Reusse in for The Mayor today on GL!!

Summary

GARAGE LOGIC
EPISODE: “Reusse in for The Mayor today on GL!!”
DATE: June 22, 2026

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Episode Overview

On this episode of Garage Logic, guest host Patrick “Ricey” Reusse takes the reins for Joe Soucheray (“The Mayor”), alongside the regular Garage Logic crew: Chris Reavers, Kenny Olson, John Heidt, Pat, and financial contributor Josh Arnold. The show features the usual blend of local Minnesota color, irreverent commentary, and amusing digressions, this time with Reusse's seasoned storytelling replacing Soucheray's common-sense mayoral presence. The hosts touch on everything from passwords in the digital age and Minnesota’s new state flag to rock and roll legends, rural up-north resort life, modern tipping culture, and small-town curiosities. The episode is full of playful banter, generational perspective, and the cranky wisdom that defines Garage Logic.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Stepping in for “The Mayor” — Reusse’s Hosting Return

• Reusse discusses previous times he filled in and the comedic fallout, referencing an incident when he ribbed Rush Limbaugh (“The last time you filled in we were told that you were never to fill in again no matter what.” — Kenny, 03:12).
• The hosts reminisce about classic local sports radio moments, especially involving Dark Star, and joke about underappreciated radio bits (04:01–05:16).

2. On Rumors, Political Restraint, and the Internet

• Reusse reacts to a Star Tribune piece regarding left-wing responses to unfounded rumors:
  • “You know what you should do? Shut up and don’t say anything, you morons... you’re going to end up debating these people. Just don’t worry about it.” (05:18)
• General skepticism about online discourse and the rise of misinformation; Kenny claims “the Internet is 99% wrong about everything” (06:09).

3. Technology Generations: Passwords and Tech Anxiety

• The hosts riff on the generational divide in managing passwords and digital subscriptions:
  • Reusse pulls out his infamous “yellow piece of paper” password list: “If it’s written in red, that means it’s about 15 years old.” (07:42)
  • Kenny laments sites making you change passwords frequently, and Johnny confesses he keeps an address book with all his passwords (08:15–11:27).
• They mourn the elimination of traditional newsroom librarians, reflecting on workplace change (10:45–11:17).
• The conversation shifts to cash and online spending: “Handing somebody a dollar bill for something is far more reactionary for the human brain.” (09:14–09:33)

4. Minnesota State Flag & U of M Slogan Scorn

• Ongoing flag debate: Reusse and the team mock the Minnesota state flag redesign and note their indifference:
  • “I have not seen the Minnesota state flag 65 times in those 65 years.” (13:16)
  • “I have no idea what the new one looks like, but I’m sure it’s stupid.” (13:32)
• The University of Minnesota’s “Leave a Future” rebranding fiasco draws ridicule:
  • “You could have had two gin and tonics and come up with it.” (14:09)
  • “We spend $15 million for ‘Leave a Future’—unbelievable.” (14:36)
• Quick transition to global politics, with a tongue-in-cheek take on US–Iran negotiations and Trump’s rhetoric: “‘Did he say they were going to die like dogs?’ That’s my favorite.” (15:16–16:10)

5. Resort Life, Up North Stories, and Changing Minnesota Traditions

• The crew laments the demise of traditional resorts and the shift to cabin ownership:
  • “There is no bigger punishment in the world running a resort. God hates you if you run a resort.” — Kenny (41:51)
• Reusse shares a fishing story involving a gull, beer, and bad decisions (29:34–31:04), sparking laughs about classic Minnesota up-north lore.
• They discuss moose swimming (“Moose can swim — you wouldn't think so,” 31:49) and deer drives of the past, broaching changes in hunting culture.

6. Tipping Culture, Stadium Jobs & Gripes

• Discussion of Target Field concession workers’ strike and the nature of ballpark jobs:
  • “You don’t get health care for selling wieners at the ballpark. I’m sorry, okay.” — Reusse (45:41)
• Widespread frustration with digital point-of-sale tipping prompts sharing of personal workarounds and anecdotes: “I always say no tip [on the machine] and then give them a handful of cash” (48:48).
• Asides about the decline of cash transactions and loss of personal interaction in service jobs.

7. Music Industry Legends Remembered

• Tribute to Clive Davis (noted as Clive Rush mistakenly), memorializing his influence on acts from Whitney Houston and Santana to Lady Gaga (24:44–26:45).
• Conversation on taste: Reusse confesses to mixing up pop divas (“Pink's the one I like, not Gaga. I like Pink. I’d run away with Pink.”, 26:55).

8. Town Curiosities & Statues: The Nutcracker and Wood Ducks

• The hosts dive into the new 65-foot-tall nutcracker in Luverne, MN:
  • How small towns seek landmarks (“La Verne already has more nutcrackers than people...”)
  • Banter about the logic of a functioning jaw (“Supporters say the nutcracker needs to have a working jaw so that shorter and therefore lesser statues don’t steal Laverne’s thunder.”, 62:59)
• Reusse’s hometown Fulda is “home of the wood duck,” despite no one seeing one (“I don’t know who started the Wood Duck Festival, but they must have seen one out there on a lake one day and nobody’s ever seen one.”, 65:37).

9. Automobiles & Modern Woes

• Reusse seeks help decoding a mystery dashboard light (“It’s green and it’s sideways... when I get up to about 70, it’s this thing...” 74:17), leading Kenny to reveal it’s the collision alert system (75:39).
• More storytelling about troubleshooting elderly Buicks and comedic advice on just trading the car in (“Maybe it might be cheaper to just trade it in.”, 77:04).

10. Family, Sports, and “Game of Flaws”

• Reusse recounts his grandson’s Little League struggles, reflecting on parenting and expectations:
  • “Tell him to focus on love and fun of baseball.” — Reusse’s wife, channeling modern positivity (82:40).
  • Reusse: “A kid, a 15 year old kid who doesn’t know to tag the bait. That’s what’s wrong with America.” (83:36)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The Internet is 99% wrong about everything.” — Kenny Olson (06:09)
• “If it’s written in red, that means it’s about 15 years old.” — Ricey (07:42, on passwords)
• “I’m the last one in the world, and I just want... I don’t want the mugger to be unhappy, you know, if I get hit over the head.” — Ricey (09:33)
• “I have no idea what the new [Minnesota state flag] looks like, but I’m sure it’s stupid.” — Ricey (13:32)
• “You could have had two gin and tonics and come up with it.” — Ricey (14:09, on U of M's “Leave a Future” slogan)
• “There is no bigger punishment in the world than running a resort. God hates you if you run a resort.” — Kenny Olson (41:51)
• “You don’t get health care for selling wieners at the ballpark. I’m sorry, OK.” — Ricey (45:41)
• “I like Pink. I’d run away with Pink.” — Ricey (26:55)
• “A kid, a 15 year old kid who doesn’t know to tag the bait. That’s what’s wrong with America.” — Ricey (83:36)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:12: Reusse’s history filling in for “The Mayor” and legendary radio bits.
• 05:18: Advice about online rumors and the folly of engaging with conspiracy theorists.
• 07:35–12:06: Password anxiety, generational divides, and newsroom changes.
• 13:16–14:36: State flag indifference and U of M rebranding mess.
• 22:33–24:40: The saga of the Krabby Coffee Shop and its conceptual origins.
• 24:44–26:45: Tribute to Clive Davis and his musical legacy.
• 41:51: Kenny Olson’s rant on the realities of running a resort.
• 45:41–46:40: The Target Field concession worker strike and the economics of stadium jobs.
• 62:59: La Verne’s 65-foot nutcracker, local statuary pride.
• 74:17–77:23: Ricey’s car trouble and the reality of modern auto warnings.
• 82:40–84:06: “Game of Flaws” — Little League struggles and the generational approach to sports.

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Tone, Style, and Atmosphere

The episode maintains Garage Logic’s trademark conversational, Midwestern, and slightly cranky tone. Reusse’s sardonic wit and deep local knowledge resonate throughout, punctuated by cheerful teasing among the regulars. The banter is dotted with affectionate ribbing, practical wisdom, and skepticism towards contemporary trends, all delivered with warmth and Minnesota flavor.

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This summary captures the spirit, highlights, and memorable moments of the episode—making it easy for any Garage Logic fan or new listener to dive right in.

Transcript

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[Johnny Hight]

Back in 1911, Chris, we hit 98 degrees. That's our high. And the low for this date, June 22nd is 1960. At some point in the morning, as Joe likes to say, it hit 42 degrees.

[Chris Reavers]

Hail the flashlight King.

[Kenny Olson]

And now from the mayor's office above

[Chris Reavers]

the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Logic with Chris

[Ricey Such]

Reavers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the Krabby Coffee shop, John Hight in the newsroom and of course the rookie here is your Flashlight King fireworks commissioner

[Chris Reavers]

and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Sushere.

[Ricey Such]

Well, it is not suture, it is long time sports talk partner Ricey Such is out for a couple of days. Feeling a little under the weather, but he will be fine.

[Chris Reavers]

So when's the last time you feel that on gl?

[Ricey Such]

There was. What was the time I came on and said, well what did I say?

[Pat]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

It had to do with a certain syndicated radio show.

[Ricey Such]

Guys, Rush. Yeah, I took a shot at Rush. That's a hell of a bit you got. Well, no, that was on a Saturday sports talk when he was in the studio. When I congratulated they Rush on the great bit that he had rushed it as no bit, you know, but this

[Pat]

one was one where the listeners of AM 1500 at the flagship didn't have quite the sense of humor that you had anticipated the shot.

[Ricey Such]

They didn't. So anyway, we'll, we'll be. We'll avoid politics. Now let me start off with this before I forget it. White people might as well get white people, you dead mangled puppies. Trent, Tucker, can we get. I got Tucker's phone. Can we get Tucker. We called Tucker and say his first question from Dark Star. White people, your thoughts go. Yeah. All right. Of course, that wasn't his best. The best was when Eric Nelson came in from. Came in from the Twins game and out of the goodness of his heart brought Darkey some tapes of the game post game from the Metrodome. And Dark said, Eric, can you hang around a little while? And Eric said, yeah, I can. And Dark got up and left. Eric, do the last hour of the show. So yeah, we could do that. God almighty. I think it's. Was it just 10 years? Was it that they just. We went by 10 years without that goofy basket?

[Kenny Olson]

Has it been that long already?

[Johnny Hight]

Wow.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Pat]

Mama likes it hot. No, no, that's not it.

[Kenny Olson]

No.

[Pat]

Retired dad.

[Ricey Such]

I gotta show you how I keep my passwords. As opposed to the youth of America. Yeah, we see that. We got a little yellow piece of paper and if it's written in red, that means it's about 15 years old. If it's written, you know, down, scratched in between the red and it's probably 12 years old, then here's the other side. Then some of them have been eliminated. So how do you think Gabe keeps his passwords?

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

For us growing up, password was a television game show. It was a game show, not a.

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

No, I just say a nice car, man.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

So you don't even have one?

[Ricey Such]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

with all my passwords. Yeah, way to go.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Josh Arnold]

Ding, ding.

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Ricey Such]

Oh, no, I'm not doing that.

[Pat]

My way of dealing with passwords is not writing them down and not remembering and just constantly getting locked out and saying, I don't know what the Password is here. I gotta wait 20min minutes.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

now

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

He's on horseback, yeah.

[Ricey Such]

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

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[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

It was just a flag. You walked right by.

[Ricey Such]

I don't care about now. I suppose they march it out at the opening day. So I've seen it, you know. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

And city buildings and county buildings.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

That's all that needs to be said.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

[Ricey Such]

They could have picked up the bar.

[Chris Reavers]

Throw up a phrase you would like

[Johnny Hight]

to do under you leave a future.

[Ricey Such]

Leave a future. That was it.

[Pat]

How do you leave a future?

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

That run us.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

They got rid of the new slogan.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

It's funny you say that. For 15 mil, how many new assistant coaches could we hire for flex coaching staff?

[Ricey Such]

Oh, about two. Because he's taken all of it. But anyway, it's. That was a. That was, you know, then we left these. Wonder why people are mad at us when we spend $15 million for leave a future, right? Unbelievable. Unbelievable. By the way, one more thing.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Pat]

Yes.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

That's my favorite one. I know you well.

[Kenny Olson]

Like dirty dogs.

[Ricey Such]

I just, you know, I mean, I. I think that just.

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

I'm not sure about that, John Lennon.

[Ricey Such]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Ricey Such]

Oh, I know that. Hey, Kenny.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah?

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

I do have a question about the Krabby Coffee Shop.

[Ricey Such]

I gotta ask you first. Let me say this I gotta run this bike. Kenny, we, we all root for the mayor. We love the mayor. The mayor's had a great impact on our lives. But him trying to steal the krabby coffee shop, was that about as much underhanded a thing as you've ever dealt with?

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

That's right. Right.

[Josh Arnold]

Milk.

[Ricey Such]

Get your own milk, you know?

[Pat]

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

[Ricey Such]

Very rough. 3m sandpaper.

[Kenny Olson]

68 in the public restrooms.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

That'll be the.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

I don't think.

[Ricey Such]

Hey, Roseanne was a guest on our show, so we got along with her. Great. So she probably give us permission. Yes. Hey, John. Yes. The most unlikely looking rock and roll giant, Clive Rush died today.

[Johnny Hight]

Clive Davis. Yes, I saw that.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

Everybody.

[Ricey Such]

Guys.

[Kenny Olson]

Everybody, yeah. It's so crazy.

[Johnny Hight]

He got everybody to Columbia Records when he was associated with them. I actually put a story in here somewhere about him. But. Well, he. In the 80s, which was well past his prime, even though he was still in his prime, he had all the female singers, Whitney Houston, basically. He, he discovered and made her everything she was Jennifer Hudson, or before that she had big brother in the. Or he had big brother in the holding company. Carlos Santana, Springsteen took them all to Columbia along with dozens others, literally. Also, there's a great documentary about him if you've ever seen it. He would have a big box of cassettes that artists would send him to see if they could get signed. He'd listen to him for 30 seconds ago. Not a hit.

[Josh Arnold]

Not a hit.

[Johnny Hight]

Take it out. Hit and save it.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Johnny Hight]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ricey Such]

I mean, what was he, about 94. 94.

[Johnny Hight]

Enormous.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah. I'll take that.

[Kenny Olson]

Didn't his influence continued through the 90s and into the 2000s?

[Ricey Such]

Yes.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

He started his own starting. Did he always stay in Columbia or. He couldn't go stay. They didn't remain what they were.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

Maybe I am. Pink's the one I like, not Gaga. I like Pink. I'd run away.

[Pat]

Pink's got an edge. Pink's got an edge.

[Ricey Such]

I'd run away with Pink. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

She'd tear you in half. She's all muscle.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Josh Arnold]

And so.

[Johnny Hight]

That was 67, John.

[Kenny Olson]

Didn't he have a reputation for making these artists money, too? As opposed to some of his contemporaries?

[Ricey Such]

Yeah. Stole it.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Hey.

[Ricey Such]

What. When did we kill people in Monterey? Did we have a shooting there when we went?

[Johnny Hight]

No. That was ultimate. You're thinking of Ultima.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

He's a sucker for punishment.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, but they went out on the island.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

They're all over.

[Ricey Such]

Felt like Tippy Hedren there. Neither of us had a knife to cut the line. Oh my God, you know. Yeah, we were.

[Chris Reavers]

They remembered 48 beers, but they forgot a knife.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

Yes, it's. We were 2 1/2 days up there.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Ricey Such]

Moose, man, you wouldn't think so. Don't you think when you're a kid, Moose, you gotta say, mom and I'm

[Chris Reavers]

not a strong swimmer.

[Johnny Hight]

Yes.

[Ricey Such]

Mom's trying to get you in the water. You gotta say, are you sure about this, Bob? Wow. Orlando, do you remember when you were. I've got a strong swimmer.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Josh Arnold]

Wow.

[Johnny Hight]

Yeah.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

Yep.

[Ricey Such]

The whole down on the prairie.

[Kenny Olson]

Yep, yep, yep.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, yeah. Well, it's up for debate. I, I don't care because I'm in the rifle zone, so I'm happy. But in the whatever what river Royce is referring to, the shotgun zone was everything south of I94 down to Iowa and then everything north of 94 was the rifle zone.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

They have a whistling sound when they, when they. Towards the end of their run, I guess say. And they start twirling and it makes a woo woo woo woo woo woo sound.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

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[Ricey Such]

Bucket list done.

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[Ricey Such]

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[Kenny Olson]

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

[Chris Reavers]

I got three.

[Johnny Hight]

Why?

[Ricey Such]

I don't know.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Pat]

It's a stone's Throw from Rose Dale.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, Rosedale, Roseville. You get the pick.

[Josh Arnold]

Picture.

[Chris Reavers]

Here's Johnny Height in the newsroom.

[Kenny Olson]

Here's Johnny Height in the newsroom at.

[Johnny Hight]

Again, I'm confused.

[Pat]

City of Rose.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

Amen to that. Let's go.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm available.

[Johnny Hight]

Just like the regular host, huh?

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Josh Arnold]

Right.

[Pat]

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

[Ricey Such]

My kids don't come back.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Pat]

Or in the middle of an ad.

[Johnny Hight]

Yeah, that too.

[Pat]

He's messing around.

[Johnny Hight]

Kenny, you brought up something earlier. I have a question. The resort. The. No, the resort thing. You know, being sold and stuff.

[Kenny Olson]

Stuff.

[Johnny Hight]

The resort that we used to go to, they sold last year and split up the cabins.

[Kenny Olson]

Stink Lake over there by Dead Lake, by Purim.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Kenny Olson]

I've stayed at that resort on Woman Lake.

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Johnny Hight]

That's funny.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Johnny Hight]

Yep.

[Kenny Olson]

I would not own a resource resort.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Johnny Hight]

The school board does not wish to put this off. They wanted to go away, so these people said no. We wanted a water ballot.

[Ricey Such]

The move. I would think the cheapos have a point.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

Oh, it's a budget. So the cheapos are on the Government side, correct? Okay.

[Johnny Hight]

Correct. The 3,000 want to add it and vote for it. The district says the board will accept the petition at Monday's board meeting meeting but will likely not take any action on it, so may not do any good anyway. Target Field concession workers are set to begin their strike today as bargaining continues for better pay and more affordable health care. The strike comes as the Twins get ready to host the Los Angeles Dodgers in a three game series. Now there still will be concessions. Officials say they've secured supplemental staff for the time being. Delaware, Delaware North, a global hospitality company has about 500 bartenders, cooks and cashiers that will not be on the job for the game. The union represents workers says they currently make minimum wage and lack access to employer provided health care. The next bargaining session between the workers and Delaware north is scheduled for Saturday.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Ricey Such]

That's what I did too. And by the way, now you don't even have to make change for you. You can't pay. You can't pay them cash. And the first thing that shines at your light is you want to get of a 15% tip, a 20% tip or a 25% type are right down there in the bottom where you can't see it. It says no tip. So I'm sorry. I usually support the workers, but in this case it's not a health care job.

[Pat]

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

[Ricey Such]

Yeah, right.

[Pat]

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

[Chris Reavers]

But who's buying $1 $2 beer?

[Pat]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

Let's redeem that 65 series against the Dodgers.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

And that's still not enough for me.

[Ricey Such]

Yes. Right.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

My tip is don't walk in front of a moving bus.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah.

[Johnny Hight]

Never pet a burning dog.

[Pat]

Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

I guess I'm the only person on this show that enjoys tipping for good service.

[Ricey Such]

Oh, and I'm a. I'm a tipper.

[Johnny Hight]

Yeah, I'm a huge.

[Kenny Olson]

All right, so here, here, this will work for you too, tip, Roy, Because I. I over tip all the time.

[Johnny Hight]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

Plus, you know, the companies steal them money.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Twin Cities Sabers Auction Announcer]

Yeah.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Kenny Olson]

Always. Always.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

Hey, buddy, what do you do for a living?

[Ricey Such]

You know, before you put the walnuts in a container. Sure. We got some poor jackass in there.

[Kenny Olson]

Grandpa's retirement shop.

[Ricey Such]

You have strong wrists. If you did that for a living, you'd have a strong wrist, wouldn't you?

[Johnny Hight]

Yeah, follow that.

[Ricey Such]

Follow that.

[Johnny Hight]

Chris, come on.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Kenny Olson]

I sold my car in Carvana last night.

[Pat]

Well, that's cool.

[Ricey Such]

No, you don't understand. It went perfectly.

[Kenny Olson]

Real offer down to the penny.

[Ricey Such]

They're picking it up tomorrow.

[Kenny Olson]

Nothing went wrong.

[Grainger Announcer]

So what's the problem?

[Ricey Such]

That is the problem. Nothing in my life goes as smoothly. I'm waiting for the catch.

[Kenny Olson]

Maybe there's no catch.

[Ricey Such]

That's exactly what a catch would want me to think.

[Grainger Announcer]

Wow.

[Chris Reavers]

You need to.

[Ricey Such]

I need to knock on wood.

[Kenny Olson]

Do we have wood?

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Is this table wood?

[Grainger Announcer]

I think it's laminate.

[Pat]

Okay.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Yeah, that's good. That's close enough.

[Grainger Announcer]

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[Ricey Such]

All right.

[Pat]

It's the garagelogic summer online auction. It is live right now. Save up to 70% off of your summer shopping with the GL Summer Online Auction. How do you go? How do you do it? You sign [e-mail], type in keyword auction, you register and then you can see all the items up for bid. The auction runs through June 25th. That's Thursday at 8pm and we got thousands of items. Well, thousands of dollars of items. And you can bid on them right now. How about car rentals with a boat at the Gold Mine Resort on the Vermillion River. Thousand dollar gift certificate from Jaime's Haberdashery A $5,000 Livia Best Self experience to help you with weight loss, nutrition and so much more. And also a $500 gift certificate stay at Oak Island Resort on legendary Lake of the Woods. Some great trips out there. One night stays at one night stays. It's not like Clem Haskin. One night stays at running Ace Casinos. You gotta go to garagelogic.com keyword auction register and check out the items. More to come this week for the garagelogic summer online A auction.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

If they don't get killed on the

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Pat]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

We, we were camping with some family over the weekend, and I was regaling with the tale of the, the lawnmower that went into the pool a couple of years ago.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Chris Reavers]

No, I want disaster.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Chris Reavers]

But the nice thing is when the landscaper did drive the lawn or into the pool, the, the bottom of the deck was nice and clean.

[Kenny Olson]

They washed out.

[Chris Reavers]

All sparkly. Yeah, sparkling.

[Ricey Such]

The good news is that when we come back from Johnny's news break, I got a Mrs. Ricey update, people.

[Pat]

Game of Flaws.

[Ricey Such]

No, it's. It's a grandma mentality thing.

[Johnny Hight]

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned from his position.

[Ricey Such]

How come we don't like him as

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Johnny Hight]

Johnson. Boris Johnson.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah, Boris. Yeah, Boris.

[Pat]

He was the bad hair.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah, bad hair. He was pretty funny and a bit of a grafter, I think.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

I'd say it was complications from being on hundred.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

And man, she had to be 35 years younger than him, right?

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

Yes.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Pat]

I think it's that crazy Jerry.

[Johnny Hight]

And now the story of the 65 foot tall nutcracker.

[Ricey Such]

Oh, right.

[Johnny Hight]

It's in La Verne, Minnesota.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

The.

[Ricey Such]

The titan of District 8. When I was workers installing the final

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Kenny Olson]

You need something big.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Kenny Olson]

That Crazy Betty.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

Why is it called the Night Nutcracker statue?

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

Crack nuts with.

[Johnny Hight]

No, no, this is the old silver one.

[Pat]

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

[Ricey Such]

One of those. Which you could never find when you wanted to crack a nut.

[Josh Arnold]

Right.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Are sold.

[Ricey Such]

1964. 1 class state basketball champion.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Johnny Hight]

The statue will be able to crack nuts.

[Ricey Such]

Really?

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

Wow.

[Johnny Hight]

The Whole thing's. Yeah.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Kenny Olson]

What was this? What are these rednecks got going? Exit quick.

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

I would say it would be the Memorial Day parade maybe. We used to have a Memorial Day parade. According to you can. You can bet on when Fold the lake is going to turn piss green?

[Pat]

Everybody wants to know.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

You can. By the way, Gl, there's the lake Folda. Lake Royce is referring to. It's actually Folda First Lake and Fold on the.

[Ricey Such]

The scenic shores of First Lake.

[Kenny Olson]

And you live down on First.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

Wait a minute. I was gonna bring that up. The Wood Duck Festival was actually this last weekend.

[Ricey Such]

Oh, I missed it. Yes.

[Kenny Olson]

And it's so funny that they picked the wood duck, which is the prettiest duck, you know, that's in the air,

[Ricey Such]

but trees around there.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

I don't know who started the Wood Duck Festival, but they must have seen one out there on a lake one day and nobody's ever seen one.

[Kenny Olson]

It'll be canvas backs or redheads or blue bills or ring bills.

[Ricey Such]

Beautiful duck.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. And they taste Great.

[Ricey Such]

But they also. They don't. They nest in a tree. They don't. Yeah, that's why they're.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

I've witnessed that night.

[Ricey Such]

They just jump out and the mom

[Kenny Olson]

goes down to the lake or she's the ground squawking and it's a whistle kind of. With wood ducks there's.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

But they bounce.

[Pat]

Yeah, right.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Pat]

They still owe him money.

[Kenny Olson]

Somebody owes somebody something.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

You know, they all lived to 100.

[Ricey Such]

Salt lives. Salt helps you.

[Pat]

Preserves you.

[Ricey Such]

Yes.

[Chris Reavers]

Speaking of salt, you're going to cut down on your salt usage with Hoffman Water and Connecticut.

[Pat]

That's a segue, right?

[Johnny Hight]

Here's what that was.

[Kenny Olson]

Later.

[Chris Reavers]

Hey, I'm Reeves.

[Ricey Such]

I didn't even know I was set getting you. You didn't even know you were going

[Pat]

to be this good.

[Chris Reavers]

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[Pat]

All right. It's the garagelogic summer online auction. It is live right now. Save up to 70% off of your summer shopping with the GL Summer Online Auction. How do you go? How do you do it? You sign [e-mail], type in keyword auction, you register and then you can see all the items up for bid. The auction runs through June 25th. That's Thursday at 8pm and we got thousands of items. Well, thousands of dollars of items. And you can bid on them right now. How about car rentals with a boat at the Gold Mine Resort on the Vermillion River. $1,000 gift certificate from Jaime's Haberdashery. A $5,000 Livia Best Self experience to help you with weight loss, nutrition and so much more. And also a $500 gift certificate stay at Oak Island Resort on legendary Lake of the Woods. Some great trips out there. One night stays at one night stays. That's not like Clem Haskin. One night stays at Running Ace Casino. He knows you got to go to garagelogic.com keyword auction register and check out the items. More to come this week for the garagelogic Summer online auction.

[Kenny Olson]

I've got a little full disclosure item to tell everybody here. Since Joe's not here, he won't care. I actually have a side hustle installing and repairing garage doors. I only have one client. That client is me. And I have repeatedly made that client very, very angry every time everything he does to his garage door is wrong. If you have a similar situation, I would urge you to get a hold of Precision Garage Door. They want to make sure that your garage door is working perfectly and properly. So if you have any issues with the heat and bugs getting in and out of your garage during the summer months, give them a call. They'll figure it out and they'll straighten things up. Schedule a free on site new door estimate with one of their designers. There's models for every budget. So you can get super fancy or you can get super simple. It doesn't matter if you have three separate doors. They can do that. They can do one big door. It doesn't matter. A new garage door is number one. It's going to force your equity up. It's going to increase the value of your ranch. You're going to save energy during the hot summer season, during the cold winter season and provide much better security. A sturdy, insulated, well maintained garage door can provide another layer of protection to your home security. And these garage doors can be integrated into your security system. Right now there's a special offer. Get up to $400 trade in credit with your old garage door which when you purchase a new garage door from Precision Garage door, there's a $79 safe and sound package. Includes a 25 point safety inspection, performance adjustments, lubrication and conditioning and diagnostic reports. Boy, that's the one I really need. Book that online appointment@precision doormn.com or do it the old fashioned way. Give them a call 612-263-3985 to schedule your free on site new door estimate with Precision Garage Door.

[Ricey Such]

Patrick Ah, here's the deal. By the way, the twins have just revealed on Twitter that they now have twins. Rally dancers.

[Kenny Olson]

Wait a minute.

[Ricey Such]

Going back to dancers like Norm Green put on Norm Green was jealous of The Target Center Dancers. Remember?

[Chris Reavers]

Yes.

[Ricey Such]

So we got the dancer, the North. The Star. North Star lights, Target, field experiences get a lot more fun. Introducing the Twins Rally Dancers. We're having a little fun with this on Twitter right now. So, Kenny.

[Kenny Olson]

Yes, sir.

[Ricey Such]

You're a car guy. That 2019 cascade, which spent three months in Reaver's garage once. That's right. Resting for the winter. The convertible. I just went over 70. It's fine. Running great. And you know the light on the speedometer. Of course. The light telling me that my seat belt isn't buckled, is always on, but. But above that for the last two days, has been this green kind of. With a sideways deal. It's kind of going. It's tilted down this way. And when. And when I'm not. When I'm driving, like 20, it's not on. But when I get up to about 70, 60, it's this thing and this green thing. It's on there. I have. It's. No, it doesn't beep. It doesn't. But it. It's green and it's sideways, like, it doesn't. It doesn't indicate that I need an oil change or anything, which is easy. I wonder what it's telling me because the ride doesn't seem any different than it was.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

19 Cascade on the speedometer.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh, here.

[Ricey Such]

I found green. Barrier green. Something forward.

[Kenny Olson]

Collision alert. Vehicle ahead indicator.

[Ricey Such]

What?

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

Have you had anything in the vehicle serviced recently?

[Ricey Such]

You know, I got an oil change a while back, but.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

figure out what it is. But it's. It's telling me I'm gonna hit somebody, huh?

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah.

[Twin Cities Sabers Auction Announcer]

They're wrong.

[Ricey Such]

The guys. Maybe the guys. From me to the. You know, 100ft away. It's 100ft away from me.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

Get me the beef department.

[Kenny Olson]

Are you one of those guys that trades in the car before an oil change is due, like sushiray, or do you run them for a while?

[Ricey Such]

No, this one's got over 70 on it. Still running. Great.

[Kenny Olson]

Maybe it might be cheaper to just trade it in.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

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

[Ricey Such]

That's right. We're down to the zero.

[Pat]

Okay.

[Ricey Such]

We managed to give away all three of them.

[Kenny Olson]

Roy. See, I need some advice from you. I forgot to tell you this before the show, and it won't take take long. It's regarding Twitter. Now, you famously quit. Quit Twitter and then came back. I, I quit Twitter, but I didn't get rid of my account and I really didn't announce my departure.

[Chris Reavers]

I.

[Kenny Olson]

And it's been over a month now, and I really, I'm really fighting the urge to tweet. I really, really miss it. Is there, Is it going to get easier?

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

You know, I kind of miss the teasing people, kind of the.

[Kenny Olson]

I miss making fun of people.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Pat]

Well, you missed the trolling.

[Chris Reavers]

You know, that same restraint, though, Ken. Didn't. Didn't stop you from alerting myself and Dave Harrigan about a former co worker on the freeway one day.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

to be on air.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah, right.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Johnny Hight]

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

[Ricey Such]

Really? Now we just opened it.

[Pat]

I was there Saturday 20th.

[Chris Reavers]

I was there Saturday. They had.

[Ricey Such]

Who was it?

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Johnny Hight]

9,000, I think the pace is that what they had?

[Ricey Such]

You know that's Nab Abdul, the same guy.

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Ricey Such]

Really.

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

but dropping the bombs.

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Josh Arnold]

Come on,

[Ricey Such]

big tub. Come on, you.

[Kenny Olson]

He's still an okay singer though, right?

[Ricey Such]

Mediocre.

[Pat]

I think he's lip sync. I think he lip syncs same old crap.

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Johnny Hight]

3:30. Yeah.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

I.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

I. I'm going to go ahead and disagree with that.

[Johnny Hight]

Yeah, I'm going to disagree too.

[Kenny Olson]

So you have your right to your.

[Pat]

All right, next gets the square. Okay.

[Ricey Such]

You know, I'm.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Josh Arnold]

Here.

[Ricey Such]

I gotta find it.

[Pat]

He's scrolling as he's, as he's using his verbal crutch to find the.

[Ricey Such]

I said Luke is pitching three runs, no outs in the first. He's depressed. Four outs, four runs, one out. This team stinks. That's me. And then later on she says tell him to focus on love and fun of baseball. I'm sure.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh boy.

[Ricey Such]

Okay. Grandma says focus on your love.

[Kenny Olson]

And.

[Ricey Such]

Here's what bothered me the most about America. Right? We got, we got the flag controversy. We got a guy. Guy threatening to kill the people he's negotiating peace with. Yes, we got all this stuff going on. Yeah, we got all this stuff going on. But now the other team has runners on first and second and it's already 15 to 6 or something.

[Kenny Olson]

Oh boy.

[Ricey Such]

They hit a grounder.

[Pat]

We still talk about Luke's game.

[Ricey Such]

They hit a grounder to third base. A two hopper to third base. The kids from me to rookie away from third base. He throws it over to first base instead of running over and takes tag the ball.

[Johnny Hight]

Oh no.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

That's what's wrong.

[Ricey Such]

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

[Pat]

Oh yeah, hot corner, baby.

[Ricey Such]

That was me. Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

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

[Ricey Such]

No.

[Pat]

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

[Ricey Such]

No. But under my breath with many parents of these. Of these disinterested lads around, I did cast aspersions to the entire operation. And I stayed till the end, which was. Was a miracle. But anyway, what was it?

[Pat]

The love play for the love and fun of baseball.

[Ricey Such]

Yeah. What is it?

[Kenny Olson]

Love and fun.

[Ricey Such]

What is.

[Pat]

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

[Ricey Such]

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

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, Grandma.

[Ricey Such]

If she, if, if he doesn't turn around and look at the scoreboard. Two, maybe a little. Do that. Very. His teams have been pretty good till this year. I don't know what happened to these guys. I don't know, but they're, you know, luckily, I think the season's over, so no more grandpa duty to watch. Hey, if they don't care, why should I care? That's.

[Johnny Hight]

There you go.

[Josh Arnold]

Right?

[Ricey Such]

Yeah.

[Pat]

Patrick, thank you, sir.

[Chris Reavers]

All right, thanks for hanging out with us today and filling in for the mayor. And you should do us a favor and hit the subscribe button right there on the Garage Logic YouTube channel where you can watch the show every single day starting right around noon. And you can also see full segments. There's video shorts, there's even behind the scenes footage. Just search garage logic two words on YouTube along with all of our social media channels, which includes Facebook, Instagram and X. And also sign up for the Daily Logician. That is an email that comes right to your inbox each and every single day and it includes the most recent episode of the podcast. Find out more and sign up today [e-mail] it is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold is with us once again right here in garagelogic. And now is the time for you to do the same. So do not delay, do exactly what I did and pick up that phone and dial 949-255-608. That number once again is 952-925-5608. When you call that number, you're going to get Josh and he is there for you for that. Free, Yes, I use the word free 48 minute financial consultation with absolutely zero obligation. And he will always give you the straight talk. He will never give you the sugar coated advice. And he is on the line with us once again right here in garagelogic. And Josh, a question for you. And I have had conversations over the years and I've always wondered what would you give advice to, whether it's a first time investor, a long term investor, what are some of the general principles that you try to apply in terms of investing?

[Josh Arnold]

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

[Chris Reavers]

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

[Josh Arnold]

Thank you very much.

[Ricey Such]

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[Johnny Hight]

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[Chris Reavers]

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[Ricey Such]

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