Mike Fratelloni (2:05)

It's great food, families. You don't have to buy a bunch of crap.

Chris Reivers (2:09)

Don't have to buy a bunch of crap. I gotta say this though. So again, this is Wednesday morning. I do have to make a stop on my way home.

Mike Fratelloni (2:16)

You're not going to Costco or Cub or some. What grocery store do you have to go to?

Chris Reivers (2:20)

I'm actually going to Hy Vee and I love me some Hy Vee, even though I did rip them a little bit over the weekend because of something else. But it's all good because I love Hy Vee. It's my favorite grocery store. I gotta make a stop because I forgot like two things.

Mike Fratelloni (2:34)

Are you kidding?

Chris Reivers (2:34)

I'm not kidding. And that's the thing, I think, because I know the store and the layout very, very well and I always use self checkout, right? Because I'm in and out.

Mike Fratelloni (2:45)

Boom.

Chris Reivers (2:45)

I think I can master that stop in less than 15 minutes.

Mike Fratelloni (2:50)

But what you're forgetting and what you're screwed with is that we had the first tsunami of Minnesota yesterday into this morning. So you're gonna drive an hour to get to this place. It's gonna take you an hour and then another 30 minutes to get home.

Chris Reivers (3:03)

Well, you know, the thing is, by the time I get done wrapped up here and actually get on the road, it'll probably be close to five or six anyway.

Mike Fratelloni (3:13)

Okay?

Chris Reivers (3:13)

So by the time I get to the store, pretty much everyone will have already stopped by. Because the other thing I can do is just go to my Rademacher's location too. But there's something specific that I need because I'm hosting tomorrow.

Mike Fratelloni (3:23)

Well, let me ask you this. When you get to a Hy Vee, do you walk up to the we are Nuts display? Did I just on ramp you right into a We are Nuts ad?

Chris Reivers (3:33)

Look at you. We are Nuts. Like we are nutsmn.com, right?

Mike Fratelloni (3:37)

Don't they have them at Hy Vee?

Chris Reivers (3:38)

You know what? That's a good question.

Mike Fratelloni (3:39)

If they don't have them at Hy Vee, walk into Hy Vee and politely say, are you nuts?

Chris Reivers (3:43)

I'm gonna say, hey, where are the nuts at?

Mike Fratelloni (3:46)

There you go.

Chris Reivers (3:47)

I've heard about this all. You know what? That's exactly what I'm going to do. Because the consumer doesn't realize just how much power that they have.

Mike Fratelloni (3:54)

It's incredibly powerful. All you'd have to do is ask a few times. I'm a retailer. If someone asks for something three times, for me, I think if three people ask, that means hundreds of them want it.

Chris Reivers (4:03)

Yes, right, Absolutely. But they are available at all of your Cub Foods locations, Lones and Byerlys, Kowalski's Markets, Fratelloni's Hardware and garden stores, locations, and also now available at Kwik Trip. I did stop by and picked up some cinnamon toffee peanuts. I have those stocked up for the boys because. Okay, first of all, Jim, he was in here the other day. We were doing our show, so I didn't get a chance to talk to him. Best salesman ever. We're out the state fair.

Mike Fratelloni (4:32)

Jeff.

Chris Reivers (4:32)

No, no, no. Jim Burt the owner.

Mike Fratelloni (4:34)

Oh, Jim Burt. Okay. He was in here. Okay.

Chris Reivers (4:35)

I didn't know. So we were at the state fair and he looked at my two boys. He said, do you two like Cinnamon Toast Crunch? Yeah, it's my favorite cereal. So he dumped a little bit in their hand and they both ate it. Like, oh my God. And then of course, my youngest ate the rest of that jar like he was a homeless person.

Mike Fratelloni (4:52)

He's the only guy at the state fair that can turn set of boys and say, I want to give you some nuts and not have be instantaneously arrested.

Chris Reivers (5:00)

But that's the thing. So it's a wonderful gift. You know what? Get the four pack and bring it to your next holiday gathering tomorrow.

Mike Fratelloni (5:08)

You buy it today, take it tomorrow to think. Don't bring a crappy bottle of wine. No, bring. We are nuts.

Chris Reivers (5:14)

And like I said, you can visit them online@wearenutsmn.com all right, I don't want to talk about traffic and how nobody knows how to drive in inclement weather anymore. But I do want to. I'm glad you sent me this story this morning because I saw the headline, Michael, and I also saw the public outrage on social media. And it's one of those stories that you just scream, are you bleeping serious?

Mike Fratelloni (5:38)

How can this happen and not being taken care of?

Chris Reivers (5:40)

Do you want to take the lead on this story?

Mike Fratelloni (5:42)

It's an article that describes how Minnesota man Daniel Clover. How do you pronounce that? K L, U V E R. Clover had his identity stolen. It's a New York Times.

Chris Reivers (5:52)

Which by the way, I'm starting to get really irritated when I see Minnesota man.

Mike Fratelloni (5:58)

Minnesota man.

Chris Reivers (5:59)

I don't know why, that just bugs me, but it's a guy.

Mike Fratelloni (6:01)

Okay, well, this is a guy who lives in Minnesota. He had his identity stolen from this guy. The New York Times runs through all of the trials and tribulation that Daniel has to go through. He literally has someone in a different state, multiple states, using his Social Security number. So the IRS is on his ass for. For years. He's paying penalties to the irs. He had finally had to do like I can do a payment plan. And he's saying, I never worked in Missouri. I work in this sugar processing fields out by Marshall. Minnesota. I've never even been to there. And some magical way the IRS says. I'm sorry, your Social Security number says you have all of this income coming in, right?

Chris Reivers (6:44)

Reported income. Yeah, for sure.

Mike Fratelloni (6:45)

It was so bad that one year the illegal alien. Cuz it was an illegal Alien that sold his identity actually made more than he made working in Minnesota legally. Right.

Chris Reivers (6:57)

It's just.

Mike Fratelloni (6:58)

It goes through all of the trials and tribulations, but the biggest thing about this New York Times article is that it emphasizes that both men paid a price saying that Culver, through years of financial and emotional fallout, and Perez Bravo the gentleman, the illegal alien that stole his identity through arrest, detention, and potentially imprisonment and removal, both paid somewhat of an equal price. No, they didn't.

Chris Reivers (7:23)

No, they did not.

Mike Fratelloni (7:24)

Someone had their identity stolen. They're forced to pay. At one point in time, he was $21,000 behind in. In IRS taxes. You can go to jail for not paying taxes. Finally, finally, common sense prevailed and they said, wait, wait, wait, wait. Time out. This isn't you. We're going to stop this. We're going to refund these payments. We're going to do all this stuff. We understand that you did not do the job while you were working a full time job in Minnesota because you would think, Missouri, that it would be.

Chris Reivers (7:50)

Pretty easy to prov. But it's probably unlikely that you're able to have a working full time job in two different states at the same time.

Mike Fratelloni (7:58)

And this guy was kind of a job jumper. He'd go around to where the work was. The illegal immigrant that stole the id, right? They said, you know how many times this happens? How many people this happens to each year in the United States?

Chris Reivers (8:07)

This is going to make me very angry, isn't it?

Mike Fratelloni (8:10)

More than 1 million people.

Chris Reivers (8:12)

Are you freaking kidding me?

Mike Fratelloni (8:13)

1 million people. That is a lot of people that have their identity stolen. That someone's earning income based on. Here's one thing that I thought, right? I think Daniel should have done. What he should have done is he should have found out that he was getting charged from this Hyde place. It was a leather hide place that this guy was working at. He should have called up and said, could you change my deductions to zero?

Announcer (8:41)

Right?

Mike Fratelloni (8:42)

So he would have had this illegal immigrant working for him in a different state. They would have had all these taxes, not change it to zero, change it so they take out all of his money in his taxes. Then Daniel would have gotten money back at the end of the year in a tax rebate because the illegal immigrant would have paid too much in taxes, right? He would have paid too much. And if you can call up, you can say, hey, if you're gonna make me pay the taxes on this, withhold as much taxes as you possibly can. Right? So Daniel would have actually benefited tax wise, better Idea. Yeah.

Chris Reivers (9:14)

He should have called Linda Keller and kellertaxservice.com.

Mike Fratelloni (9:17)

That'S right. And had her get into the IR.

Chris Reivers (9:20)

Okay. As someone that's. Have you ever had your identity stolen? No, I have.

Mike Fratelloni (9:24)

It's a problem.

Chris Reivers (9:24)

It's a nightmare. And mine wasn't terribly bad. It was basically someone that got a hold of my credit card. I'll tell the story. It was one of the years that we were out in San Diego, and I went to go get my haircut, and I said, okay, because she and the boys were staying. The hotel we're staying at, they wanted to go swim and go, I'm just gonna run down and go get my hair cut quick. And it was a. A chain that every one of us knows. And I've never had an issue with this chain locally, nationally, whatever. And when I got my hair cut and when it came time to come pay, she says, hey. The gal said, hey, our credit card machines are not working. I need to write your credit card number down. And I went, wait, what? I said, I don't know if I like that idea. She's like, well, do you have cash? And I didn't have any cash on me, and I wish I had. So then I went, well, okay. So she. She wrote down my credit card number, and then. I'm not joking. Within the next week, I'm saying I didn't buy this on Amazon. I didn't. I didn't. And it was. I went, oh, it was that gal that cut my hair anyway, whatever. But you don't know that.

Mike Fratelloni (10:30)

But that's what you.

Chris Reivers (10:30)

Well, I mean, it would be hard. There's too many dots that would have been connected that. For that not to have been the case. But I'm just making an educated guess anyway. But the banks and whatever this is. Again, before I was working with North American Banking Company, the banks that I was dealing with, they were very helpful, and they did, but it was just the pain of everything. Whereas cancel these cards. You got to deal with this, and then you got to file that paperwork, and it's a freaking nightmare. And why this bugs me. And the fact that you said that there's a million people that are pulling off this scam, for anyone to spend a second having sympathy for that particular person. You are also part of the problem.

Mike Fratelloni (11:15)

That's a problem. That's a problem. Right. I think I might have had my identity stolen once. In fact, I'm pretty sure, because my wife and I were staying at a hotel, and I went to check out and they said, hey, you have a couple extra videos purchased? And I said, that was not me. What were the titles? And one was Catholic Schoolgirls in Trouble, which I'm like, I. I've never even seen that. Is that with Joe Pesci? And my wife was like, I'm 90% sure that it was not me. That was a good joke.

Chris Reivers (11:42)

That was not.

Mike Fratelloni (11:44)

I couldn't say what I was going to say. The other title of the.

Chris Reivers (11:46)

I mean, is that still an option these days?

Mike Fratelloni (11:48)

I don't know. But don't pretend to tell me you didn't see on Golden Blonde in the hotel room in Pierre, South Dakota.

Chris Reivers (11:56)

I Got to be Boy. That's oddly specific. Just. I couldn't think of it. I got to be honest. I. You know me, I'm not a prude. I don't think I've ever done that.

Mike Fratelloni (12:06)

You know what? Reivers. There are still stores that you can go into and buy magazines, like, dirty magazines. And then I have to look at those guys and say, you just want to be out in public having people know you're a weirdo, a perv.

Chris Reivers (12:21)

I had no idea we were going down the street. No, no, listen. So a couple of weeks ago. No, no. So how do I phrase this? Well, I'll name the town we were in, hated Owatana. My son had a football game in Waterville, and then my nephew had a game in Owatana. So we were gonna. After his game, my mom said, hey, let's take the boys out for wings. I said, sure. And I remember we stopped in Owata. The Buffalo Wild Wings in Oatana. Well, right. Not right next to it, but a block away is one of those stores. It's right off 35, right off the freeway. And I remember looking at that store as I was getting back into my car, thinking, do these people not understand that the Internet is also available?

Mike Fratelloni (13:04)

Don't you want a tad bit of privacy during that thing? I went into Sex World one time in downtown Minneapolis. Remember Sex World? I think it's closed now. And I was just kind of. It was late night, and we were just walking around Sex World, me and a bunch of people. And one thing that I thought was brilliant is if you get caught stealing at Sex World, they take a Polaroid photo of you.

Chris Reivers (13:21)

No.

Mike Fratelloni (13:22)

With your business card stapled to it, holding up what you stole, and they post it behind the counter.

Chris Reivers (13:28)

You're kidding me.

Announcer (13:29)

No.

Mike Fratelloni (13:29)

Which is. I'm like, that's worse than getting caught. That's worse than having the police come and Give you a ticket for $40.

Chris Reivers (13:35)

Right?

Mike Fratelloni (13:36)

I thought that was brilliant. But I'm standing there, and I'm standing next to this glass case, and there's like this mannequin in the glass case. And then all of a sudden, I realize that it is an adult woman sitting in the foyer in the entrance way of Sex World in a glass display case, like 2ft wide, 6ft long, all encased in glass. And I. How are you breathing in there? Like, I didn't get that she was on display. And, you know, now that I say that, I was kind of drunk. So maybe it was a mannequin. Maybe I just never have gotten. I consider myself a pretty progressive lover. Reverse I'll do and kind of I'm up for anything a couple of times.

Announcer (14:16)

All right.

Mike Fratelloni (14:16)

Going to a bookstore to buy a dirty book is so far down on my list of something that would turn me on.

Chris Reivers (14:23)

I remember going in there one time, there was a group of us, and I think we went. This is back when the dome was still here. We went to a Gopher football game, and there was like four of us couples, right? And we went to a Gopher football game. And then we kind of bar hopped a little bit. And then someone said, we should go into Sex World. Yeah, we should.

Mike Fratelloni (14:44)

That's how it happens.

Chris Reivers (14:45)

And I thought, what are we doing in here? Like, what? I just remember saying, golden Gopher loss.

Mike Fratelloni (14:50)

To Bowling Green probably made you real Randy. You're like, damn.

Chris Reivers (14:53)

I think. I can't remember. I think it might have been. They played Ohio State and they did get crushed.

Mike Fratelloni (14:59)

It was 69 to nothing. You're like, 69?

Chris Reivers (15:01)

We should go to Sex World. We should go to Sex World. Okay, how did we get there from the guy that got his identity stolen?

Mike Fratelloni (15:06)

I don't know. But to wrap that story up, shame on you, New York Times, for conflating and putting together this guy that got his identity stolen and this Prez Bravo, who did the stealing of the identity. This guy went through IRS hell. And by the way, you don't want to mess with the irs, right? They don't give a shit that your identity got stolen. You're paying the taxes, cuz. They've heard it. All right, so this poor guy in Minnesota is getting ground down by the irs, and New York Times says we really have two victims here. That's not the same thing. You can't be a victim when you're the thief.

Chris Reivers (15:39)

No. And that's just it. And it's this entire movement of having, you know, these are our Neighbors. No, these are people that are. I just. I can't take this stuff anymore. Whether it's food fraud. We talked about this the other day. The fact that we just. This judge, this progressive woke judge, decided to let this guy off who stole $7 million in taxpayer money.

Mike Fratelloni (16:03)

Something's weird about that story.

Chris Reivers (16:04)

I just don't get it. At what point did you. And I'm talking to this judge specifically, or people that have sympathy for this guy, at what point did your brain not develop to say, no, that's wrong.

Mike Fratelloni (16:14)

Yeah, something weird. That's weird, though.

Chris Reivers (16:17)

But that is exactly why we have been ripe for the picking here in Minnesota, because we are. Oh, well, he's just trying. No, that's illegal.

Mike Fratelloni (16:26)

It's illegal. Let's start with the illegality of it. And I go. This, you and I go on vacation to Mexico and we say, you know what we're gonna do? We're just gonna do our show from down here and we're gonna just work here. I'm gonna get a job at the 7 11, you're gonna do the podcast, and we're just gonna live there forever. You can't do that in Mexico. They don't allow that to happen. You would be arrested and you'd be deported instantaneously. Why do we have a different set of rules? You know why?

Chris Reivers (16:53)

It's a joke.

Mike Fratelloni (16:54)

I talked about it on the last show. Because we take $500 from one guy and give it to five people. $100 each to buy five votes. And that's exactly what one side of the aisle wants to do. They want to get enough people in on the government dole that say, I have to vote for the government. The government's the one paying for my existence.

Chris Reivers (17:13)

Exactly. His name is Mike Fratelloni. My name is Chris Reivers. This is the weekly scramble podcast and we're. Be right back.

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Chris Reivers (19:50)

So we were talking about the fraud and everything else in the previous segment. Have you watched some of these social media posts from your guy, Zoran Mamdami? No. Are they not in New York? He's not even keep in mind, he's not even in office and he basically built this campaign on hey, come here. Everything's gonna be free. The buses are gonna be free, government, grocery stores. We're invest into public housing. He's already begging for money, basically saying yeah, all that crap I promised none of that's gonna happen.

Mike Fratelloni (20:22)

Really? Okay.

Chris Reivers (20:23)

It's comical to the point of sadness, because it's almost like every single one of us said, well, this isn't gonna happen. There's no way he can do that. I mean, companies are gonna leave that city. They're gonna flee because of what they're gonna charge.

Mike Fratelloni (20:38)

And the rich, when he charges another 2%, right, it's going from like 3% to 5% of their total earnings go to a state. A city tax in New York City. They're not going to do that. People are not going to make 10 million bucks a year want to pay another $200,000 in taxes to the city. They're never going to want to do that.

Chris Reivers (20:57)

And I was going to mention that I should have sent this to you, and I forgot to. But our guy, Nick Halter from Axios Twin Cities, he was on Fox 9 yesterday morning, basically citing the fact that the downtowns have. Their vacancy rates are just astronomical. Right. Did you see the property tax increase for the city of Corcoran? Do you know where Corcoran lives?

Mike Fratelloni (21:19)

Yeah, I do know Corcoran.

Announcer (21:20)

Yep.

Chris Reivers (21:21)

30% increase.

Mike Fratelloni (21:23)

Are they building a school or are they doing something?

Chris Reivers (21:25)

I don't know if that's. Maybe that's a water park. I have no idea. But I thought, wait a minute, maybe a mosque.

Mike Fratelloni (21:30)

Maybe they're building a big public mosque.

Chris Reivers (21:32)

They might be, but, you know, put.

Mike Fratelloni (21:33)

That speaker in to do that. The calls to prayer. Maybe that's.

Chris Reivers (21:36)

Maybe that's what it is.

Mike Fratelloni (21:37)

That's what it is.

Chris Reivers (21:38)

But I saw that. I thought, okay, is this the sticker shock that's gonna wake people up and say, well, the reason why this is happening is X, Y, and Z. And there's a number of us that have been complaining about this for years, and it'll be fine.

Mike Fratelloni (21:51)

I love it. Everybody moves their ass on Minneapolis because property taxes are too high. They get down to Corcoran, Cochrane, whatever that's called, and they're excited for three years, then all of a sudden, bam.

Chris Reivers (22:00)

Then they get drunk, Then they get.

Mike Fratelloni (22:02)

Hit all of a sudden. So I had this theory, and I want you to help me work on this, because we're not deep political thinkers, right?

Chris Reivers (22:09)

No. You could even remove the word political. I don't think we're deep thinkers.

Mike Fratelloni (22:13)

Okay, there you go. So there was a time where people were embarrassed to say that their survival was based on government largesse. Right. There was a time where if you were on food stamps, you kind of hid that. Right.

Chris Reivers (22:31)

Then I know exactly where you're Going.

Mike Fratelloni (22:33)

Comes along, Barack Obama. And Barack Obama started, did something kind of brilliant. He said, let's put up billboards that say, serving 45 million Americans on SNAP, right? And all of a sudden, it became like, you get a little credit card. Now you don't have to pull out a food stamp. You got a credit card so no one can really see what you're doing, right? It's all done without the cashier really saying, oh, that's an EBT card. When did we get there? And when we got there, and we got people so comfortable beyond the government dole, many of them need it. But when we got so comfortable that they ask for more and more and more, I go back to this Zorhan Mandami in New York, where he says, hey, I want to build a government grocery store. I hope he does reverse. And I hope at some point in time they say, oh, by the way, if you're on snap, this is the only grocery store you can use. And start having people on SNAP be forced to go to the government grocery store in New York. I'm just saying for New York, because that would be an interesting microcosmal test to see if people say, I'm not doing that anymore. I don't want that to be my grocery store. I need to get myself a better job. I need to save money. I need to maybe get rid of my addiction issues. I want to do something to advance myself. I don't want to be proud to be on SNAP anymore.

Chris Reivers (23:53)

Did you hear my story the other day on Garage Logic? And it's okay if you did not, because it's worth repeating. I was also at a store. I was picking up a few items. This is, I want to say, a week, maybe two weeks ago, and not busy at all. The woman in front of me, I would guess early 50s, ish, you know, whatever. And she was there by herself. And I had just maybe like 40 bucks worth of stuff on the conveyor belt, right? And I wasn't really paying attention. I was maybe looking at my phone, I can't remember. And she put the card in the deal. And he says, oh, ma', am, you still owe three doll. Whatever it was, it was a minimal amount. And I'm thinking, oh, she must have used a gift card or something. Well, I look and it says, ebt. And I'm like, oh, okay, whatever. She pulls out a black American Express diamond card.

Mike Fratelloni (24:42)

Are you kidding me?

Chris Reivers (24:43)

To pay for the rest of it. And I went, huh? And the cashier kind of glanced at me and kind of rolled her eyes, like, okay. And I just got curious.

Mike Fratelloni (24:53)

Yeah.

Chris Reivers (24:53)

And so she's begging or gathering her things, putting it back in her cart. I would guess she probably had, like, $150 worth of stuff. Right. Which these days isn't that much.

Mike Fratelloni (25:02)

Two bags of groceries.

Chris Reivers (25:05)

So as I'm walking out to the parking lot, I just kind of glanced to see what kind of vehicle she was getting in. She got into a Lexus.

Mike Fratelloni (25:12)

A Lexus.

Announcer (25:13)

Wow.

Chris Reivers (25:13)

And I thought, again, don't know the whole story.

Mike Fratelloni (25:16)

She could have been buying those groceries for her sister who is in need.

Chris Reivers (25:19)

Exactly. She might. Yeah. I have no idea what the story is, but I thought, you know, I think we got a problem with the old program that we've established. And again, I have to say this every single time. We both understand the program is absolutely essential for a number of people. I get that.

Mike Fratelloni (25:36)

We don't want to shame people who need. Of course not. Of course not. Mine is not to shame people by saying, I want people to have pride if they can reverse if they can succeed in America, which the. The mathematics in America, you have a better chance succeeding here than anywhere else in the world.

Chris Reivers (25:56)

When I mentioned that story on gl, I did get an email from somebody, and they made a decent point where it was almost like, well, if the program's available, why not take advantage of it? And I thought, but doesn't your subconscious just say, that's wrong? That program's designed.

Mike Fratelloni (26:15)

In other words, it should be for the true needy.

Chris Reivers (26:18)

Yeah. And I guess to the emailer's point, it was almost like, well, the program's available. Take advantage of it if you can. And I thought, okay, I kind of get that point of view, but really, I don't know.

Mike Fratelloni (26:31)

Yeah, maybe that means the program is too available. Right. It might be too easy to get to. And mine is a philosophical change. But if I'm a man and I have a wife and a couple of kids and I'm on the edge and I. I maybe need it, maybe don't. Is there a small percentage of me that says I don't want to be the guy on food stamps?

Chris Reivers (26:56)

For sure. Yeah.

Mike Fratelloni (26:57)

And I need to do something. I need to figure out how to get my wife a little job or I need to work a little harder or I need to load trucks overnight or do something. Right.

Chris Reivers (27:05)

Right. To get ahead.

Mike Fratelloni (27:06)

To get ahead. Or do I say, I'm now on the government dole? I'm going to take that. Oh, I get $180 a year or a month for each one of my kids for snap. So I'm getting a few hundred bucks for food. Boy, I can work a little bit less next week.

Chris Reivers (27:21)

Yeah. And for me, I guess I just look at it as well. Okay, I understand it and I get it. That there are, especially this time of the year, I know personally, families that are really struggling and they're worried about Christmases coming up, and they got kids, and kids are active at night.

Mike Fratelloni (27:37)

It sucks.

Chris Reivers (27:38)

It does suck. It really does. And so I do have sympathy for those people that absolutely need those programs. But I'm just saying the problem that I continue to have is too many people are scamming us. We just talked about it in the first. I mean, there's just too much of that going on right now because of its availability. Because, again, I'm gonna say this again, because we are ripe for the picking. And that's just unfortunate.

Mike Fratelloni (28:01)

We're a very rich, generous nation. That's $37 trillion in debt, right?

Chris Reivers (28:09)

Yeah.

Mike Fratelloni (28:09)

At some point in time, we are gonna have to make these tough choices to give the most needy more, maybe. And those that aren't needy nothing. And they will have to get off and get back onto it. I do know one thing. Reavers. And I don't know if you know this, but you know that alligators can live for 100 years.

Chris Reivers (28:29)

They can, huh?

Mike Fratelloni (28:30)

Yeah. So the likelihood is pretty high that he will see you later. Reivers, you are the best.

Chris Reivers (28:36)

Please do us a favor, rate and review the show. Oh, I forgot to mention this, too, by the way, our friends at Harmony Spirits down there in Harmony, Minnesota. You know what? That's a wonderful gift to bring.

Mike Fratelloni (28:45)

Absolutely.

Chris Reivers (28:45)

At a holiday gathering. And I did talk to our crew. I'm getting the caramel apple rum at my local liquor store. I was promised it's gonna happen. And I really, really can't wait for that to happen. But here's the thing. If you're available, you know, people are gonna be traveling this time of the year. A little dicey on the roads the next couple of days. But you know what? Stop in at that tasting room. Say hi to Larry and Damon and the entire Harmony Spirits crew. Let them know that we sent you. But what you can really do to help them continue to grow their brand is go into your local liquor store and ask for the Harmony Spirits brand by name. You just heard from Mike in the previous segment. The consumer has so much power in that regard. And if you say you're going to buy it, guess what? They're going to put it on the shelves.

Mike Fratelloni (29:27)

Yeah. Ask for it, then buy it.

Chris Reivers (29:28)

Yes.

Announcer (29:29)

You got to do both.

Chris Reivers (29:29)

You got to do both, but it doesn't matter. The gin, the rum, the vodka, the bourbon, it's all wonderful stuff, and it's made right here in the great state of Minnesota. From grain to glass, they are the absolute best. And we love our friends at harmony spirits@harmonyspirits.net and their Facebook page is Harmony Spirits Distillery. They do a really cool job of updating coming events and things like that. So please do that for us as well.

Mike Fratelloni (29:55)

Happy Thanksgiving.

Chris Reivers (29:56)

Thank you, Michael. You do the same.

Underdog Fantasy Announcer (29:57)

Thank you.

Chris Reivers (29:58)

Please do us a favor. Rate or review the show wherever you happen to be listening the weekly Scramble podcast. It helps other people find the show and it helps us out as well. His name is Mike Frattaloni. My name is Chris Reivers. Thank you so much for listening to the weekly Scramble Podcast. Happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of you. We'll talk to you again next time. Until then, cheers.