Speaker 1: And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: I guess the show's over. We have no more time
Speaker 2: for anybody else.
Speaker 1: The show is gonna be over, especially guys wearing a
Speaker 1: Dodger jersey and a flannel. I'm just kidding, just kidding.
Speaker 1: My guy, Blake Snell is in the house. Nell Zilla,
Speaker 1: it's on. Don't worry. Two time called it.
Speaker 3: I said, that's the first thing you're gonna say.
Speaker 1: Called it two time, two time Cy Young Award winner,
Speaker 1: World Champion, Blake Snell and a man that is not
Speaker 1: beneath serving Jack in the box Tacos and parts.
Speaker 2: Of La you saw it was getting quick. You were
Speaker 2: embracing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fun a lot of fun. And then
Speaker 3: did you do to red microphone as like a cherry?
Speaker 2: That's right for the Shirley That's right? Hello, Hello? How
Speaker 2: many Shirley Temples were you? Can we get a headset
Speaker 2: for Blake Snell because he's gonna need to hear part
Speaker 2: of this interview because I got stuff. Look at how
Speaker 2: many people are starting to gather around you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, leave me alone.
Speaker 2: I mean you are imagining leave me alone. People.
Speaker 1: People always want to be around you. You need to
Speaker 1: put this on. But on the headsets it's good and
Speaker 1: you got to hear this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: You got great energy. You had great energy at the
Speaker 1: Long Beach Aquarius. You had great energy at that Jack
Speaker 1: in the box.
Speaker 3: Wait till the season starts?
Speaker 2: Hello, when is your season gonna start? Well?
Speaker 3: Spring training obviously, and then go from there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but are you gonna be on the mound in
Speaker 2: spring training? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're making me nervous. People meet you at
Speaker 1: the Long Beach Aquarium. They're saying you're taking your season slow.
Speaker 1: Set the record straight for the people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna try to pitch on opening day. That's
Speaker 3: the goal. It's always the goal. Yeah, God forbid, I'm
Speaker 3: saying I want to take a little time, make sure
Speaker 3: I'm doing it right. But that's just me. But no,
Speaker 3: I've seen it. I watched social media. I see ar
Speaker 3: I'm tired all that. But Jack wrote the right things.
Speaker 3: People just took it the wrong way.
Speaker 2: How should we take it.
Speaker 3: I'm going into spring and I'm gonna get ready to pitch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're fine, Yeah, tell people you're fine. I'm fine, Okay,
Speaker 1: see all right now, is that what you.
Speaker 3: Wanted to hear.
Speaker 2: I want to hear that I'm good. I'm here to
Speaker 2: push you.
Speaker 1: I know all these other people are in awe of you,
Speaker 1: but I respect your greatness. I respect what you've accomplished
Speaker 1: in your career and what you did to help the
Speaker 1: Dodgers win the World Series.
Speaker 2: But we want the snell Zilla show.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, if I'm healthy, I really like what
Speaker 3: I can do. And I was able to get healthy
Speaker 3: down the stretch and that was that was a big
Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun for me, but that
Speaker 3: was big for the team. And then yeah, being able
Speaker 3: to win the World Series with special.
Speaker 1: It seems like Dodger fans are starting to realize just
Speaker 1: how much you love being a Dodger.
Speaker 2: How much do you love wearing this uniform?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's everything to me. I mean, I tell Andrew.
Speaker 3: I haven't told him a little bit. I'll text him
Speaker 3: after this, but I'll tell Andrew all the time, thank you.
Speaker 3: Like I'm so lucky to be a Dodger. It means
Speaker 3: the world to me. Yeah, there's no place I'd rather be.
Speaker 3: I love I love it here. I love the people,
Speaker 3: I love the fans, the teammates, I love the way
Speaker 3: that I could talk with Andrew Gomer about the team
Speaker 3: and just learn and yeah, there's nothing better than puting
Speaker 3: this jersey on every day.
Speaker 1: I was a little bit worried that you wouldn't show
Speaker 1: up to Dodger Fest because I'll let you in on
Speaker 1: a little secret. You know, you and my son, you
Speaker 1: got a connection over FaceTime and Twitch.
Speaker 2: So when I saw that alert came on last night,
Speaker 2: snail Zilla is streaming.
Speaker 1: Hey, before little Joe went to bed, we want that
Speaker 1: put him to sleep. That's his bedtime story when snil
Speaker 1: Zilla is streaming.
Speaker 3: So he was watching me sing last night.
Speaker 1: He was here. By the way, little note facts, snil
Speaker 1: Zilla actually has a pretty good voice. Colin snail Zilla's
Speaker 1: got the headset in now. This was one of the
Speaker 1: songs that snail Zilla played as he was playing one
Speaker 1: of his video games last night. Hey con no, no
Speaker 1: not yet, no yet he who knews snail Zilla loved me.
Speaker 2: Go ahead call him play.
Speaker 3: Clift it love song.
Speaker 2: So sad up there it is.
Speaker 1: This is what was happening last night, singing, vibeing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like I like your taste of music.
Speaker 2: It's a good song. Yes, yes, I mean you had
Speaker 2: to blown the dark headsets on the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, and I and I backed up and I
Speaker 3: was I was gonna start this, and I was like,
Speaker 3: I really have room and I have to like get down.
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna tip over in your chair.
Speaker 3: No, I was gonna push the chair down. Get out
Speaker 3: the way, all right.
Speaker 1: And then from Neo DJ snell Zilla transitioned into Chris Brown.
Speaker 2: Can we play the song Colin here forever? How about
Speaker 2: this one? You know this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I know it, but I played forever. You need
Speaker 3: to watch better, You need to watch Colin.
Speaker 2: I just said, ain't Chris Brown? You went vibe with?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I like this song, but I like probably thirty other
Speaker 3: songs from him way more.
Speaker 2: Okay. Sorry, Hey, don't worry. I'll teach you. I'll teach
Speaker 2: you Chris Brown music. I got you. No, I'll make
Speaker 2: I'll make a playlist for you. How about that? Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I want to snow this a little playlist.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be called Welcome to the Game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, did you know Neo and Econ are going
Speaker 2: on tour together?
Speaker 3: No way?
Speaker 2: Yes, that blow your mind.
Speaker 3: Oh they're gonna be in LA they got to Yeah,
Speaker 3: they will be who doesn't come to NA. Yeah, exactly, Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll be there nice.
Speaker 2: I can teach you.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the game, and then part two and we'll
Speaker 3: go to a concert all right. You know every song
Speaker 3: I say, hey, get up and dance to this one.
Speaker 2: Yes, we'll be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the game you were playing last night
Speaker 1: among us. Yes, my son I knew it. My son
Speaker 1: knew it.
Speaker 2: He wanted to know if you were the impostor No.
Speaker 3: I wasn't until like two hours in. And then every
Speaker 3: time you're the impost and streaming, everyone knows you're the
Speaker 3: ambossor so you can't hi like you're just like this,
Speaker 3: this is your crew may just trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: So see, this is the Blakes. Now that you get
Speaker 1: on Twitch, that's the Blake snail. I want every Dodger
Speaker 1: Talk appearance. See, I take you back, I take you
Speaker 1: back to your happy place. Yeah, we've got headsets on
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: All you need is like a microphone. But once the
Speaker 2: season starts, it's a lock in. Yeah, yeah, lock in.
Speaker 1: It is the last streaming video. Can you announce when
Speaker 1: it will be the last time? In spring training?
Speaker 3: My stream and spring training usually I do stream, but
Speaker 3: I gotta set the stream up and that's why I
Speaker 3: don't know. And spring training focus and get ready and
Speaker 3: I might stream there and then during the season I
Speaker 3: stream a couple of times, but for the most part,
Speaker 3: baseball is the only focus. Yeah, I love it, not
Speaker 3: my family, Okay, family get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Father of the Year, Yeah we get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, see, yes, I love tapping into you
Speaker 1: with the youth baseball. You you really have a great
Speaker 1: perspective on for the kids. Make it about the kids,
Speaker 1: but the parents need to back off a little bit sometimes.
Speaker 1: From my experience, Yeah, I mean there's so much silelarn
Speaker 1: And it's funny, man, because every year I do Zilla
Speaker 1: and I do Seattle Select.
Speaker 3: The kids are getting older. But I'm learning so much, man,
Speaker 3: I'm learning how to really help the kids, how to
Speaker 3: really have an impact. I partnered with a group player's
Speaker 3: health and they're helping me a lot with your safety.
Speaker 3: And that's probably the coolest part as of now that
Speaker 3: I've gotten into with the youth sports as well. So
Speaker 3: I'm beyond excited about, you know, just how it's evolving
Speaker 3: year after year.
Speaker 1: So you gave away a lot of rawlings equipment to
Speaker 1: the snow Zilla kids.
Speaker 2: Do you give away the Boo boos too? Or do
Speaker 2: you keep those for yourself?
Speaker 3: No? Love Booboo is just something to do in the
Speaker 3: clubhouse that you know, brings everybody in really hoping we're
Speaker 3: trying to get the secret. It's just fun, you know.
Speaker 1: It feels like they're all in your locker, though, how
Speaker 1: are they for everybody?
Speaker 3: So they're in my locker, and what you see in
Speaker 3: my locker is about a quarter of what we've opened.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Everybody takes them.
Speaker 2: I tell them to take them, Okay, yeah I don't.
Speaker 3: They just and then they just hang in the locker
Speaker 3: and I'm like, well, just make sure I have every
Speaker 3: color in the locker, and then the rest people take What.
Speaker 2: Did you think about the selfie? I took it downy
Speaker 2: Hundai the Boo boost boat.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, you should drive that. I'd never drive it,
Speaker 3: but you should drive it.
Speaker 1: Drive it to the Boo Boos cars, Drive drive it
Speaker 1: to the stadium every.
Speaker 3: Day you want to.
Speaker 2: You right in there, thank you.
Speaker 3: I ain't going right in there.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that all right. Where you watching the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl? Snow Zilla? Uh?
Speaker 3: In San Francisco?
Speaker 2: Are you going to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: That's the plan as it now, go for just the day.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah, the world two were continues.
Speaker 3: Hey, I was gonna go regardless.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if the rams were in there, We're not even
Speaker 1: gonna get it.
Speaker 2: David texted me, you try to FaceTime of the day
Speaker 2: after that, I.
Speaker 3: Told him, Hey, I said, I told I told Dave
Speaker 3: two before. I said, Hey, this is the super Bowl, Like,
Speaker 3: this is the super Bowl. All three games I went
Speaker 3: to all I went to two of them, and then
Speaker 3: I was on the plane for for this last one.
Speaker 2: But man's unbelievable games. Unbelievable one. That's my guy. Come on one.
Speaker 2: The fan fest starts. Hey, we got this fan fast
Speaker 2: want it's about the fans. That's right, it's about It's
Speaker 2: about Dodger talk. We're touching more fans right now.
Speaker 3: That was a crazy thing to say. Day, What do
Speaker 3: you mean we're gonna keep rolling into your.
Speaker 1: Little Hey, thank you for stopping. Appreciate it for that flannel.
Speaker 1: You really triggered me. Oh my god, what is this?
Speaker 1: What is this?
Speaker 3: What is this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it. Thank you for coming by.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Your twitch last night.
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm gonna be on among us tonight.
Speaker 2: Hey, we'll be there and play. We'll be ready.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna yeah, But when I leave, I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: the game downloaded for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 1: They want a picture with us. Neil Zilla here. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take you out with this. He's taking the headset off,
Speaker 1: Blake Snell. We're getting in the show right now. Forget
Speaker 1: everybody else. Come on, why you Why won't you put
Speaker 1: your arm around me? Why there we go? Come on, jeez,
Speaker 1: so weird, so Seattle weird. But now he's LA's favorite son.
Speaker 1: Blake's now your new home.
Speaker 2: That's it. I love L always