Podcasts about Puget Sound

Literally everything in this tweet from Pramila Jayapal about the income tax is a lie. Seattle office tower across the street from Amazon sells for $12.5 million after a $97 million valuation in 2019. Trump hosted tech executives at the White House today to discuss the future of AI. // Big Local: A small earthquake hit the Puget Sound region today. // You Pick the Topic: An actress went on a bizarre screed about how she wishes her son was gay.

Former Washington Governor Christine Gregoire released her Challenge Seattle report this week with an unambiguous verdict: the Puget Sound region has lost nearly 7,000 jobs and surrendered its competitive edge to other metros. Starbucks is building a $100 million Nashville campus. Amazon is quietly exiting South Lake Union. The warning signs are no longer subtle — they're on every balance sheet across King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties.Sean's read: this is the entirely predictable outcome of a Democrat supermajority that spent decades choosing ideology over economic competitiveness. Regulatory overload, a hostile business climate, and a reflexive tax appetite didn't happen by accident — they were legislated into place, one progressive priority at a time. Now that the data is undeniable, regional leaders are holding summits and launching partnerships. Meanwhile, Katie Wilson and the progressive revenue caucus are already eyeing the next hike.A statewide millionaire tax is headed to a ballot repeal vote. If it survives, Sean argues it's game over for Washington's remaining advantages. Venture capital is retreating, restaurant permitting is a bureaucratic nightmare, and Microsoft has publicly warned about payroll tax exposure. Bellevue is quietly capturing the business Seattle keeps pushing away — but that math has a ceiling too.CHAPTERS0:00 Former Gov. Gregoire: Puget Sound lost…1:51 Gregoire: Puget Sound Is Cooked2:28 Four Decades of Democrats Killed…3:52 Amazon and Starbucks Flee Washington5:10 Washington Has a Spending Problem6:37 Microsoft Warns Against the Payroll Tax8:08 63 Steps to Open a Seattle Restaurant9:15 Ferguson and Unions Back Millionaire Tax10:08 Challenge Seattle Report: Rankings…12:42 Four Drivers Behind Puget Sound's…15:16 Starbucks Moves 2,000 Jobs to Nashville18:39 Washington Now Has 200,000 State…22:40 Zahilay Focuses on AI While Businesses…24:22 Seattle Police Staffing Among Worst in…Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily news commentary that cuts through what the Seattle establishment won't say.#NFRP #PugetSound #WashingtonGO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS

Tide vs Current: Why You're Fishing at the Wrong TimeIf you have been planning your fishing day around the tide table, you are reading the wrong instrument. Tide tells you how high the water is. Current tells you how hard it is moving, and that is what decides where the bait sits and when salmon feed. This episode separates the two, shows you where the strongest current actually falls, and gives you a repeatable way to plan any trip in any season.Episode OverviewWhy tide is vertical and current is horizontal, and why confusing the two puts you on the water at the wrong hourWhere maximum current actually falls, according to NOAA, and why it is not at high or low tideWhat hard current does to baitfish, and why that decides the bite window rather than whether salmon are hungryThe roughly two-hour window either side of slack when the food chain is most activeWhere bait goes when it cannot hold in the flow, and why you should fish the lee and back eddiesA screen walkthrough of three tools showing the same place on the same dayHow to apply all of it to September coho in Marine Area 7Timestamps00:00 - What Salmon School students wanted most01:24 - Welcome to Fishing for a Reason01:57 - Tide is vertical, current is horizontal02:38 - Flood and ebb: the vocabulary03:03 - Max current is not at high or low tide04:15 - What slack water actually is05:13 - Why timing is different everywhere06:01 - What current does to the bait07:07 - The two-hour bite window07:47 - Where bait goes when it cannot fight the current08:41 - The 1.5 knot rule09:56 - Three tools, same place, same day13:37 - Applying it to September coho14:11 - Final takeawaysKey TakeawaysTide is vertical, current is horizontal, and current matters more to your fishing day.Maximum current happens between the tides, not at high or low tide.Slack and high tide are not the same moment, and they can be far apart.Hard current pins bait flat to the bottom; slack lets it rise and the salmon move in.Fish roughly an hour either side of slack current.When the current is up, fish the lee and back eddies instead of the flow.A big exchange can mean a harder day, not a better one.Check the current station for the exact place you are fishing, because timing varies everywhere.Resources & LinksNOAA on tides and currents: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.govNOAA tidal current predictions: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/noaacurrents/stations.html?g=698Island Fisherman Magazine, Fishing Tidal Currents to Your Advantage: https://islandfishermanmagazine.com/fishing-tidal-currents-to-your-advantage/Navionics: https://www.navionics.comWDFW sport fishing regulations: https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulationsPrevious episode on coho run timing: https://youtu.be/1rftcbGi7yQWant more?Go to https://anglersunlimited.co/gold to learn more about our membership. Monthly expert seminars, step-by-step courses, fishing maps, and a community of 100+ anglers who want you to succeed.About the PodcastFishing for a Reason is the Pacific Northwest saltwater fishing education podcast for new anglers and families who want to catch more salmon, halibut, lingcod, shrimp and crab in Washington waters. Hosted by Jamie & Scott Propst from Anglers Unlimited, each episode delivers practical techniques, local knowledge, and expert insights to help you get off the couch and into the fish. Perfect for relocated professionals, military families, and boaters who are just getting into fishing.

My buyer fell in love with a waterfront property overlooking Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains, even though it came with a shot roof and a damaged drain field. Then her due diligence turned up something neither of us saw coming, and the repair bill kept climbing. In this video, I share how slowing down, doing the research, and negotiating strongly helped her buy the home that was calling her name for far below asking. Watch the video to hear how the story ends.

We're getting back into business news! The host of KUOW's Seattle Now podcast Trish Murphy and producer Vaughan Jones break down the top stories with Rachel.Seattle's business leaders are pressing Mayor Wilson on two fronts: a struggling business economy and public safety. The Puget Sound lost jobs in 2025 for the first time in decades, and unemployment sits above the national average at 5.2%. Challenge Seattle and the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce are pushing the mayor on permitting, taxes, and gun violence. Top Stories:Seattle leaders fighting economic decline (KUOW, PSBJ, Seattle Times)Business leaders urging Mayor Wilson to address public safety (KUOW, PSBJ)A new rooftop bar in South Lake Union opens (Seattle Refined, PSBJ)WaFd to merge with Everbank in a $3.9 billion deal (PSBJ)About guests Trish Murphy - Host, Seattle Now, and Vaughan Jones - Producer and Sports Correspondent, Seattle Now, KUOW:Trish Murphy hosts KUOW's daily news podcast Seattle Now, and previously covered military and veterans issues as a beat reporter. Vaughan Jones is a producer and sports correspondent for Seattle Now, and has spent his career at NPR member stations.About host Rachel Horgan:Rachel is an independent event producer, emcee and entrepreneur. She worked for the Business Journal as their Director of Events interviewing business leaders on stage before launching the weekly seattle podcast. She earned her communication degree from the University of San Diego.Contact:Email: info@theweeklyseattle.comInstagram: @theweeklyseattleWebsite: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theweeklyseattle.com

Seattle Industrial Capital Markets Are Turning | Puget Sound 2026 Update Puget Sound Industrial Capital Markets Update: Investors Return, Cap Rates Improve, and Seattle Shows Signs of Recovery On the Industrial Advisors Podcast's 10th-anniversary season launch, Matt McGregor and Kyle Back discuss year-to-date Puget Sound industrial capital markets into Q3 (recorded Sept. 8), noting improving investor sentiment toward Seattle as the market "bounces along the bottom" and expectations of positive absorption after years of negative absorption amid limited new construction. They report 77 transactions totaling $1.9B (with 51% of volume in five deals) and cap rates generally ranging from 5.25%–6.0% (higher for challenged assets), including a recent 5.25% trade. Buyers are prioritizing Class A, strong-credit, well-located assets, while South Seattle remains difficult due to weak leasing economics and safety concerns. Major deals include Amazon-leased Kelso (~1.2M SF) at a 5.8% cap and Bridge Logistics' 782K SF Frederickson deal at a 5.35% cap, with investors outpacing owner-users 46–13. They anticipate a strong finish to the year, more institutional activity, and further cap-rate compression. 00:00 Seattle Bottoming Out 00:49 Season 10 Kickoff 01:43 New Format and Markets 02:41 Year to Date Deal Volume 03:37 Cap Rates and Buyer Focus 05:20 South Seattle Challenges 06:52 Investor Sentiment Shifts 09:41 Top Five Mega Deals 11:39 Investors vs Owner Users 13:42 Portfolio Buyers Return 15:15 Best Basis Deals 16:22 Year End Outlook 17:44 Wrap Up and Thanks

Why can we genuinely love someone and still struggle with their success?Envy is one of the most universal human emotions and one of the hardest to admit.It rarely begins with strangers. It tends to emerge between people who resemble us. Siblings. Friends. Coworkers. Partners. The person whose life is close enough to our own that their success becomes a mirror.Sara Protasi is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Puget Sound and the author of The Philosophy of Envy. For more than 15 years, she has studied envy, rivalry, social comparison, and the complicated ways these forces shape our closest relationships.She begins with an important distinction.Jealousy is the fear of losing something we already have. Envy is the painful awareness of something another person has that we believe we lack.Jealousy protects. Envy compares.As a teenager, Sara deeply admired one of her closest friends, but also believed her friend was prettier. Rather than acknowledging that insecurity, she began making subtle digs and backhanded comments.Years later, she recognized what had been happening.She genuinely loved her friend, but she also envied her.Those emotions were not mutually exclusive.That is part of what makes envy so difficult to recognize. It can exist alongside affection, admiration, and loyalty. It may appear as a joke with too much edge, a dismissive comment, or an inability to celebrate another person's success.But envy is not always destructive.Sara describes emulative envy, which occurs when another person's advantage becomes evidence of what may be possible for us.She shares the story of watching another dancer with a similar body type perform a movement she believed she could not do. Then Sara noticed that the dancer's leg was shaking from the effort.The difference was not an impossible physical advantage."She's just a hard worker," Sara realized.Instead of diminishing the other dancer, she studied her, worked harder, and improved.Envy had become information.But comparison can also move in the opposite direction.Aggressive envy focuses on taking an advantage away from someone else. Spiteful envy goes even further. The envious person may gain nothing, but still wants the other person to lose.The central question is not whether we compare ourselves to others. Social comparison is a natural part of being human.The question is what we do next.Do we allow another person's success to expose our insecurities and make us bitter?Or can we use that discomfort to clarify what we value, what we want, and who we might become?A life built entirely around comparison has no finish line.Near the end of the conversation, Sara becomes deeply personal. She discusses comparing herself to other academics, learning to parent herself, and how part of her competitive drive may trace back to not always feeling unconditionally loved as a child.Her work has not eliminated comparison from her life. It has helped her recognize it, understand it, and redirect it toward something more constructive.Perhaps the goal is not to stop comparing ourselves entirely.Perhaps it is to become more conscious of what the comparison is trying to tell us.As Sara puts it:"If you care about something, you should go and get it."Hosted by Pedro Frias.Connect with Sara Protasi:▶︎ BOOK | The Philosophy of Envyhttps://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/ethics/philosophy-envy?format=HB▶︎ DISCOUNT | Use code PE25 for 25% off through December 31, 2026→ → → CONNECT WITH PEDRO FRIAS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ← ← ←▶︎ YOUTUBE | https://www.youtube.com/realpedrofrias▶︎ INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/pedromfrias▶︎ LINKEDIN | https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrofrias/▶︎ WEBSITE | https://www.pedrofrias.co

Former Washington Governor Christine Gregoire’s group Challenge Seattle is sounding the alarm about the economic future of the Puget Sound region, but she fails to call out who is responsible. Washington Democrats made a gun class mandatory, then banned the teachers and jacked up permit fee. // Macklemore gets booted from the Ed Sheeran tour thanks to venue owners. No, it’s not ‘cancel culture.’ // A New York House candidate once modeled for BDSM ads.

Today on the show, Paul and Ben talk about mashup covers, Soul Coughing and Mike Doughty, musical instrument check, new tables, remembering phone numbers and land lines, I object, I'm washing the milk, Czarface and Frankie Pulitzer, Señor Wences was a hand guy, Bronson, Our Robocop Remake, You Can See Everything, Sandy Duncan's Wheat Thins, cat dynamics, and if Lake Michigan is larger than the Puget Sound.

What happens if Putin finally uses a nuclear weapon in Ukraine... NATO's response could change the war overnight Dr. Phil rages over UFO 'lie' the US government has told Americans Iran's vice president warns Americans should begin stockpiling for dark months ahead Expert predicts 'capitulation' of Iran's regime One by one, $100M+ fighter jets disappear into the sky - "Something big is moving" The jig is up: Putin might make a deal to end the Ukraine war Scientists discovered time travel may already be happening A US intelligence officer went under oath - then he started talking about UFOs Watch the 747 open its back - then launch fighters in midair NASA found strange spots in a 3-billion-year-old Martian rock - they may be the clearest sign of life yet Somali pirates opened fire on a cargo ship. Then it turned toward them Nervous Putin sends out warning to all Russians: "Be prepared for anything" The TR-3B Black Manta: Secret aircraft or anti-gravity myth? Watch Boeing's $20+ billion F-47 fighter prepare to rule the skies Trump just handed the world a big clue that the Iran war might go from shooting missiles and drones to a sanctions battle The engine that could take us from Earth to Mars in 10 days Watch a $100 million stealth fighter stop in midair and drop straight down Putin sends 'a clear signal to America' as drones strike Coca-Cola factory A plane hit Beijing's tallest building inside a massive no-fly zone… China still won't explain how – no one knows - my take He reported a UFO over Puget Sound - then a man in black appeared at his door, "We know what you saw" US just attacked Iranian oil tankers and 100 more targets - Trump said the next strike would be "much harder" Scientists believe artificial intelligence could be the greatest threat to intelligent civilizations 3 gang members jumped a former Navy SEAL inside a jail cell… he ended them all in 22 seconds United Public Radio & UFO Paranormal Radio www.uprntalkradio.com

Where Are All the Coho? How to Predict Salmon Timing in Washington Waters"Where's all the coho?" is the question filling up the Gold community right now, and it's a fair one. If you've been grinding August hours in Marine Area 7 without a legal fish to show for it, nothing is wrong with you or the run. This episode walks through the biology, the public data, and the regulations that explain coho timing, so by the end you can work out any species in any year for yourself instead of waiting for someone to tell you.Episode OverviewWhy coho run on a rigid three-year clock while chinook can take anywhere from two to seven years, and why that makes coho far more predictableWhat jacks are, why up to 30% of a wild return can be them, and what a pile of small early coho actually tells you about that yearThe rain trigger most anglers miss: coho stack at stream mouths and wait for flow to riseReal WDFW creel numbers from September 2024 in Area 7, and what they prove about September versus AugustWhy Marine Area 7 rules can be stricter than neighboring areas because of Canadian stocks and the Pacific Salmon TreatyThe three-step process to forecast your own season: read the wild coho forecast, check the regs, check the emergency rulesTimestamps00:00 - Where's all the coho?01:00 - Women on the Water, September 1704:00 - The coho three-year clock06:00 - Jacks and genetic variation07:00 - The rain trigger08:00 - Where coho hold in Marine Area 709:00 - Creel data and the September spike11:00 - 2026 Marine Area 7 salmon windows12:00 - Mixed stock fishery and the Pacific Salmon Treaty15:00 - Three steps to forecast any seasonKey TakeawaysThe coho aren't missing in August, they just haven't shown up yet.Coho are a September fish in Washington waters, and the creel data proves it.Fish the exterior of the San Juan Islands, not the inside passages.Watch the rain forecast as closely as the tide chart.A run of small jacks is real information about that year, not bad luck.Marine Area 7 rules that feel stricter are often protecting somebody else's fish.Every date in this episode will be wrong next year, which is why you learn the process.Resources & LinksWDFW coho salmon species page: https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/species/oncorhynchus-kisutchWDFW Puget Sound creel reports: https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/creel/pugetWDFW emergency fishing rules: https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations/emergency-rulesWDFW sport fishing regulations: https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulationsFish Washington app: https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/washington-fishing-appNOAA Fisheries coho salmon: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/coho-salmon-protectedWDFW Wild Coho Forecast publication: https://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/02698Women on the Water, Sept 17, Bellingham Yacht Club, 5-8pm, free: https://wkf.ms/467GOYuNorth of Falcon episode: https://youtu.be/N_QH0se7ZQUAbout the Podcast Fishing for a Reason is the Pacific Northwest saltwater fishing education podcast for new anglers and families who want to catch more salmon, halibut, lingcod, shrimp and crab in Washington waters. Hosted by Jamie & Scott Propst from Anglers Unlimited, each episode delivers practical techniques, local knowledge, and expert insights to help you get off the couch and into the fish. Perfect for relocated professionals, military families, and boaters who are just getting into fishing.

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is author David B. Williams. His new book, "In The Range of Fire and Ice: A Human and Natural History of Washington's Cascades" is available now from booksellers around the Pacific Northwest, and he's about to embark on a series of author appearances and book talks throughout the late summer and into the late autumn around Western Washington. Williams has written a number of popular books, including "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound" (UW Press, 2021), and often leads walking tours and writes and speaks about Northwest history. CASCADE OF HISTORY spoke with David B. Williams on Thursday, August 27, 2026. "In The Range of Fire and Ice" from Mountaineers Books: https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/in-the-range-of-fire-and-ice-a-human-and-natural-history-of-washington2019s-cascades Upcoming author appearances by David B. Williams: https://geologywriter.com/walks-talks/ Links to more information as well as images related to most topics discussed on the show are often available at the CASCADE OF HISTORY Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/cascadeofhistory CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via flagship station SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via www.space101fm.org. The radio station broadcasts from studios at historic Magnuson Park – located in the former Master-at-Arms' quarters in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle. Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes. "LIKE" the Cascade of History Facebook page and get updates and other stories throughout the week, and advance notice of live remote broadcasts taking place in your part of the Old Oregon Country.

Jessica Tweed of Tacoma’s Oscar’s Enemies never set out to build a movement. In September 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, Jessica asked her family to help her pick up litter in her Tacoma, WA neighborhood near Sixth Avenue for her birthday. What started off as Jessica and her friends having a socially distant birthday with grabbers, reused grocery bags, and her husband hauling trash in his truck has grown into Oscar’s Enemies. Oscar’s Enemies is a fully volunteer run organization that now hosts 18 organized litter pickups a year across Tacoma, WA and draws anywhere from 60 to 125 people per event. In this episode of the podcast, Jessica walks Marguerite through the surprisingly complex logistics behind each pickup. Routes are scouted by driving the streets of Tacoma, WA looking for litter dense areas, checking for safe parking for so many volunteers, abundant crosswalks, and accessible bathrooms. This scouting process alone can take two to four hours per route. Locations are kept secret until the week of the event, a lesson learned the hard way after early announcements led to the litter disappearing before volunteers arrived. WHAT A PROBLEM TO HAVE. The episode also covers how Oscar’s Enemies partners with the City of Tacoma’s Neighborhood Litter Patrol for supplies like bags, gloves, and landfill passes, and how the group collaborates with other Tacoma, WA organizations including Tacoma Trash Pandas, Tacoma Beer Week, and University of Puget Sound students. Jessica shares how the group keeps volunteers engaged with post pickup raffles featuring donated gift cards from local businesses, and milestone thank you gifts for repeat volunteers. Marguerite, (who joined a pickup herself ahead of this recording), and Jessica also dig into the deeper why behind the work: what litter reveals about a city, why so much of it comes from overfilled bins and unsecured loads rather than the assumptions people make, and Jessica’s advice for anyone in Tacoma, WA who wants to start something similar in their own community. Looking ahead, Oscar’s Enemies is exploring a possible partnership with the Washington Department of Transportation to tackle litter on highway on ramps and off ramps in 2026. Jessica Tweed is the founder of Oscar’s Enemies, a volunteer led litter cleanup group she started in Tacoma, WA in 2020 and has grown into 18 organized pickups a year. She lives near Sixth Avenue with her husband and has called Tacoma, WA home since fifth grade. Marguerite Martin is a Tacoma real estate agent and the founder of MoveToTacoma.com, a neighborhood guide, blog, and podcast helping people find their place in Tacoma, WA and Pierce County. She has been a licensed agent since 2005. The post Oscar’s Enemies Tacoma: Building Community Through Litter Cleanup with Jessica Tweed appeared first on Move to Tacoma.

In this episode, host Marc Goldberg interviews two dedicated apprentices with the Machinists Institute — Tristen Herbig and Kristin Mayer — along with Shana Peschek, Machinists Institute's founding Executive Director and current Training & Apprenticeships Director with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM), and Hien Kieu, Executive Director at Partner in Employment (PIE), a community-based organizational partner to Machinists Institute.Tristen and Kristin share their apprenticeship experiences with the Machinists Institute at their respective employers, MSHS Pacific Power Group in the Puget Sound area and Koontz Machine and Welding in Coos Bay, Oregon. They offer insights on how organizations can support and scale apprenticeship programs, and reflect on how this education and training experience has shaped their careers and lives.Shana builds on the conversation with Tristen and Kristin and elaborates on the Machinists Institute apprenticeship model, which includes critical support services for learners such as childcare to help ensure participants can address different needs to be able to complete their apprenticeship program. She emphasizes the important role of community partnerships in MI's scaling efforts with employers, community colleges, and community-based organizations like Partner in Employment.Hien describes how Partner in Employment offers pathways to good jobs for immigrant and refugee populations in the Seattle/Tacoma area, including a dynamic pre-apprenticeship program with Machinists Institute that has prepared many clients for registered apprenticeships and machining-related employment opportunities across the region. She shares valuable recommendations on effective partnerships and how to center learners in this collaborative work.This season of the podcast comes to you through the support of Ascendium Education.

Washington Crabbing 101: How to Stay Legal and Fill Your PotsTwo Dungeness crab come out of the same pot, same day, same size. One gives you a quarter of its body weight in meat. The other gives you less than 20%, and what you do get is sparse, stringy, and a pain to pick. Most people who have crabbed for years still cannot tell those two crab apart.This episode fixes that, and takes on the bigger surprise: crabbing has more rules than salmon does. Jamie covers every rule that can turn a fun Saturday into a citation, then gets into what actually fills pots -- depth, bait, soak time, and where to set in the islands.Episode OverviewThe licensing step most people miss on the Fish Washington app, and why skipping it makes you illegalWhat is actually legal for kids, including why a four month old cannot hold a limitGear that has to be right before you leave the dock: escape rings, rot cord, buoys, leaded lineReal spots in Marine Area 7 plus Scott's Oak Harbor and Skagit Bay picksWhy over-soaking your pots costs you crab, backed by GoPro footage shot inside a potThe three-check keeper test: sex, size, and the pinch that separates soft shell from hardTimestamps00:00 -- Two crab, same size, very different coolers02:00 -- Resurrection Derby and Women on the Water06:00 -- Your license, and the catch record card step people miss08:00 -- Kids on the boat: free licenses and legal extra limits11:00 -- Open days, escape rings, rot cord, and legal buoys14:00 -- Weighting your pots and where Dungeness actually live17:00 -- Marine Area 7 spots, plus Scott's Oak Harbor picks18:00 -- Bait, soak time, and the over-soak mistake22:00 -- Limits, sex, size, and the pinch test26:00 -- Eight takeaways before you leave the dockKey TakeawaysBuying the shellfish license is not enough, you have to add the crab catch record card separately.Every license needs its own phone, so your teenager cannot ride along on your app.Kids under 16 fish free and hold their own limit if they can physically work the gear.Crabbing is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays in Marine Areas 6 and 7, and pots have to be out.Two units of crab gear per person, with no cap on units per boat in Puget Sound.Set your pots in the evening and pull at first light, because crab feed at night.Soft shell crab give up less than half the meat, so pinch the rear leg and toss the soft ones back.Resources & LinksResurrection Derby, Bellingham Bay, August 29-30, 2026: https://www.resurrectionderby.comWomen on the Water with LFS, Thursday September 17, Bellingham Yacht Club, free, 100 seats: https://wkf.ms/467GOYuReport a lost crab pot, Northwest Straits Foundation: https://www.derelictgear.org | https://nwstraitsfoundation.org/WDFW shellfish gear rules: https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfishing-regulations/gear-rulesWant the full structured learning experience? Join Anglers Unlimited Gold and get expert seminars, step-by-step courses, fishing maps, recipes, and a community that wants you to succeed: https://anglersunlimited.co/goldFishing for a Reason is the Pacific Northwest saltwater fishing education podcast for new anglers and families who want to catch more salmon, halibut, lingcod, shrimp and crab in Washington waters. Hosted by Jamie and Scott Propst from Anglers Unlimited, each episode delivers practical techniques and local knowledge to help you get off the couch and into the fish.

Washington Policy Center's Mark Harmsworth pushes back on a Seattle Times column that framed Microsoft's $18.7 billion and Amazon's $17.4 billion federal tax reductions as corporate greed, arguing those companies anchor Puget Sound's $607 billion gross regional product and support hundreds of thousands of Washington jobs. https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opinion-wishing-away-washingtons-economic-engines-is-policy-malpractice/ #WashingtonState #TaxPolicy #Microsoft #Amazon #WashingtonPolicyCenter #Opinion #SmallBusiness #Economy

Air Date - 19 August 2026What happens to your brain when you practice magic? My guest this week on Destination Unlimited, Dr. Siddharth Ramakrishnan, PhD, reveals how your mind is wired for intentions, spells, and dreams. Using straightforward language and full-color brain maps, he translates the complex science behind the brain's circuitry and reveals how practicing magic alters these circuits—literally rewiring the brain. In his new book, The Neuroscience of Magic: How Your Brain Is Wired for Intentions, Spells, and Dreams, readers discover how their minds are inherently built for magical thinking, and how that wiring can be intentionally harnessed. Through dozens of practical exercises, readers learn to amplify the power of their words, intentions, and beliefs to manifest results. Dr. Ramakrishnan is a neuroscientist, artist, and educator. He chairs the Neuroscience Department at the University of Puget Sound and is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He is also the author of The Neuroscience of Tarot and creator of the Neuro Tarot deck.His website is https://www.brainmystic.com/, and he joins me this week to share his new book and amazing work.#SiddharthRamakrishnan #VictorFuhrman #DestinationUnlimitedConnect with Victor Fuhrman at https://victorthevoice.com/Visit the Destination Unlimited Show Page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/destination-unlimited/Subscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

No Downriggers? You Can Still Catch Salmon (Here's the Setup)For anglers who have a boat but no downriggers or aren't ready to invest before they know they'll stick with fishing, salmon can still feel out of reach. In this episode, Jamie breaks down the simplest, most budget-friendly way to target coho and king salmon using a deep six diver instead of downriggers. This one's especially useful if you're fishing a sailboat, a smaller boat, or you're just getting started and want to try before you buy.Episode OverviewWhy coho season (September) is one of the best times to fish without downriggersHow to rig a deep six diver as a downrigger replacementThe right leader lengths for running a diver straight to bait versus adding a flasherBest lure choices for diver fishingHow far behind the boat to run your gear and what trolling speed to useWhere to learn about mooching as another downrigger-free optionWhy you need a catch record card and how to add one to your WDFW licenseTimestamped Sections 00:00 – Intro and Salmon School waitlist mention01:00 – Used downrigger episode reference (Episode 53)02:00 – Why coho season is perfect for diver fishing03:00 – Whiskey rod explained, caution on turns04:00 – Deep six diver mechanism explained05:00 – Rigging basics: herring in a hood, lateral line06:00 – Short bus flashers and leader length setup07:00 – Leader length details and lure choices08:00 – Popping the clip and fighting the fish09:00 – How far to run your line and trolling speed10:00 – Mooching as an alternative11:00 – Catch record card requirement and wrap upResources & Links Free Lure Training: https://anglersunlimited.co/3-essential-luresEpisode 53, How to Buy Used Fishing Gear on a Budget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJRBKP90yss&t=713sMooching Episode with Justin Wong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNOZrq0NBVA&t=6sWDFW App / Catch Record Card Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taN8OEi2t-Q&t=454sWDFW Fishing Regulations: https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulationsYakima Bait Flashers: https://amzn.to/4gpGQQvWant more tutorials like this one? Join Anglers Unlimited Gold and get access to expert seminars, step-by-step courses, fishing maps, and a community of anglers who want you to succeed. https://anglersunlimited.co/goldFishing for a Reason is the Pacific Northwest saltwater fishing education podcast for new anglers and families who want to catch more salmon, halibut, lingcod, shrimp and crab in Washington waters. Hosted by Jamie & Scott Propst from Anglers Unlimited, each episode delivers practical techniques, local knowledge, and expert insights to help you get off the couch and into the fish. Perfect for relocated professionals, military families, and boaters who are just getting into fishing.

Today we welcome Kris Shinn Hey, I'm Kris Kristopher Shinn is a Seattle-based photographer and creator of By Way of Water, a series of photographs showcasing the Washington State ferries. For many years, he's documented several journeys across the Puget Sound on 35mm and medium format film. Kristopher enjoys spending time with his partner and their dog Bixby, exploring the world, and capturing memories with his camera. With over 10 years of experience as a photographer, he aims to shine light on subjects that are otherwise overlooked. Thank you for your support! The B.I.Stander Podcast is a listener supported podcast so please consider subscribing and patronizing the follow businesses.   BE A FRIEND OF PODCASTVILLE AND TELL A FRIEND! Thank you to our very supportive sponsors! Blue Canary Auto Locations in Bainbridge Island & Bremerton Sound Reprographics Locations in Bainbridge Island & Poulsbo Tideland Magazine Pick up a copy on the Ferry Sheldon Orthodontics Free Consultation  Racines - Best Mexican Food in Bainbridge Island https://cogwheelconstruction.com/ Built right! Music by my guy! LeRoy Bell Editing by: https://cnewman626.substack.com/p/van-life-102 Follow Cherie on Substack!

Charles Prestrud of the Washington Policy Center examines Puget Sound transit data showing a 31% drop in passenger-miles from 2015 to 2024, even as the region's population grew by more than a half million. Transit funding rose from $2.6 billion to over $4.7 billion in that same period, yet light rail carries less than 1% of regional trips today. https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opinion-transit-ridership-trends-are-dismal-but-regional-plans-are-oblivious/ #Opinion #Transportation #SoundTransit #LightRail #PugetSound #TransitPolicy #WashingtonPolicyCenter #PublicTransit #WashingtonState #PacificNorthwest

Roughly 6.5 million people in the U.S. live in areas that are highly susceptible to landslides. West Coast residents - including on the Oregon Coast and Washington’s Puget Sound - face the second greatest exposure to landslides, after Appalachian communities in and around W. Virginia.    University of Washington researchers made these findings using the Landslide Exposure Database, an online tool they spent three years creating and recently made publicly available. The scientists say the database provides the first-ever building level assessment of landslide susceptibility across the U.S. for nearly 130 million homes and buildings.   The database also accounts for socioeconomic data, revealing an urban-rural divide to how natural disasters can impact communities. For example, residents in rural areas who are vulnerable to landslides may have fewer financial resources to move or recover from landslides compared to urban residents living in homes perched on hillsides in affluent neighborhoods.   Joe Wartman is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at University of Washington and the director of the Natural Hazard and Disaster Reconnaissance Facility. He joins us for more details.  

This week John Kruse shares outdoors news along with a conversation with Michael Calhoun about the Vernonia-Banks Rail Trail in NW Oregon, a Puget Sound coho salmon fishing report from Doug Saint Denis and a pikeminnow fishing report from Eric Winther along with information about a great bait for these fish that tends to bite back! www.northwesternoutdoors.com 

Don't adjust your ears or screens, it's not 3 Guys. Today I get the honor to chat with Doug, you know him you love him. We deep dive Doug's background and share a dram. It was a lot of fun, hope you enjoy. Be BlessedDoug (aka @DemiTastes)American Single Malt Whiskey ExpertBespoke Whiskey TastingsHost, Single Malt Frontier PodcastWhiskey Reviewer & WriterContact me: doug@demitastes.comSingle Malt Frontier Patreon – support my content!LinkTree: @demitastes – links to my latest contentYouTube: @singlemaltfrontier – podcast, often livestreamedIG: @demitastes – a little of everythingReddit: /r/AmericanSMW – reviews and discussion of ASMWThe Whiskey Lodge Discord – friendly online communityhttps://twitch.tv/demitastes – backup stream locationI started reviewing whiskey in 2020. Initially I sought out the kinds of things my friends might want to try, and quickly moved to seeking the unique and interesting. I'm a huge fan of American Single Malt Whiskey and focus my efforts on this space. I also enjoy Single Malts from around the world, as well as a little of everything else, including Bourbon, Rum, Brandy, Mezcal, and more.I host an ASMW-focused podcast, called Single Malt Frontier. I'm conducting research for a book on American Single Malt Whiskey by tasting lots of ASMW and interviewing ASMW producers and other relevant industry personalities, which I release on the podcast. I also created the subreddit /r/AmericanSMW for reviews and discussion of ASMW, and I moderate an online community of whiskey enthusiasts, The Whiskey Lodge.Reach out to book a private bespoke whiskey tasting in the Puget Sound area. I'll partner with you to arrange the perfect flight of whiskeys for your wedding, holiday party, team building event, bachelor/bachelorette party, and more. Reach out about my availability in other metro areas, as I regularly travel to visit ASMW distilleries, and we may find a date that works for all parties.Why “DemiTastes”? I've been using names starting with “Demi” since forever, so when I noticed my habit of pouring what seemed to be the smallest drams around the web, and the obvious pun with the small espresso cup called a demitasse, I decided that the name “DemiTastes” only made sense.Whiskey & spirits reviews, industry news, blogs, whiskey topic write-ups, distillery visits, and more. See also Twitch and Youtube for my podcast, The DemiTastes Podcast, featuring casual whiskey & spirits chat episodes we call The Whiskey Lodge-cast.

A live recording from The Big Romance about a 2008 Sub Pop-released classic album of the 2000s. Listen on Apple | Android | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed | Podlink Step into a world of misty melodies and cavernous echoes with Seattle band Fleet Foxes' landmark debut – a defining record of the late-2000s indie folk revival. Led by Robin Pecknold, the album blends the lush, pastoral harmonies of the 1960s with a haunting baroque-pop sensibility and lyrical themes rooted in nature, tradition, and introspection. Like the Bruegel painting on its cover, every track reveals a dense, beautiful world that evokes a timeless – almost mythic Americana sound. This podcast episode is a live recording from our listening party in The Big Romance in April, with guest journalist and Fleet Foxes fan Aoife Barry. Our next Listening Party is Smashing Pumpkins later this month and it's sold out. Listen Closely: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008) A Nialler9 listening party, hosted by Niall Byrne with guest Aoife Barry. Before the album Niall: Hello everyone, how are you? Welcome to the Listen Closely album listening party. I'm Niall, and this is Aoife Barry. Aoife: Hello. Niall: We're here tonight because Aoife picked this album, as she has before. You picked Jeff Buckley last year. Aoife: Yeah, and we ended up doing three of them. Niall: We did, we went to Cork. We did two here and then we went to Cork to talk about Jeff Buckley. And you were at the My Bloody Valentine listening party last year as well, back in October. Aoife: It must have been October, yeah. Niall: Well, obviously we're here for a very different album tonight: Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes, from 2008. As you heard there, we played a bit of the Sun Giant EP by the band, which came out a few months before this album, because we want to give the album its full due. They're a little different, and we'll talk about that. But yeah, you picked the record. Aoife: I did. I obviously must like it. And it's such an incredible record. Is there anybody here who hasn't heard it? That's really exciting, if so. I'm excited for you to hear it. You got a sneak peek there of what the vibe is going to be. I picked it because I love this record, but I also had a funny story about how I first heard them. Back in 2008, when this record came out, I'd read about this band called Fleet Foxes in a music magazine. I don't even think I'd heard a song yet, this is back in the day. And I was on holidays in Berlin, and in the tiny little hostel we were staying in, they had a sign up on the wall: "Who's playing tonight? Fleet Foxes, Café Zapata." I said to my boyfriend, "I think that's a band I read about in the magazine, will we go see them?" And he was like, "Grand." So we went, and they were unbelievable. It was so good. Beach House were supporting them. So it was 2008 smacking you in the face. Niall: Come on. Aoife: And I took photos, which I found. I have photos. Artifacts. One is terrible, the other one's not so terrible, taken on one of those little Canon digital cameras. And I still have the ticket, I kept the ticket, I'm one of those hoarders who keeps all their gig tickets. But it was so good: the venue they played in had a dragon that breathed fire out every fifteen minutes. Niall: So they'd be playing and this dragon… Aoife: I'm not even exaggerating. Fire would just shoot out of this mechanical dragon. It was so Berlin. And Fleet Foxes were so stunning, and Beach House were so stunning. I love Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, I love all those harmony vibes, I wish I was born in the seventies, sadly I was not. So I fell in love with them immediately, and I've been a big fan ever since. Although I'll say I probably dipped a little bit around the Crack-Up era, their third album, but then I saw them when Shore came out, their most recent album, and fell right back in love with them. Niall: We're going to talk about all the albums that come afterwards, but we'll start with this one, because this is presumably your favourite, or one of them. Aoife: Shore is up there as well for me, but yeah. Niall: So what was it about Fleet Foxes at the time? For context: in 2008 there was quite a lot of this kind of music around. We previously did Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago as a listening party, and the funny thing, which I only found out when we did this, is that they have the same origin story in a way. Both songwriters went to a cabin in the woods to pour their heart out and write the songs. Aoife: I think Justin Vernon just got there first in terms of the marketing. Niall: So they must have pulled back on talking about it too much, because it's basically the same thing. They never really talked about Robin Pecknold's writing process in those terms. Aoife: For Emma was such a massive moment, everybody was obsessed with this guy who broke up with a girl and went to a cabin and wrote a record about it. It was the ur indie-folk album. Niall: What was really appealing about Fleet Foxes is that they were so young, between about twenty-two and twenty-seven, and Robin Pecknold was twenty-one when he wrote the record. Which is frankly offensive, you shouldn't be allowed to be so talented at twenty-one. Aoife: I know. And they were clearly these people from Seattle, which we associate with grunge, and then it becomes this place where they're bringing out all the pastoral, outdoorsy, mountain-and-sea vibes of the Washington area. They're obviously really influenced by the seventies too, by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, by Laurel Canyon, but also by Appalachian folk. There's a real purity to what they're doing. The harmonies are unbelievable, there's even a bit of a gospel feeling. So these young guys made this album that was being called an iconic American record on release. The Guardian called it a landmark American album, something like that. And that's special, because you don't get that many records immediately being called landmark. Niall: It was a very exciting time for music around then. I actually brought some records. We mentioned Beach House and Teen Dream earlier, that's a bit later, 2010. I wanted to do a listening party for that at some point, that'd be good craic. Around that time you had Animal Collective and Panda Bear, Person Pitch was right there, that was the apex for that very experimental scene. A few years later we had Sufjan, our very first listening party. And Bon Iver, of course. There's also stuff like Neutral Milk Hotel very much of that vibe. Aoife: I've noticed people covering Neutral Milk Hotel more now. Niall: I think when we got to it, it was on its second go-round, and now it's getting a third, which is great. It's a great record. So, the band were from Seattle, they had a bit of the scruffy flannel-shirt look, but obviously didn't sound like that. The album was written in the woods, in the cabin, brought to the band, and recorded with Phil Ek. Aoife: Who did a lot of stuff with Built to Spill. Niall: Yeah, and he worked with The Shins, and Modest Mouse, a really long history. Aoife: Are The Shins from Seattle as well? Niall: I think they might be. Band of Horses is another one. So they recorded it themselves with Phil Ek, paid for it all themselves, and then the local major independent label Sub Pop came calling. Obviously known for a lot of grunge traditionally, but they'd clearly been releasing this kind of music around then too, The Shins had been on the label for a few years, Band of Horses. When it came to it, they signed to Sub Pop. Apparently there was a bidding war. Aoife: They'd become quite popular on MySpace. Anybody remember MySpace? Every time I do one of these I feel older and older, mentioning the top eight, the randomers you'd put in your top eight. Word could spread quite quickly once you got popular on MySpace. Niall: What I thought was really interesting, that I discovered when I was researching, is that recording the album was actually a total pain for them. They didn't have much money, so they ended up recording a lot of it in their houses, or in Robin Pecknold's family home. And he re-did all the vocals right before they mastered the record, because he'd been sick during the initial sessions and his voice wasn't in great shape. They recorded it all in one go, scrapped that, did another version, and kept moving the running order around. I'm always fascinated by albums where the creation was a total pain and they had no idea it would even work out. Robin Pecknold actually said, "I hope nobody cares about this album, because I just want to move on to the next one." And then it becomes this iconic record. Aoife: Isn't every artist sick of their album by the time it's done? You're like, "my paintings." Yeah. Niall: 2008 was an interesting time for it to land. The album draws on the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel, Fairport Convention, Judee Sill, very much old-timey or sixties folk and pastoral stuff. And in 2008 there's a financial crash. The album was worked on before that, but it was released into that environment, and a lot of this music seemed to catch. When things go bad, we retreat, we dream, we listen to music that's maybe the opposite of what we're feeling. There was a gentleness, an unhurriedness to it that resonated. Aoife: Grizzly Bear is another band from that time. When Jay-Z and Beyoncé went to see Grizzly Bear in Brooklyn, that was kind of where all the indie music peaked. Niall: And the other part of it, which I was involved in, was the MP3 blogs, that's where you'd hear this music. Especially the American and Canadian stuff, no one was promoting it over here yet, so you'd be months ahead. You'd hear Fleet Foxes in these MP3 formats. That was a mad period, it showed how the internet could collapse geography, a song could spread really quickly on the blogs. And in an American context, this came out post-Bush, with the Obama era coming in, a more hopeful tone. You had the Lehman Brothers crash, these global pressures, and then these hopeful times too. It's interesting to wonder whether these albums are a reaction to it, or whether they appeal to us because we want nice, happy things. I feel like Fleet Foxes have so much emotional depth: there's yearning, sadness, hope, nostalgia. Aoife: I loved Yellow House by Grizzly Bear, their first record, a complex, complicated, almost jazzy thing that sounded beautiful but had a lot going on. We weren't going for simplistic music, but we wanted music that gave us depth and beauty. Is art a solution to the world collapsing? Niall: We could be answering that in 2026. We live in a cursed timeline, as I keep saying. That's all I'm going to say. But what else happened in 2008 in the wider circle of music? Portishead returned with Third. TV on the Radio released Dear Science. MGMT released Oracular Spectacular, 'Kids' and all that. Cut Copy released In Ghost Colours, Indie Sleaze night on Saturday, folks, come on. Kanye put out 808s & Heartbreak, that was November that year. Rihanna was at the peak of her powers. Aoife: Katy Perry appeared that year. And 'American Boy'. Niall: 'American Boy', still one of the best pop songs, fire. Iron & Wine was the other one I forgot to mention. So it was a really vibrant, varied year. As you heard, there's the Sun Giant EP too. Aoife: The thing about that is it came out before the album, but was recorded after. The album was done, in the bag. Niall: They decided to go into the studio and record Sun Giant, a collection of songs intended to sell on tour. It ended up being quite popular, and for a lot of people it was their first time discovering Fleet Foxes. Aoife: It wasn't like The Coronas' 'San Diego Song', their summer-holiday anthem, or anything like that. But it came out before the album, and then the album arrives. Niall: So what was the reaction at the time? Was it immediate? Aoife: Things happened really quickly. In January that year they got all the MySpace attention, and by June the album was coming out. Really, really quick. There was so much chatter about them, which is partly why I'd seen the name, and a music blog like yours would have seen it too, and known they were one of the big bands. In a way that's harder now. Niall: These days you see bands like Geese getting a lot of attention because they use companies that help them go viral. You didn't really have that then. Now you'd dress yourself up in some gimmick, polka dots, whatever, and go viral all over the internet for it. I couldn't imagine these lads doing that. Aoife: No. But maybe in a way they were cosplaying living in the forest, on the Puget Sound. Niall: Anyway, when the album came out, people loved them, and it really hit it off. Because they sound so seventies, your parents would love the records and you'd love the records. There's almost a lullaby quality to the folk stuff too. The music is applicable to anybody of any generation, and there's something lovely about nostalgic music that reminds you of a better time. To finish on that point: I think there's something very mysterious about Fleet Foxes, they feel out of time. They're these young, scruffy lads with the beards, but there's a mystery to them. They didn't come across as the hipster end of things, they weren't leaning into anything. They were presented as the kind of band that wouldn't have had phones, would have lived off-grid, which is funny because they were a MySpace band. They're the most un-MySpace band you can imagine. Surprise people, do something a bit different, don't be exactly what people want you to be, and they'll love you for it. And then your songs are unbelievable too, soaring and stunning. Can we talk for a second about the cover? It's an original painting from 1559 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Proverbs. It depicts a densely populated Flemish village scene illustrating 126 folk proverbs. There's a lot there. Some on this side are cut off, but for example, this woman here, she's putting the blue cloak on her husband, meaning she deceives him. This guy is casting roses before swine, wasting effort on the unworthy. And right at the top there's a man running through a field with his arse on fire, chasing pigs, "he who eats fire craps sparks," do not be surprised at the outcome if you attempt a dangerous venture. There are 126 of those. Aoife: The interesting thing is that the band managed to get permission to use it. Really unusual to be allowed use it as commercial artwork. Niall: And apparently the museum that holds the artwork were delighted. A lot of stars aligned for them. It's an iconic cover because it's so different from what anybody else was doing, clearly of a particular period, and it has that Where's Wally quality. I have a quote about it. Robin said: "We were trying to figure out what we wanted to do, and my brother had been working some stuff out, when I saw this Bruegel painting in a book my girlfriend had. I liked that it had a really intriguing meaning, there's a story to each little scene, which felt fitting for the record. It was dense but unified, not a collage. It has a Where's Waldo quality, something you could look at for a long time on a vinyl sleeve and keep finding new little things. It was very easy to get the museum in Berlin that has it to say yes, they were super excited the band wanted to use it, and put it in their newsletter. When you open it up, on the inside there's a Paisley pattern traced from the back of a book that Skyler's mum got me. We wanted two very different feelings." So, what to look out for when we press play very shortly? Aoife: When I was going back to this, I had it in my head that every song was one of these big songs, because there are so many big moments. But actually there are two tracks that are pretty much acoustic, so it's interesting to notice how they go from the big sound to the small. And for me they're a real emotion-and-feeling band, so notice how you feel listening to it. I always feel this swell of emotion with Fleet Foxes, I was walking down the road listening to Shore and I was like, my God. So lean back and feel into the emotions they're bringing you. And listen to the lyrics if you can make them out, because they're so out of time, all about pack horses and this amazing imagery. Robin Pecknold said he didn't write about a lot of personal stuff because he didn't have enough life experience yet, so instead he wrote these beautifully poetic narratives about pastoral and rural life. So I'd say the lyrics and the feelings are the two things. Niall: Track two, 'White Winter Hymnal', is probably the biggest one, watch out for that. And a few other people thanked and cited as influences, for some extra context: Brian Wilson, Joanna Newsom, Bob Dylan, Noah Lennox and all the lads from Animal Collective, Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson of The Band, Blitzen Trapper, who they toured with at the time and who were bigger than them then. For some reason Joni Mitchell and Neil Young are listed together, which is fair enough. Marvin Gaye, Damien Jurado, Paul Simon and John Lennon listed together. Townes Van Zandt, a legend. Vashti Bunyan, and Van Morrison. There's a nice quote from Robin Pecknold I'll read afterwards. Let's just open it up and listen. I'll play it at full volume, it's about thirty-nine minutes, two sides. Close your eyes, whatever you want to do, vibe away in your own way. [The album plays: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes, 39 minutes.] After the album Niall: It's quite an economical album, isn't it? It doesn't stick around long, thirty-nine minutes. Aoife: I like an economical album. It's also one of the first fairly short records we've done here. Niall: That's part of why I was thinking about Sun Giant in that context too. I'm going to read a bit from the liner notes, because for an album that's very much about feelings, with only a few direct songs, some of what's written here is interesting: "My first memory has always been of me and my mom on a cold grey day down at some beach in Washington, along the Puget Sound somewhere near Seattle. I would be around two or three years old, and we were with a friend of mine from the neighbourhood and his mom, walking among the driftwood looking for crabs. Even now I can remember the smell and temperature of the air, the feeling of the sand and the swaying tall grass. I can even remember looking over at my friend and how his face looked when he smiled back at me. Another memory I'll sometimes recall as my first is dressing up in the dead of summer as Jack London, with tennis rackets on my feet and wearing my dad's hiking pack, after seeing Disney's terrible version of White Fang. Or the memory of stealing my neighbour's Big Wheel and riding it halfway down the block before getting caught and having to turn around defeated. Or wearing a fireman's outfit while washing my parents' car, or eating an orange popsicle from the ice cream truck. These have always been some of my most distinct and persistent memories of childhood. So it came as a disappointment when, one day as a teenager, I opened up a photo album and found pictures of each and every one of these memories. I didn't have a single memory that didn't belong to, or somehow grow from, those pictures my parents had. I guess I've seen all these photographs at some point, forgotten they were just photographs, and over time made them into my most tangible memories. That's scary to me in a way. This leads me to something weird about the power music has: its transportability. Any time I hear a song or record that meant a lot to me at a certain moment, I'm instantly taken back to that place in full detail. Whenever I hear 'Feel Flows' by the Beach Boys, I'm taken straight to the back of my parents' car on the way to my grandparents' place, with Surf's Up in my Walkman and the Cascade Mountains going by in the window. Any song off Radiohead's Kid A brings back the airport near Seattle, from when we were on the way to Colorado for a wedding and Kid A was the only record I brought or wanted to bring. 'Crayon Angels' by Judee Sill is the whole winter of last year. And Brian Wilson's solo version of 'Surf's Up' takes me back to driving my parents' car around town alone at sixteen, windows down at night. I can't ascribe exact memories to songs by The Microphones, Joni Mitchell, Built to Spill, Dungen, Harry Nilsson and so many others, and it's a form of recall I can actually trust, there's no visual element to complicate things, no chance of a planted memory that wasn't actually supposed to be there. Maybe I should be concerned that I'm alone in almost all of these memories, but I guess I was just a private kid, and music was a private experience for me. Music activates a certain mental freedom in a way nothing else can, and that is so empowering. You can call it escapism if you like, but I see it as connecting to a deeper human feeling than the one found in the day-to-day world." Aoife: That's lovely. It's a nice addendum. And he was only twenty-one. Niall: For some reason it's signed "Warren Gamaliel Bancroft Winnipeg Harding," Warren G. Harding being the 29th president of the United States. I don't know why, he thought it was funny. Dated April 6th, 2008, Chicago, Illinois. So, any particular highlights, anything that stood out? Aoife: I was reminded how much I love 'Blue Ridge Mountains', the second-to-last song. I just love those four- and five-part harmonies so much. There's something that really gets me about beautiful harmonies stacked on each other that sound so natural. My dad was really into Neil Young and all of that era, my mum's really into Simon & Garfunkel, so I feel like I came out of the womb going, this is the music I love. Niall: There was another one I meant to mention. Aoife: I'm really bad at remembering song names, which isn't great for an arts journalist. They go in one ear and out the other. Niall: 'He Doesn't Know Why'. Aoife: That was it. I always forget the name of that one, and it's an absolute banger. It's quite a direct song, the last one on the first side. Niall: He mentions his brother Sean in 'Blue Ridge Mountains', which is interesting. And Oliver James is his younger brother, that's the last song. Aoife: His sister is Aja, after the Steely Dan album. The parents were really into them. Niall: It holds up so well. The harmonies and vocals sound incredible, there are those beautiful little flourishes, a flute on one of the tracks, the guitar is stunning, lovely little bass lines. I love the way Robin Pecknold and the band hear music. There's a really good Song Exploder episode with him talking about a song from Crack-Up, and the way he thinks about translating his thoughts and emotions into music is so illuminating. He has a beautiful melodic flow that's really similar to the flow of water and nature. There are so many nature references, it's almost parody there are so many. Aoife: You could do a Portlandia sketch about it. "Power of nature, man." "Come down from the mountain, you've been gone too long." Niall: In terms of the line-up: alongside Robin Pecknold on vocals there was Skyler Skjelset on lead guitar, his best friend from Nathan Hale High School, later joined by Casey Wescott, Christian Wargo on bass, and Nicholas Peterson on drums, who left after this album. Aoife: And who came in as the drummer? Niall: A man who's been a main character in one of these listening parties himself: Josh Tillman, Father John Misty, played drums with them. Aoife: For how long? Niall: Only a year or two, pretty short. As I said, main character, he was making his own record. Any Father John Misty fans? He writes really good songs and he's handsome, so we all love him, but he's also a bit of a pain, and he didn't get on very well with Robin Pecknold, which isn't surprising. When I was looking back at the Pitchfork interview they did in 2008, a few months after the album came out, it was a big joint interview with Robin and Josh Tillman, and Tillman is answering the questions at the start. That's confidence. Do you want to hear a quote from what Robin Pecknold said? I've written it in my little notebook, so old-school, that's the only way I remember these things. In a 2020 Reddit AMA, Pecknold said that on that tour, the Helplessness Blues tour, Tillman was supposed to bring out his own record, but his label said he could only release it after the tour. So he was on tour thinking, "I want to bring out my own record, I'm tired of Fleet Foxes." Pecknold said he "had to endure being around a lot of substance abuse, sabotaged shows, general ill treatment and shit-talking, all while paying him for songs he didn't have anything to do with. It sucked." And then Tillman left the band. Whereas in that Pitchfork interview he'd said, "I love playing in this band, these are all my friends, I'm having the best time, I'm sorry if that's a corny quote, but that's the best thing about this experience right now." Aoife: So he was lying through his teeth. I think he's the kind of person who really has to be a solo artist, too iconic a personality. You wouldn't want to wrangle him out of bed to get to the next show. Niall: Too big a price. You mentioned Pitchfork, the album was number one on their end-of-year list in 2008, and they listed Sun Giant alongside it, breaking the traditional conventions of end-of-year lists. What they said was: listing Fleet Foxes' debut album and EP together may be awkward, but it just feels right, they're two sides of a coin that equally express the band's mastery, "a catch-all Americana that takes a wide slice of our popular music spectrum and pulls it through a reverse prism to create a gorgeous and focused sound of the band's own. The threads of Brian Wilson's coastal pop, Appalachian folk, modern indie rock, Grateful Dead jams and other influences are masterfully synthesised in the band's harmonies." Robin Pecknold's sense of dynamics, they said, flows like a river, wild and free but logical, filling what needs to be filled and moving on. I swear I didn't rip that off Pitchfork, I came up with something similar on my own. Aoife: Very good. Niall: It was Uncut's album of the year too. But more than anything, and this is a strange accolade, the album was ranked number 36 on Rolling Stone's list of the greatest stoner albums. Aoife: I don't think Robin Pecknold was a stoner. It doesn't really fit. He's a reader. Niall: So what came after? Helplessness Blues, which is really difficult to say, in 2011, then Crack-Up in 2017, then Shore in 2020. Big long gaps, some personnel changes. And Robin Pecknold, as we've established, is a very literary guy, he went to Columbia to do an undergrad in English literature, because he'd left high school early and gone to a community college, and he really wanted that college experience. So that was part of the break. He's also had difficult times, he's spoken about mental health issues and suicidal ideation, many tough experiences that contributed to the gaps too. They haven't released anything since 2020, and he does a lot of cover events. There are two live records. He's actually playing a gig tonight, I think, where he covers Judee Sill. Any Judee Sill fans? Aoife: Oh my gosh, she's amazing. Nobody ever knows Judee Sill. If you listen to anything, listen to Heart Food, it's iconic. He loves her, mentions her on this record. She's the one who does 'The Kiss', people might have seen her perform it on the Old Grey Whistle Test, it's on YouTube. She had a really tragic life. Niall: One of those I've been meaning to listen to properly for years. She only has two records, so it's easy to get into. There's a documentary about her as well, which I haven't seen. Aoife: She's one of those ill-fated seventies musicians, really religious imagery, did a lot of drugs, really interesting. Niall: Did you get to see them again after your first foray in Berlin? Aoife: I saw them when they toured, though it's really bad when you can't remember what you were doing in the 2010s. Niall: Did anybody see them at that Dublin gig, the outdoor one in 2022? Wasn't it amazing. They've played here a fair bit: Vicar Street in 2008, Electric Picnic 2009, The Marquee in Cork 2011, the Iveagh Gardens in 2017. I don't know if I've missed any, maybe you can tell me. So if you were to pick, is there any further listening or reading you'd suggest to somebody, not necessarily Fleet Foxes? Aoife: Some of it is obvious. As I said, I'd definitely check out Judee Sill, because if you really like Fleet Foxes you'd really vibe with her. And he mentions Harry Nilsson, also unbelievable, more well known than Judee Sill, did the cover of 'Everybody's Talkin''. I'd also mention a guy people would have known at one point but isn't very well known now: Richard Swift. He sadly passed away a couple of years ago. He was friends with Robin Pecknold, a hugely talented musician who struggled with addiction. He has an amazing double album from around 2005 or 2006 that's brilliant, and a record called The Hex, which is referenced on 'Sunblind' on Shore, that's the song where Robin name-checks a lot of musicians he loves, like Elliott Smith, David Berman and Richard Swift. It's such a beautiful record for finding new people to listen to, and it's lovely to hear a musician pay tribute to musicians he loves. The imagery is him talking about this beautiful day where he'll go for a swim and listen to all these beautiful bands, an ecstatic kind of song. So check out all of those records, but Richard Swift deserves more fans, and The Hex is really, really good. Niall: Good shout. What we'll do now is play a tune, and then maybe give Sun Giant another go if you want to stick around. Our next listening party is on the 27th of May, and it's an indie-rock album very close to my heart: Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It in People. I've been wanting to do this one on record for a long time. They're playing here later in the year, but I want to give this record its flowers, it's incredible. My niece has just turned seventeen and I bought her a copy, because it's an anthemic record for a seventeen-year-old. I can't believe that band are still going, which is kind of mad, but it's hard to underline what Broken Social Scene meant to a certain segment of indie. Aoife: And there's four hundred of them on stage. They're from Canada, and we were all like, my God, these people are the best. Niall: For me it's the MP3 times again, we'll talk about this next month. I heard about them through the music blogs, and then I got to see them in the Button Factory, which was the Temple Bar Music Centre at the time. It was one of the first things I ever wrote about, back in 2005. A transcendental experience. Aoife: They're so good live. Niall: I once DJ'd in Galway after one of their gigs, and one of the members of the band, I'll leave him nameless, came over and turned off the decks while I was DJing. Aoife: On purpose? Niall: He was that drunk. I can't remember what I was playing, but I was like, great, DJing after Broken Social Scene and then a band member ruins it. I don't think he liked it. No, I think he was just really drunk and thought it was funny. Thumbs down to him. In a way it's surprising a man like that has managed to persist in a band with so many members. Anyway, I digress. We'll talk about it next month, May 27th. Aoife: I cannot wait. I've been listening to it a lot lately again, it's fantastic. Niall: Thank you for being here. Let's play a bit of this and see what happens. Thanks for being here, appreciate it.

The Science of the Strike: Why Salmon Hunt (And How to Catch Them)If you want to stop guessing and start understanding why salmon do what they do, this episode is for you. Jamie breaks down the actual science behind salmon behavior -- how they find food, what triggers a strike, and why your lure action matters more than your lure color. This isn't theory for theory's sake. Every principle connects directly to how you fish.What this episode covers:Why salmon in the Salish Sea are typically found in the upper 30 meters of the water column -- and how to use that to your advantageWhy "current change" is the phrase that should replace "tide change" in your vocabularyHow tidal jets create convergence fronts that stack baitfish -- and why that's exactly where you need to beWhat the lateral line is and why it may matter more than vision when it comes to triggering a strikeThe real science on color and depth -- and why red is essentially invisible below 33 feetWhy erratic, irregular lure movement triggers predatory instincts in salmonTimestamps00:00 -- Introduction: the science behind salmon and why it makes you a better angler 01:30 -- Salmon School announcement (August 9, Anacortes) 03:00 -- Where salmon hold in the water column and why it matters 04:00 -- Current change vs. tide change: why the language matters 05:00 -- Tidal jets, convergence fronts, and where bait stacks 07:00 -- Using sonar to find fish that won't bite 07:30 -- Salmon diet: herring, sand lance, and matching the hatch 09:00 -- Lure selection: Kingfisher Spoon, Coho Killer, hoochies, and matching prey 10:00 -- The lateral line: how salmon detect your lure before they see it 12:00 -- Why flashers work and why lure action is primary 13:00 -- Color physics at depth: what salmon can actually see 14:00 -- UV and glow lures: what the science says (and doesn't) 16:00 -- What triggers the strike: erratic movement and vulnerable prey 18:00 -- Key takeaways and closing 19:00 -- Salmon School wrap-upKey TakeawaysSalmon in the Salish Sea primarily hold in the upper 30 meters -- your depth decisions should be calculated, not random.Current change -- not tide change -- is the variable that concentrates baitfish and creates feeding windows.Tidal jets create convergence fronts where herring, sand lance, and candlefish stack -- and where salmon follow.The lateral line is a fish's built-in pressure and vibration sensor, and research suggests it may be more important than vision for triggering a strike.Water absorbs red and orange light by about 33 feet deep -- color choices below that depth should lean toward green, blue, and UV reactive.UV lures have strong anecdotal and industry support, but peer-reviewed science on UV vision in Pacific salmon at fishing depths is still limited.Erratic, irregular lure movement mimics a vulnerable baitfish -- and that's what gets a salmon from following your lure to striking it.Resources MentionedSalmon School (August 9, Anacortes): https://anglersunlimited.co/salmonschoolScienceDirect Lateral Lines & Fish: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/lateral-lineEncyclopedia of Puget Sound: https://www.eopugetsound.org/What Salmon See: https://www.science.org/content/article/how-salmon-see-world-anewPacific Wild (forage fish research): https://pacificwild.org/how-salmon-need-herring/Steve Chamberlain previous episode: https://youtu.be/29aTkrlzHWw?si=4ZC-fd9Nz7uAYvloSea Bear Smokehouse: https://seabear.com/pages/about-seabearWant to fish smarter this season?We have 13 spots left at Salmon School on August 9th in Anacortes. You'll get hands-on sessions on sonar, gear setup, trolling technique, reading current, and more -- including a smoked salmon tasting from Sea Bear Smokehouse. Sign up at anglersunlimited.co/salmonschool before it's gone.About the PodcastFishing for a Reason is the Pacific Northwest saltwater fishing education podcast for new anglers and families who want to catch more salmon, halibut, lingcod, shrimp, and crab in Washington waters. Hosted by Jamie & Scott Propst from Anglers Unlimited, each episode delivers practical techniques, local knowledge, and expert insights to help you get off the couch and into the fish. Perfect for relocated professionals, military families, and boaters who are just getting into fishing.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has officially rebranded June away from Pride Month — and five Republican-led states are right behind her. From Tennessee's Nuclear Family Month to Alabama's Strong Families Month to Nebraska's Marriage and Family Month, red states are pushing back against what many conservatives call decades of corporate and political rainbow-washing. This is a coordinated cultural statement, not a fringe move.Sean breaks down the full list of states, what they're declaring instead, and why the mainstream media — especially here in the Pacific Northwest — won't touch this story. The corporate machine behind Pride Month has run unopposed for years. That's changing fast, and the left's response reveals exactly how high the stakes are in this fight over American values.Meanwhile, Seattle marches the other direction, and Sean has thoughts. From the Seattle Times cheerleading a World Cup crowd to the Pacific Northwest's relentless LGBTQ advocacy overreach, the contrast between red-state America and the Puget Sound bubble has never been sharper. Pride as a deadly sin, pronoun culture in Washington, and why "Strong Families Month" is a statement worth making.CHAPTERS0:00 Gov. Sanders Scraps Pride Month in…1:54 Seattle Media Avoids LGBTQ Criticism2:42 Anti-LGBTQ Nations Play Seattle Pride…4:06 MLB Cracks Down on Bible Verse Hats5:33 Pride as a Deadly Sin6:13 Six GOP Governors Counter Pride Month8:57 Sarah Huckabee Sanders Promotes Family…9:48 Tennessee Declares Nuclear Family Month10:30 Alabama Governor Declares Strong…13:14 Rapinoe Skips Patriotism at World Cup14:42 Nebraska Declares Marriage and Family…15:40 LGBTQ Groups Slam GOP June Rebranding18:40 Rep. Andy Ogles Deletes Anti-Gay PostSubscribe to @reasonablenews and hit the notification bell — daily commentary on the stories the Pacific Northwest media won't cover.#MediaBias #MainstreamMedia #CensorshipGO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS

Today's episode of the America's Work Force Union Podcast brings together two conversations that cut to the heart of what it means to be a worker in America right now — one focused on who keeps people safe and one on who makes the decisions that shape their lives. First, National Nurses United President Jamie Brown and NNU Assistant Director of Health and Safety Jane Thomason discuss a workplace safety crisis that most Americans never see. Healthcare workers account for approximately 73% of all nonfatal workplace violence injuries in the United States, nurses are five times more likely to be assaulted at work than people in any other industry and the actual rate is dramatically higher because most incidents never get reported. Brown and Thomason make the case for the Nurse and Health Care Worker Protection Act, which would mandate safe staffing ratios and workplace violence prevention programs at hospitals receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding, and address chemical and environmental hazards nurses face daily, including antineoplastic drug exposure, post-COVID disinfectants and wildfire smoke entering hospital facilities through filtration systems not designed to stop it. Then, IAM Union retired International President Tom Buffenbarger delivers his monthly independent labor voice segment covering three significant stories. Boeing's new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, is meeting directly with machinists, reinstating union advisory channels and committing to keep manufacturing in Puget Sound, representing what Buffenbarger calls the most meaningful cultural shift at the company in years. Tariff uncertainty, rather than tariff levels, is causing profitable companies to lay off manufacturing workers because the planning horizon has disappeared. And the One Big Beautiful Bill is structured to remove an estimated 11 to 12 million people from Medicaid through administrative burden and shift SNAP costs to states in ways that will reduce benefits for children, veterans and working families. Visit nationalnursesunited.org for more from National Nurses United and goiam.org for more from the IAM Union.

Stop Guessing: The Salmon Fishing System That Actually WorksIf you own a boat, have the gear, and still keep coming home empty-handed, this episode is for you. Jamie walks through the exact training she's taught in seminars and private sessions for years -- the same one boaters from all over Washington have used to go from frustrated to consistent. By the end, you'll understand the four-part system that separates the boats that limit out from the ones that go home empty every time.Episode OverviewJamie shares her own rough first season chasing salmon in the San Juan Islands and the local legend who changed everything for herLearn the three types of fishermen and which one might be quietly holding you backA full breakdown of rod, reel, downrigger and terminal tackle setupHow to plan a trip using tides, current and wind apps before you ever leave the dockA real video walkthrough of sending gear down and landing a fishThe four-question review habit that turns one good trip into a repeatable processTimestamps 00:00 - Salmon School announcement and what's ahead 04:00 - Meet Jamie and Scott, welcome to the training 09:00 - Jamie's early struggles finding salmon in the San Juans 12:00 - The three types of fishermen, which one are you 16:00 - Pillar 1, prep your gear like a pro 21:00 - Rod, reel and downrigger setup breakdown 27:00 - Choosing lures, bait and terminal tackle 33:00 - Pillar 2, planning an exceptional day on the water 38:00 - Reading tides, current and wind before you leave the dock 46:00 - Pillar 3, on the water fishing technique walkthrough 57:00 - Pillar 4, process and review, the nine questions that level you upKey TakeawaysFishing success comes down to performance, not luck or the newest lure.Fishing the current change matters more than fishing the tide change.Most anglers skip the review step, and that's exactly what separates the committed rookie from the proficient angler.Prepared anglers catch more fish because they spend more time fishing and less time fixing gear.Sending two different lures down at once helps you figure out what the fish actually want that day.Resources & Links Salmon School, August 9th in Anacortes: https://anglersunlimited.co/salmonschool Want hands-on training with real gear demos, a sonar deep dive with Steve Chamberlin, and a filleting demo from SeaBear? Join us at Salmon School in Anacortes on August 9th. Grab your spot at https://anglersunlimited.co/salmonschoolFishing for a Reason is the Pacific Northwest saltwater fishing education podcast for new anglers and families who want to catch more salmon, halibut, lingcod, shrimp and crab in Washington waters. Hosted by Jamie & Scott Propst from Anglers Unlimited, each episode delivers practical techniques, local knowledge, and expert insights to help you get off the couch and into the fish. Perfect for relocated professionals, military families, and boaters who are just getting into fishing.

Grief is one of the most universal yet isolating experiences we endure—and psychedelics may offer a path through it. This Salon explores how substances like psilocybin, MDMA, and 5-MeO-DMT are being used to support those navigating loss, whether from death, identity shifts, or life transitions. This session sheds light on how altered states can help us reconnect to love, soften the sharp edges of sorrow, and reorient to a life forever changed. Attendees will gain insight into the science and integration practices that support emotional processing and meaning-making in the context of grief. Dr. Sunil Aggarwal is a physician in hospice and palliative medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and a medical geographer. Dr. Aggarwal's primary clinical work is as an Integrative Pain, Palliative Care, and Rehabilitation Physician in private practice at the AIMS Institute in Seattle, Washington, and as an on-call Palliative and Hospice Physician within a Puget Sound–based healthcare system. He has a petition to reschedule psilocybin that is currently under review at the US Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Aggarwal's medical geography scholarship focuses on the geographies of access, delivery, and development of cannabinologic and psychedelic integrative medicine—particularly as these relate to pain management, hospice and palliative medicine, and rehabilitation services. After two decades in journalism and content direction, Laura Sullivan Cassidy (she/her) used the early pandemic years to begin building a new career serving communities in grief and loss. She's trained as a grief work facilitator, creative coach, and death doula, and is employed at Recompose, the Seattle-based green funeral home known for pioneering the process of human composting. Her role at Recompose involves outreach, community, and client work—specifically with communities for whom a death is approaching, either via terminal diagnosis or hospice care. Laura writes a Substack called Griever's Ball and offers creative expression, listening groups, and death awareness workshops. — Psychedelic Salon: Cultivating Conscious Connections Join Seattle-based psychedelics educator and podcast host April Pride in a dynamic series co-produced with Town Hall Seattle. Psychedelic Salon explores the transformative potential of psychedelic medicines through engaging conversations, expert panels, and interactive community discussions. Rooted in scientific evidence, each event highlights unique themes—including grief, seniors, menopause, and more—emphasizing their role in mental health, spiritual growth, and personal optimization. Designed to be inclusive and insightful, this series invites attendees of all backgrounds to discover how psychedelics can foster profound connections, healing, and well-being. About April Pride April Pride is a Seattle-based creative entrepreneur and harm reduction advocate with over two decades of experience building brands at the intersection of lifestyle, cannabis, psychedelics, and women's health. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Vice, and The Guardian. April is the founder of SetSet, the world's first clinician-approved woman-focused platform for safe, accessible psychedelic integration. To learn more, follow April on Substack – aprilpride.substack.com

Fractional Fiction, for those of you new to the series, is a discipline as much as a name. Every novel in it grows from a small fraction of documented reality, real texts, real law, real science, real ground, and the fiction rises around that fraction without ever falsifying it. Each book carries exactly one invention, one thing that does not exist, and the notes in the back declare it openly so you always know where the ground ends. Everything else holds. The permits in this book are real permits. A treaty really was signed on the sand at Point No Point in 1855. The six words are the real six words. And the three sources this novel is built on are named in the back matter like load-bearing walls. The first is a real book from 1922 called The Wild Heart, eleven animal sketches of Puget Sound country by a writer named Emma-Lindsay Squier, with an introduction by Gene Stratton-Porter that carries an idea this novel takes as law: a wild thing that stops being afraid of us cannot go home. The second is the oldest family record in Greek literature, Hesiod's Theogony, a list of who was born to whom, in which every generation of gods, warned about its children, devours them, and is replaced anyway. And the third is Dante, read in the English Longfellow made in the years after his wife died, when translating the Inferno was the only room of his grief he could stand in. From Dante the book takes its shape, a teller walking a silent listener down through the rings, and it takes a plea. In the sixth canto, a shade stops the pilgrim and asks for the only afterlife that is real: when you are back in the sweet world, carry me into the minds of other people.

Try to imagine a world without birds. It's quite a challenge, given that we share the planet with tens of billions of birds spanning an astonishing 14,000 species. Birds find homes nearly everywhere that people do – and many places we do not – and their prowess and plumage have captivated human imagination throughout the ages. But impressive aerial feats and collective choirs of song aside, part of our fascination with birds is rooted in the awe of something so delicate and strange. How did such seemingly fragile creatures made of hollow bones and downy feathers break the mold of terrestrial life and survive millennia? In his newest book, The Story of Birds: A New History, from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present, esteemed paleontologist Steve Brusatte embarks on a deep dive through the history of avian evolution. The Story of Birds begins by exploring how dinosaurs gradually developed the trademark features of birds one-by-one—feathers, wings, beaks, big brains, keen senses, and warm-blooded metabolisms. Brusatte investigates how these features contributed to birds emerging as the only surviving dinosaurs of the cataclysmic asteroid impact 66 million years ago, and how their numbers soared to new heights of diversity in the barren landscape that followed. Along this journey through time, meet extraordinary extinct species like the 1.5-ton elephant birds of Madagascar, giant Pelagornithid seabirds with 20-foot wingspans, and flightless 10-foot-tall terror birds with beaks that sliced flesh. Brusatte follows these remarkable species all the way down to the present, urging readers to share the same appreciation for the many impressive birds of today– penguins that literally fly underwater, parrots that can mimic human speech, and hummingbirds that hover mid-air and dive at 50 miles per hour. Presented with keen research and soaring enthusiasm, The Story of Birds unearths the unique origins of birds and the legacy they continue to live to this day. Steve Brusatte, PhD, is an American paleontologist who teaches at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. He is the author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Rise and Reign of the Mammals. The paleontology advisor on the Jurassic World film franchise, Brusatte has named more than fifteen new species, including the tyrannosaur "Pinocchio rex" (Qianzhousaurus), the raptor Zhenyuanlong, and several ancient mammals. His research and writing has been featured in Science, the New York Times, Scientific American, and many other publications. David B. Williams is an author and naturalist whose award-winning books include Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound and Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography, as well as co-authoring Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State. His newest book, Wild in Seattle: Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature is a best-of collection from his free weekly Substack newsletter, the Street Smart Naturalist. He has been called an "evangelist for the practice of paying attention." Buy the Book The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present Elliott Bay Book Company

Washington saw several significant developments this week. The Ballmer Group announced one of the largest private affordable housing commitments in state history. Puget Sound housing permits fell to their lowest level in a decade while the region experienced job losses. Washington's rent cap law completed its first full year of enforcement. The Spokane Tribe of Indians continued its major expansion into the Puget Sound multifamily market, and state agencies began adapting ahead of HUD's new federal homelessness funding priorities.

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Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Richard Hiscocks, historian in the UK behind the website MORE THAN NELSON. Since he was a young boy, Mr. Hiscocks has been researching biographies of officers in the British Navy - several of whom who happen to be namesake for places and geographic features in coastal Washington, Puget Sound and British Columbia. The website's description reads: "Drawing on over two hundred and fifty published sources, this work in progress is a comprehensive and readable reference guide to the golden age of Naval History from the commencement of the American War of Revolution in 1776 to the termination of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. It is in two parts – a Biographical History and Chronicle – and will eventually consist of approximately 2m words. The vast majority of the work has already been completed and once validated and edited will be added to the site in a chronological order with biographies of the officers being inserted as and when they appear in the history." MORE THAN NELSON website: https://morethannelson.com/ Links to more information as well as images related to most topics discussed on the show are often available at the CASCADE OF HISTORY Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/cascadeofhistory CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via flagship station SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via www.space101fm.org. The radio station broadcasts from studios at historic Magnuson Park – located in the former Master-at-Arms' quarters in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle. Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes. "LIKE" the Cascade of History Facebook page and get updates and other stories throughout the week, and advance notice of live remote broadcasts taking place in your part of the Old Oregon Country.

Exclusive: Despite fanfare, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s new Interbay homeless shelter is nearly empty. Puget Sound is losing jobs and housing permits have hit a decade low. Trump makes a humorous jab about Maine’s Graham Platner. // Guest: Bellevue City Councilmember Jared Nieuwenhuis reacts to a Downtown Seattle Association report that found Seattle’s payroll tax is driving businesses to Bellevue. // Will AI improve the job interview process and are remote workers happier?

Send Me a Text MessageHost Tom Butler opens with the report he promised on his new Otso Warakin TI: a first long ride that turned into a navigation disaster but still delivered an encouraging first real test of the bike. He gets into what went wrong trying to find the trail, and what went right once the bike was moving, smooth on the gravel descents and surprisingly planted at thirty miles an hour on the road, on gravel tires. He also flags a knee that flared up and the setup questions he wants to solve before the next big ride.From there, Tom shares something he's now convinced is real: his recovery is improving. After a long stretch of severely limiting carbs and eating no meat, he added meat back and started supplementing creatine, and his legs began bouncing back faster from hard efforts. He walks through the leucine and creatine science behind why that might be, why it may matter more with age, and an important reminder that he's experimenting on himself, not prescribing, and that any change like this belongs in a conversation with your own physician first.Then Tom sits down with Dr. Gary McCall, a professor of exercise science at the University of Puget Sound who studies what physical activity does inside the body, and what happens when it goes away. It's the ideal follow-up to Tom's own muscle speculation. The two dig into the exercise-is-medicine idea at the heart of the show, the surprising place where the biggest health gains live, and how much of what we write off as aging may really be inactivity. Gary is a cyclist himself, so this is someone who knows both the science and the road.Become a member of the Cycling Over Sixty Strava Club!  www.strava.com/clubs/CyclingOverSixtyCycling Over Sixty is also on Zwift.  Look for our Zwift club!NOTE: I share information about my journey. From time to time that means sharing what I do to stay healthy.  None of what I share is meant to be medical advice. Always consult with your physician or other health professionals before making changes. Please send comments, questions and especially content suggestions to me at info@cyclingoversixty.comFollow and comment on Cycling Over Sixty on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cyclingoversixty/Show music is "Come On Out" by Dan Lebowitz.  Find him here : lebomusic.com

Exclusive: Despite fanfare, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s new Interbay homeless shelter is nearly empty. Puget Sound is losing jobs and housing permits have hit a decade low. Trump makes a humorous jab about Maine’s Graham Platner. // Bellevue City Councilmember Jared Nieuwenhuis reacts to a Downtown Seattle Association report that found Seattle’s payroll tax is driving businesses to Bellevue. // The text of the MOU with Iran has been released and many of Trump’s allies are not pleased with it.

#937 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/937   Presented by: TroutRoutes, On DeMark Lodge, FishHound Expeditions, Montana Fly Fishing Lodge Sponsors: https://www.wetflyswing.com/sponsors/       In this episode, I sat down with Blake Merwin from Gig Harbor Fly Shop to talk about Puget Sound cutthroat fishing, steelhead on the Olympic Peninsula, and the small details that separate productive days from frustrating ones. We dug into beach structure, tide movement, chum fry migrations, topwater opportunities, and why standing still is often the biggest mistake anglers make. Blake has spent decades guiding and exploring these waters. Along the way, he's developed a deep understanding of sea-run cutthroat behavior and how anglers can consistently find fish throughout the year. Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/937    

Local beekeepers, gardeners, and native plant experts join in a conversation about turning your own backyard into a native ecosystem oasis. Learn about the benefits of mason bees, the importance of best-gardening practices to protect Puget Sound salmon, and how you can make a difference in keeping our city climate change resilient. Featuring Dave Hunter, author of Mason Bee Revolution: How the Hardest Working Bee Can Save the World One Backyard at a Time, along with panelists Jessi Bloom, Bill Thorness, Kim M. Camara, and Swil Kanim, this event hopes to empower everyone to play a part in rebuilding healthy pollinator networks — and securing a thriving, sustainable planet. Dave Hunter is the founder of the Orchard Bee Association and Crown Bees, which helps people support pollinators with the right supplies, expert guidance, and easy-to-follow programs. His work has been featured in Urban Farm, The Seattle Times, NPR, and more. He lives in Woodinville, Washington. Visit him online at crownbees.com or on Instagram @crown_bees Jessi Bloom is an ecological landscape designer, author, arborist, and teacher. Over the years, she has worn many hats professionally, helping thousands of land stewards with consulting and design/build work, and educating through books and educational events. Jessi started NW Bloom EcoLogical Services, based in Woodinville, WA, in 2000 to innovate and emphasize awareness of permaculture, sustainable landscape design, construction, and land management. The Seattle Times named her a "rockstar in the ecological gardening movement," where her leadership led NW Bloom to numerous environmental awards. She sits on the advisory committee for the WA State Dept. of Natural Resources Urban Forestry Programs, where her decades as a private sector arborist serve in behalf of the PNW ISA (International Society of Arboriculture). Bill Thorness is a writer and gardener who's been doing both in Seattle since the mid-1980s. He is the author of Cool Season Gardener: Extend the Harvest, Plan Ahead, and Grow Vegetables Year Round and Edible Heirlooms: Heritage Vegetables for the Maritime Garden, and writes for many regional publications, including The Seattle Times. He is also a King County Master Gardener. Kim M. Camara serves as Executive Director of Windz of Change Alliance, based in Seattle for over 25 years. Kim is a visionary collectively working with Indigenous inter-Tribal community peoples on contemporary and traditional sacred pathways. Her roles interweave project developer, grant writer, teacher/educator, choreographic and event producer, visual design artist, and youth mentor. With a focus on imparting knowledge, bridging, engaging, and inspiring creative leadership and relationships, she advocates the Windz vision to respectfully bridge and strengthen Indigenous Tribal community Peoples, Presence, Place, Sacred Spaces and Relationships. Accomplishment activities encompass artistic cultural heritage events, eco-cultural parks activation installations, presentations, and workshops, festivals, art shows, youth teaching, and artist opportunity referrals and granting assistance. Swil Kanim is a U.S. Army veteran, storyteller, actor, and classically trained violinist from Washington State. A board member of the Seattle Symphony, he blends original compositions with powerful stories drawn from his life and heritage, inspiring audiences nationwide. His music and compositions are the direct result of a well-supported public school music program, which he credits for nurturing his artistry. Swil Kanim is the recipient of the Woodring College Professional Excellence Award, the Bellingham Mayor's Arts Award, and has been recognized as a Certified Virtuoso Violinist by the Whatcom Chapter of the Washington Music Educators Association. In 2008, he was also honored to perform with His Holiness the Dalai Lama during the Seeds of Compassion event in Seattle. Buy the Book Mason Bee Revolution: How the Hardest Working Bee Can Save the World One Backyard at a Time (2nd edition) Third Place Books

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Patrick J. Sullivan, board secretary of the Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum at Fort Warden near Port Townsend, Washington. In this conversation, Mr. Sullivan shares the news about the Coast Artillery Museum's imminent closure; after 50 years, the organization's board has voted to sunset its museum facility at Fort Worden, which will permanently close after Labor Day Weekend 2026. Mr. Sullivan explains that volunteers are harder and harder to come by and that revenue from cruise ship passengers has dropped off, and thus the board has chosen to cease operations of the museum, which was founded in 1976. In the years before World War I, Fort Worden was part of the historic "triangle of fire" - along with nearby Fort Casey and Fort Flagler - of coast artillery protecting Puget Sound from incursions of enemy vessels. CASCADE OF HISTORY spoke with Patrick J. Sullivan on Monday, June 8, 2026. Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064873562589 Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum's web page: https://coastartillery.org/ Fort Worden Historical State Park web page: https://parks.wa.gov/find-parks/state-parks/fort-worden-historical-state-park Links to more information as well as images related to most topics discussed on the show are often available at the CASCADE OF HISTORY Facebook page: www.facebook.com/groups/cascadeofhistory CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via flagship station SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via www.space101fm.org. The radio station broadcasts from studios at historic Magnuson Park – located in the former Master-at-Arms' quarters in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle. Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes. "LIKE" the Cascade of History Facebook page and get updates and other stories throughout the week, and advance notice of live remote broadcasts taking place in your part of the Old Oregon Country.

Got a story idea for Bloodworks 101? Send us a text message It's June 1947, and Bloodworks' first donation center in Seattle has been open for six months. Roughly 20 miles southwest, Harold Dahl and his crew experience something strange near Maury Island in Puget Sound. What happens next will launch a mystery and a mythology that persists to this day. The truth is out there, and, nearly 80 years later, Steve Edmiston wants to find it. But, as Bloodworks 101 co-producer Helen Pitlick learned, there was a time that Steve was the star of a scary SciFi-esque story of his own.Support the show

We sit down with Brita Fordice, a full-time product developer at RIO Products who designs and tests flies for a wide range of freshwater and saltwater species. Raised on Washington's Stillaguamish River, Brita started fly fishing at eight years old and taught herself to tie flies at ten. She later guided throughout Puget Sound and Hood Canal before helping build RIO's fly program from the ground up. We talk about her journey into fly fishing, fly design, working in the industry, and the lessons she's learned along the way. Follow Brita on Instagram   HOW TO HELP SO FLY: Please go leave us a review on APPLE PODCASTS. It really helps our show get out there, which means we get to make MORE episodes.  Thank you to our sponsors: Drift Outfitters Redington Chums Costa Muskoka Brewery Hooké   Podcast Intro Theme Song Music: “Favela Beat“ by Birocratic (www.birocratic.com) The song used in our podcast was licensed via Birocratic License v05.2016. For info on how you can use this music in your project, check out ⁠http://www.birocratic.com/license-app.⁠ To download Birocratic's 60+ song discography, visit http:// birocratic.bandcamp.com. Thanks to all our listeners.  

Re-posting this CLAMMY AND FISHY BONUS EPISODE in memory of beloved Seattle historian Paul Dorpat, October 28, 1938 to May 27, 2026. Anyone who works in history, public history or anything related to local history in the Pacific Northwest stands on the shoulders of the kind-hearted, brilliant and very funny Paul Dorpat. He was truly one of the good guys. REST IN PEACE. ORIGINAL EPISODE DESCRIPTION: On this CLAMMY AND FISHY BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY from November 2025, Feliks Banel (clam)digs into the audio archives to tell the twisted tale of the Ivar's Billboard Hoax, aka "Underwatergate." Though, once you've listened, it may have you wondering if there was ever hoax at all, or if it was actually some kind of elaborate coverup. In 2009, Seattle-based Ivar's seafood restaurants released a series of videos documenting the search for and discovery of UNDERWATER BILLBOARDS in Puget Sound. As the story goes, they were placed in the 1950s by restaurateur and showman Ivar Haglund to reach burgeoning submarine traffic. The 2009 undersea search was all very exciting, and many were completely hooked. But then, Jim Dever, with KING 5's Evening Magazine at the time - and still a great friend of CASCADE OF HISTORY - had the exclusive exposé, produced in cooperation with Ivar's, and featuring Ivar's CEO Bob Donegan. As Dever's report made it seem, the whole thing was a brilliant stunt that fooled a lot of people - but it angered a few, too, who thought Ivar's had gone too far. Fast forward to November 2015, and naïve history radio correspondent Feliks Banel set out to tell the backstory with help from Paul Dorpat. Dorpat is a beloved historian - and friend and biographer of Ivar - who had served as official historian of the vintage underwater billboard hunt. When the hoax had been revealed in 2009, Dorpat – longtime author of the weekly “Now & Then” history column - was criticized by many, and even temporarily suspended by The Seattle Times for his role in the stunt. As you listen to Paul Dorpat's 2015 version of events, try to keep clam. CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via www.space101fm.org. The radio station broadcasts from studios at historic Magnuson Park – located in the former Master-at-Arms' quarters in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle. Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.

Is spring actually showing up in the Pierce County real estate market — or is this the quietest "selling season" we've seen in years?In this episode of Inside Abode, host Dave Jones sits down with Jeff Tucker, Windermere Real Estate's Principal Economist, to break down what the latest Northwest MLS data really means for buyers, sellers, and agents across Pierce County and the greater Puget Sound.The headlines: closed sales are down 2% year-over-year, but pending sales are up 3%. New listings surged 14%, leaving 30% more active inventory than last April. The median sale price dipped about $5,000 — more evidence that PNW prices have stayed remarkably stable while other markets swing.Jeff walks us through the regional split too. Snohomish County closed sales dropped 15%. King County's median slipped 7% to $1,030,000. We talk about what that means for sellers trying to price right, for buyers who finally have options, and for the most balanced market we've seen in years.Spring is still a strong window to list — but the playbook has changed. More inventory means buyers are choosier, pricing matters more, and presentation wins.

With all these tech layoffs, should we get into the trades? We're pulling back the curtain on the trades industry with two leaders from one of the Pacific Northwest's fastest-growing home services companies. The CEO and COO share how they scaled Harts from a Gig Harbor garage to 150+ employees, why they built their own apprenticeship academy, and what tariffs and rising utility costs actually mean on the ground for tradespeople and homeowners.Top Stories:1. Inside the trades: workforce pipeline, women in the industry, and building a company academy (Seattle Times article)2. Microsoft's first-ever voluntary retirement program3. World Cup hotel bookings are lower than expectedAbout Rich Hart & Jess Passmore — Co-Owner and COO, Harts Plumbing, Electricians & HVAC Technicians: Rich Hart founded Harts over 13 years ago after relocating from Maui, growing the company from a garage in Gig Harbor to multiple locations serving the greater Puget Sound region. Jess Passmore joined seven years ago, bringing a background in healthcare operations, and now leads the company as COO. Harts serves residential customers across the region with plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and sewer services.About host Rachel Horgan:Rachel is an independent event producer, emcee and entrepreneur. She worked for the Business Journal as their Director of Events interviewing business leaders on stage before launching the weekly podcast. She earned her communication degree from the University of San Diego.Contact:Email: info@theweeklyseattle.comInstagram: @theweeklyseattleWebsite: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theweeklyseattle.com

Tonight on Veritas our special guest is Damien Kross. And I want you to pay attention, because this one is different. This one comes with field notes.It begins on a night shift. A quiet night in an enclosed courtyard at a conference center on Puget Sound in Washington State. Damien was bored. He was a night shift worker, a writer, a black belt, and a former Special Police Officer with presidential security detail experience. He was not hunting for anything. He was looking at the sky.He spotted what looked like a satellite. And in a moment he describes as something a five-year-old would do, he grabbed a flashlight, pointed it at the sky, and waved. The object stopped. It changed color, altered its path, and sent something back that he still struggles to describe: a feeling. A brief, clear sense of surprise coming from the object, aimed directly at him.That was 2016. What followed was nine years of the most disciplined and rigorously documented contact investigation I have ever read.He did not go public immediately. He went to the doctor. Then specialists: MRI, MRA, CAT scans, EEG, psychological evaluations. He wanted to rule himself out before saying a word to anyone. While he was doing that, lights started appearing on his work security cameras, across the Sound on Maury Island. Lights that responded to his flashlight. Lights that matched colors he chose. Then lights that matched colors he only thought about before reaching for his flashlight.He built tests for that. He named the recurring lights. He logged their personalities. And he documented the night that two constellation clusters rearranged themselves in the sky above him in answer to a prayer he did not expect to be answered.This is a preview. Members hear the full interview and the complete archive at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php

Tonight on Veritas our special guest is Damien Kross. And I want you to pay attention, because this one is different. This one comes with field notes. It begins on a night shift. A quiet night in an enclosed courtyard at a conference center on Puget Sound in Washington State. Damien was bored. He was a night shift worker, a writer, a black belt, and a former Special Police Officer with presidential security detail experience. He was not hunting for anything. He was looking at the sky. He spotted what looked like a satellite. And in a moment he describes as something a five-year-old would do, he grabbed a flashlight, pointed it at the sky, and waved. The object stopped. It changed color, altered its path, and sent something back that he still struggles to describe: a feeling. A brief, clear sense of surprise coming from the object, aimed directly at him. That was 2016. What followed was nine years of the most disciplined and rigorously documented contact investigation I have ever read. He did not go public immediately. He went to the doctor. Then specialists: MRI, MRA, CAT scans, EEG, psychological evaluations. He wanted to rule himself out before saying a word to anyone. While he was doing that, lights started appearing on his work security cameras, across the Sound on Maury Island. Lights that responded to his flashlight. Lights that matched colors he chose. Then lights that matched colors he only thought about before reaching for his flashlight. He built tests for that. He named the recurring lights. He logged their personalities. And he documented the night that two constellation clusters rearranged themselves in the sky above him in answer to a prayer he did not expect to be answered.

"We're talking about Katrina, Sandy, and Andrew combined, times maybe ten."On 10:54 AM on 28 February 2001, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck western Washington. The epicenter was in the southern Puget Sound, but the quake originated roughly 32 miles beneath the surface, mitigating some shaking. While hundreds were injured and a woman even died as a direct result of the quake, many believe that the region got lucky that Wednesday morning and that the total damage (~$2 billion) could have been a lot higher had the quake's hypocenter been closer to the surface.This region of the world is no stranger to the earth's whims. Lying in the shadow of the looming Mt. Rainier, there are a couple of active faults - the Seattle Fault Zone and the Cascadia Subduction Zone - that seem poised to devastate in the not-so-distant future...Learn more about this podcast at http://unresolved.meCheck out the podcast store at unresolved.dashery.comIf you would like to support this podcast, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron or ProducerBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast--3266604/support.

This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie discuss the continuing fallout from Lindy West's throuple memoir. Featuring: Aham's very angry email. Note for Puget Sound listeners: The April BAR Pod meet-up will be in the Port Townsend area on April 25th. If you would like to attend, please email blockedandreportedpodcast@gmail… To hear more, visit www.blockedandreported.org