Riter Radio

Driverless cars are passing school buses in Texas and Scott Wilson launches a strong case in defense of Bulls First-team All-MAC WR Victor Snow against absurd internet allegations.

Or, as AI says...

Episode 220 starts with Brad juggling a wave of new tech upgrades — a fourth screen, YouTube chat integration, Spotify-driven music automation, on-screen song info, and a slowly growing “Brad-approved” 500-song playlist. He jokes about how simple life was back when Riter Radio was audio-only on Mixlr, but now the show is a full video production with lighting, screens, overlays, and a basement studio that doubles as an unofficial apartment: 12-foot movie screen, surround sound, drums, guitars, keyboards, bar, fridge, and soon — maybe — a toaster oven he keeps saying out loud just to see if the algorithm starts serving him ads. From Spotify Wrapped exposing too much about his life to debating the limits of AI, Brad riffed on convenience vs. privacy, driver-assist vs. self-driving cars, and why automated vehicles still feel like “artificial stupidity” after watching Waymo cars blow past stop-arm school buses on video.

The episode also tees up the day’s big topic: the viral scrutiny around UB’s Victor Snow stepping out of bounds on a 58-yard catch. Brad doesn’t dive deep yet — saving that for Scott Wilson at 11:00 — but previews an animated conversation between two longtime UB broadcasters who know the context, the player, and the program far better than the internet detectives reacting to a 15-second clip. Before the break, Brad introduces his new favorite discovery, the Instagram account “@vhsvideos,” and plays a few vintage dating-tape clips on stream, unraveling into pure basement-studio joy. Then it’s off to commercial with Spotify running the break music — ads and all — before Scott joins for the Victor Snow segment.

Brad opens episode 219 by roasting himself for still forgetting to clear his throat before turning on the mic after “30 years of broadcasting,” then pivots into life updates and small crises: dropping off nine league basketballs at sponsor Brian Janak’s office, doing the show in dog-print pajama pants, and refusing to be a “grocery store pajama pants guy.” From there he talks about running the show without his usual printed rundown because his printer died, juggling tech on a one-man operation, adding new visual tricks to the YouTube stream, and leaning more on his Spotify playlist to cover breaks. That leads into a long dive on Spotify Wrapped—his listening “age,” his top genres (including suspiciously high “hardcore hip hop”), the embarrassment of Milli Vanilli topping his most-played songs, and the weirdly specific way Spotify tracks his biggest listening days, birthday, and podcast habits.

The other major thread is the newly released Epstein Island photos and video, especially the disturbing “dentist chair room” lined with rubber masks that Brad calls one of the creepiest images he’s ever seen. He wrestles with what “release the files” really means if names are still redacted, and how much the public should know versus what might be too dark to live with. Between that and looping news footage in the background, he tries to reset the vibe with NFL talk—this weekend’s loaded slate of games, the Bills’ position, and his skepticism about Joe Burrow’s “uber-elite” status—plus a drunk raccoon that trashed a liquor store and a flashback to a raccoon once breaking into his Geneseo apartment. He closes by rapid-firing a few things he didn’t get to (World Cup draw, Steve Cropper’s passing, Bills notes), thanks listeners, and sprints off to real-pants life.

Brad opens Episode 218 in full chaos mode: no printer, a dozen handwritten notes, too many browser tabs, and a sponsor read that morphs into a bit about aging, AARP mail, and future Medicare panic. Then the hotline rings and Jeremy White drops in live to announce the return of “60 Songs That Explain the ’90s (The 2000s)” with a new episode on “Hallelujah.” That sets off a long, joyful riff on Rob Harvilla’s show, music docs, and the way certain pieces of media become shared language between friends. From there they slide into full Dad Mode — Bills games vs. kids events, dance recitals scheduled over Patriots–Bills, youth sports logistics, and how three kids and five basketball teams turn a family calendar into a war map.

The rest of the episode is Brad wrestling with the modern media universe and where Riter Radio fits inside it. He and Jeremy talk Unbreakable, Severance, Stranger Things, Shrinking, and the pain of weekly releases when your brain needs binge mode. Brad confesses his total surrender to the YouTube algorithm (Tragically Hip concerts, Tool reaction videos, stand-up clips, and 9/11 footage all mixed together), then reads through YouTube’s Top 10 podcasts and realizes his own show might be “too broad to be findable.” That leads to some honest strategizing about spinning off more focused side projects and clipping segments like the Bills Hallmark movie review. He closes by reacting to Stranger Things’ finale going to theaters, Dell’s giant kids-investment donation, Tarantino’s weird Paul Dano rant, Dick Clark’s still-going New Year’s empire, and a sincere RIP to longtime Buffalo newsman Mark Leitner.

Brad returns from a week off for Episode 216, explaining his obsessive need for the episode numbers to line up with the calendar and how a broken printer and a new drum set destroyed whatever structure he had left. He talks about the chaos of letting a 13-year-old have a full acoustic drum kit in the house (on top of guitars, trumpet, trombone, piano, etc.), the way sound now fills every corner of the home, and how school being back in session is the only thing saving his sanity. From there he freewheels through Thanksgiving fatigue, a great post-holiday pizza that was soured by a shop refusing his 9-year-old access to the bathroom, the Bills’ dominant win in Pittsburgh and what 8–4 means in the AFC race, UB football’s season ending and why he’s strangely okay with skipping a Detroit bowl on December 26th, and a full-throated rave for Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film One Battle After Another (which he’s already watched three times).

In the second half, Brad leans into media and football brain: how impossible it feels to “compete” with Instagram when his feed is nonstop killers like Norm Macdonald, old news bloopers, and music/comedy clips, and why he’s still obsessed with making Riter Radio in that environment. Scott Wilson joins to unpack the Bills-themed Hallmark movie (filmed all over Buffalo), shredding its plot holes, Hallmark tropes, Sopranos casting, and over-the-top “this is Buffalo!” energy while admitting it was terrible in exactly the right way. They hit UB, MAC tiebreak insanity, Lane Kiffin’s jump to LSU and how the transfer portal/academic calendar now dictates coaching moves, and close by game-planning Giants–Patriots so Brad’s friend can steal their talking points in Foxborough.

Brad opens Episode 215 by explaining his intentional media blackout after the Bills’ loss — no postgame shows, no pundits, just his own thoughts written down in real time during a night he fully expected to end in a win. He walks through the chaos of a busy week, a looming break from live shows, and the surreal political story that hijacked his morning before he could even get to the football. From there, he dives into a long, raw monologue on language, leadership, and why the misuse of the word “literally” by the White House press secretary managed to anger him almost as much as the Bills losing in Houston.

Once he resets, Brad unpacks the entire Bills game using only his notes and memory: the injuries, the sacks, the non-contact ref collapse, the hook-and-ladder, the Trey White dilemma, the missed extra point, the Josh Allen stoicism, and his fading dream of the #1 seed. Scott Wilson joins to co-analyze the mess — from offensive stubbornness to defensive breakdowns to the long-term playoff picture — before the two shift into UB Bulls frustration, meat raffle triumphs, and a closing segment on what to do with 20 pounds of pork loin. It’s a classic Riter Radio rollercoaster: football, language rants, existential dread, food strategy, and laughter through the misery.

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Brad opens Episode 213 completely consumed by a viral funeral-DJ video (“DJ Aldo”) that he and his kids watched on loop for hours, declaring it the funniest thing he’s ever seen and wishing he could just run it on the show 45 times straight. But it’s a UB Bulls football day — cold pajama pants, Bulls hat, Bulls jacket, and a mountain of pregame work still undone — so he forces himself into host mode. Brad explains that instead of calling guests, he’ll play the new UB Football Podcast he just recorded with Scott Wilson, a calmer, cleaner, SUNY-approved version of their usual on-air chaos. From there he announces a likely Thanksgiving-week pause for Riter Radio so he can catch up on podcasts, uploads, the website, and general one-man-band survival, all while fighting broken equipment, camera framing issues, and a computer that freezes under the weight of 45 open tabs.

The second half is classic “Brad vs. the Internet”: reacting live to Epstein-file politics, bizarre news stories (senior-living rent bills after death, a 120-pound snake falling through a ceiling, a road-raging Australian clinging to a car bonnet), and a Scottish soccer clip he can’t understand but loves anyway. He praises UB basketball’s surprising 5–0 start, talks Cars’ “Moving in Stereo” as a religious experience on headphones, vents about podcast backlog guilt, celebrates Gabe Davis returning to Buffalo, calls Keon Coleman a “dumbass” with love, and scrolls through malfunctioning Chrome windows while narrating his own tech collapse. He closes by hyping Bulls–Miami at UB Stadium, teasing the Scott Wilson segment, and signing off with the promise to reboot everything — the computer, the show, and himself — after a huge night for UB football.

Brad opens Episode 212 sounding stuffy and mildly broken, insisting he isn’t sick but maybe needs tea, a humidifier, or “some Mentholatum.” That sends him into a long, funny reflection on his kids’ school-sickness history — who’s thrown up at school, who hasn’t, and how the COVID mask era has already become a half-fuzzy memory in the Riter house. Drew is home because he vomited at school yesterday (migraines triggered by weather, not illness), which means he’s banned for 24 hours despite being perfectly fine — currently stacking cups, watching stacking videos, and eventually joining the show to talk fundraising, baseball, Fortnite, and how his 9U team “destroyed” a 10U squad that assumed they’d roll them.

The rest of the episode is pure tab-scroll chaos as Brad burns through 13 unread browser tabs: Green Day with the BPO, Limp Bizkit controversies, Jason Isbell covering “Wild Horses,” the Fear movie trailer detour, coaching changes, tragic sports news, Ovechkin breaking obscure NHL records, Stef Diggs TMZ drama he wants no part of, Seth Meyers roasting Trump, and YouTube TV secretly offering a $20 credit. Cloudflare outages temporarily kill his multi-camera setup, Drew’s cup-stacking shakes the ceiling, and Brad ends up educating himself (and us) on time zones, Gettysburg, and random “This Day in History” chaos from Jim Jones to Sandy Koufax. It’s an unplanned, deeply Riter Radio episode — stuffy sinuses, sick-kid cameo, football tangents, browser-tab roulette, and two hours of whatever happened to be in front of him.

Episode 211 of Riter Radio opens with Brad battling his buttons, his countdown clock, and his general belief that after 211 episodes he should have this figured out by now—yet absolutely does not. From there he dives into Bills-Bucs, celebrating the return of “Bachelor Party Josh,” the chaotic, joyful, reckless version of Josh Allen that throws a two-handed end-zone pick and then immediately reminds the world he’s the most electric player in football. With a rebuilt wide receiver room, no Kincaid, and a one-catch-for-minus-three day from Shakir, Allen still put up 317 yards, three passing touchdowns, and three rushing touchdowns—matching Otto Graham as the only players ever to do it twice. The Bills didn’t blow out Tampa, but they were fun, and that mattered. It felt like the coaching staff handed Josh a hall pass: go be wild, go be you, go remind everyone what this offense looks like when the ceiling comes off.

From there the show spirals beautifully into standings math, the pursuit of New England, why only the loss column matters, and how the AFC has opened up in a way nobody expected—Chiefs, Ravens, Bengals all wobbling while the Bills sit a game back of the true contenders. Brad and Scott Wilson break down the idea that the Bills can win with any version of themselves, praise Gabe Davis as Josh’s comfort blanket, and wander into Giants misery, coaching philosophy, UB football scheduling, international soccer fights, and Brad’s upcoming doctor appointment where he hopes the new guy has “skinny fingers.” It’s vintage Riter Radio: football, chaos, friends, digressions, and the sense that even when nothing works—equipment, teams, life—the show somehow does.

Brad opens Episode 210 deep in a full-system technical collapse, sweating through Windows updates, broken audio routing, a missing headset, and a 25-minute late start that becomes the thesis of the show: this is why Kermit says “whenever you feel like showing up.” Once he’s finally on air, Brad unloads a massive rant about fake certainty in sports analytics — win probabilities, catch percentages, “team is 2.5 games back” math — demanding AWS and the NFL “show your work” instead of selling made-up numbers as facts. He ties it to phone tracking, weather stats, 4th-down analytics, and America’s willingness to accept any number on a screen as truth. After venting, he shifts into actual football, breaking down the Patriots’ win, Drake May’s rise, the AFC playoff picture, and why New England still doesn’t scare him in January the way Mahomes or Allen do.

Scott Wilson joins for a long segment recapping a brutal UB loss — endless turnovers, weird bounces, red-zone disasters, and MAC chaos that still somehow leaves the Bulls alive for Detroit. They break down Miami, Ohio, Central Michigan, tiebreakers, and why literally everyone in the conference keeps losing at the same time. The episode then veers into pure Riter Radio weirdness: DJ Aldo’s shirtless funeral set (“RIP Doris”), David Guetta’s George Floyd rooftop moment, and their shared love of unhinged AI chiropractor videos. Brad closes with Hallmark Bills-movie premiere news, East Aurora hype, a Joey Pants appreciation, and a final plea for listeners to subscribe, like, share, and help push the show through its ongoing evolution — even if the name “Riter Radio” itself might not be permanent.