Wrought to you by Fred Alonies Ace Hardware Stores.

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

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

Here is your flashlight king, fireworks commissioner, and keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Sushinai.

Hi. Hey. Were you in Frat Alonies recently?

Yes, I was. Well, this must have been you then. Everyone seems to be in such a hurry on these days, they're screaming prejudice this and prejudice that.

And a guy asked, in what aisle can I find the Polish sausage? And the clerk said, are you Polish? And the guy was offended. That was you.

The guy was clearly offended and he said, yes, I am, but let me ask you something. If I had asked for Italian sausage, would you ask me if I was Italian?

Or if I had asked for German, brought worse, would you ask me if I was German?

Right. Or if I asked for a kosher hot dog, would you have asked me if I was Jewish?

I'm mad now. Or if I asked for a taco, would you have asked if I was Mexican? Or if I had asked for some whiskey, would you have asked, was I Irish?

Yeah, damn it. What's going on? And the clerk said, no, I probably wouldn't. And the guy said, well, then because I asked for Polish sausage, why in the hell did you ask me if I'm Polish? And the clerk said, well, you're in the hardware store.

Oh, in the hardware store. See, it's a joke. I got it. You see how I was in there. You know what? You know what? That joke almost doesn't work anymore. Why? Because it's too believable. Well, no, no, it almost doesn't work anymore.

Because you, for example, if Radaloni shouldn't get those wonderful pretzels, dots, dots, yeah, you can get food sometimes in a hardware store these days.

What was the hardware store you were in in South Dakota that had even beer? Hallies? Like, like, it was like Nack Hardware and Lounge.

Yeah, it was Hallies.

We discussed that last night in the beer show. The, the ever-expanding growth of Kraft Pier and I told Fred jokingly, hey, you should, you guys should start, you know, selling some pints in your store.

I don't know why they wouldn't. He actually said, you know, it's about disgust. Right. I'm sure it has been. I saw Mr. Fred, Loni.

Oh, and I was talking to him about the great personal whiskey that Mike had distilled. And I said, I said to his dad, Larry, I said, I didn't know he was into that. And Larry said, he's into everything.

Right.

Okay, let's do our own rock and roll hall of fame. I, John might have to weigh in Monday on it. But the, the inductees have been announced.

Yeah, I'm sure John will weigh in for sure. Janet Jackson. That's a no for me.

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