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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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