Soundside
Get to know the PNW and each other. Soundside airs Monday through Thursday at 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. on KUOW. Listen to Soundside on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Additional Credits: Logo art is designed by Teo Popescu. Audio promotions are produced by Hans Twite. Community engagement led by Zaki Hamid. Our Director of New Content and Innovation is Brendan Sweeney.
Mission Statement:
Soundside believes establishing trust with our listeners involves taking the time to listen.
We know that building trust with a community takes work. It involves broadening conversations, making sure our show amplifies systemically excluded voices, and challenging narratives that normalize systemic racism.
We want Soundside to be a place where you can be part of the dialogue, learn something new about your own backyard, and meet your neighbors from the Peninsula to the Palouse.
Together, we’ll tell stories that connect us to our community — locally, nationally and globally. We’ll get to know the Pacific Northwest and each other.
What do you think Soundside should be covering? Where do you want to see us go next?
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Episodes
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'Waiting to dance again.' How Seattle's literary community weathered the pandemic
The role of Seattle’s civic poet is to be an ambassador for the literary arts, fostering dialogue between communities, and connecting people with art. For the last three years, that role has also been to memorialize various unprecedented challenges we’ve collectively faced.
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Kitsap County faces a dire OB-GYN shortage
Bringing babies into the world is hard work. And if you're an OB-GYN on the Kitsap Peninsula, it's recently gotten a lot harder.
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A step closer to a new form of renewable energy: nuclear fusion
On Tuesday, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm walked up to a microphone to drop some big science news: Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California had achieved a fusion mileston.
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For student journalists, reporting on schools can run afoul of administrations
When you think about impactful journalism, some images may come to mind — meeting sources in dark parking lots, going undercover to bust a scam ring, entering war zones. But those images are pretty far from the usual day to day work, which involves a lot of phone calls and unanswered emails and a whole lot of perseverance.
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Remembering the maestro behind 'Twin Peaks' sound
With just three short notes, you’re there: the lumber yard, Snoqualmie Falls, and a pie-loving detective trying to solve the murder of a high school girl in the Cascade foothills.
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Does continued state empowerment threaten democracy?
Gridlock on the national level has pushed policy decisions to the states. With that shift comes an erosion of democratic norms and institutions.
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District judge halts sweeps of Camp Hope in Spokane
Camp Hope is the largest homeless encampment in Spokane, at one time hosting seen as many as 600 residents. City, county, and state officials have been trying to move residents elsewhere, but exactly when and where has yet to be determined. Meanwhile, scheduled sweeps that would have cleared out the encampment have been delayed.
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Why is it so difficult to get reliable internet in rural areas?
Crosscut investigative reporter Brandon Block joins Soundside to talk about the difficulties in getting broadband internet access out to rural parts of Washington state.
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How will ChatGPT change the future of information?
It’s hard to describe exactly what just what ChatGPT is. In the tech world you might call it an advanced natural language model. But to those on the outside, it feels like a kind of magical black box. We’ve lived with different versions of this kind of programming for a while now, but something seems different about ChatGPT, with some comparing it to a new industrial revolution, and as big as the discovery of electricity.
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The added challenges of getting mental health care as a farmworker
Getting care can already be difficult when you live in a rural area — but there’s also a stigma surrounding discussions of mental health and self care in the agricultural industry. And getting proper care for your mental needs depends on what work you do, and who you are.
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Onboarding progresses slowly for new Office of Independent Investigations
In Washington state's legislature, the killing of Manuel Ellis in March 2020 by Tacoma Police helped propel a police reform package of more than a dozen bills. One of those bills created The Office of Independent Investigations, or OII, which was signed into law by Governor Jay Inslee in 2021. This is the first office of its kind in the nation, with plans to train civilian investigators to watchdog the use of deadly force by police throughout the state.
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Microsoft's $69 billion deal to acquire Activision-Blizzard faces FTC suit
In a deal that may go down as the largest video-game merger of all time, Microsoft, the maker of the Xbox, is attempting to buy Activision Blizzard, which is responsible for the games, "World of Warcraft," "Diablo," and "Call of Duty," as well as the company that makes "Candy Crush."