3/10 Are the people hiding the Epstein revelations doing us a favor?

Summary

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Garage Logic | Ep. 1733 | Mar 10, 2026

Main Theme:
Minneapolis’ pursuit of progressive housing policies—especially a new 60-day grace period before eviction for renters—comes under critical scrutiny, with deep discussion of the ideological divides driving city governance, the unintended economic fallout, and broader reflections on government intervention and virtue signaling. The episode also touches on Minneapolis’ business climate, law enforcement relations, and the contentious handling of the Jeffrey Epstein revelations.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Minneapolis’ 60-Day Eviction Delay: Virtue or Damage?

• Background:
  City Councilmember Auran Chowdhury’s ordinance to require landlords to give renters 60 days’ notice before eviction (compared to 30 days), proposed in response to hardships during the “Metro Surge” (increased ICE enforcement affecting immigrants).

• Critical View:
  Joe Soucheray (the Mayor) and the GL crew argue the ordinance is counterproductive, compounding tenant debt and harming small landlords.

  • “All you’re doing, Chowdhury, is you’re compounding the problem a renter’s gonna have in 60 days… All you’ve done is add to the debt load they’re going to face in 60 days.” (Joe, 06:14)

  • “For a household already in crisis, this isn’t a grace period. It’s a sentence to financial purgatory.” (Joe, quoting David Tingham, 09:32)

  • Robin Wansley builds on this, noting deposits and additional months add up to even larger debts for tenants (07:24).

• Class Warfare Narrative:
  The city’s left-leaning council is accused of viewing all landlords as “evil white billionaires,” and the policy is seen as part of a socialist agenda to erode private housing in favor of government or nonprofit control (08:01, 09:32).

  • “...The country they wish to bring about has nothing to do with free markets and capitalism. The country they wish to bring about is everyone achieves equity because we are going to give it to you. That doesn’t work.” (Joe, 11:03)

• Impact on Small Landlords:
  The policy disproportionately affects mom-and-pop owners, driving them toward default and enabling corporate buyout (10:32).

• Hope for Veto:
  Mayor Fry may veto the ordinance, but is under heavy pressure not to.

Notable Quotes

• “They wish their virtue to replace all common sense and it makes no sense.” (Joe, 10:18)
• “You have made grave, grave errors in turning the Minneapolis City Council over to Marxist socialists. They are systematically ruining the city.” (Joe, 12:30)

2. Broader Ideological Divide: Government Spending & “Equity”

• No Appetite for Austerity:
  Minnesota DFL policies are critiqued for a relentless focus on raising revenue (taxes, fees) rather than reducing spending.
  • “Ideology at work is never to cut spending. It’s only to take more. Because they have a plan. Just like Ari Chowdhury has a plan.” (Joe, 16:48)
• Government Causes Problems, Then “Fixes” Them:
  Discussion spans state and city, from business closures to increased license tab fees (19:02–21:02), echoing the notion government creates crises and then offers unsatisfying remedies.
• Misallocated Funds:
  Current city emergency allocations ($1 million for rental aid, $7 million for small businesses) barely touch the true estimated shortfall (over $15M/month).

Notable Quotes

• “You cannot plug a $15.7 million monthly hole with $1 million and call it a safety net.” (Joe, 31:54)
• “Government is always trying to repair the damage that governments do.” (Joe, 38:07)

3. Law Enforcement in Minneapolis: Distrusted and Demonized

• Incident Overview:
  Hennepin County deputies spent two hours negotiating with a suicidal person, ultimately saving their life. The deputies and officers were then berated by onlookers, despite clear communication and transparency about the crisis.
  • “It’s become perfectly acceptable to this mindless sect in our society to assume, react, and obstruct.” (Joe, 42:39)
• Contempt for Cops:
  The anti-police attitude is seen as embedded in current city culture.

4. State Business & Bureaucratic Issues

• License Fee Increases:
  Tab fees on vehicles have jumped, making car ownership more costly (52:07–53:03).
• Minnesota State NextGen Tech Project:
  Chronic delays and cost overruns, employee frustration with new software systems—“It’s uncanny how public entities cannot budget properly” (Joe, 57:25).

5. St. Paul Shows Some Hope

• New Mayor Praised:
  St. Paul’s new mayor, Kali Hur, with a private-sector background, is said to show promise for a more pro-business, pragmatic approach (35:09).

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National & International Topics

A. War & Energy

• Trump’s Position on Iran:
  Recent escalation and president’s press conference about winding down hostilities (60:00).
• Oil Prices Fluctuate:
  Reaction to war in the Middle East, implications for global trade and inflation (61:38).
• Philosophical Take:
  Soucheray: “I like wars where the opponent is as equally insistent on living as you are.” (62:12)

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The Epstein Revelations: Are Authorities (Unintentionally) Protecting Us? (73:37–78:39)

Segment Overview:

Joe Soucheray raises the “dark question” of whether the secrecy and suppression around Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes are, paradoxically, “doing us a favor” by sparing the public the most revolting truths.

• The New York Times reports ongoing investigation at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, NM, with horrifying unsubstantiated rumors (buried bodies, cover-ups).
• State-level commission created for a transparent inquiry.
• Panel ponders the extent of the depravity, and whether total truth might be too much for the public psyche.

Notable Quotes

• “Do you think it’s possible that the Epstein information is so bad that the people trying to hide it are actually doing us a favor?” (Joe, 73:37)
• “It’s hard to believe that if the President of the United States abused a child that that would go unknown.” (Joe, 78:00)
• “I don’t want to know…but I would like to know who’s involved and what they did.” (Joe, 77:37)
• “We are we really at the point where ... that goes unknown? That’s hard to believe.” (Joe, 78:13)

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Noteworthy Bonus Moments

• Fashion Dictates from the White House:
  A humorous aside: President Trump gifting staff “sensible” black Florsheim dress shoes—deeming brown shoes with a dark suit unacceptable (67:12).
• “Don’t wear brown shoes with a suit…that’s a hayseed look!” (Joe, 67:50)
• Multivitamin Study:
  Quick discussion on a new study linking daily multivitamin to slightly slower biological aging (69:20).
• Fish Oil Side-Note:
  Staff admits to various vitamin/fish oil routines; references to “very expensive urine” (70:03).

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Intro & Weather/Josh Arnold plug: 02:01
• Minneapolis 60-Day Eviction Policy Begins: 02:47
• Deep Dive—Financial & Social Impacts: 05:53–14:30
• Broader Ideological/State Policy Critique: 16:06–21:02
• Public Funding & Business Impact: 23:21–24:03, 35:06–39:28
• Law Enforcement Under Fire: 41:29–43:52
• Epstein Segment—Should Some Truth Remain Hidden? 73:37–78:39
• Comic Relief: Trump’s Shoe Policy: 65:05–68:17

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Selected Notable Quotes with Time Stamps

• “All you’re doing...is you’re compounding the problem a renter’s gonna have in 60 days. All you’ve done is add to the debt load they’re going to face.”
  Joe Soucheray, 06:14

• “For a household already in crisis, this isn’t a grace period. It’s a sentence to financial purgatory.”
  Joe quoting David Tingham, 09:32

• “You have made grave, grave errors in turning the Minneapolis City Council over to Marxist socialists.”
  Joe, 12:30

• “They wish their virtue to replace all common sense and it makes no sense.”
  Joe, 10:18

• “Do you think it’s possible that the Epstein information is so bad that the people trying to hide it are actually doing us a favor?”
  Joe, 73:37

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

• Language/Tone:
  Outspoken, sardonic, and exasperated—Joe and the crew use blunt, sometimes mocking language to critique city leadership and policy, but pepper moments of levity and banter throughout.
• Summary Judgment:
  The cast frames Minneapolis’ progressive governance as naive at best, destructive at worst—exhibiting compassion without common sense, and creating problems purportedly in the name of equity. The “Epstein question” is left as a disturbing moral riddle: is there evil so deep society must be shielded from it?
• Final Word:
  Minneapolis, you elected the wrong people.

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This summary provides a comprehensive guide to the episode, highlighting its substance and the charged, irreverent delivery Garage Logic is known for.

Transcript

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[Chris Reivers]

Hail the flashlight king.

[Joe Soucheray]

And now, from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Logic with Chris Reavers manning Technology Corner. Kenny Olson from the Crabby Coffee shop,

[Chris Reivers]

John Hight in the newsroom.

[Joe Soucheray]

And of course the rookie here is your flashlight king, fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common Sen. Your mayor, Joe Succier. I was reading a couple of pieces in the Minneapolis Times. I've grown to check that site every day. I've told you before how much I love their graphics and their artwork. It just, it's a really neat looking site. And I was reading a message to her constituents from Audrey Auran Chowdhury, who's a Marxist socialist on the city council. And she co authored an ordinance to provide renters. Let's see, she wants a 60 day pre eviction notice. So if you've had a hard time paying your rent, she wants you to have the landlord inform you that you have 60 days, not 30. And this is an example of her virtue and her example of making people less than. Let me explain. In many cases, people have had trouble because of the surge. Some people couldn't get to work or were afraid to go. And now that things are calming down a bit, she wants to introduce this notion that, well, these people should get 60 days notice. And she said, we've had hundreds of individuals from our community give powerful and brilliant testimony and public comment. There have been several community members who have reached out to me who have felt the weight of housing insecurity in this moment due to the surge. For the first time as an elected official, I have had outreach from constituents on getting help for their rent or sharing that they have received an eviction filing. Unfortunately, at the state level, there was no eviction moratorium placed. So this has passed the city council that they've achieved this to require 60 days because landlords are evil white people and they're billionaires and they all have yachts in Florida. And it's very unfair of them to extract money from the people they've oppressed merely by providing them a place to live. That's what's going through her mind. I'm not your math guy, but here's the problem she has created for people. Let's say your rent's 1500. Right now you owe him 1,500. Yep. What are you gonna owe em in 60 days?

[Kenny Olson]

Three thou.

[Joe Soucheray]

There you go. You're creating an economic hardship by trying to alleviate them from any notion of fulfilling their agreement to pay their rent on time. Now what she's anticipating is that people have bake sales or something and sell butterfly.

[Kenny Olson]

It happens 60 days for that amount of money.

[Joe Soucheray]

But all you're doing, Chaudhuri, is you're compounding the problem a renter's gonna have in 60 days, she probably is anticipating that public funding will be sought to pay the rental that's due. But rather than say. Rather than try to do what she has to do now to help renters fulfill 30 days, which is only 1,500 bucks, she wants to extend that and make it 60 days. You haven't done anybody any favors. All you've done is add to the debt load they're going to face in 60 days. But you're suggesting that they're so helpless that they can't be held responsible for the 30 day period in which they're supposed to pay rent. And in many cases, that would have been problematic because of this damn ICE presence.

[Robin Wansley]

You're being way too generous with your math, Joe. Well, I. Here's how I would have done it. You owe me 1500 you didn't pay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Robin Wansley]

So now I'm using your damage deposit, your first and last month rent to pay for the month you didn't pay. There's 15 now I give you the notice, which is 60 days. So now that renter is not going to get back his last month rent plus the three grand. So I think we're up to 4,500 here.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, you get my point.

[Robin Wansley]

I get your point. But it's worse than we can possibly imagine. And so they just expect these landlords to eat this?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that's the. This is why.

[Robin Wansley]

God, that makes me mad.

[Joe Soucheray]

This is why a city led by Marxist socialists ultimately doesn't work. It only works if they want to bring their mysterious vision into play, which is you shouldn't even have to pay rent. That should be a right, that you have a place to live. You shouldn't even. I guarantee you she won't talk to us. I guarantee you that's her thinking, that rent is unfair. Rent is issued by people who oppress you. And so now, because she's, well, a moron, she's making the financial burden that much more difficult for people.

[Robin Wansley]

Definitely.

[Joe Soucheray]

Now, Fry could. Could veto this ordinance and he should. But he's getting all kinds of pressure from the Marxists not to veto the ordinance. So what are we doing here? Time is.

[Kenny Olson]

The core issue is to veto the ordinance. He's getting pressure to veto.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, he's getting pressure not to veto it. From the likes of Choudhury. She hasn't wanted vetoed. She wants this ordinance to go through. She wants to create a 60 day longer period for people not to pay. Without realizing the damage she's doing Fry can save the damage being done to people by vetoing the organization.

[Kenny Olson]

It's out. Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

The core issue is the arrears explosion. Under the present 30 day rule, a tenant behind on a $1,500 monthly rent faces a manageable, if difficult path to mediation. I'm reading a piece by David Tingham in the Minneapolis Times faces a manageable, if difficult path to mediation. By doubling that window to 60 days plus the time required for the actual court filing and hearing, the city is effectively mandating that tenants accumulate 4,500. Here's Kenny got this covered to accumulate 4,500 to 6 grand in back rent before a legal resolution is even initiated. For a household already in crisis, this isn't a grace period. It's a sentence to financial purgatory. Of course it is, because the Marxists are morons. I mean that seriously. They wish their virtue to replace all common sense and it makes no sense. By the time the clock runs out, the debt is too high for any nonprofit pay and stay program to cover and the eviction becomes an absolute certainty. Now there is a council member, Elizabeth Schaeffer, who has tried to be a voice of reason and she's saying this ordinance is a threat to the mom and pop housing provider. The narrative often pits tenants against landlords. Well, especially if you're a Marxist socialist, because the landlord is an evil oppressor who makes money. In Minneapolis, the narrative often pits tenants against landlords, envisioning the latter as faceless, deep pocketed corporations. The data tells a different story. A significant portion of the city's affordable, naturally occurring housing is managed by individuals who own one or two properties. These providers operate on a razor thin margin. When the city council mandates a 60 day non payment window, they are effectively seizing the private income of small business owners to fund a municipal social experiment. That's exactly what Chudhury was. And Wansley, a small landlord who misses two months of rental income doesn't just lose profit. They default on their mortgage, they fail to pay property taxes, they defer maintenance. The end result of this ordinance isn't stable housing. It is the accelerated foreclosure of small scale rental stock which will inevitably be snapped up by the very corporate giants that council claims to despise. Everybody on track here. All you think, all you euphorians and mysterians and liberal lakes people who think, isn't that nice? Let's just cut these people some slack. It was a tough January and it was. It was a tough January for many people. Many people were Afraid to leave. You are not helping them, though. You are going to prolong the difficulty they have found themselves in. Not only are you going to prolong the difficulty that a renter has found himself in or herself, you are harming the mom and pop operators who own most of these buildings. They now can't pay their mortgage. They now can't keep up with their seasonal maintenance. They, in fact, might very well have to sell. And who would buy it? BlackRock. What? Here's the problem. When the closer you get to the country's tallest buildings, you are governed by mysterians who in fact wish to bring about a different country. The country they wish to bring about has nothing to do with free markets and capitalism. The country they wish to bring about is everyone achieves equity because we are going to give it to you. That doesn't work. It's a guaranteed failure. It has failed every time around the world. It has been tried and it's the result, Minneapolis and St. Paul, to a certain extent, it's a result, Minneapolis, of you buying the act these people put on and you vote for them. You have made grave, grave errors in turning the Minneapolis City Council over to Marxist socialists. They are systematically ruining the city. Now, Fry, I'm betting, will veto this. If he's got any gonads at all, he has to veto this and point out to Robin Wansley and Ari Shahdhuri and the rest of the Marxists that that, look, what you're doing is hurting the people you think you're helping. And here's why you hurting them. And because they're not terribly bright when it comes to this stuff, he's going to have to spell it out for them. Here's what happens if we extend the rent to 60 days out. Here's what's going to happen. Somehow their eyes have to be opened, which creates an interesting dynamic. Do their eyes even want to be opened? Because they don't want that renter to ever have to pay. They don't want that renter to ever have to do anything. They think other people should be providing that money. So are they even going to be amenable to understanding what Fry will have to explain to them? My thinking is, no, they're not amenable to it. And you are done as a city until you get rid of these people.

[Chris Reivers]

May I provide you an example of why that's not going to happen? We played some audio from the House file Committee yesterday on fraud and whatnot.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't want to do fraud.

[Chris Reivers]

I know you don't but here's that same line of thinking that's taking place. They're not going to cut expenses. Here's why, Joe.

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[Joe Soucheray]

Who's saying that, I wonder?

[Chris Reivers]

I will find her name. But that's the line of thinking. Well, we're short money. Well, we'll just keep raising fees here. She's talking about car registration fees.

[John Hight]

Right?

[Joe Soucheray]

The ideology at work with whatever's passing for the DFL today. They're not your parents. DFL, whatever. Ideology work is never to cut spending. It's only to take more. Because they have a plan. They have a plan. Just like Ari Chowdhury has a plan. Well, her plan is a corrosive, ridiculous plan that doesn't work in a free market capitalist society. Her plan will work haltingly and poorly in, in Bolivia, Peru, whatever, but it doesn't work here. But that's the plan she wants. And all she's doing is hurting people.

[Robin Wansley]

And the landlord spelled it out for her and she did not understand that.

[Joe Soucheray]

She doesn't get it.

[Robin Wansley]

The other one, Elizabeth Schaefer, she understands.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes. Schaeffer says to do this, you are effectively seizing the private income of the small business owners to fund a municipal social experiment. Well, I think the social experiment that Schaeffer is referring to is. Chowdhury imagines that there will be an outgoing outpouring of public donations.

[Robin Wansley]

Yeah, I was confused about that.

[Joe Soucheray]

To help people pay their rent, which will be double what they owe today by the time Choudhury visions these gatherings to put money in a hat.

[Robin Wansley]

She calls them nonprofit landlords.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, I don't know who those are. She wants landlords to be nonprofit.

[Robin Wansley]

Are they the people that run homeless camps? I can't imagine living in a building where it's a nonprofit landlord.

[Chris Reivers]

I have her name. I don't have the first name, but her last name. She's Representative Luger, Nikolai. She's a Democrat from St. Paul, Joe. And you heard the quote. At some point I may offer an amendment to quintuple the rates of these registration fees so that we may fund other projects in the state that everyone deems worthy. In retrospect.

[Joe Soucheray]

Slow down.

[Chris Reivers]

You're talking because you always cut me off and I thought I would get this.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, just slow down.

[Chris Reivers]

A two year old vehicle, let's say it's $50,000. That would equal a $3,650 payment every year for your registration fees because they're already about 900 bucks.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that doesn't work. That doesn't work.

[Robin Wansley]

But that's a whole different.

[Chris Reivers]

But what I'm saying is it's the same mentality.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's symptomatic of the ideology. And the ideology is to spend, spend, spend. Where is somebody to say, well, we're not going to buy that. You're not getting a new TV this year. You can't afford it. They don't have that. They don't work that way. They just keep taking our money and getting us deeper into a hole, deeper into a problem. This state, I believe, is financially ruined and has been since 2019. But this takes the cake. I hope it serves as a brief tutorial on the results of who you've elected. You've elected people who have no interest in the economic and commercial success of the city. So long as they can take that money and redistribute it to achieve what they believe to be equity. It doesn't work. And the very people you think it's helping are the most hurt. It's. It's.

[Robin Wansley]

Do you think they already know that?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, I don't. I don't. I don't think. Chad. Hurry. Smart enough to know that she's so overwhelmed with her sense of virtue and righteousness that she doesn't see the error of her ways.

[Robin Wansley]

You understand why I asked that question, though, right? Because it's obvious to me.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes.

[Robin Wansley]

So how could she not know that? How could it not be obvious?

[Joe Soucheray]

Because she's never dealt with successful financial management in her life. She's a professional activist who's never had to work.

[Robin Wansley]

She's a professional idiot.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yep. And so is Chavez. And so is Wansley. It's a shame, Minneapolis. It's just a shame what's happening. But this is what you've been. This is what you have wrought. Council members have used the trauma of Operation Metro surge as a moral shield to deflect criticism of the ordinance. They argue that because the federal government created the crisis, the city must act. But acting with a flawed tool is worse than not acting at all. By forcing landlords to carry the cost of a federal immigration policy failure, the city is mixed. Misdiagnosing the problem. The crisis is a lack of legal work authorization and direct cash assistance. The solution should be a robust state funded emergency rental fund and aggressive lobbying for federal funding. Well, I don't even know if I go that far. Instead, the council chose the path of least resistance. A regulatory mandate that cost the city nothing up front, but diminishes the private housing market stability in the long run. Okay, I get what they're saying. Choudhury would have been better off insisting that because the feds came in here and did in fact make life difficult for many people afraid to leave their apartments in the month of January, the federal government should be creating a fund to help us bail them out of this one month mess. Instead, Choudhury floats a local ordinance that does nothing except increase the debt burden of a tenant and ruin the workplace of a private property owner. That's what Choudhury's done.

[Robin Wansley]

Do you know what the city council has already done? And we've just. If you mentioned it, you glanced over it. The city has already approved a $1 million in emergency.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right.

[Robin Wansley]

Did you mention that? I did not.

[Joe Soucheray]

But they have done that. Yeah.

[Robin Wansley]

So they already have this money in place. 500,000 for immigrant legal services and 7 million for small business support. So they're already taking that out of your taxes whether you like it or not. They're not asking you, they're telling you. And then on top of what they just did this last month, they want this over and above from the landlords.

[Joe Soucheray]

The council's solution was to pair the 60 day mandate with a one time $1 million funding allocation. This is administrative malpractice. You cannot.

[Robin Wansley]

Who wrote that?

[Joe Soucheray]

This awesome. This fellow for the Times.

[Robin Wansley]

Very good.

[Joe Soucheray]

David Tingham. You cannot plug. Am I on something went goofy here?

[Kenny Olson]

Check, check, one, two.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hello? I don't think I'm on here.

[Chris Reivers]

I think we just got hit by lightning. I don't know what's going on. It's. No, we're on the air. Your microphone just cut out. How about we do this? How about we take pause because we had to break. Anyway. Talk to me. Can we hear you?

[Joe Soucheray]

Sure.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, there we go.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, can you hear me?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, yeah. How about you do one of these and then we'll reset the board.

[Joe Soucheray]

Very good. Let me just check something right here.

[Kenny Olson]

Something is fun. What do you do?

[Chris Reivers]

Eco fun.

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[Robin Wansley]

Hey,

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Robin Wansley]

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[Joe Soucheray]

the most damning evidence against this ordinance is the Council's own math. Proponents cited data suggesting that Operation Metro Surge, a federal crackdown on work authorizations, has created a monthly rental assistance need of approximately 15.7 million. This is a staggering figure that represents a genuine humanitarian crisis. However, the Council's solution was to pair a 60 day mandate with a one time $1 million funding allocation. This is administrative malpractice. You cannot plug a $15.7 million monthly hole with 1 million and call it a safety net. It covers barely 6% of the monthly need for a single month without a massive sustained infusion of liquidity. The 60 day notice period is merely a longer fuse on a bomb that is guaranteed to go off. And it is the suspicion of this fellow who wrote this for the Times that what was needed instead was federal intervention on the grounds that you caused this problem in the first place. So you come in and help us fix it.

[Kenny Olson]

With all their business experience, the city

[Joe Soucheray]

council cannot fix it with their plan. They would only make it worse.

[Robin Wansley]

I don't see the feds rushing. Rushing.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't either. I don't.

[Robin Wansley]

Safety blanket.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't either. So what does that mean? Well, somebody's got to come up with the 15.7 million. When you add up all the rents, I suppose, that weren't getting paid you come up with 15.7 million, chances are the Minnesota taxpayers will be on the hook for it.

[Kenny Olson]

Why do we have to be? Why is that manufactured?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, because I don't know how many. I suppose the other option is how many thousands of people will be put on the street. I guess that's why we would call it a humanitarian crisis until.

[Kenny Olson]

And that puts a Band Aid on it until what, two months down the road when it's fall and they're coming in because it's cold?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, no, ideally, it wouldn't be a Band Aid. It'd be a remedy. And that the people that haven't been working because of the Metro surge will start working again because the surge is over or presumably is over.

[Kenny Olson]

Let's go then.

[Joe Soucheray]

All I know is this is a great example of why Minneapolis has turned itself over to the wrong people. You've just elected the wrong people. And it's not going to get better. So long as Choudhury and Chavez and Robin Wansley and the rest of these dimwits run this thing. You're going to have these problems. You're not going to have a flourishing city that's flourishing with individual achievements and commercial achievements. It's just not going to happen.

[Kenny Olson]

You want a small ray of hope along those lines?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

There was a young man going through the airport that I knew that's very politically connected, and I asked him about the Twin Cities, and he said, Minneapolis is screwed. The city council in St. Paul is not great. But this new mayor, which he's very close to, said she is engaged and she's not perfect yet, but she has the mindset of we need business back in St. Paul. So he said, look for good stuff from her down the road, even though you're not seeing it immediately right now. She's engaged.

[Joe Soucheray]

Unlike the Marxist socialists on the Minneapolis City Council, Kali Hur had a long, long career in the private financial industry. She and her husband have achieved the American dream maybe tenfold. She'll have to forget more than Wansley will ever know in order to. To fall apart. She's got to know in the back of her mind. I hope it's at the front of her mind that the only way to go is to provide opportunities for people to succeed. And all you're doing in Minneapolis is providing opportunities for people to fail. You're making them less than. And it doesn't work, and it will not continue.

[Chris Reivers]

Yesterday, Joe, the Star Tribune. That's the Minnesota newspaper.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm aware of that. Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

They had a piece that surfaced Online, actually. I saw this via social media and it's an opinion piece. Minnesota must choose economic growth.

[Robin Wansley]

Really?

[Kenny Olson]

There it is. It's been said.

[Joe Soucheray]

Really?

[Kenny Olson]

So it is written. Let it be done.

[Chris Reivers]

By the way, this is a newspaper that's printed in Des Moines, Iowa.

[Joe Soucheray]

There it is. And if it snows, 1/4 of an inch ain't getting here. Get the paper.

[Chris Reivers]

I urge you all to listen to Monday night sports talk. Yesterday, Patrick had a bit of a tirade with that one. We must choose economic growth.

[Joe Soucheray]

Who wrote this?

[Chris Reivers]

Hang tight there, cowboy. No, as Sherlock. This is by a guy named David Wood. I am not familiar with him.

[Joe Soucheray]

The editorial page of Minnesota's newspaper has been. Uninspiring. That's a good word.

[Chris Reivers]

Comical.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, I'm just saying. Uninspiring. Uninspiring.

[Robin Wansley]

I stopped going there over a month ago. Why couldn't they use some of this 7 million for businesses to plug the 15 million hole?

[Joe Soucheray]

What do you mean?

[Robin Wansley]

Well, the city allotted 7 million approved for businesses impacted by the reduction in economic activity. That sounds like bullshit to me, Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

The city is always trying to repair the damage that governments do, whether it's the federal government or the local government. You are causing the problem. Government.

[Robin Wansley]

Why didn't they just stuff 8 million at the rent thing and let the businesses, you know, die or survive?

[Joe Soucheray]

And the businesses, they're restaurants, coffee shops, they're art galleries. They're not. They're not employing a great number of people.

[Chris Reivers]

And the ones that have been are gone.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, Pat had a tirade yesterday about you gotta drive up to Maple Grove and take a right on 63rd street and look at all the buildings in there and they're all empty. And apparently somebody went up there and built an industrial manufacturing.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep, yep. For manufacturing.

[Joe Soucheray]

But it's not full of manufacturing.

[Chris Reivers]

What did he say? Less than 5% of it's full.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, geez.

[Chris Reivers]

But it's because it's become impossible to do business in this state, especially if you're a new business. If you're someone that's been here for a long time, you're probably still able to turn a buck. But even you're questioning why you're still

[Joe Soucheray]

here in the meantime, as also part of the Marxist ideology is to hold law enforcement in contempt. We had a situation. When was this situation? Hannepin County. This is from the American Experiment. David Zimmer, Hennepin County Sheriff's deputies came upon a person blocking traffic. They sat in their car as they sat adjacent to the Hennepin County Medical center on Chicago between 7th and 8th, the person was in obvious crisis. They began actively cutting themselves on the head with multiple knives. The person was not cooperative with initial deputies who evaluated that it was best to contain the person and get a negotiator on site rather than to push to detain the person too soon and risk having to use deadly force. So they had deputies and coppers and crisis negotiators and paramedics working for over two hours in an attempt to calm the person and gain their cooperation in putting down the knives and surrendering. Deputies put on a contingency plan together in the event the situation deteriorated. That plan involved a bunker and deputies with less lethal weapons to incapacitate the person and safely contain them. After two hours, the person, without warning, began to cut their throat. Deputies initiated their contingency plan using less lethal munition to break the car windows and gain access to the person in crisis. They successfully prevented the person from fatally injuring themselves and got the person into HCMC immediately for medical and mental health treatment. All right. Deputies, officers, negotiators, I suppose you could argue some sidewalk superintendents would probably say, well, why didn't you break the window two hours ago? They had their reasons. They had their reasons not to. So the deputies, the officers, the negotiators and the paramedics should have been able to walk away knowing that the work they did was outstanding. This was yesterday. They. Is it yesterday? Let me look. This might have been last week. Last week, after the dep. Okay. They responded. They were booed by 50 ne' er do wells on the corner watching all this. The cops were, of course, they were chided, were chirped at by these people who.

[Robin Wansley]

And to make it worse, the crowd was in the informed as to what was happening. They knew what was going on and it didn't stop them.

[Joe Soucheray]

So they gave all this law enforcement grief. Because giving law enforcement grief has become part of Minneapolis's environment. It's just part of the way Minneapolis rolls is we don't like cops and we're going to give you a lot of grief.

[Kenny Olson]

That's the right.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, here they save somebody's life and they're all getting chirped at for it. I don't know what they were saying to them. I don't have any idea. But it's. They were berating and criticizing the personnel on the scene. It's become perfectly acceptable to this mindless sect in our society to assume, react and obstruct. And they are convinced that. Let me turn the page. And they are convinced to what they are doing is righteous. As to the hcso, Hennepin County Post and about the incident made clear this group was informed by supervisors on the scene what was happening and why deputies were armed and surrounding the car. But that didn't matter to these people because in their minds, no matter what our law enforcement is doing, it equates to community trauma over enforcement and excessive force. That's the mindset in Minneapolis. Even when they're helping somebody not kill themselves.

[Kenny Olson]

The flavor of the day.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, I, I, you know, in an

[Chris Reivers]

effort to add stuff to social media because I hate taking stuff out of context on this show.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sure.

[Chris Reivers]

I think I might isolate the clip of you looking into the ether and saying, is it yesterday?

[Joe Soucheray]

When did I do that?

[Chris Reivers]

When you're reading the story.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, is it yesterday? No, this is today. Okay, good.

[Chris Reivers]

Happy to know that.

[Joe Soucheray]

I read the NPR version of the housing advocates story. And

[Robin Wansley]

how, how different was it?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, okay. It was more friendly than what I would have written. In a statement. Frye's office said the mayor is meeting with housing experts this week to get more input. Mayor Frye believes the most effective solution is a targeted one, which is why we're working to get the 1 million we recently approved out quickly to help our neighbors. That's somebody from Fry's office. As we now know that that won't make a dent.

[Robin Wansley]

Everybody gets 50 bucks.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, it just won't make a dent. So Fry, you've got to veto this thing. And it doesn't. Millions and millions of dollars have gone out. Advocates for the policy say mutual aid won't make up for the need. They argue an extension will give people more time to access rent assistance funds. So really what the Marxists are betting on that in a 60 day window new public funding sources will be created. That's what they're betting on.

[Kenny Olson]

That's quite a bet.

[Joe Soucheray]

They're betting the legislature will do it, the city council will increase property taxes and find some more money. The feds. They haven't even mentioned the feds. They should be. The feds will step in and provide some money. But that's what they're betting on and they can't make that bet.

[Robin Wansley]

Well, you'll end up in a state owned apartment building.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right, Exactly. And that's what the Marxists want.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Robin Wansley]

And we'll give you heat when we decide you need heat.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's your need to go to make

[Kenny Olson]

rooms at the factory.

[Robin Wansley]

And if your roof leaks, we'll give you a bucket.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's right.

[Chris Reivers]

Do you want potatoes today?

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, or boiled ham. How could this happen so quickly? It just happened in the last inside of 10 years.

[Chris Reivers]

But in Minneapolis, I'm gonna vote for a new Democrat. They're gonna fix everything.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's. Yeah, you can take your time out if you want.

[Chris Reivers]

Think so?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Robin Wansley]

Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, let's talk.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Josh Arnold]

Wow.

[Joe Soucheray]

What do you think Chad Hurry does with her paycheck? Does she stand in the open window of her rented apartment and just throw it to the people? Does she just sail it out the window? They make about 100 grand a year and they get the medical and the great benefits and whatever. You think she gives it away?

[Kenny Olson]

No, I think she keeps it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't think she gives a dime away. She feels she's doing the work of the well, not Lord.

[Joe Soucheray]

Here's John Heist.

[John Hight]

Thank you, Joe. This news brought to you by North American Banking Company. Before I start news, I do want to go back just for a moment to that editorial piece.

[Joe Soucheray]

Chris was the earth is not your mother. I didn't the Joe no situation. Hello.

[Kenny Olson]

Noted, noted.

[John Hight]

Andy. I only want to go back to it because it's a piece we would agree with completely. The guy must be a g eler and I don't want the guy to hear us and think we don't like him.

[Joe Soucheray]

Chris, did you read the whole piece or just the headline?

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, let John finish his.

[John Hight]

His name is David Wood.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep.

[John Hight]

And basically he's telling Minnesota to stick to its values but get the hell out of the way and let businesses do what they need to do as long as they fit within those values.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you.

[John Hight]

Basically that's what he's saying now. He is the founder and president of Ancoats, which is a Minneapolis based construction company, a 10 year employee of Mortensen Construction and he also is a member of the Minneapolis Downtown Council. Some of the people in Minneapolis who appear to have their heads on somewhat straight. Anyway. Also the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce, a member of that.

[Joe Soucheray]

So he's one of the good guys.

[Chris Reivers]

All right, good.

[John Hight]

I didn't want David to think we're ripping him.

[Kenny Olson]

David.

[John Hight]

Because we.

[Joe Soucheray]

It wasn't we. It wasn't we.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, right. But I just. I just found it. Is it irony that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, you could go with that. Sure, sure.

[John Hight]

Many Minnesotans have expressed, well, frustration about stubbornly high license tab fees on their vehicles that are result of changes made during the 2023 legislative session. The tax rate went up and the rate of depreciation on vehicles was slowed down at the same time. So not a. John Jasinski is a Republican from Faribault. He said, if you look at the nada, the National Automobile Dealers association, what's called the Blue Book, Minnesota keeps that rate of depreciation much higher than what the vehicle's actually worth.

[Kenny Olson]

Slid one bias didn't.

[John Hight]

So Jasinski says they're taxing you at a higher rate than what it's worth. He authored a bill this session to revert license tab fees to pre2023 levels. After hearing many complaints from his constituents, he said, that's what I'm hearing in my district and legislators across the state that people are complaining about their tabs. In 2023, the DFL controlled legislature increased the license tab tax rate from 1.285% to 1.575%. At the same time, they dramatically lowered down the rate of depreciation. The result is after three years, a new vehicle will only depreciate about 10%, even though in reality it's probably gone down about 40%. Minnesotans, though, get stuck paying the higher tax rate at the 10% on a vehicle value kept artificially high. Democrats say the higher fees are necessary to raise revenue for roads and bridges

[Kenny Olson]

because that's their main priority.

[John Hight]

Gas tax revenue is declining.

[Chris Reivers]

Here's your problem.

[Kenny Olson]

Right. Because they want everybody to ride bikes or walk.

[Chris Reivers]

I bought tabs about a month and a half ago on a six year old vehicle that's approaching 200,000 miles and it still almost cost me $500. And that's without this increase. That's insane.

[Joe Soucheray]

Just remember what I did at 98. I really miss that. And I wish you'd come back and be the governor. I don't want to run. I know. Unless you make John Heights up. No.

[John Hight]

Minnesota Senate yesterday unanimously approved a bill that clarifies when motorists are required to stop for school buses. All of this comes after the Minnesota Court of Appeals overturned a driver's conviction for proceeding past a flashing stop arm because the equipment was only partially extended. If the bill becomes law, drivers will be required to stop at least 20ft from any school bus that displays flashing red lights whether or not the stop arm is extended. All vehicles waiting for the bus must remain stationary until the lights on the bus stop flashing. Also included is language codifying that flashing amber lights are a formal warning to drivers that the bus has come to a stop and that flashing red lights are coming next. The bipartisan bill is the first to pass the senate during the 2026 legislative session. It now awaits a vote in the House of Representatives.

[Joe Soucheray]

I often come across a school bus that might be just stopped at the side of the road. No kids around with the lights blinking, but the stop sign isn't out. I crawl around them as though to say, is this okay? That I'm doing this right? Because clearly there it's somebody taking a break that has nothing to do with picking up a kid.

[John Hight]

It sounds like this new law would tell you not to do that.

[Joe Soucheray]

That sounds what it sounds like, yeah.

[John Hight]

Oh, great.

[Robin Wansley]

I put my left foot on the brake and I put my right foot on the throttle and I do the world's biggest burnout until you can't see and all you can smell is rubber. And then I lift my foot off the brake and I peel out for about a block.

[Joe Soucheray]

You do the launch, huh?

[Robin Wansley]

And I give them the bird.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't do that. I don't do that.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

U.S. attorney's office for Minnesota is citing a recent exodus of of top prosecutors in that office and a motion to delay the trial of a defendant in the fraud investigation of Feeding Our Future. The motion for continuance filed yesterday seeks to push back the trial of Abdi Herman Ahmed, who was among several people charged with money laundering in 2022. A jury convicted one of Ahmed's business partners, Salim Saeed, along with Feeding Our Futures founder Amy Bach last year. Now the government says it will not be able to, in their words, adequately prepare for a men's trial in June. The motion cites another upcoming trial of seven defendants in April, as well as significant staffing changes at the U.S. attorney's office earlier this year. You remember top prosecutor Joe Thompson. Several others quit in January, the attorneys resigning after not liking the way the investigation of the shooting death of Renee Good by an ICE agent was taking place. Thompson was the lead attorney for the government in the two previous Feeding Our Future Trials trials in 2024 and 2025. Ahmed, who is also known as Chef Abkos, is currently out of custody, expected to oppose the motion for continuance if the motion is denied. Meds trial is scheduled to begin on June 8th. Star Tribune reporting. Replacing outdated software essential to everything from payroll to class registration at the Minnesota State school System is cost $48 million more than initially improved and is four years behind schedule. Minnesota State is switching to a software system known as workday at its 33 public colleges and universities. It's part of a broader initiative to modernize its technology called Next Gen. The first phase of the upgrades, which included human resources and finance software used by employees, went live in July 2024, a year behind schedule. The second phase, which will allow students to manage admissions, financial aid and registration through one platform, is on track to go live in 2030. That's four years after the initial target.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's uncanny how public entities cannot budget properly. Whether it's a school or whatever, they just can't do it. They always need more. Gotta have a little more.

[Kenny Olson]

Never enough, Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

Never enough.

[John Hight]

The cost increases and delays aren't the only aspects of the projects that have drawn scrutiny. Employees say they struggle with the new system daily and even had to prepare budgets by hand and with spreadsheets this year. If the project second phase, aimed at technology students will use, is as clunky as the first, administrators and faculty fear that some students, especially those facing obstacles, could become too frustrated and just won't sign up for school.

[Chris Reivers]

For those of you wondering, that was Rookie working on his new impersonation in which John Candy holds public office.

[John Hight]

Yes, that's why I started giggling. I thought of John Candy immediately.

[Joe Soucheray]

Johnny.

[Kenny Olson]

Hello, Mayor.

[John Hight]

Why don't we take a quick break

[Joe Soucheray]

and stop blinking too welter heat. Let me get that.

[John Hight]

It's Chris's turn now.

[Chris Reivers]

Let's talk about we are nuts and we are nuts. Okay, I have a confession to make. Stopped in at Fratelloni's, got myself a jar of the maple bourbon toffee almonds that you see on the side.

[Joe Soucheray]

Can I tell you something about the mixed nuts? Yeah, there's always a nut in there. I don't know what it is.

[Chris Reivers]

Do you analyze it?

[Joe Soucheray]

I look at it and I think,

[Chris Reivers]

where'd you come from, little buddy?

[Joe Soucheray]

What is this? What is this?

[Chris Reivers]

Where did you come from, little buddy? Anyway, the maple bourbon toffee almonds. Here's what you don't do. Mike Fratelloni had a great piece of advice. You open the cup, the lid, right?

[Kenny Olson]

That's your bowl.

[Chris Reivers]

You pour it in there. That's your serving size?

[Robin Wansley]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

Don't do what Reavers did. Settle down and start watching the basketball game. Where the hell did the jar go? I ate the entire thing.

[Kenny Olson]

It's not a cup, it's more of a. Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

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[John Hight]

Johnny Haight Thanks Chris. In national international news, President Trump held a press conference yesterday, talked about Iran. He branded the major military operation against Iran as an excursion and signaled he wants to wind down combat against the Islamic Republic ahead of his four to five week timeline. He answered in the negative when asked if military operations would end within days or by the end of the week, but said it could happen very soon. The Pentagon, however, yesterday sounded a different tune. A Pentagon run social media account said we've only just begun to fight. That echoed comments from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an interview with CBS News 60 Minutes in which he said, what I want your viewers to understand is this is only just the beginning. Walking back earlier calls for an overthrow of the Islamic government, the President said he wants to work with someone inside the current regime. Same manner to how he's handling Venezuela, where Trump took over the country's took out the country's president but kept the regime in place when they acceded to US Economic demands. The President also said Iran does possess long range cruise Tomahawk missiles. When asked about the late February strike on an elementary school that killed 160 people, most of them children. Trump was asked about evidence that his Tomahawk was used in the attack, which remains under investigation by the US Military. US Military is the only fighting force known to have Tomahawks, which are produced by Raytheon, involved in the ongoing war with Iran.

[Joe Soucheray]

When you're fighting religious insanity I don't know how it ever ends. Thank you.

[Kenny Olson]

I chose not to comment on that one.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's wise of you.

[John Hight]

Oil prices whipsawed yesterday, rising to roughly $100 a barrel, the highest since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and then fell rapidly, retreating below $100. The swing came as traders reacted to the expanding war in the Middle EAS that the government may step in to stabilize energy markets for consumers. Depending on what happens, the impact could mean higher gas prices eventually and heating costs. Also, analysts warn that sustained high oil prices could push inflation higher and slow down economic growth in the US and around the world.

[Joe Soucheray]

I like wars where the opponent is as equally insistent on living as you are.

[Chris Reivers]

Wait, say that again.

[Joe Soucheray]

I want to fight wars where the opponent values being alive as much as you do.

[Chris Reivers]

Gotcha. Okay, well, okay, in that scenario, who would that be?

[Joe Soucheray]

Not these crackpots.

[John Hight]

The Muslims don't mind.

[Joe Soucheray]

They. They get. They're waiting for the virgins that I get.

[Chris Reivers]

But then at that point, then who would you be?

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, well, you know, World War II, you were fighting people that wanted to stay alive.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[John Hight]

Yeah. Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon's resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed the President had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room, has died. He was 99 years old. Death confirmed by his wife, Kim and John Dean, who served as White House counsel to Nixon during the Watergate scandal and went on to, along with Butterfield, help expose the wrongdoing. As a deputy assistant to the President, Butterfield oversaw the taping system connected to voice activated listening devices that had been secretly placed in four local locations, including Nixon's office in the Executive Office Building and the Presidential retreat at Camp David. Butterfield told Watergate investigators everything was taped. As long as the President was in attendance. Those tapes would expose Nixon's role in the COVID up that followed the burglary in 1972 at the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate building. To avoid impeachment by the House, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, less than a month after the Supreme Court had ordered him to surrender the relevant tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. When Butterfield acknowledged a taping system existed, he was brought before a public hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. A public revelation on July 16, 1973, of a taping system stunned Nixon and friends and foes alike. The tapes promise to Watergate investigators a rich vein of evidence in their quest to determine what actually happened. Efforts by investigators to gain Access to the tape sparked a year long legal battle that was finally resolved in 1974 by the Supreme Court. The thousands of hours of tapes made public over the years provide a unique, if often unflattering view of the former president as words exposed to bad temper, vulgar language, bigoted racial and religious views, and unvarnished opinions about national and international figures.

[Robin Wansley]

You know who else bugged the Oval Office? Jfk.

[John Hight]

Yeah. You hear those all the time. Best, most interesting ones about the Bay of Pigs.

[Robin Wansley]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

Ever read those? They're fascinating.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Robin Wansley]

And what was said when he left the room I thought was really, you

[Joe Soucheray]

know what the Bay of Pigs was? It was hair brained.

[Kenny Olson]

What do you mean?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. I don't think it was ever going to work.

[John Hight]

Didn't work out.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

I thought maybe this one was an Onion story, but a little research showed it actually came from the Wall Street Journal. Donald Trump has kind of become a shoe salesman in the White House.

[Joe Soucheray]

I read it today. I read it today.

[Kenny Olson]

Is he wearing those? And he actually said something Homo sapien. What was his name?

[Joe Soucheray]

Homo bonus. Homo bonus. The. Go ahead, John. But he's. There's something in there that tries to. Trump said, that is absolutely correct, but go ahead.

[John Hight]

The U.S. president has been buying his favorite shoes for his staff so frequently that they've become the unofficial White House uniform.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yep.

[John Hight]

One female White House official told the Wall Street Journal, all the boys have them. It's hysterical because everybody's afraid not to wear them. Trump has fallen in love with 4 Shine, a brand that sells some pairs for as little as $50 a far.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sensible shoes.

[Kenny Olson]

They're usually only at the mall. Right?

[Robin Wansley]

Sensibles. We call them sensible dress shoes.

[John Hight]

The President has been buying the shoes for agency heads and members of Congress. He often speaks about how incredible they are, such as the President's devotion to the brand, that he guesses people's shoe size in front of them, puts in an order for them, and a week later it turns up.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sometimes that's Homo bonus.

[Kenny Olson]

Mike, could you come in here a minute? Let me look at your feet.

[Chris Reivers]

Are you an 11?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Robin Wansley]

You look like Elvis.

[Chris Reivers]

Maybe a double wide.

[Robin Wansley]

Huh.

[John Hight]

Sometimes the President signs the shoebox.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, boy, that's cool. You didn't get to the part where I think he's absolutely correct.

[John Hight]

I have more, but go ahead.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, you see if you got it.

[John Hight]

I'm not sure if I have any more. Well, let's see. Okay, let's see. Among those who have a pair of Trump approved floor shines are JD Vance, Vice President Marco Rubio, Sean Duffy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, hell, they'd all be afraid not to wear them.

[John Hight]

Pete Hagseth and Howard Ludnick, friends of the President, Fox News personality Sean Hannity and Senator Lindsey Graham also have a pair each. Well, if you know this story, can I say the one word that he said about their shoes?

[Kenny Olson]

Careful, John, careful.

[John Hight]

Vance and Ruby are both said to have been given a pair of Florsheims after a meeting at the Oval Office in December when the president told them that they had, quote, shitty shoes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Here's what Trump said that I agree with. He doesn't like people wearing brown shoes with a dark suit. And I said, you're all right, sir. I said, sir, you are right, sir. That's like wearing your hat indoors. Or it may be the arrival of some bodies from overseas like wearing your hat. But some. We have people across the hall that they make this mistake. They got the brown shoe. There's a kind of shoe that it looks like a platypus. It's a real long brown. Yeah, it's just horrible. It's a brown. Don't wear brown shoes with a suit.

[Chris Reivers]

I like. Are these the, the fashionable sneaker style dress shoes?

[Robin Wansley]

No, no, no.

[Joe Soucheray]

These are wing tips and just regular businessman shoes.

[John Hight]

Okay, all right, I did see. It's funny you mentioned that, Joe, because now, of course, the first. I saw two or three pictures today of people from the cabinet and looked at their shoes first.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

And a dark blue suit. Pete Hagseth was wearing brown shoes.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's. That's terrible. That's a terrible look. That's a hayseed look.

[John Hight]

Look.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm surprised Trump's letting him get away with that.

[Chris Reivers]

I like to wear black tennis shoes from clothing from Goodwill.

[Robin Wansley]

God, you think he's a pain in the ass the way such is with your hat.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, I hope so. Oh, God, I hope so. Don't wor that hat.

[Robin Wansley]

That is not a likable quality. I'm going to tell you right now.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, for. That's too bad for you, isn't it?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, that's just like your opinion, man.

[Robin Wansley]

You're not.

[Joe Soucheray]

You probably don't like the Eagles either.

[Robin Wansley]

You're not endearing yourself to anybody with that tyrannical behavior.

[Joe Soucheray]

Not wearing a hat indoors. I don't care. I'm sticking to my guns.

[John Hight]

A pill that tens of millions of Americans already take every morning might do something that scientists have long hoped to prove slow the biological clock ticking inside your cells. It's a large study, it's in nature medicine that found that Adults who took a daily multivitamin multimineral supplement for two years showed measurably slower biological aging compared to those who took a placebo.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't take one.

[Kenny Olson]

What did your relatives say about those who take vitamins?

[Joe Soucheray]

Very expensive urine in this country.

[Kenny Olson]

Got it.

[John Hight]

Researchers tracked the effect using epigenetic clocks, molecular tools that read chemical marks on DNA to estimate how fast a person's body is aging independent of how many birthdays they've had, the effect was modest, not dramatic. But in a field where most anti aging research involves extreme intervention like severe caloric restriction or experimental drugs, the idea that an over the counter multivitamin could register a detectable change in the biology of aging is worth taking seriously. According to the people who did the survey.

[Joe Soucheray]

Who on this staff takes a multivitamin every morning?

[John Hight]

I do.

[Joe Soucheray]

John Height and reivers.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't magnesium at night Occasionally.

[John Hight]

Yeah, I take a of lot of weird fish oil.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm a big fish oil guy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Gene Mock was a big vitamin T.

[Kenny Olson]

I thought fish oil was proved to be just.

[Chris Reivers]

No, it's good for the ticker.

[Joe Soucheray]

And I asked Mark one time do these things work? And he says they do if you think they do.

[John Hight]

I had a noticeable drop in triglycerides when I started taking fish oil, which I noted.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's fantastic.

[Robin Wansley]

I take a shot of Jack Daniels.

[Kenny Olson]

What is fish oil supposed to do?

[Chris Reivers]

Your heart.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes.

[John Hight]

It's an Omega 3. Yes.

[Robin Wansley]

Yep.

[John Hight]

Which lowers cholesterol.

[Chris Reivers]

And you a guy that doesn't eat fish should be taking them every day.

[Kenny Olson]

I had a bite of fish the other last week.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh my God.

[Kenny Olson]

For the year. For the year.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you, John.

[Kenny Olson]

Kenny, do you eat fish?

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you.

[Robin Wansley]

Shut up all of you.

[Kenny Olson]

Fish fry on Friday night.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's the season, isn't it?

[Kenny Olson]

It is.

[Joe Soucheray]

We're in the season really.

[Kenny Olson]

St. Albert the Great I guess has the best.

[Chris Reivers]

Where are you going to go this Friday? You can go to a fish break

[Joe Soucheray]

me a couple of old women at the nursing home. Jesus.

[Kenny Olson]

You need to know this, Kenny.

[Joe Soucheray]

The snow. The snow is melting. The roads are clearing. Get out there on two wheels. Ecofund motorsports right now you can get an electric bike on sale starting at 899.

[Chris Reivers]

Take your E bike to the fish fry.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. 400 electric bikes in stock. 130 motorcycles on display. Here comes wave runners, jet skis and if you buy one of those they're throwing in the fifteen hundred dollar trailer. Ecofund will be the most fun store you've ever spent time in. It's in Forest lake on Highway 97, immediately west of the Interstate 35 down in Burnsville on the service road of life. Fantastic inventory and great sales now. And they're seasonal. The seasonal sales at Ecofund come and go with the seasons. So now's the time to get to Ecofund. Also a wonderful, Wonderful [e-mail].

[Kenny Olson]

And hit the liner. Yep. And then the music.

[John Hight]

Yep.

[Joe Soucheray]

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

[Chris Reivers]

Let's say you have an Easter village set up at your home, and it has a nice water feature, flowing stream. How about that, huh?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

With the mill to simulate the risen clarity. Thank you.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

I don't want to do this, but I feel I owe it to you. According to the new. Do you think it's possible that the Epstein information is so bad that the people trying to hide it are actually doing us a favor?

[Chris Reivers]

I do think that that is possible.

[Joe Soucheray]

I mean, they're not intentionally doing us a favor.

[Robin Wansley]

What do you mean by bad?

[Joe Soucheray]

So revolting and sordid and so frightening.

[Chris Reivers]

Kenny, we have a tanker truck of sulfuric acid.

[Joe Soucheray]

You can use that for water. You can treat water with that.

[Robin Wansley]

Okay, with the ranch or the island?

[Joe Soucheray]

Island.

[Chris Reivers]

What else is it used for?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, according to the Times, New Mexico state investigators are now examining his ranch he had a ranch in New Mexico in the high desert, and it doesn't sound pleasant. What might have taken place there? Victims of Epstein claim they were abused and trafficked at the ranch. He named it Zorro Ranch. It's 30,000 square feet surrounded by grassland and no neighbors. New Mexico lawmakers have voted unanimously to empanel a bipartisan four member truth commission, the state legislature equipped with subpoena power to look into what might have happened at Zorro Ranch. The authorities have worried that the passage of time may complicate their efforts. The property has changed hands since Epstein.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Who owns it now, died. Evidence may have been lost in the transfer. The ranch's new owner is a Dallas real estate magnate named Don Huffanus.

[Kenny Olson]

Jesus. Who would want that?

[Joe Soucheray]

He said he'll comply with the state investigation. Well, chances are, rook, he probably bought it before all this bleep hit the fan. Huffonus last week won the Republican primary for Texas comptroller. He told the New York Times that the search was a welcome step towards truth and justice. Huffness and his family say they're cooperating with the New Mexico DOJ to organize a thorough and legitimate investigation into any possible wrongdoing by Epstein. Since purchasing it, Huffonus has rechristened its San Rafael Ranch after the patron saint of healing. They could have gone with Homo Bonus.

[Kenny Olson]

Right.

[Robin Wansley]

Rancho di San Rafael.

[Joe Soucheray]

And he said he was going to transform it into a Christian retreat. All right. Oh, God. This is the part that. Are they trying to hide it from us? New Mexico's inquiries were spurred by unverified tips that surfaced in the US Justice Department's latest release of Epstein documents, including one anonymous claim that Mr. Epstein concealed the deaths of two abused girls by ordering that they be buried in the hills outside the ranch. It is unclear whether the FBI ever even looked into it. The State Department's. The New Mexico Department of Justice is asking the public to stay away from the area, which in recent weeks has become the site of sporadic gatherings and protests while officers conducted the search. The people of New Mexico and those who were harmed are entitled to a complete and transparent accounting of what we found and what we did not Mr. Torres said. Raul Torres, the Attorney General of New Mexico. I wonder if the people that are hiding this and not allowing it to the public to ever know what really happened. If. If inadvertently, they're doing us a favor because it would be too sordid and horrid to contemplate. Yeah, what?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't want to know.

[John Hight]

Right?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I don't want to know, but I I would like to know who's involved in what they did.

[Kenny Olson]

But we're never going to find that, are we? Because there's too many smoke and mirrors and nobody's gonna be up front. I just find it so hard to believe that somebody didn't tell. Somebody's not talking right now that's still alive and not in the Epstein file.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's hard to believe that if the President of the United States abused a child that that would go unknown. It's hard to believe that.

[Kenny Olson]

I agree with that. I agree that somebody would talk.

[Joe Soucheray]

We are we really at the point where the President of the United States could have alleged to have done that and we don't know that goes unknown. Unknown. I don't. That's hard to believe. That's hard to believe. Only. Hold on, hold on.

[Chris Reivers]

Johnny Hyde had to this, had this in his news that Governor Walz is cracking down. He's going to create a new agency with it or changes in the Department of Homeland Security.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

C SPAN was televising his special news conference that just took place maybe an hour or so ago. WCCO TV also carried it. Yeah, here's 30 seconds.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think Minnesotans have to recognize is you're hearing about fraud in Minnesota because we are prosecuting people.

[John Hight]

People.

[Joe Soucheray]

You're going to hear about it in other states you're going to continue to see it. But the fix is you don't want to hear about fraud not because somebody's not prosecuting somebody. You don't want to hear about fraud because you know the safeguards and the systems are in place.

[John Hight]

And I don't see another.

[Joe Soucheray]

There's not another model. No other state has gone to a more decentralized model. Every other state has moved towards a more centralized model of accountability. And I think that's what makes most sense. Thank you, sir.

[John Hight]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

Thank you for saying nothing.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you. Remaining for remaining on top of it.

[Robin Wansley]

Complete gibberish.

[Chris Reivers]

Basically. He's trying to Kenny, he's trying to say that hey, we're on top of all of this. You just trust us here and we're going to, we're going to right all the wrongs even though we're the, we're the administration that created all of this

[Joe Soucheray]

in the first place only because they come to us all the way from Penguin Tasmania from the traveling linemans. Surprising blame Trump who can be found@worldwide waftage.com on this day, March 10th. Joe Way back in 1804, the upper Louisiana territory, including present day Minnesota, west of the Mississippi, was formally Transferred from France to the US in a ceremony in St Louis on this day, March 10th. On this day in.

[Robin Wansley]

Wait a minute.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wait, wait, wait.

[Robin Wansley]

Spain was involved there? Didn't it go from Spain to France

[Joe Soucheray]

to the US I am the Louisiana Purchase. I am transfer of ownership. I am limited only by what I receive from Australia. And no mention of Spain is being. On this day, March 10th. In 1858, we weren't a state yet. I think that came along later in the year. Statehood. Inventor and businessman Marshall B. Lloyd was born in St. Paul. He was involved in many ventures in Canada and the Dakotas in the late 1800s before moving to Minneapolis in 1900. Once there, he invented machines that wove wire into doormats and later the woven wire bed spring mattress. After becoming the head of the Lloyd Manufacturing Company, moved to Menominee, Michigan, and he invented a wicker weaving machine that was 30 times faster than hand weaving.

[Kenny Olson]

Wow.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

The Kingdom of France, Kilkenkenny is correct. Controlled the Louisiana Territory from 1682 until it was ceded to Spain in 1762. 1800, Napoleon First Council of the French Republic regained ownership in exchange for territories, and then it ended up selling it

[Chris Reivers]

to the United States.

[Robin Wansley]

It was called Three Flags Day in March of 04, where it was transferred from the Spanish to the French to the US in 24 hours.

[Kenny Olson]

How do you retain that information? Kenny? Why did you remember that?

[Robin Wansley]

Because. Just.

[John Hight]

Because.

[Robin Wansley]

Just school.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day, March 10th in 1983, Mickey's Diner in St. Paul, built in 1939, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. I think it still exists.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm ashamed to say I've never been in the boxcar. I've been in the other restaurant down in West 7th, but I've never attended the boxcar.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day in sports disappointment history,

[Chris Reivers]

who did we lose to on March 10th?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, on this day in 1967, Bud Grant was hired after Van Broecklen resigned. The second time. On this day, March 10th in 1993.

[Chris Reivers]

That was such a disappointment that we hired Bud.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, this one is a disappointment. On this day, March 10, 1993, Norm Green announced the North Stars move to Dallas.

[Chris Reivers]

Dirty son of.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day, March 10th in 1999, the St. Paul Pioneer Press first reported the Gophers basketball academic scandal. That's when they were having teaching aids, writing papers for them and things of that nature.

[Kenny Olson]

Jane Gengelhoff.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, that was a shame. Was that Clems era for sure?

[Kenny Olson]

It sure was.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Thank you. G. Ellers.

[Chris Reivers]

Hey, you know what? How about This, I forgot to mention this yesterday. You should join the 20,000 plus subscribers on the Garagelogic YouTube channel. That's right, Garagelogic. We've got a YouTube channel where you can watch the show each and every single day starting right around noon. And you can also see full segments. There's video shorts, there's even behind the scenes footage. Just do us a favor and search garage lodge on YouTube along with all of our social media channels that includes Facebook, Instagram and X. And you can also sign up for the Daily Logician. That's an email that comes right to your inbox each and every single day. And it includes the most recent episode of the podcast. Find out more and sign up [e-mail]. It is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold is with us once again right here in garagelogic. And now is the time for you to do the same. So do not delay, do exactly what I did and pick up that phone and dial 952-925-5608. That number once again is 952-92-55608. 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 garagelogic. And boy, Josh, a big day yesterday because the President's comments, boy, they surely had an effect on the oil market right now. And you know what, all this market worry right now, is it going to continue?

[Josh Arnold]

Well, price of oil, Chris, dropped yet dropped yesterday from just a little bit over a hundred dollars a barrel. Closed yesterday in the low 90s today, today we're back in the mid 80s. That's a pretty big reversal very quickly just on, just on the president comment and I think that is, that is pretty, pretty strong. Now I know there are a lot of people saying, Jesus, the price of oil jumped up and the United States still has a lot of oil. Yep, that is true. United States has been shipping more oil than several of the other major oil producers together. The issue around the price of oil right now remains that there is a lot of oil just we'll say in storage in the Mid East. So production in the Mid east could cut back a bit until ships start moving freely through the Gulf. Hormu, I do believe based on my reading say of the news that could, could well happen within the next week or so and I'd be willing to bet or we could make a bet in the predictions market since the predictions markets have been pretty hot and even the Chicago Board of Options Exchange is now offering a predictions market product. So they are joining the likes of interactive broker, Robinhood, Draftkage, Kels Poly Market among others offering predictions. But I probably could go to the predictions market and place a bet that the price of oil, currently at $85 a barrel, will be trading closer to $65 a barrel sometime in September or October. I think that that would be a reasonably good, good bet. The price of oil oil moved up very quickly. It's also reversed pretty quickly. The price of oil stocks which had been on a tear over the last several months has, has moved more sideways and most of the oil stocks are trading back where they were late last week. I am not, you know, running out to buy oil stocks. I have not in the past run out to buy oil stock. And on top of that, many years ago I had a very was a difficult experience with one of the major pipeline companies where the investment was done not only on the yield but also based on contract. Unfortunately this company which had said that they were going to be increasing their distribution on a regular basis when they went to expand by going through the bond market, they said that they were going to cut district distribution in half in order to maintain their high credit rating. That caused stock price of the pipeline company to be cut in half along with the dividend. And it has taken almost 10 years for that company, the company's stock price to get back to where it was 10 years ago. And they pretty much maintain that distribution point. In point of this, the oil market continues to be volatile. Yes, oil and natural gas are very much necessary in this economy, but I would not put them in FEAS growth stock. And in our, I'll say in my asset allocation mix which we continue to maintain, keeping up to 30% in cash for both safety and opportunity and the balance in growth stocks with a focus primarily on companies involved in we'll say in and around the Internet and around Leisure. I'll say the energy stock stock leave out. Unless we're talking about portion that's devoted to short term, very short term trading right now, investing in energy I think is a high risk venture. On the other hand, the other issue in the market is still credit quality and the value of several credits with the number of companies needing money to expand their businesses, particularly those in the software space and particularly those that are trending in software using their software and or hardware to go into artificial intelligence. Tonight, Oracle reports their numbers. They've been spending a lot of money to expand their business in artificial intelligence. Their stock price which ran up last summer is half of what it was then. This will be a very interesting conference, conference call to see where they are going and in particular how they are dealing with some of their credit issues. Some of the credit or private credit companies have had a lot of issues and have seen their stocks drop between 25 and 35%. And that has also been a market focus. And I don't think that's going to go away of course sometime soon. So that currently would be an area that would be low, I'll say on a priority list to invest in on the top priority. Well, these are companies that are expanding or continue to expand through artificial intelligence and utilizing that artificial intelligence to expand their businesses or to increase productivity. So that would still be around some of the chip names, notably we'll say Nvidia being a leader and Advanced Micro Devices following through. And then if I wanted to look, look, you know, in the data centers or we'll say the cloud, then I can start looking at all these companies need power generation. So look at companies around a power generation and look at companies that connect up all of the servers within the data center.

[Chris Reivers]

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

[Josh Arnold]

Yes, we Chris. And you're going to have to remind me to make a few comments about ticket prices for concerts and other events.

[Chris Reivers]

You got it. I'll do that. See you tomorrow, Josh.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay.

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