Mechanical Freak

It’s that time of year again! Time to sit down at the table with family and friends, dig into your potatoes, and blast the Mechanical Freak Thanksgiving Pageant Spectacular at max volume through your open-back headphones to drown out your family. This year, we are joined by two Justins to talk local politics, one Dae to discuss sports gambling, and one Carl to discuss daily life in occupied Palestine. We also have holiday cooking advice, music reviews, comically dated fan fiction, libertarian hijinks, and a time-machine to take us back to Thanksgiving Day, 1973!

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We’re joined by renowned media star Dae Shik Kim Jr to educate us on the recent lame Seattle election results. We also discuss the disappearance of Black people in baseball, the rise of pickleball, down bad stories, and place uncut gems style bets on Biden’s VP pick.

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Read Dae’s exit interview with Kshama Sawant in the South Seattle Emerald
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Pre-order Shaun Scott’s new book Heartbreak City

More on the alarming injury toll from pickleball
Watch Hillary Clinton talk to a famous french clown from her 2022 Apple TV+ show “Gutsy”

We get back together to discuss the latest developments in Palestine and the new ghoulish tact that our feckless leaders have taken on it.

Stare into the absolute depths of human depravity as the White House comments on Gaza here, here, here, and here

The boys discuss the latest developments in Palestine and dive into the neuroses that come from running an Apartheid state.

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For more on how Muslim extremist parties were used to undermine left-nationalist movements, see Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

For more on the creation of Israel, see Noam Chomsky, “Israel and Palestine, a Historical Background” from The Fateful Triangle and Rashid Khalidi, “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017”

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What caused the U-District and Ballard Targets to close? Was it crime? Was it big-city woke-ism? Was it a terrible business model that was never capable of competing against Amazon and local grocery stores? We get to the bottom of this mystery!

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Check out our interview with Matt Christman on Ending the Myth: https://www.mechanicalfreak.website/podcast/episodes/ending-the-myth-ep-7-america-s-worst-president-w-matt-christman

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Greg, Munya, and Brian get together to discuss the latest scandal to come out of the Seattle Police Department that has become a national, and now international, story.

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Greg and Brian get together to discuss the housing market and listen to some old time rock n roll. Raised rates, displace, RealPage, anyways, it’s still unaffordable to me.

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