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Monterey Bay Today from KAZU is your daily local news update for Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. Our local newscasts are supplemented with feature stories, interviews, and occasional in-studio performances from local musicians. For more, visit us at www.kazu.org.
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Where Are These People's Parents?!

Kazu Jumanji & Dickie Don

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People often ask if we know where our children are, but perhaps it is our parents who are unaccounted for! Grab a forty (or the stimulant of your choice), and join iconoclast social workers Kazu Jumanji and Dickie Don as they document American cultural decadence, spiritual malaise, and the erosion of our social norms and political institutions through a balanced fusion of candid ribaldry and insightful inquiry, as well as attempt to answer the essential question of our age: “Where are these ...
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Green Dreamer with kaméa chayne explores our paths to collective healing, biocultural revitalization, and true abundance and wellness *for all*. Curious to unravel the dominant narratives that stunt our imaginations and called to spark radical dreaming of what could be, we share conversations with an ever-expanding range of thought leaders — each inspiring us to deepen and broaden our awareness in their own ways. www.greendreamer.com
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The How to Train a Happy Mind podcast brings meditation to modern people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. Each week, host Scott Snibbe and his guests share powerful mind training techniques that go beyond mindfulness to harness our intelligence, emotions, and imagination. Learn how to build a happy mind, fulfilling relationships, and a better world through a secular approach to meditation that is based on modern science and psychology, yet grounded in the authentic thousand-year old Tibet ...
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ChangeMaking Connections is a monthly podcast exploring the journeys of change leaders striving for deep societal transformations. Hosted by Beth Berila, this show delves into the intricacies of sparking change, from personal evolutions to communal shifts. Here, we celebrate the challenges, triumphs, strategies, and possibilities that spring from a life dedicated to social justice. Join us in connecting with experts across various fields as we unpack the mechanisms of initiating meaningful c ...
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Welcome to 2Footsteps podcast. We tell stories about discovering new places, countries and cities. Discovering ideas and concepts. Discovering past, present and future. Discovery of the mysteries of the mind. And sometimes, its about discovering and finding yourself.
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Eiga Night

Chris & Aruba

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We are a podcast dedicated to exploring the unbridled aesthetic wonders and cultural idiosyncrasies of Japan’s national cinema. Our aim is to cover everything from the lauded classics like Ozu and Mizoguchi, to the cult favourites such as Tsukamoto and Suzuki, all the way up to the contemporary gems like Sono and Miike. Join us as we deconstruct what make Japan’s cinema unlike any other, one film at a time.
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Wider Roots

Jeremy Blanchard

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How can our social movement spaces create more opportunities for our internal transformation while we work for external change? Hosted by leadership coach Jeremy Blanchard, Wider Roots brings together wisdom teachers, coaches, and leaders who are wrestling with questions about how to bridge personal and systemic transformation. This show is for coaches, facilitators, and healers who want to explore approaches to personal growth that focus more on the well-being of the collective, instead of ...
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How does sensing into our zones of stretch, comfort, and panic help us to expand our capacities for love and nonviolence — in their more radical iterations? Where might accountability come from in a world that seems to reward behaviors that are extractive, exploitative, and narcissistic? Our latest conversation features Kazu Haga, the author of Fie…
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In this week's road show episode of Off Panel, cartoonist Kazu Kibuishi, writer Ryan North, and cartoonist Lucy Knisley join the show to talk about why they love comics so much, albeit in individual segments. Up first, Kibuishi discusses the original appeal of comics, what stood out about the medium, comic strips and picture books, his reader self …
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In today's newscast, as federal funding opportunities slip away for small-scale farmers, local conservation districts are trying to find money elsewhere—primarily, from the State of California. And, it’s Pride Week in the City of Santa Cruz.By Elena Neale-Sacks
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In today's newscast, the Santa Cruz City Council begins work on a $532 million budget, in the face of massive funding cuts from the Trump administration. Plus, bots are applying to community colleges in California—and getting in, allowing scammers to collect millions in student aid.By Scott Cohn
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Dr. Larry Ward—student of Thich Nhat Hanh and author of America's Racial Karma—leads a short but powerful breath awareness meditation. Episode 191: 5-Minute Breath Awareness Meditation From August 28 to 31, Scott Snibbe is leading an in-person meditation retreat at Vajrapani Institute. We’ll explore antidotes to anxiety, fear, and loneliness—and cu…
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Trans communities are being targeted in deeply inhumane ways in this cultural moment. How did we get here and what can we do to support trans communities? In this powerful and timely episode, Teo Drake and Alex Kapitan offer insightful context for how, when, and why the current attack on Transgender communities arose. They trouble the disinformatio…
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Scott talks with Dr. Larry Ward, a student of Thich Nhat Hanh, and author of America's Racial Karma. His book is about how we heal from the trauma of racism, not just as a society, but in our own minds and bodies. In our conversation, Dr. Ward shares a profound truth: racism is a fiction, but one with very real consequences, and it lives not only i…
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In today's newscast, the Salinas Union High School District will use a $15 million state grant to expand community schools programs such as literacy classes, trainings for parents or whatever individual schools decide would serve families. And, the Sempervirens Fund celebrates 125 years of protecting redwood forests.…
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In the landmark, hologram-covered 500th episode of Off Panel, my pal Brandon Burpee returns to the show to hand out some awards and to answer questions from friends of the podcast. We discuss favorites and surprises from the first 500 episodes, the comics that aged the best and worst from the past decade, comic book crushes, advice for our previous…
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A Monterey County Health Department spokesperson says Governor Newsom's proposal to freeze Medi-Cal benefits for undocumented immigrants would hurt 43,000 residents. And, the Salinas city council moves to repeal four new tenant protection and rent stabilization laws that took effect in January, after backlash from developers and landlords.…
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In today's newscast, California's senior Senator, Alex Padilla, D-CA, has reintroduced a bill to invest in housing solutions. And, several Monterey Bay area groups and local governments are receiving grants in the first round of a behavioral health infrastructure program funded by last year's Proposition 1.…
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Who am I? From the Buddhist perspective, there’s a systematic way of asking this question of who you are in the form of a meditation on the ultimate nature of the self, or "emptiness." This meditation is said to be the strongest antidote to our disturbing states of mind and a cause for greater self-awareness, happiness, and connection with others. …
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In 1999, Terence Unity Freitas, the partner of our guest today, along with two other Indigenous activists Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa and Lahe’ena’e Gay, were murdered in Colombia after they left the U’wa territory, where they were visiting to support the Indigenous U’wa community. Now, in one of her first interviews about her new book, Truth Deman…
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In today's newscast, multiple meetings about sections of the Coastal Rail Trail aiming to connect residents throughout Santa Cruz County are happening in Watsonville. And, California voters passed two laws to expand certain health insurance coverage plans to include in vitro fertilization and hearing aids for children. Now, the state needs approval…
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Writer/editor Alejandro Arbona joins the show to talk about his shift towards writing and his upcoming Kickstarter for his new graphic novel Lake Yellowwood Slaughter. Arbona discusses how he views himself these days, shifting how he's perceived, navigating the current publisher landscape, how he decides which projects to take on, the big things he…
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In today's newscast, an immigration lawyer who helped a Santa Cruz woman return home after being detained cautions others about travel. And, Monterey County is conducting new environmental tests nearly four months after the fire at a Moss Landing battery storage plant.By Katie Brown, Erin Malsbury
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement just released a green card holder who has lived in Santa Cruz for decades from a Washington state detention center. And, three parks in the Monterey Bay area are on the California State Parks Foundation's first "best of" list.By Elena Neale-Sacks, Katie Brown
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In this episode, Susanna shares about her new book, Ignite Your Yoga: How to Live, Practice, and Teach as an Authentic Yoga Steward. We discuss her journey in writing this book and her first one, Embrace Yoga's Roots. Yoga is a practice for self, community, and for a better world. We talk about how yoga philosophy, traditions, and practice can shap…
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Are you your body? Are you your mind? Are you a collection of thoughts, memories, and neural connections that could be uploaded into a computer to live forever? Or are you an old-fashioned soul? This episode probes the nature of the self using the Buddhist notion of emptiness, searching for the partless, independent, unchanging "I" that ordinarily …
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Writer Jonathan Hickman joins the show to talk about this phase in his career and the varying projects he's working on. Hickman discusses his love of the World Cup, the phase he finds himself in, his current reality versus his previous one, why Imperial is a focus, his project mix, whether he has to think differently because the current market, pro…
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In today's newscast, a researcher from Cal State Monterey Bay scrambles after a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant she was awarded was cancelled. And, two unions went on strike at UC Santa Cruz yesterday after the UC declared a system-wide hiring freeze.By Elena Neale-Sacks, Erin Malsbury
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The Ecuadorian government is currently planning to auction off 8.7 million acres of the Amazon rainforest to oil interests. What is at stake — for the Indigenous communities of the Amazon, for people outside of the Amazon, and for the planet — with millions of acres of lively, intact rainforest being put on the line? What can we learn from how the …
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Writer/artist Sophie Campbell joins the show to talk about her career in comics and her work on the upcoming Supergirl at DC Comics. Campbell discusses her comic origins, the SCAD experience, her evolving relationship with comics, her writer/artist lean, how Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became her for-hire home, the project she learned the most fro…
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In this heartful episode, Naomi Ortiz explores their art as a spiritual process of listening to the land, grief work, and the difference between interdependence and mutual aid. As we discuss their new book, Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice, we explore what disability justice offers the climate justice movement and what roo…
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