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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June 18th | A whale of a view
Gray whale as lawn ornament. A chat with the new head of the Nature Conservancy. And the case for incrementalism.
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June 17th | The view from a Shanghai taxi
A veteran NPR correspondent’s drive for the story. A tale of two counties. Forced conservatorship in San Francisco. And some of what we don’t know we don’t know about Kim Jong Un.
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June 13th | Who’s your daddy?
ISO the father, via science and society. What will tech giants’ affordable housing money fund? Is teriyaki on the wane in Seattle? Is Alexa listening to your kids? And another tale of cold cases revived through DNA testing websites.
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June 12th | Are golf courses the solution to affordable housing?
Seattle's trying to decide if it should keep its four public golf courses as is. The US Women's soccer team set a new record! Would embracing air conditioning make us less "eco-friendly"? And is the cottonwood fluff worse than it used to be?
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How a UW geneticist is saving elephants with poop
The world is dealing with an unprecedented spike in illegal wildlife trade, threatening to overturn decades of conservation gains.
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Seattle to welcome a new heavy ice cutter
For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. is getting a new heavy ice cutter to join the Coast Guard’s Polar Star and the Polar Sea, whose home port is Seattle. Democratic Senator Patty Murray said ice breakers play a critical role in our national security and are “a strategic asset in our nation’s efforts to promote our interests in the north.”
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June 11th | Following the trail of wildlife poachers, by way of elephant poo
“Feces is the most accessible wildlife product in nature” – how that could help stop the illegal trade of ivory. A dispatch from the project Booked and Buried. And a look at corruption at the highest levels of FIFA, with fallout that continues from 2015.
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June 10th | Why cities can’t afford to solve homelessness
The homelessness crisis makes cities victims of their own success. Salesforce comes to Seattle. Washington gets an icebreaker (not that kind). And housing goes on the City Council docket.
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June 6th | Gov. Inslee’s heading for the big stage, and he wants to bring climate change with him
Climate change debates, carbon offsets, and embracing a family’s transformation.
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Going beyond guilt trips
Reflections on mindful travel in an unequal world.
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June 5th | Grow up – but don’t forget how to play like a kid
Tricksters of stage, screen, and western Seattle. One business owner on homelessness in SODO. Missing faces at the Seattle International Dance Festival. And what does it mean to travel in an unequal world?
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How to talk to a flat-earther
When Lee McIntyre first showed up at the Flat Earth International Conference, he put his badge on and kept his mouth shut. The mood he said was celebratory. After all, many flat-earthers, as they’re called, are radicalized over online videos and don’t have a lot of opportunities to meet up with people of like minds.