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How 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 co...

Work 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 co...

As 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...

Sometimes 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...

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 fo...

That 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 ho...

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. 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 tel...

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 reckoning of summer like no mortal should have to witness. Anywho, it's Easter or whatnot, and that means it's c...

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 tree...

Have 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.

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...

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 the Big Fire...Easy. So grab your tinfoil blankets and cans of beans and get ready to face the inferno with WRYAT.

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 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...

To 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 w...

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, bo...

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 th...

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...

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 statio...

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.

We 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 th...

School 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.

In 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.

Join 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.

Hey 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

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 Hgo Boneir, as they attempt to explore the complicated maze of a man known as Kosher Frank.  Thanks for listening and we'll see ya next season!