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Speaker 1: and this will obviously be dated if you're listening after today.
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Speaker 1: If you want to come out, we'd love to meet you.
Speaker 1: It'd be great. Uh. Eddie wanted everyone to be scheduled,
Speaker 1: but I know a lot of people cannot schedule things
Speaker 1: in advance, and this is the last minute, So if
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity, it's at a restaurant in southern
Speaker 1: California connected to the holiday inn uh. And again the
Speaker 1: details are online and I won't bore you with that,
Speaker 1: but I am so excited right now to welcome in
Speaker 1: someone that I have known for over twenty years of
Speaker 1: my life a long time. I've watched him grow up.
Speaker 1: He's Mary, He's got kids now and all that, and
Speaker 1: of course I'm I'm in the same situation with the
Speaker 1: whole adult stuff. And uh. A guy that dominates dominates
Speaker 1: the downloads on Dodger Talk. He has hosted that show
Speaker 1: for many, many years, and occasionally he gets to sit
Speaker 1: in as a television guy. And not only does he
Speaker 1: do Dodger Talk on a M five seventy, the flagship
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers in l A. Not only does he
Speaker 1: appear on MLB Network, but he also occasionally pops up
Speaker 1: on Spectrum Sportsnet as a Dodger sideline reporter. And you
Speaker 1: might know maybe not. You probably saw it, maybe you
Speaker 1: don't know his name. If you're not familiar with the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: but he wound up in a hospital because of Bernie
Speaker 1: the Brewer's slide. It did not go as expected at
Speaker 1: the ballpark there in Milwaukee, and it became a viral
Speaker 1: sensation as he wrecked himself and it was a debacle.
Speaker 1: It was quite the debacle. And I thought this was
Speaker 1: such a popular video and I've got so many questions.
Speaker 1: Now I could have just text these questions, did David Vasse?
Speaker 1: But I said, you know what I'm gonna do. I
Speaker 1: want to have him on the podcast. I want to
Speaker 1: do a frame by frame analysis of a viral moment
Speaker 1: on the internet and television. He's ended up in the
Speaker 1: pages of the New York Post, TMZ, all the tabloid websites.
Speaker 1: Uh I mentioned Sports Center did a feature. He's been
Speaker 1: a topic on sports radio across the country. David Vasse
Speaker 1: known as the Holy Crap Guy, uh, the download King,
Speaker 1: all of that. He joins us now here on the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g and David. Welcome,
Speaker 1: and so we'll start with this. How has your are
Speaker 1: life changed since you went down a slide in Milwaukee? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: my arm hurts more than in my ribs hurt more.
Speaker 1: I'd say that's the biggest change to my life. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say I heard from a lot of people
Speaker 1: that I haven't heard from in quite some time, and
Speaker 1: I certainly was touched by the outpouring of concerned by
Speaker 1: so many people. I would say over two d text messages,
Speaker 1: uh from the twenty four hours after I hurt myself
Speaker 1: and when it went viral. So I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to put on some good TV entertainment and putting
Speaker 1: on a stunt, uh sometimes doesn't go quite exactly the
Speaker 1: way you expected to go. But it certainly was nice
Speaker 1: to hear from so many people and how many people
Speaker 1: busted your chops? How many how many people were sincere
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I might have sent a few
Speaker 1: things in a joking matter of us, and I know
Speaker 1: some of our mutual friends that initially before the thing
Speaker 1: went viral, we were like, I didn't even realize you
Speaker 1: got hurt when I first saw it. And then when
Speaker 1: when well I saw your your risk, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe it's not that bad, but then I read you
Speaker 1: you mess up your ribs. Also like that's uh, how
Speaker 1: many bones did you break in that thing? Sticks broken?
Speaker 1: Ribs to go along with broken right risk. But honestly, Ben,
Speaker 1: the text message you sent me was the tone of
Speaker 1: all the messages I got once people knew I was okay,
Speaker 1: it was concerned and also joking, like you idiot, what
Speaker 1: were you doing? Um? But I literally I went down
Speaker 1: the slide once, no problems. Second time I went down
Speaker 1: big problems. So, uh, I don't know what I did
Speaker 1: to it. Now, that's great. So I did not realize
Speaker 1: there was the first attempt that was successful, and that
Speaker 1: that you went down twice multiple times, So what changed?
Speaker 1: Obviously the landing changed, but what when you were going
Speaker 1: down a second time? It's the one we saw the
Speaker 1: video that we saw that it sounded like you were
Speaker 1: genuinely afraid that this was this was not going to
Speaker 1: end well. But the first one ended fine. So what changed? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. The first one I went down and
Speaker 1: it felt like I was more under control as far
Speaker 1: as the speed of the coming down on the slide,
Speaker 1: and I was able to stick the landing and still
Speaker 1: roll and you know, do what Shack used to do
Speaker 1: and do an exaggerated roll into the crowd. I tried
Speaker 1: to do that the second time, but I was going
Speaker 1: considerably faster for whatever reason, and I just I couldn't
Speaker 1: stop myself enough to be able to stop and then
Speaker 1: drop and roll as they used to save the old
Speaker 1: fire drills. So that's where my right arm got caught
Speaker 1: behind me as I was rolling. That's where I broke
Speaker 1: the wrist, and then out of control, I ran into
Speaker 1: the wall. Yeah, it was. It was because it looked like,
Speaker 1: as you said, you were getting a lot of speed.
Speaker 1: I was why I watched this as a ruter film style, uh,
Speaker 1: frame by frame, And there was a moment it looked
Speaker 1: like you almost were gonna fly off the slide, you
Speaker 1: were going that fast, Like did you did you worry
Speaker 1: about that's pretty high up? Were you conciderning you were
Speaker 1: gonna go going over the side of the thing, and
Speaker 1: it looked came close to that. Yeah, you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I wasn't concerned about that. I know, looking back, Uh,
Speaker 1: it does look that way, but the walls were pretty
Speaker 1: high on the slide where it would prevent you from
Speaker 1: doing that. But I was climbing up on the side
Speaker 1: of the wall there. I think that's where I kind
Speaker 1: of got stuck. Awkwardly, not to mention my feet were
Speaker 1: still on that sat that they meet you, that they
Speaker 1: make you slide down on. So I don't think I
Speaker 1: had the brakes in the right position like I did
Speaker 1: the first time. And honestly, maybe I didn't respect the
Speaker 1: slide the second time. I got too cocky. After I
Speaker 1: was like, this is no big deal. You know. I
Speaker 1: came down. I acted like I was heard and there,
Speaker 1: and they wanted me to go back down the second
Speaker 1: time and get a different ang all of me coming
Speaker 1: down the slide because there was one cameraman, so he
Speaker 1: got me going from the top. But then the Dodgers
Speaker 1: social media director and the cameraman from sports Net l
Speaker 1: A said hey, we need a shot at you coming
Speaker 1: down the slide. Do it again. And that's where I
Speaker 1: got into trouble. Words that will haunt you. Do it again?
Speaker 1: Do it again? I know, all for telling. See it
Speaker 1: was radio, you know your radio guy, but you do
Speaker 1: you dabble and TV. If it was just radio, one take, right,
Speaker 1: we do one take, and you don't do a Dodger
Speaker 1: talk on the radio in l A and then redo
Speaker 1: a segment. Right, you do one thing. That's it. You're
Speaker 1: done exactly in vivo and I was doing this for
Speaker 1: our m five seventies social media guy as well. So
Speaker 1: social media, again is the undoing of many people, and
Speaker 1: I'm proof of that. But look, Ben, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: my own stunt man. I don't get anybody else to
Speaker 1: do my stunts for me. I do my own stunts,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping now that Mickey Hatcher and the rest
Speaker 1: of the eight Dodgers will allow me to be an
Speaker 1: honorary stunt man. Yeah. No, Hey, I think there's a
Speaker 1: whole cottage industry, like Evil Kinevil, Super Dave Osborne, like
Speaker 1: that kind of thing, like you could make John Knoxville.
Speaker 1: I feel like I was more jackass than anybody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but now that you're telling me the story, I think
Speaker 1: the person to blame not only television and social media,
Speaker 1: but the great Shaquille O'Neill, because you attempted the, as
Speaker 1: you said, the little shack role for the cameras, and
Speaker 1: that's what did you in And you even gave shack
Speaker 1: you said, I saw the shacking a fool line. That
Speaker 1: it was a good line, but without with with no,
Speaker 1: without Shaquille O'Neill giving you the influence though, David, right,
Speaker 1: I mean would you have done the role? You were
Speaker 1: doing that for the cameras, right, you were playing to
Speaker 1: the cameras, was pointing to the cameras. I you know,
Speaker 1: if you go down the slide, and you go down
Speaker 1: and it's I'm drum, what's the big deal? I thought
Speaker 1: of one of the great entertainers in sports history, Shaquille O'Neil,
Speaker 1: and that was his influence on me. And yeah, if
Speaker 1: I didn't see Shack all those years do an exaggerated
Speaker 1: dive into the stands going for a loose ball, I
Speaker 1: don't think it would have entered my mind to try
Speaker 1: to do what I did. So so walk me through it.
Speaker 1: So you you wanted to do this for television? Have
Speaker 1: you really wanted to go down the slide for a
Speaker 1: long time? Is just something that you wanted to do
Speaker 1: or was that exaggerated? Never my aspiration. Never, But they
Speaker 1: brought that to my attention, like, hey, we'd love for
Speaker 1: you to go down the slide when you fill in
Speaker 1: on TV and mil Milwaukee and then our social media
Speaker 1: guy at five seventy heard about it. He loved the
Speaker 1: idea as well. So everybody was on board. Okay, I
Speaker 1: got you. And so when you do this. Did the
Speaker 1: Brewers tell you anything that they give you advice? Does
Speaker 1: does Bernie Brewer come over and explain exactly what has
Speaker 1: to happen? Or were you just kind of going blind
Speaker 1: on this. Nobody gives you any advice. They just have
Speaker 1: you signed the waiver and they say get on this
Speaker 1: bag and see at the bottom. The only guy asked
Speaker 1: for advice from Adam mccalby, the Brewer's uh beat writer
Speaker 1: for MLB dot com. He had gone down in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks earlier, and I said, hey, Adam, I'm
Speaker 1: going down this tomorrow. What are your tips? And he
Speaker 1: really didn't have any tips. He said, it's just like
Speaker 1: going down the slide. Just not much to to give you.
Speaker 1: So when you you sign the waiver, is it is
Speaker 1: it a massive waiver like you know, you do some
Speaker 1: certain things at the carnival you have to sign a
Speaker 1: you know, ten page waiver or was it just like
Speaker 1: a one page standard boiler. It was a two page waiver.
Speaker 1: Two page waiver, okay. So so even if you wanted
Speaker 1: to file a lawsuit you could not based on on
Speaker 1: the waiver. And and so you're you're you're going down
Speaker 1: and what was the reaction when people realize that you
Speaker 1: actually broke bones. Were people freaking out with the Brewers? Were?
Speaker 1: I know that It sounds like the Dodger guys were
Speaker 1: all laughing, having a good time. But where the people
Speaker 1: from Milwaukee were They a little concerned here that wait
Speaker 1: a minute, what have we done? All right? So I
Speaker 1: go down the first time and I act like I'm hurt.
Speaker 1: I'm not hurt. Second time I come down, I roll
Speaker 1: into the wall in an injured way, and they're like,
Speaker 1: they think I'm joking again. They think I did a
Speaker 1: great show, and they're like, Ah, he's okay. And then
Speaker 1: somebody I hear somebody say, no, I think he's really hurt.
Speaker 1: I think he's really hurt. And I said, I am
Speaker 1: really hurt. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't catch my breath
Speaker 1: because of the ribs. Um. So I let them know.
Speaker 1: I said, like, I'm really hurt. I need the trainers.
Speaker 1: So Wanderrato, who was the Dodgers pr man on the trip,
Speaker 1: called the trainers and they took me immediately to the
Speaker 1: Dodger Clubhouse, where the trainers came outside and checked me
Speaker 1: and uh, that's where I is. Uh, That's where they realized, like, no,
Speaker 1: this is serious. He needs he needs to go to
Speaker 1: the urgent care. They checked to see if the X
Speaker 1: ray technician at American Family Field was there yet, and
Speaker 1: it was about two forty five when all this is happening.
Speaker 1: So the X ray technician isn't there until six o'clock.
Speaker 1: So Thomas Albert, the Dodgers head trainer, calls ahead to
Speaker 1: a local urgent care in Milwaukee, and the cameraman for
Speaker 1: me and so for sports Net l A in Milwaukee
Speaker 1: drives me to the urgent care and then picks me
Speaker 1: up after I'm done at the urgent care. So I
Speaker 1: can't say enough to make h to McK gordon. Who
Speaker 1: who did that? All? Right? So you go get x rays?
Speaker 1: And then were you shocked when you found out how
Speaker 1: many different bones you had broken? Did you? Did you
Speaker 1: know right away that your ribs were I've never broken
Speaker 1: a rib. I've heard it's very painful. Uh did you
Speaker 1: know right away that your your ribs were broken? Or
Speaker 1: did you was at a surprise, no doubt, Ben. I
Speaker 1: knew as soon as I couldn't breathe when I got
Speaker 1: up that my that my ribs were either severely bruised
Speaker 1: or broken. And while I was waiting for the trainers,
Speaker 1: Justin Turner, David Price and Austin Barnes and Cody Bellinger
Speaker 1: brought me into the clubhouse wipe my face with a towel. Um,
Speaker 1: got me water, got me food. And when I went
Speaker 1: to uh the urgent care, the nurse was skeptical as well.
Speaker 1: She was maybe trying to make me feel better because
Speaker 1: she said, nah, I don't think they're broken. And then
Speaker 1: we take X rays at the urgent care she comes
Speaker 1: in six broken ribs, broken wrist, and multiple pieces. So, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it didn't go as well as I thought, as as
Speaker 1: wild haul from going down a slide. That's that's insane.
Speaker 1: And so you still did the game though, I I
Speaker 1: you see your radio guy. That's one thing you know.
Speaker 1: Real TV person does not do the game. They're like
Speaker 1: I does. I got six broken ribs and the broken wrist,
Speaker 1: but the show must go on. You literally went out
Speaker 1: there and broke not a leg, but broke a risk.
Speaker 1: Did you consider not doing the game that night, David
Speaker 1: or what? You're always planning on doing the game no
Speaker 1: matter what. No, I was planning on going back. I
Speaker 1: knew it wasn't going to take too long at the
Speaker 1: urgent care unless there was some significant damage that they
Speaker 1: needed to send me to the hospital. Outside of that,
Speaker 1: I had no doubts in my mind. I was going
Speaker 1: back to that stadium and doing the job that I
Speaker 1: was hired to do, and that was to UH to
Speaker 1: do the game for sports net l A and the
Speaker 1: interviews I do on Sports net l A gets carried
Speaker 1: on five seventies, so it was somewhat of a postgame
Speaker 1: simulcast that I needed to be there for. So in
Speaker 1: my mind that never was going to There was nothing
Speaker 1: in my mind that said I was going to tap
Speaker 1: out and go to the hotel and just wait. I
Speaker 1: I was determined to go back. I told the players
Speaker 1: when I left the clubhouse, I will be back. You'll
Speaker 1: see me on the field after the game, and I'll
Speaker 1: be interviewing somebody on the field and Mookie Bett's face
Speaker 1: time me while I was in the urgent care, and
Speaker 1: I said I'll be there. I am going back, and uh,
Speaker 1: I had that. I think you're right then. I think
Speaker 1: in radio, you have to go back. Radio there's no excuses.
Speaker 1: So that's why maybe that was instilled to me because
Speaker 1: I'm a radio guy, but that's that's what was happening.
Speaker 1: I was going back. I was done at the Urgent
Speaker 1: care at about six thirty Central time. The game was
Speaker 1: starting at seven o'clock Central time. Nick came back to
Speaker 1: pick me up after he was done filming Dave Roberts
Speaker 1: and batting practice. I came back. It was around the
Speaker 1: fifth inning of the game. Um Alex Tores, the great
Speaker 1: clubhouse manager for the Dodgers, helped me put back on
Speaker 1: my shirt and tie and get me together for me
Speaker 1: to go back out there on camera. I walk out
Speaker 1: in between innings, so as the Dodgers were going out
Speaker 1: to play defense in either the bottom of the fifth
Speaker 1: or bottom of the sixth inning, and Mookie Bets and
Speaker 1: Trade Turner and Ready Freeman, the big three as I
Speaker 1: coined them, stopped me and said, hey, are you just
Speaker 1: gonna walk by us? They want to make sure I
Speaker 1: was okay. And then Mookie said on the field, asks me,
Speaker 1: can I have a hug? And I said, of course,
Speaker 1: I gave him a hug. They went out played the
Speaker 1: rest of the game, and I went on camera with
Speaker 1: Nomar and Joe Davis and the rest is history. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that this will live on for years and years and years.
Speaker 1: We'll see. That's the code of the West, right. And
Speaker 1: and you're around my age, were around the same age,
Speaker 1: so you you always finished what you started, and you
Speaker 1: you finished what you started and all that. It was great.
Speaker 1: And I got to ask you about the the language, Uh, David,
Speaker 1: because I give you credit. I curse. I not on
Speaker 1: the radio, but I curse, and you you said your
Speaker 1: line over and over again was holy crap, holy crap,
Speaker 1: holy crap. You did not mix in the F word.
Speaker 1: You did not mix in any of the great words
Speaker 1: that we're not supposed to say on television or radio.
Speaker 1: Were you told not the curse? Where did you decide
Speaker 1: on the holy crap line? Because you said it a lot.
Speaker 1: It was great, But I would have mixed in an
Speaker 1: F bomb. So how did you show restraint in that moment?
Speaker 1: That was just spontaneous. Uh, it came out. It might
Speaker 1: have come out because my wife says holy crap a
Speaker 1: lot around the house. She doesn't curse a lot, and
Speaker 1: we have two young kids, so I tried to temper
Speaker 1: the cursing. So that was very spontaneous. When I was
Speaker 1: going down the slide to try to you know, give
Speaker 1: some effect of me being a little frightened going down
Speaker 1: the slide. Never in my wildest dreams, and I believe
Speaker 1: it was going to end the way it did. And
Speaker 1: holy crappy, as uh popular as it became when it
Speaker 1: went viral, you're quoting your wife. So you should have
Speaker 1: told your wife, I'm quoting you. This is this is Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just concerned about telling her. I didn't want to.
Speaker 1: I was hoping i'd be allowed to come back inside
Speaker 1: the house. Yeah. What was the reaction when you made
Speaker 1: the uh not the walk of shame, but the call
Speaker 1: of shame announcing that you had broken seven bones on
Speaker 1: a television bit Like, what was your wife's reaction to that? Uh?
Speaker 1: This is how it went, Ben. When I'm at the
Speaker 1: Urgent care, I call her and I explain what's going on,
Speaker 1: and on the other end of the phone, I hear
Speaker 1: mm hmm. Okay, that's not good. Okay. So you know,
Speaker 1: when I go back to the stadium after I do
Speaker 1: the postgame interviews in the clubhouse, I asked David Price
Speaker 1: when we got back to l A, can I stay
Speaker 1: with him in case my wife doesn't let me? And
Speaker 1: he said, no problem. You could stay with me. That's well,
Speaker 1: it's like my wife has been. In all seriousness, my
Speaker 1: wife has been awesome. She had lost her grandmother in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: That's why she was there. She's taking care of two
Speaker 1: kids and I put this on her plate too. And
Speaker 1: she's been so awesome. I can't say enough about her.
Speaker 1: She hasn't been one of those wives that you know,
Speaker 1: keeps score every second. She's been awesome. But on the
Speaker 1: list of jobs, I hope she's listening to this podcast.
Speaker 1: I hope so too. And and she needs and he
Speaker 1: needs to come to one of the ugly sweater parties.
Speaker 1: You I know you. But anyway, David, when you think
Speaker 1: of jobs that are of high risk, you think like military,
Speaker 1: law enforcement. But television, sideline reporter, not on not on
Speaker 1: the list. They're not very How do you think this
Speaker 1: is the last time the Brewers will allow media people
Speaker 1: to go down the slide? Or will they Will they
Speaker 1: be open minded to it in the future. That's a
Speaker 1: great question. J p aren Sibia, who's the analyst for
Speaker 1: the Marlins and former Major league catcher, he was planning
Speaker 1: on going there on the Marlins next road trip and
Speaker 1: he's upset. He he told me at Dodgers Stadium. He's
Speaker 1: concerned that they may not allow him to go down.
Speaker 1: So we'll have to wait and see if they opened
Speaker 1: the gates again to Bernie's now Vasse chalet. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: have you talked to the Dodgers about adding some kind
Speaker 1: of stunt at Dodger Stadium, like maybe a slide from
Speaker 1: the the general admission section down to home plate or
Speaker 1: something like that that you could that could they could
Speaker 1: call the Holy Crap Slide and and they could have
Speaker 1: a photo of you, and then that could add a
Speaker 1: new feature to Dodgers stand, Like didn't they they? I
Speaker 1: know in Boston they had a uh in the winter,
Speaker 1: they had like a ski ramp they put in Finway.
Speaker 1: Maybe they could. Obviously doesn't snow at Dodger Stadium, but
Speaker 1: there's gotta be something they could do here. There's a
Speaker 1: marketing opportunity. I said, I text you this. They've got
Speaker 1: to have next year on the promotional schedule, a holy
Speaker 1: Crap bubble head, David Vasse bubble head. The Dodger marketing
Speaker 1: department has to get on that. They've got to get
Speaker 1: those made right now. I will be there that night fast.
Speaker 1: I will be there to get your bubble head. We
Speaker 1: need a vasse bubble head next year. Okay, don't know
Speaker 1: about that then, but maybe at the next Petros and
Speaker 1: Money Uh summer tour, maybe they'll be like a water
Speaker 1: slide or something. But I think my steep slide days
Speaker 1: are over until until I can at least get out
Speaker 1: of this cast. But I'm sure there's gonna be another
Speaker 1: moment in time where the Dodger players try to challenge
Speaker 1: me to do something ridiculous and you'll see me doing it.
Speaker 1: What other I'm trying to think around baseball? Are there
Speaker 1: any other stunts like that? I guess you could battle
Speaker 1: the Philly fanatic. Maybe on getting a boxing match with
Speaker 1: the fanatic. I I don't know. If there's a slide
Speaker 1: in San Francisco that coke bottle, there's a slide inside
Speaker 1: that coke bottle, maybe I'll do that. There you go.
Speaker 1: That's perfect. So as far as the whole viral thing,
Speaker 1: you were on Sports Center, you were a topic on
Speaker 1: sports talk radio everywhere. Yeah, I was getting calls and
Speaker 1: my buddies back, he'sa They were talking about you and
Speaker 1: doing topics on you know, crazy things you do in
Speaker 1: life for work whatever. But Uh, you were on all
Speaker 1: the sports radio Internet. The thing, the video has been
Speaker 1: seeing millions of times and all that. What was the
Speaker 1: most surprising viral thing that took place during that last
Speaker 1: week when you went down the slide? I just couldn't
Speaker 1: believe that it went global. I don't know, Like honestly, Ben,
Speaker 1: I had. I was aware of everything that you talked about,
Speaker 1: but I was just trying to survive, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to get through Milwaukee. And uh, I knew it happened,
Speaker 1: and I was cool with everybody having fun with it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the reason why I did it. There
Speaker 1: was an opportunity where it never would have made um,
Speaker 1: it never would have aired. They asked me, are you
Speaker 1: okay with airing this? I said, of course, this is
Speaker 1: why we did it, So of course I'm okay with
Speaker 1: it being aired. Um, But I wish I could have
Speaker 1: enjoyed it more. But I was just in survival mode
Speaker 1: to be able to do my job for sports net
Speaker 1: LA and five seventy Now you mentioned your wife kind
Speaker 1: of giving you a hard time but supportive. What about
Speaker 1: the kids? I say, were your kids busting your chops? There?
Speaker 1: Were they? Like? Were they blown away that this became
Speaker 1: a global thing. Like where were your kids at on this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: my kids were telling me, uh, I stopped being so
Speaker 1: silly and doing silly things. So they had a great
Speaker 1: spirit about it too. So your kids are giving you
Speaker 1: growing up growing advice, which is outstanding. But by what
Speaker 1: is this? I mean for those that don't know David.
Speaker 1: Of course he those Dodgers talk. But you dominate, you
Speaker 1: get more downloads. I think you're one of the top
Speaker 1: people at all of my heart on that Dodger tip.
Speaker 1: What is what is your secret sauce, David? How are
Speaker 1: how are you able to dominate the downloads on that?
Speaker 1: Because you are a monster. My everyone, everyone at the
Speaker 1: companies like, how did this? Vest say? Is unbelievable with
Speaker 1: these downloads? How do you do it? Number one? Then
Speaker 1: I think it proves that it's Yankee fans are Red
Speaker 1: Sox fans that are the most passionate fan base in baseball.
Speaker 1: It's l A fans. They get a bad rap. And
Speaker 1: number two, I just keep it real. I'm not a homer.
Speaker 1: People listen because they know it's not just gonna be
Speaker 1: the company line. So that's the secret sauce. Keep it real,
Speaker 1: don't be you know a player hater like Ben Maller,
Speaker 1: and don't be a homer like other broadcast post game shows. No,
Speaker 1: I call it like it is now. Listen, I already
Speaker 1: removed I think it was back in June. Craig Kimbrell
Speaker 1: as the Dodger closer. For some reason, Dave Roberts has
Speaker 1: not listened to me. Uh say, I'll get you out
Speaker 1: on a couple of Dodging questions because you are the
Speaker 1: Dodger guy, the Dodger insiders. So here we sit in
Speaker 1: late August, heading into the final part of the regular season.
Speaker 1: Do you trust Craig Kimbrell. I don't trust him. Do
Speaker 1: you trust him? Did the Dodgers really trust him that
Speaker 1: he's gonna be out there? Okay, they don't. And what
Speaker 1: are they gonna say? Kimbero will not be closing games
Speaker 1: in October for the Dodgers, And who's gonna be closed?
Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about it. Then they have
Speaker 1: a twenty game lead right now, they have the luxury
Speaker 1: they need his arm for right now. When Blake training
Speaker 1: comes back, it will be a different story and he
Speaker 1: will not be closing games in October. I promise you
Speaker 1: all right, you heard Davids said it, and you mentioned
Speaker 1: that Dodgers making a mockery there. They've been hovering around
Speaker 1: fifty games, give or take above five d They're dominating.
Speaker 1: This is one of the great Dodger teams I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: They've had. This is the glory days of Dodger baseball
Speaker 1: the last few years. But I I gotta tell you, though,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm a little I'm a little concerned because
Speaker 1: I know last year against the Braves there's a guy
Speaker 1: named Eddie Rosario who looked like Pete Rose or Ty
Speaker 1: Cobb and the playoffs, and I'm concerned that that same
Speaker 1: nonsense is gonna happen again. It's a totally different world,
Speaker 1: as you know, David, in the playoffs. So is this
Speaker 1: team designed for that? And they've got a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that strike out at the back of that lineup.
Speaker 1: Are they ready for playoff baseball? Because it's a much
Speaker 1: different animal. Hey, I think they've proven that beating up
Speaker 1: on Sandy al Cantata and also Corbin Burns in the
Speaker 1: last uh in the last week. Then so yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they are all right. And and as far as
Speaker 1: the starting pitching, now, the other thing here. You know
Speaker 1: I'm a concert You called me a negative even on
Speaker 1: your podcast. You're so negative. I'm not. I'm a realist.
Speaker 1: I keep it real, essay. That's what I do. I
Speaker 1: keep it real. And I love Tony Gonslin. I hope
Speaker 1: he should win the Cy Young Award. He has been great.
Speaker 1: The guy is got moxie on the mound. I love
Speaker 1: watching that Guy's my favorite Dodger pitcher right well, other
Speaker 1: than the fact guy in the open, but him, and
Speaker 1: uh and Tyler Anderson. Uh. These guys have been insanely good.
Speaker 1: I looked the other day the Dodgers have when those
Speaker 1: two guys pitched. Not their record, but they're the team's record.
Speaker 1: They have an eight hundred plus winning percentage when Anderson
Speaker 1: and Gonslin pitch. But here's my thing, essay again, from
Speaker 1: watching the playoffs over the years, and I've seen guys
Speaker 1: that are great Cinderella stories in the regular season and
Speaker 1: then we get the playoff baseball and they take a
Speaker 1: ride on the vomit comment. So, what is the level
Speaker 1: of confidence that we will not see that happen to
Speaker 1: these two guys, because that is the rock of the
Speaker 1: Dodger rotation. These guys have been amazing. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: insane how good they've been during the regular season. So, uh,
Speaker 1: do these guys have the the intestinal fortitude of essay
Speaker 1: to get it done in in playoff baseball? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say so. Tony has done it before, and Tyler
Speaker 1: Anderson has shoved people down trying to, you know, run
Speaker 1: into him on a tag play. I forgot who that was.
Speaker 1: But Tyler has got a lot of country in him
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna back down from anybody. So I
Speaker 1: think at this point in time you have to give
Speaker 1: them the benefit of the doubt. I know, for a
Speaker 1: player hater like yourself, that's very difficult to do. But
Speaker 1: think at this point you have to give everybody on
Speaker 1: this Dodger team the benefit of the doubt, except for
Speaker 1: Craig Kimball, who has been erratic, but he's been able
Speaker 1: to get the job done with three or three or
Speaker 1: four run lead in the ninth inning. One run a
Speaker 1: lot different, but he has served the purpose this year
Speaker 1: during the regular season, so I think you have to
Speaker 1: give him credit for that too. Well, again, you keep
Speaker 1: calling me a player, but I'm a jaded realist. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's how I'm gonna promote your show after Dodger Talk
Speaker 1: coming up next. The player hater himself, Ben Malla, a
Speaker 1: jaded realist. I I go by the begging. Stop begging
Speaker 1: for me to promote your show. No, not at all.
Speaker 1: Why would I do that because you get eight billion downloads?
Speaker 1: Why would I want you to? Why would I want
Speaker 1: that at all? But no, I go by the Missouri motto.
Speaker 1: I'm in the show me state of mind. Besset listen.
Speaker 1: I want the Dodgers, you know, I want them to win.
Speaker 1: I've been around the Dodges a long time. I love
Speaker 1: when they have good teams and they win. But I
Speaker 1: gotta see, right, I gotta see. I'm a skeptic. I
Speaker 1: am unconvinced, unbelieving until I see it. And I don't
Speaker 1: see another. I'm having nightmares about Eddie Rozzario again from
Speaker 1: last year in the NLCS. Alright, we'll get you out.
Speaker 1: We we wasted enough of your time, David, anything to
Speaker 1: promote at all, anything at all, any future viral videos
Speaker 1: that you have planned. You're have you thought about going
Speaker 1: on TikTok David, because well, I have thought about it,
Speaker 1: but I'm not on yet. It's amazing how you brought
Speaker 1: up my social media for thirty minutes, but you haven't
Speaker 1: plugged it once. No yet, you want me to plug
Speaker 1: your your show. No, it's gonna be in the in
Speaker 1: the see the way the podcast game works, and you
Speaker 1: should know this because you're the king of the downloads.
Speaker 1: But the way the podcast were in the description, there
Speaker 1: will be a glowing review that will be slobbering all
Speaker 1: over the legend that is David Vasse, who at one
Speaker 1: point I knew as the guy at Costco that was
Speaker 1: pushing the cards, but now is a global phenomena and
Speaker 1: you just like everyone else if I say, you have
Speaker 1: zoom passed me in the broadcast world. And so we
Speaker 1: will put all of that in the profile, including uh,
Speaker 1: well I know your Twitter, I don't know your first
Speaker 1: No wonder you don't get anybody to come on this podcast.
Speaker 1: You don't plug anything. What are you talking about that
Speaker 1: you don't plug anything. No, we had Brent Musburger on
Speaker 1: the Great You're Looking Live Fred Musburger legends living legends
Speaker 1: on this podcast. Anyway, All right, thank you, David, take care,
Speaker 1: good luck and how long? How long until your wrist
Speaker 1: is healed? By the way, do we know how long
Speaker 1: that's gonna take. I don't know. It's day to day,
Speaker 1: day to day, all right, Thank you David, thank you Ben,