7/20 New York mayor Mamdani tries to explain what the term working class means. So do we.

Summary

GARAGE LOGIC PODCAST, JULY 20, 2026 Episode Overview and Detailed Summary

Main Theme This episode of Garage Logic, hosted by Joe Soucheray and the regular GL crew, blends trademark GL banter about everyday life in "Gumption County" with in-depth, opinionated discussion of current events, city government, and culture. The focal point is a critical look at New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani’s struggle to define “working class,” which prompts a broader, often satirical conversation about class, political language, and the divide between right and wrong in America. The episode also features side trips into soccer skepticism, local Minnesota news, city policy failures, Minnesota flag updates, and the usual doses of humor and common sense.

Key Discussions and Insights

1. Amsterdam Bike Culture and Minnesota Biking (02:07–07:04)

• Joe reads an email from a listener in Dallas about overwhelming bike culture in Amsterdam—three bikes per resident, aggressive bikers, and cargo bikes as SUV replacements.
• The crew riffs on biking etiquette, stereotypes of "serious" cyclists, and the sometimes adversarial relationship between bikers and pedestrians.
• “They're the wasps of the human race—none of us want to deal with them, we just give a wide berth.” — Matthew (06:49)

2. Soccer World Cup: American Skepticism and Global Fandom (07:32–18:49)

• Joe admits to being mystified by the appeal of soccer after watching the Spain–Argentina championship, noting Argentina had zero shots on goal in regulation.
• “That frightens me, that people see some merit in it. That frightens me. But that’s your cup of tea.” — Joe Soucheray (07:47)
• Riffing about Messi’s performance, passing vs. scoring, and why Americans just don't "get" soccer: “America wants action, they want results, they want violence." — Joe Soucheray (14:11)
• Skeptical analogies liken soccer flow to youth park league chaos; much amusement at the tendency for attackers to “just go back” instead of pushing for a goal.

3. Mass Shootings in Minneapolis and City Policy Failures (19:38–22:20, 46:17–50:47)

• Minneapolis experiences two mass shootings in one weekend; gun violence is up, but the panel notes a lack of city action.
• Long-standing city issues: St. Paul announces it will not fix broken streetlights due to copper thefts and a $25M deficit.
• Joe criticizes bloated city employment and lack of accountability: “My belief about why cities get in trouble is that they hire way too many people who cannot demonstrate that they've achieved anything on behalf of the taxpayers.” — Joe Soucheray (21:39)

4. The Meaning (and Politics) of "Working Class" (26:55–41:38)

• The main segment: Joe reads excerpts from the NYT interview where NYC’s Mayor Mamdani fails to define "working class," getting tangled in word salads and moving targets (is it income? struggle? dignity?).
• Joe and Matthew argue that the term has long been politicized, weaponized for victimhood and division: “Anyone who gets up in the morning and has a place to go, where they do something that results in them making a living—you’re the working class.” — Joe Soucheray (32:40)
• Mamdani's attempt to draw a line at $1 million is roasted: “B as in B, S as in S.” — Joe Soucheray (33:04)
• The panel discusses how Democrats rely on the language of oppression, portraying the working class as perpetual victims no matter what, and how Americans of all kinds make trade-offs for happiness, not just money.

5. Minnesota Political Ads and Trump Derangement (36:28–38:12)

• Tongue-in-cheek discussion about political campaign ads in Minnesota, noting that candidates like Angie Craig and Peggy Flanagan are trying to outdo each other in anti-Trump rhetoric, despite Trump having no real connection to state woes.
• “It doesn't do it for us. That's not germane to what's happening here.” — Joe Soucheray (38:00)

6. European Immigration Policy: Denmark’s Burka Ban (69:16–73:44)

• Denmark’s new efforts to ban burkas in schools and universities discussed as an example of European governments trying (possibly too late) to preserve national identity and social harmony.
• Joe and crew discuss policy, religious freedom, and why Denmark is wrestling with these issues so publicly.
• “For the sake of harmony, I would ban [the burka in schools]. That's the common sense thing to do.” — Kenny Olson (73:06)

7. Quick-Hit News, Oddities, and GL Features

• Penny Shortage and the "Common Cents" Act (63:35–65:47): Banter about the U.S. no longer minting pennies, state laws around rounding, and GLers’ comfort with stores keeping their two cents.
• Minnesota’s Old Flag “Crawl” Updates (74:03–75:51): GL listeners report where the original Minnesota flag is still flying.
• This Day in Minnesota History (75:57–79:27): Highlighting treaties, county foundings, miner strikes, truckers strikes, and the infamous Twins blown lead.

Notable Quotes and Moments

• “[Soccer] looks like a bunch of kids, all of them chasing the ball.” — Matthew (16:41)
• “Now the basic setup of society is equity. It's not right and wrong anymore—it's haves and have nots.” — Joe Soucheray (27:21)
• “My belief about why cities get in trouble is that they hire way too many people who cannot demonstrate that they've achieved anything on behalf of the taxpayers.” — Joe Soucheray (21:39)
• “The term ‘working class’ is politicized. It’s been used for decades now by Democrats to suggest that if you’re working class, you obviously are a victim of something.” — Joe Soucheray (38:40)

Timestamps of Key Segments

• 02:07 – Amsterdam bike culture
• 07:32 – Soccer skepticism and World Cup banter
• 19:38 – Minneapolis shootings, city safety, and policy
• 26:55 – The meaning of “working class” and Mamdani critique
• 41:28 – Local (MN) political advertising discussion
• 69:16 – Denmark burka ban and immigration policies
• 75:57 – Minnesota flag updates and local history

Conclusion and Signoff

• Episode closes as usual with a blend of news, local color, and GL’s commitment to “common sense," community, and gently irreverent conversation about national and local issues.
• As always, listeners are encouraged to engage with Garage Logic online and through various events and community activities.

This summary reflects the episode’s satirical, conversational style, Joe’s “mayoral” authority, and the GL focus on the intersection between common sense, public policy, and daily life in the Midwest.

Transcript

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Matthew]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reivers]

king

[Joe Soucheray]

and now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of spoon lake it's garage logic with chris reavers manning technology corner kenny olson from the crabby coffee shop john height in the newsroom and the rookie here is your flashlight king fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense your mayor joe susherer the other day we were talking about cargo bikes those are bikes on which you can pile four or five kids and all your items from the store and wheel around town and i got a note from chris jaraki in dallas texas who writes two years ago i met up with one of my daughters in amsterdam we had a lovely time but it was challenging to navigate the city in conjunction with the very robust bike culture woe betide the pedestrian who steps a toe into the many ubiquitous bike lanes it became immediately clear to us that the bikers gave no quarter to the pedestrians they whiz around past and sometimes through anyone whom they deem as in the way an uber driver told me that while there are one million residents in amsterdam there are three million bicycles it certainly felt like it i have included below a picture of one of the many bike suv's we saw they would often have a child or two along with bags of shopping in the cargo cab and usually a very fit looking mom pedaling furiously the most amusing sight we saw was a young man balancing a twelve pack of toilet paper on his handlebars as he roared past us the mysterians who pined for the european cafe and bike society should be reminded that our forebears left it behind so we could drive big cars to costco for forty eight packs of toilet paper from the edge of dallas chris now she sent a picture oh shoot let's see well the picture only shows the building in the background oh wow that building is there was a picture of the cargo bike but it was it the when i printed it it only captured the

[Matthew]

beautiful edges is that a bit with

[Joe Soucheray]

you or is that real i'm sorry kenny unfortunately i think it's real joe

[Matthew]

ask i have a real question though about this story what is it with bikers bicycle riders why do they hate everybody else on the road including other bicycle riders what is that where's that

[Joe Soucheray]

come from i don't know but reminds me of my famous trump's fault reminds me of my famous favorite story where an acquaintance of mine was running on river boulevard and a biker came up behind him and hectored him get out of my way get out of my way yeah and the runner said i believe i have a right to be on this running path it's a walking and running path get out of my way can't you see and so this acquaintance of mine stopped and the biker got off his bike as though he would be intending to have some sort of confrontation square off and my acquaintance walked over and picked up his twelve hundred dollars bike and threw it off the cliff down below the franklin avenue

[Matthew]

bridge that's the best story i've ever

[Joe Soucheray]

and the last thing he heard was the guy's cleats clicking over the rocks trying to get down there and get over his bicycle i don't know i've run into many polite bicyclists if you

[Matthew]

ride a bicycle that's not a ten speed race bike or a mountain bike or a fat tire bike and you're wearing like say well cut off jeans yeah and chuck taylor's they hate you

[Joe Soucheray]

what about the people with the olive oil labels on their jerseys they they're

[Matthew]

the one i think they're the instigators they're the ones that ride in the middle of the street instead of the bike path which is right there it's right there five feet away but you

[Joe Soucheray]

know in my my new life yeah i've i've tried to get along with

[Kenny Olson]

the cyclists okay you i don't branch

[Joe Soucheray]

sort of yeah okay yeah when did

[Chris Reivers]

the new life begin i you know

[Joe Soucheray]

just recently you know what they are

[Matthew]

maybe last week they're the wasps of the human race none of us want to deal with them we just a wide berth around the wasps what if

[Joe Soucheray]

there was a bicycle spray now you're

[Matthew]

getting into my fantasies now before you

[Kenny Olson]

go i haven't traveled bridge in a while what have they done to the

[Joe Soucheray]

franklin avenue well you're you're joining those of us who have to cross the river twice to get here i am

[Matthew]

in the clue that was ten years ago and before it was a challenge with two lanes each way yeah now it's just a nightmare it's a what

[Kenny Olson]

is on either side are they both bike lanes yes eastbound and westbound yes

[Joe Soucheray]

okay yes may i say a few words about soccer you're here i'm sure it'll come up again with patrick but i just have some observations i had to do a lot of watering yesterday

[Kenny Olson]

sprinkling this is a new hobby for

[Joe Soucheray]

you yes okay so i would set the sprinkler and then i went back into the garage and watched a segment of the game until my time was up to move the sprinkler again got it so i saw a considerable amount i would say i saw thirty or forty minutes of that championship game between spain and argentina yeah thriller and it's no use getting ridiculous about it millions and millions of people around the world absolutely love this game and that frightens me that people see some merit in it that frightens me but that's your cup of tea and i was surrounded by some young girls yesterday they had it on they loved it okay that's fine do you realize it was a championship game in which one team did not have a single shot on goal yes argentina did not have a single shot on goal in regular time and then god only knows how they do this they added a bunch of extra time i don't get it in the extra time argentina argentina was recorded with two shots they were towards the net but neither of them involved the the goalie having to do anything okay so i looked it up wow i looked it up because that compelled well i'm trying to understand this i'm trying to understand truly curious i am that's never happened before in a world cup title match where one team doesn't have a shot on goal it's never happened how is that so then i further looked it up and i went to the the artificial intelligence and i say is it common in a soccer game for a team not to have a shot on goal and it is not common it is very uncommon it happens but it's very uncommon you would think that if you in some cases i saw videos of people risking their lives to get into that meadowlands yesterday because they crossed lanes of freeway traffic on foot because of a parking problem yes and they were scampering across the freeway if you're going to risk your life whack a mole to get to a soccer a world championship game apparently you're willing to accept the fact that one of the clubs does not get a single shot on goal now i tried to

[Kenny Olson]

one of the best teams in the

[Joe Soucheray]

world i tried to think of an analogy and i'm not sure i can come up with one would that be similar to a super bowl in which one team never gets a first down or runs a play or i guess that would be it never runs a

[Chris Reivers]

play you know who would be a big fan of never attempting a shot

[Joe Soucheray]

on goal well he's one of the guy that's right he was very defensive

[Josh Arnold]

one of the guy one of the

[Joe Soucheray]

players on our team i'm not done but then i'm willing to entertain the floor according to the athletic which is a sports news source the big star of the game was is it lionel messi lionel messi lionel messi he walked sixty two percent of the time in the game and then stood still and then stood still but he is to be lauded right no i'm not making this up because he was ready to pounce like a cat yes or somebody laying in the woods he was ready to pounce well if he was ready to pounce a he must have never pounced and b there was no shots on goal by his team

[Matthew]

so

[Joe Soucheray]

i'm not going to say anything untoward i'm pointing out some facts that i fail to understand the mystique and i'll just leave it at that i'm sure there is a mystique millions and tens and hundreds of millions of people can't be wrong right i watched a part of the game with yeah really matthew like

[Kenny Olson]

ten minutes or so i was running

[Matthew]

in and out what are the positions is it like hockey forwards defenseman center

[Joe Soucheray]

i believe so there's eleven people on a team you got your upwards and your backwards what do you have on

[Chris Reivers]

your mind well one of the shows that i listened to lauded lionel messi for one thing that you lack his

[Joe Soucheray]

patience patience another word for that is he knows how to rest he's which i don't blame him for he was thirty nine he's waiting for his opportunity he's no he's waiting to pounce pounce but apparently he did not successfully pounce

[Kenny Olson]

yesterday my wife said she as she watched the game the announcers were quite harsh towards the players just saying they're

[Matthew]

not doing anything why did she watch the game matthew and i'm not look i'm not this isn't a setup for

[Kenny Olson]

an insult we both just got caught up in the hey it's the championship game we watched it was first time half yeah we've never watched soccer before

[Matthew]

is it because it's here in the united states yeah i think there was a little gorbachev coming to town were

[Chris Reivers]

you were you both hand in hand

[Kenny Olson]

date night i was painting your toenails

[Joe Soucheray]

well i don't want to go into that what i want to say is what i want to say is i guess i've said it i don't understand the mystique i just i just don't get it and i think i think it's not in the american psyche to get it i think that america no matter how you want to look at it wants action well i heard a great results they want violence i heard

[Chris Reivers]

a great interview that said most of these countries that succeed so much in soccer there just isn't the type of opportunity that exists here in the united states which is meaning a great athletic kid growing up here is going to

[Joe Soucheray]

play basketball football hockey baseball whatever i can tell you why because that's where the money's been that kid can go make a living this argentina yeah right soccer turned me in to a flat out basketball fan the other thing and i've said this before and then i promise i will conclude the other thing i noticed is and i will include messi in this and he didn't walk he didn't he stood still he walked sixty three percent of the time i got an email from sean in illinois who notes that he cited the atlantic messi spent sixty three percent of the world cup walking twenty five percent standing still okay the thing i noticed is i could not discern different skill levels among the eleven players on the team they all to me had the same skill level they can dribble that ball and pass it and move around but i you mean like a pele i said this to patrick last week i never saw anyone who can do stuff by stuff i mean where was their michael jordan gretzky where was gretzky where was larry bird where was quinn hughes i never saw a player in fact i would say this if those players spend as much time figuring out how to rise above the average instead of doing incredible things with their bodies in order to fall down a superstar might arise now people who follow this game will say well messi is a superstar well okay okay i guess he'll take your word for it i don't see it but okay what would your solution be for i have no solution i think maybe it's so difficult to do anything with just a ball in your feet is there too much room that may well i said that too they got too many players on the field and the field's too big you know

[Matthew]

what it looks like to me is when we lived across from sibley park and we watched park league soccer and it was just a bunch of kids all of them chasing the balls that's what soccer looks to me everybody on the field chasing the ball the other

[Joe Soucheray]

thing i liked i liked when the team on attack got down near the goal they should have been scoring on is attack and they just said oh the hell with it and they went back to their own end for a

[Matthew]

while yeah is that an official term

[Joe Soucheray]

no it's mine it's mine the offensive team in control of the ball would sometimes get down into the defensive end and then they'd say let's start over

[Kenny Olson]

and they went back i'm not feeling

[Joe Soucheray]

it i'm not feeling it so they would return say hello to their goalie shoot the breeze for a while and

[Chris Reivers]

start over again so i'm making notes once you become the commissioner of the world cup so was it also problematic at times when you didn't know which team possessed the ball because that was a bit tricky for me as well

[Joe Soucheray]

at one point i did have to text somebody what team is in red

[Matthew]

got it yeah this conversation makes me want to pluck my eyeballs out seriously i want to get back to the very beginning of your story you said something very charming and i love that you've graduated to this now you're watering have you have you yet instead of moving the sprinkler around those of us that reach dad we need to get the hell out of the house we're about an hour we just go out there with the hose and we just stand there and water things with the hose in our hand have you reached

[Joe Soucheray]

that level yet i can tap you there okay good i have a there are some portions where i water by hand yeah and i bring out my shop stool yes yes and i sit there with a cold one yeah and the hose and i look at my watch and i give each plant a certain amount of time absolutely and i move on with the little stool i'm

[Kenny Olson]

on do you have a favorite plant you're you're rooting for or you want

[Chris Reivers]

to see flourish or that might need a little bit more nourishment yeah yeah

[Matthew]

yeah joe allow me to boast that was how my famous google street view photo was published on google for about six months were you watering standing on the hill i've got the hose between my legs and i'm holding it and i see that street view car coming up the road i reach out and i give him the biggest bird i have and that was on google street for about a half a year wonderful we had one hand bird in the

[Chris Reivers]

other didn't we have we had that printed out rook didn't we in the control room yes for a while yeah

[Kenny Olson]

it was fantastic and i think we

[Chris Reivers]

were told to take it down take

[Joe Soucheray]

it down probably john will cover this in his news but we have had two mass shootings in minneapolis yes sir but no one died no not yet

[John Height]

but although it sounds like nobody will are they related john they aren't saying

[Joe Soucheray]

yet no they haven't was one friday night or were both saturday no that

[John Height]

one was there were two separate nights

[Joe Soucheray]

do you think the heat do you think the heat played a role now we've lucked out usually we anticipate an increase in madness when the heat gets to people but boy it's been hot for a long time and there's been no trouble maybe it's a combination of heat and smoke although the smoke was pretty tolerable yesterday and saturday and after

[Chris Reivers]

the storm blew through she should be

[Joe Soucheray]

okay today hide there was no storm we we had no storm that's not

[Matthew]

what the records say no there was

[Joe Soucheray]

no storm in my house so there

[Matthew]

was no storm you got one dead in frogtown two days ago too such

[Joe Soucheray]

this is terrible this is you know we need we just need more money spent on parks and libraries right these kids don't have an outlet you need diversity programs yeah you just need to get if there was only some some

[Kenny Olson]

games get them early get them early

[Matthew]

i say take them fishing in the

[Joe Soucheray]

meantime saint paul officially announced that there will be no fixing of streetlights so the streets will remain dark and the parks will remain dark which is not a wise thing come on you're making i'm not making it up because the city has a twenty five million dollars deficit because they like every other public entity cannot budget and so there's no money to replace the copper wiring that keeps getting stolen so the street lights that are out are going to remain out which you would think for public safety you would make it a priority to fix the lighting where are they

[Matthew]

spending the money if not on instrument

[Joe Soucheray]

my off the top of my head belief about why cities get in trouble is that they hire way too many people who cannot demonstrate that they've achieved anything on behalf of the taxpayers there are just too damn many employees especially in a city what's saint paul probably not even three hundred thousand people and it's i think mayor herr didn't reduce the size of the incredible cabinet that melvin carter built none of whom were ever held accountable for anything there was never any accounting of what they did there was never any charting or auditing of any proof of what they were contributing to the city it just employs a million people who don't do anything

[Matthew]

do we have any records of where the actual money was spent though i mean what did they buy what did they spend it on salaries that's it

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Matthew]

do impersonations this is new and i'm gonna surprise you with one here and i think given our conversation we just had joe should be able to figure this out what is this

[Joe Soucheray]

a sprinkler

[Matthew]

that's a sprinkler that's the sound of a sprinkler head when it's not working now the sound it makes when minerals in the water rust up it's so bad it won't rotate that's just that's what happened yesterday in the sprinkler head in the orchard i doused it and then soaked it in seafoam deep creep overnight and right now as we do the show monday july twentieth that sprinkler head is doing its job here in the jackass orchard thanks to seafoam deep creep oh and by the way i've been meaning to tell you guys my elderly side by side had been running weird occasionally stumbled i may have mentioned it before the fourth well i gave it a healthy dose of seafoam motor treatment that solved the problem it's been running like a charm ever since and of course the bugs be gone worked its voodoo over the weekend and the windshield and grill of the truck i just it was sitting in the driveway sprayed everything down let it set there for a while and then just washed it off with the hose didn't even touch the windshield didn't touch the grill all of those bugs are gone it's the biggest three from seafoam it's what all of us need seafoam deep creep seafoam motor treatment and seafoam bugs be gone wonderful products in times of sin

[Joe Soucheray]

and strife in a long interview with the new york times published over the weekend zoran mamdani the mayor of new york was asked by journalist lulu garcia dash navarro from diversityville how do you define the working class and i think the context was these are the people that he vows to fight for the working class so she said well how do you define the working class and he really couldn't he said for example i think if you have to work to pay your bills i think that is one definition of being part of the working class well okay most do isn't that why people work i don't care if you make five hundred grand a year or fifty grand a year you have bills to pay that's why you work and then he also struggled there's some word salads here that he was really struggling to come up with an answer when pushed whether he would consider those who make two hundred fifty grand a year as working class he said i haven't asked where it starts and stops well keep in mind now he's never really worked what i would say is those who are working to try and afford the basic dignities of life and aren't able to do so i think that is also working class oftentimes we're asked how we defied the country i think there's only one majority in this country it's the working class let me stop right there and echo something that i've said before it used to be the basic setup of society was right and wrong okay now the basic basic setup of society is equity it's not right and wrong anymore it's haves and have nots it should be right and wrong often we are asked how to he says there's only one majority in the country it's the working class i agree with that but my idea of the working class is different than his confused garcia dash navarro admitted that the mayor's description didn't seem to ring true it just seems a very easy answer to what is a complicated question the reporter fought back basically i'm sorry because politically if you're saying everyone is in the working class or anyone that gets a salary is in the working class yes that opens up your tent but practically speaking we are divided by income no see we're divided by right and wrong the current america is divided by right and wrong it's not divided by income and especially if you want to tax people where you draw those lines mom donnie said he would draw the line at a million dollars a year okay well that's whimsical and arbitrary on his part it makes no sense makes no sense which garcia dash navarro pointed out could alienate potential voters such as a janitor who's lumped in the same working class category as a successful lawyer this feels like a distinction that might matter she told the mayor when i was running a question i would face was what does it mean to be a democratic socialist and i only bring it up because i think sometimes there's a fixation on a definition of something mamdani attempted to explain and what i found is when i would knock on new yorkers doors they would just ask am i part of your vision it's not that everyone is making the same amount of money or facing the same amount of struggle but they just want to know is there any way for them to actually be able to work this hard and afford a good life in the city garcia dash navarro then accused him of deflecting from the question by talking about new yorkers wants in broad strokes look i've defined it to you as someone who works to afford their life he shot back i also think no matter how you define it we have an understanding that those who are struggling to afford their rent struggling to afford their groceries struggling to afford childcare are the people who should be at the heart of our vision for what comes next well that's just boilerplate that's just his boilerplate bs if you get up in the morning and you leave your house by any means of conveyance to go someplace where you do something that results in you getting paid you're in the working class which is why i agree with him that the vast majority of this country is the working class has nothing to do with how much you make it's the euphorians who've long attached a sociological or political aspect to the term working class they intended to mean you don't make enough compared to those liberals who are wealthy enough to pretend they're liberal you just don't make enough so we're gonna call that the working class and there's a stigma attached to that if you're a strong if you're leaning strong from liberal lakes or euphoria it means you're downtrodden you're the working class you're put upon no anyone who gets up in the morning and has a place to go where they have to do something that results in them making a living you're the working class hmm you're working class i'm working class working class what else could it be because if you take the euphorians meaning they always have a figure in mind like madonna mom donnie just said it a million i'll go a million so in momdani's mind once you hit a million you're not working well b as in b s as in s of course you

[Matthew]

are i don't think he has any idea what working class what blue collar what white collar is he doesn't he's never worked do you think he knows that there's some blue collar workers that are making well over what some white collar workers are making of course he does it that would blow his mind

[Joe Soucheray]

right there there's no such thing as the working class we're all if we if you get up in the morning and you either ride your bike your cargo bike or you take a bus or you take an uber or you walk or you take your own car to some other physical location well you can stay at home and work too but generally speaking if you get up in the morning and go someplace to do something that results in you every two weeks getting a paycheck you work

[Matthew]

how about the guy joe that hangs from a cord from a helicopter stringing power lines that guy's got to make over a million a year he's working

[Joe Soucheray]

class is he working class he's working

[Matthew]

he's making over a mill but he's dangling from a helicopter we're all working

[Joe Soucheray]

class but it's the euphorians who have attached to that a meaning of oppression and victimhood they've attached the words working class some idea of misery well they can't have the twelve thousand square foot mansion well they can if they weren't if they did if they figured out a different way to get there but a lot of people are happy with their station in life they make trade offs they don't care about making a great deal of money if their work life has incorporated for them time to go camping or time to work in a wood shop whatever people make trade offs all the time in their life fun hobbies yes and they get by with what they want to get by with so they can focus on the things that interest them more than making money but the euphorians have ruined the term it's the euphorians who and that's why mom donnie struggles to define who the working class is because he can't because he politically can't turn his back on the people who voted for him because they want him to believe they want him to be the champ of the victims we're just the victims of oppressive and they're generally white people oppressive white factory owners and corporate heads and hedge fund managers they're the ones who have made it all miserable for us no no no no that's not the way it works but we've lost sight of right and wrong and we're just now on you know how much versus how much so mom donnie failed miserably to answer that question because he can't he would be and if you ask peggy flanagan that question she couldn't answer it if you ask tim walls that question well they can answer it but they're going to answer it the way their political constituents want them to answer it by the way how could possibly anyone vote for peggy flanagan she's part of i know but she every time i see her ad i think well you're part of the fraud team you were there you knew what was going

[Chris Reivers]

on have you seen the angie craig

[Joe Soucheray]

softball ad that's a doozy yeah she's

[Kenny Olson]

really smacking them out of the park

[Chris Reivers]

huh she's just you know oh baby

[Joe Soucheray]

i've just started

[Chris Reivers]

i love how the ads are just we're trying to cater to the low hanging fruit well no

[Joe Soucheray]

they're all she's playing ball well they're running against both craig and what's her name flanagan flanagan are running against trump that's a good point they're not running

[Matthew]

for but i think their ads are they're generated to for people that don't follow politics at all true yep that's

[Joe Soucheray]

true flanagan will have an ad put out by somebody ripping the hell out of craig for her ties to trump however vague those ties are and then the next ad is craig ripping flanagan for ripping her they're really struggling to see who can go after trump the best this is minnesota trump had nothing to do with fraud in minnesota trump had nothing to do with walls fouling up this state trump has had nothing to do with the high taxes in minnesota trump had nothing to do with this walz administration blowing an eighteen billion dollars surplus nothing to do with it we need people who want to make minnesota work again and that that is not helpful to see two senate candidates arguing about who hates trump the most that doesn't do it for us it doesn't that's not germane to what's happening

[Chris Reivers]

here well if i was running against you that sounds like you're pro trump

[Joe Soucheray]

well i know that's the kind of world we live in that's the game being played that's the game that's being

[Matthew]

played yeah who would win it a

[Joe Soucheray]

fight i i probably wouldn't now better

[Chris Reivers]

question who would you rather have as a three hitter angie craig or peggy flanagan on your softball team i'll take

[Joe Soucheray]

craig okay i'll take craig she can hit that ball unless that was some

[Kenny Olson]

photoshopping oh you think it may have

[Joe Soucheray]

been ai could have been could have been back to mom donnie i don't know where else to take that except the term working class is politicized it's been used for decades now by democrats to suggest that if you're working class you obviously are a victim of something you're a victim of oppression where do you think family leave act came from the whole ideological notion that you're victimized by having to work you shouldn't have to work you should get time off and that should be paid for by these evil oppressors who victimized you the

[Kenny Olson]

nerve of forcing you to work so

[Joe Soucheray]

that started with the clintons the clintons were they wanted some kind of family leave didn't they did they ever win

[Kenny Olson]

that i think that's where it started

[Joe Soucheray]

but but the whole idea is if you work the what the what the liberals want you to believe is if you work you you obviously you toil yeah you toil you toil in a sweatshop if you work well no everyone works in this country who well everyone who works works

[John Height]

excuse me i'm joe

[Chris Reivers]

sushere and i stand behind this message

[Matthew]

so says the mayor of karachi no

[Joe Soucheray]

i'm yogi berra everyone works who works

[Matthew]

what i don't get about new york and mondami there's anti eight point five eight million residents in nyc approximately nine hundred sixty thousand jews how did they let this guy get elected he he says israel is not a place he says it doesn't that's a huge it doesn't exist he hates jews my answer

[Joe Soucheray]

to how he got elected would be the failed academy has done a superb job in corrupting the minds of young people who've done an absolute thorough job just fantastic they've done a thorough job in ideologically corrupting these privileged children that it's a bad country they should resent their privilege they should resent any any goodness and any achievement because that goodness and achievement they're not shared equitably in this country and so that's become a bad thing and mamdani vows to take care of that so the young voters thought he was the answer i'd be

[Matthew]

really surprised if he wins a second

[Joe Soucheray]

term well he's got a lot of time left to do enough damage that it could open the eyes of the people who voted for him well i

[Matthew]

think if they had election tomorrow he'd lose

[Joe Soucheray]

i just don't think and this might be a ray of hope i just don't think he can ruin that city it's too it's too big to

[Matthew]

fail it's too ruined already well that

[Chris Reivers]

too the billionaires have already left no

[Joe Soucheray]

not all of them who's that ken guy ken burns no they've had a

[Matthew]

lot of mayors there in the last fifty years that have done a lot

[Joe Soucheray]

of good well giuliani was a great

[Matthew]

mayor yeah he took all the fun out of new york and really the city really started making money yeah

[Joe Soucheray]

but

[Matthew]

i mean before giuliani it was like taxi driver or drugstore cowboy it was

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Joe Soucheray]

is john height with the garagelogic newscast

[John Height]

thank you very much joe this news is brought to you by north american banking company one sports note and you already talked about it joe the world cup wrapped up yesterday with spain beating

[Joe Soucheray]

argentina one nil and argentina never had

[John Height]

a shot spaniards frustrated star lionel messi for more most of the match winning time of possession sixty five to thirty five percent argentina hedges two shots neither of which was on goal as you

[Joe Soucheray]

talked about joe that was in extra

[John Height]

time spain took twenty shots twelve of those on goal despite the dominance argentina for spain into extra time with a winning shot coming at a minute one hundred six i don't even know what

[Joe Soucheray]

that means i don't either i think that was how much time was left

[Chris Reivers]

riddle me this i don't even know

[Kenny Olson]

that is that an hour and six

[Chris Reivers]

minutes no you mean to tell me you mean you go to overtime in a world cup game yep you score a goal in overtime yep and the game ain't over it's not over huh

[Joe Soucheray]

i thought they'd keep playing until argentina won ah they just couldn't it's a

[Chris Reivers]

funny sport isn't it yeah we did

[John Height]

find out this morning a couple hours ago that spain released their official championship picture and they photoshopped president trump out of it i don't know if you saw the end but he he wouldn't

[Joe Soucheray]

leave the stage no he wouldn't leave he was really enjoying the festivities and he held the trophy and i think he thought he won yeah and spain

[John Height]

photoshopped him i'm gonna take this with me the official picture this morning in news the story you talked about earlier minneapolis police investigating a sunday night shooting and yes i erroneously said nobody was killed one person was killed in the second shooting four others were injured that shooting the steven square neighborhood the second mass shooting in the city over the weekend according to the police department officers responded around eight twenty in the evening after gunfire erupted outside of business near the eighteen hundred block of nicollet avenue police say that four people were taken to the hospital one man later walked into hennepin healthcare with a gunshot wound from the incident one of the victims a twenty eight year old man later died from his injuries a twenty four year old man was hospitalized with life threatening injuries the other three victims are expected to survive no arrests have been made investigators say they are working to try and figure out what led up to the shooting now before this early sunday morning in other words overnight saturday outside a nightclub in the uptown area a large group had gathered outside rain event center at twenty ninth and hennepin avenues when a fight escalated to gunfire just before twelve thirty am injuring several people police found four people wounded at the scene five other victims showed up at the hospitals around minneapolis two victims a twenty year old man and twenty one year old man were treated for life threatening gunshot wounds in an update yesterday afternoon minneapolis police said all victims are expected to survive all the victims seven men and two women were between the ages of eighteen and twenty seven most in their early twenties according to police as of late yesterday no arrests had been made and police said they're investigating whether that was a drive by shooting city of saint paul suspending the repair of hundreds of street lights hit by copper wire theft as the city weighs how to pay for the growing cost in the last two years the city has spent two and a half million bucks fixing damaged lights city officials had hundreds of lights will remain dark while repairs are paused last year alone the city spent one point four million on repairs after previously spending about one hundred grand a year before the city is also dealing with a twenty six million dollars budget deficit in an email the city said we're not budgeted for this type of work and repairs come at the expense of other budgets at the height of the problem the city reported about two thousand outages that number now about nine hundred mostly in regional parks and in more remote areas the city also has a section on its website where you can report a broken

[Joe Soucheray]

light if you find one why right

[Matthew]

what's the point

[John Height]

that website apparently will also let you know if they are fixing it or plan to fix it it sounds like we're put a white

[Kenny Olson]

ribbon around it just to indicate that

[John Height]

it's damaged a minneapolis man charged after he drove at two campground workers in washington county according to court docum according to a criminal complaint fifty three year old michael fritz is facing two counts of second degree assault and one count of fleeing a police officer washington county deputies were called to the st croix bluffs campground last tuesday around one ten in the afternoon in response to a caller who said fritz tried to run him and his wife over workers told deputies they were picking up trash when fritz argued with his girlfriend then yelled at them to stop watching the argument court documents said fritz then got into his car drove through multiple campsites directly at them at one point one of the campground workers said fritz aimed at the car at her husband came within feet of hitting him the campground worker also said she had to run behind a large tree to protect herself deputies spoke with a camper who confirmed fritz drove his car directly at the two campground workers deputies then took fritz into custody fritz is set for an omnibus

[Joe Soucheray]

hearing september good thing ice wasn't there

[Matthew]

where is st croix bluffs regional park you ask and i respond it's just north of hastings on the st croix there you go

[John Height]

last week remember we talked about drone use by law enforcement privacy privacy concerns and all that fun stuff yes in a somewhat related story maybe the star tribune had a report today that every day automatic cameras capture images of passing vehicles amassing data that can reveal the travel histories of minnesotans how law enforcement find them it's highly sensitive data in minnesota law requires it only be shared for criminal investigations but the start tribune investigation found that some law enforcement agencies left the data accessible to a lot of departments that searched it for immigration purposes at the height of last year's federal crackdown twin cities police department said they did not share the data with federal agencies records obtained by the star tribune though show federal agencies had a means of accessing the data the mille lacs county sheriff's office which collaborates with us immigration and customs searched the camera data in at least a half a dozen twin cities suburbs police in north carolina and indiana also searched the cameras and fridley for immigration purposes so did the us postal inspection service and someone in minnesota has won a record lottery prize minnesota lottery says the jackpot winning lotto america ticket from july eighteenth worth thirty four point one two million dollars or fifteen point one five million in cash was purchased in coon rapids that makes it the largest lotto america jackpot ever won in minnesota the winner has one year to claim the prize state officials say another minnesota lottery player won twenty grand in the same drawing and the state also had winners across all of the nine lotto america prize tiers in the same drawing for the first time ever for selling the jackpot winning ticket the holiday store on coon rapids boulevard will get a ten thousand dollars bonus why don't we take a quick break here and hear

[Kenny Olson]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[John Height]

jonny thanks chris in other news the us said sunday it finished an eighth straight night of attacks against iran after earlier announcing at least two us military personnel had been killed in jordan while us allies in the region reported more iranian attacks us military also confirmed a third death in recent days saying a service member was killed saturday in northern iraq where the us milit military bases during detonation of what central command called unexploded ordnance of a downed iranian attack drone the attacks raised the us death toll to at least seventeen service members since the war began in february more than four hundred thirty have been wounded meanwhile in the week leading up to that attack on friday iran carried out three other strikes against us forces in the country according to the new york times those attacks injured dozens of us service members damaged several helicopters according to several us officials the pentagon did not disclose the earlier strikes and critics of the pentagon action say the episode is the latest example during the iran conflict of the tension between what the pentagon says is the need for operational security and the government's obligation to inform the public about the conduct of the war

[Joe Soucheray]

anybody read pat garofalo's piece in the star tribune today i did yes it's a very good piece on how to fix the regulation problems in this state

[John Height]

was very well done in russia and ukraine alternating attacks russia has unleashed one of its largest ballistic missile barrages at kyiv since the start of the war killing at least one person and wounding sixteen others a series of powerful blasts echoed across ukraine's capital city in an attack involving forty one missiles which started fires in several districts according to the air force there shortly after that russia russia was hit by ukraine's biggest attack of the war so far with clips showing four hundred drones attacking vladimir putin's doorstep footage showed huge plumes of smoke rising over the russian capital amid the onslaught us immigration and customs enforcement will require its officers to record vehicle stops with at least one body camera according to tom holman the trump administration's borders are the action comes as the agency is under renewed scrutiny after ice officers fatally shot two men earlier this month month the homan says made the comments on fox and friends weekend program saying the cameras exonerate more law enforcement than they convict president trump said yesterday the boeing luxury jet donated by qatar that he recently took overseas would soon be in his words maxed out suggesting it could get additional defense capabilities the president commented after returning to washington from new jersey aboard the jet a boat boeing seven hundred and forty seven eight hundred that was given as a gift and which the president says he plans to take with him for his presidential library when he leaves office a reporter traveling with a small group of reporters in the presidential motorcade pointed to the fuselage and said mister president this plane does not have anti missile defense systems why are you flying on it the president replied well it has a lot and you know it has a lot of capability but as i understand it month but as a month or so we're going to send it to have it

[Chris Reivers]

maxed out joe if you were in the shoes of the president how would you try to get away with the forty eight hour rule with a gifted seven hundred forty seven where do you

[Joe Soucheray]

where do you store i would have started by not accepting it oh okay

[Kenny Olson]

so i would be too hard to

[Chris Reivers]

hide right that's been there forever i

[Kenny Olson]

don't even remember when that thing got

[John Height]

here president trump's social media company causing some consternation at the moment among traders they are discussing charging wall street traders and investment firms as much as one hundred thousand dollars a month for faster access to the president's posts on his truth social platform oh boy oh my it just never ends trump media and technology group which owns truth social has in recent weeks also pitched a discounted plan of sixty thousand dollars per month if the firm sign up for a three year deal tmtg trump media and technology group unveiled a paid for licensed data feed called truth api to provide banks and trading firms the fastest access to posts from the ten most influential truth social accounts but didn't give any pricing details the move would be the company's first step into data licensing opening up a new revenue stream trump's social media posts often move markets and the profits of many top trading firms hedge fund funds and financial service firms depend heavily on the speed at which they can execute trades as an example april ninth this year wall street's main indexes turned sharply higher after the president said in a truth social post he would pause many of his new tariffs for

[Joe Soucheray]

ninety days i think it's entirely ethical that the president would sell early joe early look at his post it's his

[Matthew]

own version of what we call the

[Joe Soucheray]

council yeah yeah exactly exactly you pay extra you can hear me early hey

[Matthew]

maybe he'll get a two hundred fifty dollars check every four months you get

[Joe Soucheray]

that much clark influence myself up

[Josh Arnold]

that

[John Height]

was kenny yeah influencer andrew tate and his brother tristan were arrested saturday night as british authorities announced thirty eight new charges and efforts to extradite them the alleged crimes date from twenty ten to twenty seventeen and cover rape and sex trafficking charges as well as crimes related to child sexual abuse images the uk says four victims are tied to the latest allegations separate from twenty one charges filed against the brothers last year for crimes linked to three other unnamed victims the dual us british citizens separately faced sexual exploitation charges in romania where they lived from twenty sixteen to twenty although that case is stalled andrew tate was a kickboxing champion who amassed a broad audience in twenty sixteen as a contestant on the uk's big brother tate has since gained more than ten million followers on x as what he calls himself a self styled misogynist and it's been roughly eight months since the us minted its last penny even longer since the shortage left businesses struggling to make exact changes to cash paying customers now a bill passed by the house earlier this month could help to relieve some of this confusion it's called the common sense act that's c e n t s the common sense act formally ends the production of the penny which the us has already stopped minting and addresses how retailers should give you change when they don't have any pennies in the till retailers large and small have been notifying customers that exact change is unlikely if paying with cash but how they pass along what you're owed has varied some offer gift cards and freebies for example others have been rounding change or transaction totals that however can lead to legal challenges there are several states and localities in the us that have laws that prohibit businesses from rounding cash transactions up or down part of the problem according to dylan giant the national retail federation senior director of government relations relates to laws that say those paying with a different form of tender can't be charged differently than customers who pay with cash that's not a problem luckily here in minnesota we i don't know where you guys go but everybody rounds up up

[Joe Soucheray]

here i've had no problem with it

[Matthew]

whatsoever leave it to the lawyers to find a problem where one doesn't exist

[Joe Soucheray]

if i don't get back two pennies i am very comfortable about that well

[Matthew]

i'm gonna sue yeah well just think

[John Height]

at some point apparently governments actually passed laws yeah that concerned one or two cents as changed what about wheat pennies

[Joe Soucheray]

well i'm banking on those becoming very valuable i have a store of them

[John Height]

by the way pennies will remain legal tender under this bill if it passes it's estimated that more than three hundred billion pennies are still out there i

[Joe Soucheray]

love a good penny penny the common

[John Height]

sense act still needs to pass through the senate be signed into law before it can take effect its future in the next chamber is unclear john you

[Chris Reivers]

have a relative that works in retail i know not on the front side of things or whatever you would call that the front line but have you guys noticed that certain spots if you pay in cash they round it up to the next five cents have you

[Joe Soucheray]

guys noticed that recently if that's happened to me i have not noticed so

[Chris Reivers]

if you pay cash with your check card or whatever it stays safe never

[Joe Soucheray]

would do that i'm not a comic

[Chris Reivers]

this is why i'm bringing it up because you're one of the very few people i know that only pays in

[Joe Soucheray]

cash that's all i do okay so

[Chris Reivers]

you haven't noticed that at all i

[Joe Soucheray]

haven't okay so what's the most i can be deprived of well what i'm

[Chris Reivers]

saying is let's say you bought twenty bucks in gas and a snicker bar and a can of coke and it came to twenty dollars or twenty three dollars thirty two cents okay if you were to present cash they some some places rounded up to twenty three point

[Joe Soucheray]

three five that's okay with me and

[John Height]

others go to twenty three thirty though too true yeah it all works out

[Matthew]

any longer it's time to call you out and your bs me yeah you why there is no way you only pay in cash no way yeah you know what do you do when you're on the road and you pull over and matt madison and you dump in sixty dollars thirty two cents a gas do you walk in there first yeah and lay down eighty dollars yes no you don't yes no absolutely you don't what about hotel rooms credit card i got you on one one out of

[John Height]

two but but you do not have a debit card correct i do not

[Matthew]

yeah see so i don't i don't believe you like you say when i tell you fantastic stories of my wayward youth you say i don't believe you

[Joe Soucheray]

i'm sorry i don't sorry i'm sorry that you don't believe me but that's i'm telling you the truth this is

[Matthew]

a very ungratifying fight i was hoping

[Chris Reivers]

for more matthew when the mayor's on the road you think there's any other adventures like adventure stops when he's traveling

[Joe Soucheray]

to and fro i travel like anybody

[Josh Arnold]

else

[Kenny Olson]

really yeah he does like to monitor the radio he does he likes to listen to what what else is

[Chris Reivers]

on small town radio is one of the best things about well and it

[Kenny Olson]

was a lot the trip to sometimes

[Joe Soucheray]

you get an auction the trip to

[Kenny Olson]

cooperstown was quite fun from albany to cooperstown it was you know he likes that's where that we got the hamburger

[Matthew]

line i still think that the staff should do a gl trip route sixty six i'm all in van life i noticed on my my life latest trip into the mountains van life very very popular i think the five of us should get in a van oh jesus

[Chris Reivers]

and just head out we would kill

[Joe Soucheray]

each other we should do it penny

[Matthew]

style where you make no reservations beforehand you don't even know where you're going you just go you know what i

[John Height]

do with that whole trip ninety nine

[Joe Soucheray]

bottles of beer on the wall as

[Matthew]

a matter of fact we definitely need to improve gabe include gabe on this

[Joe Soucheray]

trip yeah but he's serious about it he's a road trip master johnny thank you you're welcome say america is celebrating for the year its two hundred fiftieth birthday the signing of the declaration of independence join the american experiment for a two hundred fiftieth block party this coming saturday noon to two on the steps of the state capitol capitol it's going to be american experiment is proud to lead our state's year long celebration of the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence live music food trucks free ice cream face painting patriotic speeches and more i don't think tim walls will be there but the minnesotans can turn out it's noon to two the center of the american experiment doesn't drag you out there all day long noon to two this saturday on the steps at the state capitol if you have questions or for more information see the events page at americanexperiment dot org comma a site you should be checking frequently is wonderful americanexperiment dot org

[Kenny Olson]

reference yourself

[Joe Soucheray]

here's a man who spends hours in hardware stores sifting through the nuts and bolts of life joe sugir i bring this up because i'm curious denmark is going to ban burkas in schools and universities wow as a part of a plan to tackle what it calls parallel societies now that's the burka is worn by some muslim women right i said right oh i know

[Chris Reivers]

right right i got it do it

[Joe Soucheray]

what's the rule here i think the kids or women wear burkas here in school don't they yes they have a ban on full face coverings in denmark prime minister met fredrickson's move to expand the burka band of schools and universities critics have argued that the use of the face coverings are not widespread in classrooms rooms the government's latest move was revealed by the center right newspaper berlinski citing a statement from the danish immigration society i don't know if that could be done here and should it be in addition to introducing the famous burqa ban new rules came in compelling all newcomers and their children to learn danish or lose asylum seeker benefits it sounds like denmark is trying to stem the tide after the flood has already occurred does that make sense immigrants were also moved around the country to stop a parallel foreign society growing up under so called ghetto law denmark's border force also has powers to confiscate such items as jewelry and watches from incoming migrants to help fund the cost of their state why don't they do it the way we do it just let them commit

[Kenny Olson]

fraud yeah here you go here's millions

[Joe Soucheray]

migrants who tire of denmark and return home voluntarily are giving a four thousand five hundred dollars sweetener to leave so denmark's really wrestling with this aren't they

[Matthew]

well they learned their lesson years and years ago i think this is new to combat a current existing problem last

[Joe Soucheray]

month the government also announced plans to ban the call to prayer in denmark as ministers complained that parts of their country felt like a suburb of islamabad i don't know what's happening well i do know what's happening in europe they haven't done anything and now denmark if denmark has led the way they're still piling on these various rules for immigrants in order to preserve danish society and i don't know that they'll be successful

[Matthew]

or not a lot of danes are saying it's too late or it's about

[Joe Soucheray]

time and in the story which was in the daily mail of course so it must all be true there's a poll do you support denmark's plan to ban burkas in schools and universities yes it should be bad no people should be free to wear it c only in schools not universities what's d i'm undecided oh no opinion dang it i have no opinion i would be i would for the sake of harmony i would ban

[Kenny Olson]

yeah that's the common sense thing to do tough beans mean you're

[Joe Soucheray]

here let's go here now but does that violate a religious tenet religious discrimination

[Matthew]

i suppose it would operate under the same rules and laws we do but

[Joe Soucheray]

the problem is with islam islam is everything it's the government it's the religion it's the banking it's everything but that isn't the way we work here we have separation of those things we don't work that way here that's what i'm

[Chris Reivers]

saying that's right matt i heard that

[Joe Soucheray]

one yeah well i don't know what the response will be to that from dead mark now that our flag fellow is back from his wilderness excursion i have new flags to add to the

[Chris Reivers]

crawl did you have to use a mask on your wilderness excursion

[Joe Soucheray]

gabe's not answering oh i didn't know it was a real answer no masks were needed i just toughed through it that was like breathing burning tires a lot of

[Matthew]

soot you were way up there i

[Joe Soucheray]

was i was about four hours away wow so the smoke there had to be worse than here it was pretty pretty deep it was around i would say less than a mile i could see when i was driving down here on wednesday for crabby wow from thomas hughes staying at breezy point happy to see the real minnesota flag flying proud i'm from bryceland minnesota and proud to say the same at our county seat seat blue earth all right clayton morrow this is to let you know that pillager minnesota has voted to fly the true old minnesota flag i don't think pillagers on the on the crawl and stephen c writes the veterans memorial in north saint paul hall proudly flies the true minnesota flag the veterans memorial all

[Chris Reivers]

right and gabe i know you didn't hear this but shieldsville minnesota also flying the original minnesota flag at the veterans

[Matthew]

memorial site pull ashby off there they don't have a flag up yeah we

[Joe Soucheray]

gotta get rid of ashby's although residents of ashby are flagging i got news from a fellow who was in town over the weekend stayed at the lowell inn and still water they're flying the true flag does that count the steamships or the paddle wheelers out on the st croix were flying the true flag

[Matthew]

wait a minute what royce calls the wheel the wheel boats

[Joe Soucheray]

only because they come to us all the way from marleth park and south africa from the traveling lymans whose exploits can be followed at worldwide waftage dot com we had a very active day today today on this day in minnesota history you're talking about july twentieth well on this day in eighteen thirty seven hole in the day the younger and somebody else named flatmouth yeah flatmouth lawrence taliaferro and henry h sibley

[Kenny Olson]

what'd they do what now

[Joe Soucheray]

what is this wisconsin governor henry dodge and others met at fort snelling to negotiate the sale of ojibwe lands east of the mississippi about fourteen hundred ojibwe camped near the fort during negotiations in the treaty signed on july twenty ninth the ojibwe agreed to sell the land of the federal government for two hundred fifteen grand the treaty marked the first opening of minnesota land to settlers and retained the rights of the ojibwe to hunt fish and gather foods in the seeded lands the fishing claw led to a lengthy legal dispute in the nineteen nineties yes it did

[Kenny Olson]

this man took

[Joe Soucheray]

advantage july twentieth in eighteen fifty eight polk county was established and named for james k polk who was president when congress authorized creation of the minnesota territory on this day july twentieth in nineteen oh six the western federation of miners called a strike on the mesabi iron range two hundred union men had been laid off from mountain iron mine owned by the oliver iron mining company a subsidiary of us steel although layoffs on the range were common at issue was recognition of the union which was threatened by the discharge of only union workers within two months a large number of imported scabs undermined the union's efforts and the strike was broken on this day july twentieth on this day in nineteen thirty four two people were killed and sixty seven injured in a clash between strikers and police during a truckers strike in minneapolis after federal mediation failed governor floyd b olson declared the city under martial law and the national guard took control of the streets that was a very famous time in minneapolis history on this day july twentieth joe minneapolis on this day in nineteen forty minneapolis held its first aquatennial a festival celebrating summer i think it's underway as we speak you wouldn't know it though now i think she's been dialed down a bit yeah i'll see used to be a

[Kenny Olson]

big deal i'd say the winter carnival gets more pub than the aquatennial yeah

[Joe Soucheray]

and that's been dialed back a bit yeah it has on this day joe today is july twentieth in two thousand seven the center for hmong arts and talent hosted its first fresh traditions fashion show which highlighted the work of hmong designers on this day in sports disappointment

[Chris Reivers]

history who'd we lose to on july

[Joe Soucheray]

twentieth well i can tell you you that on this day in two thousand nine the twins blew a ten run lead to the a's and lost fourteen to thirteen which we think meaning the the people behind minnesota sports disappointment history which we think is the twins biggest blown lead of all time a ten run lead and lost to the a's now the twins didn't do very well yesterday no they never got a lead and lost ten to one right but they won friday yes sir and then lost two straight to the cubs correct that's right well g ellers thank you thank you so much and please do

[Chris Reivers]

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[Josh Arnold]

it

[Chris Reivers]

is time once again that we check in with our guy mister 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 in pick up that phone and dial nine five nine five two nine two five five six zero eight that number once again is nine five two nine two five five six zero eight when you call that number you're going to get josh and he is there for you for that free yes i use the word free forty eight 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 josh a question for you because have had conversations over the years and i've always wondered what would you give advice to whether it's a first time investor a long term investor what are some of the general principles that you try to apply in terms of investing the easiest

[Josh Arnold]

answer chris growth will out growth will out invest for growth most people would say josh if you buy growth aren't you paying up growing companies well you might be be and then again you might not be because the next question is well isn't buying value oriented companies companies with the lowest price to earnings multiples the lowest price to sales multiple isn't that better strategy than going just for growth well the idea is that growth will out and that has been proven to not me improvement to other investors time and time again over long periods of time growth will out now there are a lot of companies that will say in their infancy or when they're there's just an idea out there that those companies that are involved in the fastest growing industry and there become more and more of them tend to skyrocket very quickly in value and then it is found over a period of time that they're not earning money that their sales aren't growing their sales aren't growing something has stalled out and these stocks which have been we'll say rocket ships crater and fall to earth and the winners sometimes out of that group are those that have had the staying power and really do have have growth do have an idea do have products or services that are in demand and they start eventually moving ahead there of course are those companies that are very steady growers that have again products and services that people want people need at some point yes these companies do have a mature industry or mature in terms of their growth and the growth slows these companies then pay out dividends at a higher rate or end up buying back shares another form of paying investors for them if i look at an old and i say an old growth company like coca cola which i have talked about for many years a very slow old growth company it doesn't grow at ten or twelve or twenty percent but it's a very steady mid single digits grower and they do grow their dividend every every year and they do buy back some shares and they have a product or actually several products that people can't be without water for one a and say milk juice coffee tea coca cola as an example sells over two hundred products in over two hundred countries around around the world very very steady company is it going to go to the moon no is it going to provide a level of safety oh yes and it's going to provide a very nice dividend yield that's going to grow over time say one of the best investors long term warren buffett has included coca cola in his portfolio berkshire hathaway for decades at the price that he originally bought bought it and added to the shares yes have gone up but what has increased even more is the dividend dividend the dividends that are paid out and the dividends that are paid out relative to his cost basis give berkshire hathaway and warren buffett a dividend yield we'll say in excess of fifteen percent but again that's over a long period of time and coke is just an old staid company on the other hand a company that started growing fast faded came up with new products saw the growth accelerate and then would fade then come back with newer products and now just is i'll say is one of the largest companies in the world and they provide a product and service that people really can't be without that is apple apple now has two point four billion ios users and at least one and a half billion iphone users and if i look that most people are going to be replacing their phone every four to five years and when they replace the phone they're going to need more memory need more storage and they'll probably get more services from from apple is no longer growing at twenty or twenty five percent growing at a single digit rate but apple does buy back shares and does increase their dividend as a product or service that people can count on and generates tremendous amount of cash flow i'll say so much cash flow and so much cash that that countries in which apple operates the governments all want a piece of apple's apple's business and they attempt to go after apple as a monopoly that said apple is a very very steady growth company and even with all the fluctuations and worries that say analysts have over the next iteration of the iphone this company could well continue to perform on a very very long long term basis that's an example both coke and apple are examples of first faster growing companies and then companies that become steady growers and those are types of companies that for a longer term investment investors you should look look at growth will out that is i'll say the biggest bit of advice chris that i could give any any investor the other piece is always keep cash available because inevitably in any given year a market is going to pull back five to ten percent three to four times during the course of the year and having cash available to add to positions is is beneficial now in putting together any portfolios you know for myself or my clients and my money is in the exact same spots that my clients money is in i'll say we go in together and out together on new purchases my focus always has been companies around the internet companies involved in leisure china related businesses without necessarily being in china because that's still faster growing part of the world real assets such as real estate and to keep a portion of money available for short term trading or for opportunities and by we'll say concentrating in the portfolio concentrate our focus in the portfolio portfolios in those areas i have found better opportunities for growth than in other sectors of the marketplace and that's

[Chris Reivers]

why we come to you for the straight talk and never ever sugarcoat advice mister moneytalk you heard him g ers now is the time for you to pick up the phone and make the call for that free forty eight minute financial consultation again with zero obligation and you do that just like i did by dialing nine five nine hundred and twenty five five thousand six hundred and eight where you always get straight talk and never ever sugarcoated advice josh once again thank you so much for the time and the chat enjoy the rest of your day we'll talk to you

[Josh Arnold]

again tomorrow thank you very much chris

[Chris Reivers]

investment services offered by josh arnold investment consultant llc a security investment advisor past performance is no guarantee of future results all investments involve risk all comments and opinions are josh arnold's and do not

[Joe Soucheray]

constitute investment advice chris reivers is a paid endorser