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The ABCs of California Native Bees with Krystle Hickman, Conservation Photographer and National Geographic Explorer on Sustainability Now!  Sunday, November 23rd, 2025, 5-6 PM If you venture out into parks, farms and gardens with various flowering species, you are almost sure to see European honeybees flying about.  When we think of bees, those are the […]

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: KSQD Website Updates, Local updates and internet outages, Flock license plate cameras, Microsoft prioritizes AI over stability, Email questions and more!

The Student Services and Advising Professionals Union (SSAP-UAW one of the newest labor unions in the University of California system) is back, as promised, to dish more about their professional journeys, our relationship to the concept of “work”, and the need for staff and faculty to join together to advocate for their livelihoods and dignified […]

Steven E. Popp, Martin Quigley, and Joe Truskot provide detailed advice on working with landscape architects, designers, and maintenance workers. Cost-saving advice on how to interview, select, contract, and establish a long-term relationship to achieve your Garden of Eden. These three experienced horticulturalists share their extensive knowledge of plants and garden designs.

Intrepid citizen journalists and campaign finance researchers have been tracking the rise of the tech-billionaire version of everyone’s favorite city by the Bay. With the election of new Mayor Daniel Lurie (heir to the Levi Strauss fortune) and the narrow defeat of progressive Supervisor Dean Preston, what do San Francisco politics portend for other Bay […]

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: Flock “Safety” cameras in our area, Hear from our callers, Email questions and more!

The Omnivore’s Deception What We get wrong about meat, animals and ourselves  With Professor John Sabonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute On Sustainability Now!  Sunday, November 9th, 5-6 PM Millions of Americans see themselves as “conflicted omnivores,” worrying about the ethical and environmental implications of their choice to eat animals. Yet their attempts to justify their cho...

Humanities intern Daymia Rousseau has this look at how AI is impacting students and professors at UCSC.

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 lock/unlock your EBT card with EBT edge, AI woes, MacOS Tahoe will be the FINAL MacOS that supports intel based Macs, Email questions and more!

Hear two out and proud religious leaders in Santa Cruz County discuss their inclusive churches.

Students in Santa Cruz County discuss how LGBTQ+ history (FAIR Ed Act) and LGBTQ+ inclusive sexual health (Ca Healthy Youth Act) is taught in their schools.

This podcast was originally broadcast on Monday, Oct. 20, at 6pm for a Moment of Truth show featuring guests who share a critical, “neo-Luddite” perspective on our changing culture and technology. Moment of Truth and Hard Left News collaborated on this episode, which is Part 2 of a conversation between hosts Todd Zimmerman and Meilin […]

October is Queer and Trans History Month and Oct. 11-18 is National Coming Out Day/Week (NCOD). In this episode of Sunday Dinner DJ Dupsie speaks with delfin, Sam, and Becca from the Lionel Cantú Queer Center at UC Santa Cruz about what NCOD means to us, the victories and challenges of visibility, and the importance […]

Episode 84: Psychosis is more common than most realize—affecting up to 3 in 100 people in the U.S.—and early treatment not only improves recovery but also reduces negative impacts on the brain and leads to better outcomes. In this remixed episode, host Debra Sloss talks with Dr. Jennifer Davis, psychiatrist, Tim Beveridge and Kenah Roberts about understanding and recovering from psychotic symptoms...

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: Facebook, Macbook batteries, a caller, Current events & scams, Chat GPT, AI only knows as much as it’s fed, Email questions and more!

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 Population Bomb in 1968, we heard warnings that humanity would be doomed to a future of famine, hunger and starvation unless industrial agriculture were unleashed […]

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: Learn what’s going on in the lives of TEN CALLERS, wow! Email questions and more!

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. Moment of Truth and Hard Left News collaborated on this episode, which is Part 1 of a conversation between hosts Todd Zimmerman and Meilin […]

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 from the Computer History Museum joins us the first half, chatting about the creator of Siri, the AI bubble, then Discord breach, Email questions and more!

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, Jason Riddle, was in the midst of that crowd, a loyal MAGA supporter and what many […]

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 University of California system. Then in the second course Mia and Zuri from the People of Color Sustainability Collective of UC […]

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: VPNs, KSQD’s Pledge Drive this week!, a caller, Windows 10 extended service updates, Email questions and more!

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 professional company that nurtures and develops local talent with a passion for the creative process and the desire for high-level artistic experiences. The Western’s Stage […]

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 their progeny grew up listening to and singing his compelling compositions: easy to remember, easy to […]

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 mislead us. Amanda offers tips for navigating digital misinformation, and storyteller John A. Jacobs reflects on how creative expression has shaped his life. It leaves listeners with the question: What stor...