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Mechanical Freak Mechanical Freak
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4.5 • 63 Ratings
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From Seattle, city of the future, the bleeding edge of Neoliberal dystopia...
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Right on Time
Greg & Brian catch up on all the exciting news from the past couple of weeks, from the constant need to struggle against revisionism to the new SPOG contract.
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The Political Economy of Higher Education, pt 2
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!
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The Political Economy of Higher Education, pt 1
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!
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The Future is Here!
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?
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Updates!
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!
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2 Wet 2 Live
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.
Customer Reviews
literally passes the bechdel test
listening makes me feel like the grinch at the end of the movie when his heart gets bigger because he discovered the joys of christmas except it’s my brain and not my heart and the joys of freak thought and the immortal science of marxism leninism instead of christmas. also i love the way the podcast literally passes the bechdel test. it features many actual women or at least people who are woman-coded for me to listen to. i learn and i laugh and my brain keeps growing. i recommend to all my dumb friends and then they get smarter.
Excellent Podcast
One of the only palatable ways to hear about local news in the Seattle area.
A really excellent podcast
I’ve been listening to this podcast for years now and enjoy it more than ever with the new crewmembers of the boat. This podcast has a lot of range but focuses often on Seattle, our tech dystopia, and hating cops. While they make a lot of jokes about our dumb world, their true care for the working class and marginalized groups in general under capitalism can be felt which I really appreciate. I don’t know what it means but this is a podcast I almost always listen to after the sun has gone down. Just feels right.