Joe Soucheray

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.

Early life

Soucheray was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1951. He attended Hill-Murray High School and went to college at University of St. Thomas in the Twin Cities.

Newspaper career

Soucheray entered the media as a sports journalist, beginning work as a sports reporter for the "Minneapolis Star Tribune" in 1973. He joined the Saint Paul Pioneer Press in the mid 1980s and served for many years as a sports reporter and columnist, before becoming a general columnist in the mid-1990s.

Early Radio Career

In 1980, Soucheray entered the radio business, joining with then-"St. Paul Pioneer Press" sports columnist Patrick Reusse as co-host "Monday Night Sports Talk" on KSTP radio. The show was known for its cast of callers doing impressions of various celebrities, in and out of the sports world, of widely 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 Soucheray began his daily "Garage Logic" program (see below). The "Sports Talk" brand lived on in the duo's weekend show, "Saturday Morning Sports Talk", allowing them to lay claim to the "longest-running sports talk show in history."

"Garage Logic"

Soucheray began hosting his daily "Garage Logic" drive-time radio show on KSTP on April 29,1993. 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 and Minnesota's dominant liberal culture, although Soucheray would never wax so philosophically, preferring to stick with the slogan, "Anything that needs to be figured out can be figured out in the garage."

Soucheray has been joined on the air by producer Matt "The Rookie" Michalski since the late 1990s. Rookie is the voice behind many skits and imitations on "Garage Logic" (Janice Borman the smoking marathon runner, Bill Clinton, Jesse Ventura, and Norm Coleman) and "Saturday Morning Sports Talk" (Clem Haskins).

The program has occupied several time slots during its run, as the station's other programming has shifted, but for over a decade was, along with Rush Limbaugh's program, was part of a combination that made KSTP-AM the dominant talk station in the market. With Limbaugh's departure from the station in 2006, Soucheray became KSTP-AM's sole marquee talent.

Guests

Vince Flynn 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. Flynn worked Soucheray into one of his novels.

Author

In addition, Soucheray has authored a number of books, including "Sooch!: Sports Writing of Joe Soucheray of the Minneapolis Tribune" (ISBN 0-932272-07-X), a book on Twin Cities area sports topics, "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.

External links

* [http://www.am1500.com/ KSTP-AM]
* [http://www.pioneerplanet.com/ "St. Paul Pioneer Press"]