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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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