The ALL NEW Big Wakeup Call with Ryan Gatenby

Updated: 11 Mar 2025 • 346 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. New episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays

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11 Mar 2025 • EN

Tanisia Moore

Send us a text I had a fun chat with author Tanisia Moore about her new book for children (and parents, too) "Wash Day Love." Tanisia Moore views writing as her avenue for giving hope, sharing life"s lessons, and sparking imaginations. Her companion picture books I Am My Ancestors" Wildest Dreams and When Black Girls D

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06 Mar 2025 • EN

Tom Carroll

Send us a text Tom Carroll is the writer director of “The Stress is Killing Me,” which is now available to rent/own on all North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms.  He is also the director or “Big Bad Budget,” which aired on PBS stations nationwide, and the writer director of “Who Stole the T

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04 Mar 2025 • EN

Annasophia Robb

Send us a text Annasophia Robb of The CW"s Carrie Diaries discusses her new film DOWN A DARK HALL.  (From 8-17-18)

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27 Feb 2025 • EN

Mike Schmidt

Send us a text MLB Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt called into talk about his serious battle with skin cancer (Stage 3 Melanoma) and a new initiative from CancerCare, "Your Cancer Game Plan."  It was also a thrill to talk to Mike about baseball memories of him always destroying my Cubs and his thoughts on whether the Cubs c

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25 Feb 2025 • EN

Joseph Finder

Send us a text Lauded by David Baldacci, Karin Slaughter, and Stephen King, among others "The Oligarch"s Daughter" by Joseph Finder is already on the bestseller list. The hero, Paul Brightman, is a regular finance guy who by accident falls in love with an Oligarch’s daughter. The U.S. intelligence community traps him i

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20 Feb 2025 • EN

Steve Berry

Send us a text Celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry returns to the show to discuss the latest installment in his wildly popular Cotton Malone series—now in development as a streaming series. The Medici Return takes Cotton to Italy to solve a five hundred year-old mystery. 

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