The Andrew Walsh Show

An EBT card glitch let shoppers in Louisiana spend to no limit. Andrew says it's definitely stealing, but he could see how people didn't feel like it was stealing at the time. Nick says it couldn't have happened to a better company. -Macy's is the latest company to embrace Black Friday: Thursday Edition. They'll open their doors on Thursday night, AKA Thanksgiving. Andrew says don't go if you don't like it. Nick reminds him of the workers who don't have a choice. -UM, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A BAD IDEA: Andrew and the gang round up headlines that sound like bad ideas, but might not be, including wine for cats, shoes that play sound effects when you walk, a restaurant that is toilet-themed, and a cocktail that tastes like pizza.

FIRST THINGS FIRST: One man is defying the shutdown by providing a service to the American people. His thoughts on the shutdown are more American than apple pie. -An op-ed in The Seattle Times takes fans to task for not being better fans during the bad times for the Seahawks. Danielle Campoamor says she isn't against people joining the bandwagon, she just doesn't want them to leave at the first big loss. -SNL's two black cast members disagree on what the show should do about its lack of diversity. Andrew says the show has a bigger problem: It isn't very good.

A rally with Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin got embarrassing when one of the speakers starting spewing vitriolic lies about President Obama. // Would America be better off with a parliamentary system? Probably not. // This weekend's trucker protest in DC didn't go exactly as planned. Barely anyone showed up. // The singing telegram is alive and well in Seattle. Rachel Belle tells us about how a local musician (and friend of the show) is keeping the tradition alive. // NIGHTCAP

Long Beach, California recently passed a $13/hour minimum wage for hotel workers. How did it affect the economy there and what does it tell us about what could happen to SeaTac? // Bob Costas joined the Redskins R-words team name change fray this weekend by lecturing a national audience about it. Andrew liked it. Nick liked everything about it except that it was Bob Costas. // YEAH SCIENCE! Resident scientician Aaron Mason brings us science news you can get excited about, including a real bionic man, an invisibility cloak that will only hide you from people who are looking for you, how eating popcorn can keep advertising from working on you, and what the center of the galaxy tastes like.

FIRST THINGS FIRST: The Seahawks won ugly this weekend. Should we be worried? // Chiefs fans broke the 12th Man's crowd noise record. Should we fight to get it back? Andrew says to let them have it. // Edward Snowden dropped another data bombshell today when he revealed that US spying agencies are skirting the law to spy on Americans by using overseas computers. // Madonna got banned from a theater chain for texting throughout a film, but that's not what's crazy about this story.

Ken Schram in for Andrew. Hour 3

Ken Schram in for Andrew. Hour 2

Ken Schram in for Andrew. Hour 1

Starbucks is doubling down on their efforts to urge Congress to reopen the government. Is this symbolic or self-promoting? -Are anti-bullying efforts making bullies better at bullying? -In New York, you can't sue your "employer" for sexual harassment if you're an unpaid intern. -NIGHTCAP

Anne Bremner joins the show live to discuss the coming release of Steven Powell from prison. Neighbors will not notified of his address. -Two Maple Valley teens are facing discipline from their school for wearing Confederate flags to school. They were trying to respond to gay pride shirts. -A panel of scientists say it's incredibly difficult to accurately predict how much grocery prices would go up, if at all. -Chiefs fans are going to try to break the 12th Man's stadium noise record. Schram say, Good luck.

FIRST THINGS FIRST: The powers in Washington DC are finally talking about the budget, but there hasn't been much progress yet. At least the nation won't default in a week. -Talks between Puget Sound grocery chains and workers have resumed. Ken wholeheartedly supports the workers and would not cross the picket line if this comes down to a strike. -The Seattle mayoral debate last night has Ken Schram torn between McGinn and Murray. He has a lot of respect for both. -The Catholic Archdiocese in Chicago is embroiled in a war with a local burger joint that serves a burger with a Communion wafer on it.

SHUT IT DOWN! Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida provided the best shutdown sound of the day when he cited poll figures that show that Americans prefer dog poop and cockroaches to Congress right now. -DO THE RIGHT THING: A man starts a DC monument maintenance militia with his own lawnmower and tools. He says the government can't stop him from taking pride in our national treasures. -The Seattle City Council has a policy of letting citizens voice concerns at their meetings, but two hostile regulars could be ruining it for everyone else. -SPORT! Kentucky schools are getting rid of post-game handshakes because too many fights have broken out during them. New Jersey schools are forcing kids to wear helmets during soccer. A New York school is banning sports balls, tag, and even cartwheels (without coach supervision). -NIGHTCAP

FIRST THINGS FIRST: Andrew breaks down the Seattle Mayoral Debate. Who won? How did the candidate differentiate themselves? How much does this help McGinn? -We now know more about the truckers who are supposedly planning to block the Beltway and one of their self-described leaders could be crazy. -The Seattle PD is taking on Stephen Colbert in their latest media savvy move.

Seattle Mayoral Debate between Mike McGinn and Ed Murray

Would you want to live at work? Facebook is building a lavish campus for a tenth of their workforce to live and work on. -An upcoming horror film took their viral marketing to a new level when they pranked a caf full of patrons into thinking a young woman was angrily using telekinesis. Andrew likes that they didn't try to fool the media too. Nick likes what this could mean for the future of movie marketing. -UM, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A BAD IDEA: Andrew and the gang round headlines that sound like bad ideas at first, but might not be, including a Vanilla Ice's new reality show in Amish country, live knitting on TV, autonomous, jellyfish-killing robots, and an MP3 player you control with your teeth.