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November 18, 2025: Computer Man! Your Tech Questions Answered

by Luigi Oppido | Nov 18, 2025 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Education, Local, Tech, Technology, Technology, The Computer Man!

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,...

Making work, work: SSAP-UAW is back on The Sunday Dinner!

by Christine Barrington | Nov 18, 2025 | All Talk, Labor, Local, Program, Sunday Dinner

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...

Landscape Designers: In The Garden

by Joe Truskot | Nov 18, 2025 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Arts, Arts & Culture, Education, Local, Outdoors, Program, Science, Wellness

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...

Gina Castaneda – Aztecas Youth Soccer Program

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Nov 17, 2025 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, Exploring Monterey Bay, Health & Wellness, Local, Wellness

Join Exploring Monterey Bay host Mathilde Rand in conversation with Gina Castaneda, Deputy Probation Officer and the head coach of the Aztecas Youth Soccer Program. Educators know that students who are hungry have difficulties learning. Gina experienced this first...

Spiritual Elderhood with Illana Berger, PhD

by Katherine Bell | Nov 17, 2025 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Education, Health & Wellness, Katherine Bell, Program, Science, Science & Nature, Spirituality & Religion, The Dream Journal, Topics: Evergreen, Wellness

Aging through the lens of night dreams, living dreams, and earth dreams. Dr. Illana Berger guides seekers through life's initiations through Zen practice, Indigenous wisdom, dreams, and soul-centered transformation. Dr Berger starts out by speaking about koans and how...

FirstPersonSingular: Bahia Brunelle – Majestic Monarch

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Nov 17, 2025 | All Talk, First Person Singular, Local, Outdoors, Science

Bahia Brunelle shares what she learned about monarchs and takes the next step.

The Tower of Song Presents “Samhain /All Hallows’ Eve & Its Festival Season, pt. 4”

by Gypsy Scholar | Nov 16, 2025 | All Music, The Tower of Song

Update: "The Samhain Festival Season & The Dark Goddess" musical essay is now available for listening on the “Archived Musical Essays” webpage, along with the playlist on the “Program Playlists” page, of the Tower of Song website at revradiotowerofsong.com Tune in...

Todd Snider Tribute on KSQD’s Coast Ridge Ramble 11-16

by Rachel Goodman | Nov 16, 2025 | All Music, Americana, Coast Ridge Ramble

Todd Snider passed away on Friday, 11/14. We will play some of his beloved songs in honor of his passing. The show is 1-3pm on 11/16, and will be available in our two-week archive starting 11/17.

Coming Attraction: Mythbusting the Rail and Trail Project of Santa Cruz County

by Meilin Obinata | Nov 15, 2025 | All Talk, Local, Program, Talk of the Bay

Are you confused and irritated by conflicting information about the future passenger rail in Santa Cruz County? Or maybe you have no idea what is going on? KSQD is here to help, with a show on Monday, November 17, at 5PM. On Talk of the Bay, with host Meilin Obinata,...

The Tower of Song Presents “Samhain /All Hallows’ Eve & Its Festival Season, pt. 3”

by Gypsy Scholar | Nov 14, 2025 | All Music, The Tower of Song

Update: The extended broadcast of part 3 of the Gypsy Scholar’s Orphic Essay-with-Soundtrack series for the Celtic/Neopagan festival of Samhain, entitled “Samhain /All Hallows’ Eve & Its Festival Season” (broadcast 11/10/25), is now available for listening on the...

California’s Insurance Crisis, Part III

by Rachel Goodman | Nov 14, 2025 | All Talk, Business, Local, Politics, Program, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay

Rachel Anne Goodman interviews Deputy Insurance Commissioner, Michael Soller about the crisis in home insurance in fire-prone areas, including Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. A recent New York Times article revealed some alarming details about the way the new...

Max Reger Profiled on Music of the Masters

by Joe Truskot | Nov 14, 2025 | All Music, Classical, Program

Host Joe Truskot airs music from this great, but rately heard composer from the late 19th and early 20th century. Tune in 6 to 9 a.m., Saturday, November 15, 2025. Hear his fabulous Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, and also Mozart's great Piano Sonata No.11...

Oh, San Francisco, Where Art Thou?

by Ami Chen Mills | Nov 14, 2025 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Local, Moment of Truth, Politics, Politics & Activism, Technology, Topics: Evergreen

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...

FirstPersonSingular: Unhae Langis – Quilt

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Nov 13, 2025 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, First Person Singular, Local, Wellness

Unhae Langis turns to quilting in her activist life. The quilts will be exhibited some time next year at the Resource Center for Non-Violence, 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz. They can also be viewed online at Quilt Project: Babies Who Never Made It to Their First...