Amber Alerts, Movie Etiquette & Suburban Secrets Unveiled artwork

Amber Alerts, Movie Etiquette & Suburban Secrets Unveiled

The Rizzuto Show | Daily Comedy Podcast

August 11, 2026

A St. Louis story that's bizarre for all the wrong reasons: a regional Amber Alert, a supposedly stolen Dodge Charger and a missing child who investigators ultimately determined had never been inside the vehicle.
Speakers: Rizz, Lern, Moon, Rafe, King Scott

Topics: Comedy, Society & Culture

**Rizz** (0:03)
I don't know if you saw this yesterday, Lern, the, that Amber Alert that went out Sunday night.

**Lern** (0:09)
No, I didn't get it. I wasn't in town.

**Rizz** (0:10)
Oh, that's right. Well, yeah, okay, that's right.

**Lern** (0:12)
Yeah, because it was overnight, right? It was Sunday night.

**Rizz** (0:13)
It was Sunday, 1130, and then it was called off shortly after. Well, they officially charged the woman. 25-year-old St. Louis woman is facing multiple criminal charges after filing a report that her one-year-old kid was inside a stolen car.
Late night, regional Amber Alert, massive multi-agency police response. So it's Brianna Mathis. She's been officially charged with knowingly making a report that triggers an Amber Alert and making a police report. So here's what happened. Here's what had happened. On Sunday, 1030, 1030 p.m., police officers responded to the Phillips 66 station near South 4th Street in Choteau. This is downtown. Brianna said that a guy known to her had stolen a Dodge Charger with her one-year-old kid strapped inside.
So detectives utilized SLMPD's real-time crime center. Regional camera networks tracked the car as it fled eastbound on Walnut. Shortly after the state activated the official Amber Alert, the guy identified as a suspect called 911 himself.
He said, hey, there's no kid in the car and I will surrender peacefully. Can you imagine?

**Moon** (1:30)
Wow, that's wild.

**Rizz** (1:32)
St. Charles Police intercepted and seized the Dodge Charger near Highway 370, took the man into custody, searched the car, no kid. So here's the hoax, no stolen vehicle. Investigators determined the Dodge Charger was not stolen and Brianna did not own it. Police noted that Brianna had been using drugs and was experiencing active substance use issues when she made the report.
And detectives contacted Brianna's relatives and they found that the kid was safe and sound with with another relative and never in danger.

**Rafe** (2:11)
It just sucks, man.

**Lern** (2:12)
Like, you're using something, you're using so many viable resources to help. And then, like, it's a fake thing. Well, and that's the thing.

**Rizz** (2:21)
So this is the second high profile kid abduction host, I'm sorry, host, hoax in the area in recent months. Back in March, two women in Afton were charged with felony reporting after fabricating a child abduction.

**Lern** (2:35)
I remember that.

**Rizz** (2:35)
That triggered a similar large scale law enforcement search. That's the second time in a couple of months.

**Moon** (2:41)
You're in trouble now. What's the, what's the...

**Rizz** (2:44)
I mean, they're felonies, so I'm not sure, I'm not sure what the penalty will be, but I'm sure it will not be good.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:53)
On a lighter note, you saw The Odyssey yesterday, finally.

**Moon** (2:55)
I did. Dude.

**Rizz** (2:57)
And you saw it on IMAX.

**Moon** (2:58)
I did, yeah.

**Rizz** (2:59)
You went down to Ronnie's.

**Moon** (3:01)
It took this long to get four tickets that weren't in the front two rows.

**Rizz** (3:07)
The movie has been open for almost a month.

**Moon** (3:09)
Now, granted, I'm sure there were some other opportunities, but as far as my schedule goes, we were looking at afternoons, evenings, of course, the weekends, there was nothing available. So this is a Monday afternoon.

**Rizz** (3:18)
So Monday afternoon, what time?

**Moon** (3:20)
This was 2.40.

**Rizz** (3:21)
Monday afternoon, matinee.

**Moon** (3:22)
Uh-huh, 2.40.
And I kind of defended, shall we say, people in general. When Rafe said he had an issue last week, a couple other people called in, they had their issues with people on their phones or just the etiquette in theaters. I'll tell you, when you fill a theater...

**Rizz** (3:41)
Was it full?

**Moon** (3:42)
It was full. Oh, yeah, it was full.
And I'm with my brother. I went and picked up my brother. Now my brother, he is walking, but with a cane and, you know... He's slow. He takes a little time to get to a seat.
Now when I bought the tickets for all of us, I forgot. Oh, yeah. You know, he can... We could get one of the special needs ones that are like usually in a row where you don't have to go downstairs and some other stuff. You know, like you can kind of pull a wheelchair in if you need. And then there's usually another seat. And I forgot about that. So I got the normal ones. Now I was only one seat down. We were in the fourth row, not second, not the first, but the fourth.

**Rizz** (4:22)
Oh, you start to look up.

**Moon** (4:24)
Yeah, I sat down and go, God dang. We're still pretty close here, guys.

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