When the media shows us dead bodies, what do we see?
How the corpses we show create a hierarchy of grief. A chat about the recent SPD exit interviews. Would you eat fake chicken nuggets? (What if you didn’t know they were fake?) And the glamorous origins of Seattle’s Norwegian festival.
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Sarah Sentilles, Draw Your Weapons
There are many bodies that have been front page news in the last few years: Aylan Curdi. Michael Brown. Philando Castile. But there are only some bodies we see in death: mostly black and brown and foreign, or somehow other. Sarah Sentilles is the author of Draw Your Weapons. She says we’re not great viewers of photos – that our job is to take action, not to look away.
SPD Exodus
At least 18 cops have left the Seattle Police Department for King County or Tacoma agencies in the past year. They’re not leaving law enforcement in general – they just no longer want to work here. City Councilmember Lorena González and Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper joined Bill Radke to talk about why.
Fake chicken nuggets?
Two weeks ago, a company called Beyond Meat went public. Their product? A plant-based alternative to hamburgers. Their stock price? Has gone from $25 to $92 since their IPO. There’s a local company in the plant-based game as well; it’s called Seattle Food Tech. Christie Lagally is its CEO; she spoke with Marcie Sillman about her dreams for the future of meat-free chicken nuggets.
Syttende Mai
Tomorrow is the 17th of May – Syttende Mai in Norwegian. And every year, Seattleites don their Viking helmets, grab their dragon boats, and head to Ballard to celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day. It’s the biggest Syttende Mai celebration outside of Norway; we spoke to Eric Nelson of the Nordic Museum about how the party got started.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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