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Want to play gotcha ya with oriental men? Sichuan Fish was ordered shut for rodent droppings, moldy soup base, & 23 violations...The men of the HBA tribe in Namibia willingly offer their wives to guests as a gesture of hospitality...A chicken salt thief is tonight on the run after she was caught on camera brazenly pocketing a jar of the much-loved seasoning...A Swannanoa man already facing multiple indecent exposure charges now faces several felony charges after police say he exposed himself in front of three children...A convicted bank robber now stands accused of charges including attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer...An 18-year-old man died yesterday after a runaway horse carriage crashed into another carriage in Central Park, throwing him from the vehicle and causing fatal head injuries after his head hit the ground...Police in Ho Chi Minh City busted a major cat meat crime ring, detaining nine suspects and seizing over 400 live cats...A Homeowners Association has reversed its decision to euthanize Canada geese at Lady Ann Lake following days of strong pushback...Then we called Goosebusters to find out more about it...Then we talked to our Goose...A 25-year-old Cape Coral resident Samir Mukovic spoke out after being arrested for hosting a house party that ended with police citing underage drinking and drug use...Asheville Mayor Manheimer says discussions about bringing a Costco store to the area are moving forward again after meeting with company representatives last week...Twenty months after Helene, thousands of pounds of PVC pipe linked to international pipe manufacturer IPEX continue to be removed from the French Broad River...An indoor pickleball facility is coming to Weaverville, bringing 12 professional-grade courts for year-round gameplay, along with space for food, beverages, and socializing...A driver escaped injury after accidentally crashing into a public pool in Connecticut...Man charged after stealing vehicle to make it to court over another stolen vehicle...Hey new voice guy...Put away your beef whistle so we can listen to this Thursday edition of the Rizzo & Jeff Show!!

Nothing like a little early morning John to start the day...Now that it is all over for Earl and his prank calls we can get the show going this morning...A friendship between Brandon Harlin, 28, and his 75-year-old neighbor Jacquelyn “Jackie” Eggleston in the Detroit area has gone viral after Harlin began posting videos of their regular porch visits online...Two owners of an ice cream shop were arrested after they confronted a customer who left a one-star review online, and they now face charges...Buncombe County rises to 5th in NC for fentanyl death rate, data shows...Buncombe County is celebrating Independence Day with fireworks and more at a new location this year, which is the country’s 250th anniversary...America’s favorite fast-food chicken chain has been knocked from the top spot in a closely watched customer satisfaction ranking...Jersey Mike’s claimed first place...A man smashed up eight neighbor's cars after an argument with his partner all while wearing boxer shorts...Zachary Bailey was arrested and charged with breaking into a home and chasing the homeowners with a medieval style weapon...A Chinese accessibility company designed a robot toilet that finds you when you need to use it, then cleans itself when you're done...A tow truck driver has been arrested after he allegedly beat the owner of a vehicle he was repossessing with a heavy metal pipe...A man was arrested outside an Olive Garden in New Hampshire after a woman said he was holding her hostage and that he had forced her to marry him and conducted a “satanic ritual” on her...Police took Jerry Rempuszewski into custody this week after he left 2 children in a hot car while he got a massage...Around 75,000 tires have been dumped over the last two months on a Portland man's property...Kiefer Sutherland is being sued by his Uber driver for assault and battery for the alleged L.A. incident that ended with the actor's arrest... A 132,000-square-foot industrial building is on the precipice of becoming a sprawling indoor pickleball court. Located just minutes outside of downtown Weaverville, Ballcrank Pickleball Club is slated to open late this summer...Sean “Diddy” Combs is now projected to be released from federal prison earlier than previously expected...Bunnie Xo has called it quits with husband Jelly Roll, and now fans have a theory that she is seeing another famous musician...Chad Kroeger of Nickelback...There are big crowds of hungry tourists and soccer fans in California waiting in long lines to eat at the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizzeria in Santa Monica. Problem is that the pies cost over $50...Get your fix of some cruise news and check out this Wednesday edition of The Rizzo & Jeff Show!!

We actually met a Joey Fatone and Common Knowledge fan...Welcome to the show Earl...Let's get the show going...The delivery driver accused of stealing a cat during an Amazon delivery in Bakersfield, California, says the cat, 'Junie,' belongs to him...An 85-year-old driver accidentally plunged his car into a neighbor's swimming pool...If the U.S. can win it all this summer, the George Washingtons of America could get a 2026 Jeep Wrangler... Corey Feldman was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a medical emergency...A potential Atlantic storm Arthur could bring rain to western NC...Armadillos are beginning to show up more frequently, according to the N.C. Cooperative Extension Office in Henderson County...Jelly Roll has filed for divorce from his wife Bunnie Xo....The country star filed the paperwork on May 18 in Williamson County, TN...Is it ok to purchase a mattress on Facebook Marketplace? Rod Stewart called 'tone-deaf' for attending a World Cup game a day after canceling the concert due to health issues citing laryngitis...A key member of the "Love Island USA" production team has died while the hit reality dating series was filming in Fiji...The young woman who plummeted to her death during a bungee-jumping excursion in Brazil was still alive after hitting the ground 130-feet below...Disgraced financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein tried to end his life at least three times before his successful attempt...A frustrated passenger took over the LAX intercom, calling for Delta staff after being fed up with a lack of customer service...A man accused of destroying his home with an excavator while his family was inside faced a judge, and his attorney claims they could've escaped...John Stamos went to Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon to fix his botched nose job...Whether your nose was peddled by Gepetto or not, we still want you checking out this Tuesday edition of The Rizzo & Jeff Show!!

First caller of the day John kicked off the week with the excitement of a cardboard box...Let's pick things up...31-year-old Marquita Marie Rice shot her ex-husband 18 times in Dallas after luring him outside his home with a fake pizza delivery...A homeowners association in the city of Madison, WI approved a plan Monday night to kill off hundreds of Canada geese...A 21-year-old woman died after being thrown from a bridge without proper bungee cord equipment in São Paulo, Brazil...The Carolina Hurricanes are Stanley Cup champions once again. The Hurricanes defeated the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday night to win the Stanley Cup Final in six games...Spruce Pine residents celebrated everything near, but most importantly, far at the town's Alien Festival...The United Kingdom is banning social media for children under 16. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the new rules today that could take effect as soon as next year...Fans from Japan were seen on social media cleaning up the trash at Dallas Stadium after Sunday’s World Cup match against the Netherlands...Rosie O'Donnell's one-woman show is titled Common Knowledge...When you sell your house, do you have to tell the buyers you have a terrible neighbor? Davis Moturi thinks so...A Florida man was arrested after a trooper pulled him over for driving over 90 mph on I-75 and found 34 open White Claw cans in his Honda Civic...A former server at a south Charlotte fine-dining restaurant says she was fired after her viral TikTok video of a man having lunch with a blow-up doll...Fox is acquiring Roku, the popular streaming TV platform, in a massive $22 billion deal, the companies announced Monday..."The King Of Pop" is now also the king of music biopics. "Michael," the big screen telling of the life of Michael Jackson, has now passed the Queen/Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody...A Delta Air Lines passenger on a flight from Florida to Los Angeles is accused of slapping a flight attendant on the backside after she allegedly skipped him during drink service...McDonald's is reportedly bringing back its fried apple pie on June 22 for a limited time...Gene Shalit, the longtime film critic for NBC's “Today” show died Friday, his family said...Remember...If you can dream it, you can do it...Check out this Monday edition of The Rizzo & Jeff Show!!

Anyone up for a little Wendy's Superbar this weekend? Let's get the show going this morning ...Claire Hobson, who lost her beloved dog Patch, had his ashes mixed with the ink used for her permanent eyeliner...A local union has filed a grievance with Columbus Water and Power over the use of goats to clear brush at the Southerly Water Reclamation Plant...A new way to see the sights on and around Lake Junaluska is ready to hit the water. Lake Junaluska is launching seven new swan paddle boats for visitors to enjoy...Two new lanes on Interstate 26 will open for drivers on Friday, June 12, but not without one final night closure...On Thursday, authorities responded to a reported bomb threat at a bank in Weaverville, where no threat was found...An anonymous tip about Nancy Guthrie led a group to search for unmarked graves in Mexico...An Ohio courtroom may soon have to determine whether a blogger should face jail time for texting an image of Shrek's penis to a public official...Irma Garcia, 72-year-old grandmother of 8, graduated from George Mason University after moving to Virginia in 1978...But the real story is that Irma worked at Wendy's Superbar...We reminisce...Netflix is releasing a brand new, highly anticipated adaptation of Little House on the Prairie...John Stalker was arrested after officers responded to a woman's residence, where she reported that all her underwear had been stolen...Red Lobster took to social media to announce the “Endless Endless Shrimp Card,” a prize that would grant one winner a free Endless Shrimp...The Trump administration has released a third tranche of previously classified UAP files...Swaths of empty seats visible during Thursday's World Cup match between South Korea and the Czech Republic have raised questions over FIFA's approach to record ticket prices for the tournament...Hot Pockets is going mini. The brand is unveiling their new Hot Pocket Snack Breaks, two bite-sized squares in each pack just right for a quick break...Prehistoric squirrel droppings were analyzed and found to contain genetic material of numerous ice-age beasts, plants, microbes and fungi...Japanese authorities safely tranquilized and captured an Asiatic black bear in Utsunomiya, a major city about 100 km north of Tokyo...Happy Birthday to Helsinki, why don't you celebrate by listening to this Friday edition of The Rizzo & Jeff Show!!!

Let's all have and oxygoose to start the show today...A Victorian man dubbed 'fake seizure guy' has gained notoriety for allegedly faking seizures in public to get strangers to sit on him...All lanes are closed on I-40 Westbound past Exit 55 in Buncombe County due to debris...During Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, New York Knicks radio analyst Monica McNutt was caught on a live, open microphone dismissing Taylor Swift's attendance...Asheville recently landed on a WorldAtlas list of the best places to live in North Carolina...Jeff's friends celebrated his birthday a month early...Not to be a friend but because they didn't realize it was in July...Enter Arn Anderson...The family of a North Carolina woman says they attended a loved one’s funeral over the weekend, but her body was not the one in the casket...A former Air Canada captain, Geoffrey Wall, was arrested and charged with fraud after allegedly commanding over 900 passenger flights for 17 years without the proper Airline Transport Pilot License...Where is all the good corn on the cob? Lucky called with another criminal story...This time it involved opening lines of credit in someone else's name...The Asheville Fire Department said all lanes of Interstate 40 has now  reopened after a fallen tree blocked all westbound lanes early Thursday...After years and years of preparation, the biggest FIFA World Cup ever is finally here...51 beaver sculptures, each designed by an artist to represent a World Cup country, are part of a scavenger hunt that is in Old Town Toronto...Pomona officials launched an investigation this week after pornographic images were found in at least two copies of the city's summer recreation guide...A grandmother has been given the shock of her life, discovering a stranger living on the roof of her house...Boston Police are looking for two-armed robbers who held up a children's lemonade stand at gunpoint in South Boston...Even if you are impenetrable, we still want you to listen to this Thursday edition of The Rizzo & Jeff Show!!

Pity the fool who throws hot oil on their co-workers...McDonald's worker in Yuba City, California, remains in the ICU after a coworker allegedly threw hot oil, causing severe burns...A man named Gary took gardening tools to a whole new level…An illegal level...California man Daniel Crago survived a terrifying grizzly bear attack in Montana's Glacier National Park...Phoenix, a male red panda who has lived at the Western North Carolina Nature Center has died...The latest sample of Lake Lure from MountainTrue's French Broad Riverkeeper, taken on June 6, shows it now meets water quality standards...The internet went wild with a conspiracy theory claiming Guy Fieri never swallows the food he features on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives...Taylor Swift performs her "Toy Story 5" song "I Knew It, I Knew You," before being joined by Randy Newman...A 30-year-old driver fleeing an ICE operation crashed through a fence on Detroit's west side...The vehicle landed on top of two parked cars, and a metal fence pole impaled the driver's upper torso...We talked about the worst beers of all time...A humanoid robot performing martial arts kicked a small child in the stomach during an event at a park in Xinjiang, China...Iran has 'taken too long to negotiate a deal,' 'will have to pay the price,' Trump says...Imprisoned rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of sexually assaulting an actor in an explosive lawsuit...Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are rumored to be getting married at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 3, 2026...NASA had five crew members on the International Space Station move to the space capsule docked to it in preparation for a repair effort...40-year-old Victor Rivas was trying to avoid arrest Sunday when he ran into a swamp and was attacked by an alligator...An elderly couple is frustrated after paying $5,000 for a sub-par driveway paving job...Go crack a Bud Select 55 and check out this Wednesday edition of The Rizzo & Jeff Show!!

Sounds like another start to a good ole zip-zap of a show today...American college student James Weston Higinbotham was found dead in a mountainous area outside Kyoto, Japan...Minneapolis' hottest party is the sharpening of the 15- foot pencil on John Higgins' lawn along Lake of the Isles...Mary Eron, 85, is still working at a Tennessee movie theater. After her story went viral on TikTok, strangers donated $146,000... An NBA Finals watch party in Manhattan descended into violent chaos on Monday night as fans brawled and police deployed pepper spray in a desperate attempt to disperse the crowds...A man armed with a knife was critically injured Sunday evening after Asheville police officers shot him at an apartment complex in West Asheville...The Asheville Police Department is investigating three different gun discharges that occurred between Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6...Rosie O'Donnell had concerns about returning to the US for the 2026 Tony Awards after President Trump threatened to revoke her citizenship...Should every elementary school kid get an award at the end of the year? That brings us into Listener Court...Mayim Bialik detailed her negative experience with weight loss injections, saying she had explosive, uncontrollable diarrhea...An Arizona woman in her 90s may have lost everything if not for a quick-thinking Uber driver...Two inmates who escaped from a North Carolina detention center last week were taken into custody in Asheville early Tuesday...As visitors head to Lake Lure this summer, recent water quality testing is raising questions about conditions at the town's swimming beach...A Los Angeles homeowner got quite a surprise when cleaning out their house last week. After making her way to an old freezer in the garage, she opened it and found 20 sticks of live dynamite...Tommaso is now the world's richest cat after inheriting millions in property from its 94-year-old owner who died last month...Australian officials say they confiscated more than 100000 illegal live cockroaches from a breeder in May...A packed Danish crowd Saturday celebrated the much maligned but enduring mullet hairstyle at the country's annual Mullet Championship...A mother in Florida is suing the Campbell Company and Walmart after saying she found moving parasites in a can of SpaghettiOs...Happy National Donald Duck Day! He made his cartoon debut in “The Wise Little Hen” back in the summer of 1934...70-year-old Steven Dana is being charged with attempted murder for allegedly trying to drown 21-year-old Matt Duffy, who was on crutches...Watch for a Trump crop dust and check out this Tuesday edition of The Rizzo & Jeff Show!!

Did you put on your "I have rickets shirt" today? Brooklyn Green launched a fundraiser after seeing an elderly woman working at a movie theater; the GoFundMe raised over $140,000...Cack-a-lack to you as well Goose...A woman has been accused of an elaborate scam after she allegedly pretended to be a 12-year-old girl to get adopted by a family...She was actually 37...A Swannanoa man accused of following women in multiple locations across Asheville made his first court appearance Thursday on five counts of indecent exposure and one count of an open-container alcohol violation...The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction confirms that Buncombe County leaders have reached out to discuss the closure of Craggy Correctional Center...A Dollar Tree store will be built in Birmingham, an affluent city north of Detroit, but some residents fear the store will invite criminals...A server at an Olive Garden in Fayetteville, Georgia, named Brook Skyes was fired on June 1, 2026, the day after receiving a $700 tip on May 31...Police arrested Michael Gledhill after actor James Handy was found stabbed in Los Angeles and later died at a hospital...Man in critical condition after his oxygen tank caught fire while he was reportedly smoking in his Calgary home...Health officials are urging residents across Western North Carolina to prepare for several days of elevated heat this weekend and early next week...Milwaukee health officials say they're monitoring three people as a precaution for the Ebola virus...A local resort is getting national recognition...The Swag in Waynesville was recently featured in the magazine summer travel issue of Oprah Daily...Meet Nutmeg, an indoor/outdoor cat who hangs out at the CVS in Portland's Cellwood neighborhood and makes everyone's day...Scientists used yeast from a 5,000-year-old European mummy to make sourdough...The Catholic archbishop of Washington has removed a well-known priest who said UFO sightings were the work of demons...Whether you're a priest or a scout leader, it doesn't matter to us...Just check out this Friday edition of The Rizzo & Jeff Show!!

Whether you are weed eating or weed whacking we need to get this real zip zap of a show going this morning...A fight broke out between adults at the kindergarten graduation at Ben Franklin School and a baby was caught in the middle...A former Myrtle Beach police detective, Michael Debiase, was arrested and fired after pointing his department-issued handgun at a fellow officer who was heating fish in the station's break room...Two people threw two cups of McDonald's drinks out of a moving car, hitting a resident's car and causing damage... A Swannanoa man was arrested Wednesday after police say he exposed himself to multiple victims throughout downtown Asheville...Jail overcrowding has reached what Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller calls a safety crisis...Bret Michaels' 26 year-old daughter Raine is offering up pics of her tootsies for hard cash...Ex-Rangers star Sean Avery claims 'crazy' neighbor tried to frame him with 'hookers' after shooting outside LA home...Adam Marcus slams Val Kilmer's behavior while filming the 2008 movie "Conspiracy," calling the late actor the "worst human being I've ever known...Lucky called with another shoplifting story that involved chicken wire and a K-Mart...Missing government worker Melissa Casias has been found dead with her body "skeletonized" and a gunshot wound to her skull...Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams will grace the cover of the 2027 Madden NFL video game...A 64-year-old Florida man is behind bars on accusations of attempting to kidnap his 74-year-old ex-girlfriend...A Detroit priest tackled an 18-year-old car theft suspect who crashed outside St. Joseph Shrine, holding him until police arrived...When you buy a teddy bear for your kid just be careful!! Check out this Thursday edition of the Rizzo & Jeff Show!!