The January 2, 2005 show is a Flashback to June 5, 2005. 

It includes:

• 2-hour interview with Robert Lederman, President  of Artists Response to Illegal State Taxes, on his NYC legal fight for the rights of street vendors, performers, & wanderers to sell art or simply be there.
• Julia Vinograd’s voice and verses from Bubbles and Bones (1995)
• Ron Lau speaks about the City’s Redevelopment Agency to seize his Pacific Ave. property
• Caregiver & Cannabis advocate Jim Lohse of area20.com: follow the law!
• Andrea Tishler of Compassion Flower Inn on Coral’s WAMMM‘s finally pressing City Council to extend its medical marijuana distribution allowance.

The Sunday December 29, 2024 show includes:

• https://www.marinij.com/2024/12/13/novato-tightens-camping-rules-enraging-advocates-for-homeless/
• https://www.marinij.com/2024/12/23/novato-vigil-march-held-for-homeless-residents/
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/marin-judge-backs-novato-in-homelessness-ruling/ar-AA1wgaVu
• https://duckduckgo.com/?q=A+History+of+the+World+according+to+David+Rovics&atb=v315-1&t=chromentp&ia  [music and commentary by David Rovics at various points throughout the netcast]
• [12-23-24] Food Not Bombs activist Keith McHenry on the City’s Funding Matters memorial and the FNB memorial—both in honor of the unhoused who died in 2024.  https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/12/30/18871791.php
• [12-21-24] Voices from the Town Clock Memorial: “Just Call Me” George, “Lawseeker” Laura, “Katzenjammer” Keith, “Earthbound” Eagle, & “Dedicated” Drew.
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/family-relationships-20000060.php I Cut Ties With My Parents; I Don’t Regret It, & Here’s Why”
• [12-26-24] Vets Hall Xmas Meal Chatter Outside: Robert “Harley” Jackson, Stevie Ray, Babushka, Robin, Gene Dulles,
• [12-28-24] Sara R. on getting work while homeless, Christopher Robinson, Xavier on getting back his Santa Cruz house

The Flashback to July 31/August 1, 2005 includes:

• Street Smatterings: Doe-eyed Deon, Gregarious Greg, Beachside painter John, “Just My Luck” George,
• Phone interview with Stephen Pearcy fighting censorship of his anti-war soldier displays on his home.
• SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression) #71
• Danielle Hemingway on her Skateboarding/Loitering under an Alcove in the Rain/Stop sign violation sojourn at the jail farm.
• Pebbles Trippet’s poetry, conversation with Greenway’s Lisa Molyneux, Andrea Morgan, Anita Henri

The Thursday, December 26, 2024 show is a Flashback to July 21, 2005 including

• San Diego’s free radio station www.pirate969.org, raided by the FCC 
• “BattleReady” Bob Patton of the Human Rights Organization on the local SEIU‘ssupport for its pro-Sleeping Ban Park Ranger employees. “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson[BJ] joins. 
• BJ Excluded from FRSC and Indybay Collective
• Attorney “Catnip” Kate on FRSC “censorship”
• Norse Just Censored & Arrested at City Council?
• “Steadfast” Steve Argue on SEIU Bad Leadership
• “Catnip” on the Jerry Henry case

The Sunday December 22, 2024 show includes:

• https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/12/04/watsonville-commission-overrides-appeal-of-downtown-homeless-micro-village-plan/
• [periodically throughout] Dylanesque songs by Jesse Welles
• Most of the December 19hop-a-long HUFF meeting:
•       +++  Call 831-216-8239 to record incidents of anti-homeless abuse and hold government thugs and poverty pimps accountable.
•       +++  Rockhardo reports on being assaulted in his camp
•       +++  Law-watcher Laura reviews Troy Mason’s Small Claims Court hearing 
•       +++  Prep for Trustseeder Thomas’s truthful Tips for those outside
• Hawk on the recent police “safety” break-up of his campsite
• Dreamcatcher’s positive look at the Armory long-term shelter

The Flashback to September 11, 2005 includes:

•  [9-2]  Tom Hatch busted for medicinal marijuana;
• Bus Driver Ari on Mayor Rotkin’s “Two Hats”.
• Tina of San Jose’s area420 on lack of marijuana outreach
• SLV student Chris at 18 is anti-Iraq war
• [9-3] Blueshirt Bully P. Bechtel Bombards Bicyclists
• “Scope it Out” Scott on Sleazy Developer behavior
• Jeremy the Jeremy on Bench Removal near Union Grove
• Eli Williams—the street singer and pro-Iraqi war soldier
• [9-9]  Parolee & S.C. suspect Mad Mike the Wonder Dog’s prison tour
• Street eyes: Michael of Catalyst, Visionsong Valerie
• Benchsitter beggar David Loftstead on S. California
• Merryweather Mike’s stylings
• Lean on phony probation jailing
• Lisa Molyneux on imminent opening of Greenway
• “Dangerous” John T. of the Human Rights Organization
• Upcoming City Council in View: BB’s report
• Skidmark Bob on New Orleans; Pat Kittle on crappy homeless campsites; Visionsing counters
• Andrea Tishler on allowing S.C. adults to use grass
• Bad Cop, No Doughnut weekly show for 9-5-05

The December 19, 2024 show flashes back to September 15, 2005 and includes:

• San Lorenzo Park housed neighbors on Dakota Street demand class cleansing of the park at night in speeches to City Council.
• Roughrider Richard Quigley denounces Karen Hibble, “unelected queen of Aptos”, and the attacks on Jerry Henry, street pastor to the youth at Rancho Del Mar.
• Quigley’s biker court battle with the many riding-with-a-non-regulation helmet tickets.
• SAFE singers versus acrylic painter with toxic materials
• Very Brief Brozda update on his electoral campaign

The Sunday December 15, 2024 show includes:

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/busing-people-homelessness-relocation-programs-19949400.php
• Reggie Meisler on his involvement in the last few years of RV survival camping here
• https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/12/15/meditations-on-a-six-year-old-amputee-crawling-through-gaza-with-the-help-of-a-roller-skate/
• Meisler on the ineffectiveness of symbolic protest against the Gaza genocide and Santa Cruz’s treatment of its unhoused refugees
• https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/12/05/guest-commentary-volunteer-at-thanksgiving-meal-was-unable-to-find-shelter-help-for-elderly-woman/
• [12-14] Conversations under the Food Not Bombs canopies against the rain & wind
  • Stefanie Ross on police banning her from all parking lots.
  • Christopher Picard, on his eviction from the Armory, his struggles with rumored 12′ x 12′ rest spaces on the sidewalk.
  • “Determination” Drew on the merciful break in the weather.

The Flashback to October 23, 2005 includes:

• Shoplifting as a healthier way of life—socially and individually.
• Iraqis support attacks on Allied troops story
• [9-28-05]  Bike activist Micah Posner supports avoiding a fence at the Ocean View Path by removing brush cover for the homeless from East Cliff to S. Branciforte.
• Tim O’Hearn , Union Rep for In-Home Care Workers attacks Councilmember Madrigal and Union boss Cliff Tillman
• [10-19-05] Robert, Julie, and Ian—Tales of Police Pressure
• Caveman on History of Afflicting the Comfortable 
• Jason Pasquale’s Account (and Caveman’s) of his arrest
• Andrea Meagan on Cop Beating
• Brozda’s Latest Barnstorming and Banning
• James Patrick Dolan 4^th at SAFE
• Pebbles Trippet of the Medical Marijuana Patients Union on a Mendicino murder trial
• Scott on Camp Break-up; Gregarious Greg songsinging
• Skidmark’s Pop Defect show on the City’s Swipe at Scavenging Recyclers
• [10-16-05]  

Thursday December 12, 2024 show flashes back to October 13, 2005. 

It includes:

• In-studio guest and Metro Bus Drivers Strike critic Paul Marcelin Sampson bat back and forth calls and opinions of the Strike.
• SAFE singers on the loose singing and chatting
• Augusto Sandino, Emery Ross and other callers clash with Sampson on the strike
• Discussion of the Contract rejected
• Andrea Morgan praises the new Greenway Medical Marijuana club
• Richard gets ticketed for Sugar his dog after a snooze on the sidewalk

The December 8, 2024 show includes:

• https://podfollow.com/1654047988/episode/8d2a9c89f11b42e68663c98df8cb3b483d8894a2/view  Where is my Mind?: Bad Science with Robert Whitaker
• “Scope It Out” Scott Graham and Bathrobespierre Robert take pot shots at the Santa Cruz Shitty Council’s 12-10-24 agenda
• “Silver-Tongue” Steve Pleich sometime houseless local activist covers a wide variety of “then and now” topics

The Flashback to September 28, 2014 includes:

• [throughout] Analysis of the proposed police-powered Stay-Away Order expansion, repression of audio recording at City Council, the Parking lot Panic law.
• Protest, Speak-Out for the first SC Council meeting in September 2014; 
• Update on Assistant City Manager Scott Collins’ Anti-Homeless “Mosquito” “No Loitering” shrill sound devices
• Former Mayor Bruce Van Allen’s Kick-off Rally and other electoral speeches 
• Vehicular habitation interviews: Graham Pruss (Road to Housing program Seattle  ), Julie Schaul, J.M. Shall, Sherry Decker, and others grahampruss@compasshousingalliance.org 
• Julie S. on anti-homeless neighbor Pressure on Circle Church to drive away the early morning center 
• Jerry Fall on “progress” towards a De Sal project
• Candidate Lannie Sherman and other speakers at the rally.
• Updates from post-Michael Brown police slaying in Ferguson, MO
• John Crawford, black man, shot dead in Ohio Walmart: Implications in Santa Cruz; Lessons from the Benchlands SC-11 Clearing.
• “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on the SCPD, the proposed Homeless Bill of Rights, her “Smart Solutions to Homelessness” group and Upgrading HUFF

The Thursday December 5, 2024 show is a Flashback to August 17, 2017.  It includes:

• “Beggerbacker” Becky Johnson reports on Sheriff Tow of Sara’s tent-on-top-of-trailer on Lapis Road and Marina
• “Whip ’em into Shape” Wes White on the scene at the vehicle-home seizure
•  At August HUFF “Tufluv” Tuckerinterviews”Dialogue-First” David Silva on Homeless Connect; Squatter Jan working, seeking services, trying to get a vehicle; Sherie Cherie on City harassment of MHCAN’s Sarah Leonard and targeted ticketing
• ]8-12] “Lighthouse” Linda Lemaster on John Stewart Company’s rent rousts
• Kip on “Give Back Santa Cruz”
• Anal Communications at Shitty Council: Silva on police misconduct, Nate Kennedy demanding businesses open their bathrooms; 
• [8-15] “Scope it Out” Scott Graham on the closing and history of the Cafe Pergolesi

The December 1^st 24, 2024 show includes:

• Interview with videojournalist/activist Wes White on trials of a homeless activist in Trumpism Times
• [throughout] Chanties by Carol Denney from A Toast to the Union
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/city-cuts-number-days-homeless-families-shelter-19941713.php
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ucsb-protest-search-warrant-19944165.php
• [11-28] Thanksgiving Chowline and Chatter at the Vets Hall:  Angel of Occupy Santa Cruz looks back; Babuska (Jasmine’s mom) remembers gun-toting Officer Hernanez https://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/public-safety-danger-in-santa-cruz-gunmen-armed-with-badges-and-attitude/; Shantysurfer Julie Schaul on the Homeless and Higher Education; Angel and Athena on the predatory Proposition 36; Jim Vivian on Zayante’s Free Food Church and other real homeless services as well as the cutoff of services in Felton and Cabrillo College jim.vivian@yahoo.com
• Further updates from Vaxducker Sonya; Isaac Collins looking through his Lyrical Eye
• [11-30] Chaotic comments from Cooper; Drawdowns from Drew;  Juan on low-grade copish harassment; and Madcap mumblings from Mel, and
• Last Word(s) from Keith McHenry—a jovial description of rising prices and sinking hopes.
• https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/they-lied-about-gaza-and-theyre-lying-about-syria
  

The Flashback to January 15, 2017 includes: 

• Frenzied times in Tampa Florida—Keith McHenry reports Food Not Bombs [FNB] trespassing-in-the-park and food-sharing-without-a-permit plus supportive demonstrations and international FNB reports
• [throughout] Ryan Harvey songs from Occupying Forces album & Santa Cruz’s own Jus’ Kiddin’s Moral Compass album.
• First They Came for the Homeless [FTCftH] in Berkeley at their 16^th location: supporter James and resident Mike Lee discuss the mobile herstory of their protest/survival encampment and adventures in court
• Lee on Social Service doubletalk about “no money”, but protest loosened their pockets  
• Lee on internal controversy within FTCftH
• Videographer Clark Sullivan and poet/activist Sarah Menefee on the herstory of FTCftH