Mechanical Freak

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.

In volume three of our seven volume series, we travel all the way back to April of 2019 for an in depth look at a New York Times profile piece on Melinda Gates.

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This week behind the paywall: an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! You've heard the endless postmortems on the Bernie campaign, but you've never heard this tale of wildcat labor action inside the the Iowa effort itself. Listen now for the as yet untold story of how Cassidy and her (radical) ilk brought down America's one chance at socialism with their selfish demands for the observance of their (union) contrac...

TONIGHT! EXCLUSIVE! Ryan Grim looks like ground beef in a latex balloon! Is this the result of taking the boss's side against workers? Of parroting classic union-busting language? Of talking out of your ass and wildly misrepresenting campaign worker's struggles? Of claiming you have an exclusive scoop about organizing on the Bernie campaign that in fact was reported on Mechanical Freak by Cassidy,...

In part two of our Gates Retrospective, we revisit Bill’s summer reading list from 2019 before talking about some recent purchases from Bill, including a private plane service and huge swaths of farm land.

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Greg, Brian, Munya, and Colin delve into two recent interviews with former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best.

We have sent the freaks combing through our archives to dig up our greatest Gates / Gates Foundation hits so that we can bring them to you in these trying times. In our first installment, we go back to 2019 to hear about a Gates Foundation Netflix documentary and to Hear Bill’s thoughts on a wealth tax.

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The gang are joined by Roy to discuss the latest news regarding Bill & Melinda before diving into the latest mask advice from the CDC and how it affects service workers.

Greg, Brian, Cassidy, and Colin dredge through the developments in the ongoing uncoupling of Bill and Melinda Gates, then discuss the recent revelation that texts from Durkan, Best, and Scoggins from last summer, a period suspiciously overlapping with the abandonment of the East Precinct and subsequent creation of CHOP, are…missing (?!), and Interim police Chief Diaz quickly undoing a decision fro...

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