Mercer Island
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Sep 29, 2026
Brandi KruseHOST
This was a huge goal for Sound Transit.
Brandi KruseHOST
We want the link light rail line that connects Seattle to Mercer Island, goes across the lake.
Brandi KruseHOST
We want it to be open in time for the World Cup.
Brandi KruseHOST
That was the big goal.
Steve GordonGUEST
Now, the school lunch thing is problematic because, like, 75% of kids already get free school lunch.
Steve GordonGUEST
So we're basically giving free lunches to kids on Mercer Island and in Medina that didn't really need it.
Steve GordonGUEST
But that's a whole separate topic.
Steve GordonGUEST
Yeah.
Austin PetersonHOST
The Associated Press noted that schools in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Spokane, Washington had also banned tag, but good news was that Willett's 2025 playground rules allowed tag again as long as the tags are, quote, soft and gentle.
Austin PetersonHOST
Can you imagine? How do you do a soft and gentle tag if you're chasing this kid down? In Mercer Island, Washington, the district told the kids to keep their hands to themselves at recess, which meant no tag.
Austin PetersonHOST
The mom, Kelsey Joyce, was interviewed and said, I totally survived tag.
Austin PetersonHOST
I survived Red Rover, believe it or not.
Devin ShortGUEST
Yeah, it's great now, though, because now that I've retired, I got my own apartment.
Devin ShortGUEST
I'm still living in Mercer Island, still bartending.
Devin ShortGUEST
doing all that stuff.
Matt CourtrightHOST
Now you had just started bartending, which is, I mean, anybody, everybody in my mind should be in the restaurant industry at some point.
Joel McHaleGUEST
Where'd you grow up? Seattle.
Joel McHaleGUEST
Mercer Island, Washington.
Joel McHaleGUEST
So island.
Joel McHaleGUEST
It's an island.
Ted DansonHOST
It goes straight
Joel McHaleGUEST
through.
Joel McHaleGUEST
So you can be in downtown Mercer Island and be in downtown Seattle in five minutes.
Joel McHaleGUEST
So
Audrey Tintle and Jayne TintleHOST
And then to answer your question about what we want to do more in season four, I would have to say, and I know we always say this every season, but bring a guest, bring a guest.
Audrey Tintle and Jayne TintleHOST
I really do think that this is the year that we maybe get guests outside of the Mercer Island community.
Audrey Tintle and Jayne TintleHOST
We're going to be reaching out to people Do you have any people that you are interested in reaching out to? I mean, no one right now on a short list, but there's always people who we're excited about.
Audrey Tintle and Jayne TintleHOST
Do you, Audrey? I know you have a few people.
Justin YoungHOST
Where'd you grow up?
Darren RabinowitzGUEST
Um, I grew up in Mercer Island, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.
Darren RabinowitzGUEST
Um, yeah, nice, nice town.
Darren RabinowitzGUEST
Um, my, we moved there from San Francisco.
Susie CohenHOST
I am really thrilled to have Jamie Blumenstein here with us today.
Susie CohenHOST
Jamie was born and raised on Mercer Island and later raised all three of her amazing kids here too, Grant, 35, Ryan, 33, and Julia, 29.
Susie CohenHOST
Jamie started her career in the entertainment industry in LA, working for NBC and Universal Studios.
Susie CohenHOST
She also did casting in Seattle and LA as well.
Susie CohenHOST
In 1989, she founded KidBiz, a children's modeling and talent agency that grew to be one of the most successful children's agencies in the Northwest.
Susie CohenHOST
The young talent landed work for commercials, including Chef Boyardee, two roles on the Mickey Mouse Club, and print campaigns for Nordstrom and Oshkosh Bagash.
Susie CohenHOST
For the past 10 years, Jamie has been one of the head cheer coaches at Mercer Island High School, where she heads up the Sparkle program.
Susie CohenHOST
This is an inclusive program that brings students with special needs together with high school cheerleaders.
Dan PutnamHOST
what? It's funny.
Dan PutnamHOST
When I first moved here in 2007, I lived on Mercer Island.
Dan PutnamHOST
My dad and I were commenting on that.
Dan PutnamHOST
I was walking home to my place one time after coming from the Roanoke, and I was realizing there were no pylons that stopped people from driving on there.
Elizabeth JoneschildGUEST
It was not high level, but that was... a given.
Elizabeth JoneschildGUEST
And, you know, I think that also the Pacific Northwest has a lot of history with soccer and that infiltrated into the fact that the Mercer Island, where I grew up, had a rec soccer league for ages third grade and up.
Elizabeth JoneschildGUEST
And so it was this exposure that a girl who had been born maybe even five years before me didn't have.
Elizabeth JoneschildGUEST
And I you know, maybe that phrase, right time, right place.
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