SCRAMBLE: Ilhan Omar husband’s California winery suddenly closes amid investigation into her finances

Summary

Garage Logic: “SCRAMBLE: Ilhan Omar husband’s California winery suddenly closes amid investigation into her finances”

Date: April 30, 2026
Host: Chris Reivers
Co-host: Michael Fratelloni
Podcast Network: Gamut Podcast Network

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Overview

This episode of Garage Logic’s “Weekly Scramble” covers local Minnesota culture and news, including a deep dive into the recent controversy surrounding Representative Ilhan Omar’s husband’s California winery, which abruptly closed amid a federal investigation into Omar’s finances. The hosts, Chris Reivers and Michael Fratelloni, also riff on topics like the national debt, Minnesota’s new state flag, and current political developments. The episode’s tone is classic Garage Logic—a blend of wry skepticism, Northwoods storytelling, social media banter, and political commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Flying the Old Minnesota State Flag (02:14–10:16)

• Ongoing Listener Project: Chris and Mike read and discuss listener messages about Minnesota cities and towns still flying the original state flag, which Joe Soucheray refers to as the “fraud flag” or “government flag."
• Bar and Grill Shoutouts: Eagle Lake, MN (Eagle’s Nest bar), Kilkenny, MN (The Toy Box restaurant), and Windham, MN (Wyndham Pirates baseball park) get shoutouts for local flavor and civic pride.
• Memorable Moment: Mike cracks, “They should be the Somali pirates.” Chris, flatly, “No.” (03:53)
• Recurring Theme: Small-town recommendations from Chris for Mike (who is unlikely to visit), especially bars with novelty food (like Eagle’s Nest Monster Burger).

2. Sober Cab Anecdotes & Social Media Engagement (06:25–10:16)

• Mike muses about being the “sober cab” and asks listeners to weigh in: “Do you have a wife that’s your sober cab? I’ve never had a plus one.” (06:25)
• Fratelloni details marketing stunts for his company, including surprise gift card giveaways and his “Frat Pack” group (now 1,700+ members).

3. The U.S. National Debt Surpassing GDP (14:24–19:36)

• Source Discussion: Fortune.com’s report on U.S. national debt exceeding GDP as of April 1st.
• Analysis: Mike explains why, as long as the dollar is the world’s reserve currency, printing money spreads inflation’s impact globally rather than solely in the U.S.
  • “When we devalue our currency, it hurts everybody the same... So I’m not saying AOC is right... but if we print a few trillion dollars, the rest of the world is a few trillion dollars in value less valuable. We deflated their value of their currency.” (17:04–18:23)
• Skepticism about Alternatives: Discussion on BRIC currencies, the “won” (Chinese yuan), and why no one would put all their money in, say, Somali shillings—leading to a riff on fraud, “It’s American taxpayers. It’s the shilling.” (19:45)

4. Ilhan Omar’s Husband’s California Winery Chaos (20:15–25:25)

• Main Story: The closure of a California winery co-owned by Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband Tim Mynett, following scrutiny of their financial disclosures.
• Timeline & Facts:
  • Wild changes in reported business value from $51,000 to $30 million in one year (according to House Oversight Committee Republicans).
  • Omar’s office blames the accountant, saying numbers were erroneous; current net worth “less than $100,000 combined.”
  • Social media skepticism: “Fraud, fraud, fraud” all over their Facebook posts. (22:41)
• Viral Video Moment: Chris: “They went to the address of the winery… Not only is it not a real winery, it’s in an office building. There were no cars.” (23:11)
• Lack of Transparency: No way to buy the wine online; the company’s website isn’t functioning.
  • “Cannot find anywhere to buy their wines. This is like, weird. Like it’s not a real winery.” (24:12)

5. Local & National Politics: Candidates & Controversies (25:25–41:41)

• Political Ads Scepticism: Chris sighs at TV commercials declaring Omar is “fighting for you,” calling them hollow political branding. (25:05)
• Royce White Critique: Chris and Mike question why the former NBA player (and controversial political figure) keeps running for office despite personal and financial scandals:
  • “He’s the guy that was caught using campaign contributions to go to the strip club— and a 50-year no contact order with his ex-wife.” (32:42–35:01)
• Reflections on Minnesota Politicians:
  • “If [Governor Walsh] goes after fraud, we say, ‘Why didn’t you do it earlier?’ If he catches fraud, we say, ‘Why didn’t you do it earlier?’ He’s kind of damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.” (35:02)
  • “The part that’s so maddening is that the audacity for someone in that position… To now, when the feds were the ones who actually did this work… to brag about the hard work we’re doing to combat fraud.” (35:44–36:23)
  • Reflection on how scandals, missteps, and public perception can end a Minnesota politician’s career, regardless of party.
• Unorthodox Candidate Test: Mike proposes a “school bus driver” test:
  • “Would you let the politician you’re voting for drive your child’s school bus?” (39:38)
  • For Trump/Biden/Royce White: “Not a chance.” (40:08)
  • “It’s a real thing—my neighbor, I have a buddy who’s the mayor of a town in my thing, I’d let him drive my kid’s school bus.” (41:00)

6. Local Color & Heartfelt Moments (Throughout)

• The hosts riff on Minnesota’s small towns, sports, and concert-going, with homespun stories about family, growing up, and jokes about left/right political relatives (Trump wine at Thanksgiving).
• Chris: “I tell people, just wait till the last minute, especially if you’re just getting one ticket [to a concert]. It’s the best.” (13:06)
• Memorable Laugh: Mike brings “Dad jokes” near the end:
  • “What’s the most reliable part of your body? Your fingers—you can always count on them!” (42:13)

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Notable Quotes

On Flying the Old Flag & Social Media:

• “We had a theme this week, Joe, on Garage Logic about the cities and townships flying the original Minnesota state flag, not the new fraud flag, as Joe calls it now.”
  (Chris Reivers, 02:14)

Political Real Talk:

• “Stop with that [‘fighting for you’]. That should be outlawed. No one is fighting for any one of us. It's just do whatever I can to remain in office, and y’all can go bleep yourself.”
  (Chris Reivers, 25:05)

On U.S. Debt & Currency:

• “When one country does it, when Britain does it… it only hurts the Brits. When we devalue our currency, it hurts everybody the same… the whole world pays for our foolishness.”
  (Michael Fratelloni, 17:15)

On Scandal and Leadership:

• “Would you let the politician you’re voting for drive your child’s school bus?”
  (Michael Fratelloni, 39:55)

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Timestamps of Important Segments

| Timestamp | Topic/Segment | |:---:|---| | 02:14–10:16 | Minnesota flags, small town shoutouts, and bar recommendations | | 14:24–19:36 | The national debt surpasses GDP and reserve currency analysis | | 20:15–25:25 | Breakdown of Ilhan Omar husband’s winery scandal | | 32:42–35:01 | Royce White’s candidacies and controversies | | 35:02–36:23 | Minnesota gubernatorial politics and fraud fallout | | 39:38–41:36 | “School bus litmus test” for politicians | | 42:00+ | Dad jokes and comedic close |

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Summary & Takeaways

• Tone/Mood: The episode blends small-town Minnesota pride, world-weary cynicism about politics, and generous amounts of high-spirited banter.
• Ilhan Omar Winery Scandal: The core news story is treated with skepticism and humor, referencing details from investigative journalism and social media sleuthing.
• Political Fatigue: The hosts express frustration and resignation regarding both party machines, candidates, and the “fraud fatigue” affecting MN politics in particular.
• Human Touch: The episode is punctuated with personal stories, relatable analogies, and a lighthearted “test” for political trust, grounding the show in ordinary life despite the volatile news cycle.

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Final Thought

This episode of Garage Logic’s Weekly Scramble is essential listening for those invested in Minnesota’s politics and culture—especially with its on-the-ground reporting, everyman observations, and unapologetic, occasionally irreverent perspective on the news behind the headlines.

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Transcript

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[Michael Fratelloni]

Here we go.

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This is the weekly scramble. A place where we chat about life over a cold one or two. It's time to belly up to the pod with Mike Fratelloni and your host, Chris Reavers.

[Chris Reivers]

That's right. It's time for the weekly scramble podcast. My name is Chris Reivers. You look confused because the live light isn't on there.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Oh, it's on.

[Chris Reivers]

On this one we had a little bit technical, so that's why it looks a little bit different.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I was just pointing to the camera because people can watch this on YouTube.

[Chris Reivers]

That's right, we are on YouTube and we appreciate all of you that have commented, even the ones that are mean to us. I'm just kidding. Most people are awesome.

[Michael Fratelloni]

What do they say about me?

[Chris Reivers]

I'm just joking.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I should never read bad comments.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, that's the thing. Like when you work on a show like Garage Logic, you know, sometimes people are just gonna say mean stuff about you. That just goes with the territory.

[Michael Fratelloni]

That's what you guys do. You guys say mean stuff about one side of the political aisle, but you

[Chris Reivers]

frat packers, you could. You couldn't be nicer when. As it comes to social media and whatnot. In fact. Oh. Oh, I'm so glad. I'm so glad I was reminded of this. We were just talking about a cool spot down in Kilkenny, Minnesota. In fact, we've had a theme this week, Joe, on Garage Logic about the cities and townships and places that are flying the original Minnesota state flag, not the new fraud flag, as Joe calls it now.

[Michael Fratelloni]

It's the government flag.

[Chris Reivers]

The government.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Or is he calling it the fraud flag or the government flag?

[Chris Reivers]

He's calling it the fraud flag.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I like the government flag. I thought that was fraud.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Government fraud flag.

[Chris Reivers]

We had a couple of people that were corresponding with us during the show today, and one of them was in Windham, Minnesota, which is flying the. The original Minnesota state flag, which, by the way, fun fact, the Windham, because you are kind of getting bit by the Tomball bug, which is what I

[Michael Fratelloni]

really, really love last year. I really enjoyed it.

[Chris Reivers]

The Wyndham Minnes town baseball park. It's right off the highway. I can't remember if that's still 169 or if that's Highway 60 in Windham.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

We haven't had them. We have not added them yet to that wall over there, but their town baseball park, because they're the Wyndham Pirates. Oh, and they have a pirate ship in left field. Sure. It's super cool.

[Michael Fratelloni]

They should be the Somali pirates.

[Chris Reivers]

No.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Is that town filling with Somalis?

[Chris Reivers]

That I don't think.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Because think about that. That would be kind of cool if you were this. That would be kind of good name for a team. Right?

[Chris Reivers]

I don't have to be in Minneapolis, though.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Joey Faulkner sent you a message that he said, hey, send this to Reavers, and I got it.

[Chris Reivers]

All right.

[Michael Fratelloni]

It's Eagle Lake, Minnesota.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, just outside of Mankato.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Yeah. They're flying at the city hall. They're flying the old flight.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay. I gotta make a note of that.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I sent you the photo, but again, you don't have Facebook on your phone.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I. So I apologize to people that have been sending me messages and trying to reach out. I haven't had access to Facebook for a number of weeks.

[Michael Fratelloni]

He needs to reset his password.

[Chris Reivers]

No, it's.

[Michael Fratelloni]

And it's taking weeks.

[Professional Turf Announcer]

Weeks.

[Chris Reivers]

It's pass key.

[Michael Fratelloni]

It's pass key.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't know how to do that. I don't want to do all that crap.

[Michael Fratelloni]

You just got to sit down and do it.

[Chris Reivers]

This was Joey. You said Joey Faulkner.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Joey Faulkner. I can't remember what frat pack number he is.

[Chris Reivers]

Eagle Lake, Minnesota. And he said the. What did he say? City Hall.

[Michael Fratelloni]

The City Hall, Yeah. Eagle Lake City hall is flying. I think that's good enough proof when the city hall has it flying.

[Chris Reivers]

I think one of the themes we're going to have not only on this show today, but going forward is I'm going to give a list of recommendations on places for you to go visit that I know you're never gonna go visit. Because, you know, like Saul mentioned too, right now, Eagle Lake, Minnesota.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

There's a place there called the Eagles Nest.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Sure.

[Chris Reivers]

It's a really cool bar and grill.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Does Hitler hang out there? And he's like, I've got the plan for everyone.

[Chris Reivers]

No, he does not.

[Michael Fratelloni]

It's called the Eagle's Nest.

[Chris Reivers]

In that place they have what's called the monster burger. The Eagle's Nest Monster burger in Eagle Lake. I'm not joking. This is a burger that's made for about four or five people.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Sure.

[Chris Reivers]

So you cut it up almost like it's a pizza.

[Michael Fratelloni]

All right, that sounds kinda cool.

[Chris Reivers]

Back in college, my then girlfriend Jessica, she and a buddy of mine drove out there. So she was always our sober cab. And. Which I don't know why she hung around, but whatever. So we went there. My friend Ryan, who still lives in the area, we each were gonna bet that we could do a monster burger on our own. This is.

[Michael Fratelloni]

You can't do that.

[Chris Reivers]

He did.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Really?

[Chris Reivers]

He did.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Is he still with us?

[Chris Reivers]

He's still with us. And this is the whole works, Mike. It's cheese, it's tomatoes, lettuce, everything. If you want bacon, they'll put bacon on it too.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I love bacon.

[Chris Reivers]

And so I got about two thirds of the way through and I went, I can't do this. I'm already miserable. I'm not gonna. This is a Friday night. I said, I am not gonna be miserable for the entire weekend because I tried to eat this thing. But it's a really cool spot, you know.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Here's a question that I'm gonna ask our list and viewers. Do you have a wife? That's your sober cab. I've never had a plus one.

[Chris Reivers]

Sure.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Wife, girlfriend, you know, menagerie.

[Chris Reivers]

Keep this in mind though. Yeah, keep this in mind. So this is. This is, like I said a few years ago, I. I'm two years older. Than Jess.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Sure. So when you were.

[Chris Reivers]

At the time I was 22. She was only 20.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

But when I say she was my sober cab, she would get us back and then start hammering. Sure.

[Michael Fratelloni]

But my point is, do you want to be with. And this is a question I genuinely don't know. I've never had a plus one. Who's a sober cab driver. Never. I've always been the one that has to drive. That's why I hate boating, because they all look at me, then I have to boat.

[Chris Reivers]

Here you go.

[Michael Fratelloni]

And then everyone else goes, gets hammered, and has fun. And I can say, oh, don't hang off the side.

[Chris Reivers]

Put.

[Michael Fratelloni]

No, you can't put those life jackets away. Nope. Nope. That champagne shouldn't be sprayed on that boat going by, you know, that kind of stuff. And I'm just the buzzkill. And I know I'm the buzzkill, but someone has to be sober. And I'm wondering if it's better to have a Pl. Who's the sober cab or if it's better being the plus one. That's the sober cab. And does she call me the sober cab? Son of a. Well, so is that possible that I'm the sober cab in our relationship?

[Chris Reivers]

You know, here's the thing, though, that you mentioned that because people. Nobody ever believes me when I say this. I never drank in high school. In fact, I didn't drink until I turned 21 years old. And so in high school, I was always the sober cab. I was always the one that drove buddies and friends and sometimes the ladies. The ladies? Yeah. I was always the one that drove. So I guess I never looked at it kind of that way through the same. But I guess, you know, when you're in high school, it's a little bit different. Yeah, that's a good question.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Well, that's. That's an interesting question. I'm gonna put that up on the frat pack. One other thing I want to put up on the frat pack, because I did this for my company the other day. So we're doing this 100 days of find it at frats. We're gonna give. Giving away stuff. We technically haven't started it.

[Chris Reivers]

A lot of impressions.

[Michael Fratelloni]

We are, but we haven't started this big one Right. Where we're gonna. We're gonna give away, like, grills, and I mean, it's gonna be crazy. Like, really, really big stuff.

[Chris Reivers]

Cool.

[Michael Fratelloni]

But another thing that I'm doing Reavers is I'm going to places, and I'm going live or going up On Instagram and on Fradaloni's count. Right. And I'm saying, hey, I'm here. And oh, by the way, here's a $50 gift card to this place. Here's a gift card to Fraterloni's. And the gift cards are anywhere from $5 to $1,000.

[Chris Reivers]

Wow.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I don't know which one. Obviously, we have more $5 ones. Actually, let me tell you this. Can I get really deep and inside with people? I know we have topics. So this is inside baseball. What I'm doing is I'm saying the smallest one is $5. Technically, there are no $5 ones either. We want to say the smallest one's $5. So when someone opens one that's bigger than $5, they feel like they didn't get the smallest one. Isn't that cheesy to say? Right. So maybe I'll have to throw in a couple five dollar ones, too.

[Chris Reivers]

You know what it is? Yeah, that's good marketing.

[Michael Fratelloni]

It's good marketing. So I'm doing these things. Well, I posted this the other day. I had like 20,000 views of that video of me saying I was at Malcolm Yards right down the road. And I said, hey, I'm at Malcolm Yards. You want to come over? A couple people stopped and got gift cards. I mean, it was really, really cool.

[Chris Reivers]

I was with you with your beautiful wife Nicole. I was with you at the fair when this happened.

[Michael Fratelloni]

When that happened. Holy crap.

[Chris Reivers]

This is no joke. The woman came and sat next to us at the table.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Yeah. The best part was is she followed. Followed by frats. We put the prize on the table. She wasn't checking her phone. I was like, she could win right now.

[Chris Reivers]

Right?

[Michael Fratelloni]

All she has to do is look at her phone and then she would do it. And she knew all about it and she didn't check. And that was kind of fun. It was. People knew about that. But this is going to be crazy, crazy big this summer. So follow me, follow my company, frat alonis. And again, if you want to be part of the frat pack, find Michael Fradaloni on Facebook. Befriend me, I'll invite you to the frat pack. Because the frat pack is just great. People posting a bunch. Got another couple members today. I mean, it's about 1700 people now. It's really growing.

[Chris Reivers]

That's cool.

[Michael Fratelloni]

It is the frat pack. 5,000. So I'm waiting to get to 5,000, but we'll get there.

[Chris Reivers]

I wanted to give another quick shout out too, because through this Adventure that we're going on and naming all the different cities and townships that are flying the original Minnesota state flag. I mentioned that. Kilkenny, Minnesota, which is just a little bit west, west of Faribault and Montgomery. A really cool city. They do halfway to St. Patrick's Day.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Halfway. Oh, nice.

[Chris Reivers]

Because it's an Irish themed town. And so what would that be every September? Like mid September?

[Michael Fratelloni]

Much nicer temperature.

[Chris Reivers]

We're halfway to St. Patrick's Day.

[Michael Fratelloni]

That's a great idea, by the way.

[Chris Reivers]

But there is. And they get a ton of people to show up for that. There's a really cool bar and restaurant in town. Again, not a huge city. They have one four way stop and that's about it. They got a little gas station there, but it's this really cool bar and restaurant called the Toy Box. And so my boys and I and my parents, we went out for dinner Friday night. We decided to take grandma and grandpa out for dinner on Friday night. And I ran into a frat packer.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Did you?

[Chris Reivers]

His name was Eric. Couldn't have been nicer. I think he rode his motorcycle because it's a biker bar. Cause it's right on. It's at the intersection of like two decent sized highways. But it's really cool. And so I wanted to give him the proper dude. He's like. He pointed me. He goes, you're reivers. Yeah, I am. He goes, hey, I'm a frat packer. I'm almost 100% positive it was Eric. He did give me his number that I'm never gonna remember, but that was really cool. And he offered to buy me a beer. And I said, I'm actually driving my parents and the kids.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I'm the sober cab.

[Chris Reivers]

I was the sober cab.

[Michael Fratelloni]

See, you could have just gotten hammered with Eric. How fun that would have been.

[Chris Reivers]

It would have been really cool just hooking up.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I have the spreadsheet. Someday I'll do that. What we can do is do live call ins. I'm not gonna. And they can ask me for their number. Maybe what I'll do is I'll go live on Facebook and people can ask me and I'll just look at the spreadsheet.

[Chris Reivers]

So the reason I'm mentioning these places is that's pretty much the extent of my social life right now is taking myself for dinner and driving around that

[Michael Fratelloni]

and going to your kids games and

[Chris Reivers]

going to my kids games. But. So it was funny because I was talking to a co worker in the hallway and knowing, you know, we're all sports fans. Like, man, which one are you going to tonight? The Wolves are the Wild. Since they're both in town, they're both in the playoffs, I went neither.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Neither.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm driving to Mountain, Wis. Talking to watch my kid play 8th grade baseball, and I am getting my ass home.

[Michael Fratelloni]

You were really good at getting one ticket for a game.

[Chris Reivers]

I loved it. I'm not joking. I would always say this to you. If there was a show I wanted to go see, I would wait till the very last minute. Maybe I wanted to go, maybe I didn't see kind of how the day unfolded. And I'd buy one ticket for dirt cheap and I could go, leave whenever I wanted. Just walk around and. Just walk around and take in the vibe. I did it with the Rolling Stones, I did it with George Strait, I did it with Stapleton. I've done it with a bunch of different acts because I tell people, don't just wait till the last minute, especially if you're just getting one ticket. Yes, it's the best.

[Michael Fratelloni]

And you know what? You know what the ushers don't do when they see one guy jumping down in a seat?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Michael Fratelloni]

They don't say, oh, you know, if you go there with 11 people and you go jump into a better seat, they get pissed.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Michael Fratelloni]

But if you're just one guy, I'm just sitting here for a minute, I'll hop up and go to a different seat. They're not going to razz you.

[Guest or Caller]

Right.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Michael Fratelloni]

Testing, testing.

[Chris Reivers]

Perfect.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

No, you're good. I think something happened with your mic there towards the end of the previous segment. I brought this story in because I know you, being the smart numbers guy that you are. Oh, no, you're gonna have a reaction.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Do I need a paper and a pencil?

[Chris Reivers]

Not really, because you're pretty good at doing this stuff on the fly, but

[Michael Fratelloni]

on the podcast, it's way harder, FYI.

[Chris Reivers]

But Fortune.com. pretty respectable. Pretty respectable. Website and known quantity. The United States of Minnesota. Michael. Has crossed a very grim threshold. The national debt. Debt has officially exceeded the size of the entire American economy as of April 1st. So one month ago tomorrow, debt held by the public stood at $31.27 trillion, while nominal GDP over the past 12 month period was an estimated $31.22 trillion, pushing the debt to GDP ratio to 100.2%. What does that mean? That means every dollar we have, we owe $1.30 or $1.27, something like that. This is according to a press release issued today by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Based on new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Total gross national debt, including. Oh, boy. Intra governmental obligations, has already surpassed $39 trillion, a figure that amounts to roughly 114,000 per American, or $289,000 per household, according to the Senate Joint Economic Committee's monthly debt update.

[Michael Fratelloni]

AOC had it right. Oh, when she said print more money, what does it matter? She's not that far off. I know that sounds strange, but as long as America got us into trouble, kind of.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Michael Fratelloni]

But as long as America is the number one used currency in the world, which it is. Nothing's even close to it, right?

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Nothing's close to it. So, you know Brick. There's that one called Brick. That's getting to be a little bit better. You know, I'm forgetting all what BRIC stands for. Out. India is one of them. Right. They're trying to make their own currency. But as long as we're the number one currency in the world, if we print more money, it devalues everyone across the world's power that the dollar has. Okay, but it makes our debt less. Right.

[Chris Reivers]

Just say that again.

[Michael Fratelloni]

So our debt's $40 trillion, right?

[Chris Reivers]

Yep. Yep.

[Michael Fratelloni]

And that's a real number?

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Michael Fratelloni]

If we went out and printed $40 trillion to pay it off. Because we could do that. We could print $40 trillion and pay off our debt. Because so many people around the world, the entire World holds dollars. Instead of the brunt of that, the devaluing of their money, it's spread across the entire planet. So when one country does it, when Britain does it, well, no one's, you know, not a lot of people outside of Britain are holding Euros, right? I mean, some are, but it's not the world's currency, right? So when they devalue their currency, it only hurts the Brits. When we devalue our currency, it hurts everybody the same. So China can't pay their employees the same way they could because they were doing it in American dollars. They weren't paying their employees American dollars, but everything was functioned in American dollars, right? So the whole world pays for our foolishness. So I'm not saying AOC is right, and I'm not saying this isn't a big deal, but if the crap hits the fan and we need to print a few trillion dollars, well, the whole. The rest of the world is a few trillion dollars in value. Less valuable. We deflated their value of their currency. It doesn't really matter. So let's say we deflate the world by 3%. So what? We're still the number one currency until the day we're not the number one currency.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, that's, I guess, where I was kind of heading with at some point.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Name one. Name one country that you would put every single thing you have into their money supply.

[Chris Reivers]

Don't we need to be worried about China?

[Michael Fratelloni]

And would you. Would you change what do the Chinese have? What, yen? No, that's Japanese.

[Chris Reivers]

But.

[Michael Fratelloni]

But I guess the Chinese have. Oh, my God.

[Chris Reivers]

What?

[Michael Fratelloni]

What? Dollar amount? No, it's not. That's Japanese. Is it Chinese currency?

[Chris Reivers]

Isn't it the yen?

[Michael Fratelloni]

My God, how do we not know that?

[Chris Reivers]

But I guess what I'm trying to

[Michael Fratelloni]

get at is they have won Chinese Yuan. Y, U, A, N, Chinese Yuan.

[Chris Reivers]

Not to be confused with two.

[Michael Fratelloni]

One. Was it. Is that what you're gonna say?

[Chris Reivers]

No. One, two, three. Okay, was that our partially racist portion of it?

[Michael Fratelloni]

What I'm saying is would you take every dollar you have and put it into the won?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, no, but I guess what I'm saying is at some point we're not gonna remain the powerhouse that we think we are.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Who's going to beat us?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, that's why. Isn't China kind of a threat right now?

[Michael Fratelloni]

Sure. You're going to put it into the rupee or the rubles. Okay, maybe rupee, maybe. Maybe India will do it, right? But name another country on the face of this planet that we change that you would willingly take all your dollars out of the bank and say, hey, we're putting it into this.

[Chris Reivers]

Do you have. You still have your Google there? Yeah. Will you look up what is the form of currency in Somalia? Oh, my God. Is it the state of Minnesota?

[Michael Fratelloni]

Oh, God. It's American taxpayers. It's the shilling.

[Chris Reivers]

The shilling.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Which sounds kind of appropriate.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, so how many?

[Michael Fratelloni]

Oh, my God. When you think of that, that actually makes me feel a little bit better. Like the fraudsters in America, in Minnesota that happen to be Somalis. All Somalis are not fraudsters. I'm not saying that.

[Chris Reivers]

Right. But the ones that are fraudsters converted

[Michael Fratelloni]

their US Dollars into shillings, which sounds very aristocratic to me. Right. You're like, oh, you're converting to some shillings.

[Chris Reivers]

Speaking of shillings, how about this story, which I'm not gonna say I told you so, but I told you so. We're gonna head to the New York Post, shall we?

[Michael Fratelloni]

Love it.

[Chris Reivers]

A California winery co owned by Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar's husband Tim Minette, has officially shut its doors for good amid scrutiny of the congresswoman's family wealth. The winery ceased business operations on April 4, two months after Republicans sent a letter demanding answers into the discrepancies between Omar's congressional financial disclosures for 2024 and the ones she filed just one year earlier, according to California business records in a February letter. I like your website, but sometimes your pop ups are really annoying. In a February letter to My Net. But House Oversight Committee chair James Comer, he's a Republican from Kentucky, said financial disclosures filed by his wife, Omar show Est Crew LLC and Rose Lake Capital llc, which you hold ownership stakes in, went from being worth as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024. Let me scroll down. Comer said the discrepancy sparked serious public concerns about how the Santa Rosa winery and venture capital firm increased so dramatically in value only a year after reporting very limited assets. Given that these companies do not publicly list their investors or where their money comes from, this sudden jump in value raises concerns that unknown individuals may be investing to gain influence with your wife. This week, Omar claimed that she and Minette's net worth wasn't actually tens of millions of dollars after all, and they actually have less than $100,000 combined. We don't know.

[Michael Fratelloni]

That seems a little off.

[Chris Reivers]

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, her office told the outlet that those numbers were made an error and blamed their accountant, Mynette's business venture capital and boutique winery stated in the fall of 2021, after his prior consulting firm shut down. By the way, that consulting firm, in which Ilhan Mar was directly.

[Michael Fratelloni]

They made some quality wines there. In fact, they had this class that you could go to.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Michael Fratelloni]

And it was called. They had the big sign over and it said wine leering center. Get it? Quality Leering Center.

[Chris Reivers]

Wow.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I'm looking at their post on Facebook right now. The Escrew Co. Right? And every. They post these beautiful wines and some great labels. And the first thing by Chrissy Guest, just random poster fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud by let. Led by Ilhan Omar. Like every post. Well, every response. Fraudster, Fraudster.

[Chris Reivers]

Did you see the viral video that hap. That took place before all of this investigation started? They went to the address of this winery.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Are you kidding me? Don't tell me it's not a real winery.

[Chris Reivers]

Mike, not only is it not a real winery, it's in an office building.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Well, that can happen because the wineries. Let me explain why.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm gonna give you the Joe Land.

[Michael Fratelloni]

They don't own the land. They just buy the grapes from the farmers.

[Chris Reivers]

Right. So when they walked up to the address of the winery, it didn't have a real address. Everything was locked and nothing was even there. There were no cars out front. You're saying that there should have been somebody in there at some point.

[Michael Fratelloni]

It's funny that you say that, because I'm looking at their Facebook page and nothing is of. Well, there's a couple winery shots, but it's not their sign of their winery shot.

[Chris Reivers]

This New York Post story also has a file photo in which it looks like someone just went to our buddies at Elevated Beer Wine and Spirits, spent a hundred bucks on stuff, and just put it on a table and took photos of it.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Yeah, it's really weird. Every one of their posts, I'm going way back into 2022. Not one of their posts has. Or not many of their posts have comments. Some of their posts have comments, but no post has, like 100 comments.

[Chris Reivers]

The congressional probe appears to be late to the party, calling into question the winery's business model. Many on social media, as Mike just mentioned, have point pointed out they've been able to access the winery's website, which no longer exists, or buy anything for months. Cannot find anywhere to buy their wines. This is like, weird. Like it's not a real winery. One person wrote on its Facebook page. Another added, I wanted to try a bottle of their fine Wine, but I don't know any distributors that even sell it. A third person wrote, no phone number, address is a different business. Can't order it because it doesn't exist. Scam. The winery's Instagram account was filled with beautiful photos of wine and people enjoying the tasty treat, along with more comm. Slamming the company as fake. Where can I buy you wine? Oh, that's right. Your winery is as fake as opposed attacked by your employee. One person wrote, God. The thing is, it is weird.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Only 266 followers. I mean, that should have more than that.

[Chris Reivers]

How can you even remotely consider to take this person seriously anymore? And when I see. Because the ads have started. The television campaign ads for her have already started. She is fighting for you. Stop with that. That should be outlawed. No one is fighting for any one of us. It's just do whatever I can to rem, remain in office, and y' all can go bleep yourself.

[Michael Fratelloni]

She's fighting for us because we need to be strong. So when World War 12 comes around because she's at 11, remember. Yeah, you heard that, right?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, yeah. In fact, I think we played it in Gl.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Okay, if you don't know what I'm talking about, she was giving a speech, and in the speech, she said, nothing like this has happened since World War 11. Obviously, it's two Roman numeral ones, right? So it's World War II. But she. And I get. You're in the fog of the middle of a speech. A fifth grader would say, wait, not World War 11. That's not right. We're not on 11 yet. It's two. And I thought, huh, that seems really, really weird that she went. It's like she didn't know because you're.

[Chris Reivers]

You're saying that she might not be all that up to date on.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I don't. I mean, I think she has to know. I mean, there's some part of me that says she has to know. The weirdest part is there wasn't anything that just clicked in her brain and said, oh, wait, did I just say World War 11? Excuse me. Obviously, it's world. What a faux pas. I'm a fool. Move on, right? I am. I told you what I did one time. I went out and bought cases of Trump wine.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Michael Fratelloni]

This is not a joke.

[Chris Reivers]

Cases of Trump wine you talked about on the show, didn't you?

[Michael Fratelloni]

Yeah. And then I took it to Thanksgiving, and much of my family is ultra left.

[Chris Reivers]

Right.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I have ultra righties. Ultra lefties. I'm down the middle and it was great wine. And we were drinking the champagne and I asked one of my family members, that's real left. And I said, what do you think of it? And when I told her it was Trump wine, it was like she was drinking his essence. She was so pissed. I'm like, he spits in every vat. So there's a little bit of his DNA in every single vat.

[Chris Reivers]

No, that's in you.

[Michael Fratelloni]

That's in you. She was like, michael, I can't believe you did that to me. I'm like, does it burn? Does it burn?

[Chris Reivers]

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[Guest or Caller]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Michael Fratelloni]

I like Elko. That's a cool little town.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Michael Fratelloni]

It wasn't a scam. They delivered me wine.

[Chris Reivers]

You just, you just gave me an idea to do something to maybe a fellow coworker that might occupy that same chair. You should gift this to Jen to the CP and she'd probably hit him over the head with the dancer.

[Michael Fratelloni]

What would happen? I mean, I Was very cautious doing this.

[Chris Reivers]

We give the CP the business all the time.

[Michael Fratelloni]

She's pretty great.

[Chris Reivers]

She's freaking awesome.

[Michael Fratelloni]

She's roughly a saint.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, my God. Could you imagine?

[Michael Fratelloni]

I mean, you have to spend three hours a day with him, five days a week. You let me restate that. You get.

[Chris Reivers]

I get to. You're right.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Three hours a day with her. She gets to spend the remaining everything.

[Chris Reivers]

Hours.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I mean, he is, honest to God, the best of the best. I hate it. I hated it. I was listening to the show the other day, and he and Kenny were talking about something that's gonna happen in five years or seven years, or maybe it was him and Royce were talking about it, and they both said, well, we won't be here. And I thought, no, no. Honest to God, that's really gonna affect me if there's a day they're not on air.

[Chris Reivers]

They have been saying that the entire. Almost 19 years that I've been working with them.

[Michael Fratelloni]

That makes me feel better, but it bugs me. I want them to go deep, deep into their 90s. Me too. Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

I like the job security.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Yeah. When do you retire? How many years till you retire? You have 20 years.

[Chris Reivers]

I got a fifth grader. Let's just put it that way.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Okay. But 20 years, you're roughly 45. 65 would be a good retirement, man. Let's pretend it all works out. Can you make. Can they make it another 20 years?

[Chris Reivers]

I hope so.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I hope so, too. That would move them into the late 90s, which would be cool.

[Chris Reivers]

So, not that I wanted to really turn this into a political show, but I saw something on social media earlier today where Michelle Tafoya, who's currently running against Tina Smith, among others, and she was basically pointing out how Wall is coming out, saying, oh, my goodness, it's because of the hard work of the state of Minnesota that we were able to. But the problem is he's saying it because he knows that there are people who will believe him.

[Michael Fratelloni]

He's screwed, though.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, sure. But the reason I'm bringing it up is so KSTP had this story earlier today. David Hahn has suspended his campaign for Minnesota's open U.S. senate seat. According to a statement on social media, the former Republican Party of Minnesota chair and Minnesota Senate minority leader did not specify why he was exiting the race. Quote, even as I share today that I'm suspending my campaign, I have hope that Minnesotans will elect common sense conservative leadership in November, he wrote in a Facebook post as he pulled out of the race. Hahn did not endorse any other candidate. Here's why I'm bringing it up in a KSTP USA Today poll, which are often very accurate. Mr. Hauser, I believe, has a hand in some of these. Anyway, released back in February, Hahn received 2% support from 650 respondents. Minnesota's primary day is August 11th. Here's where I'm bringing it up.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

The remaining candidates for the open Senate seat include Republicans Michelle Tafoya, Adam Schwarzy. Democrats running include Congresswoman Angie Craig and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan. Also included in this race is Royce White.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

And I want to say Royce. Someone needs to get to Royce. And again, I tend to lead. For those that have listened to me over the years, I obviously lead to one side of the aisle because the other side is completely insane.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Rice White, exact same thing about us

[Chris Reivers]

is doing nobody any favors. He is nuts. He's nuts.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Is he? Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

Have you paid any attention to. Okay. It's just to the point where I even often ask. Okay. He's obviously still running because somebody has to be financially supporting him. Meaning campaign donors. So is this a guy that owns a company that's like a basketball fan?

[Michael Fratelloni]

Remind me. What? Why is he nuts?

[Chris Reivers]

Are you joking?

[Michael Fratelloni]

No. Just remind me.

[Chris Reivers]

He's the guy. Remember, he's run for basically every open seat in the state of Minnesota.

[Michael Fratelloni]

He's building brand name recognition.

[Chris Reivers]

But remember, he's the one that was caught using campaign contributions to go to the strip club

[Weekly Scramble Podcast Intro/Outro Announcer]

and.

[Michael Fratelloni]

But it's a 50 year no contact order with someone with his ex wife. A 50 year.

[Professional Turf Announcer]

Yeah.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Abuse finding, history of legal trouble.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Misappropriation, allegations of the watchdog group from the White house. Spent over $150,000 on personal expenses. Lack of funds. Yeah, he's done some. Why? Why?

[Chris Reivers]

But that's the thing. Once you get. Once a party gets attached to something like that, you're just throwing red meat to the wolves. That's all you're doing.

[Michael Fratelloni]

He was criticized for stating that women have become too mouthy. Okay. Or he repeated conspiracy theories regarding COVID 19 pandemic and Jewish elites leading the Republican Jewish Coalition to label him anti Semitic.

[Chris Reivers]

I was at.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Oh, he sounds like a charmer.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't think that this person would mind me sharing this. I was at a campaign rally for somebody that I know in my neck of the woods and they were running for a state held office or sorry, going for reelection with the state held office. Very respectable man. I couldn't talk highly enough about him. Like I said, I have a personal connection to him. And he did win but at this same event, Royce was going to speak because this was the race last year where Royce was running against Amy Klobuchar.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Sure.

[Chris Reivers]

And I'll just say Rice had as much chance of beating Amy Klobuchar as I do of being in the Twins bullpen, literally. Which is not good. Neither of those things are going to happen. And I said this to one of the people that was there that had a Royce White shirt on that I also, again, know personally, this wasn't just me going up to some random person. I said, you realize he's got as much a chance to beat Amy Klobuchar as I do of going or starting for the Minnesota Twins or something like that. Well, I don't know. He's probably got a good. I said, oh, my God.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Oh, come on. He has a 50 year no contact order with his ex wife.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Michael Fratelloni]

That's a weird start.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes, it is.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Yes, it is. So what I was talking about was the governor being screwed on this fraud thing is now he can't go after it, because if he goes after fraud, then we all say, why didn't you do it earlier? Right. If he catches fraud, we say, why don't you do it earlier? He's kind of damned if he does and damned if he doesn't right now. Same thing with Keith Ellison. Yeah. Like, Keith, if you say, hey, we just caught this huge ring of fraudsters doing lawn mowing fraud or something, we say, oh, well, no, crap. We all would have known that, right? So we're kind of pushing these guys back into a corner. And I think because of that, they're both lame ducks now. I just don't think either of them have any political future whatsoever.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, and the part that's so maddening is that the audacity for someone in that position. I'm specifically talking about Tim Walsh. To pretend that this wasn't even happening at the very beginning of it all, to then go on the national stage as the vice presidential candidate and have every part of your tenure in this state be thoroughly looked through and basically torched to shreds because your track record is such a joke. And then to now, when the feds were the ones who actually did this work, not the state agencies. And then to brag about the hard work we're doing to combat fraud.

[Michael Fratelloni]

He's screwed. Right.

[Chris Reivers]

That makes me even more angry than the fraud actually took place to begin with.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Is it possible that Kamala was a better candidate than Tim and Tim brought down the Kamala Walls ticket?

[Chris Reivers]

Because some have some have suggested that had she gone with is it Shapiro out of Pennsylvania that she might have had a better chance to beat Trump. But think I can't imagine that why they picked.

[Michael Fratelloni]

You know, I want to meet him because I watched a video of him doing some work on a BMW 3 Series in his car. He's like doing. He's doing a video on how to change something on the car. That's the stuff I like to do. I like to do that.

[Chris Reivers]

So you guys can relate to one another.

[Michael Fratelloni]

But. Yes. He's probably around my age. It's probably not that physically fit. Right.

[Chris Reivers]

Probably a terrible lover.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Lover. Probably a terrible lover.

[Chris Reivers]

Right.

[Michael Fratelloni]

He's. We probably have some things in common.

[Chris Reivers]

Right.

[Michael Fratelloni]

But.

[Chris Reivers]

But.

[Michael Fratelloni]

But because I hate to talk about people that I don't know. I feel badly talking about people that I know it's frustrating his actions.

[Chris Reivers]

But. But he has justified the criticism.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

Or he's warranted and then subsequently justified the criticism.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Our lives are too good to crap on someone we don't know.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Michael Fratelloni]

It's frustrating. But he craps on others. Right?

[Chris Reivers]

Sure does.

[Michael Fratelloni]

And I've said many nasty things about him. And. But not apologize to him. But give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe as a human, when we base it down to human, maybe he's just not great at his job. But maybe he's a decent guy.

[Chris Reivers]

Maybe.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I don't know. I do know a couple people that know him. I knew a former speechwriter of his and he said he's very affable. He's really a nice guy. Right. Which is something. Right. And maybe he's just not skilled. Maybe it's because doesn't really have any skin at the game. Doesn't. He was a schoolteacher, was an assistant coach. He just wasn't set up to run a $26 billion business known as Minnesota. Maybe he just didn't have the skill sets to do that.

[Chris Reivers]

I think it's cute that you think that.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Really. I think he's a buffoon. And he may be. That doesn't mean he's a bad person.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Michael Fratelloni]

I got an idea of reverse.

[Chris Reivers]

Talk to me.

[Michael Fratelloni]

You know how you like. Sometimes you want to just break things down to the nitty gritty. All the way down. And I have one sentence that I think you and I could agree on. Would you let the politician you're voting for drive your child's school bus?

[Chris Reivers]

Interesting.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Would you let your politician that you're willing to vote for drive the school bus to and back, back and forth to school for a year? I look at Royce White. Not a chance.

[Chris Reivers]

Not happening.

[Michael Fratelloni]

I look at Donald Trump. Not a chance.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm looking at Peggy Flanagan. Not a chance.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Not a chance. I look at Kamala Harris. Not a chance. And I think, Amy Klobuch. Yeah, probably would. Michelle Tafoya. Yeah, I probably would. I think I probably would. Right, right. And there's just. And there's other politicians. I think of Joe Biden. Hell no. And this is mental faculties, morality, physical faculties, the whole bit.

[Chris Reivers]

The problem with Biden is he would sit at the back of the bus trying to drive it instead of the front.

[Michael Fratelloni]

That's right.

[Chris Reivers]

See, I couldn't help myself.

[Michael Fratelloni]

That's exactly what he would do.

[Chris Reivers]

I really couldn't help myself.

[Michael Fratelloni]

So that's not a bad thing.

[Chris Reivers]

That's not a bad analogy.

[Michael Fratelloni]

It's real quick. Like, would you let person drive your kids to school in the school bus? If the answer's no, should they be in politics?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, if they're effective, that's one thing. But yeah, I get what you're saying.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Completely right. I mean, it's a real thing. Like my neighbor, I have a buddy who's the mayor of a town in my thing, I'd let him drive my kid's school bus.

[Chris Reivers]

Sure.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Oh, yes. Seems like a good guy. Right. But I just, I think that's a really nitty gritty and funnel it right down to. Does this matter? Does this make sense? You're not all going to be expert finance people. Would I let the former mayor of St. Paul Drive my kid's school bus? Maybe Melvin Carter.

[Chris Reivers]

Melvin Carter, maybe.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Right. Would I let the current one? Probably. So. Would I let Jacob Fry do it? Yeah, I probably would.

[Chris Reivers]

Right. Interesting.

[Michael Fratelloni]

It doesn't mean I want to vote for those guys, but that has to be our first litmus test. If you can't get past that, that then the answer should be a no on that politician.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, you're right. Yeah.

[Michael Fratelloni]

You know who I'd let?

[Chris Reivers]

What?

[Michael Fratelloni]

Former governor of South Dakota.

[Chris Reivers]

Christine.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Yeah. Cuz she would drive a bus right over that dog. I don't know. Okay, that was just. I just had that thought. I do have some other thoughts too. You want to hear them?

[Chris Reivers]

Please.

[Michael Fratelloni]

What do you call an inmate that gets tased?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, God, I don't know.

[Michael Fratelloni]

Shaka Khan. Shaka Khan. Remember that song? Okay, I got another one. Okay. What's the most reliable part of your body? Body.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, God. What?

[Michael Fratelloni]

Your fingers. You can always count on them. Okay, I got another one. Okay. And I was gonna try to work this one into the show. My wife said she doesn't really understand erectile dysfunction. I said, honey, it's not that hard. It's the world's best joke that I ended with a good one. That's not a bad joke. You can have that. Everybody that's listening. I don't own that channel. You can go ahead and have it.

[Chris Reivers]

It's free.

[Michael Fratelloni]

It's free. And by the way, Reivers, you are the best.

[Chris Reivers]

Thank you, Michael. Please do us a favor. Rate and review the show wherever you happen to be listening. The weekly Scramble podcast. It helps others find it 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 time. And until then, cheers.

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