RTW Weekly Signal | Week of October 19, 2026
🌊 RTW Weekly Signal
Week of October 19, 2026
Your weekly dispatch from the Ride The Wave Media network, where this week’s new episodes cover heists, healing, hometown grit, ego, and radio at full volume.
📡 Trending This Week
Across search and social, audiences are gravitating toward the intersection of money, healing, and the people we lean on. Conversations about financial stress are increasingly framed as emotional experiences rather than just math problems, and many people are looking for ways to rewrite the stories they inherited about earning and worth. Interest in how community and shared culture support recovery is also climbing, with fans finding connection through the stories and communities that form around entertainment.
That pattern lines up with what listeners are telling us: they want honest conversations that connect the personal and the practical. Whether it’s a heist that tests trust, a conversation about shame and self-worth, or a host admitting what he really wants from his audience, the appetite is for voices that don’t flinch from the hard parts.
🎧 The Week In 10 Minutes
🎬 Parallel Frequencies: New Episode This Week
The Rip Netflix Review: Affleck and Damon Heist
Published Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Two old friends back on screen can make a movie feel like the most natural thing in the world. That’s the first thing that hits you watching The Rip on Netflix. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, the Boston boys, share a chemistry you can’t manufacture, and the film runs on it from the first scene to the last.
The heist itself is familiar, but the questions it raises aren’t. A drug bust turns up far more cash than anyone expected, and suddenly the rules change. Teyana Taylor sits in that danger with the crew and makes the stakes feel personal instead of abstract. At what number do you stop trusting the people beside you? Money doesn’t ask whether you’re a cop or a cartel member. It just sits there, and everybody starts doing math.
The title works on several levels too: the tear between people, the divide between classes, and the gap between having everything and having just enough to lose. Coco and I kept coming back to that gap on the show, and it’s why this one stays with you after the credits roll.
🔮 Practically Magick: New Episode This Week
Practically Magick: Past Life Regression With Aurora Shanti Kriya
Published Thursday, October 15, 2026
Most people go their whole lives assuming this is the only shot they get. Courtney Pearl and her guest Aurora Shanti Kriya spent a full conversation arguing otherwise, and they didn’t lean on wild claims to do it. Their case rests on lived detail, personal records, and one question that’s hard to shake: if this is the only life we get, how fair is it that some people spend theirs stuck?
Aurora doesn’t walk in as a skeptic who got converted. She calls herself a witch, a healer, and a goddess, and she says she reminds herself of that every day. She has been a medium since she was nine, when her grandmother came through to her, and she left the religion she was raised in at eighteen. Her history is the lens she brings to every session, and it shows. She talks about past lives the way some people talk about a childhood home, with specifics, with feeling, and without any need to sell you on it.
The most convincing part of the conversation is the paperwork. A woman named Angela came forward during one of Aurora’s Italian regressions, and Aurora had never heard of her. Her sister searched the name in the right time period and found a record that matched the husband, the son, and the land dispute that had come through in the session. Then there are the small things, like a lemonade she can’t stand in this life and a porch she called a veranda in a past one. You can doubt a story. It’s a lot harder to doubt a detail you would never choose.
🎙️ Yes And Land: New Episode This Week
Wreck-It Ralph and Finding Your Third Place | Dan Langford
Published Thursday, October 15, 2026
You spend eight hours a day being told who you are at work, then you go home and slip back into whatever role your family already wrote for you. If those two rooms are the whole map of your life, you’re playing on a court someone else laid out, and the lines were never drawn with you in mind.
Dan Langford, a senior software engineer and co-owner of Hearthside Games, learned this the hard way. His habit of jumping in to help people, the same instinct that would later become the core of his leadership, got logged as distraction. Then it got logged as a liability on a performance improvement plan. Nothing about his talent had changed. The room simply had no place for what he was built to do.
The turn didn’t come from Dan trying to become someone else. It came when he moved into a team lead role where helping people was the job itself. The behavior that had been flagged as a problem turned into the thing that carried him forward. If you’ve been told you’re too much or not enough for your current environment, ask whether the problem is you or the setup you’re standing in.
🎧 Hoppe Radio (Hoppe Hour) With Ryan Hoppe: New Episode This Week
Eddie Volkman Calls Into Hoppe Hour With Ryan Hoppe
Published Saturday, October 17, 2026
Eddie Volkman does not sound like a man who is finished with radio. He sounds like a man who has watched the machinery from the inside for decades and still finds it funny. On Hoppe Hour with Ryan Hoppe, the Eddie and Jobo alum spent close to an hour on the job he lost, the partner he worked beside for years, and why the medium he loves looks so different now.
If you know Chicago radio only from the outside, this conversation fills in a lot of blanks. Volkman talks about how much of the station’s schedule ran on network inventory, spots that bring in very little per commercial, while the local advertising that keeps a station alive kept thinning out. Great personalities can’t fix a revenue base that is shrinking underneath them, and he says so plainly.
The partnership is the real draw. Volkman describes Jobo as someone who never wanted to be told how to do his job, and he describes their roles as distinct: Volkman carried the comic instinct, Jobo brought the pattern-spotting and the troublemaking. The friction between them was the product, not a problem to be smoothed over. If you grew up with the show, it will feel like pulling a chair up to the booth. If you didn’t, it’s a clear lesson in why two voices can work when each one refuses to be the other.
🎧 The Hammerin’ Hank Show: New Episode This Week
Where Is Hammerin Hank’s Plaque From BARHOF? (Hammerin Hank Show With Henry Ochs & Ryan Hoppe: Episode 71)
Published Monday, October 12, 2026
Hammerin’ Hank has been in radio long enough to know that the good stories are never the polished ones. This week’s episode of The Hammerin’ Hank Show with Henry Ochs and Ryan Hoppe jumps from a Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame recognition to Italian food, a Lamborghini ride, and a plaque that, according to the episode, nobody seems to have handed over. Hank is grinning through all of it, and so is everyone else in the room.
The honor itself is the headline, but the real heart of the episode is the people. Hank talks about seeing folks he hasn’t laid eyes on in close to twenty years, and you can hear that the reunions meant more to him than any trophy. He thanks the people who showed up for him, names the ones who voted, and remembers the crew from his Wild 94.9 days. Then there is the sore spot: only the main members of The Doghouse got plaques, and Ryan promises Hank one of his own. Hank is already plotting how to hold KCRH to a promise of its own, and that mix of real grievance and real friendship is what makes this hour worth your time.
Between the grievances there’s plenty of the old-school stuff that made the format work in the first place: one-liners about dentists and grocery store checkout lines, radio jokes about ratings ladders and hosts who end arguments by taking another call, and a fast round of pop trivia that Hank plays like a man who never forgot a chart. It’s loud, it’s unfiltered, and it doesn’t apologize for itself. If you want radio with the polish sanded off and the heart left on, pull up a chair. Hank has a story for you, and he’s been waiting a while to tell it.
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