8/10 Warring Somali Gangs Banned from Minnesota State Fair + Scooter Madness Hits the Twin Cities + Bison Schools a Tourist in Poland’s Famous Forest

Summary

Garage Logic – August 10, 2026 Episode Title: Warring Somali Gangs Banned from Minnesota State Fair + Scooter Madness Hits the Twin Cities + Bison Schools a Tourist in Poland’s Famous Forest
Host: Joe Soucheray ("The Mayor")
Panelists: Chris Reavers, Kenny Olson, John Haidt, Josh Arnold, Rookie

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Episode Overview

This episode rolls through the big stories of the week in true Garage Logic fashion—equal parts skepticism, amusement, and a tinge of nostalgia for the lost America of two-car garages and car pride. Major topics include the unprecedented banning of Somali gangs from the Minnesota State Fair, the “Scooter Madness” that flooded Minneapolis, and a wild encounter between a bison and a tourist in Poland’s famed forest. There’s plenty of banter, social commentary, and classic Joe Soucheray weather rants.

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Key Segment Summaries & Discussion Points

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1. Scooter Madness and Changing Youth Culture

[03:14] - [16:22]

The Tale of the Scooter Takeover

• Joe recounts a recent event where up to 1,000 people (mostly youth) on electric scooters, bikes, and mini-vehicles swarmed downtown Minneapolis—and even tried accessing the freeway.
• Joe is critical the moment scooters attempted to join freeway traffic:

  "If you go on the freeway, you're a complete moron.” — Joe Soucheray [06:02]

• Speculation on how scooter companies could, and should, implement geofencing to prevent such dangerous incidents:

  “If I owned the Lime Company… I would program those scooters so they can't go on a freeway." — Joe Soucheray [04:37]

• Kenny Olson jokes about the excitement and thrill but acknowledges the risk factor, reminiscing about his own daredevil past.

Generational Context & Cultural Shift

• Panel compares the “scooter madness” to mid-20th-century car cruising scenes (Lake Street, University Ave)—with a lament that pride in car ownership has faded:

  “Now we are getting deep… We’ve gone from the celebration of really neat cars to morons on rented scooters.” — Joe Soucheray [13:35]

• Kenny chimes in about spending hours prepping his car for Saturday cruises:

  “I always made sure I was done with whatever I had to do by 3pm so I could devote two hours… to get it ready.” — Kenny Olson [14:43]

• Joe argues today’s youth don’t care about the “tool” (the vehicle), only the togetherness:

  “What the kids of today do is they get on a piece of… scooter that they don't own, don't care about, have no intention of being proud of it, but it's their means to socialize.” — Joe Soucheray [16:02]

• No strong condemnation of the event—just a resigned acknowledgment of changing times.

Notable Quotes:

• “All that tells me is that young people are idiots.” — Joe Soucheray [05:06]
• “It was American Graffiti every weekend. Exactly. Exactly what that was.” — Joe Soucheray [12:10]
• “Case closed. Now let’s turn to the Farmer’s Almanac.” — Joe Soucheray [16:22]

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2. Minnesota State Fair: Somali Gangs Banned

[26:40] - [36:40]

Safety at the State Fair

• Breaking news: The State Fair issues an injunction banning members of two rival Somali gangs, "the Muddy" and "the Ville,” from the fairgrounds after threats of a confrontation.

  “Now we have a development where two specific gangs of ruffians are prohibited from entering the fairgrounds during the fair.” — Joe Soucheray [26:40]

• Panel expresses concern over how authorities will identify and exclude gang members—chuckling darkly about the likelihood of accusations of racial profiling.

  “Aside from profiling every Somali teen that comes in, which would be untoward… but they probably have a pretty good idea what Somali Jim looks like. And he's one of the Muddies.” — John Haidt [27:31]

• Joe is clear: The authorities are right to draw the line—public safety trumps concerns about appearances or precedents:

  “There are criminal gangs that constitute a public nuisance… You ain’t coming in here, you screwballs… Go find a cornfield somewhere, get the hell out of here.” — Joe Soucheray [30:43]

The Loss of Innocence

• Sorrow over the State Fair’s change from a safe, inclusive Minnesota "sanctuary" to a place needing gang injunctions.

  “Isn’t it sad that the fair has been sullied to the point where… they’ve reached the point where they have to take this step?” — Joe Soucheray [32:40]

• Kenny cracks, “The fair is a DMZ!” [33:19]
• The gang list includes 10 specific individuals—separating ringleaders in hopes others won’t risk attending.

Memorable Moments:

• The team jokes about having a gang fight grandstand event:

  “What about an area where you could watch the fight?” — Joe Soucheray [31:19]

• Playful riffing on Somali “gang nicknames” and a “Somali gang gate” draws laughs.

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3. Bison vs. Tourist: Lessons in Human-Nature Relations

[62:25] - [72:50]

• In Poland’s Białowieża Forest, a tourist was knocked down repeatedly by a bison after getting too close. The incident sparks a comedic retelling and deeper reflection.

  “Every time this Polish fellow tried to stand up, the bison knocked him back down.” — Joe Soucheray [63:16]

• Nature photographer Greg(ory) Ryan films the scene and heroically uses his car to shield the tourist.
• The group plays with Polish stereotype humor, poking fun at their own Midwestern and ethnic backgrounds.
• Message: Don’t blame the animals—blame the ill-informed tourists.

  “We shouldn’t blame the bison. And this fellow is quite lucky because this bison was very calm.” — Joe Soucheray [67:47]

• Colorful imagining of a Polish park ranger’s attire and lunch routine provides comic relief (binoculars, vest, felt hat, pierogi lunch) [70:35+]

Notable Quote:

• “It's every one of my nightmares—I'm being chased by something and I can't even get off the ground to run away.” — Kenny Olson [67:12]

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4. Other Topical Banter and News Bites

Weather Predictions & Farmer’s Almanac

[16:22] - [20:26]

• Joe and crew poke fun at the Farmer’s Almanac’s vague winter forecast.

  “I could have written this without you…This is a bunch of BS because you could write this for every single year.” — Joe Soucheray [18:29]

Local and National News Updates

[41:08] - [55:38]

• Minnesota primaries, a police shooting in St. Paul, “Flock” license plate cameras discontinued after privacy complaints.
• A man convicted for threatening judges is discussed, with tangents on “starter crimes” (Joe: “He just went right to the top.” [46:56])
• A recurring motif: skepticism about modern reporting quality and curiosity [59:52–78:01].

Miscellaneous Human Follies

[56:21] - [59:30]

• Lament over a Canadian flight delayed by a child refusing to buckle up, and a funeral home’s hearse vandalized in Florida.
• Upon learning the parents told airline staff "it was his individual right to not wear a seatbelt," Joe calls them “idiots” and demands a travel ban for such parents [76:56–77:03].

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5. Notable Quotes & Banter

• “All that tells me is that young people are idiots.” — Joe Soucheray [05:06]
• “Now we are getting deep… We’ve gone from the celebration of really neat cars to morons on rented scooters.” — Joe Soucheray [13:35]
• “Case closed. Now let’s turn to the Farmer’s Almanac.” — Joe Soucheray [16:22]
• “Aside from profiling every Somali teen that comes in… but they probably have a pretty good idea what Somali Jim looks like. And he's one of the Muddies.” — John Haidt [27:31]
• “The fair is a DMZ!” — Kenny Olson [33:19]
• “We shouldn’t blame the bison. And this fellow is quite lucky because this particular bison was very calm.” — Joe Soucheray [67:47]
• On the airplane incident:

  “That’s what I feared we would learn. The parents were idiots.” — Joe Soucheray [76:56]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [03:14] – Scooter Takeover in Minneapolis: Overview and Debate
• [10:09] – Cultural Shift: From Classic Cars to Scooters
• [13:10] – Cruising Nostalgia & "American Graffiti"
• [16:22] – The Farmer’s Almanac: Weather Rants
• [26:40] – State Fair Somali Gangs Ban: Details & Reaction
• [33:03] – The Fading Innocence of State Fairs
• [41:08] – Minnesota News: Primaries, Police Incidents, and Flock Cameras
• [56:21] – Airplane Delays Over Misbehaving Child; Parental Failings
• [62:25] – Bison Versus Tourist: The Polish Forest Incident

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Episode Takeaways

• Garage Logic juxtaposes concern and affection for community staples (the State Fair, car culture) with a skeptical eye toward today’s social trends and policy responses—never without humor or a good rib.
• The crew sticks to their blue-collar, common-sense ethos: personal responsibility, skepticism toward bureaucratic solutions, and a firm belief in the value of tradition.
• Above all, listeners are invited to reflect (and laugh) on how American and Minnesota life shifts—whether it’s scooters replacing classic cars, or Somalian gangs ending up on the State Fair’s blacklist.

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Listen if you want…

• Insight and laughs on current local controversies
• Commentary on generational change from Avocado Toast to burnt rubber
• Colorful, affectionate satire on all things Minnesota—plus a little Poland

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GLers, until next time: Believe in common sense, mind the scooters, and stay out of the bison’s way!

Transcript

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[Chris Reavers]

Hail the Flashlight King

[Joe Sucere]

and now from the Mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Logic with Chris Reavers manning Technology corner, Kenny Olson from the crabby coffee shop, John Height in the newsroom and of course the rookie. Here is your Flashlight King Fireworks Commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Susherer. Stacy, the GL geologist. I'm sure John has this in his news. Very large earthquake in Columbia 7.4 and Stacy believes there will be considerable damage. That's a big earthquake, even if you have building codes. So that's a rough one. 7.4 is a big one. I've seen some of the video already.

[John Haidt]

I saw the video of the operating room in Japan where it was a major earthquake during the middle of an operation.

[Joe Sucere]

And they had tough.

[John Haidt]

If you were the patient, take cover. Everything worked out all right, but things were flying all over the room. It was spooky.

[Joe Sucere]

We. We, meaning the Twin Cities, experienced what was called a scooter takeover. I think it was Saturday night, right?

[News Reporter]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Yep.

[Joe Sucere]

And the news covered this extensively on TV last night, and boy, there were about 500 people on scooters. Well, okay. But then they tried to get on the freeway and they did. That's where I drew the line.

[John Haidt]

Okay. You. You would have done what at that point? Where do you draw? What do you mean, draw?

[Joe Sucere]

I would have tried to make a move and get away from the whole scene as soon as possible. That's.

[Kenny Olson]

That's a sense that a person has to hone over many years. And I commend you. Where you're all having the time of your life, and then it occurs to you, we might end up ending a life or might end up getting maced, and I'm just gonna back away, I'm leaving and ease out the door.

[John Haidt]

What about potholes? Or. I mean, if you're on a road. Those are. Those are small wheels.

[Joe Sucere]

But generally you can program a golf cart to stop without you wanting it to. To prevent it from going into a protected area where there's new plantings or

[John Haidt]

something and there are many kinds of golf course.

[Joe Sucere]

Can't you program a scooter to not go on the freeway? I would. That's what I would do if I owned the Lime Company. To avoid the 72,000 lawsuits that await them, I would program those scooters so they can't go on a freeway.

[John Haidt]

In theory, it sounds good, but I bet the technical.

[Joe Sucere]

No, I think it's called geocaching. Caching, whatever.

[Kenny Olson]

I thought that was hiding stuff so other people could find it out in the woods.

[Joe Sucere]

I. I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

Take pictures of them.

[Joe Sucere]

They're gonna. But you can't. You can't do this. You can't take. All that tells me is that young people are idiots.

[John Haidt]

Okay.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, okay.

[John Haidt]

Like limb there.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

We are gonna fight then.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Are you have a different opinion? No.

[Kenny Olson]

Are you telling me if you were sitting at home and you heard about this, A friend called and said, hey, get on your scooter and let's just Say it was your motorized scooter because they were running. They were running little mini bikes and go karts and everything. Bicycles, Everything imaginable. And said, get down here. We're having the time of our lives. We're riding around downtown Minneapolis or wherever the hell they were. You wouldn't go.

[Joe Sucere]

No, you. You completely misheard me.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, yeah. You're talking about the freeway.

[Joe Sucere]

I. I'm just. I just drew the line at the freeway. I don't give a damn. If you want to go downtown, say, Minneapolis on Saturday night at midnight and drive a scooter around.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, I would so be there for that.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't care. But if you go on the freeway, you're a complete moron. Yeah, well, there's no. Yeah, no, there is. They're more.

[John Haidt]

Timmy's kind of hemming and hawing, isn't he?

[Kenny Olson]

You get some swept up in the moment. It's like a spur of the moment wet T shirt contest.

[Joe Sucere]

And then you're gonna get hit by a drunk driver, and you'll be the size of about a 50 cent piece.

[Kenny Olson]

So there is that.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

So somebody might end up sacrificing themselves for the good of the crowd.

[John Haidt]

I'm thinking, if I had a dime.

[Joe Sucere]

Makes great video.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. Like a lot of.

[John Haidt]

I know what Kenny's saying. If you're young, it sounds fun because you think you're indestructible.

[Kenny Olson]

No. 60. How old am I? I'm over 60. I know that.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

I totally do that. At my age.

[John Haidt]

It's an unnecessary risk. At your age.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I. I don't take enough risks anymore. I would absolutely do it.

[John Haidt]

All right. Okay.

[Joe Sucere]

A guy named Johan. A guy named Johan Vargas is the guy who. I guess he posted videos to. To the various socials and said, come on down here. We're gonna take off on our scooters. And he. I think he was shocked at the number of people who showed up. He didn't expect that many. He was thinking maybe 200.

[Kenny Olson]

He got lumberjacked, didn't he?

[Joe Sucere]

There might be.

[John Haidt]

Right.

[Joe Sucere]

The estimate goes all the way up to a thousand, and I would not doubt that. No, I saw the video of it, and it was. It was complete scooter madness.

[John Haidt]

Did you.

[Joe Sucere]

Scooter madness.

[Kenny Olson]

I like that. Did you read any of the commentary on social?

[Joe Sucere]

No.

[Kenny Olson]

Social. Oh, it's fun. Including some friends of ours.

[John Haidt]

In favor or not in favor?

[Kenny Olson]

Vic, our listener, Gl or Vic, was outraged by this on Twitter. I thought that was hysterical.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, if you limited yourself to Downtown Minneapolis at 11 o' clock at night on a Saturday. You're not really disturbing anything.

[Kenny Olson]

No, you're just adding to the fun.

[Joe Sucere]

You're just screwing around.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, if you limit yourself to. What time is it? 9:30am Downtown St. Paul. You're not going to hit anybody. Nor are you going to see anybody in the morning.

[Kenny Olson]

Could you do it noon on Saturday?

[John Haidt]

Noon Saturday or Sunday.

[Joe Sucere]

You could do it at noon today.

[News Reporter]

Well, that's.

[John Haidt]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay. That's a good question, a good comment. Joe, what if we held our own GL Scooter takeover? How many GL ers would show up?

[Joe Sucere]

Three.

[Kenny Olson]

It'd be Gabe and two of his buddies. I know none of us.

[Joe Sucere]

We're not gonna call like one of our remotes.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[News Reporter]

Oh.

[John Haidt]

Ouch.

[Joe Sucere]

Whoops.

[News Reporter]

Yikes.

[Joe Sucere]

This the founder. The promoter said Saturday night a lot of people like to go out and club and party, but why not ride scooters in the city with all your friends? It's free. Besides paying for the scooter all ages. There was a 50 year old lady. He saw a 50 year old lady. That's not that old, pal. You know, don't worry.

[John Haidt]

He's the new 30 year old.

[Kenny Olson]

He'll realize that someday.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, well, he's only 20, so.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. Well.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, there you have it. I guess we survived it. Of all the things that have plagued us in the Twin Cities, I don't think a scooter. Scooter madness is not really going to rank really high on the list, is it?

[John Haidt]

Right next to Reefer madness.

[Kenny Olson]

Is this just an introductory drug though? Is this going to lead to scooter violence?

[Joe Sucere]

What? Okay, now I got to get. I got to get serious. Reflected in this is the utter disinterest young people have with motoring because this was just chaos. It was fun. It was fun.

[John Haidt]

It plays into your theory about cars and motor.

[Joe Sucere]

I'm sure they had fun. It would be fun because they probably weren't even endangered by any car traffic in downtown Minneapolis. All right. But they're zipping around. They have no clue what they're doing. They have so. The failed academy has so thoroughly disabused them of the internal combustion engine that they think this. Hey, scooter.

[John Haidt]

Pretty wimpy on the grant. In the grand scheme of things, it's pretty wimpy, isn't it?

[Joe Sucere]

We got a scooter party.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, okay, wait a minute. Are you saying they should have been in GTOs and Camaros?

[Joe Sucere]

Exactly.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, all right. I don't disagree.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay. Showing your age. It was very routine. 60 years ago. What year would that have been? 66?

[Kenny Olson]

19.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, yeah, 66 cars. Good neat cars routinely circled through downtown on Saturday nights. Cruising, cruised through routinely in St. Paul and Minneapolis.

[Kenny Olson]

According to my dad, it was Lake Street, Lake Street Bridge over to University, down to the capital, back again all the way over to Lake Calhoun.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay, that's. That's true. There was also cruising a big circle in downtown St. Paul.

[John Haidt]

Okay, help me out with that, cuz I wasn't around.

[Joe Sucere]

No, you weren't.

[John Haidt]

Was it harmless? Was it to look at the cars,

[Joe Sucere]

to show off girls about the cars?

[John Haidt]

It wasn't about.

[Joe Sucere]

It wasn't to. To just. It wasn't. It wasn't. Yeah, in the scooter thing was all about the scooters. There was no ideology at stake. It was, you know, innocent fun, blah, blah, blah. The, the car thing, that was all I told you. The high school parking lot 60 years ago were car shows. So this was just the high school parking lot taken to downtown on a Saturday night.

[Kenny Olson]

Just basically American Graffiti.

[Joe Sucere]

Yes, it was American Graffiti every weekend. Exactly. Exactly what that was.

[John Haidt]

How festive and fun.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, which porkies to corroborate that there came the idea for American Graffiti from just seeing that in LA and wherever. So that was very common. That's not done anymore. It's completely gone from the American cultural landscape. And I'm sure there are some holdouts. There's probably a few towns left in North St. Paul.

[John Haidt]

Do they still do that?

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, but they're static shows. These were moving. They weren't even a show. It was just. They loved their cars, they loved to drive them. They were all really neat.

[John Haidt]

Here's my current condition.

[Joe Sucere]

Probably spent all day us on a Saturday. Cleaning it, waxing it, getting it ready. And now we're going to go downtown and just drive around. Nobody caught, nobody shot anybody, nobody caused problems. It was just the car. It was all about the cars.

[News Reporter]

Not all about the cars. Because it was a good way to find out where the party was that night too. So you drive around. You drive around.

[Kenny Olson]

It was the big social event.

[John Haidt]

Just stop off at a liquor store, pick up a comb with three musketeers and a bottle of Old Harper.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, kinda. So. So where are we? So here. This is very interesting. Now we are getting deep. I didn't want to. I feel I owe it to you.

[Grainger Announcer]

Thank you.

[News Reporter]

Well, thank you, Joe.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, okay. What's happened to us? We've gone from the celebration of really neat cars to morons on rented scooters. They don't care about the scooter. They don't care what it looks like. They're just. But they wanted togetherness. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Is it their American Graffiti? Is it their social.

[Joe Sucere]

Yes.

[John Haidt]

It can't be because they, like you just said, they don't own the scooter. They're not taking pride in the scooter.

[Joe Sucere]

No, but there were.

[Kenny Olson]

There were, Matthew. There were.

[John Haidt]

It wasn't just run, just one, just limes.

[Joe Sucere]

My point is, 60 years ago, it was a celebration of your vested interest. You worked for that car. You had a part time job at the grocery store or whatever, you had to have that car. That was a big deal. Kids today do not have to have that car. They just don't have any interest whatsoever what's replaced it. It's scooters.

[Kenny Olson]

So funny that you mentioned washing it because I always made sure I was doing whatever I had to do on a Saturday by 3pm So I could devote at least two hours to whatever I was driving to get it ready for Saturday night.

[Joe Sucere]

Had to get it ready.

[Kenny Olson]

It had to be perfect.

[Joe Sucere]

Had to get it ready.

[Kenny Olson]

Scrubbing the white walls or the white letter tires and I'll bet you polishing the rims.

[Joe Sucere]

I'll bet you 90% of the kids in this scooter madness Saturday night, they just abandoned the scooter wherever they happened to be closest to where they wanted

[Kenny Olson]

to be and just walked away like in the lake.

[Joe Sucere]

And the scooters, the company has built that into their planning, haven't they? They have a means to locate the scooters so these kids dump them. They don't give a bleep about them. They dump them on the side of the road and then some poor SAP has to come around in a box truck at 3am and load them all up, take them back to the factory and charge them up again.

[Kenny Olson]

That sounds like a job Kenny would have when he was 20.

[Joe Sucere]

But that guy in the box truck, he's saving up for a car, he's working, he's, you know, so that was so. I don't think we. I don't think Garage Logic has much negative to say about the scooter madness, do we? No, it's just what we do today.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

What the kids of today do is they get on a piece of ass scooter that they don't own, don't care about, have no intention of being proud of it, but it's their means to socialize. So there they do it.

[John Haidt]

Got it.

[Kenny Olson]

Case closed.

[Joe Sucere]

Case closed. Now let's turn to the farmer's Almanac.

[John Haidt]

Oh. Oh, a little forecast, huh?

[Joe Sucere]

That's right.

[John Haidt]

Give me a good. Give me a better forecast than frozen concentration.

[Joe Sucere]

It's nebulous.

[John Haidt]

Nebulous. I don't even know what that means. That means star like. No, it means out in the clouds with the nebulae.

[Joe Sucere]

The Farmer's Almanac released its 2026 winter weather forecast. Now I have. I had a little trouble determining what region we are. Are we the. Are we the North? Are we the North?

[John Haidt]

Freddie Glass.

[Kenny Olson]

That's what I'd go with.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, we're not the Northeast.

[Kenny Olson]

Nope.

[Joe Sucere]

To my way of thinking, we're not the Northwest.

[Kenny Olson]

No,

[Joe Sucere]

I've never even thought we were the Upper Midwest. I'm going to go with north.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I'd go with north.

[Joe Sucere]

Temperatures. Temperatures may average near normal across much of the West. Northern Plains, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes.

[John Haidt]

In the Farmer's Almanac, Minnesota is generally grouped into the North Central Northern Plains zone, often labeled as Zone 5.

[Joe Sucere]

Those average temperatures do not signal that winter will be mild. Fast moving clippers, sudden cold snaps and brief snowy periods are likely areas farther north, the Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes, that's us. Could see sudden snow squalls, blustery winds and bursts of bitter cold. I could have written this without you.

[John Haidt]

How generic is that?

[Joe Sucere]

This is pretty weird.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes. You use words like could see.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

It makes me think it's Joe. It's very unclear. It's kind of muddy, murky.

[Joe Sucere]

Yep. You might even say nebulous.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, I wouldn't because I don't know what it means.

[Joe Sucere]

The article.

[Josh Arnold]

What?

[Joe Sucere]

No. The middle of the country could see rapidly changing road and field conditions from swings between thawing and freezing. Well, this is a bunch of BS because you could have said you could write this for every single year. It's like when the meteorologists say Thursday there could be a chance of rain. Well, there always can be a chance of rain. Well, so I did. I brought it to the show. I should have. It's meaningless.

[Kenny Olson]

The guy that writes that, what department does he work at? At the almanac, he was calling in

[John Haidt]

on a Friday afternoon.

[Joe Sucere]

He works in the Corn Pone.

[John Haidt]

This is Chat pti.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, that department would be nebulous. I guess we have to get that word in a certain number of times. Two more. All three more. Oh, you only held up three. Let's. Let's see what they say. Matt. For the Northeast.

[John Haidt]

All right, the Northeast. Let's find out what.

[Joe Sucere]

I have it here. Oh, okay.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, probably the same.

[Joe Sucere]

I have it. I have it here.

[John Haidt]

Get to the nebulae.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait, does that count?

[Joe Sucere]

No.

[News Reporter]

Okay.

[Joe Sucere]

The almanac predicts the northeast could face the most complicated patterns this winter. Well, that introduces the idea that you're gonna actually tell me something. Areas on the coast could see more rain or mixed precipitation, while more inland communities may see heavy snow. Well, B. As in B. You didn't tell me anything.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, you need to be more direct with me. I don't understand that murky nonsense.

[John Haidt]

I think they're being very unclear. Vague or lacking a definite form. Nebulous without. Oh, he said it.

[Joe Sucere]

It's nebula. Okay, there we go.

[John Haidt]

I wasn't gonna go there, but you're. Go ahead.

[Joe Sucere]

Should we have a word of the day on Jill?

[Kenny Olson]

Remember when you used to give me for traffic reports in the afternoon? You'd give me the most $20. I'd have to look the word up and you would demand that I use that word in a traffic report.

[Joe Sucere]

I. I do remember that.

[Kenny Olson]

Discombobulated. Just nonsense like that.

[News Reporter]

There have been occasions, Joe, where Kenny will tell me before the show he's going to get a reference in a couple times, say a music title by a band, and he'll continue to do three or four music titles by that band and just get a right by everybody. And I sit and chuckle.

[Kenny Olson]

One time I got 10 Elo references during the course of a podcast.

[Joe Sucere]

And that amuses you?

[Kenny Olson]

Apparently.

[News Reporter]

Yeah, I thought it was fun.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm sorry. That's why I would never make it in the real world.

[John Haidt]

I've been told by someone, check out west side and east side. They gather with their cars and will even race. Happens late night. This daughter of mine sees it regularly.

[Joe Sucere]

That could be a Hispanic cultural thing. Lowriders and all kinds of neat stuff.

[John Haidt]

Maybe whipping fishtails.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, that could be on Cesar Chavez Boulevard. Oh, we don't name it that way.

[News Reporter]

I think it's got a new name.

[Joe Sucere]

It's got a new name.

[News Reporter]

It's getting one anyway.

[John Haidt]

Rick M. Boulevard.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

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[Joe Sucere]

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[Kenny Olson]

Here's Kenny Deep Creep to the rescue. Three squeaky hinges, two rusted bolts, and a stiff padlock.

[Joe Sucere]

There's no such thing as a paddle.

[Kenny Olson]

The last thing wasn't actually true. I just like going sutch fishing. But yeah, another weekend in the books with Seafoam Creep. It's so commonplace around Old Jackass Ranch that I barely remember all the things that it gets used on every day. Bugs be Gone. Also keeping that nearby in case of a bug attack or a bird poop bombardment. Bugs be gone. It works on all things organic, safe on all surfaces, including the surface of the earth. Buy the concentrate jug if you can find it, and then run it straight for extra power. Of all the seafoam products, Bugs Be Gone is one of the funnest. It's kind of like a spectator sport. You get to watch the bugs slide down the windshield. And then my failing memory. I can't remember the last time I administered seafoam motor treatment to my hat trick of trucks. So I use the civil defense sirens at 1:05pm the first Wednesday of every month. That's my reminder to give all three a stiff dose of the motor treatment. Three Seafoam products solve thousands of issues on a daily basis. Look for them wherever fine automotive chemicals are sold.

[Joe Sucere]

It's hard for me to believe the state fair in Minnesota has developed such a unique life of its own, this safe sanctuary from the day's troubles. And it still works, and people still look forward to it. And now we have a. A development where two specific gangs of ruffians are prohibited from entering the fairgrounds during the fair. The gangs are the Muddy and the Ville.

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[John Haidt]

The Ville scare me.

[Joe Sucere]

They're both Somalian gangs, which I did not know, but they. And how are they going to be. How is it going to be determined if you're a gang member in the muddy or the ville?

[Kenny Olson]

This is precedent setting, is it not?

[Joe Sucere]

It really is.

[John Haidt]

Well, aside from profiling every Somali teen that comes in, which.

[Joe Sucere]

Which would be untoward.

[John Haidt]

Yes. I think they probably have a pretty good idea what Somali Jim looks like. And he's one of the muddies.

[Joe Sucere]

Fletch was really onto something, wasn't he?

[John Haidt]

Yeah. Fletch has offered himself up for the Minnesota State Fair, too, for a short discussion.

[Joe Sucere]

We'll get him then. Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

But it'll be the second time he's been On a podcast.

[Joe Sucere]

Here's the deal. Here's the deal. The gangs apparently have not been shy in posting information that suggests they want to have their ultimate match there. I don't want to say shootout, because God, hope doesn't come to that. But they want their ultimate confrontation there, the Mud and the Ville. And so they've inexcusably chosen the fairgrounds, which is absurd of them to do that, but bold. And you know, the Fletch and the rest of them, John Choi, they said, we're not going to tolerate that possibility. And the law is structured in such a way that they can ban groups suspected of that kind of trouble from the fair. Because, you know, Aunt Bertha and the two grandkids, they're going to the fair. They don't want to be there and witness this confrontation between the Mudd and the Ville.

[John Haidt]

I wonder if the Muds have already purchased their tickets from Cub.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't know where the Muds would get their tickets. And it's an injunctive relief. It's for the entirety of the fair. And these characters cannot enter the fairgrounds, which I applaud mightily. I don't see a dangerous precedent here.

[John Haidt]

Maybe you have to fill out a questionnaire. They hand you a little pamphlet. Are you a mud? Are you a V?

[Joe Sucere]

Are you a ville? V I L L, E. Which one are you?

[John Haidt]

Are you neither? Come on in.

[Joe Sucere]

Do you want to be the member of a gang called the Mud?

[John Haidt]

No, it sounds really, I'll go ville because I don't even know what a ville is.

[Kenny Olson]

We go through gates on a daily basis out there and we see what's happening there. How are they going to prevent this? How are they going to keep them out?

[Joe Sucere]

Well, they, I, I trust that they will keep them out. I, I think that some extra precautions will be taken because this is, this is not tolerable. This is our great Minnesota get together. But you don't have these rowdies come in there and disturb the state fair.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what the reaction and pushback is going to be? Matthew already brought it up. It's profiling. Oh, they'll say racist.

[John Haidt]

And what's going to happen at the gate when that state trooper is called over and said, I think we got a mud here, that those guys or that guy is going to make a big stink. And who knows how it's going to transpire or grow unless we've got for

[Kenny Olson]

a change, Ramsey county deputies all very familiar with the members of the two gangs working the gates.

[John Haidt]

That's my guess.

[Kenny Olson]

And Maybe they shut down and most of the gates and only keep a few open.

[Joe Sucere]

There are criminal gangs that constitute a public nuisance. They have been. They have been involved in multiple violent incidents. And the authorities, probably much to the disappointment of the dsa, are drawing the line. You ain't coming in here, you screwballs. You know, if you're going to have your confrontation, go find a cornfield somewhere, get the hell out of here.

[John Haidt]

You know, the fair is pretty smart. Maybe they'll invest in some Midwest fence and have a Somali gang gate. You know, you come right here through the Somali gang gate, and then they'll just scoop them all up.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, if you're going to go down that road, what about an area where you could watch the fight?

[John Haidt]

Oh, give me the.

[Kenny Olson]

Like the barra.

[Joe Sucere]

Maybe it's a grandstand act.

[Kenny Olson]

It's like the burnout pit at a car show.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, I would watch that if I'm safe enough away.

[Joe Sucere]

I got to get going. The mud and the ville are going on seven. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, could they have it in the Lee and whoever Warner Coliseum rose.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

This injunction, though, will be in place if it runs through from 8am Opening Day until the close of Labor Day.

[News Reporter]

The. Apparently what they filed lists 10 specific individuals who are heavily linked to. To recent violence between the two gangs. So they must be, I would think, immediately identifiable by somebody there. Right.

[Joe Sucere]

So you're cutting off the head of the snake. If you get. If you get the. If you get the big players in the mud in the ville, then that'll probably. Probably mean that the lesser members of the gang won't have. They won't have the leadership they need to run the gate.

[John Haidt]

I'm seeing the Groucho glasses.

[Josh Arnold]

What do you mean?

[Joe Sucere]

I'm Somali.

[John Haidt]

I'm just Ed from North Dakota. I'm coming to see the cow. Maybe they're very, you know.

[Joe Sucere]

But isn't that. Isn't that. Isn't it sad that the fair has been sullied to the point where I'm not ripping the authorities. They gotta do what they gotta do. But it. And they've reached the point where they have to take this step or.

[John Haidt]

The last several years.

[Joe Sucere]

The state bleeping fair.

[John Haidt]

Correct. The last several years there have been what?

[Joe Sucere]

It's a state fair.

[News Reporter]

You don't go.

[Joe Sucere]

You don't. You don't have a gang at the state.

[John Haidt]

It's supposed to be an untouchable. That's great. Minnesota get. We get together, we gather.

[Joe Sucere]

You get cool. Get together.

[John Haidt]

Yes. That's miniatures.

[Kenny Olson]

What's the land between north and South Korea. DMC militarized.

[Joe Sucere]

The fair is a dmz.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

There's no. There's no hanky pank at the fair.

[John Haidt]

No.

[Joe Sucere]

There's no rough stuff at the fair. Come on. This is terrible. The mud and the ville. Would have even thought this up.

[Kenny Olson]

John told us there are ten total. Five from each gang. One of them. Just one of them. No, four from the ville. One of them's name is David. The rest of them.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, right. Good one, guys.

[Kenny Olson]

The rest of them are not David.

[Joe Sucere]

How did he get in?

[Kenny Olson]

His nickname. His nickname is G. Dave. They all have akas.

[John Haidt]

They're like the military. They're good.

[Joe Sucere]

What are the first names of some of the others?

[Kenny Olson]

I am not gonna go down that road.

[Joe Sucere]

Abdullah. Stuff like that.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I just, you know, I like.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay. Go down the road of their nickname.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm not even gonna do that. I like my quiet life in the country.

[John Haidt]

Oh, I wonder what a Somali gang nickname would be. You know how the. Like Baby face.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, look it up. Look it up.

[John Haidt]

Okay, I will. I will.

[Joe Sucere]

Chief, I just think that's terrible. Yeah. You know, you're going. You're walking around with your cotton candy and all of a sudden, boom, there's the game, there's the. Hey, that guy's with the ville.

[John Haidt]

That's Paul Hormuth. Horn over there. Over there.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't like that. That's. I don't want any gang activity at the fair.

[John Haidt]

That's Pete the Pirate.

[Joe Sucere]

You got me, but now I got you.

[Kenny Olson]

Is that from dodgeball when it says

[Joe Sucere]

to the pirates, you got me, but now I got you.

[News Reporter]

I got you.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, I hope it's. I hope it's all peaceful.

[John Haidt]

I hope nothing happens during our Garage Logic broadcast that when we broadcast each Friday from 1 to 2 at the Channel 5 building.

[Kenny Olson]

Why would you have to bring that up in conjunction with this story, you jackass?

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, my God.

[John Haidt]

You know, we just had summer slam. Why not go to U.S. bank Stadium and gut it out?

[Joe Sucere]

Say. Well, they're limiting us to an hour. Because of what? On the. The KSTP television stage.

[News Reporter]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Hours.

[News Reporter]

Not enough.

[Joe Sucere]

It is okay.

[Kenny Olson]

I think we could get it done in 40.

[John Haidt]

I think TV is going to press us to be it done. About 35 minutes is what.

[Joe Sucere]

No, we get an hour and it'll be fun. The. For the. The two Fridays of the state fair. And I hope a Friday isn't the day the mud and the vil sneak in.

[Kenny Olson]

What's fun about us being at the Chann building is. All those people working out there, they're all befuddled. By who? Who the hell.

[John Haidt]

I saw him in the cafeteria once. I know he works here, but what does he do?

[Kenny Olson]

What though?

[Joe Sucere]

Who's the gal that runs it? She's very efficient. She's very good.

[John Haidt]

That is Kate. What is her last name? Kate. She's very efficient. She's.

[Kenny Olson]

For the last few years that we've been doing it from that stage. Every year, one of the security guys, as I approach the stage, they step in front of me and I have to have somebody vouch for me.

[Joe Sucere]

Okay. This year, you guys don't admit that you know him, please.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, Kate Bendell is the gal.

[Joe Sucere]

We've not seen him, sir. Thank you for catching him. He could be with the mud or the ville.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I'll be back in the other building with Jenny drinking beers.

[News Reporter]

You guys know who retired, right? So he'll be there both days?

[Joe Sucere]

I don't know.

[News Reporter]

Our postal service worker, he's retired now.

[Kenny Olson]

I look forward to seeing him.

[News Reporter]

He'll be there both days.

[John Haidt]

He's got some extra time on his hands. Yep, more so than normal.

[Joe Sucere]

When he worked, he travels quite a bit. Maybe he won't be there both days.

[News Reporter]

Ah, he'll be there.

[John Haidt]

I hope he doesn't bring.

[Kenny Olson]

Doesn't he have an aka The Experience?

[John Haidt]

Yes, Experience. I hope he doesn't bring the urn.

[Joe Sucere]

I got a wonderful call from ecofund. My scooter is being returned today for a fee. They. They hustle around town and pick up scooters and deliver them and my needed service. And it's coming back to me and I. I missed it. There were errands that I ran in the last week. Oh, where I missed my scooter. And now it's. It's back. And I'm talking about Eco Fun Motorsports in Forest Lake slash Columbus. It's the most fun store you'll ever be in. Highway 97, immediately west of the interstate up Forest Lake way. It's just a hop, skip and a jump off the interstate. Electric bikes on scale. The scooters that turn every urban errand into an adventure. Wonderful motorcycles. I hope that Aprilia motorcycle demo day went well, but I'm talking Moto Guzzi, Yamaha, Aprilia, Kawasaki. Just great stuff. Scooters on sale starting at 1499. The youth recreational equipment with gas eng. I mean Kawasaki Mules side by side. Yamaha Waverunners and Kawasaki Jet Skis. Buy one now. You're leaving there with the free trailer. I just found something just Amazing. Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

At Ecofund. Stand Up Electric scooters.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, you can join the next Scooter Madness if you have one of those. They're very affordable, except it'll be yours and you'll like it and you'll take care of it. And you won't leave it on the side of the street.

[John Haidt]

No.

[Kenny Olson]

I think this would be fun.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, they got everything. It's the greatest toy store in the United States. Also, there's an Ecofun store in Burnsville on the service road of life near County Road 42. And the world's most tempting, delightful website, ecofunmotorsports.com.

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[Joe Sucere]

Here's a man who spends hours in hardware stores sifting through the nuts and bolts of life, Joe Sucere, here's John Haidt.

[News Reporter]

Thank you, Joe. This news is brought to you by North American Banking Company tomorrow. Tomorrow, August 11, is Minnesota's primary important races for both parties, Republicans deciding who will run against Amy Klobuchar for the governor's spot. In Minnesota, latest polls show President Trump endorsed Mike Lindell with a slight lead over Lisa Damith and a larger lead over the person the party endorsed, Kendall Quals. Michelle Tafoya has a comfortable lead in the polls for the U.S. senate race in the Republican primary. On the Democratic side, voters will be choosing from six candidates. The front runners, of course, Angie Craig and Peggy Flanagan. Polls showing that one is extremely close. Polls open at seven in the morning tomorrow and as long as you're there before 8 o', clock, you can vote. They close at 8 o'. Clock.

[Joe Sucere]

It's a very small sample, but I talked to some people in St. Paul who are gratefully not taking Flanagan seriously at all, realizing that she's part of the fraud machinery and should not be seen near the state Capitol or the nation's capital.

[John Haidt]

On the Republican side, is it a small ray of hope that Daymith is at about 56% and Royce White is at about 13? As far as polling right now?

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah. Okay.

[News Reporter]

Authorities say a suspect was wounded this morning in a shooting involving St. Paul police. It happened outside Regent's Hospital. According to the St. Paul Police Department, a 911 caller reported a domestic assault on the 400 block of Temperance street around 9:15. When officers got there, the caller said the suspect was armed and had left the scene. The suspect later turned up outside Regent's hospital on the 200 block of East 12th Street. Police said they had an encounter. The suspect and police had escalated to gunfire, leaving the suspect injured. According to the police, the suspect treated at Regent's Hospital. No officers were hurt. The St. Paul Police Department says it has asked the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the use of force incident. What we were talking about earlier, police said they monitored as hundreds of scooter riders traveled in large group through downtown and southeast Minneapolis Saturday night. While Minneapolis police said the group was at times, quote, reckless and disruptive to traffic. No arrests were made, no citations issued. State Patrol said that at 10:40, state troopers responded to a report of non motorists on southbound I35W at Fourth street in Minneapolis. Witnesses said there were around 300 Lime scooters, although that number has been estimated anywhere from 200 to 1000 going onto the highway. Similar to police, State Patrol said that state troopers took no contact or enforcement action. Lime scooters and other non motorized devices are prohibited on freeways, according to the State Patrol. The State Patrol said it also encourages discussions with the city and scooter companies to implement a geo fencing plan that disables the machine if it leaves a designated area.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, geo fencing. I thought it was geocaching. Ah, caching Cat cash.

[John Haidt]

Thank you Caching.

[News Reporter]

MPD echoed that sentiment, saying that if something similar happens again, they will work to regulate where and how the scooters can be operated.

[Joe Sucere]

It's madness. Scooter madness.

[News Reporter]

You can do their spots, you know

[Joe Sucere]

it'll ruin it organization that'll just lumberjack the hell out of it.

[News Reporter]

Yeah Lots of controversy about flock cameras and now Isandy county has opted to discontinue the use of Flock license plate readers, with the county sheriff citing budgetary reasons. On Friday, Isandy County Sheriff Wayne Cyberlich issued an update on the county's use of Flock automated license plate readers, which they began at a no cost trial in April. The cameras were installed at major entry points including Highway 65, Highway 95, Highway 47, County Road 9 near the Chicago county line and County Road 8 near the Sherburne county line. The use of the Flock cameras raised privacy and civil rights concerns from residents, according to the update, the sheriff's announcement read. During the trial our office heard numerous concerns from members of the public. Those concerns included potential constitutional privacy violations, the possibility of third party access to data collected by Flock, and broader concerns about government overreach through the collection and retention of license platform information. The decision to discontinue the cameras is due to budgetary reasons, the sheriff wrote, with the cameras priced at about three grand apiece. However, cyberlik did not rule out the use of Flock cameras in the future. A federal jury has found a Wayzetta man who wrote a manifesto in which he threatened to kill a judge. Guilty on all counts 73 year old Robert Philip Ivers found guilty on two counts of mailing threatening communications and one count of threatening murder to a United States District judge for following a four day trial. Among those targeted by the threats was a federal judge who Presided over Ivers 2018 criminal trial in which he was found guilty of threatening to murder another federal judge and a witness during the same trial. I was arrested in 2025, accused of writing and printing multiple copies of the manifesto called how to kill a federal judge. Jeez. The manifesto, according lord. According to charging documents, the manifesto was almost 300 pages in length, Filled with threats against multiple people and their as well as numerous ominous drawings with threatening statements. A copy of the manifesto was mailed to a Minneapolis law firm and another mailed to the University of St. Thomas.

[Joe Sucere]

So he didn't have a base crime like he went in the first time for stealing a motorcycle and decided he hate judges. His. His only crime is he's always just hated judges.

[News Reporter]

Yeah, started out with him.

[Joe Sucere]

He didn't have a. He didn't have a starter crime. Starter crime. He just went right to the top.

[John Haidt]

Like under 250 bucks.

[News Reporter]

Right across the state border. As Hudson faces longer firefighter response times and growing number of calls for service, the voters there will be tasked with a big question on the ballot this November. Raise taxes or add full time firefighters. City council has approved the referendum which if passed, would raise the tax levy by over 9% to cover ongoing fire department costs to help hire nine full time fire staff members.

[Joe Sucere]

Where is this, John? I'm sorry.

[News Reporter]

Hudson, Wisconsin.

[Joe Sucere]

Hudson. Okay, okay.

[News Reporter]

In the spring, Hudson fire chief Drew Spielman said calls for service have grown over 60% in the last decade. Response times now average more than 16 minutes. If this would pass, the tax levy increase would be 9.537%. That's about 38 bucks per $100,000 of assessed value for city residents.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, they always give you that. It's only 38.

[John Haidt]

It's only 38 bucks.

[Joe Sucere]

I told you. Add that up for 10 years. 20 years.

[News Reporter]

Well, plus it's per 100 grand. You know, most houses now are worth what?

[Josh Arnold]

So we're already.

[John Haidt]

200 grand's already up. 76.

[Joe Sucere]

That a boy.

[John Haidt]

See, That a boy. Thank you.

[News Reporter]

Actually, it's 74.

[Joe Sucere]

74.

[Kenny Olson]

10.

[John Haidt]

I can't do that.

[News Reporter]

40. 740. That's a million. Is that a million dollar house, Kenny? Times ten.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know what I'm talking about.

[News Reporter]

Okay, good.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm still thinking about manifestos.

[News Reporter]

We just did a lot of math.

[John Haidt]

Plus I don't know anybody with a million dollar home.

[News Reporter]

We're gonna get notes on this one from listeners.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[News Reporter]

The original proposal was for 12 full time positions, but after reviewing the funding, Spielman said they settled on 9 to reduce the tax increase.

[Joe Sucere]

John, 38 and 38 is 76. You said 74.

[News Reporter]

Did I say 38? Because I'm sorry, I thought it was 37. It's 3734, so.

[Joe Sucere]

Or whatever.

[John Haidt]

Thank you. Appreciate you coming to my rescue.

[News Reporter]

My bad looking out for you. In national and international news, the situation in the Middle east, while at best is nebulous. Iran said on Monday that any deal with Oman on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz would not lead to the waterway being fully reopened and that the route would remain closed until the United States agreed to demands including lifting a naval blockade. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejecting the proposal by U. S. Backed mediators for disarming Hamas, hardening his position after earlier voicing misgivings at the suggestion that Israel reciprocate with phased pullouts from Gaza. He was responding to the so called roadmap published July 30 by the board of Peace, an international consortium tasked with implementing President Trump's post war vision for the Palestinian territory. The President quickly lauded the roadmap as a historic agreement and a major milestone. There was no immediate comment from the US Embassy in Jerusalem. In on Netanyahu's comments, Hamas gave only a hedged consent to the Roadmap map, saying it would hand over heavy weapons to the proposed new Gaza administration and conditioning everything on Israeli withdrawals and the creation of a Palestinian state.

[Joe Sucere]

Why didn't he just say we won? Okay, I mean that's what he'd do anyway, right? Just say we won, it's over.

[Kenny Olson]

That's a pretty good idea in Ukraine

[Joe Sucere]

and the people who think he's an actual functioning human being will believe it and life will go on.

[John Haidt]

Everybody else, keep going.

[News Reporter]

In Ukraine, a Ukrainian drone attack has hit 600 miles deep inside Russia. According to local authorities, the strikes hit both industrial and civilian infrastructure. And by the way, I'll tell you right now, I got no shot at getting this city right in the city of Nizhanoma Kamask.

[Joe Sucere]

That's close to the close the way I've always referred to it.

[News Reporter]

That's about 680 miles miles from the Ukrainian border. And the Tanico oil refinery also hit in the Tatarstan region which is 497 miles east of Moscow. Ukraine's military confirmed the attack on the refinery but hasn't commented on the reported strikes in the city. That I can pronounce the. Cannot pronounce the name of. At least 13 people were killed in the attack, according to Russian authorities. It comes as Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky says North Korea was preparing to deploy as many as 50,000 soldiers to help Russia's war effort. Zelensky said North Korea would benefit from experience in modern warfare as well as getting licenses to produce more advanced Russian technology.

[Joe Sucere]

John, may I interrupt for a moment? Certainly. I've long advocated that these three books by Tom Rob Smith, Child 44, the Secret Speech and Age of 22. And I'm re reading Child 44 Life in Russia in 1953 and it came out in 2008. So I hadn't read it in 18 years. Now there's a number of reasons why it's more interesting this time. All of our geographies improve with Ukraine in the news. So much of what happens in child 44 starts off in the Ukraine. So now it means far more to me than it did in 2008. And then of course, the ideological shift this country is flirting with.

[John Haidt]

To now refresh my memory, are they calling it Ukraine back then? Oh, they are, yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

Ukraine was just, you know, it was like a suburb. I mean it was its own, you know.

[John Haidt]

Right. Still part of the Soviet suburb, but

[Joe Sucere]

it was an area that was part of Russia. Yeah. Okay.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

So that's all I had.

[News Reporter]

At least 20 people killed, dozens of buildings collapsing in cities across western Colombia after a powerful 7.4 megapascal magnitude earthquake hit the South American nation, trapping residents under debris, leaving more injured and forcing people to evacuate their homes. As far as the capital of Bogota, the epicenter in San Jose del Palmar, a community of about 4800 people in the Choco region about 250 miles west of Bogota. That according to the US Geological Survey and Colombia's counterpart reporting local officials confirmed at least 18 people were killed in the city of Pereira, two in the city of Manizales. The quake left cities across the west of the coast country ravaged, residents picking through pieces of rubble. It follows two back to back 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes in Venezuela in late June. Those earthquakes destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed more than 5,000 people.

[Chris Reavers]

W.K.

[News Reporter]

kellogg says it's removing artificial colors from all its cereals by the end of this year. That change comes a year ahead of schedule. The head said last August they'd remove synthetic dyes from cereals by the end of 2027. But the company now says it's identified fruit and vegetable based juices that will give cereals like Fruit Loops and Apple Jacks their distinctive colors. Battle Creek, Michigan based company said it's also invested in equipment that will allow it to transition to natural Colors. The company said it's also removing bht, an artificial preservative, from the small number of cereals that still contain it.

[Kenny Olson]

Have you guys sampled the Nacho Doritos that are uncolored?

[John Haidt]

I don't think I would.

[Joe Sucere]

No.

[Kenny Olson]

They, they're delicious. They taste like normal Doritos. So they just don't look orange.

[John Haidt]

Orange or.

[Kenny Olson]

They look like corn chips, really?

[Joe Sucere]

Well, how do they make a nacho?

[Kenny Olson]

Hell if I know.

[John Haidt]

Nacho's not a color though.

[Joe Sucere]

That's the problem. Yeah, what's. What color is Nacho?

[John Haidt]

You got that muchacho?

[Joe Sucere]

What color?

[John Haidt]

But Fruit Loops, I ate them all the time. I don't have any problems.

[Kenny Olson]

Right.

[News Reporter]

A Roman era shipwreck discovered off the coast of Sicily. Italy's culture minister announcing sanity. The ship measures about 20ft wide, 70ft long and was discovered alongside hundreds of well preserved clay jars. The discovery came after a tip off from a local fisherman who found what appeared to be a rock while free driving. Free diving three miles off the coast of Misera del Vallo. He dove down and discovered the ship before sharing the finding with local authorities at a depth of about 150ft. Cultural heritage divers from Palermo police confirmed the discovery of the ancient ship and jars, identifying them as the long cylindrical jars typically used to carry wine, olive oil or grain. Italian authorities say they'll now safeguard and investigate the site to learn more about its history. Mediterranean seabed, by the way, is believed to hold numerous still undiscovered ancient shipwrecks.

[Joe Sucere]

What about gold doubloons? Were they found? If I was that guy, I would have searched that ship from. You know, there's something before I revealed

[John Haidt]

it to the in a floorboard.

[Joe Sucere]

And I don't think I'd be breaking the common surface savings and loan law

[John Haidt]

just sitting right there.

[Joe Sucere]

I mean, if I'm diving down there and I find it, I'm not calling up the historical society.

[News Reporter]

There's 150ft of deep dive. I have no idea.

[John Haidt]

For me it is.

[Kenny Olson]

Are you going over to the Sibley pawn shop with this stuff and see what you can get for it?

[John Haidt]

Yeah, I know.

[Joe Sucere]

First I'm going to say I got Rick.

[John Haidt]

Are these legit?

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, I got to call a buddy.

[John Haidt]

You got to call a guy.

[News Reporter]

This would not have been fun. A Porter Airlines flight in Canada canceled after a young child refused to sit down and buckle up.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, that's unacceptable for the on the part of the parents.

[News Reporter]

It forced the plane back to the terminal and delayed it past the airport's Runway closure the Toronto based airline said Sunday the parent and crew repeatedly tried unsuccessfully to secure the child in the seat before returning the plane to the terminal in Victoria International Airport in British Columbia to remove the parish parent and the child.

[Joe Sucere]

Shut up.

[Kenny Olson]

What happened to giving the kid a couple of ounces of codeine or something?

[Joe Sucere]

Whatever happened to the parent just saying hey, not knock it off, I'm strapping you in. Shut up.

[John Haidt]

Smack them over there and flick your

[Joe Sucere]

ear, you little brat. What the hell?

[News Reporter]

Porter said.

[Joe Sucere]

I want to know more about the parent.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, the parents need to be publicly shamed too, porter said. I'm outraged.

[News Reporter]

Penny Porter said removing the parent and child and their baggage delayed the Toronto bound flight on Thursday past the airport's 12:30am Runway closure that forced the remaining passengers to get off the plane.

[Joe Sucere]

See, reporting isn't what it used to be. This tells us nothing. What kind of was his parent?

[News Reporter]

Porter apologized to the other passengers who were rebooked on a flight, but of course since the Runway was closed they had to wait. Wait until the following day.

[Joe Sucere]

I find that unacceptable.

[News Reporter]

And boy, talk about lo this is low Titusville, Florida funeral home on edge after a vandal damaged three of its vehicles, including a hearse that was keyed and left with slashed tires. The vandalism was discovered early Thursday morning at the North Brevard Funeral Home when funeral home manager Amy Mendiola checked surveillance video. The discovery came just hours before the funeral home was scheduled to serve three families services that all required transportation, Mendiola said. We were already calling around to funeral homes in our area to see if they had vehicles that they could lend us because I think everyone was busy that day. The damaged vehicles have since been repaired and Mendiola said the crime was costly, created immediate stress for staff trying to make sure families were still taken care of. She credited a fellow named Alex at the local fire tire store for stepping in quickly to help get the vehicles back on the road, she said. He answered the phone in the first ring. He was here in 10 minutes, did it all by himself and took care of all of it for us really, really quickly. Even with the repairs finished, Mediola said she wishes whoever's responsible had handled the situation differently. She said. I can't think of who would do this. We didn't have anyone disgruntled, so I just kind of went wish whatever it was, it would have been a phone call, maybe a conversation to make things right if somebody's upset, she said her bigger concern now is safety. She said police are reviewing surveillance images Asking anyone who recognizes the suspect or information to contact the Titusville police. Titusville police said should they find somebody about this. The case has the potential to be treated as a felony.

[Joe Sucere]

John, while we're on a break here, can you do some digging on the parent of that child?

[News Reporter]

I will see what I can find.

[Joe Sucere]

Because I, I. She should be put in the public stocks and ridiculed.

[Kenny Olson]

Both of them?

[Joe Sucere]

Both of them. Well, if the kid. You know, you got to cut the. What? How old's the kid?

[News Reporter]

He didn't say.

[Joe Sucere]

See, the reporting is just terrible.

[John Haidt]

That would be a chief among them.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Who in the household is responsible for discipline?

[Joe Sucere]

Well, it sounds like it was. There was no father involved in this flight. They only mentioned a mother and the kid. All right, so John's going to do some digging.

[Kenny Olson]

I know in our house it was good cop, bad cop. And I was always the good cop.

[Joe Sucere]

In our house it was always, your father gets home. We didn't care when he got home. Nothing happened.

[John Haidt]

Waiting for the news to get on and.

[Joe Sucere]

Let's go swimming. Come on, let's go. Wanna go water skiing?

[Kenny Olson]

Kiddos?

[Joe Sucere]

We'll be right back here then.

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[Joe Sucere]

This guy wears many hats, just not indoors.

[John Haidt]

Joe Sucere.

[Joe Sucere]

We have another incident of man. Human people. Man losing sight of their relationship with nature. This seems to be the summer of the rioting buffalo. The bison are. They're not tolerating the foolish people who get too close to them.

[John Haidt]

They're unsettled.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah. Now we got a new one. This is a rampaging, rampaging bison striking down a tourist in a Polish forest.

[John Haidt]

My people.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Oh, no. They're not helping the stereotype, are they?

[Joe Sucere]

This is. No, they're not. Because it was even better than that. Because every time this Polish fellow tried to stand up, the bison knocked him back down.

[John Haidt]

You might want to just stay down there. You got knocked, Stanislaus. You might just want to stay. Stay down.

[Joe Sucere]

I believe I told you earlier, John, this might have been an Oregon. No, it's in Poland.

[News Reporter]

You did tell me Oregon.

[Joe Sucere]

The man was 20ft away from the bison in Poland's Bielowska Forest last Monday, when the ginormous animal. Oh, actually, somebody wrote ginormous bigger than normal. The author of this is Zoe Hussein.

[John Haidt]

Oh, okay.

[Joe Sucere]

She's in. She knows Poland, apparently.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

So this. This big animal suddenly charged at this poor fellow and knocked him to the ground, according to local outlet TVP World. That's a Polish outfit.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, I didn't.

[Josh Arnold]

I wasn't even aware.

[John Haidt]

But that's a fun wheel of fortune.

[Joe Sucere]

Footage posted to social media. I'll take.

[John Haidt]

I'll take P. As in Poland. It's been called twice, sir. Sorry, sorry. Relatives. But that's.

[Joe Sucere]

Who is Andre the Giant?

[John Haidt]

That's a completely.

[Grainger Announcer]

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[Joe Sucere]

I just want to know who he is. Footage posted to social media, then captured the. Now it's a monster. No, the poor animals get in the shorts.

[Josh Arnold]

Grown.

[John Haidt]

It was ginormous.

[Joe Sucere]

It was a ginormous now it's a monster. Footage posted to social media then captured the monster terrifyingly standing over the identified tourist as he lay on the ground. When the man attempts to stand again, the hulking. Now it's a hulking wild animal.

[John Haidt]

Shrugs his shoulders. Are you really going to try to

[Joe Sucere]

get out of here? This hulking monster. Ginormous wild animal quickly swiped at him and shoved him to the ground once again. Again, he just hits him with his head, knocks him down. Hey, you know what, pal?

[John Haidt]

Stanley, get down again.

[Joe Sucere]

Just stay down, all right? Nature photographer.

[Kenny Olson]

I've been waiting for this moment. Go ahead, Joe, say it.

[Joe Sucere]

Gr Gors.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay,

[John Haidt]

that's with that. That's what?

[Joe Sucere]

The name with the g. G R.

[John Haidt]

Gregor's rinse very fast so they do not understand you. That would be Gregory in our language.

[Joe Sucere]

So Greg Ryan, let's call him.

[John Haidt]

Exactly.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, right. Nature photographer Greg Ryan, who recorded the harrowing encounter, shouted, just like the Somali

[John Haidt]

gang member named Dave.

[Joe Sucere]

Right. How did that end? Right, right. Shouted at the tourists not to move before using his car to separate him from the bison. I did not see that on the video. So maybe he drove his car out there and nudged the hulking, monstrous, ginormous animal away from this dummy that got

[John Haidt]

too close to him getting up.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, he kept getting up.

[John Haidt]

Tough guy.

[Joe Sucere]

Though the outlet reported Ryan slowly drove toward the animal with the car door ajar. See, he had his plan. So this guy could get up quick and dive into the car.

[John Haidt]

Come on, Cash.

[Joe Sucere]

However, the tourist might have been Polish because he appeared to be in shock and tried to outrun the bison. Yeah, he didn't. The guy down on the ground didn't take advantage that Greg Ryan came along and tried to save his life.

[John Haidt]

He's got something to separate him from the giant.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, no. I'm running, right?

[John Haidt]

No, I got this.

[Joe Sucere]

I got this.

[Kenny Olson]

That's every one of my nightmares, that I'm being chased by something and I can't even get off the ground to run away.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, then you know what Greg Ryan did? He put the car in reverse and just backed up along with the guy

[John Haidt]

as he was running to still separate.

[Joe Sucere]

Maybe in case he had a change of heart and he would get inside the car until they were far enough away, he stayed with him. This story's not done.

[John Haidt]

No, Kenny, I think you're remembering nightmares when you were running away from program directors is what you were trying to get away.

[Kenny Olson]

Program director, Mon monster. Same thing.

[Joe Sucere]

Greg Ryan said to his credit, we shouldn't blame the bison. No, you can't And I'm not blaming the bison.

[John Haidt]

They're indifferent.

[Joe Sucere]

And this fellow is quite lucky because this particular bison was very calm. In fact, if you watch the video, the bison appears to be enjoying himself. This. This guy tries to get up and he goes.

[John Haidt]

Cat and mouse.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah. He knocks him down again. Ryan's wife, Anita. This is Greg Ryan, the nature photographer.

[John Haidt]

Gregorski.

[Joe Sucere]

That's right.

[John Haidt]

Yes.

[Joe Sucere]

Ryan's wife Anita, who also saw the takedown, said the tourist had a deep gash on his calf and was badly bruised and needed to be taken to the hospital. A bison is a wild animal. If a person gets too close, the animal may feel threatened. Threatened. She said, okay, this is the nature.

[John Haidt]

We know that. Yeah, maybe the word's not out in

[Joe Sucere]

Poland, the famed forest. This is a famous forest in Poland.

[John Haidt]

Oh, this is. People go there to picnic and hide from bears.

[Joe Sucere]

It's located on Poland's border with Belarus and it is a refuge for roughly, wow, 1,176 free range European bunch bison. See, that's why it was calm. It's a European bison. It had some manners, had some etiquette, very casual. And so when this tourist got in the way, he didn't. This European bison didn't stomp on him.

[John Haidt]

I'm on break.

[Joe Sucere]

He did this to him. He did this to him.

[Kenny Olson]

Do you think the European. Do the European vison. Talk smack about the American bison?

[Joe Sucere]

Yes. They don't like each other.

[John Haidt]

Only at the cafes.

[Joe Sucere]

So then we learned in July, grandpa Carl orsa isom dash McDaniel was tossed 8ft in the air by a bison in a viral attack at Yellowstone National Park. Now, in that one, I think gramps was minding his own business in a picnic area. And it was the buffalo that was the bison that entered. Where the bison. Gramps.

[Kenny Olson]

Grandpa. Grandpa gave it the stink eye. You don't do that.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, look away. You gotta be humble pie there.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah. Park goers are urged to keep their distance to avoid being attacked by the powerful. Now, they're powerful and dangerous animals that can weigh up to a ton. Now, it's a Polish forest. They obviously have

[John Haidt]

guards there, rangers and things.

[Joe Sucere]

Rangers. I would like your cartoon bubble of the Polish ranger at the guard, because I have one.

[John Haidt]

Well, I'm seeing a. I'm seeing Bermuda shorts.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, my God.

[John Haidt]

So am I. I'm seeing a. Almost like a boy scout. But he might. He may have a.

[Joe Sucere]

The headgear.

[Kenny Olson]

What's the head?

[Joe Sucere]

See, this is where we're gonna.

[John Haidt]

It's like a derby hat with maybe a Red. A red feather.

[Joe Sucere]

He's in my head, and he looks

[John Haidt]

like he's just came back from.

[Joe Sucere]

No, it's the hat. Like a formal hat, you know, but it's green.

[Kenny Olson]

Felt.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, it's a felt hat. And he's got a. He's got a feather in it. Because every Polish male, including Uncle Beanie, which is my reference, had always wore a hat and it had a little feather in it. And he's. I'm trying to think what's. He's got binoculars. He's got binoculars around his shoulder. What else you got?

[Kenny Olson]

Clipboard.

[John Haidt]

Oh, vest. Yes, vest. With some. With some accomplishment medals. Not a whole bunch, but he's pretty humble.

[Kenny Olson]

Sort of badge, maybe, or a patch.

[John Haidt]

Yeah, he's got the name tag. You know, it's Kraskowski or whatever it is. You can't read it anyway.

[Kenny Olson]

But I have a question for you. This might be footwear is.

[John Haidt]

It's a. It's a boot that comes up. But mid shin. I'm trying to. It's laced. What else? You see now?

[Kenny Olson]

Kind of a high.

[Joe Sucere]

He's worn out.

[Kenny Olson]

Worn out.

[John Haidt]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I can see where the steel is wearing through on the toe.

[John Haidt]

It's very worn out because he's very active, trying to get away from the

[Joe Sucere]

ginormous, monstrous, hulking, wild, strong animal. And of course, he had no idea this was taking place because it was in a different part of the forest.

[John Haidt]

Plus, he was on lunch.

[Joe Sucere]

He had a break.

[John Haidt]

What was he eating for lunch?

[Joe Sucere]

Don't tell me. Bratwurst. Bratwurst.

[Kenny Olson]

Something with sauerkraut.

[John Haidt]

Pierogies.

[Joe Sucere]

Pierogies.

[John Haidt]

Homemade pierogies that mom made the night before.

[Joe Sucere]

What kind of lunchbox?

[John Haidt]

Oh, he's got the silver round top. It opens like this, just. And he's got the thermometer.

[Joe Sucere]

It's like a silo.

[John Haidt]

Thermos of coffee. Yes. And he has to unscrew. And, you know, he'll take a sip and he'll kind of look around just to see if everything's okay. And a lot of polls smoke. He might have a post lunch.

[Joe Sucere]

And he'll set it down. He'll set it down because some. A new customer is just in the

[John Haidt]

area and it's not a comfortable sight. He's. He's sitting on a rock wall, so it's not really a. A place to sit. He just found a place to sit and enjoy his lunch. My people are just wonderful.

[Kenny Olson]

Bet. Matthew, I have a sensitive question about your people. My uncle. Oh, he's so awesome. He delighted in telling Pollock jokes. Is Pollock a bad word?

[Joe Sucere]

Not to us.

[John Haidt]

Pollock is a. Is a term that has been changed to be derogatory. But it was not meant as a derogatory term initially.

[Kenny Olson]

He put his own twist on it and he would say Polk Polack.

[John Haidt]

Oh, Polac. And said Polack has been changed from non Polish people to say it's derogatory. To say that it's. It's not a. It was not invented as a derogatory term.

[Kenny Olson]

All the Polacks in Uncle Al's stories were dimwits. And they always did.

[Joe Sucere]

Really dumb. That's the point of the Polish story.

[John Haidt]

And you know what? They all grew their own vegetables. Rutabagas.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, the yucky vegetables that we eat. Right. Beets.

[John Haidt]

So they can make beet soup from the Depression.

[Joe Sucere]

Oh, I love Colorado. In the third paragraph, the second paragraph, pronounce the forest. It's the Polish famous forest.

[Kenny Olson]

How your voice does something different.

[Joe Sucere]

Why does your voice change, I wonder?

[John Haidt]

Just because I get into character. Where is Gregorski? St. Cashmere's in Wynonia is now closed.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah.

[John Haidt]

Father Petrovsky. Oh, yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

Quite a Polish population in Minnesota. Not as much as Detroit.

[John Haidt]

Winona lacrosse. Even though it's across the.

[Joe Sucere]

How about the east side of St. Milwaukee?

[John Haidt]

The east side? Yep. It's. There's.

[Kenny Olson]

What about that Polish radio station that plays all the polka?

[Joe Sucere]

10.

[John Haidt]

You can have her. She's too fat for me.

[Joe Sucere]

Does that still exist, that polka song? Yeah. No, no, no, no.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, that.

[Joe Sucere]

I station the station.

[John Haidt]

I have fond memories.

[Kenny Olson]

K check.

[John Haidt]

K, H, K. Fond memories of delivering my Saturday morning paper route with my dad. Driving the station wagon. He spotted papers because it was such a big. And he would have the poker running at about 6:30 in the morning.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm sure they out of New Prague.

[John Haidt]

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

[Kenny Olson]

One of the greatest radio stations in the. In all of the United States. A wonderful station. I have a hat from them.

[John Haidt]

I was. The band at our wedding was ordered not to play any polka songs at all.

[Joe Sucere]

There was an effort made to just. Just to sanitize that wedding.

[John Haidt]

But you know what they did?

[Joe Sucere]

They wouldn't let you loose.

[John Haidt]

They. They overrode. They overrode it and did the chicken dance and poke. And my relish relatives flocked to the dance floor, of course. So they.

[Kenny Olson]

Haven't you seen like Fun Time Polka on TV and all those shows?

[John Haidt]

Yeah, it's wonderful. Yeah, that's on like. Not like. That's on community tv.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

Only because they come I think Joe's missing.

[John Haidt]

He hasn't watched it.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, we'll go back to the plane and have the plane. Vancouver.

[News Reporter]

I had looked at a couple stories this morning which showed me absolutely nothing. So I saw about 15 different stories just now. And the information at best on this is nebulous. That's all I can tell you.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, that's seven.

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, thanks.

[News Reporter]

There were two parents on the plane, not just one. Two parents that according to most of the stories, the child had to be over 2 because he had his own seat. Apparently you get a child seat if you're under two. Maybe could know more about that. Right, but. So he was over 2. And according to only one report that I could find from the Times of India, the parents told. The parents told the crew, quote, it was his individual right to not wear a seat belt, meaning the child.

[Joe Sucere]

That's what I feared we would learn. The parents were idiots. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Those parents should never fly again.

[Joe Sucere]

They should be banned from airline travel.

[Kenny Olson]

Take the bus or the boat you're doing.

[Josh Arnold]

Done.

[News Reporter]

And he was referred to in various stories as a tyke, a toddler, a tot and a child.

[Kenny Olson]

What about some.

[Joe Sucere]

How about this? How about this? So those parents then apparently will just drive around in a car with the kid unbuckled.

[News Reporter]

That's a good point.

[Joe Sucere]

Well, these parents are. Are not. They're not fully developed adults.

[News Reporter]

That was reported, as I said though only in one paper. So out of. I'll Bet I read 15 stories.

[Kenny Olson]

Stories on it.

[Joe Sucere]

So. Boy, these young reporters are not curious. They're just not curious.

[News Reporter]

Well, the two questions why aren't they we asked are the ones that should have been answered first.

[Joe Sucere]

God almighty.

[John Haidt]

Why aren't they. What are they teaching at journalism?

[Joe Sucere]

They're not. It's the Field Academy.

[News Reporter]

They, they did say the airline would not supply an age, but you know, I'm sure you could find it if you tried hard enough. I would think if you're a reporter,

[John Haidt]

his rights not to worry about it's stupid kid.

[Joe Sucere]

No, it isn't. You bought the airline ticket. You have to follow the airline's rules. Yeah, what's your problem?

[John Haidt]

You haven't seen Larry David in Life Pursuit of Happiness, have you?

[Joe Sucere]

Yeah, I have.

[John Haidt]

Have you seen the Orville Wright?

[Joe Sucere]

I haven't seen that one.

[John Haidt]

He sits down with the, the Wright brothers and he gets the middle seat. And Larry's upset that I hate the middle seat. I don't want the middle seat. And it's Jack Ham and, and so somebody else. And then he's holding his briefcase. And they said, no, you have to put the seat case under your seat. And he's like, why? This is my briefcase. For safety. And so he complains and he puts, oh, I feel so safe now.

[Josh Arnold]

I'm.

[John Haidt]

I'm so safe in this plane right here. It is phenomenally hilarious.

[Joe Sucere]

I've seen him do.

[John Haidt]

I. I haven't. I gotta watch the whole episode.

[Joe Sucere]

Lincoln.

[John Haidt]

No, I think it's. It might get old after a while, but I, I. That one was really. Only feel so safe right now.

[Joe Sucere]

Only because they come. Was this for the inaugural flight of the Wright brothers?

[John Haidt]

They're ready to pedal through to get going. And, you know, there's three seats. And he could. I hate the middle seat. There's been no middle seat.

[Joe Sucere]

You've said that.

[John Haidt]

Sorry.

[Joe Sucere]

Only because they come to Polish. Yes, you belong in that. Only because they come to us. All the way from Marleth park in Mpumalanga, South Africa, from the traveling linemans@worldwide waftage.com it was on this day in Minnesota history, August 10th. Well, it was on this day in 1853. The Chicago Landerveen, or Land Society, which eventually established the town of New Ulm, was formed by a group of German immigrants. But here's the best part. At first, lawyers and preachers were banned from membership.

[John Haidt]

Really?

[News Reporter]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

I don't know what they.

[John Haidt]

Why preachers, I wonder.

[Joe Sucere]

Lawyers, I understand preachers, not creatures. Oh, preachers.

[John Haidt]

Why preachers?

[Joe Sucere]

I don't know. On this day, August 10th. Well, on this day in 1887, the first edition of the Prison Mirror, the newspaper of the state penitentiary, was published. It inspired the creation of similar publications at other state institutions. On this day, August 10th in 1909, mail carrier John Beargrease died. Born in 1858, the son of an Ojibwe leader and a white woman, Bear Grease grew up in Beaver Bay and delivered mail along the north shore of Lake Superior from 1887 to 1904, his route being Two Harbors to Grand Marais on open water. The trip took him three days by rowboat. And then in the winter, he used a dog sled.

[John Haidt]

And then a guy like you sitting next to his mailbox, looking at his watch, wondering how the hell he. What took him so long to get you? Utility bill here.

[Joe Sucere]

That was John Beargrease. Don't we name a sled dog race after him?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

And it's on a wonderful snowmobile trail that runs from Duluth up to Grand Marais.

[Joe Sucere]

On this day in sports disappointment history.

[John Haidt]

Who'd we lose to? On August 10th.

[Joe Sucere]

Joe.

[John Haidt]

Yeah.

[Joe Sucere]

Who did we lose to on this day in 1971? Harmon killer in a 43 loss to Baltimore hit home runs number 505. Oh one. Isn't that amazing?

[John Haidt]

Twofer.

[Joe Sucere]

And that was it for sports disappointment history today. Pat, are you here?

[John Haidt]

I am here.

[Joe Sucere]

All right, Pat's here. We'll we're going to check out now and get ready for Monday night sports talk.

[John Haidt]

Let's go.

[Joe Sucere]

But thank you. G Yellers.

[John Haidt]

Quick question for you garage Logicians. Have you signed up for the town council yet? I don't know what you're waiting for. It's super easy. Go to garagelogic.com sign up and you can be privy to pre show during the breaks and post show interaction with the staff where the whether you want to or not. It's kind of fun. It's not gonna make your life any better, but it's very entertaining. Also, if you'd like to subscribe for free on YouTube you can watch us in action. See what Kenny wears each and every day and whether or not that beard is perfectly groomed, which it normally is. Check it all out. It is very sexy. It's all at YouTube. Sign up and don't forget we've got a of little piece preview of the [e-mail] plus you can learn what our busy schedule is at the Minnesota Great

[Joe Sucere]

get together GL ers. It's Monday.

[John Haidt]

But just because it's Monday doesn't mean your finances need to be in mayhem. That's why you pick up your phone, you dial 952-925-5608 for that free 48 minute financial consultation with no obligation with the man himself, Mr. Money Talk. Josh with intel with having a new offer, Apple going down and oil going up, what can Gilers expect this week in the market and in their finances?

[Josh Arnold]

Good questions, Gabe. But do be prepared if it is the month of August, and typically in the month of August, you get a little more volatility as the varsity leaves New York City and heads to the Hamptons for the month, leaving the junior varsity in charge of trading overall. So do be prepared for a little bit of volatility. Many times when the varsity leaves, the junior varsity has only one instruction and that's to sell, not to buy or do nothing. And the varsity tends to come back to work right after Labor Day, which is just a few weeks away. And that means state fair time is coming up as well. And a state fair could be a lot of fun and very crowded this year year. So get your tickets now. I do love the state fair. Nonetheless, when the varsity does return in September, they look at their their holdings and decide what has gone well, what may not be doing well. Plus, we're coming close to the end of a quarter in September and then again, worries about the Fed and the direction of interest rates. So do be prepared for all of that. None. But nevertheless, companies don't stop operating because it's the month of August, money still needs to be raised, particularly around the continued demand for computing power that still revolves around data centers. And intel came out today and announced a $15 billion stock offer primarily for general purposes, but it still is around building out more production and production facilities for the manufacture of chips. Demand for chips and whether it's CPUs, which is intel specialty, or GPUs, which is Nvidia's specialty, continues upheat witness Taiwan Semiconductors announcement of a 45% sales increase from a year ago. Taiwan Semi does make monthly sales announcements. Demand for chips and Taiwan Semi is the largest foundry in the world, is extremely high and the demand for chips for AI is definitely exceeding supply. That does give intel an opportunity if they can put the facilities up to meet that demand. Now building facilities of course, course takes a lot longer than a day, but sometimes stocks will react just on the news before the actual building takes place. Now with demand for chips up, this comes back to issues around favorite Apple, including what is pricing going to be for the new phones when they are introduced in the next month. That has kept Apple's stock in a fairly narrow range. There are many who are believing that Apple will increase price of their phones and a concern will be if the price of the phones increases substantially, will that cut into purchases? My own guess, no. I think the demand also for phones phones, I'm not going to say price insensitive, but price less sensitive as many people purchase their phones not outright but on a monthly basis either through their phone carrier or now under Apple's new lease program which you can tailor make your own lease and at the end of the lease either get a new phone phone or buy out an existing phone. So plenty of options with that. Nonetheless. Today one one bank Jefferies cut their view on Apple from hold to sell based on their belief that the 20th anniversary all glass phone has been canceled. Now this is a phone that has so far been unreported and if it was reported would be scheduled to be released not this September but possibly September of 27 or even 28 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the iPhone. To me That's a little bit too far out, you know, to make a sell call. Now, if they made a sell call or even a downgrade and hold call because. Because phone prices are increasing due to memory costs, okay, that might be a different story. But making a call based on an unknown product that may or may not have been scheduled, I find is a little dubious. Nonetheless, I still maintain my price target of $400 on Apple shares.

[John Haidt]

Beautiful advice on a beautiful Monday.

[Joe Sucere]

And that's why I picked up that phone.

[John Haidt]

I dialed 959-25-5608 for this free 48 minute conversation with Mr. Money Talk. Thank you so much, Josh.

[Josh Arnold]

Always a pleasure, Gabe. And just Remember, it's only 48 minutes.

[John Haidt]

Thank you. Have a good day, sir. Talk to you again tomorrow.

[Josh Arnold]

Bye.

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