Podcast appearances and mentions of Mark Cooke

All aboard to save Heaven from Hell as Monster Train 2 developer Mark Cooke conducts a journey from earnest beginnings to triumphant arrivals, with several notable stops along the way.http://discord.gg/monstertrain

Todays episode we honor the upcoming Champagne Day(s), review our 2024 Wine Time Fridays highlights while unveiling a fun surprise. This is our last episode in season 5 as we put a bow on 2024. #HappyFriday! #HappyNewYear! #ItsWineTime! #Cheersing #FridayFlowers Wines this episode:Bernard Gaucher Reserve Brut Champagne ($40 at Pilgrim's Market)They are having this at the Pilgrim's Market tasting today!2022 DeLille D2 ($39 at Total Wine) A HUGE thanks to our sponsors: Elsom Cellars, The Cuvée App and Seasons of CDA!Elsom Cellars: Good times are meant to be shared and so are great grapes and great wines! Since 2006, Elsom Cellars has been producing brilliant Washington wines. For more information about Elsom Wines, please visit http://www.elsomcellars.com or call them at 425-298-3082The Cuvée App: Plan your Napa Valley wine trips with ease using Cuvée! With instant access to over 200 wineries, customize and book experiences so you can relax and focus on enjoying California's finest wines. Download the app in the Apple app store for your perfect Napa adventure or visit https://www.cuvee.app/ for more information.Seasons of Coeur d'Alene: Experience the best of Coeur d'Alene's culinary scene at Seasons, where farm-to-table cuisine meets elegant ambiance. Savor seasonal menus crafted with locally sourced ingredients, enjoying exceptional service in a sophisticated setting perfect for any occasion. Visit https://www.seasonsofcda.com/ for more information or call 208-664-8008.The CDA Gourmet Wine Words of the Week - Growers Champagne:Grower Champagne, also known as Récoltant-Manipulant (RM) in French (or Farmer Fizz), refers to Champagne made by small, independent producers who own and manage the entire process, from growing the grapes to bottling and selling the finished product. This contrasts with the larger Champagne houses, known as Négociants-Manipulants (NM), who buy grapes or unfinished wine from other growers and blend them to create their signature styles.Mentions: Mer Soleil Silver Chardonnay, Sam Lange, Pilgrim's Market, Tirriddis, Brad Binko, Salvation Army, Fred Meyer Coeur d'Alene, Rotary on the Rocks, Mix It Up, Big Table Farm, Dustin Lewis, MJ Towler, Three Fat Guys Wines, DeLille, Mark Cooke, Cynthia, Metropolitan Grill, Gary Vaynerchuck and Lola Wine Lounge.Products used in this episode:Champagne and Sparkling Wine Bottle Sealer by MiTBA and repour.Please check out some of the 2024 highlights: Karen MacNeil (episode 232), TerrVox (episode 229), Kevin Pogue (episode 227), Luke Marquis (episode 214), Tirriddis (episode 197).Please visit Our Resource Page and we encourage you to visit our sponsors whenever possible.Some Wines we enjoyed this week: Stoller Family Estate Chardonnay, Z. Alexander Brown Chardonnay, Chloe Chardonnay, Château Maubert Côtes de Bordeaux, Castelli del Grevepesa Clemente VII Rosso di Toscana (11/11), Rivaura Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Sequoia Grove Syrah and Drink Washington State Carménère.Please find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WineTimeFridays), Twitter (@VintageTweets), Instagram (@WineTimeFridays) on our YouTube Channel, https://www.youtube.com/@winetimefridays and on Threads, which is @winetimefridays. You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back! 

In todays episode, we kick off the second Washington Wine Month in style as we're sipping on three incredible wines from the Evergreen State! Tune in as we explore the best of Washington wine country and get ready to raise a glass for National Drink White Wine Day this Sunday! Wines this episode:2022 Browne Family Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc

This was a struggle because Luke was very tired after getting back from UKGE, so naturally we chat about cannibalistic chocolate bars, Role playing Games, being Bob Mortimer, and mention in passing Mark Cooke, and UK Games Expo which was something that happened.    Our Links of Note If you would like to support us then please visit and interact with the links below.  Please give us a rating or review on your podcast catcher of choice.  Also, please let someone else know about our show, as recommendations are wonderful things. OUR LINKS OF NOTES (https://linktr.ee/werenotwizards) Apple Podcasts   |  Our Blog, Reviews, Previews and Thoughts | Our YouTube Channel Our BGG Guild | Board Game Geek Page | Website  | Facebook | Instagram Buy Some Merch Stay Safe, Roll Sixes, Make Something Awful. Stay Spicy. 

Warning: This podcast contains strong language and adult content Andy has been to a games convention, so sit back and let him regale you with tales of all the board games he played at Airecon West. Top of that list was one of our UK Games Expo darlings Tiwanaku and then we head to the high seas with Ahoy. From the mail bag, Kickstarter is our main topic discussion together with a quickfire round of questions. Games Mentioned 00:03:19 Airecon West 00:09:23 Peublo 00:20:57 Tiwanaku 00:37:54 Ahoy 00:53:59 State of Kickstarter 01:09:39 Mark Cooke's Quickfire Rounds This episode is available on iTunes or your favourite podcast player via our feed http://polyhedroncollider.libsyn.com/rss Intro and Outro Music: "Ouroboros" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Jon's News Ferret: "NewsSting" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Don't forget to visit www.polyhedroncollider.com and YouTube for more great reviews and interviews, or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and check us out of twitch.tv/polyhedroncollider qfgi9tua

Trent Kusters chats with Shiny Shoe Co-Founder and CEO Mark Cooke. Together they discuss his journey in game development starting off as an intern at LucasArts; founding Shiny Shoe and the evolution of the studio; the conception and development of Monster Train; and their upcoming early access title Inkbound. Watch this episode on our Youtube channel. The Game Maker's Notebook is sponsored by Xsolla. To learn more, go to xsolla.pro/AOIAAS. Follow us:  Twitter Instagram

Normal service will resume soon, but this week we're joined by Mark Cooke to discuss Airecon 2023 in March, as well as his other roles in the board gaming industry. Links: https://www.airecon.co.uk/ https://www.brighteyegames.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKboardgametrade/

Joined by Mark Cooke and occasionally his very good robot impression. We apologise for the occasional break in audio quality in this episode. Maybe they are listening. We hope at least you are listening.  We chat about COVID and Cons, ticket expectations, We mention Dan Hughes, Ben Maddox and Luke Prior and also who would win in a fight between Watch It Played, BGG, Rahdo and The Dice Tower.   LINKS OF NOTES  https://airecon.uk/  https://www.facebook.com/aireconuk/  https://twitter.com/aireconuk    If you would like to support us then please visit and interact with the links below.  Please give us a rating or review on your podcast catcher of choice.  Also, please let someone else know about our show, as recommendations are wonderful things. OUR LINKS OF NOTES (https://linktr.ee/werenotwizards) Apple Podcasts   |  Our Blog, Reviews, Previews and Thoughts | Our YouTube Channel Our BGG Guild | Board Game Geek Page | Website  | Facebook |Twitter | Instagram Buy Some Merch Stay Safe, Roll Sixes, Make Something Awful..

In todays episode, Shelley and Phil push the Joe Rogan model of podcast length while they visit with former neighbor, Laureen Betts, as she shares her stories and experiences from her many years of working at the Robert Mondavi Winery and how Robert Mondavi helped shape the California wine world. You'll also learn about the proper way to dry wine glasses so you won't break them. This is a long one with loads of great stories. Pour yourself a glass (or bottle?) of Robert Mondavi wine, sit back and enjoy! #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime #Cheersing #WineNot #Skullduggery #Boinking #EasterEggWines this episode:2018 Robert Mondavi Napa Valley Chardonnay ($40 at Bottle Joy)

On this week's Hacks & Wonks, Crystal is joined by Executive Director of The Urbanist, Doug Trumm. Crystal and Doug quickly run through news items about progress on Washington state's capital gains tax, a discussion on the worsening traffic safety crisis, and labor stories about Amazon's questionable fulfillment of a court order and the federal government's blocking a railway workers strike ahead of the holidays. Public safety news out of Pierce County includes the start of embattled Sheriff Ed Troyer's criminal trial and troubling news about an officer charged in Manuel Ellis' death having been flagged for violent behavior during their academy training. Doug and Crystal then discuss the gulf between reality and rhetoric that has appeared in media reporting on crime and law enforcement and how it reaches into electeds' handling of issues like decriminalization of simple drug possession at the State Legislature, outcry over a miniscule portion of the Seattle Police Department budget not being funded in the City of Seattle budget process, and the campaign messaging of the King County Prosecuting Attorney's race. On a hopeful note, Leesa Manion's solid win in the King County Prosecutor's race and her strong performance - across the county, across cities, and across legislative districts - serves as a referendum for voters rejecting punitive measures and signifies an appetite for root cause-addressing, data-driven solutions that work. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Follow us on Twitter at @HacksWonks. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii and find today's co-host, Doug Trumm, on Twitter at @dmtrumm. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com.   Resources “WA Supreme Court clears way for state to collect capital-gains tax” by Claire Withycombe from The Seattle Times    "The Urbanist's Ryan Packer Discusses Worsening Traffic Safety Crisis on KUOW" by Doug Trumm from The Urbanist   “Labor board blasts Amazon's "flagrant" attempt to flout court order“ by Emily Peck from Axios    “Biden signs rail agreement into law, thwarting strike“ by Shawna Chen from Axios   “Criminal trial begins in Sheriff Ed Troyer's false-reporting case” by Jim Brunner from The Seattle Times   “Academy warned Tacoma of violent training episode by officer later charged in Manuel Ellis' death” Patrick Malone from The Seattle Times   “Washington should be a leader in ending the War on Drugs” by Mark Cooke from ACLU-WA   “Nelson, Pedersen, and Sawant Dissent Ahead of Final Vote on Seattle Budget” by Doug Trumm from The Urbanist   “Public Safety Politics and the Even Election Reckoning” by Doug Trumm from The Urbanist   Transcript [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher - I'm a political consultant and your host. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington state through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. Today, we are continuing our Friday almost-live shows where we review the news of the week with a cohost. Welcome back to the program, friend of the show and today's cohost: Executive Director of The Urbanist, Doug Trumm. Welcome! [00:00:52] Doug Trumm: Hey, thanks for having me. It's such a busy news week - it's really going to be a slog to get through it all. [00:00:57] Crystal Fincher: Yeah we will make an attempt. I guess, starting off with some statewide news that isn't ultimately the news that everyone is waiting for, but kind of a pit stop along the way - the Washington Supreme Court clears the way for the state to start collecting capital gains tax. So what happened here? [00:01:16] Doug Trumm: It's still just an early - not a ruling, but just a decision on the Court's part - not to issue an injunction. But hey, that's a really good sign because if the Court was leaning towards invalidating the capital gains tax, they probably would have issued an injunction. But at the same time, you don't want to read too much into these tea leaves, but certainly the fact they can start collecting the tax makes this start to feel pretty real. [00:01:41] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, I would agree - don't know what's going to happen yet. I think lots of people are hoping that we do get a favorable ruling for the capital gains tax, but there still is the big issue of whether this counts as, officially, an income tax, which would make it unconstitutional under our Constitution. Many interpretations show that it is not, but we are waiting for the ruling to definitively decide that from the Supreme Court, which I think we're anticipating getting early next year. Is that the case? [00:02:14] Doug Trumm: Yeah, that sounds about right. And there's a lot of ways they could rule. But yeah, certainly one of - the hope, I think, is that they would create a new category of - income actually being income, which in our state - oddly, it's not. So that's what creates this huge hurdle to doing progressive taxation - is that it counts as property, and property you have to tax flat. And progressives - we're not trying to argue for a flat income tax. We want a graduated progressive income tax. So if they get a really favorable ruling, that will open the door to that and suddenly there'll be a lot more options on the table and hopefully Democrats actually take them. [00:02:53] Crystal Fincher: I definitely hope so. Also in the news, one of The Urbanists' own, Ryan Packer, was on KUOW discussing what is really - our own crisis here locally, and a nationwide crisis in traffic safety. What is happening here? [00:03:13] Doug Trumm: Yeah, Washington state really echoes the national trend. And the national trend does not mirror the international trend, which - most industrial nations are getting much safer. They've used the pandemic, sort of as a catalyst in a way, to encourage people to take transit, or walk, or bike or - hey, the roads aren't as busy, let's do this project now and make the streets safer. That's really not the approach we've seen in the United States and in Washington state. We've kind of spun our wheels and we've let projects kind of get behind schedule because of the pandemic. And that's happening globally too in some cases, but usually the vision's only getting sharper. So this is reflected in the data and the New York Times had a piece about this this week - Emily Badger - and the US is up 5% during the pandemic in traffic fatalities. But almost every other major nation, it's going down significantly - so it's a bad case of American exceptionalism. We were so excited for our transportation reporter, Ryan Packer, to be on KUOW to talk about this - their reporting is really raising this issue locally a lot. And they really, at all these meetings where some of these decisions quietly get made, whether that's a transportation safety advisory commission or some obscure regional body. But mostly, there's little efforts here and there to improve safety, but we're not seeing the wholesale re-envisioning of streets or strategy that has really been effective in other countries and bringing down collisions and deadly crashes. [00:05:04] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, I think so. And we continue to see this tension here, in the United States and locally, between designs that are car-centric being more dangerous for everyone else on the road. And investments in transportation, in pedestrian mobility, bike and transit access and mobility - and it seems like the more we design roads and transportation through ways principally for, primarily for cars and prioritizing their needs above everyone else's, that we come out with these outcomes that are just less safe and too often fatal for all of the other kinds of users. [00:05:50] Doug Trumm: Yeah, exactly. And the American system doesn't even treat pedestrian safety as a category of car safety when they give out their gold, whatever-rated car safety awards. If - you can have a three-ton car that maims pedestrians, but if the person inside is fine - oh, that's safety rated - great. So there's certainly federal stuff, but Ryan and The Urbanist, in general, we've really focused on - what are these projects at the City level? Unfortunately, the clear epicenter of this crisis in Seattle is Southeast Seattle District 2, Tammy Morales' district - and she's been a champion. She's recently told me - hey, I didn't think I was going to become the traffic safety person when I first ran for office, but given my district, this is - I really am. And she didn't say this, but implicit in this is our Transportation Chair hasn't really been focused on that - Alex Pedersen - and we'll probably get into that some more when we talk about the budget, because that's - the investments we're making aren't completely safety-focused, as you alluded to. And we have projects queued up to make it safer to bike and walk in D2, but there was just a wave of delays - projects pushed back one year, two years from the original timeline. There's supposed to be a safe bike route through Beacon Hill, there's supposed to be a safe protected bike lane on MLK Way - but those projects are behind schedule. As far as we know, they're still happening, but if you were - if this area is responsible for over half of the - D2 is responsible for over half of the traffic fatalities in the whole city - the last thing we'd want to be doing is delaying those projects in that district. [00:07:39] Crystal Fincher: Seems so - it doesn't seem to make much sense - same with just connecting sidewalks and neighborhoods that people have been waiting for decades to happen and still hasn't. So long way to go there. Also this week, we had a number of events, news happen in the labor realm - couple of items that affect us locally. One - so Amazon just had a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board directing them to correct some of their action, which they still seem to be just not doing. What's going on at Amazon? [00:08:19] Doug Trumm: Yeah, they think they're kind of above the law when it comes to this. They were supposed to read out this ruling saying - hey, you can't be fired for union organizing, or even having discussions with union organizers, or being union-curious. But instead of just following the order to the letter of the law and reading that out to all their employees, they chose specifically the shift change and then just played a video. So the Labor Board was pretty upset about that because this was a court order, they were supposed to follow it - but they weaseled their way out of it in a very corporate lawyer-y kind of fashion where theoretically just maybe - if you squint your eyes, does this qualify for following the order? I don't know. Alexa, read order. I don't know how you could get - this ruling actually to get to the people, but they're figuring out a way not to do it. [00:09:16] Crystal Fincher: One of the interesting things here - employers are responsible for letting their employees know what their rights are. Amazon has bent over backwards not to do that. This is another example of it. We also see Starbucks bending over backwards to be hostile to the union and we continue to see those actions, and then being called out by the National Labor Relations Board also. And this week, of course, we saw - yesterday - Congress take action to avert the railroad strike by passing legislation that still denies railroad workers any kind of paid sick leave, which just should be the most basic thing that every employee everywhere is entitled to. And just beyond disappointing to me personally - to a ton of people - that we had particularly a Democratic president and right now a Democratic Congress who acted against workers and against unions and their ability to take sick pay. It's just bad all the way around, and it feels like they were thrown under the bus because of the threat of bad things happening if they strike - instead of that being the key that says, wow, these really are essential employees. And hey, there have been billions in stock buybacks recently and hundreds of millions of compensation over the past few years for executives. Maybe they can also spare a sick day and to pressure the companies to provide that very, very, very basic thing for employees. Just very disappointing for me personally. How did you feel about that? [00:11:01] Doug Trumm: Yeah, that was disappointing and Amtrak Joe really let us down. I think it's odd that employees are held hostage to how valuable their work are, right? Their work is, right? Because everyone's - we can't have rails shutting down right in the middle of the holiday crisis when all these companies are trying to make a ton of money for themselves and have a strong Q4 and really try to get some blood flowing in this economy. But instead of going - oh yeah, so I guess we should pay those workers well to make sure that happens, and give them the sick time they're asking for and the benefits - it's just force it through because we create a vision of a crisis if they are actually allowed to use their union rights. So it just goes back to 1880s again of the rail barons and the laws that they got passed - that they're able to compel the workers in this way and have Congress step in. But it certainly is not - hopefully not the end of the story. Hopefully they can actually get real sick pay, especially in a time of a lot of viral spread - both in the COVID realm and really bad flu season. This is upending their lives when they get sick and it doesn't have to be this way. So it's disappointing, and I saw Mayor Harrell decided to pile on with that and say it was great that they'd broke the strike, and work in that he still supports workers' rights and everything - I think you can't have it both ways in this case. You can't One Seattle your way out of this one - you're either with the workers or you're not. [00:12:46] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, pretty cut and dry there. And what I just think is so shortsighted is that this policy is partially a response to being short-staffed. They are already facing staffing shortages. We are already at the breaking point where if - right now, under the current staffing levels, if an employee is sick, if someone does miss a day, that can create chaos in the system because there aren't enough people to cover. And this just perpetuating a system that is hostile to workers, where workers can face discipline for any unplanned absence - and people get sick and families get sick, as we all know - this is an inevitability. That if you're subject to discipline for that, they're seeing more people just leave, instead of have their career of however many years or decades end with them being disciplined for taking care of their sick kid. So we are already setting ourselves up for massive disruptions by making this worker shortage worse. We see things like this happening in education, in healthcare, in transportation - across the board - with public transit systems and others. So we just need to really take a look at what we're doing here and - are we setting ourselves up for the same problems that we swear we have to take action like this to avoid, when really we're just making it more of an inevitability that it does eventually happen. I hope we all learn from this and do better and hold our public officials accountable for doing better. Also in the news this week, speaking of holding public officials accountable, the criminal trial for Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer just started. This is the trial about him making a call, that was allegedly a false report, accusing a newspaper delivery person - a Black man who was delivering newspapers - of being suspicious, acting nefariously. He said that his life was threatened by the newspaper carrier, which does not - at least through all the reporting initially, did not seem to be supported by other accounts in what happened. He ended up being charged and now the trial has began. They sat the jury. Opening statements happened. Testimony has begun. What has happened in this trial that's been notable so far? [00:15:22] Doug Trumm: They use the same strategies they always use, it seems like - it's pretty clear that this police officer clearly didn't act as you'd want someone to act. Now he's trying to get out of it claiming - okay, I did feel threatened or I did. And it's how it plays out every time and a lot of people were willing to go along - suddenly this violence incident that this Sheriff deputy caused - suddenly it's not his fault because something else, and it just seemed like hopefully we're finally learning from that. But we've seen a lot of other cases where it's enough for some people to exonerate someone. I don't know - it's frustrating that this is how it always goes, but maybe eventually this line will go stale. [00:16:13] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, we will see. This is one where it's interesting because - for the day job and for this podcast, following the news is useful. But for my own personal sanity, this is a situation where often I find my inclination is to disconnect from - definitely the daily news, the drumbeat of news about this - just because some of the early signals, decisions, indications from this trial feel really familiar to me. Meaning that - man, we've seen so many of these trials end and the police officer, sheriff ends up being found not guilty, gets off regardless of what looks to be very obvious evidence to many people in the public. And I just - this will be very disappointing once again, if that does happen, but we will see what happens with this trial and continue to follow it for you all. Also, there was news that came out about an officer that wound up being charged in Manuel Ellis's death, having a very violent episode previously, and that not being heeded after that was communicated to the Tacoma Police Department. And so tragic. Can you detail what we found out here? [00:17:44] Doug Trumm: Yeah, I really encourage everyone to read about this story because it really makes you question how these systems are working and how this can happen. Because this officer - Rankine, I think is his name - was in the police academy. They identified that he had an issue with violence and with - I forget what they called it, "code black" or something like that - basically just shutting down and going tunnel vision, not hearing the outside world once he's in that mode. And it's related to his combat service as a veteran - obviously, that's a complicated issue - we're very, very glad that people serve, but that doesn't necessarily mean we want to put them on the frontlines interacting with the public if they have these unaccounted-for issues that are identified by the police academy. The police academy trainer decided to write a note, his superiors after a couple of days forwarded it to the Tacoma Police Department who was sponsoring him to be in this police academy and said - hey, we're worried about this guy. He had this violent incident where he shot someone during a training simulation who was not someone - the training simulation was supposed to be how do you de-escalate the situation, how do you - and the person was not cooperating, to be clear - and it was a virtual simulation. But the trainer was - why did you do this? And he couldn't really explain it because he went blank or whatever, and thought he had done fine because, I guess in the military, that's what he was conditioned to do and had seen a lot of violent episodes - but hadn't really made the connection that now you're in a civilian setting and you're supposed to be de-escalating situations instead of fighting your way out of them. And what ended up happening, despite the police academy issuing this warning saying - hey, maybe don't take this guy actually - the Tacoma Police Department still took him, didn't really make any accommodations, or - it's not clear that they warned his - the rest of the people he'd be working with, basically just treated him like one of the guys. They did put him on desk duty initially, but I think that's just what rookies kind of do. Then they put him on patrol with another rookie and it was not even a couple months - it was less than a year - and he had already, this happened. It was clearly a tragic incident waiting to happen and it did happen. It leaves us with a lot of questions like - is the police academy - is a little note in your file enough, or should he fail out of the academy? That's one odd thing about this case - they didn't fail him. The other odd thing is that even with this big warning, this huge red flag, Tacoma PD didn't do anything and now they're stonewalling the reporters from The Seattle Times and all the other newspapers that are knocking on the door, and they're just kind of clammed up about it, but it's clear they messed up in a big, big way. [00:21:03] Crystal Fincher: It's just one of those things that makes you want to once again ask - what are we doing here? If there is behavior that is so violent that you feel that you need to warn someone else not to hire him, why are you passing him? To the question that you just asked, why does that person pass the academy in the first place? Why was that not heeded when they were hired? Okay, they were hired and brought onto the academy. Why was no corrective action taken, no additional guidance? And yes, this wound up very predictably. The warning was given because it could be foreseen that this would wind up in unjustified violence to a member of the public - which it did, resulting in that person's death. This is a person, right? And it's just - if we can't weed out someone who even before they get in the system are demonstrating unacceptable violence - violence that you have to tell someone to look out for - what is the point of anything? There is this characterization by people, who I believe are acting in bad faith largely - that any kind of talk of accountability is antithetical to safety, it makes us less safe, it's hostile to police officers, and is not worth pursuing. And if we do, we're making life harder for them. If they're saying this is what belongs in their ranks, if they're saying that this is acceptable for passing and getting in, and then hiring without anything - then this is unacceptable. They're saying - they've said that their own policies were violated - this is seemingly saying that the warning came from them not meeting their own standards. If they can't hold themselves to their own standards and weed people out who don't fit that, then someone else has to. And evidently those aren't really their standards if they can't adhere to them. So someone has to, otherwise we're just letting - in this situation - basically killing machines out onto the street. And we have to do better. And it just makes no sense that we are entertaining people who say that this is bad for police officers. Acting against policy should not be bad for them. If so, we should have discussions about the policy, but this doesn't make any sense. And if their job truly is to protect and serve, and someone is acting completely against that, then acting more in concert with that and making sure that happens should be a welcome development. And over and over again, the public continues to vote for real accountability and reject those kinds of disingenuous arguments that - hey, you got to "back the blue" or nothing else. People can be happy to have a police officer there, that they're happy to have a police officer when they call 911 and show up, and still believe that there should be guidelines for their conduct and behavior that guide them and that they should be held accountable to - just like everyone else with every other job in this society. It just is so infuriating that - hey, this is predictable, it's foreseeable. And just with a shrug. [00:24:50] Doug Trumm: Yeah, and it wasn't his first time - [00:24:52] Crystal Fincher: Right. [00:24:53] Doug Trumm: - using basically a chokehold-type thing. And he had another I-can't-breathe incident and they just were like - oh well, it happens. And if he says - oh this person was threatening or violent - they kind of just, even though after the whole George Floyd thing - there's one thing that I thought was kind of the lowest hanging fruit - okay, we probably shouldn't use chokeholds anymore or knee on people's back, but this is exactly what this guy was doing. And he suffered no consequence for it until he killed someone. [00:25:27] Crystal Fincher: Acting against policy. And as we have seen with so many of these incidences, that there have been several occasions where officers who wind up killing someone - use violence unjustifiably, use violence against policy in situations before the killing occurs - which there is no discipline for. It is time for them to be held accountable to the job that the public believes they were hired to do. Just like all of us. That's not hostile. That's just common sense. So we'll see how that continues. It is just another infuriating, devastating, tragic element of Manny Ellis's death that is just - it's tragic. [00:26:21] Doug Trumm: Hopefully we learn from it. And I think it relates to how we get so breathless and just completely operate on fear and desperation - we have to hire, we have to reach some sort of set number of cops and then we'll feel safe. But when you get that desperate and you just want to add ranks so you can put out your press release to claim victory on that - you're hiring the bottom of the barrel. If we were serious about safety, we wouldn't worry so much about that number as flunking people out of the academy who are killing machines. You have to put accountability ahead of "let's just hit a number," "here's the right response time," "here's the right number of officers" - those are important things, but you can't get so blinded to them that you're taking terrible cops. [00:27:13] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, and that makes the community less safe. The academy warned that - Hey, putting this officer on the street may make the community less safe, this is acting against public safety, we don't want people to be victimized unjustly by violence - and that was the warning that came with this officer - and look. We'll continue to see how this happens. Also kind of teeing up this week were some articles just talking about the War on Drugs - how much of a failure it has been - which is very timely because in this upcoming legislative session, which we're starting to see a flurry of activity with. And our new legislators now down in Olympia - and getting set and oriented and all of that to start the session next month - is that the Blake decision, which a couple years ago the Supreme Court basically decriminalized or invalidated the law that criminalized simple possession of any substances. Our Legislature subsequently acted to bring a uniform policy across the state and kind of instituted a new method of criminalization - some of it was lighter criminal penalties, but still criminal penalties for substance use and possession - in the face of a ton of evidence and data that shows that - Hey, criminalization is actually not an effective intervention. We've seen the entire War on Drugs. We've seen what has happened there. If we actually treat this as a public health problem and not as a criminal justice problem, we are much better off. There was a survey of Washington state voters - a poll taken - and in that poll, 85% of likely voters - the poll was in June 2022 of this year - 85% of voters believe that drug use should be treated as a public health issue and not a criminal justice issue. And this really sets the tone and provides a mandate for our Legislature, which has to take up the Blake decision and the Blake legislation again this year - because there was a sunset provision in it that is now up this year - to actually make good on this policy. How did you read this? [00:29:45] Doug Trumm: It seems like the public's at a different place than some of the very serious, centrist, establishment Democratic leaders on this who are - the likes of Chris Gregoire, who are saying - Oh, we really need to get - go back to our old policy where - it was drug possession was fully criminalized and it was just one strike and they could, people could be locked up for simple possession. And I think they portray that it's really important to dealing with downtown disorder, or crime, or whatever. But that's not really where the people are at, and this three-strike provision probably does make it, if you're only listening to cops, annoying - 'cause they feel like these warnings are letting people off the hook. But with jails being pretty full right now, you start running into this problem of where are are we putting people? We've done this drug war thing a long time, it hasn't really worked, the people are ready for a public health approach instead of a punitive lock-them-up approach. We just saw that with the election of Leesa Manion for King County Prosecutor that - the people went with the person who was willing to do diversionary programs that try to get people help and not load them up with jail time and fees, but instead give them an opportunity to get back on their feet and better themselves and think about rehabilitation instead of just ruining someone's life. I think the people are ready to take a different approach - I don't know how far folks, both in terms of the State Legislature and the public, if they're - maybe not ready for a Portugal-style solution, but I really think they're ready to have that conversation rather than just go back to the old way of doing things. I think the - maybe one of the things will come up is fentanyl - it really is a scary drug in terms of what it can do to a person and how likely it is to overdose - I'm sure they'll try to use that and maybe fentanyl is treated a little bit differently than other drugs, but it seems like a lot of substances doesn't - I don't know why you immediately lock someone up for having possession of a set quantity. It's sort of like - we got to get this person help, but jail isn't help. [00:32:11] Crystal Fincher: And jail doesn't help, and it actually does more harm than good in this situation. It makes our streets less safe. People are less stable, more prone to commit crime, when they get out - and more prone to continue to use. We've seen all of this and again, this is just about possession. This doesn't impact any laws on selling, or distributing, or anything like that - those still remain and that's not part of this discussion. But it would be good for them to act in alignment with where the evidence and data show - we are made more safe, and people are made more healthy and less likely to use and abuse drugs and other harmful substances. So we will continue to follow this throughout the legislative session and see what happens. Also big news this week - the Seattle City Council passed their budget. What did we get? What are the highlights and lowlights of this budget? [00:33:19] Doug Trumm: Yeah, it was a marathon day to wrap up the amendments and do all the speeches on Monday and Tuesday - I guess the really marathon day was the Budget Committee last week. It always is a slog at the end and it's tough to know everything that's happening, but ultimately the budget is - there's a lot of different takes on it, there's a lot of perspectives. But ultimately what happened is largely - Mayor Harrell's budget is reflected in the Council's balancing package. They did make some significant changes, but nothing enormous. And the issue that they're dealing with is that there is a large budget shortfall. It started out at $141 million at the beginning. And then they got the news that the projections had gotten a lot worse late in the game - so that any hope of Council just adding a bunch of new investments in evaporated, once they got that forecast that Real Estate Excise Tax was going to be way down - that was the main thing that took a bite out of the budget. And we use that REET money to fund a lot of our infrastructure investments in this city. So from a transportation focus, I was pretty disappointed to not see more investments in street safety. They did make some. Councilmember Tammy Morales really fought for her district - as we mentioned earlier - epicenter of the safety crisis. So she got a proviso to make sure that they improve the bike lanes in Southeast Seattle to have harder infrastructure, so you can't just run over those flex posts and injure someone on the bike lane or the sidewalk. That's one positive add, but it was just a proviso, so hopefully SDOT does the right thing and implements it rather than kind of wiggling out of it. But by and large, transportation didn't get a ton of adds and Mayor Harrell's budget didn't make a ton of new initiatives or pushes there, so that's one thing that fell victim to that shortfall. But a lot of the action was around public safety and that's where we saw a lot of the grandiose takes on - especially on the centrist side of - Oh, this was a disaster. End of the day, the Council funded 99% of the mayor's SPD budget. They're making a really big deal about this 1% - and within that 1% that the Council did do cuts was the ShotSpotter gunfire detection surveillance system, which has a really - it has a track record - it's been implemented in a lot of cities and that track record is not very good. It doesn't really, there's no correlation to it decreasing crime, leads to a lot of false calls - those false calls can then cause over-policing of communities of colors where they're implemented. And it has in, in instances, led to violent altercations between cops who are like - Oh, the gunfire thing said there was a gunshot here. And sometimes it's slamming a car door, or firework, or something - could set something off - or backfiring car, I guess. So what are we doing here? This is not evidence-based practice - Council made the budget safer, but if you listen to Councilmember Sara Nelson or Councilmember Alex Pedersen, who voted against the budget, and then some of the press releases that were fired off shortly after - the Chamber actually sent the press release before the final vote, but right after the Council briefing. They said - this is, these are public safety cuts. And the other big thing that happened was - there's 80 positions that were unfilled of actually 240 total unfilled positions at SPD, because they're having a hard time recruiting faster than they're losing officers, which relates to a national trend of a lot of attrition and police officers and not as much new people entering the profession. But they eliminated 80 positions off the books - because when they leave those 240 empty positions, that means that those, that money goes into SPD's budget every cycle. And it throws out the balance of the whole thing because you're - basically all the extra money goes to SPD instead of just being in the General Fund for them to debate and figure out where to go. It can go back into public safety investments and that's what happened this time, even with the eliminating the budgets. But basically a lot of people tried to turn that into - they were cutting officers - but they fully funded the mayor's hiring plan, which - they're going to hire 125 officers, which they hope - that's then 30 new, net new officers. But that wasn't good enough for those two councilmembers and for the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. So they both kind of opposed this budget. And that seemed to be pretty upsetting to Budget Chair Teresa Mosqueda, because she had worked with both of those Councilmembers Nelson and Pedersen and had put their amendments into the budget - some of them. And she thought that spirit of compromise would lead them to vote for it, but they did not. And so it almost - this budget almost failed because it needed six votes. It only got six votes because of those two defections, plus Councilmember Sawant makes it her tradition and has always voted against the budget. And she's coming at it from the opposite direction of - Hey, let's invest more in social services, and let's tax the rich, and increase the JumpStart payroll tax - is her argument, the last few years. And she specifically said - I'm not chucked in with Pedersen and Nelson. So yeah, it ended up being kind of a mess messaging-wise, but largely this budget was reflecting Harrell's priorities, plus a few of the Council's. And it made the most of a really downward trend in revenue - and that was by virtue of JumpStart payroll tax kind of papering over some of the holes, and also then letting them make a record investment in housing. So housing definitely did well. There were some Green New Deal priorities. And it's a really big budget, so I'm kind of - broad strokes here - but if I'm missing anything, Crystal, let me know. But yeah, it felt bizarre to me that the the debate about it was so far from the reality. And I guess these few million dollars in the police budget are enough to cause these votes against, and the Chamber to be really upset, and saying this is public safety cuts. But it largely seemed like much more collaboration and kumbaya between the mayor and most of the council, with Budget Chair Mosqueda and Mayor Harrell complimenting each other about how well they work together. [00:40:35] Crystal Fincher: Yeah. I think what we're seeing is reflective of some of the reality versus rhetoric that we see on a national level, that we see with conservative Republicans, even the MAGA Republicans, where the rhetoric just doesn't match reality. But the rhetoric is a tactic to eventually shift people's perception of what reality is. It doesn't matter what happened if you just keep saying something else happened - Oh my gosh, this is, you know, horrible. We didn't get anything we're asking for. We need to move in this completely different direction - people start to absorb that and pick that up. As we saw this week with the New York Times - basically admitting without participating, pointing the finger at themselves - saying, Yeah, rhetoric about public safety was really disjointed from the actual facts. There are tons of stories, but when you look at the actual crime rates, they weren't actually high. Media did this. And they very conveniently left out that they were at the top of the list of media doing that. But it felt like that's similar to this conversation. This rhetoric is completely detached from what happened in the budget and from what's happening on the ground - yeah, majority of what Harrell asked for was in there. One notable exception was the ShotSpotter technology as you covered, which actually didn't have a big, a huge price tag compared to some other things. But it's still money that, especially in a shortfall, can be better spent to make people safe. And I think that's where a lot of people are at right now. It's just - lots of people are worried about safety, but where they continue to vote, and how people on the ground continue to vote in elections is - yes, we do want our communities to be safer, but we recognize that the public safety equation is bigger than just policing. We have to talk about interventions that are appropriate for the crises that we're facing. Just sweeping and moving around and criminalizing people who are unhoused is not making that problem any better, it's making it worse. So instead of investing money continually in sweeps and in criminalization and carceral solutions - Hey, what if we actually use that money to put people in houses - that actually is a solution to that problem. Other cities are doing that with success. We could be doing that. Hey, if people are having behavioral health crises, what if there was actually treatment available for them and a way for them to get the issues that they have addressed? Jail is not that. Arresting them is not that. And we still have, and prior to some of the heel digging-in that police unions have done over the past few years, there were tons of officers and unions who admitted that freely - hey, we go into a situation where someone's called us and someone is having mental health issue - jail isn't going to do anything for that. If anything, it may destabilize that situation more and put them further away from help and make that situation worse. We actually need interventions that are appropriate for the challenges that we're facing. We have to deal with extreme poverty. We have to deal with people who are in crisis. We really do not need to deal with it like New York is signaling they're going to deal with it - in mandatorily incarcerating people. We see that we have problems here in our state and a lawsuit that's currently being filed with people with behavioral health problems struggling in our current jail system and not getting their needs met, and their whole process is being delayed sometimes with no foreseeable end because we don't have enough resources in that direction. So people want that, but they don't want this continual one note - Hey, it's either police or it's nothing. And we'll see where it's going - as we hear a siren in the background here, appropriate - but yeah, it's just the rhetoric doesn't match the reality. The saddest thing is that the public sees it and our leaders are behind where the public is at - and they keep asking and they keep voting for something different. And we have leaders that are just stuck on the same thing, and I think that frustration and tension is growing. And it feels like they're ratcheting this up for the 2023 City elections coming, and they're going to try and make this a flashpoint for those conversations. But I think that's not a very wise strategy, because the public has not been going for it. We just had an election where it's pretty clear they did not go for that argument in many different ways at many different levels. This is not just a Seattle thing. This is a King County-wide thing, a State of Washington thing. And it's time that they take heed instead of pushing on, just kind of - despite all reason and evidence to do this. [00:46:15] Doug Trumm: Yeah. It's pretty clear they're telegraphing this is their signal when you have your press release fired up before the budget's even officially passed. And in the case of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, that these are public safety cuts. Nelson - and Pedersen is the one who's up for re-election - they really complimented the way he voted on that as far as voting down this budget over this tiny, tiny bit of disagreement over the police budget that they blew out of proportion. Apparently deleting these 80 out of 240 unfilled positions - you know, sending the wrong signal and is - people, the public trust has been damaged now. And it's just - get me to the fainting couch - they can add back these positions anytime. No other department in the whole city would ever have this many, anywhere near this - 240 empty positions - you just keep the money. And they get to - SPD gets to put it wherever they want in their department, basically, because of the way they don't eliminate those positions, and just Council and the mayor - tell them which parts they wanted - who would run an organization this way? If you don't have, if you're not paying for something - why are you still paying for it? It just, it - I dunno - it drives me nuts. It goes back to that sort of frenzy and the sort of fear mongering around crime - where if we don't just heap gobs of money at the police department - we're not talking about Defund, we're not talking about reducing the amount of - the headcount at SPD. We're just saying - how are you spending this money? Can we spend this money wiser? If we have less officers, we need to be spending the money wiser. We can't just have it be a slush fund, like we saw in - I think it was 2018 or 2019, right after they passed the budget - the average police compensation went up to like $157,000 per officer. This one officer made over $400,000 because they were just letting the overtime fly like hotcakes. And an officer working 80-hour weeks - is that making us safer? It doesn't really seem like the way to do it. You kind of put yourself in between a rock and a hard place because they also fight the alternatives - they say they're for a mental health professional showing up for those crisis calls, but then they block the program to actually set up an alternative emergency response. And that's what SPD has been up to the past few years. As Councilmember Lewis and Mosqueda and others have fought to set up - like Denver has - a alternative response, and they make up excuse after excuse. They say maybe the police actually have to be there. They dispute their own study that showed that most of these calls could be done without an armed officer there. But yeah, it just - there's nothing evidence-based or strategic about this kind of election-based fearmongering, just kind of opportunistic way of dealing with this problem. People wonder why this problem is festering - there has been a troubling trend over the last nine years - of corporate mayors that the Chamber and all these other centrist forces and Seattle Times have endorsed. They're not making the problem better, but they keep running on it like they are. So it really is - it's created a weird thing. And I wrote about how this sort of relates to us holding our mayoral and council elections in odd years when the electorate is smaller and they can kind of dominate the debate among this crowded, smaller electorate - tends to be more homeowners, tends to be wealthier and whiter than the population at-large. So it works in the odd year. But as we saw with voters passing even-year election reform - they're not asking for these elections to be in odd years, they'd rather them be in even years. And the County is going to make that move for Executive and Council races, and a few others like County Assessor - county-level races. But we actually need state permission to do that for the municipal level. So hopefully we get that because if we're going to solve this problem, it makes sense to have the broader segment of the electorate actually weigh in on that rather than purposely choosing a low turnout election to make all these decisions. So that's one thing I hope happens out of this, but don't hold your breath because I think they like it that way. [00:50:54] Crystal Fincher: They absolutely do seem to like it that way. And you did write a real good article breaking this phenomenon down. It's just frustrating to see voters - they are frustrated about public safety. They do know that we could be doing better, while seeing people continue to make decisions in the opposite direction. And when they are given a voice, it's definitive in one direction. And we just - the King County Prosecutor race that we just had was really a referendum on this entire argument. And mirrors what we saw in 2020, with the King County Charter Amendments. This is not just a Seattle thing. This is a countywide thing. One of the things I think people try and dismissively do i - oh, this is just, it's only a thing in super liberal Seattle, progressive Seattle, and no one else wants this. And we continue to have voters say - no, no, actually this is what we want - all over the county. And places where their electeds really are under the impression that - hey, the public, maybe they do just want more police officers, or I'm afraid to say anything different because they may not accept it. Public's already there, as we continue to see. And my goodness, in these Council elections coming up, there could not be a more clear mandate of movement in one direction in literally every district in the City. To enormous degrees - Leesa Manion's victory was large throughout the county. Yes, in Seattle - it was decisive and humongous. And in each of the council districts, it was - it was just really - it's just really something. I'm sitting here working in elections and you try and understand where voters are, understand where policy is - what's effective, where things need to move - and they're actually in alignment. And the barrier is - there seem to be some in media who are very stuck on not wanting this to happen, and a number of elected officials who believe them. And it's just continuing to be frustrating. But we see, in so many cities and so many districts - whether it's City Council districts, County Council districts, cities, precincts - across the board, they prefer a balanced, comprehensive approach to public safety and outright reject what we heard from Jim Ferrell - the more punitive - Hey, we need to crack down on things, make crime illegal again - understanding that punishment doesn't equal safety. And we would all rather be safe. We've tried punishment for decades and it has not resulted in a safer community for all of us. It has actually hurt it. And people want to be safe. They want to do the things that make us safe, and they understand - more than where a lot of leaders do - what the evidence says about that. So it's just really interesting. Was there anything noteworthy or unique that you saw in election results about that? [00:54:20] Doug Trumm: Yeah. I think it bears underscoring that the - very, very much the same coalition that was behind Republican now-City Attorney Ann Davison was the people behind Jim Ferrell, who was also a former Republican. Now, they both claim that they're Democrats now, but very much still act like Republicans. And there was a lot of Democrats - Sara Nelson endorsed Jim Ferrell and it didn't seem to help him very much in Seattle because, or her in Seattle - it helped her opponent, I guess, his opponent in Seattle. Leesa Manion cleaned up in Seattle - and that was part of her victory, but she won by 18 points. So it wasn't just Seattle, although Seattle was her strongest base of support. So it really seems like what an odd-year electorate does - electing a Republican in Ann Davison to be their City Attorney. And it's odd that we elect city attorneys - it doesn't really need to be that way. But they worked people up about crime and they did support Ann Davison, but in a much larger electorate just one year later they overwhelmingly supported Leesa Manion who's very much - let's stay the course, let's keep these diversionary programs. So whatever mandate Ann Davison thinks she had is absolutely gone. And all these people who are calculating - oh, maybe we can, maybe this whole region is just going to go tough on crime. It's just not happening. And the even-year election helps - we had reasonably good turnout. But the numbers are such that I wouldn't want to be Ann Davison going up for re-election, but hopefully we can get some of that turnout bump into the council elections because that's really what's at play here is - we've seen what an even-year electorate wants, and can we make that also what an odd-year electorate wants? But yeah, these crime narratives aren't connecting in the even year. Leesa Manion just did surprisingly well, considering - the way the race looked beforehand. One poll showed them tied right before the election, but clearly - A) their polls might've been a little bit overestimating support - and some of that goes into people didn't think that young people would turn out. And young people did turn out in relatively high numbers in this election. And hopefully that's a sign of things to come as well. It's just - that's what happens in odd years - why they're so much more conservative - is a lot of that younger vote kind of fades and a lot of communities of color and renters also fade. So you're left with the rest, which is the more conservative side of things. But it doesn't - people can - if we make clear what the stakes are, we hopefully can sustain some of that even-year turnout, but it also just - election year reform also would make this a lot simpler. So I can't underscore that enough. It drives - yeah, it's sort of odd that we are stuck in this predicament of - it's clear what people want, but because of odd years, we have to fight twice as hard. So yeah, I think these results really are - suggest potentially that 2021 - in Seattle's case - where we saw a lot of centrists come into power, might've been a bit of an outlier. It doesn't necessarily mean all these people are weak in their re-election hopes, but all the talks about Seattle's now drifting conservative - I don't see it. [00:58:02] Crystal Fincher: And there was a backlash and - I feel like I've been on a small island, with just a few others, who have said the entire time that that race was an outlier. One, Seattle is different than a lot of other areas. If there really was a wholesale pushback on that, we would have also seen that in suburbs, we would have seen that in different areas. We actually saw the opposite happen in suburbs, where they elected - a number of suburbs elected more progressive officials than they ever had before - who were speaking strongly about making the community more safe with comprehensive public safety policies and really rejecting the punitive policies. The race in Seattle was an odd race - you had an incumbent who lost in the primary, you had two really unknown people who both - didn't really consider themselves to be Democrats, so there were unalignments. You had massively different levels of spending and different levels of voter communication. And, from a political consulting point of view, you have to talk to all of the voters who are voting in the election. It's wonderful - and canvassing and doorbelling is great - but you just cannot canvass a city as big as the City of Seattle in one election cycle. And that's what we saw happen. There was a lot of canvassing, but a lot less direct voter communication. You may make it to 50,000 people with that canvassing, but you got to talk to the other 200,000 - and that happens with direct voter communications. And they were just massively, massively outspent. And the spending that did happen was really late for the progressive candidates, so if you aren't known, and if your opponent can define who you are - and spends half a million dollars doing so - that's going to carry the day and it did. But that is a unique kind of nuts-and-bolts-of-campaigns thing that was apparent to a lot of people before the election results. So that's not just hindsight is 20/20 things - those were, as that was shaping up - that was concerning to a lot of folks who were looking at and participating in those elections. And so we had before that, the 20 - well, we did see a direct public safety vote in the King County Charter Amendment votes, which wound up largely like these wound up. And just looking at these 2022 King County Prosecutor results - again, people try and characterize this as a Seattle thing - but Renton, Newcastle, Mercer Island, Sammamish, Issaquah, Bellevue, Bothell, Kenmore. Those cities are not what I think a lot of people would group into the Seattle progressive bucket, and were firmly in the side of Leesa Manion and rejecting punitive public safety policies. As we look at the Blake decision and people, looking at - well, people are scared, it's really worrisome to look at that. We're talking about - the 45th, the 48th, the 41st, the 11th, the 33rd LDs, right - these are not Seattle-based LDs. These are North and Eastside, Vashon Island, like these - everywhere around the county, voters are very decisively saying - we want to move in a direction that evidence points will make us more safe. And I just really hope that our elected officials stop listening to some of the detached rhetoric and start looking at the evidence and what their constituents are saying - because those who aren't are going to pay a price. And it's really important to take a look at what results actually are, and tether ourselves to reality here, and call out the reporting and the characterizations that are not tethered to reality. That's going to be an important thing. [01:02:33] Doug Trumm: Hey, there was this Seattle Times editorial this morning that was mad at Bruce Harrell for not being louder about the huge public safety cuts to his budget - the 1% that we mentioned earlier. Why isn't he getting in the arena? That's what Blethen and his buddies said, and it's - okay, that's crazy - first. But also, maybe this is saying that some of the politicians see the writing on the wall that - okay, this isn't like a home run issue for them like they maybe thought. They have to kind of actually try to moderate and have compromise and have a truly, comprehensive public safety plan instead of putting lip service to the alternatives and just being all police all the time. I don't know if that's what went into the thought of Harrell not getting into the arena, like the Seattle Times Editorial Board asked him to, but yeah - it certainly is unhinged. And it - Fox News always has a ton of crime coverage right before elections, and then it drops in half - there's been a study on this and after the midterm. So suddenly it's not prime all the time when you turn on Fox News - there's a reason for that. It's calculated, it's manipulation, it's election manipulation. And a lot of these other papers, including The Seattle Times, do that as well. I haven't seen the studies see that it's dropped in half, but that's part of the whole game and it's part of why the playing field isn't even. But I think, eventually, you have to have actual truth to what you're saying, or it starts just not connecting where we're at then. [01:04:17] Crystal Fincher: Well said. And with that, we thank you all for listening to Hacks & Wonks on this Friday, December 2nd, 2022. Hacks & Wonks is co-produced by Shannon Cheng and Bryce Cannatelli. Our insightful co-host today was Executive Director of The Urbanist, Doug Trumm. You can find Doug on Twitter @dmtrumm - that's two Ms at the end. You can follow Hacks & Wonks on Twitter @HacksWonks. You can find me @finchfrii. You can catch Hacks & Wonks on iTunes, or wherever else you get your podcasts - just type "Hacks and Wonks" into the search bar. Be sure to subscribe to get the full versions of our Friday almost-live shows and our midweek show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, leave a review wherever you listen to Hacks & Wonks. You can also get a full transcript of this episode and links to the resources referenced in the show at officialhacksandwonks.com and in the podcast episode notes. Thanks for tuning in - talk to you soon.

In todays episode, Shelley and Phil are reminded of how much MORE Sommelier's know about wine than the rest of us! Sam Lange, the Sommelier at Beverly's Restaurant at The Coeur d'Alene Resort, is our guest, this week and he nails a blind taste of a surprise wine we brought for him. He also brings three incredible Zinfandel's in honor of International Zinfandel Day, describes how they needed to pivot during a recent wine dinner and lobs up a perfect opportunity for us to mention the upcoming Apple Cup episode. Oh, and we added one more level to our Wine Time Fridays rating system!#HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #Cheersing #AmberFauxPasWines this episode: - - 2019 Chappellet Grower Collection Pinot Noir, Apple Lane Vineyard

In todays episode, Shelley and Phil taste through two Rosé's. Why? Because it's Summer! And there is NOTHING like a refreshing Rosé for #SummerSipping. We're tasting through a Rosé from Willamette Valley Vineyards in Oregon as well as a Jaine Ravenscliff Rosé from Washington. Both are very different but delicious in their own way. Please pick up one of these or your favorite Rosé and taste along with Shelley and Phil. #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #Cheersing #EasterEggWines tasted this episode:  2018 Willamette Valley Vineyards Whole Cluster Rose of Pinot Noir ($23 at Coeur D'alene FRESH)2021 Jaine Ravenscliff Rosé ($25 at Terroir Fine Wine)For information on wines of Willamette Valley Vineyards, please visit https://www.wvv.comFor information on the Jaine Ravenscliff Rosé, please visit https://jaine.co/wines/rosé-wines/2021-ravenscliff-rosé/2021-ravenscliff-roséThanks to our sponsors: Terroir Fine Wine, Elsom Cellars and The Social Web!Terroir Fine Wine If you're looking for the most complete bottle shop in Coeur d'Alene, with quality wines from around the globe, Terroir Fine Wine is the place to go. Visit https://www.terroircda.com or simply call 208 660 9028.Elsom Cellars Good times are meant to be shared and so are great grapes and great wines! Since 2006, Elsom Cellars has been producing brilliant Washington wines. For more information about Elsom Wines, please visit http://www.elsomcellars.com or call them at 425-298-3082.The Social Web Are you a small business owner that's ready to grow your business through social media without having to hire a full time staff or a third party company? Honor your business and yourself and become educated in social media! Visit https://thesocialweb.news for more information. The Social Web AND The Social Web Inner Circle: Helping you untangle the web of social media marketing.And of course, a HUGE thank you to Tod Hornby who wrote and recorded our official Wine Time Fridays theme music, which is ANYthing but average.  Please visit https://todhornby.com or contact him at veryaveragemusic@gmail.com The Eternal Wine Wine Word of the Week - AggressiveA wine with high acidity or tannins.For more information on Eternal Wine, please visit https://eternalwine.com or simply call 509-240-6258. Eternal Wine: Drink Wine, Be Happy.Mentions: Studio 107, Matthews Winery, Trevor Treller, Snoop Dog, Chris Cochran, Gary Vaynerchuck, Nunsense, Coeur D'alene Summer Theatre, Alex Vargas, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Michael Carl and Mark Cooke.For more information on the Coeur D'alene Summer Theatre or to purchase your tickets to Nunsense, please visit http://www.cdasummertheatre.com. Wines we enjoyed this week:   Oyster Bay Chardonnay, Alexandria Nicole Destiny Ridge Vineyard Jet Black Syrah, Château Fonbadet B de Fonbadet Bordeaux. Please find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WineTimeFridays), Twitter (@VintageTweets) and Instagram (@WineTimeFridays). You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back!

Join the Sporadically Board Facebook group here Follow Sporadically Board on twitter @sporadicboard Follow Mike over on twitter at @michaeldilisio  Massive thanks to the ever fantastic Gary King for the graphics for the show Also huge thanks to  Singing Sadie for the show's music

In this episode, Shelley and Phil honor and celebrate Idaho Wine (and Cider) Month by tasting through a Rosé from Williamson Vineyard and a Cabernet Sauvignon from Bitner Vineyards, both from the Snake River Valley. Idaho is producing some amazing wines now and if you can get your hands on some we encourage you to do so. #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #CheersingFor more information on, Vinloq, the first slow decanting and wine preservation system, please visit https://vinloq.comWines tasted this episode:   2016 Williamson Vineyard Blossom Rosé of Sangiovese ($16.49 at Fred Meyer 2018 Bitner Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon (Culinary Stone wine club; $33)To find out more about this Williamson Vineyard Rosé please visit  https://www.willorch.com/products-category/2014-blossom-rose-of-sangiovese/To find out more about this Bitner Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon please visit,  https://bitnervineyards.orderport.net/product-details/0188/2018-Cabernet-Sauvignon-Lanae-RidgeThanks to our sponsors: Coeur D'alene FRESH and Elsom CellarsCoeur D'alene FRESH: Located in downtown Coeur d'Alene, FRESH wine bar is a place to meet friends, relax and just be Coeur d'Alene. Stop by for a fun time every Wednesday around 5:30 for WINO Wednesday. Consider FRESH wine bar for your next event. Stop by or visit https://www.freshwinebar.comElsom Cellars. Good times are meant to be shared and so are great grapes and great wines! Since 2006, Elsom Cellars has been producing brilliant Washington wines. For more information about Elsom Wines, please visit http://www.elsomcellars.com or call them at 425-298-3082.And of course, a HUGE thank you to Tod Hornby who wrote and recorded our official Wine Time Fridays theme music, which is ANYthing but average.  Please visit https://todhornby.com or contact him at veryaveragemusic@gmail.com Mentions: Idaho Wine and Cider Month, Rolling Hills Vineyard, Holesinski Winery and Vineyard, 3100 Cellars, Mark Cooke, Beverly Williamson, Andrea Robinson, M.S., Koenig Vineyards, Matt Sparkman, Nicole Barnett, Gary Vaynerchuck, The Culinary Stone, Finex Cookware, The Circling Raven Golf Course, The Blazen Divaz, Believe In Me Foundation.For more information on the Believe In Me Foundation, please visit https://www.believeinme.orgThe 3D Kitchens by Design Wine Word of the Week: CrushCrush is used to refer to harvest season, and the specific process of crushing the grapes to release the juice. When we say crush, we mean the harvest and related activities.For more information on how you can create your dream kitchen, please visit https://www.3dkitchensbydesign.infoWines we enjoyed this week:  William Hill Chardonnay, Tenuta Cucco Barolo del Comune di Serralunga d'Alba, Cave B Tempranillo, Gérard Bertrand Côte des Roses Rosé, Waterbrook Chardonnay, I Greppicaia Bolgheri Superiore, La Spinetta Toscana Vermentino, Matthews Cuvée and J.K. Carriere Vespidae Pinot Noir.Please find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WineTimeFridays), Twitter (@VintageTweets) and Instagram (@WineTimeFridays). You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back!

Join Simon Wills, ORX Executive Director, and Mark Cooke as they explore how risk can innovate. They also introduce a new initiative – iDP (innovation data platform) – which can help risk managers overcome the barriers to innovation. The ORX News team then take a look at the five largest operational risk losses of March 2022 and do a short focus section on ESG. This episode features Simon Wills, Mark Cooke, Fern Ashcroft and Stanca Oproiu.  You can find the top 5 operational risk losses discussed in this episode on the ORX website at: https://managingrisktogether.orx.org/orx-news/top-5-orx-news-losses-q2-2022. You can find out more iDP here: https://idp.orx.org/. To find out more about ORX News, ORX Membership and access other operational risk resources just search ‘ORX' or visit: https://managingrisktogether.orx.org/  

In this weeks episode of Master My Garden podcast I chat with Mark Cooke all about a fantastic new allotment set up in Enniscorthy Community Allotments. It is great to see allotments being set up that have the right ethos and are all about community. Allotments that foster a spirit of helping and supporting each other this are the type of allotments that will bring joy their allotment holders and greater community. I hope to see more of these in the future. You can find Enniscorthy Community Allotments here https://www.enniscorthycommunityallotments.ieThere will be a blog post on this episode very soon on my website. This blog and previous blogs along with all podcast episodes are be available on my Website :https://mastermygarden.com/If there is any topic you would like covered in future episodes please let me know. Please like and follow Master My Garden on the following channels  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mastermygarden/Instagram @Mastermygarden https://www.instagram.com/mastermygarden/Twitter:https://twitter.com/tweetsbyMMGor email info@mastermygarden.comUntil next weekHappy gardeningJohn Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Mastermygarden)

In our most recent On Stage interview Iain is joined by Mark Cooke, organiser of Airecon, for a chat about all things conventions. They cover Airecon 2022, the future of the show, con organisation, getting celebrities along, the rise of digital conventions and a whole host of other topics before taking questions from the audience.   Airecon https://www.airecon.co.uk/   https://twitter.com/aireconuk   Stabcon https://www.facebook.com/groups/21195645768/   Bez's Interview https://youtu.be/5WAGNeI0frs

In this weeks episode, at the very beginning, Shelley and Phil make a big announcement that may or may not be good news for you. After that, they proceed to taste and talk about two very affordable and easy to find wines from Estancia Vineyards. Grab a bottle, pour a glass and taste along with them. #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #Cheersing #EasterEgg #HappyAprilFoolsDay!Wines tasted this episode:  2018 Estancia Chardonnay (Fred Meyer, $13)2018 Estancia Cabernet Sauvignon (Fred Meyer, $13)For more information on the wines of Estancia Vineyards, please visit https://www.estanciawines.comThanks to our sponsors:  Eternal Wine, 3D Kitchens by DesignEternal Wine.  Are you a Rhone Ranger or just really love Syrah? Then you need to check out Eternal Wine! Their focus is on single vineyard Rhone valley wines in Washington State. Also check out their Drink Washington State brand of approachable wines! Visit https://eternalwine.com for more information or simply call 509-240-6258. Eternal Wine: Drink Wine, Be Happy.3D Kitchens by Design Is your kitchen in need of a facelift? A complete overhaul? Visualize your dream kitchen and let 3D Kitchens by Design do the rest! 3D Kitchens by Design: Dream, Design, Deliver. To make your dream kitchen a reality, please visit https://www.3dkitchensbydesign.info or call 208-818-8742And of course, a HUGE thank you to Tod Hornby who wrote and recorded our official Wine Time Fridays theme music, as well as the first background music you heard on this episode, which is ANYthing but average.  Please contact him at veryaveragemusic@gmail.com Mentions: Jessica Yañez, Mark Cooke, Nicole Barnett, Jill & Gerald, Microtel, Baron's, Chelsea and Andrews Evans, the Coeur D'alene Downtown Association and their Wine Extravaganza event.Wine Smell Kit https://aromaster.comCheck out Shelley Webb on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/shelleywebb/The Social Web Wine Time Fridays Wine Word of the Week: TartratesCrystals appearing on the cork or at the bottom of a bottle of wine that separate from the liquid during aging; the harmless result of the natural tartaric acid in grapes and potassium in wine.For more information on The Social Web, please visit https://thesocialweb.newsWines we enjoyed this week:  Mirabeau Belle Année Rosé, Townshend T3, Creamery Chardonnay, Hogue Chardonnay, Aberrant Cellars Sidecar Off The Wagon Red Blend, Eberle Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, Antigal UNO Malbec, Barons Cabernet Sauvignon, Ruggeri Corsini Barbera d'Alba and Château Blouin Bordeaux Rosé.Please find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WineTimeFridays), Twitter (@VintageTweets) and Instagram (@WineTimeFridays). You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back!

In this weeks episode, Shelley and Phil talk about wines that will pair well with St. Patrick's Day as they taste through two of them, a Grüner Veltliner and a Châteauneuf-du-Pape. If you don't really like green beer, but love celebrating St. Patrick's Day, this episode is for you! #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #CheersingWines tasted this episode:2020 Laurenz V. Singing Grüner Veltliner ($26 at Studio 107)2017 Gabriel Meffre Châteauneuf-du-Pape Saint-Théodoric ($25-$50)For more information on the Laurenz V. Singing Grüner Veltliner, please visit https://www.foliowine.com/wine/singing-gruner-veltliner/For more information on the Gabriel Meffre Châteauneuf-du-Pape Saint-Théodoric, please visit https://gabriel-meffre.fr/en/gabriel-meffre/chateauneuf-du-pape-red-2017Thanks to our sponsors:  Culinary Stone,  Elsom Cellars, The Social Web The Culinary Stone. Looking for that special bottle of wine or a wine club that really over delivers? How about cooking classes for every taste? Considered a foodies paradise, The Culinary Stone is a gourmet heaven that was dreamt up for, and by, those with a serious passion for the culinary arts and gathering of community. For more information about The Culinary Stone, please visit https://culinarystone.com or call them at 208-277-4116.Elsom Cellars. Good times are meant to be shared and so are great grapes and great wines! Since 2006, Elsom Cellars has been producing brilliant Washington wines. For more information about Elsom Wines, please visit http://www.elsomcellars.com or call them at 425-298-3082.The Social Web. Are you a small business owner that's ready to grow your business through social media without having to hire a full time staff or a third party company? Honor your business and yourself and become educated in social media! Visit https://thesocialweb.news for more information. The Social Web AND The Social Web Inner Circle: Helping you untangle the web of social media marketing.And of course, a HUGE thank you to Tod Hornby who wrote and recorded our official Wine Time Fridays theme music, as well as the first background music you heard on this episode, which is ANYthing but average.  Please contact him at veryaveragemusic@gmail.com Mentions: Sandra Robbie, Mark Cooke, Chris Cochran, Zero Rez Spokane, GaryVee Wine Club, Madeline Puckett, Lynn & Dan Manson, Suzi & Dave, Jackie & Nick, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jessica Yañez, The Wine And Chisme PodcastThe Social Web Wine Time Fridays Wine Word of the Week: NoseA tasting term describing the smell of a wine; also called aroma or bouquet.For more information on The Social Web, please visit https://thesocialweb.newsWines we enjoyed this week:  J. Lohr Chardonnay, Waterbrook Chardonnay, Covington Cellars Rio Ronde, *Kaiken Ultra Malbec Las Rocas, Healthy Hills Chardonnay, *Apex Cabernet Sauvignon, *Guenoc Red, Porto Vita Rosso, Broadside Chardonnay, Isenhower Jongleur Petit Verdot and Ripa della Volta Valpolicella RipassoPlease find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WineTimeFridays), Twitter (@VintageTweets) and Instagram (@WineTimeFridays). You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back!

In this weeks episode, Shelley and Phil review their Open That Bottle Night event! And what an event it was! 10 guests, 9 different wines and 12 bottles consumed. Hey, don't judge us! The stories were grand, the wine outstanding, less swearing than last year and we still needed to use a filter because of a broken cork! Listen to the stories our guest brought about their wines while you enjoy YOUR favorite wine. #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #CheersingWines tasted this episode: 2015 Drink Washington State Chardonnay (*Magnum* $47 at the winery; Shelley & Phil)https://eternalwine.orderport.net/product-details/0102/Drink-Washington-State-2015-Chardonnay-Magnum NV Gruet Blanc de Blancs ($17 at the winery; Shelley & Phil)https://www.gruetwinery.com 2021 Sparkman Pearl Sauvignon Blanc ($25 at the winery; Brenda & Matt Sparkman)https://sparkmancellars.orderport.net/product-details/1111/2021-Pearl-Sauvignon-Blanc 2014 Archeo Ruggero di Tasso Nero d'Avola (The Halliday's) 2016 Tenuta Sant'Antonio Valpolicella Superiore Ripasso Monti Garbi (The Halliday's) 2006 AlmaTerra Syrah Ciel du Cheval Vineyard (The Mann's)Visit https://www.trepstory.com to hear Sarah & Russell's podcast. 2012 Rudius Bedrock Vineyard Mourvèdre (The Cochran's) 2018 DeLille D2 ($28 special order at Fred Meyer; Mark Cooke) 2017 Duckhorn Merlot ($55 at the winery; Shelley & Phil)https://www.duckhorn.com/product/2017-duckhorn-vineyards-carneros-napa-valley-merlot?productListName=Current%20Releases&position=7Thanks to our sponsor:   Studio 107, The Greatest Song You Never Heard Podcast, Eternal WineStudio 107 At Studio 107, in the heart of downtown Coeur D'alene, Idaho, we believe that small towns deserve great wines, too!  Come join us in our wine bar and gallery for an afternoon or evening escape. Please visit https://studio107cda.comThe Greatest Song You Never Heard Podcast. Please visit https://www.thegreatestsongyouneverheard.com Eternal Wine.  Are you a Rhone Ranger or just really love Syrah? Then you need to check out Eternal Wine! Their focus is on single vineyard Rhone valley wines in Washington State. Also check out their Drink Washington State brand of approachable wines! Visit https://eternalwine.com for more information or call 509-240-6258. Eternal Wine: Drink Wine, Be Happy.Mentions: Naomi Boutz, Dave Adlard, Dr. Alan Busacca, Nick Zentner.The Social Web Wine Time Fridays Wine Word of the Week: DecanterA carafe used to aerate wine or separate older wine from deposited sediment. Also used with wine the Mann's bring over because they bring awesome wine with old corks!For more information on The Social Web, please visit https://thesocialweb.newsPlease find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WineTimeFridays), Twitter (@VintageTweets) and Instagram (@WineTimeFridays). You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back!

In this weeks episode, Shelley and Phil sit down with Dottie Gaiter and John Brecher who started Open That Bottle Night and wrote the book, "Love by the Glass: Tasting Notes From a Marriage”, both which Shelley and Phil have talked so much about over the years! They will talk all about OTBN, the book, their column then and now and all things in between. Since Dottie and John live in New York, and Shelley and Phil are going to see Billy Joel very soon, Phil opens up this episode with his own rendition of New York State of Mind. This is a very special episode. Pull up a chair, pour a glass and enjoy. #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #Cheersing*To learn more about Dottie and John, read their work, connect with them on social media or share your Open That Bottle Night stories, please:Visit The Grape Collective: https://grapecollective.com/Reach out on Social: @dottieandjohn on Instagram and @winecouple on Facebook and TwitterShare your OTBN story by emailing them at otbnwine@gmail.com Wines tasted this episode:Andre' California ‘Champagne' ($8 at Fred Meyer)2020 La Spinetta Toscana Vermintino ($28 at The Dinner Party)For more information on the 2020 La Spinetta Toscana Vermintino, please visit https://www.la-spinetta.com/en/product/toscana-vermentino-igt/Thanks to our sponsor:   Coeur D'alene FRESH, Elsom Cellars and The Social WebCoeur D'alene FRESH: Located in downtown Coeur d'Alene, FRESH wine bar is a place to meet friends, relax and just be Coeur d'Alene. Stop by for a fun time every Wednesday around 5:30 for WINO Wednesday. Consider FRESH wine bar for your next event. Stop by or visit http://www.Coeurdalenefresh.com/Elsom Cellars. Good times are meant to be shared and so are great grapes and great wines! Since 2006, Elsom Cellars has been producing brilliant Washington wines. For more information about Elsom Wines, please visit http://www.elsomcellars.com or call them at 425-298-3082.The Social Web. Are you a small business owner that's ready to grow your business through social media without having to hire a full time staff or a third party company? Honor your business and yourself and become educated in social media! Visit https://thesocialweb.news for more information. The Social Web AND The Social Web Inner Circle: Helping you untangle the web of social media marketing.Mentions: Billy Joel, Lindsay and Brian LaFaille, Jessica Hallberg, Gruet Winery, Duckhorn, Drink Washington State, Mark Cooke, The Dinner PartyThe Social Web Wine Time Fridays Wine Word of the Week: SedimentCompounds in wine that have settled over time and formed a layer at the bottom of the bottle. Young wines made from highly pigmented grape varieties can also throw sediment as well.Wines we enjoyed this week: A+D Pinot Noir, Elsa Bianchi Torrontes, Va Piano Ox Red, Trump Chardonnay, Stimson Estate Cellars Chardonnay, Ryan Patrick Rock Island Red and Francis Ford Coppola Director's Cut ZinfandelPlease find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WineTimeFridays), Twitter (@VintageTweets) and Instagram (@WineTimeFridays). You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back!

In this weeks episode, the last one of season 2, Shelley and Phil celebrate National Champagne Day by opening and tasting through a Moet & Chandon Imperial Brut NV while reminiscing over the year that was. It is New Years Eve! What are you doing listening to Wine Time Fridays? Well, we're happy you are! #HappyNewYear! #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #CheersingWines tasted this episode:Moet & Chandon Imperial Brut NVFor more information on this Moet & Chandon Imperial Brut NV please visit https://www.moet.com/en-us/moet-imperialThanks to our sponsor:     Studio 107, Eternal Wine, The Social Web, GSYNHPStudio 107 At Studio 107, in the heart of downtown Coeur D'alene, Idaho, we believe that small towns deserve great wines, too!  Come join us in our wine bar and gallery for an afternoon or evening escape. For more information, please visit https://studio107cda.comEternal Wine.  Are you a Rhone Ranger or just really love Syrah? Then you need to check out Eternal Wine! Their focus is on single vineyard Rhone valley wines in Washington State. Visit https://eternalwine.com for more information or simply call 509-240-6258. Eternal Wine: Drink Wine, Be Happy.The Social Web. Are you a small business owner that's ready to grow your business through social media without having to hire a full time staff or a third party company? Honor your business and yourself and become educated in social media! Visit https://thesocialweb.news for more information. The Social Web AND The Social Web Inner Circle: Helping you untangle the web of social media marketing.The Greatest Song You Never Heard Podcast. We've all heard the main stream hits but there are so many other songs out there that deserve a listen. The Greatest Song You Never Heard serves up these songs note by note, beat by beat. Please visit https://www.thegreatestsongyouneverheard.com or listen where ever you get your podcasts.And of course, a HUGE thank you to Tod Hornby who wrote and recorded our official Wine Time Fridays theme music (as well as The Social Web sponsorship music!) which is ANYthing but average.  Please contact him at veryaveragemusic@gmail.com Mentions: Pete Carroll, Planet Hollywood, Dan Manson (20:30), Stag's Leap, Andrea Robinson, Lindsay and Brian, Chelsea and Andrea, Sam Lang, Trevor Treller, Sarah and Russell Mann, Sam Doyle, Mark Cooke, Dave Adlard, Bobby Richards, Karl and Coco Umiker, Jody Elsom, Phil Mershon, Social Media Marketing World, Vinloq and Charles Shaw.For more information on, Vinloq, the first slow decanting and wine preservation system, please visit https://vinloq.comWines we enjoyed this week:  Honig Sauvignon Blanc, MacMurray Pinot Noir, Schweiger Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon, Sterling Vineyards Vintner's Collection Chardonnay, Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Seven Hills Reserve Sauvignon Blanc, Dark Horse Chardonnay, Elsom Cellars Logan, Foundry Vineyards Steel Chardonnay, Clearwater Canyon Lochsa. Duckhorn Chardonnay and Molley Dooker Shiraz Thank you for visiting! Be sure to continue the conversation by checking us out on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, too!  You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back!

In this episode, Shelley and Phil bring on, for the THIRD time in history of Wine Time Fridays, Phil's daughter Lindsay and her husband Brian, to taste and talk through two wines, discuss the huge Thanksgiving dinner from the day before and catch up on their Terra Nova property in Yucca Valley, CA. It's officially Christmas time. #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #Cheersing #GratefulFor more information on Terra Nova, please visit them on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/terranovajtree/Wines tasted this episode:2020 Kumusha Flame Lily (Studio 107 for $35)2014 Domaine Sigalas Mavrotragano For more information on all Kumusha wines, please visit https://www.kumushabrands.com or https://16404e20-c9ab-49c7-9529-c0438afd6fdf.filesusr.com/ugd/227a76_6ad2fff6a2f94151ae9f5a9b3ba02a86.pdf for the tasting notes on the Flame LilyFor more information on Domaine Sigalas, please visit http://www.sigalas-wine.com/english/Thanks to our sponsor:   The Culinary StoneThe Culinary Stone. Looking for that special bottle of wine or a wine club that really over delivers? How about cooking classes for every taste? Considered a foodies paradise, The Culinary Stone is a gourmet heaven that was dreamt up for, and by, those with a serious passion for the culinary arts and gathering of community. For more information about The Culinary Stone, please visit https://culinarystone.com or call them at 208-277-4116.And of course, a HUGE thank you to Tod Hornby who wrote and recorded our official Wine Time Fridays theme music (as well as The Social Web sponsorship music!) which is ANYthing but average.  Please contact him at veryaveragemusic@gmail.com Mentions:  Andrea Robinson, Coco and Karl Umiker, Sam Lange, Sarah and Russell Mann, Trevor Treller, Mark Cooke, Phil Mershon, Jody Elsom, Sam Doyle, Dave Adlard, the Walla Walla Incubator Wineries, Bobby Richards, Chelsea & Andrew Evans, Coeur d'Alene FRESH, Studio 107, Elsom Cellars, Cave B Estate Winery, Candle in the Woods, The Social Web, The Greatest Song You Never Heard podcast and Jim Keathley.Wines we enjoyed this week:   2012 Maysara Asha Pinot Noir, Eternal Insight, Elephant Seven Syrah, Rombauer Savignon Blanc, Luc Pirlet Rose' of Syrah, Patterson Melange Blanc, Eisenhower Viognier, Jadix Picpoul de Pinet, Bergevin Lane Moonspell Cabernet Sauvignon, Townshend Red Table Wine, Cave B Merlot and Arc Nova Vinho VerdePlease find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WineTimeFridays), Twitter (@VintageTweets) and Instagram (@WineTimeFridays). You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back!

In this episode, Shelley and Phil taste through two well priced Washington Merlot's in honor of International Merlot Day, which is this Sunday, November 7. Both of these wines were picked up at Fred Meyer for under 20 bucks each and deliver above their price point. Despite what they said in the movie, Sideways, Merlot is a fabulous varietal and these two exceed expectations. #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #CheersingWines tasted this episode:2016  Seven Falls Cellars Merlot (Fred Meyer) 2015  Canoe Ridge Merlot (Fred Meyer)For more information on Seven Falls Cellars, please visit https://www.sevenfallscellars.comFor more information on Canoe Ridge Vineyards, please visit https://www.canoeridgevineyard.comThanks to our sponsor:    Coeur D'alene Fresh, Elsom Cellars, Candle in the WoodsCoeur D'alene FRESH: Located in downtown Coeur d'Alene, FRESH wine bar is a place to meet friends, relax and just be Coeur d'Alene. Stop by for a fun time every Wednesday around 5:30 for WINO Wednesday. Consider FRESH wine bar for your next event. Stop by or visit http://www.Coeurdalenefresh.com/Elsom Cellars. Good times are meant to be shared and so are great grapes and great wines! Since 2006, Elsom Cellars has been producing brilliant Washington wines. For more information about Elsom Wines, please visit http://www.elsomcellars.com or call them at 425-298-3082.Candle in the Woods. If you are looking for a one of a kind, unique dining experience, Candle in the Woods is THE place for you. With 12+ courses, wine and food pairings that are off the charts and a dinner that is spread out over three hours, this experience is second to none. Visit http://candleinthewoods.com to book your dinner or simply text, 208-664-0135. To read about our experience at Candle in the Woods, please visit https://www.intentionalcaregiver.com/candle-in-the-woods-a-northern-idaho-culinary-experience-like-no-other/And of course, a HUGE thank you to Tod Hornby who wrote and recorded our official Wine Time Fridays theme music (as well as The Social Web sponsorship music!) which is ANYthing but average.  Please contact him at veryaveragemusic@gmail.com Mentions: Forgeron, Abeja, Northstar, Mark Cooke, Precept, The One Wine Glass, Gary Vaynerchuck, Brad Binko, Eternal Wine, Itä Wines, VivinoPlease find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WineTimeFridays), Twitter (@VintageTweets) and Instagram (@WineTimeFridays). You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back!

Join the Sporadically Board Facebook group here Follow Sporadically Board on twitter @sporadicboard Follow Mike over on twitter at @michaeldilisio  Massive thanks to the ever fantastic Gary King for the graphics for the show Also huge thanks to  Singing Sadie for the show's music

Operational and non-financial risk (ONFR) management has an opportunity to step up like never before and support financial organisations as they go through a period of rapid transformation. To do so will mean making operational and non-financial risk resilient by using innovative technologies, which then enable risk leaders to innovate how they serve the business and actively add value. In this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast, Simon Wills, Luke Carrivick and Mark Cooke explore how operational risk can do this in detail. This second part of the discussion follows the publication of a recent report that explores the future of operational risk in light of rapid digitalisation and other changes in the financial services industry. This report sets out two elements of operational and non-financial risk management – “Optimise” and “Active” – explaining how optimisation will only go so far in terms of keeping pace with the rapidly changing risk profile.   Download the report for free: https://managingrisktogether.orx.org/operational-risk-studies/future-op-risk-right-time-right-place

Operational and non-financial risk (ONFR) management has an opportunity to step up like never before and support financial organisations as they go through a period of rapid transformation. To do so will mean making operational and non-financial risk resilient by using innovative technologies, which then enable risk leaders to innovate how they serve the business and actively add value. In this episode, the first of two on this topic, Simon Wills, Luke Carrivick and Mark Cooke explore how operational risk can do this in detail. This discussion follows the publication of a recent report that explores the future of operational risk in light of rapid digitalisation and other changes in the financial services industry. This report sets out two elements of operational and non-financial risk management – “Optimise” and “Active” – explaining how optimisation will only go so far in terms of keeping pace with the rapidly changing risk profile. This is part one of a two-part discussion. Download the report for free: https://managingrisktogether.orx.org/operational-risk-studies/future-op-risk-right-time-right-place

In this episode, Shelley & Phil taste through three delicious white wines that are not only great for Summer sipping but are also off the beaten path of typical white wines that people drink. They start off with an Albariño, move to a White Rioja (mostly Chardonnay) and finish up with a sensational  Picpoul De Pinet. All are available in one way shape or form. Here we go! #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime! #Cheersing Wines tasted this episode:2020 Elsom Cellars Albariño  ($28 from Elsom Cellars)2018 Campillo El Sueño White Rioja  ($24 from The Culinary Stone)2020 Jadix Picpoul De Pinet  ($18 from The Dinner Party)For more information on, or to purchase, the 2020 Elsom Cellars Albariño https://elsomcellars.orderport.net/product-details/0279/2020-AlbarinoFor more information on the 2018  Campillo El Sueño White Rioja https://www.winemag.com/buying-guide/campillo-2018-el-sueno-white-rioja/For more information on the 2020  Jadix Picpoul de Pinet https://www.wine.com/product/jadix-picpoul-de-pinet-2020/732448A  special thanks to our sponsors:  The Social Web, Cave B, Coeur D'alene FRESHThe Social Web. Are you a small business owner that's ready to grow your business through social media without having to hire a full time staff or a third party company? Honor your business and yourself and become educated in social media! Visit https://thesocialweb.news for more information. Cave B Estate Cellars. ‘B' inspired when you visit https://caveb.com To book an event, contact Carrie at carrie@caveb.com or to join the Cave B Estate Winery wine club you can reach out to Jayney at Jayney.evenson@caveb.com  Also find them on Instagram and Facebook @caveBESTATEWINERY.Coeur D'alene FRESH: Located in downtown Coeur d'Alene, FRESH wine bar is a place to meet friends, relax and just be Coeur d'Alene. Stop by for a fun time every Wednesday around 5:30 for WINO Wednesday. Consider FRESH wine bar for your next event. Stop by or visit http://www.Coeurdalenefresh.com/And of course, a HUGE thank you to Tod Hornby who wrote and recorded our official Wine Time Fridays theme music  which is ANYthing but average.  Please contact him at veryaveragemusic@gmail.com Wine Word of the Week - Punt - The indentation found in the base of a wine bottle. Punt depth is often thought to be related to wine quality, with better quality wines having a deeper punt.Other wines we enjoyed this week:   J Lohr Chardonnay, Domaine De L'Agly Les Cimes, Elouan Pinot Noir and Tangly Oaks ChardonnayMentions: Jody Elsom, Rebecca Weber, Blazen Divaz, Trevor Treller, Culinary Stone, Brian LaFaille, Gary Vaynerchuck, Sarah and Russell Mann, Mark Cooke and Debbie Draeger, Matt and Brenda, Castaway Cellars, Tod Hornby,  Cadence Winery, The Dinner Party, Possibilities, The Cork & Tap, The Wine House, Sam Doyle, Wine Library, Jim Wiskerchen, Marla and Carlos Lopez and Blake.Please find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WineTimeFridays), Twitter (@VintageTweets) and Instagram (@WineTimeFridays). You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back!

In this episode, Shelley and Phil sit down with Mark Cooke and Debbie Draeger, to talk and taste through four wines that will go with your barbecues this Summer. Mark is the wine buyer for Fred Meyer in Coeur d'Alene and a LOT of wine is purchased for this podcast at Fred Meyer! Whether you're grilling veggies, fish, chicken or beef, you will find a wine in this episode that will fit your food/wine pairing like a glove! #HappyFriday! #ItsWineTime!Wines tasted this episode: 2019 Banshee Rosé2018 Ferrari-Carano Tre Terre Chardonnay 2017 Hullabaloo Zinfandel ($13 from The Culinary Stone)2018 Do Epic ShitFor more information on the Banshee Rosé and other Banshee wines, please visit https://www.bansheewines.comFor more information on the Ferrari-Carano Tre Terre Chardonnay https://www.ferrari-carano.com/wine-label/ferrari-carano-tre-terre-chardonnay/For more information on the Hullabaloo Zinfandel https://www.wespeakwine.com/products/Hullabaloo-Zinfandel-Lodi-2017-750ML.html and http://ninenorthwines.com/hullabaloo/For more information on the Do Epic Shit red blend, please visit https://brownefamilyvineyards.com/wine/do-epic-shit-red-blend/A  special thanks to our sponsors:  Coeur D'alene Fresh, Elsom Cellars, The Social Web Coeur D'alene Fresh: Located in downtown Coeur d'Alene, FRESH wine bar is a place to meet friends, relax and just be Coeur d'Alene. Stop by for a fun time every Wednesday around 5:30 for WINO Wednesday. Consider FRESH wine bar for your next event. Stop by or visit http://www.Coeurdalenefresh.com/Elsom Cellars. Good times are meant to be shared and so are great grapes and great wines! Since 2006, Elsom Cellars has been producing brilliant Washington wines. For more information about Elsom Wines, please visit http://www.elsomcellars.com or call them at 425-298-3082.The Social Web. Are you a small business owner that's ready to grow your business through social media without having to hire a full time staff or a third party company? Honor your business and yourself and become educated in social media! Visit https://thesocialweb.news for more information. And of course, a HUGE thank you to Tod Hornby who wrote and recorded our official Wine Time Fridays theme music (as well as The Social Web sponsorship music!) which is ANYthing but average.  Please contact him at veryaveragemusic@gmail.com Other wines we enjoyed this week:  Côtes des Roses Rosé, Chateau St. Jean Chardonnay, Coeur d'Alene Cellars Chardonnay, Tangley Oaks Chardonnay and Townshend Red Table Wine Mentions: Coeur d'Alene Cellars, Blazen Divaz, Cave B Estate Winery, Brian LaFaille, The Culinary Stone, Drop It Wine Drops. Please find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WineTimeFridays), Twitter (@VintageTweets) and Instagram (@WineTimeFridays). You can also “Follow” Phil on Vivino. His profile name is Phil Anderson and will probably “Follow” you back!

We’re joined by Mark Cooke, one of the organisers of Airecon. We talk about running conventions, board game communities online (particularly Board Game Trading and Chat UK on Facebook), and then get Mark’s top five types of games to play at conventions Games Discussed:RenatureBelgian Beers RaceAnkh: Gods of EgyptCastelSumo GnomesTwo Rooms and a BoomWatch The Skies18XX GamesBattlestar Galactica Cora Quest Links:Board Game Trading and Chat UK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKboardgametrade/ Airecon: https://www.airecon.co.uk/ PSC:https://www.pscgames.co.uk/

On this weeks show I am joined by Mark Cooke, one of the founders of Airecon. Find out some behind the scenes info on one of the biggest growing tabletop gaming conventions. In the Kickstarter Kick-a-round we take a look at Mint Bid, Mork Borg: Heretic and Darwin's Journey.

1 on 1 interview with FinTwit and stock growth investor Mark Cooke (@TheMarkCooke) on Twitter. Don't let Marks young age fool ya, he's been investing in individual stocks since 21 years of age and comes from a family that enjoys stock investing. We go over Mark's growth/tech concentrated portfolio and his passion for helping the fintwit community grow more. $PTON $SE $ZM $DKNG $MELI $SHOP $PINS

The year 2020 has been a year coloured by change. Changes in many ways have touched many people's lives. Paragons of Change is a series of interviews with people from boardgaming sphere whom I’ve noticed going through changes in recent times. We talk about change and what they have changed in their lives. By default we do not claim we state facts, we only talk from our own points of view and our opinions. As the discussion might take a negative note, we try finish with a positive – by giving you a Top9 list of games. The topic of the list has been chosen by the guest and we will have a “battle of the lists” after the episode airs in my social media channels – you, dear listener, are encouraged to comment and vote on the lists to see which one of us did better. The second Paragon of the series is Mark Cooke, the smooth operator for the last proper board gaming convention in the world when this episode airs. Will there be any new ones? Who knows! He aims to be the host of the First one of next year as well - let's see! We talk about moving around, Twitter, Mark's work and unemployment during the time of pandemic while also touching on the hotness of Dávid Turczi. There might be variation in sound level, apologies for that, Skype forced an automatic mic level which changed the level in Audacity also - but it was great to find out about this! I tried my best, apologies if there are too much variation to hurt your ears - but there shouldn't be! Comments are welcome, hope you enjoy this bit and will be back for rest of the series. Voting for our Top9's will commence some time after this episode drops. Top9 starts at about 33:50 , the topic in this episode is Games Featuring Food or Drinks. Thank you for listening! Links related to Mark: Airecon: https://www.airecon.co.uk/ PSC Games: https://www.pscgames.co.uk/ The music used in this Series is Nightwalker by @Sentientpulse , Thank you! https://soundcloud.com/sentientpulse/nightwalker-sentient-pulse-1 Follow Mitä Pelataan? in media! https://linktr.ee/mitapelataan https://mitapelataan.wordpress.com https://twitter.com/MitaPelataan https://www.instagram.com/mitapelataan/ https://www.facebook.com/mitapelata/ https://soundcloud.com/mitapelataan/ https://open.spotify.com/show/5OdHNkrztkRRtvSgf3GXty https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mitä-pelataan/id1390280287 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA8rysZ3Jkxq7-R7cA7xrjw Email: mitapelataanATgmail dot com

Simon Wills and Luke Carrivick of ORX and Mark Cooke from HSBC continue their discussion of the Operational Risk industry's response to the coronavirus pandemic. The discussion is based on the outcomes and findings of work ORX did with a group of their member financial organisations to see how operational risk teams in the finance sector were responding to the pandemic. The report looks at what went well, what could have been improved and identifies key learnings. Download the free report here: https://managingrisktogether.orx.org/research/coronavirus-first-lessons.

Simon Wills, Luke Carrivick of ORX and Mark Cooke of HSBC discuss the operational risk industry's response to the coronavirus pandemic. The discussion is based on the outcomes and findings of work ORX did with a group of their member financial organisations to see how operational risk teams in the finance sector were responding to the pandemic. The report looks at what went well, what could have been improved and identifies key learnings. Download the free report here: https://managingrisktogether.orx.org/research/coronavirus-first-lessons.

To begin your career in the games industry with Star Wars and Grim Fandango might corrupt the inexperienced minds of some, but not Mark Cooke. After a phenomenal start to his career, there's been no taking the foot off the accelerator since, leading to work with prominent studios like Grasshopper Manufacture and Nihilistic Software. Mark joins Paul to talk all about the ups, downs and crazy events such as working on StarCraft Ghost, on the journey to Shiny Shoe and Monster Train.Follow Paul and submit your ideas for future guests on TwitterVisit the Player2 Website and the Player2 Youtube Channel where you can also follow his written and video exploits including reviews, feature pieces and shows such as Patched, The Insider and Gamer SchoolFind out more at https://dev-diary.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-1862be for 40% off for 4 months, and support Dev Diary.

On this episode of The GAP Luke Lawrie and Joab Gilroy discuss their alcohol storage plans since being stuck inside. The games they've been playing this week include Final Fantasy VII Remake, Minecraft, Receiver 2, Call of Duty: Warzone, Antimatter Dimensions, Slay The Spire, and more. Over in the news Gamescom is going digital this year, XCOM: Chimera Squad is announced, and Kotaku reports big changes at Rockstar games culture. At the end of the podcast they also talk to the Founder and CEO of Shiny Shoe, Mark Cooke, who is currently working on the strategic roguelike deck building game Monster Train. This episode goes for 3 hours and 45 minutes, it also contains coarse language.

Ben talks to Mark about Airecon

This Episode is magically powered by AireCon, the Analog Gaming Festival Harrogate Convention Centre  - Running from the 13 - 15 March 2020 - Tickets on Sale Now Web - https://airecon.uk  / Facebook - facebook.com/aireconukTwitter - twitter.com/aireconuk or @aireconuk  / Instagram - instagram.com/aireconuk ====================================================== Join by the delicious monster of all things Hush Hush and Airecon, Mark Cooke is here to chat about being 'The Best Person Who Is Are Best At Things Everything' at Hush Hush Projects, as well as why Dan Hughes is actually really brilliant even though he tries his best to be a grump x Links of Notes  https://www.fogoflove.com/ www.airecon.co.uk/tickets    OUR LINKS OF NOTES - Connect with US! Apple Podcasts     Our Blog, Reviews, Previews and Thoughts  Our YouTube Channel Our BGG Guild  Board Game Geek Page  Website   Facebook  Twitter  Instagram Buy Some Merch

Incident response (IR) analysts are required to make multiple decisions on every alert and incident. Whether the decision is to escalate, respond, or to discard the alert, each one of those decisions is critical to protecting their environment. With the integration of SOAR platforms like Splunk Phantom into IR teams, many of those decisions can now be automated for analysts. These decisions can save hours of work for analysts and allow for focus on more critical alerts. However, there are still questions to answer before implementing these decisions. What data is needed to make confident decisions? Where in the process should these decisions be made? How can existing decisions be improved? How should new decisions be integrated? The General Electric IR team has worked to answer these questions by using Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Phantom. In this session, we will show how our team approached these questions, implemented solutions, and integrated decisions for our analysts to save time and focus their efforts. Speaker(s) Mark Cooke, Staff Incident Responder, GE Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/SEC1446.pdf?podcast=1577146214 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Phantom Track: Security, Compliance and Fraud Level: Good for all skill levels

Incident response (IR) analysts are required to make multiple decisions on every alert and incident. Whether the decision is to escalate, respond, or to discard the alert, each one of those decisions is critical to protecting their environment. With the integration of SOAR platforms like Splunk Phantom into IR teams, many of those decisions can now be automated for analysts. These decisions can save hours of work for analysts and allow for focus on more critical alerts. However, there are still questions to answer before implementing these decisions. What data is needed to make confident decisions? Where in the process should these decisions be made? How can existing decisions be improved? How should new decisions be integrated? The General Electric IR team has worked to answer these questions by using Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Phantom. In this session, we will show how our team approached these questions, implemented solutions, and integrated decisions for our analysts to save time and focus their efforts. Speaker(s) Mark Cooke, Staff Incident Responder, GE Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/SEC1446.pdf?podcast=1577146237 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Phantom Track: Security, Compliance and Fraud Level: Good for all skill levels

Incident response (IR) analysts are required to make multiple decisions on every alert and incident. Whether the decision is to escalate, respond, or to discard the alert, each one of those decisions is critical to protecting their environment. With the integration of SOAR platforms like Splunk Phantom into IR teams, many of those decisions can now be automated for analysts. These decisions can save hours of work for analysts and allow for focus on more critical alerts. However, there are still questions to answer before implementing these decisions. What data is needed to make confident decisions? Where in the process should these decisions be made? How can existing decisions be improved? How should new decisions be integrated? The General Electric IR team has worked to answer these questions by using Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Phantom. In this session, we will show how our team approached these questions, implemented solutions, and integrated decisions for our analysts to save time and focus their efforts. Speaker(s) Mark Cooke, Staff Incident Responder, GE Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/SEC1446.pdf?podcast=1577146228 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Phantom Track: Security, Compliance and Fraud Level: Good for all skill levels

Incident response (IR) analysts are required to make multiple decisions on every alert and incident. Whether the decision is to escalate, respond, or to discard the alert, each one of those decisions is critical to protecting their environment. With the integration of SOAR platforms like Splunk Phantom into IR teams, many of those decisions can now be automated for analysts. These decisions can save hours of work for analysts and allow for focus on more critical alerts. However, there are still questions to answer before implementing these decisions. What data is needed to make confident decisions? Where in the process should these decisions be made? How can existing decisions be improved? How should new decisions be integrated? The General Electric IR team has worked to answer these questions by using Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Phantom. In this session, we will show how our team approached these questions, implemented solutions, and integrated decisions for our analysts to save time and focus their efforts. Speaker(s) Mark Cooke, Staff Incident Responder, GE Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/SEC1446.pdf?podcast=1577146223 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Phantom Track: Security, Compliance and Fraud Level: Good for all skill levels

Iain has big plans for the first Giant Brain convention but Jamie is not so sure. Luckily our convention correspondent Mark Cooke is back from Essen with lots of excellent advice. This episode the team cover abuse allegations, industry deaths, awards and more. Iain’s been working on something in the basement and it proves very useful when getting to the core of what convention organisation is all about. No interns were harmed in the making of this episode. Headline Industry distances itself from JR Honeycutt after abuse allegations https://www.thefandomentals.com/abuse-allegations-lead-board-game-industry-to-distance-itself-from-prolific-designer/ https://medium.com/@victoria.mann11/coming-forward-to-move-forward-8608e9c27e74 Esther MacCallum Stewart - https://twitter.com/neveahfs Chad Jensen dies https://twitter.com/HeavyCardboard/status/1195355111612129281?s=20&fbclid=IwAR1srh307usDj-jSIhVeh4YVK6ci9Gu08BgBES_2XhS8Tce_JTGbBbZzaB4http://www.dicetowernews.com/the-board-game-community-loses-chad-jensen-designer-of-dominant-species/61302 MTG has made it into National Toy Hall of Fame (USA) https://www.toyhalloffame.org/toys/magic-gathering News MTG player asked to remove card in support of trans rights  https://dotesports.com/mtg/news/autumn-burchett-told-to-remove-cards-supporting-trans-rights-at-magics-mythic-championship-vi Gw profits soar https://www.cityam.com/games-workshop-shares-soar-as-profits-beat-55m/ Amazon Alexa now plays Ticket to Ride https://www.amazon.com/Days-of-Wonder-Ticket-Ride/dp/B08178MR5M Catan World Explorers https://www.catan.com/game/catan-world-explorers   Exec Producers Lucky Sparrow Gaming Cafe https://www.facebook.com/luckysparrowgamescafe/   Outro DnD Cluedo https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2019/11/08/theres-a-dungeons-dragons-version-of-clue-now/   Mark Cooke and Airecon Twitter: https://twitter.com/aireconuk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aireconuk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aireconuk/?hl=en Website: https://www.airecon.co.uk/   Contact Us  Twitter - https://twitter.com/thegiantbrain Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/giantbrainuk/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thegiantbrain/ Website – http://www.giantbrain.co.uk/ Email – giantbrainuk@gmail.com

In this episode Mike and Dan are joined by Mark "the Cyclops" Cooke to talk about Skodas, vegan paninis, and the failings of the city of Bradford. They also talk about organising Conventions, specifically Airecon in the UK, and the challenges and rewards of doing so. Mark is a very important man indeed - being both the CEO of Hush Hush Projects  and also the organiser of Airecon.  He is also a cyclops. Join the Sporadically Board Facebook group here Follow Sporadically Board on twitter @sporadicboard Follow Mike over on twitter at @michaeldilisio  Follow Dan over on twitter at @dghughes28 Massive thanks to the ever fantastic Gary King for the graphics for the show Also huge thanks to  Singing Sadie for the show's music

This week I talk to the founder of Aire Con, Mark Cooke. We talk about expansion, playing in a heavy metal band and craft beer...but which games did he choose? Listen to the show here. Download the show here. Brew Crafters Codenames Takenoko Sunrise City Bruges Twitter Facebook Support the show here.

Following on from our AireCon review episode, Ben and Charlotte are joined by one of the events organisers' Mark Cooke.    Topics Covered: Passing of Larry DeTillio, writer of The Masks of Nyarlathotep (01:37) Offensive Adult Party Game by The Dragon's Tomb on Kickstarter (02:26) Games Workshop Chaos Space Marines (05:20) Die Hard: The Nakatomi Heist by USAopoly (08:20) AireCon Retrospective (18:31) What went well and what could be improved  Evaluation and Feedback  Plans for 2020! Happy Listening!   The Unlucky Frog Team

Quite a packed episode today! Firstly I give details on what I'm doing regarding AIRECON, an annual convention in Harrogate, UK run by Mark Cooke that I attend each year. Second, it's time to actually talk about games I've played, so here are my initial impressions of Sentient, Res Arcana and Stone Age Anniversary Edition. Thirdly based on a debate online, I give a little mini talk/rant about how people define "theme" in games and why it's important for reviewers to call a game out on it.

Episode 106: A Mischief of Goblins (featuring Mark Cooke of AireCon)       Featured Topics:  Christian T Peterson designer of Twilight Imperium stepping down from Fantasy Flight Games (04:46) Warhammer Age of Sigmar Goblins (06:49) Wingspan by Stonemeier Games and preordering games (11:04) Gaming at Christmas (17:08)      Cheating at Pictionary      The Hartley Scrabble Tournament      Sagrada Vs Azul Vs Roll Player      Koi by Smirk and Laughter Games      Disney Codenames AireCon 2019 (8th- 10th March) (29:16)      Asmodee Demoing      Mythic Games      RPG Zone      Keyforge Tournament      Super Fun Awesome Party Game Time Live 2: The Reimagining       Fameeple Fortunes with I Play Red      Board Game Quiz      AireSocs      Bring and Buy       Board Game Library      Convention App      Food Trucks ____________________________________________________ Honourable Mentions: Rodney Smith Dame Judi Dench Kevin Hartley Kim Joy  __________________________________________________________   Links:  Website: www.airecon.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aireconuk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aireconuk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/aireconuk __________________________________________________________ Credits: Presented by Ben Porter and Josh Hartley Guest Appearance by Mark Cooke Post Production by Charlotte Porter Theme Music by FourFox    

Richard is joined by Mark Cooke, in his ongoing mission to provide the best in Tabletop Conference in the form of Airecon.  We chat about the success of last year, Rodney Smith, Kayaking, Running around in speedos, Playing saxophones with your thumbs and we are delighted to also be joined by Dan Hughes, of Sporadipicadlilly Borned.  KIND OF  LINKS OF NOTES  https://airecon.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/aireconuk/ https://twitter.com/aireconuk +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SUPPORT US FOR 2019 on KICKSTARTER  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/revatar/were-not-wizards-tabletop-podcast-biscuit-fund  If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405  DROP US A REVIEW HERE.. DON'T GIVE US 10 STARS WE ARE NOW ON SPOTIFY!! https://open.spotify.com/show/7ooBejoLBsIHoP7IpCtnYZ YOUTUBE - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/c/WereNotWizardsTabletopPodcast SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH $£ www.patreon.com/werenotwizards Board Game Geek - https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepodcast/35093/were-not-wizards Website - www.werenotwizards.com Blog https://werenotwizards.blogspot.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/werenotwizards Twitter.com - http://www.twitter.com/werenotwizards Check out our pictures - www.instagram.com/werenotwizards THANK YOU FOR LISTENING AND YOUR CONTINUAL SUPPORT

In this episode Mike and Dan drink culturally appropriate beer, complain about kids making too much nose, and at one point even talk about a couple of board games. They are then joined by the majestic Mark Cooke, organiser of Airecon - Europe's biggest open gaming convention, to discuss whether the board game market is oversaturated. Join the Sporadically Board Facebook group here Follow Sporadically Board on twitter @sporadicboard Follow Mike over on twitter at @michaeldilisio  Follow Dan over on twitter at @dghughes28 Massive thanks to the ever fantastic Gary King for the graphics for the show Also huge thanks to the magnificent Singing Sadie for the show's music

Mark Cooke is passionate about the game! A player, Coach and founder of Firecracker baseball in 2007. Based in the Providence RI area Firecracker is a showcase and tournament www.firecrackerbaseball.com Graduated from Bishop Feehan in 1997 on a team that went 20-2 his senior year and won the EAC Conference. Mark was a pitcher during that time, and continued on at Salve Regina University playing 4 years and during his senior year won the Conference Championship and competed in the NCAA Division III Tournament.After playing, he went into coaching at different levels, through the Pawtucket RBI Program, bringing his teams to the World Championships in 2001, 2002 and 2004. Mark has also been affiliated with American Legion baseball in Cumberland, RI and High School baseball at the Wheeler School in Providence, RI and at Bishop Feehan HS in Attleboro, MA.He was named the Head Coach of the Coastal team for the prestigious Bay State Games in Massachusetts in 2014. He has coached over 45 players that have moved onto the collegiate level and 4 players that have played professionally in his 13 years of coaching.Also during his time at the Boys & Girls Club in Pawtucket, he helped run various baseball tournaments with Pawtucket RBI and MLB through the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program, along with various basketball tournaments, including their annual March Madness tournamrnt that included over 80 teams annually.Thanks to our sponsor! www.dbatsports.com www.dbat.netD-BAT was founded in 1998 was considered at the time by many to be the premier baseball and softball training facility in the country.Our main goal was to provide a quality teaching environment with professional instruction to enhance the baseball and softball experience for players at all levels and help them reach their goals.In setting forth on the journey to accomplish this vision, D-BAT opened its original location in a small facility in North Dallas with 6 employees – D-BAT believed that the best way to teach the game was by getting into the details of baseball and softball with each and every player and instructing them as individuals. D-BAT has as a core belief that every player plays a different game and should be taught to maximize his or her talents to suit his or her game. We also wanted to create a new type of baseball academy where there are multiple ways for a player to improve beyond the typical baseball training facility. D-BAT Academies feature an exceptionally well-lit, indoor climate-controlled facility,with an environment that invites parents to be a part of their ballplayer’s development along with a top notch pro shop to provide all your equipment needs.D-BAT began franchising operations in 2008 and today is the Largest network of training facilities in the country. Our current staff is over 300 strong and we are still considered the premier facility in the country. This is due in large part to the innovative way that D-BAT has connected the player and parent with coaches and facilities to better the game.With over 17 years of successfully fulfilling the original vision, D-BAT is now moving to expanding its prestigious academies to reach even more players and enhance the baseball and softball experience for players at all levels. We never stop innovating and enhancing our methods to make players better.From developmental youth camps and private lessons… to the latest equipment and hottest apparel, D-BAT is your premier baseball and softball training center.

Mark Cooke is passionate about the game! A player, Coach and founder of Firecracker baseball in 2007. Based in the Providence RI area Firecracker is a showcase and tournament www.firecrackerbaseball.com Graduated from Bishop Feehan in 1997 on a team that went 20-2 his senior year and won the EAC Conference. Mark was a pitcher during that time, and continued on at Salve Regina University playing 4 years and during his senior year won the Conference Championship and competed in the NCAA Division III Tournament.After playing, he went into coaching at different levels, through the Pawtucket RBI Program, bringing his teams to the World Championships in 2001, 2002 and 2004. Mark has also been affiliated with American Legion baseball in Cumberland, RI and High School baseball at the Wheeler School in Providence, RI and at Bishop Feehan HS in Attleboro, MA.He was named the Head Coach of the Coastal team for the prestigious Bay State Games in Massachusetts in 2014. He has coached over 45 players that have moved onto the collegiate level and 4 players that have played professionally in his 13 years of coaching.Also during his time at the Boys & Girls Club in Pawtucket, he helped run various baseball tournaments with Pawtucket RBI and MLB through the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program, along with various basketball tournaments, including their annual March Madness tournamrnt that included over 80 teams annually.Thanks to our sponsor! www.dbatsports.com www.dbat.netD-BAT was founded in 1998 was considered at the time by many to be the premier baseball and softball training facility in the country.Our main goal was to provide a quality teaching environment with professional instruction to enhance the baseball and softball experience for players at all levels and help them reach their goals.In setting forth on the journey to accomplish this vision, D-BAT opened its original location in a small facility in North Dallas with 6 employees – D-BAT believed that the best way to teach the game was by getting into the details of baseball and softball with each and every player and instructing them as individuals. D-BAT has as a core belief that every player plays a different game and should be taught to maximize his or her talents to suit his or her game. We also wanted to create a new type of baseball academy where there are multiple ways for a player to improve beyond the typical baseball training facility. D-BAT Academies feature an exceptionally well-lit, indoor climate-controlled facility,with an environment that invites parents to be a part of their ballplayer’s development along with a top notch pro shop to provide all your equipment needs.D-BAT began franchising operations in 2008 and today is the Largest network of training facilities in the country. Our current staff is over 300 strong and we are still considered the premier facility in the country. This is due in large part to the innovative way that D-BAT has connected the player and parent with coaches and facilities to better the game.With over 17 years of successfully fulfilling the original vision, D-BAT is now moving to expanding its prestigious academies to reach even more players and enhance the baseball and softball experience for players at all levels. We never stop innovating and enhancing our methods to make players better.From developmental youth camps and private lessons… to the latest equipment and hottest apparel, D-BAT is your premier baseball and softball training center.

Mark Cooke is passionate about the game! A player, Coach and founder of Firecracker baseball in 2007. Based in the Providence RI area Firecracker is a showcase and tournament www.firecrackerbaseball.com Graduated from Bishop Feehan in 1997 on a team that went 20-2 his senior year and won the EAC Conference. Mark was a pitcher during that time, and continued on at Salve Regina University playing 4 years and during his senior year won the Conference Championship and competed in the NCAA Division III Tournament.After playing, he went into coaching at different levels, through the Pawtucket RBI Program, bringing his teams to the World Championships in 2001, 2002 and 2004. Mark has also been affiliated with American Legion baseball in Cumberland, RI and High School baseball at the Wheeler School in Providence, RI and at Bishop Feehan HS in Attleboro, MA.He was named the Head Coach of the Coastal team for the prestigious Bay State Games in Massachusetts in 2014. He has coached over 45 players that have moved onto the collegiate level and 4 players that have played professionally in his 13 years of coaching.Also during his time at the Boys & Girls Club in Pawtucket, he helped run various baseball tournaments with Pawtucket RBI and MLB through the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program, along with various basketball tournaments, including their annual March Madness tournamrnt that included over 80 teams annually.Thanks to our sponsor! www.dbatsports.com www.dbat.netD-BAT was founded in 1998 was considered at the time by many to be the premier baseball and softball training facility in the country.Our main goal was to provide a quality teaching environment with professional instruction to enhance the baseball and softball experience for players at all levels and help them reach their goals.In setting forth on the journey to accomplish this vision, D-BAT opened its original location in a small facility in North Dallas with 6 employees – D-BAT believed that the best way to teach the game was by getting into the details of baseball and softball with each and every player and instructing them as individuals. D-BAT has as a core belief that every player plays a different game and should be taught to maximize his or her talents to suit his or her game. We also wanted to create a new type of baseball academy where there are multiple ways for a player to improve beyond the typical baseball training facility. D-BAT Academies feature an exceptionally well-lit, indoor climate-controlled facility,with an environment that invites parents to be a part of their ballplayer’s development along with a top notch pro shop to provide all your equipment needs.D-BAT began franchising operations in 2008 and today is the Largest network of training facilities in the country. Our current staff is over 300 strong and we are still considered the premier facility in the country. This is due in large part to the innovative way that D-BAT has connected the player and parent with coaches and facilities to better the game.With over 17 years of successfully fulfilling the original vision, D-BAT is now moving to expanding its prestigious academies to reach even more players and enhance the baseball and softball experience for players at all levels. We never stop innovating and enhancing our methods to make players better.From developmental youth camps and private lessons… to the latest equipment and hottest apparel, D-BAT is your premier baseball and softball training center.

In today's Independence Day Episode Ben is chatting with Mark Cooke of AireCon, and very briefly by his co-host Charlotte! Mark talks about his own gaming history, the ups and downs of convention planning, and their plans for AireCon 2019 and beyond!   We hope you enjoy listening!   Thanks Unlucky Frog Team

Sorry its been a while guys - work is causing me no end of sleepless nights and my recent PC calamity didn't help! That's why this episode is a little more "slapdash" than usual. But bear with me, next episode should see a return to form! In this episode I take on two main topics - firstly I reflect on my recent experiences at AIRECON, the growing convention in Harrogate run by Mark Cooke and his team. This time I brought my girlfriend along who's not a gamer by nature - so how did it turn out? After that with the announcement of the Golden Geek Awards 2017 on BoardGameGeek - I have a few words.........and rants........to say about them. 00:00 Introduction 05:52 - AIRECON 23:54 - Golden Geek Awards 2017

Richard is joined by Mark Cooke to chat about Airecon, how it started and how it has grown into one of the well loved events in the UK from the original event in his livingroom with 30 people On from the 9th to the 11th of March, there are still tickets on sale. We also get a bit gushy about Rodney Smith.  Because we love him at WNW towers. But after speaking to Mark and finding out about his lovely breakfast, we might just like him very much indeed as well. LINKS OF NOTES https://airecon.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1916702225220270/ https://twitter.com/aireconuk?lang=en +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you like what you have heard, please take some time to Rate, Subscribe and Review us on APPLE PODCASTS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/were-not-wizards/id1084198405    DROP US A REVIEW HERE.. WE ARE NOW ON SPOTIFY!! https://open.spotify.com/show/7ooBejoLBsIHoP7IpCtnYZ YOUTUBE - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE https://www.youtube.com/c/WereNotWizardsTabletopPodcast www.patreon.com/werenotwizards  SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH $£  Board Game Geek - https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepodcast/35093/were-not-wizards  Website - www.werenotwizards.com    Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/werenotwizards   Twitter.com - http://www.twitter.com/werenotwizards  Get us on Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/were-not-wizards   Get us through acast - http://www.acast.com/werenotwizards  Get us through Podknife - https://podknife.com/podcasts/4048   Check out our pictures - www.instagram.com/werenotwizards  BUY SOME MERCH - https://www.redbubble.com/shop/we're%20not%20wizards#_  .   Music is owned entirely by We're Not Wizards and thanks to DouglasVB Email us magic@werenotwizards.com   Remember, we are many things but We're Not Wizards

In this episode we talk to Mark Cooke, Founder and CEO of Shiny Shoe, a game studio that balances building its own games with bringing the games of other studios to new platforms. Shiny Shoe has worked on great titles like Banner Saga, Day of the Tentacle, and Telltale’s Game of Thrones. Mark talks about what it takes to build and run a studio that thrives on finding the next big challenge in game making.

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Born and raised in East Texas, Mark Cooke is chasing his dream as a country artist and songwriter here in Nashville.  He released his debut E-P last fall, and plans on launching a full album later this year.  The leadoff single "Any Way The Wind Blows" was written by the bumber one winning team of Mark Nesler, Jennifer Hanson, and Marty Dodson.  We caught up with Mark at his very first Nashville show downtown at The Rutledge.  Here's Kelly with more.