Soundside
Get to know the PNW and each other. Soundside airs Monday through Thursday at 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. on KUOW. 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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Period products haven’t been tested with real blood — until now. Here’s why it matters
In menstrual product advertisements, companies often use a light blue liquid as a stand-in for blood, to demonstrate the absorbency of their products. It turns out most companies use a similar stand-in for menstrual product testing: saline solution. We talked to the doctor behind the first-ever period product study using real blood about why this research matters.
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The student loan pause is ending — for real this time. Here’s how to prepare
Come October, nearly 700,000 Washingtonians will be adding yet another monthly expense back to their budgets: federal student loan repayments. We talked to a student loan advocate about how to get ready and what the Biden administration's new, income-driven repayment plan means for borrowers.
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Voting Rights in the Yakima Valley — Redrawing the 15th Legislative District
Soundside host Libby Denkmann sits down with USC Professor Christian Grose to talk about the recent ruling about the 15th Legislative District map in WA State, and the legal reasons why it needs to be redrawn.
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Paul Allen's big-money legacy haunts the Seattle arts scene
The specter of Paul Allen's legacy hangs over the Seattle arts scene. Five years after his death, questions remain about the impact of a big-money philanthropist and financier on the Seattle arts scene, including the revived prospects of the downtown theater formerly known as the Cinerama.
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22 counties sue Washington state over 'civil conversion' patients
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How the early internet defined what it meant to be 'transgender'
Think back to the '90s. As a kid, you might have been catching "Saved by the Bell" before school or stacking up a collection of Nirvana tapes. And who could forget dial up internet? This was the first time that the average household in America could purchase a personal computer, and for a community of users who were questioning the restrictions of gender, it opened a new world.
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Why GameWorks almost reconsidered its return to Seattle
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To this 'Viking' daughter, missions to Mars represent sacrifice and determination
"This week marks 48 years since the launch of the Viking 1, which became the first spacecraft to land safely on Mars' surface and send images back to Earth. Rachel Tillman, the founder and executive director of the Viking Mars Missions Education and Preservation Project, shares her personal connection to the missions, and why she's documenting the stories of those behind the missions.
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Why these Washington blueberry farm owners are suing over Rudy Giuliani’s missing movie
If there’s anything we’ve learned in recent years, it’s that big talk gets you a long way in politics. And it’s lucrative - bombastic and false claims about a stolen election were enough to rally donors to shower hundreds of millions of dollars on Donald Trump’s campaign after 2020. But the truth takes a lot longer to catch up.
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Wildfire season in Washington state: How prescribed burns could reduce danger
With wildfire smoke blanketing the entire state, Soundside host Libby Denkmann looks at the state of fires burning near Spokane, and how prescribed burns could help mitigate the issues we face every year.
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Seattle area scientist leads U.S. efforts toward 'holistic picture' of the climate crisis
To understand the widespread effects of climate change on the domestic level, the Biden administration announced in April that it was creating a new study, sold as the most ambitious, all-encompassing review ever of the United States' natural world. The administration tapped conservation scientist and University of Washington professor Phil Levin to lead that research.
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Is Seattle's arts infrastructure crumbling?
The Museum of Museums opened during a global pandemic. And it was like a breath of fresh air. A chance to enter another world - filled with sculptures and paintings lit in neon light. But now, three years after it first opened, the Museum of Museums is shutting down.