Mechanical Freak

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.

Come out to The Beacon on Wednesday, December 11th at 7pm to see Class of 1999

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.

Follow Marena on Twitter @MDomingoyoung, and learn more about her documentary Girl Beer on the web or on Twitter @GirlBeerDoc

Come out to The Beacon on Wednesday, December 11th at 7pm to see Class of 1999

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

Come out to The Beacon on Wednesday, December 11th at 7pm to see Class of 1999

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 with the reality in light of the 20 year anniversary. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

Follow Maddie on Twitter @fatherqueerest, and come check out the Seattle DSA

Follow the Beacon theater @TheBeaconSea on Twitter, @thebeaconsea on Instagram, and on the web

Follow Andrew on Twitter @sonicbust, read his interview with Stuart Townsend, director of Battle in Seattle, in Cineaste, and his review of the film in anarkismo.net

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

Come out to The Beacon on Wednesday, December 11th at 7pm to see Class of 1999

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

Come out to The Beacon on Wednesday, December 11th at 7pm to see Class of 1999

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.

Read Brian recent piece, “Behemoth,” in Mechanical Freak

Read friend of the show Ian Edwards’ recent piece in Crosscut

Come out to The Beacon on Wednesday, December 11th at 7pm to see Class of 1999

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.

Follow Christopher Peguero on Twitter @christopherpeg5

Read Greg’s companion piece, “Money For Nothing?,” in Mechanical Freak

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

Check out our first and second episodes on the app taking Twitter by storm, Samaritan.

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.

Follow Bjørn on Twitter @fleksor, on Instagram @fleksor and for the dank memes @usercenteredmemes, and listen to his music on SoundCloud