Podcast Episodes

Sustainability Now! Oct. 26, 2025: The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego

The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego  On Sustainability Now! Sunday, October 26th, 5-6 PM Even before the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Popula…

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New Luddites: Labor, Capitalism and Technology – Part 1

Season 2 Episode 29

This podcast was originally broadcast on Monday, Oct. 6, at 6pm for a Moment of Truth show featuring guests who share a critical, “neo-Luddite” perspective on our changing culture and technology. Mom…

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Jan 6th Rioter Who Refused Trump's Pardon Tells His Story

Season 2 Episode 30

Donald Trump’s call to supporters to march on the Capitol on Jan. 6th in 2021 ended in a way that most of us who live in the United States, and perhaps around the world, will never forget. Our guest,…

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Back to School on The Sunday Dinner!

In the first course of this month’s Sunday Dinner we hear from DJ TefyWefy as they paint a picture of the food and housing insecurity that many college students face, including students in the Univer…

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Salinas’ Western Stage: 50 years of building community through artistic expression

Monday on the Talk of the Bay host Christine Barrington takes us behind the curtain at Salinas’ Western Stage. Offering multiple productions each season, the Western Stage is a community-driven profe…

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An Hour Wasted with Tom Lehrer–A KSQD Tribute to the Man and His Music

An Hour Wasted with Tom Lehrer A KSQD Tribute to the Man and His Music     Tom Lehrer, the musical satirist par excellence of the 1950s and 1960s, died this past July at age 97.  Many listeners and t…

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How Stories Shape Our Mental Health

Season 8 Episode 83

Episode 83: Guest host Youssef Hassanein talks with therapist Lisa Slede and Harvard health communications expert Amanda Yarnell about how personal and cultural narratives can heal, connect, or misle…

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12th Annual Santa Cruz Comedy Festival: “The Laughtopus” October 3-4

On Talk of the Bay host Christine Barrington interviews DNA, our local comedy impresario who returns to Santa Cruz to bring us the 12th annual Santa Cruz Comedy festival. Called the Laughtopus, this …

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The Homeless Garden Project: Harvest, Community & Compassion

In this episode of Talk of the Bay, host Janet Quinn sits down with Brian Sweeney and Omar Guzman of the Homeless Garden Project. They share how the project provides job training, community, and hope…

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Monterey Jazz Festival Memories

Each year KSQD stations its volunteers in a booth at the MJF where we get to meet lots of wonderful folks, and one character we bumped into was kind of special.  Michael Downer has been attending the…

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