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Hosted by Greg Amrofell · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 47 episodes
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What if the West Coast could chart its own course? What if our innovations, values, and creative energy weren’t diluted by national politics? What if West Coast sovereignty was a dream and a strategy?Welcome to Pacific Time, where host Greg Amrofell—a relentless provocateur who has lived his whole life up and down the West Coast—invites you to imagine bold solutions. We explore how to make the West Coast better if it's undistilled by the faltering American experiment..Each episode features meaningful conversations with thought leaders, innovators, policymakers, and visionaries. We’ll tackle the big questions of self-determination, imagining and sharpening the West Coast’s cultural identity, economic potential, and environmental leadership.Pacific Time is for the intellectually curious, the disillusioned optimists, and the dreamers who refuse to accept that status quo in America is the best we can do on the West Coast. Here, we cut through the partisan noise and welcome transforma
Greg Amrofell hosts Pacific Time: West Coast What-Ifs, a news show with 47 episodes published.
Algorithms increasingly decide what we watch, hear, and discover. Commercial radio has collapsed into repetition and ad inventory. Streaming platforms optimize for engagement over surprise. Public media faces political a
San Francisco is dead! Long live, San Francisco! Or, maybe it's not so simple? The City by the Bay has always been a bellwether for the West Coast—economically, culturally, and politically. But in recent years, San Franc
Washington just passed a “millionaire’s tax”—but the real story is what it reveals about a broken system. For decades, Washington State has operated the most regressive tax system in the country. High sales taxes, heavy
For decades, the U.S.–Canada relationship was the most stable economic partnership in the world. Deep trade integration. Shared institutions. Quiet cooperation across the longest peaceful border on Earth. That assumption
Housing is unaffordable. Healthcare is fragile. Wages lag costs. And Congress, well, Congress is paralyzed by spectacle. The affordability crisis is no longer abstract — it’s the organizing reality of American life. Hous
Christopher Armitage, founder of The Existentialist Republic, joins Pacific Time to argue that “soft secession” may be the most realistic way to defend democracy without tearing the country apart—and why the West Coast i
2025 cracked old illusions. 2026 raises a harder question. As federal institutions crumble, can the West Coast finally unite its imagination with its power and political will? In this anniversary episode, Pacific Time ho
Seattle’s Rough & Tumble is a sports bar centered on women's sports and women sports fans that also happens to be a really fun place for any sports fan to watch a game. Founder Jen Barnes joins Pacific Time to talk about
The 2025 elections delivered shockwaves across the country—and even sharper aftershocks across the West Coast. In our first Pacific Time compilation episode, Greg brings back three trusted voices back to make sense of wh
What if America’s political dysfunction isn’t a moral failure — but a design failure? In this episode, Greg talks with Robbie Bach, former President of Xbox and now a leading civic reform advocate, about how the United S
What if everything we’ve been told about the economy — about housing, inflation, and government debt — was upside down? What if the problem isn’t that we’re spending too much, but that we’re letting the wrong people deci
What if banking our own money on the West Coast could help us fund housing, infrastructure, and small business growth? And what if it bought us greater financial freedom from Wall Street and Washington, D.C.? In this epi
What if the solution to America’s housing crisis isn’t just about building more, but smaller — smarter homes that restore freedom, affordability, and balance? Zack Giffin — professional skier, builder, and co-host of Tin
Civil rights aren’t abstractions—they’re lived every day in families, schools, prisons, churches, and courtrooms. Protecting the rights of any minority protects everyone’s rights. So attacks on trans rights have your att
Mountains and democracy have something in common: they don’t manage themselves. In this episode, Greg talks again with Pacific Time pal Gwyn Howat, longtime leader of Mount Baker Ski Area and advocate for public lands, f
How about some good news from the West Coast, where we're building momentum to address climate change on our own? That’s the question Greg poses to Reuven Carlyle, former Washington State Senator and architect of the sta
Trump says Portland needs “cleaning up.” What if Portland is actually a model of democracy in action—messy, loud, and making progress? If Donald Trump and his MAGA minions don’t want to be called fascists, here’s a thoug
Political violence is rising, ICE is profiling, hate is mainstreaming. What if we on the West Coast have to fight extremism and the return of civil discourse on our own? This summer has been a chilling reminder of how fr
This summer, West Coast sovereignty wasn’t a theory—it was tested. From ICE raids in Los Angeles, and Marines on California streets, to attacks on our flagship universities, and shakedowns of tech stalwarts, Washington D
What if the fastest-growing sport in America could also be its most democratic? Pickleball was born on Bainbridge Island – just across the water from Seattle. It started in 1965 with a wiffle ball, a net, and a few bored
Dr Ashley Brown
researcher, lecturer, counsellor · Impressions Visionary Solutions
4 appearances on this show
Christopher Armitage
author of The Existentialist Republic newsletter · The Existentialist Republic
1 appearance on this show
Jen Barnes
MSW, LICSW, RYT-500, TCTSY-F · Rough and Tumble
1 appearance on this show
Robbie Bach
former President of Xbox · Microsoft
1 appearance on this show
Marco Rossi
Washingtonians for Public Banking
1 appearance on this show
David Johnson
research chair and centre director in Sustainable Supply Chains at the Schulich School of Business at York University · Port Hamilton Refining and Transportation
1 appearance on this show
Aaron Hurst
Co-Founder & CEO · U.S. Chamber of Connection
1 appearance on this show
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Pacific Time: West Coast What-Ifs is hosted by Greg Amrofell. The show is categorised under news (politics) and has published 47 episodes.
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