
Soundside
Get to know the PNW and each other. Soundside airs Monday through Thursday at 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. on KUOW starting January 10. 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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Google and DOJ face off over remedy for search engine monopoly
Depending on what’s decided in a D.C. courthouse, there could be big changes in store for one of tech’s biggest juggernauts.
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Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" - 4/24-27
It's beautiful outside, so get out & enjoy it with all of the events in this weekend's warmup!
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This author used ChatGPT as a mirror for her life — and for big tech, too
The book is part-memoir, part critique of how tech companies have positioned their products as “collaborators,” or even companions, in our lives.
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Student loan borrowers are being asked to pony up
People with student loan debt are being asked to pony up, and experts warn that this push for repayment will put loan holders in difficult financial situations and could have a big impact on an already unstable economy.
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The White House killed this one of a kind report. The scientists behind it aren't giving up
Over two years, Phil worked at the White House and coordinated a massive team of authors and federal agencies. The team was ready to submit their first draft of the assessment in February this year, before they heard from the Trump administration that the whole project was being shut down.
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What's at stake in the birthright citizenship Supreme Court case
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether a 125 year old constitutional right to citizenship for people born in the United States to non-citizen parents is guaranteed.
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Congressman Adam Smith on the latest Signal chat scandal out of the Pentagon
Rep. Adam Smith of Washington's 9th Congressional District joins Soundside to talk about the latest Signal chat scandal out of the Pentagon.
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New Wing Luke exhibit explores the power of objects with Ten Thousand Things
For the past four years, Poet Shin Yu Pai’s podcast Ten Things has explored how objects – from the extraordinary to the mundane, the literal to the figurative – communicate stories of Asian American meaning, identity, and culture.
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As Trump cuts funding, researchers look for opportunities outside the U.S.
As researchers at American universities face an uncertain future, other countries are doing their best to lure scientists away. Is the U-S set to face a brain drain as top talent moves overseas or into other fields?
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Remembering Pope Francis
Pope Francis died this morning at the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. He was 88. Dr. Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos discusses the Pope's legacy.
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Trump Administration opens half of national forest land for logging
Last week, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins sent a memo establishing an “emergency situation determination” covering more than 112 million national forest acres. That includes five national forests in Washington state. Rollins identified these acres as having either high wildfire risk or declining forest health – allowing timber harvesting to be fast-tracked through environmental regulations.
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Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" - April 17th-20th
Sci-Fi Conventions! Anime! Beer! National Parks! All that & MORE in this Weekend's Warmup!