Mechanical Freak

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Greg, Cassidy, and Colin are joined by charming campaign worker and union organizer, Vanna Orecchio, to talk about the reality of working as a campaign staffer, organizing to protect and empower those workers and campaigns, teaming up with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) to form Local 116, what that means and where it goes, the possibility of the PRO Act, and the imminent PCC Union vote.

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Greg and Munya mourn the death of the rest of the gang in a fiery elevator accident that will soon be ruled Brian’s fault. Also discussed is Seattle’s new right to counsel for tenants facing eviction, the pitfalls and inadequacies of the eviction moratorium, and an impassioned plea from the Seattle Times Ed Board for some sympathy and free money for smallholder landlords who’s plans for wealth building have been lightly inconvenienced.

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Greg, Brian, Cassidy, and Munya are joined by Alvin and Ceres to talk Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) - the hot new crypto trend currently stirring the art world into a frenzy (some pieces selling for more than Monet and Picasso paintings). Despite the excitement over this new use for the blockchain, the looming question remains: what are NFTs? Why are NBA highlights worth over $21 million? Why are screenshots of tweets selling higher than most Seattle real estate listings?

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Greg, Brian, and Munya sit down with Rich Smith from The Stranger to talk big WA State news. Will the proposed capital gains tax bring about the socialism we always wanted? Does a WA supreme Court ruling end the drug war in Washington forever?

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We call in the Texas Sucks crew for an emergency podcast, asking what the hell is going on with the Texas power grid? Will we be able to fix it in time for the next winter storm? Tune in to find out.

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Greg, Brian, Cassidy, and Colin talk about the possibly very good PRO Act, and Biden’s recent support for it, however slurred, as well as how all of this relates to the ongoing $15 Minimum Wage fight and Amazon warehouse unionization efforts, before concluding by offering their first candidate endorsement of the upcoming 2021 general election.

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Greg, Brian, and Munya are joined by Eben Mudede to discuss the history of Zimbabwe, British/Rhodesian settler colonialism, and the esoteric white grievance online from the aftermath of the Bush War.

Greg, Brian, Munya, and Colin talk about the end of the Donald Trump impeachment drama, snow and high jinks at the East Precinct, an arrest of 2018 Seattle Firefighter of the Year related to the ongoing harassment of Kshama Sawant, a scheme to incarcerate the unhoused in Mercer Island (and exurban elsewheres), and German design and engineering’s attempt at solving homelessness with sleep pods.

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Greg, Munya, and Colin talk about the City Council’s recent resolution, endorsed by Teresa Mosqueda and Kshama Sawant, calling for collaboration with, and possible aid from, Cuba, a move that Munya celebrated on Twitter to the ire of My Northwest’s mascot and Heckin’ Werepupper, Jason Rantz, and the Amazon warehouse unionization vote, the first of its kind, which kicked off yesterday, in Bessemer, Alabama.

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Greg, Brian, Cassidy, Munya, and Colin talk about the police response to Oly Housing Now’s attempt to shelter people in rooms they paid for at an Olympia Red Lion, the rise of QAnon acolyte, Marine Todd fan, and all around Truth Seeker, Mayor William Armacost, of Sequim, and Overlake Medical Center “accidentally” emailing major donors, and other VIPs, codes to skip the line and register for 500 open Covid-19 vaccination appointments despite ostensibly being booked through March.