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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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The wheel has spoken, the Glory Hole has returned, and unfortunately for Riz, there’s no backing out now.
It’s time for the Glory Hole Challenge, where Riz gets blindfolded, blasted with Rammstein through his headphones and forced to identify four mystery objects using nothing but his face, mouth, nose and increasingly questionable decision-making skills. Welcome to another funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show, where HR stopped returning our calls years ago.
First through the hole: the headstock of a Fender Stratocaster signed by Staind. Seems obvious when you can actually SEE it. When you can’t, apparently guitar tuners feel a lot like somebody aggressively rubbing a marker across your face. Riz guesses lipstick, a marker and finally “some kind of roller.” All incorrect. Guitar: 1. Riz: 0.
Next up is a fake flower that immediately gets shoved into his nose and mouth. Riz knows it’s plastic. He knows it’s weird. He thinks it could be fake turf, a scrub brush or something sporting-related. Somehow “fake flower” never enters the conversation.
Then comes a freshly cut piece of aloe vera. It’s wet. It’s slimy. It smells weird. Naturally, Riz BITES IT. After wondering whether someone shoved a paintbrush or sex toy through the hole, he finally figures out that he’s dealing with a real plant.
And then Rafe chooses violence.
For the final round, he brings out king oyster and chestnut mushrooms — knowing full well that Riz absolutely HATES mushrooms. Even better, Rafe checked with Riz’s wife beforehand, and she happily joined the conspiracy.
Riz gets the mushrooms rubbed across his face. He thinks they might be a washcloth. Then maybe a sex toy. Then he starts biting them.
Not once.
TWICE.
The moment he realizes what he’s been chewing leads to gagging, near-cursing and enough disgust to make everybody else start gagging too. Meanwhile, Rammstein continues blasting away in the background like the official soundtrack to workplace betrayal.
It’s another funny podcast featuring a signed guitar to the face, fake foliage up the nose, aloe vera in the mouth and the horrifying discovery that your wife will absolutely help your coworkers weaponize your least-favorite food against you.
Four mystery objects entered the Glory Hole. Riz’s dignity did not survive.
And somehow, against all available evidence, this remains a professional radio program.
Just another perfectly normal funny podcast from The Rizzuto Show.
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What happens when you spend 58 years wondering about your biological parents, only to discover your dad is five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald? You get one incredible family story — and then The Rizzuto Show immediately starts wondering whether Dad owes you a check and a chance to go on tour with the Doobie Brothers.
This episode starts with the crew absolutely destroying breakfast from Pioneer Cafe in Kirkwood, including Nashville hot chicken hash, the Stellar Hog hash and enough onions to make Rafe question whether the universe personally hates him. And yes, somehow breakfast gets a full culinary breakdown because apparently this comedy podcast is now Diners, Drive-Ins and Dumbasses.
Then comes the genuinely wild story of St. Louisan Michael Gessling, who was adopted as a baby after his biological parents conceived him when they were just 14 years old. Decades later, a 23andMe connection helped unravel the mystery of his biological family — including the small detail that his dad is Michael freaking McDonald.
Yes. THAT Michael McDonald.
The crew digs into the emotional reunion, Michael McDonald becoming an unexpected grandfather, whether his newly discovered son should immediately become an honorary Doobie, and the beautiful vindication this provides for every kid who ever told classmates, “My dad is actually famous.” Somewhere, the kid who claimed his dad invented Nintendo is feeling VERY confident today.
Then Lern delivers Crap on Celebrities, and things remain perfectly normal for approximately zero seconds. There’s Diddy prison drama, Rick Ross legal news, a Kid Rock project involving Eminem, concert announcements, Eddie Murphy heading toward scripted television, tiny residual checks from beloved '90s TV shows, Grand Theft Auto 6 earning the most predictable mature rating in human history, and Sylvester Stallone looking back at how Rambo went from emotionally damaged Vietnam veteran to extremely muscular explosion delivery system.
The crew also debates Bradley Cooper as Duke in the upcoming G.I. Joe world, learns that Duke is apparently a St. Louis native — because this city will claim literally anybody it can — and examines John Cusack’s new look with the sensitivity and restraint you've come to expect from us.
Which is none.
There’s also plenty of Halloween movie talk before Porno Birthday somehow delivers the phrase “Gangsta Glory Holes 2,” providing an accidental transition so perfect that no professional writer could responsibly create it.
Because waiting on the other side of the break is the Glory Hole Challenge.
Riz gets blindfolded. Mystery objects are going through the hole. His face is apparently the designated scientific instrument. Listeners have prizes riding on whether he can identify what’s being shoved toward him, and Rafe offers perhaps the least comforting reassurance possible: yes, it’s going to be bad.
It’s another comedy podcast packed with weird family revelations, celebrity news, St. Louis nonsense, breakfast envy and questionable workplace decisions. In other words, another completely normal day with The Rizzuto Show.
Come for Michael McDonald’s surprise son. Stay because you need to know what they’re putting through that hole.
That’s comedy podcast excellence, unfortunately.
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The Rizzuto Show is preparing for the Glory Hole Challenge, which is already a sentence nobody involved should be particularly proud of.
Before Riz sticks his face anywhere questionable, the crew tackles another important milestone of getting older: figuring out which hobbies are officially too dangerous to start now. Skateboarding? Probably. Skiing? Maybe. Water skiing? Enjoy your new meniscus. Playing guitar? Absolutely. Learning the tuba? Sure, assuming everyone else in your house has wronged you somehow.
Rafe remembers the time he tried dropping into a half-pipe for a commercial despite having absolutely no business doing so, while Moon offers to teach everyone how to ski before somebody reaches “child death velocity” on the bunny slope. It’s the kind of responsible recreational advice you can only get from a funny podcast where one member once got mocked by a child on a scooter.
Then the show launches into a full investigation of “normal” behavior. Eating pizza crust first? Jail. Ice cubes in milk? Disturbing. Rewatching the same TV show for the 45th time? Completely acceptable. Eating cereal dry? Depends how comfortable you are looking like a raccoon that found an open pantry. Setting approximately 20 alarms every morning? Rafe would like a word. Looking up a movie’s ending while you’re still watching it? Lern has her reasons, especially if there’s an animal involved.
We also learn that some people sit in their cars after arriving home just to enjoy a few precious minutes of solitude, Scott would apparently like to eventually become Amish rather than answer his phone, and grocery shopping without a list is basically allowing the spirits of Schnucks to determine your dinner.
And then comes the cheese.
Is it acceptable to unwrap a block of cheese and bite directly into it? Lern says yes. Rafe admits he’ll sneak a bite but then cut away the evidence like a dairy-based criminal mastermind. Moon understands the temptation. Riz is understandably concerned about everybody. What begins as a simple question somehow turns into an argument about cheese cubes, rectangles, parallelograms, Rubik’s Cubes and Michelangelo — until Rafe declares himself a “cheese sculptor” whose teeth are merely the tools of his art.
Throw in concert harmonica etiquette, peanut butter burgers, phone habits, restaurant-menu preparation, celebrity chatter and the approaching Glory Hole Challenge, and you have another funny podcast proving that no topic is too insignificant to become a completely unnecessary 20-minute argument.
It’s The Rizzuto Show: where growing older may bring wisdom, but apparently none of it is being used here.
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We kick things off with news that Kitchen Nightmares is filming in Missouri, which has Rizz remembering the horrifying moment he realized he’d eaten at a restaurant featured on Gordon Ramsay’s show. Then it’s time for the Riz Quiz, where callers discover that common knowledge becomes significantly less common when there’s a 45-second clock ticking. We get Paris panic, a dried plum becoming a raisin, Canada’s capital becoming Ontario and, eventually, Lern estimating the Space Needle at an extremely reasonable 12,549 feet tall. Actual answer: 605 feet. She was only off by approximately an entire mountain.
Meanwhile, a former police lieutenant is accused of clocking in and spending huge chunks of his shifts sitting in the station break room — including stretches of nine hours. Sure, there may have been crime elsewhere, but the crew points out one undeniable statistic: zero murders in that break room. We also rank some of rock’s supposedly smelliest fan bases, with Phish, Grateful Dead and Insane Clown Posse fans leading a fragrant list that also drags Tool, Slipknot, Korn, Primus, Limp Bizkit and plenty more into the stink.
Then Riz remembers what awaits him on Friday: the Glory Hole Challenge. No sight, no sound, just smell, taste and “face feel.” What could possibly go wrong?
Rafe’s birthday leftovers also continue when an Edible Arrangement turns dangerous and he accidentally bites into part of a candle because he was told everything was edible. From there, we tackle Halloween’s annual neighborhood civil war: is it acceptable to take your kids trick-or-treating somewhere you don’t live? The answer from the show is basically yes — especially if the rich neighborhood is hoarding the king-size Reese’s behind the gates.
Plus, coffee shop squatters, phone-free restaurants, TSA agents losing their chairs, an incredible eight-story fall survival story and enough completely unnecessary arguments to remind everyone why this show should never be trusted with serious decisions.
Birthdays, break-room bandits, Glory Hole anxiety, Gordon Ramsay, smelly concert crowds and a 12,000-foot Space Needle — just another perfectly normal episode of The Rizzuto Show.
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