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Joe Soucheray
Just a heads up to you folks sitting with a notebook and pen. Mishke, the new podcast here in Garage Logic Land is now coming out twice a week, Wednesdays and Fridays. If you're in fact scribbling this down, Wednesday is kind of tough to spell. It's not like it sounds. You want to spell it W, E, N, Z, but that of course would be a mistake. Friday is spelled just like it sounds. You're going to be okay there, but Wednesday's a bugaboo.
Chris Reavers
Let me tell you people. Just a pain in the patootie. Jeez, it's hard.
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John Height
Hail the Flashlight King.
Chris Reavers
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. Oh, hi there.
John Height
Hope you have survived family, friends, football and everything on Thanksgiving as it's the Black Friday edition of the Best of garagelogic Reavers here in the GL Podcast studios. And I want to once again thank our buddy Matt Otto, who has been a loyal contributor to to garagelogic throughout the years, both as the poet laureate, also helping us out at the state fair a number of times. So thank you, Matt, and appreciate all of your hard work and your assistance with these past two episodes of the Best of garagelogic. And so we're gonna get right back to it here with a couple of pretty good segments if I do not say so myself. So I do hope you enjoy the best of garagelogic.
Chris Reavers
Plastic Waste Bin Causes Severe Head Injury.
Kenny Olson
Plastic Waste Bin Causes Severe Head Injury.
Chris Reavers
A routine part of many yards turned dangerous for a Richfield woman. Last month, Stephanie Schmidt was in her yard cleaning up before a barbecue.
Kenny Olson
I heard about this. My wife saw the cuts, but It's.
Chris Reavers
A Channel 5 story. Yeah, I had my lawn waste bin open and I was putting in leaves and things. Yard waste from gardening, she said. She was standing behind the waste bin, the large lid open. She went to grab it by the handles on back to push it forward just a few feet, to pick up more weeds. The next thing I know, I'm laying on the ground. She said, I felt that sharp pain in my head from hitting my head. Real sharp. But then blood is just gushing out of my head. Schmidt isn't exactly clear what happened, but suspects the heavy lid caused the bin to fall over backwards, tripping her. I've never heard of a trash bin accident.
Kenny Olson
Yeah, I've not.
Chris Reavers
Have you?
Joe Soucheray
Never.
Kenny Olson
I've dealt a lot with those bins myself.
Chris Reavers
She fell toward the bin, and the plastic edge top sliced her head open. Fortunately, her neighbors saw this, and they rushed over to help and called 911. Doctors said Schmidt cut the muscle, nerves and skin down to the bone. Holy mackerel. In a horseshoe pattern around the top of her head. Schmidt now knows not to push her bins with the lid open. In fact, hers have warning signs on them. Actually, my bins say, do not roll with the bin open. And I, even after living here 11 years with these same bins, have never noticed that. She said, I can't picture that.
Kenny Olson
That was my next question to you.
Chris Reavers
I can't picture what happened to her.
Kenny Olson
How does it described in that first paragraph? Maybe it's not the first paragraph, but.
Chris Reavers
She was standing behind the bin. Okay.
Kenny Olson
She's standing. Okay. I'm picturing behind my big Highland sanitation bin.
Chris Reavers
That's what I have. With a big lid. Yes. And the lid is open.
Kenny Olson
The lid's open.
Chris Reavers
Okay. She went to grab it by the handles on back to push it forward. I don't know what that means.
Kenny Olson
So she was gonna tilt it. She was gonna tilt it back so the wheels would go forward. Okay. So she's standing behind it. That gray lid is in between her legs and the trash bin. So she's gonna try to pull it back. So the wheels.
Chris Reavers
Well, I might bin. The handle to roll the bin around would be opposite the side of the cart if the lid was open. In other words, I open my lid.
Kenny Olson
You open your lid front to back. And the wheels are in the back. Right.
Chris Reavers
The wheels are in the center.
Joe Soucheray
If I may interject.
Chris Reavers
I wish you would.
Kenny Olson
Come on in, Johnny. Come on in.
Joe Soucheray
Last week.
Chris Reavers
I think we can have a little fun with this. It sounds like she's gonna be okay.
Joe Soucheray
Well, this will be a little more fun for you. And I almost. I didn't. I wasn't gonna bring the story in, because last summer, I. I did. Did this exact same thing, but I fell inside the bin. It was.
John Height
It was a.
Chris Reavers
You held this out on us.
Joe Soucheray
It was a yard waste bin.
Chris Reavers
What's the difference between a yard waste bin and my Highland sanitation bin with my trash in it?
Joe Soucheray
Exactly the same. Only. Only you just put, you know, loose grass cuttings and leaves, that sort of thing.
Chris Reavers
Pitch that up.
John Height
They have a. I have ones.
Joe Soucheray
Yeah, our company does.
Kenny Olson
We only have trash and recycling we don't have.
John Height
So mine's a compost bin, and it's about, I would say, a third larger, just a minute than my garbage bin is.
Chris Reavers
Did you fall into your bin head first, so your feet were sticking out?
Joe Soucheray
I. I did, and I was down.
Chris Reavers
Were your feet kind of wiggling at the top?
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Chris Reavers
Help me, Help me.
Joe Soucheray
I was down at the bottom the boulevard, pulling weeds out of a little garden we have there. And I thought, was this on, like.
John Height
A Sunday afternoon, if you know what I'm saying?
Joe Soucheray
It was on a Saturday or Sunday. It was. I was. I thought, well, I can push this bin with it open over about 20ft so I can pull some more weeds. And as Rook was explaining, the thing flew because it was hanging down. It flew on my legs, and the weight got all messed up on the actual bin, and it tripped me, and I flew straight into the bin. Now I was able to crawl out, very embarrassed. And I looked up and across the street, my neighbor Tony, laughing his head off.
Chris Reavers
Well, wouldn't you. You can't blame. Well, he said, I still can't picture how this happened.
Joe Soucheray
Well, at first he said to me, are you okay? And I said, yes, I'm fine. He said, good. Then I don't feel bad about laughing. And it's become a running joke now. Every time I grab my bin, if he's outside, he'll say, hey, be careful.
Chris Reavers
I've never had a bin accident. I still can't picture.
Kenny Olson
See, it has to do with compost.
Chris Reavers
No compost.
Kenny Olson
That lady.
Joe Soucheray
Compost.
Chris Reavers
No, no. I just can't picture what goes afoul.
Joe Soucheray
Okay. Your garbage bin.
Patrick
Yeah.
Joe Soucheray
Wow. When you open it.
Chris Reavers
Yep.
Joe Soucheray
It opens. Yeah.
Kenny Olson
Opens like this.
Joe Soucheray
The side you push from would be the side the top hangs on. Right. If you open it, the handles to.
Kenny Olson
Push it down the driveway are in.
Joe Soucheray
The back, are on the same side. If you open the top, that the top would hang down, right?
Kenny Olson
Yes. Yes, they are. Because I would have the same bin he has. You have two big wheels at the back at the backside of the trash bin, and you have nothing in front because when you. You always lean it back when you're going to take it down to the street.
John Height
Mr. Reavers Joe, I have my hand up. Joe, I know you can't see, so there's a big celebration for you in like late September. Can I please submit this last four minutes?
Chris Reavers
Sure.
John Height
For that particular piece because we have not one, but two people on this show that are confused as to how a bleeping trash bin works.
Chris Reavers
No, no, no, no. Yeah, no, I know how the bin works. I think we got a guy that fell inside of. We got one.
Kenny Olson
We got an expert.
Chris Reavers
We got our own guy who went head first into one. We got this lady in Richfield and I'm struggling to understand what happened.
Joe Soucheray
See the weight distribution, Joe, because you lift it to push it, you grab the handles and the weight distribution is all screwed up. So. Because the lid's hanging down.
John Height
Jesus, Joe.
Joe Soucheray
So all of a sudden it falls. You're still walking. It trips you.
Chris Reavers
You know, what do you do when I get home and you fall?
Joe Soucheray
Whatever.
Chris Reavers
Going to take mine out in the driveway. I'm going to open the lid and I'm going to parade it around and push it. Yep.
Joe Soucheray
Be careful. Here's what I think.
Chris Reavers
I'm going to do it on the grass so when I fall, I won't hurt myself. Dale?
Gabe
Yes, I'm here.
Chris Reavers
You're on the air.
Gabe
So it's a little bit like stepping on a rake in that when you have the lid hanging down, it's hanging down there by the wheels. And now you tip that towards you. And now the lid is just slightly off ground level. And now you start to walk and your footsteps on that lid, it rotates on the axle and the edge of the bin comes up and hits you right in the forehead because you're kind of bent over while you're pushing. I don't get happened to me last year. It was harder than I've ever been hit in my life.
Chris Reavers
So the bin lid flew up and hit you in the head?
Gabe
No, the. The bin lid hangs down close to the grass because you're tipping it at an angle. Right. So gravity pulls the lid straight down. Now you walk towards the lid and your toes step on that edge of that lid, the lip of the lid. And now it rotates on the axle and it comes up and hits you in the head.
Chris Reavers
All right, thank you. All right, so I don't get it.
John Height
How loaded are you people when you're doing yard work?
Chris Reavers
My God. Here's the deal.
Joe Soucheray
Here's the deal.
Chris Reavers
Here's the deal. Yeah, I don't think I have this problem. My lid would be on the other side of the no, no, no, I don't get it. No, I don't get it.
Kenny Olson
When you're in I can't wait to.
Chris Reavers
Get home and practice with my beer.
Kenny Olson
Your lid is in your garage.
Chris Reavers
Yep.
Kenny Olson
It's up against the wall.
Chris Reavers
Yep.
Kenny Olson
The rail. The handles are up against the wall.
Chris Reavers
No, no. Handles are facing north. The body of the bin.
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Joe Soucheray
Oh, no, I'm trying to get.
Chris Reavers
Oh, I put it in where I could. I don't get this.
Kenny Olson
I'm picturing your.
Chris Reavers
I'm really in your garage.
Kenny Olson
I know where you keep your bin.
Chris Reavers
Yeah. And I, I, when I would open the lid of the bin in my garage, I'm throwing it, I'm opening it towards the street. Towards the street. Put in the bag of stuff, close the lid. The handles are right there so that in the event my lid was open, I still have access to the handles. I wouldn't be tripping over the lid.
Kenny Olson
So you put it in sideways. No, unlike any normal person would. They would put it up against the wall.
Chris Reavers
I don't get it.
Kenny Olson
And then the handle would be butt up against the wall. So when you throw your stuff in, you open it and it goes up against the wall and you pour all the stuff.
Chris Reavers
No, no.
Kenny Olson
Well, then you move Your stuff around. You're weird. You're not normal. I'm coming over after. What kind of beer you got, Ryan?
Gabe
Yeah. Joe.
Patrick
Yeah.
Gabe
I am in the industry, as you know.
Chris Reavers
Yes, sir.
Gabe
This is. You know with garage collection. I always. I always tell my customers. Well, it ain't rocket science. Yeah. Always pick up car. But she got. You gotta be smarter than the equipment you're working with. You know. I mean if he feels it's gonna fall, just let it drop. He could pick it up.
Chris Reavers
That's what I'm thinking.
Gabe
And you know, he's got one job.
Chris Reavers
Yep.
Gabe
Don't fall in the garbage.
Chris Reavers
No, don't. Don't go head first into the can.
Gabe
No.
Chris Reavers
Right. All right. Thank you.
Gabe
Yep.
Chris Reavers
What I'm suggesting to you is I don't think I could have this accident because of the way my bin is configured.
Kenny Olson
But I have the same bin.
Chris Reavers
No, you might not have the same bin. You ever show you have a.
Kenny Olson
They've got one. Maybe have one kind of bin. They have one same bin we have.
Chris Reavers
Jam packed on Friday.
Kenny Olson
This is. These are problems of the garage. Newsman lived in a bin for our own news.
Chris Reavers
Guy fell head first in.
Kenny Olson
He was in there for. Till his wife found him days later playing guitar. You know.
Chris Reavers
Yeah.
Kenny Olson
I mean I'm picturing Johnny Height, the poor guy sitting around doing nothing and his wife's looking for him and all she can hear is I am stuck.
Gabe
In a pair of handcuffs.
Chris Reavers
I'm stuck in a trash bin. Neil, is it?
Patrick
Neil?
Gabe
It is.
Chris Reavers
Go ahead, please. Yes.
Gabe
Hail you, man.
Chris Reavers
Hail you.
Gabe
Hail the flashlight.
Chris Reavers
Hail you. Let's go here.
Gabe
Do have to say there. I'm very disappointed though in you.
Chris Reavers
What happened you.
Gabe
I cannot believe that this. This incident with Johnny did not make.
Chris Reavers
Your list of my list of your.
Kenny Olson
Your portfolio, your.
Gabe
Your list of things. I've never done this stupid to the. That you can show the cp.
Joe Soucheray
Oh yeah.
Chris Reavers
I should put that in there. You're right. I've never fallen into a trash can.
Patrick
Not yet.
Chris Reavers
Close head first. I've never fallen into one. All right. Thank you.
Gabe
Yeah.
John Height
Exactly how much money would you pay to have the video?
Kenny Olson
When I go to Heaven. That's what's one I'm checking out. Show me Johnny Height in the bin.
Chris Reavers
Mark. Yeah.
Gabe
I have a simple question for you. Does your trash can lid, the hinge also serve as a handle?
Chris Reavers
No.
Gabe
Oh. Because ours all are the same. The lid is the handles as well. It hinges where the handles are.
Chris Reavers
I don't get it.
Kenny Olson
Yes. Yes, yours is.
Chris Reavers
Does it?
Kenny Olson
Because in the back.
Chris Reavers
No, that's where you're hung up on this back thing. There's nothing about the back.
Kenny Olson
What color is yours? What color is it?
Gabe
Definitely the back.
Chris Reavers
All right, thank you.
Kenny Olson
What color is it?
Chris Reavers
Brown. Brown. What color is it? Kind of a gray top.
Kenny Olson
Gray? Yeah. See, this is classic. This is. Yeah, this is. I'm gonna have Gabe go out and take a picture of mine and send it and say, this is what your looks like.
Chris Reavers
I'm telling you, when I get home, I'm gonna work with my bin, get to the bottom. I'm so. See, I have curiosity.
Kenny Olson
I want a picture.
Chris Reavers
I'm gonna test this.
Kenny Olson
I want a picture sent to me, you dummy.
Chris Reavers
I will. I will.
Kenny Olson
I'm gonna show you.
Chris Reavers
I'll video it.
Kenny Olson
Yeah, you will.
Chris Reavers
We're gonna be back to solve this and other problems. God help us.
Kenny Olson
They're still calling, too. We still got people that have lived. It was their tiny house for a month.
Chris Reavers
Would you call a radio show and admit you fell into a building?
Joe Soucheray
Hell, no.
Kenny Olson
Then it's out there.
Chris Reavers
Here's Bruce Vale from the Wall Street Journal. I'll be on the minute.
Gabe
I fell it. I fell into the bin.
Chris Reavers
Wait a minute. I don't. I don't want any more bin talk. I just don't get it. I don't. Give us a quote. Just a minute.
Kenny Olson
Bin talk. Was it brown? What color was it? Was it the gray top?
Chris Reavers
Jason?
Gabe
Yeah, Joe. I don't understand how this can happen either. I really don't.
Chris Reavers
Thank you.
Gabe
It's been 20 years, but I used to haul garage and we used to load up. I dropped them and tripped and fell on top of them. But not in it?
Chris Reavers
No.
Gabe
I don't know how you felt.
Chris Reavers
Even if it was empty.
Joe Soucheray
I don't know.
Chris Reavers
How did I fall head first into a bin? You had to be hammered.
Joe Soucheray
I was not.
Kenny Olson
I'm with you, Joe. Is it? Jason, what color was your favorite bin that you worked with?
Chris Reavers
Oh, God help me. One more and that's it.
Joe Soucheray
Okay.
Chris Reavers
Who is it? Ron.
Gabe
Hello?
Chris Reavers
Yeah, Ron.
Gabe
Thanks for taking my call, Joe. Yeah, and I just wanted to say that in March 3rd this year, I was walking from the back of my house to the front to check my mail, and the wind was blowing just to beat heck. And it's only about 35ft between my house and the next one. Anyway, I. I just got by one of my trash bins and the lid flew up and it. It broke my glasses and it knocked me colder than a damn mackerel.
Kenny Olson
What color was It.
Chris Reavers
Thank you. Thank you, Ron. Be careful out there.
Kenny Olson
It's just take.
Joe Soucheray
Take.
Kenny Olson
Tim. Tim, go ahead. You're on garagelogic. This is the last bin call.
Gabe
Okay, yeah, as long as I get the time in the town.
Chris Reavers
233.
Kenny Olson
It's about 77, I think.
Joe Soucheray
Oh, y.
Chris Reavers
Like the job.
John Height
Greatest topic ever.
Gabe
Am I on the air? Are we on now?
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Chris Reavers
Now, that's enough. When I get home, I will conduct experiments.
Joe Soucheray
The fella who called and said, it's like stepping on a rake. Yeah, the perfect description. Because your body's going forward, the thing is coming at you. When you step on it, there's no way to stop it.
Chris Reavers
Okay, John. Thank you.
Kenny Olson
And the only thing that goes through your mind when you fall head first in the bin is this.
Joe Soucheray
It's partly sunny and 77 degrees. Kind of sorry I told you guys that.
John Height
No, you're not.
Joe Soucheray
Twins and Rangers again tonight from Target Field. Bartolo Colon pitches for the Twins and lefty Martin Perez goes for Texas.
John Height
Hey, Johnny. Nick writes it and wants to know if that's what caused your heart attack.
Joe Soucheray
No, this was after. This was last summer and I didn't Have a heart attack.
John Height
Got it.
Joe Soucheray
Just so you know from the Star Tribune, a Blue Earth county man with a history of drunken driving convictions is facing yet another charge, this time for allegedly driving drunk, riding his lawnmower. Annoyed that a police.
Chris Reavers
Did you see the email that Terry said? Reefers? No, I haven't. It's a video of John Height taking out the trash when he was a kid. Oh, it's the most hilarious thing you got up here. I'll forward it to you.
John Height
I got it right here. I got it right here.
Joe Soucheray
Annoyed that a police car was following him July 20th as he drove his lawnmower down the street in the city of Madison Lake Thomas Growth hit the brakes and confronted the officer. The 60 year old wound up charged with drunken driving after blowing a.28 on his blood alcohol test. More than three times the legal limit.
Chris Reavers
That's what you were when you fell into the bin?
Joe Soucheray
No, I.
John Height
Well, I just watched the video.
Chris Reavers
Post that for the G elers.
Joe Soucheray
Must be a windy day for the little fella, huh?
Chris Reavers
This poor kid is getting a crap beat out of him by a bin.
John Height
Is this a. A video surveillance or is this mom and dad? Look at this dummy.
Joe Soucheray
It's probably a house camera. Now, Joel smoked. Not that this will do the listener any good, but your bin opens the same way that kids did, right?
Chris Reavers
I don't know, Jim.
Joe Soucheray
Okay, Never mind. Anyway, Mr. Grotha now has eight or nine drunken drivers.
John Height
You know what the score of that video was? Garbage can 47, kid zero.
Chris Reavers
Here's John Haidt in the Sports Talk newsroom.
Joe Soucheray
Thank you, Joe. News notes from today. Engineers found no sign of trouble during their last inspection of that pedestrian bridge in Minneapolis where suspension cable broke loose Sunday night. Mike Kennedy, director of Transportation Maintenance and Repair for Minneapolis Public Works, says the inspection in September turned up no problems with the 18 sets of cable that support the Martin Olav Sabo Bridge. Bridge does remain closed. Officials continue to detour traffic underneath. Un. Busy. Hiawath.
Patrick
I have a stupid question, Joe. When a cable like that snaps, does it. I mean, does it really snap and fly all over and cut somebody in two, or does it just simply fall to the ground?
Kenny Olson
What do you think he's an expert because he watches how they make bridges?
Patrick
No. Hey, hey, back down, pal. I know he's an expert.
Chris Reavers
I would. I would suspect, given the tension on it, she'd pop pretty good. And you don't want to be in the way.
Patrick
That's what I'm thinking.
Chris Reavers
All right. Thank you.
Caller/Listener
Closed, by the way.
Patrick
Yes, it is.
Joe Soucheray
Come on.
Chris Reavers
Get it.
Joe Soucheray
What?
Caller/Listener
What are we doing here?
Kenny Olson
Let's go here.
Caller/Listener
Are they fixing it with a suppliers and a screwdriver?
Chris Reavers
Let's go here.
Joe Soucheray
Radioactivity from Japan.
Chris Reavers
Two tools. You know how to name pliers and a screwdriver.
Patrick
You should be mayor Patrick. It'd be awesome.
Chris Reavers
Come on, let's go Chase.
Joe Soucheray
Radioactivity from Japan's power plant disaster has been detected as far away as 400 miles offshore in the Pacific Ocean. Scientists say ocean water showed readings of up to 1000 times prior levels of the substance Caesium 137 from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Chris Reavers
We're gonna have some weird looking fish.
Joe Soucheray
While they are saying these new readings are far below levels that they think are harmful either to marine animals or people.
Caller/Listener
I'd just be afraid that sharks are gonna grow legs.
Chris Reavers
Come up on land.
Caller/Listener
There will be land sharks.
Joe Soucheray
I think you got a movie there.
Chris Reavers
Yes.
Joe Soucheray
The damage is minor but a 4.0 earthquake centered Missouri has given folks in that area a reminder that they live in one of the continent's most active seismic areas. U.S. geological Survey says the quake occurred in the New Madrid seismic zone. A 150 mile stretch between Memphis and St. Louis.
Chris Reavers
I don't like it.
Caller/Listener
4.0 does that.
Chris Reavers
I don't like it. You wouldn't even detect that would rattle the China. But here's why I don't like it.
Patrick
Why?
Chris Reavers
That doesn't bode well for Yellowstone. If she goes, it's over.
Patrick
Speaking of that, last night I was looking at an awesome piece of property. Sewage on a mountainside out there.
Chris Reavers
Good luck to you.
Patrick
And I panned out and I noticed boy, this hill it looks like. Looks just like a crater from a volcano. And sure enough it was.
Chris Reavers
I don't think so.
Joe Soucheray
Amid beads, trinkets and music, Mardi Gras revelers have been filling the streets of New Orleans today. Many in elaborate costumes gathering in large numbers soon after dawn.
Caller/Listener
Today, today, tomorrow's. What am I giving up?
Chris Reavers
I don't know. Diet pop.
Kenny Olson
Diet Coke. There's the ultimate sacrifice, man.
Patrick
Phil Mackey.
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Chris Reavers
Folks begin such an old knee jerk reaction to our upbringing. What am I giving up?
Kenny Olson
Yep. Diet Coke.
Chris Reavers
Candy.
Kenny Olson
Giving up Diet Coke again.
Patrick
You know, Give up smoking, Pat.
Kenny Olson
Yeah, you're covered Pat. You're covered. No booze. 40 days.
Joe Soucheray
No booze. 40 years.
Chris Reavers
John, what's coming up?
Joe Soucheray
New sport that involves tasers.
Chris Reavers
Oh goody, that ought to be fun.
Joe Soucheray
A lot of dumb crook stuff including a kid looking for some marijuana and retribution. You don't want to hear about for a cheating husband.
Caller/Listener
I bet it involves the swimsuit area.
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Hello.
Joe Soucheray
Hi there. Hi. We were just chatting about a news story in here, actually. A video of a new sport in which players can zap rivals with stun guns has gone viral on YouTube. Ultimate Taser Ball allows players to zap opponents with 300,000 volt stun guns to induce a muscle spasm which will make them drop the ball or fall over or die. No, it's Not a lethal dose. According to this, there have been no official games played, but the sports creators insist it's a genuine and they are forming a league. The promotional video seen by more than 1 million viewers already on YouTube. The inventors say the stun guns are designed to deliver 8 milliamps of current, well below the lethal dose of 1amp. In the video clip, one zapped player warns, if you're scared, don't play. Another adds, it hurts, man. It doesn't feel good.
Patrick
Well, the problem is people are going to take these and use them out of the game, right? Like walking down the hall. Rookie's going to break into song and I'm going to blast them.
Kenny Olson
Hey rookie.
Caller/Listener
The other day I was flipping channels and Hangover was on and I had to wait five minutes to see the scene in the grade school class where they I'm not a big slapstick guy, but the scene where they shoot the guys with the tasers is kind of funny.
Patrick
It always is.
Joe Soucheray
There are four fledgling teams for the league, the LA Nightlight, the Philadelphia Kilowatts, the Toronto Terror and San Diego Spartans.
Caller/Listener
They should play these in lingerie and it would really be great.
Joe Soucheray
A Florida teenager arrested after he allegedly stole a tomato plant that he mistook for marijuana. Angela Cartwright of Holly Hill, Florida, said the plant was stolen February 10 from her home. She told police she saw the 15 year old grab it through her open kitchen window as she returned from walking her son to the school's bus stop.
Patrick
Dude, look at those buds. They're big and red.
Chris Reavers
Used to be just a pie would sit on the opening kitchen window.
Caller/Listener
The hobo come and steal it, she says.
Joe Soucheray
The boy yelled at her, see I have one of your pot plants and took off running, cartwright told a local newspaper. She chased him and yelled out, you stupid little brat, that's a tomato plant.
Chris Reavers
What a moron.
Kenny Olson
What are your pot plants?
Joe Soucheray
Police made an arrest Wednesday after Cartwright, walking her son to the school bus, spotted a teen she identified as the thief in Lincoln, Nebraska. Police say an attempt by two men to fool police by switching seats after an accident ended up with both men getting charged with drunk and driving.
Patrick
That doesn't work, huh?
Joe Soucheray
Lincoln Journal star said the accident happened early Monday. When police got there, 21 year old Shawn Walker was in the driver's seat of a car that was stuck in the mud. Police say 21 year old Daniel Krupicka had switched places with Walker trying to get the car out of the mud. Walker was released after being cited for negligent driving and drunken driving. Krupica released after being cited for no seatbelt and drunken driving.
Caller/Listener
Yesterday we had the guy on the scooter stuck in the sand after stealing.
Joe Soucheray
The beer, trying to. Yeah, his wheelchair got stuck in the sand. Speaking of getting stuck in San Francisco, did you see this picture? A Porsche.
Chris Reavers
Oh, yeah.
Joe Soucheray
Got stuck in wet concrete.
Patrick
Oh, no. Like the movies.
Joe Soucheray
After trying to beat traffic by maneuvering into an empty lane. Motorist was trying to beat the traffic by driving his 911 Carrera S around a line of sight stationary cars. But the lane he pulled into had just been laid.
Caller/Listener
The car got. I hope his wife was with it.
Chris Reavers
The car.
Joe Soucheray
Yeah.
Chris Reavers
I told you not to pull out, you jerk.
Kenny Olson
If you want to see that. Posted at 1500 ESPN under Garage Logic.
Caller/Listener
Under February 20 is that Porsche worth some money?
Chris Reavers
Yeah, it was over a hon new.
Joe Soucheray
Was it the.
Patrick
Which one was it the Carrera?
Chris Reavers
911.
Joe Soucheray
911 Carrera. The man had to stay in the Porsche while workman tried to shovel around.
Chris Reavers
The wheels before you just sit there.
Patrick
And bathe in your shame.
Joe Soucheray
Passerbys, of course, weren't very nice. They stopped to point and laugh. Cyclist Robert Etzler, who photographed the car, said it was.
Patrick
Got a picture of it. Is this on the website?
Kenny Olson
Yeah, that's what's posted.
Joe Soucheray
Said it was stuck for about an hour. Etzler added, eventually they had to dig out concrete from around and under the car to get it free. He says he thought the workmen probably were angry about it to start with, but they were getting paid by the hour and by the time they were done they were kind of laughing about it.
Patrick
And you know, when he. When he went into that lane, he just hammered the throttle and he was mad and he was going to show them.
Caller/Listener
I'm going to show these guys.
Joe Soucheray
Police say in northern Kentucky, woman took matters into her own hands when she found out her husband was cheating on her.
Caller/Listener
This isn't going to be good.
Joe Soucheray
You're right, Patrick. She shot her husband in the swimsuit.
Chris Reavers
Right in the gral.
Joe Soucheray
According to. According to authorities 39 year old Carrie Alvarez shot her husband Javier while they were standing outside their home after someone called reporting loud arguing witness Carolina Honeycutt said, we seen them take somebody out on a stretcher. She was always so nice when I've talked to her. I would never expect her to do anything like this. Police did arrest Alvarez. No charges yet. The husband reported in fair condition. But there is no word to the extent.
Caller/Listener
He's a girl now on whether he's gonna procreate.
Joe Soucheray
Exactly. No word on the extent of injuries.
Kenny Olson
I've also posted that, but it's under sports talk@1500 ESPN.com and if you're looking for it, it's under Brian Bosworth lookalike shoots husband. This is the gal right here.
Joe Soucheray
That's the gal, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Caller/Listener
She'd shoot you in the gray. Hey, whatever happened to John Bobbitt? How's John Bobbitt doing?
Joe Soucheray
John who?
Caller/Listener
John.
Kenny Olson
John Wayne Bobbitt.
Caller/Listener
John Wayne Bobbitt, that's right, Marina.
Kenny Olson
He was doing adult movies.
Caller/Listener
It's got to be 25 years ago, doesn't it?
Joe Soucheray
Oh, is it really about 20?
Kenny Olson
Pretty close to 20, yeah.
Joe Soucheray
Rook's right. I think he did a couple. Couple porn flicks. Right. I don't know what happened after.
Kenny Olson
After it was reattached.
Chris Reavers
Really?
Patrick
Yeah, yeah, but it was like a thumb.
Joe Soucheray
It was.
Kenny Olson
Well, I'm sorry I didn't see the movies like you did.
Joe Soucheray
What?
Kenny Olson
What, Patrick?
Caller/Listener
Lymphomania.
Chris Reavers
Well, I, I. Now that you've brought it up, I'm compelled to wonder, why would he have been in a porn movie? Well, so we could all laugh at it.
Joe Soucheray
There, Joe. I believe they fixed him, for lack of a better word, so that he could still perform. But I'm sure people were drawn by the.
Caller/Listener
I'm sorry I brought it up.
Chris Reavers
I am too.
Caller/Listener
What do you got next, Joe?
Joe Soucheray
There's a rash of thefts in Philadelphia Society Hill neighborhood with police saying in the past couple of weeks over a dozen brass door knockers have been taken right off people's homes.
Patrick
Nice knockers.
Joe Soucheray
Yeah. George blood of the 300 block of Delancey street in Philly says someone stole a solid brass knocker in the shape of a hand right off his door. Middle of the day, over the weekend.
Caller/Listener
You gotta have that on your sounders, don't you?
Joe Soucheray
What? A set of knockers.
Chris Reavers
Oh, there it is. What?
Patrick
Knockers.
Chris Reavers
Thank you, doctor. What page is that on?
Kenny Olson
That's on GL Love and it's in yellow.
Chris Reavers
I see.
Joe Soucheray
What K. I see blood says it looks like whoever stole his also hit other homes along the street. He says there's been a rash of them. You can walk around the neighborhood and see all the knockers missing. That's what he said.
Patrick
That's like poetry, isn't it?
Caller/Listener
How old are we laughing at the word knockers?
Joe Soucheray
That's what they are.
Chris Reavers
They're knockers. Yeah.
Joe Soucheray
It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a place where he stored fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. And now. I don't know if this is a good idea. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in an experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species that no longer exist.
Patrick
That's amazing.
Joe Soucheray
The Silene stenophylla, one of the oldest plants ever to be regenerated. The experiment proves that permafrost serves as a national depository for ancient life forms, said the Russian researchers who published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. Of course, one of the researchers said this could lead to, of course, resurrecting perhaps a mammoth, say.
Chris Reavers
Jurassic Park.
Joe Soucheray
Exactly.
Caller/Listener
What was the name of the show that we used to have on before we became a sports station? From the Punnett.
Patrick
Art Bell.
Caller/Listener
Yeah.
Kenny Olson
But after coast to Coast.
Joe Soucheray
Ralph.
Chris Reavers
Poor old Ralph. Nuri, Josh.
Caller/Listener
Poor old Josh sat in here and listened to that so often, he was spending all his money on seeds.
Patrick
After the overnight border.
Caller/Listener
I gotta get me some of those.
Patrick
Seeds in a panic room.
Pacific Life Announcer
Yeah.
Kenny Olson
Well, the one really sad thing about that story is that one of the researchers that just finally this came to be, he died of a heart attack on Saturday.
Chris Reavers
Oh.
Kenny Olson
I mean, so they finally he gets this news, the seeds growing, and he was shocked.
Joe Soucheray
He died.
Kenny Olson
Yeah, he died.
Chris Reavers
Oh, I thought it was that you were telling us something.
Kenny Olson
Yeah, no, this is. No, it's legitimate.
Joe Soucheray
It's sad. I didn't even have. Have that part of the story. Rook's a step ahead.
Patrick
Good story.
Joe Soucheray
Rook.
Patrick
Good story.
Chris Reavers
All right.
Joe Soucheray
Thank you.
Chris Reavers
We'll.
Kenny Olson
We'll go back to being the dumb guy again.
Chris Reavers
Here in the newsroom is John Height.
Joe Soucheray
Thank you. Joe Partley. Cloudy in 76. Twins. Brewers tonight from Milwaukee. 640. Pregame 710. Start here at 1500. ESPN. Peter Falk has died at the age of 83. Of course, he'll always be remembered as Columbo. And he said in a 2005 interview that was fine with him because people really loved Colombo. Did you know he was not the first choice to play Colombo?
Chris Reavers
I did not know that, John.
Joe Soucheray
Who was Bing Crosby?
John Height
No.
Joe Soucheray
Yeah.
Chris Reavers
Can I help you out?
Patrick
I got one more question.
Chris Reavers
I got one more thing I want to talk to you about.
Kenny Olson
We got Dean Martin and we got. I don't know what this is.
Joe Soucheray
Crosby the Clown.
Chris Reavers
Well, one more thing I want to.
Patrick
Tell you and I want to sing a little song.
Chris Reavers
If you can just hang around a little bit.
Patrick
Do a little song.
Chris Reavers
Now I'm going into Amos and Andy.
Joe Soucheray
Yeah, you were pretty much. Crosby turned it down, apparently because he wanted to concentrate on his golf tournament.
Patrick
Oh.
Joe Soucheray
Peter Falk was 83 years old. His daughter said he had Alzheimer's.
John Height
That would have been a terrible decision if he had accepted that right for him.
Patrick
It would have. Oh, yeah, certainly. Wasn't he in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? I think he was, wasn't he?
Chris Reavers
No, no, you're thinking of.
Kenny Olson
He was in the Princess Bride as the grandpa.
Chris Reavers
Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy.
Patrick
Oh, yeah, I know about who. Who is the one in the beginning that kicked the bucket on the side of the hill? Was that Durani.
Chris Reavers
Jimmy Durante was.
Patrick
Drives off the cliff and right before.
Kenny Olson
He dies, he kicks a bucket.
Caller/Listener
No, I thought he played.
Gabe
That's what I'm saying.
Joe Soucheray
I thought he played. Cliff Huxtable.
John Height
Oh, that's Bill Cosby.
Joe Soucheray
Don't get that.
Chris Reavers
John, what's coming up on the news?
Joe Soucheray
Coming up, we now know what happened at that Wild west shootout in South Dakota. Oh, yeah.
Chris Reavers
Where they really shot people.
Joe Soucheray
Yeah. We know what the problem was. Also the tale of a man who hasn't washed himself in 37 years.
Pacific Life Announcer
His tail.
Chris Reavers
All right, and we'll be back in just a moment. Sports talk lives here, 1500 espn. Here's Ken Barlow with your weekend weather forecast. Well, thank you, Joe.
Gabe
Thank you very much.
Kenny Olson
Sunny and going to get some rain.
Patrick
Tonight and then it's going to dry up.
Chris Reavers
Oh, my God. It's 5:40. I thought it was 5.
Patrick
We're going to send an ambulance over to your place right now.
Chris Reavers
Keep your eye on the bobber.
Patrick
Breathe into the bag, sir. Breathe into the bag.
Kenny Olson
Go ahead.
Chris Reavers
I thought it was 550. Here's John Height with more news.
Joe Soucheray
Hey, Control.
John Height
Authorities now say no, he's just disappointed.
Kenny Olson
Take your coat off your mauer shove spot back out.
Patrick
It's like finding out it's Thursday when you think it's Friday.
Joe Soucheray
Right?
Kenny Olson
Six minutes.
Chris Reavers
I lost a little bit of time there.
Patrick
Okay.
Joe Soucheray
Authorities now say it won't be the last time.
Chris Reavers
Probably not.
Joe Soucheray
One of the participants in that mock old west gun battle in South Dakota actually fired live ammunition instead of using blanks.
Chris Reavers
Well, we figured that.
Patrick
I think we figured that part out.
Joe Soucheray
But nobody had, you know, the investigation hadn't shown that.
Chris Reavers
Well, what are we going to do? We going to put the guy in the clinker?
Kenny Olson
Is that what Rice he called in with earlier?
Joe Soucheray
Yeah. Okay. The Pennington county sheriff was to give some more details later this afternoon. I just checked their website before they came in. There was no new information but apparently was real ammunition shattered a 65 year old woman's fibula. She's from here?
Chris Reavers
Yeah, she's from White Bear.
Joe Soucheray
48 year old Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania man and a 2 year old Nebraska man were also wounded. There was no immediate comment from the reenactors on their Facebook page. The group has said they're not allowed to bring live roms to their performances.
Chris Reavers
Well, why did they? As the whole story has yet to be told.
Joe Soucheray
And that's why we're expecting more details from the Pennington county sheriff. At some point you'd think they'd build.
Patrick
A firearm that only shoots blanks. That you can't put a 40 cal in. Or a 9 millimeter or 45. Whatever. Just build a gun that's dedicated to shooting blanks.
Chris Reavers
There you go. Like a starter's pistol.
Patrick
Sure.
Joe Soucheray
Perfect.
John Height
Or a married guy.
Patrick
2, 3, 4.
Joe Soucheray
In India. In India.
Chris Reavers
India.
Joe Soucheray
India. Kalesh Singh has as good a claim as any to the accolades of the world's smelliest man after he's refused to wash for more than 37 years.
Patrick
I thought he was working at CCO now. Inside joke, inside joke.
Joe Soucheray
65 year old Mr. Singh has not bathed or cut his six foot long dreadlocks since 1974.
Chris Reavers
That is not good for the community.
Joe Soucheray
Explaining his unconventional decision.
Chris Reavers
That's not good for the community.
Gabe
Please come visit anytime, any day of the week.
Chris Reavers
It's not good for the community.
Joe Soucheray
Mr. Sing.
Chris Reavers
It's an Irish Indian, isn't it?
Kenny Olson
It is.
Joe Soucheray
That certainly is, Joe.
Kenny Olson
The smell was really bad. This lady today is unbelievable.
Chris Reavers
Oh, terrible. Today he never wash. Mr. Singh claimed.
Joe Soucheray
The priest guaranteed him a much prized son and heir if he would not wash.
Chris Reavers
I don't know about that.
Patrick
What about stand out in the rain? Can he go out in the rain?
Joe Soucheray
Good question, Kenny. Not addressed in this.
Patrick
By the way, Peter Falk was in it's a mad, mad, mad, mad.
Chris Reavers
Oh good. Who cares?
Kenny Olson
Video of this guy lifting up his armpit to show all the community ready.
Joe Soucheray
And 4, 3, 2, 1.
Gabe
Oh.
Chris Reavers
And everybody in town goes, oh, put her down.
Joe Soucheray
Despite neighbors all the community. Despite neighbors joking that the farmer would be lucky to ever persuade his wife to have any children, let alone a boy. He has seven daughters, Mr. Sping.
Chris Reavers
Oh, why doesn't this goofball take a shower? Let's wrap it up here.
Joe Soucheray
I already told you that Josie.
Chris Reavers
Oh, I'm sorry. What happened?
Joe Soucheray
Claimed a priest.
Chris Reavers
Well, he's 120.
Joe Soucheray
Priest guarant guaranteed him a son.
Patrick
Yeah, if he didn't and it didn't work Right.
Joe Soucheray
And it didn't work up to this.
Chris Reavers
Point, he's only still trying.
John Height
So the old lady's still sleeping with this guy?
Joe Soucheray
Yeah, she says, I'll just make this wait.
Patrick
She's a desert. They're not having any kids.
Joe Soucheray
I'll make this long story short.
Chris Reavers
Okay.
Joe Soucheray
He what?
Patrick
Should we hit the panic on that?
Joe Soucheray
No, no, that's okay. He does allow himself a fire bath every evening. Good for you. A fire bath involves smoking marijuana, praying to the Hindu Lord Shiva and dancing around a bonfire.
Chris Reavers
Attaboy.
Patrick
I tried that for about 10 years. Believe me, that doesn't work.
John Height
Welcome to Sushire's new after hour club. The fire bath.
Chris Reavers
The fire bath.
Joe Soucheray
His wife.
Caller/Listener
Like I'm listening to what you're saying.
Joe Soucheray
But I only hear what I want to. In answer to your question earlier, his wife did threaten not to sleep with him, but she said it's her obligation. She's married to him.
Chris Reavers
What's this guy's name?
Joe Soucheray
His name? Wait a minute.
John Height
Where is this?
Patrick
India.
Kenny Olson
India?
Joe Soucheray
Yeah. Kalash.
Patrick
Plane ticket over there.
John Height
I'm sure she was a real sing.
Joe Soucheray
S I n g h Singh. Kalash.
Chris Reavers
Singh.
Joe Soucheray
Yes. Bless you. In Great Britain, a man accused of stealing a top brand of coat from a sports shop appeared in front of the judge wearing the item he had shoplifted.
Patrick
Gotta look good in court.
Joe Soucheray
Attaboy. 48 year old Stephen Kilbred arrived in court wearing the Craig Hopper waterproof jacket, leaving witnesses in court speechless. Staff called to give evidence for the prosecution recognized the coat immediately as the one he stole from the town sports direct shop.
Patrick
What, this old thing? I've had this forever.
Joe Soucheray
Kilbred was ordered to surrender the coat when he appeared in court. His lawyer said her client, quote, wouldn't be that stupid as to turn up and stole.
Chris Reavers
Yeah, he would. Yeah, it turns out out there's a dog on the news with four fake feet.
Joe Soucheray
Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, the bionic dog.
Patrick
Yeah.
Chris Reavers
Probably got the nautical nudels too.
John Height
No, I think they replace it and put, like, skates on him in the winter. And rollerblades so he can go around.
Kenny Olson
Calhoun when he jumps. Does it go?
Patrick
We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
Chris Reavers
How's it go again?
Joe Soucheray
He got those?
Kenny Olson
Who hasn't? Who hasn't? Run in slow motion. Just think they're Colonel Steve Austin.
Chris Reavers
I must admit, I have it.
Joe Soucheray
Brooke's doing it right now.
Chris Reavers
Yeah, I'd like to get some of those feet, though, because my feet are killing me.
Joe Soucheray
He got those feet because he had frostbite. In case you're wondering, I saw this story earlier today.
Chris Reavers
What happened to his eye? His eye looked like it was a marble. I think this dog's all full of fake parts.
Joe Soucheray
You're still doing the Peter Falk stories?
Chris Reavers
I don't know where I am.
Kenny Olson
One more thing.
Patrick
Feet.
Chris Reavers
Thanks, John.
Joe Soucheray
Yeah, you're welcome.
Chris Reavers
I don't even know if you're done with that story, but that's fine. And now we'll try it again when I come back. And say, here's Ken Barlow. Hope he's there with the weather.
Podcast by Gamut Podcast Network | November 28, 2025
Host: Joe Soucheray (“The Mayor”) with Chris Reavers, Kenny Olson, John Height, “Rookie,” Patrick, and frequent call-ins.
This “Best Of” Black Friday edition of Garage Logic is a lively, freewheeling highlight reel featuring classic backyard mishaps, yardwork gone wrong, oddball news stories, listener call-ins, and the show’s trademark blend of Minnesota common sense, ribbing, and nostalgia. From the perils of plastic waste bins to wild news items, the crew keeps it informal and highly entertaining—spotlighting the everyday struggles, minor triumphs, and comic misadventures that make up the fabric of Gumption County.
Timestamps: 02:16 – 19:38
Timestamps: 20:01 – 43:39
Timestamps: 25:04 – 43:39
Timestamps: 34:46 – 43:39
“I did this exact same thing, but I fell inside the bin.”
— Joe Soucheray, 05:05
“Would you call a radio show and admit you fell into a bin?”
— Chris Reavers, 15:49
“Hell, no.”
— Joe Soucheray, 15:52
“You gotta be smarter than the equipment you’re working with.”
— Gabe (the trash collector), 12:33
"[It’s] a little bit like stepping on a rake...now it rotates on the axle and it comes up and hits you in the head."
— Gabe, 08:45
“How loaded are you people when you’re doing yard work?”
— John Height, 09:41
“You can walk around the neighborhood and see all the knockers missing.”
— Joe Soucheray, 32:30
“They should play these in lingerie and it would really be great.”
— Listener (re: Ultimate Taser Ball), 26:52
“He does allow himself a fire bath every evening…smoking marijuana, praying to the Hindu Lord Shiva and dancing around a bonfire.”
— Joe Soucheray, 41:10
“We can rebuild him, we have the technology.”
— Patrick, 42:59 (regarding the dog with bionic paws)
The tone is hearty, conversational, and homespun—straight out of the two-car garage. The hosts reference local culture, sports, and news with wit and affection, never missing an opportunity to poke fun at themselves and each other.
This “Best Of” Black Friday compilation is vintage Garage Logic: goofy yet relatable, rooted in community and common sense, with a nose for the humorous details of ordinary life. If you missed it, you missed not just laughs but a breezy oral history of Midwest logic in action—one mishap and pun at a time.