GeekWire Podcast, Live from Fremont: Seahawks, AI, and Seattle's Future
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4.8 • 127 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We're live this week in the "Center of the Universe" in Seattle for a special recording of the GeekWire Podcast, presented by the Fremont Chamber of Commerce at Fremont Brewing Co.
Fresh off the Seahawks' Super Bowl victory, we debate some potential ownership groups for the Seahawks and Sonics — from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez to Costco's Jim Sinegal. (Who wouldn't want $1.50 hot dogs and sodas at Lumen Field or Climate Pledge Arena?)
Then we dig into the debate over Seattle's tech future, sparked by angel investor Charles Fitzgerald's GeekWire column, "A warning to Seattle: Don't become the next Cleveland," which led to a response and ultimately a great conversation with Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb.
Fremont Chamber Executive Director Pete Hanning joins us to talk about the neighborhood's tech corridor, why Fremont offices are seeing some of the highest return-to-office rates on the West Coast, and how the neighborhood balances its quirky identity with serious business.
In the final segment: Test your Seattle tech knowledge with our Fremont-themed tech trivia, plus audience Q&A, in which Todd comes clean about his relationship with Claude.
With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. Edited by Curt Milton.
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| 0:00.0 | I'll be working on a story and I'll be doing research and Claude and I'll be working together |
| 0:05.3 | on something, you know, and just two buds, two AI buds, just hanging out, doing our thing. |
| 0:11.1 | And, you know, I'll go off and I'll publish a story and I'll go back and I'll take a screenshot |
| 0:16.9 | of the web traffic that it got and I'll go, hey, hey, look at what we did. |
| 0:21.6 | And how does it react? |
| 0:23.6 | Hey, that's great. Way to go. What are we going to do next? |
| 0:26.6 | I mean, it's like for real. It's like a real relation. |
| 0:29.6 | Okay, I feel like I'm going to more. |
| 0:33.6 | Is this the movie her? Have you fallen in love with Claude? |
| 0:44.5 | Hi, and welcome to Geekwire. |
| 0:57.1 | Wow, that was even better than rehearsal. It was so awesome. We are coming to you from the center of the universe. I am Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. And I'm Geekwire co-founder John Cook. |
| 1:02.8 | This is the center of the universe. It is Seattle's Fremont neighborhood, and we're here at |
| 1:07.7 | Fremont Brewing Company for a special live recording of the Geekwire podcast. |
| 1:13.0 | Our thanks to the Fremont Chamber of Commerce for making this live event possible. |
| 1:17.7 | John, I'm already slurring my words and I've only had two sips of this beer. |
| 1:21.1 | I told Todd, don't get the 6.6% beer. |
| 1:24.8 | We should give a shout out to Fremont Brewering, our host here. Let's here for Fremont Brewing. |
| 1:29.3 | The beers are flowing and one of the great |
| 1:33.3 | breweries of the Seattle area. |
| 1:35.3 | Coming up later, we will have a special version of |
| 1:38.3 | GeekWire Trivia, Fremont Edition, |
| 1:41.3 | letting our listeners at home play along with the audience here in Fremont, |
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