Its All Fraud, All The Time

Summary

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GARAGE LOGIC: "It's All Fraud, All The Time"

Gamut Podcast Network • December 19, 2025
Episode 1684

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Main Theme & Overview

This episode is a spirited, impassioned take-down of Minnesota’s state government, focusing heavily on the breathtaking scope of fraud permeating virtually every state assistance program. Mayor Joe Soucheray and the Garage Logic crew rail against what they describe as "industrial-strength fraud" in state-benefit programs, lambasting Governor Tim Walz, his administration, and broader government incompetence. The show moves on to satirize the push for city-run grocery stores, reflect on Twin Cities’ changing landmarks, dip into sports, and, as always, end with camaraderie, nostalgia, and inside jokes.

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1. The Fraud "Epidemic" in Minnesota State Government

(Main theme from 01:12 – 18:00)

Key Discussion Points & Insights

• Widespread Fraud Uncovered:
  Joe Soucheray details the scale and variety of fraud schemes bleeding Minnesota dry — from Feeding Our Future and Medicaid fraud (including Housing Stabilization and Autism clinics), to tourism scams and childcare assistance abuse.

  • "[The] magnitude of the fraud in Minnesota cannot be overestimated. It's staggering amounts of money that have been lost. It's industrial-strength fraud." — Quoting U.S. Assistant Attorney Joe Thompson (04:11)
  • Half of $18 billion in state program payouts could be fraudulent; around $9 billion potentially stolen.

• Anger at Political Leadership:
  Consistent outrage is directed at Governor Tim Walz, accused of passivity, incompetence, and a lack of vetting or oversight.

  • “We have suffered the indignation of having the worst possible human being serve as governor of this state. And we all have been fleeced and robbed.” — Joe Soucheray (03:00)
  • Walz is frequently suggested as someone who ought to be in witness protection, a satirical jab at his continued presence (03:50, 04:06, 16:55).

• Systemic Failures & No Accountability:
  The crew asserts the proliferation of loosely-run and unvetted state programs is a breeding ground for fraud, with "no checks and balances," and little genuine help for the truly needy.

  • “There’s been no honesty in this administration. Nothing but hypocrisy. There's been no caring. There's been no concern for people.” — Chris Reavers & Kenny Olson (07:53–08:11)

• Cynicism & Hopelessness:
  Discussion of FBI raids at fraudulent businesses, consistent with claims that Minnesota was targeted as an “easy mark” for scammers.

  • “Minnesota was carefully chosen. They had the right dunce in the governor’s office…there is a mastermind. This is organized.” — Soucheray (08:35)
  • “$18 billion has been billed through state programs tied to fraud…prosecutors anticipate $9 billion of that is fraud.” — Reavers (13:45)

Notable Quotes

• "If you'll note and think back on [Joe Thompson’s] quotations…he has always said we're just at the tip of the iceberg here. We have no idea how much this will ultimately be. And it turns out probably every single program in the state of Minnesota is riddled with fraud.” — Chris Reavers (05:51)

• “The vulnerable would be even more vulnerable…what you need to help the vulnerable is competency. Yeah, an actual concern, not this BS honesty.” — Chris Reavers with Kenny Olson (07:47–07:53)

Memorable Moment

• Satirical Personal Stakes:
  Soucheray, exasperated, jokes about not wanting to pay his taxes until the system is fixed, but they all acknowledge law-abiding citizens keep the state functioning (03:00–03:50).

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2. Fraud Case Studies & Skepticism

(Segments from 08:13 – 18:18)

• On-the-Ground Checks:
  The hosts talk about specific locations (strip-mall offices, “fake bus companies,” the now-closed Mendota Child Daycare and Golden Adult Daycare) being raided or observed empty, suggesting their sham nature.

  • “This office was the size of this studio…seven FBI agents hauling boxes and boxes of documents…” — Soucheray (13:11)

• Political Critiques & Conspiracies:
  Accusations extend to Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan and even U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, whose alleged financial windfalls generate speculation and jibes.

  • “I think the federal prosecutors should give a close examination to how Ilhan Omar went from 240 grand net worth to 33 million net worth.” — Chris Reavers (15:01)

• National Embarrassment:
  Minnesota’s fraud cases are now so numerous, the state gets its own “fraud” tab on some national news sites (10:23).

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3. City-Run Grocery Stores: Economics and Satire

(22:23 – 34:44)

Key Discussion Points

• Municipal Grocery Stores: A Bad Idea
  The crew lampoons the ideological push for city-owned or subsidized grocery stores in Minneapolis — referencing failed efforts in Kansas City ($29 million in losses), Tulsa, Madison, and Atlanta.

  • “All you’re doing is asking taxpayers to pay for the food. They already have their own food bills.” — Soucheray (23:29)
  • Subtle suggestion: More government involvement → more fraud.

• Crime, Motivation, and Inevitable Failure:
  Private grocery store closures due to crime in St. Paul and North Minneapolis are cited as proof that a city-run replacement would suffer the same problems, but without even the weak profit incentive to maintain standards.

  • "What would motivate people who supposedly ran a city grocery store? There isn't any." — Reavers (27:29)
  • "Short of products. They would have no motivation to make sure the shelves are full." — Reavers (28:50)

Memorable Moment

• "Dystopian Shopping Experience":
  Imagining a city-run store:
  • “I'm seeing bugs in the produce area…nothing but mushy grapes in the city-owned grocery store…bad fruit…wormholes in apples.” — Soucheray and crew (29:26–29:56)

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4. Twin Cities Grocery Nostalgia

(36:11 – 37:40)

• Joking about defunct Twin Cities grocery chains (Red Owl, Hoes, Snyder’s), sharing personal memories, and differentiating regional supermarkets.

  • “Not one other podcast in the country knows the name of the Snyder’s manager other than Garage Logic.” — Rookie (37:17)

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5. News & Sidebars with John Knight

(42:14 – 54:55)

Highlights

• Fraud Updates:
  John Knight recaps federal investigations, recent indictments, and clarifies that — despite rumors — most money isn’t tracked to terrorism, but often real estate in Kenya (43:17).

• DNA Doe Project:
  Fascinating cold case: the body of a WWII veteran, long unidentified, is finally traced via DNA (45:44).

• Grim Sidebar:
  Old funeral home case where a director decapitated a woman postmortem — dark humor and wordplay ensue (49:12 onwards).

• Surveillance State Jokes:
  Discussion on genealogical DNA, privacy, and whether the government “has your DNA” (47:51–48:42).

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6. Sports: Local and National

(55:02 – 67:38)

Key Topics

• Wild Hockey Optimism:
  Soucheray and Donahue see playoff promise in the Wild team:

  • “They're two players short of a cup, that's my theory. I expect them to make a long run.” — Soucheray (58:06)

• Football Gripe:
  NFL officiating errors, Vikings–Giants, playoff memories, and classic Kevin Seifert quotes.

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7. Polad Family and Twins Ownership Restructuring

(63:24 – 66:49)

• Inside scoop: The “smartest” Polad brother now manages the Twins; obvious family tension and playful speculation about future franchise direction.

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8. Pat Donahue's Recovery & Closing Banter

(67:50 – End)

• Donahue’s knee rehabilitation prompts a round of caretaker jokes and “Game of Flaws” banter.
• The hosts riff on inside jokes, holiday liquor, and “tin foil hat day,” before heading off to the Cathedral for a concert.

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• On Minnesota’s Fraud:
  "I'm more convinced...[this is] industrial-strength fraud" (03:50) — Joe Soucheray

• On the State Government:
  "There’s been no honesty in this administration...nothing but hypocrisy.” (07:53–08:05) — Chris Reavers, Kenny Olson

• Satire, ‘Dystopian Grocery’:
  “I'm seeing bugs in the produce area...nothing but mushy grapes in the city-owned grocery store...bad fruit.” (29:26–29:56) — Soucheray

• On Walz’s Accountability:
  “I think I have enough faith left in humanity that he’s going to hit a brick wall here real soon.” (16:28) — Chris Reavers

• On Motivation:
  “What would motivate the people who supposedly ran a city grocery store? There isn’t any.” (27:29) — Reavers

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:12–18:00: Main fraud takedown, state government critique
• 22:23–34:44: City-run grocery store satire, economic rationality
• 42:14–54:55: John Knight’s news (fraud, cold cases, privacy)
• 55:02–67:38: Sports chat, Polad family, Twin Cities nostalgia

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Flow & Tone

The episode is a classic Garage Logic blend: sardonic, irate, darkly comic, civic-minded, and loaded with street-level anecdotes. The conversational pile-on reinforces the sentiment that leadership is flailing, taxpayers are fleeced, and government expansion rarely brings the promised results. But for all the cynicism, there’s humor, local color, and affection for the quirks of Minnesota.

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For New Listeners

You’ll come away with a vivid sense of Minnesota’s fraud crisis, a primer on the hosts’ worldview (skeptical, anti-bureaucracy, and pro-common sense), plus plenty of local flavor and blue-collar wisdom. If you like your commentary with a side of gallows humor and grocery nostalgia, you’re in the right garage.

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Transcript

[Mishke]

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[Kenny Olson]

Let's go, Gabe.

[Joe Sushi]

Joe.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sushi]

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 corpor, 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 Sushi. Have we reached the point in the fraud story where Wall should at least be offered placement in the witness protection program? Should he at least be in hiding? It's truly incredulous what's taking place here from the American experiment are just some of the programs feeding our future. Partners in Nutrition, Partners in Nutrition, childcare assistance, 13 separate Medicaid frauds, Autism clinics, Housing Stabilization Services, unemployment Insurance, Addiction application, Supplemental Nutritional Deal, SNAP and others. We're at a billion and a half with Joe Thompson estimating that as much as half of the $18 billion billed through state programs is going to end up being tied to fraud. And I seriously, I'm genuine when I say I don't want to pay my taxes. I work my ass off and I'm writing these people checks and it's been handled incompetently. I've been treated poorly along with every other Minnesotan. We have suffered the indignation of having the worst possible human being serve as governor of this state. And we all have been fleeced and robbed. If there's a distinction between fleeced and robbed, and I know it's naive, I know it's unreasonable, we have to pay our taxes because why? We're law abiding citizens. We're the ones who keep this thing going. But we need a complete cleaning of house at the state capitol. It's, it's horrible. We even now have a new term. We have tourism fraud. We've got people looking at Minnesota who think these people are so stupid and they're governed so poorly. Let's run out there and list ourselves as a company and start picking up money. It's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous. I'm more convinced.

[Joe Sushi]

Well.

[Chris Reavers]

Really, why isn't this guy in hiding or in a witness protection program?

[Rookie]

He sure does get a pass.

[Chris Reavers]

And this, this disingenuous BS that he was, they made sure to print on the front page of the walls newspaper today is absolutely an embarrassment. You've got Joe. Joe Thompson and federal prosecutors announcing these new charges. Every day we look under a rock and find another $50 million fraud scheme. Joe Thompson said the magnitude of the fraud of Minnesota cannot be overestimated. It's staggering amounts of money that have been lost. It's industrial strength fraud. Thompson couldn't cite specifics on how much of the 18 billion is fraudulent, saying the answer is far too much. Thompson announced charges against six people yesterday he said have defrauded two programs. Housing Stabilization services which assist people with finding and maintaining housing and an early autism intervention program. In total, they reportedly stole More than 11.6 million in Medicaid fronts. The other thing that should alert Minnesotans, especially you prematurely gray haired 42 year old euphorians, these people don't give a bleep about the people that truly need help. They don't give a bleep. They were more concerned on equity redistributing income than they were about helping people. Walls, you should be in hiding.

[John Knight]

Now.

[Chris Reavers]

Walls says, where did I read his quote? This is absolutely just when we think we can't say enough or just when we think we haven't seen enough, we see Joe Thompson's previous remarks coming true. Because if you'll note and think back on his quotations following news conferences, he, he has always said we're just at the tip of the iceberg here. We have no idea how much this will ultimately be. And it turns out probably every single program in the state of Minnesota is riddled with fraud. Every single one. The whole thing is rotten.

[Rookie]

How can you not think that?

[Chris Reavers]

And the other problem again, and this is what we keep telling Republican hopefuls, yes, the fraud is horrendous. But one of the things that will help prevent this in the future is there are just too damn many programs and none of them are helping people who need help. And it's not plausible that suddenly every other kid born on the planet has autism. There's been no checks and balances. There's been no vetting. We all know the reasons for the fraud. Walz has allowed it to happen. Then he comes out with this drivel that this fraud newspaper was anxious to put on the front page. What utter BS this is. We have been victimized. Minnesotans have been treated more poorly than the citizens of any other state in this once grand union. And I sure as hell wish there was a way we didn't have to pay our taxes until these idiots clean up the mess they've made.

[Rookie]

God, the number. They can't even get their arms around it.

[Kenny Olson]

But unfortunately if we did that, the vulnerable would be even more vulnerable.

[Chris Reavers]

What you need to help the vulnerable is competency. Yeah, an actual concern, not this BS honesty. There's been no honesty in this administration.

[Kenny Olson]

Nothing but hypocrisy.

[Chris Reavers]

There's been no caring. There's been no concern for people.

[Kenny Olson]

There's been duplicity.

[Joe Sushi]

The news piece I saw this morning, Joe Thompson was speaking and they were talking about this extensive nature of this particular new unearthed fraud. And do you know where the FBI was carrying boxes out of where it was a single. Like one of those strip mall office things.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, those are big next to a Coburn's right.

[Joe Sushi]

This office was the size of this studio.

[Chris Reavers]

Nobody in this state took care of the people of this state. I hope to God you people wake up. We have been robbed and we have to continue to send in our paychecks because we follow the law. We follow the law and we're treated poorly. And I don't know what it's going to take to get to the bottom of it because we are not at the bottom of it. This is not the bottom of it. There is a mastermind. There is a professional ring. This is organized. Minnesota was carefully chosen. They had the right dunce in the governor's office. They had maybe a right player in Congress. Something, something is yet to be revealed that should knock us all on our feet if this doesn't.

[Joe Sushi]

What do you suspect?

[Chris Reavers]

I suspect fraud that reaches the highest levels of government.

[Kenny Olson]

More and more people are calling for his resignation. People from his.

[Chris Reavers]

But then you're stuck with that.

[Kenny Olson]

Careful, just for a few months with.

[Chris Reavers]

That woman who has a picture of a knife on her shirt that complete. She's part of this. Anybody in this administration. In fact, I'll say it. Everybody in this administration except the whistleblowers are guilty. How could they not be? Is Flanagan so obtuse and so out of touch that she didn't know anything about it?

[Rookie]

How come she's getting a pass, too.

[Chris Reavers]

By the way, What a. This is. We are the. Do you know that on certain websites now, national websites, Minnesota has its own category with about four or five stories of the day's latest roundup of fraud in Minnesota.

[Joe Sushi]

Congrats to us.

[Chris Reavers]

We're big time. We're big time. You know.

[Kenny Olson]

What is the beef between walls and Flanagan all about anyway?

[Rookie]

She redid the governor's.

[Chris Reavers]

She was right. Starting to measure the office for Kurds.

[Kenny Olson]

Are you sure?

[Rookie]

Nancy Reagan now.

[Kenny Olson]

Are you sure that's what it's about?

[Joe Sushi]

What are you expecting?

[Kenny Olson]

Is that what they want you to believe?

[Chris Reavers]

Who's the guy that said, I'm in charge now?

[Rookie]

Alexander.

[Chris Reavers]

Hay Alexander. She pulled kind of a hag secretarial state. The more he was gone, the more she said, I'm in charge. He resented it.

[Kenny Olson]

How do you like that conspiracy? I'm pretty proud of myself for that one.

[Rookie]

Just kind of throwing that out there.

[Kenny Olson]

You didn't say anything at all. I did that for your benefit.

[Rookie]

No.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Joe Sushi]

I accidentally said Coburn's. I meant a Carboni's pizza. That's what I meant to say.

[Chris Reavers]

What's Coburn's?

[Joe Sushi]

It's a grocery store, but I meant to say Carbonis, but it was so funny because there was seven FBI agents hauling boxes and boxes of documents out of this basically small apartment.

[Chris Reavers]

Go to this fake bus company in Roseville.

[Joe Sushi]

Same thing.

[Chris Reavers]

By the way, did you pass that?

[Rookie]

I have a. I have.

[Chris Reavers]

You have an update?

[Rookie]

I do have an update. It was just sent to me today. This is a picture of the said building on 62. Right before.

[Kenny Olson]

You gotta tell us what you're talking about.

[Chris Reavers]

Showing a picture. What's it called? Mendota.

[Rookie]

Mendota Child Care. Mendota Child Daycare Center. And Golden Adult Daycare.

[Chris Reavers]

The address, it looks like that might be a legitimate one.

[Rookie]

Well, it's 1044. And what is the address there? 1044.

[Chris Reavers]

That'd be Highway 62, or whatever the service road is. It's Dakota Drive. Okay, but the point is. What?

[Rookie]

The point is. This says photo of the daycare center, office 62. It's on Dakota Drive. Technically, can't find a website for either of these businesses.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, for Pete's sake.

[Rookie]

So it. It's.

[Chris Reavers]

Did that person get out and look in the window? That's what I asked you to do.

[Rookie]

When I drove by it yesterday, there was not one light on. I didn't have time to get out of my car, but there was not one light on.

[Joe Sushi]

They're here at night.

[Rookie]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Right.

[Rookie]

Yeah, they're gone.

[Chris Reavers]

That was one of the greatest things told to Jake Coles. He's at a child daycare center, and some lady pulls up at an Escalade and Cole says, well, there's nobody here. They hear at night, right?

[Joe Sushi]

That's when they get the day.

[Chris Reavers]

Thank you. Yeah, that's great.

[Rookie]

It closed in October, Possibly.

[Chris Reavers]

What?

[Rookie]

This thing closed in October? Possibly. We're verifying that.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, again, for all the people who think this is a virtuous government, they haven't helped anybody.

[Rookie]

My mole is saying they've deprived people of help.

[John Knight]

Hmm.

[Rookie]

My mole is saying the lot is full today, so I can't figure it out.

[Chris Reavers]

Probably FBI.

[Rookie]

Maybe they're having a meeting.

[Joe Sushi]

Christmas party.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay. It's the potluck.

[Rookie]

Yes, the daycare, adult daycare potluck.

[Chris Reavers]

And we're not near. We're not even done. We are not done. $18 billion is. Ironically, that's just the size of the deficit. The surplus that walls blew. $18 billion has been billed through state programs tied to fraud. And the news we got yesterday is Thompson and other prosecutors anticipate that 9 billion of that is fraud.

[Rookie]

Jeez.

[Chris Reavers]

Added to the billion already for the food fraud, there's 10 billion. How can these legislators look their constituents in the face? Not a one of them has been responsible. How can these agency heads. Well, they never. We don't know who they are. They don't show their faces in public. Walls. How long will you continue to put up with walls? Phony act.

[Rookie]

And what's their pot of gold on the end of the side of the rainbow? What are they? What's their reward for his? For being loyalty to him. For whoever's masking this.

[Joe Sushi]

I can help you.

[Chris Reavers]

What?

[Joe Sushi]

Look at the net worth of all these people.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, he's talking state level. So am I. I think the federal prosecutors should give a close examination to how Ilhan Omar.

[Joe Sushi]

Thank you.

[Chris Reavers]

Went from 240 grand net worth to 33 million net worth.

[Kenny Olson]

Wasn't that her husband's? Her new husband.

[Chris Reavers]

The vineyard. Oh, I'm sure that's the wine business. That good? That quick?

[Joe Sushi]

Oh, I'm sure it is.

[Kenny Olson]

Wasn't he a consultant or something for political people?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. Boy, I don't know where to.

[Joe Sushi]

Where do we turn?

[Chris Reavers]

Where do we address the anger?

[Kenny Olson]

You know what Walls reminds me of? And this might be uncharitable he reminds me of the guy that's helping do a search for a missing person. All the while, the body is in his trunk. That might be a little harsh.

[Chris Reavers]

It is. No, it's. It's not.

[Joe Sushi]

Is it analogous? I don't know if that's the body being the state of Minnesota.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Sushi]

Yeah. Where'd our state go? But Kenny's right.

[Kenny Olson]

I mean, he's such a gaslighter.

[Joe Sushi]

Kenny. And when you said that earlier, you know what struck me is watch the campaign trail for this utter clown for the rest of the year saying, yeah, my administration is going to get tougher on crime.

[Chris Reavers]

I don't think so.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't take credit for the arrests. And he has nothing to do with it.

[Chris Reavers]

I don't think. I don't think he'll make it. I think I have enough faith left in humanity that he's going to hit a brick wall here real soon.

[Kenny Olson]

His czar appointment should have happened. When were you talking about this, Joe?

[Chris Reavers]

2018, at least.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, that's when that should have happened. Before any of this Covid stuff came out.

[Chris Reavers]

I don't think he can make it through to be on the ticket.

[Joe Sushi]

Care to make it interesting?

[Chris Reavers]

No. I know we're not in here for betting. I'm trying to lay out for you the idea that this is now so significant. Industrial strength fraud with the attention of the whole country. Now looking at it, I don't think he can make it. He has got to be recognized, hidden away in a witness protection program in exchange for his testimony. He's got to. This is ridiculous. He is a complete. And now look at the way he's kept himself. So he travels light. There's no home, there's no belongings. There's no nothing. He's ready to just. He doesn't.

[Rookie]

He's gonna be an empty nester. Well, the sun is still.

[Chris Reavers]

You guys.

[Kenny Olson]

He doesn't own a home.

[Chris Reavers]

No way. I just said that.

[Kenny Olson]

He doesn't have a. He's got no place to go.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, we just had to dump God knows how many millions into that Irvin mansion on Summit Avenue where poor Rudy Perpich sat there and froze with leaking water.

[Kenny Olson]

They've got, like, a pioneer.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Rookie]

Very politically correct energy. Sipping lights.

[Chris Reavers]

Do they?

[Rookie]

Yeah, it's those.

[Chris Reavers]

I got your sipping lights right here.

[Rookie]

Charlie Brown lights. Let's go.

[Joe Sushi]

Is the fence still up?

[Chris Reavers]

Mm.

[Joe Sushi]

It is.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay.

[Joe Sushi]

It's been a minute since I've been that way.

[Chris Reavers]

I saw two stories that I can't get out of my mind. Both in the Daily Mail because the Daily Mail is a fun daily bulletin board of complete absurdity.

[Rookie]

We don't miss much, do they?

[Chris Reavers]

And they story some guy in the UK, Burt brought his Christmas lights in 1956 and they still work. The other one was Spanish family wheels, dead grandmother onto plane, told the staff, don't worry about it, she's just asleep.

[Kenny Olson]

He's sleeping.

[Rookie]

That doesn't work.

[Joe Sushi]

Would she like a beverage? Nah, she's fine.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Chris Reavers]

We have a city grocery store. We know that the socialists among us here have this fantasy wish for a city grocery store. Part of that is just their contempt for corporate life in America.

[Joe Sushi]

Take down capitalism.

[Chris Reavers]

Why should Kowalski's have a store? Or Lund's or Byerly's?

[Joe Sushi]

That's just one story.

[Chris Reavers]

Are they all one now?

[Joe Sushi]

Lund's and Barley's.

[Rookie]

Lunds and Barleys are combined. Kowalski's is distinct from.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, my point is there are many, many grocery stores.

[Rookie]

A lot.

[Chris Reavers]

But these Communists hold these corporate success stories in contempt. So they think the answer is a municipal grocery store. Kansas City tried it. Oh, that way and they closed it. Now, finally, after only losing $29 million.

[Pat Donahue]

Oh my God.

[Joe Sushi]

Wow.

[Chris Reavers]

Carol Becker was noting this in the.

[Kenny Olson]

It'll work here, though, Joe. That's we're not Kansas City. It' Give us a shot.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

They haven't done our method.

[Chris Reavers]

Robin Wansley still wants one. Here she's proposing that for Minneapolis, a municipal store. And see, she wants to undercut the private marketplace by subsidizing the cost of groceries by the city. Owning or participating in a grocery store, it's just flat out a bad idea. It doesn't make sense because all you're doing is asking taxpayers to pay for the food. They have their own food bills. Robin, you have nothing to do with it. At her direction, city staff prepared a study on the possibility of the city grocery store. There are a number of models discussed in the study. I wonder what that cost us. Including the city owning and operating the store outright or the city subsidizing a private or non profit to operate the grocery store? No, that would only result in fraud. Those are my words. Wait a minute. Why subsidize a private store? They're not asking you for subsidiary now. Subsidizing. I think I just made up a W word. Subsidization, Subsidation. I mean, Lawrence isn't asking for any subsidy. There are multiple ways a subsidy could be done. From direct cash payments to government ownership of the building to paying for building improvements. Oh, go bleep yourself, Wansley, you fraud. Tulsa, Oklahoma did it. They got the Oasis Fresh Market, A non profit private partnership with public subsidies. Madison, Wisconsin of course has one. They subsidized the rent of a grocery store and they own the building. Atlanta has one city subsidized grocery stores. The glaring omission from the study is Kansas City. Kansas City owns the Sun Fresh grocery building near 31st street and Prospect.

[Rookie]

Boy, does that sound like I can.

[Kenny Olson]

Smell it from here.

[Rookie]

Yes.

[Chris Reavers]

The city has partnered with two different operators over the last eight years. One for profit and one non profit. The store received $28,997 $97,400 through bonds, loans and subsidies. What the hell, let's call it 29 million sun fresh. 29 million they got from the taxpayers in Kansas City.

[Pat Donahue]

Wow.

[Chris Reavers]

Store closed in August. The sign on the door said we ought to meet.

[Rookie]

We ought to meet.

[Chris Reavers]

We closed. We ought to meet. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances. Well, I can see them beyond our control. We no longer at this time are able to serve the residents of this important community. A sign on the front door of Sunfresh said local NPR affiliate KCUR reported. It has always been our dream and passion to provide quality products and services in a safe family environment. At this time, unfortunately, we are unable to do that. You were never able to do it. The idea is preposterous. It doesn't need to be done.

[Kenny Olson]

We have grocery stores with this grocery store in kc. The comparisons to Minneapolis are really, really stark. They have the same anti police attitude there due to the lack of funds. There were maintenance issues with this building. It had a funny stink. Everything was broken. They had security issues. Remember everything that Reverend Timothy has Said about Merwin's Liquors on Broadway in Lindale, what a problem it is with drug dealers and whatnot. The same thing was happening at this grocery store. They were being robbed blind. There were drug deals in the parking lot, drinking in the parking lot.

[Chris Reavers]

All you gotta do is ask yourself one question. What would motivate the people who supposedly ran a city grocery store? What's their motivating factor? There isn't any.

[Rookie]

They don't care if they make money.

[Chris Reavers]

What do they care?

[Rookie]

Right. They don't care if they make money. They'll just go to the city and say, we lost.

[Chris Reavers]

There's no motivating factor to do a great job. Luns. Cub closed in the midway area of St. Paul near Hamlin and University Avenue. Do you know why they closed? Because of the crime. Crime?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Sushi]

Same thing for it wasn't at the Walmart and that's now.

[Chris Reavers]

Why do they think a city run grocery store would not experience crime?

[Rookie]

You're not going to steal from your city. They've been.

[Chris Reavers]

No, no, no, no, Matt. We're not only stealing from our city. We might be up to about 18 billion stolen from the state.

[Rookie]

Okay, forget region.

[Chris Reavers]

So you don't need a city grocery store. The city grocery store. If you put a city owned grocery store where Cub was in the Midway, it'll end up ravaged just the way Cub was.

[Joe Sushi]

Will you do me your cartoon bubble of walking through The Sun? Fresh St. Paul City owned grocery store on Hamlin and University. Let's walk through the aisles. Joe, what are you seeing?

[Chris Reavers]

I can't imagine how dystopian it would feel it would be. Short of products. They would have no motivation to make sure the shelves are full.

[Joe Sushi]

Lot of packages half open.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes. There's nothing in it for them because they don't understand capitalism. They're just wards of the state at that point. Wards of the city. What do they care? Maybe they'll get around to shoveling the snow away from the front door. Maybe they'll get around to opening. Oh, the weather's gonna turn. I'll probably close early. What the hell's in it for them?

[Joe Sushi]

I'm see bugs in the produce area.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm seeing bad fruit.

[Rookie]

Handmaid's Tale.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm seeing bad fruit I don't like. See, I check the grapes on the rare occasion I'm at the store. Well, actually, I was taught how to do this. Well, I see all. Nothing but mushy grapes in the city. Own grocery store. Got it. You know, I want firm grapes, seedless and I don't want mold all over the raspberries. I don't want big wormholes in the apples.

[Kenny Olson]

No, this is happening all over. The new mayor in New York is.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, he's a big city owned grocery store.

[Kenny Olson]

He wants one in each of the five boroughs.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, he's never worked a day in his life. He's a full fledged Marxist and he's gonna try to reinvent the city. In Kansas City, there were numerous problems. The nonprofit organization and in this state, nonprofit means fraud. Could not manage its supply lines. The shelves were empty due to the lack of funds. What funds? You got $29 million from the city due to the lack of funds. There were maintenance issues. The building had a rancid smell because what's in it for them to clean? They don't care about what propriety sense of pride would they have you go to Lunds? These people are hopping to it. Yep. Funds were so low that it could not afford to fix its broken front window. What else did you say? This is fascinating to me. Much of the budget was consumed by security costs. Did Cub when it was in Midway. They might have said, could we have the presence of a policeman here once in a while. But I don't think they went to the taxpayers and demanded to be compensated for their security costs.

[Rookie]

They did not.

[Chris Reavers]

Kansas City has the same anti police orientation towards public safety in the area. Had a big number of drug dealers and drug users who stole from the store. Reducing already thin margins. The supermarket had to close its profitable liquor department due to drinking outside the building. Two managers quit in the last year citing hazardous work conditions. The store was managed by the assistant manager when it closed. She said having somebody that wants to put up with the fight of the violence every day, of the guns, of the knives, of the drugs, just of the everyday thieves. It's so hard for people to feel safe who want to work here and want to come here. What did you expect when police responded after she was threatened with a box cutter? She said responding officers were there for another crime that happened to be a man with a machete in the parking lot. It is not clear how Robin Wansley are the benefits. That's right. It's not clear how Robin Wansley thinks. Minneapolis will overcome these problems. Because Robin Wansley is not a bright woman. She has never accomplished anything except her activists.

[Joe Sushi]

They were doubted the assistant manager.

[Chris Reavers]

A single store will have the same barriers for managing supply lines. If Wansley wants cost to be below the private marketplace, it will require tax dollars to subsidize food Costs we're put upon enough as taxpayers and that may require trade offs with building maintenance. And depending on where the store is located, it could have the same security issues that the Kansas City store did. In the end, it could cost Minneapolis residents millions if Kansas City is any indicator. It's a horrible, ridiculous, stupid, unnecessary idea. But we have elected the wrong people. And why? For too many years we just sailed along and we weren't paying attention.

[Kenny Olson]

You mentioned Madison, so I started looking Madison up and Madison's situation is even more hilarious. I thought I was going to see good things because you said something about just subsidize the city's helping with the rent. Right. Well, when you delve into it, the place they want to put it up. Put up this little grocery store is right next to a pick and save and that's a major grocery line, I guess, in Wisconsin and within a mile of where they want this city owned grocery store. There are four or five other grocery stores and they're all doing well. And the city of Madison wants to put one up there and try to undercut all these other grocery stores. It's hilarious what's happening in Madison, Robin.

[Chris Reavers]

The city can't keep a street light lit.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

You cannot possibly run a grocery store.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

It's a crying shame what's happened to this state. It really is. I hope she's somehow defeated. Does Fry have enough chutzpah to can he veto that if it ever comes to that?

[Kenny Olson]

And this all came about by a couple of grocery stores closing on the north side. Right. Due to crime. Correct. Was it up on Dowling or Lowry? It was up in that area. Lowry, west of Lindale.

[Chris Reavers]

If I remember right, Twin Cities are not short of grocery stores.

[Joe Sushi]

Well, once you get out of the. Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

I guarantee you if the city got into the car business, they'd sell Hyundais.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, if I remember right, it is a problem for the folks up in that north side neighborhood. But it wouldn't be. If I remember right. I'm going from faulty memory here. If the crime was under control.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, it wouldn't be if we kept excusing crime under the auspices of the soft bigotry of low expectations.

[Kenny Olson]

Right. And I keep going back to what Tim Christopher has said about Merwins down on Broadway.

[Chris Reavers]

And did that ultimately close?

[Joe Sushi]

Yes. Didn't it?

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know if it's open or closed. It's still on the map.

[Joe Sushi]

Do we add that to the list of places you would shop anything with in Save? You know, the Pick n Save?

[Chris Reavers]

No. What I hear there is food getting picked over and that would. That would a lot of fingerprints. Yeah, that would bother me.

[Kenny Olson]

I think. Pick and Save is a chain run by Roundy's which is a subsidiary of Kroger.

[Joe Sushi]

Oh, okay. Then it's on the upside.

[Kenny Olson]

So they're legit.

[Joe Sushi]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Do we.

[Kenny Olson]

The point was that there's all sorts of grocery stores within a mile and they're going to open up this city owned grocery store. Oh, Madison.

[Chris Reavers]

Do we have Piggly Wiggly?

[Pat Donahue]

Do we have Piggly?

[Joe Sushi]

I don't know.

[John Knight]

I think they're out of business, aren't they?

[Pat Donahue]

Maybe not.

[Chris Reavers]

We still have Hoes.

[Kenny Olson]

Hoes is.

[Rookie]

Hoes is long gone. He's talking about Highland Park.

[Chris Reavers]

I remember as a kid being dragged to hoes with my mother. Yes, it was in Highland park just west of Cleveland on Ford Parkway.

[Joe Sushi]

Okay.

[Rookie]

And it turned into Snyder's.

[Chris Reavers]

Did it's not. Then it was a Snyder's Drugs. Well, it was an Ambers for a while.

[Rookie]

Okay, that I don't recall.

[Chris Reavers]

It was an Embers in there. I just remember Snyder's Drugstore. Now it's. What is Walgreens, CBS something.

[John Knight]

I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

What's the time and time? Kim, could you give me the time?

[Chris Reavers]

Why don't we take the time out?

[Joe Sushi]

I thought you were a Red Owl family.

[Rookie]

Red Owl was on Ford Parkour and.

[Joe Sushi]

Rookie's family was Red Owl. Okay, that's right.

[Chris Reavers]

I can't claim that.

[Rookie]

And then you remember Mr. B who was the manager of Snyder's. Wonderful guy. Then when he passed, you learned he was a World War II veteran that did these amazing things overseas.

[Chris Reavers]

I didn't know anything about him.

[Joe Sushi]

Not one other podcast in the country knows the name of the Snyder's manager other than Garage Logic.

[Rookie]

Great guy.

[Chris Reavers]

Was he the guy who mumbled yes. Yeah. Curly hair, glass. No, I thought the guy at the grocery store.

[Rookie]

That was Mr. Vogel.

[Chris Reavers]

Vogel mumbled.

[Rookie]

Yeah. Well, he gave him a stand up.

[Chris Reavers]

He was probably a vet too.

[Rookie]

Yeah, I imagine so. He would have been there.

[Chris Reavers]

The rest.

[Rookie]

Yeah, they didn't come in yet.

[Kenny Olson]

Hey manager, do you have any. I was looking over here in the automotive aisle. Do you have any seafoam Bugs be gone. I see the motor treatment, but I'm looking for bugs be gone. Could you order some for me?

[Joe Sushi]

Light up.

[Kenny Olson]

Now, manager, if you want a great promotion, I advise you to hire Seafoam Santa to come in here, come into your store.

[Chris Reavers]

There.

[Kenny Olson]

Maybe you could have your wife sit on my lap there.

[Rookie]

Barbara Barb and ringing the Dog Elfie.

[Chris Reavers]

What about if Jimmy came in?

[Joe Sushi]

Oh, no.

[Rookie]

Say, Barb, why you sitting on Santa's lap?

[Chris Reavers]

It's February.

[Kenny Olson]

I want to try to talk to you about Seafoam. Thank you, Seafoam, and what a wonderful gift it would make for your family. But you gotta find the bugs be gone. That's what I've been doing for the last 30 minutes, trying to find a place where I can find bugs be gone in the middle of the winter. Because it's. It's the perfect stocking stuffer. It makes removing bugs from your windshield a pure joy. And when I'm talking Seafoam Santa, I'm thinking a package. A package with three different Seafoam products. Of course, the motor treatment. That's the answer to all your engine woes. And then the deep creep. That's a wonderful premium grade shop lubricant. It creeps deeper, it works better and lasts much longer than any other product on the shelf. And then, of course, the bugs be gone. That stuff is. I don't know. That's straight from heaven. It's a true miracle. You can actually watch the bugs slide down your windshield and then just wash them off with ease. There you go. It's the perfect trio of Christmas gifts, courtesy of your, your best friend, Seafoam Santa.

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[Joe Sushi]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sushi]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Sushi]

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[Chris Reavers]

Here's John Knight.

[John Knight]

Thank you, Joe. This news brought to you by North American Banking Company. Before we get into news, there are still Piggly Wigglies, Joe, in America.

[Chris Reavers]

Not here though.

[John Knight]

No. 18 states have Piggly Wigglies. Minnesota not one of them. There's 503 stores as of 2020. Oh boy. So still a bunch of people in news as you've been talking about, Joe. As the U.S. attorney's office announced a new batch of charges related to suspected fraudulent billing in Minnesota's government services, officials painted a dire portrait of just how extensive the problem could be. Assistant U.S. attorney Joe Thompson said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pulled claims for 14 programs identified by Minnesota officials as being particularly vulnerable to fraud and found $18 billion in Medicaid billing since 2018. Not all of those payments were illegitimate. Thompson estimated perhaps half or more.

[Chris Reavers]

It's 10 programs too many, by the way. 14. I'll give you 10. I'll give you four was received through.

[John Knight]

Fraudulent means, though he said prosecutors are still trying to find the exact number. In October, Governor Walz announced a third party audit of those 14 high risk programs and put a 90 day hold on payments to providers to review claims for potential fraud. One of those programs, Housing Stabilization Services, was discontinued on October 31. Thompson yesterday also announcing fraud charges against five additional defendants who defrauded the HSS program and the second indictment against a provider in Minnesota's Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention Program for autism. During the news conference yesterday, Thompson also pushed back on widely circulated claims that the proceeds of the fraud schemes were being sent directly to Al Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Somalia. He said that most significant portions of the money federal investigators have traced to East Africa has not been used on terrorism, but as we pointed out, has been used to buy real estate in Kenya. Oh good, said there's no indication the defendants we've charged or radicalized or seeking to fund Al Shabaab or any other terrorist group, thompson said. Said somebody went to Somalia indirectly. Somebody might have gotten into the hands of Al Shabaab, he said, which controls significant parts of Somalia and imposes attacks there. UPDATE A 16 year old boy now has been charged with four counts of threats of violence in connection with those online threats sent to several schools earlier this week that according to Dakota County Attorney Kathy Kina. As previously reported, police were contacted about a series of threats posted to social media against four high schools in Dakota County, Keena said any threat of gun violence, especially when directed at schools, is taken seriously by my office. The suspects post included asking which school he should shoot up with a firearm and photos and videos of firearms. Investigators traced the threats to a home in Eagan. They also found the phone number associated with the accounts, According to prosecutors. Police who were positioned outside the home saw a vehicle leave and conducted a traffic stop. The driver and passenger were identified as the teen's parents and they confirmed the phone number associated with the accounts belonged to their son. Officers then went into the home, questioned the teen, who confirmed the phone number and social media accounts were his. He was arrested, brought to the Juvenile Service center in Hastings. He'll make his next court appearance on December 23rd.

[Chris Reavers]

Hey kid, if you learn how to read and write, you'll probably stay out of trouble.

[John Knight]

This story pretty interesting. Obviously lots of backstory here that we will never know. The body of an unidentified man found in Albert leave back in 2015 has now been identified as a World War II veteran who passed away years before he was discovered. According to the DNA DOE Project, they have identified the remains as belonging to Luis Gilberto Robledo, who is believed to have died sometime between 2000 and 2012. According to the DNA DOE Project, Robledo's remains were found April 6, 2015 and forensic investigators at the time determined he was likely 44 to 55 years old and may have been Hispanic. Robledo's identification was then brought to the DNA Doe project which confirmed Robledo was of Mexican descent and had several close DNA matches in their match database. Team leader Gianna Fury said Hispanic cases are often tough because that population is underrepresented in the DNA databases we have access to. In this case we were lucky to have close DNA matches on both the mother's side and the father's side. That allowed us to identify the John Doe's parents. Within 24 hours after discovering his parents, the team was able to narrow narrowed down the identity to Robledo as he was the only son of the couple who was unaccounted for. One of Robledo's children later took a DNA test which confirmed the remains were his. Despite their initial belief that Robledo was middle aged when he died, able to confirm that he was born in 1923 and was possibly in his 80s or 90s at the time of his death, Robledo was a native of El Paso, Texas, where he was born. A World War II veteran. At 21 years old he fought in the battle of Normandy where he was wounded. Later settled down in Los Angeles, California, his last known location. He was living in Mexico in 1990. So it's unknown how Robledo ended up here in Minnesota as well as when he died. Exactly.

[Chris Reavers]

Why did they think he was middle aged?

[John Knight]

Just from the bones, the remains, they.

[Chris Reavers]

You know, gee whiz, does it all.

[Kenny Olson]

Concern you guys that the government has your DNA information?

[Chris Reavers]

Well, where would they get it? From a doctor?

[Kenny Olson]

It's as innocent as these Hoople heads. These unsuspecting Hoople heads in your family that send in samples of their DNA so they can trace their ancestry.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I don't do that.

[Kenny Olson]

And oh no, it doesn't matter if somebody in your family has done it.

[Chris Reavers]

They have, they have yours.

[Joe Sushi]

But Kenny, with this, to answer your question, wouldn't the fact that he had a role in military, would that have anything to do with them?

[Kenny Olson]

Does that upset you guys at all? You don't mind the.

[John Knight]

No, I don't care.

[Kenny Olson]

The government crawling up your backside and making themselves at home.

[Chris Reavers]

No, I'm fixated on walls, on other.

[John Knight]

Things that you guys know about so.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, it's a major concern of mine.

[Chris Reavers]

All right, thank you.

[John Knight]

I did the test. That means I. John, I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

If you could tell, but I was looking right at you when I was saying those mean things.

[Joe Sushi]

No, Kenny, I believe what you just got was the on air audio version of. Okay, Kenny.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, Kenny.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay, Kenny.

[Kenny Olson]

Do you.

[Chris Reavers]

See you, John.

[John Knight]

We're just gonna spend the rest of the show staring at each other. Okay?

[Promo Announcer]

Okay.

[John Knight]

I see you, Kenny.

[Chris Reavers]

I see you. All right. Proceed.

[John Knight]

A sordid tale from the Star Tribune.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, that one pretty sorted tale.

[John Knight]

Well, this one's really sorted, yeah. Former Minnesota funeral director has been charged with the post death decapitation of a woman whose skull was found by Boy Scouts in western Wisconsin woods nearly a quarter century ago. 57 year old Benjamin Carl Hanson of Bay Port charged in St. Croix County Circuit Court yesterday with two felonies. Hiding a corpse and felony theft in connection with the handling of the body of Alice Katerina Peterson, who was living in Stillwater when she died in 2001 at the age of 92. Hansen was booked into jail this week. Posted bond. It was released Thursday ahead of a Feb. 26 court appearance. Hansen, incidentally, is the husband of Bay Port Mayor Michelle Hansen. Two decades of various DNA and genetic testing led investigators this summer to confirm the skull belonged to Peterson. While law enforcement has charged the man they say is responsible, there remains uncertainty about whether the ashes that were turned over to Peterson's survivors were indeed hers. The St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knutson said there remains a number of unanswered questions to include whose remains went where. It's all a very sad story, he said for the family. The skull's discovery has been the subject of news reports over the years. First when it was found in 2002 and again in 2022. On the 20th anniversary of the discovery, the sheriff's office took the case to the nonprofit DNA Doe Project, which we heard about in the last story. In hopes of unraveling the long running mystery, the California based organization narrowed her ancestry to Swedish. From there they followed the family tree until they came up with Peterson. The project contacted Anise, whose DNA was a major factor in confirming the skulls.

[Kenny Olson]

Joe, what's the name of our text tech school or the classes there in gl? Is it the Academy for the Gumption.

[Rookie]

County Institute for the Criminally Incompetent?

[Kenny Olson]

I propose one of the classes and I'll be more than willing to teach this class along with how to be a drug mule and other sorts of classes. How to get rid of a bottle body. I mean it's not that tough.

[Chris Reavers]

Maybe, maybe, maybe the family got the correct ashes just minus the weight of her head. You know, maybe, maybe this guy just wanted a head.

[John Knight]

The well, you speak about a motive sort of there. And the investigators said yesterday they have no idea what his motive was, why he took the skull, why the skull was removed and why it ended up where they found it.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, that's a shame. I hope she rests in peace.

[Joe Sushi]

Was he. Was he paid off? John, do you think. Is that your suspicion?

[Chris Reavers]

Who wanted a hand?

[Joe Sushi]

No one. Whoever was the culprit here?

[Chris Reavers]

I don't know. I.

[Kenny Olson]

Do you want a list of who wants.

[Rookie]

No, the heads up Boy Scouts discovery.

[Chris Reavers]

That's pretty good, Joe.

[Joe Sushi]

I was going to give John the on air queue. We do not need to take a pause here because we do have Patrick today. Johnny, so you can just keep going.

[John Knight]

Continue.

[Joe Sushi]

Yes.

[John Knight]

Boy, I'd already, you know, kind of gone down and.

[Chris Reavers]

That's all right.

[John Knight]

I'll get myself back up.

[Chris Reavers]

Don't worry.

[Joe Sushi]

Find your second win, John.

[Kenny Olson]

You can yourself up. But buddy.

[John Knight]

In national international news, the suspect in the Saturday shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine others was found dead in a New Hampshire storage unit, according to authorities. And that same person, 48 year old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, is believed to have fatally shot MIT physics professor Nuno Lorero.

[Kenny Olson]

Interesting.

[John Knight]

Authorities say they do not yet have a motive for the two shootings. Valente did attend Brown University as a grad student student in physics in 2000. He dropped out after a year and reentered the country in 2017 when he was admitted as a lawful permanent resident. He allegedly went to college in Portugal with the MIT professor that he killed. According to police, a witness saw Valenti in the bathroom at Brown, followed him out of the building, chased him to his car. The shooting happened a few hours later. Police connected the shooter to the vehicle and tracked him after the witness posted about it on Reddit. Authorities said Valenti was sophisticated and covering his tracks, including obscuring his cell phone so it couldn't be tracked. He switched plates on his rental car and didn't use his credit cards. Investigators first identified Valenti on the afternoon of December 17th and were able to connect him to both crime scenes through financial background information, including rental records for a car he drove to Providence in Massachusetts. An affidavit signed by a Rhode island district judge said police cracked the case after that Reddit tipster recognized a rental circling the area. The tipster told police they should be looking for a gray Nissan Altima and license plate information the police hadn't previously released. Police then tracked down images of Nevis Valenti renting the car at an Alamo location.

[Kenny Olson]

In Boston, we talked about that case at length on this week's Crabby. On that very day, the 17th. So they obviously solved this after we were done with that shit.

[Chris Reavers]

You know what would help solve more crimes? If cars started to be having colors again. Most cars are just painted gray or white or, you know, how about some real bright reds, yellows, greens, like a fluorescent Pinto. You could walk down a street and all the cars are gray.

[Kenny Olson]

What was that Chevrolet greenish color that I love so much? You know the one I'm talking about in the Smith mid-60s.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, they had some bad seafoam green.

[Kenny Olson]

I think so. Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Green. I mean, cars used to have beautiful colors. They don't have color anymore.

[Rookie]

Bring back the Maverick.

[Chris Reavers]

That's right.

[John Knight]

There are mavericks now. They're pickups.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, they're pickups. Why don't we take a break?

[Kenny Olson]

Wait a second.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, we got to get Patrick.

[Kenny Olson]

What were you gonna say, John? We're good.

[John Knight]

I was gonna say it's 12:57.

[Chris Reavers]

I got a concert to go to. Jesus Christ.

[Kenny Olson]

Christ.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Rookie]

God, you guys, it's at the cathedral.

[John Knight]

You're right.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, just. Yes, John. I'm sorry. John.

[John Knight]

Nothing. I got nothing.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh. All right. Let's go, then. Get Pat.

[Rookie]

Wow.

[Kenny Olson]

Maybe you should turn.

[Rookie]

Are you ready to go?

[Kenny Olson]

So you work on all you.

[Chris Reavers]

Hey, Patrick.

[Pat Donahue]

How you doing?

[Chris Reavers]

How are you feeling?

[Pat Donahue]

I went to the rehab. A young rehab guy today. Yeah, Nice guy, hell of a kid. Did well. But he moved that knee around some places that the knee didn't really want to go.

[Joe Sushi]

So.

[Pat Donahue]

But, you know. But it's. It. He did a hell of a good job. I'll say.

[Joe Sushi]

How's your 40 time?

[Pat Donahue]

He had 25 minutes after I was there. You know, he had me. He had me doing some things that I never imagined I could have done yesterday. So it was. It was okay. And even had me on one of those easy to pedal bikes at the end where I went a mile.

[Rookie]

Please tell me. Please tell me you'll video that sometime.

[Joe Sushi]

Yeah.

[Pat Donahue]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

All right, Royce, are you off the narcotics now?

[Pat Donahue]

Oh, God, no. I still got some Oxy, and if I don't use it all, I can sell it, you know?

[Chris Reavers]

That's good.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, put me at the top of the list.

[Pat Donahue]

Yes. Right. You know, I think it's overrated, though. Oxygen. I don't think a pill can help you that much when it's that little, do you?

[Kenny Olson]

Yes. Yes, I do.

[Pat Donahue]

A little tiny.

[Kenny Olson]

I am very familiar with the frame phrase, stay ahead of the pain.

[Chris Reavers]

Pat, do you have a brace On.

[Pat Donahue]

I don't have any. No, I don't. I have a. I do not have a brace. On. If you. They got the machine, you know the cool. The ice machine.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. You got your ice.

[Pat Donahue]

Deal ice in there. And then they. They just put a big wrap around the knee and it runs for a while, but. No, they have a. They have a super duper bandage on the front that you can shower with and everything. It has. It hasn't. It hasn't wiggled an inch since, you know, I've been taking showers every day and stuff. They got this. It goes from the bottom of the knee to the top of the knee. And I haven't seen the scar yet because it's underneath that bandage.

[Chris Reavers]

So we have a hockey team that needs to be taken seriously, don't we?

[Pat Donahue]

Oh, my God, they're good. Yeah, they are. They're really. They had what? They had a little three game dip there. And since then they've won five in a row again, right?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Pat Donahue]

And now they, you know, they.

[Chris Reavers]

Who net minded last night?

[Kenny Olson]

The other one.

[Chris Reavers]

I thought.

[Pat Donahue]

Wally. Wally. Wally, yeah, Wally the wall.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Pat Donahue]

Because Dutch has been better than Wally lately.

[Chris Reavers]

No, they made each other better. It's just working out perfect. The chemistry works. They're two players short of a cup. That's my theory. Two. Two.

[Pat Donahue]

You think so? Okay.

[Chris Reavers]

But I expected to make a long run in the playoffs. They're very. They got something going for themselves. They're looking very good.

[Kenny Olson]

You guys, it's December, okay?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Just chill out.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. And if you're not in the playoff hunt by Thanksgiving, it's over. So it's very legitimate to talk about this.

[Pat Donahue]

You know, what I said a couple days ago is that I have to. It looks to me like we're headed for another trip to the Western Conference final.

[Chris Reavers]

I agree. I agree.

[Pat Donahue]

That One was in 2003.

[Chris Reavers]

That's right. 22 years ago.

[Pat Donahue]

22 years ago. Yes. That's. They have not been out of the first round since 15.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, this is the year.

[Pat Donahue]

And in fact, I think you throw and the two series, they want an O3 and then the 14 and 15. I think they've only won four playoff series, if I'm not mistaken.

[Chris Reavers]

Pat, any football excite you this weekend as we get the playoffs underway?

[Pat Donahue]

I'm still. I'm still. I don't. I haven't spent a lot of my life feeling sorry for the Los Angeles Rams, but that call on the two point conversion was the stupidest thing in the history of football.

[Chris Reavers]

I forgot the damn game was on it sounds like it was a beaut.

[Pat Donahue]

They throw a two point conversion, A guy kicks it around, it's incomplete. It's 30 to 28. Everybody's leaving the field. All of a sudden some guy from Seattle casually picks up the ball in the end zone and some moron up there in the replay group that wait a minute. And decided that it had been a backward pass. But even then, John, you can't. You can't advance a fumble right in the last two minutes of the game or something. The old stabler rule from 100 years ago, right?

[John Knight]

Yeah, but.

[Joe Sushi]

But it wasn't a possession. That was the difference. Pat. It wasn't a possession.

[Pat Donahue]

Why is it a difference? You can't be that nitpicking. You can't be that bleeping stupid.

[Chris Reavers]

Because the officials control the outcome of the game.

[Pat Donahue]

Yes, they do. The more than. More than any other game. And the Seahawks, the Rams were three touchdowns better than they were all night and somehow they end up winning.

[Chris Reavers]

It was.

[Pat Donahue]

It was bad. Sam looked terrible most of the night and still a Seattle ends up winning. But it was a more NFL ridiculous robbery.

[Chris Reavers]

Where are the fighting Vikings Sunday? At the Giants.

[Joe Sushi]

At the Giants.

[Chris Reavers]

Giants for a noon game.

[Joe Sushi]

That'll be a good one.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, at the Giants. All you can hope for is just horrible weather to make it interesting.

[Joe Sushi]

I think it's supposed to be damn near 60.

[Chris Reavers]

Probably will be beautiful.

[Pat Donahue]

Yeah, well that's. That's. Of course we should then you know they're going to the Meadowlands. We should. We should recall we're approaching the 25th anniversary of 41.

[Chris Reavers]

Nona.

[Joe Sushi]

Yes.

[Pat Donahue]

You know the. Maybe the most enjoyable I ever had in a football press box.

[Chris Reavers]

How was Sid's behavior that day?

[Pat Donahue]

Was he there? He might not have gone. He might have stopped traveling. Not sure. But I know that that was when Rob Brzezinski confronted me in the restroom at halftime from the Vikings. That for making too many smart ass remarks. And I said I'm not behind 38 to nothing to a team that I was favored to be. That's my problem. Be mad at somebody else.

[Joe Sushi]

That's also the scene. Patrick, remind me of the greatest Kevin Seifert quote of all time. When Waswa Sirwanga was falling for the pump fake so bad. And Kevin Seifert said he looks like a chocolate lab falling for the tennis ball trick. Go get it, boy.

[Pat Donahue]

He looks like a dog chasing a Frisbee.

[Joe Sushi]

Or that's what it was.

[Rookie]

A frisbee.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, I would think, I suppose. What is the line I suppose the Vikings might even be favored.

[Joe Sushi]

I think they're only favored by a couple, though.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Pat Donahue]

Giants are terrible, so. Yeah.

[Rookie]

We don't have a chance to play spoiler, do we?

[Pat Donahue]

No, no, no.

[Chris Reavers]

College football playoffs begin this weekend.

[Joe Sushi]

Tonight.

[Chris Reavers]

Including tonight. Yes. Yeah.

[Pat Donahue]

Is this we. We get the. Is this the James Manner that we got, the two, you know, small, small schools in there as conference champions because we were so humiliated that Duke won the ACC championship with five losses. So they didn't put them in there.

[Joe Sushi]

But tonight's game's good. I think it's Alabama at Oklahoma's.

[Pat Donahue]

Tonight's Alabama's the fraud. They shouldn't be in there.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, Notre Dame should have been in.

[Pat Donahue]

The final instead of Alabama.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I agree.

[Joe Sushi]

I have a twins question for Pat Patrick. Okay, Patrick. We have the new restructuring of the twins organization. I had no idea there was yet another Polad.

[Pat Donahue]

Well, here's the deal. There's three brothers. There's Joel, and then there's. There's Tom, this guy who was the head of Poland companies. And then there's Chris, who. This. This should tell you something.

[Chris Reavers]

Who's Bill was.

[Rookie]

No, that's the. That's the older.

[Pat Donahue]

The other generation.

[Joe Sushi]

This is the grandkids of.

[Chris Reavers]

Of Carl.

[Pat Donahue]

Bill was the movie producer.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Pat Donahue]

Although he hadn't made a movie in a while. I don't know what happened to him.

[Rookie]

Well, that's the line where Carl Poed said, do you want to know how to become a millionaire, be a billionaire and invest in movies.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Pat Donahue]

Yeah. Well, anyway, anyhow, anyhow, there's three brothers and we had Joe. They put. Put in charge of the twins a couple of years ago. Right, right. They were moving out St. Peter and he's the guy that took over the radio stations. They bought for 24. 5 million and sold them for 4. But, yeah, they. Yeah, you know, and then there's Chris is, I guess the younger one. Well, they took Chris and put him in charge of Poland companies and they took Tom off full ad companies and put them ahead of the twins because, you know, he's. Here's what the inside word is. He's the smart one. He's not a baseball guy, but he's got a brain.

[Chris Reavers]

All right, good.

[Pat Donahue]

So, you know, he's. He's gonna learn the business and. And we don't know what we're doing with Joe now that we. We moved him aside a baseball and we didn't put him in charge of the company, so we don't know what's going on.

[Rookie]

Don't they own a Dairy Queen. He could run or something like that.

[Pat Donahue]

Could be, but everybody's making fun of it that, you know, that they made this change and it's not really a change. Well, the change they made was they put the smartest poll ad in charge of the smartest of the brothers in charge of the twins.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, that's optimistic. I think that's optimistic.

[Kenny Olson]

And, Patrick, how did it go over with Joe?

[Pat Donahue]

I don't know. Joe and I aren't close since I named him Turkey the year or two years ago. I went up and congratulated him, Kenny, and he did not take it in the spirit it was intended.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, man. If you. That's an honor to be named Turkey of the Year.

[Kenny Olson]

I read somewhere that there was some family turmoil with this new arrangement.

[Pat Donahue]

Oh, I'm sure there is. Yeah, there is. Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Pat Donahue]

Well, it's funny how the, you know, the. Originally the three brothers or, you know, Bob. Bob was always like the smart, aggressive one, but he ended up out in Washington Running the PepsiCo operation they had out there. And these are all his three sons. The sons are all his. And, you know, and Bill didn't want anything to do with baseball. And, you know, so they put Jim in charge of baseball. But Jim was a. Let Dave St. Peter and those guys run it.

[Rookie]

My three sons. Ernie, Chip and Rob, huh?

[Pat Donahue]

Now we got. Now we got three sons again. But they're all. They're all Bill. They're all Bob's three kids.

[Chris Reavers]

Will your weekend include rehabilitation?

[Pat Donahue]

I don't have any rehabilitation. But they want you to do this at home, Joe.

[Chris Reavers]

Right, right. That's what I meant. You'll have to do it.

[Rookie]

I don't have DA all set up.

[Pat Donahue]

I'm supposed to do it at all these. I have excruciating exercises at home. I have a minimum of confidence in myself.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, isn't the DA cracking the whip and looking over at you and feeding your medicine? I see with the clipboard.

[Rookie]

I see her with the nurse's outfit. I see her with the, you know, checklist.

[Pat Donahue]

The DA has been a saint in this operation. I cannot make any complaints.

[Chris Reavers]

Wonderful admission. Wonderful admission.

[Rookie]

I'm happy for your relationship.

[Joe Sushi]

The caregiver.

[Kenny Olson]

The game of flaws is on hold.

[Pat Donahue]

It has made the game of flaws more lopsided than ever. Even if there is an obvious flaw.

[Chris Reavers]

You know what's going to happen. It'll all come back to get you someday when you're hopping around, wait about six months.

[Pat Donahue]

Oh, God, no, I'm not. I'm not. I'M not. I'm not overly confident.

[Joe Sushi]

I'm just picturing Pat. A little service bell.

[Rookie]

Yeah, you have a little bell when you need assistance, beckon her little.

[Pat Donahue]

Little debate in the middle of the summer when you hear, what would he be done without me? When you were limping around like that. Fat Slavia. What about a loudspeaker?

[Chris Reavers]

Can you just. Y. Hey, J.

[Pat Donahue]

Get your ass in here.

[Chris Reavers]

Can you do that? I need a diet sandwich. All right, I'll talk to you Monday.

[Pat Donahue]

All right, thank.

[Promo Announcer]

You.

[Rookie]

He sounds pretty happy.

[Chris Reavers]

Thought I'm better medicated.

[Joe Sushi]

Yep. And then scramble, rejoin.

[Rookie]

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

[Joe Sushi]

Oh, we got plenty of time.

[Rookie]

Cathedrals.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm gonna go see Stephen C. All right. Pat Donahue and Julian.

[Rookie]

Pat Donahue plays a funny couple of blues songs.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, you were there last night. Yeah.

[Joe Sushi]

It'S the scramble.

[Chris Reavers]

All right.

[Joe Sushi]

Harmony Spirits.

[Chris Reavers]

Look at this.

[Rookie]

Wow. What is that?

[Chris Reavers]

Look at that.

[Joe Sushi]

Okay, so I stopped in at Harmony Spirits on Sunday, and those are the pre made cocktails. There's four different ones that are in there. They do these very, very cool and festive gift packs. Rook, I want you to read all four of those. There's, I believe, the pink lemonade.

[Rookie]

Pink lemonade with vodka.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay.

[Rookie]

I got no chance of seeing that when that gets in my house. BlackBerry lemonade with bourbon.

[Joe Sushi]

And I tried that when I was at the taste room, and that is exceptional.

[Rookie]

Holy buckets. Oh, Harmony Legacy with gin.

[Joe Sushi]

All right, and then the last one is the one I'm super excited about.

[Rookie]

Oh, Caramel app with rum.

[Joe Sushi]

Yes. So Larry sent a couple of these. I got one for you too, Soul man. So whenever you're in town, Larry sent a bunch of them for all of us.

[Kenny Olson]

Awesome.

[Joe Sushi]

All of us that still partake at times. And then that rookie, that one right there, that is the Harmony Spirits whiskey. And he sent a bottle just for you because you always rave about the whiskey. Anyway, those gift packs are really cool, and they are available at the tasting room, which, like, like I said, I stopped by. You know what downtown Harmony is this time of the year? Pleasant, festive.

[Rookie]

Yes.

[Joe Sushi]

The lights line up the street. It's so cool.

[Kenny Olson]

It's Americana.

[Joe Sushi]

It absolutely is Americana. So stop in if you have to entertain over the holidays. And that's a wonderful, wonderful product made right here in the great state of Minnesota. Say hi to Larry Damon. The entire Harmony Spirits crew. Please do me a favor and mention that you heard about him on the Garage Logic podcast.

[Chris Reavers]

Virtually every show you hear podcast or on radio will Say today. See you next January. Because they're all leaving today. Not us. Not us. We're gonna be back Monday and Tuesday.

[Joe Sushi]

That's right.

[Chris Reavers]

Monday and Tuesday.

[Rookie]

What's Tuesday?

[Kenny Olson]

All right, that sounds like a lot of fun.

[Joe Sushi]

Can I ask you a quick question?

[Chris Reavers]

I'm gonna do this before you do.

[Joe Sushi]

This day in history, rookie. The percent chance any one of those bottles still has liquid in it by Monday.

[Rookie]

Well, truth be told, there's some kind of. What's the party tonight? They're having my favorite thing. Things that the gals are having.

[Kenny Olson]

Zero.

[Joe Sushi]

It's zero.

[Rookie]

Well, this. These four will be gone for sure. I don't think they're.

[Chris Reavers]

I don't think you should do a whole gallon of that.

[Rookie]

No, no, I. I'm. I'm saying that the gals that will be here tonight. There's 12 people coming over, Joe.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

A very important day today, especially for the likes of Chris Reavers and Kenny Olsen. Today is December 19th. Tin foil hat Day.

[Joe Sushi]

Oh, and I didn't get you anything, Kenny.

[Chris Reavers]

Holy cow, you do.

[Rookie]

What is it?

[Chris Reavers]

What is the ca. A great day.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, I love it.

[Rookie]

What do you just pretend that there's conspiracy theories?

[Joe Sushi]

There's no pretend.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay.

[John Knight]

Speculation.

[Rookie]

Only because you want to get out of here.

[Chris Reavers]

Only because they come to us all the way from Kiowaka, New Zealand.

[Rookie]

You don't tell me, huh?

[Chris Reavers]

From the Traveling Lineman's worldwide waftage.com was on this day, Joe.

[Joe Sushi]

Today is the.

[Chris Reavers]

In 1836, Maria Louise Sanford was born in Saybrook, Connecticut. An extraordinary and popular teacher, Sanford was appointed to the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota in 1880. After her retirement in 1909, she remained active, speaking on educational and patriotic topics. She died in 1920. A statue of her sculpted by Evelyn Raymond represents the state in the Sanctuary hall in Washington, D.C. on this day, December 19th. In 1906, Couthiching county was established. Ojibwe and Cree people had long used the word couchaching to refer to multiple bodies of water, including the one eventually called Rainy Lake by Europeans and Americans.

[Joe Sushi]

I'm not looking at him.

[Chris Reavers]

I promise. Coochie on this day, Joe.

[Joe Sushi]

Today is tinfoil hat day, December 19th.

[Chris Reavers]

In 1956, Governor Orville L. Freeman appointed L. Howard Bennett to a municipal judgeship in Minneapolis, making him the first African American judge appointed in Minneapolis.

[Rookie]

Give me a year on that again.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm sorry. Appointed in Minnesota.

[Rookie]

What year?

[Chris Reavers]

1957. Oh, good. Orville had the bad one. Half of his face was all goofy.

[Rookie]

Like Bell's Palsy from.

[Chris Reavers]

No, from an injury. Oh. On this day, also in 1957, December 19, West St. Paul sociology teacher Glenn Holmquist was accused of slapping a student at a high school dance and was cleared of an assault charge by a municipal court. Holmquist's attorney said that his client's action was justified as an attempt to maintain order and that there should be more discipline instead of the wishy washy policy parents are advocating today. That guy would have been put in prison today.

[Rookie]

I'll say.

[Chris Reavers]

You know, he won his case. And on this day in Minnesota, sports disappointment history.

[Joe Sushi]

Who'd we lose to on this?

[Chris Reavers]

There are no items posted. Yes, we're making a comeback for today's day. No items posted.

[Joe Sushi]

Except for the years from when you and Pat said the C word during a wild discussion.

[Chris Reavers]

Hey, I didn't.

[Joe Sushi]

You said the C word.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, you did, Joe. I'm very, very disappointed.

[Chris Reavers]

For a minute, I didn't know which C word.

[Joe Sushi]

I'm sorry.

[Chris Reavers]

No.

[Kenny Olson]

Three letters say you were one.

[Chris Reavers]

I said you're acting like.

[Joe Sushi]

Right.

[Chris Reavers]

I'm sorry. They're two players short. I. I'm not predicting anything. I'm just saying what I see.

[Kenny Olson]

Just don't say the words.

[Joe Sushi]

Just don't say the word.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, I did say the word.

[Joe Sushi]

You know the rule. Yeah, like stepping on the logo when you're in the room.

[Chris Reavers]

Right. Yeah. Thank you, G. Ellers. We'll be back Monday and Tuesday. We haven't started our Christmas fondness yet.

[Joe Sushi]

Oh, we've got a lot more festive rookie to get out of our system.

[Rookie]

Did I mention about the online auction?

[Joe Sushi]

That was last night? O hey, do us a favor though. Speaking of online, find us on YouTube. That's right. You can search Garagelogic on YouTube. Where?

[Kenny Olson]

Or not.

[Chris Reavers]

Or not. Where do you get in to get a ticket? Oh, God.

[Joe Sushi]

Where you can watch the show each and every single day starting right around noon. You can also see full segments, video shorts, behind the scenes footage, and you can also search for us on all of our social media channels, which includes Facebook, Instagram and. And X. And sign up for the daily logistics.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, my God.

[Joe Sushi]

Garagelogic.com have a good weekend, Galers.