Fredaloni's A-Sharadware and Garden Stores brings you garage logic podcast number 509 December 1st 2020.

Back in 1898 we reached 68 degrees in this day and it was 15 below in 1893.

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

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 Krabby Coffee Shop. Here is your flashlight

king fireworks commissioner and keeper of common sense your mayor Joe Sushare.

We're happy to be joined by Pat Kessler who for 36 years was a stalwart political reporter

in analyst on WCCO and you have announced your retirement Patrick but you're still on the air aren't you?

Yes I'm going to be the old guy emeritus. You're the dean man you're the dean.

That's what that's what's going to happen so special events if there's ever a riot in Minneapolis

you know that kind of political analysis that's where I'll be that's me now although it didn't

maxi take that role from you during the proving that anybody can do this job there's a lot less

of this than meets the eye. Patrick give us a brief brief history beginning as a farm kid in

Clay County and then essentially staying with the same employer your whole career.

Yeah that's really unusual. There really is in this business.

Yeah because my my kids already have had two three four five jobs you know that's what

happens nowadays but back in the day you know I used to be in the farm field in Clay County

outside Hawley Minnesota and I'd hear these trains that would come from Montana big cold trains

and they'd be heading east and I always thought I'd be on it one day and sure enough you know I

ended up in I wanted to go as far away as far go Alexandria or God help me I if I could make it

to the twin cities that would be fantastic and that's what happened so I stayed there for many

years I worked at Minnesota Public Radio for five six years and then went to CCO which is very

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