3/9 California's green climate rules could cost the state its oil refineries and 500 thousand jobs

Summary

Garage Logic – March 9, 2026

Episode Title: California's green climate rules could cost the state its oil refineries and 500 thousand jobs
Host: Joe Soucheray ("The Mayor")
Cast: Chris Reavers, Kenny Olson, John Hage, Johnny Height, and guests
Date: March 9, 2026

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Episode Overview

This Garage Logic episode dives into the consequences of California's aggressive climate legislation on its oil industry, the broader implications for jobs and national security, and the ripple effects for energy prices. The crew also covers topics ranging from the aftermath of a state high school hockey championship, concerns over youth character and sportsmanship, government fraud, declines in educational discipline, and lively banter about pop culture and local history.

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Main Topics & Key Discussion Points

1. Minnetonka Hockey Team’s Reaction: Sportsmanship and Culture

Timestamps: [02:53]–[12:00]

• The episode opens with Joe Soucheray reflecting on the Minnesota state high school hockey championships, specifically the behavior of the Minnetonka players after a heartbreaking double-overtime loss to Moorhead.
• Several hosts note the increase in unsportsmanlike conduct (e.g., rejecting or removing silver medals, refusing handshakes), lamenting the apparent trend of entitlement and poor sportsmanship among today's youth.
• This sparks a broader conversation about generational attitudes and the erosion of public decorum.
• Memorable quote:

  “You know how many kids in this state will never play in a state tournament? […] They played well. They're a great club. It's overtime, you morons. Anything can happen in overtime.”
  – Joe Soucheray [05:01]

• The group reminisces about their own upbringings and contrasts with present-day parental involvement and discipline, flagging this as a microcosm of a larger societal character problem.

2. Letter on Climate Data & Mainstream Narratives

Timestamps: [17:27]–[21:20]

• Joe reads a Wall Street Journal letter challenging popular climate change narratives by citing statistics indicating improvements or no significant negative trends in smog, hurricanes, wildfires, drought, food production, and sea-level rise.
• Emphasis is placed on how news often ignores these facts, highlighting media bias and societal expectations for disasters.
• Memorable quote:

  “My point is, we're doing fine. We're doing fine.”
  – Joe Soucheray [20:54]

3. California’s “Green Rule” Attack on Oil Industry

Timestamps: [27:08]–[33:22]

• Main segment: The hosts analyze Chevron’s warning to Governor Gavin Newsom and California regulators about the fallout from new “cap and invest” amendments for carbon emissions.
• Key concerns raised:
  • Potential elimination of California’s remaining oil refineries
  • Loss of over 536,000 jobs, many high-paying union positions
  • Increase in gas prices by at least $1/gallon by 2030
  • Threats to national security due to reduced domestic fuel production
• Joe and Kenny argue that this agenda is more about control of movement and employment than environmental improvement:

  “This has nothing to do with the environment. It has everything to do with control of movement and control of how you make a living...”—Joe Soucheray [30:57]

• Jokes about the Air Resources Board being called “CARB” (California ARB) and commentary on unelected boards driving sweeping changes.

4. Local and State Issues: Government Oversight & Fraud

Timestamps: [35:23]–[56:25]

• Large sums of cash (over $340 million/year) reportedly leaving Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, often carried by repeat couriers, sometimes in connection with organized fraud (“they declared it, so it’s not stopped”).
• Discussion of Minnesota’s Department of Human Services:
  • Testimony from whistleblower Fay Bernstein about experiencing retaliation for speaking up about irregularities and questioning leadership competence.
  • Reflection on the need for firings and systemic overhaul.

  “The Department of Human Services is too large. They have too many employees and they are attempting to govern far too many programs.”
  – Joe Soucheray [55:18]

• Mention of autism funding increases (from $1M to $300M in seven years), further highlighting lack of oversight and systemic vulnerabilities.

5. Education: Classroom Discipline Crisis

Timestamps: [71:21]–[77:25]

• Alarming statistics from Anoka district: 142 classroom evacuations (including 33 in kindergarten) this year alone due to student behavioral issues.
• State-level law currently prohibits suspensions for K-3rd grade; bill introduced to allow limited suspensions to restore order.
• Hosts raise concerns about learning loss, injury risk, and the broader failure of current educational standards and policies.

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Secondary Topics & Entertaining Asides

- National Politics & Media

• James Carville’s criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar for attacking white males [24:12]
• Discussion over ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith’s political commentary aspirations

- Airline and Banking Commentary

• Humorous exchanges about traveling with large suitcases of cash and airline/airport security efficacy [36:27-41:02]
• North American Banking Company segment

- Pop Culture: The Rockford Files Reboot

• Strong opinions on the reboot casting and the sacredness of classic TV figures [66:08]

- Personal, Local, & Historical Bits

• Confirmation names, favorite saints, and oddball religious anecdotes [78:01]
• Split Rock Lighthouse's preservation project and its place in Minnesota lore [57:24]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On declining public character:

  "You’re seeing it in people who don’t behave on airplanes, at gas stations, at the drugstore. We have a character problem."
  – Joe Soucheray [08:12]

• On California's climate policy:

  "It has everything to do with control...not the environment. Mysterians reject that which made America what it is."
  – Joe Soucheray [31:20]

• On Minnesota’s government scale:

  "We need to start over. The whole structure is wrong. It's too big. It's too overlapping. Too many ways to avoid responsibility."
  – Joe Soucheray [56:40]

• On the education crisis:

  "Just in that [Anoka] district, 33 evacuations in kindergarten alone. That’s one district. Wow, we got a problem."
  – Joe Soucheray [74:58]

• Humorous take on generational discipline:

  "My mother would slug me right in the throat."
  – Kenny Olson [07:56]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [02:53]—Discussion on high school hockey sportsmanship and broader cultural implications
• [17:27]—Letter challenging climate change disaster narratives
• [27:08]—Chevron’s letter, California climate regulations, and effects on oil/gas & jobs
• [35:23]—Airport cash exports and Minnesota DHS fraud discussion
• [51:50]—Fay Bernstein’s testimony on DHS retaliation and testimony replay
• [71:21]—Classroom discipline crisis in Minnesota elementary education
• [66:08]—Pop culture: Rockford Files reboot debate

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Tone & Style

• Conversational, candid, often humorous
• Regular playful ribbing among cast members
• Earnest concern on public policy, personal experiences, and local news

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

Tune in for a blend of skepticism about government overreach, frank critiques of current events, and Garage Logic’s trademark blend of Minnesota common sense, nostalgia, and sharp humor.
Each core discussion is peppered with personal anecdotes, listener questions, and local color—making this episode as instructive as it is entertaining.

Transcript

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reavers]

Hail the Flashlight King.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hail you. And now, from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Logic, with Chris Ree Weavers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the Krabby Coffee Shop, John Height in the newsroom, and of course, the rookie here is your Flashlight King, fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your man Joe Susher. I don't want to be that guy.

[John Hage]

No, you have to.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't want to be that guy.

[John Hage]

You know how to be that guy.

[Chris Reavers]

But if you lose, I owe it to you.

[John Hage]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

I watched the hockey game Saturday night. It was splendid. Game.

[John Hage]

What a day, huh?

[Chris Reavers]

What a day of hockey.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Morehead. Morehead Beat Minnetonka in double overtime. And it was just a hell of a game. Minnetonka was up what, three nothing at some point? Three one.

[John Hage]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

And it was a great game. But I think the behavior of the Minnetonka players following the game. I'm going to be very careful here. Their kids, they lost a heartbreaker, all right. But their behavior was very noticeable. I turned it off.

[Kenny Olson]

I turned it off as soon as the game concluded. What did I miss?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, they rejected winning a silver medal. They scoffed at it. They. They acted as though. I think some of them had it put around their neck, but then did they take it off? And others just grabbed it with their hand and did not allow it to be. They acted as though that was beneath them to accept the second place. And they.

[John Hage]

Not a lot of thank yous now.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm always watching for that for some reason. I've just noticed it's a sociological experiment to watch kids at a tournament. I don't care what it is. Girls basketball, boys hockey, whatever. Tournament. I always watch to see which kids say thank you when they get an award.

[John Hage]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

And of course, it's easier for the winning team to say thank you. They're excited, they're ebullient.

[Kenny Olson]

Use words like that.

[John Hage]

Yeah, I can't even spell it.

[Kenny Olson]

Don't even start with me on a Monday with.

[Joe Soucheray]

I would say What? Were there 20 players on the minnetonka

[John Hage]

team that acted poorly, that didn't.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think Mantaga got two thank yous out of a kid. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Did they think that they should have won?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that's what I was thinking, Kenny. You know, somebody's got to lose an overtime game. That's the way it works. It's going to happen, you know. You know how many kids in this state will never play in a state tournament? Either by the fate of their birth geographically or their parents didn't have the money to afford putting a kid through hockey, which in this day and age, you got to start him at about 3. It's a part time g. You know, they, the, these kids, they. They played well. They're a great club. It's overtime, you morons. Anything can happen in overtime.

[John Hage]

And it wasn't even a cheap, wonderful winning goal. Yes. I mean, even incredible great shot by that kid.

[Kenny Olson]

Did you watch heaving and war room?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes. No, I did not see that game.

[Kenny Olson]

This game is like watching your two best friends have a fist fight. I don't know who to root for. I kind of wanted hiving to win because we have lem up There. He's our guy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

But I wasn't sad when Waroed won. But what I wanted to bring up to you guys was there was a war road player that was bawling. I mean, and he could not stop. It was ugly.

[Joe Soucheray]

Crying.

[John Hage]

He was the. He scored the winning goal. He was number 20 and he's one of the coach's kids.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[John Hage]

So this was his last game. He scored the winning goal. No, no, he was joyful.

[Kenny Olson]

He was so happy that he had no control over his emotions and was literally sobbing really hard.

[John Hage]

He wasn't taunting. It was. It was from the heart.

[Kenny Olson]

No, absolutely from the heart. And at the same time, there were players on the ice absolutely sobbing. And you think about it, these teams

[Joe Soucheray]

out of there, they weren't as bad as mental.

[John Hage]

They were. They were. They were better.

[Kenny Olson]

I thought they were fine. Matthew. I didn't see anything bad. These kids have been playing each other since they were five years old.

[John Hage]

100% agree.

[Joe Soucheray]

I mean, they all know each other.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm sure that the Minnetonka kids, looking back on it, will realize how they behaved. Don't you?

[John Hage]

I think if you.

[Joe Soucheray]

Or don't they care?

[John Hage]

No, I think the coach was bad too. They had to call.

[Joe Soucheray]

It was goalsworthy.

[John Hage]

They had to call the team up twice to get to the handshake. Minnetonka would not go to the handshake.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. They were kneeling in clusters. They acted as though they shouldn't have to stand.

[John Hage]

And Moorhead was ready. They were both game.

[Joe Soucheray]

Good game.

[Kenny Olson]

Good game, good game, good game.

[John Hage]

It would be called twice to come for the handshake.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, that's bad.

[Chris Reavers]

The behavior is something, though, that's trickling down to even youth sports.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, let's.

[Chris Reavers]

I see it on occasion.

[Joe Soucheray]

There's much to be mind here if you want to go down this road. This is.

[John Hage]

You're the one that wants to rip kids.

[Joe Soucheray]

I didn't. I didn't. I haven't yet. I've been very careful.

[Chris Reavers]

Can I predict what you're.

[Kenny Olson]

This is parents.

[Chris Reavers]

I can predict where you're going.

[Kenny Olson]

My ass kicked. If I behaved like that at the end of a high school football.

[Chris Reavers]

That's kind of where I was going, Ken. Because there's no way anybody in my world would have.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, my God. My mother would slug me right in the throat.

[Chris Reavers]

But that is leading to. Not in every case, but in some cases, what we're now seeing with adulthood, it's a complete entitled society and an entitled generation.

[Joe Soucheray]

As I say, there's much to Be minded here, you know, the country as a whole. I'm not laying this on any Minnetonka kids.

[Chris Reavers]

Sounds like you are.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, no. But they got me thinking about the whole. The whole landscape of American culture. You're seeing this. You're seeing it in who don't behave on airplanes. You're seeing it in people who don't behave at gas stations. You're seeing it people who don't behave at the drugstore. It's just. It's a. You know, we have a character problem in the country. We just have a character problem, and we're not being helped with that by the current occupant of the White House.

[Chris Reavers]

So you're saying when I do the title of the podcast, I shouldn't say Joe blames all of the country's problems on the Minnetonka Skippers?

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't at all. No, they're. They're just symptomatic.

[Kenny Olson]

He found a way to blame Trump.

[Johnny]

Yeah. I have some folks even say sometimes when they lose elections, they don't accept it.

[Joe Soucheray]

See, we got two guys. Happy Monday, everybody.

[Kenny Olson]

There you go, G. Minutes in Manaka

[Joe Soucheray]

were just symptomatic of. Of a problem that they didn't start and they didn't create it. Just they were symptomatic of what's happening to us as a race of human people.

[Chris Reavers]

And plus, I was rooting for Morehead because I think they had the coolest nickname in high school.

[Joe Soucheray]

And again, to be further making an effort to not be that hard on the Minnetonka kids, we'd have to go back. Let's go back 50 years and get and watch a tape of the championship game. And for all I know, I don't remember. For all I know, the losing team might have been the same way. I don't remember. But this was. I don't know. This one jumped out at me. It's so noticeable for a variety of reasons.

[John Hage]

I think the ripping off of the medals before they even turned around and got back, as soon as it was on their shoulders, I thought was very disrespectful. It showed me you don't have much character. They might be all really good kids today, and they're in school and they're

[Joe Soucheray]

nice kids, but you know how lucky you are to even make a team.

[Johnny]

Right.

[John Hage]

Let alone second place.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's a big deal. And kids, Skippers, it was overtime. Somebody had to lose it. It's just overtime can happen in a millisecond, which it did was what, two on one? Break. And the kid took one hell of a shot. And he scored. Bfd. Somebody has to lose. Kids.

[Kenny Olson]

Now, these Minnetonka. You're losers.

[John Hage]

These Minnetonka kids and the Edina kids, those are all the kids that couldn't get into St. Thomas Academy, right?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, they're losers.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, Joe makes a good point. Burnsville doesn't even have its own hockey team anymore.

[Joe Soucheray]

Kids don't know how lucky you were to even be in that spotlight. It's just amazing.

[Kenny Olson]

How awesome is it that not only did Minnetonka lose, but so did the cake eaters over in Edina?

[John Hage]

Yeah, they didn't like that either. It didn't end well.

[Kenny Olson]

So good.

[Joe Soucheray]

It was. It was fun to see Northern Minnesota have a rebound like that with War Road Nibbies, you know, that was cool.

[John Hage]

Again, like Kenny said, those guys passed each other on the road playing the same games. I mean, it's like Polaris and Articat,

[Kenny Olson]

you know, it's just. You're either one or the other up there.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. But holy mackerel. The quality of play is just so,

[Kenny Olson]

so fun to watch.

[Joe Soucheray]

Extraordinary. Holy mackerel.

[John Hage]

What's funny is they're high schoolers, and you watching the game, you're expected that they're gonna be that good. I mean, these are high school kids. They're some of the best. But crisp passes, no look past. I mean, I would have got hit in the head so many times by.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

But they started when they were one.

[Joe Soucheray]

When I was a kid there, every team that even made it to the tournament had a line that was lousy.

[John Hage]

Yeah, that fourth or fifth line or, you know.

[Josh Arnold]

Right.

[Kenny Olson]

He also ran Kenny and Matthew line 100%.

[John Hage]

Last man cut.

[Joe Soucheray]

I remember one year, you have to look it up. Patrick Henry made the tournament. Well, you know, I'm sure for the first and only time. And one kid had the bad skates. You know, you get them at the hardware store in July on sale, where they had the white toes, but the boots were black. You know, cardboard skates. It's just these kids are so talented, though, and they all starting at the age of five and, you know, they've been coddled quite a bit. They, they, they. I'm sure they've been told how great they are and. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, along with the coddling, though, there's a hell of a lot of hard work to be able to skate at that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, hell, yes.

[John Hage]

Minneapolis, Patrick Henry.

[Joe Soucheray]

Now, let me guess the year.

[John Hage]

Minneapolis, Camden.

[Joe Soucheray]

Do you have the year?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Let me guess. 64.

[John Hage]

A little earlier than that.

[Joe Soucheray]

63.

[John Hage]

What is this? The price is right.

[Joe Soucheray]

59. 65,960.

[Johnny]

They also made it 64, if. Right. The first gas.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm thinking of 64.

[Johnny]

They took third place in 64.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, I don't think they've been back since 1964.

[Kenny Olson]

Did the goalie have pillows taped to his legs?

[John Hage]

No, it's Life magazines.

[Joe Soucheray]

They work too. And yet you go back, I mean, look at the talent of John Mayosich in the 40s playing for a high school team. I mean, the best have always risen to the state tournament, but it's just that the best are now so phenomenal compared to what they were. It's just truly amazing.

[Kenny Olson]

The one thing missing this year was Louie. I didn't hear him.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, Louie wasn't part of the.

[Chris Reavers]

He's got to get six months in one day in Florida, Joe.

[John Hage]

The fact that I haven't seen him at the airport recently is.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I hope he's okay all the time.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I think it's. They're getting a little more strict about the six months in one day bit because I don't think he's done many wild games outside of Florida either.

[John Hage]

No, but I know. I know some people that are taking advantage of that and they are.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, you know, you mentioned the training, Joe. Rookie mentioned the expo that they had over the weekend at River Center. Yes, I saw a live shot from there.

[Kenny Olson]

The.

[Chris Reavers]

What do you call it, the simulator where the kids are trying to move with the Google glasses on.

[John Hage]

Yes.

[Chris Reavers]

That's unfreaking believable. Those are the training devices that these kids are using now.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, as good as Quinn Hughes is, and he's what, only about 25, 26, something like that, I predict he's just the tip of the iceberg. There's gonna be those Cullen kids on Moorhead are gonna be the next Jack and Quinn Hughes there. You're going to see what I foresee this such an improvement in puck handling through just through increased hand eye coordination. You're going to see magical things done with stuff. You're going to see stuff guys can do the stuff. You're going to see toe drags and put the puck on the stick and then just carry it around for a while. You're going to see all kinds of weird stuff that just is going to be increasingly fascinating to watch.

[John Hage]

What do you think is the most difficult move? For me it is that pass in front of the. When the guy puts it between his leg and shoots it on goal. I don't know how they do that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I still think that there's some, there's a basic. That always seems to win out and that just flat out. Aerobic fitness. Moorhead seemed to be getting less tired than Minnetonka.

[John Hage]

The Herbie factor, the usa.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, it could be. I mean, Quinn Hughes, I don't know what he does for training, but he can, he can take six minute shifts, for God's sake. You know, that to me is the hardest thing, is to stay fresh and get your win back promptly when somebody's

[John Hage]

hitting you against the boards or you're not.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wayne Gretzky could have 110 heartbeat, sit on the bench for 30 seconds, his heart would automatically zip back down to 60. That's the kind of shape he was in. That's the amazing thing.

[Chris Reavers]

Aerobic fitness is also the principal element of the double pump layup.

[Joe Soucheray]

Would you not agree? How was your aerobic fitness?

[John Hage]

You had to. I would take that huge medicine ball, steal it from the athletic club, and I would work with that, try to double pump it around. And then the basketball was just as

[Joe Soucheray]

light as a feather. It did. It felt different.

[Chris Reavers]

I can't tell you how much money I would pay for a video of the double pump layup.

[John Hage]

I bet there's nothing. I wish there was, too, because I was very entertaining.

[Joe Soucheray]

Can I read you a letter that was in the Wall Street Journal Saturday?

[Chris Reavers]

What if we say no?

[John Hage]

Are you leaving the subject of hunting?

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm leaving the subject because there's nothing to be gained by ripping kids except to rip them for a bit.

[John Hage]

It felt pretty good because I was mad as hell when I watched it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I think we did it in a way that we're not. Got it. We're all right. Yeah, we're fine.

[Chris Reavers]

We'll be all right.

[Joe Soucheray]

Bill Nye, this, this is the letter. Bill Nye, the science guy, invokes everything except science in his criticism of the Environmental Protection Agency's rescission of its 2009 finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health. Then the story was the EPA is wrong about greenhouse gases. That was the. That was the letter that Nye wrote to the Wall Street Journal. And this guy's responding to it, saying, you've, you've looked at everything except science. Bill. Contrary to the EPA 292009 predictions, there has been a decline in smog levels from 1980 to 2024. There has been no trend in hurricane numbers or intensity since 1973. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds no change in Global flooding. There has been no trend in the EPA heat wave index since 1895, except for the 1930s. Several studies show a decline in net mortality from heat and cold. US wildfires have declined sharply since 1926, and global wildfire acreage declined 24% between 1998 and 2015. Global droughts have declined about 0.5% per decade since 1950. Global per capita flood production. I'm sorry. Global per capita food Production has increased 40% since 1980. And the latest peer reviewed research reports no acceleration in. No acceleration globally in sea level rise. The science guy's argument is fact free. Signed Benjamin Zicher, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Long Beach, Washington. And yet you would think none of that was true. Because news gatherers, however, intentionally or unintentionally, will always lead their news with a flood or a wildfire or a hurricane or whatever, ignoring the facts that A, we've always had them and B, that does not mean they're necessarily worse than they've ever been. Now, when you burn down Pacific Palisades in la, you think, holy mackerel, that's terrible. But they didn't even have water to put out the fire because the fire basins weren't filled with and whatever. My point is, we're doing fine. We're doing fine. But I noted today a headline that got me thinking about that letter in the paper. And this is from the local CBS outfit. Spring flooding risk is below average in Minnesota this Year. National Weather Service says. It's almost as though. Are we supposed to be disappointed in that? That's great news, isn't it? Yes, it is great news. And we're headed for apparently a very calm spring and no flooding, which is wonderful news.

[John Hage]

Red River's okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm not sure the headline. I'm just having fun with this, but it almost sounds. It's like when traffic accidents over Labor Day weekend are reported. It's almost like there's a record we're supposed to beat. You know, we're glad when they're reduced. And same with floods. There's not going to be flooding this year. Modest snowpack and modest rains are going to result in everyone getting along just fine as we transition into the wonderful warm months ahead. And this little spurt we had yesterday in the day apparently is not going to last. It's already gone. We're. We're going to get chillier and chillier is what I'm seeing. Isn't that right, Chris?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Can I tell you about ecofund?

[Chris Reavers]

Please do.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reavers]

I bet she was hopping yesterday.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yesterday was Sunday. They weren't open.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, yeah, that's really.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't think Eco Fund's open on Sunday.

[Chris Reavers]

I thought it was Monday.

[Joe Soucheray]

Not many people are open on Sunday. Sundays and Mondays. I believe Ecofund is closed.

[Chris Reavers]

I got you.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, you gotta have some time with the family.

[Chris Reavers]

Right?

[Joe Soucheray]

Right. Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville. You all know who he is. He's got the funny voice. He's condemned. Representative Ilhan Omar wants her out of the party because she keeps attacking white men. And he said, you know, that's a lot of our voters. We can't. Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith asked James Carville about a recently resurfaced clip from May of 2025. When the strategist had challenged Omar to leave the Democratic Party and start her own party, Smith asked him to explain what caused this expression of frustration. Carville replied that Omar has some admirable qualities and is liked by many. But she started attacking white males. And I'm going to say, wait a minute, let's stop. All right? In 2024, 72% of the people who voted were white. That's just a fact. Of that, 72, probably 48% or 48.5% were male. He then concluded that his calculation that about 33% of the people who are gonna vote are gonna be white males. Well, it's stupid. It's just a stupid idea to attack 33% of the voters.

[Chris Reavers]

Quick aside.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Was the world really clamoring for more Stephen A. Smith? The guy's on 19 different ESPN shows and now we need to have him give us his social commentary on.

[Joe Soucheray]

Isn't he running for president? That was a Stephen Smith. God, no.

[Johnny]

Yeah, he's even.

[John Hage]

He was.

[Chris Reavers]

He had. Yeah, he's mentioned it, but I don't

[Kenny Olson]

think he's officially run for Jackass of the Year.

[Joe Soucheray]

What is he an ESPN guy?

[Chris Reavers]

Well, yes, but now he's doing this political commentary as well.

[Kenny Olson]

But yeah, he's a loudmouth hot take

[John Hage]

bomb throw word guy meathead.

[Joe Soucheray]

Carville continued. And so what I would say to Congressman Omar, why don't you be a democratic socialist of America, do what AOC did and then if they win, the truth of that is they share a lot of ideological issues in common with Omar. But maybe you should do like a parliamentary government. We'll let you in the governing coalition, but not the electoral coalition. But we cannot. We have to get this mentality out that we can win national elections. You got to get rid of the mentality that we can win national elections without white people because you can't. Carville said that we can somehow another win an election without white males is insanity. It's literally mathematical insanity and cultural insanity. Thank you, sir. Yeah, I don't think that was a year ago. I don't think Ilhan is going to start her own party. Do you think she's.

[John Hage]

She's comfortable. She makes a good living.

[Johnny]

Stephen A. Did tell Sean Hannity he's not running for the presidency.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that's a relief. Or maybe it isn't. Maybe he'd be a Cracker Jack president.

[Kenny Olson]

Which one of you two is that you attacking the microphone?

[Joe Soucheray]

I have a lot of trouble with it.

[John Hage]

It's all his chest hair is getting curled up in there.

[Chris Reavers]

A lot of mic infractions in here today.

[Joe Soucheray]

And another guy. Another guy.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Furthermore, who wants to be president? Newsom.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, good Lord.

[Joe Soucheray]

Gavin Newsom.

[Chris Reavers]

Wait, who is he addressing this time? Because he likes to change the way he talks to a given audience.

[Joe Soucheray]

Now this is Chevron is sounding a dire alarm, especially now, I would imagine, right. Warning California Governor Gavin Newsom and state regulators that a newly proposed cap and invest amendment or a death knell for California's remaining refineries. The energy giant warns the move will kill more than a half million jobs, threaten national security and spike gas prices by more than a dollar per gallon. All to fuel a state run shakedown of the energy sector. The Chevron wrote This in a letter addressed to NUSIB and obtained by the California Globe. I'm unfamiliar with what that is. The proposed regulation will cripple the survivability of the state's remaining refineries, which will result in California losing the entire industry to this program. Chevron President Andy Walz wrote. This regulation will increase transportation and aviation fuel prices for consumers. It will risk significant job losses, including many high paying union jobs, while reducing funding for essential public services. It will upend California's fuels market and threaten critical energy and national security assets. The California Air Resources Board, they are unelected. Is aiming to make companies cleaner by aggressively lowering the cap on how much total pollution is allowed in the state. Specifically, the board is proposing to pull 118.3 million allowances out of the state's market between 2027 and 2030 and has more recently increased its carbon reduction target to 90% by the year 2045. Chevron's president wrote the that's a cut line. Walz warns that the green energy agenda comes with a price tag for working families, writing that Chevron projections show a $1 per gallon of gas increase by 2030 and an estimated 536,707 industry jobs at risk. Now granted this is an oil executive telling you this, but what is there to argue with in his point? California already has the highest gas prices in the nation, with the current state average at $4.81 a gallon, according to AAA. What will that be if this Iran situation continues? I don't want to think about that. Six, seven, eight bucks a gallon? What's your number?

[John Hage]

What's your number?

[Joe Soucheray]

These impacts will fall most heavily on lower income households that spend a disproportionate share of income on transportation, increasing costs without addressing the underlying driver of California's gasoline prices. Walsh said affordability is a top concern for California's residents in Chevron, and these proposed amendments would only exacerbate the high cost of living in this state.

[Kenny Olson]

That's what they want though. They want to change behaviors. They don't want you in a car. They want you poor people to bike or take the bus or walk, which

[Joe Soucheray]

has nothing to do with the environment. It has everything to do with control of movement and control of how you make a living, where you make a living, and if you make a living that we can, that we'll approve this. This has nothing to do with the environment. It never has. It never will. Read the letter to the Wall Street Journal that I just read you.

[Kenny Olson]

How fun is it that the California Air Resource Board is called carb.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right, Right. But they're unelected. Yeah, they're mysterious. Refinery closures in California reduce fuel supply resilience on the west coast, increasing risk to military readiness and national security. Walsh said maintaining a stable policy framework that supports continued operation of California refineries is therefore not only an economic and consumer affordability issue, but also a matter of broader energy security and national defense. Mysterians reject that which made America what it is. They reject American convention and tradition and have devoted their lives to chipping away at what's wrong with it when it comes to the use of fossil fuels. They have settled on pollution. We don't like pollution. That's wrong. You're ruining the earth. The truth is, you're not ruining the earth, but that's how they're going after it, under the guise of the climate change movement, which again, has nothing to do with climate change. Zero. And so what they want to do is eliminate refineries in California. And here's a guy who obviously has a vested interest, Chevron pointing out, well, that if you do that, here's what follows. Because the mysterians don't care what follows, because they want to achieve what follows. They want you crippled. It's going backwards, and it's in every facet of life that you look at. Shoplifting used to be a crime. Now you got a legislator in St. Paul who said, well, let's look at it.

[John Hage]

You can need it.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, maybe one guy emailed me and said that what Pinto was. We were talking about something that came up Friday. There's a St. Paul legislator, Dave Pinto, who actually said that, you know, maybe shoplifting has a worth to people or something to that effect. We've invited him on the air. He's had his chance to respond. He won't. But an emailer pointed out that what Pinto said was, we need to take a look at organized theft. And the emailer said that maybe he thinks there's a value in the theft, just mere being organized

[Chris Reavers]

because.

[Joe Soucheray]

As opposed to random.

[Chris Reavers]

Because we can tax it, maybe because it's a business.

[Joe Soucheray]

Maybe that's it. I don't know. But that's where you are with the gas in California. Now, if the Strait of Hormuz remains bottlenecked and 20% of the world's oil can't get through it, I have no idea what will happen locally. I'm old enough to have gone through the Jimmy Carter era gas shortages. There were lines waiting to get gas around the corner. I Do remember that you had to pick your spot to go get gas.

[Chris Reavers]

Did you have to take a number? How did it work?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, you just got in line and went and then hoped that when you got to the pump they still had some gas. We're all out.

[Kenny Olson]

What I like is the President's advice to these ship captains. Essentially he told them, why don't you grow a pair, pal? Drive that ship through that canal.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I don't blame the ships if they're not doing that.

[Kenny Olson]

Grow up here. I'm on with the President.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, let's go here, says he, says he who has never had a pair.

[Kenny Olson]

Do you want me to rub them up against the microphone? I can.

[Chris Reavers]

I think he was referring to the President.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm not talking about you.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, maybe more than that. We know you've had a rest of my chin there.

[John Hage]

We know you've had a pair or two in your life.

[Joe Soucheray]

He was too quick to take offense. Ladies and gentlemen.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm ready.

[Joe Soucheray]

I never, never met you. I,

[Chris Reavers]

I assume you were gonna move on, but we've got some pretty interesting stuff. I'm sure Johnny's got it in the news. What do you call it here? The House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee is taking place right now. And wow, we've got some stuff that's gone on public record.

[Joe Soucheray]

Somebody else do it, tell me, bleep it, you're done. I mean, what do you want from me? This show done more to lay out fraud than any entity in the United States. We just don't have an investigative arm nor do we have prosecutorial privileges on this show. We can't go arrest somebody.

[Chris Reavers]

Former state representative Kurt Doubt. Is that how you pronounce it? Kurt Doubt just testified to the Fraud and Oversight committee that Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport flies out more cash than all other airports combined.

[Kenny Olson]

The dollars going out of the Minneapolis airport, $350 million last year and 350

[Joe Soucheray]

million the year before.

[Kenny Olson]

99% greater than the largest airports in the country. We're the 16th largest.

[Joe Soucheray]

We have more money going out than

[Kenny Olson]

basically all of the other airports combined.

[John Hage]

We're number one.

[Josh Arnold]

We're number one.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, we're to assume that he's referring to cash that was gotten illegally.

[Chris Reavers]

One would think.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, Rookie, can I show up at the airport with a suitcase that has $500,000 in cash in it?

[John Hage]

You can, but you will be pulled aside.

[Joe Soucheray]

And what will be done to be

[John Hage]

if you show that you have receipts for that and it's not ill gotten gains, you either get your Money back at a certain time or you get it back right there. The drug dealers don't get their money back.

[Chris Reavers]

I have a follow up question.

[John Hage]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

How many of the people running security or TSA go.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm going to go on, break you.

[Kenny Olson]

If you carry, if you. If you possess over ten grand, you must report it to the Customs and Border Protection Agency.

[John Hage]

And don't think that hiding it in a checked bag is going to.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, no, but stop if doubt is correct. What do you say 350 million cash went out of the airport last year

[Chris Reavers]

and 350 the year before that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, how's it going out if there are these steps in place to stop that? Are you telling that that must mean that somebody signed off on that much cash flying out of here?

[John Hage]

I don't know where he's getting his stats and I'm not an official spokesman for the airport.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, I know.

[John Hage]

I don't know how it could be that high. Or is it, I don't know on what day if there was that amount of money. Whenever we had a bust when I worked for Sun Country Airlines and they stopped guys in the jet bridge and they had stacks of money, word spread like wildfire. Did you hear about the bust on H2 or whatever it was? So if that. And I have not heard of anybody having that large amount of money or

[Chris Reavers]

are they just doing it with such great frequency? In other words, it's $9,750 per.

[Kenny Olson]

The guy that said that. Well versed in hyperbole.

[Joe Soucheray]

What? Gabe is showing us something now that he has on his computer. What are we looking at? I'm just showing. There were studies that the Department of Homeland security did and 70 to 95% of the trials of mock things that they're not supposed to bring, like weapons or explosives, did not get flagged by security.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, great.

[Joe Soucheray]

So 70 to 95% of counterfeit items made it through their trials. Well, what good is Homeland Security?

[Kenny Olson]

Who's working Homeland Security these days?

[Joe Soucheray]

Right now, apparently nobody. Is that correct?

[John Hage]

Is there an opening?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, no. Aren't flight delays incredible?

[Kenny Olson]

Right now, TSA is what I mean,

[John Hage]

TSA is if their workers are showing up, they're not getting paid. Right now, to their credit, many of the TSA people that I work with every day are showing up for work. There are some that are not coming in. So the lines once you get through the holdups are once everybody gets through the queue line and they have to be processed, they may not have enough people to open every single lane. So then There becomes a backup when people are taking their stuff out of their belt cars.

[Joe Soucheray]

If they take my suitcase through the X ray machine and they see all that money, it's gonna get stopped, isn't it?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

According to what Gabe just found, 70% of the time that's not getting stopped.

[John Hage]

It should get.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes, John Height.

[Johnny]

Here's where Kurt Doubt got those numbers, it appears. This is a story from January. US Federal authorities have launched an investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in cash Transported through Minneapolis St. Paul International by airline passengers over recent years. The Tennessee Star reporting in. The inquiry focuses on large sums discovered and checked and carry on luggage most often linked to travelers of Somali descent departing Minnesota on International RO. Federal officials say TSA officers flagged 340 million in outbound cash in 2024, followed by nearly 350 million in 2025. The money was frequently carried by a limited number of repeat couriers, with individual trips sometimes involving seven figure sums. Despite those totals, many travelers had completed required customs declarations limiting immediate enforcement options.

[John Hage]

So if they declared that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Jesus.

[John Hage]

They weren't flagged or stopped because they had already, they said, by the way,

[Joe Soucheray]

hey, I've got, I've taken 600 grand here. Here's my papers. What would the papers show?

[John Hage]

That's what I'm trying to find out. How they got it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wow. Do you need to. It's a bad sign when the suitcase says Safari restaurant.

[John Hage]

Yes. Acme Daycare center and autism.

[Joe Soucheray]

Go ahead, mister.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

It could be a drawer, it could be anything.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Soucheray]

You know what I like to see about my chemical?

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, I.

[Joe Soucheray]

Cabinet. If I don't have it, you don't need it.

[Chris Reavers]

Rook, what's in your chemical?

[Joe Soucheray]

You have a chemical cabinet, Rook, I

[John Hage]

will honestly say I have all three Seafoam products in my. It's a shelf. I don't have a cabinet. I have a shelf.

[Chris Reavers]

You're supposed to say, she has one. That was the line.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh.

[Joe Soucheray]

You're not supposed to be trying to set him up. Here's John Height in his newsroom.

[Johnny]

Thank you, Joe. This news brought to you by North American banking company Legislative news today, a new bill could request require Minnesotans under 21 to complete driver's education before they can obtain a license. Currently, State law mandates 30 hours of driver's ed for those 17 and under. But under the new proposal by state Rep. Andrew Myers, it would require every new driver to take driver's ed before getting behind the wheel. And statistics do seem to back the proposal. Statistics show drivers aged 18 to 20 who skip driver's ed are 75% more likely to get a traffic ticket and 24% more likely to be involved in a fatal crash.

[Chris Reavers]

Wait a minute. I always thought that that was a requirement. That hasn't been.

[Johnny]

Guess not.

[Chris Reavers]

Holy. No wonder we have the worst drivers in the world right now.

[Johnny]

17 and under. If you're 17 and under, it's required. But if you're 18. No, it's not required.

[Chris Reavers]

Holy crap. Does that apply? Sorry. Sorry, Johnny. Does that also apply to guys trying to get a class A?

[Joe Soucheray]

He doesn't know that, Chris.

[Chris Reavers]

He just did the bleep and storm.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, he doesn't have the truckers in there.

[John Hage]

Okay, Mother trucker.

[Chris Reavers]

Sorry.

[Kenny Olson]

You tour like Archie Bunker and Meathead.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, Kenny.

[Kenny Olson]

Yelling at each other. Too bad you aren't. You're not as happy as I am

[John Hage]

and you're like Mr. Jefferson.

[Kenny Olson]

Maybe you take an example from me.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Johnny]

Bill. A bill sponsored by Representative John. A bill sponsored by Representative John Koznick, a Republican from Lakeville, would give the MnDOT folks the power to authorize driverless vehicle companies spelling out insurance requirements to requiring autonomous vehicles comply with state traffic laws. Driverless vehicle testing has already started in Minnesota, but for now, anyway, it has to be under the supervision of humans behind the wheel. Well, with this bill, that would change. Autonomous vehicle company Waymo began testing its computer automated vehicles in Minneapolis in late 2025. But says eventually it'll launch passenger service in the Twin Cities. The road to driverless cabs and other vehicles in the state will have to go through the Legislature. Waymo doesn't plan to launch its service in Minnesota until the state enacts new laws to set up basic regulations. Representative Koznick says his bill was a work in progress, but that it would create what he called a clear and predictable framework for driverless cars. In In Minnesota, lawmakers heard testimony Chris mentioned this briefly on efforts to prevent fraud in state programs during a committee hearing this morning. A recent report said that staying ahead of fraudsters is key to tackling fraud in the state. Tim o' Malley is the director of program integrity for the state and he wrote that in order to achieve that, Minnesota's investigative capacity needs to be strengthened, he said, as does its fraud fighting technology and enrollment screen training for prospective providers. O' Malley this morning said there also needs to be better training for state employees so that fraud doesn't fall through the cracks, a point many DHS employees say they agree with. However, at the same time, one DHS employee, Fay Bernstein, thank you. Testified that DHS has retaliated against those who flagged possible fraud. The employee added that unless there's a mass firing at dhs, she flies feels the fraud will continue. She told the committee, I'm very much questioning the competency of the leadership at the Department of Human Services. There just really simply has to be firings and I hate to say that. I hate to see people fired, but there's no other way to turn this around.

[H]

Tony thank you Chair Robbins and members. My name is Fay Bernstein. B E R N S T E I N I first want to just make a comment on the report and say the word that I think no one from DHS wants to hear again. But that's retaliation, the R word. I am a 20 year employee. I'm a current employee of DHS and I am one of the very, very few DHS employees who can publicly speak about what the environment is there. We have a very large. You probably have heard about the large group of employees who anonymously tweet and anonymously work with law enforcement and the ola, et cetera. I have chosen to be public. I think in the it has certainly harmed me professionally, personally. It has harmed me in many ways to be public. But I feel like we have to just openly speak about the conditions at the Department of Human Services. The retaliation that I experienced was about seven years ago. I, in the course of doing my job, came across Some contract irregularities that I would consider in the scope of what we talk about today to be quite minor. But as minor as they were, it was not something that DHS leadership could hear. They just couldn't hear it. And as a result of me speaking about it, I was walked out of the building. I was banned from all DHS owned and licensed property. So if you can imagine, the rest of the public can go to the Anderson building and can apply for snap. And I could not. I could not use the atm, I could not use the cafeteria. I was not allowed in the building. I was investigated. That went on for months and months. I can only imagine the cost to the state of that investigation. And I've never spoken out about the results of the investigation, but I guess this would be as good a time as any. Any. The results of months and months of investigation and asking my coworkers for examples of when I was racist, when I was threatening to do harm to leadership. The result of all of that was that I was found to have questioned the competency and the decision making of the leadership in the Behavioral Health Division. And I was found to have held up contracts that had compliance problems. So let me just say I plead guilty to both of those things. I absolutely did both of those things. And I am doing both of those things. Things today. I am very much questioning the competency of the leadership of the Department of Human Services. And I hate to do that because,

[Joe Soucheray]

all right, the Department of Human Services is too large. They have too many employees and they are attempting to govern far too many programs. And occasionally you'll get Fay Bernstein to come along and raised these red flags. And then as we learned there, she was quickly hushed up and she said she was dealing with minor infractions. So can you imagine the pressure that's put on people who are trying to blow the whistle on millions of dollars?

[Kenny Olson]

Is she employed by them again?

[Joe Soucheray]

Sounds like she has retained her employment.

[Chris Reavers]

She's just. She was removed from certain. What would you call it?

[John Hage]

Committees?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, committees or whatever. I can read you the. It's six and a half minutes long, so it is long, but I thought it was worth playing. She was barred from DHS and investigated over accusations of racism. We heard all that and apparently, I don't know, this is the caption of the video. I don't know if she said this personally, but basically her claim is that the Walz administration tried to cover this up.

[Joe Soucheray]

I have no doubt whatsoever that they did try to cover it up. No doubt at all.

[Kenny Olson]

Did she also testify in D.C. i don't think so.

[Chris Reavers]

I don't think.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

I think she might have.

[Chris Reavers]

I can look it up. Ken, Unless you're going to.

[Joe Soucheray]

The point is, and it can't happen. We need to start over. The whole structure is wrong. It's too big. It's too overlapping. It's too redundant. There are too many ways to avoid responsibility. It's just a bad, bad setup in Minnesota.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, look at last week when Walz and Ellison were grilled in Washington. A 34,000% increase in autism funding in the span of seven years.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think it was more like 3,000%.

[Chris Reavers]

No, it went from.

[Joe Soucheray]

Went from a million to 300 million. I don't know. Whatever percentage that is, it's a lot lot.

[John Hage]

There it is. Summarized.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yep.

[Johnny]

Restoration work began this week to protect an oft photographed historic landmark from the wear and tear it faces from its perch on a cliff along the north shore of Lake Superior. The months long project at Split Rock Lighthouse includes replacing damaged masonry and installing sensors to monitor real time moisture data at the more than century old structure. Scaffolding will go up around the lighthouse later this month. If you're planning on visit in March or April, you can stop by the historic buildings with a hardhat tour in May. Buildings will again be available with a regular site admission. Although access is subject to change. Sensors placed around the building will keep track of humidity and temps to help keep the building at a consistent level. Project expected to be done in late June. According to a news release from the historical Society, a trails and landscape project to begun last year should wrap up around. Around the same time.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm all for maintaining lighthouses, but how did. How does taking a picture degrade a lighthouse?

[Kenny Olson]

That's the most overrated site in Minnesota.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, it's not really.

[Kenny Olson]

It's that Glensheen.

[Joe Soucheray]

This is from Mr. Happy

[John Hage]

with a big pickup truck and a thumper.

[Kenny Olson]

I would pay to see that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Not. I need some place jump my can.

[John Hage]

Better get my class A together.

[Kenny Olson]

Why don't you go over to Hibbing and look at an open mind pit.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is that where they are?

[Kenny Olson]

Hibbing?

[Johnny]

Sure.

[John Hage]

Why don't we.

[Joe Soucheray]

North Shore.

[Kenny Olson]

Somewhere north of St.

[Joe Soucheray]

Cloud. Cherished site in the state.

[Kenny Olson]

It's overrated. There's nothing to see.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's a big.

[Kenny Olson]

The parking lot is more admirable than the building.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, it's a beautiful light.

[Kenny Olson]

Wonderful parking lot.

[Joe Soucheray]

Nice light.

[Johnny]

Give me a break before we take a break in here from Chris Reivers. Just let me do it once More.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, Kenny. Okay, Kenny.

[Chris Reavers]

I have a question for Linda Keller and Keller Tax Service. I know she's a daily listener to

[Joe Soucheray]

the how much trouble my question for Linda is can't she be a leader of the group that we can all stop paying our taxes until we have competent government?

[Chris Reavers]

I'm gonna doubt she wants to raise her hand for that particular position, but I could be wrong. Keller, you can book your appointment that way or call her directly at 320-352-0013. We're inching closer to one month to get your taxes in, by the way. So here's my question for Linda. If I want to when I have to write my estate check, can I put in the comment section for autism fraud, or will I get audited like a friend of ours did a couple of years ago?

[Joe Soucheray]

You don't want to do that.

[John Hage]

Okay, Leave well enough alone.

[Chris Reavers]

But as long as you're on that website, kellertaxservice.com, you can see all sorts of very cool updated tax information. Linda is on top of it all. You know what? I've heard from so many of you. G. Ellers. So thank you for trusting Linda Keller with your tax service needs. And you know what? She handles all types of returns for all types of people, families, businesses. You don't even have to live in the state of Minnesota. And Linda Keller will get you taken care of once again. Kellertaxservice.com or 320-352-0013 please make sure you mention that you heard about her on the Garage Logic podcast. Johnny Height.

[Johnny]

Thanks, Chris. National and international news. Iran has launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf countries, while more than a week of heavy US And Israeli bombardment continues today. Iranian state TV announced early Monday that Ayatollah Mujtaba Khamenei has been named Supreme Leader in defiance of threats by US President Trump. Khamenei, who is seen as even more hardline than his father, will now be in charge of of Iran's armed forces and any decision about Tehran's nuclear program.

[Joe Soucheray]

So he's insane, too. Just like the old man. Yeah.

[Johnny]

The appointment marks a new sign of defiance by Iran's embattled leadership. After more than a week of heavy US And Israeli bombardment, oil prices surged again today, leading to more worries about higher energy costs, fueling inflation, and lead to less spending by US Consumers. On the stock market today, it's actually gotten better, started very badly. It was down about 8 to 900 to start the day down right now, down 481.

[Joe Soucheray]

Only 400.

[Johnny]

Yeah.

[John Hage]

You know, a lot of times you want to do what your old man did or follow in his footsteps, but I think this would be one where I'd say, you know what? Let this cup pass me by. I. I'm not interested in this job.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, you mean the kid who got the job from the old man? Yeah, but the kid's is nuts. As the old man. That's true, too.

[Johnny]

Nasdaq down 55 and the S&P down around 40. Meanwhile, the US military announced a seventh American service member has died from injuries sustained during an Iran attack on troops stationed in Saudi Arabia. According to the US Department of War, Sergeant Benjamin Pennington, 26 years old of Glendale, Kentucky, was injured during an enemy attack on March 1. The first six deaths were in army reservists or army reservists, excuse me, killed in a March 1 attack in a Kuwaiti port. The death toll, meanwhile, continues to rise. The war has killed at least 1230 people in Iran, 397 in Lebanon and 11 in Israel. Israel, according to officials in those countries, the first significant disagreement of the Iran war between the US And Israel has developed over some Israeli strikes yesterday on 30 Iranian oil facilities. Reporters say they're finding out that the US Sources say the strikes went far beyond what the US Expected. The Axios report cited a US official, Israeli official, and a source with knowledge. Late Saturday, Israel struck the oil facility, sending huge balls of fire and smoke into the air and rocking Tehran and neighboring cities of Karaj with explosions. The Axios report continued. The US Is concerned Israeli strikes on infrastructure that serves ordinary Iranians could backfire, strategically rallying Iranian society to support the regime in driving up oil prices.

[Joe Soucheray]

I bet John Kerry is upset. He didn't like war because it polluted.

[Johnny]

Did you see? I shouldn't laugh. Some of those fires.

[Joe Soucheray]

Not good. The air in Tehran is not suitable for human consumption.

[Johnny]

Well, make of this what you will. Russia is providing Iran with intelligence about the locations and movements of American troops, ships and aircraft, according to multiple, multiple people familiar with U.S. intelligence reporting on the issue. The first indication Moscow has sought to get involved in the war. Much of that intelligence Russia has shared with Iran has been imagery from Moscow's sophisticated, sophisticated Constellation installation of overhead satellites. Meanwhile, as the war continues, the Ukraine has sent interceptor drones and a team of drone Experts to protect U.S. military bases in Jordan. That according to their president, Vladimir Zelinsky. Federal judge on Saturday ruled that the appointment of Carrie Lake, the head of Voice of America's oversight agency, was Invalid. That would void mass layoffs that she had carried out at the federally funded news group last year. Year A decision from Judge Royce lamberth of the U.S. district Court for the District of Columbia. A rejection of President Trump's attempts to dismantle the government funded news group, which was founded to combat Nazi propaganda during World War II. If upheld by higher courts, Judge Lamberth's ruling would allow more than 1,000 journalists and support staff members at the newsgroup to come back to their jobs before Trump pushed to close the agency and influence its editorial decisions. Voices of America broadcast in 49 languages and more than 360 million weekly listeners around the world, providing new services to foreign countries with limited press freedoms like China, Russia and Iran. At least four people killed, 12 others wounded after powerful tornadoes touched down in southwest Michigan Friday as the deadliest such storm in the state since 1980. Two others were killed in Oklahoma as severe weather swept across the Plains, Plains and the Midwest.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did anyone see the video of the tornado on the lake in Michigan?

[John Hage]

Yes.

[Johnny]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

You could literally see it eating its way along the shoreline.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Holy mackerel.

[Chris Reavers]

Do you guys get lightning Friday night?

[Joe Soucheray]

Not a bad, Chris.

[Chris Reavers]

I got a lot.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm in the sustainable urban core.

[Johnny]

A lot of lightning and thunder.

[Joe Soucheray]

Never heard tunder. Never heard any tundra.

[Johnny]

I've been saving this story, Joe. I haven't been able to get to it, but I know you're going to to have a big interest in it. All right. NBC has now begun filming a reboot of the 1970s series the Rockford Files.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, no. There was only one Rockford and he's dead. James Garner is dead.

[Johnny]

This is the fellow who will play Rockford now. And he got James Garner's daughter's okay, apparently after she saw the first takes. The actor is David Boreana. You may know him. He was the star of Bones.

[Joe Soucheray]

Didn't. Don't know Bones.

[Johnny]

Bones was on what?

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't watch medical shows.

[Johnny]

It wasn't.

[Kenny Olson]

It's all Quincy to me. A lot of yelling.

[Johnny]

It was. Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Bones is not a medical show. No.

[Johnny]

Oh, it was a police show.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. I don't watch police shows either. Yeah. G.G.

[Kenny Olson]

garner, 1, Atom 12 or Emergency. It's all the same.

[Johnny]

Gigi Garner is the daughter of James Garner and she offered support for the new casting, claiming that Boreanas is channeling her father's performance in the role. As I said, he starred in Bones. He was also in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, angel and SEAL Team. His casting was announced in early February with his Seal team. Co star Michaela McManus joining the cast of the new Rockford Files a couple of weeks later as a detective named King Kate, who's in a relationship with Jim Rockford.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, for, for starters, he can't have his trailer down on the beach in Malibu because that's all been ruled out now. There's no development down there. They're not going to rebuild the great stretch.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, could he put his trailer next to all the other homeless encampments?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that's what's down there. That's. I mean, where is he? I, I, I, I, I hold my judgment in reserve for this show.

[Kenny Olson]

No, I'm, I'm, I'm issuing my judgment right now.

[Joe Soucheray]

You're already out.

[John Hage]

You gone.

[Joe Soucheray]

I mean, I'm rooting for it, but the. It's not the same world that Jimmy. Jimmy worked in.

[Kenny Olson]

No, this is a bad idea.

[Joe Soucheray]

What's this guy going to charge? 200 a day plus expenses?

[Kenny Olson]

Get a new idea, Hollywood. You guys, you're losing.

[John Hage]

Who's going to be Rocky?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Who's going to be Angel?

[John Hage]

Yeah, you can't repeat that.

[Johnny]

I was concerned about Angel. I checked all the stories. Nothing.

[Joe Soucheray]

Stuart Margolin is still alive, I think.

[Kenny Olson]

What about back.

[Johnny]

He died last year, didn't he, Joe?

[Joe Soucheray]

I remember reading look it up.

[Johnny]

Maybe two years.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did Stuart Margolin die? Oh, my word, I can't keep up.

[Johnny]

I remember having that on the news. All of us,

[Joe Soucheray]

10% of nothing.

[John Hage]

He died on December 12, 2022 at the age of 82.

[Joe Soucheray]

It was. Geez.

[John Hage]

Pancreatic cancer.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, you can't beat that. I mean, I don't mean that.

[Chris Reavers]

Right.

[Joe Soucheray]

In a good way.

[John Hage]

I think I know what you're saying.

[Joe Soucheray]

You can't beat John. Thank you.

[Johnny]

It's tough to recover from pancreatic cancer, I think, is what you're trying to say there. Joe's on.

[Joe Soucheray]

Although great strides are being made.

[Johnny]

That's true.

[John Hage]

He was married to Patricia Dune from 82 until his death.

[Joe Soucheray]

Huh.

[Chris Reavers]

I believe. Isn't pancreatic cancer the origin of what's coming up on the ride? Yeah.

[John Hage]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. He thought he was having that.

[Chris Reavers]

Joe.

[John Hage]

Quite a bout of pancreatic cancer, I'm not sure.

[Kenny Olson]

And you were more concerned with who he was having on the show that day.

[Chris Reavers]

Right.

[Kenny Olson]

Than his imminent.

[Joe Soucheray]

I didn't care. You know what? I was following the law. I was following the rules here.

[Johnny]

Following the radio rules.

[Joe Soucheray]

Following the radio rules. What's coming up on the ride? You're all right, Pat. I guess I was right, too. Because he doesn't have that thing.

[Johnny]

God.

[Joe Soucheray]

I know. I'm looking for it. Reavers.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes, sir.

[Joe Soucheray]

I know I had it here. Oh, for Pete's sake. It was here.

[Chris Reavers]

You got a bad filing system?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, we. Yeah. I want to talk to you about garages. Garage doors.

[Chris Reavers]

You're talking about Precision Garage Door of the Twin Cities?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, they're the best. And if you need a new door, get a hold of them. You know, you can call them up.

[Chris Reavers]

Or do they still have that safe and sound package?

[Joe Soucheray]

I can do this at some other time.

[Chris Reavers]

25.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, here it is. Look at this. My filing system came through just at

[Chris Reavers]

the nick of time.

[Joe Soucheray]

Winter is not over we want it to be. But we could go into mid May with this stuff. So if you need a new door, they'll work in this weather. Precision Door. They have models for every budget. Send out a designer for the free consultation. Bing, bang, boom, you got a brand new door right now. $400 trade in credit for your old garage door door. And if you like your current door, but she's acting up, you can book a $79 safe and sound package. They'll throw the diagnostics at it, you know. Oh, that cable's getting thin. Look how she might go on you. They'll fix that right on the spot. Take care of it so you never get trapped with a garage door that won't open. Either a new door or the safe and sound package. Book online@precision doormn.com or call Precision Door at 612-263-6985 to schedule your free on site new door estimate. Or book one of Precision Door's safe and sound packages. Here's a man who spends hours in hardware hardware stores sifting through the nuts and bolts of life. Joe Sucere. The elementary schools sound like they can be a war zone. The kids are throwing materials, flipping chairs, yelling and screaming, says Michelle Krell, executive director of the Minnesota Elementary School Principals Association. And then when that happens, the students need to take cover and be evacuated from the classroom. Republican senator, state Senator Jim Abeler said he has gotten an earful about this problem. Teachers are getting injured. Students are at risk. The whole class gets evacuated, he said. So in Anoka district 140 times. 142 times this year already, classes have been evacuated.

[Kenny Olson]

Wow.

[Joe Soucheray]

Kindergarten first, second and third grade. 33 in kindergarten alone. Just in that district. Wow. I guess Minnetonka is off the hook for the way they behaved. Abler is proposing a bill that will allow schools to send those Students with disciplinary problems home for a maximum of one partial day and one full day after an incident. If a child acts out in a school, we need a little time to come up with a plan, he notes. The measure would reverse a 2023 mandate that bans suspensions for kids from kindergarten through third grade. I didn't know we had that on the books. Apparently on the books is a law that you cannot kick a kid out if it's kindergarten through third grade. Supporters say it would give counselors a chance to meet with students in the evacuated classrooms. Wow. Not only lost learning, but they also lose the sense of security and safety. Increased anxiety for students trying to learn. Ablor is hoping to hold committee hearings where school officials, parents and the community can wait in. And if it passes, this bill would take effect in the 2026, 2027 school year. Holy mackerel. I didn't know it was that bad. Did you know it was that bad?

[John Hage]

No idea.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, sure, you've had someone that's.

[John Hage]

Well, I know it's bad, but I do know that the St. Paul School District just keeps pushing those kids. Don't just keep, keep. This doesn't matter if you have standards, move them ahead. St. Paul School District does not give a rats.

[Kenny Olson]

By sending them home, do you mean sending them home to grandma?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that's probably what unfortunately would happen. If a kid's that screwed up as a first grader, it ain't the school's fault.

[Chris Reavers]

If he calls his grandma mom and

[Joe Soucheray]

his mom Pam, he's going to jail.

[Chris Reavers]

Right?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Well, that's terrible. I had no idea that the little kids were acting like that.

[Johnny]

Bad, did you say? I'm sorry, was that in Anoka County?

[Joe Soucheray]

That's right, John. Right where you are.

[Johnny]

Holy moly. That's where I am.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Let me repeat that. That's hard to believe. Teachers are getting injured, other students are at risk. The whole class gets evacuated. This is abler. So In Anoka district, 142 times this year already, classes have been evacuated. Kindergarten, first, second and third grade. 33 evacuations in kindergarten alone. That's one district. Wow, we got a problem.

[John Hage]

We got a messed up system here.

[Joe Soucheray]

We gotta know what you know. Now a kindergarten kid, that's age five, I mean, they're gonna act up. So what? I think what might be interesting to know is what. What constitutes the how. How much does a kid have to act up before you evacuate the room?

[Kenny Olson]

Why don't you just evacuate the kid? Toss him in a closet.

[John Hage]

There were some bad first graders That I did know of through a person that worked in this.

[Kenny Olson]

Why is that bad John? Instead of the whole class think it was bad?

[Joe Soucheray]

I think chuckled well I think what Abler's proposing is maybe hang them upside

[Kenny Olson]

down by their ankle.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'll flick you in the ear, you little brat.

[Kenny Olson]

Torture him for a little bit.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well I think what Abler is proposing is to rescind the order that you can no longer. You can't suspend a kindergartner through third grade and I think he's saying well we better be able to. He's saying let's not punish the whole class. Let's get rid of the evil.

[Kenny Olson]

Sending them home is not punishment. Putting in school suspension is far worse.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well wait a minute. If sending them home is not. Oh, the punishment is worse if you keep the kid at school.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, way worse. Isolated by the distraction.

[Joe Soucheray]

How much punishment does can a kid even absorb? As a kindergartner would the kid even know he or she was that wrong Long you're not even at the age of reason at 5 years old, you know the old age of reason you

[John Hage]

kind of know it's not right to pull hair or kick somebody or.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, we got one. I'm looking for this to happen. I mean there's one in our boot group who.

[John Hage]

Who could I think they need to medicate more.

[Kenny Olson]

She's too smart to get caught though, isn't she?

[Joe Soucheray]

She's pretty clever.

[John Hage]

She's a step ahead of the authorities. A step or two ahead of the authority authorities, yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

God forbid somebody enters the room with a camera cuz no one else will get their picture.

[Kenny Olson]

That sounds like a guy we work with.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, only because is it that time? We're still in penguin Tasmania.

[John Hage]

We're not moving yet. They got to get around that horn

[Joe Soucheray]

of Sigournia the traveling Lymans at pirates

[John Hage]

where worldwide of Sigournia. What is it called?

[Joe Soucheray]

The world I had a kid speaking of kids acting up there's a kid in my realm who was facing confirmation Ah yes and this kid is of somewhat of a character I think I know this child well and he chose the name name St. Homo Bonus. I said who in the hell is that? The patron saint at discos Homo Bonus. And his parents said no, you're not taking that name. I looked it up. There is a real saint named Saint Homo Bonus.

[John Hage]

What's he famous for?

[Joe Soucheray]

It was in the 1300s okay I suppose it was from pronounce Homo nibus he did his research St. Helmonibus.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah you know.

[John Hage]

Yes, it Fast.

[Joe Soucheray]

But this kid, he spotted that one. I'm sure he went through the book. He tried to find the most.

[John Hage]

That kid has been looking in dictionaries, and the first thing he tries to find is fart.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, here it is.

[John Hage]

Fart in the dictionary.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, he's beyond that one, I'm afraid.

[Chris Reavers]

Was it a nice ceremony, the confirmation?

[Joe Soucheray]

I didn't go. I didn't go.

[Chris Reavers]

Wait.

[Johnny]

I grew up Catholic. You get to pick your own confirmation name?

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, hell, yeah.

[Johnny]

I'm a sponsor.

[Joe Soucheray]

John. I did.

[John Hage]

Peter.

[Joe Soucheray]

John de Bosco. Because he was a juggler. I took a juggler.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I think that's going on in the Catholic Church. What is that all about?

[Joe Soucheray]

You know what, Pat? What was your confirmation name? Oh, he took Stephen. That's. That's really uninteresting. That's the first martyr.

[Johnny]

So is mine. I took my. I had a sponsor who was a friend of my brother's named Kenneth. So my confirmation name is Kenneth.

[Kenny Olson]

Mine was Evil. Can. Evil.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm with Johnny, though.

[Joe Soucheray]

What?

[Chris Reavers]

John, you didn't get to pick yours?

[Joe Soucheray]

No. Oh, these kids are picking their own. You went with Homo Bonus.

[Chris Reavers]

I don't think I did either.

[Johnny]

Homo Bonus was the patron saint of business people.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's right.

[Johnny]

Shoemakers and cloth workers.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's right.

[John Hage]

Yes, the tailor.

[Joe Soucheray]

Homo Bonus.

[John Hage]

I have another shoe for you. You are the cobbler of New York City.

[Chris Reavers]

He worked in the garment district, Right?

[Joe Soucheray]

Johnny was real Homo Bonus.

[Johnny]

Yes, he was 1197.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, he was over there.

[John Hage]

Was he comfortable?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes, he was. He made a nice living in the shoe business.

[John Hage]

Yes, I'm a cobbler.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes.

[John Hage]

And what are you? Bonaventure.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's a good, good one. Only because he's still bellowing at us.

[John Hage]

Early shoes. Shoes in the 1300s. Call me now. How's that leather?

[Joe Soucheray]

What are you seeing?

[John Hage]

I'm seeing just a strap of. Of.

[Joe Soucheray]

Of bad, bad, bad leather.

[John Hage]

Just.

[Joe Soucheray]

It wasn't really tan.

[John Hage]

Hastily put together.

[Joe Soucheray]

You're right.

[John Hage]

Hastily put together.

[Joe Soucheray]

Still had fur on.

[John Hage]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Kenny Olson]

On this day, Close up.

[John Hage]

The closeout rack from last year's models. You know, they look the same.

[Joe Soucheray]

You got to go oversee this Homo Bonus man. He's got stuff.

[John Hage]

This guy knows what he's doing. You need a belt, I get you a belt, you got to take it off at the airport.

[Joe Soucheray]

I got it.

[John Hage]

Okay.

[Chris Reavers]

Unless you got cash.

[John Hage]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day, March 1848, schoolteacher Harriet E. Bishop forms Minnesota's first temperance society. Temperance societies opposed drunkenness on this day, March.

[John Hage]

So does my family.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day, March 9th. Yeah, but they got nothing named after that's true. 1858, the legislature approved an amendment to Minnesota's constitution that legalized the loan of the state's credit in an issue of bonds up to but not exceeding $5 million. With the idea of exchanging state bonds for a railroad company bonds and thus stimulating the building of railroads and their subsequent benefits to land sales in the state economy. That sounds like absolutely the way we refer now to building stadiums. Right. The 5 million loan would continue to be an issue in Minnesota politics for many years, even after the railroad bonds were substantially redeemed. Redeemed in 1881. That plays into the Gopher deal, too. Remember the Gopher? They got mad about the railroad bonds and pictured the guys as Gophers.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day, March 9, in 1874, Cook county was formed commemorating Civil War hero Major Michael Cook from Faribault. Did you know him?

[Chris Reavers]

I don't think I knew him. Michael,

[Joe Soucheray]

on this day in sports disappointment history.

[Chris Reavers]

Joe, today is March 9th. Who did we lose to?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, on this day in 1976, the NCAA released a report that levied sanctions on Bill Musselman era violations. On this day just weren't good cheaters

[John Hage]

in the Minnesota basketball program, were we?

[Joe Soucheray]

No. On this day, March 9, in 2005, ESPN reported that Mike Tice admitted scalping tickets as an assistant, but hey, never as a head coach.

[Chris Reavers]

That's right.

[Joe Soucheray]

He just did it as an assistant coach. That shouldn't disqualify him for becoming a head coach.

[Chris Reavers]

That's right.

[Joe Soucheray]

Was he a head coach by then?

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

2005.

[Chris Reavers]

2005.

[Kenny Olson]

So were these inside tickets that he would get?

[Joe Soucheray]

Because I think they were. I think they were Super Bowl.

[Chris Reavers]

They were super bowl tickets.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, who. Who would blame him for that? That's pretty smart.

[Chris Reavers]

But it's because they were like.

[Joe Soucheray]

He went to jail.

[Chris Reavers]

No, he paid a fine, but it's because Kenny, they were a gift.

[Joe Soucheray]

So the league, so what?

[Kenny Olson]

I salute him.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that's the way he thought.

[Kenny Olson]

I've always loved.

[John Hage]

He was America's guest before I replaced him.

[Kenny Olson]

Is. He's the one that worked on the fan, right?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, he.

[Kenny Olson]

He the big dummy that worked on the fan and then worked with us for a while.

[Chris Reavers]

You're thinking of Mike Morris.

[Joe Soucheray]

Got a superstar. Mike Morris.

[Kenny Olson]

Morris.

[Joe Soucheray]

Is he around still?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I think so.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you. G. Ellers. Yes.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes. Thank you.

[Joe Soucheray]

St. Homo bonus.

[John Hage]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

How do you get. How do you spell exactly the way it sounds. M O, B O, N, U S. Homo bonus.

[John Hage]

Try these new High flying homo bonus shoes. They help you do the Mikulsky double

[Chris Reavers]

pump layup a lot better. How about I get your mic there, Joe? Yep, I'll get your mic, Joe.

[Kenny Olson]

Jesus.

[Chris Reavers]

Let's head on over to YouTube and hit the subscribe button.

[Kenny Olson]

Or not.

[Chris Reavers]

Or not. Where you could watch Joe blow his nose right into the microphone. That's the kind of stuff you get on YouTube each and every day. Every single day, starting at noon. And you can find us on Facebook, Instagram and X. And also don't forget, if you haven't done so yet, sign up for the Daily Logician. That email comes right to your inbox every day and it includes the most recent episode of the podcast. It is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold is with us once again right here in Garage Logic. And now is the time for you to do the same. So do not delay, do exactly what I did and pick up that phone and dial 952924. That number once again is 952-925-5608. When you call that number, you're going to get Josh and he is there for you for that. Free. Yes, I use the word free. 48 minute financial consultation with absolutely zero obligation. And he will always give you the straight talk. He will never give you the sugar coated advice. And he is on the line with us once again right here in garagelogic. And boy, Josh.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wow.

[Chris Reavers]

A lot to get to today. The Nasdaq could be on a positive. Oil has pulled back with a lot of uncertainty.

[Josh Arnold]

Talk to me, Talk to you. There is a lot of uncertainty. I'm almost going to say the, we have as much uncertainty in the market as the Twins have on their starting lineup. And that's, that's even with, especially with Byron Buxton getting hit on his first at bat in the World Series in the World Baseball Classic, which by the way, if you have not seen any of Those games on TV, either on the MLB Network or FS1, make it a, a point. If you're as much a baseball fan as I am, and I think you are, Chris, make it a point to see the world baseball class. It's a very good baseball and you get to see a lot, a lot of players who you might not normally see, but the, the oil market recently and the credit market, or I'll say the concern about private credit have been driving forces for the market for the past past few months. Price of oil has spiked recently on, I'll say on the conflict Iran and the Fear that Iran was going to close the Straits of Cormo, where most oil is shipped from, not only from Iranian oil, but Iraqi oil, Kuwaiti oil and a lot of Saudi oil comes through the Strait of Move. Recently the Iranians said that ships have to be very careful moving through the Strait. And some of that verbiage has helped drive the price of oil which has been bid up significantly in the last week from $60 a barrel to the high early today at $119 a barrel. That's for West Texas Intermediate accrued the April contract got up to $119 a barrel. As we speak, the price of oil has come down significantly and it is at 96, $96 a barrel. As the price of oil has come down, we'll say bond yields have also come down and bond prices have gone up. And that has helped somewhat technology share shares move back up and that has helped to put NASDAQ close to being in the green after being down almost 2% early this morning. Last night the Dow Jones futures market were down 1000. They were only down 550 at the Open, currently down 400. And the leading stocks on the downside in the Dow are primarily, are primarily the biggest bank. J.P. morgan and Goldman. Goldman Sachs are the leaders on the down downside in the indices. It's also interesting to see Boeing, which last week was one of several defense contractors, agree to ramp up production. Interesting to see Boeing down 3% this morning. And another, you know, big. But the banks, you know, the concern with the banks of course is still credit and the ability to lend to both large, large and small, small borrowers. There has been a lot of consternation on private equity and private credit, on the ability of companies who have been borrowing large amounts of money, on their ability to pay back some of that debt. Add to that as issues come in the private credit market, these are companies, not only the, the major banks are involved in that somewhat, but you have companies like BlackRock also involved with 401ks and mutual funds and they're probably one of the biggest in the 401k and mutual fund and exchange traded fund industry. But they also have a private credit division and that has had some issues with liquidity. There is Blackstone, different from BlackRock, has had liquidity issues on some of their funds. And then there's KKR Carlyle, Palo Aries and Blue Owl. All of the, we'll say private credit, private equity firms, also known as alternative funds managers. All of these companies have seen their stock prices down between 25 and 35% off their highs and that's just, that's just since December and that's pretty, pretty significant. And the part of that is caused investors wanting to liquidate funds that are really tough to liquidate. This is also, this move negative in the credit markets has also adversely hurt the business development company companies which are we'll say closed end funds primarily that are cheered by a lot of smaller investment investors and maybe even a few larger investors because of the high yields that they generate. I have cautioned for years my clients against investing in these, these products business development companies as you really don't know who you are lending to nor what the terms are. Yes the yields are nice but sometimes the higher the yield the bigger the bigger the problem. And if you want yield there's plenty of ways to generate yield from your, your investment. But right now I think the place is to be other than keeping some money in cash as we've suggested as part of an asset allocation model, particularly with volatility, that should continue for a bit to still look at companies that are still providing products or services that people can't be without.

[Chris Reavers]

Excellent advice as always, Mr. MoneyTalk. You heard him G ers. Now is the time for you to pick up the phone and make the call for that free 48 minute financial consultation again with zero obligation. And you do that just like I did by dialing 959255608 where you always get straight talk and never ever sugarcoated advice. Josh, once again, thank you so much for the time and the chat. Enjoy the rest of your day and we'll talk to you again tomorrow.

[Josh Arnold]

Yep, the sun is out. It's springtime.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes sir.

[Josh Arnold]

I've got my glove unwrapped and I'm ready to play.

[Chris Reavers]

Love it. Talk to you tomorrow, Josh.

[Josh Arnold]

Bye.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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