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Stugotz and Company

Set 2: Raised by the Mad Dog (w/ Colin Russo)

Stugotz and Company

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Sports

4.913.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Colin Russo, Mad Dog's son, joins the show to explain to us what it's like to have a Sports Radio legend as his father. He hosts a daily sports show in West Palm, and you know what they say? The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. What takes does he disagree with his dad the most and why does every debate center around John Havlicek? Hondo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, Gordon Smart here from whistleblowers, football's most original new podcast.

0:04.2

Each week, I'm joined by Ian Laderman and Mark Clattenberg. Do you want to put a bet on? I went, yeah, 4-1 Chelsea. I'll be there a minute, stick 20 quid on. Sure enough, Chelsea 1-4-1. Give me the betting slip and she just looked to me and I didn't put it on. If we don't stop it, it's going to get worse till the end of the season because why did all these clubs bring in set-piece coaches to manufacture the way the rules are written to benefit their own

0:26.2

clubs?

0:27.0

Whistleblowers, available wherever you get your podcasts.

0:34.2

This is very exciting.

0:36.8

If you listen to this show often, you know how much I love Christopher Mad Dog Russo.

0:41.2

I'm on his show every Friday, 5 o'clock making NFL picks.

0:45.0

It's been, it's been a blast.

0:46.4

It really had dream come true type shit for me.

0:48.9

And his son, Colin Russo, does afternoon drive in West Palm Beach.

0:54.2

He does it with, uh, who do you do the show with Rizzo?

0:57.7

Is it Rizzo's son?

0:58.4

Mike Rizzo, who, yes, is Tony Rizzo's son who does work at ESPN Cleveland for about, you know, 40 years.

1:05.5

So it's ESPN West Palm 1063 on from four to six in the afternoon.

1:11.2

He is Colin Rousseau, Christopher Mad Dog Russo's son.

1:14.5

This is such a big thrill for me.

1:16.7

And we're going to break down your dad's airport rant towards the end of this.

1:20.3

Because within that rant, I have a top five list of my favorite things that came out of that

1:25.9

rant.

1:26.1

But Colin, I want to start here.

1:45.4

What was it like growing up in your household? It was great. So my household, I'm one of four, right? I'm the third. I'm one of three boys. I'm the third over in the totem pole. I'm sort of that middle child. Right. My mother, God bless her, is not a huge sports fan. She gets it, but she understands to, you know,

1:50.5

stay out of the way. And when it comes to watching games, my older brother likes basketball,

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