5/15 The Garage Door Opener is now official

Summary

GARAGE LOGIC — 5/15/26: The Garage Door Opener is Now Official
Podcast: Garage Logic
Host: Joe Soucheray (“The Mayor”) & regulars: Chris Reavers, Kenny Olson, John Height, Krista, Pat Donahue
Release Date: May 15, 2026
Episode #: 1,779

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Episode Overview

This episode marks the “Garage Door Opener”—Garage Logic’s tongue-in-cheek metaphor for the official start of the Minnesota summer (garage doors up, cars out). The crew reflects on summer rituals, local and national news, Americana, government affairs, and Minnesota sports. The tone is classic Garage Logic: neighborly, nostalgic, lighthearted but bracingly opinionated, with plenty of banter and ribbing among the hosts.

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Key Discussion Points & Notable Segments

1. The “Garage Door Opener”: Welcoming Summer in GL Style

• [02:50] - [03:27] The crew celebrates the symbolic and literal opening of garage doors, marking the start of Minnesota’s warm weather. They joke about the fleeting length of true summer: “We’ll have about another two or three weeks of warm weather.”

  • Quote — Joe Soucheray: “The garage doors are open. And welcome to the season. We’ll have about another two or three weeks of warm weather.”

• [03:27] Garage antics (which car to take out, keeping the garage organized, resisting letting cars become shelving).

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2. National News & Social Commentary

• Trump, Uranium, and PR

  • [03:36] - [04:55] Joe relays breaking news about President Trump admitting the mission to recover uranium from Iran was “more for public relations than it is for anything else.”
  • Quote — Trump (via Joe): "It’s more for public relations, he said, than it is for anything else."
  • The crew riffs on the cynicism of such statements and the cost of PR in government actions.

• [06:06] - [07:40] Ongoing unrest in the Middle East, and how long conflicts seem endless: “There’s no end game in sight.”

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3. Letters from Listeners: Americana & Linguistic Roots

• [09:23] - [14:11] Krista shares listener mail from a Marylander reflecting on the pride of Appalachian linguistic quirks, coal country, and small-town values (e.g., pronouncing 'creek' as 'crick', ‘zinc’ for ‘sink’).
  • Quote — Listener Krista: "Linguistically, it feels archaic, but realistically... we are holding on to our Appalachian roots. We are proud of being hillbillies... we are still holding onto the outgrowth of this miraculous childhood."
  • The group reminisces about regional idioms and the enduring sense of community, likening it to core values of Garage Logic.

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4. “Character” in Modern Society

• [14:49] - [18:43] The same Maryland listener responds to Joe’s earlier lament that “character doesn’t matter anymore,” arguing instead that society has shifted its definition of what good character is.
  • Quote — Listener: "It’s not that character doesn’t matter. It’s that the characteristics that once defined good character have changed."
  • The group explores how traits considered “good character” (hard work, honesty, respect for elders) have changed and how modern society recognizes different behaviors as virtuous—even sometimes lawbreaking.

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5. First World Problems: Garage Organization

• [19:13] - [21:03] Banter about the “struggles” of moving towels and storage baskets around classic cars in the garage, poking fun at their own privilege.
  • Quote — Joe Soucheray: "It’s just one hell of a first world problem."

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6. Sino-American Tensions: China, Foreign Land, and Minnesota Paranoia

• [28:23] - [37:53] Extended riff fueled by a Mike Pompeo speech about Chinese influence in North America, the infiltration of institutions, and foreign land ownership.

  • Concern about Chinese-owned farmland (and Canadian, by comparison) morphs into classic Garage Logic skepticism and conspiracy theories.
  • Quote — Kenny Olson: "We’ll just take it back. Screw them… Have you ever heard of eminent domain?"

• Discussion turns to Minnesota’s own relationship with China, state government spending, and whether financial “ruin” might make the state ripe for outside takeover (delivered with tongue in cheek and tinfoil hats on).

  • Quote — Joe Soucheray: "If you can destroy the state financially… you’d be ripe to be taken care of by another entity. You’d be ripe for takeover."

• [41:06] - [44:49] Trump-Xi summit, debate over Taiwan, and tariffs.

  • Quote — John Height: “Tariffs are problems.”

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7. Political Theater in St. Paul

• [53:42] - [58:07]
  • House Democrats staging a sit-in at the Capitol over a gun bill. Debate over sincerity and effectiveness of political action.
  • Quote — Joe Soucheray: “Why don’t you ask your representative why they didn’t pass every gun law imaginable when they owned the complete Senate, the complete house and the governor’s office not that long ago?”

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8. Minnesota Sports: Heartbreak and Humor

• [71:19] - [73:54] Pat Donahue joins live from the Wild exit interviews. They dissect the latest Wild playoff exit, missed opportunities, and player contracts.

  • Observations about hockey and basketball defeats, abrupt ends to sports seasons, and the agony of Minnesota fandom.
  • Quote — Pat Donahue: "Four goals, you know, four minutes ago. That’s, I think, worse than blowing a three goal lead is blowing a two goal lead in the last four minutes."

• Chat about the closing of Bauhaus Brew Labs ([58:12] - [60:58]), brewery business challenges, and Minnesota’s restrictive alcohol laws.

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9. Americana and Garage Logic Rituals

• Celebrating local businesses (Rosedale Chevrolet, Harmony Spirits), the quirks of region and character, and classic local events (lake life, town picnics, the sounds of Spoon Lake—[67:02 - 68:36]).

• Listener letters about “real” Minnesota flags, community pride, and the next generation of logicians ([88:13] - [90:17]):

  • Quote — Listener Josh from Kasota: "As one of the younger listeners… I can confirm that there is still a glimmer of hope for the future... we stayed grounded in our morals, graduated school with meaningful degrees, found good careers, and started building lives for ourselves."

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10. End-of-Episode Banter

• UFOs, non-human intelligences, and string theory: “interdimensional beings,” with classic Garage Logic skepticism ([83:02] - [84:59]).

• Kenny Olson announces traffic reporting retirement ([93:13]), his last tweet: "Strap down your crap and drive like a champion."

• On this day in Minnesota history: quirky facts about sports, towns, flags, and tulips.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On living for today:

  • Joe Soucheray ([07:16]): “There will always be another day when I can drive it.”
  • Kenny Olson: “Joe, we never know when we’re gonna take our last breath, live life to its fullest.”

• On Minnesota’s fleeting summer:

  • Joe: “It’s probably 81 degrees already. We’ve hit 70. The garage doors are open. And welcome to the season. We’ll have about another two or three weeks of warm weather.” ([02:58])

• On American character, then and now:

  • Listener ([15:12]) “Somewhere along the line, we changed the criteria for what’s considered good character... it’s not that character doesn’t matter. It’s that the characteristics that once defined good character have changed.”

• On foreign land ownership:

  • Kenny Olson ([52:23]): “So what if China owns portions of land in North Dakota. We’ll just take it back. Screw them.”

• Sports heartbreak:

  • Pat Donahue ([72:36]): “They got a two goal lead with three minutes to go... I think that’s worse than blowing a three goal lead—blowing a two goal lead in the last four minutes.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 02:50 — “Garage Door Opener” announcement & summer rituals
• 03:36 — Trump news commentary
• 09:23 — Local Maryland Americana letter discussion
• 14:49 — “Character” in society and listener letter
• 28:23 — Pompeo on China, foreign influence, and Minnesota chatter
• 41:06 — Trump-Xi, Taiwan, and agricultural tariffs
• 53:42 — St. Paul political theater and the gun bill debate
• 58:12 — Closing of Bauhaus Brew Labs / MN craft alcohol laws
• 71:19 — Pat Donahue: MN Wild, playoff collapse, and other sports takeaways
• 83:02 — UFOs, interdimensional beings, and string theory riffing
• 88:13 — Listener flag report and generational optimism
• 93:13 — Kenny Olson’s (semi) traffic retirement and last tweet

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Classic Garage Logic Features

• Witty, self-deprecating acknowledgment of first world problems (organizing garages, collector cars)
• Quick pivots between heavy topics (politics, China, social values) and light ones (carboard hoarding, lake life, lawn care)
• Community pride, nostalgia, and the subtle warning: Don’t lose your sense of Americana
• Ribbing among the crew, meta-commentary on the show itself (“Put on your tinfoil hats...the garage door’s open, we’re just riffing.”)
• Listener inclusion: email/readers’ letters and town flag reports, grounding topics in community wisdom

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Summary

This episode of Garage Logic meets May and the “garage door opener” with a celebration of summer, an affectionate poke at upper Midwestern habits, and a classic sweep of news, personal anecdotes, and community letters. The crew delivers trademark wit and unfiltered opinions on everything from new definitions of good character, to international intrigue, to perennial Minnesota sports heartbreak. Listeners also get familiar Americana—cherished, sometimes maligned, always revered.

If you’re seeking a show that weaves small-town tales, gut-level skepticism, garage talk, and actual local life—all with “the doors open” and common sense at the ready—this is Garage Logic at its best.

Transcript

[Joe Sucere]

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[Chris Reavers]

Hail the Flashlight King.

[Joe Sucere]

And now from the Mayor's office above the Boath 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 Susher. Hi everybody.

[Kenny Olson]

Is today the garage door opener?

[Joe Sucere]

Welcome to the garage door opener.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, go. Wait, I thought that was a week ago.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, it probably was, but the official opener is right now. It's probably 81 degrees already. We've hit 70. The garage doors are open. And welcome to the season. We'll have about another two or three weeks of warm weather.

[Chris Reavers]

Radio comes up again and the common sense is flowing freely. Here's Joe Suture.

[Joe Sucere]

So we're great.

[Josh Arnold]

We're open.

[Chris Reavers]

I can't play the other part of it though, can I?

[Joe Sucere]

And a lot of action on Spoon Lake today.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, man.

[Joe Sucere]

It's just say I have news that's just breaking from the Bloomberg news site. President Trump said the US Objective of recovering highly enriched uranium from Iran was, quote, unquote, more for public relations than it is for anything else.

[John Height]

No.

[Joe Sucere]

Trump said in an interview with Fox News that aired last evening that the US in the US that the mission to recover the uranium, which is thought to be buried beneath the rubble of bombed nuclear sites, could be viewed as unnecessary because the US was maintaining round the clock surveillance. We have nine cameras on that site, on those three sites, 24 hours a day. Trump said. We know exactly what's happening. Nobody's even got close to it. Still, the President said he ultimately would rather get the material out of the country. I just feel better if I get it, actually. But it's. I think it's more for public relations, he said, than it is for anything else. Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

I can't log on to Bloomberg. It's a pay. Got a big pay.

[Joe Sucere]

It's the lead story on the Drudge Report.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, they won't let me on Bloomberg, though.

[Krista]

I'd feel kind of silly if I lost someone.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, I'd hate to go to the airport to retrieve a flag draped coffin for a PR stunt.

[Krista]

A Minnesota lady was a mom. Was a wife.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, we need to get that uranium. Let's make that a goal here.

[Joe Sucere]

It's more for PR really, than any necessity.

[Kenny Olson]

You need a hug?

[Joe Sucere]

Buried.

[Kenny Olson]

Listen to me as I rip this band aid off.

[Joe Sucere]

Jesus.

[Kenny Olson]

Ouch.

[Joe Sucere]

You know Krista, our friend in Maryland?

[Krista]

Yeah, I should say U.S. army Reserve Master Sergeant Nicole Amor. I shouldn't say that.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, she's done alone. Many have lost their lives.

[Krista]

Right.

[Joe Sucere]

And the oil sits there plugged up in the straight. And Israel and Hamas continue to go at it. There's no such thing as a ceasefire. There's no end game in sight.

[Kenny Olson]

Garage doors up.

[Joe Sucere]

Yes, it is.

[Krista]

There it is. There we go.

[Kenny Olson]

Model show at i94 speedway tonight.

[Krista]

Oh, what a great night for that.

[Joe Sucere]

You know, I almost drove a fun car to work. Then I thought, oh, hell, I'd have to move another car to get it.

[Kenny Olson]

You can't let that happen to you. You can't. You gotta stay ahead of the aging thing.

[Joe Sucere]

No, you're right. Get that.

[Pat Donahue]

Oh.

[Joe Sucere]

This had nothing to do, you moron, with aging.

[Kenny Olson]

It has everything to do.

[Joe Sucere]

Not a damn thing.

[Kenny Olson]

You're lazy.

[Joe Sucere]

No, no.

[Kenny Olson]

You're lazy. I have it.

[Chris Reavers]

I have it.

[Krista]

Ken.

[Chris Reavers]

You know what this is?

[Kenny Olson]

We're already fighting.

[Chris Reavers]

No, I don't want to fight. This is exactly what you talked about yesterday. Oh, shucks. Maybe I'll get that car tomorrow. Maybe the wild will win it next year.

[Kenny Olson]

That is it.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, shucks. Maybe we'll

[Joe Sucere]

always be another day when I can drive it.

[Chris Reavers]

Ah, shucks. Maybe the front will stop tomorrow.

[Kenny Olson]

Joe, we never know when we're gonna take our last breath, live life to its fullest.

[Joe Sucere]

Come on this day. Come on this day. Today. This is the only day of this day we'll have.

[Kenny Olson]

You're right.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, in other words.

[Chris Reavers]

Wait, what now?

[Joe Sucere]

Well, when you look at it from a calendar standpoint, this is May 15th. But it's May 15th, 2026. We'll never have another day like this.

[Pat Donahue]

Wow.

[Kenny Olson]

We may never pass this way again.

[Krista]

I feel like I need to live my life today, you know?

[Kenny Olson]

Who's that? Is that Chicago?

[John Height]

No, it's not Seals and Croft.

[Kenny Olson]

Seals and Croft.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait.

[Chris Reavers]

Repeat that again.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, if you're here today, that. That's it. This is the only day you could be here today. Because there is no other day other than today. You didn't have this. That hurts my brain. And tomorrow you won't have this, Joe.

[Kenny Olson]

Tomorrow. Today will be yesterday.

[Joe Sucere]

That's right. And so if you're here today, this is the only day you can be

[Kenny Olson]

here, live here and now, in the moment. Sounds like nobody's watching.

[Joe Sucere]

A young South African golfer at the PGA was late for his tee time and assigned a two stroke penalty before he even teed off. But he was within five seconds late. But if you're one second late. So he was trying to explain this, and he said, well, I was here, but I was late. I got there early enough, but I was late.

[Krista]

I know how to do it.

[Joe Sucere]

And it was Yogi Berra right out of the.

[Kenny Olson]

Joe, this sounds like Matthew every time.

[Krista]

Tardiness is a. It's an art. It's an art to dig yourself out of the hole. Yeah. You don't. This is a.

[Joe Sucere]

Have you ever had a dream? No, I can't do that dream thing.

[Krista]

You can't just be late. You need reasons.

[Joe Sucere]

You know, Krista was listening to us reminisce the other day about the old days. And she's writing about how happy she is to be living where she lives in the mountains of Maryland. She lives in western Maryland. Okay, yeah, I'm finally getting that right. And she writes that. Well, what does she write? It's just wonderful stuff. As I've mentioned many times, I live in a very small town in mountain Maryland. The town I'm from is known for being a coal mining town where many of the residents descend from immigrants who traveled here from Ireland and Scotland to work in the mines, my family included. Coal mining was the prevailing industry in the neighboring towns as well, including the town of Lonaconing, or they call it Coney, whose biggest claim to fame is that it was home to the late baseball hall of Fame pitcher Lefty Grove. In addition to Lone Conning, the neighboring towns of Midland, Western Port, and Barton sit alongside George's Creek. You may recall from some of my previous correspondence that these towns were devastated one year ago today by devastating flooding in that very creek. And then. So she's talking about how she went to mass on Mother's Day and she ran into a bunch of people she knows. And then she said. Following the priest's blessing, we were asked to be seated for additional announcements. Father Doug wanted to point out some dates to remember for the summer, including one that will serve as the day of the parish picnic. In doing so, he mentioned the location, Loneconing. However, he followed that comment with the following. For those of you who are local, it's down the creek in Coney. That's right, Kenny, he said, down the creek. I found myself smiling, displaying to the rest of the congregation the humor that I felt at that moment. First, that we still live in a geographic area that is accepting such slang terms, and second, that I am proud of where I come from in my 55 years in the county. Everyone who resides on Route 36 south of Fr. Is from the creek. We say it as though they were born, resided, and died literally in the water. Oh, she's from the creek.

[Krista]

Love it.

[Joe Sucere]

He grew up down the creek. So what does that say about me, about the area? Linguistically, it reveals that we have handed down through generations one incorrect pronunciation after another. For much of my life, and as an English and history major, I've often been annoyed by it. I've often offered unsolicited corrections to people, despite it being none of my business. My mother still says treasure rather than treasure and Washington rather than Washington and meal when she means mill. My grandmother would tell me to throw the fork in the zinc, which without the Pennsylvania Dutch pronunciation meant throw the fork in the sink. Linguistically, it feels archaic, but realistically, in day to day life and in Garage Logic terms, I recognize that I live in an area that is still ever so slightly untouched by modern trappings. Your discussion Tuesday reminded me that in every way that matters, we are holding on to our Appalachian roots. We are proud of being hillbillies. One of my favorite baseball names ever. Emil Hillbilly Bill Dilly. Look him up in the baseball encyclopedia. We are trying to hold on to what you alluded to on Tuesday's show. We still have a town barber. We still cruise Main street from McDonald's to the tasty Freeze. We still attend the high school football games on Friday nights and sit around a bonfire on Saturday nights. We still drive tractors on the roadway and hang out at the local American Legion. Just as you proclaimed of Garage Logic, we are still holding onto the outgrowth of this miraculous childhood. And then she wrote again today, and

[Kenny Olson]

she sounds, Joe, like it could have come from a neighbor of mine. Yeah, I had a brutal flashback there. Wind Meal. We used to go up to the well under the windmill.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, it's a mill, Kenny. Windmill.

[Kenny Olson]

You're the only person I know that pronounces crick the wrong way.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, it's. It's Creek.

[Kenny Olson]

You're the only person in my life that doesn't know how to pronounce Cricket.

[Krista]

You know, what I took from that letter is the fact that she was at mass and before the final blessing, when you get announcements, you get the announcements, you get to sit down and you're kind of looking around going, I got this one in the bank. This hour is in the bank, and I'm good to go for now.

[Joe Sucere]

All we gotta do now is sit through a few announcements and we're golden.

[Kenny Olson]

That letter was a real piece of Americana. That really put me there.

[Joe Sucere]

Let me tell you something else. I have a very dear friend, no longer with us, very active in my boating life. He could not pronounce the word measure.

[Krista]

What would he say?

[Joe Sucere]

Measure.

[Pat Donahue]

Measure.

[Joe Sucere]

Measure. Just like she was talking about her mom. Treasure. It's treasure.

[Chris Reavers]

I think Major used to be a sales guy here who.

[Joe Sucere]

But she writes again. Hail the Flashlight King.

[Kenny Olson]

Hail you.

[Joe Sucere]

I thought that was spirited. For this being an opener, I thought that felt pretty good.

[Krista]

I mean, we're ready to go.

[Kenny Olson]

Liquor kicks in, we'll be better.

[Joe Sucere]

Greetings, gentlemen. I apologize for writing you two days in a row, but I felt compelled to comment on yesterday's show. Joe, somewhere amid the fraud and politics discussion. You made a poignant statement. You said, the character of the human condition doesn't matter anymore. It's just incredible how much character doesn't matter. Immediately, I felt saddened. And for a moment, though, it dawned on me that maybe your statement, while spot on in sentiment, wasn't exactly an accurate depiction of our current status. I would argue that, unfortunately, it's not that character doesn't matter. It's that the characteristics that once defined good character have changed. I think she's got an excellent point. When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, I was taught that having good character meant living a life of honesty, integrity, generosity and kindness. It meant having consideration for others, respecting my elders and those in authority. It meant obeying my parents and teachers, as well as having discipline when making decisions and life choices. Those of good character worked for a living, took care of their responsibilities, stayed away from the nightlife, attended church on Sunday, helped their neighbors, and generally worked together for the common good. Somewhere along the line, we changed the criteria for what's considered good character. I'll use the President as an example. Boy, he would be a convenient example, isn't he? Only because he proves my point so easily. I know many people who support him with unwavering vigor currently, despite numerous examples to the contrary. They would call him a man of good character because of the way he stands up to bad people, the way he demonstrates a no nonsense approach when speaking to the public in the media, and the way in which he was sacrificed, in which he has sacrificed his own well being physically and financially. Well, I don't think she believes that. She's citing what her friends say. He has not sacrificed a bleeping thing financially. He's getting richer by the minute.

[Kenny Olson]

Did she write that?

[Joe Sucere]

No, I'm adding that.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, okay, all right.

[Joe Sucere]

To make our country great. However, Trump is not the cause of the affliction I described, nor did this happen overnight. We have allowed it little by little to creep into our society. It's that character no longer looks the same. You need not look far in Minnesota to see it demonstrated plainly. Violent protesters standing up to the government are recognized as having good character. Marginalized people stealing from the government are recognized as having good character. And walls helping the downtrodden and victimized is seen as having good character. To which I would add, because he has said we're just neighborly people. We're just neighborly. I thought of this character thing after I read her letter. I saw a piece today on the Daily Mail where a teenager high on dope. The dope on an e bike mowed down an 82 year old woman and killed her in a crosswalk.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, my Lord.

[Joe Sucere]

In. In England. And I thought there will be people who think, well, at least he was riding a bike. You know what I mean? I mean, they'll be so dark. I know. But hey, he wasn't in an evil car. He was on a bike.

[Kenny Olson]

I could see it.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, yeah. Thus assigning to him some sort of nebulous character. Yeah. Well, what are you gonna do?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, it's happening all over things, just like you just said.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, but the garage door's open. Could have driven a good car today. Fun car.

[Chris Reavers]

But oh, shucks, I didn't want to.

[Krista]

Well, one, I want to spend the seven minutes trading out.

[Joe Sucere]

One. I wouldn't drive here because it would leave its mark too significantly. And that's unfair to.

[Kenny Olson]

You know, you should have a piece of cardboard down there.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, yeah, that's true. I have very. I have a beautiful selection of garage cardboard.

[Kenny Olson]

You write your name on it.

[Joe Sucere]

I keep it. I cut up.

[Kenny Olson]

No, I mean in downstairs.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, I know.

[Krista]

Sushi stain.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

That was always the best when beyond fear to Marvin.

[Chris Reavers]

When Leslie, who no longer works with us, but when Leslie would refill the coffee cups and she would set the cardboard box down next to the old AM 1500 studios.

[Joe Sucere]

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Don't.

[Chris Reavers]

Get rid of that.

[Krista]

Yeah. What are you doing?

[Chris Reavers]

I want to hang on to that one. That's a good piece of cardboard.

[Krista]

Where are you going with that?

[Joe Sucere]

You know, one of the great problems that befalls people who keep cars is that they start out with great intentions, but they eventually let the car become a storage shelf. They put stuff on it and I have resisted that. You put the hood up. The hood's up.

[Krista]

You're not effed up at all.

[Joe Sucere]

No, no. And again, let's repeat that, man.

[Pat Donahue]

Rul.

[Joe Sucere]

Hood is up to prevent bags from being dragged across it. That's why the hood is up. And I've stuck to my guns. I am not going to store anything on these vehicles. But here's the problem.

[Krista]

What's the problem?

[Joe Sucere]

You know what you can do.

[Krista]

The hood is up for me. It looks like the hood scratched. Okay, go ahead.

[Joe Sucere]

The problem, the car that I could have driven here, but it would have been unfair to the garage floor. Guys. Has nothing on it. I could have zipped right out.

[Krista]

Okay.

[Joe Sucere]

And the car I could have driven here. Cause it wouldn't leak anything. That's where I've put all the current Towels that I use for the cars. So I am allowing that. So that I would have had to, you know, pick that stuff up and move it to the other car.

[Krista]

He's got like a. He's got the laundry basket that they use in prisons to escape in.

[Chris Reavers]

Full of towels.

[Joe Sucere]

You know what I call this?

[Kenny Olson]

It sounds onerous, Joe.

[Joe Sucere]

One hell of a first world problem.

[Krista]

Yeah, that is. That's the. The perfect definition.

[Joe Sucere]

It's just one hell of a first world problem.

[Kenny Olson]

White privilege is not easy.

[Joe Sucere]

It isn't. You know, there's always something you gotta move or adjust to exercise your whiteness, you know.

[Chris Reavers]

Can I ask a question?

[Joe Sucere]

You may.

[Chris Reavers]

The. The laundry basket.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't have. That's rookies.

[Kenny Olson]

No, that's math.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't have a laundry basket.

[Kenny Olson]

Go down that road.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay, sorry. Then I. What's the. What's the.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, I was wondering, would you have to set a towel underneath the basket

[Krista]

on top of the vehicle?

[Joe Sucere]

Of course I would, but I don't have a laundry basket.

[Chris Reavers]

Got it. Okay. Is just the hood or is the

[Joe Sucere]

hood and the trunk open? Chris, These towel items, which are. They don't injure the car. They're towels.

[Chris Reavers]

Right.

[Joe Sucere]

They're on the trunk lid, which is closed.

[Krista]

Okay.

[Chris Reavers]

Which you could then set something on top of the towel.

[Joe Sucere]

You could, but I don't.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

Can I get the time in the

[Chris Reavers]

town like a grocery bag from Aldi or, you know.

[Pat Donahue]

Yeah, as long as I get the

[Joe Sucere]

time in the town. Open her today you can. Rosedale chef. A great day to get to Rosedale Shove for a truck. They're a great deaner, a great diner. I'm gonna get. I'm gonna survive that.

[Krista]

Today I got five to one, County

[Joe Sucere]

Road C and Interstate 35. Rosedale Chevrolet is a dedicated commercial truck dealer because they're a business elite truck dealer. Get what that means. They got the inventory and they've got low cab forwards and they have medium duty Silverados in the 4500 and 6500 series. Express cutaway box trucks from 10ft to 16ft. Silverado, 1/2 ton, 3/4 ton, 1 ton gas and diesel. You know, Diesel was named for a guy named Diesel who invented it. His name was Diesel.

[Chris Reavers]

In fact, wasn't his last name Fitter? Diesel Fitter,

[Joe Sucere]

top of the line, high country. You know what you want to do your own. They got an empty chassis.

[Krista]

Empty chassis.

[Joe Sucere]

Design your own truck. If you're a landscaper, H vac guy, electricians, these things are just. And they have the inventory. It's ready to go today at Rosedale Chevrolet Stake bodies, utility bodies, service bodies, flatbeds with fifth wheel trailering plow trucks with and without sanders. I'm telling you, this is your truck stop Rosedale Chevrolet County Road C&35 in Roseville rosedalechev.com. Wherever you go, whatever they get into, from chill time to everyday adventures, protect your dog from parasites with Credelio Quattro.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Sucere]

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[Kenny Olson]

Ask your vet for Cordelio Cuatro and

[Joe Sucere]

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[Joe Sucere]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

you said. Let's just call it 100 bucks you spent on gas.

[Chris Reavers]

9683 to be exact.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay, serious question. Will that get reflected in what you now don't buy today?

[Chris Reavers]

Yes, 100%.

[Joe Sucere]

So you won't go to the liquor store, for example?

[Chris Reavers]

Let's. I mean, come on, let's be honest. Well, yeah, yeah, no, but I mean it has affected other things that I will do 100%. I mean, I gotta come to work unless I get Covid tomorrow.

[Joe Sucere]

I have a story out of Canada.

[Kenny Olson]

You might get lucky

[Joe Sucere]

of a story out of Canada that the listener can decide if if they would attempt to do any linking to Minnesota, the former director of the CIA, our CIA issued a this is in Ottawa Dateline Ottawa Dateline. Yesterday the former director of the CIA issued a warning that Canada has become so deeply infiltrated by agents of Communist China that the infiltrators may not even look Chinese but could pass as white Italian kids. Speaking to people gathered in Ottawa for the Canada Strong and free conference, former U.S. central Intelligence Agency CIA Director Mike Pompeo said, I can't see very much out there, but I will bet you that there are Chinese Communist Party affiliated people affiliated people in this room today. As I said the listeners can decide if they want to link this to Minnesota at all. He noted how today many people affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party are not even ethically Chinese. He said, they look like me, like they're white Italian kids. Pompeo then said there is not a single university in the United States that isn't deeply tied to Chinese money, noting that some Chinese students are involved in what is known as intellectual property theft. He warned that Canadians, and indeed everyone, should not be worried about China invading Taiwan, but rather that the CCP's influence over large cities in North America. When it comes to Canadian political leaders, Pompeo said that the current Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking a misguided approach in having closer relations with China. He remarked that he had been asked about it by Conservative MP Shuvaloy Majumdar. According to Pompeo, he said in his answer, china will sell your nation's values down the river in two seconds. As I said, listeners can relate this to Minnesota if they want or not. He said that Canada needs to move past the irritation and remember who the people are that share your values. Pompeo was a CIA Director from 2017 to 2018. He was the US Secretary of State from 2018 to 2021. Our friend Pierre Polever, remember him? The guy eating an apple when he was questioned?

[Krista]

Yes.

[Chris Reavers]

What do you mean by that? What are you saying? Yeah, exactly.

[Joe Sucere]

He spoke at the event and he blasted Carney's meaning the Canadian guys new cozy relations with China. We must respect the idea of a permanent rupture with our biggest customer which buys two thirds of our goods in favor of a strategic partnership for a new World Order with Beijing. He told conference attendees the Liberal government under Carney has established friendly relations with China. Indeed, Carney was recently in China. Well, our guy was just in China, where he said Canada's relationship with China is more predictable than with the US Under Trump. He also made a deal with China related to Canadian agriculture products such as Canola, while trying to get tariffs removed. In exchange, Canada agreed to drop massive tariffs on Chinese made EVs. The EV deal has been blasted for being bad for Canada. Indeed, a former Canadian intelligence officer directly warned Canadian MPs that Chinese cars, notably electric ones, pose a risk to the nation's electrical grid and are a direct surveillance threat. In other words, if I might take a stab at guessing, what that means is somehow the technology installed in those Chinese EVs might be so high grade that we don't even know what they're recording. And I Don't even know for what purpose they would wish to record your daily travels. But it sounds like the car could do that and then send it back to headquarters.

[Kenny Olson]

Your phone, your iPhone is doing that. Anyway. If you leave your wi fi on, anytime you walk through a public place, it's taking information from you.

[Joe Sucere]

China has a long history of going after Canadian MPs, academics, political parties, and local ethnic and spiritual groups who are critical of the country. China has been accused of meddling in Canada's elections. Regarding the CCP's relationship with Canada, the final report from the Foreign Interference Commission concluded that operatives from China may have had a hand in helping to elect a handful of MPs in both the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections. It also concluded that China was the primary foreign interference threat to Canada. Are they the primary foreign interference threat to the United States? Yes. You in the back.

[Kenny Olson]

I would say yes, if I were

[Chris Reavers]

to become worried about the very story that you were just reading.

[Joe Sucere]

It's an interesting story, isn't it? The listeners, I left it up to them. They could decide whether they wanted to link it to perhaps.

[Chris Reavers]

Here, let me put my tinfoil hat on.

[Joe Sucere]

All right, Put that on.

[Krista]

Get it on.

[Chris Reavers]

What happens if, let's say, I don't know, the governor of your state? It's been well documented that they have made, I don't know, 30, 40 trips to China.

[Joe Sucere]

Tim does enjoy the Chinese culture and he's been warmly welcomed by the Chinese people. He's very fond of China.

[Chris Reavers]

And what if. I mean, I don't know. I'm just speculating here. What if you had asked a question yesterday? Well, why is all this happening? Why are we seem to be overrun by a series of really, really poor decisions that has led to financial ruin in this. In this state and left us with a mass migration of people who have said, well, I can't stay here anymore. I can't afford to live in this state. And I mean, I don't know. I'm just spitballing here with my friends. I mean, what if. Let's, I don't know, let's just say that there doesn't really seem to be a means.

[Kenny Olson]

Are you looking for an argument?

[Chris Reavers]

No, not at all.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't think you're gonna get one with any of us.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm saying this is happening here.

[Joe Sucere]

I'm the only one.

[Kenny Olson]

The more outrageous it is, the more I'm buying it, Frank.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, I'm the only one on the staff who actually went over to the Chinese embassy, not their Embassy. They got up. They got a building about a mile from here.

[Kenny Olson]

A police department.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, I don't know if they're in town.

[Kenny Olson]

New York.

[Joe Sucere]

It was an outlet. Yeah, it was close.

[Krista]

Police department.

[Kenny Olson]

You don't mean that Chinese food House of Wong Place.

[Joe Sucere]

No, no, no. There's some sort of Chinese center now. You can get there. It's right over here. Order for Mark.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, but yesterday you did ask why

[Krista]

the recorded Chinese police station in St. Paul area was an overseas Chinese service center linked to the Chinese American association of Minnesota.

[Joe Sucere]

That's where I went.

[Krista]

Unveiled in 2016 to help Chinese citizens with administrative tasks.

[Joe Sucere]

Seriously, it's right off 280. You get off on coma and double back.

[Kenny Olson]

You look up Chinese police department in New York City. I think I saw a headline this week of somebody getting busted.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay, I'm gonna take this. Admittedly at this stage, a conspiracy theory with the tinfoil hats. I'll take it. I can take it to the next chapter.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, before you do, I'm down.

[Krista]

An illegal overseas political outpost operated by China's mystery. Excuse me. Ministry of Public Security was discovered in Manhattan's Chinatown, shut down by the FBI in late 2022. Kenny.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, that's an old, old story.

[Pat Donahue]

All

[Joe Sucere]

okay, let me take it from the top.

[John Height]

Go.

[Joe Sucere]

Yesterday, I wondered, what is the end game of an administration that was said to have allowed fraud? That was said to have allowed fraud. Not by me, the lowly podcast host. It was said to have allowed fraud by Christian Robbins committee in the state legislature. A culture developed where it was allowed, no one suffered consequences, and it was ongoing. And I began to wonder, well, okay, what is the end game of that? Why would elected officials and highly appointed people in the state, why would they allow this to happen? All right, well. And again, this is just fanciful gibberish for me, but okay, they allowed it to happen because if you can destroy the state financially, if you can make farmland worth 20 cents on the dollar, if you can have factories surrendering their equipment in their buildings, if you have the people desperate for food and shelter, which could be years away, but at the rate we're going, that could happen. Well, then you'd be ripe to be taken care of by another entity. You'd be ripe for takeover. And then you put on your yellow jumpsuit and meet at the broom factory for the calisthenics every morning at 10am that's the only way you can take it out to the end. If, in fact, and I'm not there yet, I'm not prepared to believe that the end game in Minnesota is Chinese driven. I'm not there. I'm not there. I know. That's your silver hat or whatever.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, it's fun.

[Joe Sucere]

It is. It is.

[Kenny Olson]

It's fun to flesh it out.

[Joe Sucere]

And the door's open. The garage door's open. We're just sitting around. You know, the door's open.

[Kenny Olson]

Grab me a cold one while you're over there.

[Joe Sucere]

I will.

[Chris Reavers]

Have you ever seen the map of the amount of farmland in this country owned by Chinese or not? Operatives, Chinese organizations.

[Joe Sucere]

It's particularly true in North Dakota. All right. But I'm not there yet. Let me tell you why I'm not there. I'm not there yet. I think if we were there, we. We would have a better sense of it happening than we do. I. I'm still. And this could be naive on my part. I'm still of the belief that this fraud was committed by just horribly incompetent people who didn't care. That's where I am.

[Chris Reavers]

So what we need for the complete takeover is maybe another virus or two, another global pandemic.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, you want to throw that in? That's a very important part of your riffing here because that really upended this country and has ramifications that echo today.

[Chris Reavers]

And it was. Remember how it was mocked? That was started in a lab. It was mocked. And turns out that was true. It did start in a lab.

[Joe Sucere]

And it did thrust walls into a daily situation where he addressed us and

[Chris Reavers]

told us, I'm the emperor.

[Joe Sucere]

And told us, well, today we're closing this business. And now stand six feet apart and wear your masks. And every day there'd be a different walls press conference, but those ended.

[Krista]

We bought a morgue.

[Joe Sucere]

Those ended. We bought a morgue. We bought a fruit factory for six and a half million. That. I still don't know what the hell that was. But that stopped. He's not doing that anymore.

[Chris Reavers]

We never behaved like that before as a country.

[Joe Sucere]

This country. I said that this country never behaved like that before. Never. So I just thought the Chinese. You know, it's Pompeo saying it. He might know more than I do. He was a CIA director.

[Chris Reavers]

Do you think that China has our best interests in mind?

[Joe Sucere]

No. Okay, but ours. Not in Minnesota. I just don't. I just don't think the United States is Xi. And Trump just concluded a summit. And like in all summits, we really don't know what happened or what was talked about. Both parties were glowing about the other. Although Xi, who knows what he's saying, because nobody can understand him.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, we do have interpreters.

[Chris Reavers]

Chinese investors. This is according to an AI overview. Chinese investors and companies own approximately 277,000 384,000 acres of U.S. agricultural land, which equates to less than 1% of how many acres? 277,000.

[Joe Sucere]

That's not as much as Ted Turner.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay, but that's. And it is less than 1% of all foreign owned land in the United States.

[Joe Sucere]

Let's get away from that for a moment and go back to Trump and Xi meeting.

[Chris Reavers]

Can I finish this paragraph, though? Because it's apropos of your topic.

[Joe Sucere]

Absolutely.

[Chris Reavers]

By comparison, this is a tiny fraction of the over 14 million acres owned by Canada. So there you go. There's your tie in.

[Joe Sucere]

Wait a minute, check it out. Now, Canada owns 14 million acres of our farmland. Well, how much farmland do we own in Canada?

[Chris Reavers]

I don't know.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, you could look it up.

[Chris Reavers]

You know what I'll do?

[Kenny Olson]

I'll look it up.

[Joe Sucere]

And while you're looking that up, I'll tell you, I think the most crucial element of the talks between Trump and Xi was Taiwan. And as I understand what I read today, Xi was telling Trump, don't get any ideas about Taiwan, John, step in here and help me if you've read it. He was saying, just don't, don't try to defend Taiwan. Leave us alone. Lay off Taiwan. Lay off Taiwan, which we have apparently vowed to protect for many years, right?

[John Height]

Yes.

[Joe Sucere]

They're important to us. Their government is independent of China, virtually. It's the computer chip capital of the world. Isn't that where many are made? And Xi is saying to Trump, we're going to take Taiwan and you're going to have nothing to do with it. Now, whether that's going to happen or not, I have no idea.

[Krista]

Is that the specific reason China is so intrigued by Taiwan, or are they upset?

[Joe Sucere]

I said Taiwan, didn't I?

[Krista]

Yeah, yeah. Are they upset that Taiwan is snubbing their.

[Joe Sucere]

It's a Putin, Ukraine thing. They want control of that. They believe it to be a Chinese entity, not an independent entity, and they'll do what they want to do to take it over. For example, we're scheduled to sell arms to Taiwan. Will we or won't we? I don't know. I don't know.

[John Height]

Actually have sold some, apparently in the last six months, but it hasn't been delivered.

[Joe Sucere]

That's right, they haven't been delivered.

[John Height]

Tariffs and wonder if that's why China said this during the meetings. You know, like, hey, don't be delivering that.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, Chris just said the magic word. How much tariffs. How much do tariffs have to do with his visit? Is this part of his plan to. I can't think of a better word than recover.

[Chris Reavers]

The reason I said the word, Ken, to help answer your question, is that's, I think the main issue of getting someone to negotiate at the table.

[Kenny Olson]

See, when. I know you guys really hate him, but when I heard the announcement that he was going to China, I got hopeful that he was going to clean up his own mess with the tariffs thing and get our farmers making money again, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

[Joe Sucere]

You say, hey, I don't hate anybody. This, that, those.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what I mean? Let's not argue that point.

[Joe Sucere]

No. Well, you have Trump derangement syndrome. You think he's a capable human being.

[Kenny Olson]

Can we just talk about the point I was bringing up instead of the emotional nonsense?

[Joe Sucere]

It's not emotional. It's a clutching your pearl. It's a fact.

[Kenny Olson]

Crying and sobbing. Maybe I can give you a hug or get a prescription medicine.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, you're. You know what? You know, in real life, he sees the light. In real life, he sees the light.

[Kenny Olson]

I cannot have a conversation with you.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, boohoo.

[Kenny Olson]

All right, you're proving my point. You won't talk about it.

[John Height]

I think point was proved the other way.

[Kenny Olson]

But that's. I just wanted to mention the tariff thing.

[Joe Sucere]

Tariffs are problems.

[John Height]

Yeah, tariffs are problems.

[Chris Reavers]

This just in, We've got the title of the podcast right there, ladies and gentlemen.

[Kenny Olson]

Give me another beer while you're over there.

[Joe Sucere]

I think I'm going to have a shot.

[Krista]

Wait, no.

[Joe Sucere]

You know what you just did?

[Chris Reavers]

You know what you just did? Hold on.

[Krista]

Unless the garage door is up and the common sense is flowing freely.

[Chris Reavers]

You know what you just did, Joe?

[Joe Sucere]

Huh? I guess mom do knows. That's right.

[Chris Reavers]

You just pulled a Ricky Anderson.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[John Height]

Now, according to what I'm reading, the US China tariff thing, they've, they've. It's right now. Fine. Yeah, reading right now. Let's keep it 10% reciprocal or has

[Joe Sucere]

been, as Clem would say, tariffs, no tariff, many tariffs, many tariff is a problems.

[Kenny Olson]

Our farmers are going to have to pay off their fuel bill and their, their weed killer bill this fall after harvest. And you know, we should be a little concerned about that.

[Krista]

Many pharma need.

[John Height]

Higher duties between China and the US are suspended until November 10th of 2026. So.

[Joe Sucere]

Great.

[John Height]

As of right now, we're just where we always have been.

[Joe Sucere]

Good.

[Krista]

Basically with Terror through Halloween.

[John Height]

And that's been at least since February when the Supreme Court struck down.

[Chris Reavers]

Hold on, I'm just making a note here.

[Kenny Olson]

Great news. I'm glad.

[Joe Sucere]

Hey, look at me. I know.

[Chris Reavers]

So wait, I'm making notes. Tariffs are a.

[Joe Sucere]

They're a problem. Okay, I want that.

[John Height]

We got it for the explanation of the show online today.

[Joe Sucere]

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[Krista]

That's what it is.

[Joe Sucere]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

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[Kenny Olson]

Matthew, I know you've told me time and time again not to make this reference, but I can't help myself. Tis the season really is.

[Krista]

It really is the season.

[Kenny Olson]

It's bugs season 80 or more today. 70s this weekend. We had a GL ER up in Zimmerman. Larry, he's already been using bugs Begun. Larry was a doubter until he tried it. Now he's the. He's a team ambassador touting the benefits of said product. And I know. I know what I've been saying some crazy things about Bugs Be Gone over the years. Some might call it hyperbole, but it's the truth. All you have to do is spray down the windshield, the bumper, the grille, let it set there for a few minutes, and then either spray it off or with the hose or use that gas station squeegee thing and they wash away with no effort at all. I know that seems unbelievable. You've been spending a lifetime laboring for years to scrub them off. Stop that nonsense. Get with the program. Take the easy way out. Get Bugs Be Gone and I don't know, get on with your life. You're going to find it at the. At all the fleet farms, the farm fleets, and hopefully your local knack hardware store and the fine automotive, chemical aisle of auto parts stores. It's the best product on the market. Another wonderful product from Seafoam. We call it Bugs Be Gone.

[Chris Reavers]

Kenny, I drilled a swarm of them and it just splattered across my windshield. I've got it.

[Kenny Olson]

It's fun now.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I gotta. I gotta get another job with Bugs Be Gone.

[Kenny Olson]

It's actually fun.

[Joe Sucere]

John Height.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Joe Sucere]

You're on the air.

[Pat Donahue]

Hi.

[John Height]

Okay, I'll do some news before I do news. Well, let me tell you. First of all, this is all brought to you by North American Banking Company. First on Canadian owned farmland. You asked how much they own, or vice versa. Whatever they own. 15.35 million acres. I think that's what Chris said. That is 1.2% of the privately held US egg land.

[Kenny Olson]

So what was the percentage?

[Joe Sucere]

You never told me about US And Canada.

[Kenny Olson]

One.

[Joe Sucere]

That's a lot.

[Kenny Olson]

That's. That's a lot, isn't it?

[Chris Reavers]

The reason I didn't is because I couldn't find any data.

[John Height]

Yeah, and I couldn't either.

[Joe Sucere]

Rook. Do you still have the.

[Krista]

Find any data?

[Joe Sucere]

You still have the soundtrack from the. The activities down at Spoon Lake, the boats going back and forth and the piano music playing.

[Krista]

I'm gonna make sure the microphone is connected.

[Joe Sucere]

All right.

[Krista]

She got a little rough. The mice got into it earlier. Right here.

[Kenny Olson]

Can we say one more thing about this land owned by foreign countries? Are you guys really worried about that? Well, I mean, so what if China owns portions of land in North Dakota. We'll just take it back. Screw them. What do they think they're going to open a little China and no dac? Have you ever heard of what do we call it when we take land from owners? Eminent domain.

[John Height]

Eminent domain.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, we'll just take it back. Screw them.

[Joe Sucere]

Dakota Wars. Yeah, I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

We should call it that.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, let's pick a different name. All right.

[John Height]

And as an addendum. Oh, I like that word.

[Pat Donahue]

Huh.

[Kenny Olson]

That's a good one.

[John Height]

To that entire conversation, China's land. I almost said hand loadings. Land holdings. Yeah, we're down 100,000 acres in the past from 2020 to 2024. You know, in other words, they went from 353,000 to 241.

[Kenny Olson]

Let's just take their tax dollars until it comes inconvenient. Then I'll give them the boot. Screw them.

[Chris Reavers]

I do have the hand loading definition on Urban Dictionary if you'd like that at some point.

[John Height]

Back to tariffs, which I'm sure we'll get letters about. I guarantee.

[Kenny Olson]

Emails and letters fix it.

[John Height]

As of May 2026, US China trade relations still constrained by elevated tariffs with some average U.S. duties on Chinese goods at 47 and a half percent. So some of those are still high. But after the Supreme Court ruling in February of this year, some things were lowered because the Supreme Court basically ordered that to happen. Tariffs got that straight in in new

[Kenny Olson]

red flag warnings like this, John, kind of a little bit.

[John Height]

I have no idea what's going on. A red flag warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for parts of western central and southern Minnesota because of an extreme fire risk. The warning will be in effect today from 11 till 9 tonight for 54 counties across Minnesota. Now most Twin Cities counties are not in the red flag warning. If you'd like to see a list of the counties, you can go to kstp.com open up the alert at the top of their news page story we've been talking a bit about here. Minnesota House Democrats staged a sit in at the Capitol overnight as a dispute over a gun bill and a confrontation between lawmakers continued into the morning. The protest and a confrontation between lawmakers followed a debate on the gun regulation bill with two days left in the sessions. House Democrats wanting a vote on the gun bill. Republican Representative Elliot Engen shared video online from another Republican lawmaker of the argument. Engin said on a social media platform that a Democratic lawmaker told him to go bleeping shoot myself. Other social media posts Specifically mentioned DFL Representative Asia Gomez. But video of the confrontation appears to show that's not the way it happened. The video appears to show Gomez yelling think of them, not of yourself. And said she did not tell Engin to kill himself. In apparent reference, she said what she actually did say to parents of children at Annunciation Catholic Church and school. Meanwhile, the deal that's been signed off on by the governor and leaders of both parties, not everyone's happy with it. Some of Republican House Speaker Lisa Damas, opponents in the governor's race are already criticizing the deal which includes a one time cut to vehicle tab fees and property taxes as well as some anti fraud measures. Kendall Quals is running for governor as a Republican. He said this is small ball politics instead of of big ball. He said the tab fees could have been permanent instead of temporary navigating the dynamics of one of Damas biggest challenges this session. David told reporters yesterday even in a divided government, the budget agreement gives that affordability relief for Minnesotans that people have been desperate for.

[Joe Sucere]

Why don't you Minnesotans who vote Democrat or vote DFL and are now cheering this theatrical nonsense of a sit in, why don't you ask your representative why they didn't pass every gun law imaginable when they owned the complete Senate, the complete house in the governor's office not that long ago. Why wouldn't you ask them that?

[Krista]

And that's when they went hog wild with pull tabs at registration tabs.

[Kenny Olson]

Do you know the answer to that? You do know the answer, even if you think you don't.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, of course they would lose too many votes.

[John Height]

Yeah, exactly.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

So I feel for the parents of annunciation without a doubt. Dreadful, horrible thing. But you're being played people. These people are not sincere. They're third rail people. They want to hold on to their gig. Why don't you ask them? You own the house, you own the Senate, you own the governor's office for you know, you blew a, you blew $18 billion surplus. They were building themselves office. They were. They did a flag. They're getting away with everything they wanted to get away with. Why didn't they get every gun bill they could have dreamed up? Well, because that would have cost them their third rail position.

[Kenny Olson]

What's funny, or maybe it's not funny, it's sad, is that the dum dums down there that are protesting that don't have jobs to go to, they're being played by their own party.

[Joe Sucere]

Right.

[Kenny Olson]

Your people are playing you folks.

[Joe Sucere]

In fact, I'm well I'm not surprised because there. There are enough DFLers who would have lost their jobs if they voted for more and more gun control.

[Kenny Olson]

Absolutely. They're using their emotions.

[John Height]

Northeast Minneapolis craft brewer Bauhaus Brew Labs announced yesterday it will cease operations in late June. Baja said in a social media post.

[Chris Reavers]

I love these guys, but this explanation that you're going to say is a joke.

[Joe Sucere]

I'd like to hear the explanation.

[John Height]

We have been working furiously to identify ways to shift our business model, reduce costs, increase revenues, and find a pathway to operational stability. Despite pulling every lever available to us, the financial headwinds have proven to be insurmountable. We've made the very difficult and heartbreaking decision to close our doors. Founded in 2014, Bauhaus joined a burgeoning Twin Cities craft beer scene with a large taproom adapted from a former ironworks. They gained popularity by bringing traditional German style lagers into the modern age. In more recent years, the brewer explored emerging trends, releasing a line of hard seltzers and later jumping aboard Minnesota's THC seltzer craze. In a lengthy farewell statement. I think this is what you were mentioning, Chris. Bauhaus cited numerous challenges for its impending closure, including supply chain difficulties, a declining interest in craft beer Covid and the immigration crackdown that they said affected businesses across the hospitality industry. Bauhaus will forge ahead with its annual Liquid Zoo celebration this weekend to coincide with Ardeworld. And its last weekend of ops will be June 26th through the 28th. The brewing is planning. The brewer, excuse me, is planning a big bash to celebrate their final weekend.

[Joe Sucere]

What was.

[Chris Reavers]

So I get that it's 2026, so six years ago. The pandemic obviously did have an impact in place, like Bauhaus. And I've had those guys on a couple of times when we used to

[Krista]

do the beer show.

[Chris Reavers]

If you're gonna cite ICE as a reason that your business is declining, you're a joke. It's the business structure of trying to operate anything in this godforsaken hell hole of a state. That's your problem. It's not freaking ice.

[Kenny Olson]

Holy cow, boy. Chris, I have a serious question about breweries.

[Chris Reavers]

Go ahead.

[Kenny Olson]

I was in one over the weekend and imagine my dismay when I couldn't get a shot of tequila. Do any of these breweries also serve hard liquor?

[Chris Reavers]

They can't, and it's because of Minnesota regulations. Remember our guy Bartley? That's what he tried to do. There's so many.

[Kenny Olson]

He had the place in Roseville, right?

[Krista]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, that place was cool.

[Joe Sucere]

He was still in business.

[Chris Reavers]

No, he had to close, too. It's the problem, Ken, is there's, there's two. There's so many liquor laws. He wasn't. You can sell it in the bottle, you can do off sale, but you can't serve it at the actual tap room. If that makes sense.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

It doesn't make sense.

[Krista]

I was going to say.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, but it makes sense.

[Pat Donahue]

Oh.

[John Height]

Star Tribune reporting. A group of St. Paul business leaders have purchased the St. Paul Hotel. It plans to renovate the downtown property. So the wild owner, Craig Leopold, who has released the hotel penthouse for years, is the majority owner. Securian Financial, Ecolab and St. Paul Real Estate developers Jim Kelly, Carl Kading and David Williams, also part of the new group. The price of the property at 350 Market St. Was not disclosed. Assessors had estimated the value to be $17.3 million at the start of the year. The Renaissance Revival style building is a long standing downtown St. Paul landmark with 11 stories overlooking Rice Park. When it opened in 1910, the hotel was the peak of luxury, playing host to multiple US Presidents and other celebrities. The new owners say they're planning extensive improvements, including renovations to all hotel rooms and additional food and beverage concepts, according to the release.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, maybe now a visiting hockey team would actually stay in St. Paul instead of busing back to Minneapolis after every game.

[John Height]

Why don't we take a quick break here? And we'll be back with more news after we hear from Chris Reavers.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Chris Reavers]

Flashlight check.

[Krista]

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[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Thank you.

[Joe Sucere]

You have your, do you have the remote mic down at the park for this 82 degree afternoon? See what's. There is a good crowd, isn't there?

[Krista]

Yes, there is in the pavilion.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, oh, somebody just opened. Look at the head on that thing. You have a, you have those, do you have the lake front mic that captures the boats?

[Chris Reavers]

Ah. Hey, hey.

[Krista]

Where are you putting your pet this weekend? American Boarding Kennel. All right.

[Chris Reavers]

I, I, I don't know. Do I have that right below it?

[Krista]

Sorry.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, I think. Give it a shot.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm trying here.

[Joe Sucere]

This is too much for you, huh?

[Chris Reavers]

I'm just operating.

[Joe Sucere]

There's the garage door. Oh, that, that really wasn't it. That's. They're opening the garage. That's a door pavilion. There it is. There it is.

[Krista]

Steven C. I don't hear a boat. He's on the picture piano.

[Joe Sucere]

No, is the.

[Krista]

Hey, slow down there, Pepper.

[Joe Sucere]

Hey, throw it. There's a. Oh, there, he's going there. No, that's Jacobson going by. It's a Garwood.

[Krista]

He's a, he's a patient man on the, on the opener, isn't he? He, he wants all the presents right away.

[Joe Sucere]

Listen to that, listen to that. Hey, throw in a water there once in a while. Oh, what a day down on the lake.

[Krista]

Oh, smell that exhaust.

[Joe Sucere]

Hey, I want to go over there. I want to go over there.

[John Height]

Since you brought up Stephen C. There, I'm going to take this opportunity to tell you guys, next Wednesday, Pat Donahue's night at Midway Saloon.

[Joe Sucere]

Yep.

[John Height]

He'll be joined by Stephen C. And Jeff Dayton.

[Joe Sucere]

It's going to Be a big night

[Krista]

at the Midway next Wednesday.

[John Height]

Yep. Next Wednesday 6 to 8 at the Midway Saloon.

[Kenny Olson]

Would you say that would be hard to get into?

[Joe Sucere]

It's not a big room.

[John Height]

It's. I know I've seen video of there. I haven't gone to one of them, but I have.

[Joe Sucere]

It's a long narrow room and it's always very crowded. And the stage is intimate as hell. Yep, it's. It sounds perfect. It's quite the scene. It's quite.

[Kenny Olson]

I love those kind of rooms.

[Joe Sucere]

Yep.

[John Height]

Yeah. I did find one other thing, Joe. American ownership of. Of Canadian land farmland is quote minimal to non existent.

[Joe Sucere]

I'll be damned.

[John Height]

The reason because Canada and most European nations, unlike the US has very strict regulations on who can buy.

[Krista]

So we dropped the ball.

[Joe Sucere]

Farmland.

[Krista]

So the Chinese and the Russians buy a whole bunch of look at.

[Kenny Olson]

We don't need their nonsense. Seriously, have you seen what we got? We don't need their crap. Get away from me with that.

[Krista]

America's cash.

[John Height]

I also. Because when you bring stuff up, Joe, I get fascinated and have to look it up. And I looked up Diesel's named after Rudolph. Diesel.

[Joe Sucere]

That's right. Rudy Diesel.

[John Height]

Rudy met kind of a sad end.

[Joe Sucere]

He did.

[John Height]

Yeah. And there's some conspiracy theories involved with it too.

[Joe Sucere]

Was he blown up by Nobel's dynamite?

[John Height]

No, he fell off. Off a ship.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh no.

[John Height]

It looks like suicide. But it was right. Yeah, it was right at the onset of. It was 1913. So everybody was starting to fight and thinking perhaps Rudolph wouldn't let the Germans use his. His product.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[John Height]

And that the Germans offed him for that reason. But that's the conspiracy theory.

[Krista]

It's funny how you can fall so swiftly after being pushed like that.

[Kenny Olson]

Have you guys ever looked into since we're talking the sea and conspiracies. How the financial global markets changed after the sinking of the Titanic with who was on the Titanic? No, it's really fascinating. You should look it up.

[Joe Sucere]

One of them rich guys.

[Kenny Olson]

A few of them.

[Joe Sucere]

Ye. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

It's fun.

[Chris Reavers]

In keeping with the theme of the chaotic garage door opener.

[Krista]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh,

[Chris Reavers]

from the XL Energy.

[Kenny Olson]

Look at what time it is. Oh my goodness.

[Joe Sucere]

Jeez, John, I'm sorry. Talking to Leopold about hotel spent all

[John Height]

that time on it.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes.

[Pat Donahue]

I'm. I might have to hang up here in a minute, but that's okay. I'm waiting. I'm waiting.

[Joe Sucere]

I see. You threw me. You threw me under the bus. On your Twitter account when you said hey, did you see such. And I predicted. You did. I didn't Pat. I got a pretty good. I called Rob McClanahan because I was really, really puzzled how a team not only could change from game to game, but the Wild were changing from period to period. He said something that was really interesting. Did you notice in the first two periods the announcers were commenting on how often. Oh hell, who's the Colorado Hotshot? Nathan McKinnon was skating such short shifts, they were wondering if something was wrong with him. Oh, he only skated a 32nd shift and he's back on the bench. And then McClanahan said, How'd he look to you in the third period? He was being saved. He had legs in the third period. And poor Boldy and Faber and, and Hughes needed lung transplants by the third period.

[Pat Donahue]

Yes, but the second period we did not show much life either.

[Joe Sucere]

I know. And McKinnon was still getting rested in the second period. And all the third period hits, Bing, bang, boom.

[Kenny Olson]

Brilliant. That's brilliant. It all makes sense now.

[Pat Donahue]

Yeah, they got a two goal lead with three minutes to go. So four goals, you know, four minutes ago. And that's, I think that's worse than blowing a three goal lead is blowing a two goal lead in the last four minutes. That's, to me, that's worse, don't you think?

[Joe Sucere]

Well, I thought the whole thing was a travesty.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, wait a minute, guys. Under that. After we know what McClellan said, then it's a coaching issue.

[Joe Sucere]

I didn't broach that. He also said it's a between the ears issue.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, interesting.

[Pat Donahue]

Well, anyhow, I'm over here today. They're meeting, they're having their meetings with, with the, the coach. They go in, they kind of look, I don't know what they do. They get a bunch of T shirts and jerseys and then they put their, they have put their equipment away and then they go to the lake. 20 minute and 20 minute late meeting and they go to the lake. But you'll be happy to learn that. Oops. That Quinn Hughes talked very optimistically about getting, maybe getting signed this summer. Anyway, he likes it. You know, he was, he seemed fairly sincere and he likes it here. And you know, I, you know, that would, that would make it all worthwhile.

[Kenny Olson]

If they get inside the Wilder career killers, he should flee. He should run as fast as he can and get away from the wild. Seriously.

[Pat Donahue]

They beat Dallas. They had a three game winning streak against Dallas which was, you know, there's three quality teams in that division. Dallas was, was, you know, finished ahead of them. For God's Big deal.

[Kenny Olson]

They're at the lake now. They'll never have the cup.

[Pat Donahue]

That you know. They. What comes first?

[Joe Sucere]

They found a goalie. They found a goalie. They got a. They got a. They got a goalie. Wallstead is your goalie.

[Pat Donahue]

I saw this guy down the hall today in civilian clothes. That guy's a big fella. Wallstead. He's on. He's a gangly guy. They say he. He looks taller than that Wally the Wall. Yes, he is. He. Well, Pat just kicked the one last one out. We would have been in. Would have been in fine shape. And the good news is the basketball team probably loses tonight too.

[Krista]

So what are you saying?

[Pat Donahue]

Both of them. The winner's over. And then we can get on with our lives.

[Joe Sucere]

And the Twins just keep grinding out

[Pat Donahue]

victories and quick victories too. My God. Obers was 207. I was there yesterday. 221. The first two and a half innings took like an hour and 20. And then Miami, they wanted to get back home, man. They wanted to go look at the water. They. They made the last 18 outs in about 10 minutes. It was incredible.

[Chris Reavers]

Downtown Minneapolis should be a lot of fun tonight. You got the brew crew in town?

[Josh Arnold]

Yep.

[Chris Reavers]

And then you got the Wolves at 8:30.

[Joe Sucere]

And the Twins move up their starting time till 6pm 6:10.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, exactly.

[Pat Donahue]

They. They had a good sense of humor yesterday too. They announced 20,000. They might add 12. It wasn't bad. I think. I think this is wonderful. Agitation of all the people that they hate them. They're just saying.

[Josh Arnold]

Just.

[Pat Donahue]

Just announced twice as many as they're here.

[Chris Reavers]

That's brilliant. Marketing path. What. What's to prevent them from saying another sellout.

[Joe Sucere]

Hey, Pat. Is Billy Gear in? Wandering around there.

[Pat Donahue]

No, I haven't seen him. No, I'm not. I don't want to see him.

[Joe Sucere]

No, I know.

[Pat Donahue]

I. I don't know. I. I met. I saw that somebody mentioned leopold buying the St. Paul Grill. Rook did all the whole hotel. The whole town. Three of them. Right.

[Joe Sucere]

Three guys are in.

[Pat Donahue]

But I gotta go discuss with him. Prices at the St. Paul Grill.

[Chris Reavers]

All right.

[Pat Donahue]

Having been there with a party of six for my granddaughter's 17th birthday. And it was. Let's put it this way, it was seven hundred and some dollars. And that was before the tip.

[Joe Sucere]

Holy crap.

[Kenny Olson]

Be a tip about 300 in a case like that.

[Joe Sucere]

Right?

[Krista]

Right.

[Pat Donahue]

I think we went about 130 or something.

[Kenny Olson]

Boy, I'd round it right up to a grand.

[Pat Donahue]

Might as well have. But. But I mean you can't be taking the family out to a 17th birthday party and say, you can't have any appetizers. You can split a steak. You gotta.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what, Pat? You made. You made memories. They'll talk about that dinner long after your dad.

[Krista]

Yeah, I know. Your biggest mistake.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, was what?

[Krista]

Not inviting Joe?

[Chris Reavers]

No, that's Rookie's kid is saving money.

[Krista]

America's guest.

[Joe Sucere]

That's what I am.

[Kenny Olson]

That's how you save money. You bring suit.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, Pat's worse than me. He picks up every check, too.

[Pat Donahue]

But her brother, who's 16, 15, when he turns 17, I'm going to call him and say, what pizza joint would you like to go to?

[Joe Sucere]

Right?

[Kenny Olson]

Just, you know what, Buy a keg and throw open the garage door. That's all he wants anyway.

[Pat Donahue]

That's right. Yeah. You know, what do you want? You want to get the pizza from there, Luki boy.

[Joe Sucere]

So I'll talk to you Monday night. I mean Monday afternoon.

[Pat Donahue]

Get over your depression.

[Joe Sucere]

Over? I'm not depressed. All right.

[Chris Reavers]

See you later.

[Joe Sucere]

I was told by sources that'll take gear in one week, then it'll be all right.

[John Height]

Oh, one week.

[Joe Sucere]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Sucere]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Sucere]

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[Kenny Olson]

Could you two get it worked out here? We want to go home.

[Joe Sucere]

We're trying to converse here.

[Chris Reavers]

You are home, you.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, what am I doing sitting here?

[Krista]

He's got a hundred foot commute. One hundred yards.

[Chris Reavers]

Remember when he used to do the fake drive to work?

[Joe Sucere]

Yes, yes. He was so messed up when you

[Krista]

didn't have a community.

[Kenny Olson]

You think it's bad that I drive 100 yards to where he used to

[Joe Sucere]

drive around the block and then go

[Chris Reavers]

home to do the show?

[Joe Sucere]

Hey.

[Chris Reavers]

The scrambled. It's brought to us by our friends at Harmony. Can you imagine right now it's the opener. The garage door opener. Imagine being on the patio down there in Harmony, Minnesota on an 80 degree.

[Krista]

I'm trying to think what the drink would be from Harmony. What if be a bourbon?

[Chris Reavers]

I'm telling you right now, get down there.

[Krista]

Vodka sour.

[Chris Reavers]

The pre made craft cocktail four pack that they put together. The BlackBerry lemonade. I'm not joking. I'm driving down there this weekend to get more. It's spectacular. It's so good. And it's from grain to glass. It's quality handcrafted spirits in Harmony, Minnesota.

[Joe Sucere]

And you can grab a meal.

[Chris Reavers]

That's right. And you can stop in and say hi to Larry and Damon and the entire Harmony Spirits crew.

[Joe Sucere]

Who's the chick on the bike?

[Chris Reavers]

Harmony.

[Joe Sucere]

That's Harmony.

[Chris Reavers]

No, I have no idea who that is. But anyway, the schnauzer, you stop in there, you can say hi to the crew and see that rotating craft cocktail menu. But please do this for me. Go into your local liquor store, ask for the Harmony Spirits brand by name. That is truly how they're going to continue to grow.

[Krista]

That's how they grow, man.

[Kenny Olson]

That's how they grow.

[Chris Reavers]

And the consumer doesn't realize how much buying power that they have. And we have some exciting news coming here in the next week for all of you out of town glers that would like to help support our friends at Harmony Spirits. HarmonySpirits.net, check out their Facebook page for more information for upcoming events.

[Joe Sucere]

Joe installed building solutions is going to bring you right now the gler of the week.

[Chris Reavers]

Are you kidding me?

[Krista]

Who is it?

[Joe Sucere]

Who could it be?

[Krista]

Well, imagine the possibilities.

[Joe Sucere]

Randy Nibbel well, we all know Randy of Eden Prairie, Minnesota. A town council member since December of 2022. He wins the $50 gift box from Masters Maples, brought to you by Install Building Solutions. A lot of these town council members were early town council members, weren't they?

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, yeah, from day one.

[Joe Sucere]

I can't let you go without telling you this.

[Kenny Olson]

I guarantee you they're only sticking around for the gift.

[Joe Sucere]

They want the maple syrup. Retired Navy admiral makes bombshell claim about UFOs and non human intelligence. Controlling them. Okay, all right. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

You and I fell down the same rabbit hole here, Joe.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, a retired Navy admiral is more credible than I am. His name is Tiffany Gallaudet. He's a leading voice in America and when it comes to this phenomenon. And he thinks whatever is going on might not have a human explanation. Well, I don't. Is that new news? I would have assumed it wasn't human.

[Kenny Olson]

It is, because they're saying now they're not aliens, they're not extraterrestrials, they're interdimensional beings.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay, now that's from frightening. It really is, because I don't even know what that means.

[Kenny Olson]

There's a senator, I think she's a senator from Florida, last name Luna, who's been clued in on what's going on. And she came out of that meeting rather frightened. And that basically they're. Do you understand string theory?

[Joe Sucere]

Hell no.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, so then I can't explain this to you. Basically they're doing. There's dimensions living right next to each other like pages of a book and we can't see the dimension that's right next to us. It's really hard to explain, but from what I've been reading in the last two days, we should be very frightened and maybe we don't want to know.

[Chris Reavers]

Joe, string theory is a theoretical framework in physics proposing that the fundamental building blocks of the universe are not point like particles, but tiny, tiny vibrating one dimensional strings.

[Kenny Olson]

And they have been here since before the beginning.

[Chris Reavers]

So, Ken, this is a situation where we're just better off not knowing.

[Kenny Olson]

Absolutely.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Not only are they monitoring us, but they're guiding us. And we are there. Like we said a couple years ago, we're their great experiment.

[Joe Sucere]

That's all. We are they guiding the show, they're guiding everybody.

[Kenny Olson]

And if we think we're in control of our lives and us arguing about politics is exactly what they want, and I want to see what happens.

[John Height]

A similar thing to what Kenny read this week, where it said the other dimension, there's say, another Joe Sucere who's guiding this Joe Sucre or another John Height guiding this John Height to what they're doing.

[Krista]

So are we a Truman show? Some sort.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm not. I don't know the Truman show other than he didn't know he was a show show.

[Krista]

Right.

[Kenny Olson]

Something.

[Krista]

Right. Well, something like that.

[Chris Reavers]

Based upon that information, this just in. The sales team would like to talk to them about a new podcast.

[Joe Sucere]

You'd know that this guy says Bernie

[Kenny Olson]

is saying that he's taking notes right now. Furiously taking notes.

[Joe Sucere]

This. This admiral says I've not seen an alien. And we don't even know. That's not really the best term because what we really don't know is where they come from, what their nature is and again their intentions. The term that's used from the UAP Disclosure act in the age of disclosures film is non human intelligence. That I can say. I know we are aware of a higher order of non human intelligence that direct the movement of these phenomena that we see. I've not seen one. But then what do I. I. What I do know is that the nature of some of these craft is so advanced and so apparently are. Are obviously under intelligent control that the only conclusion we can make has been made by those that I've read who I don't know what the hell it says.

[John Height]

I don't know. I don't know what it is.

[Joe Sucere]

I know anything about this. I'm still interested that. That you. I did have that dream. You would. You could. You do you want. You. You could do.

[Kenny Olson]

So here's the deal before you move on, Joe. Chris making fun of us. He's the same person that made fun of Noah.

[Chris Reavers]

Yep, you're right.

[Kenny Olson]

Until it started.

[Chris Reavers]

I'll be the first one taking your hundred percent, right?

[Joe Sucere]

First breaking news in Eagan, Minnesota. Lilacs are a bloom. That's Mike and Barb and Egan. Thank you. Mine are about to explode in a riot of color.

[Chris Reavers]

Honest question, does it depend upon location?

[Joe Sucere]

I think it depends on the variety of lilac you have. I believe mine are Korean.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm blooming. That's why I was curious.

[Joe Sucere]

So where are you on tulips right now? I'm nowhere on tulips. I happen to love them.

[Kenny Olson]

I've always thought, you know, ding ding, big deal. You got five tulips. The drive home last weekend we went by a yard that must have had a thousand tulips.

[Joe Sucere]

That'd be cool.

[Kenny Olson]

It was the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.

[Joe Sucere]

Paul Casper writes Freeport. The real flag is flying proud at the Freeport City Hall. I will save these for our young technician who Puts these on the crawl. True flag sighting in Kasota. I'm 23 years old and a regular listener to the show. I remember listening to you guys on the radio with my dad years ago, and I've stayed with the show ever since. A few years ago, I graduated from Minnesota State Mankato with an automotive engineering degree. I've been fortunate enough to land a great engineering job and even start a small business on the side. And I'm excited to say I recently purchased my first home in the small town of Kasota. When I toured the house, there was only one major thing wrong with it. Flying next to Old Glory was the bright blue fraud flag of our state. The day my offer was accepted, I immediately ordered the true flag. The second thing I did was drive through town hoping to spot the real flag flying high and proud somewhere in the community. And sure enough, outside the Kasota community Center, Pretty much the only operational government building in the city or our nation's beautiful colors. The true Minnesota flag. And honoring any flag. Honoring the city's fire department.

[Chris Reavers]

Nice.

[Joe Sucere]

As one of the younger listeners of the show, I can confirm that there is still a glimmer of hope for the future. I was fortunate to find a solid group of friends and colleagues, and most of us stayed grounded in our morals, graduated school with meaningful degrees, found good careers, and started building lives for ourselves instead of just complaining about the world around us like we do, I guess, and expecting somebody else to pay the bills. Keep up the good work, Josh from Kasoda. Thank you, Josh. We add Kasoda to the crawl.

[Chris Reavers]

Fellow maverick.

[Kenny Olson]

I like that, Joe. I guarantee you his flag and him moving into Kasoda is still the talk of the town. We're talking less than a thousand people.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, Isn't it down by Mankato?

[Chris Reavers]

It is. And you know what Kasota's famous for?

[Joe Sucere]

Don't tell me. Marble.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Joe Sucere]

And limestone.

[Chris Reavers]

Keep going.

[Joe Sucere]

Sandstone.

[Chris Reavers]

It's the brick featured on the outside of Target Field.

[Joe Sucere]

I'll be damned.

[Chris Reavers]

It's called Kasota gold.

[Joe Sucere]

And Corey Storms writes letting you know that the city of Norwood is also flying. Flying the flag. They're already on the crawl. Norwood. Young America is on the crawl. Norwood. Thank you, Cory.

[Chris Reavers]

Fantastic.

[Joe Sucere]

Only because they come to us. Where are we? Lymans Heading east. Spending the night in Rapid City.

[Kenny Olson]

Nice.

[Joe Sucere]

But we didn't do anything on this day. You know what? It must have been a garage door opener back in the day. Celebrating opener. And people just said, the hell with getting ourselves on this day in history. Give me A beer.

[Kenny Olson]

Everybody at work. I gotta step out for a minute. I'll be right back. On Monday.

[Krista]

It's like Humbert today, right?

[Joe Sucere]

For it was on this day, Joe.

[Chris Reavers]

Today is Friday, May 15th.

[Joe Sucere]

In 1896, the St. Paul Saints, at the time a Western League professional baseball team, played their first home game at Aurora park, beating Grand Rapids Yellowjackets 17 to nothing. Park. Aurora park was downtown.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay.

[John Height]

You know, owned and managed that club.

[Joe Sucere]

No, I want to say Kamisky.

[John Height]

You are correct. Charles Kamisky was the. And he moved them in 1900 to

[Joe Sucere]

Chicago and they became the white stock. There you go. Just think, the White Sox had their origins right here.

[Chris Reavers]

I never knew that.

[Joe Sucere]

On May 15, 1896, they're playing their first home. Well, here. We might as well continue crying in our soup here. Here's sports disappointment history. It was on this day.

[Chris Reavers]

Who'd we lose to on May 15th?

[Joe Sucere]

Well, on this day in 1988, the Minnesota Strikers lost the Eastern Division finals 4 to 1 to the Cleveland Force. And that was the Strikers last game in Minnesota. That was soccer, wasn't it?

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, let's just keep it up. This day, May 15, 1999, the Wolves lost to San Antonio in the first round of the playoffs three games to one. They're playing five game series back then, huh?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't know why the leagues got away from that. Every. Everybody plays a seven game series. Should be five. I know the answer is money. Yeah, but this is ridiculous to play hockey when it's 82 degrees trees. So. Thank you. G ellers. I have.

[Kenny Olson]

I have one. I have one, if you don't mind.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh.

[Kenny Olson]

On this day at 8:28am

[Joe Sucere]

Chris, May

[Kenny Olson]

15th, the traffic kitty released his very last tweet on MSP St. Paul. I'm done. I'm giving the keys to Gabe. I'm done with traffic.

[Krista]

What?

[Kenny Olson]

I pulled the plug on the. I'm done tweeting. I'm. I can't take any more tweeting.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, who's going to do the traffic reports on the air?

[Kenny Olson]

You? We're still working that out. I'll have a very limited schedule reporting traffic.

[Joe Sucere]

All right.

[Krista]

Oh, semi retirement, huh?

[Chris Reavers]

Well, we should have had a little bit more fan.

[Kenny Olson]

No, you're lucky you got that.

[Pat Donahue]

Got it.

[Joe Sucere]

I got a nice postcard of Scottish Highland sheep. No, I mean cows.

[Kenny Olson]

From Televis.

[Krista]

Big difference.

[Joe Sucere]

No, from looks like Tom and Jan or John and Jan in Fargo.

[Chris Reavers]

You actually asked Doris, do they make female ones of these?

[Kenny Olson]

You didn't ask me what my last Tweet was.

[Chris Reavers]

What was your last tweet, Ken?

[Kenny Olson]

Strap down your crap and drive like a champion. Drive like the two things I've been bitching about for as long as I've been doing driving traffic.

[Joe Sucere]

Thank you, G. Ellers.

[Krista]

I thought he was gonna say thank you, Kenny.

[Joe Sucere]

No, thank you for all your time.

[Chris Reavers]

You know what though?

[Joe Sucere]

No.

[Chris Reavers]

Hey, you should closing out GL on a Friday afternoon. Kenny, you need to give us 30 seconds of a random G. No, Come on.

[Kenny Olson]

No, please.

[Joe Sucere]

I'm done.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm done. He's already retired doing a. What is. What do you call it? A Norwegian goodbye.

[Chris Reavers]

Best thing, the best advice Kenny ever, ever gave to me when I filled in from doing traffic is get in the sponsor, fill 60 seconds. Shut your yapper.

[Krista]

Yeah, you know, getting the sponsor is key too, but I don't know.

[Chris Reavers]

Hey, by the way, speaking of social media, follow us on X Instagram and Facebook and also YouTube search Garage Logic. That's two words on YouTube where you can watch the show every single day starting right around noon. And you can sign up for the daily [e-mail] it is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold is with us once again right here in Garage Logic. And now is the time for you to do the same. So do not delay, do exactly what I did and pick up that phone and dial 952-925-5608. That number once again is 952-92-5608. When you call that number, you're going to get Josh and he is there for you for that. Free. Yep, I use the word free. 48 minute financial consultation again with zero obligation. And he will always give you the straight talk. He will never give you the sugar coated advice. And he is on the line with us once again right here in garagelogic. And boy, Josh, a lot of financial news this week, a lot of financial stress this week. But I have a very, very important question for you. Is Scotty Scheffler going to beat Rory McIlroy this weekend?

[Josh Arnold]

Well, it's number one versus number at the PGA right outside of Philadelphia on a very old and tight golf course. A good test for all the PGA professionals, many sports fans, golf writers and people in the predictions market. And sports bettors are wondering whether the final will come down to Scotty Scheffler versus Rory McIlroy. There have only been a few times in their history that they have matched up in a final round with big money and big titles on the line going to be a very interesting bout. Now how does that apply to investing? Well let's just take take a look at some of the ways that people are going to put some money on this particular potential matchup. You definitely have the prediction markets whether it's through Poly Market or or Calci, the two big predictions markets as well as prediction markets that are operated by IBKR Interactive Brokers and Robinhood and then FanDuel owned by Flutter also has a predictions market as does old favorite DraftKings offers a predictions market as one one way to bet on the potential outcome. Then of course you do have the sports betting with the aforementioned FanDuel and DraftKings as well as people betting on the sports books, whether it's through Pen gaming, ESPN Bet, MGM Bet, Caesars Bet or Win Bet as ways that you can deal with that. Then we bet on the equipment whether that's through Nike with clothing line Adidas, also with clothing and tailor made sports or a Kushnet market symbol is G O L F which owns owns Titleist and Footjoy Apparel. And of course all sports players can't go anywhere or all golfers can't can't go anywhere. With Aldi checking out the golf gear at Golf Galaxy or which is owned by Dick Sporting Goods, there's a lot of different ways to deal with that. Now if I take a look at the stock prices of all of these companies, they're all down. Retail sales have been in a tough spot though. Dick's has beaten and raised numerous times and Dick's also gives you a outlook into youth sport. Nike. I could tell you more stories about Nike and my relationship with Nike, but Nike is in the midst of a massive turnaround and the stock is trading at lows that have not been seen for over 15 years. The new CEO Elliot Hill is trying a massive, massive turnaround and they have had trouble, particularly in their second largest market, that being China. As Chinese consumers have been moving to less expensive and somewhat more innovative brands that are locally based such as Anta, Nike does have the potential to turn around as it's really shifted back to its original premise. Instead of of focusing on menswear, children's wear and women's wear, they've gone back to being more sports specific and that could start helping them. But I'm guessing there's at least a year to two years before the stock, you know, will really be moving up. If you've got a lot of patience and are willing to bet on a turnaround with a premier sports brand that's that's Nike. Adidas, you know, is second and Adidas has had problems, you know, in several different sports categories and they are also in the midst of a turnaround. Now one big thing that could help both Nike and Adidas, not so much golf, but is the upcoming World cup which will provide some more focus on those two leading brands, both Nike and Adidas. So plenty of ways that you can participate we'll say in this week's PGA event and make some both short term and long term bets on whether Scotty scheffler beats Rory McElroy or or the reverse. Now one, one one thing on the predictions market that showed up this morning. The NFL sent a letter to the Commodities Future Trading Board, the CFTC questioning the predictions markets and noting how bad this could be for the NFL and the sport. The NFL is definitely questioning some of the regulation around the predictions market, particularly as it applies to sports betting. And it said that they that being the NFL and probably other sports, I'll say sports authorities should be participating in how these predictions mark markets are regulated and what could be or should be allowed in terms of predictions. I'll just call them bets, predictions bets because there's not a lot of oversight within the predictions market so caution is is paramount. Meantime, today the market has sold off. We'll just call it a lot of profit taking, particularly in the hardware space. Some of this took place on Tuesday. We had a rebound, little rebound on Wednesday and a little more move yesterday on hopes of something substantial really taking place in China given the number of CEOs that accompanied President Trump on his China trip. I am one that did not expect a lot to come out of this but we'll say at least there's a lot of talk in the and the image really of a lot of business people going to China to work on trade I think is going to be a positive over the next months and over the next year years. So I think this is going to be very good. Additionally, there are more meetings scheduled between the two leaders so we'll see what what transpired next week. We've got the earnings coming from Nvidia and that is going to be much watched by traders.

[Chris Reavers]

Excellent advice as always, Mr. MoneyTalk. You heard him Gillers. Now is the time for you to pick up the phone and to make the call for that free 48 minute financial consultation again with zero obligation. And you do that just like I did by dialing 952-925-5608 where you always get straight talk and never ever sugarcoated advice. Josh, as always, thank you so much for the time and the chat. Enjoy the rest of your day. Have a fantastic weekend and we'll talk to you again next week.

[Josh Arnold]

Look forward to it. Thanks, Chris.

[Joe Sucere]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sucere]

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