Nerd Farmer Podcast

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Understanding the Housing Market in Pierce County — Marguerite Martin, Move to Tacoma — #183 Jan 23, 2023

Show notes

This week we are joined by the founder and proprietor of Move to Tacoma, Marguerite Martin, to talk about what’s happening in the housing market in Pierce County. This conversation is a continuation of the discussion we had with NY based real estate consultant, Nicole Beauchamp, in December.

Marguerite, as ever, was fascinating and insightful and this conversion is worth your time.

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Marguerite Martin – Move to Tacoma & LinkedIn

Going Further

The US Housing Market is Not Okay – Nicole Beauchamp, Engel & Volkers NYC – #180
My AI Is Sexually Harassing Me’: Replika Users Say the Chatbot Has Gotten Way Too Horny – Vice

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LIVE: Adult Civics Happy Hour, the Troyer Trial – Kari Plog, KNKX and Jared Brown, TNT – #182 Dec 26, 2022

Show notes

On December 22, Channel 253 hosted the first Adult Civics Happy Hour since the start of the pando. This is the first of two panels from that evening.

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Kari Plog – KNKX FM
Jared Brown – TNT

Going Further

Prior podcast coverage of the Troyer case: here, here, and here.

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He Was One of Us – Pierce County Council Chair Derek Young, an Exit Interview – #181 Dec 18, 2022

Show notes

As we did when then Mayor Strickland left her position, this week’s episode is an Exit Interview with Pierce County Council Chair, Derek Young. Young’s career in public service began in 1997, when he was elected to the Gig Harbor City Council, he will leave elected office in January for a gig TBD.

We spoke about the unfortunate Troyer verdict, the ways he feels he’s left the county better than when he entered office, his relationship with Executive Dammeier, what it was like to serve on the council with Pam Roach, and what’s next for him.

Cast of Characters

Derek M. Young – not that Derek, this one

Going Further

Derek’s first appearance on the pod – Stop Worrying About Trump and Get Active Locally
#NerdFarmReads – Dopesick – LibroFM and Kings Books
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The US Housing Market is Not Okay – Nicole Beauchamp, Engel & Volkers NYC – #180 Dec 05, 2022

Show notes

Housing is a topic we return to with regularity. This is largely thanks to its roots and association with the Pod Auntie’s Move to Tacoma Podcast. With rising interest rates (and inflation) shrinking folks’ buying power, I thought it was time for another check-in on the housing and real estate markets. This episode has a national focus, with the intent to do a locally focused follow-up in the coming weeks.

This week’s show guest is Nikki Beauchamp. Nikki is a real estate advisor. She is based in New York City but has a reach across the country and the globe. She was dope! This is my favorite episode we’ve had in a minute and she’s agreed to come back on the pod for a Part 2 down the road.

Mentioned in the show intro: Here’s a link to my new weekly newsletter, Takes & Typos.

Cast of Characters

Nikki – Insta and LinkedIn

Nerd Farmer Housing & Real Estate Conversations

The Housing Market and the Ethics of Real Estate – Jasmyn Jefferson – #107
A Protest Movement to End Homelessness – Rebecca Parson, Tacoma Housing Now – #113
How Homeowners in Rising Housing Markets Can Fight Displacement – Marguerite Martin – #117
The Missing Middle in Housing – Joseph Tovar, American Planning Association – #153
Why We Need Regional Housing Solutions – Rep. Jessica Bateman – #154
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The Midterm Congressional Results & the Washington Secretary of State Race – Melissa Santos, Axios – #179 Nov 14, 2022

Show notes

The midterm election results are still being tabulated. The widely predicted Red Wave did not materialize nationally, as the Democrats retained possession of the US Senate while losing a handful of seats in the House. As of this writing, control of the House is undecided, but it’s likely the GOP will emerge with a fragile, narrow majority.

We reached out to perennial show guest Melissa Santos to talk through the results from the US Senate, District 3, and District 8 races. We also discussed the Secretary of State race and the questionable actions of State Democratic Chair, Tina Podlodowski.

Melissa was as ever informative and helpful in helping us understand the results in Washington.

Cast of Characters

Melissa – Twitter

Going Further

Axios Seattle Newsletter – subscribe
Melissa on the SOS race – Axios
Nate’s dank election meme
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Grappling with Chronic Inflation and Rising Interest Rates – Cameron Harwick, SUNY Brockport – #178 Nov 02, 2022

Show notes

Cameron Harwick is a professor of economics and SUNY Brockport. I stumbled across a video that he made explaining the causes of the current period of inflation as a result of monetary policy. Much of what he said jived with what he have heard prior on the show from Bill Dickens. But there was some daylight between the two economists. So we invited him on to help us square the differences.

In addition, we talked about rising interest rates from the Federal Reserve and how those might impact the economy and complicate life for first-time home buyers.

Cast of Characters

Cameron – Twitter

Going Further

Cameron’s Inflation Explainer – YouTube
This summer’s inflation conversation with Bill Dickens of BJNJ
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Michael Lewis’ “The Premonition” #NerdFarmReads Bookclub – Derek Young and Halley Knigge – #177 Oct 17, 2022

Show notes

This week’s episode is our audio bookclub conversation about Michael Lewis’ The Premonition. The book is about the state-level & federal bureaucrats who foresaw the pandemic, as early as the George W. Bush administration. It lays out the pandemic response plans they built, how they were passed on to the Obama administration, and eventually discarded by the Trump administration in 2017, with disastrous consequences.

Note: Our next #NerdFarmReads selection is Dopesick by Beth Macy. You can grab it from our friends at Libro FM (join using promo code “tacoma”).

Cast of Characters

Derek – Twitter
Halley – Twitter

Going Further

CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak – Washington Post
The Great Influenza by John Barry
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A Post-Mortem on the Seattle Teacher Strike – Dahlia Bazzaz and Monica Velez – Seattle Times – #176 Oct 03, 2022

Show notes

In September, teachers in Seattle Schools went on a five-day strike. While the usual suspects in conservative media collectively pulled a hamstring faking umbrage, the community was widely supportive of the strike. Yet many people were caught off-guard by it and its seemingly rapid resolution.

We reached out to Dahlia Bazzaz and Monica Velez from the Seattle Times to get their takes on the strike and its connection to wider state-wide politics and events in Olympia.

Cast of Characters

Monica – Twitter
Dahlia – Twitter

Going Further

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WTF Did I Just Watch??? A (Spoiler-Filled) Hour on True Crime – Hope Teague Bowling and Megan Holyoke – Hosts, Interchangeable White Ladies Podcast – #175 Sep 20, 2022

Show notes

After a series of episodes about mass incarceration and duplicitous, corrupt sheriffs, today’s episode is something different. We talked about Running with the Devil: the Wild World of John McAffee, a new Netflix documentary film and Untold: the Girlfriend that Didn’t Exist, a series about the catfishing of Manti Te’o, then linebacker at Notre Dame.

Our guests and Hope Teague Bowling and Megan Holyoke of the Interchanagle White Ladies Podcast.

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