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The Path to an Energy Efficient, Electric Future with Amory Lovins on Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 8th, 2026, 5-6 PM Energy has been with us for a long time and, over the past 100 years, fossil fuels have been cheap and plentiful.  Now we are going to have to pay the piper if we want to limit the future impacts of climate change.  How could that happen.  Tune in to hear a rerun with Amory...

Every few years, a mesmerizing, intricate, handcrafted piece of cinema from Laika Studios graces the silver screen and whisks audiences away on a wondrous journey. From director Travis Knight, plus hundreds of pairs of animators’ hands, comes the stop-motion animated film Wildwood. Based on the children’s novel by the same name, the story follows Prue McKeel on the quest to get her baby brother ba...

November is Transgender Awareness Month.  Our guest host is Adam Spickler, the first out elected transgender person who serves on the Cabrillo College Board of Trustees. Our other transgender guests are Evan Minton who is the Policy Analyst for Senator Maria Elena Durazo in Sacramento and Josh Sands who has lived in Santa Cruz for more than 20 years and remembers working at the first Diversity Cen...

What do you do when you want to weave yourself a new reality to escape the one you no longer want? In Wicker, a fabulist feature written and directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, you visit the village weaver who holds hitherto unknown magic in his craft. Based on the short story “The Wicker Husband” by Ursula Wills, Wicker depicts a dynamic we all recognize–it typically s...

Episode 96: ADHD in girls and women can be easy to miss, especially because symptoms often don’t match the familiar stereotype of a hyperactive or disruptive child. Many girls appear to be doing well while working extremely hard to compensate for difficulties that remain largely unseen. In this episode, UC Berkeley student and  State of Mind  team member  Evelyn Campbell  guest hosts a conversatio...

As the veil between the physical world and spirit world begins to lift, listen in as DJ Dupsie and Local Awesome Person, Christina Audas attempt to consult with spirits and ancestors via  The Gentle Tarot (by Mariza Aparicio-Tovar)   and The Rest Deck (by Tricia Hersey) ! 

In her work in the Second Wave feminist movement, historian Ruth Rosen experienced a lot of revelations about the lives of women. But once that time was past, she experienced a different type of revelation as male historians described the 70s as “a decade when nothing of importance happened.” Ruth set out to research and chronicle the groundbreaking history that she had lived, and that...

Sheriffs from both Monterey County and Santa Cruz County were the guests on the show.  Monterey County Sheriff Tina Nieto was elected as sheriff in 2022 and was the first Latina elected as a Sheriff in California and the first woman and openly LGBTQ+ person elected in Monterey County. She has over 33 years of experience in law enforcement.  Santa Cruz County Sheriff Chris Clark was appointed as in...

The Spark Community Utility: A City-Led Path to Clean, Resilient, Affordable Energy with Bob Krause On Sustainability Now! Sunday, October 25th, 2026, from 5-6 PM Electricity prices in California are on the rise and they are forecast to go much, much higher in the future.  Climate change is wreaking havoc across the world even as we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than ever b...

Mark Zuckerberg is in Aaron Sorkin’s crosshairs once again with The Social Reckoning. This time Sorkin both writes and directs, and the result is a thrilling drama with dynamics reminiscent of great American cinematic tales where a little people’s hero triumphs over the forces of darkness, ultimately testifying on capital hill. The hero of this story is data scientist turned whistle-blower Frances...

“You Can See Everything” is a film that opened to sold out theaters across the nation on its very first weekend. Beware of universal quantifiers, like seeing everything, or as in “I have never told a lie” which phrase coming from the mouth of Elizabeth Holmes inspired universal laughter in the audience. This so-called documentary about Elizabeth Holmes filmed during the last month of her freedom b...

Suzanne Gravelle has had, and still has a very active life.  Her family goes back a long way in the Monterey Bay area; one of her ancestors setted in Soquel in the late 19th century. Suzanne is a food and baking expert and enjoys baking and sharing recepies with friends and associates.  She’s owned and run several restaurant-bakeries, including one in the Carmel Valley.  Suzanne owns a free...

Don Coolman takes his time.

Putting Democracy in Your Hands: The Digital Democracy Project “Be Bold America!”  October 16 2026 at 5:00pm (PT) Putting democracy into your hands. That’s what the Digital Democracy Project is doing and building nationwide. The project allows registered voters to tell their legislators how to vote on hundreds of bills being debated. Then, real-time results are provided to legislators...

had higher expectations for Other Mommy, directed by Rob Savage and written by Nathan Elston, than the film ultimately delivered. Given the cast, which includes Academy Award-winning actress Jessica Chastain and filmmaker and actor Jay Duplass, this film was disappointing, to say the least. The premise is that an entity worms her way into a family, targeting Bela, a precocious eight-year-old girl...

Oftentimes when movie plots are derived from books some of what made the book so intriguing gets lost in translation, and that is the case with Verity, the film based on the popular novel by Colleen Hoover. Directed by Michael Showalter and adapted by Nick Antosca, Verity stars Anne Hathaway as Verity Crawford, a successful mystery novelist whose characters tend to be evil and unredeemable. Verity...

October is LGBTQ+ History month and we are learning about the LGBTQ+ history archives that exist in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties.  David Reichard co-founded the Monterey County LGBTQ History Project and archives now available at the CSU Monterey Bay library when he was a professor there. Rob Darrow has been involved in sustaining the LGBTQ+ archives at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cr...

Primetime , directed by Lance Oppenheim and distributed by A24, invites a deeper look into performative morality and what those in the entertainment industry will do for ratings. Based on the 2007 Esquire article Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die by Luke Dittrich, the film follows the production of the reality television series To Catch a Predator . Chris Hansen, played by Robert Pattinson, do...

The Christian Fixation on Political Power “Be Bold America!” Aired October 2, 2026 at 5:00pm (PT)   Christian fixation with political power is the theological emergency of our time. – Dr. Matthew D. Taylor In this interview, Dr. Matthew D. Taylor traces the origins of Christian supremacy. Jesus directed his followers away from the race for power , but somewhere along the way, many Christians turne...

Episode 95: Eating disorders can be frightening, isolating, and hard to recognize — and they often appear in teens who seem successful, high-achieving, athletic, social, or “fine” on the outside. In this episode of  State of Mind , student leader and mental health advocate  Sophia Krish  guest hosts a conversation shaped especially for teens, young adults, families, educators, and anyone who cares...

Visit BABBLERY.com for the full podcast stream, more information, transcript, and links. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • YouTube • Spotify  • Amazon • TuneIn In this emotional and engaging interview, jazz violinist Nora Germain speaks of her drive to achieve in an industry shaken to the core by new technology. Without a traditional agent or label, she uses social media as her public relations firm. Sh...

Fire and Ice on the Roof of the World With Jonathan Mingle Independent journalist & science writer Sustainability Now! Sunday, 5-6 PM, September 27th, 2026 We’ve all heard about the terrible Himalayan flash flood that traveled nearly 100 km down the Lende Kholā and Trishuli̇̄ Kholā rivers on the Nepal-Chinese border, devastating towns and villages along the way, killing at least 1,250 people a...

Laurie Corn searches for the way home again.

Local band Quail X-ing keeps DJ Dupsie’s 2nd Annual Summer Music Series going into September! Listen to their story and their music; become the next Quail X-ing fan! IG:  @quailxingmusic YouTube: @QuailXingSC

Hear the coming out story and rise to fame of Kristin Key, a nationally touring queer musical comedian who performed to a sold out crowd at Santa Cruz Shakespeare on September 21. She is known for her high-energy performances, guitar-driven humor, and her viral “Lesbian Army” comedy. Kristin joined the Pride Perspectives show to share about her life and her journey as a lesbian comedia...