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December 10, 2020 EPISODE 020 | House Money feat. Ben Stuckart
This week, in the second part of our interview with Ben Stuckart — an hour of pure cask-strength righteous indignation about our housing crisis, cut with an effervescent spritzer of audio slapstick and other goofery.

It’s real good.

Further reading

Spokane City Council considers new sales tax to fund affordable housing (S-R)

Council tentatively approves sales tax to fund affordable housing (S-R)

Even further reading

The new ‘Curing Spokane’ video is an inaccurate and shallow report on Spokane’s homeless

Berkeley Kevin Bacon Housing Study

“Helsinki’s radical solution to homelessness” Public Housing meets Housing First

Why rich people in Austria want to live in housing projects

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1 hr 1 min
December 04, 2020 EPISODE 019 | Just the PHACTS feat. Ben Stuckart
Morning everyone. Big energy on the pod this week.

Speaking with former city council president, current public policy gadfly Ben Stuckart about the very-’90s named PHACTS — Public Health Action Coalition Team of Spokane — a group of dozens of professionals and organizations who have united in the face of Bob Lutz’ firing (covered extensively in RANGE, see below) to effectuate public health policy change at both the state and local level. It’s a packed episode. Enjoy.

Then, once you’re sufficiently fired up, get involved below:

TAKE ACTION

Follow PHACTS

Email the organizers to get involved at [email protected]

LEARN MORE

Bob Lutz coverage in RANGE (Chronological): 1 2 3 4 5

New Coalition calls for change … (Spokesman-Review)

“You don’t expect to be so vilified” (Seattle Times)

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53 min
November 21, 2020 EPISODE 018 | Analyze This (Pandemic) feat. Meg Curtin Rey-Bear
Listen now (65 min) | EMERGENCY POD — Kinda As the pandemic enters its eighth month, the nation is subsumed by the biggest wave of coronavirus yet and Washington State grapples with new restrictions, we spoke with Meg Curtin Rey-Bear, LMHC, co-owner of Wellness Therapies Spokane

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1 hr 6 min
November 02, 2020EPISODE 017 | Going to Extremes feat. Kate Bitz
HOUSEKEEPING: Had a lot of wild news roll through Spokane last week. If you haven't subscribed to the RANGE Newsletter, you really should.
SHOW NOTES
Western States Center's Kate Bitz joins us to talk about the ever-percolating threat of white nationalism, it's roots stretching back to the founding of our nation and the settling of the Inland Northwest, why it's such a uniquely pernicious problem here, and how this history of hate might affect the election and how a Biden victory might embolden extremists the way the Clinton presidency did.
Stay safe, y'all, take care of each other this week, and oh yeah:
IN CASE OF ELECTION FUCKERY, CLICK HERE
(Election protection hotline)
GOOFS
I'm walkin' here!
Sometimes there's a [person], and I won't say hero, because what's a hero?
Tiger repelling rock
1 hr 9 min
October 27, 2020EPISODE 016 | A Serious Case of the Wobblies feat. Jess Walter
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SHOW NOTES
Profoundly happy to welcome Jess Walter on to talk about his brand new book, The Cold Millions, which you can buy starting TODAY from literally anywhere books are sold because the man is a damn phenomenon.
And while you CAN buy this book anywhere, I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Wishing Tree Books for lending me their advance copy to make this review happen.
When you buy this book, for the love of God, buy it from a local independent seller like Wishing Tree or Aunties or -- ideally, both. Buy one from each place and give one to a friend!
SUPPLEMENTS
Book Trailer by Factory Town
Show Town: Theater and Culture in the Pacific Northwest by Holly George
Harry McClintock “Hallelujah! I’m a Bum” Early recording
Little Red Songbook first published in Spokane in 1909
Citations Needed episode discussing "Hallelujah!..." in the context of populist folk and country contrasted with Country's reactionary turn

TRUE CRIME
Dashiell Hammett’s Spokane detour in The Maltese Falcon.
Hammett claimed to have been offered $5,000 dollars to murder IWW leader Frank Little.
Little was later lynched in Butte Montana. 10,000 people walked in his funeral procession.
1 hr 14 min
October 03, 2020EPISODE 015 | Chain Gang Reaction feat. Jeremy Logan
Tenant organizer and Spokane DSA co-chair Jeremy Logan joins us to talk about his arrest at the hands of Spokane County Sheriff's Deputies on the way to a Black Lives Matter protest and the truly remarkable obsession Sheriff Ozzie seems to have now that national media took an interest in the arrest.
Logan also shares the story of the last decade of his life and just how hard it is to pull yourself out of poverty, especially when you've previously been in the system.
BACKGROUND
Huffington Post article about Jeremy's arrest -- the one that set Ozzie off
Ozzie's resulting press conference (watch at your own risk)
Two big questions about the arrest of Jeremy Logan (Inlander)
How local law enforcement uses social media to surveil protesters (Inlander)
Ozzie's podcast about Jeremy Logan (Different from the press conference!)
1 hr 37 min
September 09, 2020EPISODE 014 | The Dang News feat. Leah Sottile & Shawn Vestal
In what is sure to be a collectors item for real news heads, this ep features rare journo-nerd b-sides from The Spokesman Review's Shawn Vestal.
TOPICS DISCUSSED
East-coast bias
National correspondents helicoptering into protests
(Lack of) newsroom diversity
On believing the children young journalists are our future

SUPPLEMENTS
The Truth Does not Change According to Our Ability to Stomach It -- Leah's poppin' fresh newsletter
Shawn's columns
1 hr 11 min
August 31, 2020EPISODE 013 | Boogaloo Bois feat. Leah Sottile
This week’s guest is a big deal. How big? I’m just going to quote her bio in the New York frickin Times:
Leah Sottile is a writer based in Oregon whose work focuses on extremist ideologies, the anti-government movement and fringe cultures. She is the host and reporter for the podcast “Bundyville,” which has been nominated twice for a National Magazine Award.
I should have outlined it better in my intro, but I'll do it now: Bundyville is an absolutely essential look at extremism in the West and season two drills down specifically into our little nook of the Inland Northwest. Check it out.
She’s back in Oregon now but she’s lived in Spokane on and off for a good chunk of her life. I can’t think of anyone better to help look at the Boogaloo specifically and extremism more generally, both taking the national view and pulling some of the local threads.
Tremendously proud of this interview and grateful to Leah for carving two frickin' hours out of her busy schedule to hang out.
SUPPLEMENTS
Inside the Boogaloo - Leah's story for NYT Mag
Bundyville seasons 1 & 2 - absolute required listening

GOOFS
So hot right now
Abe Simpson is sometimes anti-fascist, always anti-Missouri
1 hr 11 min
August 19, 2020EPISODE 012 | White People feat. Shawn Vestal
Hey y'all. Long time, no pod. Here's part one of an honest chat with Shawn Vestal about how white people can have tough conversations with themselves and others about the work we all need to do in this moment.
Spurred by a column Shawn wrote about the backlash from a video posted by Catholic Charities CEO Rob McCann, which led to a sharp (and gross) rebuke from Thomas Daly, Spokane’s Catholic bishop.
SUPPLEMENTS
Rob McCann video
The Backlash
Shawn's Column
1 hr 21 min
July 12, 2020EPISODE 011 | Independence Day (cont)
Hey! It's the second part of the conversation with Angelique Tomeo and Sabrina Ryan-Helton of the Bail Project. If episode one was about talking about the system and how it destroys people's lives and weakens the fabric of society itself, episode two is more about how we might fight back in the short term by helping bail as many folks as possible out so they can actually claim their rights and fight their cases.
Just a reminder: there's a supplement to these episodes outlining what happened to crime rates when Spokane let a bunch of people out of jail due to COVID. Really gives some extra urgency to the work.
If you feel moved by this work, make sure to ask to join the Bail Project Spokane's Facebook community. Lots of information and solidarity happens in that space.
And at Sabrina's request: it's not too late to sign the anti-Killology training petitions. There are two. Here's the first and the second.
Photo illustration by Connor Bacon
SUPPLEMENTS
Spokane let people out of jail; Crime went down.
The story of a 72-year-old man who was locked up for 33-months pre-trial.
The Bail Project website
Bryan Stevenson's 2014 interview on Fresh Air about how "we have a criminal justice system that treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent."
54 min

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