Seattle Sucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin talk about Amazon proceeding in NYC without concessions, the first “progressive” city in America to offer completely free public transit, a transphobic organization’s planned meeting in a Seattle Public Library, and the latest output from the Magnolia Mindset Machine Learning Academy which takes the shape of neighborhood panopticon.

Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined once again by Marena to talk Thanksgiving, family, the written word, and Frozen, before diving into profiling powered by facial recognition in the doorbell from Hell, Amazon Ring, and Anderson Cooper’s weird flex on fecal expert Ari Hoffman in 60 Minutes.

Greg, Brian, and Colin take on the extremely real, hat wearing, Man with the Pedigree, Gregory Scruggs, and his latest bit of Solutions Journalism on the “futility” of the Fare Strike in The Stranger. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined by a star studded panel consisting of Maddy, co-chair of the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Tommy Swenson, programmer for the Beacon Cinema, Andrew Hedden, a PhD student in History at the University of Washington, podcast founder, Alex, and friends of the show, Brynn and Selena, to review the historical fiction of Battle in Seattle in contrast with the reality in light of the 20 year anniversary. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin celebrate Thanksgiving the only way they know how: on the boat, creating Content for you all.

Greg, Brian, and Colin celebrate 25 years of the malignant mass known colloquially as Amazon, consider the possibility that it could change its “mindset” via a laborious piece from Swamp Thing in Crosscut, and we vow to make Seattle feel safe again with the Seattle Times Editorial Board. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin, in light of recent news, revisit an article from once local transphobe, Katie Herzog, before learning about her class, “the canceled,” in a gobsmackingly credulous piece from the New York Times.

Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined by Master of Paella and former city council candidate, Christopher Peguero, to talk about the future in light of the General Election results.

Greg, Brian, and Colin briefly revisit our favorite app, Samaritan, and recall a trip to the movies before diving into Danny Westneat’s bizarre defense of billionaires, specifically Jeff Bezos, in the Seattle Times. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined by the inimitable Bjørn, a.k.a. Fleksor, to react and process the preliminary results of the General Election.

Greg, Brian, and Colin are joined by venerable historians (Dr.) Kevin and Bradley, to talk about the District 3 race between incumbent Kshama Sawant and a sketch of a one dimensional protagonist scrawled in crayon in the margins of the first page of an unpublished Young Adult novel laying in darkness next to a loaded gun confined to a locked desk drawer, Egan Orion.

Greg and Brian sell you a new grift, discover the unwholesome truth about the navigation teams, and effectively crash this podcast into the ground like it’s a Boeing product in yet another wasted hour without Colin’s guiding hand. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg and Brian read a solicitation from one Egan Orion before talking about The Stranger’s stupefying cover ad on their recent endorsements issue, and the City Council endorsements from very Real Boy, Christopher Rufo, and the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG).

In this episode liberated from behind The Paywall, Greg, Brian, and Colin talk to Rebecca Parson, candidate for Washington’s 6th Congressional District and Democratic Socialist, about her district, the incumbent, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), and her campaign. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin talk about Bill Gates, Shaun Scott’s promised appearance at the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) Public Safety Forum, recent violence related to policing in Dallas, murder outside of a bar in Portland, and KOMO’s vacuous, medieval, and coprophilic followup to “Seattle is Dying,” “A Tale of Three Cities.”

Greg and Brian talk to the magnanimous and indefatigable Shaun Scott, city council candidate in District 4.

Greg and Brian talk Central Perk pop-up, a food and history (as in class) shortage in Seattle public schools, and more systems of bowel control (for students this time).

Greg, Brian, and Colin examine the “Portland Loo” from all angles, and Mayor Durkan appears to lean on the ACLU w/r/t public criticisms of her police reform plan (or lack thereof). Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. patreon.com/seattlesucks

Greg, Brian, and Colin talk Boeing in light of the New Republic’s “Crash Course.”

Greg, Brian, and Colin talk movies (sorry) before delving into conditions in the King County Jail (we hope you like lead) and Mayor Durkan’s plan to expand its use as an ad hoc shelter, and we hear a harrowing tale from the Seattle Times about police inception and the standing up of vigilantes in pursuit of their property.