2/20 AOC tries to answer tough questions, we pose the same questions to Rookie.

Summary

Garage Logic Podcast – Episode Summary Date: February 20, 2026
Episode: 2/20 – "AOC tries to answer tough questions, we pose the same questions to Rookie"
Host: Joe Soucheray ("The Mayor") with Chris Reivers, Kenny Olson, John Hight, Josh Arnold, Matthew "Rookie" Mikulski, and Pat
Podcast Network: Gamut Podcast Network

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Overview

This lively, wide-ranging episode of MN’s beloved Garage Logic features the signature banter and irreverent common sense of “The Mayor” Joe Soucheray and the GL crew. Central to the episode: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (AOC) recent attempts to answer tough global and domestic policy questions. In classic GL fashion, the team pits these same questions against Rookie (“Matthew Mikulski”), resulting in an intentionally comedic and illuminating comparison. The team also discusses city politics, the inspector general bill, odd news, local winter woes, and delivers their legendary freewheeling talk on everything from UFOs to hockey heads.

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Key Segments & Highlights

1. AOC vs Rookie: Answering the Tough Questions

(02:27 – 08:17)

• Set Up: The team plays audio of AOC getting stumped at the Munich Security Conference on US foreign policy toward Taiwan if China invades. (03:25)

  "You know, I think that this is such a... You know, I think that this is a—today, Junior." – AOC (03:49, with GL’s mocking)

• Rookie’s Turn: Rookie is posed the same question—should the US commit resources to defend Taiwan?

  "Not only should we set aside resources to help the Taiwanese in case of Chinese invasion and such, we should be sure that all goods are able to be sailed across the ocean blue into these great United States. And we should let China know that, hey, hey, hey, back off… the Taiwanese are our friendly people." – Rookie (04:26)

  (Rookie closes with: "Shay. Shay, thank you.")

• Crew Discussion: The consensus is that neither answer is strong, and perhaps no politician (or Garage Logician) could answer such hypotheticals well.

  "Not a dime's worth of difference in the two answers." – Josh Arnold (05:44) "I don't think any of us can answer that question good." – Joe Soucheray (06:29)

Notable Quote

• Mocking Political Non-Answers:

  "The US Position on that is: we don't comment on that." – Josh Arnold, explaining what officials should say (05:49)

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2. Question Two: Wealth Tax

(07:01 – 10:47)

• AOC’s Wealth Tax Question: GL plays another Munich clip with AOC queried about imposing a billionaire tax. She answers with a vague endorsement of taxing the rich. (07:12)
• Rookie’s Contrarian Answer: Rookie flips the script:

  "Not only will I not impose a wealth tax, I would say that the wealthy are already paying their fair share. ... There would be no need to add any tax burden to the wealthy." (07:49)

• GL Panel:
  • Debate over tax loopholes, referencing a Dave Chappelle routine about Trump and Hillary Clinton candidly discussing using those rules.

  "All we have to do is close about 7,000 loopholes and everyone would be better off." – Josh Arnold (08:21) "These frauds pretend they've had nothing to do with how the taxes are structured—they wrote the laws…" – Josh Arnold (09:03)

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3. Minneapolis City Council and Hotel Liquor Licenses

(11:48 – 14:52)

• City Council Drama: Debate over whether to renew liquor licenses for hotels that possibly cooperated with ICE, with progressive members opposing renewals.

  "It's just amazing... reminds me of kids that play house. These kids are playing government." – Joe Soucheray (14:30)

• Crew calls out specific council members and then riff on a city staff member with a “perfectly round head,” digressing into fun hockey player head shapes. (15:00)

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4. Fraud, Politics & The Inspector General Bill

(17:07 – 23:04)

• The Confusing Bill: The discussion focuses on the Minnesota inspector general bill that has failed to pass—again—due to party politics and amendments.

  "So what we have here is an elected body that… has failed to come up with a way to continue to investigate fraud and prevent it in the future." – Josh Arnold (21:25)

• He Said, She Said: GL covers rumors of gubernatorial interference in the bill, quickly digressing into classic political skepticism.

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5. UFOs, Aliens & The British Woman’s Encounter

(28:23 – 37:44)

• Trump Teases Alien Disclosure: Discussion of rumors Trump will release US government alien files, reacting to Obama’s open belief on a recent podcast. (28:23–29:56)

• Philosophical & Absurd Reactions: The Mayor and panel ponder how the public would respond if aliens were revealed, joking about mass chaos or calm acceptance.

  "I intend I would be very calm. If some alien showed up at the door, I’d just say, how you doing? Where you been?" – Josh Arnold (30:16) "I would hope it would be madness in the streets, like when the Twins won the World Series." – Joe Soucheray (30:29)

• Classic Audio: GL plays a charming (possibly apocryphal) British woman’s account of meeting beautiful, sympathetic aliens in 1954. The team debates its authenticity—some say she sounds credible, others joke she’s “hired in a kite.” (32:25–37:44)

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6. Local News Roundup & GL’s Signature Tangents

(48:07 – 89:17, with news, sports, and random riffs)

• Notable Local Stories:
  • Prosecutor departures and claims of Justice Department politicization, affecting prosecutions in Minnesota (48:09–51:28)
  • New fraud charges in the Feeding Our Future scandal, including absurdly inflated meal claims: “more than 1,000 kids every day” (53:14)
  • Local winter: dog sled race canceled for lack of snow (54:35+), sunken fish houses, and ice dangers (55:57+)
• Random Banter Highlights:
  • Deep dive into head shapes of hockey players, especially Claude Provost (15:45, 37:57, 42:11)
  • Skewering financial “tips”: Best days/days to buy gas (“Thursday worst; Monday best”) and obvious advice: “Drive less.” (82:01–84:03)
  • Mocking kids’ sports tournaments and parents’ dedication (75:12–76:48)

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7. Sports Chat with Pat

(67:08 – 78:51)

• Olympic Hockey: Women’s gold medal victory, family stories, and “characters” on the team (“she could start a riot in the nunnery”).
• Olympic Oddities: New “ski mountaineering” event (“Schemo or Skima”), bemoaning its absurdity.
• Classic GL banter: Calls for more violence in short track speed skating or “shooting added to sports” (73:41 and 73:59).
• Throwback: Remembering kids’ marathon hockey games decided in endless overtime—and Pat’s golf shirt scandal (77:38–78:42).

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8. Stocks & Economic Analysis (Mr. Money Talk: Josh Arnold)

(91:10 – 100:16)

• Current Market Events: SCOTUS ruling overturning Trump’s tariffs; tariffs’ impact on US industry; GDP and inflation updates; travel/entertainment stocks on the rise.

  "Tariffs are a tax ultimately paid by consumers." – Josh Arnold (approx 91:33) "Companies that provide experiences—travel or entertainment—have recently been rewarded." (97:34+)

• Advice: Cautiously optimistic about travel/entertainment stocks, less so about immediate rate cuts.

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Notable Quotes

• Political Answers as Comedy:

  "Not a dime's worth of difference in the two answers." – Josh Arnold (05:44) "I don't think any of us can answer that question good." – Joe Soucheray (06:29)

• On Fraud and Government:

  "These kids are playing government." – Joe Soucheray (14:36) "They failed to come up with a way to investigate fraud and prevent it." – Josh Arnold (21:25)

• On UFOs:

  "If some alien showed up at the door, I’d just say, how you doing?" – Josh Arnold (30:16) "There’s politics involved when the wind blows harder than 50 miles an hour." – Joe Soucheray (31:19)

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Key Timestamps

• 02:27 – Opening: Setting up AOC vs Rookie challenge
• 03:49 – AOC’s Taiwan answer (mocked)
• 04:26 – Rookie’s Taiwan answer (comic version)
• 07:49 – Rookie's wealth tax answer
• 09:03 – Panel riffs on tax loopholes and Trump/Clinton exchange
• 14:30 – City council “kids playing government”
• 17:07 – Inspector General bill politics
• 28:23 – Trump/alien files, world reaction to disclosure
• 32:25 – British woman’s classic UFO story
• 48:07 – John Hight’s local news
• 67:08 – Pat talks Olympic hockey and sports randomness
• 82:01 – “Worst day to buy gas” segment
• 91:10 – Mr. Money Talk (Josh Arnold): economic analysis

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Tone and Style

Classic Garage Logic—irreverent, skeptical, informed, and conversational. The hosts mix genuine concern about local and national politics with tongue-in-cheek humor, everyday wisdom, and the true spirit of "gumption." While topics cover serious ground (politics, fraud, public safety), the episode is woven together with sidebars, local color, and plenty of laughs for GL regulars and newcomers alike.

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In summary: The Garage Logic 2/20/26 episode delivers a potent blend of political satire, local critique, and the kind of wide-ranging, gumption-powered banter listeners love. Whether audibly rolling their eyes at politicians, reliving kids’ hockey marathons, or seriously discussing tariffs and UFOs, the GL crew keeps integrity and common sense at the center—even through nostalgia, mockery, and the world’s most important debates about head shapes and hockey heroes.

Transcript

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[Josh Arnold]

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[Matthew Mikulski]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Josh Arnold]

And now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Logic with Chris Reivers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the Krabby Coffee, John Hight in the newsroom, and of course the rookie here is your flashlight King, fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Sushere Brooke.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yes, sir.

[Josh Arnold]

Remember, we would put you up against Kamala Harris. She would give an answer to some geopolitical question and then we had you answer yes during the campaign and that was a tie. If not. If not, you winning at all times. Let's do it again. You versus aoc.

[Chris Reivers]

Give me one second, sir.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. And now AOC was in Munich at a gathering of very important people and they were asking each other These difficult

[Matthew Mikulski]

world questions that somebody should know. Somebody worldly should know an answer.

[Chris Reivers]

I can help you, Matthew. The first question in Munich was Kamala. My goodness. AOC was asked about her stance on Taiwan.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, that's the one I want to hear.

[Chris Reivers]

Thank you.

[Josh Arnold]

You're not ready.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm ready.

[Josh Arnold]

Yep.

[Chris Reivers]

No, I'm ready.

[Josh Arnold]

Here's. We'll play AO first.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Okay.

[Josh Arnold]

And. Okay, here's AO was. I think the specific question was foreign policy. She was asked about should the United States intervene on behalf of Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion offer.

[British Woman Witness]

And to all of you and Congressman,

[Josh Arnold]

I'll start with you would. And should the US Actually commit US

[Joe Sucere Such]

Troops defend Taiwan if China were to move?

[Josh Arnold]

You know, I think that this is such a. You know, I think that this is a today, Junior.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Is that not edited for real?

[Chris Reivers]

That's 100% authentic.

[Josh Arnold]

Matt Mikulski, sitting Congressman, do you think the USA should commit resources to defending Taiwan against the Chinese?

[Matthew Mikulski]

Not only should we set aside resources to help the Taiwanese in case of a Chinese invasion and such, we should be sure that all goods that are made in Taiwan are able to be sailed across the ocean blue into these great United States. And we should let China know that, hey, hey, hey, back off and such and so forth that we mean business and the Taiwanese are our friendly people. And then I would end it with Shay. Shay, thank you.

[Chris Reivers]

I can pick it up after that.

[Josh Arnold]

I'd like to go back to aoc. This is a clause. This is of course a.

[John Hight]

A very long standing policy of the United States.

[Matthew Mikulski]

And I think what we are hoping

[Josh Arnold]

for is that we want to make

[John Hight]

sure that we never get to that point.

[Josh Arnold]

And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.

[Matthew Mikulski]

And for that question to even arise.

[Josh Arnold]

Not a dime's worth of difference in the two answers. Not a dime's worth of difference. And you know what the official response of US officials should be when asked that question and it would have saved her. The US Position on that is we don't comment on that. She could have covered herself.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I want you to answer it. I want you to answer it, Joe. And you can't say we cannot comment. I want to. No, I want an answer.

[Matthew Mikulski]

He's a politician.

[Josh Arnold]

The game, Kenny, is rookie versus aoc.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I don't think. I don't think you can answer any. You know what? I don't think any of us can answer any better than her. And how does this. Now it sounds like I'M defending aoc.

[John Hight]

You are?

[Joe Sucere Such]

I think I'm defending Rook, actually.

[Josh Arnold]

Thank you.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Appreciate that.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I don't think any of us can answer that question. Good.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Is this the bonus?

[Josh Arnold]

Okay, I'll answer it after John and

[Matthew Mikulski]

man moments of thought.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Chris, get ready.

[Josh Arnold]

I believe there was another.

[Chris Reivers]

There was another question.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay, what was it?

[Chris Reivers]

There was a second question. I'm not.

[Joe Sucere Such]

He wasn't even listening.

[Chris Reivers]

Who, me?

[Joe Sucere Such]

You? We're gonna ask you to answer the question too.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I'm not doing that.

[Matthew Mikulski]

I'm like, no comment.

[Chris Reivers]

Bomb, everybody. No, no comment.

[Josh Arnold]

What's the other part of the question?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, she was also asked about a wealth tax.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

She was asked about a wealth tax. I'd like to hear that in the same situation, just a different person asking this question.

[John Hight]

Right.

[British Woman Witness]

So when you run for president, are you going to impose a wealth tax

[Josh Arnold]

or a billionaires tax? I don't think that.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't think that anyone.

[Josh Arnold]

And that we don't have to wait

[John Hight]

for any one president to impose a wealth tax.

[Matthew Mikulski]

I think that it needs to be done expeditiously.

[Joe Sucere Such]

You have the.

[John Hight]

Jesus.

[Matthew Mikulski]

That was just coming down a different channel.

[Chris Reivers]

Representative Mikulski, sorry. When you are elected president, how will you impose a wealth tax? Or are you in favor of a wealth tax?

[Matthew Mikulski]

Not only will I not impose a wealth tax, I would say that the wealthy are already paying their fair share. I would say that the wealthy, the top 1%, is doing a fine job of funding these governmental programs that work or don't work. And there would be no need to add any tax burden to the wealthy.

[Josh Arnold]

I would add, if I may, please,

[Matthew Mikulski]

I yield the balance of my time.

[Josh Arnold]

I would add that all we have to do is close about 7,000 loopholes and everyone would be better off. The loopholes that they wrote, the loopholes they wrote. Right.

[Joe Sucere Such]

That won't get votes, though.

[Josh Arnold]

Dave Chappelle gave the greatest comment about Trump I've ever seen.

[Matthew Mikulski]

What'd he say?

[Josh Arnold]

He said, I've never heard anyone be as blunt as, as Trump when he was asked about paying taxes. And he turned to Hillary Clinton and said, you write the taxes, you've been

[Joe Sucere Such]

writing the rules, the laws.

[Josh Arnold]

The laws your whole life. And then Trump turned to Hillary and said, I take the same advantage with these taxes as you do. All your rich donors take advantage of the tax laws you wrote. And that's what I'm doing. And it was perfect. It was the right answer. Was the right answer. These frauds pretend that they've had nothing to do with how the Taxes are structured. They wrote the laws after constant hectoring and lobbying by the billionaires who they court.

[Joe Sucere Such]

So unfortunately, though, when AOC said that, all of her supporters gave a, you know, a big rousing cheers, of course.

[Josh Arnold]

Holy. Never seen a white male billionaire screaming at the top of his lungs, this

[Chris Reivers]

whole system is rigged.

[Josh Arnold]

And the moderator said, well, Mr. Trump,

[Chris Reivers]

if in fact the system is rigged,

[Josh Arnold]

what would be your evidence?

[Matthew Mikulski]

Remember what he said, bro?

[Josh Arnold]

He said, I absolutely used it. And so did Warren Buffett, and so did George Soros, and so did many of the other people that Hillary is getting money from. No one ever heard someone say something that true. And then Hillary Clinton tried to punch

[Chris Reivers]

him in the taxes.

[Josh Arnold]

He said, this man doesn't pay his taxes. He shot right back. See, I understand the tax code better than anybody that's ever run for president, and it's extremely complex. And then he said, she complained that Donald Trump took advantage of the tax cut. Well, why didn't she change it? Why didn't you change it when you were a senator? The reason you didn't is that all your friends take the same advantage that I do. Hillary Clinton has friends that want all of these provisions. And with that, my friends, the star was born. He's right. It's just wonderful.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Well, everybody's. Everybody's so fraudulent when they're on the campaign trail and they bring up taxes.

[Josh Arnold]

He wasn't. He gave you the answer.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Right?

[Josh Arnold]

Here's what all us rich people have been up to. We're taking advantage of the taxes. Hillary, that you never bothered to rewrite.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Have you been following people like Linda?

[Joe Sucere Such]

Have you been following what's happening in California with the tax? The super wealthy?

[Josh Arnold]

Well, I would imagine some of them will try to leave. I know that Spielberg is leaving, but I think the moron went to New York.

[Joe Sucere Such]

He did go to New York.

[Josh Arnold]

And when asked.

[Joe Sucere Such]

And when asked about it, he said it's been in the works for quite a while and the wanted to be closer to his family. Yeah, but. Yeah, you're right. I thought the same thing. He's gonna get taxed there, too, especially if he lives in the city, which I think he bought a place in the West. Huh.

[Josh Arnold]

I'm sure he's gonna be overlooking Central Park.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yeah, he's on the west side. Upper west side. Yep.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Do you want to know who the five Minneapolis City Council people were who voted to punish hotels if they've. If they please, ice. The Minneapolis City Council voted 8 to 5 yesterday to renew the liquor licenses. So that's good. For two prominent downtown hotels, A decision to approve the renewals for the Canopy by Hilton and the Renaissance Minneapolis hotel, the Depot followed a period of intense scrutiny from progressive council members and activists, none of whom should be running a city. Despite testimony from hotel workers and community members regarding safety concerns, a majority of the council ultimately agreed with city staff and legal advisors that there was no lawful basis to deny the licenses. Let's see if I got the vote here. The debate was sparked by Metro Surge. Okay. Joining Rainville, Schaefer and Vetaw in the majority were Jamal Osman, Jason Whiting, Soren Stevenson, Linda Palmisano and Pearl Warren. The five council members who voted against renewing liquor licenses to a normal business operating in their city were Oren Chowdhury, Aisha Chugtai, Jason Chavez, Elliot Payne and Robin Walmsley, all of which, all of whom were expected to argue, argue that point. So that's, you know, what we noticed during this conflict was that city staff made themselves available to attend the city council meeting where this was being discussed. And the city staff, the people working behind the scenes who aren't necessarily as brain damaged as these five city council members, had to point out to the council that you have no grounds to do this. There is nothing in law, there's nothing in the charter, there's nothing. There's no precedent. You can't just. I'm paraphrasing what they told them. They were much more polite than that. But you can't just willy nilly decide who you're going to allow to have a liquor license based on if you like them or not. Makes for good work, makes for good news. And then the city staff went back to their cubicles and sweated away trying to keep things on an even keel, I guess. But it's just amazing. It's just amazing.

[Joe Sucere Such]

It reminds me of kids that play house. These kids are playing.

[Josh Arnold]

They're playing shitty.

[Joe Sucere Such]

They're playing government.

[Pat]

Let's play government.

[Josh Arnold]

Let's play government. So remember those names. Chowdhury, Chugtai, Chavez, Payne Walmsley.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Have you seen a picture of Soren Stevenson?

[Josh Arnold]

If I have, I don't know.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I have never seen a man with a more perfect round head.

[Josh Arnold]

Really?

[Joe Sucere Such]

I mean, it is perfect.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Not just big, but round, huh?

[Joe Sucere Such]

No, no, I don't think it's big. It's a normal sized head, but it's perfectly round.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Now you've intrigued me.

[Josh Arnold]

God. Oh yeah.

[Matthew Mikulski]

No, it's like a cue ball.

[Joe Sucere Such]

No, Joe, even if you saw it, you'd go, you'd.

[Josh Arnold]

Wow, that's round.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I know, isn't it?

[Josh Arnold]

It's very, very. What's his name?

[Matthew Mikulski]

Sorence.

[Josh Arnold]

He voted. He voted to renew the license.

[Kenny Olson]

Yep.

[John Hight]

He is a Democratic socialist, though.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Well,

[Joe Sucere Such]

he's got an amazing round head.

[Josh Arnold]

John, you remind me. Pictures. I came, I might have been Super 70. Sports had a picture of the Montreal Canadian bench. Probably from the 50s.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

There was a guy sitting there. I gotta look it up. There was a guy sitting there and I think Super 70, whoever did this said frankenstein's monster lives. The guy looked like Frankenstein. His head was real long and flat on top, just like Frankenstein. It was the damnedest thing I've ever seen.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Well, who was Gump?

[Josh Arnold]

Gump Worsley? It wasn't Worsley.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Gump had a frightening face.

[Kenny Olson]

Forwarder.

[Josh Arnold]

A defenseman who not only was tall, but his head was elongated and then the top of his head was flat and his face was real chiseled as though he was created by a mad scientist. It was the damnedest thing I've ever seen. I don't know if you can find it really. And if you did, I don't know how that would help.

[Joe Sucere Such]

The guys like that should be able to get a head model job.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh God, it was wonderful, just wonderful. And I know my hockey and I can't remember that guy. It was just. You'd have to just find. You'd have to Google Montreal Canadian images from the 1950s and hope for a bench shot where the guy's sitting on the bench. Because it's. It's really good. It's really good. None of them have round head.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I'm sorry I got us distracted, but I couldn't stop looking at his round head. So perfect.

[Josh Arnold]

Now yesterday you might even say that with the help of Jay Coles, the story was broken on GL that the inspector general bill disappeared. That was the bill that was going to create an independent inspector general, independent of the government and legislature, invested with powers to even make arrests when it came to fraud. And now we learn that Republicans and Democrats in the legislature all say they want to create an office of the Inspector general. But for the second year in a row, there's no agreement on how to make that happen. Well, they had an agreement. Fraud prevention isn't about politics, said Representative Matt Norris, DFL Blaine at a hearing of the House State Government Finance and Policy Committee. The Wednesday hearing seemed to be mostly about politics. Norris introduced a so called delete everything amendment. So it's Representative Matt Norris, DFL Blaine who introduced the delete everything amendment. That essentially Completely replaced a Senate bill that passed the DFL amendment controlled Senate by a wide margin.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Minnesota, 60 to 7. Joe. 60 to 7.

[Josh Arnold]

Minnesota deserves an OIG with independence. What's that? Outside Invest. Inspector General Office.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Office of Inspector General.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Right. He answers to no one. It's part of the. Yeah, correct.

[Josh Arnold]

Minnesota deserves an OIG with independence, transparency and the sweeping investigative powers to get this essential work done, Norris said. But this bill makes big changes to the Senate bill, including elimination of an enforcement bureau within the oig, leaving that to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Financial Division. It also allows a governor to appoint someone to the OIG position who is not on a list recommended by an independent commission. His bill also increases the cost of the OIG at a difficult budget time. So was Norris being the good guy here? Norris said the bill before us would allow the governor to appoint someone. Would Norris be opposed to that? He's a Democrat. Boy, is this confusing.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Norris, I saw him on the news. Yeah, I can't figure that out. Is he pro or against? If he's calling for one where the governor still has the power, then he's against it.

[Josh Arnold]

His attempt to replace the Senate bill stole on a 77 vote in the tied Minnesota House with all Republicans voting against it because they had no input in Representative Norris words. This is a wide, sweeping, grandiose, delete everything amendment and we were not consulted, said committee co chair Representative Jim Nash. Waconia Nash also criticized Democrats for not allowing any debate about the proposal before it went down on a tie vote. Well, I think then with the way I continue to interpret this is it's still covering for higher ups. And Norris saying, well, we can't have Walz appoint someone that looks good. But I, I have the wording. I don't trust any of this.

[Pat]

Right.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I have the wording of Democrat Heather.

[Josh Arnold]

What's your last name?

[Joe Sucere Such]

Gustafson's bill. Let me just read this to you, lines A through D. The inspector general serves as an independent entity responsible for ensuring accountability, transparency, integrity in the operations of state agencies and programs. In exercising the inspector general's powers and duties, the inspector general is in the executive branch and must operate independently of all state executive branch agencies and report directly to the governor. The inspector general must not be subject to direction or interference from any executive or legislative authority.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, that's gone.

[John Hight]

Correct.

[Josh Arnold]

The whole thing is gone.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yep. Yep.

[Josh Arnold]

So what we have here as an elected body that you can plug in your own reason, has failed to come up with a way to continue to investigate fraud and prevent it in the future. They failed to come up with that.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Did you happen to see the piece in Alpha News this morning? It's a bit of a he said, she said thing with Driskowski and Heather. He recalled her accepting a phone call. They were in a meeting and this was some time ago, evidently, and she accepted a phone call from the governor and he said that the governor asked her to shut it down. In a statement to Alpha News, Gustafson said that Senator Jerskowski's statement that I did a great job on the OG bill OIG bill is correct. However, his recollection of my conversation with Governor Walz is inaccurate. So Steve is saying that the governor called her and said shut it down. She's saying that didn't happen.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, she. Well, and she could back that up with a fact. She didn't shut it down.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Right. And in this case, I tend to believe her. I mean, we talked to her for a good 30 minutes on crabby and she wasn't a typical politician spouting unbelievable nonsense like a lot of them are.

[Josh Arnold]

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[Joe Sucere Such]

Joe Sucere Such I've been sitting on a fun email here that involves you. On the 211 podcast, you and Joe were discussing the idea of a device that would automatically add seafoam to an engine at regular intervals. It reminded me of something somewhat the same that Packard did in the 30s, where a container under the hood was filled with gear oil and it was automatically sent to all the chassis lubrication points, negating the need for irregular grease jobs. Have you ever seen anything like that?

[Josh Arnold]

Such yeah, on my boat the gear oil is in a container like windshield wiper fluid or something.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Really?

[Josh Arnold]

And it administers itself to the drive unit and then it warns you of its low.

[Joe Sucere Such]

No kidding. I think I've seen this in old turn of the century steam tractors. Really fascinating. And then he goes on to say, by the way, this is from Nathan in Michigan. Nathan goes on to say, I Wanted to let you know that I work at a diesel fuel injection shop in Michigan where we rebuild fuel injection pumps, injectors and turbochargers for us. Chris Reaver Stuck and rusty fasteners aren't just an occasional annoyance, they're a way of life. And Deep Creep has been our penetrating oil of choice for many years now. Nothing else seems to work quite as well. And no other product stands up to the heat from a torch as well as Deep Creep does. In our professional environment, it's the only choice. That's from Nathan in Michigan and I the only thing I have to add there is both of these products available. Widespread availability. Go to an auto parts store, go to your NAC hardware store, a big box store, and you'll find both the Deep Creep and the engine treatment. Seafoam. A wonderful world in a. In a world. How's that go? A wonderful product in a world of bad. Put me to bed.

[Josh Arnold]

You're right. Oh, something bad must be happening with the Epstein files. Trump is ordering the release of alien and UFO files according to.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Does he have a daughter in law, Laura Trump?

[Josh Arnold]

I don't know. Well, I mean he's got, there's somebody named Laura. I don't know what the relationship see,

[Joe Sucere Such]

I read a piece earlier this week saying that he's been hinting at family gatherings that he's about to release something about aliens.

[Josh Arnold]

He's directing the government, he's directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects. Trump shared the news last night when he was wandering around not sleeping and he he's playing off a podcast that Barack Obama was on recently when Obama was asked about aliens and Obama expressed a belief but Obama did say, I have no evidence. So Trump is accusing Obama of releasing classified information, although Obama didn't release anything because he said I have no evidence and I didn't see anything. I just believe that this is real. And so Trump's angle on this is, well, I'm going to release it and Obama shouldn't have given you that classified information.

[Joe Sucere Such]

What do you think the reaction will be when all world governments in unison acknowledge the fact that not only do they exist, but they're here. We've studied their technology and on and on and on. What do you think the world's going to do? How are we going to react to that?

[Josh Arnold]

Well, I can only answer personally, I intend I would be very calm. If some alien showed up at the door, I would just say, how you doing? Where you been?

[Joe Sucere Such]

I would hope that it would be madness in the streets. Like when the twins won the World Series, remember downtown Minneapolis and it was just insanity. That's what I'm hoping for.

[Josh Arnold]

Mean a good frivolity. Insanity or just chaos.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yeah, chaos.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

See I've told you that I think if the flying saucer hovered above the earth and a guy came out with a megaphone and said, you people really gotta get your act together, I think that would be very sobering.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Okay, you're taking me to my next question. How would the politicians start blaming each other's parties for this?

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, they would.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Or has it already started?

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, they probably already would. And there would be no politics involved. This would just. We should all, at that point the world should be d into a togetherness.

[Joe Sucere Such]

There's politics involved when the wind blows harder than 50 miles an hour. I mean, come on.

[Josh Arnold]

But if, if the guy leans out the door the of his saucer and

[Joe Sucere Such]

he's got, he's got a sliding window.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere Such]

And he's got the mic on an old DC3.

[Josh Arnold]

Have you ever seen. Well, this, it's called the, the greatest UFO interview ever. It's a, it's a British woman. It's not AI as near as I was able to determine. It's a British woman talking about being outside, hanging up clothes on her line. Her 6 year old was playing and this saucer appears in the adjoining field, very low and looking at them. And she told her son, go back to the house. And he didn't. And she just kept gazing at this thing. But the best part of it was shed the delightful ink. The best part of it was she. She said they looked at me as though out of pity.

[British Woman Witness]

Well, this was one ordinary day. I was waiting for my husband to come home from work and my two sons went to cipher to school. And I was getting changed and I heard this terrific noise. It was just like a giant cauldron of water being poured onto a fire. A shhh sort of noise, you know. And the first reaction was, oh, the children. Maybe a plane was crashing or something like that. And I slipped my jumper on and went outside to find my two sons lying flat on the ground in the garden in front of the house shouting, mummy, Mummy, there's a flying saucer. Well, naturally I just said, come on, don't be stupid, come in the house. But felt sort of a strange sensation. Wended my way up the side of the house to where we had a pump where we used to get all our water from, and automatically looked up to see this. All I can describe this huge Mexican hat. It was stationary, this thing, and it was bright silver in color. And it had a dome. A dome? It was tilted to sort of. I could see the occupants in it.

[Josh Arnold]

You saw people in it?

[British Woman Witness]

I saw people in it. There were two people in there. These people were beautiful people. That's the only way I can describe them. They had long golden hair like a page boy bob, just like the old kings. You used to see photographs of the old kings and the color of the hair was golden. Now I was really. How were they dressed in. They had a sort of a problem neck jumper affair like a skeet top suit in pale blue. Now, these people weren't sat behind one, behind the other, they were sat together. But this, whatever it was, was tilted so that I could see them and they could see me.

[Josh Arnold]

Were you looking at them through windows? Through portholes?

[British Woman Witness]

No, not portholes. It was just sort of the. Like a cockpit, I suppose, but had this perspective or glass or whatever it was. They could see me anyway, and I could see them. And they were. They had beautiful faces. I shall never forget their faces as long as I live. Their foreheads seem to be a bit larger than, you know, the bottom of their faces, as normal people you would expect to see. But maybe this was just whatever they had around their heads, which was like a picture transparent fishbowl. And they just looped. And I was absolutely paralytic with fear. I couldn't move, although my mind was ticking over. And they looked so sympathetic that I was just mesmerized for what seemed to be, oh, ages, but it could have only been seconds. And I turned to sort of look down at the boys, was unaware that they were with me because I was so absorbed. And the next thing, I looked up and it was gone.

[Josh Arnold]

How low had it been?

[British Woman Witness]

It had been the height, I couldn't tell you. But the house that you've seen, it was just on top of the roof. It was hovering on top of the roof. How big was it compared with the

[John Hight]

size of the house?

[British Woman Witness]

It swallowed the. The whole circumference of. Of the roof. I couldn't see. The roof was completely blotted out.

[Josh Arnold]

Out. But this thing was 10 foot tall.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Exactly.

[Pat]

He had beautiful hair,

[Joe Sucere Such]

Joe. I could see why someone with diminished mental faculties would believe that lady. She tried hard, but it reminded me a lot of a movie called Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I wonder if her husband went inside and built a replica of Devil's Tower.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay, smart ass, let me tell you something. Hi, Joe, let me tell you something right now. She was almost. She was wonderful. But you know, the long golden hair and the upside down fishbowl, that kind of. It almost felt like she had to describe him that way to me.

[Joe Sucere Such]

She was described describing a fly bridge on a. Like a fishing yacht.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. But like a secondary idea that she said they looked at her sympathetically.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Because she was care worn. If you see the video of it, she's. She's not a babe. She's a mother out in the country. She's got.

[Chris Reivers]

I was hoping they'd come back tomorrow.

[Josh Arnold]

Careworn, clothes on. And now she's either a brilliant actress who just gave wonderful response to the, you know. Was it a Monty Python bit?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I didn't even think of that. I don't think so. She did. Watching the video.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

It seemed authentic in general.

[Josh Arnold]

It really did.

[Chris Reivers]

It did.

[Josh Arnold]

But Kenny doesn't like to have fun, so he. He.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I do like to have fun. Look at this.

[Josh Arnold]

That's. That's Frankenstein. You got his name?

[Kenny Olson]

Rook.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Matthew, look at the monitor.

[Josh Arnold]

Look at this guy.

[Matthew Mikulski]

That's this guy. That is Claude Provost.

[Josh Arnold]

Claude Provost.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Claude Provost. I'll give. He played for Montreal what years it was.

[Josh Arnold]

I had to know that.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Let's see, 50 playing career. 55 to 70. So he won nine.

[Josh Arnold]

My God.

[Chris Reivers]

He would have played here.

[Josh Arnold]

He would have played here at the Met Sports center.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yep. In 66 to 69. And let's see. He was an all star game. He's not in the hall of Fame.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mikulski]

And somebody said, if Hull is in the hall of fame. And he said, who was your. If you asked him who was your toughest competition, he would have said Claude Provost.

[Josh Arnold]

Really?

[Joe Sucere Such]

I wonder what was his off season job? Because they all had off season jobs.

[Josh Arnold]

He did the state fair circuit.

[Matthew Mikulski]

He checked out at 50 years old.

[Josh Arnold]

He died in 84.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Heart attack while on vacation in Hellandale, Florida.

[Josh Arnold]

Hall Andale's. Right. Fort Lauderdale area.

[Matthew Mikulski]

He has three kids.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, they'll have the big heads. I wonder.

[Matthew Mikulski]

I don't know.

[Chris Reivers]

Rough childbirth.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yeah. Mama's. I mean, he's. He's got it all.

[John Hight]

Did he.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Did his head get gripped by those big Dr. Tongs?

[Josh Arnold]

Show me that.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Is that why?

[Matthew Mikulski]

Which one?

[Chris Reivers]

Looking at pictures on a podcast.

[Joe Sucere Such]

What were you gonna say? Matt or Chris?

[Chris Reivers]

Jesus. Well, I'm trying, you know.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Which one do you want? Do you want the Claude Provost? These are all Claude Pro.

[Josh Arnold]

Those are all him.

[Chris Reivers]

That could be done. Well, we're not.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, yeah, you can do your own better I know that that bench picture just captured him at an ironic moment.

[Chris Reivers]

Kenny, I don't know if this is gonna help convince you that that in fact that video was in fact real of that woman in the uk but there is another piece of video. This is a little bit closer to home. Yeah, this is in Texas. With the same type of observation.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay, tell me what happened, what you

[Chris Reivers]

guys experienced out here. It must have been scary, man. It was this morning I was up

[Josh Arnold]

watching TV and then it flashed across the TV saying bad weather in the Walla county area affected to 2:43am sure. And I posted it on my Facebook page. Soon I posted on my Facebook, he said kapuya, Kapuya.

[John Hight]

And your boy that hell just came in.

[Josh Arnold]

I looked my mouth, opened my door and I looked out my door and started hitting me in my head. I took off running, ran to my rescue. But then I called my mama to see what she.

[Chris Reivers]

All right.

[Josh Arnold]

You know, Chris, I'd like to inform you about something that.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Basically the same thing. You're right.

[Josh Arnold]

See, that had nothing to do with. That had. That had nothing to do with Chris. That was weather related.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Chris certainly as believable. That's for sure.

[Josh Arnold]

I believe the lady in England. I'm on record.

[Chris Reivers]

You don't believe a lady.

[John Hight]

And I thought she was hired in a kite. When I was listening to it.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, well, I don't think she did

[Chris Reivers]

look like she had just got done hanging clothes in the front yard.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yeah, she accidentally got into the edibles and instead of having a half of one, ate the whole damn bag.

[Josh Arnold]

Did you believe. Believe it, Gabe? Yeah, Gabe believed it and I believed it.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Well, Gable kids believe anything you tell

[Chris Reivers]

him to believe, Junior.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, didn't he look up Commander? The Navy Commander David Fraver.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Okay, now you're. I was going to bring that up.

[Josh Arnold]

See, the guy off San Diego was chasing the tick tocks. I believe him too.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Those are believable stories.

[Josh Arnold]

So is this old lady in England. Yeah, yeah, that sounds. Can you get a year on that? It was 54.

[Chris Reivers]

1954.

[Josh Arnold]

See, there was no humor in 1954. So that was real. Yeah, I know.

[Chris Reivers]

Bob and Ray were famous.

[Josh Arnold]

No, only on the radio.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I gotcha.

[John Hight]

I'm coming through there. Reavers.

[Joe Sucere Such]

It's too soon after the war.

[Josh Arnold]

They weren't funny yet, man. They still had bombshells in the yard. And it was not, you know, that wasn't funny yet.

[John Hight]

If. If I may send a message to Mr. Olson. Check your phone, Kenny. I found a f. A picture of Claude On a sled.

[Josh Arnold]

Really? Whoa. A snowmobile. You mean snowmobile.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Claude was a handsome guy. That bench picture is weird.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yeah, he's on a. He's on a panther. Here, see if that camera picks that up.

[John Hight]

He's got a big cigar hanging out of his mouth while he's running.

[Josh Arnold]

That's Clyde.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yeah, there's. That's one of the pictures that he's got here. On the. Kenny, on the.

[Chris Reivers]

Google, based upon circumference, would you guess that that head is bigger than the Farmer Fathead picture we've got on the.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Well, see, the Farmer Fathead is bulbo. It's kind of like a watermelon standing up on its end.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Claude is like a concrete block.

[John Hight]

I know. I get very jealous now when you guys bring this up. Because we measured heads.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yeah. You won.

[Josh Arnold]

Biggest height has a bigger head. I don't know.

[Joe Sucere Such]

But.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yeah, but Kevin's right. Mine is just out there. I mean, it just.

[Joe Sucere Such]

And I. And I don't have. I don't know what happened to my neck. I used to have a neck.

[Chris Reivers]

Are you, in fact, the only staff member to have actually measured your head while on duty?

[Josh Arnold]

Yes, I can.

[John Hight]

While on duty.

[Matthew Mikulski]

While on duty.

[John Hight]

Yes.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yes.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Where did we do that? Was that an appearance or the fair.

[Josh Arnold]

No, we did that.

[Matthew Mikulski]

No, original was maple.

[Chris Reivers]

Tattersall. Tattersall. That's where we did it.

[Josh Arnold]

We're gonna take a break, but I must tell you that this entire show is devoted to Claude Provost.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Sucere Such]

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Here's John.

[John Hight]

Thank you, Joe. This news brought to you by North American Banking company. Federal prosecutors still working to determine if they'll seek the death penalty against Vance Belter, the man charged with killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and shooting a state senator and his wife. Belter, charged with killing Minnesota House speaker emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and injuring Senator John Huffman and his wife Yvette. This hearing this morning was the first. First without the former lead prosecutor Harry Jacobs. Why isn't Harry there?

[Chris Reivers]

Why?

[John Hight]

Well, why do you think, Chris? He resigned from the U.S. attorney's office and is now in private practice. Two federal prosecutors, Bradley Endicott and Matthew Forbes, remain on the case. Jacobs, one of more than a dozen federal prosecutors, leave the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota in recent weeks, citing concerns over the political politicization of the Justice Department by the Trump administration.

[Chris Reivers]

You know, a thought occurred to me about Hortman yesterday. The bill that was denied, whether it was by the governor, whoever that we were talking about extensively yesterday, if Hortman was still around, would this bill have been passed?

[John Hight]

No. In fact, in my research yesterday, she was one of the first people to say it should not be passed.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Oh, interesting.

[John Hight]

Yeah. There's a story from, I don't remember as maybe last March, March of 25th, February.

[Chris Reivers]

But didn't she. John, help me. Did. Did she not come out in support of some type of.

[John Hight]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[John Hight]

Yes. And I'm sorry I read the story, but I don't have enough of it.

[Josh Arnold]

She was a sane dfler.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, that's I guess that's my point as I didn't know if maybe her presence was and of all the bad

[Josh Arnold]

things I've said about Walls and will continue to I want Walls. Remember I've defended him. I don't think he put a hit out on Melissa using Bolter. Oh goodness, no, no, that's what Bolter claimed. I don't think Walls did that, but that won't stop me from continuing to be critical of him.

[Joe Sucere Such]

It's funny, the same senators and representatives in both parties. We don't hear from them enough, do we?

[Josh Arnold]

No, never.

[John Hight]

Back to the federal prosecutors a different story. The office in Minnesota, as we said, has been gutted by that wave of career officials resigning or retiring over object objections to the Trump administration. And because of all this, 12 time convicted felon Corey McKay caught a break with a three decade record of violent crime that includes strangling a pregnant woman, firing a shotgun under a person's chin. McKay was scheduled to stand trial next month on methamphetamine trafficking charges that would have locked him up for 25 years. Instead, he walked free after the prosecutor on his case retired. Trump administration says its aggressive immigration enforcement has improved public safety, but left in its wake is A greatly weakened U.S. attorney's office where many prosecutors didn't like the way President Trump's political appointees at the Justice Department managed them. Offices in other states from New York to Virginia have also been affected by resignations as prosecutors object to what they see as the politicization. I hate that word. I can't say it.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I know. I always figure a workaround word for that one. I can't not pronounce that of decision

[John Hight]

making under the administration. But Minnesota has been hit especially hard. Growing number of defendants are beginning to escape accountability as the remaining prosecutors are forced to dismiss some cases, kill others before charges are filed, and seek plea agreements and delays. Local officials worry the office will be unable, at least temporarily, to bring charges against some of the state's most serious offenders. After asking for a delay to find someone to take McKay's case, the office led by Trump appointee Daniel Royce and dropped it so abruptly that even McKay's lawyer didn't know about the move until after her client had been released from custody. McKay's lawyer, Jean Brandle said, this was completely surprising to me. She says she hasn't been able to reach him, but said, I can guarantee you he's happy about what happened. A man with a history of aggression toward Muslims has received a nearly seven year prison term for setting fires on successive days that damaged two Twin Cities mosques. 39 year old Jackie Little of Edina, sentenced on February 19th in US District Court in Minneapolis after pleading guilty to one count each of arson and damage to religious property, the latter considered a federal hate crime. Little set fire on April 23, 2023, to Masjid Omar Islamic center in Minneapolis. And the next day he ignited a much more serious blaze at the Masjid Al Rama mosque in Blooming. Another fraud person charged or another person. Excuse me, charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Fahima Muhammad faces one count of wire fraud, according to charging documents filed last week. Court documents say that Mahumud operated a daycare center in Minneapolis called Future Leaders Early Learning center and claimed to.

[Chris Reivers]

Was learning spelled correctly?

[Matthew Mikulski]

I thought it was a leering center.

[John Hight]

Claimed to have served thousands of meals per day under sponsorship from Feeding Our Future. Wow. The criminal complaint notes that Future Leaders initially had modest claims that total less than 10 grand a month. However, by the end of 2020, the claims ballooned. And by the middle of 2021, the site claimed to serve more than 1,000 kids every day.

[Josh Arnold]

Every day. Was this a female wonderful guy?

[John Hight]

Yes.

[Josh Arnold]

Very kind of her to feed a thousand kids a day. That's fantastic.

[John Hight]

During that time period, Future Leaders received more than $850,000 from Feeding Our Future, more than six times what the site spent on food. Mohammed is the 79th person to be charged in the Feeding Our Future.

[Josh Arnold]

I wonder if any BMW salesmen work the Cedar Riverside area and just distributed their card. Hey, come and see me when you.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Right. It's been a good place for a dealership.

[Josh Arnold]

I got it. I got, you know, come out and see me, right?

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Do you think they didn't even try to, you know, go 1008 and maybe 994 straight 1000 every day?

[Matthew Mikulski]

Keep the numbers even, right?

[Josh Arnold]

Thousand kids a day. It's amazing.

[Joe Sucere Such]

BMW. I mean, we're talking E class wealth here.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay. They went to Mercedes or Lexus or something.

[Chris Reivers]

What would you get if you were feeding a thousand kids?

[Matthew Mikulski]

Throw on that AMG package.

[Josh Arnold]

I can tell you I would not. I would not be worried about it. Okay.

[John Hight]

The Lake Minnetaka Klondike Dog Derby is now canceled for a third straight year due to a lack of snow.

[Josh Arnold]

What just snowed?

[John Hight]

Earlier this month, the 2026 race was pushed back from Valentine's Day to March 7th in the hopes that there'd be more snow. But a week of spring, like temps coupled with rain erased all of Lake Minnetonka snowpack.

[Josh Arnold]

We just got A new covering. What do these people want?

[John Hight]

Leaving pools of water on the surface? The stuff we got up here is already melted the other day.

[Joe Sucere Such]

You know that. They didn't get any snow at all in Taylor's Falls. The ground is bare.

[Josh Arnold]

Sometimes it works that way.

[Matthew Mikulski]

How do you know? How do you know that?

[Josh Arnold]

And now our weather in Taylor's Falls.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I was looking at a camera this morning. They have a camera right at that main intersection.

[Josh Arnold]

Good cover.

[John Hight]

The Klondike cover.

[Chris Reivers]

Good cover.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Very clever, Kenny. I was testing you.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Are you saying it was a romantic trist with a forest lake girl?

[Josh Arnold]

Good meeting place.

[John Hight]

The Klondike dog derby has only been run three times since its inaugural race in 2020 in pastures. The event has drawn tens of thousands of visitors to the Excelsior area.

[Josh Arnold]

Let me tell you something.

[John Hight]

Let me tell you something.

[Josh Arnold]

These people are to going goofy. You got it? You just had 7, 8 inches of snow on Lake Minnetonka. Hold the damn race. I'm not buying this.

[Matthew Mikulski]

I'd stay off the lake.

[Josh Arnold]

I think I'll run around the shoreline.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Have you seen any of the fish houses that have sunk?

[Josh Arnold]

Yes.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Why would anybody have their fish house on the ice right now or let alone a pickup truck?

[Joe Sucere Such]

What happens, Matthew, is the ice under a fish house gets thinner than the rest of the ice for some reason. Reason.

[Josh Arnold]

Maybe because they have heaters in them and I don't.

[Joe Sucere Such]

You know, let's not speculate.

[Josh Arnold]

Why.

[Joe Sucere Such]

It just makes us look dumb.

[John Hight]

Yeah, we had. And I didn't use the story only because I didn't want you. But listen, city it now I guess I'll mention it. We had two deaths last week of people who fell through ice.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, I don't want that.

[Joe Sucere Such]

So anyway, Matt, with the combination of the rain and the warm temperatures and the thin ice kerplunk. They've been going through.

[Josh Arnold]

Through.

[John Hight]

Jeez.

[Chris Reivers]

So what Kenny is trying to say, ladies and gentlemen, is if you got that car you've been trying to get rid of, pull her out on the old white bear right now.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Trying to dump that BMW that you just got because you were feeding kids.

[Joe Sucere Such]

When the doctor gives me the long face, I fully intend to run a car across the Mississippi as fast as possible. I'm just gonna spin it up the long face. Yeah. And I'm gonna let her fly. Maybe the Hidden Falls park there on the St. Paul side.

[Matthew Mikulski]

That's where you can get a good jump start.

[Chris Reivers]

Start.

[John Hight]

Well, when the doctor gives me the long face again like that.

[Josh Arnold]

Like a Claude Provost face.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yeah, it's from a John. It's from a John Wayne movie.

[John Hight]

In national and international news, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's far reaching global tariffs this morning, handing him a significant loss of an issue crucial, he says, to his economic agenda. The 6:3 decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law enforcement, including the sweeping reciprocal tariffs he levied on nearly every other country. It's the first major piece of Trump's broad agenda to come squarely before the nation's highest court, which he helped shape with the appointments of three conservative jurists in his first term. The majority found that the Constitution, quote, very clearly gives Congress the power to impose taxes, which include tariffs. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote as part of the decision. The framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the executive branch. As expected, Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh dissented. The majority did not address where the companies could get refunded for the billions they've collectively paid in tariffs. A lot of companies, including Costco, have already lined up for refunds in court, and Justice Kavanaugh noted the process could be complicated. The Supreme Court ruling comes despite a series of short term wins on the court's emergency docket that have allowed the President to push ahead with extraordinary flexes of executive press power on issues ranging from high profile firings to major federal funding cuts.

[Josh Arnold]

A case from today's Wall Street Journal. The dollar is not strengthening because of tariffs. Instead, the tariffs are causing an increase in post tariff prices of goods that are still imported alongside a modest decrease in the volume of imports. Americans are paying higher prices or pay in the form of less trade choice.

[Chris Reivers]

John, I forget if I told you to pause at your midway point of your newscast.

[Josh Arnold]

You did tell him to forget.

[Joe Sucere Such]

You told him to go right through.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes, you did.

[Chris Reivers]

Then that's my apologies because right now I'd like to tell you about Linda Keller and kellertaxservice.com you know what? I know all of you love to sign over that check to either the irs.

[Josh Arnold]

Boy, I sure don't.

[Chris Reivers]

Isn't that a fun time, Joe?

[Josh Arnold]

No, it isn't.

[Chris Reivers]

Do you give it a little extra oomph when you're writing out that check,

[Josh Arnold]

especially in this state where you know it's just little literally wasted.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Chris, I used my federal return to pay my Minnesota bill.

[Chris Reivers]

What a hell of a system. But hey, that's why we need Linda and kellertaxservice.com where you can book your appointment or if you'd like to. You can call her directly at 320-352-0013. And Mike Fradaloni had a great point about her. Yet you better get on that schedule because typically, here's what happens the last couple of weeks of runs on her ads is thanking everybody for filling up her schedule entirely.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Holy crap, I better get on it.

[Chris Reivers]

That's what I'm saying. I got to send mine in as well. But book that appointment [e-mail] and as long as you're on that website, she does an amazing job of updating all sorts of different tax information right there on her site. And you know what? It doesn't matter what you're looking for. Married, if you're single, if you're whatever, you have a business, it doesn't matter. She handles all types of returns for all types of people. And you know what? All over the entire country. Doesn't matter where you live. Linda will take care of you, your family, and also your business. Once Again, go to kellertaxservice.com, book your appointment today. And please do me a favor and thanks to all you jailers that have already done so. But mention to her that you heard about her here on the garagelogic podcast.

[John Hight]

Thanks, Chris. New figures on the economy from the government this morning not good US growth slowed more than expected near the end of 2025 as the government shutdown impacted spending and investment, while a key inflation metric showed high prices are still a factor for the economy. Gross domestic product rose at an annualized rate of just 1.4%, according to the Commerce Department, well below the Dow Jones estimate of a 2.5% gain. Consumer spending increased at a slower pace for the period, while government spending tumbled sharply, sharply in a quarter marked by the record length shutdown. President Trump's Board of Peace held its inaugural meeting Yesterday in Washington, D.C. the body, made up of more than 20 countries planning to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza. Among other efforts, the US and nine other countries will contribute $17 billion to the board and its Gaza relief plan. That funding falls well below the projected 70 billion needed to rebuild after an estimated 80% of Gaza building buildings were damaged or destroyed in the war with Israel. Five countries will contribute troops to a stabilization Force, including 20,000 soldiers and 12,000 police officers. Separately, the president said a decision on whether to attack Iran will come within the next 10 to 15 days. The US has built up the most air power in the Middle east since the 2003 Iraqi war is the Iran battle.

[Chris Reivers]

Break glass, smoke Luckies don't have to pay my mortgage anymore.

[Josh Arnold]

I don't know anymore.

[Chris Reivers]

Gotcha. This is the way too early. Official 2028 campaign video that has been launched by the camp for AOC and Kamala Harris. 25 seconds. You have to hear it because so did I.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Listen. Billionaires should not exist. What we need is a wealth tax on white men.

[Josh Arnold]

Unemployment is just a colonial mindset.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Inflation, that's just price shaming.

[Josh Arnold]

And if you disagree, that's just internalized capitalism and misogyny. It is time for us, us to

[Matthew Mikulski]

do what we have been doing. And that time is every day. And when we do what we've been

[Josh Arnold]

doing, we will have done it.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Because doing is about unburdening what has been.

[Josh Arnold]

I'm voting.

[Joe Sucere Such]

See. I think we should have stricter, stricter restrictions on voting.

[Josh Arnold]

See how you're screwed any way you look at it.

[Chris Reivers]

Doesn't matter.

[Josh Arnold]

No matter what. No matter what. You're just done. Yeah.

[John Hight]

Raising some eyebrows. A new banner unveiled yesterday at the Department of Justice.

[Josh Arnold]

I disapprove. John.

[John Hight]

Large image of President Trump, first place under the photo. Under the photo, the slogan Make America Safe Again. Now, traditionally, as we should know, White House leaders distance themselves from the Department of Justice to show the Department is politically important. Partial, that is, as we probably know, not been the case with the Trump administration. The President has frequently weighed in on federal prosecutions and investigations, marking a stark change from past years. In 2025, the president submitted two claims against the DOJ, seeking for himself $230 million in damages. The President took a victory lap during a speech at the DOJ headquarters last March, which turned the heads of critics who have accused him of launching a retribution campaign on his political opponents with the help of Attorney General Pam Bondi. Last year, as tourism grew worldwide, the US Was the only major destination to see a decline in foreign visitors, recording a 6% drop, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council and Industry Group. January saw a continued decline in inbound visitors, down 5% from January of 2020. Visitors from Canada, usually the second largest source of U.S. tourism after Mexico, plunged 28% in January compared to January of 2024. Other key markets like Germany and France also recorded significant declines, while Britain, the largest long haul source market for US Tourism, saw marginal growth of about half a percent compared to the previous year. Researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis have developed a method to predict when someone likely to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease using a single blood test. In a new study published yesterday in Nature Medicine the researchers demonstrated that their models predicted the onset of Alzheimer's symptoms within a margin of three to four years. That could have implications, obviously, for both clinical trials developing preventive Alzheimer's treatments and for eventually identifying individuals likely to benefit from the treatments. More than 7 million Americans live with Alzheimer's disease, with health and long term care. Care costs for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia projected to reach $400 billion, according to the Alzheimer's Association. This massive public health burden currently has no cure, but predictive models could help efforts to develop treatments that prevent or slow down the symptoms of Alzheimer's.

[Josh Arnold]

So you take the blood test and they say, well, you're a strong candidate. You're going to get this. What do you. Do, you start wearing a helmet or what?

[John Hight]

What?

[Josh Arnold]

Jeez. How do you deal with it?

[John Hight]

How do you slow it?

[Josh Arnold]

What? In 1870, if a guy was 75 and he wasn't making sense, what did they say?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, 1870, you probably weren't making it to 75.

[Joe Sucere Such]

They asked him to go stand out on the ice in late March. Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Matt, go get my fish. No, it's time for Matt's tutorial. They weren't Mad Hatters, Matt. That. That term, Mad Hatters, comes from people who worked in hat factories and were exposed to a great deal of lead, and they became nuts. So they, you know, they may have

[Matthew Mikulski]

had a nickname for it.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Is that a medical term, Joe Nuts?

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, they went nuts.

[John Hight]

They. They probably just thought, well, this guy's old and senile. Right? I wouldn't.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Grabs on his. Look at him. He's out there looking at the horses. Horses again. You know, the Mad Hatters.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yeah, yeah, the Mad Hatters.

[Josh Arnold]

John, thank you so much.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Thanks, John.

[Chris Reivers]

Is that going to do her?

[Josh Arnold]

Well, I thought we had Patrick today. Yes, he tried to get on yesterday one day early. Yeah, one day close. Chris.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Wait a second. Never mind.

[Kenny Olson]

Never mind.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Together Reavers. Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Come on, Chris.

[Matthew Mikulski]

What the hell's going on here?

[Josh Arnold]

I gotta yell at me.

[Chris Reivers]

When I talk to Pat, I yell here.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Hey, Pat, that's Friday.

[Pat]

Hey, have him check that score again because it was one old Finland a couple hours ago.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, that's why we said, what's the final? And the final was three, two, Canada.

[Pat]

Oh, I thought he said five.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, I thought, oh, they beat somebody else. Five. Oh, right.

[Pat]

Oh, okay. Canada. Canada pulled it out again.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, my hope was Finland and the US Would play for the gold medal because it would reprise 19.

[Pat]

Yeah, that's right. People don't remember that beating The Russians only put us in position to win the gold medal.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay, so now where are we with men's hockey? They play today. Is that to get into the finals?

[Pat]

That's one of two semifinals play today against Slovakia.

[Josh Arnold]

How many semifinals are there?

[John Hight]

Doses.

[Josh Arnold]

So Canada has already advanced to the

[Pat]

finals and the U.S. should beat lowly Slovakia, shouldn't they?

[Josh Arnold]

Okay, now we. Do we know when that game is? The final game. Right now? No, no, the final game.

[Chris Reivers]

The final game is tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning at 7:00 our time.

[Josh Arnold]

So about 1 in the afternoon over there? Yes, 2 or something like that.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Bryce, what'd you think of that OT yesterday with the women?

[Pat]

I was very proud of my girl Abby for lifting the stick there on that player on the breakaway in the three on three, Abby Murphy. Because if it would have been a Wisconsin player, she would have boarded her, checked her in the neck and shoved her into the board. Minute major. But she controlled herself, which is. Kenny, you would love this girl.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Oh, I do, believe me.

[Pat]

As I say, she could start a riot in the nunnery. She's, you know, her mother. I got to know the family. Ed is. Ed's an old pipe fitter from south side of Chicago. You know, little guy, multi Bears fan and. But the mom, trauma nurse in a Chicago south side hospital. You think she's been in a little more dramatic situation and watching a hockey game?

[Josh Arnold]

Yes. Yeah.

[Pat]

Yes. So it's a great. It's a great family. And she's been here, you know, long enough to, you know, vote. She's six years. She came and the first year was the pandemic, and then she had an. No, the first year was an Olympic year. So it did. The whole year didn't count. She was on that Olympic team. And then, then, then there was a. Then she got the pandemic year back, and then she got the Olympic year back. So she's been here six years, but she's going to come back and play in the playoffs this year here. So.

[Chris Reivers]

Pat, do you know that this team was just completely filled with characters? Did you guys see the story of Haley Wynn?

[Josh Arnold]

No.

[Chris Reivers]

The defender grew up with three older brothers who all were there dressed in their USA shirts and just. They were like the. The Jokic brothers in the stands. It was fantastic. Mom posts a video, like watching her growing up playing hockey. So she's got. Got the five gallon pail, right? She's this little skater and the three brothers are skating around her, knocking her on her ass and stuff. And she said this girl was born to play Hockey. It was phenomenal.

[Pat]

Somewhere in New England.

[Chris Reivers]

I can't remember exactly where she's from, but I think you might. Yeah, I think it's the Boston area. I think you're right, Pat.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Pat]

Well, he's got two older brothers. One of them, the wrestler at St. Cloud State, was like a national runner up in Division 2D. Dominic, Big Tall kid.

[Kenny Olson]

He's still.

[Pat]

He's still going to school. He's been up there about nine years and. But I did a column a couple of years ago, and Dominic. And they got a photo of Abby and Dominic together. And Abby's sitting on a mat, you know, sitting there casually, and he's standing up. I think he got 14 marriage proposals on him. And he's a handsome. You know, he's just this handsome, nice guy. Great guy. But they. The two brothers, the whole family went over to. They're over there in Milan, though, so.

[Josh Arnold]

So, Pat, have you heard of this new sports. They keep inventing them to fill TV time. I think there's no other reason. The ski mount. It's Schemo or Skima, where you.

[Pat]

I haven't.

[Josh Arnold]

You climb the hill, you race up to some steps, you take your skis off, you go up the steps, put your skis back on and take off again.

[Joe Sucere Such]

But first you have to put.

[Pat]

I thought that was mountainous, something like that.

[Joe Sucere Such]

There's skins on the skis, Joe.

[Josh Arnold]

Right.

[Joe Sucere Such]

And they climb a really steep hill. Then they go upstairs, but.

[Josh Arnold]

And then it's like they go upstairs without the skis on. Then they got to put them on again and take off again.

[Joe Sucere Such]

And it's a downhill run with a jump.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Pat]

The guy could say I got beat because my.

[Kenny Olson]

My ski.

[Pat]

To putting my skates. Skis back on. Slowed me down.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Well, they all struggle and they go out, take off, and I.

[Pat]

Is that part of the timing or can you all get your. Can you all get your skis out at the same time or. You got to get them. Is. Is getting your skis on fast part of the competition?

[Josh Arnold]

Yes.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yeah, It's a straight up race.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Pat]

It's the stupidest thing I ever know. I last. I yesterday watched the. The half. The second period, the period in the overtime beating my Olympic watching time so far. I tried to watch the figure skating and the music was so rotten I couldn't stand it, so I turned that off so.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, we got a winner. We got a gold medal winner. Alyssa Liu from the Bay Area. And she. Her hair is like the tail of a raccoon. It's striped it's blonde, brown. Blonde, brown. Blonde. Yeah.

[Pat]

Good for her.

[Josh Arnold]

But she was wonderful. She was really fun to watch. I can't believe I just said that.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I. Yeah, I'm watching short track. I'm watching short track racing right now. They ought to be allowed to punch each other. That would make it a lot more interesting.

[Josh Arnold]

No, you wanted shooting, you wanted to have guns.

[Joe Sucere Such]

A lot of the sports would be improved with shooting.

[Matthew Mikulski]

It's like roller derby.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, I. Short track.

[John Hight]

Track, yeah. Yeah.

[Pat]

We're very, we're very bad in short track since the one guy that won all the medals.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Oh, no.

[Pat]

Or whatever his name was.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, Yoko, whatever. Yoko,

[Pat]

yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, no, Ono was the first name.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Apollo Ono.

[Josh Arnold]

Apollo Ono, yeah.

[Pat]

Yeah. This year it's just, you know, you know, it, it. But if we, you know, know that I keep forgetting won the hockey since 80.

[Josh Arnold]

That's right.

[Pat]

80, right.

[Matthew Mikulski]

I didn't realize we had such a problem with the Swedes. That was a, that was very revealing to me.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes, well, they lost because they got too many Swedes.

[Pat]

Well, anyway, it's, that's, it's good that they won and I'm, I'm a big fan of three by three and overtime right away. Don't, don't mess around. We don't have to have one of those.

[Josh Arnold]

Pat, we had a high school game that went three days and 13 overtimes.

[Pat]

Was that a high school game or

[Josh Arnold]

was that a. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Under 12. 12 and under, yeah.

[Pat]

Why do you got those. Who care Little brats out there. Just flip a coin.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, see, I,

[Joe Sucere Such]

I tried to go that direction, Pat, and they, I made

[Josh Arnold]

it a ray of hope, Pat. Nobody shouted down, nobody came out and said, well, you should all have a medal. And that didn't happen. They played till cottage Grove beat St. Paul.

[Chris Reivers]

May I ask you a question? Let's say, you know, I know cottage Grove to St. Paul, that's not a long commute.

[Josh Arnold]

No.

[Chris Reivers]

Let's say you're Joe Sucre. You're the parent of one of those 12 years. Joe, you gotta have young Stephanie back here again tomorrow at 3 o' clock in the afternoon.

[Joe Sucere Such]

The hell might be.

[Josh Arnold]

I think it'd be great. She can walk, right? I'll just leave her here.

[Pat]

Well, you know, I, I was up at Saint Cloud, this state. Saint Cloud State for basketball game Wednesday. But, but I was talking to the ad and their hockey crowds are way down for several reasons. But one of them is she said, we used to, you know, when we started, we'd get A lot of youth hockey groups and, you know, in there on the weekend, and the parents would all come. Says now they got tournaments.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, yeah.

[Pat]

You know, there's more of our kids in a war road than there are in St. Cloud on the weekend. They don't have any. You know, it's. There's. Everybody's got the tournaments and that. So their mom and dad are going to go watch the kids, and they're going to go watch the Huskies.

[Josh Arnold]

So I understand you thought yesterday was Friday.

[Pat]

I did. I was. I was day off, and I said I had to tell Reavers. Good catch.

[Josh Arnold]

It was a good. It was like. Hank, good catch. Hank, you're not in Brainerd. You're in Mille Lacs. Good catch.

[Pat]

Thank you. We're not in Benji. You're supposed to be in Detroit Lakes. Good God.

[Chris Reivers]

Pat, I. I thought of you and Joe yesterday. Our guy, Jim Rich, covering sports for Fox 9. He's down in Fort Myers chronicling spring training. And I could tell he might have taken some advice from Jeff Passold because it kind of looked like he did the same. Changing shirts, changing shir shirts, doing the same GD report four different times.

[Pat]

Pass always mad at me about that for about 10 years.

[Josh Arnold]

What happened? What Pass did to Pass.

[Pat]

So they're, like, on now. They send him down for a week, Right. Spring training. So he comes into the dugout, these interviewing guys, and he's got, like, six shirts hanging there, Right. So he knows that if he wears the same shirt.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Pat]

He'll know he was out playing golf, you know?

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Pat]

So each guy interviews. He got six days, interview in, like, an hour.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, he's no dummy. Just put on a different shirt.

[Pat]

I was the dummy for ratting him out. He almost got inspired.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I can't believe you would do that to him.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Yeah.

[Pat]

Well, I needed a. A funny paragraph in my column.

[Chris Reivers]

I had space to fill.

[Josh Arnold]

I had.

[Joe Sucere Such]

They should teach that in TV journalism school. That's brilliant.

[Pat]

That guy loved his golf, too, man. He's. He's the greatest.

[Kenny Olson]

We.

[Matthew Mikulski]

We.

[Pat]

We patched her up. He's the greatest.

[Josh Arnold]

He down.

[Pat]

He lives down in Naples or someplace down there.

[Josh Arnold]

So. Pat, I'll talk to you Monday.

[Pat]

All right. Go Yanks.

[Josh Arnold]

All right. Thank you.

[Pat]

I want to see who's in charge of poor G of the plane if they win.

[Chris Reivers]

All right.

[Josh Arnold]

All right. Thank you. If Billy wins, I think he's entitled to celebrate. Do you need one of these?

[Chris Reivers]

I do.

[Josh Arnold]

All right.

[Chris Reivers]

But you know what I'd like to do?

[Josh Arnold]

First, I don't know.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Josh Arnold]

This is Ricey. You've been hearing my friend Josh Arnold, Mr. Money Talk for years on the radio and the Garage Logic podcast. With summer coming on, I strongly recommend you sit down with Josh for your no cost, no obligation 48 minute consultation on your investments, including your IRA and 401. You can benefit from Josh's years of experience navigating different market and economic conditions and he'll always give you straight talk, not sugar coated advice. Give Josh a call now at 952-925-5608 and book your no cost, no obligation 48 minute consultation consultation 952-925-5608. You'll be glad that you did meet with Josh and tell him that Ricey sent you.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Who's Roland?

[Matthew Mikulski]

Thank you John.

[Chris Reivers]

John,

[Josh Arnold]

finally. Thank God. Today is Friday. TG I Q. Yeah,

[Chris Reivers]

It's a scramble.

[Josh Arnold]

This article really caught my eye and I thought it would appeal to Glers. What is it Joe? The worst day of the week to buy gas and the best time to fill up. And I thought it was going to be about the quality of the gas. Gas. It's just merely about the price.

[Chris Reivers]

Let's take a guess.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Merely.

[Chris Reivers]

I monitor gas prices daily.

[Josh Arnold]

But this.

[Matthew Mikulski]

I thought you meant like that after they fill the tanks that the top of the gas is a better gas

[Josh Arnold]

than I thought something like that. I was going to say I thought. They tell me that, you know, go in on Mondays to get gas because it's fresh or something.

[Chris Reivers]

I want it fresh.

[Josh Arnold]

I want it fresh.

[Matthew Mikulski]

That's like skim milk is thicker than the whole milk.

[Chris Reivers]

It is borderline same.

[John Hight]

And if I may add to this, Joe, when I worked at the gas station at Costco, during our little break in the proceedings here, we got 10 trucks a day, so it was always fresh.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, good.

[Matthew Mikulski]

What's the talk with the delivery guys?

[Josh Arnold]

Well, can I tell you this? This has nothing to do with quality. This price has to do with price.

[Chris Reivers]

I can guess. Can I guess?

[Josh Arnold]

You're the expert. You say yes. Okay, let me give you a quiz. What's the worst day to buy gas?

[Chris Reivers]

Friday. Friday.

[Josh Arnold]

Wrong.

[Chris Reivers]

Really?

[Josh Arnold]

Thursday.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yeah. Stupid.

[Josh Arnold]

Heading into the high demand weekend, gas prices tend to spike on Thursdays, which was the most costly day to fill up in 28 states. Okay, all right. What's the best day of the week to buy gas? Tuesday. Monday.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Stupid.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, I was off by a day each time. Damn it.

[Josh Arnold]

24 hours. Those are really the only two questions.

[Chris Reivers]

Hell of a story, Joe. Let's hear about Uncle Gary again.

[Matthew Mikulski]

What's the worst time to book an RV and go to South Dakota on a vacation? Oh, when it's $4.20 per gallon.

[Josh Arnold]

Now here's something. It's hard to believe this made print, but it says how to save gas no matter when you buy it. And you know what? One of the answers is?

[Chris Reivers]

Don't use the drive less.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay, you know what? I wouldn't have needed that. I would have figured that one out on my own.

[Chris Reivers]

I was expecting it to be. Don't run the heat. Don't run the AC either.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Freeze your bean bag.

[Josh Arnold]

Anyway, it has.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Get on the freeway at 30 miles per hour.

[Josh Arnold]

It has nothing to do with quality. Set your cruise control at 62 and a 70.

[Matthew Mikulski]

You remember when they told us 55 was the. The optimum speed for station saving gas?

[Josh Arnold]

I have. Yeah.

[Matthew Mikulski]

In the 70s or 80s.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

That was great.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Those are fun times.

[Josh Arnold]

That was great.

[Chris Reivers]

I have a question. It's like, is your gas pump on the left side or the right side?

[Joe Sucere Such]

Chris, don't do that voice.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh,

[Matthew Mikulski]

where is he now?

[Chris Reivers]

Remember the John Madden video where.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, that was funny. That was. That was funny.

[Chris Reivers]

What's an ampersand?

[Josh Arnold]

Only because they come to us.

[Matthew Mikulski]

My weekend's about to commence when you start doing this.

[Josh Arnold]

Only because they come to us all the way from Penguin. Tasmania, Australia from the traveling linemans who are@worldwide waftage.com was on this day, February 20th, in 1811, Henry H. Sibley was born in Detroit, Michigan.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Can you say that name?

[Josh Arnold]

Henry H. Sibley.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mikulski]

I thought we had to strike him now.

[Josh Arnold]

They changed the name of the high school, didn't they?

[Matthew Mikulski]

Oh, yeah. Two Rivers. Like Six Rivers.

[Josh Arnold]

A major player earlier in the state, early in the state's history Sibley was a fur trader, politician businessman, military leader in University region. He died in St. Paul on February 18, 1890. 91. What's that?

[Chris Reivers]

That can wait till you're done with this day in history.

[Josh Arnold]

On this day, February 20th, in 1855, the territorial legislature created 12 counties. They're too long to read that.

[Matthew Mikulski]

On this day, Feb.20, he'll read all 87 counties. But he won't do 12.

[Josh Arnold]

All right. They named him for Joseph R. Brown, explorer Jonathan Carver.

[Matthew Mikulski]

That's probably Carver County.

[Josh Arnold]

Dodge for Wisconsin Governor Henry dod, his son Augustus Faribault for John Baptiste Faribault Freeborn to a member of the territorial legislature, William Freeborn, right there at the beginning. Maurer for Stillwater. Lumberman John E. Maurer. Olmstead for St. Paul Mayor Dave Olmstead. Renville for fur trader Joseph Renville Stearns for Thomas for legislator Thomas Stearns. I'm sorry. Charles Stearns. Steel for pioneer Franklin Steven Steel. Todd.

[Matthew Mikulski]

What's happening on the short track? Are they still.

[Josh Arnold]

Commander John Blair.

[Joe Sucere Such]

I'm sending a text. Try not to bother me.

[Josh Arnold]

John Blair Smith, Todd. And Wright county for New York Statesman Silas Wright. I don't know why we would have named one for number 12. On this day, Feb.20, in 1860, two more counties were created. Three are named. Three are named for bodies of water. Big Stone for Big Stone. Lake Chippewa for the Chippewa river and Traverse for Lake Traverse. And then we had one. Polp. Pennington, Pine, Pipestone, Polk and Polp are your pea counties. He was a cartographer and Stevens was somebody. He did something.

[John Hight]

What's a cartographer?

[Josh Arnold]

A map maker.

[Chris Reivers]

A mapper. Okay.

[Josh Arnold]

On this day, February 20th, more counties. Minnesota got its first taste of the nationwide savings and loan debacle when Hal Greenwood, Jr. Midwest Federal Forge, former chairman and CEO of the failed Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Association. A good tree to come to for shelter.

[Matthew Mikulski]

And let's cheer on our twins.

[Josh Arnold]

Was sentenced by a federal judge in St. Paul to 46 months in prison and ordered a forfeit 3.6 mil. Following a federal deregulation of the thrift industry during the 80s, savings and loans around the country had become overexposed, extended, and many engage in loans without sufficient reserves to cover themselves in the event of failure. Greenwood was one of the few savings and loan officials to be sentenced. Hal Greenwood, he's out now.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yeah. 89 degrees. 89 years old.

[John Hight]

Degrees.

[Josh Arnold]

And he's still with us?

[Matthew Mikulski]

No, he died in 2000, I believe.

[Josh Arnold]

At the age of 89.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Yes.

[John Hight]

Huh. Isn't that.

[Matthew Mikulski]

I'm sorry. He died in 2020.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes, it is. Debacle is a wonderful word on this day in Minnesota. Sports disappointment, history.

[Chris Reivers]

Who'd we lose to on February 20th?

[Josh Arnold]

Well, in. On February 20th, 2012, with 4.9 seconds left in overtime and down by three points, the Timberwolves. Martell Webster stole a Denver Nuggets inbound pass and went in for a dunk instead of trying to shoot at three. Oh, my God.

[Chris Reivers]

I remember y.

[Josh Arnold]

What a. That's it for today.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Oh, okay. That's it.

[Josh Arnold]

I have no more.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Hell was a pretty good.

[Josh Arnold]

I'm not going to give you. No. He was a frightening guy. To a kid. He looked like a speed guy.

[Matthew Mikulski]

He met the deuce.

[Joe Sucere Such]

Did he?

[Josh Arnold]

Y Met the dude? Yeah. Did he invent Midwest Savings and Loan? Is he the guy?

[Matthew Mikulski]

He was. He went to Southwest High School. He graduated in 19. 1950. And he was. He had his hand in politics. He was friends in politics.

[Chris Reivers]

Apparently those new headphones over there aren't hearing the theme music.

[Matthew Mikulski]

Oh, are we. Are we talking about. Hell, yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Find us on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook.

[Josh Arnold]

Wait, wait.

[John Hight]

This. Wait.

[Chris Reivers]

Go ahead. Gler of the Week.

[Josh Arnold]

Gl er of the Week.

[Chris Reivers]

Hustle.

[Josh Arnold]

Sean Demolished of New Richmond, Wisconsin. Congratulations, Sean. You get the. The Masters Maple Masters Maples gift pack. That's right, Sean D. Mulling in New Richmond, Wisconsin.

[Chris Reivers]

You can upgrade your town council membership to an annual one to be eligible and get your name read in the closing seconds of the show and the week, just like Sean did. Good luck. 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 Garage Logic. And now is the time for you to do the same. So not delay, do exactly what I did and pick up that phone and dial 952-925-5608. That number once again is 952-925-5608. When you call that number, you're going to get Josh and he is there for you for that. Free. Yes, I use the word free. 48 minute financial consultation with absolutely zero obligation. And he will always give you the Straight talk. He will never give you the sugar coated advice and he is on the line with us once again right here in garage thinking boy Josh, current market conditions, whatever else, is it time to say hallelujah?

[Kenny Olson]

Hallelujah brother. Hallelujah brother. I'm sure there are a lot of people saying hallelujah after the US Women's hockey team defeated defeated Canada in a very exciting, very exciting game to watch at the, at the Olympics, taking the gold medal. See how the US Men do over the next few days. But Olympic hockey is to me very, very, very exciting. One of those people who does enjoy watching, watching hockey even though fortunately I never played growing up, not too much ice in South Jersey when I grew up, particularly on, on any of the ponds or creek, not a lot of chance to freeze up. But I'm saying a little hallelujah brother. Over a Supreme Court decision that came out this morning on, on tariffs actually striking down the bulk of the tariff that that Trump had imposed. As you're well aware, I am not Mr. Tariff man, quite the opposite. I find tariffs to be we'll say a tax on good tariffs are a tax that is paid ultimately by consumers and it is a fee that most companies will pass on just like they pass on ex taxes to, to, to consumers and in the form of higher price. I have found that tariffs actually tend to limit economic activity and have been imposed primarily to help industries, we'll say, grow and prevent outside competition. But once that growth is achieved, those companies really don't necessarily need that tariff protection. I've also found, and it has been shown that when tariffs are imposed particularly on certain industries, that those industries getting protection don't necessarily cut their prices to remain competitive against outside competitors. See what's happened in the steel business over the years with higher tariffs. Steel costs have not certainly come come down quite the quite the opposite. I recognize that one of the reasons for imposing the tariffs was to stir manufacturing activity here in the United States, increase manufacturing employment. But that has not not happen. And I'm not expecting manufacturing activities to increase quickly because it does take a long time we'll say to build manufacturing plants or, and or to retool existing plants. That said, over time the US has moved more to a service economy and there are an awful lot of we'll say goods and services that are here from being a manufacturing company. Yet we do manufacture some, we'll say very high net margin items and we do develop, we'll say a lot of we'll say software that is used all over the world we here in the United States do have plenty of office. There is plenty of work for those who are looking looking for it and you can even see that right now in the current employment statistics where economists say we're in a low fire low hire environment on that in terms of economic environment GDP numbers out today as well as Personal Consumption Expenditure Index GDP numbers came in a little lighter than expected mostly due to the government shutdown. At least in my opinion that happened late last year really stifled the GDP. That that shutdown has ended. But we're in a small shutdown right now part of the government and that can can have an adverse effect on the economy at least on the short term. Personal Consumption Expenditure Index well that was came in as expected showing inflation is still there and that puts the Fed in a more difficult spot regarding cutting interest rates and I am of the opinion as I have shared that right now Fed doesn't need to be aggressive in cutting cutting interest rates that listed at least at this at this point PC indicator did show that costs were up fill in housing, health health services and insurance services though goods prices have been have been coming down. How do you like, how do you like that? Yes housing and insurance and health paying for health health care costs is sticky and no real change in Fed interest policy or interest rate policy is going to you know bring that down from these reports is that business investment activity has continued to increase and that that is going to be a positive going forward but with some tariff being knocked down. Hallelujah brother. There may be others that are still in place and or president will find a workaround or a different way to utilize tariff which he said are necessary in trade negotiation. Well that may be but businesses do like certainty and a willy nilly tariff policy is certainly not creating that kind of pattern. Speaking of certainty now people do like their experiences and companies that provide experiences whether it's travel or entertainment have recently been rewarded and rewarded handling. Earlier it was Marriott beating on beating top and bottom bottom lines and raising their their guide CEO said people like travel like the X they have with Marriott's many many brands. Hilton followed up with a similar announcement. Expedia the travel and you know the travel travel site that not only helps in booking airline tickets and hotel rooms and also owns vrbo. Another good report though their stock which had been up significantly there was profit taking their price line choosing Priceline was sold by booking.com reported the other night again a beat and raise a quarter going forward they announced a 25 for 1 stock split but the stock did trade down Airbnb another beat and raise quarter. The Expedia and booking.com went down on fears along with other companies. Now they're using software and chat, GPT or Andropic Quad. Well, they could create a program that will replace these travel sites. I don't, I don't think so. And these travel sites down, down a third from their highs to me look like places that I'd want to invest. And then there's a favorite of mine, a holding of mine and my client Live Nation, the concert promoter also owns Ticketmaster there. There's some hair on the, hair on the face so to speak of Live Nation as several states in the government are still looking to sue Live Nation's Ticketmaster business over monopoly pricing, particularly in the set secondary marketplace. Ticketmaster purchased or should be Live Nation purchased TicketMaster back in 2010 in a merger and Ticketmaster has been under fire since 2022 when and I kid I'm kidding on this folks. President Biden had trouble getting Taylor Swift ticket off the site when they first went on sale. Was not just President Biden, it was President, President Trump, Chuck Schumer, Team Jeffries and even Speaker Michael Johnson all had trouble getting Taylor Swift ticket when they initially came out. The government, both federal and state have been after Ticketmaster since on pricing and particularly on secondary market. That said, Live Nation did better than expected and raised their guide. People do want live experiences live and there's going to be plenty of opportunity for those live experiences going forward into into this year. Live Nation stock has jumped on this news think some of it has to do with shortcoming covering and some on a few upgrades. You might want to wait a few days for the excitement to subside before going in on this, but definitely experiences are a place to be and take a look at some of these leisure oriented names.

[Chris Reivers]

Excellent advice as always Mr. Money Talk. You heard him gl ers. Now is the time for you to pick up the phone and make the call for that free 48 minute financial consultation again with zero obligation. And you do that just like I did by dialing 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. Have a fantastic weekend and we'll talk you again next week.

[Kenny Olson]

Chris, I'll look forward to that very much.

[Chris Reivers]

Talk to you then.

[John Hight]

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[Josh Arnold]

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[John Hight]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Josh Arnold]

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[Chris Reivers]

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