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Summary

Garage Logic, March 17, 2026: Summary & Highlights

Overview

This episode of Garage Logic, hosted by Joe Soucheray (“The Mayor”) and the regular crew, delivers its trademark mix of local Minnesota commentary, cultural nostalgia, wry humor, and sharp-eyed skepticism about governmental processes. The main theme centers on the latest controversy: a fraud report commissioned by Minnesota's Department of Human Services has been so thoroughly redacted that it's become a symbol of official stonewalling—fueling the show's ongoing narrative about government opacity, lack of accountability, and the regular taxpayer being left in the dark. Other highlights include spirited debates about the state flag redesign, tributes to recently deceased authors, and the customary blend of common sense and cigar-chomping, garage-floor wisdom.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

St. Patrick’s Day Memories, Weather, and Tradition

• The episode kicks off by reminiscing about Minnesota’s erratic March weather and St. Patrick’s Day traditions. (03:13)
  • Historical trivia: The St. Paul parade began in 1967, with earlier celebrations likely being more localized.
  • “In 1965, there was a foot of snow. Nobody was out celebrating anyway.” — Chris Reavers (03:55)
• Lighthearted jokes about the role of the Irish in local culture and bars: “If you're Schwartz, you're Irish.” — Chris Reavers (04:04)

The Death and Legacy of Paul Ehrlich

• A lengthy, pointed discussion centers on the passing of Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb (1968).
  • “Nothing this guy ever came up with has come true. And he really achieved a great deal of fame… I thought he walked on water.” — Joe Soucheray (06:06)
  • The group debates the predictive failures of Ehrlich’s doomsday book and the broader academic pessimism about resource scarcity and environmental collapse.
  • They highlight the famous bet with economist Julian Simon—Ehrlich lost when the price of key raw materials decreased (12:05).
  • The group critiques how talk shows today have become “tribal” and how skepticism and open inquiry are no longer nurtured.

Minnesota State Flag Controversy

• Elk River and Champlin cities are resisting the new Minnesota state flag, opting to keep the original—which is described as “gorgeous, colorful, and meaningful” (17:09). The new flag is derided as “benign” and “identical to the Somali flag” (17:33).
  • The designer’s intentions are questioned: “No, it’s a white flag with some blue on it and a star.” — Chris Reavers (22:30)
• The crew voices frustration that the flag redesign was not put to a public vote and was driven by a commission insulated from broader input.
  • “I think it should have been brought to an election instead of being forced down our throats” — Fairgoer via Alpha News (21:03)

Redacted Fraud Report Debacle [MAIN TOPIC]

• The heart of the episode is the deep dive into the new fraud report from consulting firm Optum—intended to help state lawmakers plug holes in welfare and Medicaid administration, but delivered with nearly every page blacked out (34:08–44:11).
  • “It’s so heavily redacted that the lawmakers can’t read—looks like a black sheet of paper.” — Chris Reavers (34:08)
  • The DHS defends the redactions, claiming the need to not provide a “roadmap” for future fraudsters, but the hosts cry foul:
    • “If you don’t believe by now that this fraud is an inside job connected to higher ups in government, you’ll never see the light.” — Chris Reavers (35:41)
  • Lawmakers (at least Republicans) are furious: “How in the Sam heck can we do our job when we don’t get to read the information?” — Rep. Jeff Backer (37:01)
  • The public, having paid millions for the report, is blocked from seeing how deep the actual problems go—reinforcing suspicions of bureaucratic self-protection.
  • “[The legislature] was required to receive the report, which they did. And every page is blackened with redaction. Everything.” — Chris Reavers (41:58)
  • The group bemoans lack of action—even audits and law changes are stymied by the government’s ability to conceal inconvenient facts.

Secondary Fraud: Autism Services Kickback Case

• Another fraud case is raised: The OLA finds the Department of Human Services failed to properly act on internal kickback claims in certain autism programs (53:00).
  • John Haidt tries to summarize: “They’re just conniving liars in a theft club.” — (54:39)
  • The crew ridicules the rigid, avoidant logic—“We don’t know if we have the right to tell you that was wrong.” — Chris Reavers (55:38)

Author’s Corner: Len Deighton Tribute

• Joe leads a tribute to British espionage novelist Len Deighton, contrasting his realism to Ian Fleming’s Bond novels and recommending the Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match trilogy (29:27–32:39).
  • “It wasn’t shoot ‘em ups, it was the inner workings of the spy world and often that was guys spending a lot of time not in danger but the hint of danger was always around.” — Chris Reavers (30:28)

Hot Takes on Late-Night TV & Political Tribalism

• The hosts reminisce bitterly about the loss of true variety and debate on late-night TV, now replaced by “tribal assertions.” (14:00–15:59)
  • “You didn’t retreat to your tribe and either hate the guy or love the guy. You would listen…and then people would draw their own conclusions.” — Chris Reavers (13:36)

Other News & Notable Segments

• Local Story: School District 196 (Rosemount, Apple Valley, Eagan) closed due to threats—reminder of changing times and school security. (50:23)
• Community Note: Memorial for Master Sergeant Nicole Amor of White Bear Lake, killed in the Iran war, triggers nearly $90,000 in community donations (51:45).
• Another fraud/odd news: Multiple fires at Lutsen, including insurance fraud charges previously and the current “not suspicious” fire (57:37).
• International: Middle East update—Trump administration official resigns, alleging Israeli influence over U.S. Middle East policy and spreading of misinformation. (62:47)
  • “These are very serious charges. Does he have documentation?” — Chris Reavers (62:47)

Memorable Quotes and Moments (with timestamps)

• “Nothing this guy ever came up with has come true…he captured the public imagination…I thought he walked on water.” — Joe Soucheray on Paul Ehrlich (06:06–09:15)
• “It’s just benign. It has nothing to do with the state of Minnesota. The old one was gorgeous, but it was deemed insensitive because we had a Native American riding a horse.” — Chris Reavers (17:33)
• “I’m accusing you in the Department of Human Services of being deeply involved in the fraud…Allegedly, that’s—it’s just unbelievable.” — Chris Reavers (39:19)
• “We get our taxes paid only so they can be taken and used by the state of Minnesota to hire an outside consultant to come up with a report…” — Chris Reavers (41:58)

Timestamps for Important Segments

• Reminiscing About St. Patrick’s Parades: 03:13–04:10
• The Population Bomb & Julian Simon’s Bet: 06:06–12:55
• Legacy of Tribalism in TV & Media: 13:36–15:59
• Minnesota State Flag Fight: 17:09–22:45
• Main Segment: Fraud Report Redaction Debacle: 34:08–44:11
• Autism Program Fraud—OLA Report: 53:00–55:56
• Len Deighton Tribute, Author’s Corner: 29:27–32:39
• Local & International News (schools, Iran): 50:25–64:30
• Running Jokes: Joe’s mysterious non-Covid illness, St. Patrick’s Day “wonder drug” McAmbien, Sean Farage’s Trump impression

Podcast's Original Tone and Language

The episode maintains its signature blend of cynical Midwestern common sense, biting satire, and exasperated humor. The regulars balance their complaints about bureaucracy and politics with jabs at themselves, embracing their cranky-but-real persona.

Final Thoughts

• The episode is a pointed, accessible primer on the growing frustration among everyday Minnesotans (and Americans) with bureaucratic opacity—using the redacted fraud report as the key example.
• Long-time listeners will appreciate the classic GL blend of political skepticism, historical nods, and blue-collar “garage wisdom”—with lots of laughs thrown in.
• For those looking to understand the episode’s true thread: "If you don't believe by now that this fraud is an inside job connected to higher ups in government, you'll never see the light." (35:41)

Keep the garage door open, your nonsense detector calibrated, and your cigar lit—this is Garage Logic at its righteously exasperated best.

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Transcript

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[Chris Reavers]

Josh Arnold, investment consultant, brings you Garagelogic podcast episode number 1738St. Patrick's Day March 17, 202680 degrees on this day in the miracle spring of 2012, all the golf courses in the Metro opened or were already open. And it was eight below on this day in 1941. And in 1965 on St. Patrick's Day, a foot of SN foot of snow. Call Josh Arnold at 952-925-5608 for a free 48 minute consultation.

[Kenny Olson]

Hail the Flashlight King.

[Chris Reavers]

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 ro. Here is your Flashlight King, fireworks commissioner and the keeper. I'm gonna have you lose something else, so get ready.

[Joe Sushi]

Joe Sushi

[Chris Reavers]

Brook, look up. When was the first St. Patrick's Day parade in St. Paul? Now I say in 1965 on St. Patrick's Day, they had a foot of snow. But I don't think either Minneapolis or St. Paul had initiated a St. Patrick's Day parade yet. I think that came along in either 66 or 67. Wow.

[Matthew]

You're like a steel trap, my brother. Let's see the St. Patrick's Day parade.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, I thought you had some knowledge to back up the fact that it was Steel Trap.

[Matthew]

Organized by the St. Patrick's Association. The modern parade began in 1967 with a simple gold.

[Chris Reavers]

Boy, am I. I do have a steel trap.

[Joe Sucere (Author's Corner)]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

Very good.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. So in 1960th annual.

[Kenny Olson]

This year.

[Chris Reavers]

So in 1965, what was a foot of snow? Nobody was out celebrating anyway.

[Matthew]

Well, I'm sure the Irish got out. They just didn't.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, in 65, it would have been really the Irish who got out. Now it's, you know, if you're Schwartz, you're Irish.

[Matthew]

I bet O' Garros was hopping in 65.

[Chris Reavers]

Probably Stacy, the GL geologist. This show has its own geological consultant at home. But don't. I don't know where she is, but she's noting a 5.8 earthquake in the region of Cuba, I can tell you, by President Trump. And Cuba now has no electric grid. They're out of fuel completely, apparently.

[Matthew]

Let's take them over.

[Chris Reavers]

I think Don's got his eye on that island, Joe.

[John Haidt]

She's in a place that has a lot of tables and stools and a bar and a lot of liquor bottles.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, good for her.

[Kenny Olson]

Church.

[Chris Reavers]

But I do enjoy the fact that we have geological consultants, lake consultants, election consultants. We have a lot of people.

[Kenny Olson]

Airport consultants.

[Chris Reavers]

We have an airport consultant.

[John Height]

On staff.

[Chris Reavers]

On staff.

[Kenny Olson]

And I love the fact that it's, you know, when he's being briefed that there aren't any interruptions from the peanut gallery.

[Matthew]

Right. Just get right to the point.

[Chris Reavers]

I just told him today. I don't want to hear that. Right. Just don't do that.

[John Height]

Shut that bleep off.

[Chris Reavers]

Shut that off.

[John Haidt]

There's not enough of that in the world, unfortunately. We need more of that.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Say you'd have to be my age or maybe at least height's age to appreciate the fact that Paul Ehrlich died. Paul Ehrlich rose to fame as a biology professor at Stanford. Was it Stanford? Yeah, Stanford. And in 1968, he was about 93 or 94. In 1968, he wrote a book called the Population Bomb. And as a newly minted college student, I was smitten by that book. I thought, oh, Boy, the world's ending and I had the long hair to go with it. And I thought he walked on water. I thought it was the real deal. Nothing this guy ever came up with has come true. And he really achieved a great deal of fame. I bet he was on the Tonight Show 25 times. He's strapping, you know, big, good looking guy. And he was the prophet of doom. He would say, we're not going to have enough food, there's going to be too many people, the world's going to be environmentally destroyed. Nothing came true. Nothing. I don't know that he ever acknowledged that or, or came to realize that he was a babbling moron. But he was an educated babbling moron. He founded Stanford center for Nature and Society in 1984, and he wrote more than 40 books and over 1100 scientific articles on ecology, the environment and population dynamics. And he is best known outside of academia for writing the population bomb in 1968, along with his wife, conservation biologist Anne Ehrlich, who does survive him. Boy, they lived a long life, didn't they? The book was a best seller. It was reprinted more than 20 times, translated into multiple languages. It starkly predicted the population growth would exhaust the earth resources, leading to wars and social collapse. It didn't happen. In fact, food production increased exponentially since 1968. What else can we tell you about him? He was a scholar of communications and environmental history. No, this is the author of the book saying that. I mean, the author of the obit,

[John Haidt]

Paul claims he was essentially correct.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, he hasn't been correct. There's been no.

[John Haidt]

His warnings about disease and climate change were. I love the word essentially correct.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, B.S. no, they weren't. It didn't happen.

[John Haidt]

Well, I'm not saying that.

[Chris Reavers]

No, no, that you're defending the guy and I'm just telling you that you're wrong. I'm not going to argue with you. I'm going to tell you why you're wrong.

[John Height]

All right, I'm going to say this as Paul Ehrlich. I'm. I don't believe this, Joe. But Ehrlich argued that humanity has simply deferred the disaster by the use of more intensive ag techniques such as those introduced by the green revolution.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay, let me see if I got this straight. In 1968, he says, we're done. Too many people and we can't feed them. Since 1968, the miracle of agricultural growth is beyond explanation. It's just incredible. So what does he say to that? Because if increased exponentially since 1968. Can you imagine how it's going to increase exponentially from this date forward? There's no reason to believe we're going to be able to stop producing food.

[John Haidt]

Too bad he up and died, huh?

[Chris Reavers]

Well, no, he. Well, he had a long run, for God's sake. He wasn't going to stay around forever. But you know what he did? And it's true of me. He captured the public imagination. And as a newly minted college student, you were just raw meat to absorb that kind of bs so. See, it was almost a failed academy back then even. Except you know what? Some of us snapped out of it

[Matthew]

once you created some money. He snapped out of it.

[John Haidt]

He created a whole generation of pessimists.

[Chris Reavers]

He really did.

[John Haidt]

People that would go on to complain and grouse about things like, oh, taxes, potholes, snow plowing.

[Chris Reavers]

No, I don't think that's true.

[Kenny Olson]

By the way, Banging up job, St. Paul. We gonna get around to that eventually.

[John Haidt]

Jesus, I see those. I see the video from Minneapolis and St. Paul. How can you people live like that?

[Matthew]

I got off the freeway, tried to

[Kenny Olson]

take a right onto Barry, and I fishtailed it into the bus.

[Chris Reavers]

What is dog sled? It's not Barry is not plowed. Barry, for those listening in Arizona, is the street immediately adjacent to our building.

[Kenny Olson]

There's still a foot of stone.

[Chris Reavers]

I know, it's just fun to drive down.

[Matthew]

What your question should be, how will those MTC bus drivers be able to take their dump or their go to the bathroom?

[Chris Reavers]

Matt, we could be a little more

[Matthew]

in the 15 million dollar bathrooms they've installed.

[Chris Reavers]

That's the worst thing that ever happened to Berry street is the installation of this very handsome restroom for bus drivers

[Matthew]

forbidding all parking because you can.

[Chris Reavers]

There are days when the buses are lined up for people to park there and run into this new facility they're running.

[John Haidt]

Barry went to hell when they put in the train tracks. Before that, it was the Wild west there. You could park there for three weeks straight, be undisturbed.

[Chris Reavers]

Conservative economists and scientists were not persuaded by Ehrlich's work. One prominent critic, academic economist Julian Simon, argued for what came to be called the cornucopian view, which held that the only limits to growth were imagination and ingenuity. Simon said the earth had infinite capacity to provide materials and that humans would constantly innovate and find new ways to use them. I would say that this Simon fellow was correct. In 1980, Simon publicly bet Ehrlich that prices of five important industrial raw materials, copper, nickel, tungsten, chromium, and tin would fall rather than rise over the next decade. Ehrlich said he would have preferred some environmental measure rather than than metals, but said resources would become scarce and prices would rise. Simon, on the other hand, argued that markets and new technologies would drive prices down. Ultimately, although prices for these five metals had risen during the preceding decades and would also rise in the 90s, they did decline between 1980 and 90. And Simon won the bet. And Ehrlich had to write him a check in 1990 for $576.07.

[John Haidt]

That's a weird amount.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

Learned his lesson. He learned his lesson, didn't he?

[Chris Reavers]

That was the difference between the 1980 and 1990 prices of those metals. So that bet must have been, you're going to pay the disserts. Okay.

[John Haidt]

How did he fool Carson over 20 times?

[Chris Reavers]

You got to remember that in those days, a guy even like early could have come on. Well, first of all, he was very engaging, very glib, very tall, handsome, all that good stuff. And Carson would have people like that on today. Of course, if Ehrlich came on, it would only be on certain stations and it would only be highly politicized. It would only be part of an agenda. But back then, you know, Carson would poke his nose into the world of

[Matthew]

biology for entertainment, not for political.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, he would get his point across, and people would either buy it or they didn't buy it. But we lived in a different time. You didn't retreat to your tribe and either hate the guy or love the guy. You would listen to him on this night show, and, well, that's interesting. I wonder if that's true. And then people would draw their own conclusions.

[Matthew]

That doesn't happen anymore.

[Chris Reavers]

We don't do that anymore.

[John Height]

It also doesn't happen anymore on talk shows. I don't know the old one. You see, Carson, the last 15, 20 minutes were often authors, political people, you know, after all, the entertainment folks were on. Yet on somebody we don't.

[Chris Reavers]

Entertainment is. Is not what it used to be.

[Matthew]

Boy, I'll say

[Chris Reavers]

Paul Ehrlich is a misanthrope who'd make you apply for a government permit to have a baby if he could, wrote Chelsea Follett of the libertarian CATO Institute in 1923. Ehrlich and his supporters replied that while the green revolution might have forestalled widespread famine, human impacts were weighing ever more heavily on the planet, taking problems such as climate change. And, I mean, he would have been just all over them. He would have been on that climate change bandwagon. Taking problems such as climate change and toxic pollution into account, Ehrlich asserted in 2009 that the population bomb had been way too optimistic. So he was a clever promoter. He's trying to save his failed book. The reason it failed is I was too optimistic anyway. God rest your soul there, Paul. We don't have people on like you anymore. They get assigned to a tribe and that's it. You can't have any reasonable conversations or speculations or whatever. You're assigned to your tribe now. And that's what those talk shows at night have become. They become tribal assertions.

[Kenny Olson]

And how many people even watch those late night live shows?

[Chris Reavers]

Boy, I have found in my life, having been a faithful Carson. Carson watcher, for example, I don't watch any late night TV anymore. Not by design. I just don't. I just grew out of it, apparently.

[Kenny Olson]

And you're not alone. I mean, I can't remember the last time. I actually, I do remember. It was. Remember when Kimmel got kicked off the air and then they brought him back? I remember waiting.

[Chris Reavers]

I've never watched Kimmel.

[Kenny Olson]

No, we talked about it at length on the show.

[Chris Reavers]

We did, yeah. Well, then did I watch him?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, no, but I remember specifically waiting just. Or waiting up to watch his show, just to see what he was gonna say.

[Chris Reavers]

I think I watched a lot of Letterman over the years.

[Kenny Olson]

Letterman was good.

[John Height]

Letterman, yeah.

[John Haidt]

You guys, don't be late for shuffleboard. That's coming up in 15 minutes in the community center. We'll have free Oreo cookies and very tepid tea.

[Chris Reavers]

I would like to tip my cap to the city of Elk River.

[John Haidt]

Another one?

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Elk river is a town north of Minneapolis.

[Josh Arnold]

Here we go. Here we go.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, you know what, Kenny? We have listeners in Bulgaria, you know, so let's. Let's tell them where Elk River.

[John Haidt]

Let's pinpoint it just a little better.

[Kenny Olson]

Up by St. Clouds.

[John Height]

It's right next to me pretty much, Joe. It's just to the north and the west.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm very aware of where it is, John. I know where it is.

[John Haidt]

It's close to Dayton.

[Chris Reavers]

Dayton. I don't want to go into that one again. Elk river is going to consider flying the original state flag. For those of you in other areas of the world, we, under the leadership of our brilliant governor, we have a new state flag which is absolutely meaningless.

[John Haidt]

It's identical to the Somali flag.

[Chris Reavers]

It's benign. It has nothing to do with the state of Minnesota. The old one was gorgeous, but it was deemed insensitive because we had a Native American riding a horse on it.

[Kenny Olson]

In fact, the governor did call it racist, did he not?

[Chris Reavers]

Well, he's told to say that, I think. No, he'd believe that.

[John Haidt]

Of course he did.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. The Elk River City Council will wave flying the former Minnesota state flag on city property as debate over the redesign continues across the state. The Elk River City Council will consider a resolution to fly the flag, the former flag, on city property on Monday, April 6th. And they're seeking public input. Why? If I lived in Elk River, I would add to the public input. I would say, could we please restore the grand old original Minnesota state flag, which is gorgeous, colorful, and meaningful flag chock full of historical scenes and information. Residents may also attend that meeting in person. That's April 6th. No state law. God help us. This will probably get changed. No state law requires municipalities to fly the current official state flag, giving cities and counties discretion over what flags appear on local government property. Elk river is the latest. Champlain. Didn't we have that fellow on from Champlin?

[Matthew]

Yep.

[Chris Reavers]

Champlain city leaders recently approved an ordinance allowing the former version of the flag to be flown. We adopted that new flag on May 11, 2024, and it's just been reviled since then by most people.

[John Haidt]

I would love to read you this quote from the designer of the new Minnesota state flag. His name is Andrew Precker.

[Chris Reavers]

Wasn't he down Worthington way or.

[John Haidt]

Correct, Laverne. From the moment I started designing concepts for the new state flag, I always envisioned a symbol of unity for all people that reside in Minnesota. He said the flag is about bringing people together. No, it's representing our state, acknowledging the state's history, and expressing the experiences that we all have in common. Go ahead, Joe.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, I've always cut that guy some slack because I think he just got lucky that they chose his flag. I don't think it represents anything.

[John Haidt]

He also dismissed claims that the new design resembles the Somali flag. Listen to this. In the world of flag design, the two flags are completely different. He said the only thing they share in common is the color blue and that white star.

[Chris Reavers]

But that's all the new flag is.

[John Haidt]

And that's all the Somali flag is. Oh, my goodness.

[Chris Reavers]

I see it here. Yeah. Bringing people together.

[John Haidt]

The fact that they made that change with our without our input is.

[John Height]

That's something that should be glaring.

[Kenny Olson]

Put up for a vote.

[John Haidt]

They knew that their way would never pass. That's why they did it.

[Chris Reavers]

You're right. Well, good old Alpha News looked into Preker and his online footprint reveals a strong political bent. He voiced support for Kamala Harris vaccines transgender Day of visibility While repeatedly attacking Trump last summer at the Minnesota State Fair, Alpha News heard a wide range of reactions from Minnesotans when asked about the new flag. Well, I absolutely despise it, one fair goer said. Another called the new flag a little more boring. While others said it looked like the simplified, others said they liked the simplified look. I think it should have been brought to an election instead of being forced down our throats, one person said. In 2023, Democrats in control of state government passed an omnibus bill which created a state commission to redesign the flag and seal. Democrats specifically gave that commission the power to choose the new flag without final approval from the legislature.

[John Haidt]

I don't think the legislature should even have a say in it. It's our why?

[Chris Reavers]

Why didn't we have a say?

[John Haidt]

Yeah, put it on the ballot.

[Chris Reavers]

It's a dreadful. Well, it's not even dreadful. It's just benign.

[John Haidt]

It's just how's that grand old Flag song go? It's a dreadful old new flag.

[Matthew]

It doesn't through absolutely nothing.

[Chris Reavers]

And it's a little. A little precious of the designer to claim that it represents all these deep emotional turning points. No, it's a white flag with some blue on it and a star.

[Matthew]

Hey, the North Star was as vanilla as can be.

[Chris Reavers]

Thank you. G. Ellers, it's Joe.

[Matthew]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Kenny Olson]

You know what the best part is about developing personal relationships with the clients here in garagelogic?

[Matthew]

What is it?

[Kenny Olson]

Thanks, Matthew. I appreciate you not leaving me hang.

[John Height]

I got you.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Matthew]

You can't claim that, right?

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, tax season PSA from your friendly neighborhood tax pro. We're getting very close to the point where appointment slots are completely booked. We're not there yet, but we're getting close. Okay, everyone say with me. Yes, Linda.

[Matthew]

Yes, Linda.

[John Height]

Yes, Linda.

[Kenny Olson]

Good news is if you can get your information to me by April 1st, I can still get everything filed by April 15th without a problem. Yes, Linda.

[Chris Reavers]

And remember, this is all just for the honest people in the country.

[Kenny Olson]

Exactly. However, anything that shows up after April 1 starts entering the magical land of this may go on extension. And nobody really wants to vacation in Extensionville unless they absolutely have to. So let's not wait. Including you, dummy. Yes, Linda.

[John Height]

Me too.

[Chris Reavers]

You haven't gotten there yet.

[Matthew]

I'm gonna get plenty of he's going through the shoebox.

[Kenny Olson]

Also, I'm a little behind on shows, but thank you for all the love that you guys showing me on GL and on the weekly scramble. And you know what? She's the best. Linda Keller. Kellertaxservice.com, book your appointment, go on that website and see all sorts of updated tax information or just call her directly. 320-352-0013. You're less than a month away.

[Chris Reavers]

Kellertaxservice.com Isn't she a client who ultimately or inevitably will say my ads work? Stop using them?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes, because she's full, basically.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

And she loves. I mean, she loves the show first and foremost, but yeah, yeah, I have

[Chris Reavers]

a bit of Author's corner.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, we do need a little bit

[Chris Reavers]

of Author's Corner and not. You just want to do it.

[Kenny Olson]

In honor of my guy. Matthew, we got to go with this one.

[Joe Sucere (Author's Corner)]

It's time for Author's Corner with Joe Sushere.

[Matthew]

And this one is a strike.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay, so it's time.

[Kenny Olson]

Hold on, hold on. We got it. We can't just leave it at one. We can't leave it at just one because this is Matthew. Some of Matthew's finest post production work is on Optimus Corner. My goodness.

[Chris Reavers]

Are you gonna play it or aren't you trying to.

[Kenny Olson]

Why is it not?

[Chris Reavers]

I don't know. Isn't that something? Something didn't work one of those days. Len Dayton also died Author's Corner suchi style.

[John Haidt]

Who will it be next?

[Matthew]

Len Dayton.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, it's Len Dayton. He was a famous British spy novelist. He died at the age of 94. I believe he was 94. 97. He's most known for the Ipcrys file and that was made into a movie. Michael Caine was in that and I read today in his opit I did not know this about him. The Ipkris file. He was inspired by the release of the first Bond film Dr. No and he went the other way. His work was all. It wasn't shoot em ups, it was the inner workings of the spy world and often that was guys spending a lot of time not in danger but the hint of danger was always an aura around them.

[Matthew]

It's like spying them behind the curtain where they're grooming spies.

[Chris Reavers]

It was the real stuff and I highly recommend him. If you haven't read Len Dayton he's one of the guys like Jack Carr swear by him and all the current guys were students of Len Dayton and he wrote a trilogy that I would highly recommend Game, Set and match. And I might get the cities wrong but it was game Berlin early Berlin game, Mexico match, Game, set and match. It was Berlin, Mexico and London and if you just you can find out on the google which you read Berlin

[Matthew]

game 83, Mexico set 84 and London match 85.

[Chris Reavers]

Do that again please. Berlin game E3 that sets it up.

[Matthew]

Mexico Set.

[Chris Reavers]

That gets you right into the meat of it.

[Matthew]

84 and then an 85 London match

[Chris Reavers]

and that wraps it up and that's. It's the same spy in all three and it's just. It's really good stuff.

[John Haidt]

I don't think I've read if Chris File boy I'm gonna have to get busy. I've read all of the Lundlim stuff and all those spy books from the

[Matthew]

70s so they made that into a TV. It's also a 1988 television serial directed by Ken Grieve. Okay, well it was based on those books.

[Chris Reavers]

It wasn't this shoot em up spy work of the James Bond movies. He probably loved the James Bond stuff but he was. Who wrote James Bond? Ian Fleming. It wasn't Ian Fleming's type of work. It was completely different and it was very good. And if you haven't read it I would recommend Len Dayton. And that concludes today's author's Corner.

[Joe Sucere (Author's Corner)]

Ladies and gentlemen of garagelogic, it's time for another segment of Author's Corner with Joe Sucre.

[Matthew]

Author's Corner. Sometimes it gets a little bit crazy.

[John Haidt]

Would you compare him to Le Car? Yes, because I've read most of his stuff.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, I think. I think Dayton was the. Was the guy who started that ball rolling. Okay, he was the guy.

[Kenny Olson]

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[John Height]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Matthew]

Great sponsor the Minnesota Senate will be

[Chris Reavers]

the next background over major redactions in a report intended to help state lawmakers prevent future fraud. The problem most of the report from the health consultant Optum so we had to pay people. We don't have enough people. We had to pay an outside group to look at the fraud Optum it's so heavily redacted that the lawmakers can't read looks like a black sheet of paper. What is what really.

[Matthew]

And they're hiding behind data BS policy

[Chris Reavers]

recommendations that Optum is putting forward to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. And it's completely unuseful. Senator Jordan Rasmussen, Republican Fergus Falls told Tom Hauser Monday the Department of Human Services would be able to if they chose to release the vast majority of this information. They are deciding to use chapter 13 to shield the information for the public. That refers to one of the Minnesota statutes known as the Minnesota Governmental Data Practices Act. The Department of Human Services says the law allows them to redact the information what was the point? Why are we paying Optum then?

[John Haidt]

You know why they're redacting, though?

[Chris Reavers]

So that we don't provide a roadmap for fraudsters who would exploit the information to steal from the taxpayers. B as in B. S as in S. That's.

[John Haidt]

That is such a load of crap.

[Chris Reavers]

If you don't believe by now that this fraud is an inside job connected to higher ups in government, you'll never see the light. You'll never understand it. These people now, they go through this dog and pony show. Yes. We've brought in this outside consultant firm. We're innocent in this. Let them discover what they discover. Then they do. Then the government conveniently enough has a statute that prevents them from revealing it. Oh, man.

[John Haidt]

There's another great irony here. Last week on Crabby, we had Faye Bernstein on she Met Face.

[Chris Reavers]

He was wonderful.

[John Haidt]

Whistleblower. One of the earliest and loudest whistleblowers still working for dhs because they can't fire her.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, she's emptying waste baskets.

[John Haidt]

She's so. No, I mean with her background, which is. I think she's a. Isn't she a lawyer, Gabe? That's one of many things. She is, yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

She has a law degree and I believe an undergrad and a master's in psychology.

[John Haidt]

And right now they've got her redacting documents. That's what she's doing.

[Chris Reavers]

The whistleblower is redacting what she whistled on.

[John Haidt]

Oh, Fay, best guest that I've ever talked to. She was so wonderful.

[Chris Reavers]

This interpretation of state law frustrates the lawmakers. I'm really having problems with this. I really am, said Jeff Backer, Republican from Browns Valley. I noticed no Democrats have a problem with it. Said at a recent House committee hearing while holding up several pages of blacked out pages in the Optum report. How in the Sam heck can we do our job when we don't get to read the information? If you've seen this, it was held up on the news last night. It's a sheet where somebody looks like they've taken a black magic Marker and it says, you know, on this day. And then every, every line for the whole page is blacked out.

[John Haidt]

It's like the Warren Report.

[Chris Reavers]

It's. It's just, wow, what do they take us for?

[John Haidt]

And then their response to that is so insulting.

[Chris Reavers]

Dho.

[Matthew]

Condescending.

[Chris Reavers]

DHS officials say they're trying to find a way to give lawmakers more information without violating data practice law. You lying thieves. You're lying thieves. We are seeking A way to provide information to legislators. DHS Commissioner John Connally said. I don't believe you, Connally. In response to those lawmakers concerns, we do want to share the information with you in a way that aligns with the statute. Well, the statute says you don't have

[Matthew]

to do anything, especially if there was some type of fraud or something illegal. We would need to know about it,

[Chris Reavers]

perhaps through individual meetings. But we're exploring what could be permissible. We understand that frustration. Oh, you conniving, duplicitous.

[John Haidt]

So and so.

[Chris Reavers]

So and so's. The Minnesota House passed a bill Thursday that'd be last Thursday on a broad bipartisan refor vote of 107 to 27 to require the release of the full Optum report to legislators, but not the public.

[John Haidt]

So the public that they represent, that'd be us.

[Chris Reavers]

And so what the, what the Department of Human Services did, they released it, the legislators, but it was all, it was all blacked out.

[Matthew]

They don't give me that.

[Chris Reavers]

And then they give you this BS excuse that, well, we did that so nobody would get an idea how to commit the fraud that we've been able to pull off for so many years. That's basically what they're saying. Well, first of all, if you're not releasing it to the public, who would have read it besides legislators? Right, Right. So what are you implying? That the legislators would have dreamed up new ways of fraud? I'm not accusing the legislators of fraud. I'm accusing you in the Department of Human Services of being deeply involved in the fraud.

[John Height]

However.

[Chris Reavers]

Allegedly. That's, it's just unbelievable. I think this level of redaction is absurd. Rasmussen said. Who's Rasmussen? Where did he come from?

[Matthew]

That's not the guy. That was from

[Chris Reavers]

Rasmussen. Who's Rasmussen?

[John Height]

And he's the senator. Republican senator. Senator from Fergus Falls.

[Chris Reavers]

That's right.

[John Height]

Jordan started all this? Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

He said, I think this level of redaction is absurd. Well, of course it is. Especially when we have legislative audit reports that also look at system vulnerabilities and make policy recommendations, but are open to the public. Taxpayers paid for this report. We did, I think in the millions. If somebody could look that up. What did it cost? What does the Optum report cost? Optum. They're an outside group connected with some healthcare provider. We don't have access to it. Hell, I take. I'd be happy if my legislator. Well, not, not that guy in St. Paul. What's his name? The guy Pinto. He probably is cheering this redaction on. But I'd be happy if some legislator representing me at least got the report we paid for it. They don't even get the report.

[Matthew]

AI is saying the study commissioned by the state cost seven figures.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[John Height]

Million dollars.

[Matthew]

It's not enough. I don't see any more. I am told by emailer Clark that had I known about redacting when I was in grade school for my report card, I was invalidorium. Yeah, sorry, I can't get the lit grade.

[Chris Reavers]

Mom and dad.

[Matthew]

It's off.

[Chris Reavers]

So, folks, here in Minnesota, Linda Keller.

[Matthew]

Kellertaxservice.com let's get Linda on this. Let's go.

[Chris Reavers]

I mean, I'm addressing this to the honest people who like saps that we are. We get our taxes paid only so they can be taken and used by the state of Minnesota to hire an outside consultant to come up with a report that's going to nail this fraud. We'll take a look at it for you. We're outsiders. We don't have a vested interest. And here we are. We deliver it to you. Department of Human Services. There you go. And the Department of Human Services by law was required to release it to the legislature, which they did. And every page is blackened with redaction. Everything.

[John Haidt]

I don't see anything in the story that says the DFL party as a whole is behind or pro redaction.

[Chris Reavers]

No, but it sure would have been reassuring to have a Democratic representatives say, geez, why did you have to redact the whole thing?

[John Haidt]

Absolutely. And that was the point I was going to get to. But I don't think. I don't think that that's advisable for your political career right now in Minnesota, even if you feel that way, you

[Chris Reavers]

got to stay on the side of the thieves.

[John Haidt]

Unfortunately, I think you're right.

[Chris Reavers]

This is. I'm not lost for words. I'm just really careful about my words.

[Kenny Olson]

Kenny, that's the first time you've used that line on Joe, whereas he's used it on you many times over the years.

[Chris Reavers]

What line?

[Kenny Olson]

Unfortunately, I think you're right. Well, one of us makes a good point, Joel.

[Chris Reavers]

So you just made a good point by accident. I just.

[John Haidt]

I really want a dfler because we've had him on crabby before and they're sane and they want to get to the bottom of the fraud, but the party is putting the brakes on for them.

[Chris Reavers]

You know what? It's real easy for any of them, Democrats, Republicans, anybody to say we really need to get to the bottom of this. Knowing full well that they ultimately could be protected. Just hauling out statute 13 and redacting everything.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

So it's been very easy. It's very easy for Walls to say, I'm really concerned about this and I want to get to the bottom of it. Well, Tim, you knew damn well obviously we were never going to see this.

[John Height]

They don't even have any people working at these agencies.

[Chris Reavers]

So they request the data and they don't go anywhere. The people who are the attorneys that should actually be prosecuting on ice cases. The lead prosecutor quit yesterday. Fraud is a long forgotten thing for everybody except me.

[John Height]

Oh, no.

[Chris Reavers]

And people in Minnesota who know we need to prosecute it and do what's right. The federal government lost all their prosecution computers. The federal government sent us. Quit talking so fast, you Reavers.

[Kenny Olson]

I mean walls.

[Matthew]

He's talking to walls in this.

[John Haidt]

In this case, my perception is he's doing. Go ahead. I'm sorry.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, Tim, you're. You're prevaricating.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

You. You knew damn well that this law would never we.

[John Haidt]

He's putting up all the obstacles he possibly can.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

While saying he's working hard.

[Chris Reavers]

The public class has all of these little laws that protect themselves. Do you have this in your life? Do you have a state law that would. If you stole a million dollars from your employer. Do you have a state law where first of all, the employer's not going to hire an outside firm. They're going to accuse you of the theft. Theft. Presumably because they have evidence in hand. Do you then have the ability to have all of that redacted? I'm asking you a question.

[Kenny Olson]

I wish.

[Joe Sushi]

Do you have it or don't you?

[Kenny Olson]

I do not.

[Matthew]

I don't want to comment because I've been stealing from my company since last 36 years. I think.

[John Height]

Stealing money.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, but that's for different reasons.

[John Height]

Oh, okay.

[Kenny Olson]

You at least show up, Right.

[Chris Reavers]

You're at least here.

[Matthew]

Distinction.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, God help us. Ladies and gentlemen, Honest America.

[Matthew]

I gotta start perverse garading.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes, Mr. President.

[Matthew]

What is the word?

[Chris Reavers]

Prevarication. Matt, what does that mean? Why don't you look it up?

[Kenny Olson]

Mr. President, could you use that in a sentence? I can't.

[Matthew]

It's too big. Preserve.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, speaking of some more problems with the government. We're lucky we have the center of the American experiment in our midst. They look at right now, they're looking at reliable energy. Remember when you could afford your electric bill?

[Kenny Olson]

No.

[Chris Reavers]

Holy mackerel. Well, Wallsey and the gang, they came up with a bill requiring all of our electricity to come from wind and solar by the year 2040. That ain't that far away.

[Matthew]

That ain't gonna help either.

[Chris Reavers]

So now your electric bill is climbing, businesses are getting squeezed. The competitive edge in our mining and manufacturing is disappearing, all because of a feel good policy that ignores the American Experiment is examining nuclear power, but we can't build any nuclear plants even though it's the cleanest, safest, most reliable carbon free energy on earth. State law puts a gag order on that. We're one of nine states with a nuclear moratorium. Meanwhile, the world is going to race ahead and pass us by and they'll have cheaper electric bills. Go to americanexperiment.org, one word, American experiment, and click on the Take Action prompt. That'll allow you to tell your representative it's time to free the nukes and restore reliable, affordable energy in Minnesota. Americanexperiment.org, click on take Action.

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Matthew]

Oh, they're gone. They gone.

[Kenny Olson]

I said where? You guys ate all of this.

[Matthew]

They gone.

[Kenny Olson]

Which they did. So apparently The Jordan Huffman 8th grade basketball team are huge fans of we are Nuts. The cinnamon toffee peanuts were a big hit. They even dove into my maple Bourbon toffee almonds, which I was not happy with.

[Matthew]

You gotta hide the malted milk balls.

[Kenny Olson]

And the assistant coach, his name is Frank. Great dude. You know what his favorite one was? The hot nuts.

[Matthew]

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[Kenny Olson]

He said, is it wasabi?

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[Matthew]

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[Chris Reavers]

Here is Mr. John Haidt.

[John Height]

Thank you, Joe. This news brought to you by North American Banking Company. Schools in Minnesota's fourth largest district are closed today as law enforcement officials investigate. Investigate threats. An Alert from District 196 that includes public schools in Rosemount, Apple Valley and Egan said schools are closed out of

[Chris Reavers]

an abundance of caution.

[John Height]

Very good. A district spokesperson confirmed multiple schools received a threatening voicemail. They were first discovered about 3:30 this morning. Police were then contacted and the decision to cancel school was made at around 5:45 this morning. Egan police confirmed the department is working with neighboring agencies to investigate the threats. Eagan police said at this time we are unable to confirm any threats as credible, nor have we been able to rule them out entirely. District 196 has four early childhood schools, 20 elementary schools, six middle schools and five high schools, as well as other additional learning programs.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait, John, that school district is only the fourth largest in the state.

[John Height]

Correct.

[Kenny Olson]

Holy cow.

[Matthew]

Number one, Hennepin Ramsey. And probably Dakota or Burnsville or whatever. Makes sense, doesn't it?

[John Height]

Yes.

[Matthew]

Anoka's the biggest.

[Chris Reavers]

Thank you. Thank you. It does make sense.

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[John Height]

Two public gatherings to honor and remember Master Sergeant Nicole Amor, the soldier from White Bear Lake who was killed in the Iran war, are set for later this week. Amor and five other US soldiers died on March 1 when a drone hit a command center in Kuwait, according to an online obituary. A public visitation for her is scheduled from 2 to 6 Thursday at the Mueller Memorial in White Bear Lake. Additionally, a memorial service will be held at Eagle Brook Church, also in White Bear Lake, the following day at noon, then a private internment with just amours family will take place at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Family members launched a GoFundMe earlier this month to raise funds for a greenhouse in her honor. Her obituary says she loved to garden. Anyone who feels moved to contribute is asked to donate in lieu of flowers to Operation Nikki's Embrace, which will also go toward a greenhouse. So far, more than $87,000 have been donated to the GoFundMe and additional funds from it will be donated to that local nonprofit, Garden in a Box.

[Matthew]

I just love when stories. I mean, I don't love that story, but I like when people come together and just shows the support. 87 grand just out of the blue is that's a huge number.

[John Height]

A different fraud story now.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh boy. What are we up to?

[John Height]

A new report highlights an issue with how the Minnesota Department of Human Services handled some claims of kickbacks in autism services and recommends changes to the agency's definition of fraud.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, when we get to it, though, it'll be redacted.

[Matthew]

I don't know what it is.

[John Height]

The Office of the Legislative Auditor, the nonpartisan office focused on strengthening accountability in state government, released the report from its special review this morning. It focused on alleged allegations. Excuse me, of kickbacks tied to fraud in the Early Intensive Development and Behavioral intervention program from 2017 to 2024. In particular, the audit examined whether the agency's inspector general acted reasonably when looking into criminal allegations in the program and why the office closed some complaints against providers without any more investigation. They said most of the decisions they reviewed were reasonable based on what the inspector general's office knew. However, according to the ola, DHS officials claimed they didn't have the authority to investigate kickback allegations for the program unless complaints also reported non kickback conduct that rose to the level of fraud, theft, abuse or air. You follow an all this.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh my God.

[Chris Reavers]

They're just. They're just conniving liars.

[Matthew]

It's more web guys.

[John Haidt]

Kickbacks are just commission.

[Chris Reavers]

Come on, man.

[John Height]

I read this story six times just to make sure that I understood exactly what was going on here.

[Kenny Olson]

What does this tell you guys, though?

[Chris Reavers]

They're all conniving liars in a theft club.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes. And they're all in on it. Holy crap.

[John Height]

The OLA report said if DHS does not add kickbacks to its definition of fraud, the agency could be required to continue paying providers who are in the process of being investigated for engaging in kickbacks.

[Chris Reavers]

Let me see if I got this straight.

[Kenny Olson]

Check it out now.

[Chris Reavers]

Let me see if I got this straight.

[Kenny Olson]

Please explain it to me.

[Chris Reavers]

Because we're attempting to parse the difference between a kickback and a non kickback, and we're deciding that a kickback might also be a non kickback.

[John Height]

Yes.

[Chris Reavers]

Does it occur to them that a kickback. You didn't need some definition? A kickback would be what we call wrong? Yes.

[John Height]

And they don't know if they have the authority.

[Chris Reavers]

We don't know if we have the right to tell you that that was wrong.

[John Height]

Yeah, I think you got it. I think you got the whole thing done.

[John Haidt]

I would love to get a kickback.

[Chris Reavers]

No. Just shut up and pay your taxes.

[Matthew]

No, I'll take a kickback.

[Chris Reavers]

Just pay your taxes.

[John Haidt]

That is so mean.

[Chris Reavers]

I know.

[John Height]

Really was.

[Chris Reavers]

But that's what we're all told. Shut up and pay your taxes and don't be late.

[Kenny Olson]

But you know what? Remember your theory years ago when all this started, that we could have filed

[Chris Reavers]

during the COVID That's not a doubt in my mind.

[Kenny Olson]

But we would have been the ones who. That would have been busted.

[Chris Reavers]

If I held a press conference and held up the check for $5 million and said, this is what I just did for fun. I applied for this under the guise of the garage lodging Department of Public Works needing new equipment during COVID I would have been the one that went to jail.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Matthew]

And then holding your $5 million check, you're gonna say, I am promptly gonna give back $4 million of this check.

[John Height]

Star Tribune reporting. Several townhomes at a popular Lutzen, Minnesota ski resort caught fire Monday afternoon, according to the owner of Odyssey Resorts. The spokesman for Odyssey said fire was discovered in three townhomes at the Caribou Highlands Lodge and Residences. Local crews worked to contain it. Everyone was evacuated safely, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Office. Dispatchers notified of smoke coming out the back of one of the townhouses close to about 2 in the afternoon. It was reported flames were visible from outside the building. Lutzen area has experienced several major fires in recent years. I was just gonna say fire destroyed Lutzen Mountains restaurant Papa Charlie's back in 2023. And the owner of the lodge at Lutzen Resort, just minutes from Caribou Highlands, has been charged with insurance fraud and burning down his resort. Nearby Grand Moray also has seen a couple of fires in recent years, including including at the upscale restaurant the Crooked Spoon.

[John Haidt]

Do they have strong winds up there? I'm wondering if power lines and winds and that whole thing had anything to do.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, you're the. You're the rural wind expert. Before the show, you were chastising me about my lack of knowledge about the wind. Apparently you know more about it because you live in the middle of nowhere. So you tell. Why don't you tell me?

[Kenny Olson]

Why don't you. Why don't you tell me?

[John Haidt]

Was referring to people in the Dakotas in Montana, where you love a nice little 10 mile per hour breeze. And every day they face a 70 mile an hour breeze. Every single day they ought to move

[Chris Reavers]

to where there's some trees.

[John Height]

Having spent 30 years living in North Dakota, I am fully on board with Mr.

[John Haidt]

It's relaxing.

[Chris Reavers]

We ain't gonna smell it with this wind. Yeah, it'll.

[John Haidt]

It'll drive you mad, I tell you. Mad.

[Chris Reavers]

It's quite mad, you know.

[John Height]

Quite mad.

[Kenny Olson]

You know, I'm glad you brought up because I was going to mention, Johnny, that the. The guy that burned down his own joint to collect the insurance, they're not suspecting that with this as well, are they?

[John Height]

They have not mentioned the fact that

[John Haidt]

it happened in three units that were what, tied together. Right, John?

[Chris Reavers]

But I don't think that guy has anything to do with these units. The guy who burned down his lodge has nothing to do with these. Correct?

[John Haidt]

No, I'm just saying from the information that's been provided so far, it doesn't sound.

[Chris Reavers]

Somebody left the oven on or something.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, it doesn't sound like arson.

[John Height]

It doesn't sound suspicious.

[Matthew]

Well, wouldn't that lead you to believe that every place in Lutzen should have some type of upgrade?

[Chris Reavers]

Leads me to believe they all work for the Department of human Services.

[Matthew]

Allegedly.

[John Height]

Why don't we take a quick break here and fear. Fear.

[Matthew]

Yeah, I fear.

[John Height]

Don't fear him.

[John Haidt]

Let's hear from as we do that. I'm gonna.

[Matthew]

The reaper. Here's the reaper.

[John Height]

It's Kenny Olsen now pouring his coffee.

[Matthew]

Good, Kenny.

[John Haidt]

And I believe the cup of French roast sound effect. Yeah, that's from Custom Roasting, our official supplier of coffee for both GL and the crabby coffee shop. There's a couple of options at that website I want you to check out when you get to the landing page. First of all, you'll see the GL tab. Click on that. And by the way, it's Custom roasting dot net. And the first option is the starter package. That's with four different blends of their finest, from the lightest roast up to the darkest roast. You do that one if you're unfamiliar with their product and you want to get into it. It's a great way to check out what they have from from the lightest to the darkest. The other one, the one I love, is the big twin pack with free shipping. You choose either Dark Roast or Light roast. The dark package includes Boundary Waters and French Roast. The Light roast package is Minnesota Morning and Columbia Excelsio. Here's the deal though. You're gonna order these and when you get to the checkout, be sure to enter code GL to get that free shipping the coffee from Custom Roasting based right there in Buffalo, Minnesota. By the way, it's absolutely amazing and it is so smooth. The French roast is better than the best and the Boundary Waters might might actually be my new favorite. It's so fantastic. They are the official supplier to GL and the Krabby Coffee. So shop. Get on that website today. Custom roasting.net John thank you Kenny A

[John Height]

Gulf Arab nations came under renewed missile and drone fire Tuesday from Iran, which has been targeting regional oil infrastructure and vowed not to relinquish its stranglehold on the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Israel also launched new strikes on Iran and Lebanon. Meanwhile, Israel said it has killed Iran's security chief and the head of its Basij paramilitary force in strikes that erase the most important figures in the regime. Israel separately issued its widest evacuation order in southern Lebanon since 2006, warning it would be conducting strikes against Hezbollah targets in that area. President Trump's top counterterrorism official has resigned in protest over the war, accusing Israel and its, quote, powerful American lobby of pressuring the US Into a conflict he says was built on. L. Joseph Kent was the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. He said Iran posed no imminent threat and the war was started due to, in his words, pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby, saying I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war. Kent serves under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused the president of reneging on the non interventionalist principles he campaigned on. He said in his statement, Until June of 2025, you understood that wars in the Middle east were a trap that robbed America of precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation. Kent, who deployed to combat 11 times, is closely aligned with the America first wing of the Trump administration, including Gabbard and Vice President J.D. vance, who have both warned against new Middle east entanglements. Administration watchers say the resignation highlights a widening split inside the White House. Kent accusing high ranking Israeli officials and members of the American media of running a misinformation campaign to deceive the president into thinking Iran posed an imminent threat.

[Chris Reavers]

John, he's a high ranking guy.

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

These are very serious charges.

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

I mean, as serious as you can get. Well, does he have documentation? I wonder, does he have any. Does he got somebody on video saying, here, do this Trump, or this is. These are serious charges.

[John Height]

Yeah. And if he does, he's not sharing

[Chris Reavers]

it, so maybe it's redacted.

[Matthew]

Probably that's going to be the word of 2026.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah,

[Chris Reavers]

that's serious, man. He's saying, look, the only reason you're over there is because the Jewish nation talked you into it.

[John Height]

Yeah, well, that, that's a pretty prominent argument right now from a lot of people.

[Chris Reavers]

It is, but it's limited to social media people, most of whom are, you know, have no credibility.

[John Height]

Twice yesterday, President Trump said he had wrangled a confession of sorts from one of the former presidents who he said had expressed regret in a private conversation about not attacking Iran the way Trump has been doing. But there's a little problem. Representatives of the four living former president said it didn't happen. Three Democrats, one Republican, said none have been in touch with the administration at all recently or with the president himself. President Trump declining to name the former president when reporters asked who it was, saying he, quote, didn't want to embarrass him. The president first told the story during extended remarks about the Iran war as he opened a meeting of the board of trustees of the Kennedy Center. Trump is chairman of the board and held the meeting at the White House. He repeated that Iran had been a threat to the US for decades, but says he's the only president who had the courage to do something about it.

[Chris Reavers]

I know who he talked to. I. To him. Him. He's a former president.

[John Height]

That's a good point. Wow.

[Chris Reavers]

I get it.

[Matthew]

Could be I was going more for.

[Chris Reavers]

And he called himself sir.

[Matthew]

I was going more for Jimmy Carter.

[Chris Reavers]

He's dead. Matt. Matt. He's not with us anymore.

[Matthew]

That's what I'm saying. At his funeral, maybe he got a message from him.

[Chris Reavers]

No, I heard a theory that it was him.

[John Height]

He said, living presidents.

[Matthew]

Okay.

[Chris Reavers]

I think he said, sir, you should have done this before. You're right.

[Kenny Olson]

Thankfully, Jimmy hung on just long enough to cast his vote for Kamala. Remember that? He did that seed where they held up his arms.

[Chris Reavers]

Me, I. I'll never forget that picture of Carter and his wife in their chairs. No.

[Matthew]

Why do you bring that?

[Chris Reavers]

I just, it was a very.

[John Haidt]

No idea where they were Very different.

[Kenny Olson]

They looked like they were.

[Chris Reavers]

I thought they were marionettes.

[John Haidt]

They thought they were at Disneyland. They had no sleeping idea.

[Joe Sucere]

Message.

[Kenny Olson]

It's a small world.

[Chris Reavers]

Take me on the jungle ride that day. It looked tiny.

[Matthew]

I could have done without that photo.

[Chris Reavers]

I know, I know.

[John Height]

President Trump.

[Chris Reavers]

It's amazing.

[John Height]

You're talking about the one like where they look small.

[Chris Reavers]

They look like puppets. Yeah.

[John Height]

They don't. Yeah. Not the, not the later one of

[John Haidt]

them days where he looked awful.

[Chris Reavers]

I can say this because he had. God blessed him with a very long life. I'm not ridiculing his, his death in any way. I'm just saying that towards the end there when they took a photo of the two of them, it was the damnedest thing you've ever seen.

[Matthew]

There's got to be an age cut off photo.

[Chris Reavers]

Is that it?

[Kenny Olson]

Sure is, Joe.

[Chris Reavers]

Let me stand up.

[John Height]

The worst still, though, is the one in the wheelchair and he looked like

[John Haidt]

where his chin is resting on his knees.

[John Height]

That's the one.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what makes the. What makes this real photo is the fact that both Joe and Jill Biden are kneeling down and the Carters are sitting in the chair.

[Matthew]

All we're missing is a little puppet theater.

[Kenny Olson]

Right.

[Chris Reavers]

The little wavy curtain.

[John Height]

President Trump announcing yesterday. White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. Trump made the announcement in a truth social post, noting that Wiles had decided to take on treatment immediately. Wiles said in a statement she was diagnosed with the disease last week. Is deeply thankful for the support and encouragement from the president. She said she will continue working. Wiles said, I'm grateful to have an outstanding team of doctors who detected the cancer early and are guiding my care. Wiles was seated next to Trump at the Kennedy center board meeting in the White House Easter Room, which took place minutes after they announced Wiles diagnosis on Monday.

[Chris Reavers]

If you can't get information from a state agency, agency like the Department of Human Services, what possible hope do you have to ever prove that Trump is lying about anything?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't like the chances.

[Chris Reavers]

No, no. He didn't talk to any former president unless it was him.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, what if it was Jimmy Carter? He thought he was talking.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, he might have thought so.

[John Haidt]

He's absolutely the first president that's ever lied to.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. I would conclude all presidencies in that. What I'm saying.

[John Height]

He is the world champion, though.

[Chris Reavers]

He's pretty good. He's pretty damn good.

[John Haidt]

The creativity is what I respect.

[Chris Reavers]

It is. It's amazing.

[John Haidt]

Fantastic.

[John Height]

I was thinking audacity is a better word there, Kenny. Sorry.

[Chris Reavers]

I like creativity, John. I gotta go with creativity. You know, to bring up a former president, that's pretty good because he knew damn well all four of them would be questioned.

[John Height]

Yeah, right.

[John Haidt]

It makes me smile knowing that the lot of you are gonna bite on that hook and then become really, really angry. And that's what brings joy to my heart.

[Chris Reavers]

Obama, Clinton, W. That's it, isn't it? There's. There's. Who am I missing?

[John Height]

Obama, Bush.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[John Height]

Who's the other one?

[Chris Reavers]

That's my point.

[John Haidt]

There is one. Any one that hasn't lied.

[Chris Reavers]

Biden. No, you. You can't. They've all. They're all liars.

[John Height]

This would be a much longer conversation if I had any interest in it. But, yeah, just let it go.

[Matthew]

The great one is Clinton. Hillary saying that her husband doesn't lie as some blonde is sitting on his lap at Epstein's thing. We never knew Epstein.

[John Haidt]

I'd like to know the arrangement they have. What is going on in that house?

[Matthew]

Separate bedrooms. Oh, separate bedrooms.

[John Height]

Where's Joe going?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know, but I did have. I was going to play audio of.

[John Haidt]

Of.

[Kenny Olson]

Since it's St. Patrick's Day, this is

[Sean Farage]

your favorite president, and I just wanted to wish you a very happy and highly respected St. Patrick's Day. I'm proud to announce that no president has ever had a bigger shillelagh than I do. It's the biggest and most powerful shillelagh in the history of the world. Big shamrocks, too. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Everybody's talking about it. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. But I got along very well with St. Patrick and I called him Pat. I said, pat, all of the gold at the end of your rainbow, you have to give it to your favorite president or else you're going to have a lot of problems. He said to me, we to don't want problem, sir. Not with you. So we made a beautiful deal. I also got along well with you. May have heard of him, Lucky the leprechaun. And he said to me, sir, he said to me, laddie, they're after me lucky charms. Laddie, what are we going to do about it? I said, we're not going to let them take your lucky charms. We're not going to do it. We're going to solve your problem. But it was the North American land whale known as Rosie o'.

[Chris Reavers]

Donnell.

[Sean Farage]

She was eating all of the lucky charms. She was eating everything in sight. I was talking to Ireland. They said you have to take her back, sir. She's causing another potato famine, sir. There's no end in sight. She won't stop eating, sir. Please take her back. I said we're not going to do that. We can't do that. She's your problem now. And so much for the luck of the Irish. It's very unlucky. You have to deal with her. But she's your problem now. If you send her back. I said, if you send her back, we're going to tariff you 5,000% per pound. You don't want that to happen. So they're keeping her. We deported her. They're keeping her. But I hope you have a tremendous St. Patrick's Day. As they say, may your troubles be less, May your blessings be more, that nothing but happiness come through your door. Happy St. Patrick's Day. God bless you and thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Kenny Olson]

Every time we play him, his name is Sean Farage. That's the comedian's name who does the drum.

[Chris Reavers]

Sean Farage.

[Kenny Olson]

John, to answer your previous question, I'm not exactly sure I believe your microphone is off.

[John Height]

There we go.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes, it is.

[John Height]

What was my previous question? Where did Joe go?

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, okay.

[Matthew]

Where did Joe go wrong? Where did Joe go wrong?

[Kenny Olson]

No, Kenny, I don't think that was it.

[John Haidt]

No, that's the universal sign for.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, I see what you're getting at. I see what you're getting. We can do that. We should do that. As a matter of fact, I'd like to end this by talking about our friends at North American Banking Company. You know what? They've had one simple philosophy since 1998, and that is this. They want to have banking done differently. And you get that feeling anytime that you walk into any one of their six Twin Cities locations, 50th in France, Roseville, Woodbury, Hastings, Shoreview, and also in Maple Grove, offering you the same updated online and mobile banking tools as all of those other big national banks. But the key differences is you're going to get the unparalleled service of a community bank. They are locally owned and operated. All of their locations are. Here's why that's important. That means all loan decisions are made right here in the Twin Cities. They are not sent out of state. So this helps all of you business owners solve problems quickly and also expand your business with confidence. You see, they deal with numbers every single day, but you, your family and your business will never be one of them. So. So check them out online. Today, it's nabankco.com to learn more. Once again, it's banking done differently. North American banking Company member FDIC is an equal housing lender.

[Chris Reavers]

This guy wears many hats, just not indoors.

[Joe Sucere (Author's Corner)]

Joe Sucere.

[Chris Reavers]

Maybe not at the moment, but any day now, this snow will disappear and the riding season will resume. Electric bikes, motorcycles, a lot of that has been out. Then we got delayed by this latest snowfall. Get up to Ecofund Motorsports, Forest Lake, Columbus, right off 35, immediately west of 35 on Highway 97. 400 electric bikes in stock. How many motorcycles? 130 motorcycles on display, including the Moto Guzzi V7. Preseason sales starting at 71. 99 electric bikes on sale starting at 899. If Kalin's there, that's Tim's daughter. You take that thing out in the parking lot and you'll leave there and everything will just fit perfectly for a season of electric bike riding. If you're interested in water equipment, they've got the jet skis and WAverunners in stock. 25 different models, and with each purchase, you get a $1,500 value trailer thrown in on the deal. That's free. The trailer's free. Youth, recreational equipment, you name it. This is the most fun store you'll ever, ever find yourself in. It's Ecofun Motorsports in forest Lake, Highway 97, immediately west of 35, and down in Burnsville on the service road of life. And a really, I think it's dangerous. The website is amazing. Ecofunmotorsports.com all right. It's St. Patrick's Day. I used to think that I would have big plans. I do not have any big plans for that.

[Matthew]

When you left the house, were there some slow cooking brisket or corned beef?

[Chris Reavers]

No, no, I've never liked that meal. I, I. You are

[John Height]

Martian.

[Kenny Olson]

You know why?

[Joe Sucere (Author's Corner)]

Thank you very much and good evening. We hope you have fun tonight. We've got a little diddy that's very popular these days. So please sing with me if you know the lyrics. Ladies and gentlemen. It's very hard out there for a pimp when he's trying to get his money further in for the caddies and all the gas money spent well, there's a whole lot of bitches that are jumping ship out there yes, very hard out here for a pimp he's trying to get his money for the rent and for their caddies and all the gas money's been driving around because of all those ladies that are jumping ship in my eyes I've seen some crazy Things on the streets got a couple of holes working on the changes for me, But I gotta keep my game tight. Like Kobe on game night. Like taking a whore that don't know better, that just ain't right. I don't see people killed and seen people deal. I've seen people live in poverty with no meals. But listen, I've messed up where I live, but that's just how it is. It might be new to you, but it's been like this for years. It's blood, sweat, in tears when it came down to this. And I've been trying to get rich before I leave this year. I've been trying to have things, but it's hard for a pimp. I've been praying. But listen, it's very hard, I'll tell you, Very difficult to do you know how much gas is these days?

[Matthew]

2005.

[Chris Reavers]

That's what it was.

[Joe Sucere (Author's Corner)]

That's right. But, man, you listen up here.

[Chris Reavers]

What happened?

[Joe Sucere (Author's Corner)]

What a doctor. Props to all my Irish people out there. Listen up. I've got more where that came from. All right, ladies and gentlemen, now listen. It seems like I'm dodging bullets every day. All these people are hating me because I got hose on the tray. But I gotta get paid. I gotta stay above the water. I've gotta keep up with my hose when that stuff gets harder. North Memphis, where I'm from, 7th street, you should see it. Everybody all there. These girls think we prove things, but you know what? We've got a big head. Maybe they come hopping every night, but you know what? They don't end up being dead. I got a snow bunny. I got them all over. You got to pay the price. That's just the way the game goes. You got to keep it stripping, pimping. You got to have my hustle, right? Making changes to these things. That's right. Sing on, sweet sister. Oh, that gas money.

[Chris Reavers]

Gas money really got to.

[Matthew]

We know it a gas back then was about 4.

[Chris Reavers]

We know it wasn't St. Patrick's Day. 2020. Pretty much the official opening of the COVID season.

[Kenny Olson]

It was the weekend before that. And I know because it was my very last shift bartending. And it was because I think St Patrick's Day was the same day of the week.

[Chris Reavers]

It was Tuesday already.

[Kenny Olson]

And that was. They. They said, we're staying open for St. Patrick's Day. And then everything shut down that Monday.

[John Height]

Everybody got Covid.

[Kenny Olson]

No tenders. Took some bounty with them on the way home.

[Chris Reavers]

There you go. This. This was the day that. That. It.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, it was technically yesterday, I know,

[Chris Reavers]

but a lot of places stayed open.

[Matthew]

We made the decision to do the show from home.

[Chris Reavers]

Home, home.

[Matthew]

And then just you and I came in. Yeah. Or it was very clear. It wasn't this day, but it was around.

[Kenny Olson]

We did the shows in the studio for a little bit.

[Chris Reavers]

And then.

[Kenny Olson]

Then I think that week.

[Chris Reavers]

I didn't do it from home because of COVID I did it from home because I had some illness. That wasn't Covid.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay.

[Matthew]

You were special. Kenny. Did you hear that shit? He thinks he's above Covid.

[Chris Reavers]

Honest to God. It was.

[Matthew]

Everybody else have Covid, but It wasn't in St. Paul.

[Chris Reavers]

I know what it was.

[John Haidt]

History is written by the victors, you know, on this.

[John Height]

What was it?

[Matthew]

What do you think Think it was? Why do you think it wasn't Covet. I got coveted and it kicked my ass.

[Chris Reavers]

I had my ass kicked, but it wasn't Covet. Yeah, it was a different. It was Lovid.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, he's too cheap. He got the generic form of COVID

[John Haidt]

What is wrong with you that you can't be one of us? You're not special.

[Matthew]

Do you remember? No.

[Chris Reavers]

I can tell you what it was.

[John Haidt]

You do the same bathroom stuff we do. You had Covid, Joe.

[Chris Reavers]

I did. Not you. I thought I did.

[Matthew]

Why? Because. Why?

[John Haidt]

Because he didn't want it?

[Matthew]

No, because early on he got the top secret shot. Remember?

[Joe Sucere (Author's Corner)]

You had to go through the back

[Matthew]

cave and he was the kitchen, the service entrance.

[Chris Reavers]

See anything?

[John Haidt]

That's right. He did get the secret shot.

[Matthew]

He had to run through tunnels in the Mexico.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I remember.

[John Haidt]

They were going down there.

[Chris Reavers]

That's right.

[John Haidt]

And he was worried about getting robbed on his way in to get the secret shot.

[Chris Reavers]

I saved the voicemail from the doctor who ultimately told me what I had. Would you like to know what it is?

[John Height]

Blue.

[Chris Reavers]

Piper loves the red line.

[Kenny Olson]

Blue paper loves the red line.

[Chris Reavers]

Please reply. It wasn't Covet. In fact, he was at SARS 33. It was a very odd, rare deal.

[Matthew]

Yep. That's the way that was in the voicemail. You know, you got you a very odd, rare deal.

[Kenny Olson]

So in order to combat this, we're gonna need a check for.

[Matthew]

Yes. Yeah, exactly.

[Chris Reavers]

I don't want to jinx it by telling you. I don't want to get it again.

[Kenny Olson]

You were down.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

You were not. You were not good for it.

[Chris Reavers]

It wasn't Covid.

[Kenny Olson]

It was loaded. That was fun.

[Chris Reavers]

It wasn't loaded either.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what?

[Matthew]

It's been in the report.

[Chris Reavers]

Redacted.

[John Haidt]

What did he get? Or was it that horse tranquilizer shot, something like that.

[Matthew]

Or he got that fluoride from Trump.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, he was drinking. Pool cleaner.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Haidt]

Don't talk about this now. Only respectful people get this. You aren't special natural either.

[Kenny Olson]

So don't ask.

[Matthew]

Okay? But I'm good.

[Chris Reavers]

Go ahead. Keep it up.

[Kenny Olson]

Don't worry.

[Matthew]

I got it, guys.

[Chris Reavers]

Keep it up. Keep it up.

[John Haidt]

You might die.

[John Height]

But don't worry.

[John Haidt]

I'll be fine.

[Matthew]

The show will go on.

[Chris Reavers]

Only because it's gonna be here tomorrow.

[Kenny Olson]

That's all I care about.

[John Haidt]

Doesn't matter. As long as I'm here, I'll learn

[Josh Arnold]

how to run the board.

[Matthew]

How hard could it be?

[Chris Reavers]

Damn it. I'm gonna tell you what it was.

[Matthew]

Now we don't want to know. Now we don't want to know, do we? What's going up on the ride? What do you.

[Chris Reavers]

It was something I had never heard of, that's for sure.

[Matthew]

Anyway, this day in history. The 17th.

[Chris Reavers]

Thank you. May I. May I go through with that now? It was. They come to us all the way from everywhere. St. Patrick's Ireland, Penguin, Tanzania, the traveling Lymans. They're spending St. Patrick's Day in Australia. And it was on this day. We didn't do anything. Anything. We had one thing.

[Kenny Olson]

We were drinking green beer.

[Chris Reavers]

On March 17th in 1851. That's exactly what we were doing. St. Paul hosted the state's first St. Patrick's Day parade. Which gives a lie to what we started the show with because the current one started in 1967.

[Matthew]

I got it right here. Galvin and the Gang.

[Chris Reavers]

Although Irish immigration to St Paul did not peak until 1890, many Irish had already settled in town, working both as household servants and as laborers on the docks of the Upper Landing. And there was a big to do on this day in 1851. That's it for this day in history, except from Christendom, Maryland, I got this neat daily calendar. It was on this day, March 17, in 1930. 30, construction began on the tallest building in the world. That would have been the Empire State Building. Using an assembly line approach, workers rapidly assembled a steel frame. Just one year and 45 days later, the art deco Empire State building soared to 1250ft. The world's tallest skyscraper until the 1970s.

[Matthew]

That's the one where we get the pictures of the guys with the lunchbox box on there. Holy crap. Those are brass pairs.

[Chris Reavers]

On this day in sports disappointment history,

[Kenny Olson]

who would we lose to? 1.

[Chris Reavers]

There are no items posted for today.

[Matthew]

None time out. On March 17, 1970, Mary Tyler Moore was seen throughout Minneapolis filming the opening scenes. I just saw this in. Throwing her hat and going then with her Mustang and driving to Minneapolis on.

[Chris Reavers]

On St. Patrick's Day.

[Matthew]

On St. Patrick's Day in 1970.

[Chris Reavers]

Huh?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't like spunk.

[Matthew]

Yeah, you got spunk.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, thank you very much, G. Ellers.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes, thank you. And please do us a favor. If you have not done so already, hit the subscribe button.

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

All right. Glad that's working on the Garagelogic YouTube channel. If you're in the dark, you know, don't be in the dark like everybody else. I'm not exactly sure it's back. Yeah, well, here you go. Here's the deal. You can find us on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Xjasearch Garagelogic. And you can also watch the show every day starting right around noon on the Garagelogic YouTube channel. Matthew.

[Matthew]

And if you're a business owner and you're somehow still listening to this stupid podcast, congratulations. You've already proven you have excellent job. And I have a lot of people say, how do I get to advertise on the podcast? We gotta get in touch with our people. And that is getting. You can go to garagelogic.com when you advertise with GL. Your business will get 4000% improvement. Just kidding. The disclaimer is you will be successful. And the Garage Logicians that listen to this show love to patronize their advertisers. Anyway, just so you know, go to garagelogic.com and keyword partner to get in touch with us.

[Kenny Olson]

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. Yes, I use the wor 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 Logic. And boy, Josh, we got ourselves a big baseball game today. So I'm curious how much this has helped the likes of DraftKings and some of the prediction markets. And boy, oh boy, I know one of your favorite companies. Dick's is also seeing some gains too, aren't they?

[Josh Arnold]

Well, all those things are true. Let's start with baseball as you and I are are both big baseball fans and I don't know whether you or any of our listeners have have watched as much of the World Baseball Classic as I have. Oh, it's been phenomenal live or recorded. I just found this particular tournament not only to be fascinating but a lot of very good baseball and just a lot of excitement. I would say the stands were pretty full down in Miami for the last last two nights and a lot of celebration going on. Tonight's game, Venezuela versus the U.S. not something that I would have thought of. I was looking for the US vs. Japan in a replay of three years ago's final which had which had oh Itani striking out Mike Trout teammates facing one another for the championship as and we also like to see a replay of the Italy US Italy unfortunately lost last night to Venezuela. Looked like Italy not going to say had used up all their runs. They used up most of their runs last night against Venezuela. The betting markets and the predictions market I don't believe could have seen the outcome or even what the final is going to be. And the predictions markets have been very, very hot and are now facing a lot more scrutiny not only from we'll say from the government or any of the federal regulators but also a lot of the state regulators given the amount of sports betting that is going on. And numerous states have called the prediction markets actually sports betting markets and they need to be state regulated. Now that can help many of the sports, I'll say sports books not only in Las Vegas but also the online sports sports betting, Whether it be FanDuel owned by Flutter or favorite DraftKings, we'll see what happens. Both FanDuel and DraftKings have fired predictions markets companies to give them we'll say coverage in all 50 states and even parts of Canada. Question comes at least with DraftKings and probably to the score. The same with Flutter. What is the cost of acquisitions for for these gamblers this week? Now the the say both the predictions markets and the sports books are going to be hot with March Madness starting and that could be very interesting with bets on gold, the men's and the women's sides of the of the bracket. And speaking of let's say sports book and probably some bets going on now as to who the new owner of Caesars is going going to be as there's takeover activity potentially in that in that company. But as I go from you know DraftKings go back to DraftKings. They also have deal with ESPN. ESPN is owned by Disney. And today is Bob Iger of Disney's last last day in office. He came back two years ago to give Disney some better leadership. We'll see what transpires there. Disney stock is only up about $10 a share since Bob Iger reclaimed the spot. But it is cheap at least on a price to earnings basis. But they need we'll say a little better focus right now particularly on the spot that is making a lot of their money. That's their leisure entertainment business which focuses on their cruises and their and their park. And then of course there's old favorite Dick's Sporting Goods which had a beat and raised quarter and they they are considered the leader right now in youth youth sport and with spending on youth sport only going to continue to get bigger, I'll say Dick's is the place to go not only to not only for their stock but to try out the equipment whether that baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, golf or running. Dick's stores and particularly their new format stores have been doing a bang up business. We'll touch in the coming days. On the price of oil is currently about $95 a barrel up significantly from the last few weeks. But markets do seem to indicate at least the futures market do seem to indicate that come September price of oil will be down and down substantially. Meantime, I do believe the better focus is is on picking high quality growth stocks that right now are available at discounted prices.

[Kenny Olson]

Excellent advice as always Mr. Money Talk. You heard him gl ers. Now is the time for you to pick up the phone and make the call for that free 48 minute financial consultation. 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 rest of your day. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.

[Josh Arnold]

Look forward to it. Thanks Chris.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Chris Reavers]

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