Ian hops on the phone with Kenneth Arthur, Managing Editor of Field Gulls -- the primary source of knowledge and analysis for all things Seahawks -- to discuss how he got into sports blogging and whether the 'Hawks will stay relevant in the Pacific Northwest. Ian is then joined by out-of-the-box marketer Doug Abbott of DouglassM Digital for a detailed analysis of which cities Seattle should steal an NBA team from.

Commute Seattle executive Jonathan Hopkins describes the high-speed-rail utopia we didn't know we needed. The Army vet and DADT-overturn hero also walks Ian through how he got his sense of community, what obligations he thinks we have to one another, and how we can start to heal the red/blue divide, which he says is more like sports fandom than serious ideological differences.

Author and magazine editor Stephanie Stokes Oliver reminisces about the Black communities of Seattle past, recounts her stories as a journalist and editor with New York high-fashion publications of the 1980s, and previews her new book "Black Ink," a tribute to elite Black authors throughout American history.

Student activist Haleema Bharoocha fills host Ian Martinez in on the dynamics of growing up Muslim in a post-9/11 America, including the complexities of homeschooling, why gentrification in communities of color isn't simple, and what it means to be unleashed on mainstream America at 15. She explains her "Allyship in the Age of Islamophobia" workshop and how social justice fundamentalism can be counterproductive.

Sol Villareal takes host Ian Martinez through the Seattle real estate market through the unique lens only he can apply -- from selling CutCo knives to used cars, Sol has had to build his customers' trust for his whole adult life -- and thinks that trust could go a long way in our politics as well.