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Your favorite KIRO Newsradio hosts deliver bite-sized commentary on the people and events making news in your world.

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Seattle, WA

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Your favorite KIRO Newsradio hosts deliver bite-sized commentary on the people and events making news in your world.

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English


Episodes

Angela Poe Russell: What is often misunderstood about sex trafficking

3/27/2024
It was confirmed yesterday music mogul Sean P Diddy Combs is indeed the target of a federal investigation by Homeland Security. The accusations center around sex trafficking. In today’s commentary, Angela Poe Russell explores what most of us often misunderstand about the crime.

Duration:00:04:29

Jack Stine: Small Goals, Big Results

3/26/2024
Sometimes to get where we want to go in life and do the things we want to do, we need to set smaller, more acheviable goals.

Duration:00:03:09

Dave Ross: Bashing Electric Vehicles

3/25/2024
It sure seems like electric vehicles are becoming a political issue, but should we be having an even bigger conversation about cars in general?

Duration:00:02:59

Travis Mayfield: Cantwell Must Not Obstruct Full Senate From Debating TikTok’s Future

3/22/2024
MAGA Republican Jim Jordan and San Francisco Liberal Democrat Nancy Pelosi agree on almost nothing these days. Yet last week…something changed

Duration:00:05:42

Jack Stine: Identifying Bias

3/21/2024
Recently, I have been on the receiving end of quite a few comments that follow a similar structure “you are biased.” It got me thinking about how we have been conditioned to believe that having a bias or a set of biases is somehow wrong or incorrect.

Duration:00:03:05

Angela Poe Russell: The bold policy every school should adopt now

3/20/2024
It’s a theme in movies that’s so cliche. Teenagers in cliques. The jocks, the drama kids, the band, The nerds and then the hot guy or girl. Last I checked most kids actually don’t fit into a single box

Duration:00:04:32

Travis Mayfield: Including LGBTQ+ people in curriculum benefits all students

3/16/2024
"When you are the only person who identifies as LGBTQ+ in your school, seeing others who identify as you do in the lessons you learn can help you feel less alone," Travis Mayfield says.

Duration:00:04:53

Angela Poe Russell: There's something different about Ciara

3/12/2024
Angela Poe Russell: There's something different about Ciara

Duration:00:03:47

Matt Markovich: Legislature

3/12/2024
Markovich: Legislature

Duration:00:03:02

Blame Game

3/11/2024
Blame Game

Duration:00:03:33

Travis Mayfield: Democracy on fire

3/8/2024
Mayfield commentary

Duration:00:04:49

Jack Stine: We all deserve to fly first class

3/7/2024
For the first time in my life, I flew First Class. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bragging about having ‘John Curley’ levels of income. I bought the ticket 4 weeks in advance a few days after the Boeing ‘huge gaping hole in the plane at 10,000 feet’ incident, when no one was flying. Because of this, the price was roughly $200.00. To be totally honest, it was amazing – my flight was delayed by an hour, when I went to the gate to check on the status of the flight, the gate attended offered me a dinner voucher in the airport to ease my dismay and distress. On the flight, I noticed that the tray table was located in the armrest of the seat and could be deployed by pulling a simple lever. I was offered a beverage in a glass. When I was offered the selection for my in-flight meal, the flight attended said ‘Would you like the protein or the fruit and cheese plate?” I asked which one he liked, and he replied, “I will bring you both,’ which he promptly did and both were amazing. However, in the middle of the intoxicating experience of being treated like royalty – I was hit with a sudden wave of discontent. I can only equate it to the sensation Neo must have had when he was expelled from his goo-pod in the Matrix. A wave of terror and dread hit me at 10,000 feet, and the sound this wave made was, ‘everyone on this plane deserves this…’ Regardless of where you are on the plane. We all deserve more room to stretch out, we all deserve beverages served in a glass, we all deserve both the protein and fruit plate. Why? Because we pay for that service. Flying is an expensive experience no matter where you are in the plane – and being treated like a human being as opposed to Salmon being airdropped into a lake is a privilege, we should all be entitled to, regardless of the cost to the airline. Sure, maybe some people would say ‘they need to make a profit and they do so by making the seats overpriced and expensive and having plastic cups and mini cokes, and carb sticks instead of fruit. But wouldn’t more people fly more, and more often, if it was at least a pleasant experience, instead of an exercise in self-administered torture? I think so.

Duration:00:03:20

Angela Poe Russell: DEI’s secret weapon or DEI’s unlikely ally

3/6/2024
DEI is definitely pushing some buttons these days and seems to be losing steam in the job market. According to employment website Indeed, DEI-related job postings in 2023 declined by 44% from the same time a year ago. It could just be a temporary bump in the road as its future might have an unexpected ally -- Generation Z.

Duration:00:04:16

Women's History Month

2/29/2024
Women's History Month

Duration:00:04:17

Angela Poe Russell on Beyoncé's big splash into country music

2/28/2024
Beyonce's big splash into the genre has people passionately debating exactly what real country music is But Angela says it may be distracting us from the real conversation we need to have.

Duration:00:04:01

Ross: Conservative activist earns applause for pledging an 'end of Democracy'

2/26/2024
In yet another prediction of democracy's demise, I heard this clip quite a lot over the weekend. "Welcome, I just wanted to say welcome to the end of democracy. We're here to overthrow it completely. We didn't get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will. We will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here. That's right because all glory is not to government, all glory is to God."

Duration:00:03:57

Travis Mayfield: New President Deserves Space to Help SPU Find Way Forward

2/23/2024
It’s inauguration day today at Seattle Pacific University. A new President will be sworn in and huge challenges await this new leader. A divisive culture war. A financial crisis. An investigation by the Attorney General.

Duration:00:05:23

New President at SPU deserves chance

2/22/2024
New President at SPU deserves chance

Duration:00:05:23

Jack Stine is leaving social media behind

2/22/2024
Saving our souls from the draining experience of social media

Duration:00:02:53

Angela Poe Russell on the double edged sword of success

2/21/2024
Warren buffet summed up what many of us know to be true: "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” And I’ll add, if social media is involved, even faster.

Duration:00:03:56