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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In light of the recent distribution of flyers around the Puget Sound by Neo-Nazis we sat down with David Neiwert author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. He’s a…