Soundside
Hosted by David Kroman · KUOW News and Information
4.7from 114 ratings
- 1,308
- Episodes
- 1,222
- Transcribed
- 114
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 975K
- YouTube views
About Soundside
Soundside leads the Puget Sound conversation with smart questions, lively debates, and direct access to the region's most influential voices. Timely, insightful, and unmistakably local, it's where the Pacific Northwest comes to dig into the news.
- Publisher
- KUOW News and Information
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Nov 2023
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
1,222 of 1,308 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Are robot companions the future of elder care? Or a sign of the oncoming AI apocalypse?
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson talks homelessness policy, the budget, and public safety
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
WA Senate Debate: Two Democrats vie to represent Seattle's northern suburbs
Inside a recent episode
Are robot companions the future of elder care? Or a sign of the oncoming AI apocalypse?
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah. So I think it's really important, like you mentioned, to look back and see how Washington has handled this issue of long-term care, right? Like we were very much an outlier starting in the 90s when we started to really do a lot of reforms and change how elder care was funded through the state. It used to be that most people would use Medicaid to subsidize living in a retirement home or assisted living community, right? But Washington realized in the late 80s and then early 90s that one, that was really expensive. It's really expensive to send people to long-term care facilities. And two, most people actually didn't like that. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Katie Wilson
- Adam Smith
- Hannah Sabio-Howell
- Jamie Pedersen
- Joy Hollingsworth
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 974,705
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 80 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 34 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 85 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 93
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Who hosts Soundside?
David Kroman host the show. Published by KUOW News and Information.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Soundside take guests?
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