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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She was a couch potato. Then she set a U.S. hiking record
Three-time Triple Crown backpacker Heather Anderson of Seattle discusses thru-hiking with Bill Radke.
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March 12th | Are we prejudiced against our future selves?
Embrace that rocking chair. The argument on nuclear power isn’t as cut and dried as it seems. And following this weekend’s crash, Boeing 737 Max 8s have been grounded in countries around the world – but not here.
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March 11th | Heather Anderson’s thirst to be the best
Go big (across the entire country) or go home. Boeing’s latest 737 Max 8 crash is raising serious safety and training questions. How do you recover from addiction? And the queer community you might be overlooking in so-called flyover states.
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March 7th | “As you can imagine, it’s a complex decision”: Mike O’Brien on tapping out
Councilmember Mike O’Brien gives us an exit interview. The Not In My Backyard Olympics have come to Magnolia. And a new law could reverse decades of Native disenfranchisement in Washington State.
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The luxury of saying 'No.'
"No." The word is an exclamation. It’s a noun. It’s a complete sentence. It's also a luxury, according to poet Anastacia-Reneé Tolbert.
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March 6th | NFL combine: understandable, or exploitative?
Young men on display: not Chippendales, but the NFL combine. Washington might ban single use plastic bags, but how should we think about the specific outcomes of our actions on creatures like orcas? And the club of people cured of HIV/AIDS seems to have just doubled in size.
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March 5th | But does it spark joy?
In the battle for our consumerist souls: between Amazon and Marie Kondo, who will triumph? Mandatory housing affordability is not without its critics. And when you picture an environmentalist: who do you see?
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March 4th | Will Paine Field make the friendly skies a little more convenient?
Sometimes good things can come in smaller airport packages. Shrimp are sucking oyster farms into the mud; controversial new legislation would change that. The indelible leopard continues to captivate our minds. And we talk about the rise of fentanyl.
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February 28th | What are we so scared of?
Amy Pearl of WNYC's podcast, "10 Things That Scare Me" talks about what our fears say about us. And Seattle's civic poet, Anastacia-Renee Tolbert, tells us why saying "no" can be glamorous. Plus, historian Feliks Banel tells us the story behind the Lenin statue in Fremont.
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February 26th | Employees revolt as Microsoft nears the battlefield
What responsibility do tech companies have when they start making weapons of war? We say farewell to the Seattle Weekly, and hello to the possibility of mandatory sex ed in Washington schools. Lastly: what do you do when someone is being harassed in public? And could that change?
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February 25th | Black History Month 2019: are we moving forward or sliding back?
Where the month fits into America’s long history with race. Renton’s school levies passed, but may still fail? Are benzos the new opioids? And is it just me, or are things a lot more problematic these days?
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A journalist on the wild business schemes to avoid climate change catastrophe
The threat of warmer temperatures is pushing entrepreneurs to come up with more schemes.