Calling All Earthworkers! Summer Music Sunset Songs celebrate the 1st annual Earthworkers Summit
This month DJ Dupsie brings back two former guests, Sheyna Burns and Christina Audas. Sheyna Burns dishes with us about the 1st Annual California Earthworkers Summit happening Sept. 11-12, 2025 at the University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology Farm....
SUNDay – Pauline Seales and Roland Saher
Join host Mathilde Rand in conversation with Pauline Seales and Roland Saher of the Santa Cruz Climate Action Network. All around the country communities are organizing actives for SUNDay. On September 21, both Santa Cruz and Monterey are scheduling activities that...
Soul Reconciliation with Amy Jo Ellis and the Court of Atonement
Can't see your way through a difficult situation? Try asking all Souls concerned to discuss issues until they understand why things happened, because once the Soul understands, forgiveness takes place. Today we speak with Amy Jo Ellis, founder of the Court of...
Listening to Children: In Conversation with Linguist Eve Clark
Dr. Eve V. Clark has spent a career in academia pursuing one seemingly simple question: How do children learn to talk? The theory in vogue at the beginning of her career was advanced by Noam Chomsky, whose theory of Universal Grammar was all the rage amongst...
FirstPersonSingular: Meade Fischer – Foolish
Meade Fischer tells us how Not to be the fool. Photo courtesy of Dave Garcia
Agrippina by Handel
A tale of deceit, treachery, and political ambition, which successfully uses unearned praise and hidden lust as a means to defeat rivals and gain public esteem. Oh, it's been going on for a long time. John Eliot Gardiner conducts the English Baroque Soloists with...
Local Rabbis Try to Get Arrested for Gaza
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...
LAST EXIT TO “MURDERLAND” WITH CAROLINE FRASER
Where is “Murderland"? The Pacific Northwest during the late 60’s and early 70’s, when serial killers like Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer turned the landscape into a secret graveyard. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser has written THE book on these...
Immigration and the Apocalypse
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...
The Tower of Song Presents “Lughnasadh/Lammas 2025, Part 3″
Update: The third and final installment of this Orphic Essay-with-Soundtrack series “Lughnasadh/Lammas” (broadcast 8/18/25) is now available for listening on the “Archived Musical Essays” webpage, along with the corresponding playlist on the “Program Playlists”...
Stories from UCSC Students’ Journey to Ireland
This summer, I taught 25 UC Santa Cruz students podcasting. They'd never tried anything like it, but dove in feet first. The assignment was to come up with a topic about a local cultural practice or person, and produce a 7-8 minute audio story as a group. Here we hear...
FirstPersonSingular: Brad Kava – Woodstock
Brad Kava was one of half million strong. Photo courtesy of Eneida Nieves.
FirstPersonSingular: Sally Munroe – Chickens
Sally Munroe remembers the chickens who years ago came to the rescue.
August 19, 2025: Computer Man! Your Tech Questions Answered
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...
Dreaming Helps Integrate Psychedelic Experience with Adam Miezio
Can dreaming help us integrate psychedelic experiences? How dreams and visions can both take us to the boundaries of consciousness. Today’s guest Adam Miezio talks about how dreams and psychedelics both access the unconscious and that taking powerful psychedelics can...
