Podcasts

The doctor who helps save doctors found herself in greater demand during the pandemic

Published: March 13, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 4 seconds

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King Co. Council chair: 'Start and lead with the humanity' in addressing homelessness

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 11:27 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 9 seconds

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Black History Month celebrations include hip-hop, pioneers, painters

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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Sundance partners with Northwest Film Forum and other satellites to deliver festival virtually

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds

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Reflecting the state Supreme Court's diversity, one portrait at a time

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 11:04 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes

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State Rep. John Lovick: Events since George Floyd's death are 'a turning point for all of us'

Published: Jan. 1, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 39 seconds

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Seattle rapper Porter Ray found an outlet for his heartbreak in his artistry

Published: Dec. 30, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 47 seconds

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Machines from the past, inspiring writers of the future

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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Hip-hop releases rise to the top of the 2020 best locally produced albums list

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 35 seconds

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Who was Manny Ellis? Family and friends saw a man searching for peace and redemption

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 31 seconds

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KNKX staff reads 'The Night Before Christmas'

Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 14 seconds

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Tacoma activists urge swifter city action on housing problems

Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 1:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 27 seconds

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Northwest Film Forum executive director shares favorite locally produced films of 2020

Published: Dec. 19, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 53 seconds

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Senator details proposals to improve state's unemployment system

Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 11:11 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds

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'More than just a place': Seattle's Wildrose among lesbian bars benefitting from fundraiser

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 10:32 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 8 seconds

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As effort to reform death investigation system begins, KNKX looks outside WA for solutions

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 10:11 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 16 seconds

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State law modernizing vital records process includes more money for coroner training

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds

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Activists with 'Count Every Vote' rally stress that the work won't end with this election

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 8:13 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds

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UW professor says rhetoric from President Trump about voting process is 'anti-democratic'

Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 11:42 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds

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Farewell: Sound Effect, Episode 215

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 5:11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 50 seconds

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How a homeless man helped this writer overcome his fear of the woods

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds

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The storm that would last a lifetime: Activist Charlene Strong remembers how her fight began

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 17 seconds

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World's first gay country album was made in Seattle in 1973

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds

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The music of Prince brings two people together in an unlikely way

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds

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To punch a celebrity or not to punch a celebrity, that is the question

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds

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A cult took away my birthday. This woman got it back.

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds

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Snowdrift, the lost cat that didn't really want to be found

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 14 seconds

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Sound Effect says farewell after nearly six years, 214 episodes and hundreds of stories

Published: Oct. 30, 2020, noon
Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds

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Washington Supreme Court races: What you need to know and why they matter

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 10:24 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 32 seconds

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Coroners in Washington lack clear oversight, leaving some families without closure

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, noon
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds

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Music, Vol. 6: Sound Effect, Episode 214

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 5:04 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 10 seconds

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The Mariner who blew the ball foul also made a funk hit about the Kingdome

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds

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Bullying motivated this country star to excel on the field and on the stage

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds

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Seattle Band Map is the 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' for Northwest musicians

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 1 second

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Episode 7: Saying Goodbye

Published: April 8, 2020, 12:05 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 26 seconds

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'One last conversation': Local nurse says she was honored to connect mother and daughter

Published: April 8, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 minute 9 seconds

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Rep. Schrier: Rural hospitals face unique challenges amid pandemic

Published: April 7, 2020, 8:12 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 31 seconds

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Daddy Issues: Sound Effect, Episode 170

Published: April 4, 2020, 5:04 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 33 seconds

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The rebellion of a doctor’s son

Published: April 4, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 55 seconds

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A father teaches his son that if it can be done, it will be done

Published: April 4, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds

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KNKX producer leaves behind life as a longtime stay-at-home dad for a new kind of fulfillment

Published: April 4, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

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Father-daughter time in the garden leads to important life lessons

Published: April 4, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 6: Getting Creative

Published: April 2, 2020, 4:34 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds

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Isolated but not alone: Nurses help coronavirus patient say goodbye, offer comfort to the end

Published: April 1, 2020, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 24 seconds

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'I have not even begun to grieve.' Coronavirus response takes a toll on mourning families

Published: March 30, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds

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Alone Together: Sound Effect, Episode 171

Published: March 28, 2020, 5:03 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 34 seconds

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The voice never went away. So, this woman learned to live with it.

Published: March 28, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 43 seconds

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After swearing off men, this woman fell for a bank robber

Published: March 28, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 10 seconds

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Life lessons about solitude, from a frog and a toad

Published: March 28, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 56 seconds

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A bus ride inspired this woman to thaw the Seattle Freeze. Now she's in for a surprise.

Published: March 28, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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How one tiny Seattle restaurant helped a dad connect with his daughter

Published: March 28, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds

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Washington’s health care capacity crunch could come as soon as next week

Published: March 27, 2020, 7:23 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute

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Episode 5: Stretched

Published: March 27, 2020, 6:49 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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Canadian official in Seattle: Border officers have discretion over 'essential' travel

Published: March 26, 2020, 9:19 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 4: Lessons Learned

Published: March 25, 2020, 6:01 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 20 seconds

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Cut off from U.S. by land, Point Roberts figures out how to stay connected

Published: March 20, 2020, 10:54 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 3: Houseless

Published: March 20, 2020, 4:13 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 2: Housebound

Published: March 18, 2020, 5:36 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 26 seconds

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Senators in Capitol as Trump pushes for more coronavirus aid, checks for public

Published: March 17, 2020, 11:34 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 16 seconds

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Coronavirus outbreak could be 'devastating' for businesses at Tacoma's Freighthouse Square

Published: March 16, 2020, noon
Duration: 3 minutes 9 seconds

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What is Normal?: Sound Effect, episode 167

Published: March 14, 2020, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 33 seconds

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After retirement, this engineer began a new career — and a new life as a woman

Published: March 14, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 47 seconds

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Teacher guides students through the toughest woodworking project — a classmate's coffin

Published: March 14, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 1: Flattening the Curve

Published: March 13, 2020, 5:12 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 26 seconds

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Washington state's only doctor in Congress talks coronavirus, policy

Published: March 10, 2020, 9:48 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 2 seconds

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The Past Is Still With Us: Sound Effect, Episode 206

Published: March 7, 2020, 6:05 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 4 seconds

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How one white man changed his implicit bias — and why it didn't last long.

Published: March 7, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 27 seconds

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How Willie Keil, the 'Pickled Pioneer,' crossed the Oregon Trail in a barrel of whiskey

Published: March 7, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds

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'This was going to put Concrete on the map': When Hollywood takes over your hometown

Published: March 6, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds

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My Other Family: Sound Effect, episode 163

Published: Feb. 29, 2020, 6:04 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 29 seconds

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Meet the Ricky behind 'Ricky's Law,' and the Lauren who stood by him: Sound Effect, Episode 163.5

Published: Feb. 29, 2020, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 33 seconds

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Sound Effect: Family is family, no matter what

Published: Feb. 29, 2020, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds

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Woman leaves conservative Eastside home to join the Rainbow Family

Published: Feb. 29, 2020, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes

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