WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: David Vassegh, Sliding Into Dodger Lore 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.320 Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.440 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.840 rich pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of Hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.599 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:33.200 Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.120 welcome into another edition, a new weekend of the Fifth 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:42.720 Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G Radio. 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Eddie wanted everyone to be scheduled, 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.399 but I know a lot of people cannot schedule things 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.000 in advance, and this is the last minute, So if 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.840 you have an opportunity, it's at a restaurant in southern 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.560 California connected to the holiday inn uh. And again the 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.040 details are online and I won't bore you with that, 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.640 but I am so excited right now to welcome in 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:48.920 someone that I have known for over twenty years of 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:53.040 my life a long time. I've watched him grow up. 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.160 He's Mary, He's got kids now and all that, and 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.160 of course I'm I'm in the same situation with the 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:05.440 whole adult stuff. And uh. A guy that dominates dominates 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:09.480 the downloads on Dodger Talk. He has hosted that show 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.760 for many, many years, and occasionally he gets to sit 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:18.600 in as a television guy. And not only does he 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.280 do Dodger Talk on a M five seventy, the flagship 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.120 of the Dodgers in l A. Not only does he 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:29.120 appear on MLB Network, but he also occasionally pops up 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:36.040 on Spectrum Sportsnet as a Dodger sideline reporter. And you 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.480 might know maybe not. You probably saw it, maybe you 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.440 don't know his name. If you're not familiar with the Dodgers, 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:47.960 but he wound up in a hospital because of Bernie 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:53.359 the Brewer's slide. It did not go as expected at 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:58.120 the ballpark there in Milwaukee, and it became a viral 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:05.120 sensation as he wrecked himself and it was a debacle. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.840 It was quite the debacle. And I thought this was 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.840 such a popular video and I've got so many questions. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.160 Now I could have just text these questions, did David Vasse? 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.480 But I said, you know what I'm gonna do. I 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.160 want to have him on the podcast. I want to 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:25.240 do a frame by frame analysis of a viral moment 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.720 on the internet and television. He's ended up in the 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:33.519 pages of the New York Post, TMZ, all the tabloid websites. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.840 Uh I mentioned Sports Center did a feature. He's been 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:42.240 a topic on sports radio across the country. David Vasse 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.360 known as the Holy Crap Guy, uh, the download King, 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.000 all of that. He joins us now here on the 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:56.240 Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g and David. Welcome, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.120 and so we'll start with this. How has your are 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:08.280 life changed since you went down a slide in Milwaukee? Uh? Well, 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.640 my arm hurts more than in my ribs hurt more. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:16.040 I'd say that's the biggest change to my life. But yeah, 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.320 I would say I heard from a lot of people 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.960 that I haven't heard from in quite some time, and 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.720 I certainly was touched by the outpouring of concerned by 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:29.000 so many people. I would say over two d text messages, 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.760 uh from the twenty four hours after I hurt myself 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.960 and when it went viral. So I guess, you know, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.279 trying to put on some good TV entertainment and putting 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:43.200 on a stunt, uh sometimes doesn't go quite exactly the 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.240 way you expected to go. But it certainly was nice 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.880 to hear from so many people and how many people 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.120 busted your chops? How many how many people were sincere 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.200 and uh, you know, I might have sent a few 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.320 things in a joking matter of us, and I know 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.720 some of our mutual friends that initially before the thing 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.599 went viral, we were like, I didn't even realize you 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.760 got hurt when I first saw it. And then when 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.480 when well I saw your your risk, I was like, well, 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.760 maybe it's not that bad, but then I read you 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.800 you mess up your ribs. Also like that's uh, how 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.040 many bones did you break in that thing? Sticks broken? 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.240 Ribs to go along with broken right risk. But honestly, Ben, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.160 the text message you sent me was the tone of 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.200 all the messages I got once people knew I was okay, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.360 it was concerned and also joking, like you idiot, what 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.839 were you doing? Um? But I literally I went down 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.000 the slide once, no problems. Second time I went down 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.920 big problems. So, uh, I don't know what I did 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.200 to it. Now, that's great. So I did not realize 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.720 there was the first attempt that was successful, and that 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:56.239 that you went down twice multiple times, So what changed? 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.040 Obviously the landing changed, but what when you were going 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.600 down a second time? It's the one we saw the 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.600 video that we saw that it sounded like you were 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.159 genuinely afraid that this was this was not going to 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.719 end well. But the first one ended fine. So what changed? Yeah, 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.080 I don't know. The first one I went down and 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.600 it felt like I was more under control as far 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.640 as the speed of the coming down on the slide, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.839 and I was able to stick the landing and still 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.880 roll and you know, do what Shack used to do 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.920 and do an exaggerated roll into the crowd. I tried 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.679 to do that the second time, but I was going 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:36.039 considerably faster for whatever reason, and I just I couldn't 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:40.480 stop myself enough to be able to stop and then 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.440 drop and roll as they used to save the old 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.080 fire drills. So that's where my right arm got caught 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.880 behind me as I was rolling. That's where I broke 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.159 the wrist, and then out of control, I ran into 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.880 the wall. Yeah, it was. It was because it looked like, 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:58.359 as you said, you were getting a lot of speed. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.440 I was why I watched this as a ruter film style, uh, 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.279 frame by frame, And there was a moment it looked 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.719 like you almost were gonna fly off the slide, you 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.280 were going that fast, Like did you did you worry 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.400 about that's pretty high up? Were you conciderning you were 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.400 gonna go going over the side of the thing, and 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.920 it looked came close to that. Yeah, you know, honestly, 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.640 I wasn't concerned about that. I know, looking back, Uh, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.679 it does look that way, but the walls were pretty 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.360 high on the slide where it would prevent you from 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.400 doing that. But I was climbing up on the side 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.880 of the wall there. I think that's where I kind 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.280 of got stuck. Awkwardly, not to mention my feet were 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.320 still on that sat that they meet you, that they 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.000 make you slide down on. So I don't think I 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.200 had the brakes in the right position like I did 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.640 the first time. And honestly, maybe I didn't respect the 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.080 slide the second time. I got too cocky. After I 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.600 was like, this is no big deal. You know. I 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.040 came down. I acted like I was heard and there, 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.880 and they wanted me to go back down the second 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.240 time and get a different ang all of me coming 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:05.440 down the slide because there was one cameraman, so he 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.800 got me going from the top. But then the Dodgers 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.280 social media director and the cameraman from sports Net l 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.600 A said hey, we need a shot at you coming 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.960 down the slide. Do it again. And that's where I 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.640 got into trouble. Words that will haunt you. Do it again? 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.280 Do it again? I know, all for telling. See it 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.400 was radio, you know your radio guy, but you do 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.160 you dabble and TV. If it was just radio, one take, right, 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.760 we do one take, and you don't do a Dodger 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.000 talk on the radio in l A and then redo 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.199 a segment. Right, you do one thing. That's it. You're 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.640 done exactly in vivo and I was doing this for 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.400 our m five seventies social media guy as well. So 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:51.160 social media, again is the undoing of many people, and 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.560 I'm proof of that. But look, Ben, I'm I'm I'm 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.440 my own stunt man. I don't get anybody else to 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.560 do my stunts for me. I do my own stunts, 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.400 and I'm hoping now that Mickey Hatcher and the rest 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.199 of the eight Dodgers will allow me to be an 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:10.120 honorary stunt man. Yeah. No, Hey, I think there's a 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:16.200 whole cottage industry, like Evil Kinevil, Super Dave Osborne, like 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.160 that kind of thing, like you could make John Knoxville. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.840 I feel like I was more jackass than anybody else. Yeah, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.520 but now that you're telling me the story, I think 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.880 the person to blame not only television and social media, 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.600 but the great Shaquille O'Neill, because you attempted the, as 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.280 you said, the little shack role for the cameras, and 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.000 that's what did you in And you even gave shack 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.760 you said, I saw the shacking a fool line. That 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.679 it was a good line, but without with with no, 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.760 without Shaquille O'Neill giving you the influence though, David, right, 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.040 I mean would you have done the role? You were 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.920 doing that for the cameras, right, you were playing to 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.040 the cameras, was pointing to the cameras. I you know, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.679 if you go down the slide, and you go down 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.800 and it's I'm drum, what's the big deal? I thought 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.959 of one of the great entertainers in sports history, Shaquille O'Neil, 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.280 and that was his influence on me. And yeah, if 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.480 I didn't see Shack all those years do an exaggerated 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.520 dive into the stands going for a loose ball, I 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.480 don't think it would have entered my mind to try 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.000 to do what I did. So so walk me through it. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.000 So you you wanted to do this for television? Have 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.000 you really wanted to go down the slide for a 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:28.680 long time? Is just something that you wanted to do 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:34.040 or was that exaggerated? Never my aspiration. Never, But they 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.680 brought that to my attention, like, hey, we'd love for 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.040 you to go down the slide when you fill in 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.720 on TV and mil Milwaukee and then our social media 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.480 guy at five seventy heard about it. He loved the 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.480 idea as well. So everybody was on board. Okay, I 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.959 got you. And so when you do this. Did the 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.880 Brewers tell you anything that they give you advice? Does 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.040 does Bernie Brewer come over and explain exactly what has 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.160 to happen? Or were you just kind of going blind 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.480 on this. Nobody gives you any advice. They just have 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.280 you signed the waiver and they say get on this 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.480 bag and see at the bottom. The only guy asked 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.439 for advice from Adam mccalby, the Brewer's uh beat writer 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.360 for MLB dot com. He had gone down in a 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.439 couple of weeks earlier, and I said, hey, Adam, I'm 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.080 going down this tomorrow. What are your tips? And he 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.200 really didn't have any tips. He said, it's just like 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:27.440 going down the slide. Just not much to to give you. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.600 So when you you sign the waiver, is it is 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.120 it a massive waiver like you know, you do some 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.480 certain things at the carnival you have to sign a 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.120 you know, ten page waiver or was it just like 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.840 a one page standard boiler. It was a two page waiver. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.800 Two page waiver, okay. So so even if you wanted 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.760 to file a lawsuit you could not based on on 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.080 the waiver. And and so you're you're you're going down 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.920 and what was the reaction when people realize that you 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:02.600 actually broke bones. Were people freaking out with the Brewers? Were? 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.400 I know that It sounds like the Dodger guys were 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.360 all laughing, having a good time. But where the people 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.680 from Milwaukee were They a little concerned here that wait 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.800 a minute, what have we done? All right? So I 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.320 go down the first time and I act like I'm hurt. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.839 I'm not hurt. Second time I come down, I roll 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.760 into the wall in an injured way, and they're like, 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.040 they think I'm joking again. They think I did a 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.920 great show, and they're like, Ah, he's okay. And then 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.480 somebody I hear somebody say, no, I think he's really hurt. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.199 I think he's really hurt. And I said, I am 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.200 really hurt. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't catch my breath 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.920 because of the ribs. Um. So I let them know. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.240 I said, like, I'm really hurt. I need the trainers. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.120 So Wanderrato, who was the Dodgers pr man on the trip, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.160 called the trainers and they took me immediately to the 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:56.839 Dodger Clubhouse, where the trainers came outside and checked me 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:02.520 and uh, that's where I is. Uh, That's where they realized, like, no, 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.120 this is serious. He needs he needs to go to 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.839 the urgent care. They checked to see if the X 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:12.080 ray technician at American Family Field was there yet, and 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.960 it was about two forty five when all this is happening. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.440 So the X ray technician isn't there until six o'clock. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.480 So Thomas Albert, the Dodgers head trainer, calls ahead to 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:26.240 a local urgent care in Milwaukee, and the cameraman for 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.760 me and so for sports Net l A in Milwaukee 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.320 drives me to the urgent care and then picks me 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.880 up after I'm done at the urgent care. So I 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.000 can't say enough to make h to McK gordon. Who 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.720 who did that? All? Right? So you go get x rays? 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.839 And then were you shocked when you found out how 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.920 many different bones you had broken? Did you? Did you 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.280 know right away that your ribs were I've never broken 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.920 a rib. I've heard it's very painful. Uh did you 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.440 know right away that your your ribs were broken? Or 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.360 did you was at a surprise, no doubt, Ben. I 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.320 knew as soon as I couldn't breathe when I got 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:04.320 up that my that my ribs were either severely bruised 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.880 or broken. And while I was waiting for the trainers, 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.480 Justin Turner, David Price and Austin Barnes and Cody Bellinger 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.679 brought me into the clubhouse wipe my face with a towel. Um, 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.200 got me water, got me food. And when I went 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:24.360 to uh the urgent care, the nurse was skeptical as well. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.240 She was maybe trying to make me feel better because 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.000 she said, nah, I don't think they're broken. And then 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.960 we take X rays at the urgent care she comes 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:39.160 in six broken ribs, broken wrist, and multiple pieces. So, um, yeah, 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.520 it didn't go as well as I thought, as as 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.040 wild haul from going down a slide. That's that's insane. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.440 And so you still did the game though, I I 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.960 you see your radio guy. That's one thing you know. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.160 Real TV person does not do the game. They're like 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.120 I does. I got six broken ribs and the broken wrist, 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.680 but the show must go on. You literally went out 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.680 there and broke not a leg, but broke a risk. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.440 Did you consider not doing the game that night, David 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.320 or what? You're always planning on doing the game no 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.720 matter what. No, I was planning on going back. I 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.760 knew it wasn't going to take too long at the 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.360 urgent care unless there was some significant damage that they 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.720 needed to send me to the hospital. Outside of that, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.120 I had no doubts in my mind. I was going 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.160 back to that stadium and doing the job that I 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.520 was hired to do, and that was to UH to 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.480 do the game for sports net l A and the 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.800 interviews I do on Sports net l A gets carried 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.960 on five seventies, so it was somewhat of a postgame 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.200 simulcast that I needed to be there for. So in 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.240 my mind that never was going to There was nothing 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:43.960 in my mind that said I was going to tap 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.200 out and go to the hotel and just wait. I 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.880 I was determined to go back. I told the players 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.240 when I left the clubhouse, I will be back. You'll 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.160 see me on the field after the game, and I'll 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:00.520 be interviewing somebody on the field and Mookie Bett's face 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.800 time me while I was in the urgent care, and 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.640 I said I'll be there. I am going back, and uh, 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.320 I had that. I think you're right then. I think 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.760 in radio, you have to go back. Radio there's no excuses. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.360 So that's why maybe that was instilled to me because 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.800 I'm a radio guy, but that's that's what was happening. 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.680 I was going back. I was done at the Urgent 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.320 care at about six thirty Central time. The game was 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.880 starting at seven o'clock Central time. Nick came back to 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.080 pick me up after he was done filming Dave Roberts 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.960 and batting practice. I came back. It was around the 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.240 fifth inning of the game. Um Alex Tores, the great 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.680 clubhouse manager for the Dodgers, helped me put back on 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.240 my shirt and tie and get me together for me 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.080 to go back out there on camera. I walk out 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.520 in between innings, so as the Dodgers were going out 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.640 to play defense in either the bottom of the fifth 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.040 or bottom of the sixth inning, and Mookie Bets and 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.120 Trade Turner and Ready Freeman, the big three as I 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.520 coined them, stopped me and said, hey, are you just 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.080 gonna walk by us? They want to make sure I 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:11.119 was okay. And then Mookie said on the field, asks me, 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.639 can I have a hug? And I said, of course, 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.560 I gave him a hug. They went out played the 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.879 rest of the game, and I went on camera with 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.399 Nomar and Joe Davis and the rest is history. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.920 that this will live on for years and years and years. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.160 We'll see. That's the code of the West, right. And 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.240 and you're around my age, were around the same age, 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.000 so you you always finished what you started, and you 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.320 you finished what you started and all that. It was great. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:39.440 And I got to ask you about the the language, Uh, David, 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.600 because I give you credit. I curse. I not on 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.320 the radio, but I curse, and you you said your 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.480 line over and over again was holy crap, holy crap, 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.920 holy crap. You did not mix in the F word. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.760 You did not mix in any of the great words 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.520 that we're not supposed to say on television or radio. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.880 Were you told not the curse? Where did you decide 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.640 on the holy crap line? Because you said it a lot. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.480 It was great, But I would have mixed in an 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.320 F bomb. So how did you show restraint in that moment? 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.199 That was just spontaneous. Uh, it came out. It might 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.919 have come out because my wife says holy crap a 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.439 lot around the house. She doesn't curse a lot, and 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.840 we have two young kids, so I tried to temper 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.080 the cursing. So that was very spontaneous. When I was 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.040 going down the slide to try to you know, give 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.480 some effect of me being a little frightened going down 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.560 the slide. Never in my wildest dreams, and I believe 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:40.159 it was going to end the way it did. And 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:44.359 holy crappy, as uh popular as it became when it 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.040 went viral, you're quoting your wife. So you should have 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.040 told your wife, I'm quoting you. This is this is Yeah. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.720 I was just concerned about telling her. I didn't want to. 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.320 I was hoping i'd be allowed to come back inside 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.639 the house. Yeah. What was the reaction when you made 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.200 the uh not the walk of shame, but the call 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.879 of shame announcing that you had broken seven bones on 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:10.399 a television bit Like, what was your wife's reaction to that? Uh? 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.280 This is how it went, Ben. When I'm at the 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.040 Urgent care, I call her and I explain what's going on, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.280 and on the other end of the phone, I hear 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:25.399 mm hmm. Okay, that's not good. Okay. So you know, 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:27.480 when I go back to the stadium after I do 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.840 the postgame interviews in the clubhouse, I asked David Price 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.480 when we got back to l A, can I stay 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:35.399 with him in case my wife doesn't let me? And 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:40.080 he said, no problem. You could stay with me. That's well, 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.959 it's like my wife has been. In all seriousness, my 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.840 wife has been awesome. She had lost her grandmother in Milwaukee. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.640 That's why she was there. She's taking care of two 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.320 kids and I put this on her plate too. And 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.800 she's been so awesome. I can't say enough about her. 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.600 She hasn't been one of those wives that you know, 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.720 keeps score every second. She's been awesome. But on the 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:07.440 list of jobs, I hope she's listening to this podcast. 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.320 I hope so too. And and she needs and he 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.840 needs to come to one of the ugly sweater parties. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.720 You I know you. But anyway, David, when you think 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:21.760 of jobs that are of high risk, you think like military, 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:29.560 law enforcement. But television, sideline reporter, not on not on 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:31.280 the list. They're not very How do you think this 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:35.919 is the last time the Brewers will allow media people 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.479 to go down the slide? Or will they Will they 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.280 be open minded to it in the future. That's a 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:44.600 great question. J p aren Sibia, who's the analyst for 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.080 the Marlins and former Major league catcher, he was planning 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:51.040 on going there on the Marlins next road trip and 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.680 he's upset. He he told me at Dodgers Stadium. He's 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.879 concerned that they may not allow him to go down. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.440 So we'll have to wait and see if they opened 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:04.760 the gates again to Bernie's now Vasse chalet. Yeah, and 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.679 have you talked to the Dodgers about adding some kind 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.840 of stunt at Dodger Stadium, like maybe a slide from 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.159 the the general admission section down to home plate or 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.320 something like that that you could that could they could 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.919 call the Holy Crap Slide and and they could have 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.479 a photo of you, and then that could add a 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:27.000 new feature to Dodgers stand, Like didn't they they? I 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:30.320 know in Boston they had a uh in the winter, 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.560 they had like a ski ramp they put in Finway. 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.280 Maybe they could. Obviously doesn't snow at Dodger Stadium, but 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:38.639 there's gotta be something they could do here. There's a 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:42.160 marketing opportunity. I said, I text you this. They've got 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:45.000 to have next year on the promotional schedule, a holy 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:48.960 Crap bubble head, David Vasse bubble head. The Dodger marketing 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:50.880 department has to get on that. They've got to get 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:53.360 those made right now. I will be there that night fast. 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:55.880 I will be there to get your bubble head. We 0:21:55.960 --> 0:22:00.280 need a vasse bubble head next year. Okay, don't know 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.600 about that then, but maybe at the next Petros and 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:06.000 Money Uh summer tour, maybe they'll be like a water 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:09.840 slide or something. But I think my steep slide days 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.880 are over until until I can at least get out 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:16.480 of this cast. But I'm sure there's gonna be another 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:19.919 moment in time where the Dodger players try to challenge 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:23.119 me to do something ridiculous and you'll see me doing it. 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.720