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A plane is heading for Seattle. Is it bringing medical supplies? Or something more sinister? Greg and Brian look at the two sides of the austerity coin with Nancy and Donald. And the Seattle City Council chants “process” in front of a mirror until the old gods appear to wipe out the city’s poor.

Greg and Brian don masks (which fail to cover their nose or mouths) and go to a swank party with Cassidy from Better Left Cast where they fall in love with a mystery man who is running for WA 38. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JptFhW7m3tM

Follow Cassidy on Twitter @betterleftcorn, and listen to her on the Better Left Podcast

Watch Mario Brown, candidate for Washington’s 38th District, perform “Body Language”

Read Brian’s latest piece “Sheriffs Gone Wild” on Mechanical Freak

Greg and Brian see if Fortune favors the bold before reading the new script for 10 Things I Hate About You. The universe is listicles all the way down! Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg and Brian get high-brow as they discuss the city known as the Seattle of the East, its terrible food culture, and one of its most storied periodicals, The New Yorker. We’re listening to scientists and injecting Simple Green directly into our necks so that we may die furious on the Fury Road with Colin’s war boys!

Read “Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not” in the New Yorker, and “How the coronavirus overwhelmed Washington state’s early efforts to contain it” in the Seattle Times

Greg, Brian, and Colin talk Trump Bucks (and how to get them), unemployment, and the recent formation of the Western States Pact, or The League of Extraordinary Governors. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg and Brian are joined by friend of the show, Codename Tanya, Esq., to talk about how the judicial system is functioning during these pandemic conditions.

Greg and Brian choose to take the black so they can jump off the wall as they talk about Bernie dropping out, the political courage demanded by the Seattle Times’ ed board to gut the state budget, and the state’s early strategy for stopping a COVID-19 outbreak. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg and Brian are joined by Dae Shik Kim Jr and Guy Oron to talk about their recent piece in The Nation about the city’s continued encampment sweeps in the face of a pandemic.

Read Seattle Destroyed Homeless Encampments as the Pandemic Raged in The Nation, and follow Dae at @daeshikjr and listen to him weekly on Activist Class, and follow Guy at @GuyOron

In this new episode of Mechanical Freak Presents, Brian talks with historian Matthew Van Duyn in order to get a handle on China’s response to the coronavirus, the workings of the Chinese state, and the state of US/China relations. For instance, did you know that China has an employer provided healthcare scheme that was created to “break the iron rice bowl” in the 1980s? Because I sure as hell didn’t. So, kick your feet up, grab a slice of pizza, and let’s learn about China! Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes, and early release of episodes of Mechanical Freak Presents. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

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North America, 2670 A.D. Brian and Greg drop anchor and settle in for the long, slow decline of civilization and bring you some news flashes from their view of the carnage. Rents from a stone, the boss in the machine, sick leave that can’t stay, and more.

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