Latest Crescentcity Podcast Episodes
WRYAT S7E6 - Freedom of Speech
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - June 01, 2024 14:25 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe 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 lan...
WRYAT S7E5 - Awards Show
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - February 09, 2024 13:47 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOh, 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. ...
WRYAT S7E4 - The Conservation Conversation
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - February 02, 2024 13:12 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsPolitics 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...
WRYAT S7E3 - Night of Film
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - January 26, 2024 02:37 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThere 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 overbea...
WRYAT S7E2 - Total Recall
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - January 19, 2024 01:09 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThey 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 ...
WRYAT S7E1 - Getting More Better
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - January 12, 2024 05:36 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSeems 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 syndic...
WRYAT - Public Radio Now Special Part 2
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - December 14, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsPart 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 O...
WRYAT - Public Radio Now Special Part 1
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - December 14, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe 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!
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - July 08, 2022 03:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLive 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 u...
WRYAT S6E11 - Comedy
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - July 01, 2022 02:29 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLo 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-Alp...
WRYAT S6E10 - Alternative Lifestyles
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - June 24, 2022 01:55 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHow 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...
WRYAT S6E9 - Labor
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - June 10, 2022 04:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWork 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...
WRYAT S6E8 - Late Night
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - June 03, 2022 04:55 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAs 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...
WRYAT S6E7 - Investigations
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - May 27, 2022 03:58 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSometimes 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. ...
WRYAT S6E6 - Summer Vacation
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - May 13, 2022 04:59 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRemember 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 ...
WRYAT S6E5 - Local Governement
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - May 05, 2022 17:52 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThat 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 ...
WRYAT S6E5 - Local Government
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - May 05, 2022 17:52 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThat 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 sai...
WRYAT S6E4 - Arbor Day
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - April 29, 2022 04:59 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsTrees. 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 sunglas...
WRYAT S6E3 - Easter
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - April 15, 2022 04:59 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAh, 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 reckonin...
WRYAT S6E2 - It Gets Better
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - April 08, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOh 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 ...
WRYAT S6E1 - Earth 616
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - April 01, 2022 04:59 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHave 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...
Best of WRYAT Season 5
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - March 18, 2022 04:59 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBoy 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 ...
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 12 - Armageddon
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - November 05, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFire. 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
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - October 29, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe 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 ha...
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 10 - Relationships
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - October 22, 2021 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsTo 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 go...
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 9 - Tourism
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - October 15, 2021 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsNew 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 lea...
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 8 - Nostalgia
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - October 08, 2021 04:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsGosh, 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, ...
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 7 - Festivals
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - October 01, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWell 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 ...
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 6 - Death
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - September 24, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhat 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 u...
WRYAT - Season 5 Episode 5 - Hurricanes
WRYAT New Orleans Public Radio - September 05, 2021 23:04 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIt'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, p...
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