Unpacked In Santa Cruz

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Episode 96: Bobby Ladesma: What Do We Owe The Places That Made Us And How Do We Interpret What’s Next?

September 24, 2026

Santa Cruz can feel like paradise and pressure at the same time. I’m sitting down with Bob Ledesma, a longtime Santa Cruz surfboard shaper who has watched the town transform from a place where surfers were outsiders to a place everyone wants to claim. We talk honestly about that weird mix of love and concern: the world-class coastline, the daily ritual of checking the ocean, and the reality that it is getting harder and harder to survive here, let alone own a piece of it.Bob takes us into the...

Episode 95: Joe Schirmer: Where Politics Meets Policy Around The Dinner Table, And How A “Pulling Up Your Bootstraps” Mentality Says Nothing To Our Realities Around The Food We Eat

September 10, 2026

Dead seals on the beach. Algae blooms in the bay. Nitrates in wells. A heat wave that can ruin a tomato crop before you even see the damage. We record a raw, grounded conversation with Santa Cruz farmer Joe Schirmer about the real cost of feeding people, and why so many farmers are carrying a level of stress that the rest of us rarely see.We start with the mental health crisis in agriculture, including farmer suicide, anxiety, and the identity trap that comes with generational work and “man u...

Episode 94: Chapter XVII: Our Tower of Babel: Politics, AI, Algorithms, and The Separation That Only Common Language Can Bring

September 01, 2026

We have a shared language, so why does it feel like we cannot talk anymore? I step into a solo, personal soliloquy about the post-COVID shift I see everywhere: families avoiding hard topics, friends splitting into factions, and everyday conversations turning into coded arguments about money and politics. I use the Tower of Babel as a modern metaphor not to preach, but to name the feeling that we built something too big to understand, and now we live inside the confusion. From there, I trace a...

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