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Broads Who BBQ: A Local Champ Wants to Share Her Secrets

By Rachel Belle Listen to A Female BBQ Champ Wants to School You on BBQ How many times have you been to a barbecue and all the woman are off to the side chatting while the men are gathered around the grill? Women are finally earning their place in professional barbecue competitions, and one of […]
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Jamie Griswold

Clothing makers release lines catered to concealing weapons

Clothing makers are finally addressing the unsightly bulge that sometimes results when carrying a concealed weapon.
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Josh Kerns

Dan Savage in new controversy for calling parts of Bible BS

Seattle sex columnist and gay rights advocate Dan Savage is embroiled in a new controversy after calling parts of the Bible bull—t during a profanity-laced speech at a high school journalism conference in Seattle. “We can learn to ignore the bull—t in the Bible about gay people the same way we have learned to ignore […]
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Jamie Griswold

Listen: Reporter calls us from search for Joseph Kony in Africa

U.S. Forces are working with African forces in the search for Joseph Kony, who became familiar to people in the U.S. after a video called Kony 2012 went viral earlier this year. New York Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman is in Nairobi and called into The Ross and Burbank Show Monday to give us an update on the search.
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Watch President Obama’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech

President Barack Obama scattered the barbs during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as he poked fun at White House races past and present, the Secret Service and Donald Trump. Even the entrance to his speech Saturday night was part of his schtick. The president walked off stage just before he took the podium […]
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Ingredient of the week: Rhubarb

"It's not just a very good vegetable by itself," Tom and Thierry say of rhubarb . However, Thierry says it can be pretty good if you get a stalk that is perfectly ripe.

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New Obama ad: What would Romney have done about Osama bin Laden?

A brand new Obama campaign video touts the president’s decision to go after Osama bin Laden and asks, “what would Romney have done?” “In this ad, it’s not just Barack Obama saying, ‘I got bin Laden.’ He’s saying ‘I got bin Laden and Romney wouldn’t have,'” said Dave Ross in a discussion of the new […]
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Jamie Griswold

Seattle Kitchen recommends: Best burgers

Sunshine means it's time for grilling. So with the first sights of sun appearing in the Northwest, the Seattle Kitchen Show decided it was time to talk burgers.
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Drumming Up Fun At a West Seattle Senior Home

By Rachel Belle Listen to Feature: Drumming Up Some Fun at a West Seattle Senior Home . Tuesday is a good day at Providence ElderPlace in West Seattle because Tuesday is drum group. The seniors file in in wheelchairs, with walkers or slowly on their own two feet. “I like the drumming, it’s fun. I […]
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Jamie Griswold

Son of Space Needle designer shares details of how it came to be

The son of the man responsible for the design of the Space Needle doesn't know who picked the color, but he does have a lot of insight into how the design came to be.
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Tom Douglas Says Obama’s Looking Casual These Days

Our guest co-host Tom Douglas says President Obama is going ultra-casual these days, now that his campaign has begun.

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McGinn says his schedule is usually full from early morning until late at night. He admits it makes...
Josh Kerns

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn says ‘no back room deals’ for him

Seattle mayor Mike McGinn says he doesn't have time for backroom deals with the city's rich and powerful, and insists that's a good thing.
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Jamie Griswold

Seattle Mayor McGinn pleads to community to help fight gun violence

The city of Seattle wanted to put a face to the latest death by gun violence to get residents' attention on an issue that the mayor said requires the community's support to resolve.
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Josh Kerns

Bullying follow up: Should special needs kids be integrated into regular classrooms?

There’s plenty of outrage over recordings of a New Jersey teacher bullying an autistic student, but it’s also sparking a troubling discussion about integrating special needs kids into public school classrooms. “Should we be sending our profoundly disabled kids to some school to be taken care of by a bunch of strangers as opposed to […]
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Goodbye Ross & Burbank Week ballad

The celebration of Ross & Burbank Week is coming to an end. They gave us a peek behind the scenes. They made special guest appearances on all the other 97.3 KIRO FM Shows, and receptionist Vanessa Szczachor even answered the phone “Hello, Bonneville Seattle, home of The Ross and Burbank Show,” all week. It will […]
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Deadliest Catch Fans: Tour the Wizard with Captain Keith

By Rachel Belle Listen to The Deadliest Catch in Ballard: A Tour with Captain Keith The third episode of the new season of Deadliest Catch airs Tuesday night. But in reality, The Wizard is done for the season, resting up in Ballard, awaiting repairs and a paint job. I met up with Captain Keith for […]
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SUV Sessions! The Show does “Country Roads”

By Rachel Belle Sigh. I love my job. Fun times singing with my showmates! This is an homage to Nicki Bluhm and the Grambler’s Van Sessions. Help us go viral, friends! .
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Josh Kerns

Powell debate: Do the ends justify the means?

Should the evidence in the Steve Powell child porn case be allowed even if it wasn't what police were looking for?
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Does This Woman Have a Perfect Face?

18-year-old Florence Colgate may have the "perfect face", scientifically speaking.

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Josh Kerns

Meet the man who’s made 1 million Wikipedia edits

Whether it's a history of baseball or a bio of Luke Burbank, you can find out about nearly anything on Wikipedia. But who actually does all the posting and editing of the information on the open source site? Mostly volunteers, but none more dedicated than Justin Knapp.

The 30-year-old Wikipedia devotee just became the first person to complete 1,000,000 edits on the site. And in an interview with Ross and Burbank, he says he does it simply out of a desire to share knowledge with others.

It's a dedication that borders on obsession for the Indiana University nursing student pursuing his third college degree.

"Some days if I'm not busy and if I've got nothing going on, back when I was living with my parents, I would spend the whole 16 hours, the whole waking day and I would just periodically come back to Wikipedia."

Knapp says on average he spend about two hours a day editing others work as well as articles he created himself. Among his highlights, he says a proud achievement was building the bibliography for the Wikipedia entry on George Orwell, which he says is the most comprehensive of its kind in the world.

Knapp also has an affinity for music (especially R.E.M.), politics and religion.

Some question whether Wikipedia can survive with just donations and volunteers like Knapp, and the site is said to be perilous financial condition. But Knapp isn't willing to write its obituary.

"As long as there are persons out there who are interested in sharing, and community and openness and liberty and knowledge then of course it will survive."

So what qualifies someone like Knapp to be a Wikipedia editor? Turns out, not much.

"The thing that qualifies me is I make quality edits, I do things that are helpful," Knapp says.

"I have a basic competence in English, I have an idea, a little bit about technically how some of these things work but barring that I have an Internet connection and I want to help and that's all that it really takes."

Knapp is getting plenty of media attention because of his recent accomplishment, but in a somewhat cruel twist there isn't a Wikipedia page about him or his contributions to the site (now the sixth most-visited on the Internet.) And that's just fine with him.

"I'm not the sort of person who really likes the spotlight," he tells Ross and Burbank.



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Josh Kerns

Why Death Cab’s Gibbard didn’t cheer for perfect game against M’s

While plenty of Mariners fans were cheering the perfect game tossed against the team Saturday by Chicago’s Philip Humber, Death Cab for Cutie leader Ben Gibbard wasn’t one of them. Listen to Why Ben Gibbard isn’t cheering perfect game The hardcore M’s fan and frontman of the best-selling Seattle rock band tells Ross and Burbank […]
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Josh Kerns

Should we worry about Seattle Police flying remote eyes in the sky?

The ACLA is raising red flags about privacy concerns after word surfaced last week the SPD has received FAA approval to deploy several unmanned drone aircraft to patrol the skies over the city.

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Video: L.A. Laker Metta World Peace (aka Ron Artest) elbows opponent in head

The Washington Post reports L.A. Laker Metta World Peace (aka Ron Artest) is awaiting punishment after throwing an elbow into an opponent’s head on the court, giving him a concussion. 710 ESPN Sports Anchor Bill Swartz will be on to discuss this case, plus the unfortunate way the Mariners made headlines this weekend.
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Rachel Belle

Cheetos Fried Chicken. It’s in The High Times Cannabis Cookbook

By Rachel Belle Listen to Feature: The High Times Cannabis Cookbook Cheetos encrusted Fried Chicken. If that’s not stoner food, I don’t know what is. That’s just one of the super irie recipes found in the new High Times Cannabis Cookbook, where marijuana infused butter or oil is included in each dish. Now, I’m not […]
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