
Uncanney Enamel
Episode #mechanical-freak-215 published September 22, 2023 1:45 PM PDT
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Olga Sagan experiences regret as she realizes that she should have lied. Molly Moon’s goes to court, but is it over greed? Or, are they the city’s true #1 crank? And where are we going to put all the prisons for the new war on health?
Greg and Brian take a Scrooge McDuck-style dive into the gold that is the Seattle City Council election pool. First up is Piroshky dealer and small business tyrant Olga Sagan in District 7. Will she get the coveted Seattle Sucks bump? Listen to find out!
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The boys discuss the Department of Health’s new study that says a lot of you – not us – are lonely out there. Then we discuss how WA Democrats just voted to bring back the drug war. Plus, Greg has some thoughts about the WGA strike and what it means for Young Sheldon.
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The gang gets together to go for their annual active shooter training and then hang around to talk about the hobbies of Seattle’s new police chief.
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The gang gets some startling news in the middle of their draft coverage regarding the show’s current lending institution before moving on to talk about the latest hand-waving around downtown “revitalization” from everyone’s favorite mayor.
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Munya lets us know what our social and political betters are up to in NYC before the gang dives into Washington’s exciting new war on drugs! I’m sure it will definitely work this time!