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This is part II of Talk Humboldt’s exploration of what it’s like running education programs at Pelican Bay.Episode first aired August 7th, 2025.

What would it be like to actually work alongside incarcerated students? And what’s a typical day like for students and instructors?This episode originally aired August 21st, 2025.

Today we have a recording deep from the Internet Archive, a performance from Albino! - a 10-piece, award-winning Afrobeat ensemble from San Francisco, performing live at the Benbow Summer Arts and Music Festival, back on June 4, 2006.

In this week's Talk Humboldt, Cody Roggatz spoke with Keith Flamer and Tom Jackson about what he's got in the works for ACV, the airport's historical relationship.

"We've got some from Arcata High, we've got some from Fortuna High... we've got a lot of good competitors," says Marco Luna. "Those kids are chasing their dreams."

If time is a river, it makes sense that the historic Requa Inn sits at a river mouth. For over a century, guests have come and gone - but so have families, industries, and even dams. "There's six dams between here and the Klamath Falls in Oregon. And so they've taken down two dams now. And a lot of that conversation happened in that dining room," says innkeeper Cass Kuck.

Dean Hunt's great-grandfather couldn't the afford mountain acreage he hoped for, so he settled for 80 acres in the Arcata bottoms. "Little did he know, that 80 acres was more productive than 2,000 acres in the hills," Hunt says. "This country always grows grass… it may not be quality grass, but it's always growing a little bit."

In a nondescript building on the north side of Eureka, recovering addicts are reclaiming their lives from substance abuse. It takes a village to support their work: kitchen crew, medical professionals, caseworkers, intake staff, technicians - and chief operations officer Jamaica Bartz.

Fire poles and ladder trucks are quintessential to how most people think of fire stations, and Humboldt Bay Fire Station is no exception. But it turns out that Humboldt Bay Fire does much more than just firefighting. In fact, it's not even their most common service. "Our primary responses are medical, so emergency medical services are about 60% of our calls. Fires only account for about 4%," says Chief Sean Robertson.Subcribe on SpotifySubscribe on Apple PodcastsIn today's episode of Talk Humboldt with Keith & Tom, Chief Sean Robertson talks about "enhanced moments", his very first fire, and the truth about rescuing cats from trees.

Looking across a pastoral lot in McKinleyville, Mary Keehn points to a family of deer. "Wait 'til we walk a little further to the farm, then you'll be able to see why this is such a special spot." By next year, she hopes, the edges of this 17-acre lot will be an intentional community for neurodivergent people and their caregivers.