Mechanical Freak

Cassidy, Munya, and Greg are joined by Kamau Chege, the Executive Director of Washington Community Alliance Action Fund and Dujie Tahat, celebrated poet and author currently writing the critically acclaimed newsletter, The Tally, a project of WCA Action Fund. We’re talking about municipal off-year elections and highlighting BIPOC progressive candidates throughout Washington State that you should be paying attention to heading into the primary.

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In this episode, Justin and Brian discuss the Senate, its humble origins, and its many august institutions. They talk about the tradition of collegiality and debate before revealing the secret room where children are sacrificed to Moloch before finally answering the question, “Which Senator has the best office?” All this and more!

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Greg, Brian, Munya, and Colin are joined by Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, candidate for Seattle City Attorney, for a rousing discussion on the position, the campaign, abolition, and more.

Jumbo returns as we discuss the post-WWII reactionary turn. This episode has something for everyone to hate! We talk about the connection between the CIA & abstract expressionism, we use the word “pomo,” we talk about what Trotsky was up to in Mexico, and we finally take Elia Kazan down a peg or two.

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On today’s episode the gang dives into local elections. They give their endorsement for the seat before taking a long look at the losers of District 9… Some would say too long of a look. They discuss Brianna Thomas’s “record of reform” as Cassidy, Greg, and Brian slowly metamorphosize into prawns before continuing their discussion of perennial loser and small business tyrant Sara Nelson on Patreon.

We take one last dive into our Gates’ archive and remember how we all got here… and by “here” we mean dead from Covid.

It was too hot for the freaks this week, so we gave them some time off to wallow in the Duwamish Superfund site. But if you want more of that freak content, catch Cassidy on the Dead Beat Film Society talking about the movie Nomadland.

Greg, Brian, Munya, and Colin are subjected to Podcasting Power Hour before talking about the vicious heat wave in the Pacific Northwest and its varied impacts, and DSA candidate India Walton’s primary upset of incumbent Democrat, Mayor Byron Brown, in Buffalo, and the pathetic write-in campaign he’s launched in response.

In volume six of our ongoing series we go back to 2019 when we talked about what the Gates Foundation is up to with all of its “public health” funding abroad.

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Greg, Brian, Munya, and Colin are compelled by the state to find work before talking about the continued failure of the Texas power grid, Andrew Yang’s dehumanizing, tough on crime rhetoric and the New York City mayoral race, and the “reverse discrimination” tearing Pride apart.

We go back to November of 2020 to discuss a Gates Foundation planted article in The Guardian about the secret joys of child labor.

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Greg, Brian, Cassidy, Munya, and Colin pledge allegiance before talking about eight police officers in Seattle accused of voter fraud, and the ongoing horror perpetrated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the United States at large, in light of an Everett man being disappeared for a week in a Tacoma facility.

We go back to our first Thanksgiving Extravaganza, where we did our first deep dive into the activities of the Gates Foundation. Here we discuss the Foundation’s influence in public education and bankrolling of Waiting for Superman.

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Greg and Brian, having been phased into an outer tier of friendship by their pod mates, dive into a festering ball pit of stories in search of the source of the coronavirus. Jeff on the moon, the perfect level of horny, whinging restauranteurs, and so much more.