SHOW: Using Cold Water to Heal, Connect and Compete
Today, the transformative power of cold water and the people who jump right in. Then, we meet a club that has been swimming in frigid water...
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20 of 2,931 episodesThe Transformative Power of Cold Water
Chris Ballard is the author of “ The Plunge: Maverick Swimmers, An Unlikely Quest, and the Transformative Power of Cold Water.” Chris jumped...
Oldest San Francisco: South End Rowing Club
People that swim in cold waters often do it in community. And one crew of ocean swimmers has been carrying on a local legacy that began more...
State of The Bay: Dogsurfing Championship comes to Pacifica
This August crowds will be gathering at Lindemar Beach in Pacifica to answer one question. Which dog is the greatest surfer in the world?
SHOW: Rising up: Housing, Soul, and Song
New laws meant to encourage the construction of new homes in San Francisco give a lot of power to the state. Today, we explore how and where...
State of the Bay: Housing vs Local Control
Keeping up with your rent in San Francisco is not for the faint of heart. Online rental services were showing that the average monthly rent...
Sights + Sounds: Melissa Etheridge
Music legend Melissa Etheridge recently released her first new album in seven years. Her album “Rise” is inspired by some of the challenges...
SHOW: Animals Outside; Domestic and Wild
Pets are often important companions for unhoused people. Today, we meet a grassroots organization that’s helping homeless folks take care of...
In Oakland, one nonprofit looks beyond the dog days
Homelessness ends with a home... Technically. But there’s much more to it, and the path to live indoors is most always complicated. For many...
New Arrivals: Vanessa Hua tackles race, class, housing, and suburbia in new novel
Now, it’s time for New Arrivals, our pocket sized book tour with Bay Area authors. Vanessa Hua lives in the East Bay. Her new novel, "Coyote...
Intergenerational Conversations and Life Lessons
Today, lasting lessons from the AIDS crisis. Then, we hear three generations of local leaders share their experiences of transitioning. Plus...
Living Lessons from the AIDS Crisis: Queer Elders on Care, Activism & Community
It’s been 45 years since AIDS was first named. The disease has killed roughly 40 million people worldwide, including 700 thousand Americans....
Bay Poets: 'What If We Didn't Die' after Bayani Bala & Maria Bolaños by poet Keana Aguila Labra
And now we let poetry help us imagine an impossibly beautiful world with no goodbyes. Filipinx poet Keana Aguila Labra and her piece "What I...
Transitioning, trancestors, and community legacy
Intergenerational conversations are important, and they take on an even greater role in communities that have been historically marginalized...
SHOW: Disability Pride, Advocacy, and Justice
Today we honor one of the strongest voices that's fought for the disabled community. And one group is trying to make a notoriously demanding...
Remember Alice Wong, one of the Bay Area’s strongest fighters for disability advocacy
Alice Wong was born in Indianapolis in 1974. She was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and was told she wouldn’t live to be older than 18. B...
The Intersection: Will meets way at Burning Man
July isn’t just Disability Pride Month, it’s also the time when lots of Bay Area folks are preparing to go to the festival in Nevada’s Black...
SHOW: 'Wood Street' Documentary, An Uncuffed My Mixtape, and the best of CA State Parks
A new documentary takes viewers into the large, West Oakland homeless encampment 'Wood Street.' Community and resistance among Oakland’s unh...
Sights + Sounds: 'Wood Street' documentary
A new documentary follows the 2023 sweeps of the homeless encampment in West Oakland known as ‘Wood Street,' and the struggle leading up to...
Uncuffed My Mixtape: Seyomay
The Uncuffed My Mixtape is a selection of our producers' favorite songs. Uncuffed producer Rahim Bradshaw interviewed HabenMichael about an...