1/7 ICE raid in South Minneapolis turns deadly

Summary

Garage Logic Podcast Summary Episode: 1/7 ICE Raid in South Minneapolis Turns Deadly
Date: January 7, 2026
Host: Joe Soucheray ("The Mayor") with Chris Reivers, Kenny Olson, John Haidt, Gabe, and others

Overview

This Garage Logic episode dives into the ongoing turmoil of fraud and maladministration within Minnesota state agencies, culminating in extensive conversation around a deadly ICE-involved shooting in South Minneapolis. The hosts blend current political commentary, lived listener experiences, local government criticism, and pointed humor, staying true to the show's "common sense" ethos.

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Main Episodes & Key Discussion Points

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1. Minnesota Welfare Fraud Hearings in Washington, D.C.

[00:35–10:10]

• The podcast opens as Joe and the crew follow live Congressional hearings regarding fraud in Minnesota's welfare programs.
• Local representatives (Walter Hudson, Marion Rarick, Kristen Robbins, Lisa Demuth) are grilled by members of Congress (notably Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib).
• Criticism of some lawmakers (especially Pressley and Tlaib) for deflecting from Minnesota-specific fraud and instead invoking national topics like January 6th and pardons of other figures such as George Santos.
• The group expresses frustration over the lack of direct accountability or focus on Minnesota issues.

Memorable moment:

"All she's interested in doing is putting on a correct show for the people who support her. She has no desire to straighten anything out for the people of Minnesota." – Joe Soucheray [08:42]

• The segment transitions to humor and exasperation about the political climate, with the hosts mock-lamenting the "promo-wrestling" nature of politics.

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2. Revelation of Systemic Fraud in Behavioral Health Administration

[10:10–16:53]

• Joe outlines findings from a Legislative Auditor’s report on the Minnesota Department of Human Services’ Behavioral Health Administration, which gave out $200M in grants in a single year without adequate oversight.
• Instances included a grantee being paid $672,000 for one month of undocumented work, grant managers backdating/fabricating documents, and revolving-door employment between overseers and recipients.
• Judy Randall (Legislative Auditor) called the systemic efforts at covering the issue "very troubling."
• The group lambasts state government, arguing this is not a partisan but a "right and wrong" issue.

Notable quote:

"The Legislative Auditor report shows a complete breakdown... There is not a single reason that any voter in Minnesota should trust the government of Minnesota." – Joe Soucheray [15:44]

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3. Political Outlook: DFL Accountability, Local Leaders, and Migration

[16:53–22:24]

• Kenny asks if this is a Democratic Party problem; Joe affirms, citing one-party rule and lack of Democratic apologies.
• Speculation on future leadership in Minnesota – whether Amy Klobuchar will run for governor; Joe doubts her prospects given "the state is in such foul, foul trouble."
• Discussion of Dean Phillips’ absence in the gubernatorial race, suggesting internal Democratic rifts.

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4. Personal Impact: Listener Email Illustrates Minnesota’s Economic Strain

[36:17–46:45]

• Joe reads a detailed letter from local business owner Tom Cullen expressing outrage over government mismanagement, skyrocketing property taxes (citing a 27% YOY increase), leaving St. Paul for Wisconsin, and his daughter’s family relocating due to high costs and poor public schools.
• The letter crystallizes the real-world impacts of Minnesota’s policy failures.

Quote:

"This is the real cost of the daily failures we see at the state, county and city level. And it is a crisis that demands immediate, serious attention. I am finished funding a system that shows no restraint, no accountability and no respect for the people who make this state work." – Tom Cullen (via Soucheray) [41:38]

• Joe and Kenny discuss the exodus of productive citizens from the state and lack of basic competence among elected officials.

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5. Breaking News: Deadly ICE Shooting in South Minneapolis

[29:00–35:02], [50:57–56:56], [90:22–91:04]

• John Haidt announces breaking news: During an ICE operation in the Powderhorn community, a woman was shot and killed by ICE agents after allegedly trying to ram agents with her car while protesting/obstructing the operation.
• The woman’s identity was initially unknown; she was thought to be in her 40s and acting as a protester.
• Debate ensues on whether the force was justified, and whether this tragedy was “inevitable.”
• The hosts relay Mayor Jacob Frey’s fiery press conference, where he tells ICE to "get the fuck out of Minneapolis" and blames them for chaos.

Quote:

"And I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here... and now somebody is dead. That’s on you." – Mayor Jacob Frey ([52:29])

• Joe and the crew discuss appropriate ICE strategies (“focus only on most serious criminals, with a plan, in/out operations, no optics”), dangers of escalation, and the lack of public understanding of ICE’s actual processes.

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6. Fraud, Urban Decline & Policy Frustrations

[45:23–48:02], [76:00–83:52]

• Joe blames the hiring of unqualified “professional activists” into city and state government for the decline in Minnesota’s competence and prosperity.
• The hosts discuss schools, taxes, property values, and ideological fissures (“failed academy” producing leaders with no practical skills).
• Colorful critique of “collectivist” housing policies and the hypocrisy of certain public officials (notably Cea Weaver, who campaigns against homeownership while benefiting from family wealth).

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7. National & International News, Calls for Unity, Trade Skills

[61:50–72:46]

• Quick takes on national headlines: Venezuela, January 6th webpage, congressional deaths.
• Conversation shifts to the U.S.’s deep political divide and whether national crisis (grid, 9/11-style event) could unify the country; majority are skeptical.
• Joe plug: Shortage of mechanics and skilled trades; strong incomes and opportunities compared to degrees in “German horror stories.”

Quote:

“The world is hungry for people who can fix things.” – Joe Soucheray [71:51]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments with Timestamps

• "All she's interested in doing is putting on a correct show for the people who support her. She has no desire to straighten anything out for the people of Minnesota." – Joe Soucheray [08:42]
• "There is not a single reason that any voter in Minnesota should trust the government of Minnesota." – Joe Soucheray [15:44]
• "If Minnesota continues down this path, the Minnesota we knew... will simply cease to exist." – Tom Cullen, read by Joe Soucheray [41:38]
• "Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here... now somebody is dead. That's on you." – Mayor Jacob Frey [52:29]
• "The world is hungry for people who can fix things." – Joe Soucheray [71:51]

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Segment Timestamps

• Congressional Hearings, MN Fraud: 00:35–10:10
• Behavioral Health Fraud & Oversight: 10:10–16:53
• Political Analysis & State Prospects: 16:53–22:24
• Listener Letter (Economic Strains): 36:17–46:45
• ICE Shooting in Minneapolis (Breaking & Updates): 29:00–35:02, 50:57–56:56, 90:22–91:04
• Public Admin Critique & Urban Woes: 45:23–48:02, 76:00–83:52
• National News/Social Unity/Trade Value: 61:50–72:46

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Tone & Language

• True to Garage Logic’s style: conversational, critical (especially of political and bureaucratic inefficiency), peppered with humor, disbelief at current events, and a sense of nostalgia for “common sense.”
• Language is often blunt, sometimes irreverent (“promo-wrestling,” “show business,” “pigging out at the trough”), but balanced with earnest concern for the community.

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Conclusion

This episode fuses up-to-the-minute local news (ICE shooting), legislative oversight failures, the ongoing exodus of productive citizens, and dissatisfaction with City and State leadership into a tapestry of pointed, principled, and sometimes comic Midwestern critique. The crew grounds their angry puzzlement with calls for practical solutions and common sense, exemplified by calls for improved government accountability, a return to trade skills, and more responsive public service.

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For anyone needing just the facts—this is a dense, insight-rich episode on the current social and governmental challenges facing Minnesota, with an added breaking-news element that frames and contextualizes the state’s deepening civic issues.

Transcript

[Chris Reivers]

We are rolling.

[Joe Suchore]

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[Chris Reivers]

Hail the Flashlight King.

[Joe Suchore]

Hail you. And now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Logic with Chris Reivers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the Krabby Coffee shop, John Height in the newsroom, and of course the rookie here is your Flashlight King, fireworks. And the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Suchore. We have Minnesotans representing us who are in Washington D.C. today testifying about the fraud in Minnesota, which unbelievably enough, this the seventh day into the new year is now worse than we thought it was yesterday.

[Kenny Olson]

Every day.

[Joe Suchore]

And I can't play it because I will go crazy.

[Chris Reivers]

Let's do a game. No G. Ellers. Let's see how long Joe will make it.

[Joe Suchore]

Well, but grilling our Christian Robbins, Marion Rorick and Walter Hudson. Walter Hudson are the likes of Ayanna Presley.

[Chris Reivers]

Simon, there's Ben Mace. There's been a lot of people.

[Joe Suchore]

And particularly odious is this Presley character who had zero interest in discussing the fraud in Minnesota.

[Chris Reivers]

She brought up January 6th. She brought up the pardon of Santos. She brought up. There was another thing she brought up that had nothing to do with Minnesota.

[Joe Suchore]

We have elected people who fight for their own team and don't care about us. It's that simple. You got a handful of people who care. I think Marion Rarick's the real deal. She's trying to. Walter. Walter's a real deal. Christian Robbins is doing her best. Lisa Daymuth is doing her best. But you, you. Can you play some of the Presley stuff or is that. Or do you just have it live?

[Chris Reivers]

I. I'd love to just. Let's just take a live listen and shall we?

[Joe Suchore]

I. I will try not to go nuts. I'll try not to interrupt it. But we're not going to play it very long. Otherwise I will go nuts.

[Chris Reivers]

Gabriel, will you find out who Ms. Simon is for me, please? Thank you.

[Joe Suchore]

Simon.

[Rashida Tlaib]

The reducing of SNAP benefits.

[Joe Suchore]

Wait a minute.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Stocking Taking.

[Joe Suchore]

No. Is that trust?

[Chris Reivers]

This is Simon.

[Joe Suchore]

I don't know who Simon is.

[Chris Reivers]

Simon says you better listen to this clip.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Stopping of clinical trials for sick babies. What we will do as Democrats is acknowledge that fraud is fraud. What we will not do is allow a conversation to go on to problematize immigrants in this country problem at large.

[Joe Suchore]

You made up a little.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Imagine a society where we took the law.

[Joe Suchore]

Stop this. Stop this.

[Chris Reivers]

She is a Democrat from California.

[Joe Suchore]

Let's try to be helpful here to the listener. These are hearings that are taking place today right now. Simon seems uninterested in discussing fraud in Minnesota. But nothing tops this Elvis Presley when she gets to it.

[Gabe]

Problematize is a word make into or regard as a problem.

[Joe Suchore]

Man. I knew what it meant. I was just. I've never heard it used.

[Gabe]

I've never heard it used used before either. It's with a Z. Oh God.

[Chris Reivers]

You ain't going to make her through.

[Gabe]

A longer word is problemization.

[Joe Suchore]

What do you is what do you have for us, Chris?

[Chris Reivers]

I have the live feed and I thought that that's you wanted to check.

[Joe Suchore]

Is that what you just touched base with? Yes, that's happening as we speak as.

[Chris Reivers]

This is the live action Every child.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Collective punishment is what the folks across the aisle want to build on Brand.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh of course I would have an ad. Give me one second.

[Kenny Olson]

What's amazing Joe is how they take the fraud and they immediately turn it into Islamophobia.

[Chris Reivers]

Right.

[Kenny Olson]

Right away. They don't even want to talk about the fraud.

[Joe Suchore]

See, that's the problem. We can't agree on anything anymore. In a normal world everyone in America would agree that fraud's bad.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Do their fair share. And yet because we are so angry at a small few folks who in fact broke the law that we want to create a collective punishment for all poor people, working families who are trying to do their best.

[Joe Suchore]

I don't understand this.

[Rashida Tlaib]

I don't have any questions because they have been answered. This is a politic of cruelty. This is a politician of anti family. This is a politics poverty. And for someone who grew up in poverty I know how it feels when you wait and wait and wait to just get a chance to do better. And folks who've never met you, talk to you, believe in you or love you are telling you you are not worth it. That is what this administration is doing.

[Joe Suchore]

A million times.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Of this halting effect.

[Joe Suchore]

In order to play Presley. What do you have to do?

[Chris Reivers]

Give me a second.

[Gabe]

So why can't.

[Joe Suchore]

Because ladies and gentlemen of the press, you won't believe this. So we got Walter Hudson, Mary Rare and Kristen Robbins. Some others they fly out there because they were summoned to and this is what they're hearing. They're like walls. It's an anti trump Rant. There's plenty of reasons to have anti Trump rants, but Trump did not commit the FR. Fraud in Minnesota. He just didn't do it. I'm sorry. He just didn't commit the fraud in Minnesota.

[Gabe]

Why can't they be more specific? To say item B is you let 72 million go to. John Q Said.

[Kenny Olson]

I will not stand for this hate against our immigrant communities.

[Joe Suchore]

That's what it's turned into.

[John Haidt]

Yes.

[Joe Suchore]

The whole thing is an otter. They're honoring the fraud.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Thank you, Mr. Bello.

[Joe Suchore]

Ma', am. I would have to look at the law and the facts of the case. We cannot know the facts of all these individual cases.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Don't deflect.

[Joe Suchore]

This is a very obnoxious person. Is Presley.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Santos is. You know exactly what he did. We just agreed that, you know, fraud is unacceptable. And so. And you just talked about accountability. You said if people commit fraud and exploit the public good that they should be incarcerated. So this is not a complicated question. So I will give you all one more opportunity. Ms. Robbins, Mr. Hudson and Ms. Rarick, raise your hand if you oppose the pardon of George Santos.

[John Haidt]

Not playing this game.

[Rashida Tlaib]

It's not a game. It's real life.

[Joe Suchore]

It's not a game at all.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Okay. But I will take your refusal to go on record not only as cowardice, but that you do agree with that pardon of that fraudster.

[Joe Suchore]

Moving on.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Donald Trump also gave, and this has never been done before, presidential pardons to corporations that committed fraud. One example is the crypto company BitMEX that violated US law and was fined $100 million. Now, raise your hand if you oppose Trump's pardon of this crypto company.

[John Haidt]

Not participating.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Thank you, Mr. Ballou. Okay, again, I'll take your refusal to not.

[Joe Suchore]

Stop a moment. Stop a moment. This is pointless. It was pointless for Rick Robbins and Hudson. This is pointless. She said to them, raise your hand if you oppose the pardon of Santos. I doubt if any of. Oh, I would imagine that the likes of Marion Rarick would have opposed the pardon of Santos, but that's not why they're there.

[Gabe]

Where is the chairman of whatever this is to say he did step in? Stop. We gotta keep. That's what a judge would do in a court of law. Say, stick to the point when her.

[Chris Reivers]

Time, whatever it is, John, I don't know if it's two minutes, three minutes, Whatever it was, whatever her time did yield. Is it comer. Whoever was in charge said, okay, we gotta move on, and she went off.

[Joe Suchore]

All she's interested in doing is putting on a correct show for the people who support her. In fact, all she's interested in doing is preserving her position in this luxurious Life in Washington D.C. she has no desire to straighten anything out for the people of Minnesota.

[Chris Reivers]

In fact, it was pointed out once she was done, done saying, well, congratulations, you're now going to be on msnbc. And that was said a couple of different times.

[Kenny Olson]

Once she was done, was Marion and the other two, were they appointed and forced to go or did they volunteer?

[Joe Suchore]

I would imagine that because of their roles on the committee here, they were asked to go.

[Kenny Olson]

It seems like they're according to this deflector who says don't deflect, that they're representing Trump. Doesn't it seem like that? You know what I mean?

[Joe Suchore]

It's a sad state of affairs. This is, this was all.

[Gabe]

This is a waste of time.

[Kenny Olson]

It had nothing to do with the fraud in Minnesota.

[Joe Suchore]

Now, as I said, unbelievable as it might seem, it's gotten worse. Where is it? We have.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what that whole thing is, Joe? It's just show business. That's all it is.

[Joe Suchore]

That thing out in Washington, it's like.

[Kenny Olson]

It'S the, the, it's like the promos between wrestling match.

[John Haidt]

Thank you.

[Kenny Olson]

It's Jesse talking to mean Gene.

[Chris Reivers]

Let me tell you what I'm gonna do.

[Joe Suchore]

We now learn that the Behavioral Health Administration within the Department of Human Services. And remember Minnesota's problem is too many agencies, too many different administrations. The Behavioral Health Administration within the Department of Human Services, which issues grants to providers treating mental health and drug and alcohol addiction, they got grants of $200 million last year. Jeez. The nonpartisan Office of the Legislative Auditor found many examples of this bureau mismanaging the money and then fabricating documents to try to cover their tracks in a systemic effort. One finding, the auditors approached a grantee who was paid 672 grand for one month of work without any information on what they did. And the audit says the grant manager who paid it then left DHS a few days later and became a paid consultant for that company. There were multiple examples, can you imagine, of issuing grants to one or more organizations without requiring a bidding process? So what we saw in there were multiple entities that could have been eligible and they chose not to provide justification for why they were picking those. Said one member of the audit team. Legislative Auditor Judy Randall says she was shocked that during the audit, multiple Department of Human Service managers backdated or created new documents who had this. Is this Lou Raguse? Carol Evan? Is it Ragus?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. He's one of them. Yep.

[Joe Suchore]

Finally, in my 27 plus years I've been with the Office of Legislative Auditor, I've never seen this before. I will say we've had suspicions periodically, but we've never been able to prove it to document it, and we did in this case and it's very troubling. Judy Randall said temporary commissioner Shereen Gandhi's response was I was shocked to hear this information and it is absolutely unacceptable that any staff would provide anything other than the accurate representation of the work done to an auditor. She said, in a perfect world, I don't Walz has lied about firing people. I'm unaware of any people who've been fired. Now this addiction deal, this made national news. The fabrication of this information, only with Fox, you won't get it in the conventional news gatherers. The country is ruined in that regard. No one can see right from wrong. A major audit in Minnesota conducted by the Office of the Legislative Auditor found widespread failures in internal control and the Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Administration grant program. Now I just went through this, but this is a Fox version. They dished out more than 425 million in grants to 830 organizations, the majority being non governmental and did not show proper oversight in watching over those funds, which in many cases were meant to help those with addiction and mental health issues. Missing progress reports were common. Nobody monitored visits. There was no documentation at all for some of those grants. And then they had the backdated or newly created documents that did not exist before the audit, suggesting an effort to retroactively manufacture paperwork to show compliance. Here's the beauty. In one instance, the report found that a grant manager approved 600 grand and later left the agency to work for the guy who got the 600 grand.

[Kenny Olson]

Do you have his name? It's not in my copy here.

[Joe Suchore]

It's not in mine either.

[Gabe]

What did he resign from?

[Joe Suchore]

Oh look, he designed from the Behavioral Health administration, which is one of the 14,000 ways the Department of Human Services gives away money.

[Kenny Olson]

So what was the human toll as a result of this? How many people?

[Joe Suchore]

A lot of people weren't getting help.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, we don't have a number on that though.

[Joe Suchore]

The Legislative Auditor report shows a complete breakdown in how the Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Administration manages hundreds of millions in taxpayer funded grants. The Behavioral Health Administration failed to verify that grantees were providing services that were paid for, failed to put basic financial controls in place and then created documentation after the fact to mislead auditors. There is not a single reason that any voter in Minnesota should trust the government of Minnesota.

[John Haidt]

Yep.

[Joe Suchore]

There's not a single reason you can trust the government of Minnesota even though you're diligent and law abiding when you write your checks to pay your taxes.

[Kenny Olson]

In your eyes, is this a partisan issue?

[Joe Suchore]

No, this is a right and wrong issue. This is just human life.

[Kenny Olson]

I mean, in the past 24 hours, seen a lot of social media, granted, and we've been hearing it for years. Blaming the entire Democratic Party with no Republicans being shown any kind of heat or anything at all. Do you go with that?

[Joe Suchore]

Well, it's a Democratic problem in the sense that these are Democratic programs. It's a Democratic problem in the sense that this is a completely Democratic administration. Yeah, it's a Democratic problem in the sense that. Have you ever heard any Democrats stepping forward to express their regret and apologies for this behavior?

[Kenny Olson]

I see a lot of deflecting, Joe.

[Joe Suchore]

None.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I'm sure they're there somewhere. Right. But they don't dare go against the party. But that's what we need.

[Joe Suchore]

God. We were going to start the show with John and I apologize.

[Chris Reivers]

But wait a minute. Joe Wall said he's not going to seek reelection because he's going to concentrate on cracking down on the fraud.

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah, but there's something else you need to know. Well, that's. He's lying.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, okay.

[Kenny Olson]

We've got to get this in before the end of the show.

[Gabe]

So why is this everything I'm looking for? About that grant, it just says an unnamed grant manager. How can that. How can he still be unnamed?

[Joe Suchore]

Maybe he's the guy who keyed cars.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, yeah, Remember that, by the way?

[Kenny Olson]

He was put in a program, I think, wasn't he?

[Joe Suchore]

Oh, you got diversion.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

Diversionary program repel. Republican Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is working to strip more than a million dollars. A million dollars. You can find that in the couches at the safari. Republican Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is working to strip more than a million of federal funds earmarked for a Somali led Minnesota addiction recovery organization that shares an address with the Somali restaurant. This is an Omar. An Ilan Omar. Request an earmark. She would like a million bucks to. The scale and frequency of fraud in Minnesota is staggering. But I fear it's just the tip of the iceberg. Ernst told Fox News Digital. Because again, I don't see this Dr. Buen rushing to quote Joni Ernst. Congress owes it to the American people to clean up the mess instead of letting the same politicians who created it keep pigging out at the trough. I am putting a stop to the madness. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Capitol Hill lawmakers unveiled a new spending package Monday that totaled 174 billion and is slated to receive a vote from lawmakers later this week. Ernst's office found that Ilhan OMAR had earmarked $1,031,000 through the Department of Justice for a group called Generation Hope in Minneapolis. The earmark is co led by Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith. Generation Hope is a 501 that was established in 2019 to create a better, safer and more connected community for individuals experiencing drug addict and substance disorders in the greater East African community. And then if you need the help, I guess you go to the upstairs room at the safari, because that's where I'd go to get some help. I'd go.

[Chris Reivers]

I think you misspoke. You misspoke. You said 174 billion.

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah. No, a billion. That's just a new spending package going through Congress.

[Kenny Olson]

And that's all going to the East African.

[Joe Suchore]

No, no, no, no. That's just their whole. It's a generalized current spending package, and they'll tap into that for butterfly research in Arkansas and this and that and the other thing. And Ilhan threw her hat into the ring and said, I need a mill for this addiction outfit, Generation Hope in Minneapolis. They come at night. Now, do we have any evidence that it's a fraud? We don't know. But I don't like our chances with Ilhan and Safari involved. I just don't like our chances being Islamophobic.

[Kenny Olson]

And I thought you said Amy was also involved.

[Joe Suchore]

Amy, she authored the bill. They. They. They approved the mill.

[Chris Reivers]

Sorry.

[Joe Suchore]

Approved.

[Kenny Olson]

Boy, they better be going through their history with a fine tooth comb. I predict that Amy will not run for governor. We're going to find something.

[Joe Suchore]

I. I had a deep thought as I attempted to walk the service road of life yesterday. You know, I have. No. I've known Amy a long time.

[Kenny Olson]

Since she was a kid.

[Joe Suchore]

Yep. I've known Amy a long, long time. And as much as on the face of it, anything's an improvement over walls, including Amy. I wouldn't run if I was Amy. And I'll tell you why.

[Chris Reivers]

Nakata. You want to know why?

[Joe Suchore]

Because on a Connie, you want to know why? I think this state is in such foul, foul trouble that I think for Democrats to dfl to earn back the trust of Minnesotans is almost an impossible task right now. She would start the job behind the starting line. She would start the Job in suspicion in my estimation. I'm not suggesting she's stuffing her pockets. I'm saying she starts the job as merely the torch carrier for the guy who failed miserably and has really done nothing whatsoever to mitigate his failures. Nothing. So she starts in the hole.

[Kenny Olson]

Compare her to a democratic complete unknown that has all the street cred to run.

[Joe Suchore]

The only one I got is Dean Phillips.

[Kenny Olson]

That's pretty good. Joe.

[Chris Reivers]

So you're saying it would almost be like Amy would be the new manager of the White Sox.

[Joe Suchore]

Exactly.

[Chris Reivers]

Your team is such a dysfunctional mess.

[Joe Suchore]

You're in a bad dysfunctional team and you just. By the nature of humanity you will not be trusted. I wouldn't trust your no.

[Kenny Olson]

So I don't have anything personal against Dean Phillips. But I cannot figure out why he is not interested. Does he just not want to dirty his hands?

[Gabe]

Don't throw me in the briar patch.

[Kenny Olson]

Maybe he doesn't want to get involved. Exactly. Or is it something else? My conspiracy.

[Chris Reivers]

Kenny. You know what I think it is? They turned on him when he called out Biden. And I think he raised up the double guns and said he disturbed the rail.

[Joe Suchore]

He disturbed the life quality of the third rail.

[Chris Reivers]

He went against the club.

[Joe Suchore]

And I'm being told by mansplainers that we misused the term third rail. I know that. But that's what we're gonna call it. Okay. It has something to do with electricity or something. I don't.

[Gabe]

Don't grab the third rail.

[Kenny Olson]

And the's always there to tell us.

[Gabe]

Where we're subway third rail is.

[Chris Reivers]

You know who you need to help explain.

[Joe Suchore]

I think you're on the right track.

[Gabe]

Yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

It's the middle rail.

[Joe Suchore]

We're the but we just mean it as we live our lives. And they're living on a different level. It's funny. Let's call it the third level.

[Kenny Olson]

I've known that all along. And I never bothered to vocal.

[Josh Arnold]

I wasn't paying attention.

[Chris Reivers]

We need an electricity expert. Have your gopher basketball guy on you want.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

Mark. Mark home?

[Chris Reivers]

No.

[Joe Suchore]

Was it?

[Chris Reivers]

What are you studying?

[Joe Suchore]

Mark?

[Chris Reivers]

Electricity.

[Kenny Olson]

How's that garage door doing?

[Joe Suchore]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Suchore]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Suchore]

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[Gabe]

Canned.

[Joe Suchore]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Suchore]

There too.

[Kenny Olson]

South Minneapolis, Minnetonka, Richfield and all Virginia.

[Chris Reivers]

You can buy it wherever the hell you are.

[Kenny Olson]

North America. It's obviously the proven choice of all of us mechanics and GL ers and all sorts of people that just rely on their cylinders every single day. You add it to the gas, it solves upper engine problems, carburetor intake problems. Put it in the crankcase and it's going to clean out all the carbon and gunk that plugs up your oil filter. And the best part, Joe?

[Joe Suchore]

No, I'm sorry, I was looking at it.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Suchore]

We need to turn to John Haidt right now for developing news that will become certainly national news.

[John Haidt]

A woman was shot by an ICE agent this morning in Minneapolis, and that woman has now died, According to the U.S. department of Homeland Security. In a statement, Assistant DHS Secretary Trisha McLaughlin said that protesters blocked U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement with a car, allegedly tried to run them over, something she called an act of domestic terrorism. That's when an ICE officer opened fire and killed the woman. No ICE agents were hurt as of right now. I was just looking at some live video. The shooting has drawn a large crowd, protesters and law enforcement to the area of Portland Avenue and 34th street in the city's Powderhorn community. Reporters on the scene from 5 Eyewitness News saw an area blocked off with a Large number of U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the intersection. Chopper footage showed an SUV appearing to be carrying federal agents deploying chemical irritants as it tried to escape through an alley. Several city officials and MPD officers were at the scene. Apparently, there was supposed to be. At 12:15, the city going to hold a press conference with the mayor, Mayor Fry, and also with Chief o' Hara to give some more information about this that has not started yet that I can find anywhere. Channel 55 Eyewitness News does have a video shot from a window of a house where the shooting happened, and it's. It's hard to discern, you know, any great details from that. Looks like cars are trying to go by the ICE agents.

[Chris Reivers]

Gabe just showed me an X video, by the way, of this encounter, and she did ra. Or she blocked a couple of ICE vehicles, but then she also rammed another one as well.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, there was a vehicle right in front of her that took off, and an ICE vehicle immediately took off after that vehicle. And then she tried to leave with an officer standing there.

[Kenny Olson]

Is she going to be turned into a martyr and a hero?

[Joe Suchore]

Yes. So, John, these. The woman who was shot was drive. Was behind the wheel of a car.

[John Haidt]

Correct? It was a Honda Pilot.

[Chris Reivers]

It was a Honda Pilot.

[Joe Suchore]

And she was in the act of ramming ICE vehicles?

[John Haidt]

No, she was going around, you know, the streets in Minneapolis, kind of narrow. ICE had vehicles on both sides of the streets parked, and it looked like a line of cars was trying to go through. Like I said, one went through right before her, and an ICE vehicle chased it. Then she started going and wanted to go, but there was a ICE agent standing there there who ended up.

[Joe Suchore]

Do we even know. Was she someone ICE was interested in? Do we even know that? No, none of that might have been Mrs. Kravitz trying to go to target?

[Kenny Olson]

No, no, no.

[Joe Suchore]

She was deliberately trying to.

[Chris Reivers]

She was deliberately trying to interfere with ice.

[Gabe]

She was a Karen.

[John Haidt]

She protester. There's all kind. Joe. I have. I have many friends on Facebook who have been the last two days posting. They're following ICE around and telling where ICE is at. So that's. I'm guessing she was that sort of. Well, I shouldn't get.

[Gabe]

Offering footsoles and things.

[Chris Reivers]

That's a very, very educated guess.

[Kenny Olson]

That's a safe assumption.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Joe Suchore]

Yes. Yeah.

[John Haidt]

So I'm guessing that she was following ICE and trying to report where they were.

[Joe Suchore]

She could have been from Minnetonka. We don't know.

[Gabe]

Right.

[Joe Suchore]

We don't know where she's from.

[John Haidt]

No, nothing. It looks like Kristi. No one perhaps is holding a press conference right now. So perhaps if I can find it, info on that.

[Joe Suchore]

Do we know this woman's name or age?

[John Haidt]

Nope. In her 40s was what witnesses said. But that's very, you know, nebulous to say the least.

[Joe Suchore]

Do you think it was a situation where the ICE guys thought they were going to get mowed down?

[John Haidt]

Well, the ice, it looked like the ICE guy, he was on the one side of the car and as she started going, he kind of got hit and then he backed off. And I'm assuming it looks like from the video. Again, I'm assuming and I don't know this is correct. Correct. He looks like the one who may have fired the shots.

[Joe Suchore]

So, yeah, I guess I'm going to be showing.

[Chris Reivers]

Gabe is showing the video to Joe right now, and I'm going to see if I can find the Kristi Noem. You said, John, that Kristi Noem is speaking currently as we.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, Channel 5 had what looked like a press conference with her.

[Chris Reivers]

All right, I'll see if I can find it via. Via the social medias because usually they're the first ones that post it.

[Joe Suchore]

You didn't hit this thing.

[Chris Reivers]

That's Brownsville, Texas. Okay, no one's talking right now.

[Joe Suchore]

This is really helping listeners for me to try to.

[Kenny Olson]

The reason I wasn't talking, because I looked up is using a car as a weapon, a felon felony. And it is. It's considered assault with a deadly weapon or aggravated assault.

[Joe Suchore]

Oh, wow.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

It's not worth sacrificing your life, folks.

[Chris Reivers]

That's the thing. I don't understand why you're 40 years old, but not even that. You can be against something. You can be against the tactical proceedings of something. I get that. And that's within your right. That's what makes this Country Great.

[Kenny Olson]

Don't put your life.

[Chris Reivers]

Don't put your life in jeopardy. What are you doing?

[Joe Suchore]

Please.

[John Haidt]

I think. And Joe, briefly. I remember a couple of weeks ago we were talking about this. Something like this. Didn't you think probably was inevitable it was going to happen?

[Chris Reivers]

Unfortunately, you're right, Joe.

[Kenny Olson]

All signs have been leading to the.

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah, unfortunately.

[Kenny Olson]

What do you make of it, Joe?

[Joe Suchore]

I think that guy who shot her is in trouble.

[John Haidt]

You think? It was the guy on the side, right? The guy.

[Chris Reivers]

Why?

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

Well, what did you see? She was driving away.

[Kenny Olson]

Was she?

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah, and admittedly she. He got bumped, but she was driving away. I'm sure he was saying, stop, stop, stop. She didn't. She was trying to drive away. That's when shoot at the tires in a. That's not a realistic.

[Chris Reivers]

Can I help you?

[Joe Suchore]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

48 hours.

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah, you're right. Yep. But I just saw it happen.

[Chris Reivers]

I know, I know. I'm just. I'm trying to protect you. 48 hours.

[Joe Suchore]

But I saw George Floyd happen in real time and that certainly change over 42 to 72.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, the angle, you know, you saw one angle, you didn't see the other angle.

[Joe Suchore]

For something completely different, but not necessarily same. You'll recall our friend Tom Cullen, who's a local businessman who last summer. No, a year ago, almost said that he was irritated because the DFL would refuse to seat themselves for the legislative session. And he said, I'm not getting my money's worth for my elected representative. And he intended to pursue that and he did, Bianca. And he had to file a suit and he was told that, well, someday we might get around to that. And then. I have his current update. Okay, I have his current update. I've written to you before about my frustration with Minnesota government, most notably when the DFL caucus refused to show up for work. And I took the unusual step of filing in small claims court to compel my so called representative to do her job. That was Bianca Vernick down Mendota way.

[Gabe]

Yes.

[Joe Suchore]

My dissatisfaction with state leadership has been well documented on Garage Logic. As frustrated as I was then, nothing compares to the disbelief I feel today. What we are witnessing now, the unchecked spiral of fraud, waste, abuse and outright theft of taxpayer dollars, combined with a complete lack of accountability at the state level, has crossed from incompetence into something far more destructive. The ripple effects of these decisions has now landed as a tsunami in my own life. I run a manufacturing business in St. Paul that builds electric powered wheelbarrows. We are located on Dale Street Near Como. Not exactly the garden spot of the city. Yet we are staring down a 27% year over year property tax increase.

[Kenny Olson]

Holy sh.

[Joe Suchore]

At the same time, the state's new paid family leave program has significantly increased our cost of doing business and injected uncertainty into employee availability and productivity. The state solved a problem that did not exist and small businesses like mine are paying the price. Our business is growing, but Minnesota, Ramsey county and the city of St. Paul have done something I never thought possible. They've made Wisconsin look attractive. We are now actively looking at properties in Hudson and will relocate as soon as possible. That alone is troubling, especially given that our owner, Chip Michael and his family have been manufacturing in St. Paul for over 130 years. Union brass and metal where I worked. Remember when I had the faucet turn my hand into a faucet? For over 130 years. Union brass was forced out of St. Paul. Years ago I worked. Now we are being pushed across the river to Wisconsin. You might think that's the source of my deepest anger, but it isn't. The real breaking point is this. My wife and I raised five daughters in St. Paul. We could not risk their futures in an increasingly failing public school system. So we sacrificed to send them to Nativity and Cretan Durham Hall. They thrived. They are productive, responsible adults. Today I have four grandsons, my posse, and over Christmas we learned another grandchild is on the way. Wonderful news. But that joy was immediately tempered when my daughter and her husband told us they are being forced to leave Minnesota. This is a young family with two, soon to be three children, two working professionals, homeowners, taxpayers, law abiding, engaged, doing everything right. They are being choked by daycare costs and property taxes. While at the very same time Minnesota has allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to be stolen through organized daycare fraud schemes with little urgency, accountability or consequences. The contrast is enraging. Instead of protecting families like my daughters, the people who are raising children, working hard and building the future of this state, Minnesota has tolerated fraud on a massive scale and then turned around and told honest families and small businesses you must pay more. Even if even a fraction of that stolen money had been protected and properly used, it could have helped stabilize childcare costs, supported working parents and kept families like mine from being forced out. That is the marrow of Minnesota's backbone walking out the door. You can survive losing my wheelbarrow business to Wisconsin. What you cannot survive is losing families like my daughters, the future workforce, taxpayers, volunteers and community builders who simply to give their children the same opportunities they were given. This is the real cost of the daily failures we see at the state, county and city level. And it is a crisis that demands immediate, serious attention. I am finished funding a system that shows no restraint, no accountability and no respect for the people who make this state work. To which, I might add, we said earlier, I cannot understand how anyone right now could trust this government. Anyone. My earlier legal actions were meant to draw attention. What is happening now is far more serious. If Minnesota continues down this path, the Minnesota we knew, the one worth fighting for, will simply cease to exist. This is a call to action. We need to recruit one of our garagelogic barristers to initiate and file a class action lawsuit for the return of our paid taxes and suspension of collecting any more taxes, the basis of which is taxation without representation, as well as willful and intentional fiduciary malfeasance. I will contribute to the legal fees for the litigation that needs to happen and might be our only hope. This is something we can do and it is our right and our duty to step forward. Best regards, Tom Cullen. I, too, will contribute if it should come to that. I will contribute that.

[Kenny Olson]

He's right. We need a lawyer. We need somebody to bring.

[Joe Suchore]

I have given the same speech to my kids and they're not buying my speech. It sounds like he gave the speech to his kids. And at least one daughter and her husband have come to realize we can't make it here.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, well, your kids will probably find out too late.

[Joe Suchore]

You know, a few in the back.

[Chris Reivers]

I think we should go back to this hearing on Minnesota State fraud. Rashida Tlaib is now talking to Walter Hudson, Marion Rarick and Kristen Robinson.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Going to prevent fraud? Do you believe cutting 23,000 kids from child care, do you think that's going to prevent fraud?

[Joe Suchore]

So my understanding, it's not being cut.

[John Haidt]

If they can document that the actual children are there and that they have.

[Joe Suchore]

Attendance records, they will get the funding.

[Kenny Olson]

So this is a misnomer saying it's.

[Joe Suchore]

All going to be cut. It's not true. Representative Hudson, I tend not to blame.

[John Haidt]

Firemen for water damage when they put out a fire.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Okay.

[John Haidt]

And that's what's going on.

[Rashida Tlaib]

So you're good with them.

[Chris Reivers]

Cut.

[Rashida Tlaib]

Okay. How about you?

[Joe Suchore]

I believe in the due process of law. And so back to your comment about your dear mother, because she wears a Hajib and she has to carry her passport.

[Rashida Tlaib]

So I think that every person has value.

[Joe Suchore]

Everyone is a child of God. Right.

[Rashida Tlaib]

And we may have a different name.

[Joe Suchore]

But here's the thing is that they all deserve respect, they all deserve kindness. They all deserve the process of law and, and due process.

[Rashida Tlaib]

And I'll tell you, that is what we believe in. And I see it among my community is very diverse community. We're calling people on other, you know, folks there, no matter what their background is, because we don't want any criminal activity or fraud because we know it hurts everybody. But I'm asking all of you, as you do this, your job, call it out against the racist comments. Protect everyone in Minnesota, no matter their faith or ethnicity. So be careful in sharing these videos. I'm sorry, Chairman, this is important. Be careful as you do your job not to allow people that you all are trying to root out fraud to be used as a ploy to go after Muslims expired.

[Joe Suchore]

Thank you.

[John Haidt]

Before I recognize Mr. Cloud, Mr. Gill has a united consent request. Sure. Yep.

[Chris Reivers]

This from the Minnesota Reformer.

[Kenny Olson]

Again, nothing about frauds or billions.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I didn't want to interrupt, Joe, but when she was earlier talking about this, that's kind of the road she was going down. What she said, are you in favor of the militarization of ICE agents in the state? And basically their comeback was, well, we're not getting help on the state level, so we need help on the federal level was kind of the comeback.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't like that we've shoved aside this very, very important email. I think that might be one of the most important topics we could talk about, Joe. And it's not just here in the Twin Cities. You'll recall a couple of weeks ago I sent you information about a gal that owns a business in Subika. Less than a thousand people. Her property taxes on that business went up 62%. She owes $46,000 in taxes for the last year in little Subika, Minnesota. It's all over the state.

[Joe Suchore]

The difference between the author of this email, Tom Cullen, and a lot of people is that he's doing his due diligence to pay attention to what's happening in this state. Too many citizens of St. Paul continue to scape. They're not paying attention. Their lives are okay for the moment. They haven't been hit between the eyes yet, but they will be.

[Gabe]

And will it be too late by.

[Joe Suchore]

Then to condense the problem? And we've discussed this ad nauseam. We haven't been paying attention. We let this happen. Happen. We didn't. We settled for voting into place in the absence of anybody better running. We have voted into city council positions, legislative positions, what have you. We have voted into those positions. Inexperienced, untrained professional activists. They have no ability to identify with Tom Cullen. Right, Right.

[Kenny Olson]

Right there.

[Joe Suchore]

They have no ability to. They haven't owned a home, they haven't raised children. They haven't run a business, they haven't met a payroll, they haven't paid taxes. They haven't faced the beauty of America. All they have seen is what they're calling the ugly of America. And they think they're out to fix it. And in fixing it, they're ruining the state of Minnesota. And he sees it. His children are seeing it.

[Gabe]

Look, what he said in there. He said, I sent them to his choice. He sent them to private school. But that means he paid twice.

[Joe Suchore]

That just means. Exactly. He did what a lot of us have done. He just paid twice. But that's the price you pay.

[Gabe]

But then you're gonna lose again. The St. Paul. They're gonna move out. They're gonna move out of St. Paul.

[Joe Suchore]

And how come public schools can't ever budget correctly, but private schools can. Can.

[Chris Reivers]

That's a great.

[Gabe]

There's another investigative fraud.

[Joe Suchore]

Let's.

[Chris Reivers]

And you're just raising a bunch of cake eaters. I'm going to private school.

[Joe Suchore]

No, the.

[John Haidt]

All right.

[Gabe]

It's okay. You will work for us someday.

[Joe Suchore]

People have not awakened. It's that simple. It's our fault. I include. I don't include myself because I've always been careful of who I voted for and I've usually lost.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, you. You're outnumbered.

[Joe Suchore]

Plus, I'm canceled the minute the damn book gets to the.

[Gabe]

Who would you say is the last in St. Paul? Would you go as far as Kelly or Norm Coleman with a good city council, that was.

[Joe Suchore]

Coleman at least wanted a city that prospered.

[Chris Reivers]

Was that when he was a Democrat or a Republican?

[Joe Suchore]

Republican.

[Chris Reivers]

Got it.

[Joe Suchore]

He wanted to. I mean, he was instrumental in realizing the importance of bringing a hockey team here, for example. Sure, sure. He. He realized the city must prosper. There is nothing prospering right now.

[Kenny Olson]

But he realized that on all levels. Joe, from tiny little one man shops all the way up to the Minnesota Wild.

[Joe Suchore]

And he lived in a neighborhood. He owned a home, he paid taxes, he had children and he owned a car. He was not a professional activist.

[Gabe]

He had his own grass. Yeah, well, maybe he has.

[Chris Reivers]

And he was right. Imagine St. Paul without the X or Grand Casino or whatever.

[Joe Suchore]

I have great hopes for. How are you going to say her name?

[Chris Reivers]

Khi Khali.

[Joe Suchore]

I have great hopes for Khi Her. But so far I'm disappointed.

[Chris Reivers]

What do you mean?

[Joe Suchore]

And I'll tell you why. The mayors of St. Paul are trusted for one thing only in this state. Oh, I know you're plowing now. Let me tell you something. She didn't even get on it. You had a chance for the last. This is day three. You've had a chance to send the fellas out and plow up the slush. Because if you don't, what's gonna happen?

[Chris Reivers]

Is she gonna freeze washed?

[Joe Suchore]

She'll become a Moonski like it was about eight years ago.

[John Haidt]

Wait a minute.

[Joe Suchore]

Could not even drive on a side street.

[Chris Reivers]

Didn't she just take office Monday?

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm holding her accountable. Day 3. Gas em up her Coley.

[Gabe]

Come on, Mayor.

[John Haidt]

Her.

[Chris Reivers]

Kali.

[Joe Suchore]

Kali, Kali. Come on. Let's go here.

[Chris Reivers]

Especially in front of my house, right?

[Gabe]

Start with Main Street. 1, 2, 3.

[Joe Suchore]

No. Any side street in St. Paul runs the danger now of becoming impassable the minute the temperature drops down about 15 degrees.

[Kenny Olson]

I had to put my truck in four wheel drive.

[Joe Suchore]

Three?

[Gabe]

Yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

Why?

[John Haidt]

How many?

[Kenny Olson]

The big, big, big one.

[Joe Suchore]

It's accident time driving in this stuff.

[Chris Reivers]

You know who isn't a fan of getting those streets plowed?

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Bradshaw.

[Joe Suchore]

No, they are a fan. They don't want you getting in an accident.

[Chris Reivers]

That's true.

[Joe Suchore]

But if they are, they're going to help you. Mike Bryan puts together a team of Bradshaw and Brian experts. They'll explain your rights, represent you, get you through a tough time because insurance companies can be difficult to deal with. And Mike is one of the best in the business. Bradshaw and Bryant hopes you're never in an accident. But if you are, call Bradshaw and Bryant at 800-770-7008 or go to MinnesotaPersonal Injury.com youm'll get a free case evaluation. Get this solved with the. With the right people on your side. And don't be a part of the problem, especially trying to navigate these streets. Don't text and drive or drive distracted. That's just common sense from Bradshaw and Bryant. And now I want to tell you we better go back to John Haidt who has been following this ice shooting incident in the Powderhorn park area of Minneapolis. John Haidt in his newsroom.

[John Haidt]

Hi, Joe.

[Joe Suchore]

I have.

[John Haidt]

I've been following for the last 10 minutes or so the press conference with Mayor Fry in chief.

[Chris Reivers]

I know because you've had your microphone on Brian o'.

[John Haidt]

Hara. No, I had my mic muted.

[Chris Reivers]

No, you did. It doesn't matter.

[John Haidt]

My mute must not work right. That's weird. I had it muted but anyway. Well, basically, the mayor said ICE is causing chaos and should get out of the city. He called the narrative that they've already released the Department of Homeland Security. And I'll use his word. This is his word, not mine. He called it bulk. And he said that I should get the. And I won't use this word, but the F. Out of Minneapolis.

[Joe Suchore]

The mayor said that?

[John Haidt]

The mayor said that?

[Joe Suchore]

Yes. Oh, boy.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, he. He. And apparently from what I've gathered here, from between his talk and o' Hara's talk, they said the woman was parked perpendicular, stopping, trying to stop ICE from moving down the street. Basically her and another car. The car that pulled out in front of that. The. The white. I think it was a white Suburban or something that was then chased. Chased. Then she. The ICE agents. There was one on each side of her car, told her to move on. She didn't move. She just stayed there. One of the ICE agents approached, tried to open her door, and that's when she started driving away. And that's when the shots were fired.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm asking for your permission to play the mayor.

[Joe Suchore]

Go ahead.

[Josh Arnold]

Better.

[Kenny Olson]

But I do have a message for our community.

[Joe Suchore]

First city.

[Kenny Olson]

And I have a message for ICE to ice. Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt, families are being ripped apart. Long term, Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy are being terrorized. And now somebody is dead. That's on you. And it's also on you to leave.

[Joe Suchore]

Back to John Haidt.

[John Haidt]

Both the mayor and the chief called on the population to be calm, obviously. Saying fry, in particular, saying exactly what the administration would like is for things to get out of hand and for there to be rioting and reasons to call in more federal officials. So that's. That's. And that's where it's good.

[Chris Reivers]

What's the line that we're supposed to walk? No one should have. Absolutely nobody should have lost their life. But it's. Is it the comply line that we always walk on this show?

[Joe Suchore]

What do you mean?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, you.

[Kenny Olson]

You can't.

[Chris Reivers]

You can't aim your vehicle at a federal agent.

[Joe Suchore]

I don't think in this case, I didn't see that.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, but okay, 48 hours, you're right. But interfering with a federal agent, you shouldn't be in that spot.

[Joe Suchore]

I should say 48 hours, but I didn't see that.

[Kenny Olson]

We're the kind during the protests and the riots. I could hear it from my backyard. I had no inclination to go down to lake in Ayahuasca. None whatsoever. And that's what we're all like. We're the kind of people that don't go down there and get involved. These are those kind of people.

[Chris Reivers]

That's a good point.

[Kenny Olson]

There's one minor thing I wanted to bring up. Such we've noticed in the studio and I received a couple of text messages noticing that the license plate on the vehicle didn't look like a Minnesota plate. John, have you heard anything?

[John Haidt]

I have not heard anything, Gabe.

[Kenny Olson]

Have you?

[Josh Arnold]

It looked white to me.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay.

[Joe Suchore]

I talked to some people when I was at sea about this. Well, no, I mean, that's where I happen to be very ponderous. One of the people had some very unkind words about ICE and said, they're in Winnetka arresting housekeepers and people shoveling a sidewalk. Why don't those words. I can't say. Why aren't they on the south side arresting really tough, bad gang members who are here illegally? Here's what I would do. Because the show is often criticized when we don't have answers. I would withdraw all ICE people from all American cities right now. Now, I would put them somewhere at a central headquarters and city by city, I would only return to those cities. If criminals, rapists, murderers, thieves are identified, a plan of action is instituted for how to go into that town, get them, withdraw them. No announcements. No announcements, no news, no nothing. You should be in charge of getting only the worst of the worst. And I've seen videos of well tended mothers in their yoga pants. And that's quite a good site in Winnetka, Illinois. Going outside and confronting these people who are hassling a delivery truck driver only to discover he was delivering a package from Target. He was a Target delivery delivery driver. And fortunately the guy had every bit of paper on him that he needed. Why aren't you only focused on on crime?

[Gabe]

Top of the pyramid, I keep saying.

[Joe Suchore]

Serious crime. I'll just read.

[Chris Reivers]

I'll.

[Joe Suchore]

I'll make it different. Only related on crime. Come back to town when you have four arrests that need to be made in this town and you have a four that brings that about. You leave, we don't even know it. End of story. Back to John Highway.

[Gabe]

They can get Maduro, they can get the top four guys in the city.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm not gonna sit here and fight with you, but I'm sitting on a story here about Mary Moriarty.

[Chris Reivers]

Thank you.

[Kenny Olson]

And how it was recently revealed that a Somali national who pled guilty in two separate sexual assault cases avoided prison under a plea deal negotiated by memories office.

[Joe Suchore]

He would be among those taken by my strike force force.

[Chris Reivers]

Even though Mary isn't going to prosecute.

[Joe Suchore]

Well, the hell with Mary.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

The feds with Trump are at that point.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't even know if this is apropos to even bring it up or if it's comparable, but it's been on my mind for two days.

[Joe Suchore]

John.

[John Haidt]

Still thinking. Sorry.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, still thinking. It's a poser, isn't it, John?

[John Haidt]

Well, it's. And at this point, the situation's not going to change. And in fact, given stuff like this happening, it's only going to get worse.

[Joe Suchore]

The temper of the country is not suitable to accommodate accommodating 2000 ice people going through neighborhoods and grabbing people. It's not going to work.

[Kenny Olson]

I like the idea of removing these people, but it's really unnerving to witness it.

[Gabe]

Do we know what the process is? If they're going to Snelling Avenue and to the Asian restaurant there, the Mexican restaurant. Do they know they're looking for Pedro or Jacques or Saigon?

[Joe Suchore]

Yes, they do.

[Gabe]

So they know specifically who they're looking for?

[Joe Suchore]

Well, in theory. They got a photo in.

[Kenny Olson]

In a fishing analogy. Are they throwing out a net or are they fishing line by line?

[Joe Suchore]

Well, I want. I want them to fish line by line. Yeah.

[Gabe]

Well, then why wouldn't it be the. The most hardened criminals and the, the biggest lawbreakers?

[John Haidt]

I think that's what Joe would like.

[Joe Suchore]

That's what I'm saying.

[Gabe]

Right.

[Joe Suchore]

Why start over? Don't come back to town until you got six names that absolutely must be taken out of circulation.

[Chris Reivers]

And to answer your earlier question, think we'll ever learn what the process is? Because that would be like, why would the federal agents give us that info? Right? I mean, I don't. I.

[John Haidt]

Let me, let me present perhaps an argument of why it's not like that. Oh, perhaps this was just started to create an optic that a segment of society would like. And that's what it's doing.

[Joe Suchore]

Are these all.

[John Haidt]

And so there was no preparation. It just kind of.

[Gabe]

I mean, just for sure.

[Joe Suchore]

Show.

[John Haidt]

Yeah. And here we go. Here we go. Look what we're doing.

[Joe Suchore]

No, there's Salvadorans. Ecuador, Mexico. Believe my Venezuelans.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm worried about Walter and Miriam. Like, are they going to get lunch? They've been sitting there a long time. I've been watching this thing the whole Time under the lights in.

[John Haidt]

In other news. Let's move along for a moment, shall we? Anoka, Hennepin school district and education leaders reached a tentative contract agreement and that averts a possible strike. The agreement with Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesot covers the 2025, 26 and 202627 school years. School proceeded as will proceed as planned this week with activities continuing as scheduled. The proposal reached after a 20 hour mediation session still needs union membership approval before the school board's final decision.

[Gabe]

Do we know what they're going to get?

[John Haidt]

No, there's no totals yet. Or no figures.

[Gabe]

Be nice to get a raise, wouldn't it?

[John Haidt]

I'll just be quiet. Rookie, you pass that one along for me, will you?

[Joe Suchore]

I'm not anticipating one. How's that? But why?

[Gabe]

Why some feel entitled to have one in this economy is funny.

[Kenny Olson]

That's what I. I have a meeting with the boss here in about 30.

[Chris Reivers]

Minutes is what we should do.

[Joe Suchore]

I'll storm in.

[Gabe]

Don't tell him what I said, okay?

[John Haidt]

Could you put in a good word for me?

[Kenny Olson]

No, John, I'm not putting a word in for anyone. Just.

[John Haidt]

Should we do some national news while we're at it?

[Joe Suchore]

I'd let Reivers call the show.

[Chris Reivers]

I think we should talk about North American Banking Company since John failed to mention this as his new sponsor. Banking done differently since 1998. That's okay, Johnny. I still love you. And you know what? Back then they made a promise to deliver a better banking experience for their customers. Where you know your banker and they also know you. You know what? While a lot has changed since then, this commitment to being a true community bank in the Twin Cities, that has not. And. And you know what? You might think that a community bank has mobile banking tools that were last updated back in 2010, but boy oh boy would you be wrong. No, they have the same updated online and mobile banking options as all of those other big national banks. I use mine every single day and you should too. Check them out online today. It's nabankco.com to learn more. It's banking done differently. North American Banking company member FDIC is an equal housing lender. Over there.

[Joe Suchore]

That's. Look at that outfit. It's the end of the world as we know it. And he feels fine.

[Chris Reivers]

Joe Sushir water for Ray.

[Josh Arnold]

Bought it for Mark.

[Gabe]

I got some bad news. Some really bad news for your doomsday preppers. Welter heating [e-mail] probably is not going to go out to Montana to help check out your heating or air conditioning unit if you're in that boat bunker. However, for you cydiots, if you're in the metro area and you're holding out.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait a minute, you can't call their customers sydiots.

[Joe Suchore]

I can't.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know a lot.

[John Haidt]

Rick, are you sure?

[Gabe]

Rick is going to cancel on me right now.

[Kenny Olson]

But I do know you can't call them cydios.

[Gabe]

Okay, so Welter, Rick would say for you wonderful people that are habitating in the twin cities metro area, better Welter will serve all of your doomsday prep needs. Heating, air conditioning, you're gonna need indoor air quality when the people come over the hill and are trying to take over the world. And if you're in the metro area and welter heating is one of the people that work on your heating units, air conditioning units, you got nothing to worry. Twin Cities most trusted H Vac service is 24. 7 service. You can give them a call at 612-82-5-6867 online. It's infoelterheating.com Their website is very, very, very easy to travel, navigate through. And they have been serving the metro area for over 120 years. Four generations. They've seen everything and they will be ready. So welter heating. So you wonderful people in the metro area, call them 612-825-6867. Those of you out state, you're pretty much screwed. So don't worry about it. Those of you, the rest of you go to welterheating.com for all of your heating and cooling services. Check, check out the fine folks at welter.

[John Haidt]

That's quite the ad there.

[Gabe]

You know, Rick is such a big fan of gray. He just says get the phone number right and make sure they remember welter.

[Joe Suchore]

Here's a little something for you. Stu says, mom, Donnie says, I know, we're going back to John. Are we going back to John?

[Chris Reivers]

Yes, we are, mom.

[Joe Suchore]

Donnie says replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism walls. One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness. Same BS, different shovel.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, by the way, Mr. Money Talk starts his news report today with the warm collectivism tirade. It's pretty good. Yes. Every day he listens.

[Gabe]

Thank you, Josh.

[John Haidt]

In national international news, and please let me remind you as it is every day, this news is brought to you by North American banking company.

[Gabe]

That doesn't cover you for every shift, John.

[John Haidt]

Okay, okay. United States has seized two sanctioned oil Tankers linked to Venezuela in back to back actions in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean. According to officials, U.S. european Command announced the seizure of the merchant vessel Bello 1 for violation of U.S. sanctions. In a social media post you may have read about this. The US had been pursuing the tanker since last month after it tried to evade a U.S. blockade on sanctioned oil vessels around Venezuela. Meanwhile, at least 24 Venezuelan security officers were killed in that US military operation to capture Nicolas Madero, according to officials. Venezuela's Attorney General Tariq Sahib said overall dozens of officials and civilians were killed in the strike and that prosecutors would investigate the deaths in what he described as war crimes. In addition to the Venezuelan security officials, Cuba's government on Sunday announced 32 Cuban military and police officers working in Venezuela had been killed in that raid.

[Joe Suchore]

May I say something on behalf of the staff of this show? If you disagree with me, now is your chance to weigh in. It is the policy of garage that we leave Greenland alone. That's. That's the gl. That's my GL position.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, I don't mind that. Should we tell the GL ers my brilliant idea that I came up with before the show? Just tow it over the new 51st state.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, that's right.

[Kenny Olson]

Mexico.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Joe Suchore]

He call it what.

[Kenny Olson]

So we have New Mexico and we have old Mexico.

[Chris Reivers]

I like it.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

There's an account that I follow that had said that breakfast. Donald Trump and the NFL have now announced the new international games featuring games in Venezuela, Greenland and they just basically went all over the entire globe.

[Joe Suchore]

I feel bad as a citizen of the United States if we disrupt the lives of the 56,000 people who live in Greenland. I just don't want to.

[Gabe]

I'm a leave him alone guy too.

[Joe Suchore]

I want to be more benevolent than that.

[Kenny Olson]

To me this seems.

[Joe Suchore]

Is he truly.

[Kenny Olson]

It seems like high level trolling to me.

[Chris Reivers]

But isn't this all about NATO?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I mean we could just as well go invade.

[Joe Suchore]

They're in NATO, France.

[Chris Reivers]

I know, but us claiming that, doesn't that then disrupt.

[Joe Suchore]

Well then in theory we should be attacked.

[Gabe]

ABC News this morning did eight minutes on how Trump wants to take over Greenland and it's speculation.

[Kenny Olson]

I think it's a fun distraction. I don't think it's going to go anywhere.

[John Haidt]

What do you be trying to distracting us from, Kenny? I don't understand.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, there's John, a very interesting editorial in today's Star Tribune and normally the editorials, Joe and I I think agree on this. They really boil the blood. But this One is regarding the headline just says opinion Trump was right to Oust Maduro by Matthew Cron.

[Joe Suchore]

Does it say at the bottom who he is? Yeah, I read that he is vice.

[Kenny Olson]

President and senior director of the Atlantic Council, Scowcroft center for Strategy and Security, and a professor of government at Georgetown University. Previously was a senior policy advisor in the Defense Department and a commissioner on the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. The article was first posted in the Times. New York Times.

[Joe Suchore]

Better than a podcaster, isn't he?

[Kenny Olson]

It's an interesting I'm really surprised the Star Tribune published it, to be honest.

[Joe Suchore]

It is written in stone that Maduro is a bad human being.

[Kenny Olson]

The celebrations in the country, that says it all.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't want to bore you with the audio, but just to give you a quick update on the Minnesota hearing.

[Joe Suchore]

Are you still talking?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh yeah, they're still going. Maxwell Frost, a congressman from Florida, is grilling the delegation, Walter Hudson, Kristen Robbins and Marion rarick about Ron DeSantis campaign contributions.

[Kenny Olson]

Jesus, let's have Marion on tomorrow, Joe.

[Chris Reivers]

She might still be there, though. That's the problem.

[Joe Suchore]

Still under the clean lights.

[John Haidt]

Republican Doug Lamelfa, California rice Farmer who served seven terms in the US House it was a vote for President Donald Trump's agenda, has died at the age of 65. His death trims the Republicans narrow margin of control of the House to 218 seats to the Democrats, 213. The congressman experienced a medical emergency Monday night, was taken to a local hospital where he died during a surgical procedure, according to the Butte County Sheriff's Office. Officials have not disclosed yet his official cause of death. The I find this story quite interesting. The term gaslighting gets thrown around a lot these days.

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Well, let's go into a story from today's Wall Street Journal. A webpage rolled out yesterday by the White White House fifth anniversary of January 6, shared its version of the attack and the events surrounding. Cast President Trump as a hero for issuing blanket pardons to people convicted of crimes. It's described as a peaceful protest that was deliberately mischaracterized as a violent insurrection by Democrats to score political points. Democrats were the real insurrection, as the page says, for certifying Trump's 2020 election laws, according to the White House. It also accuses former Vice President Mike Pence of betraying Trump for refusing to go along with his plan to overturn the election results. The president has claimed for years with no evidence that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Senator Tom Tillis, a Republican senator frequently at odds with President Trump, said he thought federal prosecutors did charge too many people, but that the president should have denied pardons to violent offenders, saying we let alone of bad people.

[Chris Reivers]

Go.

[John Haidt]

Democratic resolution marking the fifth anniversary of the attack was blocked on the Senate floor after objections from Senators Tommy Tuberville and Jim Justice. Resolution offered by Senator Alex Padilla described the attack as an assault on our democracy. It praised the Capitol Police and other law enforcement officers who defended the building and expressed the Senate's gratitude for their service. Padilla sought to pass the measure by unanimous consent, but Tuberville objected, saying the resolution was part of a broader effort to visit vilify Republicans.

[Joe Suchore]

John speaking of the Wall Street Journal and you, young G. Ellers, find this article. Ford Motor Company is short 5000 mechanics. A Ford mechanic with his certificate of master is making 160 grand a year at a dealership. Criminy, 160 grand a year to achieve your master certificate. Those guys can take a transmission out of an F250, disassemble it, fix it, put it back together and reinstall it in five hours where somebody might not have achieved the master level of mechanical ability. That's 10 hours. So they're 5,000 short. This probably is true of all manufacturers. The kids are going to school and they're getting meaningless degrees in gender studies. Studies. The world is, is, is hungry for people who can fix things.

[Kenny Olson]

For example, you know, my.

[Joe Suchore]

And that was. That's all I said. Find the story. Young G. Ellers. It's wonderful.

[Kenny Olson]

My twin nephews, now age 19 or 20, are in auto mechanics school.

[Joe Suchore]

Well, they have a wonderful future and.

[Kenny Olson]

They both work for a dealership and the dealership is paying for their future education.

[Joe Suchore]

Wonderful education. Wonderful.

[Kenny Olson]

Not only that, they absolutely love it.

[Chris Reivers]

Along those same lines, look. Look up. What a. And you guys know someone. Look up what a diesel mechanic makes these days.

[Gabe]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah. Well, that's all I had on that. But I want young GL ers to seek that article.

[Chris Reivers]

Ruck. We got a future. We're going to become Ford mechanics.

[Kenny Olson]

These guys that work for, like a local John Deere dealership and they drive a service truck and they go out to the field and repair the combine on the spot. Those guys might be all greasy, but they've got a very nice bank account.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes, they do.

[Kenny Olson]

Doing very well.

[Joe Suchore]

Now, these mechanics, you have to buy your own tools.

[Kenny Olson]

Yep, my boys have done that.

[Joe Suchore]

It takes a long time to get to the 160 grand level.

[Chris Reivers]

Here comes Professor Joe.

[Joe Suchore]

But the point is it beats the hell out of a degree in German horror stories.

[Kenny Olson]

Even the starting wage is nice. It's not 30,000. It's not radio. You're not doing traffic reports.

[John Haidt]

Wait a minute. You were making 30,000?

[Joe Suchore]

Hate to break it to you.

[Chris Reivers]

Make sure you get your sponsor read in.

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah, exactly.

[John Haidt]

The man identified as the shooter who killed those two Brown University students and an MIT professor planned the attack for years and left behind videos in which he confessed to the murders but gave no motive. 48 year old Claudio Nevazo Valente, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after he killed the students and wounded nine others in the engineering building on December 13. Two days later, he shot and killed Nuno Lorero, an MIT professor, in his home in the Boston suburb of Brookline. Justice Department officials said Tuesday that during the search of the storage facility they recovered an electronic device containing series of short videos that he made after the shootings. In the recordings, the shooter admitted he had been working out details of for six semesters. She gave no motive for targeting Brown or the professor. Videos don't provide any motive, but they do address some misinformation. In an English translated transcript provided by the Justice Department, Valente said he felt he had nothing to apologize for. He specifically addressed claims spread by conservative influencer Laura Loomer after the attack that he, the Brown shooter, had spoken in Arabic, saying something like aloha. He said he did not speak a word of Arabic or intend to make any kind of statement.

[Kenny Olson]

Can we back up a second? I wanted to bring this up, but the conversation went a different way after your story, John, about the January 5th attack. And I was thinking how the two sides are so far apart right now on what happened that day. Do you think this country will ever be united again? And what we talked about during the the break, the council heard it. If China attacks, not with weapons, not with bombs, missiles, guns, but just cuts us off the electricity, the power grid, etc. Will that bring the country back together?

[Gabe]

Do you mean like post 9 11?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, like post 9 11. Or will that make it worse?

[Chris Reivers]

It'll be finger pointing.

[Joe Suchore]

It'll be chaos. It won't.

[Kenny Olson]

You don't think we'll ever be united as a country?

[Joe Suchore]

Short term, I don't see unification.

[Kenny Olson]

Have we ever been this divided? Other than the civil war?

[Joe Suchore]

Not in my lifetime.

[Gabe]

I would agree. Civil war is probably the last. The country was.

[Chris Reivers]

No, I would say 911 was pretty. We were pretty unified for about a day.

[John Haidt]

Separated.

[Chris Reivers]

He's talking about no, Kenny asked the last time we were unified.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, no, I know, but when we're civil war.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm sorry.

[John Haidt]

And Joel, remember this? Maybe you guys aren't old enough. It was pretty divided in the 60s and early 70s, but I don't think it's anywhere like it is.

[Joe Suchore]

Not like this, John.

[John Haidt]

No, I agree. Not even close.

[Chris Reivers]

Once we release those JFK files, you know that's where we'll unify.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, John. Yeah, John gave.

[Gabe]

Good luck in the future, bud.

[Kenny Olson]

We'll all be dead.

[Joe Suchore]

John, thank you so much.

[John Haidt]

I don't hate you, Joe.

[Kenny Olson]

It's all about jfk.

[Joe Suchore]

John, nice to see you. I'm done with ads.

[John Haidt]

Thanks.

[Gabe]

You mean. Do you mean you're resigning or do you mean you're just done today?

[Kenny Olson]

This is a perfect opportunity.

[Joe Suchore]

Okay. And I also have something I want to read to you.

[Kenny Olson]

Scott Johnson. He's a writer for not only Powerline blog, but I think the American Experiment. Is that true?

[Joe Suchore]

I believe so.

[Kenny Olson]

He has a piece that appeared this morning about Governor Walz. And I've told you guys that I had walls derangement syndrome.

[John Haidt]

Early.

[Kenny Olson]

Early on.

[Chris Reivers]

Had.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. And still do. But part of this first paragraph brought so much delight and I read it at quarter to six this morning and just made me listen to this. In addition to the damage that he has done walls to this state, he is dishonest, stupid, vain, petty, thin skinned and tyrannical. On the national stage in the 2024 presidential election with his previously undisplayed effeminate theatrics. We also observe that he is a phony. All in all, a thoroughly repulsive character. Character Scott Johnson.

[Joe Suchore]

Thank you, Power Line.

[Gabe]

Wow. He didn't hold back.

[Kenny Olson]

That made me so.

[Gabe]

As you were reading, I was counting them off on my fingers.

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah, I think it's important to stay on top of the Mom Donnie situation. We all have our versions of it the closer you get to the country's tallest buildings. But the I. I feel it's. It's crucial to realize that he's on the wrong track and we'll have to see how it plays out. But he has as his tenant advisor office to protect tenants because it is a Marxist belief that the renters are really getting the short end of the stick and we should be doing something about that. He has installed in that position a woman named Cea Weaver.

[Kenny Olson]

Cea?

[Joe Suchore]

Her name was Celia and she believes that white people should not own homes because that's racist. Well, I can tell you some of her Comments? She's a graduate of Bruce Bryn Mawr, but it gets worse. So she's been failed by the best academy. They're at the tops of being a failed academy is the likes of Bryn Mawr. Among her controversy. She's 37 years old. She would never endorse a white man for office. She is white, by the way. She wishes to impoverish the white middle class and labels home ownership racist. She argues that home ownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as wealth building. She said Delta should kick all white people in Christmas outfits off airplanes.

[Gabe]

Wow, that's left field.

[Joe Suchore]

That's very specific. I tend to agree with you. Having traveled over the hallway, I saw that. You're right on that one. She wishes that all white men would take credit for the work of women of color for the work of. She wishes that all white men who take credit for the work of women of color would one day burned to death. She has a video in which she discusses property as a collective good rather than individualized good. She remarked that such a shift will mean that families, especially white families, are going to have a different relationship to property than we currently have. She is thoroughly brainwashed. She is a very privileged white American. And it turns out now that she has burst into tears yesterday. Yesterday, when the hypocrisy of her remarks have been pointed out because her mother lives in a $1.4 million beautiful Craftsman home in Brooklyn, no, I don't know where, in New York. And Sia was confronted about this outside her apartment. Of course she wouldn't own a home. You have to own an apartment.

[Chris Reivers]

Crown Heights.

[Joe Suchore]

And she began running down the street after seeing reporters outside her home. And then she started crying when asked if she wanted to comment on her professor mother, Celia Appleton's ownership of the $1.4 million property in Fast gentrifying Nashville.

[Gabe]

What's her last name? Joan.

[Kenny Olson]

Please.

[Joe Suchore]

Weaver.

[Gabe]

Thank you.

[Joe Suchore]

She appeared to be walking towards a nearby subway station, but then turned back and ranside her house, which ran inside. Inside her home, which has a Free Palestine poster taped to one of the windows. Well, of course it does. She was subsequently seen peering out the same window. Weaver previously tweeted that homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy and that home ownership is racist. And here. Well, what about your mom's house where you grew up?

[Kenny Olson]

It's pretty obvious what her deal is. It's guilt. And she's protesting against her parents.

[Joe Suchore]

But the only response this woman has, she cannot defend her ideas because they're indefensible. So her only response is to break down in tears like a nine year old, which is about where she's mentally limited.

[Chris Reivers]

One of the photos associated with this story in the New York Post, Ken, has a guy sitting on top of the steps and the sign says, cancel rent. Yeah, I'd like that.

[Joe Suchore]

That'd be great.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what her father does? Her father manages.

[Joe Suchore]

Property manager. She even has called on the seizing of private property, has called for the election of only communist lawmakers. Okay, here's the deal.

[Chris Reivers]

Here we go.

[Joe Suchore]

As a product of the failed academy, she has been Bryn Mawr, which probably only cost her 100 grand a year, become failed. She has thoroughly found the United States to be held in contempt by her and her ilk. But she's also. What I don't think she realizes is she's also incapable of embracing collectivism because she can't sell it. Not only can she not sell it because she probably doesn't have the intellectual capability of argument, she can't sell it because of her undeniable and incredible hypocrisy. She grew up wealthy. She grew up not starving. She grew up with parents who worked. She grew up in a very nice house that her mother now owns worth 1.4 million. And so she's useless to Mamdani. But Mamdani also has no experience and no background in anything. Also grew up in such a way that he was taken care of. And yet these are the people who, through the failed academy, have grown to hold the country in such contempt, especially for its white founding. I mean, by white founding, I mean the founding fathers were white, that they can't. And they've been thoroughly educated. Now, to have hate that and find it despicable that she's now Mamdani's chief agent in charge of selling collectivism in terms of rental equity. She can't do it because she's too hypocritical. She's not useful to anyone in the city of New York. Maybe a third assistant shift at Arby's. That's about it.

[Kenny Olson]

What are we gonna do with all the abandoned houses when people move into public housing?

[Joe Suchore]

That's a good, good question.

[Kenny Olson]

Do I have to move off my farm and into the Legion apartments if.

[Joe Suchore]

This kind of crackpot thinking is. Is going to win out? Oh, the mom is in Tennessee. It isn't a New York, Nashville. It's a Nashville, Tennessee. Yeah. America's fastest gentrifying. She has refused to say whether she will ask her mother to give up.

[Kenny Olson]

Her private property in 2018, she had a post calling to impoverish the white middle class.

[Joe Suchore]

Right.

[Kenny Olson]

How does that help anybody labeling homeownerships as racist?

[Joe Suchore]

She's a beauty. I'm looking at a picture of her mom's house. It's really cool. It's a Craftsman home in Nashville. But that's racist for her mother to own that.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, good luck with that.

[Joe Suchore]

Well, there you are. And there's a picture over here. When she isn't crying. She's a. She's.

[Kenny Olson]

Do you think her and the mayor will last the full term?

[Joe Suchore]

Probably.

[Chris Reivers]

Probably until he gets elected president.

[Joe Suchore]

She says there is no such thing as a good gentrifier, only people who are actively working on projects to dismantle white supremacy and cast capitalism.

[Kenny Olson]

Why is she rebelling against her upbringing?

[Joe Suchore]

She probably learned boredom. Probably learned that at Bryn Mawr.

[Kenny Olson]

Does she know what it is to be poor or improvised?

[Joe Suchore]

No. No, she does not. It's not.

[Gabe]

She's seen it. She's never experienced.

[Joe Suchore]

Her mom's a professor of German studies at Vanderbilt 9, and her partner, meaning the mom's partner, David Blackbourne, is a professor of history. Oh. They purchased their home in Music City USA's Hillsboro West End neighborhood.

[Chris Reivers]

Wait, that's where our guy Dayton lives? Doesn't he live in that same area?

[Joe Suchore]

So far, they've increased 600 grand in their equity in that, so.

[Kenny Olson]

Ahoy, pollo.

[Joe Suchore]

That's. That's tough. When baby girl comes home, there's no mention of the father. Maybe they're divorced. But I just wanted to. To know. I. I think it's. I don't want to do it. I feel I owe it to myself to. To keep track of the preposterous, outrageous. Yes. Obviously hypocritical failures of the mom. Donnie, looking forward to working with you and any other whistleblowers who want to come forward to ask.

[Chris Reivers]

They're still going.

[Joe Suchore]

Chair recognize Mr. Gill for.

[Kenny Olson]

We should start sending prank text messages to Marion. That vomit.

[Joe Suchore]

You look.

[Chris Reivers]

You look. I'm gonna send right now. Are you guys gonna get lunch? I'm gonna say that right now, Marianne.

[Joe Suchore]

Only because they come to us. All the way from Kiowaka, New Zealand.

[Chris Reivers]

Do you guys get lunch?

[Joe Suchore]

The home of the traveling Lyman.

[Chris Reivers]

She's gonna be so pissed off.

[Gabe]

Stipend.

[Chris Reivers]

I did. I said, you guys get lunch.

[Joe Suchore]

Today she's getting a live text during testimony from garagelogic podcast. You guys get lunch.

[Chris Reivers]

If she looks down at her phone, I'm claiming victory.

[Joe Suchore]

It was on this day, January 7th. The day in 1816. Stephen Miller was born in Carroll, Pennsylvania. After moving to Minnesota at age 42, he was a general in the Civil War and served as the state's fourth governor only 1864-1865. He died in Worthington on August 18, 1881.

[Kenny Olson]

Turkey capital Kwoa.

[Gabe]

The big chalk juggernaut.

[Chris Reivers]

Isn't that. Hated Worthington from Patrick?

[Joe Suchore]

No, he hated Slayton.

[Chris Reivers]

Slayton. You're right. I'm sorry. On this day, Joe, today is Jan.

[Joe Suchore]

7Th, and these people are still in town. On this day in 1850, John R. Irvin obtained a license to operate a ferry across the Mississippi at St. Paul's upper landing, formerly at the foot of Chestnut Street. The city's Irvin park is named for him. On this day.

[Chris Reivers]

Where's everybody going?

[Joe Suchore]

On this day in 1857, the Congressional Church in Faribault was dedicated with the Reverend Lauren Armsby serving as its first pastor.

[Chris Reivers]

You ever been?

[Joe Suchore]

No. On this day, Jan.7 in 1873, the Blizzard of 1873 struck with temperatures of 49 below and winds of 75 miles an hour. Over the next two days, at least 70 people died in the western and southern parts of the state.

[Chris Reivers]

70?

[Joe Suchore]

Yes. Conditions were. I think that was one of those storms where if you left the back door, you didn't make it to the barn.

[Chris Reivers]

Ooftah.

[Joe Suchore]

Conditions were so blinding that in New Ulm, a boy. Oh, here it is. A boy who has to cross the street from a barn to his home was found frozen eight miles away. And a rural man and his ox team froze to death just 10ft from his house. Oh, on this day.

[Chris Reivers]

That's an uplifting note.

[Joe Suchore]

On this day, Jan. Seventh, in 1970. On this day, all Catholic priests in the Saint Cloud Diocese were required to give at least one sermon in English. They probably have been giving it in, what? German.

[John Haidt]

German?

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah. World War I. Yeah. On this day, Jan. 7th in 1972, after a lengthy battle with alcoholism, Pulitzer Prize winning poet John Berryman jumped to his death from the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minnesota. Minneapolis. Boy, if only he'd known about that. Help you could get at the Top Safari Restaurant. That's not very kind, is it?

[Chris Reivers]

By the way, she did look down at her phone just watching this.

[Joe Suchore]

And we have nothing today.

[Chris Reivers]

Before, she probably blocked me.

[Joe Suchore]

We have nothing today.

[Chris Reivers]

No sports.

[Joe Suchore]

In the realm of sports, disappointment, history.

[Chris Reivers]

Before we go, Gabe and I did notice this as well. KSTP has a different angle of the ice. Involved shooting again. 48 hours, John. It's on social. It's not on their website.

[John Haidt]

Oh, okay.

[Chris Reivers]

Cause I can see you were typing to look it up. This woman clearly aimed. Well, I should probably not say that. Huh?

[Gabe]

This woman potentially.

[Chris Reivers]

It does appear from this angle of the video, she clearly aimed at this ice agent.

[Joe Suchore]

From the video I saw. It does not. That's why we require 48 hours.

[Chris Reivers]

But this is a new video that just surfaced about a half an hour ago.

[Joe Suchore]

I don't know what more I could see than the one he showed me, But I'll wait 48 hours.

[Chris Reivers]

48 hours. That's what it takes, 48 hours?

[John Haidt]

Yep.

[Chris Reivers]

All right, thank you, G. Eller. Question mark?

[Joe Suchore]

Thank you, G. Okay, thank you.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Gabe]

Just get ready for Gabe's birthday.

[Chris Reivers]

Happy birthday, Gabe.

[Gabe]

Not yet.

[Chris Reivers]

Don't come to the exchange. That guy's. That guy's not a business. We can bottle service at the exchange. McLaren's tab is still due. It is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold is with us once again right here in garagelogic. And now is the time for you to do the same. So do not delay. Do exactly what I did and pick up that phone and dial 952-925-5608. That number once again is 952-925-5608. When you call that number, you're going to get Josh and he is there for you. That free. Yes, I use the word free, 48 minute financial consultation with absolutely zero obligation. And he will always give you the straight talk, he will never give you the sugar coated advice. And he is on the line with us once again right here in garagelogic. And Josh, today you would like to discuss the warmth of collectivism.

[Josh Arnold]

No, I would have had that. That. We'll say that's a semi joke, but after listening to we'll say the democratic socialists listening to again and again the New York mayor with his great line about the rejection of rugged individualism and the embrace of the warmth of collective. I learned a lot of things I'll say growing up. And the warmth of collectivism was not one of those things. Not at, not at all. If I looked at all of the collectivists visions, whether that was utopian societies, whether that was, we'll say Cuba or North Korea, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, all, all that Naobe State, they bring warmth, they bring warmth to the leadership, but not to the citizen. I think the only place where there might have been might have been the warmth of collectivism has been in a small, small country on the eastern end of the Mediterranean. Mediterranean that the mayor of New York wants to continue the global fight or the global fight for Intifada to destroy that country. And that's the only place where the warmth of collectivism, say worked. And that was in the kibbutz movement in Israel. But that's a very small, small segment we'll say within a much, much larger society that is definitely not collectivist. And the growth of Israel came with a move really away from the collective agricultural society and moving to a technological society. But just every place where there has been the warm glow or the warmth of collection activism. Non, non, success. Well, places where there has been success has been with the rugged individualism. And you can see that with the. Well, let's just say you can see that almost every year at the Consumer Electronics show that's held at the beginning of every year in, in Las Vegas with the introduction of new products typically based on technology. Now there are some people who have been to the, been to this show and it is very expensive to go to. The prices in Las Vegas tend to go up around that time. Hotel costs go up. Even staying at in a Motel 6. The cost rises will say from $6 a night to $600 a night because the demand for rooms during this show is exceedingly high. Especially the, you know this, this year big push or continued big push on artificial intelligence and the buildup of artificial intelligence network everything from chips to software. And another we'll say push around autonomous driving as Nvidia unveils some of their new chips aimed at autonomous driving. And Nvidia's chips for autonomous will say showed showed that it could be done by company outside of the the auto industry. Now having said that, the leaders right now in autonomous driving, well one auto company that's really viewed not as an auto company but as a company involved.

[Joe Suchore]

In.

[Josh Arnold]

Power, batteries, robots and autonomous that that is Tesla second company in that autonomous area was there is is Google and Google today has surpassed favorite Apple in market market capitalization. Google has got another upgrade today based on their artificial intelligence products and we'll say their leadership now with their Gemini AI products added to their Waymo their Waymo autonomous taxis and and YouTube. The other leader in we'll say autonomous comes from a company called Zoox and they're owned by another favorite of mine Amazon. And Amazon has been on a roll lately as people are now starting to recognize their leadership say in artificial intelligence and they have brought an additional product to market that was shown at the Consumer Electronics show and that's Alexa.com but you need a subscription to Alexa plus to be able to access access that and that could be another source we'll say of revenue for Amazon the next the next couple weeks. Not a lot of we'll say micro news with until corporations start reporting their earnings the middle of middle of next next week. In the meantime a lot of macro news and right now the news is still related to all that's all that's not a L L that's O I L and we could say it's more related to heavy oil that's coming up from Venezuela and Venezuela has we'll say agreed. I guess somebody twisted their arm to give the US between 30 to 50 million barrels of oil to the US which is said that needs to be refined and then sold back on to the market marketplace at market prices. The Venezuelan heavy oil definitely compete with Canadian heavy oil. So do watch prices of the Canadian oil oil companies including Suncor and Imperial Oil. Probably the big winners out of all of this and I say probably is not necessarily going to be the oil companies themselves. They're going to have to spend some money but could be refiners like Philips 66 and Valero. But that to me is more of a sidebar than the growth in artificial intelligence over the course of the next year.

[Chris Reivers]

Excellent advice as always. As always Mr. Money Talk. You heard him G O ers. Now is the time for you to pick up the phone and make the call for that free. Yes, I use the word 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. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.

[Joe Suchore]

Yes, we'll. We will.

[Josh Arnold]

I will take a blanket to keep warm or maybe run a little bit more. Forget the. Forget the collectivism.

[Chris Reivers]

Sounds good. Talk to you tomorrow, Josh.

[Joe Suchore]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Suchore]

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