The Record

The Record

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The Record episodes

  • The Record: Monday, May 15, Full Show
    Wanna cry? That's not an invitation, it's the name of malware going around the world, attacking giant institutions. You could blame Microsoft. You could blame the government. Either way, what are we going to do about it? Also, President Trump's travel ban is getting inspected again today in Seattle. We'll tell you how that federal court hearing went down. And maybe this bike share will work in Seattle. This time you'll use an app and hopefully park the bikes in the right place.
    52 min
  • Bike sharing may cycle back to Seattle, again
    Bill Radke speaks with founder of the Seattle Bike Blog Tom Fucoloro about a new stationless bike share system that could be could be coming to Seattle this summer. Fucoloro test rode a bike from bluegogo and explains how a new system like this would work.
    8 min
  • Would a universal basic income solve poverty?
    Bill Radke talks with historian Rutger Bregman and author of the new book "Utopia for Realists." The book details, in part, Bregman's belief that there should be a universal basic income, where everyone is given enough money to put them above the poverty line, even if they don't work. Bregman believes this would solve multiple problems while costing a fraction of what is spent on poverty measures now. He also believes a basic income for everyone would allow people to rethink the true value of
    14 min
  • Returning to mother's village with poet Jane Wong
    Bill Radke and KUOW poetry correspondent Elizabeth Austen discuss an excerpt of "Pastoral Power," a sprawling, image-driven poem by local poet Jane Wong. The poem is rooted in a trip Wong took as a teenager to the rural village in southern China where her mother grew up.
    9 min
  • The Record: Thursday, May 11, Full Show
    Right now, if you're running for Seattle mayor, you have twelve other candidates to beat. But local analysts and politicos are saying Jenny Durkan, the newest candidate for mayor, could change the race. We'll find out why. Also, we'll learn how the Mt Saint Helens eruption and the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea are connected. And, we'll explore the powerful force mothers play in our lives with poetry correspondent Elizabeth Austen.
    51 min
  • Washington's longstanding love story with craft beer
    Jeannie Yandel speaks with Kendall Jones, from the Washington Beer Blog, and Robyn Schumacher, co-owner and brewer at Stoup Brewing in Ballard, about Washington's longstanding love story with beer. We have more craft beer makers here than any other region in America — 174 of in the Seattle-Tacoma area, according to market researcher Datafiniti.
    14 min
  • An exit interview with Mr. Floatie
    Bill Radke talks to James Skwarok, the Victoria-based school teacher who dressed up as a giant brown poop for 13 years to protest Victoria's lack of a sewage treatment center. They talk about humor in protesting and why he's retiring the character.
    8 min
  • The Record: Wednesday, May 10, Full Show
    You don't want to hear the words "nuclear reactor" and "accident," but a tunnel with nuclear waste inside collapsed yesterday at Hanford. We'll tell you why that waste is so hard to seal off and where the next danger might lie. Also, Seattle is expensive. There's income inequality. Robots are taking our jobs. What to do? Here's an idea. The government could give every American money for nothing, just a minimum amount of money to spend as you please. And Seattle's first Upstream Music festival is
    52 min

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Host Bill Radke leads in-depth conversations about what matters today in Seattle and beyond.

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