2/26 The state unveils new fraud prevention programs, but none of them include thou shall not steal

Summary

Garage Logic Podcast: Episode Summary

Episode Title: 2/26 The state unveils new fraud prevention programs, but none of them include thou shall not steal
Date: February 26, 2026
Main Host: Joe Soucheray (“The Mayor”)
Co-Hosts: Chris Reivers, John Haidt, Kenny Olson, “Rookie” Matthew
Podcast Network: Gamut Podcast Network

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Episode Overview

This Garage Logic episode is centered around Minnesota’s ongoing struggles with government program fraud, new fraud prevention initiatives from the state, and the ongoing narrative battles around accountability. The hosts dissect the state’s response to federal scrutiny, particularly the Trump administration withholding Medicaid funds due to inadequate fraud prevention. They also discuss the redundancy and inefficiency in Minnesota’s social programs, the politicization of fraud, state and federal leadership’s handling of these issues, and the philosophical failure to embrace the basic principle of “thou shall not steal.” Lighter, recurring Garage Logic banter, local anecdotes, and news round out the episode.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Politicization of Fraud Prevention in Minnesota (08:21–10:46)

• Minnesota is under federal scrutiny due to significant fraud in Medicaid and other social programs.
• Federal officials, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Oz, have temporarily halted $259 million in Medicaid payments, demanding a comprehensive anti-fraud plan.
• Quote [09:49, Chris Reivers]:
  "The fight against fraud in Minnesota continues. And Democratic Governor Tim Walz plans to introduce an anti-fraud legislative package Thursday. His office says the package focuses on prevention, detection and holding those who commit fraud accountable. Well, Tim, you're years too late for this and I'm not buying it."
• Joe Soucheray and the team argue this move is not about depriving vulnerable groups but about bringing accountability to state-level spending.

2. Political Deflection and Weaponization Narratives (14:00, 15:08)

• The hosts note that Walz and other state figures quickly frame federal action as an attack by Trump on Minnesotans, rather than focusing on the underlying fraud.
• Quote [15:08, Joe Soucheray]:
  "Governor Tim Walz sent this out yesterday. Joe, Trump is weaponizing the entirety of the federal government to punish blue states like Minnesota. These cuts will be devastating for veterans, families with young kids, folks with disabilities, and working people across our state—all of whom were never taken care of in the first place by the hundreds and hundreds of state programs that have been created to take care of the people in this state who need caring. That money's been stolen."
• The panel highlights how any discussion of fraud is spun as a partisan attack and how the truth gets lost in these narratives.

3. State Program Redundancy & Lack of Accountability (11:43–14:00, 27:36–32:17)

• Minnesota administers dozens of overlapping assistance programs (example: 20 separate housing aid programs in DHS), none of which are evaluated for effectiveness or success, leading to rampant fraud and waste.
• Quote [13:59, Joe Soucheray]:
  "We have, in the Department of human services alone, 20 redundant programs to administer housing assistance. 20 programs. ... None of them have ever been measured for success because that's the way things have played out."
• The hosts call for drastically reducing program redundancy and for actual accountability: "Thou shall not steal" should be the guiding principle.

4. Efficacy of New Fraud Prevention Measures (28:36–32:17)

• The state announced 10 new anti-fraud bills. The hosts question why existing laws like "thou shall not steal" aren't enough and see the new bills as political theater.
• Quote [29:00, Chris Reivers]:
  "So we're introducing new laws today for fraud. The legislators have come up with a package of new laws and I'm just wondering why they have to. Don't we have enough laws? Starting with thou shall not steal."
• The panel expresses deep skepticism that more legislation will solve what is fundamentally a problem of political will and program oversight.

5. Proposed Solutions and Realism (32:17–36:54)

• The Garage Logic crew offers two main ideas for reform:
  1. Drastically consolidate the state's sprawling programs—a solution they admit is unrealistic politically.
  2. Elect a competent, ethical, results-driven governor, regardless of party, who will hold agency heads accountable.
• Quote [33:23, Chris Reivers]:
  "We're not going to erase Minnesota government from the map and build it back again from the ground up. That's not going to happen. So what's the second best thing we can hope for? An adult, competent, ethical person to run for governor..."

6. Minnesota Political Prognosis & Voter Attitudes (34:25–37:29)

• The hosts debate if a Republican or reform-minded candidate could win in Minnesota, given current party dynamics.
• Quote [35:17, Chris Reivers]:
  "Anyone who seeks [Trump's] endorsement is asking to lose in Minnesota... Whoever runs must run because they want to restore this state to a high degree of credibility."

7. Keeping State and National Politics Separate (37:31–40:39)

• Minnesota frequently blames federal politics—particularly Trump—for local failures, rendering actual solutions unattainable.
• Quote [39:15, Joe Soucheray]:
  "It'll always be the damage that Trump has done. We've seen it with fraud."
• They emphasize the crisis in Minnesota is homegrown and predates politics related to Trump or Biden.

8. News & Anecdotes

• The episode includes local news briefs and GL-style anecdotes, notably:
  • Investigation into federal Medicaid fraud and losses of U.S. attorneys in Minnesota (48:36, News)
  • Musings on local businesses, wedding catering, and other banter that blends into the Garage Logic “town hall” vibe.

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Memorable Quotes

• On rampant fraud and political gamesmanship:
  • Chris Reivers [14:12]: "You can't win in this. You cannot win with this environment in this country. There's horrible, horrible fraud in Minnesota because of horrible, horrible incompetence."
• On the real solution being cultural and ethical, not legislative:
  • Chris Reivers [32:07]: "They don't go by the catechism, which is simple. Thou shall not steal. They don't work that way."
• On the cycle of political blame:
  • Joe Soucheray [39:15]: "It'll always be the damage that Trump has done. We've seen it with fraud."
• On redundancy in social programs:
  • Joe Soucheray [13:59]: "We have, in the Department of human services alone, 20 redundant programs... None of them have ever been measured for success."
• On the futility of expecting government transformation:
  • Chris Reivers [33:11]: "We're not going to erase Minnesota government from the map and build it back again from the ground up. That's not going to happen."
• On what Minnesota needs:
  • Chris Reivers [33:23]: "An adult, competent, ethical person to run for governor. That's the only...I don't care if it's DFL or Republican or independent or from outer Tasmania."

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Important Timestamps

• State of the Union Banter: 02:38–03:37
• Medicaid Fraud and Federal Payment Halt: 08:21–14:00
• Walz’s Response (“weaponizing government”): 15:08–16:01
• Discussion of Redundant State Programs: 13:59–14:00, 27:36–32:17
• Analysis of New Fraud Laws: 28:36–32:17
• Proposed Reforms Discussion: 32:17–36:54
• Debate on Political Realities in MN: 34:25–37:29
• Federal vs State Responsibility: 37:31–40:39
• News Brief—US Attorney’s Office Shrinkage & Fraud Prosecution: 48:49–50:12
• Banter & Local Business Shout-Outs: Throughout, especially 43:09–47:38, 54:42–56:56

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Overall Tone and Style

• The tone is wry, skeptical, and rooted in the show's signature “common sense” worldview. There’s frankness, humor, and exasperation with bureaucracy, alongside sardonic commentary on Minnesota politics.
• Quotable, informal language and recurring inside jokes cater to loyal listeners (“G L ers”).

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For Listeners New and Old

This episode typifies Garage Logic’s blend of biting local commentary with tangents and humorous asides. Non-Minnesotans or new listeners will gain insight into why the podcast is so popular in the state: a mixture of relatable, forthright scrutiny of government, calls for personal and institutional responsibility, and a conversational, “around the garage” atmosphere.

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Key Takeaway:
The state of Minnesota continues to introduce new anti-fraud measures, but the hosts argue that unless there’s real accountability and a cultural embrace of basic honesty (“thou shall not steal”), the layers of bureaucracy and political blame games will keep the system broken. The solution is not more laws—but leadership, ethical reform, and a willingness to face uncomfortable truths about graft and waste.

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Transcript

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Hail the Flashlight King.

[Chris Reivers]

And now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Logic with Chris Reavers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the crabby coffee shop, John Height in the newsroom, and of course the rookie here is your Flashlight King fire commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Susherer. You know the State of the Union

[Joe Soucheray]

speech, Is he still going?

[Chris Reivers]

He might be. I, I, I got thinking about it. Wouldn't it be fun to have an actual State of the Union speech? You know how we got some New benches at Yellowstone and some freeways have just been the State of the Union.

[John Haidt]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

You know, Missouri just named a new mountain. And, you know, it would be like

[John Haidt]

the Christmas cards we get.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah. Like a Christmas letter.

[Joe Soucheray]

Jimmy's going to Missouri.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

I wonder if any of the speeches over the years have been a report on the State of the Union.

[John Haidt]

I bet early on somebody sent me when we were having that conversation. I forget who now. An email saying that Thomas Jefferson stopped the State of the Union addresses and they didn't come back till the 1900s. I'm gonna have to look for that email.

[Chris Reivers]

Really?

[News Anchor]

I think it was Jackson, wasn't it? I think I got the same email. Andrew Jackson stopped him.

[John Haidt]

Andrew Jackson. Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

You ever see pictures of those old buses in Yellowstone? Those neat yellow buses, you know, State of the Union. We found a barn find bus. We're gonna restore that for yellow. I just. Yes. Where were you yesterday?

[Matthew]

I was throwing axes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, you have to. You have to let the people in, Matthew.

[Matthew]

I was at a wedding tasting at D' Amico Sons at the Metropolitan Ballroom. And my young Sophia and James are getting married in July. So we.

[Joe Soucheray]

Congratulations.

[Matthew]

We sampled the menu. We were lucky enough to go tag along with them as they procured the proper good one. Dave.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah. Thanks, Dave.

[Matthew]

And I rated. I was given a menu, and I rated my appetizer, salad, main course, and dessert selections from one to six or from one to three.

[John Haidt]

Now, were you wearing a skirt and did you have extra maxi pads in your purse when you were doing this?

[Matthew]

It was a late winter frock, if there is a such a thing.

[Joe Soucheray]

I have a question. I know I'm not allowed to look at Matthew during the show, so I'm going to look at you while I ask the question. All right, Matthew, because I know how dedicated you are to the cuisine of a big event, especially. I mean, there's nothing bigger than your daughter getting married.

[Matthew]

Chef John did a fancy.

[Joe Soucheray]

When you were sitting there at the table with everybody else in the family, did you have the notebook and were you taking a precise note? Says, nope. This is not gonna meet the standards for which a Mikulski girl is gonna be getting married.

[Matthew]

I was more worried about myself than her palate. I was very concerned when they brought out the sea bass.

[Chris Reivers]

Cause you're not a seafood person. No.

[Matthew]

Although it got a low ranking. The lowest ranking. I thought it was delicious.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, my God. How could anyone rank sea bass low?

[Matthew]

I just wouldn't order that. But it was the lobster.

[Joe Soucheray]

Ro give it this.

[Matthew]

That was delish.

[John Haidt]

At any point did you say, keep it coming? Keep them coming?

[Matthew]

Yeah. When they had the tenderloin and the airline chicken.

[John Haidt]

Joe, I have an answer for you before you go on. Yes, from Mike. Andrew Jackson did not trot someone out. Washington and Adams did their State of the Union in person. Jefferson stopped that tradition, and it wasn't restarted until Woodrow Wilson. The tradition of acknowledging guests in the gallery is largely credited as having started Reagan.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, boy.

[John Haidt]

I should have read that on Tuesday.

[Joe Soucheray]

I do have.

[John Haidt]

Yesterday.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sorry, Ken. I do have one thing I'd like to play. Yeah, we had these in conjunction with the State of the Union address by President Trump. Yes, we had the State of the Swamp.

[Chris Reivers]

This was an alternative issue.

[News Anchor]

Correct.

[Joe Soucheray]

Where the Democrats said, we're not participating. Some of them, not all of them, had said, we're not participating in this nonsense. We're gonna conduct our own state of what's really going on. Oh, and this particular video is from the State of the Swamp Union address in which a gentleman jumped up on the stage dressed up as a lion. I'm fresh out of an ICE prison in Minneapolis. I've been arrested three times by ICE over absurdity, over us being ourselves, over me singing songs like, hey, Mr. Tangerine man, get rid of brown people for me.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm Arian White, There ain't no place I'm going to. And then all of a sudden, he's

[News Anchor]

not ready for prime time.

[Chris Reivers]

That's more fun in the State of the Union.

[Joe Soucheray]

I wish I was making that up.

[Chris Reivers]

You know, that guy is creating.

[News Anchor]

He's all over the Internet. He dresses like a giraffe sometimes, and he goes to protest and he. He makes fun of the current administration making up songs with them. He was arrested here. Oh, during an ICE protest?

[Matthew]

Well, as he reported. Yes.

[News Anchor]

Yeah. At Whip at the Whipple Building. He was arrested on the street there. He dressed as Robbie Something is his name.

[Chris Reivers]

We have a big problem.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, here we go.

[Chris Reivers]

No, it's. It's. It's an amazingly big, big problem. Fraud is too easily conflated with Trump. By that, I mean, fraud cannot be discussed in Minnesota without people thinking that if you try to get to the bottom of fraud in Minnesota, you're a Trumper. People are unable in this state to distinguish between two problems. Go ahead. And God knows Trump is problematic. But to get to the bottom of fraud in Minnesota has nothing to do with how you feel about Trump. But because everything's political now, walls can make great hay in deflecting fraud situations by laying it at the feet of Trump. For example, the. The government is withholding. Where is it here? The government is withholding some money for Minnesota's Medicaid program, 259 million, which by our standards in Minnesota, that's pocket change.

[Matthew]

Couple months of fraud.

[Chris Reivers]

That's a week of fraud at the Griggs Building. The fight against fraud in Minnesota continues. And Democratic Governor Tim Walz plans to introduce an anti fraud legislative package Thursday. In other words. Well, I'll get to that in a moment. His office says the package focuses on prevention, detection and holding those who commit fraud accountable. Well, Tim, you're years too late for this and I'm not buying it. You should have been doing this a long time ago. But I'll get to that in a moment. The part about where it's confused with Trump. It comes after Vice President J.D. vance and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Oz.

[Matthew]

I saw him in the background. Whoever the hell he is, he was manufactured by Oprah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did you ever watch his show?

[Chris Reivers]

I did not. Chris.

[News Anchor]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

No. It comes after Vice President J.D. vance and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced Wednesday $259 million in federal Medicaid payments are being temporarily halted to Minnesota. Federal officials say they'll keep halting funds until the state can show a comprehensive action plan to solve its fraud problem. This is being interpreted in Minnesota as Trump exercising his evil forces in depriving people of medical care. The people of Minnesota don't care about the fraud. If they can find a way to say this is another example of this administration is behaving cruelly to people in Minnesota. They don't care about the fraud. Federal officials say it's part of a broader national crackdown on the misuse of public funds following several high profile fraud cases. Okay, now we have to get to the bottom of, are they really going to deprive people of medical care? Vance says this is not about the people who rely on Medicaid, but about accountability at the state level. All we need the governor and administration of Minnesota to do is something quite simple. Show when they're giving Medicaid funds to somebody that you're taking seriously the funds that you're providing and the fact that there are so many people handing out millions and billions of dollars without confirming that they are doing the thing that they are doing. It's a disgrace and we're stopping it. We talked about this. Perhaps it was Tuesday. The problem in Minnesota is it has become what you put on your resume as A legislator are all of the things you've created, but you've never done a damn thing to see if the things you've created are actually working and have accomplished anything. So we have, in the Department of human services alone, 20 redundant programs to administer housing assistance. 20 programs. We went through them the other day. None of them have ever been measured for success because that just. That's the way things have played out. We just keep creating programs. Yeah, I suppose we should have taken a look to see if they resulted in anything. Well, it's the same with Medicaid and autism and daycare. We create dozens and dozens of redundant programs, the money disappears, and now along comes, however, fortunately or unfortunately, the Trump administration saying, we're gonna withhold $259 million from your Medicaid payments until you can demonstrate to us that these programs you're administering actually work.

[Matthew]

That's what I want.

[Chris Reivers]

And this is being met with horrible vitriol and opposition from people who say, this is Trump trying to deprive a vet from getting a new cast on his broken leg.

[Matthew]

I don't think he's trying to do that.

[Chris Reivers]

You can't win in this. Sit. You cannot win with this

[Matthew]

scenario.

[Chris Reivers]

You cannot win with this environment in this country. There's horrible, horrible fraud in Minnesota because of horrible, horrible incompetence. The halting payments on $259 million is symbolic in terms of its worth. That's nothing. It's symbolic. And I suppose the argument could be made that Trump is particularly zeroed in on Minnesota because it's a blue state and Walz is his enemy. And on and on and on and on. That doesn't excuse the fact that the state has been riddled with fraud.

[Joe Soucheray]

Governor Tim Walz sent this out yesterday. Joe Trump is weaponizing the entirety of the federal government to punish blue states like Minnesota. These cuts will be devastating for veterans, families with young kids, folks with disabilities, and working people across our state, all

[Chris Reivers]

of whom were never taken care of in the first place by the hundreds and hundreds of state programs that have been created to take care of the people in this state who need caring. That money's been stolen.

[Matthew]

But do these paint. Does $250 million go to the veterans director?

[Chris Reivers]

No, no, no. Don't. Don't get me off track. I'm getting there. I'm getting there.

[Matthew]

Got it.

[Chris Reivers]

Where does it go? Trump is all this is. Yeah, same quote here. Trump is weaponizing the. And I think you could probably find that Trump is not weaponizing any government payments to Red States. I don't doubt that he's the sorest winner in America. He didn't win Minnesota, so Minnesota is going to get punished. Other blue states will come under his scope. So that I have no argument with that, but that has nothing to do with fraud. Shereen Gandhi, I don't know that I would have promoted her, but she got. She's the new commissioner. She was in it. She was temporary. Right. And now she's the. She's officially the commissioner of the Department of Human Services. And she said that Vance's announcement is part of a sustained attack. No, lady, you've never been accountable. Walls has never been accountable. You run a real, real sloppy organization. You've got 20 redundant programs alone under housing assistance, and you cannot account for the money, as we've learned over the last five years. Same with daycare, same with autism clinics, same with Medicaid. You've got. Same with some busing problems. You've got too many problems that you've never examined for their worth or their accomplishment. Deferring 259 million will significantly harm the state's health care infrastructure and 1.2 million Minnesotans who depend on Medicaid. Gandhi said, okay, I can believe that. But where were you prior to a Trump administration worrying about the people who depend on Medicaid. In many cases, that money was stolen from you, but now you have a wall to lean against and say, it's not us. Look at how Trump has weaponized this. He's going to deprive us of our money. Well, first of all, again, $259 is nothing.

[Matthew]

250 million.

[Chris Reivers]

What did I say?

[Joe Soucheray]

Dollars?

[Matthew]

Well, 259.

[Chris Reivers]

It's about the same thing. It's about the same thing. Now, that's all I have on that in terms of. I don't know how seriously that's going to harm Minnesotans who actually need help. But how seriously has Minnesota ever taken its role in helping people? How seriously have they ever taken that role when they can't account for the God knows how many billions of taxpayer dollars they've blown to theft?

[John Haidt]

Well, they thought they were taking it seriously by throwing money at it. But you're right, there was no accountability.

[Matthew]

But why do they only say it's gonna affect these veterans families?

[Chris Reivers]

Because that plays well. It plays very well with Minnesotans to say, look what Trump's doing now. See, now he's depriving people of getting their medicine. Where were you people when the fraud was staring you in the face for the last six years?

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, I Don't care about that.

[Chris Reivers]

Same damn thing.

[Joe Soucheray]

Care about that.

[John Haidt]

It was 16 years, but.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, well, 50 years.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, well, you know. Yeah, 1977.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Matthew]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Matthew]

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[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Matthew]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

We're all stunned by that revelation.

[Chris Reivers]

I got it right here. What are you talking about?

[Matthew]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Fraud.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't know what will come of this. Holding back 259 million doesn't seem. See, everything's political now. So that's walz. And the state is responding in an anti Trump fashion, when all apparently they would have to do is either call Vance or send him a letter today saying, here's what we're going to do. We've assigned 14 people from the Department of Human Services to follow every payment to its destination and make sure that people are being treated and the money's going into the bank, period.

[Matthew]

That's the only way I would automatically.

[Chris Reivers]

Then they'll send the money. But Minnesota, we have not been doing that. The Department of Human Services has been dishing out money after check after check after check, never following up on it to see if it was actually being used for what it was intended. So that's all the state has to do. Correct me if I'm wrong. Staff, anyone? Anyone? Isn't that what the state has to do?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

They have to get ahold of Washington D.C. and say, look, look, we're following that money. Please, Please release the 259 million. We can demonstrate the people who need it, and we're gonna make sure that they get it. And here's how we're gonna make sure. We've assigned 1422 people from the Department of Human Services. They're gonna get mileage for this. They're gonna drive to Chaska and they're gonna stop at a storefront where it says Medicaid help and they're gonna make sure there's who are getting help. And the money's in a bank account registered to that place. And the money has to be used for the patient. That's all they got to do.

[Matthew]

Only way to do it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes, and by they, you don't mean you. Because as I heard you say yesterday, I ain't driving to BLEEP in Chaska all the way out to BLEEP and Chaska.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I'm not in this. I'm not in. This is not my problem. It's the state's problem.

[Joe Soucheray]

Gotcha.

[John Haidt]

Well, it's your money.

[Chris Reivers]

It is my money, but it's so far gone now that, you know, we're never going to see it again.

[Joe Soucheray]

How far gone is it?

[Chris Reivers]

So there. So there. Call up the vice president's office and say, look, we know we've had some problems here. We're working our best to do something about it.

[John Haidt]

It.

[Chris Reivers]

Please release the 259 million, which again, I'm astonished by. I don't know how the. I don't know how the feds came up with that number because

[John Haidt]

that makes for horrible theater. And everybody knows that partisanship is boring. It's far more interesting to make baseless claims. Hit the top of your lungs.

[Chris Reivers]

No, bipartisanship is boring.

[John Haidt]

What did I say? Oh, yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Correct, Correct.

[John Haidt]

I'm sorry.

[Chris Reivers]

As long as we're off topic, and I'd like to not be on this topic, but my God, it's the driving dynamic of this state. How poorly it has been run. The family leave program rollout is $70 million under budget. Well, let's. Let's look at that. It's just among the thousands of programs that get invented. Oh, that's a great idea. Let's have family leave. Moms can care for their infants. Dad breaks his leg at work, he can stay home for a while, whatever. They're constantly. Because that's how the political class apparently has been measuring itself is what can I take credit for. For creating in the state of Minnesota? So a bunch of Democrats came up with the Family Leave and Medical Act. And a little bit comes out of your paycheck every pay period. And a little bit comes out of your employer's paycheck every pay period your employer has to pay.

[Matthew]

And you have to Pay to pay 0.44%.

[Chris Reivers]

Which sounds like peanuts, doesn't it?

[Matthew]

Right.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, they're not done that. It's gonna. It won't be. It won't be 0.44 for long.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right.

[Chris Reivers]

We're in the second full month of this policy. Oh, wait a minute. I apologize. They came in 70 million under budget.

[Matthew]

70 million.

[Chris Reivers]

That's so shocking that I couldn't believe that. So I just read it the way I thought it would have. No, they came in. 48,000 people have applied since the program started in November and 20,000 of those saw their applications denied. So they're under budget.

[News Anchor]

I'm expecting you to go.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, that's different.

[News Anchor]

Nevermind.

[Chris Reivers]

It is different. What the hell? Well, maybe they're so conscientious now about fraud, they've already denied 20,000 applicants. And by denying the 20,000 applicants, the money remains being used. Honestly, that's a good thing. To the point where with $70 million under budget, they keep applying and people will end up using up that money. But they won't be fraudulent.

[Matthew]

Cover your butt.

[Chris Reivers]

70. Well, that's.

[John Haidt]

Do you think they'll make an ad Apply now before supplies run out. The sale.

[Chris Reivers]

That's fantastic. Congratulations, Deed. Department of Economic and Employment Development or whatever the hell it is they run the program. That's a high water mark in Minnesota. A program is under budget, it's a start.

[Matthew]

The first drop in the bucket.

[John Haidt]

It's a Program that's stealing from us.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, they're taking your taxpayer, they're taking your money to provide people with the ability to not have to go to work.

[John Haidt]

I work so others can stay home.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah. It's very noble.

[John Haidt]

You're welcome.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, thanks, Kenny.

[John Haidt]

Yep.

[Chris Reivers]

So we're introducing. Where is it? We're introducing new laws today for fraud. The legislator. Legislators have come up with a package of new laws and I'm just wondering why they have to. Don't we have enough laws?

[John Haidt]

My.

[Chris Reivers]

Starting with thou shall not steal.

[John Haidt]

My reaction is no, I think that's the problem. But 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Is that right? 10 new anti fraud bills.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep. But see, the hallmark of your political career is what you can boast about creating.

[News Anchor]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Even if you should have created it

[Chris Reivers]

20 years ago or even if it's redundant. Right.

[John Haidt]

Well, in the case of gun control. Yeah. But let's stick with fraud.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, there's 10 new. Why do you need 10 new bills? Why don't you just stop it? Why don't you just behave like responsible adults?

[Matthew]

What to do in your real life.

[John Haidt]

I believe it's because the language wasn't in earlier versions, if there even were earlier versions.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I was going to link it for you. I was going to link it for you.

[John Haidt]

Please do.

[Chris Reivers]

All right. Here's one of the reasons new anti fraud laws have to be developed. They have to be developed by the same people who developed. We'll just stick to the housing part of the Department of Human Services where there are 20 programs for housing assistance. 10 of them are unnecessary. There's that much redundancy in them. Read them yourself. So the people who created those, it never occurred to them to follow up on any of these programs they developed to see if they actually work. Their job was to create them, pat themselves on the back and said, I'm helping get the credit for it. Nobody got helped. Very few people got helped. So as a result of the arcane language of each of these 20 programs, they probably think they have to tailor anti fraud measures to cover themselves with the way these programs have played out.

[Matthew]

This is the new way to write legislation.

[Chris Reivers]

So in other words, you know, for autism, we better have a different kind of fraud situation. For housing assistance, we better have different fraud fraud laws. For Medicaid, we better have different fraud because it gives them a chance to continue to create the new things they think are needed to demonstrate their worth to the state. I'm still. You should vote for me because, look, I not only authored this housing stabilization program. But I authored how I would combat fraud against it. Oh, better vote for that guy again. Yeah, that was the link. The more programs that get developed, the wider the menu of options to stop the fraud. Because they're. Apparently they don't. They don't go by the catechism, which is simple. Thou shall not steal. They don't work that way.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thou shall not covet.

[Chris Reivers]

Just stop stealing the money and stop being party to allowing it to be stolen. End of story.

[Joe Soucheray]

Stop it.

[Chris Reivers]

Which is why we. Well, this is why we said the other day our only hope. We have two hopes. One, completely start over and trim about. If there's a thousand government programs, get it down to about 100. Okay?

[Matthew]

Filter them out.

[Chris Reivers]

Is that realistic?

[Matthew]

Yes, very.

[Chris Reivers]

It's not. It's not going to happen.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hold on there, Kelsey boy.

[Chris Reivers]

Is not going to happen. So what's the second thing we can hope for?

[Joe Soucheray]

Shut her down.

[Chris Reivers]

No, Start over. Start over is the one thing we can hope for that's not going to happen. So why is that confusing to you? Do you think it's realistic that the government's going to start over?

[Joe Soucheray]

Why am I.

[Chris Reivers]

Why am I getting killed because you're making a face?

[News Anchor]

Stop making faces.

[Matthew]

Why do I get yellow looking at me?

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, you know what?

[Joe Soucheray]

Take her from the top.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm going to. Okay, we're not going to erase Minnesota government from the map and build it back again from the ground up. That's not going to happen.

[Joe Soucheray]

Build back better. We tried that.

[Chris Reivers]

That's not going to happen. So what's the second best thing we can hope for? An adult, competent, ethical person to run for governor? That's the only.

[John Haidt]

That's.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't care if it's DFL or Republican or independent or from outer Tasmania. I don't care who it is. But they should have some business experience. They should have a clean record. They should want to get to the bottom of things and they want to run it with competence. Or they're going to hold agency heads accountable. They're going to meet with them on a daily basis if they need to. We have never experienced that apparently in the last 50 years.

[Joe Soucheray]

Or.

[Chris Reivers]

Or. Well, those are your two options. One of them is realistic, the other one's not.

[Joe Soucheray]

Can I ask you an honest question? Do you honestly think, though, that's. With the stranglehold that currently takes place in this state, a Republican has no shot of winning the governor's seat currently?

[Chris Reivers]

I would think that I'm going to cling to the idea that the Vast majority of taxpayers would be very open to a candidate running for governor who points out exactly what we've been talking about for the last 10 years and how it needs to be fixed so you can continue to live in Minnesota and flourish here. Because we're on the wrong side of that one right now.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

And you leave Trump out of it. Anyone who seeks that moron's endorsement is asking to lose in Minnesota. It's that simple. If whoever runs must run because they want to restore this state to a high degree of credibility. Other, and I do believe a Republican. I don't care who it is, whoever, whoever offers that choice and sticks to Minnesota. Don't worry about Washington. We got enough problems here that if you stick to those problems, I think that would have an impact on the voter.

[John Haidt]

I think you're giving Democratic candidates too much of a pass because I think it's just a personal opinion that they're going to be more prone to being swayed by the far left members of their party. And that's where I would separate from you and say I want a Republican candidate because they're less prone to being swayed by the people that got us where we are right now, which it does nothing to bring the two parties together. I realize that. But I think this state is in need of a good, strong Republican administration for the next term.

[Chris Reivers]

I think what we're all in agreement on, meaning just us guys, is that the state is in crisis. Are we in agreement, John? Are we in agreement?

[John Haidt]

We sure are.

[Chris Reivers]

We're in crisis. That crisis does not contain the sharp focus it should have in this state because it's become too easy to blame Trump for our problems.

[Matthew]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

When ICE came to town and behaved as raggedly as they did, that helped forget fraud. When now Vance is said to be put in charge of fraud on behalf of the Trump administration. He says we're going to withhold $259 million in Medicaid. That's too easy to say. Fraud is going to be hitting crippled people over the head with a bat. This state has lost its ability to keep this state's issues separate from Trump. This state's issues. If you want to believe the country's in a crisis, that crisis is still going to end up being separate from the crisis Minnesota is in. And any candidate like the pillow man or the rest of these fruitcakes who thinks that Trump is the answer will not win and Minnesota's crisis will not be solved.

[Matthew]

At some point. Let's just fast forward three plus years and. But let's say that President the Republicans don't win. Will that end or will this just be a constant? He's never going to leave the realm of blame in perpetuity for Minnesota.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, if. No, when his term's over, I think much of the.

[Matthew]

I don't think people will ever be able to let go.

[News Anchor]

Nope.

[Joe Soucheray]

It'll always be the damage that Trump has done. We've seen it with fraud.

[Matthew]

Can't get back on the horse.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did you guys see the press conference with the. Is it the Richfield mayor saying, look at what President Trump did to our city?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, he's referring to ice, but my point is, I understand completely.

[Joe Soucheray]

You can't build this house of cards built upon fraud, numbers and illegals being here and then cry foul when you can't do that. You're playing both sides.

[Chris Reivers]

The brunt of Minnesota's fraud problem occurred during the Biden administration. And Biden's name was never brought up in relation to fraud. But the brunt of it, the food fraud and the autism scandals and the daycare scandals, that was all Biden. You never heard me say that was Biden's fault. The fraud of Minnesota right now is not Trump's fault. It's incompetent Minnesota government that has resulted in a crisis. If the crisis is not handled by adults, then this state has no future. Can I get an amen?

[Joe Soucheray]

Amen.

[John Haidt]

Amen.

[Matthew]

A very bleak amen.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Matthew]

Let the record show it was a bank and not another type of store.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[John Haidt]

His business is positivity. That's why we bring Mike Schoonover in. And that's why Positive Thursday is always brought to us by Schoonover Body Works and Auto Care there in Shoreview. 1060 County Road E. Mike Schoonover on the horn. Mike, I've got a story for you. Good afternoon.

[Mike Schoonover]

Hello, Kenny.

[John Haidt]

Sitting in traffic long, long time ago. Left lane, southbound 100 near 70th. Look in the mirror. There's a truck coming full steam in my lane. I grab a handful of wheel, hit the throttle, rock it into the right lane. The truck that was going to hit me rear ends the vehicle that was in front of me. What do you call that? Is there a name for that?

[Mike Schoonover]

I don't know if I can say that on the air.

[John Haidt]

It's spatial awareness.

[Mike Schoonover]

Yeah, well, yeah, that's paying attention, Kenny. That's paying attention. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That's, that's, that's very good spatial awareness, Kenny. Did you know, though, that that most of our customers come in at. At slow or reduced speed impacts, meaning that they're colliding with the garage door. They're colliding with a car that's in their, in their driveway that wasn't parked there before.

[John Haidt]

Did you see me hit that tree in the middle up in the woods? Was that you that was watching?

[Mike Schoonover]

Oh, no, that's just another one. That's just another one. But you know, gas station, gas station posts, you know, just that whole spatial awareness thing. Kenny would. Would help a lot of people out in Mike, such as come and see me for bodywork.

[John Haidt]

Such has a great story about his daughters. What was it, Joe?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, she hit something. She had to stop hitting it.

[John Haidt]

Like one of those yellow things.

[Chris Reivers]

She just keeps going.

[Mike Schoonover]

Well, that's what we're taught in athletics, man. If you get hit, keep on moving your feet.

[Chris Reivers]

That's what she does. Yeah.

[Mike Schoonover]

Us Monday guys like that, that mentality.

[John Haidt]

Yeah. You get to replace the whole right side instead of just one panel. But thank goodness you're there to do that. Absolutely.

[Mike Schoonover]

You know, Kenny, the other thing too is I think people need to be a little bit more focused. You know, we have become such creatures of habit. We just jump in the car and put on the seat belt and throw it and drive and then hit the gas. And here we go without really thinking about, you know, that we're driving, you know, that we are in a vehicle and we become very distracted. So, you know, folks remember to, you know, use the hands free or you know, even if you're using hands free, you gotta pay attention. Dale and I were just in the car last week and we were so carried away in conversation. We missed the turnoff and we had our GPS on, so we just weren't, we weren't paying attention there.

[John Haidt]

But you know, the GPS mike is a whole different argument. But how many times? How many times? And that I've sent you a text and I get this really angry auto generated reply saying I'm driving right now and I can't answer your text.

[Chris Reivers]

That's some kind of crazy setting, Kenny.

[Mike Schoonover]

Even though, you know, there's a reason that I work in a body shop and it's because I'm sometimes a frequent customer. So I need as much help as I can get. So, you know, and the other thing, Kenny, I think folks just need to remember to, you know, keep the windows clear, keep the mirrors clear, use your snow brush. You know, that snow that we had last week or the week before, there was at least a half a dozen cars that had, you know, snow covered windows and stuff like that. And that's just, that's just not right.

[Chris Reivers]

I know.

[Mike Schoonover]

G L ers wouldn't do that. They got more common sense. But I think G l ers talk to your kids and tell them, you know, to clear off those, those windows and stuff because you don't want to come and see me.

[John Haidt]

GL ers, you will absolutely, positively be overjoyed after doing business with Schoon over Body works and auto care. They've been at it since 1938. The official shop of GL and rated as one of the best shops in the metro schoonoverbodyworks.com is the website. Thanks, Mike. Have a good day.

[Mike Schoonover]

Thanks, Kenny. Thanks, boys.

[Chris Reivers]

All right. Thank you.

[Josh Arnold]

Have a positive Thursday.

[Chris Reivers]

Thank you. Here's John Haidt in his newsroom.

[News Anchor]

Thank you, Joe. This news is brought to you by North American Banking Company, A story we talked about earlier in part. Vice President J.D. vance announcing yesterday that the Trump administration would temporarily halt some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns. Vance, who made the announcement, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the administration is taking the action in order to ensure the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money. Oz, who referred to people committing fraud as self serving scoundrels, said the federal government would hold off on paying 259 million bucks to Minnesota in funding for Medicaid. He said this is not a problem with the people of Minnesota. It's a problem with the leadership of Minnesota and other states who do not take Medicaid preservation seriously.

[Joe Soucheray]

And by the way, those objecting to this, what do they say? Racist. So it's apparently racist that we want to get to the bottom of the fraud. Got it? Okay.

[News Anchor]

The future of investigating fraud has been unclear as the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota has seen that wave of prosecutors quitting in recent months. When speaking to reporters for the first time since his confirmation in October, U.S. attorney Daniel Rosen said yesterday his office is finding ways to move forward with fraud prosecutions. From the time Rosen's predecessor, Andrew Lugar, stepped down in January 2025 to now, the number of assistant U.S. attorneys in the District of Minnesota has gone from 64 to 36, a 44% decrease. There's been a net loss of 11 prosecutors under Rosen's watch since the start of this year. At least 14 assistant US attorneys attorneys have resigned or planning their exit, including Joe Thompson, who was leading the office on an interim basis last year. The departures are reportedly motivated by the Department of Justice's handling of the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Preddy and the unprecedented influx of immigration related ABS corpus petitions flooding the courts. 5 Eyewitness News asked Rosen if he has enough resources to carry out ongoing fraud investigation and he said, quote, we absolutely do. Our resources are greater than they were two months ago by a considerable margin and the pace of our prosecutions and fraud will increase at a considerable margin. He added that his office has more than adequate staffing, noting the U.S. department of justice has supplied reinforcements to prosecute fraud.

[Chris Reivers]

Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing to know that your tax dollars were efficiently, incompetently being used to alleviate anyone suffering in this state?

[Joe Soucheray]

Of course.

[Matthew]

Hell yes.

[Chris Reivers]

Wouldn't that be fantast?

[Matthew]

Hell yes.

[Chris Reivers]

We have no proof that that's happening.

[Joe Soucheray]

So that's not happening.

[Chris Reivers]

That's not happening.

[Joe Soucheray]

Got it.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, look at the among the among the 20 housing assistance programs in DHS, at least three or four of the redundant ones had to do with homelessness. We've become a homeless capital. It's not improving.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did you guys see our buddy Pat Garofalo's tweet earlier this I did not. He said with the Medicaid numbers coming in, feeding our future is going to be peanuts compared to what I'm afraid so. So we got that going for us.

[News Anchor]

A Hubbard county man facing charges for threatening a senator and saying he would execute people at the State Capitol on Tuesday at 1:00 o', clock, the Hubbard County Sheriff's Office received a call from a Minnesota State Patrol investigator assigned to the State Capitol saying that Senator Glenn Gruenhagen was tagged in a Facebook post by someone named John Tobias. The sheriff's office said the threatening post included demands for money lost during the COVID shutdown and threats to kill Gruenhagen. A person also identifying himself as Tobias then called the attorney General's office and again complained about losing a large amount of money during the COVID shutdown. He also said if he didn't get his money back, he was going to the Capitol and would, quote, execute everyone in the building. According to law enforcement, a search warrant was executed at a property near Park Rapids and authorities took Tobias into custody, brought him to The Hubbard County Jail. 9 firearms. 45 boxes of ammunition found at the property during the search. During an interview with investigators, Tobias admitted he sent the email and made the phone call. On Wednesday, Tobias was arraigned in court on two felony counts of making terroristic threats. His next court appearance is scheduled for March 2. Star Tribune reporting When Indian Motorcycle became an independent company Again, it needed to find a new headquarters. And now the 125-year-old motorcycle brand is finding one in Golden Valley. They've signed a seven year lease on a 37,832 square foot office and industrial space. Mike Kennedy is Indian's chief executive. He said in a news release, as we begin this new chapter, we are proud to remain in Minnesota, a state that has played an important role in our journey. Polaris bought the Indian motorcycle operation in 2011 and rebuilt the brand. On February 2, it sold a majority stake to California private equity firm Carrollwood to concentrate more on its efforts on the off road, vehicle and marine operations. Under Medina based Polaris, Indian became a viable US based competitor to an industry leader, Harley Davidson Hudson, mainly in the mid size cruiser category, with its popular Indian Scout model. Through years of development, Polaris gradually increased Indian's market share. But it wasn't until 2024 that Polaris announced Indian had become profitable. The deal with Carrollwood included manufacturing facilities in Spirit Lake, Iowa and here in Monticello in Minnesota, but no headquarters space until now. Carrollwood hired Kennedy, a motorcycle industry veteran whose career included 26 years at Harley Davidson. Police lead the standalone company.

[Chris Reivers]

I'd ride an Indian.

[John Haidt]

They make a really cool dirt tracker. Joe, something about that story stands out and really worries me. Did you catch what I caught? A private equity firm bought them. What do private equity firms do to companies historically?

[Chris Reivers]

Usually they break them up. They got them.

[John Haidt]

Yep, they got them. Yeah.

[News Anchor]

Well, they did say, Carol, that they were going to concentrate more on off road and marine operations.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, the other thing. No, that's Polaris.

[News Anchor]

Polaris.

[Chris Reivers]

Polaris is.

[John Haidt]

I'm worried about this new company.

[Chris Reivers]

The other thing that caught me is how long. I'm very thankful you're relocating in Minnesota or staying here. How long before the legislature passes a bill that says you can't call your bikes Indian?

[John Haidt]

I hadn't thought about that, but that's completely. Yeah, absolutely.

[Matthew]

What do we call them?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, the logo is virtually the Chicago Blackhawks jersey.

[News Anchor]

Exactly.

[Chris Reivers]

So it's going to be.

[Matthew]

Call him Native.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Joe Soucheray]

You had an observation, Matthew? No, I'm good.

[Chris Reivers]

Johnny Height.

[News Anchor]

But Johnny Height's gonna take a little break now and I'm gonna send it to Chris Rebers, who's holding his nose and laughing right now.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know what I was just thinking about? All that fraud, all that money, all of that waste, and I thought, you know what?

[Chris Reivers]

Call Linda.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

Joe, Minnesota, you live in Costa Rica.

[Joe Soucheray]

Got you taken care of. Costa Bleepin Rica. She's got you taken care of. And you know what? She has the expertise to get you through and navigate these tough times. Kellertaxservice.com that's the website where you can book your appointment and you can also see all sorts of updated tax information. You can also call her directly at 320-352-0013. Linda, I apologize for Joe and Ricky being distracted in the background because I am here to deliver this wonderful message about you. And she also wanted me to make mention of all of you. How about I just kill your guys mics? How about I just do that for right now? All of you gl ers that have trusted Linda for your tax preparation services, once again, she is the best. And you know what? All types of returns, all types of businesses, doesn't matter what you're looking to do. Married jointly, whatever the case is, is she's got you taken care of. Kellertaxservice.com Please book your appointment today. And please let her know that reivers, not Joe and rookie sent you her way. Kellertaxservice.com I have a question for Linda.

[John Haidt]

The roommate and I decided when we win the lottery, the first thing we're going to do is get a divorce and then continue to live in sin. It has nothing to do with not liking each other. Sure, it's she wants to give my fortune away. Yeah, And I don't. And I wonder how Linda would feel about that. Would we file jointly or would we file

[Chris Reivers]

separately?

[Matthew]

Before you go, it's a professional.

[John Haidt]

Yeah. So, yeah, I do whatever Linda tells me to do.

[Matthew]

Isn't it funny that you haven't even won the lottery and you're already arguing about it?

[John Haidt]

No, no, we're not arguing. We both agreed.

[Joe Soucheray]

Here's what we're gonna do.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, no, there was no argument argument involved at all.

[Chris Reivers]

Matthew.

[Joe Soucheray]

Kenny, are you gonna be the guy at the whatever grocery store it was where the guy goes a bunch of cookers and hookers and cocaine?

[Chris Reivers]

No, but I'm the rest.

[John Haidt]

I'm just not gonna give 10 million to every one of her family members.

[Joe Soucheray]

Gotcha.

[John Haidt]

Screw them, right?

[News Anchor]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Except you, Charlene. And you, Dave.

[Joe Soucheray]

You cool?

[Chris Reivers]

Could we did we do the news?

[News Anchor]

We could, but I want to say one more thing about Linda. I had an email from Steve, who is a loyal.

[Chris Reivers]

I want her billed twice.

[News Anchor]

He's a loyal gler, Steve. And he. I first met him in Buffalo, and he comes, sees us at the fair in different places, and he sent me an email, said, do you guys really use Linda's services?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, my goodness, yeah.

[News Anchor]

Yes. I said, Chris, Kenny and I swear by her. I don't know about Rook, if he has yet, but yes, we swear by her. And so Steve's going to visit Linda.

[Joe Soucheray]

Joe, here's the beauty of Linda and her time. Whatever goes through tax day the last three weeks, she says, well, I'm booked, so just thank everybody for dialing me up.

[News Anchor]

In national and international news, at least 10 FBI employees who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump's retention of classified records after he left the White House were fired yesterday. The firings came after Reuters reported the FBI had subpoenaed records of phone calls made by FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles when they were both still private citizens as part of Smith's probe into Trump. The Reuters article quoted Patel, who alleged the FBI had secretly subpoenaed his phone records using what he called flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight. The Reuters article added it had not independently verified any of those claims. Patel did not provide any evidence of wrongdoing by the state staff who were terminated. Third round of U. S. Iran nuclear negotiations began. Began today in Geneva. Discussions can't come as the US has amassed its largest military force in the region in decades. With President Trump threatening to strike by next week, the president reiterating this week he would never again allow Iran to have access to nuclear weapons. Tehran maintains its nuclear ambitions are peaceful, but they've also enriched uranium to 60% purity. That's the threshold approaching the weapons grade level of 90%. Satellite images show the country has fortified the sites that were hit by US Bombs last year, including by constructing a roof over the part of the Natanz enrichment site.

[Joe Soucheray]

Matthew, you had mentioned that you were at a tasting yesterday. What was the establishment. There's a reason I'm asking.

[Matthew]

It was at the Metropolitan Ballroom by Domica Cochina. Domico caters.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, well, they just announced they're closing their locations in Edina and goes.

[Matthew]

They're restaurants. Yes, but their catering business is on fire.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, because Trisha sent that said didn't Matthew mention that yesterday?

[Chris Reivers]

Can we do. I don't give a bleep about this wedding.

[Joe Soucheray]

This is breaking news.

[John Haidt]

It's part of your family and part of your team.

[Chris Reivers]

It's not part of my family.

[John Haidt]

You should care more about the people that you surround yourself with.

[Matthew]

Thank you.

[Josh Arnold]

Thank you.

[Matthew]

Ken.

[Joe Soucheray]

So Big J.

[Matthew]

He did inquire prior to the show. How about the meal?

[Chris Reivers]

So that was.

[John Haidt]

And this young lady we're talking about. It is the young lady. Right. She's well loved by all of the staff.

[News Anchor]

Right. In fact.

[Joe Soucheray]

In fact we like her more than you.

[John Haidt]

Yeah. More certainly more than her father.

[Joe Soucheray]

I did not know that. That's. Wow.

[John Haidt]

Let's see. Where does Matt fall on the likability list? I'm going to go. Go with Gabe first.

[Chris Reivers]

Can we go with the news?

[John Haidt]

No. Matthew. Then Matthew.

[Chris Reivers]

Don't ever again give me the time and temp.

[John Haidt]

Okay then. Sophia.

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Mike Schoonover]

As long as I get the time in the town.

[Matthew]

McClain's down there because she's got a lot of attitude. So she's just a little bit above me.

[Joe Soucheray]

But she did help us at the fair.

[Matthew]

Yes.

[News Anchor]

I think since you brought that up. Kenny. Now each of us should take two or three minutes to tell Joe about something personal that week.

[Joe Soucheray]

A lot of grievances with you people.

[News Anchor]

Cuba has accused 10 people aboard a US registered speedboat it intercepted off its coast on Wednesday of planning what they're calling an infiltration with terrorist aims. Border guard shot dead four people and injured the other six on the boat according to the Cuban Interior Ministry. Alleging that those on the registered vessel had fired first. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington was investigating what he called a high level unusual incident. The deadly shooting comes at a time of increased tension between the two countries less than two months after US forces seized Cuba's close ally Venezuela leader Nicolas Maduro and stopped his success from supplying it with oil. Cuba's Interior Ministry said in an online statement the speedboat had entered Cuban territorial waters and was one nautical mile off. Kyle Falcones on the country's northern coast when it was intercepted. Said it added the commander of the Cuban boat was injured in the firefight that ensued. Epstein file news sure is a lot of Epstein still coming out. Nothing really ever comes of anything. Isn't it?

[Chris Reivers]

That's right.

[News Anchor]

Members of the Republican led House Oversight Committee are questioning Hillary Clinton today as part of their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. It's a closed door interview which will be videotaped. It's set to take place at Charlotte

[Joe Soucheray]

Chappaqua Chipotle.

[News Anchor]

Thank you. I'm not even going to say it.

[Matthew]

Say Chipotle.

[News Anchor]

Chipotle. New York, where the Clintons have a house. The committee meets tomorrow with former President Bill Clinton. The in person interviews come after months of bitter back and forth between the former first couple and the committee, which at one point threatened to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress. The Clintons wanted to testify at a public hearing, but the committee said they're pressing practice is to conduct closed door interviews with witnesses before it holds hearings. Larry Summers, former U.S. treasury Secretary who's been dogged by his past friendship with Epstein, announced yesterday he is resigning from teaching at Harvard University by the end of the current academic year. Summers had previously been president at Harvard. His resignation came as the university was conducting a review of emails and other documents detailing Summers connection to Epstein Epstein which were released in recent months by the Department of Justice and Congress. His statement then came after reports by the Harvard student newspaper the Crimson, which detailed how Summers had sought guidance from Epstein while pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman. And the Department of Justice said it's reviewing allegations of missing Jeffrey Epstein related documents following public scrutiny of the department's recent records release. Democratic U.S. representative Robert Garcia of California said this week that serious allegations about President Trump appear to be missing from the Justice Department's cache of files associated with Epstein. Garcia said on Tuesday he had reviewed the unredacted documents, those are available to all members of Congress, and said some files listed in an official log appear to be missing, including those relating to a woman who alleged in 2019 that President Trump forced her to perform oral sex. A review also reported that an evidence law given to Maxwell's attorneys listed roughly 325 FBI witness interview records, but more than 90 of those are not on the DOJ's site when checked.

[Chris Reivers]

This oral sex thing, do we know how old the woman was?

[News Anchor]

13 at the time, I believe.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, if that's true, why is he president?

[News Anchor]

Well, nobody knows. I mean you. Nobody knows knows if it's true. That's the problem. And nobody just allegations. Yeah. Just looking into it.

[Matthew]

And she ain't ever going to wire. This isn't ever going away. I don't mean.

[News Anchor]

Well, it probably shouldn't go away. I mean.

[Matthew]

Well, right. But I'm just saying you're not gonna.

[Chris Reivers]

What would it take to make this go away?

[Joe Soucheray]

Are you asking for a friend question?

[Chris Reivers]

No, I'm asking for me a friend.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know.

[News Anchor]

It looks like Olympic coverage was good for NBC. The network averaged 23 and a half million viewers throughout the two plus week competition across all platforms, it announced on a press release. The final numbers are still coming in, but if they hold, that would make the Games this year the most viewed Winter Games since 2014 and a 96% increase in viewership from 2022. NBCUniversal's figures come from Nielsen Big Data+ panel reach metrics through February 19th and preliminary Nielsen and Adobe analytics over final three days of competition. The final data should be available by tomorrow. A story about Spirit Airlines. They're gearing up to shrink to a tiny version of their former self, focusing on high demand travel periods and routes, as well as expanding premium class seats. They're trying to survive, according to a new plan they unveiled in bankruptcy court yesterday. Much of the airline's focus will be on flying to destinations from its major Florida airports, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, as well as from the New York area and Detroit, according to CEO Dave Davis. He said flights that don't touch those airports will be an even smaller part of the network. He declined to specify which routes would be cut, but noted high competition on cross country flights as well as some weaknesses in demand for visiting friends and relatives, a key segment of air travel. In Latin.

[Joe Soucheray]

Matthew, I forgot to send this to you.

[Chris Reivers]

Excuse me, you're not allowed.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm not. I'm looking at you though, as I'm asking him a question. There was a satirical video about Spirit Airlines that said we have a new policy and it's the CPT launch time, so if your flight was at 1 1:30. We said the flight was actually at

[Matthew]

1 o' clock so they would be there by.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's still late.

[News Anchor]

It is.

[Joe Soucheray]

I. I forgot to send it to

[Matthew]

you, but I would get a kick out of it.

[Joe Soucheray]

I. I figured you would.

[Chris Reivers]

They fly here?

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh yeah.

[Matthew]

They no longer do.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh really?

[Chris Reivers]

They.

[Matthew]

They shut down Terminal 1 operations.

[Joe Soucheray]

We weren't feeling it.

[News Anchor]

And a story that has a sad ending, but it's a bit of an odd story.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm shutting my mic up.

[News Anchor]

Seminole County, Florida strip club is being sued after a man died following a medical emergency on the premises. The lawsuit filed by the widow of Rajiv.

[John Haidt]

Was he poisoned?

[News Anchor]

Lawsuit filed Monday by the widow of Rajiv Nai states the employees at Rachel's North Men's Club and Steakhouse.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh no.

[Matthew]

Why did they have to throw steakhouse?

[Chris Reivers]

Wow.

[News Anchor]

The only reason I use the story wow.

[Joe Soucheray]

Come on.

[Chris Reivers]

That's where I'm going for dinner after it.

[Matthew]

City.

[Joe Soucheray]

You guys want the ribeye or what are you guys Looking for the Tomahawk.

[Matthew]

Rachel's Men's Club and Steakhouse.

[News Anchor]

City Rachel's North Bends Club and Steakhouse is in Castlebury, Florida. It failed to get the man proper medical help, they said. When he lost consciousness, Instead of calling 91 1, the staff put naive in a taxi and sent him home. Home without administering first aid or trying to stabilize.

[Matthew]

How did they know where to send him?

[Chris Reivers]

Was he excited? Or what happened, I wonder?

[News Anchor]

At the time he was removed from a premises, lawsuit says Naive had stopped breathing. Wow. And required immediate medical attention, which was not provided. The complaint further states that Rachel's employees were negligent and their response failed to protect him from harm. It also claims the defendants failed to train and supervise staff on how to handle medical emergencies. The lawsuit also adds Nai had a prior incident just months earlier at another Rachel's location. So there's more than one? The other location near Orlando Airport. On that occasion, Nai lost consciousness, but emergency medical services were called and he was transported to a hospital and admitted. As a result of all this, Naive's family is seeking damages of $15,000 for loss of support and services.

[Chris Reivers]

Ray Scripper.

[Joe Soucheray]

We get to need all that.

[Chris Reivers]

They don't have that much money.

[John Haidt]

Just 15 grand.

[Chris Reivers]

You get paid in ones.

[Matthew]

You know, it could have been kind of hot, too. They could have turned it into.

[Joe Soucheray]

Now.

[Matthew]

Entering the stage with a defibrillator. Her name is Shotzi, and, you know,

[News Anchor]

she performs the outfit.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, they say the steak is okay, but don't touch the roast beef.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

John, thank you. I don't. I don't even know what you don't want. I don't even want to know what he. What he meant by that. He's just terrible. And I just think you should take a time out at this point because that's just terrible.

[Joe Soucheray]

He also needs to do an. You son of a bitch. You are not making me do an ad, Kenny. You know what? I'm not pausing.

[Chris Reivers]

Good, because I have things I want to do.

[Matthew]

I know I gotta get to work,

[Joe Soucheray]

but I need to squeeze in. You know what, rookie? How about you tell us about Ray Welter?

[Matthew]

The Ray Welter heating company. You know what?

[News Anchor]

I will.

[Matthew]

Because right now.

[Chris Reivers]

No. The Ray Welter food store.

[Joe Soucheray]

Do you want roast beef?

[Chris Reivers]

How about that?

[Matthew]

I will tell you this, though. It is heating up right now. 40 degrees today, 46 degrees tomorrow. What does that mean for you? Well, it means this weekend it's gonna be cold. So you're still gonna need to have your furnace or your heating unit. Working properly. Ain't no time to shut her down yet. And when you do, make sure it is shut down properly. With the certified tech certificate at raynwelterheating [e-mail] Rick and the whole family, four generations, 120 years plus. They just have a wonderful, wonderful attitude in this metro area. We're serving all those people with their air conditioning units. If you want to bring it back to life, maybe some Lazarus event will help that this spring. And remember, the techs have 24. 7 service. I hope you never need it. But if you do, certainly get in touch with Welter Heating Family run again Generations. And if you want to call them, there will be a human being that answers the phone. [phone]. This winter, spring, summer or whatever season it is, make sure you warm or cool your shelter with the fine folks from Ray n Welter.

[Joe Soucheray]

Here's a man who spends hours in

[Chris Reivers]

hardware stores sifting through the nuts and bolts of life.

[News Anchor]

Life.

[Joe Soucheray]

Joe Sucere.

[John Haidt]

It's one of the first things you see when you hit the landing page of seafoamworks.com trusted by millions since 1942. For more than 80 years, people everyday people from mechanics to just engine owners, they've been recommending Seafone for preventing and overcoming common problems with your engine. From little one lungers, you know, chainsaws or ice augers, whatever, wheels meter all the way up to big diesel pushers. Seafoam is always the answer to keep those cylinders, carburetors and injectors happy. The other heavily relied on Seafoam miracle product that everybody should have in their garage and shop. I actually have one in the laundry room. Should be the amazing deep creep. This premium formula brings premium performance. It frees stubborn parts from rust and corrosion and it cleans, lubricates, protects it does it all. It even smells good. Look for them everywhere. From knack hardware stores, auto parts stores, big box stores. They're all over a wonderful product in a world of bad gas and rusty parts.

[Chris Reivers]

Our friends Seafoam during a big the big snowfall in New York the past

[Joe Soucheray]

few days where we had to have an ID to shovel.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, the snowball fight broke out. Out okay. And New York City police are now investigating after officers were pelted with snowballs or responding to a massive snowball fight at Washington Square park in Manhattan. A video shows two uniformed officers pacing a hallway. I'm sorry. Pacing a walkway in the park Monday as snowballs flew at them from all directions, hitting the Officers and covering them in snow. The cops got frustrated. They shoved a couple people to the ground as snowballs continued to whiz by. At one point, a person ran up behind an officer and mushed some snow onto his head. One of the officers can be seen rubbing his eyes. Anyway, this went on for a long time, and the mayor said it was just a bunch of kids, but it turned out it really wasn't.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, no, that's a lie. Did you see the video?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

They threw one guy. Two cops were.

[Chris Reivers]

I thought the cops remained remarkably poised.

[Joe Soucheray]

I was stunned by how poised they were. They were hit by an absolute chunk of ice in the face. It wasn't a snowball fight.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, well, that's what it was called.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, great.

[Chris Reivers]

A little snowball fight.

[Joe Soucheray]

And you wonder why your town's an asshole.

[Chris Reivers]

And we have, I think, Kenneth frozen.

[News Anchor]

He said he was leaving, stepping away.

[Chris Reivers]

Look at his eyes. I just looked. Why do we have to have that up there? Well, you know, we're. Now the. The Lymans are on Penguin. Tasmania in Australia.

[Joe Soucheray]

Home of the devils.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, the mink tells me. Did I say this the other day? Tasmania is an island.

[News Anchor]

You did.

[Joe Soucheray]

You did.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah. And it's the smallest state of Australia. It's. For context, it's roughly the size of West Virginia. There are several prominent Tasmanian rock bands, including the Quivers and Bush Turkey. We don't know anything about them. Maybe John Haidt does. I do not.

[News Anchor]

I'm gonna look up.

[Chris Reivers]

Up, though. Well, Tasmania is a state of Australia. The Bush turkeys. I did not know that. And that's where the. That's where the Lymans are in the town of Penguin.

[News Anchor]

Is it bush or brush? Because the Brush Turkey is Australian.

[Joe Soucheray]

Got to clear the brush.

[Chris Reivers]

Let me see what he said here. I might have misread it. He says bush Turkey, but I believe brush would make the same sense, wouldn't it?

[News Anchor]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Hedge. The hedge turkeys.

[Matthew]

Hedge turkey brush.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

I like brushes. It was on this day, Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

Today is Feb. Ruari 26th.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, on this day in 1853, Edward D. Neal obtained a charter for the Baldwin School, which later became McAllister College.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day, Feb.26.

[Chris Reivers]

In 1856, a guy who just can't keep his name out of this day in history, Henry M. Rice, succeeded in lobbying Congress to pass the Enabling act for the state of Minnesota. This act defined the state's boundaries and authorized the establishment of a state government. Also in 1857, on this date, Feb.26, Mount Zion Hebrew Congregation, the first Jewish organization in Minnesota was formed in St.

[Joe Soucheray]

Paul on this day, Feb.26.

[Chris Reivers]

In 1883, Hubbard county was organized and named for Lucius F. Hubbard, who served as governor from 1882 to 1886. On this day, February 6th in 1985, Minneapolis native Prince swept the Grammys as his soundtrack. The Purple Rail earned awards for best soundtrack, best rock performance and best R and B song. It was on this day in Minnesota sports disappointment history.

[Joe Soucheray]

Joe, who did we lose to on February 26th?

[Chris Reivers]

The North Stars. Oh. February 26th, 1981, the North Stars and Boston's at a brawl. 406 combined penalty minutes, 18 minors, 13 majors, four 10 minute misconduct ducks and seven ejections. I remember that. That was. That was wild.

[Joe Soucheray]

You were around.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. Was that crazy?

[News Anchor]

Sorry. What year?

[Joe Soucheray]

80. What?

[Chris Reivers]

1981.

[Joe Soucheray]

You weren't covering the squad, were you? Were you there?

[Chris Reivers]

I don't know if that game was in Boston or here. I think it was in Boston.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, I don't think I covered that game.

[Joe Soucheray]

Gotcha.

[Chris Reivers]

But I remember the event. It became quite newsworthy. It was quite a brawl.

[Joe Soucheray]

Didn't we just drop the gloves right

[Chris Reivers]

away from the, from the opening face off?

[Joe Soucheray]

That's so fantastic. Started right then almost when like the. Was it the four star, what do we call that thing last year US in Canada where Tkachuk just said, oh,

[Matthew]

nine seconds into it.

[Joe Soucheray]

We're going right now. It doesn't matter.

[Chris Reivers]

According to Patrick. He's a cement head.

[Joe Soucheray]

He is a cement head. Him and his brother. Yeah, couple of cement heads.

[Chris Reivers]

Thank you. G Yellers.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hey, how are you? If you would like to get rookie's review of the catering for an upcoming event, subscribe to garagelogic.com where you can become an annual town council member and possibly the gler of the week. But what you should really do is hit subscribe. Subscribe on the Garage Logic YouTube channel where you can watch the show each and every single day starting right around noon. You can also see full segments, video shorts. There's even behind the scenes footage. Just search garage logic on YouTube along with all of our social media channels. That includes Facebook, Instagram and X. And then also don't forget, don't forget, don't forget to upgrade to an annual town council membership. Find out more and sign up today [e-mail]. Yoo it is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold is with us once again right here in garagelogic. And now is the time for you to do the same. So do not delay do exactly what I did and pick up that phone and dial 952-925-5608. That number once again is 952-925-5608. When you call that number, you're going to get Josh and he is there for you for that. Free. Yep, he used 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 lodging. And boy, Josh, there's a lot of people battling it out right now, aren't there?

[Josh Arnold]

There's a lot of battles going on, whether you talk about hamburgers, pro wrestlers, not to mention of course the battle going on in artificial intelligence and in Chip. I like, I'll say I like to eat out, but I don't like to invest in restaurants. So I did make one, one exception to that and I'll give a little, little plug to the exception where I am a small partner in my friend Ken Sherman's restaurant, bar, event center and we'll say entertainment complex on the southeast corner of Canterbury Downs called Boardwalk. Food is good, entertainment is good and during the racing season, well, you get to watch the start of several races right in the chute, very you know what I'll call a three time winner. Not to mention that it's also just close to the new Mystic Lake Amphitheater, a 19,000ft amphitheater which I understand has about 40 dates booked for this summer. The amphitheater is majority owned by Live Nation company who does have a position, say amongst clients of Josh Arnold Investment Consulting. But the big war and still with Burger King and McDonald's. Burger King is introducing next week an upgraded version, an upgraded version of the Whopper. Still going to have the, you know, the quarter, quarter pound but a better, better burger, better burger, better sauce. Sauce or chicked up sauce? Still the same. Lettuce, onions, pickles and tomatoes and served instead of in paper in a box. McDonald's next week is upping one of their burgers to have two quarter quarter pounders, three slices of white cheddar, crispy onions, fresh onions, lettuce, tomatoes, specials on a bun. The burger wars continue. Now I did a little quick survey of amongst the extended Arnold family, but I'll say my brother's family located on the west coast prefers bk. The Josh Arnold family located primarily right now on the east coast. And I say the family, that's my children and grandchildren located on the east coast prefer Macinton suburbs me I prefer Boardwalk Ciao bella JD Hoy Cove and Jimmy over over those two but it is going to be interesting and given given the fact that Burger King owned by restaurant brands and McDonald's continue to be in this current market environment safe places to have at least a portion portion of your dollars. McDonald's along with Coke and Pepsi does do provide that number nice consumer staple into anybody's portfolio. Yes the stocks are expensive on a price sales basis but they do pay out a dividend and I don't think anybody's going to stop eating burgers and fries or drinking Coke or Pepsi or water or in the case of Pepsi not going to stop eating Fritos. So definitely have a continuing revenue and in a case we'll say of Coca Cola you can see see how that revenue stream has helped Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is that has been a long long time holding dating back to the early 80s. And while the stock is very slowly I think the dividend yield continues to grow for I'll say for Berkshire Hathaway but for new investors a little over a 3% yield yield on Coke and the probability that it is going to increase the next war. That's still with Paramount fighting plating Netflix over over Warner Brothers discovery. Paramount has upped their bid $31 a share for the whole company and several board members said on Warner Brothers say it looks to be a superior bid to Netflix which is only offered 775 that's not for the whole company. Company is just for let's say two thirds of the of the company and Netflix's bid is both cash and stock and is subject to say numerous performance clauses. Well that's still we'll say ways away from being resolved. Meantime Paramount did report that their earnings last night they're a little bit higher than higher than expected. The stock was up. Their linear business, that's the stuff you see on TV was down. Their streaming business was up significantly there is one issue not so much with Netflix with Paramount, Warner Brothers and Fox concerns about upcoming major sports distribution rights and the fight over them which will start showing up both later this year and into next year. And it does look like there's going to be more competition not just from Disney, ESPN and ABC unit but also from Apple and Amazon and we'll see how that cuts out but the major sports organizations will probably end up with more more money over that. And lastly oh now before I go to lastly and then we have the chips and semi chips and software right now the chips are down after despite Nvidia's crushing again again all estimates for the beat and raise quarter, the stock is down a little over 5% today on this news. And if memory serves and serves, this is not atypical for Nvidia typically runs up into the earnings and then sells off and then slowly moves back up. The need for compute continues and you've got to we'll say I say feed the beast, but feed the beast as in this company, Nvidia is leading the way. So with this pullback, good, it gives you an opportunity to pick up some chairs though I would not go over overboard with that actually on any of these names. The theme at this point is well known, but it does come with artificial intelligence. And I and one analyst group, JP Morgan did come out with a report today reiterating their position on this, citing favorite Apple My biggest position has the potential to really dominate, we'll say in the personal AI space. And I'd probably add to that that Google, Google as well. One last bit of fighting this Pat Royce would like because he is big in professional wrestling. Tko, I'll say. The owner of Worldwide Entertainment and Ultimate Fight as well as Pro bull riding and Zumba Boxing and the owner of Endeavor and IMG International Marketing Group talent agencies reported their numbers last night. Definitely a very very strong quarter and a strong guidance guidance going forward. Plus an increase in their share buyback and there aren't that many shares to begin with and an increase in the dividend. Caution here, not a lot of shares change hands every day, so that can add to a little bit of volatility. But we do like TKO.

[Joe Soucheray]

Excellent advice as always, Mr. MoneyTalk. You heard him jailers. 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 and we'll talk to you again tomorrow.

[Josh Arnold]

We'll look forward to it.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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