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Summary

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Garage Logic – “Best Of GL: Reusse in for The Mayor!”

Air Date: June 29, 2026
Host Network: Gamut Podcast Network
Special Host: Patrick “Reusse” (filling in for Joe Soucheray, “The Mayor”)
Regular Panelists: Chris Reuvers, Kenny Olson, John Heidt, The Rookie

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Episode Overview

In this “Best Of” Garage Logic episode, celebrated Minnesota sports columnist and broadcaster Patrick Reusse steps in for Joe Soucheray (“The Mayor”), bringing his signature blend of sardonic wit, local nostalgia, and irreverent common-sense takes. The panel covers everything from password anxiety, state flag controversies, Minnesota resort culture, and local political spats to baseball grandparenting, classic rock history, and why tip inflation has everyone baffled. It’s a jam-packed roundtable of stories, laughs, and “GL” wisdom—replete with memorable jabs, reminiscing, and rapid-fire banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Reusse’s Return & Show Dynamics

• Reusse jokes about his track record as a fill-in:
  • “The last time you filled in we were told that you were never to fill in again, no matter what.” (04:19, C)
• Promise to avoid politics, but with predictable digressions.
• Nostalgia for earlier gigs, especially classic “Saturday Sports Talk” moments and radio show rivalries.

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2. Internet Culture & Password Frustrations

• Generational divide in tech habits:
  • Reusse shows his handwritten password list:
    • “Here is my wallet. Here is my password... We got a little yellow piece of paper, and if it’s written in red, that means it’s about 15 years old.” (08:50, E)
  • Panelists admit to similar analog “systems”—address books, bulletin boards, photos on phones.
• AI Generation vs Password Generation:
  • “This is no longer the password generation. Now we’ve made the transition to the AI generation.” (09:08, E)
• Consumer disconnects with online payments:
  • “I still carry a lot of cash… I don’t want the mugger to be unhappy if I get hit over the head. Hey, this guy’s got a lot of money!” (10:40, E)
• Musing on different password approaches and the frustration of forced resets:
  • “Do you have a different password for every single site? … I try to use the same.” (11:21, C & E)

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3. Minnesota Flag Change Controversy

• Panel jokes about the old and new state flag and public apathy:
  • “I have not seen the Minnesota state flag 65 times in those 65 years. Or if I did, I took no note of it and cared less.” (14:24, E)
• Skepticism about public spending on state branding:
  • “It was a whole PR firm with it… you could’ve had two gin and tonics come up with it.” (15:04, E)
  • “That was… you know, then we lefties wonder why people are mad at us when we spend $15 million for ‘leave a Future.’ Unbelievable.” (16:03, E)

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4. International News & Politics (with Reusse’s Satirical Touch)

• On responding to Internet rumors:
  • “You know what you should do? Shut up and don’t say anything, you morons.” (06:57, E)
• Trump's approach to diplomacy:
  • “I do think the trumpeter poured a little cold water on the peace negotiations when he threatened to kill the Iran negotiators before they got back to Tehran.” (16:24, E)
• Debate on the mix of religion and government:
  • “Religion and government don’t mix, that’s what they prove.” (16:56, E)
• Dark humor on media cycles and flag controversies.

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5. Nostalgia: Minnesota Resorts, Lakes, and Small Towns

• Fond memories (and headaches) of family trips:
  • Memorable “fishing” story: “The last time I’d been on a big lake up there, I was kappetogama…I was…doing what you do and some seagull came down and grabbed the minnow...” (30:34, E)
• Changing resort business:
  • “The resort business has changed so much…a lot of resort owners have broken up the property and sold the individual cabins…” (30:05, C)
• Difficulties and absurdities of resort ownership:
  • “There is no bigger punishment in the world running a resort. God hates you if you run a resort.” (43:19, C)
  • “Everybody that stays at a resort, they absolutely trash your building. There’s ass on the walls.” (43:46, C)

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6. Baseball, Parenting, and GL “Grandpa Wisdom”

• Baseball Tournament Lament:
  • “This weekend I was at two baseball games for a very disinterested 15 year old team…they got their ass kicked twice and accepted it in grumpy fashion.” (07:24, E)
• Classic Grandpa Critique:
  • “[Grandma texts]: ‘Tell him to focus on love and fun of baseball,’ … Here’s what bothered me the most about America…a 15 year old kid who doesn’t know to tag the base. That’s what’s wrong with America.” (83:43–85:10, E)
• No-nonsense coaching philosophy vs the “feelings-first” approach.

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7. Tipping, Cash, and New Norms at the Ballpark

• Changing landscape of tipping:
  • “Now you don’t even have to make change for you. You can’t pay them cash. And the first thing that shines your light is you want to give a 15% tip…or right down there in the bottom where you can’t see it, it says no tip.” (47:09, E)
• Old-school perspective:
  • “I’m a union guy…I usually support the workers, but in this case it’s not a health care job.” (47:09, E)
• Preference for cash tips over digital ones:
  • “When I’m given the option on the little computer thing, I always say, no tip. And then I give them a handful of cash and I tell them, stick this in your pocket.” (50:09, C)

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8. Classic Rock & Minnesota Music History

• Tribute to Clive Davis (music mogul) and other recent losses:
  • “Clive Davis, a giant of the music industry has died…guiding the careers of Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, Santana, Chicago…” (59:46, F)
• Discussion on artist impact:
  • “You can’t overestimate or overstate his influence on the music industry.” (28:49, F)
• Funny confusion between Lady Gaga and Pink:
  • “I like her, especially when she’s up there on the trapeze…wait, is that…are you…you’re not confusing her with Pink, are you?” (27:43–27:59, C/E)

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9. Small-Town Oddities: Tall Nutcracker & Wood Duck Festival

• Tall Nutcracker Feature:
  • “A decade in the making. 10 years. Took them 10 years. La Verne already has more nutcrackers than people…hopes the nutcracker…will inspire drivers on Interstate 90 to stop in and check out the town, population 5,000.” (61:53–62:49, F)
• Wood Duck Festival in Fulda, MN:
  • “Fulda, Minnesota is famously known for home of the wood duck…Even though none of us had ever seen a wood.” (65:11–66:13, C/E)

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10. Cars, Gadgets, and ‘GL Tech Diagnosis’

• Reusse’s car mystery warning light:
  • “That 2019 Cascade…the light on the speedometer…for the last two days has been this green kind of with a sideways deal…turns out it’s the forward collision alert indicator.” (74:35–76:48, E/C)
• Panelists roast Reusse’s low-tech auto maintenance approach and recall his signature use of lawnmowers.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

Classic Reusse:

• “You know what you should do? Shut up and don’t say anything, you morons.” (06:57, E)
• “I’m a union guy…I usually support the workers, but in this case it’s not a health care job.” (47:09, E)
• On coaching, vs “grandma” philosophy:
  • “Grandma says focus on your love and fun of base…now the other team has runners on first and second…it’s already 15 to 6 or something…a kid, a 15 year old kid who doesn’t know to tag the base. That’s what’s wrong with America.” (83:41–85:10, E)

Panelist Banter:

• “There is no bigger punishment in the world running a resort. God hates you if you run a resort.” (43:19, C)
• “It was a whole PR firm with it…you could’ve had two gin and tonics come up with it.” (15:04, E)
• “Everybody that stays at a resort, they absolutely trash your building. There’s ass on the walls.” (43:46, C)

Cultural Touchstones:

• “I have not seen the Minnesota state flag 65 times in those 65 years. Or if I did, I took no note of it and cared less.” (14:24, E)
• “Fulda, Minnesota is famously known for home of the wood duck…Even though none of us had ever seen a wood.” (65:11–66:13, C/E)
• “Moose can swim.” (32:47, E)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:41] – Reusse opens as guest host, recounts replacement history
• [06:57] – “Internet is 99% wrong about everything”/Modern rumor-mongering
• [08:50] – Password panic stories
• [14:24] – Minnesota flag and rebranding rants
• [16:24] – Satirical take on diplomacy, Trump, Iran
• [30:05] – Shift in Minnesota resort business, family vacation stories
• [43:19] – The woes and follies of running a resort
• [47:09] – Tipflation at ballparks, side hustle economics
• [59:46] – Music legend Clive Davis’ legacy
• [61:53] – Tall Nutcracker controversy (La Verne, MN)
• [65:11] – Fulda’s wood duck festival/Small town culture
• [74:35] – Reusse’s warning light auto mystery
• [83:41] – Grandpa baseball philosophy, coaching the next generation

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Tone, Language, and Takeaways

• Language: Conversational, irreverent, peppered with localisms and cranky wisdom.
• Tone: Sarcastic, self-deprecating, nostalgic, and community-oriented. Reusse is especially sharp, poking fun at modern mores, technology, and himself.
• Takeaways:
  • Garage Logic still thrives on common sense, skepticism toward change for change’s sake, and the grumpy, lovable spirit of “Gumption County.”
  • Listeners are treated to a blend of regional nostalgia, generations-in-conflict laughs, Minnesota-specific humor, and the sense that “if you’re not complaining, you’re not living.”

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Memorable Segment: The Grandpa Baseball Lament (83:41–85:10)

“Luke is pitching, three runs, no outs… This team stinks…the da—[grandma]: ‘Tell him to focus on love and fun of baseball…’ Here’s what bothered me the most about America…a 15 year old kid who doesn’t know to tag the base. That’s what’s wrong with America.”
—Reusse (83:41–85:10)

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For New Listeners:

This “Best Of” episode demonstrates Garage Logic at its finest: local flavor, generational roast sessions, and classic “GL” common sense—all filtered through the hilarious, pointed lens of Patrick Reusse. Even if you missed the live show, this recap covers the highlights, laughs, and life lessons from the heart of Minnesota.

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So when's the last time you filled it on gl?

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What was the time I came on and said. What did I say?

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You were gonna have a real an election campaign. You were gonna run against the mayor and you were declaring yourself the new mayor of Garage Logic.

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The last time you filled in we were told that you were never to fill in again, no matter what.

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No, another one. When I started with today's topic was 180 from the. I can't remember what it was.

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It had to do with a certain syndicated radio show. Guys, Rush.

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Rush. Yeah, I took a shot at Rush.

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That's a hell of a fit you got.

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Well, no, that was on a Saturday sports talk when he was, when he was in the studio. When I congratulated they Rush on the great bit that he had rushed. It has no bit.

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You know, this one was one where the, the listeners of AM 1500 at the flagship didn't have quite the sense of humor that you had anticipated this shock.

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No, they didn't. So anyway, we'll, we'll be, we'll avoid politics. Now let me start off with this before I forget it. White people might as well get white people, you dead mangled puppies. Trent Tucker. Can we get. I got Tucker's phone. Can we get Tucker? We called Tucker his First question from Dark Star white people, your thoughts?

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Go.

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So.

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Yeah, we could do that. God almighty. I think it's. Was it just 10 years? Was it that they just. We went by 10 years without that goofy basketball?

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Has it been that long already?

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Wow.

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I think so. Yeah, it is. So anyway, I have something on my mind and I want to get it out every before I forget it. So today's Star Tribune has a big story on what the lefties, we lefties should do about this rumor that walls behind the assassination of Melissa Harman. You know what you should do? Shut up and don't say anything, you morons. You're going to end up debating these people. Just don't worry about it. They're proving they're nuts, so just don't worry about it. I saw that headline and I said, oh God, it's got to be 80 inches on how to respond. Don't, don't respond. You shut up. Yeah, that's right.

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And that goes for a lot of things on the Internet. I have found lately the Internet is 99% wrong about everything.

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Yeah, you know what? I. This weekend I was at two baseball games for a very disinterested 15 year old team from East Ridge and they got their ass kicked twice and accepted it in grumpy fashion. But I was talking to the parents of these kids and you know, my grandson was involved. And I realized this a hundred years ago when I was growing up, I had some idea of what my parents were talking about, you know, that what they were, you know, because there wasn't the information. We were getting off four TV channels and 4, 5, 9 and 11 newspaper. Yeah, the anchors, you know, Walter Cronkite and a couple other guys, we were getting the same information and then we started with passwords. And what has happened in the 30 years of passwords? You might as well be from another planet when you're hanging out. I gotta show you guys this. Do you got any video here? Can I show you this? Here is my wallet. Here is my password.

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We are live on YouTube. Pat, just to give you a heads

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up, mama likes it hot. No, no, that's not it?

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No.

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I got to show you how I keep my passwords as opposed to the youth of America. See that?

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I do the same thing.

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We got a little yellow piece of paper, and if it's written in red, that means it's about 15 years old. And if it's written, you know, down on. If scratched in between the red and it's probably 12 years old, then here's the other side. And then some of them have been eliminated. So how do you think Gabe keeps his passwords?

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How do you feel about websites that force you to change your password every three months? How do you like that?

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I usually leave them. I have no idea what I am paying for. In like the New York Times keeps telling me I can upgrade my subscription. I didn't even know I had one. I don't know how that. You know, and now I don't know how to get out of it, so I don't need that. But it's password. It's the password. This is no longer the password generation. Now we've made the transition to the AI generation. But it is. It is. We are much more removed from our urchins than our parents were removed, I think. Don't you?

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For us growing up, password was a television game show. It was a game show.

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Not.

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It's all being done by design, by the way, because I read this entire thing about the entire notion of paying for something online. Let's say you paid $20 for something online doesn't even register you. But handing somebody a doll bill for something is far more reactionary for the human brain.

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Well, I still carry a lot of cash, and I'm the last one in the world. I'm the last one in the world. And I just want. I don't want the mugger to be unhappy if I get hit over the head. Hey, this guy's got a lot of money, and we'll take that and we'll leave him alive. That's my.

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Didn't that happen at the holiday station by Target Field where the guy said, hey, nice car, buddy.

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I don't catch. I don't have any money.

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No, I just say a nice car, man.

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Yeah, he was very offended and he was. He was an African American fellow, so I think he thought I was being racist.

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Do you have a different password for every single site? Because I have found a way to use the same password I try to use for everything.

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I try to use the same. Yeah, you know what I used years ago? I used like my grandkids names together and the age. But then they kept getting older, so, you know, then I would change.

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Well, I can confirm that. I believe we had about 19 different people using your Star Tribune login because you didn't change your password for about a decade.

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Yeah, and then I got. I got knocked off it and I cannot get in our library. And now they've fired all the librarians we had. When I started there, we had 14 librarians. We just fired the last one.

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So you don't even have one?

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No. Johnny Waram, who was my guy, I felt bad. I gave him and gave him a little going away present, but it was only 150 bucks, which would be about 12 cents a favor. I say through the years, over the years.

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Yeah, yeah, I, I can top your password thing. I have an address book right here

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with all my passwords. Yeah, way to go.

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I would be lost without it. If I lost this book, I'd have to.

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All right, if we're admitting I have a bulletin board over here full of them and I've taken a picture of it, so I always have my passwords on my phone. So if somebody steals my phone, I am screwed.

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Remember when we first started with the, with the logins on your computer and you'd sit there and wait like 12 minutes for the thing maybe to go through?

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Ding, ding.

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Yeah.

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Because you guys are not big on the face authentication, I'm gonna guess.

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Oh, no, I'm not doing that.

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Hell no. No, no.

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My. My way of dealing with passwords is not writing them down and not remembering and just constantly getting logged out and saying, I don't know what the password is here. Yeah, I gotta wait minutes.

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That is. That is. It's frustrating my problem too, so. I know, and I don't want to get into this too bad because I, I can see the point, but you've talked a lot about the flag, right? We've done well with.

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You're seeing the, The, The. The crawl here at the bottom of the YouTube channel that has all the cities that are still flying the, the original Minnesota.

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The original flag. And I. I had one year. I heard you talking about the other day, and I was thinking,

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now I

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know we got a Indian fella on the real original strike state flag. He's got a horse or something, right? Is he riding?

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He's on horseback, yeah.

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And then there's some other stuff, but I gotta say, I was thinking, let's say 15 is what I became aware. Aware of my surroundings. So 65 years ago, I have not seen the Minnesota state flag. 65 times in those 65 years.

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Really?

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Or if I did, I took no note of it and cared less.

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It was just a flag.

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You walked right back.

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I don't care about a flag. I suppose they march it out at the opening day, so. I've seen it, you know.

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Yeah. And city buildings and county buildings.

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That's fine. And you know, and I have no idea what the new one looks for like, but I'm sure it's stupid. But you're right.

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That's all that needs to be said.

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It seems to me if we spend money to change. Change the flag. Yeah, we did that. We're dummies. Kind of like the University of Minnesota. What did they spend to get the new motto that they had to kick?

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I don't remember the dollar figure, but yeah, it was a chunk.

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This. What was it? Do yourself a favor or something. I can't remember what. Yeah, something like, you know, you could have had two gin and tonics come up with it.

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Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

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They could have picked up the bar.

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Throw up a phrase you would like

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to do on Leave a Future.

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Leave a Future. That was it.

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How do you leave a future?

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And it was a whole PR firm with it. Right.

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That run us.

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Just look. U of M is spending $15 million over a five year. Oh, that's just the whole rebranding. 15 million, including the new slogan.

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They got rid of the new slogan.

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Didn't I see that immediately? Yes, like two weeks ago.

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Yeah. How about PJ Fleck is full of crap, but we love him.

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How about two? But. Because he's taken all of it. But anyway, it's. That was a. That was. You know, then we lefties wonder why people are mad at us when we spend $15 million for leave a Future. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. By the way, one more thing.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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I didn't forget it. I do think the trumpeter poured a little cold water on the peace negotiations when he threatened to kill the Iran negotiators before they got back to Tyran. Don't you. Don't you think that kind of took the.

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Did he say though that he was going to kill him and they were going to die like dogs?

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That's my favorite one.

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I know. Well, like dirty dogs. I just, you know, I mean, I think that just.

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You're saying it took some zest out of it.

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Yeah. Right. We were this close too. You know what they do prove though religion and government don't mix, that's what they prove. It should be we'd be Would we be better off as a My last question for garage Would we be better off if there was no religion?

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I'm not sure about that. John Lennon

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Next week is this week, according to last week. I don't know, I'm not. I. Yeah, I wanted to tell you all about this last week. A good cup of coffee, how it can really make a person happy. And when it's fresh roasted and delivered right to your door at a reasonable price, it makes it even better. Of course, I'm talking about family owned custom roasting.net, that operation in Buffalo. Steve, the head roaster, he's perfected the small batch roasted blends in their shop. If you head over to the new website, you're gonna be met with a wide variety of specialty blends that will make you realize there's probably a better option than the coffee that you've been drinking for years and years. Click on the shop tab on customroasting.net and right away you're gonna be directed to to four of the top picks. Number one, the GL starter pack. That's four blends from Light to dark. The twin packs, that's the one I ordered last week. Two pounds, two pound and three quarter bags. That makes it three and a half. Is that right? Yeah. And I ordered the dark roast. And you know what the best, the other best one on that list, the gift pack. Order this stuff as a birthday gift. I made that order last Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon I was drinking from three and a half pounds of the Boundary Waters blend. Oh, by the way, I have to mention the free shipping off offer because when you buy those two pound and three quarter bags, you use code GL at checkout, you get them for shipping for free. It's that simple. Custom roasting.net. you're not even halfway done, Royce.

[E]

Oh, I know that. Hey, Kenny.

[C]

Yeah?

[E]

In other words, if we ever do get the Krabby Coffee Shop off the ground and serving coffee, the stuff will be given. This is lined up for blocks, right?

[C]

They are the official supplier to Garage Logic and the Crabby Coffee Shop. You know this place? I thought that I was drinking the best French roast ever made, and I've been drinking it for 20 years or more. And I tried their Boundary Waters blend, and it not only is it better than the French roast, but it's smoother. And I'm so addicted to this coffee now. I drink it from about 6am to 3pm every day.

[E]

Well, maybe I'd probably be better off. I gotta ask you a question.

[H]

I do have a question about the Krabby Coffee Shop.

[E]

I'm gonna ask you. First, let me say this. I gotta run this by Kenny. We. We all root for the mayor. We love the mayor. The mayor's had a great impact on our lives. But him trying to steal the Grabby Coffee shop, was that about as much underhanded a thing as you've ever dealt with?

[C]

He was sitting in the studio, daydreaming, thinking about the first hole of wherever he was gonna go, not caring one damn bit. And what, two weeks later, he was writing about it in his column like it was his. Like it was his creation. I remember the conversation distinctly. You were bitching, rightfully so, about people who work at counters, banks, coffee shops, etc. That ask you, how you doing? What are your plans for the day? What have you been? How come you're not smart? You should smile. You know, those kind of people. And we both agreed that if we ever had the chance, the opportunity, we would open up a coffee shop where no talking was allowed.

[F]

Right.

[G]

Milk.

[E]

Get your own milk. You know?

[H]

Well, that brings my question. When the physical structure of the Krabby Coffee Shop is opened up, I'm making plans. I'm planning ahead of time. What type of toilet paper can I expect in the restrooms?

[A]

3m sandpaper?

[C]

68 in the public restrooms, it's 1 ply.

[E]

I know this is a little untoward, but you know what the outside will look like, don't you?

[H]

The handle. The handle. And the door to come in.

[C]

I think it should come. Johnny. Have you ever seen the picture of Johnny Cash giving the figure?

[A]

I think it should be that one.

[E]

Johnny. Johnny's family wouldn't sue us if we use that one way.

[C]

I don't think.

[E]

Hey, Roseanne was a guest on our show, so we got along with her great. So she probably gave us permission. Yes. Hey, Johnny.

[F]

Yes.

[E]

The most unlikely looking rock and roll giant, Clive Rush died today.

[A]

Clive Davis died.

[F]

Yes, I saw that.

[E]

I mean, this guy, you see him and you said he must have been an accordion player or something. And he. He created. Who were his. Everybody. Guys.

[C]

Virtually everybody.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

It's so crazy.

[F]

He got everybody to Columbia Records when he was associated with them. I actually put a story in here somewhere about him, but he. In the 80s, which was well past his prime, even though he was still in his prime, he had all the female singers. Whitney Houston, basically.

[C]

He.

[F]

He discovered and made think she was Jennifer Hudson. Or before that she had big brother in the. Or he had big brother in the holding company. Carlos Santana, Springsteen took them all to Columbia along with dozens others, literally. Also, there's a great documentary about him if you've ever seen it. He would have a big box of cassettes that artists would send him to see if they could get signed. He'd listen to him for 30 seconds. Go, not a hit.

[E]

Take it out.

[F]

Not a hit. Take it out. Hit and save it.

[E]

Yeah, I did. I did watch a couple of. I'm. I don't think they've been all about him, but there's been 10 minutes of him.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[E]

I mean, what was he about 94. 94.

[F]

Enormous.

[E]

Yeah, I'll take that.

[C]

John didn't. His influence continued through the 90s and into the 2000s.

[E]

Yes.

[F]

Oh, yeah. I think actually continued until about 10 years ago.

[E]

He started his own starting. Did he always stay in Columbia or. No, he had to go stay. They didn't remain what they were.

[F]

He. He was one of the founding members of Arista records in the 80s. Oh, and J. J something. A hip hop. Z label. G. No. J, J, artist. Something. I don't remember the name of it, but no. He started several different businesses and record labels.

[C]

Wasn't he responsible for bringing Gaga into the mainstream stream?

[F]

That could very well be. I am not familiar with that, but sure, that wouldn't surprise me at all.

[E]

I like her, especially when she's up there on the trapeze. That's. That's Gaga. That's pretty. That's pretty.

[C]

Wait, is that. Are you. You're not confusing her with Pink, are you?

[E]

Maybe I am not Gaga. I like Pink. I'd run away.

[H]

Pink's got an edge.

[E]

Pink's got an Edge I'd run away

[C]

with pink yeah, she'd tear you and I half Miles. He's all muscle.

[F]

Also Miles, Kenny. Big, big, big friend of Miles.

[C]

From Miles Davis to Lady Gaga. Boy, that sounds everything.

[F]

Well, and look at. I mean he started late 60s. Monterey was his big kind of turning point where he thought, wow, I know what we can do. We can, we can make this music popular.

[C]

And so that was 67, John. Didn't he have a reputation for making these artists money too? As opposed to some of his contemporaries?

[E]

Yeah, stole it.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Ye. When did we kill people at Monterey? Didn't we have a shooting there when we. When.

[F]

No, that was Ultim. You're thinking Ultima.

[E]

Yeah. I got my rock and roll history all screwed up, man. But I'm old, so I don't remember that stuff.

[F]

But yeah, yeah. You can't overestimate or overstate his influence on the music industry.

[E]

Wow.

[F]

Can't.

[E]

That was, that was fantastic. So Kenny, a friend of when I went up last year and stayed at Vermilion for the first time for two and a half days. Okay. We stayed at a place, Ludlow, which is famous and the main resorts on an island. And then they got some stuff, but they had like bad Internet and tv. Well, they had a kid there that was. Had been there since he was a high schooler and it was great. He was 32, cooked this walleye came over. A great kid, big tips. He just bought a resort on there, one of those old, old, old mom and pop resorts. Virtually no electricity.

[C]

He's a sucker for punishment.

[E]

I was just wondering. God, I loved him, he was a great kid. But I don't know how you can get people to isolate themselves that much for four or five days.

[C]

It's. The resort business has changed so much that a lot of resort. Resort owners have broken up the property and sold the individual cabins to different people just because it's so hard to get people to go to a resort now. How did you get out to Ludlow's? Did you go from a public launch or something?

[E]

My brother in law, sister in law had been going up there for years. We stayed on shore, but you could.

[C]

Oh, but they went out on the island.

[E]

Yeah, but you can throw a rock damn near from. From shore to the line. But yeah, it was about, you know, not being an expert fisherman. You know. The last time I'd been on a big lake up there, I was kappetogama and I caught myself a seagull that dying. We were a 17 year old, had Just graduated from Prior Lake High School. My buddy Clerkin took the traditional Northwoods Corvair up there. We drove. We drove the Corvair up there, got out there, loaded the boat with 48 beers and, and a couple of worms and I called caught, you know, I was, you know, doing what you do and some seagull came down and grabbed the minnow and got on the hook and then I started and now his a hundred buddies. It was right out of the.

[H]

Oh, they're all over.

[E]

Felt like Tippy Hedren there. Neither of us had a knife to cut the line. Oh my God.

[C]

You know.

[E]

Yeah, we, we were.

[B]

They remembered 48 beers, but they forgot a night.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

That's right out of the Red Green show. I've never even heard of that happening.

[E]

True. So it was not the end of our drinking, but it was the end of our fishing, which was fine.

[C]

How, how much time did you spend on Vermilion that it's got to be the most sprawling lake in the state. It's got 5 million miles of shoreline.

[E]

Yes, it's. We were two and a half days up there. Two and a half.

[C]

I can't believe you brought this up because just last week I was. I wanted to find out if I could launch my pontoon. And now mind you, my pontoon is just a flat slab on top of pontoons. You have to bring your own chair. That's how bare it is. I want to launch that thing on, on, on a Sunday and spend the whole week on my pontoon on the lake.

[E]

Lake. Did find out one thing up there. Moose can swim.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah,

[H]

you wouldn't think so.

[E]

Don't you think when you're a kid, Moose, you gotta say, mom, I'm not a strong swimmer. Yes, your mom's trying to get you in the water. You gotta see. Are you sure about this, Bob?

[B]

Bob Orlando.

[E]

Do you remember when you were not a strong.

[C]

Remember the days of have deer drives, driving deer so five guys will walk a woods or a field and then they'll have people at the end of those woods posting. Well, we used to post on the other side of a lake because guys would drive them out the end of a peninsula. Yeah. They'd swim the lake right into our waiting arms.

[A]

Wow.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Well, we don't see a lot of deer drive so anymore. There's too many comfortable deer stands now.

[E]

Yeah. I think that people don't. I. I know that I. I gave up deer hunting at Talk of the Lake when they were shooting slugs and damn near got us. And now did I just see that the DNR is going to let you shoot rifles?

[C]

Yep.

[E]

The whole down on the prairie.

[G]

Yep.

[C]

Yep.

[E]

Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're going to kill about three people a year from Westbrook who are walking around. What were you, what were you doing out there, Mom? Well, I thought I was getting the mail but I got shot in the head cuz somebody saw a deer. I don't think it's a good idea.

[C]

Yeah, well, it's up for debate. I, I don't care because I'm in the rifle zone, so I'm happy. But in the whatever. What river Rice he's referring to, to the shotgun zone was everything south of I94 down to Iowa. And then everything north of 94 was the rifle zone.

[E]

But I just remember the, those slugs, you could hear them in the air.

[C]

Yeah, they have a whistling sound when they, when they, towards the end of their run, I guess you would say. And they start twirling and it makes a sound.

[E]

Luckily my old man always went up to the Ely area in the woods and I never for the same safety of others. I never had to go along. No safety of the others. And then he shot Rudolph and all I went through anyway.

[B]

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[D]

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[E]

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[C]

Hi everybody, my name is Kenny and I have three trucks. Hi Kenny.

[A]

I got three.

[H]

Why?

[C]

I don't know, but Rosedale Chevrolet has way more and they do have the commercial truck you need. Rosedale Chevrolet has a really nice inventory right now of low cab forward 4,500s all the way up to 7,000 5002. So if you need a new one or maybe a fresh used work truck, you have to stop into Rosedale Chevrolet. Lots of commercial express cargo vans in stock as well as cutaway vans. You know what, cutaway vans, that's what I've always called a box van. They've got ton of them there. You'll find out if you go to Rosedale Chevrolet. They're located in Roseville County C at 35W. And as a business elite dealer, Roseville shove has a special fleet allocation which allows them to order stock inventory for fleet customers that non business elite dealers do not have access to. What's that mean? That means more work ready trucks for you on the ground and ready to go for all of you fleet customers. They also have made a Special purchase of 2024 Low Cab Forward 5500 Series with some crew cab and some regular cab. And a couple of these already have boxes on them and the rest they can be upfitted to anything you anything you'd ever need. These have less than a thousand miles on them so you're really going to save thousands compared to new. Jump on the website rosedalechev.com and see the entire inventory of all the cars, trucks and commercial vehicles. All or here's what you do. Stop in and see them yourself. 28, 45, 35 W. They're right on the corner of county Road C&35 W. Rosedale Roseville Chevrolet. Why do I always want to say Rose? No, it is Rosedale Chevrolet.

[H]

It's a stone's throw from Rosedale.

[C]

Yeah, Rosedale, Roseville. You get the picture.

[B]

Here's Johnny Height in the newsroom.

[C]

Here's Johnny Height in the newsroom.

[F]

Where's that ad again? I'm confused.

[C]

Rose.

[H]

City of Rose.

[E]

Johnny, you know the good thing about getting an ad here with Kenny or a rookie, you get extra 30, 40 seconds.

[H]

Amen to that. Let's go.

[C]

I'm available.

[F]

Just like the regular host, huh?

[B]

See Now, Pat, the one thing you'll learn is when the graphic shows on YouTube what you can't see when when rookie does an ad is Joe staring at him and then pointing to his watch.

[E]

Right?

[H]

Which puts me at ease. So I'm not going like this.

[A]

My tips don't come back.

[F]

My favorite is we get warnings before commercials. Make sure it's only a minute and Chris gets the. Don't talk so fast.

[B]

Yeah, you're only giving me or in

[H]

the middle of an ad.

[F]

Yeah, that too.

[H]

He's messing around.

[F]

Caddy, you brought up something earlier. I have a question. The resort. The. No, the resort thing. You know, being sold and stuff. The resort that we used to go to, they sold last year and split up the cabins.

[C]

Stink Lake over there by Dead Lake.

[F]

By

[E]

a lake.

[F]

That. That resort had been there when I was a child. We went to that resort, which was you, 60 some years ago, and it was a different owner. And then these people had purchased it, and they owned it 26 years. They updated all the cabins with heat, air conditioning, every. You know, all the amenities. And then last year, they sold all the cabins. And I thought to myself, if I had been 15 years younger, I would have gotten together with my brothers and sister and gone, let's buy one and we'll just.

[C]

I don't understand the concept where people live in high, highly populated areas like the Twin Cities, where you can look out your window and see what your neighbor is watching on tv. Why you would go to a resort and do the same exact thing, just elbow to elbow, and you can. You can hear them fart in the cabin next to you. And I also don't understand what motivates young people to buy resorts and become resort owners. There is no bigger punishment in the world running a resort. God hates you if you run a resort.

[B]

The people that we bought our house from in Jordan did that very thing. A year later, I said, we want to move back.

[C]

I've stayed at that resort on Woman Lake.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

And one time when they were owners, I rolled in there. My wife was there before me. I rolled in there, and I was still 100ft away from her. And I could tell she was enraged. And we were staying there. Just. I almost didn't get out of my truck. I could see how angry she was.

[E]

That's funny.

[C]

But everybody that stays at a resort, they absolutely trash your building. There's ass on the walls. It's horrible. And all they do, like my wife, is complain, complain, complain, complain.

[F]

Yep.

[C]

I would not own a resort.

[F]

Nope. In news. News, by the way. Brought to you, as always, by North American.

[C]

I've been exposed to this my whole life because my dad's a realtor and he was one of the realtors responsible for telling these people, you know what you should do? Split it up and sell it and make a ton of money, and you'll live happily ever after. And that's what they do.

[F]

I. If I had been 10 years younger, I'd have bought one of the small cabins and just. I get it. Eight weeks a year. You know you guys have it.

[E]

The rest I got ticks up there. I ain't going.

[F]

This news brought to you by North American Banking Co. Minnesota state Rep. Peggy Bennett, former guest, remember here on Garage Lodging.

[E]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[F]

Is calling for the immediate resignation of three top officials within the Minnesota Republican Party, alleging widespread dysfunction, favoritism and mismanagement during the party's gubernatorial endorsement process. In a video statement released this week, Bennett, a six term state rep from Albert Lee and former candidate for governor, called on Minnesota GOP Chairman Alex Plesiesh, Communications director Noah Rowan and political director Jill Vujovic Lobbs to step down. In a statement, though Minnesota Republican Party calls Bennett's clean claims inaccurate, A community led effort to have voters decide whether or not they should raise their own taxes to support their local schools is taking a big step tonight having reached the goal of gathering support from thousands of people from social media pushes to boots on the ground. The group Parents for Good in Oka. Hennepin says they've locked in the 3,000 signatures they need on a petition to put a referendum vote on the ballot.

[E]

That move J Don't we always take votes on that? I vote on referendums often. What is this?

[F]

The school board does not wish to put this on.

[E]

They just want to wish they wanted to go away.

[F]

So these people said no, we want to honor have a chance the move.

[E]

I would think the cheapos have a point.

[F]

The move follows plans to cut about 75 positions. More than 200 already have been reduced at the district as part of a more than $20 million budget reduction plan.

[E]

Oh, it's a budget. So the cheapos are on the government side.

[F]

Correct. Okay, Corre the 3000 want to add it and vote for it. The district says the board will accept the petition at Monday's board meeting, but will likely not take any action on it, so may not do any good anyway. Target field concession workers are set to begin their strike today as bargaining continues for better pay and more affordable health care. The strike comes as the Twins get ready to host the Los Angeles Dodgers in the three game series. Now there still will be concessions. Officials say they've secured supplemental staff for the time being. Delaware Delaware North, a global hospitality company, has about 500 bartenders, cooks and cashiers that will not be on the job for the game. The union represents workers says they currently make minimum wage and lack access to employer provided health care. The next bargaining session between the workers and Delaware north is scheduled for Saturday.

[E]

Can I interrupt here? I'm a union guy for paid dues for 45 years, blah, blah, blah. That ain't a full time job. That's what I was wondering. That's your livelihood. You're making a little extra money there. You don't get health care for selling wieners at the ballpark. I'm sorry, okay.

[B]

I'm glad you said that because I always thought that was mostly a side hustle for everybody.

[E]

That's what I did too. And by the way, now you don't even have to make change for you. You can't pay.

[A]

Everything's on the card.

[E]

You can't pay them cash. And the first thing that shines your light is you want to give a 15% tip. A 20% tip or a 25% type are right down there in the bottom where you can't see it. It says no tip. So I'm sorry, I usually support the workers, but in this case it's not a health care job.

[H]

I tell you what they need to do. Delaware north needs to get rid of. Rid of $2 beers. Because knowing some people that serve these beers when they do the cashless, what's 20% of two bucks?

[E]

Yeah, right.

[H]

Here's your 40 cent tip instead of the cash. So that's one thing where they've screwed their people over as far as who's

[B]

buying $1 two beer.

[H]

Well, the only people I know that work at Target Field or serving up sauce. It's a part time gig.

[E]

Let's go watch the Twins because they're one of the best teams in baseball. Red hot. They just showed the Arizona Diamondbacks where the bear pooped in the buckwheat. Let's.

[H]

Let's redeem that 65 series against the Dodgers.

[E]

Let's stop worrying about $2 beers. Forgot last time the Dodgers were here. The first time since the World Series were here was 2006. Joe Maurer went 11 for 13 and 2 and 3 games. And the starting pitchers, Santana, Liriano and Silver gave up two runs in 23 innings and we swept their rich butts

[H]

and that's still not enough for me.

[E]

Yes, right.

[F]

I had a tip situation this weekend I've never run into. It was just a recent retail thing and it asked if I wanted to leave a tip. It was. It's a store that sells clothing and record albums and I took a couple albums up to buy and I put my card in and it said how much of a tip would you like to. I put zero because nobody.

[E]

It's become a very popular thing on the thing.

[H]

My tip is don't look in front

[A]

of a moving bus.

[F]

Yeah. Never pet a burning dog.

[H]

Yes.

[C]

I guess I'm the only person on this show that enjoys tip tipping for good service. Oh, and here's all.

[E]

I'm a. I'm a tipper.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

So.

[C]

All right, so here, here. This will work for you, too, Tip Royce. Because I. I over tip all the time.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

And so when I'm given the option on the little computer thing, I always say, no tip. And then I give them a handful of cash and I tell them, stick this in your pocket. Don't share this with everybody else.

[E]

Plus, you know the company's stand on the money.

[C]

Well, right. Or the government. I don't. I personally don't think that tips should be taxed. So that's my way. That's my way of saying fu to the man.

[E]

But it's. But we don't even walk up and down the steps with beer anymore, do we? Very much so.

[G]

Yeah.

[E]

I don't. You know, if we. If Wally the Beerman got health care, I would have said okay, but the hell was it?

[F]

To support Kenny's contention, I talked to a fella at a restaurant that shall remain nameless. If you put a tip on your order, it just. You get it on your paycheck. I mean, the company could be taken. If you tip five bucks a company.

[C]

Take three bucks tip cash. Always, Always, always.

[F]

We're gonna take a break here, but I have a story about a. A tall nutcracker. Oh, my God. You don't want to hear that. Why don't we hear that?

[E]

That. But what is that? A job? A guy cracking nuts? I mean.

[F]

No, it's. It's the nutcracker. Like, you know, Christmas.

[E]

No, I thought you meant there's some guy. Some guy that.

[B]

Hey, buddy, what do you do for

[E]

a living, you know, before you put the walnuts in the container?

[A]

Sure.

[E]

We got some poor jackass in there.

[C]

Grandpa's Retirement Shop.

[E]

He have strong wrists? If you did that for a living, you'd have a strong wrist. Would you?

[A]

Yeah, follow that.

[E]

Follow that.

[F]

Chris, come on.

[B]

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[H]

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[C]

So I don't know. We've got a work friend. All of us know him. I don't have to mention him by name. I thought that he skyrocketed on the next scale when he sent me a photo of all the bugs be gone that he had purchased for the company. I mean, he must add at least six spray bottles, a bunch of concentrate. And I really decided, you know, I've been treating this guy poorly, I should respect him more. But this morning he spent a good four or five hours sitting on the side of the freeway because he didn't want to get out of his car car to change a tire. He had to wait for a tow truck. So, I don't know. It's too bad Seafoam doesn't make something that'll change a tire for you while you're sitting there inside scared and you're worried that the wind is going to lift up your skirt, huh, Tom? Anyway, back to that. Bugs be gone. The reason I brought you up is that I respected you so much that you discovered for all of us that there is a Seafoam store on Amazon, Amazon, so you don't have to worry about not finding Bugs Be Gone. In a big box store. This stuff sells out quickly. The auto parts stores, your local NAC hardware stores, it's always the first thing to go. So if you're having a problem finding Bugs Be Gone, just log on to the Internet, go to Amazon and order all you want. By the way, this stuff not only makes removing bugs easy, but it's safe on everything. Your window, bumper, grill, paint, plastic, chrome, anything it's safe for. And it works on anything organic. So it's not just bugs. It's bird poop. It's grass stains. It's whatever. It's the real deal. It's a true miracle product and it's just another fantastic product from our friends at Seafoam. We call it Bugs Be Gone.

[F]

Thanks Kenny. A couple quick international headlines before we get to the tall nutcracker story. J.D. vance, Vice President, said today his lengthy talks with senior Iranian officials in Switzerland. Here's his analogy created a great foundation for the house.

[E]

If they don't get killed on the

[F]

way home, the final deal is the house, the vice president said. We set the foundation. We haven't built the house, but we've laid a successful foundation to get a good place for the American people. End quote. Iran noted major progress to end the fighting in Lebanon and called that the first real test of negotiations. Trump administration says multiple people have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and that vandals will be prosecuted to the fullest extension of the law. Trump yesterday blamed vandalism for recent issues with the pool, which reopened June 6 after over $16 million of renovations to make the pool appear American flag blue. The pool's new paint appeared to be peeling off less than two weeks after its completion. The pool has been plagued by an algae bloom that gave water a complete green tint. US park police and National Guard troops stopped a former Olympian, David Hearn. He was arrested after touching touching a strip of the rubbery material in the pool. U.S. parks and Rec have a picture of him in handcuffs. Hearn denied any wrongdoing, said he didn't destroy anything, didn't rip, tear, peel or remove any part of the paint. He said he was released on Friday night after being detained from for five hours.

[H]

You ever have any vandals try to do any damage to your cement pond, your your reflecting pool?

[E]

The little urchins next door are really enjoying it. That's.

[B]

We were camping with some family over the weekend and I was regaling with the tale of the. The lawnmower that went into the pool

[E]

a couple of years ago. That was. That was when the wife called me up and said, we had it. I'm driving home. Back when you could drive, talk and phone and drive. Back when America was America. And she said, we had a disaster. And I said, what? She said, well, I'll tell you when you get home.

[A]

No, I want disaster.

[E]

Use a different word than disaster if you want to wait till I get home. We had a mishap.

[C]

I wouldn't go home. If that's the way it was put to me, I would never go home.

[B]

But the nice thing is when the landscaper did drive the lawnmower into the pool, the bottom of the Dec was nice and clean. Yeah, sparkling.

[E]

The good news is that when we come back from Johnny's news break, I got a Mrs. Ricey update that people game of flaws. No, it's. It's a grandma mentality thing. Gotcha.

[F]

British Prime Minister KE Starmer resigned from his position.

[E]

How come we don't like him as

[F]

the leader of the Labor Party. He had some friends that were mentioned. The first thing was in the Epstein files. That's what started it all. And from there it just kept speeding up to various things they didn't like about him. Starmer has been under mounting pressure to resign for weeks after a disastrous round of local elections for his party in early May. Now former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham will make it clear that he will challenge the Prime Minister for his job. It looks like Burnham will have the job. He left his role as mayor and then what a seat last week as a member of the Parliament for his local constituents.

[E]

Bring back the fat guy. He was funny. What was his name?

[F]

Johnson. Boris Johnson.

[E]

Yeah, Bo. Yeah, Boris. He was the bad hair. Yeah, he was pretty funny and a bit of a grafter, I think, but anyway.

[F]

Deaths as we talked about. Clive Davis, a giant of the music industry has died. Music executive rose to mid level legal position at Columbia Records before becoming one of the industry's most powerful and longest reigning men. Guiding the careers of Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manlow, Neil Diamond, Santana, Chicago, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. He was 94 years old. Alan Greenspan, who was the world's most powerful central banker, maneuvered the US through two decades of prosperity, but whose decisions contributed to the near collapse of the economy shortly after he left office, died at the age of 100 yesterday. Cause was complications from Parkinson's disease. That according to his wife, the well known NBC newscaster.

[E]

I would say it was complications for being 100. Andrea.

[F]

Andrea Mitchell, his wife, the newscaster making that announcement.

[E]

Man, she had to be 35 years younger than him, right? Yes.

[F]

I think she's in her 70s, probably. Yeah. So, yeah, you might be right. Yeah. And last week, right, at the end of the week, we missed it. We didn't do any shows. James Burrows, the genre shifting master of television situation comedies, creator of Cheers, directed more than 1,000 episodes of that show and other TV classics like the Mary Tyler, Tyler Moore, my favorite sitcom ever, the Bob Newhart show, Taxi, Frasier, Friends, et cetera, et cetera. He died on Friday. He was 85. He earned a reputation as the Steven Spielberg of sitcoms, winning 11 Emmy awards and received 47 nominations in a career that spanned a little over 50 years.

[E]

John, do you put the Bob Newhart show and the Newhart show in the same. Same bucket or the original is better, right?

[F]

I like the original much better. The original is probably. I'd put it in my top five television shows. I just love that show.

[E]

Yes.

[F]

And I still love it even when I see it now.

[E]

I think it's that crazy.

[H]

Jerry.

[F]

And now the story of the 65 foot tall nutcracker.

[E]

Oh, right.

[F]

It's in La Verne, Minnesota.

[E]

Yeah. The titan of District 8. When I was a kid, man.

[F]

Workers installing the final piece of the giant nutcracker statue, a patriotic polyurethane red, white and blue hat, just after lunch last Friday. La Verne residents hope that the nutcracker. A decade in the making. 10 years. Took them 10 years. Will inspire drivers on Interstate 90 to stop in and check out the town, population 5,000. La Verne already has more nutcrackers than people. In 2017, the town hired a marketing expert who suggested choosing a theme to boost tourism.

[C]

You need something big.

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

The town picked nutcrackers because of resident Betty Mann. If you're not known, if you don't know Betty. She was known for her collection of more than 6,000 nutcrackers of all types, including ones themed as firefighters, pirates and Minnesota Vikings.

[C]

That crazy Betty.

[F]

Some residents are still a bit embarrassed at La Verne's nutcracker theme, but it's important for the city to have something to hang their hat on. According to Mayor Pat Patrick, Bastian, building the city's towering nutcracker hasn't been without challenges. The project was funded via donations and grants, but the pandemic sent costs soaring. To more than half.

[E]

Why is it called the Night Nutcracker statue?

[F]

It's the. The Christmas Nutcracker suite. You know, with the soldiers. Yeah.

[E]

I was thinking of just the one you crack nuts with. No, no.

[A]

This is the old silver one.

[H]

That little silver tongue thing. Yes. Where you had the brown bucket that they were kept in.

[E]

The one of those which you could never find when you wanted to crack a nut.

[G]

Right.

[C]

You call him a soldier? He looks like Uncle Sam to me, Joe.

[F]

Yeah, that's the way he's supposed to look. This one is supposed to. But. But the nutcrackers and the Nutcracker Sweeter.

[E]

1964. 1 class state basketball champion.

[C]

Does his. Does his legs swing apart so he can crack nuts?

[F]

The statue will be able to crack nuts.

[E]

Really?

[F]

Supporters say the nutcracker needs to have a working jaw so that shorter and therefore lesser statues don't steal Laverne's thunder. The goal is to get the nutcracker recognized as the world's tallest.

[A]

Wow. The whole thing's.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

I remember when you relied on your sports to get attention. And now you need a big statue.

[C]

I have a question for you regarding that, but let's let John finish here.

[F]

The bulk of the statue is finished, but work continues on electrical wiring for the nutcracker's jaw, said Katie Walgrave, the statue designer. She said she hopes Laverne could have the ribbon cutting on the Nutcracker Festival July 17th and 18th. People have already begun pulling off the interstate to take a look at it.

[C]

What the f. Is this? One of these rednecks got going Exit quick.

[F]

Walgraves said. See, it's already working. People are coming from all over the world to see it. There's a group that stopped from China.

[C]

We've got license plates from every state in the parking lot. Patrick, I asked Google this but I want to ask ask you first. What is the big tourist draw over in Fulda, Minnesota? Why would you leave? I know you can't see folder from the freeway, but why would you go to Folder?

[E]

I would say it would be the Memorial Day parade. Maybe. You know, you used to have a Memorial Day parade. According to you can. You can bet on when fold the lake's gonna turn piss green.

[H]

Everybody wants to know.

[E]

That usually happens about late July. I'd say they got very good leeches. If you go swimming later on, that will attach themselves to you.

[C]

You can by the way, Gilers the lake Fulda Lake Royce he is referring to. It's actually Fulda first lake and folder

[E]

the scenic Shores of first lake.

[C]

And you live down on first.

[E]

And the second lake was hardly developed then, but now they got houses around it.

[C]

According to Google, the big tourist draw, Folda, Minnesota is famously known for home of the wood duck.

[E]

Yes. And the big tours festival. Even though none of us had ever seen a wood.

[C]

Wait a minute, I was gonna bring that up. The wood duck festival was actually this last weekend.

[E]

Oh, I missed it. Yes.

[C]

And it's so funny that they picked the wood duck which is the priest prettiest duck.

[E]

You know that's in the air but trees around there.

[C]

But in the June through August the wood duck is molting. So you can't.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Not only can it not fly, you can't see its fancy feathers.

[E]

I don't know who started the wood duck festival but they must have seen one out there on the lake one day and nobody's ever seen one.

[C]

Canvas backs or redheads or blue bills or ring bills.

[E]

Ducks are beautiful duck.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

And they taste great, but they also. They don't. They nest in a tree. They don't.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

That's why they're.

[C]

That's one of the fun things about spring is watching wood ducks fly through the trees in the woods.

[E]

Well, one of the things that I've seen videos of this is when mom tells the babies now it's time to get to hell.

[C]

I've witnessed, I've witnessed that they just jump out and the mom goes down to the lake or she's on the ground squawking and it's a whistle kind of.

[E]

With wood ducks there's. Oh, there's about three or four that come out hard and then the others are going.

[C]

But they bounce.

[H]

Yeah, right.

[C]

They're full of air. So when they hit the ground, they bounce. It's the funniest thing ever.

[E]

Well, a lot of them, they jump them into water too, don't they?

[C]

Yeah, if the. If the tree is over water. Yep. Yep.

[E]

Anyway, I missed it again this year. Damn it.

[C]

Wouldn't you say the two story train station is. Would be a big attraction?

[E]

By the way, Al Worthington just died. He pissed him. I married to my cousin Shirley, 97 years old, I think. What'd they say, Johnny? The third or fourth oldest living baseball player.

[F]

Yeah. Actually I saw one story said he might be the oldest. But then I saw others that said

[E]

he wasn't very serious. Baptist fella. He ended up being the athletic director for. For Jerry Falwell at baseball coach and then athletic director at.

[F]

Would.

[C]

Would the J season folder raise enough money to put up a big bronze statue of Al.

[E]

Ah, probably not. Probably not. I. I don't know if we got. I don't know. They still say they got 1100 people.

[C]

But I did a couple laps through there a couple years ago and I. I like the town. It was a neat little put together town. Didn't see a lot of rednecks or squalor.

[E]

Well, I. I had a re. We had a reunion down there a while back and the wife went with me and we went out the cemetery to look, look up rice's and, and McDonald's and she came back without her cell phone. She lost her cell phone somewhere out there. And we found it on the side of the. The road outside the cemetery. We were driving around and saw it. How the hell it got there, I have no idea. But it was running too.

[C]

Probably set it on top of the car. Hey, wasn't my. One of my mom's cousins was related to one of your people and it didn't end well. If I remember right,

[H]

they still owe him money.

[C]

Somebody owes somebody something.

[E]

What I remember most about the Fulda cemetery is everybody used to tell me how don't salt, you know, salt is bad for you. Every German in that thing, they salted their pancakes, for God's sakes. They were first thing you did salt in their beer. And then you tasted it.

[C]

You know, they all lived to a hundred salt lives.

[E]

Salt helps you a little, preserves you.

[B]

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[H]

That's a segue.

[E]

Here's what that was, ladies and gentlemen. I didn't even know I was set to get you.

[H]

You didn't even know you were gonna be this good.

[B]

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[H]

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[C]

I've got a little full disclosure item to tell everybody here. Since Joe's not here, he won't care. I actually have a side hustle installing and repairing garage doors. I only have one client. That client is me.

[G]

Me.

[C]

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[E]

Patrick, here's the deal, by the way. The twins have just revealed on Twitter that they now have twins rally dancers. Going back to dancers like Norm Green put on. Norm Green was jealous of the Target center dancers, remember?

[B]

Yes.

[E]

So we got the dancer, the north, the star North Star lights, Target field experiences get a lot more fun. Introducing the Twins rally dancers. We're having a little fun with this on Twitter right now. So, Kenny, you're a car guy. That 2019 cascade, which spent three months in Reaver's garage once resting for the winter. The convertible, I just went over 70. It's fine, running great. And you know the light on the speedometer, of course, the light telling me that my seatbelt isn't buckled is always on. But above that for the last two days has been this green kind of with a sideways deal. It's kind of going, it's tilted this way. And when, and when I'm not, when I'm driving like 20, it's not on. But when I get up to about 70, 60, it's this thing and this green thing, it's on there. I have, it's no, it doesn't beep. It doesn't. But it, it's, it's green and it's sideways. Like it doesn't, it doesn't indicate that I need an oil change or anything, which is easy. So I wonder what it's telling me because the ride doesn't seem any different than it was.

[C]

I'm looking it up because I can't imagine what it is.

[E]

19 Cascade on the speedometer.

[C]

Oh, here, I found it.

[E]

Green barrier green.

[C]

Something forward collision alert. Vehicle ahead indicator.

[E]

What?

[C]

It lights up green when your Buick's camera radar system actively detects a vehicle in front of you.

[D]

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[E]

They're always in front of me. I'm on Highway 100, for God's sakes.

[C]

Have you had anything in the vehicle serviced recently?

[E]

You know, I had an oil change a while back, but this is a

[C]

system that the manufacturer has installed in your car to make you go to the dealership to pay anywhere from 100 to a thousand dollars.

[E]

Figure out what it is. But it's. It's telling me I'm gonna hit something. Somebody, huh? Yeah. Yeah. They're wrong. The guys, maybe. The guys from me to the, you know, 100ft. It's 100ft away from maybe Royce.

[C]

Consider this. Maybe it's AI and it has calculated the way you've been driving the last few years. And it is telling you if you keep this up, you're gonna crash.

[E]

You know what else is all of a sudden? Maybe that's because anytime I'm in the traffic and get near a yellow wine, it's going beep. You think that's part of it?

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

How do I got to go to the boys and have them say, get to get this off there?

[A]

Get me the beef department.

[C]

Are you one of those guys that trades in the car before an oil change is due, like Sushire, or do

[A]

you run them for a while?

[E]

No, this one's got over 70. It's still running. Great.

[C]

Maybe it might be cheaper to just trade it in.

[E]

I like the ragtab. It makes me look healthy in the summer. And it gets, you know, you know, it's great. I get the tan. I don't look, you know, I look like a, you know, guy out in the sunshine.

[H]

I wish you treated your cars like you did the lawnmowers. If it doesn't start, have Gabe come over and grab it for you.

[E]

That's right. We're down to the zero. We managed to give away all three of them.

[C]

Roy. See, I need some advice from you. I forgot to tell you this before the show. And it was. It won't take long. It's regarding Twitter. Now, you famously quit Twitter and then came back. I. I quit Twitter, but I didn't get rid of my account. And I really didn't announce my departure. I. And it's been over a month now, and I really. I'm really fighting the urge to tweet. I really, really miss it. Is there. Is it going to get easier?

[E]

Well, it got harder because I was on Blue sky and talk about a bunch of wimps.

[C]

But anyway, when I see it, when I see a car fire or I see a hobo sleeping in the median or I see something insane, I really want to tweet it out, but I, I, I. For some reason, I have not. And I don't know if this feeling's ever going to go away.

[E]

You know, I kind of miss the teasing people. It's kind of the.

[C]

I miss making fun of people.

[E]

Yes.

[H]

Yeah, well, you miss the trolling.

[B]

You know, that same restraint, though, Ken. Didn't. Didn't stop you from alerting myself and Dave Harrigan about a former coworker on

[E]

the freeway one day.

[C]

Stuff like that. When you see Jeff D. Getting kicked out of a car with no shirt on and having to hit that door.

[E]

Soon to be on the air.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Right.

[G]

Yeah.

[E]

Hey, and Johnny, this is my question for you. Do you plan to visit the amphitheater in the Canterbury parks? 35 acres. I was out there for the opening of the track, and the thing is monstrous. 19,000 for an amphitheater.

[F]

I will be there in three days. As a matter of fact, the Guess who. The reformed guess who.

[E]

Really?

[G]

Now?

[E]

We just opened it.

[B]

I was there Saturday. I was there Saturday. They had.

[E]

Who was it?

[B]

It was a bunch of local guys. And speaking of radio, a buddy of ours, Chris Hockey, was. Was playing there Saturday. They had a pretty good crowd. I mean, the weather was perfect.

[F]

9,000, I think the paper.

[H]

Is that what they had?

[E]

You know, that's an Abdul. The same guy.

[B]

But I'm gonna tell you right now, the place that runs the Boardwalk Restaurant Bar and Grill, that's along the first turn of the racetrack. That place is spectacular.

[E]

Really.

[B]

It's really cool. So they have an outdoor patio. They have a huge indoor indoor bar and restaurant, but they have an outdoor patio that runs alongside the first turn of the racetrack. It's very, very cool.

[E]

I know that they're sold out for the vastly overrated Chris Stapleton two days,

[C]

but dropping the bomb.

[B]

It's a cool. It's a cool amphitheater, though. I will give it a nice job.

[E]

As a fat guy, I'd like to tell Chris something. You're fat. Do something about it. You should live a Long life. You're a big tub.

[G]

Come on,

[E]

big tub. Come on, you.

[C]

He's still an okay singer though, right?

[E]

Mediocre.

[H]

I think he's lip sync.

[A]

I think he lip syncs same old crap.

[B]

Didn't we do Tennessee Whiskey for about seven street years?

[F]

Three segment 330? Yeah.

[E]

N. So what? You know, I don't. I. He's modern country drives me nuts and he's trying to be old school and he's not.

[H]

I.

[C]

We have found the only person in America that doesn't like.

[E]

Yeah, I think you're right. No. Okay. But he's mediocre, you know? You know he's mediocre. I don't get it.

[C]

I. I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with that.

[F]

Yeah, I'm gonna disagree too.

[C]

So you have your right to your.

[H]

All right, next gets the square. Okay.

[E]

You know, I'm.

[C]

You were going to tell us about the game of flaws or something going on.

[E]

Oh yeah. I gotta tell you. I want to hear that before yesterday. We're watching. I'm watching and I get up the 8 o' clock in the morning. The grandson is gonna be pitching at the game that starts at 8. Cause they're in the super consolation bracket. Even if you win, you're not winning because you already pissed everything away already. So he's pitching and he's not throwing strikes. He's walking a few and they're not. So I text the wife, I text grandma and I say the da. I text grandma and where is it here? I gotta find.

[H]

He's scrolling as he's.

[G]

As.

[H]

He's using his verbal crutch to find the.

[E]

I said, Luke is pitching three runs, no outs in the first. He's depressed. Four outs, four runs. Runs, one out. This team stinks. That's me. And then later on she says, tell him to focus on love and fun of baseball. I'm sure. Okay. Grandma says focus on your love and fun of base. Here's what bothered me the most about America. America, right. We got. We got the flag controversy. We got a guy. Guy threatening to kill the people he's negotiating peace with. Yes, we got all this stuff going on. Yeah, we got all this stuff going on. But now the other team has runners on first and second and it's already 15 to 6 or something. Oh boy, they hit a grounder.

[H]

We still talk about Luke's game.

[E]

Base A2. Hopper to third base. The kids from me to rookie away from third base. He throws it over to first base instead of running over and tag the Ball.

[F]

Oh, no.

[E]

A kid. A 15 year old kid who doesn't know to tag the base. That's what's wrong with America.

[A]

That's what's wrong.

[E]

You know, you're right there. You step on the base and then you throw it to first. You don't, you don't. You're not so empty headed and you just throw it the first before stalling on the base. That's what I gave up on this country. You know, as a former third sacker who wasn't too.

[H]

Oh, yeah, hot corner, baby.

[E]

Yeah, it was me. Yeah.

[C]

Did you offer any advice after the game to the young man?

[E]

No.

[H]

Yes. Don't invite me to any more games.

[F]

No.

[E]

But under my breath, with many parents of these, of these disinterested lads around, I did cast aspersions to the entire operation. And I stayed till the end, which was a miracle. But anyway, what was it?

[C]

The love.

[H]

Play for the love and fun of baseball.

[E]

Yeah, what is it?

[C]

Love and fun.

[E]

What is fun?

[H]

That's a direct quote. They might put that on.

[E]

Tell him to focus on the love and fun of baseball.

[C]

Okay, Grandma.

[E]

If she. If he doesn't turn around and look at the scoreboard. 17 to 2. Maybe he'll do that. Very. His teams have been pretty good till this year. I don't know what happened to these guys. I don't know. But they're, you know, luckily I think the season's over, so no more grandpa duty to watch. They. If they don't care, why should I care? That's what. Right, Patrick?

[H]

Thank you, sir.

[B]

All right, thanks for hanging out with us today and filling in for the mayor. And you should do us a favor and hit the subscribe button right there on the Garage Logic YouTube channel where you can watch the show every single day starting right around noon. And you can also see full segments. There's video shorts, there's even behind the scenes footage. Just search garage logic two words on YouTube along with all of our social media channels, which includes Facebook, Instagram and X. And also center for the Daily Logician. That is an email that comes right to your inbox each and every single day. And it includes the most recent episode of the podcast. Find out more and sign up today [e-mail] it is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold is with us once again right here in garagelogic. And now is the time for you to do the same. So do not delay. Do exactly what I did and pick up that phone and dial 952-925-5608. That number once again is 952-925-5608. When you call that number, you're going to get Josh and he is there for you for that. Free, Yes, I use the word free 48 minute financial consultation with absolutely zero obligation. And he will always give you the straight talk. He will never give you the sugar coated advice. He is on the line with us once again right here in garagelogic. Josh, a question for you because you and I have had conversations over the years and I've always wondered what would you give advice to? Whether it's a first time investor, a long term investor. What are some of the general principles that you try to apply in terms of investing?

[G]

The easiest answer, Chris, Growth will out. Growth will will out. Invest for growth. Most people would say, josh, if you buy growth, aren't you paying up growing companies? Well, you might be and then again you might not be because the next question is, well, isn't buying value oriented companies, companies with the lowest price to earnings multiples, the lowest price to sales multiple, isn't that better strategy than going just for growth? Well, the idea is that growth will out and that has been proven to me and proven to other investors time and time again over long periods of time. Growth will out. Now there are a lot of companies that will say in their infancy or when there's just an idea out there that those companies that are involved in the fastest growing industry and there become more and more of them tend to skyrocket very quickly in value and then it is found over a period of time that they're not earning money, that their sales aren't growing, their sales aren't growing, something has stalled out. And these stocks which have been, we'll say rocket ships, crater and fall to earth and the winners sometimes out of that group are those that have had the staying power and really do have growth, do have an idea. You have products or services that are in demand and they start eventually moving ahead. There, of course, are those companies that are very fit growers that have again products and services that people want, people need at some point. Yes, these companies do have a mature industry or mature in terms of their growth and the growth slows. These companies then pay out dividends at a higher rate or end up buying back shares, another form of staying in investors for, for them. If I look at an old, and I say an old growth company like Coca Cola, which I have talked about for many years, a very slow old growth company, it doesn't grow at 10 or 12 or 20%. But it's a very steady mid single digits grower and they do grow, grow their dividend every, every year and they do buy back some shares and they have a product for actually several products that people can't be without. Water for one and say milk, juice, coffee, tea. Coca Cola as an example sells over 200 products in over 200 countries around, around the world. Very, very steady company. Is it going to go to the moon? No. Is it going to provide a level of safety? Oh yes, and it's going to provide a very nice dividend yield that's going to grow over time. I'll say one of the best investors long term, Warren Buffett has included Coca Cola in his portfolio. Berkshire Hathaway for decades at the price that he originally bought it and added to. The shares, yes, have gone up. But what has increased even more is the dividend. The dividends that are paid out and the dividends that are paid out relative to his cost basis give Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett a dividend yield we'll say in excess of 15%. But again that's over a long period of time. And cocaine, just an old staid company. On the other hand, a company that started growing fast, faded, came up with new products, saw the growth accelerate and then would fade and come back with new, newer products and now just is, I'll say is one of the largest companies in the world and they provide a product and service that people really can't be without. That is Apple. Apple now has 2.4 billion iOS users and at least one and a half billion iPhone users. And if I look that most people are going to be replacing their phone every four to five years and when they replace the phone they're going to need more memory, need more storage and they'll probably get more services from app is no longer growing at 20 or 25%, growing at a single digit rate. But Apple does buy back shares and does increase their dividend as a product or service that people can count on and generates tremendous amount of cash flow. So much cash flow and so much cash that the countries in which Apple operates, the governments all want a piece of Apple's, Apple's business and they attempt to go after Apple as a monopoly. That said, Apple is a very, very steady growth company. And even with all the fluctuations and worries that the analysts have over the next iteration of the iPhone, this company could well continue to perform on a very, very long, long term basis. That's an example. Both Coke and Apple are examples of first faster growing companies and then companies that become steady growers and those are types of companies that for longer term investors you should look look at growth will out. That is I'll say the biggest bit of advice Chris that I could give any advocate, any investor. The other pieces always keep cash available because inevitably in any given year a market is going to pull back 5 to 10% 3 to 4 times during the course of the year and having cash available to add to positions is is beneficial now in putting together any course portfolios for myself or my clients and my money is in the exact same spots that my clients money is in go in together and out together on new purchases. My focus always has been companies around the Internet, companies involved in leisure China related businesses without necessarily being in China because that's still faster growing part of the world real assets such as real estate and to keep a portion of money available for short term trading or for opportunities and by we'll say concentrating in the portfolio concentrating or focusing the portfolios in those areas I have found better opportunities for growth than in other states sectors of the marketplace.

[B]

And that's why we come to you for the straight talk and never ever sugarcoat advice. Mr. MoneyTalk, you heard mglors. Now is the time for you to pick up the phone and make the call for that free 48 minute financial consultation again with zero obligation. And you do that just like I did by dialing 952-925-5608 where you always get straight talk and never ever sugarcoated advice. Josh, once again, thank you so much for the time and the chat. ENJ the rest of your day. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.

[G]

Thank you very much, Chris.

[A]

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