Seventy-year-old Nafi Quatamin owns the Salena One Market in Tacoma. Like many small stores in the area, his market has been targeted for robbery.

“A guy walks into the store and says he is going to rob me,” Quatamin told Jake Skorheim on 成人X站 Nights. “I say not with that knife. Then I pulled out my machete.”

He purchased the machete to fend off would-be burglars about a year ago. It turned out to be a wise decision, as on February 5, Quatamin was minding the shop when a man pulled a knife on him and attempted to rob the cash register. However, he stood his ground and wielded a machete to defend his livelihood.

“The police found him behind the Bates College down there,” Quatamin said. “They recognized him and took him to the jail. It was about 9:30 in the morning and they released him at 7 in the evening, and told him to go home and be nice.”

Background story: Store owner prevents robbery by bringing a machete to a knife fight

He said that wasn’t the last he would heard from the robber.

“He came to the store again and said ‘I’m gonna come back and rob you again and kill you.'” Quatamin said. “I recognized him and said, ‘Are you serious?’ He said ‘Yes, I’m coming back.'”

Quatamin said he hit them in the chest. Customers held him down until the authorities came.

“This time, the police said he needed help. They took him to the hospital instead.”

For Skorheim, this recalled a popular 80s action comedy:

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As someone who is deeply passionate about music, I believe song is one of the most powerful languages in the universe. Songs express our deepest feelings, our inner longings and the cries of the human spirit. And music can move us to better empathize with others and to act to better the world around us, beginning here at home by supporting causes like Treehouse.

In that spirit, and in gratitude for everyone who made Holiday Magic happen, here’s a look at the artists who were kind enough to contribute their time and talent.

Led by Niko Stathakopoulos, Scarves has a classic indie rock sound that’s instantly familiar to anyone who’s spent time in the college radio or club scene, with math-rock-influenced instrumentation and lyrics that evocatively describe disillusionment and the fragility of the human experience. The band has a knack for having just enough hook to have their songs linger, without distracting from the impact of their lyricism.

Recommended if you like: Dirty Projectors, Modest Mouse

If you’re wondering where the “rock” went in Seattle’s sonic landscape, King Youngblood has some high-energy answers. Alternative Press Magazine dubbed them “Seattle’s Alt Rock Princes” and it’s an apt label. Fronted by University of Washington (UW) grad Cameron Lavi-Jones, and joined by drummer Paul “Sticks” Stoot, cellist Chet Peterson and bassist Samy Garcia, the band displays a knack for hooks that could go round for round with the big bands of alternative rock.

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They’ve played Lumen Field for a Seahawks pre-game show, and opened for Pearl Jam and another local rock favorite, Ayron Jones. They even created their own comic book series called “Afrothunda.” Apart from creative endeavors, the band is deeply involved in youth mental health concerns through their non-profit .

Recommended if you like: Foo Fighters, Royal Blood

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Byland is the moniker of Alie Renee, a Seattle-based singer-songwriter. Raised in Albuquerque, N.M., Byland moved to Seattle and released her first full-length album “Gray” in 2020.

Hearing her music for the first time live reminds many of Tori Amos. Byland’s lyrics are vulnerable and often are “uneasy” listening in the best way. The orchestration adds just the right textures to highlight Byland’s vocals, and draw the listener into the atmosphere of her songs. This isn’t just music you hear, it’s music you feel with your whole heart and soul, and it’s beautifully intense.

Her music is getting attention from tastemakers worldwide, including PopMatters & American Songwriter. The track “Mother” was featured in the Fox Television crime drama, “The Cleaning Lady.”

Byland’s second album is planned for release in 2024 on Mother West Records.

Recommended if you like: Deep Sea Diver, Tori Amos

La Fonda is a five-piece band, fronted by sisters Valerie and Veronica Topacio. Their harmonies layer over soundscapes inspired by shoegaze and dream pop, telling stories of navigating the chaos of adolescence, addiction, gentrification and sisterhood. Valerie and Veronica also have a number of shows scheduled to perform as a duo through this December and January, and are the founders of the Belltown Bloom music festival returning in 2024. La Fonda’s latest album is titled “We Are Infinite.”

Recommended if you like: Beach House, Death Cab for Cutie

Lara Lavi is a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, who also happens to be a practicing attorney. She began playing piano at age three, and went on to learn the violin, guitar and viola. At 19, she was performing in Chicago’s famous blues clubs, going on to tour with the great Buddy Guy, and she’s still performing and recording today.

More from Holiday Magic: Donating to Treehouse a great way to spread Holiday Magic

Music runs in the family, too. Laura is the mother to Cameron Lavi-Jones, frontman for Seattle alt-rock band King Youngblood.

Back when 成人X站’s own Spike O’Neill was a part of the legendary Bob Rivers Show, he also started a band. Spike remained the frontman with a rotating cast of very talented musicians joining him through the years to play classic rock favorites. To list all the talented professionals who have played with the band would take ages, but it’s well worth a look.

Rock critics may be the first to slight “cover bands” but the Impalers bring the musical skill and the fan passion to rock’s anthems, including favorites from AC/DC, The Who and ZZ Top.

Spike & The Impalers have done impressive work on behalf of countless charitable causes in the Pacific Northwest and sold out numerous shows around Puget Sound, keeping the classics alive for countless numbers of fans. Keep an eye out for performance dates and experience them live!

No one won the big prize Tuesday, and the next drawing is scheduled to happen Friday for people to get another chance at the big jackpot prize.

On 成人X站 Nights, Spike O’Neill spoke about the massive prize and how much of a difference it would make in the lives of whoever won it – instantly making them one of the wealthiest people in the country.

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“Can you imagine just one day, one ticket, handing you a lifetime’s worth of work and effort and worry and toil? In one little ticket,” Spike said. “That’s why people play. My wife won’t let me play the lottery. My wife says we need our luck to be about important things like our health and the health of our family. She’s not a big believer in using luck for money.”

For Spike, the value of health is immeasurably more important than wealth, but he also acknowledged the importance money can have in America for those that need medical services.

“I’ve got a very dear friend who’s battling cancer, and he was able to have the resources to seek the best treatment in the country and to put himself in a position to have the best chance to win in this fight with cancer,” Spike said. “But a lot of people don’t have the chance to do that. A lot of people don’t have the chance to seek even adequate health care to stop the onset of diabetes or heart disease.”

According to the latest 2022 (NHEA), U.S. healthcare spending grew 2.7% in 2021, reaching $4.3 trillion or $12,914 per person – about 18.3% of the GDP of the country. When compared to other countries using the , the U.S. spends more money on healthcare than almost any other country on the planet.

“There are countries across the globe that have universal health care. Countries where it doesn’t matter what you make for a living; your health is covered. There are countries where education is covered,” Spike said. “Do you want to pay 29% tax plus pay for all your health care out of pocket, plus pay for all your education out of pocket? Or do you want to pay 45% in tax and both those things covered?”

A lot of Americans have to cut their personal spending to afford medical care, some hoping for outright miracles, like one in 302.6 million kinds of miracles. A poll from August by Gallup shows that one in four adults have had to skip care or medicine due to rising costs and two-fifths are concerned about affording care in the next six months.

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“When someone goes in for a checkup or a procedure, and they’re as worried about how they’re going to pay for it as there are blockages in their arteries, how is that the best way for us to go forward? Does that make me a socialist? I don’t know,” Spike said. “If I just won a billion dollars, I don’t worry about any of this crap, but I’m not going to win because I’m not going to play because, as a texter pointed out, ‘Spike, your wife is right. Health is more valuable than wealth.'”

So use your luck if you can to stay healthy, and if not, you can hope for some astronomical fortune when you buy your next lottery ticket.

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“This is part of a $350,000 public education and awareness campaign being rolled out over the next two years,” 成人X站 Nights host Jack Stine summarized.

“These signs have got to cost, what, $3,000 a pop, $2,500 a pop? To put up signs that say ‘drivers stopped for crosswalk-ers ahead 46%,'” he continued. “This is a huge waste of money and time.”

成人X站 Newsradio’s Chris Sullivan says it’s all part of the city’s “Vision Zero” initiative, which aims to reduce pedestrian deaths to zero.

“Which is a laudable — maybe not very realistic in a big city — but it’s a laudable goal,” he said. “So they’ve come up with all sorts of ways to do that, and this just appears to be the next latest one, which is kind of shaming drivers into doing what they’re supposed to do which is stop for pedestrians at marked crosswalks and unmarked. That’s the law — it’s pretty simple, it should be done.”

As far as Chris understands, the traffic patterns will first be studied, then there will be signs put up with the percentages of how many people did or didn’t stop for the crosswalk. So drivers will see, for example, a sign that says “58% of people didn’t stop at this intersection.”

“Is that a good reminder? Are people going to stop because they saw that? I don’t know,” Chris admitted. “If you’re blowing through a crosswalk right now as a driver or a bicyclist, you’re probably not going to care about a sign because you’re doing the wrong thing — and you know it. This seems like they had to spend the money, and another town found it to be successful, so let’s see if it works here.”

“I get it — it seems silly, especially when it probably won’t have any impact because if you’re already running crosswalks, you’re going to keep running crosswalks,” he added.

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Washington鈥檚 outdoor mask mandate to be lifted Feb. 18; indoor to follow

成人X站 Nights host Jack Stine maintains that mask wearing should be based on individual choice. And he plans to have a “relatively uneducated debate” with Billy Sunshine about whether kids should wear masks.

Until then, he asked for his professional opinion.

“This is something that has been a real problem for us,” he replied. “It’d be nice if we had the public health officials actually ring in on this and provide their recommendations.”

“I understand — everybody wants to be without their mask, have their personal freedoms,” he continued. “I will remind everybody that zero children died from the flu last year, where normally we get 200-300 a year. And it’s because of mask wearing.”

There are, of course, pros and cons to mask wearing — as with everything, Zinnanti noted. But at the end of the day, he says masks are “a pretty simple intervention with a huge upside.”

Jack says he’s concerned there will be more COVID cases again when people start taking off their masks.

“There will be a dramatic uptick, the hospitals will get overloaded again, you will then have another set of nurses or practitioners who say, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore,’ ‘I’m going to go work for Big Pharma,’ or ‘I’m going to go into private practice,’ or whatever,” he shared.

“My concern is less about COVID and more about attrition,” Jack added. “I am so concerned about doctors and nurses saying, ‘I am done dealing with people dying in the hospital.'”

Dr. Zinnanti admits that’s a huge problem.

“It’s not just all the people, all the sickness and death you’re exposed to — it’s the fact that these people are taking swings at doctors and nurses,” he said.

Hear the full interview in Tuesday’s first hour of 成人X站 Nights:

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But it was real!

“This is totally legitimate,” Jack said. “People actually are getting their catalytic converters engraved in order to prevent theft? So when the scrappers try to buy them, it has your name, and your address, and your VIN number?”

“It’s basically a way to try to allow car owners the ability to add a little bit of security to their catalytic converter in the hopes that if the person who has been buying these things illegally for years all the sudden gets a conscience and says, ‘Oh, this is Jack Stine’s. It has his name and number on it. Now I feel bad. Now I won’t accept this and give the guy $500 cash for the precious metals in this,'” explained Chris Sullivan, 成人X站 Newsradio traffic reporter.

Competing proposals for catalytic converter theft crackdown up for Thursday vote

Jack says he thinks it’s a good idea, at least in theory, to hopefully dissuade people from attempting to steal the catalytic converters. Because if you take this now engraved part into a scrap yard, then that person might be culpable in buying stolen goods.

“Well they already are,” Chris said. “But at least you’d be like, ‘Are you Jack Stine? Because this is Jack Stine’s catalytic converter.’ You would think that might do something.”

That said, Jack thinks there is plausible deniability for those buying a catalytic converter.

“How am I supposed to know somebody cut this out of a Prius with a Sawzall? It’s not like it’s got cut marks on either side of it,” he said. “… It’s plausible deniability.”

“True, and I don’t want to cast all scrappers as criminals, … but there are obviously places where you can go where they are looking the other way,” Chris said.

Catalytic converter thefts have gone up by 1,300% in King County over the last few years, Chris reported.

“There’s a way to stop it, but it’s got to be the people who are accepting the goods knowing full well that, ‘I’m looking the other way. I don’t want to know where it comes from,'” he said. “I think that’s where you stop it, or try to at least.”

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As 成人X站 Newsradio reporter Hanna Scott shared, Inslee recently met with people in Chicago, which has led to a rumor that he may be considering another presidential run in 2024.

“It’s still rumor, I want to be clear, but I’m starting to think that, you know what, maybe,” she said.

“If he wanted to be President of the United States, he would have to let me mold him. He would have to let me craft [him],” Jack said.

Jack says he has thought about this “at length,” and has decided that he would make Inslee “the liberal Donald Trump.”

“I would make him the most obnoxious, in-your-face progressive imaginable. But I’m not talking like Elizabeth Warren, I’m not talking like Bernie Sanders. I’m talking about raw and brash like Donald Trump,” he explained.

Maybe like Kshama Sawant, as Hanna offered, “but I would make him more affable,” Jack clarified.

“I would tell him to flirt with coeds, you know what I mean? I would tell him get into a bar fight, but then shake hands with the guy afterwards and say that you don’t actually like fighting,” Jack continued. “Get some scars, get a tattoo — get a Poison tattoo or a Twisted Sister tattoo, and maybe a koi fish on the other arm.”

“Make yourself the bad boy of liberal politics,” he added. “And then also push everything that Donald Trump was pushing on the Republican side, but push it from the liberal perspective.”

“It might get it done,” Hanna laughed.

Jack suggested he would have Inslee team up with “really liberal rappers,” or “go on the Joe Rogan podcast and swear a lot.”

“I think that he would pull it off. Remember the Segway he had a couple years back? We get one of those, but it’s got bumper stickers,” he suggested.

“I can’t even tell you the flurry of visuals I’ve got going on right now,” Hanna said.

To top it all off, his nickname, Jack says, would be “Dangerous Jay Inslee.”

“Inslee 2024: You heard it right here on 成人X站 Nights,” Jack laughed.

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The came after a parent complained about the use of the ‘N’ word, which appears “in excess of 50 times,” 成人X站 Nights host Jack Stine explained.

“It is now removed because it is too racially charged,” Jack said.

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Frequent guest of 成人X站 Nights, “Billy Sunshine,” called the removal “insane.”

To clarify, “To Kill a Mockingbird” has been removed from the required reading list, but not from libraries. It is still on the district’s approved list and is not banned, Jack noted.

“Parents should not be allowed to tell teachers what to teach or what books go in the library,” Billy said.

“You and I both know that this is wrong. It’s parents out there — this is so bizarre,” Jack said. “Let’s take a state that you hate, Billy. In Florida, [Governor] Ron DeSantis is telling teachers what they can and can’t teach, right? And it’s parents who are coming out and saying we want our kids to actually learn ‘history.’ So in that instance, should parents not be telling the state what their kids should and should not be learning?”

“Well no, that’s not true — I can’t say that,” Billy replied. “You’re right. You’ve got to take it pragmatically, a piece at a time.”

“Yes, I finally did it,” Jack said. “I finally beat you at your own game — I used facts and logic.”

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“I think that this is an awful idea,” Jack said. “The idea that we’re going to have some kind of pristine airway like in ‘Back to the Future 2’ where people are flying in their lane. …听I don’t see it happening.”

成人X站 Newsradio traffic reporter Chris Sullivan has done a couple different stories on these flying taxis or flying cars. He joked that he envisioned a world more like “Blade Runner” or “The Fifth Element.”

“The difference here being most of the technology, or most of what people are thinking about, is an autonomous vehicle of some sort,” he said. “… We all know we can’t drive for you-know-what with a car on the ground with four tires. You’re trying to tell me that we’re going to put somebody who has no pilot training flying a car? No. Most of this is going to be the autonomous situation.”

“In fact, Boeing is one of several huge companies that are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into this. There are more than 100 companies around the world that are working on this technology,” he added.

One company that Chris has highlighted is from Tacoma, called ZEVA Aero, which is building a personal autonomous vehicle.

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“What Boeing is looking at — and which is more of the industry standard — is kind of a taxi where you have more than just one person being able to use this,” he explained.

The one Boeing is funding is from Wisk Aero, a California based company. It’s a vertical takeoff and landing, so you don’t need a runway.

“Imagine a large drone with a passenger compartment,” Chris said.

“It’s a possibility,” he added about having flying cars that are accessible to the public. “… I think this might happen at some point because there are just too many smart people spending money on this. And there’s a lot of development going on, not only in our region, looking at this as a possibility. Will it happen? I kind of think it might at some point, I’m just not sure how far down the road we are.”

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The number of passing students in math went from 50% to 33%, as reported from an with the state Superintendent of Public Instruction.

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“Math is already bad as it is, but a third of students are passing?” 成人X站 Nights’ Tarik Ansari said. “This is cringe, but I have a solution for how we can make it based.”

成人X站 Nights host Jack Stine said he wants to hear the solution, but had to get something out first.

“People often ask, why is the public school system failing? I will tell you that you can look to your own place of work to understand why the school system fails,” Jack said. “… In general, the top 15%, 10% of people in a workplace are doing something like 90% of the work. They’re doing almost all of it, and everybody else is just a slacker.”

“The same thing applies to teaching,” he continued. “Out of all the teachers out there, maybe one out of every five, two out of every five really cares about their job, really cares about the kids, really cares about educating the children of the future, teach them well, and help them lead the way. All the other teachers — and no offense to you out there if you’re a teacher, I’m sure you do a great job — are slackers. They don’t care.”

Jack says we can point blame at the curriculum or COVID-19 for low test scores, but he believes that’s not the true issue.

“The fact of the matter is that when you have a teacher who’s excited and enthusiastic about their topic, it’s infectious. When they care about the kids, it’s infectious,” he said. “When you have a bunch of slackers who have a union job, who can’t get fired, that’s when you get kids with a third-grade reading level by the time that they’re in eighth grade, and a second-grade math level by the time they’re a senior in high school.”

“This is a recipe for disaster and we have been eating it for years — decades at this point — wondering why it tastes so bad. Because the recipe is bad,” Jack said.

Tarik agrees with Jack’s point about unions, but disagrees that the majority of teachers don’t care.

“I think the reason we’re seeing this test drop off is the fact that a lot of students are going through a lot — a lot — whether it be mental health, physical health, or just, I mean, it’s a once in a century pandemic,” he said. “They have to go from in person and seeing their teacher all the time to online for a year and half, which is a problem in itself.”

He points to two reasons for the drop off — that Washington was not prepared to go online and is not giving teachers the resources they need, and that “we’re still teaching math like we’re idiots.”

Overall, Tarik thinks there needs to be an overhaul of the way math is taught, better materials for students and teachers, and the ability to fire teachers that are lazy, don’t work, are abusive, and that have “cancelable behavior.”

“If we can have all those things happen, we’re going to be in a much better place. We’re going to see test scores going up,” he said. “That’s a fact.”

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Video: Stolen car speeds away from police on sidewalk outside 成人X站 Radio studios

It was against police policy for the officers to pursue in this case, as Seattle Police Department Sergeant Randy Huserik explained to 成人X站 Radio.

鈥淧ublic safety being paramount, we have to factor in time of day, weather conditions, the activity of both vehicular and pedestrian traffic in the area,鈥� Huserik said. 鈥淭hen, of course, we have our 鈥� that dictates when and when we cannot pursue a vehicle, and in this in this circumstance, our pursuit policy did not allow officers to go after that vehicle.鈥�

成人X站 Nights host Jack Stine says he’s of two minds about this situation because he gets that some people are saying this is a densely populated area, and if the police opened fire, they could potentially hit someone else.

“But at the same time, you have a sociopath who’s willing to drive on the sidewalk to try to get away from police,” Stine said. “Do you see where the nuance comes into this? If there’s a situation where you’re going to pursue somebody, mayhaps the circumstance where someone is driving on the sidewalk where they could potentially hit and kill somebody would be the situation you would pursue.”

Producer Shane agreed, and says the video looks like the driver found a cheat code, as if they were playing “Grand Theft Auto,” to avoid the police by driving down the sidewalk.

“It makes me upset that SPD kind of had their hands tied in that situation,” Shane said, adding that if he were an officer, he would have wanted to do more than just stand there and watch it happen.

The whole scene reminded Jack of a TV show, “Deadwood,” set in the Wild West.

“It reminded me very much of the Wild West, where if you didn’t want to listen to what the sheriff was telling you or the constable was telling you, walk away,” he said. “‘I’m not going to do it. What are you going to do? Shoot me?'”

“When other criminals see that, what are they supposed to think? If I know that you’re not going to pursue me in a stolen car, … [I’ll] drive away. You’re not going to pursue me or do anything about it,” Jack said. “So why not just drive away and then no one’s going to bug me.”

When you make a city habitable for criminals, Jack says, you’re just going to get more criminals.

“But at the same time, if that cop had decided to go full Rambo and light that guy up, guaranteed you probably would have killed somebody right on the opposite side of that glass,” he said, referencing the glass windows of the storefronts that line the sidewalk.

“SPD is in a really difficult position. I get that,” he added. “And so I’m of two minds about this, but it’s so disappointing that they can’t actually do anything about it.”

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Can a new dating app break the Seattle freeze?

The survey ranked cities based on three main categories: economics, fun and recreation, and dating opportunities, and then assigned a numerical score. While Seattle lagged behind in economics at 161st, it came in at 4th in each of the latter two categories.

Although with WalletHub’s assessment, Jack believes the city’s larger issue has to do with how it perceives itself.

“Seattle is a beautiful city,” he posited. “It has everything that every other major city could ever want and more, and yet, it does not have the confidence of, let us say, a San Francisco, or a Los Angeles, or an Austin, Texas, or a New York City, or a Miami. However, it has all of those things, and more, over those cities.”

“Seattle, in my humble opinion, is the incel of the major city community, and they bring it upon themselves,” he continued. “Of course young people want to live there. Of course people want to work there.”

For Tarik — who currently lives in the Bay Area — Seattle’s dating scene looks even better when compared to a city like San Francisco.

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“Ever since I’ve moved to San Francisco, which has been about five months now, I’m telling you, there’s a San Francisco freeze,” he noted. “People are here to do two things: to network, and to watch anime, and that is it.”

“The dating life out here is just terrible compared to Seattle,” he added.

You can read the full report from WalletHub at .

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Dave Chappelle is coming to the Climate Pledge Arena, and Seattle Pride recently. They say they’re deeply upset about Chappelle coming to Seattle after comments he made in his recent Netflix special, “The Closer.”

Seattle Pride speaks out against upcoming Dave Chappelle performance

To clarify, in my opinion, the special is a relatively unimportant piece of comedy. I didn’t find it to be funny, because it’s 40 minutes of him talking about how trans people are mean to him on Twitter, which is beneath Dave Chappelle as a comedian, and beneath him as a performer. If I did my whole radio show on the people who don’t like me in the text line, would that be good radio? If I did an hour and a half on the people in the text line who don’t like me, it would be pretty cringe. That’s the way that I view “The Closer” from Dave Chappelle.

But more importantly, the thing that I am of two minds about is not Dave Chappelle coming to Seattle, because of course Dave Chappelle should come to Seattle, of course he should perform at the Climate Pledge Arena, and of course people should go if they want to see him. I am of two minds about Seattle Pride releasing their statement, because I’m not sure how necessary or important this statement is.

So you’re going release a letter to the Climate Pledge Arena, asking that Dave Chappelle not be booked until he apologizes, not to any individual person, but to trans people as a whole? That is a ridiculous argument to make, and I am as pro trans as anybody could possibly be.

It is a stupid thing to ask Dave Chappelle to apologize to the transgender community at large. If you want him to apologize to you, as a trans person because he offended you, I’m sure that you could get in touch with his publicist or his agent, and say, “Hey, Mr. Chappelle, I’m a trans person, and when I watched ‘The Closer,’ I took the comments you made about trans people personally, and rather that it being a ‘me’ problem, I want it to be a ‘you’ problem, because it’s my choice to watch the special.”

No matter how you cut it, it is a stupid thing to do. I am more than happy to support Seattle Pride. I am more than happy to stand up next to our gay brothers and sisters, or our trans brothers and sisters and say, “We will fight transphobia wherever we see it.” What I am not on board with is this idea that Chappelle needs to apologize writ large to everybody for comments he made in a comedy special. I find that stupid and unnecessary.

Now, if you want to criticize this special, I’ll be right along there with you — it’s boring and uninteresting. But this is too much.

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New bill to keep Washington in standard time provides way around need for federal approval

Regardless of which option ends up succeeding, 成人X站 Nights host Jack Stine believes we’ll be better off for it in the end.

“I have been yelling and fighting about this and arguing with people about this my entire radio career,” Stine said on Wednesday’s edition of the show. “For some reason, there is a class of people out there that has some kind of pagan-esque affinity to every six months, we put our clocks forward, pull them back, whatever it is.”

The hope from state lawmakers is that the latest effort to stay in standard time will finally put an end to Washington’s seasonal time changes. In order to stay in Daylight Saving Time, states either need a federal waiver from Congress or approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which Washington has been waiting on since 2019. Staying in standard time, though, requires no such approval, and can be implemented immediately at the state level should the new bill pass in the 2022 legislative session.

While staying in standard time won’t help with Washington’s lack of daylight in the winter months, it would still represent a step in the right direction, Stine noted.

“We don’t worship the sun god anymore,” he said. “We don’t need to have this weird ritual every single year. This is why I say pagan-esque, because it is an obsession with some people that we have to have this backwards ritual where six months out of the year we totally ruin our sleep cycle. I’m tired of it.”

Moving forward, both Stine and 成人X站 Radio traffic reporter Chris Sullivan think we should eventually find a way to stay in Daylight Saving Time, particularly in a part of the country where standard time has the sun setting at the tail-end of the afternoon.

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“I do not like the sun setting before five o’clock — I don’t live in the Yukon for a reason,” Sullivan joked.

“I want beautiful sunlight — I want God’s natural rays shining down on me,” Stine agreed. “This idea that we live in this backwards, draconian era where we have to have our our clocks switched all the time, I’m just not for it anymore.”

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成人X站 Nights host Jack Stine and believe it could come down to the wire.

Strong turnout for Sawant recall vote ahead of Tuesday deadline for District 3 ballots

As Markovich points out, Sawant has won three straight elections to city council, the most recent of which saw her overcome an eight-point election night deficit. While a December recall likely represents her toughest election challenge to date, it’s also difficult to entirely rule out the possibility that she ekes out a win.

“She is the one politician in the state of Washington that you can’t count out at all,” Markovich noted. “She just has that ability with her people to rally them at the last moment and pull something out.”

That said, he also points out that this is “her biggest hill to climb” since she took office, describing how it will likely be less about the allegations laid out in the recall and more about her status as a controversial political player.

“There are specific allegations, but whether or not people are voting based on those allegations, … I don’t think that’s the real issue here — it’s really about her politics,” Markovich theorized.

As for what those exact politics are, Jack believes there’s something of a misconception that’s been floating around for years.

“I think that people are wrong to refer to Kshama Sawant as a ‘radical socialist,'” Jack posited. “I have read all of her policy prescriptions for X, Y, or Z, and it’s pretty run-of-the-mill socialism.”

“She is the definition of a socialist, beat by beat, all the way down,” he continued. “She doesn’t like private property, believes in the democratization of the workforce, believes in public funding for X, Y, and Z initiatives. And I think it’s a misnomer to put ‘radical’ on it, because a radical socialist, I think, would be someone who’s talking about, ‘well, we need to dismantle downtown and replace it all with teepees,’ that would be a radical socialist.”

Kshama Sawant recall could see District 3 voters buried in ballots over next two years

That’s largely what’s driven Sawant’s support in District 3, Jack says, and if she defeats this recall, it could be what puts her over the top.

“There are enough people out there who are willing to say, ‘Yeah, I have socialist leanings, and this is the kind of stuff I’m on board for,'” he said. “I think that’s how she keeps moving through this and defeating all of this stuff. Every time she runs, she wins, and it’s because there are enough people out there who are on board with that run-of-the-mill socialist message, in my assessment.”

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She spoke to 成人X站 Nights host Jack Stine this week for her first post-election interview, reflecting on the stress she endured during her campaign, her hopes for Seattle moving forward, and whether she might run for office again in the future.

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A self-described abolitionist, Thomas-Kennedy faced a full-court press of criticism from moderates and conservatives — inside and outside of Seattle — throughout the election cycle. That was on top of numerous death threats directed at both her and her family.

“I’m not going to say it doesn’t bother me because in the aggregate, it really starts to get overwhelming,” she described. “But I can shake it off pretty easily. I think it was when it came to my family, those were things that were really devastating to hear people wish death on my child.”

“Initially, I didn’t even really want to talk about it, because I didn’t want it out in the world that that was something that happened, because it’s just so ugly and awful,” she added.

The sum total made for a campaign that has her doubting whether she would want to put herself and her family through a similar experience in the future, be it another try at running for city attorney, or for another position like city council.

“I have thought about it, but I don’t see myself running again,” she noted. “But at the same time, I can’t say for sure what the future brings.”

As for ensuring that she remembers how the experience felt the first time around, she cites an apt metaphor.

“I gave childbirth naturally, which is something I don’t recommend for people, and they told me, ‘oh, after a while you’ll forget about how awful it was,’ and that’s why people do it again,” she said. “So I said, ‘I’m going to write it down so I don’t forget,’ and I did the same thing with this campaign.”

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“I know, in the future, I’ll think like, ‘oh, it wasn’t that bad,'” she continued. “But I’m going to write it down to remind myself of what I’m in for.”

With Ann Davison now set to become Seattle’s next city attorney at the start of the new year, Thomas-Kennedy outlined her “hope that she goes where the evidence leads.”

“The evidence doesn’t lead to more incarceration,” she clarified. “All the evidence, all the data that’s been presented over years of this experiment of mass incarceration has shown that it doesn’t work, and so I hope that she looks at that evidence, because I think that we all deserve to be safe in this city.”

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“According to this article I saw, turkeys are 6.2% more expensive this November than they were last year, and the price of turkey is at a three-decade high,” said KTTH’s Tarik Ansari on 成人X站 Nights.

“I don’t get the obsession over turkey,” Ansari said. “… Do we have to have a turkey? Why can’t we get a really, really nice chicken, an awesome chicken, like one of the best chickens you could even chicken? Or maybe some steak or — I don’t know — some pork? I know we’re going against the vein of tradition, but are we really going to talk about, ‘Well, we’ve got to be like the pilgrims with the turkey.’ Do we really want to be like the pilgrims?”

“No, we don’t,” he continued. “It’s 2021 — we have TikTok, we have microwaves, we have a lot of other stuff. Let’s have food that is more cost-efficient, stuff we can enjoy. Because turkey, in all fairness, tastes like a chicken that hates you. Let’s actually enjoy this Thanksgiving and not have to cave in to the norms.”

成人X站 Nights host Jack Stine agreed.

“For my Thanksgiving this year, we are having a roast. We are skipping turkey altogether,” Stine said.

“We’re having an actual meat roast,” he said. “I’m going to go buy a huge side of beef and we’re going to roast it because I’m tired of eating dry meat that I don’t want to eat ever. I never go out of my way to get turkey. … I don’t eat turkey, I don’t like turkey. I’m sure if someone handed me a nice plate of dark meat turkey, I may be into it, but for the most part, I’m over it.”

Stine and his wife decided this year they’re dropping the turkey and doing whatever they want.

“This is America, and we don’t need to eat bad bird anymore,” Stine said.

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成人X站 Radio’s own Chris Sullivan is now returning to the office, which means he’s waking up at 3:45 a.m.

“I have not been going to the office since being diagnosed with COVID on April 29th,” Sullivan told Jack Stine on 成人X站 Nights.

Sullivan continued working from home even after he recovered from COVID-19. Plus, as he notes, he’s been traveling to places that “aren’t as familiar with masking and/or social distancing,” including Montana to see his son play college football.

“I’ll tell you what, I drove home from Bozeman on Sunday and the alarm went off at 3:45 the next morning and I had to get up,” he said. “I was like, ‘man, working from home is awesome.’ Because right now, I am beat and I’m two days into this.”

“Talk about body being way off,” he added. “And I know there are going to be some people going through similar stuff because now we’ve got the commute, now you get up early. … It’s funny just how much you take all this for granted when the technology has made working [from home] so much easier.”

Now he has to wake up, take care of the cats, make a sandwich, and get out the door with enough time for the commute to Seattle.

“All the stuff you didn’t really worry about when working from home and the sandwich was in the next room over or the cats were with me,” he said. “Just getting back into the swing of things.”

But, Sullivan says, it’s great to see people in person again that he hasn’t seen for six months.

“It’ll get better the more I get used to it, but, boy, I’ve been pampered the last six months,” he said, quickly adding, “Other than, of course, the nearly dying part — but that was so long ago.”

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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is set to take on the top U.S. opioid distributors in a trial starting Monday, Nov. 15. The trial will be in King County Superior Court as part of a lawsuit filed by the attorney general’s office against the nation’s largest three opioid distributors — McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen — for their alleged role in the state’s opioid epidemic.

All of this suing that’s going on by the states, whether it’s Connecticut, Ohio, Texas, and now Washington state, is all for show. As someone who was an opiate addict, I believe I can say this: The person whose responsibility it was to be in charge of my health was me and my doctor.

As someone who was addicted to drugs, I fooled my doctor to give me more drugs. I fail to see how going after opioid companies, or distributors for that matter, is going to fix anything or offer any restitution to the victims of the opioid epidemic.

This is the government trying to shake down these companies to get more money for their coffers. The opioid crisis is on opiate addicts, and it’s on doctors. It’s not on companies like Purdue, Lilly, or the Sackler family.

People and doctors have known that opiates are addictive since the . People have known this since post-Civil War, when America was replete with morphine addicts missing legs and arms. In fact, they had a term for it. They called opiate addicts, back in the day, 鈥渉oople heads鈥� because they were smoking opium pipes. People have known, and doctors have known, for years that opiates are horrifically addictive. I fail to see how companies have not known this as well.

The doctors were playing stupid. They know just how addictive opioids can be, and it was on them to curtail opioid prescriptions.

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成人X站 Nights host Jack Stine’s mom is deaf, and he is fluent in sign language. Stine says sign language is actually a very accessible language because it’s an expressive language.

“You don’t have to worry about the phonetics of it, you just have to worry about the expression of it and what motions you’re doing with your hands,” he said.

He believes there are a lot of people who would benefit from learning sign language.

“You know the ins and outs of how to communicate with a deaf person, or even someone who is a child of a deaf adult, like how I am, because it’s basically like having a superpower,” Stine said.

“If you’ve ever been interested in learning a language or you have to take a language credit for college, I always recommend sign language,” he added. “It’s an amazing skill set to possess. And it’s just a fun language to learn, and it’s a fun language to have in your back pocket.”

Shane on 成人X站 Nights agreed.

“I took one year of sign language in college. I did my best to try to not take a foreign language, and since I have dyslexia really bad, I was really stressing out about taking a foreign language,” he said.

Stine seconded that, and says he definitely recommends sign language to people who are dyslexic or say they can’t learn Spanish or any other language for whatever reason.

“100%,” Shane said. “If you struggle with reading or writing, do ASL. It’s pretty awesome.”

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