The May 22, 2025 show is a Flashback to April 14, 2016. 

It includes:

• “Katzenjammer” Keith’s jail call, held for creating additional public spaces downtown
• Keith’s report on jail conditions, and the Bezore memorial and history
• City Council’s 4-12-2016 rubberstamping of the vending and panhandling ordinances
• Phil Ochs in song and story on his early musical history [at various points throughout]
• “Question-Ready” Coral Brune on Art Censorship of Lisa and Mathew’s nude sculpture  https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-silas-8372074b
• Ben from Portland facing police threats for vending outside the blue bracketed pens
• Street jeweler James with art that attracted an “undesirable” crowd & cop attention
• Nicolas Bulach giving a Cannabis Cultivation County C-4 Committee update

The May 18 Bathrobespierre’s Broadsides show includes:

• [round and about the show] Songs and Commentary from David Rovics in his musical history of the world (2013-2016)
• [4-26-2025] Meta on garbagecan gourmet
•     Scott McCurah on police beating, crow feeding, his vehicular living, & cop theft
•     Devon Bryant on massive tent evictions slated for The Tannery survival camp group.
•     Laura David, 25-year resident, returns to Santa Cruz.
•     JZ, recently released from Drug Prohibition Crime, and pissed about it.
•     Keith McHenry on Rose, the Sandwich Lady, memorial, and all-around newsish
• [4-24] HUFF initial chaotic cacophony on dealing with Shelter Mellowman Morrison
• [5-17] Dawnlight Drew’s Food Not Bombs update
•      Recently returned & wheelchair-wheeling Rhonda comparing 3 years ago & now.
•      Shawn on Monterey City’s newest survival sleeper elimination law

The Flashback to July 18, 2004 includes: (first hour is very low volume, needs earphones)

• Milvia in wheelchair with her bedding and wardrobe
• Crossroads Chris Brozda on recent jailing, psychiatric imprisonment, & forced drugging.
• Scott and Lea applaud the SAFE singers; the Hefner sisters sing on;
• Chief PD Glen Mower on the Santa Barbara on the vehicular habitation struggle.
• Dorey & caregiver Moses on the threat to evict her for medical marijuana use.
• Santa Barbara’s “‘Nuf Said” Nancy McCradie of HOW [Homes on Wheels]
• “Dangerous John T” ‘s Mumia Update
• San Jose cop Michael Walker shooting of Rudy Cardenas: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/san-jose-agent-absolved-in-killing-narcotics-2588604.php
• Rise in cop Taser use.
• SAFE #23, Pacific Ave. Drummers, and Pat on police intimidation
• last June City Council meeting—Becky and Bathrobespierre confronted Kennedy & Rotkin
• Bob Fitch evicts Indymedia from Resource Center for Non-Violence Broadway Office

The May 15, 2025 show is a Flashback to July 10, 2005. 

It includes: 

• Mike reports being struck by cop in San Lorenzo Park; “Crazy” Mary spends 5 days in jail on Open Container warrant; Jeremy searched by hostile cops on Hippie Corner; other reports from Hawk, Micah P., Drummer Bob.
• More music and reports from SAFE event #74
• Human Rights Organization [HRO] and Brown Berets grill Councilmember Tony Madrigal in a long interview.
• [6-26] Brown Beret & Copwatch activists Frances & Felipe
• Pebbles Trippet, “pariah in Ukiah”, with June 23rd Lockyer opinion restricting cities from increasing grass penalties beyond Prop. 215.
• Dennis the Bard on police assaulting his flute duet.
• Producer and co-worker Becky Johnson & critics on her censorship complaints & exclusion from FRSC and Santa Cruz Indymedia.

The May 11, 2025 show includes:

+++  “Scope it Out” Scott fleshes out gloomy prospects at Tuesday’s S.C. Shitty Council

+++   [throughout] David Rovics “A [Musical] History of the World” 2011-2013

+++   Scott reviews the Downtown Expansion Plan as B-South of Laurel under cover.

+++   Phone interview with HUFFster “Tough Haul” Troy, the ordeal of S.C. outside living.

+++   Mid-April Food Not Bombs [FNB] interviews: Louisa Carolli on forced drugging in Santa Cruz. “Still Standing” Stephanie Ross on dangerous fungus among those outside….Smiley Big returns to the area looking for more activist opportunities: “No Cages, Please!” Jay speaks up…

+++    [5-5-25]  Visionsong Valerie strums and sings; Karefree Kelly, Midtown Madeleine.

+++    Billy Quealy on the Housing Struggle and Shitty Sheltering

+++    “Katzenjammer” Keith on FNB‘s financial problems in a wide-ranging rant.

The Flashback to September 5, 2005 includes:

+++  Christine of San Jose’s Area 420 working on guidelines, ID cards, but opening dispensary?

+++  Bathrobespierre and Troublesome Thomas Leavitt interview columnist and music critic Bruce Bratton and his establishment and alternative media days.

+++  Earthmommer and Lighthouse Linda fire questions at Bratton, while he describes his dismissal from Sentinel and Metro

+++   Bratton on Public Access and the Beach Boardwalk; Bathrobespierre critiques Bratton’s media silence on homeless and poverty issues, who pleads ignorance on those issues.

+++   “Lighthouse” Linda on her shelter priorities on the 1999-2000 Homeless Issues Task Force

+++   SAFE event #83 interviews with Hot Rod John Rapport, “Green Man”, Dan Hemmingway, Don Filano, Jennifer Lawson, Thomas Robb in the specifics of police harassment

+++    LisaMolyneux on her about-to-open medical marijuana club Greenway 

+++    “Dangerous” John Thielking reads HRO [Human Rights Organization] correspondence to and from Mayor Mike Rotkin.

+++    Ukiah’s Pebbles Trippet joins Bratton in denunciation of the Red Cross in the Hurricane Katrina crisis in New Orleans

+++    “Visionsong” Valerie asks about Katrina style suffering in Santa Cruz.

+++    Criticism of Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods.  

+++    “Road Scholar” (aka Gregarious Greg) and Leavitt on high rents also trap houseless here.

+++     Counterpunch stories on the U.S. Iraqi occupation

The May 8, 2025 show is a Flashback to April 9, 2000. 

It includes:

• Co-Host James Nay joins Bathrobespierre Robert throughout
• [4-5] Felton’s Happy Camper—adventures on street and shelter
• Blake Smith and Rev. Snow—both from Sacramento’s SHOC.
• Melissa Goldberg, UCSC student’s “Throwing the Homeless out of their Homes” paper
• Dead-on David Silva on futile negotiations, Green Party’s vote to join CD against City Council’s Tuesday Sleeping Ban silence, and his own Fast to end the Ban.
• Skidmark Bob’s “Skinheads with Underwear on Pacific Avenue” report
• Attorney Catnip Kate Wells on medical marijuana reform proposals + her new (soon to be zoned away) medical marijuana club; updates local homeless court cases
• Battling Bob L., Lighthouse Linda L., and “Lotta Law” Eleanor pack in updates.
• Nay on his Chalking “End the Sleeping Ban’ on the sidewalk with erasable chalk.

The May 4, 2025 show includes:

• Discussion with People’s First Director Evan Morrison regarding Armory rules and outcomes with HUFFsters.
• More musical history from David Rovics throughout
• LawWatcher Laura C. lastest report from the Board of StuporVipers to fund MHCAN even at its reduced size.
• Moments and Musings from the May 1^st Rally and March 
• San Jose Mayor Matt Mayhem Cracks Down on RV survival campers

The Flashback to December 7, 1997 includes:

• Avery’s panhandling, leaning, and sitting on cardboard ticket
• Bathrobespierre Previews 12-8 City Council, Updates the 11-12 SCPD Happy John Dine slaying, and Lang’s Levee Curfew
• Callers sound off: Phil Free & V-Man give inside info and sharp criticism of law enforcers downtown
• Pat Kittle outraged at those surviving outside demands Bathrobespierre denounce littering campers.
• Beggarbacker Becky Johnson addresses the Magnet Effect and other hostile-to-the-homeless myths.
• Chaz, aka “The Widget Man” & “Hapless Harry”, on a 7-cop cite

The Flashback to December 21, 1997 includes:

• Tenant Tips from Marco Marconi of S.C. Tenant’s Union
• Pamela Gardela’s “equal access” case after ticketed for sitting on a bus bench with a monthly bus pass.
• “Happy” John Dine case Update and caustic commentary
• Norse critic Mike Mason attacks his analysis of the “Happy John” killing on KSCO radio.

The show has some sound problems and cuts off before it conclusion.

The May 1, 2025 show is a Flashback to parts of the February 14, 1999 show.  Parts of the sound are distorted.  The show includes:

• Political machinations around City Council’s Task Force to Examine the Camping Ordinance [TFECO]  and the 2^nd   Citizen Initiative to Eliminate the Sleeping Ban
• Audio testimony from a recent February 1999hearing
• Skidmark Bob vs. Officer Garner & Sgt. Sanderson for Trashcan Crime with threats of CPS child removal
• Skidmark gives more accounts of GrimGrip Garner’s  Abusive Behavior & SCPD’s Disappearing Tickets
• Rough-tongued Roxanne satirically critiques “sinister singing” downtown
• KSCO’s Steve Hartman on the Camping Ban (cuts off abruptly)

The April 27,2025 is a series of Flashback segments.

The November 9, 1997 Flashback includes:

• In-studio guest FRSC broadcaster Vinnie Lombardo (“the V-Man”)on police harassment for a FRSC table soliciting contributions
• Bathrobespierre’s “Leaning” ticket and strategies for cop-resisting
• Panhandling palaver
• Pandabear Paul Brindel on Eric Schek opposes the Camping Ban
• “Hapless Harry” aka Chaz on Court and Seaside Security thuggeries

The November 21, 1997 Flashback includes:

•  Skidmark Bob’s 1^st panhandling ticket in 6 years
•  The Rotkin-Kennedy leadership’s stop Celia Scott from being Mayor
•  Shadowside Sue’s report from Feed the People
• Fred Geiger, Phil Baer, and many others on the Scott debate
•  Charles Grey on Eugene’s Campaign for Legal Places to Sleep
•  Reverend Eric Duff on 48 notice to strip Eugene’s South Spit Jetty
  

The November 23, 1997 Flashback includes:

• Eddie Harris of the Sacramento Housing Alliance: Housing and Homeless Week
• P. Free, D. Silva, B. Johnson, D. Dumars and J. Cosner speak at the Happy John memorial 
• Bathrobespierre on the Citizens Police Review Board suborned by SCPD Chief Belcher

The April 24, 2025 show is a Flashback to October 11, 1998. 

These are recovered fragments of the show.  Some of the sound is distorted. 

• Lloyd Lawrence’s bizarre vehicular “camping” ticket while using a catheter
• 5 electoral candidates support ending the Sleeping Ban?  Could it be true?
• Bits from the Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe–“Community Policing Hotline”
• Cooperhouse Ground Breaking Interviews: Identifying issues and villains.
• Proposed “Shopping for Justice” (at Gottschalks) in Jerry Henry exclusion-harassment case by Attorney “Catnip” Kate Wells—charges dropped 
• Wells outlines Chaz the Fidget Man assaulted by Seaside security.
• Wells on other local cases: Frank Pucelik, Wanda, and David Hardy; her search for Marijuana Buyers Club property; cop’s “right” to lie in court without liability
• “Activists Overcome Banishment Decree in Isla Vista”  Oct 1998 Street Spirit
• Anniversary of Happy John Dine’s murder and cover-up on Nov. 12, 1997
• Latest Sleeping Ban Backroom Exchanges—David Silva’s report
• Cooperhouse Groundbreaking—a Look Back
• Berkeley Billy on Shelter Abuses at the Homeless Community Resource Center
• Review of The Celling—an expose of the U.S. Prison Industry

The April 20, 2025 show contains:

• Cheap RV Living https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TIzbXeM5I
• [throughout] Rovics Musical History early 21st century
• Monterey City Council’s anti-homeless vehicular sleeping ban
• Brian Tyler Cohen interviews Glen Kirschner on pro-immigrant court ruling
• [4-6] “Danger” on squatting, houseless, and trying to stay sober
• “Zorro” (aka Miguel de Leon) “housing” separating him from girl friend
• “Lafayette”‘s free suggestions to secure homeless property
• A Berkeley law student views the anti-genocide protests from a distance
• Pro-Israeli advocate Beggarbacker Becky Johnson concludes the 4-part argument.

The Flashback to June 14, 2015 includes:  

• “Cornerstone” Carol Denney on Berkley’s new anti-homeless laws and trades comparative criticism with the Santa Cruz situation 
• “Cornerstone” on Smoking impacts on the homeless; Tree slaughter in People’s Park; Challenging the anti-homeless merchant-funded Ambassadors; Black Lives Matter, Copwatch, and the BPD
• Andy Carcello out at the Homeless [Lack of] Services Center [HLOSC],  to shutdown June 29th Page Smith Community House  and Paul Lee Loft
• Steve Conover (“Boulder Creek Steve”) disputes HLOSC’s “volunteer” status.
• Joseph Taylor 3^rd on his “sitting” ticket
• [6-8] Lazor-tongue Lee at the FNB Emergency breakfast at Hiway 1 & Hiway 9; “Backtalk” Brent denounces the activists; Lucero Luna HLOSC report; Steve, Jeff Patterson, Dennis Etler, Cooper D’Angelo, Donna Marie, David Trujillo.
• “Unsheltered Lives Matter” by Steve Pleich  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/14/18773486.php
• “Push Back” Pat Colby & “Katzenjammer”  Keith McHenry on the Protest Breakfast
• Red Church Monday [6-9] Saint X cop report; “No food outside/keep off the Grass” Scott Gallagher; attorney Ed Frey; Hutch; “homefree” Carol & Nick 
•  Staff tries to betray the Comstock-Posner 24-hour bathrooms with 25K cut