Producer Picks: Transit & Translators

This week, we’re revisiting some of our favorite segments of the year. 

And today, we're talking about transit. And translators. 

A now-former King County Metro Bus driver tells us what passengers should know when they ride the bus. But more importantly, we got some insight into why the 8 in downtown Seattle is so often called the late bus.

Plus, we sat down with a Seattle-based translator to discuss her National Book Award-nominated work translating the novel We Computers into English. 

She said that translating the poetry and the prose in this book was like running a triathlon.

We're taking a trip with two local women who helped us get from point A to point B in 2025. 

Guests

• Desiree Andersen, former King County Metro bus driver, @desinthepark
• Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Seattle-based translator of Hamid Ismailov's 

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