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Pramila Jayapal joins us on the boat to talk about the hottest new trend on the American Left. We also hear from the Seattle Times editorial board on the newest danger to smol-bean landlords.

New York Times, “The US Built a European Style Welfare State. It’s Largely Over.” 4/6/2023

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The boys are back on the digital boat to discuss the new capital gains tax that is making waves from Olympia to Plano. Then we look at the valley that is dying and the new valley that is struggling to be born.

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The gang is back on the boat to talk about Boeing woes, the fight around a new light rail station, and gaze into the dark abyss of real estate capital.

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The boys are all back on the boat and they are asking the heads of SVB and Signature to join them for a “bail-in.”

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The boys get together to discuss the hottest new trend for the new year, “premiumization.” Will this be the secret sauce that unlocks wonderful new delights here-to-fore unseen? Or is it part of the slow descent down into Lovecraftian horror that is living in modern America? Only time will tell!

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Munya is mysteriously absent as Greg and Brian don their political science caps and dig into an exciting new way to do politics – minus the politics – brought to us by former Stranger writer Ansel Herz. It’s a poli-sci mega-episode full of all the requisite Aristotle, Hobbes, and David Icke references that make undergrad dorm room debates so exciting!

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Munya and Brian are joined by a veteran of Hollywood who has worked on such films as Blackhat and Ted 2 to discuss the movies MAS*H (1970) and Southern Comfort (1981). They discuss how these movies’ depictions of the military were affected by the Vietnam War and how they differ from depictions of the military today.

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Up Next: Ending the Myth will be back in May to discuss the 1980s and Chapter 13 – More, More, More from Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth

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Show art by Carl

The boys are back to breakdown all the highlights and controversy from this year’s Super Bowl. From there they talk UFO sightings, train crashes, and Seymour Hersh’s new article about the Nord Stream Pipeline – turns out sometimes pipelines just do that.

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