Riter Radio

Episode 245 opens with Brad riding an unexpectedly upbeat Buffalo sports wave: the Sabres have won 15 of 17, alumni night buzz is still lingering, and the city is gearing up for an absurdly perfect sports Saturday with midday hockey flowing straight into Bills playoff football. That optimism collides with everyday Riter Radio texture—school cancellations whiplash, cancelled practices, a nine-year-...

Brad opens Episode 244 waking up furious about a Western New York snow day that, in his view, barely qualifies as weather. He reads the “out of an abundance of caution” closing notice over and over, declares Buffalo a “community of cowards,” and spirals into a full rant about how COVID normalized canceling everything—including the mind-blowing discovery that even an online school was closed for sn...

Brad opens the January 14 (Episode 243) show admitting he botched the postgame routine: yesterday’s episode never got uploaded to Spotify because he ran out the door and was “all over the place,” so he’s playing catch-up and promising to post both shows today. From there it turns into a full Brain Vault build-up: he met “Larry” at Buffalo Trim, locked them in as the first official sponsor, and map...

Brad opens Episode 242 in classic one-man-production chaos mode: a messy notes page, a forgotten light, an AI headshot that his family immediately mocks, and a hard Tuesday energy dip that has him joking he should just cancel Tuesdays altogether. But the big thread is Brain Vault. With two weeks to go until the January 27 debut at The Caz, Brad talks through ticket momentum, the venue’s built-in s...

Riter Radio Episode 240 opens with Brad stumbling into a surprisingly philosophical morning built around routine, self-doubt, and the limits of what we think we know. A thrown-off sleep schedule leads to shower realizations, Dunning–Kruger reflections, and an accidental deep dive into riboflavin after inspecting a piece of toast. That simple moment spirals into a broader meditation on American foo...

Riter Radio Episode 239 opens with Brad juggling screens, cameras, and the realities of producing a daily live show in the middle of a football avalanche. With five straight days of college and NFL playoff games on deck, he sets the stage for a celebration of the sport while walking through the behind-the-scenes chaos of recording a pre-taped segment with his 11-year-old son, Nate. What should hav...

Riter Radio Episode 237 finds Brad openly questioning the value of Tuesdays, joking that if the show had a slogan it might be “skip the Tuesday shows,” before reluctantly settling in and doing exactly what the program does best: following his curiosity wherever it leads. He talks candidly about his uneven weekly energy, the looming launch of his new live trivia show Brain Vault at The Caz in South...

Riter Radio Episode 236 opens with Brad comparing his daily tech struggles to Clark Griswold flipping the switch in Christmas Vacation : lots of buildup, crossed wires everywhere, and a brief moment of panic before the lights finally come on. A malfunctioning setup forces a stripped-down show, which leads to a broader reflection on how the program has been assembled over time—adding pieces, adapti...

Brad opens Episode 235 by openly debating whether a Friday show should even exist — then immediately answering his own question by doing it anyway. He explains the perfect storm that tipped the scales: post-holiday disorientation, a quiet house, too many thoughts bottled up, meaningful sports to discuss, and a deep personal need to reset the show’s episode-number rhythm. Along the way, he unpacks...

Brad opens Episode 234 battling both audio gremlins and a very real reminder of aging after slipping on ice and waking up two days later feeling far worse than the fall itself. He turns his sore reality into a funny, self-aware breakdown of inflammation, adrenaline, and delayed-onset muscle soreness, complete with Googled medical advice, distrust of a much-younger new doctor, and the existential r...

Riter Radio returns on Monday, December 29, with Brad opening the show immediately on the Bills’ one-point loss to the Eagles in miserable weather — and bringing in “Senior Philly Correspondent” Jon Fuller for an early temperature check from the other side. Fuller says the game felt like both teams playing exactly like they have all year: Philly strong early, then conservative; Buffalo hanging aro...

Episode 232 opens with Brad Riter doing what he does best: wrestling with his own tech in real time. After two shows of thinking a third monitor had died, he debates buying a cheap replacement versus going big—until AI tips him off to a sneaky culprit: an HDMI cable that “half-failed,” where the computer could detect the monitor but the monitor couldn’t see the computer. A $5 Harbor Freight HDMI c...

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Brad opens the show setting the table for a busy Friday, welcoming Scott Wilson later in the hour and bringing on longtime Sabres insider Paul Hamilton to dig into Buffalo’s four-game winning streak and the debut stretch under new GM Jarmo Kekäläinen. Brad vents about the NHL’s broken standings math—how a team can win four straight and still sit near the bottom—and Paul backs it up with context, e...

Brad kicks off by realizing he forgot to hit a button and briefly “did a show for himself,” then resets the stream and jokes that nobody missed anything except his warning not to buy from Temu—because he’s currently jammed into a Christmas/Hawaiian shirt that looks great on camera but doesn’t actually fit in real life. He detours into Facebook Memories from a Bahamas work trip (Atlantis, weird fis...

Episode 228 opens with Brad admitting (proudly) that show sheets are back… but so is his preferred style: controlled chaos. A text from Scott Wilson kicks things off with an instant classic—Brazilian Portuguese broadcast audio of the Josh Allen-to-Dawson Knox touchdown—so electric Brad jokes he could play it 47 times and call it a show. From there, he pivots to the Sabres’ new general manager (who...

Episode 227 opens with Brad in a rare, openly off-kilter mood: tired, cold, unmotivated, and still weighed down by the heavy tone of the previous day’s show. With no guests and no real plan, he leans into the honesty—admitting he almost didn’t want to do the show at all—but decides to hit the mic anyway, framing the episode as a palate cleanser built on randomness rather than structure. That loose...

Episode 226 opens with Brad riding the high of the Bills’ comeback win over New England, and arguing it shouldn’t have shocked anybody: “score, stop, score” is the simple math of flipping a game, especially when Josh Allen is your quarterback. He pushes back on the “tale of two halves” narrative, frames the Patriots as a legitimate playoff threat (while still insisting the Bills are better), and g...

00:00 – Brad opens with Dickens, immediately overthinks everything, and invents “double-random” music. 02:15 – A perfectly timed Zootopia sloth joke lands amid early-show chaos. 07:30 – Scott Wilson joins to break down Bills-Pats tension and college football portal madness. 15:10 – Philip Rivers’ comeback theory sparks Hall of Fame and legacy debates. 29:30 – Sneezing, spiraling, and two hours of...

Preview/Summary of Ep 224

Episode 224: Brad vs. The Machines (and Everything Else) Today’s episode turns into an accidental deep dive on AI, self-awareness, and the evolving chaos that is Riter Radio. Brad opens by battling stream malfunctions, missing start times, and his ongoing war with lighting and glasses glare — all while explaining major upgrades to the show, including the fully functional YouTube chat now appearing...

Today's episode features Senior Boston correspondent Mike O'Brien to discuss the upcoming Bills/Patriots game and Senior Philly correspondent Jon Fuller who checks in from Vegas where he attended the National Football Foundation's awards dinner and HOF induction ceremony. Or, if you ask AI... Episode 223 of Riter Radio is peak “hang out with Brad” energy — funny, loose, surprisingly sharp, and pac...

AI says: Brad opens Episode 222 with a delirious, overtired recap of accidentally falling asleep at 8:20 p.m., waking up at 1:15 a.m. fully recharged, and realizing the post-COVID world has killed all the late-night options that used to make nocturnal life fun — like grocery shopping alone at 3 a.m. He wanders through the joys and perils of being a lifelong night owl, a sore throat that may mutate...

Episode 221 opens with Brad freezing in his own basement, explaining how he shut every heat vent downstairs so his kids wouldn’t turn into icicles upstairs — a noble dad move that leaves him doing the show in hood-up, sleeves-over-hands survival mode. From there he spirals into early-winter dread, basement-floor frostbite, and the indignity of being cold even after a Bills win. Before Scott arrive...

This is an excerpt from Ep 220 in which Scott Wilson and I (both longtime UB football broadcasters) address the suggested improprieties leveled by online miscreants against star WR Victor Snow. Or, as AI put it... Episode 220 opens with Brad and Scott addressing the online firestorm over Victor Snow’s 58-yard catch — a great play that suddenly became “evidence” of gambling corruption after a 15-se...