Turi Ryder's "She Said What?" Podcast
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Turi Ryder, author of “She Said What? (A Life on the Air)” has hosted her own radio shows in LA, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Portland. She gives advice, which you probably should not take, and tells stories, which you probably should not believe. Marci Persky spent years reporting and editing for UPI and other news organizations. She's worked in radio news and as a talk show host, for stations from her hometown of Kalamazoo Michicgan and her second home, Chicago. Marci now lives in Arizona, somewhere near the Grand Canyon, where she helps run an animal shelter, a political organization, and a hospice-supporting thrift store. Clearly, she likes to run things.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Turi Ryder, author of “She Said What? (A Life on the Air)” has hosted her own radio shows in LA, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Portland. She gives advice, which you probably should not take, and tells stories, which you probably should not believe. Marci Persky spent years reporting and editing for UPI and other news organizations. She's worked in radio news and as a talk show host, for stations from her hometown of Kalamazoo Michicgan and her second home, Chicago. Marci now lives in Arizona, somewhere near the Grand Canyon, where she helps run an animal shelter, a political organization, and a hospice-supporting thrift store. Clearly, she likes to run things.
Language:
English
Website:
https://shesaidwhat.net/
Episodes
Learning to Say "No"
5/7/2024
Animal Troubles. Marci has them. Turi has them. Both marriages have them. You can say “no” in so many ways. Turi is an expert. Somebody uses one of the worst words you know… then puts words like that on their motorcycle…and [so far] lives in Chicago. Meta AI’s ancestor—we’ve found him…and you may know him.
Duration:00:15:39
Elevation Sickness
5/1/2024
Company comes to Marci’s S@*#storm of Awesomeness ranch—at 11,000 feet. They are still alive. Marci’s moment of tech confusion nearly gets her eaten by wildlife. Once again, calls for help go out to “Steve in India.” Trouble at the bank.
Duration:00:14:04
Why Clean it Up?
4/26/2024
The adult children are here. Marci flies again, with damage. Admitting you are wrong—when to do it? Cleaning: dust colored gloves trump rose colored glasses. Marci believes there are only two types of kids…and Turi should be glad she didn’t give birth to one of them. The digestive qualities of matza, and the renaming of prunes.
Duration:00:14:33
You Were Warned (Pt. 2)
4/24/2024
Marci has a “freedom of speech freedom of the press” agenda—but she once paid the price for a teenage transgression. Turi is a hard-liner on consequences, until she sees her own kid’s Facebook page. Now on campus: Imagine what happens when the thing you were told would happen…actually happens.
Duration:00:15:02
You Were Warned Pt. 1
4/21/2024
Turi experiences a rude awakening. It’s the cops. Crime and punishment, Marci has been hacked. Crime and punishment on the university campus, aka didn’t your parents teach you anything?
Duration:00:15:56
The Reunion
4/16/2024
Marci is grandparenting…by some name. Reunion—radio and otherwise. The Denver Boot (for cars) and one for some other use. Update on the garbage house, which may explode. Marci’s history of neighborhood explosions. Reunions, radio and otherwise. Coachella, the algorithm strikes back.
Duration:00:14:56
Chivalry is Selective
4/12/2024
Fine, thanks…and how did YOU sleep? Paying to take orders. The people on your social media that you know you know….but you could be wrong. The worst people at the worst performance at the Fringe Festival.
Duration:00:15:18
You Can't Have It For Free
4/5/2024
If you give it away….they don’t respect it. Another theory about your memory, and the kid you liked in fifth grade. Those boxes in storage, and the hoped-for natural disaster. The unopened box.
Duration:00:15:15
Pets Over Husbands
4/2/2024
In a surprising twist, it turns out Turi may love the spousal unit more than Marci loves her husband. Or it may just be that Marci desperately craves an appearance on “Shark Tank.” There’s a helmet and a goat involved. Contemplating the return of the muumuu.
Duration:00:14:36
Why We Have Podcasts
3/31/2024
An old children’s story, and the tale of the foster dog. Marci’s marketplace adventure. Child-rearing, then and now. The nightmare tenant, again and still.
Duration:00:15:54
Nightmare with Prairie Dogs
3/26/2024
Marci’s hip deep in muck…and possibly vermin. A nightmare with various possible inhabitants in the holes in the back 40. Another foray into reality TV, and our possibly first ever movie review, with lots of dead people. Marci gets ready for a sentimental parting, that will make her $500.
Duration:00:15:21
The Anonymous Poison Pen Letter
3/22/2024
Where the band width has gone. Dangerous things you can rent. Turi confesses to the embarrassing thing the foster dog has revealed to her. Hint: Turi is a princess. What quiet people are thinking. The anonymous rat-out. Professor repellent.
Duration:00:14:14
But Can You Sleep Through It?
3/19/2024
Marci is exhausted by goats and pina coladas. Turi is exhausted by dogs. The spousal unit sleeps on. And we learn a rule of thumb….about backing up.
Duration:00:15:43
The Profane Sweatshirt
3/12/2024
Marci has the wrong clothes to go out in public…and ends up out in public. The epic wardrobe fail of Williams, Arizona. The privilege of the curtain-less window. Landlords and the people who hate them
Duration:00:12:53
Prison Stories
3/8/2024
Marci is following a particularly grisly sentencing…because of the perpetrator’s tattoos. Grisly crimes—before and after social networking. Survival skills you do not want your cat to have. Newborn babies: what DO they remember?
Duration:00:15:42
Unproductive Thinking
3/5/2024
Turi has anxiety, but refuses to do anything that would make it go away…or make it worse. Marci admits to avoiding information. Middle-school inner dialogue, and when you should give up on making a friend.
Duration:00:10:19
Is Your Marriage OK?
3/1/2024
News this week of the third divorce among Turi’s friends has the spousal unit asking this important question. And the answer may come down to the weather and an app. Also, a parental accomplishment—you may have reached this money-saving milepost, too.
Duration:00:11:16
Hormones
2/27/2024
Everything they tell you about youth and hormones is only half the story. Then there’s the post partum version…and the old lady version. The thing that you allegedly broke, but the explanation makes no sense.
Duration:00:13:48
Your Friend's Exploding Marriage
2/23/2024
Deceptively good marriages: Other people’s rotten spouses are easy to spot---and then it happens. Marci explains her accent. Backyard cattle update. Deceptively perfect babies.
Duration:00:14:44
Don't Date Lizards
2/20/2024
Marci has read the account of a man who perished at the hands—well, claws and teeth, actually, of his pet. Turi explains that this is JUST like people who date bad boyfriends. And, amazingly, you will find her theory makes perfect sense. The marauding goats and cattle are back—indoors, this time.
Duration:00:14:37