Nerd Farmer Podcast

Philip Cowan has been the Executive Director of the Grand Cinema for nearly 13 years. The Grand Cinema is a nonprofit community gathering spot for independent, international, and local films.

The Rundown

8:00 How does a film go from being independently produced to being on the big screen in Tacoma?

15:00 How do you know which movies you’re going to have at the Grand?

20:00 How do you choose which movie screens in which theater?

26:00 Can we talk about the film Hail Satan for a minute?

30:00 First films, favorite films, oddest films?

 

The 5-ish

1. What should our listeners watch, one thing to read, one thing to listen to?
2. What is something that everyone loves that you know is pretty terrible.

 

Get in touch with The Grand:

philip@grandcinema.com

grandcinema.com  

 

Become a Member of The Grand:

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Movies Mentioned in this Episode:

RBG

Won’t You Be My Neighbor

Kenny

Sorry to Bother You

High Flying Bird

Hail Satan?

Kandahar

Juno

Grizzly Man

The Brink: Steve Bannon Documentary

Maiden

The Hate U Give  

 

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This week Nate was joined by former CIA agent and author of The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House, Nada Bakos. This episode a follow-up to episode 56, when we talked to Washington Post Reporter, Joby Warrick, the author of Black Flags. Nada discussed her work with the CIA, leading the hunt for the leadership of ISIS.

 

Rundown

12:00 What is a “Targeter” and how Nada got into intelligence work?

20:00 Nada discusses trailblazing a path for women in the CIA. What did it look like to seek Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?

24:00 Discussion about policymakers and intelligence.

29:00 Life after the CIA and the transition to civilian life

32:00 What are the similarities between foreign terrorist organizations and white nationalists?

34:00 Nada discussed the fight against ISIS in 2019 and how the Trump Administration is managing the fight.

 

The 5-ish

What to watch? Killing Eve

What to read? Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

What to listen to? Fresh Air

What is something everybody loves that you think is awful?

Bonus watch from Doug: The Prisoner

 

Twitter

@nadabakos

 

Read On

The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House

 

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We realize it’s really early to start thinking about this, but we decided to do an episode on the 2020 Democratic Party primary field. We each brought our Top Five candidates to the conversation and talked through their pros and cons. We also talked about who we do not support (no 75+ year-olds), and who we’d like to join the race: there’s policy, there’s frivolity, and there is some straight-up nonsense.

 

Guests:

Steve Ketelsen, 27th LD Treasurer, host of the Flounders B-Team Podcast on Channel 253

Hope Teague-Bowling, host of Interchangeable While Ladies on Channel 253, spouse of the pod

Megan Holyoke, AP Government teacher at Lincoln HS, apparent devoted Pete Buttigieg supporter

 

Hosts note: I don’t want to replace the oldest president in US history with an even older person, so Bernie and Biden didn’t get a lot of love on this episode. Speaking of Bernie, if you’re all “I love Bernie’s policies” but are a “hell naw” about Sen. Warren… I have some questions for you.

 

Going Further

Pete Buttigieg interview with Ezra Klein

John Delaney interview with Axios and Medicaid for All Plan

Jay Inslee CNN Townhall & Pod Save America

Beto O’Rourke 2018 Senatorial debate with Ted Cruz

Megan’s Interchangeable While Ladies interview

Muffet McGraw press conference on gender equity

 

The Five-ish

To read: The Three Body Problem

To watch: Queer Eye

To listen to: Charlamagne tha God interviewing 2020 candidates

 

The Socials

Hope: @espionfire & @IWL

Steve: @podfish & @FloundersBTeam

Megan: @megan_holyoke  

 

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As you know from last week’s episode, Reign FC will be calling Tacoma Cheney Stadium home this season. This episode we welcomed the most consequential US soccer player of all-time (man or woman), Megan Rapinoe and the majority owner of Reign FC, Bill Predmore.

 

The Rundown

3:00: Bill and Megan on why Reign FC are moving to Cheney Stadium?

6:00: Megan’s first reaction to “We’re moving!”

12:00: Reign FC roster talk: who should we be looking out for this season?

16:00: Rapinoe’s takes on playing for Vlatko Andonovski

19:00: A discussion about women the coaching ranks of both men’s and women’s soccer

20:00: Why we should all go to these games–besides to boo Portland…

26:00: Candid thoughts on the #SheBelievesCup performance and the pending lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation

45:00: Listener Questions

 

The Five-ish (we’re looking for a new name for this segment–if you have ideas, shout)

Pinoe and Bill: One thing to watch, one thing to read, one thing to listen to.

What is something that everyone loves that you know is trash? (Dick’s Burgers and Kombucha)

 

The Socials

Twitter @ReignFc

Instagram @MRapinoe

Twitter @mPinoe  

 

Get Tickets–no really, do it!

ReignFC

 

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Bev Yanez: midfielder of the Reign FC

Casey Catherwood: Tacoma’s Sporting PT Barnum and Ringmaster

Aaron Artman: President of Tacoma Rainiers

On episode 34, Casey and Aaron came on the pod to talk about the launch of S2. A lot has happened since then: S2 are now called Tacoma Defiance, the Reign have relocated to Tacoma, and both teams will call Cheney Stadium home while working on building a soccer stadium nearby. Suddenly, the folks in Rainiers Land are busier than ever. Folks around town are left asking “what in the hell is happening at Cheney?”

“This is the best women’s sports league in the world–right here in Tacoma.”

8:00: Bev on the state of the NWSL and the arrival of Regin FC to Tacoma.

14:00: Bev talks about the roster, the club, and the environment, and her path to professional club soccer.

24:00: What does the future of the Rainers, Cheney, and the stadiums look like?

30:00: From Casey: the most accurate description of a Rainiers game ever.

35:30: How Defiance and the Reign FC are reaching out to the Latino Soccer community?

 

The 5

1. Greatest soccer player in the world now or ever?
2. First thing you read, listen to, or watch each day?
3. What is your dream halftime or 7th inning stretch performance?
4. Last book you read or book you think folks should read?
5. What is something everybody loves that you think is awful?

 

The Socials

Tweet: @beverlygoebel

IG: @bevyanez  

Tweet: @CaseyCatherwood

IG: @caseycatherwood

 

Tickets, Merch, Schedules Websites

Rainers

Reign FC

Defiance  

 

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The Cast:

Karter (they/them): Executive Director at Ingersoll Gender Center, Sounders fan

Cat (she/her): Show Contributor, Teacher

Kenny (he/him): Bookseller, Incredible Human

 

5:00 We know They/Them as a plural is commonplace. We’re getting over it.

10:00 Take into consideration what people want to be called.

15:00 Is this book spoon feeding? Do we need the graphics and caricatures?

25:00 Favorite passages, Making Mistakes, and The Hat of Ignorance

30:00 We all have a Gender Identity.

33:00 Lessons and Learns

39:00 Practicing turning off surprise mode. Fix your face.

44:00 Intersections, Trans populace, what work we should be doing and setting on the forefront.

“You should care that the average yearly income for black, trans women in the United States is $10 thousand dollars a year. You should care that her average lifespan is 35 years.”

 

The 5

1. Kenny: What are you reading right now? Valerio Luiselly Lost Children Archive
2. Cat: What are you listening to right now?
3. Karter: Thoughts on the Sounder season.
4. Thoughts on the Reign becoming Tacoma Reign and no longer the Seattle Reign.
5. What is something everyone loves that you know is trash?

(Sidenote: Contributor Cat would like to change her answer to Seinfeld.)

 

Going Further

Ingersoll Gender Center

Pierce College

Lost Children Archive  by Valeria Luisella

Reign FC Soccer

Sounders FC

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This week’s episode is a sponsored conversation with Pacific Lutheran University, a sponsor of the Nerd Farmer podcast and Channel 253. Two guests from PLU—Allan Belton, Acting University President and Julian Franco, Assistant Director of Admission for Equity & Access—stopped by to shed some light on trends in higher education and the equity work happening at Pacific Lutheran University.

Founded in 1890, PLU is a comprehensive liberal arts university proud to call the Parkland neighborhood of Tacoma its home. PLU is committed to meeting students where they are in the admission process, and offering a myriad of opportunities to make its cost affordable and accessible, including participating in the Act Six Scholarships program.

Photo: John Froschauer/PLU

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Joby is the author of “The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA” and the Pulitzer Prize Winning “Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS”

The Rundown

The episode begins with a discussion of my undying love of the Libby app. Libby is an application available from your local public library that allows you to download ebooks and audiobooks to your phone or Kindle.

After the break, Joby joins Nate for a remote interview. Joby is the author of two books The Triple Agent and Black Flags. He is a reporter for the Washington Post where he works national security and intelligence beats. We discussed shared themes in his books: the dangers of executive branch hubris, the incredible effectiveness of Jordan intelligence, and the role that women are playing (as tageters) in the intelligence and counter-terrorism communities.

Joby is currently on book leave working on his upcoming book.

The 5

Perhaps the most on-brand answer ever–read a newspaper

The Socials

Twitter: @JobyWarrick

Photo: Abdullah Ghatasheh

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Dr. Ingrid Walker: American Studies Professor, University of Washington Tacoma

Ingrid is the author of the book “High: Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users”

The Rundown

5:00: We began with discussion of Drug Scheduling under federal law.

9:00: What does America get wrong about Drug Policy? What are some specific things we are doing wrong at the federal level?

20:00: What are some countries that are smarter about this and what can we learn from them?

27:00: The conversations shifts to how we treat alcohol in the US. It’s a drug, we act like it’s not. It’s often cheaper than bottled water, especially in the hoof. That’s wild.

36:00: If we’re going to talk about drugs we have to talk about the “Opiate Crisis.” There’s a lot of misinformation out there about opiate deaths. It’s both better and worse than the media makes it seem.

The 5

1. What’s one thing folks listening should read?
2. What’s your go-to brunch spot in Tacoma?
3. Who is someone on the faculty at UWT who you wish had a larger audience?
4. What is something that everyone loves that you think is trash?
5. If you had to listen to one album forever, which one would it be?

The Socials

Twitter: @badacademic

IG: @ingriditty

Books

High: Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users

Drinking in America: Our Secret History

Going Further

Substance Abuse Disorder

Drug Scheduling

Drug Schedule Chart

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