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Another week, another Spread Zone, another Tim McKernan Lock cashing in. Can he make it 9-0 on this football season? On this week's episode of The Spread Zone, Anthony Stalter and Scott Rizzuto break down College Football Week 8 and NFL Week 7, delivering their best bets, predictions, and Locks of the Week! Tim may be skipping the show to play golf with Ozzie Smith, but he's still making sure to send in his picks. He's hitting an incredible 77% of his college football bets this season and remains undefeated on his locks. Meanwhile, Anthony is riding a hot streak of his own, and Riz is still hunting for the one big play to turn his season around. The guys dive into some of the biggest college football matchups, including Alabama vs. Texas A&M, Tennessee vs. South Carolina, Texas vs. Ole Miss, and Houston vs. Utah. On the NFL side, they're breaking down Packers vs. Lions, Chiefs vs. Seahawks, Texans vs. Giants, and more as they look for the best value on the board. LEGAL DISCLAIMER We provide information about sports betting for entertainment purposes only. Please confirm gambling regulations in your state of residence. To participate in sports gaming, you must be 21 years of age or older and be physically present in a state where sports betting is legal. If you or someone you know has a sports betting or gambling problem, please call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org for more information and further assistance. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Is candy a snack? Why does choosing something on Netflix feel like a full-time job? And who the hell needs emergency sourdough hidden under their desk? Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where Halloween is approaching, the wigs are disappearing, and nobody is qualified to investigate anything. Rizz, Moon Valjean, King Scott Lern, and Rafe Williams are serving up a triple helping of St. Louis morning show chaos in this funny podcast packed with ridiculous debates, celebrity gossip, rock music, questionable Halloween costumes, and stories that probably should have stayed in the group chat. First, Rizz asks a deceptively simple question: Is candy a snack or a treat? What follows is a full-blown nutritional identity crisis involving Hershey bars, Skittles, Little Debbie snack cakes, Rice Krispies Treats, applesauce, and the long-lost glory of SnackWell's cookies. Moon thinks candy deserves its own category, Lern has very specific rules about sour candy, and Rafe is just trying to figure out why everybody suddenly forgot what a snack is. Somewhere, a bag of chips is feeling extremely superior. Then it's time for Strip Club or Daycare?, the listener game where real business names are so confusing that even the lifelines need lifelines. With names like Giggly Wiggly, Perfect Angels, The Mouse's Ear, and Touched by an Angel, callers compete for concert tickets while the crew discovers that naming a business might be the most dangerous creative exercise in America. Meanwhile, Ludo crashes the studio to preview their three-night Halludoween celebration at The Pageant in St. Louis. The band talks costumes, different setlists, special guests, elaborate stage production, and the announcement that they're taking the following year off from the annual event. There's also a completely fictional dragon, some aggressive glockenspiel appreciation, and an incredible live performance of their Halloween song “Scare Me.” Because nothing says spooky season like a rock band showing up with an instrument nobody on the show knows how to discuss responsibly. The music nostalgia continues with Gin Blossoms, as the crew revisits the band's '90s hits, talks about their Stifel Charity Classic appearance, and gets into the kind of rock-radio conversation that makes you realize everybody has a slightly different memory of the alternative music era. There's also a deep dive into bands touring without original members, Tom Petty guitar collectibles, and the eternal question of when a band is still technically the same band. Then comes streaming fatigue, the modern condition where you spend 40 minutes scrolling through Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+, watch three trailers, argue about your options, and ultimately go to bed without watching anything. Rizz discovers that streaming subscribers reportedly waste 110 hours a year just looking for something to watch. Rafe accidentally chooses the wrong Halloween II, Moon can't read half the titles on his TV anymore, and Rizz's new iPhone comes with an unexpected milestone: increasing the font size. Congratulations, technology has officially become an aging simulator. The celebrity commentary gets even more ridiculous when the gang examines Tim McGraw's extremely dramatic tan alongside family photos with Faith Hill. Is it sunshine? Bronzer? A spray-tan setting that should require a permit? Nobody knows, but everyone has an opinion, and the comparisons get increasingly unhelpful. And just when you think this daily comedy show has exhausted its supply of nonsense, Rafe's Reba McEntire wig goes missing. That's right. A full-scale investigation begins over a missing wig, and everyone in the studio becomes a suspect. During the search, Rafe discovers Rizz's emergency sourdough bread stash, which apparently serves as an essential workplace survival resource. Forget fire extinguishers. In this building, you're getting a loaf of bread and a motivational insult. Halloween costume planning is equally unhinged. Rizz and Rafe are preparing for The Lost Boys, with Rizz taking on Kiefer Sutherland's David and Rafe attempting to recreate the movie's legendary saxophone player. The problem? Rafe needs an actual saxophone, an impressive tan, and enough confidence to spend the night dressed like an oiled-up '80s music-video fever dream. Lern has Boogie Nights plans involving roller skates, Moon considers costume options, and everybody debates the fine line between Halloween dedication and making a terrible personal decision. Add in wig swaps, the mysterious Fart Police Incident, weird entertainment news, old-school rock arguments, and the everyday nonsense that somehow qualifies as a professional broadcasting career, and you've got another funny podcast from the people who can turn absolutely nothing into an entire morning of entertainment. Whether you're here for Ludo's live performance, Gin Blossoms nostalgia, Halloween comedy, celebrity news, the snack-versus-treat controversy, or the mystery of why a grown man needs emergency sourdough, The Rizzuto Show delivers the sarcastic humor and ridiculous conversations that make St. Louis mornings just a little less normal. It's another funny podcast full of music, laughs, questionable judgment, and grown adults behaving like they were left unsupervised at a Halloween party. And somehow, that's exactly why you keep listening. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. 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Is candy actually a snack? Can you tell a strip club from a daycare center? And why is Ludo threatening to take away Halloween for an entire year? Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where the questions are ridiculous, the answers are somehow worse, and the glockenspiel is getting way too much attention. Rizz, Moon Valjean, Lern, Rafe Williams, and the gang are back with another funny podcast packed with Halloween madness, bizarre debates, listener games, St. Louis music, and the kind of conversations that make you wonder how anyone at 105.7 The Point gets actual work done. First up: an earth-shattering question that nobody asked but everybody suddenly has an opinion about. Is candy a snack, or is candy a treat? Sounds simple, right? Wrong. Apparently, this is the kind of philosophical nightmare that can bring an entire morning show to a grinding halt. Rizz argues that snacks should be more like potato chips. Lern thinks chocolate bars might qualify, but Skittles and sour candy belong in their own category. Moon insists candy is a celebration, a bonus, or a dessert—especially while he's trying to cut added sugar out of his life. Meanwhile, Rafe is desperately trying to explain that if you're eating something between meals, it probably counts as a snack. Then somebody brings up snack cakes. And cookies. And Rice Krispies Treats. And applesauce. And grapes. Before long, the crew is questioning everything they've ever known about food. The only thing everybody seems to agree on is that the name “Rice Krispies Treats” makes a pretty compelling argument. The debate also sends everyone down memory lane with SnackWell's cookies, those supposedly guilt-free desserts that made an entire generation believe eating chocolate-covered marshmallow cookies was basically a wellness routine. Somewhere, a nutritionist just turned off the radio. Then it's time for one of the show's most gloriously questionable games: Strip Club or Daycare? Rafe reads the names of real businesses, and callers have to figure out whether they're looking at an establishment for adult entertainment or a place where someone should probably be teaching children their ABCs. Sounds easy until you hear names like Giggly Wiggly, Perfect Angels, Dream On, The Mouse's Ear, Little Playhouse, and Touched by an Angel. Suddenly, nobody is confident about anything. Callers from around the St. Louis area—including O'Fallon, Festus, Wentzville, and Bridgeton—put their judgment to the test with Moon and Lern serving as lifelines. Unfortunately, the lifelines are occasionally just as confused as the contestants. Some players walk away with concert tickets. Others walk away knowing they've apparently been making some very questionable assumptions about the childcare industry. And Rizz? He's struggling to get certain words out correctly, giving Rafe approximately 47 opportunities to roast him before the next commercial break. But the real Halloween excitement arrives when Ludo takes over the studio to preview their annual Halludoween celebration at The Pageant in St. Louis. The band is gearing up for three nights of elaborate performances, different setlists, special guests, costumes, and the kind of theatrical production that has turned Halludoween into a tradition for fans traveling from across the country—and even overseas. There's just one catch. Ludo announces they're taking the following year off from Halludoween. That's right. After this three-night extravaganza, the band plans to skip next year's event while exploring other creative possibilities. Naturally, Rizz reacts like somebody just canceled Christmas. The guys explain why they're stepping away temporarily, how they keep the shows fresh every night, and why fans should expect different songs, different opening acts, and a few surprises throughout the weekend. They also break down the lineup, including The Pink Tax, Bug Hunter, Convey and Bowers, The Effects, Maddie Shell, and Stop.Drop.Rewind, along with a special appearance from the Funky Butt Horns. Ludo promises fan favorites like “Love Me Dead” and “Lake Pontchartrain,” plus deeper cuts that might only appear on one of the three nights. Then the crew starts asking about the stage production. Will there be costumes? Absolutely. Elaborate theatrical elements? Of course. A giant fire-breathing dragon? Well, somebody says there will be one. Then immediately admits they made that up. So if you're attending Halludoween specifically for the dragon, you may want to adjust your expectations. The band also talks about how much rehearsal goes into preparing for three full nights of music, how the fan costumes have become part of the experience, and why St. Louis is such a special place for ambitious live productions. And just when you think the interview can't get any better, Ludo performs “Scare Me” live in the studio. It's a spooky, theatrical Halloween performance complete with eerie storytelling, big musical energy, and an unexpected star of the show: a glockenspiel. Yes, a glockenspiel. The crew becomes so fascinated with the instrument that the conversation nearly turns into a separate interview with the glockenspiel itself. By the end, Rizz is practically demanding that it get its own stage moment, preferably with some Jimi Hendrix-style pyrotechnics. Because nothing says Halloween like setting a percussion instrument on fire. From candy classifications and forgotten snack foods to confusing business names, concert ticket giveaways, Halloween costumes, and a full-blown Ludo studio performance, this funny podcast is everything that makes The Rizzuto Show a beautifully chaotic St. Louis morning show. If you love sarcastic humor, ridiculous debates, live music, funny stories, and the kind of daily comedy that turns a harmless candy question into a philosophical crisis, this episode has you covered. Join Rizz and the gang for another funny podcast, where candy is apparently not food, daycare names require a background check, and Ludo is taking Halloween so seriously they might need a year to recover. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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We're wasting 110 hours a year looking for something to stream, some of our favorite bands have zero original members, and Tim McGraw has apparently been spending quality time inside a toaster oven. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where Rizz, Moon Valjean, Lern, and Rafe Williams turn everyday annoyances, music nostalgia, celebrity gossip, and questionable life decisions into another perfectly dysfunctional morning in St. Louis. First, Rizz has officially crossed a major milestone in adulthood: he bought a new iPhone and voluntarily increased the font size. Not all the way to giant letters. Just a little. He's not ready for the senior-citizen phone just yet, but the clock is ticking. Moon isn't doing much better, admitting he can barely read the titles on his television's streaming menus anymore. The gang quickly realizes that aging isn't just about your knees making noises when you stand up. It's about needing reading glasses to decide whether you want to watch a movie. Which brings us to streaming fatigue. According to a statistic discussed on the show, the average American streaming subscriber spends 110 hours a year just searching for something to watch. That's more than four full days of scrolling through Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and everything else before eventually giving up and going to bed. Rafe knows the struggle. He's spent entire evenings debating movie choices, only to end up watching a disappointing Halloween II remake. Rizz admits he's opened every streaming service, found absolutely nothing, and simply surrendered to sleep. The crew even considers an incredible new invention: a service that just plays shows at scheduled times so you don't have to choose. Yes. They've reinvented cable television. Then it's time for a musical identity crisis. Rizz dives into the world of classic rock bands touring without any founding members. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Little River Band, Molly Hatchet, and other legendary acts spark a surprisingly passionate debate: when the original musicians are gone, is it still the same band? Moon argues that the spirit of a group can survive if the sound and tradition are passed down properly. Lern wonders whether younger bands would ever get away with the same thing. Rafe considers the musical version of replacing every part of a car and still calling it original. And naturally, someone brings up KISS, GWAR, Journey, Queen, and No Doubt. Apparently, rock and roll immortality comes with a complicated employee handbook. The music conversation continues with a preview of Andy from Gin Blossoms calling the show and Ludo stopping by the studio. The crew reminisces about '90s alternative rock, the Gin Blossoms' biggest hits, and whether the band was secretly making music specifically for the ladies. Because nothing says sophisticated musical criticism like four radio personalities arguing about the romantic intentions of “Hey Jealousy.” Meanwhile, the audience comes through with actual useful advice. Lern thanks listeners for helping her figure out who should deal with tree branches hanging over utility wires and how to clean cloudy headlights. Her husband Tim puts the headlight trick to the test, and the results are apparently impressive. The Rizz Show audience: solving household problems while the hosts struggle to operate a television. Then Lern delivers a massive helping of Crap on Celebrities, starting with Tim McGraw's induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. A tremendous honor. Unfortunately, the internet was more interested in his tan. The country superstar's extremely bronzed appearance becomes the subject of an extended studio investigation, with comparisons to microwaved hot dogs, bodybuilding competitions, and a spray-tan appointment that desperately needed adult supervision. The gang also gets into Mickey Rourke thanking Bruce Springsteen and Dana White for helping him during a difficult financial period, Alex Warren's fans asking him to autograph urns containing loved ones' ashes, the Eagles extending their Sphere residency, and a new wave of music documentaries. Moon recalls celebrating New Year's Eve in Flagstaff, Arizona, where they drop a giant pine cone at midnight. Rafe remembers an unforgettable Beale Street experience featuring B.B. King. And Lern discusses Nashville's massive New Year's Eve celebration. There's also a limited-edition Tom Petty Flying V guitar that Moon desperately wants, an American Horror Story discussion, bizarre ancestry revelations involving the Sprouse twins, Roseanne Barr's plans for a new sitcom, and Pauly Shore's return to horror with the short film Remain Calm. Plus, the crew talks about Christina Applegate's reported medical uncertainty, Mel Brooks returning for the Spaceballs sequel, and the upcoming Halludoween shows from Ludo. It's streaming frustration, rock-and-roll identity theft, celebrity chaos, nostalgic music arguments, and one extremely committed country-music tan. If you love funny stories, entertainment gossip, weird news, pop culture commentary, and the kind of sarcastic humor that makes morning radio worth getting out of bed for, this funny podcast has everything except a reasonable explanation for Tim McGraw's bronzer budget. Join Rizz and the gang for another funny podcast from St. Louis, where the music is classic, the television menus are unreadable, and apparently the secret to becoming a country legend is looking like you've been basted in butter. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rafe's Reba McEntire wig has vanished, Rizz is apparently stockpiling emergency sourdough, and an airline reportedly offered passengers a $12 food voucher after a terrifying emergency landing. Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where every disaster comes with a punchline and customer service is somehow the biggest horror story. Rizz, Moon Valjean, Lern, Rafe Williams, and the gang are back with another funny podcast loaded with St. Louis news, Halloween chaos, bizarre discoveries, hilarious personal stories, and the kind of conversations that should probably never make it past a morning production meeting. First, there's an emergency at the radio station. Rafe's beloved Reba McEntire wig is missing, and absolutely everybody is a suspect. While searching the office, he discovers Rizz's emergency sourdough bread stash, which raises several important questions. Why does a grown man need emergency bread? How much sourdough constitutes a survival kit? And why does this studio have enough wigs to open a questionable hair salon? The crew also prepares for Halloween, with Rizz planning to dress as David from The Lost Boys and Rafe taking on the legendary shirtless saxophone player. Unfortunately, Rafe still needs an actual saxophone, a tan, and possibly a little more confidence. Lern is going as Roller Girl from Boogie Nights, which means she'll be wearing roller skates on a boat. Nothing could possibly go wrong there. Meanwhile, Moon considers Halloween costume possibilities, and the gang takes a nostalgic detour through forgotten '80s hair metal, Burt Reynolds movies, and the arrival of Nirvana that changed rock music forever. Then there's the surprisingly lucrative business of decorating people's porches with pumpkins. One entrepreneur charges hundreds or even thousands of dollars to arrange seasonal decorations, leading the crew to debate whether this is a brilliant business model or proof that people will pay almost anything to avoid doing yard work. Rafe also gives an update on his beloved elderly puggle, Beau, whose luxurious lifestyle includes multiple dog beds, personal transportation, and a potential birthday celebration that gets wildly out of hand. The crew even starts planning an elaborate photo shoot and charity calendar. Apparently, this dog has a better retirement plan than most Americans. But things take a serious turn with the story of an American Eagle flight from St. Louis to Philadelphia that reportedly experienced mechanical trouble, smoke, falling oxygen masks, and an emergency landing. Passengers were told to leave their belongings and run from the aircraft. Terrifying enough. Then the gang hears about the reported compensation: a $12 airport food voucher. Twelve dollars. At an airport. Congratulations on surviving. Please enjoy approximately three bites of a sandwich. Rizz, Moon, Lern, and Rafe debate what passengers should receive after an experience like that, with suggestions ranging from free flights to airline stock. Rafe also shares his own frustrating experience with a canceled connecting flight that left him driving from Denver to St. Louis. And because St. Louis apparently can't go a week without something bizarre appearing on the road, the crew discusses a mysterious aircraft-shaped object transported down Lindbergh Boulevard. The object turns out to be a Boeing MQ-25 Stingray unmanned refueling aircraft, sparking a debate about military technology, social media, and whether sensitive equipment should be hauled around looking like a prop from a science-fiction movie. It's Halloween costumes, missing wigs, emergency bread, pet-parent chaos, aviation nightmares, weird St. Louis sightings, and sarcastic humor from a crew that can turn almost any headline into a completely unnecessary argument. If you love strange news, ridiculous stories, pop culture commentary, and the unpredictable energy of a St. Louis morning show, this funny podcast is exactly the kind of bad influence your commute deserves. Join Rizz and the gang for another episode of this funny podcast, where the wigs are itchy, the bread is for emergencies only, and a $12 airline voucher might be the scariest Halloween surprise of all. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Shark-infested surfing, an escaped inmate, Greek Fire's epic comeback, and a $250 coffin buffet. Just another perfectly normal day on The Rizzuto Show. Rizz, Moon Valjean, Lern, Rafe Williams, and King Scott are back with another chaotic funny podcast packed with bizarre St. Louis news, celebrity gossip, hilarious fails, and the kind of conversations that make you question how these people are allowed near microphones. Rafe kicks things off by revealing that he once went surfing in San Diego during great white shark season. The best part? His friend waited until Rafe was already in the water to mention the sharks. Nothing like learning to surf while dressed as a delicious, confused sea lion. Back in St. Louis, the crew discusses a wild escape from the City Justice Center, where an inmate reportedly crawled through the ceiling and walked out past malfunctioning security systems. Things get even stranger when a listener calls in with his own decades-old jail escape story. The gang also covers serious local crime headlines, debates the future of ziplining at Creve Coeur Park, and puts Missouri stereotypes under the microscope in the Great St. Louis Debate. On a much happier note, Moon celebrates Greek Fire's triumphant return to Delmar Hall after seven years without a full headlining show. With theatrical production, new music, and an emotional moment watching his son sing along in the crowd, it's a reminder of just how incredible St. Louis music can be. Meanwhile, Lern discovers Cat Collector, an app that's basically Pokémon Go for neighborhood cats. Because apparently taking pictures of random cats wasn't enough. Now she can collect them, track them, and potentially turn her entire neighborhood into a feline treasure hunt. The crew also discusses Grand Theft Auto 6 and its potential billion-dollar impact on workplace productivity, while Crap on Celebrities delivers entertainment gossip involving Taylor Swift, Mötley Crüe, Ted Lasso, and more. Naturally, the conversation eventually turns into an argument about the greatest cartoon villains of the 1980s. Then comes the Great American Geography Disaster, where Rizz and Moon ace a blank map of the United States while Lern struggles to locate Delaware and Rafe temporarily forgets Alabama exists. Somewhere, a fifth-grade geography teacher just started crying. And finally, Facebook Marketplace Price Is Right returns with some truly disturbing local listings: a crocheted Halloween surprise, creepy dental models, a Gremlin skeleton, a questionable teddy bear magnet, and a full-size coffin converted into a buffet table for $250. Because nothing says “enjoy the nachos” quite like eating them out of a casket. The grand finale? A 1983 Chrysler LeBaron that used to talk, listed for $3,800 despite a collection of mechanical problems. Moon wins the pricing challenge, proving that vintage automotive knowledge is apparently more useful than knowing where Wyoming is. From shark encounters and St. Louis crime stories to rock-and-roll celebrations, weird technology, horror movie villains, celebrity chaos, and Facebook Marketplace nightmares, this funny podcast delivers everything you love about The Rizzuto Show: sarcastic humor, funny stories, pop culture commentary, and absolutely unnecessary arguments. Join Rizz and the gang for another installment of this funny podcast, where the geography is questionable, the shopping decisions are worse, and the only thing scarier than a great white shark is somebody serving dinner out of a coffin. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Arlington couple charged in fatal shooting of 17-year-old on St. Louis highwayCook threatened to torch Maplewood chicken restaurantAnother zip line course strugglingSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lern can't find Delaware, Rafe forgot Alabama existed, somebody in Missouri is selling a coffin buffet, and a 1983 Chrysler LeBaron might be the most emotionally available vehicle ever manufactured. Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where the education system has officially requested a refund. It's another spectacularly questionable morning on The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where St. Louis comedy, weird Facebook Marketplace listings, terrible geography skills, and vintage automotive technology come together to prove that adulthood is mostly just pretending you remember things from fifth grade. Rizz, Moon Valjean, Lern, Rafe Williams, and King Scott are back with a daily dose of sarcastic humor, ridiculous discoveries, and the kind of friendly workplace humiliation that probably wouldn't survive a corporate team-building seminar. And today, it all begins with a blank map of the United States. Sounds harmless, right? Wrong. THE GREAT AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY DISASTER Somebody decided the crew should try filling in all 50 states on a blank map, and within minutes, the studio became a living argument against standardized testing. Rizz and Moon apparently knocked out the entire country in under three minutes with perfect scores. Naturally, they celebrated by wandering around correcting everybody else's work like two insufferable fifth-grade honor students. Meanwhile, Lern was experiencing a geographical crisis. Delaware? Possibly somewhere near Montana. Wyoming? Missing in action. Nebraska? Apparently farther north than expected. And New England? Just a confusing collection of tiny states that nobody wants to deal with before breakfast. Rafe wasn't doing much better. He knew Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia were somewhere near each other, but determining the actual order was becoming a full-blown investigation. At one point, he admitted he'd temporarily forgotten Alabama existed. That's not a geography mistake. That's an entire state being deleted from your mental hard drive. The crew debates the locations of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Delaware while Moon attempts to explain the map without completely losing his patience. Spoiler alert: Nobody leaves this exercise feeling particularly intelligent. If you've ever looked at a blank map and suddenly questioned everything you learned in elementary school, congratulations. You're qualified to join the show. FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE: THE PRICE IS WRONG, PROBABLY Once the geography disaster finally ends, the gang moves on to something much more educational: guessing the prices of absolute nonsense being sold by strangers on Facebook Marketplace. Rafe Williams takes over as the show's deeply suspicious auctioneer for another round of Facebook Marketplace Price Is Right, where listeners team up with Rizz Show members and try to win concert tickets by correctly estimating the asking prices of local listings. The rules are simple: Get as close as possible without going over. The merchandise? Anything but simple. First up is a handmade Halloween decoration from Curryville, Missouri, described as a surprise pumpkin ghost. Sounds adorable. Until you lift the little ghost covering and discover a crocheted anatomical surprise. That's right. Somebody made a festive pumpkin-themed private part, listed it online, and apparently found enough customers to start taking back orders. The asking price? $25. King Scott wins the round, because apparently knowing the market value of handmade Halloween anatomy is one of his hidden talents. Next comes a terrifying dental training model from the Dittmer area, complete with a silicone mouth full of disturbingly crooked teeth. It's the sort of object you'd expect to find in a dentist's office, a horror movie, or the basement of somebody who insists they're completely normal. Moon suspects it could be expensive. He's right. The asking price is $150, and Moon takes the victory. Who knew creepy practice teeth were such a valuable commodity? Then the gang encounters a 3D-printed Gremlin skeleton being sold in Wentzville, Missouri. The listing claims it's three feet tall, although the crew spends an impressive amount of time arguing over whether the photograph actually supports that measurement. Is it three feet? Thirty inches? Three inches? Is the couch enormous? Nobody knows, but everybody has an opinion. The gang debates the value of 3D printing, the questionable business decisions of Marketplace sellers, and whether anyone actually wants a Gremlin skeleton in their living room. The price turns out to be just $30, making it a surprisingly affordable way to terrify houseguests. King Scott wins again. Then there's a vintage 1999 Bad Taste Bears magnet named Willie. It's a teddy bear wearing a trench coat. Unfortunately, the trench coat is open. Very open. Somebody apparently kept this charming little collectible in a bar for years before deciding the world deserved another chance to own it. The asking price? $25. That's a lot of money for a refrigerator magnet that should probably come with a warning from Human Resources. THE CASKET BUFFET NOBODY REQUESTED Just when you think Facebook Marketplace can't possibly get more bizarre, Rafe unveils the crown jewel of questionable party planning. A full-size casket from Moscow Mills, Missouri. But this isn't just any casket. Somebody has repurposed it into a buffet table, complete with serving trays. Because apparently the missing ingredient at your next Halloween party is the sensation of eating potato salad out of a coffin. The gang immediately revisits an old discussion about funeral nachos and starts imagining the catering possibilities. A coffin full of nachos? A final resting place for mostaccioli? A six-foot-long buffet of questionable life choices? The seller originally wanted $400 but dropped the asking price to $250 for a Halloween special. King Scott nails the closest bid without going over, continuing his deeply concerning dominance in the marketplace of things nobody should reasonably own. Seriously, how does this man know what a used coffin buffet costs? And should we be asking follow-up questions? THE TALKING CHRYSLER LEBARON SHOWDOWN For the grand finale, Rafe brings out something genuinely fascinating. A 1983 Chrysler LeBaron Mark Cross Edition convertible listed around Columbia and Dupo, Illinois. It's got wood-grain styling, leather seats, new tires, a cracked windshield, leaking power steering, questionable shocks, and a feature that absolutely steals the show. The car talks. Or at least, it used to. The LeBaron originally featured an electronic voice-alert system that could interrupt the radio to tell drivers about low fuel, oil pressure, seat belts, and other vehicle warnings. Imagine driving down the highway while your car speaks to you in the stern, disappointed voice of a father who just saw your report card. The gang digs into the technology, listens to examples of vintage talking-car alerts, and immediately starts imagining what else the LeBaron might say if somebody reprogrammed it. Naturally, the conversation becomes wildly inappropriate for an automotive history lesson. The original talking feature on this particular car no longer works, but the crew still debates whether its collectible appeal makes up for the mechanical problems. Moon guesses $3,300. King Scott goes with $2,500. The other bids fall considerably lower. The actual asking price? $3,800. Moon wins, proving that sometimes the secret to Facebook Marketplace success is understanding that an old car with a broken windshield and a dead voice system can still be priced like a beloved family heirloom. Would anybody actually pay that much? That's another question entirely. ST. LOUIS COMEDY, TERRIBLE MAPS & BEAUTIFULLY BAD SHOPPING DECISIONS This episode is packed with the kind of weird news, funny stories, local discoveries, and sarcastic commentary that make The Rizzuto Show a uniquely chaotic morning radio experience. From Lern's battle with Delaware to Rafe's Halloween-themed Marketplace finds, from King Scott's uncanny pricing instincts to Moon's surprising knowledge of vintage convertibles, every segment proves that you never know what you're going to learn on this show. Sometimes it's the location of Rhode Island. Sometimes it's the going rate for a crocheted pumpkin surprise. And sometimes it's the horrifying realization that somebody out there has turned a coffin into a catering business opportunity. Whether you're listening from St. Louis, Southern Illinois, or anywhere else that appreciates a little daily comedy with absolutely no educational standards, this funny podcast delivers the laughs, the arguments, and the wonderfully unnecessary details you didn't know your morning needed. So grab your coffee, refresh your knowledge of the 50 states, and maybe reconsider whatever you're about to purchase on Facebook Marketplace. Because somewhere out there, somebody is selling a talking Chrysler LeBaron for $3,800. And somebody else is serving dinner out of a coffin. Join Rizz and the gang for another episode of the funny podcast where the prices are ridiculous, the geography is worse, and the only thing more confused than the crew is the audience trying to figure out why they're still listening. See you tomorrow. Assuming we can find Missouri on the map. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. 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Greek Fire is back after seven years, Lern has discovered Pokémon Go for actual cats, and Grand Theft Auto 6 might cost the economy a billion dollars. Just another perfectly normal morning with The Rizzuto Show. Welcome to another episode of The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where St. Louis rock legends, celebrity gossip, ridiculous apps, and questionable financial decisions all share the same microphone. Rizz, Moon Valjean, Lern, Rafe Williams, and King Scott are back with a daily dose of comedy, weird news, entertainment updates, and enough sarcasm to make your morning commute slightly less miserable. And today, we're celebrating something genuinely awesome: the return of Greek Fire! After seven years without a full headlining show, Moon Valjean and Greek Fire returned to the stage at Delmar Hall for an incredible night of music, theatrical production, and some seriously emotional moments. Moon breaks down the band's massive 90-minute performance, complete with multimedia visuals, multiple acts, costume changes, and brand-new music from their upcoming record. The crew shares their favorite moments, including the return of fan-favorite songs, an enthusiastic St. Louis crowd, and the impressive behind-the-scenes production team that helped bring everything together. But the moment that really got Moon? Seeing his son in the audience, singing along and enjoying the music as an actual fan. Yeah, we got emotional. Don't make it weird. The show also helped support Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, and Moon shares what's next for Greek Fire, including plans for new music and merchandise. Of course, we can't stay sentimental forever. This is The Rizzuto Show, and somebody is always one conversation away from ruining a beautiful moment. Enter Lern's latest obsession: Cat Collector. Imagine Pokémon Go, except instead of hunting imaginary creatures, you're photographing actual neighborhood cats and building a digital collection of every feline you encounter. There's a cat map. There are cat sightings. There are plans for cats with special powers. And naturally, Lern is immediately interested. The gang debates whether this is the greatest app ever invented for crazy cat ladies or a suspiciously efficient way to locate everybody's pets. There's also the small matter of a $35 annual subscription. Will Lern pay for the privilege of collecting cats she doesn't own? Will Moon finally find his elusive Maine Coon? And how long before somebody turns a harmless cat app into a full-blown neighborhood surveillance operation? Meanwhile, Grand Theft Auto 6 is apparently preparing to become more than a video game. It's becoming an economic event. The crew discusses a prediction that roughly 1.5 million Americans could skip work when the game launches, potentially costing businesses a billion dollars in lost productivity. They also marvel at the game's enormous reported development budget and the rumors that Rockstar Games offered Daft Punk an open checkbook to reunite for the soundtrack. Daft Punk reportedly said no. Imagine having so much money that somebody offers you practically unlimited cash and your response is basically, "Nah, we're good." Must be nice. Then it's time for Crap on Celebrities, where the entertainment world once again proves that fame doesn't automatically come with common sense. Lern brings the latest on Mötley Crüe's Las Vegas residency, Vince Neil's health history, and whether Moon should just take over lead vocals. Taylor Swift is back in the headlines after a reported awkward encounter with a fan filming her at a Kansas City Chiefs game, prompting a debate about celebrity privacy, superstar status, and whether fame eventually becomes bigger than the music itself. The crew also discusses Dominic Fike's older song finding new life on TikTok, possible future episodes of Ted Lasso, and rumors involving Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein. Yes, Roy Kent and J.Lo. Lern is concerned. Moon is concerned. Everybody seems concerned. Somebody should probably check on Roy. Things get even stranger with a tour of supposedly haunted country music landmarks, including Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, Graceland, and places rumored to have some very famous ghosts hanging around. Because apparently even Elvis can't get a little peace and quiet. The gang also discusses serious allegations in Halle Berry's ongoing custody dispute, Eric Dane's memoir and reflections on his struggles with addiction and ALS, and remembers the late Office Space actor Richard Riehle by revisiting the legendary Jump to Conclusions Mat. And just when you think the entertainment news is finished, the entire studio gets into an argument over the greatest cartoon villains of the 1980s. Megatron. Skeletor. Cobra Commander. Shredder. Hordak. Who deserves the top spot? Who got robbed? And how did a conversation about cartoon villains become something these grown adults are genuinely passionate about? Because nostalgia is a powerful drug, apparently. Throw in the crew's opening debate about pretzels versus mangoes as acceptable radio snacks, some truly questionable celebrity birthday trivia, and a preview of their Facebook Marketplace version of The Price Is Right, and you've got another wonderfully unhinged morning in St. Louis. Whether you're here for Moon's Greek Fire comeback, Lern's descent into cat-collecting madness, the latest pop culture commentary, or the ongoing spectacle of five adults arguing about things that absolutely do not matter, this funny podcast has something for you. So grab your coffee, put down the pretzels before somebody hears you chewing, and join Rizz and the gang for another round of daily humor, funny stories, rock music, and entertainment chaos. It's another episode of the funny podcast that proves St. Louis mornings are anything but boring. And seriously, if you see Lern wandering through your neighborhood taking pictures of cats, don't panic. She's just leveling up. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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Rafe Williams went surfing during great white shark season, a St. Louis jail escape turned into a real-life action movie, and Lern has officially declared war on ziplining. Somehow, those aren't even the weirdest things happening in Missouri. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where local news, bizarre stories, horror movies, and questionable vacation decisions collide in one gloriously chaotic morning. Rizz, Moon Valjean, Lern, Rafe Williams, and King Scott are tackling everything from shark-infested waters to St. Louis stereotypes, proving once again that this city has plenty of personality. Some of it probably needs professional supervision. Moon is back from San Diego, Dallas, and Phoenix, and the crew immediately starts debating whether San Diego might be the closest thing America has to paradise. Perfect weather, beautiful beaches, and the possibility of never wanting to return to Missouri? Sounds suspiciously appealing. But Rafe has a warning for anybody planning to learn how to surf there. He once spent Christmas vacation flailing around on a surfboard in San Diego, only to discover halfway through that it was great white shark season. His friend conveniently forgot to mention that detail until Rafe was already in the ocean, dressed in a wetsuit and looking like a confused sea lion. Did he stand up on the board? Absolutely not. Did he see a shark? Thankfully, no. Did he spend most of the experience trying not to drown? You bet. And now Lern is considering surfing during her own upcoming San Diego Christmas trip. What could possibly go wrong? Back home, the gang dives into a serious St. Louis news story involving an escape from the City Justice Center. According to the report discussed on the show, a detainee allegedly climbed into a ceiling crawl space, traveled through the building's ventilation infrastructure, and exited through a door whose alarm failed to activate. The escape triggered a manhunt, and the suspect was eventually apprehended roughly 12 miles away in Affton. The crew discusses the multiple reported security failures, the questions surrounding how he traveled so far, and the public-safety officials who acknowledged the breakdown. Then the story takes an unexpected turn when a listener calls in with his own jail escape experience from decades earlier. Matthew says he once climbed through ductwork after getting arrested following a fight at a county fair. His escape attempt included crawling through the ceiling, retrieving his shoes, running through a police station, and accidentally choosing a restroom door instead of the exit. Spoiler alert: He didn't make it out. But he did eventually marry the girlfriend involved in the original incident, which might be the most chaotic love story we've heard all week. The show also addresses the heartbreaking fatal shooting of 17-year-old Alyssa Wilson on Interstate 170 and the subsequent arrests reported by investigators. It's a sobering conversation about public safety, a young life lost, and the devastating impact on a St. Louis family and community. And just when everybody needs a less disturbing local headline, Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken enters the conversation. Unfortunately, not because somebody invented a delicious new side dish. The crew discusses allegations that a restaurant employee in Maplewood threatened to burn down the business, cut the power, and poured peanut oil across the floor while coworkers were inside. Employees reportedly escaped safely, and the suspect was arrested. It's a genuinely frightening situation, but naturally, King Scott still finds a way to contribute a terrible peanut-oil nickname. Because apparently the microphone comes with absolutely no quality control. Then the gang asks a terrifying question: Which horror movie villain would you least want to fight in real life? Rizz makes the case for Pennywise, the nightmare-inducing shapeshifter from IT, while Moon fears Freddy Krueger because nobody wants to fight a supernatural murderer in a dream where your punches move like you're underwater. The Xenomorph from Alien enters the debate thanks to its acid blood and extremely unpleasant reproductive habits. Lern brings up the possessed mother from Hereditary, while the crew considers Michael Myers, Leatherface, Art the Clown, Pinhead, and Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men. The discussion somehow becomes a detailed comparison of immortal killers, demonic possessions, nightmare physics, and whether you could simply avoid the entire problem by refusing to go into space. Honestly, that's a pretty solid survival strategy. Meanwhile, St. Louis may be losing another outdoor attraction. The crew discusses the uncertain future of the Go Ape ropes and zipline course at Creve Coeur Park, along with the closure of another local adventure facility. Are St. Louis residents not adventurous enough? Are these attractions too expensive? Or does nobody know they exist because their advertising consists of a sign nailed to a tree? Lern has a different explanation. She hates ziplining. Not because she's afraid of heights. Not because she doesn't enjoy adventure. But because multiple ziplining experiences have somehow become associated with severe gastrointestinal emergencies. Yes, Lern has managed to turn an outdoor adventure discussion into another story about diarrhea. At this point, it's practically a show tradition. That leads into the Great St. Louis Debate, where Rizz asks artificial intelligence to describe the stereotypes associated with Missouri, St. Louis, and Southern Illinois. Are Missourians excessively polite? Are we Midwestern or Southern? Do we really spend our weekends hunting, talking to strangers, and explaining where we went to high school? And why does every conversation about Missouri eventually involve barbecue, the Ozarks, or somebody getting offended by a stereotype? The crew puts local identity under the microscope, with plenty of sarcastic humor and some surprisingly accurate observations about life in the Midwest. It's St. Louis comedy, strange local headlines, terrifying movie monsters, vacation disasters, and the kind of daily humor that makes this funny podcast a questionable but highly entertaining part of your morning routine. So grab your coffee, lock your doors, stay out of the shark-infested water, and maybe skip the zipline if Lern is giving travel advice. Join The Rizzuto Show for another episode of this funny podcast, where even a simple conversation about San Diego can somehow end with escaped inmates, haunted dreams, and a full-scale debate about what's wrong with St. Louis. 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Rizz, King Scott, Moon, Lern, and Rafe Williams are bringing you a massive helping of St. Louis morning radio chaos in this funny podcast packed with celebrity gossip, bizarre news stories, dating disasters, rock-and-roll debates, and enough ridiculous conversations to make you seriously reconsider the people you spend your mornings with. First, Rafe returns from an unforgettable trip to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he performed stand-up comedy with St. Louis favorites the Sklar Brothers and somehow ended up receiving the VIP treatment from the University of Michigan football program. We're talking luxury locker rooms, personal massage chairs, private barbers, bowling alleys, golf simulators, enormous indoor practice facilities, and enough free food to make a grown man consider enrolling in college again. Rafe tours the Wolverines' incredible athletic facilities, receives Michigan Jordans and a jacket, and gets to experience the excitement of game day at the legendary Big House. He even helps hold the Michigan banner before the team runs onto the field. Naturally, he spends much of the weekend wondering whether Bob Seger might suddenly appear. Because apparently the University of Michigan's greatest attraction isn't football. It's the possibility of running into the guy who sang “Night Moves.” And if you're wondering why Rafe is wearing a glorious blonde mullet wig back in the studio, thank the NFL Pick'em Challenge. The wig is punishment for his football predictions, but the truly disturbing part is how good it looks on him. Lern thinks he can pull off any hairstyle, Rizz agrees it looks surprisingly natural, and Rafe has an important meeting with a potential client later that day. Nothing screams business professional quite like a man who looks ready to sell you a used Trans Am. Speaking of questionable appearances, BIGFOOT APPARENTLY HAD REHEARSAL FOOTAGE. The gang discusses the documentary Capturing Bigfoot, which reportedly features a test clip resembling the legendary 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot footage. Yes, the most famous Sasquatch sighting in history might have had a practice run. Rizz is devastated by the possibility that the iconic footage was staged, but Rafe has a much more compelling theory. Bigfoot is real according to our resident Cryptozoologist King Scott. He's just not living in the woods anymore. According to Rafe, some woman probably found him hiking, shaved him down, cleaned him up, and got him a respectable job selling Acuras in Chesterfield. That's right. The reason nobody can find Bigfoot is that he's probably working in suburban St. Louis with a decent benefits package. Jason Momoa might also be a professionally groomed Yeti. We're not saying that's true. We're saying Rafe has clearly spent too much time thinking about it. From cryptozoology, the conversation moves to something almost as difficult to understand: Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Rafe catches the movie in a packed theater and gives it an enthusiastic A, despite sitting in the front row for nearly three hours. The documentary follows the disgraced Theranos founder in the period leading up to her prison sentence, with Fielder's signature uncomfortable humor, bizarre interviews, and increasingly complicated questions about what's real and what's staged. Rafe describes a particularly strange sequence involving Amanda Seyfried's portrayal of Holmes in The Dropout, where the film starts folding back in on itself like a psychological experiment designed specifically to make everybody uncomfortable. The crew debates the movie's reviews, its unusual R rating, and whether anybody needs a three-hour documentary that requires a bathroom strategy. Rafe says it's worth it. His bladder would like to issue a separate review. Meanwhile, it's National New Friends Day, and the gang has reached a unanimous conclusion: Making friends as an adult is exhausting. When you're a kid, you just ask somebody if they like dinosaurs, and suddenly you're best friends. When you're an adult, you have to coordinate schedules, navigate social expectations, make awkward small talk, and somehow convince another human being that spending time with you is worth leaving their house. Rizz shares a survey suggesting the average American hasn't made a new friend in five years. Rafe announces that his friendship department has no vacancies. Lern explains that her closest friendships work because nobody expects constant communication. And the crew debates whether adult friendships have become more complicated than dating. Lern even shares how nervous she was when she asked a woman named Nikki to hang out after their professional relationship ended. She worried about her appearance, whether they'd click, and whether the invitation would seem weird. Basically, she went through all the emotional preparation of a first date just to get coffee with another woman. Thankfully, the friendship worked out. Which is nice, because nobody needs another rejection story involving a coffee shop. The gang also tackles the lost art of having friends over for dinner. Why does nobody host dinner parties anymore? Is everybody too busy? Too tired? Too broke? Or is the real problem that once people get comfortable on your couch, they refuse to leave? Rafe believes spending time in someone's home creates deeper friendships. Lern believes people should understand when the evening is over. Her solution? Gift bags. Yes, Lern sends guests home with leftover promotional merchandise, batteries, popcorn, and whatever else she's accumulated throughout the year. It's a brilliant system. You get a free present, and she gets her house back. Everybody wins. Then things get even more awkward when the gang discusses a woman who went viral after being stood up on a Bumble date. The guy reportedly said he was on his way, never arrived, and left her stuck with more than $100 in expenses for transportation, drinks, shrimp cocktail, and tips. She wants Bumble to reimburse her. The crew wonders whether dating apps should be responsible for their users' bad behavior and whether singles should be allowed to leave reviews of people they've dated. Imagine checking someone's romantic rating before agreeing to dinner. “Great conversation. Terrible parking. Refused to split dessert. Two stars.” Of course, the whole system would collapse the moment somebody got rejected and decided revenge was best served through a one-star review. So maybe the answer isn't rating people like restaurants. Maybe it's actually going to breakfast. The gang discusses the growing appeal of breakfast first dates, where you can meet someone for coffee, pancakes, or a quick meal without committing to an expensive evening. Rizz loves the idea. Lern appreciates the lower pressure but isn't thrilled about waking up early. And everybody agrees that if the date goes badly, it's much easier to escape after coffee than after a three-course dinner. Which brings us to one of the most important questions of the day: Are pancakes romantic? The crew explores why younger men may be attracted to older women, discussing confidence, independence, direct communication, and the appeal of relationships without endless dating-app games. Rafe suggests that an older woman might simply invite you over and offer to make pancakes. No mixed signals. No complicated emotional chess. Just breakfast. Except a listener quickly points out that an invitation for pancakes can absolutely have another meaning. And just like that, the most innocent breakfast food in America becomes a relationship controversy. The crew also debates age-gap relationships involving celebrities like Madonna, Cher, Kris Jenner, and Bill Belichick, asking why society often reacts differently to older men dating younger women than to older women dating younger men. Along the way, they explore the idea of soulmates. Does everyone have one true love? Can you have multiple soulmates? Can your soulmate be a best friend instead of a romantic partner? Rafe offers a surprisingly thoughtful theory that people discover different pieces of themselves through the connections they make throughout their lives. Lern agrees, but immediately wants to know why Rafe gets to sound philosophical without being accused of eating an edible. It's one of the rare moments when the Rizz Show almost becomes emotionally intelligent. Fortunately, somebody makes it weird again. Back in St. Louis, the crew celebrates Greek Fire's return to Delmar Hall, where Moon and the band deliver a theatrical rock performance featuring new music and an impressive stage production. Rizz and Lern recap the show, but Rizz's evening also includes a restaurant experience that nearly turns into a full-blown customer-service investigation. An upscale restaurant adds an unexplained 20% service fee to his bill. Not a tip. Not an automatic gratuity. A separate charge that leaves Rizz wondering exactly where the money goes. His wife Amelia is less than thrilled, and the gang debates hidden restaurant fees, tipping culture, and why dining out now feels like reviewing the terms and conditions of a mortgage. Rizz also receives a wonderfully ugly little collectible monster called a Fugler from a listener, which Amelia immediately falls in love with. So the night includes great live music, a questionable restaurant bill, and a terrifying stuffed creature. Pretty standard Rizz Show weekend. The crew also discusses the seasonal warning that Missouri deer are in heat, meaning rutting season is underway and drivers need to be especially alert. Lern describes deer racing through her yard, Rizz recalls seeing deer during a trip to Springfield, and Rafe contributes some extremely questionable wildlife commentary. The conversation is a reminder that deer are unpredictable this time of year. Especially when romance is involved. And speaking of Springfield, Rizz's family trip turns into a debate about Chinese food, Springfield-style cashew ch

It's National New Friends Day, and the gang has one very important question: Who the hell has the energy to make new friends anymore? When you're a kid, friendship is easy. You ask somebody if they like dinosaurs, they say yes, and congratulations, you've got a best friend until somebody steals somebody else's Pokémon cards. As an adult? Forget it. Now you've got jobs, kids, bills, errands, relationships, and the overwhelming desire to spend Friday night in sweatpants watching television without speaking to another human being. Rizz shares a survey suggesting the average American hasn't made a single new friend in five years, and the crew immediately understands why. Rafe announces that his friendship department has no vacancies. Lern explains that her current friends understand they don't need to talk every single day. And Rizz points out that most adult friendships seem to happen through work, kids' activities, or some shared obligation nobody can escape. Lern even compares friendship circles to planets orbiting the sun, with everyone moving at their own pace and occasionally drifting into one another's lives. Rafe, naturally, describes himself as a rogue planet whose moon has been destroyed and who is now floating helplessly through the universe. Which is a surprisingly poetic way of saying he doesn't want to make plans this weekend. But Lern actually has a success story. She describes making a new friend named Nikki after they initially met through a business relationship. Lern waited until the professional arrangement had ended before reaching out, because she didn't want the invitation to coffee to feel like some elaborate financial networking scheme. And when she finally asked Nikki to hang out? She worried about what to wear, how she smelled, whether they'd get along, and whether the whole thing would be awkward. Her husband couldn't understand why she was acting like she was preparing to meet a potential romantic partner. Turns out Nikki was just as nervous. And now they're great friends. So apparently making a new friend as an adult really is dating, except nobody kisses at the end and both people are secretly hoping they can go home by 8:30. The gang also explores why people don't invite friends over for dinner anymore. According to a statistic discussed on the show, the percentage of Americans hosting friends or family at least once a month has dropped dramatically since the 1970s. Rizz wonders what happened to the classic dinner party. Lern remembers friends who renovated a downtown St. Louis firehouse and regularly hosted cocktail parties before moving away. Rafe says he's been slowly getting his house ready to entertain, although after nearly a year of ownership, he's still not quite prepared to let the public inside. And the entire conversation turns into a debate about why nobody wants people hanging around their house anymore. Or is the real problem that once somebody comes over, there's no socially acceptable way to make them leave? Lern thinks that's the biggest issue. At a restaurant, the evening has a natural ending. You eat, you pay, and everybody goes home. At somebody's house, there's always that one person who decides midnight is the perfect time to start another conversation. Or worse, suggest Monopoly. Rafe argues that spending time at someone's house is how friendships become deeper and more meaningful. Lern argues that she has a bedtime. And if you're still sitting on her couch when she's ready to shut things down, congratulations: you're about to receive a complimentary gift bag and a very clear invitation to leave. That's right. Lern hands out leftover promotional merchandise to departing guests. A few batteries, some popcorn, maybe a random bucket of hardware supplies. It's like an Oscar swag bag, except the prize is being politely evicted. From there, the show moves into Sexy Time Fun Facts, and the dating world somehow manages to make adult friendship look relaxing. First up: a woman named Paige goes viral after being stood up on a date she arranged through Bumble. She arrives at the restaurant, orders a drink and shrimp cocktail, and waits for a guy who says he's almost there. Except he never shows up. Eventually, she realizes she's apparently been blocked, leaving her with a bill of more than $100 when transportation, food, drinks, and tips are included. Her proposed solution? Bumble should reimburse her. The crew debates whether dating apps should be responsible for the bad behavior of their users. Rizz isn't particularly impressed by the woman's decision to film the experience, while Lern and Rafe explore whether dating platforms should introduce a rating system for potential partners. Imagine leaving a review after every first date. “Showed up on time. Good conversationalist. Chewed with mouth open. Three stars.” Sounds useful until you remember that people are petty. Suddenly, every rejected second date becomes a one-star review, every breakup becomes a customer-service dispute, and somebody's romantic future gets destroyed because they didn't respond to a text quickly enough. Rafe tries to design a fair system where both people rate each other immediately after meeting. Rizz points out that people could still lie. And Lern realizes there's probably a very good reason dating apps haven't turned human beings into Yelp listings. But maybe the solution isn't another dating-app feature. Maybe it's breakfast. The gang discusses the growing appeal of breakfast first dates, where two people meet for coffee, pancakes, or a quick meal instead of committing to an expensive evening out. It's cheaper, more casual, and provides a convenient escape if the chemistry isn't there. Rizz loves the idea. Rafe sees the practical benefits. Lern likes it too, except for one tiny problem: You have to wake up early. Nothing says romance like setting an alarm for 7:30 on a Saturday because a stranger wants to discuss their childhood over scrambled eggs. Still, breakfast dates have one major advantage. If things go well, you've got the whole day ahead of you. And if things go badly, you can simply finish your coffee and pretend you have an extremely important appointment with your couch. Then the conversation gets unexpectedly philosophical. Does everyone have one true soulmate? Rizz shares survey findings suggesting some people in relationships don't believe their current partner is necessarily their one true love. Which is probably a fantastic statistic to casually mention during your anniversary dinner. The crew debates whether soulmates are real, whether people can have more than one, and whether choosing a long-term partner is more about compatibility and timing than some magical cosmic connection. Rafe suggests that people sometimes choose relationships based on practical circumstances: similar goals, financial stability, wanting children, and being ready for the same stage of life. Lern argues that believing too strongly in a single perfect person can lead to unrealistic expectations. And Rizz wonders what happens if you spend your whole life looking for “the one” and keep getting it wrong. Then Lern shares a complicated situation involving someone close to her who's still emotionally attached to a former love. The relationship ended years ago, but the feelings never completely disappeared. Now that person has reentered her life and confessed romantic feelings, despite being involved with someone else. Naturally, the gang has opinions. Some are thoughtful. Some are compassionate. And some are the kind of advice that would get an actual relationship counselor's license revoked. Rafe takes the discussion in a surprisingly profound direction, suggesting that maybe people discover pieces of themselves in others throughout their lives. And perhaps a soulmate is simply someone who helps you recognize a particularly important part of yourself. It's a genuinely touching thought. For a brief moment, the show becomes a thoughtful exploration of human connection. Don't worry. It doesn't last. The gang eventually debates whether soulmates can be platonic, whether the word itself implies romance, and why one person's perfect spiritual match might be a longtime friend rather than a spouse. And just when you think the relationship conversation can't get any more complicated, Rizz introduces another topic: Why are more younger men attracted to older women? The crew explores changing attitudes toward age-gap relationships and the appeal of dating someone who's already confident, independent, and knows exactly what they want. Rafe theorizes that younger men might be looking for relationships with fewer games and less dating-app nonsense. Lern remembers the Netflix dating series Age of Attraction and wonders whether authenticity and emotional connection play a bigger role than people realize. Rizz shares the idea that older women may be more comfortable communicating their expectations, more established in their lives, and less interested in rushing toward traditional relationship milestones. And then Rafe delivers the most compelling argument of the entire discussion. An older woman might simply invite you over and offer to make pancakes. Because the moment the crew decides pancakes are a completely innocent invitation, a listener named Kate checks in to explain that, as an older woman, an invitation to pancakes could absolutely mean something more. And just like that, breakfast is no longer safe. The gang also tackles the double standard surrounding age-gap relationships. Why do people react differently to an older man dating a younger woman than they do to an older woman dating a younger man? Lern brings up celebrities like Madonna and Bill Belichick, while Rafe points to Cher, Kris Jenner, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as examples of relationships with significant age differences. The crew discusses attraction, financial independence, pop-culture gaps, generational differences, and whether two ad

Rizz, King Scott, Lern, and Rafe Williams are back with another spectacularly ridiculous episode of The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where celebrity gossip, questionable documentaries, rock-and-roll debates, and St. Louis morning radio chaos collide. And today's biggest revelation might be that Bigfoot didn't just walk through the woods in 1967. Apparently, the guy had a dress rehearsal. BIGFOOT HAD REHEARSAL FOOTAGE?! The gang discusses the documentary Capturing Bigfoot, which reportedly reveals a 40-second test clip filmed in 1966, a year before the legendary Patterson-Gimlin footage from Bluff Creek, California. You know the famous video: a giant, hairy creature strolling through the woods before turning to look directly at the camera like somebody just yelled his government name. According to the documentary's premise, the newly uncovered footage shows a slimmer ape-like figure performing a remarkably similar walk and over-the-shoulder glance. King Scott declares he's the foremost knowledgeable expert in Cryptozoology. Was Bigfoot real, or was somebody directing the world's hairiest independent film? Rizz is devastated by the possibility that the footage was staged, although he's not ready to abandon his belief in Sasquatch entirely. Rafe, meanwhile, has a much more convincing theory. Bigfoot isn't missing. He's living in Chesterfield. Lern offers a few observations about Sasquatch's romantic prospects that probably won't appear in any scientific journal. From Bigfoot conspiracies, the conversation turns to another creature that's nearly impossible to understand: Nathan Fielder. Rafe went to see Fielder's new documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, and he's ready to explain why the film is one of the strangest theatrical experiences he's had in a long time. The movie reportedly exceeded box-office expectations, drawing packed theaters and glowing reviews. Rafe had to sit in the front row, which is a terrible place to sit for almost three hours unless you're either deeply committed to cinema or being punished for something. He gives the film an A, praising Fielder's trademark dry humor, uncomfortable interviews, and reality-bending storytelling. The documentary follows Holmes and her boyfriend during the weeks leading up to her prison sentence, with Fielder becoming increasingly involved in their lives as the story unfolds. And because this is Nathan Fielder, the whole thing apparently becomes an elaborate exercise in questioning what is real, what's staged, and who's manipulating whom. Rafe describes a particularly bizarre sequence involving Amanda Seyfried's portrayal of Holmes in The Dropout, where the documentary starts folding back in on itself like a psychological origami project. The crew also debates the film's unusual R rating, a mysterious nude scene, and whether the nearly three-hour runtime is justified. Rafe insists the movie is worth every minute. His bladder strongly disagrees. He sat through the entire thing without taking a bathroom break, fueled by popcorn, cookie dough bites, Twizzlers, and a Coke. By the time the credits rolled, he had witnessed cinematic brilliance and achieved a level of urinary discomfort normally reserved for cross-country road trips. And then there's the one critic who apparently didn't love the movie. With nearly universal praise surrounding the documentary, the gang becomes fascinated by a single negative review. Rafe argues that the criticism sounds like somebody trying to appear intellectual without actually saying anything. Rizz compares it to walking into an ice cream shop, seeing too many flavors, and leaving a two-star review. Honestly, that might be the most accurate description of modern internet criticism we've ever heard. Then it's time for Crap on Celebrities, where Lern unleashes another avalanche of music news, Hollywood drama, bizarre revelations, and stories that probably make publicists reconsider their career choices. First up, Billy Corgan praises Travis Barker, calling the Blink-182 drummer one of the most influential drummers of the last three decades. The gang debates whether Barker deserves the title, comparing his fame, distinctive playing style, and lasting influence with other legendary drummers, including Dave Grohl and Tool's Danny Carey. Rizz argues that Barker's recognizable sound and cultural impact make him a strong contender, while Lern reflects on his extraordinary career and the documentary exploring his survival of a devastating plane crash. The discussion also touches on Barker's early days with the Aquabats, because even rock legends have to start somewhere. Next, the crew discusses reports that Sean “Diddy” Combs was transferred to a lower-security federal prison following reports involving contraband. Rafe questions the logic of moving someone to a less restrictive facility after alleged rule violations, while Rizz recalls Mike Tyson discussing his own prison experience in a documentary. It's a conversation about celebrity treatment, prison privileges, and why the justice system can sometimes seem to operate under a completely different set of rules for famous people. Then comes a story that will make absolutely everyone instinctively protect their eyeballs. Lil Jon reveals the childhood injury behind his signature sunglasses. According to his memoir, the rapper accidentally injured his eye with a syringe when he was six years old, leading to surgeries, an eye patch, and bullying during childhood. That leads Rizz to share a painful family memory involving his wife Amelia and their daughter during a flight home from New York. A playful game of patty-cake ended with a tiny finger scratching Amelia's cornea, causing severe pain and eventually requiring laser treatment. The crew discusses just how agonizing corneal abrasions can be and why something as innocent as a baby's fingernail can turn into a medical nightmare. Congratulations, parents. You now have one more completely unexpected thing to worry about. The celebrity news continues with Carrot Top thanking fans for their support following a hospitalization and preparing to return to his Las Vegas residency. Lern also shares reports about Nicolas Cage and Antonio Banderas joining a future season of True Detective, which launches a discussion about the show's different seasons. Rizz and Rafe agree that the first season with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson is outstanding, while the crew compares the later installments featuring Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Mahershala Ali, and Jodie Foster. Lern also announces that she's finally started watching The Pitt, and she's already hooked. After avoiding medical dramas for years, she watched three episodes in a row and came away with a newfound appreciation for emergency-room professionals. The gang also discusses difficult celebrity news, including a reported family tragedy involving Cindy Crawford, a court ruling in Timothy Busfield's case, and an airline incident involving Selma Blair. These stories are handled as reports discussed on the show, rather than excuses to turn serious personal or legal matters into punchlines. Then it's back to Hollywood, where the crew reviews box-office results, debates the appeal of a movie about being swallowed by a whale, and discusses Quentin Tarantino's awkward revelation that he was never invited onto Ellen DeGeneres's talk show. The gang remembers the famously uncomfortable Dakota Johnson birthday-party exchange and wonders how Tarantino somehow managed to miss out on the daytime television experience. Meanwhile, Jesse Eisenberg says his poorly received portrayal of Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman affected his blockbuster career. The crew also talks about upcoming movie trailers, including Artificial with Andrew Garfield and a new adaptation of A Christmas Carol starring Johnny Depp. Then it's time for celebrity birthdays, featuring filmmaker Jason Reitman, former Fugees member Pras, Rizz Show friend Chris Kattan, South Park co-creator Trey Parker, Jon Favreau, Ty Pennington, Evander Holyfield, and the legendary John Lithgow. That leads to an extended appreciation of Jon Favreau, whose career somehow stretches from Swingers and Made to Elf, Iron Man, Chef, The Mandalorian, and major Disney productions. Rizz continues his campaign to convince everyone that Chef is an outstanding movie, while Rafe admits that The Mandalorian and Grogu didn't exactly inspire him to finish watching it on his flight. Apparently, even Baby Yoda can't guarantee your undivided attention anymore. And finally, it's time for the Rizz Show vs. Fast Lane NFL Pick'em Challenge. At this point, the gang isn't competing for football supremacy. They're competing to see who can humiliate themselves the least. From Bigfoot rehearsal footage and suburban Sasquatch theories to Nathan Fielder's bizarre Elizabeth Holmes documentary, Travis Barker's influence, Prince's legendary guitar playing, Hollywood controversies, and Moon's impending karaoke nightmare, this funny podcast is packed with weird news, celebrity gossip, music debates, and the sarcastic humor that makes The Rizzuto Show a St. Louis morning-radio favorite. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. 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It's October 19th, and The Rizzuto Show is back with another spectacularly unhinged funny podcast featuring Rizz, King Scott, Moon, Lern, Rafe Williams, and the usual collection of stories that make St. Louis morning radio feel like a group therapy session nobody agreed to attend. Moon is out for the day, but Rafe is back from his big Michigan adventure, and he's brought home two things: unforgettable memories and an absolutely magnificent blonde mullet wig. The hair is punishment for last week's NFL picks, but somehow Rafe looks disturbingly comfortable wearing it. Lern thinks he can pull off any hairstyle. Rizz thinks it looks surprisingly natural. And Rafe has an important meeting with a potential client later in the day. Nothing says professional confidence quite like walking into a business meeting looking like you sell fireworks out of a Camaro. But the wig is only the beginning. Rafe spent the weekend in Ann Arbor performing with St. Louis comedy favorites the Sklar Brothers, and the trip turned into the kind of college football experience that makes regular people question why they bothered going to school for an actual education. The shows at Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase were a hit, but the real adventure happened when Rafe got an inside look at the University of Michigan football program. We're talking luxury facilities, massive indoor practice fields, personal massage chairs in the players' lockers, cold-plunge recovery areas, private barbers, golf simulators, bowling alleys, and enough high-end food to make a five-star resort look like a gas station. Rafe even walked away with Michigan Jordans and a jacket. Apparently, the secret to getting free expensive clothing is knowing the right comedians and wandering around a college football facility looking sufficiently impressed. Then came the Michigan–Penn State homecoming game at the Big House. Rafe got to go onto the field, help hold the famous Michigan banner, and run through the tunnel just before the football team. For a guy attending his first major college football game, that's a pretty ridiculous introduction. He also caught a football during warmups, considered auditioning as a 48-year-old freshman long snapper, and spent a suspicious amount of time hoping Bob Seger might appear somewhere in Ann Arbor. And let's not forget the buffets. There were multiple buffets. There was brisket, pulled pork, mac and cheese, desserts, and enough food to make Rafe seriously consider performing his stand-up shows from a seated position. The crew also dives into the wild world of college football money, NIL deals, transfer portals, luxury cars, and what happens when an 18-year-old athlete suddenly has access to more cash than most people will see in several lifetimes. From there, it's time to check in on everybody else's weekend. King Scott shares a family road trip to Springfield, Missouri, which somehow becomes a passionate discussion about Chinese food, Springfield-style cashew chicken, and whether the city's restaurants have quietly been embarrassing the St. Louis Chinese food scene for decades. The gang also debates America's most boring highways, including the seemingly endless stretches between Kansas City and Colorado, drives through Nebraska, and those soul-crushing road trips where the scenery consists entirely of cornfields, truck stops, and the same McDonald's every 40 miles. Lern shares her Monroe County date night, including dinner at Thai House in Columbia, Illinois, drinks at Old Monroe Distilling Company, and the temptation to wander into somebody else's wedding. Because apparently enjoying your own evening isn't enough when there's a perfectly good reception happening nearby. The crew also recaps Greek Fire's big return to Delmar Hall, where Moon and the band delivered a theatrical rock show featuring new music, impressive production, and a stage setup that had the crowd talking. Rizz and Lern loved the performance, but Rizz's evening almost got derailed before he even arrived. First, a listener named Melissa gave him a Fugler, one of those aggressively ugly little collectible monsters that somehow becomes adorable if you stare at it long enough. His wife Amelia immediately fell in love with the thing and spent the night making videos with it. Which turned out to be excellent timing, because Amelia had just survived a restaurant experience that nearly sent her into full customer-service combat mode. At an unnamed upscale restaurant, Rizz discovered a 20% service fee added to the bill. Rizz wanted to know where the money was going, whether it benefited the employees, and why the restaurant couldn't simply build its costs into the menu prices. Amelia wanted answers. The waiter wanted everyone to please avoid writing a review. And the entire experience became a heated discussion about hidden restaurant fees, tipping, transparency, and why customers shouldn't need a law degree to understand a dinner check. The gang debates whether service charges are becoming the newest restaurant scam, how they affect servers, and why Rizz refuses to name the establishment. Meanwhile, Amelia demonstrates her apparently supernatural ability to get businesses to address legitimate complaints. Rafe immediately wants her to call his student loan provider. Honestly, worth a shot. Then things get a little darker as the crew discusses a tragic incident involving a priest in Ecuador who was reportedly killed when a large crucifix fell during a livestreamed church service. The gang reacts to the shocking story and debates the strange expression died doing what he loved, with Lern and Rizz having very different interpretations of what that actually means. Back in St. Louis, there's another important seasonal warning: The deer are in heat. It's rutting season, which means deer are moving around more aggressively, crossing roads unexpectedly, and apparently making some very questionable romantic decisions. Joey Chestnut came to St. Louis and absolutely demolished an eight-pound deep-dish pizza. The competitive-eating legend visited Salvage Yard Bar and Grill to take on its Junkyard Dog Challenge: finish an enormous eight-pound pizza in 45 minutes. Joey finished it in 12 minutes and 6 seconds. TWELVE MINUTES. EIGHT POUNDS. Some people can't even decide what toppings they want in that amount of time. Rizz is appropriately impressed by the man he considers the greatest competitive eater of all time, and the gang marvels at the sheer physical insanity required to consume that much pizza without immediately requesting an ambulance. From Rafe's mullet punishment and his VIP Michigan football adventure to Springfield cashew chicken, Greek Fire's Delmar Hall comeback, mystery restaurant fees, horny Missouri deer, and Joey Chestnut's stomach-defying pizza performance, The Rizzuto Show #225 is packed with funny stories, weird news, local St. Louis entertainment, and the sarcastic humor that keeps this whole circus moving. This funny podcast is proof that you can start a Monday discussing college football luxury and somehow end up debating restaurant bills, deer romance, and the digestive capabilities of a competitive-eating superhero. Join Rizz, Lern, and Rafe for another installment of this funny podcast where the hair is fake, the pizza is very real, and apparently nobody in the studio knows how to have a normal weekend. And remember: If you lose your football picks, you might have to wear a mullet. If your restaurant bill includes an unexplained 20% fee, ask questions. And if Joey Chestnut challenges you to a pizza-eating contest, just pay for his dinner and go home. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Clownvis has discovered water, Lern is collecting cats like Pokémon, and somebody in Australia allegedly put snail poison in the office lunch. Happy Halloween, everybody. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where a grown man discovers hydration, the neighborhood cats have apparently elected Lern their landlord, and the crew spends an alarming amount of time debating whether diarrhea can be considered brutal. It's Friday in St. Louis, sweater weather has officially arrived, and Clownvis is back in the studio! After touring across America, Canada, and the Bahamas, the world's favorite Elvis-inspired clown returns wearing a leather jacket and bringing the kind of life-changing health advice nobody asked for. He's started drinking water. That's it. That's the breakthrough. Clownvis explains that filling a giant cup with ice water has transformed his mornings, improved his skin, and made him feel younger than ever. Rizz, Moon, and Lern are understandably stunned that ordinary H2O has apparently become the hottest new wellness trend. The conversation also takes a bizarre celebrity detour when Clownvis explains how a Cameo request from Maynard James Keenan of Tool and Puscifer led him to believe he was recording a birthday greeting for Matthew and Gunnar Nelson. Except the birthday boys weren't those Nelson twins. They were Matt and Gunner from Puscifer. Same first names. Completely different people. And Clownvis was already mentally preparing for a very strange musical crossover. Then it's Global Cat Day, which means Lern gets to celebrate her favorite holiday by announcing that she's acquired yet another furry freeloader. Well, technically, she hasn't adopted him. She's just named him Trouble, started feeding him, and accepted that he now hangs around her house with Mr. Gray, Clover, and Willow. So, yes, she's acquired another cat. Rizz suggests an intervention. Moon imagines an underground feline fighting championship. Lern insists she can't turn away a hungry animal. At this point, her Ellisville home is less of a residence and more of a cat-operated all-inclusive resort. And if the cats weren't enough, Rizz introduces the gang to beaver fever, a gastrointestinal parasite that can infect cats and potentially spread to humans. Naturally, a simple discussion about pet health becomes an extended debate over the difference between regular diarrhea, explosive diarrhea, and the apparently prestigious category of brutal diarrhea. The crew even invents what might be the world's worst death-metal double bill: Beaver Fever opening for Brutal Diarrhea. Somebody book the venue. Preferably one with excellent bathrooms. Next up: Would you hand your car keys to a complete stranger? Lern thinks she can trust her instincts. Rizz thinks she's one friendly parking assistant away from filing an insurance claim. A story about a Florida woman whose vehicle was allegedly stolen after she allowed two strangers to charge their phones inside it sends the crew into a debate about kindness, common sense, and whether anyone can actually spot a convincing liar. And then Halloween takes over. The gang debates the worst things to hand out to trick-or-treaters, and the results are a public service announcement for every neighborhood dentist. Toothbrushes? Absolutely not. Dental floss? Congratulations, you've ruined Halloween. Mini pretzels, raisins, bookmarks, pencils, sugar-free candy, and religious pamphlets? Please just turn off your porch light. Lern somehow makes a passionate case for a really cool Dracula bookmark. Clownvis defends raisins as valuable candy-trading currency. And everybody becomes increasingly concerned about what Halloween has done to the price of a 100 Grand bar. Nearly four dollars for a candy bar? Forget the haunted houses. That's the real nightmare. The crew also gets into the strange world of Halloween pumpkin colors, neighborhood decorations, giant skeletons, and whether spooky season has become too scary for kids. Lern is thrilled with the oversized skeletons decorating her yard. Rizz is preparing for a Halloween party at Ballpark Village. And Clownvis is heading to the Bahamas for a metal cruise featuring Lamb of God and other heavy-hitting acts. Because when you think Halloween, naturally you think tropical vacation with a boat full of metalheads. From there, things get even spookier as Rizz reveals a ranking of America's most haunted cities. St. Louis lands at number 38, prompting the gang to discuss local legends like the Lemp Mansion, Zombie Road, and McPike Mansion in Alton. Clownvis talks about visiting the Stanley Hotel, Lern dreams of more ghost tours, and everybody wonders why St. Louis isn't ranked higher on the paranormal leaderboard. Apparently our ghosts need better marketing. The Halloween hypotheticals continue with an important question: Would you let a hungry vampire drink your blood if you knew you'd survive? Lern has one condition. The vampire needs to be hot. Of course. Finally, the crew dives into a truly unsettling weird-news story from Western Australia, where a woman was accused of putting toxic snail pellets into a coworker's homemade curry. The discussion turns into a debate about office lunch thieves, revenge pranks, and why seeing suspicious bright-green granules in your food should probably discourage you from taking a taste. It's the kind of workplace drama that makes somebody stealing your cheese stick seem downright wholesome. From Clownvis's hydration revelation and Lern's expanding cat collection to Halloween candy disasters, haunted St. Louis history, vampire dating standards, and a poisonous office lunch, The Rizzuto Show #41 delivers another spectacularly unhinged serving of daily comedy. Just remember three things: Drink your water. Don't hand strangers your car keys. And if somebody puts neon-green sprinkles in your curry, maybe skip lunch. Paul McCartney remembers being born, England has officially run short on hunks, and Teslas are apparently doing kickflips. Welcome to a Friday where reality has completely stopped supervising itself. The crew talks a little music, a little charity, and the realization that Moon has been planning his upcoming Greek Fire concert like he's directing a Broadway production. The band is preparing to return to Delmar Hall with new music, a three-act theatrical show, and local opener Native Monster. Moon explains that the whole experience is designed to tell a story through the band's music, complete with different eras, carefully planned transitions, and what Lern insists on calling costume changes. Rizz is ready to enjoy the show. Lern is coming too. Clownvis will be hanging out. The only real question is whether Rizz can make it through Act Three without accidentally becoming part of the performance. The crew also shouts out the local businesses supporting Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital through the show's October fundraiser, including the sponsors brave enough to put their names on everyone's hats. It's charitable giving with the added bonus of turning morning radio hosts into walking billboards. Then Clownvis casually announces that he's seen videos of Teslas doing kickflips. Not driving over ramps. Not performing impressive parking maneuvers. Actual upside-down, rocket-thruster-assisted kickflips. Moon points out that the videos are AI, but Lern isn't quite ready to surrender the dream of a car that can skateboard better than most humans. From there, we enter the deeply confusing world of Paul McCartney's earliest memory. During an appearance on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast, the Beatles legend claimed to remember being born, including details about the delivery room and the difficult birth itself. Naturally, Rizz wants to know whether that's even possible. Moon brings up the science of infantile amnesia and how memories can be reconstructed over time. Lern argues that human brains are complicated and maybe extraordinary people have extraordinary abilities. And Rizz shares his own earliest memory: getting bitten by a llama at the zoo. That's right. Paul McCartney remembers entering the world. Rizz remembers being attacked by a farm animal. Both men went on to accomplish great things, depending on how generously you define great. The conversation gets into false memories, people who claim to remember life in the womb, and whether childhood recollections are anything more than stories our brains keep rewriting. Then it's time to talk about Grand Theft Auto 6, a game so anticipated that people are reportedly buying collectible boxes containing digital download codes instead of physical game discs. The crew discusses the game's rumored focus on modern financial struggles, including student loans, credit card debt, grocery prices, and the impossible dream of buying a house. Finally, a video game where you can escape the crushing stress of everyday life by experiencing the crushing stress of everyday life. And if you thought that was depressing, wait until you hear about England's national hunk shortage. According to a story discussed on the show, the Mr. England pageant has been postponed because organizers couldn't find enough suitable contestants. They started with seven guys, managed to scrape together more candidates, lost a couple, and ultimately decided the nation needed additional time to locate some quality hunks. A whole country. Millions of people. Not enough hunks. Lern is concerned. Moon wants to investigate. Rizz can't believe this is a real conversation. Somehow, the discussion leads to Hugh Grant's infamous scandal and a guessing game about the name Divine Brown, with the crew confidently offering alternatives that sound more like discontinued barbecue sauces. And that's all before Crap on Celebrities. Lern dives into the decades-long feud between Oasis and Phil Collins, including Noel Gallagher's legendary dislike of the former Genesis frontman and the possibility of an awkward Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

It's Rizz's birthday, Clownvis is back in town, and apparently the most terrifying thing a human being can receive is a text message containing three letters: HEY. Welcome to another wonderfully unhinged episode of The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where St. Louis morning radio meets Florida's finest questionable decisions, workplace anxiety, and the kind of trivia game that should probably require a waiver. Rizz, Moon Valjean, Lern, and special guest Clownvis are back together, and somehow a perfectly normal Friday turns into a discussion about text-message etiquette, exotic animals as currency, frozen food as a weapon, and why nobody should ever trust a clown and a rock singer to make important decisions. First, happy birthday, Rizz! The gang kicks things off with football picks, a little Fast Lane rivalry, and a visit from Clownvis, who's been traveling all over the place and has absolutely no intention of slowing down. Clownvis previews his upcoming tour dates, including shows with Mac Sabbath, stops through Texas and the South, Florida performances, and a Halloween weekend cruise with Lamb of God. Because when you're an Elvis-inspired clown, apparently the natural next step is spending Halloween on a boat full of metal fans. Then the crew checks the calendar and discovers that it's National Boss's Day, National Dictionary Day, National Liquor Day, and Global Cat Day. Naturally, Lern suggests giving the boss one of her spare cats. Possibly one with a parasite. Happy Boss's Day, Tommy. Hope you've updated your vaccinations. But the real workplace emergency comes when Rizz introduces everyone to the horrifying phenomenon known as “hey hanging.” You know exactly what we're talking about. Your phone buzzes. It's your boss. The message says: “Hey.” That's it. No question. No explanation. No follow-up. Just three innocent letters that immediately convince you you're getting fired, accidentally insulted someone on the air, or somehow destroyed the entire company. Rizz wants this practice outlawed immediately. Moon understands the panic. Lern, however, admits she's guilty of doing it herself—especially when texting her husband. And apparently, depending on the situation, one of Lern's mysterious “hey” messages might lead to something considerably more interesting than a meeting with management. The crew debates whether texts need polite introductions, whether getting straight to the point is rude, and why “Hey, do you have a moment to talk?” might actually be worse than the original crime. The conclusion? STOP HEY HANGING PEOPLE. Unless you're Lern. Apparently she's not stopping. Then it's time for the main event: Fake News or Florida! Listeners call in for a chance to win tickets to Nickelback, AEW Dynamite and Collision, and Ludo's Halloween shows. All they have to do is decide whether an absolutely ridiculous headline really came from Florida or was invented by the show. Sounds easy, right? Unfortunately, this is Florida. A man trying to buy a margarita with a live horseshoe crab? A beachgoer throwing a hot dog at a police officer? A stolen tractor being used to get to a job interview? A woman calling 911 because her iced coffee wasn't sweet enough? At a certain point, the fake stories start sounding reasonable, and the real stories sound like somebody wrote them after losing a bet. To help the contestants, Moon and Clownvis combine their alleged expertise into a single trivia lifeline called Moonvis. Or Movis. Or Clune. Nobody can agree on the name, which is probably a warning sign about the quality of advice they're about to provide. The duo debates whether a Florida man would really fight a wooden pirate statue, whether vintage Pokémon cards could cover college tuition, and whether somebody could reasonably use a box of crab legs as a weapon during an argument about television. Meanwhile, Rizz discovers that the phrase “too ridiculous to be real” has absolutely no meaning when Florida is involved. The headlines just keep getting stranger. There's a motorized couch on a public highway, a stolen forklift headed to a liquor store, a man allegedly calling the police to complain about the quality of his illegal drugs, and somebody supposedly trying to travel to Cuba on an inflatable flamingo. And yes, the flamingo story is presented as real in the game. Which raises several important questions, starting with: Was it the same flamingo every time? One contestant calls while working, another disappears before answering a question, and poor Ricky gets a second chance to prove he can tell the difference between Florida crime and pure nonsense. The crew also tackles a macaw supposedly ordering a $5,000 leather jacket, a frozen waffle assault, an iguana hidden in a popcorn tub, and a stolen riding lawnmower getaway involving a tuxedo. At this point, we're not playing trivia anymore. We're conducting a psychological experiment on the entire state of Florida. The lifeline gets especially dangerous when Moon and Clownvis try to determine whether a man used a leaf blower to launch hot peppers at a neighbor's dog. Their disagreements become so ridiculous that they resort to rock-paper-scissors to settle the answer. That's right. People are trusting these two with their prize-winning decisions. And somehow, that still isn't the worst judgment call of the morning. From there, the game spirals into ambulance theft, mysterious hot chili in traffic, and the realization that even the show's self-appointed Florida experts might not understand Florida. Along the way, the gang finds time to discuss horseshoe crab blood, whether 50 different pizza toppings are even possible, and why calling the police to review your illegal purchases is a spectacularly bad idea. All of this while Clownvis is trying to maintain his dignity. A battle he lost approximately five minutes after arriving. It's birthday chaos, radio contests, strange headlines, cat jokes, workplace texting nightmares, and enough questionable Florida decisions to fill an entire police blotter. This funny podcast brings together everything you love about The Rizzuto Show: weird news, sarcastic humor, listener games, ridiculous conversations, and the kind of St. Louis morning-show energy that makes you feel significantly better about your own decision-making skills. Join Rizz, Moon, Lern, and Clownvis for another episode of this funny podcast where the questions are fake, the Florida stories might be real, and the lifeline is somehow less reliable than guessing. And remember: If you're texting your boss, get to the point. If you're trading for a margarita, maybe leave the horseshoe crab at home. And if Moonvis tells you a Florida headline is fake, you might want a second opinion. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Paul McCartney remembers being born, England has officially run short on hunks, and Teslas are apparently doing kickflips. Welcome to a Friday where reality has completely stopped supervising itself. The Rizzuto Show is back with another gloriously ridiculous funny podcast featuring Rizz, Moon Valjean, Lern, and special guest Clownvis. And somehow, the biggest mystery of the day isn't whether a Beatle remembers his own birth. It's how many people are willing to buy a video game box that doesn't actually contain a video game. We kick things off in St. Louis with a little music, a little charity, and the realization that Moon has been planning his upcoming Greek Fire concert like he's directing a Broadway production. The band is preparing to return to Delmar Hall with new music, a three-act theatrical show, and local opener Native Monster. Moon explains that the whole experience is designed to tell a story through the band's music, complete with different eras, carefully planned transitions, and what Lern insists on calling costume changes. Rizz is ready to enjoy the show. Lern is coming too. Clownvis will be hanging out. The only real question is whether Rizz can make it through Act Three without accidentally becoming part of the performance. The crew also shouts out the local businesses supporting Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital through the show's October fundraiser, including the sponsors brave enough to put their names on everyone's hats. It's charitable giving with the added bonus of turning morning radio hosts into walking billboards. Then Lern casually announces that she's seen videos of Teslas doing kickflips. Not driving over ramps. Not performing impressive parking maneuvers. Actual upside-down, rocket-thruster-assisted kickflips. Moon points out that the videos are AI, but Lern isn't quite ready to surrender the dream of a car that can skateboard better than most humans. From there, we enter the deeply confusing world of Paul McCartney's earliest memory. During an appearance on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast, the Beatles legend claimed to remember being born, including details about the delivery room and the difficult birth itself. Naturally, Rizz wants to know whether that's even possible. Moon brings up the science of infantile amnesia and how memories can be reconstructed over time. Lern argues that human brains are complicated and maybe extraordinary people have extraordinary abilities. And Rizz shares his own earliest memory: getting bitten by a llama at the zoo. That's right. Paul McCartney remembers entering the world. Rizz remembers being attacked by a farm animal. Both men went on to accomplish great things, depending on how generously you define great. The conversation gets into false memories, people who claim to remember life in the womb, and whether childhood recollections are anything more than stories our brains keep rewriting. Then it's time to talk about Grand Theft Auto 6, a game so anticipated that people are reportedly buying collectible boxes containing digital download codes instead of physical game discs. The crew debates the game's rumored focus on modern financial struggles, including student loans, credit card debt, grocery prices, and the impossible dream of buying a house. Finally, a video game where you can escape the crushing stress of everyday life by experiencing the crushing stress of everyday life. And if you thought that was depressing, wait until you hear about England's national hunk shortage. According to a story discussed on the show, the Mr. England pageant has been postponed because organizers couldn't find enough suitable contestants. They started with seven guys, managed to scrape together more candidates, lost a couple, and ultimately decided the nation needed additional time to locate some quality hunks. A whole country. Millions of people. Not enough hunks. Lern is concerned. Moon wants to investigate. Rizz can't believe this is a real conversation. Somehow, the discussion leads to Hugh Grant's infamous scandal and a guessing game about the name Divine Brown, with the crew confidently offering alternatives that sound more like discontinued barbecue sauces. And that's all before Crap on Celebrities. Lern dives into the decades-long feud between Oasis and Phil Collins, including Noel Gallagher's legendary dislike of the former Genesis frontman and the possibility of an awkward Rock & Roll Hall of Fame encounter. The gang also discusses Sammy Hagar's ongoing attempts to move past old Van Halen drama, Alex Van Halen's insults, and whether aging rock stars could maybe settle their differences before everybody needs a nap. Meanwhile, Henry Winkler insists he doesn't exaggerate the size of the fish he catches, though he admits he's less reliable when discussing certain other measurements. Carrot Top's reported return to his Las Vegas residency sparks a conversation about entertainers getting back onstage after serious health scares, while the crew also discusses a celebrity's difficult medical journey and remembers their late friend Jeff. The movie chatter includes new releases, questionable box-office performances, Neil Young defending Digger, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz returning to The Mummy universe, and John Goodman reflecting on films he wishes had turned out differently. Then comes the musical argument nobody can resist: the greatest bands of all time. The crew examines a Consequence of Sound ranking that puts The Beatles at number one, Black Sabbath at number two, and The Velvet Underground at number three. Radiohead above The Rolling Stones? Led Zeppelin barely cracking the top ten? Rizz has questions. Moon has opinions. Lern has the list. Nobody is leaving this conversation satisfied. The show wraps up with celebrity birthdays, the uncomfortable realization that everyone's musical heroes are getting older, and a preview of the Fake News or Florida contest, where contestants must decide whether an outrageous headline came from the Sunshine State or the crew's increasingly questionable imagination. From Beatles birth memories and AI-generated car stunts to empty GTA boxes, missing British hunks, rock-star grudges, and controversial music rankings, this funny podcast is packed with weird news, celebrity gossip, St. Louis comedy, and the kind of sarcastic humor that makes you wonder how these people are allowed near microphones. Listen to this funny podcast with Rizz, Moon, Lern, and Clownvis for your daily dose of entertainment chaos. And remember: if your Tesla does a kickflip, you're probably watching AI. If Paul McCartney remembers being born, we're going to need a second opinion. And if you're a moderately attractive British man, congratulations—you might qualify for a national emergency response team. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Clownvis has discovered water, Lern is collecting cats like Pokémon, and somebody in Australia allegedly put snail poison in the office lunch. Happy Halloween, everybody. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where a grown man discovers hydration, the neighborhood cats have apparently elected Lern their landlord, and the crew spends an alarming amount of time debating whether diarrhea can be considered brutal. It's Friday in St. Louis, sweater weather has officially arrived, and Clownvis is back in the studio! After touring across America, Canada, and the Bahamas, the world's favorite Elvis-inspired clown returns wearing a leather jacket and bringing the kind of life-changing health advice nobody asked for. He's started drinking water. That's it. That's the breakthrough. Clownvis explains that filling a giant cup with ice water has transformed his mornings, improved his skin, and made him feel younger than ever. Rizz, Moon, and Lern are understandably stunned that ordinary H2O has apparently become the hottest new wellness trend. The conversation also takes a bizarre celebrity detour when Clownvis explains how a Cameo request from Maynard James Keenan of Tool and Puscifer led him to believe he was recording a birthday greeting for Matthew and Gunnar Nelson. Except the birthday boys weren't those Nelson twins. They were Matt and Gunner from Puscifer. Same first names. Completely different people. And Clownvis was already mentally preparing for a very strange musical crossover. Then it's Global Cat Day, which means Lern gets to celebrate her favorite holiday by announcing that she's acquired yet another furry freeloader. Well, technically, she hasn't adopted him. She's just named him Trouble, started feeding him, and accepted that he now hangs around her house with Mr. Gray, Clover, and Willow. So, yes, she's acquired another cat. Rizz suggests an intervention. Moon imagines an underground feline fighting championship. Lern insists she can't turn away a hungry animal. At this point, her Ellisville home is less of a residence and more of a cat-operated all-inclusive resort. And if the cats weren't enough, Rizz introduces the gang to beaver fever, a gastrointestinal parasite that can infect cats and potentially spread to humans. Naturally, a simple discussion about pet health becomes an extended debate over the difference between regular diarrhea, explosive diarrhea, and the apparently prestigious category of brutal diarrhea. The crew even invents what might be the world's worst death-metal double bill: Beaver Fever opening for Brutal Diarrhea. Somebody book the venue. Preferably one with excellent bathrooms. Next up: Would you hand your car keys to a complete stranger? Lern thinks she can trust her instincts. Rizz thinks she's one friendly parking assistant away from filing an insurance claim. A story about a Florida woman whose vehicle was allegedly stolen after she allowed two strangers to charge their phones inside it sends the crew into a debate about kindness, common sense, and whether anyone can actually spot a convincing liar. And then Halloween takes over. The gang debates the worst things to hand out to trick-or-treaters, and the results are a public service announcement for every neighborhood dentist. Toothbrushes? Absolutely not. Dental floss? Congratulations, you've ruined Halloween. Mini pretzels, raisins, bookmarks, pencils, sugar-free candy, and religious pamphlets? Please just turn off your porch light. Lern somehow makes a passionate case for a really cool Dracula bookmark. Clownvis defends raisins as valuable candy-trading currency. And everybody becomes increasingly concerned about what Halloween has done to the price of a 100 Grand bar. Nearly four dollars for a candy bar? Forget the haunted houses. That's the real nightmare. The crew also gets into the strange world of Halloween pumpkin colors, neighborhood decorations, giant skeletons, and whether spooky season has become too scary for kids. Lern is thrilled with the oversized skeletons decorating her yard. Rizz is preparing for a Halloween party at Ballpark Village. And Clownvis is heading to the Bahamas for a metal cruise featuring Lamb of God and other heavy-hitting acts. Because when you think Halloween, naturally you think tropical vacation with a boat full of metalheads. From there, things get even spookier as Rizz reveals a ranking of America's most haunted cities. St. Louis lands at number 38, prompting the gang to discuss local legends like the Lemp Mansion, Zombie Road, and McPike Mansion in Alton. Clownvis talks about visiting the Stanley Hotel, Lern dreams of more ghost tours, and everybody wonders why St. Louis isn't ranked higher on the paranormal leaderboard. Apparently our ghosts need better marketing. The Halloween hypotheticals continue with an important question: Would you let a hungry vampire drink your blood if you knew you'd survive? Lern has one condition. The vampire needs to be hot. Of course. Finally, the crew dives into a truly unsettling weird-news story from Western Australia, where a woman was accused of putting toxic snail pellets into a coworker's homemade curry. The discussion turns into a debate about office lunch thieves, revenge pranks, and why seeing suspicious bright-green granules in your food should probably discourage you from taking a taste. It's the kind of workplace drama that makes somebody stealing your cheese stick seem downright wholesome. From Clownvis's hydration revelation and Lern's expanding cat collection to Halloween candy disasters, haunted St. Louis history, vampire dating standards, and a poisonous office lunch, The Rizzuto Show #41 delivers another spectacularly unhinged serving of daily comedy. This funny podcast has everything: weird news, local St. Louis humor, celebrity stories, spooky debates, and enough cat-related gastrointestinal concerns to make everyone reconsider their morning routine. Listen to this funny podcast with Rizz, Moon, Lern, and special guest Clownvis. Just remember three things: Drink your water. Don't hand strangers your car keys. And if somebody puts neon-green sprinkles in your curry, maybe skip lunch. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A donut emergency, a lower-back tattoo identity crisis, and the possibility of cloning your hair before it abandons you. Science is moving forward. Humanity? Debatable. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where St. Louis news, rock music, weird science, questionable fashion choices, and an alarming amount of food talk somehow become a perfectly normal morning. Rizz, Moon, Lern, Rafe, and special guest Devon are back with another round of daily comedy and sarcastic commentary, and this time we're tackling the important issues: Can you freeze your hair for future use? Is a tramp stamp still a tramp stamp if Gen Z calls it a cake topper? And how are we supposed to maintain a healthy diet when St. Louis keeps producing incredible donuts? First, the crew gets ready for Greek Fire's upcoming show at Delmar Hall, where Moon promises at least three new songs. Rizz has already heard some of the music, Lern wants to experience it live, and Rafe suggests the new material might sound suspiciously like André 3000's flute album. Moon assures everyone there will be no flute. Apparently, the oboe-and-tuba market remains wide open. That launches a trip through rock history as Rizz remembers footage of Dave Mustaine wandering onto the stage during a Guns N' Roses performance. The gang debates Megadeth versus Metallica, the unforgettable artwork of Vic Rattlehead and Iron Maiden's Eddie, and whether some music fans treat choosing a favorite metal band like declaring allegiance in an international conflict. Then it's time for weird news, beginning with a mysterious vandal spray-painting religious messages around Blue Springs, Missouri. The gang agrees that having a message doesn't give you permission to redecorate somebody else's building. But that's nothing compared to Lern's latest update from the Rizz Show Apocalypse Desk. Apparently, another predicted date for the Rapture has come and gone, and Lern forgot to warn everybody until afterward. The crew debates doomsday predictions, followers who reportedly made drastic financial decisions, and what the end of the world would actually look like. Would people float into the sky? Disappear instantly? Deflate like balloons? These are the theological questions that can only be answered by a room full of radio personalities who were supposed to be discussing the news. Back in St. Louis, the mood turns serious when the gang discusses a fire at Old Town Donuts in Florissant. Thankfully, the report says nobody was injured, but the beloved local donut shop has the crew thinking about favorite pastries, simple glazed classics, long johns, and the sacred art of eating a grocery-store donut before you reach your car. Unfortunately, Moon has recently eliminated added sugar from his diet, which means every conversation about donuts is now an act of psychological warfare. Rizz has also been cutting carbs and says he's down 15 pounds, but his strategy includes watching elaborate pasta and cheese videos with the concentration of a man studying for the bar exam. Lern catches him in the act. Rizz insists watching food videos helps him resist temptation. Nobody else is particularly convinced. The food obsession continues when the gang celebrates Three Kings Public House at St. Louis Lambert International Airport being recognized in a USA Today readers' poll for best airport bar. From there, it's a tour of surprisingly good gas-station cuisine, including QuikTrip, Casey's, Wawa, Sheetz, barbecue, fried chicken, and unexpected international food finds around the St. Louis area. Moon and Rafe also share the glorious spectacle of watching intoxicated customers attempt to order food at a Wawa after the bars close. Sometimes the biggest challenge isn't choosing a sandwich. It's remembering your own name when the employee calls it. Then comes the cultural debate nobody knew we needed. Gen Z wants to rebrand the tramp stamp. The suggested replacement? Cake topper. Other contenders include bumper sticker and booty mark, because apparently the English language needed more ways to describe a tattoo directly above somebody's rear end. Lern proudly admits she got her lower-back tattoo almost immediately after turning 18, then shares how her younger sister accidentally exposed the secret to her family. Moon reveals that he also has a tramp stamp, except his came from a questionable tattoo shop next to a former North County adult establishment, and the experience has not aged particularly well. The crew debates tattoo regrets, changing slang, generational differences, and why a new name doesn't necessarily make a terrible decision any better. Next, couples are apparently taking up pole dancing together as a workout, a bonding activity, and even an alternative to the traditional wedding dance. Lern and Moon appreciate the athleticism and strength involved, while Rizz struggles to imagine himself gracefully spinning around anything. Rafe recalls performing stand-up at an event where aerial performers, contortionists, paintings, and a man wearing goat horns while playing a pan flute were all competing for attention. It's hard to win over a comedy crowd when the circus is literally happening above your head. Then, this funny podcast dives headfirst into the future of baldness. Scientists are exploring experimental hair banking and hair cloning, which could someday allow people to preserve hair follicles and potentially grow new hair from them. The process isn't FDA-approved, and the technology still has major limitations, but that doesn't stop the gang from imagining a future where you can order somebody else's luxurious surfer hair like a custom accessory. Moon wonders whether he could borrow another man's hair. Lern considers the possibilities for beards. Rafe, naturally, finds a way to make the conversation considerably less sophisticated. The gang also discusses hair-loss genetics, family baldness, hair transplants, and why the lengths people go to preserve a hairline can get pretty intense. Plus, the crew explores trending Halloween costumes, because nothing says spooky season like trying to explain an internet-reference costume to someone who has absolutely no idea who you're supposed to be. From Old Town Donuts and St. Louis food favorites to hair cloning, tattoo regrets, metal legends, doomsday predictions, and couples pole dancing, Episode 88 delivers the weird news, funny stories, and pop culture chaos that make The Rizzuto Show a daily St. Louis tradition. This funny podcast has everything: donuts you can't eat, hair you can't clone yet, tattoos you can't undo, and an apocalypse that apparently forgot to show up. At least the radio show was on time. Mostly. What if criminals only robbed other criminals? Who's listening through your shopping apps? And how did Prince end up in a pillow fight with Sinéad O'Connor? Chaos begins when Rafe sends Rizz a viral video asking a truly unhinged question: Why don't criminals just rob registered sex offenders instead of innocent people? The internet apparently believes it has discovered a loophole in the criminal justice system. The crew debates the ridiculous premise, Rafe invents an increasingly elaborate Liam Neeson-style hostage scenario, and everybody repeatedly reminds listeners that breaking into someone's house is, in fact, a crime. Yes, even when your imaginary movie plot makes it sound convenient. But the conversation takes a much stranger turn when Lern decides to investigate the sex offender registry around her neighborhood. What follows is a spectacularly uncomfortable live rabbit hole. Lern discovers just how much information is available through online registry maps, Moon warns her that she's about to ruin her own day, and Rafe predicts she's going to turn her house into a detective headquarters complete with red string and an evidence board. The gang discusses neighborhood safety, the unsettling details that appear in public records, and why knowing what's around you can be useful without turning every evening into an episode of Criminal Minds. And somehow, a discussion about public safety turns into the crew examining one particularly bizarre physical description in a registry listing. We would explain more, but some things are better left to the actual audio. Then the conversation shifts from neighborhood surveillance to your phone potentially surveilling you. Missouri's attorney general has announced a lawsuit against Temu, alleging serious problems involving consumer data, tracking, privacy, deceptive pricing, and counterfeit merchandise. The crew discusses the accusations, the dangers of suspiciously cheap shopping apps, and whether a $4 dress is really a bargain when it arrives looking like a napkin with sleeves. Rafe shares a story about someone ordering a couch that turned out to be practically dollhouse-sized. Moon talks about his kids discovering the joys of cheap online clothing, and Lern admits she's already suspicious that her messaging apps are listening to conversations that nobody should ever hear. Nothing says modern technology like wondering whether your phone knows too much about you while you're trying to buy a discount lamp. Next, it's time for Crap on Celebrities, where rock history, Hollywood rumors, and entertainment news collide. First up: Sonic Temple 2027. The festival is adding bands including Primus, Clutch, and Crowbar, which gives Rizz an opportunity to confess his newfound obsession with Clutch. After years of somehow missing the band, he's convinced they'll dominate his Spotify listening recap. Better late than never. Especially when you're several decades late. The crew also discusses reports that Led Zeppelin's “Stairway to Heaven” is being used in a trailer for Greta Gerwig's upcoming Chronicles of Narnia adaptation. Considering how difficult Zeppelin music has historically been to license, the gang wonders what finally convinced everyone to open the vault. Maybe Robert Plant is secretly a huge

One paperclip. One hour. Two hundred people searching your house. One million dollars on the line. And somehow Moon's plan involves a dead bird. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where a perfectly innocent hypothetical becomes a criminal investigation, St. Louis parking lots deserve their own horror franchise, and the crew discovers that apparently you can turn complaining about your hometown into an actual career. Rizz, Moon, Lern, Rafe, and Devon are back with another round of ridiculous questions, funny stories, local St. Louis chaos, and an interview with someone who's making a living reminding people that our city isn't nearly as terrible as the internet insists. First, Rafe Williams is heading to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a weekend of comedy shows and his first experience at a major college football game. He's going to Michigan Stadium, better known as the Big House, to watch the Wolverines take on Penn State in front of more than 100,000 people. For a guy who's never attended a massive Division I football game, that's quite an introduction. Rafe scores a last-minute Airbnb just a couple blocks from the stadium, prepares to fly Southwest, and casually mentions that he doesn't have a REAL ID. Nothing like publicly announcing your airport security situation on a morning radio show. But before Rafe can escape to Michigan, Rizz presents the crew with a hypothetical that immediately reveals how disturbingly creative everyone can be when money is involved. You have one hour to hide a single paperclip somewhere inside your house. Then 200 people get one hour to search for it. If nobody finds it, you win $1 million. Where do you hide it? Simple question. Absolutely horrifying answers. Lern wants to open an old remote control and hide the paperclip inside the battery compartment, buried deep in that mysterious drawer of cables, chargers, and electronics nobody has touched since 2008. Rizz considers dropping it into a shampoo bottle, hoping nobody thinks to empty every container in the bathroom. Rafe suggests hiding it in plain sight by making it part of the toilet's flushing mechanism. He also considers cereal boxes, plumbing, and several locations that raise legitimate concerns about his understanding of human anatomy. And Moon? Moon decides the best strategy is to find a dead bird in his attic, hide the paperclip inside it, and bury the whole thing in fiberglass insulation. Yes. A dead bird. Apparently, when a million dollars is at stake, Moon becomes the world's least qualified forensic pathologist. The crew debates whether searchers would destroy the plumbing, empty every cereal box, inspect the lint trap, or simply tear the house apart like a SWAT team searching for the world's smallest fugitive. Listeners throw out their own suggestions, including peanut butter, recessed lighting, and hiding the paperclip among other paperclips. By the end, everybody has a plan. Nobody has a million dollars. And somebody should probably check Moon's attic. Then the show takes a serious turn with a tragic story from Nagoya, Japan, where a young woman reportedly died after a man jumped from an apartment building and landed on her. The man survived, and the woman's father is pushing for more serious criminal charges. The crew discusses the complicated questions surrounding criminal responsibility, recklessness, mental health, and the devastating consequences for everyone involved. It's a heartbreaking story that sparks a thoughtful conversation about accountability and an unimaginable loss. But this funny podcast soon returns to familiar territory when a special guest arrives in the studio. Megan, the creator behind the popular STL Ain't Bad social media account, joins The Rizzuto Show with her boyfriend Ian. With nearly 200,000 followers at the time of the conversation, Megan has built a community around a refreshingly simple idea: St. Louis isn't perfect. But it definitely ain't bad. Megan explains how the account began during the pandemic as a personal project, inspired partly by hearing people from outside Missouri dismiss St. Louis without really knowing anything about it. Instead of pretending the city is flawless, she started celebrating its restaurants, neighborhoods, events, shared experiences, and uniquely St. Louis frustrations. Because loving your hometown doesn't mean you have to defend every pothole. Especially not the Brentwood Promenade parking lot. That particular asphalt nightmare becomes one of the episode's biggest local talking points. Megan explains why posts about Brentwood Promenade and nostalgia for the old Talayna's bar reliably get St. Louis residents fired up. Everybody has a Brentwood parking story. Nobody has a good one. The gang also discusses endless highway construction, the old Millennium Hotel, West County childhood memories, and the strange phenomenon of living in a city where everybody seems to know somebody you went to high school with. St. Louis might be a major metropolitan area, but socially, it's basically a small town with an Arch. Megan also shares the story of leaving her full-time corporate job to focus on STL Ain't Bad, the challenges of turning social media into a career, and why she thinks education in digital marketing and influencing can actually be valuable. Rizz admits he used to question the idea of getting a degree in social media. Then he remembered that he chose radio as a profession. Suddenly, the whole thing made a lot more sense. The conversation turns to Megan and Ian's latest business venture, Ain't Bad Booths, a collection of retro-style photo booths popping up around St. Louis. What began as an idea after waiting in line for a photo booth in freezing New York weather has turned into a local business with locations at City Foundry, Midwestern, and Urban Chestnut, with another planned for the Washington Avenue Food Hall. Ian helps handle the electronics and customer service side, which means he gets the unexpected pleasure of answering phone calls from people who are shocked an actual human being picked up. The future of technology is incredible. And apparently it still involves somebody asking whether you've tried turning it off and back on. From there, the crew explores Westport Plaza's comeback, the giant Rawlings baseball glove, and whether that enormous glove should rotate so everybody driving past gets a better view. Lern has thoughts. Naturally. Megan recommends local restaurants, including Basso, while Ian admits that dating a St. Louis content creator has introduced him to a whole new world of restaurants, concerts, and experiences. Growing up in Catawissa, Missouri, Ian didn't attend his first concert until a recent Post Malone show at Busch Stadium. Moon is horrified. Lern is determined to help. And suddenly Ian is being encouraged to attend Greek Fire at Delmar Hall and potentially experience the joys of crowd surfing. The man came in to support his girlfriend's interview. He may leave with a rock-and-roll homework assignment. The crew also discusses the excitement of experiencing things for the first time, why trying new activities can make life feel richer, and how Megan's enthusiasm for St. Louis has helped Ian discover places he'd never visited before. It's a surprisingly wholesome reminder that sometimes the best way to appreciate your hometown is to explore it like a tourist. From million-dollar paperclip hiding strategies and Michigan football dreams to Brentwood Promenade nightmares, St. Louis nostalgia, social media entrepreneurship, and the city's growing restaurant scene, Episode 116 delivers a little bit of everything. This funny podcast celebrates the strange, sarcastic, occasionally embarrassing things that make St. Louis feel like home. Come for the million-dollar hypothetical. Stay for the local love. And remember: if you ever find a dead bird buried in Moon's attic insulation, please don't ask why. There's probably a paperclip involved. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What if criminals only robbed other criminals? Who's listening through your shopping apps? And how did Prince end up in a pillow fight with Sinéad O'Connor? Welcome to another episode of The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where one terrible hypothetical can derail an entire morning and nobody seems particularly interested in getting the train back on the tracks. Rizz, Moon, Lern, and Rafe are back in the studio with a fresh batch of weird news, celebrity gossip, rock music updates, St. Louis stories, and questions that probably should've stayed inside somebody's head. Today's chaos begins when Rafe sends Rizz a viral video asking a truly unhinged question: Why don't criminals just rob registered sex offenders instead of innocent people? The internet apparently believes it has discovered a loophole in the criminal justice system. The crew debates the ridiculous premise, Rafe invents an increasingly elaborate Liam Neeson-style hostage scenario, and everybody repeatedly reminds listeners that breaking into someone's house is, in fact, a crime. Yes, even when your imaginary movie plot makes it sound convenient. But the conversation takes a much stranger turn when Lern decides to investigate the sex offender registry around her neighborhood. What follows is a spectacularly uncomfortable live rabbit hole. Lern discovers just how much information is available through online registry maps, Moon warns her that she's about to ruin her own day, and Rafe predicts she's going to turn her house into a detective headquarters complete with red string and an evidence board. The gang discusses neighborhood safety, the unsettling details that appear in public records, and why knowing what's around you can be useful without turning every evening into an episode of Criminal Minds. And somehow, a discussion about public safety turns into the crew examining one particularly bizarre physical description in a registry listing. We would explain more, but some things are better left to the actual audio. Then the conversation shifts from neighborhood surveillance to your phone potentially surveilling you. Missouri's attorney general has announced a lawsuit against Temu, alleging serious problems involving consumer data, tracking, privacy, deceptive pricing, and counterfeit merchandise. The crew discusses the accusations, the dangers of suspiciously cheap shopping apps, and whether a $4 dress is really a bargain when it arrives looking like a napkin with sleeves. Rafe shares a story about someone ordering a couch that turned out to be practically dollhouse-sized. Moon talks about his kids discovering the joys of cheap online clothing, and Lern admits she's already suspicious that her messaging apps are listening to conversations that nobody should ever hear. Nothing says modern technology like wondering whether your phone knows too much about you while you're trying to buy a discount lamp. Next, it's time for Crap on Celebrities, where rock history, Hollywood rumors, and entertainment news collide. First up: Sonic Temple 2027. The festival is adding bands including Primus, Clutch, and Crowbar, which gives Rizz an opportunity to confess his newfound obsession with Clutch. After years of somehow missing the band, he's convinced they'll dominate his Spotify listening recap. Better late than never. Especially when you're several decades late. The crew also discusses reports that Led Zeppelin's “Stairway to Heaven” is being used in a trailer for Greta Gerwig's upcoming Chronicles of Narnia adaptation. Considering how difficult Zeppelin music has historically been to license, the gang wonders what finally convinced everyone to open the vault. Maybe Robert Plant is secretly a huge Narnia guy. Stranger things have happened. Then comes one of the episode's strangest celebrity stories. A new book revisits Sinéad O'Connor's account of an alleged confrontation with Prince, including her claim that an encounter at his home involved a pillow fight that turned hostile. The crew can't get past the pillow-fight detail. Rizz imagines Prince loading his pillowcase with something considerably less fluffy, Moon debates the singer's physical stature, and the whole conversation inevitably wanders toward Dave Chappelle's legendary Prince basketball sketch. Meanwhile, Guns N' Roses are reportedly looking toward studio work after touring, although the gang struggles to remember the band's recent songs. In more somber rock news, the show remembers David Surkamp of St. Louis band Pavlov's Dog, discussing his distinctive voice, the group's local legacy, and its international following. The celebrity roundup keeps moving with Kelsey Grammer's reported new medical drama, a strange allegation involving Jennifer Aniston and an embarrassing gift, and discussion of serious allegations against Russell Brand. The crew also spots a familiar St. Louis face: Scott Bakula at a St. Louis CITY SC match. Rafe remembers the old STL Up Late crew's running dream of getting Bakula to appear on their show. Sadly, the Quantum Leap star never materialized out of thin air. Apparently time travel has its limits. Then it's awards season for the most important honor nobody can adequately explain. Anthony Edwards' satirical Believe That Awards are back, and the crew debates Justin Bieber being named White Boy of the Year. Rizz makes the case for Tom Holland. Moon considers Erling Haaland. Travis Kelce enters the conversation. Nobody agrees on the criteria, which feels appropriate for an award show that also includes a category called the Bring Your Ass Award. Rizz wants to win that one. He just needs somebody to explain what it means first. There's also talk of a Mike Tyson documentary that gets Rizz unexpectedly emotional, celebrity birthdays, and the usual assortment of entertainment trivia that somehow produces more questions than answers. Along the way, the show continues its October fundraising efforts for Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, thanking local sponsors and highlighting opportunities to support the cause, including Greek Fire's upcoming show at Delmar Hall. Because even this crew occasionally manages to do something productive between bad jokes. From a completely ridiculous vigilante robbery debate to online privacy scares, rock legends, St. Louis music history, celebrity controversies, and award-show nonsense, Episode 12 has the strange stories and sarcastic humor that keep The Rizzuto Show gloriously off the rails. If you like a funny podcast that can jump from neighborhood safety to tiny couches to Prince's alleged pillow-fighting techniques without missing a beat, you've found your people. It's weird news, celebrity chaos, and St. Louis comedy all wrapped up in one funny podcast. And for the record: please don't rob anybody. The legal department would like at least one peaceful morning. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A donut emergency, a lower-back tattoo identity crisis, and the possibility of cloning your hair before it abandons you. Science is moving forward. Humanity? Debatable. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where St. Louis news, rock music, weird science, questionable fashion choices, and an alarming amount of food talk somehow become a perfectly normal morning. Rizz, Moon, Lern, Rafe, and special guest Devon are back with another round of daily comedy and sarcastic commentary, and this time we're tackling the important issues: Can you freeze your hair for future use? Is a tramp stamp still a tramp stamp if Gen Z calls it a cake topper? And how are we supposed to maintain a healthy diet when St. Louis keeps producing incredible donuts? First, the crew gets ready for Greek Fire's upcoming show at Delmar Hall, where Moon promises at least three new songs. Rizz has already heard some of the music, Lern wants to experience it live, and Rafe suggests the new material might sound suspiciously like André 3000's flute album. Moon assures everyone there will be no flute. Apparently, the oboe-and-tuba market remains wide open. That launches a trip through rock history as Rizz remembers footage of Dave Mustaine wandering onto the stage during a Guns N' Roses performance. The gang debates Megadeth versus Metallica, the unforgettable artwork of Vic Rattlehead and Iron Maiden's Eddie, and whether some music fans treat choosing a favorite metal band like declaring allegiance in an international conflict. Then it's time for weird news, beginning with a mysterious vandal spray-painting religious messages around Blue Springs, Missouri. The gang agrees that having a message doesn't give you permission to redecorate somebody else's building. But that's nothing compared to Lern's latest update from the Rizz Show Apocalypse Desk. Apparently, another predicted date for the Rapture has come and gone, and Lern forgot to warn everybody until afterward. The crew debates doomsday predictions, followers who reportedly made drastic financial decisions, and what the end of the world would actually look like. Would people float into the sky? Disappear instantly? Deflate like balloons? These are the theological questions that can only be answered by a room full of radio personalities who were supposed to be discussing the news. Back in St. Louis, the mood turns serious when the gang discusses a fire at Old Town Donuts in Florissant. Thankfully, the report says nobody was injured, but the beloved local donut shop has the crew thinking about favorite pastries, simple glazed classics, long johns, and the sacred art of eating a grocery-store donut before you reach your car. Unfortunately, Moon has recently eliminated added sugar from his diet, which means every conversation about donuts is now an act of psychological warfare. Rizz has also been cutting carbs and says he's down 15 pounds, but his strategy includes watching elaborate pasta and cheese videos with the concentration of a man studying for the bar exam. Lern catches him in the act. Rizz insists watching food videos helps him resist temptation. Nobody else is particularly convinced. The food obsession continues when the gang celebrates Three Kings Public House at St. Louis Lambert International Airport being recognized in a USA Today readers' poll for best airport bar. From there, it's a tour of surprisingly good gas-station cuisine, including QuikTrip, Casey's, Wawa, Sheetz, barbecue, fried chicken, and unexpected international food finds around the St. Louis area. Moon and Rafe also share the glorious spectacle of watching intoxicated customers attempt to order food at a Wawa after the bars close. Sometimes the biggest challenge isn't choosing a sandwich. It's remembering your own name when the employee calls it. Then comes the cultural debate nobody knew we needed. Gen Z wants to rebrand the tramp stamp. The suggested replacement? Cake topper. Other contenders include bumper sticker and booty mark, because apparently the English language needed more ways to describe a tattoo directly above somebody's rear end. Lern proudly admits she got her lower-back tattoo almost immediately after turning 18, then shares how her younger sister accidentally exposed the secret to her family. Moon reveals that he also has a tramp stamp, except his came from a questionable tattoo shop next to a former North County adult establishment, and the experience has not aged particularly well. The crew debates tattoo regrets, changing slang, generational differences, and why a new name doesn't necessarily make a terrible decision any better. Next, couples are apparently taking up pole dancing together as a workout, a bonding activity, and even an alternative to the traditional wedding dance. Lern and Moon appreciate the athleticism and strength involved, while Rizz struggles to imagine himself gracefully spinning around anything. Rafe recalls performing stand-up at an event where aerial performers, contortionists, paintings, and a man wearing goat horns while playing a pan flute were all competing for attention. It's hard to win over a comedy crowd when the circus is literally happening above your head. And finally, this funny podcast dives headfirst into the future of baldness. Scientists are exploring experimental hair banking and hair cloning, which could someday allow people to preserve hair follicles and potentially grow new hair from them. The process isn't FDA-approved, and the technology still has major limitations, but that doesn't stop the gang from imagining a future where you can order somebody else's luxurious surfer hair like a custom accessory. Moon wonders whether he could borrow another man's hair. Lern considers the possibilities for beards. Rafe, naturally, finds a way to make the conversation considerably less sophisticated. The gang also discusses hair-loss genetics, family baldness, hair transplants, and why the lengths people go to preserve a hairline can get pretty intense. Plus, the crew explores trending Halloween costumes, because nothing says spooky season like trying to explain an internet-reference costume to someone who has absolutely no idea who you're supposed to be. From Old Town Donuts and St. Louis food favorites to hair cloning, tattoo regrets, metal legends, doomsday predictions, and couples pole dancing, Episode 88 delivers the weird news, funny stories, and pop culture chaos that make The Rizzuto Show a daily St. Louis tradition. This funny podcast has everything: donuts you can't eat, hair you can't clone yet, tattoos you can't undo, and an apocalypse that apparently forgot to show up. At least the radio show was on time. Mostly. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tim McKernan is a perfect 7-0 on his Locks of the Week, and the pressure is officially on! Can he keep the streak alive? On this week's episode of The Spread Zone, Tim McKernan, Anthony Stalter, and Riz break down a loaded College Football Week 7 and NFL Week 6 slate, giving their favorite picks, best bets, and Locks of the Week. Tim is coming off a 6-1 week and is hitting 74% of his college football picks this season. Meanwhile, Anthony is riding the team total train, and both guys have landed on the exact same lcok for this weekend! The guys dive into some of the biggest matchups in college football, including Ohio State vs. Indiana, Alabama vs. Tennessee, Notre Dame vs. BYU, and Miami vs. Florida State. On the NFL side, they're breaking down Packers vs. Cowboys, Rams vs. Cardinals, Bills vs. Raiders, and more before revealing their most confident plays of the week. Can Tim make it 8-0 on locks? Will the team total strategy keep paying off? And which underdogs are worth backing this weekend? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What do an eight-pound pizza, a 95-year-old grandma's funeral playlist, a bald hockey broadcaster, and Rafe Williams dressed like Slash have in common? Absolutely nothing. Which means they're perfect material for The Rizzuto Show. Welcome to another spectacularly unhinged episode of your favorite funny podcast, where Rizz, Moon, Lern, Rafe, and King Scott tackle St. Louis news, celebrity gossip, hockey fights, childhood nostalgia, and the kind of conversations that would get most people politely escorted out of a family gathering. Things kick off with Rizz discovering a mysterious greasy substance on the studio equipment. Nobody knows what it is, nobody wants to touch it, and Rizz decides that wiping it on his pants is basically a medical procedure. Naturally, this inspires the crew to design their dream radio studio, complete with heated seats, a rolling refrigerator for Moon's overnight oats, massage chairs, and a dedicated wig closet for Rafe. Unfortunately, Rizz's proposed budget involves firing several coworkers. Human Resources is going to love that meeting. Speaking of questionable fashion decisions, it's Wig Week, and Rafe is sweating his way through a Slash-inspired hairpiece. But at least he has hair, because St. Louis Blues broadcaster Chris Kerber joins the show to celebrate Be Bald and Free Day. Kerber explains why he embraced the shaved-head lifestyle, introduces everyone to his beloved “Head Zamboni” skull shaver, and discusses the unexpected challenges of keeping a bald head camera-ready under bright television lights. The crew debates legendary bald icons like The Rock and Michael Jordan, while Rafe compares a fellow St. Louis radio personality's shiny dome to a giant thumbs-up in the audience. Kerber even shares an old photo of himself with hair, leaving everyone wondering who that mysterious stranger is. But Chris isn't just here to discuss scalp maintenance. He's also breaking down the St. Louis Blues' 7–2 victory over Ottawa, the importance of Ross Johnston's fight against Mathieu Olivier, and why dropping the gloves can completely change a hockey game's momentum. Plus, Kerber discusses the Blues' announcement of ten free over-the-air Thursday night broadcasts and the ongoing challenges of getting games onto every television provider. From hockey fights to funeral arrangements, the conversation takes a surprisingly heartfelt turn when Lern shares the story of Tim's grandmother Betty, who just celebrated her 95th birthday. Betty is still living independently, still making her own dinners, and has already decided how she'd like her life celebrated. Her plan includes donating her body to science and ending the gathering with Dolly Parton's version of “I Will Always Love You.” It's sweet, thoughtful, and genuinely moving. So naturally, Rizz starts planning his own funeral soundtrack featuring Mötley Crüe, Scorpions, and enough '80s hair metal to make the cemetery sound like a rock festival. The crew also roasts Moon for forgetting his grandson's third birthday, debates why older relatives insist they don't want birthday parties, and discusses Rizz's plan to embarrass his graduating son with an absolutely enormous yard sign. His son wants privacy. Rizz is considering something closer to a municipal advertising campaign. Then this funny podcast turns up the volume with Guitar Center's legendary “No Stairway to Heaven” rule. The gang discusses the store's changing approach, the guitar-buying boom, and the riffs that have tortured music-store employees for decades. Moon shares why physical music stores still matter to touring musicians, while everyone debates which song should be permanently banned from beginner guitar demonstrations. Celebrity drama isn't far behind. The crew revisits the online backlash surrounding Kelly Clarkson's dispute with Brooklyn shop Art of Play, including the shop owner's reported concerns about harassment. That sparks a bigger conversation about celebrity influence, obsessive fans, internet outrage, and why strangers feel compelled to turn somebody else's shopping disagreement into a personal crusade. There's also entertainment gossip involving Garth Brooks, Paul McCartney, Matchbox Twenty, Eminem, Tupac Shakur, and Ozzy Osbourne, plus conversations about Beatles movie casting, rock nostalgia, and the entertainment industry's never-ending ability to produce something ridiculous. Meanwhile, The Rizzuto Show gets its own taste of national attention when an interview with a St. Louis-area substitute teacher involved in an OnlyFans controversy is featured in Chicago television coverage. Rizz is thrilled to hear his voice on the news. The rest of the crew is less impressed by how quickly he stops caring once the show's name has been mentioned. Woody weighs in on the criticism surrounding the interview, and the gang debates social media comments, online outrage, and whether anybody on the internet remembers how to mind their own business. Then it's time for the athletic achievement nobody asked for but everybody wants to witness. Joey Chestnut is coming to St. Louis to attempt an eight-pound deep-dish pizza challenge in 45 minutes. Eight pounds of pizza. One man. A digestive system that deserves its own documentary. Rizz makes the case for Chestnut as one of the most dominant competitors in sports history, while Moon and the gang revisit their own experiences with oversized pizza challenges. Somehow, the conversation also wanders into fake press credentials, Rafe's theory about getting into places by carrying a ladder, and the questionable decisions people make when they believe they look official. St. Louis restaurant news brings another emotional roller coaster as the crew discusses the announced closure of Session Taco, formerly Mission Taco Joint, along with favorite menu items, restaurant expansion, and the challenges facing local businesses. There's also some hometown pride when St. Louis earns recognition in a foodie-city ranking. And what better way to celebrate a great food city than by discussing the culinary masterpieces that kept everyone alive in college? McDonald's dollar menus. Cheap pizza. Giant burritos. Top Ramen. Kraft Mac & Cheese. SpaghettiOs. Mini ravioli. Lunchables. Dunkaroos. Gushers. The gang dives into college fast-food habits, meal plans, childhood snacks, and the beautiful delusion that using half a ramen seasoning packet somehow transforms sodium noodles into a health-conscious dinner. Lern admits she enjoys baked beans straight from the can, while Rafe remembers the bargain meals that got him through leaner years. Somewhere, a nutritionist is quietly turning off the podcast. Lern also floats the idea of doing another keg stand, prompting everyone to imagine the deeply uncomfortable sight of a grown adult showing up at a college party asking strangers to hold her ankles. And Rafe's new grill inspires a distinctly St. Louis Halloween idea: handing out freshly cooked pork steaks to trick-or-treaters. Finally, Rizz unveils The ZIP Code Game, his answer to listeners who complained that the previous contest was too complicated. He's selected one random St. Louis-area ZIP code. Call in with your own ZIP code, match his selection, and win tickets to Greek Fire, Ludo, AEW, or Nickelback. Simple enough. Except there are an awful lot of ZIP codes in St. Louis, and Lern is already worried the show could last another six hours. From bald-head maintenance and hockey fights to funeral playlists, celebrity feuds, eight-pound pizzas, greasy studio equipment, rock music, and questionable college meals, this funny podcast is a full buffet of daily comedy, weird news, pop culture commentary, and classic St. Louis morning-show chaos. Come for Chris Kerber's Head Zamboni. Stay for Joey Chestnut's pizza challenge. And if Rizz asks for your ZIP code, just answer the question. We don't have all day. It's The Rizzuto Show — where the stories are weird, the opinions are loud, and the only thing shinier than Chris Kerber's head is Rizz's excitement about getting mentioned on television. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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Chris Kerber is bald, free, and apparently polished enough to reflect the studio lights. The St. Louis Blues are winning hockey games, Ross Johnston is throwing punches, and Rizz has decided the best way to give away concert tickets is to make listeners guess a random St. Louis ZIP code. Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where hair is optional, hockey fights are educational, and even the simplest radio contest somehow becomes a logistical nightmare. Today's funny podcast kicks off with a very important national celebration: Be Bald and Free Day. And who better to celebrate with than St. Louis Blues broadcaster Chris Kerber? Kerber joins Rizz, Moon, Lern, Rafe, and King Scott from Ottawa to discuss the many wonderful benefits of living life without a full head of hair. No bedhead. No expensive hair products. No worrying about how your hair looks when you wake up. Just freedom. And occasionally a forehead shiny enough to require professional television maintenance. Kerber explains why he finally gave up on growing his hair, how he avoided the dreaded horseshoe hairstyle, and why paying a barber full price to cut increasingly less hair eventually seemed like a terrible investment. He also introduces the crew to his favorite grooming device: the Head Zamboni. It's actually a skull shaver, but when you're talking to a hockey broadcaster, apparently everything needs an ice-resurfacing nickname. Kerber admits he went an embarrassingly long time without changing the blades before discovering that a fresh set makes the whole process significantly easier. Technology is incredible. The conversation turns to the challenges of being bald on television, including studio lighting, forehead shine, and the possibility of selling advertising space directly on Kerber's head. Honestly, it's a sponsorship opportunity waiting to happen. The crew also debates the greatest bald icons of all time. The Rock? Michael Jordan? Telly Savalas? St. Louis radio personality Polo Ascencio? Rafe describes spotting Polo's shiny head during a stand-up performance and thinking somebody in the audience was giving him a giant thumbs-up. Turns out it was just Polo enjoying the show. Kerber even shares an old photo of himself with hair, sending the studio into complete disbelief. Lern barely recognizes him. Rafe compares him to a character from Ted Lasso. And everybody agrees that some people are simply meant to embrace the dome. But this funny podcast isn't just a celebration of scalp confidence. We've also got some serious St. Louis Blues hockey to discuss. The Blues are coming off a dominant 7–2 win over the Ottawa Senators, and Rizz wants to know exactly how a hockey fight can completely change the momentum of a game. Kerber breaks down the emotional and physical impact of Ross Johnston's fight against Mathieu Olivier during the Blues' comeback against Columbus. Why would a player willingly drop the gloves when his team is already winning? Why does a fight sometimes wake up an entire bench? And how does the unwritten code between NHL players actually work? Kerber explains that fighting isn't simply about throwing punches. It's about standing up for teammates, changing the energy of a game, and showing opponents that your team isn't going to be pushed around. It's an old-school part of hockey that has evolved over the years but still plays a meaningful role in certain moments. The crew discusses how today's enforcers have to contribute more than just fighting, why players like Johnston and Olivier earn respect from their teammates, and how the adrenaline from one well-timed fight can shift the atmosphere of an entire arena. Rizz also asks about other recent NHL fights, including a surprising matchup involving two star centers. Apparently even the guys responsible for scoring all the goals occasionally decide it's time to settle things with their fists. Then Kerber shares another important update for St. Louis hockey fans. The Blues are bringing 10 games to free over-the-air television. The new Thursday Night Blues broadcasts on ABC 32 are designed to make games more accessible to local fans, including people who don't have expensive cable or streaming packages. Kerber explains how the arrangement works, why the Blues wanted a free television option, and what's happening with the ongoing DirecTV distribution negotiations. For fans who remember watching Blues hockey on local broadcast television, it's a welcome return to an old-school tradition. Ten free games. Actual hockey. No subscription gymnastics required for those broadcasts. What a concept. Of course, no visit with Chris Kerber would be complete without one more deeply unnecessary conversation about facial hair. Kerber tells the story of shaving his longtime goatee for a date, immediately regretting the decision, and promising himself he'd never change his appearance just to impress somebody again. Years later, he shaved the goatee anyway. His family was horrified. Sometimes personal growth is just discovering that everybody liked your old beard better. After Kerber signs off, this funny podcast shifts into another brilliant Rizz Show invention. And by brilliant, we mean potentially disastrous. The ZIP Code Game. Listeners had complained that the show's previous contest was too complicated, so Rizz decides to simplify things. He picks one random ZIP code somewhere in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Listeners call in and say the ZIP code where they live. If it matches, they win tickets. That's it. No music trivia. No difficult questions. No embarrassing performance. Just five numbers and a dream. Sounds easy, right? Well, St. Louis has a whole lot of ZIP codes. Lern immediately realizes the crew could be sitting there for hours waiting for somebody to get lucky. Rafe questions whether some callers will even know their own ZIP codes. And King Scott gets to witness another perfectly reasonable idea slowly transform into radio chaos. The prizes are worth playing for, though, with tickets to Greek Fire, Ludo, AEW, and Nickelback up for grabs. The transcript ends just as the game is about to begin, so whether anyone actually wins remains a mystery. Which somehow makes this the most suspenseful ZIP code discussion in radio history. From shiny bald heads and questionable grooming decisions to St. Louis Blues hockey fights, free television broadcasts, and a contest that might require the entire metropolitan area to participate, The Rizzuto Show delivers another ridiculous dose of daily comedy. Join Rizz, Moon, Lern, Rafe, and King Scott for funny stories, St. Louis sports, sarcastic humor, and the kind of conversations that prove morning radio doesn't need to make sense to be entertaining. Come for the hockey analysis. Stay for the Head Zamboni. And remember: if your bald head is shiny enough to require television makeup, you're not losing your hair. You're gaining advertising space. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A 95-year-old grandma has her funeral playlist picked out, Guitar Center is apparently ready to forgive everyone who plays “Stairway to Heaven,” and Kelly Clarkson's fans have turned a shopping disagreement into a full-blown internet disaster. Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where even the wholesome stories somehow end with Rafe making things uncomfortable. Today's funny podcast starts with a genuinely sweet birthday celebration for Tim's grandma, Betty, who just turned 95 and is still living independently, making her own dinners, and apparently organizing the world's most emotionally prepared farewell party. While most people celebrate birthdays with cake and presents, Betty decided to discuss her funeral arrangements. Honestly, at 95, you've earned the right to control the playlist. She wants to donate her body to science, have her loved ones celebrate her life, and close the gathering with Dolly Parton's version of “I Will Always Love You.” Beautiful. Thoughtful. Classy. Naturally, Rizz immediately starts planning a funeral featuring '80s hair metal. Because nothing says “rest in peace” like Mötley Crüe and the opening riff of “Rock You Like a Hurricane.” The crew debates funeral songs, why older relatives insist nobody should make a fuss over their birthdays, and whether parents secretly enjoy telling their children they don't want to become a burden. Rizz has a different retirement strategy. He's already informed his kids that he absolutely intends to become a problem. Meanwhile, Moon admits he missed his grandson's third birthday because his schedule was packed and he lost track of the date. The rest of the gang handles this confession with tremendous compassion. Just kidding. They roast him immediately. And while we're discussing celebrations nobody wants, Rizz reveals that his son doesn't want a big graduation sign in the yard. Which, unfortunately for his son, means Rizz is now considering something roughly the size of the Hollywood sign. Lern suggests giant photos. Moon floats the possibility of an airplane banner. Rafe pitches fake campaign signs. The kid asked for privacy. His father heard “marketing opportunity.” Then it's time to revisit one of the most sacred rules in rock music history. No Stairway to Heaven at Guitar Center. Except the crew discusses how Guitar Center is moving away from that legendary unwritten rule while attempting to reinvent its business. Rizz digs into the company's pandemic-era guitar boom, the flood of beginner equipment, its financial struggles, and its renewed focus on serious musicians. Moon explains why stores like Guitar Center still matter to working bands, especially when touring musicians need equipment immediately instead of waiting for something to arrive in a cardboard box. Lern offers some marketing advice, the crew debates which overplayed guitar riff should be banned next, and Taylor Swift gets credit for inspiring a new generation of acoustic guitar players. Somewhere, a Guitar Center employee just heard “Smoke on the Water” for the 400th time today and quietly reconsidered every decision that led to this moment. Then this funny podcast heads straight into celebrity controversy. Kelly Clarkson's dispute with Brooklyn shop Art of Play is back in the headlines discussed on the show, and the shop's co-owner says the online backlash has escalated into harassment and safety concerns. The crew debates whether Kelly should publicly ask her fans to back off, whether celebrities understand the power of their platforms, and why complete strangers are willing to make somebody else's customer-service complaint their entire personality. Rafe has some especially strong feelings about people who drag innocent family members into online arguments, sharing that his own relatives have received inappropriate messages. Moon points out that outrage has practically become the internet's favorite business model. Rizz just wants to know why people have so much free time. And somehow, a conversation about celebrity influence leads to stories about Chicago's notoriously rude restaurants, including The Wieners Circle, where customer service comes with a side of verbal destruction. It's a dining experience for people who think regular restaurants are insufficiently hostile. Crap on Celebrities brings even more entertainment news, music gossip, and the kind of conversations that could only happen on a St. Louis morning radio show. The gang discusses speculation about another Garth Brooks retirement, which brings back memories of an emotional moment from Moon that apparently helped turn a listener into a longtime Rizz Show fan. Then the conversation takes a hard left into the running Tom Segura-inspired Garth Brooks conspiracy joke. Because apparently sincerity is only allowed to survive for about 14 seconds around here. Lern also discusses developments reported in the Tupac Shakur murder case, and the crew wonders whether the mystery surrounding Biggie's death will ever get the same attention. Paul McCartney's appearance on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast gets a shout-out for an emotional discussion about his past and Linda McCartney. But what really grabs the gang's attention is the reported debate over how tall Paul should appear in the upcoming Beatles movies. Imagine being one of the most successful musicians in human history and still needing Hollywood to understand that you're not the short Beatle. Rafe, naturally, contributes absolutely essential commentary about Ringo Starr's height. Elsewhere, Matchbox Twenty announces an anniversary tour with a St. Louis stop, prompting the crew to argue about how many Matchbox Twenty songs they can actually name. Rizz starts rattling off hits. Lern remains skeptical. Moon isn't helping. It's a surprisingly aggressive music trivia contest for people who definitely heard “3AM” approximately 10,000 times in the '90s. The celebrity news keeps rolling with discussion of Eminem's music plans, an update involving his ex-wife Kim Mathers, the announced return of HBO's Girls, and the allegations Lena Dunham has made about working with Adam Driver. The gang also talks about online comedian Druski's reported Saturday Night Live hosting plans, a documentary revisiting Michael Jackson's legendary Super Bowl halftime show, and the upcoming concert film celebrating Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's Back to the Beginning event. Plus, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey collector's edition inspires a discussion about expensive movie memorabilia and the highest-grossing films of all time. Because why stop at celebrity gossip when you can argue about box-office numbers, too? Through all the rock nostalgia, family stories, strange news, celebrity drama, and completely unnecessary personal attacks, this funny podcast delivers exactly what you'd expect from Rizz, Moon, Lern, Rafe, and King Scott. A little heart. A lot of sarcasm. And absolutely no guarantee that a sweet story about someone's grandma won't turn into a discussion about blasting hair metal at a funeral. It's The Rizzuto Show — St. Louis daily comedy, entertainment gossip, weird news, and a group of people who should probably never be trusted to organize a tasteful memorial service. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rizz has mystery grease on his hands, Rafe Williams is sweating through a Slash wig, and Joey Chestnut is coming to St. Louis to eat eight pounds of deep-dish pizza. Meanwhile, The Rizzuto Show has made national television, a beloved local taco chain is closing, and the crew is debating whether college ramen counts as a balanced meal. Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where the studio is disgusting, the food opinions are aggressive, and everybody has apparently forgotten what a vegetable looks like. The morning starts with Rizz discovering something mysteriously greasy on the studio equipment. Nobody knows what it is. Nobody wants to know what it is. And instead of immediately washing his hands like a functioning adult, Rizz decides this is probably how you build immunity. Naturally, that leads to a discussion about the crew's dream radio studio. Heated seats? Absolutely. A rolling mini-fridge? Moon needs one for his overnight oats. A zero-gravity massage chair? King Scott is interested. A dedicated wig closet for Rafe? Unfortunately necessary. Rizz's solution to paying for all these upgrades involves eliminating a few positions around the building. Human Resources would probably prefer he stop brainstorming out loud. Speaking of Rafe, it's Wig Week, and he's rocking a Slash-inspired hairstyle that looks incredible until you remember the studio is approximately 76 degrees. The man is basically wearing a portable sauna on his head. Then this funny podcast gets a little taste of national fame. The crew revisits its interview with a St. Louis-area substitute teacher whose OnlyFans controversy made headlines, including coverage on ABC News in Chicago. Rizz is thrilled that the station got mentioned on television, while Lern and Moon question whether he even listened to the rest of the report after hearing his own voice. The story also gets attention from Woody, who defends the show's decision to interview someone involved in a major local news story after seeing negative comments online. Naturally, the crew responds to internet criticism with the maturity and restraint you've come to expect. Which is absolutely none. The conversation turns into jokes about punching holes in drywall, testosterone levels, and whether Riz could even damage a wall without hurting his hand. Then we move on to a man whose athletic accomplishments are measured in pounds of food consumed. Joey Chestnut is coming to St. Louis. The competitive eating legend is scheduled to take on the Junkyard Dog Challenge at Salvage Yard Bar and Grill on Hampton, where the goal is to finish eight pounds of deep-dish pizza in 45 minutes. Eight pounds. Forty-five minutes. One digestive system that deserves hazard pay. Rizz calls Chestnut one of the most dominant athletes of all time, which launches a debate about sports greatness before everybody remembers that the man is coming to town to eat an amount of pizza normally reserved for an entire youth soccer team. Moon and Rizz also revisit their own miserable memories of the Pointersaurus pizza challenge, which apparently left them questioning their life choices. And because this show has never met a tangent it couldn't adopt, the conversation somehow shifts to fake press credentials, Rafe's theory that carrying a ladder can get you almost anywhere, and a remarkably similar gag appearing on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Rafe isn't saying Hollywood stole his idea. But he would like the record to show that he had the idea. From there, Lern announces that she'd like to relive her younger days by doing a keg stand again. The crew immediately imagines the deeply uncomfortable scenario of a woman in her 40s showing up at a college party asking strangers to hold her ankles. It's the kind of image that sticks with you. Unfortunately. The local food news continues with the announced closure of Session Taco, formerly Mission Taco Joint. The gang reminisces about favorite burritos, old locations, the restaurant's rebranding, and how difficult it can be for a popular St. Louis business to survive expansion and changing economic conditions. Lern is especially disappointed about losing a favorite beer cocktail, Pandora's Lunchbox, and would very much appreciate somebody finding the recipe. But St. Louis food lovers get some good news, too. The crew discusses a WalletHub ranking placing St. Louis among America's top foodie cities, praising the area's specialty markets, affordability, barbecue, Italian restaurants and local favorites. Of course, the celebration of great cuisine immediately leads to a conversation about college students eating McDonald's. Because that's the level of culinary sophistication we're working with. According to the survey discussed on the show, McDonald's tops the list of fast-food restaurants visited by college students, followed by Chick-fil-A, Domino's, Wendy's and Taco Bell. Rafe isn't impressed with the food quality, but everybody understands the appeal of cheap meals when your bank account is running on fumes. Moon remembers surviving on dollar-menu food while touring in a band. Rafe recalls late-night dollar pizza slices, giant bargain burritos and the glorious days when a handful of change could actually buy dinner. The gang also tackles college meal plans, parents paying thousands of dollars for cafeteria access, and students who still insist on ordering delivery because apparently prepaid food isn't exciting enough. Then this funny podcast takes a nostalgic trip through the cheap foods and childhood snacks that shaped an entire generation. Top Ramen. Kraft Mac & Cheese. Mini ravioli. SpaghettiOs. Lunchables. Dunkaroos. Gushers. Butterfinger BB's. Reese's Pieces. Some of these foods bring back wonderful memories. Others bring back the taste of artificial cheese powder and the sound of canned pasta hitting a bowl like wet dog food. Lern admits she's developed a grown-up appreciation for eating baked beans straight from the can. Moon gets sentimental about childhood snacks. Rafe remembers the questionable food choices that kept him going, and Riz admits he once thought using half a ramen seasoning packet made the meal healthy. Sure, buddy. Basically a salad. There's even a discussion about Rafe firing up his new grill, with the crew imagining him handing out freshly cooked St. Louis pork steaks to trick-or-treaters instead of Halloween candy. Honestly, that might be the most Missouri thing ever suggested on this radio station. From mystery studio grease and ridiculous wigs to national news, competitive eating, St. Louis restaurant closures, college fast food and childhood snack nostalgia, this funny podcast serves up another wonderfully chaotic morning with Rizz, Moon, Lern, Rafe and King Scott. Come for the eight-pound pizza challenge. Stay for the arguments about canned ravioli. And remember: if your college dinner consists of ramen noodles and a questionable packet of powdered seasoning, congratulations. You're apparently a nutrition expert now. It's The Rizzuto Show — where the stories are weird, the opinions are loud, and the food pyramid is mostly shaped like a burrito. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rafe Williams just finished one embarrassing punishment, the Buffalo Bills ruined his week, and now the wheel of humiliation is calling his name again. Meanwhile, Riz is getting emotional over senior hockey, Lern thinks she can pole vault at 41, and St. Louis tap water is turning colors nobody ordered. Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where football predictions go to die, parenting gets surprisingly emotional, and every discussion somehow ends with somebody questioning another person's physical abilities. We kick things off with Monday Night Football chaos as the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams take their battle into overtime. King Scott escapes the punishment wheel, but Rizz and Rafe are left fighting over the tiebreaker. Unfortunately for Rafe, his football predictions were about as reliable as his ability to remember every word of the National Anthem. Now he's facing another spin. The gang also dives into early high school graduation, college credits, scholarship applications, senior-year traditions, and the staggering cost of youth sports. Between travel hockey, competitive cheer, club soccer, expensive baseball equipment and college tuition, raising an athlete apparently requires a second mortgage and a full-time travel agent. Things get weirdly local when the crew discusses reports of yellowish-green tap water in parts of St. Louis and St. Charles counties. Missouri American Water attributes the discoloration to conditions following heavy rainfall, but Lern would like to know where to apply for her yellow-water discount. Naturally, the crew turns the discussion toward Rizz's own height, his occasional shoe lifts, and the now-infamous Wienermobile photo that made him look particularly tiny next to a giant hot dog. Rafe insists Rizz has a tall man's voice trapped inside a shorter man's body. Riz would like everybody to move on. The crew swaps eerie experiences from historic venues, including the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis and The Rave in Milwaukee. There are creepy backstage rooms, strange sightings, unsettling old buildings and enough ghost stories to make you reconsider volunteering for a late-night theater tour. Riz, Moon, Lern, Rafe and King Scott are back with another spectacularly chaotic edition of St. Louis morning radio, and this funny podcast is packed with celebrity news, pop culture commentary, questionable life choices and enough entertainment gossip to keep your group chat employed. First, the crew discusses a rare political issue that apparently has bipartisan support: keeping AM radio in new cars. With some automakers moving away from the old-school dial, Riz explains the proposed legislation and why emergency broadcasts are part of the conversation. Moon has questions about the automakers' reasoning, and everybody agrees that AM radio probably deserves to survive. Sean “Diddy” Combs is back in the headlines following reports of a hospital visit while incarcerated, along with allegations involving contraband devices, prison privileges and other inmates performing personal chores. Naturally, the gang focuses on the most ridiculous part: the possibility of somebody negotiating a massage in exchange for commissary snacks. Rafe imagines the world's saddest prison spa package, and Riz makes it abundantly clear that his survival strategy behind bars would involve becoming somebody's designated oil guy. The celebrity drama continues with a reported legal dispute involving Dolly Parton's business interests and her nephew, a longtime security employee. The crew discusses the allegations, the nephew's response through his attorneys, and the uncomfortable reality that family money can turn even close relationships into a courtroom situation. Rafe and Lern share their own experiences watching relatives argue over possessions after a death. Because apparently nothing says family togetherness like putting sticky notes on Grandma's furniture. The mood turns more heartfelt as Lern discusses Kelly Osbourne's struggles with grief following the loss of her father, Ozzy Osbourne, and the unexpected hobby she credits with helping her heal: falconry. The entertainment gossip keeps rolling with Joe Manganiello addressing speculation surrounding his divorce from Sofia Vergara and encouraging people to read his memoir before judging his story. That sparks a discussion about the word “narcissist,” which Rafe believes gets thrown around far too casually. How do you call a radio station to play music trivia and not know who sings “Highway to Hell”? Better question: how do you confuse Mötley Crüe with Ozzy Osbourne and still expect to win concert tickets? 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How do you call a radio station to play music trivia and not know who sings “Highway to Hell”? Better question: how do you confuse Mötley Crüe with Ozzy Osbourne and still expect to win concert tickets? Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where St. Louis music fans are competing for free tickets, the rules are apparently optional, and Rafe Williams is trying to turn football punishments into a professional sports trading deadline. Riz, Moon, Lern, Rafe and King Scott are back with another round of morning show chaos, and this funny podcast proves that nothing brings out the competitive spirit quite like free tickets and the opportunity to embarrass yourself on live radio. First up, it's Name That Band, the music trivia game that sounds simple enough to play while half asleep. Lern reads the title of a famous song. The caller names the artist or band. They get 45 seconds, no skips, and one wrong answer ends the round. Easy, right? Oh, you sweet summer child. The first caller, Morgan, gets things started with “Iron Man,” initially guesses Ozzy Osbourne, then corrects herself to Black Sabbath. Unfortunately, the game gets derailed by an accidental button press, forcing a restart and an on-air apology. It's a beautiful moment of accountability. For about 40 seconds. Then Morgan gets stuck on “Highway to Hell,” and the crew suddenly decides that perhaps the problem wasn't the button after all. Next comes John, who confidently identifies “Girls, Girls, Girls” as another Ozzy Osbourne song. It's Mötley Crüe. At this point, Rafe has a reasonable request for the listening audience: if you don't know anything about music, maybe don't call the music trivia game. Apparently that's a controversial suggestion. The crew starts proposing alternative contests for the musically challenged, including games so simple they might finally have a chance of making it through an entire round. Then Jake enters the picture. Jake knows his music. Weezer, Shania Twain, Aerosmith, Steppenwolf, Soundgarden, Carrie Underwood, the Beatles, Britney Spears, Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots, Alan Jackson, Lady Gaga, Bon Jovi and the Police. The man is answering questions like somebody installed Spotify directly into his brain. Jake racks up 14 correct answers and immediately restores the crew's faith in the St. Louis listening audience. Jake from State Farm has arrived, and apparently he offers full coverage for classic rock, pop, country and alternative music. This funny podcast then delivers another surprise when Matt comes dangerously close to Jake's score, rattling off answers involving Foo Fighters, Miley Cyrus, Snoop Dogg, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, Michael Jackson, Dire Straits and Kelly Clarkson. Matt falls just short, but the crew is so impressed that they decide he deserves tickets anyway. Because nothing says competitive radio contest like changing the prize structure because somebody actually knew what they were doing. The second round brings a whole new collection of St. Louis music enthusiasts. Kristen navigates songs from Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lenny Kravitz, Boston and Foo Fighters before “Baba O'Riley” becomes a problem. Another Matt manages six correct answers, Grant demonstrates that you can actually be too relaxed during a timed contest, and Ryan enters the final round promising to break the record. Ryan's first song? “Don't Speak.” He pauses. He struggles. He guesses Fleetwood Mac. It's No Doubt. And just like that, his record-breaking performance lasts approximately as long as it takes somebody to say goodbye. The crew has absolutely no intention of letting him forget it. Meanwhile, the prizes are very real. Listeners are competing for tickets to see Greek Fire at Delmar Hall, Ludo's Halloween shows at The Pageant, AEW Dynamite and Collision, and Nickelback at Enterprise Center. Greek Fire's show also supports Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, giving the crew a chance to promote an important St. Louis cause between rounds of lovingly questioning the musical education of their audience. And just when you think the humiliation has finally ended, it's time to talk about Rafe's football pick'em results. Spoiler alert: they're not good. Rafe has lost again, which means another spin of the show's punishment wheel is waiting for him. But instead of accepting his fate like a responsible adult, Rafe proposes a new idea: punishment trades. What if somebody gets a punishment they hate and another crew member is willing to take it? Could they swap it for a future punishment? Could they negotiate terms? Could somebody become the commissioner of an entirely unnecessary disciplinary trading league? Suddenly, a simple punishment wheel has become the NFL trade deadline, except the contracts involve wigs, mystery food and personal humiliation. The gang debates the rules, whether trades should be declared before spinning, and whether everyone should get one trade per season. Then somebody brings up No Shoes Nation Week. The punishment requires going without shoes around the station for an entire week, including places where absolutely nobody should be barefoot. Riz is horrified. Lern is already thinking about washing her feet. Rafe is calculating trade value. And somehow this is all happening because a grown man couldn't pick football games correctly. From classic rock trivia disasters and free concert tickets to football fails, ridiculous negotiations and the threat of barefoot bathroom visits, this funny podcast delivers another wonderfully chaotic slice of St. Louis morning radio. Join Riz, Moon, Lern, Rafe and King Scott for sarcastic humor, hilarious fails, music trivia and the kind of completely unnecessary arguments that make The Rizzuto Show a daily necessity. Come for the free tickets. Stay for the callers who think every rock song was recorded by Ozzy Osbourne. And remember: if you're going to challenge Jake from State Farm at music trivia, you better bring more than liability coverage. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Diddy is allegedly trading prison snacks for personal services, Dolly Parton's family is tangled in legal drama, and Rafe Williams is still trying to summon a falcon with a leather glove and pure determination. Welcome to another episode of The Rizzuto Show, where celebrity gossip gets weird, the music debates get louder, and somehow we're all learning about bird therapy before breakfast. Riz, Moon, Lern, Rafe and King Scott are back with another spectacularly chaotic edition of St. Louis morning radio, and this funny podcast is packed with celebrity news, pop culture commentary, questionable life choices and enough entertainment gossip to keep your group chat employed. First, the crew discusses a rare political issue that apparently has bipartisan support: keeping AM radio in new cars. With some automakers moving away from the old-school dial, Riz explains the proposed legislation and why emergency broadcasts are part of the conversation. Moon has questions about the automakers' reasoning, and everybody agrees that AM radio probably deserves to survive. Look at that. People agreeing about something. We should probably frame the moment. Then it's time for Crap on Celebrities, and Lern arrives carrying an entire dumpster of Hollywood nonsense. Sean “Diddy” Combs is back in the headlines following reports of a hospital visit while incarcerated, along with allegations involving contraband devices, prison privileges and other inmates performing personal chores. Naturally, the gang focuses on the most ridiculous part: the possibility of somebody negotiating a massage in exchange for commissary snacks. Rafe imagines the world's saddest prison spa package, and Riz makes it abundantly clear that his survival strategy behind bars would involve becoming somebody's designated oil guy. A bold choice. Not one we're putting on the show's résumé. The celebrity drama continues with a reported legal dispute involving Dolly Parton's business interests and her nephew, a longtime security employee. The crew discusses the allegations, the nephew's response through his attorneys, and the uncomfortable reality that family money can turn even close relationships into a courtroom situation. Rafe and Lern share their own experiences watching relatives argue over possessions after a death. Because apparently nothing says family togetherness like putting sticky notes on Grandma's furniture. The mood turns more heartfelt as Lern discusses Kelly Osbourne's struggles with grief following the loss of her father, Ozzy Osbourne, and the unexpected hobby she credits with helping her heal: falconry. Yes, falconry. And suddenly Rafe has never felt more understood. He already has the glove. He already calls to the sky. All he's missing is a bird willing to participate. Riz even shares a story about a falcon that escaped during a local event, which means somewhere out there might be Rafe's future best friend. This funny podcast also takes a detour into music and fashion as Lern celebrates Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme's transformation into a silver fox, his runway appearance and his upcoming clothing venture. The crew also recalls a particularly awkward podcast moment involving questions about Homme's weight loss and his cancer history. From there, it's a trip through the music charts featuring Taylor Swift, Ella Langley, Drake, Don Toliver and a rising artist with a song called “Nicole Kidman.” The gang debates which songs actually work as driving music, why some tracks sound like they were engineered to induce a nap, and which one Rafe would like played at his funeral. Nothing says a dignified farewell like making your loved ones listen to a song you barely enjoyed in the first place. The entertainment gossip keeps rolling with Joe Manganiello addressing speculation surrounding his divorce from Sofia Vergara and encouraging people to read his memoir before judging his story. That sparks a discussion about the word “narcissist,” which Rafe believes gets thrown around far too casually. The crew also discusses a reported tragedy involving a Breaking Bad actor and shares the importance of reaching out for support during a mental health crisis. Later, Lern covers allegations surrounding a disruptive airline incident involving Selma Blair, with the gang debating accountability, medical explanations and passenger safety. Then it's back to Hollywood, where Sam Mendes' ambitious plan for four separate Beatles biopics has everybody wondering whether moviegoers are expected to spend an entire month living in Beatlemania. Riz has a preferred viewing order, Rafe pitches a hypothetical fifth movie, and Moon has opinions about the casting. Ben Affleck's comments about the unpleasant experience of making Justice League lead to another argument: should actors publicly admit when a movie wasn't very good? The gang compares superhero films, Zack Snyder's version of the movie, and the strange business of promoting projects you might secretly hate. And speaking of expensive Hollywood decisions, the crew digs into the reported box office struggles of Tom Cruise's Digger. Rafe argues that a movie can be genuinely interesting while still being marketed to the wrong audience, and everybody tries to figure out how studios spend so much money making something so difficult to sell. Finally, Lern brings in a wild classic-rock mashup featuring ELO, Dokken, Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne and Lynyrd Skynyrd, before the crew rolls through celebrity birthdays and previews another round of Name That Artist, with tickets to Greek Fire, Ludo, AEW and Nickelback on the line. Plus, the show gives some well-deserved love to the St. Louis businesses supporting its October fundraiser for Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital. From AM radio and celebrity fails to rock music, Beatles movies, prison rumors and one man's desperate quest to become a falconer, this funny podcast has everything you'd expect from The Rizzuto Show. Which is to say: absolutely no adult supervision. Listen now for the latest daily humor, weird news, celebrity gossip and sarcastic entertainment from your favorite St. Louis comedy crew. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rafe Williams just finished one embarrassing punishment, the Buffalo Bills ruined his week, and now the wheel of humiliation is calling his name again. Meanwhile, Riz is getting emotional over senior hockey, Lern thinks she can pole vault at 41, and St. Louis tap water is turning colors nobody ordered. Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where football predictions go to die, parenting gets surprisingly emotional, and every discussion somehow ends with somebody questioning another person's physical abilities. We kick things off with Monday Night Football chaos as the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams take their battle into overtime. Scott escapes the punishment wheel, but Riz and Rafe are left fighting over the tiebreaker. Unfortunately for Rafe, his football predictions were about as reliable as his ability to remember every word of the National Anthem. Now he's facing another spin. Will it be karaoke? A mystery blind taste test? Something even worse? After surviving his singing punishment, Rafe would really appreciate one week where his dignity isn't a team-building exercise. But this funny podcast isn't all suffering. Sometimes we have feelings. Gross, we know. Riz shares a genuinely emotional moment from his son's senior hockey season, including the unveiling of the senior posters and the realization that these milestones are flying by. Moon understands the struggle, Lern suggests hanging the kid's jersey from the living room rafters, and Rafe discovers that George Strait songs are remarkably effective weapons against fathers trying not to cry. The gang also dives into early high school graduation, college credits, scholarship applications, senior-year traditions, and the staggering cost of youth sports. Between travel hockey, competitive cheer, club soccer, expensive baseball equipment and college tuition, raising an athlete apparently requires a second mortgage and a full-time travel agent. Then comes the great high school sports debate. Football, track, basketball, volleyball and soccer dominate the participation conversation, while the crew somehow gets distracted by javelin shopping, cross-country runners and the very real possibility that Lern believes she can become a pole vaulter. At 41. Without ever having done it before. Confidence is wonderful. Gravity remains undefeated. Things get weirdly local when the crew discusses reports of yellowish-green tap water in parts of St. Louis and St. Charles counties. Missouri American Water attributes the discoloration to conditions following heavy rainfall, but Lern would like to know where to apply for her yellow-water discount. Honestly, fair question. And if the water isn't unsettling enough, Riz introduces a story about a father reportedly spending $150,000 on cosmetic limb-lengthening surgery for his son. The goal? Going from 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-9. Three inches. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And a recovery process that sounds like the villain origin story of a very expensive superhero. Naturally, the crew turns the discussion toward Riz's own height, his occasional shoe lifts, and the now-infamous Wienermobile photo that made him look particularly tiny next to a giant hot dog. Rafe insists Riz has a tall man's voice trapped inside a shorter man's body. Riz would like everybody to move on. Nobody moves on. Then this funny podcast takes a darker turn as the gang discusses dangerous thrill-seeking, including reports of fatal accidents involving an amusement attraction and a mountain hike. The stories spark a debate about whether extreme adventures are worth the risk and why Riz, after years of reading terrible news stories, is amazed anybody willingly leaves the house. Which brings us to the spooky stuff. With Halloween approaching, Riz starts digging into the allegedly haunted locations scattered around St. Louis. Calvary Cemetery, the Bissell Mansion, Rock Hollow Trail in Wildwood, Lafayette Square and the mysterious Lion's House in Soulard all get their moment in the paranormal spotlight. Are these places actually haunted? Are the stories just local folklore? Or is Moon going to dismiss every ghost sighting as somebody standing in a parking lot? Spoiler: Moon is not an easy man to convince. The crew swaps eerie experiences from historic venues, including the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis and The Rave in Milwaukee. There are creepy backstage rooms, strange sightings, unsettling old buildings and enough ghost stories to make you reconsider volunteering for a late-night theater tour. Lern recalls an uncomfortable experience involving a Ouija board onstage, while the guys share their own memories of exploring spaces that feel just a little too quiet. Whether you believe in ghosts or think every haunting is just bad lighting and an old HVAC system, there's plenty of Halloween weirdness to argue about. It's another beautifully unhinged installment of St. Louis daily entertainment with Riz, Moon, Lern, Rafe and King Scott. We're talking football fails, family milestones, weird news, youth sports, questionable medical decisions, local mysteries and sarcastic humor from a crew that can turn absolutely anything into an argument. Tune in to this funny podcast for the comedy, stay for the haunted St. Louis stories, and remember: if somebody offers you three extra inches for $150,000, make sure they're talking about your height. And maybe just buy taller shoes. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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Frosted tips are making a comeback, Mike Ditka mustaches are taking over the studio, and somebody at the Belleville Chili Cook-Off just performed the most disgusting phone rescue in St. Louis history. Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where nostalgia is dangerous, celebrity gossip gets personal, and apparently no smartphone is worth leaving behind. Even when it's floating in a festival toilet. First, we're traveling back to 1998 because frosted tips are officially fashionable again. Riz, Moon, Lern and Rafe revisit the glory days of bleached hair, shell necklaces, chunky highlights, cargo pants and boy-band hairstyles that should've stayed buried with our old CD collections. Guy Fieri suddenly looks like a visionary, Justin Timberlake's ramen-noodle hair gets another trial in the court of public opinion, and Moon admits his own frosted tips were basically an accidental result of growing out bleached hair. Then it's time for Sexy Time Fun Facts, where Riz explains the dating insecurities men supposedly don't care about. From imperfect makeup and texting first to ordering a real meal on a date, the crew debates relationship expectations, attraction and why anybody is still pretending a side salad counts as dinner. Things get even more ridiculous when the conversation turns to the supposed science of attractiveness. Sunglasses, red lipstick, cologne, facial hair and teeth all get examined. Unfortunately, Rafe's inability to grow a proper beard leads to accusations that his ancestors belonged to an ancient tribe of peaceful, weak-chinned ladder carriers. And that's before everybody starts inspecting his Invisalign. Welcome to the world of Twisty Tooth Magoo. Naturally, this funny podcast also finds time to investigate Tom Cruise's off-center smile, Cristiano Ronaldo's dental transformation and one of the most unfortunate celebrity statues ever created. Meanwhile, the studio gets a special birthday greeting from the late Bob Saget before the crew pays tribute to legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka. Riz hands out fake Ditka mustaches, everybody immediately looks ridiculous, and Lern discovers she looks exactly like her dad. Rafe struggles with the adhesive, the mustaches start falling apart, and a heartfelt football tribute somehow turns into a low-budget costume party. Then comes celebrity chaos. Kelly Clarkson is caught up in a social media dispute with a Brooklyn specialty shop over a mechanical bird named Molly, a reported $15,000 price tag and accusations of rude customer service. The store and Clarkson tell different versions of what happened, and the crew debates whether a celebrity with millions of followers should publicly call out a small business. From there, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame gets put on trial. Why aren't Styx, Boston, Kansas, Toto, REO Speedwagon and other classic rock favorites getting the recognition the gang believes they deserve? Should Mötley Crüe be inducted? And why does every conversation about rock history eventually turn into a shouting match? The entertainment gossip continues with Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Journey, the Beach Boys, Oasis, Nicolas Cage's concerns about AI in Hollywood, and even Darth Vader's lightsaber. Because nothing says morning radio quite like debating classic rock legends and then immediately discussing the resale value of a weapon from a fictional galaxy. But wait. We still have the Belleville Chili Cook-Off. Rafe spends the weekend sampling an impressive amount of chili, including some questionable culinary combinations. The festival is packed, the temperatures are high, and apparently the entire city has upgraded to vape devices roughly the size of musical instruments. Then Moon shares a listener story that should come with a health department warning. A phone falls into a porta-potty at the chili festival. And somebody goes in after it. With a trash bag over their arm. At a CHILI COOK-OFF. The crew debates whether any phone is worth retrieving from that particular nightmare, how much money it would take to attempt the rescue, and whether a recovered phone should legally be required to disclose its horrifying past. Somewhere, a smartphone trade-in employee just developed a new fear. Rafe also has problems of his own. His Michael McDonald-inspired National Anthem performance missed a lyric, his confidence is crumbling, and the football pick'em punishment wheel is looming. Riz and Rafe are battling to avoid last place, Lern is enjoying life at the top of the standings, and the possibility of a West County Mall Walker punishment is already creating visions of a very embarrassing public fitness event. Meanwhile, The Rizzuto Show continues supporting Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital through its October fundraiser and billboard-signing events around St. Louis. Unfortunately, Riz has seen his face blown up to billboard size and is now deeply concerned that his teeth look enormous. Rafe compares them to popcorn kernels. Lern notices the Rolex. Moon notices everything. Nobody is getting out of this promotional campaign with their dignity. Add in Halloween decorating disasters, neighborhood trust issues, giant vape clouds and the question of whether you'd ever let a stranger move your car, and you've got enough material to make a therapist reconsider their career choice. This funny podcast brings together three glorious servings of Rizz Show chaos: '90s fashion flashbacks, celebrity news, relationship debates, rock music arguments, St. Louis stories, football punishments and a porta-potty incident that will haunt us forever. 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Frosted tips are back, skinny jeans are out, and apparently we're all just one shell necklace away from reliving 1998. Meanwhile, Rafe Williams is getting roasted for his facial hair genetics, Rizz is offering relationship advice, and the entire crew has become dangerously obsessed with the shape of Tom Cruise's teeth. Welcome to The Rizzuto Show, where fashion trends never die. They just wait 25 years to embarrass everybody all over again. First up, the crew investigates the alleged return of frosted tips, the hairstyle that made boy bands famous and turned an entire generation of men into walking bottles of hair bleach. Rizz remembers wanting the look, Lern enthusiastically supports its comeback, and Moon admits his own version happened when his bleached hair grew out. Rafe wonders whether frosted tips were basically the '90s version of today's broccoli haircut. And then there's Guy Fieri. The man never abandoned frosted tips. He simply waited patiently for the rest of civilization to catch up. The nostalgia doesn't stop there. We're talking chunky highlights, butterfly-era fashion disasters, shell necklaces, cargo pants, Sun-In hair spray, and that one guy who has been rocking the same mullet since the 1980s. Congratulations, sir. You weren't outdated. You were early. Then it's time for Sexy Time Fun Facts, where Riz attempts to reassure women that a lot of the things they worry about while dating aren't nearly as important to men as they might think. Imperfect makeup? Not a crisis. A couple of extra pounds? Relax. Making the first move? Please do. Ordering an actual meal instead of pretending lettuce is dinner? Absolutely encouraged. Naturally, this funny podcast turns into a debate about relationship expectations, financial insecurity, texting first, and why anybody is still pretending they're not hungry on a date. Lern has some questions. Rafe has some objections. Moon would simply appreciate it if someone else made more money. From there, the crew explores some supposedly scientific ways to make yourself more attractive. Sunglasses apparently make people look mysterious and symmetrical. A good cologne or perfume can improve first impressions. Red lipstick attracts attention. Beards supposedly signal ruggedness. Unfortunately, Rafe can't grow much of a beard. Moon brings up a theory connecting facial hair with ancient fighting cultures, and suddenly Rafe is being accused of descending from a peaceful tribe of weak-chinned people who survived by carrying ladders and wearing safety vests. It's a devastating day for his ancestral reputation. But the real chaos begins when the conversation turns to teeth. According to the research Riz shares, bright, evenly spaced teeth are a major attraction signal. Moon admits crooked teeth can be a dealbreaker, while Lern passionately defends distinctive smiles, tooth gaps, and a little dental individuality. Then everybody starts examining Rafe's Invisalign progress. Rafe becomes Twisty Tooth Magoo, Moon gets accused of having a crooked nose, and Riz's own teeth become part of the conversation. Nobody is leaving this studio with their self-esteem intact. The crew also takes a deep dive into Tom Cruise's famously off-center smile, Cristiano Ronaldo's dramatic dental transformation, and Ronaldo's unfortunate statue that somehow manages to make an internationally famous athlete look like an entirely different species. And just when you think the conversation can't get any more ridiculous, Rafe tells a story about a gas station employee whose teeth reminded him of several sticks of butter. Dental professionals, we're sorry. From frosted tips and '90s fashion nostalgia to modern dating expectations, questionable attraction science, facial hair failures and celebrity teeth, this funny podcast proves that nobody is safe from a little affectionate ridicule. Join Riz, Moon, Lern, Rafe and King Scott for another round of St. Louis morning show chaos, sarcastic humor, relationship debates and completely unnecessary personal observations. Come for the frosted tips. Stay for Twisty Tooth Magoo. And remember: If you held on to your 1998 hairstyle long enough, congratulations. You're fashionable again. This is The Rizzuto Show — the funny podcast where bad haircuts come back, good advice gets interrupted, and even Tom Cruise can't escape a dental roast. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bob Saget is wishing Rizz a happy birthday, Mike Ditka mustaches are taking over the studio, and Kelly Clarkson is apparently in a social media battle over a $15,000 mechanical bird. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, where every tribute eventually becomes a costume party and nobody can discuss classic rock without starting a fight. We kick things off with a birthday greeting from the late Bob Saget before the crew pays tribute to legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka. Riz has purchased fake Ditka mustaches for everybody, which sounds like a touching gesture until the adhesive starts failing, Rafe starts eating fake facial hair, and Lern realizes she looks exactly like her dad. It's a beautiful tribute. Assuming you define beautiful as five adults struggling to attach bargain-bin mustaches to their faces. Then things get weird in Brooklyn. Kelly Clarkson says she visited a specialty shop called Art of Play and felt like an employee treated her as though she couldn't afford anything. She posted about the experience, and suddenly the small business was dealing with a flood of angry online reviews. The store tells a different story involving Molly, a mechanical singing bird it says wasn't available for purchase. Kelly fires back with a photo showing a $15,000 price tag. So who's right? Was Kelly treated unfairly, or did a celebrity accidentally unleash an internet army on a small business? The crew debates celebrity influence, online mob mentality, terrible customer service, and why Rafe apparently can't walk into Louis Vuitton without making the staff nervous. Naturally, this funny podcast then turns into a full-blown Rock & Roll Hall of Fame emergency. Why aren't Styx, Boston, Kansas, Toto, REO Speedwagon, Huey Lewis and the News, or the Scorpions getting the respect the crew thinks they deserve? Should Mötley Crüe get in before the classic rock legends? Does Bryan Adams deserve more credit? How is Kenny Loggins not already in there? And can somebody please explain why Rafe is so emotionally invested in Little River Band's "Lady"? Rafe also shares a story about hanging out with Little River Band, where one musician was still ready to party like a rock star while the others were more concerned about bedtime and keeping cigarette smoke away from a CPAP machine. Rock and roll never dies. It just develops a sleep apnea treatment plan. Over in Crap on Celebrities, Lern brings the entertainment news, including an unreleased Britney Spears song co-written by Justin Timberlake, concerns surrounding a Beach Boys performance featuring Mike Love, and Journey drummer Deen Castronovo's medical scare during a concert. The conversation takes a surprisingly serious turn when Moon questions why people post deeply personal hospital and deathbed photos of family members on social media. Riz, naturally, has a very different vision for his own final photo shoot. There's also an Ella Langley concert cancellation following a reported bomb threat, Noel Gallagher reportedly preparing for an Oasis tour without alcohol, and movie talk covering BlackBerry, Digger, and the latest box-office results. Michael Douglas's memoir sparks a conversation about how he avoided the Vietnam draft, while Tobey Maguire officiating his ex-wife's wedding raises some very uncomfortable questions about Hollywood relationships. And for the Star Wars fans, the crew tries to guess how much Darth Vader's original Empire Strikes Back lightsaber prop could bring at auction. Spoiler alert: apparently the Galactic Empire has an incredible resale market. Finally, Nicolas Cage's opposition to an AI-related acting waiver kicks off a debate about artificial intelligence, CGI, practical effects, and whether Hollywood is protecting its artists or just terrified of whatever comes next. From fake mustaches and expensive birds to classic rock arguments, aging musicians, awkward weddings and Nicolas Cage fighting the machines, this funny podcast delivers another ridiculous mix of celebrity news, music debates, St. Louis humor and spectacularly unnecessary commentary. It's The Rizzuto Show with Riz, Moon, Lern, Rafe and King Scott. Come for Bob Saget. Stay for the Ditka mustaches. And somebody please get Rafe a better adhesive before he accidentally eats the entire Chicago Bears coaching staff. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rafe Williams is channeling Michael McDonald for his National Anthem punishment, the Belleville Chili Cook-Off has turned into a gastrointestinal danger zone, and Riz is having a full-blown crisis over the size of his teeth on the new Rizz Show billboard. Welcome to another episode of The Rizzuto Show, where the chili is hot, the porta-potties are terrifying, and nobody can explain how the football pick'em tiebreaker works. First, Rafe is getting roasted for his Michael McDonald-inspired National Anthem performance. Apparently, he missed a line, which is impressive considering he's been practicing this punishment all week. With one final performance remaining, his confidence is officially hanging by a thread. Meanwhile, Rafe and Riz are tied at the bottom of the football pick'em standings, and the punishment wheel is waiting. Lern is sitting pretty at the top, and a new potential punishment called the West County Mall Walker is already being discussed. Nothing says athletic excellence like a group of radio personalities power-walking through a shopping mall. Then we head to the Belleville Chili Cook-Off, where Rafe spent his weekend sampling an alarming number of chili creations. We're talking cinnamon rolls IN chili, chili-cheese-dog pizza topped with Fritos, and enough spicy food to make a portable toilet file for workers' compensation. But the real nightmare comes from a listener's story about a phone falling into a porta-potty at the festival. And somebody actually went in after it. With a trash bag over their arm. At a chili cook-off. That is either the greatest act of friendship ever recorded or a decision that should immediately disqualify you from owning a smartphone. Naturally, this funny podcast turns into a heated debate about how much money it would take to reach into a festival toilet, whether a recovered phone could ever truly be sanitized, and why trading it in should probably require a hazardous-materials disclosure. Rafe also discovers that Belleville might be the unofficial vaping capital of America. Between giant vape devices, clouds of mystery fruit flavor, and an actual vape vending machine, the crew starts imagining a future where nicotine delivery systems require backpack straps and their own power supply. Back in St. Louis, The Rizzuto Show is celebrating its Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital fundraiser with billboard-signing events around town. Unfortunately, when Riz sees the giant promotional photo up close, he becomes convinced his teeth are roughly the size of a refrigerator. Lern notices the Rolex. Moon notices everybody's imperfections. Rafe compares Riz's bottom teeth to popcorn kernels. And Riz politely requests that nobody color in his enormous billboard smile. A reasonable request from a man whose face is about to be displayed over a major highway. Then the gang gets into Halloween decorating season. Lern and Tim are building a skeleton-filled masterpiece, Rafe has access to a suspicious surplus of skeletons, and Riz's current decorations appear to consist mostly of leaves that fell there naturally. The conversation shifts to how well people actually know their neighbors, a ranking that puts St. Louis near the bottom for neighborliness, and whether you should ever trust a complete stranger with your car keys. Rafe shares a story about someone at Blues City Deli offering to repark a friend's Jeep simply to keep it from getting hit. Lern sees a beautiful example of community spirit. Riz sees the beginning of a police report. From questionable sports picks and ridiculous anthem performances to chili experiments, bathroom disasters, giant teeth and neighborhood trust issues, this funny podcast is everything you've come to expect from Riz, Moon, Lern, Rafe and King Scott. Come for Michael McDonald. Stay for the chili. And for the love of everything sanitary, leave your phone outside the porta-potty. It's The Rizzuto Show — the funny podcast where St. Louis stories, sarcastic humor and spectacularly bad decisions somehow become a perfectly acceptable morning. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rafe Williams is becoming a national anthem sensation, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile is headed to The Rizzuto Show, and Lern has officially decided that 41 is NOT too old to crowd surf. Meanwhile, Moon's house is falling apart. Just another perfectly normal day in St. Louis. The crew also debates one of baseball's most controversial questions: If you catch a foul ball, do you HAVE to give it to a kid? Riz isn't surrendering his souvenir just because a child happens to be standing nearby. Next, Lern recaps Turnstile's incredible St. Louis-area concert at Arsenal BG Ballpark, where she crowd surfed for the first time in 20 years. Rafe, meanwhile, spent part of the show wandering around the parking lot looking for his truck. One person relived their youth. The other experienced middle age. Things get even less sanitary when a discussion about Shigella turns into a deeply uncomfortable conversation about personal hygiene. Then Moon reveals that a leaking toilet has left a mysterious hole in his pantry ceiling, leading to questions nobody should have to ask about what's dripping into the house. King Scott lives out a dream as the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile is coming to the studio, and the crew is already way too excited about the arrival of a massive hot dog on wheels. Meanwhile, Lern delivers an official invitation from Southern Illinois for Riz to attend the Herrin Festa Italiana and potentially compete in a pasta-eating contest. David Lee Roth has been posting some truly spectacular videos aimed at his internet critics, and the gang cannot agree on whether Diamond Dave is the greatest rock star alive or a man who desperately needs someone to take away his phone. Riz considers the chaos part of his legendary rock-star appeal. Moon thinks arguing with trolls is beneath him. Rafe is thoroughly entertained, and Lern is somewhere between fascinated and requesting a wellness check. The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile has officially arrived at The Rizzuto Show, Nickelback is coming back to St. Louis, and a farting toy named Chester Cheeks might be the hottest Christmas gift of the year. Apparently, we've reached the point where a giant hot dog is the most respectable guest in the studio. Welcome to another ridiculous day with Rizz, Moon, Lern, Rafe and King Scott. Next, Rafe delivers another spectacular edition of E-Memorium, where nobody and nothing is safe. Grill Master Miley and Lindsay Links join the crew to explain what it's like driving a 27-foot-long hot dog across America. They share how they landed their dream jobs as Hotdoggers, what happens at Hot Dog High, how difficult it is to park the Wienermobile, and why their entire professional vocabulary consists of food-related puns. From Nickelback and novelty toys to homemade meat logs, biblical seafood buffets and professional hot dog drivers, this funny podcast has everything you never knew you needed. Come for the Wienermobile. Stay for Chester Cheeks. Leave before Rafe starts serving cold tacos again. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Dodgers fan’s brutal response when entire stadium demanded he hand foul ball to young Braves fanSexually transmitted diarrhea is on the rise — and it’s morphing into a drug-resistant superbugMotorcyclist run over by car accidentally left in drive in North CountySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile has officially arrived at The Rizzuto Show, Nickelback is coming back to St. Louis, and a farting toy named Chester Cheeks might be the hottest Christmas gift of the year. Apparently, we've reached the point where a giant hot dog is the most respectable guest in the studio. Welcome to another ridiculous day with Riz, Moon, Lern, Rafe and King Scott. The chaos starts with Nickelback announcing a concert at Enterprise Center alongside Don Broco. Lern defends the band's live show, Riz prepares for another round of Chad Kroeger's greatest hits, and Moon tries to explain who Don Broco is before everyone decides he sounds like somebody's uncle from New Jersey. Then comes Chester Cheeks. It's a squishy, dancing, farting toy shaped like a butt with a face. It costs around $30, makes disgusting noises, and could become a Christmas shopping sensation. Naturally, this funny podcast spends an unreasonable amount of time investigating a toy whose entire personality is flatulence. Riz even reveals that he created a remarkably similar cartoon character called John Anus back in high school. Apparently, he was ahead of his time. Unfortunately, that time has finally arrived. Next, Rafe delivers another spectacular edition of E-Memorium, where nobody and nothing is safe. First, Riz gets roasted for launching a full-scale investigation into who secretly signed him up for professional stretching, only to discover he'd entered the giveaway himself. The mysterious man named Bo and the proposed Truck Stop Spa also receive the tribute they probably never deserved. Rafe then revisits the homemade meat logs a fan brought to his comedy show, his shocking discovery that hard taco shells are supposed to be heated, and Riz's belief that Marco Polo was basically an international noodle smuggler. Forty-eight years of eating cold taco shells, Rafe. The instructions were literally on the box. The crew also takes a nostalgic trip back to Noah's Ark, the legendary St. Charles restaurant shaped like a giant boat, complete with fiberglass animals, an enormous salad bar and a truly astonishing amount of clam chowder. And then the main attraction finally arrives. The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile rolls into The Rizzuto Show! Grill Master Miley and Lindsay Links join the crew to explain what it's like driving a 27-foot-long hot dog across America. They share how they landed their dream jobs as Hotdoggers, what happens at Hot Dog High, how difficult it is to park the Wienermobile, and why their entire professional vocabulary consists of food-related puns. Moon has some extremely important questions about the vehicle fleet, including whether the Wienermobiles are numbered like the Blue Angels. He also makes his feelings very clear about people calling hot dogs "glizzies." Spoiler: He's not a fan. The Hotdoggers reveal that six Wienermobiles travel the country, discuss their yearlong adventures, and explain where St. Louis fans can spot the famous vehicle. Rafe, meanwhile, wants to know why a 27-foot hot dog doesn't come equipped with an actual hot dog cannon. It's a fair question. From Nickelback and novelty toys to homemade meat logs, biblical seafood buffets and professional hot dog drivers, this funny podcast has everything you never knew you needed. Come for the Wienermobile. Stay for Chester Cheeks. Leave before Rafe starts serving cold tacos again. This is The Rizzuto Show — the funny podcast where we celebrate rock music, questionable life choices, St. Louis nostalgia and the occasional giant wiener. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What do a giant hot dog, a no-hands pasta-eating contest, and David Lee Roth's increasingly bizarre Instagram videos have in common? Unfortunately, they're all perfectly reasonable topics of conversation on The Rizzuto Show. The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile is coming to the studio, and the crew is already way too excited about the arrival of a massive hot dog on wheels. Meanwhile, Lern delivers an official invitation from Southern Illinois for Riz to attend the Herrin Festa Italiana and potentially compete in a pasta-eating contest. No hands allowed. Because apparently watching Riz eat mostaccioli like a farm animal is exactly the kind of tourism Southern Illinois needs. And that's just the appetizer. David Lee Roth has been posting some truly spectacular videos aimed at his internet critics, and the gang cannot agree on whether Diamond Dave is the greatest rock star alive or a man who desperately needs someone to take away his phone. Riz considers the chaos part of his legendary rock-star appeal. Moon thinks arguing with trolls is beneath him. Rafe is thoroughly entertained, and Lern is somewhere between fascinated and requesting a wellness check. Naturally, this funny podcast turns into a full-blown debate about David Lee Roth versus Mick Jagger, what makes a true rock star, and whether being completely unhinged is actually a professional qualification. Then the crew digs into the SiriusXM comedy controversy surrounding Sebastian Maniscalco's channel replacing Raw Dog Comedy. Rafe explains how reduced airplay affects working comedians and their royalty checks, while the gang debates corporate programming, audience discovery, and whether the entertainment industry's middle class is getting squeezed out. Lern also reveals her surprisingly aggressive strategy for negotiating satellite radio subscription prices. SiriusXM customer service, you've been warned. Over in Crap on Celebrities, the conversation jumps from Def Leppard's announced tour with Goo Goo Dolls and The Struts to Aerosmith's star-studded concert plans, Slayer's collectible vinyl, and Liam Gallagher making the kind of ridiculous Beatles-related claim only Liam Gallagher could make. There's also a spirited discussion about the Lanterns finale, Jeremy Allen White potentially playing Gene Wilder, celebrity relationship headlines, and the best family-friendly Halloween movies. Because nothing says spooky season quite like debating whether Gremlins belongs on a wholesome family movie list. Along the way, the crew highlights its Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital fundraiser, the Rizz Show billboard signing events, and the Halloween festivities happening around St. Louis. It's another funny podcast filled with rock-star arguments, entertainment gossip, questionable career opportunities, and the kind of nonsense that makes you wonder how these people are allowed near microphones. Come for the Wienermobile. Stay for the pasta. And whatever you do, don't let David Lee Roth find his way into your inner consciousness. This is The Rizzuto Show — the funny podcast where the conversations are unpredictable, the opinions are loud, and a giant wiener is somehow the least ridiculous thing happening. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rafe Williams is becoming a national anthem sensation, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile is headed to The Rizzuto Show, and Lern has officially decided that 41 is NOT too old to crowd surf. Meanwhile, Moon's house is falling apart. Just another perfectly normal day in St. Louis. Rafe kicks things off with another performance of the national anthem, and somehow the reviews are overwhelmingly positive. The crew is starting to wonder whether they've accidentally created a lounge singer instead of a punishment. Then comes the biggest celebrity of the day: a 27-foot hot dog on wheels. The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile has everyone asking important questions, including whether you can sleep inside it, whether it needs a hot dog cannon, and why Rafe once had to drink water that tasted like hot dogs. This funny podcast is doing absolutely nothing to improve its reputation. The crew also debates one of baseball's most controversial questions: If you catch a foul ball, do you HAVE to give it to a kid? Riz isn't surrendering his souvenir just because a child happens to be standing nearby. Next, Lern recaps Turnstile's incredible St. Louis-area concert at Arsenal BG Ballpark, where she crowd surfed for the first time in 20 years. Rafe, meanwhile, spent part of the show wandering around the parking lot looking for his truck. One person relived their youth. The other experienced middle age. Things get even less sanitary when a discussion about Shigella turns into a deeply uncomfortable conversation about personal hygiene. Then Moon reveals that a leaking toilet has left a mysterious hole in his pantry ceiling, leading to questions nobody should have to ask about what's dripping into the house. Add in a bizarre local motorcycle accident, questionable hot dog opinions, and the usual collection of terrible ideas, and you've got another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Come for the Wienermobile. Stay for the crowd surfing. Leave before somebody starts describing the plumbing. It's the funny podcast that proves morning radio can cover patriotism, punk rock, baseball and bathroom disasters before most people finish their coffee. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tommy Davidson joins The Rizzuto Show with stories involving some of the biggest names in comedy history, the crew fights over the greatest science-fiction movies ever made, and eventually somebody decides it’s time to bring the Glory Hole Challenge back from the dead. So yes, this comedy podcast covers the entire cultural spectrum. Tommy takes us through his incredible career, including In Living Color, Booty Call and getting personally recruited by Jim Carrey for Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. He remembers being handed a loincloth and a bag and essentially being asked, “Can you fit in both of these?” Ah, Hollywood. The conversation gets even better when Tommy remembers grinding away at The Comedy Store before finally getting his shot in the main room. His first big assignment? Thirty minutes sandwiched between Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. Tommy crushed the opportunity, and afterward Pryor walked over and told him he was funny. That’ll probably beat any performance review the rest of us receive this year. Tommy also opens up about being adopted, how his upbringing shaped his perspective on race and humanity, and the lessons he learned working around comedy legends like Robin Williams, George Carlin and Jamie Foxx. He explains why learning to play the straight man became just as important as getting the laugh — especially while working on In Living Color and Booty Call. Then this comedy podcast makes the natural transition from Richard Pryor to murderous Mickey Mouse. The crew gets into the original Mickey Mouse entering the public domain, bizarre horror adaptations, KISS preparing for its avatar era and the legal weirdness of famous characters eventually becoming fair game. That somehow turns into a full-blown argument over the greatest science-fiction movies ever made. The Matrix, Terminator 2, Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar, E.T., They Live, Predator, The Fifth Element and plenty more enter the fight. And because apparently Tommy Davidson wasn’t enough entertainment for one episode, the show resurrects an old favorite: The Glory Hole Challenge. The infamous mystery-object contraption returns in the new studio, Jeff gets thrown into the hot seat, and his ability to identify objects without seeing or hearing anything is immediately tested in ways no respectable workplace would approve. It’s comedy history, movie arguments, pop-culture chaos and deeply questionable radio games packed into one comedy podcast. Basically, we start with Richard Pryor and end with a glory hole. The Rizzuto Show difference. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Match Up With Moon! Plus the military facts including one branch that is full of big dorks... Allegedly. This funny show starts strong with Rizz and Moon matching Colgate before immediately disagreeing over what you put ketchup on, famous wizards, Rocky movies and what people keep in their nightstands. Apparently “fries” versus “hamburger” is enough to destroy a friendship. Things improve when Rafe and Lern try to match on beer, morning routines, fictional bears, pizza chains and John Candy movies. Yogi Bear and Domino’s save the day, but Bud Light versus Budweiser nearly causes an on-air corporate emergency. Then Lern and Moon deliver the beautiful disaster Patient Zero has been waiting for. Secret versus Right Guard. Glazed versus Long John. Dracula versus Edward. Sugar versus a lawnmower. And finally, nachos versus mozzarella sticks. ZERO matches means Patient Zero Shannon wins — proving sometimes the smartest strategy is simply betting on the show being terrible at its own game. This funny show keeps rolling through famous cowboys, frozen pizzas, ghosts and ’80s action movies before one final contestant puts his faith in Rizz and Moon. Levi’s and restaurant service get them started, but a fictional-teacher disagreement and furnace-versus-water-heater nearly ruin everything. It all comes down to Chevy Chase, where both land on Vacation and finally send Kevin home a winner. Concert tickets, birthday wishes, Patient Zero glory and grown adults discovering they apparently know nothing about each other — another perfectly coordinated funny show from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rizz finished dead last in the football picks, which means the punishment wheel is coming for him. Conference room karaoke? Wig week? Crocs mascot week? Truck stop makeover? Whatever happens, he has nobody to blame but himself and his bold strategy of making picks based entirely on his heart. Then this daily podcast gets into a relationship dilemma: should you give your spouse a heads-up before making a major change to your appearance? A husband is upset after his blonde wife unexpectedly comes home brunette, which sends the crew into hair politics. Lern doesn’t need permission to change her hair, but she knows Tim hates bangs. Riz admits he once had a terrible reaction when Amelia cut her hair short. And if Tim ever removes his chest hair, Lern would apparently like to be consulted before he transforms himself into a mole rat. Of course, Riz once bought an entire Jeep without telling his wife, so perhaps he shouldn't be leading the seminar on communication. Then we discover getting married now requires approximately the same financial planning as invading a small country. The average U.S. wedding ceremony and reception costs $34,200, with Missouri averaging around $26,000 and Illinois hitting $38,000. Chicago? About $54,000. Suddenly eloping at the courthouse and going to Chili’s afterward sounds incredibly romantic. That leads to stories about the fanciest weddings the crew has attended, including one at New York’s Plaza Hotel with an Iron Chef rolling sushi, smoking allowed indoors, breakfast served at 4 a.m. and a reported half-million dollars spent on flowers. Meanwhile, most of us are wondering whether the open bar includes domestic beer. Finally, this daily podcast investigates “doppelgänger dating” — the idea that people are often attracted to familiar physical traits and may repeatedly date partners who look strangely similar. The crew compares their own dating histories, discusses couples who eventually start dressing alike, and determines that, yes, plenty of us absolutely have a type. Bad football picks, surprise brunettes, hairy husbands, weddings that cost a down payment and realizing your dating history looks like somebody hit copy and paste — another deeply educational daily podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tommy Davidson's second appearance on the Rizzuto Show involving some of the biggest names in comedy history, the crew fights over the greatest science-fiction movies ever made, and eventually somebody decides it’s time to bring the Glory Hole Challenge back from the dead. So yes, this comedy podcast covers the entire cultural spectrum. Tommy takes us through his incredible career, including In Living Color, Booty Call and getting personally recruited by Jim Carrey for Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. He remembers being handed a loincloth and a bag and essentially being asked, “Can you fit in both of these?” Ah, Hollywood. The conversation gets even better when Tommy remembers grinding away at The Comedy Store before finally getting his shot in the main room. His first big assignment? Thirty minutes sandwiched between Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. Tommy crushed the opportunity, and afterward Pryor walked over and told him he was funny. That’ll probably beat any performance review the rest of us receive this year. Tommy also opens up about being adopted, how his upbringing shaped his perspective on race and humanity, and the lessons he learned working around comedy legends like Robin Williams, George Carlin and Jamie Foxx. He explains why learning to play the straight man became just as important as getting the laugh — especially while working on In Living Color and Booty Call. Then this comedy podcast makes the natural transition from Richard Pryor to murderous Mickey Mouse. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Spread Zone is back for College Football Week 6 and NFL Week 5 — and the guys are still on fire... kind of.  Anthony Stalter enters the week hitting 80% of his NFL picks, Tim McKernan is a perfect 6-0 on his locks, while Riz is still trying to find his footing on the new year. Now the guys are back with another full slate of picks, best bets and their most confident plays of the week. On the college side, the guys break down Alabama-Georgia, Texas-Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry, Iowa State-BYU, Notre Dame-Stanford and more. Then they turn to the NFL with picks for Cowboys-Buccaneers, Jaguars-Eagles in London, 49ers-Seahawks, Steelers-Colts and plenty more. Plus, their Locks of the Week as they try to keep the hot streak rolling. LEGAL DISCLAIMER We provide information about sports betting for entertainment purposes only. Please confirm gambling regulations in your state of residence. To participate in sports gaming, you must be 21 years of age or older and be physically present in a state where sports betting is legal. If you or someone you know has a sports betting or gambling problem, please call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org for more information and further assistance. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rafe’s singing the National Anthem as punishment, GWAR fans are fighting for the title of smelliest people in music, and a St. Louis-area substitute teacher explains how getting caught with an OnlyFans account completely changed her life. Just another perfectly reasonable day at The Rizzuto Show. We start with Rafe serving his National Anthem punishment while Moon immediately turns patriotism into gambling by trying to set an over/under on how long each performance will last. Then Riz becomes convinced someone on the show secretly signed him up for a professional stretching service. After interrogating basically everyone and preparing to prosecute the case, he discovers the culprit was… Riz. He’d entered a local giveaway and essentially signed himself up. That leads to professional stretching, massages, a mysterious man named Bo, the invention of the Truck Stop Spa and enough discussion about hamstrings to make everyone uncomfortable. The show also dives into nightmare fuel ranging from dumpster accidents and grain silos to caves, the open ocean and escalators — which we’re pretty sure Moon has permanently ruined for everyone. Then things get smellier. The crew lays out the golden rules for surviving a horror movie before debating some of the greatest album-opening songs ever. “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Whole Lotta Love,” “Black Dog,” “Tom Sawyer” and more enter the fight while Riz takes personal offense to Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” topping the list. But the real musical controversy arrives when Blothar the Berserker joins us after GWAR fans rank fourth on a list of the worst-smelling fan bases. Blothar’s problem isn’t that GWAR fans smell bad. It’s that they only finished FOURTH. Finally, an artist willing to demand more from his audience. Then local mom and former substitute teacher Sheena Sitner joins the show to discuss the OnlyFans account that led to her suspension from substitute teaching and suddenly became a viral story. Sheena explains how coworkers discovered the account, how her employer handled the situation and how the publicity transformed what had been an occasional side hustle into a much larger business. She says she went from roughly 20 subscribers to potentially more than a thousand and made nearly $25,000 in about a week and a half after the story exploded. The conversation also gets into substitute-teacher pay, her family’s reaction, future employment, boundaries between someone’s private life and professional life, and the concerns parents may have when schools are responsible for their children. From Rafe’s patriotic punishment and Riz demanding to be professionally folded like laundry to GWAR’s quest for stink supremacy and a local teacher navigating unexpected internet fame, this episode has everything. Well, almost everything. We’re still trying to find Bo. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Man accidentally loaded into San Francisco garbage truck, freed in wild rescue See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We start this episode with Match Up With Moon, where the questions bounce from the summer solstice and Buc-ee’s bathrooms to Barbie’s little sister, military slogans and the deeply important statistic that the average person apparently spends 92 DAYS of their life sitting on the toilet. Finally, some trivia you can contemplate while actively contributing to the statistic. Riz and Moon battle through two rounds, discover Ken apparently has a little brother named Tommy Carson, and somehow both correctly pull Aretha Franklin as the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It’s the kind of educational content you’ve come to expect from this daily podcast — technically informative, but probably not information you should lead with at a job interview. Then local mom and former substitute teacher Sheena Sitner joins the show to discuss the story that suddenly put her in headlines. Sheena explains that while substitute teaching through Kelly Education at Parkway schools, coworkers discovered an OnlyFans account she'd maintained as a side hustle. She was suspended from substitute teaching after the account was reported, and what had previously been a relatively small source of extra money suddenly exploded after her story went public. Sheena says she went from roughly 20 subscribers to potentially more than a thousand and had made nearly $25,000 in roughly a week and a half after the story went viral. The conversation gets into how the account was discovered, her employer’s response, how her husband and adult children reacted, the financial realities of substitute teaching and her argument that educators deserve better pay. The crew also digs into the much more complicated question surrounding parents, schools and what employees do away from work. Sheena says her content was created privately with her husband and never involved students or school grounds, while Moon pushes back that parents handing their children over to adults at school may still have legitimate concerns about boundaries and vetting. In other words, this daily podcast briefly becomes a surprisingly thoughtful debate before somebody can drag us back into toilet trivia. From Moon spending entirely too much time calculating bathroom statistics to a local substitute teacher navigating viral fame, adult-content controversy, education and a dramatically different financial future, Episode 36 covers a lot more ground than the title probably suggests. It’s another daily podcast proving you never really know where The Rizzuto Show is headed. Especially when King Scott has the trivia questions. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons kick things off, Blothar the Berserker joins us to defend GWAR’s honor, and the Rizzuto Show tackles the question nobody else had the courage — or functioning nostrils — to ask: which fan base smells the worst? Before we get there, the crew lays down the golden rules for surviving a horror movie. Don’t investigate strange noises. Don’t go into the basement. Don’t split up. Keep your phone charged. Never read the creepy Latin book out loud. And if the haunted house literally tells you to GET OUT, maybe don’t stop upstairs for a romantic evening. Seems obvious. Horror movie characters remain unconvinced. Crap on Celebrities turns into a rock argument when the crew debates the greatest album-opening songs ever. “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Whole Lotta Love,” “Black Dog,” “Tom Sawyer,” “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and more enter the fight after “Thunder Road” takes the top spot on a list — a decision Riz receives with all the maturity and restraint you’ve come to expect from this comedy podcast. There’s also Justin Timberlake apologizing for his old beatboxing obsession, Alice Cooper discussing the danger and theater behind his stage show, Record Store Day releases and plenty more music and entertainment chaos. Then Blothar the Berserker from GWAR joins the show after GWAR fans land at #4 on a ranking of the worst-smelling fan bases. Blothar is outraged. Not because GWAR fans smell bad. Because they didn't get #1. Blothar breaks down the aromatic bouquet of the average GWAR crowd, explains why artificially making fans smell worse would be cheating, and offers some motivational advice for finally defeating Phish, the Grateful Dead and Insane Clown Posse for stink supremacy. It’s thoughtful, inspirational and absolutely disgusting. We also talk about GWAR’s upcoming tour plans, Moon remembers watching unsuspecting crowds experience GWAR firsthand, and the crew makes a strong case for getting them onto a future Pointfest lineup. From horror movie survival tactics and legendary album openers to rock stars, celebrity news and Blothar describing concert body odor like a fine-wine sommelier, this comedy podcast covers an impressive amount of ground while accomplishing very little for society. Exactly how we like it. Turn it up, skip the shower and enjoy another comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rafe’s National Anthem punishment has officially begun, and somehow Moon is already trying to gamble on how long he can drag it out. Nothing says patriotism like an over/under on “The Star-Spangled Banner.” This funny podcast starts with Rafe surviving anthem number one before Riz reveals that he thought someone on the show had signed him up for a professional stretching service as a prank. There were accusations. There were interrogations. Waterboarding was nearly discussed. Turns out Riz basically signed himself up through a local giveaway, meaning the criminal mastermind he was hunting was… Riz. Naturally, this sends the show into a lengthy investigation of professional stretching, massages, compression boots and whether Riz should specifically request the mysterious “Bo” who texted him. Rafe attempts to explain what getting professionally stretched actually feels like, and somehow we end up inventing a luxury truck-stop spa. Put lavender eucalyptus next to the diesel pumps and call us investors. The relationship department also gets involved when the crew debates a viral argument about parents taking “family vacations” without their kids’ spouses. Is that innocent quality time with your original family, or an extremely elaborate way of telling your daughter-in-law, “We tolerate you at Christmas”? We also tackle whether a grown man should let his wife accompany him to the salon to supervise his haircut. Then Rafe takes aim at downtown St. Louis after a disappointing lunch experience, the crew starts brainstorming Halloween costumes, and we learn that the Spice Girls may be the group costume nobody asked for. But this funny podcast takes a darker turn after a terrifying story about a dumpster diver accidentally getting dumped into a garbage truck inspires everyone to start naming their personal nightmare scenarios. Getting stranded alone in the ocean. Falling into a grain silo. Floating helplessly through space. Becoming trapped upside down inside a cave. Sinkholes opening beneath your bedroom. And then Moon introduces the escalator. Suddenly, every trip to the mall feels significantly less relaxing. It’s another funny podcast packed with anthem bets, Turnstile excitement, stretching shenanigans, family arguments, St. Louis talk and enough nightmare fuel to make stairs look pretty damn appealing. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fall is here, the hayrides are apparently trying to kill us, working comedians are fighting for their royalty checks, Clownvis is hanging out in Maynard James Keenan’s orbit, and somebody wants to throw a completely dry wedding. Somehow King Scott had a dry wedding and that’s not even all we get into. We kick things off with fall in St. Louis and the realization that haunted hayrides have always been wildly sketchier than anyone wants to admit. Lern remembers childhood hayrides involving masked dads hiding in the woods and firing guns into the air — because Southern Illinois apparently considered “basic firearm safety” optional during Halloween. That leads to a story about a New York hayride accident where a tractor and trailer overturned, injuring multiple people and reminding everyone that maybe sitting on loose hay behind farm equipment traveling at questionable speeds isn't the safest fall tradition. The internet isn’t doing much better. We get into social media challenges, influencers making terrible decisions for engagement and whether 20-year-old guys actually know better — or whether they’re just teenagers with adult privileges and access to tuxedos. Then National Taco Day turns into the Great Taco Debate. Hard shell versus soft shell, cilantro, black olives and whether a soft taco is basically just a burrito that quit early. We also discuss a lawsuit from a man who says he became seriously ill after several Taco Bell visits, with shredded lettuce identified in the lawsuit as a common ingredient in his orders. Congratulations, lettuce. You finally found a way to become the scariest thing on the menu. Things get more serious when Rafe explains a controversy in the stand-up comedy world involving SiriusXM’s changes to its comedy programming. According to the discussion, hundreds of working comics lost rotation — including Rafe — potentially taking away royalty income that can make a real difference for comedians trying to survive between gigs. The crew debates whether major platforms have any responsibility to support smaller artists and whether Sebastian Maniscalco, whose name is attached to the new channel, could use his influence to help working comics get back into rotation. We also raise money for Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, put Batman’s detective skills on trial, and watch Rafe lose the football picks badly enough to earn National Anthem Week. Four days. Four performances. One man forced to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” because he trusted the wrong football team. America remains beautiful. Then Clownvis enters the picture — and apparently he’s become buddies with Maynard James Keenan thanks to Maynard’s wife being a huge fan. Honestly, good for Clownvis. Networking advice from this show is now officially: dress like Elvis, become a clown and wait for Tool to call. We also discuss a woman accused of stealing roughly $500 in donations intended to help pets receive critical medical care from a veterinary clinic, which immediately earns her a nomination for Worst Person of the Morning. Listener emails bring us the essential St. Louis debate of pork steak versus pork chop, with Rafe declaring the pork steak the “working man’s ribeye.” Unfortunately, Rafe still hasn’t actually cooked anything on his new grill. He HAS done a mostly naked photo shoot with it, though, so the grill is already earning its keep. Then the Rizzuto Show Help Desk tackles a relationship dilemma: a listener’s girlfriend wants their future wedding and receptions completely alcohol-free, partly because her father has been sober for years. The listener wants booze, wonders whether this disagreement could actually be a deal breaker, and asks the crew to settle it. Moon and Rafe offer their perspectives as sober guys, compromises are proposed, and somehow Jesus turning water into wine eventually gets submitted as supporting evidence. Finally, Megan Little from the St. Louis Blues stops by to preview the home opener and the season’s promotional nights, including the new Rizz Show Night jacket. Unfortunately, we discover Rizz Show Night is getting absolutely destroyed in ticket sales by Fourth Wing Night. Dragons. Spicy fantasy romance. Morning radio. We never stood a chance. From hayride horrors, tacos and social media stupidity to comedy-industry drama, Clownvis, charity thieves, pork steaks, dry weddings and our humiliating defeat at the hands of dragon literature, it’s another completely normal episode of The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. 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Clownvis is apparently buddies with Maynard James Keenan, which is already enough information to make this episode worthwhile. Turns out Maynard’s wife is a big Clownvis fan, private events happened, friendships were formed, and now Clownvis is casually appearing on Maynard’s Instagram. Just another reminder that the universe occasionally gets something exactly right. Then we meet someone considerably less delightful: a woman accused of stealing a charity donation jar from a Pennsylvania veterinary clinic. The jar reportedly contained around $500 intended for the Daisy Fund, which helps local pets receive critical medical care. Stealing is bad. Stealing from sick animals? Congratulations, you’ve somehow unlocked the bonus level of being terrible. From there, this funny podcast tackles listener questions, including the impossible decision of which ONE signed sports jersey deserves a spot on your wall. Bo Jackson? Patrick Mahomes? Barry Bonds? Babe Ruth? Yadier Molina? Naturally, Riz throws Kurt Rambis into the conversation because somebody has to make this difficult for no reason. Then comes an extremely St. Louis discussion: pork steak versus pork chop. Rafe explains why the pork steak is essentially the “working man’s ribeye,” Riz defends its forgiving nature, and the crew learns Rafe STILL hasn’t actually used the grill he won — although he has completed a mostly naked photo shoot with it. Priorities. The Rizzuto Show Help Desk then receives a relationship problem with some actual stakes: a listener’s girlfriend wants their future wedding to be completely dry. No open bar. No cash bar. Nothing. Her father has been sober for years, but the listener wants booze at the reception and wonders if this disagreement could legitimately be a deal breaker. Moon and Rafe bring the sober perspective, the crew searches for a compromise, and the discussion somehow ends with Jesus’ water-into-wine miracle being entered into evidence. Your move, wedding planner. Finally, Megan Little from the St. Louis Blues joins the show to preview the home opener, promotional nights and the new Rizz Show Night jacket. There’s Ozzy Osbourne Tribute Night, Bluey Day, Needlepoint Night, a Blues Snuggie and one humiliating discovery: Rizz Show Night ticket sales are getting absolutely annihilated by Fourth Wing Night. Apparently dragons and spicy fantasy romance are more powerful than morning radio. We accept defeat with absolutely no bitterness whatsoever. From Clownvis and charity thieves to pork steaks, dry weddings, hockey promotions and the crew discovering they’ve been commercially defeated by dragons, Episode 1058 is the kind of funny podcast that refuses to stay on one subject for more than seven consecutive minutes. And if you take nothing else from this funny podcast, remember: stealing from an animal charity is awful, pork steaks deserve respect, and never underestimate the ticket-selling power of spicy dragon literature. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Rizzuto Show is raising money for Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, Rafe is fighting for the working-class comedian, and somewhere in St. Louis a man is realizing that picking the Saints has consequences far beyond losing a football game. Episode 101 kicks off with the show’s October fundraiser for Cardinal Glennon, including the return of Halloweirdo stickers, the traveling Rizz Show billboard, Hats of the Week and plenty of ways to donate while the crew shamelessly turns their own heads into advertising space. Philanthropy, but make it morning radio. Then things get surprisingly serious in the world of stand-up comedy. The crew discusses the controversy surrounding SiriusXM replacing its longtime Raw Comedy format with Sebastian Maniscalco’s Comedy Radio. According to the discussion, the rotation reportedly shrank from roughly 800 comics to around 300, potentially cutting a valuable source of royalty income for working comedians. And this one hits close to home because Rafe says he’s one of the comics who lost that airplay. He breaks down just how valuable SiriusXM spins can be compared with other streaming platforms and why those quarterly royalty checks can make a huge difference for comedians grinding it out on the road. Nobody is blaming Sebastian directly, but the crew debates whether major platforms have any responsibility to keep smaller artists in rotation — and whether Sebastian could use his influence to help bring working comics back. Nothing says comedy podcast like discovering the economics of comedy are significantly less funny than comedy itself. Crap on Celebrities brings plenty more chaos, including Aerosmith teasing something at the Hollywood Bowl, David Bowie’s upcoming 80th birthday celebration, the return of TRL without MTV, Tulsa King, Pete Davidson relationship drama, a New Wave documentary and the crew trying to figure out why seeing larger-than-life celebrities doing normal-person stuff feels so deeply unsettling. Then The Batman goes on trial. Rafe argues that Robert Pattinson wasn’t necessarily the problem — Batman was just a terrible detective. If your entire mystery gets cracked because a random cop walks past the evidence and recognizes a carpet tool, maybe Gotham needs to update the résumé requirements for “World’s Greatest Detective.” The conversation naturally ends with Batman becoming Quagmire, because this is still The Rizzuto Show and dignity remains optional. Finally, Monday Night Football delivers the punishment nobody knew they needed. Rafe loses the weekly picks, spins the punishment wheel and lands on National Anthem Week. That means four show days of Rafe performing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” with the crew immediately debating backing tracks, acapella versions and — naturally — the possibility of a funk groove. From comedy royalties and Cardinal Glennon fundraising to celebrity chaos, emo Batman and Rafe preparing for his unwilling patriotic residency, Episode 101 is a comedy podcast packed with exactly the kind of nonsense that makes a normal Tuesday feel professionally irresponsible. And tomorrow morning, please rise, remove your hats and prepare yourselves. Because this comedy podcast has apparently become a sporting event. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It’s fall in St. Louis, the Halloween decorations are getting aggressively competitive, tacos are apparently important enough to deserve their own national holiday, and The Rizzuto Show is once again asking the important question: how did any of us survive childhood? Episode 241 starts innocently enough with beautiful fall weather, heated vests, Halloween decorations and the usual seasonal activities. Pumpkin patches? Great. Scary movies? Absolutely. Hayrides? Sure… until Lern explains that the hayrides of her Southern Illinois childhood occasionally involved masked dads hiding in the woods and firing guns into the air. Apparently some families went apple picking. Lern’s family recreated a low-budget action movie. That sends the crew down a terrifying hayride rabbit hole involving childhood “abductions,” haunted paintball rides, sketchy tractors and the general realization that putting 20 people on hay bales behind farm equipment has never exactly screamed “industry-leading safety standards.” Then the show discusses a New York hayride accident where a tractor and trailer overturned, injuring multiple people and providing a pretty compelling argument for asking your driver a few questions before climbing aboard. That’s only the beginning of today’s daily comedy, because the Internet has once again discovered new and innovative ways to make people dumber. The crew gets into the Door Kick Challenge, teenagers kicking strangers’ doors for social media attention, and a group of young men who reportedly decided that the median of a busy roadway was the perfect location to film a haircut video. That goes about as well as you’d imagine when a nearby traffic accident sends a pickup truck directly toward their makeshift barbershop. This launches an important scientific debate: Is 20 years old old enough to know better, or is 20 actually the absolute peak of male stupidity? Moon and Rafe argue that a 20-year-old guy has basically been handed adult freedom while still operating with the brain of a teenager. Add matching tuxedos and a wedding party, and apparently you've created the dumbest animal currently roaming North America. Then there’s the content creator who allegedly threw a cheesesteak into the face of a longtime employee at Pat’s King of Steaks in Philadelphia before running away — all while filming the stunt. The crew debates influencers committing crimes for engagement, whether social platforms should bear any responsibility, Rafe’s own adventures getting content flagged and the mysterious social-media algorithm that apparently decides what is acceptable based on rules known only to robots and possibly Mark Zuckerberg. That leads perfectly into another modern existential crisis: Would you pay college tuition so your kid could major in becoming a social media influencer? Riz, Lern, Moon and Rafe debate whether influencer education is ridiculous or simply the newest version of marketing, advertising and content production. Considering radio itself probably sounded like a questionable career choice to somebody’s parents, maybe teaching students branding, analytics, video production and social strategy isn’t completely insane. Or maybe everyone is doomed. Both possibilities remain available. Speaking of doomed, the crew tackles a hypothetical straight from the Riz family dinner table: What would you do if you somehow knew with absolute certainty that the world was ending in three years? Do you tell your family? Quit your job? Drain the savings account? Move to Hawaii? Build a bunker? Start a cult? And more importantly, what happens when everybody else finds out and suddenly the pilots, sanitation workers and people keeping the electrical grid alive all decide they’d also rather spend humanity’s final years on a beach? Nothing says daily comedy quite like carefully planning the complete collapse of civilization before lunch. Eventually, humanity’s impending destruction gives way to something even more divisive: tacos. National Taco Day sparks an unexpectedly heated debate after Moon reveals that he likes tacos but doesn’t understand why everyone worships them. Soft shells are accused of being lazy burritos. Rafe discovers that hard taco shells are apparently supposed to be heated. Taco statistics are examined with a level of seriousness normally reserved for economic policy. Cilantro and black olives are identified as potential taco destroyers, and Marco Polo somehow becomes history’s first noodle trafficker. Then comes the lettuce. The show discusses a lawsuit from a Pennsylvania man who says he became seriously ill after multiple Taco Bell visits and was eventually diagnosed with cyclospora. According to the lawsuit discussed on the show, shredded lettuce was the common ingredient across his orders, and he’s seeking damages from the lettuce supplier for medical expenses, missed work, pain and suffering. So congratulations to lettuce for accomplishing the impossible: making everybody temporarily suspicious of the healthiest-looking ingredient in a cheesy gordita crunch. From Halloween decorations and hayrides from hell to Internet clout chasing, influencer college degrees, the end of civilization, taco supremacy and a lawsuit that may have you staring suspiciously at shredded lettuce for the foreseeable future, Episode 241 delivers exactly the kind of daily comedy you'd expect from The Rizzuto Show. Because other shows might spend Tuesday discussing responsible adult topics. We’re debating whether civilization survives the apocalypse and whether a soft taco is secretly just a burrito that gave up. Much better use of everyone’s time. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Turnstile fever is spreading through the studio, WWE superstar Joe Hendry stops by before Monday Night Raw, Tony Romo’s CBS career hits a wall, and somehow cauliflower gratin becomes an important discussion point. Welcome to another perfectly organized episode of The Rizzuto Show. The crew kicks things off recapping a packed St. Louis weekend, including Mizzou taking care of Florida, sports wagers actually paying off for once, Rafe Williams packing the Funny Bone, Moon playing a four-hour outdoor gig and Riz making the controversial decision to skip the cauliflower gratin before a night of comedy. Apparently gastrointestinal strategy is now part of the show’s culinary coverage. There’s also some serious Turnstile fever ahead of the band's St. Louis show, a trip down memory lane involving the bizarre old Noah’s Ark restaurant in St. Charles, Halloween costume talk and the realization that if everybody dresses like Waldo, nobody is Waldo. Philosophy professors, please update the textbooks. Then WWE superstar Joe Hendry joins the show ahead of Monday Night Raw at Enterprise Center. Joe talks about his journey from Scotland to WWE, the insane wrestling schedule, life at the WWE Performance Center and the physical punishment that comes with being a professional wrestler — including taking a knee to the face and then wandering around Argentina with two black eyes looking for his signature blue shirt. Joe also gets into the wild success of “I Believe in Joe Hendry,” watching the song explode through wrestling fandom and climb the charts, and his new album Beyond Belief. Moon and Joe bond over the bizarre intersection of wrestling, music and video games, including Moon's own experience with Story of the Year recording entrance music for Christian. We also learn Joe once accidentally inhaled rice while trying to impress WWE legend William Regal, which somehow did NOT prevent WWE from eventually hiring him. Dreams really do come true. From there, things get significantly messier. Tony Romo is reportedly out at CBS following his DUI case, sparking a debate over consequences, second chances and why someone with that much money wouldn't simply get a ride home. The conversation expands into the strange inconsistencies surrounding sports scandals and how leagues, networks and teams decide who gets another chance and who gets shown the door. That gets even more complicated when the crew discusses the Portland Trail Blazers broadcaster who reportedly lost his new job the same day he got it after offensive social media posts from when he was 15 resurfaced. The posts were stupid, but should somebody's dumbest teenage comments still define them at 29? The gang debates accountability, forgiveness, cancel culture and the terrifying reality that an entire generation has conveniently archived its adolescence online for future employers. Thankfully, we eventually leave complicated moral questions behind and tackle something far more important: absolutely butchering Led Zeppelin. In honor of Led Zeppelin III, the crew attempts “Immigrant Song” karaoke. Rafe gives it a shot. Moon gets involved. Lern joins the disaster. Riz participates. Robert Plant presumably senses something terrible happening hundreds of miles away and doesn't know why. Crap on Celebrities piles on even more chaos with Metallica heading to the Sphere, David Lee Roth talking about his unmistakable voice, a country version of “Jump,” and the reminder that Diamond Dave once legitimately worked as an EMT. Imagine opening your eyes in an ambulance and realizing David Lee Roth is helping save your life. At that point, just enjoy the ride. There's also Phil Collins and his long-running beef with Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift wedding-song talk, the Kardashian nanny situation inspiring Rafe to decide HE needs a nanny, and Ryan Seacrest showing up absolutely shredded — leading the crew into a conversation about his physique that lasts considerably longer than any responsible morning radio program should allow. Plus, the Rizz Show celebrity curse apparently strikes again, National Get Funky Day turns into a debate over what actually qualifies as funk, and the crew somehow makes it through another morning without Human Resources physically entering the studio. WWE stories, Turnstile fever, sports bets, Tony Romo fallout, teenage tweets, celebrity chaos, Led Zeppelin karaoke, Ryan Seacrest's abs and cauliflower-based gastrointestinal planning. Just another daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show, where every topic eventually becomes somebody else's problem. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tony Romo is reportedly out at CBS following his DUI case, and the crew has questions — mainly how someone with millions of dollars and access to literally every transportation option on Earth still ends up behind the wheel after drinking. We dig into the fallout, the money reportedly left on Romo’s massive contract and whether sports networks are even remotely consistent when deciding which scandals deserve a second chance. That leads directly into an even messier debate after a newly hired Portland Trail Blazers broadcaster reportedly loses his job the SAME DAY he gets it because offensive tweets from when he was 15 years old resurface. Were the posts stupid? Absolutely. Should somebody’s dumbest teenage tweets destroy their career at 29? The crew debates accountability, forgiveness, cancel culture and the extremely comforting realization that today's children are documenting every terrible thought for future employers to enjoy. Then, because this funny show occasionally needs to stop debating society and start actively damaging music, we celebrate the anniversary of Led Zeppelin III with some “Immigrant Song” karaoke. It goes poorly. Rafe tries. Moon tries. Lern tries. Riz gets involved. Robert Plant presumably experiences an unexplained disturbance in the universe. Somehow everybody discovers they can hit that famous opening note, although “hit” is doing some extremely generous work in that sentence. Crap on Celebrities brings even more chaos with Metallica at the Sphere, David Lee Roth discussing his unmistakable voice, a surprisingly solid country version of “Jump,” and the revelation that Diamond Dave once legitimately worked as an EMT. Imagine waking up in an ambulance and realizing David Lee Roth is helping save your life. At that point you're either perfectly safe or already in rock-and-roll heaven. We also get into Phil Collins’ health struggles and his decades-long beef with Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift reportedly requesting a very specific Beatles classic at her wedding, Kim Kardashian's army of nannies and Rafe deciding that he also wants a nanny — not for children. Just for himself. Warm bath, fresh towels, bedtime story. He's apparently an 80-year-old British aristocrat now. Plus, Ryan Seacrest is absolutely SHREDDED, the crew gets distracted by his nipples for an unreasonable amount of time, movie talk goes off the rails, the Rizz Show celebrity curse claims another unfortunate victim, and National Get Funky Day sparks an argument over the greatest funk songs ever recorded. Tony Romo. Cancel culture. Led Zeppelin crimes. David Lee Roth saving lives. Ryan Seacrest's abs. Rafe demanding a nanny. Another funny show where we started with serious sports media news and somehow ended up debating whether “Low Rider” counts as funk. And yes, this funny show remains technically employable. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Say his name and he appears. WWE superstar Joe Hendry joins The Rizzuto Show ahead of Monday Night Raw at the Enterprise Center, and somehow we go from professional wrestling and chart-topping music to inhaling rice in front of William Regal, Loch Ness Monster portals and whether Joe can get Rafe a tag-team title opportunity. Joe takes us inside his wild rise from wrestling fan in Scotland to one of WWE’s hottest stars, including how “I Believe in Joe Hendry” was recorded in his friend’s bedroom before exploding online and climbing the charts. He even recalls asking Taylor Swift to kindly take a week off — and then actually leapfrogging her on the UK chart. Totally normal career trajectory. That leads to Moon casually revealing that Goldfinger recorded Christian’s WWE entrance music, sending Joe into full wrestling-fan mode and sparking a conversation about the insane loyalty of WWE fans. Apparently wrestling and video games have been secretly running the music industry this entire time. Joe also breaks down his new album Beyond Belief, including writing 10 tracks in less than four days and somehow turning tables, ladders, chairs and an Elimination Chamber into relationship metaphors. Nothing says romance like comparing your emotional baggage to getting launched through furniture. Then we get to the part where professional wrestling sounds significantly less fun. Joe tells us about taking a knee directly to the face during a match, immediately assuming his nose and orbital bones were broken, finishing the match anyway and then wandering around Argentina with two black eyes trying to find his signature blue shirt. He also explains what Bron Breakker’s freakish strength feels like — apparently getting suplexed by him is less “wrestling move” and more “surprise teleportation.” We hear about Joe suplexing nearly 500 pounds worth of human beings, breaking up a brawl at a friend’s wedding moments before police burst through the doors, his amateur wrestling background and why random people trying to test themselves against professional fighters is generally a terrible life choice. Plus, Joe explains why seeing WWE live can turn even non-wrestling fans into believers, gives his ruling on whether the Loch Ness Monster exists, and discovers that wearing white pants on morning radio becomes especially dangerous when coffee is involved. It’s wrestling, music, ridiculous injuries, St. Louis, Randy Orton’s suspicious cake consumption and another comedy podcast interview that somehow ends with us discussing interdimensional Scottish lake monsters. Believe in Joe Hendry. And believe that this comedy podcast had absolutely no chance of staying on topic. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Turnstile fever has officially hit The Rizzuto Show, and we’re kicking off the week with concert anticipation, football Pick ’Em anxiety, questionable sports wagers and an argument about cauliflower gratin that receives significantly more attention than most international affairs. Riz is heading into Turnstile completely blind while Lern is already fully infected with Turnstile Fever after watching their SNL performance. Unfortunately, there are more pressing matters: the show’s Pick ’Em standings are getting dangerously tight. Lern admits AI helped make her picks, Moon has his predictions locked in, Rafe is cracking open a Keystone Ice, and Riz is enjoying the rare luxury of knowing he’s safe. This is daily comedy operating exactly as intended: sports expertise from people who absolutely should not be managing your retirement portfolio. Riz also had himself a pretty successful weekend after betting on Mizzou against Florida and using the winnings to help fund a night out. That included dinner before Rafe’s comedy show, where we somehow end up discussing the gastrointestinal consequences of cauliflower gratin. Moon believes Riz skipped one of the greatest bites available. Riz believes he successfully avoided turning a comedy club into a biological incident. Everybody wins. Rafe recaps a huge weekend of stand-up in St. Charles, complete with packed shows, surprise comics, extremely generous listeners and enough Entenmann’s to establish a small regional distribution center. The generosity also leads to an important Rizz Show public service announcement: homemade food from strangers is a complicated proposition. We love you. We appreciate you. We also have absolutely no idea what your kitchen looks like. Meanwhile, Lern had herself an aggressively rock-and-roll weekend. After witnessing a longtime radio friend take one of his first tequila shots, she headed to the Family Arena for Quiet Riot, Great White and Sebastian Bach. There were sound problems, glorious hair, a 23-year-old Quiet Riot singer, plenty of Skid Row classics and Sebastian Bach angrily teaching an audience the proper etiquette of returning a Frisbee. Apparently it was NOT Free Frisbee Night. Lern bought one anyway. Then Riz encounters a gang of middle schoolers casually throwing around F-bombs outside the grocery store and realizes he has crossed an important threshold in life: he briefly considers whether he should tell the youths to watch their language. He doesn't, largely because teenagers are terrifying. The conversation turns into whether kids still fear random adults, whether parents have gone soft and why everybody now thinks twice before doing anything remotely embarrassing in public. Because somebody is always holding a phone. The crew digs into the weird modern fear of going viral, where normal people are increasingly hesitant to dance, joke around, show emotion or intervene in awkward situations because one bad angle could turn them into Internet Main Character of the Day. Meanwhile, the people who probably SHOULD fear being recorded appear completely immune to shame. Great system we've built here. And somehow this daily comedy takes a surprisingly thoughtful turn when the crew talks about those random objects that suddenly remind you how much life has passed. A viral video about a man getting emotional over an old spool of wire leads Moon to share finding a note his dad wrote in 1983 along with family World War II ration books. For approximately four minutes, this becomes a respectable program with genuine human emotions. Don't worry. We recover. There’s also Halloween costume fatigue, the eternal problem of having too many Waldos at one party, St. Louis nostalgia, the remains of the old Noah’s Ark restaurant, Rafe receiving homemade meat logs, Riz contributing jokes from the front row of a comedy show and enough side quests to make you forget where this episode started. Turnstile fever. Sebastian Bach. Sports gambling. Cauliflower gas. Cursing children. Existential nostalgia. Just another completely reasonable installment of daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It’s a big day for The Rizzuto Show as we discover that Michael McDonald has a 58-year-old biological son in St. Louis, debate which hobbies we’re officially too old to attempt, and finally send Riz face-first into the Glory Hole Challenge. First, the crew digs into the incredible story of Michael McDonald reconnecting with the son he and his girlfriend placed for adoption when they were teenagers. A DNA test eventually helped bring the family together decades later, giving Michael McDonald a son, grandkids and one of the wildest “so, what does your dad do?” stories imaginable. Then we confront the cruel realities of aging. Is it too late to learn how to skateboard? What about skiing, water skiing or guitar? Rafe recalls attempting to drop into a half-pipe and immediately discovering why grown adults have health insurance, while Lern reveals her harmonica era and the crew debates whether bringing your own instrument to someone else’s concert should get you escorted from the premises. We also investigate supposedly “normal” behaviors that might actually make you a psychopath — including eating pizza crust first, setting 20 alarms, looking up movie endings and, most importantly, biting directly into a block of cheese. Rafe admits he’ll take a bite and then carefully remove the evidence, which somehow turns him from a cheese criminal into a cheese sculptor. But all roads lead to the Glory Hole. Riz gets blindfolded, Rammstein gets cranked up, and the crew starts feeding mystery objects through the hole for him to identify using only his face, nose and mouth. A signed Fender guitar becomes lipstick. A fake flower becomes Astroturf. Aloe vera gets BITTEN. And then Rafe unveils the grand finale: mushrooms — the food Riz absolutely hates. Naturally, Riz bites those too. Twice. Throw in breakfast hashes, celebrity chaos, questionable workplace decisions and Riz discovering that even his own wife was willing to help orchestrate the mushroom attack, and you’ve got another perfectly normal episode of The Rizzuto Show. Come for the heartwarming Michael McDonald story. Stay for a grown man unknowingly chewing mushrooms through a hole in a wall. We contain multitudes. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The wheel has spoken, the Glory Hole has returned, and unfortunately for Riz, there’s no backing out now. It’s time for the Glory Hole Challenge, where Riz gets blindfolded, blasted with Rammstein through his headphones and forced to identify four mystery objects using nothing but his face, mouth, nose and increasingly questionable decision-making skills. Welcome to another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where HR stopped returning our calls years ago. First through the hole: the headstock of a Fender Stratocaster signed by Staind. Seems obvious when you can actually SEE it. When you can’t, apparently guitar tuners feel a lot like somebody aggressively rubbing a marker across your face. Riz guesses lipstick, a marker and finally “some kind of roller.” All incorrect. Guitar: 1. Riz: 0. Next up is a fake flower that immediately gets shoved into his nose and mouth. Riz knows it’s plastic. He knows it’s weird. He thinks it could be fake turf, a scrub brush or something sporting-related. Somehow “fake flower” never enters the conversation. Then comes a freshly cut piece of aloe vera. It’s wet. It’s slimy. It smells weird. Naturally, Riz BITES IT. After wondering whether someone shoved a paintbrush or sex toy through the hole, he finally figures out that he’s dealing with a real plant. And then Rafe chooses violence. For the final round, he brings out king oyster and chestnut mushrooms — knowing full well that Riz absolutely HATES mushrooms. Even better, Rafe checked with Riz’s wife beforehand, and she happily joined the conspiracy. Riz gets the mushrooms rubbed across his face. He thinks they might be a washcloth. Then maybe a sex toy. Then he starts biting them. Not once. TWICE. The moment he realizes what he’s been chewing leads to gagging, near-cursing and enough disgust to make everybody else start gagging too. Meanwhile, Rammstein continues blasting away in the background like the official soundtrack to workplace betrayal. It’s another funny podcast featuring a signed guitar to the face, fake foliage up the nose, aloe vera in the mouth and the horrifying discovery that your wife will absolutely help your coworkers weaponize your least-favorite food against you. Four mystery objects entered the Glory Hole. Riz’s dignity did not survive. And somehow, against all available evidence, this remains a professional radio program. Just another perfectly normal funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What happens when you spend 58 years wondering about your biological parents, only to discover your dad is five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald? You get one incredible family story — and then The Rizzuto Show immediately starts wondering whether Dad owes you a check and a chance to go on tour with the Doobie Brothers. This episode starts with the crew absolutely destroying breakfast from Pioneer Cafe in Kirkwood, including Nashville hot chicken hash, the Stellar Hog hash and enough onions to make Rafe question whether the universe personally hates him. And yes, somehow breakfast gets a full culinary breakdown because apparently this comedy podcast is now Diners, Drive-Ins and Dumbasses. Then comes the genuinely wild story of St. Louisan Michael Gessling, who was adopted as a baby after his biological parents conceived him when they were just 14 years old. Decades later, a 23andMe connection helped unravel the mystery of his biological family — including the small detail that his dad is Michael freaking McDonald. Yes. THAT Michael McDonald. The crew digs into the emotional reunion, Michael McDonald becoming an unexpected grandfather, whether his newly discovered son should immediately become an honorary Doobie, and the beautiful vindication this provides for every kid who ever told classmates, “My dad is actually famous.” Somewhere, the kid who claimed his dad invented Nintendo is feeling VERY confident today. Then Lern delivers Crap on Celebrities, and things remain perfectly normal for approximately zero seconds. There’s Diddy prison drama, Rick Ross legal news, a Kid Rock project involving Eminem, concert announcements, Eddie Murphy heading toward scripted television, tiny residual checks from beloved '90s TV shows, Grand Theft Auto 6 earning the most predictable mature rating in human history, and Sylvester Stallone looking back at how Rambo went from emotionally damaged Vietnam veteran to extremely muscular explosion delivery system. The crew also debates Bradley Cooper as Duke in the upcoming G.I. Joe world, learns that Duke is apparently a St. Louis native — because this city will claim literally anybody it can — and examines John Cusack’s new look with the sensitivity and restraint you've come to expect from us. Which is none. There’s also plenty of Halloween movie talk before Porno Birthday somehow delivers the phrase “Gangsta Glory Holes 2,” providing an accidental transition so perfect that no professional writer could responsibly create it. Because waiting on the other side of the break is the Glory Hole Challenge. Riz gets blindfolded. Mystery objects are going through the hole. His face is apparently the designated scientific instrument. Listeners have prizes riding on whether he can identify what’s being shoved toward him, and Rafe offers perhaps the least comforting reassurance possible: yes, it’s going to be bad. It’s another comedy podcast packed with weird family revelations, celebrity news, St. Louis nonsense, breakfast envy and questionable workplace decisions. In other words, another completely normal day with The Rizzuto Show. Come for Michael McDonald’s surprise son. Stay because you need to know what they’re putting through that hole. That’s comedy podcast excellence, unfortunately. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Rizzuto Show is preparing for the Glory Hole Challenge, which is already a sentence nobody involved should be particularly proud of. Before Riz sticks his face anywhere questionable, the crew tackles another important milestone of getting older: figuring out which hobbies are officially too dangerous to start now. Skateboarding? Probably. Skiing? Maybe. Water skiing? Enjoy your new meniscus. Playing guitar? Absolutely. Learning the tuba? Sure, assuming everyone else in your house has wronged you somehow. Rafe remembers the time he tried dropping into a half-pipe for a commercial despite having absolutely no business doing so, while Moon offers to teach everyone how to ski before somebody reaches “child death velocity” on the bunny slope. It’s the kind of responsible recreational advice you can only get from a funny podcast where one member once got mocked by a child on a scooter. Then the show launches into a full investigation of “normal” behavior. Eating pizza crust first? Jail. Ice cubes in milk? Disturbing. Rewatching the same TV show for the 45th time? Completely acceptable. Eating cereal dry? Depends how comfortable you are looking like a raccoon that found an open pantry. Setting approximately 20 alarms every morning? Rafe would like a word. Looking up a movie’s ending while you’re still watching it? Lern has her reasons, especially if there’s an animal involved. We also learn that some people sit in their cars after arriving home just to enjoy a few precious minutes of solitude, Scott would apparently like to eventually become Amish rather than answer his phone, and grocery shopping without a list is basically allowing the spirits of Schnucks to determine your dinner. And then comes the cheese. Is it acceptable to unwrap a block of cheese and bite directly into it? Lern says yes. Rafe admits he’ll sneak a bite but then cut away the evidence like a dairy-based criminal mastermind. Moon understands the temptation. Riz is understandably concerned about everybody. What begins as a simple question somehow turns into an argument about cheese cubes, rectangles, parallelograms, Rubik’s Cubes and Michelangelo — until Rafe declares himself a “cheese sculptor” whose teeth are merely the tools of his art. Throw in concert harmonica etiquette, peanut butter burgers, phone habits, restaurant-menu preparation, celebrity chatter and the approaching Glory Hole Challenge, and you have another funny podcast proving that no topic is too insignificant to become a completely unnecessary 20-minute argument. It’s The Rizzuto Show: where growing older may bring wisdom, but apparently none of it is being used here. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We kick things off with news that Kitchen Nightmares is filming in Missouri, which has Rizz remembering the horrifying moment he realized he’d eaten at a restaurant featured on Gordon Ramsay’s show. Then it’s time for the Riz Quiz, where callers discover that common knowledge becomes significantly less common when there’s a 45-second clock ticking. We get Paris panic, a dried plum becoming a raisin, Canada’s capital becoming Ontario and, eventually, Lern estimating the Space Needle at an extremely reasonable 12,549 feet tall. Actual answer: 605 feet. She was only off by approximately an entire mountain. Meanwhile, a former police lieutenant is accused of clocking in and spending huge chunks of his shifts sitting in the station break room — including stretches of nine hours. Sure, there may have been crime elsewhere, but the crew points out one undeniable statistic: zero murders in that break room. We also rank some of rock’s supposedly smelliest fan bases, with Phish, Grateful Dead and Insane Clown Posse fans leading a fragrant list that also drags Tool, Slipknot, Korn, Primus, Limp Bizkit and plenty more into the stink. Then Riz remembers what awaits him on Friday: the Glory Hole Challenge. No sight, no sound, just smell, taste and “face feel.” What could possibly go wrong? Rafe’s birthday leftovers also continue when an Edible Arrangement turns dangerous and he accidentally bites into part of a candle because he was told everything was edible. From there, we tackle Halloween’s annual neighborhood civil war: is it acceptable to take your kids trick-or-treating somewhere you don’t live? The answer from the show is basically yes — especially if the rich neighborhood is hoarding the king-size Reese’s behind the gates. Plus, coffee shop squatters, phone-free restaurants, TSA agents losing their chairs, an incredible eight-story fall survival story and enough completely unnecessary arguments to remind everyone why this show should never be trusted with serious decisions. Birthdays, break-room bandits, Glory Hole anxiety, Gordon Ramsay, smelly concert crowds and a 12,000-foot Space Needle — just another perfectly normal episode of The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Restaurants lock up customers' phones as devices become the 'new cigarettes'Rolling Stone releases top 50 bands with the smelliest fansFlorida judge rips into mom accused of leaving 4 children at home to go on 3-day cruiseSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Gordon Ramsay is bringing Kitchen Nightmares to Missouri, which immediately has Riz reminiscing about the horrifying realization that he once ate at a restaurant featured on the show. Nothing improves a cherished dining memory quite like watching Gordon Ramsay walk through the kitchen afterward and scream about what was living in the refrigerator. Welcome to another funny show from The Rizzuto Show, where we discuss whether Gordon’s legendary rage is mostly an act, why “Gordo” is an underrated nickname and then move directly into the intellectual gauntlet known as the Riz Quiz. The rules are simple: 45 seconds of basic trivia, no skips and one wrong answer ends your run. Sounds easy until someone asks you the capital of France and suddenly Paris becomes forbidden knowledge. The callers battle through questions about guacamole, spiders, Pinocchio, sports, traffic lights and geography for concert tickets. We get some legitimately impressive runs — and then poor Bill steps up looking for redemption and immediately says a dried plum is a raisin. Bill, buddy. We love you. It’s a prune. Then the crew decides to play along with a tiebreaker question: How tall is the Space Needle? King Scott guesses 465 feet. Moon guesses 615. Rafe goes with 820. And Lern? 12,549 feet. For perspective, the actual answer given on the show is 605 feet. Lern has apparently constructed a Space Needle so massive that visitors need oxygen and possibly clearance from air traffic control. She admits she’s “measurement blind,” which quickly becomes one of the great understatements in funny show history. That leads us into a completely reasonable discussion about whether anyone on the show could accurately estimate the height of the studio window, followed by the more concerning question of how everyone would escape if they couldn’t use the door. Chairs are considered. The soundproof glass is analyzed. Rafe volunteers to Kool-Aid Man himself through the window because apparently being the show hero now includes testing your body against commercial-grade glass. And somehow that brings us to the incredible story of a University of Georgia student who survived an eight-story fall from an apartment window after dancing on a couch. She reportedly landed on a cushioned metal bench and survived with serious injuries, which has the crew marveling at an unbelievably lucky landing — and wondering who decided furniture belonged directly next to floor-to-ceiling windows in the first place. So we’ve got Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares, trivia meltdowns, Paris confusion, raisins pretending to be prunes, a skyscraper-sized Space Needle and Rafe preparing to launch himself through the studio glass. Just another educational funny show from The Rizzuto Show. We’re all learning together. Unfortunately. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How long could you sit in your workplace break room doing absolutely nothing before somebody noticed? An hour? Maybe two? Well, one former police lieutenant apparently decided to push that experiment all the way to NINE HOURS, and naturally The Rizzuto Show has nothing but questions, admiration and several concerns about the safety of the station coffee. Welcome to another comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where we begin with the story of a veteran Burlington police lieutenant accused of spending massive chunks of his shifts sitting in the break room instead of, you know… police-ing. Sometimes it was nine hours. Sometimes he mixed things up and only spent six hours in there before doing three hours of actual work. But while crime may have existed outside those walls, the crew makes one very important observation: crime in that break room was ZERO. Protect and serve, baby. Unfortunately, our break-room hero’s story gets considerably less heroic when we learn about an alleged confrontation with the officer who reported him and more than $50,000 in overpayments that he apparently never bothered mentioning. Suddenly the safest coffee station in Vermont has become a very expensive place to sit. Then we move from people who stink at working to people who apparently just… stink. The crew dives into a list ranking rock bands with the worst-smelling fan bases, and it immediately becomes one of those conversations where everybody you’ve ever seen at a concert is about to catch a stray. Phish takes the top spot, followed by the Grateful Dead and Insane Clown Posse, while GWAR, Primus, Tool, Slipknot, Korn, Pantera, Limp Bizkit, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Rob Zombie, Deftones and plenty more get dragged into the fragrant festivities. Basically, if you’ve ever attended a rock festival in August and thought, “What IS that smell?” congratulations — apparently science has finally arrived. This comedy podcast also asks the opposite question: which band has the BEST-smelling fans? Coldplay? The Killers? Santana? Jimmy Buffett? We learn that determining a fan base’s aroma involves an alarming amount of discussion about patchouli, weed, mothballs, tequila, feet and minivans. From there, Crap on Celebrities delivers another pile of entertainment chaos. Eddie Vedder surprises fans during a performance of “Hunger Strike,” Alice Cooper discusses his past addiction struggles, Nicolas Cage explains why modern superhero movies have become a little too much like professional wrestling, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is putting on the Santa suit for a new Christmas movie. There’s also a debate over what Rizz should watch while he has the house to himself. Mortal Kombat? Barbarian? Normal? Apparently being alone for one evening requires the same level of strategic planning normally reserved for military operations. Plus, we get into Robert Downey Jr.’s painful Iron Man stunt injury, the return of 24 Jump Street, Hugh Jackman heading to Treasure Island, and predictions for the Halloween costumes everybody will be wearing this year. And because October is officially here, the crew lays out the Rizz Show October fundraiser supporting Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. The Halloweirdo stickers are back, the Rizz Show billboard is hitting the road, Hats of the Week are returning, and Greek Fire is getting involved to help raise money for the kids. So today we’ve got break-room bandits, smelly Phish fans, Nicolas Cage superhero complaints, questionable Halloween costumes, Rizz’s movie-night dilemma and an extremely important reminder that if you’re attending a concert anytime soon, maybe hit the deodorant one extra time. Another perfectly normal comedy podcast from Rizz and the gang. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It’s Thursday, which means we’re almost at Friday — except Riz has suddenly remembered that Friday means sticking his face into the Glory Hole Challenge with no sight, no sound, and absolutely no guarantee that whatever touches his face belongs anywhere near a human mouth. So naturally, everyone is extremely supportive by immediately making the situation worse. Welcome to another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where Rafe is still celebrating his birthday and discovers that Edible Arrangements has apparently undergone a full rebrand since the days when somebody would send you twelve pounds of cantaloupe on sticks. Ella Langley sent Rafe an upgraded birthday arrangement loaded with mini cheesecakes, chocolate-covered fruit, brownies and enough deceptive desserts to make him forget the word “edible” does not necessarily mean “eat literally everything.” Which is how Rafe ate part of a birthday candle. In his defense, there were edible decorations everywhere. In everyone else’s defense, it was very clearly still a candle. The conversation then moves into October’s most important annual class war: trick-or-treating etiquette. Is it acceptable to take your kids into another neighborhood for Halloween? What if your neighborhood barely participates? What if the other neighborhood is loaded with rich people handing out king-size candy bars? And if you live behind the gates of a fancy community, do you have a moral obligation to open those gates and let the candy-starved masses inside? Apparently some homeowners think Halloween candy is a finite natural resource that must be protected from outsiders. We respectfully disagree. Open the gates. Release the Reese’s. Then we tackle another modern etiquette nightmare: people who buy one coffee, open a laptop and quietly annex a Starbucks table for the next seven hours. How long does one latte actually entitle you to free Wi-Fi and office space? Ninety minutes? Three hours? Until somebody physically removes your charger? The crew debates coffee shop squatters, Zoom calls in public and why basic self-awareness could solve approximately 94% of society’s problems. Speaking of phones, restaurants are experimenting with phone-free dining, leading to the obvious question: if a host asked you “phones or no phones?” like it was the old smoking section, which side are you choosing? Lern is willing to go phone-free. Moon mostly wants everybody to stop telling him how to eat dinner. Rafe would apparently prefer to eat alone over a sink in the kitchen while making prolonged eye contact with strangers. Perfectly normal funny podcast behavior. Meanwhile, the TSA has finally identified the problem plaguing American air travel: chairs. Agents checking IDs are being asked to stand, which naturally inspires the crew to wonder whether Riz should also lose his chair in the name of looking more alert and professional. Somehow this detours into Hawk Tuah Girl updates, because this show has never met a conversational exit ramp it couldn't miss. We also preview some October entertainment, including the gloriously ridiculous-looking Street Fighter movie, where Jason Momoa, Cody Rhodes, Eric André and a pile of wrestlers, rappers and actors appear ready to punch the remaining dignity out of cinema. Moon is completely sold, mostly because it appears designed specifically for the 13-year-old portion of his brain that refuses to die. So yes: Glory Hole anxiety, birthday candle consumption, Halloween candy economics, coffee shop squatters, phone-free restaurants, standing TSA agents, Hawk Tuah updates and Street Fighter. Just another funny podcast where we started with Friday plans and somehow ended up reorganizing society. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Another week, another packed slate of football on The Spread Zone. Anthony Stalter is catching fire and coming off a 6-1 week, Tim McKernon continues to dominate the board on college football Saturday's, but Rizz is still trying to find his footing on the new season as his struggles continue. On the college sides, they break down some great values in the weekend's marque matchups. First homecoming week in Columbia as the Missouri Tigers take on the red hot Florida Gators. Then up to Iowa City as the Hawkeyes play host to the Ohio State Buckeyes and Heisman frontrunner Jeremiah Smith. Will Indiana's offense get back to their national championship form against Rutgers? Plus, how to play the first leg of the Commander-In-Chief trophy as Air Force and Navy prepare for battle. Onto the NFL, the guys try to rebound after a wild week of upsets and bad bounces. First, the battle for Texas as the surpiusely terrible Texans take on the Cowboys. Is it Houston's week to bounce back? Should we expect a shootout in the Bay Area? Will Drake Maye revive his season against Josh Allen and the Bills? It’s all on a new episode of The Spread Zone. LEGAL DISCLAIMER We provide information about sports betting for entertainment purposes only. Please confirm gambling regulations in your state of residence. To participate in sports gaming, you must be 21 years of age or older and be physically present in a state where sports betting is legal. If you or someone you know has a sports betting or gambling problem, please call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org for more information and further assistance. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It’s Rafe’s birthday, so naturally we celebrate the only way The Rizzuto Show knows how: questionable food choices, terrible opinions and conversations that have absolutely nothing to do with birthdays. The festivities start with Rafe crushing deviled eggs while Blues broadcaster Chris Kerber joins us to talk about his impressive 40-pound weight loss and the lifestyle changes that got him there. Unfortunately, any motivation to eat healthier is immediately destroyed by a rundown of the new food at Blues games, including German nachos, walking tacos, beer cheese and a toasted ravioli burger. Riz also gets humbled by a fellow morning radio personality who has absolutely no idea who he is, and Rafe’s birthday feast escalates to vanilla mousse cake and bacon candles. Then we make the mistake of blindly ranking ten legendary rock bands. Metallica becomes the baseline, Queen grabs the top spot, and a series of increasingly bad decisions somehow leaves The Beatles at #10 behind KISS. We attempt to defend this musical felony before diving into the backlash surrounding a George Michael tribute. Rafe’s birthday celebration also delivers a new grill and the kind of homeowner haul that says, “Congratulations, you’re officially middle-aged.” But the birthday boy isn’t done yet. We investigate what was happening in 1978 when Rafe entered the world, revisit forgotten sodas like Ski, Like Cola and Jolt, and discover the northern snakehead — an invasive fish that can breathe air and survive outside the water, because regular fish apparently weren’t stressful enough. Plus, we debate who gets the ticket when a self-driving Tesla speeds, react to a horrifying wrong-leg surgery story, discover men needed Pilates renamed “Bro-lates” before they’d consider doing it, and investigate one of the great mysteries of modern frozen cuisine: what happened to the Hot Pocket crisping sleeve? Deviled eggs, birthday presents, rock-band blasphemy, killer fish, Tesla excuses and missing Hot Pocket technology. Happy birthday, Rafe. We really shouldn’t have planned the party. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 'Sever its head': Missouri urges anglers to decapitate predatory, invasive fish on sight"I wasn't driving," police remind Colorado drivers they are responsible for self-driving vehiclesOhio cancer patient sues hospital after surgeon allegedly amputated wrong legGuys are joining men-only Pilates classes — but those thinking it’s an easy workout ‘get humbled really quickly’Hot Pockets Got Rid of Their Crisping Sleeve Years Ago — and People Are Just NoticingDrilling begins at ‘Noah’s Ark’ site as researchers probe Turkey’s controversial Durupinar formationThe 10 States With the Worst Weather in America, RankedSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rafe’s birthday celebration continues, and the man has already eaten six or seven deviled eggs in the studio. So naturally, this episode about health and weight loss is off to a tremendous start. Blues broadcaster Chris Kerber joins the show to wish Rafe a happy birthday — and generously guesses that he’s 38 instead of 48 — before Riz notices something considerably different about Kerbs: he’s down about 40 pounds. Kerber explains how concerns over his A1C pushed him to change his eating habits rather than immediately go the medication route. He talks about eating better, managing portions, cutting down on late-night meals and adding simple habits like walking after eating. Riz is also down ten pounds, which is fantastic news until everyone starts talking about the spread at the Blues Media Open House. And THAT is where this daily comedy becomes a test of human willpower. Fried green tomato sandwiches. Burgers. Chicken. Bratwurst. German nachos. Beer cheese on potato chips. Chocolate popcorn. Walking tacos served in Doritos bags. And, because St. Louis apparently looked at cardiovascular health and said “not today,” a toasted ravioli burger. Riz somehow avoids eating everything in sight and describes the experience as Temptation Island. Frankly, that man deserves a medal. Kerber also previews the upcoming Blues season, talks about the young roster, the team’s tough opening stretch and Logan Mailloux injuring his hand while throwing punches during a preseason game. Plus, Riz Show Night is coming back with a sweet satin jacket, although apparently some fantasy-book promotion is threatening our position atop the Blues theme-night food chain. We will not be dethroned without a completely unnecessary fight. Then the birthday food keeps coming. Brian from Le Bon Boucher arrives with coffee and a vanilla mousse cake for Rafe — immediately earning Rafe the nickname “Vanilla Moose” — along with bacon that becomes his birthday candle. Because regular candles apparently aren’t enough when you've already eaten seven deviled eggs. Weight loss, hockey, birthday bacon, arena food and enough deviled eggs to make everyone in the studio nervous about the ventilation system. Just another completely responsible dose of daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show. And yes, Rafe keeps eating. That’s commitment to daily comedy. Or gastrointestinal warfare. Could go either way. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nothing says “credible music journalism” quite like blindly ranking ten legendary rock bands without knowing which one is coming next. Welcome to another comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where Queen gets the throne, Metallica becomes the baseline for civilization, and somehow The Beatles end up staring directly at KISS’s backside. We kick things off with a blind ranking of some of the biggest rock bands ever: Metallica, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Nirvana, Guns N’ Roses, Pink Floyd, Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and KISS. The rules are simple: once you place a band, you’re stuck with it. Naturally, this creates an absolutely flawless list that no music fan could possibly have an issue with. Just kidding. It’s a disaster. Metallica lands at number five and becomes the dividing line for the entire exercise. The Rolling Stones climb toward the top, AC/DC gets placed too low and immediately causes regret, Queen claims number one, and then The Beatles arrive after almost all the good spots have disappeared. The result? The Beatles finish DEAD LAST behind KISS. Music historians, please direct your complaints somewhere else. We have enough going on. That leads to a bigger Beatles debate as Rafe argues that the band deserves enormous credit for what they changed, but that doesn’t mean everybody has to automatically put them at number one. Moon attempts to defend civilization. Lern reveals she does not suffer from “Beatle boner mania.” Somehow Michael McDonald becomes the secret fifth Beatle. This is why nobody lets us curate the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Speaking of legendary musicians, the crew gets into the backlash surrounding a George Michael tribute featuring performers including Teddy Swims and Sombr. Some viewers were furious with the choices, while the show tries to determine what exactly would have made everybody happy. Adam Lambert gets some love, Andrew Ridgeley’s name is miraculously remembered, and Riz discovers his biggest problem with Sombr may simply be that somebody stole the “E” from his name. Then Rafe’s birthday completely takes over the studio. The crew surprises him with a brand-new grill for his new house, which immediately raises the question of whether they can fire it up inside the studio. For legal reasons and continued access to oxygen, the answer appears to be no. But the grill is only the beginning. Rafe gets a personal birthday message from Rick of Rick’s Ace Hardware — whom Rafe immediately embraces as his new father — along with an Ace bucket loaded with homeowner supplies. It turns out Rafe’s previous love for the store traveled up the Ace Hardware corporate ladder and was even shared at a company convention. That’s right: Rafe somehow became an Ace Hardware influencer without even trying. Take that, every 22-year-old making sponsored TikToks. There are also homemade deviled eggs, handmade coasters featuring Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and even Rafe’s own dog, plus the discovery that Rafe shares a birthday with Monica Bellucci. At this point the man has a grill, deviled eggs, a bucket and Monica Bellucci spiritually connected to him through a calendar. There’s nowhere left to go. And because this comedy podcast refuses to stay in one lane, Crap on Celebrities brings even more chaos: Slipknot and Marilyn Manson tour backlash, a Linkin Park documentary, Taylor Swift’s former Beverly Hills home hitting the market, Diddy prison reports, Raven-Symoné revealing an extremely specific period routine, a Rick Wakeman concert for rescued bears, a heavy Matthew Perry documentary, and wildly divided reactions to a new Tom Cruise movie. There’s rock history, birthday surprises, celebrity news, angry music fans and enough hardware-store enthusiasm to make a suburban dad shed a single tear into his freshly cut lawn. Happy birthday, Rafe. Here’s a grill. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It’s Rafe’s birthday, which means the responsible thing to do is celebrate his life by immediately spiraling into invasive fish, medical nightmares, self-driving cars and frozen-food conspiracies. Welcome to another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where staying on topic remains more of a suggestion than an actual policy. We start by celebrating the birthday boy and figuring out what was happening in the world when Rafe arrived in 1978. Apparently being born on a certain day of the week says something about your personality, which gives Lern the opportunity to bring astrology into the workplace while everyone else discovers exactly how many days they’ve been alive. Nothing makes a birthday more festive than confronting the relentless passage of time. Then the crew gets nostalgic over regional soda, including Ski, Like Cola, Jolt and the beverages that somehow survived our childhoods despite looking like they were designed in a laboratory behind a gas station. Ski is expanding farther south, which leads to the important debate: is it actually better than Mountain Dew, or does regional loyalty make everything taste 40% better? Things get considerably more terrifying when Missouri wildlife officials warn anglers about the northern snakehead, an invasive predator that can breathe atmospheric air and survive outside the water. If you catch one, officials want it killed and reported — because apparently we’ve reached the stage of civilization where the fish can leave the lake. Cool. Great. No concerns there. Then we enter the brave new world of autonomous driving after watching a driver argue with police that his Tesla was technically the one speeding. Unfortunately for him, “the car did it” does not appear to be the legal defense of the century. The crew debates who should actually be responsible when a self-driving vehicle breaks the rules, why everyone suddenly wants to speak to a supervisor, and how close we are to the only autonomous-car feature anybody really wants: getting in, falling asleep and waking up at the destination. Our funny podcast then takes a horrifying turn with a medical malpractice story involving a woman who reportedly went into surgery to have her cancerous right leg amputated — only for the surgical team to remove the healthy left leg instead. Because the cancer still had to be addressed, she ultimately lost both. The crew tries to comprehend how an error that catastrophic could happen despite surgical safety checks and then tackles the impossible question: how much money could possibly compensate someone for a mistake that changes the rest of their life? On a considerably lighter note, men apparently needed Pilates rebranded before we could participate, so welcome to the age of “Bro-lates.” Rafe wants in, Riz questions whether guys should invade the Pilates studio, and Lern explains exactly what happens on a Reformer until every man listening quietly decides maybe stretching at home is fine. We also rank states by natural-disaster misery before arriving at one of the greatest mysteries facing modern America: what happened to the Hot Pocket crisping sleeve? A viral video claims inflation has gotten so bad that Hot Pockets “don’t even come with the pocket anymore.” There’s just one problem: the pocket is the food. The missing piece is the old microwave crisping sleeve, which was apparently retired years ago while basically nobody noticed. This launches a full investigation into the magical cardboard contraption that somehow made molten pizza lava crispy while leaving the center approximately the temperature of an Antarctic research station. Birthday history, dangerous fish, Tesla courtroom strategies, catastrophic human error, Bro-lates and missing microwave technology — Episode 182 is exactly the kind of daily chaos you expect from The Rizzuto Show. It’s a funny podcast. Nobody promised it would make you smarter. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Just when you think humanity might be turning things around, somebody takes their pants off on an airplane and an Amazon delivery driver allegedly pees on a customer’s shoes. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show. We kick things off with some old-school nostalgia as Otis Nixon baseball cards and Garbage Pail Kids emerge from the junk drawer, which naturally turns into prank ideas, teenage house parties and stories about the first time the crew encountered the cops. Then we head to the friendly skies, where another passenger is accused of getting extremely inappropriate during a flight. At this point, maybe Spirit isn’t the problem. Maybe it’s all of us. Things somehow get worse on the ground when an Amazon driver is caught on camera allegedly using a New York apartment hallway as his personal restroom — including furniture and a resident’s shoes. Amazon reportedly offers a $50 gift card, and the crew debates the appropriate compensation for having your footwear turned into a urinal. Spoiler: fifty bucks ain’t cutting it. We also dive into a viral GoFundMe that raised roughly $745,000 for an 81-year-old man working to help cover expenses while his wife battled cancer. Beautiful story… until the “concerned neighbor” who created the fundraiser turned out to actually be the couple’s daughter using a fake identity. The money gets refunded, and we debate whether lying about who you are ruins a cause when the underlying hardship is reportedly real. Then Moon attempts to destroy Back to the Future Part II by pointing out a time-travel paradox involving old Biff and the sports almanac. Riz counters with the airtight scientific explanation of “wormholes,” so consider that case closed. Plus, the forgotten Back to the Future cartoon, Pat Smear smoking at the VMAs, celebrity chaos and the realization that apparently even rock stars smoking cigarettes can become an internet controversy. And finally, we test one of humanity’s most important skills with Gay Bar or Steakhouse? Callers must decide what kind of establishment they’re dealing with based entirely on names like Wildfire, Bourbon and Bones, Tuckaway Tavern and the Iron Bear. Moon becomes a lifeline using geography, vibes and an alarming amount of confidence. Pants-off flights, GoFundMe drama, time-travel arguments, pee-soaked shoes, teenage cop stories and businesses nobody can properly identify — just another completely normal episode of The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 4-Story Aerial Adventure Park Quietly Closes After 4 Seasons as Founder Admits ‘We’re Not the Most Adventurous Town’Female Flyer Probed For Mile-High RubHuffPost Life’s reporters sift through the health misinformation that’s running rampant in the current administration. We bring you the facts that matter most to your life, so you can stop worrying about the rest.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Amazon Prime promises fast delivery, convenient shopping and apparently, under very specific circumstances, complimentary urination. Today’s funny podcast starts with a New York City Amazon delivery nightmare caught on camera. A driver enters an apartment building, delivers the package and then allegedly decides the hallway is his personal restroom — peeing on furniture, the floor and, most importantly, a resident’s shoes. That immediately raises several questions. Why would anyone do this when cameras are basically everywhere? Should you be leaving your shoes outside your apartment in the first place? And exactly how much compensation should you receive when somebody turns your New Balances into a bathroom? Amazon reportedly offered the resident a $50 gift card. He declined. The crew thinks we may need to add another zero. The conversation naturally turns into Moon defending the idea that shoes left in a hallway are basically asking for trouble, Riz defending humanity’s ancient tradition of leaving shoes outside, and everybody wondering what amount of money would actually make this situation right. There’s also discussion of delivery drivers in New York, the absolute chaos of driving through the city and why everybody cutting everybody else off somehow makes perfect sense. We also revisit Moon’s ongoing problem with Reacher: he cannot stop watching the way Alan Ritchson walks. Once you see it, apparently there is no going back. Then this funny podcast becomes a game show with one simple question: Gay Bar or Steakhouse? Lern gives callers names of real establishments from around the country, and they have to decide whether they’re looking at a place serving steaks or cocktails. Wildfire. The Albany Beehive. The Corner Pocket. Bourbon and Bones. Tuckaway Tavern. The Iron Bear. The Avenue. Easy, right? Absolutely not. Moon becomes the unofficial expert, using geography, questionable stereotypes, vibes and whatever other evidence he can manufacture to guide callers toward victory. Sometimes his logic is disturbingly effective. Other times, somebody is going home because apparently “Wildfire” does not mean what you think it means. Throw in WWE tickets, A Perfect Circle, Rise Against and Turnstile giveaways, arguments about New York, random Pittsburgh hostility and enough wildly overconfident reasoning to qualify us for several jobs we absolutely should not have, and you've got another completely normal morning with The Rizzuto Show. Amazon deliveries, contaminated shoes and trying to determine what exactly goes on inside a place called the Iron Bear — this funny podcast continues to provide the public service journalism nobody requested. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nothing ruins a beautiful internet story quite like finding out the “concerned neighbor” telling it was actually the guy’s daughter wearing a fake identity like a cheap pair of Groucho glasses. Today’s comedy podcast kicks off with the wild story of an 81-year-old Texas luggage driver who was reportedly working grueling hours while his wife battled cancer. The internet rallied around him, a GoFundMe exploded to roughly $745,000…and then the whole thing got shut down and refunded after GoFundMe discovered the woman claiming to be a caring local neighbor was actually the couple’s daughter. Cool. Cool cool cool. The underlying family hardship was reportedly real, but the fake identity wasn’t — which launches Riz, Lern and Moon into the bigger question: does one giant internet lie destroy an otherwise legitimate cause? We also get into the sketchier side of online fundraising, how scammers can target vulnerable people, why the show tries to vet fundraisers before sharing them, and the very important distinction between “I genuinely need help” and “Hey guys, can the entire city buy me some tires?” From there, we do what any responsible morning show would do and immediately start arguing about Back to the Future. The trilogy has somehow survived decades without Hollywood rebooting it into seventeen streaming series, three prequels and a gritty Doc Brown origin story. But Moon has a problem with Back to the Future Part II: old Biff, the sports almanac and an alternate-timeline paradox that he believes breaks the movie’s own rules. Riz responds with the scientific precision of a Nobel laureate: wormholes. Case closed. We also discover — or rediscover — the largely forgotten Back to the Future animated series, where Marty McFly gets shoved aside so Doc Brown’s kids Jules and Verne can carry a Saturday morning cartoon. Because apparently somebody looked at one of the most beloved movie trilogies ever made and said, “Yeah, but what if we focused on the kids?” Then Pat Smear commits the shocking act of…smoking a cigarette. At a rock awards show. The horror. After Pat lights up onstage during the Nirvana Video Vanguard Award segment at the VMAs, people online apparently have feelings about it. The crew has feelings about people having feelings about it. Along the way we learn Pat Smear’s real name, admire his ability to still look cool at 67 and conclude that a guy who played in the Germs, Nirvana and Foo Fighters probably isn’t sitting backstage wondering whether Twitter approves of his decisions. This comedy podcast also takes a trip back through September 29th in history, including the debut of MacGyver, the Breaking Bad finale and one absolutely ridiculous day in 1992 when Alice in Chains released Dirt and Stone Temple Pilots released Core. Kids, there used to be a thing called “albums,” and apparently we were spoiled rotten. Then Lern brings the Crap on Celebrities. Rod Stewart announces a final rock tour, Oasis heads to streaming with a reunion documentary, John Mayer prepares a multi-format Sphere residency, Miley Cyrus lands back atop the charts, and we briefly discover how aggravating band names become when nobody knows how the hell they’re supposed to be pronounced. Nick Cannon is also bringing cameras into the circus that is raising 12 children with six different women, which naturally leaves everyone wondering when this man sleeps considering he also appears to have approximately 46 jobs. Plus, Tom Cruise randomly makes one worker’s day, we remember Saved by the Bell’s Mr. Belding, debate some supposedly overrated movies, celebrate celebrity birthdays and once again prove that nostalgia is basically the gasoline keeping this entire show running. It’s scams, movies, rock stars, celebrities, questionable logic and grown adults arguing about fictional time-travel mechanics. In other words, another perfectly normal comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Another crisp Tuesday morning with The Rizzuto Show begins exactly where all respectable entertainment should: Otis Nixon baseball cards and the mysterious ecosystem living inside the average American junk drawer. Riz remembers opening pack after pack of baseball cards only to discover another Otis Nixon staring back at him, while cleaning out the house uncovers Garbage Pail Kids, mystery keys, dead pens and a remote control belonging to a television nobody can identify. Naturally, this becomes a discussion about stealing your friend’s dad’s remote as a prank, because this funny podcast remains deeply committed to helping society. Then we head directly into teenage trouble. After a kid’s first big party in Columbus gets busted before he can even properly arrive, the crew starts swapping stories about their own first encounters with the cops. We’ve got bonfires, house parties, teenagers scattering into the woods, ATV escapes, cops waiting at the bottom of cliffs and the timeless adolescent strategy of running first and figuring out where the hell you are later. Back in St. Louis, Rise Adventure Park has officially closed after only a few seasons, and one of its founders suggests St. Louis might simply not be adventurous enough to keep something like a massive four-story obstacle course alive. Lern takes slight offense. Moon investigates. Riz immediately sees an opportunity for a data center. Somewhere, the spirit of local tourism quietly packs its bags. But then we get on an airplane, and everything gets considerably worse. For the second time in roughly a week, the show has to discuss a passenger allegedly engaging in some extremely inappropriate solo activities during a flight — except this time, it’s a woman accused of removing her pants during a Baltimore-to-Miami trip. That launches a much bigger debate about public behavior, double standards, accountability, why anyone else on an airplane should ever have to deal with this nonsense, and whether maybe we should just ground all the planes until humanity can prove it deserves them again. Yes, this funny podcast occasionally asks the important questions. And just when everybody gets sufficiently irritated, Riz discovers something called “irritable male syndrome,” which may finally provide middle-aged men everywhere with the medical-sounding excuse they’ve been waiting for. It’s not an official diagnosis, but that certainly isn’t going to stop anybody around here from using it immediately. From Otis Nixon and Garbage Pail Kids to teenage cop stories, St. Louis adventures, airborne insanity and getting grumpier with age, this episode is another reminder that The Rizzuto Show can begin with a kitchen drawer and somehow end up involving the FBI. That’s not poor planning. That’s a funny podcast. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Taylor Swift has new music, and Todd Rundgren has apparently chosen violence. The crew digs into his brutal assessment of Taylor, whether her new songs are actually mediocre, and Moon’s theory that maybe she’s simply too happy to write the same kind of emotionally charged music. Apparently misery really does love a catchy chorus. Meanwhile, Moon returns after an illness tore through his house and possibly made the jump to the family dog, while Riz gets an unexpected ego boost when cops breaking up a massive teenage house party seemingly mistake him for one of the kids. Sure, buddy. We’ll give you this one. Then relationships come under investigation. Should you warn your spouse before completely changing your hair? What happens when Lern’s hairy husband suddenly decides to go full mole rat? And why do so many people keep dating partners who look suspiciously like previous partners? We dive into “doppelgänger dating” and discover some of us apparently have a type so specific we’re just recasting the same role. We also tackle the horrifying cost of modern weddings, including the national average topping $34,000 and stories of luxury weddings with celebrity chefs, all-night parties and obscene amounts of money spent on flowers. Suddenly the courthouse is looking pretty sexy. Plus, teenage party chaos, parenting stories, celebrity news and an argument over what should be the easiest food order imaginable: a plain cheeseburger. What exactly does “plain” mean? Meat and cheese? Meat and bun? Apparently we need the Supreme Court involved. Taylor Swift debates, household plagues, hairy men, expensive weddings, teenage ragers and grown adults nearly coming to blows over burger toppings — just another perfectly normal episode of The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Substitute teacher loses job for having an OnlyFans account to pay the bills: ‘Sex sells’‘It’s disgusting’: Hidden cameras discovered inside restaurant restrooms, employee arrestedOhio Custodian Arrested After Allegedly Hiding In Women’s Soccer Team’s Locker Room Ceiling And Taking PhotosFive Guys Employee Says a Customer Ordered a “Plain” Cheeseburger — Then Got Angry Because “There’s Nothing on It”Instagram's new feature is being called 'humiliating' as users fear it could lead to breakupsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rizz finished dead last in the football picks, which means the punishment wheel is coming for him. Conference room karaoke? Wig week? Crocs mascot week? Truck stop makeover? Whatever happens, he has nobody to blame but himself and his bold strategy of making picks based entirely on his heart. Then this daily podcast gets into a relationship dilemma: should you give your spouse a heads-up before making a major change to your appearance? A husband is upset after his blonde wife unexpectedly comes home brunette, which sends the crew into hair politics. Lern doesn’t need permission to change her hair, but she knows Tim hates bangs. Riz admits he once had a terrible reaction when Amelia cut her hair short. And if Tim ever removes his chest hair, Lern would apparently like to be consulted before he transforms himself into a mole rat. Of course, Riz once bought an entire Jeep without telling his wife, so perhaps he shouldn't be leading the seminar on communication. Then we discover getting married now requires approximately the same financial planning as invading a small country. The average U.S. wedding ceremony and reception costs $34,200, with Missouri averaging around $26,000 and Illinois hitting $38,000. Chicago? About $54,000. Suddenly eloping at the courthouse and going to Chili’s afterward sounds incredibly romantic. That leads to stories about the fanciest weddings the crew has attended, including one at New York’s Plaza Hotel with an Iron Chef rolling sushi, smoking allowed indoors, breakfast served at 4 a.m. and a reported half-million dollars spent on flowers. Meanwhile, most of us are wondering whether the open bar includes domestic beer. Finally, this daily podcast investigates “doppelgänger dating” — the idea that people are often attracted to familiar physical traits and may repeatedly date partners who look strangely similar. The crew compares their own dating histories, discusses couples who eventually start dressing alike, and determines that, yes, plenty of us absolutely have a type. Bad football picks, surprise brunettes, hairy husbands, weddings that cost a down payment and realizing your dating history looks like somebody hit copy and paste — another deeply educational daily podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Taylor Swift has new songs, the internet has opinions, and Todd Rundgren apparently woke up ready for violence. He calls Taylor the “pinnacle of mediocrity,” questions her singing, songwriting and dancing, and praises Lady Gaga instead — so naturally our comedy podcast has to determine whether the 78-year-old music legend has a point or is simply yelling at a very successful cloud. Moon has another theory: maybe Taylor is just too happy. We get into why heartbreak, struggle and those giant emotional “mountains” can fuel great songwriting — and what happens when an artist finally gets everything they wanted and has to write songs about being happy instead. Apparently the secret to great art might be having your personal life go horribly wrong. Fantastic. Then it’s into the VMAs, where Taylor wins again, Madonna teams up with Sabrina Carpenter, Nirvana gets honored and Riz discovers there are several current pop stars he absolutely cannot identify. We also get Pearl Jam drummer talk, music history and a quick detour into Todd Rundgren’s catalog because if you're going to roast Taylor Swift, we're checking your homework too. Finally, this comedy podcast dives into a ranking of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century. Breaking Bad takes #1, The Wire lands at #2, Game of Thrones is #6 and somehow Better Call Saul sits at #27. Moon also discovers that he can't fully enjoy Reacher because he's too distracted by the way Alan Ritchson walks. Taylor Swift debates, music industry arguments, celebrity news and unnecessary observations about television characters — another perfectly reasonable comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We’re starting the week optimistic… which lasts approximately long enough for Moon to explain how an illness tore through his house, knocked him out of the show and may have eventually reached the dog. Nothing says funny podcast quite like debating DayQuil while discussing a sick Chiweenie. Then Riz gets the ego boost of a lifetime when cops shut down a massive high school house party in his neighborhood and he becomes convinced an officer mistook him for one of the teenagers. We also discover that kids are STILL TPing houses, which leads the dads into giving entirely too much tactical advice about proper toilet-paper throwing. Apparently juvenile pranks are a proud American tradition. Elsewhere, a St. Louis-area substitute teacher loses her job after her OnlyFans account is discovered, kicking off a debate about teachers, side hustles and whether certain professions should be held to different standards. Then things get significantly creepier with stories involving hidden cameras in public bathrooms and a custodian allegedly spying on college athletes from inside a drop ceiling. Humanity continues its undefeated streak of making everything weird. And because this funny podcast tackles the issues that truly matter, we eventually arrive at an argument over burgers. What exactly does “plain cheeseburger” mean? Meat and cheese? Meat and bread? Does “regular” mean toppings? Should you just go to McDonald’s if that's what you wanted? Somehow ordering lunch now requires contract negotiations. Add in dead neighborhood fish, 90s music, teenage rock stars, parenting adventures and the usual collection of completely unnecessary side quests, and you’ve got another perfectly normal funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Moon is sick, and The Rizzuto Show has officially instituted a new workplace policy: WE DON’T NEED HEROES. Stay home. Keep your germs away from Scott’s newborn, Rafe’s ancient dog and everybody else who has things to do besides spending the weekend fighting whatever plague you dragged into the studio. Things take a serious turn with a disturbing St. Louis story involving a 63-year-old retired truck driver who was attacked by multiple people after a minor car accident. A bystander recorded the assault, helping police identify suspects, but the video sparks a bigger conversation: if you witness someone being attacked, what should you actually do? Do you physically intervene and risk becoming another victim? Record evidence? Call police? The crew wrestles with where being a Good Samaritan ends and unnecessarily putting yourself in danger begins. Galaxy Gas and recreational nitrous oxide use. After discussing a case involving a young man who reportedly lost his ability to walk after prolonged use, the crew runs through other health trends doctors are concerned about, including vaping, ketamine, energy drinks, e-bikes and influencer medicine. Turns out getting your medical advice from somebody dancing next to floating captions may have some drawbacks. Happy National One-Hit Wonder Day! The Rizzuto Show celebrates by attempting to determine the greatest musical one-and-done of all time, and the nominees are basically a playlist from the weirdest wedding reception imaginable. Crap on Celebrities brings the first-ever Dolly Parton Day, a celebration tied to September 25 and the Imagination Library. Lern is also preparing for the Back to the Beginning concert screening, Turnstile anticipation is reaching dangerous levels, and Nick Cannon’s 12 children somehow spark the fairly reasonable question of whether it’s physically possible to be present for that many kids. Then this funny podcast heads into entertainment chaos with Gremlins 3, Morgan Freeman pushing back against unauthorized AI clones of his unmistakable voice, Marvel reportedly adding material to Endgame, and Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale transforming into John Madden and Al Davis. Rafe thinks Christian Bale nails it. Nicolas Cage remains impressively incapable of disguising the fact that he is Nicolas Cage. Tommy Davidson is back in the studio, and before we can properly discuss his decades in comedy, we have to address the important stuff: New York accents, breakfast hot dogs and the cruel moment when heartburn finally comes for you. Tommy talks about touring arenas with Katt Williams, being home during the week with his family and what it’s actually like backstage on one of those massive comedy tours. He also celebrates finally getting The Varnell Hill Show made after seven years of work and explains how a late-night conversation with Kid from Kid ’n Play eventually helped revive the character he first played on Martin more than 30 years ago. But the conversation takes a powerful turn when Tommy shares the incredible story of his childhood. He talks about being found abandoned as an infant, being adopted by white parents involved in civil-rights work, growing up in Wyoming and Colorado, and later confronting racism from completely different directions after his family moved to Washington, D.C. It’s a remarkable piece of his life story wrapped inside a conversation that somehow also includes communes, puppies and the 21st Wayans brother. Tommy also talks about his music ambitions, his new projects and his upcoming shows at Helium before sending us out with a Led Zeppelin-inspired Kool-Aid performance nobody knew they needed. Katt Williams. Jim Carrey. Ace Ventura. Hollywood secrets. Stevie Wonder. Heartburn. Breakfast hot dogs. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Accused attackers apologize after 63-year-old man beaten following St. Louis County crashNew MetroLink gates spark rider concerns over piggybacking, harassmentIdaho woman warns of 'Galaxy Gas' risk after son's paralysis scare‘Genius’ kids birthday party idea has some parents on edge: ‘Literally a nightmare of a situation’See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tommy Davidson is back in the studio, and before we can properly discuss his decades in comedy, we have to address the important stuff: New York accents, breakfast hot dogs and the cruel moment when heartburn finally comes for you. Tommy talks about touring arenas with Katt Williams, being home during the week with his family and what it’s actually like backstage on one of those massive comedy tours. He also celebrates finally getting The Varnell Hill Show made after seven years of work and explains how a late-night conversation with Kid from Kid ’n Play eventually helped revive the character he first played on Martin more than 30 years ago. Then this comedy podcast gets the story we've been waiting for: the backpack scene from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Tommy reveals the gag was dreamed up that morning, somebody basically asked if he could physically fit inside a bag, and the answer was yes — for about five minutes before survival became an issue. He also remembers Jim Carrey getting a bulldozer brought in while filming because Tommy needed to finish the scene and catch a flight. Tommy opens up about his longtime friendship with Jim Carrey, going all the way back to their Comedy Store days before In Living Color. Their daughters were the same age, they struggled for gigs together, and years later they're still close. He also remembers the insanity of In Living Color becoming appointment television, when people would actually call your house immediately after an episode aired instead of posting their review from a couch in Buffalo. From there, we ask Tommy to weigh in on some alleged Hollywood “open secrets,” which leads to stories involving Harvey Weinstein, celebrity culture and his own history with Sean “Diddy” Combs. Tommy recalls Diddy working as an assistant on his first movie in the early ’90s and later attending one of his parties — an experience that eventually convinced Tommy he had no interest in going back. There’s also a Morgan Freeman encounter that did NOT go according to plan, Tommy’s friendship with Stevie Wonder and the eternal internet conspiracy over whether Stevie can somehow sense exactly who is standing nearby. Just a completely normal day on a comedy podcast. But the conversation takes a powerful turn when Tommy shares the incredible story of his childhood. He talks about being found abandoned as an infant, being adopted by white parents involved in civil-rights work, growing up in Wyoming and Colorado, and later confronting racism from completely different directions after his family moved to Washington, D.C. It’s a remarkable piece of his life story wrapped inside a conversation that somehow also includes communes, puppies and the 21st Wayans brother. Tommy also talks about his music ambitions, his new projects and his upcoming shows at Helium before sending us out with a Led Zeppelin-inspired Kool-Aid performance nobody knew they needed. Katt Williams. Jim Carrey. Ace Ventura. Hollywood secrets. Stevie Wonder. Heartburn. Breakfast hot dogs. And Tommy Davidson somehow fitting inside a backpack. Just another wildly educational comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Happy National One-Hit Wonder Day! The Rizzuto Show celebrates by attempting to determine the greatest musical one-and-done of all time, and the nominees are basically a playlist from the weirdest wedding reception imaginable. “Take on Me,” “Come on Eileen,” “Tainted Love,” “Mambo No. 5,” “Mickey,” “Kung Fu Fighting,” “Baby Got Back,” “Somebody That I Used to Know,” “Tubthumping” and plenty more enter the conversation before the supposed number-one one-hit wonder is finally revealed: “Macarena.” Lern immediately objects, because apparently even the Macarena requires litigation on this funny podcast. Before that, we discover a former 7-Eleven in Seattle has become the “Inconvenience Store,” an art experience where everything inside is deliberately inconvenient. Tangled USB cords? Check. Shoulder bags made from chip bags? Of course. Finally, somebody has captured the experience of looking for a charging cable in your junk drawer and monetized it. Crap on Celebrities brings the first-ever Dolly Parton Day, a celebration tied to September 25 and the Imagination Library. Lern is also preparing for the Back to the Beginning concert screening, Turnstile anticipation is reaching dangerous levels, and Nick Cannon’s 12 children somehow spark the fairly reasonable question of whether it’s physically possible to be present for that many kids. Things get considerably messier with Brooke Hogan discussing how her relationship with Hulk Hogan changed after his affair with one of her close friends. Yes. Her friend. The crew processes that extremely uncomfortable family dynamic exactly as professionally as you'd expect. Then this funny podcast heads into entertainment chaos with Gremlins 3, Morgan Freeman pushing back against unauthorized AI clones of his unmistakable voice, Marvel reportedly adding material to Endgame, and Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale transforming into John Madden and Al Davis. Rafe thinks Christian Bale nails it. Nicolas Cage remains impressively incapable of disguising the fact that he is Nicolas Cage. There are also movie recommendations, celebrity birthdays and Rafe promoting his upcoming Funny Bone shows — where apparently somebody has listed two resale tickets for $600. Please do not do that. Just buy the significantly cheaper real tickets and use the leftover money to purchase an irresponsible amount of Brazilian steakhouse beforehand. And finally, one of the show's finest institutions returns: Porn Star or Weatherman. Rafe reads a name. The contestant has to decide whether that person works in adult entertainment or professionally tells you there's a 40% chance of rain. Get two out of three and concert tickets are on the line. Lern is available as a lifeline because, in her own words, she loves both weather people and pornography. One-hit wonders, Dolly celebrations, celebrity insanity, inconvenient art, AI voice theft and the eternal struggle to determine whether a suspiciously glamorous name belongs to a meteorologist — another educational funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Moon is sick, and The Rizzuto Show has officially instituted a new workplace policy: WE DON’T NEED HEROES. Stay home. Keep your germs away from Scott’s newborn, Rafe’s ancient dog and everybody else who has things to do besides spending the weekend fighting whatever plague you dragged into the studio. This daily comedy show then recaps the crew’s broadcast from Scott Air Force Base, where Hockley’s Bakery brought coffee cake and former NFL player Carey Davis apparently turned eating it into performance art. Rizz is trying to avoid sweets, so naturally he asks Carey to describe every bite while making direct eye contact and licking his fingers. Totally normal breakfast behavior. Things take a serious turn with a disturbing St. Louis story involving a 63-year-old retired truck driver who was attacked by multiple people after a minor car accident. A bystander recorded the assault, helping police identify suspects, but the video sparks a bigger conversation: if you witness someone being attacked, what should you actually do? Do you physically intervene and risk becoming another victim? Record evidence? Call police? The crew wrestles with where being a Good Samaritan ends and unnecessarily putting yourself in danger begins. That debate rolls right into MetroLink’s new turnstiles, where riders have reported people “piggybacking” through behind paying passengers. Officials say not to engage, but Rafe and Lern quickly develop a significantly less official solution involving The Crow, a trench coat and vigilante MetroLink justice. Somewhere, Batman’s attorneys are already preparing a cease-and-desist. Then this daily comedy show gets into a much more dangerous trend: Galaxy Gas and recreational nitrous oxide use. After discussing a case involving a young man who reportedly lost his ability to walk after prolonged use, the crew runs through other health trends doctors are concerned about, including vaping, ketamine, energy drinks, e-bikes and influencer medicine. Turns out getting your medical advice from somebody dancing next to floating captions may have some drawbacks. Relationship court is also in session after a woman writes in about her boyfriend refusing to actually say “I love you” after a year together. Instead, she gets “you too,” “love you, mean it” and — brace yourself — “wuv you.” Rizz would like him removed from society immediately. The crew debates when couples should finally say the L-word, whether love at first sight exists and how much baby talk one adult relationship can survive. And because parenting wasn't already complicated enough, apparently “park crawls” are becoming a birthday-party thing, with kids hitting multiple playgrounds and even riding party buses between stops. That leads to the eternal argument over whether adults without children are allowed to give parenting advice. Lern says absolutely. Rizz says you can give whatever advice you want — parents are equally free to throw it directly in the trash. Sick coworkers, seductive coffee cake, Good Samaritan dilemmas, MetroLink vigilantes, questionable health trends, “wuv you” and children apparently living the party-bus lifestyle before they can drive — another completely responsible daily comedy show from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apparently nobody knows how to interact with other humans anymore, so The Rizzuto Show is here to make things significantly worse. We start with the surprisingly complicated rules of greeting people: handshake or hug? Do you stand up to shake someone’s hand? Is a kiss on the cheek acceptable? And who are these absolute maniacs greeting people they just met with a kiss on the lips? Then fall arrives with “candlescaping,” Lern prepares to make her entire existence smell like autumn, and Gen Z informs millennials that it’s time to retire “LOL.” Unfortunately, the crew has no intention of cooperating. We also get into why adulthood seems to fly by faster every year, questionable lawsuits, AirTag tracking and one airplane story involving some extremely inappropriate behavior that guarantees you’ll never look at your seat assignment the same way again. Crap on Celebrities brings us back to 1991 and one of the most ridiculous stretches of rock releases ever, including Nirvana’s Nevermind, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger. Moon also remembers that Madonna technically owes him dinner, Benny Blanco starts a conversation about whether couples should normalize farting around each other, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas lands in headlines for behavior that definitely wasn’t covered on Home Improvement. Finally, Simpleton Trivia proves once again that intelligence completely disappears when concert tickets and a 45-second timer are involved. Basic multiplication takes down contestant after contestant, Moon forgets 9×6, Lern briefly turns 75 minus 30 into 44, and somebody mistakes Buzz Lightyear for the cowboy from Toy Story. Somewhere, an elementary-school teacher quietly removes The Rizzuto Show from their résumé. Awkward hugs, candlescaping, generational warfare, celebrity farts, ’90s nostalgia and grown adults getting absolutely demolished by third-grade math — just another perfectly educational episode of The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Fall Candlescaping—Here's How to Layer Scent and Light Throughout Your HomeGen Z Can't Get Enough Of The "Boob Rest" PoseFeel Like Time Is Speeding Up? Scientists Have Figured Out Why—and What to Do About ItOregon woman sues Apple after her ex used an AirTag to stalk herUnited passenger claims she was trapped next to masturbating pervert – and crew ignored complaintsPass Go, grab some fries and keep an eye out for Boardwalk – Monopoly is returning to McDonald's for a limited time.So Delicious frozen desserts recalled. See impacted productsFood truck bill passed unanimously in St. Louis, set to become lawSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How exactly are adults supposed to greet each other anymore? The Rizzuto Show dives into the surprisingly complicated world of handshakes, hugs, waves, kisses on the cheek and the absolutely unhinged 1% of people who apparently greet somebody new with a kiss directly on the lips. The crew breaks down their personal greeting rules, including Moon’s policy of always standing up for a handshake, when it’s acceptable to hug somebody you’re meeting for the first time and why you should probably avoid embracing the HR rep during a job interview. Lern also reveals there are people in her life who greet both her AND her husband with a kiss on the lips, which sends this comedy show into exactly the mature discussion you’d expect. Then it’s time for Simpleton Trivia — the game designed to prove there’s no such thing as a simple question once a 45-second timer starts ticking. Listeners can either take on ten supposedly easy questions themselves for two pairs of tickets or hand the pressure over to Moon, Lern or King Scott and bet on whether they’ll survive. With Metallica, Breaking Benjamin, Turnstile and Rafe Williams tickets on the line, suddenly remembering basic multiplication becomes a life-or-death situation. And the math absolutely destroys everybody. One contestant makes it all the way to the final question before running out of time on 8×7. Moon cruises through ocean tides, planets, penguins and gravity before 9×6 sends his brain directly into the ditch. Another caller dominates until 12×8 arrives. King Scott makes it to question ten before confidently deciding 63 divided by 7 is seven. The pressure is undefeated. Lern finally gets her shot after a caller trusts her with his Metallica dreams, only for 75 minus 30 to briefly become 44 before she corrects herself to 45 — approximately one second too late. She demands another round for redemption and immediately answers 13×2 with 36. At that point, this comedy show might as well apologize to every elementary-school teacher in St. Louis. There are also spectacular non-math failures, including one contestant being asked which Toy Story cowboy says “there’s a snake in my boot” and confidently answering Buzz Lightyear. Close, if by close you mean an entirely different character whose whole thing is being a spaceman. By the end, only one winner emerges, former teachers are catching strays and everyone has learned a valuable lesson: you can know the answer your entire life, but the second someone starts a timer and offers you Metallica tickets, 9×6 becomes advanced calculus. Awkward hugs, lip kisses, failed multiplication and Simpleton Trivia humiliating everyone equally — another highly educational comedy show from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The studio cameras are down, somebody needs to get on the roof with some tinfoil, and The Rizzuto Show is temporarily experiencing the ancient broadcasting tradition known as “radio.” Honestly, everybody seems a little too happy about it. While the greatest technical minds in the building allegedly work on the problem, the crew previews Tommy Davidson’s return and somehow ends up comparing impeccably dressed comedy guests to the occasional comedian who arrives smelling like they lost a fight with a shower. Then we celebrate September 24 by traveling back to one of the greatest stretches in music history. September 24, 1991 gave us Nirvana’s Nevermind, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger and A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory. Add Pearl Jam, Metallica, U2, Cypress Hill and everything else happening around 1991, and the crew realizes an entire generation basically had its musical operating system installed in the span of a few months. From there, this funny podcast heads directly into Crap on Celebrities, where Madonna leads the MTV VMA nominations and Moon remembers something very important: she technically owes him dinner. Back when Moon’s band signed with Maverick, they were allegedly promised a Madonna meeting when the record went gold. They went gold twice. No dinner. Rizz sweetens the deal by offering Moon $500 if he ever produces photographic evidence of Madonna paying for that meal. The clock is ticking, Moon. Taylor Swift has new music coming, the BTS Army is apparently battling Woody, and Rush is helping fund a Neil Peart memorial featuring larger-than-life bronze statues. Naturally, this inspires Rizz to request the only artistic tribute worthy of his legacy: a giant butter sculpture. Preferably climate controlled. Possibly edible. Then Benny Blanco enters the chat with a passionate argument that couples should normalize farting around each other. This launches an extremely mature discussion about gastrointestinal relationship etiquette, whether Selena Gomez participates, and exactly how much romance can survive after dinner. Lern admits there is strategy involved. Rizz maintains standards. Moon mostly seems fascinated by the entire situation. Somewhere, love wins. Unfortunately, it smells terrible. The celebrity chaos keeps coming when U2 announces new music and Rizz immediately detects what he describes as an “air of arrogance,” leading Moon to accuse him of joining the fashionable Bono-hating bandwagon. Nothing says funny podcast quite like grown men debating whether one of the biggest rock bands in history is trying too hard while accidentally playing Benny Blanco audio instead of the new U2 song. Things somehow get even more ’90s when Jonathan Taylor Thomas — yes, JTT himself — lands back in the headlines. According to the story discussed on the show, JTT was arrested after allegedly interfering with a traffic stop, repeatedly getting out of the vehicle and eventually kicking a deputy in the stomach. The kid from Home Improvement. Randy Taylor. Kicking a cop. Suddenly the crew realizes the ’90s aren’t just back; they’re apparently furious. There’s also an extremely strange Elizabeth Holmes documentary from Nathan Fielder, movie recommendations for King Scott, a new documentary revisiting theories about whether O.J. Simpson had an accomplice, Jean Smart joining a sequel to The Family Stone, and original Charlie Bucket actor Peter Ostrum returning to the Wonka universe decades after making one movie and wisely becoming a veterinarian instead of spending his entire life dealing with Hollywood. Plus, Dolly Parton family estate drama gets unpacked, celebrity birthdays arrive, and the crew prepares for a special podcast taping at Scott Air Force Base before Simpleton Trivia begins. Broken cameras. Historic rock albums. Madonna owing Moon dinner. Celebrity fart philosophy. U2 arguments. JTT going rogue. O.J. theories refusing to die. Just another completely normal funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fall is officially here, so naturally The Rizzuto Show begins with “candlescaping” — the art of strategically filling your home with complementary candles, fragrances and enough open flames to make Moon deeply uncomfortable. Lern is ready for soup, Halloween decorations and a house that smells like books, while Rizz reveals his family was apparently ahead of the candle game with legendary corn cob candles. Finally, the family legacy gets the recognition it deserves. Then this daily comedy discovers Gen Z would like millennials to stop ending texts with “LOL.” Apparently it can come across as passive-aggressive, dismissive or even hostile, which is unfortunate because the crew plans to pry LOL from its cold, dead hands. Things only get worse when Rizz introduces the alleged replacements, including “laughing in my head,” “laughing by obligation,” “laughing so I don’t cry” and the painfully relatable “hanging by a thread.” Speaking of hanging by a thread, why does life suddenly feel like it’s moving at warp speed? The crew gets into research about why childhood summers felt endless while adulthood disappears in approximately seven business minutes. The discussion turns surprisingly nostalgic as everyone remembers childhood homes, smells, sunlight, routines and why trying new things might help life feel a little longer. Moon recommends creating new experiences. Rizz suggests robbing a bank. Please follow Moon’s advice. Then this daily comedy heads to court. A woman is seeking millions after suffering a serious injury when she fell from the stage during the St. Louis Blues’ 2019 Stanley Cup celebration, sparking a debate over event security versus personal responsibility. That leads Rizz to reveal why a planned Rizz Show ’90s cruise never happened: apparently corporate lawyers were slightly concerned somebody might get hammered and jump off the ship. Fun continues to be undefeated by liability insurance. The legal debate continues with a lawsuit involving a woman whose ex allegedly used an AirTag hidden under her car to track her movements. Her iPhone was supposed to warn her about an unknown AirTag traveling with her, but she says she never received the alert. The crew debates where responsibility falls when technology designed to help find lost stuff gets used by terrible people. And then we get to the flight. A 25-year-old passenger says the man seated beside her began openly “Joeing” while staring at her during a flight. She reports it to the crew, but with no open seats available, she ends up standing in the aisle before eventually having to return to her assigned seat for landing. Lern shares her own experience encountering public Joeing, Moon tries to understand how nobody intervened, and the show reaches one unanimous conclusion: Joe at home, everybody. Candles, LOL wars, childhood nostalgia, courtroom debates, creepy technology and the absolute worst possible airline seatmate — another perfectly relaxing daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The college football slate is loaded, the NFL season is starting to take shape, and the guys are back in The Spread Zone looking to cash some tickets Riz, Tim McKern and Anthony Stalter start with some big time matchups in the SEC. Missouri travels down to Starkville to take on the Mississippi St. and their Heisman hopeful Quarterback Kamario Taylor. Then the fellas travel south to the Swamp as Ole Miss looks to keep rolling against the red hot Florida Gators after taking down their ex Lane Kiffin. Speaking of the Tigers, LSU and Texas A&M will both look to rebound in Death Valley after last week's losses. And could the number 1 ranked team in the land be on upset watch? Then its onto the NFL, starting Thursday night at the not so frozen tundra of Green Bay who play host to the Atlanta Falcons as both teams look to find thier footing on the new season. Plus, how will teams respond after a flurry of early season injuries. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The robots are fighting back, and apparently humanity’s best defense is… Frankie Lap. The crew gets into the viral humanoid robot cage fight that ended with Frankie reportedly breaking his hand, which naturally leads to questions about robot sports, robot warfare and whether we’re maybe giving these things a little too much training before they inevitably decide they don’t need us anymore. Then Do It Bitch returns, where simple categories become impossible the second a ten-second clock starts ticking. Shoe brands send Lern scrambling, King Scott briefly attempts to make Mexico a U.S. state, and potato chip flavors trigger an on-air legal battle over whether nacho cheese counts. By the time everyone starts arguing over the WWF, WWE, UFL and United Hockey League, the game has basically become sports trivia court with Rizz handing out yellow cards. There’s plenty of celebrity chaos, too, including rock-star real names, James Hetfield talking Tony Iommi, entertainment news and drama surrounding Dolly Parton’s estate. Turns out figuring out Iggy Pop’s real name is almost as difficult as deciding whether a defunct wrestling organization should count in Do It Bitch. Finally, Blues broadcaster Chris Kerber joins the show to talk St. Louis Blues training camp, the incredible access fans get to the players and the story of Hubbard GM John Kijowski casually squeezing himself between Blues executives at the glass like he’d just been promoted to assistant general manager. Kerber also takes us behind the scenes of one of broadcasting’s most terrifying challenges: trying to pronounce unfamiliar hockey names while the puck keeps moving and your brain quietly catches fire. Robot fights, celebrity drama, potato chip litigation, questionable geography, Blues hockey and coworkers aggressively yelling “Do It, Bitch!” at each other for concert tickets — three episodes of The Rizzuto Show proving once again that even the simplest game can become a 20-minute argument if you put enough radio people in one room. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. British Airways expanding St. Louis-to-London service with daily flights in 2027Polo off Mexican coast is among ‘the strongest storms ever’ as Odalys becomes a hurricaneMaryland DoorDash customer picks up order from driver at crash scene: ‘I think that’s my food right there’Woman who struck cruiser drinks urine-contaminated toilet water in attempt to alter breath test resultsWith Its 17 New Robotoilets, NYC is Experimenting With the Radical Idea of Actually Providing Public Bathrooms$167M Powerball winner arrested for fifth time — for public intoxication in Walmart parking lotSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Do It Bitch is back, and somehow a simple radio game immediately turns into a full-blown legal proceeding. Team Moon and Lern takes on King Scott and Rafe Williams as callers pick sides for a shot at Metallica, Breaking Benjamin, Turnstile and Rafe tickets — and this funny podcast discovers that naming things under pressure is apparently much harder than it sounds. First up: shoe brands. Lern needs nine in ten seconds and immediately learns how quickly your brain abandons you when a clock starts ticking. Then King Scott gets U.S. states beginning with M and briefly attempts to welcome Mexico into the union. Geography teachers everywhere just felt a disturbance in the force. But the real controversy arrives with potato chip flavors. Rafe needs six, throws out nacho cheese, and suddenly everybody becomes a snack-food attorney arguing over whether nacho cheese actually exists as a potato chip flavor. Phones come out. Evidence is presented. Yellow cards are issued. Somehow nobody gets escorted from the studio. Then this funny podcast moves into professional sports leagues, where things get even messier. Does the WWF count separately from WWE? What about the UFL? The United Hockey League? Defunct organizations? Name changes? By the end, nobody knows whether they're playing a game or arguing a case before the Supreme Court of Sports Trivia. After the dust settles, Blues broadcaster Chris Kerber joins the show to talk St. Louis Blues training camp, including the story of Hubbard general manager John Kijowski casually squeezing himself between Blues executives at the glass like he’d just been promoted to assistant GM. Kerber also explains what it’s like calling preseason hockey when the roster is packed with unfamiliar names, leading to a fantastic tour through NHL pronunciation nightmares. The crew gets into Alexey Toropchenko-level linguistic gymnastics, the Petrangelo pronunciation debate, Colton Parayko and the terrifying possibility of multiple impossible names hitting the ice at the same time. There’s also some perspective on just how ridiculously talented professional athletes are — even the players fans casually call “bad” — while the rest of us consider walking inside instead of using the drive-thru to be our cardio for the week. Potato chip litigation, geography failures, obscure sports leagues, Blues training camp and enough difficult hockey names to make a broadcaster fake an equipment failure — another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show where the rules are made up, the arguments are real and apparently everybody can get yellow-carded. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The robots are officially fighting back, and unfortunately they already appear to have the upper hand. This comedy podcast kicks off with the viral video of Frankie LaPenna stepping into a cage with a six-foot humanoid robot that throws punches, lands kicks and sends him flying across the mat. Frankie even reportedly broke his hand fighting the thing, which feels like a pretty solid indication that maybe we should stop giving robots combat training. Naturally, the crew immediately wonders whether robot fighting is the future of entertainment, warfare or both. Rizz would watch robots fight between UFC matches. He’d probably gamble on them, too. Lern is already worried about humanoids destroying marriages. We’re handling the technological revolution beautifully. Then Crap on Celebrities brings plenty of music chaos, including Turnstile news, Ella Langley breaking a major chart record, the debate over whether artists eventually hate playing their biggest hits, a George Michael tribute, Lionel Richie’s health update and James Hetfield explaining why Tony Iommi remains such a massive influence on Metallica. Things get considerably messier when this comedy podcast dives into drama surrounding Dolly Parton’s estate. Her nephew Brian Seaver — the same person who announced her death — has reportedly been removed from several properties after spending decades overseeing operations and security. Allegations start flying, restraining orders enter the conversation, and suddenly everyone is guessing how much Dolly’s entire estate might actually be worth. The crew also gets into Jeff Garlin’s comments about The Goldbergs, a new Darkwing Duck series, HBO’s Lanterns and an upcoming Norm Macdonald documentary before Lern launches a game exposing everybody’s knowledge of rock stars’ real names. Alice Cooper? Easy. David Bowie? Sure. Elton John? Got it. But then Billy Idol, Eddie Vedder, Iggy Pop, Joni Mitchell, Nikki Sixx and Stevie Wonder start showing up under the names their mothers actually gave them, and everybody’s confidence begins collapsing in real time. Finally, Do It Bitch is ready to return with Metallica, Breaking Benjamin, Turnstile and Rafe Williams tickets on the line. Moon and Lern face King Scott and Rafe in the only game where wildly overestimating your coworker’s ability to name things in ten seconds is considered strategy. Humanoid cage fights, rock-star aliases, celebrity chaos, Dolly drama and coworkers aggressively yelling “Do It, Bitch!” at each other for prizes — another completely future-proof comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Rizzuto Show starts with a genuine modern miracle: Rizz renewed his license plates online without being forced into a Missouri DMV. No line, no mysterious missing paperwork, no spending the afternoon wondering if he now legally lives there. Naturally, this achievement leads to airport talk, the real-life man who lived at Charles de Gaulle Airport for years, St. Louis getting more nonstop flights to London, and an important debate over whether wearing matching pajamas on a plane is directly responsible for the collapse of civilized society. Then things get significantly less classy. A DoorDash driver gets into a serious car accident while making a delivery — and the customer actually shows up to the crash scene to retrieve his food. The crew debates the important questions: Do you still tip? Can you deduct a star because technically the delivery didn't make it all the way? And at what point does “you good, bro?” become sufficient medical assistance? Speaking of questionable decisions, a woman tries to delay a breathalyzer test by drinking toilet water inside a jail. Yes, toilet water. Yes, it reportedly contained exactly what you're afraid it contained. And yes, after all that, she still blew a .26. This somehow transitions perfectly into New York City's new robo toilets, which give users a strict 10-minute limit before the door automatically opens to the street. Finally, public restrooms with the added excitement of a game-show timer. The financial decisions aren't much better. A Powerball winner keeps finding new and creative ways to get arrested after winning more than $160 million, while a viral TikTok sends the show into a full financial-literacy intervention after a young woman discovers that grocery-store “cash back” is not free money from the store — it's coming out of her own checking account. Apparently we've reached the point where explaining debit cards is now public service broadcasting. That gets everyone sharing their own financial mistakes, including Rizz discovering years ago that nobody had been withholding taxes from his paycheck and suddenly owing $10,000. Add in the bills that make everyone irrationally angry, the ongoing struggle to teach kids how money actually works, and the realization that adulthood is mostly paying people money while quietly asking, “Wait… what am I paying you for again?” It's DMV victories, airport pajamas, wrecked DoorDash deliveries, toilet-water strategy, robo bathrooms, lottery chaos and cash-back confusion — another daily comedy show proving that humanity continues to operate with absolutely no instruction manual. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Rizzuto Show kicks things off with King Scott becoming an unlikely wildlife hero after rescuing an injured opossum from his backyard — which naturally turns into questions about diseases, pet possums and whether anyone has ever accidentally eaten one at a roadkill cook-off. From there, St. Louis gets a measles exposure warning, Lern realizes she was dangerously close to the action, and “measle butt” unfortunately enters the show’s medical vocabulary. Thankfully, Fat Bear Week arrives to restore order as the crew plans what they’d eat if they had to double their body weight before hibernation. Five-foot lasagnas, wheelbarrows of toasted ravioli and donut conveyor belts are all apparently part of a balanced pre-winter diet. Then we debut Dead or Alive, where listeners battle the show to determine whether various celebrities are currently still with us. Rizz proves disturbingly good at it, while everyone else learns that celebrity mortality gets much harder when you only have three seconds to answer. There’s also a record-breaking 430-foot Slim Jim, Rizz receives a “Mommy’s Little Meatball” shirt, and a $30 estate-sale painting turns out to potentially be worth $250,000 — officially giving us all permission to start digging through strangers’ garages. Meanwhile, Lern finally achieves one of the greatest honors in Rizz Show history: Patient of the Month at Ballwin Dental Care. Breakfast is delivered, Rafe becomes jealous of his Patient of the Month successor, and Lern gets approximately six minutes to enjoy her dental supremacy before Dead or Alive starts throwing names like Angie Dickinson, Johnny Mathis and Dabney Coleman at her. Finally, Dear Diary Day sends everyone digging into their embarrassing past. Rizz admits some of his old journals probably need to be destroyed, while Lern remembers her parents discovering her childhood diary and confronting her over repeatedly calling celebrity crushes a “hot piece of ass” — a phrase 12-year-old Lern absolutely did not understand. Possum rescues, measles scares, gigantic bears, meat snacks, celebrity mortality, dental glory and childhood journals containing evidence nobody was supposed to see — three episodes of The Rizzuto Show proving once again that personal growth is mostly just surviving long enough to laugh at your younger self. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Mo. Health Department warns of possible measles exposure at Busch Stadium, local St. Louis businessesNorwegian skater rollerblading across US killed after allegedly being struck by 82-year-old driver in Kansas hit and runFestivalgoer left paralyzed after man falls from tree and lands on her while a band was playingMaryland hunter charged in fatal shooting of woman who he allegedly mistook for a deerPassenger goes overboard on Carnival cruise ship heading to Long BeachFat Bear Week is back. Meet this year's contendersThe ‘unprofessional’ item Gen Z brings to interviews could be costing them jobsMrBeast Details US Work After Being Called Out Over $10M Ghana VillageSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sound the alarms and alert the dental community: Lern is officially Patient of the Month at Ballwin Dental Care. Dr. Kim personally delivers breakfast, Lern celebrates her cavity-free supremacy, and former Patient of the Month Rafe handles being replaced with exactly the dignity you’d expect. Then this comedy podcast brings back Dead or Alive, the rapid-fire game where listeners battle members of the show to determine whether celebrities are currently among the living. Dick Van Dyke? Mel Brooks? James Earl Jones? William Shatner? John Goodman? Carol Burnett? The names keep coming, the answers get increasingly panicked, and one contestant somehow ties King Scott by correctly guessing the combined age of Dick Van Dyke and Mel Brooks: exactly 200. Rizz gets his turn and casually goes 10-for-10, because apparently knowing whether celebrities are alive is his hidden superpower. Lern isn’t quite as fortunate when she gets the murder round and starts encountering names like Angie Dickinson, Johnny Mathis and Dabney Coleman. “Who are these people?” becomes a perfectly reasonable strategy. Then Dear Diary Day sends this comedy podcast straight into everybody’s embarrassing past. Rizz admits his old journals probably need to be destroyed, while Lern reveals she started keeping a diary at 11 — until her parents found it and discovered young Lern repeatedly describing her celebrity crushes as a “hot piece of ass.” Tiny problem: she had absolutely no idea what that phrase actually meant. Cue an incredibly uncomfortable parental intervention involving a confused 12-year-old trying to explain that she just thought Jonathan Taylor Thomas was cute. The crew debates whether reading someone’s journal is ever acceptable, Rafe remembers his mom operating like an amateur FBI agent through his belongings, and everybody gets surprisingly sincere about why physically writing down your thoughts can actually help clear your head. Dental glory, celebrity mortality, childhood privacy violations and journals containing evidence that should probably be destroyed immediately — another completely therapeutic comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Rizzuto Show is rolling out a brand-new game called Dead or Alive, because apparently determining whether celebrities are still among us is now a legitimate path to winning Metallica tickets. Welcome to the funny podcast where mortality, prizes and our questionable knowledge of famous people finally collide. Before anybody gets quizzed on who is currently breathing, we’ve got important meat business to handle. Jimmy Fallon’s trivia question involves a record-breaking 430-foot meat snack, which turns out to be a Slim Jim. Even better, Rizz gets a perfectly timed gift from Times Square: a “Mommy’s Little Meatball” shirt. Sometimes the universe hands you comedy. Other times it hands you processed meat and an aggressively Italian T-shirt. Then MrBeast enters the conversation after spending millions to build a self-sustaining village in Ghana with homes for teachers, a medical clinic, clean water infrastructure, solar power and a school for hundreds of kids. Naturally, somebody on the internet still found a reason to complain. The crew digs into the criticism, MrBeast’s response and the baffling human ability to look at somebody doing something objectively helpful and immediately type, “Yeah, but what about…” From there, we discover that estate sales might actually be worth getting out of bed for. A bargain hunter in Michigan bought a forgotten seashell painting for $30, only to discover it was a long-lost Gertrude Abercrombie work potentially worth $250,000. Suddenly rummaging through dead strangers’ belongings sounds less depressing and more like a retirement strategy. Then it’s time for Crap on Celebrities, where this funny podcast dives into Slipknot teasing something mysterious, the possibility of Lzzy Hale fronting a Velvet Revolver reunion, Ozzfest returning, and Taylor Swift receiving another award that sounds suspiciously like somebody needed to invent an award specifically for Taylor Swift. We also get the incredible story of Michael Jackson accidentally giving an acceptance speech for an award that didn’t actually exist, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives melting everyone’s remaining brain cells, Channing Tatum denying he has a secret Instagram burner account roasting celebrities, and Arnold Schwarzenegger announcing another self-help book — which naturally means everybody has to attempt an Arnold impression. Plus, Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth is returning, the crew debates Beatles songs versus their famous covers, Joe Cocker gets some much-deserved love, and Robin Williams’ comedy legacy leads to a discussion about his reputation for accidentally absorbing other comedians’ material. Finally, the moment we’ve been waiting for: Dead or Alive. Three listeners will face off against members of the show, trying to determine whether ten celebrities of varying fame are still alive. Beat the crew and you get your choice of some seriously ridiculous prizes. It’s meat snacks, mystery paintings, rock news, celebrity fails and a game that could expose just how little we actually know about famous people — exactly the kind of educational excellence you expect from a funny podcast like The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

King Scott is officially the Rizz Show’s newest wildlife hero after rescuing an injured possum from his backyard, carefully boxing it up and delivering it to a local animal rescue. Naturally, this daily comedy responds to his good deed by immediately asking whether he’s brought a mystery disease home to his newborn and whether anyone has ever eaten possum at a roadkill cook-off. No good deed survives this show. Speaking of diseases, St. Louis has a measles problem. The crew runs through a local exposure warning involving Busch Stadium and several area businesses while Lern realizes she was at a Cardinals game dangerously close to the exposure date. Nothing spices up your morning quite like wondering whether you’ve got “measle butt.” Things get considerably heavier with the story of a 24-year-old Norwegian man who was attempting to rollerblade across America before being struck in a hit-and-run in Kansas. The crew also discusses a woman left paralyzed after a man fell from a tree during Knocked Loose’s set at Louder Than Life, plus a Carnival Panorama passenger who went overboard. At some point, even Rizz realizes maybe the “good news” portion of the show needs to arrive before everyone crawls back into bed. Thankfully, this daily comedy eventually finds salvation in the first day of fall and, more importantly, Fat Bear Week. The crew celebrates Alaska’s gloriously chunky bears by planning exactly what they’d eat if they needed to double their own body weight before hibernation. We’re talking five-foot lasagna towers, wheelbarrows of toasted ravioli, conveyor belts of donuts, ice cream cake smoothies and an entire Cracker Barrel breakfast blended into liquid form. Nutritionists, please stop listening. Then comes the workplace debate nobody knew we needed: Is it unprofessional to bring an iced coffee into a job interview? Rizz says absolutely. Lern thinks everybody needs to calm down because it’s coffee, not a six-pack. Somehow condensation rings, coffee breath and rattling ice become legitimate threats to your career. Possum heroes, measles scares, tragic headlines, gigantic bears and Gen Z getting judged for showing up with Starbucks — another completely balanced daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

King Scott is back from paternity leave with a beautiful baby girl, zero sleep and the kind of diaper story every new parent eventually earns. The crew gets the full delivery-room recap, meets the world of high-tech baby gear and learns that fatherhood can go from heartwarming to “poop volcano” remarkably fast. Then things get weird. Moon encounters a mysterious solo mini golfer in Alabama who appears extremely high, carries an enormous ice cream cone around the course and repeatedly sets it directly on the ground before continuing to eat it. Eventually, an ostrich gets involved. The crew also debates perfect no-skip albums, dives into celebrity chaos and once again asks the question America has been asking for generations: What the hell is going on in Florida? Back in the relationship department, we celebrate Earth, Wind & Fire Day by learning about “guided Joeing” — audio instructions for some extremely personal alone time. Lern sees potential. Moon insists we’ve just reinvented phone sex and given it a wellness subscription. Naturally, everyone immediately begins considering whether their radio voices could provide lucrative second careers. The conversation somehow becomes slightly more respectable with “food divorce,” where couples stop planning meals together and simply eat whatever they want, whenever they want. That leads to debates over family dinners, personal space, eating speeds and whether sharing a meal really matters in a relationship. And finally, Rafe gives us a glimpse into bachelor life: eating smoked wings alone while watching football on a laptop, discovering sauce all over his face and contemplating furniture specifically designed to make eating in bed easier. New babies, wedding afterparties, dirt-seasoned ice cream, perfect albums, Florida crimes, guided alone time and relationship food fights — three episodes of The Rizzuto Show proving once again that we can start with the miracle of childbirth and somehow end with Rafe shopping for a snack bed. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Do you remember the 21st night of September? The Rizzuto Show certainly does, which means Earth, Wind & Fire Day is here and everybody should crank “September,” celebrate accordingly and apparently take their tops off. We don’t make the rules. Actually, we might have made that one. Then this funny podcast takes an immediate turn into Sex Time Fun Facts and the world of “guided Joeing” — audio experiences that basically provide step-by-step instructions for some very personal alone time. Lern thinks there might be something to it. Moon insists society has simply reinvented the 1-900 number and slapped a wellness label on it. Rafe wonders how anybody got to the point where they needed an instruction manual for equipment they’ve owned their entire life. Naturally, that leads to the crew realizing they all work in audio and could theoretically have very lucrative second careers. Lern considers erotic audiobooks, Rafe discovers people might actually pay to watch him read steamy novels in his glasses, and Rizz reveals he knows someone who was once hired to provide the voice of an adult toy. So everybody’s résumé is getting significantly stranger. From there, this funny podcast moves into the newest relationship trend: “food divorce.” Instead of couples planning, cooking and eating meals together, everybody handles their own food on their own schedule. Rizz thinks if dinner planning requires relationship therapy, we may have bigger problems. Lern argues that sometimes you just want cereal while your spouse wants beans and nobody needs to contact an attorney over it. That turns into a surprisingly real conversation about making time for your partner, needing personal space, family dinners and whether eating together matters more than actually eating the same thing. And because apparently even chewing can cause relationship drama now, the crew gets into couples who eat at completely different speeds. Rizz, Lern and Moon are all fast eaters, while Rafe admits he occasionally has to consciously slow himself down so he doesn’t look like somebody just rang the dinner bell at a prison camp. Then we arrive at Rafe’s recent evening alone: smoked wings, the Chiefs game on a laptop, greasy fingers, no television and a moment of self-reflection after looking in the mirror and realizing the sauce was definitely on his face too. Has he eaten wings in bed? No comment. Has he considered buying a daybed with a tray specifically for eating? Unfortunately, yes. Earth, Wind & Fire, guided alone time, separate dinners, eating-speed incompatibility and Rafe slowly designing a hospital bed for snacks — another perfectly functional funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Happy Mini Golf Day, everybody — apparently that’s a thing, and naturally The Rizzuto Show immediately turns it into a debate about whether playing mini golf alone is perfectly acceptable or one of the saddest activities a human being can voluntarily participate in. Rizz says mini golf is a social activity. Lern is ready to hit the windmill alone out of spite. Rafe wants a mini golf caddy who can professionally read the break on the clown nose. And Moon brings the evidence that completely destroys any chance of this conversation remaining normal. During a family mini golf trip in Alabama, Moon encountered a wildly dressed mystery man who showed up alone, appeared to be extremely high and started playing with an enormous multicolored ice cream cone in his hand. Unfortunately, mini golf courses don't provide cup holders for gigantic desserts, so our hero developed a system: set the ice cream directly on the ground, take the shot, pick it back up and continue eating. Concrete? Yep. Wood chips? Absolutely. By the time the man starts feeding ice cream to an ostrich, we’ve moved beyond mini golf and into a nature documentary that absolutely nobody authorized. That’s just the opening act of this comedy podcast, because the crew then tackles one of music’s most dangerous arguments: which albums are truly perfect from beginning to end with absolutely no skips? Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction. Green Day’s Dookie. Nas’ Illmatic. Metallica’s Black Album. Alice in Chains’ Dirt. Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill. Rage Against the Machine. Weezer’s Blue Album. Pearl Jam’s Ten. Soundgarden’s Superunknown. And plenty more get thrown into the musical Thunderdome while everybody attempts to prove their taste is objectively correct. You know, the healthiest possible way to discuss music. Then Crap on Celebrities arrives with enough entertainment news to give everyone emotional whiplash. The crew gets into concert cancellations, William Shatner fronting a heavy metal project at 95, Gnarls Barkley touring again, Sammy Hagar trying to move beyond being primarily associated with Van Halen, Calvin Harris performing for a ridiculous 1.6 million-person crowd and Kenny Loggins getting married. There are also much heavier stories as the show discusses losses in the music world, troubling news involving Carrot Top and concerns surrounding other public figures. Rafe talks about the darker side of comedy, the “sad clown” reality behind performers and how someone can appear completely fine while dealing with something much more serious underneath. Thankfully, there’s some good news mixed in, including Snooki announcing she’s cancer-free, before the celebrity train gets moving again with Burt Reynolds stories, George Lucas’ massive museum and Spotify’s most-streamed artists, songs and podcasts. And then… Florida. Sweet, beautiful, deeply confusing Florida. The show has three stories for another round of “What’s Going On in Florida?” and somehow each one makes the previous story seem slightly more reasonable. There are allegations involving a woman and the family dog, a domestic disturbance that leads to an absolutely horrifying family confession, and finally an argument over farting in bed that escalates into a felony assault. At one point, Rizz is forced to acknowledge that maybe Florida really is crazy everywhere — which is inconvenient considering he still wants to move there. But hey, he just wants to live near the water. Apparently the insanity is the waterfront tax. From solo putt-putt and dirt-seasoned ice cream to perfect albums, celebrity news and Florida once again enthusiastically volunteering to provide the weirdest stories of the day, this comedy podcast has everything you need to feel significantly better about whatever questionable decisions you’ve made lately. Because no matter how weird your morning gets, somebody somewhere is feeding wood-chip-covered ice cream to an ostrich at a mini golf course. And that person is winning. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

King Scott is back from paternity leave, which means it’s time for the proud new dad to tell us all about the miracle of childbirth while the rest of the show asks every inappropriate follow-up question imaginable. Welcome back, buddy. We missed you. This funny podcast starts with King Scott taking us through the arrival of St Louis's official princess, from contractions kicking into high gear to the 4 a.m. hospital trip and the slightly optimistic prediction that the baby would arrive in about two hours. Spoiler: she did not respect the schedule. After a long day of labor, an epidural and plenty of waiting, Scott finally got to watch his daughter enter the world, cut the cord and experience that completely surreal moment of realizing, “Oh… we’re responsible for keeping this person alive now.” Naturally, the crew handles this beautiful story with all the maturity you’d expect, including discussions about break dancers breaking water, newborns looking like catcher’s mitts and whether Creed should just play continuously throughout maternity wards. Then comes the first drive home, introducing the baby to the dogs and learning just how much stuff modern parents apparently need. Scott’s hand-me-down Doona stroller/car-seat contraption gets dubbed a “baby Transformer,” because apparently infants now require equipment more advanced than the vehicles most of us drove in high school. And then fatherhood officially welcomes Scott to the club. During a middle-of-the-night diaper change, his daughter unleashes what can only be described as a poop volcano directly onto Dad. That’s love. That’s bonding. That’s also a shirt immediately entering the washing machine. Outside the nursery, Rizz has some questions after Lafayette’s homecoming pep rally recognizes the school’s athletes… except the hockey team. The hockey players are standing there in their jerseys while everybody else gets their moment, leaving the crew to investigate the apparent discrimination against teenagers willing to voluntarily get slammed into boards. Somehow this also leads to the discovery that esports coaches are real, scholarships exist and we have absolutely no clue how you make a gamer “run laps.” Then this funny podcast heads to Jamie Rivers and Ashley’s wedding, where the crew arrives ready to celebrate and discovers the “heavy appetizers” have already been demolished. Nothing says romance like showing up hungry and finding one surviving broccoli floret. The party eventually migrates to a speakeasy, complete with a puzzle to get inside — something Rizz has approximately zero patience for after a night of celebrating. Once inside, things escalate into exactly the kind of radio-industry wedding afterparty you’d expect: drinks flowing, coworkers getting increasingly affectionate, another bride arriving to discover the Rizz Show crew has basically occupied the joint, and enough former hockey enforcers nearby that Rafe suddenly feels extremely confident about winning any hypothetical bar fight. New babies. Diaper explosions. Baby Transformers. Forgotten hockey players. Missing wedding food. Speakeasy puzzles. And radio people proving once again that apparently nobody taught them when the party is over. It’s parenthood, weddings and beautifully questionable decision-making packed into one funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Love is in the air, and unfortunately The Rizzuto Show is here to analyze it. This daily comedy show kicks off with First Love Day sending everybody back to their childhood crushes. Rizz remembers gathering the courage to give Michelle a “do you like me?” note only to watch her immediately check NO, Moon recalls inviting his crush to a roller-skating birthday party and then ignoring her, and Rafe takes us through puppy love, old girlfriends and the smells that can instantly transport you back to questionable teenage decisions. Speaking of relationships, Rizz commits a husband mistake for the ages when his wife sees their daughter’s homecoming dress and suggests she could wear it to an upcoming wedding. Rizz’s response? “There’s no way you’re fitting in that.” Somewhere, every married man listening just whispered, “Oh no.” Lern has relationship revelations of her own after replacing her usual oversized T-shirts and basketball shorts with cute pajamas and discovering Tim is VERY enthusiastic about the upgrade. That sends this daily comedy show into a completely necessary investigation of bedtime attire, ancient underwear and just how long a pair of boxer briefs can remain in circulation before becoming a historical artifact. Then Merriam-Webster gives us another reason to feel ancient with new terms like looksmaxxing, parasocial and cuffing season. Moon thinks cuffing season is a relationship red flag. Lern sees an opportunity for soup, Game of Thrones and winter romance. Rizz hears “getting laid for three months” and suddenly becomes extremely supportive of the younger generation. But the romantic centerpiece arrives when Lern finally pays off her Pick ’Em punishment by recording an original love song for Rizz. “Our Sweet Rizz” includes coffee breath, hairy arms, meatballs, ravioli breath and enough forced eye contact to make the entire studio uncomfortable. Against all odds, it’s kind of a banger. There’s also celebrity and music chaos, a visit to the rentable Silence of the Lambs house, Rafe getting emotionally adopted by a helpful employee at Ace Hardware, and the discovery that miniature horses might actually help improve your mood. First crushes, cuffing, homecoming mistakes, tiny horses and one deeply unnecessary love ballad — just another romantically confused daily comedy show from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. U.S. summer travel 2026: What people planned vs. what actually happened Lambert ranks near bottom of large airports for third straight year People Are Discussing Whether Or Not We Were All “Nicer” 10 Years Ago Top 6 European destinations with the rudest service — according to travelers Crazy Stories With DeVito: Pranking Arnold, Courtside With Jack Nicholson & A Monkey Bit His Balls  ‘Crashout’, ‘Looksmaxxing’: Merriam-Webster adds over 1,400 new words Madonna locked in to open the MTV VMAs 2026 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It’s National Cheeseburger Day AND First Love Day, so naturally this funny podcast starts with burgers before everybody digs up the childhood crushes that emotionally damaged them forever. Rizz remembers Michelle brutally checking “NO” on his do-you-like-me note, Moon recalls inviting his crush to a roller-skating birthday party and then basically ignoring her, and Rafe takes us on a deeply nostalgic journey through trampoline crushes, teenage romance and the Buick Skylark where things got considerably more serious. All that romance sets the mood perfectly for Lern’s Pick ’Em punishment: singing a love song to Rizz. Except Lern doesn’t just sing something — she records an entire original power ballad called “Our Sweet Rizz,” complete with saxophone, hairy-arm references, ravioli breath and enough direct eye contact to make everyone uncomfortable. Somehow, it’s legitimately catchy. Epic Records should be calling any minute now. Then Rafe’s E-Memorium takes this funny podcast completely off the rails with the viral Hyrox bathroom disaster, before introducing everyone to the actual Silence of the Lambs house in Pennsylvania — which you can rent. Yes, Buffalo Bill’s house is an Airbnb-style attraction complete with themed rooms, the basement well, costumes, a Hannibal Lecter mannequin and even Valentine’s Day packages. Nothing says romance like complimentary lotion and wondering whether you’ll ever check out. Rafe also takes aim at an extremely identifiable getaway vehicle, discovers that Reacher star Alan Ritchson can apparently sing in addition to being tall, shredded and handsome, and revisits the emotional moment he walked into Rick’s Ace Hardware looking for lawn equipment and walked out with a new father figure. First crushes, love songs, murder houses, hardware dads and enough childhood emotional baggage to fill a Buick Skylark — another perfectly healthy funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apparently cuffing season is official enough for the dictionary now, so congratulations to everyone looking for a temporary winter relationship with an expiration date conveniently located before Valentine’s Day. This comedy podcast kicks off with Danny DeVito attempting to understand Gen Z slang before the crew tests its own knowledge of new dictionary additions like looksmaxxing, parasocial relationships, uncanny valley, vibe coding and cuffing season. Moon sees cuffing season as a gigantic relationship red flag. Lern sees soup, Game of Thrones and somebody to make out with until spring. Rizz hears “three months of getting laid” and suddenly understands the youth. Then Crap on Celebrities brings plenty of entertainment chaos. The crew gets into the MTV VMAs lineup, discovers just how massive BLACKPINK’s Lisa actually is, hears Keith Richards covering “Bright Lights, Big City” for the Grand Theft Auto 6 soundtrack, and talks about Ice Nine Kills helping bring horror classics back to theaters. Somehow this comedy podcast also turns into an American Psycho discussion before wandering directly into an argument over country covers. Chris Stapleton versus the original “Tennessee Whiskey.” Darius Rucker versus Old Crow Medicine Show. Reba’s “Fancy.” Johnny Cash covering Nine Inch Nails. Kenny Rogers taking over “The Gambler.” And then “Life Is a Highway,” where the crew reaches the beautiful bipartisan conclusion that maybe neither version needed to exist. Rizz also gets assigned some essential country music homework after admitting there are classics he somehow missed, which means the crew now has another opportunity to aggressively educate a grown man through peer pressure. And finally, there’s Lern’s punishment for losing the Pick ’Em challenge: recording an actual love song for Rizz and preparing to stare directly into his eyes while he listens to it. He’s got butterflies. She’s ready to serenade him. Everyone else gets to enjoy the discomfort. Cuffing, country music, celebrity news and unwanted workplace romance — another perfectly normal comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Homecoming weekend is here, which means family memories, cute pictures and Rizz saying exactly the wrong thing to his wife. This funny podcast begins with Rizz’s daughter trying on homecoming dresses and Dad successfully navigating the fashion show — right up until his wife suggests she could wear one of the dresses to a wedding and Rizz responds, “There’s no way you’re fitting in that.” Congratulations, sir. You found the wrong answer with breathtaking efficiency. Meanwhile, Lern conducts a marriage experiment by replacing her usual bedtime uniform of oversized vintage T-shirts and basketball shorts with actual cute pajamas. Tim notices immediately. This somehow launches the crew into an extremely important investigation involving sexy pajamas, going commando, boxer briefs, underwear shelf life and Rizz admitting he may have underwear old enough to have its own driver’s license. Somewhere along the way, “gangrenous ween” enters the conversation, because apparently we abandoned professionalism before sunrise. Then it’s time for some hometown pride! Unfortunately, St. Louis Lambert International Airport ranks 22nd out of 24 large airports in the satisfaction study discussed on the show. Nothing says STL like looking at 22nd place and saying, “Hey, at least we beat two.” The crew also talks summer vacations, tourist destinations with reputations for rudeness and why Rizz has officially become Midwestern enough to forget how to merge into New York City pedestrian traffic. The show also digs into why the internet feels considerably more miserable these days, from rage bait and negative comments to algorithms that figured out making everybody angry is fantastic for engagement. The proposed solution? Put the phone down, go outside and interact with actual humans. Terrifying concept, we know. Thankfully, this funny podcast eventually discovers something the internet hasn’t ruined yet: miniature horses. A study discussed on the show found that spending just a few minutes petting or scratching miniature horses or donkeys can help improve mood and reduce feelings like anxiety, sadness and loneliness. Lern immediately recommends RR Ranch in Wildwood, while everybody becomes emotionally invested in tiny animals with names like Randy, Olivia, Mary and Memphis. So apparently the path to happiness is deleting rage bait, replacing your decade-old underwear and petting Randy the miniature horse. Medical schools hate us. It’s homecoming chaos, relationship mistakes, St. Louis suffering, internet misery and miniature equine salvation in another completely necessary funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The heat has officially broken everybody. This comedy podcast kicks off with St. Louis going tarps off as the crew debates shirtless yard work, peeing in the backyard and Rafe teaching his dog how it’s done by providing a live demonstration. Moon even introduces us to the dream home amenity nobody knew they needed: an outdoor urinal connected to the gutter. Property values are doing great. Then we find out retirement apparently doesn’t exist for rock stars. The crew gets into legendary musicians still touring well into their 70s and 80s, including Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Lionel Richie and more. That somehow leads us to the Hyrox athlete whose mid-race bathroom catastrophe went viral — and the massive PR mess surrounding the event afterward. This comedy podcast also hits celebrity chaos involving Ozzy and Black Sabbath, Metallica, Madonna, Taylor Swift and plenty more. Back in St. Louis, the show gets genuinely uplifting with the incredible story of conjoined twin sisters successfully separated during a marathon surgery at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon. The crew also says goodbye to O’Connell’s Pub after more than 60 years and discovers that college students are apparently swapping some traditional daytime partying for “wellness darties” involving Pilates, yoga, matcha, running and ice baths. College has changed, and Rizz would like to file a complaint. Finally, Just the Two of Us puts the crew’s ability to think alike to the test for concert tickets. Toothpaste, ketchup, fictional bears, John Candy movies, vampires and restaurant appetizers become shockingly difficult questions — until Lern and Moon manage ZERO matches and hand Patient Zero Shannon the win she’s been waiting for. Tarps off, rock legends, viral disasters, St. Louis stories and adults nearly destroying friendships over whether the obvious fictional bear is Yogi or Winnie the Pooh. It’s another completely under-control comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis How St. Louis doctors separated conjoined twins. And how they're doing now Rare Conjoined Twins Successfully Separated at SSM Health - YouTube  St. Louis' iconic O'Connell's Pub to close after deal to sell gets scrapped National Toy Hall of Fame Reveals 12 Toy Finalists Steven Tyler Sexual Assault Case Judge Mysteriously Recuses Herself Two Weeks Before Trial Judge Judy Retiring From TV Screen After 30 Years See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The official Rizz Show Eagle Call is going out as the crew rallies Team JB for the Zero Prostate Cancer Run/Walk in memory of their buddy Jeff. Then it’s time to give away concert tickets with Just the Two of Us — a game that sounds incredibly easy until Rizz, Moon, Lern and Rafe are asked to think like another human being. This funny show starts strong with Rizz and Moon matching Colgate before immediately disagreeing over what you put ketchup on, famous wizards, Rocky movies and what people keep in their nightstands. Apparently “fries” versus “hamburger” is enough to destroy a friendship. Things improve when Rafe and Lern try to match on beer, morning routines, fictional bears, pizza chains and John Candy movies. Yogi Bear and Domino’s save the day, but Bud Light versus Budweiser nearly causes an on-air corporate emergency. Then Lern and Moon deliver the beautiful disaster Patient Zero has been waiting for. Secret versus Right Guard. Glazed versus Long John. Dracula versus Edward. Sugar versus a lawnmower. And finally, nachos versus mozzarella sticks. ZERO matches means Patient Zero Shannon wins — proving sometimes the smartest strategy is simply betting on the show being terrible at its own game. This funny show keeps rolling through famous cowboys, frozen pizzas, ghosts and ’80s action movies before one final contestant puts his faith in Rizz and Moon. Levi’s and restaurant service get them started, but a fictional-teacher disagreement and furnace-versus-water-heater nearly ruin everything. It all comes down to Chevy Chase, where both land on Vacation and finally send Kevin home a winner. Concert tickets, birthday wishes, Patient Zero glory and grown adults discovering they apparently know nothing about each other — another perfectly coordinated funny show from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apparently retirement is optional when you’re a rock star. This comedy podcast kicks off with the crew looking at aging music legends who refuse to leave the stage, from Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart to Lionel Richie, Iron Maiden, Metallica and the Rolling Stones. Some have battled serious health problems, but they keep touring anyway — because as George Burns once told Lionel Richie: stay booked. Then we revisit the Hyrox athlete who suffered a catastrophic mid-race bathroom emergency and still powered through to victory. Unfortunately for Hyrox, the viral incident has turned into a massive PR headache, with criticism over officials allowing her to continue competing and concerns about what the fallout could mean for the rapidly growing fitness brand. Turns out “never quit” occasionally needs an asterisk. Crap on Celebrities brings even more chaos to this comedy podcast, including the Back to the Beginning Ozzy and Black Sabbath concert film heading to theaters, Metallica adding more stadium shows, Madonna returning to the VMAs, and Taylor Swift expanding her music-video empire. Plus, Travis Kelce gets caught up as a victim in a multimillion-dollar investment fraud scheme. Rizz also receives devastating personal news: Judge Judy is retiring from appearing in front of the camera after three decades. Thankfully, learning she’s reportedly worth around $440 million helps everyone through this difficult time. The crew also gets into Netflix being criticized for glamorizing real-life killers, whether audiences have turned serial killers into entertainment franchises, and Megan Fox entering the celebrity soap game. Aging rock legends, viral race disasters, celebrity scandals, true-crime arguments and Rizz mourning his television soulmate — just another perfectly functional comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It’s hot in St. Louis. Like, “everybody in the neighborhood has given up on shirts” hot. Lern’s porch has gone tarps off, Rizz is worried his shirtless yard work would lower property values, and somehow that leads to the crew comparing how often they pee in their own backyards. Rafe even demonstrates for his dog when necessary. Fatherhood is beautiful. This daily comedy also asks how many different homes everyone has lived in, uncovering everything from Rafe’s Craigslist roommate from Barbados to Moon temporarily living in a GMC Jimmy. Then Rafe’s attempt to buy a new TV turns into a conspiracy theory that Best Buy may just be ordering everything from Amazon anyway. “In stock” apparently means whatever we want it to mean now. Things get genuinely incredible with a St. Louis story about two-year-old conjoined twin sisters from Ethiopia who were successfully separated during a 25-hour surgery at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon. A team of doctors, nurses and specialists spent a year preparing for the procedure, allowing the sisters — who had never been able to look directly at each other — to finally see, hold and snuggle one another face-to-face. The crew also says goodbye to a St. Louis institution as O’Connell’s Pub announces plans to close after more than 60 years, before former bartenders Lern and Rafe debate the worst day of the week to work behind the bar. Spoiler: Sunday customers apparently arrive carrying the Sunday Scaries and make them everybody else’s problem. Finally, this daily comedy discovers “wellness darties,” the new college trend replacing some traditional daytime partying with Pilates, yoga, running, ice baths, matcha and protein shakes. Lern loves it. Moon has discovered the magic of steam rooms. Rizz is horrified and would apparently prefer college students honor tradition by making terrible decisions while their bodies are still young enough to recover. College kids doing yoga instead of keg stands? Backyard urinals connected to gutters? Shirtless suburban dads protecting property values? It’s another perfectly normal daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Melissa donated $5,000 to Ronald McDonald House Charities of St. Louis during Donny Fandango's Radiothon earlier this year and decided to spend her 40th birthday with The Rizzuto Show. An incredibly generous decision followed by several questionable ones. In this funny podcast, Melissa officially joins the crew for a morning packed with helicopter horror stories, a massive Powerball winner in Quincy, Rafe finding a new father figure at the hardware store, Halloween decorations getting weird, and Melissa revealing that she casually drives around with a Santa skeleton named Bobert in her back seat. Then we put the birthday girl to work. Melissa gets her first live commercial read for The Iron Grip — an extremely fake and extremely inappropriate adult novelty store — before the show dives headfirst into the legendary Richard Gere gerbil rumor and the journalist who spent SIX YEARS investigating how one of Hollywood’s greatest urban legends spread before social media even existed. This funny podcast also tackles Bruce Campbell, celebrity gossip, Cindy Crawford hypotheticals and the important question of whether ten years with her would be worth becoming “Gerbil Boy” for life. Finally, Melissa teams up with Rafe for Do It Bitch, where breakfast foods, ocean-bordering states, soda brands and musical instruments suddenly become impossible when you only have ten seconds to think. Geography betrays Melissa, Lern goes on a heater, and the birthday celebration ends exactly how every $5,000 charitable donation should: with Melissa getting shot in the butt with an airsoft gun. One 40th birthday and absolutely no dignity left behind. It’s another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show — and Melissa definitely got the full experience. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Helicopter providing coverage for NBCLA, Telemundo 52 crashes in Los Angeles Illinois winner of $1.04B Powerball lottery jackpot sold in Quincy claims prize Jabberin' Jack pumpkin toy sings racy Halloween song about his "seeds," alarming parents New Record of 26000 Items Dropped in Yellowstone Geysers Meta plans camera-free smart glasses for fall launch, The Information reports See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Melissa is celebrating her 40th birthday with The Rizzuto Show, Rafe is preparing to claim an entire weekend for HIS birthday, and somewhere in St. Charles, a taco restaurant has fallen. We begin this comedy show with birthday business. Rafe’s birthday is September 30th, but a Wednesday birthday simply isn’t good enough for a man who understands branding. So he’s claiming the following weekend and bringing four shows to the St. Charles Funny Bone, complete with guest comics, surprise appearances and improvised stand-up based on audience suggestions. Melissa even gets recruited to promote the shows. Her sales pitch? Rafe is hilarious, you’ll laugh until you cry, and his opening comics are great, too. Rafe then requests a special birthday greeting in Melissa’s signature delivery. Tickets sold... Probably. Talking about the Funny Bone naturally leads to the dining options around St. Charles, where the crew discovers the former Mission Taco/Session Taco location has apparently closed. RIP tacos. The mean streets of St. Charles remain undefeated. Fortunately, there are still plenty of options for anybody planning dinner before Rafe’s show, including the possibility of absolutely destroying yourself at a Brazilian steakhouse before waddling into the comedy club carrying enough meat to hibernate through winter. Rizz knows the danger. The card stays green. The meat keeps coming. Eventually, your body starts sending emergency alerts. Rafe suggests a simple plan: MEAT up, then MEET up. Comedy AND wordplay. We’re earning our FCC license today. But enough birthday promotion. It’s time for the main event: Do It Bitch. Team Rafe and Melissa takes on Team Lern and Moon in a best-of-five battle where gamblers bid on how many items their partners can name from a category in ten seconds. If you think the other team has bid too high? Do it, bitch. Simple. Except nothing becomes simple once a microphone and ten-second timer are involved. The first category is standard breakfast foods. Melissa starts conservatively, but the bidding quickly climbs until Moon says Lern can name seven. Challenge accepted. Lern steps up and immediately rattles off eggs, bacon, fruit, pancakes, French toast, omelets, sausage and oatmeal. Done. She even throws in an extra answer for good measure. Team Lern and Moon takes the early lead, and Melissa gets her first lesson in competitive morning radio: Confidence is wonderful until somebody turns on the clock. Then comes geography. Oh no. The category is U.S. states that touch an ocean, with Gulf states also accepted. Lern knows Moon is well traveled and confidently opens at seven. Rafe knows Melissa specifically warned him before the game that geography might not be her strongest category. Unfortunately, gambling requires courage. The bid reaches eight. Lern calls it. Melissa is up. New York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Maine. Michigan. And then everything falls apart. Pennsylvania isn’t helping. Michigan is busy hanging out with the Great Lakes. And suddenly the Pacific Coast may as well be located on another planet. Melissa discovers the brutal truth of this comedy show: knowing something while sitting comfortably at home and knowing something while Rizz stares at you with ten seconds on the clock are two completely different forms of intelligence. Round three brings soft drinks. Surely this will be easier. The bidding climbs all the way to nine brands, and Lern gets another opportunity to put the game away. Pepsi. Coca-Cola. Dr Pepper. Mountain Dew. 7UP. Sprite. Mr. Pibb. A&W Root Beer. And then… “Mother EFF!” TIME. She nearly gets there, but her insistence on saying “we have” between practically every answer burns precious seconds. Suddenly Rafe and Melissa are still alive. Barely. Meanwhile, another mystery has developed inside the studio. There is something weird on the door. It’s wet. It’s greasy. Nobody knows exactly what it is. People keep touching it despite repeatedly discussing how disgusting it feels. Eventually, the working theory becomes that somebody used the wrong cleaning product on the door plates while preparing for the boss to visit. This does not stop the show from giving the substance a significantly worse nickname. Professional broadcasting. Round four arrives. The category: Musical instruments. This should be perfect for Moon. Lern immediately says he can name nine. Rafe knows she’s probably right. So when the bidding reaches ten for Melissa, there’s nowhere left to run. Do it. Melissa needs ten instruments in ten seconds to keep her team alive. She steps to the microphone. Bass. Drums. Violin. Harp. And then the human brain simply closes for business. Panic. Silence. The birthday girl is toast. Team Lern and Moon wins, with Rafe giving Lern full credit for playing a ridiculously strong game. Unfortunately, this is Do It Bitch. Winning isn’t merely about pride. The losers get shot with an airsoft gun. And because Melissa wanted the COMPLETE Rizz Show birthday experience, she’s apparently willing to take her punishment. Moon is considerably less enthusiastic about shooting a guest. Rizz insists. Moon refuses. An ethical debate erupts over who should administer the punishment, complete with arguments about executioners, judges, feminism and whether refusing to shoot the birthday girl actually represents equality. Totally normal workplace discussion. Eventually Lern steps in to handle it. Melissa gets into position. Three… Two… One… SHOT. And her reaction? Basically nothing. After all that buildup, Melissa says it didn’t really hurt. She’s had Nerf darts hurt worse. The crew is stunned because everybody else acts like getting hit with this thing is equivalent to being struck by artillery. Melissa casually explains that she’s probably going to bruise but otherwise seems completely unbothered. Rafe’s medical diagnosis? Maybe she has an ass-circulation problem. Excellent. So what have we learned? Rafe is commandeering an entire weekend for his birthday. Brazilian steakhouses should come with recovery rooms. Lern is terrifyingly good at breakfast. Melissa should avoid geography categories. Saying “we have” nine times is a terrible speed-game strategy. Four musical instruments can suddenly feel like the complete history of music. Never touch unidentified substances on studio doors. And if you donate thousands of dollars to charity and spend your birthday with The Rizzuto Show, we might celebrate your generosity by shooting you in the butt. This comedy show is nothing if not hospitable. Happy birthday, Melissa. Happy early birthday, Rafe. And rest in peace, St. Charles tacos. You deserved better. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. 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Melissa donated $5,000 to Ronald McDonald House Charities of St. Louis through Donny Fandango's Radiothon, chose to spend her 40th birthday hanging out with The Rizzuto Show, and was immediately rewarded with the prestigious broadcasting opportunity every aspiring radio personality dreams about: Reading an endorsement for a fake adult novelty store called The Iron Grip. Welcome to radio, Melissa. Today’s funny podcast wastes absolutely no time making our birthday guest regret her generosity. Melissa joins the on-air family, gets drafted onto Rafe’s team for Do It Bitch, and is handed what appears to be a legitimate live commercial for a brand-new sponsor in Edwardsville. Except The Iron Grip apparently specializes exclusively in adult products shaped like fists. Big ones. Small ones. Glow-in-the-dark ones. There’s a “Heavyweight Champion,” a “Double-Ended Sparring Partner” and, naturally, the Southpaw Special Starter Kit. Melissa powers through the commercial like a professional while everybody else completely loses it, only for Rizz to announce some devastating breaking news immediately afterward: The client canceled. One read and they’re gone. Advertising is a brutal business. From there, the show gets considerably more serious as Rafe and Rizz discuss Evil Dead legend Bruce Campbell and his candid comments about his cancer diagnosis. Campbell says doctors have given him a five-year prognosis, but his attitude toward it is about as Bruce Campbell as you’d expect. He plans to keep working, keep pursuing the projects he loves and deal with his health problems as they arrive instead of allowing the diagnosis to define whatever time comes next. The crew talks about his career, his incredible deadpan comedy, the evolution of Evil Dead from horror into campy horror-comedy and why Campbell deserves even more credit for turning Ash into such an iconic character. It’s thoughtful. It’s sincere. It’s genuinely moving. So obviously we immediately follow it with Richard Gere and a gerbil. Welcome back. Rizz introduces what may be one of the greatest pieces of investigative journalism ever attempted: a reporter apparently spent SIX YEARS investigating the origins of the infamous Richard Gere gerbil urban legend. Six years. Not Watergate. Not organized crime. Gerbilgate. The rumor predates social media, Reddit and basically every modern mechanism capable of turning nonsense into accepted historical fact within eleven minutes. Yet somehow the story spread across America and became so famous that people who had never met one another were all hearing slightly different versions of the exact same ridiculous tale. According to the investigation discussed on the show, one major accelerant was a fraudulent press release supposedly from an animal-rights organization that was faxed to newsrooms and Hollywood agencies around Los Angeles. Remember fax machines? Apparently misinformation had to work much harder back then. The legend mutated as it traveled. Different versions involved different hospitals, different objects and increasingly elaborate details, while alleged secret X-rays and other “evidence” became part of the mythology. The crew starts wondering why everyone believed it. Was it because Richard Gere was handsome, famous and married to Cindy Crawford, so society collectively decided the universe needed to humble him? Rafe has a theory. If one man gets to spend years married to prime Cindy Crawford, maybe everybody else needs to believe that guy has at least ONE extremely bizarre flaw. Thus, the scales of justice demand a gerbil. Which leads to the important hypothetical question nobody had ever requested: Would you accept ten years with Cindy Crawford if everyone believed the Richard Gere rumor was about YOU? Rafe is in. Rizz is negotiating the terms. Moon doesn’t care about rumors. Lern is apparently serving as legal counsel. This funny podcast has officially become a contract negotiation nobody should ever put in writing. The conversation then spirals beautifully into Richard Gere attempting to visit a hypothetical pet store, South Park’s Lemmiwinks, Cindy Crawford’s Illinois roots, Gere’s feud with Sylvester Stallone during The Lords of Flatbush, and the glorious collection of celebrity urban legends that existed before anybody could simply Google whether they were complete garbage. Marilyn Manson’s rib. Gene Simmons’ tongue. Rod Stewart. Bon Jovi. Jamie Lee Curtis. And because every generation apparently deserves its own completely ridiculous celebrity rumor, Rizz nominates Machine Gun Kelly for future service. Congratulations, MGK. You weren’t consulted. Then Lern brings us Crap on Celebrities, where things get slightly less gerbil-intensive but no less chaotic. The crew discusses the controversy surrounding Macklemore being removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour after his pro-Palestinian comments, followed by multiple opening acts withdrawing in solidarity. Ed Sheeran says the decision wasn’t his and that promoters and venue operators ultimately made the call after venues threatened not to host dates. Rafe checks the imaginary breaking-news wire and reports that Ed Sheeran has now quit his own tour. He walked out on himself. Solidarity has reached its final form. There’s also speculation about Justin Bieber and Harry Styles as potential future Super Bowl halftime performers, although neither had actually been approached according to the story being discussed. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have reportedly installed automated security warnings around their massive Ohio property, giving Rizz yet another piece of technology he desperately wants at his own house. Get too close? BACK UP. Honestly, Rizz might install one inside the studio. Kelly Osbourne opens up about one of her final conversations with Ozzy and the estrangement between Kelly and her older sister Aimee, leading the crew to remember how remarkable it was that one member of the Osbourne family managed to stay largely outside the reality-TV circus while practically everyone around her became massively famous. Moon declares that decision extremely metal. Correct. Robert De Niro is reportedly in talks to play legendary Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda in a biopic, which immediately creates a new Hollywood controversy nobody saw coming: Why is Robert De Niro stealing jobs from fat guys? Finally, justice. Lern also discovers several pieces of music history that everyone apparently deleted from their brains, including Paul Rodgers performing with Queen and Ozzy Osbourne scoring a Top 10 hit decades after “Close My Eyes Forever” thanks to his collaboration with Post Malone and Travis Scott on “Take What You Want.” Moon’s conclusion? None of this happened. Lern is inserting facts from an alternate reality. And frankly, after spending this much time discussing Richard Gere, we’re no longer qualified to determine what is real. Then it’s finally time to celebrate Melissa turning 40. She shares her birthday with Amy Poehler, Nick Jonas, Alexis Bledel, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Marx, David Copperfield and several others. But Melissa isn’t finished earning her $5,000 donation. After already surviving The Iron Grip commercial, the birthday girl is handed one more prestigious broadcasting assignment: Reading the Porno Birthday. She handles that one like a champion, too. Melissa came to The Rizzuto Show for her 40th birthday and got fake commercials, celebrity gossip, gerbil journalism and an extremely questionable birthday-reading assignment. And she STILL has to play Do It Bitch with the crew. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. 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It’s Hump Day, Melissa’s birthday, and somehow a perfectly innocent celebration turns into helicopters, billion-dollar lottery tickets, homoerotic contractor pranks, seductive Halloween pumpkins, Yellowstone garbage and grown men discovering emotions inside a hardware store. So, basically, Wednesday. Today’s daily comedy starts with a very special guest joining The Rizzuto Show. Melissa donated $5,000 directly to Ronald McDonald House Charities of St. Louis through Donny Fandango's Radiothon, and her reward — or punishment, depending on how you view this program — is spending her birthday sitting in with Rizz, Lern, Moon, Rafe and Devon. She’s officially part of the show for the morning, which means she also gets the complete Rizz Show experience: jelly bean threats, potential internet trolls and absolutely no guarantee that the conversation will remain normal for more than 45 seconds. Happy birthday, Melissa. You paid for this. Rizz kicks things off by offering a choice between good luck and bad luck. Naturally, everyone chooses bad luck. And BAD luck arrives immediately. The crew talks about their experiences flying in helicopters, including Lern’s Blackhawk ride, Moon sitting in the co-pilot seat during a Grand Canyon helicopter tour as a kid, Rafe rappelling from military helicopters and Rizz taking a helicopter tour around St. Louis. Cool experiences. Then Rizz brings up a horrifying helicopter crash story involving a news chopper that went down in California while heading to cover another deadly crash. The helicopter reportedly crashed into a commercial lot, killing the reporter, pilot and a person on the ground. Which leads to one of those deeply uncomfortable Rizz Show questions nobody expects to answer before breakfast: What song would you want playing in your headphones if a helicopter was falling directly toward you? “Free Bird.” “Stairway to Heaven.” “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” “Fly Like an Eagle.” Morbid? Absolutely. But if fate is going full Final Destination, apparently this crew wants a decent soundtrack. Fortunately, the bad-luck story gets followed by some VERY good luck. Remember that massive Powerball ticket sold in Quincy, Illinois? The winner has officially stepped forward. He reportedly bought ONE $2 Quick Pick ticket and won a jackpot worth more than $1 billion before ultimately choosing the roughly $450.5 million lump-sum option before taxes. Not a bad return on two bucks. The anonymous winner instantly gives the show another opportunity to revisit its complicated relationship with Quincy, including the infamous horse stories that the city would probably appreciate us forgetting sometime before 2050. Moon even admits he once encountered a guy wearing a Quincy shirt on a cruise and felt morally obligated to explain exactly what that shirt might mean to certain Rizz Show listeners. Public service. You’re welcome, Quincy. The crew debates whether lottery winners should remain anonymous, whether you take the lump sum or annuity and what happens when hundreds of millions of dollars suddenly land in your account. Rafe’s answer basically involves buying an island. Everyone else is trying to calculate investments. And somewhere in Quincy, one extremely rich person is hopefully shopping for a Lamborghini while desperately avoiding everyone he has ever met. Then the conversation somehow becomes homeownership. Rafe has had contractors working around his house and discovers somebody left him a very special Easter egg in the basement: two extremely adult playing cards strategically displayed near a papasan chair. Meaning every contractor walking downstairs may have assumed Rafe had constructed the saddest private viewing lounge in St. Louis. Nobody knows who did it. Rafe has a suspect. The prankster remains at large. Homeownership also means Rafe needs tools, lawn equipment and all the other accessories required to slowly transform a comedian into Hank Hill. That brings us to the true love story of today’s daily comedy: Rafe and Rick’s Ace Hardware. Rafe went shopping and apparently experienced customer service so wonderful that he nearly had an emotional breakthrough between the lawnmowers and leaf blowers. The store was clean. The employees were helpful. Nobody ran away from him. Nobody pressured him into seventeen memberships. A guy actually knew where things were. It was everything Rafe never knew he needed. Within minutes, the crew has turned this helpful hardware employee into Rafe’s long-lost father, complete with imaginary forehead kisses, parking-lot tears and profound disappointment when Dad discovers Rafe drives a Toyota Tacoma instead of a Ford or Chevy. Rick was tender. Rafe may never recover. From hardware we naturally move into Halloween because the decorations are already taking over stores and Lern is considering going big this year. Possibly 15-foot-skeleton big. She also wants floating witch hats and purple lighting inspired by Salem, while Rafe is preparing to unleash his collection of Halloween inflatables now that he finally has enough room. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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Somehow the phrase “Big Beaver” isn’t even the weirdest thing you’re about to hear... Rizz recently made his first trip to Buc-ee’s and came away impressed by the size, the amount of stuff and… well, that’s about it. But the beaver empire definitely gets more enthusiastic when somebody messes with its logo. The crew discusses Buc-ee’s legal battle with an apparel company accused of using its famous beaver on military-style merchandise, resulting in an $850,000 settlement according to the story discussed on the show. That leads straight into John Oliver trolling “Big Beaver” with parody merchandise, Lern buying the socks, and a debate over the difference between legitimately protecting your trademark and unleashing corporate lawyers on every tiny beaver within driving distance. That would already be plenty for a normal comedy podcast. Unfortunately, nobody here has ever been interested in normal. Next comes the Rizz Quiz, where six callers are given extremely difficult questions such as “What ocean borders California?” and “What color is on the bottom of a traffic light?” The results are devastating. California gets relocated to the Atlantic Ocean. The Great Red Spot moves to Mars. One father celebrates his son’s 11th birthday by revealing he thinks a millennium is 100 years. And during a playoff, Justin is asked what COUNTRY is directly north of Mexico. His answer? Alaska. Not the United States. Alaska. The crew is forced to explain that this is no longer merely a geography problem. Mark eventually survives the educational apocalypse and wins the contest, while an Empire State Building tiebreaker gives the people in the studio their own opportunity to demonstrate that estimating the size of famous buildings is apparently impossible. From there, we move into accommodations. Lern was supposed to stay at a Dolly Parton-themed hotel while traveling for the Foo Fighters, but shortly before the trip she learned the hotel still wasn’t ready. The staff offered to help with alternate accommodations — because that’s the Dolly way — and Lern eventually landed in an Airbnb. Which leads directly to one of the most romantic vacation ideas ever discussed on the show: Buffalo Bill’s house from The Silence of the Lambs. Yes, you can stay there. The crew discusses the house in Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, a town name that immediately gets roasted before anyone can even focus on the serial-killer-themed vacation rental. The house goes ALL IN. There’s a recreated basement well for pictures, horror memorabilia, hundreds of horror movies, an arcade, a pool table and a motion-activated disco ball that plays “Goodbye Horses.” Apparently people have even proposed inside the well. Nothing says lifelong commitment like asking someone to marry you while recreating one of the most disturbing basements in movie history. And somehow several members of the show are completely willing to sleep there. Devon may already be in the well. Then the crew heads to karaoke, where the crew runs through songs you should probably never attempt unless humiliation is specifically why you left the house. “I Will Always Love You.” “Bohemian Rhapsody.” “Dream On.” “Take On Me.” “Chandelier.” “Somebody to Love.” “Chop Suey!” Lern and Rafe argue that bad karaoke is actually better because nobody wants to spend their night watching aspiring Broadway performers flawlessly execute songs like they’re trying to get discovered between Jägerbombs. Rizz treats karaoke like The Voice. Moon has standards. And the show discovers Alan Ritchson can sing, because apparently being Jack Reacher wasn’t enough and this man needed additional talents just to make the rest of us feel worse. Then Crap on Celebrities takes the wheel with Benny Blanco relationship talk, Ella Langley, Kacey Musgraves, Stevie Nicks, Black Sabbath, Metallica and the revelation that Oprah is heading to the Sphere. Initially, the room has questions. Many questions. Then Moon learns Jacob Collier is involved and suddenly transforms into Oprah’s newest ticket salesman. The episode also detours through movie songs, Dirty Dancing, Titanic, Frozen, Fievel and the eternal question of whether certain movie themes are masterpieces or crimes against speakers. And then the crew walks into the room carrying a pharmacy. Rafe arrives surrounded by cold and allergy remedies because he feels something coming on and absolutely refuses to get sick. Rizz recommends chicken soup — “Jewish penicillin” — while the crew starts comparing all the exciting new ways their bodies hurt for absolutely no reason. That becomes a discussion of bizarre sleeping positions. Lern sleeps on her stomach with a hand underneath her pelvis. Moon sleeps like a vampire in a coffin. Rafe routinely wakes up with entire arms completely dead and rubs his feet together like Jiminy Cricket. Everyone is doing great. From there we get Mary Kay nostalgia, pink Cadillacs, old-school home sales parties and Rafe remembering an early comedy gig where part of the compensation came in a deeply unconventional swag bag. We’ll leave it at that. YouTube a has rules. The comedy podcast then moves into fitness, where the crew discusses the famous 10,000-steps goal and a conversation about walking pace before discovering Hyrox — a standardized fitness competition involving running and workout stations. Sounds healthy. Sounds inspiring. Sounds like a great way to improve yourself. Then the show discusses a Hyrox race in Beijing where a 22-year-old Australian competitor reportedly suffered a severe bowel accident during the competition… …and kept going. She won. The crew cannot believe what they’re hearing. The controversy becomes less about competitive toughness and more about the fact that Hyrox involves shared workout stations, meaning everybody behind her suddenly had a problem they absolutely did not include in their training program. “A win is a win” becomes the philosophy of the day. Unfortunately, the bathroom content is not finished. The show also discusses an alleged neighbor dispute involving a bucket of human waste, proving once again that some people handle relationship drama with communication while others apparently choose biological warfare. Then air travel joins the nightmare. The crew discusses disruptive airplane passengers, Moon’s frustration with constant in-flight entertainment interruptions and pilot announcements, and a flight attendant’s warning that some passengers reportedly change baby diapers directly on airplane tray tables. Yes. The tray where your pretzels go. Congratulations. 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Nothing says happy birthday quite like Jeremy Piven telling Rizz he’s really, really glad he was born. And nothing destroys that warm birthday feeling faster than immediately discussing aggressive beaver litigation. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show. Rizz recently made his first pilgrimage to Buc-ee’s in Springfield and came away with a glowing review: it was okay. It was fine. It was big. Take that, travel influencers. But while Rizz may not be ready to dedicate his life to the beaver, Buc-ee’s is apparently extremely dedicated to protecting it. The crew discusses a legal battle involving apparel company Born United, which the show says used the Buc-ee’s beaver logo on military-style merchandise and continued selling it after receiving cease-and-desist letters. The result discussed on the show: an $850,000 settlement involving trademark infringement, unfair competition and false advertising. That launches this comedy podcast into the larger debate over Buc-ee’s aggressively defending its brand, especially when smaller businesses are involved. Lern brings up John Oliver’s campaign trolling “Big Beaver” with parody merchandise featuring Mr. Nutterbutter and the phrase “Buck Off.” Instead of simply poking the bear — or beaver — the merchandise is raising money for charity, while Buc-ee’s apparently refuses to take the lawsuit bait. Lern and Tim even bought the socks. Naturally. The crew debates where legitimate trademark protection ends and corporate bullying begins. Lern compares it to protecting station branding when somebody blatantly rips off a logo versus going nuclear on some random tiny business that happens to use something vaguely similar. Basically: protect your beaver responsibly. Then it’s time to give away concert tickets. And any remaining faith in the American education system. Welcome to the Rizz Quiz. Six callers get 45 seconds of rapid-fire trivia. No skips. One wrong answer ends the run. Highest score wins their choice of concert tickets. These are not impossible questions. That becomes important. Curtis starts the festivities by correctly identifying the colors of a yield sign before saying the main ingredient in butter is oil. Score: one. Rizz then accidentally hangs up on him. Honestly, mercy killing. Brian looks like an early trivia powerhouse when he correctly identifies Garfield as orange, Madrid as the capital of Spain and six as half a dozen. Then he says the planet with the Great Red Spot is Mars. Jupiter would like a word. Score: three. Justin steps up and starts absolutely cooking. A baby kangaroo? Joey. Sapphire? Blue. Girl with the red hood? Little Red Riding Hood. Quarters in two dollars? Eight. Crushed peanuts? Peanut butter. Which ocean borders California? Atlantic. NOOOOOOO. Justin still posts the best score so far with five, but geography has officially entered the building and chosen violence. Next comes Zach, who asks the show to wish his son Jameson a happy 11th birthday. Rizz explains they don’t do shout-outs while immediately wishing Jameson a happy birthday and giving him applause. Perfect. Now Dad has to win for Jameson. Unfortunately, Dad does not know how many years are in a millennium. Happy birthday, buddy. Daddy got you 100 years instead of 1,000. Mark is next and nearly gets taken out immediately by Scar from The Lion King. After what feels like a complete psychological journey, he finally remembers the villain’s name and battles his way to five correct answers, tying Justin. Then Aaron arrives with the opportunity to avoid a playoff entirely. His first question: What is the bottom color of a standard traffic light? Red. Game over. The answer is green. Aaron scores the day’s first zero, and somewhere every DMV employee listening quietly locks the doors. Now we have a playoff. Justin returns first and answers six inches in half a foot. Correct. Bruce Wayne’s superhero identity? Batman. Correct. What country is directly north of Mexico? Alaska. ALASKA. The comedy podcast has officially abandoned geography and entered experimental theater. The room absolutely collapses. Not only is Alaska not directly north of Mexico, it is — and we cannot stress this enough — not a country. Justin finishes with two. That leaves Mark needing three correct answers to win. Football safety? Two points. Shape with no corners or straight sides? Circle. Famous New York statue holding a torch? Statue of Liberty. We have a winner. Mark takes the Rizz Quiz crown and chooses Breaking Benjamin with Chevelle tickets, bringing one of the most educationally concerning contests in recent show history to a merciful conclusion. But Rizz has one final question. He reveals the closest-number tiebreaker they could have used: How many floors are in the Empire State Building? Now everybody in the studio gets involved. Devon guesses 54. Lern lands on 88 after changing her answer. Another guess rockets all the way to 224. Rafe goes with 150 — while admitting he almost said 400 before realizing that might make him “sound like a real dumb ass.” Good save. The actual answer according to the quiz? Lern’s 88 is closest. Somehow, after an entire segment of listeners getting publicly destroyed by elementary-school trivia, Lern walks away the intellectual champion. So this episode has everything: Jeremy Piven birthday wishes, Buc-ee’s trademark warfare, Big Beaver, John Oliver trolling, concert tickets, Garfield, Jupiter, a child learning his father doesn’t know what a millennium is, California apparently relocating to the Atlantic Ocean, Alaska declaring independence from the United States and a group of grown adults trying to estimate the height of the Empire State Building. It’s trivia. It’s chaos. It’s The Rizzuto Show. And please remember before getting behind the wheel today: Green is on the bottom. 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Lern was supposed to stay at a Dolly Parton-themed hotel. That sentence alone sounds magical. Unfortunately, the hotel wasn’t finished. After booking the Nashville stay months in advance for a trip surrounding the Foo Fighters, Lern and Tim learned shortly before arriving that their Dolly accommodations still weren’t ready for actual human beings. The hotel staff was extremely accommodating — because apparently that’s the Dolly way — and offered to help them find somewhere else. Lern eventually landed in an Airbnb. Which is convenient, because this funny show immediately turns into a discussion about Airbnbs that would make most reasonable people sleep in their cars instead. The crew discovers you can stay in the actual Pennsylvania house used as Buffalo Bill’s home in The Silence of the Lambs. It’s in Perryopolis, a town name that Moon and Rafe immediately decide needs to be investigated for crimes against geography. Perryville? Too normal. Perry Town? Not enough grandeur. Perryopolis? Now we’re cooking. And the house itself has gone completely all-in. The basement scenes involving Buffalo Bill’s infamous well weren’t originally filmed there, so naturally the current owner had a replica constructed inside the house. Guests can climb into it, take pictures and apparently even propose marriage from inside the pit, because nothing says “spend forever with me” like recreating a serial killer’s basement. There’s also a motion-activated disco ball that plays “Goodbye Horses.” Worth the trip. Throw in themed packages, horror memorabilia, an arcade, a pool table and hundreds of horror movies on DVD and VHS, and suddenly the crew is seriously considering a group vacation to Perryopolis. Lern is absolutely sleeping there. Devon apparently wants the well. Everybody seems surprisingly comfortable with this. From haunted vacation rentals, the conversation makes the completely natural transition into karaoke — specifically, songs you should absolutely NOT attempt unless your goal is public humiliation. The crew runs through a ranking of brutally difficult karaoke choices, including “I Will Always Love You,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Dream On,” “Take On Me,” “Chandelier,” “Somebody to Love,” “Emotions,” “Barracuda,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” “Informer,” “Purple Rain,” “Chop Suey!” and several other songs requiring vocal abilities that Chad from accounting simply does not possess. Lern and Rafe argue that terrible karaoke is actually the point. Nobody wants to watch twelve consecutive musical-theater kids nail obscure Broadway songs like they’re auditioning for a touring production. We want danger. We want confidence unsupported by talent. We want somebody three drinks deep suddenly deciding they can sing System of a Down. That is entertainment. Rizz, meanwhile, treats karaoke like The Voice, mentally turning his chair whenever somebody actually pulls off the impossible. And yes, the crew demonstrates some of these songs themselves. You’re welcome. The conversation also uncovers another deeply unfair fact about Alan Ritchson: apparently Jack Reacher can sing, too. Being enormous and handsome was already plenty, sir. Leave something for everybody else. Then it’s time for Crap on Celebrities, and the funny show dives directly into entertainment chaos. Benny Blanco’s relationship advice basically comes down to understanding your partner, communicating and not being a jerk — an apparently revolutionary romantic strategy. The crew talks Ella Langley’s massive chart success, Kacey Musgraves, Stevie Nicks opening up about her history with cocaine and Klonopin, Tony Iommi reportedly passing on another Black Sabbath album and Moon explaining why producer Andrew Watt’s willingness to throw endless ideas around can be such an asset in the studio. John Carpenter’s admiration for Metallica also sparks speculation about how his visual style could fit with a giant immersive production. Which brings us to the Sphere. Who’s next? Metallica? Oasis? Coldplay? Nope. Oprah. The show discusses Oprah Winfrey bringing an immersive production to the Las Vegas Sphere, and initially nobody can figure out what that is supposed to look like. Giant Oprah? Inspirational quotes covering 160,000 square feet? “You get a Sphere! YOU get a Sphere!” But then Moon discovers musician Jacob Collier is involved and executes one of the fastest opinion reversals in show history. Suddenly, he’s in. Completely in. Moon launches into an enthusiastic defense of Collier’s musicianship and creativity while everybody else tries to figure out how the conversation went from mocking Oprah at the Sphere to Moon volunteering hundreds of dollars for tickets. That’s growth. Or something. Celebrity chaos continues with Stagecoach talk, Florida Georgia Line, the Emmys, Reba’s Dolly Parton tribute, Dave Chappelle’s announced tour and Martha Stewart apparently considering releasing nude photos. Which, naturally, gives Rafe the opportunity to invite everyone to “Martha’s Vineyard.” We apologize. Things briefly get much more serious when the show discusses a reported death possibly involving a counterfeit oxycodone pill containing fentanyl. The crew talks about the danger of counterfeit pills and the importance of Narcan, including the need to call 911 and the possibility that multiple doses may be necessary in an opioid overdose. Then celebrity family drama arrives with a discussion about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s children dropping Pitt from their names, leading to a larger conversation about family relationships, famous last names and the obvious reality that none of us actually knows what happens inside somebody else’s home. Finally, the episode becomes an accidental soundtrack debate. What are the greatest songs ever attached to movies? What are the worst? Titanic. Dirty Dancing. Saturday Night Fever. Rocky. Philadelphia. Frozen. Wild Wild West. The Three Musketeers. An American Tail. Moon gets emotionally invested in Fievel. Lern would like everyone to return to Patrick Swayze. Rafe remembers the reign of terror that was Bryan Adams. And somewhere along the way, Pitbull gets accused of reminding everybody that he’s Mr. Worldwide in every song like he’s legally required to provide identification. So yes, this episode starts with Dolly Parton hospitality, travels to Buffalo Bill’s basement, crashes a karaoke bar, discovers Jack Reacher can sing, sends Oprah to the Sphere and ends up debating whether Fievel has been given the musical respect he deserves. Exactly the kind of funny show where nobody knows where the conversation is going — especially the people having it. Welcome to Perryopolis. Please put the lotion in the basket before checkout. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rafe might have allergies. Or a cold. Or he might simply be preparing for pharmaceutical Armageddon. Either way, he arrives with enough medication spread across the desk to make the studio look like a Walgreens with microphones. That’s how this episode begins, and somehow things get significantly less sanitary from there. Rafe is determined not to get sick, so he’s armed with cold remedies, allergy treatments, mystery medicine from Devon and, naturally, cheese-filled salami wraps. Rizz recommends the traditional cure of chicken soup — AKA “Jewish penicillin” — while everyone tries to determine whether there’s actually something magical happening in the broth. This daily podcast then becomes a support group for adults who wake up injured despite accomplishing absolutely nothing. Rizz’s hand mysteriously hurts. Lern wakes up with a completely numb hand after falling asleep on the chaise lounge. Rafe routinely loses feeling in entire arms while sleeping. That launches everybody into an extremely detailed comparison of sleeping positions, dead limbs, stomach sleeping, coffin sleeping, restless legs and the bizarre little rituals our bodies apparently demand before allowing us eight hours of unconsciousness. Moon sleeps like a vampire. Lern has an elaborate pelvic-hand configuration. Rafe rubs his feet together like a human cricket. Everybody is doing great. Lern also shares her surprise Mary Kay makeover from a listener, which sends the room down memory lane with pink Cadillacs, parents getting involved with Mary Kay, Tupperware parties and the strange world of home-sales businesses. Naturally, Rafe has a related story. Early in his comedy career, he and another comedian performed at an event and discovered part of their compensation involved a swag bag filled with adult products. Money disappears. Possessions come and go. But apparently a bag of novelty merchandise is forever. From there, Rizz gets into the supposed magic of 10,000 steps a day and explains that the famous number traces back to pedometer marketing rather than some sacred scientific commandment. The crew discusses walking pace, Moon’s extremely active 83-year-old mother and the general importance of staying mobile as you get older. Then we meet Hyrox. Imagine running five miles while repeatedly stopping to punish yourself with sled pushes, sled pulls, burpee broad jumps, rowing, kettlebell carries, sandbag lunges and wall balls. Sounds fun! It gets better. The show discusses a 22-year-old competitor who won a Hyrox event despite suffering an absolutely catastrophic bathroom emergency during the race. She kept going. And won. Normally, that would be an inspirational sports story about perseverance. Unfortunately, Hyrox involves shared workout equipment. Now we have a biohazard. The crew debates whether finishing the race was admirable, horrifying or both, especially after learning the incident reportedly happened early enough that the competitor still had multiple shared stations ahead of her. The event ultimately changed its rules for future incidents, but her victory remained intact. A win is a win. Apparently. You might think one poop story is enough for a daily podcast. That would indicate you have never listened to The Rizzuto Show. Welcome to Poopy Tuesday. The next story involves an alleged affair, neighboring units in a Miami-area mobile home park and a woman accused of preparing an entire bucket of human waste specifically to throw in her neighbor’s face. That sentence somehow gets worse when the crew learns she reportedly told someone beforehand what she was planning. Nothing says “healthy conflict resolution” quite like collecting ammunition yourself. Crime news continues with authorities reportedly searching for an older Chevy Tahoe bearing the words “Fat Chicks Only” after a burglary. Witnesses allegedly describe two large bearded men, meaning police received perhaps the most specific and simultaneously useless suspect description imaginable. Then Vegas enters the chat. A man meets two women at a nightclub, drinks with them, hits the hot tub and brings them back to his hotel room. He later wakes up to discover cash missing along with tens of thousands of dollars in allegedly unauthorized transactions. The crew immediately begins investigating the most important unanswered question: Did the poor guy at least have a good night first? We may never know. Things eventually move to air travel, where Rizz recalls sitting near a passenger who suffered a seizure before takeoff and was ultimately removed from the flight because of the medical risk. Then comes another flight story involving a passenger who reportedly got completely naked and began engaging in inappropriate behavior in front of neighboring passengers. The pilots apparently decide they’re still going to Miami. Honestly, at that point, everybody deserves the vacation. Moon also unloads on airline entertainment systems that constantly interrupt movies with announcements, lengthy videos and pilots who sound approximately 40 years older over the intercom than they looked while boarding. Then Rizz destroys airplane dining forever. According to a flight attendant story discussed on the show, some passengers have changed babies on tray tables. Yes. Those tray tables. The same tray tables where you put your pretzels. Moon says he wipes down his tray, screen and armrests whenever he flies. Suddenly that no longer sounds obsessive. It sounds like basic survival. And because apparently the gastrointestinal theme had not been explored thoroughly enough, the crew circles back to diarrhea for a discussion about a reported cyclospora outbreak tied to shredded iceberg lettuce being declared over. Lettuce is back, baby. The long national nightmare has ended. Finally, the crew gets into one of St. Louis’ favorite shared hobbies: complaining about Lambert. Airport pickup congestion, Uber confusion, departures versus arrivals, construction, terminal access and the increasingly chaotic experience of simply trying to collect another human being from the airport all get their turn. For years, one of St. Louis’ greatest airport flexes was convenience. Now? Welcome to Thunderdome. Please locate your Uber somewhere in this general zip code. So yes, this episode has allergies, mysterious body pain, bizarre sleeping positions, Mary Kay, unconventional comedy compensation, fitness trends, competitive bathroom disasters, weaponized feces, Vegas mistakes, naked airline passengers, contaminated tray tables, lettuce recalls and St. Louis airport rage. Exactly what you expect from a daily podcast that begins by recommending chicken soup and somehow ends up making you afraid of gyms, airplanes, mobile homes, lettuce and your own digestive system. Feel better, everybody. And maybe disinfect that tray table. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What do concussions, Mexico City, a $2,000 foldable iPhone, midnight margaritas, tanning beds and a robot vacuum catching an alleged cheater have in common? Absolutely nothing. So naturally, we put them together. This three-episode collection of The Rizzuto Show combines some spectacularly unrelated conversations into one giant funny podcast featuring physical trauma, international rock-star adventures, technological betrayal, relationship debates and enough questionable judgment to keep everybody employed for at least one more morning. The chaos begins with a simple question: has anyone on the show ever been knocked out cold? Moon recalls childhood injuries and the 219 stitches he’s had in his head and face, along with moments when a hard impact made everything go black. Rafe remembers a helmet-to-helmet football collision that left him seeing lights before collapsing. Lern doesn’t think she was ever fully knocked unconscious, although her cousins apparently made a respectable effort when they were kids. Meanwhile, Rizz reveals that his social-media algorithm has correctly identified his primary interests as cooking videos and watching people get absolutely demolished. Personalized technology is beautiful. From there, Moon returns from Mexico City after performing with Goldfinger at Warped Tour. He describes roughly 40,000 people packed in front of their stage, with more than 150,000 tickets sold for the event overall. Mexico City’s altitude makes performing an adventure of its own, but Moon comes back raving about the crowd, the people, the food and the sheer size of a city that seemingly never ends. There are chilaquiles. There are frijoles. There’s an extremely nice hotel. There are also security precautions involving verified drivers and discussions of kidnapping risks, because apparently touring internationally occasionally requires more preparation than “bring your guitar.” Moon also gets reflective about the wealth disparity he saw and how traveling outside your normal bubble can violently reset your perspective. Then everybody talks airports, TSA rules and the possibility of approved non-ticketed visitors eventually being allowed back through security at select airports. This leads directly into old airport nostalgia, Global Entry complaints, confiscated toiletries and all the other tiny indignities we accept because somebody once decided 3.5 ounces of shampoo represents chaos. Lern then takes us into another terrifying environment: Youth baseball. After attending her best friend’s son’s game, she reports back on parents blocking views with tents, adults getting way too emotionally invested and one dad loudly criticizing his own kid while the kid is trying to hit. The crew gets into overbearing sports parents, adults attempting to relive their glory days through children, screaming at referees and umpires, and the incredible ability of youth athletics to turn otherwise functional adults into people who believe a 12-year-old’s batting average determines the family legacy. And somehow that still isn’t the weirdest concert-related story. At an outdoor gig, Lern encounters an audience member who brings their own guitar AND a battery-powered amplifier, sets up in front of the band and simply starts playing along. Not invited. Not hired. Not remotely part of the band. Just spiritually promoted themselves. Honestly, that confidence should be studied. Then another episode brings us the reported foldable Apple iPhone and the greatest civil-rights battle nobody expected: left-handed people versus phone design. The show discusses complaints that the foldable phone’s layout is significantly friendlier to right-handed users. Moon’s position is compassionate and nuanced: The world is built for right-handed people. Deal with it. Rizz responds by digging into supposed advantages of being left-handed in sports, creativity and other areas, which somehow becomes a discussion of famous lefties, presidents and Professor Lern’s historically questionable theories. Her future college course remains undefeated: “Things I Think, But Can’t Prove.” Everybody passes. The funny podcast then transforms into a movie-review program nobody requested. Lern and her mom go see Practical Magic 2 dressed as witches and discover they are apparently the only people who received the imaginary costume memo. Fortunately, they have midnight margaritas and commit to the bit. Lern enjoys the movie. Rafe also enjoys it. There is only one important difference. Rafe went alone. Now the crew can’t stop imagining one solitary man sitting among groups of mothers and daughters at Practical Magic 2, looking suspicious despite having the extremely innocent explanation that he simply likes Sandra Bullock and wanted the movie to succeed. Moon counters with his own nostalgia fix in Mortal Kombat 2, and suddenly the show has become Siskel & Ebert if Siskel & Ebert spent half the review making fun of each other. More movie talk follows, including horror, sequels and entertainment news, before the show encounters something truly horrifying: Fake Eminem. An AI-generated song presented like a new Eminem track reportedly racks up more than 100,000 YouTube views before being removed. The crew listens and quickly realizes something is missing. Variation. A hook. Actual Eminem. And, most importantly, references to his mom. AI may be coming for everyone’s jobs, but apparently Slim Shady remains safe for another afternoon. Then Missouri gives everyone approximately seven minutes of gorgeous weather. Rizz has the family outside. The dogs are playing. Nobody is fighting. Lern starts dreaming about jackets. Sweater weather is coming! Tomorrow’s high? 99 degrees. Thanks, St. Louis. The conversation immediately gets darker when the show discusses allegations involving secret recordings of unsuspecting people using tanning facilities at an Arnold-area gym. The story summons the imaginary justice system known as Rizland, where the crew begins designing an increasingly elaborate form of Swamp Justice for the accused. Lern proposes public shaming. Rafe adds tanning. Rizz gets disturbingly enthusiastic about the cooking process. Nobody should give these people judicial authority. Ever. Next, Sex Time Fun Facts brings in a relationship dilemma involving a husband who wants to leave a stressful, high-paying career and pursue a calmer life. His wife worries about losing their lifestyle and wonders whether getting his testosterone checked might restore the ambitious “tiger” she married. The room immediately divides over burnout, money, responsibility, marriage and whether this man genuinely needs a healthier life or just discovered mushrooms at Burning Man and now wants to skateboard in Costa Rica. Underneath the jokes, the crew actually gets into the reality that people change during long relationships — and that figuring out how to adapt together may be more important than expecting your spouse to remain exactly who they were when you met. Very mature. Don’t worry. It doesn’t last. Because now we have a robot vacuum solving infidelity. The show discusses a story from Taiwan involving a husband who reportedly activated a robot vacuum remotely and discovered his wife with another man through the device’s camera. Forget lipstick on the collar. The Roomba has evidence. The legal aftermath gets even stranger, but Rafe remains fixated on the true violation: another man allegedly sitting bare-assed on the couch where the husband watches football. Some betrayals simply cut deeper. That launches the crew into a debate over what actually qualifies as cheating. Flirtatious texts? Late-night conversations you hide from your partner? Keeping a dating profile for “validation”? Deleting messages? Saving somebody under a fake name? Talking to another person about problems in your relationship? Everyone draws the line somewhere different, although Moon offers perhaps the most useful conclusion: if you want a genuinely healthy relationship, maybe stop deliberately hanging out directly next to the line. This reasonable advice lasts until the show debates whether a straight married guy could theoretically maintain a Grindr profile exclusively for compliments. We tried. Three episodes. One spectacular pile of nonsense. You’ve got people getting knocked out, Moon playing for a gigantic Mexico City crowd, airport security, youth-sports parents, an unauthorized audience guitarist, left-handed phone discrimination, witch costumes, midnight margaritas, Mortal Kombat nostalgia, AI Eminem, fake sweater weather, alleged tanning-bed surveillance, marital burnout, relationship boundaries and a robot vacuum that has seen things no household appliance should ever have to see. It’s weird news, funny stories, pop culture commentary, St. Louis chaos and exactly the kind of funny podcast where you can start with traumatic brain injuries and somehow end up debating whether your Roomba is legally allowed to testify against your spouse. Technology was a mistake. 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For one beautiful evening, St. Louis experienced something almost forgotten: comfortable weather. Rizz had the family outside. The dogs were running around. Everyone was smiling. Nobody was fighting. There was a breeze. Lern started dreaming about jackets again. And then the forecast said 99 degrees. Welcome back to Missouri, where “sweater weather” is apparently just a limited-time promotional offer. Episode 36 of The Rizzuto Show starts with weather optimism and immediately deteriorates into tanning beds, alleged hidden cameras, marital resentment, robot-vacuum surveillance and a full courtroom debate over what technically counts as cheating. In other words, another perfectly healthy daily podcast. The first major story comes out of Arnold, where the show discusses a man facing multiple felony invasion-of-privacy charges after police said an investigation uncovered evidence of people allegedly being secretly photographed or recorded in tanning facilities at a local gym. It’s creepy, invasive and exactly the kind of story that summons one of The Rizzuto Show’s least legally recognized institutions: Swamp Justice. Lern proposes a Game of Thrones-style walk of shame. Rafe wants to add an unpleasant tanning session beforehand. Rizz starts turning the whole thing into a human rotisserie concept until everyone has contributed enough hypothetical punishment ideas to make it extremely clear why none of these people should ever be appointed to the judiciary. To be clear: nobody dies. They’re just... aggressively seared. The conversation briefly wanders through Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey and college football before Sex Time Fun Facts introduces an email that divides the room. A woman says she married h See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What happens when Apple makes a $2,000 foldable phone that apparently hates left-handed people? You get 43 minutes of The Rizzuto Show doing what it does best: taking one mildly ridiculous topic and driving it directly into left-handed presidents, witch costumes, midnight margaritas, Mortal Kombat nostalgia, creepy horror movies, celebrity gossip and an AI-generated Eminem song that fools 100,000 people. Just another productive morning. Episode 32 begins with the show discussing reports and early reviews of Apple’s foldable “iPhone Duo,” including complaints that its design is much friendlier to right-handed users. The hinge, rounded edges and relocated controls supposedly create an awkward experience if you insist on holding the phone with your left hand. Moon’s response? The world is built for right-handed people. Get over it. And with that, our comedy show launches into an investigation of whether left-handed people might actually have the better deal everywhere else. Rizz runs through supposed advantages for lefties in baseball, tennis, boxing, fencing, complex math, art, music and even language recovery after certain brain injuries. The crew gets into famous lefties like Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Bill Gates and Oprah, along with the surprisingly large number of left-handed presidents. This also gives Lern an opportunity to provide several historical theories that absolutely nobody should put on an exam. Her future college course already has a name: “Things I Think, But Can’t Prove.” Everybody passes. Then the episode turns into movie-review central when Lern reports back from Practical Magic 2. She and her mom went to the theater dressed as witches, expecting to find an entire coven waiting for them. There was no coven. They were the witches. Fortunately, midnight margaritas were involved, so dignity was never really part of the evening. Lern gives the movie an 8 out of 10 and talks about its humor, heart, nostalgia and emotional moments. She admits she may either be entering a sentimental phase of life or becoming clinically depressed, which seems like a perfectly reasonable way to review a movie. Then we discover Rafe also saw Practical Magic 2. Alone. Rafe explains that he wanted to support Sandra Bullock and help the movie succeed despite the rough critical reviews. He liked the movie, enjoyed the mother-daughter energy in the theater and gave it roughly a B. Of course, the crew is much more interested in the visual of one lone man sitting among groups of mothers and daughters watching Practical Magic 2. Especially once imaginary witch hats and the phrase “Bangers Only” enter the conversation. Moon has the male-nostalgia counterpart ready: Mortal Kombat 2. For him, it scratches the exact same itch. It doesn’t need to reinvent cinema. It just needs to make him feel like the kid who went to see Mortal Kombat repeatedly in the ’90s. Karl Urban shows up as Johnny Cage, the cheese level rises appropriately, and Moon happily returns to being a Mortal Kombat nerd. Then everybody puts on their extremely unofficial film-critic hats for Obsession and Backrooms. The crew discusses Obsession and its wonderfully simple premise: a guy uses a magical “One Wish Willow” to wish that a woman would love him more than anything else in the world. Great idea. Surely nothing horrifying could happen there. Moon likes how the movie plays with recognizable feelings of love and infatuation before pushing them into increasingly disturbing territory, while Rafe appreciates the simplicity of the magical object that kicks everything off. Then Moon describes Backrooms as this generation’s The Blair Witch Project — built around internet lore, liminal spaces, camcorder-style filmmaking, anticipation and the jump-scare language younger audiences grew up with through games like Five Nights at Freddy’s. Rizz also squeezes in the Mr. T documentary because apparently we’re running a multiplex now. Then it’s time for Crap on Celebrities, and this comedy show somehow gets even busier. The transcript gets into Lady Gaga reportedly appearing with a newborn alongside fiancé Michael Polansky, possible new music from My Chemical Romance, Oasis teasing an announcement, and the show’s ongoing investment in whether Ella Langley can knock Mariah Carey off a chart record. Naturally, the crew’s proposed strategy is simply to play “Choosin’ Texas” continuously until Mariah’s Christmas empire collapses. We also get entertainment talk involving The Odyssey, Alan Ritchson, Helen Mirren embracing AI for quick medical questions, and the wonderfully specific revelation that Mirren once lamented Kurt Cobain never getting to experience GPS. Forget the music he never made. The man never got turn-by-turn directions. That’s apparently the tragedy. Dakota Johnson and Machine Gun Kelly dating rumors send Rafe into emotional distress because he has had enough of MGK getting involved with attractive women. A resurfaced Dustin Hoffman interview sparks a much more serious discussion about consent and past allegations surrounding the actor. Courteney Cox talks about potentially directing a future Scream, and the crew immediately starts constructing an increasingly ridiculous meta-Scream movie that eventually involves Jennifer Aniston. There’s also news of another Family Stone movie, giving Lern yet another sequel to something she loves and another opportunity for the entertainment industry to weaponize nostalgia against her. Finally, AI comes for Eminem. An AI-generated track presented like a new Eminem song reportedly racks up more than 100,000 YouTube views before being removed. The crew listens to part of it and is less than convinced. Where’s the variation? Where’s the real Eminem energy? Most importantly: where’s the reference to his mom? If artificial intelligence wants to replace Slim Shady, apparently it needs to study harder. By the time celebrity birthdays arrive, Episode 32 has traveled from a foldable phone to left-handed supremacy, presidential handedness, witch costumes, midnight margaritas, horror movies, Mortal Kombat, Mr. T, celebrity relationships, AI medicine and fake Eminem. Which is exactly how a comedy show should operate: start with a phone and end somewhere nobody could possibly have predicted. Come for the foldable iPhone controversy. Stay for Professor Lern’s completely unaccredited history class, Rafe’s solo witch-movie adventur See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Have you ever been knocked completely unconscious? That’s the perfectly normal question Rizz decides to open the week with, and suddenly everybody is digging through their personal history to figure out whether they’ve ever actually been knocked out cold. Moon has the strongest résumé, considering he somehow accumulated 219 stitches in his head and face as a kid and remembers multiple collisions where everything went black. Rafe recalls a helmet-to-helmet football hit that left him seeing the proverbial cartoon birds before collapsing. Lern doesn’t think she’s ever been fully knocked unconscious, although growing up with cousins who regularly beat the crap out of her apparently made it a legitimate possibility. And Rizz? Rizz has been watching compilation videos of other people getting absolutely demolished. Healthy Monday morning behavior. One clip involving a guy falling off a boat, smashing his head on a dock and disappearing into the water becomes particularly concerning — mostly because Rizz’s algorithm apparently believes watching strangers fall down is his primary hobby. From there, this funny podcast heads south of the border as Moon returns from Mexico City after performing with Goldfinger at Warped Tour. And this was not exactly an intimate acoustic evening. Moon describes roughly 40,000 people packed in front of their stage, with the festival selling more than 150,000 tickets overall. He talks about Mexico City’s enormous scale, the altitude, the incredible food, the people, the wealth disparity and the extra security precautions surrounding touring musicians in a place where the rules and risks can feel very different. There are chilaquiles. There are frijoles. There are expensive cigars. There’s a ridiculously expensive steak. And naturally, Rizz’s primary concern is whether Moon remembered to buy him Viagra. International travel really broadens the mind. Moon also talks about flying around the anniversary of 9/11, which leads into a discussion about airport security and TSA programs that could potentially allow approved non-ticketed visitors back through security at select airports. The gang remembers the ancient civilization known as “the 1990s,” when you could actually walk someone all the way to their gate without being treated like you were attempting to infiltrate NORAD. They also get into liquid restrictions, TSA PreCheck, Global Entry, inconsistent airport screening and the horrifying experience of throwing away expensive shampoo because apparently national security depends on Lern traveling with a tiny bottle of conditioner. Then Rafe reveals that he witnessed something deeply disturbing on 9/11: A family ordered two seafood towers. Two towers. And Rafe watched the second one go down. We apologize to everyone. Food remains a theme when the crew compares absurd restaurant prices, including Moon’s Mexico City steakhouse experience and Lern contemplating finally dropping serious money on Alinea in Chicago for an anniversary dinner. Because nothing says romance like spending enough on dinner to briefly reconsider your retirement plan. Then Lern enters a place far more dangerous than Mexico City: Youth baseball. She attends her best friend’s son’s game and discovers an ecosystem of pop-up tents blocking everyone’s view, dads standing directly behind home plate, parents coaching from the sidelines and one father criticizing his own kid so relentlessly that Lern — a woman who isn’t even entirely sure how old the child she came to support is — starts emotionally adopting the entire team. That launches a bigger conversation about parents living through their kids, screaming at coaches and officials, and turning youth sports into their own personal Game 7. Rafe remembers his dad loudly chirping him from the stands during basketball games. Moon remembers a young umpire being so intimidated by an aggressive coach that the situation became genuinely humiliating. Rizz talks about parents screaming at aging high-school officials who are simply trying to keep up with teenage athletes without requiring emergency medical assistance. The consensus? Maybe let the kids play. Wild concept. But this episode still has one more masterpiece waiting. Lern’s band plays an outdoor show at Schlafly Bottleworks, where the heat is brutal, the crowd is lively and one audience member decides that simply watching the band isn't enough. This person brings a guitar. And an amp. Then sets up in front of the actual band and starts playing along. Not invited. Not part of the group. Just spiritually promoted themselves to guitarist. People in the crowd start moving away while Lern tries to process whether this is annoying, hilarious or possibly the boldest audition in music history. The mystery musician is apparently friendly, fist-bumps Lern, makes song requests and continues enjoying their completely unauthorized guest appearance. Moon thinks Lern missed an opportunity. His solution? Bring the person onstage. Turn them into part of the show. Maybe let them shred. Maybe get them to stage dive. If it were Greek Fire? Security. Immediately. That’s called artistic integrity. By the end, this funny podcast has managed to connect head injuries, massive concerts in Mexico City, airport security, seafood towers, $190 steaks, overbearing baseball parents and the only person brave enough to attend a concert and apparently think, “These guys could use another guitarist.” Episode 174 is The Rizzuto Show doing what it does best: beginning with one innocent question and somehow ending up in six completely different arguments nobody knew they needed. It’s travel stories, St. Louis comedy, concert chaos, parenting disasters, weird personal memories and sarcastic humor from a group of people who can turn airport shampoo regulations into a legitimate morning discussion. Come for Moon playing in front of tens of thousands of people. Stay for Lern accidentally discovering the world’s most aggressive volunteer guitarist. That’s a funny podcast right there. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. 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Welcome to another episode of The Rizzuto Show, where getting stitches removed somehow leads to naked shopping, bathroom trauma, fart acceptance, a landfill cat rescue and a serious debate over whether anybody under 25 knows what cash is anymore. This funny show starts with Rizz preparing to finally get his stitches removed and worrying about the scar underneath. Naturally, this becomes a conversation about aging, falling down stairs, mysterious back injuries, hearing loss, stretching just to remain operational and the depressing discovery that modern medicine may be helping us live longer without necessarily making those extra years more comfortable. Welcome to the Geriatric Morning Show. Please bend at the knees when exiting. Then Rizz offers the crew a choice between a nice story and somebody getting naked at Home Goods. Guess which one wins. A Florida shopper reportedly walks into Home Goods, apologizes to a woman, drops his pants and eventually ends up wandering around the store naked. This somehow inspires Lern to consider whether shopping at Home Goods completely nude might actually be enjoyable under the correct circumstances. Soon the crew is discussing nudist resorts, naked grocery shopping and towel etiquette because we apparently abandoned the original story somewhere around decorative throw pillows. That also gives Rafe the opportunity to share his own recent encounter with unexpected nudity: walking into a restaurant bathroom and finding a grown man at the urinal with his pants and underwear completely around his ankles. Full moon. Broad daylight. Rafe’s brain immediately activates what Lern describes as the human security system designed to detect either exposed butts or approaching lions. It’s science. Probably. The episode then moves into an alleged MMA fighter-versus-chimpanzee story that has the crew firmly rooting for the animal and questioning every decision that led humanity to this particular moment. Thankfully, we eventually get an animal story everybody can celebrate: Mike, an eight-year-old cat accidentally thrown away inside an old couch. After the couch reaches a massive landfill, workers miraculously spot Mike stranded above a trash pit. A crew uses heavy equipment to help rescue him before animal control eventually gets him identified and reunited with his owner. Mike survives. Humanity gets one point back. Then comes one of modern society’s smallest yet most powerful social anxieties: the restaurant payment screen. “It’s going to ask you a quick question.” WE KNOW WHAT THE QUESTION IS. The gang debates tipping pressure, servers standing beside you while you choose a percentage and the awkward eye contact that turns paying for lunch into a hostage negotiation. A viral server offers a surprisingly simple solution: hand over the device and talk to somebody else while the customer finishes paying. Meanwhile, Gen Alpha has apparently solved another social crisis entirely: being embarrassed about farting. A dance teacher says younger students just let them rip without carrying the shame previous generations dragged around for decades. Moon is thrilled. Lern shares some personal wind-instrument history. Suddenly the Rizzuto Show is analyzing bass versus treble fart tones because NPR wasn't available. The generational divide continues when Rizz watches a young Panera cashier struggle with actual paper money. That launches a debate over whether cash is still king, whether digital money is safer, what happens if the power grid goes down and whether anyone really wants to shave pieces off a gold bar to pay for bananas at Schnucks. From there, the crew remembers the inconveniences younger generations escaped: waiting beside the family phone for an important call, giant telephone cords, payphones, snow-day announcements, shared phone lines and parents losing their minds when somebody dared call during dinner. But this episode also takes a meaningful turn. Rizz reflects on September 11 and what it means that an event still so vivid for people who experienced it is now history taught to younger generations who weren't alive when it happened. He shares memories of being in Manhattan that morning, the confusion surrounding the attacks and the way people came together afterward. The crew also discusses Wells Crowther, remembered as the Man in the Red Bandana, who repeatedly helped people escape the South Tower before losing his own life. Rizz connects the story to conversations with his daughter and the importance of remembering not only what happened, but the people who ran toward danger to help others. Well, this one gets uncomfortable immediately. The Rizzuto Show discusses the fallout surrounding former Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton and the chat room he was reportedly spotted visiting on a flight. The organization behind that online community responds to the controversy, and suddenly the crew finds itself having a much more complicated conversation than anybody probably expected this early in the morning. The discussion centers on a difficult question: if someone recognizes that they’re having dangerous or disturbing thoughts and genuinely wants professional help before ever harming another person, where should that help come from — and where is the line between providing treatment and creating an environment that could normalize or encourage those thoughts? It’s exactly the kind of conversation where this comedy podcast somehow wanders from psychology and morality to robot technology and eventually a hypothetical island solution nobody should ever allow this crew to administer. Thankfully, Crap on Celebrities eventually arrives to rescue everyone from that conversation. Sort of. The Foo Fighters have quietly released a six-track live EP featuring performances from intimate club shows, with proceeds supporting local charities fighting food insecurity. So that's genuinely nice. Then the Spice Girls decide to emotionally clothesline their fans. After teasing a major announcement and getting reunion-starved fans dreaming about a possible Sphere residency, the big reveal turns out to be…a 14-disc singles collection. FOURTEEN DISCS. Somewhere, somebody had already started explaining to their spouse why spending irresponsible amounts of money to hear “Wannabe” in Las Vegas was actually a sound financial decision. Instead, congratulations: here are B-sides. Michael Jackson memorabilia also enters the conversation when one of his crystal-covered gloves from the Victory Tour heads to auction. The crew is shocked by the projected price and immediately starts calculating its future value like they’re suddenly Sotheby’s with fart jokes. Snoop Dogg is announced as host of the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, Nirvana is set for the Video Vanguard Award, and the gang wonders who exactly the VMAs are for anymore. Once upon a time, you planned your entire night around MTV. Now we're explaining to the children that MTV technically still exists. St. Louis gets dragged into Crap on Celebrities too, with Sexyy Red facing a lawsuit over allegations that she posted a woman’s home address and encouraged followers to attack her. Her attorney disputes the allegations, but it gives the show another opportunity to demonstrate why “celebrity news” is sometimes just a nicer phrase for “what the hell is happening?” And then we get Rick Springfield. During an appearance on Joe Rogan, Springfield discussed spending time entertaining American troops in Vietnam in 1968 and described being caught in an attack. According to his story, soldiers had him fire a mortar toward an area where enemy forces were believed to be moving. The next day, he says, a soldier told him, “you got one.” That revelation leads to a very serious discussion about the emotional weight Springfield says he still carries from the experience. It also leads Rafe to have…questions. A lot of questions. The crew debates the details of the story, how a teenage musician visiting troops ends up operating a mortar, what training would have been necessary, how anyone could have confirmed the result afterward and whether decades can alter the way people remember extraordinary experiences. Celebrity chaos continues with Nobody Wants This, the return of Practical Magic, Sandra Bullock, some rough Rotten Tomatoes scores, Liam Neeson continuing his lifelong commitment to finding people, and an Oasis documentary apparently becoming the safest movie choice of the weekend. The crew also discusses a documentary examining Alec Baldwin during the legal fallout surrounding the Rust shooting before Lern tries to brighten a show filled with unusually serious subjects by bringing in Dolly Parton and a posthumously released recording of “Bound to Ride.” That immediately creates another important Rizzuto Show question: exactly where are you supposed to listen to bluegrass? Driving sadly through the countryside? Silver Dollar City? Somewhere near Branson while buying a pop gun? We may never know. Then it’s celebrity birthdays, Brian De Palma appreciation, a reminder that Carlito’s Way deserves your attention and, because we apparently weren't already operating at maximum weirdness, the traditional porno birthday. Nothing exposes how differently your coworkers’ brains function quite like asking them to name a country in Europe and putting concert tickets on the line. The Rizzuto Show brings us another round of “Just the Two of Us,” the deceptively simple contest where callers pick two members of the show, Rafe asks five questions, and those two people attempt to match at least three answers. Easy, right? Absolutely not. Before the competition begins, Rizz takes a trip through “Back in the Day,” remembering everything from The Carol Burnett Show and Little House on the Prairie to Warrant’s “Cherry Pie,” Johnny Unitas, John Ritter and one of the Internet’s earliest great gifts: Nick Nolte’s sp

Nothing exposes how differently your coworkers’ brains function quite like asking them to name a country in Europe and putting concert tickets on the line. This episode of The Rizzuto Show brings us another round of “Just the Two of Us,” the deceptively simple contest where callers pick two members of the show, Rafe asks five questions, and those two people attempt to match at least three answers. Easy, right? Absolutely not. Before the competition begins, Rizz takes a trip through “Back in the Day,” remembering everything from The Carol Burnett Show and Little House on the Prairie to Warrant’s “Cherry Pie,” Johnny Unitas, John Ritter and one of the Internet’s earliest great gifts: Nick Nolte’s spectacularly disheveled mugshot. Then it's time to give away concert tickets, and suddenly this daily comedy becomes the most stressful game show in St. Louis. The prize pile is loaded with Candlebox, Violent Femmes, Toadies, Babymetal and the final precious pairs of Rush tickets. Unfortunately for the listeners, their ability to attend these concerts depends entirely on whether members of the Rizz Show can agree on incredibly complicated concepts like “an ocean.” Devon and Moon kick things off for caller Adam, who wants Rush tickets. They immediately connect on France, miss each other on states beginning with M, recover with the Arch as a St. Louis tourist attraction and seal the deal with the Pacific Ocean. Adam is going to Rush. For once, this show has successfully accomplished something. Then Rizz and Moon attempt to win Babymetal tickets for Paul. They agree on baseball but immediately demonstrate why this game is dangerous when “name an Olympic sport” produces hockey and curling. Dumbbell saves them on gym equipment, but sledding versus skiing and NFL versus MLB finish the job. Sorry, Paul. The Babymetal dream has died at the hands of winter recreation. Rizz and Moon get another chance when Brad wants Violent Femmes tickets, and this time food brings everybody together. Peanut butter and jelly. Sausage pizza. Vanilla ice cream. McDonald’s. Beautiful. Unfortunately, the phrase “healthy breakfast cereal” gives us Grape-Nuts, a cereal the show describes with all the enthusiasm normally reserved for eating landscaping material. Somehow that leads to confessions about demolishing boxes of Lucky Charms and Corn Pops, including the dangerous cycle of adding cereal because you have leftover milk, then adding milk because you have leftover cereal, until the box is empty and you're sitting alone with your shame. This is the nutritional guidance you expect from The Rizzuto Show. Then comes the final pair of Rush tickets. Kyle chooses Lern and Devon, setting up an alleged generational showdown between a 41-year-old and a 30-year-old. Things immediately become catastrophic. “Name a superhero.” Superman. Wonder Woman. Oh no. “Name a Disney animated movie.” The Little Mermaid. Bambi. OH NO. At this point, Kyle is watching his Rush tickets disappear in real time while Patient Zero starts sniffing around the wreckage. But then something happens. Monopoly. Netflix. Instagram. Three straight matches. THE COMEBACK IS COMPLETE. Kyle is going to Rush, Lern and Devon have successfully bridged the generational divide, and feminism survives another morning. This daily comedy masterpiece could have ended there, but Candlebox still needs somebody to believe in them. Justin chooses Rizz and Devon for the final game, with Candlebox tickets waiting at the finish line. They match immediately on guitar. Then rock. Things are looking suspiciously competent. Naturally, it cannot last. Asked to name a famous rock band from the 1980s, Devon goes with Mötley Crüe while Rizz lands elsewhere, launching an argument over what exactly qualifies as an “’80s band” and whether Rush counts just because Moving Pictures came out in 1981. Then comes the holiday-song disaster. Devon chooses Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Rizz chooses “Jingle Bells.” Suddenly we're debating whether the most obvious Christmas song is determined by history, kindergarten classrooms or how aggressively Mariah Carey emerges from hibernation every November. It all comes down to one final question: Name something you find on a desk. The obvious possibilities are endless. Computer. Stapler. Tape dispenser. Mouse. Rizz and Devon? Pen. LAMP. “There will be no Candlebox today.” Brutal. Along the way, the crew also defends Candlebox’s honor, remembers their early Pointfest days, argues about cereal, discusses the Raygun breakdancing documentary, makes questionable winter-activity suggestions and repeatedly proves that knowing someone for years does not mean you have any clue what word is about to come out of their mouth. That’s the beauty of “Just the Two of Us.” The questions aren't difficult. The people answering them are. This episode is daily comedy at its most beautifully unnecessary: great concert tickets, easy questions, terrible instincts, miraculous comebacks, wounded callers and an astonishing amount of emotional investment in whether two adults can independently write down “McDonald’s.” Come for the Rush tickets. Stay for Grape-Nuts, Candlebox justice, the generational mind meld and the desk lamp heard ’round St. Louis. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. 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Well, this one gets uncomfortable immediately. This episode of The Rizzuto Show starts with the fallout surrounding former Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton and the chat room he was reportedly spotted visiting on a flight. The organization behind that online community responds to the controversy, and suddenly the crew finds itself having a much more complicated conversation than anybody probably expected this early in the morning. The discussion centers on a difficult question: if someone recognizes that they’re having dangerous or disturbing thoughts and genuinely wants professional help before ever harming another person, where should that help come from — and where is the line between providing treatment and creating an environment that could normalize or encourage those thoughts? It’s exactly the kind of conversation where this comedy podcast somehow wanders from psychology and morality to robot technology and eventually a hypothetical island solution nobody should ever allow this crew to administer. Thankfully, Crap on Celebrities eventually arrives to rescue everyone from that conversation. Sort of. The Foo Fighters have quietly released a six-track live EP featuring performances from intimate club shows, with proceeds supporting local charities fighting food insecurity. So that's genuinely nice. Then the Spice Girls decide to emotionally clothesline their fans. After teasing a major announcement and getting reunion-starved fans dreaming about a possible Sphere residency, the big reveal turns out to be…a 14-disc singles collection. FOURTEEN DISCS. Somewhere, somebody had already started explaining to their spouse why spending irresponsible amounts of money to hear “Wannabe” in Las Vegas was actually a sound financial decision. Instead, congratulations: here are B-sides. Michael Jackson memorabilia also enters the conversation when one of his crystal-covered gloves from the Victory Tour heads to auction. The crew is shocked by the projected price and immediately starts calculating its future value like they’re suddenly Sotheby’s with fart jokes. Snoop Dogg is announced as host of the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, Nirvana is set for the Video Vanguard Award, and the gang wonders who exactly the VMAs are for anymore. Once upon a time, you planned your entire night around MTV. Now we're explaining to the children that MTV technically still exists. St. Louis gets dragged into Crap on Celebrities too, with Sexyy Red facing a lawsuit over allegations that she posted a woman’s home address and encouraged followers to attack her. Her attorney disputes the allegations, but it gives the show another opportunity to demonstrate why “celebrity news” is sometimes just a nicer phrase for “what the hell is happening?” And then we get Rick Springfield. During an appearance on Joe Rogan, Springfield discussed spending time entertaining American troops in Vietnam in 1968 and described being caught in an attack. According to his story, soldiers had him fire a mortar toward an area where enemy forces were believed to be moving. The next day, he says, a soldier told him, “you got one.” That revelation leads to a very serious discussion about the emotional weight Springfield says he still carries from the experience. It also leads Rafe to have…questions. A lot of questions. The crew debates the details of the story, how a teenage musician visiting troops ends up operating a mortar, what training would have been necessary, how anyone could have confirmed the result afterward and whether decades can alter the way people remember extraordinary experiences. It’s heavy, strange and exactly the kind of story this comedy podcast can spend fifteen seconds respectfully processing before somebody notices Springfield used the phrase “hard to land with me” while talking about firing a mortar. Celebrity chaos continues with Nobody Wants This, the return of Practical Magic, Sandra Bullock, some rough Rotten Tomatoes scores, Liam Neeson continuing his lifelong commitment to finding people, and an Oasis documentary apparently becoming the safest movie choice of the weekend. The crew also discusses a documentary examining Alec Baldwin during the legal fallout surrounding the Rust shooting before Lern tries to brighten a show filled with unusually serious subjects by bringing in Dolly Parton and a posthumously released recording of “Bound to Ride.” That immediately creates another important Rizzuto Show question: exactly where are you supposed to listen to bluegrass? Driving sadly through the countryside? Silver Dollar City? Somewhere near Branson while buying a pop gun? We may never know. Then it’s celebrity birthdays, Brian De Palma appreciation, a reminder that Carlito’s Way deserves your attention and, because we apparently weren't already operating at maximum weirdness, the traditional porno birthday. Today's show is a comedy podcast built around the Rizz Show’s greatest skill: taking one genuinely difficult topic, following it with celebrity gossip, somehow finding Rick Springfield holding a mortar in Vietnam, and ending up discussing Spice Girls box sets, Dolly Parton and movies nobody should ever have been forced to title. It’s thoughtful. It’s uncomfortable. It’s ridiculous. In other words, everybody made it to work. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to another episode of The Rizzuto Show, where getting stitches removed somehow leads to naked shopping, bathroom trauma, fart acceptance, a landfill cat rescue and a serious debate over whether anybody under 25 knows what cash is anymore. This funny show starts with Rizz preparing to finally get his stitches removed and worrying about the scar underneath. Naturally, this becomes a conversation about aging, falling down stairs, mysterious back injuries, hearing loss, stretching just to remain operational and the depressing discovery that modern medicine may be helping us live longer without necessarily making those extra years more comfortable. Welcome to the Geriatric Morning Show. Please bend at the knees when exiting. Then Rizz offers the crew a choice between a nice story and somebody getting naked at Home Goods. Guess which one wins. A Florida shopper reportedly walks into Home Goods, apologizes to a woman, drops his pants and eventually ends up wandering around the store naked. This somehow inspires Lern to consider whether shopping at Home Goods completely nude might actually be enjoyable under the correct circumstances. Soon the crew is discussing nudist resorts, naked grocery shopping and towel etiquette because we apparently abandoned the original story somewhere around decorative throw pillows. That also gives Rafe the opportunity to share his own recent encounter with unexpected nudity: walking into a restaurant bathroom and finding a grown man at the urinal with his pants and underwear completely around his ankles. Full moon. Broad daylight. Rafe’s brain immediately activates what Lern describes as the human security system designed to detect either exposed butts or approaching lions. It’s science. Probably. The episode then moves into an alleged MMA fighter-versus-chimpanzee story that has the crew firmly rooting for the animal and questioning every decision that led humanity to this particular moment. Thankfully, we eventually get an animal story everybody can celebrate: Mike, an eight-year-old cat accidentally thrown away inside an old couch. After the couch reaches a massive landfill, workers miraculously spot Mike stranded above a trash pit. A crew uses heavy equipment to help rescue him before animal control eventually gets him identified and reunited with his owner. Mike survives. Humanity gets one point back. Then comes one of modern society’s smallest yet most powerful social anxieties: the restaurant payment screen. “It’s going to ask you a quick question.” WE KNOW WHAT THE QUESTION IS. The gang debates tipping pressure, servers standing beside you while you choose a percentage and the awkward eye contact that turns paying for lunch into a hostage negotiation. A viral server offers a surprisingly simple solution: hand over the device and talk to somebody else while the customer finishes paying. Meanwhile, Gen Alpha has apparently solved another social crisis entirely: being embarrassed about farting. A dance teacher says younger students just let them rip without carrying the shame previous generations dragged around for decades. Moon is thrilled. Lern shares some personal wind-instrument history. Suddenly the Rizzuto Show is analyzing bass versus treble fart tones because NPR wasn't available. The generational divide continues when Rizz watches a young Panera cashier struggle with actual paper money. That launches a debate over whether cash is still king, whether digital money is safer, what happens if the power grid goes down and whether anyone really wants to shave pieces off a gold bar to pay for bananas at Schnucks. From there, the crew remembers the inconveniences younger generations escaped: waiting beside the family phone for an important call, giant telephone cords, payphones, snow-day announcements, shared phone lines and parents losing their minds when somebody dared call during dinner. But this episode also takes a meaningful turn. Rizz reflects on September 11 and what it means that an event still so vivid for people who experienced it is now history taught to younger generations who weren't alive when it happened. He shares memories of being in Manhattan that morning, the confusion surrounding the attacks and the way people came together afterward. The crew also discusses Wells Crowther, remembered as the Man in the Red Bandana, who repeatedly helped people escape the South Tower before losing his own life. Rizz connects the story to conversations with his daughter and the importance of remembering not only what happened, but the people who ran toward danger to help others. So yes, this funny show contains exposed butts, Home Goods, cat rescues, fart sociology and arguments about whether paper money still matters. But underneath the usual chaos, there’s also a reminder that comedy and real life can occupy the same morning. One minute you’re discussing a naked man shopping for seasonal décor. The next you’re remembering courage, sacrifice and a day that changed everything. That unpredictable mix is pretty much what this funny show does best. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Rizzuto Show starts innocently enough with football picks and somehow ends up asking whether artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity — with stops along the way for NASCAR drivers, a $34 million brothel empire, terrible celebrity guesses, folding phones, wedding-band disasters and the very real possibility that Rizz could someday be killed by a meatball. So, pretty standard week around here. The Seahawks kick off a strategic scoring controversy as the crew tries to figure out how Devon fits into their competition against The Fast Lane. Does her score count? Does the other team need another player? Should they take the best five scores? Why did nobody figure this out before the season started? These are questions normally reserved for leagues with commissioners and bylaws. Instead, we have Rizz. Then Take Five takes over, as listeners try to match answers with Lern, Moon, Devon and Rizz for concert tickets. Lern survives the dreaded “NFL team with an animal mascot” category by landing on Jaguars with her fifth and final guess. Moon, meanwhile, is asked to name a Beatles song and confidently begins with “Let It Go,” briefly creating the greatest Beatles/Frozen crossover nobody requested. Moon then proceeds to tour the entire Adam Sandler filmography without finding Big Daddy and gets painfully close to Deep Purple by wandering around “deep blue something.” Devon temporarily forgets that famous people named Mike exist, while Rizz correctly identifies Frosted Flakes on his first try before losing the entire game because his caller named fictional supervillain Lex Luthor as a “famous bald person.” Technically correct. Emotionally devastating. Today's show somehow raises the stakes by presenting the crew with the investment opportunity of a lifetime: the Bunny Ranch legacy portfolio in Nevada for roughly $34 million. Suddenly Rizz and the gang are analyzing brothel real estate, acreage, branding, financials and whether the oldest profession might be recession-proof. Lern reminisces about HBO’s Cathouse, Moon wants to see the P&Ls, and everyone briefly becomes an investment expert in an industry where absolutely nobody should trust their advice. Then a Nebraska musician accused of taking deposits, double- and triple-booking events and sending multiple clients the same last-minute car-accident excuse gets Lern and Moon talking about the realities of working musicians and why ruining somebody’s wedding is generally considered poor customer service. Technology gets its turn when the crew debates an expensive foldable iPhone, whether anyone should ever buy the first generation of a new gadget, planned obsolescence and the eternal Apple-versus-Android battle. Rizz’s Meta glasses also spark the important distinction that not everyone wearing them is a creep…but apparently every creep might own a pair. There’s also Nirvana, Billy Joel, Soundgarden, streaming-password confusion and NASCAR drivers Jordan Anderson, Blaine Perkins and Jeb Burton joining the day’s lineup ahead of racing at World Wide Technology Raceway. Because why have one coherent theme when you can have seventeen? So far things have been far too normal. Lern nearly sleeps through three alarms, launching a full investigation into how everyone wakes up. Some people prefer peaceful gradual sounds. Rizz and Rafe apparently prefer alarms that simulate catastrophic submarine emergencies. Moon explains why using birds as an alarm eventually trained his brain to associate actual birds with going to work, which feels like an unnecessary punishment for both Moon and nature. From there, Rizz introduces the cheerful morning topic of whether AI could eventually pose an existential threat to humanity. The crew dives into warnings surrounding increasingly powerful artificial intelligence, self-improving systems, oversight, regulation, infrastructure and the difference between AI actively hating humans and simply not caring about us at all. Terminator gets mentioned, obviously, but the scarier discussion is whether something vastly more intelligent than humans could eventually treat us the way humans treat an anthill sitting where we want to build a highway. You know. Light morning entertainment. That leads naturally — somehow — into questions about death. Would you want to know the exact date you die? Would you want to know how? Who attends your funeral? What was your biggest missed opportunity? And most importantly: what happens if Rizz learns he dies by meatball? Suddenly every plate of spaghetti becomes a potential crime scene. A rogue meatball could come from anywhere. A restaurant. A waiter. Across the room. Knowing your fate doesn’t necessarily help when your fate is apparently covered in marinara. The crew also gets nostalgic over TV dinners, Hungry Man meals, Salisbury steak, dangerously hot desserts and the random corn kernel that somehow migrated into every compartment. The upcoming Cheesecake Factory leads to a discussion about its famously over-the-top decor, which then inspires an even better — and substantially worse — restaurant concept: Stepfather’s Pizza. Picture the divorced-dad dining experience perfected. Old televisions playing MAS*H, Cheers, Weather Channel and World War II documentaries. Dim lighting. Half-folded laundry. A smoke detector chirping somewhere in the distance. Finally, a restaurant where the atmosphere says, “Your mother will pick you up Sunday at six.” Across these three episodes, The Rizzuto Show delivers exactly what a comedy podcast should: sports arguments nobody prepared for, games nobody can successfully play, celebrity and music chaos, questionable investment opportunities, technology nobody needs, existential dread nobody requested and enough bizarre hypotheticals to make you reconsider answering questions around these people. Come for the Seahawks, NASCAR and celebrity news. Stay for Moon rewriting Beatles history, Rizz shopping for brothels, Lern fighting her alarm clock, Devon forgetting every Mike on Earth, AI potentially destroying civilization and one meatball patiently waiting to fulfill its destiny. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. 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Nothing brings a morning show together quite like football, competition and immediately arguing over whether one member of the team’s score should even count. Episode 101 kicks off with the crew sorting through their Seahawks picks and realizing Devon’s presence has created a strategic probem in the season-long competition against The Fast Lane. If one team has an extra player, does Devon’s score count? Do they add somebody to the other side? Take the best five scores? Pretend nobody thought about this until the season had already started? All excellent questions. Very few useful answers. What we do know is that Rizz is technically sitting in first place, Moon is second, Lern is third, Rafe is behind them, and Devon’s zero becomes the center of a debate that feels significantly more serious than the actual stakes deserve. In other words, exactly how a funny podcast should handle sports. Then it’s time for Take Five, sponsored by Universal Windows Direct, with listeners trying to match answers with members of the show for a chance at tickets to Candlebox, Violent Femmes, Toadies with Local H, Babymetal with Halestorm and Rush. The concept is simple: one member of the crew goes into isolation while a caller answers three category questions. When the crew member comes back, they get five guesses to match the caller. Simple game. Deeply complicated people. Lern goes first with Tom, who needs her to match an NFL team with an animal mascot, a South American country and a Will Ferrell movie. “Jaguars” takes Lern all the way to her fifth guess, but she gets there. Anchorman proves much easier, and Tom walks away a winner. Then Moon gets paired with Ray, and things immediately begin deteriorating. Ray picks “I Want to Hold Your Hand” for a Beatles song, Big Daddy for an Adam Sandler movie and Deep Purple for a band with a color in its name. Moon responds to the Beatles category by initially offering “Let It Go,” which would have been revolutionary news for both John Lennon and the Walt Disney Company. He recovers with actual Beatles songs, but never finds Ray’s answer. Then comes Adam Sandler. Happy Gilmore. Billy Madison. The Wedding Singer. Grown Ups. Punch-Drunk Love. Moon circles practically the entire Sandler cinematic universe without landing on Big Daddy. Deep Purple becomes even more painful. Moon rattles through Blue October, Green Day, Blue Öyster Cult and The White Stripes, at one point getting tantalizingly close with “deep blue something.” Deep Purple was sitting right there, waving at him from across the room. Ray and Moon lose together. Friendship through mutual disappointment. Next up, Victoria is paired with Devon for categories including a famous person named Mike, a microwave food brand and something with a handle. Victoria chooses Mike Tyson, Banquet and a pitcher. Devon immediately says Mike Myers…and then discovers that apparently every other famous Mike has been temporarily deleted from her brain. Fortunately, “TV dinner” is close enough to Banquet for the crew to show mercy, and Devon somehow lands on coffee cup for something with a handle — remarkably close to Victoria’s pitcher and enough to prove once again that Devon can be sneakily dangerous in these games even while claiming she knows only one Mike. Finally, Rizz enters isolation for the last round. His caller chooses Dr. Strange for a famous fictional doctor, Frosted Flakes for a breakfast cereal and Lex Luthor for a famous bald person. Rizz tears through Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Feelgood, Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Doctor Octopus without finding Doctor Strange. Then he absolutely crushes Frosted Flakes on his first try, setting up one final category for the win. Name a famous bald person. Vin Diesel. The Rock. Bruce Willis. Howie Mandel. Jason Statham. All extremely bald. All extremely famous. All completely wrong. The answer was Lex Luthor. That leads to the perfectly reasonable postgame argument over whether “famous bald person” should cause a human being to think of an actual celebrity or a fictional supervillain. Technically Lex Luthor is famous. Technically the caller followed the rules. Technically none of this makes Rizz feel any better. Episode 101 is a funny podcast built around exactly the kind of low-stakes chaos The Rizzuto Show somehow turns into a major competitive event: Seahawks strategy, questionable team math, listeners trying to crawl inside the crew’s brains, Moon confusing Frozen with The Beatles, Devon forgetting famous Mikes exist and Rizz losing to the most famous bald supervillain on Earth. It’s Take Five, except everybody’s dignity gets fewer than five chances. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. 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If you’ve got $34 million sitting around and have always dreamed of owning 50 acres of Nevada desert with a slightly more colorful business history than your average strip mall, congratulations: The Rizzuto Show may have found your next investment. Episode 158 starts with Rizz asking the perfectly normal morning-radio question: who wants to go in on a brothel? The estate of the late Dennis Hof has put the Bunny Ranch legacy portfolio up for sale, including the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Sagebrush Ranch and Love Ranch. That means nearly 50 acres, buildings, residential units, equipment, vehicles, websites, branding and the kind of business names that make explaining your new career at Thanksgiving significantly more difficult. Naturally, Lern immediately wants to know if Air Force Amy is still involved, Moon wants to see the P&Ls, and Rafe wonders whether the oldest profession might also be recession-proof. Finally, a comedy show providing the serious investment analysis CNBC is too afraid to tackle. From there, the crew meets a Nebraska musician accused of double- and triple-booking events, collecting deposits and then allegedly sending multiple clients the same last-minute excuse: the band had been in a car accident. One wedding family had even spent extra money building a custom stage before the musician canceled minutes before he was supposed to perform. For actual working musicians Lern and Moon, that one hits a nerve. Moon talks about nearly three decades of playing gigs without remembering ever canceling a show, while Lern explains why her band generally stays away from weddings altogether. Apparently the secret to avoiding a wedding-band scandal is simply refusing to become a wedding band. Innovative. Then comes the latest technological advancement nobody in the studio actually needs: a $2,000 foldable iPhone. The crew debates the alleged iPhone Duo, foldable screens, whether buying the first generation of anything is a terrible idea, phone leasing, suspiciously glitchy older phones and the ancient blood feud between Apple users and the Droid Boys. Rizz considers buying one despite openly admitting he has virtually no reason to own it. That conversation leads to Rizz’s Meta glasses, which Lern would like everyone to remember are capable of recording people. This produces perhaps the most efficient technology review of the morning: not everyone who owns Meta glasses is creepy…but according to Rizz, apparently every creep owns Meta glasses. Things finally move into Crap on Celebrities, where Nirvana is discussed in connection with MTV’s Video Vanguard Award and the crew wonders whether Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic could help convince anyone their age to find MTV again. Rizz also discovers the mysterious St. Charles login that caused him to change his streaming password wasn’t an international cybercriminal. It was Moon. Moon was just trying to watch Tulsa King. Mystery solved. Password destroyed. Friendship somehow intact. There’s also frustration over a Soundgarden halftime performance that didn’t make the broadcast, Billy Joel discussing brain surgery and recovery, memories of Joel famously losing his mind over concert lighting, Pantera-related festival talk and plenty more music and entertainment chaos packed into Crap on Celebrities. And because this comedy show apparently needed one more gear, NASCAR drivers Jordan Anderson, Blaine Perkins and Jeb Burton are part of the day’s lineup surrounding the big race weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway. Then Rafe prepares Take Five, where listeners try to predict the answers of isolated members of the show for a shot at concert tickets. Candlebox, Violent Femmes, Toadies with Local H, Babymetal with Halestorm and Rush tickets are on the table, proving that occasionally this circus does provide tangible benefits. Somewhere between the Nevada brothel real-estate portfolio, musicians behaving badly, folding phones, Meta-glasses paranoia, streaming-password confusion, rock-news detours and NASCAR invading the studio, Episode 158 becomes exactly what a comedy show should be: several conversations that absolutely should not belong together, somehow held together by Rizz and the gang. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nothing prepares you for another morning of daily comedy quite like sleeping through THREE alarms, which is exactly how Lern nearly started her day. That kicks off a very serious investigation into how everybody wakes up. Lern prefers a gradual approach, with increasingly aggressive alarms and songs like “Spooky.” Rizz and Rafe apparently prefer waking up like a nuclear submarine has just discovered an incoming torpedo. Moon wants something gentle enough that his heart doesn’t immediately file for workers’ comp. Which alarm actually works? Something soothing? “Eye of the Tiger”? “Smells Like Teen Spirit”? A drill sergeant screaming at you while beating trash cans together? Anything is better than accidentally incorporating your alarm into your dream and waking up ten minutes after you were supposed to be a functioning adult. But why bother waking up at all? Apparently AI might kill us by 2030. Rizz brings in warnings attributed to people who have worked inside the AI industry about self-improving artificial intelligence, the difficulty of controlling increasingly capable systems and the possibility that humanity could become collateral damage without AI ever needing to become “evil.” Think less Terminator intentionally hunting Sarah Connor and more humans becoming the anthill somebody paved over while building a highway. That launches Rizz, Lern, Moon and Rafe into a surprisingly deep debate about artificial intelligence, regulation, infrastructure, jobs, humanoid robots, technological progress and whether we should be optimistic about what comes next or start practicing our best Matrix battery impressions. Naturally, this leads directly into death. Because this is daily comedy, and apparently we have transitions now. If somebody handed you an envelope containing the exact date you’ll die, would you open it? What about how you die? Would you want to know who attends your funeral? The biggest opportunity you unknowingly missed? Or who secretly has a crush on you? Everyone has a different answer until the crew lands on the most terrifying hypothetical imaginable: learning that you will eventually die by meatball. Do you stop eating meatballs forever? Does avoiding them even matter if fate has already decided? Does a waiter eventually drop a tray and launch your destiny directly into your mouth? Suddenly Rizz is spending the rest of his life looking over his shoulder while tiny meatballs roll ominously down the street behind him. The funeral discussion somehow gets even better when Rafe introduces the concept of a “coffin confessor” — someone hired before your death to attend your funeral and settle scores with people on your behalf. Rizz immediately sounds like a potential customer. Then everybody debates missed opportunities, secret crushes and Moon’s claim that when a relationship is truly right, marriage doesn’t necessarily have to be hard. Rafe quickly translates this into “get divorced today,” which is definitely not what Moon said but is much funnier for everyone else. Thankfully, National TV Dinner Day arrives before the relationship segment can destroy any actual marriages. The crew takes a nostalgia trip through Swanson fried chicken dinners, Banquet Salisbury steak, Hungry Man turkey dinners, Kid Cuisine, Stouffer’s mac and cheese, Bagel Bites and the scorching brownie that somehow always had one renegade kernel of corn trapped inside it. That inspires perhaps the greatest terrible business idea in Rizz Show history: Stepfather’s Pizza. Imagine a restaurant built around divorced-dad energy. TV dinners. Pizza. Old TVs at every booth playing MAS*H, Cheers, the Weather Channel and cheaply produced World War II documentaries. Dim lighting. Patchouli. Semi-folded laundry. Smoke alarms chirping because nobody replaced the battery. It’s not a restaurant. It’s an atmosphere of mild disappointment. The crew also celebrates the upcoming Cheesecake Factory location at West County Mall while trying to identify exactly what architectural theme Cheesecake Factory has been going for all these years. Egyptian? Greek? Mediterranean? Haunted Indiana Jones warehouse? The answer appears to be “yes.” From alarm-clock trauma to AI extinction, meatball destiny, funeral grudges, marriage debates and frozen Salisbury steak, this episode somehow turns existential dread into daily comedy — which is probably healthier than actually solving any of these problems. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The NFL is back in full force, and the Spread Zone has a loaded betting card for the week. It all starts Wednesday with a Super Bowl rematch, Riz, Tim McKernan and Anthony Stalter break down their best bets for week 1, and one of the best college football lineups of the year including Ohio State-Texas, Oklahoma-Michigan, The Border War and more. Then it’s on to the NFL with picks for Seahawks-Patriots, Texans-Bills, Broncos-Chiefs, player props and plenty more before the guys reveal their Locks of the Week. Can Tim stay hot after a 5-2 start? Will Anthony shake off that offseason rust? Which Week 1 NFL teams are already being overvalued? And where can bettors take advantage before the market catches up? It’s all on this week’s Spread Zone. LEGAL DISCLAIMER We provide information about sports betting for entertainment purposes only. Please confirm gambling regulations in your state of residence. To participate in sports gaming, you must be 21 years of age or older and be physically present in a state where sports betting is legal. If you or someone you know has a sports betting or gambling problem, please call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org for more information and further assistance. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The crew survived AC/DC and Foo Fighters in St. Louis, although several functioning eardrums may have been left behind at the Dome. Today’s show begins with Lern, Rafe and the gang breaking down the concert experience, including Foo Fighters battling the acoustics, AC/DC proving that age is apparently just a number when you’re powered entirely by guitar riffs, and Brian Johnson and Angus Young somehow having more stamina than half the people in the crowd. Rafe admits he may have permanently sacrificed part of his hearing for rock and roll, which feels less like a medical diagnosis and more like the official AC/DC ticket upgrade. Then there’s the crowd itself. Light-up devil horns. Cigarettes. Vapes. Kids experiencing their first concert. Retired working men desperately trying to make it back from the bathroom before “Back in Black.” People leaning on strangers. People recording everything. Basically, tens of thousands of humans gathering together to demonstrate why assigned seating remains one of society’s most ambitious experiments. Rafe even goes from being furious about a guy vaping near him to becoming spiritually invested in the man’s ability to blow vape clouds along with AC/DC. Thunderstruck changes people. Unfortunately, surviving the concert only gets Rafe to his next challenge: McDonald’s. The late-night order includes nuggets, a Quarter Pounder specifically ordered without onions that arrives absolutely loaded with onions, and barbecue sauce that simply never materializes. The restaurant may technically have been open, but emotionally? Nobody involved was open. Thankfully, the emergency ten-piece nuggets came through and “put Daddy to bed,” which is probably the strongest endorsement McDonald’s will receive today. And because this funny podcast refuses to behave like a normal entertainment program, the conversation keeps finding increasingly ridiculous places to go. The crew debates a viral claim involving an MMA fighter supposedly willing to fight a chimpanzee for a massive payday — an idea everyone immediately recognizes as either fake, catastrophically stupid, or possibly both. This naturally turns into gorilla encounters, terrible survival strategies, tranquilizer darts and the general reminder that humans occasionally have way too much confidence. Then comes the kindergarten rumble, because apparently even the smallest members of society are bringing chaos to the program. The next segment kicks off with some truly impressive St. Louis mail drama. A local postal worker is facing federal charges after allegedly dumping roughly 30,000 pieces of mail over a two-year stretch instead of delivering them. That immediately sends the crew down the rabbit hole of missing bills, late fees, surprise snail mail and Rizzuto reminding everybody that his credit is fantastic. Congratulations to him. Everybody stand up and applaud the FICO score. Next up: an Amazon delivery driver in Fenton gets the medieval experience nobody selected at checkout when a crossbow bolt travels roughly 100 yards, blasts through the windshield of his delivery van and impales multiple packages while he’s working inside. Somehow, the driver avoids getting hit. The packages? Less fortunate. That leads to Moon remembering the extremely sensible combination of drinking in an Austrian castle and shooting crossbows, Rafe remembering a neighbor who got drunk and fired a crossbow inside his apartment, and everyone wondering exactly how legal backyard archery is when your “target practice” starts entering somebody else’s ZIP code. Naturally, the conversation then arrives at Rizzuto’s personal nemesis: a giant groundhog living next door. The groundhog keeps wandering onto Rizzuto’s property and tormenting his dogs, while everyone else basically sides with the groundhog. Lern names him Justin. Moon suggests the animal may have been there first. Rizzuto reaches full Bill Murray in Caddyshack mode while attempting to figure out what animal control might actually do. At this point, Justin the Groundhog has representation and Rizzuto does not. O.J. Simpson’s 2006 hidden-camera prank show, Juiced, was apparently intended as part of an O.J. comeback attempt, including a prank where Simpson posed as a used-car salesman trying to sell a white Ford Bronco with a fake bullet hole. He joked about the Bronco’s “escapability,” talked about making the vehicle famous and somehow participated in a production where everyone apparently decided subtlety was for cowards. The crew digs into reports that people involved with the production may have had another motive: getting O.J. comfortable enough on camera to potentially say something revealing. Because apparently the history of television still had a few terrible ideas left in the tank. Crap on Celebrities brings even more entertainment gossip, including Ella Langley chasing a huge Billboard record, Tony Iommi remembering his final conversation with Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne sharing another mysterious story from her youth, an unreleased early Van Halen demo, Jimmy Kimmel retirement speculation, John Mulaney potentially stepping into Get Smart, and the news that Lori Loughlin is back on the market — information Rafe handles with tremendous professionalism... Meaning none. There’s also Nicolas Cage dealing with a massive sinkhole near his Malibu home, football finally returning, King Scott settling into new-dad duty, the crew scrambling to make their picks, and preparations for another round of Read My Lips. Apparently Quaaludes are back, because society looked around at everything currently happening and decided what we really needed was a pharmaceutical throwback. Reports that methaqualone — better known as Quaaludes or “ludes” — has been making an underground comeback decades after pharmaceutical production disappeared in the United States. That sends the crew straight into stories about the drug’s 1970s reputation, The Wolf of Wall Street, Lern’s bassist Richard remembering the old days in New York, and Rizz casually revealing that he once took what he believes was a Quaalude sometime around 1998 or 1999. How was it? He “lost the evening.” Good review. Very informative. Five stars. Of course, even Rizz admits he has no idea what he actually took, which leads directly to the episode’s only useful public service announcement: no pills, no powders. Please do not go hunting for mystery pharmaceuticals because you heard the idiots on your favorite funny podcast talking about them. Then things somehow wander into Spanish fly, Bill Cosby, gas-station bathroom vending machines, Beavis and Butt-Head and a surprisingly detailed discussion about aphrodisiacs. We started with Quaaludes and ended up investigating an emerald-green blister beetle. Radio is an important medium. Thankfully, it’s finally time to play Read My Lips. The rules are simple: somebody gets put into audio isolation, another member of the show silently gives them a word, and the isolated player has three chances to figure it out by reading their lips. Listeners bet on or against the contestant for prizes. Then Devon steps up and apparently activates a superpower nobody knew she had. She gets “fettuccine.” She gets “smart ass.” Campfire finally gives her some trouble, but that’s only the warm-up. On her next trip into isolation, Rizz gives her “Worcestershire” — a word half the population can’t pronounce while HEARING IT — and Devon gets it. Immediately. At this point, it temporarily becomes an investigation into whether Devon has been secretly reading everyone’s lips for years. She follows Worcestershire by immediately getting “flapjack,” and suddenly Rafe is declaring that they’ve found Neo. Rizz gets his turn and manages to nail “chickenpox,” but “juxtaposition” sends him down a path involving blue jeans, trampolines and “justice of the peace.” Lern battles “burrito” before recovering with “blowtorch” and “horsefly.” Devon comes back for “ragamuffin” and gets impressively close before finally meeting her greatest enemy: the completely ridiculous word “skinflint.” Then comes Rizz’s final performance. His word is “bonehead.” His guesses are not “bonehead.” Things only deteriorate when the next word is “deadbolt,” resulting in guesses that include “tadpole” and one answer that definitely demonstrates why lip reading should never be used as sworn testimony. By the end, Devon has established herself as the show’s lip-reading legend, multiple listeners walk away winners, Rizz has discovered several new words that were never actually being said, and we’ve squeezed an unreasonable amount of chaos into less than half an hour. It’s games, ridiculous stories, sarcastic humor and Rizz and the gang doing what they do best: taking something incredibly simple and making it unnecessarily complicated. In other words, another perfectly functional episode of your favorite funny podcast. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. 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Apparently Quaaludes are back, because society looked around at everything currently happening and decided what we really needed was a pharmaceutical throwback. The Rizzuto Show kicks things off with reports that methaqualone — better known as Quaaludes or “ludes” — has been making an underground comeback decades after pharmaceutical production disappeared in the United States. That sends the crew straight into stories about the drug’s 1970s reputation, The Wolf of Wall Street, Lern’s bassist Richard remembering the old days in New York, and Rizz casually revealing that he once took what he believes was a Quaalude sometime around 1998 or 1999. How was it? He “lost the evening.” Good review. Very informative. Five stars. Of course, even Rizz admits he has no idea what he actually took, which leads directly to the episode’s only useful public service announcement: no pills, no powders. Please do not go hunting for mystery pharmaceuticals because you heard the idiots on your favorite funny podcast talking about them. Then things somehow wander into Spanish fly, Bill Cosby, gas-station bathroom vending machines, Beavis and Butt-Head and a surprisingly detailed discussion about aphrodisiacs. We started with Quaaludes and ended up investigating an emerald-green blister beetle. Radio is an important medium. Thankfully, it’s finally time to play Read My Lips. The rules are simple: somebody gets put into audio isolation, another member of the show silently gives them a word, and the isolated player has three chances to figure it out by reading their lips. Listeners bet on or against the contestant for prizes. Then Devon steps up and apparently activates a superpower nobody knew she had. She gets “fettuccine.” She gets “smart ass.” Campfire finally gives her some trouble, but that’s only the warm-up. On her next trip into isolation, Rizz gives her “Worcestershire” — a word half the population can’t pronounce while HEARING IT — and Devon gets it. Immediately. At that point the funny podcast temporarily becomes an investigation into whether Devon has been secretly reading everyone’s lips for years. She follows Worcestershire by immediately getting “flapjack,” and suddenly Rafe is declaring that they’ve found Neo. Rizz gets his turn and manages to nail “chickenpox,” but “juxtaposition” sends him down a path involving blue jeans, trampolines and “justice of the peace.” Lern battles “burrito” before recovering with “blowtorch” and “horsefly.” Devon comes back for “ragamuffin” and gets impressively close before finally meeting her greatest enemy: the completely ridiculous word “skinflint.” Then comes Rizz’s final performance. His word is “bonehead.” His guesses are not “bonehead.” Things only deteriorate when the next word is “deadbolt,” resulting in guesses that include “tadpole” and one answer that definitely demonstrates why lip reading should never be used as sworn testimony. By the end, Devon has established herself as the show’s lip-reading legend, multiple listeners walk away winners, Rizz has discovered several new words that were never actually being said, and we’ve squeezed an unreasonable amount of chaos into less than half an hour. It’s games, ridiculous stories, sarcastic humor and Rizz and the gang doing what they do best: taking something incredibly simple and making it unnecessarily complicated. In other words, another perfectly functional episode of your favorite funny podcast. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What do 30,000 pieces of abandoned mail, a runaway crossbow bolt, an enormous groundhog and O.J. Simpson’s attempted television comeback have in common? Unfortunately for everyone involved, they all found their way onto The Rizzuto Show. This comedy podcast kicks off with some truly impressive St. Louis mail drama. A local postal worker is facing federal charges after allegedly dumping roughly 30,000 pieces of mail over a two-year stretch instead of delivering them. That immediately sends the crew down the rabbit hole of missing bills, late fees, surprise snail mail and Rizzuto reminding everybody that his credit is fantastic. Congratulations to him. Everybody stand up and applaud the FICO score. But apparently throwing away the mail wasn’t enough chaos for one morning. Next up: an Amazon delivery driver in Fenton gets the medieval experience nobody selected at checkout when a crossbow bolt travels roughly 100 yards, blasts through the windshield of his delivery van and impales multiple packages while he’s working inside. Somehow, the driver avoids getting hit. The packages? Less fortunate. That leads to Moon remembering the extremely sensible combination of drinking in an Austrian castle and shooting crossbows, Rafe remembering a neighbor who got drunk and fired a crossbow inside his apartment, and everyone wondering exactly how legal backyard archery is when your “target practice” starts entering somebody else’s ZIP code. Naturally, the conversation then arrives at Rizzuto’s personal nemesis: a giant groundhog living next door. The groundhog keeps wandering onto Rizzuto’s property and tormenting his dogs, while everyone else basically sides with the groundhog. Lern names him Justin. Moon suggests the animal may have been there first. Rizzuto reaches full Bill Murray in Caddyshack mode while attempting to figure out what animal control might actually do. At this point, Justin the Groundhog has representation and Rizzuto does not. Then this comedy podcast uncovers a television idea so baffling that it sounds fictional: O.J. Simpson’s 2006 hidden-camera prank show, Juiced. Yes. Really. The show was apparently intended as part of an O.J. comeback attempt, including a prank where Simpson posed as a used-car salesman trying to sell a white Ford Bronco with a fake bullet hole. He joked about the Bronco’s “escapability,” talked about making the vehicle famous and somehow participated in a production where everyone apparently decided subtlety was for cowards. Later, the crew digs into reports that people involved with the production may have had another motive: getting O.J. comfortable enough on camera to potentially say something revealing. Because apparently the history of television still had a few terrible ideas left in the tank. Crap on Celebrities brings even more entertainment gossip, including Ella Langley chasing a huge Billboard record, Tony Iommi remembering his final conversation with Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne sharing another mysterious story from her youth, an unreleased early Van Halen demo, Jimmy Kimmel retirement speculation, John Mulaney potentially stepping into Get Smart, and the news that Lori Loughlin is back on the market — information Rafe handles with tremendous professionalism. Meaning none. There’s also Nicolas Cage dealing with a massive sinkhole near his Malibu home, football finally returning, King Scott settling into new-dad duty, the crew scrambling to make their picks, and preparations for another round of Read My Lips. It’s St. Louis weird news, celebrity gossip, pop culture commentary, questionable memories and unnecessary groundhog warfare packed into one comedy podcast from Rizz and the gang. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The crew survived AC/DC and Foo Fighters in St. Louis, although several functioning eardrums may have been left behind at the Dome. Today’s funny podcast begins with Lern, Rafe and the gang breaking down the concert experience, including Foo Fighters battling the acoustics, AC/DC proving that age is apparently just a number when you’re powered entirely by guitar riffs, and Brian Johnson and Angus Young somehow having more stamina than half the people in the crowd. Rafe admits he may have permanently sacrificed part of his hearing for rock and roll, which feels less like a medical diagnosis and more like the official AC/DC ticket upgrade. Then there’s the crowd itself. Light-up devil horns. Cigarettes. Vapes. Kids experiencing their first concert. Retired working men desperately trying to make it back from the bathroom before “Back in Black.” People leaning on strangers. People recording everything. Basically, tens of thousands of humans gathering together to demonstrate why assigned seating remains one of society’s most ambitious experiments. Rafe even goes from being furious about a guy vaping near him to becoming spiritually invested in the man’s ability to blow vape clouds along with AC/DC. Thunderstruck changes people. Unfortunately, surviving the concert only gets Rafe to his next challenge: McDonald’s. The late-night order includes nuggets, a Quarter Pounder specifically ordered without onions that arrives absolutely loaded with onions, and barbecue sauce that simply never materializes. The restaurant may technically have been open, but emotionally? Nobody involved was open. Thankfully, the emergency ten-piece nuggets came through and “put Daddy to bed,” which is probably the strongest endorsement McDonald’s will receive today. And because this funny podcast refuses to behave like a normal entertainment program, the conversation keeps finding increasingly ridiculous places to go. The crew debates a viral claim involving an MMA fighter supposedly willing to fight a chimpanzee for a massive payday — an idea everyone immediately recognizes as either fake, catastrophically stupid, or possibly both. This naturally turns into gorilla encounters, terrible survival strategies, tranquilizer darts and the general reminder that humans occasionally have way too much confidence. Then comes the kindergarten rumble, because apparently even the smallest members of society are bringing chaos to the program. It’s another daily dose of funny stories, weird news, pop culture commentary, St. Louis concert insanity and the kind of conversations that begin somewhere reasonable before Rizz and the gang enthusiastically drive them into a ditch. If you enjoy a funny podcast where a rock concert can lead to hearing loss, fast-food disappointment and completely unnecessary debates about fighting primates, congratulations. You have found your people. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

King Scott has a new baby, Rizz has ten stitches in his face, AC/DC has basically taken over St. Louis, and somewhere along the way a guy gets duct-taped to an airplane seat. So yeah, pretty normal day around here. The show kicks off with some genuinely great news: King Scott and Allison welcomed their new baby girl! Naturally, instead of simply congratulating the happy family like emotionally mature adults, the crew immediately starts calculating who won the baby pool. Date, time, weight—we’re crunching numbers like ESPN analysts covering the birth of an eight-pound free agent. Rizz is also back after Mohs surgery to remove basal cell carcinoma from underneath his eye, and the procedure was a little more involved than expected. Multiple rounds of cutting, repeated needles directly into an extremely sensitive part of his face, ten stitches and enough swelling to make his return to work look like the aftermath of an underground fight club. He also addresses the listener who thought he was taking too many days off, because apparently “having cancer cut out of my face” still requires a note for some people. Then St. Louis enters the chat. Rizz tells the bizarre story of his family’s car disappearing during the Gateway Cup, only to discover it hadn’t been stolen or impounded—it had simply been relocated several blocks away. We also get into local restaurant closings, the Heavy Anchor getting hit by a car, community support for the venue and a Bevo-area street takeover involving a stolen vehicle and fire. STL really knows how to make a holiday weekend relaxing. Things get unexpectedly wholesome when Lern reveals her birthday surprise for Mono Tim: she actually had a bridge named after him. A real bridge. With a plaque. Tim was blown away, everyone gets emotional for approximately eleven seconds, and then Rafe starts discussing whether the property would be an appropriate location to give his Jeep a Viking funeral. That is basically the emotional range of this comedy podcast. Meanwhile, AC/DC fever has completely taken over St. Louis. The AC/DC pop-up at Ballpark Village is packed, Foo Fighters are opening at the Dome and Lern is convinced Dave Grohl might come back out to perform with AC/DC because she had a dream about it. We’re not saying dreams are a reliable source, but they’re at least cheaper than concert tickets. The concert conversation spirals into some absolutely insane ticket prices and the biggest single-night concert grosses ever, before the show discovers another kind of travel nightmare: an unruly airline passenger who reportedly became so disruptive that fellow passengers restrained him with zip ties and enough duct tape to qualify as home improvement contractors. That leads into a much darker airline story involving longtime Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton and disturbing online messages another passenger allegedly spotted on his laptop. The crew debates whether they’d ever notice what somebody else was doing on a plane, how much privacy anyone really has anymore and whether the person looking over your shoulder is being nosy—or potentially stopping something much worse. A disturbing local story involving a St. Charles-area middle school assistant principal charged with possession of child sexual abuse material leads to a serious conversation about predators, technology, accountability and protecting kids. It also brings back the crew’s wildly unofficial “Pedophile Island” proposal, which remains less of a criminal justice policy and more of a reason nobody should ever invite us to testify before Congress. And speaking of privacy, smartphones may be destroying your relationship—or maybe you’re just acting incredibly shady with one. The crew runs through suspicious phone habits like suddenly changing passwords, flipping your screen face-down, angling it away from your partner and guarding the thing like it contains nuclear launch codes. Lern even admits she recently looked suspicious around Tim while secretly planning his bridge surprise, proving there is technically one wholesome explanation for acting like you’re hiding an affair. Sexy Time Fun Facts somehow makes things even weirder with the tragic story of an influencer who died following a cosmetic penile enhancement procedure overseas. That launches a conversation about risky cosmetic procedures, enormous implants spotted in the wild, an alleged big-butt shortage and whether everybody should just start doing squats and leave well enough alone. Crap on Celebrity piles on with Beyoncé selling some wildly expensive anniversary merchandise, Kelly Osbourne opening up about grief after losing Ozzy, Sammy Hagar and Alex Van Halen continuing their senior-citizen rock feud, Soundgarden working with unreleased Chris Cornell vocals, and Moon remembering Every Time I Die guitarist and wrestler Andy Williams after his death. There’s also the Michael Jackson biopic, Pamela Anderson, Nathan Fielder staring into the Elizabeth Holmes abyss, Rob Lowe’s Tom Cruise rivalry, James Bond rumors and plenty more celebrity news before football season brings back another proud Rizzuto Show tradition: making the loser suffer. The Pick ’Em Challenge punishment wheel is back, with potential consequences including working barefoot, cat food or anchovies stinking up your car, oven mitts during the show and other ideas created by adults who technically remain employed. A new baby. Skin cancer surgery. A missing car. Mono Tim’s bridge. AC/DC and Foo Fighters. Airplane duct tape. Phone paranoia. Questionable cosmetic decisions. Celebrity chaos and football punishments nobody asked for. It’s another perfectly organized comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show, assuming your definition of “organized” is four people opening microphones and seeing which emergency happens first. Come for the St. Louis stories, entertainment gossip and daily humor. Stay because somehow this comedy podcast can go from the miracle of childbirth to cat food under somebody’s car seat without anybody thinking that transition is strange. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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AC/DC has officially taken over St. Louis, and somehow that’s the least dangerous thing happening on today’s show. The crew kicks things off with the AC/DC pop-up at Ballpark Village, the massive crowds surrounding the show and Moon remembering the actual AC/DC Lane he visited in Melbourne—complete with murals and enough rock history to make every tribute band immediately reconsider its career choices. Meanwhile, Lern is preparing for AC/DC and the Foo Fighters, who are hitting the stage promptly at 7 p.m. Seriously. Seven. They’ve only mentioned it approximately enough times to have it tattooed on everyone entering downtown. Then Sexy Time Fun Facts arrives to destroy whatever dignity this funny podcast had left. After wondering how their previous friend-of-the-show with enhancement surgery is recovering, Rizz brings in the much darker story of an influencer who died following a cosmetic penile enhancement procedure in Bangkok. According to the story discussed on the show, the 43-year-old underwent injections intended to increase his girth before developing severe chest pain and collapsing. The crew breaks down what reportedly went wrong, the inherent risks of cosmetic procedures and the unfortunate lesson that sometimes chasing “one last upgrade” is a catastrophically bad idea. This also gives Moon the opportunity to recall seeing what he believes were some truly spectacular cosmetic enhancements in the wild during a cruise. And yes, we’re talking about butts now. There’s apparently an Ozempic-related “big butt shortage,” Rafe would like everyone to support the cause, and the show briefly considers doing squats in tribute. This is technically health and wellness content if you lower your standards enough. Then we move from physical enhancements to another modern threat to relationships: your stupid phone. A marriage and family therapist’s viral list of suspicious smartphone habits has the crew examining the little behaviors that can make your partner wonder what exactly you’re hiding. Secret passwords? Phone suddenly face-down when your partner enters? Hiding the device? Changing passcodes without mentioning it? Angling your screen away like you’re protecting classified intelligence? Congratulations, you’ve turned checking Instagram into an episode of Dateline. Lern actually has a legitimate excuse for acting shady around Tim: she was secretly planning his birthday bridge surprise and nearly blew the whole thing when a Marco Polo message started playing while Tim walked into the room. Unfortunately, “I promise I’m hiding something GOOD from you” isn’t traditionally the sentence that restores confidence in a relationship. Moon then remembers a touring buddy who apparently forgot to mention one extremely important detail while enjoying Singapore: he was engaged. That omission became significantly more problematic when the tour manager later called him, immediately started discussing his overseas adventures…and discovered the guy’s fiancée was sitting beside him on speakerphone. That marriage did not happen. Weird. From privacy screens to password changes, sudden defensiveness and treating your phone like it requires top-secret clearance, the crew reaches the obvious conclusion: smartphones aren’t necessarily ruining relationships. Being a shady prick while holding one might be. AC/DC. Questionable enhancements. Giant butts. Secret birthday plans. Singapore disasters. And an alarming amount of discussion about which direction your phone is facing. It’s another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show, proving once again that we can begin with one of the biggest rock bands on Earth and somehow arrive at relationship surveillance and inflatable body parts in under fourteen minutes. Come for the St. Louis rock talk. Stay for the relationship advice absolutely nobody requested from this funny podcast. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Strap in, preferably without requiring five rolls of duct tape, because Episode 101 starts with rock ’n’ roll dreams and somehow ends up debating an island nobody wants featured in the tourism brochure. Lern is heading to AC/DC with her mom, the Foo Fighters are opening, and she has one very specific prediction: Dave Grohl is going to come back out and perform with AC/DC. Why? Inside information? A secret source? Years of carefully studying concert history? Nope. She had a dream about it. Welcome to the comedy podcast where subconscious visions are apparently acceptable journalism. With St. Louis preparing for the massive show, the crew gets into ticket prices, parking chaos and just how much people will spend to see legendary artists. That leads to the absolutely bonkers money surrounding Alan Jackson’s farewell show and George Strait drawing more than 100,000 ticket-buying fans. Turns out being the King of Country is a pretty solid business model. Then we board an airplane, where everything immediately gets worse. The crew discovers the spectacular image of an unruly first-class passenger who reportedly became abusive toward people onboard and eventually got restrained by fellow passengers with zip ties and enough duct tape to make the hardware aisle nervous. The resulting photo is art. Horrible, chaotic, “how did your vacation get here?” art. Unfortunately, the airline conversation takes a much darker turn with the story surrounding longtime Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton. According to the details discussed on the show, another passenger noticed disturbing messages on his laptop during a flight, photographed the screen and alerted the crew. That kicks off a larger conversation about privacy on airplanes, whether anybody actually pays attention to what strangers are doing beside them and Rafe accidentally becoming emotionally invested in another passenger’s giant-font family text drama. Then another disturbing story hits much closer to home as the show discusses the arrest of a St. Charles-area middle school assistant principal on a child sexual abuse material charge. The allegations lead into a serious conversation about predators, how technology may make them easier to uncover, whether these cases were historically hidden or handled differently, and the terrifying responsibility of keeping kids safe around adults placed in positions of trust. Naturally, because this is The Rizzuto Show and apparently we cannot process anything normally, the conversation eventually circles back to the previously discussed concept of “Pedophile Island”: convicted predators, one island, everybody else gets to stay very far away. Is this a carefully researched criminal justice proposal? Absolutely not. Is the brainstorming department nevertheless open for business? Unfortunately, yes. Crap on Celebrity then attempts to restore some sanity and immediately fails. Beyoncé has anniversary merchandise that includes a wildly expensive wooden box. Kelly Osbourne discusses the devastating effect losing Ozzy had on her health. Alex Van Halen and Sammy Hagar are still feuding because apparently retirement-age rock stars are contractually forbidden from simply muting each other. The crew also digs into Soundgarden working with unreleased Chris Cornell vocals and the emotional challenge of creating something new while protecting a friend’s legacy. Moon remembers Every Time I Die guitarist and wrestler Andy Williams following his death, sharing personal memories of a guy he knew for years as an overwhelmingly positive force. Rafe also reflects on losing comedian Danny Maupin, turning the show briefly and genuinely reflective before everybody inevitably wanders back toward entertainment chaos. There’s also talk about the Michael Jackson biopic, Pamela Anderson, an extremely bizarre-looking Elizabeth Holmes documentary involving Nathan Fielder, Rob Lowe’s alleged Tom Cruise rivalry, the search for the next James Bond and Carrie Underwood attempting Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff.” AC/DC. Foo Fighters. Duct tape. Airplane snooping. Celebrity insanity. Serious conversations, terrible solutions and several moments where everyone involved probably should have reconsidered owning a microphone. Just another comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Come for the St. Louis entertainment talk, stay because this comedy podcast has somehow turned “don’t make the flight attendants get the duct tape” into legitimate travel advice. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

King Scott has officially welcomed a new Princess into the world, which means congratulations are in order—and, more importantly, it’s time for a group of grown adults to argue over who won the baby pool. The show kicks off with the crew breaking down the new baby’s arrival, the guesses for date, time and weight, and some accounting so questionable that everyone should probably just agree Scott won because he got an actual human being out of the deal. Welcome back to another perfectly functional daily comedy show. Rizz is also back after an unexpectedly rough few days following Mohs surgery to remove basal cell carcinoma from underneath his eye. What he thought would be a relatively simple procedure turned into multiple rounds of cutting, repeated needles to the face, ten stitches and enough swelling to make an eye patch feel like a legitimate fashion choice. Naturally, the crew responds to this medical ordeal with the sensitivity and compassion you’d expect from them—which is almost none. And because apparently facial surgery wasn’t stressful enough, Rizz also tells the story of getting a phone call from his 17-year-old son informing him that the family car had vanished from Francis Park during the Gateway Cup. Was it stolen? Impounded? Gone forever on a holiday weekend? Nope. In one of the strangest happy endings possible, authorities had apparently moved and re-parked the cars along the race route. Thankfully, a tracker led them back to the vehicle, proving once again that technology exists primarily to prevent dads from completely losing their minds. Then we head deeper into St. Louis chaos. The crew talks about local restaurant closings, the Heavy Anchor getting hit by a car, community support for the venue, Venmo weirdos asking people for money and the Bevo-area street takeover involving a stolen vehicle that ended up on fire. Just your standard relaxing holiday weekend in STL. Things get surprisingly wholesome when Lern reveals her birthday surprise for Mono Tim: an actual bridge dedicated in his honor. Yes, Mono Tim has a bridge now. No, the rest of us have accomplished nothing. The touching story immediately becomes less touching when Rafe starts considering whether the property could eventually host a Viking funeral for his beloved Jeep. This is why we can’t have one nice segment. Rafe also takes us inside his attempt to buy a Frame-style TV from a brick-and-mortar store, where finding an employee interested in selling him a television becomes an endurance event. He arrives ready to spend money and somehow leaves with existential questions about television speakers, mounting hardware and whether customer service is now an escape room. Finally, football season means the Pick ’Em Challenge is back—and the punishments are getting an upgrade. Forget repeating the same punishment all season. This year, the wheel could deliver barefoot days around the station, cat food or anchovies under your car seat, oven mitts for an entire show and plenty of other ideas designed to make losing football picks everybody else’s entertainment. A new baby. A stitched-up face. A mysteriously relocated car. Mono Tim’s bridge. A possible Viking funeral. Retail despair. And punishments created by people who clearly cannot be trusted with authority. It’s another daily comedy show from The Rizzuto Show, where a normal Tuesday somehow requires more plot development than most television seasons. If you enjoy funny stories, St. Louis insanity, sarcastic humor and a daily comedy show that can turn a baby announcement into gambling results within minutes, welcome home. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apparently, all it takes to make a normal morning completely fall apart is one Florida man, one unfortunate horse, several questionable bedtime habits, an expensive hobby or twelve, and a group of radio professionals who should probably know when to stop asking follow-up questions. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where the news is already ridiculous before we get our grubby little hands on it. Things get moving with a Florida story involving a man, a horse named Raven, and behavior that forces Rafe to remind humanity of a very important rule: we do not have to have sex with everything. That seems like something adults shouldn't need explained, yet here we are. The whole disaster also inspires “Just Joe,” the imaginary product nobody asked for but everybody immediately understands. Congratulations to marketing. Please never make this real. From there, we discover another great way to destroy your dignity: hobbies. What starts as “I think I’ll try fishing” becomes a garage full of equipment and a bank account begging for mercy. Guitar, golf, aquariums, classic cars, cycling, coffee, gaming, woodworking, bowling and disc golf all get thrown into the financial wood chipper as the gang debates which innocent-looking pastime turns into an expensive lifestyle the fastest. Somewhere, a guy with 11 bowling balls just felt personally attacked. Then we crawl into everybody’s bedrooms—which sounds significantly worse than it is—for a breakdown of bedtime routines. Shower before bed? Brush your teeth? Journal? Read? Scroll your phone until your brain becomes soup? Sleep with the door open? Let the pets take over the mattress you technically paid for? We learn that Rizz can apparently postpone an argument until tomorrow and immediately go to sleep, which may qualify as either a superpower or psychopath behavior. Moon has to rethink his sacred nap schedule when the kids are home. Lern wisely refuses to bring her journal anywhere near these people. King Scott reads Nancy Drew aloud to his wife. Somehow, every new detail raises additional questions. And because this funny podcast refuses to remain in one lane for more than seven consecutive seconds, summer officially gets declared dead, Moon celebrates the closing of the swimming pool he barely uses yet still manages to resent, and the crew gets into the viral US Open mess involving a CEO snatching a tennis player's hat that was intended for a kid. Nothing says “successful businessman” quite like becoming internationally famous for fighting a child over free merchandise. It’s daily comedy, weird news, ridiculous personal stories, St. Louis radio chaos and pop culture commentary held together by sarcasm and whatever caffeine was available before sunrise. Basically, another completely normal edition of The Rizzuto Show. If you're looking for a funny podcast featuring Rizz and the gang taking unusual news stories, everyday arguments, celebrity and entertainment chaos, listener feedback and their own questionable life choices far more seriously than necessary, you've found your people. We apologize in advance. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Things start surprisingly deep when Lern talks about listening to Rafe’s appearance on The HoneyDew, where he discussed difficult experiences from childhood and finding comedy in darker moments. He explains the idea of turning life’s lowlights into highlights, everybody agrees that nobody escapes childhood completely unscathed, and for one fleeting moment this sounds like a mature conversation between emotionally intelligent adults. Turns out King Scott likes his coffee like he likes his women... According to former Starbucks professionals, black-coffee drinkers might enjoy torturing themselves, caramel macchiato fans barely want coffee at all, vanilla-latte people play it safe, Frappuccino drinkers are basically ordering milkshakes, matcha people might be doing it for the aesthetic, and macchiato drinkers know exactly what they want—and apparently want the barista to know that they know. McDonald’s fries enter the conversation. So does the Wendy’s Frosty, Taco Bell’s spicy potato soft taco, the Frisco Melt, Lion’s Choice, Dairy Queen onion rings, Rally’s fries, Del Taco, Freddy’s and more. Nobody reaches a universal consensus because democracy has failed once again. Things somehow become less appetizing when the crew discovers a Walgreens three-in-one product described as a douche, enema and water-bottle combination system. There are some household products where “multipurpose” is a selling point. This may not be one of them. The show then gets into a study suggesting men have a complicated relationship with dieting, including the idea that some men may respond better to “goals” and “challenges” than the word “diet.” Rafe offers his own theory after seeing wildly confident dudes criticize women online while looking, in his words, like a thumb melting into a suit. Poetry remains alive in St. Louis. And because the current calendar apparently isn't irritating enough, Moon brings up a viral proposal to replace our 12 months with five beautiful 73-day monstrosities: Jebruary, Maple, Jaugust, Soctober and Nissember. Is a 73-day Jaugust horrifying? Absolutely. Are we intrigued by Soctober? Unfortunately, yes. Then Tupac conspiracy content leads into a survey asking whether Americans believe they could successfully fake their own deaths. Younger adults are more confident. Older adults have apparently lived long enough to understand that the IRS, prescription refills and bill collectors are undefeated. Du Quoin, Illinois is having a rough week, and this one hits close to home. Massive downtown fire in Du Quoin. Multiple businesses were destroyed, including Home Lumber Company, BJ's Garden Inn and other properties along the downtown business district. Making an already difficult situation even worse, the fire happened during the Du Quoin State Fair, one of the biggest economic weeks of the year for the small Southern Illinois community. From there, September 3rd's collection of completely necessary national holidays introduces National Welsh Rarebit Day, which briefly causes confusion over whether anyone is eating a rabbit. They're not. It's cheese. That discovery leads directly to Worcestershire sauce, pork-steak marinades and the shocking revelation that Rafe doesn't own a grill. After talking with Tim Virgin, she introduces a potential reality-dating concept called Rock Hard Island. The premise involves eligible bachelors from St. Louis rock radio, women applying to date them and enough trash-TV energy to immediately attract hypothetical sponsors. There isn't actually an island involved, but that's apparently a minor logistical concern. Even more alarming: sales is interested. Then Lern takes over for Crap on Celebrities with a packed entertainment rundown. There's a documentary about late Rush drummer Neil Peart featuring Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and fellow drummers including Stewart Copeland, Chad Smith and Danny Carey. Rush is also headed back to St. Louis, giving Moon another chance to see a band he thought he'd never get to experience after Peart's death. The crew runs through villains ranging from Cruella de Vil and Scar to Patrick Bateman, Magneto, John Doe and Dr. Evil, proving once again that this daily comedy show can turn almost any entertainment list into an argument. Finally, Moon breaks down which music genres are supposedly most popular in different states based on search trends, with pop leading the country, metal putting up an impressive fight and Sleep Token emerging as a heavily searched metal act. We ask one of the great questions of our time: why is everybody bringing their dog to the airport now? After seeing dogs everywhere at LAX—and hearing two cats meow their way through an entire flight—the crew falls directly into a pet-themed rabbit hole that somehow gets stranger from there. The crew admits to giving pets updates before leaving the house, whispering compliments to one dog so the other one doesn’t hear, telling cats “I love you,” debating which pet is secretly the favorite, asking dogs what they want to watch on TV, and generally treating animals like tiny roommates who contribute absolutely nothing financially. That sends the crew back to 1993’s The Three Musketeers, Tim Curry as Cardinal Richelieu, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O’Donnell, Oliver Platt, and the gloriously over-the-top “All for Love” combination of Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, and Sting. This funny podcast briefly becomes a 1990s movie-and-music appreciation society nobody asked to join. Finally, a listener asks a dangerous question for people who have spent years working in radio: what song have you heard so many times that you never need to hear it again? In other words, another perfectly normal episode of daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Baristas Are Revealing The Coffee Orders They Associate With Super Specific Stereotypes High school's entire football season canceled amid developing criminal investigation Fire destroys three downtown Du Quoin businesses Kirkwood City Council considers Walmart drone delivery See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We begin Episode 58 with one of the great questions of our time: why is everybody bringing their dog to the airport now? After seeing dogs everywhere at LAX—and hearing two cats meow their way through an entire flight—the crew falls directly into a pet-themed rabbit hole that somehow gets stranger from there. First up, we discover where getting bitten by a dog can really ruin your afternoon. A study looked at dog attacks, insurance claims, exposure to dogs, and legal protections for victims to determine the worst states for dog bites. New York takes the unfortunate overall crown, while Florida leads when it comes strictly to your chances of actually getting bitten. Meanwhile, dog-related homeowner insurance claims are becoming wildly expensive, and mail carriers continue doing one of the bravest jobs in America: walking directly toward houses containing animals that absolutely hate their pants. Naturally, this leads our funny podcast into science proving—or at least studying—something most pet owners already know: we talk to our animals like they’re people. Not just “sit” and “stay,” either. We mean full conversations. The crew admits to giving pets updates before leaving the house, whispering compliments to one dog so the other one doesn’t hear, telling cats “I love you,” debating which pet is secretly the favorite, asking dogs what they want to watch on TV, and generally treating animals like tiny roommates who contribute absolutely nothing financially. Rafe talks to Bo like an old man with stories from the good old days. Lern has to navigate the complicated politics of loving three cats while knowing Clover is her original girl. And the dogs have apparently learned how to spell W-A-L-K, meaning humanity has officially lost its last tactical advantage. Then we crack open the listener emails, where things take a surprisingly wholesome turn. One listener shares his sobriety story and how an embarrassing moment on a Cub Scout camping trip ultimately became the motivation that changed his life. Years later, he was able to talk about that experience with pride—and we’re genuinely glad he shared it with the show. Don’t worry. We immediately ruin the emotional maturity by talking about Tim Curry movies. That sends the crew back to 1993’s The Three Musketeers, Tim Curry as Cardinal Richelieu, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O’Donnell, Oliver Platt, and the gloriously over-the-top “All for Love” combination of Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, and Sting. This funny podcast briefly becomes a 1990s movie-and-music appreciation society nobody asked to join. Finally, a listener asks a dangerous question for people who have spent years working in radio: what song have you heard so many times that you never need to hear it again? For Lern, the answer comes with absolutely zero hesitation: Georgia Satellites’ “Keep Your Hands to Yourself.” She doesn’t merely dislike it. She appears prepared to personally campaign against its continued existence on rock radio. Moon considers years of Foo Fighters and Shinedown exposure, while everybody tries to figure out which songs have permanently embedded themselves into their brains after decades around radio stations. It’s pets, dog bites, cats with emotional leverage, Tim Curry nostalgia, listener stories, radio grievances, and one increasingly personal feud with the Georgia Satellites. In other words, another completely normal funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Du Quoin, Illinois is having a rough week, and this one hits close to home. Massive downtown fire in Rafe's hometown of Du Quoin. Multiple businesses were destroyed, including Home Lumber Company, BJ's Garden Inn and other properties along the downtown business district. Making an already difficult situation even worse, the fire happened during the Du Quoin State Fair, one of the biggest economic weeks of the year for the small Southern Illinois community. Rafe talks about seeing the damage to a downtown that's already watched businesses disappear over the years, while Lern shares her own memories of growing up nearby and planning entire summers around the Du Quoin State Fair. Thankfully, the transcript reports no injuries or deaths, but the loss is still devastating for a town of roughly 6,000 people. So the crew sends some love south and encourages everybody heading to the fair to support Du Quoin however they can. Then, eventually, the daily comedy machine starts malfunctioning again. The conversation turns into a full Southern Illinois State Fair nostalgia session, complete with Wiz Khalifa, Russell Dickerson, demo derbies, Night Ranger and Rafe remembering the time he watched Joe Diffie put on what felt like a full stadium concert inside a tiny Budweiser beer tent. Rafe also officially declares the Du Quoin State Fair superior to the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. Complaints may be directed to somebody who cares. From there, September 3rd's collection of completely necessary national holidays introduces National Welsh Rarebit Day, which briefly causes confusion over whether anyone is eating a rabbit. They're not. It's cheese. That discovery leads directly to Worcestershire sauce, pork-steak marinades and the shocking revelation that Rafe doesn't own a grill. On Labor Day weekend. We don't make the rules, but we're pretty sure that's grounds for deportation from the Midwest. Luckily, Lern has an even worse idea. After talking with Tim Virgin, she introduces a potential reality-dating concept called Rock Hard Island. The premise involves eligible bachelors from St. Louis rock radio, women applying to date them and enough trash-TV energy to immediately attract hypothetical sponsors. There isn't actually an island involved, but that's apparently a minor logistical concern. Even more alarming: sales is interested. Nothing bad has ever happened after those three words. The crew also takes a trip through September 3rd history, covering everything from the beginning of World War II to Vince Lombardi, Iron Maiden's Powerslave, Prince's massive Warner Bros. deal, Charlie Sheen's 1995 marriage and the founding of eBay. Then Lern takes over for Crap on Celebrities with a packed entertainment rundown. There's a documentary about late Rush drummer Neil Peart featuring Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and fellow drummers including Stewart Copeland, Chad Smith and Danny Carey. Rush is also headed back to St. Louis, giving Moon another chance to see a band he thought he'd never get to experience after Peart's death. There's Beck news for local record-store fans, TV talk involving Chad Powers and The Gentlemen, a rundown of the upcoming Dancing with the Stars cast, and news involving Wheel of Fortune. The show also discusses an upcoming documentary about The Office and remembers Gloria Steinem and her enormous influence on American journalism and the women's movement. Then we arrive at one of those debates designed specifically to waste productive adults' time: the greatest movie and television villains ever. Darth Vader? Obviously. Annie Wilkes? Terrifying. Voldemort? Sure. Hannibal Lecter? Yep. The Joker? Somehow they almost forgot him. The crew runs through villains ranging from Cruella de Vil and Scar to Patrick Bateman, Magneto, John Doe and Dr. Evil, proving once again that this daily comedy show can turn almost any entertainment list into an argument. Finally, Moon breaks down which music genres are supposedly most popular in different states based on search trends, with pop leading the country, metal putting up an impressive fight and Sleep Token emerging as a heavily searched metal act. Then it's birthday time, which means any remaining professionalism is escorted from the building. We've got Charlie Sheen, King Scott's twin Shaun White, Kaia Gerber, Todd Lewis, Steve Jones and more before Rafe handles the final birthday honors and everybody briefly convinces themselves that Amber Lynn is dead. She isn't. Great work, team. It's a show that starts with genuine concern for a Southern Illinois community, takes a detour through State Fair memories, somehow invents a trashy St. Louis dating show, argues about fictional villains and ends with an accidental celebrity death announcement. In other words, another perfectly normal episode of daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Things start surprisingly deep when Lern talks about listening to Rafe’s appearance on The HoneyDew, where he discussed difficult experiences from childhood and finding comedy in darker moments. He explains the idea of turning life’s lowlights into highlights, everybody agrees that nobody escapes childhood completely unscathed, and for one fleeting moment this sounds like a mature conversation between emotionally intelligent adults. Then Moon asks what everyone puts in their coffee. So much for that. Turns out King Scott likes his coffee like he likes his women... According to former Starbucks professionals, black-coffee drinkers might enjoy torturing themselves, caramel macchiato fans barely want coffee at all, vanilla-latte people play it safe, Frappuccino drinkers are basically ordering milkshakes, matcha people might be doing it for the aesthetic, and macchiato drinkers know exactly what they want—and apparently want the barista to know that they know. Then Rafe introduces the concept of a “bro drive-thru” serving pre-workout instead of coffee, because apparently this funny podcast is also an incubator for business ideas nobody should finance. Speaking of decisions nobody should finance, Shake Shack has a limited-edition Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup shake featuring vanilla custard, peanut butter, fudge, a crackable chocolate shell, whipped cream, Reese’s cups and Reese’s Pieces. The damage? A completely reasonable and emotionally stable 1,900 calories with 158 grams of sugar. That sends the crew spiraling into their own hall of fame of caloric atrocities. Moon remembers casually annihilating an entire package of Double Stuf Oreos during his gaming days—potentially somewhere around 2,700 to 3,500 calories. Lern admits she could take down an entire gooey butter cake. And suddenly everyone is remembering the beautiful years when metabolism was magic and nutritional labels were merely decorative stickers. From there, Domino’s new Detroit-style pizza promotion sparks the important question our Founding Fathers were apparently too cowardly to answer: What belongs on the Mount Rushmore of fast food? McDonald’s fries enter the conversation. So does the Wendy’s Frosty, Taco Bell’s spicy potato soft taco, the Frisco Melt, Lion’s Choice, Dairy Queen onion rings, Rally’s fries, Del Taco, Freddy’s and more. Nobody reaches a universal consensus because democracy has failed once again. Things somehow become less appetizing when the crew discovers a Walgreens three-in-one product described as a douche, enema and water-bottle combination system. There are some household products where “multipurpose” is a selling point. This may not be one of them. The show then gets into a study suggesting men have a complicated relationship with dieting, including the idea that some men may respond better to “goals” and “challenges” than the word “diet.” Rafe offers his own theory after seeing wildly confident dudes criticize women online while looking, in his words, like a thumb melting into a suit. Poetry remains alive in St. Louis. And because the current calendar apparently isn't irritating enough, Moon brings up a viral proposal to replace our 12 months with five beautiful 73-day monstrosities: Jebruary, Maple, Jaugust, Socktober and Nissember. Is a 73-day Jaugust horrifying? Absolutely. Are we intrigued by Socktober? Unfortunately, yes. We also discover that plenty of Americans apparently aren’t sure what Labor Day celebrates, leading to the much more useful Rizz Show explanation that it exists so all pregnant women can give birth on the same day. Please do not cite us in an academic paper. Then Tupac conspiracy content leads into a survey asking whether Americans believe they could successfully fake their own deaths. Younger adults are more confident. Older adults have apparently lived long enough to understand that the IRS, prescription refills and bill collectors are undefeated. Finally, a high-school football season gets canceled amid an investigation into alleged misconduct at a football camp, leaving Moon to read a phrase from the reports on morning radio enough times that everyone involved should probably receive hazard pay. Coffee psychology. Childhood trauma. Reese’s shakes. Oreos. Fast-food Mount Rushmore. Dieting. Socktober. Labor Day. Fake deaths. High-school football chaos. That is Episode 101 of The Rizzuto Show—and somehow the funny podcast survived all of it. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The 1st full Saturday slate of college football is here and Tim McKernan and Anthony Stalter are back in The Spread Zone breaking down their picks for the weekend. Anthony looks to bounce back after an 0-3 Week 0, while Tim comes in off a 2-1 week. Starting Thursday night, they look into Coach Prime's return to Atlanta, and how you can bet on Mizzou as they kick off the season against Arkansas Pine Bluffs. Plus, a showdown on the west coast as Oregon takes on Boise St., Kane Kiffin's LSU debut against Dabo Swinney's Clemson Tigers, Wisconsin and Notre Dame meeting at the not so frozen tundra of Lambeau Field, and more. Plus, does the expanded playoff change how bettors should approach massive spreads against overmatched opponents? And could a rough Week 1 loss already turn up the heat on Dabo Swinney at Clemson? LEGAL DISCLAIMER We provide information about sports betting for entertainment purposes only. Please confirm gambling regulations in your state of residence. To participate in sports gaming, you must be 21 years of age or older and be physically present in a state where sports betting is legal. If you or someone you know has a sports betting or gambling problem, please call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org for more information and further assistance. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Moon kicks things off with the full report from the Cali Country Cruise, sailing from Long Beach to Ensenada, Mexico. The lineup included Tracy Lawrence, Gretchen Wilson, Jo Dee Messina, Chase Rice and plenty more, while Moon performed with Sullivan. There were some musical highs, some musical... let's call them learning opportunities... and the revelation that Jo Dee Messina may have discovered the ultimate cruise hack: perform before the ship leaves and then GET OFF THE BOAT. Gretchen Wilson, meanwhile, delivered one of Moon's highlights of the entire trip with a killer performance and band. Unfortunately, the actual cruise experience wasn't getting the same review. We're talking pricey Wi-Fi that barely worked, a balcony-room mix-up, limited excursion options, fake Cuban cigars, a stage built over the pool and a tiny backup pool populated by people who apparently had no interest in ever getting out. From there, this funny podcast turns into a tour of America's most overrated attractions. Four Corners gets roasted. Mount Rushmore gets called smaller than expected. Times Square takes a hit. The Las Vegas Strip lands at the top of the list. Lern also reveals she once got emotional seeing Chicago's Bean, proving once again that public art can be powerful when it looks like a gigantic piece of silver produce. A swimmer at Lake Tahoe reportedly gets attacked by an otter and requires 38 stitches, prompting Rafe to immediately begin defending the otter because apparently wildlife now has legal representation on The Rizzuto Show. Then there's a possible shark attack near the Massachusetts location associated with Jaws, followed by the deeply upsetting story of a woman waking from a dream about a mouse crawling toward her mouth... only to discover there was actually a BAT near her mouth. We also discover a Hawaiian shirt designed to confuse AI-powered surveillance cameras, which means Weird Al may have been preparing for the surveillance state this entire time. Missouri and Illinois get dragged into America's "worst vibes" rankings before the crew investigates which states hate each other the most. Missouri's answer? Kansas. Obviously. Centuries pass, civilizations rise and fall, and Missouri will apparently still find time to be annoyed by Kansas. Moon kicks things off with the glamorous realities of modern air travel after seemingly every flight on his trip decided that “on time” was more of a suggestion. A canceled connection, rerouting through Dallas, delays into Los Angeles and another delay getting back to St. Louis gave him plenty of time to catch up on movies. Unfortunately, that included The Mandalorian and Grogu, which gets a very enthusiastic C-minus review. Somewhere, a Star Wars fan just felt a disturbance in the Force. Then we discover that Americans apparently hit an energy wall around 2:48 in the afternoon, which explains basically every email you’ve ever received after lunch. Rafe’s sleep schedule is wrecked, Lern is fighting afternoon cravings with hard-boiled eggs, and that leads to perhaps the most important culinary advice ever delivered on a funny podcast: if you’ve already hard-boiled the egg, you’re halfway to a deviled egg. That discussion somehow turns into stale cereal confessions. Lern admits to eating old strawberry vanilla Chex after band practice while Rafe reveals that he knowingly ate stale Pops AND stale Golden Grahams. This is less a morning show and more four adults slowly admitting things that should probably stay between themselves and their pantries. Then it’s time for Crap on Celebrities, where things get appropriately ridiculous. A woman is accused of stealing and crashing an ambulance outside an Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte concert. Sevendust drummer Morgan Rose gets some love. Gibson is releasing an extremely limited Billy Gibbons “Pearly Gates” Les Paul. Sean Ono Lennon welcomes his first child, making John Lennon and Yoko Ono grandparents for the first time. There’s also a Matthew Perry documentary on the way, more Tulsa King, and the crew tries to understand the enormous world of people watching other people play video games. Speaking of gaming, Grand Theft Auto gets everybody talking about Twitch, streaming communities, gameplay fandoms, and the strange realization that watching someone else play a game can become an entire entertainment ecosystem. Scott even admits he made “multiple dollars” streaming, so please respect the media mogul. Hollywood keeps the nonsense rolling with Emmy gift bags, Marvel’s mysterious Secret Wars casting, Hamnet, and Ridley Scott reportedly having some thoughts about Paul Mescal and Gladiator 2. That opens the floodgates because Rafe and Moon are more than happy to discuss just how much they hated that movie. Sharks in the Coliseum are put on trial. The verdict is not favorable. There’s also a live-action Street Fighter movie coming with a completely unhinged cast, including Jason Momoa, 50 Cent, Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes, Eric André and more. Apparently somebody looked at the casting board and selected “yes.” Finally, Journey brings Steve Perry look-alike Hugo Valenti onstage during shows in Japan, causing some fans to apparently wonder whether the real Steve Perry had returned. The crew listens to the results, and that goes exactly as respectfully as longtime listeners would expect. Throw in birthdays, Terry Bradshaw, Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek, Rafe’s increasingly dangerous wordplay, and all the other nonsense that somehow qualifies as broadcasting, and you’ve got another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Delayed flights. Deviled eggs. Stale Pops. Celebrity fails. Video games. Gladiator sharks. Fake Steve Perry. We accomplished nothing and covered everything. The Cali-Country Cruise 7 most overrated US attractions Woman attacked by otter while swimming says 'it felt like a human' Woman gets potential shark bite off Martha's Vineyard, in the town "Jaws" was filmed Which US state has the worst vibes? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Moon kicks things off with random facts, including the slightly unsettling reminder that everything you see technically happened in the past because your brain needs time to process visual information. Humanity’s deepest hole is only about 7.6 miles deep compared to an Earth radius of thousands of miles, and apparently hundreds of thousands of people around the world may hit the space bar during the exact same second you do. More importantly, the scientific word for your stomach rumbling enters the conversation, and the crew immediately does what scientists surely hoped humanity would do with that information: turns it into a bit. Then Rafe takes everybody deeper into the cosmic rabbit hole. Looking at distant stars means looking into the past, some of those stars may not even exist anymore, and the Andromeda galaxy we see is essentially an ancient version of itself. We eventually make it all the way back to the cosmic microwave background and the early universe before Moon asks the only question that matters: do you know what movies are playing in theaters right now? And with that, science is over. It’s time for Three in Five. The rules sound painfully simple. Rafe gives a category. The contestant gets five seconds to name three things that fit it. No stall tactics, no verbal buffering and no wasting precious seconds trying to remember information you absolutely knew before somebody put you on the radio. Naturally, everything goes wonderfully wrong. Mike in Fenton is asked for three Julia Roberts movies and fires off Pretty Woman, Ocean’s 8 and Ocean’s 11. Unfortunately, Ocean’s 8 creates a minor courtroom proceeding before Mike recovers by naming states beginning with M and actors who played Batman. Matt gets cereal mascots and Saturday Night Live cast members while apparently communicating through technology recovered from an archaeological dig. Somehow, he survives. Then Chris is asked for three TV shows set in New York City and confidently opens with… CHiPs. Yes. CHiPs. California Highway Patrol. New York City. This comedy podcast cannot explain what happened there. We can only document it for future generations. Things become even more legally questionable when Chris attempts to name three Doritos flavors and introduces “spicy taco” into the proceedings. The judges investigate. Mercy is granted. Then he names ibuprofen, Tylenol and acetaminophen as three over-the-counter pain relievers, creating another debate because Tylenol and acetaminophen might be getting suspiciously friendly with each other. Somehow, tickets are still awarded because Moon has apparently decided rules are just another form of audience participation. Lisa joins the game and gives us what sounds suspiciously like the “Pittsburgh Farts” while attempting to name professional baseball teams. The crew loses it, Lisa survives, and we eventually discover she knows her domestic beers extremely well despite preferring Ichiban. Honestly, respect. Then Bill returns seeking redemption after a previous mathematical catastrophe, only to discover that redemption is apparently not available today. Asked to name three laundry detergent brands, Bill gets as far as “Tide.” Goodbye, Bill. Jordan struggles with NFL teams and St. Louis landmarks, giving us “the Arch, the River…” before the five-second clock claims another victim. At this point the game has stopped being trivia and become a controlled experiment studying what happens when humans experience extremely mild pressure. Finally, Brad attempts to end things on a high note with refrigerator condiments, solo artists known by one name, and holidays that get you a day off work. Naturally, even that creates debates over Elvis, Bowie, Veterans Day and what exactly constitutes a universally recognized day off. Throw in AC/DC and Foo Fighters tickets, Shinedown, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, refrigerator hot-sauce organization, missing Milk Duds and a shocking amount of leniency from Moon, and you’ve got another comedy podcast that started by contemplating the age of the universe and ended by arguing about condiments. Science taught us that looking into space means looking into the past. Three in Five taught us something even more important: Never judge someone for freezing on an easy question until Rafe puts a five-second timer on you. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Moon is back from California and Mexico, Rizz is out, and naturally the captain’s chair immediately becomes a command center for delayed flights, stale cereal, deviled eggs, celebrity nonsense, video games, and a surprisingly passionate takedown of Gladiator 2. Welcome to another funny podcast where we somehow start with Southwest Airlines and end up debating whether a Steve Perry look-alike can spiritually become Steve Perry if the crowd believes hard enough. Moon kicks things off with the glamorous realities of modern air travel after seemingly every flight on his trip decided that “on time” was more of a suggestion. A canceled connection, rerouting through Dallas, delays into Los Angeles and another delay getting back to St. Louis gave him plenty of time to catch up on movies. Unfortunately, that included The Mandalorian and Grogu, which gets a very enthusiastic C-minus review. Somewhere, a Star Wars fan just felt a disturbance in the Force. Then we discover that Americans apparently hit an energy wall around 2:48 in the afternoon, which explains basically every email you’ve ever received after lunch. Rafe’s sleep schedule is wrecked, Lern is fighting afternoon cravings with hard-boiled eggs, and that leads to perhaps the most important culinary advice ever delivered on a funny podcast: if you’ve already hard-boiled the egg, you’re halfway to a deviled egg. “Scoop and gloop,” America. That discussion somehow turns into stale cereal confessions. Lern admits to eating old strawberry vanilla Chex after band practice while Rafe reveals that he knowingly ate stale Pops AND stale Golden Grahams. This is less a morning show and more four adults slowly admitting things that should probably stay between themselves and their pantries. Then it’s time for Crap on Celebrities, where things get appropriately ridiculous. A woman is accused of stealing and crashing an ambulance outside an Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte concert. Sevendust drummer Morgan Rose gets some love. Gibson is releasing an extremely limited Billy Gibbons “Pearly Gates” Les Paul. Sean Ono Lennon welcomes his first child, making John Lennon and Yoko Ono grandparents for the first time. There’s also a Matthew Perry documentary on the way, more Tulsa King, and the crew tries to understand the enormous world of people watching other people play video games. Speaking of gaming, Grand Theft Auto gets everybody talking about Twitch, streaming communities, gameplay fandoms, and the strange realization that watching someone else play a game can become an entire entertainment ecosystem. Scott even admits he made “multiple dollars” streaming, so please respect the media mogul. Hollywood keeps the nonsense rolling with Emmy gift bags, Marvel’s mysterious Secret Wars casting, Hamnet, and Ridley Scott reportedly having some thoughts about Paul Mescal and Gladiator 2. That opens the floodgates because Rafe and Moon are more than happy to discuss just how much they hated that movie. Sharks in the Coliseum are put on trial. The verdict is not favorable. There’s also a live-action Street Fighter movie coming with a completely unhinged cast, including Jason Momoa, 50 Cent, Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes, Eric André and more. Apparently somebody looked at the casting board and selected “yes.” Finally, Journey brings Steve Perry look-alike Hugo Valenti onstage during shows in Japan, causing some fans to apparently wonder whether the real Steve Perry had returned. The crew listens to the results, and that goes exactly as respectfully as longtime listeners would expect. Throw in birthdays, Terry Bradshaw, Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek, Rafe’s increasingly dangerous wordplay, and all the other nonsense that somehow qualifies as broadcasting, and you’ve got another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Delayed flights. Deviled eggs. Stale Pops. Celebrity fails. Video games. Gladiator sharks. Fake Steve Perry. We accomplished nothing and covered everything. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Moon is back from the Cali Country Cruise, and apparently all it took was several days trapped on a boat with country music, expensive Wi-Fi, questionable pools and enough alcohol to sink a smaller boat to make our resident cruise defender reconsider his entire belief system. Welcome to Episode 146 of The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where a perfectly normal vacation recap somehow ends with violent otters, bats trying to enter human mouths, artificial intelligence being defeated by Hawaiian shirts, and Missouri discovering that the rest of America apparently doesn't love our vibes. Moon kicks things off with the full report from the Cali Country Cruise, sailing from Long Beach to Ensenada, Mexico. The lineup included Tracy Lawrence, Gretchen Wilson, Jo Dee Messina, Chase Rice and plenty more, while Moon performed with Sullivan. There were some musical highs, some musical... let's call them learning opportunities... and the revelation that Jo Dee Messina may have discovered the ultimate cruise hack: perform before the ship leaves and then GET OFF THE BOAT. Genius. No notes. Gretchen Wilson, meanwhile, delivered one of Moon's highlights of the entire trip with a killer performance and band. Unfortunately, the actual cruise experience wasn't getting the same review. We're talking pricey Wi-Fi that barely worked, a balcony-room mix-up, limited excursion options, fake Cuban cigars, a stage built over the pool and a tiny backup pool populated by people who apparently had no interest in ever getting out. Nothing makes you rethink vacation choices like sitting in a hot tub in Mexico wondering how much human broth is legally allowed before it becomes soup. And somehow that's not even where the cruise chaos ends. The ship was reportedly delayed while authorities dealt with passengers suspected of bringing meth aboard, while another passenger managed to get cut off from the alcohol package before the ship even left. Imagine getting grounded by a cruise ship while you're still within swimming distance of your car. From there, this funny podcast turns into a tour of America's most overrated attractions. Four Corners gets roasted. Mount Rushmore gets called smaller than expected. Times Square takes a hit. The Las Vegas Strip lands at the top of the list. Lern also reveals she once got emotional seeing Chicago's Bean, proving once again that public art can be powerful when it looks like a gigantic piece of silver produce. Then the animals arrive. A swimmer at Lake Tahoe reportedly gets attacked by an otter and requires 38 stitches, prompting Rafe to immediately begin defending the otter because apparently wildlife now has legal representation on The Rizzuto Show. Then there's a possible shark attack near the Massachusetts location associated with Jaws, followed by the deeply upsetting story of a woman waking from a dream about a mouse crawling toward her mouth... only to discover there was actually a BAT near her mouth. Sleep tight, everybody. We also discover a Hawaiian shirt designed to confuse AI-powered surveillance cameras, which means Weird Al may have been preparing for the surveillance state this entire time. Finally, Missouri and Illinois get dragged into America's "worst vibes" rankings before the crew investigates which states hate each other the most. Missouri's answer? Kansas. Obviously. Centuries pass, civilizations rise and fall, and Missouri will apparently still find time to be annoyed by Kansas. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rizz is preparing for his extremely prestigious duties as a Wing Ding judge, specifically in the traditional buffalo category, which is apparently the kind of responsibility this show has been training him for his entire life. The crew debates proper wing-eating strategy, whether fasting beforehand is genius or idiotic, and naturally gets Joey Chestnut involved in the conversation without Joey Chestnut actually being there to defend himself. Then there’s actual rock-star business: Chad Gray of Mudvayne is coming into the studio. That sends everybody down memory lane with LD 50, old Mudvayne tattoos, central Illinois geography and the important question nobody else had the courage to ask: what exactly does “Mudvayne” mean? Welcome to the hard-hitting journalism portion of your favorite funny podcast. September also means Sober September, an idea Rizz immediately rejects because there’s a wedding coming up and apparently his liver already accepted the calendar invite. The gang talks declining alcohol consumption, cocktail attire, velvet suits, bolo ties and the possibility of Rafe attending a wedding dressed like a cowboy who recently discovered formalwear. The substance discussion somehow gives way to altitude sickness, canned oxygen and e-bikes capable of sending a teenager to school at highway speeds. With local schools introducing new rules for electric bikes and scooters, the crew reminisces about riding regular bikes to school—the primitive version that required legs, poor planning and occasionally missing first period. The crew dives into reports of understaffing, blind spots, online creep behavior and the increasingly obvious conclusion that some people desperately need hobbies that don’t result in police reports. Just when you thought Vin Diesel’s greatest contribution to emotional storytelling involved family, fast cars, and staring intensely into the middle distance, he goes and surprises everybody with a heartfelt tribute to Dolly Parton. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where we apparently begin with Vin Diesel singing “I Will Always Love You” and somehow get MORE unpredictable from there. The crew tries to identify the mystery celebrity behind the surprisingly vulnerable performance before learning it’s Vin Diesel—and, against all reasonable expectations, everybody is impressed. His deep voice and emotional delivery lead to the obvious conclusion that somebody should probably get this man “Ol’ Man River” immediately. Keanu’s mother, Patricia Taylor, worked as a costume designer for Dolly, including creating the famous black bunny outfit Dolly wore for her 1978 Playboy cover. That outfit eventually made its way into the Reeves household, where teenage Keanu reportedly wore it for Halloween—bunny ears, bustier, fishnets, bow tie, sneakers and all. Somehow, this only strengthens the crew’s argument that Keanu Reeves may be next in line for the title of universally beloved celebrity. From there, Crap on Celebrities gets moving with Miley Cyrus seemingly entering her one-name era, discussion surrounding Kelly Osbourne and public speculation about her appearance, and Bad Wolves releasing their metal version of “Jolene.” The crew also gets into the Sphere making The Wizard of Oz even more ridiculous, chart talk, Lionel Richie’s health scare following his St. Louis performance, ZZ Top continuing forward, Kelly Clarkson wrapping her talk show, Jamie Pressley’s reported hotel drama, and Mel Gibson apologizing after an awkward moment involving a sign-language interpreter. Then Chad Gray joins the show ahead of his 30 Years of Madness stop at Delmar Hall, and the conversation turns into a trip through three decades of heavy music. Chad talks about building a set from roughly 12 albums of material across Mudvayne and HELLYEAH, including deep cuts that force him to keep lyric sheets nearby because apparently even the guy who wrote the songs occasionally needs the musical equivalent of checking his notes. He explains how he’s kept his voice intact after decades of screaming and singing, what he learned from vocal coach Melissa Cross, and how his approach has evolved from essentially hitting every note “like a linebacker” to using more technique and finesse. What happens when an Amazon delivery driver sees a cooler of cake pops next to a sign that basically says “treat yourself”? Apparently, you get a social media controversy, an apology, a payment, an angry bakery owner, and millions of people choosing sides over four dollars’ worth of dessert. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, where today’s funny podcast begins with celebrity birthdays and quickly escalates into the Great Cake Pop Incident. First, Rizz runs through another batch of celebrity birthdays, including Zendaya, Gloria Estefan, Billy Blanks, Dr. Phil, Barry Gibb, and Lily Tomlin. Naturally, Billy Blanks gives Rafe the opportunity to explain how knowing Tae Bo has apparently prepared him for street combat. Nothing says “please don’t fight me” quite like threatening a man with a dance kick. After dessert-based international diplomacy fails, First Alert 4 morning anchors Claire Kellett and Maurice Drummond join the show to talk about the launch of First Alert 4 on ABC in St. Louis. We compare morning-show schedules and discover that waking up around 2:30 a.m. is apparently a perfectly normal lifestyle choice when you've abandoned all hope of respecting your circadian rhythm. Claire and Maurice talk about balancing early mornings with family life, the changing television business, working alongside people who become family, and what it means to be part of the daily routine for viewers across St. Louis. Maurice looks back on his years covering sports, including Cardinals World Series celebrations, the Blues winning the Stanley Cup, and Mizzou’s huge win over Kansas at Arrowhead. Claire shares memories from covering Ferguson and talks about growing up in the St. Louis area before eventually coming home to work in local television. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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What happens when an Amazon delivery driver sees a cooler of cake pops next to a sign that basically says “treat yourself”? Apparently, you get a social media controversy, an apology, a payment, an angry bakery owner, and millions of people choosing sides over four dollars’ worth of dessert. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, where today’s funny podcast begins with celebrity birthdays and quickly escalates into the Great Cake Pop Incident. First, Rizz runs through another batch of celebrity birthdays, including Zendaya, Gloria Estefan, Billy Blanks, Dr. Phil, Barry Gibb, and Lily Tomlin. Naturally, Billy Blanks gives Rafe the opportunity to explain how knowing Tae Bo has apparently prepared him for street combat. Nothing says “please don’t fight me” quite like threatening a man with a dance kick. Then we get to Homemade Haven Porch Bakery and an Amazon delivery driver named Wes, who grabs one $4 cake pop after seeing a “treat yourself” sign near a cooler of baked goods. Wes says he thought the treats were being left out for delivery drivers. Instead of a simple misunderstanding, the bakery posts Ring camera footage online, asks people to identify him, and calls him a thief. Wes apologizes. His wife sends the bakery $5. He even asks people NOT to boycott the business. Surely everybody acts like reasonable adults from there. Oh, sweet innocent listener. The bakery doubles down, the internet discovers the story, and suddenly millions of people are debating porch etiquette, social media shaming, small-business behavior, and whether anyone committing an actual cake-pop heist would really stop after stealing exactly one. After dessert-based international diplomacy fails, First Alert 4 morning anchors Claire Kellett and Maurice Drummond join the show to talk about the launch of First Alert 4 on ABC in St. Louis. We compare morning-show schedules and discover that waking up around 2:30 a.m. is apparently a perfectly normal lifestyle choice when you've abandoned all hope of respecting your circadian rhythm. Claire and Maurice talk about balancing early mornings with family life, the changing television business, working alongside people who become family, and what it means to be part of the daily routine for viewers across St. Louis. Maurice looks back on his years covering sports, including Cardinals World Series celebrations, the Blues winning the Stanley Cup, and Mizzou’s huge win over Kansas at Arrowhead. Claire shares memories from covering Ferguson and talks about growing up in the St. Louis area before eventually coming home to work in local television. And because this is still a funny podcast, the serious media conversation naturally includes Steve Templeton memes, jokes about shirtless weather coverage, Rizz being called a bridge troll, questionable radio wardrobes, vitamin D deprivation, free donuts, and the realization that everybody working in morning media is basically hanging on by a thread. Claire and Maurice also explain what First Alert 4 expanding onto ABC means for St. Louis viewers: more news, weather, sports and traffic, plus major ABC programming and sports coverage. We even begin the extremely official campaign to get Maurice sent to the Super Bowl, because apparently this radio show now controls television travel budgets. By the end, we've covered celebrity birthdays, viral cake-pop justice, careers in St. Louis media, World Series locker rooms, Ferguson, morning-show exhaustion, college kids leaving home, TV budgets, Steve Templeton's imaginary abs, and the powerful advertising potential of a decent free T-shirt. In other words: another perfectly organized episode of your favorite funny podcast. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Just when you thought Vin Diesel’s greatest contribution to emotional storytelling involved family, fast cars, and staring intensely into the middle distance, he goes and surprises everybody with a heartfelt tribute to Dolly Parton. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where we apparently begin with Vin Diesel singing “I Will Always Love You” and somehow get MORE unpredictable from there. The crew tries to identify the mystery celebrity behind the surprisingly vulnerable performance before learning it’s Vin Diesel—and, against all reasonable expectations, everybody is impressed. His deep voice and emotional delivery lead to the obvious conclusion that somebody should probably get this man “Ol’ Man River” immediately. Then comes another Dolly Parton connection we absolutely did not have on the bingo card: Keanu Reeves. Keanu’s mother, Patricia Taylor, worked as a costume designer for Dolly, including creating the famous black bunny outfit Dolly wore for her 1978 Playboy cover. That outfit eventually made its way into the Reeves household, where teenage Keanu reportedly wore it for Halloween—bunny ears, bustier, fishnets, bow tie, sneakers and all. Somehow, this only strengthens the crew’s argument that Keanu Reeves may be next in line for the title of universally beloved celebrity. From there, Crap on Celebrities gets moving with Miley Cyrus seemingly entering her one-name era, discussion surrounding Kelly Osbourne and public speculation about her appearance, and Bad Wolves releasing their metal version of “Jolene.” The crew also gets into the Sphere making The Wizard of Oz even more ridiculous, chart talk, Lionel Richie’s health scare following his St. Louis performance, ZZ Top continuing forward, Kelly Clarkson wrapping her talk show, Jamie Pressley’s reported hotel drama, and Mel Gibson apologizing after an awkward moment involving a sign-language interpreter. You know. Normal morning activities. Then Chad Gray joins the show ahead of his 30 Years of Madness stop at Delmar Hall, and the conversation turns into a trip through three decades of heavy music. Chad talks about building a set from roughly 12 albums of material across Mudvayne and HELLYEAH, including deep cuts that force him to keep lyric sheets nearby because apparently even the guy who wrote the songs occasionally needs the musical equivalent of checking his notes. He explains how he’s kept his voice intact after decades of screaming and singing, what he learned from vocal coach Melissa Cross, and how his approach has evolved from essentially hitting every note “like a linebacker” to using more technique and finesse. The conversation gets deeper as Chad remembers being an outcast kid in Illinois and discovering heavy metal as both an identity and a tribe. That eventually leads into the incredible story of how HELLYEAH came together and Chad’s first nerve-racking phone call with Vinnie Paul. Chad remembers going to Texas, entering the studio connected to Dimebag Darrell, and seeing firsthand how emotional returning to music was for Vinnie. Playing those HELLYEAH songs today remains emotional for Chad because, as he explains, performing them is one way of keeping Vinnie’s memory alive. Chad also opens up about reaching five years of sobriety and how dramatically his life has changed. Rafe shares his own experience with 15 years without drinking, giving this funny podcast one of those rare moments where everybody stops roasting each other long enough to have an unexpectedly meaningful conversation. Don’t worry. It doesn’t become responsible for too long. The crew and Chad also revisit Mudvayne’s unforgettable early-2000s rise, including their MTV appearance, winning the inaugural MTV2 award, meeting major stars backstage, and the absolutely stacked Ozzfest era. Chad reflects on what Ozzy Osbourne did for generations of metal bands by putting younger artists in front of enormous audiences and helping create opportunities that changed careers. There’s talk of Peoria, Decatur, Illinois metal culture, touring, Mudvayne’s future, Chad’s current band, the legacy of HELLYEAH, and why sitting around waiting for something to happen simply isn’t in his DNA. So yes, this episode begins with Vin Diesel singing Dolly Parton and eventually arrives at Vinnie Paul, Ozzfest, sobriety, Mudvayne history and Keanu Reeves wearing fishnets. We'd explain how those things belong together, but that would suggest this show has a plan. It does not. That’s why you listen to this funny podcast in the first place. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rizz is preparing for his extremely prestigious duties as a Wing Ding judge, specifically in the traditional buffalo category, which is apparently the kind of responsibility this show has been training him for his entire life. The crew debates proper wing-eating strategy, whether fasting beforehand is genius or idiotic, and naturally gets Joey Chestnut involved in the conversation without Joey Chestnut actually being there to defend himself. Then there’s actual rock-star business: Chad Gray of Mudvayne is coming into the studio. That sends everybody down memory lane with LD 50, old Mudvayne tattoos, central Illinois geography and the important question nobody else had the courage to ask: what exactly does “Mudvayne” mean? Welcome to the hard-hitting journalism portion of your favorite funny podcast. September also means Sober September, an idea Rizz immediately rejects because there’s a wedding coming up and apparently his liver already accepted the calendar invite. The gang talks declining alcohol consumption, cocktail attire, velvet suits, bolo ties and the possibility of Rafe attending a wedding dressed like a cowboy who recently discovered formalwear. From there, things get considerably less responsible. A conversation about cannabis use turns into stories about modern weed being approximately 4,000 times more powerful than anyone remembers. Lern recalls taking an edible and calling her mom to talk her down. Rizz remembers falling asleep at the helm of a boat. Rafe wonders whether the ecstasy he took in the late ’90s has a delayed expiration date. Nobody learns anything. The substance discussion somehow gives way to altitude sickness, canned oxygen and e-bikes capable of sending a teenager to school at highway speeds. With local schools introducing new rules for electric bikes and scooters, the crew reminisces about riding regular bikes to school—the primitive version that required legs, poor planning and occasionally missing first period. And because this is a funny podcast that refuses to behave for more than seven consecutive minutes, we eventually arrive at the day’s disturbing collection of public indecency stories. There’s an arrest connected to incidents on the Fee Fee Greenway. There’s a Steak ’n Shake employee accused of exposing himself while delivering food to a customer’s car, leading to entirely too much discussion about what accessories would somehow make that scenario worse. Then comes the truly horrifying revelation that understaffed Dollar Tree locations have allegedly become targets for public indecency incidents. Yes. Dollar Tree. As if retail employees weren’t already dealing with enough. The crew dives into reports of understaffing, blind spots, online creep behavior and the increasingly obvious conclusion that some people desperately need hobbies that don’t result in police reports. Then Australia enters the chat. Authorities responding to what appeared to be a mangled body stuffed inside a suitcase instead discovered a discarded silicone doll. That launches a conversation about increasingly realistic customizable dolls, AI technology, questionable ethics and one very practical problem nobody puts in the brochure: what exactly are you supposed to do with a roughly 100-pound silicone companion when you’re finished with it? Goodwill probably has questions. It’s buffalo wings, rock stars, bad weed experiences, e-bike rebellion, bizarre crime stories and technology moving considerably faster than humanity’s ability to act normal. So basically: another day at The Rizzuto Show. This funny podcast proudly continues its mission of taking perfectly ordinary news stories and asking all the questions responsible adults had the good judgment not to ask. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It’s the final day of August, Moon is somewhere in parts unknown, Lern is back, and The Rizzuto Show has officially entered King Scott's BABY WATCH. The baby is now past the due date, predictions are flying around the studio, and Rizz is keeping his ringer on because that phone call could come at any moment. Naturally, while waiting for the miracle of life, the crew spends a significant amount of time celebrating another miracle: Rafe Williams finally has legal license plates. Yes, Rafe went to the DMV. Voluntarily. Sort of. What should have been a routine trip to get his truck squared away became a full-blown battle with Missouri bureaucracy. There’s a packed Creve Coeur DMV, a confusing sign-in system, expired temp tags, paperwork, an emissions-test surprise and a ticking clock. At one point Rafe has until 4:30 to get an emissions test completed or face the horrifying possibility of coming back Monday and waiting all over again. That’s when a listener at the auto shop recognizes him, gets the Tacoma squeezed in, and sends our hero racing back to the DMV with paperwork held high like he just returned from the Crusades. By the end, Rafe is trying to get the entire waiting room to cheer for the woman who helped him. This is the kind of inspirational story your favorite comedy podcast provides because apparently our standards for heroism have become “successfully registering a motor vehicle.” The DMV adventure also sends the crew into everything from old people trying to navigate touchscreen kiosks to modern cars putting every basic function behind another touchscreen. We have reached the future, and the future apparently requires three menus just to turn down the air conditioning. Then Lern returns from Colorado with stories involving the Grizzly Rose, mechanical bulls, mountain towns, wineries, peaches, e-bikes and some legitimately terrifying drives through the Rockies. Her relaxing family getaway somehow includes bull riding and flying around mountain roads, because nobody associated with this show is capable of having a normal vacation. Rizz has his own driving adventure after the intro to “Money for Nothing” hits at exactly the wrong—or right—time and suddenly he’s doing 80 with a police officer behind him. Is getting completely lost in a song a valid speeding defense? Legally, probably don't take our advice. Spiritually? Absolutely. The weekend recaps keep rolling as Rizz gets his first full Friday Night Lights experience watching his daughter cheer at Lafayette, then attends a 40th birthday party extravagant enough to make everyone reconsider their current tax bracket. Meanwhile, Rafe survives Jamie Rivers’ bachelor party, gets his first real taste of the Cafe Napoli scene and discovers that former professional hockey players apparently possess a completely different transmission when it comes to staying out late. Rizz has a problem. For years, he thought sending someone a 👍 meant something along the lines of “sounds good,” “got it” or “cool.” Welcome to another episode of The Rizzuto Show, where daily comedy begins with Rizz discovering that the thumbs-up emoji has evolved into something cold, dismissive and potentially passive-aggressive. Lern and Rafe attempt to explain that context matters and that, depending on who sends it, a simple thumbs-up can basically be the texting equivalent of “K.” From there, things somehow get worse when Sexy Time Fun Facts introduces us to “pheromone maxing.” What is pheromone maxing? Imagine somebody hearing that humans may be attracted to natural scent and deciding the logical next step is to stop showering and quit using deodorant before a date. According to the trend discussed on the show, some guys are even wearing unwashed clothes in an attempt to amplify their natural musk. The theory is that maximizing your natural scent will make you “biologically irresistible.” Lern has an alternative dating strategy: shower. Rafe also points out that if somebody is naturally attracted to your scent, your pheromones can probably survive a light application of deodorant. Cushioning is when someone in a committed relationship keeps another potential romantic partner hanging around in the background. They’re not necessarily dating the backup person, but they maintain enough flirty texts, DMs, casual communication or coffee meetups to keep that option warm just in case the current relationship explodes. Basically, romance now apparently requires a depth chart. The crew gets into back burners, rosters, dating multiple people and the difference between casually seeing different people while single versus keeping someone emotionally invested while you're already committed. Rafe compares the backup attention to a little dopamine hit sitting in your pocket whenever you need some validation. After spending countless hours watching couples navigate one of the happiest—and most stressful—days of their lives, veteran wedding photographers say certain behaviors can become giant relationship red flags. One is heavy drinking to cope rather than celebrate. Another is body language, including whether someone's feet consistently point away from their new spouse in photographs. Suddenly Lern is pulling up her own wedding pictures to investigate where Tim's feet were pointing. Other warning signs include an underwhelming first-look reaction, dismissive comments about a partner's appearance, a lack of affection, eye-rolling during photos and someone who seems significantly happier around their friends than around the person they literally just married. And while we're already destroying everybody's confidence in modern romance, Rafe brings the conversation back to social media and the illusion of unlimited options. When your phone constantly suggests that another person, another relationship and another opportunity are one swipe away, how much harder does it become to appreciate the person who's actually standing in front of you? Because this episode also manages to include coconut oil deodorant experiments, back-burner spreadsheets, a collectible Tommy Wiseau wooden spoon, Lern accidentally making it sound like her wedding photographers died when they actually just moved to California, and a tease involving a robot vacuum allegedly catching a wife cheating. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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Rizz has a problem. For years, he thought sending someone a 👍 meant something along the lines of “sounds good,” “got it” or “cool.” Apparently he’s been telling everyone to go screw themselves. Welcome to another episode of The Rizzuto Show, where daily comedy begins with Rizz discovering that the thumbs-up emoji has evolved into something cold, dismissive and potentially passive-aggressive. Lern and Rafe attempt to explain that context matters and that, depending on who sends it, a simple thumbs-up can basically be the texting equivalent of “K.” This is terrible news for Rizz, who JUST figured out emojis. Naturally, the solution is to replace the thumbs-up with another emoji. We will allow you to discover which one the crew suggests. Human communication has had a good run. From there, things somehow get worse when Sexy Time Fun Facts introduces us to “pheromone maxing.” What is pheromone maxing? Imagine somebody hearing that humans may be attracted to natural scent and deciding the logical next step is to stop showering and quit using deodorant before a date. According to the trend discussed on the show, some guys are even wearing unwashed clothes in an attempt to amplify their natural musk. And then there's the part involving drinking your own… bodily fluids. We'd like to formally apologize to everyone currently eating breakfast. The theory is that maximizing your natural scent will make you “biologically irresistible.” Lern has an alternative dating strategy: shower. Rafe also points out that if somebody is naturally attracted to your scent, your pheromones can probably survive a light application of deodorant. We are not scientists, but we feel pretty comfortable siding with Team Soap. Next up is another dating term nobody asked for: cushioning. Cushioning is when someone in a committed relationship keeps another potential romantic partner hanging around in the background. They’re not necessarily dating the backup person, but they maintain enough flirty texts, DMs, casual communication or coffee meetups to keep that option warm just in case the current relationship explodes. Basically, romance now apparently requires a depth chart. The crew gets into back burners, rosters, dating multiple people and the difference between casually seeing different people while single versus keeping someone emotionally invested while you're already committed. Rafe compares the backup attention to a little dopamine hit sitting in your pocket whenever you need some validation. Meanwhile, Rizz reaches the slightly less clinical conclusion that maybe you're just being selfish. This daily comedy relationship seminar then moves to wedding photographers, who may know your marriage is doomed before you do. After spending countless hours watching couples navigate one of the happiest—and most stressful—days of their lives, veteran wedding photographers say certain behaviors can become giant relationship red flags. One is heavy drinking to cope rather than celebrate. Another is body language, including whether someone's feet consistently point away from their new spouse in photographs. Suddenly Lern is pulling up her own wedding pictures to investigate where Tim's feet were pointing. Nothing says healthy marriage like retroactively conducting a body-language audit of your wedding photos on the radio. Other warning signs include an underwhelming first-look reaction, dismissive comments about a partner's appearance, a lack of affection, eye-rolling during photos and someone who seems significantly happier around their friends than around the person they literally just married. This leads to the obvious question: after photographing enough weddings, can photographers actually spot the marriages that aren't going to make it? And while we're already destroying everybody's confidence in modern romance, Rafe brings the conversation back to social media and the illusion of unlimited options. When your phone constantly suggests that another person, another relationship and another opportunity are one swipe away, how much harder does it become to appreciate the person who's actually standing in front of you? Look at us getting philosophical. Don't worry. It doesn't last. Because this episode also manages to include coconut oil deodorant experiments, back-burner spreadsheets, a collectible Tommy Wiseau wooden spoon, Lern accidentally making it sound like her wedding photographers died when they actually just moved to California, and a tease involving a robot vacuum allegedly catching a wife cheating. Apparently the Roomba has seen some things. So put down the dating apps, take a shower, stop analyzing every emoji you've received since 2019 and maybe check which direction your spouse's feet are pointing. It's another round of daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show, where we tackle the complicated realities of modern relationships using the sophisticated psychological framework of asking, “What the hell are people doing?” Subscribe for more funny stories, relationship disasters, pop culture commentary, weird news, sarcastic humor and daily chaos from Rizz and the gang. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today we’re diving into an absolutely wild romance scam involving a man accused of pretending to be a San Francisco 49ers wide receiver—or, depending on the day, an ultra-wealthy Swiss real estate mogul. Authorities say the four-year scheme targeted at least 26 women and brought in roughly $1.3 million. Apparently dating apps weren’t stressful enough already. The details only get crazier. The alleged scam included social media accounts packed with 49ers gear, luxury cars and images designed to make the whole thing look legitimate. According to the story discussed on the show, some of the online material was AI-generated, and the fake identity became established enough online that search engines and AI tools reportedly started treating the guy like an actual football player. Then comes the fake wealth. Screenshots supposedly showed bank and investment accounts containing millions of dollars, and once relationships were established, an alleged accomplice would enter the picture as the “wealth manager.” Three-way calls, fake investment returns and promises of high-yield opportunities followed. When victims ran out of money or started asking questions? Suddenly their extremely successful NFL boyfriend became extremely unavailable. It launches the crew into a bigger conversation about romance scams, our weird relationship with wealth and just how easy it has become to manufacture an impressive-looking life online. Rafe points out that you barely need a real podcast anymore—you can film yourself in front of a microphone, dispense some motivational nonsense and convince the internet you’ve appeared on 400 episodes of something called The Alpha Wealth Mindset Experience. Okay, we made that title up. But you’ve absolutely seen that guy. Listeners pile on with stories of fake celebrities allegedly trying to scam people, including Martina McBride and Mark Harmon impersonators. If Mark Harmon suddenly slides into Mom’s Facebook messages and needs $700 in gift cards, maybe call somebody. That’s the kind of public service you only get from a funny podcast with absolutely no qualifications to provide public services. The show also tackles the old belief that celebrity deaths happen in threes and why our brains are so desperate to find patterns in random events. From there, we discover Goodwill is getting into the record-store business with a media-focused concept called Rewind. Vinyl, CDs, cassettes, VHS tapes, vintage audio gear and whatever forgotten three-disc CD changer somebody's mom finally convinced Dad to get out of the basement. It might be heaven. It might smell like somebody else's basement. Either way, we're interested. Then it’s time for Crap on Celebrities, where things get wonderfully messy. The crew gets into music and entertainment news, including Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Festival, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette and Stevie Nicks. That naturally becomes a debate over “Landslide,” including Lern’s discovery that apparently nothing evacuates a Colorado bar faster than putting it on the jukebox. There’s also Scott Weiland material headed for release, more Korn vinyl reissues, Limp Bizkit joining Spotify’s billion-stream club and the continuing realization that the music of our youth is now getting 30th-anniversary editions. Awesome. Love having time itself personally attack us. Elsewhere, an 85-year-old Donna Mills is reportedly making serious money on OnlyFans without full nudity, which sends Rafe into an impromptu financial analysis of the subscription business model. This is technically economics if nobody from an accredited university is listening. The entertainment chaos continues with Coyote vs. Acme, a creepy movie called Buddy that basically asks what would happen if a beloved children’s mascot completely snapped, and news of Tom Cruise returning as Cole Trickle for a Days of Thunder sequel alongside Anne Hathaway. The crew also discovers a movie about the creation of Hooters is in development, accidentally invents an entirely different restaurant concept during the conversation, and immediately starts yelling “trademark” because apparently that’s how intellectual property law works now. Finally, we get famous musicians trashing other famous musicians. Jack White versus The Black Keys. Madonna versus Lady Gaga. Elton John versus Madonna. Kurt Cobain versus seemingly everybody. Courtney Love versus Taylor Swift. Nick Cave versus the Red Hot Chili Peppers. And Usher telling T-Pain that Auto-Tune messed up music. Nothing brings people together quite like extremely successful artists explaining why other extremely successful artists are terrible. Fake NFL stars. AI-generated lifestyles. Romance scams. KISS Army business. Celebrity impostors. Vinyl nostalgia. Music feuds. OnlyFans economics. Tom Cruise going racing again. And an alarming amount of discussion about Hooters. It’s another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where we examine the important stories of our time and then immediately ruin any chance of being taken seriously. Listen now, subscribe, and come back for more celebrity news, weird stories, pop culture commentary, St. Louis humor and daily chaos from Rizz and the gang. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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It’s the final day of August, Moon is somewhere in parts unknown, Lern is back, and The Rizzuto Show has officially entered BABY WATCH. The baby is now past the due date, predictions are flying around the studio, and Rizz is keeping his ringer on because that phone call could come at any moment. Naturally, while waiting for the miracle of life, the crew spends a significant amount of time celebrating another miracle: Rafe Williams finally has legal license plates. Yes, Rafe went to the DMV. Voluntarily. Sort of. What should have been a routine trip to get his truck squared away became a full-blown battle with Missouri bureaucracy. There’s a packed Creve Coeur DMV, a confusing sign-in system, expired temp tags, paperwork, an emissions-test surprise and a ticking clock. At one point Rafe has until 4:30 to get an emissions test completed or face the horrifying possibility of coming back Monday and waiting all over again. That’s when a listener at the auto shop recognizes him, gets the Tacoma squeezed in, and sends our hero racing back to the DMV with paperwork held high like he just returned from the Crusades. By the end, Rafe is trying to get the entire waiting room to cheer for the woman who helped him. This is the kind of inspirational story your favorite comedy podcast provides because apparently our standards for heroism have become “successfully registering a motor vehicle.” The DMV adventure also sends the crew into everything from old people trying to navigate touchscreen kiosks to modern cars putting every basic function behind another touchscreen. We have reached the future, and the future apparently requires three menus just to turn down the air conditioning. Then Lern returns from Colorado with stories involving the Grizzly Rose, mechanical bulls, mountain towns, wineries, peaches, e-bikes and some legitimately terrifying drives through the Rockies. Her relaxing family getaway somehow includes bull riding and flying around mountain roads, because nobody associated with this show is capable of having a normal vacation. Rizz has his own driving adventure after the intro to “Money for Nothing” hits at exactly the wrong—or right—time and suddenly he’s doing 80 with a police officer behind him. Is getting completely lost in a song a valid speeding defense? Legally, probably don't take our advice. Spiritually? Absolutely. The weekend recaps keep rolling as Rizz gets his first full Friday Night Lights experience watching his daughter cheer at Lafayette, then attends a 40th birthday party extravagant enough to make everyone reconsider their current tax bracket. Meanwhile, Rafe survives Jamie Rivers’ bachelor party, gets his first real taste of the Cafe Napoli scene and discovers that former professional hockey players apparently possess a completely different transmission when it comes to staying out late. And because this comedy podcast refuses to remain anywhere near the rails for long, the conversation keeps finding new and increasingly questionable destinations—including St. Louis weird news and the kind of stories that make you reconsider ever accepting a job that requires entering a stranger’s home. Baby watch. DMV purgatory. Colorado adventures. Friday night football. St. Louis nightlife. Questionable driving decisions. And Rafe becoming a legally compliant Missouri resident against all odds. Just another Monday with The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today’s episode begins exactly where every respectable radio program should: debating canned chili and whether The Rizzuto Show should abandon broadcasting altogether to open a chili parlor. Because apparently decades of radio experience were merely preparation for serving questionable bowls of meat during a St. Louis summer. The crew gets into a disturbing local story involving two kittens rescued after being thrown from a moving vehicle, which launches a conversation about animal cruelty, punishment, and why there have been so many bizarre animal-abuse cases around the St. Louis area. Thankfully, the kittens are recovering, because this show has enough emotional damage without adding more. Then we head to the amusement park formerly known as Six Flags, talk about its new Mid America Adventure identity, and immediately start remembering the various roller coasters that have spent decades attempting to rearrange our internal organs. That leads us to California's X2 coaster and reports of riders suffering terrifying medical emergencies. Naturally, half the room hears “brain hemorrhage” and responds like someone just announced a new thrill ride they absolutely have to try. Rafe also gives us an update from the dating world, including his Texas connection and the increasingly complicated rules surrounding modern romance. That turns into the question every hopeless romantic eventually has to answer: is a grand gesture thoughtful… or are you about three seconds away from appearing in somebody’s “THIS GUY IS A CREEP” TikTok? A guy goes on two dates with a woman, finds her address without asking, and sends her Mother's Day flowers supposedly from her dog. Sweet? Creepy? Thirsty? The Rizz Show Supreme Court is now in session, and absolutely nobody involved has passed the bar. Apparently this question is complicated enough to involve law enforcement, surveillance footage, social media, and an actual public search for the guy who picked up the cash. Suddenly our daily comedy podcast has become CSI: Walmart, where the suspect is armed with three ten-dollar bills and an extremely debatable interpretation of “finders keepers.” We also get into air-travel nightmares after a pilot suffers a medical emergency during a flight and still manages to help get the plane safely on the ground. Meanwhile, Moon is preparing to fly, which is exactly the kind of story you want to hear immediately before heading to an airport. The episode’s namesake saga involves Yolanda Jackson, a drive-through order, a dangerously hot pot pie, severe burns, permanent scarring, and the resulting courtroom battle. Nothing says daily comedy quite like discovering your food apparently requires protective equipment. It's another episode filled with St. Louis stories, weird news, dating disasters, food catastrophes, questionable financial ethics, amusement-park trauma, and the kind of conversations that start somewhere reasonable before wandering directly into the woods. Dust off that giant binder of scratched CDs you definitely didn’t throw away because apparently funny podcast history has come full circle: physical media is making a comeback. The show kicks off with the surprising resurgence of CDs, with sales jumping while vinyl growth slows down. Why? Turns out paying nearly $40 for a new record eventually makes people reconsider the humble compact disc. Gen Z is getting into CDs, independent record stores are stocking more of them, older cars still have CD players, and there’s something comforting about owning music that can’t suddenly disappear from a streaming service. Moon also realizes those boxes of old band CDs might not be useless relics after all. Congratulations to everyone who refused to clean out their basement. Your moment has arrived. Then Crap on Celebrities takes us directly into the wildly expensive world of Hollywood memorabilia. A screen-matched mosquito-in-amber prop from the original Jurassic Park sells for more than $400,000, while Christopher Reeve’s Superman gear and John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever suit also bring ridiculous money at auction. The crew also gets into entertainment news, including the changing timeline between theatrical releases and streaming, Toy Story 5, a live-action Scooby-Doo prequel, and Ghost taking a hiatus after Tobias Forge admits he doesn’t currently have a clear vision for the band’s next album. We salute a man willing to say, “I don’t know what the next thing is yet,” instead of releasing twelve remixes and a commemorative popcorn bucket. Then there’s Grand Theft Auto. The latest massive GTA preview sends the room into gamer mode as the crew talks about the gigantic map, Jason and Lucia’s evolving relationship, smarter cops, surveillance cameras, changing disguises, massive police chases and an enormous story that could consume roughly 80 hours of your life. Chris Novoselic. Danny Carey. Mick Fleetwood. Buckethead. Joey Ramone. Billy Corgan. Angus Young. Prince. Glenn Danzig. Stevie Nicks. The measurements are flying, everyone suddenly seems either seven feet tall or legally eligible for a booster seat, and we discover once again that stage presence apparently adds about eight inches. Carefully constructed journeys through comedy, culture, and the human condition. This one starts with an eagle call, gets yelled at by an offended listener, drinks imaginary Malört, sends Riz back to college, remembers the horrors of Rotten.com, and eventually makes everybody emotional over Dolly Parton. So… basically the same thing. The Rizzuto Show kicks off with Team JB and the Zero Prostate Cancer Run and Walk in memory of our buddy Jeff Burton, plus Greek Fire getting ready for a show benefiting Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. Then we get into one of radio’s oldest traditions: somebody getting mad enough at the show to contact the bosses. This time, a listener wasn’t thrilled about the proximity of the Porno Birthday to a children’s charity announcement. Riz got the dreaded “Can I see you before you leave?” message, and suddenly we’re debating whether everybody is too easily offended, whether people need to watch what they say, and whether society could possibly locate that mythical middle ground where empathy and a sense of humor coexist. Rafe brings the comedian’s perspective to the argument, including the audience member who loves 99 jokes but desperately needs to inform you about the one they didn’t like. Our solution remains remarkably simple: maybe leave that joke at the club and take the other ones home. We discover that Malört has somehow created an entire identity around tasting terrible. Most companies try to convince customers their product is delicious. Malört basically dares you to survive it. The gang dives into its hilariously hostile marketing, its reputation as Chicago’s favorite way to punish a friend, and the important question nobody has apparently answered: Is anyone ordering this stuff because they actually enjoy it? From there, we say farewell to Sam Rizzuto’s dream of college independence after Riz tours the University of Arkansas and realizes he might want the full college experience himself. Suddenly we’re imagining a Back to School scenario where father and son become Razorbacks together, share a dorm, take Intro to Communications, and graduate in the same class. Nothing weird about that whatsoever, Sam. Your new roommate just happens to be Dad. The real RIPs begin with tributes to Peter Cullen and Tim Curry, celebrating two remarkable careers and the voices, characters, movies, and performances they left behind. Finally, Rafe delivers a deeply personal tribute to Dolly Parton. It’s funny, sincere, personal, and probably more emotionally responsible than anything surrounding the previous discussion of Malört. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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Some episodes are carefully constructed journeys through comedy, culture, and the human condition. This one starts with an eagle call, gets yelled at by an offended listener, drinks imaginary Malört, sends Riz back to college, remembers the horrors of Rotten.com, and eventually makes everybody emotional over Dolly Parton. So… basically the same thing. Episode 101 of The Rizzuto Show kicks off with Team JB and the Zero Prostate Cancer Run and Walk in memory of our buddy Jeff Burton, plus Greek Fire getting ready for a show benefiting Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. Then we get into one of radio’s oldest traditions: somebody getting mad enough at the show to contact the bosses. This time, a listener wasn’t thrilled about the proximity of the Porno Birthday to a children’s charity announcement. Riz got the dreaded “Can I see you before you leave?” message, and suddenly we’re debating whether everybody is too easily offended, whether people need to watch what they say, and whether society could possibly locate that mythical middle ground where empathy and a sense of humor coexist. Rafe brings the comedian’s perspective to the argument, including the audience member who loves 99 jokes but desperately needs to inform you about the one they didn’t like. Our solution remains remarkably simple: maybe leave that joke at the club and take the other ones home. Then it’s time for E Memoriam, where this comedy podcast says goodbye to the things that technically don’t require a eulogy but absolutely deserve one anyway. First victim: Malört. We discover that Malört has somehow created an entire identity around tasting terrible. Most companies try to convince customers their product is delicious. Malört basically dares you to survive it. The gang dives into its hilariously hostile marketing, its reputation as Chicago’s favorite way to punish a friend, and the important question nobody has apparently answered: Is anyone ordering this stuff because they actually enjoy it? From there, we say farewell to Sam Rizzuto’s dream of college independence after Riz tours the University of Arkansas and realizes he might want the full college experience himself. Suddenly we’re imagining a Back to School scenario where father and son become Razorbacks together, share a dorm, take Intro to Communications, and graduate in the same class. Nothing weird about that whatsoever, Sam. Your new roommate just happens to be Dad. The E Memoriam keeps rolling through an alleged NFL-owner prostitution story before taking a hard nostalgic turn toward two artifacts from the Internet’s lawless frontier: Rotten.com and terrible Hotmail addresses. Kids today have algorithms delivering disturbing content directly to them. We had to type Rotten.com into a Gateway computer, wait for a 56k modem to connect, and then stare helplessly as a horrifying JPEG loaded one traumatic horizontal strip at a time. And Hotmail? Hotmail was where an entire generation created email addresses at 14 without considering the possibility that someday they might need to send a résumé or refinance a house. Nothing screams “results-oriented professional” quite like an inbox name created by a teenage boy in 2001. But then the show changes gears. The real RIPs begin with tributes to Peter Cullen and Tim Curry, celebrating two remarkable careers and the voices, characters, movies, and performances they left behind. Finally, Rafe delivers a deeply personal tribute to Dolly Parton. Rather than simply listing accomplishments, he reflects on what Dolly represented to a small-town kid with ridiculous dreams: proof that where you begin doesn’t determine where you finish. He talks about her ability to become enormously successful without becoming ashamed of where she came from, to take her work seriously without taking herself too seriously, and to stand for something without treating everyone who disagreed with her like an enemy. It’s funny, sincere, personal, and probably more emotionally responsible than anything surrounding the previous discussion of Malört. That’s The Rizzuto Show: sarcastic humor, weird news, questionable nostalgia, entertainment commentary, and occasionally a moment that reminds us there are actual human beings behind these microphones. Come for the ridiculous stories. Stay for the unexpected feelings. And enjoy another comedy podcast episode that proves we can apparently make the emotional journey from horrible liquor to Dolly Parton in roughly half an hour. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dust off that giant binder of scratched CDs you definitely didn’t throw away because apparently funny podcast history has come full circle: physical media is making a comeback. The show kicks off with the surprising resurgence of CDs, with sales jumping while vinyl growth slows down. Why? Turns out paying nearly $40 for a new record eventually makes people reconsider the humble compact disc. Gen Z is getting into CDs, independent record stores are stocking more of them, older cars still have CD players, and there’s something comforting about owning music that can’t suddenly disappear from a streaming service. Moon also realizes those boxes of old band CDs might not be useless relics after all. Congratulations to everyone who refused to clean out their basement. Your moment has arrived. Then Crap on Celebrities takes us directly into the wildly expensive world of Hollywood memorabilia. A screen-matched mosquito-in-amber prop from the original Jurassic Park sells for more than $400,000, while Christopher Reeve’s Superman gear and John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever suit also bring ridiculous money at auction. Naturally, this becomes less about collecting important pieces of movie history and more about whether you’re morally obligated to PUT THE COSTUME ON. Because if you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on Superman’s costume just to leave it behind glass, what are we even doing here? The crew also gets into entertainment news, including the changing timeline between theatrical releases and streaming, Toy Story 5, a live-action Scooby-Doo prequel, and Ghost taking a hiatus after Tobias Forge admits he doesn’t currently have a clear vision for the band’s next album. We salute a man willing to say, “I don’t know what the next thing is yet,” instead of releasing twelve remixes and a commemorative popcorn bucket. Then there’s Grand Theft Auto. The latest massive GTA preview sends the room into gamer mode as the crew talks about the gigantic map, Jason and Lucia’s evolving relationship, smarter cops, surveillance cameras, changing disguises, massive police chases and an enormous story that could consume roughly 80 hours of your life. So basically, Rockstar has created a second full-time job, except this one lets you steal cars. The funny podcast chaos keeps rolling with Paris Hilton landing on a list of influential people in artificial intelligence because of her advocacy surrounding privacy and non-consensual AI-generated media. Then the hunt for the next James Bond gives everyone a chance to evaluate candidates with the rigorous casting standards you’d expect from three guys who immediately nominate Mr. Bean. And finally, we tackle one of the most important databases ever assembled: tall and short rock stars. Chris Novoselic. Danny Carey. Mick Fleetwood. Buckethead. Joey Ramone. Billy Corgan. Angus Young. Prince. Glenn Danzig. Stevie Nicks. The measurements are flying, everyone suddenly seems either seven feet tall or legally eligible for a booster seat, and we discover once again that stage presence apparently adds about eight inches. Throw in celebrity birthdays, Luis Guzmán appreciation, Warren Buffett confusion, Charlie Munger confusion, additional Charlie confusion, and the traditional descent into nonsense, and you’ve got another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Physical media is back. Movie props cost more than retirement. GTA may require PTO. And Danzig is still Danzig at any height. That’s enough education for one day. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today’s episode begins exactly where every respectable radio program should: debating canned chili and whether The Rizzuto Show should abandon broadcasting altogether to open a chili parlor. Because apparently decades of radio experience were merely preparation for serving questionable bowls of meat during a St. Louis summer. From there, the daily comedy takes several sharp turns. The crew gets into a disturbing local story involving two kittens rescued after being thrown from a moving vehicle, which launches a conversation about animal cruelty, punishment, and why there have been so many bizarre animal-abuse cases around the St. Louis area. Thankfully, the kittens are recovering, because this show has enough emotional damage without adding more. Then we head to the amusement park formerly known as Six Flags, talk about its new Mid America Adventure identity, and immediately start remembering the various roller coasters that have spent decades attempting to rearrange our internal organs. That leads us to California's X2 coaster and reports of riders suffering terrifying medical emergencies. Naturally, half the room hears “brain hemorrhage” and responds like someone just announced a new thrill ride they absolutely have to try. Because survival instincts are apparently optional here. Rafe also gives us an update from the dating world, including his Texas connection and the increasingly complicated rules surrounding modern romance. That turns into the question every hopeless romantic eventually has to answer: is a grand gesture thoughtful… or are you about three seconds away from appearing in somebody’s “THIS GUY IS A CREEP” TikTok? A guy goes on two dates with a woman, finds her address without asking, and sends her Mother's Day flowers supposedly from her dog. Sweet? Creepy? Thirsty? The Rizz Show Supreme Court is now in session, and absolutely nobody involved has passed the bar. Then comes one of the great moral dilemmas of our time: you find $30 on the floor at Walmart. Do you keep it? Apparently this question is complicated enough to involve law enforcement, surveillance footage, social media, and an actual public search for the guy who picked up the cash. Suddenly our daily comedy podcast has become CSI: Walmart, where the suspect is armed with three ten-dollar bills and an extremely debatable interpretation of “finders keepers.” We also get into air-travel nightmares after a pilot suffers a medical emergency during a flight and still manages to help get the plane safely on the ground. Meanwhile, Moon is preparing to fly, which is exactly the kind of story you want to hear immediately before heading to an airport. And then food news arrives to remind everyone that even lunch can betray you. The episode’s namesake saga involves Yolanda Jackson, a drive-through order, a dangerously hot pot pie, severe burns, permanent scarring, and the resulting courtroom battle. Nothing says daily comedy quite like discovering your food apparently requires protective equipment. It's another episode filled with St. Louis stories, weird news, dating disasters, food catastrophes, questionable financial ethics, amusement-park trauma, and the kind of conversations that start somewhere reasonable before wandering directly into the woods. Basically, a normal day with The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Rizzuto Show kicks things off by remembering Tim Curry, his legendary career, and the unfortunate timing of losing another beloved celebrity during an already emotional week. That leads the crew into the important question of who could possibly fill the role of a universally beloved celebrity these days. Adam Sandler gets consideration, Jeff Bridges enters the conversation, and eventually Keanu Reeves emerges as a pretty strong candidate because apparently quietly eating ice cream and being a decent human being now qualifies you for sainthood. Fair enough. Then everybody gets nostalgic about childhood discipline, which quickly becomes less “remember the good old days?” and more “should somebody have called somebody?” The crew remembers wooden spoons, belts, Hot Wheels tracks, fly swatters, soap in the mouth and the terrifying parental phrase that basically meant your afternoon plans had been canceled. It’s another wholesome trip down memory lane from your favorite funny podcast, assuming your memories involve calculating the trajectory of a leather belt like you’re working for NASA. Next stop: Burning Man, where the crew investigates the return of the infamous adults-only dome after last year’s wind-related disaster. There are rules now: IDs, consent, no recording devices and, most importantly, no singles strolling in alone. Which naturally launches a completely necessary discussion about whether two buddies could simply pretend to be a couple to get through the door. Journalism is alive and well. Things somehow become more respectable when we arrive in Tulsa, where authorities are searching for a mysterious serial defecator accused of targeting businesses while dressed in an ensemble involving tiny underwear, a shower cap, a modified mask and Crocs. The most damning detail? The Crocs apparently weren’t in sport mode. That’s how you know this guy fears neither God nor law enforcement. And then comes Oreogate. A kindergarten mom reportedly asks the other parents to stop packing Oreos because her daughter gets upset when other kids have them. No allergy. No medical issue. Just the brutal realization that another five-year-old has cookies and you do not. When the other parents refuse to reorganize their children’s lunches around this international crisis, Mom considers switching schools. Over Oreos. Meanwhile, the kid starts trading for them anyway, proving once again that kindergarten cafeterias are basically tiny prisons with better wall art. The crew debates school-lunch currency, Double Stuf superiority, Golden Oreos, questionable specialty flavors and the economic insanity required to consider changing schools because Nabisco has destroyed the peace. There are even pickle-flavored Oreo-adjacent horrors entering the studio, because apparently talking about terrible cookies wasn't enough—we needed witnesses. It’s celebrity talk, childhood trauma disguised as nostalgia, weird news, Burning Man logistics, criminal fashion analysis and one kindergarten snack dispute treated with roughly the seriousness of an international trade embargo. The crew dives into UFOs becoming UAPs, government disclosures, Bob Lazar, Area 51 and whether actual extraterrestrial visitors could finally unite humanity. Rafe thinks having one common alien enemy might finally turn us all into citizens of Earth. Moon isn't buying that optimism and figures we'd probably start fighting over which country gets custody of the aliens before they even get out of the ship. Sounds about right. Back on Earth, St. Louis is getting a little Hollywood treatment with The Streak, a sports comedy filming locally about Caltech's legendary basketball team snapping a 310-game losing streak. The production needs roughly 1,800 volunteer extras for basketball crowd scenes, meaning you too can spend five hours waiting around for your glorious half-second of blurry cinematic immortality. At least they're bringing stand-up comedians in to entertain the extras between takes. Then we enter conspiracy territory with Tropical Storm Dolly. Yes, shortly after Dolly Parton's passing, the next named Atlantic storm happens to be Dolly. No, they didn't name it after her. Yes, the names were already determined. And yes, people online are still turning it into a conspiracy because apparently coincidence was removed from the Internet's vocabulary sometime around 2017. It's the kind of discussion a comedy podcast was genetically engineered to handle. The show also remembers the incredible Tim Curry, looking back at everything from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Clue to Home Alone 2, Congo and his nightmare-fueling performance as Pennywise in the 1990 TV adaptation of It. Somehow that horrifying sewer scene aired on network television and an entire generation of children was simply expected to sleep afterward. The '90s were built different. Crap on Celebrities brings even more chaos: the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni legal saga, Jamie Foxx discussing changes made to Django Unchained, a Quentin Tarantino-written Cliff Booth project, the original Sandlot cast reuniting for Dugout Dads, and the revelation that Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez grew up to become a firefighter. There is also a detour into a bizarre 2015 incident involving actor Mike Vitar because apparently even The Sandlot can't survive this show without us finding something weird. Ozzy Osbourne is getting his own Halloween Horror Nights attraction, Boston is celebrating 50 years with previously unreleased demos, Eric Clapton and John Mayer have a limited-edition guitar collection benefiting Clapton's recovery center, and Rupert Grint is returning as an adult Ron Weasley on Broadway. It's celebrity news, music news and pop culture commentary delivered with the level of professionalism you've come to expect from people debating alien treaties earlier in the episode. Before social media algorithms knew everything about you, the internet was a simpler place. A lawless, dial-up wasteland where your email address was probably something like [email protected] and one accidental click on Rotten.com could permanently alter the trajectory of your childhood. So naturally, The Rizzuto Show is going back. This episode starts with more nostalgia for the early internet and one of its most infamous destinations: Rotten.com. Back then, you couldn't just stumble across every horrifying thing imaginable while casually scrolling your phone. No, sir. You had to work for your trauma. You had to hear about Rotten.com from somebody, type it into the family computer, click something you absolutely shouldn't have clicked, and then wait patiently while your dial-up connection loaded your lifelong regret one horrifying line at a time. Was Rotten.com disgusting? Absolutely. Does the crew still seem weirdly sad that it's gone? Also absolutely. Then we move from internet trauma to another relic of the '90s and early 2000s: Hotmail. A poll says 18% of people are apparently still rocking a Hotmail address, which leads to an important discovery: Hotmail never completely disappeared. Microsoft eventually transitioned the service into Outlook, meaning technically some of us may still be living inside the Hotmail universe. We're all dorks. Fantastic. The crew remembers the era when nobody used their actual name for an email address. Instead, we created identities that looked like rejected Xbox gamertags: random nicknames, 420s, 69s and enough questionable innuendo to make applying for a respectable adult job years later slightly complicated. And then there are the complaint emails. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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Before social media algorithms knew everything about you, the internet was a simpler place. A lawless, dial-up wasteland where your email address was probably something like [email protected] and one accidental click on Rotten.com could permanently alter the trajectory of your childhood. So naturally, The Rizzuto Show is going back. This episode starts with more nostalgia for the early internet and one of its most infamous destinations: Rotten.com. Back then, you couldn't just stumble across every horrifying thing imaginable while casually scrolling your phone. No, sir. You had to work for your trauma. You had to hear about Rotten.com from somebody, type it into the family computer, click something you absolutely shouldn't have clicked, and then wait patiently while your dial-up connection loaded your lifelong regret one horrifying line at a time. Was Rotten.com disgusting? Absolutely. Does the crew still seem weirdly sad that it's gone? Also absolutely. Then we move from internet trauma to another relic of the '90s and early 2000s: Hotmail. A poll says 18% of people are apparently still rocking a Hotmail address, which leads to an important discovery: Hotmail never completely disappeared. Microsoft eventually transitioned the service into Outlook, meaning technically some of us may still be living inside the Hotmail universe. We're all dorks. Fantastic. The crew remembers the era when nobody used their actual name for an email address. Instead, we created identities that looked like rejected Xbox gamertags: random nicknames, 420s, 69s and enough questionable innuendo to make applying for a respectable adult job years later slightly complicated. And then there are the complaint emails. Apparently nothing tells the show exactly what demographic they're dealing with faster than receiving an angry message from an account created during the Clinton administration. Welcome to daily comedy, where your email provider is now apparently enough information for us to profile you. But nostalgia eventually gives way to competition as Match Up With Moon returns with Rafe versus Moon, and that's when everybody's remaining intelligence begins leaking out of the studio. Round one starts innocently enough. What's Beantown? Boston. Easy. Which amendment gave women the right to vote? The 19th. Look at us go. Who was Wendell the cereal mascot? Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Somehow we still know this information despite forgetting why we walked into rooms. Then comes the question that starts breaking brains: What does the “com” in .com actually stand for? Rafe goes with “communication.” King Scott thinks “company.” Moon correctly lands on commercial, because apparently after decades of typing web addresses, one person in the room finally bothered to understand what any of it means. The trivia chaos continues with questions about Heineken, the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals and one of the most important cereal discoveries of our time: Cap'n Crunch apparently has an actual name. Horatio Crunch. Good for Horatio. Glad somebody finally gave the Captain the respect he deserves. Round two somehow gets worse. Which country contains more than half of the world's natural lakes? What's the only internal human organ capable of regenerating itself? Who originally hosted America's Got Talent? Which fast-food chain helped introduce Tater Tots? And then Rizz makes Moon and Rafe physically write down how many zeros are in a quadrillion. Moon arrives at 15. Rafe ALSO WRITES DOWN 15 ZEROS… …and then says 16 out loud. That is the kind of unforced error this daily comedy show was built upon. Nothing quite compares to successfully solving a problem and then personally changing your own correct answer into the wrong one. The crew wraps things up by guessing attendance at the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series race at Worldwide Technology Raceway. Moon guesses 39,000. Rafe throws out 80,000. The actual answer lands between them at 57,000, giving everyone one final opportunity to demonstrate that estimating crowd sizes is basically just guessing jelly beans in a jar for adults. So today's episode has everything you could possibly need: Rotten.com nostalgia, Hotmail archaeology, terrible email addresses, Cinnamon Toast Crunch lore, Tater Tot history, St. Louis Cardinals trivia, NASCAR math and grown men discovering what “dot com” means approximately three decades after the internet became popular. We used to think the early internet was making us smarter. Turns out we were mostly waiting 12 minutes for a picture to load. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

If aliens landed on Earth tomorrow, would humanity unite to welcome our new extraterrestrial neighbors… or would we immediately start arguing about who owns the spaceship? You already know the answer. This episode of The Rizzuto Show begins with a perfectly reasonable hypothetical: UFOs have landed and aliens are officially confirmed to be on Earth. How are you feeling? Curious? Terrified? Mostly annoyed that the 24-hour news cycle will somehow make it the third-biggest story of the afternoon? The crew dives into UFOs becoming UAPs, government disclosures, Bob Lazar, Area 51 and whether actual extraterrestrial visitors could finally unite humanity. Rafe thinks having one common alien enemy might finally turn us all into citizens of Earth. Moon isn't buying that optimism and figures we'd probably start fighting over which country gets custody of the aliens before they even get out of the ship. Sounds about right. Back on Earth, St. Louis is getting a little Hollywood treatment with The Streak, a sports comedy filming locally about Caltech's legendary basketball team snapping a 310-game losing streak. The production needs roughly 1,800 volunteer extras for basketball crowd scenes, meaning you too can spend five hours waiting around for your glorious half-second of blurry cinematic immortality. At least they're bringing stand-up comedians in to entertain the extras between takes. Then we enter conspiracy territory with Tropical Storm Dolly. Yes, shortly after Dolly Parton's passing, the next named Atlantic storm happens to be Dolly. No, they didn't name it after her. Yes, the names were already determined. And yes, people online are still turning it into a conspiracy because apparently coincidence was removed from the Internet's vocabulary sometime around 2017. It's the kind of discussion a comedy podcast was genetically engineered to handle. The show also remembers the incredible Tim Curry, looking back at everything from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Clue to Home Alone 2, Congo and his nightmare-fueling performance as Pennywise in the 1990 TV adaptation of It. Somehow that horrifying sewer scene aired on network television and an entire generation of children was simply expected to sleep afterward. The '90s were built different. Crap on Celebrities brings even more chaos: the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni legal saga, Jamie Foxx discussing changes made to Django Unchained, a Quentin Tarantino-written Cliff Booth project, the original Sandlot cast reuniting for Dugout Dads, and the revelation that Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez grew up to become a firefighter. There is also a detour into a bizarre 2015 incident involving actor Mike Vitar because apparently even The Sandlot can't survive this show without us finding something weird. Ozzy Osbourne is getting his own Halloween Horror Nights attraction, Boston is celebrating 50 years with previously unreleased demos, Eric Clapton and John Mayer have a limited-edition guitar collection benefiting Clapton's recovery center, and Rupert Grint is returning as an adult Ron Weasley on Broadway. It's celebrity news, music news and pop culture commentary delivered with the level of professionalism you've come to expect from people debating alien treaties earlier in the episode. But then comes the real scientific research: Who has the most aura? According to an online ranking of effortless presence, charisma and coolness, Keanu Reeves sits at number one. Number two? Jesus. That's correct. According to the Internet, Keanu Reeves has officially edged out Jesus in aura. John Cena, Willem Dafoe, Christian Bale, Tupac, Robert Downey Jr., Matthew McConaughey, Michael Jackson, Jim Carrey, The Rock and Henry Cavill also make appearances as the crew debates who actually deserves to rank among humanity's most effortlessly cool people. Michael Jackson at number eleven? Rafe has questions. And frankly, so should you. Finally, the crew returns to Dolly Parton's remarkable legacy and the mountain of projects she left behind, including products, productions and even a song intended for release around her 100th birthday. Meaning Dolly apparently planned her content calendar farther into the future than most of us have planned lunch. Aliens. UFO conspiracies. Tim Curry. Dolly Parton. Hollywood. Ozzy. The Sandlot. Celebrity gossip. And Keanu Reeves defeating the Son of God in an online aura ranking. That's your comedy podcast for the day. Humanity might not be ready for aliens. We're apparently barely ready for a celebrity aura poll. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

There are moments in life when you realize society has reached a crossroads. This episode contains several of them, but the kindergarten Oreo scandal might be the one that finally breaks us. The Rizzuto Show kicks things off by remembering Tim Curry, his legendary career, and the unfortunate timing of losing another beloved celebrity during an already emotional week. That leads the crew into the important question of who could possibly fill the role of a universally beloved celebrity these days. Adam Sandler gets consideration, Jeff Bridges enters the conversation, and eventually Keanu Reeves emerges as a pretty strong candidate because apparently quietly eating ice cream and being a decent human being now qualifies you for sainthood. Fair enough. Then everybody gets nostalgic about childhood discipline, which quickly becomes less “remember the good old days?” and more “should somebody have called somebody?” The crew remembers wooden spoons, belts, Hot Wheels tracks, fly swatters, soap in the mouth and the terrifying parental phrase that basically meant your afternoon plans had been canceled. It’s another wholesome trip down memory lane from your favorite funny podcast, assuming your memories involve calculating the trajectory of a leather belt like you’re working for NASA. Next stop: Burning Man, where the crew investigates the return of the infamous adults-only dome after last year’s wind-related disaster. There are rules now: IDs, consent, no recording devices and, most importantly, no singles strolling in alone. Which naturally launches a completely necessary discussion about whether two buddies could simply pretend to be a couple to get through the door. Journalism is alive and well. Things somehow become more respectable when we arrive in Tulsa, where authorities are searching for a mysterious serial defecator accused of targeting businesses while dressed in an ensemble involving tiny underwear, a shower cap, a modified mask and Crocs. The most damning detail? The Crocs apparently weren’t in sport mode. That’s how you know this guy fears neither God nor law enforcement. And then comes Oreogate. A kindergarten mom reportedly asks the other parents to stop packing Oreos because her daughter gets upset when other kids have them. No allergy. No medical issue. Just the brutal realization that another five-year-old has cookies and you do not. When the other parents refuse to reorganize their children’s lunches around this international crisis, Mom considers switching schools. Over Oreos. Meanwhile, the kid starts trading for them anyway, proving once again that kindergarten cafeterias are basically tiny prisons with better wall art. The crew debates school-lunch currency, Double Stuf superiority, Golden Oreos, questionable specialty flavors and the economic insanity required to consider changing schools because Nabisco has destroyed the peace. There are even pickle-flavored Oreo-adjacent horrors entering the studio, because apparently talking about terrible cookies wasn't enough—we needed witnesses. It’s celebrity talk, childhood trauma disguised as nostalgia, weird news, Burning Man logistics, criminal fashion analysis and one kindergarten snack dispute treated with roughly the seriousness of an international trade embargo. Just another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where the biggest lesson of the day is simple: pack whatever you want in your kid’s lunch and keep everybody else out of it. Especially Michelle. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's official: College football is BACK, and The Spread Zone is diving straight into Week Zero. The guys break down the opening slate, including TCU vs. North Carolina in Dublin, a big early season ACC matchup in NC State vs. Virginia, USC taking on in state San Jose State, Hawaii vs. Stanford and more. Plus, why Bill Belichick could be the first coach packing their bags. As the college football season kicks off, the PGA wraps up with the Tour Championship. Who the guys think will take home the FedExCup, and the golfers that could make some noise this weekend in Atlanta. LEGAL DISCLAIMER We provide information about sports betting for entertainment purposes only. Please confirm gambling regulations in your state of residence. To participate in sports gaming, you must be 21 years of age or older and be physically present in a state where sports betting is legal. If you or someone you know has a sports betting or gambling problem, please call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org for more information and further assistance. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dolly Parton, OnlyFans millions, the internet’s sketchiest glory days, trailer park memories, a $50 million phone call, the return of Greek Fire, and grown adults getting absolutely dismantled by elementary-school math. Somehow, that’s all one episode of The Rizzuto Show.  The show starts on a more emotional note as the crew remembers Dolly Parton and the kindness, humor, generosity, and unmistakable personality that made her such a beloved icon. Unfortunately, Rizz had recently expressed concern about Dolly’s health, which means listeners immediately dust off the completely scientific and legally airtight Rizz Show Curse and start blaming him. The emails arrive. The accusations fly. Rizz maintains his innocence. Nobody believes him. Lern shares what Dolly meant to her growing up, the crew revisits some of Dolly’s funniest moments, and for a brief shining moment, The Rizzuto Show experiences genuine human emotion. Then we start talking about trailer parks. Because of course we do. After a mobile-home community gets unfairly dragged into headlines surrounding the arrest of 49ers owner Jed York, the crew clears up what actually happened—and that sends everybody barreling into stories about growing up around mobile homes. We get Rafe’s single-wide childhood, homemade deer-skull decor, Lern’s surprise taxidermied boar head, wood-burning stoves, freezing bedrooms, tornado shelters, questionable carpet, decks built onto decks, and enough rural engineering to make HGTV quietly leave the room. From there, things get even more sophisticated with toilet paper, padded toilet seats, an aggressively powerful handheld bidet, National Dog Day, dog breeds, genetically modified animals and the looming possibility that humanity will eventually build Jurassic Park despite having several movies explaining why we absolutely should not. Then it’s time to discuss the modern economy. OnlyFans has reportedly paid creators $30 billion since launch, including billions in 2025 alone. Sounds like easy money—until the crew discovers just how tiny the percentage of million-dollar creators actually is. Naturally, this inspires an extremely serious business discussion about celebrity accounts, niche content, and whether there’s an untapped market for shirtless men vacuuming their houses. Please do not put that idea into a business plan. The conversation then heads back to the simpler, uglier and significantly more dangerous internet of our youth: MySpace, Napster, mp3.com, GeoCities, eBaum’s World, ICQ, AOL chat rooms, Fark, The Chive and Chatroulette—the website Rafe accurately describes as Russian roulette with considerably worse odds. Moon remembers Story of the Year hitting number one on mp3.com with “Until the Day I Die” before the site disappeared, and everybody remembers when the internet felt less like an algorithm trying to sell you something and more like a bunch of weird digital neighborhoods where nobody’s parents had any idea what their children were doing. Which, in retrospect, was maybe not ideal. The nostalgia continues into physical media, old video games, vintage magazines, classic barbershops, and the slow realization that future antique stores might be pretty boring when everything we own is technically a license stored on a server somewhere. There’s also entertainment gossip, Rizz admitting he’s spent years pretending he’s seen Donnie Darko, and then Moon drops the big announcement: Greek Fire is returning to the stage for its first headline show in seven years, with new music and a show at Delmar Hall. And because this daily comedy show still hasn’t caused enough intellectual damage, we finish with the Rizz Quiz. First, the crew tackles a $50 million hypothetical: if someone offered you $50 million tax-free to call somebody right now, and you only get the money if they don’t answer, who are you calling? The answer around the studio is basically King Scott. Congratulations, Scott. Your inability to answer a phone is finally an asset. Then callers take on 45 seconds of supposedly easy trivia. Colors. Animals. Geography. Third-to-fifth-grade math. The sort of questions every adult thinks they could answer until a timer starts ticking and suddenly 60 divided by 6 is zero, 8 times 4 is 36, 18 plus 22 is 50, and a dollar apparently contains 50 nickels. The Rizz Quiz remains undefeated. So this episode has everything: a heartfelt tribute to Dolly Parton, the Rizz Show Curse, trailer park vindication, taxidermy, dangerous bathroom equipment, OnlyFans economics, internet nostalgia, Chatroulette trauma, disappearing physical media, Greek Fire’s return, a hypothetical $50 million payday, and basic arithmetic publicly humiliating grown adults. In other words, another completely normal episode of The Rizzuto Show. Come for the funny celebrity gossip and weird news. Stay for the St. Louis chaos, nostalgic stories, Rizz and the gang roasting each other, and the comforting knowledge that no matter how bad your day is going, at least you probably know that 60 divided by 6 is 10. Probably. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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We begin Episode 24 with one of those hypothetical questions that immediately exposes exactly how much faith you have in the people around you: Someone offers you $50 million cash, tax-free. All you have to do is call someone. If they don’t answer, you get the money. Who are you calling? For the Rizz Show crew, the answer becomes obvious very quickly: King Scott. The man apparently treats incoming phone calls like suggestions. Rizz is already mentally spending his $50 million because King Scott never answers. Moon is apparently another safe bet, and the conversation quickly turns into an intervention about why Scott’s phone is always on Do Not Disturb—especially with a very pregnant wife at home. Probably time to turn the ringer on, buddy. If not, apparently the rest of The Rizzuto Show is prepared to raise the child. It takes a village, and unfortunately this is the village available. Then it’s time for the Rizz Quiz, where contestants get 45 seconds to answer as many supposedly simple questions as possible. One wrong answer immediately stops the clock. We’re talking third-to-fifth-grade territory: basic math, colors, geography, animals, planets and other information most adults confidently assume is still stored somewhere inside their brains. That confidence does not survive this comedy show. Janelle starts strong with pink, 30, LEGO and 366 days in a leap year before the phrase “natural satellite” completely derails the operation. The answer was the moon. Instead, we get a curse word and an early exit. Chris comes in ready to work—and apparently ready to work with the loudest calculator ever manufactured. He gets through Harry Potter, pentagons, Florida, multiplication, McDonald’s and subtraction while everybody tries to figure out whether he’s playing the Rizz Quiz or doing taxes on a Texas Instruments from 1987. Then Craig absolutely cooks. Milk. Spider legs. Mars. Division. Elephants. Inches. Gravity. Multiplication. Hawaii. Addition. Helium. The man puts up 11 correct answers, which in this game basically makes him Ken Jennings. Bill gets one chance to dethrone him. First question: What animal is known as man’s best friend? Dog. Second question: What is 60 divided by 6? Zero. And that’s it. Craig wins Blues home-opener tickets while Bill presumably begins a long and painful reconciliation with the number 10. Round two begins with Brittany taking on a piano, decades, Antarctica and basic multiplication. Eight times four? 36. Nope. The crew also realizes some questions have returned from the previous day, giving Rizz a chance to see whether anybody actually learned anything from Simpleton Trivia. Spoiler: education remains a work in progress. Then Columbia Jeff steps up and cruises through colors, subtraction, human anatomy, triangles, Mario, multiplication and geography. How many nickels make one dollar? 50. Suddenly Rizz feels much better about his own previous nickel-related failure. This isn’t just trivia anymore. This is Rizz redemption. Another Jeff enters the arena and successfully handles penguins, division and Canada before 18 plus 22 becomes… 50? Math claims another victim. Finally Ethan gets the last shot. He works through stop signs, Washington, D.C., division, dolphins and rainbow colors before getting tangled up in a question about the force behind ocean tides. And that’s the Rizz Quiz experience in a nutshell: everything seems insultingly easy until the music starts, a timer is running and suddenly you’re staring into the abyss wondering whether 18 plus 22 has always been 50. This comedy show proves once again that basic math becomes advanced calculus when someone puts you on the radio. The Rizz Quiz isn’t difficult. Your brain is just a coward. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Remember when the internet was fun? Not useful. Not safe. Definitely not well designed. But fun. We kick things off with the absolutely bonkers financial numbers coming out of OnlyFans, including the reported $30 billion paid to creators since launch and $6.3 billion paid out in 2025 alone. Sounds like everybody should immediately quit their jobs, right? Well, maybe hang onto that health insurance. The show crunches another number: out of roughly 5 million registered creator accounts, only 5,076 have earned more than $1 million on the platform. Suddenly the “easy money” plan starts looking suspiciously like every other entertainment career. Naturally, this becomes a discussion about celebrity OnlyFans accounts, what exactly people are paying for, whether there’s a male market for the platform, and the apparently untapped economic potential of vacuuming your house without a shirt on. Business school, but worse. Then the funny podcast nostalgia machine kicks into gear as Riz asks everybody to remember the websites and apps from the early days of the internet. MySpace. Napster. GeoCities. eBaum’s World. ICQ. Strong Bad. Fark. The Chive. Chatroulette. Especially Chatroulette. Rafe perfectly describes the difference between Russian roulette and Chatroulette: Russian roulette gives you one bad chamber out of six. Chatroulette basically reversed those odds. The crew remembers AOL chat rooms, asking strangers “ASL?”, making actual friends online before anybody’s parents understood what was happening, and the glorious period when the internet felt like a collection of weird little neighborhoods instead of six giant companies demanding that you accept cookies. Moon also takes us back to mp3.com and the early days of the internet changing the music business. Story of the Year’s “Until the Day I Die” actually reached the top of the site’s download rankings, beating massive songs from artists including Nelly, Eminem and Evanescence right before mp3.com disappeared. So technically Moon retired as champion. Please respect the belt. The nostalgia continues when the crew gets into Sony and PlayStation reminding consumers that digitally purchased games are licensed rather than truly owned. That means no physical copy sitting on the shelf, no lending your game to a buddy, no selling it later and fewer weird little pieces of physical media surviving long enough to show up in an antique shop 40 years from now. Which somehow leads directly into vintage Playboy magazines. Obviously. Rafe and Riz remember the old-school barbershops where guys sat around, dirty jokes flew freely, every haircut was basically the same haircut, everything smelled like Barbicide and there might just be a Playboy sitting in the waiting area. Rafe remembers the legendary six-dollar haircut at Tally’s Barbershop in Du Quoin, Illinois, while the crew tries to determine whether “barbicide” sounds more like disinfectant or a felony committed against someone’s hair. This funny podcast then shifts into Crap on Celebrities, where the crew covers Kiss selling its brand rights, developments surrounding the Tupac murder trial, Taylor Momsen joining surviving members of Soundgarden for an NFL halftime performance, upcoming comedy documentaries, Glenn Close defending Kim Kardashian, and the planned return of the Donnie Darko universe. That’s also where Riz finally confesses something: He has never seen Donnie Darko. He has, however, apparently spent years pretending he has. Honestly, knowing there’s a creepy bunny and an airplane engine is probably enough to fake your way through 80% of conversations about that movie. The entertainment rundown also includes Ryan Gosling producing a new live-action Flintstones project before Lern closes things out with a tribute to Dolly Parton—remembering her humor, philanthropy, Imagination Library, enormous generosity and ability to take criticism without ever losing sight of exactly who she was. And then comes the announcement Moon has been sitting on for years. Greek Fire is returning to the stage. Moon announces a headline show at Delmar Hall on Saturday, October 17—the band’s first headline show in seven years. They’ll play new material ahead of a larger release planned for next year, with Native Monster joining them and a portion of every ticket sold supporting Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital as part of the Rizz Show October fundraiser. Moon promises full-blown rock theater. Riz promises “hardness.” We were extremely close to ending this episode professionally. So there it is: OnlyFans economics, dead websites, sketchy chat rooms, mp3.com glory, digital ownership, vintage Playboys, barbershop jokes, entertainment gossip, Dolly Parton and Greek Fire finally returning. Another funny podcast that started with financial analysis and ended with Riz discussing hardness. Harvard Business Review could never. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We have some explaining to do. The episode begins with Riz waking up to some major news. Obviously, he assumes everyone is talking about the Becky Thatcher, the first new riverboat joining the St. Louis riverfront fleet in nearly four decades. Nobody is talking about the riverboat. They’re talking about Dolly Parton. After the show had recently discussed concerns about Dolly’s health, the news of her death arrives—and listeners immediately activate the long-running Rizz Show curse. The inbox fills with variations of “YOU KILLED DOLLY.” Riz insists he did no such thing. The audience has apparently already held a trial and reached a verdict. What follows is a genuinely emotional remembrance of Dolly, particularly from Lern, who talks about growing up in a family of women who adored her and what Dolly represented as a funny, strong, generous woman who never seemed interested in punching down. The crew discusses the flood of tributes, her influence, her sense of humor and the strange feeling when an icon dies and suddenly your entire social feed becomes one giant memorial. They also revisit Dolly’s legendary sense of humor through her old Letterman Top 10 appearance and a story about her attitude on the set of Steel Magnolias. It’s heartfelt, funny and a reminder that occasionally this daily comedy operation is capable of experiencing an actual human emotion. Don’t get used to it. Because we immediately pivot to the continuing saga involving the 49ers owner and the mobile-home community that got unwillingly dragged into headlines surrounding his arrest. Turns out the Wheat Hill Mobile Home Community would like everybody to know something very important: THEY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. According to the discussion, the mobile-home park was simply where he happened to pull over during the police operation. It wasn’t part of the sting. Nobody was operating anything out of one of the trailers. The neighborhood just had the misfortune of becoming the funniest possible location to put in a headline. Our apologies to Wheat Hill. Naturally, this clarification leads to approximately half an hour of the crew discussing mobile homes. Rafe explains growing up in a single-wide in southern Illinois with five people, where mounted deer were apparently standard interior design. Except his family couldn’t necessarily spring for full taxidermy, so Dad would clean the skull, mount the antlers and put the whole thing on a homemade wooden arrowhead. HGTV has been suspiciously quiet about this aesthetic. Lern remembers the time a giant taxidermied boar head unexpectedly arrived at her family home while her dad was away. Her little sister declared it a monster, Mom immediately banned it from civilized society, and now the boar apparently lives in the dark storage section of the basement waiting for somebody to make one wrong turn at night. Obviously, the show wants it for the office. Then Moon and Rafe provide an unexpectedly thorough education in mobile-home expansion. First you get the trailer. Then comes the lattice. Then the deck. Then another room. Maybe a wood-burning stove. Another deck. Perhaps an above-ground pool with a deck around that. Keep going long enough and the original mobile home becomes the chewy nougat center of an entire residential compound. Rafe also remembers winters when the back of his family’s trailer got so cold they hung a blanket across the hallway, fired up the wood stove and everybody slept in the main room. There are old Formica tables. Ancient carpet capable of producing immediate rug burn. Indoor cigarette smoke. Storm shelters. Tornado theories. Wind chimes. Lawn ornaments. Shot-up road signs—allegedly. Abandoned farm equipment. Old horse trailers. And a neighbor who apparently kept woodworking after losing enough fingers that maybe the universe was trying to send a message. It becomes a weirdly affectionate trip through rural childhood, poverty and the things families do to turn whatever they have into a home. Eventually, this daily comedy episode escapes Trailer Park Memory Lane and celebrates National Toilet Paper Day, which leads to an important debate about toilet paper being too soft. Then Rafe describes encountering a handheld bidet sprayer with enough water pressure that incorrect usage could apparently result in a medical evacuation. There’s also the nostalgic horror of padded toilet seats, because nothing says “luxury bathroom” quite like sitting on a cracked vinyl cushion that has seen generations of bare asses. National Dog Day brings happier territory as the crew talks about America’s popular dog breeds, mutts versus designer breeds, and why mixed-breed dogs may secretly have everything figured out. Then the conversation wanders into genetic modification and the possibility of glow-in-the-dark animals, which naturally leads Moon to conclude that Jurassic Park is inevitable and he will absolutely buy a ticket. Finally, Carrot Top enters the conversation because this show respects narrative structure about as much as a raccoon respects a locked trash can. So yes: Dolly Parton, a new St. Louis riverboat, an NFL-owner controversy, trailer-park vindication, taxidermy, tornado shelters, toilet paper, dangerous bidets, dogs, genetically modified animals and Carrot Top. That is daily comedy. We’re sorry. Mostly. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. 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Summer is basically over, the kids are back in school, and some of them returned home looking like they’d just completed a six-month combat deployment instead of one day of algebra. Naturally, that sends The Rizzuto Show down memory lane to discuss suspiciously easy senior-year schedules, bowling classes, walking classes, movie classes, and the beautiful teenage realization that maybe calculus simply isn’t going to be part of your personal journey. NFL chaos with the story of 49ers owner Jed York and an alleged prostitution sting in East Palestine, Ohio. The crew tries to understand how a man connected to billions of dollars somehow ends up at the center of a $140 Sunday-morning situation in a mobile home community. A workplace prank involving heavy machinery that ended in tragedy. That leads into a rundown of some of the deadliest jobs in America, including logging, commercial fishing, roofing, steel work, trash collection, aviation, mining, construction, and landscaping. Suddenly sitting in a radio studio complaining about the air conditioning doesn’t seem quite as heroic. And because The Rizzuto Show can never stay on one subject for more than the medically recommended amount of time, Fujifilm sends everybody tumbling into a conversation about words that instantly reveal your age. “Videotape.” “Pocketbook.” “Slacks.” “Icebox.” “Billfold.” “Filling station.” “Supper.” Welcome to the portion of the show where everyone discovers they’re approximately 900 years old. Then it’s time to discuss the upcoming iPhone and whether spending around $1,200 on another rectangle that looks suspiciously like your current rectangle is still exciting. The show heads Back in the Day for anniversaries involving The Wizard of Oz, Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, Boston’s legendary debut album, Lauryn Hill, Aaliyah and more. ZZ Top plays its first show following the death of drummer Frank Beard, the crew attempts to demonstrate its vast knowledge of Quando Rondo, Ella Langley continues her monster chart run with “Choosing Texas,” and Miranda Lambert enters the conversation thanks to a songwriting story involving a kangaroo. Because sure. The Terminator 2 cast reunion also gets reviewed with all the tact and restraint you’ve come to expect from this comedy podcast. Edward Furlong gets some love, everybody realizes he was only 13 while filming the movie, and Rafe delivers the completely unnecessary observation that the reunion photo looks like “the future they were trying to prevent.” Then the show turns to a frightening story out of Columbia, Missouri, where a 21-year-old former Mizzou student suffered severe injuries after falling from the rooftop area at Harpo’s. The crew talks about what was known about the accident, the young man’s condition, and their own experiences with Columbia’s downtown, the Blue Note, Shakespeare’s, old venues, King Scott's favorite Wal Mart and the college-town scene. It’s a genuinely awful situation, and everybody’s hoping the kid pulls through. And then Simpleton Trivia arrives to destroy everybody’s self-esteem. The premise sounds insultingly easy: answer 10 common-knowledge questions in 45 seconds. Get one wrong and you’re immediately done. Callers can either take the challenge themselves for two pairs of tickets or put their faith in somebody from The Rizzuto Show and bet on—or against—them. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 49ers owner Jed York pleads no contest to two misdemeanor charges in OhioMan crushed coworker's head while 'f---ing around' with tree-trimming machineryOne seemingly ordinary job has gotten much more deadly over the past 10 years, federal data showsFrench visitor dies in Death Valley National Park after becoming stranded on remote roadMount Fuji hiker leaves tired son, 7, behind to reach iconic summit: ‘Wait here’Former Chillicothe football player in critical condition after fall from Harpo's rooftop barSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This episode starts with a listener trying to solve a very real problem: how to get wheelchair-accessible seating for Rizz Show Night at the Blues game when the normal accessibility option isn’t showing up for the theme-night tickets. Instead of letting Zach wander endlessly through ticketing menus designed by somebody who apparently hates convenience, Riz decides to pass the issue along and try to get him some actual help. Then the show turns to a frightening story out of Columbia, Missouri, where a 21-year-old former Mizzou student suffered severe injuries after falling from the rooftop area at Harpo’s. The crew talks about what was known about the accident, the young man’s condition, and their own experiences with Columbia’s downtown, the Blue Note, Shakespeare’s, old venues and the college-town scene. It’s a genuinely awful situation, and everybody’s hoping the kid pulls through. But because this is a funny show physically incapable of traveling in a straight line, we eventually get an update on the earlier 49ers prostitution-sting discussion. A listener from Ohio introduces the theory of a possible “Sunday brunch special,” which only creates more questions about how a wealthy NFL owner allegedly winds up at an East Palestine trailer park at 9:30 in the morning. Then comes the important question nobody else is brave enough to investigate: What kind of car are you driving into that situation? And then Simpleton Trivia arrives to destroy everybody’s self-esteem. The premise sounds insultingly easy: answer 10 common-knowledge questions in 45 seconds. Get one wrong and you’re immediately done. Callers can either take the challenge themselves for two pairs of tickets or put their faith in somebody from The Rizzuto Show and bet on—or against—them. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. Chris steps up first and is immediately asked how many days are in a leap year. His answer? 365. Goodbye, Chris. Thanks for playing. Matt looks unstoppable. Hours in two days? 48. Capital of the United States? Washington, D.C. Sides on a stop sign? Eight. South Pole? Antarctica. He’s cruising toward victory until Rafe asks what color you get when you mix red and yellow. Green. Orange. It’s orange. Then Tom makes the smartest decision anybody makes during the entire game: bet against Lern. She powers through skin, inches, Mercury, multiplication and Thanksgiving before the trees show up. Pine tree? Deciduous? Evergreen. Congratulations, Tom. You have successfully weaponized our stupidity for free Blues tickets. Mark tries next and comes flying out of the gate powered by Pepsi and Red Bull, which sounds medically questionable but strategically promising. He handles math, directions, colors, decades and elephants before being asked which state is known as the Sunshine State. California. Damn. Then a caller decides to trust Riz. This goes spectacularly well for roughly zero seconds. His first question: how many nickels make $1.25? And thus “25, damn” joins “California, damn” and “deciduous, damn” in the rapidly expanding Simpleton Trivia Hall of Shame. Surely Moon can save the reputation of the funny show, right? A caller puts his faith in Moon because Moon hasn’t let him down in five years. Even worse, the caller wants Blues tickets so he can take his daughter to her first Blues game. The emotional stakes are unnecessarily high. Everybody tells him not to tell the kid yet. Moon starts strong. Seven times eight? Sand makes glass? Bald eagle? Caterpillars become butterflies? Springfield? Then Rafe asks how many months have 31 days. Moon says five. It’s seven. Somewhere, an imaginary child begins crying in study hall. There’s one final shot at redemption when Miranda puts her faith in Moon for AC/DC and Foo Fighters tickets so she can take her nine-year-old son to his first show. Again, everybody immediately makes this far more emotionally devastating than a morning-radio trivia game has any right to be. Moon crushes the equator, 50 states, rubies, multiplication, frogs, Canada, spider legs and photosynthesis. Then comes bread. What’s the main ingredient? Yeast? Water? Flour. The game is over, dignity is dead, and Tom—the guy who had the good sense to bet against the show—is basically the only person walking away happy. This funny show has once again proven something important: never underestimate common knowledge, never trust a radio personality with your child’s concert dreams, and if you’re offered the opportunity to bet against The Rizzuto Show, maybe take it. Deciduous. Damn. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nikki Glaser kicks off the show with a birthday message for Rizz, which is probably the classiest thing that happens for the next 43 minutes. Because immediately after that, this comedy podcast gets back to the story everybody has questions about: the San Francisco 49ers owner getting busted in an alleged prostitution sting at a trailer park in East Palestine, Ohio. At 9:30 in the morning. On a Sunday. The crew tries to reverse-engineer exactly how somebody with hundreds of millions of dollars winds up in this situation. Was this the final stop of an all-night bender? Did he wake up Sunday morning ready to make terrible choices? How fast does an online prostitution appointment work? Apparently it’s like checking into urgent care, except your insurance company has significantly more questions. That leads to an even more important investigation: how does a police department decide who goes undercover as the prostitute? Is getting picked flattering? Is not getting picked insulting? Somehow Miss Congeniality, ugly-character casting, Marla Hooch, Home Alone, Cry-Baby, Jonah Hill, Rebel Wilson and Johnny Depp all get dragged into the conversation. Then it’s time to discuss the upcoming iPhone and whether spending around $1,200 on another rectangle that looks suspiciously like your current rectangle is still exciting. The show heads Back in the Day for anniversaries involving The Wizard of Oz, Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, Boston’s legendary debut album, Lauryn Hill, Aaliyah and more. Then Crap on Celebrities brings the pop-culture buffet nobody asked us to curate. ZZ Top plays its first show following the death of drummer Frank Beard, the crew attempts to demonstrate its vast knowledge of Quando Rondo, Ella Langley continues her monster chart run with “Choosing Texas,” and Miranda Lambert enters the conversation thanks to a songwriting story involving a kangaroo. Because sure. There’s also a Wendy Williams documentary on the way, which naturally leads to revisiting her infamous Statue of Liberty fainting incident and several other moments from daytime television history. We get TV cancellations, Harry Potter casting talk, massive movie box-office numbers, and news that Paramount is developing a sequel to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. The Terminator 2 cast reunion also gets reviewed with all the tact and restraint you’ve come to expect from this comedy podcast. Edward Furlong gets some love, everybody realizes he was only 13 while filming the movie, and Rafe delivers the completely unnecessary observation that the reunion photo looks like “the future they were trying to prevent.” Then we meet celebrities who somehow function without smartphones. Christopher Walken doesn’t have a cell phone or use email. Christopher Nolan prefers a landline. Elton John goes without a phone. Michael Cera uses an actual camera. Meanwhile, most of us get nervous if our battery drops below 30%. Birthdays follow, complete with Alexander Skarsgård, Jodi Messina, Claudia Schiffer, Tim Burton, Rob Halford, Gene Simmons, Tom Skerritt and a detour into the days when watching a really long movie required two VHS tapes. Children, ask your grandparents. And then Rafe's arm enters the chat. After roughly 30 weeks of allergy shots because he is apparently allergic to the entire planet, Rafe reveals that his weekly appointment came with a new threat: The Smelly Waiting Room Guy. This man’s body odor was so aggressive that Rafe abandoned the waiting room and sat in the hallway despite being required to stick around after his shots. What follows is a full workplace-level investigation into human stink etiquette. When are you obligated to tell someone they smell? How does a manager have that conversation? Do you blame their shoes first? Can coworkers become “smell blind” to one another? What happens when you put perfume on top of funk and accidentally create an entirely new biological weapon? This comedy podcast finally reaches the conclusion society has apparently been afraid to admit: sometimes somebody just needs to tell you that you stink. No heroes. No lessons. Just onions. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Summer is basically over, the kids are back in school, and some of them returned home looking like they’d just completed a six-month combat deployment instead of one day of algebra. Naturally, that sends The Rizzuto Show down memory lane to discuss suspiciously easy senior-year schedules, bowling classes, walking classes, movie classes, and the beautiful teenage realization that maybe calculus simply isn’t going to be part of your personal journey. From there, this funny podcast takes a hard turn into NFL chaos with the story of 49ers owner Jed York and an alleged prostitution sting in East Palestine, Ohio. The crew tries to understand how a man connected to billions of dollars somehow ends up at the center of a $140 Sunday-morning situation in a mobile home community. There are questions. So many questions. Mostly: 9:30 in the morning?! The conversation also spirals into other professional sports owners who have spectacularly found themselves in trouble over the years, because apparently owning a franchise does not include the complimentary Common Sense Package. Then we move from bad decisions to an actual nightmare: a workplace prank involving heavy machinery that ended in tragedy. That leads into a rundown of some of the deadliest jobs in America, including logging, commercial fishing, roofing, steel work, trash collection, aviation, mining, construction, and landscaping. Suddenly sitting in a radio studio complaining about the air conditioning doesn’t seem quite as heroic. This funny podcast also heads to Death Valley, where extreme heat turns a stranded-car situation deadly, before traveling approximately 8,100 feet up Mount Fuji for our unofficial Father of the Year competition. A dad hiking with his children reportedly decided his exhausted seven-year-old could wait alone on the mountain while Dad and the other child continued toward the summit. Rain? Fog? Early morning? Giant mountain? Details, details. Police eventually ordered Dad to abandon the climb and go back for his kid, proving once again that some parenting advice really should not require law enforcement. And because The Rizzuto Show can never stay on one subject for more than the medically recommended amount of time, Fujifilm sends everybody tumbling into a conversation about words that instantly reveal your age. “Videotape.” “Pocketbook.” “Slacks.” “Icebox.” “Billfold.” “Filling station.” “Supper.” Welcome to the portion of the show where everyone discovers they’re approximately 900 years old. It’s another funny podcast packed with weird news, sarcastic humor, NFL shenanigans, daily comedy, St. Louis nonsense, questionable life choices, and the kind of conversations that begin somewhere reasonable before wandering directly into traffic. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The crew kicks things off with the 100-inning softball game supporting the Burton family, where Rafe and Scott discover that 12 straight hours of softball is apparently something human beings willingly participate in. There were legitimate athletes, Chris Kerber brought the stories and good Blues energy, and Team Rizz did what Team Rizz does best: proudly represent athletic mediocrity while somebody else actually knows how to play the sport. Moon, meanwhile, spent his weekend in Los Angeles with Goldfinger for their biggest headlining show ever at the Hollywood Palladium. Between the packed hometown show, backstage chaos and trying to juggle approximately every person he has ever met in Southern California, Moon also wanders into Amoeba Music and suddenly finds himself standing next to Matt Berry. His carefully prepared celebrity interaction consists basically of realizing, “Holy crap, that’s Matt Berry,” which honestly is probably better than anything the rest of us would've managed. Delays pile up, passengers get increasingly irritated, everyone lines up to board…and the entire plane waits for one missing flight attendant. When she finally arrives, Moon witnesses a level of leisurely strolling that probably should’ve been studied by scientists. Hundreds of angry passengers? Connecting flights on the line? Whatever. She had a walking speed and she was committed to it. Rizz heads the opposite direction for a father-son road trip to the University of Arkansas and finally experiences the roadside cathedral known as Buc-ee’s. Unfortunately, he discovers that Buc-ee’s contains one fatal flaw: other people. Lots and lots of other people. He battles the crowd, buys a Cuban sandwich that immediately disintegrates inside the car and ultimately reaches the devastating conclusion that Buc-ee’s is basically a bigger Wally’s. Somewhere, a beaver just felt a disturbance in the Force. So yes, this episode has softball, Chesterfield sociology, Goldfinger, Matt Berry, airport rage, Buc-ee’s, college nostalgia and weather-induced emotional manipulation. The Grand Theft Auto 6 rumor mill is firing on all cylinders. Alleged leaks suggest GTA 6 could make players actually refuel their cars, because apparently escaping the cops and committing fictional felonies wasn't immersive enough. Now we may get the authentic experience of realizing the tank is on E at the absolute worst possible moment. Naturally, Jean-Claude Van Damme doing the splits leads Lern to ask questions about male anatomy that nobody was emotionally prepared to answer. Suddenly we're discussing whether men have a “seam,” whether God is responsible for said seam, and why absolutely none of this information was included in health class. From there, Crap on Celebrities turns surprisingly philosophical when Dr. Dre and Billy Corgan land on opposite sides of the AI music debate. This comedy podcast also gets into Bret Michaels recovering from kidney stone surgery while apparently refusing to surrender his hat under any circumstances, Kacey Musgraves performing while floating on giant disco-ball truck nuts, Dolly Parton exploring avatar performances, Bonnaroo taking a year off, and St. Louis artist Slater covering Hole’s “Violet.” National Treasure 3 inches closer to becoming a real movie, and Hollywood is ready to cast King Scott in a major role. A guy scales the St. Louis Zoo big-cat enclosure, an alleged staged fender bender turns into an armed robbery and multiple police chases, and then we attempt to save everybody’s relationships with the 777 Rule. Welcome to another comedy podcast where apparently the only thing separating civilization from complete chaos is a zoo fence and a shared Google Calendar. We get into a Florissant case where suspects allegedly rear-ended a Volvo to force the driver to stop, only for the situation to turn into an armed robbery, a fight, a stolen vehicle and multiple police pursuits. Somewhere along the way, the unnamed Volvo driver becomes “Johnny Volvo,” the suspects become the “Jeep Boys,” and this comedy podcast briefly transforms into the least legally sound self-defense seminar ever broadcast. That kicks off a surprisingly thoughtful debate about whether the 777 Rule is realistic, especially when listeners point out that dates, overnight stays and vacations cost money. The crew argues that the exact numbers and activities aren’t really the point. Take a walk. Go for a drive. Pack a picnic. Hit a park. Complain together. Whatever works. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. 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A guy scales the St. Louis Zoo big-cat enclosure, an alleged staged fender bender turns into an armed robbery and multiple police chases, and then we attempt to save everybody’s relationships with the 777 Rule. Welcome to another comedy podcast where apparently the only thing separating civilization from complete chaos is a zoo fence and a shared Google Calendar. We start locally at the St. Louis Zoo, where a man decided the normal pedestrian experience simply wasn’t immersive enough. Visitors spotted him climbing over a barrier and sitting on elevated artificial rockwork above the big-cat habitat. He never came into direct contact with the animals, nobody was hurt, and he eventually climbed back onto the pedestrian path before being detained. Naturally, the crew’s biggest takeaway is that the whole thing had enormous “I bet you won’t” energy. Also: please don’t be the person who makes the zoo build a gigantic fence because you couldn’t resist becoming part of the exhibit. Then things get significantly less goofy with a warning about staged fender-bender robberies. We get into a Florissant case where suspects allegedly rear-ended a Volvo to force the driver to stop, only for the situation to turn into an armed robbery, a fight, a stolen vehicle and multiple police pursuits. Somewhere along the way, the unnamed Volvo driver becomes “Johnny Volvo,” the suspects become the “Jeep Boys,” and this comedy podcast briefly transforms into the least legally sound self-defense seminar ever broadcast. The conversation eventually lands on a much less felonious subject: the 777 Rule for relationships. The idea is simple: every seven days, prioritize a date. Every seven weeks, spend a night away together. Every seven months, take a longer getaway. The point isn’t necessarily expensive dinners, luxury hotels or constantly disappearing to a tropical island like you’ve committed financial crimes. It’s intentionally making time for the person you’re with before work, kids, chores, schedules and general life nonsense turn you into two ships passing in the hallway. That kicks off a surprisingly thoughtful debate about whether the 777 Rule is realistic, especially when listeners point out that dates, overnight stays and vacations cost money. The crew argues that the exact numbers and activities aren’t really the point. Take a walk. Go for a drive. Pack a picnic. Hit a park. Complain together. Whatever works. The goal is to actually prioritize each other instead of realizing six months later that your most meaningful conversation recently was about who forgot to move the laundry. Moon shares how getting away with his wife to review the previous year, plan family goals and figure out priorities has become genuinely valuable. Rizz talks about those brutally busy stretches where work, kids and household responsibilities can leave couples feeling like they barely see each other. Lern points out that sometimes “the funk” simply happens when you stop spending time together. And Rafe reminds everybody that relationships are something you actively build, which is dangerously reasonable territory for this show. We also establish that the 777 Rule can become the 888 Rule, 555 Rule or whatever schedule actually fits your life. The number seven isn’t magical. The commitment is the important part. And yes, somehow this eventually leads to Naked Tuesday, hotel-room romance, cheap date ideas and the suggestion that Illinois residents apparently settle relationship problems with sunsets near a levee. We cannot stress enough that this is technically a comedy podcast. So enjoy Episode 6: zoo escapades, robbery shenanigans, relationship advice and another morning where the conversation travels approximately 900 miles without ever leaving the studio. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Grand Theft Auto 6 rumor mill is firing on all cylinders. Alleged leaks suggest GTA 6 could make players actually refuel their cars, because apparently escaping the cops and committing fictional felonies wasn't immersive enough. Now we may get the authentic experience of realizing the tank is on E at the absolute worst possible moment. Would stolen cars come with random amounts of gas? Could you abandon one because the tank is empty? Would GTA Costco memberships get you cheaper fuel? These are the important questions being asked by this comedy podcast while the rest of society presumably does something productive. Then we discover—or rediscover, depending on how damaged everyone's memory is—the 1985 cinematic achievement known as Gymkata. The premise is magnificently stupid: take gymnastics, combine it with karate and create an unstoppable martial art. That's it. That's the movie. Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas is sent on a dangerous mission where his greatest weapon is himself…and the conveniently placed gymnastics equipment that somehow keeps appearing whenever dozens of bad guys need to be kicked in the face. Moon reveals that Gymkata has been living rent-free in his subconscious since childhood, including scenes that still randomly appear in his dreams. This launches the crew into an extremely important celebration of the ridiculous action and sports movies of the ’80s: Rad, No Retreat, No Surrender, Best of the Best, No Holds Barred, Bloodsport and the glorious era when movie executives could apparently greenlight anything as long as somebody knew karate. Naturally, Jean-Claude Van Damme doing the splits leads Lern to ask questions about male anatomy that nobody was emotionally prepared to answer. Suddenly we're discussing whether men have a “seam,” whether God is responsible for said seam, and why absolutely none of this information was included in health class. And then Steven Seagal arrives. The crew finds audio of Seagal telling a story about being in Kazakhstan before stopping to ask, “How do you say in English…” despite being born in Lansing, Michigan. What follows is a forensic investigation into Steven Seagal's increasingly mysterious relationship with the English language, fake accents, international travel and whether spending enough time somewhere can legitimately change how you talk. From there, Crap on Celebrities turns surprisingly philosophical when Dr. Dre and Billy Corgan land on opposite sides of the AI music debate. Dre sees artificial intelligence as another creative tool, while Corgan wants absolutely nothing to do with it. Moon breaks down how producers already use loops, samples and pre-built musical elements, leading to a bigger question: where exactly does using technology stop being a tool and start becoming “cheating”? This comedy podcast also gets into Bret Michaels recovering from kidney stone surgery while apparently refusing to surrender his hat under any circumstances, Kacey Musgraves performing while floating on giant disco-ball truck nuts, Dolly Parton exploring avatar performances, Bonnaroo taking a year off, and St. Louis artist Slater covering Hole’s “Violet.” Plus, the CW dumps Miss USA and Miss Teen USA, DC apparently decides Gorilla Grodd needs a true-crime mockumentary, National Treasure 3 inches closer to becoming a real movie, and Lern takes everyone on an unsolicited but surprisingly enjoyable Whitesnake journey. Then we wrap things up with celebrity birthdays—including Dave Chappelle, Cal Ripken Jr., Steve Guttenberg and Vince McMahon—before heading toward relationship fun facts and the mysterious 7-7-7 rule. It's GTA rumors, ’80s movie nostalgia, celebrity news, music industry arguments, St. Louis chaos and several conversations that should've ended three sentences earlier. In other words: a comedy podcast. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Everybody had a weekend, and unfortunately for all of us, they came back with stories. The crew kicks things off with the 100-inning softball game supporting the Burton family, where Rafe and Scott discover that 12 straight hours of softball is apparently something human beings willingly participate in. There were legitimate athletes, Chris Kerber brought the stories and good Blues energy, and Team Rizz did what Team Rizz does best: proudly represent athletic mediocrity while somebody else actually knows how to play the sport. Then Rafe takes us inside an entirely different competitive environment: Topgolf in Chesterfield. He showed up in jeans, a T-shirt and cowboy boots while seemingly everyone else arrived looking like they had just finished a private lesson at Bellerive. The clubs are nicer. The outfits are tighter. The dads appear to work in numbers. And somewhere along the way, Rafe introduces the world to the “Chesterfield Nine,” which naturally sends the entire funny podcast into an extremely mature and thoughtful discussion about golf. Just kidding. It immediately falls apart. Moon, meanwhile, spent his weekend in Los Angeles with Goldfinger for their biggest headlining show ever at the Hollywood Palladium. Between the packed hometown show, backstage chaos and trying to juggle approximately every person he has ever met in Southern California, Moon also wanders into Amoeba Music and suddenly finds himself standing next to Matt Berry. His carefully prepared celebrity interaction consists basically of realizing, “Holy crap, that’s Matt Berry,” which honestly is probably better than anything the rest of us would've managed. Then comes the flight home. Delays pile up, passengers get increasingly irritated, everyone lines up to board…and the entire plane waits for one missing flight attendant. When she finally arrives, Moon witnesses a level of leisurely strolling that probably should’ve been studied by scientists. Hundreds of angry passengers? Connecting flights on the line? Whatever. She had a walking speed and she was committed to it. At least the delays gave Moon time to catch up on movies, leading to reviews of Michael, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar and Tomb Raider. We also get Banana Ball confusion, because apparently baseball wasn't complicated enough and now fans can become part of the defense. Rizz heads the opposite direction for a father-son road trip to the University of Arkansas and finally experiences the roadside cathedral known as Buc-ee’s. Unfortunately, he discovers that Buc-ee’s contains one fatal flaw: other people. Lots and lots of other people. He battles the crowd, buys a Cuban sandwich that immediately disintegrates inside the car and ultimately reaches the devastating conclusion that Buc-ee’s is basically a bigger Wally’s. Somewhere, a beaver just felt a disturbance in the Force. The Arkansas trip also gives Rizz a glimpse of the college experience he never had, complete with a massive campus, tens of thousands of students and enough Walton branding to remind everyone exactly where they are. Then the show discovers “sunshine guilt” — that weird feeling that you're wasting your life because it's gorgeous outside and you dared to remain indoors. Finally, a funny podcast willing to defend your constitutional right to sit inside watching television while nature aggressively tries to shame you through the windows. Moon gets it. Rizz refuses to be bullied by sunshine. Lern is basically medically prescribed to go outside. And somehow chopping wood in a cowboy hat enters the conversation. So yes, this episode has softball, Chesterfield sociology, Goldfinger, Matt Berry, airport rage, Buc-ee’s, college nostalgia and weather-induced emotional manipulation. Basically a normal Monday around here. If you're looking for a funny podcast packed with St. Louis stories, sarcastic humor, pop culture commentary, travel disasters and grown adults turning completely ordinary situations into unnecessary investigations, congratulations. You have unfortunately found us. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apparently one Friday show wasn’t chaotic enough, so this episode brings together sports-radio confusion, Banana Ball insanity, celebrity disasters, '90s music nostalgia, Taylor Swift fandom, and an emotional goodbye that briefly forces The Rizzuto Show to experience genuine human feelings. Gross.  The crew is coming off its takeover of The Fast Lane, where St. Louis sports-radio listeners turned on their radios expecting serious sports analysis and instead found… us. Confused texts start rolling in, Moon commits the apparently unforgivable crime of discussing soccer, and everyone discovers that sports-talk fans approach radio hosts with roughly the same restraint they bring to yelling at referees. From there, we head to Busch Stadium for the Savannah Bananas and the wonderfully ridiculous world of Banana Ball. No bunting. Batters can steal first. Ball four turns into a sprint. Fans can record an out by catching a foul ball. There’s a Golden Batter. There are bizarre tiebreakers. Basically, somebody looked at baseball and asked, “What if this moved faster and people actually had fun?” That naturally sends us down the Steve Bartman rabbit hole, where we discover the infamous baseball was eventually purchased, publicly blown up and—because humanity had apparently not done enough—its essence was incorporated into pasta sauce. Sports fans remain completely normal. We also get into Rizz’s upcoming first trip to Buc-ee’s, the Gathering of the Juggalos, a drug bust involving a man with the incredibly discreet nickname Blunt Man, speeding, road rage and those tiny towns where the speed limit suddenly drops just in time for a police officer to welcome you personally. Then nostalgia attacks. A forgotten Rollins Band song sends Rizz straight back to the '90s, MTV and Beavis and Butt-Head, leading to an appreciation of Henry Rollins as perhaps the only man capable of delivering inspirational wisdom while looking permanently furious about it. Rafe even discovers the perfect soundtrack for the closet he apparently cries in. Once Crap on Celebrities gets rolling, things become significantly more expensive and legally complicated. Foo Fighters are joining AC/DC for a huge St. Louis show, which is incredible news right up until everyone remembers they’ll eventually have to escape the parking lot. The crew also digs into the Michael Jackson biopic sequel, developments surrounding the Tupac murder case and reported Diddy allegations, questions surrounding changes to Biggie’s mother’s will, and Dane Cook revisiting the brutal discovery that his own brother embezzled millions from him. Nothing says family like alleged financial crimes. There’s also God of War casting drama involving Dave Bautista, a public service announcement about a movie Moon thinks is absolute garbage, and a rundown of famous actors who reportedly couldn’t stand each other while filming some of Hollywood’s most beloved romances. Turns out all that incredible on-screen chemistry might occasionally just be two attractive people professionally suppressing rage. And then Courtney Diamond — aka Eight Ball — comes home. The former Rizzuto Show intern joins the crew ahead of the final TaylorMade tribute to Taylor Swift show, closing a chapter that grew into 45 performances across 28 cities. Courtney talks about knowing when it was time to end TaylorMade, remembering the nerves surrounding the first show and making sure the project went out while everyone involved still loved what they were doing. Things get dangerously sincere when Courtney reflects on her time working with the show and tells Rizz that one of the lessons she carried with her was watching him treat people well and thank her for her work every day as an intern. Don’t worry. Everyone immediately starts making jokes before Rizz can develop an emotion. Courtney also explains how a die-hard Def Leppard and '80s hair-metal fan became a massive Taylor Swift fan, why Swift’s songwriting won her over and where even a dedicated Swiftie draws the line when it comes to merch drops, album variants and the Taylor Swift business machine. Then we enter the terrifying world of parasocial fandom. The crew debates fans driving 12 hours just to stand outside a celebrity wedding, Courtney admits to incorporating some Def Leppard sightseeing into her honeymoon, and even one of the biggest Swifties we know arrives at an important conclusion: Some Swifties need to chill. Finally, Courtney looks ahead to the emotional final TaylorMade performance and talks about what it feels like to deliberately close something she’s spent years building. She doesn’t know exactly what comes next—and for once, nobody needs to turn that into a five-year plan. It’s sports, weird news, celebrity gossip, music memories, St. Louis chaos, Taylor Swift, Juggalos, Banana Ball, family betrayals, emotional farewells and enough wildly unnecessary side conversations to remind everyone why The Rizzuto Show remains your daily comedy destination. Basically, we laughed, we learned, we almost had feelings, and somewhere along the way Blunt Man got arrested. Another productive day. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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We’re getting dangerously sincere on today’s funny podcast, because former Rizzuto Show intern Courtney Diamond — better known around these parts as Eight Ball — is back in the studio before closing one enormous chapter of her life. Courtney’s TaylorMade tribute to Taylor Swift is performing its final show at Delmar Hall, ending a run that grew far beyond where it started. Over the course of TaylorMade, Courtney and the band performed 45 shows across 28 cities, taking the production from its first nervous night at The Wildey Theatre to venues and audiences around the country. Courtney explains that there wasn’t one giant dramatic reason. Sometimes you just know when it’s time. More importantly, she wanted TaylorMade to end while everyone involved still loved doing it. Apparently “leave while you still enjoy each other” is an option. Somebody should tell every band that has announced a fourth farewell tour. She remembers the pressure surrounding TaylorMade’s first performance and the moment she heard the crowd erupt before she even walked onstage. What started with nerves turned into something much bigger, especially for the young Taylor Swift fans who came dressed for the occasion—and the dads sitting off to the side pretending they absolutely weren’t getting into it. Naturally, Rizz and Rafe immediately improve Courtney’s carefully planned final show by pitching an ending involving Rafe dressed as Travis Kelce carrying her offstage. Things then get suspiciously heartfelt when Rizz asks Courtney how working at The Rizzuto Show affected her life. She credits her time in radio with making her tougher and talks about learning from Moon, Jeff and Lern before revealing something that nearly destroys the entire sarcastic ecosystem of the program: Rizz taught her something genuinely meaningful. Courtney remembers Rizz thanking her for her work at the end of the day when she was an intern and says the experience taught her that no matter how successful you become, you should still treat people well. Everybody quickly makes jokes before Rizz experiences a recognizable human emotion. Thank God. Then we get into the contradiction that makes Courtney’s Taylor Swift obsession even better: she’s a die-hard '80s hair-metal fan with a Def Leppard tattoo who generally doesn’t care for modern pop music. Courtney explains why Swift’s songwriting broke through her rock-and-roll defenses, particularly the storytelling and honesty in her lyrics. That inevitably launches the crew into another debate surrounding the business empire attached to Taylor Swift. Variants. Exclusives. Merch drops. Swifties monitoring website changes like NORAD watching the sky. Courtney understands the criticism surrounding the relentless merchandising while also making a fairly important point: nobody is physically forcing you to buy the fifteenth version of an album. Being a Swiftie apparently requires both emotional stamina and a functioning household budget. The funny podcast then dives headfirst into parasocial fandom following the massive attention surrounding Taylor Swift’s wedding. Courtney gives her perspective as an actual hardcore fan, including her surprise over aspects of the guest list and the sheer spectacle surrounding the event. Rizz, meanwhile, remains fascinated by fans who drove enormous distances just to stand outside. One mother drove 12 hours from Indianapolis with her daughter to be near the celebration despite having no actual access to the wedding. In extreme heat. After getting the kid out of bed at 2:00 in the morning. Rizz has some thoughts. Courtney admits she understands a little bit of celebrity tourism. Her own honeymoon included visiting Def Leppard-related locations around Sheffield and convincing her extremely patient husband to drive around a village on the off chance they happened to spot bassist Rick Savage. Finally, the conversation returns to the reason Courtney is there—the final TaylorMade show. She explains why knowing the ending was coming gave her time to appreciate the last year, how bittersweet the final performance feels, and why she’s both excited and devastated to say goodbye. It’s an episode about knowing when to close a chapter, appreciating what you built, fandom getting completely out of control and discovering that underneath all the sarcasm, The Rizzuto Show might actually care about each other. Disgusting. Just the kind of emotional damage you expect from your favorite funny podcast. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It’s Friday on The Rizzuto Show, which means this comedy podcast is landing the plane with music nostalgia, celebrity chaos and enough questionable information to ruin several perfectly good movies. First, Rizz gets ambushed by his own shuffle when a Rollins Band song he hadn’t heard in roughly 25 years suddenly comes back from the dead. That launches the crew into Henry Rollins memories, MTV, Beavis and Butt-Head, Black Flag, Lollapalooza and the fascinating contradiction that is Henry Rollins: an inspirational motivational speaker who always looks like he’s about three seconds away from yelling at a parking meter. Some of the crew remembers the song. Some absolutely do not. Rizz insists everybody needs to listen to it. Rafe now apparently has new music for the closet he cries in. Great start. Then it’s time for Crap on Celebrities, where Foo Fighters joining AC/DC in St. Louis continues to be enormous news. Dave Grohl explains just how much AC/DC influenced him, while everyone tries to figure out what happened to The Pretty Reckless and whether the lineup change was designed to give ticket sales another shot of adrenaline. Either way, September 8 is shaping up to be massive. Unfortunately, so is the parking nightmare. From there, celebrity news takes the wheel and immediately drives directly into a ditch. The upcoming Michael Jackson biopic sequel is expected to tackle the controversial later years of his life. The ongoing Tupac Shakur murder case raises new questions about alleged connections to Sean “Diddy” Combs. Then Biggie’s family enters an estate fight after changes were reportedly made to his mother’s will shortly before her death. Nothing brings a family together quite like hundreds of millions of dollars. We also get new music releases, Dr. Phil lawsuit news and one of the uglier family betrayals in comedy history. Dane Cook’s documentary revisits his rise to superstardom and the revelation that his own brother, who handled his finances, embezzled roughly $12 million. Imagine becoming one of the biggest comedians in America and still discovering the most expensive heckler was sitting at Thanksgiving dinner. The entertainment rundown keeps rolling as Yellowjackets heads toward its final season and Dave Bautista takes over as Kratos in Amazon’s God of War. The original actor had already gotten himself ridiculously ripped for the role before suffering a torn bicep and losing the job, which is one of those stories that makes your bad week seem slightly more manageable. Then Moon performs an important public service by warning everybody away from a movie he describes, with tremendous critical nuance, as a total piece of crap. You’re welcome, America. And because apparently we haven’t damaged enough childhood memories, Lern brings in a list of famous movie and TV couples who reportedly hated each other while working together. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey had issues before Dirty Dancing. Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn clashed on Four Christmases. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams reportedly needed a screaming match while making The Notebook before eventually dating in real life. Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte? Apparently not exchanging Christmas cards. Claire Danes wasn’t thrilled with Leonardo DiCaprio’s behavior on Romeo + Juliet, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny went through rough stretches on The X-Files, and Sarah Silverman had her own memorable confrontation with Michael Richards on Seinfeld. Romance is alive, everybody. We finish with celebrity birthdays before the Friday tradition manages to make things uncomfortable one last time, because this comedy podcast refuses to simply arrive at the weekend like a normal program. It’s forgotten music, rock news, celebrity gossip, Hollywood feuds, ridiculous show-business money, St. Louis entertainment and enough sarcastic humor to make HR quietly close the browser tab. In other words, another perfectly normal episode of your favorite comedy podcast. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny show where every perfectly reasonable conversation eventually gets dragged into an alley and beaten senseless by five people with microphones. We’re coming off our takeover of The Fast Lane, and apparently not everyone received the memo. The ESPN audience showed up expecting sports talk and instead got us, leading to confused texts, angry sports fans and the crew slowly realizing that sports-radio listeners chirp hosts the same way they chirp players from the stands. Honestly, we respect the commitment. Moon even dared to discuss soccer in St. Louis, which naturally went over calmly and rationally with everyone. Obviously. With that historic broadcasting achievement behind us, we immediately announce record ratings, retire undefeated and turn our attention to the Savannah Bananas coming to Busch Stadium. And this is where baseball gets weird. We break down Banana Ball rules, including no bunting, batters potentially stealing first, sprinting after ball four, the Golden Batter, bizarre tiebreakers and the glorious rule where a fan catching a foul ball can actually record an out. Finally, buying a glove as a grown adult has consequences beyond your friends making fun of you. That sends us directly into Steve Bartman history, because why stay on topic? We revisit the infamous Cubs foul ball, discover what eventually happened to the baseball and learn that people detonated the thing before incorporating its essence into pasta sauce. Sports are healthy. Then there’s Skate Laborious. Three years after the fire, organizers are fighting to preserve the remaining church structure and transform it into an open-air skate park. Naturally, our contribution to the discussion is deciding this sounds like an '80s movie where a group of lovable misfits has to save the rec center from The Man. Cue the rollerblades. That somehow leads to Rad, Gleaming the Cube, BMX dancing, Lori Loughlin, Christian Slater and the realization that the '80s could turn literally any recreational activity into a feature film. Rizz is also heading toward Arkansas and preparing for another major milestone: his first trip to Buc-ee’s. This launches the important Buc-ee’s vs. Wally’s debate, recommendations involving Beaver Nuggets and brisket, and a surprisingly heated discussion about whether you can leave your vehicle sitting at a gas pump while wandering around a convenience store the size of Rhode Island. Meanwhile, the Gathering of the Juggalos is happening in Missouri, which brings us one of the least surprising headlines in human history: a massive drug bust involving a gentleman known as Blunt Man. Yes. Blunt Man. A man allegedly associated with a “One Stop Shop” supplying the festival had even received a promotional shout-out from Violent J. Somehow subtlety did not prevail. The ensuing discussion includes an enormous list of seized drugs, plans for a possible Rizz Show expedition to the Gathering and the very sensible conclusion that nobody should attempt this without a qualified Juggalo Sherpa. From there, this funny show tackles another subject where everyone believes they’re correct: speeding. How far over the limit is acceptable? Is ten over basically the unofficial speed limit? Why do tiny towns suddenly drop from highway speeds to 35 mph directly in front of what appears to be their entire police department? Lern admits that aggressive drivers can activate her own personal highway-vigilante mode, while everyone shares speeding-ticket stories and their individual theories about what cops will actually tolerate. It’s sports, St. Louis stories, weird news, nostalgia, road rage and several conversations that should have ended much sooner than they did. In other words, exactly what you came for from a funny show that continues proving nobody should give us this much microphone time. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The morning begins with Lern trying to figure out whether Hubbard Media has a sewage problem or whether she personally needs to reevaluate some life choices. Thankfully, the mystery quickly leads us to Florida, where somebody learns one of nature’s most important rules the hard way: do not jump on a manatee. Especially when you haven’t taken the time to determine whether said manatee is, you know… alive. Rizz remembers the beautiful bonding experience of having baby vomit deposited directly into his mouth. Moon recalls an athletic encounter with an impressive amount of dog poop. And then Rafe casually unlocks a repressed memory from his days working in surgery that probably should’ve stayed repressed. There’s gangrene. There’s a sterile operating room. There’s vomiting. There’s mint extract that arrives WAY too late. At one point, breakfast officially files for divorce. Eventually, Rizz attempts to drag this funny podcast out of the biological danger zone by choosing joy. Unfortunately, he’s Rizz, so even his daughter thanking him for making dinner turns into an existential crisis involving garlic, dementia, stuffed animals, retirement in Florida, and an imaginary future son-in-law handling his estate. Normal father-daughter stuff. Then we actually get GOOD NEWS. St. Charles runner Emma Kessler thought she’d be tackling a half marathon without her boyfriend Jason, who repeatedly insisted running wasn’t his thing. Turns out Jason had secretly trained for months so he could surprise her and run alongside her. It’s sweet. It’s supportive. Nobody gets covered in anything. Naturally, Rizz’s immediate concern is that this man is making every other partner look terrible. Apparently Gen X isn’t going to enough concerts, so today we’re solving the live music industry one folding chair and bottle of ibuprofen at a time. A concert promoter asking what it would take to get Gen X back out to shows. The answers? Bring back physical tickets. Give us cleaner bathrooms. Stop making everything cost approximately one kidney. Fine bands for showing up late. And while we’re making demands, how about concerts that start at 3 p.m. and wrap by 6 so everybody can be home, showered and questioning their life choices before the evening news? The crew gets into the bigger problem facing live music right now, from third-party ticket sellers and ridiculous resale prices to mid-level artists trying to survive while fans blow their entire entertainment budget on one or two giant shows. Foo Fighters are stepping in to open for AC/DC in St. Louis, which leads to the very important question of how long the Foo Fighters actually get to play when they’re technically the opener. There’s also an update on Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell and his continued battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The Jack White and Charley Crockett drama continues after Twin Temple was removed from dates on Crockett’s tour. Jack White defended the band, Crockett fired back, White responded with a bizarre musical troll, and suddenly everybody is keeping track of who released more albums. Rafe likes Crockett’s music but would also like everyone involved to calm down and simply make songs again. Then Demon Hunter enters the chat. The Christian metal band is suing over the KPop Demon Hunters name, arguing that the massive Netflix property and its live-event expansion could create confusion with their long-established band. King Scott once saw the band demon hunter perform KPOP. The Missouri State Fair has given us many things over the years, and today we can add freeze-dried pickles capable of removing every drop of moisture from the human body to the list. Then we return to one of the most important educational developments of our generation: Fart Corner. The teacher whose classroom fart corner went viral has responded to all the attention and clarified her intentions. Apparently, kids today have significantly less shame about letting one rip in class, so she created a designated location where students can handle their business and return to society. Fart Corner is now also The Gas Station. Then it’s time for King Scott to host Matchup With Moon, and whatever intellectual credibility remained in the studio immediately leaves through the emergency exit. Rizz and Moon battle through trivia involving the longest-running television game show, Walter Mondale, the PGA Hall of Fame, malware and the Rice Krispies mascots before King Scott drops the Millard Fillmore tiebreaker. Round two somehow gets worse. The guys tackle the undefeated Miami Dolphins, continents, Louis Armstrong, bowling terminology and the origin of Spam. “Spiced ham” should have been easy, but instead we get guesses including separated ham, spectacular meats, special mail and surplus meat. Then comes the Great Bowling Debate of 2023. Another episode of daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Boyfriend Secretly Trains For Two Months To Surprise Girlfriend and Run Alongside Her in Dreaded First Half-MarathonSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Missouri State Fair has given us many things over the years, and today we can add freeze-dried pickles capable of removing every drop of moisture from the human body to the list. Episode 233 begins with Rizz bringing in freeze-dried pickles his wife picked up at the Missouri State Fair. The crew loves pickles. The crew loves snacks. What could possibly go wrong? Well, they look like packing peanuts, dissolve in your mouth and contain enough salt to make you feel like you’ve swallowed ocean water. Moon immediately wants another one. Rafe loves them. Scott practically needs to leave the room. And Rizz, the man who brought this sodium-based building material into work, wants absolutely nothing to do with them. Welcome to daily comedy at The Rizzuto Show, where even eating a pickle requires a postgame analysis. Then we return to one of the most important educational developments of our generation: Fart Corner. The teacher whose classroom fart corner went viral has responded to all the attention and clarified her intentions. Apparently, kids today have significantly less shame about letting one rip in class, so she created a designated location where students can handle their business and return to society. There’s even been a rebrand. Fart Corner is now also The Gas Station. Surely that’ll make middle schoolers take it seriously. This sends the crew into a completely unnecessary but surprisingly passionate discussion about whether fart shame is actually an important part of childhood development. Rizz thinks a little shame has value. Rafe wonders whether forcing someone to physically walk across the classroom to Fart Corner actually creates MORE shame. Lern points out that kids already smell bad enough. And Moon is forced to revisit the childhood classroom fart that has apparently been living rent-free in his brain for decades. Moon remembers the room. He remembers the chairs. He remembers the embarrassment. He remembers EVERYTHING. Some people remember their first kiss. Moon remembers the acoustics of a plastic chair. Then it’s time for Matchup With Moon, and whatever intellectual credibility remained in the studio immediately leaves through the emergency exit. Rizz and Moon battle through trivia involving the longest-running television game show, Walter Mondale, the PGA Hall of Fame, malware and the Rice Krispies mascots before King Scott drops the Millard Fillmore tiebreaker. Moon confidently announces that Fillmore came after Lincoln… and then lands on 1949. Millard Fillmore actually became president in 1850. Only missed it by a century. That’s within radio-show margin of error. Round two somehow gets worse. The guys tackle the undefeated Miami Dolphins, continents, Louis Armstrong, bowling terminology and the origin of Spam. “Spiced ham” should have been easy, but instead we get guesses including separated ham, spectacular meats, special mail and surplus meat. Then comes the Great Bowling Debate of 2023. Moon answers that a bowling “mark” means a spare. The actual definition includes a strike or a spare. Is Moon correct? Is he partially correct? Does the word “or” save him? Should Rizz win? Should nobody win? Why are grown adults litigating bowling vocabulary like there’s prize money on the line? Suddenly Lern is arguing semantics, Rafe is researching bowling terminology, listeners are taking sides and the studio has become a deeply stupid courtroom. This is daily comedy exactly as nature intended: freeze-dried food experiments, weird news, childhood humiliation, terrible trivia, St. Louis radio chaos and grown adults taking an argument about bowling significantly more seriously than necessary. By the end, Moon admits his answer may have been incomplete, Rizz immediately declares victory, and “no backsies” becomes the final legal precedent. Another successful morning. Another friendship barely surviving. Another episode of daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apparently Gen X isn’t going to enough concerts, so today we’re solving the live music industry one folding chair and bottle of ibuprofen at a time. Episode 112 kicks off with a concert promoter asking what it would take to get Gen X back out to shows. The answers? Bring back physical tickets. Give us cleaner bathrooms. Stop making everything cost approximately one kidney. Fine bands for showing up late. And while we’re making demands, how about concerts that start at 3 p.m. and wrap by 6 so everybody can be home, showered and questioning their life choices before the evening news? Welcome to the future of rock and roll: chairs. The crew gets into the bigger problem facing live music right now, from third-party ticket sellers and ridiculous resale prices to mid-level artists trying to survive while fans blow their entire entertainment budget on one or two giant shows. Rafe even pitches a concert subscription model where fans could pick shows from different tiers. Honestly, this comedy podcast may have accidentally stumbled into a legitimate business idea, which is deeply concerning. Then Crap on Celebrities arrives with enough music news to make everyone forget we were complaining about concerts five minutes earlier. Foo Fighters are stepping in to open for AC/DC in St. Louis, which leads to the very important question of how long the Foo Fighters actually get to play when they’re technically the opener. There’s also an update on Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell and his continued battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. From there, we enter one of our favorite genres of entertainment: successful musicians arguing with each other on the Internet. The Jack White and Charley Crockett drama continues after Twin Temple was removed from dates on Crockett’s tour. Jack White defended the band, Crockett fired back, White responded with a bizarre musical troll, and suddenly everybody is keeping track of who released more albums. Rafe likes Crockett’s music but would also like everyone involved to calm down and simply make songs again. Naturally, the crew decides celebrity boxing may be the only mature solution. Then Demon Hunter enters the chat. The Christian metal band is suing over the KPop Demon Hunters name, arguing that the massive Netflix property and its live-event expansion could create confusion with their long-established band. Moon actually has history with that music scene, which means for approximately four minutes this show accidentally becomes informative. Don’t worry. We recover. There’s also new testimony surrounding the Tupac Shakur murder case, a conversation about Sons of Anarchy stars reuniting for a bizarre meta-series, and a trailer for Whale Fall that sends everyone directly into claustrophobic nightmare territory. The movie involves a scuba diver getting swallowed by an 80-foot sperm whale and trying to escape before his oxygen runs out. Lern’s reaction to this horrifying premise? Maybe watching it will help her prepare in case she ever gets swallowed by a whale. That’s preparedness you simply won’t get from other podcasts. We wrap things up with Jason Statham’s latest movie accidentally appearing online early, John Stamos apparently deciding clothes are optional, and a Robert Plant birthday celebration that turns into Zeppelin, solo Plant, giant '80s hair and the invention of the word “plantiness.” So yes, this comedy podcast begins with concert economics and ends with Robert Plant’s plantiness. That feels about right. It’s another morning of St. Louis comedy, music news, entertainment gossip, pop culture commentary and sarcastic humor from Rizzuto and the gang — the comedy podcast where no topic survives contact with the studio. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to Episode 66, where the parking lot smells like raw sewage and somehow THAT is the least disgusting thing we discuss. The morning begins with Lern trying to figure out whether Hubbard Media has a sewage problem or whether she personally needs to reevaluate some life choices. Thankfully, the mystery quickly leads us to Florida, where somebody learns one of nature’s most important rules the hard way: do not jump on a manatee. Especially when you haven’t taken the time to determine whether said manatee is, you know… alive. What follows is Mother Nature delivering one of the fastest and grossest examples of karma we’ve ever encountered. And because this is a funny podcast run by adults who allegedly know better, the conversation immediately becomes a competition over the nastiest things anyone has ever gotten on themselves. Rizz remembers the beautiful bonding experience of having baby vomit deposited directly into his mouth. Moon recalls an athletic encounter with an impressive amount of dog poop. And then Rafe casually unlocks a repressed memory from his days working in surgery that probably should’ve stayed repressed. There’s gangrene. There’s a sterile operating room. There’s vomiting. There’s mint extract that arrives WAY too late. At one point, breakfast officially files for divorce. We also discover that the infamous “blue waffle” is an Internet hoax, which is terrific news for anyone who survived the early Internet and somehow never bothered to verify that until adulthood. Eventually, Rizz attempts to drag this funny podcast out of the biological danger zone by choosing joy. Unfortunately, he’s Rizz, so even his daughter thanking him for making dinner turns into an existential crisis involving garlic, dementia, stuffed animals, retirement in Florida, and an imaginary future son-in-law handling his estate. Normal father-daughter stuff. Then we actually get GOOD NEWS. St. Charles runner Emma Kessler thought she’d be tackling a half marathon without her boyfriend Jason, who repeatedly insisted running wasn’t his thing. Turns out Jason had secretly trained for months so he could surprise her and run alongside her. It’s sweet. It’s supportive. Nobody gets covered in anything. Naturally, Rizz’s immediate concern is that this man is making every other partner look terrible. The crew also looks back at teenage summer jobs — camp counseling, landscaping, mall jobs, mowing lawns, hauling hay, food service and all the other character-building employment our parents lovingly forced upon us. With fewer teenagers working summer jobs than when the crew was growing up, we ask whether kids are missing an important rite of passage. Rafe’s solution? Basically draft every 16-year-old into retail or food service. Honestly, one summer behind a register might improve society overnight. Episode 66 is funny podcast chaos in its purest form: weird news, gross stories, St. Louis conversation, parenting failures, questionable childhood employment and the kind of morning-show tangents that begin with sewage and somehow end in labor statistics. We’re sorry about breakfast. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

With the BMW Championship right in The Spread Zone's backyard, Riz and Tim McKernan are going all in. They break down course conditions at Bellerive Country Club, how recent weather could play a role, and what they'v seen from some of the biggest names on the bound so far in the practice rounds. Will Scottie Scheffler continue his reign of terror in the FedExCup playoffs, or is there an up and comer you should be watching for. Plus, Tim says Rory McIlroy is bound for a rough weekend in St Louis. LEGAL DISCLAIMER We provide information about sports betting for entertainment purposes only. Please confirm gambling regulations in your state of residence. To participate in sports gaming, you must be 21 years of age or older and be physically present in a state where sports betting is legal. If you or someone you know has a sports betting or gambling problem, please call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org for more information and further assistance. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hump Day arrives with a surprise nobody saw coming—especially King Scott, who walked into what he thought was another perfectly normal Hubbard Radio meeting and instead found a full-blown baby shower waiting for him. Balloons? Check. Barbecue? Absolutely. Enough diapers to make every parent in the room experience a traumatic flashback? You bet. Lern deserves special recognition for successfully stalling King Scott by basically throwing every conversational emergency she could think of at him until the surprise was ready. Nothing suspicious about suddenly needing to discuss your entire medical history and possibly the Old Testament inside a radio booth. Then Rafe reports back from Outlaw Music Festival, where his long-running mission to get aboard Willie Nelson’s tour bus once again encountered the minor obstacle of Willie Nelson being protected like the President of Texas. Rafe breaks down the impressive lineup, including Stephen Wilson Jr., Things somehow get more uncomfortable when Rizz shares some old high-school gossip involving a former student eventually dating one of her former teachers. That launches a much bigger conversation about age differences, authority, small-town dating pools and exactly how long after graduation something stops being weird. Listener stories arrive to make everything substantially less comfortable. Mission accomplished. Meanwhile, Walmart drone deliveries are heading toward parts of the St. Louis area, and Maplewood residents have questions about noise, birds, hacking, air traffic and whether Grandma really needs groceries descending from the heavens. There’s also concern over the future of a historic Webster Groves theater, plus the incredible story of a mystery semi driver who stopped a van traveling the wrong way on I-70 and then apparently returned to his truck without waiting around for a parade. Finally, the crew discovers which car brand has some of the worst drivers, and BMW owners—including people conveniently sitting inside the studio—are forced to absorb a statistically assisted roasting involving turn signals, hair transplants, crypto and enough stereotypes to void the warranty. Rizz and Moon embracing their new identities as BMW owners ahead of a BMW-sponsored golf tournament. Surely the logo on the hood counts as a parking credential, right? Lern attempts to explain concepts like “parking passes” and “hang tags,” but luxury has changed these men. They’ve seen the badge. They know what they’re worth now. A woman new to Missouri is stunned by the accessibility of alcohol and recreational weed, which sends the crew down a rabbit hole of grocery-store liquor laws across America. Apparently some states still make you visit a separate store to purchase booze. We assume residents there spend their evenings staring sadly toward Missouri and wondering where freedom went wrong. A leaked video of former Detroit news anchor Taryn Asher berating a colleague launches a debate over losing your temper at work, professionalism, double standards and whether one meltdown should define somebody’s career. Naturally, this means revisiting some of broadcasting and Hollywood’s most legendary freak-outs. The crew debates whether these blowups are understandable high-pressure moments or just adults being terrible to coworkers. Lern also shares her own battles against studio technology, proving once again that the greatest threat to morning radio isn’t declining attention spans—it’s a computer deciding at 5 a.m. that today feels like a good day to die. Then Crap on Celebrities arrives with some genuinely sad rock news: longtime ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard has died at 77. The crew looks back at the band’s massive career, their unmistakable Texas blues-rock sound, their MTV-era reinvention and the scientific fact that putting on a ZZ Top song makes you approximately 34% more likely to feel capable of winning a bar fight. Nick Jonas revealing that he completely bombed his audition for Frozen after arriving unprepared, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan expanding his Arizona empire with a sushi restaurant and apparently carrying the same pair of traveling chopsticks for decades, updates surrounding Tupac’s murder trial, new Queens of the Stone Age music, and the planned return of Ozzfest. The celebrity pile continues with Robin Williams’ children fighting AI-generated impersonations of their father and reactivating his official Instagram account as a source for authentic material. The crew also looks ahead to Dune: Part Three sharing a release weekend with Avengers: Doomsday, because movie theaters apparently decided December needed its own traffic apocalypse. Some teachers have reading corners. Some have quiet corners. One brave educator looked at her classroom and decided what these children really needed was a designated fart corner. The concept is simple: if a kid needs to let one rip, they walk over to a specific corner of the classroom, handle their business, spray a little air freshener and quietly return to their seat while supposedly “nobody pays attention.” Thankfully, St. Louis Blues broadcaster Chris Kerber joins the show to restore professionalism. That launches a full discussion about helicopter parenting, college move-in season and parents asking Facebook whether their 18-year-old should wear a robe or a towel back from the dorm shower. Chris and Moon agree on a revolutionary parenting strategy: sometimes your adult child can figure stuff out. Rizz is preparing to take his 16-year-old to tour the University of Arkansas, so Kerber offers actual useful advice among the chaos: check out the dorms, investigate the dining options and pay attention to whether the campus simply feels right. The hockey talk continues with the newly unveiled St. Louis Blues promotional calendar, including the upcoming Rizz Show Night jacket, which might legitimately be one of the best giveaways the show has done. Kerber breaks down the limited nature of theme-night tickets, the upcoming shortened NHL preseason and the excitement building around the new season. A former escort and sugar baby writes in after hearing the crew’s previous conversations about dating for money and offers to answer their questions. Naturally, the room immediately generates approximately 700 of them. How much money? What was off-limits? Was sex always involved? How do repeat arrangements end? When do you tell a serious partner about that part of your past? Did you feel safe? Did you pay taxes? Pasta enters the arena. Chocolate-chip cookies arrive, although Moon repeatedly describing his ideal cookie as “wet” and “sweaty” causes unnecessary suffering. Lern chooses cake. Rafe starts negotiating the definition of pasta. Donuts make a late push. Rizz eventually lands on pizza. The rules get debated harder than most federal legislation before the conversation arrives at the true battleground: National Potato Day. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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Some teachers have reading corners. Some have quiet corners. One brave educator looked at her classroom and decided what these children really needed was a designated fart corner. And that’s where today’s funny podcast begins. The concept is simple: if a kid needs to let one rip, they walk over to a specific corner of the classroom, handle their business, spray a little air freshener and quietly return to their seat while supposedly “nobody pays attention.” Sure. Because elementary school children are famously discreet and would NEVER keep a running leaderboard of who visited the fart corner the most. The crew immediately identifies several flaws in this educational breakthrough, including the unfortunate student whose desk is closest to ground zero, the acoustical advantages of ripping one near a wall, and the absolute certainty that some confident kid will turn the fart corner into Madison Square Garden. Moon also relives an eighth-grade fart incident involving a plastic chair, Trisha and a level of emotional damage that apparently survived well into adulthood. The lesson? It’s not the fart. It’s the confidence behind the fart. Then, because apparently science had nothing more urgent to solve, the show dives into a massive flatulence study involving thousands of participants and hundreds of thousands of logged farts. Men versus women. Peak farting hours. Historical fart estimates. And yes, “anal tracking devices,” a phrase we sincerely hope never appears on the company expense report. Rafe even revisits his proposed radio game involving everyone recording their own farts so listeners can guess whose is whose. Management’s continued refusal to greenlight this important broadcasting innovation remains baffling. Thankfully, St. Louis Blues broadcaster Chris Kerber joins the show to restore professionalism. That lasts approximately four seconds. Kerber weighs in on fart-corner logistics, airflow, acoustics and the important parental responsibility of teaching your children to laugh at flatulence. Then the conversation shifts to how Chris managed to get himself kicked out of a University of Louisville parents Facebook group. His crime? Suggesting that a college student who wanted to know whether anyone downstairs was watching a football game could perhaps… walk downstairs and find out. Apparently this was too radical for the safe space. That launches a full discussion about helicopter parenting, college move-in season and parents asking Facebook whether their 18-year-old should wear a robe or a towel back from the dorm shower. Chris and Moon agree on a revolutionary parenting strategy: sometimes your adult child can figure stuff out. Rizz is preparing to take his 16-year-old to tour the University of Arkansas, so Kerber offers actual useful advice among the chaos: check out the dorms, investigate the dining options and pay attention to whether the campus simply feels right. The hockey talk continues with the newly unveiled St. Louis Blues promotional calendar, including the upcoming Rizz Show Night jacket, which might legitimately be one of the best giveaways the show has done. Kerber breaks down the limited nature of theme-night tickets, the upcoming shortened NHL preseason and the excitement building around the new season. Then listener emails take this funny podcast somewhere completely different. A former escort and sugar baby writes in after hearing the crew’s previous conversations about dating for money and offers to answer their questions. Naturally, the room immediately generates approximately 700 of them. How much money? What was off-limits? Was sex always involved? How do repeat arrangements end? When do you tell a serious partner about that part of your past? Did you feel safe? Did you pay taxes? Rafe, meanwhile, wants to know whether there was a Groupon. Journalism. Another listener from Metro West Fire Protection District offers to help the crew with CPR training and car-seat installation, which somehow results in Rafe claiming he ordered a RealDoll to practice CPR. Lern immediately populates his imaginary house with Rhonda, Susan, Dolly and Reba, and now apparently Rafe hosts brunch for a collection of synthetic roommates. We’re sorry too. Finally, the crew tackles a hypothetical: What if you could choose one food that your body would treat as perfectly healthy forever? Pasta enters the arena. Chocolate-chip cookies arrive, although Moon repeatedly describing his ideal cookie as “wet” and “sweaty” causes unnecessary suffering. Lern chooses cake. Rafe starts negotiating the definition of pasta. Donuts make a late push. Rizz eventually lands on pizza. The rules get debated harder than most federal legislation before the conversation arrives at the true battleground: National Potato Day. French fries? Tater tots? Hash browns? Sweet potatoes? Russets? And Rafe delivers perhaps the most important culinary observation of the episode: A tot is basically a hash-brown marshmallow. This funny podcast has fart science, college-parent chaos, Blues hockey, listener confessions, CPR, sweaty cookies and the opening shots of another Great Potato War. We never claimed this would make you smarter. We claimed it would make your commute weirder. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to Missouri, where the booze is conveniently located, the dispensaries are plentiful, and buying a car on Sunday is apparently where society decided to establish some boundaries. Episode 41 kicks off with Rizz and Moon embracing their new identities as BMW owners ahead of a BMW-sponsored golf tournament. Surely the logo on the hood counts as a parking credential, right? Lern attempts to explain concepts like “parking passes” and “hang tags,” but luxury has changed these men. They’ve seen the badge. They know what they’re worth now. From there, this comedy podcast investigates what outsiders notice when they first arrive in Missouri. Is it the rolling green landscape? The hills? The beautiful scenery? Nope. It’s the ability to walk into a grocery store and buy hard liquor like a civilized Midwesterner. A woman new to Missouri is stunned by the accessibility of alcohol and recreational weed, which sends the crew down a rabbit hole of grocery-store liquor laws across America. Apparently some states still make you visit a separate store to purchase booze. We assume residents there spend their evenings staring sadly toward Missouri and wondering where freedom went wrong. But Missouri has its limits. You can buy liquor. You can visit a dispensary. You can apparently grab a tall boy at a gas station with concerning ease. But if you want to purchase a car on Sunday? Absolutely not, you lawless animal. The discovery of Missouri’s “blue law” leads to another revelation: Lern and Rafe enjoy wandering dealership lots on Sundays specifically because the salespeople aren’t there. Rizz finds this behavior completely alien because, according to Rizz, he loves human interaction. Moon immediately requests that the program stop lying to its audience. Then it’s time for workplace rage. A leaked video of former Detroit news anchor Taryn Asher berating a colleague launches a debate over losing your temper at work, professionalism, double standards and whether one meltdown should define somebody’s career. Naturally, this means revisiting some of broadcasting and Hollywood’s most legendary freak-outs. Chris Berman gets angry. Christian Bale goes nuclear. Bill O’Reilly encounters the phrase “to play us out” and briefly enters another dimension. The crew debates whether these blowups are understandable high-pressure moments or just adults being terrible to coworkers. Lern also shares her own battles against studio technology, proving once again that the greatest threat to morning radio isn’t declining attention spans—it’s a computer deciding at 5 a.m. that today feels like a good day to die. Then Crap on Celebrities arrives with some genuinely sad rock news: longtime ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard has died at 77. The crew looks back at the band’s massive career, their unmistakable Texas blues-rock sound, their MTV-era reinvention and the scientific fact that putting on a ZZ Top song makes you approximately 34% more likely to feel capable of winning a bar fight. It also raises an important question nobody else was brave enough to investigate: Has anyone ever seen ZZ Top wearing shorts? The comedy podcast rolls deeper into entertainment chaos with Nick Jonas revealing that he completely bombed his audition for Frozen after arriving unprepared, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan expanding his Arizona empire with a sushi restaurant and apparently carrying the same pair of traveling chopsticks for decades, updates surrounding Tupac’s murder trial, new Queens of the Stone Age music, and the planned return of Ozzfest. The celebrity pile continues with Robin Williams’ children fighting AI-generated impersonations of their father and reactivating his official Instagram account as a source for authentic material. The crew also looks ahead to Dune: Part Three sharing a release weekend with Avengers: Doomsday, because movie theaters apparently decided December needed its own traffic apocalypse. David Krumholtz says he’s stepping away from acting after more than 30 years in Hollywood, which leads everyone into the great “I know that guy!” exercise before the conversation turns toward the tiny club of movies that have crossed $1 billion worldwide. That becomes a game of guessing the biggest box-office monsters before pivoting into actors whose careers were revived by one huge role: John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man, Keanu Reeves in John Wick, Brendan Fraser in The Whale, Bruce Willis in Die Hard and more. By the end, we’ve covered BMW privilege, Missouri liquor laws, empty car dealerships, workplace tantrums, ZZ Top, celebrity news, AI, Dune, billion-dollar movies and celebrity birthdays. And just when you think the show has reached the absolute peak of intellectual discourse, Rizz teases what’s coming next: A school has a fart corner. Education is healing. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hump Day arrives with a surprise nobody saw coming—especially King Scott, who walked into what he thought was another perfectly normal Hubbard Radio meeting and instead found a full-blown baby shower waiting for him. Balloons? Check. Barbecue? Absolutely. Enough diapers to make every parent in the room experience a traumatic flashback? You bet. Lern deserves special recognition for successfully stalling Scott by basically throwing every conversational emergency she could think of at him until the surprise was ready. Nothing suspicious about suddenly needing to discuss your entire medical history and possibly the Old Testament inside a radio booth. From there, this funny podcast gets into the realities of impending fatherhood, cloth diapers, Diaper Genies, crying babies and the future arrival of little Ethel—also known, for reasons this child may someday resent, as Gatorade. Then Rafe reports back from Outlaw Music Festival, where his long-running mission to get aboard Willie Nelson’s tour bus once again encountered the minor obstacle of Willie Nelson being protected like the President of Texas. Rafe breaks down the impressive lineup, including Stephen Wilson Jr., Lukas Nelson and The Avett Brothers, while explaining just how seriously Willie’s team locks things down backstage. The dream of getting onto the bus is still technically alive, although at this point it may require fate, divine intervention or Rafe being rolled backstage inside a protective bubble. The concert also produces an important sociological breakthrough nobody requested: Rafe’s theory that Wranglers, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat automatically increase your attractiveness by roughly two points. The crew immediately subjects this groundbreaking research to peer review, including the crucial question of whether cowboy gear maintains its powers inside a Schnucks frozen-food aisle. This is the kind of scientific rigor you expect from a funny podcast with absolutely no scientific credentials. Things somehow get more uncomfortable when Riz shares some old high-school gossip involving a former student eventually dating one of her former teachers. That launches a much bigger conversation about age differences, authority, small-town dating pools and exactly how long after graduation something stops being weird. Listener stories arrive to make everything substantially less comfortable. Mission accomplished. Then the show heads into St. Louis-area weird news. PETA is offering a reward in connection with four guinea pigs abandoned inside exercise balls during extreme heat, leading the crew to investigate the apparently important secondary issue of what a guinea pig even costs these days. Spoiler: Rafe’s estimate suggests he has not recently participated in the guinea pig economy. Meanwhile, Walmart drone deliveries are heading toward parts of the St. Louis area, and Maplewood residents have questions about noise, birds, hacking, air traffic and whether Grandma really needs groceries descending from the heavens. That spirals into a surprisingly thoughtful conversation about technology, AI data centers and whether all these inventions supposedly designed to save us time have actually just given us more time to work. Thankfully, somebody can now order pistachios and have them lowered into the backyard by robot aircraft, so civilization clearly nailed its priorities. There’s also concern over the future of a historic Webster Groves theater, plus the incredible story of a mystery semi driver who stopped a van traveling the wrong way on I-70 and then apparently returned to his truck without waiting around for a parade. Finally, the crew discovers which car brand has some of the worst drivers, and BMW owners—including people conveniently sitting inside the studio—are forced to absorb a statistically assisted roasting involving turn signals, hair transplants, crypto and enough stereotypes to void the warranty. It’s another funny podcast packed with St. Louis stories, weird news, concert chaos, questionable theories and the kind of conversations that begin with a baby shower and somehow end with BMW slander. Basically, Wednesday. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're bringing back Blockbuster, burying Columbia House and somehow ending up inside the St. Louis Cardinals draft room. Just another morning where The Rizzuto Show refuses to pick a lane. First, a guy learns how to sing a hit song completely backwards so it sounds right when reversed, which is an incredible amount of effort dedicated to something gloriously unnecessary. Then we discover Free Blockbusters — neighborhood boxes where people swap DVDs, Blu-rays and VHS tapes like Little Free Libraries for people who still remember rewinding things. That sends us straight into a funeral for Columbia House, the legendary “11 albums for a penny” operation that helped build Rizz's music collection and apparently taught an entire generation of children their first lesson in questionable financial decisions. Rizz remembers physically mailing them a penny, getting Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and Bon Jovi, then receiving bills while possessing the unbeatable legal defense of being approximately 11 years old. Plus, Crap on Celebrities delivers another pile of entertainment gossip and pop culture commentary before we bring in someone with actual credentials and briefly destroy the show's reputation. Cardinals assistant GM of scouting and acquisition and 2006 World Series champion Randy Flores joins the crew to talk Draft365: Scouting MLB's Future Stars and give us a fascinating look at how the Cardinals identify, evaluate and draft future players. Randy breaks down the absurd odds of making Major League Baseball, what scouts see beyond analytics, why struggling can actually reveal something important about a prospect, and how the Cardinals' nationwide scouting operation works. We get into Jordan Walker, Joshua Baez, the pressure facing young athletes and why parents convinced they're raising the next MLB superstar might want to let the kid drive the dream. And with the 20-year reunion of the 2006 World Series champion Cardinals approaching, Randy looks back while also explaining why the organization's current farm system has him excited about what's coming next. So we've got Blockbuster nostalgia, Columbia House childhood crimes, weird internet talent, funny celebrity gossip and legitimate Cardinals baseball insight all crammed into one comedy podcast. Basically, we start with VHS tapes and end with MLB scouting. There was no plan. There rarely is. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. Amazon Worker Calls Out Customers Who Keep Ordering This 1 Item—It’s Really Annoying: ‘Stop Ordering This’Woman’s Petty Response to $45 HOA Fines Has X Saying “Genius”Free Blockbusters are popping up to bring back physical mediaRemember 12 CDs for 1 cent? Columbia House is shutting down after 71 yearsMichael Jordan’s 1998 NBA Finals Game 3 jersey going to auction with record-setting potentialSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Twenty years after helping the St. Louis Cardinals win the 2006 World Series, Randy Flores is back with The Rizzuto Show — except now he's sitting on the other side of baseball, helping find the players who could become the Cardinals' next generation of stars. The Cardinals assistant GM of scouting and acquisition joins this comedy podcast to talk about Draft365: Scouting MLB's Future Stars, a behind-the-scenes look at a side of professional baseball fans almost never get to see. And when we say behind the scenes, we mean it. Flores explains how roughly 23 Cardinals scouts spread across the country evaluate elite high school and college talent, how players make their way onto the organization's radar, and what happens when scouts, analysts, data engineers, performance specialists and actual human eyeballs all have to agree on which teenager might someday be standing at Busch Stadium. Turns out it's slightly more complicated than your uncle saying, “Kid's got a good swing.” Randy also explains just how absurdly difficult it is to reach Major League Baseball. The crew immediately starts Googling percentages, Rafe consults what basically becomes “Gronk AI,” and everyone arrives at the same scientific conclusion: Your odds aren't great. Even the players who get drafted were usually THE player where they came from — the best kid in their town, school or region — only to arrive in professional baseball and discover they're now surrounded by hundreds of other guys who were also the best kid everywhere they came from. Welcome to the world's most emotionally devastating All-Star team. Flores talks about seeing that firsthand after being drafted himself and walking into the Yankees system, where he realized his team was only one of several groups making cuts — inside just one organization. Multiply that by the rest of Major League Baseball and suddenly “making the show” sounds less like a career plan and more like surviving a very athletic Hunger Games. The conversation also dives into Cardinals prospects like Jordan Walker and Joshua Baez, including how the unusual COVID-era draft helped St. Louis feel confident about Walker and how adversity in the minor leagues helped prepare Baez for his eventual opportunity. And despite baseball becoming more obsessed with analytics, Randy explains why scouting still can't be reduced to numbers on a screen. Players leave home. They struggle. They get hurt. They fail for possibly the first time in their lives. Scouts aren't only evaluating what someone can do when everything is going right — they're trying to figure out what happens when baseball punches them directly in the mouth. That's where the human side still matters. For parents convinced they're currently raising the next MLB superstar, Flores also delivers some advice that may save everybody several thousand dollars and one deeply uncomfortable car ride home: if the kid is truly good enough, scouts will find them. Parents can help most by supporting the kid instead of turning every Little League game into Game 7 of the World Series. The pressure is already enormous. Kids now have rankings, social media clips and embarrassing moments that can follow them indefinitely. Randy's advice is refreshingly simple: home should still be the safe place. We also get into Randy's unusual road from an eight-year MLB career to graduate school, broadcasting, coaching, entrepreneurship and eventually a phone call from John Mozeliak asking whether he'd consider becoming a scouting director — to which Randy essentially responded, “Cool. What's a scouting director?” Career planning! Plus, Randy previews the 20-year reunion of the 2006 World Series champion Cardinals and explains what he hopes fans take away from Draft365: behind every prospect is an enormous group of people obsessively trying to keep the Cardinals' pipeline loaded with talent. By the end, Rafe wants to be scouted, Moon wants a job, Jon Lovitz's performance as a scout in A League of Their Own is finally evaluated by an actual professional, and somehow Marla Hooch helps bring the interview home. It's baseball insight, St. Louis Cardinals history and just enough nonsense to remind Randy he willingly walked into a comedy podcast. Twenty-five minutes later, we're all convinced we're getting drafted. We're not. But that's never stopped this comedy podcast before. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Remember when getting 11 albums for one penny seemed like a completely legitimate business model? Pepperidge Farm remembers. More importantly, Rizz remembers — because apparently Columbia House helped build the musical foundation of the man you hear yelling into a microphone every morning. Episode 52 starts with a guy who has somehow learned to sing a hit song backwards, melody and all, so that when the recording is reversed it sounds remarkably close to the real thing. It's impressive, unsettling, and exactly the kind of useless talent we deeply respect around here. Then nostalgia kicks the studio door off its hinges. Those Little Free Libraries have apparently evolved into Free Blockbusters — neighborhood boxes stocked with DVDs, Blu-rays and VHS tapes for people to take, trade and return. It's basically streaming for people who enjoy leaving the house and trusting strangers. Lern immediately wants one, complete with an old-school beaded curtain for the grown-up section, because apparently we're rebuilding the entire video store experience one suburban lawn at a time. And while physical media gets another tiny breath of life, the funny podcast says goodbye to an absolute legend: Columbia House. Yes. THAT Columbia House. The “11 albums for a penny” people. Also: they were apparently still around. Rizz takes us back to the golden era of putting an actual penny in an envelope, receiving a box full of music, getting bills in the mail and having the financial security of knowing, “What are they gonna do? I'm 11.” Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and Bon Jovi helped build the Rizz starter pack, while Rafe reveals Columbia House was also apparently part of his mom's Christmas gift strategy. Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like potentially questionable mail-order accounting. Then it's time for Crap on Celebrities, where the crew gets into the Tupac murder trial, an upcoming Elvis hologram experience in Vegas, Gillian Anderson's truly wild teenage arrest story, celebrity divorce becoming content, a Clueless sequel series, more Fast & Furious, and Ella Langley's monster chart run. Matthew McConaughey also delivers possibly the most Matthew McConaughey story ever: getting so high before his own birthday party that he sat in his car listening to Janet Jackson over and over until the party was finished. Everybody left. Birthday over. But that song? Apparently fantastic. Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell also kick the hornet's nest by discussing extreme Disney adults, because nothing brings the Internet together like telling grown people their favorite mouse might be a red flag. Meanwhile, Ella Langley's chart domination has the crew officially becoming “Ella fellas” and wondering whether she can finally defeat one of the most powerful forces in American culture: hearing the same Mariah Carey song every December until the sun explodes. And because this funny podcast occasionally invites people who actually know what they're talking about, Cardinals assistant GM and 2006 World Series champion Randy Flores joins the show to talk baseball and the Cardinals' Draft365: Scouting MLB's Future Stars, which pulls back the curtain on scouting, drafting and finding the organization's next generation of players. So Episode 52 has everything: St. Louis baseball, celebrity gossip, physical-media nostalgia, weird Internet talent, questionable teenage financial decisions and Matthew McConaughey losing an entire birthday to Janet Jackson. Another educational installment of your favorite funny podcast. We use the term “educational” very aggressively. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Scott Rizzuto has apparently reached the stage of adulthood where there’s a 75% chance that if you contact him between 4 and 5 p.m., he’s peeling garlic. Not relaxing. Not enjoying a hobby. Peeling garlic. Meanwhile, Lern accidentally ordered enough garlic to make her house legally inaccessible to vampires, which sends the crew into garlic oil, home remedies and other advice nobody should blindly follow just because five people with microphones said it confidently. And somehow, that’s one of the more normal conversations in this comedy podcast. King Scott’s baby is getting CLOSE, which means it’s time to dig up the official baby pool and see who predicted the date, time and weight correctly. Scott says he’s about 60% ready, the go-bag exists somewhere, and the car seat installation is still hanging out on the to-do list. So basically, fatherhood is proceeding exactly according to plan. That turns into kid birthday party etiquette, whether “NO GIFTS” actually means no gifts, and the worst possible present you could give a five-year-old if your real goal is making sure the parents never invite you anywhere again. Drum set? Puppy? Gold bars? The Rizz Show remains committed to providing absolutely terrible parenting resources free of charge. Then school season arrives and brings back memories of first-day outfits, high school parking spaces, Scott spray-painting his initials onto school property like a criminal mastermind who also signed the evidence, college costs, and the crew trying to understand why Illinois keeps catching strays. But eventually we arrive at the question that could divide America: Can you drink a non-alcoholic beer at work? More specifically, what happens if your SURGEON walks into the room before your operation holding one? Technically, it’s non-alcoholic. Emotionally? Your brain has already requested another doctor. The crew runs the experiment through surgeons, pilots, school bus drivers, air traffic controllers and other professions where “don’t worry, it’s an NA” probably isn't the comforting sentence you were hoping to hear. Then Rafe introduces an equally troubling alternative: your heart surgeon walking in with a Capri Sun and struggling to get the straw into the pouch. Choose your fighter. From there, today's comedy podcast tackles low-key addictions, Rafe's mint supply, bad-breath paranoia, online shopping, Amazon delivery drivers asking customers to stop ordering cases of bottled water, and whether water baking in a brutally hot delivery truck makes that expensive alkaline stuff slightly less impressive. Then we get into homeowner association insanity, because apparently owning your house doesn't necessarily mean you're allowed to sit wherever the hell you want on it. One homeowner gets accused of doing “porch-type activity” while sitting in his garage — yes, that's apparently a category now — while another woman deals with HOA fines over a dead bush by simply spray-painting the thing green. Problem solved. Botanists hate this one simple trick. It's another comedy podcast packed with daily humor, weird news, St. Louis stories, ridiculous arguments, parenting panic and the sort of pop culture commentary that starts with a reasonable question and ends with five adults debating whether they'd trust a surgeon holding a Capri Sun. So, another productive morning at The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rizz officially turned 48, which means it’s time to celebrate the only way responsible middle-aged adults know how: announce that birthdays are stupid, eat olives, drink approximately nine birthday beers, stay out until 1:45 in the morning and immediately begin discussing whether birthdays should be banned altogether next year. Lern returns from Nashville after one of her favorite trips with Tim, complete with cowboy boots, Broadway people-watching and a Foo Fighters show at Nissan Stadium that was approximately three degrees cooler than walking directly into a pizza oven. She missed Queens of the Stone Age thanks to dinner running late and a forgotten phone, but made it for Foo Fighters, Shane West randomly appearing during the band's trip through its members’ musical histories, and a romantic finish listening from the pedestrian bridge while fireworks went off. Cute. Disgusting. We're happy for them. Guns N’ Roses had their own weather problems when storms forced the band to shorten the Busch Stadium show. Naturally, this leads to the important journalistic question: if you're Guns N’ Roses and rain is coming, HOW DO YOU NOT IMMEDIATELY PLAY “NOVEMBER RAIN”? We don't make the rules. Actually, apparently neither do they. Pin-Up Bowl goes from Rizz worrying nobody will show up to being absolutely packed. The special Dangler beer flows freely. Rizz receives spaghetti-and-meatball dangler earrings, another signed Don Mattingly baseball and a massive strawberry birthday cake featuring a photo of Rizz with a truly breathtaking hair situation. There's bowling, questionable decisions and eventually a migration to Delmar Hall — except for Scott, whom everyone insists they didn't abandon collectively. They merely abandoned him individually. At Delmar Hall, the Blink-182 tribute brings the hits, Bangs Against the Machine brings the Rage, Rizz keeps getting handed beverages, and eventually Mrs. Rizzuto performs the evening's most important public service by shutting down the birthday shots before somebody had to replace another shower curtain. Then comes the Quincy lottery story. Rizz brings up a movie theory that sounds just believable enough to ruin your productivity for the next hour: could The Goonies and Back to the Future take place on the exact same day? Back to the Future establishes October 26, 1985. Meanwhile, clues in The Goonies appear to place its adventure right around that same Saturday. Coincidence? Intentional cinematic universe? Evidence that Chunk was one DeLorean ride away from completely destroying the space-time continuum? We investigate with exactly the level of academic rigor you'd expect from this program. Then Brian arrives with enough food to turn the studio into a French bakery: croissants, bread, ham and Swiss, smoked deviled eggs and more. This comes after the gigantic birthday cake he'd already made for Rizz, because apparently we're now trying to see whether a radio host can be defeated entirely by carbohydrates. Nate Bargatze also sets a massive comedy ticket-sales record, sending Rafe and the crew into a genuinely interesting conversation about club comedy versus arena comedy. Rafe explains why smaller rooms create that perfect pressure cooker of laughs while superstar comics eventually reach a level where playing a 200-seat club makes about as much financial sense as opening a lemonade stand inside Costco. The entertainment conversation keeps rolling into movies, celebrity stories and eventually Brad Pitt declaring that bad acting is so distracting he can't watch porn. This results in Rafe questioning Brad Pitt's acting credentials and nearly getting thrown off the show by everyone else. The crew debates whether Pitt is actually an elite actor, just exceptionally talented at playing Brad Pitt, or both. The crew surprises him with cards carefully selected to remind him that he's old, grouchy and one year closer to death. Lern gives him a Tommy Wiseau pasta spoon. Then Rafe produces Italian rainbow cookies from Sweet Seven Layers, delivered by a New York/Jersey baker who listens to the show and apparently understands exactly how to win over a “greasy meatball” birthday boy. Sweet Seven Layers has everybody losing their minds over traditional Italian rainbow cookies, pistachio and blackberry creations, cherry amaretto and enough sugar to make Moon openly admit he's buzzing. Throw in the pastries from Le Bon Boucher and we're basically broadcasting from inside a carbohydrate emergency. Sexy Time Fun Facts arrives with a legitimately groundbreaking medical story: surgeons in Vietnam successfully performed the country's first penile transplant from a brain-dead donor. What starts as an unbelievable medical headline turns into a surprisingly thoughtful conversation about organ donation, brain death and transplant ethics. Rafe brings some firsthand perspective from witnessing organ harvesting during his previous surgical work, while Moon reflects on his own recent experience being with his father at the end of his life. A ranking of all 50 states examines factors including clubs, online communities, hotels and other indicators of an active swinging lifestyle. Florida takes the top spot because Florida apparently looked at its existing reputation and decided to lean in. Missouri lands at number 20 overall, while ranking eighth for its number of physical swinger clubs. Science apparently has an answer for how much you should reveal in your dating profile. Say too little and people assume you're sketchy. Overshare every trauma you've experienced since kindergarten and romantic interest drops. The sweet spot is the “Goldilocks bio”: enough personality and detail to seem interesting without making somebody feel like they've accidentally opened your therapist's case notes. Rafe isn't particularly interested. He'd rather meet somebody naturally and “let the universe do it,” which is adorable and therefore completely unacceptable to his coworkers. Tinder, Hinge, Bumble and Raya all enter the discussion, along with stories of celebrities appearing in people's inboxes and the realization that getting Rafe approved for Raya may require more references than getting a mortgage. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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Nothing says “responsible morning radio” quite like starting the hour buzzing on Italian rainbow cookies and ending it by debating whether Rafe Williams belongs on Raya. Welcome to another funny show from The Rizzuto Show, where the crew begins this episode riding the aftermath of Rizz’s birthday food extravaganza. Sweet Seven Layers has everybody losing their minds over traditional Italian rainbow cookies, pistachio and blackberry creations, cherry amaretto and enough sugar to make Moon openly admit he's buzzing. Throw in the pastries from Le Bon Boucher and we're basically broadcasting from inside a carbohydrate emergency. Before everyone slips into a frosting coma, Rizz drops some actual useful information: Rizz Show Night with the St. Louis Blues is coming to Enterprise Center, featuring the Blues against the Colorado Avalanche and an exclusive Rizz Show Blues jacket. Even better, a portion of the special ticket benefits Operation Food Search. Look at us briefly doing something respectable. Don't worry. It doesn't last. Sexy Time Fun Facts arrives with a legitimately groundbreaking medical story: surgeons in Vietnam successfully performed the country's first penile transplant from a brain-dead donor. And there goes the respectability. What starts as an unbelievable medical headline turns into a surprisingly thoughtful conversation about organ donation, brain death and transplant ethics. Rafe brings some firsthand perspective from witnessing organ harvesting during his previous surgical work, while Moon reflects on his own recent experience being with his father at the end of his life. Naturally, the thoughtful discussion eventually becomes questions about disclosure to future romantic partners, whether transplanted anatomy could be a different color and the phrase “secret three-way with a ghost.” We almost made it. Then the funny show tackles another vital scientific question: Is Missouri properly representing itself in America's swinging community? A ranking of all 50 states examines factors including clubs, online communities, hotels and other indicators of an active swinging lifestyle. Florida takes the top spot because Florida apparently looked at its existing reputation and decided to lean in. Missouri lands at number 20 overall, while ranking eighth for its number of physical swinger clubs. Respectable? Embarrassing? A challenge for next year? The crew isn't entirely sure, although Rafe refuses to accept the possibility that Cleveland might be out-performing St. Louis in the key-party department. Civic pride comes in many forms. From swinging, we make the completely natural transition into dating apps. Science apparently has an answer for how much you should reveal in your dating profile. Say too little and people assume you're sketchy. Overshare every trauma you've experienced since kindergarten and romantic interest drops. The sweet spot is the “Goldilocks bio”: enough personality and detail to seem interesting without making somebody feel like they've accidentally opened your therapist's case notes. Which means there's only one reasonable next step. Get Rafe on a dating app for the show. Rafe isn't particularly interested. He'd rather meet somebody naturally and “let the universe do it,” which is adorable and therefore completely unacceptable to his coworkers. Tinder, Hinge, Bumble and Raya all enter the discussion, along with stories of celebrities appearing in people's inboxes and the realization that getting Rafe approved for Raya may require more references than getting a mortgage. He apparently needs Wayne Gretzky to write two letters now: one for Canada and one for Raya. Eventually the search deteriorates into increasingly specific dating platforms, FarmersOnly, JDate, theoretical sea-captain dating and Rafe's dream of becoming an aspiring jet-ski owner searching for love. Romance is alive. It's just deeply confused. From Italian cookies and St. Louis Blues hockey to medical ethics, swinger statistics and celebrity dating apps, this episode somehow covers an enormous amount of territory without developing a single useful life skill. Exactly what you've come to expect from your favorite funny show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Some people celebrate birthdays with dignity. The Rizzuto Show celebrates them with sarcastic greeting cards, giant pastries, smoked deviled eggs, Italian rainbow cookies and a handcrafted pasta spoon featuring Tommy Wiseau. Welcome to Episode 201 of The Rizzuto Show, the comedy podcast where turning 48 apparently means your coworkers get unlimited permission to remind you that death is approaching. The show kicks off with some completely normal DuckTales appreciation before Lern proposes the crew go see Sebastian Bach, Quiet Riot and Great White. That immediately becomes a scheduling nightmare involving Rafe’s Funny Bone weekend, Moon playing Valley Park Fall Fest and Rizz trying to figure out whether everybody can somehow attend three events simultaneously. Also, Moon may or may not have dreamed about Sebastian Bach. His dreams apparently have continuity now, so that's something everyone has to live with. Then Rizz brings up a movie theory that sounds just believable enough to ruin your productivity for the next hour: could The Goonies and Back to the Future take place on the exact same day? Back to the Future establishes October 26, 1985. Meanwhile, clues in The Goonies appear to place its adventure right around that same Saturday. Coincidence? Intentional cinematic universe? Evidence that Chunk was one DeLorean ride away from completely destroying the space-time continuum? We investigate with exactly the level of academic rigor you'd expect from this program. Which is none. Then Brian arrives with enough food to turn the studio into a French bakery: croissants, bread, ham and Swiss, smoked deviled eggs and more. This comes after the gigantic birthday cake he'd already made for Rizz, because apparently we're now trying to see whether a radio host can be defeated entirely by carbohydrates. From there, Crap on Celebrities brings another avalanche of entertainment news. The crew gets into Slipknot and Sid Wilson, Stray Kids dominating the Billboard charts, the debate surrounding a potential Asian pop Grammy category, and Frankie Valli continuing to perform at 92 — which leads everyone to wonder whether Frankie is enthusiastically choosing the stage or operating entirely on decades of muscle memory. Nate Bargatze also sets a massive comedy ticket-sales record, sending Rafe and the crew into a genuinely interesting conversation about club comedy versus arena comedy. Rafe explains why smaller rooms create that perfect pressure cooker of laughs while superstar comics eventually reach a level where playing a 200-seat club makes about as much financial sense as opening a lemonade stand inside Costco. Then somebody pays $192,000 for Sophia Petrillo's purse from The Golden Girls, because apparently having money is exhausting and eventually you simply run out of normal things to buy. The entertainment conversation keeps rolling into movies, celebrity stories and eventually Brad Pitt declaring that bad acting is so distracting he can't watch porn. This results in Rafe questioning Brad Pitt's acting credentials and nearly getting thrown off the show by everyone else. The crew debates whether Pitt is actually an elite actor, just exceptionally talented at playing Brad Pitt, or both. And somehow that's still not the most disrespectful conversation of the episode. Because it's Rizz's birthday. The crew surprises him with cards carefully selected to remind him that he's old, grouchy and one year closer to death. Lern gives him a Tommy Wiseau pasta spoon. Then Rafe produces Italian rainbow cookies from Sweet Seven Layers, delivered by a New York/Jersey baker who listens to the show and apparently understands exactly how to win over a “greasy meatball” birthday boy. It's heartfelt. It's insulting. It's carb-heavy. In other words, it's the perfect Rizz Show birthday. Hair metal, ridiculous movie theories, entertainment gossip, comedy talk, celebrity arguments and enough birthday shenanigans to make HR quietly close its laptop — Episode 201 is another completely normal comedy podcast from St. Louis. If you've ever wondered what happens when grown adults combine Sebastian Bach, The Goonies, Brad Pitt, Tommy Wiseau and Italian cookies into one morning show, congratulations. You've found your comedy podcast. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rizz officially turned 48, which means it’s time to celebrate the only way responsible middle-aged adults know how: announce that birthdays are stupid, eat olives, drink approximately nine birthday beers, stay out until 1:45 in the morning and immediately begin discussing whether birthdays should be banned altogether next year. Welcome back to The Rizzuto Show, the funny podcast where one innocent weekend recap somehow requires an incident report. Lern returns from Nashville after one of her favorite trips with Tim, complete with cowboy boots, Broadway people-watching and a Foo Fighters show at Nissan Stadium that was approximately three degrees cooler than walking directly into a pizza oven. She missed Queens of the Stone Age thanks to dinner running late and a forgotten phone, but made it for Foo Fighters, Shane West randomly appearing during the band's trip through its members’ musical histories, and a romantic finish listening from the pedestrian bridge while fireworks went off. Cute. Disgusting. We're happy for them. Back in St. Louis, Guns N’ Roses had their own weather problems when storms forced the band to shorten the Busch Stadium show. Naturally, this leads to the important journalistic question: if you're Guns N’ Roses and rain is coming, HOW DO YOU NOT IMMEDIATELY PLAY “NOVEMBER RAIN”? We don't make the rules. Actually, apparently neither do they. Rafe also reviews a nice dinner that became considerably less sophisticated when he repeatedly ate what he thought were tiny potatoes before discovering he'd housed about seven cloves of garlic. Somewhere, a vampire crossed St. Louis County off its travel plans. Then we finally get to Rizz's Birthday Bash. Pin-Up Bowl goes from Rizz worrying nobody will show up to being absolutely packed. The special Dangler beer flows freely. Rizz receives spaghetti-and-meatball dangler earrings, another signed Don Mattingly baseball and a massive strawberry birthday cake featuring a photo of Rizz with a truly breathtaking hair situation. There's bowling, questionable decisions and eventually a migration to Delmar Hall — except for Scott, whom everyone insists they didn't abandon collectively. They merely abandoned him individually. At Delmar Hall, the Blink-182 tribute brings the hits, Bangs Against the Machine brings the Rage, Rizz keeps getting handed beverages, and eventually Mrs. Rizzuto performs the evening's most important public service by shutting down the birthday shots before somebody had to replace another shower curtain. And because this funny podcast refuses to allow one story to remain normal, Rafe encounters an extremely overserved gentleman who desperately needs transportation to St. Charles — or, as his remaining functioning brain cells pronounce it, “Saint Charola's.” Rafe gets him water, security gets involved, and somehow Rafe's name becomes “Grave.” Sure. Why not. Then comes the Quincy lottery story. The crew discusses an unverified rumor surrounding the area's massive Powerball winner and questions about whether the winner's reported probation conditions could create problems claiming the jackpot. The show makes clear that the details are speculation, which naturally does absolutely nothing to prevent everyone from imagining lawyers descending on Quincy and the winner going full Brewster's Millions with jet skis, a mansion, Kid Rock and possibly an old-timey paddle boat. Birthday parties, concerts, garlic, strangers, lottery drama and enough questionable judgment to power another broadcast — just another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What happens when you combine expired temp tags, full-contact leopards, a 7UP identity crisis, celebrity tipping drama, six Trans Ams, Burt Reynolds stories, and the real-life return of Buford T. Justice? You get The Rizzuto Show doing what it does best: taking perfectly reasonable topics and absolutely refusing to discuss them reasonably. This collection of Rizz Show chaos starts with the crew discovering they somehow won a St. Louis Magazine A-List award — despite apparently being among the last people to find out. The celebration lasts approximately long enough for Missouri’s expired temporary tags to become the next emergency, especially when Rafe admits his own tags are expired. Suddenly, the guy complaining about the system becomes the poster child for it and begins framing his procrastination as a form of peaceful protest. Gandhi had the Salt March. Rafe has paperwork sitting somewhere in his house. From there, things only get more responsible. We encounter a man accused of deploying homemade spike strips to stop people from crossing his lawn, which naturally leads to a serious legal analysis based almost entirely on Home Alone. Another story involves a driver allegedly taking “good morning” as fighting words. Creep Corner opens its doors. The Town Crier gets involved. And eventually we arrive at FULL CONTACT LEOPARDS, because apparently humans weren't generating enough bad decisions on their own. Then comes an existential crisis nobody saw coming: 7UP is changing. The legendary lemon-lime soda is going more lime-forward, sending the crew directly into an ’80s and ’90s nostalgia vortex. Suddenly we're talking about the Uncola, old 7UP glasses, Sega Genesis and the greatest red dot ever to wear sunglasses: Cool Spot. Bring him back, cowards. That trip down memory lane also resurrects Smart cars and other vehicles disappearing from the automotive landscape before Crap on Celebrities takes over. Matthew McConaughey explains how a Jennifer Lopez name-drop once helped him during a traffic stop in Mexico, Barbie sequel negotiations involve enormous amounts of money, and the crew gets into Spider-Man, Ted Lasso, Axl Rose, boring movies and whether killing a dog in a movie should automatically earn an R rating. But then we stumble into a game that could sustain this show for the next decade: Good Tipper or Bad Tipper? The crew reacts to online anecdotes about celebrity tipping involving Shaq, Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, David Lee Roth, Dave Chappelle, Scottie Pippen, JLo, Jack Black, Bruce Willis, 50 Cent, Stanley Tucci and more. Some stories restore our faith in famous people. Others give us No Tippin' Pippen, and honestly, that's enough cultural achievement for one episode. And then things go eastbound and down. Sean and Jason — the guys bringing Sheriff Buford T. Justice and Junior Justice back to life — walk into the studio looking like Smokey and the Bandit escaped the screen and wandered into The Rizzuto Show. Sean even arrives in full Buford mode with a lit cigarette. Nobody tells Sheriff Justice what to do. The guys tell the incredible story of how their Smokey and the Bandit tribute work grew from reenactments and car shows into Sheriff Justice: The Series, a prequel exploring Buford and Junior before their legendary pursuit of the Bandit. They explain how Sedalia, Missouri became the production home, why they're committed to preserving the spirit of Jackie Gleason and Mike Henry's original performances, and how the families connected to those actors have supported what they're doing. Then we get to the cars. Vintage vehicles. Classic cop cars. Period-correct backgrounds. A Trans Am personally autographed by Burt Reynolds. Oh, and Jason owns six Trans Ams, because apparently some people actually achieve their childhood dreams instead of just buying another commemorative T-shirt. Sean also shares what it was like spending a week around Burt Reynolds at a film festival shortly before Reynolds passed away. That leads to stories about Burt's legendary ability to entertain a room, his willingness to tell stories where he wasn't necessarily the hero, and why the man's combination of charisma, cowboy hats, mustaches and muscle cars permanently rewired an entire generation. The nostalgia continues with Paul Williams — Little Enos himself — immediately slipping back into character when he encountered Sean and Jason at a convention. The production stories get even crazier when we learn they filmed through a reported 123-degree heat index during a 14-hour day, because apparently recreating the 1970s also means recreating a time when workplace air conditioning was merely a rumor. And then comes the ultimate Hollywood moment: Sean looks over and realizes he has his own stunt double. That's when you know you've upgraded from “guy doing a tribute” to “guy somebody else gets paid to injure themselves pretending to be.” Naturally, none of this can simply remain an interview. The Rizz Show immediately begins campaigning for roles. Extras become possible speaking parts. Speaking parts become SAG-card dreams. Moon volunteers to protect the Trans Am. Dr Pepper and Diablo sandwiches become potential negotiating tools. At some point this stops sounding like a joke and starts sounding dangerously close to an actual plan. Across all three conversations, it's everything that makes The Rizzuto Show the beautifully unnecessary daily comedy machine that it is: St. Louis stories, weird news, celebrity gossip, nostalgia, pop culture, ridiculous arguments, movie memories, questionable decisions and grown adults becoming emotionally invested in subjects ranging from soda mascots to license plates. Come for the celebrity tipping stories. Stay for Cool Spot. Learn absolutely nothing about proper vehicle registration. Develop an unhealthy desire to own a 1977 Trans Am. And whatever you do, do not engage the leopards in full contact. It's The Rizzuto Show. We won an award, you know. Apparently. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. 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Break out the cowboy hat, fire up the Trans Am and tell somebody we’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there, because Smokey and the Bandit just came roaring back into The Rizzuto Show. Sean and Jason — the men bringing Sheriff Buford T. Justice and Junior Justice back to life — join us in studio to tell one of those stories that starts with people dressing up as beloved movie characters at car shows and somehow ends with cameras rolling on an actual television series. And yes, Sean enters the studio in full Buford T. Justice mode with a lit cigarette. Nobody was going to tell the sheriff no. The guys explain how their Eastbound and Down tribute work eventually led them to Sedalia, Missouri, where they realized the town had exactly the right look for the world they wanted to recreate. Enter Larry Parham, a former police officer who apparently possesses the supernatural ability to make anything happen. Location scouting? Done. Production help? Done. Playing the mayor? Sure, why not. They call him the Wishmaster, which is both an incredible nickname and the exact person every production desperately needs. Jason also reveals the extremely reasonable fact that he owns six Trans Ams. Six. Somewhere, a bald eagle just shed a single tear. The conversation digs into how Jason initially wondered why grown men were dressing like Smokey and the Bandit characters before realizing how much joy and nostalgia the tribute brought people. Fans remember their old Trans Ams. Law-enforcement officers remember being inspired by Buford. Others simply get transported back to watching the movie with their families. What started as reenacting became something much bigger. Then Sean drops one of the coolest stories in the entire episode: he spent a week around Burt Reynolds at a film festival in Valdosta, Georgia, shortly before Reynolds died. Sean remembers hearing Burt tell stories repeatedly throughout the week — except every time he told one, another little detail might appear. Nobody cared that they'd already heard it. It's Burt Reynolds. You sit down and listen. Naturally, that launches this daily comedy into stories about Burt Reynolds being one of the coolest human beings ever assembled, including the legendary tales where Burt wasn't necessarily the hero. And weirdly, that's part of what makes the stories even better. Then we get into Sheriff Justice: The Series itself. The project explores Buford and Junior before the events of Smokey and the Bandit, while working hard to preserve what made Jackie Gleason and Mike Henry's original characters memorable. Sean and Jason talk about respecting those performances rather than turning them into parody, and about receiving support from the families connected to Gleason and Henry. That's a pretty significant stamp of approval when you're stepping into characters people have loved for nearly 50 years. The production is also taking the period details seriously. We're talking vintage cars. Real old-school Detroit steel. Casting calls for vehicles from the era. The evolution toward Buford's iconic Pontiac LeMans. And, naturally, Trans Ams — including Jason's car with Burt Reynolds' autograph on the sun visor. At this point Moon is approximately three minutes away from asking whether he can legally marry a 1977 Trans Am. The guys even get deep into obscure Smokey and the Bandit car trivia, including details involving the original LeMans and its paint. This is where casual fans politely nod while the hardcore fans begin screaming at their radios because THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. Sean and Jason also tease Easter eggs that longtime fans should watch for, explain how production has pushed through some absolutely brutal Missouri heat — including a reported 123-degree heat index during a 14-hour filming day — and discuss finishing the pilot before moving deeper into production. And then Rafe asks the only question that really matters: When do WE get to be in it? Because apparently simply interviewing actors isn't enough anymore. Now The Rizzuto Show would like acting credits. The possibility of coming down to Sedalia as extras quickly becomes the possibility of a speaking role, and suddenly we're discussing SAG cards, Diablo sandwiches and Dr Pepper like this is already a signed contract. Moon, meanwhile, volunteers to “babysit” the Trans Am, which sounds suspiciously like grand theft auto with better manners. The episode also includes an incredible encounter with Paul Williams, who played Little Enos in the original movie. Sean and Jason describe meeting him at a convention, where Williams saw them dressed as Buford and Junior, lit up and immediately slipped right back into character — like everyone had been transported straight back to the original set. Then comes one of the greatest “I've made it” moments imaginable. Sean looks over during production and sees someone dressed exactly like him. His stunt double. That's when this whole crazy journey becomes real: you've gone from tribute appearances and car shows to standing on an actual set while another human being dresses like you because what they're about to do is apparently too dangerous for your insurance policy. This episode is a love letter to Smokey and the Bandit, Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Mike Henry, outrageous cars, practical stunt work and a style of movie comedy that still connects with audiences decades later. It's nostalgia without treating the originals like museum pieces — and the story of a couple of guys whose passion project somehow grew into something much larger. It's also another daily comedy episode where Rafe's childhood obsession may have accidentally resulted in the entire show getting acting work. If this works, we're never going to hear the end of it. So grab a Diablo sandwich and a Dr Pepper, fire up the Trans Am and enjoy some daily comedy with Sean, Jason and The Rizzuto Show. We'll see you eastbound and down. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

There are certain moments when you realize the world you knew is gone forever. Your childhood home gets cleaned out. The cars you remember disappear. Your favorite mascot gets replaced. And, most devastating of all, 7UP decides it needs to become more lime-forward. We know. Take all the time you need. Episode 83 starts with some actual show business as the crew talks about trying to land a role — or at least get their faces somewhere in the background — in Sheriff Justice: The Series. There’s also some movie talk surrounding Scott’s short-film adventures before we arrive at the cultural earthquake nobody was prepared for: 7UP is changing its recipe. For the first time in 15 years, the lemon-lime soda is going lime-lemon. That announcement sends this comedy podcast directly into nostalgia mode as Rafe and Moon remember the glory days of 7UP's Uncola marketing, old-school glasses and, most importantly, Cool Spot. Remember Cool Spot? The red dot with sunglasses, sneakers and enough ’90s attitude to somehow get his own Sega Genesis game? THAT was branding. Naturally, the conversation becomes a referendum on every mascot decision 7UP has made since, including poor Fido Dido catching strays decades after the fact. The trip down memory lane keeps rolling when the crew talks about cars disappearing from the market, including the Ford Escape, Jaguar F-Pace, Toyota GR Supra and Tesla Model S. That somehow brings Smart cars back into the conversation, which reminds everybody of that brief period when society tried to convince us driving something the size of a roller skate was the future. Then we Crap on Celebrities. Matthew McConaughey tells a story about using his Wedding Planner connection to Jennifer Lopez to help get himself out of a sticky traffic-stop situation in Mexico. Which raises an important question: if Matthew McConaughey still has to name-drop somebody else, what hope do the rest of us have? There’s Barbie sequel drama involving Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Greta Gerwig and some potentially enormous paydays. Kelly Ripa talks about needing gum-graft surgery. Selena Gomez and her Wondermind company face allegations in a lawsuit. Spider-Man is putting up gigantic box-office numbers, and the crew dives into a list of movies people online have branded some of the most boring films of the century. Then Anne Hathaway floats the idea that movies where dogs die should automatically get an R rating. Honestly, Old Yeller has been emotionally mugging children for generations, so at least somebody finally opened the investigation. We also get into the return of Ted Lasso, Axl Rose dealing with jaw problems while performing, and Lionel Richie cracking a joke about Usher and Chris Brown that predictably becomes an online debate. Because nothing said into a microphone is allowed to simply be a joke anymore. It must immediately become a panel discussion involving 40,000 strangers. But the centerpiece of the celebrity chaos is a game that deserves its own home edition: Good Tipper or Bad Tipper? The crew works through anecdotal stories involving John Cena, Chuck Norris, David Lee Roth, Dave Chappelle, Scottie Pippen, Shaq, Maria Shriver, 50 Cent, Stanley Tucci, Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, Bruce Willis, Elvis Presley, Jay-Z, Tina Fey, Jennifer Lopez, Kevin Hart, Jane Fonda and Jack Black. Some allegedly tipped huge. Some allegedly tipped terribly. Some stories immediately make the crew question humanity. And Scottie Pippen inspires a nickname so painfully obvious that humanity should be ashamed it took this long: No Tippin’ Pippen. Again, these are anecdotes discussed during the show, not our personal surveillance operation into celebrities paying restaurant checks. We barely have enough resources to monitor our own lunch orders. The episode wraps with celebrity birthdays, Steve Martin age guesses, Reginald VelJohnson’s incredible history of playing cops and the usual collection of references that make this comedy podcast feel less like a structured entertainment program and more like being trapped at a table with friends who remember every useless cultural detail except why they originally started talking. So pour yourself a 7UP — lemon-lime or the terrifying new lime-lemon variety — tip your server, fire up the Sega Genesis and enjoy another comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show. Cool Spot, wherever you are: we remember you. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

St. Louis is approximately the temperature of the sun, and the only reasonable goal is to land the plane without setting either the plane or ourselves on fire. Naturally, we immediately fail. Things actually start suspiciously positive when the crew discovers The Rizzuto Show won the St. Louis Magazine A-List honor for Talk/News Radio Show. Nobody knew. Nobody prepared a speech. Nobody even knew when the results came out. Truly the level of professionalism you expect from an award-winning funny podcast and radio show. We celebrate by immediately combing through the other winners and finalists, congratulating friends, questioning categories and proving that even success can become an argument if you give us enough time. Then Moon spots an expired Missouri temp tag, and that harmless observation detonates into one of the great Rizz Show debates: why is getting permanent plates such a ridiculous process? Missouri is working toward eliminating paper temp tags and changing how vehicle sales tax gets collected, which should finally make things easier. There’s just one small problem: Rafe casually admits HIS temp tags are expired. Rafe has the paperwork. He has the money. He has the check. What he apparently does not possess is the spiritual strength required to actually finish the process. This leads to his transformation from procrastinating vehicle owner into self-appointed freedom fighter, complete with comparisons to Gandhi that Gandhi’s estate would presumably like removed from the record. According to Rafe, this isn’t laziness. It’s peaceful protest. According to everyone else in the studio: dude, go get your plates. From there, the funny podcast portion of our alleged news operation kicks the doors completely off the hinges. A Minnesota man allegedly decides neighborhood kids cutting across his lawn require homemade spike strips, giving us the “get off my lawn” story to end all “get off my lawn” stories. That sends the show into booby-trap law, trespassing, old farm stories and the landmark legal case of Wet Bandits v. Kevin McAllister. Please note: The Rizzuto Show is not a law firm. This paragraph alone should have made that obvious. Then we meet a Georgia driver accused of trying to run down a jogger after she committed the unforgivable crime of saying “good morning.” Three attempts. One greeting. Apparently mornings have gotten significantly more hostile. And somehow that STILL isn’t enough chaos for one episode. Creep Corner arrives with the kind of characters who make you wonder why your neighborhood Facebook group suddenly feels comforting, the Town Crier of Creep Corner gets involved, and eventually we reach FULL CONTACT LEOPARDS, because nature apparently looked at everything humans were doing in this episode and said, “Fine, our turn.” It’s celebrity news, weird news, St. Louis nonsense, ridiculous arguments, accidental confessions and the usual collection of tangents that turn a simple story into twenty minutes of grown adults questioning society. In other words, another perfectly normal episode of The Rizzuto Show. If you like daily humor, funny stories, entertainment gossip, unusual news stories, sarcastic humor and watching radio professionals discover potentially important information live on their own show, congratulations: you have found your funny podcast. We apologize in advance. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Meeting Don Mattingly, First Pitches, Daryl Strawberry was apparently in the stands, college students are heading back to campus, parents everywhere are questioning their financial decisions, and Florida has once again decided that normal behavior is merely a suggestion. Welcome to another episode of The Rizzuto Show, the comedy podcast where one innocent conversation can make several deeply unnecessary turns before anyone has a chance to stop it. The show kicks off with Daryl Strawberry after video surfaces of the former MLB star crossing paths with an old teammate. That naturally gets Rizz thinking about what would happen if Strawberry suddenly appeared in front of him — because apparently meeting one baseball hero wasn’t enough emotional trauma for one week. From there, we move into college season. Parents are loading up cars, kids are heading back to school, and the crew starts debating the best college towns in America. Fayetteville gets plenty of love as Rizz talks about an upcoming Arkansas visit, while Moon makes a strong case for Tuscaloosa and the conversation wanders through Bloomington, Ann Arbor, Tempe, Madison, Charlottesville, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Laramie and Urbana-Champaign. There are legitimate discussions about business schools, campus life and tuition. There are also judgments based on weather, stadiums, sandwiches and whether your kid will feel like college is just “13th grade.” In other words, this is not an accredited educational consulting service. Please plan accordingly. Then Florida arrives. And Florida does not arrive quietly. It’s time for Fake News of Florida, where callers have to decide whether increasingly ridiculous headlines actually happened in the Sunshine State or were created specifically to destroy their remaining faith in humanity. Could a Chuck E. Cheese mascot really get arrested inside the arcade? Could a guy in a Batman onesie detain a burglary suspect? Could a 300-pound feral hog crash through somebody’s glass door? What about a runaway kangaroo? A guy hiding a gun under silicone breasts? A pet store burglar putting a live ferret down his pants? These are the questions our ancestors dreamed we would someday have the technology to answer. Moon serves as a lifeline, which occasionally works beautifully and occasionally involves him building an entire forensic case around a headline only to discover that Florida simply does not respect conventional logic. The more reasonable his explanation sounds, the more concerned everyone should probably become. Things eventually escalate to mystery shower curtains, a Key West parrot allegedly trapped in a margarita machine and perhaps the most Florida sentence ever assembled: a Pensacola man trying to trade a live rattlesnake for a box of chicken tenders. At some point you stop asking whether the headlines are plausible and start accepting that the state of Florida is basically running its own comedy podcast without microphones. It’s baseball nostalgia, college-parent anxiety, caller chaos, weird news and enough Florida nonsense to make you suspicious of every headline you read for the rest of the day. Just another comedy podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where we take the important stories of the day and immediately make them significantly less important. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We start with a little baseball nostalgia and somehow ends with us debating whether a man would trade a live rattlesnake for chicken tenders—which, honestly, is a pretty accurate summary of the intellectual journey you’ve signed up for with this funny podcast. The crew kicks things off after learning Daryl Strawberry was spotted in the stands shaking hands with an old teammate, which naturally gets everybody talking baseball, Strawberry’s career, and his St. Louis-area connection. From there, we smoothly transition—as only a professional broadcasting operation like ours can—into one of the most stressful decisions a parent can make: where the heck is your kid going to college? Rizz is getting ready to hit the road for Fayetteville and is making a strong sales pitch for the University of Arkansas. Moon brings his own college-tour experience to the table, including some serious love for Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama campus. Rafe weighs in on Fayetteville, Madison, Laramie and more as the guys break down a ranking of the best college towns in America. Ann Arbor takes the top spot, but that doesn't stop the crew from debating Arizona State, Virginia, Florida, Florida State, Wisconsin, Berkeley, Purdue, Wyoming and Illinois. There are beautiful campuses, brutal winters, business schools, Walmart money and the eternal parental dream of convincing your kid that the school YOU like is obviously the school THEY should like. Parenting! Then we arrive in Florida. And things immediately get stupid. It's time for Fake News or Florida, the game where contestants have to decide whether a ridiculous headline actually happened in Florida or whether the show made it up. The problem is that writing fake Florida headlines is nearly impossible because actual Florida keeps producing material that sounds like it was written by three raccoons sharing a laptop. Was a woman dressed as a hot dog arrested after covering a neighbor's car in toilet paper? Did police arrest Chuck E. Cheese while he was still in costume? Did someone throw an alligator through a drive-thru window? Did a guy in a Batman onesie detain a burglary suspect? Could a 300-pound feral hog interrupt somebody doing a crossword puzzle? And, most importantly, how much faith should anyone place in Moon as a lifeline? The answers become increasingly concerning. We also encounter a runaway kangaroo, a rainbow-painted manatee statue, a man hiding a gun under silicone breasts, a burglar with a live ferret stuffed down his pants, hundreds of mysteriously delivered shower curtains and the possibility of a rattlesnake-for-chicken-tenders barter economy. Moon spends much of the game carefully analyzing every detail, constructing thoughtful arguments and then discovering that Florida does not recognize the laws of logic. It's like watching Sherlock Holmes investigate a gas-station parking lot at 2 a.m. This funny podcast packs baseball talk, college-town arguments, listener chaos, bizarre headlines, St. Louis humor and enough Florida news to make you wonder whether the state should simply start issuing press releases titled, “You're Not Going To Believe This One Either.” It's another episode of The Rizzuto Show where celebrity and sports talk collide with weird news, sarcastic humor and the kind of daily comedy that probably shouldn't count as educational—but technically you will learn several things. Mostly about ferrets. Come for Daryl Strawberry and the college debate. Stay for the moment everyone has to seriously consider whether someone tried to exchange a live rattlesnake for chicken tenders. That's the kind of journalism this funny podcast is brave enough to tackle. Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show. Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow. Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.