Mechanical Freak

Greg and Colin are joined by Mary, a historian and local high school teacher, as well as policing aficionado (and our first return guest!) Brian Platt, to talk about the birth of the “Bezos Center for Innovation” at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), transit and the city’s solutions in light of the “Period of Maximum Constraint” aka “The Seattle Squeeze” aka “Jenny Jam,” and more bad behavior from the Seattle Police Department.

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In the first episode of “season two,” Greg and Colin sit down with Shaun Scott, author of Millennials and the Moments that Made Us, journalist, organizer, member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and City Council candidate for District 4, to talk about inclusive cities, land use policies (“Neighborhoods for All”), and the graduation of local issues to the national stage (which includes a column from Christopher Rufo in the New York Post).

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Read “Seattle Can Become an Anti-Sexist City”

“What NYC must learn from Seattle’s homeless struggle” by Christopher Rufo

In the final episode of the first year of the podcast Colin has the honor of speaking with the impossibly cool, Cynthia Brothers, about her invaluable and vital project, Vanishing Seattle.

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Greg and Colin are joined by local artist and Capitol Hill curio, John Behr, to talk about strange stirrings caused by parking lots, the formation of the League of Extraordinary Process (the regional “solution” for homelessness), the NHL in Seattle, Art Walk, stand-up comedy, murderous manifestos, the future states of Cascadia and Liberty, and an evening run-in with a cougar.

@QAGreenways delivers

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Listen to SPECSWIZARD on Bandcamp

Visit Steve Gilbert Photography Studio during Capitol Hill Art Walk on Thursday, January 10th to experience their work

Greg and Colin listen to Brian Platt, local aerospace machinist and journalist, about the history of policing and its relatively modern militarization, the burgeoning cultural psychosis of fear and victimhood (much like that gripping American conservatism), and the Seattle Police Officers Guild’s (SPOG) recent contract “win” at City Council and what that means for the city.

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Read Brian’s piece on policing in Jacobin “Cops Are at War Out There”

Greg and Colin talk fire, the midterms, Paul Allen (for further ridicule), and Jeffrey’s new club house(s), otherwise known as Amazon HQ2.

Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Isn’t Just Shameful—It Should Be Illegal

Greg and Colin struggle through the endorsements from the Stranger Election Control Board.

Greg and Colin discuss the death of homegrown billionaire Paul Allen, and take on the takes (from Kshama Sawant and My Northwest, to the Seattle Times) in the wake of his passing.

Jason Rigden’s Seattle Podcast List

Alex and Colin dive deep into Day One, Jeff Bezos’ opening salvo into philanthropy, bronze markers for fallen homeless people, another championship for the Storm, and the progress of the Innovation Advisory Council.

Alex and Colin talk Fall (it’s here now), the county caving to the Mariners’ request for maintenance of Safeco Field, innovative baseball themed solutions to homelessness, the Durkan Digest, C40, the threat of an NHL team, Jeff Bezos’ foray into politics, and the increasingly creeping terror of Amazon, especially w/r/t the treatment of its workers (robot, or human).

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