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Friends of the show Ryan Archibald and Brendan McElmeel are back to finish our discussion of the Byzantine structure of higher education institutions. We uncover the rot at that core of higher education and, guess what, it's the same rot that is hollowing out everything in America!
Brian is joined by old friend of the show Ryan Archibald and new friend of the show Brendan McElmeel for an exploration of higher education’s Byzantine labor system. Will we find light at the end of the maze or will we be killed by the Minotaur of adjunctification and budget cuts on the way? Only one way to find out!
The boys take a look into the future of high tech, literally! Then they discuss the JET taskforce’s raid of four Seattle gay bars over the weekend. Does the arrow of progress always bend toward justice? Or is reality more complicated than a story you tell children?
Greg and Brian catch up on some stories that we have been covering on the show. Tanya Woo, elected! (kind-of). Alec Baldwin, indicted! Boeing, the struggle continues! All that and more!
This week on Mechanical Freak we've got Hannah Krieg from The Stranger to help us say our farewells to Andrew Lewis, the wettest council member ever to lose reelection.
The boys get together to recap the UW National Championship debacle, lady problems at SPD, and an exciting new student outreach program at Florida State. Finally, we discuss South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ.
The boys get back together in the new year to talk about all the exciting new Seattle news. We check the help wanted ads at the Seattle Times before speculating on the new council and finish with a hot new cop-editorial in the Tacoma News Tribune. All that and more!!
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The boys are joined by journalist and author Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. We have a wide ranging discussion about how the decade that produced the largest mass protests in human history, saw virtually nothing but setbacks for the Left internationally.
The boys share their thoughts on the death of Henry Kissinger and the resumption of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Finally, we talk with friend of the show Carl about what life is like under Israel’s unique brand of Apartheid.
It’s that time of year again! Time to sit down at the table with family and friends, dig into your potatoes, and blast the Mechanical Freak Thanksgiving Pageant Spectacular at max volume through your open-back headphones to drown out your family. This year, we are joined by two Justins to talk local politics, one Dae to discuss sports gambling, and one Carl to discuss daily life in occupied Palestine. We also have holiday cooking advice, music reviews, comically dated fan fiction, libertarian hijinks, and a time-machine to take us back to Thanksgiving Day, 1973!
We’re joined by renowned media star Dae Shik Kim Jr to educate us on the recent lame Seattle election results. We also discuss the disappearance of Black people in baseball, the rise of pickleball, down bad stories, and place uncut gems style bets on Biden’s VP pick.
We get back together to discuss the latest developments in Palestine and the new ghoulish tact that our feckless leaders have taken on it.
The boys discuss the latest developments in Palestine and dive into the neuroses that come from running an Apartheid state.
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What caused the U-District and Ballard Targets to close? Was it crime? Was it big-city woke-ism? Was it a terrible business model that was never capable of competing against Amazon and local grocery stores? We get to the bottom of this mystery!
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Greg, Munya, and Brian get together to discuss the latest scandal to come out of the Seattle Police Department that has become a national, and now international, story.
Greg and Brian get together to discuss the housing market and listen to some old time rock n roll. Raised rates, displace, RealPage, anyways, it’s still unaffordable to me.
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Brian & Greg get together to catch up on all the news they missed over the last couple of weeks.
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The boys get some funny news out of Utah before asking the eternal question, “Is Seattle allowed to tax its billionaires?” Answer: still no. But most importantly, we discover the Pulitzer Prize winning work of our favorite cartoonist, David “the Horseman” Horsey.
Munya and Brian take a look at two seemingly opposing economic views – that this is the best economy that has ever existed and that Portland is populated solely by homeless drug addicts – before effortlessly synthesizing these contradictions into one unifying ancient alien theory.
We catch up with our friend from last week, David Volodzko, as he continues his newspaper columnist to conservative substack-grifter speedrun. After that, our patrons are treated to some shocking news regarding housing and the cosmic law of supply & demand.
Dear Fremont, did you ever sit on your grandad's knee and ask him 'what did you do in the great World War II?' Also, Andrew Lewis prepares to boringly suck his way to reelection.
This week Munya and Greg discuss their love of the great national passtime of baseball and it's importance about all human consideration, some psycho cop shit, and Greg's new deadly diagnosis (for the win).
Munya is still exploring the bottom of the sea, but Greg and Brian are here to talk Biden’s big Ws at the Supreme Court, the future of colleges, and some crack reporting at the Seattle Times.
We bring Justin Ward from DivestSPD to explain to us why our parents are fighting online. After talking Brandi Kruse and Jonathan Choe, Justin sticks around to talk some of the latest SPD scandals and give us an update on SPD’s latest recruiting efforts.
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