A Creepy Mime Covered in Cooking Oil?! | Match Up with Moon Gets Brutal artwork

A Creepy Mime Covered in Cooking Oil?! | Match Up with Moon Gets Brutal

The Rizzuto Show | Daily Comedy Podcast

July 22, 2026

Today's episode somehow begins with one of the creepiest news stories imaginable and somehow gets even weirder from there. A Massachusetts mime allegedly spent months terrifying people at a park before stripping down, coating himself in cooking oil, and breaking into an outdoor workout.
Speakers: Rizzuto, Scott, King Scott, Moon
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**Rizzuto** (1:27)
Do mimes freak anybody out?

**Scott** (1:30)
Kind of, yeah. It freaks me out.

**Rizzuto** (1:33)
Are they clowns? Are mimes considered clowns?

**Scott** (1:36)
I don't think so. I think it's like a subsect of clown.

**King Scott** (1:40)
Yeah, it's clown. Are they clowns? Really?

**Scott** (1:43)
How do you know?

**SPEAKER_8** (1:43)
Part of the clown family.

**Rizzuto** (1:45)
It is, but it's like a-

**SPEAKER_8** (1:46)
He was on the clown dispatch case.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:48)
So he recognizes mimes.

**Rizzuto** (1:49)
So mimes are recognized as clowns?

**Scott** (1:51)
I thought it was like they wouldn't want to be the same.

**SPEAKER_8** (1:55)
I feel like the fear of clowns is an offshoot, or fear of mimes, excuse me, is an offshoot of the fear of clowns.

**Rizzuto** (2:01)
It's like the white face.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:02)
What is a mime?

**Scott** (2:04)
What about the gold guys? Like when ours in Vegas, they had the gold guys out on the street. Is that considered a mime?

**SPEAKER_3** (2:09)
The guys who just stand still?

**Rizzuto** (2:11)
The statue guys? No, I think those are just street performers.

**Moon** (2:13)
What is that? Unless you're actually hurt by a clown in your childhood or something, what is it being afraid of a clown?

**Rizzuto** (2:19)
I don't know, man.

**Scott** (2:19)
Ask your wife.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:21)
Your wife is afraid of clowns.

**SPEAKER_8** (2:22)
I think it has to do with masks. It's a human nature. Something in your brain...

**Scott** (2:30)
It's Tim Curry.

**SPEAKER_8** (2:31)
When someone's wearing a mask and you can't see their actual emotions, it is something that sends off caveman triggers in your brain of like, I can't figure out if this is friend or foe, and it sends your body into fight or flight.

**Moon** (2:47)
Are you calling my wife a caveman?

**SPEAKER_8** (2:49)
I'm calling your wife a very attractive caveman, yes.

**Rizzuto** (2:52)
So there's a story come out of Massachusetts. Usually mimes are supposed to be quiet, but this guy named Hernan Lux, 29-year-old Hernan Lux was arrested Sunday on a criminal harassment charge after a woman at a state park near Boston reported up to 50 different unsettling encounters with this mime in a state park.

**Moon** (3:14)
I object to a mime even having a name. How are you supposed to learn their name?

**SPEAKER_8** (3:18)
Hernan?

**Moon** (3:19)
Who told me?

**Rizzuto** (3:19)
Well, to make matters kind of stranger, this Hernan guy fainted on the stand in court on Monday while prosecutors wrote off a wild list of allegations against him. So, according to prosecutors, Hernan the mime was well known in the area for walking around in a black and white mime costume. Over the past couple months, three female Department of Conservation and Recreation employees at the state park reported that his behavior went from weird to terrifying. So, he repeatedly stared at people. So, he's in makeup, in a mime outfit. He stared at people, he smiled unnervingly, he followed women. He flat out refused to leave when asked.
Then at some point, he stripped down to his underwear, slathered cooking oil all over his body and started working out.

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