The ALL NEW Big Wakeup Call with Ryan Gatenby

Updated: 25 Sep 2025 • 404 episodes
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Ryan Gatenby chats with actors, authors, athletes, comedians, musicians, and experts in their field in each episode featuring selected interviews from the popular "The Big Wakeup Call" radio program.

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25 Sep 2025 • EN

Claribel A. Ortega

Send us a text Claribel A. Ortega, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Squad and the Witchlings series, and Pura Belpre and Eisner Award-winning author of the graphic novel Frizzy, is a former reporter who writes middle grade and young adult fantasy inspired by her Dominican heritage. When she"s not busy turning

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23 Sep 2025 • EN

Naeem Bari

Send us a text Naeem Bari is Co-Founder & President of Linxup. Linxup provides easy-to-use tracking and dash cam solutions for vehicles, tools, and workers. Trusted by 20,000+ businesses since 2004, Linxup delivers reliability, flexibility, and live US-based support across industries like field service, construction, a

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18 Sep 2025 • EN

Ryan LaSala

Send us a text Ryan La Sala is a bestselling and award-winning author known for his genre-defying, queer-centered horror and fantasy, including The Honeys and Beholder. His work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, and more. He writes to you from New York, overseen by his cat, Haunted Lit

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16 Sep 2025 • EN

David A. Kaplan

Send us a text Former Newsweek legal affairs editor and best-selling author David A. Kaplan called in to discuss his new book "The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court"s Assault on the Constitution."  It"s too bad the Supreme Court wasn"t top of mind for most of us as we talked about his book. (From 9-5-18)

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11 Sep 2025 • EN

Dan Crohn

Send us a text Stand-up comedian Dan Crohn called in to talk about his appearance on a new compilation comedy album, "Valentine"s Day is for Suckers."  Dan also has a solo comedy album called "It"s Enough Already." We discussed whether or not a comedy show is good for a first date, dealing with second show Friday, the

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09 Sep 2025 • EN

Caity Weaver

Send us a text Caity Weaver from the New York Times called in for a lively chat about her article taking a look behind the scenes (and on the actual boat) at Bravo"s "Below Deck Mediterranean."   (From 7-2-20)

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