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?
Leave us a voicemail! You might hear your call on-air: 206-221-3213
Share your thoughts directly with the team at soundside@kuow.org.
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Episodes
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One Small Step: John and Karen
One of the goals of a "One Small Step" conversation is for participants to understand why people have the political beliefs they have. In this conversation, we’ll hear from Washington state senators Karen Keiser, who is a Democrat, and John Braun, who is a Republican. They have worked across the aisle and through disagreements over the years, and they are very familiar with the other’s political beliefs.
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Producer picks: bat houses, go games, and the value of parasites
The Soundside team is taking some time off this Thanksgiving week. In the spirit of thankfulness, we're revisiting some of our favorite segments from over the last year, and the hardworking producers who make Soundside are making the picks.
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One Small Step: Allison and Sue Lani
Finding out you disagree with someone you like is a jarring experience, and when it comes to heated political topics, those disagreements can lead to lost relationships. "One Small Step" is about finding connection despite disagreement. In this conversation, Allison, a progressive, and Sue Lani, a libertarian, share stories about how they see this playing out in the younger generations of their families - and how they’re working to counteract it.
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Producer picks: Seattle on the stage and in the toy box
In the spirit of thankfulness: Soundside is going to revisit some of our favorite segments from over the last year, and the hardworking producers who make Soundside will be making the picks.
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What does 'fare compliance' mean for light rail riders?
This week, Sound Transit fare ambassadors, those blue vested, yellow hatted transit employees, started issuing warnings to train riders who haven’t paid. It’s the first time in more than three years that Sound Transit is enforcing fares.
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Why Mayor Bruce Harrell might be the biggest winner of Seattle's 2023 election
If there was a big-picture winner of Seattle’s 2023 general election, it’s arguably Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell.
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Want to make a difference for food banks? Cash, not Kraft, may be your answer
Before you go through your own pantry or head to the store to pick up food to donate, Soundside called up some experts to help you make more impactful donations.
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A career of dangerous rescues on Washington's 'Graveyard of the Pacific'
Just outside Ilwaco, Washington, is the nation’s largest and busiest coast guard unit. This stretch of coast, known as the “Graveyard of the Pacific,” is one of the most dangerous waterways to navigate in the U.S.
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Results are in: What do this year's elections mean for 2024?
Washington elections are a lesson in patience. A week after the general election, results are just shaping up for most of the major races. And those results can help with determining what policy and politics will look like in Seattle, and Washington.
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Author Stephanie Land has struggled as a single mom in college, but don't call her a 'success story'
Soundside interviews author Stephanie Land about her most recent book, "Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education."
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Hundreds of Providence nurses take to the picket line in Everett
Hundreds of nurses at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett went on the picket line Tuesday morning after authorizing a five day strike. The major sticking points are staffing levels and pay. The union and Providence have been in negotiations for months over a new contract for roughly 1300 nurses.
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The love story that grew Seattle's 'secret garden'
Since 1972, the Streissguth Gardens have become one of Seattle’s most unique landmarks. The gardens take up a full acre of hillside just west of Capitol Hill’s Volunteer Park. If you’ve spent a morning running up the long Blaine Street Stairs, you’ve passed right by the gardens. But the story of how this unorthodox public garden came to be is one of coincidence, love, and perhaps a bit of magic.