WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio

31/05/2024

WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio : WRYAT S7E6 - Freedom of Speech

We are back.   Like that movie about the dinosaurs that use trucks as skateboards. But instead of doing cool tech deck Ford F-150 tricks, we use soundwaves. Listen we looked at Freedom of Speech this week and metaphors and similies are on the table again. No more being direct with our language....

11/03/2024

Now that the Academy Awards are over, it's time for the second most self-congratulatory and morally bankrupt ceremony of the year. The Ritual commences this Friday, March 15, at Big Couch New Orleans. Come and pay tribute or don't come and pay with far more. We look forward to worshipping together with you. There will be snacks and drinks. There will not be refunds.

01/03/2024

Go to The Ritual or go missing. The choice is up to you. Your fate is up to us. March 15 at Big Couch. Tickets available now in comments. See you on the altar!

09/02/2024

Oh, it's my favorite time of year. The time when I can wear my fanciest suit. Get a nice flattering haircut. And roll out the red carpet. This is the only way to properly appreciate Arby's. MMMM Arby's. The horse sauce alone deserves to be honored with a plaque and a heartfelt thank you speech. Oh, oh, the curly fries should have a special category just for the best shape. I would die with anticipation on if the not fully cut but very structurally sound sightly wound-up piece won. Anywho, WRYAT is going to the public radio awards show. So cross your fingers and dried out french fry daggers for a swiping win this year.

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08/02/2024

The most exclusive, important, and culturally relevant event to ever befall the Greater New Orleans Area is nearly upon us. That's right, we're talking about The 4th Annual Public Radio Awards. Broadcasting live tomorrow on WRYAT. Clear your schedules this weekend, New Orleans, because you cannot possibly want to miss this.

05/02/2024

The New Orleans-Metairie metropolitan statistical area's biggest night is almost here! Public Radio Now is proud to present The 4th Annual Local Public Broadcasting Awards with hosts Ronavan & Donald D'Amico. Tune into WRYAT for an exclusive live broadcast of this most prestigious event on Friday, February 9. See you on the beige carpet!

02/02/2024

Politics today. Am I right? One dude yelling into another dude's mouth. Like a momma bird giving a baby worm chew. It's really beautiful. Nature is crazy though. Like, a girl I knew in grade school once found one of those baby birds under a tree, and she took it home to raise it. Every night she feed it wet dog food and gave it water. Like after a month, the thing grew up and was fluttering around the house. She stopped coming to school cause she wanted to make sure her "baby" was safe. Her parents tried to get her to go outside but she just locked herself away. I haven't been by her house in years but some say she's still there taking care of her baby birds and also starring in a bunch of movies and starting a website named after that baby bird. I think it was called Goop. Anywho, WRYAT finally has the talk about nature.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/wryatradio/Boat_Talk_S7E4_finak.mp3

26/01/2024

There are times in life when you have had a rough day and all you want to do is grab a pizza and lay on the couch to watch a movie. The comfort of finally relaxing after being overworked by Tammy at the office. Getting her coffee and listening to her talk about how cute her kids are. How overbearing it is that she comes to check on you around lunch to see if you want to join several others at the office for some chicken at B-Dubs. The way she thanks you for your work and says nice things to "encourage" you. No thank you. Give me Robocop. Anywho, WRYAT explores the art of film in this week's episode.

There are times in life when you have had a rough day and all you want to do is grab a pizza and lay on the couch to watch a movie. The comfort of finally relaxing after being overworked by Tammy at the office. Getting her coffee and listening to her talk about how cute her kids are. How overbearing...

19/01/2024

They say your memory is like a sponge. They say sponges soak up stuff but not everything. They say the movie The Stuff is a masterpiece of cinema and eventually the critics will wake up to its level of humor and horror that merges so seemlessly into a velvety concoction. Anywho, we totally look at brain stuff this week on this week's episode of WRYAT.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/wryatradio/S7E2_-_Total_Recall_.mp3

12/01/2024

Gosh, time just goes by and it reminds me to stop every so often and look at my hands. Those two, ten-digited creepy octopus of appendages. Last year may have been rough but at least I am not one giant hand. Lord, I would be terrifying and horribly off-centered. Anywho, we're back and getting more better.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/wryatradio/S7E1_-_Getting_More_Better_mixdown.mp3

05/01/2024

The new season drops on the 12th. In the meantime check out our new corporate overlords.

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Part 2 of the Public Radio Now takeover. The WRYAT station is now affiliated with Public Radio Now, so the national syndicate is holding a pledge drive to raise funds for a studio appropriate for humans. This special is in no way endorsed by public radio competitors NPR, WWNO, or the New World Order...

20/04/2023

13/05/2022

Remember when you were a kid and time was kept by when the school year ended and summer began. Camp, pools, and endless hours just staring at the clouds. I wish I could go back to that. I would literally do anything to relive those golden years. I would go over to an old man's house and dress up as his deceased wife and pretend that I am said wife to learn the formula he came up with in the 60s for travel to other universes using string theory. I would lie in bed with this man every night singing him to sleep so that he can whisper the secrets of time in his sleep as I write them down. And on that day I crack time travel, I will pull off that wig and thank that man. Anywho, summer is here and so is WRYAT. See you outside and I will be seeing you Prof. Ferdinand Henderson.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/wryatradio/WRYAT_S6E6_-_Summer_Vacation_mixdown.mp3

06/05/2022

That ole goverment. It is with you when you are born and long after you are dead. It watches you when you sleep and is always there. When I was a kid I would write the goverment notes about how it would be great if we could be together. After 25 long years, it wrote back. But the goverment said it was seeing someone else and that while it like my weekly letters and commerative calendar of me holding goverment documents, it sadly did not thing we had a spark for longevity. I get it. It has been around for 100+ years and with my eating habits I have like 8 to 9 years tops. So WRYAT celebrates the local goverment and all it does for us.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/wryatradio/WRYAT_S6E5_-_Local_Government_mixdown.mp3

29/04/2022

Trees. They stand there and they see everything. They see kids playing in the street. They see cars go by. They even see where that one guy who runs in those short shorts goes. They guy isn't running but everytime I tried to follow him home, he eludes me. Like why is he wearing sunglasses at night? What is his deal? I just want to know where a man like that lives. Why won't the trees tell me his secrets!!!! Anywho, WRYAT takes a look at Arbor Day on this week's episode.
https://traffic.libsyn.com/wryatradio/WRYAT_S6E4_-_Arbor_Day_mixdown.mp3

15/04/2022

Ah, the spring is here. For 27 whole minutes, you can walk outside in your slick black jeans, wear a light top and feel the brisk air on your toes before the sun god RA and that dumpster behind the burger place's bastard demi-god child rears their sweaty, muggy self and issues forth the recogning of summer like no mortal should have to witness. Anywho, its Easter or what not and that means its cool to eat whole eggs on the bus, the first and only time you probably will go to Mass, and time for remember that you have Friday off. Wait we do? Well thanks Janet for telling me now. Go listen to the podcast, I have to make some plans.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/wryatradio/WRYAT_S6E3_-_Easter_mixdown.mp3

08/04/2022

Oh boy, life sure can be hard. Just last week I was walking the dog and it started barking at a tree. What an idiot. Its a tree. It can't hear you or feel ashamed that you are calling it out for not being the man your mother was hoping for or the caring individual your dad could relate to. It's just a tree. It's not like the tree can look at its life and feel slightly bad for not applying its treeself more. Anywho, I have a lot to think about and a bag of dog mess to throw away. Enjoy this week's episode of WRYAT as we say that it gets better so stick with it.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/wryatradio/WRYAT_S6E2_-_It_Gets_Better_mixdown.mp3

01/04/2022

Have you ever looked in the mirror and saw someone not you? You stare and stare and that person, that being, has the audacity to ask you what you want to order at Taco Bell. Anywho, WRYAT is back with a new season and we explore alternate worlds. https://traffic.libsyn.com/wryatradio/WRYAT_-_S6E1_-_Earth_616_mixdown.mp3

18/03/2022

Boy oh boy, its been awhile. People have had kids, I know a dude who got married, and I took up my new pandemie project. Oh I call my pandemic projects pandemie projects now. Anywho, I took up collecting craft projects and I just clip out projects and print them out. I haven't built anything yet but you know, got to stay busy. So here's the deal, we have the best of season 5 here and it slaps, so go ahead and take an ear gander.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/wryatradio/Best_of_Season_5_mixdown.mp3

10/01/2022

WRYAT's own Andrew Bascle talking about the show on Podcasting for Standups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UDQ8kGf02g

Jon interviews Drew Hugh castmember of the "WRYAT Radio" podcast.Drew details the collaborative process of planning, writing and producing a narrative comedi...

05/11/2021

Fire. Brimstone. Putrid Smells. No, it's not Mardi Gras yet, it's the end times folks. Someone unleashed the old ones and the Big Easy is more like Big Fire Easy. So grab your tin foil blankets and can of beans and get ready to face the inferno with WRYAT.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wryatradio/S5E12_Finale_mixdown.mp3

Fire. Brimstone. Putrid Smells. No, it's not Mardi Gras yet, it's the end times folks. Someone unleashed the old ones and the Big Easy is more like Big Fire Easy. So grab your tin foil blankets and can of beans and get ready to face the inferno with WRYAT.

03/11/2021

Oh no the brothers Damico did it again. Check out the first 5 mins of Season 5's finale episode. Will Ronnie save New Orleans? Will Donnie see that it was about the friends we made along the way is what really matters?

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Oh no the Domico brothers did it again!! Tune in Friday morning to see how they get out of this one.

29/10/2021

The age of wires and circuits are upon us. Bask in the light of hard drives and servos. WRYAT is looking to the future. A future where you mom doesn't think it is weird to hand out with an old guy who lives in a garage behind Arby's on the Westbank. A future where you can wake up at 2 am to hang out with said old man to do experiments with a dog in a car. A future where Libya freely hands over plutonium to that same old dude who sleeps on a cot above said case of plutonium. One can dream and so can you as WRYAT explores Neo Orleans, the ability to talk to babies in the womb, and the future of crypto.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wryatradio/S5E11_Futurology_mixdown.mp3

The age of wires and circuits are upon us. Bask in the light of hard drives and servos. WRYAT is looking to the future. A future where you mom doesn't think it is weird to hand out with an old guy who lives in a garage behind Arby's on the Westbank. A future where you can wake up at 2 am to hang out...

22/10/2021

To find someone that gets you is like finding a tatertot at the bottom of your Arby's bag. You know there is no tots there but it just showed up. You are going to eat it cause you are a hungry little monster but you can't seem to shake the desire to know how that tater got into your bag. Relationships are a mystery and WRYAT is here to help. Tune in to this week's episode where we review romantic movies and fix a marriage.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wryatradio/S5E10_Relationships_mixdown.mp3

To find someone that gets you is like finding a tatertot at the bottom of your Arby's bag. You know there is no tots there but it just showed up. You are going to eat it cause you are a hungry little monster but you can't seem to shake the desire to know how that tater got into your bag. Relationshi...

15/10/2021

New Orleans is a town to visit. A town to get an Air BnB and walk around pretending to be a local. A town to take your shoes off and walk barefooted through the French Quarter and run your toes in the puddles of Bourbon St. WRYAT is here to help make your trip to this fine city one that will leave a lasting infection, I mean impression. Check out this weeks episode when we save the symphony, book a tour, and have a bag of chips.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wryatradio/S5E9_Tourisim_mixdown.mp3

New Orleans is a town to visit. A town to get an Air BnB and walk around pretending to be a local. A town to take your shoes off and walk barefooted through the French Quarter and run your toes in the puddles of Bourbon St. WRYAT is here to help make your trip to this fine city one that will leave a...

08/10/2021

Gosh, memories are swell. At WRYAT we love just staring listlessly out the only window of the shed at the Popeyes across the street. Sometimes we just think about all those times when the yesteryear was so much better than this year. We remember parties with friends and physical embraces. Hell we haven't been hugged since 1997. So as you think about the last time someone touched you, check out this weeks episode of WRYAT.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wryatradio/S5E8_Nostalgia_mixdown.mp3

Gosh, memories are swell. At WRYAT we love just staring listlessly out the only window of the shed at the Popeyes across the street. Sometimes we just think about all those times when the yesteryear was so much better than this year. We remember parties with friends and physical embraces. Hell we ha...

01/10/2021

Well it is kinda that time of year again where festivals reign supreme over your weekend plans. Where you can celebrate the mundane things you take for granted and build an entire festival around it, with food, music, and drunk friends telling you how many festivals they go to and how they love live music and how they don't actually go to bars to see live music because the festivals have the live music and who in their right mind would go to a rando bar uptown to discover a surf rock band or a string trio that could be their new favorite when there is so many cover bands at their fingertips as they sit on lawn chairs .... Sorry, got carried away. Anywho, WRYAT is back this week with all things festivals.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wryatradio/S5E7_Festivals_mixdown.mp3

Well it is kinda that time of year again where festivals reign supreme over your weekend plans. Where you can celebrate the mundane things you take for granted and build an entire festival around it, with food, music, and drunk friends telling you how many festivals they go to and how they love live...

24/09/2021

What is dead can never live. At WRYAT we take death very seriously and enjoy watching a soul leave someone's mouth as they pass on to the afterlife. Having been there ourselves, we know that it is like going to Olive Garden, delicious and filled with people who should not be eating there. Join us as we face death at the racetrack, review movies, and roast the dead on New Orleans' only radio station that dares stare death in the face for longer than any person should.

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What is dead can never live. At WRYAT we take death very seriously and enjoy watching a soul leave someone's mouth as they pass on to the afterlife. Having been there ourselves, we know that it is like going to Olive Garden, delicious and filled with people who should not be eating there. Join us as...

06/09/2021

It's that time of year again to close your shutters, bring in your lawn chairs and lawn children, and hide in your windowless closet from the scary men of the Weather Channel. It is hurricane season again and we at WRYAT are prepping with our storm chickens and looking back at past hurricanes, preparing our boats, and surfing the spillway. Join us as we talk all things Hurricanes.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wryatradio/S5E5_Hurricanes_mixdown.mp3

It's that time of year again to close your shutters, bring in your lawn chairs and lawn children, and hide in your windowless closet from the scary men of the Weather Channel. It is hurricane season again and we at WRYAT are prepping with our storm chickens and looking back at past hurricanes, prepa...