Mechanical Freak

Greg, Brian, and Colin talk NFL before hucking and chucking it to the Staten Island Autonomous Zone, the Supreme Court's decision on bans of religious gathering, the City Council passing a budget with cuts to the Seattle Police Department budget, and a strange rambling about that budget published in the Seattle Times, and authored by none other than District 4 representative, Alex Pedersen.

It’s time again for the annual Seattle Sucks Thanksgiving Pageant Spectacular! This year we have guests giving Thanksgiving legal advice and updating us on the latest in Texas politics! We catch up with the Gates Foundation and get holiday shopping tips from Colin’s Gaming Corner! All this and more in this jam-packed episode, so throw your Hungry Man dinner in the microwave, curl up with your Tail...

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Colin introduces us to his new techno-creation and we discuss Gov. Inslee’s latest Covid restrictions.

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Greg, Brian, and Colin talk Covid and The Vaccine, The Brothers Emmanuel and their prescriptions for our (limited) futures, gig working in California with Harris' family, the return of the Deficit Hawks, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's celebration of the oft ignored virtues of child labor in the Guardian.

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The gang gets together in the Seattle Sucks bunker to talk election results, wonking it up while the world burns around them.

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We congratulate Carmen Best on her new position working for Academi as Chair of BLM & Antifa Studies. Then we discuss reforming the King County Sheriff’s office via the ballot.

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Colin and Brian sit down for a New Yorker style Zoom roundtable discussion of the latest local and national headlines in politics. We also congratulate Carmen Best on her new job as a pundit for one of the many trash local news stations in town and read another column about homelessness from the Seattle Times. All that and more, this week!

We invite fellow crank Ben Karpelman (@snocialism) onto the show to discuss Boeing moving 787 assembly to South Carolina and talk Boeing news generally. Ben then informs us of Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin’s brilliant plan for the thousands of workers who are going to be laid off by Boeing.

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Greg and Brian are joined by Brynn (@GabeTheCat1) and Ben (@BenUdashen), hosts of the new podcast, Red Diaper Baby, to talk about how children should be taken away from their parents and raised by communist nannies.

It’s 1944, all the party bosses know two things: Franklin Delano Roosevelt is going to win a 4th term and he most likely won’t live through it. At the party convention, the VP pick is going to be the next president. On one side is Henry Wallace, current VP and a lefty populist who’s popularity rivals Roosevelt’s, and on the other is Harry Truman, a largely marginal senator described by everyone wh...

Greg, Brian, and Colin discuss the recent City Council vote overriding Mayor Durkan's veto, Andrew Lewis' part in that vote, and Durkan's political prospects, before catching up with the latest developments in automated home security from Amazon's Ring.

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Greg, Brian, and Colin discuss the latest bit of supremely Good News before diving into life in an anarchist jurisdiction, the looming budget vote and Andrew Lewis' partner, OPA's findings on violence against protestors, a police shooting in Redmond, and Mike McGinn in the Atlantic addressing "police pullback."

Colin is back for good as we talk with special guest Alycia Ramirez about her recent column in the South Seattle Emerald on police propaganda and their willing enablers in the media. We also talk SPD’s latest atrocities and their efforts at winning hearts and minds.

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Greg, Brian, and Colin are reunited for the 100th (public) episode to talk about domestication during the pandemic, the promising start of the Seattle Public School District's online learning program (powered by Microsoft Teams), code bootcamp child soldiers, flatlines and brain implants, Loren Culp's tepid gubernatorial platform, and The State of Things (sorry, it's still bad).

Greg reads a very special letter to the show from a Bothell listener. With Brian back from his bomb shelter in the mountains outside of Boise, Greg catches him up with all the awful news from when he was gone.

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