Mechanical Freak

The Stranger’s Hannah Krieg joins us to talk about the new Harrell administration and their old tactic of attacking the homeless.

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We bring in the pros from Dover to talk childcare and labor organizing with Kailin, a member of the newly formed Magnolia Childcare Union, and its struggle to gain recognition.

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The boys follow-up the discussion from last week’s episode and talk nuclear secrets and the new restaurant wars before talking about the Seattle City Council’s vote to give police hiring bonuses and the exciting new future of professional work.

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Yeah you. What are you doing on Sunday? Probably nothing. So why not show up at the rally to support the Magnolia Childcare Union at Ella Bailey Park in Magnolia Sunday August 14th at 1pm.

We bring on historian and friend of the show Matthew Van Duyn to discuss Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan and the history of tensions between the United States and China over the island.

(Pictured above, Westlake in the conflict-free days 20 years ago) Greg shares with us a tale of friendship before we dive into the Seattle Times’ Jon Talton’s tale of woe. It’s a study of contrasts, deconstructed and made palatable for you the listener!

Chuy is back to tell us about some exciting news out of the LA Sheriff’s Department and to give an important Texas update.

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Munya catches us up on the latest trials & tribulations in the world of F1 racing. And Brian asks what’s been going on in Seattle while he was away in sunny Los Angeles… only to discover that Seattle still sucks.

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They’re coming for us. The supreme court has taken away your very bodily autonomy, and they won’t stop there. The Fed is engineering a recession to further proletarianize you. It’s a class war, folks, and we know what side we’re on.

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The gang is back in their individual bunkers contemplating the burning questions of our day: Is Donald Trump simply too macho? Will blue haired egirls at Columbia declaring that they are bi turn Michael Cera into a Nazi? And what’s Hillary Clinton up to these days?

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The gang is back on the boat to take a deep dive into the Fed Chair’s monetary policy and how we were all turned into foam for the jumbo jet of finance to crush on the runway of life. Part 1 of 2.

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This week the boys are back in town, and on the boat, and defending our phony baloney jobs. We get serious and talk love, marriage, faith, and most importantly: divorce. Also, Madison (@AetherUnbound) fills us in on the ongoing struggle for LGBTQ rights at SPU.

Join us and our BFF of the show @MareshkaEvanova to talk about the recent election in the Philippines that has brought back both the son of Ferdinand Marcos and the daughter of Rodrigo Duterte to power, all on the the eve of the 50th anniversary of marshal law.

Recorded on Thursday morning, Brian and Greg go over what we know about the mass shooting in Uvalde, the role of the police, and the fantasies politicians are concocting in response.

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In the first half of our dive into private equity firms and the exciting world of leveraged buyouts, we take a deep dive into Elon Musk’s efforts to buy Twitter. For part two, make sure to join our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/mechanicalfreak).

We take a moment to remember PNW native Randy Weaver in connection with the recent shooting in Buffalo and discuss what the Democrats response to white supremacist violence was in the 1990s. Then we take a dive into the politics of gentrification and discuss the “Minneapolis miracle.”