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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
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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
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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.
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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 spectacularly disheveled mugshot. Then it's time to give away concert tickets, and suddenly this 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.
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... and 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 the chaos.
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