Mechanical Freak
484 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★ - 49 ratingsFrom Seattle, city of the future, the bleeding edge of Neoliberal dystopia...
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Teaser - Seattle Suckers, April 1st, 2019
April 05, 2019 07:30 - 1 minute - 1.73 MBSubscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks
The Stick (Seattle is Dying)
March 22, 2019 07:00 - 2 hours - 114 MBGreg 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."
The Seattle Defense (Mitigating Risk)
March 15, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBGreg 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.
Escape From New York
March 04, 2019 22:30 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBGreg 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.
The Centrist Will Not Hold
February 18, 2019 22:30 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBGreg 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.
Caffeinated Milkshakes
January 31, 2019 21:10 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBGreg 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.
It Is the Rain
January 27, 2019 07:45 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBGreg 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.
Elect Scott 2019
January 18, 2019 22:40 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBIn 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).
Vanishing Seattle
January 04, 2019 04:20 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBIn 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.
The Behr Necessities
December 29, 2018 07:40 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBGreg 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.
All Cops Are Bad
December 07, 2018 07:30 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBGreg 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.
Jeffrey's Comet
November 13, 2018 21:40 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBGreg and Colin talk fire, the midterms, Paul Allen (for further ridicule), and Jeffrey's new club house(s), otherwise known as Amazon HQ2.
Election Day
November 01, 2018 22:50 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBGreg and Colin struggle through the endorsements from the Stranger Election Control Board.
Remembering Paul (How His Smile Made Us Smile)
October 28, 2018 22:30 - 1 hour - 65 MBGreg 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.
Jeffrey, the Creator
September 26, 2018 21:50 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBAlex 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.
Benefits Not Included
September 14, 2018 04:35 - 1 hour - 75.7 MBAlex 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).
Closing the App Gap
August 24, 2018 04:15 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBThis episode is proudly brought to you by Homely™. We discuss the absurdity of the Innovation Advisory Council by way of examining similar efforts in Boston, and delve into Durkan's neoliberal impulse to avoid systemic change via the recent announcement of recipients to the Tech Matching Fund.
Crash and Burn
August 19, 2018 03:20 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBColin flies solo (without training) and tries to thread a narrative about stolen planes, smoke filled skies, the fight for the Showbox, the "charity" of the Pearl Jam Home Shows, and the black hole of displacement in Seattle's new gilded age.
Dashboard Confessional
August 13, 2018 20:25 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBMayor Jenny Durkan decides that Tech companies know best when it comes to solving the issues that plague late capitalist society, and forms the League of Extraordinary Tech Workers, or the "Innovation Advisory Council." It's, like, the future.
Fascists All the Way Down
August 08, 2018 07:25 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBGreg and Colin have a big announcement, Spekulation parodies the municipal Macklemore lip sync, the looming destruction of the Showbox, the Mayor's office bends the truth about the Streetcar project, the Mariners have a list of demands to renovate Safeco Field, the benevolent Amazon funds transit expansion at will, and the myth we are meant to believe about Jeff Bezos.
Some of my Best Friends are Activists
August 01, 2018 20:50 - 1 hour - 81.1 MBA special conversation with journalist, activist, organizer, and all around fascinating Seattleite, Dae Shik Kim Hawkins Jr. We talk about the political climate in the wake of the Employee Head Tax repeal, marginalization (in its many forms), the uncredited impact of grassroots movements, Nikkita Oliver, and the power of billionaires in local politics.
Katie Herzog Eats Her Shoe
July 23, 2018 06:20 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBIt's the Ron & Don show, the Slog's own Katie Herzog white knights for Jordan Peterson and in so doing provides enough rope to hang herself and Don (or was it Ron?), and Kshama Sawant's week of wild rumor.
Et tu, Russell?
July 15, 2018 21:45 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBMr. Wilson Goes to China, KIRO's Ron & Don believe in Paul Allen and the Stacks, and the "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity," Amazon, "relentlessly jams its blood funnel into anything that smells like money" (this week it's PillPack).
7 Simple Rules for Dating Sal Spady
July 09, 2018 06:10 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBA new local currency courtesy @bezostown, Burger Failson, Saul Spady, defines 7 simple rules for 21st Century Seattle, The Atlantic groans at the insidious use of the city's "Find It Fix It" app, Crime, or the lack thereof, and life at Sea...brook.
Run for the Border
June 29, 2018 23:40 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBAlex gets blindsided on the road, the coming elections, and the state of the City Council, in the wake of the Employee Head Tax repeal, Desperado Jenny heads to the border following Brett Hamil's Proximity Law of Seattle Politics, the agony and the ecstasy of summer in Seattle, and the Great Shake Shack Debacle.
The Maleficent Seven
June 20, 2018 03:26 - 55 minutes - 50.3 MBGreg recounts a story from a typical Wednesday night, checking in with The News, and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Repeal of the Employee Head Tax.
Productivity Rock
June 16, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBEverybody's gone to The Collective, the travails of composting, and Jeff Bezos uses his Amazon Lottery winnings to industrialize the Moon.
socialism.pdf
June 06, 2018 02:45 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBBagshaw the Copy Machine Monitor, the fastest growing city in the country, will they stay or will they go in the Seattle Times opinion section, and a nod to mussels with a little lean.
Because Jobs Matter
May 26, 2018 20:45 - 36 minutes - 29.2 MBA James Beard for June Baby, the catastrophe that is Restaurant Week, adventures eating out in the city, "Governor...welcome to the #resistance," Fremont Brewing Boycott, and a very special happy birthday.
Will the last job leaving SEATTLE - Turn off this podcast
May 18, 2018 07:55 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBThe "abominable" compromise of the "job-killing" Employee Head Tax, and a new drink menu fit for Mr. Moneybags at Frolik.
Hacking the Homeless, There is No Them, and Amazon Strikes Back
May 09, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBFaustian bargains from the "future," Libertarian candidate Matt Dubin, and the flexing of Jeff Bezos' Amazon.
Teaser - Hacking Homelessness, J-Bea's Instagram
April 23, 2018 03:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB"Clever" solutions for systemic problems, #funfriends.
Teaser - Nextdoor "Frontier Justice"
April 23, 2018 03:00 - 17 minutes - 14.3 MBA nearly lethal dose of neighborly love from Nextdoor.