Mechanical Freak

Greg, Brian, and Colin talk about Nathan for You, a pivot from Cats content, Greg's trip to Iowa (he left this morning), and the recent passage of the Clean Campaigns Act, an ordinance to limit "foreign" political contributions, in the City Council.

Brian and Colin soldier on without their intrepid Captain with a news roundup covering property crime, the Amazon Ring, and Boeing, followed by yet another look at the difficult restaurant scene as (mostly) seen through the eyes of its celebrity chefs in the Seattle Times. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

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Brian and Colin carry on without their Captain talking about the Bernie Sanders rally, the Seattle Times Editorial Board's pleading for civility in the war we must wage with Iran, and a visit from the Platty Wagon about a Seattle Times Police officer's comedic bit that killed.

Greg, Brian, and Colin talk Seahawks (#BeastMode), a strange televised police memorial simultaneously viewed from an airport and Red Robin respectively, and Jason Rantz's top ten movies of 2019. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined by Alex a.k.a Bezostown and Max the Radical Bomb Throwing Teen, to talk about the Democratic field in 2020, the possibile conflict with Iran that conservatives crave, and this Doomed Planet, Alex's new podcast.

Greg and Colin check in on the Wall Street Journal. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg and Colin discuss the movie event of the season, year, and perhaps even the decade: Tom Hooper's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's inimitable Cats.

Greg and Brian stare into the darkness of the Amazon Ring once more. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

In this episode liberated from behind The Paywall, Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined by a star studded panel consisting of Maddy, co-chair of the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Tommy Swenson, programmer for the Beacon Cinema, Andrew Hedden, a PhD student in History at the University of Washington, podcast founder, Alex, and friends of the show, Brynn and Celina, to review the hist...

Greg and Brian are landlocked in this special potpourri episode of Seattle Sucks. They talk impeachmas, Durkan's new high-tech solution for homelessness, the Stranger's strange recollection of the Dave Meinert scandal, and the tyranny of speed limits.

Greg, Brian, and Colin get inspired and (briefly) contemplate dividends before reading plant-based historian, Knute Berger's, latest listicle of "9 Seattleites You Should Know" from Seattle Magazine. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin get five book recommendations from friend of the show, Bill Gates, talk to Montreal based artist Summer Emerald about her Bezos inspired art, its apocalyptic character, and a companion piece in Mechanical Freak, and we hear the birthing story of Gregnog.

Greg, Brian, and Colin interpret David Horsey's latest artifact in the Seattle Times before reading in Crosscut about the disadvantages tenants face against their landlords, despite recent state and municipal legislation, in the courts. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin talk about Amazon proceeding in NYC without concessions, the first "progressive" city in America to offer completely free public transit, a transphobic organization's planned meeting in a Seattle Public Library, and the latest output from the Magnolia Mindset Machine Learning Academy which takes the shape of neighborhood panopticon.

Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined once again by Marena to talk Thanksgiving, family, the written word, and Frozen, before diving into profiling powered by facial recognition in the doorbell from Hell, Amazon Ring, and Anderson Cooper's weird flex on fecal expert Ari Hoffman in 60 Minutes.

Greg, Brian, and Colin take on the extremely real, hat wearing, Man with the Pedigree, Gregory Scruggs, and his latest bit of Solutions Journalism on the "futility" of the Fare Strike in The Stranger. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined by a star studded panel consisting of Maddy, co-chair of the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Tommy Swenson, programmer for the Beacon Cinema, Andrew Hedden, a PhD student in History at the University of Washington, podcast founder, Alex, and friends of the show, Brynn and Celina, to review the historical fiction of Battle in Seattle in contrast wit...

Greg, Brian, and Colin celebrate Thanksgiving the only way they know how: on the boat, creating Content for you all.

Greg, Brian, and Colin celebrate 25 years of the malignant mass known colloquially as Amazon, consider the possibility that it could change its "mindset" via a laborious piece from Swamp Thing in Crosscut, and we vow to make Seattle feel safe again with the Seattle Times Editorial Board. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin, in light of recent news, revisit an article from once local transphobe, Katie Herzog, before learning about her class, "the canceled," in a gobsmackingly credulous piece from the New York Times.

Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined by Master of Paella and former city council candidate, Christopher Peguero, to talk about the future in light of the General Election results.

Greg, Brian, and Colin briefly revisit our favorite app, Samaritan, and recall a trip to the movies before diving into Danny Westneat's bizarre defense of billionaires, specifically Jeff Bezos, in the Seattle Times. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined by the inimitable Bjørn, a.k.a. Fleksor, to react and process the preliminary results of the General Election.

Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined by venerable historians (Dr.) Kevin and Bradley, to talk about the District 3 race between incumbent Kshama Sawant and a sketch of a one dimensional protagonist scrawled in crayon in the margins of the first page of an unpublished Young Adult novel laying in darkness next to a loaded gun confined to a locked desk drawer, Egan Orion.