CRABBY: Park Board, Public Schools & Power Plays: Becka Thompson Gets Crabby
Garage Logic
Gamut Podcast Network
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Becka Thompson — Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board Commissioner, data analytics pro, public policy expert, logic teacher and former City Council candidate joins Kenny and Jay.
In this episode, Becka pulls back the curtain on what’s really happening inside Minneapolis city government. From the ongoing struggles of Minneapolis Public Schools and the classroom realities families and teachers face every day, to the wins, headaches, and budget battles at the Minneapolis Park Board, she doesn’t hold back.
She also dives deep into Uptown — the neighborhood’s transformation, its challenges, and what it means for the south side — plus her own hard-earned perspective on running for office in one of the most politically charged cities in America.
If you’re tired of polished soundbites and want the real story from someone who’s been in the trenches of Minneapolis politics, this is your episode. Grab your coffee (or something stronger), pull up a chair, and get ready to get crabby with the facts.
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| 0:00.0 | Jay Coles, bye-bye witness news. |
| 0:09.3 | We've got a guest today, Becca Thompson, and I've got a lot of baggage. |
| 0:14.8 | I need to unload. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm mad at the city council. |
| 0:17.9 | Now, mind you, I don't live there anymore, but I'm mad at the Minneapolis |
| 0:20.9 | City Council. I'm really mad at the park board, just one guy on the park board for one idea. |
| 0:27.9 | Who am I mad at? I'm mad at the socialists. The mayor, I could go either way in the mayor, |
| 0:34.9 | police department or the head of, I mean there's a list jay and i have a |
| 0:39.5 | feeling that beck is going to hear all of it today that's part of why she ran for city council she was on |
| 0:44.7 | the park board and chose to run for city council because i think she was as crabby as you yeah it's like |
| 0:49.7 | the name of the show that's good happy shop welcome to the crabby coffee shop. I belong here. Thank you so much. And thank you. |
| 0:56.2 | We intended to have you on a couple of weeks ago, but all hell broke loose with the police department. So we went that way. But I'm really glad you're here. Well, thank you for having me. It's super fun. I told Kenny, I go, Becca's on a, she's on a roll. |
| 1:10.0 | I was watching your social media stuff. |
| 1:12.6 | And it was, the uptown one grabbed me because uptown's a mess. Oh, I was there today. It's a total disaster. It went from this jewel when I got here in 92 to what it is now. And I wanted to get into that with you, and so did Kenny. And then your rants about the DSA, the Democratic Socialist of America, |
| 1:28.6 | down in the city hall, those have been pretty good. |
| 1:31.4 | All I want to know is how safe do you feel saying some of the things you're saying? |
| 1:36.6 | I definitely. |
| 1:37.8 | I am out there. |
| 1:38.7 | You know, it's funny. |
| 1:39.3 | I actually was talking to a really old friend of mine today and um i was just like yeah you know i just |
| 1:44.9 | i don't know i try to like come off as like harmless and crazy you know people are like |
| 1:50.7 | you're crazy and i'm like keep thinking i'm crazy and maybe you'll just leave me alone but uh yeah no |
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