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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: SD cards disappearing, Israel owns multiple VPNs, Microsoft forces free Windows 10 updates in Europe, Digital ID purchasing TikTok, Email questions and more!

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 fest helps us reflect that being able to find the funny in these furious times is not only fun, it might also […]

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 Monterey Jazz Fest for 60 years. I grabbed a moment with him while he sat with friends that […]

Conserving California’s Lands and Coastal Waters: A Progress Report with Meghan Hertel, Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency In October 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-82-20 which establishes a state goal of conserving 30% of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030 – known as 30×30. The 30×30 goal […]

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: AI, The Computer History Museum, multiple callers, emails and more!

Aziz Abu Sarah is a Palestinian peace-builder, co-founder of InterAct International, author and mission-driven entrepreneur whose personal story of transformation began after the tragic loss of his older brother, who was murdered by Israeli soldiers. Sarah’s story intertwines with that of another victim of regional violence, Jewish Israeli Maoz Inon, who lost both his parents […]

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: META’s AI Glasses and facial recognition: what scams are coming?, VPNs,  Email questions and more!

What’s Happening with Climate Law across the World, the United States and California? with Professor Alice Kaswan, University of San Francisco School of Law What’s up with climate change and climate law?  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is going to cancel the “endangerment finding” of 2009 that provided the legal basis […]

Jean  Pirano (84) is a quiet, but  consistent activist,  a “slack-tivist,” as she says with a big smile. Pirano came to Santa Cruz in the late-1960’s, worked for the Grey Bears managing their warehouse, and became a card-carrying member of the Santa Cruz Communist Party. Jean is so old, she says, that she walked out […]

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: Scary tech coming out, Blocking Facebook, ChatGPT, Upgrade Windows 11 for $30, Email questions and more!

In The Garden, KSQD’s weekly garden show, airs a conversation from February 8, 2025, with Dave Blume of Whiskey Hill Experimental and Educational Farm. Dave’s energy is infectious, and his nontraditional agricultural methods are jaw-dropping and inspirational; 9 to 10 a.m., Saturday, September 6, 2025, Hosted by Steven E. Popp and Joe Truskot with Dr. […]

    This show broadcasted live on Labor Day of 2025, the first day of Omar Dieguez‘s 30-day hunger strike to end the spraying of pesticides near Watsonville area schools. MOT host Ami Chen Mills and Dieguez are joined by Providencia Martinez Alaniz, who also announced her hunger strike with Omar in this Moment of […]

Episode 82: Guest host Patrice Vecchione explores the mental health challenges of living with a terminal illness. Featuring the late Megan Myers’s moving story, insights from palliative care physician Dr. John Hausdorff, and reflections from Kevin Christine Kennedy, who is now nearing the end of her life. Together, they share how people face loss while also finding courage, hope, and meaning at li...

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: Listen to what’s going on in the lives of SIX CALLERS. Wow! Can The Computer Man help them out?

Save the Valley Dragons! Restoring the Blunt-Notes Leopard Lizard to the San Joaquin Desert with Dr. Michael Telemeco & Dr. Michael Westphal On Sustainability Now!  Sunday, August 31st, 5-6 PM Who knew there was a desert in the San Joaquin Valley inhabited by the “valley dragon,” aka, the “blunt-nosed leopard lizard.”  The lizards have disappeared […]

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: Chrome VPN Extension malicious, DREAM hacking for advertising, Trump’s Fake iPhone is now Samsung S25, Help caller decide what new computer to get, Email questions and more!

    On Monday, August 11, roughly 18 San Francisco Bay Area rabbis and cantors sat down in the street after speaking in front of the barricaded Israeli Consulate building, in opposition to Netanyahu’s plan to re-occupy the Gaza Strip and to express dismay at the unrelieved starvation and suffering of the people of Gaza […]

How have Christians–going back to Columbus–used religion, and especially the Book of Revelation, to frame migration and immigration both by colonists (to justify colonization and genocide) and by subsequent U.S. political leaders to exclude others who were not white and European? How does this continue to this very day? In this episode, Ami Chen Mills […]

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: Follow the journey of one of our callers and their VPN issues, Email questions and more!

You can’t be well informed unless you are informed well! Join hosts Erik Nelson and Tony Russomanno as they unpack the week that was, on this Aug. 16, 2025 “FIVE YEARS ON” edition of What A Week!   Christine Barrington is always adding to her list of resources for individual action in the time of […]

What’s In Those Plastics, Anyway? with Professor Susannah Scott, Chemistry, UC Santa Barbara The world is awash in plastic. According to a study published in 2020, total production of plastics since 1950 is now over 10 billion tons, with more than half of that simply discarded.  And the production of plastics will only increase in […]

Amy McElroy speaks of a time when her voice was not heard. Photo courtesy of Polina Kovaleva.

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 License plate readers, Phone scams, Microsoft kills LensPDF scanner app, iPhone 17 event September 9th, Email questions and more!

In square miles Santa Cruz County is the second smallest in California, but in hiking and mountain biking trail miles Santa Cruz County is a giant. And, this month these miles will increase in number due to a collaboration between the Bureau of Land Management, Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship, and the local community. After […]

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 License Plate Readers (and how the SUCK), Bluetooth hacking, Windows Recall, IRS Direct File is GONE, Hear from our callers, Email questions and more!