2/10 Gov Tim Walz wants to have it both ways when it comes to the presence of ICE here in Minnesota

Summary

Garage Logic Podcast | Feb 10, 2026 Episode Title: Gov Tim Walz wants to have it both ways when it comes to the presence of ICE here in Minnesota

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Episode Overview

In this episode of Garage Logic, "The Mayor" Joe Soucheray and the crew dissect Governor Tim Walz's contradictory stance on the presence of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in Minnesota, with a focus on the impact of federal immigration enforcement policies on local businesses like Target. The show ranges widely, weaving in humor, memorable anecdotes, cultural commentary, and the group’s signature skepticism about state and federal leadership. The hosts also touch on topics like Minnesota’s Olympic hockey history, state welfare fraud, and societal decline in trust and optimism.

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Main Discussion Themes

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1. Gravity Hoax & General Banter

(00:57 - 04:44)

• Opening with Satire: The crew jokes about a viral internet hoax claiming the earth will lose gravity for seven seconds in August 2026.
  • Kenny Olson: “On August 12, 2026, the entire earth will lose its gravity for 7 seconds. Now I see all of you GLers rushing to your computer to Google this and Google is part of the cover up.” (02:07)
• Conspiracy Theorizing: Frequent ribbing about trusting NASA or Google, and sarcastic solutions for avoiding the "event."
• Takeaway: Sets the playful, skeptical tone that persists throughout the episode.

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2. The Tyranny Cycle: Ancient History & Contemporary Parallels

(05:06 - 09:18)

• Joe reads about the Roman historian Tacitus's description of societal decline under tyranny, likening it to modern American malaise.
  • Joe Soucheray: "Morally healthy people lie low in order to survive...habits of democracy, the art of persuasion and compromise, interpersonal trust...it is easier to crush men's spirits than revive them." (05:33)
• The hosts connect this to both the Carter era and the current American mood: “The mood of the country basically was like the mood of the country today.” (08:12)
• John Haidt: “Republicans and Democrats could still share a meal together…Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan could still shake hands, say you're wrong, and then go have lunch at the White House.” (09:20)

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3. Olympic Hockey, Nostalgia & Minnesota Culture

(09:43 - 14:24)

• Nostalgic recollections about U.S. Olympic Hockey, particularly the 1980 Miracle on Ice and its new documentary.
• Reminiscence about Billy Carter and small-town Minnesota events ("Billy Beer" and Hayward's ski race).
• Light banter about the evolution from amateur to professional athletes at the Olympics.
• Listing of current Olympic hockey team stars with pride.

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4. Gov. Tim Walz, ICE, and the Minnesota Boycotts

(14:27 - 18:59)
Main Theme of the Episode

• Walz's Press Conference: Critiqued for trying to please both anti-ICE activists and businesses suffering from protests and boycotts.
  • Joe Soucheray: “Tim, you can't have it both ways. You can't...encourage protesting, compare the presence of law enforcement to the Holocaust...and then wonder why business is suffering." (15:12)
• Comparison: Walz and city officials' posture is likened to 1960s southern resistance to federal civil rights mandates.
• Business Fallout: Target is specifically discussed—layoffs, boycotts, and pressure from advocacy groups regarding federal law enforcement’s presence.
• John Haidt: “You can't have the two mayors and the governor saying, ‘We are in direct opposition to federal law enforcement’...and then say, ‘I wonder why nobody's showing up at the coffee shop.’” (16:22)
• Nuanced Critique: Acknowledgement of peaceful protests, but condemnation of elected officials encouraging blatant disregard for the law.

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5. Minnesota’s Business Climate & State Policy Contradictions

(19:13 - 23:13)

• Small Business Hardships: The group criticizes the state for making business increasingly difficult, noting FedEx delivery slowdowns as evidence of a slumping retail climate.
• COVID-19 Double Standard: Contrasts Walz's current pro-business rhetoric with past strictness (lawsuits against businesses that reopened during COVID).
• Underlying Theme: Politically expedient ambiguity and the state’s inability to support both progressive policy and business pragmatism.

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6. Medicaid Fraud, Inspections, and State Bureaucracy

(23:14 - 26:43)

• State Announces "Unannounced" Inspections: Satirical take on DHS announcing surprise Medicaid site inspections…but also telling clinics when they’re coming.
  • Kenny Olson: “That's fantastic. It's like the mafia when they have an inside guy at the police department.” (23:19)
• Scope: Up to $9 billion lost to fraud since 2018; skepticism about the effectiveness of new “crackdowns.”
• Theme: Characteristic GL sarcasm on government efficiency and accountability.

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7. Political Leadership, Social Decline, and Voter ID

(29:56 - 42:14)

• Societal Expectations: The hosts discuss declining trust in institutions, ineffective leadership, and the absence of "adults in the room."
• Voter ID Debate: Replay of Kamala Harris’s comments on voter ID logistics leads to a discussion of “diminished expectations” and performative anti-racism.
  • Joe Soucheray: "You need an ID to buy cigarettes. If I run a store and a black guy wants to buy a pack of cigarettes, am I a racist for seeing his ID?" (41:09)
  • Chris Reavers: "I needed an ID to buy cold medicine on Saturday." (42:03)
• Both Sides Critiqued: Neither party delivers adult leadership, with both Trump and Harris portrayed as “extremely problematic people for completely different reasons.” (40:02)

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8. Endemic Fraud & Bureaucracy in Minnesota

(39:05 - 40:01, 52:56 - 54:54)

• Seinfeld Reference: Kenny Olson compares ongoing charity fraud cases to George Costanza’s “Human Fund,” referencing the NFL's involvement with suspect charities linked to Minnesota's Feeding Our Future scandal.
• Tax Fraud: $20 million in undeserved refunds, and audience jokes about being honest vs. gaming the system.
  • Joe Soucheray: "Does it even pay to be honest?" (53:07)

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9. News Items and the Wider World

(47:48 - 66:56)

• Keith Ellison “Victory”: AG claims to “secure” education funding, which Joe fact-checks as headline-grabbing, not substantive.
• Tariffs and Economic Pain: New report on Trump’s tariffs costing the average American $1,000 per year.
• Retirement Concerns: The average American has less than $1,000 saved for retirement; the hosts bemoan the declining financial prospects for workers.
• Epstein Files: Buckingham Palace’s statement on investigating Prince Andrew; broader concerns about concealed identities and systemic corruption in the Epstein scandal.

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10. Humor, Calls to Action & Cultural Bits

(79:01 - end)

• WD40 Cologne Throwback: Listeners alert the crew that Adam Carolla is recycling a Garage Logic bit about WD40 as a man’s cologne.
• GLers’ Dailies: Shout-outs to local history, crossword puzzles, and more Garage Logic flavor.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• "Tim, you can't have it both ways…You can't, on the one hand, encourage all of the disruptions…and then wonder why business is suffering." — Joe Soucheray (15:12)
• "You can't have the two mayors and the governor saying, 'We are in direct opposition to federal law enforcement'...and then say, 'I wonder why nobody's showing up at the coffee shop.'" — John Haidt (16:22)
• "Target's now laying people off because apparently people are boycotting Target...Black Lives Matter and CARE Minnesota called for a nationwide ban on ICE...and Target takes the hit." — Joe Soucheray (17:09)
• "We're seeing dumbassery at unprecedented proportions." — Kenny Olson (20:02)
• "That's fantastic. It's like the mafia when they have an inside guy at the police department." — Kenny Olson (23:19)
• "Neither party delivered an adult to the table for the presidential election last time." — Joe Soucheray (37:55)
• "Does it even pay to be honest?" — Joe Soucheray (53:07)
• "The climate change movement's always been BS as far as I'm concerned...All Obama administration created was additional regulation hassles. Nothing else changed except you had to fill out paperwork." — Joe Soucheray (75:45; 77:02)

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Key Segment Timestamps

• Gravity Hoax Banter: 00:57 – 04:44
• Tacitus & Historical Parallels: 05:06 – 09:18
• Olympic Hockey & Minnesota Pride: 09:43 – 14:24
• Governor Walz, ICE & Target Boycotts: 14:27 – 18:59
• Business Climate Critique: 19:13 – 23:13
• Medicaid Frauds & DHS Site Visit Satire: 23:14 – 26:43
• State Leadership, Societal Decline: 29:56 – 42:14
• Seinfeld/Human Fund & Welfare Fraud: 39:05 – 40:01, 52:56 – 54:54
• Keith Ellison, AG “Victory” Critique: 47:48 – 50:39
• Epstein & Prince Andrew: 62:58 – 65:02
• Retirement & Economic Worries: 60:14 – 62:03
• Throwback Bits & WD40: 79:01 – end

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Overall Tone & Style

The episode features the classic Garage Logic blend: sharp satire of politics and bureaucracy, storytelling, and the affectionate ribbing of Minnesota culture. The language is colloquial, often sardonic, and peppered with local flavor, giving listeners both a sense of the day’s news and the community’s response. Joe Soucheray’s leadership is alternately skeptical and nostalgic, grounding every topic in “common sense”—the show’s badge of honor.

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For Listeners

Anyone wanting a humorous but incisive overview of today’s debates about law enforcement, immigrant policy, state leadership, and societal trust—with plenty of Minnesota flavor—will find this episode classic Garage Logic. Whether you want to catch up on the latest state affairs or just hear some seasoned Midwesterners riff on everything from political hypocrisy to hockey, this is a rich and rewarding listen.

Transcript

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[Chris Reavers]

Hail the Flashlight King.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hail you. And now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon, it's Garage Logic with Chris Reavers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the crabby coffee shop, John Height in the newsroom and of course the rookie here is your Flashlight king fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Susherer. Kenny told us something before the show that has me a bit unsettled. That apparently we're all going to lose gravity for what, seven seconds in August?

[Kenny Olson]

What now? This is fact. This isn't Internet BS. This is the real deal. On August 12, 2026, the entire earth will lose its gravity for 7 seconds. Now I see all of you g o ers rushing to your computer to Google this and Google is part of the COVID up. Google will tell you this is false.

[Chris Reavers]

Makes sense.

[Joe Soucheray]

But you found it on the Internet so it must be true.

[Kenny Olson]

It's a. Yeah, it's gonna happen. So I would suggest finding maybe an oak tree with deep roots or a cave. If it's a tree, get some log chain, padlock yourself to that tree.

[Joe Soucheray]

If you're in your house, would you just be stuck at your ceiling?

[Josh Arnold]

How?

[Kenny Olson]

You have to ask yourself how well is your house attached to the earth? Do you have the double flan joists or is she just sitting there kind of floating around like an oyster cracker in in a soup?

[Joe Soucheray]

See, none of that bothers me. What bothers me is 7 seconds long enough to just disappear your spine.

[John Haidt]

If you got back problems, your spine would feel great.

[Kenny Olson]

The good news is that a lot of people we don't need on Earth will be gone. Well, they'll fall back to Earth.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, but plummet to their death, right?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. Yeah. So there's gonna be a cleanup thing for about a month.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm not gonna be outside.

[Chris Reavers]

And you fly.

[Joe Soucheray]

What if you're in your car?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, your car, it's, it's, it's gonna go up there.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, you better keep her in the garage.

[Joe Soucheray]

You better put some blankets.

[Kenny Olson]

The question is, what if you're in a plane? Then do you plummet to the ground or do you plummet to the heavens?

[Joe Soucheray]

Probably keep.

[Kenny Olson]

Or you just keep going like nothing happened.

[John Height]

Right?

[John Haidt]

That's my guess.

[Joe Soucheray]

I wonder why we would lose gravity. Does the Internet report that?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, you'd have to read further.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, Kenny.

[Chris Reavers]

Got Based on a viral but scientifically false theoretical scenario circling on social media regarding objects would float upwards to a height of approximately 65ft.

[Kenny Olson]

Wow.

[Chris Reavers]

In seven seconds.

[Kenny Olson]

Wow.

[John Height]

Feet.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's gonna hurt coming down.

[Chris Reavers]

You know what that is six and a half stories.

[Joe Soucheray]

That would hurt coming back.

[Kenny Olson]

How many yards is that?

[Chris Reavers]

20.

[Kenny Olson]

20 yards or 21?

[Joe Soucheray]

41.

[Kenny Olson]

I, I, in my mind's eye, I only see in yards.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know what? Then the best place to be would be on a lake.

[Kenny Olson]

That would be good.

[Joe Soucheray]

Back into the water.

[Chris Reavers]

Kenny, guess who else besides Google is debunking this? NASA. Oh, they're in on it.

[Kenny Olson]

Cover up. Well, let me ask yourself. Are you sure that we went to the moon?

[John Height]

I mean, come on.

[Chris Reavers]

In a studio in California.

[Kenny Olson]

Have you seen the skidoos from that area? You had to carry an extra carb in your pocket.

[Joe Soucheray]

Come on, give me a break. Taciturn. Tacitus was a Greek. I'm sorry? He was a Roman historian.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

He lived from 56 A.D. to 120 A.D. so a long time ago.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

And an emailer, Jim Erickson, sent me a paragraph that apparently might have been in a David Brooks column, But it regards Tacitus, the ancient Roman historian who was considered at the top of his game back in the day. Right.

[John Haidt]

Right after Jesus was gone. So he had something to write about.

[Chris Reavers]

Some history.

[Joe Soucheray]

He had some knowledge, didn't he? Tacitus was especially good at describing the effect the tyrant has on the people around him. When the tyrant first takes power, there is a rush into servitude as great swarms of sycophants suck up to the great man. The flattery must forever escalate and grow more fawning until every follower's dignity is shorn away. Then comes what you might call the disappearance of the good. As morally healthy people lie low in order to survive, meanwhile, the whole society tends to be anesthetized. The relentless flow of appalling events eventually overloads the nervous system. The rising tide of brutality, which once seemed shocking, comes to seem unremarkable. As the disease of tyranny progresses, citizens may eventually lose the habits of democracy, the art of persuasion and compromise, interpersonal trust and intolerance for corruption, the spirit of freedom, the ethic of moderation. It is easier to crush men's spirits in their enthusiasm than to revive them. Tacitus wrote, I just offer that just for the hell of it. I just thought it was fascinating.

[Kenny Olson]

He was also a politician, so you know, third rail.

[John Height]

He's a historian, not politician.

[Kenny Olson]

No, he was also a politician. Well, you look it up.

[Joe Soucheray]

Page is the gravity story, right?

[Kenny Olson]

You got to know what to trust and what not to trust.

[Joe Soucheray]

Isn't that interesting? Has nothing changed in the world I watched? Well, here's another example of things don't seem to change, they get repeated. I watched at the suggestion of many people because I didn't think I would watch it, because I didn't think there wasn't anything I didn't know. But that shows you how wrong I am. Netflix has a current just made documentary, I suppose, coinciding with the Olympics, on the 1980 Olympic hockey team. And I didn't think I needed to see it, but I'm now so entirely happy that I did. And a great deal of the documentary goes into the mood of the United States in that period, six months before the Olympics, which would have been 1979. And then into the Olympics, the mood of the country, the gas lines, the war in Afghanistan, Carter saying the US Will not go to Russia for the summer games in 1980, the hostages held in Iran. And Americans, America's dauber was really down. America was aimless and despairing. And I lived through those times. And you just lived through them. You don't really recall how. But gas lines, I certainly remember that. I certainly remember energy crisis. Yeah, I certainly remember Carter forbidding us to go to Russia. And the mood of the country basically was like the mood of the country today. You could make those same. I mean, we don't have a fuel shortage, but we've got so many doubts on the landscape that there's a feeling of unsettledness in the country today. And it was very similar to 46 years ago. So I think these things come in cycles. Maybe.

[John Haidt]

The only difference being Republicans and Democrats could still share a meal together without trying to slit each other's throats, I think. So that's the only difference is that we did have these weird times. But Tip o' Neill and Ronald Reagan could still shake hands, say you're wrong, and then go have lunch at the White House.

[Joe Soucheray]

And the president who called the team to congratulate them was Jimmy Carter. And Jimmy Carter did not at all try to take credit for the victory. So that there would be.

[John Haidt]

That guy might.

[Joe Soucheray]

There would be.

[John Haidt]

Set you up for that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Would be that.

[Kenny Olson]

When did we blow that Commie out of The White House?

[John Haidt]

70S he was in 76 to 80.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, he was one termer. 76, 80.

[John Haidt]

But what a nice guy, though, you know, it was.

[Joe Soucheray]

Rant he was. Randy Wayne White says nothing but great things about Carter.

[Kenny Olson]

A bit of a hero when he was in the service, actually.

[Joe Soucheray]

Not a strong president, but he had an awesome brother.

[Kenny Olson]

Billy Beer you could sit down at the Legion with and get blackout drunk.

[Joe Soucheray]

I met Billy.

[Kenny Olson]

Cool.

[Joe Soucheray]

I knew Billy, okay?

[Kenny Olson]

You two are pals.

[Joe Soucheray]

Rook, I met him. I know him.

[John Haidt]

You. You got.

[John Height]

You were.

[Joe Soucheray]

You.

[John Haidt]

You broke bread with him.

[Kenny Olson]

Call you up when he was.

[Joe Soucheray]

He. I've told you guys this. He showed up at Hayward. Hayward has some big ski event.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait, Hayward, Wisconsin? Hayward and Billy Carter were made for each other.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's right. And he had the Billy Beer going. Remember that?

[John Haidt]

Oh, yeah, sure.

[Joe Soucheray]

And I.

[Chris Reavers]

All right, Billy.

[Joe Soucheray]

And I think Billy Beer had something to do with his appearance in Haywood for some big ski event. And what I remember is that somebody must have told Billy, it's really cold up there because he had the new jacket on that still had all the tags.

[Kenny Olson]

Nice.

[Joe Soucheray]

Had all the tags.

[John Haidt]

He wasn't trying to be hip. He was just that stupid.

[Chris Reavers]

Kind of like when Walls throws on his Tim Rolls hat before the big playoff game.

[Kenny Olson]

It wasn't the barstool races, was it? Where they race these contraptions down the hill?

[Joe Soucheray]

They have a big cross country event there every year. Oh, it might have been that. In any event, it's a. I. I'd recommend the documentary. It's called 80. I think it's called 80 colon, Miracle on Ice or something. Say, you weren't in it, were you?

[Kenny Olson]

Hey, I could see.

[Joe Soucheray]

I didn't see myself, but I could see where I was sitting in the building.

[Kenny Olson]

Before we move on, Joe, this Olympic team Hockey team, men's. We have this year. I mean, does a world stand a chance?

[Joe Soucheray]

I can't imagine they do. Yeah, well, the Canadian team isn't going to be bad either.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, maybe. Is there a. How strong is the Swedish team?

[Joe Soucheray]

Too many Swedes.

[Kenny Olson]

How did. How did it go from being college kids to professionals? When did that happen? And it happened with basketball, too.

[Joe Soucheray]

Might have happened as soon as 2000. 84. Oh, I thought it was when it was in.

[John Height]

What?

[Kenny Olson]

Why?

[Joe Soucheray]

I. I don't know. I don't know what happened. But virtually everyone you see now in the Olympics is paid in some fashion.

[Chris Reavers]

84. Was. Was it soul?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, 84, I think, was Calgary. No, 84, I thought, was Yugoslavia. Zagreb, maybe.

[Chris Reavers]

88 was Calgary.

[John Haidt]

Sarajevo.

[John Height]

88 was Seoul. And that's when professional athletes were allowed to start.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, 88. Okay.

[Chris Reavers]

The American Burke Beaner. North America.

[Joe Soucheray]

We call it a Burkebiner.

[Chris Reavers]

Burke Beiner, North America's largest cross country ski race takes place in Hayward, Wisconsin, with the 51st anniversary Joe occurring from February 18th through the 22nd. 2026.

[Joe Soucheray]

That must have been when Billy showed.

[Chris Reavers]

Up hawking his beer.

[Joe Soucheray]

He had a can with him. I had a can of Billy Beer for the longest time.

[John Haidt]

I was a beer can collector at the time. And I do remember that was highly.

[Kenny Olson]

Sought after, I think. Listen to some of these names on our team. Matt Boldy, Kyle Connor.

[Joe Soucheray]

How about Quinn Hughes?

[Kenny Olson]

Brock Faber, Noah Hannifin. Don't know him. Jack Hughes. Quinn Hughes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yep.

[Kenny Olson]

I mean, and on and on and on. The greatest players out there.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know that spin around move that Hughes does, where he comes in, he stops, he kind of spins around.

[Kenny Olson]

Spinorama.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. I thought that was a real. There was a Russian player who did that against the US that, that.

[Kenny Olson]

Seeing that in hockey and football forever.

[Joe Soucheray]

I always thought it was something.

[Kenny Olson]

Walter Payton, man.

[Joe Soucheray]

Our governor is probably just wrapping up a press conference that he had. Tell me how much you made. Tell me. Excuse me.

[John Haidt]

Sorry about that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Tim Walls is our governor and he called a press conference this morning to discuss the impacts of the federal ice surge and its effect on small businesses in Minnesota. And he appeared with Matt Verelick of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development and other business owners to discuss the impact of federal actions on local businesses. Tim, you can't have it both ways.

[John Height]

This.

[Joe Soucheray]

The state of Minnesota is in a very peculiar position on the federal scene. Tim, you can't go out and encourage protesting. Compare the presence of law enforcement to the Holocaust. Consider this to be the second Fort Sumter you can't. You can't, on the one hand, encourage all of the disruptions that are occurring, many of which, of course, I sort of blame for. I get that. But you can't have it both ways. And then wonder why business is suffering. Does it make sense that Fry and her and Walls are cheerleading a distinct separation of this state? Not unlike, you know, George Wallace standing at the university door in Alabama to defy federal integration edicts. You can't have the two mayors and the governor saying, we are in direct opposition to federal law enforcement. We intend no participation whatsoever, and we encourage these protests. And many of the protests are peaceful. They're moms.

[Kenny Olson]

They.

[Joe Soucheray]

That are going out. They don't like to see people roughed up needlessly by ice. All of that's understandable. But when that's encouraged by the people you've elected to lead you and those people that you've elected to lead you are distinctly encouraging you to ignore federal law. And then you can't stand up the next day and say, I wonder why nobody's showing up at the coffee shop. You can't have it both ways. Walz fails in virtually everything he attempts. And this. This would be among them. You can't. Target is suffering. Target's now laying people off because apparently people are boycotting Target. Target has no specific agreement with law enforcement to allow ICE inside their facilities. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I read this morning. No specific agreement, but they've done nothing to stop, for example, ICE from being in their parking lots. And this, this. This meets the wrath of our elected officials who, again, are encouraging people to take this matter into their own hands. And so what happens? Target, where's the story? I got it right here. They're laying off 500 people nationally. I have a story here where, you know, our community and our state is under attack, said Jelani Hussain, executive director of CARE Minnesota and a Target Boycott co founder. The Somali American community has been invested in this great state. Really. They are our neighbors. Friends. Yeah, bs. We are Minnesotans. And we say to Trump and to others who come for us, we are our neighbors. We stand with each other, and we will not be divided. Okay? In the meantime, Target takes the hit. Black Lives Matter and CARE Minnesota Racial Justice Network in Unidos, Minnesota, criticized Target for allowing federal agents to operate on its property and called for the company to adapt a nationwide ban on ice, staging surveillance or enrollment activities in any of its stores. Okay, you're suffering the consequences of that.

[Kenny Olson]

I talked to a person who's mad because now she. She didn't like Target, but now she is forced to shop at Target because of this.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

So Target wants to sell diapers, paper towels, and Diet Coke.

[Joe Soucheray]

Target doesn't need Kima standing in front of the store. Right. Whining about it.

[Chris Reavers]

I. I do have a question. So Walls. And I also saw Ellison say something to.

[John Height]

Similarly.

[Chris Reavers]

So they're trying to help out small businesses. Unlike 2020, when they decided to sue small businesses for being open during COVID.

[Joe Soucheray]

This state has made it miserable to try to do business.

[Chris Reavers]

I'll see.

[Joe Soucheray]

I know a guy who told me today, and this is very disturbing. He works for FedEx. Was told not to come in today. We have nothing for you to deliver. What? Yep. There's no deliveries today. They're so down.

[John Height]

Well, I met. Really, I met a FedEx person this morning delivering us a package at my house.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, good. But in some areas, they're not needed. Wow.

[Kenny Olson]

We're seeing dumbassery at unprecedented proportions. Yet along the same lines, that kind of stupidity. Joe, did you see the story where the Department of Human Services is performing unannounced site visits? But they've. They've let those providers know that they're.

[Joe Soucheray]

Just a minute. Just a minute.

[Chris Reavers]

Why don't you do this first?

[Joe Soucheray]

Mayor have that right here.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm sorry to jump ahead in the program.

[Chris Reavers]

Let's do this.

[Kenny Olson]

This is so amazing.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[John Haidt]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reavers]

How would they be hearing this if they weren't a g ler?

[Joe Soucheray]

That's true. Just get the 500 bucks off. And then if you don't need a new door, but you're a little concerned about your present door. Maybe it's creaking and groaning. There's a lot of winter left. Book a Precision door, Noisy door tune up special. They'll throw the diagnostics at it. Good. You know, they'll put stethoscope on it or whatever they do. They'll figure out what needs to be done. Stethoscope book online at Precision Door. MN. That's one word. Precisiondoormn.com or call 612-263-6985 to schedule your free on site new door estimate or book a precision door noisy door tune up special. Now what Kenny was referring to is the. This was an alpha news story. The Minnesota Department of Human Services publicly announced that it will be performing unannounced site visits to Medicaid providers between now and the start of summer. Okay. There's 5,800 Medicaid providers in the state. That alone should tell you that it's a problem. The DHS let providers know roughly when those sites will occur. When those visits will occur. As Minnesota's fraud saga has continued, much of the attention is focused on a 14 state run Medicaid funded welfare program. According to the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota, more than 9 billion could have been stolen from those programs since 2018. One of those welfare programs was outright canceled because it was so ridiculed with fraud. That was that housing assistance.

[Kenny Olson]

So wait a minute. You had a fun play on word there.

[Joe Soucheray]

So ridiculed with fraud. Oh, riddle. I'm sorry, I know, but what you said. The remaining 13 programs continue to face scrutiny. Okay. But they're getting a heads up on when we're showing up.

[Kenny Olson]

That's fantastic.

[Joe Soucheray]

So you know, Mr. Johnson says I, I better go to the store today and hang the shingle out. They might stop by.

[Kenny Olson]

It's like the mafia when they have an inside guy at the police department. Right.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right. Normally DHS screens a provider's Medicaid eligibility every five years. Well, that's not good enough. If a provider is enrolled in a program considered high risk, then eligibility is checked. Are you ready? This will really console you. Every three years.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, well that's huge.

[Joe Soucheray]

So if you're a suspect, you're highly problematic. Hey, you'll pay for that. We're gonna check you every three years.

[Kenny Olson]

Look out.

[Joe Soucheray]

So how much money can you steal in three years? Not as much as you can steal in five.

[Kenny Olson]

Right, right.

[John Haidt]

See, they're saving us money.

[Joe Soucheray]

However, Minnesota revalidate 2026. I guess we had to create a new program. We'll review every provider enrolled in the 13 welfare programs in just a handful of months. DHS has asked other state agencies to collectively find 168 employees who can help DHS accomplish this goal. If I work for dhs, I would volunteer for that. You just go around all day and check any places. We're implementing recommendations. We are taking action above and beyond those requests to minimize the risk of fraud and harden our system against bad actors and catch fraud quickly. A DH Official said. Oh, okay. Anyway, they'll be. They'll be given a heads up.

[Kenny Olson]

Apparently you'd be a secret shopper. Right. Do you know what that job is?

[Joe Soucheray]

Sure. I go in and pretend I need Medicaid.

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Or get a pill or something. I don't know what the.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, you do. In your case, you'd want to get a blue pill.

[Joe Soucheray]

Neither the governor's office. Nah, not anymore.

[Kenny Olson]

He did get it. Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Neither the governor's office nor DHS responded when asked if they think their public announcement was giving potentially fraudulent providers the chance to prepare for site visits and make an otherwise illegitimate operation seem legitimate. DHS was also asked if the agency would release. Release the results of Minnesota revalidate 2026 when it is complete. The agency did not respond to that question either. Basically what this means is if you want to continue to steal your money at one of the 5,800 Medicaid providers in the state, I would say 5,700 of them are fraud. What you're going to have to do. And this probably really disappoints them. They're going to have to hang out at the shop every day until at least August.

[Kenny Olson]

Bummer.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. They're going to have to pretend they're doing something. Then they can continue to get their checks. 9 billion. A lot of money.

[Chris Reavers]

It's a lot of money.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think that's in that state. That multi state investigation would be the 9 billion figure.

[John Haidt]

And how long can I be on the run every. Every three years. They'll check me.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that was the old way. Oh, this new toughened up way is hey, we're gonna come and visit you sometime between now and August.

[John Haidt]

Okay.

[John Height]

It's secret, but we'll let you know.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Don't tell anybody.

[John Height]

Right.

[Joe Soucheray]

We're not gonna call you the date. Well, for all I know they will call them the day before they show up.

[Kenny Olson]

We may or may not show up tomorrow. Yeah, you never know.

[Joe Soucheray]

And this, that's really, it's probably really teeing them off. Oh shoot, man. We gotta hang around the shop. It's like this, this phony bus company for hauling the kids around that are the highly mobile kids.

[John Haidt]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

They, you know, every once in a while they probably figure they gotta sit in the parking lot and start a.

[John Haidt]

Bus, honk the horn so they're noticed.

[Chris Reavers]

Did you. Speaking of fraud.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's always able to be spoken about in this state.

[Chris Reavers]

Unfortunately your newspaper, the Minnesota Star Tribune had.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's not my newsp. I work for the other paper.

[Chris Reavers]

I just Meant collectively, it's our. The state of Minnesota four hours ago had this tweet. Trump administration to cut 600 million in health care funding from Minnesota and three more states, basically framing it as Orange man bad. And boy, did they get some feedback from that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, for God's sakes, we spend that in a week.

[Kenny Olson]

The Star Tribune is part of the Walz administration.

[Joe Soucheray]

Correction. It absolutely is. They're publishing. Sure. Came right from the Department of Economic Employment and Energy or whatever it is. D D. Department of what? Is it economic?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Did you want us to look it up?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, no. So anyway, Tim, it shouldn't puzzle. I think mysterians.

[Chris Reavers]

Like people.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, I think. Well, that too. But I think mysterious must envision. Improbably enough, they must envision a functioning metropolitan area where businesses perfectly coexist with an absence of law enforcement. Yeah, when you look at some of the Marxists on this Minneapolis City Council, I don't think I'm far fetched. They wanted to not even have a police department. Mom. Donnie in New York keeps hiring aides who don't want police or jails. They must believe you can run a city successfully and people will be employed and be able to raise their families and whatever without law enforcement. Because again, law enforcement was merely an affectation of poorly grounded founders who all inconveniently, were white and old and they didn't know what they were doing. They only invented the greatest country in the world, but they didn't know what they were doing. So what? Tim and Fry and her. I hate to throw you in there, Collie, but you're right there with them. I don't think they understand the irony of their position. They.

[Kenny Olson]

Not at all.

[Joe Soucheray]

They desperately want to not offend their voting base. And their voting base, for the most part, hold law enforcement in high suspicion and therefore Fry walls and Collie her. Kali Her. They can't make edicts and ordinances fast enough to. You can't stand here next to the library. Ice. And you can't be over here. Don't drive by that playground. And don't you dare be in the parking lot of Costco. And on and on and on and on. And yet they think these businesses will survive this. Yes. You in the back.

[Chris Reavers]

Would you like to hear some audio from.

[Joe Soucheray]

Glad you just germane to what I'm talking about.

[Chris Reavers]

Your guy, Zoran Momdani was interviewed over the weekend and he said the following. Joe, I'm gonna see how long you can take this. He's doubling down on his previous statement that If a company leaves New York, he's going to find them and tax them anyway.

[Joe Soucheray]

We can't.

[Chris Reavers]

And now he is saying we should take businesses from owners who want to leave due to the tax increases and run them for the city ourselves.

[Joe Soucheray]

Are you ready? Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Are you sure?

[Joe Soucheray]

Sure.

[Chris Reavers]

Positive.

[Zoran Momdani]

So let's talk through these policy points. Freezing the rent for more than 2 million rent stabilized tenants does not require money from the city. It is a determination made that landlords cannot increase the rent for those about 1 million apartments. That's something the city has done before. Making buses free costs around $700 million. Providing universal child care costs about $6 billion. These are significant amounts of money. They have to be understood in the context of $116 billion city budget, a state budget of more than $252 billion. The money that we would raise to fund this agenda is in two parts. The first is by increasing the state's top corporate tax rate to match that of New Jersey. That would raise $5 billion. This would only impact the most profitable corporations, ones that dollars in profits. The second is to increase.

[Chris Reavers]

You were going to do.

[Kenny Olson]

I've never seen a group of people more willing to just full throttle auger in knowing that there's nothing but doom ahead and just full steam ahead. Wow.

[Chris Reavers]

You saw what's happening in California, right, Ken? The only thing I tax took.

[Kenny Olson]

The what?

[Chris Reavers]

The billionaire tax took effect on January 1st. Zuckerberg just bought a place in Florida last week. Oh, it's just great, isn't it? Okay, check it on out.

[Joe Soucheray]

Here's the problem.

[Chris Reavers]

Break it down for us, Brian.

[Joe Soucheray]

In the last election for president, as I've said many times, I personally did not have a choice. I found Harris as at least as problematic. With Trump, I said, we'll have completely different problems weighing on the country. And the counter argument was, well, at least with Harris, you, you would be honoring the Constitution. If there's, there's nothing that Mandani Mondami is doing that heartens me to his belief in the Constitution, how about just the pursuit of happiness part? That kind of goes out the window. The mystery would have gained great purchase by a Harris presidency, basically because, well, for obvious reasons, she, she's an airhead. The Trump presidency is despicable for completely different reasons. His attempting to seize more and more power for himself, for example. So the threats of the Constitution are vivid and real with Trump, although he got us out of that Obama climate change stuff, which I applaud, but I'll get to that later. The problem is the country has reached a point where. We have a tremendous appetite for sound, reasonable people to run for office and they're not stepping forward. And you almost have to say, well, who can blame them? Who wants to be part of this circus, this ridiculous circus? As an example of the trouble we would have been in with Harris. Do you still have the audio from yesterday?

[Chris Reavers]

I had a feeling you were going.

[Joe Soucheray]

To ask the audio from yesterday where during the presidential campaign, Harris was asked why she has an opposition to voter ID for voting, which I happen to think is a no brainer. And I think we should have it. I think we should have. You need ID for everything else in your life, which isn't racist. Why is it racist if you need IDs to vote? It's another example of the left mysterians always eager to keep people of color under their wings under the guise of pretending to care for them when all they're doing is diminishing the humanity of people of color by treating them as though they're not capable of getting an id. But this came up during the. I don't know why you found it yesterday, but it's germane to what I'm saying here is Harris asked about voter id.

[H]

Is agreeing to voter ID one of.

[Joe Soucheray]

Those compromises that you'd support?

[H]

I don't think that we should underestimate what that could mean because in some people's mind that means, well, you're going to have to xerox our photocopy your ID to send it in to prove you are who you are. Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities who don't. There's no kinkos, there's no office max near them. People have to understand that when we're talking about voter ID laws, be clear about who you have in mind and what would be required of them to prove who they are. Of course people have to prove who they are.

[Joe Soucheray]

What?

[H]

But not in a way that makes it almost impossible for them to prove who they are.

[Joe Soucheray]

See? What?

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, it makes total.

[Joe Soucheray]

So we can't have voter ID because people in rural areas don't have Xerox machines.

[Kenny Olson]

What about this real ID nonsense?

[John Height]

We all have to give.

[Joe Soucheray]

See that? Harder.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay?

[John Height]

Harder.

[Joe Soucheray]

We would have faced four years of that idiocy, and we're now facing four years of a completely different kind of idiocy. Neither party delivered an adult to the table for the presidential election last time.

[Chris Reavers]

Around, and it was purely coincidental, I am sure, that the only states in which Kamala Harris won those States did not require voter id. I'm sure that was purely coincidental.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, you know what? Put your hat away for a while.

[Kenny Olson]

Thank you.

[Joe Soucheray]

There's plenty to talk about without you dropping in. This BS that you hear at a softball game.

[Chris Reavers]

And Fox News had a piece about it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, then, if it's Fox.

[John Haidt]

Farmington.

[John Height]

Wait a minute.

[Kenny Olson]

Before you start throwing hands and we change the subject, there's one really fun fraud story that was in Alpha Today that I'm hoping you all read. Joe, did you ever watch Seinfeld?

[Joe Soucheray]

Sure.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, George one year decided that he didn't want to give out presents for Christmas, so he created a fake charity called the Human Fund. And he told all these people that a donation has been made to the Human Fund in your name. Headline today, Alpha News NFL starts fundraiser for Islamic charity tied to Minnesota's Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. The Human Development Fund, an upstate Islamic charity touted by the National Football League and various Muslim influencers. Professors professes to provide hot meals to orphans in Gaza. Unfortunately, it's been tied to feeding our future.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, my God.

[Kenny Olson]

So as far as fraud goes, we're still the champions.

[John Haidt]

We're number one.

[Joe Soucheray]

Without. Without adult leadership in place at any level of government, it stands to reason that we'll lose more and more honesty and ethical behavior. There's no role model in place. There's no one who knows how to use the bully pulpit for the good of the country. And that's true whether it's Trump or if it would have been Harris. Both extremely problematic people for completely different reasons.

[Chris Reavers]

The reason I mentioned that is last week, the America Save Act, HR 7296, requiring proof of ID was voted upon. That's why this came up.

[Joe Soucheray]

And it didn't pass.

[Chris Reavers]

It did not pass.

[Joe Soucheray]

And it's because Democrats.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat.

[Joe Soucheray]

And it is Democrats. I'm sorry. That happens to be a fact.

[Chris Reavers]

It is.

[Joe Soucheray]

They are protecting a voting base that they are so diminishing of that they want you to believe it's racist to expect someone to have an ID when. When the truth is all they're doing is demeaning those people by even suggesting such a thing. And I've been saying for 25 years, black people in particular, wake up. The left does you no good. The mystery will do you no good, will do none of us any good. You need an ID to buy cigarettes. If I run a store and a black guy wants to buy a pack of cigarettes, am I a racist for seeing his id?

[Chris Reavers]

I needed An ID to buy cold medicine on Saturday.

[Kenny Olson]

I was about to bring that up.

[Joe Soucheray]

You need an ID to do anything in this country except vote. Does that make sense?

[John Haidt]

Does not.

[Chris Reavers]

What's. Because you're an evil right winger.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm trying to think what happened during the last election. I went in, my name's already on the rolls to vote.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, yeah, you've been voting at the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Same spot and they look up, oh, there's your name and check it off. Nobody bothered to ask me for an id. What would I have produced? Would my. Is my driver's license. Would that serve the purpose of being an ID to vote? Or would we. Or is the objection that we'd have to carry papers?

[Chris Reavers]

Don't know.

[Joe Soucheray]

John, do you happen to know?

[John Height]

I have no idea. I mean, I know what the objection is. I just don't.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, the objection is. Is non existent. There is no objection. There's. There. You can find no reason for an objection unless you're rural. You don't have a kinkos.

[John Height]

I didn't understand that part. Why. Why would you need a copy?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, why do you need a copy of it?

[Chris Reavers]

You're saying she didn't quite make sense?

[Kenny Olson]

No.

[Joe Soucheray]

And as Royce said, she lost because she let an 80 year old. She's lazy and she let an 80 year old guy outwork her. That's one of the reasons she lost. The other reason is people chose the lesser of two evils in terms of being problematic. Huh. Go ahead, Ken.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

So when you go to checkout, just enter the promo code gl. So I want to talk you through it here. I'm going to make it really easy. First of all, go to custom roasting.net click on the garage Logic tab. We have our own tab there. You're going to see two different options. Click on the twin pack option. Choose dark or light and whole, bean or ground Then put them in your cart. When you get to check checkout, enter the promo code gl. And just like that, you get two pound and three quarter bags of the best coffee you'll ever consume. Now, I had to break out the calculator to do the math. That's three and a half pounds of delicious coffee. Just hop on to custom roasting.net check it out. It's the official shop of both GL and the Crabby Coffee Shop custom roasting.net.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Here is John Haidt.

[John Height]

Thank you, Joe. This news brought to you by North American Banking Co. Well, we now know where the former main prosecutor of Minnesota's fraud cases will be working. After years of public service, two former federal prosecutors who recently resigned from the Minnesota district of the U.S. attorney's office are going into private practice. Joe Thompson, who at one point was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota, and his former Justice Department colleague Harry Jacobs announced yesterday they are launching Thompson Jacobs PLLC. In a LinkedIn post, Thompson said their boutique law firm will specialize in white collar defense, international investigations, complex commercial litigation and crisis management. He added they will work to mitigate and reduce fraud, waste and abuse in businesses and government. Thompson and Jacobs were both involved in the ongoing prosecution of widespread fraud in Minnesota social services programs until their resignation from the Justice Department last month, according to reports. Their departures came after DOJ leadership shut down a criminal investigation into the killing of Renee good by a U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement agen, opting instead to look into her partner's potential ties to activist groups. At least 14 prosecutors have left the Minnesota U.S. attorney's office after the shootings.

[Joe Soucheray]

John do we know where they intend to locate? Are they going to be here?

[John Height]

It sounded from what I read, yes, sounded like it was going to be.

[Joe Soucheray]

Here, but I hate to lose his business.

[John Height]

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison this is for you, Joe, because I know you. You want to talk about this. I love this story says he secured an agreement with the Trump administration to protect Minnesota's education funding from cuts tied to diversity programs. On April 3, 2025, the U. S. Department of Education told state and local agencies they must comply with a new interpretation of Title 6, which denounces diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. DEIA or risk losing funding. Minnesota refused to certify compliance, citing the department's vague interpretation. Ellison, along with 18 other attorneys general, filed a lawsuit asserting the department's actions violated several legal principles. The lawsuit was supported by a complimentary case in Maryland, which vacated the certification request the agreement ensures the U.S. department of Education will not withhold funding based on on the contested conditions. The funding supports various educational needs, including services for low income families, special ed, and teacher training. The coalition of Attorney Attorneys General included California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.

[Joe Soucheray]

May I add to this story from our friend Bill Glahn at the American Experiment? Ellison didn't secure anything. And what was secured might not even have any value at all. All Ellison did was hook his wagon to a New York case, New York et al. V. U.S. department of Education, filed in the District of Massachusetts. Minnesota was one of a bunch of blue states that joined Ellison didn't do anything but but grab a headline. But he got a great headline in the states in the Walls newspaper, the Star Tribune. He didn't do anything. Glahn writes, I cannot guarantee many things in life, but I can guarantee you this. Trump and Ellison had no direct interaction in this matter.

[Kenny Olson]

Disclaimer him taking credit assures me that he is a listener to the Krabby Coffee Shop. Because our motto at the Krabby Coffee Shop, Jay brought this in with him is Minimum effort, maximum glory.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wow. Yeah, I'd be proud of that too, Kenny.

[Kenny Olson]

So he's obviously a listener.

[John Height]

A Minnesota man received nearly $20 million in undeserved tax refunds after filing false claims. And According to the U.S. attorney's office, Cesar Wilson was charged with conspiracy to file false claims for tax refunds, filing a false claim for a tax refund, money laundering and bank fraud. Federal prosecutors say Wilson falsely requested $90 million in refunds and conspired in filing false tax returns, requesting over $210 million. His fraudulent claims allegedly totaled over $350 million. The U.S. treasury ended up paying him 19 million. Wilson used the money to buy a 2.6 million dollar home in prior Lake investment, soldiers in cryptocurrency and other projects, and personal expenses. According to prosecutors, he also advised sovereign citizens about trusts and taxes, even providing them with tax filings. Sovereign citizens think certain laws don't apply.

[Kenny Olson]

To their sovereign Can I do an unscheduled ad for our tax lady, Linda Keller? I tried that scheme. She wouldn't let me do it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Does it even pay? To be honest?

[Kenny Olson]

No.

[Chris Reavers]

It costs a lot.

[Kenny Olson]

It keeps the heat off you.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. This is ridiculous.

[John Height]

Can't always pay the bills, but it keeps the heat.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. You know I love having 30 bucks in my account.

[Joe Soucheray]

At least I'm honest now. Now that you know everything that's happened, particularly beginning with COVID Do you doubt for a minute that I could not have secured. Let's just name a figure. $10 million. You doubt for a minute that I could have. I could have done that in five minutes easily. Yep.

[Kenny Olson]

And I would have been long gone. I would have taken my cut and I'd. I don't know, be up. I'd be up in communist Canada right now.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, given that, given the way the country is, my intentions were. I would have immediately called a news conference and presented the check as proof of how ridiculous this government is. I would have gone to prison.

[Kenny Olson]

Ellison would have arrested.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, go ahead, Ken. Sorry.

[Kenny Olson]

No, I was just going to say Ellison would have had you arrested on the spot.

[Chris Reavers]

Right.

[John Height]

I find it very interesting that when.

[Joe Soucheray]

The heat got on, you dug yourself a hole.

[John Haidt]

I think I would have confessed to getting 5 million and taking the other 5 million.

[Joe Soucheray]

Taking off.

[Kenny Olson]

I got 5 million.

[Joe Soucheray]

I write. I am writing to you on the behalf of the City of Garage Logic. It's. What's the. It's Public Works department we need. We can't even get access to our mechanics right now. And we have two failed pickup trucks and one road grader that needs to be replaced. We estimate the total cost of our needs to get us through COVET will be $5.2 million. That check would have been written the day they received the letter.

[John Haidt]

Oh, hell yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Is that tax free? So we each get a mill out of it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, you would each got a mill out of it.

[Kenny Olson]

I'll take the point too.

[John Height]

Also could have gone someplace that doesn't extradite to the us.

[Joe Soucheray]

Indonesia.

[John Height]

Indonesia, Venezuela. You just read that book too, didn't you?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. By the way, John.

[John Height]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

I was disappointed in Don Winslow's latest book.

[John Height]

I actually, I. I like three of the stories a lot. And the rest were just kind of.

[Kenny Olson]

You know, background us.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, I felt cheated. Don Winslow is one of my favorite authors. And if you haven't read Savages or the Kings of Cool, you should really read them. They're fantastic.

[John Height]

Mexican Cartel trilogy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, it's all good stuff. But then he comes out with this new one called the La the Final Score. And I'm thinking, oh, what a novel this will be. Well, it was six novellas, six short stories. I don't like novellas.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't like them either.

[Joe Soucheray]

I like a novel.

[John Height]

Three of them were, I thought, were decently fleshed out. The problem with novellas, to me, is you don't have time to flesh out characters.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, the three of Them could have become novels.

[John Height]

Correct.

[Joe Soucheray]

Three of them could not. Would not have been worth the effort.

[John Height]

He said in his. I don't know if you read the acknowledgments and all that fun stuff. He said he'd had these ideas for years, but he could never expand on them. He had the idea and he had complete plots, but he just couldn't expand.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. So he dumped it off on unsuspecting saps like you and me.

[John Height]

Yeah, well, like I said, I enjoyed three of them, and three of them I thought were boring.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, Rook and I have always said about him, he never should have stopped doing sound effects on Police Academy.

[John Haidt]

No, for sure.

[Joe Soucheray]

Don Winslow.

[Kenny Olson]

Anyway, that was a fun discussion. You may as well continue.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wrap it up now.

[John Height]

No, let's. Instead, let's go. Break. Since Chris ruined it again.

[Chris Reavers]

Thanks, Chris.

[John Height]

Let's. Let's hear from.

[Kenny Olson]

Can I just go on a rant here? Your job, you two, is to keep the conversation going.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

You're doing the opposite. You're going out on the racetrack and you're taking last place on purpose. You're purposely getting the black flag and then being proud of being a loser.

[Joe Soucheray]

Loser.

[John Haidt]

We kept it going. Going, gone.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right.

[John Height]

Why don't we take a break? Because even. Even that part of the conversation work.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'd like to retract that when you're ahead. Yeah.

[John Height]

Kenny, what do you got for us?

[Kenny Olson]

Ken, my next scale took a hit, and I shouldn't be admitting this, but I had my mechanic rebuild a twin Yamaha snowmobile engine. Here's where Joe chimes in.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know what a Yamaha is.

[Kenny Olson]

I no longer have the required gumption it takes to go all the way down to the crankcase and then split that open. Somebody else can do it. I'll gladly pay them for that. But I'll gladly tell you what happened. As soon as I got that sled home, I gave her a nice big shot of Seafoam. Then we went out and went for a ride and broke in the engine and then broke the windshield. That's a very embarrassing incident. Also a hit on the next scale. Anyway, since all the sleds were up and running last weekend, they all drank from the spring of the seafoam. It's what all of us do.

[Joe Soucheray]

Us.

[Kenny Olson]

All of us G L. Ers when we want our cylinders to be happy. Starting in the carb, keeping those jets open, and the cylinders and the ports and the valves, Everything's happy. Today's gas cannot be trusted. And that's why we feed our Cylinders, Gas, diesel. One bangers or eight Seafoam. Feed them seafoam, a wonderful product in a world of bad gas. Seafood.

[John Height]

Paul. Thanks, Kenny. New study from the nonpartisan Tax foundation says President Trump's tariffs cost the average American household about $1000 last year. Economists say the impact of tariffs is complex, affecting everything from prices at the checkout line to global trade relationships. And the costs are often passed on to consumers. The Tax foundation estimates the number could climb to about 1300 this year if current policies remain in place. The report calls the tariffs the largest U.S. tax increase as a share of the economy since 1993. Economists said what happens next depends heavily on negotiations with other countries. Dave Vang is the economist at the University of St. Thomas. He said households will likely still feel an impact. He said, I would expect that so many deals having been made, there will still be negative impact on households because of the tariffs directly, but it's probably going to be something smaller in the next year. He also warns that agriculture could pose a concern, especially here in Minnesota.

[Joe Soucheray]

Are you aware of Trump's tweet regarding Canada getting cozy with China?

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

And Trump said if you do that, they'll take hockey and there'll be no Stanley Cup.

[John Height]

It was an odd.

[Joe Soucheray]

Was a very odd statement. I don't know that the Chinese want the Stanley cup, do they? I don't know.

[Chris Reavers]

Not yet.

[John Haidt]

I don't think so.

[Joe Soucheray]

I guess. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

He didn't mention any team, specific team, did he? Because we all know you don't bring up the cop in relation to a specific.

[Joe Soucheray]

He did not mention the Wild and use the C word.

[Kenny Olson]

All right.

[John Haidt]

Okay.

[Chris Reavers]

Which team of the NHL would you sacrifice to China?

[John Height]

I mean, who could we get rid of?

[Joe Soucheray]

None of them.

[Chris Reavers]

You know, the Hurricanes?

[Joe Soucheray]

None of them?

[Chris Reavers]

No.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[John Height]

This story, it doesn't bode well for older folks in the economy. And Joe, I'm guessing you're going to have something to say about the this. A new report from the National Institute on Retirement Security says the average American worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement. The rule of thumb is that people should have retirement savings equal to where.

[John Haidt]

They get all that money to one.

[John Height]

Year of their annual income. By the age of 30 and by the age of 60, you should have eight times your annual income socked away for your golden years.

[Joe Soucheray]

I have nothing to say except wealth is not how much you save, it's.

[Chris Reavers]

How long you save something.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you.

[John Height]

And that's the expert said. I didn't leave this in the story because I thought it was Self explanatory. If you start saving, say with a 401k when you're young, it will grow regardless of how you, you.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, I was asking Gabe about this before the show. How many small businesses do you think offer 401ks? I don't think the majority of them probably do. I.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, I haven't even looked.

[John Haidt]

You must be full time. I, I don't know if. Part time. Yeah, Employees are offered a full.

[Joe Soucheray]

But you know what? That's a sad commentary. That's a sad commentary on life in America. That the average worker doesn't have a. Has a grand grand. Because a grand ain't gonna cut it. A grand won't get you through a week.

[Kenny Olson]

I would like to liquidate my assets.

[Joe Soucheray]

45 years.

[John Height]

That just shows me what a financial analyst you really are, Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, that.

[John Height]

You know that.

[Joe Soucheray]

I really went out on a limb there, didn't I, John?

[John Haidt]

Who helped you with those figures?

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[John Height]

Meanwhile, a new Gallup poll says the percentage of U. S. Adults who anticipate high quality lives in five years declined in 2025 to 59.2%, the lowest level since that measurement began nearly 20 years ago. Since 2020, future life ratings have fallen a total of 9.1 percentage points, projecting to an estimated 24.5 million fewer people who are optimistic about the future now versus then. Most of the decline occurred during the pandemic years 2021 to 2023, but the ratings dropped almost 4 points between 2024 in 2025.

[Chris Reavers]

There was a woman who went viral over the weekend about her $1 million salary that she gets in California and basically what she ends up getting at.

[Joe Soucheray]

The end of all of it, about 200 grand.

[Chris Reavers]

It's about 530 grand that she ends up taking home.

[John Height]

King Charles has made his first intervention in the latest round of revelations in the Epstein scandal, saying Buckingham palace is ready to. To support the police as they consider allegations against his brother, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

[John Haidt]

Oh, he's just, he's just throwing him under the bus and stomping on his head.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is Chuck in the files? Is Chuck in the Epstein files?

[John Height]

I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

So gross.

[John Height]

Andrew. Yeah. Thames Valley. Thames Valley police confirmed it's assessing whether there are grounds to investigate a complaint by the anti monarchy group Republic which reported that Mountbatten Windsor was suspected of misconduct in public office and breach of official secrets. Emails from the Epstein files recently released appeared to show at the former prince, Prince Andrew passing on reports of visits to Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam and confidential details of investment opportunities. Meanwhile, unredacted files related to Epstein have been reviewed by lawmakers and some are accusing the Department of Justice of a cover up up. Six men, including one top foreign politician had their identities protected in the files that according to US Congressman Thomas Massie, the pair. He also questioned why the high profile men had their faces and images obscured for no apparent reason. Nassi claimed the uncensored documents included one individual who is quote, pretty high up in a foreign government. They also included several previously unreported victims with one being his youngest is nine years old. According to House Representative Jamie Raskin. He said you read through these files and you read about 15 year old girls, 14 year old girls, 10 year old girls and a mention of a 9 year old that I saw today. I mean it's preposterous and scandalous. Scandalous. Excuse me. Another post showed another redacted file with Massey saying it's a well known retired CEO. The DOJ should unredact this. Raskin added, I saw the names of a lot of people who were redacted for mysterious or baffling or inscrutable reasons.

[Joe Soucheray]

This is a cancer on the country. Isn't it? Just this constant wound of these Epstein files. Just a cancer.

[John Haidt]

Well, backpedaling to the current reigning king. I think that Chuck was ultimately faithful to Diana until their divorce and then he found Camilla.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, he had Camilla going the whole time.

[John Haidt]

Is that what it was? Little side chick.

[Joe Soucheray]

You look at Diana and you look at her and you wonder what's wrong with Chuck.

[John Haidt]

Something's wrong with him.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

For some reason I picture him in nothing but black socks and those garters that guys wear to hold up the black socks. Maybe walking around the palace with his wing tips on and nothing else. Maybe a crown. I'm finally king. He goes and digs out a crown out of the old cupboard.

[John Height]

Joe, you talked yesterday about how artists don't get paid to do the super bowl halftime show, but the benefits are the exposure. Yeah, well, here's what you meant. Bad Bunny is holding the top six spots on Spotify's top 50 US chart. This morning a 31 year old Puerto Rican superstar performed hits from his Grammy winning album. The photos paying tribute to his homeland. Eleven other Bad Bunny songs also earned places in Spotify's top 50 U. S charts. So 17 songs, six of them in the top 10.

[Kenny Olson]

Please tell me you guys didn't get into an argument yesterday about the halftime show.

[Chris Reavers]

We just brought it up.

[Joe Soucheray]

It was a business decision by the NFL. But what I also read is that there are people desperately still trying to demonstrate that, well, all he did is sing profane lyrics. Well, I. I don't care. I don't know. I couldn't understand what he was saying. So I don't really care.

[Chris Reavers]

Did you see what the people that dressed up as the trees, Those were real people. They were. Do you know what they got paid?

[Joe Soucheray]

About 18 bucks an hour.

[Chris Reavers]

Right. But over the duration, they each made about 1500 bucks for the week. That's an expensive.

[Joe Soucheray]

Why?

[John Haidt]

Because every time they have to run out, they get.

[Chris Reavers]

No, they had to do an entire.

[Joe Soucheray]

Week of training, practice. Had to practice being a tree.

[John Haidt]

You're gonna be over here, tree 17.

[Chris Reavers]

There's dancing and stuff. Choreographed.

[John Height]

Playing a brain training video game could protect against dementia for up to 20 years, according to a long term study published yesterday. Researchers say the findings, based on tracking nearly 3,000 individuals ages 65 and older, offer the strongest evidence yet that cognitive training can have lasting benefits on the brain. Participants who completed up to 23 hours of speed training over three years had a 25% lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia over a 20 year follow up period compared to a control group. The training required participants to quickly identify and respond to objects on a screen, an activity likened to noticing peripheral objects while driving.

[Joe Soucheray]

Pat, does this Rook, does this make you worry about Pat?

[John Haidt]

Yes. Were we all here yester Monday when he came in and he said, I looked for my keys for 45 minutes. They were in my hand. He's walking around the house.

[Joe Soucheray]

See, that's not what I thought of when I heard John's story. I thought of he had to write down the blue paint. Red paint. He had to write that down.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes, he did.

[Joe Soucheray]

Red paint. Let's see, what's it like if it's blue? Can't get over here.

[John Haidt]

Smells like red paint.

[Kenny Olson]

Tell me this, you guys are all brain experts. I do two crosswords every day. How come the crosswords I can't figure out before I go to bed are easy? When I wake up in the morning and I'm all groggy and sleepy and I can sit down and bang them out, no problem.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's easy.

[Chris Reavers]

It's easy.

[Kenny Olson]

What is it?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that's your. That's your cerebral.

[John Haidt]

Medulla oblongata.

[Chris Reavers]

The former governor would have said, kenny, you like it fresh. Your mind is fresh in the morning.

[Joe Soucheray]

It has something to do with the hippocampus.

[John Height]

I think that's very true, Kenny, because the same thing Happens with me with music. If I'm trying to learn music to play on guitar.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[John Height]

In the morning. Boom, boom, bang, boom, bang. What is problem in the evening? It's not easy. It's. It's luxury almost.

[John Haidt]

Do you play the drums too, John? Boom, bang, boom.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know the one I never fail to do every day on the back of the sports page of the Pioneer Press is to find six differences between these two panels.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

So.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, just love that.

[Kenny Olson]

Have you done it yet today?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. And did you complete it in inside a minute.

[Kenny Olson]

The next time you can't complete one, save it for the next morning and see if you can do it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Or better yet, tomorrow, wait till night to do it and see what it's like.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, because some people operate. Because Kenny, all those years you did morning radio, some people just operate better. As a morning person, all I can.

[Kenny Olson]

Think of in the morning when I get up is how can I get out of doing this today? That's all I think of.

[John Height]

Talking about the show, aren't you? Oh, no answer, huh?

[Joe Soucheray]

John's not done, is he?

[John Height]

It's up to you.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, I guess you are.

[John Height]

Mr. Suchre.

[Chris Reavers]

We mentioned her and she's worth a mention again. Linda Keller. Kellertaxservice.com did you guys book your appointments yet, by the way? Johnny?

[John Height]

Not yet, but I will.

[Kenny Olson]

I better do that this week.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay. I got a text from Linda this morning actually. Excuse me, Yesterday. Just want to let you know that we've already had a huge response from returning and brand new glers. So she wants to say thank you to all you glers. Also wanted to give a tax tip to all the listeners and of course you, you big dummy. That for the next three years through 2028, you can make up to 25,000 in tips per year, tax free. That's right.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right.

[Chris Reavers]

Bartenders, servers, Uber Lyft drivers, tip delivery drivers. Anyone who makes tips. Need a side hustle? Tip income would be first on my list. That's wonderful.

[John Haidt]

Independent contractors. No, no, you're not tipped, are you?

[Chris Reavers]

You're just here for the tips.

[Joe Soucheray]

I feel like it, yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

But anyway, book your appointment. That's why she's the best. She's on top of everything relating to tax information. Kind of sucks center. Yeah, she's up that way. But you can give her a call directly at 320-352-001 or book your appointment online at kellertaxservice.com I'm just getting ready to send all my packet of information into her as we Speak, by the way. But if you go to that website, you can see all the updated tax information that she has to offer. And she is the absolute best. And she's.

[Joe Soucheray]

So you don't have a sit down with her.

[Chris Reavers]

I send her my stuff, trust me. She gets the free show on the phone about twice a week. So anyway, but it doesn't matter where you live. She handles all types of returns in the state of Minnesota and everywhere across the country. This great country. Kellertaxservice.com, book your appointment today and let Linda know that you heard about her here on the Garage Logic podcast.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, here, yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Play the movie.

[Joe Soucheray]

Are you going?

[Chris Reavers]

Are you going?

[John Haidt]

Play the movie.

[Joe Soucheray]

The earth is not your mother. The Joe Sugiray show.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Is poised to walk back an Obama era greenhouse gas finding that serves as a linchpin for justifying climate regulations across the country. The 2009 endangerment finding identifies six greenhouse gases that the Obama administration said pose a threat to public health and welfare. That harm finding was then used to justify sweeping climate regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency. Let me pause right there. So what's 2000? How many years ago is that?

[John Height]

17.

[Joe Soucheray]

So in 17 years have you noticed a big change in the environment? I mean, is this something you could identify? That finding was used to okay. That harm finding was then used to justify sweeping climate regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency, such as raising fuel economy standards and limiting power plant emissions, the Wall Street Journal reported. The new guy, EPA guy, is Lee Zeldin. He hailed the move as cutting through government red tape in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. This amounts to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the U.S. zeldin said. Personally, I'm thrilled because I've always suspected the climate change movement is a front for something that has nothing to do well with the with the climate.

[Kenny Olson]

That's where I've been searching and I can't find an answer. I'm wondering what this is going to do to the business side of climate change, that is most specifically carbon credits. Is this going to blow all of that crap out of the water?

[Joe Soucheray]

Probably should. The Journal reported that the final rule will be made public later this week and is set to eliminate requirements to measure, report, certify and comply with federal greenhouse gas emissions standards for motor vehicles. While Detroit's been ahead of the government for the last 50 years, the rollback does not yet affect power plants or oil and gas facilities. More energy drives human flourishing Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said energy abundance is a thing we have to focus on, not regulating certain forms of energy out Trump is expected to hold an event at the White House Wednesday with Zeldin and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. They will announce the new initiative for the Department of War to purchase electricity from coal powered plants. By the way, anything you're worried about anyway is going to go out the window because of the demand AI is requiring for power. The plants that need to be built to generate the power that AI will need are mind boggling. I think that's what the big fight is about down in Farmington. Yeah, okay. There's nothing else for me to say about this. I love it. I think it's all the climate change movement's always been BS and it remains BS as far as I'm concerned. So, and no one can prove to me there's no evidence in 17 years. All Obama administration was created was additional regulation hassles. Nothing else changed except you had to fill out paperwork. We have a number of listeners who apparently listened to Adam Carolla and have taken care to try to protect Garage Logic from copyright infringement. He wouldn't be the first one Carolla is suggesting. Apparently he did a bit where he thinks WD40 should become a perfume. I think you probably have that somewhere in our. We were doing this 25 years ago.

[John Haidt]

It was the official cologne of Garage.

[Joe Soucheray]

The official cologne of Garage Logic. He Corolla told WD40 they were leaving money on the table by not man. By not manufacturing a deodorant that smells like WD40. He even stated that women would love it and would swoon. We did. We did that already.

[John Haidt]

I think he heard we did that. That voice, Morgan. Sexy. Was it Morgan? I don't remember who it was.

[Joe Soucheray]

We should.

[John Haidt]

Very sexy.

[Joe Soucheray]

We should still have that on tape somewhere. Did Judy Dibble do it? If Judy Dibble did it, that goes back 30 years.

[John Haidt]

I don't think it was Dibble, even though she's got a great voice.

[Joe Soucheray]

What's this one say? This one says, thought of you immediately. Here's a link to a Corolla video where he describes the use of WD40 as a deodorant. Adam, we did that. I guess there's no statute of limitations.

[John Haidt]

You know what I'm saying?

[Joe Soucheray]

What are you gonna try?

[Kenny Olson]

If I remember right, it got pulled.

[Joe Soucheray]

What did?

[Kenny Olson]

Did the WD40 thing.

[Joe Soucheray]

From Corolla? No, from.

[Kenny Olson]

From our system.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh.

[Kenny Olson]

For obvious reasons.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Well. But it would be still fun to play an old one if we could find it. But maybe it's been exorcised.

[John Haidt]

That's what I'm saying.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

I've compared both the WD40 to the deep Creep, and I prefer Deep Creep.

[Joe Soucheray]

And you know what? A Deep Creep perfume even sounds more exotic. What are you wearing? A little Deep Creep. I like that. I go with that.

[Kenny Olson]

After all, I am a creep.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's right. Oh, I think the earth is not. That's your mother. That's. That's something else.

[Kenny Olson]

No, I think it was airing on something that we can't hear. Maybe something the council hears or something. And it got. It ended up getting pulled.

[Joe Soucheray]

We won't worry about it. It's okay. He's just. Corolla's having fun and we had fun with it, and I've got two guys that are looking feverishly for it. And I think Kenny's right. I think it was. I think it was X or X. What's the word?

[Kenny Olson]

Exorcise. You know, it would be a lot of fun to get you and Corolla in the same room with a couple of microphones and just listen to YouTube, rant and rave for a couple, two, three, four hours.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'd love to.

[Kenny Olson]

You guys see eye to eye on a lot of things.

[Joe Soucheray]

Love to.

[Kenny Olson]

I'd love to.

[Joe Soucheray]

You guys can quit looking because you're not finding anything.

[Chris Reavers]

I want you to do the golf show as long as we're delaying.

[Kenny Olson]

It's good though that they're kept busy. That's what I like.

[Chris Reavers]

We're having some YouTube issues as well.

[Kenny Olson]

So it wasn't just me.

[Chris Reavers]

No, it wasn't.

[Joe Soucheray]

All right, cool. The 2026 North American Banking Company Minnesota Golf show this Friday through Sunday at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Now get this. You can watch live episodes of your favorite shows on our podcast stage Purple Daily. Brittany and Kendall Thor talks Purple Break 80 athletes in sports and more. GL will be there Friday during our regular time starting around noon. And you can, you know what? You can stop by and get a photo with KPMG Women's PGA Championship trophy at the Minnesota PGA booth all weekend. Let me look at this here. Okay, tickets are on sale now. There's more than 70 exhibitors. There's clothing, there's clubs. John Randall's wandering around. It's pebble beach weekend. That'll be on the TV in the 19th hole. A huge variety of name brand apparel. But here's the best part. Each ticket purchased for the golf show comes with, what did I say? 15 free greens fee passes. 15? That's fantastic. Go to mingolfshow.com mingolfshow.com Here we go.

[Kenny Olson]

Before you wrap it up here, Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm not ready to wrap it up.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, good. Throw it to me though. Before you do, I have a reminder.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm throwing it to you right now.

[Kenny Olson]

Reminder, geolog. Save the date. It's August 12, 2026, when we lose seven seconds of gravity.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm very troubled by that because I imagine just floating away.

[Kenny Olson]

Don't believe the misinformation you'll find on Google saying that. It's phony baloney.

[Joe Soucheray]

This stuff is real only because they come to us all the way from Kaiwaka, New Zealand from the traveling Lymans. It was on this day, Joe.

[Chris Reavers]

Today is February 10th.

[Joe Soucheray]

Boy, we go way back to this day in 1763. Did they even have calendars then? Did they have February in 1763. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

It had 31 days, though.

[Joe Soucheray]

In the treaty ending the French and Indian War, a part of the Seven Years War in Europe, France transferred to Britain the territory that later became Minnesota.

[John Haidt]

Really?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. On this day, Feb.10 in 1806, Lt. Zebulon M. Pike, exploring the upper Mississippi territory included in the recent Louisiana Purchase, arrived at the Northwest Company post on Leech Lake. Well, it wasn't called that then. And I'm not even going to attempt.

[John Height]

Go ahead, Joe. Joe, you tried to tell us what it was.

[Joe Soucheray]

Zagas. Kawagjima. Kag. Leech Lake. Incensed that the British Union Jack still flew there, he ordered it shot down and replaced with the Stars and Stripes. Pike was something of an ingrate, however, as he enjoyed the hospitality of the post both before and after the incident. And that means he got hammered on whatever they had in the cabinet.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Dandelion wine.

[Joe Soucheray]

British fur traders remained in the region until the end of the War of 1812. Okay, rook. Find it. I want to send this out to Adam Carolla. You ready? What do I do? Oh, you got to do this thing.

[John Haidt]

The mouse.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know. How long ago was his Rook?

[Adam Carolla]

Hey there, big boy. Let me tell you what really heats me up.

[Joe Soucheray]

Up.

[Adam Carolla]

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[John Height]

WD40 Cologne takes no responsibility.

[John Haidt]

Responsibility for careless use of its product. Use in public places is not encouraged due to its dramatic effect on women.

[Joe Soucheray]

The music alone was fantastic.

[Kenny Olson]

You got to send that to them.

[Joe Soucheray]

I should. That's a lab.

[John Height]

Was.

[Joe Soucheray]

A long time ago. On this day.

[Kenny Olson]

I just talked to her over a couple of weeks ago. She does not say hi to you guys.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, and that's Morgan. QE Old Slattery. Right. On this day in 1971, about 250 demonstrators in Minneapolis protested the Vietnam War with a march from the U of M campus to the Federal Building. On Washington Avenue, where they threw snowballs and then dispersed.

[John Haidt]

Don't think we won't.

[Joe Soucheray]

And then dispersed to distribute leaflets and get into raps with people about the war.

[John Height]

Hey, you want a rap, man?

[Joe Soucheray]

Hey, man. Come on, man. On this day in Minnesota sports history.

[Chris Reavers]

Who'D we lose to on February 10th?

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day in 1967, in a letter to the Vikings, Fran Tarkenton asked for a trade. Then he went to the Giants.

[Chris Reavers]

Van Brocklin. Wasn't he the coach then?

[Joe Soucheray]

67?

[John Haidt]

Yeah, Van Brocklin. Because they didn't get along. He left, went to the Giants and came back.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did bud arrive by 67?

[John Haidt]

No, he was mad at Van. I remember this reading his autobiography, you weren't even born. I went to Nativity and they had those little Fran Tarkington Carl Eller books in the library.

[Joe Soucheray]

I wrote some of those.

[John Haidt]

I know you told me that, but those were really cool. And that's where I learned.

[Joe Soucheray]

When did Bud get here, John?

[John Height]

March 10th, 1967. So about a month after this.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, 3-10-67, Bud arrived. He came here from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Thank you, you g allers, you.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, great. That's not working either.

[John Haidt]

Good to see you guys. You know, it's just, it's. It's really in the neighborhood.

[Kenny Olson]

It's.

[Chris Reavers]

It's wonderful to do this show on YouTube each and every single day. And you know what? You can follow us along on YouTube and all of our social media channels, which includes Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. And you can also sign up for the Daily Logician. That's an email that comes right to your inbox each and every single day. And you know what? Find out more and sign up [e-mail] it is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold is with us once again right here in garagelogic. And now is the time for you to do the same. So do not delay. Do exactly what I did in. 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 for that. Free. Yes, I use the word free. 48 minute financial consultation again with 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, boy, Josh, still some concerns about a possible government shutdown. You have a happy birthday. You'd like to issue and is Coke still it?

[Josh Arnold]

Coke is it? Coke is it? Chris, I know that there are some commercials over the weekend where the Coke polar bear was trying to taste test over Coke Zero versus Pepsi Zero and he chose the Pepsi Zero. Well, I don't know about that. Pepsi drinkers like Pepsi, Coke drinkers like Coke. Coke is it. And when you buy Coca Cola or buy the stock of Coca Cola, you not only get get Coke, Kosher Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Cherry Coke, Cherry Coke Zero, Orange, Orange Coke, Vanilla Coke, you also get plenty of tea, you get coffee products, you get Powerade and you get Fair Life Milk and Fair Life milk derivatives. And I've probably left out of Coca Cola sells over 200 products and over 200 companies. It is probably one of the better global or international mutual funds that exist. And you can check the record. I have said that Coca Cola is a global mutual fund or an international mutual fund. Since I first started investing in Coca Cola as a stock and a company back in the early 90s and I've owned it and sold it and owned it and sold it bit and looking backward is one of the many companies that because they've continued to increase their dividend should have held on. And that goes to the power of long term investing and investing in a product or company whose service wanted and needed on a regular basis. Now people might say oh you know who's going to need to drink a Coca Cola or drink Pepsi Cola on a regular basis? A regular base, it's just flavored or sugared water and is it really good for your health? There's a guy down in Omaha, Nebraska who just retired from leading his company and rumor has it that he drinks six to eight Cokes a day. I think he likes the Cherry Coke and Coca Cola installed a special machine in Berkshire Hathaway's offices. But Berkshire has held onto Coke hope for decades with the increase in the dividend payout on a regular basis. Their yield based on their initial investment now over 40 years ago their yield is in excess of 20%. That is pretty significant and does speak again power of long term investing in a company that provides a product or service that everybody wants. Now Coca Cola as numbers were a little bit mixed with and there is concerns about the growth and growth in and sales particularly growth in sales in North America only being up a tad under 4% and this sent the shares down tad today. But Coke is up about 10% over the last. Coke is not a barn burning stock by any stretch of the imagination. But in My mind Coke is still now moving and Coke fits into my focus group of among leisure oriented companies. Question came up with Coke on the conference call about utilizing or using artificial intelligence. Now they're using artificial intelligence around their advertising so they can be a lot more personalized and very localized when they do that AI helps them along that way. Further in the area of leisure Marriott reported their numbers another beat and raise. This stock has moved up. Management there says they've got plenty of rooms and a lot of different categories. Travel and leisure spending continues to be up up as travel and leisure spending or travel is a prioritized prioritized activity or maybe I should say activities in person have become prioritized. We'll see other hotels or stocks are up in sympathy. We'll see if Marriott news is confirmed when Hilton reports their their numbers tomorrow and also bookings.com you might know them as Price Priceline and Expedia report their their numbers later on. So pay attention. Spending on leisure it is one of the areas that I've focused in on along with companies involved in the Internet going going forward I will say that you know we've got a jobs number coming out that this week and at the end of the week we do have some issues relating to we'll say the Department of Homeland Security operates not only Immigration and Border Control but TSA and the Coast Guard and we'll see whether there is some agreement on funding or given it's a long weekend celebrate President's Day next Monday whether the government that goes on pause for a little bit. One last issue since I've talked about or brought up AI with Coca Cola. Taiwan Semiconductor has proved to be a big winner around AI and chip growth. They reported that their monthly sales were the best ever and that's given Taiwan Semi a nice boost going forward. And we did want to say happy birthday to my good friend Jim Deora who continues to move up an E but is still working hard. So happy birthday. Happy birthday Chris. Look forward to running with you in the near future. Excellent Chris. I forgot, forgot, forgot in terms of leisure oh my goodness this is a big big number and getting all excited about Coca Cola. I forgot to bring up the predictions market and sports betting on the super bowl. And I know you might have even attempted to look at some of the predictions markets whether it be Polymarket or Kelsey or even took some bets on Robinhood reports their numbers tonight. Kelsey reported that super bowl trading on their platform exceeded $1 billion.

[Kenny Olson]

Wow.

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Josh Arnold]

Look forward to it.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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