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…
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…
Ep. 57: Liberal Democracy has a Case of the Strugs — Dr. Sarah Hampson, University of Washington Tacoma
- February 25, 2019
- Tagged as: Democracy, Politics, UWT
This week Nate sat down with Sarah Hampson, PhD Political Science, MA International Politics, professor at University of Washington Tacoma. They had a conversation about the shortcomings of liberal democracy in the US and elsewhere…
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…