#135: Ginny Burton's mother gave her marijuana when she was 7 and soon after she was abusing meth and crack. After a lifetime of addiction and incarceration Ginny got clean, got a degree and is now a darling of right wing media. Like unsavory local characters Kevin Dahlgren and Andrea Suarez, Ginny Burton creates online engagement by filming homeless people during their lowest moments. Ginny's associate and fellow ex-con Alex Peder runs Corrio, a player in the exploitative for-profit prison telecommunications industry. Ginny's kooky pro-cop story of recovery and its "pull yourself up by your bootstraps and say no to methadone" narrative is eaten up like candy by right wing media outlets like unDivided with Brandi Kruse, Sinclair Broadcasting's KOMO and Fox News.

#131: A dredge through the Puget Sound Business Journal's "Seattle's Power 100." Former real estate mogul Martin Selig (he developed Columbia Center - Seattle's tallest building, and once owned much of Belltown's commercial office space) is off the list. Also no longer on the list is Jeff Bezos, who f*cked off to Miami (party on, bro!).

#134: PODCAST SHOUTOUT: 90s Alt-Rock superstar Billy Corgan has a new podcast called The Magnificent Others. Billy has pulled an impressive list of A and Z-list guests from the creative asylum known as the music industry to come on his show, including Nancy Wilson of Heart, guitar shred-god Steve Vai and wealthy widow Courtney Love.