Long Beach Current Podcasts

In Season 2 Episode 9 of Teed Up, the hosts Naoki Gima and Matthew Gomez talk about the latest news in Long Beach State sports as well as some of the big headlines in professional sports. Following the victory of the Long Beach State women's soccer team against Hawaii on Thursday, Oct. 26, the women's team will begin the first round of the Big West Conference tournament against the Univers...

In this episode of Artist Banter, host Julia Goldman and co-host El Nicklin sit down with parent, artist and MFA photography student sea Krob in their photography studio. The three discuss the themes of parenting, disability and grief related to sea's identity and how these experiences have transformed into conversations of intergenerational inclusion in art and the visibility of chronic illne...

In Season 2 Episode 8 of Teed Up, the hosts Naoki Gima and Matthew Gomez review some of the stats from the most recent matchups in Beach sports as well as some of the recent headlines in the world of professional sports. Following some of the recent performances in conference play from women's volleyball and soccer, the hosts discuss some of the big storylines from those games and what those r...

In season 11, episode 10 of Beach Weekly, host Lei Madrigal discusses a tentative agreement for California State University employees, President Biden’s visit to Israel and more. The California State University Employees Union reached a tentative agreement  on Oct. 11 with the CSU Chancellor’s Office to implement a “salary step” program for employees. Union members still have to vote to approve th...

In season 3, episode 4 of Artist Banter, host Julia Goldman sits down with theatre arts student and playwright, Lucy Brown. The two discuss experiences in the performing arts world and Brown's journey with her original one-act comedy, "Straight Play," which recently ran on the CSULB campus. This episode of Artist Banter is released in accordance with the Daily49er's OUTober issue...

In Season 2 Episode 7 of Teed Up, the hosts Matthew Gomez and Naoki Gima go over recent results in Beach sports and discuss some of the major headlines in professional sports. Following the recent results from women's soccer and volleyball, Naoki and Matthew discuss some of the big performances from both teams. They also get into some of the weird statistics that are kept in professional and c...

In season 11, episode 9 of Beach Weekly, host Lei Madrigal discusses last week’s on-campus ‘Protest for Palestine,’ ASI’s decision not to raise a Pride flag for OUTober and more. The Parking and Transportation Department at Long Beach State extensively upgraded its free campus shuttle tracking system with a new app called Passio GO. Passio GO provides precise GPS shuttle tracking, time estimates f...

For the special OUTober episode of Teed Up, the hosts Naoki Gima and Matthew Gomez sit down and talk to new women's basketball Head Coach Amy Wright and her journey as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Women's basketball Head Coach, Amy Wright, takes the hosts through her journey as a collegiate player, coach and member of the LGBTQ+ community. Coach Wright highlights her struggle with bei...

In season 3, episode 3 of Artist Banter host Julia Goldman talks with vocalist and jazz performer Veronica Swift. The two dive into the formation of Veronica's new album and discuss her journey in the music industry. In this episode of Artist Banter, host Julia Goldman meets with vocalist and jazz performer Veronica Swift from Charlottesville, Tennessee. The two discuss Swift's musical roo...

In Season 2 Episode 6 of Teed Up, the hosts Naoki Gima and Matthew Gomez bring in guests Emmanuel Barrera and Kevin Fernandez to talk about Long Beach State Sports and the MLB playoffs. Following The Beach's upset of Hawaii in women's volleyball, the hosts go in-depth on some of the important pieces of the volleyball squad. Barrera, who interns for the athletics department, also gave his o...

In season 11, episode 8 of Beach Weekly, host Lei Madrigal covers the reopening of the Beach Hut convenience store on campus, “rainbow capitalism” and more. The Beach Hut convenience store on campus is now reopened after a three-year temporary closure and has implemented  Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology . Guests enter the Beach Hut by swiping their card or using their phone’s tap-to-pay, which a...

In Season 2 Episode 5 of Teed Up, the hosts Naoki Gima and Matthew Gomez bring in guests Davis Ramage and Matthew Coleman to talk about Long Beach State sports and American football. The National Football League and the college football season is in its early stages and the guys talk about some of the big headlines that have developed so far this season. The Damian Lillard trade shocked the sports...

Listen to season 11, episode 7 of Beach Weekly as Lei Madrigal gives a spotlight to OUTober’s LGBTQ+ themes by discussing California’s Transgender History Month, the new LGBTQ+ district in Long Beach and more. The Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum on campus is displaying a new fine art exhibition called “Drag Show”  which focuses on the LGBTQ+ experience in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. The...

In season 3, episode 2 of Artist Banter host Julia Goldman sits down with pre-industrial design student Angel Hernandez. The two examine the field of industrial design and discuss the inspiration of Hernandez's creative works. In this episode of Artist Banter, host Julia Goldman meets with transfer and pre-industrial design student Angel Hernandez. The two discuss the inspiration and process o...

In Season 2 Episode 4 of Teed Up, the hosts Naoki Gima and Matthew Gomez get an exclusive interview with Long Beach State's new Executive Director of Athletics Bobby Smitheran to talk about his career journey and his experience at the Beach so far. Beach sports saw some dominant showings from women's soccer and women's volleyball this past week. The hosts talk about the soccer team&#39...

Tune into season 11, episode 6 of Beach Weekly as Lei Madrigal discusses new research on magic mushrooms, India’s potential name change and more. The Parking and Transportation Services department at Long Beach State is updating its GPS tracking system for on-campus shuttles on the Ride Systems app to give passengers a more accurate live tracking of shuttles. New studies on psilocybin, commonly kn...

In Season 2 Episode 3 of Teed Up, the hosts Naoki Gima and Matthew Gomez bring on spotlight guests Zach Durham and Anthony Orrico to talk about some of the big headlines at Long Beach State and beyond. As the Major League Baseball season hits its final weeks and games, the hosts discuss some of the biggest narratives and headlines going into the home stretch. Ohtani's free agency, postseason p...

Check out season 11, episode 5 of Beach Weekly as host Lei Madrigal covers the official CSU tuition increase, psychological services on campus, catastrophic floods in Libya and more. The Counseling and Psychological Services department on campus, also known as  CAPS , offers free mental health help to all enrolled students. Students can meet with a counselor through one-on-one sessions, group sess...

In season 3, episode 1 of Artist Banter, host Julia Goldman chats with the first guest of the season, pre-graphic design student Julie Gallo. The two discuss Gallo's experiences at the intersection of parenting, college and art. In the premiere episode of Artist Banter's third season, host Julia Goldman meets with transfer student, mom, and artist Julie Gallo of Long Beach State. From her...

In season 2, episode 2 of Teed Up, the hosts Naoki Gima, Matthew Gomez, Maya-Claire Glenn and Maher Basharahil get together and talk about the headlines in the realm of sports both at Long Beach State and in the professional world. On the Beach side of sports, the hosts talk about Cherrie Cox's return from injury and the tough loss against UCLA. The hosts also talk about the first-place victor...

Listen to season 11, episode 4 of Beach Weekly as the host, Lei Madrigal, talks about students regaining graduation privileges, an uptick in nationwide COVID cases and more. Having written an article about  the temporary closure of the Child and Family Center on campus for renovations , Sam Farfán, the Daily Forty-Niner’s community engagement editor, joined the show for an interview about the topi...

In the Season 2 premiere of Teed Up, the hosts Naoki Gima, Matthew Gomez, Maher Basharahil and Kevin Fernandez get together for the first time this semester and talk about the headlines in the realm of sports both at Long Beach State and in the professional world. On the Beach side, the guys talk about women's volleyball's huge season-opening upset over the reigning national champions the...

Season 11, episode 3 of Beach Weekly covers an on-campus power outage, last week’s tuition protest and the largest crowd to ever attend a women’s sporting event. An unplanned power outage caused disruptions last Tuesday, August 29. Evening classes were canceled and on-campus facilities like the library, rec center, student union, and more stopped operations for the remainder of the day. The outage...

Listen to this week’s episode of Beach Weekly to learn more about Hurricane Hilary’s effect on Long Beach, the latest moon landing and a relatively new and untapped source of renewable energy. Long Beach State’s biannual Week of Welcome events are this Tuesday and Wednesday. Events take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Central Quad where clubs and departments on campus set up tents to showcase...

In the first episode of Beach Weekly’s eleventh season, Lei Madrigal welcomes new and returning students to Long Beach State with campus updates. The Back to the Beach events will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Student Union Southwest Terrace where students can learn more about services and programs on campus. Tuesday also marks this semester’s first weekly Farmer’...