San Jo Lo Down

“The San Jo Lo Down is San Jose’s first podcast on working class culture, politics, and life–at work, at home, and at play. SJLD is a show about and for the incredible, diverse, talented, inspiring working people of our communities. ”
-SJLD Team

What is San Jo Lo Down?

The San Jo Lo Down is San Jose’s first podcast on working class culture, politics, and life–at work, at home, and at play. SJLD is a show about and for the incredible, diverse, talented, inspiring working people of our communities. Though we’ll have content on local music, politics, art, night life, events, and more, the podcast will feature the lives and perspectives of people like you, without whom San Jose would grind to a halt.

Speaker 1:

Strike averted at least for now. The city walk off in San Jose is not happening. City officials say late this afternoon, they reached an 11th hour conceptual agreement with

Speaker 2:

We were short counselors. We didn't have buses for fucking That's fucking wild rooms. And like football was a sport that kept a lot of the kids who were wanting to be game bangers out of the streets.

Speaker 3:

A lot of families in San Jose say rising rents are now threatening to price them out of their neighborhoods.

Speaker 2:

Let's see it.

Speaker 4:

Where's the role on that? Like, how many times can you call in sick in a month, like, you know, coming from another job that's they would tell us. Right? And you have a manual. And so then they said, oh, you have a union.

Speaker 4:

And I'm like, union? What's this business about? Oh, it's not one thing.

Speaker 3:

For a new report names San Jose as the worst place in the nation for prospective home buyers. When I crossed paths with the United Farm Workers, then, you know, I started thinking and seeing the world in a different, in a different way.

Speaker 1:

Nurses all across the Bay Area are demanding better working conditions.

Speaker 2:

Let's see it. It's expensive, man. Like, it's, it's alright that, you know, a studio is too bad. It's alright that Roshies went from $50 or or like 4 or 5 bags to a $150 for those same 4 or 5 bags. I guess, Sorry.

Speaker 2:

High is good at Spanish.