Salinas Underground

Recently, the Salinas Police tried to revive a program that would put police officers in schools. After the high school district said no, they tried to go to one of the elementary school districts and got a similar response. Do police on campus make schools safer? In this episode, we discuss what that program might look like in Salinas.

Ever since Oz turned 30-years-old he talks about topics like he has a Masters level education on every topic. Turns out, he just likes the way his voice sounds when it leaves his mouth. This week the high alcohol IPA's made him think he is some political scientist.

This week Oz talks about his experience at the Gold Cup final and how his new life goal is to be carried into a sporting event. We also sit down with James from the XL Publichouse to talk about a new Oldtown revitalization project that is taking its next step towards completion.

This week, we talk about the California Rodeo and what we were doing for big week. Also, Oz thinks he's the Dr. Phil of Oldtown bars.

In this episode, Oz tries to keep the beer under control after talking about the cops that were cleared of killing a 16 year old. So much for him trying to stay quiet about local politics.

For this Father's Day episode, we set up our equipment on a barrel at Alvarado Street Brewery and tried to look like we were having an intelligent conversation for an hour. Oz talks, again, about Salinas being a great soccer city and wanting to start an indoor soccer team then the story turns into reminiscing about drunk tank stories.

In this episode, Oz is growing 6 chili plants and now he thinks he's going to change to world one chili plant at a time. We also talk about one of the advantages of the recent cannabis boom, cheap growing equipment!

This week, our guests are Lauryn and Adisa from Families of Color. They founded this group a couple of years ago after having trouble finding a bicycling group for their child that had other children that looked like him. It has now expanded into almost weekly events of different kinds that focus on families of color. This conversation was recorded outside the Steinbeck Center on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

This week we are guest free and back to our roots, talking about Salinas events! Oz almost manages to go through a whole episode without jumping on a soapbox about the government of Salinas, but we promise this is a short one.

In this episode, we sit down in the beer garden at the Alvarado Street production facility to talk with a couple of the home brewers from last weeks Steinbeck Home Brew Festival. Just in its second year, the festival is already getting a reputation as a place to sample some brews that might be on store shelves soon. We also try a durian fruit beer on the air, which was not as scary as Oz was making it out to be.