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Hey, Garage Logic fans. I do a podcast on the Garage Logic Network that comes out every Wednesday and Friday. Now twice a week. But here's an important caveat. There is zero logic available in my show. In the formal definition of logic, of course, life is a yin and yang kind of thing. There's the logic side, and then there's the what the hell? Side, which needs to get its exercise. So come for the what the hell and stay for the. You've got to be kidding me. Mishki. Now, Wednesdays and Fridays, twice a week. What can 160 years of experience teach you about the future? When it comes to protecting what matters, Pacific Life provides life insurance, retirement income and employee benefits for people and businesses building a more confident tomorrow. Strategies rooted in strength and backed by experience. Ask a financial professional how Pacific Life can help you today. Pacific Life Insurance Company, Omaha, Nebraska. And in New York, Pacific Life and Annuity, Phoenix, Arizona. Call me. Well, what do you say we make a phone call, see what's going on in listener land? Sure, I'll make that call. Don't touch that phone. Don't touch that phone. Well, somebody please get that phone. Hello? Howdy. Howdy ho, Dan. Oh, my Lordy, it's Misky in the flesh. You caught me in Target. What's going on with you? It's awfully quiet there in Target. Is that one of the ones going out of business? You know, they never really play music at Target, do they? I don't even hear human beings. I do see a couple of moms and. Did you just say a couple of moms? Well, that would be my presumption. By what's in the cart? What do they have? Area rugs? And, hey, plenty of single women are buying those. That's a valid point. How about candles? No, that's a woman who's expecting a fun date this weekend. Will you ask them if they're moms? I don't want to chase someone down in Target. Chasing women around Target, going, hey, can you get on the phone here? No, but if you're going to chase a woman down in Target, isn't it fun that the reaction you're going to be getting is to the question, are you a mom? Because out of all the things they're expecting, when they get chased down, they're not expecting that. Here's the fun part. You start chasing them and. And they start running. So now you got a real chase. So they're running and they're trying to get away. They're moving through different sections. Home furnishings, the Women's clothing section. You're chasing them and then you catch them by the greeting cards, they're screaming. And then you come up to them and say, are you a mom? I have a general rule in life, and that's to try to stay out of jail. What are you doing at Target? Setting things up for a new office. I've been working at home for 22 years and it's getting a little hard keeping things together as far as being there all the time. And so just trying to get things set up there. You went and got yourself a separate office. Yes. You're renting a place after years of being at home, you're going to have a real place to go to every day. Yeah, well, you know, when you're always at home and you're trying to work and you have an 8 year old and you're trying to get stuff done, it's kind of hard to be the guy always saying, I'm working, I'm sorry. You know? And now you're furnishing it with items found at Target. Target is going to make your office look like everybody else's office. I'd start at a thrift store, maybe go to Facebook Marketplace. You know what? I'll pick up some accent pieces down at Salvation army in Minneapolis. How about that? You know what you do? You grab those scented candles out of that woman's shopping cart and end up getting arrested again. You know, you're good at this. The Target employee, the average one that you see, do they look happy? Do you think they're living their best life? I'm not sure. When you think about going back to the days of the peasantry in medieval times, and you imagine going up to someone and saying, are you living your best life? I'm Oprah Winfrey. Hi. The majority, I would say, take what they can get and try to make the best of it. Do you think in the dark Ages, you would have ever come up to someone and overheard them telling themselves little affirmations? Oh, yeah, really? I'm healthy and happy and I'm worth loving. Well, I don't know if they would have been positive affirmations. Well, so affirmations. Yeah. Where they were saying things like, I can be anything I want to be. We're talking the peasantry. Dad told me I can be anything I want to be. Dad wouldn't have said that. What do you do for a living? Produce music. Really? Been doing it for 25 years. You've been producing music out of your house? Yes. When you say you produce Music. What do you mean? Ad agencies, music libraries, things like that. Commercials, background music on TV shows, things like that. Sometimes it's a custom job where people say, hey, we need something like this. Can you do that by Tuesday? And sometimes it's, hey, let's do R B. Uplifting female vocal album there was a 16 year old girl I interviewed several years ago. She was hoping to one day be a star. She wanted to make it in the music business, but she was 16 years old. And I interviewed her and she played some songs for me. I think we were in southern Minnesota on some farm and she played some songs that she was working on. Lovely young woman. And I kind of forgot about her. The years went by. I think it's been 12 years. And I just found out yesterday she's opening up for Stevie Nicks. Oh, come on. See, it takes time. You start working and you learn the ropes and you have varying levels of success over the years. Things go up, things go down and it's just a matter of can you stay in the game. Most of the people that I came up with are the majority. Kind of get pushed out into driving grain cart, which is fine. Gotta make money. I was worried that this woman's dream wouldn't come true. How many people try to make it wait in tables while they're waiting for their ship to come in? Her name back then was Anna Marie Mitchell. She was just a kid. Here's a little snippet of our interview from years ago. First, second, third grade. I would write stories all the time. I've always loved writing stories. And when I was about maybe seven, I started my first song, I think called the Moon and Sun or something. And then my first song that I played at my school was in fourth grade. And that song was called Minnesota. 10,000 lakes and prairies within the valley of the Sawtooth Mountains. I know this is my home, it's called Minnesota. I hope you enjoy it. Well, she grew up three years or so after that interview when she was a young woman. I had written a song that I wanted her to record. She was down in Nashville at the time, again, trying to make it, hustling, doing what she could to build some kind of career, something with some staying power. I asked her if she'd record a song of mine. I was thinking of putting together an album with different people singing different songs I had written. And she agreed to sing this one. I wrote this song in Montana for my wife. We were out there traveling and while we were out there, she had a birthday and I woke her up in the morning singing this song. The idea for the song came about when I thought about the different kinds of thoughts we all have in a given day, in a given week, month, year. Some are silly thoughts. Some are stupid thoughts. Some are just thoughts designed to get you through the day. Sometimes you have mean thoughts, but every now and then you have a pure thought. A thought that seems to separate itself from the rest in its purity. And I found myself thinking one afternoon, what happens to those thoughts? Do those go to a different place than the thoughts you have about the ache in your back. Or the thoughts you have about the guy on the highway cutting you off in traffic? I mean, this is assuming thoughts do something after one thinks the thought. They're invisible, but it doesn't mean they don't move about. We don't know. I thought maybe the really beautiful thoughts we have go somewhere special. That they rise up above the others and maybe continue to rise and rise and rise and rise. Maybe they're such wonderful thoughts, they end up in heaven. I realize I was having a little fantasy experience here, but a songwriter gets to have that. And then I found myself thinking, maybe when I die, I'll drift up and join those thoughts somewhere. Maybe I'll find them all. All the good thoughts gathered together somewhere up there in the sky. I might have been having a couple of beers that day, I don't remember. But my imagination got going. I even thought about having a dream where I could fly. And I could go with the thoughts up there. And I pictured the moon looking at me, saying, what the hell you doing there, pal? And I'd have to explain what I'm doing. Taking these thoughts up to the sky. I never really liked the way I sang the song. So I always had this idea in my head of finding some woman with a beautiful voice to sing it. I don't know why I always think of getting women to sing songs. I never think about having a man sing a song. I don't like the sound of men's voices as much as I do women's voices. I've rarely heard a woman's voice that I don't like in song. I liked Anna Marie Mitchell's voice anyway. She came back from Nashville one time. And I kind of caught her in between trips to the airport. And she recorded this song for me. This was her singing thoughts of you way back when. Thought about you on a back road in Montana. The thought rose high above the crazy mountains and touched the big sky and if it's drifting still I swear it will find its way to heaven by and by you I've been thinking about you Some days it's all I get around to when my days here are all through maybe I'll drift too with those thoughts of you. Thought about you on a river in the dark As I lay down by the fire. Smoke rising high above me Thoughts of you rising and higher. Sailing away until the day they found a place in the angel choir. I've been thinking about you Some days is all I ever we do Am I doing Daisy through maybe I'll drift too with those thoughts of you. Thought about you in a dream where it seemed suddenly I could fly all those thoughts couldn't leave me in a road with that into the sky. Pretty soon that old man in the moon he was looking at me and asking why I said old man these thoughts belong under God's watch for all night. Cuz I've been thinking about you Seems it's the best thing that I do when my days around here are all through Hope I drift too with those thoughts of you. And now this month I learned she's opening up for Stevie Nicks and she now goes under the name Anna Graves, Brad Shaw and Bryant. A law firm Sounds solid, doesn't it? You get injured because of someone's recklessness or carelessness or someone just being a moron. Lunkhead, Dunderpate, Moon, Calf. You get injured and you want compensation. You. You want to balance the scales of justice. You could go to Splikley Berg and Hickle Meyer, but that doesn't sound solid. Bradshaw and Bryant, that sounds solid. And they are. They seek justice for the injured and they get it because they're solid. They're not plinkly sis and puttermilk. That law firm stinks. I've been there. First of all, you walk in and the whole place is covered in little doilies and these people come out in Barney costumes. I mean, I'm running for the car then and there. 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I'd like to come see you sometime. You know, it's a funny thing. I have stage fright when I play pretty serious and it's been getting Worse as the years go by, it doesn't get better. That really surprised me. I assumed it'd go the other way. But it gets worse to the point where my hands and my voice start to show shut down. They start to do whatever they want to do, and they don't let me in on what that is. So I came up with this idea recently of having a concert on this show because I don't have stage fright when I do this show because I can't see anybody. So I thought about doing a concert on this show sometime this winter. I think I'll do a concert where the whole show is just a concert I would have given if I were out there somewhere in the world. But since I'm too afraid out there because I used to play, I used to have gigs, and in my 20s, I was playing regularly around town. But somehow, some way, it got worse and worse and worse to the point where it wasn't any fun anymore. While it's incredibly enjoyable to play when I'm not around other people. So I came up with this idea of maybe just having the concert on the show and see how that goes. Yeah, I have a feeling not only will it be fun to play, but it'll feel much like this show. This show feels very enjoyable to do. It doesn't have any feel at all about being something I'm doing for anybody listening. I have no sense of a listener. I have no sense of anybody being out there. Oddly enough, that's the way I would describe your show, and I think that's what people like about it. Well, I appreciate that. I'm glad I got a hold of you, and I'm glad you threw your name on the list. This is one of my favorite parts of the show, is getting a hold of people out there. It was something I thought was gone forever once I moved to podcasting, but its return to the show has been a delight. So thanks for answering. Oddly enough, I just finished your most recent podcast a couple hours ago, so I didn't have any trouble recognizing your voice. Well, all my best to you in your new office, and I hope you get a hell of a lot more work. Not only that, I hope you come home a happier man, because now home is just for hanging with family. That's the goal here. So I appreciate that. Good talking to you, Misge. You too. So long. Is this Mark? Are you kidding me? I don't joke about these sorts of things. Well, what a pleasure. I just signed on to get your call, you know, from you. I'm A new time listener to your podcast. I remember hearing you, I don't know, KSTP on something when I was 20 years ago and then you kind of disappeared on me and I was busy and never found you. But my brother in law turned me on to you and I thought, wow, you've got some great shows there, sir. Thank you very much. You know, a lot of people who listen to this here podcast think I disappeared in December of 2008 when I got fired from KSTP. The number of people who have told me they had no idea where I went after I was bounced off the air unceremoniously in December of 2008. There are people who think I simply wandered the country aimlessly lost, drinking out of a brown paper bag. Did you? So you have no idea what I've done since December of 2008. We parted paths and I wouldn't know what you did. And I was busy too. So what did you do then there, Mr. Miskie? Well, I did a lot. 2008 was a long time ago. It's 2025. I'll just start with that Monday morning after getting fired and we'll go from there. I woke up, I don't know, about 7:30, made some coffee. My wife was in the kitchen and we talked about her day. I could go on, but I'm not sure it would be entertaining. The number of people who have emailed or texted saying, mishke, you're back. Where did you go? Last I heard you were on noon to 2 at KSTP and then suddenly you were gone. Said in the newspaper they canned your ass. But that couldn't be true because now you're working for them again. Yeah, what gives? What does give? It went like this, Mark. The day after I got fired, I got a call from wcco. So I visited Minneapolis and the general manager there, Mick Anselmo, said to me, you don't have a no compete clause in your contract with kstp, do you? And I said, you're darn right I do, Mick. Is that going to be a problem? And he said to me, we're done here. Talk to me in a year, we'd love to have you. Yeah, there was a one year, no compete clause in my contract. For one year I had to stay out of the radio biz. At least in the Twin Cities. I could head out to San Diego or Charlotte or Bangor, Maine. But you see, I lived here. I had a family here. So to honor that contract, I had to wait a year before I could work in radio. I had to think about what I was going to do for a whole year. I had always wanted to be a columnist. A newspaper columnist. That's what the old man was. So I went over to City Pages and I became a columnist. They also built me a studio in my office in St. Paul, and. And I did a daily podcast for City Pages before anybody really knew what the devil a podcast was. Two hours every single day. Did I have any callers? No, because it wasn't radio, it was podcasting. People listen after the fact now. I even had a phone installed in my studio, thinking maybe somehow someone will be listening live. Nope. Everybody waited until after the show to listen. There was no reason to listen live. I never received a single call except from bill collectors. Bill collectors? Yes. That phone number I got for that studio used to belong to Ne' er Do Wells, to people who didn't pay their bills. And the phone would ring during the show and I would so hope it was a listener. But it was not. It was a bill collector. And it went like this. My name is Claire and I'm calling you on behalf of Credit One Bank. And the reason for my call is to say thank you for being a valued customer of Credit One. Oh, you're so very welcome. I've enjoyed working with Credit One so much. In fact, my mother originally got me started with them and her mother before, and we've been delighted with the service from the very beginning. In fact, I had wanted to send you something as a way of showing my gratitude. Could I get your address? Would you mind to listen to me? Oh, I'm sorry. Don't be angry. Sometimes I interrupt because I get excited and I get real interested in talking to people. Are you still reciting at 1594 Tate Avenue, St. Paul? Yes. Yes. Have you been here? It's a beautiful Tudor home. In fact, my grandfather helped my father build it. We still live in Lovely. I'm sorry. I keep talking. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. So right now I'd like to tape record this call to avoid any mistakes on my part. Oh, I get nervous when it's recorded. Do I have to say certain things in a certain way? I stutter sometimes. I stutter. Oh, okay. Is there a camera, too? I haven't put on my makeup. Is there a camera? My name is clear. And again, that. Spell that for me, please. How do you spell that? C, L, A, R, E. Clear. Will you please stop? Oh, don't be mad. Oh. Would you like to present. Okay. The required information about your phone. Listen, my name is Dwight Williams. And I'm calling from tka. And the reason behind giving a call is that your account with household has been forwarded to my office with an outstanding balance of 16. How do you intend to take care of this? Well, ma', am, magic. Sorry. I have recently hooked up with a group. They're Wiccans. They can conjure things with potions and spells and they can help make this go away. With magic? Wicked. W, I C C A N. Wiccan. And they have all sorts of potions and spells and black magic that makes problems go away. I can go ahead and close up this account at a one small payment. Let's close it out. Let's see if we can close it out. How much of the money you think you can pay? All of it. All of it. All right. So how do you think you'll make the payment? Through your checking account. I'm trying right now. I'm trying something now. Is the debt still there, ma'? Am? It won't be there if you make the payment of $992.42. In your world, that's how people operate. In mine, we do this. What? I'm trying something right now. Now wait and see if it works. Are you doing the same thing? What you said. Wiccan is a belief system. What I am doing is utilizing tools I've been given. How do you want to take care of this account? Please check it out. Do you take magic cards? Would you take a squirrel tail? I'm sorry. No apologies needed. You've done nothing wrong. You've been a perfect gentleman. We're trying to settle this account at $992.49. Make it 666 and we have a deal. 666? Yes. It's a devil's number. Don't say that. Sorry. No need to apologize. You've been a perfect gentleman. May I have the name as it exactly appears in your debit card? Okay. The name is Atticus Finch. Sorry. No need to apologize. You've been a perfect gentleman. I'm not apologizing. Oh, sorry. I am not able to understand you properly. My name is Atticus Finch. Let's go ahead and serve this together at 666. May I have you debit card number please? Yes. 5732-4416-8737-2428. And when does it expire? 909. There will be a three digits PVB number. May I have the number please? Yes. 046046. Yeah. All right. And you have the funds available today in your card? Damn right I do. Right. This is an inverse card number. Damn it. Damn it the hell? I was given that by a guy on the street just a week ago and he said it worked perfectly. Well. I gave him seven bucks. Is there any other card that you want to use for this transaction? Yes, my YMCA card. Your YMCA card? Ideally, if that would work. May I have the card number, please? Yes. 1436. This card number won't work. And the card number should start with 5. 4. How do you know what YMCA card should start with? We only accept a card with a Visa or a Master logo. Well, then you don't even accept YMCA cards. I'll tell you what, I'll go with AAA. May I have the card number, please? Yep. 8686. I'm sorry, sir. This is not a math sort of Visa card. No, it's a AAA card. Why are you torturing me? I say I want to use a card. I start to give you a number and you say no. Do you really want to challenge the counter? 666? Why do you keep. Stop screaming now. All right, all right, all right. May I have the information, please? Which information you looking for? May I have the card number, please, and which card? I gave you the card number of the only card you take, which is a card I purchased for $7. You say you can't use that card. Then I have other cards that are perfectly valid and in fact mine. I didn't buy them on the screen. Let me have the card number once again. I think I need to speak to your supervisor immediately. Sure. Alarm me. Moment. Let me just call, make you speak with him right now. Hello? Hi, this is Stephen Hawk from tnk. I'm one of the managers. You gave out the card number to one of my associates. Could you re verify the card numbers to me, sir? 4287. Yeah. 3657. 9897 and 2277. Also appears to be an inrobid car. What's the point of owning any of them if they're not legal tender? They hand them out to we commoners. We, the great unwashed, the rabble, the rank and file, the masses, the plebeians, the herd. And they want us to buy, buy, buy. And then we do, and the debt grows, grows, grows. And then we want to pay the debt with the same card. And they say, sorry, invalid, do you have any of the cards that you can use out. Let me see. I have a Hallmark card. Does it have a reason? A master logo? No. It has a clever little greeting. Sorry. No need to apologize. You've been a perfect gentleman. Josh Arnold. Josh Arnold. 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I liked how much they cared about me. They became my guys. And I can't imagine going anywhere else. And if you ever call MSP and have them over to your house, you'll find out why. Minneapolis St. Paul plumbing, heating and Air. And right now Your account is 59 days past due. Yes. So in order to avoid peace and get your account back in good, we can accept a debit card for payment today. Madam? Yeah, I can't pay because I recently joined a new group. It's sort of a religion, but they just use bartering now. And so I'm just using bartering. Okay. If you want me to do something for you. Oh, is it like that? Yeah. Okay. So you don't receive any cash? Oh, no. We barter. We trade services. We trade things. Sometimes chickens. Okay, ma', am, I can understand your situation, but unfortunately you're running out of time on this account and you're scheduled to go to an outside collection agency. I have three chickens, Rhode Island Red, Sober, Lace Wyandotte and Black Asterlorp. Those are three hardy breeds, and you could have all three of those. I'm sorry, madam, we'll not take chickens. Have you seen the chickens, though? Maybe you should wait and see them. Even if you bring all the chicken, madam, I don't think one bank will allow that to take place because that's not procedure. Okay, chickens, and then I'll bring. I have three rabbits, too. And they can be pets or food. I'm sorry, madam, I cannot take that. What I can do for you is I could set up a minimum pay a month. The man who is in charge of the religion I'm in, who says I can only use bartering now he's here. Can I ask him if it's okay to pay you? Yes. Hello, this is Guru Paul. You will not take rabbits and chickens. No, we don't take chickens and rabbits. Alright, here's the situation. We are in a cult where we just deal in trade bartering of services and goods, credit. One bank will not take chickens and rabbits. How about you make it sound like she's paying chickens, but in fact it'll be a debit card payment. It'll be by debit card, but the whole time she'll be thinking she's paying you in chickens. But the debit card will in fact cover this. Okay, how much is the debit card for? I going to make it? Well, we're going to pay the whole thing, but when we say we're paying the whole thing, we want to be able to say chickens even though it's coming out of the debit card as cash. Okay, so do you have your debit card details? Yeah, it's right here. But here's the situation. You need to say at least that it's chickens. So it sounds like it's chickens. Otherwise in our religion we get in trouble with the deity. Okay, 60 chickens. 60 chickens? Yes, 60 chickens. That means I going to play $60. Well, there you're using that word again. See how we just about had it set and then you used that word. Now I gotta get that out of my head. La la la when I talk of money. La la la la. Try again. Okay, okay, you owe right now 438 chickens. It was 60 chickens a minute ago. That was the minimum chicken. Can we just say. Because there's no way we'd have 400 chickens. Can we just say 60 chickens, minimum. Otherwise 400 and whatever rabbits. All right, so I have to ask her what she wants to pay 60 chickens or 432 rabbits? Yes. All right, hang on. Okay, you got two choices. You pay 60 rabbits, 432 chickens. I mean, wait a minute, I got that backwards. I got. You got 60 chickens, 432 rabbits. What do you want to pay? I don't have all the, all the rabbits. I have the chickens. Okay, let's go ahead and make that. Okay. Okay. Do I have my what? Debit card? You just said it was chickens. Yes. How I going to make it the chickens? Didn't you just ask for that? Didn't you just ask for chickens? Yeah, but you said not to say the word dollars, Right? You said to say chicken instead of dollars. Did Guru Paul say that? Yeah. Okay, madam, what I'm going to do is I will note on your account that you are unwilling to pay at this time. So please understand your failure to pay. Good results in intense collection activity. And you will continue to receive late fees and our credit limit. Fees. Okay, payout paid. Are you going to pay it now? Yes, but when I read you the debit card, just before I do need you to say that it's monkeys. We're paying in what again? 60 monkeys. All right. 6, 4, 6, 3. 6, 4, 6, 4, 9, 7, 7. 4, 9, 7, 7, 3, 3, 2, 8. 3, 3, 2, 8. 1462. 1462. Expiration date, 909. 909. Okay, let me just update on the systems. Hold on. Do you have any. Any animals? No. What animals do you like? I like dogs. You have some. Not now. You had to pay somebody, didn't you? When you lost your dog, it was because you were squaring a debt. I didn't lose it. Oh. You said you used to have a dog. Yeah, but I'm. It's passed away now. Then it's no good. You can't trade those. Except to my cousin Carl. He likes them. Okay, madam, there's a processing fee. Can I add that processing fee up to your account right now on your debit card? Okay, if you'll say that the processing fee is. Cats. Okay. Yeah, it's cats. Okay. Okay. 795. Sorry. 995 cats. All right. Okay, how much have I given you now? All together, 69.95. 69.95. What? Monkeys. Plus we added the cats. That's 995 cats now. What's happening? I'm just entering into my systems. Just hold on. Putting them in the cages, you mean? Yes, hello. Just entering on the systems. Hold on. You mean in the cages? Yeah, in the cages. Sorry. Okay. It does not go in. Open the cage door. Is this a join card? No, it's a zoo. Okay, you have given your credit card details, but I cannot make a payment through credit card. Do you have your debit card? Oh, yeah. I have a debit card, too. Okay, can I have that number, please? Okay. Can we make it turtles? Okay, okay. 637-1637-144984-49822, 2022-6464. 6464. And the expiration date is 1209. Okay, I'm putting it on the cages. Hold on. What are you putting in the cages? The numbers? No, the turtles. Turtles. Okay. Are the cages in a special place? Where are they? Right in front of me. Okay. Ma', am, there's a problem with your debit card. The system is not going through. Do you have your checking Account details. I have a cage in the basement with some things in it, but I don't even know what those are. We got them from a guy in Bangladesh. You want those? Paul? Paul, let out the animals in the basement. Hello? Yeah, Paul's getting the animals out of the basement. Do you have your routing number and the account number? Well, they're going to go right up the stairs, the same route they always take. Just a second. Paul, bring up the animals. Here they come. I. I don't know, Madam, if I need your routing number and the account number so that I can set it up on the system. I didn't understand. We were just dealing with animals. Yes, but the routing number. And yet you're checking account details. Madam, that doesn't sound like animals. What you're talking about now doesn't sound like animals. Okay. Do you have a checking account? No. No. Do you like butterflies? No. How can anyone not like butterflies? Do you like black bear? Yes, madam. American pressure wants to come to me. American pressure. You're what I need. I use pressure washers at my company, but they're breaking down. Can you help me? Oh, American pressure. When I say American pressure, I think of all the businesses out there using pressure washers. And I think, you lucky dogs, you get to deal with American Pressure of Robbinsdale. I mean, you walk into their operation, you learn everything about pressure washers. And there's so much to know and learn. It's an extraordinary world, the world of pressure washers. The variety, the options, the different tools. If you use pressure washers and you've never been to American Pressure, all I have to say is you are missing out. 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If you want to enjoy an E bike this winter or next spring, there's no place in this region with a better deal. Right now. Ecofun Motorsports in Forest Lake and Burnsville. After a year of doing a two hour podcast every day and only hearing from bill collectors, I closed up that show, drove on over to Minneapolis, and once again sat down with Mick Anselmo. He immediately hired me to do a radio show at wcco. And for the next four years, that's what I did. Until one day I said, enough, enough. I do not want to do a daily radio show anymore. I had been doing it since 1992 and I was done. So with two days notice, I let the folks at WCCO know it was time to retire from radio. By this time, podcasting was becoming a thing and I started the Mishki Roadshow. I jumped in a vehicle and I traveled the country for years, years, visiting people from all walks of life, having wondrous adventures, and producing these one hour podcasts called the Mishki Roadshow. After 11 years of that, I hit the wall. I was tired of traveling. I was ready to stay home. I wanted a simpler, quieter life. Lo and behold, right about that time, Dan Seaman takes me out to lunch. The big shot over here at Hubbard Broadcasting, he asked if I would consider joining their podcasting network. Well, I live three and a half minutes from Hubbard Broadcasting and they had a fine studio waiting for me. Top notch equipment, ad salespeople, a producer, promotional help. I said to Dan, did you check with the Hubbards? They did fire me several years ago. You better make sure they want me back. So Dan said, sit tight. There I was at Keys Cafe with my coffee. Dan shoots out the door, goes and visits with the Hubbards. Comes back later, food's cold, I'm late for a couple other things I gotta get to. But he says, all good, you're in. I said, okay. Guess the career is gonna end where it began. That's fitting. I started out with a Hubbards and it'll end with the Hubbards. This'll be my last gig. And here I sit. Well, I'm glad you're back. Earlier this summer, my favorite brother in law said, you know, have you ever heard of Tom Mischke? And I said, yeah, I did. And then he said, well, he's got podcasts now and I've been listening quite a bit. So why did you want to be on the caller list? I just think it's pretty cool how you call the different people and I enjoy listening to what they have to say and add. And you're pretty comical and you're pretty. You have some good insight and satire too at times. What intrigues me about people who are on the list is rarely do I find that they want to say anything to me. Usually I'm just peppering them with questions. They don't really have anything particular they want to get to involving me or this show or anything else. I just ask them questions. Now, you could say that's normal, I'm the one calling. But every now and then I think someone who wants to be on the list wants to be on the list because they want to say something. Oh no, I don't think other than what you pepper me with, with the questions. But yeah, I mean, if I were to say to you right now, we'll never talk again between now and my death, is there anything at all about me you would like to know? Yes. Do you think there is an afterlife? I have been swayed by the people who have had near death experiences. Those have been the ones that have been the most effective in convincing me that something happens after we die. And my sense is it's pretty wild in a wonderful way. And I'm hoping that that is true. I happen to think that by the time we're on our 20,000th report from these folks who have these near death experiences that all sound relatively similar, that we should start believing them the same way Thomas Jefferson believed Lewis and Clark when they told him what was up north. Interesting. Do you have a previous religious background, upbringing, and do those people that have near death experience with that many, when you brought up in a religious background with the Bible, all of these near death experiences are, you know, a little contrary to what that suggests. They're contrary in the most wonderful way. Yes, they are. What shines so brightly afterward is you realize this whole fire and brimstone bs, forgive me, is so obviously manufactured by man. It so perfectly fits into the small mind of man. It's so classically the work of a little person, not the work of a God. And the rather astounding, impossible to put language to beautiful, ineffable experience these people report in death fits much more with the grandeur of something one would call God. Afterward, it seems so easy to determine which view is made up. Yes, Desmond Tutu met with the Dalai Lama once. And he received criticism for that Christian meeting. Dalai Lama. And his reply was, I think my God is bigger than any one religion can contain. Speaks volumes to me. I was up on the ceiling looking down at this body. And as I looked at my body, I felt as though it was just a piece of clothing. I had a fondness for it. I knew it. I had used it well. But I wasn't connected to it. And I felt no fear, no pain, no anxiety. I had no sense of time. The next thing I knew, it was as though I was going into a tunnel. And my mother, who had been dead for 15 years, was right at the tunnel. And she was beautiful and whole and vibrant and healthy. And she did not die that way. And her arms were outstretched to me. And we communicated telepathically, so our mouths. But I thought, and she received and she thought and I heard. And I was not able to tell her I loved her before she died. And I said, I love you. And she said, I know. And I knew that she had always been with me. We had never been apart. And so with that, I was drawn into a tunnel. And at the end of the tunnel was a pinpoint of light. And I couldn't do anything but go toward it. And so I went toward this light. And as I got to this light, it became bigger and brighter, almost like looking into the sun. But it wasn't painful to look into this light. Bliss doesn't come close to the word. But I knew in that moment that I was forgiven for anything I thought was unforgivable. I was loved beyond all measure in a way that I'd never been loved before. And the light was in front of me, and then the light was around me. And then I was in the light. And then I knew I was the light and I was home. Home. Okay. The story I'm going to tell you, it's going to be what actually happened to me. And I'll be honest. When I first started my life, I'd heard about the God that would be mean and vengeful. And you sinned, you'd go to hell. And then he created me where I was weak and I'd give in to temptations. I had a chip on my shoulder. What kind of God is this that he promises you absolutely nothing and he asks everything of you? I found out he gives us everything and asks absolutely nothing of us. The gift is that profound. And what happened as we had a Huey shot up. Got shot up pretty bad. We took 100 and something hits so we crashed. And things started getting kind of gray on me. I said, God, please don't let me die. Please don't let me die. I was terrified. And then things went black, pitch black. And then the unique thing started happening. I started feeling pretty good. And I said, what's happening to me? And I realized I was actually in the physical process of dying. And at that point, I stopped being afraid. I don't know how other people died, but for me, I thought dying was a horrible, painful, terrible thing. And it was actually incredibly pleasant. And as I was fading back, all of a sudden you hear about the bright light. The brightest thing that you can imagine is a dark hole compared to the bright light that I saw. And I'm laying there, and it's beautiful. Bright light. God is the light, but he's loved. What exactly is God? One thing. He is literally made up of love. And I started feeling that love around me. And the light's getting brighter. I'm expanding out. And as I'm expanding out, I'm wondering what's going on. Then I start feeling this presence. And it was God. And he let me know that he's now surrounding me, protecting me. And I'm expanding, expanding out. And words, I tell you, were words. He didn't speak to me. He made his thought known to me. Like, I'll say red, and all of a sudden you'll see the color red in your head. Or I'll say apple, and you visualize an apple. So his thoughts were made known to me. And as I'm expanding out, he said to me, in my interpretation, he said, you will expand out into the cosmos and know all these things. And I was given power that was immeasurably more powerful than I ever imagined God to be. And I was still cocky. I was still myself. I remember kind of puffing my chest up, saying, I'm a super God. Not disrespect for God, but I'm a super God. We cannot comprehend what we're going to become. It's immeasurably more powerful than God, is that we think he is. As I'm kind of getting kind of cocky, God made us thought that known to me. And he gave me a vision. He's holding me in his hands like a premature infant. This is what you are. And I felt his proudness like a parent feels a child when they're first born. And I'm thinking, well, this is confusion. He sees me as a little child. I felt his emotions. I felt he was proud of me. Here's this new infant coming into his world, but I'm still the super God. And then he smiled and I felt him smile. He said, even in this state that you were in, you cannot begin to comprehend what I am. We can't comprehend what we're going to be. And he's still infinitely more powerful and loving and caring than that. So that kind of put me back in my place. As I'm experiencing all these things, the one that really surprised me was his love. I'd say, take a dictionary and take all the bad words out. Regrets, sorrow, fear, embarrassment, they're not there. There is absolutely nothing in heaven that is bad. It's 100% pure love and happiness. All the things that I did in my past, you could remember them, but they were all forgiven. It's like I made you that way for a reason which was not made known to me. His love was so strong. I literally felt it being in the air. When it's calm, you know the air is there, but you can't feel it. Then you soak in a warm bath, warm water, you can feel that God's love was so strong. I literally felt it. And I thought, this isn't a mean, vengeful God. I remember the way I grew up. People cower and they stand in the back of their church. I'm not worthy of being up front near God. Well, I had good, loving parents. And when I met my dad, we'd hug each other. I didn't cower up to my my dad. Well, God doesn't want us to cower in front of him. He created us strictly to love. He has one need that I thought I felt. He needs to love. That's why he created all this stuff. He didn't create us so he could lord over us and dominate over us and make us feel inferior. He wants to love us. And I thought that's. That's not the God that I grew up knowing. So I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, this is not what what I thought it was going to be. I'm staring ahead and I see this little, tiny, tiny, tiny glimmer of light. And as I'm staring at starts to grow. And as it's starting to grow, I know that whatever this is, it's okay, I'm going to be fine. And there's something from this light pulling me, coaching me and pulling me towards it. And as I'm getting closer, the light is getting brighter and bigger. And before I realize it, I'm now in the midst of is everywhere it's everything I can see and experience. It's everywhere. It's not white. It's a color we don't have a name for. It's a color we don't have a reference for. It's a color that has more feeling to it than experiencing color. It has a luminescence to it that we don't have. It's brilliant, but it's so gentle. And I guess that's the dichotomy, you know, it's so huge and magnificent and wondrous, and yet it's so gentle and so loving. And that's the feeling you're just walking into, stepping into this sense of unconditional love. And I'm floating through the opening, and as I'm coming out the other end, I'm just feeling this unconditional love radiating to me and through me and around me. I felt cherished in a deeper way than I knew you could experience. It's like coming home. It's like coming home in a way I had never experienced in life. Coming home to myself, I felt like everything was right and all right and that nothing mattered except being in the presence of this experience and all of this information that came. When you cross over, you're privy to all of the universal information. You are connected to all there is, and all that is, we are an extension of God. I grew up believing and being taught that we are created in the image and likeness of God. Well, I'm here to tell you it's a hell of a lot bigger than that. We were created so that the Creator could experience everything that we experience. We were created out of love, and the creators always got our back and all is well. No, what matter. Matter what it looks like, all is well. What we don't realize is that the ego feels insecure continuously because the ego has no connection to God, to love. And so it's always coming from anxiety and fear. And our job is to stop listening to that litany of junk that it's spewing at us, because it's not the truth of who we are. We are these perfect children of God, and everything we say or do affects everybody else in the world. It's like throwing a pebble into water. The ripples just go out and we don't realize it. We're that powerful and that synergistically connected. I was aware that there was a light, and I began to move towards that light. And I moved into a place that people report to be the tunnel. To me, it was simply a place of Transition. And I moved through this place. And I realized what moved me through this place was not what moves us physically. You know, when we move physically, we have an intent. And then we decide to take an action. We express that physically. What I found moved me through the tunnel was not an intent, not a decision, not a will. What moved me was love. And this was the love of all loves, the greatest of loves, the love of God. I moved into what appeared to be a sea of light. I entered the heart of the light. And it was as if I were devastated by ecstasy. And I was accompanied now by a presence. And I was called to recount for the deeds of my life. And this recounting for the deeds of one's life is not like we would think at all. Because what was important, more important than just the choices that I made were my motivations and really the state of my heart in doing any single action. And I realized how every action that one takes is like a stone cast in the water. And if it's loving, that stone goes out and touches the first person that it's intended for. And then it touches another person. And then it touches another person because that person interacts with other people and so on and so on. And every action has a reverberating effect upon every single one of us on the face of this planet. So if I had committed a loving action, it was like love upon love upon light. A purely loving action was the most wonderful thing that I could ever achieve in my life. This had more meaning than to have been a Rockefeller or President of the United States. Or to have been a great scientist and to have invented something just incredible. If I had committed a truly pure and loving action, it had reverberated throughout every individual on that planet. And I felt that action reverberating through them and through myself. Suddenly I realized that it was love that had brought me into existence. It was love that had guided me through every instant of my life. And really, there was nothing that I could have done to have been worthy of that love, that unspeakable, incomprehensible, immeasurable love that I realized that I was receiving and that all individuals were receiving. So to have committed any act of love was the greatest joy and the greatest wonder and the greatest achievement. And to have committed any act that was selfish and that was in any way cruel. You can imagine the impact of that act reverberating throughout all existence. I became aware that we now existed on the precipice of the greatest choice and the greatest step in Our development and evolution that had ever occurred on the face of the planet. We as a human race existed at this point, and that we had to make the choice as individuals to establish unity and peace and harmony on the face of this planet. I had this incredible experience of moving up into a misty sort of area and then becoming aware that I was in a tunnel. It was totally peaceful. It was a place of absolute compassion, of understanding. Immediately what struck me was the feeling of love coming through from this place that I was in and coming through me and this acceptance and welcoming. The voice I heard inside of me that said, you are my child. Welcome home. You are loved beyond all measure. I lost it. I started crying because it was so welcoming. I mean, I said, I don't believe in you. How come I'm here? And again, the message was, you belong here. This is your home. There was no judgment. There was no atonement. There was nothing that I had ever done that was completely forgiven. And forgiven in that context meant it was gone. I've tried to think of adjectives to describe this. The intensity of this love. Unconditional, pure, powerful. The only one that I can think of that works is infinite. It was infinite love. Wave after wave of cleansing white love washing over me. There was this, what I can only call a download. It was like billions of questions were answered in just a moment. Just all of creation opened up and shimmered. Shimmered, and I understood. And the odd thing about it was that it wasn't like I learned. It is more like remembering more like that I already knew all the answers to all these billions of questions. There is no way that the universe, that creation could possibly unfold without you fulfilling your purpose. And I know a lot of people struggle with that. What's my purpose? You know, why am I here? Sometimes it seems kind of pointless. Like, I go to my stupid job and I got my stupid boss. I go home and I watch tv, and there's got to be something more, right? And I've heard lots of answers to that about purpose. I've heard minister after guru after priest after pastor after teacher make the claim that our purpose here is to learn and grow and learn lessons and move to the next level. But I was told what my purpose was and what your purpose is. And it had nothing to do with learning or growing or moving to the next level. I was told very clearly what our purpose is. And your purpose is to love. It's that simple. Hard to pull off cleanly. But you are here to love.