The Record
Host Bill Radke leads in-depth conversations about what matters today in Seattle and beyond. Get in touch at record@kuow.org
Programming Announcement
KUOW and The Record team are excited to kick off a large-scale initiative to expand and innovate our local content offerings, including the development of a new project led by Bill Radke, new local podcast pilots, and a reimagining of our flagship local news show The Record with a new format and a new host this fall. The Record will be going on hiatus as the team develops new approaches, starting June 28. Learn more here.
Episodes
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August 29th | What we can learn from a nonagenarian oak tree
Speaking to the trees. How do you distinguish between a hate crime and domestic terrorism? Plastic is officially everywhere, including in rain over remote mountains. And, space expansion through a colonial lens.
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August 28th | Hashtag plantlife
Influencers go green. Not all sunscreen is created equal. A memoir about marriage. And: why your team sucks.
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August 27th | Space crime, coast to coast
Criming in space. A senator speaks out about conditions at the border. Curtailed recess. And crows whose cholesterol levels give pause.
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August 26th | Real city setting, fake movie set
Where’d you go, Bernadette’s film crew? (Pittsburgh. The answer is Pittsburgh.) How a for-profit mental health facility is failing local patients. A controversial Republican state lawmaker. Banning anti-fascist signs from the soccer pitch for being “too political.” And: can you eat those wild blackberries after all?
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August 22nd | This reality show about glassmaking will blow you away
A peek inside the world of competitive glassblowing. Oh ye of little faith: congrats on the court victory. Leaving on a jet plane not knowing where you’re going. And a look at the parallels between the Japanese internment and today.
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August 21st | When security at home is about more than a deposit
Should domestic violence victims have to pay for repairs to their rentals due to violence (and if not, who will)? What would happen if we removed the Snake River dams? And how are Washington water rights handed out anyway? A look at at an 18-year-old cold case. And a look back at the day the Beatles came to the Coliseum (that’s Key Arena, for you youngsters).
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August 20th | Life sciences boom in South Lake Union
The expansion of life sciences development. Ron and Don speak. How to survive the onslaught of fake news. And what to do if you think you’re at risk of being swatted.
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August 19th | Is apathy creep enabling corruption in this Eastern Washington town?
Small town corruption. Protections for domestic violence survivors. How to fix our broken school system. Wolves and humpbacks are both rebounding in the Pacific Northwest: one is much more celebrated than the other.
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August 15th | The newest Colossus
Recent administration comments restart a debate about what liberty means in America. What does it mean if your teachers never look like you? Facial recognition software may know what you’re feeling. What does historic preservation mean in a city like Seattle? And the spectacle of the Perseids.
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X may be a gender option on driver’s licenses soon. But why is gender being tracked at all?
Take a look at your Washington state driver’s license. There are several numbered fields – and soon, one of them might change.
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August 14th | “I consider it a newspaper for the mundane”: dispatches from Seattle Walk Report
Taking a walk on the overlooked side with the viral Instagram project. Washington’s former state transportation head says that when it comes to pedestrian deaths, enough is enough. Gender markers on driver’s licenses: more options, more problems? And, should Narcan be in schools?
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August 13th | “I think loving is never enabling”: one man’s response to homelessness in Seattle
Cleaning up after camps. Fiction that gets at the truth. And comics anti-heroes.