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Ojai: Talk of the Town
A look at the community of Ojai - an astonishingly beautiful village of 7,500 people perched on the eastern edge of the Pacific Rim. From the people who bring you Ojai Quarterly, Ojai Monthly and Ojai Vortex.
Episodes
Ojai: Talk of the TownCreating A Farmers Market with Julie Gerard
Julie Gerard's interest in a healthy, plant-based lifestyle began with her surviving a cancer scare, which she attributed to her food choices. So along with a…
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Roaming the Carrizo Plain with Chuck Graham
An hour north of Ojai takes you into a different world, the largest remaining grassland in California, a quarter-million acres of the Carrizo Plain National…
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Smile Mountain with Joel Fox & Jennifer Day
Joel Fox and Jennifer Day of Smile Mountain are busy creating content for many artistic projects all at a time. Their latest project is the most far-out of…
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Cooking & Writing With Abigail Napp
Abigail Napp grew up in the food business as her mother was a leading caterer in the Pacific Northwest, and she never strayed too far from the culinary world…
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Topa Topa Brews With Jack Dyer
Jack Dyer was present for the craft beer boom in the San Diego area in the 1990s and it left him with an unquenchable thirst to join the ranks of the top…
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Surviving the "Sh**house" with Lauren Duke
Lauren Duke's just-published memoir, "Shithouse," is a rueful yet antic recounting of her traumatic childhood, with a junkie prisoner father and a volatile…
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Scott Johnson on Art, Architecture & Ojai
Scott Johnson, founding partner of Johnson-Fain in Los Angeles, has lived with feet in both the world of art and of architecture. During the pandemic, holed up…
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Ojai Film Festival & The Art of Cinema
It's been 22 years since the Ojai Film Festival's launch and since then they've screened more than 1,000 films and hosted hundreds of filmmakers, directors…
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Karen Banfield's 12 Good Men
Karen Banfield started out making a calendar for Naked Gardening Day but the response among her prospective models was, well, discouraging. She was undaunted…
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OK Boomers with Topa Talk's Steph & Cody
This episode we talk with the hosts of the popular Topa Talk podcast, which is in its third season and closing in on 100 episodes. Stephanie St. James and Cody…
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Ojai Storytelling Festival with Debra Ehrhardt & Friends
For 22 years the Ojai Storytelling Festival (October 28-31 this year) has been bringing in the country's best practitioners of this ancient art form. We are…
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Attica Prison Riots 50 Years On With Ojai's Lenny Klaif
In September 1971, Lenny Klaif was a third-year law student at the University of Iowa, when he took up the cause of prisoner rights in the tragic aftermath of…
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Ojai Living Treasures Danny Everett & Tiarzha Taylor
Danny and Tiarzha were recently named Living Treasures by a joint committee of the Rotary Club of Ojai and the Ojai Rotary-West. After this episode, you'll…
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A Walk from Mexico to Canada with Kit Stolz
Writer Kit Stolz set out on the 2,560-mile Pacific Crest Trail seven years ago; through a changing world he kept to a promise to walk at least 500 miles per…
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Ojai Studio Art Touring with Pam Grau
In the early 1980s, three women — Bert Collins, Gayel Childress & Marta Nelson — founded the Ojai Studio Artists as a way for artists to connect, mentor and…
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Ojai Brewcraft with Jeremy Haffner
With Ojai Valley Brewery about to open its taproom and beer garden on Bryant Street this October, the time was right to catch up with Jeremy Haffner. He's been…
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Farming & Cooking in Ojai with Steve Sprinkel
It's been more than 20 years since Steve Sprinkel and wife Olivia Chase opened The Farmer & The Cook in Meiners Oak. The restaurant/grocery/music venue and…
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California Recall Electioneering with Josh Gohlke
We are joined for a special episode of Ojai: Talk of the Town with Josh Gohlke, the former deputy opinion page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Gohlke…
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James Becket's Pursuit of Truth, Justice & The Ojai Way
Author, filmmaker and eco-warrior Jim Becket has completed his latest project," "Seeds of Vandana Shiva," about the fascinating Dr. Shiva, who grew up in the…
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Rhiannon Giddens & The Ojai Music Festival
Rhiannon Giddens, virtuoso banjo player, singer-songwriter, Grammy winner, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and keeper of the flame of African-American roots…
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Surviving AIDS with Ventura Councilperson Doug Halter
Doug Halter lost his partner to AIDS during the worst days of the epidemic, so he dedicated himself to civic activism as a way to repay the debt and keep…
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Surviving A Phillippines Interment Camp With Karen Lewis
December 8, 1941 came like a storm as the Japanese aircraft began bombing and strafing Manila and other American outposts in the Phillippines Island, at that…
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Beatrice Wood's Ojai with Kevin Wallace
Beatrice Wood's finest work of art could well have been her life. The famous ceramicist was in the middle of key 20th century moments - Igor Stravinsky's…
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Local Bath Box & Beyond With Lauren Nichols
Lauren Nichols has shifted from her career in urban planning to putting together local personal care products such as soaps, bath bombs, beauty products and…
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Sergio Aragonés & the Art of the Cartoon
Sergio Aragonés might well be the world's most distinguished, prolific and beloved cartoonist. Even as Mad Magazine, where his distinctive and hilarious…
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The Hollywood Blacklist & Ojai With Mark Lewis
America was riven in the late 1940s and early 1950s when the House Un-American Affairs Committee turned its gimlet eye on Hollywood and 10 writers and…
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#64 - The Chumash Way With Julie Tumamait-Stenslie
Julie Tumamait-Stenslie grew up in Ojai with an idyllic childhood as the youngest of seven children, playing in the Ventura river bottom. Her father, Vincent…
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The Inn Crowd with Chris Kandziora
Chris Kandziora, the Ojai Valley Inn's Sales and Marketing Manager, could very well have been the busiest man in Ojai during the pandemic. In March 2020 as the…
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Jim Selman's Post-Pandemic Real-Time World
When author and executive coach Jim Selman published his 11th book, "Living in the Real-Time World," in November 2019, he didn't know he would get a "proof of…
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Zander Gabriel Gets Down to Business
It's been a long journey for Zander "Z-Man" Gabriel from his earliest days at Ojai's rickety wooden skate park to his astonishing professional success, about…
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Lark Ellen Farming with Kelley D'Angelo
Kelley D'Angelo, founder of Lark Ellen Farms, has seen her business increase dramatically during the pandemic. Her line of sprouted, low-carb, high-protein…
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Malcolm McDowell on "A Clockwork Orange's" 50th Anniversary
Few performances on the big screen are as memorable as Malcolm McDowell's portrayal of ultraviolent Alex, who terrorizes the night with his Droogs. The film…
Ojai: Talk of the TownRe-Opening Our Schools With Dr. Tiffany Morse
When the Ojai's 2,300 public school students were sent home last March, we had no idea how long until those students would be back in their classrooms. Turned…
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The Wisdom Palace With Meredy Rice Benson
Meredy Benson Rice, a long-time Ojai educator, has a side passion as an author. We talk about her most recent release, "The Wisdom Palace," about 12-year-old…
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Pixie Tangerine Month with Emily Thacher Ayala
Ojai is celebrating this month, in however an abbreviated fashion, Ojai Pixie Tangerine Month. So Emily Thacher Ayala, whose family has been farming in the…
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Fathers & Sons with the Brothers Bradigan
This episode we get personal, as I reach out to my brothers to talk about our father, Floyd John Bradigan, who died just over 40 years ago at age 60. We mark…
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Building the Ojai Dream with Frederick Fisher
Fred Fisher, the internationally renowned architect and his wife, Jennie Prebor, could have chosen anywhere in the world to live. In fact, he recently spent…
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The Real Fun Wow experience With Daren Thomas Magee
Daren Thomas Magee is one of the country's best-known illustrators with more than 370,000 followers on Instagram, and his Real Fun Wow company has become the…
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The Writing Life with Kristen MacGuiness
Kristen McGuiness is the author of the bestselling memoir, "51/50: The Magical Adventures of a Single Life" in which she recounts her adventures (and…
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Psychology Yesterday & Tomorrow with Dr. Tom Krause
Dr. Tom Krause started Behavioral Sciences Technology in the 1980s with a partner, and from its modest beginnings in Ojai, it has become a global leader in the…
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Art, Artists & Pandemic with Cassandra Jones
Cassandra Jones is an Ojai artist with a list of exhibits and permanent collections that would go on for days. Most proximately, she is the first…
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What's Next for the Music World? - A Justin Little Production
It's been a rough year for performing artists, for whom audiences are like oxygen, and vice versa. Few people are better positioned to explore the strange…
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Reaching & Teaching With Jim Bailey
Jim Bailey took a roundabout path to teaching, earning his bachelor's degree and teaching certificate when he was 31, after a peripatetic career as a cowboy…
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Ojai's Pioneer Families with Tony Thacher
Despite his down-to-earth demeanor and genial wit, Tony Thacher, the farmer and erstwhile geologist, has a distinguished lineage. His grandfather helped start…
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Peter Fox Mans Up for Ball-Talking Monologue
Actor/writer Peter Fox has written a companion piece to Eve Ensler's much-loved "Vagina Monologues." His is called the "Testicle Monologues: If These Balls…
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The "Unsinkable" Audio Movie with John Mawson
It's been 80 years since a German naval cruiser took out a convoy of 38 merchant ships mid-Atlantic, carrying much-needed gasoline and provisions for the…
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The Cosmos & Surfing With Thacher's Dr. Jon Swift
The first episode of Season Two of "Ojai: Talk of the Town" is our first on-location podcast. So how fitting that's it's at Thacher School's Observatory with…
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Getting to Know Ojai's Mayor, Betsy Stix
Betsy Stix decided to run for Mayor after reading Gay Hendrick's bestselling book, "The Big Leap." The book talks about the finding and living with your…
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Sustaining Ojai with Connor Jones
Permaculture expert and advocate Connor Jones has been immersed in the Ojai Valley land for decades, building a consulting and education business on…
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Cannabis & Ojai with Chelsea Sutula
This episode Chelsea Sutula with Sespe Creek Collective brings us up-to-date on the recent developments with marijuana retailing in Ojai, the onerous new 3…
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The Shows Must Go On with Hawk Koch
Howard "Hawk" Koch is a true son of Hollywood, the son of legendary producer Howard Koch Sr. In fact, they are the only father-son team to chair the Academy of…
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The Actor-Writer-Musician-Playwright Life with James Morrison
James Morrison is a familiar presence on the stage and screen, having had key roles in the hyper-kinetic "24" where he played the head of the counter-terrorism…
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Covid-19 Vaccines & You With Dr. Marty Pops
We talk with Dr. Pops about the promising vaccines in human trial, one from Pfizer and the other from Moderna. Both companies said they will file for an…
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Election Post-Mortem with Sandy Treadwell
Alexander "Sandy" Treadwell had an illustrious career in New York State as a Republican County activist and close associate and friend of three-term Gov…
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Kim Maxwell on Fearlessly Launching Your Story
For 25 years now, Kim Maxwell, a performer herself, has taught Ojai people on how to tell their stories and how to perform them, and how to grow in the…
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Krista & Katherine Of The Holy F*ck Podcast
It's a real treat to check in with the vivacious and witty Krista Kim & Katherine McClelland of the popular Holy F*ck Podcast. The two Ojai women — coaches…
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Bringing the Virtual World to Ojai With Tara Saylor
Through a demoralizing Spring, Summer and now Fall of cancellations - from the Tennis Tournament to Ojai Day - one prestigious event is still happening. With…
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Exit Interview with Ojai Mayor Johnny Johnston
Special Bonus Episode: Ojai's first directly elected Mayor, Johnny Johnston, is nearing the end of his second and final term. It seemed a good time to catch up…
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One Thousand (And One) True Fans with Artist Lucy Bellwood
Lucy Bellwood, adventure cartoonist and artist extraordinaire, has accomplished significant feats for someone still so young, including developing a loyal and…
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Why is Ojai Worth Saving? John Broesamle's Purpose
John Broesamle and his wife Kathy moved to Ojai more than 40 years ago, where they both rolled up their sleeves and got involved, especially on environmental…