Mechanical Freak

Greg and Colin are joined by friend of the show, Brian Platt, to talk police towers courtesy of @Bezostown (the panopticon), learning how not to die as a student by the hand of law enforcement, learning from law enforcement how to die by the hand of active shooters, living in the Future at the End of History (the age of Managerial Liberalism), and updates from the Innovation Advisory Council.

Follow Brian on Twitter @brian_noname, and read his latest at Jacobin: “How to Survive a Police Stop.”

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Greg and Colin finally get industrious podcast magnate, Jason Rigden, on the show to talk podcasts (Talk to the Left, Podcast Questions, the Seattle Podcasters Guild), and the City Council race.

Follow Jason on Twitter @mr_rigden, listen to Talk to Seattle, Podcast Questions, and Seattle Podcasters Podcast.

Come to the next Meetup of the Seattle Podcasters Guild at Optimism Brewery on Wednesday, April 24th, 2019 at 6pm.

Greg and Colin agonize over Mayor Jenny Durkan’s capitulation on Scott Lindsay’s Top 100 in an interview with Brandi Kruse, and No City Council for Old Men.

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Greg and Colin suffer through the nine Circles of Hell bearing witness to the depravity of Safe Seattle, the madness of Christopher Rufo, and the cruelty of KOMO’s “Seattle is Dying.”

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“Panthalassa” by Nihilore / (CC BY 3.0)

Rufo, Chris. Interview by Ross Reynolds. On the Record, 12 Mar. 2019, https://www.kuow.org/stories/chris-rufo-thinks-seattle-must-rethink-its-approach-to-solving-homelessness. Accessed 18 Mar. 2019.

“Seattle is Dying.” ABC, KOMO, Seattle, 16 Mar. 2019.

Greg and Colin are joined by rebellious creative, Justin Williams, to talk film production in Seattle, working for Amazon during the height of the Little Miss Amazonia Pageant (HQ2), innovations in company scrip from Samaritan, and Mayor Jenny Durkan’s latest managerial panacea: Micro-Internships.

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Greg and Colin meet Scout, then talk about the End Times (Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, etc.), grocery shopping, Amazon’s Escape from New York, the “world leading philanthropy” of the Bezos’ Day One Fund, and a bean juice drenched editorial regarding homelessness in the Seattle Times.

Greg and Colin are joined by poet, Blabbermouth cohost, and staff politics/books/theater writer at the Stranger, Rich Smith, to talk about the Cronenberg-esque brain worm that is centrism, and to revisit Howard Schultz by way of his recently released memoir.

Follow Rich on Twitter @richssmith, read his work at the Stranger and his poetry on the web, and listen to his hilarious podcast

Greg and Colin are joined by their long lost roommate and host of Unpopular Front, Ben Udashen, to talk about caffeinated milkshake peddler and recently announced Independent candidate for President in the year 2020, Howard Schultz.

Follow Ben on Twitter @BenUdashen, listen to his podcast Unpopular Front, and read his work on Medium