eating this BS up. And the next thing you know, you got chug ties and Wandsleys. And so you wonder why I say anyone under 10 years old will not have the United States is because I don't see this ending. I don't see how this can.

[Kenny Olson]

End.

Especially when those that continue to call out the things that are plaguing our society are demonized and.

[Joe Soucheray]

Calling. Well, if you mean Trump. If you mean Trump.

He'S not the.

[Kenny Olson]

Answer. No, I'm saying even us, I'm looking in the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Mirror. Right. And so we call it out. For example, on this show, we've been calling it out for.

[Chris Reavers]

Years. What you call the mystery has got another term. It's called managed.

[Joe Soucheray]

Decline. Yes.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes. And they, they say it's a big right wing, a vast right wing conspiracy, something we hang our hats on. And Soros actually brought it up years ago when he said the dollar needs to be managed and declined.

It's a reality. It's it. And it's really happening. My question for you and everybody else is by whom and.

[Joe Soucheray]

Why?

[Chris Reavers]

Why? Let's say it did start in the failed.

[Joe Soucheray]

University. I'm blaming the failed.

[Chris Reavers]

Academy. But why? Because I'm assuming those professors were making pretty good money, were they not? They owned homes, they had kids, they were driving nice cars. Why did they do this? Why are they doing.

[Joe Soucheray]

It? Because they ended up separating themselves from the rest of us and became kind of their own third rail.

They didn't mingle with us. The academy began to. You used to see them at the grocery store, now you don't. The academy was. They live in their own world. Like the political class became the third rail. So the academy developed the third rail. And they would write papers for each other celebrating this BS and we weren't paying.

[Chris Reavers]

Attention. Meanwhile, Joe, they were successful in getting these professional acting activists into office, like you said, and ruining and advancing managed.

[Joe Soucheray]

Decline. The cities of this country, with very few exceptions, are nowhere near the magnificence that they were 50 years ago. Nowhere near.

[Chris Reavers]

It. And that's their goal. When we bring that up, they.

[Joe Soucheray]

Applaud.

The goal is driven by the idea that those of the Chugties and the Wansleys and the rest of the Mysterians all over the country, the closer you get to the tallest buildings.

What they feed on is the idea, well, I'll never be a billionaire, I can't have this wealth. And I think it's unfair that anybody does because I was taught this is an oppressive country and I'm merely a victim of that. And if you work for somebody, you're really just Oppressed, you shouldn't have to work. And so they're tearing down the society that resulted in this great country and replacing it with one where misery will just be shared equally. There won't be any. There won't be any success. There won't be any wealth. There won't be any achievement. Now how far away are we from that? I said 10 year olds. I hope it's farther away than that, but I feel sorry for a two year.

[Kenny Olson]

Old. Well, even look at the kid.

That'S graduating high school or is going off to school right now. The kid that's Gabe's age buying a home right now. We just mentioned this a week or two ago ago. The average age of the first time home buyer is now 40 years old.

The thing you're talking about, Joe, it's already.

[Chris Reavers]

Here. I know, but what's the name of. Capchella's a precarious state. So he had you mentioned chug tie a number of times. He had her on Ward 10 uptown. Remember what she said about Calhoun Square being boarded.

[Joe Soucheray]

Up? She didn't.

[Chris Reavers]

Care. No, she. This was part of the.

[John Height]

Plan.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. This is the start of the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Turnaround.

But the genesis of this was that we didn't pay attention. We didn't care. We had such great lies that we didn't see it.

[Kenny Olson]

Coming. You're saying the fox entered the hen.

[Joe Soucheray]

House? Yes. We didn't see it coming. And even if we did, we didn't even let it bother us. It was a little bit the way the automobile manufacturers in Detroit didn't see Japan coming. Coming. And all of a sudden they're getting embarrassed by Japan and they have to turn their. And they did turn around. So is there hope for this.

[Kenny Olson]

Country? That's different though. That's the free market playing itself out. This is a systemic invasion that's taken place right underneath our.

[Joe Soucheray]

Nose. And we didn't care. No, I'm not letting us off the hook. I'm not letting the American citizenry off the hook. We didn't pay attention. Attention. We didn't see it. We, we. We just. We might as well put a blanket over the puddle and let Robin Wansley walk across it. We were not paying.

[John Height]

Attention.

[Chris Reavers]

So. And I really have a beef with the people that run the Republican Party in this state. Why don't 8, 5 to 8 of the candidates that have thrown their hats in the ring for the governor, they need to get the hell out of there. We need to rally, get behind two candidates and get into office. This nonsense where this insane narcissistic pillow guy is running. You're just hurting everybody. You're hurting all of us. We need firm, strong leadership that knows how to win a race, and we don't have.

[Joe Soucheray]

It. The only thing Lindell brings is such a hatred of Trump that would almost guarantee a walls.

[Chris Reavers]

Victory. Victory.

[Joe Soucheray]

Absolutely. Now, the Republican Party, for my money, is not taking what I'm seeing seriously. No, they. They need to get their act together. Kenny's right. You get in a room and you try to be big people, you try to be adults. And if you want to save this country and save this state, you can't let every Tom, Dick and Harry run for governor. You better come up with the best people with the best experience who can appeal to the most people and get very serious about it or you're going to get your ass kicked.

[Chris Reavers]

Again. Congratulations. You're a lawyer. Nobody's heard about you. We don't know you. We know Lisa Daymuth. We know Kendall Qualtz. Let's.

[Kenny Olson]

Go. Screwing around, adding to the Mike Lindell list. You cannot possibly take Scott Jensen seriously.

[Chris Reavers]

Again. Absolutely.

[Kenny Olson]

Not. Because he was already thoroughly defeated by.

[Joe Soucheray]

Walt.

All I'm saying is I'm trying to stay on track of my service road.

[Chris Reavers]

Thoughts. I'm all over the place.

[Joe Soucheray]

Joe. We let this happen. This isn't. We can't claim to be victimized. This happened because we were enjoying life so much and the paychecks kept coming in and boy, it's time I got a new fishing boat. And. And we just let it.

[Kenny Olson]

Happen. Where are we going on spring.

[Joe Soucheray]

Break? That's right. Spring break became. It didn't become two days at Valley Fair. It became a week in.

[Kenny Olson]

Orlando. Hi, I'm.

[Joe Soucheray]

Andrew. So we let this happen. We had it good for so long that we just were asleep at the switch when these foul anti American people who hate the country and have bought this BS about what a horrible place it is, they took over. And now we sit here every day imagining. Imagining Garage Logic, which is nothing more than the United States that we remember. That's what Garage Logic is. It's a place where kids still kick chunks off cars and where people expect to stay home from school because it's five below and on and on and on. And so we're still to blame. We're American voters.

We didn't pay enough attention 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 40 years ago, 50 years ago, we weren't paying enough attention to what was happening. And here it is. It's on our doorstep. And another thing I would say about Assimilation is that.

Other ethnicities and cultures who moved to this country.

Had political representation come from within their ranks. Of course there were famous Irish politicians and famous politicians from the iron range and this, but. But you'd be hard pressed to find any of them who had an Ilhan Omar who was so specifically zeroed in on. She has said publicly she is here to fight for Somalia. She's not here to fight for America. And if she is, the America she's fighting for is not the one I'm describing. She's fighting for an America in which.

Her culture transported here will be considered the equal of any other.

[Kenny Olson]

Culture. I can help you. She's here for the America with their handout.

Go ahead and email.

[Joe Soucheray]

Me. But the handout is going to come to an end because all of that means that funded our not paying attention. All of that means that funded our taking this great American life for granted.

That's going to dry up. There isn't going to be that. I remember thinking thoughts along these lines when I read that great trio of books that I've recommended to you many.

[Bill]

Times. Tom Rob.

[Joe Soucheray]

Smith. Tom Rob Smith, child 44, the secret speech, and one other one. And it dawned on me that these novels, as factual, very factual and absolutely fascinating about Russia were taking place in. In 1958, in 1965. I was water.

[Kenny Olson]

Skiing. I was not paying.

[Joe Soucheray]

Attention. No, but I mean. And in Russia, somebody my age was a ward of this State and.

[Bill]

Child 44, the Secret Speech and Agent.

[Joe Soucheray]

6. And if you haven't read those, read them. It's unbelievable. All of that has come to us now.

We didn't care. We had no knowledge in 1965 of what the. And then I saw it again when I in Berlin a couple times and visited the museum at Checkpoint Charlie and saw how kids in East Berlin my age were living in 1963-1964-1965-6768, on and on till the wall finally came down.

It's here because we haven't paid attention.

Because the human need for power and control.

Is separate, I think, from the human need to lead the American life we've all led. In other words, to me, it's been enough to have an American life where you succeeded, you made a few bucks, you took care of your family and you got your kids educated and went to the lake. That was the. Okay. I didn't have a power for control. But the failed academy graduates, as they're marching out, they want control. They've been so sold on how foul this country is, they want to control it. They want to run it. They want to start over. They want to disabuse you of the greatness of the founders. They want to trample on capitalism. They don't buy any of it. And here we are at this point in.

[Chris Reavers]

History. Why all of those things you just listed, why? Is it because they don't have what those of us that have worked our asses off have? Yes, that's part of.

[Joe Soucheray]

It.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes. They want what we've worked for for free. Is that what it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is? That. And they didn't. Many of them. It's hard for me to believe Chug tie wanted to carve out a world of hard work for herself or Robin Wansley. They bring nothing except their own sense of their importance. And that's an importance based on nothing. They've achieved nothing. Nothing. And yet. And yet they think their importance is so powerful that it should be shared with the rest of.

[Chris Reavers]

Us.

Are they willing to do what I've seen, like even fellow classmates do from the early 80s, get up, open up the shop at 7am and work every day until 6pm? Are they willing to put in a lifetime of 11 hour days and 4 hours on.

[Joe Soucheray]

Saturday?

[Chris Reavers]

No. Just so they can achieve the American.

[Joe Soucheray]

Dream? No. And for a couple of reasons. A, they don't buy the American dream. That's what they've been taught in the failed academy. B.

Working for someone would be.

[Chris Reavers]

Oppressive. Well, I'm thinking of a guy that owns his own business. But why would they want to take what he's worked for his whole life? Why would they want to take that away from him and take that opportunity away from his kids or his.

[Joe Soucheray]

Grandkids? Because he's doing it wrong. He's not adhering to the power that they think is more valuable virtuous than.

[Chris Reavers]

His. Because he's not a lazy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Slob. Right.

Jeez. The why still begs a lot of research.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. I don't get.

[Joe Soucheray]

It. And thinking and more strolls on the service road of life. The why still bears a lot of thinking, but it's not a puzzle to me. It's not a surprise to me that the Chug ties of America are getting elected. That's not a surprise to me. We haven't paid.

[Chris Reavers]

Attention. You know, I see the people that have achieved every weekend. They come up on Thursdays and they stay through Sunday afternoon and they come up with skid loaders and $45,000 fish houses and $80,000 boats and they have beautiful places on the lake.

And it's not for me, but I don't. I don't bemoan or besmirch them or wish that they didn't have that. No, of course I don't understand that mentality. I don't get it. Where's the live and let live? Why are liberals anything but.

[Joe Soucheray]

Liberal? Live and let live is a great.

Foundation of.

[Chris Reavers]

America. Yeah, I don't want your five bathroom house, but if you want it, have at.

[Joe Soucheray]

It. Live and let live is a great foundation of living. Liberty. It's a great foundation of freedom. And.

[Chris Reavers]

Liberty. There's the word.

[Joe Soucheray]

Liberty. And that is being trampled. That is being.

[Chris Reavers]

Trampled. Liberty. You control your own.

[Bill]

Destiny. Okay? The.

[Joe Soucheray]

Monarchy. Controlling your own destiny is a great foundation of American liberty. The pursuit of happiness is a great foundation of American liberty. It's American liberty that is being.

[Chris Reavers]

Contested.

[Bill]

Yep. But the Hmong people that came over, they still have their Hmong New Year and they do their dress up.

[Joe Soucheray]

And stuff because they were smart enough to know that this is a society worth adhering to. Western civilization is the.

[Bill]

Answer. They bought it and then they were the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Last. They didn't go to the failed.

[Chris Reavers]

Academy. Liberty, the. The definition, the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, life, behavior, or political views. That is what's in question here. Our liberty is being taken.

[Joe Soucheray]

Away. So the same young people who think that work is oppressive are now willing to be the oppressors.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Why? You better take your final.

[Kenny Olson]

Break. We already.

[Chris Reavers]

Did. Only because you have the liberty, Joe. You have the power or the scope to act as one. Please. Being the mayor of garage.

[Joe Soucheray]

Lodging. Damn right I do.

[Bill]

John. What do you.

[Joe Soucheray]

Think? Don't be kicking your neighbor's chunks.

Well, where are we on our Lyman escapades? Where are we? They're at day 38 at sea, and a port of call is Benoa, Bali, Indonesia. They're in.

[Ilhan Omar]

Bali.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wow. And.

[Chris Reavers]

Beautiful. How long did it take to get on a wooden ship in Europe and make your way across the ocean to the United States? It had to be less than 38.

[Joe Soucheray]

Days. No, it's about three.

[Chris Reavers]

Months. Oh, oh, oh, how scurvy. I'll.

[Joe Soucheray]

Fly. It's only because they come to us from the traveling lineman's. It was on this day.

[Kenny Olson]

Joe. Today is December.

[Joe Soucheray]

4Th. Well, on this day in 1855, during Alexander Ramsey's term as mayor of St. Paul, the city council established its first professional fire department, which succeeded a volunteer hook and ladder company and inherited its equipment, including an engine, ladders, ropes, hooks and Axes as well as a church bell donated by the Reverend Edward D. Neal. It was on this day, December 4th, in 1860, the local telegraph office opened in St. Anthony. That's now Northeast Minneapolis, following the St. Paul and Minneapolis offices in linking Minnesota cities to the rest of the world by means of electric wires strung on poles.

On this day, December 4th. By the way, the book by Neil Williams that I've told you to read is called this.

This is Happiness is the story of a village in Ireland in about 1958 that finally gets.

[Bill]

Electricity. Author's Corner with Joe Sucere. The countdown.

[Joe Soucheray]

Continues. Bam. Thank you. On this day, December 4, in 1928, a car bomb killed dapper Dan Hogan, owner of St. Paul's notorious Green Lantern speaky and longtime boss of the city's underworld. Yep, we would have been better off if Dapper Dan Hogan was still running things. On this day, December 4th, in 1993, the Ramsey County Courthouse reopened after the completion of a $48 million renovation. The Art Deco building, which was built in 1932, and from its within its walls, we have now high had to hide the beautiful.

Art Deco era murals because God forbid, that might suggest oppression or victimization. That's not in here. The art deco building, which was built in 1932, featured 20 different types of marble murals by John Norton. You're not gonna see.

[Bill]

Those. They.

[Joe Soucheray]

Gone. And a gold leaf ceiling, the kind you would now see in the White.

[John Height]

House.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right. Because he's got that pimped out like something crazy.

On this day in Minnesota, sports disappointment.

[Kenny Olson]

History. Who'd we lose to on December.

[Joe Soucheray]

4Th? Well, in 1966, on this day, Fran Tarkenton was benched in.

[Kenny Olson]

Atlanta.

[Joe Soucheray]

Really? Yeah. I don't know why. On this day, December 4th, in 2013, the Timberwolves had a game in Mexico, but it was canceled due to an escalator fire. That was that long ago there was time is really.

[Kenny Olson]

Flying. Don't you remember the scene from the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Arena?

I thought that was like two.

[Kenny Olson]

Years. You can't trust those Mexican.

[Joe Soucheray]

Escalators. No, that's.

[Kenny Olson]

Racist. That's why we need American.

[Joe Soucheray]

Escalators. That's racist of you to say.

[Bill]

That. Did people just get stranded on the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Escalator? No, the building.

[Chris Reavers]

Was. Escalators are the only thing that when they break down, they still.

[Kenny Olson]

Work.

[Chris Reavers]

Right. Because they turn into.

[Joe Soucheray]

Stairs. That's.

[Bill]

Right. What escalator were we we walking by where they have the spikes in between? And I said, you know why they have.

[Joe Soucheray]

Those? So you don't slide down them.

[Bill]

Right. Because if the escalator breaks down, you got to get off there and you have to go down and you don't want to slide all the way.

[Joe Soucheray]

Down.

[Bill]

Huh? Have you seen those? The spikes that come up.

[Joe Soucheray]

From. Well, you don't want to slide in with your swimsuit area into a.

[Chris Reavers]

Spike. Or you could just.

[Bill]

See. Or you could just walk down the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Escalator. That's not.

[Bill]

Working.

Okay, copy that. We start early today, did.

[Joe Soucheray]

We? I don't.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Josh Arnold]

Josh? Well, let's, let's just start with favorite Amazon. And I know that I took a little victory lap yesterday, yesterday with Apple hitting, hitting a new high. Apple today is pulling, pulling back. And of course the talking head are wondering is all the good news priced into Apple? Not all the good news is priced into Apple, but we're getting to that time of year when companies like Apple which has been on a little tear over the last month, or Amazon which is bouncing off a low, or Google which has been on a very big run large Players and small players are starting to look to the year end and you might want to do this as well and balance off some of your winners versus some of your losers losers. So we'll do a tax tax harvesting ahead of the ahead of the crowd. If you do have any tax tax losses can take them and you can report up to $3,000 of tax loss against your income. But if you have a loss in any stock and do want to go back into it still count that loss. You have to wait 30 days before you you do. So if you have a gain in the stock, well you can sell it and then go back into it right away establishing a new and higher cost base. That might be going on with Apple but it also might be we'll go to Amazon first. It also might be that money's coming out of Apple and Amazon and Google and moving into Meta, another large capitalization stock or even moving back into Nvidia, probably the largest capitalization stock by by market market weight reports coming from the Washington Post said that the U.S. postal Service has opened up an auction for their services and that could preclude Amazon from using using the US Postal Service for delivery. Now Amazon has been in negotiations with U.S. postal Service for the last year on we'll say getting or continuing to get preferential price pricing for domestic delivery. Should this go this deal with the US Postal Service not go the way that Amazon might want? Well Amazon could be forced to spend more money on their own delivery service services or contracted delivery services. Market players do not like when companies increase spending, particularly when they they question how soon it will be till they get a return on invest. Amazon meanwhile has always been acting like a startup even as big as it is and they want to maintain that startup mindset looking for a maximum growth growth to provide maximum customer benefit that's across whether it's retail, whether it's advertising, whether it's logistics or whether it's with their Amazon Web Services portion. And Amazon Web Services has helped we'll say power of the stock on moving forward. I do believe that over a period of time that Amazon does represent some pretty pretty good value going forward with all the off meantime otherwise reports is that Mark Zuckerberg of Meta is going to be cutting spending on his Meta Metaverse projects and the market jumped up and down with that. When we say cutting spending it also means reducing a headcount on what the market has perceived and analysts have perceived as a wish in the in the virtual world without much in the way of return means that time Meta has been spending a lot on artificial intelligence and they could be another winner that that domain.

Meta has pulled back significantly since they reported their earnings last month.

But today is up and looks to be a share taker. Meanwhile, the largest company by market capitalization, Nvidia has had a nice jump today. Nvidia has a lot of cash and I know that many have been looking at the spending that has gone on in the artificial intelligence unit universe and particularly with the amount of spending that Nvidia has done investing in other companies.

Well, Nvidia's cash pile has grown from 13 billion two years ago to over 60 billion today. So Nvidia Idiot.

Is a definitely a cash generator. Now with this excess cash can use that cash to expand.

I'll say their expand their reach.

Or pay a dividend or buy back shares. All them of all of which should be beneficial on a longer term basis to Nvidia shareholders. Yes, the Art of While there is bubble Talk about AI.

I just don't see.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Josh Arnold]

Week. Look forward to it. Thanks.

[John Height]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[John Height]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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