RTW Weekly Signal | Week of October 12, 2026
🌊 RTW Weekly Signal
Week of October 12, 2026
Your weekly dispatch from the Ride The Wave Media network, where this week’s new episodes dig into monsters, mythology, belonging, and the stories that refuse to stay in the past.
🎬 Parallel Frequencies: New Episode This Week
Alien 1979: Why Ripley Is Cinema’s Greatest Hero
Published Monday, October 5, 2026
Some heroes are built for the poster. Ellen Ripley was built for the corridor. When Ridley Scott’s Alien landed in 1979, the crew of the Nostromo were blue-collar workers hauling cargo through deep space, and their lives mattered only as long as they stayed useful to the company that employed them. That detail alone makes the film feel uncomfortably current, and it is a big reason Ripley’s rise still lands so hard.
What makes her great is that she never begins as the chosen one. She is a warrant officer doing her job, following procedure, and questioning orders only when the cost of silence becomes obvious. Her courage grows out of competence and suspicion, not swagger. That is why the character still feels like a real person and not a myth.
This is the kind of conversation Parallel Frequencies thrives on: taking a film everyone thinks they know and asking why it still refuses to age.
🔮 Practically Magick: New Episode This Week
Pagan Wedding Ceremony: Hand Fasting Ritual & Celtic Traditions
Published Thursday, October 8, 2026
Few rituals carry as much meaning in so few gestures as handfasting. Two people join hands, a cord is wrapped around them, and a promise is spoken aloud. Its roots reach back through Celtic and pagan traditions that treated the union of two lives as something worth marking with ceremony, not just paperwork.
Practically Magick has always been good at showing that ritual is not decoration. It is intention made visible. Hand fasting works because it gives couples a physical object and a shared moment to anchor a commitment that would otherwise live only in words.
If you have ever wanted a wedding that feels rooted in something older than a checklist, this episode is an invitation to look at where those traditions came from and how they still speak today.
🎙️ Yes And Land: New Episode This Week
Hunchback of Notre Dame and Autism Advocacy | Brett Nachman
Published Thursday, October 8, 2026
The Hunchback of Notre Dame has always been a story about the outsider looking in. Quasimodo lives inside the cathedral walls, seen as a monster by the city below and craving the simple experience of being accepted as part of the crowd. It is a story that has resonated with generations of viewers who have felt on the edges of their own communities.
Yes And Land has built its reputation on the idea that belonging is something people create, not something they wait to be granted. Pairing that theme with a conversation about autism advocacy gives the episode a sharp focus on how communities can make room for people who think, move, and communicate differently.
It is a conversation about dignity, visibility, and the work it takes to turn a welcome mat into a real seat at the table.
🎧 Hoppe Radio (Hoppe Hour) With Ryan Hoppe: New Episode This Week
Hoppe Quickie: Ryan Hoppe Discusses Sebastian Maniscalco
Published Friday, October 9, 2026
Sebastian Maniscalco has built a career on observational comedy that makes the everyday absurd feel personal. Ryan Hoppe brings a comedy fan’s eye to his work, and a quick, focused conversation like this one is a good reminder that great comedy is usually about someone noticing what everyone else has been ignoring.
Hoppe Hour has always been a place where the host wears his opinions openly. A Quickie keeps that energy tight, with a clear point of view and no detours. It is the kind of short listen that makes you laugh, argue, and then think about the comedian’s craft a little differently.
If you like your radio fast, opinionated, and unafraid to take a side, this one is worth a few minutes.
🎧 The Hammerin’ Hank Show: New Episode This Week
Hammerin Hank Is A Hall Of Famer! (Hammerin Hank Show With Henry Ochs & Ryan Hoppe: Episode 70)
Published Monday, October 5, 2026
Episode 70 is a milestone, and it carries the energy you would expect from a host who came up in the golden age of Bay Area FM. Hammerin’ Hank spent years in major market radio, including stations like Wild 94.9 and Hot 97.7 in Fresno, and he brings that instinct for unfiltered, personality-driven broadcasting to every episode.
What makes this show work is that it never treats radio as a museum piece. Hank treats the medium as a living thing, one that moves from the dial to the podcast feed without losing its heartbeat. The stories are raw, the chemistry is real, and the sense of a voice speaking directly to you is still very much intact.
A “Hall of Famer” title is a big claim, but listening to Hank talk about the craft, it is easy to see why his fans think of him that way.
🎧 The Witch Movie Project: New Episode This Week
Return to Oz & Hereditary: Folk Horror’s Darkest Films
Published Friday, October 9, 2026
Few horror films get under the skin the way Ari Aster’s Hereditary does. It opens as a family drama about grief and fractured loyalty, and then quietly reveals that something older and more deliberate has been moving through the family line. The film’s power comes from making domestic pain feel like the doorway to something occult and inescapable.
Pairing it with Return to Oz is a bold move. Walter Murch’s 1985 follow-up to the classic fairy tale is a darker, stranger journey than most people remember, full of unsettling imagery and a sense that the magic of childhood can turn. Put the two side by side and you get a conversation about how folk horror uses the familiar to make the sinister feel close to home.
The Witch Movie Project is at its best when it asks why these films stay with us, and this episode pushes that question as far as it can go.
🌊 More From The Network
If you want more, check out episodes from our other shows:
- Those Guys Sports Podcast
- Lady Face A.M.
- The Ghost Movie Project
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📡 Trending This Week
Across search and social, audiences are gravitating toward horror that uses family life as its engine. Stories about dysfunctional households, inherited trauma, and the slow realization that home is not as safe as it looked are drawing big attention right now. Viewers seem less interested in jump scares alone and more interested in films that make the scariest thing the people who are supposed to protect you.
That same instinct shows up in how people talk about parenting, coming of age, and recovery. Conversations about how childhood shapes adulthood, and how fiction can help process those wounds, are growing louder. This week’s episodes across the network sit comfortably inside that wider conversation, even as each show takes its own path through it.
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