Nerd Farmer Podcast

Jason Wilson is an Australian-born academic turned journalist residing in Portland. He is currently on the far-right, white-supremacist, and right-wing street brawler beat as a correspondent for the Guardian. Jason has a myriad of articles you can check out on The Guardian. Wilson is a classy, really thoughtful gent who is covering an important and frankly dangerous beat.

The Rundown

4:00 Jason’s background and how he got here, in his own words

8:00 Why should we, as listeners, pay attention to this beat?

20:00 Who are the faction that we’re talking about?

30:00 Cider Riot! Riot… and the aftermath.

“Rep. Shea thinks the Civil War went the wrong way… amongst other things.”

The Wind Down

55:00 What to read? What to listen to? And the infamous Katie Downs Question…

Going Further

Matt Shea Exchanges Messages with Far-Right Figures

Jason Wilson’s Guardian Work

OregonLive videos of Cider Riot!

The Socials

@jason_a_w 

The Guardian Page 

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Thanks to the Seattle Sounders trip to MLS Cup and the ability to use Alaska Airlines Miles on Emirates — Nate is back in the Moonyard Studios! ???? 

This episode is with show veterans Zach Powers, episode 4 and Dave Jones, episode 37.

Rundown

2019 local election reax

2020 Democratic Primary takes

The NBA’s current and all-time greats

Cast of Characters

Zach Powers, professional communicator

Dave Jones, realtor and human hot-take machine

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Michael Artime Professor of Political Science PLU Ph.D. & M.A. in Political Science from the University of Missouri and his undergrad from McKendree University in 2003. His students ignite his optimism and his love of the Cardinals is blasted on his Twitter. In this episode, he was asked his thoughts on the possible, if not likely *sigh* re-election of President Trump.

The Rundown

4:00: Prognostication: Does Professor Artime believe there will be a Trump re-election?

18:00: Odds that House and Senate will remove the president from office

26:00: Professor Artime looks into a crystal ball and speculates on a Trump second term: Holy SCOTUS Batman

30:00: What are some of the norms that have been erased under the Trump current administration?

39:00: Listener Questions

The Wind Down

45:00: Read, Watch, Listen to, and Katie Downs

The Socials

@DocArtime Twitter

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This is the first episode of the podcast recorded after the move to abroad to UAE. We open segment one of this episode with a guest appearance from Interchangeable White Ladies co-host, Hope Teague-Bowling. We discussed our transition to life in the UAE and our new lives at the American Community School of Abu Dhabi.

In segment two, we spoke to three teachers. Each person talked about their decision to move abroad, how then enjoy life in Abu Dhabi, and how teaching at an international school is different than teaching in our various home countries.

We wrap with the wind-down, where Jordan confessed to loving Katie Downs and the Kardashians and was almost banned from the studio.

Cast of Characters:

Hope Teague-Bowling: Interchangeable White Lady, NBCT, quite a looker

Jordan Moog: US history teacher, formerly of Sumner High School, Parkland Royalty

Jonathan Diaz: IB Theory of Knowledge teacher, in Abu Dhabi via Malta and Venezuela, maker of arepas

Lisa Paterson: PE Department Head, Kiwi, vicious hater of static stretching 

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Welcome to the final episode recorded in the mesmerizing, captivating Moonyard Studio in picturesque North Tacoma. Nate will back in seven days with the first episode from Abu Dhabi.

Cast of Characters

Amy Young, Associate Professor of Communication, Chair of Communication and Theater, PLU

Bradd Busick, Chief Information Officer MacDonald Miller, adjunct faculty Business Information Systems, PLU

~The Rundown~

2:30 Busick’s take on the trajectory of AI in the ‘working world?’

5:30 Young’s take on where is technology heading in the classroom?

“Have a mindset of openness… You can approach technology and not be afraid of it.”

13:00 Who is getting an education in technology? Is it equitable? What is the current level of classroom tech penetration — what will it look like in the near future? 

16:00 Technology and apprenticeships (Listen for Nate to randomly forgets the word apprenticeship mid-show)

21:00 Post-High School Education in the future

27:30 What are “soft skills” and when should they be ‘taught?’

38:00 What do we need more of in K-12 education?

~The Wind Down~

52:00 Amy Young: Read, Listen, Watch

54:30 Bradd Busick: Read, Listen, Watch

Going Further

What Is The Future Of Education? 23 Experts Share Their Insights

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella  

The Socials

Twitter: @amy_prof 

Insta: @annamarjorieyoung

LinkedIn: Bradd Busick

Twitter: @braddbusick

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Dr. Isiaah Crawford has been the President of the University of Puget Sound since July 2016. 

His CV is long:

A licensed clinical psychologist who has been the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago as well as serving on the board of directors for Swedish Health Services (2010–12), AIDS Foundation of Chicago (1994–08; board president, 2004–06), and Horizons Community Center (1988–92). He is the former president of the Clinical Psychologists Licensing and Disciplinary Board of the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, and previously served on the national advisory board of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Institute (2006–08), National Institutes of Health Panel Review–AIDS and Related Research (1999–2002), and various roles with the American Psychological Association. 

Dr. Crawford is a black man in charge of a predominantly white higher-ed institution. One day I hope that won’t be worth mentioning, but in 2019, it still is. 

The Rundown

3:00 The role of UPS in the community

6:00 What makes a liberal arts education important

11:00 What responsibility do liberal art colleges like UPS have in an increasingly authoritarian world? 

16:00 Dr. Crawford’s vision for UPS

20:00 Let’s talk about pedagogy and instruction at the college level.

25:00 Let’s talk tuition and retention

30:00 Listener Questions

“All My Life I’ve Wanted to Be A Logger! Hack! Hack! Chop! Chop!”

The Wind Down

1. One thing to read: Hans Rosling’s Factfulness
2. One thing to watch: Stranger Things
3. One thing to listen to: Motown
4. One thing that everyone loves that is actually trash?

Going Further

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World and Why Things are Better Than You Think by the Late, Great Hans Rosling 

University of Puget Sound 

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Cast of Characters

Andrew Hammond: co-host Flounders B Team, Sports Writer at Tacoma News Tribune 

Trayton Otto: Tweeter, Sounders Supporter, Thoughtful Dude

Sarah Hampson: UW Professor, Fan of the First Amendment, 2x Pod Veteran

The Rundown

2:00 Impressions 

7:00 The disappointment and necessity of working across party lines

12:00 Favorite passages

18:00 Asymmemterical political polarization and Republican Agenda

31:00 The Role of the Nation Media in politics

34:00 The Obstruction of Justice by obstructing justice 

Democracies die when the media fails to inform people and instead entertains them.

37:00 Mutual tolerance & Institutional Forebarance — This is Trayton’s baby

42:00 What role has the US had in disrupting democracy elsewhere? 

48:00 Polling on Presidency — Professor Hampson brought stats

55:00 Quickbites: How do democracies die? 

The Wind Down

1. One thing to watch
2. One thing to listen to
3. One thing to read

Going Further

Vice: Obama to QAnon Voters

The Socials

@TraytonO Trayton Otto, Twitter

@ahammTNT Andrew Hammond, Twitter 

@uwtacoma UW Tacoma, Twitter 

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Only 11% of teachers in Washington State are people of color. Dahlia Bazzaz wanted to get to the bottom of why and in doing so did one of the best local education reporting projects in recent memory. Dahlia is an education beat writer for the Seattle Times. She previously appeared on episode 31 of the podcast.

Her project on teacher diversity was done in cooperation with Katie Gillespie in Vancouver. Give them both a follow.  

Going Further/Mentioned in the Show 

The Seattle Times Teacher Diversity Project

Seattle Times: A white teacher said she felt unsafe and called the police on a black fifth-grader

Nate’s 2016 Teacher Diversity Panel at Harvard

The Socials

Dahlia on Twitter

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EXTRA, EXTRA: This is a special Fight the Fash edition of the Nerd Farmer Podcast.

In response to the decision by Major League Soccer and the Seattle Sounders to ban supporters from displaying the Iron Front, an anti-fascist flag, we decided to convene a conversation with two local anti-fascist activists. In response to events this weekend, we’ve decided to accelerate the release of this episode. 

For those not in the know, the Iron Front is a three-arrow flag that dates back to Weimar Germany (pre-WWII). In its original rendering, the three arrows represented opposition to rising Nazism, opposition to a return to monarchy, and opposition to Stalinism. Members of the Iron Front used the symbol to literally cover swastikas in the streets and in their communities. It has been a symbol of anti-fascism/Nazism around the world for nearly 80 years. 

This conversation was recorded the day before the El Paso shooting and the publishing of the shooter’s right-wing manifesto. The day after that shooting a group of armed Proud Boys tried to force their way into Fuel, the home bar for ECS, the Seattle Sounders main supporters group. After failing to gain entry into the bar the Proud Boys harassed Sounders fans, eventually assaulting one. The response from the Sounders front office has been silence and as an Inaugural Season Ticket Holder, I find this unacceptable. 

It may seem odd to invoke Reagan in a situation like this, but in 1964 he delivered a speech called “A Time for Choosing.” In 2019, when it comes to combating violent white-supremacy, emboldened fascists, and the presence of Neo-Nazis in our communities, this is a time for choosing. So far Major League Soccer and the Seattle Sounders have chosen dreadfully, but it’s not too late. 

Going Further/Mentioned in the Show 

Neo-Nazism and violent fascists at NYCFC

White-nationalists try to enter Fuel

Sounders fan assaulted by Proud Boys

ADL Database of Hate Symbols

Post-Script: Ironically, as I was writing these show notes my renewal invoice for my season tickets arrived via email. It is also a time for choosing for me.

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Professor Gilda Sheppard Sociology and Cultural Studies at Evergreen has been working on a film for admittedly 12 years focusing on the systemic institutionalism of persons of color called Since I Been Down. Dr. Sheppard carries a B.A., Sociology, Mercy College of Detroit,  M.S.W., University of Washington, and a Ph.D., Sociology/Cultural and Media Studies, The Union Graduate School, 1995. She and Nate go back to 2002.

The Rundown

3:00 What is it like to be a black woman public intellectual in Trump’s America? (You’ll love this answer) 

11:00 How did you begin using film in your teaching?

16:00 How did you become interested in advocating against the carceral state?

21:00 Let’s dig into black criminality & Jim Crow.

It’s more than the New Jim Crow. It’s the Advanced Jim Crow. 

30:00 Dr. Sheppard speaks about her film: Since I Been Down. 

40:00 Powerful audio Clip from the documentary.

Wind Down

Read: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 

Watch: Sorry to Bother You trailer 

Listen To: This Is America by Childish Gambino 

Katy Downs Question!

The Socials

@dr_sheppard IG

Going Further

http://www.jimmielewisproductions.com 

Since I Been Down FB Page 

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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future 

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