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Turnstile fever is spreading through the studio, WWE superstar Joe Hendry stops by before Monday Night Raw, Tony Romo’s CBS career hits a wall, and somehow cauliflower gratin becomes an important discussion point. Welcome to another perfectly organized episode of The Rizzuto Show.
The crew kicks things off recapping a packed St. Louis weekend, including Mizzou taking care of Florida, sports wagers actually paying off for once, Rafe Williams packing the Funny Bone, Moon playing a four-hour outdoor gig and Riz making the controversial decision to skip the cauliflower gratin before a night of comedy. Apparently gastrointestinal strategy is now part of the show’s culinary coverage.
There’s also some serious Turnstile fever ahead of the band's St. Louis show, a trip down memory lane involving the bizarre old Noah’s Ark restaurant in St. Charles, Halloween costume talk and the realization that if everybody dresses like Waldo, nobody is Waldo. Philosophy professors, please update the textbooks.
Then WWE superstar Joe Hendry joins the show ahead of Monday Night Raw at Enterprise Center. Joe talks about his journey from Scotland to WWE, the insane wrestling schedule, life at the WWE Performance Center and the physical punishment that comes with being a professional wrestler — including taking a knee to the face and then wandering around Argentina with two black eyes looking for his signature blue shirt.
Joe also gets into the wild success of “I Believe in Joe Hendry,” watching the song explode through wrestling fandom and climb the charts, and his new album Beyond Belief. Moon and Joe bond over the bizarre intersection of wrestling, music and video games, including Moon's own experience with Story of the Year recording entrance music for Christian. We also learn Joe once accidentally inhaled rice while trying to impress WWE legend William Regal, which somehow did NOT prevent WWE from eventually hiring him. Dreams really do come true.
From there, things get significantly messier.
Tony Romo is reportedly out at CBS following his DUI case, sparking a debate over consequences, second chances and why someone with that much money wouldn't simply get a ride home. The conversation expands into the strange inconsistencies surrounding sports scandals and how leagues, networks and teams decide who gets another chance and who gets shown the door.
That gets even more complicated when the crew discusses the Portland Trail Blazers broadcaster who reportedly lost his new job the same day he got it after offensive social media posts from when he was 15 resurfaced. The posts were stupid, but should somebody's dumbest teenage comments still define them at 29? The gang debates accountability, forgiveness, cancel culture and the terrifying reality that an entire generation has conveniently archived its adolescence online for future employers.
Thankfully, we eventually leave complicated moral questions behind and tackle something far more important: absolutely butchering Led Zeppelin.
In honor of Led Zeppelin III, the crew attempts “Immigrant Song” karaoke. Rafe gives it a shot. Moon gets involved. Lern joins the disaster. Riz participates. Robert Plant presumably senses something terrible happening hundreds of miles away and doesn't know why.
Crap on Celebrities piles on even more chaos with Metallica heading to the Sphere, David Lee Roth talking about his unmistakable voice, a country version of “Jump,” and the reminder that Diamond Dave once legitimately worked as an EMT. Imagine opening your eyes in an ambulance and realizing David Lee Roth is helping save your life. At that point, just enjoy the ride.
There's also Phil Collins and his long-running beef with Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift wedding-song talk, the Kardashian nanny situation inspiring Rafe to decide HE needs a nanny, and Ryan Seacrest showing up absolutely shredded — leading the crew into a conversation about his physique that lasts considerably longer than any responsible morning radio program should allow.
Plus, the Rizz Show celebrity curse apparently strikes again, National Get Funky Day turns into a debate over what actually qualifies as funk, and the crew somehow makes it through another morning without Human Resources physically entering the studio.
WWE stories, Turnstile fever, sports bets, Tony Romo fallout, teenage tweets, celebrity chaos, Led Zeppelin karaoke, Ryan Seacrest's abs and cauliflower-based gastrointestinal planning.
Just another daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show, where every topic eventually becomes somebody else's problem.
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Tony Romo is reportedly out at CBS following his DUI case, and the crew has questions — mainly how someone with millions of dollars and access to literally every transportation option on Earth still ends up behind the wheel after drinking. We dig into the fallout, the money reportedly left on Romo’s massive contract and whether sports networks are even remotely consistent when deciding which scandals deserve a second chance.
That leads directly into an even messier debate after a newly hired Portland Trail Blazers broadcaster reportedly loses his job the SAME DAY he gets it because offensive tweets from when he was 15 years old resurface. Were the posts stupid? Absolutely. Should somebody’s dumbest teenage tweets destroy their career at 29? The crew debates accountability, forgiveness, cancel culture and the extremely comforting realization that today's children are documenting every terrible thought for future employers to enjoy.
Then, because this funny show occasionally needs to stop debating society and start actively damaging music, we celebrate the anniversary of Led Zeppelin III with some “Immigrant Song” karaoke.
It goes poorly.
Rafe tries. Moon tries. Lern tries. Riz gets involved. Robert Plant presumably experiences an unexplained disturbance in the universe. Somehow everybody discovers they can hit that famous opening note, although “hit” is doing some extremely generous work in that sentence.
Crap on Celebrities brings even more chaos with Metallica at the Sphere, David Lee Roth discussing his unmistakable voice, a surprisingly solid country version of “Jump,” and the revelation that Diamond Dave once legitimately worked as an EMT. Imagine waking up in an ambulance and realizing David Lee Roth is helping save your life. At that point you're either perfectly safe or already in rock-and-roll heaven.
We also get into Phil Collins’ health struggles and his decades-long beef with Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift reportedly requesting a very specific Beatles classic at her wedding, Kim Kardashian's army of nannies and Rafe deciding that he also wants a nanny — not for children. Just for himself. Warm bath, fresh towels, bedtime story. He's apparently an 80-year-old British aristocrat now.
Plus, Ryan Seacrest is absolutely SHREDDED, the crew gets distracted by his nipples for an unreasonable amount of time, movie talk goes off the rails, the Rizz Show celebrity curse claims another unfortunate victim, and National Get Funky Day sparks an argument over the greatest funk songs ever recorded.
Tony Romo. Cancel culture. Led Zeppelin crimes. David Lee Roth saving lives. Ryan Seacrest's abs. Rafe demanding a nanny.
Another funny show where we started with serious sports media news and somehow ended up debating whether “Low Rider” counts as funk.
And yes, this funny show remains technically employable.
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Say his name and he appears.
WWE superstar Joe Hendry joins The Rizzuto Show ahead of Monday Night Raw at the Enterprise Center, and somehow we go from professional wrestling and chart-topping music to inhaling rice in front of William Regal, Loch Ness Monster portals and whether Joe can get Rafe a tag-team title opportunity.
Joe takes us inside his wild rise from wrestling fan in Scotland to one of WWE’s hottest stars, including how “I Believe in Joe Hendry” was recorded in his friend’s bedroom before exploding online and climbing the charts. He even recalls asking Taylor Swift to kindly take a week off — and then actually leapfrogging her on the UK chart. Totally normal career trajectory.
That leads to Moon casually revealing that Goldfinger recorded Christian’s WWE entrance music, sending Joe into full wrestling-fan mode and sparking a conversation about the insane loyalty of WWE fans. Apparently wrestling and video games have been secretly running the music industry this entire time.
Joe also breaks down his new album Beyond Belief, including writing 10 tracks in less than four days and somehow turning tables, ladders, chairs and an Elimination Chamber into relationship metaphors. Nothing says romance like comparing your emotional baggage to getting launched through furniture.
Then we get to the part where professional wrestling sounds significantly less fun.
Joe tells us about taking a knee directly to the face during a match, immediately assuming his nose and orbital bones were broken, finishing the match anyway and then wandering around Argentina with two black eyes trying to find his signature blue shirt. He also explains what Bron Breakker’s freakish strength feels like — apparently getting suplexed by him is less “wrestling move” and more “surprise teleportation.”
We hear about Joe suplexing nearly 500 pounds worth of human beings, breaking up a brawl at a friend’s wedding moments before police burst through the doors, his amateur wrestling background and why random people trying to test themselves against professional fighters is generally a terrible life choice.
Plus, Joe explains why seeing WWE live can turn even non-wrestling fans into believers, gives his ruling on whether the Loch Ness Monster exists, and discovers that wearing white pants on morning radio becomes especially dangerous when coffee is involved.
It’s wrestling, music, ridiculous injuries, St. Louis, Randy Orton’s suspicious cake consumption and another comedy podcast interview that somehow ends with us discussing interdimensional Scottish lake monsters.
Believe in Joe Hendry.
And believe that this comedy podcast had absolutely no chance of staying on topic.
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Turnstile fever has officially hit The Rizzuto Show, and we’re kicking off the week with concert anticipation, football Pick ’Em anxiety, questionable sports wagers and an argument about cauliflower gratin that receives significantly more attention than most international affairs.
Riz is heading into Turnstile completely blind while Lern is already fully infected with Turnstile Fever after watching their SNL performance. Unfortunately, there are more pressing matters: the show’s Pick ’Em standings are getting dangerously tight. Lern admits AI helped make her picks, Moon has his predictions locked in, Rafe is cracking open a Keystone Ice, and Riz is enjoying the rare luxury of knowing he’s safe. This is daily comedy operating exactly as intended: sports expertise from people who absolutely should not be managing your retirement portfolio.
Riz also had himself a pretty successful weekend after betting on Mizzou against Florida and using the winnings to help fund a night out. That included dinner before Rafe’s comedy show, where we somehow end up discussing the gastrointestinal consequences of cauliflower gratin. Moon believes Riz skipped one of the greatest bites available. Riz believes he successfully avoided turning a comedy club into a biological incident. Everybody wins.
Rafe recaps a huge weekend of stand-up in St. Charles, complete with packed shows, surprise comics, extremely generous listeners and enough Entenmann’s to establish a small regional distribution center. The generosity also leads to an important Rizz Show public service announcement: homemade food from strangers is a complicated proposition. We love you. We appreciate you. We also have absolutely no idea what your kitchen looks like.
Meanwhile, Lern had herself an aggressively rock-and-roll weekend. After witnessing a longtime radio friend take one of his first tequila shots, she headed to the Family Arena for Quiet Riot, Great White and Sebastian Bach. There were sound problems, glorious hair, a 23-year-old Quiet Riot singer, plenty of Skid Row classics and Sebastian Bach angrily teaching an audience the proper etiquette of returning a Frisbee. Apparently it was NOT Free Frisbee Night. Lern bought one anyway.
Then Riz encounters a gang of middle schoolers casually throwing around F-bombs outside the grocery store and realizes he has crossed an important threshold in life: he briefly considers whether he should tell the youths to watch their language. He doesn't, largely because teenagers are terrifying. The conversation turns into whether kids still fear random adults, whether parents have gone soft and why everybody now thinks twice before doing anything remotely embarrassing in public.
Because somebody is always holding a phone.
The crew digs into the weird modern fear of going viral, where normal people are increasingly hesitant to dance, joke around, show emotion or intervene in awkward situations because one bad angle could turn them into Internet Main Character of the Day. Meanwhile, the people who probably SHOULD fear being recorded appear completely immune to shame. Great system we've built here.
And somehow this daily comedy takes a surprisingly thoughtful turn when the crew talks about those random objects that suddenly remind you how much life has passed. A viral video about a man getting emotional over an old spool of wire leads Moon to share finding a note his dad wrote in 1983 along with family World War II ration books. For approximately four minutes, this becomes a respectable program with genuine human emotions.
Don't worry. We recover.
There’s also Halloween costume fatigue, the eternal problem of having too many Waldos at one party, St. Louis nostalgia, the remains of the old Noah’s Ark restaurant, Rafe receiving homemade meat logs, Riz contributing jokes from the front row of a comedy show and enough side quests to make you forget where this episode started.
Turnstile fever. Sebastian Bach. Sports gambling. Cauliflower gas. Cursing children. Existential nostalgia.
Just another completely reasonable installment of daily comedy from The Rizzuto Show.
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It’s a big day for The Rizzuto Show as we discover that Michael McDonald has a 58-year-old biological son in St. Louis, debate which hobbies we’re officially too old to attempt, and finally send Riz face-first into the Glory Hole Challenge.
First, the crew digs into the incredible story of Michael McDonald reconnecting with the son he and his girlfriend placed for adoption when they were teenagers. A DNA test eventually helped bring the family together decades later, giving Michael McDonald a son, grandkids and one of the wildest “so, what does your dad do?” stories imaginable.
Then we confront the cruel realities of aging. Is it too late to learn how to skateboard? What about skiing, water skiing or guitar? Rafe recalls attempting to drop into a half-pipe and immediately discovering why grown adults have health insurance, while Lern reveals her harmonica era and the crew debates whether bringing your own instrument to someone else’s concert should get you escorted from the premises.
We also investigate supposedly “normal” behaviors that might actually make you a psychopath — including eating pizza crust first, setting 20 alarms, looking up movie endings and, most importantly, biting directly into a block of cheese. Rafe admits he’ll take a bite and then carefully remove the evidence, which somehow turns him from a cheese criminal into a cheese sculptor.
But all roads lead to the Glory Hole.
Riz gets blindfolded, Rammstein gets cranked up, and the crew starts feeding mystery objects through the hole for him to identify using only his face, nose and mouth. A signed Fender guitar becomes lipstick. A fake flower becomes Astroturf. Aloe vera gets BITTEN. And then Rafe unveils the grand finale: mushrooms — the food Riz absolutely hates.
Naturally, Riz bites those too.
Twice.
Throw in breakfast hashes, celebrity chaos, questionable workplace decisions and Riz discovering that even his own wife was willing to help orchestrate the mushroom attack, and you’ve got another perfectly normal episode of The Rizzuto Show.
Come for the heartwarming Michael McDonald story. Stay for a grown man unknowingly chewing mushrooms through a hole in a wall.
We contain multitudes.
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