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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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