Hey, I'm Tonvin, host of Seattle Eats, a food podcast from the Seattle Times and K-O-W.

Seattle Fine Dining Spots are mixing their prefixed menus and going casual.

But change is a good thing for restaurants and customers.

On the latest episode, I'll tell you about the high-end menus that are worth hitting.

Listen to Seattle Eats on the K-W app or wherever you get your podcast.

Hey, good morning. It's Patricia Murphy. Happy Veterans Day. Thank you to all who've served. We're out

observing Veterans Day today, but we didn't want to leave your feed empty this morning, so we're

sharing a recent favorite episode of KUOW's Economy podcast, Booming. For a long time, conventional wisdom for young people said to go to a four-year

college or learn to code. But in 2025, Seattle, degrees are not an easy on-ramp to starting a

career, and big tech companies are laying people off by the thousands. That uncertainty is making blue-collar

work much more popular for young people, and as Monica Nicholsberg and Joshua McNichols

will tell you, trade schools are booming. 2,000 men a shift. Three shifts a day. Six thousand men.

Honest wage in that room.

Fed their kids, bought homes, made enough to send their kids to college by a second car,

building something they could see, not just figures on a balance sheet, but a ship.

They could see, smell, and touch.

Those men knew their worth. So, Monica, in our reporting on AI, one thing comes up a lot.

When you ask tech executives about AI's potential to replace jobs, they often say something like,

there will always be jobs in the trades. Yeah, it's exactly what Microsoft Brad Smith said to me a few months ago when I asked about this,

that, hey, there's always opportunities for people who want to be electricians or plumbers.

It makes me wonder, are young people who are just starting their careers getting this message?

I think they are.

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