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.
