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Always harbor and guard stores. Hello good

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sir, I don't reverse I am. You

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know what I am. I'm.

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Okay, just okay. here's why I'm going

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to say I'm okay, that that I

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want to get super heavy here because

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we're kind of the lighter side of

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grudge logic and you ever touching on

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some of this albeit briefly before the

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show started in each. Joe.

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Had a pretty. Pretty. Epic Tyree

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today about just how stupid the modern

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day college student is are no mercy.

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The protests yes, better going on all

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over the all over the United States,

0:57

but most principally not far away from

1:00

us at the U of M. Can't

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be have said. I drove through campus

1:04

a week ago. Just gotta

1:06

try to get a sense of the vibe. And

1:08

now that I we we've started to see. Some.

1:11

Of the videos surfacing of

1:13

I'm What. These.

1:16

People really are not only state of

1:18

our truly have no I know why

1:20

the river there to begin with it

1:22

really does show. At least. It

1:25

it. It shows me. How. Truly

1:28

easily. A certain demographic

1:30

of people can be manipulated were your

1:32

and I'm saying it's the one hundred

1:34

percent. I know exactly what you're saying

1:36

it. I think a lot of it.

1:38

It I said the sergio, but I'm

1:40

going to go into it a little

1:42

bit more here. I think so much

1:44

of this has banned and will continue

1:46

to be fueled by social media. and

1:48

I think there there is obviously a

1:50

Soros component that's funding a lot of

1:52

this. But this is for me. I

1:54

think the thing that the twenty one

1:56

to twenty three year old feels like

1:58

of this. Is the cool. The do right now

2:01

because we all know what took place for

2:03

years ago when all the sudden civil unrest

2:05

took place. Or I'm in the aftermath of

2:07

of of George Boyd that we can of

2:09

George Boyd which oh my god that was

2:12

almost for his was Memorial Day weekend out

2:14

of Twenty Twenty. So almost exactly four years

2:16

ago and I truly I had someone tell

2:18

me. Com or to

2:20

see a someone on the inside that

2:22

I am very good friends with that

2:24

have been for quite some time so

2:26

that that is an avid listener to

2:29

both our show and Raj Logic and

2:31

he and I are having a conversation

2:33

over the weekend and he essentially said

2:35

he know when the weather turns answers

2:37

to get warm outside the bad stuff

2:39

tends to happen downtown and I he

2:41

said it's this will be the summer

2:43

of hold my beer and I said

2:45

are you serious He said you have

2:47

absolutely no idea what's coming really and.

2:50

I think it's gonna be great. Summer

2:52

personal of course you down here under

2:54

a very good to know you're an

2:56

optimist out to the nth degree in.

2:58

That's what I love about aliens you

3:00

are. But he says he said here,

3:02

look at this, look at birth, look

3:04

at be algorithm that we have working

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for. It's ah, another summer of arm

3:08

and election season or major major elections.

3:10

Yep, me up at Mayor not be

3:13

a little bit dumb polarizing young so

3:15

you have that going for eons. But

3:17

more importantly, hear the Twin Cities specifically.

3:19

You. Have a lot of people now

3:21

that as we are calling it Tom's

3:23

we have a lot of new visitors

3:25

term of here, the great State of

3:28

Minnesota and I see that when those

3:30

worlds are going to mash and collide

3:32

in addition to just your rapid i

3:34

know joy, Joy hate us words, you're

3:37

rapid uptick in crime and unrest during

3:39

the summer months he added. I hope

3:41

he's wrong. and he's usually nazis

3:43

every time he's told me something it's happen

3:45

more often than not he said this is

3:47

gonna be a really bad summer while i

3:49

hope not i or not either i don't

3:51

want that the i when i was in

3:53

college and ninety ninety as universe him and

3:55

sort of i remember this kid came at

3:57

clans and some really strange because t t

3:59

came to the mall at the University of

4:01

Minnesota and he just got

4:03

up and started talking the most racist

4:06

crap I've ever seen. Okay. And

4:09

I was watching him thinking, and

4:11

don't take this the wrong way, but I was like, God, that

4:13

kid has guts. Because why

4:15

aren't these people knocking his teeth out,

4:17

right? And we, as

4:20

a group of students, escorted him

4:22

off campus by following him, him

4:24

and his five other

4:26

people that he was with. And I'll never

4:28

forget this because we walked him to the McDonald's

4:31

in Dinkytown and he hopped in a station wagon.

4:34

Right? Okay. And I thought,

4:36

okay, that's just a regular nutcase kid, right? But

4:38

I didn't know if he was going to jump into an all-black

4:40

limousine or, you know, I had no idea. Like

4:43

he was such a villain in my mind. And

4:45

that was way back in 1990, right? And

4:48

maybe if you were there, you remember this kid, because it was a

4:50

big story back then. Okay. But

4:53

what's strange ... So wait, this is a documented story. Yeah, I

4:55

was there. Oh, wow. Yeah,

4:57

this is when I went to the U.N. in 1990. So

4:59

what's different about it now is

5:01

I think people that are

5:04

on campus are calling for

5:07

the death of a certain

5:09

group of Americans. And

5:11

they're doing it with unclear

5:13

understanding of what the facts are, right?

5:16

At minimum. I think

5:18

everyone can agree that we don't want

5:20

innocent Palestinians to die. But

5:22

when an 18-year-old white girl

5:25

from Encino says, I am Hamas,

5:27

she better really understand what she's saying,

5:30

because when she marks herself that, I

5:32

look at her and say, oh, you are a Nazi.

5:35

Hamas is filled with people who want

5:37

to murder and clearly murder Jews

5:39

and Americans. I even use the word exterminate.

5:42

Exterminate. Literally look at

5:44

them as bugs, right? And

5:47

Americans as bugs. So my little monkey brain

5:49

says, I want to bring Sarah Johnson or

5:51

whatever that little girl's name is and say,

5:54

here's some videos of what Hamas did. Are

5:57

you still on their side? Oh, you are. Okay,

5:59

Sarah, let's get... All. Of you doc

6:01

all the way out because any company

6:03

in the world would say he adds

6:05

think you if you want that we

6:08

don't believe you're a good fit. So

6:10

the right mike where someone did that

6:12

very thing I'm usually has been out

6:14

of for some reason. In addition to

6:17

Columbia that they focused are a lot

6:19

of the attention on certain campuses you

6:21

seal Israel one of them or some

6:23

brave soul. Decided

6:25

to broadcast. All

6:28

of the footage that some of us

6:30

have seen above the attacks back on

6:32

October seven him and had it on

6:34

a large screen right outside. Of.

6:36

An encampment at the U C L A

6:38

us gonna do that they did and and

6:40

what was the after effect of was the

6:43

reaction was we should be showing that would

6:45

this is what this is what hap your

6:47

this isn't made up as what you're fighting

6:49

on behalf of Yes this is who you

6:51

are Powers the allegedly standing for and I

6:53

think some of those kids. A

6:56

obviously are not very bright but be don't

6:58

really grasp a lot of that. They don't

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understand that the the gravity of of the

7:02

states that they're taking in it's it's embarrassing.

7:04

It really is. We we saw the two

7:06

videos of the or that video of the

7:08

two girls that they guys about. you know

7:10

what? are you exactly protesting here and because

7:12

well you know for for Palestine in this

7:14

about what what for pound me what you're

7:16

standing in to was you know I am

7:18

kind of embarrassed because I need to become

7:21

more educated stairs were friends know as a

7:23

as he said what are we are protesting

7:25

for enough. Or is that what I'm not

7:27

actually serves as like oh that's a problem

7:29

yeah it's not. They're not protesting for better

7:31

wages at the school cafeteria workers from something

7:34

that you can wrap your mind around There

7:36

protesting on behalf of a terrorist organization fall

7:38

from us that would wipe use off the

7:40

face of the earth is a could do

7:43

it or not just choose the legal right

7:45

to America and wife Americans off of a

7:47

severe to be if they have the power

7:49

to do at or to the point where

7:51

I'd like and I know the exact video

7:54

talking about to the point where. I'd like

7:56

to say to those two are going to guess

7:58

twenty two years and one girl. At

8:00

a really prestigious Ivy league school, I

8:02

would like to see them do realize

8:05

how short your life span would be.

8:07

If we placed you in the plays the

8:09

very place you're fighting force is it wouldn't

8:11

be very long term and it's for those

8:13

that think us wise as such a big

8:16

deal. Here's why it's a big deal at

8:18

least in my opinion and I was told

8:20

a long time ago is something fires you

8:22

up and you're passionate about. That's the kind

8:24

of subject you should be talking about an

8:26

are and and we run the gamut on

8:28

their shoulders as we have all sorts of

8:30

different subjects we dive into. but to the

8:32

point where of amateur go back to you

8:34

silly Specifically, you know Michael Fritillary at U

8:36

C L A. But. There

8:38

were pro Palestinian students I'm gonna

8:40

guess, but protesters on the campus

8:43

handing out. Wristbands,

8:46

For. Students that they. Pass. The

8:49

Test meeting. Oh are you on our

8:51

side? Are you guess if they occupied

8:53

a building and they were given wristbands?

8:55

A certain sins of the Confessor from

8:57

what does that remind everybody? Ah, that's

8:59

a with the problem. You can't have

9:01

that in America. Luckily if there is

9:03

a luckily it's based on campuses. still

9:05

today, right and around kind of. And

9:07

people are dumb right in. When you're

9:09

young, you're supposed to be dumb. But

9:11

what you have to be very careful

9:13

of is that you don't say and

9:15

do things when you're young and dumb

9:17

that will stick. With you for the rest

9:19

of your life because there could be an

9:22

equal and opposite chart to what you just

9:24

said. You know some people will get the

9:26

wristband that they're pro Palestinians and then other

9:28

people might say I remember when that person

9:30

was pro Palestinian. Good luck to of the

9:32

of right and what I'm writing you asked

9:34

like a neo nazi am writing you off

9:36

like you're a Hitler youth. Remember back in

9:38

the day off here we go. Get off

9:41

my lawn with that angry cloud or aggravating

9:43

as a cloud. Remember though back went with

9:45

this phrase actually used to hold a little

9:47

of merit when it. Actually used to have

9:49

an effect on a young student. You.

9:51

Know this is gonna go in your permanent

9:53

record Our remember I agree. I still sir

9:55

Mister Berglund. Jefferson. elementary cerebral

9:58

minnesota i was Screw

10:00

up in fact my boys name we were just talking

10:02

about this very thing the other day We were watching

10:04

a movie but a kid that was kind of acting

10:06

out and and then of course You know

10:08

your my boys are asking me about all dad. Did you

10:11

used to get in trouble said yeah, elementary school? I'd cause

10:13

a little ruckus here that I was never disrespectful For

10:16

the most part the teachers because it was

10:18

always a substitute all when a substitute teacher

10:20

was in now. Let's go But

10:23

I remember mr. Wergland our principal sitting me

10:25

down. I said mr. Reavers You

10:27

know this is gonna go on your permanent record and

10:29

the sheer Terror on

10:32

my face was just I

10:35

Still get chill. I remember that

10:37

that was in Either

10:40

third or fourth grade and so the same age that

10:42

my youngest son is right now and I remember that

10:44

to this day and these kids

10:47

don't have that and I think it's because

10:50

we are such a spoiled

10:53

and entitled society and not

10:56

Everybody I'm not indicting everybody but there

10:58

are so many kids now that

11:00

just think oh, this is just the way you

11:02

behave sir No, it's not and I it goes

11:05

back to the parenting has been

11:07

so poor Because we have

11:09

so many parents or at least the ones

11:11

that are present anyway so many parents that

11:13

think it's their job To

11:15

be their kids friend instead of

11:17

their parent. No, I'm not saying you need to rule with a

11:20

you know a stack You're not Adrian

11:22

Peterson, but my god you have to

11:24

have rules you have to have standards

11:26

you have to have discipline

11:28

at times and see because if you don't

11:31

you're gonna get an entire

11:33

nation full of these entitled Stupid

11:35

college kids that think it's okay to protest

11:38

on behalf of a month. Yeah. Yeah, I

11:40

think you're absolutely right Reavers I had said

11:42

to my daughter the other day my sweet

11:44

daughter Harper. She's my youngest one I said

11:46

hey, did you know that president

11:49

Biden just signed into law that?

11:52

Tiktok will either have to sell out

11:54

of communist China or they're gonna have to close it

11:56

down and you know what she said Good

12:00

Really? I need a break

12:02

from TikTok The

12:04

way she said it was almost

12:07

chilling because she knows She

12:09

knows It's not right. She

12:12

knows intellectually. This isn't good. Sorry. Revive

12:14

me. Hold this her pretty 14

12:17

years or two. Wow. She had the mental

12:20

capacity to say oh, yeah Take

12:22

it away from me, right? She doesn't have the power to

12:24

take it away from herself I don't

12:27

technically have the power to take it away from her

12:29

either, right? It's I mean I

12:31

hypothetically could but that would create a bunch of

12:33

consternation between us, right? She wanted

12:35

somebody to take tiktok away because she intellectually

12:37

knows this isn't good I shouldn't be on

12:40

here for three hours a day four hours

12:42

a day five hours a day I

12:44

shouldn't just be seen 15 second

12:46

clips of total BS, right? And can

12:48

you get some good stuff off the

12:51

tiktok? Sure sure, but not for

12:53

five hours a day, right? You're gonna see a

12:55

bunch of stuff So it was really really illustrative

12:57

when she said that have you because you have

12:59

three girls And have you sat down and watch

13:01

the social dilemma with them or have you seen

13:04

it? You I have not seen it yet, and

13:06

I think they have seen it. I have not

13:08

seen it Okay, I don't want to see it

13:10

because I don't have the juice as a dad

13:13

to shut it off No, but but I think

13:15

here's why you should watch it and

13:17

again, I've Long

13:19

been on record saying that if I

13:21

didn't have this particular job I

13:24

probably would have zero social media and

13:27

I say that not because I'm all high and mighty

13:29

It's because I know it's warping my

13:32

brain I do but I have to have it because

13:34

of what I do for a living That's just that's

13:36

just part of the gig as I've argued with the

13:38

guy that normally occupies that chair oftentimes

13:43

Once or twice a week Joe you

13:45

got to do this. I'm sorry. It's part of the job in

13:47

any event um, I do and

13:49

the reason I mention that to you is I Wonder

13:53

because you and I are pretty like-minded in

13:55

a lot of things right? We're we're we're

13:57

we're we're we're good grounded self-aware

14:00

guys, just trying to raise

14:02

kids right, do the right thing, make good choices,

14:04

right? The kind of people in the room. Exactly.

14:07

But I wonder if social

14:10

media had existed when I was

14:13

my kid's age now. I wonder about that.

14:15

I wonder if it was available to me

14:17

because obviously I grew up way before cell

14:19

phones, way before social media, you did too.

14:22

So I'm wondering how much of that

14:24

presence would have changed my

14:26

upbringing and my development long

14:29

term. I do wonder about stuff

14:31

like that. Yeah, you know, I don't think it helps.

14:33

I don't think anybody spending five hours a day on

14:35

social media improves their life. No. Right?

14:40

my life. Right. I

14:42

just know that. It's really interesting that many of the people

14:44

that are listening right now to this

14:46

show, we've experienced something that no

14:48

other generation has experienced. We experienced

14:51

almost no computing whatsoever back in

14:53

the 70s, right? To getting a

14:55

computer in sixth grade when I was in, you

14:57

know, it would be like 1982 or

15:00

whatever, when I was in sixth grade. And when

15:02

my teacher said someday computers are going to be

15:04

bigger than this school, right? That's where we were

15:06

at when I was in sixth grade. Right. And

15:09

to the internet coming, to the iPhone coming in 2002.

15:12

I mean, all this stuff happening and now I think

15:15

we're going to get into this world of AI. And

15:19

we're going to see this whole spectrum in

15:21

our short lifetimes. The

15:23

biggest changes that the world has ever

15:25

seen in the, I mean, you think

15:28

a car was important. That was very

15:30

important. But what's happened to the

15:32

world in our lifetimes and what AI is going to

15:34

do to the world is going to change it exponentially.

15:36

And if you don't believe me with AI,

15:40

spend 15 seconds on it and you'll say,

15:42

oh, I just wrote a movie about a hot dog

15:44

and a hamburger falling in love. It's 284 pages. I

15:47

did it in 15 seconds. Right. And

15:50

I mean, everything is going to change creativity

15:52

wise. Reavers, you know, when I built

15:54

the frat pack logo, right, I went

15:57

to chat GPT and said, create

15:59

a logo for me. We went to Bing's

16:01

version, Microsoft version, chat AI.

16:04

Because we're on a budget. That's right. I

16:07

went to Bing and I said, hey, create a frat

16:09

pack logo for me. In 15 seconds, I had 30

16:11

logos. I'm like, huh. I

16:14

mean, you could do a

16:16

Reaver's family logo in five seconds.

16:20

The time that AI and what

16:22

AI will change is just a

16:26

whole other world we'll be experiencing in five

16:29

months. And I don't think the average Joe,

16:31

again, the average Joe, and this isn't me

16:33

looking down upon anyone. It's just there are

16:35

so many people that are just like, eh,

16:38

whatever. But I don't think a lot

16:40

of people understand how much that's

16:42

going to be. Is

16:44

a revolution too strong of a word? No, it's 100% going to

16:46

be revolutionary. Let

16:48

me give you a really good example. I had a 15-minute

16:51

conference call today. I recorded the conference call.

16:53

I transcribed it automatically with the push of a

16:55

button and transcribed it, saying, Mike did this, Bob

16:57

did this. You know, it's all names. I threw

16:59

it into chat GPT and said, clean this up

17:01

and turn it into one page. So I took

17:03

like 8,000 words, turned it into one page. It

17:05

was the most succinct one page of notes I've

17:07

ever seen in my entire life. It said, Mike's

17:09

supposed to do this. Bob's supposed to do this.

17:12

Question's still unanswered. I mean, it was

17:14

unbelievable. And the efficiency, if I had to

17:16

go ahead and outline what I talked

17:18

about for 15 minutes today, that would have taken me

17:20

the day to get done. And it took

17:22

me the 15 seconds in AI. I

17:25

mean, it's just shocking. It's just shocking.

17:27

I think to go all the way

17:29

full circle, I think these kids know

17:31

not what they do. I'm hoping

17:34

and praying that they're just caught up

17:36

in this world of

17:39

I don't know what's going on. And you got

17:41

to remember UCLA is what 60, 80,000 kids, 60,000 kids, 50,000 kids. They

17:44

were going to have a graduation with 85,000 people

17:46

coming, right? That they canceled. It's

17:50

200 kids doing this. It's not

17:52

50,000. True. But

17:54

it still should be. I agree with that all

17:56

completely, but it's still, I guess to me, it's

17:58

alarming just that even. 250, whatever the number is.

18:02

Like, really? Do you have any furniture? Yeah, yeah.

18:05

Like, if you're willing to say, I want Jews

18:07

to die, stand up, take your mask off, because

18:09

you all have masks on, take your kafis off,

18:11

we want to see your face, state your name,

18:13

and you say you want Jews to die. And

18:15

we'll say, okay, we know that Sarah Johnson wants

18:17

that. That's bold. But,

18:19

oh, you're hiding behind a mask? Well, that's bold.

18:22

Yeah, that's bold. Yeah, real big deal. So you

18:24

mentioned technology in school. I'll

18:26

share this story very briefly. My

18:28

third grader came to me,

18:30

and actually it was my wife, that said, hey, he's

18:34

got a project he needs to work on over

18:36

the weekend. This was Friday afternoon. And I said,

18:38

okay, cool, no problem. We'll talk about it. So

18:40

Saturday morning, she said he has to write about

18:42

a, the homework assignment was

18:44

you need to do, I

18:46

don't know if it's an essay necessarily,

18:49

or a presentation, sorry, a presentation on

18:52

an older

18:54

adult, either in your family or one that

18:56

you're close to. And so he wanted

18:58

to interview grandpa, my dad. And I thought,

19:01

oh, that's sweet. He's going to love the fact

19:03

that you picked him, buddy. So we called grandpa

19:05

on Sunday, it was late, late Sunday

19:08

afternoon after he was done with church.

19:11

And so one of the questions was, explain

19:13

how when you were in, because my

19:16

dad is 73 years old,

19:18

I said, grandpa, what was the difference

19:20

between when you were in third grade

19:22

to now I'm in third grade and

19:25

the technology portion that my dad shared with

19:28

him for him was absolutely

19:30

mind blowing. He's saying,

19:33

I remember him specifically saying, well, grandpa, you

19:36

just didn't get on your Chromebook and no, but

19:39

that, that there, there was no such thing as

19:41

any of that. But

19:44

I remember my dad, I didn't even know this, but my

19:46

dad saying something to the effect of, well, when

19:48

I was going into junior high, we

19:50

got something called a telecom machine, which

19:53

I had never heard of before, but

19:55

it was basically a fancy

19:58

looking typewriter. entire

20:00

school got to use, but they

20:02

also got intercoms towards the end of junior high.

20:04

And they all thought that was on. They could

20:07

communicate from room to room. But just, it was

20:09

kind of neat. And I'm really glad that I

20:11

got to be a little bit of a part

20:13

of this project because there are stories that I've

20:15

heard my dad tell before that I hadn't heard

20:18

in years. I mean, your dad's a little too

20:20

young to have ice delivered to his house. Right.

20:22

But my dad's 10 years older and he had

20:24

ice delivered to his house. But he remembers his

20:27

dad having that very thing. And to the

20:29

point where the thing that stood

20:31

out most to him, and as I'm sure

20:33

most people that are around his age was

20:35

the JFK assassination and how they took everybody

20:37

to the gymnasium, the

20:40

auditorium and kind of explained to all the

20:43

kids what had happened. And it

20:45

was just shocking to everybody. And just seeing

20:47

my little guy kind of react to that

20:49

was like, whoa, grandpa was around when JFK

20:52

was, it was actually, it was really, really

20:54

neat being a part of like that whole

20:56

interaction was kind of cool. That is really

20:58

cool. And I've got some subjects to Robert

21:00

Kennedy running for president. Okay. Yes.

21:03

And I listened to an interview with him. Is it just

21:06

me or is it impossible? I

21:09

mean, I want to be respectful to the guy. Right. Sure.

21:12

But I can't listen to him. His voice is

21:14

very, very difficult to listen to. Have

21:17

you heard Royce? Oh, no.

21:19

Royce is a smooth operator compared.

21:23

I mean, I feel very badly for him because

21:25

I think Kennedy got that from, if I'm not

21:27

mistaken, it was a, it was a chemical, a

21:29

medicine that he took that destroyed his vocal cords.

21:32

Oh, I didn't know that. It's something like, don't

21:35

quote me on that. I'm sure that everyone on

21:37

this show will send us a thing, but it

21:40

destroyed his vocal cords. So it's outside of his

21:42

control. Right. It's a really sad

21:44

thing, but he is very labored to listen

21:46

to. I feel like he's flexing his

21:48

throat and it sounds painful to have

21:51

him continue to talk. So my natural

21:53

inclination is to say, oh, please

21:55

stop talking. Right. It's hurting.

21:58

I wonder if that same thing happened to the. current president.

22:02

Yeah, that's why I do want to see a debate between

22:04

the three because I think it would be. Can

22:07

you imagine the kind of bleep show that is

22:09

going to be? It will never happen. It won't

22:11

ever happen. I do. Before we

22:13

move on, this just in from Mr. Money

22:15

Talk Josh Arnold, who I know is also

22:18

a very devout listener of the Weekly Scramble

22:20

podcast. And Josh, for those of you

22:22

that just listen to this show and don't listen to

22:24

Garage Logic, which I find hard to believe, I'm

22:27

kidding. But

22:29

go and listen to Josh. I

22:31

record with Josh, Mike, as you know, every Tuesday

22:33

and Thursday. And he had,

22:36

and he even asked me before, Josh and I

22:38

normally chat for about a minute before we record

22:40

his session where I introduce him. He updates everybody

22:42

on the market, kind of what's happening and some

22:44

trends and things of that nature. And

22:47

he's very, very smart and very, very good at what he does. And

22:49

then I backsell it. And then I kind of edit it

22:51

up and insert it towards the end of the Garage Logic

22:53

show. And he gave a very

22:55

passionate couple of minutes and he asked if this

22:57

was okay. And I said, Josh, yes, this is

22:59

because everybody goes. Josh

23:02

is a very proud Jewish man. And

23:05

he basically went on about how wrong it

23:07

is that these students are

23:09

protesting on behalf of Hamas. Well, he just sent me

23:11

this news story and it was very good. So if

23:13

you missed it, please go back and listen to that

23:15

report on the Tuesday edition of the

23:18

Garage Logic podcast with Josh Arnold. Columbia

23:20

University has now threatened to expel

23:22

students that are currently occupying a

23:25

building in a pro-Palestinian demonstration, to

23:27

which I say it's about effing

23:30

time. It's about time. What

23:32

do you wait for? To allow kids

23:34

to take over a building.

23:36

Take over a building on a college campus. I'm

23:39

sorry. That's going not only

23:41

way too far. These

23:43

kids need to be made an example of. Yeah, and there is

23:46

something when you say- And expel is not enough, by the way.

23:48

I don't think, in my opinion. It's pretty

23:50

powerful. It's pretty powerful. I don't know if they've

23:52

done anything illegal at this point. Occupying

23:54

a building? Well, I mean, I guess that's no

23:57

trespassing, right? You could have them arrested for no

23:59

trespassing. But my thought is when

24:02

Columbia University says, hey, you have till tomorrow

24:04

at noon to clear out. That

24:07

means at noon, you clear everybody out. You don't

24:09

say, wait, we're going to extend that over the

24:11

weekend. I did see one quick

24:13

video that I loved. These two young Jewish

24:15

kids woke up at 4 o'clock in the

24:17

morning and gave a wake-up call to everybody

24:19

on campus that was out in the tents.

24:22

So they're playing rooster noises and they're screaming.

24:24

I thought, oh, what a sweet, sweet thing

24:26

to do to make sure that everybody's up

24:28

nice and they were just dying

24:30

laughing, thinking, you know what? You've been ruining

24:32

our weeks. We're going to go ahead and

24:35

ruin your night. Welcome to the team. Yeah,

24:37

right. So I looked off RFK's juniors voice

24:39

and he has something called spasmodic

24:42

dysphonia. Spasmodic

24:45

dysphonia is a chronic neurological voice disorder

24:47

that has a focal, what's it called?

24:59

Dystonia. I don't know what that

25:01

is. It's spasms of the muscle. So it's not necessarily

25:04

from something you took. It's just a

25:06

neurological disorder. It can happen for a ton of

25:08

reasons. So it is, but I

25:10

feel badly for him because maybe he's saying the right

25:12

thing. I do have a

25:14

little bit. What does Joe think of Robert

25:16

F. Kennedy Jr.? Can

25:19

I not say? I

25:21

don't know that he has shared that

25:23

publicly. However,

25:26

in typical Joe, so that's

25:28

not me trying to skirt

25:31

the question, but I

25:33

never like to share something publicly that someone

25:35

has said to me in confidence. But

25:38

you know how oftentimes when you get here

25:40

to do the show with me, Joe somewhat

25:42

can be lingering or whatever. And the conversations,

25:44

I love listening to you talk about cars

25:46

and business and politics and stuff because you

25:48

two are really smart guys. I just like

25:50

listening to smart people talk about stuff. But

25:53

it's always entertaining, right? You always get a chuckle out

25:55

of something Joe says that's off the record. You

25:58

should next time you see him when he's... here, ask

26:00

him that very question. I think you'll

26:03

enjoy the reaction. Yeah, I will. I don't

26:05

know what I think about him yet. I'm

26:08

still on the fence. He's

26:10

got some... I don't really have an opinion. He's got

26:12

an interesting pedigree, that's for sure. I

26:15

don't really... I don't know. Oh,

26:18

one thing I was going to mention as

26:20

long as I went down... We are all over the board. We really are.

26:23

I enjoy it though. I didn't mean to do that

26:25

to you, so I apologize to the listener. One

26:28

cool thing, and I think this is worth sharing. So

26:31

this poster board, so you're supposed to grab

26:34

photos of the person that you're talking to, so

26:36

I found a great photo... For your kids' project.

26:38

Yeah, so for my kids' project about grandpa, meaning

26:40

my dad. And so I found some cool

26:43

photos of when I was a wee one, and then

26:45

there's a cool photo of him with grandpa. And

26:48

then I grabbed a photo that I knew

26:50

was going to blow my son's mind. So

26:52

do you ever remember... This

26:55

was a thing in the mid to

26:57

late 80s, where the

26:59

Minnesota Vikings would travel

27:01

during the off season and

27:03

play basketball against law enforcement

27:05

teams? Okay. Do you remember that

27:07

at all? I do not. That sounds unbelievably

27:09

cool. So this was a thing, and I have

27:11

a photo of my dad

27:14

guarding Joey Browner at the Faribault High

27:16

School gym. It's one of my favorite

27:18

photos of all time. And I have

27:20

that, and I thought, oh, this would

27:22

be... And I told them to be

27:24

extremely careful of it, because it's the only copy that I have.

27:27

I said, but I knew, because

27:29

my kids are sports nuts.

27:31

They just love sports. And

27:34

so I had this photo, and so I put

27:36

it on there. With each photo,

27:39

the other part of this project is he's supposed

27:41

to ask a question in relation to each photo.

27:44

So when I first showed him this, he kind of

27:46

stared at it, and he said, well, what's

27:48

that, dad? You know, a guy that

27:51

obviously doesn't look like he's from Faribault,

27:53

Minnesota in a purple basketball jersey that

27:56

looks like Joey Browner is cut. And

28:00

here's, you know, this other guy guarding him. And I

28:02

said, well, bud, that's why I was explaining to him,

28:06

grandpa and other police officers, so it was

28:09

members of, for this particular team, was members

28:11

of the Faribault Police Department and the Rice

28:13

County Deputy Sheriff's team. So they had a

28:15

combined team, and it was guys that either

28:17

wanted to or were physically able to do

28:20

this, right? Everybody could do that, yeah. And

28:22

so, you should have seen

28:24

the look on my nine-year-old's face. His mind was,

28:26

well, hey, he couldn't believe that was grandpa, because

28:29

when he thinks of grandpa, he looks, he thinks

28:31

of grandpa now. Sure, sure. And I

28:33

said, oh, grandpa used to be a good athlete, right? That's it. Yeah.

28:36

And so, he spent, we were on the phone with dad

28:38

for half an hour, 29 minutes,

28:41

was asking about him playing against

28:43

the, nah, I'm exaggerating, but his

28:45

mind was just blown. But

28:48

I forget, because to me, yeah, it

28:50

was cool, but it wasn't weird, because I was

28:52

there. I was the coolest kid at Jefferson

28:55

Elementary, because my dad was on the

28:57

team playing against the Vikings. Oh, cool.

28:59

And it was, I can't

29:02

believe you don't remember this. Did your dad have a

29:04

fast break, and did Joey grab him by the back

29:06

and then break his leg right off? One thing I

29:08

did not learn, because I remember, I do remember the

29:10

first time, because there were a couple guys that

29:13

were college basketball players that happened to be

29:15

on the police squad. Okay, all right, so

29:17

they had some real talent. But they were

29:19

told, you cannot win the game. Yeah. Because

29:22

it was a charitable event. Sure. Would

29:25

they ever have had the ability to win the

29:27

game? No, I mean, you're talking about. The best

29:29

athletes are the best athletes. Correct. And

29:32

so, but I do, my dad said, I did

29:34

not know this until Sunday when he told us

29:36

in the college, we were told we can't win

29:38

the game. Really? We were told we were not

29:40

allowed to win. And it was to the point where, you know,

29:43

if there was a questionable

29:45

cause like, nope, Vikings ball. But wait,

29:47

what? But it was almost a setup

29:49

of, you know, like the Harlem Globe

29:51

Trotters, where you knew it was for

29:53

fun and for charity. And

29:55

I remember, because the Fairville High School gym

29:57

was a big gym and it was. Yeah,

30:00

really it was cool. It was very very

30:02

cool. So you remember that time when Joey

30:04

Brown again I was I was

30:07

my kids age. I was no no no But I'm talking

30:09

about that football play where he grabbed somebody tackle somebody on

30:11

the touchdown. Oh, yeah.

30:13

Yeah Yeah, well who did he tackle? I'm like

30:15

right off I like I I'm like is that Joey

30:17

Brown or was that Joey Brown? It was Joey

30:19

Brown, right? I know ribs play why I don't remember

30:21

that look of that light buddy listening to the show

30:23

that will remember and will email That was really cool.

30:26

That is you know, I miss those times Saturday

30:28

morning sports way back when we were kids Yeah, and

30:30

they'd have Emerson's

30:32

fiddle Paul D Some football

30:34

player a basketball player and they'd be like,

30:37

okay run this obstacle course and

30:39

you could really see how incredible These

30:41

athletes really are right what they could

30:44

do compared to the average guy Yeah,

30:46

and I can't imagine today you

30:48

would take a 200 million dollar

30:50

athlete and say oh my god Let's go ahead

30:52

and try to run this obstacle course if you

30:54

get hurt your whole career is gone So 200

30:56

million dollars goes away, but let's do it for

30:58

NBC Sports, right? You can't even begin to imagine

31:01

like just how bad of an idea that that

31:03

would be that's where you could pay an athlete

31:05

like Hey We're gonna fly out to California with

31:07

your family and you're gonna get $3,000 and you

31:09

get to go to Disney World and athletes were

31:11

like, all right. Yeah, I'll do that. That would

31:13

be great Yeah, and now you just can't do

31:15

that stuff anymore before we continue I need to

31:17

make mention that we are so thankful to have

31:19

our friends at Harmony spirits. I'm donning the Harmony

31:22

spirits This is that this is one

31:24

of my favorite shirts I own and I'm not

31:26

just saying that because here's the key as you

31:28

know, this very well Advertisers if

31:30

you're trying to get your logo out there

31:32

make shirts that are a comfortable but but

31:35

keep it simple Yeah, I love the shirt.

31:37

Yeah, anyway, I'm not here to talk about

31:40

Harmony spirits gear Although if you're at the

31:42

tasting room, you can certainly grab a quarter

31:44

zip But we're talking about the best handcrafted

31:46

spirits made right here in her own backyard

31:48

right down there in beautiful Harmony, Minnesota I'm

31:51

gonna be heading down there in about all what two

31:53

weeks now So head down to

31:55

the tasting room if you're happy to be in the

31:57

Harmony, Minnesota area, but if you're not Here's

32:00

the best piece of advice, continue to go

32:02

into your local liquor store and continue to

32:04

ask for the Harmony brand by name. I

32:07

had a number of people with really cool

32:09

shout outs for Harmony Spirits on social media,

32:11

even though 20 minutes ago I was telling

32:13

you how bad social media is. But that's the good part

32:15

of social media on Twitter. So that was so cool to

32:17

see. So thank you to everybody that's continuing

32:20

to shout for the Harmony brand by

32:22

name. It doesn't matter. I'm a big

32:24

fan of the barrel aged bourbon, but

32:26

if you're a whiskey fan, a gin

32:28

fan, vodka, rum, it doesn't matter. They

32:31

have the best spirits and it's made right here in our

32:33

own backyard. Go to their website, harmonyspirits.net, now

32:36

that the weather is starting to turn. I

32:38

know that they have a lot of cool

32:40

events that take place, whether it's car shows

32:42

or food tastings and all sorts of stuff that

32:44

are happening all around there. But go to their

32:46

website for updates on that kind of thing. And

32:48

you can also see them on social media as

32:50

well. But like I said, please continue to go

32:52

into your local liquor store and continue to ask

32:54

for the Harmony brand by name. We would really,

32:57

really appreciate it. And Hy-Vee locations. Oh yes. Oh

32:59

yes. They carry Harmony spirits. They do.

33:02

That's a very, very good point. In fact, I

33:04

know we're not supposed to like kind of tell the

33:06

big box store. They do a really

33:08

good job. Yeah, no, nothing's wrong with the big box store.

33:10

They sell a lot of products. And

33:13

the idea that they really care about the local

33:15

stuff, that's pretty cool. That's very cool. So try

33:17

your Hy-Vee and if you don't see that Hy-Vee,

33:19

ask for it by name. Please do. I

33:22

want to mention the Frat Pack. The Frat Pack 5000,

33:24

really cool. I have

33:26

to ask about something

33:29

that somebody posted because I'm a

33:31

dumb, dumb. Sure. Okay. It's

33:34

from Keith. This was posted just about an hour

33:37

ago. And I don't know what this is. So

33:40

he says, this is from Keith. He's a top contributor.

33:42

I know Keith. He's emailed the show. Was

33:44

catching up with GL and the Weekly Scramble today. The

33:48

Milorganite segment was hilarious. A little

33:50

digging came up with these gems.

33:53

There apparently is a Milorganite.

33:56

Milorganite. Milorganite. There's

33:58

that thing. That word

34:00

microbrew. Please dear God tell

34:03

me that's not an actual thing. I think that must be.

34:05

I saw that too and I didn't know what that was.

34:07

It sounds and it's poop ale. No,

34:10

I don't know what it is but that's pretty

34:12

funny. I don't know what that is. No,

34:14

you know what that is. Keith, that's a

34:17

dedicated listener committed to the bit is what that

34:19

is. That's true. That could totally

34:21

be. Did you see the pictures of the dirt

34:23

piles that people were posting? Oh yes. The

34:26

compost piles. I'm like, hey, we didn't come up with

34:28

what we needed to post what everybody should

34:30

post this week. I like the fact that

34:33

there isn't necessarily a theme at times. For

34:36

a while it was a lot of spring break photos

34:38

because I was talking about my most latest dumb dumb

34:40

run. So there are a lot of cool photos like

34:43

that of people at warm weather locations and things of

34:45

that nature. But I kind of like

34:47

that everyone's just checking in from wherever they're listening to

34:49

the show. I love that too.

34:51

This is getting to be pretty soon it's going to

34:53

be the opener. The garage is open. Yeah, I don't

34:55

know. It might hit. It might hit. Probably

34:57

not. I believe Joe mentioned looking at 63. Okay,

35:00

so not enough. But maybe that would be something cool

35:02

to post because I know a lot of frat packers

35:05

have really cool things in their garage. Maybe

35:07

that's something the first start up of an engine. I

35:09

like that. I could do that. You

35:11

could do that. I bought something really cool the other

35:13

day. Would you buy? I bought a electric vehicle. Oh,

35:16

yeah. Wow. It's

35:19

a mini bike by Ego. You

35:21

know Ego makes lawn mowers and blowers. Oh,

35:24

is that the gray one? Yeah, the black, the

35:26

gray, the green, the ego. My

35:29

next door neighbor when I was living in Carver had one of those. They

35:32

made this new product called a mini

35:34

bike. It's a mini bike, right? It's

35:37

a little bit bigger than a standard little kid's mini bike. It

35:39

goes 30 miles per hour for up to 20 miles. It

35:42

takes two of the Ego batteries, perfectly

35:44

silent. I was

35:46

running around my yard on that

35:48

mini bike having a blast. Now

35:51

I could take it. Is it street legal? I

35:54

mean, in May-ish. Street legal. And

35:57

technically, if an electric bicycle is

35:59

street legal. I don't know why

36:01

this won't be right. I mean it doesn't

36:03

have a license plate or anything like that It's not something

36:05

you get I don't have to pay tabs for it, right?

36:07

But it could absolutely work driving down the side road, right?

36:09

I don't know. I am an adult man I should be

36:12

able to do it. I pay my

36:14

tax But I'm very

36:16

excited because I was gonna post that I got

36:18

my first electric vehicle To try

36:20

to save a little bit of environment and do some

36:22

good good. Yeah, right. Yeah, and So

36:25

I'm gonna go ahead and post that of my new

36:28

60 volt Ego minibike which is brand spanking

36:30

new by the way. I went I went to a store

36:32

to look at it I'm not gonna mention what store but

36:34

I went to a store to look at it I didn't

36:37

get it through my store because we don't sell those and

36:40

I'm so weak. I'm such a

36:43

weak person because I walked in and they said hey,

36:45

we're having this event today Everything's

36:47

12% off. Oh, no, and the moment

36:49

he said any number off I

36:51

mean grievers they could have said 1% off I

36:55

said well, I'm gonna deal done like I just I needed

36:57

one Inch one

36:59

iota of something to push me over you

37:01

just made me snot peach mango Yeah, yeah,

37:04

it was just so funny cuz he's like

37:06

Oh you what a lucky day you came

37:08

in and things are blank off No matter

37:10

what it was I was buying what he

37:12

did was God bless this guy.

37:15

He saw a sucker walk And

37:17

then the cool thing is they said we're serving lunch

37:20

in an hour So I'm not gonna

37:22

stick around to lunch, but that is really cool I

37:24

grabbed a free cookie because it was there like customer

37:27

appreciation Okay, and so

37:29

I got this thing at 12% off, which is a

37:31

huge deal on anything like that power equipment Admit

37:35

like it Didn't

37:37

even need to be 12. It could have been 1.2 It

37:40

was it was 100 all you needed to

37:42

say is today is a better deal than any other

37:44

day You don't need to continue to shop here And

37:47

then I even I even upgraded to the bigger

37:49

one because it was on sale so my bigger

37:51

one Well, I came with battery so

37:53

I have a bunch of ego batteries Oh, I got

37:55

you. I could just use those batteries Okay, this the

37:57

bigger one comes with two batteries and charger And

38:00

of course I was like, well, I might as well go

38:02

for that because it's on sale for 12% off. So

38:04

I'm very excited for it. I am so glad

38:06

you just said that because I have a fix

38:08

it with fret question. Again, I'm going to use

38:10

this segment for just myself. Just yourself. For the,

38:12

in the short term. But I'm

38:15

so glad you mentioned this because I meant to ask you this three

38:17

weeks ago or so, the

38:20

batteries, because I bought

38:22

my, what do you call it?

38:24

Wireless drill. Sure. Can

38:26

you, cordless drill, sorry. Are those batteries,

38:28

once the batteries are put, do

38:31

you recycle those? Or I mean, can you? Yeah, you

38:33

recycle them, but you can just get new batteries. Well,

38:35

I knew that part, but what do you do with

38:37

the one that? I mean, no, I don't.

38:39

Do you live by a pond or like? Or

38:43

can you say throw it in the burning pit

38:45

with the tires that you just got rid of?

38:47

You 100% should take it to the

38:50

place where you bought it and they probably can recycle it for you.

38:53

Oh, okay. There is a way to do that.

38:55

Or you live in Carver out in Jordan. Jordan. I'm

38:57

sure the fine people of Jordan have

39:00

a recycling center there, right? And you

39:02

can just go drop it off at the recycling center.

39:04

Dakota County has them. What county are you in? Yeah,

39:06

I'm technically, I'm in Scott County. Scott County has to

39:08

have one. Okay. So you can do

39:10

that and some old monitors. You can do

39:12

all of that at your recycle center. Tires, everything. Tires,

39:15

they'll take it all. The one in Dakota County that I

39:17

live in takes everything and it's quite efficient. And I was

39:19

very surprised when I, the first time I did it, I

39:21

was like, wow, cool. You take all this stuff, I thought

39:24

for sure you were going to charge me. I

39:26

wanted to share Kyle's frat pack,

39:28

5,000 posts, but Kyle, no

39:31

one is checking

39:34

in from the Paris airport. Oh, you know what,

39:36

Kyle? No one likes a break. Yeah. No,

39:39

but again, no one's bragging on the frat pack. What

39:41

they're doing is looking for other guys that are at

39:43

the Charles the Charles airport. They're checking in. Yep. That's

39:46

a good point. Okay. I'm

39:48

checking in. Is anybody here? All

39:51

right, Kyle, you know what? I apologize if you were offended. Yeah.

39:54

I think you became offended from what Chris said. My

39:57

apologies to you. Okay. Before we

39:59

run. Do have to bring up one

40:01

thing and I have it via email. So bear

40:03

with me as I pull this up Yep,

40:07

here we go from our buddy Ben who

40:10

remember he gave us the sample of the yeah,

40:13

I'm gonna tell you right now So Ben

40:15

is the we call it a proprietor

40:17

of the Masters maple syrup courtesy I

40:19

meant to include this with my ad

40:22

for harmony spirits But the maple syrup

40:24

has gone gangbusters at my house as

40:26

I mentioned a hundred thousand times I

40:28

think it's going gangbusters every period true

40:31

The I'm gonna look at me the rub

40:33

he gave us. Yes. Okay. I took

40:36

it with me when we went down

40:38

to, Arizona I made burgers on the

40:40

grill I'm gonna tell you right

40:42

now. My two sons

40:44

are the pickiest eaters ever Okay,

40:46

right. My youngest is

40:48

the only kid on the

40:50

planet that doesn't like ketchup Wow

40:53

I made these burgers with that rub

40:55

and I don't are we calling it

40:57

masters maples? Well, I think I

40:59

mean he gave us the test rub. So I don't know When

41:03

he puts us on the show like it is going

41:05

to fly really off the show

41:07

was so incredibly good Yeah to the

41:09

point where I even made it

41:12

with taco meat, you know ground. You just

41:14

made it with tacos. It's that good It's

41:16

that good. It's so freaking I felt so

41:18

badly, you know why you gave yours away

41:20

No, he gave me the samples and

41:22

then like two days later said hey What'd you think of

41:24

it? And I said dude I haven't had like I didn't

41:26

cook at home in two days and then like a week

41:28

Later, he called me. He's like hey, what'd you think of

41:30

it? I said, oh, dude I've had lucky charms at home

41:34

Haven't had anything to put it on and still Well,

41:37

actually last week I had some burgers. I could have done

41:39

it on the burgers Yeah, but that was like two months

41:41

after he gave it to me I'm not kidding when they

41:44

come out with this and if they you know if

41:46

we continue the relationship, which I hope we do This

41:49

needs to be at the forefront because it's

41:51

so freaking good. Yeah, it's that good You

41:53

know what we should do because he's different

41:55

than harmony, right? They're just separate separate entities

41:58

that paired together for the one

42:00

thing. But we could hypothetically have

42:02

Ben send us 12 of

42:04

these little spices and then

42:06

if somebody sends us something worth reading, we

42:09

can self-address, stamp, envelope that thing, write to him and say

42:11

there you go. I love that idea. It would give him,

42:13

because he's not a huge company. No. Right?

42:17

Ben's not, he's not a $44 million Goliath. Right?

42:20

Right. But he has enough to give

42:22

away 10 or 12 of those for a couple of mentions. We

42:25

could do that, right? It's so good. We

42:27

see we couldn't do that if we were

42:29

on radio. No, here's what we'll do. I'm

42:31

going to abbreviate, I'm going to amend your

42:34

giveaway. Yes. You send us 12 and

42:36

we will give 11 of those away. There you go. Smart.

42:40

I don't know what's going to happen to the 12th bottle,

42:42

but I have a pretty good idea. You're

42:44

the smartest and the best. Thank you, Michael.

42:46

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43:03

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43:05

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