Sound Effect is your weekly tour of ideas inspired by the place we live. The show is hosted by the wonderful Gabriel Spitzer. This week, the Sound Effect team revisits some of its favorite stories that aired over the last year.
First, host Gabriel Spitzer, senior producer Arwen Nicks, and producer Kevin Kniestedt revisit some of their favorite "cold opens" that started off shows from the last year.
Then, When it comes to sight, one Washington family has seen it all. Gabriel Spitzer shares his story about a Kirkland clan in the business of making eyes and hear about the accident 40 years ago that set it into motion.
Then, senior producer Arwen Nicks brings us a story about two people facing the point of no return. 2005 would change Brian Yeager and Amelia Bonow’s lives forever. They fell in love. He wasa musician bartending at Belltown’s Lava Lounge, and she was waitressing next door at Mamma’s Mexican Kitchen. They saw each other in passing, and something was there. Sparks flew. It was a hard-and-fast kind of love, but a sure one nonetheless. Bonow eventually moved into Yeager’s house in Lower Queen Anne, a home they would only share with a menagerie of plants and a cat named Rooster for only so long.
Finally, KPLU’s Kevin Kniestedt chases after that most elusive quarry: the karaoke unicorn. We’ll hear how this story was born, and why senior producer Arwen Nicks says he screwed it all up.
