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Chicken Poop Bingo, a Brunch You Eat With Your Hands & Best Brewery on the Eastside? · Best of Redmond: Redmond Washington News, Events, Restaurants & Things to Do

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  Jennifer Davis: Welcome to The Best of Redmond.
• 0:03
  Jennifer Davis: I'm Jennifer Davis
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  Dan Schulz: And I'm Dan Schultz, and this is Redmond's twice weekly newsletter and podcast about all of the amazing things happening in Redmond for the next seven days.
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  Dan Schulz: This week we're gonna talk about a brunch you eat with your hands, chicken poop bingo, line dancing at a bee-themed brewery, and a sea bird most birders might walk past.
• 0:26
  Dan Schulz: Huh?
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  Jennifer Davis: Sounds interesting.
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  Jennifer Davis: Leave the fork at home.
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  Jennifer Davis: Today's the last day to book this brunch.
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  Jennifer Davis: Today is your last chance to book a brunch where you leave the fork at home.
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  Jennifer Davis: Fork and Spoke, the restaurant inside the Hilton Garden Inn on Redmond Way, is hosting a Filipino Hawaiian kamayan feast this weekend on Saturday from 10:00 to Kamayan means eating with your hands, so the food goes down on banana
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  Jennifer Davis: leaves and everyone digs in together.
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  Jennifer Davis: Think loco moco, huli huli chicken, crispy pork leg, and grilled tuna collar.
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  Jennifer Davis: A non-alcoholic drink is included and desserts cost extra.
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  Jennifer Davis: Reservations close today, so don't wait until tonight.
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  Jennifer Davis: The link is in our show notes and in the newsletter
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  Dan Schulz: Chicken poop bingo this weekend.
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  Dan Schulz: This weekend, a chicken in Redmond will decide who wins bingo.
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  Dan Schulz: Chicken poop bingo is one of the games at the Red Barn Farms Fall Festival this weekend on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM out at the farm east of town.
• 1:39
  Dan Schulz: Not into waiting for a chicken?
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  Dan Schulz: Try rubber ax throwing for kids, real ax throwing for ages 13 and up, or roping a practice cow.
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  Dan Schulz: Tickets are $12 for adults and $20 for kids 1 to 17, and kids get a bag of feed for the animals.
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  Dan Schulz: Last entry is 3:00 PM, and spots sell out.
• 2:00
  Dan Schulz: Well, yeah, if you've got chicken poop bingo, yeah, you're darn right spots are gonna sell out.
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  Dan Schulz: The ticket link is in the show notes and in this newsletter
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  Jennifer Davis: Line dance tonight at the brewery that names its beers after bees.
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  Jennifer Davis: Tonight you can learn to line dance at a brewery that names its beers after bees.
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  Jennifer Davis: Watts Brewing founder Evan Watts started brewing with a turkey fryer in his driveway.
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  Jennifer Davis: His grandfather started the family bee business more than 50 years ago, which is why the taproom pours beers like The Leaf Cutter.
• 2:39
  Jennifer Davis: Every Thursday at 7:00, Wildflower Dance Company teaches Boots and Brews line dancing at Watts on Woodinville-Redmond Road just over the line at Woodinville.
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  Jennifer Davis: It's $10 at the door, and all ages and skill levels are welcome.
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  Jennifer Davis: Get there a couple minutes early because class starts right at
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  Dan Schulz: Walk into a mezcal bar tonight, walk out with a bowl you made.
• 3:04
  Dan Schulz: Vibrant Moments Art Studio is hosting a fall harvest and Dia de los Muertos plaster bowl workshop from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at KAHT see mehs kah leh REE ah in Redmond.
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  Dan Schulz: You'll decorate a ceramic bowl with handmade plaster pieces like pumpkins, corn and leaves, or marigolds and skulls, then paint it.
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  Dan Schulz: Tickets are $72 and covers all materials, step-by-step help, and a mocktail or appetizer on the house.
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  Dan Schulz: No experience needed.
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  Dan Schulz: The ticket link is in the show notes and in the newsletter.
• 3:39
  Jennifer Davis: Want the new Lorcana cards before they're even in stores?
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  Jennifer Davis: This weekend on Saturday, Disney Lorcana players can get their hands on the new Hyperia City set before it hits store shelves."
• 3:52
  Jennifer Davis: Mary Moore Games is hosting a sealed pre-release from 2:00 to 6:00 at the store in Redmond Town Center.
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  Jennifer Davis: It costs $45.
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  Jennifer Davis: Sealed means everyone opens fresh packs at the table and builds a deck from whatever they pull, so a giant card collection at home doesn't give anybody an edge.
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  Jennifer Davis: It's capped at 16 players, so sign up before you head over.
• 4:16
  Jennifer Davis: The sign-up link is in the show notes and in our newsletter
• 4:20
  Dan Schulz: The seabird with flaming red feet that most birders walk right past.
• 4:27
  Dan Schulz: There's a seabird on Puget Sound beaches with bright red feet and a name that sounds like a pigeon, and most birders walk right past it.
• 4:35
  Dan Schulz: on Wednesday, author Maria Mudd Ruth makes the case for a second look.
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  Dan Schulz: she studied pigeon guillemots as a volunteer community science since 2013, and her new book is The Bird with the Flaming Red Feet.
• 4:50
  Dan Schulz: And if you are a pigeon guillemot and I butchered your breed, I am sorry.
• 4:55
  Dan Schulz: I don't know how to say what you are.
• 4:59
  Dan Schulz: Eastside Audubon is hosting the talk at the Redmond Library downtown from 6:30 to 7:30 PM.
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  Dan Schulz: Registration isn't required, but Eastside Audubon appreciates it.
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  Dan Schulz: The link is in the show notes and right here in the newsletter
• 5:14
  Jennifer Davis: Redmond's deciding how to spend the next two years.
• 5:17
  Jennifer Davis: Tuesday, you get a say.
• 5:20
  Jennifer Davis: Redmond is deciding how to spend its money for the next couple of years, and on Tuesday night, you get a say in that.
• 5:26
  Jennifer Davis: The City Council holds a public hearing on the 2027 to 2028 budget at 7:00 PM at City Hall.
• 5:34
  Jennifer Davis: The draft includes rebuilding the teen center and Fire Station 11, plus money for housing help and Red Link rides.
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  Jennifer Davis: You can speak in person or watch live on the city's website.
• 5:47
  Jennifer Davis: There's one more hearing on November 2nd, and the council plans to vote on November 10th.
• 5:52
  Jennifer Davis: The full budget is in our show notes and in the newsletter.
• 5:57
  Dan Schulz: If you've got a hidden leak, the worst plan is grabbing a shovel and hoping.
• 6:01
  Dan Schulz: Here's Lincoln Spencer from Simply Leak Detection.
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  Lincoln Spencer: You know, I mean, it just depends on where you wanna spend your time.
• 6:08
  Lincoln Spencer: Some people have more time than money, and they're happy to dig up their yard.
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  Lincoln Spencer: But I would say for most people, it's well worth the money to pay us to know exactly where to dig, saving a lot of time in digging and repair effort, but also just saving their landscape so they don't
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  Lincoln Spencer: have to put everything back together again.
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  Jennifer Davis: They mark the spot so you dig once instead of five times.
• 6:31
  Jennifer Davis: Call 253-800-1412 or go to simplyleakdetection.com and tell them The Best of Redmond sent ya.
• 6:40
  Dan Schulz: It's Time for the Redmond History Minute where we share a piece of history, a tidbit, or some trivia about life in and around Redmond.
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  Dan Schulz: Today's trivia question is: the building that became the Redmond Golf Links clubhouse in 1932 was originally what?
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  Dan Schulz: And your choices are: A, a barn; B, the home of a Washington Supreme Court justice; C, a railroad depot; D, a one-room schoolhouse.
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  Dan Schulz: And your timer starts now
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  Jennifer Davis: Oh, man.
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  Jennifer Davis: If it's that long ago, and it's a, it's a building that's still standing, I know it's a well-built building then.
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  Jennifer Davis: And, uh, I'm gonna go ahead and guess...
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  Jennifer Davis: I was gonna say schoolhouse, a one-room schoolhouse, but that seems a little small for a, a golf clubhouse.
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  Jennifer Davis: So I'm gonna go ahead and choose C, a railroad depot.
• 7:43
  Jennifer Davis: Final
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  Dan Schulz: you almost can't go wrong with either a barn or a railroad depot with trivia questions in this town.
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  Dan Schulz: Unfortunately, you did in fact go wrong with that answer.
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  Dan Schulz: The answer is B, the home of a Washington Supreme Court justice.
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  Dan Schulz: The three-story house went up in 1889 for Justice William White and his wife Emma McRedmond White, the daughter of Luke McRedmond, the man Redmond is named after.
• 8:10
  Dan Schulz: And don't worry, we're not gonna let you forget it, but even more than that, the ghost of Luke McRedmond isn't gonna let you forget it.
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  Dan Schulz: His spirit works his way into practically every story we do here it sat near the railroad depot and also served as the Hotel Redmond.
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  Dan Schulz: Justice White died in 1914, and Emma ran it on her own until she lost it to foreclosure in 1932 during the Depression.
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  Dan Schulz: That same year, it became the clubhouse for the Redmond Golf Links, the 18-hole golf course that eventually became the Redmond Town Center
• 8:50
  Jennifer Davis: Word is a custom sneaker boutique is eyeing a space near Redmond Town Center.
• 8:55
  Jennifer Davis: Think sneaker restoration, custom paint jobs, and heat press graphics, plus a wall of handpicked resale pairs.
• 9:03
  Jennifer Davis: The owner has apparently been running it out of a garage in Kirkland for two years, and the wait list finally got long enough to justify a real storefront.
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  Jennifer Davis: None of this is confirmed.
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  Jennifer Davis: We don't have a name, an address, or an opening date.
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  Jennifer Davis: So what's the first pair you'd bring in?
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  Jennifer Davis: If you've got a guess or have heard something, head on over to our Facebook page at facebook.com/bestofredmond and drop it in the Redmond Rumor Mill Guesses post.
• 9:29
  Dan Schulz: And while you're at our Facebook page, find the Your Picks post and answer this question.
• 9:34
  Dan Schulz: We wanna know who you think the best brewery on the East Side is
• 9:39
  Jennifer Davis: if you've enjoyed this podcast, you're gonna love our companion newsletter.
• 9:43
  Jennifer Davis: Find it at bestofredmond.com and we'll see you in the next one
• 9:47
  Dan Schulz: Or maybe before then, walking around Redmond.