Obama Believes in Aliens. So There.

Summary

Garage Logic Podcast Summary
Episode: Obama Believes in Aliens. So There.
Date: February 16, 2026
Host: Joe Soucheray with Chris Reavers, Kenny Olson, John Hight, and "the rookie"

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Episode Overview

This episode of Garage Logic covers a broad range of topics centered around current events, local Minnesota politics, the Olympics, and the show's signature observational humor. The main themes include reactions to Barack Obama’s comments about aliens, the ongoing debate around immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, skepticism towards local and federal government regulation, Olympic controversies, and cultural nostalgia. As always, the Garage Logic hosts blend local flavor, cranky common sense, and playful banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Garage Logic Community Spirit

[00:59–03:36]

• Joe starts with listener mail from Aiken, MN, highlighting the show's connection to its rural, hard-working base (epoxy-floored garages and good sound systems).
• Nostalgic references to WDGY radio and the Garage Logic ethos of simple pleasures.

Obama, Aliens & Government Secrecy

[03:41–08:20]

• Obama’s recent interview where he speculated about the existence of aliens is playfully dissected.
  • Joe summarizes: “He said that aliens are real but he hasn't seen them. But he has seen the data and the material classified. He has no doubt that they're real. I mean that's, that's Obama.” (Joe Soucheray, 04:00)
• Follow-up discussion on whether Obama’s clarification was pressured:
  • Kenny muses: “Because that to me proves that there are aliens. Somebody got to him and said you're going to have to make a correction there, former president.” (Kenny Olson, 05:57)
• Touches on the Fermi Paradox and social conditions influencing UFO sightings.
• Playful banter about whether the hosts would want to sit down with Obama and his likability vs. their political disagreements.

Winter Olympics & Athlete Payment Controversies

[08:20–20:22]

• Olympic coverage focuses on the economics surrounding star athletes and perceived unfairness in competitions.
  • Eileen Gu, American-born skier competing for China, sparks debate over sports allegiances and "using our snow,” with hosts bemoaning the loss of amateurism and surges in athlete earnings through sponsorships and state influence.
  • Joe quips, "She uses our snow. You know, that's US snow.” (Joe Soucheray, 09:15)
• Finnish athlete Judah Linderman’s lucrative underwear endorsements.
• Old-school vs. new-school Olympics: wishing for the days of competing only for medals, not millions.
• Cheating in curling and ski jumping—Austrian jumper disqualified for shoes 4mm too big.
• "Did you make your own bobsled icy course as a kid?" emerges as a nostalgic sidetrack, with jokes about homemade luge tracks and the dangers of luge.
  • Joe deadpans: “There's only one reason to watch luge, and that's to see if somebody dies. No, there is no reason to watch it.” (Joe Soucheray, 19:13)

Personal Finances, Taxes & State Policy

[22:04–25:13]

• The crew expresses frustration over Minnesota taxes and new family leave deductions.
  • “You asked me that before the air... everything that comes in the mail, it says taxes, I put the grocery bag.” (Joe Soucheray, 23:03)
• Sober discussion about paycheck deductions for MN paid family leave.
• General skepticism about the efficacy of such programs:
  • "I don't think the Family Leave act is a good idea.” (Joe Soucheray, 25:01)

Minneapolis City Policy, ICE & Activist Politics

[25:13–41:17]

• Extended coverage of Minneapolis city council responses to ICE scaling back, and "Operation Metro Surge."
• Hosts read from councilmember Robin Wansley and Asia Chugtai's letters to constituents, critiquing their anti-ICE stance and proposals for rent assistance and small business funds.
• Joe condemns both ICE's tactics and the council's ideology for fostering chaos and later requiring taxpayer bailouts:
  • “Mysterious always create a horrendous financial mess. …They use their ideology to excuse the gaps, but on the other hand, saying, we need to create ordinances to come up with more money…” (Joe Soucheray, 27:00)
  • “Progressives do not… have a conception of the common good because their conception of justice is rooted in a hierarchy of victimhood.” (Joe Soucheray, 38:34)
• Growing frustration with city leadership’s activist focus over practical governance.

Satire & News Roundup

[42:46–47:31]

• John highlights MN Times satire pieces, then jumps into real news:
  • The FBI refusing to share info with Minnesota’s BCA in fatal ICE-related shootings.
  • ICE agents placed on leave after lying about an incident.

Immigration Policy Public Opinion

[47:31–48:25]

• State polling: 85% of Minnesotans support at least some cooperation between local police and federal authorities about deportation.

Violence, Protests & Escalation

[48:25–50:47]

• News of a protester biting off a federal agent’s finger, leading to federal indictment—causes Joe to lament that local cops weren’t allowed to intervene:
  • “That wouldn’t have happened if Minneapolis cops were allowed to intervene.” (Joe Soucheray, 49:46)

Boundary Waters, Government & Environmental Regulation

[51:00–79:12]

• Letters from Theodore Roosevelt IV and his family, opposing mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters.
  • Tangent on Navy SEALs, family heritage, and LL Bean.
• Trump administration repeals Obama-era EPA "endangerment finding" regarding greenhouse gases.
  • Joe breaks down the legal and political history, criticizing CO₂ regulation:
    • “Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. You breathe it, it's not a pollutant. Yet the mysterians managed to shove that into the Clean Air Act.” (Joe Soucheray, 70:45)
  • Kenny adds that the end of this regulation saves taxpayers $1.3 trillion and rolls back strict vehicle standards.

Technology, Pop Culture & Ephemera

[61:01–63:11]

• Jokes about Hollywood, AI deepfakes (Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise fight), and actors worrying about technology.
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cocaine admission on Theo Von’s podcast mentioned for shock value.
• Passing of Robert Duvall—appreciation for his acting legacy and impact on American cinema.
• Human interest: World War II hero celebrates 101st birthday.

Nostalgia, Road Trips & Shipwrecks

[68:18–84:10]

• Discussion of Route 66 at 100 and the American tradition of road trips.
• Joe’s fascination with shipwrecks on the Great Lakes and the hidden history in underwater finds.
  • “As many as 20,000 boats have gone down in the Great Lakes. …Most of them have not been found.” (Joe Soucheray, 83:01)
• Locally: nostalgia for homemade pizza and lost fishing rods.

Local Minnesota History

[86:59-end]

• "On this day" segment covers historical Minnesota events, such as the founding of Faribault, agricultural history, and quirky clubs like the "horse thief detectives" evolving to chase car thieves.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Obama on Aliens:

  • “He said that aliens are real but he hasn't seen them. But he has seen the data and the material classified. He has no doubt that they're real. I mean that's, that's Obama.”
    • Joe Soucheray (04:00)

• Olympics & Money:

  • “She uses our snow. You know, that's US snow.”
    • Joe Soucheray (09:15)

• Old-School Olympic Gripe:

  • “There's only one reason to watch luge, and that's to see if somebody dies. No, there is no reason to watch it.”
    • Joe Soucheray (19:13)

• City Council Critique:

  • “Mysterious always create a horrendous financial mess. …They use their ideology to excuse the gaps, but on the other hand, saying, we need to create ordinances to come up with more money…”
    • Joe Soucheray (27:00)
  • “Progressives do not… have a conception of the common good because their conception of justice is rooted in a hierarchy of victimhood.”
    • Joe Soucheray (38:34)

• Regulation Skepticism:

  • “Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. You breathe it, it's not a pollutant. Yet the mysterians managed to shove that into the Clean Air Act.”
    • Joe Soucheray (70:45)

• Nostalgia:

  • “It was a common thing in America for people…to go for a ride, especially on a Sunday.”
    • Joe Soucheray (69:48)

• On American Restlessness & Discovery:

  • “As many as 20,000 boats have gone down in the Great Lakes. …Most of them have not been found.”
    • Joe Soucheray (83:01)

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Important Timestamps

• Obama & Aliens: 03:41–08:20
• Olympics Discussion: 08:20–20:22
• Tax/Family Leave: 22:04–25:13
• Minneapolis ICE Operations & Council Critique: 25:13–41:17
• EPA Endangerment Ruling: 70:29–79:12
• Shipwreck Discovery Discussion: 82:04–84:10

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Characteristic Tone

Throughout, the panel mixes dry humor, curmudgeonly wisdom, regional pride, and open skepticism of "mysterians" (progressives/activists) and top-down government solutions. The conversational, loose format jumps from serious policy debates to local stories and light-hearted tangents, reflecting the everyday logic and irreverent common sense of “Gumption County.”

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This summary provides a detailed roadmap to the episode’s topical flow, opinions, and the unique Garage Logic style for anyone who missed the show.

Transcript

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[John Hight]

Hail the Flashlight King.

[Joe Soucheray]

And now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Logic with Chris Reavers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the Crabby coffee shop, John Hight in the newsroom and of course the rookie here is your Flashlight King, fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your May, Joe Susher. Our show has friends in Aiken, Minnesota. Yes, Bill Stein's up there, Steve Wilson, and Steve Wilson sent me an email and he said I'm out mopping the floor of our garage and he sent me a picture of the garage. It's just absolutely gorgeous. I'm out mopping the floor of our garage up in Aiken and China Grove came on wdgy. Let me stop right there.

[Chris Reavers]

Local station.

[Joe Soucheray]

He's got a beautiful garage with the epoxy floor and it looks like it's at least four to five car garage and he's listening to wdgy. Don't you have a sound system out there in a garage like that?

[Chris Reavers]

He's a simple man. Julie married a simple man.

[Joe Soucheray]

All right. I think I can speak for your audience that we all have a case of the bleepets given our current state of affairs in Minnesota and could use a little coyote. McLeod, would you be so kind as to play that so we can smile again? We are in fact the greatest nation in the world and we can't lose sight of that.

[Kenny Olson]

You go upstairs to talk to the warriors then.

[Joe Soucheray]

7:00 clock in the Atlanta night time, the County McLive. Good time for rock and roll. Radio soul is on the air. Got me some good looking home cooking, black looking past tasting, drag racing Kids are facing the em racing good timing ridge running, stump jumping acts like a nitty gritty low red rock and roll.

[Chris Reavers]

Never will Never be equaled. Never be equal.

[Kenny Olson]

The man with seven weeks of vacation will now have 52 weeks of vacation. We've played it before on the council.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh well that wasn't the entire song I hope commentary.

[Joe Soucheray]

I hope my Aiken people know how much I appreciate them for the risk I took. You know what our former president Barack Obama is up to?

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

And I dropping alien bombs all over the place.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you. That's right. He was. He is dropping an alien bomb. Apparently he was interviewed. I don't know who was interviewing him. I didn't see the interview but I saw the clip of it where he said that aliens are real but he hasn't seen them. But he has seen the data and the material classified. He has no, he has no doubt that they're real. I mean that's, that's Obama.

[John Hight]

Did you see his follow up?

[Joe Soucheray]

No.

[John Hight]

He said he issued a statement to clarify that. Oh yeah, he said he has no evidence or anything and he's never seen anything.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, I see.

[John Hight]

He just assumes because the universe is so big.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well it's the Fermi, the theory there's.

[John Hight]

Other aliens out there.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know Fermi the astrophysicist who said where is everybody? And it's axiomatic that the stranger things get in the country the more likely you are to get UFO sightings because they're on the increase on the Internets. So the more. What am I trying to say? As things get goofier we get more. Thank you. When you have more UFO sightings.

[Kenny Olson]

When the going gets weird.

[Joe Soucheray]

When the going gets weird.

[Chris Reavers]

Who's the gal that spoke in tongues for a stellar event?

[Joe Soucheray]

Hesh.

[Chris Reavers]

Remember Ann, weren't these stellar events always preceded by a. A movie star or somebody of notoriety going crazy and then we would have UFO sighting or something.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well no. 911 was preceded by shark attacks and Hesh speaking in tongues. Okay. And some senator who couldn't find his secretary or something.

[Chris Reavers]

That's. Yes. Okay. That was pre 9 11. Got it. Gotcha.

[Kenny Olson]

In the case of President Obama isn't I think the COVID up is more telling than the original statement. Not the COVID up, the retraction so to speak. Because that to me proves that there are aliens. Somebody got to him and said you're going to have to make a correction there. Former president.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well maybe John saw this as well. But I also thought he said that he was not allowed in Area 52.

[John Hight]

No, he said, he said Area 50 51.

[Joe Soucheray]

I mean 50 52.

[Chris Reavers]

He can go anywhere.

[John Hight]

He said the opposite. He said there is Nothing in Area 51.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, I thought he said he couldn't get in there.

[John Hight]

No, I have the story up. Maybe I can find the coal.

[Chris Reavers]

Now, that being said, what he said about the sitting president and the monkey.

[Joe Soucheray]

Picture, I'm unaware that he said anything.

[Chris Reavers]

He just said he was on a podcast. It was just on the morning news today. And I think he handled it with grace, where he didn't go back to rip. He just said, I think what is currently happening, we all understand, and it's just not. It's not normal. You handle it with grace.

[Joe Soucheray]

Ideologically, he's not my cup of tea, but compared to the sitting president, he's, you know, he's articulate and graceful and.

[Chris Reavers]

And my.

[Joe Soucheray]

Charming.

[Chris Reavers]

I still would like to. He's one of the guys I'd like to sit down and have a beer with in the backyard.

[Kenny Olson]

Nick, are you kidding me?

[Joe Soucheray]

Are you kidding me that I would not.

[Chris Reavers]

I would like to pick his brain.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, my God.

[Chris Reavers]

No, I don't think he was a great.

[Kenny Olson]

I would like to sit down so I can stand and point and yell at him for about three hours.

[Joe Soucheray]

I said I'm not an ideological fan of his, but compared to the mess we're in, he. He could at least express himself.

[Kenny Olson]

He was the. He was the reason for the mess we're in. He started it.

[John Hight]

I got to turn off my mic now.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm going to say one more time, ideologically, I don't agree with him as a human being who could actually function. He's okay. He was at the NBA All Star game.

[Kenny Olson]

Did you see that?

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

I think he's the kind of guy, if you are sitting at the table, he would allow you to call him Barry.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, I don't care. Never mind. I'm sorry I brought it up.

[John Hight]

I could turn my mic back on.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Come on, John.

[Joe Soucheray]

I have an Olympic roundup I'd like to get into. We haven't spoken a lot about the Olympics. I'm terribly impressed with the mountain those skiers go down.

[Chris Reavers]

Maria, turn off. This is a primetime preview.

[Joe Soucheray]

I have no idea. I'm not going to announce any victories because I have no idea what's going on. But there is. I have a bit of contention here. We have a Chinese. I think China. I think I'll choose to dislike China. There's no Russia to hate, so it's almost the same to hate China. But China's got a gal. What is she? She's a snowboarder named Eileen Gu. Absolutely. A lovely young woman just knocked down. Gorgeous well, she's paid by. She goes to school here in the United States and she trains here in the United States. And she uses our snow. You know, that's us Snow.

[Chris Reavers]

Ours.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's our snow she's using. And the commies pay her outrageous sums of money to compete for them. Well, what the hell? Then stay in China and use their snow.

[Chris Reavers]

I suppose amateur status, that's gone out the window.

[Joe Soucheray]

Winter Olympic star Eileen Gu is one of the most marketable athletes at the Games. She's the Snow Princess. She earned. She earned $23 million in 2025 through endorsements.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, she's not being paid by the Chinese government.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, just settle down. Gu has modeled for brands like Louis Vuitton, Tiffany. According to a news report, she is being paid handsomely to represent China. So all her money is not endorsements. The commies write her a check too. She's American born. Raised in San Francisco to an American father and Chinese mother. She opted to represent China when she made her Olympic debut in 2022 in Beijing. A report from the Wall Street Journal shows just how much it pays to switch country allegiances. Gu and U.S. figure skater Xu Yi shared a $6.6 million payment from the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau last year. Yi also competes for China and renounced her United States citizenship. In the report, the athletes reportedly earned 14 million over the past three years while working to qualify for the Olympics. See, Jordy alerted me to this because he misses the day when they just competed for medals. All right. Goo and Ye's names were wiped from the record when the budget became public. Okay, now you got a gal. There is no word on the how the money was split between Goo and Lee. Goo has had a far more lucrative career outside competition. She won gold. Goo won gold in women's freestyle, big air and half pipe in her Olympic debut while adding silver in slope style. She'll aim to add a medal to the medal total in the free sky. I'm sorry. Free ski, big air final.

[Chris Reavers]

Do you like big air? More than the half. Piper, where are you on this?

[Joe Soucheray]

I can't even see him. Okay, so that's one party. Now you got this. Judah Linderman. Luhrmann. Judah. She's a Finn. I think she too is just one of the most gorgeous young woman's you'll ever find. And she gets paid. When she finishes the race, she reveals her underwear. Oh. She gets a million bucks a pop when she takes down the zipper on a quarter zip and shows you these.

[John Hight]

Hello.

[Kenny Olson]

She had the whole top off yesterday.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, she got a sports bra on or something, but she's. And I can't remember what the manufacturer of it was, but that's who's paying.

[Chris Reavers]

You weren't looking for the tags?

[Joe Soucheray]

I didn't see it, Matt.

[Kenny Olson]

It wasn't Carhartt, that's for sure.

[Joe Soucheray]

It wasn't that. You know it wasn't. I need help and I'll. It was. Right.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what I get paid for wearing this Joe right here?

[Joe Soucheray]

Nothing. Oh, Carhartt.

[Kenny Olson]

Absolutely nothing.

[Joe Soucheray]

Absolutely nothing. But holy mackerel, you know, this ain't the only. I need these old, fat Polish women who take drugs and lift weights.

[Chris Reavers]

East German.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Let's go here.

[Kenny Olson]

Those are the Summer Olympics.

[Chris Reavers]

It was pointed out to me by my wife that most of these athletes have the clearest and most beautiful skin. They don't have any blemishes.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think, Matt, I'm going to take a chance to help explain that. Yeah, I think the kind of condition they're in, they're so fit, I think that would contribute to their skin quality.

[Chris Reavers]

Give me a good half pipe guy with a little rosacea like.

[Joe Soucheray]

You don't see that, do you know?

[Chris Reavers]

I want us to have pipe guy that's got the red bulbous nose.

[John Hight]

I want.

[Kenny Olson]

I want lip herpes oozing.

[Joe Soucheray]

Now, John, maybe you could do me a favor, John?

[John Hight]

What do you need, John?

[Joe Soucheray]

Because I meant to look this up and didn't. In my steady stream of work this morning, I forgot this one.

[John Hight]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Has bobsled competition in the Olympics always been on ice? In other words, in 1956, the Games were at Cortina. Did the bobsledders go down ice or was it snow?

[Kenny Olson]

Of course they did.

[John Hight]

Early tracks. The first tracks, such as the one in St. Morris, Switzerland, in the 1870s, were natural banked and icy, often built on public roads. Over time, the course has transitioned from naturalized to artificial refrigerated concrete tracks, but have always maintained an icy surface for competition.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

Did you make your own bobsled icy course as a kid?

[Joe Soucheray]

I tried to make a rink and no water. Ended up in your alley.

[Kenny Olson]

I lived in Spring Lake or Prior Lake for a few years as a youth, and we always did that. And our parents, for some reason, were always more than happy to help. I don't know why they kept you.

[Chris Reavers]

Occupied for a while out there.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know why they volunteered to get out the garden hose and ice down a hill, but they did it.

[Chris Reavers]

When I was in about. I don't remember what grade in grade school. My Buddy. Tommy Engel and I, 1897, Berkeley. He lived on a hill in the backyard. We made a luge course.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

We worked on it for hours.

[Kenny Olson]

Ice.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. The luge course took about two and a half seconds.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

There was no room. But we thought we were professional losers from the Olympics.

[Joe Soucheray]

Now to the cheating scandals.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay. More serious parts of cheating.

[Kenny Olson]

And we're talking to you, Canada.

[Joe Soucheray]

There should have been some cheating. And curling. Where a Canadian guy touched the stone after it left, after it went on its journey. And you're not supposed to do that.

[Chris Reavers]

Didn't know that was a rule. But I do know.

[Joe Soucheray]

But the saddest one of all is Matt. Daniel Schofenig of Austria, he came to the Games as one of the favorites to take a gold medal in the large hill ski jumping. He's the World cup gold medal winner during the 24, 25 season. This fellow can jump. He was disqualified because his shoes were too big.

[Chris Reavers]

I didn't see that.

[Joe Soucheray]

So he had new shoes. Clown shoes that just fit into the. He said, I used new shoes in training, which, by the way, I wasn't very happy with, but I kept them. Unfortunately, I was naive and didn't check the sizes. This was incredibly stupid of me because his new shoes were 4 millimeters over the. Over the standard.

[Chris Reavers]

Who gets that job?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, you got to measure the shoes. Right. The poor guy was kicked out because his shoes were too big.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, wow, that's pretty.

[Joe Soucheray]

Could that. Could that make a difference?

[Chris Reavers]

Wouldn't that be just on his first run? And then they said, you got to go change your shoes.

[Joe Soucheray]

The penalty was issued after he qualified for the final. Slovenia's Doman Prebek picked up the gold medal in the event with a total of 301.8 pants and then points. And Japan's Somebody attained the silver medal. And Poland's Casper Tomczyk got the bronze. And this poor guy, Daniel Schulfenig of Austria, he's on the sidelines, just looking at him because his shoes were too big.

[Chris Reavers]

And the Austrians, they are. They're fine in the snow. You know what they're doing on the jumpers.

[Joe Soucheray]

So I feel bad for him. I just. You go all that way, all that training, and how long is 4 millimeters? Isn't that.

[Kenny Olson]

That's about 5 miles, right?

[Joe Soucheray]

I think so.

[Chris Reavers]

No. Quarter of an inch?

[Joe Soucheray]

I have no idea.

[Chris Reavers]

I received a lot between a quarter.

[Kenny Olson]

Of an inch and five miles.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

South of St. Cloud, I received a lot of feedback on the speed skater. Mahalski. Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

There is a Polish Speed skater. It spells the same way.

[Chris Reavers]

A lot of text. And that is the way you're supposed to pronounce it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Mahalski.

[Chris Reavers]

Mahalski.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Do you think it's a relative?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, it's a. He's a third cousin once removed.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Chris Reavers]

He lives in gdask.

[Joe Soucheray]

You've never been to Poland.

[Chris Reavers]

I've never been to Poland. But we've traded. When we were kids, we traded, like pen pal stuff.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

And he. He was a hockey player at the time. He switched to speed skating after a motorcycle accident.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'll be damned.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, that sounds like athlete bs. That's all me.

[Chris Reavers]

It's all me. I've never met.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. I would have gone with it if I were you.

[Kenny Olson]

If you were going to enter the Winter Olympics, Matthew Mikulski, what would your event be?

[Chris Reavers]

Hot dog you. My event would be, I would like to ride the bobsled. This loose skeleton. No, thanks. But I'd want to be in that four men bobsled.

[Joe Soucheray]

Me too.

[Chris Reavers]

But I would. But I'd be the entertainment. I would be the entertainment. As we're hopping into the car.

[Joe Soucheray]

Be the last guy in.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

The guy in back, though, sits down and puts his head down and he can't even see out when it's the two man bob sled.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

What do you suppose. Do you think he's talking to the guy in front like, what the hell?

[Joe Soucheray]

What was that?

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, what was that bump?

[Joe Soucheray]

If I ran, if I was the king of the world.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

There would be no luge competition.

[John Hight]

What?

[Joe Soucheray]

It's. It's. Well, first of all, why don't you just go get a piece of cardboard and slide down a hill somewhere?

[Kenny Olson]

That's. To me, that's also an Olympic event. I would watch that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, it's. It's.

[Kenny Olson]

Did you not slide as a kid?

[Joe Soucheray]

Of course I did. But there's only one reason to watch Loosh, and that's to see if somebody dies. No, there is no reason to watch it.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, my God. You're so dark.

[Joe Soucheray]

There's no skill at all. You lay on a sled and hope you don't die.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what it is? I keep going back to it. You hate fun. You don't like when people have fun.

[Joe Soucheray]

No. Prove me wrong. There's no reason.

[Kenny Olson]

You.

[Joe Soucheray]

All you do is get on this thing and then hope you don't die.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, my God. They're rocketing up the side onto the plywood and they're bouncing all over, pushing.

[Chris Reavers]

Their fish left and right to kind of.

[Joe Soucheray]

Now there's one. I didn't know they had this called Monobob. That's where one guy or a gal is just alone in the bob's sled. I'll go with that.

[Chris Reavers]

I didn't see that one.

[Kenny Olson]

That's a new one, actually.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, Monobob.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

At least you got something around you. If you hit something, you got a fighting chance.

[Kenny Olson]

But the great thing with mono bob is that guy can't control that thing. That thing's bouncing off the wall in every turn.

[Chris Reavers]

He's just awesome.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did you ever see the video of, I think it was a Scandinavian luger training in Vancouver who died during the practice run? Tell me you wouldn't. I would abandon luge. It's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous.

[Kenny Olson]

I would get Johnny Knoxville and Travis Pastrana together and put together kind of an insane sport for the Olympics. Like easy chairs down the luge run or inner tubes on the ski jump.

[Chris Reavers]

Matt.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, just something absolutely insane.

[Chris Reavers]

The ski jump.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, padded inner tubes down the bobsled run is entirely plausible for these morons who run the Olympics.

[Kenny Olson]

Wouldn't that be fun?

[Chris Reavers]

I'd watch that in a second.

[Kenny Olson]

Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

Watch that more than luge.

[Kenny Olson]

Joe, you have got to unclench, my friend. Life is a lot of fun. You had to join us over here on the fun side.

[Chris Reavers]

I think his Olympic pucker factor is quite high right now.

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[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Because a great trip starts with the right support. I don't think it is that work out for you?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, Joe Scrooge. Bah humbug.

[Chris Reavers]

You gonna take that on a Monday from here?

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't care.

[Chris Reavers]

He's getting over Covid. He's getting over Covid. He's. He's better now.

[Joe Soucheray]

I. I'm with Steve Wilson up in Aiken I mean, you know, I don't. I. We're dealing with a tough world right now. I don't have any interest in it in the Olympics. It's time.

[Kenny Olson]

And that's why it's been so fun for the past week with the Olympics.

[Joe Soucheray]

But it's tax time when you realize all you pay to the state of Minnesota and how poorly it's handled. And. And.

[Kenny Olson]

I dare you to look at your W2 before you send it off.

[Joe Soucheray]

You asked me that before the air, before we went on. And what I do is just. I've. I've got a grocery bag going that everything that comes in the mail, it says taxes, I put the grocery back.

[Kenny Olson]

But, I mean, if you'd never. If you kind of have a ballpark number of what you make, but you're not totally sure.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

And you're always thinking, how come I only have 100 bucks to my name? And then you look at your W2 and you go, there's no way I made that last year. Why am I broke right now? And then I started breaking it down, and it's, well, the state takes this and the feds take this, and then you got to put this here and this goes there, and pretty soon you're eating ketchup soup.

[Joe Soucheray]

No. It's very sobering to study your tax situation. Very sobering.

[Chris Reavers]

I forgot to look at my airport paycheck to find out how much I have put into family leave so far.

[Kenny Olson]

You don't.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

They're taking money out.

[Joe Soucheray]

Checks reflect that.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes, they have to. There will be a line that says I'll be. Maybe fml. La. I don't.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know, but that'll be next tax period.

[Joe Soucheray]

Would we have had. Well, we've been paid in 2026.

[Kenny Olson]

I mean, yeah, it'll be for 2026 next year.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, no, no. He's talking about, will every check have that?

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, it should.

[Joe Soucheray]

Every paycheck you get, will it have what it costs you for family leave?

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, yeah. Look, I've got it here. Mn.

[John Hight]

No.

[Joe Soucheray]

Are you being joking?

[Chris Reavers]

No, no, I'm being.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay.

[Chris Reavers]

Now, how much on my taxes? Mnpfl.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay, how much?

[Chris Reavers]

They took 12 bucks out.

[Joe Soucheray]

12 bucks? You know what? That's your $12. Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

And then the state will match that 12.

[Kenny Olson]

That's me, by the way.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's me. That's you, too.

[Chris Reavers]

Right?

[Kenny Olson]

So, thanks, guys.

[Joe Soucheray]

So you've been taxed twice right there. You just lost $24.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, I'm out. I don't have much more to lose.

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't think the Family Leave act is a good idea. I. You know, ICE announced it was leaving.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait, Joe, I'm keeping. So Luge.

[Joe Soucheray]

No.

[Kenny Olson]

Family leave. No.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. Yeah, go ahead, Obama. Aliens. Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay. You love Obama.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, I love the aliens. I just was. Couldn't help but noticing I was reading the Minneapolis Times, and I've told you before, I love what they do with their artwork. It's just a handsome website. Anyway, they have the. They've. They've captured the messages that the Minneapolis City Council members sent to their constituents regarding the retraction of ICE from the state. Tom Holman is winnowing it down. And it has been quieter the last few days. There are still skeptics who won't believe it until they see it, and. But you. We all will admit that things seem a little quieter, wouldn't we? There hasn't been any. And I. I had a deep thought when I was reading the messages from Robin Wansley and Asia Chugtai.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay, Minneapolis City council people.

[Joe Soucheray]

Robin Chugtai addresses hers to hi, neighbor. And Wansley goes with dear community. And she said, the announcement that Operation Metro Surge will soon end is a concession won by the working class residents of Minneapolis who showed incredible compassion, courage, discipline and strength in the face of a state sanctioned terror. The way residents stood alongside each other. Okay, she's right. Ordinary Minnesotans really, really put up a fuss and they were out there during the coldest stretch of the year and they didn't like what they were seeing. But she goes on to say. She goes on to say that ICE must be abolished. And then she goes on to say, I and some of my colleagues are dedicated to advancing an equitable recovery, one that invests in marginalized communities and doesn't make working class people foot the bill for this campaign of terror. Residents have already given everything to protect their neighbors. The city of Minneapolis must invest in an equitable recovery for all residents. Okay, we don't. We really don't know what that meant. Means. Last week, council approved my proposal to invest 1 million into rental assistance to prevent evictions for families who have been impacted by Operation Metro Surge. Next week, council will vote on the ordinance I'm authorizing to slow down the eviction process. Next week, council will also have the opportunity to invest 5 million into small business residency. And she goes on to say, where is this here? We need more than a reduction of agents. We need ICE fully out of our state and city. And she doesn't want to have ice. Okay, now you go to Chugtie. And she writes something similar. We can't ever forget the horrors carried out by the federal agents. The they roamed our streets en masse and abducted our neighbors, racially profiled residents, brutalized observers, violated our safe spaces in schools and places of worship. That's all true. And they terrified and stole children from their families. We know that today's announcement has not changed the goal of the Trump administration. Mass deportations that tear apart our families, friends, and neighbors as a community. I hope we keep our arms wrapped around each other. That begins with real transparency from all the individuals have been meeting with the Department of Homeland Security leadership. That's why I'm calling on our elected leaders in Minnesota to immediately provide details to the public about what, if anything, was agreed to for our agents to leave, because we need to deserve the transparency. Okay, here's what I would deduce from these two messages. The others were not dissimilar. Chugta, for example, is demanding to know if any deals were struck to make it more amenable for local law enforcement to work with the feds. That's what's on her mind, and she would oppose that. All right, so what Chug Tie wants to know is, boy, behind those closed doors, did you. Did you reach an agreement with these federalist terrorists to continue haranguing us? Because I want to know that. All right, well, Wansley is in the nobody is illegal and we're on stolen land camp. And she wants money to. To cover the losses that businesses felt and. And residents felt who might not be able to have put together the money to pay their rent because they couldn't leave their buildings or were afraid to go work and what have you. Let's take. Let's change. Let's take Wansley first, because Chug Tai will also vote for Wansley's ordinance, which would require the taxpayers to cough up money to supplant money that presumably was lost during the. During the brunt of the surge. It dawns on me that mysterious always create a mess, but we have to pay for it. Mysterious always create a horrendous financial mess. They create financial gaps, and then they use their ideology to excuse the gaps, but on the other hand, saying, we need to create ordinances to come up with more money, and if we need more tax money, we'll have to get it because we have to clean up the mess we made. The mess the mysterious made was this insistence that there are certain federal laws Minneapolis must ignore. Now, I'm not disputing that ICE behaved horribly Here. That's a given. This was a unique situation. You sent in too many ICE agents, many of whom did not display professionalism, to work in a city where the city council and the mayor have vowed not to cooperate with you. That created a firestorm. It helped create the firestorm. So, on the one hand, yes, ICE behaved poorly here. It was dreadful. It was a lousy, lousy deal for 72 days. And, yes, people were fearful, and there were two deaths and kids were taken, and it was just a bad, bad deal. But you cannot let Mysterians off the hook entirely because they brought about this forced suspension of any law enforcement whatsoever. Helping. Even if you would have allowed the Minneapolis cops to show up at ICE raids, ring the perimeter, make sure things were handled quietly, you wouldn't have had two murders. You wouldn't have had Renee Goode in the middle of the road where she found herself. But she shouldn't have been there. She didn't try to kill the guy, but she shouldn't have been there. And you wouldn't have had Petty wandering into Preddy. Is that his name? You wouldn't have had him wandering into the street. You would have had Minneapolis coppers saying, all right, stand right here. You get to watch him. Blow your whistle if you want, but you're just gonna stand back. We couldn't even do that because the Mysterians who think nobody's illegal and we're on stolen land, although these hypocrites have never given back, they don't want anything to do with the federal law enforcement. Now, how much of that has to do with Trump? I don't know. I think Chug Tai and Wansley would demand this separation ordinance no matter who was the president. They're mysterious. They don't want laws, they don't want borders. They have nothing to do with actually running a city. They're only there to advance their ideology.

[Chris Reavers]

You think they would have been this.

[Joe Soucheray]

Aggressive if the Biden administration and it's a ruinous ideology. And all the proof you need is every time one of their ordinances is enacted on, you get a complete mess that legitimate, hardworking taxpayers have to come in and clean up.

[Kenny Olson]

And they don't acknowledge that it's their mess. They blame their mess on somebody else.

[Joe Soucheray]

Wansley, Chug Tai, the rest of you, you are a lot to blame for this mess. And when it comes to the finances, you're to blame. And time. How much is George Floyd Square cost the public in the last five years? Love to know that millions and millions and millions and millions. Of dollars of studies that have resulted in nothing because it was the mess they created at the outset that never got settled. And now you have to pay for their ongoing mess time after time after time. That's why when I say we've elected the wrong people, that's what I mean. These are people not interested in a successful, law abiding, functioning example of commerce for all. They're only interested in advancing their activist ideology. They know nothing else. And they're in way over their heads trying to run a city. And instead of trying to learn how to run a city, they just end up dragging the city down to their level.

[Kenny Olson]

They double down on the dumb.

[Joe Soucheray]

So it's. It's really. And then you compound this with a mayor who goes along with them for the most part and a governor who goes along with them 100%. So where are we? We're in our financial mess. You got two dead. You had a slap dash 71 days. A lot of that could have been mitigated. I'm not saying the whole thing because there were some bad actors with ice, but you could have mitigated this considerably if the city of Minneapolis considered itself an actual part of the United States and participated with the laws of this country.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, the city of Minneapolis, you said they didn't cooperate. Well, I would add that they went out of their way to thwart the operations. And you remember when it started with that drug bus on Lake street last summer?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. Which was legitimately a drug bust that had nothing to do with ice. No.

[Kenny Olson]

But the Minneapolis citizens showed up to protest. And at that point, Minneapolis police were still responding to those type of situations.

[Joe Soucheray]

And the ideologists like Wansley and Chugtai, never mind that their neighborhoods are pathetic. Never mind that businesses have plywood on the windows. Never mind that businesses and landlords are selling and closing. They don't care. They're going to. They'll burn it to the ground if they have to. And they're advancing nothing except the ideology of complete corrosiveness. They have nothing to offer the public. And yet you keep voting for them in the metro area. You keep sending them to office and they return nothing in the way of common good. Remember, they don't understand the common good. They only understand what they believe to be good assigned by your political identity. We went through that a bit with this Dan Strand the other day. They don't have an idea of the common good. They don't even know what it is. They're not interested in it.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Let me read the that sentence. Again. And then, of course. Would you want to take a break, Gabe? Yeah, but I want to read this sentence. It might take me a minute to find it, but I bet I can find it.

[Kenny Olson]

Are you talking Wansley?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, I'm talking about the guy we had on the other day.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, damn.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, yeah, I got it. Here. I. I mean, I got it.

[Chris Reavers]

You got that?

[Joe Soucheray]

I got it. Some. The dirty little secret. Now just plug in the names of the Minneapolis City Council. The dirty little secret is that for all their talk of public good, witness Wansley demanding an equitable recovery. The dirty little secret is that for all their talk of the public good, progressives do not chug tie and Wansley do not have a conception of the common good because their conception of justice is rooted in a hierarchy of victimhood. When one pulls back the rhetorical layers of leftist ideologues, one finds a constellation of ideas that are wholly anathema to public good of the city, states, or nation. If politics is about cultivating and maintaining those public goods that are essential for the thriving of a political community, the political policies of Minnesota Democrats have only undermined that basic principle. Identity politics focuses only on difference. What sets us apart and what. And not on what binds us together. So what Wansley and Chugtai do is that they assign a special goodness to illegal immigrants, people of color, Native Americans, all of whom should be considered instead as all part of us together, all one whole. We're all one whole. They don't see it that way. And what they want is money from who they think are the oppressors that created this situation. They want money from people who actually get up and work and pay their taxes. And they will redistribute that money for an equitable recovery, which is gibberish. That means we'll assign the money to our hierarchy of victimhood that we've identified.

[John Hight]

You.

[Joe Soucheray]

You people that still work and have a job and pay taxes, you just keep doing that because you're not. You don't know what you're doing. We do. It's a mistake, and the city might never recover. Seriously, Mike, the city will not recover from democratic socialism. If democratic socialism continues in its present form, Minneapolis St. Paul and the state of Minnesota will not recover. May I get an amen?

[Chris Reavers]

Can I get an amen?

[Joe Soucheray]

We got to take a time out.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Soucheray]

Don't even listen to them. The earth is not your mother. The joke Su There it is, John, you're right.

[Kenny Olson]

We're talking off the air, this wonderful piece in the Minneapolis Times. The headline fugitive Just wanted to see one GD power play before serving 25 to life. And right there in small green letters right above the headline, satire, Satire.

[John Hight]

First thing I saw.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, I was really hoping it was real.

[Joe Soucheray]

Here's Johnny.

[John Hight]

Thank you, Joe. This news, not satire. Although some of it fits. This news is brought to you by North American Banking Company after weeks of calling for a joint and cooperative investigation into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Preddy by federal immigration agents, state officials have formally received a response from the federal government. A simple no. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announced this morning the FBI has formally notified the agency it will not share access to any info or evidence connected to the Preddy killing. BCA officials say they've reiterated requests for access to evidence for goods killing as well as the January 14th of Julio Sosa Silas. However, state officials haven't received a definitive answer on whether or not the feds will reverse course and cooperate in those other two cases. The BCA said in a press release this morning. While this lack of cooperation is concerning and unprecedented, the BCA is committed to thorough and independent and transparent investigations to those incidents, even if hampered by a lack of access to key information and evidence.

[Joe Soucheray]

I believe Cash Patel and the fellows will handle this with the utmost professionalism.

[John Hight]

See, I told you there'd be some.

[Joe Soucheray]

There's some satire in this newscast.

[John Hight]

Satire involved. Speaking of that, so Cecilis case. Remember, that's the one where the DHS said an officer had been attacked by two men, one with a shovel, one with a broom handle, while the officer was trying to make an arrest. Turns out it didn't happen that way. And now two immigration agents have been placed on leave after making what officials say were untruthful statements about that encounter. In a statement, acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Ly said the agents could be fired and criminally charged after the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota completes an investigation into that matter. Lying under oath is a serious federal crime, lyon said. The announcement came two days after a federal prosecutor in Minnesota sought to dismiss criminal charges against the two men, Julio Cesar Sosa Salis and Alfredo Alejandro Il Jorna. The men, who are both from Venezuela, had been accused of beating an ICE officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel. Sosa Silas was shot in the thigh during the encounter, which occurred days after the fatal shooting of Renee Good. A filing from the U.S. attorney's office cited newly discovered evidence that he says is materially inconsistent with preliminary hearing testimony and an affidavit filed Jan. 16 against the two men. The motion sought to dismiss the charges with prejudice, indicating they cannot be refiled. Judge granted the request on Friday. A coalition of city leaders across Minnesota is speaking out as federal officials began scaling back immigration enforcement operations in the state. The group is Cities for Safe and Stable communities and involves 17 cities and their mayors. It was formed about 10 weeks ago in response to the federal immigration surge, white House border czar Tom Homan has said. Of course I think things are going in the right direction and I have faith things will continue that way. Still, some of those local mayors remain skeptical, including Patrick Hanlon. He's the mayor of Hopkins, he said. We'll believe it when we see it. Mayors from the 17 cities make up the coalition represented in communities across the political spectrum. Leaders said they're responding to what they describe as long term impacts from the immigration operation. Meanwhile, Minnesota sheriffs say there has been no change in their dealings with immigration officials, despite Homan's claim that part of the reason for agents leaving is the cooperation they're getting. And he County Sheriff Dewanawit actually held a press conference, said the impending departure of roughly 2,000 remaining federal agents comes as a significant relief for the community and law enforcement alike, adding that local authorities know the trust has been eroded and shaken. While she didn't call anyone out specifically, the sheriff blamed influential leaders for spreading misinformation, rumors and confusion. The Star Tribune says it polled sheriffs in 87 Minnesota counties. They got return answers from about 40% of the sheriffs. They responded all said they had changed no policies in regard to dealing with national immigration officials.

[Joe Soucheray]

John I have a survey in front of me taken by the American Experiment or the American Experiment is revealing the results from an NBC Carol Evan Minnesota Star Tribune release poll finding the Minnesotans are generally unhappy with the federal government's enforcement operations. What about state authorities? When asked do you think local police in your community should cooperate with federal immigration authorities to deport people who are in the country illegal? The polls only question about state and local policy. 38% of Minnesotans polled say that always cooperate. 47% they should cooperate in some cases. So 85% of Minnesotans support cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities.

[John Hight]

A St. Paul woman accused of biting off a Homeland Security agent's finger during protests on the day of Alex Preddy's death.

[Chris Reavers]

What do you want?

[John Hight]

Has been federally indicted. 27 year old Claire Louise Feng was charged by a Minnesota federal grand jury with inflicting bodily injury on a Homeland Security Investig Special Agent January 24th. According to court documents, Customs and Border Protection and HSI officers were trying to establish a secure perimeter between Nicollet Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets in Minneapolis after the shooting, while a CBP officer tried to arrest a person who threw a chemical canister back toward federal law enforcement. Fang tackled the CBP officer. An HSI agent then took Fang to the ground, which is where she allegedly bit off, severing the tip of his right ring finger and leaving the bone exposed. Another woman, Emily Bear, was also charged with one count of forcibly assaulting a federal officer and committing bodily harm. A prosecutor say that an officer tried to arrest her after seeing her throwing things at law enforcement, including throwing chemical agents that law enforcement had used back at the agents. A struggle ensued and the agent tried to take off Beryl's mask, during which Beryl forcibly bit the agent's middle finger. That agent wearing gloves but was still injured, according to court documents.

[Joe Soucheray]

See, to me that wouldn't have happened if the Minneapolis cops were allowed to intervene. Right.

[Chris Reavers]

But since it did, I hope this agent learns about the local outfit, Paul's Prosthesis Palace.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right. He can get that fixed finger right there.

[Chris Reavers]

Touch it right on.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's like a fireworks accident.

[John Hight]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

When you go to Endless Wings Wings night. And you put one in your mouth and you kind of debone it in your mouth.

[Joe Soucheray]

Mouth.

[Kenny Olson]

Wow.

[Joe Soucheray]

Gross.

[Chris Reavers]

That's got to be a hard raw. She's got even jobs.

[Joe Soucheray]

I hate to ask this with the fingernail, too. What is an endless wing tonight?

[Chris Reavers]

That was a weird flex. Yeah. I will agree.

[Joe Soucheray]

You don't know about. Is that where you have a meat raffle?

[Kenny Olson]

No, you don't know about wings.

[Chris Reavers]

You get an endless thing.

[Kenny Olson]

Again, the evidence and proof that you hate fun comes out again.

[Joe Soucheray]

Are they drummies? Yeah. Well, I like drummies. Yeah. I don't need them to be endless.

[Chris Reavers]

At a meat raffle. The whole thing.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

Lawmakers are coming back to the capitol this week starting today. Tomorrow. Can't wait many minutes. Tomorrow. I'm sorry. You're right, Kenny. Many Minnesotans expect action on key issues, from gun reform to fraud oversight. People across the Twin Cities are making priorities clear. At memorials for Alex Pretty and Renee Good community members have expressed their concerns, urging leaders to mainstream focus on the issues. Our friends@5 Eyewitness News asked Facebook viewers about the priorities. Responses varied from taxes, education and sports betting to protecting the boundary waters. However, many comments focused on voter ID and fraud. Lawmakers themselves are divided on which issues they will actually cover. Speaking of the boundary waters, a rare letter to Republican senators. Four descendants of former president Teddy Roosevelt saying they oppose mining near the Minnesota wilderness area. Teddy Roosevelt IV says he doesn't like to put words in a dead man's mouth, but he says he's pretty sure President Theodore Roosevelt, his great grandfather, would have been appalled by the effort by House Republicans to allow mining near an expansive wilderness in Minnesota. So he said he and several relatives recently wrote to Republican senators urging them against allowing mining upstream from the Boundary Waters canoe area.

[Chris Reavers]

Quick question. Do you think this guy IV introduced himself to somebody like Suchre saying, hi, I'm Ted, or do you think he says, I'm Theodore Roosevelt the fourth?

[John Hight]

He actually goes by Ted.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, he does.

[John Hight]

Yeah. I said Teddy and I shouldn't have. He goes by Ted Roosevelt iv. Okay, so officially what he goes by. And apparently he was a big shot. Let's see. I had that somewhere.

[Chris Reavers]

So he's not just cashing in on his great grandfather's name.

[John Hight]

So take. No, he was a big shot in business. I. I had it somewhere, but I've. I've misplaced it.

[Kenny Olson]

Would we call him the Quattro?

[John Hight]

The Quattro. Quattro.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'm seeing him in some L.L. bean.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah. Little precious.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. No, no.

[Kenny Olson]

I mean, they are the finest garment manufacturer in the world. Are you taking a break, John? Because I have a hot tip I've been sitting on trying to.

[John Hight]

But, you know.

[Kenny Olson]

All right, this tip is for ill running small engines. And it comes to you directly from my twin nephews when they were teenagers.

[Joe Soucheray]

They know what they're doing.

[Kenny Olson]

Those kids were making bank at a very young age repairing and reselling lawnmowers. And here's a side tip. They got sick of doing that and just started selling parts and did way better. But back to the seafoam, an old running engine. They would dump seafoam motor treatment into a spray bottle. They'd get that thing running and it's sitting there chok stumbling and backfiring. And they would just constantly spray the seafoam right into the carb. They'd keep doing it until the engine dies. They'd refire it and they do it sometimes up to four or five times. But in the end, the engine was purring. I actually witnessed and videotaped it for myself. Now fast forward a couple years. They get their driver's license. I let them drive my plow truck for the summer. They start getting on me about this, that and the other and all the carbon deposits in the crankcase and. And evidently they were plugging up the oil pressure, sending unit oil filter. It's about the size of a pencil eraser. So they dump a whole can of seafoam right into this crankcase. They drive it, I don't know, a couple hundred miles, change the oil. They did that twice that summer. And lo and behold, I haven't had a problem with that sending unit filter since. Just a couple of seafoam tips from a couple of teenagers. Just motorheads like you and I, Galers. And by the way, you can find more tips like this right on seafoamworks.com and you can find seafoam motor treatment almost everywhere. A wonderful product in a world of bad gas. Seafoam. Johnny.

[John Hight]

Thanks, Kenny. Let me give you Ted Roosevelt's resume, so I don't want to shortchange him. Ted Roosevelt the 4th is a veteran investment banker currently serving as a managing director and chairman of the Clean Tech Initiative at Barclays in New York. Former Navy seal, he focuses on holding leadership roles including board chair at the center for Climate and Energy Solutions and Secretary of the Climate React Reality Project.

[Chris Reavers]

So that's what I stand corrected.

[Joe Soucheray]

Precious. You know, ain't no seals, Precious.

[Kenny Olson]

In all cases, this happens with me across the board. You can be going on like you just were, John and in my head I'm going blah blah blah, who cares? And then you say Navy Seal and I'm like 10.

[Chris Reavers]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

Now I have respect.

[John Hight]

In national and international news, new forensic testing shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was was likely killed with APA batadine, a powerful neurotoxin found in South American poison dart frogs that according to five European governments. The UK France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said that independent lab analysis detected the rare toxin in preserved tissue samples from Navalny's body. They argue there's no credible natural explanation for its presence and have reported the findings to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons as a potential violation of international law.

[Joe Soucheray]

Those bastards got him with frog juice.

[John Hight]

Frog juice Scientists note epibodyne is not known to occur naturally in Russia, although lab synthesis is possible. Even tiny amounts disrupt the nervous system, causing paralysis, respiratory failure and finally, death. Navalny died Feb. 16, 2024, while serving a lengthy prison sentence in a remote Arctic penal colony, Russia. Russia denies any involvement, saying he died from natural causes. President Trump by poison President Trump said yesterday members of his newly created Board of peace have pledged $5 billion toward Gaza reconstruction efforts will commit thousands to personnel to maintain security and peace in the territory. The president plans to host the board's inaugural meeting this week Thursday at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington, where he said in his Sunday.

[Chris Reavers]

Truth social poster place existed the pledge.

[John Hight]

Will be formally announced. The president's post on Sunday did not specify which member nations were making the pledges or would contribute personnel. However, an Associated Press report says Indonesia's military expects up to 8,000 of its troops to be ready by the end of June for a potential deployment to Gaza as part of a humanitarian and peace mission. Over the weekend, the U.S. department of justice said it has released all of the files required by the Epstein Files Transparency act, but lawmakers argue the release is insufficient. A letter sent to members of the U.S. congress from U.S. attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy on Saturday said all documents held by the DOJ had been released. Millions of new files relating to the late sex offender Epstein were released by the DOJ earlier this month. At that time, the deputy attorney general said 3 million pages had not been released. In the latest letter, Bondi and Blanche wrote, in accordance with the requirements of the act and as described in various department submissions to the courts, the department has released all records, documents, communications and investive investigative materials in the possession of the department.

[Joe Soucheray]

I wonder if those files have reached the status of UFO files. You always hear that the government will not release UFO proof or evidence because they don't think the public could take it. Maybe it's the same with these. Maybe they're so horrific and so horrible that they think the American public couldn't take it.

[Chris Reavers]

I can see that.

[John Hight]

Following numerous splits from Hollywood mogul Casey Wasserman after his approach in the new batch of Jeffrey Epstein files, the executive says he's selling his talent agency that he founded and headed since 2002. Wasserman is the chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. He announced the sale in a staff memo. He said it had become a distraction at the agency because it bared his name. The 51 year old Wasserman has been adamant he never had a personal or business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. For the time being he says Mike Watts will assume day to day control of the business when sold. It is unclear what will happen he says to the agency's roughly 4,000 employees which Wasserman called the absolute best in the business. Among the acts. Leaving Wasserman after the release of the files with his interactions with Ghislaine Maxwell was Twin Cities band Hippocampus.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well wait a minute here.

[John Hight]

Yes.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

If this Wasserman fellow can demonstrate that he, he wasn't up to anything untoward.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Why does he stand his ground? Why should he be forced to lose his agency?

[John Hight]

He has had. I don't know if you've read these stories. I'll bet 20 different important clients leave in the last two weeks. Maybe he thinks with his name attached it'll lose money. Everybody's broke including him. That's my guess. I would think. I don't know. Yeah. He says all he did was trade some emails with Ghislaine Maxwell and they had nothing to do with sex or minors or anything like that.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. And let's, let's for the sake of argument saying that's absolutely true. Well can't he demonstrate that that's true? He could show you the emails.

[John Hight]

Well I think.

[Joe Soucheray]

Leave me alone people. I didn't do anything with this screwball.

[John Hight]

All I think the emails have been released, haven't they?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well whatever.

[John Hight]

Some that don't seem to indicate anything.

[Chris Reavers]

The Wasserman guy's not a local guy though. Correct?

[Joe Soucheray]

It's la Matt.

[Chris Reavers]

La La Hippo Campus is a local band.

[Joe Soucheray]

That's. But see Matt, booking agents and, and, and managers, they can have clients that live in you know, Dubai.

[Chris Reavers]

You don't have to be just Minnesota.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right.

[John Hight]

Right.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay. Isn't it fun watching Hollywood flee from Hollywood?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Did you see the latest in regards to. Remember last week, Joe, you were all up in arms finally, 20 years later about AI. Well, there's a video, an AI video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise throwing hands.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, I think I saw that.

[Kenny Olson]

And now all of Hollywood is upset because they fear that they will be replaced with AI.

[John Hight]

I would like to tip my cat to you. A cat. Cat. My cap to you, Ms. Mr. Sushere, because you probably saw on Saturday's Wall Street Journal the entire column by Schumer, the. No, the former writer for Ronald Reagan speeches. The female. The heck's her name?

[Joe Soucheray]

Barry Weiss.

[John Hight]

No, the female for Ronald Reagan. Help me out here. She has a column every Saturday to look it up. She broke down the exact same. Broke down the same article that you broke down.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

In essentially the same exact terms.

[Joe Soucheray]

Right.

[John Hight]

That you did.

[Joe Soucheray]

Thank you.

[John Hight]

I looked at it.

[Joe Soucheray]

I swear to God. People listen to this show. They just don't tell us.

[Chris Reavers]

Did she go on to say WD40 should be a cologne or.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, that was Adam Carolly.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, sorry.

[John Hight]

We have moved a long way in a short period of time. Remember when Bill Clinton had to lie about inhaling weed?

[Joe Soucheray]

Yes.

[John Hight]

Ruin his political life. Yes. Well, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's admission that he snorted cocaine off toilet seats amid his struggle.

[Chris Reavers]

With drug have a better play than.

[John Hight]

That has led to detractors including a prominent health care advocacy group calling for his resignation. Protect Our Care, a nonprofit advocating for better and more affordable health care, issued a statement after Kennedy's confession on comedian Theo Von's podcast which aired on February 12. He said with his past statement today that I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats. That's what Kennedy said. Devon Critics have lambasted the health secretary over myriad issues ranging from vaccines to fluoride and drinking water to new dietary guidelines. USA Today reached out to HHS for comment.

[Chris Reavers]

I think you have to have a better story like the. The cop on Reno 91 1. The way she wanted to to ingest her cocaine after winning the lottery had to do with the evidence room and one of her fellow employees.

[John Hight]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. A death this morning in Hollywood, one of I think personal opinion. Our best actors. Robert Duvall has died.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, boy.

[John Hight]

Duvall, Oscar winning actor whose career across seven decades included memorable roles in Tender Mercies, the Godfather, Apocalypse now and many more. Moore has died. He was 95 years old. His death confirmed by his wife. He was known for his ability to play a wide array of characters from Tough guys to those dealing with personal trauma. Devall's feature film debut playing the reclusive Boo radley in the 1962 classic To Kill a Mockingbird. He was a seven time Academy Award nominee winning only for his leading role in Tender Mercies in 1984. He played a washed up country music singer who finds himself falling in love with a widow who runs a local hotel, wakes up in one day and must eventually decide whether to keep his new life or go back to his career. He also won an Emmy in 2007 for outstanding lead Actor in a miniseries as Prentice Ritter in Broken Trail. Other roles Duvall was known for with the title character in George Lucas's dystopian sci fi tale thx 1138. Major Frank Burns in Robert Altman's film MASH. Ned Pepper 1969's True Grace It. He also played in 1997's The Apostle and as the crew chief Harry Hogue in the NASCAR inspired days of thunder, 1990. Deval also had several credits as a producer and director and lent his singing voice to several soundtracks including Tender Mercies, the Apostle and Crazy Heart.

[Chris Reavers]

He was really good in Tender Mercies. I do remember that movie.

[Joe Soucheray]

Did he go back to his career or stay with the Gal? I didn't see it.

[John Hight]

I saw it, but it's been so long, I don't remember.

[Kenny Olson]

It was so good that when you watched him in a role, you completely forgot about the last role he played. I mean, just compare Apocalypse now to the Godfather, how vastly different those roles were.

[John Hight]

Yeah, and if like Tender Mercies were brought up, if you saw that and then saw him, if you saw the Great Santini where he played the dad.

[Joe Soucheray]

I did see the Great Santini.

[John Hight]

The two just, I mean they couldn't be any different.

[Kenny Olson]

Just an absolute master.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, I guess that's why they call it acting.

[John Hight]

Thanks, Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

That scene on the beach in Apocalypse now, right, where he gives that napalm speech.

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

My favorite part of that is he kind of trails off in the, at the end of that and he goes, someday this war is going to end. And he makes any sort of sounds sad about it because he's, he's having such a good time.

[Chris Reavers]

His dad was a rear admiral in the Navy and his mother was related to General Robert E. Lee.

[Joe Soucheray]

I'll be damned.

[Chris Reavers]

Yep, he was a Republican.

[John Hight]

A highly decorated World War II hero. Celebrated a rare milestone about a week ago was Sunday. Yesterday, a week from yesterday when he turned 101 years old. Master Sergeant Edwin Ed Ted Beck from Colorado Springs. Served with the 106th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. He was captured by German forces and survived six months of brutal treatment as a POW in a labor camp. He made a daring escape during a work detail, found his way back to the American lines. That seems like enough, right? But, well, that's not all as far as his service goes. After World War II, he fought in Korea. After Korea, he fought in Vietnam. In total, he served 30 years in the US Army. Today, at the age of 101, he remains active in the community, shares his story to raise awareness for PTSD and suicide prevention amongst veterans. Friends and family gathered at the American Legion post in Fountain, Colorado, on his birthday last Sunday for a special birthday celebration where he blew out candles and showed off his medals. He said, I never thought I'm gonna be this old. I figured if I get to about 90 or something like that, I'll be going. But the good Lord up there is keeping me alive for something.

[Joe Soucheray]

Also, Robin Wansley and Asia Chugtag it be city council members try to reinvent the city.

[Kenny Olson]

He fought for that, right?

[John Hight]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

John, before you continue, may I just go back to Robert Duvall quickly?

[Joe Soucheray]

Sure.

[Chris Reavers]

And give the mayor a tidbit of information? While he was training as an actor, he worked in Manhattan as a post office clerk.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, I really like him now.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

No mail today?

[Chris Reavers]

No, no, he'd be off today. Yeah, well, he is, I guess.

[John Hight]

I tried to go read my Wall Street Journal today, Joe. That was a mistake.

[Joe Soucheray]

Didn't arrive.

[John Hight]

There was none. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

You guys try to be a traffic reporter on a day like today?

[Chris Reavers]

Well, what do you do, Ken?

[Kenny Olson]

It was just nothing but good news. It made a me sick to my stomach.

[John Hight]

Route 66 turns 100 this year. Stretches almost 2500 miles, spans eight states beginning in Chicago, ending in Santa Monica. Established in 1926 as a way to connect isolated rural communities, Route 66 captures a nostalgic era of Americana. One filled with neon signs, diners, and classic cars. As the country celebrates its own birthday this year, 250th, a lot of travelers are interested in taking their own Route 66 road trip. With interest in the famous highway and TripAdvisor surging by 20% year over year, according to the travel platform, road trippers can make pit stops at historic sites and quirky landmarks, like the 66 foot tall soda bottle at Pop 66 Soda Ranch in Arcadia, Oklahoma.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what's better than that?

[Joe Soucheray]

What?

[Kenny Olson]

Just get on any state highway and follow it from one side of the state to the other. An actual small, you know, state highway that goes through all the small towns. That is a wonderful drive.

[John Hight]

Is, is it a sign of aging that in the last couple years I like in summer just to hop in the car, me and my wife and we'll go drive in the country anywhere we don't get care.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, I don't think it is. I think it's a sign of that wanderlust.

[Kenny Olson]

That's kind of a country thing to do. But we bring refreshments and firearms and.

[Joe Soucheray]

It was a common thing in America for people. We've talked about this before, to go.

[Chris Reavers]

For a ride, especially on a Sunday.

[Joe Soucheray]

Sunday.

[Chris Reavers]

Can we go for a drive?

[Joe Soucheray]

Let's go for a ride.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

People would just drive around.

[Kenny Olson]

We still do it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, well, you do. Yeah, we do. We don't. In the sustainable urban core, we frown on that.

[Kenny Olson]

You know why, Joe? You don't like to have fun.

[Joe Soucheray]

Can I. We don't need to take a break, do we? Or do we? Just tell me.

[Kenny Olson]

I would, I would like to stand up and stretch my legs.

[Joe Soucheray]

All right. I gotta tell you something. I've been sitting on this. Oh, no. We'll take a break when I'm done with this. Let me find it.

[Chris Reavers]

I've been sitting on my ass too.

[Joe Soucheray]

Today, the last week, I think Trump did a great thing. The EPA at long last repealed Barack Obama's so called endangerment finding that declared greenhouse gas emissions a threat to public health and society, safety. Let me, let me stop right there. I've heard the typical response from mysterians and euphorians. We're all going to die. That this is terrible. And, and I've, I've heard it very, in close proximity. I've heard that. And I said, don't worry about it. The car you buy six months from now is going to be no different. It's all, it's, it's bs. But here, here's what people have to remember about this. This is from the Wall Street Journal Friday. It was the lead editorial and I really appreciated what it did. Progressives recognize the importance of Thursday's news. A New York Times headline says, Trump allies near total victory in wiping out US climate regulation. And the Journal notes, well, that could be true if the administration prevails against the inevitable legal challenge. But here's the key that you gotta remember. In 2007, a 5, 4 majority of the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts versus EPA that greenhouse gases qualify as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. Greenhouse gases, the law Requires the EPA under the. The law requires the EPA to regulate pollutants if it determines they can reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare. Thus arose the Obama endangerment finding, which established the legal basis for the EBA to. To EPA to regulate CO2, which wasn't mentioned in the Clean Air act because it's not a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is not. You breathe it, it's not a pollutant. Yet the mysterians managed to shove that into the Clean Air Act. So it stands to reason if it's in the Clean Air act, you'd have to regulate it. Well, that's like regulating the air that you breathe. No? So it was utter BS by the mysterians who don't want you to own a lawnmower, much less a car. So this, this. They were cheering this back in 2007, but it's all BS greenhouse gases are not toxic and do not affect air quality, unlike pollutants that the law expressly directs the EPA to regulate. That law hasn't been changed. It's the endangerment part of it that's been changed. The Obama endangerment finding claims that distinction doesn't matter. Well, it does, because CO2 contributes to rising temperatures, which could indirectly result in downstream harm such as more wildfire, storms and disease. B as in B S as in S. The weather's no different today than it was 100 years ago ago. So all. All that's. All that's been changed is you can't regulate carbon dioxide. I don't know how they would have anyway.

[Chris Reavers]

Well, they don't think about it.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's carbon monoxide that you got to worry about.

[John Hight]

Right?

[Kenny Olson]

If you're getting sleepy, maybe open a window.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, crack a window.

[Joe Soucheray]

Much of science. Much of the science in quote marks in the Obama finding is debatable. As the Trump team notes, the impact of greenhouse gases on global temperatures is intermediated by such factors as cloud cover and urbanization. And the effect on storms is disputed. Didn't we just have maybe the lightest hurricane season on record?

[Chris Reavers]

Yep.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah. In any event, curbing CO2 emissions in the US will have scant impact on climate because emissions are rapidly rising in China, India and developing countries. The real import of the finding was to give the Obama and Biden teams legal license to mandate electric cars and force fossil fuel power plants to shut down. Trump EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has moved to roll back the Biden regulatory overreaches. But as long as the endangerment finding is in effect, a future Democratic president could reimpose the Biden climate dictates and go even further, say by banning petroleum powered lawnmowers and gas space heaters or stoves for no reason. That the mystery does not like the way the United States works. And they're about. They're out to disturb the mystery, is out to destroy it. Biden played a minor theatrical role. Biden played a role. But the mystery is powerful. It wants to happen. And Trump said no, this is bs. Well, you know, if you throw enough stuff at the wall, if Trump throws enough out there, some of it sticks. Well, that did stick.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

There's more, though. I have more good news regarding that topic and it comes from the EPA itself last Thursday.

[Joe Soucheray]

They're unelected bureaucrats.

[Kenny Olson]

By the way, it's saving American taxpayers over 1.3 trillion.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yep.

[Kenny Olson]

Does everything you just mentioned. Plus it gets rid of the federal emission standards for all vehicles and engines from 212 to 227 and beyond. And it also eliminates all off cycle credits, including for the universally hated Start stop feature.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, that button. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

It restores consumer choice, makes more affordable vehicles available, decreases the cost of living on all products by lowering the cost of trucks. So it's a pretty big deal.

[Joe Soucheray]

It's a wonderful deal. And you're not going to die because the EPA finally got rid of the Endangerment act, which was to include non pollutants as a pollutant. They got away with that.

[Chris Reavers]

They snuck one out.

[Joe Soucheray]

They basically said air is a pollutant. So when you hear people say, oh no, our cars will be just spewing smoke. What do you think that Ford's going to go back and start putting in carburetors from 1948? No. Detroit was so far ahead of this curve anyway. Remember Minnesota abandoned its own emissions testing. Remember that we used to have to go and go into the needle, into the stall and a guy stick a stethoscope under your car and pretend he was trying to look for something and then you got to drive away. We don't even have to do that anymore because the cars are cleaner than they've ever been and they will continue to be. And the electric cars, which are fine, if that's your cup of tea, they were forced on the American public. They were not there as a result of market demand. They were forced on the American public. Some people love them, some others don't want to own them.

[Chris Reavers]

So it's go ahead, Matthew, if they ever bring back the emissions buildings or that program, I will say that a nice little can of seafoam as you glide up into that bay is going.

[Kenny Olson]

To get you right through a nice cheat. But this was, this has been a long time deal with the Democrats trying to legislate public behavior.

[John Hight]

Behavior.

[Kenny Olson]

And Obama did a lot of this across the board for all sorts of different things.

[Joe Soucheray]

If I have to say it again for your benefit, I'll say it.

[Kenny Olson]

Please do.

[Joe Soucheray]

Obama is not my guy ideologically. Thank you. But I've said it 15 times.

[Kenny Olson]

Well, I want to hear it 15 more times.

[Joe Soucheray]

And all you said is you only get fun. Well.

[Kenny Olson]

Can I stand up now, please?

[Joe Soucheray]

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[Chris Reavers]

If you didn't hear, there he is.

[Joe Soucheray]

What are we doing?

[Kenny Olson]

It's the end of the world as.

[Joe Soucheray]

We know it and he feels fine. Joe sushere going back to the newsroom.

[John Hight]

I just wanted to tell you guys and listeners because I find this fascinating. I found it by accident this morning. There's a new substance called inpursuit.org and every week they're going to put an essay about a president on that sub stack. Today the first one is out and it's on George Washington. They're going to go in order and it's written by George W. Bush.

[Joe Soucheray]

Really?

[John Hight]

And it's there. All the essays are supposed to be between 12 and 1300 words and they have historians and other, other politicians doing some of these. They have the list there for the entire year. But they're only going to put them out on Mondays. So today they also have some first ladies included. So today was George Washington by George W. And a thing on Martha Washington by Karen Wolf. And it looks fascinating. So I just thought people might be interested. It's in Pursuit.org backslash schedule.

[Kenny Olson]

Do I have to pay? I'm looking.

[Joe Soucheray]

No, no. Now.

[John Hight]

No.

[Kenny Olson]

Don't see 1.

[John Hight]

In Pursuit in Pursuit.org backslash schedule then just click on the President.

[Joe Soucheray]

Along those lines I would like to discover. I'm sure it exists. I just haven't pursued it. I would love to discover a shipwreck finding website. I was inspired by the story today of the steamship just discovered in Lake Michigan off Milwaukee that's been being looked for for about 70 years and a guy found it. And apparently this shipwreck locators are engaged in a highly competitive field. They don't tell each other their clues and when they get a clue they don't share it. They follow up on it and see if it pans out. And, and it just strikes me it would be. I would, I think I would love to be a crew member on a boat that's looking for Rex.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah, that would be, that would, that would be frustrating.

[Joe Soucheray]

But cool.

[Chris Reavers]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

Looks like you're going to have a lot of fun here. I'm seeing rec site.com.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yep.

[Kenny Olson]

Shipwreck world.com that's the one. I'm on shipwrecks.com the NOAA office of, of shipwrecks.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. I'm not interested in ocean wrecks so much as Great Lakes wrecks.

[Chris Reavers]

Why.

[Joe Soucheray]

So I think I'll narrow my shirt just because it's. I don't know, I just, I'm so intrigued by the Great Lakes. I love them.

[Kenny Olson]

You could go to the Minnesota Historical Society. They have something on Great Lakes or Lake Superior.

[Joe Soucheray]

Anyway, as many as 20,000 boats have gone down in the Great Lakes. That's a national. And really. And most of them have not been found. Oh wow. Not to mention the Northwest Airlines passenger plane in Lake Michigan that went down in, in about 52 or 53 that's yet to be found.

[John Hight]

The shipwreckworld.com that Kenny mentioned. As soon as you open it, it goes to the one that you were already talking about that was in today's paper.

[Joe Soucheray]

What was the name of that one?

[John Hight]

John Elgin, Illinois pioneer. Illinois shipwreck.

[Joe Soucheray]

La La Belle.

[John Hight]

No, Lac Lac Labelle.

[Joe Soucheray]

Lac Labelle. Which means Lake. Lake Labelle. And it was a, a high end one. It was for the people that had a few bucks and they, it was built in 1860. I think it went down much later than that.

[John Hight]

72.

[Joe Soucheray]

1872. It set off in a gale from Milwaukee to Michigan and didn't make. Make it.

[Kenny Olson]

There's a guy I follow on Facebook, you may have heard of him. David Fryberger, who is a part of Roadkill Garage and Whatnot on Motor Trend. He's also into history and shipwrecks and he yesterday published a photo on his Facebook of a tractor strapped to the deck of the USS Hornet at the bottom of the South Pacific. Again, that's not. Yeah, but the Hornet was the actual carrier that delivered B25s. Close enough for Doolittle's raid in Tokyo.

[John Hight]

Cool.

[Joe Soucheray]

What. Can you imagine the stuff you'd find if you could drain the oceans?

[Chris Reavers]

I wouldn't want to drain the oceans because you. What would you.

[Joe Soucheray]

Maybe somebody's watch something like that?

[John Hight]

There's a lot of cool stuff on the Internet.

[Joe Soucheray]

It really is.

[Chris Reavers]

I lost some flip flops once in White Bear Lake.

[Joe Soucheray]

They'll. They'll probably show up.

[Kenny Olson]

I watched my grandpa accidentally throw his fishing rod into a lake.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Whoops.

[Joe Soucheray]

Probably. We've got a.

[Kenny Olson]

We've got a pond near our town called the Brickyard Pond where there used to be a brick factory.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

And there was always talk that there was a steam engine down there. And Joe, our buddy Jewel strapped on the gear and went down there and all he found was leeches.

[Joe Soucheray]

Really?

[Kenny Olson]

So she.

[John Hight]

Well didn't.

[Joe Soucheray]

Didn't the lake detector find a locomotive?

[Chris Reavers]

Locomotive, yes.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah, he found a locomotive. Yep. Only because they come to us. Where are we? He doesn't say where are we?

[Chris Reavers]

And those of you that are on Crystal Lake in Burnsville, if you dig.

[Joe Soucheray]

Oh, we're still in.

[Chris Reavers]

Into the muck.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[Chris Reavers]

You will find a high end drone that was attacked by an eagle years ago.

[Joe Soucheray]

We're still in penguin Tasmania. And Tom Lyman notes. Kenny asked, does anyone's wife make pizza? Yes. Jessica makes homemade pizza by hand several times a year. She makes everything from scratch. Not processed the crust, every ingredient, hand grated cheese, etc.

[Kenny Olson]

I think we should have a cook off.

[Joe Soucheray]

I think that she should bring us a homemade pizza when we have them in as guests, when they're back in May.

[Kenny Olson]

I think I will be in the office on the day that happens.

[Chris Reavers]

You'll be over Covid.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Soucheray]

Okay. It was a lot better. It was on this day, February 16, 1855. Faribault was platted trader Alexander Faribault, son of Jean Baptiste and Pelagi. Faribault had settled there in 1826, on this day, its name. On this day, February 16th, the Minnesota State Agricultural Society was incorporated, replacing the territorial society that had previously existed. I think the State Agricultural Society are the people behind the curtains of the state fair.

[Chris Reavers]

They are indeed.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day, even though you're here.

[Chris Reavers]

February 16th, somebody gets a check.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day in 1864. It's one of my favorites in this day in history. I remember this from this day.

[John Hight]

What is this?

[Joe Soucheray]

The Waseca county horse thief detectives were organized in Wilton, one of several such. Settler, colonist groups continued to hold social meetings after 1880. And when horse thieving became a thing of the past, it focused its energies on tracing stolen cars.

[Chris Reavers]

That's pretty cool.

[Joe Soucheray]

You know, the Metro needs the horse thief detectives. Only they're going after cars.

[Chris Reavers]

Bring them back.

[Kenny Olson]

We had the same. Same discussion a year ago.

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, yeah, because this is this day in history. It was. It happened last year, too. On this day.

[Kenny Olson]

This very day.

[Joe Soucheray]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

Wouldn't it have been on a Sunday last year, though?

[Joe Soucheray]

Well, this very day being. Meaning the 16th of February.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[John Hight]

Wouldn't that have been a Sunday last year?

[Joe Soucheray]

John. John. John. That's rookie like. John, John.

[John Hight]

Get out of my fancy, isn't it?

[Chris Reavers]

John, John, John, John, John.

[Joe Soucheray]

On this day in Minnesota, sports disapp. February 16th. Well, a bad sign. It was on this day in 1993 that Norm Green. Green visited Dallas. That probably set the table.

[Chris Reavers]

That was the first of many.

[Joe Soucheray]

See you later, huh? Yeah. Thank you, gl.

[Chris Reavers]

Damn it.

[Joe Soucheray]

Anyway.

[Kenny Olson]

Are you issuing a Olympics spoiler alert?

[Joe Soucheray]

No, because I don't believe in those. I believe telling the public anything.

[Chris Reavers]

This is prime time. Preview.

[Joe Soucheray]

Who won? Where can he go? Where did.

[John Hight]

Who won?

[Joe Soucheray]

I don't know.

[Chris Reavers]

He's frozen.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm right here.

[Chris Reavers]

Oh, I can't see. All I can see is the other thing.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm not saying anything because I don't.

[Joe Soucheray]

Want Maria mad at me. That's true. Well, I don't care if Maria gets mad.

[Kenny Olson]

Maria can plug her ears about people, Joe. I like having fun.

[Chris Reavers]

Thank you, Joe.

[Joe Soucheray]

Pat's trying to say something.

[Chris Reavers]

All sorts of results.

[Joe Soucheray]

I can't hear what he's saying. Yeah, the Games are on during the day, if you're that interested.

[John Hight]

Watch him.

[Joe Soucheray]

Stop watching and ask him.

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