Welcome back to the show and it's
time for some hot topics and I
have a fun panel here with us this
morning we have trianna holiday
with converge media along with KING5
traffic anchor, Shante, Sumter.
Plus my executive producer Joseph
Suttner good morning my friend.
Good morning grand rising.
Yeah I love that well.
I am so excited to have you all here
and we weren't talking recently about
Seattle and kind of losing its history.
It's real culture because you know more
and more things are being torn down.
Make way for new housing.
So my question for y'all is this.
How do you preserve Seattle's history
but also make room for new development?
More housing?
It
is a fine line and you know there's
lots of people out there that
want to preserve our history,
which is excellent because that is important.
You don't want your city to lose its soul,
but at the same time where is that line?
Because we have such a housing crisis
right now we need more homes for
people in the city in urban areas,
so I just, you know.
And more affordable housing,
you should make that clear because we don't.
We're trying to do a better job of it,
but I don't think we're doing a
good enough job at getting so.
That's what burns my biscuits,
frankly, is when they tear
things down and build stuff up,
and they're like it's gonna be
$8000 to live in this closet.
Yeah, this is exactly why I think
the work of different community
organizations that are working on
community rooted housing is so important.
Really thinking about human centric design.
You know, organizations like Africatown,
Community Land Trust and they
just had their reunion on union.
Right, and that's bringing legacy
families back to the Central district.
That's how you keep that culture alive
right there by listening to the voices
of the people and building for what they
need. Yes, exactly absolutely in
what they can afford as well.
So yeah, as you mentioned, that is a great.
And as we talk about preservation
and progress like Joseph
and trade just mentioned,
I think it's just very important that
as we continue to progress, you don't.
You don't lose what's important,
so as she mentioned,
like making sure that families who
are traditional traditionally in
those areas are able to stay there,
because sometimes we see affordable and
then I look at some of these prices.
And I'm like who can't afford it,
who can't afford it, right? Absolutely,
that's really interesting to know.
Speaking of progress, or maybe lack thereof.
So I guess 5 Starbucks stores
have closed in Seattle,
which is something I never thought I'd see.
I saw one closed down by my house
a couple years back and I went.
Wow, that's a first.
What do we think about this?
Well, I was shocked when I saw the
list of which ones were closing.
I know they said they're closing
due to crime, but the one that's on
Capitol Hill is like lovingly referred
to as the Gay Bucks on Capitol Hill.
And I was shocked when I saw
that one was closing because it's
such a popular location,
so I don't know what Starbucks has planned,
but they are clearly wanting
to make some major changes.
Yeah, it's it's a tough one.
You know? Honestly,
I agree with you Joseph.
When I saw that the 23rd Ave and
Jackson St Starbucks are closing,
I know lots of legacy members of the
community of the Central District
that go there to conduct business.
It kind of became a love spot even
though originally people were kind
of protesting to have it come there
because we were like what is this?
We didn't know what Starbucks was yet and
so to see that on the list due to crime.
It's one of those things where I'm like.
Where are people going to go now?
They host their meetings
and Pike and pine, right and not Pike
and Pike Pike and first yeah, which is
one that I was shocked about as well.
Does not surprise me that there
has been a rise in crime there.
I've seen a lot of stuff go down
right there in front of pipe market,
but I I don't know today.
What do you think?
Well, you know to play the
Devil's Advocate card.
I know I've been covering,
we've been covering this story
on the news side and some of
the Starbucks workers don't feel
that crime is the only issue.
Some of them have been seeing.
Concerned about the stores
that wanted to start a union,
so I feel like there needs to
be some more investigating into
what exactly is happening,
but I do know last week we asked
Starbucks about the data on the
crime and they said everything isn't
reported so it is a little murky.
So I'm I'm just interested to
see what happens and if someone
digs deeper into are those stores
specifically being targeted?
Because if so then that is problematic.
Definitely
that's a great point.
I'm wondering are they?
Just closing them?
Or are they gonna open new
locations to replace those?
Or is it just getting
rid of them? You know
will be interesting to see.
Yeah, I got another controversial
topic for you that nobody seems to
really wanna talk about monkeypox.
And apparently now people are
looking at this like a gay disease.
It's not a gay disease,
but many in the LGBTQ plus community
feel like they aren't getting
enough support when it comes
to dealing with this outbreak.
What have you all heard?
Have you seen enough support being
given just across the board?
Well, I just wanted to talk about this,
obviously because when it first
started happening I feel like
everyone was like oh great,
like another pandemic or whatever.
You know it wasn't really well known.
And then as time has gone
on on the East Coast,
I've seen many gay men who I like follow
on social media saying like Oh my gosh,
like my friends are talking
about getting the vaccine.
Are you getting it?
Where are you finding it?
I'm having to go to Canada to get
it which is just and then I was
like Oh my gosh like very alarmed.
And then I was kind of looking
to see like who?
In Washington state is talking about it.
My friend group is not
really talking about it yet,
but I feel like it starts
on the Eastern moves West.
I guess I don't know,
but I saw that some people here are
also going up to Canada to get it.
So I was just thinking,
you know it may be affecting
gay men more predominantly,
but you know if it gets pigeonholed,
that's like a gay disease.
You know,
there's other people who could
be getting it too.
Who may,
you know,
be needing help and aren't
getting it because people aren't
wanting to address.
It's very reminiscent of the HIV epidemic,
which is. Really unfortunate, I know,
but also I will say I've seen King
County Health Department our own
county here that we're king resides.
It seems like they've been pretty
proactive with educating people.
At least what I've seen on social media,
so hopefully that continues. All right.
I want to celebrate for a second because
we have to note that our hometown team,
the Mariners, have won 14 in a row. How
excited are we?
This is really exciting, honestly,
and even when we think about some of
the historic moments of the Mariners.
You know, I was just watching a clip
where Ken Griffey junior batted
it all the way across the street.
Was like the first person to ever
do it and now we're getting excited
because we have some really top tier
talent right here on the Mariners.
I know our Mariners fans are
going buck crazy right now.
It's exciting.
I love it. I'm so excited.
We're talking about a record that
I think what? What was it? 2001?
So that is a long time coming.
I know Friday's game is already sold out,
so fans are definitely excited.
You know, I'm a new Mariners fan,
so I don't feel like I've been through.
The raft you know
you came many years, the right time,
so I'm I'm still content.
I'm like, you know,
OK, let's go and the other
people are like we'll see
alright. Well let's keep
that positive energy flowing,
final talking point of this session.
Ohh Skittles, apparently a new
report says Skittles may be toxic.
There's a lawsuit right now against
and I have to say I don't know.
I love Skittles. It's
the titanium dioxide I think they said
in the coloring. That no titanium,
they actually in the color ingredient.
Yeah yeah. I mean one of the
things that really trips me
out here in the United States.
We have a lot of different things
in our foods that are banned in
other countries around the world,
and so this is another one of those y'all.
I mean, for you Skittles lovers out there,
you may wanna, you know, hold off.
Looks like there's a lawsuit
going out right now.
We'll see how this pans out,
because honestly,
I think after Marshawn Lynch,
Skittles are kind of beloved here.
You know, they're part of it.
Are just our culture here when it comes
to to sports ball and The thing is I
think about this is like what you said.
Tribe is that there are so many things
in our culture or in our in our country
that are banned in other countries.
But this is what we're going to focus on.
1st the Skittles like we got
a lot of work to do.
It's like the FDA focusing on on one thing
with you should be focusing on others.
I don't know what do you think I saw.
I read that whatever this
ingredient I think Skittles.
Agree that they would phase
it out over six years,
so clearly something is wrong.
You don't just phase out things
that don't have any issues.
However, I'm also that person
that still might eat a skittle.
But man I am just
the smell I ate too many when I
was a kid and I got sick once and
I'm still traumatized by that so
I can't you can't you can't?
I'm sorry my friend all right well hey
we all stick around for just one more
round of hot topics please we got you
OK alright later in the show we're
gonna be talking about our thoughts on.
Love from giving gifts to
love at first sight. Oh well,
thanks to our hot topics panel for bringing.