4/3 From Filipino Crucifixions to NYC Patronage: Mamdani's Budget Hypocrisy and Minneapolis PD Drama

Summary

Garage Logic Episode Summary

Episode Title: 4/3 From Filipino Crucifixions to NYC Patronage: Mamdani's Budget Hypocrisy and Minneapolis PD Drama
Date: April 3, 2026
Host(s): Joe Soucheray ("The Mayor"), Chris Reavers, Kenny Olson, John Haidt, "Rookie" Matt, Pat
Podcast Network: Gamut Podcast Network

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Main Theme

This lively Garage Logic episode spans a range of headlines from around the world and close to home, including a deep-dive discussion of the Filipino Good Friday crucifixion ritual, debate on NYC's political patronage under Mayor Mamdani, and scrutiny of complaints against the Minneapolis Police Chief. Interwoven are rich tangents on faith, local traditions, American urban politics, sports updates, and signature GL banter emphasizing common sense and skepticism toward bureaucracy.

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Key Topics and Insights

1. Filipino Good Friday Crucifixion Ritual

(00:50–18:40)

Overview

Joe opens discussing the intense Good Friday rituals in the Philippines, focusing on a man, Reuben Anajay, who has been crucified annually for 37 years as an act of devotional sacrifice and gratitude after surviving a fall.

Highlights

• Ritual Details: Actual nailing of palms (not feet this year), half-mile cross-carry, with crowds gathering in Pampanga province.
• Personal Motivation: Anajay began the ritual after a near-fatal construction accident and in gratitude for family blessings and work.
• Annual Spectacle: “The annual event has turned Najee into a village celebrity… That puts the rest of us to shame, doesn't it?” (Joe, 05:17)
• Panel Reflection and Debate:
  • Kenny is skeptical, likening it to a bid for fame or an Elvis impersonator:

    “This seems like he is in search of fame. There's no need for him to make a sacrifice. Christ made this sacrifice for us, so we don't have to.” (Kenny, 09:03)

  • Joe and Matthew defend the devotion as private and authentic.

    “He is so steeped in his thankfulness… probably searched his mind for some way he could repay the Lord.” (Joe, 10:05)

  • Matthew on sacrifice:

    “During Lent… that beats the hell out of giving up gum.” (Matthew, 10:46)

• Medical Curiosity and Church Position:
  • Physical healing debated; hands heal in 3-14 days (John, 13:24).
  • Catholic Church does not support such reenactments (John, 18:13).

Memorable Quote

“I don't think Christ would be disappointed in this guy, do you?” (Joe, 28:19)

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2. Minneapolis Police Chief O’Hara Complaints

(22:48–25:50)

Overview

Discussion pivots to a Star Tribune exposé on complaints against Minneapolis Police Chief O’Hara. The GL crew finds the story overblown, filled with non-substantive complaints.

Key Insights

• GL Perspective:
  • Many complaints are petty or normal workplace friction.

    “One of them was he cursed out a detective somewhere. So what? He’s the boss.” (Joe, 23:06)

  • Modern complaint culture dilutes real accountability and hardens police/public relationships.
  • “We’re becoming soft.” (Joe, 25:53)
• Chiefs in Impossible Situations:
  • “Police chiefs in modern America, the closer you get to the nation’s tallest buildings, you’re in a hopeless situation… How can a police chief possibly act in an agreeable fashion for those people?” (Joe, 25:07)

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3. NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Budget Hypocrisy and Patronage Expansion

(30:04–35:33)

Overview

Joe rips into NYC’s Mayor Mamdani’s proposal to add 80 patronage positions at a cost of $10M, despite the city’s $5.4B budget gap and local calls for tax hikes.

Key Points

• Hypocrisy:
  • Mamdani preaches sacrifice, seeks higher taxes, but adds dozens of high-salary jobs—e.g., “enforcer of economic justice,” “World Cup managers.”
  • “That’s a job that could never be measured for achievement. They’ll just lie and say, we’re achieving a great deal.” (Joe, 31:00)
• Criticisms:
  • GL gang calls out political favoritism and the inability to measure success.
  • Ties to broader complaints about socialist city governance and fiscal irresponsibility.
  • “When you are governed by socialists and Marxists, you’re in big trouble.” (Joe, 32:10)

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4. Regional & Local News and Sports

(43:23–75:46; select segments)

Minnesota Graduation Rates

• MN Class of 2025: 85% four-year graduation rate—GL panel unimpressed.

“We cannot accept 85% as a graduation rate.” (Matthew, 47:22)

• Raises issue of “social promotion”—graduating students who haven’t earned it (Joe, 48:10).

Feeding Our Future Fraud Update

• Coverage of a guilty plea in the multi-million dollar scam involving fake child nutrition sites and kickbacks. (45:44)

Minneapolis Twins and Sports Banter

• Twins home opener dampened by rain, lack of sell-out, and payroll controversies. (66:01)
• Twins sports economics, stadium tax, and attendance debated.

Wild (NHL) Playoffs

• Wild clinch playoff berth; concern over facing Dallas. (74:23)

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5. GLer of the Week, Listener Engagement, and Signature Humor

(26:05–26:24, throughout)

• GLer of the Week: Brian Banker, Ham Lake.
• Listener letters, debates about Trump’s pardoning habits, family stories, and Garage Logic’s classic reflections on Midwest social life.
• “The dock going in was an absolute ritual of life…” (Joe, 39:03)
• Humorous call-backs to beer brands, dock slivers, and Minnesota lake life.

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6. Space and Science Oddities

(82:44–88:53)

• Artemis 2 mission: astronauts to orbit and observe the moon’s far side, focusing on ancient impact basins.
• Discussion of what is visible from orbit, the history of lunar bombardment, and the oddities of “tidal locking.”
• Entertaining debate on whether the far side will be visible—“Will it be illuminated?” (Joe, 85:11)
• “This moon has been rode hard and put away wet.” (Joe, 87:44)

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Notable Quotes

• On Filipino devotion:
  “That's a sacrifice. To Joe's point, he's not going on the circuit. This is his one.” (Matthew, 11:05)
• On bureaucratic culture:
  “God forbid somebody gets embarrassed or yelled at. That's too bad. That's what happens.” (Joe, 24:02)
• On NYC’s patronage:
  “He wants a $155,000 a year senior advisor for legislative advocacy. That cannot be measured for achievement, whatever that is.” (Joe, 32:41)
• On forgiveness (Trump pardon):
  “GLers should have a civil relationship with each other, no matter if you think Trump's a screwball or not.” (Joe, 29:13)
• On sports traditions:
  “The dock going in was an absolute ritual of life… you’d come home from school one day and the dock would be in. It was a miracle.” (Joe, 39:03)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Filipino Crucifixion Ritual/Debate: 00:50–18:40
• Minneapolis Police Chief O’Hara Complaints: 22:48–25:50
• NYC Patronage/Mamdani Segment: 30:04–35:33
• Graduation Rates Discussion: 46:29–48:10
• Feeding Our Future Fraud & Criminal Justice Items: 45:44–51:13
• MLB Twins Home Opener, Sports: 66:01–75:46
• Artemis 2 and Lunar Science: 82:44–88:53

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Tone and Flow

The episode exemplifies Garage Logic’s signature conversational irreverence, grounded skepticism toward officialdom, and affectionate nostalgia for Midwest tradition. The hosts welcome honest debate on faith, policy, and news, all while keeping the banter brisk and neighborly: “That’s logic. I don’t have to hate you because you have TDS or don’t have TDS.” (Matthew, 29:13)

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For Those Who Missed It

You’ll come away with:

• Insightful (and funny) perspectives on global and local traditions, urban governance, and the challenges facing Minnesota's institutions.
• Engaging debates on faith, authenticity, the excesses of bureaucracy, and the importance of community common sense.
• A healthy dose of sports, science, and classic GL wit, making complex topics relatable and entertaining.

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Transcript

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[John Haidt]

If I lose all my news, Josh

[Joe Soucheray]

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[John Haidt]

Flashlight King.

[Joe Soucheray]

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 Sushere. I have a note from K lady Tierney who calls herself the forgotten G eleler because one time I guess I didn't know her.

[Matthew]

I'm very familiar with that tyranny.

[Joe Soucheray]

And she writes, hail the Flashlight King.

[Kenny]

Hail you.

[Joe Soucheray]

I had a conversation with Kendall Quals this morning and your name came up. This is dated today. He told me to tell you hello and that he wishes you well, but he will not come on the show because you have a hex upon you with a jinx. Thank you. I thought you would enjoy that. Always pushing back. Katie, the forgotten G eller East Union minister.

[Matthew]

Go Kendall. Go Ken.

[Kenny]

I have forgotten about her. How would I have known about her?

[Joe Soucheray]

She's the forgotten G eler.

[Kenny]

I guess I forgot about the forgotten

[Matthew]

Gl and she's not the tyrannies. That's related to the mowers.

[Kenny]

Okay. That's a relief.

[Matthew]

Yes. That's how it came up. That's how it came up. I thought she was a tyranny.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's Good Friday. I've always been impressed that some people around the world take this Very seriously in terms of recreating. Okay, don't start with me.

[Matthew]

No, I'm not gonna start with you. I have a question for you. Once you have completed this thought about Good Friday.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's particularly taken seriously in the Philippines.

[Matthew]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

And I'm. I'm reading a story about a guy named Reuben Naj. He's 65 years old. He was crucified for the final time after 37 years in a row. Wow. Of being crucified. And they don't. They don't fool around. I mean, they. He's got the bad look on his face.

[Matthew]

I remember this comes up annually when he is. He is put to death.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wait, wait, wait.

[Kenny]

With the nails.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm getting to that. I don't know if he's nailed or strapped, but he's obviously hanging there.

[Kenny]

Either way, it's painful. But the nails, My goodness.

[Joe Soucheray]

He decided this was his final sacrifice after enduring the gory ritual over three decades. And this time he requested not to be whipped, kicked, or slapped by village actors.

[Pat]

Right.

[Joe Soucheray]

Dressed as Roman soldiers.

[Matthew]

They got into it.

[Kenny]

That's why he's thinking, no, I request that too, please.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

After the crucifixion, Anajay and two other devotees carried their crosses on their backs for half a mile in the scorching heat. He was then. Nailed it. He was nailed to it, Kenny.

[Pat]

Wow. Wow.

[Joe Soucheray]

Only his palms were nailed this time, sparing his feet from being pierced by alcohol soaked steel nails. After his wife told how she begged her carpenter husband to halt the annual spectacle due to his weakened lungs. This guy has put himself out there for 37 straight years.

[Matthew]

Very admirable.

[Joe Soucheray]

The annual event has turned to Najee into a village celebrity, with devotees flocking to the three rural communities in Pampanga province north of Manila in the Philippines to witness the ceremony. That puts the rest of us to shame, doesn't it?

[Kenny]

I've got a lot of questions about that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Are you done yet?

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Pat]

Finished up.

[Kenny]

Because I've got some.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm not done. My hat's off to this fellow. He previously wavered, saying he was getting too old. But he admitted he has struggled to turn down requests from the villages to pray for sick family members. As he carries out the spectacle this year, he spoke of his hope for world peace. Boy, he's got a long way to go. Yeah.

[Matthew]

Good luck.

[Joe Soucheray]

He has previously raised similar issues, including the war in Ukraine. He said at the time, if these wars worsen and spread, more people, especially the young and the old, would be affected. These are innocent people who have totally nothing to do with these wars. He said this is why I always pray for peace in the world. He began the crucifixion event after he dodged death when he fell at a construction site when he was 25 years old. He said it was important for him to make a sacrifice to thank God for his second life. So they doused the nails in alcohol I guess to get the germs off and then there he goes. He survived unscathed when he accidentally fell from a three story building, prompting him to undergo the crucifixion as an act of thanksgiving for what he considered a miracle. He the ritual after loved ones recovered from serious illnesses one after another. And he landed more carpentry and sign painting job contracts. Uh huh.

[Matthew]

The Lord is good. The Lord will provide.

[Joe Soucheray]

Huh. Get that cynicism out of your mind. No, we're gonna have a done yet.

[Kenny]

No, we're gonna have a long conversation.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm not done yet.

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

During the previous crucifixions which took took place on a dusty hill in Anaj's village of San Pedro Kutud in the Pampanga and two other nearby communities, he and other religious devotees carried heavy wooden crosses on their backs for more than a mile, a half a mile, often in the scorching summer heat while wearing thorny crowns. Village actors dressed as Roman centurions with later hammer 410 inch stainless steel nails through the palms and feet, then set them aloft on wooden crosses under the sun for about 10 minutes as a large crowd and prays and snaps pictures. The carpenter told Reuters told Review of Religions. It all started in 1985 when I fell. At that moment I made a vow that I will make a sacrifice to pay for my second life. I wanted to do that by reenacting the act of the crucifixion as Thanksgiving. One year after my accident, I joined the Senukulo Sanuk Ulo. I guess that's called the enactment of crucifixion where I carried the cross to the burial hill of crucifixion. And he said, for what I have heard from my grandmother, the reenactment ritual has been carried out in the Philippines since 1945 or 50, basically after the Japanese left. Okay, there you have it. Congratulations sir. You are you. You take it a step further than

[Matthew]

most people, but my guess is you wouldn't have to give up anything else for Lent. That's, that's.

[Kenny]

Now you two are assuming a lot. Now let me preface this by saying I too was raised in the church Sunday, Sunday nights, Wednesdays, the whole deal. Sunday school night.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sunday night.

[Matthew]

No, Wednesday nights, Wednesday nights, Sunday night.

[Joe Soucheray]

You heard me said Sunday night.

[Kenny]

I said Sunday, Sunday night, Wednesday nights, Holy book. And been to a lot of Bible studies and all that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Why?

[Kenny]

And what I have learned is that Christ made the sacrifice for us so we don't have to right this. This to me, and I don't mean any disrespect to the church or to the Lord. This seems like he is in search of fame. There's no reason for him to make a sacrifice.

[Joe Soucheray]

He doesn't go on the late night talk show.

[Kenny]

Christ made this sacrifice. I'm not Joe. I'm not trying to be funny either.

[Joe Soucheray]

He's a humble carpenter in a village. Why do you.

[Kenny]

Matthew's exact words were very admirable. And your exact words were hats off. Why do you feel that way when Christ has already made this sacrifice in this mortal. This sinner is doing it anyway. To me, he's seeking fame and he's like an Elvis impersonator.

[Pat]

Wow.

[Kenny]

And I don't mean that in it with any disrespect. I'm not trying to be funny. That's the way it seems to me. Why do you think this is admirable, both of you?

[Joe Soucheray]

Because he is so steeped in his thankfulness for having been spared that fall in 1985 that he probably searched his mind for some. Some way he could repay the Lord for what he believed to be a miracle. And this is what he came up with. And you know, he's making some concessions. He's not going to sit there for hours. It sounds like he's nailed for 10 minutes.

[Kenny]

Matthew, why do you think this was in your words very.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's my answer, Matthew.

[Matthew]

Because I think during Lent beats the

[Joe Soucheray]

hell out of giving up gum.

[Matthew]

True. Or television. I think Lent is about giving up and a sacrifice. And I think that is a sacrifice. To Joe's point, he's not going on the circuit. This is his one.

[Joe Soucheray]

He's a village carpenter.

[Matthew]

But Kenny, if he was capitalizing on it, I would agree with you. Come on, bro.

[Pat]

You're.

[Kenny]

You're just trying to be pretty serious. Brush with death where I knew I was going to die when I was 9 years old and I was shot and I was bleeding out.

[Joe Soucheray]

We should have done something to pray.

[Kenny]

Minutes away from death. And I'm not trying to be funny here. And I'm not setting you up for a punchline.

[Joe Soucheray]

I might have one.

[Kenny]

So why? So all of us that have survived a Brush with death. And we believe in the Lord and, And all of that. We should make this kind of.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, no, no, Kenny, serious, let him have his individuality.

[Matthew]

In all seriousness, you don't have to do it.

[Joe Soucheray]

You're still a good guy. You don't have to worry about it.

[Matthew]

Yeah, that's what my point was gonna be. In all seriousness, you can't judge. It's gotta be for God to get through. If he does have ill intentions, he's gotta pay for that at the gate. That's retribution there.

[Joe Soucheray]

Do you think the. Obviously they must heal up within the following year then?

[Matthew]

Boy, I don't know. I look at. Seriously, that would be.

[Joe Soucheray]

See, I got that Dupitron syndrome or whatever that's called. I got a little like those knots in your right.

[Matthew]

You look like you played NFL football.

[Joe Soucheray]

But I can still put my hand flat on a table, so I'm not going to do anything about it. But I think maybe that would disqualify me.

[Matthew]

But now the other thing is, do they put it through the palm of his hand or do they do it like Jesus, where they did behind the words in the wrist.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, if they did it in the wrist, he would have bled out the hand.

[Matthew]

The hand will rip.

[Joe Soucheray]

How do you know Jesus had it in the wrist?

[Matthew]

Behind the wrist.

[Joe Soucheray]

He would have bled out.

[Matthew]

They hang because that bone keeps them up there. You know, it rips out.

[Kenny]

That's how we hang. I don't want to make this comparison. Doesn't seem right. That's how we hang critters and animals. The way Matthew just.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that's the way Christ was treated. Yeah.

[Kenny]

No, I don't mean any disrespect.

[Matthew]

No, I. I don't. I think you had a good question. Well, it's.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's Good Friday and it's. If you're ever going to discuss this, today would be the day. And you were also wondering why it's called Good Friday.

[Kenny]

I think John nailed it, though. John, your answer to that was, well,

[John Haidt]

it's Good Friday because Christ died for us, for our sins.

[Joe Soucheray]

So let John handle that one. Yeah, yeah.

[John Haidt]

I also looked up his hands. They heal anywhere from three days to two weeks.

[Joe Soucheray]

Really? Yeah.

[Kenny]

I am such a wussy. I would ask for novocaine.

[Joe Soucheray]

So he did say. He did say, this time let's. Let's skip the whipping. Yeah. And hang on here.

[John Haidt]

It's right through the middle of the hand.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's what it is right now.

[John Haidt]

So.

[Pat]

Wow.

[Joe Soucheray]

What, do you have a newsman who will verify this yeah, right.

[Matthew]

He's falling away, but he can come back anytime.

[Kenny]

One of my problems with the church was that we couldn't have discussions like this. I certainly couldn't do it during church. And then I would go to Bible study, and instead of me getting answers and having a discussion like this, I would be told, well, you're a sinner and you lack faith, and we're gonna pray for you. And that's what.

[Matthew]

To raise questions. That's perfect.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think there's a socioeconomic dynamic involved here, that. These are poor villagers.

[Matthew]

Yes. Where does this. Philippines.

[Joe Soucheray]

The Philippines. And I had a Philippine classmate in high school, and I wish I would have thought to ask him about this.

[Matthew]

He may have known.

[Joe Soucheray]

Although I think we were in high school predating the arrival of this fellow to do this.

[Matthew]

Now, do you remember back in 1990, the Philippine kids?

[Joe Soucheray]

There was a time, apparently, when a lot of Philippine kids were shipped over here to Christian Brothers schools to go to school. Oh, really? Yeah. And I don't know if they. This guy I'm thinking of, he. He wasn't going back with a sponsor

[Matthew]

or to be adopted for life.

[Joe Soucheray]

No. I don't know how it worked.

[Matthew]

Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Again, I was remiss.

[Matthew]

You weren't paying any attention.

[Joe Soucheray]

I guess I was.

[Matthew]

You're worried about making the hockey team.

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Kenny]

You know, you're a kid and you're looking around and you're seeing guys driving GTOs and pinball mach and the band Heart playing. I think I'd want to stick around.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, because when I was in high school, the parking lot was a car show.

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Kenny]

I. I'd want to stick around the United States.

[Joe Soucheray]

And then now it's not.

[Kenny]

It's like the German prisoners of war we had over here during World War II. After the war ended, they didn't want to go back.

[Pat]

No.

[Matthew]

I was reminded today I'm looking at

[Joe Soucheray]

a picture of this fellow, and he's not faking the agony that he's in. I don't.

[Matthew]

He's got nails through his.

[Joe Soucheray]

Look at that.

[Matthew]

Yeah. He looks like. Is he getting a little help there on the biceps?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. He does have some leather straps helping hold. Okay.

[Matthew]

I mean, I'm.

[Pat]

But they.

[Joe Soucheray]

They get three people, and I think

[Matthew]

the other two robbers, they got, you

[Joe Soucheray]

know, Barabbas and the other guy.

[Matthew]

But Barabbas and Skip Town. These are two different guys.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, these guys aren't getting any publicity. We don't even know their names. We only know the main guy.

[Kenny]

Oh, the guys on either side.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right.

[Matthew]

I wonder if they're understudies, you know,

[Joe Soucheray]

And I got to say this. It's not much of a crowd.

[Matthew]

No, I expected a bigger crowd.

[Joe Soucheray]

There.

[Matthew]

There's probably about.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's not arena seating or anything like that.

[Josh Arnold]

Right.

[Matthew]

It's just. It's not even on a hill.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, there's a hill. I think that that bear ground is supposed to represent a hill that we can't really tell from the. The camera angle. But, boy, the other two guys.

[Kenny]

What was the name of the hill? Escaping Calvary.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, what was the hill Christ was killed on?

[Matthew]

John, are you typing Sermon on the Mount?

[John Haidt]

I'm not. I'm reading a story about this fella still.

[Joe Soucheray]

What was the Golgath or something?

[Kenny]

Yeah, something. Yeah.

[Matthew]

Golgotha. Well, okay. Golgotha in Aramaic, or Calvary in Latin, which translates to place of the skull.

[Joe Soucheray]

But, you know, the other villagers really get into it because they got the whole Roman uniforms. Guys got the Roman helmet on. Honest to God. They really get. You know, Palm Sunday was last Sunday. You know, they had a little march around inside the church.

[Matthew]

You got to go outside.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, how about a hike?

[Matthew]

Give me a nice procession for Palm Sunday.

[Joe Soucheray]

When I was a kid, it went outside.

[Matthew]

I think it's supposed to.

[Joe Soucheray]

Inside.

[Matthew]

Even inclement weather.

[Joe Soucheray]

I dropped myself off at the pew.

[Kenny]

You know, we always had the palms, and we'd walk through the church, among the pews.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, that's what we're. That's what I'm talking about. And that's not.

[Kenny]

We never went outside.

[Joe Soucheray]

I. I think Reuben Anaje would say, yeah, you people are way behind.

[Kenny]

We go from the church, then we'd have ham dinner, and then we'd go out shooting striped gophers.

[Matthew]

That was part of the ritual.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kenny]

The back of a Studebaker.

[John Haidt]

The Catholic Church, by the way, is not in favor of these reenactments.

[Kenny]

Oh, interesting.

[John Haidt]

They come out against them.

[Joe Soucheray]

I wonder why.

[Kenny]

Oh, that's interesting.

[Matthew]

Well, maybe they're to Kenny's point. There's only one Christ, and that's. He did his job already.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't think Christ would be disappointed in this guy. Do you.

[Kenny]

Do you guys have a contact that we could actually call right now within the Catholic Church? I do.

[Joe Soucheray]

What question do we want to ask?

[Kenny]

What do you think of this?

[Matthew]

I got Father Nels Jang Dahl. I got Bishop Cousins as a listener to this show.

[Joe Soucheray]

I got Paul Tracy.

[Matthew]

Right. Archbishop.

[Kenny]

Are you sure those guys like quals? Come on.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think they're going to sink. Good Friday on his show. No.

[Kenny]

Or like Jewel, every time you mention me, my phone stops ringing.

[Matthew]

Now, I was speaking of people carrying the cross. I was reminded about 1995 when a certain St. Thomas student tried out for the Mary Magdalene part of the Passion and she was denied that part.

[Joe Soucheray]

She.

[Matthew]

And she was given the role of Jesus to pick up the cross.

[Joe Soucheray]

Maria, what was this dei?

[Matthew]

I don't know what this was. I remember on the show we had a little discussion. Your alma mater while you were College of St. Thomas. She was University of St. Thomas.

[Kenny]

Your sister, Maria.

[Matthew]

Yeah. She applied for the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, this was at the college level.

[Matthew]

Yeah. She auditioned for Mary Magdalene, was turned down and got.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's the Field Academy. They threw a female in there.

[Kenny]

Either that or she's an amazing actress.

[Matthew]

She's an amazing actress. That's what I'm.

[Kenny]

Yeah, that's.

[Matthew]

It hasn't gotten her anything so far, but. And she had the pain when she had the crown of thorns on. In the picture, she looks like she's. Oh, like in pain. It's a prop.

[Joe Soucheray]

Crown of thorns, but it probably had points.

[Matthew]

Okay.

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

I haven't seen any cigars.

[Joe Soucheray]

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You're riding in on the donkey.

[Pat]

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[Joe Soucheray]

The Star Tribune today had a big story on all of the complaints that had been leveled against Chief o', Hara, the police chief in Minneapolis. And I read this story looking for some. Some substance, but I really didn't come up with anything. Many of the complaints remain private or secret or, you know, the public has no right to know. But one of them was he cursed out a detective somewhere. So what? So what?

[Matthew]

Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I've had the verbal beat down from the mayor of garage logic, huh?

[Joe Soucheray]

I wonder how many of the complaints are of a nature that should have just been not raised to the level of a complaint is what I'm asking. You know, just take whatever. He's the boss. He gives you a little grief. So what?

[Matthew]

Move on. Tomorrow's a new day.

[Joe Soucheray]

John, did you find anything? No.

[John Haidt]

I saw this story yesterday. It was online and I read through it thinking, well, this is kind of much ado about nothing. Yeah, just normal little things you'd say about anybody.

[Joe Soucheray]

I mean, there's got to be some give and take. And of course, the mysterious influence. I'm not saying the cops are getting to the point of holding an orange card, you know, like the new Democratic party in Canada. But there is mysterious creeping through all of American culture. And God forbid somebody gets embarrassed or somebody gets yelled at. That's too bad. That's what happens.

[Matthew]

You need to have thick skin in your job. And if they're right. Okay, if they're wrong, then make your point.

[Joe Soucheray]

I mean, you're right. If you had. If you had this means of filing a complaint, I'd be out of here a long time ago.

[Matthew]

Exactly. And I tried, but they kept calling you back, so you must be pretty good.

[Kenny]

There is that case of Timberlake, who evidently had a Checkered past from Virginia.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, I read that.

[Kenny]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, but that's. That story was around, what, two years ago?

[Joe Soucheray]

That was a public story at the time and pretty old. And he didn't stay here, right?

[Kenny]

No, he got gassed right away.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. So unless you come out and tell me something more, I guess I'm not too alarmed. I think Oharra's. I think. Police chiefs in modern America, the closer you get to the country's tallest buildings are in a hopeless situation. When you see who governs the cities, the closer you get to the country's tallest buildings. How can a police chief, of all people, possibly act in an agreeable fashion for those people? You think Robin Wansley and Asha Chugg tie and the rest of these screwballs care about law enforcement? Hell, no. And some of that seeps into just the public consciousness. Oh, don't. Don't hassle me, officer. I'm gonna file a complaint. Oh, go bleep yourself.

[Pat]

Right.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, so I think that we're becoming soft. Well, we are glad. By the way, speaking of g lers, I got it right here.

[Matthew]

We got it right here. You got a little fanfare for.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, we don't have our Garage Logic. The Gl er of the week. We're gonna get it out in time this week.

[Matthew]

Good Friday. You shouldn't have any fanfare. I think, though, you shouldn't.

[Joe Soucheray]

We're not having any.

[Matthew]

Okay, good. It's simple.

[Joe Soucheray]

Why don't you be quiet, huh?

[Matthew]

Who is it? Why don't you get talking here?

[Joe Soucheray]

Glr of the week is Brian Banker of Ham Lake, Minnesota. He's been a town council member for a year now.

[Kenny]

He's surprised to hear his name. Joe,

[Joe Soucheray]

we were mentioning through the big Tumblr. We were mentioning him in the town council portion of the show before the show started. So he gets the syrup from Masters Maples and the whole deal. The gift package and the seasoning and the. So congratulations. Brian Banker of Ham Lake, Minnesota, is the Gler of the week. And a fellow took up my challenge yesterday when I wondered about why Trump pardoned Joseph Schwartz, the nursing home kingpin who really left a lot of people in the lurch, but got a 10 year sentence and Trump pardoned him three months into it. And this is from Alicia, and she writes what Schwartz did. He owned a large network of nursing homes across multiple states. Convicted of $39 million fraud scheme involving employment, payroll tax fraud tied to his nursing home businesses. His company's collapse affected thousands of residents and employees. He pleaded guilty to the Fraud charges. Trump's action. Well, he got a full pardon just this past November. Issued three. Three year sentence. I'm sorry, not ten years. He issued a pardon three. Schwartz's three year prison sentence. Why? Trump said he pardoned him. The White House and supporters pointed to several reasons. Claimed overly harsh punishment. Three years for that kind of fraud. I don't think that's overly harsh. Prosecutors had recommended a lighter sentence. The judge imposed a longer one. Argument punishment didn't fit the circumstances. There was a not personal enrichment argument. Defense claimed Schwartz wasn't trying to personally profit in the traditional sense. It was framed as a failing business situation, mismanagement rather than outright exploitation. Health and age concerns. Schwartz was described as older and in declining health. That was used as a justification for leniency. And Schwartz reportedly paid millions in restitution before the pardon. I'll leave it up to the public to decide. I want G. Ellers to. I want Trump supporting G. Ellers to be on civil. What's the word? I want. I think we should. GL ers should have a civil relationship with each other, no matter if you think Trump's a screwball or not.

[Matthew]

Well, of course, that's the. That's common sense and that's logic. I don't have to hate you because you have TDS or don't have tds.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, and I know that the Trump supporters are angry, but I'm more convinced than ever that the true Trump derangement syndrome is held by the people who actually think he's saying, but again, it's

[Matthew]

okay to be mad at you and

[Joe Soucheray]

my mother, Mary Helen and Patrick's mother Cecilia, they're rolling over right now. When you had that quack television preacher come in and say, Trump's just like, God, they're throwing like, yeah, they don't.

[Matthew]

That's not.

[Joe Soucheray]

They're not going for that one. They're not going.

[Matthew]

They could come back.

[Kenny]

They would.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, they'd be furious.

[Matthew]

Shaking their finger.

[Joe Soucheray]

So if he pardoned them, he pardoned them. There's nothing I can do about it. Seems very kind of him. Bom. Donnie is the mayor of New York. When you get closer to the country's tallest buildings, that's. That's ground zero. That's the tallest building. And they're now governed by a Marxist. He wants to add 80 new activists to his staff at a cost of $10 million.

[Matthew]

Please tell me the people of New York are going to reject this and say, we don't have that kind of money.

[Joe Soucheray]

How could they stop him? He wants to have. He wants to bring aboard at least 79 new staffers to the tune of 10 million to work on pet projects. Despite the City facing a $5.4 billion budget gap, the new hires include an enforcer of economic justice, World cup managers, and a special advisor to the advocacy community, raising concerns from some Democrats about political favoritism and wasteful spending. Well, of course that's what it is. Mamdani's hiring spree comes as he calls for higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations to help close the budget deficit, leading critics to accuse him of hypocrisy and misusing taxpayer funds for political gain. The rapid expansion of City Hall's payroll also raises questions about the mayor's priorities and leadership during a time of fiscal constraints. Well, New Yorkers, we've tried to warn you from this little flyover area where we're located, when you are governed by socialists and Marxists, you're in big trouble. The new positions include an enforcer of economic justice with a salary of up to 200 grand. And I got news for you. That's a job that could never be measured for achievement. They'll just lie and say, we're achieving a great deal. Two World cup managers. Now, obviously, that means soccer. The World Cup. That's not going to New York, is it? I thought the World cup was going to be in la.

[John Haidt]

I thought it was also.

[Matthew]

Well, they're probably looking for future sites.

[Joe Soucheray]

What the hell do you need two World cup managers for?

[Matthew]

The other one can't do his job.

[Kenny]

Do they happen to be his family members?

[Joe Soucheray]

He wants a $155,000 a year senior advisor for legislative advocacy. That cannot be measured for achievement, whatever that is. Mamdani is also looking to expand the city's Washington, D.C. office and add staff to his newly created Office of Economic justice and Office of Mass Engagement.

[Matthew]

Okay, the final. The 2026 FIFA World Cup. The final will be held at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, with the opening match at Sophie Stadium in Los Angeles.

[John Haidt]

11 cities in the US they're playing games at.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, and she wraps up in New York, New Jersey.

[Matthew]

New Jersey, and then LA for the. Well, it says the final is held in New Jersey.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes, let's stop right there. We.

[Matthew]

We got.

[Joe Soucheray]

We know that. That's probably why he needs two World cup managers. All right. Critics say the mayor is hypocritically spending money they don't have on supporters and breaking the law by using taxpayer dollars for political benefit. The new hires were listed in job postings this month.

[Matthew]

April has there been a in?

[Joe Soucheray]

The World cup tournament is expected to take place in June.

[Kenny]

The Office of Mass Engagement. That's fantastic. Who knows?

[Matthew]

How do you gauge success on that?

[Kenny]

It doesn't mean anything.

[Joe Soucheray]

The current mayor of New York, Mamdani, elected on a progressive socialist platform. He has Julie Hsu on board. She's a controversial Biden era official who was recently appointed to head Mamdani's Office of Economic Justice. She's in for a pretty good payday. Eric Adams, Mondame's predecessor as mayor of New York. I don't know what that is. Oh, they're just listing the former guys. Bill de Blasio. The city's budget process will continue in the coming months with Mom Downey pushing for higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations to close the deficit. The new hires will likely face scrutiny from the city council and other critics as the budget neglected negotiations unfold. Mamdani's hiring spree has raised concerns about political favoritism, wasteful spending and a lack of fiscal responsibility. I think by definition, Marxists don't have fiscal responsibility. The mayor's actions appear to clash with his calls for shared sacrifice from New Yorkers, undermining his leadership and credibility. Well, I hope you awaken in time. New York. I doubt it.

[Matthew]

8079 assistance. 79.

[Joe Soucheray]

80 and new assistance.

[Kenny]

Joe, did you watch the Sopranos?

[Joe Soucheray]

Religiously.

[Kenny]

You remember when I think it was a prill. April. Richie. April took over that sporting goods store. Basically drove it into the ground and destroyed the guy that owned it. That's what mom Tommy is doing in New York.

[John Haidt]

New York.

[Kenny]

He's just driving it into the ground. He's going to bleed it dry.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, he. It's not like people weren't warned.

[Kenny]

Well, they voted him for. I guess that's what they want.

[Joe Soucheray]

They knew what they wanted.

[Matthew]

I just can't believe there's that many people in New York that would accept that. There's too many people full of common sense.

[Kenny]

We say that though about Ilhan Omar and her district in Minneapolis. You know, it's happening to us.

[John Haidt]

We say it about national elections.

[Kenny]

On occasion, we say it's. It's a global phenomenon.

[Matthew]

I know, but worst schlaps, New Yorkers don't like to get played. Well, they're out for revenge if they get played.

[Joe Soucheray]

They've never been played like they're getting played, right.

[Kenny]

Well, they invited the bear into the living room. Now they get to dance with the bear. Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you.

[Joe Soucheray]

Actually, Kenny, it's Not a bear. It's a bar.

[Kenny]

It's a bar. It's a bar.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sometimes the bar eats you and you eat the.

[Kenny]

I like it. Matthew, I have a serious question on a different note for you. What season do you think it is right now?

[Matthew]

Well, first of all, I like your style, Kenny.

[Joe Soucheray]

You don't even come to the house.

[Matthew]

I would say tis the season when you walk outside when there wasn't four inches of snow, there's no snow, you see little patches of green grass and you say how in the heck am I going to make my entire lawn look that beautiful?

[Kenny]

Wrong answer. The correct answer, if you were paying attention to the start of the when Joe gave the ice outs is it's open water season.

[Matthew]

I thought there was still some ice out.

[Kenny]

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[Joe Soucheray]

How about the dock parts?

[Kenny]

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[Joe Soucheray]

When I was a kid, I was lucky enough to have been raised on a lake. The dock going in was an absolute ritual of life. It was, it was a, the docks in. It was a big, big deal. Every little part of the lake had their own doc guy. Okay.

[Matthew]

And the logistics. Was this a family operation or did you call Ray and Ray came and

[Joe Soucheray]

we didn't have great outfits like Kenny just talked about it makes it easy to have that.

[Kenny]

We always rounded up the neighbors and we'd all do about three or four docs that day.

[Joe Soucheray]

We called Bob White.

[Kenny]

Bob White was the guy.

[Joe Soucheray]

Doc Guy lived right there in the

[Matthew]

village and he managed, or he told you guys, lift and go, lift and go.

[Joe Soucheray]

He didn't tell me anything. He. He and his guys put the dock in. The dock you could have. You'd come home from school one day and the dock would be in. It was a miracle.

[Kenny]

Let's be clear, Matthew. Now, these are docks with posts that you pound in. We're not talking wheels.

[Matthew]

You don't just roll them in like they do now.

[Joe Soucheray]

These were wood. Oh, wow. These were guaranteed to give you a sliver every time you walked on it. Yeah.

[Matthew]

Dragging your feet.

[Joe Soucheray]

Kids would line up every night to get the sl taken out of their feet and.

[Matthew]

And what would, what would your mom do to them?

[Joe Soucheray]

Heater hanging out. What would she do to the needle, though? Burn the needle.

[Matthew]

It's been in a cesspool of, you know, parasites for the.

[Joe Soucheray]

The last week, and then she start digging next.

[Matthew]

Yeah, burn the needle.

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[Pat]

Cool.

[Joe Soucheray]

Where in the hell is the mouse? Where's the mouse?

[John Haidt]

Lost the mouse.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, we lost the mouse.

[Josh Arnold]

Here it is.

[Pat]

Here it is.

[Joe Soucheray]

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[John Haidt]

Central to what?

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know.

[Matthew]

St.

[Josh Arnold]

Cloud.

[Joe Soucheray]

You're near St. You're up by St.

[Pat]

Cloud.

[John Haidt]

Between St. Cloud and you guys, this news is brought to you by.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wait a minute. John. Wait. I blew it. Hello?

[Pat]

What?

[Joe Soucheray]

I got a tick update.

[John Haidt]

That's right. Go ahead.

[Kenny]

Here's today's tick update.

[Joe Soucheray]

I heard from a very reliable source that you are going to hear quite a bit about ticks in May and June.

[Matthew]

Really?

[Joe Soucheray]

And that a noted pharmaceutical company is just going to be happening to be coming out with a tick vaccine somewhat later.

[Matthew]

You don't tell me.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's all I'm going to tell you. That's a ticket. Tick update.

[Pat]

That.

[Kenny]

That is amazing.

[Matthew]

That's a tease.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wouldn't that be something? I know someone offering that as a ray of hope. I'm offering that as collusion.

[Matthew]

Inside

[Joe Soucheray]

trickery.

[Kenny]

Should we be investing. Should we be investing in a pharmaceutical?

[Joe Soucheray]

Don't know which one it is. Oh, well, I do.

[Matthew]

You left out a big piece of the puzzle.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, not.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm not investing. I'm just not gonna say. Because what if it isn't TR Cruel?

[Matthew]

Okay. Bernie. Yeah.

[John Haidt]

This news update brought to you by North American Banking Company before the news update, let's do a little sports note. The Twins home opener is today. They're supposed to play 310. First pitch against the Tampa Bay Rays. There's a big batch of rain coming right towards us right now and it'll be chilly if they do play that game at Target Field. After starting the season with two road series, the Twins are at two and four on the young season this club

[Joe Soucheray]

has no business opening at home this early. Yeah, 15 of the 21 outdoor openers in Bloomington were on or after April 15th.

[John Haidt]

But that's because the season started so much later.

[Joe Soucheray]

Joe. Well, I'm just. I don't care. The reason.

[John Haidt]

The season used to start April 10th. April 11th, you know, right in there.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. All right. All right, I'm looking.

[Kenny]

We have Gridlock on inbound 394 from Penn into Downt.

[Joe Soucheray]

But going to the ball game.

[Kenny]

Yeah. Well, I don't know if it's ball game related, but the roads are dry so far.

[Joe Soucheray]

John, is there rain headed our way?

[John Haidt]

There's. I just looked at the radar before because I wanted to check the weather and it looks like the high will be around 41 or 42. And then the rain is about 10 miles south of the Twin Cities. A large.

[Matthew]

But it's just going to be rain, correct?

[John Haidt]

Yes.

[Matthew]

I can live with rain. I don't know.

[Joe Soucheray]

My ball club can't.

[Matthew]

About the ball club.

[Kenny]

Doesn't Reavers live down in Jordan?

[Joe Soucheray]

We don't know where he is. He's in

[Kenny]

Jordan.

[Joe Soucheray]

Really?

[Matthew]

I bet he's still at the ballpark with the kids.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, he sent Kenny and I a very mysterious message last night about 10 o'.

[Kenny]

Clock.

[John Haidt]

I still don't know what it means. I'll have to find out when I talk to him.

[Matthew]

So I was left out. That's okay.

[John Haidt]

And maybe he was drinking or something, you know? In news, Minnesota's Class of 2025 posted the highest four year graduation rate in. That's new data from the Minnesota Department of Education. The second year in a row that schools statewide have reached record graduation marks. In 2025, 84.9% of Minnesota seniors graduated, up from 84.2% in 2024. The data also shows improving graduation rates in basically every demographic group and a slight narrowing of achievement gaps by race, although significant disparities do still remain. About 90% of Asian and white students graduated in four years. Students identifying as two or more races, 80% black, 76.4% and Hispanic or Latino, 72.4.

[Matthew]

We cannot accept 85% as a graduation rate.

[Kenny]

And that was an improvement, wasn't it?

[Matthew]

Right. That's unbelievable. 15%.

[Pat]

Wow.

[Joe Soucheray]

15% don't graduate.

[Matthew]

Right. We're at 85%. You can't give me the.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, they're gonna let you go pretty much for any.

[John Haidt]

That's actually the highest ever rook.

[Matthew]

That's what my wife and I were talking about this morning. I can't Believe that's the highest.

[Kenny]

Did the 15% not graduate on purpose because they just left that.

[Matthew]

I don't know.

[Kenny]

You know, they want to work on Maggie's farm or whatever.

[Joe Soucheray]

I got news for you. I don't believe the 85% figure.

[Matthew]

I believe.

[Joe Soucheray]

I believe people are getting graduated who obviously should not be.

[Kenny]

Well, that would be the case of Matthew and I. Were the parents went into the teachers and said, really, you want to deal with him one more year? Why don't just give him a D plus, get him out of there.

[Matthew]

Minimum capacity.

[John Haidt]

A Plymouth child care attendant had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.356 when she lost motor function and fell on top of a child, according to charging documents. 21 year old Anya Kyosong Sang was arrested February 23rd after she allegedly got drunk while on her lunch break and, quote, deteriorated while caring for children, according to the complaint. Police were dispatched to the child care center, Milestones Early Learning center after a fellow employee reported that she might be having a panic attack. Officers got there, smelled alcohol under breath. At a breathalyzer test registered at 356. Kyo Song Sang became combative as police tried to detain her. According to the complaint, she allegedly kicked at officers and bit one officer in the leg. Once in custody, she was taken to a hospital for treatment. The daycare's assistant director told police she worked with children between 12 and 16 months of age and was responsible for feeding children, changing diapers and putting them to sleep. The assistant director said it was evident Kyo Song Sang was intoxicated as she was slurring her words and stumbling around. Police reviewed surveillance footage that showed her nodding off while trying to fasten a child's clothing. She was also seen tumbling backward into a wall while holding a child who was also appearing to hit their head on the wall. While on the ground, she tried to scoot around and fell on a child. Kale Song Sing faces.

[Joe Soucheray]

Meaning the kid gets squashed.

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

The kids okay? The kid's okay?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yep.

[Matthew]

Where was this, John?

[John Haidt]

This was in Milestones Early Learning center in Plymouth.

[Matthew]

Okay, my question is to the. To the one cop that was kicked and the other that was bitten. How slow are they? I mean, if you got a lady that's really hammered and she's going for your arm, you got to be a little quicker than that. You know what I mean?

[Joe Soucheray]

We don't know the answer.

[Matthew]

Okay.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Kenny]

Thanks, Chief.

[Matthew]

Yeah, you bet. Yeah, if I was the chief, I'd give him a verbal beat up. You got to be quicker than that. She's hammered. How come you're gonna get out of the way?

[Kenny]

Okay, okay.

[John Haidt]

The woman faces charges of child endangerment and obstructing the legal process, both which are gross misdemeanors.

[Kenny]

And never gets to care for another child again.

[John Haidt]

I would hope not.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, well, if the states are examining them, who knows if it should ever even get looked at.

[John Haidt]

The owner of Star Distribution has entered a guilty plea in the Feeding Our Future fraud case. Suleiman Yousaf Mohammed pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of wire fraud. Star Distribution claimed to provide meals to food distribution sites supposedly operating under the federal Child nutrition Program. The business got about $10 million. Prosecutors say Muhammad paid more than $330,000 in kickbacks to IM consultation, which was owned by his sister, Ikram Muhammad.

[Joe Soucheray]

How about that?

[John Haidt]

Ikram Muhammad pleaded guilty last month. Well, Suleiman, Muhammad's guilty plea. Gadi, you saw Muhammad is scheduled to be the only defendant at a jury trial in the case later this month.

[Kenny]

It just kills me that they're smart enough. Enough to con the state out of millions, but they're not smart enough to leave the country and go hide somewhere,

[Matthew]

take the money and run, stop with

[John Haidt]

what you got, quit and go away.

[Kenny]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Attorneys for the federal government have filed an appeal to return 5 year old Liam Kadejo Ramos and his father Adrian Arias to U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. That appeal was filed yesterday. Comes just over two months after a judge ordered the government to release Liam, Liam and his father from the ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas and returned them to Minnesota. You'll remember this story. Liam and Arias arrest in Columbia Heights and subsequent detention in Texas gained national attention. Liam's blue bunny hat quickly became a symbol of the children swept up in ICE operations. In a scathing order for the dad and son's release, U.S. district Judge Fred Beery ripped the ill conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas. Apparently even if it required traumatizing children. Liam and his father came from Ecuador, legally entering the US as asylum seekers in 2022. Had a pending asylum claim at the time of their initial detention. However, that claim was denied in the immigration court after the fact. According to their attorney, they now have an order for removal to Ecuador. Why don't we take a quick break here? Some breaking news this morning in the war in Iran. We'll tell you all about that.

[Kenny]

That I'd like to talk about. What's going to happen at the Canterbury Park Expo Center. John, if you don't mind. If You're a cylinder aficionado. You're going to. You probably already know about this, actually. It's the 68th annual Gsta Rod and Custom Spectacular. It's coming up next weekend, April 11th and 12th, the official kickoff to the car show season here in Minneapolis, the oldest indoor motorized event in the state. And here's the deal. And here's what makes this different. Every vehicle in the place is invitation only. That means only the best hot rods, custom street machines, and motorcycles from across our region. These are the cars we all drool over, the ones we stop and go around the block so we can see it again, get a picture of them, bring the whole family. There's a lot to do for the kids and the builders themselves of these automobiles competing for more than 7,500 in prize money and awards, including best in Class and best of Show. So, yeah, the good stuff, the really good stuff shows up. And it all happens next weekend, the 11th, from 9:00am until 8:00pm and then Sunday the 12th, 9:00am to 6:00pm Tickets if you go online, are just 18 bucks or 20 bucks at the door. Six dollars for Junior and kids under six are free. And of course, parking at Canterbury. Very free and vast. Get those tickets go to gstarod-custom.com one more time. G S T A rod-custom.com Johnny Thanks, Kenny.

[John Haidt]

One of two crew members of a U.S. fighter jet that was shot down over Iran has been located and rescued by US Special Forces. The search for the second person is ongoing. Iran is also hunting for the crew and has asked civilians in the area to join the search, offering a reward if they find the other member.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, man's he in trouble.

[John Haidt]

The two crew members of the F15 fighter jet ejected safely after being hit by Iranian fire, according to sources. The big picture, this is the first time since the beginning of the war a US Jet has been downed by enemy fire. White House press secretary Caroline Levitt told Axios the president has been briefed on the matter and so has the Pentagon.

[Joe Soucheray]

We're having Jack Carr on next week.

[Kenny]

Oh, really?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, He's a week from today. He's. This is right up his alley. How. How much trouble is this unfound pilot in? First of all, let's assume he's alive. He's. He's got to be. He's got to be rough. I don't know what he's doing. He's hiding behind rocks. He's moving here and there. He's hoping for exfiltration because if they find him, he won't last Long yeah.

[John Haidt]

Speaking of the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff general Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement. Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that George will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the army, effective immediately. The Department of War is grateful for General George's dedicate decades of service to our nation. We wish him in his retirement, a senior Defense Department official told CBS News. We're grateful for his service, but it was time for a leadership change in the Army. Two other army officers also removed the roles, according to three sources familiar with the matter. General David Hodney, who led the Army's Transformation and Training Command, and Major general William Green, who headed the Army's chaplain corps. George previously had served as the senior military assistant to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin from 2021 to 2022 during the Biden administration. After decades of service, he was a career infantry officer and a West Point graduate. George first served in the first Gulf War and the more recent conflicts in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

[Joe Soucheray]

Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, he was fired because he's not in favor of ground troops.

[John Haidt]

Britain accused Iran of holding the world's economy hostage yesterday as diplomats from more than 40 countries held talks on ways to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route choked off by the US Israeli war against Iran. The US did not attend the meeting, which came after President Trump made clear that he thinks securing the waterway closed as a consequence of the war is not America's job. Trump also disparaged America's European allies in a speech for failing to support the water war and renewed his threats to pull the US out of NATO. Meanwhile, Iran fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf states yesterday, demonstrating their ability to strike the neighbors, even as the president says the threat from the country was almost eliminated. Good economic news this morning. Hiring across the US Rebounded in March after falling sharply the previous month. Employees added 178,000 jobs, according to new data from the Department of Legal Labor. The March employment report beat consensus forecasts of 60,000 payroll gains last month. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.3% in March, down from 4.4 in the prior month. As we told you briefly during yesterday's show when it first happened, President Trump firing Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday, removing the country's top law enforcement officer after a 14 month tenure. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will serve as acting attorney general. The president is reportedly considering Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, as A permanent replacement for Bondi. Justice Department said a federal law enacted in the wake of the Watergate scandal that requires the President to preserve certain documents and turn them over to the National Archives at the end of his administration is unconstitutional. That opinion comes from Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Geyser, who leads the Office of Legal Counsel. He concluded the Presidential Records act exceeds Congress's power and aggrandizes the legislative branch at the expense of the independence of the executive branch. 1978 was first reacted after Richard Nixon's resignation four years earlier. Law established presidential records belong to the U.S. government and not the President personally.

[Matthew]

So we can't take them all and throw him in his garage.

[Joe Soucheray]

Doesn't Nixon seem. Doesn't Nixon seem like a sympathetic crook compared to what we got now?

[Matthew]

Yeah. Bring them back.

[Kenny]

John. Do you mean the taping tapes?

[John Haidt]

Anything? Everything, Kenny. Oh, okay, so now, I mean nudge, nudge, wink, wink. It's just happen now, you know, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

[Kenny]

What surprised me recently, I recently learned, and it's just because I'm a dummy and I didn't know that the taping in the White House started with jfk.

[John Haidt]

Yes, true, true.

[Kenny]

And I. I don't know if I'm behind the secret taping in the White House.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. I don't know how to counsel you.

[Kenny]

Well, I. I wish you could maybe give me a prescription or something.

[Pat]

Well, it. It.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's.

[Kenny]

I'm very upset.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hello? Well, it's

[Matthew]

okay.

[Pat]

This.

[Joe Soucheray]

You got your leg?

[Gabe]

He keeps hanging up.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Matthew]

Hey, who is this guy? This is not Reavers trying to get on the show here and some kids calling me Freddy Mertz. How you doing? What's going on?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I'll tell you what we'll do, John, unless you got a lot more there.

[John Haidt]

We like this story. Yeah, you'll like this one. It involves naval things. I love this story. Navel Lint A historical naval story. Archaeologists have uncovered the wreck of the Danish warship Donnybrugge announced on the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Copenhagen. The vessel, Denmark's flagship under Commodore Olford Fisher, was found about 49ft underwater in Copenhagen harbor Using sonar sonar and underwater drones. The ship had exploded after being hit by the British fleet. The British fleet was under the command of of Admiral Horatio Nelson. During the hours long battle left thousands dead or wounded as Britain sought to weaken Denmark's alliance with Napoleon. Divers have recovered cannons, shoes, clay pipes, uniform insignia and part of a sailor's jawbone, likely belonging to one of the 19 crew members considered missing after the explosion. Divers are racing to excavate the wreck in murky waters before construction begins on a nearby coastal housing project. The battle. This is interesting. Is traditionally associated with the phrase turning a blind eye. Here's why. Amidst the battle, Admiral Nelson, who is the. Horatio Nelson, head of the British fleet, faced a critical moment when his superior, Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, signaled for retreat. Nelson, though he had lost an eye in an earlier battle.

[Joe Soucheray]

Battle.

[John Haidt]

And he didn't want to leave. He said, this is a strategically important thing. I got to keep pressing the attack. So he put his blind eye up the telescope and said, I don't see any other ships. Let's continue.

[Matthew]

It was accurate. It was accurate.

[John Haidt]

That phrase came from that.

[Joe Soucheray]

I love to know the origin of these phrases.

[John Haidt]

And Nelson also went on to win the battle. So he was right. Not only was he against.

[Joe Soucheray]

I turned a blind eye.

[Matthew]

Right, John.

[Kenny]

You had me so engrossed there, I had to look him up. He's Admiral Nelson, First Viscount Nelson, First Duke of Bronte.

[Joe Soucheray]

There you go.

[Matthew]

Really?

[Kenny]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Do we say Viscount or Viscount?

[Kenny]

I don't know. I have no idea.

[John Haidt]

That reminds me.

[Kenny]

First time I've seen the word before.

[John Haidt]

You know, our listeners embarrass you. I'm going to embarrass you when you said FIFA. It's. It's FIFA.

[Kenny]

It's okay for us to go after rook. It's not okay for GLers.

[Matthew]

There you go. But one side note, it's soccer, so who really cares?

[Pat]

Oh, God. Singer.

[Joe Soucheray]

Say, Jen. We were just talking about the graduation rates. If you're tired of watching Minnesota's education system fail, our kids, there's a chance to do something about it. Tuesday, April 14th. Join the American experiment crew at the state capitol for a school choice rally. Because cockwomble doesn't want you to have any choice. Rally. We'll gather from noon to 1 o' clock at Cass Gilbert Memorial park, just northeast of the Capitol, right before a major school choice hearing in the House. It's free. It'll be peaceful. It's about giving parents real education freedom. And it's sponsored by the center of the American Experiment and Opportunity for all kids. Show up because the future of Minnesota's kids is worth an hour of your time. For more information, go to americanexperiment.org.

[Kenny]

Wait, what's going on?

[Joe Soucheray]

This guy wears many hats, just not indoors.

[Matthew]

Joe Sucere.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hey, Patrick.

[Kenny]

Nice.

[Pat]

Yes, Joseph.

[Joe Soucheray]

Your mom's. Was your mom Cecile or Cecilia?

[Pat]

Cecilia. Jane. Cecilia McDonald. But all the Irish back Then went by their middle names, her whole family, so. And she was Cecil to everybody.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, Cecil and Mary Helen are rolling over in their tools, especially during Holy Week when Trump brought his spiritual advisor to the White House, somebody who got a degree with a Quaker oats box or something and said that Trump is the equivalent of God. I don't, I don't think those two gals are going to go for it.

[Pat]

She would not approve of that for sure. Also, Mary Helen wouldn't be too excited about you being working right now instead of being at church from 12.

[Joe Soucheray]

We have never, never. We have always done the show on Good Friday.

[Kenny]

What about the twins opening every year?

[Josh Arnold]

Every year.

[Joe Soucheray]

I mean, the twins are opening, for God's sakes.

[Pat]

Kenny, I went on Twitter today to give myself credit for a great Good Friday moment that know back when the Catholics ran New York, York, we were there with the twins in about 77. And the series was Thursday, Saturday, Sunday. They wouldn't play on Good Friday, right? Oh, yeah, they wouldn't play on Good Friday. So we were there Thursday, Saturday, Sunday. And Bob Fowler, my running mate, as soon as you can verify, calls up to my room and says, let's go down to Times Square and see behind the Green Door. I said, said, I said, you know, if we get rained out tomorrow maybe, but not Friday.

[Joe Soucheray]

That is a good note.

[Pat]

My Irish mother would rise up from the cemetery at Ulta.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Pat]

And come out to New York and slap me upside the head if I went and saw behind the Green Door. Fortunately now on Good Friday, you don't have to go to a movie. If you want to watch porn, there's plenty of.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's right there on your phone. Are you at the ballpark Park?

[Pat]

I am at the ballpark. It just started raining profusely here, so I don't know if we're going to get started right at 3. The rain's supposed to last hour a little over, but the $2 beers appear to be somewhat popular. And they gave away 5,000 beanies, so people were in line. Why don't you give away 30,000 beanies and then you'll really have a long line for God's Saints. You know this, this five thou. When you're as popular as this team is, you shouldn't prevent anyone from having a BB Beanie. Right, Pat?

[Joe Soucheray]

They had a nice victory yesterday.

[Pat]

Yes, they did. Three home runs in the, in the top of the night. That guy, that, that, that, that trucker might end up being in Triple A here very soon. Yeah, served him up to three Guys. But yeah, that was it. A, that was a needed win. And today, Tampa, you know, this, this makes a lot of sense that, you know, to have Tampa here. Yeah, maybe, maybe in Tampa at this time of year. Tampa hasn't been home yet. Apparently they're doing something with the Steinbrenner Field down there to make it more major league type. But I don't know, they're, they're. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that Tampa Bay is on the road for the first 10 games of the season and now, which would allow them to play more summer games when it rains every day.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right, Pat? Despite the weather. Is it festive? Does it feel like the opener?

[Pat]

Not really. Oh, I wouldn't. There's big two dollar beer signs all over those. So maybe I gotta go out and actually check with the public here to see if they're consuming these or not.

[Joe Soucheray]

Two dollar beer is a hell of a bargain.

[Matthew]

They brought back Fox Deluxe, huh?

[Joe Soucheray]

Wow.

[Pat]

And here's the good news, Brooke. We got a little rain. Del, it's, it's tell the game starts, right. So I think they might get a little extra drinking time. Unless the Twins say no. It was supposed to start at3.10. You can't have a $2 beer. That's also a possibility.

[Joe Soucheray]

What do you think it'll be sold out?

[Pat]

Oh God, no, no, no. They haven't even bragged about that. You know, Dave St. Peter, in all his years of being the president of the TV endless energy into selling out the opener, I haven't seen, I haven't seen quite that same energy this year. But I think they'll probably try to announce 30 or something. I don't know.

[Joe Soucheray]

This is the Twins third opener. They opened Baltimore and they opened Kansas City.

[Pat]

So Mr. Suan at our paper wrote a column trying to say that the Twins and the owners should make peace. I haven't really, I haven't really gotten through all of it, but there are 500 comments telling him that he should die.

[Matthew]

In certain ways.

[Kenny]

The comments are so funny, Pat.

[Pat]

Oh God. They just, it's, you know, you, you know, the thing is, back in late 90s 2000 when Carl was accused of trying to contract the team, we didn't have social media to really roast them properly. He had to write a letter to the editor. You know, so I, I think a guy trying to contract is a little worse than this. But apparently with the public it's not. So. It's. It is. They've, they, they have become the villains here for sure. Even though the fact that they were gonna. I guess people are mad because they said they were gonna sell and then they didn't sell. Well, they didn't. They didn't get the number that they thought they should have. A. One of the reason they cut payroll is their new partners thought they should. So I don't know what's going on.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm starting to think. I don't know if this is good or bad. I'm starting to think, like, Sid might think about this. I think we. We'd be in terrible, terrible straits if we lost the clothes.

[Pat]

Oh, yeah, that's true. And I don't think there's any possibility of that because they got a lease and all that, although, you know, they're trying to get the Hennepin county tax passed again through the legislature and, you know, libraries and the hospital and then the ballpark. And. What is it? 8th of a cent or what is. What is it?

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know.

[Pat]

Look, what is it? 8th of a cent or something? I think so for all purchases. And in. In Minneapolis. It's in Minneapolis.

[Matthew]

I have no eighth of a cent, it looks like.

[Pat]

Yeah, yeah. And they can't get that through the legislature. But I. At this. At this point.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, what would they do with the eighth of a cent?

[Pat]

Well, they. I don't know, make some more improvements in the ballpark, Replace the carpet.

[Joe Soucheray]

The ballpark's fine.

[Pat]

Yeah, it's. It's certainly adequate for the needs for now, that's for sure.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, it's a great ballpark.

[Matthew]

The one of a sales tax reference in Minneapolis is part of a broader 0.75% metro area transportation sales tax that took effect to fund regional transit projects, including bus and rail initiatives.

[Pat]

I think really the tenants is going to improve a lot as soon as we finish that Southwest Trade Trail. I think we're right on target there to have that thing by the next decade, don't you think? We'll have that baby.

[Matthew]

Well on our way.

[Pat]

And then several people from Chanhassen will ride it every day. So that'll be fantastic.

[Joe Soucheray]

Several.

[Pat]

Because it only takes you an hour, 15 to get here. That's not. You can sit in traffic and get here in 45 minutes.

[Kenny]

Patrick. So some of those comments that weren't directed at Suhan's sexuality were imploring the twins to just sell already. Just get it over with.

[Pat]

That. That's what the whole thing is. Or sell. Sell the twins. They're all mad because they said they're going to sell and then they didn't sell because, you know, nobody wanted to give what they wanted. I still can't figure out how the hell they ended up 400 million owing the bank 400 million on the twins. I don't know. Now it's their own bank, which has a lot to do with it. But I. I don't know how they got into that big hole to, you know, I. I think every time they needed some money, they just. They didn't pay it. You know, of what they had. They. They borrowed it, but they borrowed it

[Matthew]

against the commercial buildings they own in Minneapolis, and now those things are half the value.

[Pat]

Yeah, you think so? I was. I got here early today, and this beautiful ramp we have next to the stadium, there's three of them here, but this beautiful ramp. Now, it'll have some traffic in it later, but just for giggles, I. The. The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh floors were all empty. So if it was a normal. If it was a more normal business day, they have a ramp there for, I don't know, thousands of cars, and they might be parking 200 a day if they're lucky. Make people go to work. Work. Do you think, Go to the office.

[Matthew]

Do you think there's a possibility that the Twin Cities people that live here would. Would start a GoFundMe page for the poll ads or you think that's out of reach?

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Hey, Pat, the. The.

[Pat]

Pat, I want people to go to work in the office, even though I don't. You don't go work in the office.

[Kenny]

You sound like Lee Elia now, right, Pat?

[Joe Soucheray]

There was never a doubt, but the Wild clink the playoffs with the win over Vancouver last night, it's going to

[Pat]

be them at Dallas. There's not much doubt now because Dallas won last night to stay six points ahead of them. Yeah, six points. And. And we're getting near the Nubbins here. What do we got, last four games or something?

[Joe Soucheray]

All I know is the deep run is threatened by having to play Dallas.

[Pat]

Yeah, it is, but they could do it.

[Joe Soucheray]

They could do it.

[Pat]

Yeah. 50. 50. So Dallas plays very conservative, very defensive oriented.

[Joe Soucheray]

How bad does Vancouver, Ms. Hughes, that they're dead last in the West?

[Pat]

I think that was part of the plan that they're just starting all over up there.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, they must be.

[Pat]

What did I see? Some big feud going on up there about something. I don't know what it was, you know, but I love that town. And the only real experience I had there was in oh, three, you know, as recently as 03, when we made our run The Wild. You know, they have not gotten out of the second round since 03, Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm aware of that.

[Pat]

And they've only won in their history four series. That's incredible. That's incredible. Why are we so mean to the Twins and not not mean to these guys?

[Joe Soucheray]

There'll be meanness if they don't advance this year.

[Pat]

Yeah, that could be. But I think I would really love to see a run to help out West 7th street, if nothing else.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, it'd be fantastic. Well, I hope it stops raining for you.

[Pat]

Yeah. I've been trying to call Rodney. I haven't got him to answer. He can't make it this year because I heard and I haven't confirmed this, but what the hell? It's radio. I think he had his gallbladder out recently.

[Joe Soucheray]

He can't stand too many more operations.

[Pat]

No, no, no, he's not.

[Joe Soucheray]

One final note on. On health. I've come to the conclusion that Tiger went one car accident too long. I don't think the public has the warm thoughts.

[Pat]

Well, you know, I think if he was drinking, they would have felt better than me and a pill head. You know what he needs? Patience. If he just hadn't pulled out there and just wait for that guy to finish his work, this would have never happened.

[Joe Soucheray]

And the first call he makes is to Trump.

[Pat]

Yeah, that's. Can you get me out of this? Can you call the cops?

[Joe Soucheray]

Geez Louise.

[Pat]

How do you think. How do you think the older folks who set documents into the presidency, they think it's a good idea to get rid of Medicare and Medicaid because we got to fight Iran? Do you think that one's going to float over?

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't think it's going too well, Pat.

[Matthew]

I think they're rethinking their vote right now as we speak.

[Kenny]

So wait a minute. He called the President for a pardon before the cops even showed up.

[Joe Soucheray]

We don't know if he was looking for a pardon, but he's standing there next to his turned over car talking

[Kenny]

to Trump, and when the cops pull up, he goes, hold on, hold on, I'm on the phone with the Trump.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's exactly what he said.

[Pat]

I think he said he was on the phone when the accident that happened with him and then stayed on the phone.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know.

[Pat]

Wow. I don't know.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'll see you.

[Kenny]

Reminds you guys. He reminds me of the old town drunk when I was growing up, Doc Larson, who once a year would drive his car right into a storefront. He drove into every single storefront in town.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Pat]

I gotta tell you that my editor at the. My aging editor at the legendary St. Cloud Times editor Harold. I won't go to last name. Harold would have a couple of toddies after he finished his editorial and one There used to be a car dealer on, on St Germain, the main drag there.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pat]

And he turns the corner into the lights, starts going up the ramp where they're done loading cars.

[Joe Soucheray]

That was a Rockford. That was a Rockford Files trick when he was trying to get away from somebody drove up on to the carrier

[Pat]

two thirds of the way over. And then the car just kind of jumps over on the side. Harold was still driving, still gunning it and apparel. They took away Harold's license.

[Kenny]

That's best.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'll talk to you Monday.

[Pat]

You know, alcohol has always existed in newspaper offices.

[Matthew]

Yes, it is for medicinal purposes.

[Joe Soucheray]

He hung up.

[Kenny]

Oh boy. Okay, Matthew, actually I'd done you wrong, sir. You were actually partially right earlier when we were talking about the seasons. Right now despite it's your pontoon that

[Matthew]

you want to see. Put that pontoon on some green grass.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Kenny]

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[Pat]

Finally.

[Matthew]

Pretty festive, isn't it?

[Joe Soucheray]

Today is Friday. Tgt. You have a scramble at 3 o'

[Matthew]

clock on a good Friday Why do you. Why do you do that to me?

[Kenny]

I was also speaking of beer and cracking. When? Open last Friday. A week ago today they still make Old Milwaukee beer. And I had one and it tasted like 1980.

[Joe Soucheray]

Really?

[Matthew]

Because it was probably still bottled from

[Kenny]

1980's it was so good. It was so good, Kenny.

[Matthew]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Welter, we have four adventurers about to circle the moon moon who rose into space on Artemis. The astronauts are going to see the far side of the moon. They're going to go around what we know is the dark side, but it's called the far side. They have been told to pay particular attention to two key lunar features on the far side of the moon.

[Matthew]

What are they?

[Joe Soucheray]

The Orientale Base and the South Pole Aitken Basin. The latter is the largest impact crater, possibly the oldest known to exist in the solar system. See, we never seen it. Both the basins date back about 4 billion years.

[Kenny]

Wow.

[Joe Soucheray]

A period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment when a large number of asteroids were peppering both the moon and the Earth. This period coincides with when life was first getting started on Earth. One theory of how life On Earth started is that the first seeds of existence arrived on one of these asteroids. Evidence of these rocky lifeboats could still be lurking in the craters on the far side of the moon.

[Matthew]

Interesting.

[Joe Soucheray]

The moon is like a witness plate for everything that's actually happened to Earth, but has since been erected by our weathering processes and our tectonic processes and other geologic processes. Christina Koch, an Artemis 2 astronaut, said before the launch, we can actually learn more about the solar system foundation, More about how planets form maybe around other stars, and more about the likelihood of life out there, starting with studying the moon. Holy man. Only the Apollo astronauts have seen the far side of the moon, but it was largely in darkness and they flew closer, which meant their field of view was smaller.

[Matthew]

So what have we got, a big spotlight we're shining on it or what?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, Artemis 2 soars much higher than Apollo, about 4,600 miles above the lunar surface, Giving astronauts a wider view and allowing them to see areas amid features of the farsight that humans have never witnessed directly. Directly. Okay, here we go again.

[Matthew]

Let's go.

[Joe Soucheray]

Here it comes with our dumb.

[Matthew]

Sit down.

[Joe Soucheray]

Will it be illuminated as they go around it?

[Matthew]

No, because the sun is behind it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, how are they going to see anything?

[Matthew]

They'll. There'll be some light from.

[Joe Soucheray]

Why am I asking you?

[Matthew]

I don't know. I should stop talking.

[Kenny]

Their eyes adjust to the darkness.

[Joe Soucheray]

They turn down the dashboard, they're gonna be 4600. They gotta turn the radio light on. Yeah, well, what the hell.

[Matthew]

My favorite is still the far side. Larry, where were you? We waited and waited.

[Kenny]

Haven't you ever driven through North Dakota in the middle of the night? You're on 94 all by yourself. You turn the lights off for a mile or two and you get, you know, your eyes get accustomed to the darkness.

[Joe Soucheray]

The moon rotates exactly once each time it orbits Earth to the same side always so the same side always facing our planet. This phenomenon is known as tidal locking the side we see as thin crust. So large impacts in the early part of the solar system's history crack the surface, allowing molten lava to flood the crater floors and form the vast mare mare or seas that we see from Earth. In contrast, the crust on the far side is much thicker, preventing cracking and keeping them as well preserved time capsule capsules. From their vantage point, the astronauts will be able to study the strange triple debris rings of the Orientail crater, Located on the extreme western edge of the moon, which formed 3.8 billion years ago. That's a long time.

[Matthew]

Why do Planets always have that molten core. Why does there always.

[Joe Soucheray]

One study suggests. I'm not gonna answer that. One study suggests that the rings formed when a 40 mile asteroid struck the surface, blasting about 816,000 cubic miles of debris into the sky before it came crashing back down. The material would have sloshed back and forth for two hours, eventually settling into the rings like a bathtub.

[Matthew]

Right,

[Joe Soucheray]

and it'll be hard for them to miss the South Pole Aitken Basin. A gigantic impact structure 1600 miles wide, which features a strange heavy area that extends 200 miles down. That could be iron, nickel. Core of an ancient asteroid that became lodged in the moon 4.3 billion years ago.

[Kenny]

Serious question.

[Joe Soucheray]

This moon has been rode hard and put away wet.

[Matthew]

It really has been.

[Kenny]

Are, are we gonna lose contact with Artemis when it goes.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's a great question.

[Matthew]

Half the of hour question.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, let me see here.

[Matthew]

They say for sure.

[Joe Soucheray]

They said a half hour.

[Josh Arnold]

Half an hour.

[Matthew]

Half an hour to 40 minutes. They're gonna not have contact.

[Kenny]

Joe, do you know what rage baiting is?

[Joe Soucheray]

No.

[Kenny]

Okay, I just wanted you to answer that truthfully for the G lers that are have steam coming out of their ears right now and are slamming down on the keyboard.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I. I don't think I've said anything outrageous. I'm just merely pointing out what our 4 BR of courageous adventurers are going to see.

[Kenny]

Gabe, what is the GL term for rage baiting? Because we're not trying to make people mad. Is this dum dum baiting?

[Gabe]

I think we just call it talking.

[Kenny]

Oh, okay. It's just talking. All right. Well, that's pretty simple.

[Matthew]

You know, it'd be really cool to have one of those E bikes on the moon to just be cruising up if you.

[Joe Soucheray]

If you got an E bike tomorrow at ecofund or today.

[Kenny]

Nice.

[Matthew]

Thank you.

[Joe Soucheray]

Do you know what?

[Kenny]

What?

[Joe Soucheray]

You could be riding Sunday.

[Matthew]

You would love it. To the moon and back.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh man. I'm talking about Ecofund Motorsports in Forest Lake, Columbus. Highway 97, just west of the interstate. 400 electric bikes are on sale starting at 899. Over 130 motorcycles on display. Scooters, youth recreational equipment, outdoor equipment. It's going to be the most fun store you've ever been been in. Water equipment, Waverunners and jet skis. With a free fifteen hundred dollar trailer to haul that baby up to the lake. You'll never be in a more fun store. Ecofund Motorsports in Forest Lake, Columbus. Buy out E bike Saturday. You're riding all Sunday Easter. Work off that Easter.

[Matthew]

Yeah, let's go.

[Joe Soucheray]

It'll be great. And it's on Highway 97 west of 35 and down in Burnsville on the service road of life near County Road 42. And a wonderful website. Be careful ecofunmotorsports.com only because they come to us all the way from Penguin, Tasmania, Australia. From the traveling linemans who can be followed@worldwide waftage.com it was on this day. It is April 30th in 1859. On this day in Wright County, Oscar F. Jackson was found not guilty of the murder of his neighbor, Henry Wallace. Although there was a good deal of evidence against Jackson, a forensic examination of Wallace's body did not offer sufficient proof of his guilt. After his acquittal on April 25, an angry mobbed lynch Jackson and in Wallace's house. Because the authorities in Wright county cooperated with the lynching, Governor Henry Sibley offered a $500 reward for their capture. These events mark the beginning of the Wright county war. On this day, April 3rd in 1920, St. Paul's Union Station opened. Great big beautiful train station.

[Matthew]

It is beautiful.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day in 1970, April 3rd, the former Greyhound bus station in Minneapolis opened its doors as a music club, the Depot. Twelve years later, it would be renamed First Avenue by Steve McClellan, the booking agent of the club, and Jack Myers, the club's financial manager. A cornerstone of the city's music scene, First Avenue hosted local and national acts and was featured in the Prince movie, of course, Purple Rain.

[Kenny]

McClellan was one of the greatest, greatest crusty guys that you would ever meet. He would give you a run for your money. Joey.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm a very pleasant, quiet.

[Kenny]

He was very crusty. He was a lot of fun to talk to.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day in sports disappointment history.

[Gabe]

Who did we lose to today?

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day in 1982, the first game at the Dome. And that was a disappointment because the Dome was. Was a dump.

[Kenny]

You still aren't over it on this

[Joe Soucheray]

day, April 3rd in 1971. After signing that one day contract yesterday, on this day, Cal Luther rejected coaching the Gopher basketball team. Aha. Yeah, G Ellers. Have a wonderful Easter. And thank you.

[Matthew]

Wow, what a great week we had in Garage Logic. And you know what? We're not sure what's around the corner for next week, but if you want to be involved in that as an insider, Joe just signed a pile of town council certificates. And if you want to be part of that, to find out what we chat about prior to the show, during the breaks and post show, you may go to garagelogic.com Sign up for the town council. Also, it's free. You can sign up for the YouTube account that we have have here and you can watch the show, see what Joe wears every day and find out if he has such paste on his chest each and every day.

[Joe Soucheray]

Also, I don't have any.

[Matthew]

You don't have today. Today you're good. But you might want to see what I'm nibbling on during the show or what else Kenny's doing or what Johnny Height is doing. No, I could be done. Garagelogic.com if we did birthdays, I'd wish my brother a happy birthday. But we don't. Sorry, Paul. Yes.

[Gabe]

All you smart people know what time it is. It's time for you to pick up your phone. It's time for you to dial 952-925-5608. That number you're gonna dial again is 952-925-5608. And the man that's gonna pick up the phone is called Mr. Money Talk, Josh Arnold. He's gonna give you a free 48 minute, no obligation financial consultation. And he's only gonna give you straight talk and he's only going to give you sugar coated, no sugar coated advice. Excuse me, Josh.

[Josh Arnold]

That's right, no sugar coated advice.

[Gabe]

That's exactly how it should be. I want to know on our last day here, what do you think is the most important trade that you've ever

[Pat]

made in your life?

[Gabe]

It could be one that you made the most money on, maybe you lost the most money on, but what was the most important and what made it that way?

[Josh Arnold]

Whoa, that's a heavy duty question. What's the most important trade that I made? I would say the first trade that, that I made and that the first trade that I made was just getting started, getting off the dime and making a commitment to invest. Now this would have been way back when I was in high school and I kid gave that. My father was a tyrant. He was a tyrant. He made me earn money. You want money?

[Pat]

Go work.

[Josh Arnold]

You want some money? Cut the grass. Not only cut our grass, cut the neighbor's grass, go out and work. You want money? There's a restaurant that needs a dishwasher, washer. Go to work, earn some money. So when I earned the money, you feel pretty good about making some dollars, right?

[Gabe]

Right? Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

And when you look at your paycheck, your paycheck at that time, you know, a dollar and a quarter an hour was minimum wage. Wow. But you look at that paycheck and you're looking and saying, man, I'm not getting the full dollar and a quarter. I'm getting a lot less because I've got to pay all kinds of taxes. So now you've got to work harder to make a little bit more money. So when I brought the first paycheck home, my not spending that money. Well, what do you mean, dad, this is my money. I get to spend it. Nope, you're going to need money to help pay for something called college. Okay. He said, now there are two places you're going to go. I want you to take some of that money. You're going to go down to the bank and you're going to make a bank deposit and then you're going to go and talk to a guy and you're going to put money into a mutual fund. And a mutual fund, as I'm sure you're, you're aware, is an investment vehicle where you and I and thousands of other people pool our money with a money manager such as myself now through a, a company, and that manager is going to make decisions on what stock to buy and what stocks to sell. And we started with a fairly aggressive fund with a guy who had a tremendous record investing in what was then fast growing and newer technology company. So not unlike today's Cathy Wood of Ark Investments, she specializes in fast growing technology companies. And when you're doing that, you're going to get a lot of volatility. Ark Investments has had a, a lot of volatility, but I did that, made that investment and added to it periodically. And when I started, the market went up and I was feeling pretty good as the value increased. And when they paid dividends, I reinvested those dividends, which gave me more shares. Well, lo and behold, not too long after I started, the market went down. And I was a little bit disappointed, to say the least. I am losing money. And it took me a little bit of time to figure, yes, I was losing money. But when they paid the dividend, dividends and that fund paid dividends on a quarterly basis and I reinvested those, I got more shares and I kept on investing all my money in that particular fund and then another mutual fund and still put money in the bank, you know, I did help pay for college with that. And after I graduated from college and went into graduate school, the stock market, this was back in 1973 and 74 got cut in half or a whole bunch of, of reasons the price of oil jumped up. We Started with a lot of inflation. President at the time Richard Nixon instituted wage and price controls. There are a lot of reasons back then for the stock market to drop, but I did keep investing and invested those dividends and got a lot more shares. Well, I then got married, and a few years after that we looked to buy a house. And houses back then were not the price they are today, nor. Nor, of course, were wages back then. And if I needed to pay, and I was dumb because I thought I had to pay cash for the house, I had enough money from my mutual fund that had gone up and down in value to pay cash for the house. So my most important investment was starting, even if it was in a mutual fund. The second thing was when things go down and you're reinvesting your dividends or can continue to buy at a difficult time, you're going to end up with more shares. Shares. Third thing is the economy. And the stock market will typically come back, though some things look pretty dark, and they did look dark in 1973 and 74 with the market cut in half. But things did come back and came back strongly over a period of time. So that would, I say, was the most important investment was starting out. Second, you know, there were a bunch of lessons learned from that was continue to invest even when things look bad, do not pay, panic. And probably the next lesson, you know, later on was a change in investment strategy. During another difficult period of time when I was investing in individual stocks, I learned to take smaller positions and take profits quickly and reinvest those. And that was another period of time during a down market which ended up in a very, very good result in a change in strategy. And probably the best investment, you know, single investment that I made was buying Apple and sticking with it.

[Gabe]

You heard the master GL ers. The most important thing for you to do is start. And you don't get there without picking up your phone. And you don't get there without dialing that number, 952-925-5608. Do exactly what I did and pick that up, make that call and make yourself some money with Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold. Thank you so much, Josh. It's been a pleasure this week, Gabe,

[Josh Arnold]

thank you very much. I really appreciate it.

[Gabe]

You're welcome. Take care, sir.

[Josh Arnold]

You too.

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