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Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to Luigi@PleasurePointComputers.com Scams of the week! Topics covered: How to check AmazonPrime for unwanted subscriptions, Apple Lawsuits, Intel moving to GPUs, Discord facing ID backlash, Hear from our callers, Email questions and more!

Kristen Brown, Executive Director for the Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce and Sharon Papo, the CEO of LGBTQ eLearning discuss the importance of inclusivity in business.

The Last American President: A Broken Man, A Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink  “Be Bold America!”  February 6, 2026 at 5:00pm (PT) It began with something far more insidious. It began with a smile. ~ Thom Hartmann Democracy is dying. And we handed the killer the weapon. The countdown has begun. As […]

Karen Ehrlich finds meaning in her next Libra birthday. Photo courtesy of Monstera.

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to Luigi@PleasurePointComputers.com Scams of the week! Topics covered: Bots make up over 50% global internet traffic, Ransomware on Big Companies, Call of Duty and Micro-transactions, Hear from a caller, Email questions and more!

Song Sung Blue, written and directed by Craig Brewer is based on the 2008 documentary of the same name by Greg Kohs, follows the lives of Lightning and Thunder—Mike and Claire Sardina—a couple from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as they pursue their dream of bringing happiness and joy to others through music in the mid-1990s. It has […]

We all have to eat, and we all love to eat good food, so KSQD is thrilled to bring you our first foodie program featuring the brilliance and deep epicureal knowledge of our region from the creators of Edible Monterey Bay magazine. We’ll be sitting down to discuss great restaurants, great recipes, and the amazing […]

Parents share information with parents about how to respond when your child comes out.

Episode 87: Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is one of the most misunderstood mental health diagnoses. In this remixed episode, Dr. Alisa Brady and guest Clay Whitten—who lives with DID—offer an inside look at the condition that separates myth from reality. The conversation explores how DID develops, the challenges of misdiagnosis, and how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy can support heal...

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to Luigi@PleasurePointComputers.com Scams of the week! Topics covered: Nyanko chats AI and Ram prices, TikTok blocks Epstein/anti-Trump vids, Microsoft will give FBI your data encryption key, Hear from our callers, Email questions and more!

Bugonia is a dark comedy with splashes of horror and science fiction, and it leans fully into its own strangeness. It is based on a South Korean film, Save the Green Planet! The blend of genres can feel chaotic, but that unpredictability is part of its charm. Emma Stone reunites with Yorgos Lanthimos to explore […]

To kick off our next trip around the sun, Cheryl Williams-Founding Director of Santa Cruz Black, is back at KSQD and on the Sunday Dinner! Listen to Cheryl and host DJ Dupsie discuss personal stories about The Black Experience and the organization Santa Cruz Black!  For more info and to donate to Santa Cruz Black […]

Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of the Fierce Vulnerability Network, a founding core member of the Ahimsa Collective, a Jam facilitator and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm and Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse. His work weaves together […]

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to Luigi@PleasurePointComputers.com Scams of the week! Topics covered: Hear from our callers, Bezos says quiet part out loud, Ram prices rise due to imaginary market, FamilyTreeNow.com and your user data, Email questions and more!

One of your Squids on the Street, Suki Wessling, caught up with locals at the Martin Luther King, Jr. parade and rally to find out which of King’s words or deeds especially resonate with them during these difficult time.

Plutonium Pit Production–The Risks and Costs of US Plans to Build New Nuclear Weapons with Dr. Dylan K. Spaulding of the Union of Concerned Scientists On Sustainability Now!  Sunday, January 18th, 2026, 5-6 PM on KSQD Nuclear weapons have been with us for 80 years.  There are fewer today than was the case at the […]

Ami Chen Mills hosts an in-depth conversation with two, beloved, local spiritual leaders, the Reverend Deborah Johnson, of Inner Light Ministries, and the Reverend Elisha Christopher, of the Center for Spiritual Living–both of whom lead congregations here in Santa Cruz County and beyond. How do we respond to outer chaos, violence and attacks on human […]

Hello, I’m Daymia Rousseau, a UCSC Intern reporting for KSQD. In 2023, Santa Cruz county experienced one of the worst storms in the city’s history. In cities like Capitola, streets were flooded , waves crashed into various businesses, and the wharf was destroyed. Meteorologists called it a bomb cyclone with lots of rain and wind. […]

The Computer Man Show Flock Edition hosted by Luigi Oppido with special guest Nyanko. This special episode captures a fast-moving, in-the-moment discussion of the Santa Cruz City Council’s decisive vote to cancel its contract with Flock Safety surveillance cameras. The conversation breaks down what happened at the meeting, why public testimony overwhelmingly opposed the technology, […]

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to Luigi@PleasurePointComputers.com Scams of the week! Topics covered: Nyanko joins us for Flock camera City Council Meeting updates, Instagram Data Leak, Dell CEO at CES, AI at Amazon, Hear from our callers, Email questions and more!

Tyller Williamson and Elaine Johnson are leaders in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties. Tyller is Mayor of the City of Monterey and Elaine is the Executive Director of Housing Santa Cruz County and president of the local NAACP. Hear how their identity informs their work.

Your Squid on the Street, Suki Wessling, caught up with Kelly Menehan and Faye Johnson of Indivisible to talk a little bit about the rally and their organization at the January 2026 Get ICE out for Good Rally in Santa Cruz.

Your Squid on the Street interviews rally-goers at the corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz about their reasons for attending the rally on January 11, 2026.

The late Olga Cossi hopes that boys will be men. Photo courtesy of Vika Glitter.

Housemaid Film Review by Molly Sullivan Housemaid, the thriller based on the bestselling novel by Freda McFadden and directed by Paul Feig, is entertaining, slightly cheesy fun—with more plot twists than a pretzel. McFadden is known for mysteries that make you think you’ve figured everything out, only to reveal that nothing is quite as it […]