Lost Coast Outpost

This week the Outpost is joined by two self-described "fabulously gay farmers" Thomas and Cody Nicholas Stratton -- better known as the Foggy Bottoms Boys -- who talk about life on their sixth generation Ferndale Farm, their products, marketing strategies, their popular TikTok videos and the support they've received from the farming community.

Nazy Javid is the news director for North Coast News and the host of her own podcast, "Choose Happy."

On this week's very special Halloween episode of Humboldt Holding Up, local pumpkin carving master Mike Craghead talks about his special style of gourd sculpture, how he developed this unusual interest, his time on the Food Network television series "Halloween Wars" and his book "Pumpkin Skulls and Other Silly Things."

On this week’s episode we speak with Leonard LaFrance, a sergeant with the Eureka Police Department and head of the Community Safety Engagement Team (CSET) which concentrates on the city’s Old Town and waterfront areas and handles many of the calls associated with homelessness and people experiencing mental health emergencies.

Well-known Humboldt muralist, kinetic sculpture racer and flame-throwing octopus creator Duane Flatmo joins the Outpost to share some fascinating stories from his long-spanning career.

Arcata City Councilmember Sarah Schaefer joins LoCO to discuss the council's recent decision to decriminalize the possession and use of psychedelic plants and fungi, Arcata's safe parking program to help the homeless, how the city is spending its COVID relief funds and more!

THIS WEEK: Humboldt Hot Air is a new, all-local streaming radio station dreamed up and staffed by some of the folks who lost their audio outlet when KHSU was unceremoniously dismantled. Broadcasting from the Arcata Playhouse, the station is still in the process of filling out their weekly schedule and, yes, HHA project manager Neroli Devaney would love to hear your show pitch.

Austin Allison, a surgical technologist, and James Ladika, a registered nurse at Providence St. Joseph Hospital discuss the frightening conditions of patients in the ICU, the impacts the COVID pandemic has had on hospital procedures, the mental and emotional tole it is taking on staff and the importance of getting vaccinated.

Last week Humboldt was featured prominently in a lengthy article by GQ Magazine — for something other than weed, if you can believe it! The piece, “The Last Glimpses of California’s Vanishing Hippie Utopias,” takes the reader on a tour of some of the aging and forgotten communes manifested by the generation of idealists associated with what we know nowadays as the back to the land movement.

These days Richard Evans makes his home in the metropolis of Eureka, but back in the early ‘70s he and his cohorts fled the Bay Area for a more idyllic communal existence on a property in far-flung Southern Humboldt. On this week’s episode of Humboldt Holding Up — LoCO’s always-idealistic podcast — Evans shares with us his recollections of his back-to-the-lander days.

Calder Johnson, managing artist director of the North Coast Repertory Theatre talks about what it has been like having live entertainment shut down for almost the entire span of the pandemic.