Olga Sagan experiences regret as she realizes that she should have lied. Molly Moon’s goes to court, but is it over greed? Or, are they the city’s true #1 crank? And where are we going to put all the prisons for the new war on health?
Greg and Brian take a Scrooge McDuck-style dive into the gold that is the Seattle City Council election pool. First up is Piroshky dealer and small business tyrant Olga Sagan in District 7. Will she get the coveted Seattle Sucks bump? Listen to find out!
The boys discuss the Department of Health’s new study that says a lot of you – not us – are lonely out there. Then we discuss how WA Democrats just voted to bring back the drug war. Plus, Greg has some thoughts about the WGA strike and what it means for Young Sheldon.
The gang gets together to go for their annual active shooter training and then hang around to talk about the hobbies of Seattle’s new police chief.
The gang gets some startling news in the middle of their draft coverage regarding the show’s current lending institution before moving on to talk about the latest hand-waving around downtown “revitalization” from everyone’s favorite mayor.
Munya lets us know what our social and political betters are up to in NYC before the gang dives into Washington’s exciting new war on drugs! I’m sure it will definitely work this time!
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The gang discusses the final meeting of the panel assigned to assess Seattle PD’s response to the 2020 anti-police protests. We learn about how the police are going to “do better” and how this is definitely not going to happen again.
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The gang discusses the latest legislation making it through the bowels of the Statehouse in Olympia before casting our gaze out to our neighbor to the east.
Pramila Jayapal joins us on the boat to talk about the hottest new trend on the American Left. We also hear from the Seattle Times editorial board on the newest danger to smol-bean landlords.
The boys are back on the digital boat to discuss the new capital gains tax that is making waves from Olympia to Plano. Then we look at the valley that is dying and the new valley that is struggling to be born.
The gang is back on the boat to talk about Boeing woes, the fight around a new light rail station, and gaze into the dark abyss of real estate capital.
The boys are all back on the boat and they are asking the heads of SVB and Signature to join them for a “bail-in.”
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The boys get together to discuss the hottest new trend for the new year, “premiumization.” Will this be the secret sauce that unlocks wonderful new delights here-to-fore unseen? Or is it part of the slow descent down into Lovecraftian horror that is living in modern America? Only time will tell!
Munya is mysteriously absent as Greg and Brian don their political science caps and dig into an exciting new way to do politics – minus the politics – brought to us by former Stranger writer Ansel Herz. It’s a poli-sci mega-episode full of all the requisite Aristotle, Hobbes, and David Icke references that make undergrad dorm room debates so exciting!
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Munya and Brian are joined by a veteran of Hollywood who has worked on such films as Blackhat and Ted 2 to discuss the movies M*A*S*H (1970) and Southern Comfort (1981). They discuss how these movies’ depictions of the military were affected by the Vietnam War and how they differ from depictions of the military today.
The boys are back to breakdown all the highlights and controversy from this year’s Super Bowl. From there they talk UFO sightings, train crashes, and Seymour Hersh’s new article about the Nord Stream Pipeline – turns out sometimes pipelines just do that.