Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️

An interview podcast about politics, news, nerdery, civics, pop culture, and shade

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

I'm signing out from this account today. The show will continue—can't shut me up—but Twitter is a broken place and I don't want to be a part of it.

You can find the show here - https://t.co/qspqww9X4k

Newsletter here - https://t.co/4rXCsSzmyj

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

Here's a link to the conversation.

Later this week, we'll share the audio from our Nerd Farmer Live event, and in a fortnight the next episode in our small biz series with Cassandra Williams from Love by the Slice—the best bakery in the city.
https://t.co/NF3Wn3p8GT

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

Today we have Part 2 in our series on running a small biz in Tacoma. This round we chatted up Umi from @ETCTacoma about life in the rareware biz.

We also discussed niche soccer jerseys, the messiness of the Tacoma Art Museum, and the power of an anorak to conjure nostalgia.

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

If you're a @Channel_253 Member and a soccer fan, check the Member Slack for info about our bracket contest for the upcoming 2023 Women's World Cup.

The buy-in is $10. Details in the "Soccer" channel.

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

A warning to the community: if you are attending #TacomaPride, Masyih Ford—an officer complicit in the death of Manny Ellis—is on duty, along 9th Street.

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

This is classic from current city council: ignore a problem and ignore activists about a problem. Then, when activists start getting traction introduce watered down policy.

We've seen it before:
Interim zoning regs at the port
Home in Tacoma and upzoning
Police accountability

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

When I interviewed the folks from @tacoma4all about their Tenant Bill of Rights, one of the things we discussed was the likelihood the city would rollout a watered down version of the policy.

As predicted...

https://t.co/DCMiulC4gz

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

Here's our conversation with Zev and David from @tacoma4all.

https://t.co/RycQj75Qpi

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

@EmiratesSupport Okay, it unscrews in the middle so that's a "yes." Thanks! See you soon.

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

Hey @emirates, can this be my carry-on flying between SEA and DXB? Asking for a friend.

[Matt Driscoll @mattsdriscoll]

Last night’s @Channel_253 and @nerdfarmpod event inspired a TNT mini-reunion.

It was good. I love all these people.

(Photo credit: The great @froschphoto)

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

Annnnnnd @Channel_253 Fest is underway live from the Press Room on Opera Alley in Downton.

First up the boys from Grit & Grain doing an oral history of craft beer in Tacoma.

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

@CarterCPrice I'm working my way through your recent paper on widening wealth gaps in our neoliberal era. I'm curious, what would be the best way to submit an interview request?

https://t.co/ws7EwAnvRE

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

Last call!!! Join us Thursday night for episode 200: an All Star Panel, great venue, ample libations.

https://t.co/fTKh6GSWhT

[Channel 253 @Channel_253]

ACHH & Channel 253 fest coming June 29! Scoop up your tickets now! We’ll have @nerdfarmpod with special guests @OtherWillJames @MelissaSantos1 @JennaHanchard and @mattsdriscoll. Plus beer talk with @gritandgrainmic and fun with @IWL_Podcast! https://t.co/1WomPJe27c

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

We're doing a series about small businesses in Tacoma and how they're coping with the business climate created by the city, Covid, inflation, etc.

First up, Russ Heaton of Doyle's Public House.

https://t.co/lQApJ31Bwv

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

I haven't even shared it yet! Thanks, Timbo.

[Tequila Whisperer @muffintopmodel]

Listening to @nerdfarmpod with @DoylesPub 🤌

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

If you live in the Venn Diagram of show listener and Sounders fan, I'll be posted up with some folks from the C253 Member Slack at @DoylesPub for the match vs LAFC tonight.

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

Will James is doing journalism about an infamous Internet grifter. Follow along.

[Will James @otherwilljames]

Christopher Rufo, one of the country’s most powerful conservative influencers, rose up in Seattle, one of the most progressive cities.

How did that happen?

I spent a lot of time looking into that question.

Thread:

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https://t.co/39bPrzV8kk

[Channel 253 @Channel_253]

On this Juneteenth, we have _two_ new episodes from the Sisters on the What Say U? podcast. Here is the first episode today, with State Representative Melanie Morgan. https://t.co/E9RKYEvST8

[Nerd Farmer Podcast 🤓👨🏿‍🌾🎙️ @nerdfarmpod]

If you listened to our episode with @Brandi_Buchman about the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial, this from the New Yorker is good extra credit listening. A reporter got hours of walkie talkie audio from Oath Keepers, then the feds came knocking.

https://t.co/xi8R3TIXJC