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Ojai: Talk of the Town — 315 episodes

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1

Roger Kellaway: A Life in Jazz, From the Greats to Ojai

2

What 300 Conversations Has Taught Me About Life, Community, and Ojai

3

Beneath the Surface: How Marie McKenzie Found Beauty, Purpose and a New Life in California's Kelp Forests

4

Kathleen Kaiser: Rock Journalism, Reinvention & Why Stories Matter More Than Ever

5

Jeremy Cohen on Discovering Great Plays & Playwrights

6

Looking to the Stars: Rachel Lang on Astrology, Purpose & Ojai

7

Love, Loss & And Coming Home with Laurel Braitman, Ph.D.

8

Bridging Two Worlds: Janet Yang on Hollywood, China, Food, Family & the Power of Story

9

The Art of History: A Conversation with George Stuart

10

Small Towns, Big Ideas: Mark Weiler on Art, Place & Creative Community

11

Reel Culture, Real Community: Inside the Ojai Film Society's Summer Series

12

Al West (1932-2026) : A Life in Service to Forests, Fire, & Ojai

13

The Adventure Continues: Joan Virginia Allen on Aging with Purpose & Possibilit

14

Mark Frost on FDR, Twin Peaks, and the Mysteries Beneath America

15

Life Amplified: Lila Glasoe Francese on Grief, Creativity, and Staying Connected

16

From Bollywood to Ojai: Richa Badami and the Next Generation of Actors

17

Jim Exon's 20 Year Journey From Ojai to Nashville

18

The Place He Made: Nate's Legacy of Wellness

19

From Taft Gardens to Mega Gallery: Cassandra C. Jones and the Expansion of Ojai’s Creative Frontier

20

From Farm to Fortune to Footlights With Clay Creasey

21

Art at the Center: Besant Hill School's Lis Austin

22

Water, Food & The Future of Ojai With Larry Yee

23

Passing the Baton: Ara Guzelimian's Final Year as the Ojai Music Festival's Artistic Director

24

Ojai At The Oscars: Highway West's Singers Wins Big

25

Joe Sohm & Peter Boyer on America's 250th Birthday in Images & Music

26

40 Years of Boccali’s: Farming, Family & Strawberry Shortcake

27

Exit Stage Left: Jim O’Neil, the Rubicon, and Why Theater Still Matters

28

Dennis Mukai on Craft, Beauty & What Lies Beneath

29

City Manager Ben Harvey on Stewardship & Soundtracks

30

Farewell to an Icon: Remembering Helen Allen, Pride Pioneer

31

The Hillbilly Manifesto: Reclaiming our Culture with Bret Bradigan

32

Rediscovering The Wisdom Palace with Meredy Benson Rice — Stories, Schooling & the Heart of Learning

33

Charting the AI Frontier: John-Clark Levin on Pope Leo & AI, the ‘Slop-acolypse,’ and What’s Next for Humanity

34

Richard Handley on "The Hawks Are Not Dying," Activism, and the Power of Place

35

Keeping Pets in Homes, Not Just Shelters: A Conversation with Daniel Roselle

36

The Music You Hear Everywhere: A Conversation with APM Music CEO Adam Taylor on Licensing, Creativity & More

37

Malcolm McDowell: Outsiders, Icons, and the Freedom of Not Having to Prove Anything

38

Acreage for the Ages: OVLC’s Historic Step Forward with Rancho Cañada Larga with Tom Maloney

39

"Where’s Tommy" A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Resilience with Debbie, Tom & Amber Lennon

40

The Still & the Light: A Conversation with Leslie "Lulu" Sherman

41

Peter Bellwood: Wit, Mischief & The Making of an Ojai Legend

42

Grounds for Connection: Stacey Jones on Ojai Coffee Roasters' 30 Years as "Ojai's Living Room"

43

Perfecte & Alia Rocher Reimagine The Ranch House: From Punk Rock to Ojai Gardens

44

Finding Our Voice: Karen Banfield & Severo Lara with the Ojai Valley Speech Club

45

The Art of Low & Slow: Saw & Brittany Naing on Joplin's, The Dutchess & Second Acts

46

Susanne Chess & Bob Evans on Art, Innovation and the Spirit of Ojai

47

Ashes & Ideals: Tom Pazderka’s Art of Exile, Return & Regrowth

48

The Leather Apron Club: Reviving Franklin’s Spirit of Civil Discourse in Ojai

49

Smoke, Strings & Second Acts: Saw and Brittany Naing on Joplin's, the Dutchess and the Art of the Low & Slow

50

Turning the Page: How the 30th Annual Ojai Storytelling Festival (Oct 23-26) Reconnects a Community Through Story — with Executive Director Kara Martin Lakes and Master Teller Regi Carpenter

51

Rebels in the Sand: Fred Fisher & The Making of an L.A. Moment

52

From Joysticks to Strings: Stephen Geering’s Musical Odyssey in Games, Song & Ojai

53

Awakening Peace: Brian & Lisa Berman on Art, Healing, and Global Compassion

54

Awakening Peace With Brian & Lisa Berman

55

From Foster Care to Flourishing: Mesa Farm's First Year of Change

56

The Brothers Koren: Finding Your Voice

57

From Saddles to Sacred Art: Stephen Huyler's Journey from Ojai to India

58

Mimi Leder on "The Morning Show:" Power, Politics & Ourselves

59

Beth Pratt on P-22, Ojai Encounters & Wildlife Corridors

60

Healing on the Move: Dr. Christina Sisk Brings Compassion to the Front Lines

61

Hidden, Hunted, Unbroken: Beth Lane on Truth, Memory, and Moral Courage

62

From Cannes to Ojai: Kitty Winn's Quiet Brilliance

63

Storms, Stories & The Birth of Horror: Jule Selbo on "Mary Shelley: The Year Without Summer"

64

Love, Art & The Ojai Way with the Mystical-Cynical Boys

65

Sprouting Success: From Ojai Kitchen to National Shelves

66

Big Screen, Small Town: Ojai Film Society's Free Summer Series

67

Sowing Change: Rebecca Tickell on Regenerating Ojai & the Planet

68

Ojai Pride at 34: Honoring Legacy, Amplifying Community

69

Tyler Labine & Reed Fish Get Real about Fatherhood, Masculinity & Modern Life

70

Fire, Flocks & The Future: Cole Bush and Shepherd's Return

71

Ojai & The Hollywood Blacklist's Relevance Today

72

Brushes & Blooms: Stephanie Hubbard Goes Wild in Ojai

73

From Turgenev to Tribeca: Jack Piatt & David Breschel of Highway West Entertainment

74

Bravo for Laura Walter! How Music Education is Flourishing in Ojai

75

Full Spectrum Stories: Megan Dolan & Kara Lakes on Laughter, Motherhood & The Ojai Storytelling Festival

76

Back Where It Belongs: Jeremy Cohen on the OPC Gala's Return

77

Dancing Toward the Light: Isha Ferraz & The Ojai World Dance Festival

78

Miracle Year: Abigail Cartright & Ika on Love, Loss and the Music That Saved Them

79

Haady Lashkari: From the Front Lines to the Future — Healthcare, Leadership and Ojai's New Care Center

80

Raul Alvarado on Billion-Dollar Deals & The Power of Listening

81

"Crazy Mama:" Sharon Scott Williams on Love, Loss & Mental Illness

82

Tomatomania! Scott Daigre on the Joys of Growing & Cooking Tomatoes

83

Ojai Roots: Growing a New Tradition with Peter Marcus

84

Michaela Watkins on "Suze," Sincerity & the Magic of Ojai

85

Leaping Past Limits: A Big Conversation with Gay Hendricks

86

Art, Nature & The $6 Million Banana: A Conversation with Cassandra Jones

87

Wine to Wheels to Gelato: Sanders Marvin's Sweet Journey

88

🎶 Verdi, Violetta & the Songs of Freedom: Howard Smith on His New Historical Novel 🇮🇹

89

Rick Knight on Aldo Leopold: Conservation, Wilderness, and the Legacy of a Land Ethic

90

Hot Tips to Keep Your Property Cool: Wildfire Wisdom with Jessica Thompson of Green Goddess Gardens

91

TedX Ojai & Writing Wisdom with Kristen McGuinness (plus scandalous insights!)

92

Wendy Barker's Decade of Museum Transformation

93

Peter Deneen's Journey from Coast Guard to Conservation

94

Lucy Bellwood: Adventures in Art, Community & Connection

95

"Always the Music" With Tom Morris

96

A Life Aloft with Tracey Curtis-Taylor

97

What Looks Like Bravery with Laurel Braitman

98

Going "Chimp Crazy" with Eric Goode

99

On Death & Dying in Ojai with Cheserae Scala

100

Douglas Parker: From Watergate to the World Series

101

Ask Me Anything With Bret Bradigan

102

Tall Tales & True Lies with Bil Lepp & Kara Lakes : The Ojai Storytelling Festival Returns

103

Ship of Fire, Hearts of Steel: John Mawson on the "Unsinkable" audio movie,

104

Healing Our Heroes with Atz Kilcher & Miriam Jones

105

Talking Culture Change with Tom Krause

106

Ojai Studio Artists Tour with Christopher Noxon & Suze Glazebrook

107

Emma Bailey's Big Ideas at Bart's Books

108

Food & Mystery With Ilona Saari's Novels

109

More Magic Hours with Zhena Muyzka

110

Gables of Ojai & The Aging Revolution in America

111

A Life in Science with Arthur Vander, Ph.D.

112

Dr. David Odorisio on Merton's Monk Mode

113

Rainer Buschmann on Colonialism & Hoarding

114

A Life in Design With Louise Sandhaus

115

Playwrights Come to Ojai with Jeremy Cohen

116

Sandy Treadwell on Art, Politics & Ojai

117

Ivor Davis on the Murderer Next Door

118

Dan Parziale on Mesa Farm, Homelessness & Hopefulness

119

Robin Gerber Takes Her "Shot" on the Road

120

Real Fun Wow Moments with Daren Thomas Magee

121

Nigel Chisholm on his Ukrainian Missions

122

Ojai's Revel Kombucha with Adam Gallegos

123

Empowering Ojai Youth With Tobi Jo Greene

124

Ara Guzelimian on Mitsuko Uchida, Mahler & Ojai

125

Franz Lidz on Barred Owls, The Wood Age & Ojai City Council

126

Mesa Farm's Dan Parziale Prepares to Welcome First Residents

127

Marc Whitman on Ojai's Future Downtown

128

The Art of Besant Hill School with Eden Munster & Portia Johnson

129

Standup Ojai With Comedian Cary Odes!

130

Policing Ojai with Capt. Trina Newman

131

The Wild Life with Rick Ridgeway (Encore)

132

Undamming Ojai with Paul Jenkin

133

Catherine Ann Jones on Stage, Screen & Books

134

Casey Roddick on Div. 1 Football & The NFL

135

Krotona at 100 with Elena Dovalsantos, Maria Parisen & Dr. Pablo Sender

136

Lisa Casoni & Heather Stobo: Beatrice Wood, Chocolates & Ojai

137

Susan Kapadia on Why Ojai CARES

138

California's Banker with Fiona Ma

139

Matt Henriksen on Bart's Books, Ojai & The Future

140

Chris Miller on Skating, Athleisure Wear & Ojai

141

Chef Robin Goldstein's Tastes of Ojai

142

Kit Stolz on Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

143

George S. Stuart & The Art of History

144

Malcolm McDowell on Kubrick, Ojai & More

145

Sophie Ward Koren on Modeling, Motherhood & Memoirs

146

Jim Bailey: Schooling Ojai & Beyond

147

Designing Ojai With Janelle Kandziora

148

Daren Thomas Magee: The Real Fun Wow Experience

149

T.C. Boyle on Writing, Frank Lloyd Wright & The Ghost

150

Mark Frost on Strikes, Writers Rooms & FDR

151

Storyteller Antonio Sacré & Festival Director Kara Martin Lakes

152

Rick Ridgeway's Life Lived Wild

153

Bill Moses on Ojai as an Entrepreneurial Hub

154

A Pirate's Life with Dr. Rebecca Simon

155

Dog (&Cat) Days With Eric Knight, Humane Society of Ventura County

156

Scott Johnson: Scraping the Sky

157

Paul of Peter, Paul & Mary

158

"The Morning Show's" Mimi Leder on Hollywood, Ojai & Life

159

Dr. J.B. Dyas & Leading With Jazz

160

Hawk Koch on the Hollywood Strikes and the Magic of Movies

161

Dave Spanbock on Ojai as Arts Community

162

Ojai & The Hollywood Blacklist

163

Bob Salas on What's Out There

164

Jeremy Cohen's Ojai Playwrights Conference Debut

165

'Mariachi' Comes to Ojai

166

Mike Milano: 2022 Emmy Nominated Documentarian

167

Matt LaVere: Supervising Ojai

168

Dennis Shives: The Art & Soul of Ojai

169

John Broesamle: An Ojai Life in Full

170

Peter Strauss: Stage, Screen & Soil

171

AARP's Ojai Origins with Craig Walker

172

Following the Money with Dr. Nomi Prins

173

Chumash & Ojai with Julie Tumamait

174

Living in Balance with Ashwin Manthripragada & Alexx Pryjma

175

Beth Pratt: When Ojai & Wildlife Meet

176

Ingrid Boulting's Journey to Ojai

177

Kimberly Cluff, Indian Child Welfare & The Supreme Court

178

Ojai Philanthropy with Catherine Meek & Polly Nelson

179

Tennis Everyone With Brian Teacher & Steve Pratt

180

Richard Hajas on Water, Fire & the Future

181

Bernie Larsen on Music, Arts & Ojai

182

Ara Guzelimian on the Ojai Music Festival, Rhiannon Giddens and More

183

Laurel Braitman's "What Looks Like Bravery"

184

The Politics of Water with Assemblymember Bennett

185

Behind the Stage With Stu Crowner

186

The Forest Service Life with Al West

187

Jimmy Breslin's Big Apple with Kevin Breslin

188

A Life of Travel With Jerry Dunn

189

Mesa Farm's Dan Parziale on Housing & Homelessness

190

Artificial Intelligence and Meditating with Nicholas Gray

191

Pandemic Frontlines with Hospital's Haady Lashkari

192

Magic Hour with Zhena Muzyka

193

Talking Ukraine with Keith Nightingale, Analyst and Author

194

The FuryUs Project with Susan Kelejian & Jolene Rae Harrington

195

Storytellers Festival with Michael Katz & Kara Lakes

196

Wild Horse Rescue With Ojai's American Legend Mustang

197

Rain Perry's new show, "This is Water: Where Do We Go From Here?"

198

Franz Lidz on Ojai, Restaurants & Archaeology

199

Ojai Hardball with Jonathan Fraser Light

200

Studio Artists' New Crew with Christopher Noxon

201

The Expandards of Ojai with Isaac Koren & Mikael Jorgensen

202

Maggie Seven Wellman: Falling Into the Silence

203

Ron Phillips & The Hands of Juan Peron

204

'Yesterday' and Tomorrow With the Ojai Film Society

205

Watergate Attorney's Take on Jan. 6 Hearings

206

How Danny McGaw Sings Those Songs

207

Chip Fraser's Search For Emerald City

208

Happier Ojai Days with Anson Williams

209

'Desert Tracks' With Leslie Clark

210

Drums Along The Ojai with Simon Phillips

211

Spaceships & Creatures with Jeff Mann

212

"Despite the Buzz" with Author Tamara Miller Davis

213

"137 Shots" with Mike Milano

214

Chloé Zhao's 'Nomadland' & Ojai

215

Beckett McDowell Takes Show on the Road

216

Ojai Rising With Kate Pepper's Mother Starter

217

AMOC Runs the Ojai Music Festival

218

Going PureWild with Cindy Convery

219

Paul of Peter, Paul & Mary Goes Solo

220

Ojai's Fisherman with Eric Hodge

221

One Hundred Episodes of Ojai Talk of the Town

222

J.B. White: Writing for Fun & Profit

223

Athletes in Recovery with Tere Karabatos

224

Surfing Cuba With Nicholas Weissman

225

Tomatomania! With Scott Daigre

226

The Supreme Court with Judith Hale Norris

227

Ojai Plant Medicine with Lanny Kaufer

228

First Amendment & Ojai with Kevin Davis

229

The Wild Life with Rick Ridgeway

230

Creating A Farmers Market with Julie Gerard

231

Roaming the Carrizo Plain with Chuck Graham

232

Smile Mountain with Joel Fox & Jennifer Day

233

Cooking & Writing With Abigail Napp

234

Topa Topa Brews With Jack Dyer

235

Surviving the "Sh**house" with Lauren Duke

236

Scott Johnson on Art, Architecture & Ojai

237

Ojai Film Festival & The Art of Cinema

238

Karen Banfield's 12 Good Men

239

OK Boomers with Topa Talk's Steph & Cody

240

Ojai Storytelling Festival with Debra Ehrhardt & Friends

241

Attica Prison Riots 50 Years On With Ojai's Lenny Klaif

242

Ojai Living Treasures Danny Everett & Tiarzha Taylor

243

A Walk from Mexico to Canada with Kit Stolz

244

Ojai Studio Art Touring with Pam Grau

245

Ojai Brewcraft with Jeremy Haffner

246

Farming & Cooking in Ojai with Steve Sprinkel

247

California Recall Electioneering with Josh Gohlke

248

James Becket's Pursuit of Truth, Justice & The Ojai Way

249

Rhiannon Giddens & The Ojai Music Festival

250

Surviving AIDS with Ventura Councilperson Doug Halter

251

Surviving A Phillippines Interment Camp With Karen Lewis

252

Beatrice Wood's Ojai with Kevin Wallace

253

Local Bath Box & Beyond With Lauren Nichols

254

Sergio Aragonés & the Art of the Cartoon

255

The Hollywood Blacklist & Ojai With Mark Lewis

256

#64 - The Chumash Way With Julie Tumamait-Stenslie

257

The Inn Crowd with Chris Kandziora

258

Jim Selman's Post-Pandemic Real-Time World

259

Zander Gabriel Gets Down to Business

260

Lark Ellen Farming with Kelley D'Angelo

261

Malcolm McDowell on "A Clockwork Orange's" 50th Anniversary

262

Re-Opening Our Schools With Dr. Tiffany Morse

263

The Wisdom Palace With Meredy Rice Benson

264

Pixie Tangerine Month with Emily Thacher Ayala

265

Fathers & Sons with the Brothers Bradigan

266

Building the Ojai Dream with Frederick Fisher

267

The Real Fun Wow experience With Daren Thomas Magee

268

The Writing Life with Kristen MacGuiness

269

Psychology Yesterday & Tomorrow with Dr. Tom Krause

270

Art, Artists & Pandemic with Cassandra Jones

271

What's Next for the Music World? - A Justin Little Production

272

Reaching & Teaching With Jim Bailey

273

Ojai's Pioneer Families with Tony Thacher

274

Peter Fox Mans Up for Ball-Talking Monologue

275

The "Unsinkable" Audio Movie with John Mawson

276

The Cosmos & Surfing With Thacher's Dr. Jon Swift

277

Getting to Know Ojai's Mayor, Betsy Stix

278

Sustaining Ojai with Connor Jones

279

Cannabis & Ojai with Chelsea Sutula

280

The Shows Must Go On with Hawk Koch

281

The Actor-Writer-Musician-Playwright Life with James Morrison

282

Covid-19 Vaccines & You With Dr. Marty Pops

283

Election Post-Mortem with Sandy Treadwell

284

Kim Maxwell on Fearlessly Launching Your Story

285

Krista & Katherine Of The Holy F*ck Podcast

286

Bringing the Virtual World to Ojai With Tara Saylor

287

Exit Interview with Ojai Mayor Johnny Johnston

288

One Thousand (And One) True Fans with Artist Lucy Bellwood

289

Why is Ojai Worth Saving? John Broesamle's Purpose

290

The Bluesman's Journey with TD Lind

291

Agora Foundation's Coronavirus-Era Success with Andy Gilman

292

Ojai's Affordable Housing Woes with Michelaina Johnson

293

The Ojai Playwrights Conference Goes Big, with Robert Egan

294

The Uses of Irreverence with Journalist Franz Lidz

295

Your Brain on Music with the Bravo Program's Laura Walter

296

On Grief, the Arts & Sisterhood with Lila Glasoe Francese

297

Globe-Trotting, Filmmaking & Entrepreneuring with Reed Fish

298

"Twin Peaks" & Saving Ojai with Mark Frost

299

Watergate, Mob Bosses & Ojai with Bill Gilbreth

300

Creating Art During a Pandemic with Natalie Krim

301

From Turtle King to "Tiger King" with Eric Goode

302

The Arts & Ojai With Porch Gallery's Lisa Casoni & Heather Stobo

303

Kent State: Lessons Learned With Bob Wick

304

Surviving Covid19 with Andrew Bradigan

305

Talking Ojai With Tennis Legend Stacy Margolin Potter

306

Johnny Cash's Ojai Sojourn with Mark Lewis

307

Experience & Discovery: The Ojai Music Festival with Ara Guzelimian

308

Journalism, Teaching & Ojai with Nomi Morris

309

"The Land & The Light" — Conservation Challenges in Ojai with Tom Maloney

310

Nonprofit Challenges in a Pandemic with Jesse Phelps

311

Sustainable Energy, Barbie dolls & Eleanor Roosevelt with Robin Gerber

312

Chef Claud Mann on Cooking Through a Crisis

313

What Shakespeare Can Teach Ojai

314

Dr. Marty Pops on Ojai & Coronavirus Readiness

315

Coronavirus & Community. A talk with Dr. Marty Pops.