SCRAMBLE: President Trump’s team pushes for new $250 bill with his face on it

Summary

Garage Logic: Weekly Scramble – May 28, 2026

Episode Theme:
This episode of the Weekly Scramble dives into the humor, dilemmas, and absurdities of contemporary American life, focusing on local traditions, changes in law enforcement, the rise of "Enhanced Games" (sports events allowing performance-enhancing drugs), and a tongue-in-cheek look at President Trump’s proposed $250 bill bearing his own face. Hosts Chris Reivers and Mike Fratelloni balance news, nostalgia, and spirited opinion with their trademark humor and candid Midwestern sensibility.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Life Milestones & Reflections on Time (03:58–09:30)

• High School Graduation:
  Mike shares the experience of his daughter’s high school graduation, marveling at how quickly time passes.
  • Family Embarrassment: He confesses to his family being one of the few to cheer loudly, apologizing lightly to those who kept quiet.
  • Ceremony Length: He wishes the ceremony could be quicker, joking about having a digital board or a more efficient system.
• Traditions & Sappiness:
  The hosts reflect on tear-jerker graduation traditions—like seniors giving roses to pre-K kids and videos showing students "entering the time machine" from first grade to senior year.
  • Chris: “Everything happens in the blink of an eye.” (08:23)
  • Emotional sports traditions are discussed, including senior athletes holding T-ball photos and giving thank-you notes to parents.
• Technology and Parenting:
  Mike jokes about needing a self-driving Tesla due to all the chauffeuring he does, and the conversation shifts to the inevitability and oddities of modern parenting.

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2. The Enhanced Games: Doping on Full Display (10:00–16:40)

• Introduction to the Enhanced Games:
  Chris and Mike examine the first annual “Enhanced Games,” a sporting event where athletes openly use performance-enhancing drugs for monetary rewards—including six-figure salaries, $250,000 for event winners, and $1 million for world records.
• Ethics and Acceptability:
  Debate centers around whether embracing enhanced performance is more honest than maintaining difficult-to-police bans. Both hosts lean toward acceptance simply because cheating is so widespread.
  • Chris: “This is not trying to hide under any guise… everybody’s fair game.” (13:36)
  • Mike: "If you can't police it out, then you have to just accept it, all right? ... Do whatever you want. Don't kill yourself. Let's see how fast you can run. Who cares how fast you can run, right?” (14:34)
  • They note analogies with personal enhancements in life and the blurred lines of what counts as “cheating.”
• Cultural Shift:
  The Enhanced Games are seen as a logical, if bizarre, extension of modern attitudes towards competition, transparency, and spectacle.

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3. Minneapolis Police Department Turmoil (17:09–28:47)

• Chief O’Hara’s Resignation:
  Chris details the resignation of Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara amid controversy regarding interference in an internal investigation about alleged sexual relationships with employees.
  • Mike: “It’s always the cover-up that gets you.” (19:53)
  • Chris: “If you have a situation… where [the force] is already down more than 30%… that’s only going to get larger.” (24:55)
• Interim Chief Katie Blackwell:
  The appointment of Katie Blackwell as interim chief is explored. Her credibility is questioned due to previous legal testimony in the Derek Chauvin case and a failed defamation lawsuit.
• Morale & Public Safety:
  Both hosts lament declining officer morale, the shrinking police force, and the broader impacts of “defund the police” rhetoric:
  • Chris: “No one hates a bad cop more than a good cop.” (23:28)
• Consequences for Minneapolis:
  They speculate that continued political pressure will further drive resignations, transfers, and retirements, risking public safety due to lack of police presence.
  • Chris: "You cannot have a city, a functioning city, without a police presence." (27:38)
  • “Just because they say crime data shows crime is down, that’s not the case... It’s just not getting reported.” (28:48)
• Nostalgia for 'Beat Cops':
  Mike reminisces about the days when neighborhood "beat cops" provided stability and personal knowledge, contrasting that with today’s impersonal and overburdened force.

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4. The $250 Trump Bill – Satire, Outrage, and Bartending Tales (33:25–44:23)

• Trump’s Alleged $250 Bill Plan:
  A satirical news story claims the Trump administration wants to put his image on a new $250 bill, ostensibly to mark America's 250th birthday.
  • Mike: “Are we just clowns? Have we lost our ever loving mind? ... You don't get to have a bill, you psychopath. You nutcase.” (36:55)
  • Chris: “I think he’s doing this to genuinely get everybody going... to get you all in a tizzy.” (38:22)
  • Both hosts see the story as trolling and political theater.
  • They discuss the legal impossibility and the ridiculousness of such currency plans, highlighting ongoing culture wars and Congressional gridlock.
• Money, Scams, & Personal Anecdotes:
  Chris tells a story from his bartender days when someone tried to pay with a fake $200 bill—reinforcing the absurdity of Trump’s hypothetical $250 bill.
  • “He handed me a $200 bill. ... I need you to come up to bar three. ... $200 bills don’t exist.” (41:39)

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5. Local Flavor, Sponsors, and Community Notes

Though not part of the main discussion, the episode is peppered with references to local businesses, sports, sponsors, and listener engagement, capturing the Garage Logic community vibe.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Everything happens in the blink of an eye.”
  – Chris Reivers on how quickly kids grow up (08:23)

• “If you can't police it out, then you have to just accept it, all right? ... Do whatever you want. Don't kill yourself. Let's see how fast you can run. Who cares how fast you can run, right?”
  – Mike Fratelloni on the Enhanced Games (14:34)

• “It’s always the cover-up that gets you.”
  – Mike Fratelloni on Chief O’Hara’s resignation (19:53)

• “No one hates a bad cop more than a good cop.”
  – Chris Reivers on police culture (23:28)

• “Are we just clowns? Have we lost our ever loving mind? ... You don't get to have a bill, you psychopath. You nutcase.”
  – Mike Fratelloni on the Trump $250 bill proposal (36:55)

• “Life is too short for that... Just be nice. Don't be a dink, and most of the time it's gonna work out for you.”
  – Chris Reivers on life and bartending (44:17)

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Detailed Timestamps for Key Segments

• Reflecting on Graduation & Time Passing: 03:58–09:30
• Enhanced Games and Open Doping in Sports: 10:00–16:40
• Minneapolis Police Chief Resigns & Law Enforcement Crisis: 17:09–28:47
• Riffing on Trump’s $250 Bill and Money Scams: 33:25–44:23

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Tone and Style

The conversation is lively, candid, irreverently humorous, and marked by a blend of nostalgia, skepticism, and common-sense Midwestern philosophy. The hosts use personal anecdotes, self-deprecating banter, and strong opinions to keep listeners both informed and entertained.

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This detailed summary captures the main topics, insights, and notable moments and will serve well for those who missed the episode or want a structured recap of its content.

Transcript

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

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. With me as always. His name is Mike Fratelloni. Hello, Michael.

[Mike Fratelloni]

How you doing, Reivers?

[Chris Reivers]

Great. I'm doing great. I mean, honest to God, I'm good. It's flying by, Mike. It's June 1st on Monday.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Don't do that.

[Chris Reivers]

I know, but it's just all of a sudden I look down because I've got month end stuff to deal with here and I'm like, Holy crap, it's June 1st on Monday.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That is how it happens.

[Chris Reivers]

I know, I know, the days are long, the years are short, and time flies by.

[Mike Fratelloni]

But anyway, speaking of time flying by, my daughter's graduated from high school yesterday.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, my goodness gracious.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And if you, one of the kids, this real sharp kid did a commencement speech about time flying and how you have to be Creighton.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes. Okay, thank you.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And it's at the cathedral. So you're sitting there in the cathedral, it's beautiful. And no one acted like a fool, right? Everyone was pretty good. I think when my daughter's name was yelled, one of my group yelled, we were one of the few that did it. And I was like, oh crap. Like we're one of the few families that actually brought. I didn't even do it. So I do have to apologize to all those other people who did it right, that I said, oh, that whole family is crazy. But it was really my family.

[Chris Reivers]

How many Kids does Cretan graduate?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I think 218.

[Chris Reivers]

That's okay. Decent size.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Small though. A lot of reading, a lot of like, I mean, like, come on, let's get through these names.

[Chris Reivers]

Were you doing one of these tapping your watch?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I just go here. Well, they did this thing. They all walked up, they got their picture taken. And my patience level is like, okay, we can do this faster. Like get a reader board with the names and have the kids. You walk up to the kids instead of the kids walk up to you. Right.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm sorry, you mentioned how long, what time frame? What are we talking?

[Mike Fratelloni]

It was, it wasn't bad. It was like an hour and a half long with a couple of.

[Chris Reivers]

Come on, you big baby. You can sit through an hour and a half.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Someone said, so I didn't invite my parents, right? And they said, hey, dad would have wanted to go and I would have wanted to go. And I'm like, they wouldn't have sat here for two minutes. My dad would have gone and said, hey, this is great. This is great. I'm gonna step outside for a minute. And then he would have been gone with the wind. We would have never known where he was.

[Chris Reivers]

You know what they need to do? Dead serious about this because I think this was eliminate. We had talked about graduations on. Was it Tuesday or last week? Last week's show? I think something like that. Do you know what would eliminate a lot of this? Because my niece just graduated from college in a short amount of time. She's a super smart kid and she's just a rock star. So she graduated from River Falls. When was that? Two weeks ago, I believe. And they had a stream with which you could watch the ceremony. So of course, what I think would

[Mike Fratelloni]

be great, but limit it to just

[Chris Reivers]

mom and dad or whoever, like immediate family. And then everyone else could just watch the stream. We would solve 90% of these problems.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That would be nice. But people want to go. It's a big day. It was very exciting. I think what they should do Too is graduating 8th graders, right? Middle schoolers, they should make them go and see what it's like to graduate from high school. Because everyone gets a little somber, right? And they talk about the importance of those last four years. And that might prep a soon to be graduating 8th grader to really take high school seriously.

[Chris Reivers]

Sure, sure.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It would be kind of cool.

[Chris Reivers]

You know, one of the things that we did in Jordan, and I did not know any of this because I don't have a senior that graduated, but what they did was it was kind of a cool video. So the Jordan is it would we call it the AV department, The social media department. These kids that are learning these skills that you can use before AI takes all of those jobs. But they did this really cool video in which all of the graduating seniors walked to. Because all the schools are right next to each other. The high schools here, they're all right next to each other. And so all of the seniors went to pre K and all of the seniors handed all the pre K kids a rose like, hey, we're passing the tour. Which I thought that was freaking classy. That's super cool.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Fake tear jerking BS because I want you to start crying.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I have a neighbor who, whose child was doing pre K is going to start kindergarten next year and I mean I barely know the kid and I started crying.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You've seen the famous video where they take a picture of the first graders going into a time machine and then they take a picture of the senior coming out of the time machine.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, I can't do it like a video.

[Mike Fratelloni]

So you see the little kid walk in and then the adult walk out. You're like, oh, that was. And everything happens in the blink of an eye.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh my God.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Right? It's just in the blink of an eye.

[Chris Reivers]

And here's what really got me is it was the class of 2026 passes the torch to class of 2039. And I thought, oh my God, it's only 13 years. That's not that long a time.

[Mike Fratelloni]

2039 sounds like a long way away.

[Chris Reivers]

It does, but it also doesn' you know what I'm saying? So that's I thought was kind of interesting because the other thing that always gets me because I'm a SAP and I'm a sucker and I know that. So leave me alone, damn it. Get off my lawn. But when they do the so base baseball does this. I'm sure the other sports do as well. But the seniors for like a baseball team, when they have, whenever they have their last home game or senior night or whatever, they'll hold up signs of them in their, like their little league, their T ball photos.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Those were tear jerkers.

[Chris Reivers]

That freaking gets me every single time.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And then you go hand your parents a thank you note for doing all the driving and all the coaching and all the money. They do that. That's a great time too. That's a really great time.

[Chris Reivers]

Although I only had on Monday, I think I only had 363 miles. So that was pretty good.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That's not bad.

[Chris Reivers]

No I was a lot of miles.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I don't know what you're doing. You gotta figure this out. You gotta get yourself a self driving Tesla.

[Chris Reivers]

Or I might have to go to ev. Take up our advice from our buddy Packerofalo.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm not gonna lie. That self driving Tesla, easy.

[Chris Reivers]

I could get a lot done, that's for sure.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You could get a lot done. You could do some social media. You figure out how to log into Facebook.

[Chris Reivers]

All right, so here's what I wanted to start with on today's program. Because this is a sport with which it almost seems like it was destined to be discussed on our show. And you know, we dabble in all sorts of things on this show. We dabble into fraud, we dabble into politics, we dabble into sports, we dabble into life. And I'm going to take us to Las Vegas, Nevada. Michael, please tell me you are familiar with the Enhanced Games.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I am.

[Chris Reivers]

Here's what I love about this, because I have a feeling when I first heard about this, you know, whenever they first announced that this was going to happen months ago, I thought, well, that ought to be interesting. Let's see what happens. And then after reading about it, watching a few more, watching a few events online or whatever, I'm thinking, oh, this might be where we're headed.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, I mean, this is where we're headed, right?

[Chris Reivers]

So for those of you not familiar, the Enhanced Games drugs don't get athletes banned. They could, however, get them rich.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I knew that.

[Chris Reivers]

The inaugural Games took place Sunday in Las Vegas, where aging Olympians competed for large payouts, most of them after having taken cocktails of performance enhancing drugs. When Shania Collins was first approached about taking performance enhancing drugs last year, it made her nervous. Nervous enough to contact two members of the Drug Enforcement Administration, her parents. Collins had enjoyed modest success as a sprinter with contracts from Puma and Adidas. But by 2024, with her career stalled and earnings shrinking, she retired at the age of 29 to begin a long screening process to follow her parents into the work, into the line of working for the dea. Then organizers of the Enhanced Games, a controversial sports startup, got in touch last fall with an offer. The organizers were planning a one day competition of sprinting, swimming and weightlifting in Las Vegas that would not only allow but encourage doping. And it paid the kind of money that might take some athletes years to make. Six figure salaries on top of prize money of up to 250,000 doll thousand dollars for event winners and 1 million for a world record. Wow. At first, Collins worried about the drug's effects and whether signing on could jeopardize her DEA career. So she called her parents. How would you feel about this? She said. And their stance really was, is it legal, is it safe, and is it prescribed? And once I let them know it's legal, it's prescribed, I'll work with doctors closely. They were all on board in support of it, for sure. In the lead up to the competition, Collins spent more than two months taking a personalized cocktail of drugs under the supervision of N hanc. She'd felt a few side effects, such as acne and hair growth, but no regret. On Sunday, she was one of 42 athletes to compete at the inaugural Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, an event that has been a lightning rod in the sporting world both for and against it. Both camps believe fervently that their position is morally, ethically and scientifically correct. Organizers said they created it to allow athletes and everyday spectators to see how far their potential can reach by allowing you to tap into a pocket of potential that you otherwise couldn't tap into, said the game's chief executive, Max Martin.

[Mike Fratelloni]

What do you feel about this?

[Chris Reivers]

I'm all for it if you are not hiding under. Because, let's be honest, the Olympic Games,

[Mike Fratelloni]

every single person dopes in sports.

[Chris Reivers]

And the thing is, steroids and all that stuff has kept many people out of hall of Fames, most notably baseball, right? Baseball has said, you took them, you're banned. And you know what? I'm fine with that. Because if you're playing by a different set of rules than everybody else, then you go into this category, right? And so I get that. I totally get that. But this is not trying to hide under any guise of any. They're saying, everybody, come on in. Everybody's fair game. And by the way, they even let people participate that weren't taking drugs. Sure. Can't imagine they did very well, but they got to do that as well.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, when you think about the sports, like Lance Armstrong in cycling, right? He was still the best. And everyone in cycling is known to Jerusalem. The fractions of success are just so small, right?

[Chris Reivers]

So that's when you just say, bleep it. Throw the rules out the window.

[Mike Fratelloni]

What's the difference? I don't get it. If you can't police it out, then you have to just accept it, all right?

[Chris Reivers]

Because what's going to happen is you're going to have people that are playing by the rules against people that are not playing, by the way, and you'll

[Mike Fratelloni]

catch them nine years later when you finally have the screening device that says, oh, your blood was contaminated back in 2026, and we finally were able to test it. Everybody takes enhancements. Reverse. I know. I have this little pill that enhances me sometimes. I occasionally use that pill. Should my wife say, hey, I don't accept enhancements like that.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm not nearly as satisfied.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Name an enhancement that a woman might have that you would dislike. Probably none of them. True, right? Maybe the world's going, sure, it would be great if everyone was au natural and everybody, like, just was standard and not lying about it, but it's not the case. People cheat. You might as well say, hey, even playing field. Do whatever you want. Don't kill yourself. Let's go see how fast you can run. Oh, by the way, who cares how fast you can run, right? Right. It's not that big a deal.

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[Mike Fratelloni]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah. Just put one in the side room.

[Chris Reivers]

You're in here twice a week.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah. And so I said, hey, dude, Patrick, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know. He's like, well, what about a garage stall? And I was like, well, I never really thought about that, but I have a lot of cars. Then he said, what about this other area? And I thought, oh, man, I never thought about that. Like, it's very possible that I wasn't thinking about the spots that they could put them in.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

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[Chris Reivers]

Quicklinksgolf.com Please do me a favor and mention that you heard about him right here on the weekly Scramble podcast, and we we'll be right back. I kind of had a feeling that you were going to love the enhanced games. All right, I do want to transition to a much more serious topic, and it has to do with us here at home. We talked about this a lot on gl and I made a point, but I didn't think I made it strong enough because I got to kind of take a backseat when it comes to talking points on Garage Logic. Let me just read this story out of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Sorry, the Minnesota Star Tribune, because I know those that have listened to me, yeah, incessantly over the years are going to know where I'm going to fall on this. But here we go. For nearly four years, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry and his police chief, Brian o', Hara, were inseparable. They stood together at news conferences in the middle of the night to lament gun violence and in the middle of the afternoon to argue for police funding. They applauded new police department recruits and mourned the Annunciation shooting victims, as they should have, by the way, as much as anyone in the city. Frye tied his career to o'. Hara. That faith held through independent investigations into the chief, criticism of his leadership and budget management by the Minneapolis City Council, and rumors about sexual relationships involving o' Hara that remain unsubstantiated. On Monday, Frey met with o' Hara in City hall and the relationship fractured. It was painful, frey said, but it wasn't hard. Frye presented o' Hara with a report that showed o' Hara interfered with an independent investigation by the law Firm Forsgren, Fisher McCalmont Demara into alleged sexual relationships with city employees. Investigators found that o' Hara had deleted a contact card off his work cell phone of a material witness in the investigation and that he discussed the investigation after being told explicitly to refrain, quote. I explained to him what those violations were and explained to him my take on what happened, that I would be looking at discipline up to and including discharge, fry said. I gave him the investigation itself, the report. I then gave him some time to read it, and he ultimately tendered his resignation. And we found that out yesterday. Here's what I'd like to say it was. Then let me do this first.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

Let me get your reaction to a former Minneapolis chief, Brian o', Hara, resigning from his position.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's always the COVID up that gets you. Right. And that seems like what got him.

[Chris Reivers]

But.

[Mike Fratelloni]

But I also think we're only hearing a portion of the story. Right. Because in any HR related issue, you'd be a fool as a mayor to go discuss all of the facts of the case when I'm reading up on Brian o'. Hara. His wife still lives in New Jersey. She's a New Jersey police officer. And they said he travels back every other weekend, which is his prerogative. But it seems like there has to be more to this story than him doing something inappropriate with one of his underlings.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep. And I know if I'm trying to find the exact.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Have you seen his wife, by the way?

[Chris Reivers]

I. I guess I never have.

[Mike Fratelloni]

She is a trainer. Military trainer.

[Chris Reivers]

Nice.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And this. She is a big, strong. She is his size.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I mean, she is like a beefy gym person.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I would even say maybe she could perform in the Enhanced games. Oh, right. They both look like they might have dipped into the Enhanced Games. I don't know it, but they're both big studs. Right. Like really strong looking people.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep. So Assistant Chief Katie Blackwell is now serving as the acting and interim police chief for the Minneapolis Police Department. She took over the role immediately following the sudden resignation of Brian O'. Hara. Jacob Fry has 30 days under the city charter to nominate a permanent successor. Here's the thing about Katie Blackwell, and we talked about this on the show garagelogic earlier today, for those of you unfamiliar, Katie Blackwell went through some litigation where she sued Alpha News and Liz Collins for defamation. Because in Liz Collins book, They're Lying, which is actually a good read. I recommend it. Liz did a really good job with that book. Under testimony in the Derek Chauvin trial for the George Floyd death, Katie Blackwell had testified that the knee procedure. And please don't quote me on any of the tactical words that I'm trying to use here. The procedure that Chauvin was using, her testimony stated, we don't train that move. That was a lie. To the point where it was true

[Mike Fratelloni]

or she was incorrect?

[Chris Reivers]

No, to the point where it was proven. Katie Blackwell is the one who taught that method. So then not only was that lawsuit thrown out, the defamation lawsuit thrown out, she and her representation then had to cover the legal expenses for Both Liz Collins and for Alpha News. So, again, because the book that Liz wrote, quote, unquote, made her look bad. However, it was proven in court that, well, Katie, you're wrong. You can't sue them. When, in fact, not only was this a procedure taught. You're the one that taught it. Sure.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And they proved that.

[Chris Reivers]

So I want. Yeah, they proved that in court. And so anyway, and it's been. And it's come out, and I haven't had the chance to listen to yesterday's Krabby Coffee Shop with Jay Coles and Kenny Olson, but Kenny did talk about it a lot to the ngl. I can't wait to go listen. But. But basically, so many officers have come forward and said, this is not a good move, even on an interim basis. Because I will say this until I am blue in the face. I know I am biased. I am the son of a retired police officer. No one hates a bad cop more than a good cop.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Would you say Katie's a bad cop? Is that what you're saying?

[Chris Reivers]

No, here, I'm getting to a point.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'll get you there.

[Chris Reivers]

But nobody hates a bad cop more than a good copy. All right, I'm not saying Brian o' Hare is a bad cop, although he resigned under circumstances we don't know the story of personal conduct. And he also, apparently, that I was not aware of until yesterday, had some personal conduct issues dating back to his time in New Jersey. I'm not saying anything personal about Katie Blackwell. I don't know anything about her. All I know is you tried to sue a publication. Not only was that overthrown, but you were then held liable. I'm not saying she's a good cop or a bad cop. Here's the only point I am trying to make. If you have a situation, and clearly that's what it looks like is happening right now in Minneapolis, where it's already been placed on record that your police force is down more than 30% since George Floyd. It's documented. I mean, it's all over the place. No one wants the freaking job. Why? Because you're constantly placed under persecution in the court of public opinion. That's not a good thing. That's a very bad thing. You have a mayor who normally has sided with you, but you have a city council who has done everything possible to get every single last member of the police force at the head of the police force removed. This precedes Brian o'. Hara. This is going back to Aaron. All of these guys, and now gals, they're Always placed under persecution from the city council. What do you think is going to happen here? Let me tell you what's gonna happen. Okay? The 30, I think it's 34% that you are down right now as a whole in the police force. That's only gonna get larger. The people that are even still now wanting to do the job, they're gonna say, bleep this. I'm gonna take an early retirement. I don't wanna deal with this. Or, and I'll retire or I will transfer it to a different agency. Whether that's Bloomington, Eden Prairie, a first ring suburb, whatever the case might be, that's what is going to happen. Minneapolis, wake up.

[Mike Fratelloni]

So help me with Katie Blackwell. I am not totally up to speed on it.

[Chris Reivers]

I got all worked up. I got to have a drink of water.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, so when she was saying that she did not back Derek Chauvin because she said, nah, that wasn't trained, we

[Chris Reivers]

weren't supposed to testify against him.

[Mike Fratelloni]

She testified against him. Wouldn't that make all the other cops say, why are we putting her as an interim chief?

[Chris Reivers]

I believe, and I'm just trying to help you answer your question, not saying this is right or wrong. I believe that she was subpoenaed on behalf of the George Floyd family, if I have that correctly.

[Mike Fratelloni]

My point is why would they, if all cops disliked her for that, and that's a big if. I don't know. But if all cops said, oh, you didn't have our back, right? Cause I don't believe all cops think that Derek Chauvin did something bad. Not all cops think he did the right thing or thought he did the right thing. In fact, I'm sure many of them thought he did absolutely the wrong thing. But why would you put that person in as the lightning rod? Why don't you just pick the third person down, the third guy or gal down and say you're going to be the next interim chief.

[Chris Reivers]

And here's the thing, it is interim. Like I said, Jacob Fry still has 30 days. My guess is there will be enough pushback where he and whoever else is going to be appointing this new position is going to say, we can't do this on a full time basis. Our department will literally crumble.

[Mike Fratelloni]

The handful of Minneapolis police that I know, and I only know a few did not enjoy the time of George Floyd, right?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I can't even imagine.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And when I say that they thought the world was after them, right?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And I can't imagine they'd look at this Katie and Say, oh, Katie was going against this. I don't want to have my leader be someone who doesn't have my back. I just can't fathom. I don't think Mayor Fry is a stupid guy. Why would you put someone that's already maybe a lightning rod in the force? I don't get it. He's trying to rebuild the city. He needs more cops. He knows he needs more cops, and

[Chris Reivers]

he does know that. And I guess the only conclusion that I'm going to be able to draw personally is kind of make an assumption. And Jacob Fry, I've had my issues, I've had with him, and I've made those very public on this show and others, but I will always say this about him. I truly will say this about him. He has always struck me as a guy that knows and has always demonstrated I am going to be pro cop. Because you cannot have a city, a functioning city, without a police presence and impeccable Somali pronunciation.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's impeccable. When he gets on the thing and says 100 things in Somalian, that is impeccably pronounced.

[Chris Reivers]

But this entire defund the police movement, it has to stop. It has to, because what good is gonna. Again, we can talk about police reform training. We can talk about all that. That's a completely separate discussion point. The second you keep pushing this dumbass narrative about defund the police, you are putting a gigantic target on your city, saying, open for business, crooks. Come on in. They ain't gonna press. And that's basically what's happening right now.

[Mike Fratelloni]

This has happened for a lot of years.

[Chris Reivers]

And for those that have said, crime is down, I'll show you 10,000 texts that I have about, well, it's just not getting reported. That's why the crime statistics are down. And people that we may have talked about in this very subject may be involved in some of that. But my point is, just because they say crime data shows crime is down, that's not the case. And by the way, we're coming up now on what's called the busy season of crime, because what happens when it gets warm out? Oh, I don't know.

[Mike Fratelloni]

People go outside.

[Chris Reivers]

People are outside a lot more, and they run amok.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Reivers back in, let's say, eight years ago in uptown, we had a guy, and I think his name was Steve, but we didn't even call him Officer Steve. We just knew him. He was a police officer, and he walked the beat in our neighborhood, and he would pop in every day, and we'd say, hey, Steve, what's going on? What do you need? Like, just checking on. And he just walked up and down Hennepin and in that area of Lake and Hennepin. And that was his beat. And we all knew him. We all knew him. Everybody in the store knew him really pretty well. Right. Because he was in almost every day and you just don't see that anymore. So if we had something to report or if we could say, hey, Steve, do you know that guy over there? Because he's been creeping somebody out. That's James. I know who that is. I'll go talk to him. Right. And we just dealt with stuff like that. And now. Not that the police won't come for us. They absolutely will. We almost are to the point where, like, we're not even gonna bother them. We know they have so much stuff

[Chris Reivers]

that bigger they're running. Bigger they're running this call to that call to this call.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah. And we do call the police all the time. But, you know, we know that it might not be instant action on their part because they just can't do it. But there was something about that beat cop walking up and down the dangerous areas and having. Having somebody that you could say, I know, Steve. Let's get him over here. He's gonna help. He's gon.

[Chris Reivers]

Uh, let's talk about our friends at Harmony Spirits. How about a more lighthearted topic right now? Harmony Spirits. Right here, ladies and gentlemen, is the official, official spirit of the weekly scramble podcast and the Garagelogic podcast. By the way, it's gonna be an absolutely stellar couple of days here. So head down to that tasting room and walk in, say hi to Larry, say hi to Damon, say hi to the entire Harmony Spirits crew. And you can see that wonderful rotating menu of craft cocktails. It's spectacular. In fact, I'm gonna be. My son has a baseball tournament down in Albert Lee.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, good.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm 100% making a stop in Harmony Spirits this weekend. I'm just not exactly sure what day it is. So don't get mad at me and tweet at me and say, reaver said he's gonna be here. I know, but it depends on when he's playing. And you know, I can't take a team of 11 year olds to Harmony Spirits. That'll be frowned upon.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I don't know.

[Chris Reivers]

But you know what you can do? Hang out on that patio. There's always food trucks going on. It's such a j. I'm gonna give you an assignment this summer, okay. At some point this summer, you and your beautiful beloved are gonna make a trip down to Harmony, get a fun car, make the gorgeous drive down that area. It's super cool. And you guys will have a wonderful time down there. And then that way you can report and say, hey, I have been to Harmony Spirits location.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, I wanna. I wanna do that.

[Chris Reivers]

It's super cool.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm a busy person.

[Chris Reivers]

I know you are, but I wanna go down there. I know you are.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Some guys send me, like, the frat pack. They send me pictures from down there, and it looks really cool.

[Chris Reivers]

It's awesome.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And they're driving down. I want to go hang out and have a couple drinks with them, and that would be really great.

[Chris Reivers]

So go into your local liquor store, ask for the Harmony brand by name. That's how they are going to continue to grow their brand. And oh, by the way, we have some exciting news coming next week with our friends at Harmony Spirits. For all of you that are out there that would love to buy the vodka, the gin, the rum, the whiskey, the bourbon. So stay tuned for that message. The weekly scramble podcast is the proud home of Harmony Spirits. And we will be right back. I apologize. I got a little worked up during the Brian o' Hara chat. And it's only because Mike, like I mentioned, I know I'm biased, and I know I'm jaded because I saw a guy that walked out the door every single day and basically to serve the public. And so that's why I get kind of a little bit. Is it cantankerous? Is that the right word I'm looking for? Pissed?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, because anyway, I mean, did what he did, like if he slept with some people at work.

[Chris Reivers]

Sure.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Is that where we're at?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, but you're not. When you're a leader, you got. I understand why he would have to resign. I'll just leave it at that.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, I mean, I kind of get it too. Right. But I'm not saying it's right, but a lot of people in a lot of places, we didn't fire Bill Clinton. He did it.

[Chris Reivers]

You're right.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I would maybe argue that Bill Clinton's job was more important than Chief Oharas.

[Chris Reivers]

Probably Right. Speaking of the President.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, which one?

[Chris Reivers]

Please don't tell me you've. I specifically did not tell you about this story because I want the Mike Fredaloni raw feedback because I want to have some fun. You have tasked me with having more fun. Yes, and I want to have some more fun.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Let's do it.

[Chris Reivers]

This is courtesy of the Washington Post. Full disclosure I did lift this from the New York Post because I don't have a Washington Post subscription.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, crap. Now we're gonna get charged $19.95 a month.

[Chris Reivers]

Your guy. President Trump. President Trump.

[Mike Fratelloni]

President Trump.

[Chris Reivers]

Key Administration officials are pushing the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design oh yeah, here we go. $250 banknote with President Trump's image, the Washington Post reported. Should the Treasury Department move ahead with the plan, it would mark the first time a living person's face was slapped on a greenback since 1866. The $250 note would be a nod to America's 250th birthday this year. Under the Thayer Amendment, which passed in 1866, it is illegal to put the likeness of a living person on official US Currency, bonds or other financial notes. Nonetheless, US Treasurer Brandon beach and his top advisor, Mike Brown pushed for development of the new banknote, with beach giving staff mockup designs in August and September last year. According to the report, the mockups featured Trump's face in the middle of a $250 note, as well as President's and Treasury Secretary Scott Besant's signatures. Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Patricia Solomon reportedly protested to beach and Brown that they are legal and other hurdles the agency needs to clear to make a new bank note. Quote, she told them, we're not authorized to do this. We can't progress any further, and all the stakeholders have not even met to discuss the next steps, a source told the outlet. Currency often takes six to eight years to produce a new bill, particularly one of such high value. The Post contacted the White House and Treasury Department for comment. On April 27, Soleimane was reassigned, telling her peers that she was departing the role with a heavy heart and that the change was not my choice. The buck stopped here. Brown has since become the acting director of the agency. In addition to the Thayer amendment, there is another law limiting Uncle Sam to specific denominations, and and $250 isn't on that list. Speculation about Trump eventually pursuing a banknote with his face on it has swirled on Capitol Hill. Multiple Democrats have introduced legislation to bar that from happening. Representative Jimmy Gomez rolled out legislation in April barring Trump's signature from appearing on the greenback. Last year, multiple senators unveiled a bill to block Trump for putting his face on a coin. On the other side, freshman Representative Brandon Gill from Texas rolled out legislation last year to put Trump's face on the $100 banknote, kicking off Benjamin Franklin. Representative Andy Barr has pushed for Trump's face to appear on a $250 bill. None of those pieces of legislation have gained traction in either chamber of Congress.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Are we just clowns? Have we lost our ever loving mind? What? You know, I don't care if you love Trump or if you hate Trump. He can't do this. You don't get to have a bill, you psychopath. You nutcase. Every time I call him a psychopath or a narcissist psychopath, I have to remember that people keep trying to kill him. And he might be so pissed, he might be saying, I'll do whatever I want because I could be dead tomorrow because one of these morons could get lucky and kill me. Right? And he might just. And all of the things that he. He went through during four years of Biden, he's now putting back onto all those people that ran at him, and he's doing the exact same thing to him. But you can't do this, be a normal human for two more years so we can get your ass out of there and go to somebody who's not nuts. And I like him.

[Chris Reivers]

Two things occurred to me. He's nuts, though. Two things occurred to me when I first saw the story, and Kenny kind of brought this up long ago. And I laugh because I think it's hilarious how much people get worked up about the basic stuff that he does, because. Whatever. I truly don't care. But I think there's two things at play here. Number one, I think he's doing this to genuinely get everybody going.

[Mike Fratelloni]

He's trolling.

[Chris Reivers]

He has truly become the Rodney Dangerfield character in Caddyshack, where. Oh, this is your country club, huh? Oh, okay, Cool. And I'm gonna do everything I can, whatever. I want to work all of you people up to get you all in a tizzy over some. Because this is never gonna happen.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, that's where you're wrong.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I think. I don't think there's a snowball's chance. And you know what?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Remember when he said we should take Greenland and we thought he was just joking and being hyperbolic, and in reality, we're gonna figure out some way to take Greenland. He is. Do you remember back on this show, you and I would talk about Burisma and the drug addict nutcase son of Joe Biden who was on this board, and he got 800,000 bucks or 2 million or 5 million or whatever it was, and the right was just aghast. They couldn't handle that, What Trump and Trump's family are doing Today ain't no different. It is because it's orders of magnitude more.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, that's a good point.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's way, way, way more. I don't see right side pundits saying, hey, Donald Trump, like, who. Who made that 800 million dollar bet on oil prices 10 minutes before you text it out, that there's a, you know, before you X'd out or whatever. What's. What's this one called?

[Chris Reivers]

True social.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Before you sent out a true social. No, you know, it's. Something's wrong. We have to move on from this guy pretty quickly.

[Chris Reivers]

I will say this too. Have I ever told you my $200 bill story?

[Mike Fratelloni]

No.

[Chris Reivers]

Here was the first thing I thought of. So back in the heyday of Chris Streavers as the hottest new bartender in the hottest new hotspot in downtown Minneapolis, that's what I was labeled by my peers because I was the. Basically one of the older guys that was. That was bartending. That wasn't going to rob the place blind. I'll never forget. You know what the best part of bartending at a, like a higher end nightclub is? How many posers you have to deal with. Right?

[Mike Fratelloni]

No, you're lying.

[Chris Reivers]

What do you mean?

[Mike Fratelloni]

The best part are the chicks. There's not a chance. The best part are posers, first of all, chicks. Second of all, money. Third of all.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay for me, though. Okay for me, though, because you just look at chess. Exactly.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You could get them anyways. They're so far out of our league.

[Chris Reivers]

100%. So anyway. But I would love to watch the posers come in. I mean, it was the fake gold chain, the. Oh, I'm just rocking this $400 shirt when. No, it's actually. It's the Theo Huxtable shirt that his sister tried to make at the Cosby show.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, man, I want a bottle of Hennessy. Okay? I can't sell you a bottle of Hennessy and you can't afford it, even if I tried to. But this guy rolled out and I'm talking. He was bigger than me, right? And he's like, oh, man, I got everybody here. I got everybody here. And finally, before I start making the shots, I say, okay, that'll be, you know, 180 bucks or whatever it is. Oh, man, I got you. I go, well, I need you to pay for it.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You might got me, but I gotta make money.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm not making all these first, but. And he handed me a $200 bill.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You're kidding.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm not. I'm not. Kidding. And I went, oh, oh, man. So you got all this? He's like, yeah, keep the rest for yourself. Because it was like 183 bucks. And I said, no problem. Hit the old talk back here. Went, yeah, I need you to come up to bar three. And here comes my guy Justin. And I said, this guy gotta go. No. Like, as in pointed to the office, no, you're getting arrested, dude.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Really?

[Chris Reivers]

And he's like, what's wrong? And I handed Justin the $200 bill. He tried to pay with this. Because we get in trouble if we accept that as currency. And then everyone's like, what happened here? You just tried to pay with a $200 bill? And they all kind of look, $200 bills don't exist.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yes. Do you think he was like, forging a 100 and said, you know what I'd like? I'd like it to be twice as much the value.

[Chris Reivers]

But any place that is worth two. They all have the pens.

[Mike Fratelloni]

They all have the pens. I mean, but you're better off trying

[Chris Reivers]

to pass off a fake 20 and buying two drinks, not $200 worth of expensive.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Are you giving everyone advice on how to cheat people on. The Secret Service might be coming for you.

[Chris Reivers]

I better be careful.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Did you. Did you deal with a lot of that where you're just like, this is gonna be an issue.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, you could tell from a mile

[Mike Fratelloni]

away just the moment you talk to him.

[Chris Reivers]

Should I just call security now? Because I can tell this is already gonna be a problem.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Life is too short for that. Just, guys come in, say, hey, Chris, what's your name? And you introduce yourself to the bartender, and you say, we're gonna have a fun night. We might get a little drunk. Please keep them coming. And you'd say, I gotcha.

[Chris Reivers]

Here's what I will say, though statute of limitations have already expired.

[Mike Fratelloni]

There were.

[Chris Reivers]

I can't tell you how many times that someone would come up with me if you were nice, if you weren't an ass, if you were a decent person. And all of a sudden, I could tell, oh, God, you don't have the money. I would say, here's what we're gonna do. Because I remember there were. There were two girls, and I could tell there was a country show at, like, U.S. bank State. No, I'm sorry. It was a couple. It was like, then they were young. They were in their early 20s, right? And they come here, and they're thinking they're going to their local lottery hole in Coon Rapids or whatever. And I'm not diminishing that. I'm just saying they weren't sure that the prices were gonna be that much higher. And he's like, oh my God. And I'm like. And he had a 20, wasn't gonna cover it. And I said, tell you what, but we're good. Just so you know, like, here's what he's like. I go, don't worry about it. I don't need a tip. I'm good here. Of course. What did I do? Put the 20 in the tip jar. Comped him all. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding.

[Mike Fratelloni]

He didn't do that.

[Chris Reivers]

I did that so many times. It's like, I got it. You didn't realize how expensive it was going to be. You'd already ordered your beers or whatever. So we're good here. Don't worry about it. He's like, oh my God, thank you. So I did that countless times. I mean, countless times. Because whatever.

[Mike Fratelloni]

What can you do?

[Chris Reivers]

Here's the life lesson. Just be nice.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Just be nice.

[Chris Reivers]

Don't be a dink. And most of the time it's gonna work out for you.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah. And then don't order two more after he says, hey, I knew you don't have the money for it. Well, can I get two more?

[Chris Reivers]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

You know, we were talking a lot about bars, and the other night I was in a bar. You were? I saw someone super famous. I was at the bar, and right next to me was Superman.

[Chris Reivers]

You're kidding.

[Mike Fratelloni]

No. It was really kind of neat. He was super glum, and I said, what's wrong? And he said, I got caught cheating on my beautiful wife Lois with her sister.

[Chris Reivers]

You're kidding me.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And I said, superman, dude, you have to stay in your own lane. Your own lane. Reavers, you are the best. Wow.

[Chris Reivers]

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. 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.