Joe Soucheray
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Joe Soucheray is a radio talk-show host syndicated throughout the American Midwest on the Hubbard Radio Network. He broadcasts his show Garage Logic from KSTP-AM 1500 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It currently airs from 2 p.m to 5:30 p.m. CST Monday through Friday. His other show, Saturday Morning Sports Talk, airs on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon CST.
Soucheray entered the media as a sports journalist, beginning work as a sports reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1973.
In 1980, Soucheray entered the radio business, joining with then-St. Paul Pioneer Press sports columnist Patrick Reusse as co-host of a show on KSTP radio called Monday Night Sports Talk. The show was known for its cast of callers doing impressions of various celebrities, in and out of the sports world, of varying quality - and, very occasionally, discussion about sports (the lack of actual sports content on "MNST" was a running gag between Soucheray, Reusse and the audience). The show aired until the early nineties, until the beginning of "Garage Logic" (see below).
In the 1980s Reusse moved to the Star Tribune to write for their sports section, and Soucheray went to the Pioneer Press to write a column in the metro section on more general topics. However, the show continued and does to this day, allowing them to lay claim to the "longest-running sports talk show in history."
Soucheray began hosting his Garage Logic drive-time radio show on KSTP in the early 1990s. In it, Soucheray acts as the mayor of a mythical town bearing the same name as the radio show: Garage Logic, county seat of Gumption County. The motivating idea is to promote so-called "traditional values" and is a sort of criticism of modern American pop culture, although Soucheray would never wax so philosophically, preferring to stick with the slogan, "All the problems we have, can be solved in the garage."
Soucheray has been joined on the air by the Rookie since the late 1990's. Rookie is the voice behind many of the most beloved bits and imitations on "Garage Logic" and "Saturday Morning Sports Talk."
In addition, Soucheray has authored a number of books, including Waterline: Of Fathers, Sons and Boats (ISBN 1-56792-214-7), a book combining his love of boating with his thoughts on family, and Once There was a Ballpark (ISBN 0-934070-06-7), a book on the history of the Metropolitan Stadium.
Soucheray has many guests on his show, some more notable than others. One of them being the New York Times Best Selling author Vince Flynn. Vince Flynn has kept a vow to Joe to this day to be the first interview for his latest book, before any other media outlet in the world. Vince has even worked Soucheray into one of his latest novels.
