The house rules.

The station and your account

Benchwarmer FM is operated by RanzoTech LLC in the United States. These terms apply to bleacherstatic.com. Listening is free. You must be at least 18 and verify an email address you control to create an account, chat, vote, or join a caller line. Keep your sign-in links and codes private. You are responsible for activity you authorize through your account.

Entertainment, satire, and sports

Benchwarmer FM is an automated, AI-powered sports comedy and entertainment experience created purely for fun, satire, and a good time. Hosts, voices, roasts, predictions, and commentary are generated by artificial intelligence. They do not represent factual journalism, professional advice, or sports betting or gambling recommendations.

AI output can be inaccurate, outdated, or inappropriate. Scores and headlines are supplied by third-party feeds that may be delayed or incomplete. Verify factual claims and final results with authoritative sources. Do not rely on station commentary to place a bet, make a financial decision, or assess a person’s conduct. No result, prediction, winning strategy, or return is guaranteed.

Participating on air

Before each voice or text-to-air segment, you must affirmatively accept broadcast consent. You understand that your screen name, optional city, sporting take, voice where applicable, and exchanges with the host can be publicly broadcast, recorded, transcribed, and processed by the station’s service providers. A safety delay and moderation reduce risk but cannot guarantee that every unwanted statement is prevented.

Analyst mode emphasizes sports discussion. Roast mode invites sporting satire, teasing, exaggeration, and critical jokes about your take, preferred teams, and sporting decisions. By choosing Roast mode, you voluntarily accept that type of good-faith sporting commentary. This does not waive rights that cannot legally be waived or authorize harassment, discrimination, threats, or defamatory statements.

Text submitted to the caller line stays private to you and station processing until it is selected for broadcast. Text in the public side chat is public immediately. Do not submit information that you would not want listeners to hear or see.

Recordings, replays, and clips

You retain your rights in content you submit. You grant RanzoTech LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to process, moderate, transmit, record, format, caption, and edit your submitted content to operate the requested live segment and provide your private shareable clip. You confirm that you have the rights and permissions needed to submit it.

A separate, optional replay checkbox authorizes public inclusion of the sanitized segment in the replay vault. When you opt in, you grant a continuing license to replay and make that segment available as part of the station. You can withdraw permission for future public replay from your account or by contacting support. Removal cannot recall a broadcast already heard, or copies independently saved or shared by other people. No automatic social-media publication of human caller content is enabled at launch; any future promotional reuse outside the station will require clear additional notice and consent where required.

What stays out of the booth

Do not submit hate speech, protected-class attacks, threats, sexual content, personal contact details, doxxing, private-person identification, impersonation, or unsupported allegations of crime, illegal drug use, bribery, or match fixing. Do not upload third-party broadcasts, music, or content you lack permission to use. Do not attempt to bypass moderation, manipulate votes, create deceptive accounts, disrupt the service, or instruct the host to reveal secrets or ignore its rules.

Moderators can remove content, end a call, restrict participation, or suspend accounts for violations. Automated safety systems can reject an entry. Contact support if you think a moderation decision was mistaken. Participation, a queue position, or a pass never guarantees broadcast of prohibited material.

Optional payments

Where enabled, a $2.99 USD queue pass advances one eligible segment ahead of the standard queue. It does not interrupt the active caller, exempt content from moderation, or buy a guaranteed duration. Donations are voluntary one-time contributions, not subscriptions or charitable tax-deductible gifts. Fan Points have no cash value and cannot be redeemed for money.

Stripe processes payments and provides the checkout total. Queue passes are granted only after confirmed payment. If a duplicate charge occurs, a paid pass is not supplied, or the station cannot reasonably provide the purchased service, contact support with your receipt for correction or refund review. Mandatory consumer cancellation, refund, and other statutory rights remain unaffected.

Availability and responsibility

The station is provided on an as-available basis. Streams, feeds, live features, and providers can fail or change; uninterrupted playback or particular background behavior on a device is not guaranteed. We may pause a feature for safety, maintenance, provider failure, or a spending limit. Recorded programming may continue while live participation is unavailable.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, RanzoTech LLC excludes implied warranties and liability for indirect or consequential losses, and its aggregate liability arising from the service is limited to $50 USD. These limitations do not exclude liability that cannot legally be excluded, including applicable mandatory consumer rights, fraud, willful misconduct, or other protected claims. No statement here prevents you from exercising legal rights in your place of residence.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms and will identify the current version. Material changes that require renewed consent will be presented before affected participation. The service operates from the United States; applicable mandatory local protections remain in force. Questions, reports, rights requests, and payment issues can be sent to support@ranzotech.com.

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