Fredaloni's A.S. Hardware and Garden Stores brings you garage logic podcast number 353, the last day of March.

March 31st, 2020. The high in this day was back in 1986 when we hit 82 and it was one below in 1969 and on this day, this day, in 1985, 15 inches of snow.

I Ice went out on white bear lake on this day in 1938 and in 1968, I could find no ice out on this date for Lake Minnetaka.

And now from the mayor's office above the boat house on the east shore of Spoon Lake.

It's garage logic with work beyond production, Chris Reaver's director of social media, John Hyde in the newsroom and occasionally Kenny from the crabby coffee shop.

Here is your flashlight king, fireworks commissioner and keeper of crime sense, the only air Joe Suschina.

You want to know how we're going to be all right. How are we going to be okay? Because nothing's new. Everything's happened before including well, let Johnny Carson tell you from what's this about 1973 or 74 December of 1973.

December of 1973 during his tonight show monologue of all the shortages we have as a gasoline shortage. You know what else is disappearing from the supermarket shells.

Toilet paper. Aha, you can laugh now. There is an acute shortage of toilet paper in the good old United States. We got a quick writing on it.

But I want to tell you it is serious. I just saw a commercial where I know it's coming. Where Mrs. Olson comes in with a shopping bag and the housewives just forget the coffee just give me the shopping bag.

I want to tell you.

I should have done it myself. Kenny, will you do me a favor? Why did you us have toilet paper shortage in 1973?

I thought it was Johnny's fault. I really did. That's what I've been hearing all these years that he made a joke about it. And he started to run on it.

But let me look it up anyway. I thought he was reflecting what must have been in the news. Also, I was alerted today and I don't remember this. The emailer wanted to know if I remembered it.

We had a Hong Kong flu in 1968 that killed hundreds of thousands of people. But I don't recall it. A Hong Kong flu of 1968.

I wasn't around. I don't remember that. I know you weren't. I was barely around. I was just that far removed from the side hut.

Boy, did you get some... Well, I got some great email.

I got some feedback, sir. Out in Montana, Keith Olson writes, boys, drop some coins in the bucket. Chris Asswai grandma and a sutures family didn't build a log cabin.

Prairies don't have trees. Oh, darn it. You know, I didn't even think of that. Hold on. Hold on.

I don't know if I'm going to go with that because my people had trees, but they had no money. And they were fresh off the boat from Sweden and they needed a place to get in out of the well.

And I believe that's how I phrased the question yesterday. Was it a financial thing? The sod hut versus a log cabin.

I think it was a dear fellow descendant of the sod hut. Nothing else just wanted to know that you are not alone. Five generations removed in a mile down the road. Kyle from Iowa.

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