The Deepthroat Game

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Rod Ryan Show – "The Deepthroat Game"

Date: July 7, 2026
Station: 94.5 The Buzz (KTBZ-FM), Houston
Episode Focus: A lighthearted game segment called "The Deepthroat Game," listener interaction, banter about pop culture and news, and local headlines.

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Episode Overview

This episode centers around "The Deepthroat Game," where the team challenges listeners to identify popular songs from the station after the audio is pitched down to sound much deeper ("deepthroated"). The segment is filled with humor, playful innuendo, and plenty of listener participation. Following the game, the team touches on topics like UFO Day, recent news headlines, and quirky celebrity stories, maintaining the Rod Ryan Show's energetic, irreverent tone throughout.

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Key Segment: The Deepthroat Game

[01:01 – 06:29]

How the Game Works

• A clip from a hit song is slowed and pitched down, making it difficult to recognize.
• Listeners call in, guess the artist and title, and compete for prizes.

Listener Participation & Memorable Moments

1. First Up: Britney

   • Rod (Host) sets the tone: “It's just simple song recognition. That's all it is. It should be very easy.” (01:20)
   • Britney struggles: “God, I think that's too deep.” (02:20)
   • Rod jokes: “Sorry I went too deep on you.” (02:22)
   • Light-hearted banter over song difficulty.

2. Eric's Attempt

   • Rod assures: “I went too deep on Britney. I'm not gonna go as deep with you.” (02:36)
   • Eric still finds the challenge tough: “Do I know this song?” (03:18)
   • Co-hosts tease about “going too deep.”

3. Alex's Close Call

   • Rod tries to ease up: “I'm not gonna go as deep with you.” (03:42)
   • Alex almost gets it: “Oh my God. I think I know the name song.” (04:13)
   • No winner yet, but good suspense and support from the hosts.

4. Victory for Kayla

   • Rod gives a clearer song clip: “This is the song. Take a listen to it together. I'm just a normal boy that sank when I fell overboard.” (04:53)
   • Kayla nails it: “It is ‘Into the Ocean’ by Blue October.” (05:07)
   • Rod confirms and celebrates: “Winner. Thank you. I'm so excited.” (05:10)
   • Song is played normally for reference.

Notable Quotes

• “Sorry I went too deep on you.” (Rod, 02:22)
• “Oh, Rod, that is just too deep.” (Co-host, 03:12)
• “You just really got focus, Eric, you're too much.” (Co-host, 03:29)
• “Poor Britney and Eric that got destroyed.” (Rod, 05:48)

Prize & Afterglow

• Kayla wins tickets to Black Crowes and Whiskey Myers: “First time on the show? Yes.” (06:02)
• Kayla reveals it’s been eight years since she called in: “I actually did the first call, like eight years ago.” (06:05)
• Rod plans for more game rounds in the future.

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Quick Chat: UFO Day Banter

[06:29 – 09:24]

Tone & Content

• World UFO Day prompts a tongue-in-cheek debate about who’s most likely to see UFOs or ghosts.
• The crew jokes about “crystals,” “little green men,” and declassified UFO files.
• Rod adopts a skeptical stance: “It’s not that I don’t believe. It's just I'm disinterested and I don't know that it really is a thing.” (07:43)
• Playful digs at UFO enthusiasts and celebrities interested in aliens (Blink182’s Tom DeLonge is referenced).
• “Show me a file. Show me the spaceship that we're hiding in area something or other.” (Rod, 09:08)

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Local and Celebrity News Round-Up

[09:47 – 14:53]

Key Stories Covered

• Montgomery County Deputy Funeral:
  • Fallen deputy Erica Serrado honored; large police presence in the Woodlands due to her funeral. (09:47)
• Cuban National Electric Grid Collapse:
  • Estimated 10 million people in Cuba without power; critical services prioritized. (10:17)
• Local Human Interest:
  • Jordan “Tiny” Wilmore, a 7’3” former basketball player, becomes the tallest police officer in Texas. Supported by Shaquille O’Neal’s encouragement. (11:03)
  • Playful riff: “They don’t have a uniform for that guy.” (Rod, 11:47)
• Taylor Swift’s Wedding Spectacle:
  • Details of Taylor Swift’s massive celebrity wedding leak; Adam Sandler officiated, Paul McCartney performed, rumors of musical vows and Travis Kelce rapping. (12:02–14:00)
  • “She apparently sang part of her vows. I saw that.” (Co-host, 13:05)
  • Jokes about fake relationships at celebrity weddings and guest list bloat.
  • Commentary: “You have to cry at least, like, have some sort of emotion. Otherwise, I'm gonna turn around and we'll do it again.” (Co-host, 13:19)
• Harry Styles Sets Concert Record:
  • Twelve sold-out Wembley Stadium shows beats Coldplay’s previous record. Ed Sheeran and Oasis mentioned as other major acts. (14:36)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:01] – Game Introduction (“The Deepthroat Game”)
• [01:42] – First Contestant (Britney)
• [02:36] – Second Contestant (Eric)
• [04:30] – Third Contestant (Alex)
• [04:52] – Winning Moment (Kayla)
• [06:29] – UFO/Paranormal Chat
• [09:47] – Local and National News
• [12:02] – Taylor Swift Wedding Discussion
• [14:36] – Harry Styles News

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Engaging Moments & Overall Vibe

• The humor is saucy, fast, and self-deprecating, with plenty of double entendres around “going deep.”
• The listener interactions are active and supportive—even failed attempts are celebrated.
• News and celeb chatter bring a strong local and pop culture feel, offering both levity and community focus.

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Conclusion

This episode delivers a classic Rod Ryan Show blend: silly, competitive games (with an edgy name), banter about UFOs and scientific skepticism, real community news, and gleeful pop culture gossip. Key quotes highlight the show’s cheeky style and listener engagement, making it a lively, approachable listen—even if you missed it live.

Transcript

[A]

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[A]

alice, can we play a game? We sure can, buddy. All right, so the name of the game is the Deep Throat Game. And I've taken a one very, very, very, very popular song that 94. 5 the buzz plays. I have what's called Pitched It Down.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Okay. It's gonna sound a little deeper than it normally does. And I'm gonna want you to listen to the clip. And then I'm gonna ask you to tell me just the name of the band and the name of the song. It's just simple song recognition. That's all it is. It should be very easy. Britney's getting in first. I don't know that anybody's got it going first, but we'll take a listen to it together. Brittany, how are you?

[C]

Good morning. I'm great, thank you.

[A]

You want to play the Deep Throat Game? Let's play Britney, girl. All right, here comes your song clip. Let's everybody take a listen together. Here, here. That's gonna be tough, Brittany. That's gonna be really tough.

[C]

Sorry, Brittany.

[A]

Any guest name, the band, name of the song?

[C]

God, I think that's too deep.

[A]

Oh, it's too deep. Okay, it's. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I can't help myself. I went too deep. Yeah, sorry I went too deep on you.

[C]

Britney, maybe.

[A]

Eric, Is it Eric? Oh, it is. Good morning, Eric. Welcome.

[B]

Good morning.

[A]

Welcome to the Deep Throat game. Here's what I'm gonna do. I went a little deep on Britney. I'm not gonna go as deep with you. I'm gonna play you the song I appreciate that. I'm new at this. All right, let's not go as deep. I'm gonna play a very popular song here on 94. 5 the Buzz. Let's take.

[B]

That.

[A]

My sh. Hello, Eric.

[C]

Hello.

[A]

Oh, Rod, that is just too deep. Oh, it's. I thought maybe. Oh, I thought maybe.

[C]

Do I know this song?

[A]

Oh, do you?

[C]

Do I.

[A]

Do you think you know it?

[C]

I think I know it.

[A]

Ooh, Eric, you might be mad. I don't think I. I couldn't take it. He couldn't. I heard some glimmers.

[C]

You just really got focus, Eric, you're too much.

[A]

Okay. I went too deep on Brittany. I didn't think I went that deep on Eric. I can. I. Emails are coming in now.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Listener Alex. Good morning. Alex, I am not gonna go as deep with you. I'm gonna need to tell me. I need you to tell me the. The name of the band and the name of the song. I think we're gonna get there. I think we're gonna get there. Listen carefully, Alex. I'm just a normal boy this san. When I fell off the board. Oh, my God. I think I know the name song. Okay, what do you got, Alice? Blue October. Need an answer in three. It won.

[C]

Alex. Alex, you're killing me.

[A]

Oh, listener Alex. So far we change it or do we just run that same one back? Seem like he knew that. Well, we have one that's not as deep. Or was that. We have one that's not as one lesser, apparently. It was too deep. He didn't get it. You're right. Fair Kayla, Good morning. How are you? Better get here.

[C]

Good morning, Kayla.

[A]

Here we go. This is the song. Take a listen to it together. I'm just a normal boy that sank when I fell overboard. I know it. But I'd rather swim ashore. Yes. Okay. It is not too deep. It is into the Ocean by Blue October. Winner. Thank you. I'm so excited. So this is what it sounds like. Normal. Just a normal boy that sank when I fell overboard. My ship would leave the country, but I'd rather swim ashore. Yeah, you're the winner. Yes. The guy before loosened it up for me.

[C]

So.

[A]

1, 2, 3, 4. Yeah. That guy for you.

[C]

Bless him.

[A]

Poor Britney. Poor Britney and Eric that got destroyed.

[C]

Yeah, they really did. Kayla, though, there's no way. You are the winner. Black crows, Whiskey Meyers, August 8th in the woodlands. Congratulation. Thank you so much.

[A]

First time on the show? Yes.

[C]

I actually did the first call, like eight years ago. A long time ago. But, yeah, first Time.

[A]

So great having you back on Kayla after eight years. Too long. It's the buzz. Good morning, Rob Ryan show. All right. Pretty good round of the Deep Throat game to put that one in a little bit heavier rotation. I haven't done that in a while. Well, my home studio was down for a little bit, so I do that

[C]

stuff at the house.

[A]

So we'll bring that back again real soon. Got 30% chance of some scattered showers today. Mostly cloudy, highs of around 94. I don't know. Alex. Yes? Has Mo seen a UFO? She is a female. Okay. Not to put them all in the same category, but I feel like it's typically females that are the ones that are ghosts. Ghosts are more females than. Right. And she's not. She's not crystally. Not that crystally. She's not crystally. I don't think Mo has seen a ufo. My guess is she hasn't seen a UFO either. Mo, wait, wait, wait. Can I ask you this?

[C]

Please.

[A]

Have you seen a ghost?

[C]

No.

[A]

Okay. Okay. Then you haven't seen it. I don't think you haven't seen a ufo. No, no, no. Look at us. It's World UFO Day today.

[C]

Hey, thanks, guys. I just want to say thank you for not putting me in that bucket. Honestly, it is an honor.

[A]

I was charging my crystals last night and I saw a little GRE in a spaceship.

[C]

To each their own, but that is just not something I mess with.

[A]

It's not that I don't believe. It's just I'm disinterested and I don't know that it really is a thing. And I get the whole thing where you would be. So let's see. What are we to think that we're the only beings in the universe when there's all these other universes out there? There's people that know a lot more than me on everything.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

But when you get these new batches of declassified UF UFO and these UAP files, I think June 12 was the last time that they released a bunch of stuff to you nut jobs. Are you getting anything on these declassified files that you've been asking for the UFO people? Like, oh, wait till we get this next batch. It's going to be a nuke. We're going to finally find out what's going on. That's going to. We're going to get the real answer. Have you gotten anything? Is your guy from Blink182? Is he happy with the files that have been released? Oh, Tom was right. But I don't know, I just don't. You know?

[C]

I know.

[A]

Has one little green man picture come in any of these files that you guys have been. There's been three different phases of these things. You got 72 new files last month. Was there anything in there that you're like, oh, see what I mean? This is what I've been talking about for this. That's what I'm waiting for. Yeah. And you can throw it in my face when it happens.

[B]

Oh, for sure.

[A]

Oh, see, Rod, you didn't believe.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You thought you crazy. Show me. Show me a file. Show me the spaceship that we're hiding in area something or other. That's fair. All right. Happy UFO day everybody. Here comes the emails. Houston's rock. Houston's alternative and home of the Rod ryan Morning Show.

[C]

94. 5 the Buzz.

[A]

Here we go. Here we go. 94. 5 the Buzz. Good morning Rod Ryan show on this Tet Tuesday. Still have some great tickets coming your way. We've got Black Label Society tickets early in the nine, My Chemical Romance tickets on MO the show and I got MO right now with Houston's headlines. Go ahead.

[C]

Hey there, Rod. Thank you. So we know that family, friends, fellow law enforcement officers and members of the community are currently gathering this morning to honor the life of fallen Montgomery County Sheriff's Deputy Erica Serrado. We know she was killed while directing traffic on Interstate 45 on June 28 and her funeral procession started at 8:30 this morning concluding at the Woodlands Church. So if you're in in that area, just know the heavy police first responder presence is because of that.

[A]

Remember her.

[C]

Nationally, Cuba's national electric grid has reportedly collapsed. I'm seeing multiple reports that estimate around 10 million people without power on the island during of course the Caribbean summer heat. The grid operator is providing power to some critical areas like hospitals. But it comes as Cuba has dealt with days long power outages due to this degraded grid and an oil blockade that the U.S. imposed. You know anything about that? I don't either.

[A]

I am dumber than I've ever been. After this weekend. I did not really keep up on anything. I was just telling you like all the things that I'm reading this morning that oh that happened. Oh, that happened.

[C]

Yeah. I also was not if it wasn't

[A]

fireworks checked out beer or soccer. That's it. I don't know.

[C]

Good.

[A]

I don't know what happened.

[C]

That's good for you. Well, let me tell you some good news because today we're cheering for Jordan Tiny Wilmore. Jordan is the 7 foot 3 former basketball player who's going to be officially sworn in as a Kima police officer this afternoon. 7 foot 3.

[A]

So that's why we're pointing him out. Just because his hugeness.

[C]

Well, he made headlines a while ago when he missed the licensing exam by one point. And then Shaq called him out. Like, saw the story, and Shaq, like, helped sponsor his return to the academy. Like, don't give up. Like, try again.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

And so today is the day that he's going to be sworn in. Believed to be the tallest police officer in Texas. Believed seven foot three.

[A]

I mean, they don't have a uniform for that guy.

[C]

Kima, can you imagine if he pulled you over? I would just be like, yes, officer.

[A]

I can see people wanting to get pulled over by him. Please take me. Yes, sir. Lock me up.

[C]

Oh, my goodness. As time passes from Friday's big Taylor Swift wedding, more and more details continue to unveil themselves. Will they ever release their own pics or videos? Surely we'll see something. But for now, we're just sticking to the leaks from people that were there. And it kind of seems like everybody was there. Every famous person.

[A]

Are they friends with all these people? There's no way. If you have a thousand people, name a thousand people that you met. But how many people you had at your wedding?

[C]

I had 400.

[A]

You don't know all those people? No, my husband did.

[C]

Husband or family? Like, my parents knew somebody. Right? Yeah.

[A]

There's no way. But you walked around. There was people at your wedding that you didn't know who they were.

[C]

Correct. And she's done interviews before, saying, you know, that's the hardest part of having an intimate wedding is deciding how people that are, like, on the bubble that you kind of know through another guy or you've met one time. You don't want to exclude anyone. So she did say that she wanted a big wedding.

[A]

So who performed? Paul McCartney.

[C]

Did you see that headline?

[A]

Who else?

[C]

He performed a song that he hasn't performed in millions of years.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

She apparently sang part of her vows. I saw that.

[A]

Obnoxious. Did Travis sing part of it?

[C]

Yeah. I heard he was.

[A]

Fight for your right to party.

[C]

He cried a lot. They did a rap.

[A]

He had to cry. If he hadn't cried, he'd be done.

[C]

I told my husband the same thing. You have to cry at least, like, have some sort of emotion. Otherwise, I'm gonna turn around and we'll do it again.

[A]

I'd be worried about you showing no emotion.

[C]

Oh, I didn't show any Emotion.

[A]

Of course you didn't.

[C]

You're like, he didn't ask me to.

[A]

For Taylor Swift. The Swifties would have killed him. Did. Who was it like Toby Keith or who was playing or Toby Keith. But you know the other guy, the other cowboys.

[C]

I haven't seen anything from him being there.

[A]

And Adam Sandler performed the wedding.

[C]

Yes. Was the officiant, if you will.

[A]

I love that. Now, before Travis's one, ask, can I get, can I get Adam Sandler?

[C]

Bar, he got Adam Sandler.

[A]

I mean, you don't know. You don't know how famous people know one another. But is the only connection the reboot of Happy Happy Gilmore? No, I mean, he's Adam Sandler, so I'm sure they've run into each other.

[C]

Talk about like, he has young daughters that are super into Taylor, so they've met like through that before. And he's commented on how she's super kind.

[A]

All right, we're already talking about it too much.

[C]

Sorry. I'm gonna bring Rod some joy with this next little bit of music. Oh, yeah.

[A]

Come on.

[C]

It feels good, doesn't it?

[A]

Yeah. Just let it. Let it rain over your body.

[C]

Enjoy your minutes.

[A]

Come on. Bring on Harry.

[C]

Harry set a world record. It was first concerts, 12 dates sold out at Wembley Stadium in London.

[A]

I would have thought Ed Sheeran had the record, to be honest with you.

[C]

Coldplay had the record.

[A]

Then when you said Coldplay, I go, I'm not surprised.

[C]

Coldplay had 10 sold out shows last year, so 12 kicks him out of the top spot.

[A]

Whoa, wait a minute. How many did Oasis do? Maybe not all can. They went back. That's right, Oasis did a bunch of shows. Hey, everybody.

[C]

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[A]

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[B]

These days it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with Iheart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio host's product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your Future customers. Make iHeartMedia a part of your 2026 plan. Today. Visit iHeartAdvertising.com again. That's iHeartAdvertising.com.