Salinas Underground

About Salinas Underground

A podcast talking about Salinas. The social issues, the community events, the great restaurants and bars and anything about life in the Salad Bowl.

Publisher

Salad Bytes Media

Category

comedy · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

8 May 2014

Latest episode

18 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 394 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Cars, Crafts, and California Brews Festival

   Orlando, festival organizer, discusses the inaugural Cars, Crafts, and California Brews Festival celebrating the California lifestyle in Salinas.

2. 

   27 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Protect Salinas Renters Update

   This week, we get an update from Protect Salinas Renters about the rent stabilization ordinance. Over 10,000 signatures were gathered to get it on the ballot in front of Salinas voters. Xago, Jesus, and Jasmine sit down with Oz to talk about how we got here and the upcoming election.

3. 

   16 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   As Things Change Everything Stays the Same

   The world is in a state of constant change, and Salinas is no different. In this episode, Oz talks about changes happening around town. Change is not always welcome, and we are seeing some of that in our local politics. Even though change is always happening, the past has a strange habit of sticking around longer than we expect, and Salinas is seeing some of that as well.

Inside a recent episode

Cars, Crafts, and California Brews Festival

Published 18 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] No, that's the beginning. What's the end of summer? I don't know what the end of summer is, but to me, because our summer is later, I feel like this is a perfect kind of festival to be like, hey, dude, in two weeks, it's going to be cold. It's going to start getting, you know, not rain. Hopefully it rains. We need the rain. But again, I feel, at least for this area, it's a perfect... And the fact that it's a California-based, like, you know, it celebrates the bounty of our state. This is... Again, I don't know. I'm from here. So all I know is this. But you hear so often of how, you know, within 300 miles, how when it comes to produce and beer and music and cars, I mean, low rider culture. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

32 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

93

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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