SCRAMBLE: A Public Service Announcement from Reuvers: Get your lazy (@$$) out o the left lane!!!!!

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Garage Logic Weekly Scramble – June 27, 2026

Episode Title: SCRAMBLE: A Public Service Announcement from Reuvers: Get your lazy (@$$) out o the left lane!!!!!
Hosts: Chris Reuvers & Mike Frattelloni
Main Theme: Road etiquette, summer travel complaints, cruise ship chaos, skyrocketing prices in Minnesota, and reflections on community events.

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode of the Weekly Scramble from Garage Logic, hosts Chris Reuvers and Mike Frattelloni dive deep into a classic summer frustration—drivers clogging the left lane—and expand into a rollicking discussion of travel headaches, modern entitlement, cruise ship disasters, the high cost of urban outings, and some local cultural happenings. There’s a hearty dose of good-humored grumbling, personal anecdotes from life in Minnesota, and the perennial search for common sense.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Public Service Announcement: Get Out of the Left Lane!

[03:04–09:33]

• Summer Travel Frustrations:
  Chris vents about his baseball and work commutes, covering huge distances, and encountering drivers—especially semi-truck drivers—who stubbornly linger in the left lane.

  “Get your ass out of the left lane, you selfish freaking douchebags.” – Chris [06:10]

• Trucker Perspective:
  Chris shares that his father and brothers are truck drivers to show empathy, but insists that road etiquette matters most.
• The Real Damage:
  The real issue isn’t just semis—it’s a sense of entitlement and inattentiveness on the road.

  “We have become such an entitled society where it’s all about me… The same mentality exists here. I’m not worried about the 28 cars behind me.” – Chris [08:28]

• Safety Fears for Young Drivers:
  Chris worries about distracted and oblivious drivers as his son starts driving:

  “50% of people on the road are not paying any attention to what’s going on around them.” – Chris [10:14]

2. Road Etiquette Lessons from Abroad

[11:20–13:40]

• Mike discusses German driving laws—where you must keep right except to pass, creating predictability and reducing dangerous passes on the right.

  “In Germany, you cannot pass on the right, so if there’s someone behind you, you have to move to the right.” – Mike [11:33]

• Contrast with American laissez-faire lane discipline and the resulting backups.

3. General Decline of Driving Courtesy

[14:14–15:03]

• Increase in horn honking and inattentiveness at stoplights.
• Shift from “courtesy beeps” to angry honks in response to distracted drivers (“head popped up from the phone” moments).

4. Cruise Ship Chaos and the Anti-Cruise Rant

[22:12–29:00]

• Chris rails against the idea of cruise vacations, prompted by viral footage of a brawl between two families disembarking a Carnival cruise.

  “You will never catch me dead—unless my two boys go Weekend at Bernie’s style with me. This will never happen—the cruise ship.” – Chris [22:27]

• Discussion of cruise ship inconveniences: lack of personal space, strict alcohol policies, disappointing rooms, exorbitant costs, and viral social media disasters.
• Mike jokes about instituting a “minimum dress code” for public transport and flights.

  “You can’t just crawl out of bed with your slippers and your PJs. You have to have closed toed shoes.” – Mike [28:07]

5. Urban Life Cost Complaints: Outrageous Taxes and Concerts

[29:00–33:20]

• Four shots at a downtown Minneapolis event: $69!

  “Did you know, Reuvers, that if you’re in the city limits… the tax on liquor in downtown is 14.525%?” – Mike [29:46]

• Additional taxes bring it up to 17.525% if there’s live music.
• The cost of concerts and live events makes both hosts reluctant to participate, especially when “nosebleed” tickets for popular artists are unaffordable.

6. Local Events & Community Spirit

[18:29–22:12]

• Discussion of pianist Stephen C. Anderson’s upcoming Fourth of July concert at the St. Paul Cathedral, reflecting on the beauty and craftsmanship of local cultural landmarks versus today’s utilitarian (and expensive) municipal projects.

  “If you want to feel like America’s going in the wrong direction, just sit in the beautiful cathedral and think, we built something like this.” – Mike [20:00]

7. Ticketing Industry & Event Access

[36:30–39:20]

• Reflection on the dramatic increase in ticket prices driven by companies like Ticketmaster, the failed attempts by major artists to create alternative ticketing models, and a nod to Prince’s early direct-to-fan moves.

  “It’s the Ticketmaster, the conglomerates of the world that are ruining it for everybody else.” – Chris [36:50]

• Mike predicts a future where Facebook or Instagram might launch their own ticketing service.

8. Names of Countries and Media Language Oddities

[39:49–40:53]

• Brief discussion about broadcasters pronouncing Turkey as “Türkiye,” tying to American habits of renaming countries for convenience.
• Playful jabs at recent world events and pronunciation shifts (Kyiv/Kiev).

9. Ukraine/Russia Conflict Update

[40:53–41:40]

• Mike offers a brief commentary on the ongoing war in Ukraine and speculates about possible escalation with U.S. support.

10. Quick Hits & Humor

[31:58–33:14]

• Touch on mystical or “cursed” concert venues, Minnesota weather, and tongue-in-cheek theories about bad luck affecting show lineups.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On modern driving:
  “It’s the only thing I truly do hate about my road trips… Get your ass out of the left lane, you selfish freaking douchebags.” – Chris [06:10]
• On road entitlement:
  “It’s all about my Instagram photo… I’m not worried about the 28 cars behind me because I need to be able to get here so I don’t have to upset my cruise control.” – Chris [08:28]
• On cruise ships:
  “Zero percent chance I am going to get on a cruise ship. Zero. It’s expensive.” – Chris [28:43]
• On tax rates in Minneapolis:
  “Did you know… the tax on liquor in downtown is 14.525%? … And another 3% if there’s live entertainment.” – Mike [29:46]
• On the state of American building:
  “We built the cathedral… now we build a toilet in Loring Park for four million bucks that gets ripped apart in three weeks.” – Mike [20:00]
• On Ticketmaster and concerts:
  “Ticketmaster… is ruining it for everybody else… you wonder why so many of these other shows have no one.” – Chris [36:50]
• On vocalist mishaps:
  “Lionel Richie died in Shakopee. No, but it was pretty close.” – Mike [31:07] (joking about a medical incident at a concert)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |-------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 03:04 | Introduction & left lane PSA (rant begins) | | 06:10 | Chris’s left lane rant escalation, trucker stories | | 08:28 | Societal entitlement and road behavior | | 10:14 | Safety fears for young and inattentive drivers | | 11:20 | Germany’s strict lane rules explained | | 14:14 | Surge in horn-honking, inattentive drivers | | 22:12 | Anti-cruise rant, Carnival cruise ship brawl story | | 29:00 | Downtown Minneapolis drink tax outrage | | 31:58 | Joking about cursed concert venues and weather | | 36:30 | Concert ticket affordability & the Ticketmaster issue | | 39:49 | “Türkiye” and naming countries, media quirks | | 40:53 | Ukraine/Russia conflict update |

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Tone & Style

The hosts maintain a mixture of comedic exasperation, storytelling, and tongue-in-cheek Minnesota humility. Their style is equal parts rant, recollection, and practical advice for everyday life—delivered with a dose of nostalgia for “how things used to be,” and the banter of old friends kvetching over the state of the world.

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In Summary

This episode is a prime slice of Garage Logic’s enduring appeal: relatable gripes, wistful memories, and a discerning eye for absurdities in daily life. Whether venting about left-lane squatters, warning against the perils of cruise ships, or dissecting the cost of a night out in Minneapolis, Chris and Mike give listeners both plenty to laugh at—and plenty to grumble about on their own next commute.

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Transcript

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[C]

How you doing, Reivers?

[B]

I'm really good. I'm really good. A bit of a schedule change for this week. So we're doing Thursday and Friday this week, and I know people don't really care. Kenny always says it's, oh, we're talking about what we saw at the stoplight or whatever. And that's not where I wanted to start the show. However, I feel as though I need to issue a public service announcement because here on the weekly Scramble podcast, we serve the public, right?

[C]

We do.

[B]

We have piggybacked off of the Big Brother podcast known as garagelogic. And in this forum, you and I have been doing shows going on what we're getting close to, what, 14 years now, 13 years, whatever we're at right now. And it's been a treat, it's been a joy, it's been a blessing, and I have always been grateful to everybody here at Hubbard Broadcasting that afforded us this opportunity to do our own show. So, anyway, that being said, with all that being said, I have to issue a public service announcement. And this time of the year, you on yesterday's show had said that you made a number of different stops throughout North Dakota and South Dakota, correct?

[C]

11 stops, 1500 miles, 24 hours of driving.

[B]

And so this time of the year, I've got two boys playing travel, baseball. I've had a bit of a change my routine in my commute. And so I'm putting. I'm basically buying a tank of gas

[C]

every other day, which is expensive.

[B]

Between my commute to this beautiful job that I love dearly, to taking a kid to play a baseball game down in Wells, Minnesota, for $150. Where's Wells, Minnesota South.

[C]

I was right. It's in Minnesota.

[B]

Basically, go to Albert Lee. Keep going.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

All right.

[C]

Where's Albert? For $150, where's Albert Lee?

[B]

So anyway, but I love it. I absolutely love it. I love baseball. I love that my boys love baseball. And I know one of the. When all this comes to an end, I am going to miss it terribly. And I know all of that. Okay, here's the public service announcement, and I'm going to remain calm because I just dealt with this for about the last hour and a half. To all of my brethren out there with your 18 wheelers, gather in close and keep in mind, this comes from someone who is the son of a semi driver brother. I have two brothers that are semi drivers, one of which owns his own trucking company where he hires other people to drive for him and he works on semis. I have rode with semi drivers my entire life. When I was a young man, when I was a wee lass, I remember riding shotgun with my dad in the McDonough truck line semi in Faribault, Minnesota.

[C]

Nice.

[B]

I used to look forward to it. Why? Because we got to get up early. We got to get after it. I got to ride shotgun. And I knew we were going to have summer sausage sandwiches with butter and cheese, and it was going to be the great. It was all what made summer great. And we would make that drive to Cokato, Minnesota to pick up beans at the Faribault foods plant in Cokato, Minnesota and back. And boy, oh boy, I looked forward to it every time.

[C]

Good memories.

[B]

I got to sit on the back of the truck and watch the guys load the semi trailers and it was awesome. I was 8, 9, 10, 11 years old and it was the greatest. So I've grown up with it. I've seen the ebbs, I've seen the flows, I've seen the struggles, I've seen the pain. And I'm here to say to you right now, get your ass out of the left lane, you selfish freaking douchebags. I don't give a damn. I don't give a damn that your company is so desperate for drivers and you're hiring people left and right with sandals sticking out of the freaking driver's side window. I don't care about that. If you have etiquette on the road, I'm here for you. Sure, I will salute you. I will give you the absolute, the symbolism of honk the horn like I got your back. Get the f out of the left lane. The worst are the guys on 169 and 35. I don't know, because again, we only got two lanes, right? So just because you're going 70 and the guy in front of you might be going 68, that doesn't mean you move over at 70. And now you're blocking up cars for miles because you're going to take about eight minutes to get over this hill and pass this guy. And it's the one thing I truly do. It's the only thing I truly do hate about my road trips to and from all across the great divide. I have made trips to Seattle, Washington, San Diego, California a couple of times, Arizona three times, South Carolina once, Buffalo three times. I've made every drive, Texas and back a bunch of times. I've made all these drives and I've loved it. I want to see this vast land that we love called the Great State of the United States of America. Get your ass out of the left lane. You selfish freaking douchebag.

[C]

Do you. So you had a long commute in today, is that what you're saying?

[B]

A one hour drive. Took me about an hour and a half.

[C]

Sure.

[B]

Because people just would not move out of here again. It's rush hour. But it's Friday and it's summer.

[C]

It's a little late. Right? It's late rush hour.

[B]

Yeah. And usually Mondays and Fridays in the summertime are usually lighter because it's summer. People are doing their three or sometimes four day weekend. Right. It speaks to a greater issue and I'm going to get there in a second. It dawned on me. It speaks to such a greater issue and the greater issue is this. We have become such an entitled society where it's all about me. It's all about my Instagram photo. It's all about. It's the same mentality exists here. I'm not worried about the 28 cars that are behind me because I need to be able to get here so I don't have to upset my cruise control. And this can trickle down to just the modern day driver as well. The entitlement on the road. It's as if no one understands that other people are using this. If you see in your rear view mirror and you're in the left lane that there are 58 cars behind you, you might want to get over. You might want to get over.

[C]

I think it's. It's hubris. Or do you think it's. I have no idea that this is happening behind me because I've definitely passed people that have absolutely no clue what's going on behind them.

[B]

I think it does speak to two things. The entitlement thing that I just mentioned. I also think that one of the biggest fears I have because I have a 14 year old son who's going to start driving soon and I'm sure you went through this and are still going through this with your three girls. It's the thing that terrifies me the most that absolutely I would say 50%, I'm generous. I'm going to say 50% of the people on the road are not paying any attention to what's going on around me.

[A]

Absolutely.

[C]

If not more.

[B]

And I was being generous by saying 50% because I see it all of the time. And again, I know I'm putting on a ton of miles right now between work, baseball, everything else. So I get that. And I'm seeing a lot. And again, I come from a family of truck drivers that see all this. My brothers and I were just having this conversation over the weekend about how terrifying it is being behind. And again, I adopt the rule of I don't follow anything trailered. And that could be a semi or a guy with his trailer or his camper, whatever the case might be. I don't follow anything being trailered because it's just a safety precaution. But it's just. It's maddening because I don't think people understand the type of safety violation that this is right now. I mean, we've seen countless examples of guys that probably shouldn't be having a class A or a CDL that are on the road, that are just not ready to handle these circumstances. Not skilled enough. Exactly. And we've unfortunately seen really bad accidents that have resulted in death all across the country right now.

[C]

And they might be skilled eventually. Right. It's just you got to be trained. The Germans had one thing right. Reverse. Germans did a lot of wrong things, FYI, about 100 years ago. Coming up. Coming up on 75 years, whatever it is. Right. A long time back.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

But then they've done some great things. And what I think is great is in Germany, you cannot pass on the right, so if someone's behind you, you have to move to the right. Really?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You can only pass on the left. So if someone's in the furthest left lane. Farthest left lane, the lane most to the left.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

And they're going 50. Then every single lane of that highway can only go 50 because you cannot pass on the right. So people have to move over so you can pass them on the left. Does that make sense?

[B]

Interesting.

[C]

Yeah. So it. And a lot of people. A lot of people. A lot of people are very dangerously passing on the right. Right. So someone's sitting in their. Sitting on their ass on the left lane, and you pass them on the right, and then they mer back into you. Super dangerous. Right. So you keep everybody to the right, all traffic to the right, and the only time you use the left lane is to pass people. So when you're out on the Autobahn.

[B]

Interesting.

[C]

Everybody's sitting there going slowly on the right, and then they look back to see if There's a Porsche 911 that's doing 181 right past them on the autobahn. And they quickly jump in the left lane past somebody and move back to the right. That I think, I think other states have that. I'm sure our listeners would know what other states have that. I think the Germans did that. Right.

[B]

Because one of the. I was mentioning this, maybe it was as recently as yesterday about the drive that I made through Montana in which I don't think there's posted speed limits.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there is,

[B]

but it was interesting because first of all, it's picturesque, it's beautiful, it's stunning. And so when you're on the freeway, you can have your cruise set at let's just say 75, right. And you're in the right lane, then obviously there's far less traffic because there's not as many people. But it was interesting because I would suspect that outside of, you know, a deer running in front of you or something like that, I bet it's very. The percentage based of traffic incidents and violations and accidents has got to be minuscule compared to what we're dealing with here. People bumping into each other. Right. Because it's just everyone kind of understands the bit. Right. And so I'm wondering if that's kind of the same case.

[C]

You notice every time too that you're going pretty fast and you move out of the way, the car passing you is a shitbox. And you think, what are you doing? You're in a 21 year old Saturn, right. What are you doing 89 miles per hour for in a Saturn?

[B]

And see, I will always do that. I'll say, okay, I got around this guy, I'll get over. And then the guy that was basically drafting me realizes, oh, well, I was,

[C]

I better move over too.

[B]

Well, I better move over too. I'm like, well, I moved over to let you go by. You know, that wasn't the case.

[C]

Have you noticed and recently heard. And now that I say this, you're gonna notice this. Have you heard more horn honking lately?

[B]

Oh my God. Have you noticed that? Yes.

[C]

As listeners and viewers of our YouTube channel. Have you noticed that? Because I know, first of all, I was sitting at a stoplight, somebody wasn't paying attention. I gave them the courtesy beep, they didn't move. Then I gave them the not so courtesy beep where I just hold the horn down and say, get moving. Right? And then they did that. Head popped up from the phone. Look, I can't make a left from the right turn lane.

[B]

Nope, nope, you sure can't.

[C]

And today, in fact, on the way Here I thought, who's honking? Who's doing all this honking? One of it was me, right? I kind of started a trend. But I think that's a good thing to do is a little bit of honking. Like hey, beep beep, pay attention.

[B]

Right?

[C]

Right.

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Saturday might be the day.

[C]

You're just gonna go down there?

[B]

I might have to just make a trip down there and see my buddies.

[C]

You have unlimited gas money?

[B]

I do. On my day where I don't have a baseball game, why not drive to Harmony, Minnesota?

[C]

Well first I do that because I might go with you.

[B]

Really?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

You want to take something special down there and go down at like 190 miles per hour.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[C]

But then you got to drive home. I'm not going to let you drive.

[B]

That's fine. That's fine. That's fine. I don't know.

[C]

Somebody's got to. We need to take somebody who's not going to want to have Royce.

[B]

Royce would drive us, and then we

[C]

can chronicle it with video.

[B]

Oh, my God. That would be epic.

[C]

That would be kind of fun.

[B]

And put it on the frat pack.

[C]

Yeah, that would be kind of fun

[B]

because I'm out of BlackBerry lemonade. Yeah, officially out of BlackBerry lemonade.

[C]

BlackBerry lemonade the moment it got home, probably.

[B]

Anyway, you can get it by going to the Tap Room. And, oh, by the way, they have that rotating menu of craft cocktails down there in Harmony, Minnesota.

[C]

Why don't we just buy online? Let's not go down there. Let's just buy it online. Send it right to our door up here.

[B]

Yeah, I like that idea.

[C]

That's a bad idea, too.

[B]

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[C]

Hey, did you see that? Stephen C. Anderson's doing another event at the cathedral, but this one's incredibly special. Not that all of his events aren't special.

[B]

What's the theme?

[C]

July 4th.

[B]

Oh, cool.

[C]

250th. That could be really, really special.

[B]

I'm gonna make a note of that, because I know that was it last year that he did his Fourth of July show on a freaking lake.

[C]

Really?

[B]

It was up. Oh, shoot. I'm gonna have to ask Joe, so don't kill the messenger here.

[C]

Is that like in Minnetonka said?

[B]

Hey, no, no, no. This was up north somewhere, and he had drone footage of it. It was so incredibly cool.

[C]

Oh, that is cool.

[B]

Maybe it was Memorial Day, but I'm almost positive it was 4th of July. I'm gonna have to ask Joe, but I'm gonna make a note right now. Stephen C. Fourth of July at the cathedral.

[C]

You said at the cathedral. I'm trying to look it up. Oh, it's a pre concert. Hold on, let me give you the details. Stephen C. Anderson, America. The Beautiful is what he's calling it. 6:30pm you know what the price is? The price is a little expensive. It's free, right? I don't know, you must have to

[B]

like get a ticket online or something like that.

[C]

Yeah, you gotta go to Eventbrite or something. I think this could be for people that are, are in town 7:30 to 9. I think my parents would go to this. I think I might go to this.

[B]

Well, first of all, if it's at the cathedral, the Christmas show that he does every year that he does it, we always get feedback of saying, I wish I would have. Because there's always the videos that surface and it's stunning because he's so good.

[C]

You know one thing too, if you want to feel like America is going in the wrong direction, just sit in the beautiful cathedral and think, we built something like this. The hands of Americans built this. And now we build a toilet in loring park for 4 million bucks that gets ripped apart by homeless people in three weeks. And you think, what, what are we doing? We built. Humans built the cathedral.

[B]

It's, we're still trying to build George Floyd Square.

[C]

It's soul moving, right. What they do. When you get in there and listening to Stephen C. In there, that would be life changing potentially. That's pretty cool. And then you walk outside, you think, oh, they're gonna try to build a rail line up here for $40 billion that they can't do.

[B]

Or the worst decision we've ever made. Well, not the worst, but a terrible decision that we've ever made. Right over here where we built the restroom area for all the bus drivers. Yeah, yeah, that's good. And now Barry street is now basically a parking lot.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

It's just. Why didn't we do that?

[C]

The cathedral began construction in 1907. Right, sure. And then the first liturgy was there March 28, 1915. We spent eight years building that. Right. And I don't know who did it. I'm sure they were craftsmen. You can't do that stuff anymore. If we had to duplicate that, we'd be screwed. And all we build is glass enclosures or brick enclosures, Brutalist crap. And we just can't do it. And you know, the funny part is that what's the Senate building that we're building? The new office. Oh, the new office building dollars. It's going to look like a generic piece of crap.

[B]

Meanwhile, what they could have done is just bought the, I don't know, the IDS tower and just, I mean, that's in Minneapolis.

[C]

But.

[B]

Well. But we'll pick another, picked any building, any other building that they could have

[C]

bought all of downtown St. Paul for less than that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It's crazy. But that will be. Thank you for Stephen C. For doing this. That's very cool. I'm sure he's got a bunch of effort into it and I just can't wait. I'm gonna try to get out there. That would be something cool to do.

[B]

All right. I've been asking for suggestions for the 4th of July and thank you. I still got more that I'm not going to have time to read through right now, but thank you. We'll get to those next week. But let me just tell you one thing I'm not going to do.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

And I can't remember, I know I've mentioned these before on the show, but I can't remember where you lie on this or if you've ever done one of these. But I got to tell you right now, you will never catch me dead unless my two boys go Weekend at Bernie style with me. This will never happen to your respective. The cruise ship.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Are you ready? I don't know why this has started to become, quote, unquote, a thing because you're starting to see the viral social media videos and things like that of just cruise ships running amok. A tropical cruise vacation ended with a massive fight between two families as they disembarked the ship this week. Footage of the Monday altercation shared on X by the New York Post shows the brawl erupting as one woman in a black dress lunges at another woman in pink pajamas at a Miami customs checkpoint. Oh, dear God. The fight quickly escalated as several others jumped in, sending bystanders fleeing from the area amid flying fists and hair pulling. Footage shows police officers attempting to intervene as the fight spreads across the disembarkment zone, but they struggle to hold back all parties involved. It ultimately landed 16 passengers on Carnival's Do Not Sail list.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

It's one of the main reasons I wanted to bring up this story, not let them on.

[C]

And you know what? You know what they should do, though? Reivers, what the airline should say, oh, by the way, you're on the Do Not Sail list. You are also on the Do Not Fly list. We don't want you on planes either.

[B]

100%. The Carnival Conquest ship left Miami on Friday, June 19, and returned Monday, June 22, stopping at Celebration Key, the cruise ship company's private island in the Bahamas, on Sunday, June 21. Quote, we do not tolerate such behavior. And 16 people have been placed on our Do Not Sail list. A spokesperson for Carnival said. The Miami Dade Sheriff's office also spoke out about the altercation, stating that it was deemed a mutual combatant incident and that neither of the parties pressed any charges. The footage has gone viral on social media, and Carnival is getting some of the backlash. Reminder to myself, never go on a Carnival cruise, one user wrote. This is the reason I will never go on a Carnival cruise, wrote another user. Because obviously it's a Carnival. And I gotta tell you, when you see the commercials on television, you're seeing these just beautiful shit.

[C]

You're in an empty pool.

[B]

Oh, it's all to you and your spouse. And then you're walking with your kids down the. What do you call the part of the ship where you're outside of your room? The aisle, the hallway, whatever it's called.

[C]

I'll think of it.

[B]

Oh, and it's at sunset. And you're like, oh, what a magnificent. Are you kidding me? First of all, I had a really good or have a really good friend that he and his wife, for their honeymoon, went on a cruise.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

And they did the Caribbean, like that whole deal, it must have been similar to this, right? And they said for the most part, it was fun. They said there were other parts that weren't great. Like, for instance, they weren't allowed to bring any of their own alcohol on the ship.

[C]

Makes sense.

[B]

They had to buy all their stuff.

[C]

You can't bring alcohol to a restaurant. Why could you bring your own?

[B]

Yeah. So to the point where they brought all their luggage and they said, oh, you can't bring that beer. So you can either throw it away or you can just give it to us. Sure. He's like, okay, here you go. That's fine. And they would. Do you call it dock or porch? They would stop at. He's like, well, I bought this really great Caribbean rum.

[C]

Can't do that.

[B]

So you either have to drink it all right there. And so he and his wife just said, well, let's drink it here, I guess, because we can't bring it on the ship with us. He said that was kind of a bummer. And I'll never forget, they've easily prevented

[C]

mistakes because those are pretty clear mistakes.

[B]

Sure, sure. And he even said. He goes, yeah, my fault. We're still going to enjoy this wonderful Caribbean rum. And we'll sit here for an hour before the ship. We got to get back on the ship. And then he said the food was actually pretty good. You Know, you just got your little windows where you get to eat or whatever. So it's kind of like an all inclusive in that regard. But he said the worst part, and I still remember seeing the photo of their room, which was smaller. It's half the size of the studio we're in right now. And he said, I mean, don't get me wrong, we're pretty much only in there to do one thing on our honeymoon. Anyway, he said, but you know, we had a really like the bathroom and he's about my size, so he's a taller, bigger guy. And he would go into the bathroom and he'd kind of have to like

[C]

turn around and take a shower.

[B]

And then like, it was very small bathroom. He said, other than that, I mean, it was pretty much okay. And it's like everything. I cannot, first of all, I'm on vacation. I don't want to be cramped and I don't want to be like, no, I don't, I don't want to be stuck. You're stuck on that boat and you're not going anywhere.

[C]

You're getting off.

[B]

No.

[C]

The story that you read my cartoon bubble instantly came and I have an idea. The moment you said one of the women in pink pajamas, I think maybe we should remember way back when a gal wore a two piece bathing suit at the, at the beach, the morality police would come in and say, hey, you can't do that. Maybe there should be some like, oh, you're going to take a flight from Minneapolis to Kansas City. You gotta have clothes on. You can't wear PJs.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You can't just crawl out of bed with your slippers and your PJs. You have to have closed toed shoes.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

Am I saying that right?

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Yeah. That sounded like I was having a stroke. Like some. And, and I think they're trying to do that. Delta came out and said, hey, we'd like you to upgrade, right. We'd like you to look like you're the very best. And it is funny. I, I won't go on a cruise. Reverse. I might do one of those long boat cruises on a river like, like in France or like touring World War II spots, right? And you're going through and you're like getting some.

[B]

You want to storm the beaches of Normandy.

[C]

They couldn't. And where they have no casinos, they say, hey, we have no casinos on this boat. Yeah, right. And there's only 90 guests. I'm like, oh, I'm feeling like I can take 90 people.

[B]

Right. I Just for all the things that are available to you to do when it's when you're away from life and work and everything else, that is absolutely at rock bottom for me. There's not a chance in living hell I am going to get on a cruise ship. Zero percent chance. It's expensive.

[C]

You know what's more expensive as my buddy travel?

[B]

Baseball. In the summer, we were talking about

[C]

FIFA, the World Cup, Right?

[B]

Sure.

[C]

And he said he was going to go downtown.

[B]

I'm glad you're bringing this up. Yeah.

[C]

He was going to go downtown in downtown Minneapolis and go to an event and drink there and watch the show. And so he did this for the last game. Not last night's game, but the game before. And he said, I went and bought four shots. Four shots. Like not of something expensive. Four shots. $69 for four shots. Right. And I was like, ooh, that's expensive. And I said, I wonder how much of that was taxed. So we got to looking tax rates up in Minneapolis. Did you know, Reivers, that if you're in the city limits, right inside the downtown taxing area in downtown Minneapolis, you know what tax is on liquor in downtown?

[B]

No.

[C]

14.525%. Holy s. So if you buy a $10 drink, it adds another $1.45 or probably 46 cents, because they round up. You want to know another thing that's kind of interesting? They add 3% more. So it's 17.525% if the music charges a fee for live entertainment. So if you have a ticket to get into a show like the Armory. The Armory. Taxes on that drink that you're having is 17.525%.

[B]

Nuts. And the thing is, we were talking about. And I'm not gonna keep giving them free advertising, even though I love the place, but the new venue down in Shakopee opened up. Right.

[C]

They should pay for that.

[B]

And again, from all the things I saw, it looked amaz amazing last night.

[C]

It didn't.

[B]

No. Yeah. They canceled their shows.

[C]

No.

[B]

What?

[C]

They didn't cancel. Didn't you? This Lionel Richie played his show, and at some point in time, like during oh, what a Feeling or whatever, sat down on the stage because he was having some kind of dizzy spell.

[B]

You're kidding.

[C]

No. And then they. They did kind of a long break for him. He came back out. I think he started singing oh, what a Feeling. And his oh, what a Feeling was, I don't feel good. And they pulled him off stage and they shut the show down.

[B]

Lionel Richie died in Shock.

[C]

No, but it was pretty close.

[B]

Oh my God.

[C]

It was. I hope Lionel R. Which is fine. And they have some video of him

[B]

not feeling well because didn't the Dave Matthews show get.

[C]

Yeah, that was the other day when it was raining.

[B]

Because it was raining so hard.

[C]

But last night they went with Lionel and he did not feel good. So that's two shows in a row.

[B]

And I don't want to. So I don't. I'm not trying to single out Shaak Pierre. I'm not trying to single out any venue whatsoever. But the cost of just going to a concert right now, I'm not doing it. As much as I love live music, with what I've had the opportunity to do as a profession over the last 20 plus years, I've had the chance to go to a lot of really great shows or on my own or whatever. It's been awesome because I love live music. I'm not spending $150 to go to a concert. I'm just not doing that out of principle.

[C]

What if this Shakopee venue is cursed? Because why would it be cursed?

[B]

Sacred ground.

[C]

Because it was built on sacred ground. What if.

[B]

God, we've been working together way too long.

[C]

That's the case that Dave Matthews, huge band.

[B]

Right?

[C]

Huge concert, rained out. Lionel Richie, huge star. People love Lionel Richie. Can't make it through the whole thing. They better practice. They better get some bands that no one gives a crap about. Like let's do a Poison tribute band or something.

[B]

Here's my question though. Because when I. Again, I'm not here to try to rain on anybody's parade. Pun definitely intended. Didn't they think about weather? You're an outdoor amphitheater. Like I always thought these were rain or shine events.

[C]

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, but 77 year old Lionel Richie. Right?

[B]

Unless it was, I guess on Tuesday night it was lightning and all that stuff. So I guess you'd have to factor safety. Yeah.

[C]

What do you do when there's a windstorm or a hailstorm come through? Where do all those people go? Just like any outdoor event. But yeah, maybe. Just maybe.

[B]

What?

[C]

The same people that attempted to close and did successfully close the dog park down on the Mississippi. They should maybe check that venue to see. Or is that owned by. Is that owned by the Miwakin? Is that.

[B]

I think so.

[C]

So they.

[A]

They.

[C]

They'll be okay with it?

[B]

Yeah, I would think so. Yeah.

[C]

I'm just totally making a joke. I assume they looked at the land and said this is Fine land.

[B]

Well, because it is called the Mystic Lake Amphitheater.

[C]

Okay, well, it is obviously owned by the natives in Mystic Lake. Yeah, right. Oh, that's. That's pretty. Okay, so just real quick. If you're gonna go to downtown Minneapolis and you're a good tipper, a 20% tipper, just prepare to have your $10 drink be $22. And I wonder if they're charging tax on those tips. And then another 17.525% if you're on a live show. So you just spent 34.525% on your drink. If you tip 20%.

[B]

That's amazing.

[C]

Wow, that is just shockingly, isn't it?

[B]

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[A]

What is that?

[B]

Oh, yeah, it's a World cup holder.

[A]

Like the soccer tournament.

[C]

World cup for the world. Fits every car, holds every cup.

[A]

It has a Carvana logo.

[C]

Carvana made it. They buy and sell cars.

[B]

So they made a car cup holder.

[C]

So, got any good cups lately?

[A]

Used to. Just couldn't figure out where in the world to put them.

[B]

The World cup holder brought to you by Carvana. Proud sponsors of the World cup holder,

[C]

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[B]

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[B]

Yeah, because I, when we were talking about concerts and whatnot, I think thought, you know, I was thinking about, oh, this would be kind of fun. And I looked at the prices for. Because one of my youngest sons, he loves Benson Boone. He's like his guy. And I remember a couple months ago when he was in town and I thought, I'll just get a couple of nosebleeds. I'm like, wait, what now?

[C]

There are no such things, right?

[B]

He's charging how much just to get into the. Well, it's not him because here's the problem. Ticketmaster. It's the Ticketmaster, the conglomerates of the world that are ruining it for everybody else. And again, they're setting prices because they're trying to meet demand or whatever. But then you wonder why so many of these other shows have no one. Oh, she's not feeling whether she's gonna have to cancel this tour. No, no. It's because no one's buying tickets to your. No one believes that crap. It's because no one's buying tickets to your show.

[C]

You wonder somebody, a star like Taylor Swift couldn't say sorry Ticketmaster. Although Ticketmaster probably gives her a huge percentage of their fees, right? To send her ticketing through Ticketmaster because she's a multiple billion dollar company, she could invent thing and you buy tickets@taylor swift.com.

[B]

that's exactly where I was going to go because I think it was a couple of years ago, there were a couple of artists that did get together because I remember talking about it. I was working at the music station across town at the time and there was A bunch of artists that tried to start their own. Their own ticket agency or whatever. And I don't remember exactly what happened either if they were. If they were sued or. Yeah. Or if they ended up realizing what a nightmare that this was and then they ended up selling it to another company or whatever the case might have been. But I do remember that being a thing like 15, 20 years ago, something like that. But it's just, the problem is no one wants to. You can't start something like this because you're just going to get squashed is the issue.

[C]

Remember who kind of did this first? Remember when Prince said, oh yeah, sell my own album directly?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Right. And then he had the crystal ball approach in 1998. I'm looking this up. This is all the Internet. He sold 200,000 copies of this three disc set at 50 bucks a piece all by himself. Right. So he probably had five bucks into the cost of making it. And so he sold 200. Whatever. 200,000 times 45 bucks is not a bad little payday. And he said, like he was making a dollar an album with his. With his radio or his record company. Record company, whoever it was. Sony or whoever it was. And then he made all of it. And wow, what an interesting thing. So maybe Taylor will do that. Maybe somebody has to bust up that. You know what will happen is Facebook or Instagram will make their own ticketing app. And then you advertise on Instagram, you buy your tickets on Instagram. Somebody else will make that. I don't know why they don't go after it.

[B]

That's interesting.

[C]

Somebody will do that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Shout out to Mark Zuckerberg. Go ahead. You can have that one for free. I gave him the idea. For free. No, I won't even ask.

[B]

You don't think he'll give you a discount then?

[C]

Maybe he's a good guy.

[B]

I think also, by the way, I got a quick mention before. We gotta go. Thank you to all the people that reached up from the frat pack to say, hey, come here and have a beer. I was here late last night and so I was getting stuff done around here. So I did see the US lost

[C]

their World cup match to a bunch of turkeys.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

By the turkey.

[B]

By the way, why are certain broadcasters pronouncing it incorrectly?

[C]

Okay, that's funny. We talked about this. Somebody said, why did they change turkey to Turkey A. Right. And I said, well, that's the way they say turkey in Turkey. Right. Just like in Germany, they don't say German, they say Deutschland and in Japan, they say Nippon instead of Japan. But we as Americans name countries whatever we want to call them.

[B]

Yeah. I don't get it.

[C]

Well, it's what we call Turkey. We call it Turkey. We don't call it Turkey. Okay, but the Turkish call it Turkey A.

[B]

It's also like Kiev now. It's called Kyiv.

[C]

Kyiv, yeah. But we say Chicken Kiev, so we say Chicken Kiev or Kyiv. When we think of Ukraine, we don't say Kyiv. We don't call it Chicken Kyiv.

[B]

Well, I always think, whenever I think of Ukraine, I always think of Kamala Harris explaining how Russia in the war, Russia is a big country, and it's right next to Ukraine, which is a much smaller country.

[A]

Right.

[C]

I don't know if you've heard this, but people are predicting and that if Ukraine still keeps getting the backing of the United States, that they may take the fight into Russia and that there's a chance, because Russia's a little bit on the ropes financially here, that Russia could have a potentially big problem on their hands if Ukraine starts attacking inside of Russia.

[B]

Really Think of that.

[C]

Wow. Think of that. You go in and everyone says this war is gonna last four days. It's been now four years or whatever it is. And Ukraine might be the aggressor, saying, instead of Russia being around, let's call this land Ukraine land, West or east, and let's go into them. Right. That would be pretty interesting. That would be. That would be a change. Thank you. For our tax dollars to go help them do all that.

[B]

No doubt. Especially this time.

[C]

Reavers. Happy Friday. Life's going to get better when you drive home. I promise you. You're going to go home late tonight.

[B]

I'm going to follow a semi the whole way Soon.

[C]

Tesla Cyber Taxi will drive you home. You won't even think about it.

[B]

Oh, great. I could text and. Yeah, exactly.

[C]

You could do anything. You could just lay in the back. You're like Tessa, Cyber Taxi. I'm going to be in the back sleeping. The reason they'll do that is because you are the best.

[B]

Thank you, Michael. Please do us a favor. Rate and review the show wherever you happen to be listening to the weekly Scramble podcast. It helps others find the show and it helps us out as well. And we appreciate each and every single one of you. His name is Mike Fratelloni. My name is Chris Reivers. Thank you so very much for listening to the weekly Scramble podcast. We'll talk to you again next week. Until then, cheers.

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