Ring My Belle: Cap'n Crunch....NOT ACTUALLY A CAPTAIN???!!?!?!
1. A Marine who lost a leg in Afghanistan, and suffered from subsequent depression and alcoholism, has started fresh...as a sober underwear model! 2. The newest trend in drinking: smoking alcohol. 3. A couple with five kids nearly lost their home, until they started writing bestselling romance e-books in their basement. 4. Suddenly people are challenging Cap'n Crunch, wondering if he's a true captain. It seems he only has three stripes on his jacket.
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Wait, Mom or Dad? Celebrating Father's Day after a dad becomes a woman
Rachel chatted with Waneta, formerly known as Wayne, who grew up as a man and now identifies as a woman. Now that Waneta is a woman, how did that change her role as a parent? Do her kids celebrate her on Father's Day? It's an interesting tale.
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Ring My Belle: The Seattle-area woman who has traded food for sunshine will eat again after 47 days
1. The Seattle-area woman who has traded food for sunshine will eat again after 47 days. 2. Now that pot is legal in our state, some police departments want to untrain dogs to smell marijuana. 3. A Seattle band had all of their equipment and van stolen while on tour, and they're asking the public to donate money to buy it back. 4. Seattle's Egyptian Theater is closing at the end of June, disappointing indie movie fans, including Rachel.
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Ring My Belle Weekends: Baseball, Booze and...Furniture?
Rachel heads out to the police academy to get officially drunk, to help soon-to-be police officers learn how to administer DUI tests.
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Ring My Belle: Roosevelt High Grads Boo Famous Author Who Speaks At Graduation
1. The 11 year old boy, who sang the national anthem at the NBA finals, we welcomed back for a second night to sing again. This following a bunch of nasty racist tweets. 2. The author of "Snow Falling on Ceders" is heckled while giving a graduation speech at Seattle's Roosevelt High School. Haters be hating. 3. Seattle's newest real estate trend: buying the air space above someone's house so they can't build up and block the view. 4. A husband accidentally sells his wife's $23,000 engagement ring for $5 at a garage sale.
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Former Mariner Dan Wilson Launches Saturday's All Star Softball Classic for Homeless Youth
This Saturday, baseball legends like Jay Buhner and Edgar Martinez will play ball with Sonic, Seahawk and Sounders players, a member of Pearl Jam and our very own Don O'Neill. The goal is to raise $500,000 for homeless youth programs. Tickets are only $10!
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Ring My Belle: A Restaurant That Forbids Children!
1. An 11 year old Mexican American boy sings the national anthem at an NBA game, and a twitter explosion of racism ensues. 2. High school students at a private Texas school were given $100,000 to practice learning the stock market. 3. In Virginia, a new sushi restaurant forbids children under 18 from eating there. They're packed! 4. People are spending millions every year on getting their pets cosmetic surgery. Cat Botox?
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Northwest Furniture Bank Turns Houses Into Homes
Tacoma's Northwest Furniture Bank provides a house full of furniture for people who are transitioning out of homelessness, battered women who've left everything and victims of fire and natural disasters. They give kids beds to sleep in and they have a drop off donation center in Tacoma.
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Ring My Belle: A Victory For Interns Everywhere
1. Facebook has changed their policy and will no longer be deleting photos that women post of their mastectomy scars. They had labeled it as pornography. 2. A victory for interns. Two interns who worked on the set of the movie Black Swan sued the production company, claiming they should have been paid. They won the lawsuit. 3. A teacher at a private school in Manhattan is being criticized for asking students to write suicide letters. 4. A new study (yes, someone actually did a study on this) reveals that the little Lego people are more angry than smiley, compared to how they used to emote.
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How To Not Get A DUI: Rachel Belle Day Drinks With a Bunch of Cops
Rachel Belle went to a wet lab, a controlled environment where volunteers get drunk and officers in the police academy learn to administer DUI tests. Along the way she learned a lot about the tests and how you can get arrested for a DUI without blowing a .08.
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Ring My Belle: Sales of "1984" Go Up 7000% Thanks to PRISM
1. Sales of an edition of "1984" have gone up 7,000% on amazon since Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA last week. 2. A restaurant in NYC no longer accepts tips. Instead the owner pays the staff a living wage with insurance and benefits. 3. Sesame Street is introducing "My Dad in Jail" a video and kit for parents to talk to kids about their incarcerated parent. 4. Passengers in a plane stuck on a Vegas tarmac for two hours break into song: R Kelly's "I Believe I can Fly," ironically.
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Ring My Belle: 40% of Designated Drivers....Drink & Drive!
1. 40% of designated drivers surveyed say they aren't sober when they drive their friends home. 2. A Bay Area elementary school organized a toy gun buy back program. Guns = books. 3. A Seattle freelance writer wrote a piece for the Seattle Times about how hard it is to be a lady dating in Seattle.
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Kickstarter, Horses and Records: All in One Episode!
Rachel meets with some horse advocates in Snohomish, who claim that Snohomish County Animal Control does nothing about some alleged horse abuse.
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Not to be a broken record, but vinyl is back
Bands and record labels are picking up on vinyl again, and a San Francisco record manufacturer talks to Rachel about the demand for vinyl, and some modern day differences.
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Ring My Belle: Seattle Woman Trades Food For Sunshine
1. A Seattle woman is getting international attention for giving up food for six months and only taking in sunshine. 2. The Miss World pageant is giving up its bikini competition. 3. Whole Foods is under fire for not allowing it's employees to speak any language other than English while on the job. 4. It's National Doughnut Day! Free doughnuts!
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