3/24 The annual moose report has been issued by the DNR and moose are doing just fine

Summary

Garage Logic Podcast – Episode Summary
Episode: March 24, 2026 – "The annual moose report has been issued by the DNR and moose are doing just fine"
Host: Joe Soucheray ("The Mayor") & Garage Logic crew
Network: Gamut Podcast Network

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Episode Theme Overview

This episode blends Garage Logic’s trademark blend of local color, skepticism, irreverence, and “gumption”—with major discussions on current events, state wildlife, climate narratives, and local news. The headline is the Minnesota DNR’s annual moose report, which finds the state’s moose population stable—counter to recent climate-related fears. The team also riffs on political hypocrisy, the rise of “climate grief” as a mental health category (and resulting therapeutic industries), escalating national debt, TSA woes, and a notorious crime headline. Expect signature common-sense banter, skepticism about media narratives, and nostalgic commentary about Minnesota life.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Rise and Fall of César Chávez Day

Discussion (02:44–07:16)

• Joe Soucheray reflects on the Minnesota House’s unanimous decision to repeal César Chávez Day amidst new allegations of sexual abuse against Chávez—mirroring the modern tendency to erase figures when their flaws emerge, even if their earlier contributions were celebrated (02:44).
• “If you're harming children, you don't deserve worldwide praise.” – Joe Soucheray (04:38)
• Panel debates “where to draw the line” regarding honoring historical figures, with references to Bill Clinton and others whose legacies are contested due to personal misconduct. The conversation also questions the process of vetting public figures before naming schools and holidays after them.

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2. Annual Moose Report: Mooses On The Mend

Main Segment (08:29–13:53, recurring references throughout)

• The DNR’s survey says Minnesota’s moose population has stabilized at about 4,500 after a steep decline between 2006–2013. Numbers dropped from ~8,800 to as low as 2,800 but have rebounded.
• Joe notes the press sounds “almost disappointed” they can’t link moose population decline to climate change, expressing skepticism about media and DNR framing.
  • “For as long as moose have been around, there's been climate change… the climate always changes and always will.” – Joe (08:47)
  • “If the DNR quit tracking them down and tranquilizing them and drawing blood, maybe the mooses would be better off.” – Joe (12:23)
• Panel debates moose hunting—supporters and detractors spar on whether a managed hunt should return now that numbers have recovered.
• Sidebar: Kenny O. shares that there's currently no moose hunting season in Minnesota and discusses the edibility and majesty of moose.

Timestamp Highlights:

• [08:29]—Moose population news and media commentary
• [09:43]—Population history, detailed numbers
• [12:09]—Joe: “I’m gonna go so far as to say you’re pro moose.”

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3. Climate Grief: Media Coverage & Therapy Trends

Discussion (14:02–23:54, again at 34:17–36:15)

• Joe discusses a Minnesota Public Radio story attributing mental health issues to “warming winters,” mocking the emergence of “climate grief” as a research and therapeutic field (14:02–17:44).
  • “She said, you know what? They were scamming you, lady. I don’t think the kids really…” – Joe (17:29)
  • The team disputes that children authentically report climate anxiety, contending it’s seeded by adult suggestion and media.
• Reflecting on nostalgic ideals of “storybook” Minnesota winters, Joe and crew suggest that obsession with ideal weather breeds invented maladies.
• Critique of the new industry around “climate grief” counselors and the ways Americans create “problems” for profit.
  • “How narrow and uneventful is your life that you’d find yourself staring out the window and having climate grief?” – Joe (23:43)
• [34:17]—Joe labels “climate grief therapy” as unkind and manipulative to kids:
  • “If humankind has done anything over the millennia, it’s adapt, change, and flourish.” – Joe

Timestamp Highlights:

• [14:02]—Kickoff of “climate grief” segment with discussion of MPR story and local personalities
• [17:47–21:13]—Nostalgic recollections of winter and “golden book” ideal
• [23:13]—On profiteering from invented anxieties

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4. On Debt, Government Insolvency, and the TSA Shutdown

Discussion (41:44–49:46)

• Joe shares Treasury data to declare the U.S. government “insolvent” ($6.3T in assets vs. $47.78T liabilities) but notes near-total media silence (41:51).
  • “If you’re taught that you can’t live with debt… responsible people try to keep control of their debt.” – Joe (44:08)
• The panel highlights personal stories of TSA workers missing pay during the government shut down, tying individual struggles to government mismanagement.
  • “We’re like her… we know we have these obligations… we can’t run up $30 trillion in debt, which this country has done through just some of the most haphazard and poor leadership imaginable.” – Joe (45:02)

Timestamp Highlights:

• [41:44]—National balance sheet breakdown
• [46:45]—Struggles of TSA agents, income hardship

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5. Political Hypocrisy and Public Spending

Discussion (50:16–53:06)

• The group rails against apparent hypocrisy and self-enrichment among politicians (ex., Kristi Noem’s $200M ad contract, Ilhan Omar’s wealth), suggesting disconnects between the ruling class and regular citizens.
• Joe promotes nuclear power as an alternative energy source for Minnesota, criticizing the carbon-free 2040 goals and moratorium on new nuclear plants.

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6. Local Headlines and Community Life

Highlights (53:23–59:42)

• University of Minnesota names Brett Larson as new men’s hockey coach.
• Anoka-Hennepin schools face budget cuts, including social workers; Joe hopes for a reduction in “climate grief” counselors.
• Minneapolis plans for first responder training/wellness center, with debate about diverting funds from other projects.
• Discussion of large cash flows at MSP airport, suspected fraud, and the regulatory response.

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7. Comic Relief: Notorious Crime Story

Segment (71:33–77:16)

• A story about a quadruple amputee cornhole champion arrested for murder ignites incredulity, dark humor, and speculation over the mechanics of driving, shooting, and disposing of a body.
  • “How do you… if you don’t have any hands, how do you do that?” – Joe (75:01)
  • The team riffs, blending black humor with their usual irreverence.

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8. Weather Memories & the Human Spirit

Reflection (36:15–39:46)

• The panel discusses whether any of them have real “weather memories” from childhood, concluding most remembered only adult-framed anxieties like acid rain or open wells.
• Etymology time: Joe explains the word “petrichor” (the smell of rain after a dry spell) and traces it to ancient Greek, with more banter about Minnesota lifestyle.
  • “Now you tell me where you’re gonna get that on a podcast? Just tell me.” – Joe (39:46)

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9. Minnesota History & Sports

Segment (81:32–84:45)

• “On this day” Minnesota history:
  • 1858: St. Cloud Visitor printing press destroyed
  • 1999: Mille Lacs band’s treaty rights upheld
  • 2002: UMD Bulldogs women’s hockey win second championship
  • 1996: The “Michigan” goal against Gophers
  • 2006: Gophers’ shocking loss to Holy Cross
• Signs off with crew nostalgia, gratitude, and classic Garage Logic camaraderie.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On climate change hysteria:
  “For as long as moose have been around, there’s been climate change… the climate always changes and always will.” – Joe [08:47]

• On erasing complicated figures:
  “If you’re harming children, you don’t deserve worldwide praise.” – Joe [04:38]

• On ‘climate grief’:
  “How narrow and uneventful is your life that you’d find yourself staring out the window and having climate grief?” – Joe [23:43]
  “If humankind has done anything over the millennia, it’s adapt, change, and flourish.” – Joe [34:17]
  “Go bleep yourself… It leads to no goodness whatsoever.” – Joe [35:11]

• On the government’s financial situation:
  “We’re broke, we’re insolvent. It doesn’t even make the news. We just continue merrily along.” – Joe [43:43]

• On political privilege:
  “They have special flying privileges where they don’t have to wait in a line.” – Joe [50:06]

• On living through hardship:
  “We’re just saps the way we’re treated in this country. We are saps.” – Joe [49:03]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 02:44 — Repeal of César Chávez Day & legacy debates
• 08:29 — Moose report and criticism of environmental journalists
• 14:02 — MPR story on ‘climate grief’; therapy industry critique
• 23:43 — Garage Logic’s take on the invention of new problems/services
• 34:17 — Extended critique of ‘climate grief’ professionals (esp. re: kids)
• 41:44 — US national debt and political class immunity
• 46:45 — Personal accounts of TSA hardship, economic struggle
• 50:16 — Political hypocrisy, energy policy critique
• 53:23 — Local news & community events (U of M hockey, budget cuts)
• 71:33 — Darkly comic crime story: quadruple amputee cornhole champion
• 81:32 — “On this day” Minnesota historical notes, sports nostalgia

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Tone & Style

• Language: Blunt, irreverent, sometimes sarcastic, rooted in “common sense”. Panel banters with a mix of wit, nostalgia, and skepticism.
• Flow: Shifts deftly from news stories to personal anecdotes, from heated rants to comic interludes.

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Conclusion & Takeaways

• The moose are thriving—despite years of warnings about climate doom.
• “Climate grief” is an excuse for new therapeutic industries—inventing new problems that, Joe argues, are a result of a “spoiled” society with too much free time.
• State and national governance is lambasted as incompetent and out-of-touch, as regular folks are left to deal with consequences.
• The Garage Logic crew remains skeptical of media, government, education trends, and pop-therapy fads—advocating common sense, adaptation, and resilience.
• Local color remains strong: from moose trivia to sports lore and community memories.

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Garage Logic remains, as always, “the seat of Gumption County”… where common sense, skepticism, and a reverence for the 2-car garage prevail.

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Josh Arnold, investment consultant, brings you Garagelogic podcast number 1743. March 24, 2026. 76 degrees was the record high on this day. That was in 1939. And for the second day in a row, the record cold was in 1965. It was eight below on this day. And yes, we have an ice out.

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Hail the Flashlight King.

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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 Krabby Coffee Shop, John Height in the newsroom, and of course the rookie here is your Flashlight King, fireworks commissioner and keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Sushi.

[A]

We got spirit. Yes, we do.

[C]

We got spirit.

[D]

How about you?

[C]

You're demented.

[D]

He's got. He's got some issues.

[E]

What are you talking about?

[C]

Well, he was.

[A]

No, that was on the council.

[C]

Oh, you know this Caesar Chavez fellow. He's. He's behind the creation of the United Farm Workers. Did a lot of great work.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And I'm just. I guess I'm puzzled. I guess I'm not puzzled. That mysterious so Rigidly identify people by political identity and nothing else. Nothing else that should something disturb them, they'll dump the person in a heartbeat. Now the Minnesota House unanimously approved a bill yesterday to repeal Cesar Chavez day because he has been. He has allegations of sexual abuse against him. He's long dead, but he was a well loved until this. A well loved civil rights activist and labor leader. And the minute, the minute something interferes with that, the mysterious want nothing to do with that person. Now where am I going with this? I need help. I don't know where I'm going with this. I don't know where I'm going with. This is where I'm turning to you.

[D]

Where does it, where is the, what's your number? Where's the line?

[C]

How far

[D]

does Clinton receiving oral sex in the White House constitute him being a bad guy? So we have to strike him from the records when he took advantage of an intern. Is that where you're going?

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Yes.

[D]

Where's the line?

[C]

I don't. Well, the line might be children, for example. I mean Cesar Chavez is accused of abuse of children. Well, that, I guess that is enough. I, I would concur that if, if you're harming children, you don't deserve worldwide praise.

[D]

So does that mean we strike him from. He's gone all the, I don't mean all the good and I'm not trying to. I'm playing devil's.

[C]

I know that's the trouble I'm having. But, but clearly if he abused children. Yeah. Then you've gotta, gotta dump them. You gotta dump them.

[F]

Yeah, but you still can praise the stuff he did.

[C]

But that won't happen. But that won't happen.

[F]

No, but it should. And that's part of the argument we've had for 10 years now about US history. You know, because people are trying to scrub parts of US history they don't like.

[C]

Well, he's trying to be thoroughly scrubbed.

[E]

Yeah, well, didn't they just decide in this state to have Cesar Chavez day last year?

[C]

I don't know. It's supposed to be March 31st. That's his birthday.

[E]

Would have been the first one. I believe I read that somewhere. How come we're just finding out now about this?

[F]

There, there have been stories about his roaming, shall we say, for 40 years.

[E]

Okay, well that, but that's what I was hoping you would say. So why didn't somebody investigate this further before they started throwing his name on streets and avenues and boulevards and I

[C]

think an alleged victim came forward.

[F]

That's true. And, and she was one of the leaders with him of the union movement.

[E]

Yeah, I'm familiar with her.

[C]

Don't we have Cesar Chavez schools?

[E]

And we do a more thorough vetting. Should have been done before we started honoring this guy. I mean, if there's been allegations for 40 years, let's go here.

[F]

Well, there are allegations of infidelity, but I don't think the children part entered until recently.

[C]

Ramona Araguin de Rosales met Chavez in college as a student, and the movement inspired her to activism. She helped name the street after him and started the school named his honor. Oh, she's not one of the victims. I'm trying to find the victim who came forward. I. I don't know.

[F]

Are you talking about the union person? Well, who came forward, that's where Huerta is. Her last name.

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H U E R T. Yeah, well, see you later, Caesar. That's it for you.

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Well, rightfully so.

[C]

Yeah, I guess, if it's kids, no question.

[E]

Well, if it's rape, you know, well,

[C]

you got the president get away with that.

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I don't know.

[C]

Why the Jesus. Why the.

[E]

Oh, I don't thing. Rape, huh? The Bill Clinton thing, though, wasn't rape.

[C]

No, no, I'm not talking about Bill Clinton. I'm not talking about Clinton.

[E]

Oh, you're talking about crotch grab.

[D]

Hello.

[E]

Wow.

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Oh, the emails.

[F]

Should be fun tomorrow. Good luck.

[C]

Well, you handle it all. Call them as they see him, Chris.

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I know. That's what I love about you.

[C]

Yeah, I've got great news.

[D]

I love great news.

[C]

You know what? We're. We're star for it, aren't we?

[D]

Happy, warm. Warm. Great news.

[A]

You know what, Matthew? You know what you are? Levity. That's what I love about you.

[C]

I don't think that's. I think that's very.

[A]

That was a transition.

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I love that when you raise something. No, it's a levity moment of brevity, quickness.

[F]

It's, you know, humor. You had humor. That's levity.

[C]

Okay. I love moose.

[F]

How you doing, Kenny?

[C]

I like mooses.

[D]

Moose is plural, right?

[C]

I like them. I think they're neat.

[D]

Yeah, they're majestic.

[C]

That's the word I was looking for.

[D]

Really helping you out.

[A]

How do you spell mooses?

[C]

But. And we're learning from an MPR story today that the moose population is doing very well, but they' almost sound disappointed in it because the moose are doing very well despite climate change. Well, I got news for you. For as long as moose have been around, there's been climate change because the Climate always changes and always will. But for years, for years, the mysterians have wished to. If we lost one moose in the count, it was because climate change. But now we're learning that the moose population is holding steady despite climate change. Remember, every year we get a moose update. Yeah, Well, I think this is the day.

[D]

And the degree of. Oh, the climate went down 0.5 and

[C]

we lost a moose right then. They're not.

[D]

They're confused now.

[C]

And it says that Minnesota's moose population was once beleaguered, but it's no longer beleaguered. It's holding steady at 4,500 mooses. That's according to the most recent population survey by the Department of Natural Resources in Minnesota. I think this is wonderful news. We picked around 8,800 mooses in 2006, and now we got as low as 2,800 mooses in 2013. But, you know, remember, we went through all this because we had annual moose updates, and that was wolves diseases. But since then, the mooses have appeared to have. Their numbers have leveled off. And we can say with reasonable confidence of. The moose population in northeast Minnesota declined steeply between 09 and 2013 and has since stabilized at around 3,700 to 3,800 mooses. So this is. This is fantastic. The mooses are hanging in there. They've been especially impacted by warming winter. Well, they haven't been. You're telling me they've held steady. That's why it seems to me like we're almost. There's almost. A sigh went through the newsroom at npr. Damn it. We got the annual. We got the annual moose story. And they're.

[A]

They're.

[C]

Unfortunately, they're hanging in there just really well. And yet we want to tell you that winners are all screwed up.

[D]

Yeah. They want in trouble.

[F]

Yeah. See, it's always my job. I know. To defend any news source, right?

[C]

Oh, John. No, it's always your job to defend liberal news sources.

[F]

It's the. Comes from the DNR press release, actually, is where they took that bit from. I know. Well, they want you pick on the dnr, not the news source.

[C]

Well, the DNR is the same as npr. It's. It's just another.

[E]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah. So, you know, the winter ticks that normally die off in cold weather are not dying off well, but the moose are. All right, so where do your sensibilities lie with this story? Personally, I'm taking it as good news. The moose are adapting. They're fine. They're hanging in there. There's a lot of mooses.

[D]

I'm gonna go so far as to say you're pro moose.

[C]

I am news. I like mooses.

[D]

If they went from 2800 in 2013 to 4800 now, what do we. We don't have anything to complain about.

[C]

And you know, if they. If the DNR quit tracking them down and tranquilizing them and drawing blood, maybe the mooses would be better off.

[D]

Aren't we supposed to pick off a moose every once in a while that

[C]

I fill the herd out. Well, let's turn to Kenny. Is there's no such thing as a moose hunting?

[E]

Not anymore. No, not anymore. There have been, but ever since that decline you mentioned, there haven't been any seasons since 2013.

[C]

Well, I'm in favor of that. I don't think anyone should shoot a moose.

[E]

Well, I disagree with you vehemently. And you're wrong. From being born and raised and living in the city where the animals walk up to your front door, you're the kind of person that goes to Yellowstone and ends up getting gored by a beaver.

[C]

No, I have not lost sight of nature. Gored by a beaver.

[E]

Took him a minute.

[C]

I got it now.

[D]

So do you mean, Kenny, that they don't do the lottery where some.

[E]

There's no moose hunting in Minnesota. The DNR doesn't feel like the population is strong enough to support it.

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Okay.

[F]

When there was moose hunting. Are they edible, Kenny? Seriously?

[E]

Oh, absolutely.

[F]

Really?

[E]

Oh, my goodness. Yes.

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Good Lord.

[E]

Wonderful.

[C]

Sorry, Joe, they're fantastic.

[D]

Those back straps are just.

[E]

We also have elk over in the other part of. Up in northwestern Minnesota.

[C]

They're reindeer, aren't they? Like, they look like reindeer.

[E]

I think you're thinking of caribou.

[F]

Okay.

[D]

Are elk a healthy population?

[E]

Yeah, that's doing okay.

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The one good thing from that was,

[F]

of course, I'm down for moose soup after.

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Because that's what you would get from the moose hunt.

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Yeah. And also NPR today. It's a site I check every day. I don't often plumb their depths, but today they have. We're having mental illness problems.

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Boy, I'll see.

[C]

Because of warming winters. And they got a picture of this guy holding a hose and he's. Presumably he's trying to flood a rink. But it's just a lake. It's akin to when Will Steger brought ice to the state fair. And through the ice in the ground. There's your global warming. In fact, this is a December 25th picture of a guy named John Hoshen. Do you know John Hoshin?

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John Hessian?

[C]

Hessian. Do you know John?

[D]

Yes, I do.

[E]

Of course he does.

[C]

Well, he's trying to flood the rink at Groveland.

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He owns St. Paul Corner Drug. He's a pharmacist. He's a farm boy that is turned pharmacist. He owns St. Paul Corner Drug on Selby and Snelling. One of the last.

[C]

Selby and snelling.

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I'm sorry, St. Clair and Snelling.

[C]

I know the guy who sold it to him.

[D]

Hmm. Hess runs a really good business. They're a really hard work.

[E]

St. Clair, that's where. Is that where the St. Clair broiler was?

[D]

It's Kitty Corner.

[C]

From the Kitty Corner. Okay, Now John is out there with the hose. He looks terribly disappointed. But, you know, for all I know, he's standing there on a 40 degree day.

[D]

He had a rough winter. I think at Groveland they had about

[C]

a six week skating season.

[D]

Really get it going.

[E]

Yeah, it's been tough.

[C]

And we're learning that this is causing mental illness. I personally haven't experienced it and I'm grateful for that.

[D]

I can attest that John is stable. I just talked to his wife yesterday. He's stable.

[C]

Well, he'd been building that rink for 20 years.

[E]

Yes, I would say my mental illness is because winter is way too long. Oh, yeah.

[C]

Is Hessian the guy who owns the Zamboni?

[D]

Well, Groveland, The Groveland park association owns the Zamboni.

[C]

They throw the money in Engelman, Ray, John Hession.

[D]

John's in charge of it now. I think Engelman's gone and. But yeah, if you want to, they will take volunteers next year. It's a fun atmosphere.

[C]

I'm just getting to the mental illness part.

[D]

You should take the Zamboni for a drive.

[C]

I'm not sure. I wouldn't even know how to operate it.

[A]

You could do it.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

When do we park it can do it at 5, you can do it at 70. Whatever.

[C]

We have dog sledding problems because of the warmer winters. Here we go. Shawna Weaver has heard accounts for many people in the upper Midwest. She's a counselor and a climate grief researcher. No, that is not a thing.

[E]

No, no, no, no.

[C]

Not only that, she's authored a book called Climate Grief.

[D]

The odds of me reading that.

[C]

She first started thinking about climate grief.

[E]

Wait a minute. Is that a way to get medicinal weed?

[C]

I think so.

[E]

If you're suffering from that, I need a bag of weed for that one.

[C]

She first started thinking about climate grief while working as a school counselor about 15 years ago, and she noticed more and more of the kids were reporting having some sort of grief or anxiety around climate change. She said, you know what? They were scamming you, lady. I don't think the kids really. I do not know one single kid who's ever said, you know, I'm feeling a little off today and I think it's the climate.

[D]

Thank you.

[C]

I just don't know one. Not one.

[D]

She didn't know that in her industry

[C]

and I'm around a lot of kids,

[D]

I'll say

[C]

kids brought up fears. Well, you know why they're bringing up the fears? Because you morons in the field academy keep trying to brainwash them.

[E]

See, I'm wondering if they question these kids with one of those leading these surveys that kind of lead you into giving them the answers they want to hear. Kids, how do you. Does climate change make you feel bad?

[C]

You know, and then you think, oh, what the hell, I'll say yes, exactly. Yes.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

And the kids just answer with what they think the adults want to hear.

[C]

Kids brought up fears about what they saw closer to home, like melting snow too early in the winter. Weaver said she feels that grief herself when she visits the northern Wisconsin lake she used to cross on a snowmobile to get to school. These days, the ice is often too thin to hold the weight. Weavers, you know what, these, I've said this before, they have a golden book image of winter. It's supposed to snow lightly on Christmas Eve with big fluffy flakes. And Christmas is supposed to dawn sunny and chilly. And so because everyone's going to get new skates and go to the rink or they're going to get their new friendly flyer sled and, and go over to the local hill and then they're gonna have hot chocolate. Oh, with marshmallows. Yes. And then they. And then in January and February, I don't know what they do. They skate and they sled and then

[D]

snowball fights and snowmen.

[C]

Yes. And then it should start warming up for them. I think they would accept sometime in March. We're nearing the end of March, I think. I think it's okay now that there's snow melting. I don't think that causes grief with people.

[D]

When do they complain about the climate?

[C]

Well, I think beginning in November. Okay, November, December, January.

[D]

You're wondering why it's dipped.

[C]

Why is it getting colder? They're losing that traditional up north winter. That's where you went with the not very reliable snowmobile back in the day. And you'd Fire that thing up.

[E]

The carburetor. Right.

[C]

Carburetor wouldn't work. Wouldn't work at all. But you brought seafoam with you.

[D]

Give it a shot.

[C]

And then you went in. In. Dad had one. Dad had a snowmobile and he would tow the kids on a toboggan behind the snowmobile. And they were. They were bundled up.

[E]

It was one of those black bubble hood scorpions. Yeah. And the sled was actually a car hood upside down.

[C]

And it polluted the air horrible. But we didn't care.

[E]

It didn't pollute. It's spewed.

[C]

It's spewed to cycle smoke and gas in the air.

[D]

All this while small herds of mooses.

[C]

And then the moose. Moose were watching because there were so many mooses, you know. And then they'd go back into the woods.

[E]

The woods.

[C]

You had to go into the woods

[D]

on the edge of the woods, watching

[E]

the snowmobile, only to be shot by some Stormy Cromer hat wearing Ichabod Elmer Fuddy. Those are some of his name. Stormy Cromer.

[C]

Weaver said the fear of losing a traditional up north winter is for many the fear of losing a beloved lifestyle. There are some of the deepest held themes and through lines, must be a counselor word. And through lines of our lives and our identities and they often intertwined with some of our most transformative memories, with family and with who we say we are. Climate grief is a developing area of mental health practice. Did you know that?

[D]

Did not know that. I never thought about it.

[C]

Well, it's not Matt. It's not an official diagnostic term, but it's gaining more attention. The American Psychological association conducts research research and offers trainings on climate and mental health for therapists. Then they'll tell you what drug to take in. The pharmaceutical industry will make billions. Right. We ever said there's more research in the field than there used to be and more therapists trained to help people who struggle with climate grief. Unlike other grief, we don't get to first move through a trauma or a crisis and then have a phase of grieving. And that's the way usually people tend to move through a big change. Weaver said. Well, Weaver, has it occurred to you that maybe this is not a big enough change to notice? She said talk therapy can help, especially with therapists who studied climate related anxiety. You got a McAllister person named Christy Manning. She studied it. She reports on climate mental health. We have to learn to cope. You have to have meaning focused coping.

[E]

What about self medication?

[C]

This country so spoiled.

[A]

How Spoiled, are we?

[C]

And we've had it so good for so long that we continue to create new industries of people who look to create problems. Yeah. And then once the problem is created, they offer themselves as a specialist who can help you handle it. How. How narrow and uneventful is your life that you'd find yourself staring out the window and having climate grief.

[D]

There's a lot of other on my plate today.

[E]

Me too.

[D]

For the climate grief.

[C]

The little golden book. It would have a picture of a moose on the COVID Yeah. Staring at the sledders from the woods. And then there would be some Christmas ornaments, but that might cause religious intelligence, so there wouldn't be religious ornaments.

[D]

Snowflakes.

[C]

Beautiful flakes with beautiful shapes.

[D]

All independent.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Not the same ones.

[E]

I love how these. The. They get an idea in their head as to what winter should be like. It should be from December 1st until April 1st. It should be 10 below at night, 20 above during the day. And snow, what, twice a week. Right. That's what winter should be. And if it's not, there's something drastically wrong.

[C]

And never mind, by the way, that it's never been like that. No.

[E]

Weather is messy. The mother nature's messy.

[C]

I guess what I would ask this Weaver, and as a therapist, she would know the answer. Let's say I would Visit her on February 10th. I would like to say to her, what's the temperature supposed to be today? She would have a, she would have no answer, and B, absolutely nothing to do with what the temperature would be that day. But she's, you know, she's a kid. She's a capitalist. She. She invented a. A niche here for herself and she got the book out and the whole deal. And she probably gets a few hundred bucks for speaking and. And she's going to sell you on that climate grief.

[E]

She's in the industry.

[C]

She's in the industry.

[E]

She's an insider. An industry insider.

[A]

Sorry, folks, we're closed for two weeks

[E]

to clean and repair America's favorite family fun part.

[D]

Sorry.

[C]

That's the Bush just letting you know. And the mooses are holding their own. Let's take away from this. That's good news. It's fine.

[D]

That's doubled in size almost.

[C]

It's wonderful. It's just wonderful.

[E]

You brought us a little positive Thursday.

[C]

I think I did.

[E]

On a Wednesday.

[F]

Tuesday.

[C]

Tuesday. Wow.

[E]

Really? Is it really only Tuesday?

[C]

It only is Tuesday.

[F]

Sorry.

[C]

The way I look at it, Kenny, it's Tuesday already.

[D]

Sometimes you wonder, don't you?

[F]

Oh, Mr. Positivity.

[C]

Huh? That's the way I look at it. And you know what? The other way I look at it. Kenny, it's a privilege to be here. It's a privilege, you know, preach another Tuesday.

[E]

You know what I can't get by Joe hunt. It's already March 24th.

[C]

What happened to March? What happened to winter in March? It wasn't storybook Winter in March.

[E]

No, it's just not the way I want it to be.

[C]

It's not what I thought it was.

[F]

I hope you guys aren't grieving.

[E]

This is the weather I was raised on.

[D]

I drink to climate grief.

[E]

Yeah, that was my question, Matthew, how do we self medicate if we're upset by the climate?

[D]

Oh, a nice lemon tea with a little honey, a spot of sugar.

[C]

See, I don't know when the. I don't know when the Grievers would.

[A]

Would the taste a relative of mine.

[C]

Yeah, you're the Reapers. You're the Grievers. I don't know when. When is it okay to have warm weather? I wonder if you're a grief spring break.

[E]

Well, that's another funny thing. If it's too cool in May and

[C]

June, is that okay?

[E]

They know they. That's full on panic also because it's supposed to be hot af.

[C]

What if it's hot? What if it's hot AF in July? I that okay?

[E]

I think that would be okay.

[A]

So we get the news reports of. Make sure you drink water.

[E]

But if it doesn't hit.

[D]

This is the hottest July ever since 1997.

[C]

Right.

[E]

If it doesn't hit 90 in July though.

[C]

Oh, I went to Eco Fun on Saturday. Yeah, I had grief so I went there. It's the most fun store but. And I'll tell you more about it in a moment but on the way back I took back roads just for the hell of was beautiful out the windows, were down the whole deal. And I came upon a new housing development somewhere between Forest Lake and White Bear Lake and just row after row of new homes. What do you think I thought? What do you now get in my head. What do you think I thought when I saw those homes?

[D]

Who's buying all these houses?

[C]

No, no, I thought if a tornado hits this. Oh my God, what is wrong with it? Let me finish this up. If a tornado, God forbid, goes through there and takes down a house or two, it'll be called climate change. What people won't realize is tornadoes have been going through where these houses are for the last 5,000 years and all they hurt was a squirrel. There was Nobody there. There was nothing there. Now you're putting up houses where tornadoes might strike. That's what I thought. That was my thought.

[D]

You live with a tornado fear.

[C]

I have grief about it. Yeah.

[A]

This is part of the eco ad.

[C]

Well, I'm getting the ecoflow. It was great.

[D]

It's nice that those houses were so close.

[C]

That's what I'm saying. That's.

[D]

I'm skipping a job.

[C]

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You know what I really think of hucksters who would try to sell kids on the idea of climate grief? They're unkind. I'm being very serious now. To me, that's unkind to kids.

[D]

You mean scare tactic.

[C]

Well, it's just. It's such utter bs. You've invented it out of whole cloth. There is no reason to believe that you should have some sort of mental problem because winters aren't exactly as you think they should be. I think that's unkind to children. I'm serious. You've lost any grasp of the human spirit. If humankind has done anything over the millennia, it's adapt, change and flourish. And here you are saying, oh, my God. I'm sorry, Sally, you're feeling down. It must be the climate, huh? Yeah, I guess so. Well, let me help you with that. Go bleep yourself.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Kids don't know you're a huckster. It's all bs. It leads to no goodness whatsoever. Because when you're done counseling a child about climate grief, what's your next target? What's it gonna be?

[E]

Sexuality?

[C]

We're already doing that. We're already doing that. It's just bs. It's just harmful. I don't think children should be. I don't think children need to be proselytized about this bs. It's just a mysterious fantasy with which they hope to bring about the elimination of Western culture. It has nothing to do with the climate. And you got these hucksters dreaming up ideas that. Well, I think there's some mental suffering if you're full of bs.

[D]

Get out of here.

[C]

Get out of here. Go away. Get a real job. Leave the. Hey, teacher. Leave them kids alone. God almighty. Kids got enough trouble being kids.

[D]

At what point do you think normally a young person would become noticeable of the environment? Not necessarily. It's global war. Well, I suppose it's earlier now because they're teaching it in the schools, but normally a kid would not worry about the climate until they're what, 18, 19? And then maybe have some.

[C]

Well, I'm older than that and I'm not worried about it. Why? Why? There's nothing you can do.

[D]

Maybe an awareness. Not a worry, but an awareness.

[C]

Oh, I don't know.

[E]

I suppose other than rain and snow. I bet they don't.

[D]

I never have. Why would you?

[C]

Because it's life. It's nature. Humans are not bigger than nature.

[E]

Matthew, do you remember any hundred degree days when you were like say in, I don't know, seventh grade?

[D]

No.

[E]

Neither do I. Weather. I have no weather memories as a kid. None.

[D]

I do have a weather memory as a kid and you guys are probably going to agree acid rain was the big. Was the big.

[C]

Yeah, but you don't remember acid rain. You remember being told to be frightened by it.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Yes. I never experienced.

[E]

That's like open wells and quicksand.

[D]

Yeah, go near quicksand.

[G]

Right.

[E]

Acid rain was on that list.

[C]

Boy, that's an interesting observation you've had. I have no weather memories.

[D]

Yeah, maybe you want to preach to about.

[C]

Hey, no, I have no. Weather has just been a fabric of life. I have no memories of it whatsoever.

[E]

What about it as an adult, Joe?

[C]

None.

[E]

So you don't remember last summer when it was 99 degrees out and you couldn't force yourself to leave the house?

[C]

No, I would have and I would have enjoyed it.

[E]

But I. I'm saying as an adult you have weather memory. But I don't remember weather as a kid ever being a factor. Unless it was raining or snowing.

[D]

You just went out and played.

[E]

Exactly.

[D]

Rode your bike.

[C]

Well, let's talk about spring because the. The mink is weighing in. The smell of rain after a dry spell has a name. Water itself is odorless, of course, but rain, particularly after a dry spell, produces a pleasant earthy scent known as petrichor. The word is a combination of two Greek words, petros meaning stone and ichor or ichor, referring to the mythological fluid that fills the veins of the Greek gods. The name is actually an apt description for where the smell originates. Because when rain hits porous soil or rock, micro organisms called actinobacteria. Actinobacteria release an organic compound called geosmin. That's the stuff we talked about yesterday when you can smell spring geosmin into the air, which contributes to the odor we associate with petrichor. Humans are better at sniffing out this compound than sharks are at smelling blood in the water. I don't believe that. And some. Well, you just hold your doubts. And some scientists theorized that this particular nasal sensitivity helped our hunter gatherer ancestors find water sources. Now you tell me where you're going to get that on a podcast? Just tell me.

[D]

Find water sources.

[C]

No, Petrichor.

[A]

So when we attach the rankings to this particular episode, you think we'll be in the top five of Petrichor podcast,

[C]

I believe of the rain and Petrichor. I believe of. Of the 3 million podcasts that are being podcasted today.

[E]

Podcasted?

[C]

This will be the only one where

[D]

Petrichor comes up and mooses the lady with the cats.

[E]

Well, wasn't Petrichor. When you run and jump off buildings and parkour.

[C]

That's parkour.

[A]

Oh, I thought. Wait, doesn't this dispute what you said yesterday then?

[C]

Of course not. Nothing would dispute what I said. Everything I said would have been right.

[A]

You attributed it to worms.

[C]

Doesn't this dispute worms stir up your. Your Petrichor. No, worms. Worms are responsible for this word we had yesterday. Geosman.

[E]

See Geosman. Petrichor. I knew him.

[C]

I was a college professor.

[D]

Marvin geosman.

[A]

Yes.

[F]

Yes, Mr. Petrichor.

[A]

He was a non believer.

[D]

Would you like a hamantash?

[C]

Jimmy, have you ever thought about smelling worms in the spring and knowing spring was coming?

[D]

I used to scoop up a considerable amount of worms when I would go fishing at dewdrop pond at St. Catherine's okay. Looking for slapping turtles and bullheads.

[E]

Slapping turtles.

[C]

Slapping.

[F]

Ah, Slapping turtles.

[D]

Snapping.

[E]

Bring it on.

[D]

I don't think it's funny if you're making fun of me.

[E]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[D]

Thank you, Jimbo.

[C]

Jimmy.

[D]

Thank you.

[A]

How's your mom doing?

[D]

She's not alive anymore. And you should know that by now.

[C]

Do you know that?

[A]

I do.

[C]

Well, one of the reasons I'm. I'm in the mind I am today.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Is because nothing really matters.

[A]

Hello, darkness.

[C]

Nothing really matters to me. We as a country are insolvent. And it's official. Saw that. Yeah. It's a conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department's own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025 released last week to near total media silence. We have 6.3 trillion in total assets against 47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30th. Last September 30th. Importantly, the 47.78 trillion in reported liabilities does not include the unfunded obligations of social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare. Those are disclosed separately in the off balance sheet statement of social insurance, the acronym being SOCI. The government's consolidated balance sheet position excluding the SOCI deteriorated by nearly 2.07 trillion between 24 and 25, reaching a staggering negative 41.72 trillion total liabilities on nearly eight times the value of reported assets. The largest drivers were a $2 trillion increase in the federal debt and interest payable now 30.33 trillion and a 438.8 billion increase in federal employee and veterans benefits, now payable.

[F]

What?

[C]

Nothing matters? We're broke, we're insolvent. It doesn't even make the news. We just continue merrily along. Weren't we taught that you can't live with debt? That responsible people try to keep control of their debt?

[D]

We just keep going.

[C]

I mean, I saw a TSA agent interviewed by Renee Cooper last night on Channel 5. The TSA agent, a female, she resigned. She's had it. She can't, she's got to find another job. She can't pay her bills. Here's a woman, probably in her 20s, maybe 30s, she's worked there for 14 years at TSA. It'll dawn on her now, if it hadn't already, the politicians don't give a bleep about her. They're on the third rail. So there she is and she can't pay food, medical and her housing because she's not getting paid. And so she's walking a constant tight wire between her non incoming income and the people she owes money to. They're in constant touch with each other. And she said, it occurred to me driving here to my job that I need to stop because I can't even afford the gas to get here. And you have a political class that A, will never experience that because they're on the third rail. And B, they don't care that she's experiencing that. And what do the rest of us SAPs do? Well, we're like her to the degree where, well, we know we have these obligations. We have to pay our mortgage, we have to pay for the food at the store, you have to pay for the gas at the gas station. We can't run up $30 trillion in debt, which this country has done through just some of the most haphazard and poor leadership imaginable. Our economic growth currently is at zero. And there's this TSA gal, you know, she was starting to get teary. There's an American citizen playing by the rules. She's the one who's going to suffer, not these BLEEP bleeps in Washington who don't play by the rules and enrich themselves.

[E]

I wonder what the percentage of Americans are that live like that under the poverty line.

[D]

Here's the deal. Many, many, most of us TSA agents in the last couple of days. The one I talked to this morning, the TSA agents on their last check, they may have gotten a week's worth before the shutdown. Now this one, this paycheck is zero. They're not getting, they're not getting anything.

[C]

And well, the shutdown is going into

[D]

its 44th day and gas prices are at $3.50 and they still have to, you know, come in from Lakeville or Shakopee or wherever. And this gal had been with TSA

[C]

for the last 14 years.

[D]

Well, no, the gal I talked to this morning, 18 years or, or however long it was. And she said that it's the young people that can't do it. The older people can borrow from their 401k but the 22 year old, 25 year old can't.

[A]

They can't afford it.

[D]

They can't afford because they're under.

[A]

Can I ask a question? It might be indelicate. Why do you even send out a check if it's $0?

[C]

Do they literally get a check?

[D]

No, they don't. No, they don't.

[A]

Well, you had just said they got a check for $0.

[D]

I mean, this pay period, they're not going to get a check.

[A]

They're not going to get.

[E]

I'm sorry, Matthew, this employee you were talking to, an 18 year veteran, can you give us a guess on what she makes per year? Is it 70, 100?

[D]

No, it's probably close to if she's been there that long. It depends if they have retention bonuses still, but she's probably at, at 65. Maybe this is just a wild guess.

[C]

It's tough to live on 65 and I hate to throw a monkey wrench into that, but I bet it's not that much.

[D]

Covid is when they lost a lot of their retention bonuses. So they would, they were paid well to stay and then those went away and there was some turnover.

[E]

And if you're a single parent with kids under your roof. Oh boy.

[C]

But the larger point here, let's not lose sight of it, is we are still getting paid.

[D]

All those people are still getting paid.

[C]

We're led by people who have created this staggering trillions and trillions of dollars of debt. Yep.

[E]

And it doesn't affect them.

[C]

None of them are affected by it. And you know, we have people listening to this show thinking, God, I hope I still have time to call Linda Keller because I certainly want to get my taxes in. I'm responsible and an honest American citizen. I'm not going to get in debt. I'm not going to fall behind on my rent. I'm not going to stop buying food. I have to feed my family. And we're just saps the way we're treated in this country. We are saps.

[D]

Well, that's another thing that she said. A lot of those people that have filed their taxes may have gotten their refund and that's what kept them alive the last two weeks. But now that refund's gonna be gone. So that's when you're gonna see the dropdown and the no shows. There was 43 no shows today.

[C]

And the country, the country's. The country's government is insolvent and it goes without notice.

[E]

Joe, how many people, how many of those politicians currently residing on the third rail? How many do you think are affected by the TSA shutdown? Their daily lives?

[C]

They have special flying privileges where they don't have to wait in a line.

[D]

Yeah, they can be escorted right through the.

[E]

Exactly.

[D]

The exit doors.

[E]

They don't go through what we go through.

[C]

How much did Kristi Noem and her friends pocket with this outrageous $200 million contract to film an advertisement for her you could make. You made Star wars for less than 200 million.

[A]

One of the agencies was.

[C]

But you're.

[E]

Now you're before it. Joe, that's way out on a limb to assume that she's putting that money directly into her pocket.

[C]

I don't think it's much of a limb at all.

[E]

I think that's a pretty precarious.

[C]

How did Ilhan Omar suddenly be worth 35 million?

[E]

I have no idea.

[D]

Does anybody on this staff want to volunteer to go through Christy Gnome's pockets? Yes.

[C]

While she.

[A]

Okay, I'm willing. I'll even handcuff her.

[E]

Gross.

[C]

Okay, well, somebody got enriched.

[A]

We all act like we'd have a shot with her anyway.

[C]

I don't want one.

[E]

Oh, no, I don't act that way at all.

[F]

I like that Chris is offended that we're not attracted.

[C]

Yeah, I'm sure she looks like the love child of Marty Allen. And who was the other guy? Somebody.

[E]

You know, I'd have to put on one of those funny anti radiation suits that you wear when you go into Chernobyl. You know, with the funny, the yellow, the welder's mask thing.

[A]

I'm gonna use a line that a good friend of mine has said for all of you. Invisible.

[C]

I don't doubt that.

[A]

And I've been throwing myself into that

[F]

ring as well, by the way.

[C]

Minnesota has always been a place where we build things, including affordable energy. But you can't do that without affordable electricity. And of course we've got a new. We're operating under a walls mandate, 100% wind and solar by 2040. But we're paying the price for that more than ever before. And the American experiment is looking at ways to bring nuclear powered energy back into the fold. It's clean, reliable, no carbon emissions. The technology is safer and more advanced than ever. But we have this moratorium. We can't propose new nuclear plants. The electric companies can't plan, they can't start a study. They can't even begin the process. This is handcuffing energy policy and we're paying for it. You can help. Go to americanexperiment.org, that's one word. Americanexperiment.org, click on take action and tell your lawmakers to lift the moratorium, free the nukes and protect Minnesota's long term energy future, which right now looks like a windmill that ain't gonna power your toaster in the future. Get a hold of americanexperiment.org. Okay, who's John?

[E]

Do you have.

[C]

Oh, never mind. The earth is not your mother. The Joe Suger show. Here's John Haidt.

[A]

Nope. Here's Chris Reivers for library, keller and

[C]

kellertaxservice.com Just who I was talking about.

[D]

You were?

[A]

That's why I thought I'd clue her in. Here's the deal. Ladies and gentlemen, we have breaking news from the Keller tax service news desk. The appointment window has officially left the building.

[E]

Wow.

[A]

I've been warning you guys for a couple of months now that you better get on that schedule. That's right. If you were thinking about grabbing a pre April 15 spot, you and about 500 of your closest friends had the same idea. I am sorry, but I am officially booked solid. But. But because I'm not totally heartless. Current clients, which includes the guy delivering the message right now. If you already have your stuff together or close to it, get it to me by March 31st and we can still make that magical filed on time dream happen. April equals extension territory. No exceptions. Not even for your quick question. And you know what, Joe? New clients. She's still going to accept you. Just not your deadlines. If you're cool going on extension, she's happy to file your extension or cheer you on while you file your own. Then take great care of you after April 15th.

[C]

And we're all doing what the government won't do.

[A]

And she also wanted me to make mention. Sorry, not sure what days my ads are this week. Just wanted to make sure that I'm clear about current clients. If you've already filed with Linda, she's got you taken care of.

[C]

Here's all I care about. Is she gonna steal everything?

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

I mean, this is.

[A]

She did want me to say she's been flooded with glers reaching out to me.

[C]

Yeah, because glers are honest saps like the rest of us.

[A]

So, anyway, check her out online. Kellertaxservice.com call her directly at 320-3520. Wait, what is that? 0013? But let her know you heard about her here on the garagelogic podcast. Thanks for calling me, Royce. While I'm trying to read script off

[C]

my phone, here's John Haidt. Let's see it.

[F]

Thank you, Joe. This news is brought to you by North American Banking company One sports announcement. The U of M has named their new med men's hockey coach. He is Brett Larson. The university and Larson have agreed to a five year term, which is pending Board of Regents approval. Larson has 16 years, eight as a head coach of collegiate coaching experience. He comes to Minnesota from St. Cloud State, where he served as the head coach the past eight years. Well, at St. Cloud State, Larson guided the Huskies to four NCAA tournament appearances, two conference championships, and the program's first ever national championship game in 2021. It leaves the Huskies with 153 career wins. That ranks as the fourth most in that program's history.

[A]

This tells me that it was Bob Motzko's decision to step down. You don't go to this guy from Matsko. You know what I'm saying?

[D]

Why would Moscow be.

[C]

Marston's got a good record.

[D]

Frustrated with something or what?

[A]

I just think he's been through a lot. You know, remember he lost his son and all that stuff. I just think Bob was ready to call it a day.

[F]

In news Anoka Hennepin Public Schools planning another round of budget cutting and parents say this time the reductions will be felt in student support services. Parents say they're learning what the next round of cuts will be. The district planning $8.1 million in cuts and 75 position reductions.

[C]

I hope among those positions are climate gr counselors well rid of.

[F]

I don't know if you know it's exclusively that, but some are social workers. Yes. The district said the cuts include six school counselors, 26 social workers and other employees who work in classrooms and with technology. Across the district, a spokesperson said the district remains committed to having one social worker at every elementary and middle school site, and the alternatives include increasing class sizes or making program cuts. The district has made a number of cuts over the years, starting with hundreds of office and administrative positions back in 2024. The 75 employees have already been notified about their position cuts, but the budget won't be finalized until June.

[D]

Social workers don't make any money, so that's not a major cut. They need to cut where they are top heavy.

[C]

Well, the public class cannot budget correctly.

[F]

Minneapolis leaders are weighing a plan to shift millions of dollars from other city projects for a new first responder training and wellness center. The Minneapolis City Council set to vote this week on moving money to buy property for the proposed $38 million project. The city also hopes to get 19 million from state bonding, but the plan still faces questions at City hall and at the Capitol. Advocates say the new facility would benefit all first responders in the city. Now, this funding shift, if it is approved by the whole council, would include $1.8 million going from traffic safety improvements and 3.7 million from renovation plans at the city's animal care and control building. Council member Latricia Vitoz said the project is a top priority because it would help Minneapolis meet requirements in its settlement agreement with the state. She said, we're looking at our portfolio of what we need to get done at the city, and right now this is at the top of the list. She also said this would move some training ops out of residential neighbo, her ward, as the police department currently uses an old elementary school to do some of its training. City Council member Soren Stevenson does not support the project, saying there are so many places where our city needs to be investing to grow the tax base. This is a term I've never heard before, by the way. He says traffic calming is a place that saves lives directly and I don't think we should be taking money away from that. Does that mean less traffic? Is that what traffic calm?

[C]

Probably. More humps and less places to park, more turnouts.

[D]

What was the traffic calm?

[E]

Joe is correct. It's all those things that make you really, really angry, but you're supposed to

[C]

be calm about it.

[F]

Yeah, they make it at the legislative level. Senator Omar Fateh, who represents part of Minneapolis, says he does not plan to support it. It would have to be passed, of course, with that extra money from the state Legislature. The chair of the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee says the amount of money in cash passing through the airport here has risen dramatically over the past 25 years, from 70 million in 2000 to well over 300 million per year. Now. Representative Kristen Robbins, a Republican from Maple Grove, says we are an outlier as a state in terms of the amount of cash leaving our airport. And so that is why we are having this hearing to better understand what's going on, not only at the airport, but where these funds are coming from. And are any of them tied to the fraud? In Minnesota, the chief of the Metropolitan airport's police department said they are aware of all the cash that comes through the airport, but says it's up to the federal government to monitor it. Chief Matt Christensen testified the airport police department has been aware of the activity and has informed federal law enforcement and the U.S. attorney's office all along that the activity is being conducted and their response is it's being conducted legally. Under federal law, the federal government generally requires any cash over ten grand to be accompanied by a federal form. However, after allegations of widespread fraud and money going to Somalia, the US Treasury Department lowered that threshold to $3,000 for cash at MSP.

[E]

How difficult would it be to pull an Ocean's 11 on one of those cash carriers?

[C]

Get out of my head. I'm thinking rookie could get us all rich.

[E]

I'm thinking we need.

[C]

All we need is one suitcase, baby.

[E]

That's true.

[D]

Yeah, we'll get that little guy to hide inside the box.

[C]

Yeah, I don't know what that means, but go.

[E]

I would do this. Not on airport property. I would accidentally run into the vehicle out on Highway 5. So they'd have to pull over. And then my buddies, you guys, the thugs, would show up. He'd all be crammed into an MG and which.

[C]

Pull that, people.

[E]

You'd pull that satchel out of there, you'd toss it in the back of my truck, and then that's the last you'd ever see of me.

[C]

He'd let us down, wouldn't he?

[D]

I'll meet up with you guys at Fort Snelling down below here.

[F]

Five days later, the four of us would trudge back in to do a podcast. Twin Cities residents will have the chance to tour and ride in World War II era bombers this summer. The B29 Doc, one of the few Boeing B29 Super Fortresses still flying today. And the B25 Ms. Mitchell, which is part of the Commemorative Air Force Minnesota Wing, will be featured in the B29 DOC. History Restored tour stop in St. Paul. It'll happen July 16 and July 19 at Holman Field. The B25, flown by the Doolittle Raiders from the deck of the USS Hornet aircraft carrier, delivered the first attack on mainland China in World War II back in 1942. The B29 carried out the last attack of World War II on mainland China in 1945. According to Josh Wells, the executive director of Doc's Friends Inc. Their non profit board managing the operation of the B29. Doc.

[C]

Evan. Flown in one from Appleton, Wisconsin back to here. It was a thrill of a lifetime.

[E]

Are you kidding me? You couldn't get me to ride in one of those things from the.

[C]

On the ground, I'm a man. I'm not easily frightened.

[E]

How is that airport? Is that Runway long enough for one of those things?

[C]

It landed in St. Paul.

[E]

That's what I mean. Homeland.

[C]

Yeah, it was. I mean, I'm here. It must have been.

[F]

Why don't we take a.

[E]

There's no way I'm getting on one of those.

[A]

Remember the staff outing we had at that airport where a couple days ahead of the super bowl, we decided to go have lunch to watch all of the elegant private jets fly in and zero. We saw none of them.

[G]

Nothing.

[C]

Well, because we were so stupid, we thought they'd be coming in early. If the game had a 5pm kickoff and we're getting here at noon.

[E]

Why the hell would you want to come to Minneapolis in the dead of winter?

[C]

I know, especially with the winter the way it is now. It causes mental illness.

[D]

I will also say that we did overlook the fact that Signature Aviation does quite a bit of business at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport.

[E]

And Matthew, didn't they use Flying Cloud? Didn't a lot of them put down at Flying Cloud? Or am I thinking of.

[C]

Yes, I'm sure they did. Of course.

[A]

Because don't the Wolfs have a. An area out there at Flying Club?

[C]

I. I don't know, Chris.

[A]

Okay. Sorry for bringing it up.

[F]

We did have a good lunch though, so.

[C]

Yeah, it wasn't.

[D]

They put Holman's table. Yes.

[C]

Very good stuff. That's still functioning.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

Good.

[A]

Mushroom toast.

[E]

Thanks for inviting me.

[C]

Appreciate that. Wow. You were in the woods, Kenny.

[A]

We did. And your response was bleep. You bleep holes.

[F]

Why don't we take a quick break and hear from the fellow who we invited to lunch but didn't show up?

[E]

Mr. Olson, I need help. What time of year is it? Is this first Spring? Is this fall Spring?

[C]

I don't know if we're allowed to consider this spring or not for a Royal order of the 21st years. We're dead into summer.

[D]

Tis the season.

[E]

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[F]

launched waves of missiles at Israel on Tuesday, a day after President Trump said there had been a very good and productive talk aiming at halting the war. Iran has denied that any such talks had taken place. Three senior Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the president appeared determined to reach a deal, but that they thought it was highly unlikely Iran would agree to U.S. demands in any new round of negotiations. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have taken steps toward joining the Iran war, according to the Wall Street Journal. Saudi Arabia agreed to give the US Military access to King Fahd Air Base, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. That's an apparent reversal after saying its bases couldn't be used to attack its longtime rival. Half a billion dollars worth of bets on the oil market were placed 15 minutes before President Trump said the US had held productive talks with Iran and announced a cease fire on energy strikes. And that's raising some eyebrows.

[C]

It should while we assemble our taxes to get in on time.

[F]

Colortaxservice.com Some 6200 oil future contract changed hands between 6:49 and 6:50am Eastern Time on Monday was about 15 minutes before President Trump's announcement of very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of hostilities in the Middle east on Truth Social the value of those contracts? $580 million. According to the Financial Times, the oil futures market is far larger larger than the trade in physical oil. Investors can buy or sell oil at a set price for a future date, allowing them to guard against any unexpected leaps in prices in months ahead. Shortly after the president's post, the American S&P 500 stock index rose and oil prices fell below 100 bucks a barrel, with markets hedging that the conflict might soon come to an end. President Trump, who has long railed against mail in voting, including yesterday when he called it mail in cheating, he voted by mail and Florida special election scheduled to take place tomorrow According to voter records on the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website, the president voted by mail in Palm beach county, the home to Mar a Lago.

[C]

Well, you're rotten. You're just rotten for pointing that out. That's fish. You're rotten.

[F]

I'll hear that, don't worry. Records show he's been registered to vote there since 2019 and that he mailed his ballot at least one other time in 2020. The website noted the president's voter status was by mail ballot and that it had been counted in the special election and will determine whether Democrat Emily Gregory or Republican John Maples, who the president endorsed, will represent Trump's district in the Florida State House. The president has called for some exceptions for mail in voting, such as when voters are ill, disabled, traveling or in the military. But it's unclear why he chose to mail his ballot for the special election because he spent the last two weekends in West Palm beach during the early voting period, which started March 14 and ended on Sunday. He could have voted either of those two times when he was in Florida in a private audience. On the 13th of March, Pope Leo the 14th received representative of the AIE what is that?

[A]

What is that, John?

[F]

Atomic Energy, International association of Exorcists.

[C]

All those guys, yeah.

[A]

Oh wow why would it be called AIE then?

[F]

I was wondering that myself, Chris, and I don't know. I tried to look that up when I wrote the story.

[C]

The amalgamation of international exorcists signaling renewed

[F]

attention to what church officials describe as a growing spiritual crisis. The delegation presented a detailed report highlighting an increase in cases linked to occultism and Satanism, warning that many individuals are suffering serious spiritual consequences as a result.

[C]

It's just climate grief. They don't have the devil in them.

[F]

The private meeting, details of which were shared by the Vatican, centered on the rising demand for trained experts, exorcists, and the church's preparedness to respond. The AIE urged the Pope to ensure that every diocese worldwide has at least one properly trained exorcist priest.

[D]

Do we have one here in the local?

[C]

I would imagine we do.

[F]

Think so.

[A]

Really?

[C]

Yes.

[D]

He doesn't show up very often.

[C]

Well, I'm just telling you, they got one on the staff.

[D]

You know, they usually have the Sundays where the. The priest comes in from San Pedro Road.

[C]

He's asking the Philippines. Got the new shoes and a haircut.

[F]

Looking for a little payday. Yep, yep, I know. I'm going to read a story that I was pressured into reading from the fellas on the show.

[C]

Okay.

[F]

Don't blame me.

[C]

Here we go.

[F]

A Maryland man who made history as the first quadruple amputee to compete in the professional televised American Cornhole League has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing a passenger in his car during an argument. Dayton Weber, who became a champion cornhole player after losing his limbs and nearly dying from a bacterial infection in his infancy, faces murder charges in connection with the death of Bradwick Wells, according to authorities. Statement from investigators with the sheriff's office said Weber was driving his car with Wells as his front seat passenger at about 10:25 in the evening, was driving the car.

[C]

The guy with no limbs.

[A]

No. His buddy?

[C]

No. John. Who was driving the car.

[F]

The fella with no limbs.

[C]

Okay.

[F]

Was driving the car. That'd be Dayton Weber. Yeah, he was driving.

[D]

How was he steering?

[F]

Wells was his passenger.

[A]

How do you think?

[C]

I rang the doorbell.

[F]

They began arguing in front of others

[C]

who were in the vehicle.

[F]

So there's more than these two in the vehicle.

[C]

I see.

[F]

Whoever then allegedly shot Wells to death pulled over in the community of La Plata and asked the other passengers to help him remove the body from the car. The others refused, got out of the car and fled the scene while Weber drove away with the body of Wells. Two people who purportedly saw the killing Waved down. Police reported what had happened that set off a search for Weber. Yes.

[A]

You added a tentacle to this story I was not aware of. So not only did Stumpy drive the car after winning the cornhole championship, he was driving the car and was able to fire the gun with his stump.

[C]

How do you do that? Nobody helped him get rid of the body, so he had to nudge it out with his hands.

[E]

None of this is real. None of. You're making all of this up, John.

[F]

Investigators found him and determined the body was that of Wells. And the Charles county sheriff's office said a deputy obtained a warrant to arrest Weber.

[C]

Did Wells have limbs the far as?

[F]

So far as we know, yes. Authorities said they found Weber's hanging out

[D]

with like minded people.

[C]

You never know.

[F]

Said they found Weber's car in Charlottesville, Virginia, about 150 miles from where they had recovered Wells body.

[C]

I'm seeing a far side cartoon. Yeah.

[D]

150 miles away is not far enough.

[F]

It reportedly tracked Weber down to a nearby hospital where he had sought treatment for an unspecified medical issue. The Albemarle County Police department, whose jurisdiction includes the hospital, arrested Weber as a fugitive upon his discharged discharge. Charles county sheriff's deputy said they plan to book Weber on charges of murder, assault and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. A statement of charges filed in court and reported by WTTG television. Weber knew his passenger from his work. It accused Weber of having shot Welsh twice in the head. Investigators said everybody in the car was known to each other. The sheriff's office also did not specify exactly how Weber was able to fire a gun while driving his car.

[C]

Well, hell, he's a cornhole champion. The guy could do anything.

[D]

Very resourceful.

[C]

A video.

[E]

Jeff Dubay involved in any manner in this story?

[F]

Excuse me. I dropped my pencil after to pick it up.

[E]

That just seems like something he'd be present.

[C]

Isn't cornhole where you throw the bean bags?

[F]

That's correct, sir.

[C]

How do you. If you don't have any hands, how do you do that?

[F]

Well, there. There was a picture of him in the story. He was competing.

[C]

Give it one of these.

[A]

You know he got this two stumps.

[C]

Does he have elbows and then he kind of.

[A]

Yeah, he's got the stumps. Oh, just cuz you're an amputee doesn't mean you don't have a. I mean you're not cut off at the shoulder.

[C]

Oh, thank you for that. Yeah.

[E]

There was a video somehow using his swimsuit area.

[F]

There was a video posted on a YouTube account named after Weber that showed him loading a pistol and firing it four times. Not this shooting, but in a different instance.

[C]

Did you. Did you watch the video?

[F]

I did not.

[C]

Okay. I was wondering how he shot. How you could do that. I, I don't know.

[F]

I, I actually was avoiding this story like the plague until you guys said something.

[E]

This is a guy living life to. To its fullest. Well, I mean, no arms, no legs. He's out there cornholing and driving around shooting and people doing drive bys. This guy, is he. This guy's living man. L I V I N. He hasn't

[C]

let this be a setback to him, has he?

[E]

He knows how to turn.

[C]

That's right.

[A]

Help me hide this by the wine.

[E]

What is this?

[C]

Shove it out with his head, right?

[A]

Got to nudge it.

[C]

Nudge it out.

[F]

Anyway, he's now been charged, so there you go. Do your own research.

[E]

If you be a fun roommate in prison, wouldn't it? Wouldn't he.

[C]

Well, I was trying to picture that. How he'd get along in prison. I.

[A]

He probably wouldn't be on the top bunk.

[C]

No, you'd have to climb.

[D]

Huh?

[C]

I, I just think that's.

[E]

You pass him around like a burlap bag of oats.

[C]

Oats? What are oats?

[D]

Oats I'm seeing there. Aren't they little teeny wafer things?

[C]

I don't know.

[F]

They're just. They're little. They look like little pieces. Buds of cereal.

[E]

It's just a small grain, guys. Small grain and not. Some are meant to be a brain teaser.

[F]

Some are very high in protein, which is.

[C]

Lord.

[F]

By certain people. I know.

[C]

Eat.

[A]

Brooke was willing to take a swing in it though, wasn't he?

[E]

You just make one statement and again,

[F]

I'd like to go on the record as saying I. I did not pull that story.

[E]

Well, John, that's too bad because that might be the best news story you've ever read.

[C]

Ever. No, it doesn't top the.

[A]

The hearing aid gal.

[C]

Doesn't top the hearing aid guy.

[F]

Yeah, that's number one.

[A]

He was going to get her ice cream.

[C]

Yep. He got lost in the. In the, in the development.

[A]

Was it ice cream or smokes? What was Both, I think.

[C]

Both.

[F]

Yeah, I think Joe's right.

[A]

And then he tried to light the hearing aid with the ice cream cone? No, with the. No, he thought that.

[C]

Tried to light the hearing aid with his. Yeah.

[E]

Wasn't. Wasn't the bay hitting some gal?

[C]

I don't know anything about this. I don't know Anything about that? I don't know who he is. Yeah, you do. Before my time. I have nothing to do with it. I have no. No knowledge whatsoever of who you speak of.

[E]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure she didn't have any left legs.

[C]

Well, that's. There are people like that in this world.

[A]

No word if she participated in cornhole

[C]

and we owe them our deepest thanks.

[F]

Yes.

[C]

I don't know what for but we owe them our deepest thanks.

[E]

Grievers may be an unwilling participant.

[F]

Would you like me to read anything else?

[C]

No, no, that's plenty. You've done enough damage.

[F]

I know.

[E]

Way to go.

[C]

And it wasn't your fault.

[D]

Blame me.

[C]

Yeah, now that I think about it.

[A]

Tell me more about oats.

[C]

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[E]

This is the best song we have in our library right now.

[A]

Think so?

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

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[C]

Joe, thank you.

[A]

You're welcome.

[C]

Thank you. Only because they come to us all the way from Penguin, Tasmania and the traveling Lymans. It was on this day, Joe. Today is March 24, 1858.

[D]

Wow.

[C]

The printing press of the. A long time ago, the printing press of the St. Cloud Visitor was destroyed by a mob. The paper's editor, Jane Gray Swissheim, a feminist and abolitionist, had angered local businessman and slave owner Sylvanus B. Lowry. Swiss Helm soon obtained a new press and printed the story of her press's destruction and the names of the culprits, which resulted in a libel case and the termination of the paper. A week later, she began publishing the St. Cloud Democrat, which she ran for eight years.

[D]

On this day, March, that's where we got Lowry Tunnel.

[C]

No, Matt, I don't think so. On this day, March 24, in 1999, the U.S. supreme Court upheld the rights of the Mille Lacs band of Ojibwe to fish and hunt in ceded lands without state regulation as dictated by an 1837 treaty. I remember that there was a great fuss about that. On this day, March 24th in 2002, the UMD Bulldogs women's ice hockey team won their second consecutive national championship. On this day in sports, disappointment history.

[A]

Who did we lose to on March 20th?

[C]

On this day in 1996, Michigan's Mike Leg did a trick puck lift to score tying goal versus the Michigan Gophers. Michigan went on to win four to three in advance to the frozen four. I think to this day that move is called a Michigan.

[A]

Yes, it is.

[C]

Where you, you capture the puck on the toe of your blade and then you do fantastic things with it.

[A]

A Guy hurts a couple weeks ago said guys can do that stuff.

[C]

Oh, yeah. It's going to get only better. Yeah. On this day, March 24th in 2006, I'll never forget this. The Gopher hockey team lost to Holy Cross. Oh, my God. In the first round of the NCAA tournament.

[A]

That's coming up on Monday night Sports talk on a Tuesday.

[C]

Holy Cross.

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I think of Ethan McIntosh.

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That was 20 years ago.

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Wow. Wow.

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Ice hockey lost to Holy Cross 20. Hey, Pat. Yes. 20 years ago today, Holy Cross beat the Gophers. Aware of that. And now there's some go.

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Okay. We can't hear a word he's saying.

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More on that after G. Thank you.

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G. Ellers.

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Yes. Yeah.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Yep.

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Use the wor free 48 minute financial consultation with absolutely zero obligation. And he will always give you the straight talk. He will never give you the sugar coated advice. And he is on the line with us once again right here in Garage Logic. A boy, Josh. The market right now, profit taking and fear kind of seem to be taking the headlines. And I have a debate. Did he or didn't he?

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Well, let's go with the did he or didn't he? Because that was the conversation that I heard most of yesterday and even, even this morning. Not just on the financial news channels, Chris, but On the what I call mainstream or even not so much mainstream news or I'll call them opinion networks. Did Trump actually talk to somebody in Iran about a deal? Are they actually going to stop bombing or ceasefire for five days? Is there going to be a deal? Why the Iranians came back and said nobody was talking to them. Well, did he or didn't he? Well, inquiring minds do want, we want to know but most of the opinion people probably do not have any inside information relating to whether or not the President did or did not talk to people in Iran. Now the question is who would have talked to. It certainly wasn't the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who continues to throw up missiles randomly hitting targets in Israel, other Gulf state, whether it be Qatar or Saudi Arabia or Kuwait. Heck they even fired, fired at a British, British American air base. There's still a lot of or at least some firepower and the Revolutionary Guard is definitely not in a negotiating place. And I think the only negotiating place or only time they want to negotiate is when they meet all the virgins, whenever, whenever that gets. Meantime, the market is concerned with the price of oil. Oil has moved up a little, a little bit this morning after dropping very, very significantly yesterday. And I do believe as time goes on you'll see the price of oil continue to come down. Whether I'll say when there is a cessation in the bombing, it still will take some time for, for Gulf states, oil facilities, natural gas facilities to get up and running. That said, the US Is still the lead, lead producer of oil. Oil stocks or oil related stocks here are moving with the price of oil and I will say are up significantly. I'm not going to say pushing at their limits but they are up very significantly this year. So I'd be very, very cautious about jumping in at this time. Indeed, if you did own any energy stock I would consider taking, taking some profits from them and looking elsewhere particularly at other that do have plenty of plenty of potential upside. Another area that is of concern with the market and we've touched on this before and that that is credit, private credit and the companies that provide funding and investment vehicles for that whether it's blue out Capital, Akr Hollow Carlisle, among others here I kept Blackstone which is listed in that here IP also talks high yield and the yields are coming from payments made on those, on those loans and successful selling of loans or other private equity companies. But the yield yields on these stocks, say the private equity stock the yields are, are very deceiving and can vary significantly year year to year that'd be another area that I'd want to avoid, at least at this time. Meantime, the stocks that have been beaten down around artificial intelligence to me, you know, still offer a lot of upside and trends and growth whether it's, you know, favorite Apple, which I think is going to be a big, big winner in AI given the amount of revenue that they generated last year and are even generating this year just from their app store and people downloading, whether it's ChatGPT Quad from Anthropic, Grok or Gemini among others. Plus at some point in the next several months Apple Siri will have a pretty big update. So on a personal level or personalized AI, Apple looks to be a big winner. Additionally, sales of their phones have increased in China significantly and they do have several catalysts for growth going forward. Then I could take a look at a company like Palantir. Very volatile. I highly expensive or I'll say very, very expensive. Both the price to sales and price to earnings basis is selling significantly under its high and it has been in a little, little bit of a trading range. Yet yesterday Palantir picked up a big, big contract with the Pentagon to be there. We'll say their AI battlefield AI supplier. Now the market market takes a look at Palantir with its rich valuation and says and it's priced to perfection. This can't continue. Probably I'll say the extraordinary growth is not going to continue but Palantir is going to be a longer term winner in the AI space. Now there's a, that's a software developing or software developer and data analytics firm. So there are two out of many. At some point OpenAI and Anthropic will probably come public. OpenAI in another funding round, you know, alerted the people who are in this funding round that Microsoft is a risk to the firm because the amount of money that Microsoft provides OpenAI, not to mention the amount of compute that OpenAI is tended. So if there are issues with Microsoft that is going to have an adverse effect on OpenAI. Right now they are a leader along with Anthropic. I'll say Google in, we'll say the, in that that space Google could also be a pretty, pretty big winner and its stock has been under pressure recently as well despite let's say all of the noise and despite the fact that that the market has been down all of March and is in negative territory for the year and certain segments of the market are definitely in bear market territory. To me the old saying goes when there's blood on the street that might be time to buy but always excellent

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You certainly will. Thanks.

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