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The Record: Thursday, October 19, 2017

caption: Amazon Spheres, downtown Seattle
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Amazon Spheres, downtown Seattle
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Today’s the deadline for North American cities to bid for Amazon's new headquarters. What do people living in a potential HQ2 need to know about life here in HQ1? We’ll take your calls and talk with KUOW’s Joshua McNichols and Carolyn Adolph, hosts of KUOW’s new podcast Prime(d).

Also, what does it mean to be a "Native city"? Seattle is named for an indigenous tribal chief. Why doesn't the whole world know that? What would it mean to put Seattle's native heritage front and center? We talk with Colleen Echohawk of the Chief Seattle Club.

And Graham Blair is your average college freshman. He's got a great mom, great friends, and a great future ahead of him. But it wasn't always so easy when he started transitioning — in more ways than one. RadioActive's Jessie Nguyen has the story.

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