Riter Radio

Jalen Carter ejected six seconds into the NFL season opener for spitting on Dak Prescott is a good reason to check in with Senior Philly Correspondent Jon Fuller. Then Scott Wilson makes an appearance to talk football and play The Hallmark Game.

There's a car theft epidemic, Brad's got a new twist on "feminine products", and the NFL season begins tonight! Jay Skurski of The Buffalo News joins to preview the Bills season that opens in OP on Sunday.

Packed a lot into this one and here are some of the names that came up: Josh Allen, Mike Greenberg, Skip Bayless, The Tragically Hip, Mike Gundy, Mike Vrabel, Nick Saban, Anthony Bourdain, and Jeffrey Epstein. Our living legend Bob Gaughan joins in with his 100-mph fastball about halfway through the show. Keep grinding, Bob.

The kids are back to school(!), the Bills host the Ravens on Sunday, somebody tricked Brad into watching a movie way outside of his enjoyment/comfort range, and college football is fully underway. Scott Wilson joins to discuss Belichick's disastrous debut in Chapel Hill and Alabama's beatdown at the hands of Florida State. (Note: Episode 156 was a "best of" show that streamed live on Labor Day and doesn't have its own podcast. If you heard #154, you heard #156.)

Back from Minneapolis, we recap the trip including UB's loss to the Gophers and Brad's loss to pistachios. Scott Wilson joins along with Dave Dombrowski with more info regarding the Back Tee Golf Classic. Full details are at backteegolfclassic.com.

This show happened in a Minneapolis hotel room (apologies for the less-than-optimal audio quality) and features Scott Wilson, Paul Peck, and Jon Fuller observing and discussing Brad's attempt to consume 338 pistachios in five minutes. The show featured no music whatsoever as the format is a bit different than usual... but it also might be the best episode of Riter Radio yet.

Or, as AI says:

Part 1 of the Minneapolis episode is pure beautiful chaos. It starts with Brad and Scott joking about how wildly different this is from what they studied in Geneseo in the 90s—this is “leave your room and stay in bed” broadcasting. They’re crammed into a Minneapolis hotel room with a janky audio setup, mystery feedback, and three broadcasters plus a producer all talking over each other while Brad obsesses over how terrible he sounds in his headphones. The chat says it sounds fine, but Brad’s spiraling, trying to play music, juggle mics, and host a show while also plugging Coors Light as the sponsor of their UB postgame hits and previewing Bulls–Gophers as a potential Big Ten upset.

Over all of that hangs The Pistachio Challenge: 339 pre-shelled Wegmans pistachios, counted by Scott and his son, to beat the official record of 338 in eight minutes—except Brad has insisted he can do it in five. Scott and Paul treat it like a sporting event, breaking down handful math, joking about Brad swallowing nuts whole, and reading increasingly horrifying pistachio health warnings off Google (fiber, kidney stones, “self-heating,” possible death). Brad, already rattled by the tech, melts down further when a scheduled guest (Bob) calls right in the middle of it. He briefly bails to the bathroom to regroup while Scott and Paul do color commentary on his mental state like it’s a road game with multiple false-start penalties. By the end of Part 1, they’ve decided: no more overthinking, Scott and Paul will handle the play-by-play, Brad will lose the headset, sit at the table, and when the clock starts, it’s just him, the bag, five minutes, and 339 pistachios.

Part 2 picks up with full-on “event mode” as the room turns into a makeshift arena for The Pistachio Challenge. Scott and Paul hype it like a pay-per-view fight, counting out the 339 nuts, breaking down strategy, and clowning Brad for fussing with music and timing. When the countdown hits zero, he goes in with big handfuls and quickly discovers the real enemy isn’t the volume, it’s the salt and dryness. His mouth turns to cement, the chewing is way slower than he imagined, the laughter in the room keeps breaking his rhythm, and the lingering paranoia about the audio mix never leaves his head. At the 5-minute mark he’s nowhere close; they stop the clock, count the leftovers, and discover he only managed 132 of 339, leaving 207 in the bag—just enough for a listener named J Man to nail the exact remaining total in the chat and earn eternal bragging rights.

What follows is a full-on postgame show for a failed stunt: the chat roasts him, Scott calls it a bigger loss than a UB defeat, Brad apologizes to basically everyone he knows (“Buffalo, Amherst, my wife, my kids, my parents…”) and tries to frame the list of reasons as explanations, not excuses—overconfidence, bad timing, the salt factor, the broadcast anxiety, the room full of funny people. The crew pivots to the next challenge—a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts in eight minutes on the Kent State road trip—while openly wondering if anyone will still believe him. To end on something lighter, Scott runs the Hallmark Movie game, fooling Brad twice with absurd-but-real titles like Murder, She Baked and Timeless Love, before they finally wrap: Brad sweaty, humbled, but still hosting; the guys heading to the Mall of America; and everyone resetting their hopes on UB–Minnesota and the redemption arc of the Krispy Kreme Challenge.

Just before heading to Minneapolis for the UB football opener, we preview the pistachio challenge, discuss the music of Minneapolis, and now have confirmation that former UB Bulls LB and West Seneca East grad Shaun Dolac is, in fact, a member of the L.A. Rams' 53-man-roster. Go Bulls!

Screwworms, coyotes, snowmobiles, PETA, and a fantasy football draft. This episode is weird.

College and pro football is upon us. Scott Wilson joins to discuss.

Even for the eternally optimistic host of the show, a very slight fear is creeping in that the Bills might not automatically dominate the AFC. Discussion of two Netflix documentaries (based on The Biggest Loser and the Son of Sam). Plus, Scott Wilson joins to talk football and play the Hallmark movie game.