Harry Crosby uh from Tacoma uh got a job at Inland brewing in Spokane so he moved his family out to Spokan and um what happened is uh you know the whole prohibition thing came around uh and he kept getting demoted because uh uh originally he was like head
And they also created this lettering in Salish, which is the tribal language, that says Spokane Indians Baseball Club. And what's incredible is there's only about five individuals in the world that speak Salish.
So here in San Diego, we have restrooms in English and Spanish. In Spokane at the ballpark, they have English and Salish for all the restrooms and all the signage. And if you think about the-- like, five people can speak that.
And it's much too intrusive to ask that. to Spokane, and all the rest.
This is one of our favorite stories. There's the Spokane Indians. And they're up in Spokane, Washington.
It's the Salish? That says Spokane. It says Spokane on it. OK, cool. Yeah.
What do I care? This was in Spokane and Texas and Massachusetts and they would pull me aside like my fly was open , you know, in the voice.
And I think I broke world record on that distance, running so fast to go and find out. I didn't know about Spokane before.
There's the Spokane Indians. And they're up in Spokane, Washington. They're named after the Spokane tribe of Indians, well before any sports team affiliation.
And they're up in Spokane, Washington. They're named after the Spokane tribe of Indians, well before any sports team affiliation. And up to that point, there were a couple of ways to treat the whole Native American issue.
Yeah, the question was what was the word across the jersey? And it's the word Spokane in the Salish language. Great. Well, while we're out in San Francisco, any questions from the room in San Francisco?
So I just found out that King County sheriff's has been using a technology that there was no real analysis of like, what are the privacy rights? The other one's in Spokane.
knew it would be good cuz people would remember it and they'd buy it so what he did was he uh started a couple breweries one in uh Seattle one in Spokane he bought other breweries that again that were had been closed and um tried to negotiate with the people that owned the rights because it was a weird thing
Or we're going to completely change the name to the Black Bears, whatever. And so we were there working with the Spokane Indians, the baseball club. And they said, hey, whatever you do, we can't touch the Native American issues.
resources to to do that uh and the next year they sold the rest of it to papst and uh so in so he ended up shipping a lot of it to Spokane where he was he would sell it eventually he opened a plant there and
So the Bare Buns Run is 5K. It's held on this nudist camp outside of Spokane, Washington. When I committed to this thing, I didn't know the race would promote that I was coming to the race.
Yeah, I mean where do you wanna - Mike Krahulik: We should start in 1998. You need a fade wipe. So in 1998 we were living together in Spokane and making really horrible comic books. Jerry Holkins: Hey. Mike Krahulik: No, they were bad. And in fact they were so bad that we would take them and leave them places, like in stores, hoping that people would just pick them up and take
And Adams developed a theory which he used in fact as a lawyer. He argued on behalf of the City of Spokane in the case that was eventually decided by the Supreme Court which did determine that the railroads were unfairly discriminating economically against the Intermountain region. Of course, that was a new legal principle that there could be such a thing as economic discrimination.
Yes? Could you pronounce that name? It's the Salish? That says Spokane. It says Spokane on it.
you have exactly one way of getting your timber to the Pacific or even back to the Midwest. And that's the Great Northern Railroad. So the Great Northern Railroad said, Spokane, you're going to pay, you're basically going to subsidize our loses everywhere else. And this is what all the transcontinental railroads did.
And I think I broke world record on that distance, running so fast to go and find out. And then, the same day, I flew to Spokane, Washington.
And I think I broke world record on that distance, running so fast to go and find out. And then the amazing thing was, when I showed up at the International Airport of Spokane, there was a caseworker
If you take it one step further and you look at sort of the four-hour driving radius of metro Seattle, the four-hour driving radius of metro Seattle is essentially Seattle, Vancouver to the north, Spokane to the east, and Portland to the south. That's really all you have.
And what's incredible is there's only about five individuals in the world that speak Salish. And the amount, the percentage of actual tribal members in Spokane is really, really tiny. It's probably less than 5%.
It was-- - Wow. - Well, finally, I went to a surgeon in Spokane, Washington. And they breezed into the room and said they'd look at my charts and everything.
10 remained my two best friends dads were both doctors one a GP what a dermatologist their family bookshelves help volumes that I would never be able to find even at the Spokane Public Library old medical textbooks kept on top most shelves they were meant to be
And then I started doing open mics and whatnot, and then bit by bit, I started to get more recognized in the scene in Portland. But then it was just like, I learned that this is something that happens a lot in Spokane, Washington, where Border Patrol just goes in Greyhound buses
And the only way they could stay profitable was to make it up in the Intermountain region. And the way they did this was by charging, you know, excessive rates of carriage to everybody that was stuck with only one line. So if you're living in Spokane, Washington, you have exactly one way of getting your timber to the Pacific or even back to the Midwest. And that's the Great Northern Railroad.