3/26 Predatory behavior, which used to wrong, now requires a bill to say that it is wrong

Summary

Garage Logic Podcast (3/26/26): "Predatory behavior, which used to be wrong, now requires a bill to say that it is wrong"

Garage Logic | Episode #1745 | March 26, 2026

Host: Joe Soucheray ("The Mayor"), with Chris Reuvers, John Haidt, Kenny Olson, Rookie, Mike Schoonover

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Episode Overview

This episode explores the ever-expanding bureaucracy of government social programs in Minnesota, the loss of common sense in politics and society, and the way explicit right-and-wrong issues now require elaborate legislation. The hosts dig into state program bloat (especially in child mental health and autism services), legislative responses to social problems, and the societal and political shifts happening in Uptown Minneapolis. The discussion is infused with the show’s signature humor and nostalgia, punctuated by reflections on politics, bureaucracy, and the erosion of civic investment.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bureaucratic Bloat and Social Programs

• Minnesota DHS Oversight & Fraud Problems
  • Joe opens with a front-page Star Tribune story about the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) now requiring autism service providers to pay $750 to be "validated" in an effort to combat Medicaid fraud. There are 5,800 such organizations in Minnesota.
  • Quote:

    "It's like gun control. They're going to examine all the honest people and the thugs will still get their fraud money, but they're charging the providers 750 bucks to have themselves validated. It's going to be like the Save America Act." (06:03, Joe Soucheray)

  • Joe expresses skepticism that these bureaucratic fixes actually catch wrongdoers and suggests the state’s systems are impossibly complex for average citizens to navigate.
• Overwhelming Array of State Programs
  • Joe details his "rabbit hole" search through the DHS website: seven pages of children’s mental health programs, countless dropdowns, hundreds of sub-programs.
  • Observation: The system is so convoluted that it is nearly impossible for the average family to identify and access relevant aid.
  • Quote:

    "Who do they really think has the skill and the means and the time to sort through these hundreds and hundreds of programs to zero in on a program they think would be necessary to help their child? I defy you." (10:20, Joe Soucheray)

[10:20–17:50]: Extended segment on government complexity, fraud, and service navigation.

2. Legislating Basic Morality

• Bills Codifying Universal Wrongs
  • Discussion of a new Minnesota bill to make "grooming a child" for sexual purposes a felony.
  • Hosts reflect that such legislation feels unnecessary: Some acts should be universally understood as wrong without statutory definition.
  • Quote:

    "Wasn't it once true that just organically would not have been necessary because it would be wrong to groom a child? Now we need a bill for that." (18:34, Joe Soucheray)

  • Illustrates a wider theme: As common sense erodes, society looks to government to spell out even the most basic right and wrong.

[18:06–20:34]: Discussion on decay of organic ethics and reliance on codified law.

3. Systemic Unmanageability and Loss of Common Sense

• Every new problem or fraud leads to the creation of another "program" rather than actual reform or hard decisions, creating a recursive and unmanageable bureaucracy.
• The group notes that many well-intentioned programs end up piggybacking, resulting in redundancies and inefficiency and crowding out real solutions for those in genuine need.

[15:46–17:50]: Spiraling bureaucracy; "Program for how to comb your hair in the morning" as a running sarcastic joke.

4. Political Indifference & Uptown’s Decline

• Uptown Minneapolis: A Cautionary Tale
  • Segment laments Uptown’s decline—from a bustling, vibrant community to boarded-up businesses and rising homelessness, open drug use, and property crime.
  • Minneapolis council member Aisha Chugtai is criticized for being abroad (in Cuba on a “humanitarian mission”) during a major community meeting, symbolizing perceived political neglect.
  • Quote:

    "Chugtai said the aid was needed because Cubans have been impacted very significantly by Trump's cruelty... Problem is, you didn’t have to go to Cuba to experience people suffering. They're suffering because of your lack of leadership in your own district." (31:28, Joe Soucheray)

• Changing Demographics and Loss of Stakeholders
  • Hosts theorize that today’s voters in Minneapolis (and Uptown specifically) often have little or no long-term investment in the city (e.g., renters with transient lifestyles), leading to election of officials who reflect their "absence of vision."
  • Quote:

    “There's not a lot of hope for Uptown... The current public has no outcry for what's happening. They have no investment in the city. It just happens to be a place where they rent a bedroom.” (36:03–36:21, Joe Soucheray)

[30:47–38:52]: Segment on Uptown’s collapse, council-member absence, and transformations in civic life.

5. Legislative Deadlock, Spending, and Urban Policy

• Housing/Eviction Issues
  • Minneapolis failed to override Mayor Frey's veto of an eviction protection ordinance (which would have given renters more time before eviction). The debate centers on whether such extensions help or actually harm renters.
  • Quote:

    “No, it would have increased their debt.” (50:17, Joe Soucheray)

• Fee & Tax Politics
  • Legislative attempts to reduce vehicle license tab fees fail; Democrats block it citing lost revenue, Republicans blame bloated spending.

[49:01–52:02]: Segment on city policy debates, including landlord/tenant issues and legislative gridlock.

6. Transit Policy and Unpopular Spending

• Criticism of the costly Blue Line extension—expected to cost $57 million/yr to operate, vs only $7 million in revenues.
  • Calls for lawmakers to be made to use public transit daily to see the practical impact of their decisions.
  • Quote:

    “Make them ride those trains for the entire session and then see what they have to say.” (52:57, Chris Reuvers)

[52:08–54:43]: Extended debate about public transit, subsidies, and legislative accountability.

7. National & Social News

• Social Media Litigation
  • Lawsuit verdict in California holds Meta and YouTube liable for social media addiction, awarding damages to a young woman harmed by their platforms’ design.
  • Quote:

    “This could have a large, large implication as far as social media goes.” (65:20, John Haidt)

• International News
  • Quick round-ups: Iranian defiance in the Middle East, Russian oil revenues surging, the evolving media landscape (e.g., The Onion's surprising print success).

[63:36–69:57]: National and international news highlights.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On government bloat:

  "This is unmanageable. You have created such a monster that you can't control it." — Joe Soucheray (15:07)

• On loss of common sense:

  "We've lost all sight of common sense and right and wrong." — Joe Soucheray (18:18)

• On Uptown's decline:

  "Chugtai offers nothing for the success of the city... She appeals to people who share her vision, which is the absence of vision. A ghetto. She's got a desensitized constituency that believes that she's actually—I don't know what they believe. They don't believe in anything." — Joe Soucheray (38:23)

• On legislative problem-solving:

  "Instead of trying to fix the problem, whatever it may be, they just create a bill... They do everything except fix the problem." — Chris Reuvers (23:05)

• On renting vs. community stewardship:

  "No skin in the game. Not working hard. And Chugtai comes along and she's their candidate." — Joe Soucheray (34:10)

• On government-program recursion:

  "More and more money was sought to solve what were believed to be more and more problems which themselves have caused more and more problems, which needs more money to create more problems, to create more programs..." — Joe Soucheray (21:07)

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Segment Timestamps

| Timestamp | Topic/Segment | |---------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:45–06:03 | Show opens with hosts’ banter and lead-in to main topic | | 06:03–11:47 | Government program bloat and DHS validation rabbit hole | | 11:47–15:23 | Accessibility challenges for parents, time demands, and fraud | | 15:23–18:06 | Roots of bureaucratic proliferation, loss of management | | 18:06–20:34 | Morality bills ("grooming" legislation), legalistic right/wrong | | 20:34–23:36 | Lawmaking as reaction, not solution; passing the buck | | 30:47–38:52 | Uptown Minneapolis decline; Chugtai’s Cuba trip; local politics | | 49:01–52:02 | Eviction bill veto; housing policy debate | | 52:08–54:43 | Blue Line extension, mass transit funding | | 63:36–65:20 | Social media addiction verdict and implications | | 65:56–69:57 | Media news: CBS struggles, The Onion rises, light human interest |

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Additional Observations

• Nostalgia/Contrast:
  The hosts’ reminiscences about “old” Uptown (vibrant, locally invested, bustling) highlight by contrast what they see as today’s disengaged residents and absentee leadership.
• Repeated Theme:
  "Common sense" as both ideal and lament—common sense is referenced to illustrate a perceived simpler past and as an indictment of today’s over-regulation and complex government solutions.

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Overall Tone

• The tone is classic Garage Logic: sardonic, grumpy-old-man humor, lamenting bureaucratic excess and social change, alongside a camaraderie and playfulness among the hosts. Anecdotes and side-jokes abound amid more serious reflections on declining community engagement, legislative rationale, and political accountability.

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Takeaways for New Listeners

• The hosts are deeply skeptical of government solutions that multiply bureaucracy instead of solving root issues.
• There’s a strong sense of nostalgia for a community where people are invested, neighbors know each other, and "right and wrong" are understood without codification.
• The show mixes serious policy critique with local flavor, satirical takes, and recurring, self-aware humor.

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Recommended Listen:
Listeners especially interested in government oversight, bureaucratic complexity, community decline, and debates over the proper role of law and civic engagement will find this episode particularly rich.

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Selected Notable Quotes by Timestamp

• “Who do they really think has the skill and the means and the time to sort through these hundreds and hundreds of programs...”
  — Joe Soucheray (10:20)
• “Wasn't it once true that just organically would not have been necessary because it would be wrong to groom a child? Now we need a bill for that.”
  — Joe Soucheray (18:34)
• “The current public has no outcry for what's happening in uptown. They have no investment in the city.”
  — Joe Soucheray (36:03)
• “We've lost all sight of common sense and right and wrong.”
  — Joe Soucheray (18:18)
• “Instead of trying to fix the problem, they just create a bill... They do everything except fix the problem.”
  — Chris Reuvers (23:05)

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Mike Schoonover]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Joe Suchore]

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[Joe Sucra]

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, everything. Kenny Olson from the Krabby Coffee Shop, John Height in the newsroom, and the rookie.

[Joe Suchore]

Hi.

[Joe Sucra]

Here is your flashlight king, fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Suchore.

[John Haidt]

Joe, before you start, if I may.

[Joe Sucra]

Yes.

[John Haidt]

I just wanted to tell you I have a couple days vacation coming up and I just wanted to let you know before I do that it is really a pleasure and an honor to be sitting here with you doing this show and getting your various views on everything that's going on in the world. So I just wanted to thank you, make sure everybody knows I thank you.

[Chris Reavers]

You know, since you brought it up, I've been meaning to say that for quite some time. I concur. It's a true joy and a pleasure to be here every day in your presence, sir.

[Joe Suchore]

I can concur with what my two colleagues have said previously. It's a joy and a privilege each and every single day to be able to walk in here and be a part of one of the most legendary brands in all of broadcasting.

[Rookie]

I'd also like to chime in and say it's quite a task for me to get here each and every day. And although I'm leaned on quite a bit for the entertainment value of this broadcast, I mean, I guess I'm happy

[Chris Reavers]

to be here, sir, if I may, sir, respectfully, I would keep my eyes on that one, sir.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah, I am.

[Rookie]

Believe me, I am.

[Joe Sucra]

Since we're going around the horn also, Joe, I'd really love to kind of express the pleasures that I feel when I walk in this room. I'm able to listen to you speak and watch you work. I do it better than anybody.

[Joe Suchore]

Not to mention your allies. They almost fear you because of your broadcasting excellence.

[Rookie]

Or copy.

[Joe Sucra]

That's what I do. I build and come in under budget. I take care of things. I get it done.

[Chris Reavers]

You keep us safe.

[Joe Sucra]

I do. I do. Hey, this ain't a Trump cabinet meeting.

[Rookie]

Oh, that's what we were doing. I get it now.

[Joe Suchore]

Someone missed the pre show memo.

[John Haidt]

Shocking.

[Joe Sucra]

Which I watched today and I thought it might as well have been in North Korea. God help us.

[Joe Suchore]

Where's North Korea?

[Rookie]

In unison.

[Joe Suchore]

Where's North Korea? In rookie's shirt, you can get it

[Rookie]

above the left nipple.

[Chris Reavers]

You realize though, Joe, that we're the five of us are a tad bit different from the rest of society.

[Joe Sucra]

So is Trump's cabinet.

[Chris Reavers]

Jay Coles cannot believe the way the five of us and everybody on the radio floor acts compared to downstairs. Downstairs it's the real world. And there's a lot of looking each other in the eye and telling each other lies and puffing people up and. You're the greatest and. Can I get you lunch and all that.

[Joe Sucra]

We don't do that.

[Chris Reavers]

We don't do that.

[Joe Sucra]

Although I did ask Rook for some water today. And you got it.

[Rookie]

Thank you.

[Joe Sucra]

Can I tell you something? We don't have time for this. Can I tell you something? There's a piece on the front page of the Star Tribune.

[Chris Reavers]

Here we go.

[Joe Sucra]

We don't have time for this nonsense. We learned today that the Department of Human Services in Minnesota will begin to validate the autism providers, examining them and verifying that they're not fraudulent. And they're going to charge. There's 5,800 organizations enrolled in the state. Wait a minute. 5,800? Wow. And they're going to charge? Basically, it's like gun control. They're going to examine all the honest people and the thugs will still get their fraud money, but they're charging the providers 750 bucks to have themselves validated. It's going to be like the Save America Act. You got to provide a birth certificate and a marriage certificate and everything else. They're going to charge him 750 bucks for work they should have done in the first place. So that got me going down a rabbit hole. Remember the other day I went down the rabbit hole of clicking on the dropdown item offered to me on the Department of Human Services website about housing and what would it come up with? 20, 20, 2020 programs. So I went and I began doing the dropdown search and it's. I have a few observations. Children's Mental health A to Z takes seven pages to print of the programs. Under A. You have access to services, mental health, adhd, adolescent services, stuff I don't even know. Advocacy, education and support, Disabilities, healthcare, children's mental health, anxiety disorders, Autism spectrum disorders, dynamic conversion. Under B. It goes all the way through this seven pages of programs under the heading of children's mental health A to Z. So then I dropped down and I went to Autism resource Portal and there were five. Healthcare and wellness. Healthcare and wellness, Education services, Transition and employment. Transition, technology and equipment. And then where did I go? There were three. Three that I went. Oh yeah. Then I dropped down again to an autism. Well, this is part of the resource portal. I'm sorry, the autism resource portal. As health and wellness. Healthcare and wellness and co occurring conditions, early years, birth to age five. The government's there for you. Child and teen checkups, the follow along program, early intensive development and behavioral intervention. And we get to school age, child check Minnesota care. It is important. Part of current health status, known chronic conditions, medications and treatments, vision and hearing screening, significant illnesses, sport physicals and other reports, attendance, managing your healthcare, learning how to talk with healthcare resources on transition to adulthood for families. So the government's right there for you. And then you turn the page and it just goes on and on. Here we get to adults 18 plus, individual and family health, senior specialty care, dental care, adult dental coverage that takes up a couple of pages. And then the government wants you to move away from sugary foods and drinks and brush your teeth. Then you get to occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech and language pathology, feeding therapy, health care coordination, other supports, behavioral health, home. Then we get to medical cannabis which is really working very well. Then you get to department of health, Covid vaccines, recommended immunization schedules.

[Chris Reavers]

What are these?

[Joe Sucra]

That's the point. Couple points. And this hammers home the larger point that I've said. The government is too big. The layers of programs offered are too many. To a certain degree you can understand how they can't be monitored. There is literally too many of them. That's one observation. And our only hope for solvency in this state, our only hope is to somehow start over because this is out of hand. This is two dropdowns on one aspect of the DHS website. The second observation I made is who do they really think has the skill and the means and the time to sort through these hundreds and hundreds of programs to zero in on a program they think would be necessary to help their child? I defy you. If you had an autistic, a seriously autistic child and you believe the government is there to help you with that, I defy you to find the program that would be suitable for you.

[Chris Reavers]

I think that's been a frustrating issue for parents of autistic children.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, how about it would be a frustrating issue for anybody in the state seeking any kind of help from any kind of program for anything. Yeah, we had 20 housing programs. How would you. And then each of those have sub housing. How would you narrow down? First of all, you better have a computer. Secondly, you better be very fluent in your computer technology. You better have a telephone, you better be able to write a letter, you better be able to contact somebody, you better be able to break it all down.

[Chris Reavers]

It's more of a time concern, I would think, Joe. Especially if you have two working parents.

[Joe Sucra]

Absolutely.

[Joe Suchore]

And that's why I told Joe this earlier. I don't know who was in here, but I know someone that's had to do this kind of work with the state and the fact that the number of layers of checks and balances that this particular person had to go through, if you didn't have endless amounts of time, meaning all the fraudsters, there's no way you could go through all of these and get all that money.

[Joe Sucra]

Fraudsters have all the time in the work because they're not doing it because that's what they do for a living.

[Chris Reavers]

The initial story you brought up though out of the Star Tribune with Medicaid, we've got to be really careful with the Medicaid because all the people that are currently receiving benefits and their life depends on these benefits. These Medicaid benefits.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah, that's fine. I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about legitimate legal providers of services who are there's 5,800 and the DHS claims it's going to set out on an adventure to validate what's they're

[Chris Reavers]

all going to get in a big van, a passenger van.

[Joe Sucra]

There's a June deadline. The revalidation process is one of several programs the state is undertaking to combat what federal prosecutors have called a far reaching criminal web aimed at defrauding Minnesota's Medicaid programs. I'm not 100% sure that revalidation is going to fix an oversight problem, said Jessica Warzetja, the human resources manager for the Burnsville based Autism Service Center, Partners in Excellence. I don't know. Let me turn the page. The page nine. It's right here. I don't know that it's going to to fix challenges that the state and the federal government are having around how the funds are being used.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, she's right.

[Joe Sucra]

And businesses and providers designated as high risk, which provides services that are more likely to have fraud or normally reevaluated every three and a half years in Minnesota, while medium and low risk entities are reevaluated every five years, providers pay the state $750 per site visit to revalidate. Well, this gets very boilerplate and very boring and I won't contain it goes

[Chris Reavers]

deep into the weeds.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah, but my point is Paladin, this is unmanageable would be my suspicion. This is unmanageable. You have created such a monster that you can't control it.

[Rookie]

Then why can't we start to hunt and peck and delete ones that obviously aren't doing any good?

[Joe Suchore]

Because he resigned.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, wait a minute. I Think Matt is absolutely right. That's better than. I hate to say it, sir. You know how much I respect you and I enjoy being here, but I don't think we can just shut things down, you know, with a blanket and start over.

[Joe Sucra]

No, I understand. Here's what I would say to that many of these. Let's just say all these programs were probably intended out of good intention for the right reasons. Yep.

[Joe Suchore]

Sir.

[Joe Sucra]

Boy, this state doesn't let anyone suffer. This state is going to be there for you no matter what the affliction, no matter what the problem. That's who we are. We're going to help you out. And. But at some point that got away from them because rather than solve problems, what they did is in exchange for solving a problem, they just merely created another program that they believed would solve the problem. Then these programs began to piggyback on each other to the point where it is unmanageable. I'm not saying that you shouldn't help people. What I'm suggesting is you are on a path to complete financial failure. This is not sustainable. When you continue to. They'll probably have a program for how to comb your hair in the morning. I'm not being facetious. They're presented a problem. This problem is fraud. What have they done? We're in the midst of watching them try to create new bureaucracies to control the fraud. We're in the midst of watching them say, well, we're going to revalidate you and we need teams and we have to hire some people and we're going to go out and then you're going to pay us $750 for us to validate your program to which honest people will sit there and write the check for the 750 bucks back to the state so that they continue providing the care in the meantime. The other result of this getting out of hand is I would submit to you, fewer people are actually getting the

[Mike Schoonover]

care

[Joe Sucra]

because a goes back to what I said before. How are they going to navigate this system? How are they going to find what they need? This is such a mess.

[Rookie]

But isn't the reason we have all these programs is because it was the flavor of the day at that point. So instead of sunsetting others, they just keep adding.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, and as a human race, probably not just legislators fault. We've lost all sight of common sense and right and wrong.

[Chris Reavers]

For example, where just doing right is expected.

[Joe Sucra]

For example, we now have a bill in the legislature. A bill has been proposed to make grooming a child for sexual Purposes grooming a child a felony. Wasn't it once true that just organically would not have been necessary because it would be wrong to groom a child. Now we need a bill for that. Which is wrong.

[Rookie]

You don't need a bill.

[Joe Suchore]

Permission to approach the bench, sir?

[Joe Sucra]

No, not yet. Oh, well, for example, for example, remember last week we discovered that the Department of Homeland securities could not take action on kickbacks because that wasn't part of the law that was written to identify fraud. Kickbacks have been wrong since Adam and Eve, but we can't consider it wrong because they don't have it on a typewritten sheet in front of them to also include kickbacks in their examination of fraud. This thing is so big, so bollocks up and so intertwined and so over layered and so redundant that there really is no way they can control this now. You may approach the bench, sir.

[Joe Suchore]

If I may. Do you know who introduced the particular grooming bill? I missed it this morning because there's a reason I wanted to mention it.

[Joe Sucra]

My printer disappointed me.

[Joe Suchore]

The reason I'm questioning in the Senate

[Joe Sucra]

bill, there's a companion bill in the House.

[Joe Suchore]

The reason why, I'm guessing is because maybe this is because that particular person that introduced this legislation said, well, we're not able to prosecute the people that are actually guilty of this because there isn't a law. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, but it speaks to exactly why we have deteriorated as a society.

[Joe Sucra]

What I was saying is it's. It's wrong to groom a child. No, we all agree, sir, but that's no longer the case. It's only going to be wrong to groom a child if you can find somebody who's done it. If a law is charged with a crime. So this, it will have to be explained to me because I don't believe. Will have to be explained to me how this path we're on is economically sustainable. And I would argue that it is not.

[Joe Suchore]

It is not.

[Joe Sucra]

You can't, when you're working this way, it's like a train going down the tracks and you keep shoveling coal into the, into the fire to keep it running and you're going to run out of coal. There is no way this is sustainable. I'd love to blame Walls because I don't care for him, but this started before Walls. This started. This is just an outgrowth of what has happened for the last 50 years. And more and more money was sought to solve what were believed to be more and more problems which themselves have caused More and more problems, which needs more money to create more problems, to create more programs, which then create more programs that are resolved to fight the problem, which then becomes another program, and on and on and on and on. This doesn't work.

[Joe Suchore]

Case in point. You were talking about the money. We were celebrating. Not we as at our show, but we were celebrating the fact that only $1.5 billion left the state last year, as opposed to 2.5 billion the prior year.

[Joe Sucra]

Right.

[Joe Suchore]

Hey, we're not as bad as we were two years ago. Well, that's still $4 billion that's left the state.

[Chris Reavers]

You mentioned something about walls in Minnesota. I don't think it's a walls or a Minnesota lawmaker things. I think that lawmakers have been doing this for a long time, Joe, where they see a problem, instead of trying to fix the problem, whatever it may be, they just create a bill and a law that makes it a crime or that increases the penalty without actually dealing with the problem.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, of course, this is also a federal problem, if that's. You're referring to the.

[Chris Reavers]

But, no, I mean, that's what they do to get involved. They don't try to fix the problem. They just try to fine it. You know, fine the people or increase jail sentences or. They do everything except fix the problem.

[Joe Sucra]

I think one of the champions of that. And if you could. If you want to take this as criticism, go ahead. I don't even know if I necessarily mean it as criticism. One of the. If you looked at the list of bills that Amy Klobuchar has been involved in, they would fall under this rubric of addressing something that should have been wrong in the first place and, you

[Chris Reavers]

know, too little, too late. Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike Schoonover]

Yep.

[Joe Sucra]

By the way, did you see what Delta Airlines has done?

[Rookie]

Love it.

[Joe Sucra]

That they. That is a. Obviously, nobody in the airline industry has greased their palms with Trump because if. If they had, you wouldn't have this TSA problem. Right.

[Rookie]

Sebastian is a genius.

[Joe Sucra]

So. So Delta comes along and said, yeah, maybe, but it's worth talking about again, because right now getting out of here is like trying to get out of burka. Fascinating.

[Rookie]

Mad this morning, and it will be mad tomorrow as well.

[Joe Suchore]

Where are you heading for spring break?

[Joe Sucra]

I wouldn't go near an airport, and I'm very lucky. It's like trying to get out of where.

[Rookie]

Don't scare people.

[Joe Sucra]

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[Chris Reavers]

Would you steal that?

[Joe Sucra]

I made it up because I'm gonna write about it.

[Chris Reavers]

That's fantastic.

[Joe Sucra]

You know, when I travel all you needed was a pack of Marlboros and a real plump newspaper. That was so timely. It had the previous night's scores.

[Mike Schoonover]

Yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

Does it do that anymore? Wait, you were gonna. What about it?

[Joe Sucra]

Go bleep yourself.

[Rookie]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucra]

You're not showing respect. You're fired. I'm sorry, sir.

[Joe Suchore]

We're not supposed to mention before you did.

[Chris Reavers]

He always was the worst. I knew he was the worst when I appointed him.

[Joe Sucra]

And then you can say after you appointed him, I never even met the guy. Yeah, I don't know.

[John Haidt]

Kenny told me to hire him.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I didn.

[Joe Sucra]

It was Pete's idea to go to war, wasn't it? Pete?

[Joe Suchore]

Right.

[Rookie]

That was a big surprise, sir.

[Joe Suchore]

Sure was, sir.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah, Pete looked.

[Rookie]

He was the most surprised in the room.

[Chris Reavers]

I wonder if he'd be easier to work with than you.

[Joe Sucra]

You ought to count your blessings.

[Chris Reavers]

I thought you said. I thought for sure you were gonna say. You ought to go try, pal.

[Joe Sucra]

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[Rookie]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Rookie]

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[Joe Suchore]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Joe Suchore]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Joe Suchore]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Joe Suchore]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[John Haidt]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[John Haidt]

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[Joe Suchore]

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[Joe Sucra]

Chris Reivers is a paid endorser.

[Joe Suchore]

Kenny,

[Chris Reavers]

it's the end of the world

[Joe Sucra]

as we know it. He feels fine. Joe. Sucere.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Rookie]

I'd rather see me.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I'd rather look at Rookie too.

[Rookie]

Thank you.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucra]

during a meeting in Uptown last week. This is from the Star Tribune. I don't know if it was online or in the printed paper. I didn't see it in the printed paper. Maybe it was there. During a meeting in Uptown last week to launch a new group to combat spiraling open air drug dealing, homelessness and property crimes, some people in the crowd wondered out loud about the absence of the person who represents uptown. That would be city council member Asia Chugtai. Well, she wasn't there because she was on a plane to Cuba on a humanitarian aid mission.

[Chris Reavers]

Jesus, Uptown needs a humanitarian aid mission.

[Joe Sucra]

Chugtai said the aid was needed because Cubans have been impacted very significantly by Trump's cruelty. So she sustains her job by bringing up Trump. She said she went because Minneapolis just went through a traumatic experience. Operation Metro Surge. Yes, it did. Sovereign people all over the world experience cruelty and violence perpetrated by the Trump administration. She said. So to go to a community that is experiencing that right now and see how people are resisting through creativity was a transformative experience. The problem Chug Tai, is you didn't have to go to Cuba to experience people suffering. They're suffering because of your lack of leadership in your own district. She said she paid her own way. She was on a media flight, charter flight with Code Pink. That's a feminist anti war organization. Also on the trip was activist ISRA Hersey. That's Ilhan Omar's daughter. Ah, yeah. The trip had been criticized by the New York Post, which accused left wing groups of taking a first class poverty tour while staying in A five star hotel. And might I add, they were the only ones who had electricity during their visit.

[Chris Reavers]

Really? Yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

There's actually Kenny. There's a viral video showing that very thing.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

Where they pan the entire.

[Joe Sucra]

That's where I got it.

[Joe Suchore]

There's just one building with lights on it.

[Chris Reavers]

Wow, that's fantastic.

[Joe Sucra]

As for the uptown meeting she missed.

[Chris Reavers]

Unbelievable.

[Joe Sucra]

As for the uptown meeting she missed, Chagtai said, I deeply care about my community and work every day to improve it. Well, I would add, except those days I was in Cuba. I appreciate that people are frustrated in this moment. They have a right to be. You know, there's time to say, call out something else about this. Chagtai got elected because apparently, let's face it, much of the electorate share her ideology. Much of the electorate are not working hard with families. They're just people hoping to score some luck from the government.

[Rookie]

Boy, that's really sad.

[Joe Sucra]

But I mean, it's time we spoke about this. These people are getting elected for a reason. And that's because Minneapolis is really no longer full of people who, you know, they're no longer full of Kenny's Delta baggage handlers. They're full of single people who rent who don't really have lofty goals in mind.

[Joe Suchore]

No skin in the game.

[Joe Sucra]

No skin in the game. Not working hard. And Chug Ty comes along and she's their candidate. Same with Robin Wansley.

[Joe Suchore]

And they all bank upon the vote of everything's gonna be taken care of for you.

[Rookie]

Where's the postal worker and the Delta baggage handler? Where did they go?

[Joe Sucra]

So the people are complaining about Chugtai would just as soon have gone to Cuba themselves. I mean, I'm sorry, the people who vote for Chug Tai don't find anything wrong with her going to Cuba during the midst of their own problems because they would just as soon have gone to Cuba themselves. So there's really. There's not a lot of hope for the whole uptown, which used to thrive like hell. Yep. It was really funky and great and it worked and people made money and now it's just. It's dead.

[Joe Suchore]

One of the biggest features in a precarious state. Remember, Rick and Jim Rubin are walking down where Stella's used to be and all that stuff. It's all boarded up.

[Joe Sucra]

And Chung Ty has nothing to offer the people who work hard and pay their taxes and try to raise a family. That's who she's not. She's not interested in how I'm trying to remember.

[Chris Reavers]

I lived on, I think, 33 and 33rd in Fremont. How could somebody living on that block, it's mostly apartments and brownstones and duplexes. How could they drive through uptown, Hennepin, 31st, Hennepin and Lake street and 28, and see what's going on with everything boarded up and be all right with that? How can you vote for somebody and then be all right with the. The doom and gloom?

[Joe Sucra]

I think.

[Chris Reavers]

I think brought to that.

[Joe Sucra]

I think it's years of desensitizing. I think it's years of the ruinous ideology brought to the city by the likes of chugti has desensitized people to what's happening.

[Rookie]

You mean 10 years ago, anything boarded up would really have been.

[Joe Sucra]

That would have been a public outcry. Yeah, it would have been, because you would have had a public outcry from a public that was deeply invested in the success of the city. The current public has no outcry for what's happening in uptown. They have no investment in the city. It just happens to be a place where they rent a bedroom.

[Chris Reavers]

It was so vibrant in the 90s when I lived over there. I mean, it was hopping.

[Rookie]

When did you live in kenwood?

[Chris Reavers]

Right before that. Okay, I lived in Kenwood, in uptown, in the 90s.

[Joe Sucra]

But chug tie offers nothing for the success of the city.

[Chris Reavers]

City, no, she's. She celebrated the fact that uptown has gone into the outhouse, and it's time

[Joe Sucra]

we recognized that it logically is connected that she is then voted for by people who also have no investment in the city.

[Chris Reavers]

How can you sit there and watch your neighborhood go to hell and support her?

[Joe Sucra]

No vested interest, no home ownership, no family, no kids in the local school, no job to speak of.

[Rookie]

But there's gotta be more people that are still engaged. People like Kenny that stayed. That didn't leave Minneapolis.

[Joe Sucra]

No, he did leave.

[Rookie]

No, but I mean, there's gotta be more people like that have to still be engaged. And do they just not vote?

[Joe Sucra]

They're falling by the wayside.

[Rookie]

God, that is really.

[Joe Sucra]

And I think it's desensitization. There must be a certain comfort in them to see that as long as it's not working for them, it's also not working for anybody else.

[Chris Reavers]

You park on Hennepin right in front of Calhoun square. Run in, buy a couple of newspapers from the bookstore, go right next door, get a cigar, go across the street to the used bookstore, find that book that you ordered, and then go to the uptown bar and sit there and have breakfast.

[Joe Sucra]

Is Calhoun square even open? Open?

[Rookie]

I Don't.

[Joe Sucra]

I don't think it is.

[Joe Suchore]

I don't. I think that was part of the feature.

[Chris Reavers]

It was boarded up.

[Joe Suchore]

Let me look it up.

[Joe Sucra]

Wow.

[Joe Suchore]

That's where.

[Rookie]

I mean, the whole.

[Chris Reavers]

That's where he talked to her. He talked to Chug Tie right in front of the boarded up Callan Square. Did he not?

[Joe Sucra]

Who, Jim?

[Rookie]

No.

[Chris Reavers]

Capella?

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so. Yeah. Well, it's just a shame, but I think. I think we need to be more honest with ourselves. She appeals to people who share her vision, which is the absence of vision. A ghetto. A ghetto. She's got a desensitized constituency that believes that she's actually. I don't know what they believe. They don't believe in anything.

[Chris Reavers]

I wish we had that audio, Chris, on Coachella's piece of her saying that this is what we wanted. This is how we start over.

[Joe Suchore]

One of the things I wanted to point out, when you Google search Calhoun Square, the third thing that you find from the top, you find the Wikipedia page of Seven Points, Calvin Square, the Minneapolis St. Paul piece. Star Tribune, 23 hours ago. Uptown sees surge in homelessness and public drug use.

[John Haidt]

Yeah. There's a huge story in today's paper.

[Joe Sucra]

Thought uptown and their representatives went to Cuba because. Because she admires how Marxism has worked so well there.

[Joe Suchore]

Well, clearly one conclusion we can draw then is this is obviously Trump's fault.

[Chris Reavers]

She's gonna.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, that's her game. She gets away with that.

[Chris Reavers]

She's gonna come back and say they're so wealthy that they all drive classic cars.

[Joe Sucra]

I think she's back. I think the trip came and went and she claims she paid for it. She probably did. I have no idea. I just. I don't know what more we can do. We can't. We can't. We really haven't made an impact on who people are voting for in Minneapolis. More St. Paul.

[Rookie]

Well, it did change, though, when seven points no longer was called Calhoun Square because of John Calhoun and his.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, are you kidding me?

[Joe Sucra]

Wait a minute.

[Chris Reavers]

Racism.

[Joe Sucra]

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Stop. Yeah, the name was changed.

[Rookie]

On June 19, 2020, the owners of the building announced that Calhoun Square's name would be changed to disavow the slavery advocate for which the building was originally named. This follows the 2017 decision to name Calhoun de Makaska. On October 2020, the owners announced that the building would now be known as Seven Points, stating a property named for a known racist and champion of slavery has no place in Minneapolis or anywhere in our society.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, I Went through all that when they changed the lake name.

[Chris Reavers]

This, this story about Calhoun Square in today's paper. It's like you're reading about the Bowery in the 80s. I mean, it is bleak.

[Rookie]

It was that in Minneapolis.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, that's a legendary hellhole. Part of what used to be a hellhole part of New York.

[Rookie]

No, I mean, no, I mean the

[Joe Suchore]

article

[Joe Sucra]

pause Where Aveda used to be. You still see it's a beautiful day. You would think this would. There'd be a bunch of people here. Yeah. Well, where are they gonna park? They took out all the parking. There's not a think about about it. There's not a single parking spot on street zero. Zilcho. It's really remarkable. It is remarkable. This was truly among the more happening spots for a while.

[Chris Reavers]

Absolutely.

[Joe Suchore]

Around the world dining in that place.

[Joe Sucra]

But look at this. Here we are the heart of uptown. This was rocking the rooftop there. Everything looks like closed.

[John Haidt]

Closed.

[Joe Sucra]

This, this crazy. This is the Apple store.

[Joe Suchore]

This was a high end spot.

[Joe Sucra]

That's as high end as you get of all of this. Uptown is probably the saddest story because it was so good and so awesome and so popular and we all. It's part of all of us. And it's now it's shutter. Right? That's almost all right. Thank you.

[John Haidt]

Impressive.

[Joe Sucra]

Chai was filmed. She. She went on a humanitarian aid mission. So she could be film handing, you know, a box of Kleenex or somebody. If. If Marxism works so well, why do they need supplies?

[Joe Suchore]

That's a good point.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, they might need them now because of an oil blockade, but when they were. When they got their oil from Russia and Venezuela, Marxism was flourishing. Why did they need supplies, I wonder? She was accompanied. Or she accompanied. Medea Benjamin and Jody Evans, founders of Code Pink, front and center on the Nuestra America humanitarian aid convoy. They stayed at a five star hotel, the only building with power. As they pretended to bring food and medicine to the suffering Cuban people, convoy leaders filmed themselves magnanimously handing supplies to Cuban officials. Well, that's who you needed to give it to because that guarantees it wouldn't get to the people who surely directed the merchandise to the special US dollar dominated stores reserved for the communist elite and other favored clients. Code Pink volunteers sporting pink keffyas. That's those tablecloths on your head.

[Joe Suchore]

Ah, isn't it pronounced Kefka? Is that what it's called?

[Joe Sucra]

Kefia. Kefia film themselves painting a mural of humanity, enthusiastically praising themselves for their gift of love. You're all they're all phonies and they're. They're. Well, what's the point? What is the bleeping point?

[Rookie]

The point, who cares?

[Chris Reavers]

The point is to get a vacation in a five star hotel.

[Joe Suchore]

That's right, sir.

[Chris Reavers]

Now, in five stars, do you get the mini bar?

[Joe Sucra]

Hell yes.

[Joe Suchore]

I think that costs extra.

[Joe Sucra]

Oh, but she's got some.

[Chris Reavers]

Probably get some room service. Just put that on my.

[Joe Suchore]

That's true. Yeah, she's got on the tab per diem. Yeah, for sure.

[Chris Reavers]

Nice.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, they love the. The US dollars, so she was. All right, why don't you take a time out?

[Joe Suchore]

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[Joe Sucra]

Good.

[Joe Suchore]

Filming a little social media video.

[Joe Sucra]

Okay.

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Joe Suchore]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Joe Sucra]

Joe's a nice guy.

[Joe Suchore]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Rookie]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[John Haidt]

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[Rookie]

Oh my God. Staff meeting is over.

[Joe Sucra]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Mike Schoonover]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

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[Joe Sucra]

about an hour and ten minutes away. Yep.

[John Haidt]

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[Joe Suchore]

Well, that's the wrong one. I needed to play this one.

[Joe Sucra]

We don't need anything.

[Joe Suchore]

You said I had to wait till today.

[John Haidt]

Even though you played it twice yesterday.

[Joe Sucra]

Correct.

[John Haidt]

By the way, if you're waiting for the home start, the first home game is next Friday, Friday, April 3rd, when Tampa Bay will be in town. So one week from tomorrow. In news the Minneapolis City Council failed to override Mayor Jacob Fry's veto of that eviction protection ordinance we talked about.

[Joe Sucra]

Good.

[John Haidt]

That happened this morning. If the override had succeeded, renters behind on red would have been given a temporary 60 day pre eviction notice period rather than the current 30 day requirement. City Council members passed the ordinance earlier this month, which supporters said would buy time for renters who suffered income losses during Operation Metro Surge.

[Joe Sucra]

No, it would have increased their debt.

[John Haidt]

Fry, however, vetoed the ordinance, saying exactly what Joe said, arguing that extending the eviction notice period would worsen the housing instability for those people. The mayor added that landlords could raise rents or remove rental units from the market to offset their lost income. Instead, the mayor proposing an additional $1 million in rental assist assistance to support those behind on payments. To overturn the mayor's veto, the City Council needed nine votes. The override vote ended up being seven to six. The council hasn't yet discussed Fry's proposal for additional rental assistance. At the Legislature, we talked about the license tab fees bill. It looks like that bill to lower license tab fees will not go anywhere. Looking at Failed in the Minnesota House transportation committee in 2023, the legislature increased the tax rate license tab fees while at the same time dramatically slowing the rate of depreciation so you pay a higher rate on an artificially high valuation on your vehicle. There's a bill in the House to lower the license tab tax rate to 1.575% of your vehicle's value to 1.285% while also speeding up depreciation. Under the bill, in the third year of owning a vehicle, you would pay a tax on 80% of your vehicle's original value instead of the current 90%. Republicans argued for the bill in the House Transfer Transportation Committee. However, Democrats say the bill would cost the state hundreds of million dollars in lost revenue. The bill failed in committee on a seven to seven tie vote, all Republicans in favor of lowering tab fees. Seven Democrats against it.

[Joe Sucra]

Democrats want your money.

[Chris Reavers]

You know what cost the state billions of dollars in money?

[Joe Sucra]

Fraud. Thank you.

[John Haidt]

The $3.2 billion Blue Line extension has been the subject of Controversy, as we know for a decade and that light rail project intensified yesterday at the state capitol. In the legislature, Republican representative John koznick temporarily handed over his role as chair of the house transportation committee to introduce two bills of his own related to how the blue line extension is paid for. A new fiscal note attached to one of those bills predicts the cost to operate and maintain the light rail extension from Minneapolis to Brooklyn park will exceed $57 million in its first year of operation. Just announced number revenues as we spend the 57 million are expected to top 7 million over the same time.

[Rookie]

That's how you run a business, Joe.

[Chris Reavers]

Here's what we do. Everybody that works in the capital has to park at the mall of America every day for the entire session. Get on the train, take it into Minneapolis, transfer, go down university and go to work. At the end of the day, take it back again. Make them ride those trains for the entire session and then see what they have to say.

[Rookie]

I love that.

[John Haidt]

Cosmic's legislation would shift the burden of the operating costs to hennepin county instead of the broader metropolitan council. He said if hennepin county wants to build a three and a half billion dollar train, the rest of the state shouldn't have to pay to operate it.

[Chris Reavers]

Hear, hear.

[John Haidt]

That idea received strong pushback from his fellow members on the transportation finance committee, including dfler Aaron kogel of spring lake park. Kogel said not everything has to be driven by profit.

[Joe Sucra]

Yes, it does, you idiot.

[Rookie]

If you want to stay in business.

[John Haidt]

She said, we subsidize our roads, we subsidize our bridges. If we don't understand that, we need to take a step back.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, I think we need to be educated by her.

[John Haidt]

Both of cosnic's bills related to the. Those bills, the ones that seem to make sense to us in anyway, failed to pass out of committee, of course. But some members of the community from north Minneapolis joined him yesterday to raise concerns about the proposed route and the overall cost of that route.

[Joe Sucra]

I wonder how many people going to the no kings rally tomorrow will take light rail. They're estimating 150,000. How would you like to stand outside for four hours with 150,000 people waiting to hear 120 year old Jane Fonda to tell you how the world should

[Chris Reavers]

work screeching at you.

[Joe Sucra]

God almighty, can you imagine? I can't.

[Rookie]

I wonder if I'll see you at the airport tomorrow.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, if somebody's pushing her through.

[Chris Reavers]

Hey, old battle ax.

[Joe Suchore]

Well, she's not. I mean, come on, show she's not flying commercially. She's going to signature.

[Joe Sucra]

Oh, you don't think she'll be in a four hour security.

[Joe Suchore]

No surprise. Actually. I take that back. I bet she's riding the bus.

[Joe Sucra]

Maybe that to conservation.

[Chris Reavers]

Mouse a tongue for me.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Flying boy Jane flabbing into the. Flying into the airport. And then she's going to take light rail. I'm with Chris. That's the way it's going to happen.

[Chris Reavers]

I'll probably be helicoptered right to the Capitol.

[Joe Suchore]

She doesn't ride the bus.

[Rookie]

But if she did, you don't think she'll hitch a ride with Bruce?

[Joe Sucra]

He's setting up his whole band. Or just going to show up with a government guitar.

[John Haidt]

It's just him.

[Joe Sucra]

Okay?

[John Haidt]

Just him.

[Rookie]

They're doing Tom Joad ballads.

[John Haidt]

He's just doing. He's just doing Streets of Minneapolis.

[Rookie]

Work on it.

[Joe Suchore]

Wait, he's doing.

[Joe Sucra]

Charging them.

[Chris Reavers]

How do you know who Tom Jod is?

[Rookie]

That was his.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Rookie]

He had a Tom Joad tour. I think that was when I.

[John Haidt]

And who was Tom Joad? Let's go back to this conversation.

[Rookie]

Mr. Jode's son.

[Chris Reavers]

I don't know, but it was a great reference.

[Joe Sucra]

He's.

[Joe Suchore]

He's quite literally doing one song. Johnny.

[John Haidt]

I said, well, he's doing Streets of Minneapolis. That's all I know about.

[Joe Sucra]

Came up from the River.

[John Haidt]

He's just gonna stand on the stage. He's not gonna.

[Joe Sucra]

He'll be well received.

[John Haidt]

He's got a concert.

[Rookie]

President TRUMP the 31st sure makes me cry.

[John Haidt]

So Tuesday. He's got a show here. That's.

[Chris Reavers]

Will he do the Highways jammed with Broken Heroes. Because that's the only song.

[John Haidt]

He'll do that on Tuesday. If you go to the cops, I

[Rookie]

would just bring a sign. Hungry Heart.

[Joe Suchore]

Yeah, Kenny. You can hear that song for the low, low price of $6,000 for a nosebleed seat.

[Rookie]

What's the. What's the Christmas song he does? Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Santa Claus Coming to Town.

[Rookie]

I'd yell for that. That one.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah.

[Rookie]

Do Santa Claus.

[Joe Sucra]

It's. It's April.

[Chris Reavers]

You know, he did do one song that we all seem to love of DWI Vega.

[John Haidt]

I pretty much love all of his stuff.

[Joe Sucra]

Not talking to you. You say no.

[Chris Reavers]

You could thank me for this.

[Joe Sucra]

Thank this.

[John Haidt]

Are you guys done?

[Joe Sucra]

I am. We keep going. Do some damn thing, John.

[John Haidt]

I never want to talk music with you guys.

[Chris Reavers]

That day that I came to work with that song in my head is the sorriest day of my life.

[Joe Sucra]

I wish I would have been sick that day. I sure wish we'd hear some news.

[John Haidt]

Well, Joe, in other. I'm sorry, sir. In other news.

[Joe Sucra]

Watch yourself. You could be fired.

[John Haidt]

The Ramsey County Medical Examiner's office is looking for the public's help in identifying a man who was found deceased in the Mississippi river in May. The man was found in May. I must have typed that wrong. That must be March, right?

[Joe Sucra]

No.

[John Haidt]

Well, anyway. No, it's May last. Me.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. Yeah. No, you're right. It was last for that body.

[Joe Sucra]

Yep.

[Rookie]

Yes.

[Chris Reavers]

Yep.

[John Haidt]

The man was found in the river near Harriet island and the St. Paul Yacht Club May 23, though the medical examiner's office says he probably died about four weeks before that. The man believed to be white, between 510 and 6 2, weighing 150 pounds, believed to be younger than 40, and he was found wearing black jeans, a red T shirt and a black Reebok hoodie. According to the medical examiner's office, the man had surgical hardware in his right ankle and all attempts to identify him from the serial numbers on the hardware have been unsuccessful. Man also had dental work that could help identify him, but comparable dental images would be needed. Medical Examiner's office has now entered this case into the national Missing and unidentified person system. If you have any information on the man's identity, you are asked to contact the Ramsey County Medical examiner.

[Joe Sucra]

So this is a story that says we found a guy in May of 2025.

[John Haidt]

Correct.

[Joe Sucra]

But we don't know who he is.

[Rookie]

Put him on ice. And they're trying to match the DNA now, he had a T shirt that said and I don't know what this means. None favor the warrior till the enemy is at the gates.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, boy, ain't that the truth.

[John Haidt]

It was a Reebok shirt too, so that must have been something they marketed.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay, so I just learned something with this story, John. So you're saying. Saying the hardware in my wrist has a serial number?

[John Haidt]

Yeah, apparently, yes. Oh, I suppose they all fake hips.

[Joe Sucra]

I got a nut and bolt in my foot. It must have numbers on it.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I did not know this.

[John Haidt]

Why don't we ponder this?

[Chris Reavers]

Is this going to affect. Affect my chances of faking my own death?

[Joe Suchore]

Yes.

[Chris Reavers]

I think this is screwed. Really screwed up with my.

[John Haidt]

Well, see but if you're not dead, Kenny, they're not going to find your body with the hardware in it, so.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, I was going to have replacement can he found.

[Rookie]

Oh, you need to cut your hand off.

[Chris Reavers]

What are you doing this weekend? Such why don't you come on up?

[John Haidt]

Why do we take a break?

[Joe Suchore]

I. I do. Thank you. Johnny. I know you're throwing. And before I. I throw it to Linda Keller and Keller Tax Service, she has a request for her ad, so

[Joe Sucra]

I need quit calling her and bugging her.

[Joe Suchore]

You guys need to indulge me for 30 seconds.

[Chris Reavers]

Are you ready?

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm driving in my car.

[Joe Sucra]

You say no.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay?

[Joe Suchore]

Linda requested it.

[Chris Reavers]

Kenny.

[Rookie]

Kenny, do you remember that used to be funny?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I think it's still hundred times ago. It was like once 20 years ago ago.

[Joe Suchore]

Kellertaxservice.com is the website. And you know what? You heard the message directly from Linda earlier in the week. Hey, you snoozed and you lose. Does that make sense?

[Joe Sucra]

Yes.

[Joe Suchore]

You have to file an extension right now, ladies and gentlemen, but get your stuff in. For all of you returning customers, she's got you taken care of. But if you're a new customer, she's still going to be able to take care of of you. But you're in Extensionville right now. But just go to kellertaxservice.com anyway and get in touch with Linda Keller. She handles all types of different returns for all types of different people and businesses, and she is the absolute best. Kellertaxservice.com and by the way, as long as you're on that website, you can see all sorts of different updated tax information because she's on top of everything.

[Joe Sucra]

Plus.

[Joe Suchore]

Yes, sir, she is.

[Joe Sucra]

She has dimples. I'll ask you.

[Chris Reavers]

Sorry, Linda.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, yeah, it's Joel and Linda.

[Joe Sucra]

Sorry, isn't that a compliment?

[Joe Suchore]

Of course it is. Yes, Linda's the best. And she's also a dedicated die hard jailer, so she's gonna hear that message personally.

[Chris Reavers]

She probably understands.

[John Haidt]

She does.

[Joe Suchore]

She's part of the crew.

[Chris Reavers]

She does.

[John Haidt]

She listens enough to know how Joe is.

[Joe Suchore]

Anyway. Kellertaxservice.com do me a favor. Mention that everybody but Joe. Joe on the Garage Logic podcast sent

[Chris Reavers]

you her way the hell is wrong with you, Joe?

[Joe Sucra]

What's wrong with dimples?

[John Haidt]

Not nothing on your chin, but some

[Chris Reavers]

things shouldn't be real song.

[Joe Sucra]

That was a nice thing.

[Joe Suchore]

It was a very. You know what, sir? It was a wonderful thing to say about a client.

[Joe Sucra]

Are you questioning me?

[Joe Suchore]

Not at all, sir.

[Chris Reavers]

All right.

[John Haidt]

Are you done, Chris?

[Joe Suchore]

Here's John Height in the newsroom.

[John Haidt]

I. I would like to point out that this morning Linda sent me an email saying all of my stuff had been delivered to her U.S. postal Service. And she's working on it and will have it for me within a week, probably.

[Joe Suchore]

Fantastic.

[John Haidt]

There you go. In national international news, Iran dismissing an American plan to pause the war in the Middle east and launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab states, including strikes that hit a fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport, sparking a fire. Iran's defiance came as Israel launched airstrikes on Tehran and as the United States deployed paratroopers and more Marines to the region. Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Argachi said in an interview on state TV his government has not engaged in any talks to end the war and, quote, we do not plan on any negotiations. Russia is close to finishing up a phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran, according to Western intelligence reports that detail Moscow's efforts to keep its partner fighting. Senior Iranian and Russian officials began secretly talking about delivering drones days after Israel and the US Attacked Tehran, according to two officials briefed on the intelligence. The processing of deliveries began in early March, was expected to be completed by the end of the month. Meanwhile, Russia making out like a bandit because of the war in Iran.

[Joe Sucra]

That's because they are bandits.

[John Haidt]

Kremlin sales from oil and gas will double from about 12 billion to 24 billion just this month as Vladimir Putin profits from an enormous price surge and the waiver of sanctions from the United States government for Russia to move oil even if the war ends in the next few weeks. Russia's oil and gas revenues are expected to surge to $218.5 billion this year, 63% more than if there was no disruption to Middle Eastern energy supplies.

[Joe Sucra]

I think Chagte should go over and stand around Tehran wearing her checkered tablecloth hat.

[John Haidt]

A Los Angeles jury holds Meta and Google's YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction trial yesterday, awarding the plaintiff $3 million in compensatory damages. The decision could influence more than 1600 similar lawsuits from more than 350 families in over 250 school districts. The case centers on a now 20 year old woman identified as KGM, who began using social media as a child. KGM accused meta and YouTube of addictive design with notifications and recommendation features she said fostered a decline in her mental health, including body dysmorphia, depression and suicidal thoughts. After two weeks of deliberations, the jury found Meta and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platform. Meta is being held liable for 70% of the harm and YouTube responsible for 30%. Experts aren't saying how much, but they think this could have a large, large implication. As far as social media goes, I'm

[Joe Sucra]

not Gonna be able to shave till his heels.

[Rookie]

Yeah, you're gonna look fun.

[Joe Suchore]

You gonna grow it out?

[Joe Sucra]

When I have to because you know, I got the thing there.

[Joe Suchore]

When's the last time you had like a beard? Any type of. I've never seen you with facial hair.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, that's too bad.

[Rookie]

Hey, Bamanba. How about Barba Yuba? Okay, mushmouth.

[Joe Suchore]

This video was just sent to us by a loyal town council member that wishes to remain nameless. Talking about the same things you were talking. Talking about Chugtai. How out of touch the politicians are. This just surfaced about two hours ago. Apparently Bernie Sanders and AOC have introduced a new artificial intelligence data center Moratorium act.

[Joe Sucra]

Really?

[Joe Suchore]

And they're talking about the increasing electricity rates in New York City.

[Joe Sucra]

Yes.

[Joe Suchore]

Where the average in US is 18 cents per kilowatt hour. New York City residents are paying 31%. Would you like to know how they. They found the problem, the root cause of all this spike?

[Joe Sucra]

How did they.

[John Haidt]

As much as you know, as much as we'd have. As I personally have differences with this

[Joe Sucra]

administration, I would want them to be successful in reducing the energy bills of American people. But people aren't feeling it.

[John Haidt]

It's not working. In New York City alone, there are

[Joe Sucra]

some families that are getting electric bills that are $600 a month as high

[John Haidt]

as some people are paying in rent. Not too long ago before our housing

[Joe Sucra]

costs skyrocketed as well.

[John Haidt]

So, so, you know, I, I don't think those efforts are working on behalf of the administration.

[Joe Suchore]

She's basically they're blaming Trump.

[Joe Sucra]

You last paid $600 for rent in New York in about 1957.

[Joe Suchore]

Could you imagine getting a $600 electricity bill for your apartment in New York City?

[Joe Sucra]

I can imagine getting one for my house.

[Joe Suchore]

Do you think the green new energy deal, do you think that had any that'll help?

[Joe Sucra]

Okay.

[Joe Suchore]

It's Trump's fault.

[John Haidt]

A couple of media notes. There we go. Media website status reporting on CBS News since the Bari Weiss era began. And it hasn't started out well, according to Nielsen and status. With the first quarter set to wrap at week's end, Weiss has relaunched CBS Evening News with Tony Decouple is on track for its lowest rated first quarter of the 21st century in both total viewers and the advertiser coveted 25 to 54 demographic according to Nielsen. That's not the only bad data point for CBS News. CBS Mornings is pacing toward its lowest rated quarter ever in both total audience and the key demo, CBS Evening News averaging 4.3 million viewers, down 7% year over year. With its 25 to 54 audience. That by comparison is not the same thing for ABC and NBC during the same time frame. ABC World News Tonight with David Muir by comparison is up 8% in total viewers with 8.7 million viewers. NBC's Nightly News with Tom Lamas is up 6% in total audience at 7 million viewers. Well, we know the newspaper business is not going well. The onion is the 38 year old satirical news publication wrested from the grips of private equity by Twilio co founder Jeff Lawson and former NBC News Disinformation Report event. Collins now has an audience of 29 and a half million people and it's the print version, not the site, that's driving their business. With 65,000 paying print subscribers in 50 states and 50 countries, the Onion is by some estimates the country's 12th largest print newspaper. Imagine that a fake newspaper being 12th overall. Overall annual revenue growth3 grew 300% in 2025. For the year, Onion Nostalgic Gen Xers and millennials pay 99 bucks a year. CEO Collins says they realize they're subsidizing some very big stunts and they're in on the bit. The capers include turning a joke headline into a feature length documentary. They've also tried to buy some other things. Remember the whole Alex Jones infowar things? The fellow who bought it Lawson is hands off by choice, focusing instead on his day job as CEO of Inertia Fusion Energy Company. He said, I don't plan on flipping the Onion to make a buck. I want to own it for the

[Joe Sucra]

rest of my life or until a better offer.

[Chris Reavers]

Analyze that story, Joe. Tell me why.

[Joe Sucra]

Because people want to laugh instead of be completely depressed all the time.

[Chris Reavers]

Yep. People like fun. People need fun.

[Joe Sucra]

Wow.

[John Haidt]

In Thurston County, Washington, after leading police on an ill advised high speed chase through Olympia, Washington, a man was arrested. Arrested and his truck was searched. In it, police say they found a custom bong device built into the dashboard of the truck.

[Joe Sucra]

That's cool.

[John Haidt]

So that he could comfortably smoke drugs while driving.

[Rookie]

All right.

[John Haidt]

The unidentified man and the woman he was with allegedly stole thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. And then a police chase started. Deputies spotted his white Ford F150 heading north on i5 and before they had a chance to turn on their flashers, the truck sped off. After chasing him down, they tried an unsuccessful pit maneuver. At various points during a chase, the driver hit over 100 miles an hour and drove on the wrong side of the road. A bit later Police found the truck abandoned on the side of the road and police say they quickly found the couple walking in the neighborhood. The suspects were taken into custody at gunpoint, but not before deputies saw a small white bag in the suspect's mouth, ordered him to spit it out. Instead, he chewed it up and swallowed it.

[Rookie]

There you go.

[Chris Reavers]

What was it?

[Rookie]

Take one for the team.

[John Haidt]

He later told police it was meth.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, Jesus.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

He survived.

[John Haidt]

When the truck was searched, deputies say they found thousands of dollars worth of stolen merchandise from numerous businesses. More meth, heroin and fentanyl along with the customer bong device.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Sheriff Derek Sanders of the Thurston county sheriff's office said that the driver had been convicted four times previously for a number of thefts. Had 27 misdemeanor convictions along with 97. Go ahead, finish 97 prior arrests.

[Chris Reavers]

So with all of that in your memory, that's you, that happened to you, you think it's a good idea to put build a bong in the dash of your truck, which will be the first thing that they'll see when you get pulled over again.

[Joe Sucra]

After 97 arrests. He probably thought it was a great idea.

[Chris Reavers]

He needs to take my class seriously.

[John Haidt]

He's now being booked on charges of dui, eluding police, and of course, possession of narcotics.

[Joe Sucra]

Thank you, John.

[Rookie]

Yeah, John, thank you very much for that wonderful newscast. I really am happy to follow up with a welter heating announcement here. Now, those of you that are about to turn off your heating unit if it's making some crazy noises, make sure you get in touch with welter. They do have 24 hour service available. Hopefully you don't need to use that, but it is available if you go to their website, welterheating.com if you're worried about financing a brand new heating unit or air conditioning unit, they have options available. They also have some in incentives, which is why you want to Visit their website, welterheating.com They've got four generations. Rick and the entire family have been serving the Twin Cities metro area for pretty close to 120 years. And they're not going anywhere. They will help you. They'll let you know, give you a good estimate. I've used them and they came in and out on the same day and their estimate was right down to the dime. Welter heating, if you Prefer to call 6128-2568-6761-2825-6867. Remember this winter as you close out that heater, you're going to have to cool down your shelter with the fine folks from ray n welter.

[Chris Reavers]

We're about to talk to a guy that should know better. Of course, I'm referring to Mike schoonover. Positive Thursday, always. Brought to us by schoon over body works and auto care, located in Shoreview, 1060 County Road E. Mike, you should know better. What is wrong with you?

[Mike Schoonover]

Well, first of all, kenny, happy spring.

[Chris Reavers]

See, see, there's a karma issue here. Now, g O Mike is proposing that we take our snow tires off our. This is like putting the shovel away. Mike. Mike, it's not even april yet. We're gonna get nailed again.

[Mike Schoonover]

That's okay. It won't be around long. And hey, if it does, it snows, then that's okay.

[Chris Reavers]

If it snows. If I go up to you and you take my tires off and it snows, I'm going back up to you to make them put them on for four hours.

[Mike Schoonover]

Well, hey, we just found out. What was it? Our snow lasted all of what, 72 hours after that big snowball and I

[Chris Reavers]

had to plow that snow, Mike. I thought, oh, this stuff's gonna be here forever. A day later it was gone.

[Mike Schoonover]

Tell sewage it's time to take the snow tires off of the car.

[Chris Reavers]

What I love, what I love about you guys is that I'll bring my vehicle up there. In this case, it's Joe. Joe will bring his vehicle up there, you'll swap the tires out, and he doesn't have to start store them. He doesn't have to bring them back home. He doesn't have to deal with them. You guys, I don't know where you put them, but that's one of the benefits of buying tires and snow tires from schoonover body works. I love the way you guys do that.

[Mike Schoonover]

Yeah, it's easy and convenient. And you don't have to throw them inside of your car and get the inside of your car all scuffed up and dirty and smelling like rubber.

[Chris Reavers]

So you're thinking it's the time of year, huh? Let's go.

[Mike Schoonover]

It is. Let's go. Let's get ready for summer. Hot weather is going to be here before you know it. Let's check out the air conditioning. Let's replace the wiper blade. Let's. Let's put the summer rubber on and let's do an alignment because lord knows we've all hit a thousand potholes this year, Especially those of you who live in ramsey county.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Rookie]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

And the lesson I learned last year, the in cab air filter, whatever that thing is, folks, you got to get that thing checked. You're gonna be really disappointed when you find out what's in that cabin air filter box. Oh, boy.

[Mike Schoonover]

Petri dish would be a good word for it.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

And I know a lot of people are just like me. They've never even bothered. And that's really something to do. And you know what? It has something to do with your health. You'll feel a lot better when you get those dead mice out of your cabin ear filter box.

[Mike Schoonover]

Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, Kenny, we're ready. Let's go, G ers. Let's get, get. Let's get the sun shining here and the hot weather going and get our cars ready for. For those summer road trips.

[John Haidt]

Yep.

[Chris Reavers]

And I especially love getting an alignment. You can do that at Schoon over body works. They've been around since 38 as in 1938. The official shop of garagelogic and the crabby coffee shop. And you all heard why right there. Always rated as one of the top shops in the metro. We're talking schoonover bodyworks.com. thank you very much, Michael.

[Mike Schoonover]

Thanks, Kenny. Thanks, Yellers. Everybody. Have a great positive Thursday.

[Joe Sucra]

This guy wears many hats, just not indoors. Joe Sucra.

[Joe Suchore]

Let's talk about. We are nuts Joe and we are nutsmn.com you get excited when you hear about the maple bourbon toffee almonds. Is that your favorite? No, you're the.

[Joe Sucra]

Why are you directing all these ads at me?

[Joe Suchore]

Because, sir, that's what we're supposed to do. I thought on today's episode. Oh, yes. By the way, don't think I didn't see that.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah. Bottle of cashews.

[Joe Suchore]

He got a stack of jumbo cashews silo on his desk. A silo. And he's not even the spokesperson from Matt.

[Joe Sucra]

Not this Matt. A different mat.

[Rookie]

No, I. I opened them and I sneezed on him. So if you want him still, you can have him.

[Joe Suchore]

Wait, so wait a minute. So let me check this out.

[Chris Reavers]

Matt did sales.

[Joe Suchore]

It's my client. Joe gets a silo of cashews and rookie's going to end up taking him home.

[Joe Sucra]

No, I going to do.

[Rookie]

If you still want them. Okay.

[Joe Suchore]

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[Chris Reavers]

Joe, did you guys get the gift gift that Liz Colin brought?

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah, some alpha cups.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, there's a whole bunch of alpha.

[Joe Sucra]

That's really nice.

[Chris Reavers]

So if you want to play beer

[Joe Sucra]

pong or quarters, that's a hell of a gift.

[Rookie]

I like to do magic tricks with dropping.

[Joe Sucra]

Can I tell you that I have a garage logic health alert.

[Rookie]

What is that?

[Joe Sucra]

Dengue fever.

[Rookie]

Rook, Dengue's coming back major. Yeah. Which kind?

[Joe Sucra]

Level one.

[Rookie]

I'm not. I mean, I'm afraid of major dengue.

[Joe Sucra]

This is level one. I got a cold. This one just says practice usual precautions.

[Rookie]

Okay. Why is it making a comeback?

[Joe Sucra]

Cook island in New Zealand. The Maldives. Is it Maldives or Maldives? I say males, they're over there somewhere and they got a. A dengue break.

[Rookie]

That's where they got all the houses on the. The. The drink.

[Joe Suchore]

Wait, so it's just. It's not major dengue just kind of be level one. So it's like Covid.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah, I got a cold.

[Rookie]

You know, I got some dengue going on. Can I get some dengue rub?

[Joe Sucra]

Do you recall either it was yesterday or the day before the terrible story of the Loyola student who was shot to death walking on lakefront in Chicago. And we now learn that the Loyola newspaper, the student newspaper, it's called the Loyola Phoenix, has issued an apology for a post that the alleged killer of the 18 year old student shared Gorman was an illegal immigrant. They apologize for using those words. So there's.

[Chris Reavers]

Wow.

[Joe Sucra]

Another failed academy. On March 23, a post on the Phoenix's Instagram page carried the following headline Immigrant man charge of murder of Sheridan Gorman DHS involved. The editor's note posted below Sunday article that headline did not reflect the most important elements in the story and it was taken to down minutes later to prevent any further harm to affected community members. So forget the dead kid. We got her tuition money already. Let's, let's. Let's live up to the standards of our failedness and apologize for using the

[Chris Reavers]

word Joe that seems so wrong that it almost seems fake. It's just so, so wrong.

[Rookie]

Yeah. Is this the Onion? Is this Bumblebee?

[Joe Sucra]

No, it's not. Additionally, in the body of the original post, we described the man who was charged as an illegal immigran using language provided by the Department of Homeland Security. That language is not aligned with AP style, nor does it align with the values of this newspaper. So the killer, the alleged killer is Jose Medina. Medina, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela. He was captured by U.S. border Patrol on May 9, 2023, and subsequently released into the U.S. under President Biden's administration.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, interesting.

[Joe Sucra]

Was charged on Sunday with the shooting of Gorman after being arrested Friday for allegedly killing Gorman, who attended Loyola. But the school's paper has that straightened out now because the paper says no human's existence is illegal. And we quickly changed our working to reflect our wording to reflect that. The editor's note said, we acknowledge the harm such language can cause and the power and importance of the words we choose to use. I'd write this guy's name down if I owned a newspaper and made sure I'd ever hired them. We deeply regret these errors and we're committed to continuing the high standards we hold to ourselves as journalists and members of the Loyola. No, don't bleep yourself. You shouldn't have a job.

[Mike Schoonover]

Yep.

[Joe Sucra]

Jeez.

[Chris Reavers]

Shouldn't have a job.

[Joe Sucra]

What a dork.

[Chris Reavers]

He should be writing press releases for a zoo or something. Give me a break.

[Joe Sucra]

Only because they come to us.

[Chris Reavers]

Hold on. Before you do this, I tried to get it in earlier. I want everybody to Gallers to check out Crabby Coffee Shop from yesterday. We had Liz Collin on and had a wonderful rollicking, fun discussion with her. She's a lot of fun. A really good guest.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, when did she show up? Because I lingered a bit to say hi and I said the hell with it and I left.

[Chris Reavers]

I did tell her that you said hi and she seemed like she was really relieved and happy to hear that. I'm sure her husband, though Bob Kroll evidently is a friend afraid of me and did he had to cancel. So I. I don't know why he's afraid of me, but I promise I'll be nice to him.

[Joe Sucra]

Most people are afraid of him.

[Chris Reavers]

He actually had a work thing.

[Joe Sucra]

I know only because they come to us all the way from Penguin, Tasmania, Australia. From the Traveling [e-mail] not much going on in this day.

[Joe Suchore]

March 27th.

[Joe Sucra]

On this day, March 26th, 1804, yep. Present day Minnesota west of the Mississippi was included in the District of Louisiana to be governed by Indiana territory. Nearly a year later, on March 3, 1805, this region became part of the Louisiana Territory.

[Joe Suchore]

On this day, March 2 6, Incpa

[Joe Sucra]

Duta, Scarlet Point and a band of Dakota attacked Springfield, now Jackson, Minnesota. In Jackson county, settler colonists gathered in two cabins to defend the town. During the battle, one child died and several adults were wounded. This incident was part of the so called Spirit Lake Massacre. Only one death actually occurred at Spirit Lake. The failure of the government to capture Inkpaduta may have encouraged other Dakota to expect victory in the U.S. dakota War of 1862. On this day in Minnesota, sports disappointment history.

[Joe Suchore]

Joe, who did we lose to on March 26th?

[Joe Sucra]

Well, you have to go way back to 1960 and you learn that the Lakers playing their final game here lost to the St. Louis Hawks in the play. Playoffs. They lost the playoffs four games to three. And then I believe Bob Short yanked him out to la, where they took the best name for a team ever, the Lakers, and put them in LA, where the name makes no sense. On this day, March 26, 2023, the White Caps lost the PHF championship. What the hell is that? Professional Hockey Federation.

[Joe Suchore]

The White Caps was hockey. Correct.

[Rookie]

White Caps was the gals. They preceded the Frost.

[Joe Suchore]

The Frost?

[Joe Sucra]

Professional hockey. What f. What's the F. Female Professional Hockey Championship. The White Caps. Now the current team is the Frost.

[Rookie]

Correct. The White Caps are the precursor.

[Joe Sucra]

Aren't the Frost two time Stanley cup winners?

[Chris Reavers]

No, Stanley.

[Joe Sucra]

They got the Stanley Cup.

[Mike Schoonover]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucra]

The Harriet Cup. Yeah. Thank you, G. Yellers. We won't be here tomorrow.

[Joe Suchore]

We're gonna have a best of for tomorrow.

[Joe Sucra]

We'll be here Monday.

[Joe Suchore]

Right.

[Joe Sucra]

Most of us.

[Chris Reavers]

Wait a second.

[Joe Suchore]

Go ahead, John, before we leave.

[Joe Sucra]

John won't be here Monday.

[John Haidt]

I won't be here Monday. But we should, before we leave. It's the birthday of one of our advertisers.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, Tim Bloom and Ecofund.

[Rookie]

Yeah, we don't. We don't do birthdays.

[John Haidt]

We don't do birthdays.

[Joe Sucra]

I'm not saying happy birthday.

[Rookie]

I don't care what great outfit he has and what fun.

[Joe Sucra]

He's probably wearing a little birthday hat today.

[Chris Reavers]

Right?

[Rookie]

Right. But we don't tell him you want an extra day.

[Joe Sucra]

It's his birthday.

[Rookie]

Sorry to ruin your birthday, Tim, but we don't do birthdays.

[Joe Suchore]

The Professional Women's Hockey League.

[Joe Sucra]

Phf. PWHL it says PHF here.

[Joe Suchore]

Purchased by the new entity known as the Frosty.

[John Haidt]

Yes.

[Joe Sucra]

Huh. Well, Congratulations to.

[Joe Suchore]

Happy birthday.

[Joe Sucra]

Well, actually not. They lost that game.

[Chris Reavers]

What in the hell is going on?

[Joe Sucra]

Goodbye. Thank you.

[Joe Suchore]

Trying to pack two days worth of shows one day.

[Joe Sucra]

Thank you very much.

[Joe Suchore]

Do us a favor and join the nearly 30 thou.

[Joe Sucra]

Probably should have played the scramble song.

[Joe Suchore]

No, I'm gonna do that tomorrow.

[Joe Sucra]

Okay.

[Joe Suchore]

Join the nearly 30, 000 subscribers we have on the Garage Logic YouTube channel where you can watch the show and see it and listen to it and hear people blow their nose. Yeah, every single day starting at noon. You could be able to see Joe's.

[Joe Sucra]

They better have 911 ready to go with that. No kings deal. You got Jane Baez up there's about 150. And Jane Fonda's up there, she's about 150. I have an ass right there.

[Chris Reavers]

You're the flashlight king. Maybe they're talking about you. Think so?

[Joe Suchore]

You can also find us on social media, Facebook, Instagram and X.

[Joe Sucra]

You know, if the country really had a king, there wouldn't be a protest. Although he acts like a king, especially today at his cabinet meeting.

[Chris Reavers]

Got that in, didn't he?

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah. I thought it was North Korea.

[Joe Suchore]

Yes, sir.

[Joe Sucra]

Yeah.

[Joe Suchore]

It is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold is with us once again right here in Garage Logic. 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 952-9255. That number once again is 952-925-560. When you call that number, you're going to get Josh and he is there for you for that. Free. Yep, 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, double, double toil and trouble right now.

[Mike Schoonover]

And that's even before the twin season starts this afternoon. Well, I'm very excited about baseball season. As, as we discussed yesterday, it is a little cool out. Cool outside. Imagine that spring practice for baseball and girls softball is going to be very, very difficult. Particularly for those. Those people shagging fly balls or standing outside waiting to hit their hands are going to hurt. So make sure you wear batting and a hat and warm spirit suck. It's cold out there. If things will get warmer and maybe warmer fast. And I will move that to the, to the mark. Despite the fact that sun number two Judd has been down and down in the dumps for the last six months performance of a lot of small to mid cap stocks that he tracked. And his recent missive to me is dad not only is it going to be difficult this year to make 1A this year could be very much like 2022. I respectfully disagree with my number two son but and I say but I have said starting late last year that 2026 is going to be a volatile year and the volatility is going to resolve at least in my estimation first around government shutdown still have some unresolved issues relating to the Department of Homeland Security and that seems more political than than not and what's worse is with no resolution around that Congress and the Senate is getting ready to take a two week reset. One very interesting side note on the DHS which is responsible also for Secret Service we'll say border, border Coast Guard and of course tsa. The CEO of Delta very we'll say very very reciprocated about this shutdown causing problems with TSA. Yesterday said sorry you folks in Congress we at Delta are not going to give you the red carpet treatment until you resolve this issue. You too can stand in the security line with everybody else. We'll see if that that helps make a move to get DHS funded. That was one on issue that I thought would create some extra volatility and second of course tariffs. Third Fed in dealing with interest rates and they and what's going to happen with a new Fed chief when he starts the beginning of June. And lastly of course any volatility around midterm election that that said I don't think anyone expected a conflict in the Middle east nor the shutting down of the streets of homo. My own sense of sense is that when all is said and done this will be a positive not only for we'll say the not only a positive for the for the markets in general a positive for energy a definite positive for the world to set back significantly say a terrorist regime. But I'm moving away from talking about money which is what I'm here for. Markets over the over the next several days could be a little bit more volatile particularly around the price of oil. The oil moved up a little bit yesterday. It was down. The oil moved up, the markets came down. I'm not going to say down hard but came down. There's also the concern about credit and private credit firms and questions if that's going to extend past that. I don't think this coin would stand half say the private credit issues but the private credit Issues are having an adverse effect on software companies and we've seen a lot of market capitalization taken away from the software company. Microsoft, which is a leader in that, has seen one and a quarter trillion dollars in market cap wiped away. Microsoft is in a bear market down about 25% from its recent high. Microsoft is facing a lot of issues relating to how it's dealing with artificial intelligence. And OpenAI and Anthropic seem to be providing a lot of competition for their, their products and services. Indeed, OpenAI has said in a recent filing that Microsoft is a was a financial risk within their company because of the funding that Microsoft does provide. OpenAI as well as services that Microsoft also provides for them. So software stocks in general are having a tougher time breaking out of a quagmire. They had been leaders. Last year software was the place to be in AI. This year not, not at all. Extending from software, we can jump to social media companies. Meta and Google have been under fire recently with several suits in the state of California and in New Mexico over their social media and social media products, products causing addiction and these companies being negligent in dealing with that. This might be the, we'll say the plaintiff's bar to go after these companies in their quote unquote big tobacco moment with any of these suits. I, I just asked where is personal responsibility? And two, when it comes to kids on social media platforms, where are the, where are the parents? Now I just am not one that has been addicted to social media but I can say it does draw you in. It does draw you in. Meta is also in a bear market territory down 20% or more from its high. And Google is in the midst of some profit taking. But Google I do believe as well as Amazon, Amazon and Apple should be winners with artificial intelligence. And speaking of Apple, well they got a nice boost today on the backs of announcement that they are extending their Apple American manufacturing program to include some additional partners including Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK and Quinti in this program committing up to $300 million to them. This is part of Apple's $600 billion commitment increase manufacturing in the United States over the next four years. And lastly got a touch because it is baseball season. You always enjoy Coke while you're watching the games or I enjoy a Coke while I'm watching the games or participating copies to me is the original energy drink. They're changing people at the top they'll have a new CEO But Coke has been holding up strongly as opposed to one of the new energy drinks Celsius, which is seeing its shares fall and fall a little further today as they face confidence competition from Costco's Kirkland brand in the energy drink space. Me, I'll have my Coke and a smile.

[Joe Suchore]

Excellent advice as always, Mr. Money Talk. You heard him G ers. Now is the time for you to pick up the phone and make the call for that free 48 minute financial consultation again with absolutely zero obligation. And you do that just like I did by dialing 945-292-55608 where you always get straight talk and never ever sugarcoated advice. Josh, as always, thank you so much for the time and the chat. Enjoy the rest of your day. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.

[Mike Schoonover]

Okay, thanks Chris.

[Joe Suchore]

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[John Haidt]

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[Joe Suchore]

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[Joe Sucra]

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[Joe Suchore]

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[Joe Suchore]

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