3/20 Who wants a new gold plated coin from President Trump??

Summary

Garage Logic Podcast — March 20, 2026

Episode Theme:
A rambunctious episode from the Garage Logic crew focused on Minnesota’s politics, the new Trump gold-plated commemorative coin, economic anxieties, and the chaos of American tribalism. The show blends local updates with national concerns, laced with humor, skepticism, and the classic GL “common sense” banter.

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Main Topics & Discussion Points

1. Minnesota Politics & Immigration Enforcement

[02:00-07:56]

• The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation awarded the Twin Cities the "Profile in Courage" award for their “extraordinary courage” during a federal immigration crackdown in December.
• Joe Soucheray muses about politicians vying for photo-ops at the award ceremony:
  “Which politician will shove everybody out of the way to go get that award?” (03:17)
• House Democrats blocked a bill requiring county attorneys to report violent felonies committed by illegal immigrants to ICE.
  • Joe: “If you arrest an illegal for a violent crime, I don’t think that’s asking too much. You alert the authorities.” (06:00-07:00)
  • Kenny Olson asks why the bill was blocked; Joe explains Democrats see it as a federal issue, not local.
  • Joe: “This isn’t the DFL of yesteryear, nor is it the Republican Party of yesteryear by far, particularly at the federal level.” (07:38)

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2. Trump’s Gold-Plated Coin & Political Fundraising Schemes

[08:51-15:15]

• The U.S. Mint plans a gold commemorative coin featuring Donald Trump, breaking a long tradition of not featuring living individuals.
  • Federal law normally forbids living persons on U.S. currency or stamps, but there's an exception for commemorative gold coins.
  • Joe: “As we approach our 250th birthday…there’s no profile more emblematic for the front of such coins than our serving president, Donald J. Trump. U.S. treasurer Brandon Beach said, B as in B, S as in S.” (11:03)
• Chris Reavers jokes about his “gold-plated $100 Trump bill” from a local liquor store; the crew jokes about collectible Trump merchandise.
• Uncertainty over whether the coins are solid gold (likely not), their collector's value, and the profit motive (“You’ll have to buy them from Trump, and he’ll pocket the money or Jared will or somebody.” – Joe, 14:25)
• Trump’s PAC is fundraising by promising “private national security briefings” for supporters.
  • Joe: “I don’t think the country’s security briefings should be made available to any Tom, Dick, and Harry who’s got the money.” (20:04-20:50)
  • Skepticism about what donors would actually receive and the ethics/lawfulness of such pitches.

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3. Economic & Government Shutdown Anxieties

[21:22-37:10]

• Minnesota’s struggles with high energy bills and the (in)feasibility of nuclear power.
• Extended discussion on the partial federal government shutdown:
  • Focus on TSA agents working without pay, the impact on travel, support efforts for workers, and how the crisis’ costs fall on the working class while politicians bicker.
  • Joe: “This used to be a hell of a country.” (31:20)
  • Reports of food shelf and gas card donations for TSA staff.
  • Matthew Mikalski: “If you have that travel plan booked to Cabo… you’re still going to go. You’ve booked it for six months.” (32:40-33:15)
  • Chris: “Any excuse people can come up with to work at home, they’ll probably take it. That contributes to the downfall of the tall buildings...” (34:49)
• The root problem, says Joe: “These are people not representing the American public. These are people representing their own tribes.” (36:22)

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4. Tribalism, New York’s Tax Exodus & Political Ironies

[38:06-44:50]

• Recap of NY Governor Kathy Hochul’s evolving stance: first telling Trump supporters to “leave,” now begging for lost tax base to return as high earners and companies relocate to low-tax states.
• Joe: “You chased those people out, and now you’re walking through them with your hat in your hand saying, won’t you please come back and help pay our bills?” (40:01)
• “Tribal politics are ruining the country… just helping destroy the country.” (Joe, 40:08)
• Discussion of the hollow promises and self-serving actions of both parties at all levels; the working American is left behind.

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5. Sports, Culture, and GL Banter

[65:33-79:20]

• The crew shifts into sports:
  • Discussion of the Gophers, Wisconsin’s basketball loss, NCAA tournament expansions, NIT, and the bracket culture.
  • John Hight: “Boy, you really gotta be bad if you’re not in a postseason event.” (72:47)
• Local sports jokes, nostalgia for radio’s golden era, and the fading traditions like CBS top-of-hour news.

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6. News, Humor, and Listener Interaction

Notable Moments:

• Multiple recurring jokes about “gold-plated Trump bills” (13:04–13:12, 45:30, etc), canned peaches for TSA agents (35:12-36:02), and Chuck Norris’ supposed death (84:44-85:19).
• “GL’er of the Week” segment highlights listener engagement and community.

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Notable Quotes

• Joe Soucheray ([11:03]):
  “As we approach our 250th birthday…there’s no profile more emblematic for the front of such coins than our serving president, Donald J. Trump. U.S. treasurer Brandon Beach said, B as in B, S as in S.”

• Chris Reavers ([13:07]):
  “How could it not be? It’s the most beautiful $100 bill.” (on his Trump collectible)

• Matthew Mikalski ([31:20]):
  “Yeah. And they're hurting, so they need it.” (on TSA workers and public support)

• Kenny Olson ([37:17]):
  “I am working my way through the A section of the Star Tribune right now, Joe. I am on 6A and I have not seen one headline and or story about the TSA or the government shutdown.”

• Chris Reavers ([40:13]):
  “That is the ultimate F around and find out moment for the governor.”

• Joe Soucheray ([41:22]):
  “And it doesn’t work for the common man in this country. It’s not working out. It’s not working out for TSA agents. It’s not going to work out for the middle class New York taxpayer. It’s not going to work out anywhere.”

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Key Timestamps

• [02:00] – JFK Courage Award, Twin Cities & immigration protests
• [04:20] – Minnesota Democrats halt ICE reporting bill
• [08:51] – Trump gold coin news and debate
• [12:30] – Coin legality, gold content, collector’s value
• [15:01] – Trump PAC “private security briefings” fundraising
• [21:22] – Energy bills, nuclear power, American Experiment campaign
• [27:46] – Airline industry, TSA under government shutdown
• [38:06] – Kathy Hochul tax exodus, New York collapse, remote work
• [51:00] – News transitions, University of Minnesota’s new slogan banter
• [65:33] – Shift to sports, March Madness, Gophers, Wisconsin
• [84:44] – Chuck Norris death rumor jokes & “GL’er of the Week”

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Tone & Style

• Conversational, irreverent, and skeptical.
• Strong localism mixed with big-picture gripes (“This used to be a hell of a country.”).
• Heavy use of sarcasm, running jokes, nostalgia, and crowd participation.
• Politically cynical: Both parties are “tribal,” out of touch, and selfish at everyone else’s expense.
• Frequent segues into Minnesota weather, local tips, and humorous asides.

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Summary Takeaway

This Garage Logic episode distills the exasperation of the Midwest’s “common sense” crowd with both local and national politics. Through their trademark banter, the hosts decry the symbolism-over-substance of political stunts (like Trump’s coin), the endless tribal gridlock, and the grind it inflicts on everyday Americans—whether it’s TSA workers waiting on a paycheck, taxpayers fleeing New York, or sports fans lamenting the ever-expanding March Madness field. The episode is rich with inside jokes, local color, and no-nonsense calls for actual leadership.

For listeners:
Expect sharp wit, biting commentary on the politics of the day, unique local color, and plenty of laughs about the ever-changing (and often absurd) state of the nation.

Transcript

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[Chris Reavers]

Hail the Flashlight King.

[Joe Sucere]

Hail you. And now, from the mayor' 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 Hight in the newsroom, and of course, the rookie. Here is your Flashlight King fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Suchore. The John F. Kennedy Library foundation is honoring the Twin Cities with a Profile in Courage award for their response to federal immigration crackdown. The foundation notes that tens of thousands peacefully protested as more than 3,000 federal agents arrived in the metro in December saying they responded with extraordinary courage and resolve. That's kind of cool. Does everyone get a medal, I wonder. No, I wonder. How will it be noted? Maybe there'll be a plaque or something somewhere.

[Matthew Mikalski]

You mean like a neck metal?

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah. It'll be presented May 31st in Boston, which gives rise to an Interesting question. Which politician will shove everybody out of the way to go get that award? I wonder, will it be fry accuracy? Yeah, but that's pretty neat. A lot of those people stood out there the whole month of January when I was 15 below. How is everybody?

[Chris Reavers]

Wonderful. Joe. How are you?

[Joe Sucere]

Is this the one I was looking for?

[Matthew Mikalski]

Yes, sir. I feel great, but I sound like crap. So I'm going to. I'm going to be. Unfortunately, I'll be at a minimum.

[Chris Reavers]

Holy crap. Sam Weiss, stop talking.

[Matthew Mikalski]

I think we should all get vaccinated in this country and make sure that no one is left behind.

[Joe Sucere]

I thought you weren't going to talk.

[Matthew Mikalski]

I'm done.

[Chris Reavers]

I'll take the over under at three minutes.

[Joe Sucere]

Speaking of the immigration Minnesota House Democrats blocked debate on a bill this week that would require county attorneys to report illegal immigrants who are arrested for violent crimes to ice.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm stunned.

[Joe Sucere]

The Democrats do not want the county attorneys to report those arrested for violent crimes. The bill would invalidate local ordinances that prohibit communication or cooperation with immigration authorities. Additionally, it would require county attorneys to report illegal immigrants who are arrested for violent crimes to ice. But we're going to wipe that out. Representative Max Reimer, Republican North Branch, said public polling shows massive support for local and federal authorities cooperating on immigration matters. But this, this bill says this bill wants to continue the absence of that cooperation.

[Kenny Olson]

Did anybody say why?

[Joe Sucere]

House Democrats said immigration enforcement is the job of the federal government and not local police. Oh, they called the bill a distraction and said it undermines the trust between community and law enforcement. The bill is a red herring intended to distract us from the real issues facing Minnesota, a federal government that is violating our constitutional protections and undermining our economy, said Representative Sandra Feist, DFL New Brighton. House Democrat Leader Jamie Long, DFL Minneapolis, said most of those arrested during Operation Metro Surge did not have a criminal record. So this is not a local law enforcement issue. In fact, Tom Homan himself said he did not want local law enforcement to be immigration officers, said Long. Well, I'll correct Long in a moment. He also claimed the bill seeks to address a non issue because cooperation between state and federal authorities has improved. Harry Niska said the bill simply establishes in law a common sense level of cooperation. Ultimately, all 67 Democrats in the House voted against taking up the bill for consideration. Let me repeat, the bill has nothing to do with illegals who haven't been found guilty of violence or not. I'm sorry, the bill has nothing to do with illegals arrested for jaywalking or, you know, running a red light. The bill has calls for county attorneys to report to ICE the arrest of illegals who have been arrested for violent crimes, rape, bank robbery, murder, assault, whatever. And the Democrats using. Using the behavior of ice, which was horrible, are clinging to that to say, no, we don't want any cooperation at all. Well, no, you should have cooperation. If you arrest an illegal for a violent crime, I don't think that's asking too much. You alert the authorities if you just arrested somebody based on the suspicion of him or her having committed a violent crime. They're not talking about anything else in this bill except violent crimes. But the Democrats don't want that. This isn't the DFL of yesteryear, nor is it the Republican Party of yesteryear by far, particularly at the federal level. You know, I had an odd thought today.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay.

[Joe Sucere]

Walz tries to gain a lot of purchase in his fading political career for constantly condemning Trump as being corrupt, which he is. But it strikes me that no one should believe Walls because he runs an administration just as corrupt. We're surrounded by grifters and graft and corruption and everything else under this administration, the same as the Trump administration. So it doesn't work for Walls to come out to the pulpit and say, Minnesota is kind and we work. No, you run a screwed up state, Tim. It's just as corrupt as Washington. I happen to think Washington's corrupt.

[Matthew Mikalski]

You think?

[Chris Reavers]

Have you seen the latest?

[Joe Sucere]

Well, I have three things I would like to discuss about Mr. Trump. Is the latest about Mr. Trump?

[John Hight]

Mm.

[Joe Sucere]

We're gonna have a new gold coin with Trump's likeness on it.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Render to Caesar. What is Caesar's?

[Joe Sucere]

Well, that's about where we are.

[Matthew Mikalski]

I know.

[Joe Sucere]

The US Mint is moving forward with a gold commemorative coin featuring Trump after a federal arts commission, I think he appointed all the members, approved the design, with treasury officials citing a legal authority that allows the inclusion of a sitting president despite long standing restrictions. A source familiar with the Commission of Fine Arts was said that they were shown a mock up approved by the panel, clearing a key step towards production of the coin. See, the move is notable because federal law traditionally bars living individuals from appearing on US Currency as well as stamps. But us, Correct? That's correct. I don't know that, Matt.

[Matthew Mikalski]

You can't have a living person on the poll.

[Joe Sucere]

I did not know that, man.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Yeah, I'll verify that for you.

[Joe Sucere]

Where was I?

[Matthew Mikalski]

I don't know. I rudely interrupted you.

[Joe Sucere]

You did. The move is notable because federal law traditionally bars living individuals from appearing on US Currency. But treasury officials say a statutory authority allows the minting of gold coins that can feature the sitting president. I didn't know that existed. Setting up a potential break from long standing precedent as we approach our 250th birthday, which I believe is going to be celebrated with a WWE match at the White House.

[Chris Reavers]

That's why we need a new ballroom.

[Joe Sucere]

As we approach our 250th birthday, we are thrilled to prepare coins that represent the enduring spirit of our country and democracy. And there's no profile more emblematic for the front of such coins than our serving president, Donald J. Trump. U.S. treasurer Brandon beach said, B as in B, S as in S. A semi quincentennial commemorative gold coin featuring Trump. Oh, that's a cut line. Beach added that the proposed commemorative gold coin would be separated. I bet you have to buy them and then Trump will get the money. Beach added that the proposed commemorative gold coin would be separate from circulating currency and fall under the Treasury Secretary's discretion. Treasury officials pointed to a provision under Federal Law 31, U.S.C. subchapter 5112 that allows the Secretary to authorize bullion and proof gold coins with specifications, design and inscriptions determined at their discretion.

[John Hight]

All right.

[Joe Sucere]

You're gonna get one.

[Chris Reavers]

I have a question.

[Matthew Mikalski]

It would be a collector's item.

[Chris Reavers]

I have a question. When you're done with the. With the story.

[Joe Sucere]

I'm done.

[Chris Reavers]

How many coins can I buy with my gold plated Donald Trump 100 bill that I got from my guy Bo at Colburn's liquor store in Belle Plain, Minnesota?

[Joe Sucere]

Look at that, a gold plated $100 bill. Show it to the camera.

[Chris Reavers]

I am.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, you're not. Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. You are? Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Thank you.

[Joe Sucere]

Is that real?

[John Haidt]

Of course.

[Chris Reavers]

How could it not be? It's the. It's the most beautiful $100 bill.

[Joe Sucere]

Are you serious, Clark?

[Chris Reavers]

It's tremendous.

[Joe Sucere]

Is that a hundred bucks?

[Chris Reavers]

Sure.

[Joe Sucere]

Let me see it.

[Chris Reavers]

Dinner's on me.

[Joe Sucere]

Let me see it.

[Matthew Mikalski]

I wouldn't trust him with it while you're looking at that, as I think this is real.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, remember, he sold those in conjunction with. There was something else, too. Was it shoes, Johnny? It was. This is from, I think, his first term.

[Kenny Olson]

I think he's giving shoes away.

[Joe Sucere]

Shoes away.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Floor shine.

[Joe Sucere]

No, this was from the Shoes are comp.

[John Haidt]

No, Remember the tennis shoes? He had the gold.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, he had the gold plated shoes.

[John Haidt]

Trump tennis.

[Chris Reavers]

The Trump tennis shoes they sold for,

[John Haidt]

I don't know, $125 or something.

[Joe Sucere]

And I don't remember if you had

[Kenny Olson]

all of these collectibles.

[Joe Sucere]

I'm sure people I, I'm sure there is a market for all Trump collectible.

[Chris Reavers]

These sold out. These all sold out.

[Kenny Olson]

So it looks like this coin is going to be the largest coin they have is three inches and that's what they're thinking about for this. And that means it'll be over 1oz of gold in the thing, right?

[Joe Sucere]

I don't know.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Just.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, that's going to put its value in the thousands, but you have to

[Matthew Mikalski]

keep the original packaging.

[Joe Sucere]

In other words, these aren't just going to go into.

[Kenny Olson]

These aren't circulation.

[Joe Sucere]

Into circulation?

[Kenny Olson]

No.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, as I said, you'll have to buy them from Trump and he'll pocket the money or Jared will or somebody.

[Matthew Mikalski]

As of 2018, living persons are generally not allowed to be honored on US Postage stamps.

[Joe Sucere]

Thank you.

[Matthew Mikalski]

You're welcome.

[Kenny Olson]

The the price of gold. One ounce of gold, $4,562.

[Joe Sucere]

Well then what is the point of this coin? Will it be sold?

[John Haidt]

It's not solid gold though, right?

[Joe Sucere]

It can't be. It can't be. Let's continue with Mr. It came out a bit ago, a week or so ago. We never talked about it that he. There's a fundraising email from Mr. Trump from his political action committee that has a provocative pitch using an image from the dignified transfer honoring six fallen U.S. soldiers. It promises access to the president's private national security briefings. What? Oh. The email sent by Never Surrender Inc. Promotes what it calls a national security briefing membership and urges recipients to claim your spot with multiple links to donate in what it describes as an exclusive group receiving updates about national security threats. It promises that members will receive my private national security briefings unfiltered updates on the threats facing America. The straight truth on border invasions, foreign adversaries, deep state sabotage and every danger the fake news hides. The message includes an official White House photograph showing Trump saluting during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base. Is that the one where you wore the hat, I wonder?

[Matthew Mikalski]

I think so. When the bodies are going by.

[Joe Sucere]

A flag draped transfer case which is used to transport soldiers remains is visible in the photo. I'm the strong commander who stares down tyrants, obliterates terrorists and never backs down. The fundraising email continues. This is for patriots ready to stand with that kind of unbreakable strength. This is not for the weak or the wavering. I am the president. Donald J. Trump, you're the only reason we've saved America the Page reads. Now I'm asking you to consider making a small sustaining contribution so we can complete the MAGA agenda. Can I count on your support? I'm not sending any money.

[Chris Reavers]

Are you sure?

[Matthew Mikalski]

What is the cost?

[Joe Sucere]

The government is breaking me anyway. I don't have any extra.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Is it a monthly fee or a flat?

[Joe Sucere]

Well, that word sustaining is interesting, isn't it? You better read the small print in this deal if you send any money.

[John Haidt]

So

[Chris Reavers]

my favorite part of the last 10 seconds is the number of G ellers that will be listening to our podcast and think that their phone died for the extended pregnant pause. What's wrong with your show?

[Matthew Mikalski]

Not doing it on YouTube yet.

[Joe Sucere]

Do you get to. I wonder if. No, I'm not going to ask a dumb question. How are you going to receive these supposedly private national security briefings?

[Matthew Mikalski]

Is it supposed to be.

[Joe Sucere]

Because that suddenly makes them not private.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Is it a zoom?

[Joe Sucere]

Well, I'm wondering, do you go to the office? Do you get to sit around the table? Because you're gonna, you know, thousands of people will do this.

[Chris Reavers]

Thousands.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

So where do you. How do you get them? I wonder if they just. In the mail.

[Matthew Mikalski]

I would pay for the expense.

[Joe Sucere]

Seriously, how would you get these? Your phone isn't secure. It's true. Your email isn't secure.

[Chris Reavers]

True.

[Joe Sucere]

Zooms aren't secure. No, nothing secure. Well, plus. Plus we all know deep down that you ain't going to receive bleep. You might get a lot of grousing about ABC News or something, but I would have to think that he's not going to inform you that on March 27th the Russians are going to launch a nuclear attack on America. I would think somebody would get to him and say now we can't tell people that.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Right? But cool if he did because the first. I'd tell you guys right away. Yeah. Hey Monday.

[Joe Sucere]

Thank you. I would want you to tell us. I would want you to tell me.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Just so you know, John, how.

[Joe Sucere]

How are people to receive this? I wonder?

[John Haidt]

I don't know. And I've just looked through two stories that do not address that at all. Just says you'll get them, that's all.

[Joe Sucere]

Now. Well, he's still threatening to send everybody a $2,000 tariff check to a rebate check. Is that like the walls bucks? Yeah, that seems unlikely. I'm not, I'm not planning on that. I'm not counting on that. But gee whiz, I don't think the countries security briefing should be made available to any Tom, Dick and Harry who's got the money to. I don't. I haven't read the. I got. I gotta think. There's a minimum amount you must invest in the pack to be able to join the security. Is that in there, John? I mean, if I send in 10 bucks, I'm not gonna be made. It's like an Ovaltine wrapper.

[John Haidt]

So. Yeah. What, what amount would you have to do? Yeah, nothing I've seen on that either.

[Matthew Mikalski]

What's the number?

[Joe Sucere]

Maybe he just floated this to see if he could get away with it. And if he gets enough criticism, he won't.

[Chris Reavers]

He won't rescind it. Yeah, or see that, that went out prematurely.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Staff members been fired.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, somebody took care of that for me. I didn't have anything to do with it. I don't know anything about it. I'm just looking. Chris. Don't worry.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay.

[John Hight]

All right.

[Joe Sucere]

Just settle down. Yeah. Remember when Minnesota had affordable renewable energy? Well, I don't remember that. Your electric bill is climbing, businesses are getting squeezed, and the competitive edge in our manufacturing sectors is disappearing. All because of a feel good policy that ignores reality. In Minnesota, we're not allowed to develop nuclear power plants. And the American experiment is looking at that. They're examining it, they're writing about it. They want you to join them. You can go to americanexperiment.org and hit the. Or click on the button that says take. Well, whatever that is on the screen. Click on that and it says take action. And you can tell your representative it's time to free the nukes and restore reliable, affordable energy in Minnesota. And it is my understanding that the nukes are the cleanest, safest and most reliable carbon free energy on earth. But they have a bad reputation, don't they? You know, you hear nuclear power plant and you think Three Mile island or Chernobyl or whatever that they got. You know, we're way advanced here. It's the cleanest energy you can find and it would be incredibly cheap, which is probably why XL will fight it. Or probably why XL doesn't mind the bill. Their rates are just incredible and they're getting higher. Go to americanexperiment.org and click on Take Action.

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[Matthew Mikalski]

It's the end of the world as

[Joe Sucere]

we know it and he feels fine.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Joe Sucere.

[Chris Reavers]

I gotta tell you. Guess what I did yesterday. Joe.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay, let me guess. He went to some kid's basketball game.

[Chris Reavers]

Close. Yeah, not even close actually.

[Matthew Mikalski]

You got up, you got dressed, you went downtown to look for a job.

[Chris Reavers]

The voice is awesome. I went to North American Banking Company in Hastings. That is probably one of those.

[Joe Sucere]

Usually you go to Roseville.

[Chris Reavers]

Guess what was closer Hastings for me in my route.

[Joe Sucere]

As long as you're on your way home.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I was going to drive through Hastings, swing through there. Hastings is a very underrated town, by the way. What a neat town.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't think it's underrated at all.

[Chris Reavers]

You think it's properly rated?

[Joe Sucere]

I think so.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

Don't they accept mail? You send them a check?

[Chris Reavers]

I like walking in because you know why.

[Joe Sucere]

But they do accept mail because you

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

Joe, can the airline industry outlast this? The TSA not getting paid? What is the situation today?

[Matthew Mikalski]

For example, there were many members from the TSA present and everyone that I've talked to has no malice or wants to call in. They're going to gut it out. I haven't, I haven't had anybody that's been negative. But it's starting to pinch them right now. This is their first week.

[Kenny Olson]

When they, when the government gets back to work, are they going to receive back pay?

[Matthew Mikalski]

Yes, they'll receive pay for all right away.

[Kenny Olson]

Are they going to have to wait a paper?

[Matthew Mikalski]

No, it's pretty, it's pretty quick. It's on their next paycheck that they, that they square up.

[Joe Sucere]

There's a partial shutdown in Washington, D.C. it's in its second month. It's coming close to last fall's 43 day government shutdown, which also paused payments to thousands of TSA workers. I tried to do some homework on this today. Senate Democrats have vowed to block funding for dhs, Department of Homeland Security until reforms are made to Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Preddy here. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called on Democrats this week to join a discharge petition that would fund all DH agencies except for ice.

[John Hight]

All right.

[Joe Sucere]

A vote on similar legislation failed earlier in the Senate. Jeffries would need at least four Republicans to sign on with all Democrats for the discharge petition to move forward. I think four Republicans should join that. You're not going to have an airline industry. No one's going to go to the airport and wait five hours to get on a flight.

[Chris Reavers]

Did you see the video footage this morning of Atlanta?

[Joe Sucere]

I did not.

[Chris Reavers]

Basically, the TSA lines were so long.

[Joe Sucere]

How long were they?

[Chris Reavers]

The people were. Is it serpentine? Is that the right word?

[Joe Sucere]

Yes, it's a good word, Chris.

[Chris Reavers]

They were serpentining around the baggage claim area. That's how bad it was.

[Joe Sucere]

That isn't even usually on the same floor as where you board.

[Chris Reavers]

Have you. You've been to the Atlanta airport?

[Joe Sucere]

I have.

[Chris Reavers]

It was complete.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't like that airport. It's too big.

[Matthew Mikalski]

I'm not speaking for Houston or Atlanta because they do have problems. But here there is not major problems blamed on tsa.

[Joe Sucere]

What do you attribute that to?

[Matthew Mikalski]

Matthew, Minnesota. Nice. They're showing up.

[Chris Reavers]

You're supposed to take credit. That's what's up.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Me. Yeah, me.

[Joe Sucere]

I've got a lot of quotes from TSA workers who are showing up because they're feeling it, but it's costing them. They're accumulating debt at home. There are. Some of them are resorting to selling their blood.

[Matthew Mikalski]

All right.

[Joe Sucere]

That's not a good way to make an extra buck.

[Matthew Mikalski]

It's not. But allow me for just a second to let you know that at the airport they're taking food shelves, donations, food shelf donations. And what you can do is drop off a gift card. Gas is still expensive for them to get back and forth, so they are taken. If you want to give them a holiday card, you can drop it off right at the USO or the information booths at the airport and they'll take them monetary or non goods that are not.

[Joe Sucere]

This used to be a hell of a country.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Yeah. And they're hurting, so they need it.

[Joe Sucere]

Joseph Culetti, a TSA officer at Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport, told ABC News. Of course, that's just a fake news news organization. So whatever he told them probably was a lie. Told ABC News that he struggles to explain to his kids about their financial issues now that his family has to depend solely on his wife's income. Sir, Letty relented that he and his co workers do not have the upper ground here. It's very hard to find words in English language to describe how I feel about this other than speechless. He said, this is just what I've been describing lately as figuratively as an uphill gunfight. Now you throw in. At some point, Matt, you're going to have to put your. I'm using you seriously as our. We have a geologist, we have a lake detective, you're our airport person for the country. Now seriously, put your mind at your job where they are having problems. Houston, Atlanta, whatever you claim there aren' here. But will those problems reach a point where travel will halt?

[Matthew Mikalski]

No.

[Joe Sucere]

You don't think so?

[Matthew Mikalski]

I don't think so. I think people are. If you have that travel plan booked to Cabo or wherever you're still going to go, you've booked it for six months, the kids are on break, you're going to stay there an extra three or four hours. If you're at a bad airport, if

[Joe Sucere]

the kerosene required to fuel jets, a special blend gets cost prohibitive, that really isn't the traveler's problem. The owner of the airline has to wrestle with that. That's his problem. Could that reach a point where travel halts?

[Matthew Mikalski]

Maybe down the road, but I highly doubt that right now. All the gas is paid for, so it just depends on what they're buying now.

[Chris Reavers]

But the fatal flaw in that logic, though, Matthew, I'm not ripping you or msp, but even though things are running smoothly here, you gotta go somewhere else. You know what I'm saying?

[Joe Sucere]

Which is weird that it's running smoothly here because this is a big airport. This is a major airport in this country. It's a hub.

[Matthew Mikalski]

And it's from all the airports.

[Joe Sucere]

Is it hub? A hub?

[Matthew Mikalski]

Yeah. And of all the airports, it is in the top five in departures and arrivals as far as time.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, something else occurs to me that what could happen down the road, given gas prices, given government shutdown, delaying TSA agents from getting paid, given the cost of jet fuel, what if we face that work from home BS again? Can't you see that coming? Oh, you can't afford the gas, you can't fly to Omaha for your business meeting. Lets everybody work from home.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Zoom.

[Kenny Olson]

Why would we have to do that?

[Joe Sucere]

Because you can't afford to travel to the place of employment, so you start working from home.

[Chris Reavers]

So you're envisioning a Covid style.

[Joe Sucere]

Yes, that's what I'm fearing.

[Chris Reavers]

But it's not a presidential election year. We Won't have Covid again.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, but they're midterms.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Cross prohibitive to go.

[Chris Reavers]

John's not fighting.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, any excuse people can come up with to work at home, they'll probably take it.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, it's already happening.

[Joe Sucere]

That contributes to the downfall of the tall buildings the closer you get to the country's tallest buildings. So are we facing. I wonder if we're facing another round of maskless staying at home working because these TSA agents can't be expected to show up much longer without getting paid.

[Matthew Mikalski]

No. And the number one request, as I said, gas cards to get to work.

[Joe Sucere]

I know, but, I mean, just think. Think of what you're setting up here. It's. It's. You'd be doing a very charitable thing to bring a gas card to a TSA agent at the airport. But that isn't the way the United States should work.

[Matthew Mikalski]

We should fix the problem in D.C.

[Joe Sucere]

hey, we're going to. We're going to. We're going to. I have to fly to Miami, but I'm going to bring you some peaches and a gas card. I mean, Jesus Christ, I'm praying.

[Matthew Mikalski]

All right, thank you, Mary Helen.

[Joe Sucere]

Let's go here. Let's. What the hell is wrong with this?

[Kenny Olson]

Are you talking in the can?

[Joe Sucere]

I'm just talking.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't want canned peaches.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, that's what the kind I'd bring you. I bring canned peaches in that syrup.

[Matthew Mikalski]

What?

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah. What's wrong with canned peaches?

[Matthew Mikalski]

I want fresh peach, canned apricots. But why isn't there more pressure being put on DC to fix this?

[Chris Reavers]

Well, there is. The problem is you've got.

[Matthew Mikalski]

It doesn't seem like it. Doesn't seem like it. Is there any sense of urgency?

[Chris Reavers]

The problem is they're both using this as just a political football.

[Joe Sucere]

Both sides. Well. And that leads us to a theme that we've discussed often at the University of Garage Logic. These are people not representing the American public.

[Chris Reavers]

Nope.

[Joe Sucere]

These are people representing their own tribes. You've got one tribe who hates Trump and another tribe that hates the people who hate Trump. And in the meantime, the TSA worker who is trying to make his mortgage payment and get his kid a new pair of shoes for soccer. They don't give a bleep about him. Not a bleep. Or the rest of us. These people are despicable. They do not get the work done that this country needs being done because they're on the third rail and they're only taking care of themselves.

[Chris Reavers]

Shut up and Pay your taxes.

[Joe Sucere]

It's pathetic. It is absolutely pathetic.

[Kenny Olson]

I am working my way through the A section of the Star Tribune right now, Joe. I am on 6A and I have not seen one headline and or story about the TSA or the government shutdown.

[Joe Sucere]

Right. I did this this morning. I just got something stuck in my crawl wondering what exactly is the problem? Well, the problem is tribal mysterians do not want immigration enforcement in this country.

[Chris Reavers]

Nope.

[Joe Sucere]

The other half of the country wants immigration enforcement, but they can't come to an agreement how that should be done appropriately.

[Chris Reavers]

No, I'm sorry, you're not above the rules.

[Joe Sucere]

I know I'm not.

[Chris Reavers]

Can I. Yes. It's somewhat analogous to what you're saying.

[Joe Sucere]

It better be more than somewhat.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Look at all that says precursor now.

[Chris Reavers]

But here's the thing. I have been waiting for the proper way to introduce this piece of audio to you, but it speaks exactly what you're talking about. Let's head to New York, shall we, ladies and gentlemen?

[Matthew Mikalski]

All right, hop on the jet.

[Chris Reavers]

Kathy Hockel, is it? Hockel? Hockle. Thank you. She's the governor, you guys, of New York and she is being mocked nationwide from this is a 60 second clip. The first part is what she said back in 2022 and what she just said two days ago.

[Joe Sucere]

I know it's coming and this might be fun to hear.

[L]

And we're here to say that the era of Trump and Zeldin and Molinaro, just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay?

[L]

Get out of town. Get out of town. Because you don't, you don't represent our values. You are not New Yorkers. But maybe the first step should be go down to Palm beach and see who you can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded. So I feel soft. We don't have a problem. It is like I have to look at the fact that we are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals. And I would say remote work changed everything. There are people who could only work in an office in Manhattan or work in New York State. And they were captives to our state. They were going to stay. We saw that. That's not the case. I mean, you know, Wall street businesses looking at Texas, they're not going there because they have a nicer governor. I know that for sure. But they're going there because of the tax. We have to be smart about this.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, you weren't smart about it, Kathy. You and other mysterious. You chased those People out. And now you're walking through them with your hat in your hand saying, won't you please come back and help pay

[Chris Reavers]

our bills with the tin cup? Like you're the homeless guy. Please try.

[Joe Sucere]

Tribal politics are ruining the country. They're absolutely just helping destroy the country.

[Chris Reavers]

That is the ultimate F around and find out moment for the governor.

[John Hight]

Get out of here.

[Joe Sucere]

Go to Florida.

[Kenny Olson]

It was almost as fun as Trump ripping Tesla. Remember that?

[Chris Reavers]

No, no, no.

[Joe Sucere]

Walls ripping Tesla.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, yeah, walls. I'm sorry.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's because he's stupid.

[Chris Reavers]

Meanwhile, that's their biggest stock for the state of Minnesota.

[Joe Sucere]

It's Tesla stock. And the employees of the state are

[Chris Reavers]

going, Wait, don't say that.

[Joe Sucere]

No, don't say that.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm on here. Oh, that's just beautiful. They need to come back and take advantage of our wonderful programs at a

[Joe Sucere]

time when you've installed as a mayor a guy who can't. He wants to take every penny a billionaire can cough up. So, Hochul, you're in a tough spot. I know you're taking your orders from Mom, Donnie, but that's going to make it harder and harder to lure people back here from Texas. This is what happens when there is nothing but hatred in the third rail camp. That's all. All you're going to get. They don't care about us.

[Chris Reavers]

Orange man bad.

[Joe Sucere]

Yes. Or Orange man good.

[Chris Reavers]

Sure.

[Joe Sucere]

And it doesn't work for the common man in this country. It's not working out. It's not working out for TSA agents. It's not going to work out for the the middle class New York taxpayer. It's not going to work out anywhere. It doesn't work. And here you got the governor who three years ago said, juan, get out of here. Get on a bus and leave. We don't like your values. Well, maybe if you came back, you could help pay our bills.

[Chris Reavers]

We might be bankrupt.

[Kenny Olson]

Lady.

[Joe Sucere]

You don't win. You can't win with this.

[Chris Reavers]

Geez, Lord, I should send you guys a piece. I read the other day about just how bad it's going to get in New York.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, she echoed this working from home scenario, which I find dreadful for just the overall health of commerce in the country. People should get up and be moving and go to work. That's how you all generate some dough, buy lunch somewhere.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes, we always discuss how Minneapolis is the economic engine of the city.

[Joe Sucere]

Not anymore.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, but. Okay, it was. But what would that downfall of New York City for the country be?

[Joe Sucere]

It would be ruinous. Absolutely. It's the financial capital of the world. It would be just devastating.

[Chris Reavers]

Come on in for the free stuff

[Joe Sucere]

and you know you can't. Don't let the failed academy off the hook. They've done a hell of a job training the current 22 year old voter to not like this country. They've done a hell of a job.

[Kenny Olson]

Do you think New York will fail?

[Joe Sucere]

Yes, I do. Under the current leadership that we have federally, locally, regionally, how can it not fail?

[Chris Reavers]

Kenny Mamdani's three months into his.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, I asked that because earlier, before, before he was voted in, elected, we were all saying New York is too big to fail.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't believe that. I think I agree with you. I probably said that. But the longer we play out here, I mean, you got a president worried about a gold coin with his mug on it.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, yeah, but that's, that's. I don't think the two are comparable. We're talking about a commercial, a commemorative tchotchke piece of crap coin that goes on a shelf.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Okay, what does it mean?

[Joe Sucere]

What is, what is analog? What is important is the lack of common sense leadership from the very top. Last week or 10 days ago, he went to Missouri. Not to comfort the citizenry, not to comfort the electorate and say, I know gas prices are high, I know I've created this situation, we'll get out of it. Hang in there with me. No, he went to bitch at Massey, who was running for reelection in Missouri. He went there purely for his own political gain. That had nothing to do with helping anyone in this country. Nothing. If somebody tell me what he's done to help people in this country, what economic growth right now is at 00.

[Matthew Mikalski]

The only thing he's done is he's promised to get tougher on ICE and the borders. And that's what a lot of the people that he voted for wanted to have.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay, which is great, but ICE has got to behave more professionally than they did when they stormed through here in January. That was pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Yeah, that was a debacle.

[Joe Sucere]

And the tribe, the tribe happens to see that. And they're saying, we're not funding UTSA agents because we're angry at the way Trump's ICE behaved. It's not the country's ICE to that tribe, it's Trump's ice. And Trump's tribe is saying to the Democrats, you're gonna ruin flying in America. You're gonna ruin the economy. They're all ruining the economy by their actions.

[Chris Reavers]

I misspoke. This is a $1,000 gold plated bill. Not a $100 gold plated bill.

[Joe Sucere]

Are you serious, Clark? Thousand dollars? Is that real?

[Chris Reavers]

Hey, dinner's on me, boys.

[Joe Sucere]

Is that real?

[Matthew Mikalski]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

What liquor store did you go to? I'm gonna go there.

[Chris Reavers]

Hey, Yarmo's. I'm coming.

[Matthew Mikalski]

We're not handing that out at Yarmo's.

[Joe Sucere]

I go to first grand. They got them. They got them bills. What did you want to do?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, can you do one of those? That'd be helpful.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, I can.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

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[Chris Reavers]

Sorry. You looked at me.

[Joe Sucere]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

I don't.

[Chris Reavers]

And that's what Linda Keller is urging you to do. So right now, book your appointment [e-mail] or you can also call her directly at 320-352-0013. Either way, you can get on that schedule. And you know what? If you go to that website, she has all sorts of updated tax information. She also wanted me to thank all of you GL ers. And you know what she even said, Joe, thanks, Joe, for all the kind words he has said about me.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

She has been flooded with all sorts of new customers this year courtesy of the garagelogic podcast and the weekly Scramble podcast. So thank you, Gillers, for trusting Linda Keller. She's been taking care of me for years. Kenny, Johnny, they trust Linda Keller. She's the best in the business and she will take care of you. And it doesn't matter where you live, even if you're not in the state of Minnesota, she can help you out and take care of you. And for you small business owners, my goodness gracious, look at Linda Keller and kellertaxservice.com we're looking at 110 right now, Joe. Kellertaxservice.com, book your appointment and let her know you heard about her on the Garage logic podcast.

[Joe Sucere]

Here's Mr. John Haidt.

[John Haidt]

Thank you, Joe. This news brought to you by a North American banking company. I just wanted to let you guys know before I do the news. I hope it doesn't come to the point where we have to work from home.

[Chris Reavers]

You're such a son of a bitch, you know that? You really are.

[Joe Sucere]

I will never do that again.

[John Haidt]

Thank you very much.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't like it.

[Chris Reavers]

Wait, so you didn't enjoy.

[Joe Sucere]

No, I didn't. No.

[John Haidt]

I used to like it when you'd get visits during the show.

[Chris Reavers]

That's exactly what I was gonna say.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Where's the stapler?

[Chris Reavers]

In fact, I think that might have been one of our first ever viral YouTube videos is when the CP handed you your plate of lunch during the show.

[Matthew Mikalski]

I think we should do it from the airport. I should have a. Chris.

[Kenny Olson]

He makes his own lunch.

[John Haidt]

Makes his own lunch. Yeah, that's right. In the news, three more feeding. Our future defendants entered guilty pleas in federal court this morning. Aisha Hussein, Sara Osman, and Fadumo Yousef each pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. Suleiman Mohammed scheduled to plead guilty Friday morning as well, but his hearing was rescheduled at the last minute. They'll now have his hearing next week. The defendant's part of a group of seven, all scheduled to go on trial in April. After Suleiman Mohammed's plea hearing next week, Gandhi Mohammed will be the only defendant remaining for the trial, Gandhi Mohammed rejected a plea deal. Under the terms of Aisha Hussein's plea deal, remaining charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit federal programs, bribery, federal programs bribery, and conspiracy to commit money laundering will be dismissed at sentencing. She is expected to be sentenced to integrity by figures like John Quincy Adams and Daniel Webster, focusing on moments where they prioritize national interest over personal or political gain.

[Joe Sucere]

It'll be very interesting to see who represents Minnesota at that event.

[Chris Reavers]

Speaking of Kennedy, may we do something? Will you. Will you enlighten me for just a minute?

[Joe Sucere]

Not if it's not germane to what we're talking about.

[Chris Reavers]

It's germane to the show today because Matthew mentioned it earlier today. Matthew, I'd like to do a compare and contrast because we used to do Matthew versus Kamala Harris for many years.

[Joe Sucere]

I was saying not one of the 72 vaccines mandated for children has ever been safety tested.

[Chris Reavers]

Now, would you please say the same sentence in your current form?

[Matthew Mikalski]

Well, as I concur, the 72 explanations ventured by the children must be stopped immediately.

[Joe Sucere]

Thank you.

[Matthew Mikalski]

You gotta throw a little Katharine Hepburn in there.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, you sound like a witch more than anything.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Sorry.

[Joe Sucere]

You're doing somebody. I just don't know who.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Oh, this would be a great day

[Chris Reavers]

to record you as Kennedy.

[Joe Sucere]

Let's not. Let's go to the news, please.

[John Haidt]

The Star Tribune with a story about the new University of Minnesota slogan.

[Joe Sucere]

The new slogan, I can't imagine the

[John Haidt]

new slogan is leave a future. What exactly that means is confusing some people here. And officials from the U were unavailable to comment for the strib story. The U's foundation, which paid for most of the 15 million dollar contract with the marketing firm Rise and Shine.

[Joe Sucere]

What a scam. What a fraud, corrupt, graph grabbing piece of BS that is to help the

[John Haidt]

you with branding over 5 years. Also did not respond to a request for comment.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, that is just outrageous.

[John Haidt]

Rise and Shine Partners said it could not comment on active work at a March 6 meeting where you staff unveiled the new slogan. Susan Hagen, the US Director of creative services, Somebody's gotta go said the tagline is about evolving the university's brand to prioritize education and service alongside research. She said research showed that the community wanted to, in her words, expand beyond a hard focus into just research on Reddit students. Everyone cracking jokes about whether the U was encouraging students to leave campus or drop out of school.

[Joe Sucere]

No kids complain about what it cost.

[John Haidt]

Well, that it's foundation money though it's not the use.

[Joe Sucere]

So what they don't have any money. That's public money.

[John Haidt]

Well it's. But it's donated.

[Joe Sucere]

No, it isn't stealing from people.

[John Haidt]

We went through this with that other There was another story about the foundation

[Kenny Olson]

when they bought the mansion.

[John Hight]

Right.

[Joe Sucere]

Thank you.

[John Haidt]

Kidding.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Matthew Mikalski]

That logo sounds like they sat around the table somebody said 15 million we need a future and somebody said we got the 15 million already.

[Joe Sucere]

Who is Edna works for the foundation that has a brother in law who's got this marketing firm.

[Kenny Olson]

Not only is that phrase wonderful, I think it should be superimposed over the new Minnesota flag. I think that would make a quality

[John Haidt]

logo billboard use current slogan in case you're wondering which they using for about two decades in marketing material is driven to discover so it'll now become leave

[Joe Sucere]

a future take a leak. Should be no leave a leak.

[John Haidt]

Why don't we take a break at this point and hear from Mr. Olson?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I want to read an email that GL or Tim wrote me about his tractor. He's got a 93 Ford 1320 that's got the 1.3 liter three cylinder diesel in it. It's got about 1800 hours on it, stored in a shed, uses an engine heater when the temperature drops below 10 above. But recently it's been acting the fool, requiring the cycling of the glow plugs numerous times before it would actually start up. Tim writes. As I grew frustrated with the inconsistent starts, I decided to try a Seafoam motor treatment with about a half a tank of diesel, about 3, 4 gallons. I added a full, full can of Seafoam, then ran the tractor for over an hour, moving snow and firewood, et cetera, allowing the treatment to circulate. And then I used the tractor the following day and then again today and it now starts right up like it should. Seafoam seems to have done the trick. Indeed, Tim, indeed. That's why I always run Seafoam in my diesel tractors. It helps the cold starting definitely in the winter, but it also assists in keeping those cylinders running happy when you are using it. You can find this stuff, the Seafoam Motor Treatment all over everywhere. A wonderful product in the world of weary diesel cylinders. Seafoam Johnny Thanks Kenny.

[John Haidt]

Other news the Pentagon is sending three warships and thousands of additional Marines to the Middle east in the second deployment of Marines to the region in the past week, about 2,200 to 2,500 Marines from the California based USS Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit are headed to the U.S. central Command, according to U.S. officials. As the war neared the three week mark. Iran projected defiance today with the new supreme leader declaring that, quote, safety must be taken away from the country's enemies and its armed forces, vowing to pursue them even in tourist spots. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's oil officials are working frantically to project how high oil prices actually might go if things continue the

[Chris Reavers]

way they're going to.

[John Haidt]

The base case from several oil officials in the Gulf's biggest producer said is that prices could soar past $180 a barrel if the disruptions persist until late April. While that would sound like a bonanza for the kingdom still heavily leveraged to oil revenue, it's concerning to them. Prices that high could push consumers into habits that slash their oil use potentially in the long term and trigger a recession that also hurts demand. It also risk casting Saudi Arabia in the role of a profiteer in a war it didn't start. Saudi Aramco, the country's national oil company which handles production, sales and pricing, declined to comment on a possible rise in prices.

[Joe Sucere]

You know, in fighting Iran, you're fighting a leadership such as it remains that really isn't fighting for anything except its ideology. In other words, it strikes me that they don't care if they blow up gas terminals. They don't care if they blow up oil terminals. The only thing they live for is to kill infidels, to destroy infidels. They don't care. If they don't need to preserve a tourist spot, what the hell do they care about? If you go lay on the beach, they'll. They don't care about anything. It's hard to fight them. They don't care about anything except their ideology.

[John Hight]

That's.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't know where to go with that except good luck Marines.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, it's got to be hurting their income too, does it not? I mean, they should care about that.

[Joe Sucere]

You'd think so, but they, they don't care about it as much as their ideology.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

U.S. treasury Department has said Cuba won't be allowed to take delivery of Russian crude oil even as the fuel starved island appears poised to get two tankers from Russia carrying oil and gas. In a general license published Thursday, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added Cuba to a list of countries that would be blocked from transactions involving the sale, delivery or offloading of crude or petroleum products that originate from Russia. The US had temporarily authorized the purchase of Russian oil stranded at sea last week as part of an effort to stabilize energy markets. The short term measure suspended sanctions that were first imposed on Moscow following its full scale invasion of Ukraine. The update comes as maritime intelligence providers have been tracking two tankers carrying Russian oil and gas heading toward Cuba. A close call between a commercial airliner and a cargo plane trying to land on crossing runways in Newark Liberty International Airport being investigated by federal aviation officials. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was investigating an incident that happened Tuesday night during which in Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 overflew a FedEx Boeing 777 at the busy New York City area. Airport reports say the planes were within 300ft of each other. At one point in the air. Air traffic controller instructed Alaska Airlines Flight 294 to perform a go around that is discontinue its landing approach and circle around for a new approach to land because FedEx Flight 27721 from Memphis was cleared for a final approach. There were 171 passengers and six crew members on board the one passenger flight. FedEx said in a prepared statement that its flight crew followed instructions from air traffic control and landed safely.

[Joe Sucere]

Is air traffic control affected by the shutdown?

[Matthew Mikalski]

And I don't know.

[John Haidt]

I don't think it is. Well, I, I shouldn't say. I'm not sure. Some, well, sad news for those of us who have been broadcasting news for a while. CBS News said this morning it will be shutting down its radio news Service after nearly 100 years of operation, all part of a round of layoffs blaming a shift in radio station programming strategies and challenging economic times. When it went on the air in September 1927, CBS News Radio was the precursor of the entire network giving a youthful William S. Paley a start in the business. Fame broadcaster Edward R. Burrow delivered reports from London during World War II as part of the service. Today, CBS News Radio provides material to an estimated 700 stations across the country. And yes, there's one here in the Twin Cities. It's wcco. It's best known for its top of the hour news roundups. The service will end May 22, according to CBS.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Joe, in some partial shutdowns, such as the one beginning in February this year, the Department of Homeland Security, which includes TSA agents, might be affected while the Department of Transportation, the FAA and the air traffic control remains funded, meaning controllers might be paid in some scenarios while others are not. However, in major full government shutdowns, air traffic controllers are not paid.

[Chris Reavers]

I don't know if John had this in his news, but I do think I know what the final nail in the coffin was for that announcement from cbs. Are you guys aware of this? No it was this piece of audio.

[Ricey]

There are three over 500.

[Joe Sucere]

Yes, sir.

[John Haidt]

And who expected that?

[Joe Sucere]

Don't worry about that.

[Matthew Mikalski]

No, I don't hear anything.

[Joe Sucere]

They're playing great, great ball. One second, one second. Guy gonna help somebody with their baggage.

[Chris Reavers]

God bless you.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't really think that's why CBS is.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, you don't think that was why?

[John Haidt]

That's local programming, Chris.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Not.

[Joe Sucere]

Not.

[John Hight]

Oh,

[Joe Sucere]

I can tell you I will miss the top of the hour newscast. It's a.

[Chris Reavers]

It's one of the most legendary radio stations in the history of.

[Joe Sucere]

Forget the radio station. They're nothing anymore. I just missed the top of the hour newscast.

[Kenny Olson]

I missed the old sounder from the 70s.

[Joe Sucere]

That one.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, yeah, the original sounder.

[Chris Reavers]

What was the grease?

[John Hight]

Stainless steel.

[Chris Reavers]

Tell me the.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, when I was a kid, the kitchen radio was frozen by virtue of grease to that station. Because you didn't want to miss a school closing. No, that's what killed them. Finally my grandma went electric.

[Kenny Olson]

My grandma and grandpa would not listen to me on AM 1500.

[Joe Sucere]

No, because you were.

[Kenny Olson]

Because I wasn't on CCO and they couldn't. There's no way they were going to turn away from CCO to hear their grandson on the radio.

[Joe Sucere]

That's.

[Kenny Olson]

That's really cute, Kenny, but we're not. We're not leaving the neighbors.

[Joe Sucere]

Is that in this town? Oh, you're kidding.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, I found that with my in laws when I started working. News 2001, I think.

[John Hight]

Yes. Here.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

My in laws would not turn the channel. Basically they acted like they didn't know we existed.

[Kenny Olson]

Right.

[John Haidt]

Radio station.

[John Hight]

Right.

[Joe Sucere]

So. Right.

[Kenny Olson]

They said, oh, you work over there. That's too bad.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

Maybe you could get a job at

[Kenny Olson]

CCO

[John Haidt]

when posting your cash bail to get sprung from the county lockup. I got a tip for you, Chris. This might come in handy with your thousand dollar bill. Oh, if you're posting.

[Chris Reavers]

I know exactly what you're gonna say.

[John Haidt]

If you're posting your bail, make sure not to hand the judge counterfeit 100 bills. Key.

[Joe Sucere]

That's a good tip.

[John Haidt]

33 year old Patrick Alexander arrested for trespassing at a property in Chesterfield, South Carolina After a night in jail, he was brought before judge John Davis who had set his bail at $250 on the misdemean. Given back his belongings so that he could retrieve bail money, Alexander pulled out a wad of cash and handed Davis three $100 bills and advised judge Davis to quote, keep the change. Who told Alexander, sorry, I can't take A tip. I can't keep the extra money at that point. Notice the cash's color. It didn't look quite right when he flipped the bills over. The judge saw Chinese writing on the back of the money.

[Joe Sucere]

He was a candidate for the Gumption County Institute for the Criminally Incompetent.

[John Haidt]

Yep. And he didn't get let go. At this point, he had a couple of new charges tacked on. Forgery, a felony, and a contempt of court misdemeanor. His bond increased to $6,000 when Alexander's money was booked into evidence. Police noted the defendant had actually handed the judge four fake bills. So he apparently tried to tip the judge 150 bucks.

[Joe Sucere]

Keep the change, Judge.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Did he say right away? Hang on, Judge. I got the 6K right here. Hang on.

[John Haidt]

Keep the chain.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay, Johnny. Thank you.

[John Haidt]

You're welcome.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Bizarre.

[Joe Sucere]

Here we go.

[Chris Reavers]

Cue the talent. Stand by.

[Joe Sucere]

I'm not even worried after last night because they didn't have Casper off or whatever his name is.

[John Hight]

How could he get hurt? He had like three weeks off while the rest of them were over there fighting for the gold medals. What. What was he doing? I don't know.

[Joe Sucere]

He's got the lower body injury, whatever that is.

[John Hight]

Oh, that's. That's anything. He's day to day below the navel, right? Yeah. Unbelievable. Yes. But you know what I said they're lucky they don't have to play any of these crappy teams in the playoffs. They're. They're okay against the good team. Crappy ones they can't beat. They. You know, thank God we don't have to play a last place team in the first round.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, it looks like they'll have to play Colorado, right?

[Chris Reavers]

Or Dallas, one of the two.

[Joe Sucere]

I'm sorry, Dallas. Yeah. Dallas or Colorado.

[John Hight]

Yeah, they're right next to each other. Dallas is like been as ungodly as Colorado was for like they were at one point. We're 30 and four or something. Yeah, Dallas is. The other day I looked at Dallas and it said in the standings, you know, they got what they are. The last 10, they were 10 and 0, so. And then they. And then they've kept playing pretty good.

[Chris Reavers]

I have a question about that Olympic team. So have you guys heard the story about Jack Hughes and the game when winning puck?

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, he's disappointed because the hall of Fame took the puck and he wants the puck.

[Chris Reavers]

But how did they already get their hands on it?

[Joe Sucere]

I don't know.

[Chris Reavers]

It's his puck.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, no, he didn't pay for it.

[John Hight]

The Hell knows. Give it back to him and tell him it's the puck and some other puck. What do you know? That's like. You know what? They're all the same. What the hell? Just tell them what it is. A bunch of crap, you know.

[John Haidt]

Hey.

[Joe Sucere]

Pat by Billikens won handily last night. Holy Mac.

[John Hight]

Oh, my goodness. They are good. All of us.

[Joe Sucere]

They are fast and good. Is Avila. I don't know enough about basketball and I never do want to know enough, but is Avila, Is Avila an NBA candidate?

[John Hight]

I would know because I would not know because I've never watched him. I, I, you know what? I used to be fixated by that thing and now I turn it on. Once I got to see the Badgers lose and.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, that was glorious.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, he has a shot to be the darling of this tournament. He played very well last night and he just stands out because he's so goofy looking and that team is really

[John Hight]

fast and you gotta love a team named the Billikens. It's always been my favorite nickname ever. Yeah, I don't even know what a

[Joe Sucere]

Billiken is, but it's a mysterious monster in the forest.

[John Hight]

Really?

[Joe Sucere]

Something like that.

[John Hight]

Yeah. Well, they, you know, Rick Jarris was there for a while and then they were down and then they came back up a little bit and it's, it's pretty fantastic that they're back again because that used to be a great, great basketball school.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, in my pool, they're the winner.

[Chris Reavers]

Really.

[Joe Sucere]

I got them going all the way. Just one of those miracle years.

[John Hight]

And if the Big east decides to add one more team, I got a hunch it might be St. Louis instead of our. Because they got a bigger arena. But St. Louis is stuck in that like the second rate Catholic conference, the one that the other ones are, you know, the other eastern schools are in.

[Joe Sucere]

I'm surprised you are not glued to the tournament.

[John Hight]

Well, I did, as I said, the Wisconsin game. Greatest stat ever. Joe, did you see that? The guy that won the game? Game?

[Joe Sucere]

No.

[John Hight]

He's averaging like 12 points a game. He's taken four two pointers all year. This was the first one he made. Wow. It was a layup to win the game because he was out in the open court and everybody thought he'd just pull up and shoot a three, but he went ahead and laid it up. But he just. They're like, they're three point specialist. Yeah, he just comes in and throws them from all over the place. No one's here or three pointer attempts all year. It's Unbelievable. You know, there weren't many upsets yesterday that I was going to say at Twitter. As soon as there was an upset, my bracket is busted. Everybody likes to announce their bracket every time there's an upset.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, now, is the bracket busted only if you lose a team that you predicted to get into the Final Four?

[Chris Reavers]

Pretty much, yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah. In other words, your bracket isn't busted if you're.

[John Hight]

No, but people always. Yeah, there is rivers, though. They must have the. The thing like the baseball deadpool going too, right? That you're, you know, you got to keep picking three winners in each round or something like that.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, there are. There's several different ones that you can enter and. Yeah, one of them is they even let you re. Re Pick teams after each each given round, too, which is kind of neat.

[John Hight]

Yes. Well, you know what they're going to do, supposedly, Joe, we don't have enough of these 8th place teams in the play in the thing. They're supposedly going to go up to 76.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, my God Almighty.

[Chris Reavers]

That's too much.

[John Hight]

Add eight more. I don't know how you come up with that number, though. 76.

[Chris Reavers]

Did you guys hear, by the way, the tournament that the Gophers got into in Las Vegas? Do you know what the prize money is? This is going to ruin the college basketball tournament, in my opinion. Eight teams, Joe, are playing in this event in Las Vegas.

[Joe Sucere]

I'm aware of that.

[Chris Reavers]

And the champion gets $500,000 in nil money. See you later. NCAA tournament.

[John Hight]

Was it the champion or was it divided among everybody?

[Chris Reavers]

I thought it was the champion, but I'm willing to be corrected.

[Joe Sucere]

Maybe you only read the headline.

[Chris Reavers]

I read the story.

[John Hight]

It's nice to see a team that, you know, you know, they take two from each major from several variety of major conferences. You know who the other Big Ten team is where. It's bad enough that our boys are, what, 8 and 12 and 15 and 17. Rutgers, 6 and 14 and 14 and 19. Let's go to the postseason. Come on. That's one reason I'm sick of it, you know, is. Yeah, somebody's gonna try to get me fired up about Nico taking his boys to the. You know, there's also the NIT, that's 32, so we're up to 100 teams. And then there's this something else, the CIT or the CBI or something, and that's got like 30 teams in it, too. So.

[Joe Sucere]

Boy, you really gotta be bad if you're not in a postseason event.

[John Hight]

You do? Yes.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Y. Pat I ran into NCAA ref Eric Curry at the airport the other day.

[John Hight]

Yes. The last man to give Arizona coach. Arizona State coach Bobby Hurley a technical.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Well, and I just challenged him. I said, call the travel. Okay, let's go old school. Forget this extra step. And he assured me that he would not do that.

[John Hight]

No, no.

[Joe Sucere]

I saw so much traveling last night that I've given up worrying about.

[John Hight]

But this is nothing compared to the NBA.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, it's terrible.

[John Hight]

The NBA. First we had the Euro step, which means you can, like, stop and then take a step. But now we've had the gather. We get together.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, yeah.

[John Hight]

Proceed to your.

[Joe Sucere]

What's the gather like?

[John Hight]

5. I don't know. You're gathering. I guess you kind of. You stop and then you kind of stretch out. You gather yourself, and then you take the Euro stack. Oh, boy. It's about. Well, you know. Remember, you know who's the greatest long jumper you've ever seen? He wouldn't be called for traveling.

[Chris Reavers]

No.

[John Hight]

20, Ralph Boston, 32ft. Nah, that's not traffic.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay, puzzle me, this. What would happen if you just forgot about traveling? Just don't call it anymore?

[Chris Reavers]

That's pretty much what's happening.

[Joe Sucere]

How would the game. I don't think the game would be any worse.

[John Hight]

It'd be a little more like football because you have to have a big, strong guy to run through people, I guess.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

So what you're saying, Patrick, is that the double pump layup was way ahead of its time.

[John Hight]

Think how effective the double pump layup would have been, rook, if you never had to dribble.

[Matthew Mikalski]

You know, I was the one that started the trend. People were scratching their heads going, you know, maybe. Maybe we should do a little extra step here.

[Chris Reavers]

Trendsetter.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Yeah, a little extra step. Help the kids out.

[John Hight]

Yeah, well, it isn't as bad in College in the NBA. And the NBA is.

[Joe Sucere]

Hey, St. Thomas plays Mankato tonight for a chance to go to the tournament. Oh, that's right.

[John Haidt]

I totally forgot about that.

[Joe Sucere]

At Mankato.

[Chris Reavers]

That's right.

[John Hight]

It will be 2 to 1. And then somebody might get an empty netter, but then it'll be very.

[Joe Sucere]

That can be heard on 1500 ESPN.

[Chris Reavers]

You want to go?

[Joe Sucere]

I can't. Oh, come on.

[Chris Reavers]

Let's road trip. We'll get a little bite at the 508 Pub.

[Joe Sucere]

You can use your thousand dollar bill.

[Chris Reavers]

We can use my trump. Gold plated thousand dollar bill. Dinner's on me, Joe.

[John Hight]

Yeah, you know, they got the good pizza joints down there. Manly eyes, man. You can't beat it right. Pali eyes. I keep pronouncing the G. You're not supposed to announce the G. But Ballyhes is right down there near the. Near the stadium.

[Joe Sucere]

What is their building?

[Chris Reavers]

Hold for hockey, but just not quite six.

[Joe Sucere]

About the same as St. Thomas.

[Chris Reavers]

And it's. And it's sold out. It's absolutely sold out this weekend.

[Joe Sucere]

I can imagine. Oh, that'll be fun.

[Chris Reavers]

That will be fun.

[Joe Sucere]

I wish it was on tv.

[John Hight]

It isn't. It isn't.

[Chris Reavers]

I gotta. I gotta hook up for you, sir.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't have the magic thing.

[Chris Reavers]

No, no, no, you don't need that.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't watch it on computers.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Okay. So Kenny always tells me. He is the magic thing.

[John Hight]

Yeah. Joe. Yes. One week from today, we'll know how the Twins did in their season opener. Boy, is that.

[Joe Sucere]

Holy mackerel.

[Chris Reavers]

Holy cow.

[John Hight]

Sneaking up on us with no, no time. So, do you hear the latest about the World Baseball Classic?

[Joe Sucere]

Now, we haven't chatted since the title game, which I thought was pretty fun.

[John Hight]

Fantastic. I gotta tell you a secret. Yep. I was rooting like hell for Venezuela.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, you won.

[John Hight]

Louis Arise and the whole crew. The US Guys aren't judging. These weenies who don't give a damn are walking out there with swags and, you know, all this crap, you know, wearing the 17 of the 20 Italians were from the United States. Germany. Germany doesn't have a baseball player in the whole country.

[Joe Sucere]

You know, Max Kepler.

[John Hight]

Max Kepler.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

And he got suspended for steroids, which proves he's a good German.

[Chris Reavers]

That's right, Pat.

[Joe Sucere]

I went to Venezuela. Players were sincere in their joy, though.

[John Hight]

Oh, they were. They were. The Puerto Rico. The Dominican. Puerto Rico. They don't know their citizens. The US News Trump.

[Joe Sucere]

But,

[John Hight]

you know, Cuba was kind of dead because their country's dying because of us. But. But Puerto Rico, the Dominican and Venezuela are really into it and for good reason. They're all from there, you know. Did you hear about the two great. Johnny, who are the two great Venezuelan players that are from a town of 3,000? A fishing village from 3,000?

[John Haidt]

I don't know.

[John Hight]

Did you hear that There's.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, a little.

[John Hight]

They were talking about a little fishing village. You can't, like, take a car there. You got to take some kind of a.

[Joe Sucere]

Got to take a mule, take a

[John Hight]

scooter to go over there, this big hill and down there on, you know, dirt roads, and then there's a little fishing village there. 3,000 people. And they've had about eight big leaguers and they got two guys on the thing. It's. It's unbelievable. Wow.

[Chris Reavers]

That's cool, Pat.

[Joe Sucere]

I'll talk. I'll talk to you Monday.

[John Hight]

And by the way, how can you ever have been a Twins fan and not root for Louis Ri.

[Chris Reavers]

It's true.

[John Haidt]

I. I can answer Pat's question before he leaves. Ronald Acuna Jr. And Michael Garcia.

[John Hight]

Wow.

[John Haidt]

Fishing village of la sabana.

[John Hight]

Yeah. 3,000 people.

[John Haidt]

Yep, 3,000.

[Chris Reavers]

Holy cow.

[Joe Sucere]

I thought they had. I thought they had more than two major leaguers, that village.

[John Hight]

Well, no, that's who they got now.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

Currently, this team, They've had others before. So. So.

[Joe Sucere]

All right. Thank you.

[John Hight]

I bet they got mosquitoes there.

[Joe Sucere]

I bet they do. That's his last thought.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

Chris Reavers is a paid endorser. Oh, that worked.

[John Hight]

Finally.

[Joe Sucere]

Thank God. Today is Friday. TGT. Foreign.

[Chris Reavers]

You damn right it is. And you know what, ladies and gentlemen, we already know that spring has sprung. What time? 9:30 this morning. Is that what time?

[Joe Sucere]

It was something like that.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, only because they come to us all the way from Penguin Tasmania, Australia from the traveling linemans it was on this day in Minnesota.

[Chris Reavers]

Today is March in 1858.

[Joe Sucere]

On this day, Kandeohai county was established, at first comprising only the southern half of its present area. In 1870, the county absorbed the northern neighbor, Monongahlia County. Kandeohai, a Dakota name for some lakes in the county, means where the buffalo fish come. On this day, March 20th in 1920, W.E.B. duBois gave a lecture in St. Paul sponsored by the local chapter of the NAACP. And on this day, March 20th, 1992, during World War II, the surviving crew members of the U.S. army Air Corps bombing raid on Tokyo, led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, gathered in Red Wing. They were joined by Chinese villagers who had rescued some of the airmen after they crash landed or parachute into the nearby sea or China after the attack, organized by a Red Wing area resident who had led an expedition to China in 1990 to try to recover the remains of raid bombers. The reunion also honored Doolittle, who was unable to attend. It was on this day in Minnesota sports disappointment history. What would be those two? On March 20? On this day in 2013, it was reported, reported unbelievably enough, that the University of Minnesota lost money on beer sales at TCF Bank Stadium.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, we had fun with that one, didn't we?

[Joe Sucere]

They lost money selling beer. That's impossible. In fact, that's like bankrupting a casino. You wouldn't think that could be done.

[Chris Reavers]

Johnny, who's the guy? Espn, is it Darren Revel, the business guy for espn. He said it was confirmed they were the first sports entity to ever lose money selling alcohol.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, how did I remember? How did it happen?

[Chris Reavers]

It was something to do with their contract. And they were. I can't remember exactly, but it was really bungled.

[Joe Sucere]

You'd have to really screw some up.

[Chris Reavers]

How much money selling beer?

[Joe Sucere]

God almighty. Well, thank you, G ers.

[Matthew Mikalski]

How did we miss that, Chuck?

[Joe Sucere]

I hope there's a Monday in our future.

[Matthew Mikalski]

How did we miss that? Chuck Norris died.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, yeah. Chuck Norris died. John should have had that in his news.

[John Haidt]

I don't do death stars anymore, so.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay.

[Joe Sucere]

Only musicians.

[Chris Reavers]

Just musicians nobody's heard of?

[John Haidt]

No, not musicians anymore. That's why I'm not doing deaths anymore.

[Joe Sucere]

Why aren't you doing deaths? I think they're.

[Chris Reavers]

What's the matter with you, John?

[John Haidt]

Take static for.

[Matthew Mikalski]

He was an Airman first class in the Air Force from 58 to 62.

[Joe Sucere]

He was a tough guy.

[Matthew Mikalski]

He was a badass.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, 86. 86. He's gone now. You should have known that Chuck Norris didn't die.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Chuck Norris chose to not be alive anymore.

[Joe Sucere]

Chuck Norris chose to be on the live.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Yes, exactly.

[Joe Sucere]

Thank you. Before we go. Well, I guess we're still here.

[Kenny Olson]

When Chuck Norris was born, he drove his mom home from the hospital.

[Matthew Mikalski]

I love Chuck Norris jokes.

[Chris Reavers]

We have our G elera of the Week.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, it's about time. Kind of like we had one last week.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, we might have missed it, but that's due to.

[Joe Sucere]

Who is it, I wonder?

[Chris Reavers]

This week's G eler of the Week is. Nate Smithson.

[Joe Sucere]

I'll be damned.

[Chris Reavers]

Wait, hold on. Did I get.

[Joe Sucere]

Where's Nate from?

[Chris Reavers]

No, Nate was a previous winner. This week's GL Killer of the Week is Patrick Hole of Hudson, Wisconsin. Patrick has been a proud town council member since November of 2022. He gets the gift pack from Masters Maples and Masters Maples.

[Joe Sucere]

How do you spell his last name?

[Chris Reavers]

H O, E, L. Yeah, you got it right. Okay.

[Joe Sucere]

I was just curious.

[Chris Reavers]

And Nate, by the way, New Prague, Minnesota, also a town council member since September.

[Joe Sucere]

They get the syrup and the whole deal.

[Chris Reavers]

The whole shooting match, Joe. That's how it works. Find out more. And you can become the GL of the Week by upgrading to an annual town council membership. Find out more [e-mail] and you can also follow us on all of our social media channels which includes Facebook, Instagram and X. And you can also follow us on YouTube where you can watch the show each and every single day.

[Matthew Mikalski]

I love watching myself each and every single day.

[Chris Reavers]

And here with our recruitment alert is garagelogic's Matthew Mikalski.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Continue forever. By the way, hey, advertise on Garage Logic. You got it. Garagelogic.com let's do this.

[Chris Reavers]

I pointed to him. I didn't look at him, I pointed to him.

[Matthew Mikalski]

Let's do this.

[Chris Reavers]

Have a great weekend. You got big plans. Time once again to 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, 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, oil is up today. Apple is moving more product in China than China is moving product. And I need to know what this means. Quadruple. Which day, what does that mean?

[Josh Arnold]

Double boil. Double boil oil and trouble Cauldron Boyle. Oh, I really messed up that Shakespearean line. I should know that cold after having that drilled into me in high school English class. Now there's, there's a lot of trouble in the marketplace or to quote another, another line, Yep, we've got trouble. We've got trouble right here in River City. Yep, we've got trouble. And that rhymes with pool. No, we do have trouble in the, in the marketplace place. And the trouble is relating to the quite oil price over the last last several weeks from $65 a barrel to 90. $95 a barrel. Pretty steep move. And any steep move up could well be followed move on the downside. And even the oil futures market are predicting that oil over the next next six months is going to come, come back down. But with the price of oil up, the Fed from their decision the other day is now considering the impact or the potential impact that oil prices moving up could have on their inflation forecast. Numerous Fed governors have been talking about the dreaded stagflation. We have inflation with slowing economic growth, we go into a stagnant economy in some some cases has not ended ended well. I am of the belief however not that the market or the economy is necessarily going to be fair bailed out by the Fed and I'll say this is but the rise of artificial intelligence and its users across many industries will definitely increase productivity, keep the economy coming along at least at a, I'll say at least close to a 2% or even better rate than that. Issues relating to Iran I think are going to be resolved to the point positive side at least for world worldwide economies. But we are going a very difficult market market environment which we have acknowledged beginning of the year. I did talk about increased volatility particularly around government or potential government shutdowns relating to the passage of the continuing resolution and all bulk of that pass. But we still have issues related to relating to one part of the government of the Department of Homeland Security which is being held up and that has created some ripple effects particularly among those of us who travel. Another issue I do believe or I talked about was interest rate not coming down as much and the push from the White House to cut interest rates as a way to spur the economy, particularly around housing which is a big chunk of the economy. But the Fed has maintained it independence and has said that they are data dependent. My only wish is the Fed cuts back on their quantitative tightening by continuing to sell bonds into the marketplace. And they've been selling bonds at least in the past into the marketplace at prices lower than where they bought them. And you're not going to make money in the bond market unless interest rates come down. Yes, you're going to get a nice yield or distribution from your from the

[John Hight]

bonds or the bond fund.

[Josh Arnold]

But your principal is not going to be going up unless interest rates come down or come down significantly. Thus if I'm looking for yield I'll look for higher higher yielding stock and there are plenty of those I mentioned yesterday and before using a systematic withdrawal from my portfolio on a monthly basis and that's something I have done for decades and it's worked extremely well. But yes the risk there is and that same as the risk is true in bonds or bond funds, your principal is going to go up and down today with triple or excuse me quadruple which happens on a quarterly basis when all op index off. As an examp example stock options, single stock options, contract all come due at the same time typically creates a downward push and bring stocks closest option option level. So that's just something to pay attention to today as the market again sells off the Dow has had its worst month since September of 2022. What has performed more poorly have been the hedges in metals, whether it be gold, silver or even copper. Gold and silver are trading back to where they were at the end of last year after having a pretty significant move up. They are they are back down as well. Now on positive news as you are aware as Apple has been my largest and longest held position dating back to 2024 so this is definitely talking my book held this through thick and thin and Apple has gone through numerous moves up and moves down of some magnitude. Apple is a stock that is under owned by most institutions whether it be head swap or mutual funds. The under owned is relative to its position in the S and P. If Apple makes up 6% of the S and P and you as a fund only have a 3% or 2% position in Apple that's under owned relative to the to the index. Yet Apple does get I'll say more a lot of coverage from talking heads and analysts and a lot of it can be viewed negatively. Negative news always sounds better. The other day I saw a report that China China sales smartphones were down. Apple went down on that news. But if you read beyond the headline you would have found that Apple's China sales were up 23% year over year for the first nine weeks of the of the year which which was significantly greater than other smartphones sold in China and continues to show the demand for the phone and Apple will say second second largest market. This is going to lead to other sales particularly among in their services an app store which should increase. On another note, Apple should generate about a billion dollars in revenue downloads in their app store of the the AI chat bots whether it's ChatGPT, Gemini Gro or even Quad another another source of revenue for for Apple. And when Apple unveils its new Siri product which will be backed by Gemini whether that comes in April May or at their Worldwide Developers Conference in June, I think that provides another catalyst for Apple. And lastly of course April 1st will be 50 years that Apple has been in business and as a stockholder long term those those pennies have turned into very very big dollar.

[Chris Reavers]

Excellent advice as always Mr. MoneyTalk. You heard him GI. Now is the time for you to pick up the phone and make the call for that free 48 minute financial consultation again with zero obligation. And you do that just like I did by dialing 952-925-5608 where you always get straight talk and never ever sugarcoated advice. Josh, as Always. Thank you so much for the time and the chat. Enjoy the rest of your day. Have a fantastic weekend and we will talk to you again next week.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, Chris, I'm. It might be a little muddy outside. No doubt we'll be out on the ball this weekend.

[Chris Reavers]

Sounds good. Talk to you, Josh.

[Josh Arnold]

Bye.

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[Joe Sucere]

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