Mechanical Freak

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.

Follow Alycia Ramirez on Twitter

Find Alycia Ramirez’s latest column here

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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.

Seattle Times article on SPD’s overtime scheme

Remembering Sarah Leyrer

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There are fire tornadoes, arctic blazes, and inland hurricanes. Now another sign of the end-times has been revealed, the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC). Greg and Brian talk about all the fun they had tuning into the DNC and each make a case for which boomer protest anthem is the best.

Charles Mudede’s article on Boeing

Our interview with Charles Mudede on EP 79 - Meeting Nobody is Easy

Billy Porter and Stephen Stills performing “For What It’s Worth” at the DNC

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In part two of this two part interview, Brian continues his talk with China historian Matthew Van Duyn about America’s strange cultural relationship with China. We discuss the US’s diplomatic history with China and get to the bottom of the Facebook group “Libertarian Guys with Asian Wives.” Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes, and early release of episodes of Mechanical Freak Presents. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Do you want to know more? Part one of this interview can be found here and our previous interview with Matthew about China & Covid 19 can be found here. A bibliography for this episode can be found here on the Mechanical Freak.

Greg and Brian speculate about which party convention Best will be speaking at while discussing the pro-cop woke take to her retirement. Then Greg spills the tea about his life as a College Democrat in the wake of the attempted honey-potting of Alex Morse. We’re podcasting locally and complaining nationally.

Seattle Sucks Ep. 94 on the Plan for Defunding SPD

The Intercept articles on efforts to honey-pot Alex Morse are here & here