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Ojai: Talk of the Town — 309 episodes

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

2

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

3

The Art of History: A Conversation with George Stuart

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

Jim Exon's 20 Year Journey From Ojai to Nashville

12

The Place He Made: Nate's Legacy of Wellness

13

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

14

From Farm to Fortune to Footlights With Clay Creasey

15

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

16

Water, Food & The Future of Ojai With Larry Yee

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

Dennis Mukai on Craft, Beauty & What Lies Beneath

23

City Manager Ben Harvey on Stewardship & Soundtracks

24

Farewell to an Icon: Remembering Helen Allen, Pride Pioneer

25

The Hillbilly Manifesto: Reclaiming our Culture with Bret Bradigan

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

Awakening Peace With Brian & Lisa Berman

49

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

50

The Brothers Koren: Finding Your Voice

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

From Cannes to Ojai: Kitty Winn's Quiet Brilliance

57

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

58

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

59

Sprouting Success: From Ojai Kitchen to National Shelves

60

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

61

Sowing Change: Rebecca Tickell on Regenerating Ojai & the Planet

62

Ojai Pride at 34: Honoring Legacy, Amplifying Community

63

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

64

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

65

Ojai & The Hollywood Blacklist's Relevance Today

66

Brushes & Blooms: Stephanie Hubbard Goes Wild in Ojai

67

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

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

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

76

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

77

Ojai Roots: Growing a New Tradition with Peter Marcus

78

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

79

Leaping Past Limits: A Big Conversation with Gay Hendricks

80

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

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

Wendy Barker's Decade of Museum Transformation

87

Peter Deneen's Journey from Coast Guard to Conservation

88

Lucy Bellwood: Adventures in Art, Community & Connection

89

"Always the Music" With Tom Morris

90

A Life Aloft with Tracey Curtis-Taylor

91

What Looks Like Bravery with Laurel Braitman

92

Going "Chimp Crazy" with Eric Goode

93

On Death & Dying in Ojai with Cheserae Scala

94

Douglas Parker: From Watergate to the World Series

95

Ask Me Anything With Bret Bradigan

96

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

97

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

98

Healing Our Heroes with Atz Kilcher & Miriam Jones

99

Talking Culture Change with Tom Krause

100

Ojai Studio Artists Tour with Christopher Noxon & Suze Glazebrook

101

Emma Bailey's Big Ideas at Bart's Books

102

Food & Mystery With Ilona Saari's Novels

103

More Magic Hours with Zhena Muyzka

104

Gables of Ojai & The Aging Revolution in America

105

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

106

Dr. David Odorisio on Merton's Monk Mode

107

Rainer Buschmann on Colonialism & Hoarding

108

A Life in Design With Louise Sandhaus

109

Playwrights Come to Ojai with Jeremy Cohen

110

Sandy Treadwell on Art, Politics & Ojai

111

Ivor Davis on the Murderer Next Door

112

Dan Parziale on Mesa Farm, Homelessness & Hopefulness

113

Robin Gerber Takes Her "Shot" on the Road

114

Real Fun Wow Moments with Daren Thomas Magee

115

Nigel Chisholm on his Ukrainian Missions

116

Ojai's Revel Kombucha with Adam Gallegos

117

Empowering Ojai Youth With Tobi Jo Greene

118

Ara Guzelimian on Mitsuko Uchida, Mahler & Ojai

119

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

120

Mesa Farm's Dan Parziale Prepares to Welcome First Residents

121

Marc Whitman on Ojai's Future Downtown

122

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

123

Standup Ojai With Comedian Cary Odes!

124

Policing Ojai with Capt. Trina Newman

125

The Wild Life with Rick Ridgeway (Encore)

126

Undamming Ojai with Paul Jenkin

127

Catherine Ann Jones on Stage, Screen & Books

128

Casey Roddick on Div. 1 Football & The NFL

129

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

130

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

131

Susan Kapadia on Why Ojai CARES

132

California's Banker with Fiona Ma

133

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

134

Chris Miller on Skating, Athleisure Wear & Ojai

135

Chef Robin Goldstein's Tastes of Ojai

136

Kit Stolz on Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

137

George S. Stuart & The Art of History

138

Malcolm McDowell on Kubrick, Ojai & More

139

Sophie Ward Koren on Modeling, Motherhood & Memoirs

140

Jim Bailey: Schooling Ojai & Beyond

141

Designing Ojai With Janelle Kandziora

142

Daren Thomas Magee: The Real Fun Wow Experience

143

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

144

Mark Frost on Strikes, Writers Rooms & FDR

145

Storyteller Antonio Sacré & Festival Director Kara Martin Lakes

146

Rick Ridgeway's Life Lived Wild

147

Bill Moses on Ojai as an Entrepreneurial Hub

148

A Pirate's Life with Dr. Rebecca Simon

149

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

150

Scott Johnson: Scraping the Sky

151

Paul of Peter, Paul & Mary

152

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

153

Dr. J.B. Dyas & Leading With Jazz

154

Hawk Koch on the Hollywood Strikes and the Magic of Movies

155

Dave Spanbock on Ojai as Arts Community

156

Ojai & The Hollywood Blacklist

157

Bob Salas on What's Out There

158

Jeremy Cohen's Ojai Playwrights Conference Debut

159

'Mariachi' Comes to Ojai

160

Mike Milano: 2022 Emmy Nominated Documentarian

161

Matt LaVere: Supervising Ojai

162

Dennis Shives: The Art & Soul of Ojai

163

John Broesamle: An Ojai Life in Full

164

Peter Strauss: Stage, Screen & Soil

165

AARP's Ojai Origins with Craig Walker

166

Following the Money with Dr. Nomi Prins

167

Chumash & Ojai with Julie Tumamait

168

Living in Balance with Ashwin Manthripragada & Alexx Pryjma

169

Beth Pratt: When Ojai & Wildlife Meet

170

Ingrid Boulting's Journey to Ojai

171

Kimberly Cluff, Indian Child Welfare & The Supreme Court

172

Ojai Philanthropy with Catherine Meek & Polly Nelson

173

Tennis Everyone With Brian Teacher & Steve Pratt

174

Richard Hajas on Water, Fire & the Future

175

Bernie Larsen on Music, Arts & Ojai

176

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

177

Laurel Braitman's "What Looks Like Bravery"

178

The Politics of Water with Assemblymember Bennett

179

Behind the Stage With Stu Crowner

180

The Forest Service Life with Al West

181

Jimmy Breslin's Big Apple with Kevin Breslin

182

A Life of Travel With Jerry Dunn

183

Mesa Farm's Dan Parziale on Housing & Homelessness

184

Artificial Intelligence and Meditating with Nicholas Gray

185

Pandemic Frontlines with Hospital's Haady Lashkari

186

Magic Hour with Zhena Muzyka

187

Talking Ukraine with Keith Nightingale, Analyst and Author

188

The FuryUs Project with Susan Kelejian & Jolene Rae Harrington

189

Storytellers Festival with Michael Katz & Kara Lakes

190

Wild Horse Rescue With Ojai's American Legend Mustang

191

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

192

Franz Lidz on Ojai, Restaurants & Archaeology

193

Ojai Hardball with Jonathan Fraser Light

194

Studio Artists' New Crew with Christopher Noxon

195

The Expandards of Ojai with Isaac Koren & Mikael Jorgensen

196

Maggie Seven Wellman: Falling Into the Silence

197

Ron Phillips & The Hands of Juan Peron

198

'Yesterday' and Tomorrow With the Ojai Film Society

199

Watergate Attorney's Take on Jan. 6 Hearings

200

How Danny McGaw Sings Those Songs

201

Chip Fraser's Search For Emerald City

202

Happier Ojai Days with Anson Williams

203

'Desert Tracks' With Leslie Clark

204

Drums Along The Ojai with Simon Phillips

205

Spaceships & Creatures with Jeff Mann

206

"Despite the Buzz" with Author Tamara Miller Davis

207

"137 Shots" with Mike Milano

208

Chloé Zhao's 'Nomadland' & Ojai

209

Beckett McDowell Takes Show on the Road

210

Ojai Rising With Kate Pepper's Mother Starter

211

AMOC Runs the Ojai Music Festival

212

Going PureWild with Cindy Convery

213

Paul of Peter, Paul & Mary Goes Solo

214

Ojai's Fisherman with Eric Hodge

215

One Hundred Episodes of Ojai Talk of the Town

216

J.B. White: Writing for Fun & Profit

217

Athletes in Recovery with Tere Karabatos

218

Surfing Cuba With Nicholas Weissman

219

Tomatomania! With Scott Daigre

220

The Supreme Court with Judith Hale Norris

221

Ojai Plant Medicine with Lanny Kaufer

222

First Amendment & Ojai with Kevin Davis

223

The Wild Life with Rick Ridgeway

224

Creating A Farmers Market with Julie Gerard

225

Roaming the Carrizo Plain with Chuck Graham

226

Smile Mountain with Joel Fox & Jennifer Day

227

Cooking & Writing With Abigail Napp

228

Topa Topa Brews With Jack Dyer

229

Surviving the "Sh**house" with Lauren Duke

230

Scott Johnson on Art, Architecture & Ojai

231

Ojai Film Festival & The Art of Cinema

232

Karen Banfield's 12 Good Men

233

OK Boomers with Topa Talk's Steph & Cody

234

Ojai Storytelling Festival with Debra Ehrhardt & Friends

235

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

236

Ojai Living Treasures Danny Everett & Tiarzha Taylor

237

A Walk from Mexico to Canada with Kit Stolz

238

Ojai Studio Art Touring with Pam Grau

239

Ojai Brewcraft with Jeremy Haffner

240

Farming & Cooking in Ojai with Steve Sprinkel

241

California Recall Electioneering with Josh Gohlke

242

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

243

Rhiannon Giddens & The Ojai Music Festival

244

Surviving AIDS with Ventura Councilperson Doug Halter

245

Surviving A Phillippines Interment Camp With Karen Lewis

246

Beatrice Wood's Ojai with Kevin Wallace

247

Local Bath Box & Beyond With Lauren Nichols

248

Sergio Aragonés & the Art of the Cartoon

249

The Hollywood Blacklist & Ojai With Mark Lewis

250

#64 - The Chumash Way With Julie Tumamait-Stenslie

251

The Inn Crowd with Chris Kandziora

252

Jim Selman's Post-Pandemic Real-Time World

253

Zander Gabriel Gets Down to Business

254

Lark Ellen Farming with Kelley D'Angelo

255

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

256

Re-Opening Our Schools With Dr. Tiffany Morse

257

The Wisdom Palace With Meredy Rice Benson

258

Pixie Tangerine Month with Emily Thacher Ayala

259

Fathers & Sons with the Brothers Bradigan

260

Building the Ojai Dream with Frederick Fisher

261

The Real Fun Wow experience With Daren Thomas Magee

262

The Writing Life with Kristen MacGuiness

263

Psychology Yesterday & Tomorrow with Dr. Tom Krause

264

Art, Artists & Pandemic with Cassandra Jones

265

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

266

Reaching & Teaching With Jim Bailey

267

Ojai's Pioneer Families with Tony Thacher

268

Peter Fox Mans Up for Ball-Talking Monologue

269

The "Unsinkable" Audio Movie with John Mawson

270

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

271

Getting to Know Ojai's Mayor, Betsy Stix

272

Sustaining Ojai with Connor Jones

273

Cannabis & Ojai with Chelsea Sutula

274

The Shows Must Go On with Hawk Koch

275

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

276

Covid-19 Vaccines & You With Dr. Marty Pops

277

Election Post-Mortem with Sandy Treadwell

278

Kim Maxwell on Fearlessly Launching Your Story

279

Krista & Katherine Of The Holy F*ck Podcast

280

Bringing the Virtual World to Ojai With Tara Saylor

281

Exit Interview with Ojai Mayor Johnny Johnston

282

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

283

Why is Ojai Worth Saving? John Broesamle's Purpose

284

The Bluesman's Journey with TD Lind

285

Agora Foundation's Coronavirus-Era Success with Andy Gilman

286

Ojai's Affordable Housing Woes with Michelaina Johnson

287

The Ojai Playwrights Conference Goes Big, with Robert Egan

288

The Uses of Irreverence with Journalist Franz Lidz

289

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

290

On Grief, the Arts & Sisterhood with Lila Glasoe Francese

291

Globe-Trotting, Filmmaking & Entrepreneuring with Reed Fish

292

"Twin Peaks" & Saving Ojai with Mark Frost

293

Watergate, Mob Bosses & Ojai with Bill Gilbreth

294

Creating Art During a Pandemic with Natalie Krim

295

From Turtle King to "Tiger King" with Eric Goode

296

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

297

Kent State: Lessons Learned With Bob Wick

298

Surviving Covid19 with Andrew Bradigan

299

Talking Ojai With Tennis Legend Stacy Margolin Potter

300

Johnny Cash's Ojai Sojourn with Mark Lewis

301

Experience & Discovery: The Ojai Music Festival with Ara Guzelimian

302

Journalism, Teaching & Ojai with Nomi Morris

303

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

304

Nonprofit Challenges in a Pandemic with Jesse Phelps

305

Sustainable Energy, Barbie dolls & Eleanor Roosevelt with Robin Gerber

306

Chef Claud Mann on Cooking Through a Crisis

307

What Shakespeare Can Teach Ojai

308

Dr. Marty Pops on Ojai & Coronavirus Readiness

309

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