For our lowest A hardware and garden stores brings you garage logic podcast number 480 a bit of a special edition today

October 19th 2020 the high on this day occurred in 2000 when it was 84 and it was 15 degrees on this day in

1972

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

It's garage logic with rookie on production Chris Reaver's director of social media John Hyde in the newsroom and occasionally Kenny from the

Crappy coffee shop here is your flashlight king fireworks commissioner and keeper of common sense your mayor

Joe Sushare I

Don't know where to begin Patrick except the music story is absolutely true

Yes, well the first day you met him you have to tell that story. Yes. God hired at the start your viewing. I think it was just the tribute then yes

Yeah, it wasn't morning. I had absolutely zero interest in being a sports writer

But I was counseled by people who said you got to get your foot in the door because once you're in a newspaper

There's a lot of horizontal movement as opposed to vertical movement

So I took the sports job thinking well

It'll just be a matter of time before I can you know cover dead bodies floating down the river in city hall

and because it was at the time of water game and

Everybody my age wanted to be hard core Democrat right back

So

So I took this job gratefully was wonderful Larry Batson hired me and as I think back what a remarkable lack of

Guidance any new hire was given

Because I just showed up day one

Then everybody went out to dinner and I was alone on the desk presumably to answer phones or whatever

Did you know what to do if somebody called we got a dead body on?

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