5/7 What the U.K. Green Party wants is basically where Minnesota is headed

Summary

Garage Logic – Episode Summary
Podcast: Garage Logic (Gamut Podcast Network)
Episode: "What the U.K. Green Party wants is basically where Minnesota is headed"
Date: May 7, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this thought-provoking episode, the Garage Logic crew—Joe Soucheray ("The Mayor"), Chris Reivers, Kenny Olson, John Height, and Lindsey Brown—explore the shifting political and cultural landscape in Minnesota, drawing stark comparisons to the platform of the UK’s Green Party. As they process the closure of an iconic American tool factory and reflect on proposed and enacted Minnesota policies, the crew engages in their signature blend of common sense, dry wit, and Midwest skepticism. Local governance, fraud scandals, and the changing face of journalism also take center stage, all underpinned by a deep affection for the tools, customs, and gumption that make up “Garage Logic.”

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Stanley Tape Measure Plant Closure and the Loss of Americana

[02:04–08:25]

• The episode opens on a somber note, with Joe lamenting the closure of the last Stanley Tools tape measure plant in New Britain, Connecticut—a symbol of the decline of American manufacturing.
• The group reminisces about the reliability and omnipresence of Stanley tape measures (“Every GLer probably has a Stanley tape measure,” [04:41], Joe).
• Discussion flows into why double-sided tape measures exist, with practical perspectives from construction and woodworking.
  Quote: "Why do you hate construction workers?" – Joe Soucheray [06:33]

2. The UK Green Party Platform Mirrors Minnesota's Progressive Agenda

[09:40–12:27]

• Kenny breaks down the radical proposals of the UK Green Party: legalizing all drugs and prostitution, abolishing the monarchy, "free housing and health for all migrants," cutting defense, pulling out of NATO, and outlawing private landlords.
• The crew recognizes eerie similarities between the UK Green goals and ongoing or proposed policies in Minneapolis and the Minnesota State Legislature. Quote: "We are the leader. For once. We are not following Europe. We are the champions." – Chris Reivers [11:24]

3. Fraud, Reparations, and Political Dysfunction

[12:27–19:54]

• The hosts dissect an email suggesting state tolerance for fraud is a covert form of reparations, which they robustly debate and critique—particularly as applied to refugee/migrant communities (specifically the Somali community in MN).
• The Sahan Journal's selective reporting on Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison’s handling of Medicaid fraud are scrutinized, with frustration about accountability gaps and lack of transparency. Quote: “It’s us who need to be medicated. Medicaid fraud prosecution.” – Kenny Olson [17:15]

4. 'Number One' State Satire: Minnesota as a Progressive Cautionary Tale

[19:03–34:58]

• The crew embraces tongue-in-cheek gallows humor, claiming Minnesota leads the nation in progressive reforms—often to the state's detriment ("We're number one!").
• Recent and proposed measures mocked include public funding for media, unpoliced homeless encampments on public land, and legislative preemption of local ordinances. Quote: "We’re the champions. For the new United States, they will look to us. Wow. Isn’t that a turn of events?” – Kenny Olson [11:31] Quote: “Part of being number one is we need to pay for the media. We need to support the Star Tribune.” – Chris Reivers [35:02]

5. Failure of Accountability in Local Journalism

[35:41–39:48]

• Joe and Kenny review proposed bills that would direct tax dollars to bail out Minnesota newspapers and incentivize “diverse” newsrooms, pointing out the dangers of government-controlled media.
• They argue (with hyperbole) that this is a step toward state propaganda, further eroding trust in independent news sources.

6. Homeless Policy and 'Camping' Legalization

[28:08–34:06]

• Joe reads about legislation that would permit the homelessness population to legally camp (eat, rest, live) in public spaces, overriding city-specific restrictions.
  Quote: “The bill will allow homeless individuals to reside in public plazas, sidewalks, parking lots, and more.” – Kenny Olson [28:32]
• The crew lampoons the idea, envisioning absurd scenarios and warning of consequences for public order.

7. Flag Wars: New Minnesota State Flag vs. Traditionalism

[80:27–82:54]

• Final segment: listeners send in reports of cities continuing to fly the traditional state flag in protest of the new one, signaling the ongoing culture war over state identity. Quote: “The new flag will be flown prominently within the city limits of Minneapolis and St. Paul… [but] the true flag will fly everywhere else.” – Kenny Olson [82:18]

8. Local Color, Obits, and Listener Interactions

• Remembering local sports heroes: The passing of Joe Senser, former Vikings tight end, sparks fond and bittersweet reminiscence.
  Quote: “One of the greatest dudes ever.” – Joe Soucheray [26:32]
• Listeners’ emails spark hardware nostalgia (Lawn Boy mower, maintenance tips), and community shout-outs (GLer of the Week).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On manufacturing loss:
  “This is a heartbreaking story. Every GLer probably has a Stanley tape measure.” – Joe Soucheray [04:39–04:47]
• On state overreach:
  “We want a city without a police chief… We want a city without any jails.” – Kenny Olson [34:04]
• On taxpayer-funded journalism:
  “Advocates argued that news is a public good, especially when it’s controlled by the state, because you don’t want to be sidetracked with news that might have some negativity.” – Kenny Olson [36:36]
• Political satire:
  “Welcome to Minnesota. We’re ahead of the curve. We’re winners. For the new United States, they will look to us.” – Chris Reivers & Kenny Olson [11:24–11:31]
• On state fraud:
  “It’s us who need to be medicated. Medicaid fraud prosecution.” – Kenny Olson [17:15]
• Homeless bill forecasting:
  “That’s camping. Why can’t you see it as that? It’s camping.” – Kenny Olson [29:38, 34:46]
• On the ‘true’ state flag:
  “The true flag will fly everywhere else. The fraud flag will fly closer to the city’s tallest buildings.” – Kenny Olson [82:18]

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Timestamps – Important Segments

• Stanley Tools Plant Closure: 02:04–08:25
• UK Green Party & Minnesota Politics: 09:40–12:27
• Fraud, Reparations & Accountability: 12:27–19:54
• Minnesota: The 'Number One' Satire: 19:03–34:58
• Government Media Funding Debate: 35:41–39:48
• Homeless Policy & Public ‘Camping’: 28:08–34:06
• Flag and Identity Segment: 80:27–82:54
• Remembering Joe Senser: 26:32–27:56

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Tone & Style

• Tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic, wry, and irreverently earnest.
• As always, the Garage Logic hosts blend humor, frustration, and nostalgia with Midwest candor and a dose of cynicism toward government policymaking and bureaucracy.

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Conclusion

This episode’s core theme is the sense of loss—loss of tradition (manufacturing, old flags), loss of trust (in media, in public officials), and loss of "common sense governance." Garage Logic’s hosts use current events and local quirks to sound the alarm about the direction of Minnesota and broader Western politics, employing their trademark mixture of satire and sincerity to entertain and provoke their audience.

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Transcript

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[Kenny Olson]

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[John Height]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[John Height]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[John Height]

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[Joe Sushere]

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[Kenny Olson]

And now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Logic with Chris Reavers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the crabby coffee shop, John Height in the newsroom, and of course the rookie here is your Flash king fireworks commissioner, and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Sushere. I come to you today on this gorgeous spring day as a carpenter, a woodworker, a woodturner, a believer in the phrase measure twice, cut once, and to acknowledge that today is a very sad day in America. Stanley Tools in New Britain, Connecticut. No, New Britain, Connecticut, once known as Hardware City, is closing the Last Stanley plant where they made tape measures. Because apparently the tape measures they're getting a demand for double sided tape measures with the numbers on both sides, which is pointless. I don't understand that. GL joelogic.com and they're going to be made overseas and outgo the last 300 jobs. No. And Stanley. Of course I have a Stanley tape measure. They make. Do you know when you pull a tape measure out, Rook? Yeah. What is that called? When you pull it out?

[Joe Sushere]

Of all the staff members you're asking.

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

No, I picked. Well, you all heard me before he didn't.

[Joe Sushere]

That's true.

[Kenny Olson]

It's an extractor. No, it's called the lab. It's called the blade. I would never have guessed that. I know you would. That's why I asked you. Didn't they come up with a blade that's about an inch and a half and that one you can stick straight out and she won't curl up on you.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep.

[Kenny Olson]

I love that one. But this is the Wall Street Journal Today, front page. And I so appreciate the story because I learned so much about. Stanley's been in that town since the 1850s. The guy named Stanley became the mayor. The whole town was Stanley. Now I think it's Stanley, Black and Decker. And there are photographs in the Wall Street Journal of the town of New Britain which had no business becoming an industrial center. It's landlocked. They didn't have a railroad. You can't get a boat there. But it became Hardware City.

[Joe Sushere]

This is a heartbreaking story.

[Kenny Olson]

It is heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking. Every GL er probably has a Stanley tape measure.

[Joe Sushere]

We had track and field day yesterday. You know what's the neatest kind of tape measure? Is the one you wind. Right. The long tape measure.

[Chris Reivers]

The hundred footer.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes. I don't do that.

[Lindsey Brown]

I have it.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Joe Sushere]

Like cloth or.

[Chris Reivers]

I keep one in my truck at all times.

[Kenny Olson]

Look at the pictures. The Old town and the New Town.

[Joe Sushere]

Kenny, I even. Two of them.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Sushere]

Why? No idea.

[Kenny Olson]

Don't care.

[Joe Sushere]

I got two of them.

[Kenny Olson]

Taylor tape.

[Joe Sushere]

You know, it's a really good thing

[Kenny Olson]

to do with the tailor's tape measure. Your head. Thank you.

[Joe Sushere]

You've been paying attention, sir.

[Chris Reivers]

I've got one of those in my truck.

[John Height]

Love it.

[Kenny Olson]

Stanley's one in my truck.

[Chris Reivers]

Joe, you know what I have in every truck I own?

[Kenny Olson]

Food.

[Chris Reivers]

A Stanley tape measure.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, boy.

[John Height]

All three of them.

[Chris Reivers]

I've got about six Stanley tape measures. They're. They're the best. Nobody can compete with them in my World.

[Kenny Olson]

Explain to me why anyone would need a double sided blade.

[Chris Reivers]

Why wouldn't you? Explain to me why you wouldn't.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm cutting a, a piece of wood. I want it to be 6ft 2 inches long. Boom period. Why do I need, what else can it tell me?

[Chris Reivers]

You've clearly never twice and cut once.

[John Height]

Joe did. Joe did. You continue to read the story and the electrician who told you why he needed a two sided one?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, because when he's in construction project it has angles or something.

[John Height]

A single sided tape measure, Paul said works 90% of the time. But anytime you're on a construction site, saving that other 10% is worth the.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, what is he doing on the construction site that requires him to see the other side of the blade?

[Chris Reivers]

It's how you hold the unit. Maybe you put that, you put that tape into a slot where you don't see where the end is and you're holding the unit this way. What are you going to do? You go like this.

[Joe Sushere]

Especially if you're holding, especially if you're holding another tool in the other hand. You only have one free hand.

[Kenny Olson]

Hold the table.

[Chris Reivers]

You're pressing up sheetrock with your head. I mean, you got a lot of things going on there.

[Joe Sushere]

Why do you hate construction workers?

[Kenny Olson]

Stanley's Worldwide with you. Stanley's worldwide manufacturing empire began in the corner of Connecticut that had no business becoming a manufacturing center. A landlocked region about 85 miles from Manhattan with no rail service, no waterway and few raw materials. Regardless, the brothers Fred and William Stanley established Stanley's bolt manufacturing in 1843 and built a thriving business in its wrought iron bolts and door handles. Other factories sprouted, making such products as door hinges and coffee pots. In 1850, the community was incorporated as New Britain and Fred Stanley was the first elected mayor. His manufacture, they called it a manufactory. That sounds like something W would say. It's a manufactory.

[Chris Reivers]

So does the article say anything about Black and Decker?

[Kenny Olson]

It doesn't. What the article tells us is that basically this is a story of a manufacturing firm that's just going to get its tape measures built cheaper overseas because

[Chris Reivers]

Sears sold the Craftsman line of tools to Stanley. Black and decker in the 2000 and tens.

[Kenny Olson]

I think their only principal rival left is Milwaukee. According to this piece. Their, their rival is Milwaukee Tools.

[Chris Reivers]

All right.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, well, that's all I have. I, I, I just thought it was a, a sad note on Americana.

[Chris Reivers]

You, do you care to apologize to all the craftsmen out there for the

[Kenny Olson]

insults you sent their Way I suppose I should.

[Joe Sushere]

This Craftsman still around?

[John Height]

Didn't they go out with.

[Kenny Olson]

No. Did you ever hear him? You ever listen to the show? He just said other guys. Craftsman sold to who?

[Chris Reivers]

Stanley, Black and Decker.

[Kenny Olson]

Stanley. Black and Decker. Which is the name of the town. No, the town is named New Britain, Connecticut. Stanley.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, where's Black and Decker at?

[John Height]

Well, Stanley. I just read this, Kenny. After us, Stanley bought Black and Decker. I thought it was the other way around, but Stanley's the one that purchased Black and Decker.

[Kenny Olson]

I think Stanley is. Is still a big operation. It's just no longer a big operation manufacturing anything here. But Stanley is the name of the first mayor of the town. Yeah. Hardware guy. And he was the inventor of this manufactory. Got it. Manufactory, Right. Yeah.

[Joe Sushere]

Santavo, you want this chair?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

Was there a Stanley in North Dakota?

[John Height]

There's a city, right?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[John Height]

Stanley, I believe.

[Chris Reivers]

I think so, yeah.

[Joe Sushere]

Steamer.

[Kenny Olson]

Do you want to know that the UK is voting today? On what? Everything. But I was reading about their. Their Green Party and what you're voting for. If you vote for the Green Party.

[Joe Sushere]

Are they along the same lines as our Green Party?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, let me read this and you tell me after. Wouldn't a Green Party. Wouldn't you automatically assume it has to do with the environment? 100%. Yeah. Well, you're voting to legalize all drugs, legalize prostitution, cut the defense budget, pull out of NATO, abolish the monarchy. Free housing and health for all migrants. Fewer criminals in prison. Let them out. Rejoining the European Union. Release Barabbas. Outlawing private landlords, of course, a holiday tax on frequent flyers, so if they dared to go on vacation, you get a little tax there. And scrap the Ofsted and school league tables. I think that means testing. No religious group could run a state school. And I thought. I only. I think I should mention this to the G lers because that's about what it is here. Yeah. They're doing what it is in Minneapolis and at the legislature.

[Joe Sushere]

I was going to say case in point. New York City.

[Kenny Olson]

Right now we're rapidly heading in the same direction.

[Lindsey Brown]

So there you are.

[Kenny Olson]

If you're voting for the Greens, what do we got? We got bath houses on the table, don't we?

[Chris Reivers]

It's positive Thursday. Do you want me to put a positive spin?

[Kenny Olson]

Absolutely.

[Chris Reivers]

We are the leader. For once. We are not following Europe. We are the champions.

[Kenny Olson]

We're ahead of the curve. We're winners. For the new United States, they will look to us. Wow. Isn't that a turn of events. We've been fly over land for so long, our sports teams have been been trodden upon and now we used to have corporations and manufactories. We don't have any of that anymore. You look to us for the new United States. Yeah. Any money you make goes into a big pot and we just give it to everybody except the people who earned it. You know what? I saw one of the theories about the progressive nature of our political class giving the money away. They're doing so in the form of reparations. And I thought to my. We don't owe Somalis anything. Why in the hell would they fall under the rubric of reparations? So we don't owe them a damn thing.

[Joe Sushere]

Not a dime.

[Kenny Olson]

It's funny, I don't even owe anybody anything.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, I had an interesting email from a listener to both GL and Crabby who said maybe the reason our DFL politicians are so soft on fraud is that this is their kind of underhanded behind what is under the counter way of giving reparations.

[Kenny Olson]

That's exactly. I must have read that email and I thought to myself, what rep? I don't owe a Somali any reparations.

[Chris Reivers]

I know, I know.

[Kenny Olson]

Not a. Not a nickel. Yeah, right. I made an appointment yesterday at a concern and the woman who waited on me had the full outfit on. Yeah, I presume she was Somali. The sweetest, kindest, most sure, perfectly speaking English young woman I ever met.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, we don't bring that.

[Kenny Olson]

I was having thoughts. I was having thoughts. Okay.

[Joe Sushere]

Swimming in a burka.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I was having kind of the burka.

[John Height]

What? What?

[Kenny Olson]

How about that? Hat off. What would that look like? Anyway, where were we?

[Joe Sushere]

I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

I'll. Speaking of that, I checked the Sahan Journal today. I check it weekly just to see if they're ever going to be up to speed on Ilhan Omar's various problems. And no, they still haven't. Here is your latest Ilhan Omar report on Garage Logic. I used to think of them as credible. I no longer do. They haven't touched ilhan Omer since March 3rd when she was complaining about some immigration story.

[Joe Sushere]

But aren't they the ones that broke the food fraud story?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't care. I no longer credit them with credibility. How can you leave such a major figure in American politics, not to mention Minnesota politics. And given the series of trouble she's been in lately, refusing to answer to the state's legislative committee, refusing to even provide documents, refusing to show up, getting away with this Preposterous claim that she went from 30 million to worth about $12. They haven't touched her. So bleep them. They're a pox on your house journal. You're not.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm guessing that you are not. Or us. We are not their key demo.

[Kenny Olson]

No, their key demo is the Somalians, who apparently they don't wish to upset, but they. You're right. They did a lot on the food fraud. I don't know why they. They won't do anything on the ringleader. Oh, did I say that? I didn't mean that. I didn't mean that.

[Chris Reivers]

Let's read some of the headlines. US Supreme Court is asked again to overturn ICWA as unconstitutional. Hmong photo exhibit at Walker Art Center.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

Judge rejects Minnesota effort to limit immigration enforcement near schools.

[Kenny Olson]

Right.

[Chris Reivers]

Federal judge hears lawsuit over Minneapolis protections for teachers of color. And it goes on and on and on. It's immigrant news.

[Kenny Olson]

That's fine. That's fine. Say, speaking of our.

[Chris Reivers]

But you're right. You have to really scroll deep in the tabs to find anything about Ilhan.

[Joe Sushere]

Between that and what Keith pulled, it's. How can you not draw any other conclusion than the one we drew yesterday?

[Kenny Olson]

Did you mention Keith?

[Joe Sushere]

I sure did. Jokers. We are being just taken as suckers in the state.

[Kenny Olson]

Yep. Well, here's Keith. Latest news on Keith. Do we have a Keith update?

[Joe Sushere]

Here's the latest. Keith Ellison fraud report.

[Kenny Olson]

Because he's a fraud, a Minnesota Medicaid fraud defendant is expected to avoid any jail time under a plea deal that requires him to cooperate with authorities pursuing his fugitive co defendant whom a judge granted bond despite warnings from law enforcement that he may flee the country. Which he did.

[Joe Sushere]

Yep.

[Kenny Olson]

Saeed Awil ibrahim pleaded guilty May 1 just the other day under a deal with Keith Ellison's office that calls for five years of supervised probation and a stayed 150 day jail sentence on a nearly $11 million case Ellison's office has called the state's largest medicated Medicaid fraud. It's us who need to be medicated. Medicaid fraud prosecution. Per the terms of the plea agreement, he will also be required to help authorities track down his missing buddy. Alleged mastermind Abdi Rashid Ismail said, I think he's over. Over in the home country.

[Joe Sushere]

Oh, so he's not from like the Lakeville area.

[Kenny Olson]

I got it.

[John Height]

Supposed to stay here. But he skipped. Remember?

[Kenny Olson]

Remember he had the nothing bail he

[Joe Sushere]

pinky promised he would stick around.

[Kenny Olson]

Saeed testified at a hearing in 2023 that cultural misunderstanding was a factor in the fraud case. Well, of course. Arguing at the time that investigators did not understand that people within the Somali community often transfer funds to each other in ways that don't produce paper trails. Well, we should have known that. Gotta know this. We're at fault. Why didn't we know this? Said failed to show up for a mandated court appearance in early April after Hennepin County District Court Judge Juan Hoyos granted him A bond set. $11 million. Fraud. A bond set at 150 grand. The terms of the bond allowed Said to retain possession of his passport. Honest to Pete, even as the Medicare Fraud Control Unit. I think they have a 1959 Pontiac hearse, which is within the Attorney General's office. Warned the judge that he may be a flight risk. So even Keith's people told the judge, I wouldn't leave his passport with him. He's a flight risk. Oh, the Judge, Hoyos. He let him go.

[Lindsey Brown]

We got it.

[Kenny Olson]

So tune in and focus on Minnesota. We're the new United States.

[Lindsey Brown]

Wow.

[Kenny Olson]

We're the leading state to show you what the new United States are. When do we get a new flag for the United States? We already have it, and we've rejected it. But soon, something else will happen.

[John Height]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

You know how they had the original 13 colonies?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

We are number one. The new colonies. We are number.

[Kenny Olson]

We're number one.

[Chris Reivers]

We're the first. Take that, California.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what? In a way, it kind of feels good, doesn't it?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I love being a champion.

[Kenny Olson]

Number one. Get it off of our chest. This is a real turnabout for us. We ain't gonna have no Stanley cup parade or anything like that. No. But we're number one. We're showing the rest of the country how to have a government.

[Joe Sushere]

If you're not, you're not paying attention.

[Kenny Olson]

Given the nature and severity of the charges and Said's familial ties outside Minnesota, I believe there is a potential that Said may flee, hide, or otherwise prevent the execution of the warrant a police detective wrote in the criminal complaint against Said. The complaint noted that Said has a wife and child in Kenya where he is believed to have fled. Ibrahim's role in Said's operation included defrauding Minnesota taxpayers of 2.2 million using false claims, and paying himself over a half a million bucks through the scheme. 25% he got. That's pretty good. Yeah. As part of the plea deal, Ibrahim acknowledged that he stole from the state and agreed to return the 2.2 million through a payment plan that will be determined at his sentencing hearing. His jail sentence will be stayed if he complies with probation and a payment plan. Investigators had pointed to texts shared between Said and Ibrahim in 2022 as evidence of the fraud. We gonna party, bro. Insha'. Allah. One text from Said to Ibrahim obtained by prosecutors reads, see, but we don't understand that we gonna party, bro. In sha', Allah, that just means we exchange money without paper trails the way you white people do. That's the we just have a different way to do it.

[Joe Sushere]

And just reminder. Ilhan refused to provide that documentation two days ago.

[Kenny Olson]

Next pay period, bro, I'll bill 50k. I'm going to over bill the hours and do a hit and run, ibrahim said. But let's just let him have his passport, just get the bail at 150 grand. They haven't done anything wrong. We just culturally misunderstand him, that's all. Everything will be fine. There's nothing to see here.

[Joe Sushere]

Don't you dare be late paying that state income tax or your ass is gonna be in trouble.

[Kenny Olson]

You gone? Yeah, what do you want? I'm looking for something here.

[Joe Sushere]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[John Height]

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[Joe Sushere]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Chris Reivers]

I have an ancient lawn boy push mower. Think about that. Yeah, that I haven't been able to part with because, well, it still runs great. It's light. It doesn't have that annoying safety feature that makes it shut down every time I take my hands off the tail off the handle. One of the front wheels broke recently and I needed to remove the bolt that had been on there for almost 50 years. It didn't surprise me. I couldn't get it to budge with a socket wrench. But after a shot of Deep Creep and a few minutes, I was able to easily remove it and put the wheel back on. After a quick fix with epoxy, the 1970s mower lives on. Deep Creep is a must have product. Sincerely yours, Margaret. The best lawnmower G elers and I don't think I'm telling you anything. The best lawnmower ever made was the two stroke green Lawn Boy with white wheels, lightweight bulletproof motor, and when you use maxima castor or 927 bean oil, it smells like a motocross race in the 70s. Oh my goodness.

[Kenny Olson]

I never had one, but I used to borrow a friend.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, absolutely. The best mower ever made. Anyway, we're talking about Deep Creep. Absolutely the best. I just this morning in fact blasted my boss, Snowplow with an entire can to prevent rust over the summer. A wonderful product in this world gone wrong. Seafoam Deep Creep. Joe, what do you make of the fact that that email comes from somebody named Margaret?

[Kenny Olson]

I love it.

[Chris Reivers]

That's pretty damn cool. That's cool.

[Joe Sushere]

We were going to mention this at the end before we went to break. But sad news to pass along. Former Vikings tight end Joe Sencer has passed away at the age of 69 years old.

[Kenny Olson]

69.

[Joe Sushere]

Greatest one of the. And Kenny could attest because he and I both worked with him. One of the greatest dudes ever.

[Kenny Olson]

I wonder if the family will allow his brain to be examined. I don't know, because these guys don't stand a chance. There's too many of them are getting CTE and I don't know what the league can do about it, which is part of my prediction long term, that the league is going to have to more. Either you're going to accept death on the field because these guys are getting too big and too fast, or you're going to have to choreograph it and turn it into a quasi reality TV sport. Quasi sport. Because these guys can't. We're losing too many guys at the age of 69. I'll bet you anything that if you examine poor Joe's brain, it'd be pretty bad. He's already had two strokes.

[Chris Reivers]

Such a sweetheart, Joe. He treated everybody, no matter who you were, like you were the king of the world. And it didn't matter if you were a lowly person on the totem pole, maybe an unpaid intern or the President of the United States. He treated you like royalty.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, that's the way you're supposed to live.

[Chris Reivers]

And he did.

[Joe Sushere]

Kenny. I ran the board for that post game show that we did years ago when I was at the other place. He knew my name, he knew where I lived. He knew where I was from.

[Kenny Olson]

Is he stalking you?

[Joe Sushere]

No. No, that's just the kind of guy he was.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. That's a shame.

[Joe Sushere]

Yeah, he's great, dude.

[Kenny Olson]

Joey Browner, age 65.

[Joe Sushere]

We lost just in March.

[Kenny Olson]

I mean, another one close to 69 years of age. I thought this was a Minneapolis City Council action. It is not. It's a House legislative action. Minnesota Democrats have introduced legislation to prohibit cities from penalizing homeless people who are camping in public areas.

[Joe Sushere]

Wait, wait.

[Kenny Olson]

The bill will allow homeless individuals to reside in public plazas, sidewalks, parking lots and more.

[Chris Reivers]

That guy I saw, that's on the media.

[Kenny Olson]

No, he wasn't. He was camping.

[Chris Reivers]

He's going to be relieved to find out that he can continue sleeping on the median.

[Joe Sushere]

So wait a minute. If I'm like, let's say, going to the Twins game, I could just pull up the Shasta right next to target field and say, ah, we're going to grill here.

[Kenny Olson]

Here we go. A municipality.

[Chris Reivers]

You know what? That's interesting.

[Kenny Olson]

A municipality must not impose a penalty on a homeless individual for use of public land. House File 5004 says the bill was introduced in the Minnesota House of Representative last month by Lee Finke. Its counterpart in the Minnesota Senate is authored by Liz BOLDEN. These are DFLers. The bill would specifically allow homeless populations to sleep, rest, protect their property, eat, drink, and perform other life sustaining activities on public land. Well, I mean, it's camping. He can fish.

[Chris Reivers]

So does that cover like, say, finding a vein that's not collapsed?

[Kenny Olson]

That's in there.

[Chris Reivers]

That's okay. What about making a crack pipe out of, say, tin foil? Is that okay?

[Kenny Olson]

It's a life sustaining activity, isn't it?

[Joe Sushere]

All right.

[Chris Reivers]

Using a dirty needle I picked up out of the parking lot.

[Kenny Olson]

Think we have a separate bill that is providing clean needles.

[Chris Reivers]

And what about beating up my neighbor so I can steal his homeless garbage? Is that okay?

[Kenny Olson]

If your neighbor has an income, he's merely an oppressor and you would be entitled to.

[Chris Reivers]

What about forcing my life partner to prostitute him or herself in order to keep us financially?

[Kenny Olson]

We're making a desperate attempt to legalize that.

[Chris Reivers]

We're the leader, Joe. Minnesota.

[Kenny Olson]

You turn to Minnesota, baby. It's the. It's ahead of the curve in the United States. We're the champions, Brother number one. We are the champions of the world.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, two different songs.

[Kenny Olson]

Apparently it's gonna go nowhere this year, but they've floated that trial balloon. It's camping. Why can't you see it as that?

[Joe Sushere]

Camping.

[Kenny Olson]

It's camping.

[Chris Reivers]

So, Chris, it's got to be in a public area, okay? So you can't set up in somebody's sidewalk.

[Joe Sushere]

Gotcha. Oh, you know what? I could just set up one right next to the Super America here. There's that little park that's covered.

[Kenny Olson]

Front yard.

[Joe Sushere]

No, no, no, no. The little. Where the people park that work at the communist drugstore.

[Lindsey Brown]

Yeah.

[Joe Sushere]

No, no, no. Down here. Back there. And I could just. I could save money on rent.

[Chris Reivers]

This morning there was a homeless guy on the median of 35W.

[Kenny Olson]

Kenny. Kenny. What was he?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, he was unhoused.

[Kenny Olson]

No, he was a camper.

[Chris Reivers]

He was a camper and he went face down in the rhubarb about five times before he was able to steady himself and stumble away. Yeah, it was. It was actually really, really sad.

[Kenny Olson]

It is.

[Chris Reivers]

It was sad to watch.

[Kenny Olson]

Camping.

[Joe Sushere]

You're not just here for it. Call me.

[Kenny Olson]

Now would you tell me one. I'll tell you what. Now you got the chief. The police chief. Brian Fry is trying to. Yeah. Brian o'.

[Lindsey Brown]

Hara.

[Kenny Olson]

Fry is trying to appoint him for a new four year term. But the Marxists don't want law enforcement. So we don't know where this is going. He is re nominating Chief o' Hara to serve as another four year term mayor. Sent a letter to the council yesterday to move the process forward and spoke with several council members, including council president Elliot Payne, in hopes of getting support for this nomination. Good luck, Fry. Last year Minneapolis had 64 homicides. That was down 33% from the pandemic high in 2020 in 2001. I. I gotta think that maybe he'll succeed in this, Won't he? Probably. But why do these pages stick together? I got it.

[Joe Sushere]

Are they recycled?

[Kenny Olson]

No.

[Joe Sushere]

Wouldn't we all like to know?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. O' Hara has faced criticism in recent weeks for comments made about the Davis Muturi shooting and the death of Allison Lucier. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the chief partially blamed Maturi for causing his own shooting. Later, the chief admitted the police department would have had failed Maturi. The council members are not supporting o' Hara's nomination. I don't know where this will go. But the Marxists you've elected. The Marxists you've elected. Just like the Green Party in the uk, they don't want law enforcement. They don't want people in jail. There shouldn't be jails.

[Chris Reivers]

Exactly. They won't support any candidate.

[Kenny Olson]

No. So that. But that's fine because that helps us be number one.

[Joe Sushere]

We.

[Kenny Olson]

We can't be number one if suddenly the city council wants to actually have a police chief. You can't be number one.

[Chris Reivers]

I love how you've embraced positive therapy.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, I love. Really is. And, and all those campers out there, they're campers. There's no other way to look at it. Some of the camps are untidy. That's just the way things happen sometimes. But we want a city without a police chief. We're headed in that direction. We want a city without any jails. We're headed. There's. We don't need a Hennepin county sheriff. That's just duplication. We don't need that. We don't want any correction of the theft that pours out of the state capitol. Because that's part of the. That's just. You know what that is? That's part of being number one.

[Chris Reivers]

That's. That's the cost of doing business is the number one state.

[Kenny Olson]

And we don't even Call it business because business is frowned upon. So we. It's the cost of enlightenment is what it is.

[Chris Reivers]

I can add to your list if you want me to throw fuel on the fire.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, go ahead.

[Chris Reivers]

Part of being number one is we need to pay for the media. We need to support the Star Tribune.

[John Height]

Joe.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, absolutely, if you're going to have. If you. If we want to remain number one, this state should control the newspaper.

[Chris Reivers]

Absolutely.

[Kenny Olson]

It can't be any other way. We'll show Russia how it really should be done. Yeah. Prof. To amateurs. Give me a break. Losers. Kenny is referring to. Oh, God help me. I'm reading a John Phelan piece from the American Experiment.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, that's the one I have.

[Kenny Olson]

There's a House file 4072 and a Senate file 4183, which would give 500 grand of your money, taxpayers, your money to the Minneapolis News Media Institute, a non profit arm of the Minnesota Newspaper association, which is the voluntary trade association of all general interest newspapers in the state, acting on behalf of the newspaper press of the state. No. No. This is one of several measures, along with media literacy incentives and tax credits for the newsroom staff, being pushed by the True North News Alliance, a newly formed group of news and civic organizations. Advocates argued that news is a public good, especially when it's controlled by the state, because you don't want to be sidetracked with news that might have some negativity. So it's better that the state okay all the news. Now I'm sure people are thinking, well, you're engaged in hyperbole, aren't you? Of course I am, but it's hyperbole. It'll disappear about a week after this happens. If it happens. I can't. No. I have to stay true. It's positivity. This is how you remain number one. This is how you get to be number one in the new United States. Have the government fund the newspapers.

[Chris Reivers]

Allow me to read to you From House file 4 072. $500,000 in fiscal year 2027 is appropriated from the Workforce Development Fund to the Commissioner of Employment and Economic Development for a grant to the Minnesota News Media Institute for local News talent pipeline programs, an initiative to encourage Minnesotans to seek careers in journalism and local news operations and strengthen the capacity of Minnesota news outlets. Can you read between the lines there and tell us exactly what they mean by that?

[Kenny Olson]

We're going to go through the failed academy and find every progression we can find to become a reporter.

[Chris Reivers]

You win, you win. We have a Winner, folks.

[Kenny Olson]

You don't even have to. It's already happened.

[Chris Reivers]

It's so blatant.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

And it's not just newspapers, Joe. It's TV and radio, too.

[Kenny Olson]

What about podcast?

[Chris Reivers]

If you're on your own. Podcasters?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I want to be on my own, you renegade. Well, once the state is officially recognized as being number one or it will be on the. Will be an outlier. Well, you know what we're going to do? We'll just join the. If you can't beat them, join.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, we're going to have to.

[Joe Sushere]

How bad could it be?

[Kenny Olson]

You get what you want, you don't have to pay a dime. You're going to get tape measure, talk 24 7.

[Chris Reivers]

Some Gls will say we've already flipped.

[Kenny Olson]

That's because I look for sanity and I ain't finding it with the orange band.

[Chris Reivers]

You ain't?

[Kenny Olson]

I ain't. I ain't. Well, where were we? News. Sure is. I. You know what I'm feeling at the moment? Very challenged. I'm feeling challenged. Part of me wants us to be number one and go in that direction. Part of me wants us to return to some sanity, but I don't think there's a chance of that. So then I have to coach myself to be on the side of being number one. We have to be number one.

[Chris Reivers]

I know what can help you. Take the day off. Go for a long drive out in the country and see how the real

[Kenny Olson]

America works and lives well, and thankfully, what reinforces that is all the true flags flying.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, my goodness. When you look for them, they are everywhere.

[Kenny Olson]

On my walk yesterday, I couldn't help but notice all the state flags flying, you know, but I live in the sustainable urban core, right?

[Joe Sushere]

Kenny's right, though.

[Kenny Olson]

I live in Dave Pinto territory.

[Joe Sushere]

You make fun of the long commute, but Kenny nailed it. There is nothing better than driving home from your kid's baseball game and watching a tractor with its lights on planting corn.

[Kenny Olson]

I can hear you just exhale and, you know, I think I can think.

[Chris Reivers]

I was up in the Underwood area a couple of days ago. I was on a highway that was completely covered with liquid cow shit.

[Kenny Olson]

Yep.

[Chris Reivers]

I thought I was in heaven. Oh, my goodness. It smelled so bad.

[Kenny Olson]

You got out and rolled around.

[Chris Reivers]

It was the smell of freedom is what it was.

[Kenny Olson]

Did you get to the next town and hope they had a hose?

[Chris Reivers]

We don't worry about that. We'll just drive through.

[Kenny Olson]

That's what happened to me when I got splattered with the pig poop.

[Joe Sushere]

On the motorcycle.

[Kenny Olson]

Poop protector. Oh, was that bad? The bike wouldn't even start. When I shut it off, it was. So I had to have Harley come and pick it up and take it to the shop.

[Joe Sushere]

So when you got solicited.

[Kenny Olson]

No, that was a different time.

[Joe Sushere]

Got it.

[Kenny Olson]

That was a different time.

[Joe Sushere]

You want to come party with us?

[Chris Reivers]

Hey, you got any spoons? You want to go to a lighter?

[Kenny Olson]

I said, no, I, I, I think I'll just stay here.

[Joe Sushere]

You got a flamingo?

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, boy, that was a rough one. And then I couldn't go in the casino because anxiety. No smoke. It was so smoky that you couldn't see the TV that was showing a ball game. I figured, I'll just sit in here and watch a ball game, have a few.

[Joe Sushere]

Is that the Mets and the Reds?

[Chris Reivers]

Yes, it was the Mets.

[Joe Sushere]

No, that's football.

[Kenny Olson]

And, and I had to go back outside. And that's when I was approached and said, hey, you want to join us? I said, no, I, I'm good. I have to get my hat here.

[Chris Reivers]

One eye slim and Mr. Snaggletooth there.

[Kenny Olson]

No, it was a guy and a gal.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, oh, they wanted to party.

[Kenny Olson]

They did. They, oh. Nodded over their shoulder at a deep woods.

[Lindsey Brown]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Mattress out there.

[Joe Sushere]

You know what, though? You could have got a great column out of that.

[Kenny Olson]

No, no. Really? No. Yeah. I couldn't believe my luck. You're not here for the camp.

[Chris Reivers]

What would the headline be? No handcuffs required.

[Lindsey Brown]

Right.

[Kenny Olson]

Let's not drift too far away from

[Joe Sushere]

back on track, please.

[Kenny Olson]

That we're number one. And as part of being number one, you us taxpayers, in order to continue to supply money that is stolen from us, us will now supply money to foster news organizations that will tell us it's okay to have money stolen from us.

[Joe Sushere]

Everything's okay.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Sushere]

Yeah I paid 429, okay, but I

[Kenny Olson]

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[Chris Reivers]

it's positive Thursday and I can't get to it quick enough. It's always brought to us by Schoonover Body Works and AutoCare located there in Shoreview, 1060 County Road E. Now I got to tell you, if you're a first time listener and you're tuning in for the very first time today, Mike Schoonover owns Schoonover Body Works and Auto Care. But he's also a doctor, and I asked him just a few seconds ago, off the air, what do you like better, Mike, Grass fed beef or corn fed beef. And you said what, Dr. Schoonover?

[Lindsey Brown]

I prefer the grass fed beef and dairy just simply because my allergies are much better.

[Chris Reivers]

That makes your allergies better?

[Lindsey Brown]

In my humble opinion. I don't have allergy issues as much as I used to have in the past.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, I've grown out of them, too. And then the other important discussion we had off the air is, who crashes their pickup trucks more? Dodge, Chevy, or Ford drivers?

[Joe Sushere]

Oh, boy.

[Chris Reivers]

Good luck with this one, Mike. I think.

[Lindsey Brown]

I think this is going to be an equal opportunity question because they're all about the same level.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, well, this Chevy driver has been known to back into trees and buildings and other immovable objects, so I don't know what that means. What I'm finally getting to here is I was looking through some of your reviews. I always do this. It's fun reading schoono over reviews on the Internet. And what brought it up is Tony a GL er and a Ram owner. What's the phrase? If you can't dodge it, ram it. A Ram truck owner said he will highly recommend you guys and thank you for advertising on gl the repair quality. Tony said everything went great, Matthew. Oh, that's young Matthew Schoonover. Matthew kept in contact every few days with progress updates. Finished product as good as new. Great to work with the staff. And it was ready on time. So. Another one knocked out of the park there, Mike.

[Lindsey Brown]

Yeah, we like doing that, Kenny. It's. It's. It's fun to do. It's fun to make customers happy. And, you know, it wouldn't. We can't do that without our. Our techs and our office folks and Nikki and Tom and Matthew and everybody that works behind the scenes to, you know, serve our customers and our GL and making people happy and fixing their problems and making them go away.

[Chris Reivers]

What really amazes me is how you guys can pinpoint within a day or two when a project is gonna be complete. You can look at, like, say, let's say my son, he brought his truck up there a few years ago. You gave him the date it was gonna be done. And then we saw a series of pictures. The box came off, this came off, this was fixed, this was put back on. And sure enough, six days later, as promised, that truck was done. How the heck can you do that?

[Lindsey Brown]

A lot of planning, Kenny. There's a lot of moving parts, you know, that, you know, the process doesn't really begin until we get the vehicle in and get it fully torn down. And then we negotiate with insurance companies or whoever is paying the bill or, you know, letting customers know if they're paying out of their own pocket of what the repair cost is and get an agreement and then get the parts on order. And, you know, parts are a lot easier to get a hold of now than they were a few years ago with all the supply chain stuff. But we just are. As soon as we know those dates and we get it on our production schedule, we're able to plan it out. So it's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun, and it's a nice challenge that we look forward to.

[Chris Reivers]

For some reason, I might have brought this up with you before, either on or off the air, but for some reason, my son was standing there when Nikki was dealing with either his insurance company or somebody else's, and he said it was absolutely amazing to hear. It was just, you know, her side of the conversation. But he said that she was saying things and asking questions that would. He would have never thought to ask. So I just want to reiterate, and I know I bring it up almost weekly, the fact that you guys deal with our insurance company, that's a big deal for me anyway.

[Lindsey Brown]

Yeah, Kenny, it's not cool dealing with insurance. You know, when you're under stress or you got a problem, you don't normally deal with it. You know, most people, you know, this is old data. Many, many years ago, it was put out that the average person gets into an accident every seven years. Well, I think it's probably longer than that. Just simply because cars are safer. They keep us on the road. They keep us from running into things. Except, you know, knuckleheads that live up in Alexandria that have, you know, Chevy trucks that don't know how to drive

[Chris Reivers]

well, but five in the morning in the woods. I digress.

[Lindsey Brown]

But anyway, no, it's. That's what we do. Thanks for. Thanks for highlighting that, Kenny.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

And you guys do it well. You've been around since 1938. Matthew Schoonover would be the 1, 2, 3, 4. Fourth generation, right?

[Kenny Olson]

That is correct.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah. And Schoonovers, of course, the official shop of garage logic. You just heard why. Always rated as one of the top shops in the metro. Go to schoonover bodyworks.com. thank you, Dr. Schoonover.

[Lindsey Brown]

Thanks, Kenny. Thanks, jailers, everybody.

[Kenny Olson]

Have a great day. It's the end of the world as we know it.

[Joe Sushere]

And he feels fine. Joe Sushere we are Nuts and we are nuts mn.com we were just talking about gas prices a couple of moments ago. Guess what though. Guess how I saved 5 cents a gallon.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know.

[Joe Sushere]

I went to Quick Truck, the new preg Quick trip and I stocked up on we are nuts. Cause of course I go through about a jar or two every week of the maple bourbon toffee almonds.

[Kenny Olson]

You didn't get the endorsement? You just keep it to we are nuts.

[Joe Sushere]

I got Quick Trip. Well right now available at all of your participating Quick Trip locations. When you purchase a jar of we are nuts Quick Rewards members, which I happen to be one, you're gonna save 5 cents per gallon of gas on a future fuel purchase when you buy any of the we are Nuts products at participating Quick Trip locations. Man oh man, that's gonna sa cash. Especially when you put on about 300 miles a day like I do. But you can also go to all of your fratelloni's hardware and garden source locations, Mac's Hardware, Cub Foods, Kowalski's markets, Coburn's and so many different participating locations. And you can see them all [e-mail] and if you can't make it there, order them [e-mail] it's handfuls shared everywhere. A wonderful family owned company right here, here in the great state of Minnesota. We are nuts and wearenutsmn.com John before

[Kenny Olson]

you begin your news, I would like to add something to that proposal to allow camping on public land anywhere if such a bill would pass. It also forbids or it preempts any local ordinance that conflicts with the wishes of the democratic socialists in the legislature. That means local governments would be prohibited from enacting their own ordinances that conflict with their desire to permit the camping. So good luck to you. Here's John Height in his newsroom.

[Joe Sushere]

Wait a minute, say that again. That doesn't make sense.

[Kenny Olson]

If you have an ordinance in Chaska that prohibits the camping, this would preempt that you wouldn't be allowed to have your ordinance. So you could have the camping just about anywhere you want. My God. Here's John Height in his newsroom.

[John Height]

Thank you, Joe. This news is brought to you by North American Banking company. Earlier in the newscast, before I get to news or not in the newscast, in the show, Kenny brought up Stanley, North Dakota and that sometimes on the show I lose track and start looking things up.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm sure you do.

[Chris Reivers]

That's the biggest town in the county.

[John Height]

That's exactly my point. To show you what I came from in North Dakota. It's the biggest city in Montreal county. And being it's North Dakota biggest city with a population of 2, 321 people.

[Chris Reivers]

That's what I call perfect.

[Kenny Olson]

Where in the state is it?

[John Height]

That is up in the northwest corner. You know where the Bakken oil ranges?

[Kenny Olson]

I do.

[John Height]

It's up in that.

[Chris Reivers]

By Williston.

[John Height]

Yes, up by Williston.

[Kenny Olson]

You two are really in sync today. John and Kenny.

[Chris Reivers]

We're best friends.

[John Height]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Looking good.

[John Height]

Best is in sports stories.

[Chris Reivers]

An ouch got weird. Sorry, Joe.

[John Height]

It really did. So let's move along quick. An ouch night for the Timberwolves.

[Kenny Olson]

Why couldn't they do what they did Tuesday night? Oh my God.

[Joe Sushere]

I know.

[John Height]

They lost by 38 last night to San Antonio.

[Kenny Olson]

No, in the second game. Oh no. It was much closer at the end, wasn't it?

[Chris Reivers]

They couldn't have made a basket in

[John Height]

the peach five days in 97 or they.

[Joe Sushere]

They lost by 30.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, I'm sorry. I thought it was closer than that.

[John Height]

No, it. It never got close.

[Joe Sushere]

It wasn't even that close.

[Kenny Olson]

All right.

[John Height]

Yeah, they were down almost 50 at one point. Anyway, they lost. The series is now tied at one game a piece. Game three is tomorrow night at the Target Center.

[Kenny Olson]

In the Pioneer Press sports section today is a piece written by a Denver columnist absolutely belittling the Wild. I'm sure it's bulletin board material for the boys in their locker room here. The only Stanley cup they'll see is one for $10.95 you get from Amazon. You have to blow it up yourself. You know what I mean? It was just. It's just the kid is trolling, whoever he is. He's having a great deal of fun. But the Baldies turn off the lights. The Boldies over, you know, just on and on and on. Absolute ridicule of the Wild. I don't think our boys will take lightly to this. Was it Royce?

[Joe Sushere]

He asked.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. Okay.

[John Height]

As we talked about earlier, Joe Sencer, the well known former Minnesota Vikings tight end in Twin Cities broadcaster and businessman has died. Team announced that Today he was 69 years old. A 6th round draft pick in 1979 sets her quickly became a late round steal totaling 42 catches for 447 yards and 7 touchdowns as a rookie. Unfortunately, after the 1982 season, he injured his knee and played only 8 more games. All in nineteen nineteen eighty four after his flying career, Sensor Partnered to open several local sports bars bearing his name with locations in Roseville, Bloomington, Eagan and Plymouth. He also worked as a color commentator for the Vikings radio network in 93 and 94 and from 2001 to 2006. Sensor had suffered a massive stroke in 2016 and a subsequent stroke in 2019.

[Kenny Olson]

You know, there's an old saying in playoff sports.

[Joe Sushere]

What's that, Joe?

[Kenny Olson]

The playoffs don't start until the home team loses a game.

[Joe Sushere]

Okay, yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Something to think about. Even though they'd already started maybe a game or two. That's right, yeah.

[John Height]

In news, as Joe mentioned, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry is now a dated police chief Brian o' Hara for another four year term. The mayor sending a letter to all Minneapolis City council members late on Wednesday night telling them of the nomination. If approved, Chief O' Hara's term would run through 2029, although his confirmation no sure thing. The council already rejected Fry's nomination of Todd Barnett for a new term as public safety commissioner last month. And some city council members have indicated they are in opposition to Chief o'. Hara.

[Kenny Olson]

Sticking around you in the back.

[Joe Sushere]

You're gonna hate me for saying.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay.

[Joe Sushere]

Based upon that logic that you previously stated, both the 1987 and the 1991 World Series would have never started.

[Kenny Olson]

There are exceptions. There are exceptions to the rule.

[Chris Reivers]

Playing the role of John Haidt.

[Joe Sushere]

Like technically, the San Antonio Springs lost a home game.

[Chris Reivers]

Can we back that?

[Kenny Olson]

Right. So the playoffs are starters.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, guys, enough. I want to talk about something real, not phony, fake sports. Yeah, we had Michael Rainville on Krabby Coffee yesterday. Spent a lot of time talking about the city council meeting earlier in the week where certain council members, communists were PO'd about the fact that the Minneapolis police had costed them so much money in overtime and standpoint by time and they were acting surprised. The truth of the matter is every single council person knows about this little rule. They know how they earn overtime, they know how they earn standby time. And nothing was a surprise to them. It was just a whole lot of theater to basically let us all know again that the Minneapolis council hates cops.

[Kenny Olson]

Did you all. Did you actually say the the cops costed them some money cost?

[Chris Reivers]

If you look it up, it's right there.

[Kenny Olson]

Are you up there on a crick

[Chris Reivers]

somewhere in Kenny's dictionary?

[Joe Sushere]

Kenny, I apologize, I haven't had the chance to listen yet. But I do want to because I was listening to you guys chit chat while I was editing. Jill, he's a guy, isn't he?

[Kenny Olson]

He's insane, isn't he? Kenny?

[Chris Reivers]

He's all right. Some of his stuff I disagree with, but we need. It doesn't matter. We just need a couple sane voices.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't want him standing in the way of us becoming number one.

[Chris Reivers]

He might. Although he's got. Got some issues with gun control. I disagree. He's got a few issues I disagree with, but hell of a nice guy. Good friend of our girlfriend, Latricia.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

So he's all right, John.

[John Height]

In other news, St. Paul Police Officer faces criminal charges after he allegedly broke into the loss prevention office for a cub food store where he used to work and fiddled with security cameras to conceal a string of thefts. 41 year old Tommy Lee Adams of St. Paul charged with 14 felony counts of third degree burglary. If convicted, each charge carries a maximum prison sentence of five years. A spokesperson for the police department confirmed Adams has been on paid administrative leave since November while the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigates the alleged crimes. St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry said in a statement, I was sad to learn of these actions, but I trust this has been a thorough investigation. Officers, like everyone else, must be accountable for our actions. And this starts by holding ourselves to the highest standards for our community, for our profession and for this department. The St. Paul Police Department would not disclose how much Adams has made in the nearly six months he's been on leave, saying that info is considered confidential under state law. The department said his gross pay in 2025 was $129,307.

[Kenny Olson]

So compels you to realize that this guy steals $12 worth of toms and this Saheed Muhammad Actu Balawala, he steals two and a half million, is now living in Kenya. You know, not we're number one. We're going to be number one. Right?

[Chris Reivers]

Just you got to keep that in mind. Anytime you get frustrated, we're going to be number one. By the way, if the price has already been paid, use cost, not costed.

[Kenny Olson]

Thank you. I was aware of that.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm being alert this week.

[Joe Sushere]

Thank you for that tip.

[Kenny Olson]

Appreciate it. I'm being learned that.

[Joe Sushere]

And for all of you new listeners to the GL podcast, when Joe says thank you, that's his way of insulting the person that not really.

[Kenny Olson]

That was very sincere shot there.

[Joe Sushere]

Thank you.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. Build a cake.

[Chris Reivers]

Exactly.

[John Height]

A bill to curb the power of homeowners associations gained final passage in the Minnesota legislature after a Senate vote yesterday. Now sending the measure to Governor Walls's desk. Among the reforms outlined in what has been dubbed the HOA Residents Bill of Rights are caps on fines that hoas can charge to to homeowners and a requirement for board members and property managers to recuse themselves from decisions in which there could be a financial conflict of interest. It also requires HOAS to field at least three bids for contracts of $50,000 or more. Additional provisions strengthen transparency requirements around HOA finances, prevent local governments from mandating HOAs, and streamlines the process for dissolving HOAs for communities of standalone single family homes with no shared maintenance obligations and A bear in the road led to a crash that injured a woman on Sunday night near Brainerd. According to the State Patrol, two women ages 18 to 19 were heading eastbound on Highway 10 at around 11 in the evening when the driver hit the bear with her 2016 Subaru Legacy. It happened in Cushing Township, about 25 miles southwest of Brainerd. The Subaru ended up in the ditch after the collision. Both women were taken to a hospital, the passenger suffering non life threatening injuries. The driver wasn't hurt. The State Patrol didn't provide any information about the bear or whether it was injured or survived the crash. Why don't we take a quick break here and hear from Mr. Olson?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh really? I was just looking up to see if I could save a bear if I hit one on the highway.

[Joe Sushere]

He was paying clear attention. Your news though John.

[John Height]

Well, that was part of the news story.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I know with deer you have to Pay, you pay $10 to the state and you get to take that thing home with you. But we have more important matters to discuss, right Lino? Like how much you're going to pay to do it yourself. Talking about your yard, of course, when it comes to your lawn, the weeds, the bare spots, you can try it yourself or you can do the right thing, the easy thing, and go to professionalturf.com and have them do do it the correct way. Truth be told, I actually tried this on my own many, many years ago. I think it was 97 when I first bought a house. First of all, you pay for the fertilizer, you pay for the weed killer. You buy all the equipment to put it down and then you slop it on a little too much here, way too much over there. And then you have an expensive and frustrating mess all summer long. Or you get on the Internet professionalturf.com and you have them come out and they do it the pro turf way. That's three to four applications throughout the summer. A mixture of liquid and granular, fertilizer and weed control products that are specifically mixed for your lawn. And it's going to give you a lush, lovely lawn that you'll want to walk barefoot through. That's how thick it is. A frolicking lawn, if you will. And all you have to do is water and mow. Oh, and log on that wonderful lawn that you've so wanted all these years. Just a click away. ProfessionalTurf.com John thank you, Kenny.

[John Height]

In news national and international, President Trump's abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the US Military's ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation that According to two U.S. officials, the president surprised Gulf allies by announcing Project Freedom over the weekend. He did that on social media, and that angered leadership in Saudi Arabia. In response, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the US it would not allow the US Military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Air Base southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort, according to officials. A call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did not resolve the issue, according to the US Officials, forcing the president. President to pause Project Freedom in order to restore US Military access to the critical airspace. Confidential CIA analysis delivered to administration policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the US Naval blockade for at least three to four months before they'd face more severe economic hardship. The analysis by the CIA, whose secret assessments on Iran have been more sober than the administration's public statements, also found that Tehran, Iran retains significant ballistic missile capabilities despite weeks of intense US And Israeli bombardment. Let's say Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo the 14th today and the Vatican released a short, terse statement after they met. Vatican putting out a statement describing the talks as cordial and insisted the shared commitment to fostering good bilateral relations between the Holy See in the US Was reaffirmed, but followed that with an exchange of lively views was held regarding the regional and international situation, with particular attention to countries marked by war, political tensions and difficult humanitarian situations, as well as the need to work tirelessly in support of peace.

[Kenny Olson]

I looked up see today as in Holy See.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

What'd you find? It just Latin means the chair or the headquarter type deal.

[Chris Reivers]

Is that C?

[Lindsey Brown]

E?

[Kenny Olson]

What's the. What's E? What are the doors that they close that won't be open for a while?

[Chris Reivers]

That the Holy Seer?

[Joe Sushere]

That's the safe.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, the holy safe.

[Chris Reivers]

I looked up something for you, Joe.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah?

[Chris Reivers]

Yes. You can keep a dead Bear if you hit it with your vehicle in Minnesota, but you must obtain a free possession. Possession tag.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, yeah, you got to pay the state from the state.

[Joe Sushere]

And you know why that is? Do you know why that is?

[Kenny Olson]

No. Bear meat at the glory hole. That's right.

[John Height]

Countries worldwide scrambling to trace people who had left the cruise ship hit by that Honda virus outbreak before it got marooned off the coast of Cape Verde in an effort to prevent further spread of the disease. Three people, a Dutch couple and a German national, have died in the outbreak of the on the MV Hyundai. Eight people, including a Swiss citizen, are suspected to have contracted the virus. According to the World Health Organization, the Dutch government Yesterday said about 40 passengers had disembarked the ship in Santa Helena, where the ship made a stop on its way to Cape Verde before the outbreak was reported. Whereabouts of some of those passengers is as of yet unknown. One of those who got off the ship, the wife of the Dutchman who had died aboard the ship April 11. She fell sick herself and died before she could reach the Netherlands. Dutch airline KLM on Wednesday said it had taken the woman off a plane in Johannesburg due to her deteriorating medical condition. The virus found in the victims has been confirmed as the Andean strain, which can spread among humans through very close contact. Experts have stressed that contagion is very rare, but the outbreak has put health authorities on high alert.

[Kenny Olson]

The Holy Door poured a sanctum at

[Joe Sushere]

St. Peter's is what was sealed and

[Kenny Olson]

closed by Pope Leo. What's behind it? The Holy Door is a northernmost entrance of the basilica, traditionally kept sealed with mortar and cement.

[Joe Sushere]

Opened only during jubilee years, it symbolizes a time of grace and pilgrimage.

[Chris Reivers]

I see also a Cypress Gardens vacation if you choose door number one.

[Kenny Olson]

There you go.

[Joe Sushere]

But they seal her up with brick and mortar, so Vaticans, they got a department. Hey, call that brick and mortar guy.

[Kenny Olson]

We got a sealer up the door. We got that. Open her up in the Jubilee 2033. You know that henta virus? You're not really in danger of getting it unless you're very close to somebody who has it.

[Joe Sushere]

You mean like a spouse?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, like. Well, you just had the spouses who died, right? Yeah. Is that the boat?

[Joe Sushere]

What happens when you run out of supplies on the ship?

[Lindsey Brown]

Ship?

[Joe Sushere]

I mean, what. What are they supposed to do?

[Kenny Olson]

You just eat the rats? I told you what I do. I. I would have been swimming to shore two weeks.

[Chris Reivers]

It's kind of a floating leper colony

[Kenny Olson]

ship, minus the tires, which is odd because it's a really neat looking ship. It's small. It doesn't look like one of those large diarrhea vessels. Diarrhea vessels?

[Joe Sushere]

You know, you couldn't pay me a million dollars.

[Kenny Olson]

It looks like a really neat boat. It looks tidy and smaller than a lot of these floating casinos. That's not going to the Caribbean.

[Chris Reivers]

Hey, everybody. Matthew is letting the world know he would go on right cruise. So if you're America's guest, if you're listening, Matthew's sisters, right?

[Kenny Olson]

Come on, pony up some cash. Marie, entry.

[John Height]

Speaking of being on water, a tsunami

[Kenny Olson]

just cut out, John. Just cut out again.

[John Height]

Again What?

[Kenny Olson]

I'll try it again, John. I'm sure.

[Chris Reivers]

Tsunami.

[Kenny Olson]

What?

[John Height]

A tsunami Last year in southeastern Alaska was the second largest in recorded history. Waves reached 1578ft high. Holy crap.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, we never heard about this, right?

[John Height]

Second only to a 1958 tsunami in Alaska that produced waves up to 1720ft.

[Chris Reivers]

Come on.

[John Height]

This happened August 10, 2025. A mass of rock measuring 83 million cubic yards, 24 times the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza, fell into Alaska's Tracy Arm Fjord. The study's authors blamed

[Kenny Olson]

climate change. Of course they did. I wonder what happened in 1958 that was climate change, too.

[John Height]

Saying the melting glacier next to the mountain left the rock unsupported and vulnerable to collapse. Waves sloshed in the fjord for days and produced activity, seismic activity equivalent to a 5.4 magnitude earthquake. Three cruise ships passed through the fjord each day, but due to the early hour, this all happened. Luckily, there were no injuries on any ships.

[Kenny Olson]

Who has the job of taking out the Stanley Measuring thing in a stick

[Joe Sushere]

that never stays straight? Like, I'm gonna get this 1100 measurement here.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know how they do that.

[John Height]

A federal judge has released a suicide note, purportedly written. Written by Jeffrey Epstein. That was sealed for you.

[Kenny Olson]

I think it's real.

[Joe Sushere]

Oh, of course it is.

[John Height]

Looks like it.

[Kenny Olson]

Sure it's real.

[Joe Sushere]

The ink on it is still wet.

[Chris Reivers]

Like the words.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Letters are backwards.

[John Height]

It was sealed for years as part of the criminal case of his cellmate. The note begins, they investigated me for months, found nothing.

[Kenny Olson]

Thing.

[John Height]

It's a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye. What you want me to do? Bust out crying? No fun. It concludes with the words, not worth it. Epstein cellmate Nicholas Tartaglioni said he discovered the note In July 2019, after Epstein was found unresponsive with a strip of cloth wrapped around his neck. Epstein survived that incident, but he was found dead weeks later at age 66. The note was made public Wednesday by Judge Kenneth Karras of Federal District Court, who oversaw the cellmate's case. A judge acted after the New York Times petitioned the court last Thursday to unseal the document published an article in which Tartaglione described the note and how it came into his possession. The Times said it has not authenticated the note, which was placed on the court docket Wednesday evening. The note repeats a saying bust out, cry and that Epstein wrote in emails. And it included another phrase, no fun that he often used in emails, as well as a separate note found in his jail stat at the time of his death. The document, unsealed on Wednesday, remained hidden from public view even as the Justice Department released all those pages of documents related to Epstein. The search did turn up a cryptic two page chronology that described how the note became caught up in Tartaglioni's complicated legal case. Chronology said Tartaglioni's lawyers authenticated the note but didn't say how.

[Kenny Olson]

I think it was real. I think it's real.

[John Height]

Tartaglioti is a former police officer in Briar Clip Manor, N.Y. york. Shared a cell with Epstein while awaiting trial in a quadruple murder case, he told the Times in recent phone interviews from a California prison. He found the note in a graphic novel after Epstein was taken out of their cell after the first apparent suicide attempt. Authorities in Northern California no, I'm sorry, Northern Colorado. Excuse me, we haven't had this happen in a while. Arrested a suspect wanted for stealing a fire engine, leading authorities on a pursuit shortly after he was released from jail. It all started just before midnight when Boulder police received a report of a man trying to open the doors of cars and homes. When officers got there, they arrested the suspect, identified as Richmond Johnson, took him to jail where he was booked on a third degree trespassing charge and released just after 3:30 in the morning. Boulder Fire Rescue responded to the jail for an unrelated medical call at 3:39 and while they were in the jail booking lobby treating the patient, investigators said Johnson just crawled into Engine 143 and drove away. Boulder County Sheriff's deputies began a pursuit, asked Boulder police to help. Johnson was spotted at 34th street in Belmont Road, but investigators said he wouldn't stop, kept driving south. Longmont police deployed stop sticks in multiple locations. Investigators said that likely because the tires were deflating, Johnson lost control of the fire engine engine at first street and Main street in downtown Longmont, Colorado. He jumped out of the fire engine and ran away Followed by deputies and police officers and arrested within minutes.

[Kenny Olson]

John, thank you so much.

[Joe Sushere]

I'd like to hear about Aura Frames.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, I would, too.

[Joe Sushere]

Yes. It's Mother's Day this weekend.

[John Height]

Stopped me in the middle of a story.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't really.

[Chris Reivers]

That was weird.

[Kenny Olson]

I thought you were done.

[Chris Reivers]

I was waiting for you to take a quick breath, shut you down.

[John Height]

Four paragraphs, but that's okay.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, John is gone.

[John Height]

Oh, it's Thursday.

[Chris Reivers]

No, it's recovered.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, the truck's back.

[Chris Reivers]

What's coming up on the ride needs new tires.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[John Height]

Thank you, Kenny, for listening. I appreciate that.

[Kenny Olson]

Walk home.

[John Height]

Let me tell you, John, let me tell you about Aura Frames. Aura Frames, Mother's Day. You can still get it. I know it's just a couple days away, but you can order it. You can actually put pictures on it now, after you order it, you'll be able to do that with the app. And by the time it gets here. Might be a few days late, but it'll have all the pictures on that you want. I told you in the past how great this frame is. Right here. We have one up in the kitchen, dining room area. And we've got tons of pictures from the past, 30, maybe even 40 years on it. A significant number that features Larry. You know, Larry the pug. There's about 400 pictures.

[Kenny Olson]

How do you get pictures on it that aren't on your phone? Phone.

[John Height]

Here's what you do. Like, I took pictures of my mother that I had, and I took pictures of them with my phone.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, I get it. Okay. Yeah.

[John Height]

And they look lovely. Or frames. The pictures are crystal clear. Joe, you've got an oriole.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes, we do.

[John Height]

You will attest to the fact that they look wonderful in the pictures.

[Kenny Olson]

There's. They're mesmerizing. Sometimes you just sit there and look at it for a while.

[Joe Sushere]

You gaze.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[John Height]

Very high definition. And they look lovely.

[Kenny Olson]

And see, it changes the floor photos. See?

[John Height]

Yeah. It just keeps rolling through.

[Kenny Olson]

There you go.

[John Height]

You got any videos on yours, Joe?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes.

[John Height]

Really good videos are fun.

[Joe Sushere]

Your mouth open when you're staring at your.

[Kenny Olson]

Mine is okay. Yeah.

[John Height]

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[Chris Reivers]

Fraud in Minnesota. It's costing us all.

[Kenny Olson]

And that's why 5 Eyewitness News is

[Lindsey Brown]

shining a light on fraud.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm Lindsey Brown and at 5 Eyewitness

[Lindsey Brown]

News, we're digging through records, following the

[Kenny Olson]

money and exposing who is taking advantage of taxpayers. We don't take easy answers and we

[Chris Reivers]

won't let fraud go unchecked when tax dollars are misused. You deserve to know because this is

[Kenny Olson]

your money and we're working hard to protect it.

[Chris Reivers]

Watch and see the difference.

[Lindsey Brown]

Only on 5 Eyewitness News.

[Kenny Olson]

Zombie the earth is not your mother the Joe Sugiray Show.

[Joe Sushere]

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[Kenny Olson]

Flag Update. The City of Wyoming City Council voted 5 nothing to stop flying any Minnesota flag. Well, I consider that a victory. Good for them. Good for them. They fly the US Flag, the City of Wyoming flag, and when they have to or want to, a POWMIA flag. The resolution states that the city of Wyoming would retain full authority to modify displays on city property at the city Council's discretion, subject to approval by future resolutions. Good for them. I'll take that now to the true flag. In case you missed it, this is a photo of the hancock water tower with the true minnesota state flag flying proudly in front of it. Please add hancock to the list of prestigious Minnesota cities. There's that one.

[Joe Sushere]

Where is hancock?

[Kenny Olson]

By st. Cloud, I think.

[Joe Sushere]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Stone's throw. Robert dowd notes, the isanti county courthouse flies the true flag. So I don't think we have isanti up, do we? All right, there they go. And we have a note from art, who writes, norwood young america flies the old flag, the good flag. So norwood young america is added to the scroll. Isn't that fantastic? Norwood young america. It's gonna get to the point where. And this is going to be symptomatic of exactly where the state is. The new flag will not be flown anywhere in the state of minnesota Outside the metropolitan area.

[Joe Sushere]

Hancock is in stevens county, just southeast of morris, minnesota.

[Kenny Olson]

And the new flag will be flown prominently within the city limits of Minneapolis and St. Paul. And that pretty much tells us where we are. The fraud flag will fly the closer you get to the country's tallest buildings. And the true flag will fly everywhere else. Everywhere else.

[Chris Reivers]

It is with great disappointment that I tell you that the city of alexandria and douglas county love l u v. Love the new fraud flag.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, there are exceptions to my statement.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah. So disappointed.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, you got to do what you

[Chris Reivers]

got to do, GL we have a lot of friends, a lot of G L ERs in the Douglas county sheriff's department, and they have that embarrassing new fraud flag in front of their jail. In front of the jail and in front of the courthouse.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, you just hold on. Pretty soon we won't have any jails. They won't have to worry about it. We're gonna release everybody because we're number one, right? Number one on the traveling lineman.

[Joe Sushere]

I. I needed you to do this because I was rushed in the commercial break. Can I extend the show 10 seconds longer?

[Kenny Olson]

It better be 10 seconds. I'm just playing. I don't really have anything.

[Joe Sushere]

Hasn't stopped you before.

[Kenny Olson]

Here are your. What is this?

[Joe Sushere]

This is. You read the very bottom one.

[Lindsey Brown]

It's our.

[Joe Sushere]

It's time for the gler of the week. Since we will have a best of garage logic for tomorrow's show.

[Kenny Olson]

This week's g eler of the week is Jack Jeff kamrath of excelsior, minnesota. A proud town council member since January of 2024. Jeff Kamrath of excelsior, minnesota. You're gonna get the gift pack of syrups.

[Joe Sushere]

The master's maples gift pack.

[Kenny Olson]

It's wonderful.

[Joe Sushere]

And you can become a GL of the week by having an upgraded town council membership. How about the fact that the wonderful Haskell's location, Excelsior, burned down the other two day.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, the. Just the bar part. The restaurant is tough, but I think they saved the.

[Joe Sushere]

That's heartbreaking. That was an awesome spot.

[Kenny Olson]

They intend to rebuild.

[Joe Sushere]

Right? It's just still sad.

[Kenny Olson]

The traveling linemans are going to make. They're making a port of call in Victoria, British Columbia. Really? Now this confuses me because they're on their way to Seattle. Why would the boat go up, up beyond Seattle, then double back?

[Joe Sushere]

Yeah, rugby.

[Kenny Olson]

How. How the. The horn of Bemuth. Only because they come to us all the way from the traveling Lymans. It was on this day in 1800.

[Chris Reivers]

You know how the layout works there, right? With the sound and all of that? With Seattle and Vancouver and all of that. Vancouver's right on the border of United States and Canada.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, they're accessible from the sound, that's fine. But they're going to Victoria, British Columbia, which is.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, we gotta look it up.

[Joe Sushere]

We gotta look it up.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, you do your thing, I'll look up. Victoria.

[Kenny Olson]

On this day, May 7, in 1800, eastern Minnesota, where we sit this very moment, was organized as part of Indian territory by an act of Congress. I did not know that. On this day. Joe, today is May 7th in 1850, the Anthony Wayne was the first steamboat to reach the Falls of St. Anthony, winning a prize of $200.

[Joe Sushere]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, this is even more convenient. Victoria. Joe, Victoria is on Vancouver island on the very southern tip, within sudden height of the United States.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, so just wondering if. Why, if they were going to Seattle?

[Chris Reivers]

It's on the way, that's why.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay.

[Joe Sushere]

It's.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Sushere]

If you were to drive to St. Cloud, you'd make a stop.

[Kenny Olson]

I remember this from last year. This guy. On this day, Joe, today is May 7th in 1900. On this day, two days after arriving in Faribault with his new new Locomobile, an expensive two seat roadster, Dr. RN Jackson was involved in an accident breaking his ribs and collarbone. I saw what he's doing. He can go bleep himself. Did he get an ambulance that was sent to him?

[Chris Reivers]

His airbag.

[Kenny Olson]

Can I not work? Joe?

[Joe Sushere]

I'm not trying to be a smart. Alex, I'm being dead serious. No, but we read about this very thing in school. I'm not joking.

[Lindsey Brown]

We did.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, well that's Fascinating. That's wonderful.

[Chris Reivers]

Can you tell us, or anyone can tell us more?

[Joe Sushere]

Well, it was in Faribault, so, you know, you have to learn about the history of the city in which you're going to school. And so in elementary school, we each had to do a.

[Chris Reivers]

This.

[Kenny Olson]

This clown had to have the only car in town on this day in 1900.

[Joe Sushere]

That was the bleeping point.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, what did he hit? Could a bear? Did he get away? Well, did. Did the car get away? He lost control.

[Joe Sushere]

You're expecting me to remember a report

[Kenny Olson]

I did in Got away. You read. You.

[Chris Reivers]

You're the only school in the world

[Kenny Olson]

that would have discussed this. How did the accident happen?

[Joe Sushere]

By steamboat?

[Kenny Olson]

No, that was. I bet it was black. The Anthony Wayne.

[Joe Sushere]

No, you're. You're disappointed that I don't remember what kind of car it was?

[Kenny Olson]

No car. Was the local wheel.

[Chris Reivers]

I know how it happened.

[Kenny Olson]

He probably hit a hitching post where you tie up horses.

[Joe Sushere]

Here we go, Kenny.

[Chris Reivers]

He was full of pride and he was waving at everybody on the sidewalks, and that thing veered off, off into

[Joe Sushere]

a pole, screaming along at eight miles an hour.

[Kenny Olson]

What year was this? 1900 year. On this day in sports, disappointment history.

[Joe Sushere]

Rookie. You're welcome.

[Kenny Olson]

1900, May 7, 2015. The pattern continues. The Wild loss to the Blackhawks four games to zip in the second round of the playoffs. Thank you, G. Ellers. Where does it stand now? Two zip. That's it. That's right.

[John Height]

Right.

[Chris Reivers]

Once.

[Kenny Olson]

The playoffs don't start until the home team loses a game.

[Chris Reivers]

He going to play?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, he'll play.

[Chris Reivers]

Who's. Who's the net minder there? Who's between the pipes?

[Lindsey Brown]

Right.

[Joe Sushere]

It's going to be.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, I don't know, man. I'm pretty sure it's.

[Joe Sushere]

Are you going to go to the watch party Saturday night?

[Kenny Olson]

I am.

[Joe Sushere]

Are you really?

[Kenny Olson]

No.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, are you playing today, Joe?

[Kenny Olson]

Smorgies. Thank you, G. Been there. Smorgies, across the. Across the street from. Thank you very much. T Ellers.

[John Height]

I have hockey questions. I don't know much about hockey.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, go ahead, John. I'm here.

[Joe Sushere]

Joe's the expert. I don't know what happened, but we just lost our garagelogic podcast. Close Music here. So just follow us along on social YouTube and yeah, just email Joe your hockey question. We'll see you tomorrow. 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 garagelogic. 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 952-925-5608. When you call that number you are going to get Josh and he is there for you for that. Free, yes, I use the word free. 48 minute financial consultation with absolutely zero obligation. And he will always give you the straight talk, he will never give you the sugar coated advice. And he is on the line with us once again right here in garagelogic. And boy, Josh, yesterday it was all about the chips. And sometimes when it's about the chips, it's all about AI.

[Lindsey Brown]

That is correct. Sometimes it's about both. Yesterday Nvidia signed a deal with Glassworks. That's Corning Glassworks. Their market symbol is glw. Nvidia symbol nvdl. This is a huge deal, not going to say for both companies, but it is representative not only the need for computer power but the need to hook up every everything. And Nvidia's investment in Corning becomes loop cute as it gives Corning the ability to open three new manufacturing plants for optical cable. And optical cable is definitely in use for connecting all of the servers that are going into all of these data centers. And that means that with this build out more chips are going to be needed. And you can see that in the reports that came from Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and even ARM holdings in their reports last night, huge need then Anthropic private company, at least at this point talked about the huge increase, I mean like an 84 increase in the need for compute that they have experienced. Anthropic right now is one of the leading, we'll call it developer product known as Quad. So that is their leading chatbot so to speak. Claude has seen a pretty big uptake on users, both individuals and within the corporate world. The concern of course about the chat bots, whether it be flawed or chat GPT or Google's Gemini or now SpaceX's Grock. Somebody says SpaceX, I thought the SpaceX was in process of putting rock rockets in space and rockets to the moon, delivering satellites, putting up Starlink. Thought that was all part of SpaceX. Now SpaceX also owns X, formerly known as Twitter and XAI must artificial intelligence developments. And XAI also signed a significant, significant deal also recently. So the race in AI continues very very quickly. And several of the companies around AT have been market leaders in the past say almost two months. Whether it has been Nvidia, whether it has been intel or AMD in the chip space, whether it's been Google or Amazon or in terms of storage, you've seen core weave and nebbyous move up almost like like rocket ships. So this is okay, this is a we'll call it trend which we've talked about for a while. This is. I'll say, a subject for investing. We'll say a theme for investing that is going to be with us for quite some time and a lot of the companies around it appear to be expensive on both a price to earnings and price to sales basis. But given the demand for product, given the scarcity of companies involved, you have this significant move up and demand definitely exceeds supply right now. But the AI theme, which again we've talked about for over two years, has proved to be a profitable one and could remain such for for quite some time. At some point we'll move from around, AI will move from the chips, maybe back to applications, but right now we'll say the hardware is in and I still believe that some leading winners of this will still come around companies like Apple, which we'll find more about their foray in just a few weeks at their Worldwide Developers Conference, Amazon and Google, among others.

[Joe Sushere]

Excellent advice as always, Mr. Money Talk. You heard him gl ers. Now is the time for you to pick up the phone and make the call for that free 48 minute financial consultation again with zero obligation. And you do that just like I did by dialing 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 and we'll talk to you again tomorrow.

[Lindsey Brown]

Look forward to it. Thanks.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Sushere]

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[Kenny Olson]

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