WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio
131 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHave you tried NPR? Other local radio stations? Well now you are here with WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio. We are the 5th ranked public radio station of New Orleans, but secretly we are a New Orleans podcast that satires everything you love about public radio. Think Prairie Home Companion but purposefully funny.
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WRYAT S7E5 - Awards Show
February 09, 2024 13:47 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MBOh, 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 from anticipation just waiting to hear if the not-fully-cut-but-very structurally-sound-slightly wound-up pi...
WRYAT S7E4 - The Conservation Conversation
February 02, 2024 13:12 - 20 minutes - 28 MBPolitics 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, this 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....
WRYAT S7E3 - Night of Film
January 26, 2024 02:37 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MBThere 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 ...
WRYAT S7E2 - Total Recall
January 19, 2024 01:09 - 45 minutes - 63.1 MBThey 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.
WRYAT S7E1 - Getting More Better
January 12, 2024 05:36 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MBSeems like only yesterday we were just a fledgling fifth-ranked New Orleans public radio station trying to make it on our own in the cutthroat world of local broadcast journalism. Now we're a bigtime fifth-ranked New Orleans public radio station that's an esteemed member of the nationally syndicated Public Radio Now network. Gosh, time just flies by, and it reminds me to stop every so often and look at my hands. I mean reallllllllllly look at them. Those two, ten-digited octopi of creepy, wr...
WRYAT - Public Radio Now Special Part 2
December 14, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 92.2 MBPart 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.
WRYAT - Public Radio Now Special Part 1
December 14, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 64 MBThe 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.
WRYAT S6E12 - WRYAT Beach Party 2022 Sponsored by Pudd Beer!
July 08, 2022 03:48 - 1 hour - 110 MBLive from Biloxi Beach in Mississippi, it’s the WRYAT Beach Party 2022 sponsored by Pudd Beer! The WRYAT Beach Party is our annual LIVE variety show concert event performed and recorded entirely on-stage on the beautiful shores of the Mississippi Gulf Coast! You're gonna die laughing at an uproarious live show featuring a murderer’s row of WRYAT personalities! And it's all hosted by none other than everyone’s favorite WRYAT personality: HIMBY JIMBY! What else could you possibly need t...
WRYAT S6E11 - Comedy
July 01, 2022 02:29 - 42 minutes - 59 MBLo and behold, WRYAT tackles comedy in the only way we know how, by loudly saying something is funny and not laughing, by explaining the joke for longer than the actual joke, and lastly, by asking you to come to our improv recital. Seriously, I got one coming up and I know I'm only a Level 3-Alpha 7, but if I can get three friends to come and one of them to sign up, I will have finally earned enough Carlin-Stars to advance a sub-level. Anywho, join us as we explore all that is funny at the s...
WRYAT S6E10 - Alternative Lifestyles
June 24, 2022 01:55 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MBHow does one become alternative? Did they have to live during that weird time in the 90s when rock was super into flannel and dudes just really wanted to mosh? Or does one need to be really deep in their song lyrics? Wait, oh goodness, I didn't read the lifestyles part. haha. What a goof! Here I am with egg on my face thinking alternative rock when this week's topic was really about people with cool kinks doing stuff at weird parties that the alt-rock kids would write sad songs about not bei...
WRYAT S6E9 - Labor
June 10, 2022 04:59 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBWork can be a wonderful thing if you have a job that you're passionate about and pays you well, provides good benefits, and actually contributes to the betterment of society. I have a job where I get to write synopses for this show. Some wouldn't find that very meaningful but I do. Oh, sure, the pay could be better, as well as the benefits. Actually, any benefits at all would be nice. As far as contributing to the betterment of society, I don't know that people even read these, or even care ...
WRYAT S6E8 - Late Night
June 03, 2022 04:55 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBAs the night falls over the Big Easy, I like to go to the levee and look at the West Bank. It really gets you to think. Why is the city so pretty with its lights but the West Bank turned thiers off so we think they aren't home? Why do I have this huge repulsion whenever someone suggests we drive over the bridge? What is even in Marrero? I've heard of it, but does it really exist? The night really gets you thinking when you have to go to the bathroom and you just let it rip by those bushes ne...
WRYAT S6E7 - Investigations
May 27, 2022 03:58 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBSometimes I sit at my desk with the lights low and I like to think of myself as a detecitve in those old movies. You know, the ones where the PI has had a hard life but still has a heart of gold. Then a woman walks in needing his help. He's dismissive at first but goes for it. Yea, I want that. I've tried online dating and it's terrible, so instead, I am opening a detective agency hoping to meet a woman like that. It's been 18 months and I've gotten a lot of cases for missing scooters and ch...
WRYAT S6E6 - Summer Vacation
May 13, 2022 04:59 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBRemember 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 sin...
WRYAT S6E5 - Local Governement
May 05, 2022 17:52 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MBThat 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 be...
WRYAT S6E5 - Local Government
May 05, 2022 17:52 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MBThat ol' government. 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 liked my weekly letters and commerative calendar of me holding goverment documents, it sadly did not think we had a spark for longevity. I get it. It has...
WRYAT S6E4 - Arbor Day
April 29, 2022 04:59 - 43 minutes - 60.3 MBTrees. 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. The guy isn't always running but everytime I've 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? Why won't the trees tell me his secrets?! Anywho, WRYAT takes a look at Arbor Day on this ...
WRYAT S6E3 - Easter
April 15, 2022 04:59 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBAh, 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 reckoning of summer like no mortal should have to witness. Anywho, it's Easter or whatnot, and that means it's cool to eat whole eggs on the bus, it's the first and only time you probably will go to Mass, and...
WRYAT S6E2 - It Gets Better
April 08, 2022 12:00Oh boy, life sure can be hard. Just last week I was walking the dog and it started barking at a tree. What an idiot. It's 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 w...
WRYAT S6E2 - It Gets Better
April 08, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MBOh 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 w...
WRYAT S6E1 - Earth 616
April 01, 2022 04:59 - 42 minutes - 58.3 MBHave you ever looked in the mirror and seen someone else? Someone different? Someone not you? You stare and stare at that person - that being - who has the audacity to ask you for money in exchange for what you just ordered at Taco Bell. Anywho, WRYAT is back with a new season where we explore alternate worlds.
Best of WRYAT Season 5
March 18, 2022 04:59 - 53 minutes - 73.1 MBBoy 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.
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 12 - Armageddon
November 05, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 98 MBFire. 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 the Big Fire...Easy. So grab your tinfoil blankets and can of beans and get ready to face the inferno with WRYAT.
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 11 - Futurology
October 29, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBThe 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 hang 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 a.m. to hang out with said old man and 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 ...
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 10 - Relationships
October 22, 2021 04:00 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBTo find someone that gets you is like finding a tater-tot at the bottom of your Arby's bag. You know there are supposed to be no tots there but it just showed up anyway. 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.
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 9 - Tourism
October 15, 2021 04:00 - 37 minutes - 51 MBNew 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.
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 8 - Nostalgia
October 08, 2021 04:30 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBGosh, 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 week's episode of WRYAT.
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 7 - Festivals
October 01, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBWell 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...
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 6 - Death
September 24, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBWhat 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.
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 5 - Hurricanes
September 05, 2021 23:04 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBIt'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.
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 4 - Drugs
August 27, 2021 04:30 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBWe know drugs as the thing we take to make headaches go away. We also know them as the thing that makes headaches really scary, like that time we thought we took some aspirin but instead it felt like there was noodles under our skin and Jimmy had to sit with us for a few hours till we were able to go back into his son's christening. Anywho, WRYAT is here to talk about those that fought drugs in the past, taking good vaccine drugs, and the joys of chemistry. Tune in for another exciting episo...
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 3 - Education
August 20, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBSchool is back in session and so is your 5th ranked public radio station. WRYAT is here to teach you about horses and cooking as well as our love of movies. Join us as we reeducate ourselves to the WRYAT school of education.
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 2 - Self Care
August 13, 2021 17:50 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBIn this weeks episode, we turn our eyeballs from the world around us and focus them inside ourselves. Our reports look at themes of self-care like stealing babies, talking birds, and being a real man and taking a shot of whiskey. So stop thinking about other people and feed your body the only substance it needs. Tune in your radio dial for New Orleans' 5th Ranked Public Radio Station.
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 1 - Rebirth
August 06, 2021 15:47 - 45 minutes - 62 MBJoin WYRAT as we return for our fifth season. This week we discuss the rebirth of our culture and steering clear of hipster vampires. Tune in your radio dial for New Orleans' 5th Ranked Public Radio Station.
WRYAT New Orleans Pirate Radio *Best of Season 4*
July 23, 2021 20:19 - 1 hour - 87.2 MBHey Everybody! Here is our best of season four in a supersized episode! Stay tuned for season five coming August 6th! Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe
WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio S4 E12
January 15, 2021 16:12 - 25 minutes - 34.3 MBWelcome back to another episode of WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio! Well folks, this is our season finale! On this very special episode we feature the new Gopher the Toker podcast. Join Gopher and his guest, pornographic film historian Hugo Boneir as the explore the man known as Kosher Frank. Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe See ya next season!
WRYAT - Season 4 Episode 12 - The Gopher the Toker Power Hour Experience: The Podcast
January 15, 2021 16:12 - 25 minutes - 34.3 MBWelcome back to another episode of WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio! Well folks, this is our season finale! On this very special episode we feature the new Gopher the Toker podcast. Join Gopher and his guest, pornographic film historian Hugo Boneir as the explore the man known as Kosher Frank. Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe See ya next season!
WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio S4 E11
January 08, 2021 18:11 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBWelcome back to another episode of WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio! On today's episode it's Nola vs The World! We have fresh episodes of Boat Talk, No Sports, King of Mardi Gras, Ghost Roast and much more! Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe
WRYAT - Season 4 Episode 11 - Life Coaching
January 08, 2021 18:11 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBWelcome back to another episode of WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio! Today's episode is all about making the world a better place through life coaching! We have fresh episodes of Boat Talk, No Sports, King of Mardi Gras, Ghost Roast and much more! Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe
WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio S4 E10
January 01, 2021 19:14 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBHappy New Year from WRYAT! Let's kick off 2021 the right way with new segments from Anarchist Cooking Show, Loupe Guroo, Tedward Talks, and more! Thanks for listening & please rate and subscribe.
WRYAT - Season 4 Episode 10 - New Year's
January 01, 2021 19:14 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBHappy New Year from WRYAT! Let's kick off 2021 the right way with new segments from Anarchist Cooking Show, Loupe Guroo, Tedward Talks, and more! Thanks for listening & please rate and subscribe.
WRYAT - Season 4 Episode 9 - Holidays
December 26, 2020 16:35 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBHappy Holidays from WRYAT! We got a special holiday season episode for you guys this week with festive editions of Boat Talk, Boomer Zoomer Movie Reviews, and History Gumbo. Thanks for listening & please rate and subscribe.
WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio S4 E9
December 26, 2020 16:35 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBHappy Holidays from WRYAT! We got a special holiday season episode for you guys this week with festive editions of Boat Talk, Boomer Zoomer Movie Reviews, and History Gumbo. Thanks for listening & please rate and subscribe.
WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio S4 E8
December 18, 2020 16:16 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBWelcome back to another episode of WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio! On today's episode we talk about PETS. We have new episodes from Tedward Talks, Woke Stocks, Gangster of Love, and Everyone's fav alligator Willy! Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe
WRYAT - Season 4 Episode 8 - Pets
December 18, 2020 16:16 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBWelcome back to another episode of WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio! On today's episode we talk about PETS. We have new episodes from Tedward Talks, Woke Stocks, Gangster of Love, and Everyone's fav alligator Willy! Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe
WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio S4 E7
December 11, 2020 16:11 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBWelcome back to another episode of WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio! On today's episode we talk about THE FUTURE. We have new episodes from Boat Talk, No Sports, Boomer Zoomer movie reviews, and a new segment called Defending New Orleans! Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe
WRYAT - Season 4 Episode 7 - Futurology
December 11, 2020 16:11 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBWelcome back to another episode of WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio! On today's episode we talk about THE FUTURE. We have new episodes from Boat Talk, No Sports, Boomer Zoomer movie reviews, and a new segment called Defending New Orleans! Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe
WRYAT - Season 4 Episode 7 - The Future
December 11, 2020 16:11 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBWelcome back to another episode of WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio! On today's episode we talk about THE FUTURE. We have new episodes from Boat Talk, No Sports, Boomer Zoomer movie reviews, and a new segment called Defending New Orleans! Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe
WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio S4 E6
December 04, 2020 16:32 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBWelcome back to another episode of WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio! We have lots of great stuff this episode with segments from Fluer Di Lili, Tedward Talks w/ Guest Loupe Guroo, Willy the Alligator, and a new segment from Dan Blather called This Week in Memes. Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe
WRYAT - Season 4 Episode 6 - Kids
December 04, 2020 16:32 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBWelcome back to another episode of WRYAT New Orleans Geauxrilla Radio! We have lots of great stuff this episode with segments from Fluer Di Lili, Tedward Talks w/ Guest Loupe Guroo, Willy the Alligator, and a new segment from Dan Blather called This Week in Memes. Thanks for listening. Rate/Subscribe