For Ataloni's A-Sharred Word and Garden Stores,

brings you the Martin Luther King Jr. edition,

Garage Logic Podcast, number 305, January 20, 2020.

52 degrees was the high on this day in 1908,

and it was as chilly as 32 below in 1888.

And now, from the mayor's office,

above the boat house on the east shore of Spoon Link,

its Garage Logic with rookie on production,

Chris Reaver's Director of Social Media,

John Hyde in the newsroom,

and occasionally Kenny from the Krabby Coffee Shop.

Here is your flashlight king, fireworks commissioner,

and keeper of common sense.

Your mayor, Joe Sushare.

I don't mean this in an insensitive way,

and God bless Martin Luther King Jr.

But this holiday has always struck me as almost purely

a political class holiday.

It's not like you're going to have a picnic

or go to the ball game or anything like that, God bless him.

But it seems to me it's for the political class

who created it and celebrated it.

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