The Jenn and Rick Show

It’s Red River Rivalry Week, and The Jenn and Rick Show is a house divided all over again. Jenn brings the Texas Longhorns perspective; Rick Robinson brings the Oklahoma Sooners loyalty, the nerves, and a strong desire to avoid saying “Hook ’em Horns” next week.

They talk through the matchup, injury concerns, turnovers, and why a stat sheet can only tell part of the story when these teams meet. The rivalry’s unpredictable energy leads into their usual bragging-rights wager, a debate about NIL and the transfer portal, and Jenn’s decades-long family tradition of tailgating, visiting the fair, and bringing Sooners and Longhorns together for the same weekend.

Then life off the field takes over. Rick recounts a family health scare and a late-night plumbing emergency, and Jenn reflects on rough weeks, grief, gratitude, and keeping perspective without pretending the hard stuff doesn’t hurt. They also discuss how much adult stress children should have to carry, and the difference between teaching responsibility and making kids worry about problems they cannot solve.

The closing stretch turns to media criticism of Pete Hegseth’s workouts with troops, Rick’s call for broader context in economic coverage, and their mixed feelings about turning executions into a public spectacle. It’s football rivalry, familiar banter, and a candid conversation about everything else that showed up this week.

Recorded October 8, 2026, before the game. Explicit language and adult themes.


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Football teams get a bye week. Apparently, accountability does too.

Jenn and Rick kick things off with OU–Texas rivalry talk, a little Sooner misery, and a reminder that the Red River matchup rarely cares what the rankings say. Then the conversation moves to the places where the referees seem to have stopped blowing the whistle.

On the menu: government fraud and spending, the A’ja Wilson fan confrontation and the hosts’ criticism of the WNBA’s response, a Nebraska firefighter’s homeschool-diploma dispute, and allegations involving restricted AI hardware headed to China.

There’s also a live reaction to Pete Hegseth’s military remarks, a discussion of gas prices and refining capacity, and a detour through Green Day, Nickelback, guyliner, and the glorious awkwardness of the early internet.

A Sooner and a Longhorn can disagree about football and still find plenty of common ground about everything else going sideways.

Explicit episode. Strong language and adult themes. Listener discretion advised.


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What do exploding pagers, congressional poison pills, canceled concert tours, and the return of Toys “R” Us have in common? They all tell us something about leadership, accountability, and a culture searching for its way back.

Rick Robinson and Jenn open with the anniversary of Israel’s exploding-pager operation and a look back at George W. Bush’s leadership following September 11. They discuss how emergency powers such as the Patriot Act can outlive the crises that justified them—and how congressional riders, poison pills, and enormous omnibus bills keep voters from knowing what their representatives actually support.

The conversation expands into the economy, generational arguments, immigration and labor, politically divided media realities, and the growing inability to disagree without treating political opponents as enemies.

Jenn then examines the controversy surrounding Macklemore’s political performance during Ed Sheeran’s tour, the backlash against Sheeran, the workers affected when tours collapse, and Pink’s willingness to challenge pro-Hamas rhetoric.

The episode closes with a rare “the world is healing” story: Toys “R” Us is opening 120 stores. That sends Rick and Jenn into memories of toy-store trips, indoor malls, food courts, Great American Cookie Company, shared birthday cakes, and why strip malls can never replace an air-conditioned afternoon wandering with the kids.

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After a summer hiatus, Jenn and Rick return to find the studio has changed, and the correct introduction has disappeared. Apparently, nearly everything about ordinary life is now considered traumatic.

The conversation begins with the controversy surrounding Milo Yiannopoulos and the people demanding special treatment for a favored political personality while insisting everyone else follow America’s immigration laws. That leads into Ryan Reynolds’ complaints about growing up during the 1980s and a broader discussion about therapy speak, manufactured trauma, performative mental-health culture, and the difference between genuine illness and ordinary human discomfort.

Jenn and Rick revisit childhood discipline, questionable teachers, schoolyard mishaps, tornado drills, overmedication, and the strange journey from largely unsupervised childhoods to a generation struggling with basic coping skills.

They also fact-check a viral meme about Canada’s prime minister, question Bernie Sanders’ enthusiasm for sharing everyone else’s property, remember life before social media documented every bad decision, and discover that Gen Z has somehow renamed “Hey, mister” without improving it.

It’s politics, parenting, generational culture, dubious teenage behavior, and the triumphant return of Jenn and Rick—glitches and all.


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Hot Rotisserie chicken on food stamps, say it ain't so! (That discussion went longer than we thought) 

The great steak debate in chat, and we also discussed SCOTUS finally HOPEFULLY ending race bait inc. 

All in one jam packed hour 

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The SAVE Act is the next hill the Left is choosing to die on, and Jen and Rick are breaking down the fallacies they're using to scare people into not voting in their own best interests. So tune in and learn the facts THEY hope you never know. 

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