3/7 MN DFL'ers are blaming their out of control spending and the anticipated deficit on Trump

Summary

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Garage Logic Podcast – Ep. 3/7/2025: MN DFL’ers Blame Anticipated Deficit on Trump

Hosted by: Joe Soucheray (“The Mayor”), with Chris Reivers, Kenny Olson, Steven Deaner, Matthew, et al.
Podcast Date: March 7, 2025
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A classic episode of Garage Logic where the hosts dig into Minnesota’s looming budget deficit, push back on local DFL (Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party) attempts to blame Donald Trump, and celebrate the enduring power of common sense in Gumption County. The conversation meanders (as always) through cars, emailers, state spending, political honesty, and colorful anecdotes—from massive cargo planes to Somali-American political controversy.

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Table of Contents

1. Classic Cars & Listener Mail
2. Mailbag: Health Stories & Social Media Woes
3. Spotting the Antonov: Cargo Plane Stories
4. Kicking Off the Political Discussion: DFL Deficits & Blame
5. DFL Gaslighting & Media Spin
6. Somali Politicians & Priorities
7. Feeding Our Future Trial Updates
8. Local Color: Eggs, Hockey, Loch Ness, and ‘This Day in Minnesota History’
9. Notable Quotes

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Classic Cars & Listener Mail [01:00 – 05:14]

Theme: Celebrating the best year in car history: 1967.

• The crew trade opinions on the “best year” for cars. For Joe, it’s hands-down 1967.
• Listener Jim Schwartz (born after ’67) agrees, citing muscle cars, styling, and the era before invasive safety regulations.
• Discussion of American and British car models—Mustang, Camaro, Firebird, Jaguar, Aston Martin, MGB—reaching their zenith before government rules changed everything.
  • Kenny: “60—I’m never gonna change my mind. ’67 was the best year, and I’m surprised to get emails to that effect.” [02:54]
  • Joe: Remembers the era before safety dashboards, toggle switches: “It was the last year before an onslaught of safety measures.” [02:54]
• Banter about colorful cars (“Now they're pretty much gray”), postal vehicles, and nostalgia for steel dashboards over modern safety.

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Mailbag: Health Stories & Social Media Woes [05:48 – 15:27]

Theme: Heartfelt emails and commentary on division in society.

• A listener, Stephanie, recounts surviving three brain surgeries for Chiari malformation, urging others to persist with medical care.
  • Stephanie (email): “Don’t let the doctors give up on you. If I had, I’d probably be paralyzed and living a much different life.” [09:56]
• Another emailer, Lee Stout, claims most Americans aren’t polarized—it’s just that the loudest 10% on each side dominate social media.
  • Kenny: “The problem: 5% of the left and right are 100% of the social media. I do not know how to make people care.” [10:41]
  • Joe: “The 10% would be referred to as extreme on both sides.” [11:06]
• Twitter and online political arguments bemoaned: “A cesspool of political arguments.” [11:20]

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Spotting the Antonov: Cargo Plane Stories [15:37 – 16:57]

Theme: Aviation geekery and the misplaced politicization of everything.

• Listeners and hosts discuss the excitement around a massive Antonov cargo plane’s visit to Minneapolis, complete with stories of watching (and boarding) it.
• Amusement (and exasperation) after people turn the event political on Twitter, tagging the governor, Elon Musk, and Trump.
  • Matthew: “Why don’t you just go to my Twitter account and start bitching with the rest of the ass wipes. You are the people that ruined Twitter. I hate all of you.” [13:16]
• The crew marvels at “nerding out” over the plane and note its Ukrainian crew—conversation even swings to language and international aviation logistics.

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Kicking Off the Political Discussion: DFL Deficits & Blame [16:59 – 32:13]

Theme: The real source of Minnesota’s deficit; DFL gaslighting; media coverage.

• Joe and the crew reject DFL claims that President Trump is to blame for the (projected) Minnesota state budget deficit.
  • Joe: “They’re trying to blame the fact that there’s going to be a budget deficit in Minnesota on Trump, who’s been in office about 40 days. He’s not responsible for the way these people with a trifecta have spent money.” [16:59]
• Chris & Kenny underscore that nothing Trump has done could impact the state budget so quickly.
  • Kenny: “Republicans didn’t spend the money. You people do.” [17:31]
  • Joe: Plays a clip of Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy blaming Trump:
    • Erin Murphy (DFL) at 18:03: “But never in our history have we had … to do that work up against a president who seems hellbent on crashing the American economy.”
  • The crew mocks this: “She’s lying about the fact that Trump caused this. It’s absolute lie. She’s a gaslighter.” [18:32]
• Joe’s hypothetical on political honesty:
  • “What if Erin Murphy knocked on your door and said, ‘Hi, I wish to continue to be [a legislator] because I believe I can make the state better by spending your money’ … At least that would be honest, right?” [19:10]
• Chris riffs: “OK, I’ll vote for you if you show me how you’re gonna do that. Don’t just say, take my money.” [19:39]
• Discussion of the “fully fund education” trope:
  • Joe: “That’s impossible because there’s no way to know when education is fully funded... more than half the state’s budget goes to education, and as the budget increases, the kids increasingly fail.” [20:04]

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DFL Gaslighting & Media Spin [25:51 – 32:13]

Theme: MPR reporting, federal money, and the familiar blame game.

• Kenny reads from an MPR report to underscore that the current deficit is pre-Trump budget impact.
  • “1/3 of the state’s overall budget is propped up by federal money, and that hasn’t been impacted yet.” [26:00]
• DFL leaders keep blaming “Trump’s chaos.” Quotes from Melissa Hortman and Erin Murphy are shared and dissected.
• Republican leaders quoted pushing back (Sen. Minority Leader Mark Johnson, Speaker Lisa DeMuth):
  • “[DFL] throw out the boogeyman of Trump... It’s like Chicken Little right now, running around saying the sky is falling, but when it comes to state issues, they become ostriches.” [30:13]
• Joe: “Don’t spare me this BS. DFLers. Trump has nothing to do with it and I’m sure they know that. It’s part of their agenda.” [31:30]

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Somali Politicians & Priorities [34:10 – 47:12]

Theme: Somali-born legislator's remarks and a broader conversation about immigrant priorities.

• The hosts discuss Maine State Rep. Deqa Dhalac, who made headlines stating (in Somali) that Somalis abroad should prioritize Somalia.
  • Transcript (36:19): “We Somalis living outside of Somalia must always prioritize our country, which is Somalia... This must be done especially by those Somalis abroad, such as in the United States.”
• Dhalac is further criticized for suggesting new Americans should get better treatment than US veterans, citing language difficulties.
  • Joe: “If I was a resident of Maine... I’d be a little disgruntled, I think.” [36:54]
• The discussion explores immigrant assimilation, accusations of xenophobia and racism, and the “bulletproof” nature of certain political ideologies.
  • Kenny: “No one has figured out this more cleverly than the Somalia people among us. They are really, really bold… and they think nothing of getting their hands on as much money as possible, however, illegally—or legally.” [45:26]
• The Feeding Our Future scandal is referenced, noting that it was a Somali whistleblower who tipped off authorities.

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Feeding Our Future Trial Updates [81:03 – 85:26]

Theme: The latest on the biggest food fraud in Minnesota history.

• Prosecutors wrap their case against Amy Bock, accused of masterminding the “Feeding Our Future” scam.
• FBI forensic accountants found Bock’s records, uncashed checks, and wild meal-count claims:
  • Fraud detail:
    • “Twenty-one meal sites (on a 1.8 mile stretch of Lake Street) claimed to serve 1.7 million meals a month, which comes out to around 59,000 meals per day, at a time when Minneapolis schools enrolled 36,000 students.” [83:30–83:56]
• The hosts summon their trademark sarcasm at the scale and obviousness of the scam ("two meals per kid, okay"), lampooning the likelihood of consequences.

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Local Color: Eggs, Hockey, Loch Ness, and ‘This Day in Minnesota History’ [59:00 – 90:15]

Theme: Winding down with classic Garage Logic miscellany.

• The conversation swings to egg prices, why they’re so high, and how many eggs you get for $5.97/dozen.
• Sports talk: High school hockey tournaments, speculation on the Gophers basketball program, and local sports nostalgia.
• Loch Ness Skipper job: Joe spins a daydream about running a Nessie-hunting boat in Scotland, complete with imagined cottage accommodations.
• This Day in Minnesota History:
  • 1882: Formation of state butter and cheese association.
  • 1913: Cops bust a secret card game at the St. Paul Hotel.
  • 1954: Lakers play a game with 12-foot-high baskets.
  • 1967: Fran Tarkenton traded by the Vikings.
  • 1988: Gophers athletic program sanctioned.
• Classic Garage Logic banter about butter, eggs, and the evolving economic landscape.

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Notable Quotes

On DFL Blaming Trump:

• Joe Soucheray (16:59): "They’re trying to blame the fact that there’s going to be a budget deficit in Minnesota on Trump, who’s been in office about 40 days. He’s not responsible for the way these people with a trifecta have spent money."
• Kenny Olson (18:32): "She’s lying about the fact that Trump caused this. It’s an absolute lie. She’s a gaslighter."
• Joe Soucheray (19:10): (Imagining political honesty) “Hi, I’m Aaron Murphy…because I believe I can make the state better by spending your money. And I’m very in favor of spending as much as possible. At least that would be honest, right?”

On Social Division & Media

• Chris Reivers (10:29): "Most people are not polarized…our leadership is or acts like it."
• Lee Stout (Email, 10:41): "The split is 50% paying no attention, 30% common sense middle, 10% left, 10% right. The problem: 5% of the left and right are 100% of the social media."

On Immigrant Priorities

• Joe Soucheray (36:54): "If I was a resident of Maine, of course I have to put up with Ilhan, who thinks the same thing. I’d be a little disgruntled, I think."
• Kenny Olson (45:26): "No one has figured out this more cleverly than the Somalia people among us. They are really, really bold, and they think nothing of getting their hands on as much money as possible, however, illegally—or legally."

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TL;DR

Garage Logic’s 3/7/2025 episode is a full-throated pushback against Minnesota DFL leadership blaming Trump for the anticipated state budget deficit. The hosts emphasize the DFL’s spending record, lampoon their rhetoric as “gaslighting,” and cover related political, social, and local news—from controversial Somali-American legislators to feeding program fraud. Packed with trademark humor, listener stories, nostalgia, and practical common sense, it’s a quintessentially Garage Logic blend of news, skepticism, and Midwestern banter.

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Transcript

[Joe Soucheray]

Let's face it, more people are seeing UFOs and some of these sightings completely defy explanation.

[Chris Reivers]

You have things that going hundreds of knots under the water, anti gravity, but.

[Steven Deaner]

It has to be something like our.

[Joe Soucheray]

Own secret tech or maybe even adversarial, right?

[Chris Reivers]

So the claim that it's our tech.

[Kenny Olson]

Or that it's an adversarial tech.

[Chris Reivers]

No, it is not.

[Steven Deaner]

This is Steven Deaner from the hit podcast uap. And I have conversations like that every.

[Joe Soucheray]

Week as I keep up with all the latest relating to UFO topics. Just search UAP wherever you get your podcasts. As we continue to ask the question, are we alone in the cosmos?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. Fratelloni's Hardware and Garden Stores brings you Garage lodging podcast number 1499. It was 73 degrees on this day on two occasions, 1987 and 25 years ago on 2000. And it was 16 below on the morning of 1890 on this day of that year. On the morning, huh?

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hail the Flashlight King.

[Kenny Olson]

And now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Logic with Chris Reavers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the crabby coffee shop, John Height in the newsroom, and of course the rookie here is your Flashlight King fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Sush. The other day I said the best year, we all went around the horn and you gave the year of what you thought were the best cars. And mine was 1967. And surprisingly enough, for such a subjective topic, I got a couple of emails agreeing with me and for a variety of reasons. And here's one from Jim Schwartz who said, despite not being born until 1973, I too have the opinion that 1967 was the peak of the automobile. I own two a 1967 Rambler Rebel SST two door hardtop. That's an interesting car. And a 1967AMC Ambassador two door hardtop. I'm an American Motors fan, but the 67 Mustang was peak Mustang, the Camaro, Firebird and Cougar were introduced. Cars like the Riviera, Impala, Impala, Thunderbird, Fairlane, Corvette and even Corvair were also in their prime design generations, not to mention the muscle car wars were in full swing in 1967. A great time in car design. And I got. I wasn't necessarily even thinking of design when I said 1967. Another emailer got it right for me. 67 was the last year before an onslaught of safety measures. And so for example, in the MGB it was the last year of a real steel dashboard. It was the last year of toggle switches as opposed to those safer flat knobs you have to depressed back and forth. It was the last year before a lot of things. And 60 I, I'm going to never change my mind. 67 was the, was the best year and I'm surprised to get emails to that effect.

[Chris Reivers]

American Motors introduced a completely restyled, longer, lower and wider ambassador for the 67 model year. So they changed a whole bunch of stuff up.

[Matthew]

You ran down a list of changes with British cars too. I think we were off the air though when you did that. What were they?

[Kenny Olson]

It was the last year of the Austin Healey 3000. It was the best one. It was the last year of the absolutely perfect mgb. They then had to meet US regulations. It got depowered and then eventually had big rubber bumpers and all kinds of things. It was the last year of the Triumph TR4 as they were about to change the TR6. But it was the best TR4. It was the best Aston Martin. It was the best Jaguar XK xke, last of the toggle switches. Porsche just come up with the 911.

[Matthew]

That's right. The new design, the fun design.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, look at the interior of the 60.

[Kenny Olson]

But I'm not discounting American cars to me.

[Chris Reivers]

I just love that.

[Kenny Olson]

That was just fantastic. The Camaros and Firebirds and Mustangs to me were at their peak, peak effort. The muscle. Like this guy said, the muscle car wars were in full swing. Things like the Lincoln Continental Marques and the El Dorados were sweet. It was just the best time for cars.

[Chris Reivers]

And look at this.

[Kenny Olson]

And back then we had a postal service. Oh, what is that? AMC?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, 65.

[Matthew]

Show the camera, Matthew.

[Kenny Olson]

And back then we were not afraid to have colors on cars either. Cars were colorful. They're now pretty much gray.

[Matthew]

Is that a right hand drive car?

[Kenny Olson]

I hope not. It's the U.S. postal Service.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, it's a postal. It's in a museum right now.

[Matthew]

Yeah, they made their postal cars right hand drive. AMC did. My uncle had one.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, just like Jeep did. Right.

[Kenny Olson]

For the correct.

[Joe Soucheray]

You're against steel frame dashboards though, I would assume, right?

[Kenny Olson]

No, it was finished in that crackle black paint and the instrument. It was gorgeous.

[Matthew]

Oh, it's fantastic.

[Joe Soucheray]

I just meant from a safety aspect.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't care.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, sorry.

[Kenny Olson]

It had, it had combing, you know, it had upholstered coaming. If you slammed your head forward there was a fighting chance you'd hit the the padding.

[Joe Soucheray]

Can I get some more combing on this?

[Matthew]

Well, new topic, Joe.

[Chris Reivers]

Bob Holton from Houlton, Michigan.

[Kenny Olson]

Now, he's in Perdido Key, Florida and he wants us to know that a Pensacola news talk radio station refused to Tim Walls as governor. Jazz hands. So we got that going for us and we have. I don't know if I should bring this up or not, but I. I think it's important if. Let me see if she said, don't say this. Yesterday we. I said if you're ever feeling blue and you think you got it rough. There are people with a disease where their brain falls out. And of course it actually doesn't fall out onto the street.

[Chris Reivers]

No kind of deteriorates.

[Kenny Olson]

It just settles down onto the spinal cord and. Should I read this?

[Chris Reivers]

Why don't you just read up to the part where she says don't read it.

[Kenny Olson]

All right. Hi, Joe. My husband played part of your show for me from yesterday, I believe about a girl with Chiari where the brain pushes out of the base of the skull. I too have this. I suffered headaches and pain growing up, not knowing why. In 2007 it all came to light when things worsened horribly. I had a notebook page front and back with symptoms. I lost feeling in mahab, a word I can't pronounce. Arms and partially in my legs. I have three kids and to give them a bath. I couldn't even feel the temp of the water on my hands. It affected almost every part of the body one way or another. When my brain hemiated out of the skull. God almighty. It blocked off the flow of spinal fluid and the fluid had to go somewhere. So it split about a 4 inch section of my spinal cord and started pooling in there, causing what is called a syntax or a syringomyelia. I couldn't understand what was happening. My doctor got me into an MRI and the next week I was at the university having brain surgery. Chiari is rare and hard to find a qualified surgeon. They went in and took out a section of skull. Then they opened the sac to the brain to make more room. They have to put a patch on the brain to close the covering and leave room. They also did a laminectomy of the top vertebrae. I was told this is one of the most painful surgeries and they were right. When they do this surgery, they do not know if you will get back to normal symptoms. It depends on the damage done after surgery. You've lost a lot of spinal fluid which gives excruciating headaches. Just Trying to roll over in bed was horrible. I went home and was not getting better. We were told to pay attention to the incision and if clear fluid comes out. I needed to get back down there. I was so out of it with pain and sure enough, clear fluid showed the patch on my brain burst. We lived northwest of Alexandria and my husband was able to drive me down. But we had to pull into the emergency bay in Alex for them to fill me up on pain meds to be able make the trip. Laying across the back seat, I was rushed down and in surgery again. I lost the use of my bladder and the ability to walk normally. I went home and we started to notice a huge lump form. God, I hope this gets better because I didn't read the whole thing. A huge lump forming on the back of my head. And sure enough, it burst again. They didn't realize that because of the spinal cord splitting apart and pooling that it was causing way too much pressure and not allowing the patch on the brain to heal down and seal. So they did a third surgery and fixed the patch once again. Then put a shunt in a drainage tube into the spinal cord. Things were finally, phew, things were finally able to seal with this surgery. They called it a success if they can stop progression. I was grateful to get back feeling again and walking and using the bathroom. I still have a lot of pain and issues. It will be lifelong, but am grateful for gaining some things back. It was nice of you to share the other gal's story with these rare conditions. It is sometimes these stories that can help us. Others don't give up on doctoring when there are things wrong and symptoms are there. And don't let the doctors give up on you. If I had, I'd probably be paralyzed and living a much different life. That's from Stephanie. Well, you never know, huh?

[Chris Reivers]

Upbeat attitude for all the crap she had to go through.

[Kenny Olson]

And that was the second email I received on that. So I'm glad you're feeling better. And Lee Stout wants us to know that most people are not polarized in this country.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't think I am.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know what you are.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't either.

[Kenny Olson]

Joel. Most people are not polarized. Both on the GL podcast and the weekly scramble. Chris, and you mentioned this. Our leadership is or acts like it, but most people are not. First, most people don't pay any attention. I think the split is 50% paying no attention, 30% common sense middle, 10% left, 10% right. The problem 5% of the left and right. Are 100% of the social media. I do not know how to make people care. Lee from Woodbury.

[Joe Soucheray]

The 10% I think would be referred to as extreme on both sides waiting to weigh in.

[Matthew]

And he did it for me. 100% of social media.

[Kenny Olson]

What are you giving me?

[Chris Reivers]

Just read that. The poor guy trying to do Twitter.

[Matthew]

Is a absolute cesspool of political arguments.

[Kenny Olson]

It's so discouraging message. I'm glad you said something about the Antonov landing. That was the large cargo Antonov plane that landed here yesterday.

[Chris Reivers]

Took off this morning.

[Kenny Olson]

I hadn't heard about it before but it was impressive to watch it come in. Cost me some money though. I got a parking ticket for waiting on the Fort Snelling park entrance road. Then bought a season pass so I could park in the park. Then had to walk up the hill to see it. It's 68. That's a big hill. Lister from the Sunday night days. Very infrequent. Emailer Larry.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, Larry, why are they ticketing on?

[Kenny Olson]

Why didn't. Larry was just going to Pulse Road.

[Chris Reivers]

Nobody's there.

[Joe Soucheray]

I was just going to ask why would he have received a ticket on that Fort Snelling entrance?

[Chris Reivers]

I don't know. And there's.

[Matthew]

What's he doing way over there?

[Kenny Olson]

What?

[Matthew]

Didn't it come in by that super America, Matthew?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, it came in. It came in to the west.

[Chris Reivers]

Came over Snelling Lake. Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes. And you saw it. You not only saw it, you were in it.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes. I didn't have it flew over me as I was on five going to the airport. But then I got to go down to the ramp and Kyle was gonna post. I sent Kyle some stuff.

[Matthew]

So.

[Kenny Olson]

Turn that on mute.

[Chris Reivers]

Turn it off. And I got to board. Got to go in the cockpit. And it was. Those guys can smoke. That was the smoking fight. It was not.

[Kenny Olson]

Was it a Ukrainian crew?

[Chris Reivers]

Yes. And my superiors were very impressed when I would say stuttokoye.

[Kenny Olson]

What were they delivering that required that aircraft? Huge.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't know if they were compressors or if they were. They were some type of electronic conveyor and it was full. And those things were. They look so heavy.

[Kenny Olson]

Where did the plane arrive from?

[Chris Reivers]

Toronto or Montreal? It wasn't clear to me.

[Matthew]

Montreal.

[Kenny Olson]

So despite the tariff threats, we had some big machinery arrive here.

[Matthew]

Are you gonna make this political? Why don't you just go to my Twitter account and start bitching with the rest of the ass wipes. That took something that was fun and enjoyable and turned it into a ridiculous political argument. You are the people that ruined Twitter. I hate all of you.

[Kenny Olson]

So we got these big machines, arrived.

[Chris Reivers]

With all due, and then the crew had timed out. That's why they had to stop here.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, where were they going?

[Chris Reivers]

They were going to California.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, the stuff didn't get unloaded here?

[Chris Reivers]

No, it was. It stayed on board overnight.

[Matthew]

I watched the departure this morning. I couldn't believe the ease that that thing got off the ground. I was expecting a struggle and using the whole. The whole strip there.

[Kenny Olson]

I got news for you. I've Learned something from Mr. Airport today.

[Matthew]

It just popped up in the air.

[Kenny Olson]

That's not even the biggest one, is it?

[Matthew]

No, no.

[Chris Reivers]

The biggest one was destroyed in 2022. The Russians destroyed it. The one that was here is the.

[Kenny Olson]

One that was here. The only one of its kind?

[Chris Reivers]

That was the largest. Yes. And that was delivering the crane for.

[Kenny Olson]

No, no, wait, wait. The one that was here yesterday and today it took off. Is that the current? Only one of its kind?

[Chris Reivers]

I believe there are three.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

But I don't know what size from.

[Joe Soucheray]

A fuel standpoint, in all seriousness, if it's just going to California, because I got to imagine that they're only putting whatever. Right. Because you have to worry about weight and all that stuff. Correct.

[Chris Reivers]

That thing never worries about weight because it's so. Yes, they have to worry about weight.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

Thing carries everything.

[Joe Soucheray]

The thing is massive.

[Matthew]

According to what I've been discovering, it's been here 2014, 2015, 18, 19, and 20.

[Kenny Olson]

This one or the bigger one that's now no longer exists.

[Matthew]

Matthew would know that.

[Chris Reivers]

That I don't know. I just know the bigger one that was destroyed was here several years ago because the company that I work for gets to do the lavatory. And the.

[Kenny Olson]

Did the 15 crew members, all Ukrainian. Not a facetious question. They sleep on the plane or do they get to go to a hotel?

[Chris Reivers]

No, they went to a hotel. Overnight. They went to a hotel.

[Matthew]

So people were tagging my video and tagging, like the governor demanding answers, tagging Elon Musk and Trump. I don't know. Because everything's political. You can't just enjoy something.

[Chris Reivers]

Why would that huge beast be political? I had two sons that were nerding out on it. Gabe's like, you're on the biggest.

[Kenny Olson]

Was he like.

[Chris Reivers]

He said, you're on the largest plane in the world and you're up in the cockpit. I can't believe it.

[Kenny Olson]

And 50 years, because you had no idea what you were looking at.

[Chris Reivers]

No, but he did point it out. It was built in the 80s.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did you have some good Ukrainian, Ukrainian liners ready to go for the crew?

[Kenny Olson]

Did you say that to him?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, I said, how are you doing? And then Spiceba is.

[Kenny Olson]

Thank you.

[Matthew]

I heard them talking to the tower and the English, not so bad. I could understand.

[Chris Reivers]

No, the pilot. Pilot spoke fairly good English.

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, that's. It was all extremely interesting. Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I. I hope you enjoy the.

[Kenny Olson]

Pictures that I. I'm looking forward to it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did you go out and try to see it? I said you were going to.

[Kenny Olson]

I had to work. I don't have any fun.

[Chris Reivers]

Gabe was in.

[Joe Soucheray]

I had a column to write. I knew it.

[Chris Reivers]

Gabe was in Lilydale watching for it to go off. He knew what time it was going off and he didn't think off or landing. Taking off.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

And he didn't think there would be a distinction seen that far. And then when it came up, he said, oh, yeah, I can see. So he took a little video of it and he said that was. It is cool seeing that thing take off.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Let's talk about the state's deficit because we should nip in the bud the little lying that the DFLers are doing. They're trying to blame the fact that there's going to be a budget deficit in Minnesota on Trump, who's been in office about 40 days. He's not responsible for the way these people with a trifecta have spent money.

[Chris Reivers]

What policy changes has he made in Minnesota so far?

[Kenny Olson]

None that I'm aware of. That would affect the budget deficit.

[Chris Reivers]

Got it.

[Kenny Olson]

Republicans say the DFL trifecta had already run the state down the road from a huge surplus to a sizable projected deficit. We knew about this way before Trump got elected. And now you have some gaslighting DFLers who want to say this is Republicans fault. Republicans didn't spend the money. You people do. What do you have there?

[Joe Soucheray]

This is Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Aaron Murphy blaming President Trump.

[Steven Deaner]

But never in our history have we.

[Kenny Olson]

Had to do that work up against a president who seems hell bent on crashing the American economy. Only one thing has changed since the November forecast, and that is the inauguration of President Donald Trump. In the last 50 days, the stock market has tanked and more than 170,000Americans have lost their jobs. Oh, we just can't stop. I can't listen to that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hold on.

[Chris Reivers]

We don't know that.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, she's lying about the fact that Trump caused this. It's absolute lie. She's a gaslighter. Here's what I was thinking. Today, I tried to have a charitable thought.

[Joe Soucheray]

I tried.

[Kenny Olson]

I tried. You can tell me if it's charitable or not, but this is all bs. The spending problems and the deficit problems in Minnesota are because of the DFL. Why wouldn't it be nice if DFLers running for office were honest? What if they said, I want to run for office in order to spend money. No, let me finish. I'm serious. What if they said, you know, if Aaron Murphy knocked on your door and said, hi, I'm Aaron Murphy. I've been a legislator for quite some time. I wish to continue to be. Because I believe I can make the state better by spending your money. I believe I can make the state better by enlarging your government, spending your money. And I'm very in favor of spending as much as possible. At least that would be honest, right?

[Chris Reivers]

You know what I would say next? Say, okay, I'll vote for you if you show me how you're gonna do that. Don't just say, take my money. And if I think you're.

[Kenny Olson]

Because none of them have that message. You never hear that from any of them. They're all there to fight for you. They're all there to right wrongs. They're all there to fix problems, all of which are of their own making.

[Joe Soucheray]

They do use the line fully fund education, though.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, that's impossible because there's no way to know when education is fully funded, which is why education currently is already, and has been for quite some time, more than half the state's budget. And as the education budget increases, the kids increasingly fail to learn to read or do math. Not always a teacher's fault, but why don't you DFLers be honest? You blew an $18 billion surplus. You couldn't spend it fast enough. You've set yourselves up for this deficit problem. Trump had nothing to do with it. 00.

[Chris Reivers]

Why don't they realize that already?

[Kenny Olson]

They do realize it, but they're lying and they're gaslighting. And it'll play well with the people who go to Costco wearing their pajamas. People aren't paying attention.

[Steven Deaner]

That's Walmart, not Costco.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay? Walmart.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, don't be paying attention.

[Kenny Olson]

Don't be bad when. Don't fall for this BS that this is somehow. They've had a Democratic governor, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate for quite some time now in Minnesota, and they have spent every penny they can get their hands on, and they're lying to you. They're gaslighting would be the more accurate Term. Now that I finally truly understand what gaslighting means. It came from some old movie in which a guy tried to drive the wife nuts and he told her the lights were on or something. Is that south by Southwest, something like that? No, that's on tonight, by the way.

[Steven Deaner]

It's called Gaslight, actually.

[Kenny Olson]

Gaslight. Yeah.

[Steven Deaner]

You know how I learned about sandwiches? There's a song by Steely Dan called Gaslighting Abbey.

[Kenny Olson]

That's how I learned with gaslighting.

[Steven Deaner]

Really?

[Chris Reivers]

Is it a slow burn like that? Gaslighting.

[Matthew]

But, Joe, don't you think it's. Who's listening? Who's hearing the message? Because when they tell me all their promises on the campaign trail, that's what I'm hearing. I'm hearing you're going to spend money on this.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay?

[Matthew]

You're going to spend money on this. And so do you. Yeah, but like you said, the pajama wearers, they're not hearing that. They're just hearing, we're going to fix everything that's wrong.

[Chris Reivers]

My people out of this with the pajamas.

[Kenny Olson]

Aaron, why don't you shock your neighbors by being honest? Why don't you just go to their door the next time you door knock and say, hi, I really love to spend money. When I walk through those capitol doors, that's the only thing on my mind, is to spend as much as possible.

[Joe Soucheray]

You're asking a politician to be honest.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes, I am.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Matthew]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Kenny Olson]

Joe May I read to you from mpr, Minnesota Public Radio?

[Chris Reivers]

By all means.

[Kenny Olson]

An economic forecast released yesterday shows state officials have less money to work with in setting the next two year budget, the primary task of a legislative session nearing its halfway point. Lawmakers also have a larger deficit to worry about down the road if they don't make big cuts or find new sources of revenue. This is before finance officials consider potential federal budget funding rollbacks. That's important to note, this is before any effect financially on the state from federal cutbacks. Those haven't happened yet. Minnesota finance officials say lawmakers have $456 million in extra money at their disposal, which Democrats would just soon spend, which is down substantially from a prior estimate just a few months ago. And it isn't a lot of slack in the context of a budget that will top 66 million. I'm sorry, $66 billion. Worse, a future potential deficit has grown even bigger to nearly $6 billion. This is from Minnesota Public Radio. This is not from Alpha News. This isn't from me. This is from Minnesota Public Radio, Minnesota Management and Budget Commissioner Aaron Campbell said. Added to that is uncertainty over the impact of possible federal changes. Well, you know what I would do if I was a legislator worried about that potential impact? I certainly would be. I would be circling my wagons. I wouldn't be planning any spending. About one third of the state's overall budget is propped up by federal money, and that hasn't been impacted yet. That's an enormous amount of money, campbell said. If federal action meant that we would lose those resources, the impact of the state budget could really be devastating. So NPR is attempting to report objectively here, but really isn't because they wish to align their reporting with the idea that this is somehow Trump's fault. It isn't. It was clear who demo well, I take that back, npr, maybe you did do this objectively. It was clear who Democrats were ready to blame for the dip in the forecast compared to the one released last fall. The only thing that's changed since November is Donald Trump's chaos to the economy, wall said. All right, Tim, what chaos is that right now? He's been there 40 days. What's the chaos? I'm perfectly willing to accept the idea there could be chaos. Where is it at this moment? Donald Trump is wrecking our economy, said House dfler Melissa Hortman. You mean unlike you when you took your salary and didn't work for the first month of the session? Trump, Musk and Republicans in Congress have got to pull their heads out of their asses, said DFL Senate Majority Leader Aaron Murphy. You people are beautiful. You are really amazing. Again, I wish you were honest and say the reason you're there is to spend money. You have spent more money than you should have. You are to blame for this six billion dollar deficit. You brought it about.

[Joe Soucheray]

If it's any consolation, the video clip that I played for you of Murphy that you made me stop and I don't blame you after 20 seconds. Yeah, the comments below that it was an alpha news clip, so take what you will out of it. Yeah, most of them are really pushing back against the dfl.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, it's just preposterous to blame anybody for this except the DFL in Minnesota, which is no longer your parents DFL and hasn't been for some time now.

[Joe Soucheray]

But they're playing to their base.

[Kenny Olson]

They came there to spend your money and they do a hell of a job spending it. They can spend money with the best of them.

[Steven Deaner]

They're here for one reason and this.

[Kenny Olson]

Crew is here just to. You're here for one reason and you accomplish that. And Republicans said it was Democrats who got the budget into this situation. Well, of course it was. They throw out the boogeyman of Trump and all that stuff, said Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson. It's like Chicken Little right now, running around saying the sky is falling, but when it comes to state issues, they become ostriches and put their head in the sand. House Republican Speaker Lisa DeMuth said it's a deflection to blame Trump, who has been in office for less than two months. She said Democrats put Minnesota on a reckless course and this show was telling you that five years ago. The position that the Democrats in the state of Minnesota has pushed us in is unsustainable. This is still demuth. That's why we're going to focus on that first. She said. We are now looking at a $6 billion deficit. This was an irresponsible spending spree and now we have to figure that out. In other words, the adults have to come in and clean up this mess and it won't happen without higher taxes on the average Minnesotan.

[Joe Soucheray]

Nope.

[Kenny Olson]

So don't spare me this BS. DFLers. Trump has nothing to do with it and I'm sure they know that. It's part of their agenda.

[Joe Soucheray]

Do you think they gathered around in like a focus group and said, okay, what do we got here? What do we go with?

[Kenny Olson]

To the public, probably. But they also would not have needed to because it's their reflexive reaction is to be held blameless. This isn't our fault. This is the Republican's fault. Well, no, it isn't. You're the only people who've been in power, so there's nowhere we can take that today except take it to the House. Be aware of their BS because that's all it is.

[Matthew]

Like the line I get from the roommate, even when it's her fault, it's her, it's my fault. That it's her fault.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, that's the 50, 50, 90 rule.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

50% chance of being right. You're going to be wrong 50% of.

[Matthew]

The time, Chris, if she doesn't.

[Kenny Olson]

90% of the time, Kenny.

[Joe Soucheray]

You mean like last year when she had expired tabs and she got stopped and that was my fault?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. Hell yes, it is. That's a man's job.

[Joe Soucheray]

I guess so. Didn't realize that.

[Steven Deaner]

It's gotten to the point at my house where she admits she's wrong, but then it's still my fault. I don't understand. What can I say then?

[Chris Reivers]

That's when you walk cautiously on eggshells and try to get out of the.

[Kenny Olson]

Room as quickly as. Isn't the real value of time a garage logic principle where you take something like putting on the license tabs and you turn it into an hour of solace out in the garage and maybe have a beer and you got the game on the TV and you come in, you say, boy, those bolts were rusty on your license plate. Use deep creep and everything to get your license off. Man alive. I had to go get new hardware.

[Joe Soucheray]

Gotta run to town.

[Chris Reivers]

I gotta go to town, get some new wipers.

[Kenny Olson]

Matt, there's no wipers involved.

[Chris Reivers]

So you tell her. You do that. You tell her. You get new wipers.

[Steven Deaner]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

You don't make those 28 inches like they used to.

[Kenny Olson]

So there you have it. The budget's in trouble, the state's in trouble financially. We predicted it. It's as. It's as sure as rain. It's. This was coming. And there's not a hell of a lot we can do about it except root for the Republicans in the House to get the Democrats to see some sensibility. I doubt if they will, but what.

[Joe Soucheray]

Will happen if they do? You know, they'll just pout. They'll take their ball and they'll go home like they did at the beginning of the session.

[Kenny Olson]

I do have for you before, Johnny. Well, I want to play this Somali legislator. Oh, yeah. I'll save today's Feeding Our Future comedy sketch for later. All right. We came upon news that a Somali born Maine state representative whose name is. Excuse me. I have all that information. Her name is Deca. D E, Q A Dalic. D H, A, l A, C, DCA Dalak. She was born in either 1968 or 1969. Sometimes the birth dates of the Somalis who emigrate is somewhat confused.

[Chris Reivers]

Book 56.

[Kenny Olson]

She's a member of the main House of Representatives. She was a first of Course, she was the first Somali American to become the mayor of South Portland, Maine. I don't know how, it's about 95% white. But she must be very powerful politician. In any event, she's now a member of the main House of Representatives. And she said this in a subcommittee. Subcommittee hearing of the Maine legislature. And I think this was said yesterday.

[Joe Soucheray]

I have the date line of March 5th on this. So two days ago.

[Kenny Olson]

Two days ago. This is. This is a.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sorry, which clip did you want first? Did you want the one that's in English or the one that is not in English?

[Kenny Olson]

The one that is not in English. English.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, here we go.

[Kenny Olson]

Ready? Yep. Would you read the interpretation of that, Chris?

[Joe Soucheray]

We Somalis living outside of Somalia must always prioritize our country, which is Somalia. Pause while it translates into the next paragraph. Please stand by. Sorry, it's taken a minute and thinking of developing our own country. That was the next paragraph. This must be done especially by those Somalis abroad, such as in the United States.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, if I was a resident of Maine, of course I have to put up with Ilhan, who thinks the same thing. I'd be a little disgruntled, I think.

[Joe Soucheray]

So if we were doing the pod, if we were doing the garagelogic version of Portland, Maine.

[Kenny Olson]

Right.

[Joe Soucheray]

You'd be up in arms.

[Kenny Olson]

This might come up. Now we have one from her in English.

[Joe Soucheray]

Correct.

[Kenny Olson]

All right. And this was what? Can you give us the background of this?

[Joe Soucheray]

Dalak has also previously made headlines for claiming that new Americans deserve priority treatment over United States veterans.

[Kenny Olson]

All right, Military folks that are getting out of the military and they have to go through all the lines to start all over again, even though they have credentials. So my question. Pretty simple. Why would we fast track them? And we won't do it for our military. They have the advantage of speaking the language, most of our military folks. So these folks that we really working on may not have that. So it's going to be really difficult for them to say, yes, I used to be an electrician in my country. I'm just using mine, which is Somalia. But that might not really fall into our laws that we have in this country. I think she was asked, why should veterans be second fiddle to newly arrived people?

[Steven Deaner]

Correct.

[Kenny Olson]

And she's somehow justifying that on the basis of the fact that they don't speak English very well.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, that makes no sense. No kidding. She was born in Mogadishu. Her father was a petroleum engineer. She described your father as a feminist because he believed in the importance of girls. Education and their important role in the family.

[Chris Reivers]

Why is that?

[Joe Soucheray]

A feminist?

[Chris Reivers]

That would just be a realist.

[Kenny Olson]

Most dads think that, don't they?

[Joe Soucheray]

Do you have the other two committees that she's involved with at your disposal, sir?

[Kenny Olson]

I do not.

[Joe Soucheray]

In 2021, more than 30 years after first coming to the United States to flee civil war in Somalia, she became the first, as Joe mentioned, Somali mayor in the country. She's the co founder of Cross Cultural Community Services and formerly worked as the assistant executive director at Gateway Community Services in Portland. In 2024, she sponsored legislation that helped establish the new office of New Americans within state government.

[Kenny Olson]

All right, she's married. She has three kids. What I would say, and I don't mean it. What's the word, John, when you distrust foreign people, what's the word? I'm thinking of when you want to be an isolationist, you're something. What's the word? Xenophobic. I don't say this out of any sense of xenophobia. Why don't people. And I'm being very serious. She's now educated, as is Ilhan Omar. And I'm sure there are others. Somali Somalians. Not only maybe business people, but politicians in this country. And if they're so concerned about Somalia, and I don't mean this in anything except positivity, why don't. And they care so much about Somalia, why don't they go to Somalia and attempt to resurrect or form the country to their liking?

[Chris Reivers]

Because we're easy pickings.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, because they're looking for the tentacle of the United States government to help them rebuild portions of their country. Is that a fair assessment?

[Kenny Olson]

Probably. Sure. But go to Mogadishu, Dulaq and bring the knowledge you've acquired and attempt to restore your country to some semblance of sanity.

[Chris Reivers]

Why would you want to.

[Kenny Olson]

You wouldn't want to leave Maine for that, would you?

[Chris Reivers]

Okay. Why would you want to come here? She's educated. Obviously. She's been here 30 years because Somalia's.

[Kenny Olson]

War torn and disrupted.

[Chris Reivers]

That's my point. Why would she want to celebrate a Somalia that puts female education down?

[Matthew]

In that first clip you played where you had to interpret it, didn't I hear her say, or the interpretation say, that she wanted to turn the United States into something that was more like Somalia? That was what I.

[Joe Soucheray]

A portion.

[Matthew]

Did I hear that wrong?

[Joe Soucheray]

I believe it was a portion.

[Kenny Olson]

Play the translation again. Well, here.

[Joe Soucheray]

How about I just read it?

[Kenny Olson]

Because I'll. I mean, read it.

[Chris Reivers]

I think I can Translate it.

[Joe Soucheray]

We Somalis living outside of Somalia must always prioritize our country. Somalia. Bear with me. Bear with me. And thinking of developing our country, this must be done, especially by those Somalis abroad, such as in the United States.

[Matthew]

Oh, okay, so I did hear that wrong.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

I got a better idea, Joe. To answer your question, I think what Dulaq should do is maybe spearhead a campaign or a foundation in which we're gonna feed starving kids in the city of Maine, and let's get a bunch of money and we'll hide it as a shell company and send it overseas.

[Kenny Olson]

Hey, I bet that's been tried. She. Due to events leading to the Somali civil war, she fled the country in 19 to Rome on a flight intended to head to Libya because there were no more embassy services available. On the precipice of war, she planned to apply for asylum. Unfortunately, other people had the same idea, so they were held at the. Too many people had the same idea, so they were held at the airport, I guess, in Rome for over a month. She was released to the care of her cousin who lived in Italy, Dalek, then moved to England. Then she moved to Toronto in 1991. In 1992, she married Abdi Farah, a Somali businessman from Atlanta whose family had been close to her family, and she began her activism to get immigrants to become citizens and register to vote. She worked as a cashier in a parking garage. Imagine that, a Somali as a cashier in a parking gar. With her accounting degree, she received accounts receivable job in a hotel. Because she had known English, it was easier for her to excel in her career. In 2005, she moved to Lewiston, Maine, with her. What is Lewiston, Maine, famous for in the world of sports?

[Matthew]

Golf? Shoes.

[Kenny Olson]

No.

[Matthew]

Yeah, it is, actually. You're wrong.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

It's where Ali beats Sonny. Listen.

[Matthew]

Really?

[Joe Soucheray]

Were you there?

[Kenny Olson]

No.

[Chris Reivers]

Who you calling, boy?

[Kenny Olson]

That was ken Norton. In 2005, she moved to Lewiston, Maine, with her family, but without her husband, who stayed to take care of his business in Atlanta. But they visit frequently. She has lived in south Portland, Maine, since 08. She's an interpreter for Catholic Charities of Maine. And then she opened her own interpreting service and earned two master's degrees in policy and social work from the University of New Hampshire and the University of New England. Okay.

[Matthew]

May I?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

I love this word xenophobia. And I looked it up, and once I discovered the full true meaning, I then re Googled when is xenophobia good? And in no circumstance Is it good? It is always bad. Well, what do you call it when you stand up against what she said?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, in standing up against what she said, I could only appeal to her. Well, what is there to appeal to? She has no genetic code that would predispose her to this life in the United States.

[Matthew]

What I'm saying that when you stand up to those people and say you're wrong, that can't happen in this country. You're accused of racism. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

No matter what you stand up against it, you are immediately the bad person.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's why that type of ideology, Kenny, it's complete Teflon.

[Kenny Olson]

It's bulletproof. No one has figured out this more cleverly than the Somalia people among us. They are really, really bold, bold people. They're very savvy, very bold, and they think nothing of getting their hands on as much money as possible, however, illegally.

[Joe Soucheray]

Or legally, to the point where we've got a trial going on right now and we want to build a museum.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. We want a million a year. God bless Somalis. I'm sure there are many Somalis who have assimilated or make every attempt to. And they love the country and they root for the twins and let's go. Let's have some apple pie and go to buy a Chevrolet.

[Matthew]

Along those lines. We don't mention this enough. It was a Somalian who turned in the wrongdoers with the food fraud, right?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. But outnumbering them are the likes of this woman and Ilhan Omar, who would use official power to bring about changes that we don't even recognize. It is not your job, daca, as a main legislator, to have your first priority be the country of Somalia.

[Matthew]

But we'll never win, because even us talking about it, we're being.

[Kenny Olson]

Being.

[Matthew]

Would it be xenophobic?

[Kenny Olson]

I think that was the wrong word.

[Matthew]

But you know what I mean.

[Kenny Olson]

I know what you mean.

[Matthew]

I know you mean Hill Hand would throw in our face simply the fact that we oppose her. We're racist.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. What I oppose are her ideas. I don't. Well, what are you gonna do?

[Joe Soucheray]

What are you gonna do?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't want to do that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, we have to.

[Kenny Olson]

All right, let's take a break and get.

[Joe Soucheray]

Let's talk to Kenny first.

[Kenny Olson]

All right.

[Matthew]

Well, thanks, pal. But bring us down as low as we possibly could get.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm not bringing you low. I think DACA is.

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[Joe Soucheray]

Here's a man who spends hours in.

[Kenny Olson]

Hardware stores sifting through the nuts and bolts of life, Joe Sucerey.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

Hydration.

[Joe Soucheray]

Here's the deal though. Through the end of March, Hoffman Water wants you to know that they're focusing on drinking water. The benefits of going beyond whole home water treatment systems for hard water, iron or chlorine. See, here's the deal. Having a fully third party certified reverse osmosis system to take reduced contaminants that are commonly found in both city and well water. And that's what I did a number of years ago. I wanted to get some high quality drinking water and that's what I did with my friends at Hoffman Water and Connecticut. But here's the deal. Your first step is you've got to get on that schedule and have them come out for what's called that free water analysis. And they're going to give you a water score. And then based upon that score, they'll give you some recommendations on what they think that they can do to upgrade the quality of your water. And you do that by calling them directly at 612-895-2440 or visit their website, which is hoffermanwater.com either way, you can book that appointment and then have them come out. And they're the best. And it doesn't matter if you're in the mood for a iron rust and odor filtration system or a brand new water softener, they'll be able to take care of you. And that's because Hofferman Water has been proudly serving the state of Minnesota for over 50 years. Please do me a favor and mention that you heard about them on the garagelogic podcast.

[Kenny Olson]

Here's John Hut. Thank you, Joe.

[Steven Deaner]

This update brought to you by North American Banking Company One sports note before we get rolling here. Major League Baseball season quickly approaching and the Twins announced a whole batch of new upgrades at Target Field to improve what they call the overall fan experience for the upcoming season. One of the biggest upgrades is a market style open concessions layout at sections 105 and 109 of the main concourse.

[Kenny Olson]

Grocery shopping.

[Steven Deaner]

The traditional food stands in those areas have been replaced with a new open air self serve market.

[Kenny Olson]

Totally. What the hell, it's a supermarket. Hey, I need some chips and some of the Twins game. Bring home some milk and a loaf of bread.

[Chris Reivers]

I need some tape and some nails.

[Steven Deaner]

The area will be 4,400 square feet of renovated spaces. The new layout increases the number of registers from 29 to 41 and allows fans to get their favorite foods and drinks more efficiently. Now options in the area will include a variety of hot foods, grab and go snacks, ice cream soda, and this should work well. Grab and go beer coolers.

[Chris Reivers]

What's your favorite grab and gross grab and go snack?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't have one.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Steven Deaner]

One of the more advanced features being added this year is the MLB Go ahead entry. That's an option facial authentication based ticket validation system. You know what that means you just walk by the scanner recognizes your face.

[Matthew]

Don't have to show a ticket like voting.

[Chris Reivers]

They have made entering a any major league sport. They have made it more difficult. Just give me. Here's your ticket. Give me your ticket.

[Kenny Olson]

It'll work that way.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know what it is? This is all about employment, don't you think? This is all about not having to pay as many people to work a game.

[Chris Reivers]

This is Trump.

[Kenny Olson]

Trump's fault.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes. He's been in there three weeks.

[Matthew]

We need that comet and or asteroid. Maybe both.

[Chris Reivers]

You want to speed it up a bit?

[Kenny Olson]

Any minute.

[Matthew]

Yeah, just wipe the entire globe out.

[Joe Soucheray]

Can we wait till Monday? William's got a big basketball tournament this weekend.

[Steven Deaner]

Club has also upgraded its point of sale technology at all concessions and premium seating locations with with the Myvenue system. The team describes Myvenue as a fast, intuitive and user friendly technology that allows fans to quickly and easily make their food and beverage purchases. Also now, by the end of the season, the Twins have partnered with American Tower to deliver a ballpark wide upgrade to 5G via a distributed antenna system. Once it's finished up the cellular network coverage will be expanded by 82% within Target Field. This is all expected to be done by September. In case you're wondering about this, the home opener is April 3rd when the Twins host the Houston Astros. In news update to a story from yesterday, the FBI confirmed a security threat that caused a Sun country flight out of Minneapolis to divert to El Paso, Texas was a hoax. An investigation by the FBI El Paso determined a handwritten note was found on the airplane that said you are all going to die. Help me. The note prompted passengers to report it to the flight crew who immediately reported it to law enforcement. The flight was headed to Mexico, was diverted to El Paso for the safety of passengers and crew. During the FBI's investigation, it was found the threat was a hoax by two young children.

[Patrick]

Oh no.

[Matthew]

Sun country says didn't the writing give it away?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, the backwards.

[Steven Deaner]

That was my first thought when I saw this story story. Sun country says the flight landed safely. Passengers were deplaned without incident.

[Matthew]

Here's what we have in Kenny's America. We have a Patrick Royce type as a member of every single crew that gets up in the air. Somebody who says tells them the truth. Here's what we got. Let's take a vote.

[Kenny Olson]

Let's go.

[Steven Deaner]

Budget cuts hitting Winona State University, the Department of defense terminated a $1.1 billion a school a grant designed to promote civic engagement. The university spokesperson said the school was notified by the Pentagon February 28 that the award no longer rook. What do you think of this word? Effectuates the program.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm not sure that's even a word.

[Chris Reivers]

I would say it is.

[Kenny Olson]

I had to look it up.

[Chris Reivers]

I would say ex fact to.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait, you'd say exfoliate. Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

No.

[Matthew]

When you use effect and affect. Go ahead, English professor, Mr. Buzzkill. Affect and effect.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, affect is. Is a stalling a thing. Extenuate. Effect is something that has another thing. Extenuate.

[Matthew]

You're gonna go to that.

[Kenny Olson]

I know what it means. I know how to use it properly.

[Joe Soucheray]

I looked up expectuates. That's the only word that came up.

[Steven Deaner]

Effectuates. Like effect, U, A, T, E, S.

[Kenny Olson]

It's failed academy terminology.

[Steven Deaner]

All it means is to put something into effect. So why not just say that?

[Kenny Olson]

Effectuate. Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Effects put into force or operation.

[Chris Reivers]

Effect means a series of events and effect means.

[Kenny Olson]

Let's continue with Matt. Let's continue with the new effect of you talking joke.

[Matthew]

See this new movie. Movie. It's called Rebel with a Clause. Celebrates a woman who gently imparts grammar to strangers.

[Kenny Olson]

Wonderful.

[Matthew]

Much like our friend Joe.

[Kenny Olson]

I can't wait to see it effectuate.

[Steven Deaner]

More news. More news about My Pillow. The Chaska based pillow and bedding firm founded by Mike Lindell now is being sued by FedEx for allegedly failing to pay Northern more than $9 million in shipping costs. A lawsuit filed last month in U.S. district Court in Tennessee by FedEx is the most recent legal entanglement facing My Pillow. In the past, Lindell has attributed his difficulties to getting, in his words, canceled by big retailers in response to his quest to prove the 2020 election a fake. Lindell is a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump. In January, Hennepin county judge ordered MyPillow to pay almost $800,000 to shipping company DHL. In national and international headlines, President Trump issuing exemptions on tariffs again for some goods coming into the US from Mexico and Canada. Two days after putting in place sweeping 25% tariffs that rattled the stock markets markets as businesses warned the move could increase prices for consumers. This is the second time in less than two months that the president has announced and then backtracked on the tariffs. According to Chuck Dardis, president of Alfa USA and auto parts manufacturer in Livonia, Michigan. The can keeps getting pushed, kicked down the road and we don't know what that means or what we should do, dardis says. To make investments and to do things we need to do, we need some certainty. Not that we have perfect certainty. Ever, but not be on a constant diet of. Well, we'll wait till next month to see if the axe is going to fall. US continued to generate jobs at a steady pace. In February, offering reassurances that the labor market has remained relatively stable since President Trump took office. The US added a seasonally adjusted 151,000 jobs, according to the Labor Department this morning, slightly below the gain of 170 jobs economists polled by the Wall Street Journal expected to see, but better than the 125,000 jobs added in January. The unemployment rate, which is based on a separate survey from the jobs figures, rose to 4.1% from 4%.

[Kenny Olson]

You know, I would say out of an abundance of caution, but I'm gonna say out of an abundance of hysteria. Do you wonder if egg prices have been affected by the killing of too many chickens that maybe did not need to be killed?

[Steven Deaner]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

Is that a possibility? I'm not a farmer. I don't know how that works.

[Chris Reivers]

You mean due to bird flu or.

[Kenny Olson]

Chicken flu, maybe a lot of chickens were wiped out that didn't need to be. I don't know the answer.

[Matthew]

What made you think that?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know.

[Matthew]

Are you saying that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, it's actually to defend Joe.

[Steven Deaner]

It's.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's a common theory among some. I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

I didn't even know that.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't.

[Matthew]

Who.

[Kenny Olson]

What are you, Pierre Pulley right now?

[Matthew]

I want to know which orifice you're pulling this out of. I mean, are you throwing BS out or me? Yeah, you.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, I just wondered. No, I wondered it idly. I don't have a source. I didn't say it was happening. I said I wonder if.

[Matthew]

What are your intentions by saying this?

[Kenny Olson]

To get more eggs on your kitchen.

[Joe Soucheray]

Table, Put more food on your family?

[Steven Deaner]

Yeah, eggs. Eggs are still a great deal. I don't care what anybody says. I paid 5.97 for a dozen the other day.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, that's less than a buck an egg.

[Steven Deaner]

That's 50 cents an egg.

[Kenny Olson]

I thought eggs were like a buck a piece.

[Steven Deaner]

Eggs are protein.

[Chris Reivers]

They're how far you can stretch them, how much you can do with them. Yeah. Can make an egg sandwich. An omelet you can make over easy.

[Joe Soucheray]

I got you scrambled.

[Patrick]

Yeah, as long as I get the time in the town, you know?

[Joe Soucheray]

You like eggs?

[Kenny Olson]

Joey in the ice out clock.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, egg salad sandwich.

[Kenny Olson]

During Lent, egg salad is dog food.

[Chris Reivers]

No, I don't know how to make it.

[Steven Deaner]

I don't like egg salad.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, sorry.

[Chris Reivers]

Communists Love eggs.

[Steven Deaner]

Don't like egg salad.

[Chris Reivers]

You want nine dollar egg prices?

[Steven Deaner]

Do you think I can get the time in the temp?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

The way he is with cars, the more he spends the better.

[Chris Reivers]

Tell you with his eggs he spends.

[Matthew]

50 bucks for 12 eggs. You know he's getting the best.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm told that you can't get a brown egg. You got to go to a farm.

[Matthew]

I'll get you a brown egg by three o'. Clock.

[Kenny Olson]

All right.

[Chris Reivers]

Elizabeth Reese will get you some brown eggs.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay. I was just told that your your.

[Joe Soucheray]

Fish eaters are victorious. Saint Cloud Cathedral over Orono four to one.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, I got. With the exception of St. Thomas, I have to root for a fish eater on Lent Friday. Friday, you know.

[Chris Reivers]

I got 30 pieces of gum for you.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Judas.

[Steven Deaner]

At least 15 people injured in South Korea after fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs on a civilian area during a live fire joint exercise with U. S forces.

[Kenny Olson]

That's a hell of an accident.

[Steven Deaner]

Yeah. South Korean military said the training in Patcheon, a northeastern city of about 140,000 people near the heavily fortified border with North Korea. Korea was in preparation for Freedom Shield an annual US South Korea joint military exercise that kicks off on Monday. Just after 10 in the morning local time, eight 500 pound MK82 bombs were abnormally released. That's a quote. Abnormally released by two Air Force KF16s landed outside the designated firing range. Four of the bombs misfired because one of the fighter jets entered incorrect coordinates. But it's not known why. These seconds jet followed up and also incorrectly dropped.

[Kenny Olson]

Why don't they fly over that Marty Allen's castle and drop them there.

[Steven Deaner]

I have a job right up your alley here, Joe. Okay. You like boats, don't you?

[Kenny Olson]

I really do.

[Steven Deaner]

A unique job opportunity at Loch Ness has come up as a full time Nessie hunter is needed basically to run the boat.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh.

[Steven Deaner]

The Loch Ness center is a state of the art visitor attraction and research center based in the village of Groom to drudge it.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, and I would love.

[Joe Soucheray]

You've already got the hat picked out, don't you?

[Kenny Olson]

I have a uniform you gotta look at.

[Steven Deaner]

A pipe, I hope.

[Matthew]

Burn movie where they're in a boat. That's how I'm picturing Queen of Africa.

[Kenny Olson]

Or something like that. African Queen. Yeah, yeah.

[Steven Deaner]

It's all dedicated to the geological formation of Loch Ness and the mystery of the Loch Ness monster. At the moment it's hiring a scout skipper on a fixed term contract.

[Kenny Olson]

I'd have the hat with the steering wheel on it.

[Matthew]

One of those old steamers that they used to go across Lake Minnetonka in.

[Kenny Olson]

I have the patent letter on the helmet.

[Steven Deaner]

The job begins March 31. It'll end on November 2. If you're wondering about pay, there are two vacancies. Both pay a salary of the equivalent of about $232 per day.

[Kenny Olson]

It's all I need. The rolls will involve money.

[Steven Deaner]

It'll involve operating Loch Ness Center's deep scan vessel, which take visitors on a journey through the past 40 years of scientific research into the mystery.

[Kenny Olson]

They're calling me.

[Steven Deaner]

I knew they would be. The successful aspects will be responsible for all aspects. Or applicants. I'm sorry? Successful applicants will be responsible for all aspects of running trips, including transferring visitors from the Loch Ness center to the harbor. The skipper will also be responsible for maintaining the vessel and safety.

[Kenny Olson]

Not a problem. Tell me.

[Steven Deaner]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Rook or anybody. What's my little cottage look like in the village? Because that's where I'd stay. I have a cottage in the village.

[Matthew]

It's got a grass roof. I'll tell you that.

[Chris Reivers]

It's old school. There's a little chimney where there's little puffs of smoke coming because you always have a fire going inside there. It's not your. Maintain your main.

[Kenny Olson]

I might be burning, Pete.

[Chris Reivers]

It's.

[Kenny Olson]

It's.

[Chris Reivers]

It's. It's a darker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There has a. There's a chair.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

There's a big, oversized. Like not a Lazy Boy.

[Kenny Olson]

No. But a comfortable chair.

[Chris Reivers]

Comfortable chair. It's.

[Kenny Olson]

What's next to it?

[Chris Reivers]

It's adjacent to the fire.

[Kenny Olson]

Yep.

[Chris Reivers]

And then you've got a. Oh, there's a lamp. Oh, there's a lamp to read the paper. But then I was gonna have. You have a. A. A little apparatus where newspapers and magazines.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I have a little. Little holder for them.

[Chris Reivers]

Within grass.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes, yes.

[Chris Reivers]

And then, of course, I know you don't smoke, but because you're a skipper, you'd have a. You'd have a pipe.

[Matthew]

And he'd have the blue pea coat hanging up on the hook.

[Kenny Olson]

Yep. And then in the base, next to my yellow Macintosh down in the cellar in the.

[Matthew]

In his chest. His big chest there. He'd have to gimp in the inside of that.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, there went that pleasant cartoon.

[Chris Reivers]

When I see people approaching the boat that are going to.

[Kenny Olson]

I give a look out the window.

[Chris Reivers]

Give a look out the window. But when you're on the boat.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

You. You. You have a towel and. What are you. What are you doing?

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, I'm Keeping the surfaces dry policy.

[Chris Reivers]

The spinnaker.

[Kenny Olson]

No, there's no spinnakers of sale.

[Chris Reivers]

Ahoy.

[Patrick]

Land ho.

[Matthew]

I see he was a strict discipline disciplinarian.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes. My crew would be shipsh shape.

[Chris Reivers]

I'll take Horad for 400.

[Kenny Olson]

Are we done?

[Chris Reivers]

Who reads?

[Steven Deaner]

It's up to you.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, we are. Do we ought to call Patrick?

[Chris Reivers]

All right, we are going to call Patrick. But I would like to let you Garage Logicians know that once again, tis the season. As we've mentioned here in Garage Logic, Minnesota Masonic Charities is known for a variety of significant philanthropic endeavors. Today I want to remind you of the unique scholarship opportunity I talked about for Minnesota high school and college students. It's called the Selfless Scholar. A truly unique scholarship, unlike anything anywhere. MMC has been providing more than 1 million bucks in annual scholarships to impressive Minnesota students. Now, most scholarship programs require the applicant to describe their personal achievements for the purpose of benefiting themselves. The Selfless Scholar is different. It encourages students to look beyond themselves and acknowledge the extraordinary kindness of a class by nominating that person for their kindness and tell their story. And what makes the program especially unique is if their story is selected for recognition, the scholarship award is shared between the nominee and the nominator. What a great idea. Minnesota Masonic Charities hopes to recognize and reward those who make others feel like they matter and uncover heartwarming stories that otherwise may go untold. So the deadline for the applications. April 15th. That's easy to remember. It's tax time. For more information on the Selfless Scholar program, Please go to mnmasoniccharities.org and click on Scholarships.

[Kenny Olson]

76. Hey, Pat, you want my prediction?

[Patrick]

Lay it on me, buddy.

[Kenny Olson]

Morehead Spuds are gonna win the hockey tournament.

[Patrick]

Good. You know what they got going on their side? Genetics.

[Kenny Olson]

They got depth, too. They got a color and they got all kinds of stuff.

[Patrick]

Craft. They got a craft. Got four goals yesterday. Yeah, his old man.

[Kenny Olson]

Boy, are they a nice club.

[Patrick]

Yeah. You know who else they got on the team? Sonny Gulsvig was the longtime Concordia University basketball coach up there. Concordia College basketball coach up there long, long ago. And his grandson is one of their star players.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, they have lineage then, don't they?

[Patrick]

He married into a hockey family. I guess Sonny's one of Sonny's kids. Married into the hockey family, and then now they got this player and. And Sunny's widow is 95, and she's still watching from her senior apartment, watching the grandson.

[Kenny Olson]

Wonderful. I predict they will beat Edina tonight. And then they'll beat, probably. Who's St. Thomas playing?

[Chris Reivers]

Stillwater.

[Kenny Olson]

Then they'll beat Stillwater.

[Chris Reivers]

Pat, that's a nice story about her, but you'd think at 95, that nice family could maybe pick her up and give her a ride to the rink.

[Patrick]

Well, maybe she, you know, maybe she doesn't. Maybe she's like some of us other old folks and would just like to like to watch it on tv, you know?

[Kenny Olson]

True.

[Chris Reivers]

That's true.

[Kenny Olson]

What's new in the world of sports, Patrick?

[Patrick]

I would like to watch on tv, but I don't know how. I don't know how to get the KSTP app on my television. So the. The hockey tournament, I have followed it by looking at Twitter and other things like that because I can't see the game.

[Kenny Olson]

So I get them at home on tv. Yeah. I got cable.

[Patrick]

You got cable? Yeah. So anyway, what. What else is going on? Not a diddly dang, is it?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't think so. We got the Arnold Palmer taking place at Bay Hill.

[Patrick]

Boy, what did they do about seven, eight years ago to toughen up that golf course, man? They, you know, they were shooting 22 under, and all of a sudden they're back to. If you. If you get to 10, you might win the thing. Yeah, they made it. Really?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know the course well enough to know what they did.

[Patrick]

Well, I. I mean, some. They tightened it, obviously, but I don't know. Did you ever play that you played there in your visit?

[Kenny Olson]

I have not. I visited there, but have never played it.

[Patrick]

I played there three or four times, which was a disgrace to the golf course, but, yeah, it was in the earth early years when we still had reptiles cruising the place. So.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I don't like that.

[Joe Soucheray]

You want a golf course free of serpents.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't want to see a big croc pass in front of me on the fairway.

[Patrick]

No. How about I. I've told you this story. I hit one over by the trees, right? You know, into the. Into the jungle about a foot. And I walked over there and I was going to get it, and there was a snake wrapped around a tree. Tree. It was like, you know, he was. I don't know, he was just having fun, I guess, exercising or something.

[Chris Reivers]

Tease the serpent.

[Patrick]

And I. I got the hell out of there. You can have the golf ball there, fella.

[Steven Deaner]

I'm going.

[Patrick]

I'm going out. That's. That gives you a free drop out of the middle of the fairway.

[Kenny Olson]

If there's a snake, I reach into a pond at A Florida golf course for a ball. Probably not even mine. I like to. To find golf balls.

[Patrick]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

And I. My hand, as I looked down, was about 6 inches from a gator, and I ran backwards faster than most people can run frontwards.

[Patrick]

Florida was also where you wasn't in Florida where you kicked the sand ants and ended up almost having to have your foot amputed.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I had the. The. What are those ants called? Fire ants Ate my legs.

[Steven Deaner]

Oh, geez.

[Patrick]

I think my favorite malady was on the golf course. It wasn't me, but it was one of my partners, one of. Down in Arizona, one of those flying cactus bulbs got in a guy's leg about 5 inches, leaves walking around in shorts, and all of a sudden, sudden he's hopping like crazy and get this out of me. I'm not getting it out of you. If I put my hand in there, it'll be. I'll have him on me. So it's your own problem.

[Chris Reivers]

That's like that one great commercial where the guy's running through the desert and he gets bit by the snake on the. High up on the thigh. And he says, yeah, somebody's gonna have to suck the poison out. And the guy says, yeah, I'll go find somebody.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, there was a guy yesterday in the Daily Mail where the snake clamped onto his unit.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't like when that happens.

[Joe Soucheray]

He's telling everybody, what was he doing.

[Patrick]

Out there without a. With a whole lot of swim. He was swimming.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know, Pat. I. I just saw the picture.

[Steven Deaner]

Couldn't stand to read the story.

[Kenny Olson]

I couldn't stand to read the story.

[Patrick]

If it's in the Daily Mail, though, it might be.

[Kenny Olson]

Not true. I. I understand. I understand. Right. Say, is there a Gopher basketball update that we need to be aware of? We're on the bubble.

[Patrick]

He still got the bubble of what? The bubble of making the top 15 in the Big Ten tournament.

[Kenny Olson]

I.

[Patrick]

They're at Rutgers. Right? At Rutgers. I really think that we might have saw Coach Johnson's last gas on Wednesday against Wisconsin. Did you see the look on his face? Anybody watching that?

[Joe Soucheray]

I did. And Pat, it looks like a guy that knows the end is near.

[Patrick]

He had that look that last minute of, I really needed this one, you.

[Kenny Olson]

Know, so, you know, what does he expect? You're not getting any players to come here for the nil money. No.

[Patrick]

Now, Kip Scoggins from our paper had a piece a couple of days ago suggesting that Coyle was going to try to do something about this and spend some Money on baseball, and there's 21 million that they're getting to give a bigger hunk to basketball, to men's basketball, than they originally intended. So we'll see. But I don't think Ben's gonna. If he's gonna do that, he's not riding with Ben. I know people are talking about this guy at Drake who's done well, Ben McCollum. But he was at Northwest Missouri until a year ago. I saw him play at Mankato last year. Last year, last March. And great game. He got beat. But he's a ball possession guy. He's, you know, not a run up and down the court guy. He's a. So I. I don't know what they're going to do, Joe, I.

[Kenny Olson]

All right, thank you.

[Patrick]

If you get over there and look at the crowd, man, I wouldn't say I'm the average age, but I'm damn close. Yeah, it is an old audience. There's people.

[Kenny Olson]

People.

[Patrick]

They have more season ticket holders than who were there when Muscleman was there. Than. They have new ones, Pat.

[Joe Soucheray]

Their crowd is grandparents taking their grandkids. That's. That's the crowd at a Gopher basketball game.

[Patrick]

Unless they play the Badgers. And The Badgers bring 4,000 people. We gotta sell out.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's true. Imagine if they played St. Thomas.

[Patrick]

That's right. That would be. That would be. Hey, Tommy's. They won their first rounder. They're in the. I think they got the number one seed, though, now. In the.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Patrick]

No, no, wait. They could. The men's team could get to the finals here with the second seed.

[Kenny Olson]

Where has the St. Thomas College men's hockey team been playing their home games out at the Academy. Yep. That doesn't hold any people.

[Patrick]

You can put a thousand people in there if they really squeeze them in. But, yeah, they needed the hockey. Or. You know who's happy that he didn't stay where he. That he got fired where he used to be the St. Thomas coach, Rico Blasey. He was the coach at Miami, and they kind of fell off and they didn't make the tournament and they fired him. And three years later, Miami is 0, 21 and 1 in the NCHC without Rico. Rico's got to be happy he's at St. Thomas.

[Kenny Olson]

Thomas is. Well, what does he do? Coach the hockey team.

[Patrick]

Oh, coach the hockey team. Yeah, they went outside for a hockey coach.

[Kenny Olson]

All right. Well, I wish you could watch the hockey tournament, but I'll tell you all about it on Monday.

[Patrick]

Oh, well, I'm. I've been told that I can, if I really look hard, I can find the KSTP app, but I, my, my efforts so far today have not been successful.

[Kenny Olson]

All right, thank you. Goodbye. Goodbye. See you later.

[Joe Soucheray]

Speaking of updates, do I have one for you. I got a text this morning from Linda Keller and Keller Tax Service. She says, reivers. Apparently I'm having so many gillers overload my website, I'm having some tech problems on my website. So please tell the listeners that if you are unable to book your appointment online, just call the office directly. I still have many open appointments available for tax season. I've got a call in to fix the tech problem. It should be up and running soon. So if you do go online to kellertaxservice.com, just know that Linda understands that she's having some issues. So just call the office directly and you can get that phone number directly at the website. But here's the deal, you're running into crunch time here, ladies and gentlemen. We're almost close to a month till tax filing day, so don't wait. Get on the schedule now and have the best handle your taxes. And it doesn't matter. Maybe you have just an individual return, a joint return. Maybe you've got a business to handle tax issues. I just gave a recommendation to a local business owner in my city of Jordan, Minnesota, and they're going to go with Linda Keller and Keller Tax Service. And that's because she's the best. And the thing is, once you have her do your taxes, well, now you've got a guy, or in this case, a gal, but you've got someone to be able to handle your. And she's one of us. She's a gl er and she's going to handle your taxes from here on going forward. She'll notify you throughout the year and she'll send out your returns quickly. She usually turns those around within a week or so.

[Steven Deaner]

So.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Soucheray]

It's the scramble.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Kenny Olson]

Oh, did we play the scramble? Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Something like that.

[Kenny Olson]

We had to take a day off from defeating our future trial Wednesday because of the snow. But it resumed yesterday, and prosecutors are wrapping up their case against Amy Bach. And they called two FBI forensic accountants to the women witness stand yesterday. And we learned quite a bit of interesting information. They found a laptop for Amy Bach in her bedroom, and they had spreadsheets and invoices and records, and they seized that from Bock's home and defeating our future office.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

Because Bock is claiming, of course, she has nothing to do with this.

[Chris Reivers]

She didn't know anything. Right? Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

The prosecutors argue that the documents show Bock was in control of the finances at Feeding Our Future, and she signed off on various payments to the meal sites. Bock's defense attorney questioned the accountants about a handful of emails and documents that weren't sent to Bock directly, arguing that other individuals could have been managing the payments. Well, one of the FBI accountants told attorneys that investigators found uncashed checks at Bock's home during a search warrant. The accountant also explained, we're getting to the best part for today's Feeding Our Future Laugh festival. The accountant also explained how investigators quickly realized meal count numbers didn't make sense. And they use Lake street in Minneapolis as an example. They're going, wait a minute here. According to their records, accountants say that In April of 2020, a handful of meal sites located on Lake street were claiming to serve 30,000 meals per me month. By October 2020, a few additional meal sites were operating on Lake street. And altogether, the sites were claiming to serve 580,000 meals per month.

[Chris Reivers]

No, these are inner city kids, and they're hungry.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, see, this gets better.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

By October of 2020, a few additional. I said that. 580,000amonth. Here's the best one. By April of 2021, FBI accountants say 21 meal sites were operating on a 1.8 mile stretch of Lake Street. And together, just in a 1.8 mile stretch of lake street, they were serving more than 1.7 meals a month.

[Chris Reivers]

You could set the meals out and.

[Joe Soucheray]

They would reach 1.1.7 million meals.

[Kenny Olson]

1.7 million meals a month. Wow. On a 1.8 mile stretch of Lake street at 21 different sites divided by 30. That's a lot of kids that got feed.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know how many meals it is per day, which is almost as shocking as 1.7 million. That's 56. Over 56,000 meals a day.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, here, Chris. The monthly Total breaks down to about 59,000 meals per day at a time when enrollment. Let me turn the page. When enrollment. Enrollment citywide at the Minneapolis public Schools was around 36,000 students. Prosecutors are planning to wrap up their case today.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, you eat twice, though, so that's two meals per kid.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay. Holy crap. The defense will take over after the prosecutors wrap up today. Bock's defense attorney, Kenneth Udoabak, says Bock wants to take the witness stand to defend herself. I can't imagine how that'll be fun. But Udoa Box says he is advising her not to. He is also prepared to call in other witnesses. Oh, you scammers are about to get what you deserve. I hope. Although it's Minnesota, for all I know, you'll be given a company position at the state level. I don't know.

[Matthew]

That lawyer should be advising her to fake her own death.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, my God. 1.8 mile stretch of Lake street, and they were served 1.7 million meals a month. Well, you went to work every day and then paid your taxes. But you know what Amy. What Amy was doing, she was helping a lot of fraudsters achieve the American dream.

[Chris Reivers]

Isn't that the way. That's why they came over here. We need money fast.

[Kenny Olson]

It was very kind of her.

[Chris Reivers]

Very helpful.

[Kenny Olson]

Only because they come to us all the way from. From Marleth park in Mpumalanga Province. Remember that? Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. From our traveling linemans. It was on this day.

[Joe Soucheray]

March 7th. Already.

[Kenny Olson]

Isn't that something? Well, it was a very important day. On this day in 1882, the Minnesota State Butter and Cheese association was organized in Rochester.

[Chris Reivers]

Somebody had a start.

[Kenny Olson]

The group promoted dairy farming in the state and counts among its successes the grand sweepstakes award for the best butter at the 1885 World Industrial and Centennial Exposition in Newlands.

[Chris Reivers]

No butter can't beat a good butter.

[Kenny Olson]

Baloney.

[Matthew]

What's so crazy is every single little small town in Minnesota had their own creamery just five miles apart. Every single town had a creamery.

[Kenny Olson]

And probably the butter at each one tasted differently.

[Matthew]

Yeah. And it was all the best you could buy.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, yeah. So we've gone from the foundation of. Do you think it'll make this day in history that yesterday we Learned that the Ag Department is holding an LGBTQ A B3.2 1x14 An Affair for that's true.

[Matthew]

I wonder if they have any opinions on the uses of butter.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know. Be an interesting question, wouldn't it, Kenny? On this day, that Was an okay, Kenny. On this day, March 7th in 1913. I remember this happening on this day. I remember. I mean, it was 1913.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, it's gonna say you were around.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, I don't remember. I remember reading about it. On this day, early this morning, on this day of 1913, a plainclothes copper was beaten and thrown out of a room at the St. Paul Hotel where members of the state legislature and their friends were said to be playing cards. The officer returned with six more plainclothes men and exiting scenes followed.

[Steven Deaner]

Exciting.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. Oh, exciting. Scenes from. Followed. Thank you, John. You're welcome. Well, exiting too, I would imagine. You know, including the flight through a window. What is that called? Anyone. Anyone. When you throw someone through a window.

[Chris Reivers]

There'S a word for that. Finish straight.

[Kenny Olson]

Thank you.

[Steven Deaner]

There you go. Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

You mean you throw them a lot of pressure.

[Chris Reivers]

They throw them, Throw them, throw them away.

[Steven Deaner]

Throw them to the window.

[Kenny Olson]

Including the flight through a window into another room by a man who had hit the first policeman with his fist. Although at least one man was told to appear later in his court, the entire matter was dropped. While the legislators complained of a frame up by the police to make trouble for members in disfavor with the city administration. So they were. They were engaged in mischief in 1913. It was all, cover your back and I'll take care of you.

[Joe Soucheray]

That wasn't us.

[Kenny Olson]

That was they. You know what they did? They denied everything.

[Matthew]

They blamed Trump.

[Kenny Olson]

They blamed Trump. And on this day in Minnesota, sports, sports disappointment. History on March 7th was. On this day in 1954, the Lakers played a game with 12 foot baskets.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, that happened.

[Kenny Olson]

What are they supposed to be, 10?

[Steven Deaner]

10?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, somebody didn't adjust them.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, you know who? It's probably behind it way back in 19.

[Kenny Olson]

Sid.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, sir. Sidney.

[Kenny Olson]

On this day.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, we know those are fine.

[Kenny Olson]

On this day, March 7th in 1967.

[Chris Reivers]

Frank, Frank, was this the extended play version?

[Kenny Olson]

Fran Tarkenton traded away. Oh, I think he went to the Giants, if I'm not mistaken. On this day, on March 7th. On this day in sports history. March 7th. March 7th in 1967.

[Matthew]

Hold on, stop. Did you say 67?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes, I did. He was their quarterback from 61 to 67 through 67. And then he came back and he came back after a stint with the Rangers or the. What are they, The Giants.

[Steven Deaner]

Giants.

[Patrick]

Where's the party?

[Joe Soucheray]

We're limping of the week finish.

[Kenny Olson]

They really are. And finally, on this day, on March 7th. Joe, in 1988, sanctions were handed down against the Gopher basketball and football teams.

[Joe Soucheray]

Was it academic?

[Kenny Olson]

I doubt it. It was never an academic problem. I think we had some.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, yeah, that's what got. Clem was academic.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, whatever.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, it was the.

[Kenny Olson]

That's when it happened.

[Chris Reivers]

It was the feminine system of females in Spain.

[Joe Soucheray]

Courtney James. Courtney James had that paper.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, he did an outstanding paper on the menstrual side.

[Chris Reivers]

That's what it was. Her and Genghelhoff.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, that was on this day. That was Clems Dimash, 1988.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, that wasn't Cle. No, I just threw that in.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, let's just let you wrap it up.

[Joe Soucheray]

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