3/2 War on Iran, leaving the question now what?

Summary

Garage Logic – March 2, 2026 Episode #1,727 — “War on Iran, leaving the question now what?”

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Overview

In this episode, Joe Soucheray (“The Mayor”) and the Garage Logic crew discuss the seismic implications of the new war on Iran, sparked by the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in a joint Israel-U.S. attack, and grapple with the “now what?” of Middle Eastern geopolitics. The conversation explores U.S. and Israeli motives and consequences, the succession crisis in Iran, Congress’ role in war declarations, and the shifting global energy landscape. The episode also features a deep dive into the impact of Great Lakes shipping on American history and industry, commentary on Minnesota politics, and classic Garage Logic banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. War on Iran: Political Leadership and Reactions

• Opening Analysis: U.S. Policy Responses
  • Joe Soucheray sets the scene with a summary of how different administrations claim they’d handle Iran and nuclear threats:
    • Kamala Harris, Joe Biden: “Don’t.”
    • Donald Trump: “I’m gonna bomb the [expletive] out of them.”
      “There you have the three answers.” (Joe Soucheray, 02:12)
• Role of Israel vs. America
  • Debate over whether the attack was done at Israel’s behest or both nations were deeply involved.
    “Well, it sounds like this was done at the behest of Israel.” (Joe Soucheray, 02:42)
• Aftermath and Succession
  • Questions over whether Iran has a solid plan for succession after the clerics.
  • Iranians dancing in the street at the leader’s death, the complexity of selecting a “supreme leader.”
• Cynicism and Fatigue
  • Soucheray expresses fatigue over ongoing Iran hostilities. “Are you in who gives a bleep anymore mode? Boy, I really am.” (Joe Soucheray, 04:25)
  • Reflections on decades of treaties, betrayals, and lies:
    “It goes back since time immemorial.” (Ken, 04:43)

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2. The “Now What?”: Consequences, Uncertainties & Congress’ Role

• Will a Puppet Government Be Installed?
  • Speculation about U.S. or Israeli strategies repeating past mistakes.
• The Pandora’s Box Effect
  • Soucheray compares the war’s aftermath to “Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead” from Wizard of Oz, questioning if killing the leader will bring peace or unleash chaos (44:18, 45:04). “I’m getting a Wizard of Oz vibe. Did Trump think this was Ding Dong, the witch is dead...?” (Joe Soucheray, 44:18)
• Congress and Whataboutism
  • Deep debate about presidential powers in war versus need for Congressional approval.
  • Clips of Nancy Pelosi from 2011 on presidential authority (49:24).
    “You’re playing Whataboutism... Obama did the same thing. He did. He went off and bombed somebody and didn’t get approval.” (Joe Soucheray, 49:42)
  • General consensus: Congress’ duty to declare wars is being bypassed, and citizens don’t feel represented. “Congress has failed its duty.” (Joe Soucheray, 48:01)

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3. Energy, Oil & the Strait of Hormuz

• Oil Market Impact
  • John Haidt details how Israeli and U.S. strikes led to Iran’s retaliation, affecting world oil prices and refinery shutdowns (Saudi Arabia’s Aramco and possibility in Qatar).
  • “A wider war could severely disrupt tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz—a vital shipping route...” (John Haidt, 43:48)
  • U.S. efforts to increase oil production may be futile if routes are blocked.

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4. Author’s Corner: “Gales of November”

• Joe’s Book Review Segment (05:34–13:57)
  • Insights from John Bacon’s “Gales of November,” about shipping on the Great Lakes and the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
    • Impact of Great Lakes shipping on the U.S. industrial revolution.
    • Historical safety measures: “Plimsoll Line” and chronic overloading. “They always figured out ways to fudge the plimsoll line to get another 2,000 pounds of pellets on there…” (Joe Soucheray, 08:28)
    • The scale of ore ships: “The Fitz loaded carried enough taconite pellets to build 7,000 cars.” (Joe Soucheray, 09:22)
    • Industrial greed versus safety and evolving standards.
    • Personal family memories of shipping’s cultural role in the Midwest.

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5. Minnesota Politics: Voter ID, Government Fraud & Local Oddities

• Voter ID Frustrations
  • Listeners and hosts question why ID is required for solid waste drop-off in Minneapolis but not to vote. “You have to show your ID to drop off solid waste at a Minneapolis transfer station, but you don’t need that to vote.” (Joe Soucheray, 25:35)
• Government Oversight and Fraud
  • Detailed discussion of bureaucracy chasing “small fry” (e.g., auto plates, collector cars) but under-policing “big fry” (e.g., social services fraud).
    “Where in the hell is the intensity of the driver’s license people?” (Joe Soucheray, 32:23)
• Stonewalling on Welfare Fraud
  • Governor Walz’s office is criticized for not complying with congressional subpoenas about fraud: “Minnesota Governor’s staff has not turned over documents... since September of 2024.” (Joe Soucheray, 34:19)

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6. Local Life & Banter: Garage Problems, Shipping Scene, State History

• Garage Life
  • Tips for garage doors, garage floor mats, and coping with Minnesota winter chores.
• Great Lakes Shipping Today
  • Current state of lake freighters in Duluth, local shipping community interests.
• State History Facts
  • Highlights from “This Day in History” in Minnesota: from German societies and Mennonite migration to the first nonstop flight around the globe (1949).

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7. News Highlights

• International Events
  • Iran attack, succession issues, U.S. and Israeli strategy.
  • Oil pipeline and refining disruptions.
  • Recent mass shooting in Austin, TX being investigated for terrorism (55:24).
• Entertainment & Culture
  • Eric Clapton concert announced.
  • Lunar eclipse—“blood moon”—scheduled, but possibly obscured by clouds.
  • Notable music world deaths: Neil Sedaka, Travis Womack, John Hammond Jr.
  • Movies: Scream 7’s blockbuster opening, “One Battle After Another” wins Producer’s Guild award.

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Notable Quotes

• On U.S.-Iran policy divergence:
  “Don’t. And I’m gonna bomb the [expletive] out of them.” (Joe Soucheray, 02:35)
• On energy and nuclear moratoriums:
  “Minnesota power companies can’t even plan for new nuclear energy. It’s the cleanest, safest and most reliable carbon-free energy on earth.” (Joe Soucheray, 24:47)
• On Great Lakes shipping:
  “There would be no Detroit…no Cleveland…no Duluth. The power that ships transform[ed] the transportation of ore… It was all powered by greed.” (Joe Soucheray, 06:54)
• On government bureaucracy:
  “Where in the hell is the intensity of the driver’s license people?” (Joe Soucheray, 32:23)
• On the potential for wider war:
  “All I’m seeing is you got some hornet’s nest in a Pandora’s box here.” (Joe Soucheray, 46:37)
• On Congressional responsibility:
  “The president has a responsibility to convince Congress that he’s right. I want you congressional people on board.” (Joe Soucheray, 48:50)
• On public apathy:
  “I don’t think the majority of citizens in the state pay attention to it… It’ll have to get bad enough where your tax statement will open your eyes…” (Joe Soucheray, 36:46)

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Segments & Timestamps

• Opening & Political Reactions to Iran War: 01:32–04:27
• War Aftermath, Iranian Succession: 04:27–05:05
• Author’s Corner – ‘Gales of November’: 05:10–13:57
• Discussion: ID for Garbage vs. Voting: 25:33–29:01
• DMV & Bureaucracy Issues: 29:01–33:02
• State Government Criticism & Fraud: 33:02–36:00
• Iran War News Recap (John Haidt): 41:25–44:18
• Congressional Authority & Whataboutism: 47:55–50:53
• Local Life, Garage Banter, Shipping: 38:33–41:25, 68:30–70:19
• Minnesota History & Sports: 70:28–74:47

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Memorable Moments

• “Wizard of Oz” parallel to Iran’s regime collapse:
  (44:18–45:04)
• Personal anecdotes on Great Lakes ships and family road trips:
  (15:19–16:43)
• Running joke: “You have to show your ID to throw away solid waste but not to vote.”
  (25:33–25:46)

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Tone & Style

The episode features classic Garage Logic wit and skepticism, freewheeling debate, and the distinctive “regular guy” lens applied to geopolitics, local politics, and everyday life. There’s a blend of humor (sometimes dark), sober philosophy, and Minnesota-flavored nostalgia.

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Summary prepared for listeners and non-listeners alike—catch the next Garage Logic episode for more grit, gripes, and gumption.

Transcript

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Ken]

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[Chris Reivers]

Hail the FL 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, John Height in the newsroom and of course the rookie here is your Flashlight King fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Susherer. I I think the new war

[Ken]

in

[Joe Soucheray]

Iran could be summed up by Kamala Harris being asked, well, what will you do if Iran threatens to bring the nuke terror? And then Joe Biden was asked, what will you do to bring the nuke terror? And then Trump was asked, and this was during various campaigns, you want to. The first one you hear is Harris. Then you hear Biden.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes, sir.

[Joe Soucheray]

Then you hear Trump.

[John Haidt]

What's the message to Iran? Don't.

[Joe Soucheray]

What is your privilege to Iran in this moment?

[Tim]

Don't.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm gonna bomb the out of them.

[John Haidt]

It's true.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't care. I don't care. There you have the three answers.

[Ken]

Got it.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's what? Well, hey, did he lie to you? Did he lie to you?

[Ken]

Was that really him?

[John Haidt]

Yes. How much?

[Joe Soucheray]

Don't. And I'm gonna bomb the out of them.

[Ken]

How much of this. Who had the bigger role here, Israel or America?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, it sounds like this was done at the behest of Israel.

[Ken]

Yeah, but they were certainly involved.

[Joe Soucheray]

Of course. I, I just don't.

[Ken]

Pretty good intel. They took out everybody. Jeez, there's nobody left.

[Joe Soucheray]

They took out a bad guy. But I think a real important question is now what? Yeah, I'm sure.

[Ken]

Are they going to do the typical put in a puppet government?

[Tim]

Well, those clerics like Greenland were going

[Joe Soucheray]

to take it over. Those clerics probably had a pretty well thought out secession plan, didn't they. Okay, I don't know. I mean, they knew that that bearded fruitcake was a target, so they had to figure out who's going to take over when we lose this. The old timer goes, you know, I don't know. I. I don't know. I don't know.

[Ken]

You know, it's fun. Is seeing the Iranians dancing in the street. That. That's.

[Tim]

That's fun, you know, how do you apply and what are the questions for a supreme leader? How do you. How do you filter that through? You got to be not just a leader, a supreme leader.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that's the thing. You got to be pretty supreme.

[Tim]

You gotta.

[Ken]

What are your thoughts on genocide? That would be the first question. Are you good with genocide for it?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, sure.

[Tim]

What's my number?

[Chris Reivers]

Hold on.

[Tim]

What's my number?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I have a question.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

When you're protesting, do you trade in your Palestinian flag for an ira? Like, how does that work?

[Joe Soucheray]

I saw a lot of people interviewed over the weekend, even locally, wearing the checkered tablecloth hat.

[Tim]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

Do they hand those out? Do you order it on Amazon?

[Joe Soucheray]

I think you can get them at the store.

[John Haidt]

I got you.

[Joe Soucheray]

You can get them. I don't know what to just say about it.

[Chris Reivers]

Are you in who gives a bleep anymore mode?

[Joe Soucheray]

Boy, I really am.

[Ken]

How many years have we gone back and forth with that country? With all the treaties and the nonsense and the discussions and the lies, all the lies from Iran, just non stop lies.

[Joe Soucheray]

It goes back to the Shah.

[Ken]

It goes back since time immemorial.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, wasn't that Royce's suggestion for your book?

[Tim]

To sell more books?

[Chris Reivers]

Yes, sell more books for Waterlight down here.

[Tim]

Old man hated the Shah. No, hated. He hated.

[Joe Soucheray]

But the ayatollah probably sell a few books.

[Tim]

He'll be on a watch list.

[John Haidt]

But it's all right.

[Joe Soucheray]

Can I have some Author's Corner?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, you did prepare me. I didn't know it was gonna be an Author's Corner.

[Joe Soucheray]

Just. You don't have to go overboard when

[Chris Reivers]

you ask for author's cor, you get

[Joe Soucheray]

just a brief thought. I think I mentioned some of it.

[Tim]

Ladies and gentlemen of Garage Logic, it's time for another segment of Author's Corner with Joe Sucre. Author's Corner. Sometimes it gets a little bit crazy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, thank you. Author's Corner.

[Tim]

Suchi style.

[Ken]

Who will it be? Next?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, thank you.

[Ken]

Who is it?

[Joe Soucheray]

I mentioned Friday I was reading Gales of November. Oh, yeah. I rarely read nonfiction. I should read more nonfiction.

[Tim]

Why don't you read nonfiction?

[Joe Soucheray]

Because I love the escapism of fiction. But this gales of November, it's written by a guy named John Bacon. B A C O N. I recommend it, but you would think you couldn't learn anything new about the Fitz. And I'm sure there's 30 or 40 books written about the Edmund Fitzgerald. But this book, it's basically. It's a history of shipping on the Great Lakes. And I love the way he's structured the book because, you know, I'm on page, I don't know, 150 or whatever. We're building up to the voyage of. The fateful voyage of the Fits on November 9, 1975. But what we're learning is I will never have a better context for that voyage than what this book prepares you for.

[Tim]

Is it a list, a gradual list chronologically of ships that went down?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, it's how important ship. There would be no industry in this country without the Great Lakes. It's that revelatory to. It's an eye opener. There would be no Detroit. There would be no Toledo. There would be no Cleveland. Duluth. There would be no Duluth. The. The. The power that ships transform the transportation of ore. The ships won the battle of transportation because they could just hold so much more than trucks or trains. It was all powered by greed. I mean, there's no getting around it. The boats, as recently as 1975, the safety measures were extraordinarily slim. They had something called. Did I tell you Friday about the Plimsoll line? Did I mention that?

[John Haidt]

I don't think so.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, there's the water line on a boat. Yeah, right. That it floats at its water line. But then there's something on these freighters called the Plimsoll Line. He was a British politician in the 19th century, ship safety to heart, and tried to introduce legislation in the British parliament because too many boats were sinking then. And the Plimsoll line is the line below which the boat cannot sink. You can't go below the Plimsoll Line. And this was a safety measure.

[John Haidt]

Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

And what happened when.

[Ken]

Loaded.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right, loaded. And what happened was these guys always figured out ways to fudge the plim saw line to get another 2,000 pounds of pellets on there, get more money.

[Ken]

Oh, my God, you're talking corn farmers during a harvest into the truck.

[Joe Soucheray]

And so, you know, they. They'd front load the wet stuff on top, right? They'd front load it a certain way or they'd load it in the back a certain way. And all of a sudden when it left the plim saw line had to be recorded. They were good. And then all of a sudden that stuff would start shifting and they'd be below the Plimsoll line. I'm learning so much about shipping in the Great Lakes and it is fascinating. It is fascinating.

[Chris Reivers]

I apologize, you have completed the book already.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, I'm not. About halfway through. Not even halfway through. And it's just extraordinary. It's just the Fitz loaded carried enough taconite pellets to build 7,000 cars.

[John Haidt]

Wow.

[Joe Soucheray]

And it's quite true that you'd go to one end of Ford's River Rouge plant, disgorge the pellets, that's a two mile long plant. And out the other end came a car. That's true. That's not. That's not hyperbole or bromide. That's the way it worked. If you unloaded. Sometimes you unloaded at Zug island, sometimes you unloaded in Toledo, depending where you were instructed by the home office. And in its day, the fits it was built by the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company as an investment. They had nothing to do with shipping.

[Chris Reivers]

They just wanted to make.

[Joe Soucheray]

They just built a boat because then you leased the boat to a leasing agency. The leasing agency hires the captain and the crew and you just sit back and start collecting your share of the checks. And when it was launched, it was state of the art. Not necessarily for safety, state of the art aesthetically and for comfort, you know, mahogany staterooms and marvelous kitchen and a wonderful chef and TVs and game rooms for the crew and on and on and on. But then you start really, really start understanding as you read it what these ships were like. They each, all the freighters had tunnels that you could take during bad weather to go from the bow to the stern in case you needed to travel up to the front of the. It's 729ft long. So you. I gotta go see Fred at the front. And if it was raining or snowing or hard winds, you'd take the tunnel and the tunnel was lit by light bulbs all the way. And you'd be walking along and the light bulbs way ahead of you would completely disappear.

[Tim]

Oh, man.

[Joe Soucheray]

And then they'd reappear. That's how much the boat flexed in the water. Oh, it's just amazing.

[Tim]

See you.

[John Haidt]

I couldn't do that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Anyway, that's. That's today's Author's corner. I recommend that. It's called Gales of November. And it's just not the same story of the fit it builds up you. By the time the fit set sails on this book, I will be really knowledgeable about the entire context in which it left, why it left, when it did, what it was going to be like on the lake. And you know, there was bonuses to be made. That last run was worth a lot of money.

[Ken]

Last run of the season.

[Joe Soucheray]

The last run of the season was worth a lot of money to the captain, the crew, the leasing company, the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance which built it and then sublet it.

[Chris Reivers]

So is this suggesting that that many safeguards were not followed then? Is that what it's leading up to?

[Joe Soucheray]

It's more to the point where unlike today when we do everything with utmost caution, it was just a freer time, it was a looser time. I don't think they were designing the boats and saying to themselves let's really make this cheap so people die. No, that's not the case. It's just the way they were so long and so narrow and so flat bottomed. All of which was designed to hold as much taconite as possible. That it was a known risk factor. If you were a crew, you signed on, you were paid really well. But it was a known risk factor that these things didn't handle 25 foot waves very well. A lot of them did and a lot of them survived. But you got a storm bad enough, those suckers would break in half.

[Ken]

I just sent you a link to the Duluth harbor cams. There's cameras in both the Duluth Canal and the Superior Canal. I believe the, the ship you're talking about went out through the Superior Canal, did it not?

[Joe Soucheray]

It did.

[Ken]

There are six freighters currently in winter layup in the, in the, in the canal. Duluth harbor right now. One called the Indiana harbor that's 1,000 foot long. Burns harbor made in 80. Also 1,000ft. The Mesabi Miner made in 77. That's 1,004ft. Oh, here's a little one. A dinghy. The John J. Boland. 680ft.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's nothing.

[Ken]

I bet you've heard of the Lee A. Tregurtha.

[Joe Soucheray]

I have not.

[Ken]

That's 826ft. And the honorable James L. Overstar is 806. I don't know where the Elmer Anderson is.

[Joe Soucheray]

806 then that's. That was built post 1975.

[Ken]

1959. 806.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wow. One year later the Fitz was built in 57. 58 was launched 6-7-58 to thousands of people. And then when it would come through the Soo Locks, it was a tourist Destination. People would go there with their families in the summer in their cars, and then the fits would come through.

[Ken]

Well, that's what happens at Duluth.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's right.

[Ken]

It's really amazing to me. And if you click on the Duluth Canal Cam, there's a sidebar of commentary. And all these ship nerds from around the world like you're talking about are checking in and talking about it, and they're really, really excited about it. It's fun to watch.

[Joe Soucheray]

There's no one left in my family for me to ask this, but it must have been a very familiar part of American consciousness that this shipping extravaganza on the Great Lakes was building the country or was in great part responsible. They were building a B1, B52 bomber once an hour during World War II. It must have been. I told you this before, when I was a 10 or 11. They piled at the time. How many kids do we have? Six. I don't know. Well, what were you saying? We had six at the time. They piled six of us into a ford country square and we took off. Went up the north shore, went across the top of the lake in Canada on a highway that must have just opened. And we went to the Soo Locks to stop and watch these boats go through.

[Tim]

Oh.

[Joe Soucheray]

Would have been cool as a kid. And then I saw them again when I went around Lake Superior on a motorcycle in 2004. Stopped at the Soo Locks. I want to go back now that I know what I'm reading and watch those boats go through the locks.

[Tim]

That would be cool.

[Ken]

So the Fitz was hauling taconite. Yeah, but taconite didn't come into existence on a mass produced scale until the mid-50s. So during the war, World War II, they must have just been hauling straight up iron ore. Huh?

[Joe Soucheray]

Iron ore until the ore was exhausted. And it was a University of Minnesota professor who invented the way to get that said, we can still get the iron out of the taconite.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

And then there was the great. The book hasn't covered this yet. I don't even know if it will. But there was the great reserve mining lawsuit in Minnesota because the mining companies were dumping taconite waste into Lake Superior. Miles Lord prevailed over that. You guys are a little young to remember that. But in the mid-70s, that was probably the country's first and most major environmental test. Environmental trial. And Lord 1 and they had to clean up their act and quit dumping stuff in Lake Superior.

[Ken]

Were they able to use it then as taconite or was it the whatever

[Joe Soucheray]

they dumped was beyond use, for it

[Ken]

was the waste from taconite production. Okay, so it was the spoils.

[Joe Soucheray]

And the towns back then were all enriched. I mean, you go there now and look at the auditorium in Hibbing or. Or, you know, the money that was pumped into these towns was incredible. I might have told you Friday. In the early part of the 20th century, Muskegon, Michigan, was home to 40 millionaires. Well, that's a lot of money in the 1915 millionaires. And they were all getting. It was all timber, copper and ore, and it built the country. There's not a doubt in my mind that what I'm realizing from this, Bacon's work, which is extensive research, we wouldn't be here. This wouldn't exist. That's how crucial and important steel was to building the country.

[Tim]

It's so sad because Grandpa Mahalski went down to Winona and saw the future

[Joe Soucheray]

as ice instead of.

[Tim]

At the same time.

[Joe Soucheray]

Instead of taconite, he was gonna sell ice.

[Tim]

He was gonna sell ice in Winona.

[Joe Soucheray]

Ice was important.

[Tim]

It was. But not like taconite and timber.

[Chris Reivers]

Ice out.

[Tim]

Yeah, right.

[Ken]

You know, they also ship it right out of Two Harbors.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And didn't they for a while? Ship it right out of. Is it Silver?

[Joe Soucheray]

Silver Bay.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. And it. You know, it got to the point where as the technology improved, the pellets would come down from the mine and go directly into the ship. I just did. I just gave you your. You wanted a moment of silence?

[Chris Reivers]

No, I need.

[Joe Soucheray]

I need you to do an answer.

[Chris Reivers]

Whenever I don't. I just. Whenever you were done.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. I'm not done. That's it. That's my. That's just Author's Corner. It's time for. No, that's fine.

[Tim]

Here's Joe Sucere.

[Joe Soucheray]

Let's go.

[Ken]

Well, you're gonna have to tell us, as the book precedes, whatever happened to the Edmund Fitzgerald Joe's Daily Book Report.

[Joe Soucheray]

I love it.

[Chris Reivers]

I need.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I haven't gotten there yet. It would be my suspicion, based on everything else I've read, that it broke in half. What? Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Spoiler alert.

[Tim]

You're gonna get the book.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's shallowed.

[Ken]

There are bars in Superior where you can go and talk to guys that talked to the crew of the Fits before they got on that ship.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, the book. Bacon interviews lots of guys who worked on the Fits. They just weren't on it that summer.

[Ken]

I wonder if this guy is the guy that was on Steven Rinella's Meat Eater podcast, because he's Equally obsessed with this topic.

[Tim]

But those guys that went on the fits that night wouldn't. It wouldn't have been eerie for. That was just another gig, right? They wouldn't have had a preconceived notion that. Oh, boy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, there's a great story about that. What one of the guys in the crew bought in Duluth, bought a diamond ring for his wife for their 25th wedding anniversary. And for some reason he gave it to a friend to mail to her. He did not bring it with him on the boat. And it remained one of the unknown mysteries. What did he know? Well, he didn't know anything, but for some reason, he had a trusted friend get that ring to his wife and he did not take it with him on the boat.

[Tim]

You know, I know we just lost John, but I bought this ring for you and I wanted.

[Chris Reivers]

That's exactly, exactly what I was thinking.

[John Haidt]

John.

[Tim]

John told me he would have wanted it this way.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, hey, such.

[Ken]

Don't get distracted. Is it the Gales of November by John Bacon?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes.

[Ken]

Okay, I gotta send you another link then. Here's. I'm sending you a link to Meat Eater podcast from three months ago where Renella, talk to this guy. I've watched this interview.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, we could have Bacon on. You should. I think I want to.

[Ken]

Yeah. Well, you should watch him on Meat Eater. He was really good. Really fascinating.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, it's a fascinating story made more so, by the way. My mind is being refreshed just about the history of the country. This goes back to voyagers creating 30 foot canoes loaded with furs. Trying to train.

[Tim]

I thought you were gonna say mining. It's loaded with pelts.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. Out on that lake. It's just.

[Ken]

Not only that, but some of these knuckleheads, they came. They came from Hudson's Bay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes.

[Ken]

So they had to do a little humping on dry land.

[Chris Reivers]

So the guy that gave the ring,

[Joe Soucheray]

you know that that ring story is a very.

[Chris Reivers]

It's very touching.

[Joe Soucheray]

A quiet, cherished and good story. And it didn't need your sophomoric hijinks. And you got that from looking at him. And don't look at him.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm not supposed to look.

[Joe Soucheray]

Don't look at him.

[John Haidt]

Sorry.

[Joe Soucheray]

And you quit sending signals back and forth. How funny you think that is?

[Chris Reivers]

How about that garage door?

[Tim]

Yeah. What about that noisy garage door? How do I tune her up?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, no, no, no.

[John Haidt]

Oh.

[Joe Soucheray]

Remember when Minnesota had affordable energy somewhat. And it was reliable? That's a time long before Wallsey signed the 100% renewable mandate forcing all of our electricity come from wind and solar by 2040. What that's done is drive up the price of existing energy. Your electric bill is climbing, but here' Minnesota power companies can't even plan for new nuclear energy. It's the cleanest, safest and most reliable carbon free energy on earth. But a state law puts a gag order on nukes. We can't do it here. We're one of only nine states with a nuclear moratorium. The rest of the world is sprinting towards advanced nuclear. Germany tried the net zero renewables only plan and now they got some of the highest electricity prices on the planet. Let's not repeat the failure. Go to americanexperiment.org we're thankful we have these people in our midst studying this. Go to americanexperiment.org and hit take action. Tell your representative it's time to free the nukes and restore reliable, affordable energy in Minnesota. It's a great think tank. We're lucky to have them. AmericanExperiment.org hit take action. All right. Bert writes just a note. You are required to produce ID to drop off solid waste at a Minneapolis transfer station. Think about that.

[Ken]

That's true. I've had to do that many times.

[Joe Soucheray]

You have to show your ID to drop off solid waste at a Minneapolis transfer station, but you don't need that to vote.

[Ken]

I have another one along I can blow. Bert, I apologize for blowing you out of the water here with what I'm about to say because you know how much I love you. They do that because you get one or free trips a season. After that, you have to pay for the load. Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, I've heard the argument against voter ID being that voting is a right and you shouldn't have to provide papers for your right. Well, and then you say, well, look at. And then they'll compare it to flying on an airplane. Isn't flying on an airplane a right? I can go to the airport and buy a ticket. I have a right to do that. And the airline has a right to see my id. The airline? I don't think the airline has a right to say, we're not going to sell you a ticket, because wouldn't I then have a lawsuit for discrimination? What? Under what grounds could the airline look at me at a ticket counter and say, no, we're not selling you a ticket to Chicago.

[Tim]

They couldn't. They can't.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, they could, but then I'd have a beef. Right. I have a right to buy a ticket from your Airline if. Yes. So I don't buy this. It's a right. Bs we need the ID for everything else in the world. I have a right to buy a car, don't I? The dealer can say to me, no, we're not selling you a car. But again, I would have. I would have recourse, right? Depending why. So I have a right to buy a car. I have a right to buy an airplane ticket. I have a right to travel on your airline. And in exchange for that, yes, I must provide you. Hang on.

[Tim]

Driving is a privilege. It's not a right. I don't know what that does to any theory, but if you have a driver's license, it's a privilege, not a right.

[Joe Soucheray]

Literally right.

[Tim]

Am I not right?

[Joe Soucheray]

The way I look at it is it's a right. But in exchange for that right, I have to pay for a license. I have to have license plates on my car. The car registered with the state.

[John Haidt]

By definition, if it's a right, you don't need a license.

[Ken]

I purposely, I purposely did not bring up the driving right thing because I didn't want to throw a spoke in Joe's momentum.

[Joe Soucheray]

I've already fallen off the bike, throwing a stick. I'm laying on the curb.

[Ken]

Matthew just got off the biggest stick he could, crammed it right into the spokes.

[Joe Soucheray]

I flipped over the handlebar.

[Ken]

Joke went sailing over.

[Tim]

I didn't do it to dis derail you.

[Chris Reivers]

And I didn't look at him.

[Tim]

Yeah, that's why you're not laughing.

[Joe Soucheray]

Anyway, it is kind of fun.

[Ken]

I'm still with you, buddy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thanks, Ken.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Kenny. Yes.

[Tim]

The fact you have to produce ID to throw away solid waste and you

[Joe Soucheray]

don't have to vote, it is kind of funny.

[Tim]

Yeah, right? Yeah, right? Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

You have to have an ID for all these things.

[Tim]

That's what I'm saying.

[Joe Soucheray]

Graham writes, hail the flashlight King. Hail you. You'll recall I wrote recently about the non English speaking truck driver who delivered my collector car. Remember that? I brought that up and then he got back to me. By the way, he's a Volkswagen nut and he bought himself a different bug.

[Tim]

Was he like to buy a 2009 that just hit $150,000?

[Joe Soucheray]

No. And he writes, well, the saga continues. After dishing out a total of some 350 bucks for tax register registration fees and plates on this 20 year old vehicle, including recently deciding to go crazy and pay another one $13 for personalized plates, I get a letter from the DMV, which for some reason is called the DVS here in our lovely state seeking to stop a supposed fraud. What would the fraud be? Well, they won't let anyone get collector plates unless they know the person also has a regular, much higher taxed vehicle that they use for general transportation. Now, leaving aside the fact that I swear the clerk in the DVS office asked for and got that information from me when I applied in person for the personalized collector plates, I find it hilarious that someone in the DVS home office is ignoring that and digging their heels in to make sure a long standing Minnesota taxpayer is not scamming the state out of 100 bucks or two. This while the daycare and and autism fraudsters frolic all over town in their BMWs and Range Rovers and go on lavish vacations with their millions. Well, this reminds me of what we said a few weeks ago. We need a new way to fund the various redundant public programs that we have too many of and we do not have working in the Department of Human Services, for example, anyone apparently as tenacious as driver's license people, they're not going to let you get away with anything. This guy has personalized plates and you got to demonstrate to them that you have another vehicle.

[Ken]

But you guys realize it's the state, it's not the poor bastards working at the office they're just in. And all of this has come about in the last five, ten years where they've really cracked down hard at the DMV about these tiny little things that we used to get away with. An example, three, four years ago, I got a pickup truck for free, but it needed a lot of work. I went in there like a rube, thinking I could put down, you know, the value of the truck free. And I had an argument with the lady and she goes, you got to give me a price. And I said, okay, it's worth a thousand dollars. She goes, no, you have to give me a price of what it's worth when it's running. And I just made up a price. I said, well, I'm going to spend about $4,000 on it. So the value of the truck was put down at 4,000. She, she was happy with that, but she said, don't be surprised if somebody up the chain contacts you about that number.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay? All of which I have no issue with. That's.

[Ken]

Oh, I have huge issues with that.

[Joe Soucheray]

But my point is that isn't done in any other agency. You're right.

[Ken]

You're right about that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Ken]

You can't go in there and say, I got a hundred dollar Junker? No.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hi. I just opened an autism clinic. I have an office in the Griggs building. I call it Acme Butterfly Autism Care. And I need a hundred grand. Okay, here's your check. Where in the hell is the intensity of the driver's license, people?

[Chris Reivers]

What?

[Joe Soucheray]

And the Star Tribune. God love them.

[Tim]

Do we have to?

[Joe Soucheray]

No. They have a front page story today on the new Human Services head. She got the gig full time. Shaheen Shereen Gandhi.

[Ken]

Yep, yep.

[Joe Soucheray]

And this story is. Is everything. It's written in every possible way to benefit the walls administration. We're really going to get on it now. She says that these kinds of cliches we're really going to crack. Sherene, you got 20 housing programs alone. I'd be more respectful of you if you would admit to the public that we can't even keep track of this stuff. We have too many problems, we have too many programs. I have more respect for. Instead they print this front page story of we're going to make things right. You're too late. I'd have more respect for her if she said no. We screwed up. This should have been done along the way.

[Chris Reivers]

This is a bleep show.

[Joe Soucheray]

And here's what we're gonna do now. Well, it's. Here's what we're gonna do now without the other stuff.

[John Haidt]

Right.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I don't believe her anyway. And not cause I think she's a crook. It's because I don't think anyone can control an agency with 2,300 employees in about 1,000 different redundant programs. That's the problem. Anyway. Where was I?

[Chris Reivers]

Fraud is a long forgotten thing for everybody except me.

[Joe Soucheray]

Really? Well, let me. Let me touch on that. Let me. Let me touch on that. Except for you, huh, Tim? The Minnesota Governor's staff has not turned over documents concerning fraud that were subpoenaed by a congressional committee in September of 2024.

[Chris Reivers]

You're kidding.

[Joe Soucheray]

This is Representative Tim Wahlberg wrote to the Governor. The Wahls administration is actively stonewalling a congressional probe into welfare fraud. The House and Education Workforce Committee said last week in a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News foundation and reprinted by Alpha. Minnesota governor's staff has not turned over documents the committee subpoenaed more than a year ago concerning fraud. Walz administration responded to the House committee's 2024 subpoena with incomplete documents that excluded text messages between the Governor and his staff. And the committee is now also asking for records of communications related to his handling of congressional requests. Walz's office did not respond for comment. This has been going on a long time and Walls is still complicit in hiding it. However, allegedly. This is ridiculous. You want to play that clip again from Tim?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, sure. I didn't know we were gonna have to queue that up right here. And governor, the floor is yours.

[Joe Soucheray]

Fraud is a long forgotten thing for everybody except me. Well, it's been forgotten Since September of 2024, Tim. Apparently there's some things you could turn over that might help us get to the bottom.

[Chris Reivers]

The sad part is, though, when that complete buffoon utters that gibberish to the public, there's people that buy it.

[Joe Soucheray]

There is, Chris. It's a shame. But that's true. That's true. Why don't we take a time off?

[Ken]

Do they buy it or do they just go along with it? And are they complicit in it? And they're happy. That waltz said it. You know, you're doing a good job covering it up, buddy. That kind of thing.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'll give you my answer to that. I don't think the majority of citizens in the state pay attention to it.

[Ken]

That's the unfortunate truth.

[Chris Reivers]

And realize how bad it actually is.

[Joe Soucheray]

And it'll have to get bad enough where your tax statement will open your eyes because we have to pay for these mistakes and have been. Yeah, you know what?

[Ken]

Yeah, GL and now Crabby, the Krabby Coffee Shop. We together are the squeaky hinge. When it comes to. When it comes to fraud, we will not shut up about it. You know what? Squeaky hinges get nothing.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, they get deep creep.

[Ken]

Yeah, Deep Creep, brother. And you're not going to find a squeaky hinge anywhere on Jackass Ranch. At least not in the near future. I went crazy over the weekend. Started with a quick squirt on one truck door. Turned into kind of an obsessive spraying of every single hinge on the place. I cracked open a fresh can of Deep Creep from Seafoam. Lost my mind. Ten minutes later, everything smelled like Deep Creep. It keeps things moving freely. And if it doesn't break free, that really crusty rusty nut. Don't give up. Give it some heat. Get out that propane torch, warm it up really good, then soak it in Deep Creep again. It doesn't need to be red hot. Just get it, get it, get it hot. Reheated again and again and keep giving it dowsings between heats. Eventually, that rusty nut, that. That rusty bolt that's going to come out. That's the magic of Deep Creep. It creeps deeper than any other product on the shelf. Make sure you always have a can or two at your estate. It's available where all fine shop chemicals are sold. Just another fantastic product from our friends. That's Seafoam.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, may I tell you real quickly that I unstored one of the fun cars yesterday.

[Ken]

Oh, good.

[Joe Soucheray]

March 1st. I couldn't wait any longer. Yeah, it was stored with Seafoam. And it's not hyperbole. It started with the touch of the button.

[Ken]

It was just waiting to start.

[Joe Soucheray]

It started right up and off I went.

[Ken]

You'll look tillard.

[Chris Reivers]

And she fired up.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yep, yep, yep.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[John Haidt]

Thanks, Joe. North American Banking Company bringing you this news. The big news, of course, over the weekend, the attack on Iran by Israel and the U.S. iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in the attack. The head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps also believed killed alongside dozens of other senior leaders. Khamenei, an 86 year old hardline cleric, had ruled Iran since 1989, building the country into a regional economic and military power. Despite his age, he had not publicly revealed a succession plan and the country currently now is being led by an interim three person council framed as a preemptive strike. More than 1,000 targets were hit as of this morning. Iranian state media said there were more than 200 people who had been killed. Four US troops have been killed since the fighting began. President Trump had earlier warned more casualties were likely. As the campaign unfolds, he said, sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it's likely to be more, but we'll do everything possible with that be the case. Five have also been seriously wounded, according to the US Military command. Meanwhile, Iran has retaliated with strikes against other countries in that region. In fact, Saudi Arabia's state oil giant Aramco, shut its Ras Tenora refinery after a drone strike, according to an industry source this morning after Tehran launched strikes across the region in response to the attack. The Ras Tanura complex on the kingdom's Gulf coast houses one of the Middle East's largest refineries with a capacity of 550,000 barrels per day and serves as a critical export terminal for Saudi crude oil. Meanwhile, Israel began attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon early this morning, shattering a truce that had been placed in place for about a year. The Israeli military said it was responding to attacks from Hezbollah, the Iran backed militant group. That group did take responsibility for attacks and said it was acting to avenge the death of Ayatollah Khomeini. The oil and natural gas markets continue to be highly volatile this morning. Crude the globe mark the global Trademark was trading around 79,50 at 2:30 this morning. Analysts warned that a wider war could severely disrupt tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. That's a vital shipping route and that would make this weekend's move by OPEC to increase production a moot point, according to the experts, because the oil wouldn't be able to get through.

[Joe Soucheray]

Let's play the. I'm sorry, John. Keep going.

[John Haidt]

Defense Secretary. I was just going to say Pete Hagseth spoke this morning to widening concerns that it could spiral into a protracted regional conflict by declaring this is not Iraq and this is not endless. Hagseth, along with Air Force General Dan Kane, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held the Trump administration's first news briefing since Saturday's strikes. Hagseth said the operation had a clear, devastating, decisive mission to destroy the missile threatened from Iran, destroyed its navy and nukes.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm getting a Wizard of Oz vibe. Did Trump think this was Ding Dong, the witch is dead and all these flying monkeys that just settle down and say, hey, thanks for rescuing us, we don't want anything to do with this Khomeini. We're glad he's gone. Doesn't sound like it because now you got a new trio in place and they're just as angry at the US as this Khomeini character. So. So it isn't Ding Dong, the witch is dead. It might be for a lot of the people who live in Iran, but they're a long way from taking over the country.

[John Haidt]

It sounds like it's a weird if you've seen the dichotomy in the country even. There's huge groups who are celebrating and huge groups who are angry about all of this. It's weird.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't even think the excrement has hit the fan yet. This could get a lot worse before it gets better.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, in the best case or perfect scenario, what role?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I'm wondering, given the way his mind works, if he thought, oh boy, I'm gonna be a world hero and everything's gonna be just peaceful and wonderful and everybody's gonna say, ding dong, the witch is dead and now we have this beautiful country there and I'll build some hotels on the sea. They need some resorts and everything will be great. That's not the way it's working out.

[Ken]

Well, that's kind of a simple, a simple take.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I don't, I don't subscribe to him much deepness.

[Ken]

Very complicated matter. And they're not going to attack on the basis of what you just said. I have my doubts.

[Joe Soucheray]

The witch was up in the castle tower. We got him in the turret and the monkeys are flying around and they, they're done now.

[Ken]

I think if you hate Trump, you're going to find a way to hate this.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't hate this. I'm glad he's gone. I don't hate this. But my big question is, what the hell via what hornets nest have you disturbed? There's, there's one way to look at it. You know, these Muslims, they, you know, the rest of us are not true believers and we'll straighten you up people out. Yeah. You know.

[John Haidt]

Well, the thing is you now also have Muslims attacking Muslims.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's right.

[John Haidt]

Iran has been going after what, four different states since this.

[Joe Soucheray]

All I'm seeing is you, you got a, some hornets nest in a Pandora's box here.

[Ken]

I'm sitting over here with my feet up, just pounding the popcorn, just watching everything, just seeing what's happening.

[Chris Reivers]

But when you see videos, and again, you never know what to take seriously and what not to. But how can anyone say, yeah, I stand with. You're standing for a regime that throws homosexuals off of rooftops.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm pleased this bearded bleep. He needed to go a long time ago.

[Ken]

I think, Chris, the protesting that's coming from the opposition in government has more to do with Trump's authority. More than anything right now, everything I'm

[Joe Soucheray]

reading, I think Congress should weigh in on these.

[Ken]

That might be, that might not be a bad idea.

[John Haidt]

Chris, it sounds like you think if people are opposed to this, that they agree with the Iranian government.

[Chris Reivers]

I didn't hear what you said, Johnny. Sorry, start over.

[John Haidt]

No, I just said I think it sounds like you're saying if you don't like this or are protesting it, that you agree with the Iranian government. I don't think that's the case.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I saw a number of, whether it's, you know, a news affiliate interviewing people that were saying. And I think Kenny's right, though.

[John Haidt]

Just like citizens.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, I think I would have guessed,

[Joe Soucheray]

but our voices were not heard or represented in this decision.

[Ken]

Well, that's probably, I was Gonna ask.

[Joe Soucheray]

Congress has failed its duty.

[Ken]

Well, I was gonna ask you about that, Joe. So if he had gone through those channels, this would be widespread news and they'd all be ready. I mean, that's not how you.

[Joe Soucheray]

You do so. So from now on then, we don't need Congress to declare.

[Ken]

No, I unders. I see. I am not. No, no, no. I'm just stating a very simple theory.

[Joe Soucheray]

Not even a theory. You could make the argument that. That anytime you're going to involve Congress, it alerts the enemy. You could make that argument.

[Ken]

Absolutely, it does.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, so what we.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm glad you said that.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't feel represented in this.

[Ken]

Well, let's debate attacking Iran for the next two years and let Iran get ready for that oncoming attack. Well, you see what I'm saying.

[Joe Soucheray]

The president has a responsibility to convince Congress that he's right. I want you congressional people on board. Please give me the means to do this.

[Ken]

Is there a national, Is there a national security style council made up of Congress members that he could have addressed?

[Joe Soucheray]

Not that I'm aware of.

[Chris Reivers]

Can I play you a clip? 2011, just the one where they say don't. No, no, no. This is from Nancy Pelosi when Obama was in office and it talks about that very thing he said. It's only 15 seconds long.

[Joe Soucheray]

Madam Leader, you're saying that the president did not need authorization initially and still does not need any authorization from Congress. One, Libya. Yes. Thank you both.

[Ken]

Thank you all very much.

[John Haidt]

Well, she's wrong.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I guess that's so. I don't understand that part of it. That's why I only played. That's the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, you're playing. What about ism and what you're saying is Obama did the same thing. He did. He went off and bombed somebody and didn't get approval.

[Chris Reivers]

But I think it's for the same reason Kenny just laid out. You can't let. Hey, we're gonna be there on Tuesday. You can't do that or you're jeopardizing everything. Correct.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, could you have made this argument about getting involved in World War II?

[Ken]

They attacked us. I was waiting, I've been waiting for you to say that. We wanted to go to war. We couldn't get prior approval. They attacked us. Some say that we knew the attack was gonna happen and people kept their mouth shut. But no, they attacked us. And then that's what opened up the doors to go after both Germany and Japan.

[Joe Soucheray]

This could be World War three. Could be. It could become that. How about Putin's message, which was he had to be smiling and smirking and winking when he said, why this is outrageous for somebody like that to attack innocent people. Nudge, nudge. God almighty. It's. Everything's. You know what I'm gonna do?

[John Haidt]

I'm gonna.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think I might go, kid, put my feet up and eat popcorn.

[Ken]

I can't wait till we go to break because I have found a Boston Wheeler for you that I'm just dying to talk about.

[Chris Reivers]

Grab some luckies on the way home.

[Ken]

Yeah, I mean, that's where my mind really is. It's. It's about everything but this.

[John Haidt]

In other news, we have that. I'm gonna go a little longer at this point. Minnesota, you know, I hate the word anglers, but there's no other word to

[Joe Soucheray]

use but fisher people.

[John Haidt]

Fisher people. Many Minnesota fisher people have to remove their fish houses from lakes by the end of the day today. The deadline arrives after many local officials have issued recent thin ice warnings in central and southern Minnesota. The removal deadlines 11:59 tonight on March 2nd, Southland inland waters, March 16th for northern inland waters and March 31st for Minnesota Canada border waters. Other deadlines include March 5th for Minnesota, Dakota border waters and March 5th first. That was yesterday for Minnesota, Wisconsin border waters.

[Chris Reivers]

The boys and I, we were in the halfway between the Faribault and Mankato area on Friday and there was a guy trying to get his fish house off of a lake.

[Ken]

Oh my God, Chris with a Subaru.

[Chris Reivers]

And I'm going, buddy, his wheels are just.

[Ken]

I went by the lake that I normally fish on. Yesterday there was one house left out there and it's one of these sixty thousand dollar houses. And one could tell that it had sunk a little bit and then froze in. It was sitting askew. And I just. How do you get something like that free?

[Chris Reivers]

You can't, right?

[Joe Soucheray]

The locals sold us on a big snowstorm over the weekend which never materialized here. Did it, did it down where you

[Chris Reivers]

are a little bit? I got a little bit of snow. But further south? Yeah, they did get about three or four inches of snow.

[Joe Soucheray]

We didn't get anything. Anything?

[Tim]

Not a flight.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did you get anything up north?

[Ken]

No. Nothing at all?

[John Haidt]

No, they got six inches in North Dakota through a band. That same band of snow hit the hit Bismarck and kept going and then just missed the Twin Cities.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, we missed it.

[John Haidt]

Concert announcement. Eric Clapton will play a concert at Grant Casino Arena September 15th. It's a very short Midwest tour. Includes dates in Milwaukee, Chicago and Kansas City, Texas. Blues legend Jimmy Vaughn will again serve as his opening act. Tickets for a Tuesday night gig go on sale this Friday. Clapton turns 81 this month on March 30th. He stayed moderately active as a touring artist, hasn't formally hinted, at least in a couple of years, at any plans to retire. He last played Minnesota in 2023 at the same venue when it was known as the Excel Energy Center.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wonder how much the tickets will be. What are they these days? A good seat is 300 bucks pretty much.

[Ken]

Come on. Really?

[John Haidt]

Yeah, I think it depends on the artist.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, Johnny, didn't you say you didn't go or didn't get Springsteen? Because it was.

[John Haidt]

I did.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

That's why I didn't.

[Chris Reivers]

This is way too high.

[John Haidt]

Yep. Why don't we take a quick break here and let's see, we have to hear from Mr. Olsen, I believe.

[Ken]

Oh, perfect timing. If you're looking for a Boston Whaler

[Joe Soucheray]

or a. I don't think they have them at this show.

[Ken]

Or an $80,000 fish house. What are you talking about? Joe?

[Joe Soucheray]

The Northwest Sports show there that I want to see. A little camper trailer.

[Ken]

They've got that presented by. The show is presented by Furniture and Things. It's returning this weekend, Thursday the 5th through Sunday the 8th. It's the largest annual outdoor show, bringing together everything indoors, all under one roof. Fishing, Boating, hunting, camping, outdoor adventure. It's absolutely massive. 600 or exhibitors, acres of gear and gadgets, new products, the best place to plan your upcoming season. If you want to compare brands, this is the place. Yeah. RVs. Oh yeah. There's a huge RV area. 60,000 square feet of new models to explore. Joe. I would go in there and the first thing I would do is I would try out every single bathroom in those RVs. Joe, get on down there. Give it a shot.

[John Haidt]

Shot.

[Ken]

If you want to save on ticket money, you can do that. Visit northwest sports show.com buy those tickets early online. Save a little Dough. Northwest Sports Show.com Thanks, Kenny.

[John Haidt]

In other news, a gunman killed at least two people and wounded 14 others when he opened fire outside a bar in Austin, Texas, early Sunday. FBI said there were possible indications of terrorism. A motive has not been publicly identified. One law enforcement official told the Associated Press the Suspect was a 53 year naturalized US citizen born in Senegal, wearing a sweatshirt that said Property of Allah and a T shirt with an Iranian flag. Authorities say the shooter drove around the neighborhood multiple times in an SUV before firing out the window at people outside Buford's Bar on Austin's West 6th Street. He then parked the car nearby and began shooting at pedestrians. Police quickly intervened, killing the suspect. Medics were on the scene within 57 seconds of getting the first first 911 call. At 1:59am two weapons were used in the shootings, a pistol and a rifle.

[Ken]

Did you say 57 seconds?

[John Haidt]

Seven seconds.

[Ken]

Well, they must have been two blocks over. Yeah. Wow.

[John Haidt]

If you'd like to see the last lunar eclipse for a while, you're gonna have to get up early tomorrow.

[Ken]

How early?

[John Haidt]

5:00am Rook, it's nothing here in Minnesota. If you want to miss it, 5am you'll have a rare astronomical treat, a total lunar eclipse. Astronomers predict the lunar eclipse expected to be visible here and in other places will last about an hour. If you wake up early, you'll see a yellow sun rising above blue skies while a red moon sets on a darkened western horizon. Lunar eclipses happen more often than solar eclipses. Astronomers predict the next total lunar eclipse will be New Year's Eve 2028, though the next one visible here in the Americas won't happen until June 2029. And as a bonus, this one, it's a blood moon.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is tonight the blood moon?

[John Haidt]

Blood lunar eclipse occurs several times a year when the earth blocks sunlight's path to the moon. But there are fewer total eclipses that create a blood moon appearance. Officials at the National Aeronautics and Space administration report that March 2025 last total lunar eclipse visible to the Americas. The last one before that was three years earlier.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, so when's the moon red? Tonight or tomorrow morning?

[John Haidt]

Tonight into tomorrow morning.

[Ken]

Tonight and tomorrow night.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, boy.

[Ken]

Here's the problem. Here's the problem. Yes, Joe, before you set your alarm before cast from Jonathan. The forecast from Jonathan uhas cloudy with patchy drizzle and Patchy fall after 12:00am okay, but.

[Joe Soucheray]

But I can see the blood moon tonight at 9 o', clock, right?

[Ken]

You say so.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, it's not bad weather then. It's. It's.

[John Haidt]

You can't see the eclipse in the morning.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm not John.

[Ken]

I love how you call it an eclipse. That is so awesome. It's like something that happens on the Internet.

[Joe Soucheray]

Very rural. Very rural sounding that eclipse.

[John Haidt]

How do you say.

[Ken]

Yeah, that they're.

[Joe Soucheray]

Eclipse, eclipse, eclipse, eclipse, eclipse, eclipse.

[Ken]

It's like saying E. Dinah. Eclipse, eclipse.

[John Haidt]

I'm gonna get up and stand by the crick and go watch the eclipse.

[Ken]

That's my man. And you get a whiff of that manure.

[John Haidt]

Some music world deaths, three of them to be exact. Neil Sedaka died At the age of 87 as a solo performer, Sadaka enjoyed an impressive chart run from 1958 through 1963 that included more than a dozen top 40 hits on the Billboard 200. And then he also enjoyed a career resurgence in the 1970s that saw him reach number one twice in the Hot 100 with a song Laughter in the Rain and Bad Blood, the latter a duet with Elton John. Beyond composing his own material, Neil co wrote songs for many other famous artists dating back to the late 1950s. Quite a few of those tunes also became big hits. He was one of the writers in the Brill Building with Carol King, a big. A big. A huge friend of Carol King. That's who oh Carol was written for, if you remember the song oh Carol by him. Big hit Travis Womack, a gifted and influential guitarist equally skilled at tasty playing and flashy technique, was has died. He was 81. He was a longtime pillar of the Muscle Shoals music scene, including the fame gay gang Game A gang, excuse me, the studio musicians who followed the iconic Sorry. Swampers as Fabe Studios housemaid. In recent years, Womack had faced health challenges including ankylosing spondylitis, a spinal disease. He was a child prodigy. First record released in 1957 when he was 11 years old. And at the age of 17 he hit the American chart parts with Scratchy, an instrumental that peaked at number 80 in 1964. He also charted briefly in 1966 with an instrumental version of Louie Louie hit the top 40 many, many times as the guitarist at the Muscle Shoals studio.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think you should only do music deaths of people that people have heard of.

[Ken]

No, no, no, no. That would be a bad, bad.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, only John has heard of this guy.

[Ken]

Are you kidding me?

[Joe Soucheray]

You don't know?

[Ken]

You should watch the documentary about muscle shows.

[Joe Soucheray]

I have. I have seen.

[Ken]

Well then how can you say what you're saying?

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm not recalling this particular character.

[Ken]

Oh, Joe.

[John Haidt]

How about this one? Joe? John Hammond Jr. Has died.

[Joe Soucheray]

I know that name.

[John Haidt]

He was the son of famed Columbia

[Chris Reivers]

Records producer John Hammond Senior.

[John Haidt]

John. That's very good, Chris.

[Joe Soucheray]

John Hammond Senior discover Larisa Franklin?

[John Haidt]

Well, no, but Bob Dylan. Well, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Holiday.

[Joe Soucheray]

Holiday. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stevie Ray Vaughan and many, many others.

[Ken]

I've heard of that.

[John Haidt]

But anyway, John Senior's been dead for a long time. Let's talk about Junior. He just died over the weekend.

[Joe Soucheray]

What Junior do?

[John Haidt]

Junior turned professional after dropping out of Antioch College in Ohio. Signed with Vanguard Records, the big folk label in 1963. His debut album consisted interpretations of material written by blues artists like Muddy Waters, Lightning Hop, Robert Johnson's Robert Johnson. During his lengthy career, Hammond, who also played harmonica, released more than 30 albums, most remaining true to his favorite blues styles. He was friends with rock royalty. He's the fellow who recommended to Bob Dylan that he should use the band as his backup band. His albums were produced by various well known rockers who admired his music. David Hidalgo from Los Lobos among those people.

[Joe Soucheray]

And one album.

[John Haidt]

Album. Kenny, this is for you. Wonderful album. 2001, it was called Wicked Grin, consisted pretty much entirely of covers of Tom Waits songs.

[Joe Soucheray]

Cool.

[John Haidt]

Hammond and Waits were longtime friends and Waits produced Wicked Grin. Also played some vocal, some sang some vocals, background vocals, and did some guitar on it. John Hammond Jr. 83 years old.

[Ken]

I saw him at the Chicago Blues Fest and I've been racking my brain trying to remember if I saw him in the Metro in Minneapolis St. Paul. I don't remember where did he, you know?

[John Haidt]

Well, he played here in the smaller blues clubs a lot. I know that in the earlier days. Recently I haven't seen him.

[Joe Soucheray]

Would any of you know if the tragically hip ever played First Avenue? Is there a way for me to find that out? Yeah, it's called Google because in the documentary I Got it, who's the lead singer who died? Gord Downey is wearing a First Avenue hat. And I was wondering if they ever played First Avenue.

[Ken]

I'm on it. Or maybe 94. 2002, 2015.

[Joe Soucheray]

All right.

[Ken]

I wonder if I was at that 94 show.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, that answers my question. Yes, they did play there.

[John Haidt]

And some movie news. Despite not very good reviews, Scream seven seven roared to a franchise best opening of the year with $64.1 million in its domestic opening and it earned 97.2 million worldwide.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is that a sci fi deal?

[John Haidt]

Scream 7, it's Scream horror film. Oh, and now it's.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Tim]

Didn't it start with Courtney Cox or

[John Haidt]

wasn't she one of the first.

[Ken]

Yeah, the bad guy.

[Tim]

I've never seen one.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is this where they're babysitting in the country and there's a claw on the window?

[Ken]

It's super clever that the bad guy wears the scream mask.

[Tim]

Why aren't you watching the children? It's coming from the house.

[Ken]

Very clever.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[John Haidt]

Award season in full swing. The Producers Guild of America Awards took place live in Los Angeles last night. All eyes were on the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for outstanding producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures. The reason that's predicted the ultimate best picture Winner of the Oscars 17 of the last 20, 22 years. The honor last night went to Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another.

[Joe Soucheray]

Love that movie.

[John Haidt]

Further cementing its status as the name to beat at the officer. You saw that one?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes, I did.

[John Haidt]

As did. I thought it was very good.

[Joe Soucheray]

I loved it.

[John Haidt]

Sinners won the top film awards Sunday night at the 32nd annual actor awards. The movies cast took home the award for the best performance by an ensemble. And in addition, Michael B. Jordan won for his leading role in Richard Giant Coogler's film.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think that's probably the only nominated movie I saw.

[John Haidt]

I've seen Sinners also.

[Joe Soucheray]

I haven't seen that. And I saw one battle after another on the tv. Me too.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, me too.

[Joe Soucheray]

I ain't going to the theater if I don't have to.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, I. It took me a while to watch it. I saw how long it was. I thought, I don't want to watch this. But then when I watched it, it

[Joe Soucheray]

was pretty damn good.

[Ken]

It's called one.

[Joe Soucheray]

One Battle after another. It's how hippies passed down their. Hippied them to the next generation.

[Ken]

Oh, I'm not watching that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, it was pretty good.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, that's a bad description. Can you ignore that description?

[Joe Soucheray]

Take a show. You give him a shorter one. It was about former radicals who passed down their radicalism.

[Ken]

Get a job, take a shower, buy a car.

[John Haidt]

It's years later and we get the. And great performances too. Sean Penn's great.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sean Penn was fantastic.

[Ken]

Pay your taxes.

[John Haidt]

Sean was great.

[Chris Reivers]

The irs.

[Ken]

I'm an old man.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is that it, John? Well, thank you very much. Okay, take a shower. Despite this current weather forecast, which sounds delightful, we're not done with winter. That means your garage door is not done with winter. If you need a new garage door, get a hold of Precision Garage door. They have models for every budget. The designer comes out, you sit down, bing, bang, boom. Plus G. Ellers, you get 500 bucks off a new garage door now. And that includes the opener. Now, if you like your current door and you think she's gonna make it, but you're worried you don't like the noises it's making, book a noisy door tune up special. Let them throw the diagnostics at it. They'll check it out. The tensile strength, the cable, things like that that we people who know garages know about, and they'll do that for you. And then you'll be set for the rest of this winter because unfortunately, we ain't over yet. In fact, we have the state high school hockey tournament coming up. Doesn't that mean a storm? We always get a snowstorm. Storm of some kind. Book online at precisiondoormn.com or call 612-263-6985 to schedule your free on site new door estimate or book a noisy door tune up special with precision doormn.com. Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

All right.

[Joe Soucheray]

Here's a man who spends hours in hardware stores sifting through the nuts and bolts of life. Joe Sushere.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Joe, you know those floor mats you can put in the garage for the winter and the car leaks all its junk onto the floor? Matt.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

How do you. How do you get that outside to get rid of the stuff that's on there? Wouldn't it way too much to.

[Ken]

Can't you just drag it out?

[Joe Soucheray]

I was. I'm saying wouldn't it drag? Wouldn't it. Wouldn't it be too heavy?

[Ken]

Hook it up to the. Yeah, go ahead, John.

[John Haidt]

I used one of those for a year and never used it again. Just because it was such a pain in the rear end. Because you'd have to squeegee it. Squeegee everything off, get it outside. And then at the end of the year, it still got junk all over it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. So I was afraid I could. But I gotta do something. I gotta do something.

[Ken]

You got. You got some white boy problems, let me tell you. Jesus Christ.

[Chris Reivers]

I gotta do some chores today, mom.

[Ken]

Poor some you.

[Joe Soucheray]

And I want to scrape the dirt off. You know, that's. That's cemented to the floor now because of salt and sand and dirt. Then it all dries up and it leaves behind that stuff. But I don't want to use a scraper. A scraper? Because that would hurt the floor.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Can I ask you something?

[John Haidt]

I can relate.

[Chris Reivers]

Is this a vehicle that transports little ones around here and there?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, both of them leave crud behind.

[Chris Reivers]

Gotcha. Don't you dried up Cheerios and whatnot.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, God.

[Ken]

Don't you have an illegal floor drain?

[Joe Soucheray]

I do. Okay. No, I mean, I don't.

[Ken]

Okay, good. That's even better.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's fine.

[Chris Reivers]

But you should definitely not use that is what Ken.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, what's left behind is really a mess. That Joe.

[Ken]

Out here at Jackass Ranch we have to put salt on our garage floor because the drippings freeze and step out of your truck and fall in your ass in the garage.

[Joe Soucheray]

I thought you would for sure would have had a dirt floor in that garage. Oh, God.

[Ken]

Wouldn't that be awesome?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, wouldn't that be the answer? Yeah, dirt floor.

[Chris Reivers]

Especially if you have a British and

[Joe Soucheray]

you could groom it.

[Ken]

Yeah, I would chicken. I would take out the ice chippers and make a little champ for the water district.

[Joe Soucheray]

You could do wonders with a dirt floor. Only because they come to us all the way from Penguin Tasmania, which is a part of Australia. This is from the traveling lineman's@worldwide waftage.com it was on this day, March 2nd in 1859, the Turnvereen, a German organization that sponsors social, educational and physical events, gave its first dramatic presentation in St. Anthony's Turnverein Hall. Turner clubs provided a strong German presence throughout the country until World War I. On this day, March 2nd in 1878, the city of Anoka was created. Settler colonists had first arrived on the site in 1851 and then surveyed and mapped it in 1854. You know what then? Anoka's not that old. 1878. That's nothing. That's right there. This day, March 2nd in 1922, a party of 115 Mennonite men, women and children from Manitoba paused briefly in the Twin Cities on the way to Mexico. Among the first of the estimated 20,000 members of this Protestant Christian denomination expected to leave Canada during the next three years. The travelers arrived by rail in passenger coaches accompanied by 22 stock cars full of provisions, livestock, farm equipment and furniture. They planned to live in self imposed isolation in order to practice their centuries old religious beliefs and. Pacifistic way of life peaceful. This had caused difficulties with the Canadian government, which required school attendance and during World War I, military conscription. See the Mennonites. They just want to go south. On this day, March 2nd in 1949, Melrose native Captain James Gallagher of the US Air Force completed the first non stop flight around the world. With a crew of 13. He flew Lucky Lady 2, a B50 bomber assigned to the 43rd Bomb Group, refueling four times while in the air and completing the 23,452 mile trip in 94 hours and one minute.

[John Haidt]

Wow.

[Joe Soucheray]

That was in 1949.

[John Haidt]

It was in the air almost four days.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Yikes. On this day, March 2nd in 1974, Uncle Hugo's science fiction bookstore, now the oldest of its kind in the US opened in South Minneapolis. I believe it still is open in South Minneapolis. On this day in Minnesota, sports disappointment history.

[Chris Reivers]

Joe, who did we lose to on March 2nd?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, on this day in 2005, the Vikings lost because they traded Randy Moss to Oakland for a first round pick and took Troy Williamson.

[John Haidt]

Oh, God.

[Chris Reivers]

That's right.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't think he worked out, did he?

[Chris Reivers]

No, that did not. That was a. That was not a good trade.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day, March 2nd in 2007, Kevin McHale was named Best GM in Sports by Forbes magazine. Huh. What's Kevin doing these days? He was ultimate retirement.

[Chris Reivers]

I think so because he was doing tv and then I think he just not that old.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. What? 60s, right.

[Chris Reivers]

But you know, he made some dough.

[Tim]

Yeah, he is 68.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, he's a young guy.

[John Haidt]

Guy.

[Tim]

Let's see if they give an update.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know what he's doing these days. I don't think he's involved with the Timberwolves.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, no, he is not. No, that did not end well.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. All right, well, thank you, G.L.

[Tim]

thank you.

[Chris Reivers]

Thank you very much. Do us a favor, if you have not done so already, you should join the thousands of subscribers that are present on the Garage Logic YouTube channel. That's right. We've got a YouTube channel where you can. 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 behind the scenes footage, there's all sorts of coverage. Just search garagelogic, two words on YouTube along with all of our social media channels. That includes Facebook, Instagram and X. And 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 today [e-mail] it is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold 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 952925. That number once again is 952-925-5608. When you call that number, you're going to get Josh and he is there for you for that. Free, yes, I use the word free 48 minute financial consultation with absolutely zero obligation. And he will always give you the straight talk. He will never give you the sugar coated advice. And he is on the line with us once again right here in garagelogic. And boy, Josh, a lot of news coming out of the Middle east, but you're telling me that Israel stocks are

[Josh Arnold]

up, Israeli stocks are up. Exchange traded fund that tracks Israeli companies and there are a lot of Israeli companies that are listed on both the New York Stock Exchange and on the Nasdaq. And a lot of companies from the United States do business in Israel, primarily tech technology including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, instant messaging. I could, I could go on. For all those people who get down on Israel, I just say well if you're getting down on Israel, better get rid of your, your smartphone with many of the competitive components and features and services from instant messaging on come from Israel. Just that little tiny little country in the far East. Today Israeli stocks represented by the ETF I see EIS is up $6 a share. So very positive for them. Nasdaq which had started on the downside today along with the Dow. Nasdaq has moved positive on the backs of good news coming from Apple with the introduction of several new new products. And Apple is having a big event tomorrow to introduce some additional services. Not to mention of course the number one app at the app store right now is anthropic flawed AI tool which has been subject to a lot of controversy you recently on its ability to do everything from coating to pouring coffee. I'm a little pouring coffee part is a little bit facetious. Nvidia, the chip company which has been sold off despite some very good earnings numbers has had a nice rebound today as it invested in two photonics companies companies and that will extend its reach in artificial intelligence. Palantir, one of the software companies had been in a still is in a bear market territory down significantly from its high and even down $20 a share after reporting unbelievable earnings not more than three weeks ago has had a nice rebound. Palantir is probably one of the we'll call it a backbone data analytics and using artificial intelligence and their capabilities have definitely helped the US Military as Palantir has had long term contracts with the Department of Defense. Palantir has been hit recently as part of selling that has been going on in the software space as well as individual investors not liking Palantir's contracts with the government and in particular contracts they have with the Department of Homeland Security. So we've had and Microsoft has also taken a nice rebound up so NASDAQ has went from negative to positive today on a verb difficult day or what was perceived to be a very difficult day in the market with the weekend the weekend preemptive attack on Iran. Iran's retaliation has hit just about every country in the in the mid east and has created or could create some problems that we short term with shipping. Even though the Gulf of Hormuz is not not been closed off ships are I'll say still we'll say still at port and are not entering. So that could hurt the flow of oil and other products that move through we'll say the Gulf and straits or move on. Interesting development. Development is the shutting down of who believe it's Qatar's LNG liquid natural gas refinery after it had been hit and this refinery supplies 20% of the world's liquid natural gas. This has spiked natural gas prices and has also boosted at least short term several of the LNG firms including Cheniere leased on a short term basis. This could turn around very very quickly. So these stocks to me just a pure trade and a word of caution, please be careful. As for oil oil, well oil has moved up significantly on the short term. April futures trade just under $71 a barrel. May futures are a little higher than that as oil may come offline coming from Iran. But OPEC led by the Saudis can up their production to keep prices down at least in the short term. With oil stocks close to to 52 week high at this point I would be reticent to invest there. I would tend to look instead at companies that still are feeding into artificial intelligence as that theme has not changed one iota whether on the short term or the long term. But I would not be utilizing all of my cash at this point as markets are going to still be fairly volatile trading on the macro news coming out of the Mideast.

[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 zero obligation. And you do that just like I did by dialing 959255608 where you always get straight talk and never ever sugarcoated advice. Josh, as always, thank you so much for the time and the chat. Enjoy the rest of your day. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.

[Josh Arnold]

Look forward to it. Thanks Chris.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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