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Taxpayers have spent $1.2 billion to help Amazon thrive. The Puget Sound Business Journal has been working to uncover the Amazon playbook. We’ll take a look at it this hour. For the first time in 31 years, the U.S. Men's National Soccer team will not go to the World Cup. Shockingly, they got knocked out last night and we have a Seattle Sounders player to thank for it. Will President Trump dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada? Canada's Prime Minister Justin

Bill Radke speaks with Steven Agen, Seattle editor of Prost Amerika and host of the podcast Radio Cascadia , about the causes and fall out of the U.S. Men's National Soccer team failing to make it into the World Cup in Russia in 2018.

Bill Radke talks to Lynda Mapes, The Seattle Times environment reporter, about Washington's disappearing salmon population and what it says about the health of our coast and Puget Sound.

Washington state is suing President Trump yet again. The Trump administration has issued new rules that let insurers and employers opt out of covering contraceptives in their health insurance plans. Yesterday, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson challenged those rules in federal court. Did you read about the hiker rescued from the Goat Rock Wilderness over the weekend? Two search and rescue experts will tell you how to not be that hiker. And our Northwest salmon are disappearing. Scientists who

Bill Radke speaks with Taylor Brugh, vice president of Seattle Mountain Rescue, and Sandeep Nain, owner of the Redmond-based guiding company Miyar Adventures , about how to plan and prepare for trips into the mountains. We also hear stories from listeners of when adventure went wrong in the outdoors.

If we are not rational or disciplined enough to make decision on our own, should the government make them for us? And facing death can be scary and hard to imagine, but maybe we all need to get more comfortable with it. And artificial intelligence may be the wave of the future but that wave can wait when it comes to our children.

Let’s talk about death. No, seriously. It’s time we all had a conversation with our loved ones about dying.

Mass transit is all around you and it’s growing. You see the buses and trains running and new lines being built. So where are we on transit? Is there an important public backlash or has the transit train left the station? Also, the late Jon Rowley's work is a big reason you eat Copper River salmon and Olympia oysters. And, I’ll speak with somebody on the left who thinks the left is too intolerant. Frances Lee is the author of an essay called, “Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice.”

Bill Radke speaks with queer, trans, Chinese-American Frances Lee about an article they wrote called, " Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice." Lee argues that sometimes people involved in the social justice movement, which Lee considers themselves to be a part of, can sometimes be intolerant of differing views. Lee says that members of the left do sometimes intimidate their own with the fear of seeming impure.

Zoë Quinn is an avid gamer, developer, and artist. In her capacity as author and advocate, she’s launched an online crisis network and spoken before the UN. But you probably know her best from #GamerGate.

The Las Vegas shooter used a device that made his bullets spray faster. Our governor is calling for a ban on that device. What about all the other gun regulations that some Washingtonians have been asking for for years? Gov. Inslee will join us along with Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat, who asked responsible gun owners to speak up. He'll tell us what he heard back. Also, she was at the center of the backlash called Gamergate. Now, game developer Zoe Quinn is talking about how Gamergate

The mass shooting in Las Vegas has us asking – yet again – what we should do about gun violence. The polarizing refrain “now is not the time to talk about gun control” comes up a lot in the wake of the attack. And Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat said that’s code for “we’re not going to do anything.”

Celeste Ng’s sophomore novel, "Little Fires Everywhere," is set in her hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio. But she sees more than a few commonalities between her town and ours. “Seattle, like Shaker Heights, tries to live with its eyes on the world,” Ng said, speaking with Bill Radke on KUOW's The Record .

Bill Radke talks to Chris Quintana, reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education , about protests on college campuses like the ones at Evergreen State College that lead to the sanctioning of 80 students.

This hour, we'll answer your questions about gun laws. Specifically, why has Washington not banned semi-automatic assault rifles as some other states have? Also, how did ultra-liberal Evergreen State College become a national symbol of campus division? And novelist Celeste Ng looks at Seattle and sees a familiar progressive desire to do the right thing. As she says, ideals are neat but humans are messy. She'll tell you some stories about that this hour.