Greg, Brian, and Colin welcome Christopher Peguero, City Council candidate in District 2, to talk about the role of Democracy Vouchers in his campaign and the race at large, his district, how things are going on the Trail, and what might be accomplished from the inside.
Greg, Brian, and Colin talk ballads, the recent reporting from the Seattle Times on fundraising in the city council race(s), and more bait meant for clicking from Katie Herzog. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. patreon.com/seattlesucks
Greg, Brian, and Colin blast off with Jeff to hear about our grand future as space serfs, and the thousand Einsteins and Mozarts that will entertain his great-great-grandchildren on Elysium (future Earth); and they dissect a Crosscut op-ed about a “swing back toward the center” from “THE conservative voice in Seattle,” John Carlson.
Greg, Brian, and Colin talk police (again) in light of recently released exit interviews from the Seattle Police Department. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. patreon.com/seattlesucks
Greg and Colin are joined by Seattle Democratic Socialist (DSA) co-chair, Walé Ogundipé, to talk about his experience traveling through Colorado and California to visit and learn from DSA groups there, the Tax Amazon campaign in light of similar efforts (and victories) in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, and rent control initiatives in Seattle and the state at large.
Greg, Brian, and Colin discuss Mayor Durkan’s turn towards Safe Seattle and broken windows policing with her unilateral deployment of “emphasis” patrols in seven neighborhoods, and we delve into the decline of the Stranger in light of Sydney Brownstone’s revelation at Crosscut Fest w/r/t reporting on Dave Meinert, and the recent “coverage” from Katie Herzog on the Mike Rosenberg saga.
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Greg and Colin are joined by friend of the show and local journalist, Ian Edwards, to talk all things crypto currency (emphasizing the rampant scheming and fraud), and its historic and current place in the landscape of Seattle technology companies.
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Greg and Colin are joined by friend of the show, Brian Platt, to talk police towers courtesy of @Bezostown (the panopticon), learning how not to die as a student by the hand of law enforcement, learning from law enforcement how to die by the hand of active shooters, living in the Future at the End of History (the age of Managerial Liberalism), and updates from the Innovation Advisory Council.
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Greg and Colin finally get industrious podcast magnate, Jason Rigden, on the show to talk podcasts (Talk to the Left, Podcast Questions, the Seattle Podcasters Guild), and the City Council race.
Greg and Colin agonize over Mayor Jenny Durkan’s capitulation on Scott Lindsay’s Top 100 in an interview with Brandi Kruse, and No City Council for Old Men.
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Greg and Colin suffer through the nine Circles of Hell bearing witness to the depravity of Safe Seattle, the madness of Christopher Rufo, and the cruelty of KOMO’s “Seattle is Dying.”
Greg and Colin are joined by rebellious creative, Justin Williams, to talk film production in Seattle, working for Amazon during the height of the Little Miss Amazonia Pageant (HQ2), innovations in company scrip from Samaritan, and Mayor Jenny Durkan’s latest managerial panacea: Micro-Internships.
Greg and Colin meet Scout, then talk about the End Times (Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, etc.), grocery shopping, Amazon’s Escape from New York, the “world leading philanthropy” of the Bezos’ Day One Fund, and a bean juice drenched editorial regarding homelessness in the Seattle Times.
Greg and Colin are joined by poet, Blabbermouth cohost, and staff politics/books/theater writer at the Stranger, Rich Smith, to talk about the Cronenberg-esque brain worm that is centrism, and to revisit Howard Schultz by way of his recently released memoir.
Greg and Colin are joined by their long lost roommate and host of Unpopular Front, Ben Udashen, to talk about caffeinated milkshake peddler and recently announced Independent candidate for President in the year 2020, Howard Schultz.
Greg and Colin are joined by Mary, a historian and local high school teacher, as well as policing aficionado (and our first return guest!) Brian Platt, to talk about the birth of the “Bezos Center for Innovation” at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), transit and the city’s solutions in light of the “Period of Maximum Constraint” aka “The Seattle Squeeze” aka “Jenny Jam,” and more bad behavior from the Seattle Police Department.