Q'ed Up
101 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsA weekly podcast that delivers the best Bay Area news stories from KQED News directly to your ears. There’s a lot of news happening, and it can be easy to tune out or miss what’s going on outside of Washington D.C. Make sure you don’t miss the voices and stories that are important to your community. New episodes every weekend.
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Episodes
She Performed 50,000 Abortions and Went Toe to Toe with Jerry Brown’s Dad
April 15, 2018 22:00 - 9 minutes - 17 MBLong before Roe v. Wade, Inez Burns performed 50,000 illegal abortions in San Francisco.
The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service
April 08, 2018 21:54 - 12 minutes - 22.8 MBIn a small cemetery on the way to the Point Reyes Lighthouse rests the story of four men who risked their lives to save others. Plus other stories you might've missed this week.
How the Stephon Clark Shooting is Pushing Sacramento Over the Edge
April 01, 2018 05:46 - 9 minutes - 16.8 MBThe death of Stephon Clark is bringing long-simmering issues to the forefront in Sacramento. Plus other stories you might've missed.
California Kids Can’t Get into California Colleges — and That’s a Problem
March 25, 2018 02:22 - 7 minutes - 13.8 MBWhy some of California's best high school students are leaving the state for college and may never come back. Plus more stories you may have missed.
Gun Violence Isn’t New to These Oakland Students
March 18, 2018 02:27 - 5 minutes - 10.2 MBStudents in Oakland have been dealing with gun violence for years, but no one has walked out for them. Plus more news you might've missed.
‘Like a Nuke Had Gone Off’: The First Night of the Northern California Fires
March 11, 2018 01:40 - 7 minutes - 14.4 MBWhat happened on the first night of the deadly Northern California fires? Plus the land beneath our feet is sinking and more news you might've missed.
A Watercolor Love Letter to California’s Wilderness
March 05, 2018 00:05 - 7 minutes - 3.5 MBWildlands, Wikipedia and wildfire reports. Catch up on the week's news.
‘You Drive Until You Die’: Driving a Cab in the Age of Uber and Lyft
February 25, 2018 02:03 - 5 minutes - 10.8 MBHow cab drivers are dealing with the death of their industry, 'Lady Bird' love in Sacramento, a return to drought and more stories you might've missed.
If You Hella Love Oakland, You’ll Hella Love ‘Black Panther’
February 17, 2018 22:46 - 7 minutes - 14.1 MBThe indelible bond between Oakland and the Black Panther. Plus weird California politics and a car burglar's tips on how to avoid a car break-in.
One of the Most Impactful Laws You’ve Never Heard Of
February 10, 2018 23:52 - 9 minutes - 17.5 MBHow racist policies continue to affect our communities, the potential dangers of youth football, talking to the dead and more news stories you might've missed.
Oil and Water
January 31, 2018 22:18 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBIn California's Tulare County ag and oil often go hand in hand, and environmentalism can be a dirty word. People are proud of the fact that they make the things other people need here. This is where they make the food and energy that fuels the state, and the country. What they don't make, is a fuss. So what happens when a soft spoken farmer discovers an oil company is polluting one of the wells he uses for his crops?
The Bombs Last Blast
January 18, 2018 01:54 - 24 minutes - 34.2 MBIn telling ourselves the history of the atomic bomb, we can too often think they were only dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But there were other bombs that fell -- they just weren’t dropped on people. Not directly. They were dropped on Islands.
Off the Hamster Wheel
January 03, 2018 15:00 - 28 minutes - 64.6 MBFor the new year we bring you a story about how the thing you think makes you strong, may actually be your crutch. And about how letting go can make you stronger than you ever knew you could be.
The Making and Meaning of a Mock War
December 21, 2017 20:16 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBThis year, the headlines were grim. Natural disasters, from fires to hurricanes, and terrorist attacks from Las Vegas to New York. For many, 2017 felt like we were living on the edge of apocalypse. KQED’s storytelling podcast Q’ed Up brings you this story about, among other things, police and SWAT team training, moulage artists, fake news, and how to prepare for the worst things in the world. It’s an audio essay on violence, and the slippery slope between the real and the imagined.
The Verdict: A Killing on a San Francisco Pier
December 07, 2017 07:19 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBHow a death on a downtown pier in San Francisco became a national political lightning rod.
As Weed Is Legalized, Are Marijuana Reparations Possible?
November 22, 2017 01:37 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBFor a long time, race and racism have surrounded and shaped marijuana policy. First racist stereotypes were used to demonize the drug, then the drug was used to demonize -- and lock up -- people of color. As the state of California anticipates ganja going legit we ask: Is there a possibility for pot reparations?
Stories They Carried From the Fire
November 08, 2017 01:50 - 17 minutes - 41.1 MBIn this episode, stories from the front lines of the fires that devastated California's wine country.
Struggle over Sanctuary: The Kate Steinle Murder Trial
October 25, 2017 22:04 - 9 minutes - 20.7 MBPresident Donald J. Trump rose to power on a wave of anti-immigrant, nationalist sentiment. He wove a narrative of "bad" Mexicans, immigrants flooding over the border, bringing with them drugs and guns. And he used the case of Kate Steinle -- a 32-year-old white woman shot and killed on a San Francisco pier by a Mexican National -- to help sell the story. As the Kate Steinle murder trial begins in San Francisco, KQED reporters unpack the facts and falsehoods surrounding her tragic death.
The Teen, the Marine, and the Green Machine
October 11, 2017 01:30 - 20 minutes - 45.9 MBA story of unlikely allies whose friendship was forged in the shadow of Vietnam.
Adopted Country
September 28, 2017 01:17 - 5 MBA woman goes to Guatemala to help unwanted children. Then she is accused of child trafficking.
Into the Flood
September 15, 2017 23:58 - 5 MBKQED’s Alex Emslie embedded with rescuers from California as they searched flooded areas in Texas after Hurricane Harvey. He met men and women who dropped everything to head across the country and into the flood.
Free Speech and the Battle for Berkeley
September 13, 2017 01:23 - 5 MBKQED reporters take you into the mostly peaceful protests in late summer in Berkeley to ask what is free speech? And what happens when the line between speech and violence become blurred beyond recognition?
The Push In Solution
September 01, 2017 23:49 - 18 minutes - 33.9 MBWhen Michael Essien became an administrator at Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School in San Francisco he saw right away that he needed to help teachers get behavior issues under control. If students acted out in class, teachers were sending them to an in-school detention, where they waited for disciplinary action. Pretty soon, any kid who struggled with a lesson was trying to get sent to detention, just to avoid challenging work that might be embarrassing. Essien was seeing too many ...
Is This Deal Humane?
August 08, 2017 23:55 - 25 minutes - 58.2 MBAre bad conditions putting immigrant detainees at risk in some California jails?
The Committee No One Wants to Be on
July 27, 2017 00:40 - 9 minutes - 13 MBIn every city, there are a handful of committees that are essential to the way government functions. Committees made up of average, unpaid citizens. It's the people part of that "for the people, by the people" thing in our constitution. So just who wants to be on one of these committees? From our friends at The Specialist producer Raja Shah went to find out.
Spiral of Losses
July 20, 2017 01:16 - 5 MBThe story of one family fighting to hold on to their home in one of America's toughest housing markets.
Home-Less: Ebony’s Story
July 12, 2017 23:27 - 17 minutes - 32.3 MBWhat happens when you're poor and struggling, trying to go to college in one of America's most expensive cities? Sometimes you end up living out of your car. That's what happened to Ebony Ortega. She works at Starbucks and has a full course load at San Francisco State. What she doesn't have is a home.
Home-Less: The Shape-Shifter
July 06, 2017 19:46 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBJames is like a modern day Jay Gatsby, born to a poor family, but striving for greatness. He’s on a mission to transform himself. But the new identities he's creating - sometimes James himself can't keep track.
Home-Less: A Place of Her Own
June 28, 2017 23:37 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MBHow one woman juggles college, homelessness, and huge changes that are coming her way.
6. The Trials of Marvin Mutch: Like the Weather
June 23, 2017 03:08 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBParole in California changed in 2008, and lifers started to get released. But not Marvin Mutch. He needed help from the attorney behind that change, the prosecutor who convicted him and Cassie Riley's family.
5. The Trials of Marvin Mutch: Hope
June 14, 2017 00:30 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MBThe 1997 arrest of a couple later sentenced to death for a string of abductions, sexual assaults and one murder leads to an alternate theory about Cassie Riley's killer.
4. The Trials of Marvin Mutch: To Life
June 06, 2017 21:10 - 18 minutes - 25.8 MBMarvin Mutch was 19 years old when he went to prison in 1975, just before a punitive 'tough-on-crime' climate began to spread from California to the rest of the country.
3. The Trials of Marvin Mutch: The People v. Mutch
May 31, 2017 02:25 - 23 minutes - 32.3 MBHeaded for trial in early 1975, Marvin Mutch was confident he'd be found not guilty for the murder of Cassie Riley. But neither he, nor his sister Valerie, knew the prosecution's plans for both of them.
2. The Trials of Marvin Mutch: Lost Boy
May 24, 2017 00:35 - 17 minutes - 32.8 MBIn and out of foster care for most of their childhoods, Marvin Mutch and his sister Valerie grew to depend on themselves and each other. But a phone call put them both on a collision course with Cassie Riley's murder and the California criminal justice system.
1. The Trials of Marvin Mutch: Guilt
May 17, 2017 00:22 - 13 minutes - 18 MBMarvin Mutch is released from prison after 41 years and meets up with some friends who also spent a lifetime behind bars. Back in 1974, Cassie Riley's father discovers her body on the bank of a shallow creek.
Her Nuclear Option
May 10, 2017 02:19 - 22 minutes - 40.6 MBAs an environmentalist, Heather Matteson was pretty sure she was against nuclear power. It’s how she was raised to think. But when she starts working in the bowels of a nuclear reactor, she begins questioning what she knows and where her allegiances lie. Heather is heading deep into a decades-old conflict but one where old battle lines are changing. The reason is climate change. Environmentalists are being forced to reconsider it, after decades of protesting against it. And the flashpoint for...
Programmed to Survive
May 03, 2017 02:08 - 19 minutes - 34.8 MBGeorge Arthur joined the Marines back in the 1980s hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps. But he flunked out of basic training. Living in Chicago, George got married...then had a son who died just a few days after birth. George came west. To escape. But in San Francisco his marriage fell apart and he got deeper into drugs—weed, meth, cocaine... There were fights, a bad motorcycle accident.... it got so dark he found himself hanging by his fingertips from the Golden Gate Bridge. Report...
So Beautiful, And So Very White: Welcome to Marin
April 26, 2017 00:45 - 16 minutes - 22.3 MBHenry Ma's views on life in Marin County changed after he had two girls. He moved to the county from New York with his wife six years ago, and started to notice something about where he lived when he realized his daughters were the only two Asians at their school. Henry eventually started taking note of this in his everyday life. Anytime he saw another Asian in his neighborhood, he would do a double take. It made him wonder: if the Bay Area is one of the most diverse places in the country, w...
Sorry, the Therapist Can’t See You — Not Now, Not Any Time Soon
April 19, 2017 01:44 - 26 minutes - 48.6 MBNatalie Dunnage lives in San Francisco, a place where you think it would be easy to find a therapist. But when she needed one, she couldn't find any who took her insurance. Insurance companies say there is a shortage of therapists. What the heck is going on here? KQED's April Dembosky does her own search across the state to find out if therapy is becoming a hobby for the wealthy, rather than a necessity for the mentally ill.
Soundtrack of Silence
April 12, 2017 00:00 - 48 minutes - 66.3 MBA young man finds out he’s going to lose his hearing. So, he starts memorizing songs that will become the soundtrack for the rest of his life.
10. American Suburb: Post Script
April 05, 2017 00:58 - 12 minutes - 16.5 MBNot all residents of our town of Antioch welcome our examination of race in their suburb. Reporters Sandhya Dirks and Devin Katayama share reaction from Antioch and update us on what's taken place in the lives of some of the people we've met in the series. And the reporters bring us their favorite outtakes.
9. American Suburb: We Too Sing Antioch
March 28, 2017 23:39 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBA school counselor and local pastor arranges a middle school graduation celebration for African American students, but protests against the ceremony lead to racist graffiti on the pastor's church door. Nowhere are the changing demographics of suburbs like Antioch clearer than in the city's classrooms. But while the population of students is shifting, many of the educators still remain the same, and black students are far more likely to be suspended or expelled from school. How do young peopl...
8. American Suburb: Rabbit Hole
March 22, 2017 02:29 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBIt can be hard to get back on your feet when you’re starting from scratch -- even when opportunity falls in your lap. We meet Kevin Kunze, who was living on the streets until Doug Stewart decided to do something unusual: He took Kevin home with him to live with the Stewart family. It's a test for the family, but an even harder one for Kevin.
7. American Suburb: The Field
March 15, 2017 00:00 - 17 minutes - 5 MBAntioch residents are finding it hard to ignore the increasing number of destitute people living on the streets. Last year, the number of people living unsheltered grew by 30 percent in the far eastern Contra Costa suburbs-- the rest of the county saw declines. In this chapter Devin joins a group of drifters who’ve set up camp in an abandoned field on the edge of town. They’re honing their survival techniques and dodging authorities… trying to create their own version of suburban life.
6. American Suburb: Reasonable Fear
March 09, 2017 17:11 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBMore African Americans are now living in suburbs than anywhere else. And some of the country’s most recent controversial police shootings of unarmed black men took place in the suburbs outside St. Louis, St. Paul and Orlando. In suburban Antioch, police chief Allan Cantando is trying to bridge divides with the new community. To do that, he meets with a class of college students and asks them to role play as cops. Meanwhile, a budding group of community activists who say they’ve faced police...
5. American Suburb: How to Change Your Mind
March 02, 2017 02:11 - 27 minutes - 5 MBIris Archuleta is the daughter of a Black Panther who grew up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. She and her husband were part of the first wave of upper middle class African-Americans who moved to Antioch 20 years ago. This is the story of an unlikely alliance between Iris and the Antioch police. Both reject the single narrative here of “poor blacks” and the “inner city” moving out to Antioch. For them, Antioch is actually doing things right, if only their work wasn’t getting lost in a large...
4. American Suburb: Make Great America Again
February 22, 2017 02:08 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBA small group of Muslim families were meeting out of garages before they purchased an old dentist office for their new mosque. After the Islamic Center of the East Bay was torched in 2007, the group must decide whether to rebuild in Antioch or leave the city.
3. American Suburb: How to Survive an Exodus
February 15, 2017 01:40 - 24 minutes - 34.3 MBWhen African-Americans priced out of Bay Area cities like San Francisco, Fremont and Oakland move to suburban Antioch looking for better schools, more affordable homes and safer streets, they find a mixed blessing. [contextly_sidebar id="Y7svjEAl8pufzqTtG4Umy3ZV8Ouje8I0"] When church is a refuge, it means either commuting on Sunday morning back to the cities they left behind, or creating new church in Antioch. This is the story of a migration to a new home, and three men's search for sanc...
2. American Suburb: Friday Night Lights
February 08, 2017 00:15 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBNajee Harris is the country’s No. 1 high school football recruit. Principal Louie Rocha and the Antioch High School football team haven’t had it this good since 1978. It was a nearly all-white team then. It’s not that way anymore. And there have been racial tensions since the city started to change. Now, Rocha has a chance to change that. But only if he can bring the older generation back to cheer for a team that doesn’t look like them ... on and off the field.
1. American Suburb: The Tipping Point
February 07, 2017 00:26 - 5 MBA police chief in Antioch leads a team to investigate citizen complaints. But some say the complaints mostly target newer black residents. Across town, a lawyer is determined to bring down the Antioch Police Department, accusing them of ethnic cleansing. In between, neighbors are fighting neighbors over who can call this place home.