I'm A Horse Monday (Hour 2) 7/14/25

Dodger pitcher Ben Casparius is Inside the Lockeroom for the entire hour with PMS!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think it's just like I know all these people.
It's like it's weird. That is much fun. But we
appreciate all of you. I don't know, they've kind of
been told to be.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
And one of our favorites, the Dodger bobblehead.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
That's like calling somebody to the principal's office at once
and being like, appreciate you coming, enjoy yourself, thank you
for your promptness. The past is constructed of memory, the
future of expectation.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
And we're gonna have to gong that downstairs in the studio.
I didn't bring the machine up with us. My apologies.
Petros and Money live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Dodgers
are off until Friday. It is the All Star break,
but with an All Star break makes four hour Petros
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
I mean before we go, I mean, we're gonna dog.
We've got a lot of time to talk to Ben.
He's gonna wish that he came out a little later.
I just want to say this. First, we got the
Asian guy, right, that's there's there's different guys.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
There's three bobbleheads.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I believe there are there's three, or maybe four. There's
three four four, okay, four. There's a black guy, there
is a Latino guy, there's a white guy.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
And this is the Asian guy. Yes, we got Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I don't know why, because Casparius is I mean, we're
all in the same gang, right, I mean, of course,
you know, I mean we are in the most conclusive
radio show on Earth. But I do find it interesting, like,
how do you guys like when they deploy the different
races of Dodger guys. Who decides who goes where? Like
Asian guy, You're going to Burbank, Black guy, You're going

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to Lamarada.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's all Star break. We gotta get it. Do you
know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Sure, I would assume they rotate. I don't think you
can have a monopoly on the Asian head. I think
everybody rotates, so we all feel connected, right.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
And I would say, you know, without I know you're here,
and you know the Eagles say it best, you know,
love the one or not the Eagles, Crosby, Stills and
Nash love the one you're with, right, And you know,
I would say this if it was the white guy'd
be like, God, of course we want the white guy.
I'm white, you know, But I do have to say,
given the circumstances, you probably want the Asian guy.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
These these days.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Right, that's the number one bobblehead, Like you're the number
one guy for the foreseeable future, you know, because of
Sho hal Tani. Like if my head was gonna be represented,
i'd want that head. Now, the thing that really you
take the head off? Who knows.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
What exactly is it?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
A guy?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
There we go?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
How about that curve ball?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I mean, and that would you know? Anyway?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I'm sorry, I think it's a valid question. You guys
just stand not amazed. Okay, all right, Matt, this is
a big moment for all of us.

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Speaker 3 (03:37):
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Speaker 1 (03:41):
Joining us now, saw it coming Joining us now on
your Southern California Toyota Dealer celebrity guest microphone headset courtesy
of our elderly engineer Bert, being helped by our in
house engineer, a Frenchman named Mole. We're very pleased to
bring in a fifth round pick of the Dodgers in

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twenty twenty one, made his major league debut last August.
We said it the other day when we talked to him.
We love Ben Casparius as we bring in the age
of Casparius at Dodger Stadium, a very exciting time. He
pitched yesterday, Matt and I'm not gonna say that a
few sphincters weren't tied around him.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
No, it was a little bit, but a cause celebration.
This guy gets his boob scooped.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
We're gonna have to talk to him tomorrow and it
is gonna be a bubber and the guy the bibble
Head's gonna be unhappy.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
But thank God, as he always has, this year.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Came through a flying color, like a real g big victory.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
We love Ben Casparius, a great Dodger right hander, joining
us on the Petrosen Money Show on m five seventy
La Sport, your home of the Dodgers, as our in
house local crowd goes absolutely crazy. Casparius, It's great to
see you. It's great to have you here, seeing you guys.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Thanks, great to see you.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
You know, in a few years, uh, you're gonna be
you a veteran, You're gonna have a lot of innings
under your belt and you probably won't be available for
this kind of stuff during the All Star break. You
probably want to go to Cabo San Lucas with one
Soto or something, you know, do the cool guy, rich
people's stuff. But since you're a young guy, we got
you here and we're so happy to have it. What's

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it been like getting to this point, getting to the
All Star break? And how does it feel? How does
your body feel?

Speaker 4 (05:25):
I feel better? No, I think it's you know, we
do a really good job every single day, just staying
on top of things in the training room, in the
weight room, communication wise, across the board. But no, it'll
be a good you know, three or four days to
just reset, rest for a little bit, and you know,
come out with a lot of energy for the second half.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Third most innings pitched on the team sixty two and
two thirds.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
That's a lot of inning.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's a lot of innings people, that's eating up a
lot innis what's the what's the arm feel like through
sixty two and two thirds? And and how many innings
is it total? I based on the off day work,
the bullpens, all that stuff you're throwing, Like, what are
we talking about here.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, it's a lot. I think one of the biggest
things for me this year just coming from being a
starter for you know, the majority of my professional career
career was just managing my throwing in between games. You know,
when am I going to actually touch them out to
get work in. Do I need to do this today?
Do I not? And just being conscious of what my
body needs and you know, the feels that I need

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to to do to feel ready to compete. And I
think for the most part, I feel I feel good physically.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I remember I was talking to This is gonna sound
so stupid, but I was talking to by All yeah
exactly to uh to coach Harbaugh over there at the
Chargers and asked, you know, what do the guys do
when they're on break. They get this three week break
here between mini camp and training camp. What do you
expect them to do? And he said, well, I expect
them to talk to Ben Herbert, our strength and conditioning coach,
and he's gonna say do more of that, do less

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of that? Do the same amount of that. Is there
a person like that on the Dodgers that you lean on,
that is there to get you and say, hey, do
more do less do the same.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
For sure.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
I think guys are talking about every single day. We
were really lucky. We have you know, two unbelievably good
strength coaches and coach trav and ye have actually but
uh Travin Yev but a couple of freaks. Yeah, yeah,
I actually went to Yukon also, so from Connecticut. Kind
of have have that in our blood. So we do

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a really good job just communicating in terms of you know,
what do I need to do in the off season,
where are you know, the points of focus for me
to get stronger, get you know, more mobile, this and that.
So we have a really good relationship. I'm you know,
super lucky to have him in my corner, and I
think we work really well together for sure.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
So five years ago, Kasparius was still a pretty young guy.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
How old are you right now, Casparius?

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Twenty six?

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Twenty six?

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Five years ago during Covie, that's right, twenty are you
twenty six? Go right, Well, you're in the same age.
But being a young guy and being a professionals got
to be a very difficult balance because you know, I
think of myself or any of us think of ourselves
as a twenty six year old except for this very
well healed, well adjusted young lady I think of a

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very chaotic person, right, But here you have to do
these things that are very measured. You have to take
care of your body. You have to keep kind of
a mental fortitude in pitching that most people I think
that play professional sports don't have to do. How does
that balance out being a young guy and having to
be so disciplined to do your job.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
No, for sure, I think if you look around the
clubhouse and around the league, like you, you don't really
have much of a time to you know, get off
of your routine and to be able to make it
in this league, especially with the technology there is now. Obviously,
you know there's eighteen year old seventeen year old kids
starting on hundred miles an hour, like there's people, you know,
chasing after your job. So I think for me, that's

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my motivation, just to you know, stay on the team,
help the team win. And I know that it's you know,
it's a competitive spor for sure.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Does it surprise you your ability to do what you've
done this year? I mean, obviously you can't pitch in
the major leagues unless you have self confidence.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
And I'm sure you deal with.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Different guys that have all kinds of different levels of
confidence going about their jobs.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
But are you surprised with your ability to, like you.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Say, stay on the team, have success come in and
support of guys like Shoe hail tany come in in
extra innings to finish off the the first half.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
You know that that's a lot of responsibility for sure.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
No, I think I think the surprise is more just
how I've handled some of the just the versatility rules,
where whether it's you know, going three or four innings
earlier on in the game or from coming into the
tenth inning like yesterday, And I feel like my routines
kind of carried that and being able to handle that,
And obviously the what I'm getting from the coaches in

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terms of the communication are what's expected day in and
day Out's a little bit different. But yeah, I think
that's the most surprising part. It was just the transition
into the bullpen.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Every pitcher wants to start, right, I mean, every pitcher
thinks of themselves as a starter, and you guys are
if you're in the major leagues, it means you were
somebody's ace sure for your whole childhood and a hero
in your hometown and all that stuff. But to the
lame the laper's eye like me, you say, okay, that
guy throws.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
It's like a video game.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
We put him in and he throws here, or we
put him in and he throws there. How much is
the difference between preparing to start the night before and
knowing that you're going to get the ball and going
out there in the tent when you've been sitting around
and the cold in San Francisco for three and a
half hours.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
No, it's different. I think two just kind of navigating
your week as a starter. You're going out there for
the most part. With us, I think six man rotation,
so I'm pitching, you know, once a week or whatever
it is. Everything's tailored around that day and the bullpen.
It's more just like, hey, let's do what we can
do today and during the day to be ready to
compete for tonight. And that's kind of just an ever,

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you know, everlasting process. So for me, I haven't started
or like really been in a starting role since last
July because then when I came up, I was in
the bullpen, So just kind of getting my feet feet
wet with you know that for the first time in
the big leagues was definitely difficult, and the routine is different.
But yeah, I think everybody you know has a preference.
There are certain guys who you know do well, do

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better as a starter than they do as a reliever,
and vice versa. So it's just kind of being able
to go about the week and treat everything the same.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
You mentioned, uh, your first appearance last August. I mean
it's less than a year ago. How well do you
remember it? Do you remember? Do you like, can you
take us through every pitch? Can you take us through
the three batters you faced? I mean obviously you know
they take like how detailed I if I say, hey,
walk us through that first appearance. What was it?

Speaker 4 (11:48):
I faced faced Jock Peterson and you float to right
on a slider, No pearls. I didn't strike anybody out.
I was a bummer. And then I know Peven Smith
flew out to right center right on a fastballping in.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
And between those two was.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Oh it was it was Guryel Yes, and Tommy i'dman
made a diving playing kind of in center field.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
So you can you can see that in your mind's eye. Yeah, sure,
what ball did they give you from that game, I
would assume was it the first out? Was it like
which I think it was the first I think it
was the first out.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
I got the ball, and I got the I got
the lineup card too, and I got the win.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right, You got the win in your first appearance. That
was pretty cool, I would say, so.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
The second big thing was postseason obviously, So how did
so you have that moment? Right, you get called up,
you have your first appearance, you get a win in
your first appearance. I think it was Michael Grove, right
that went down? And then you end up kind of
coming in in the CS.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
I think, yeah, I can't remember. I can't remember if
I was active the last game of the Padres series
or the first game against the Mets.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
But how different did that feel against the Mets, if
at all, then it did against the Diamondbacks in August?

Speaker 4 (13:04):
It was different. I felt I felt comfortable. I think
for me at the time too, I was just trying
to figure out how to be a reliever. Like I knew.
I knew that I wasn't going to be a starter
in that period of time, So just trying to like
get myself mentally to know, like, hey, if I prepare
the same way, I'll feel good and just trusting that.
But it was different. And I mean, I think I

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pitched against the Mets in New York and I think
it was Game two.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
I want to say yes, or I pitched it three
times against pitched three times against them. Okay, so one
was in New York and I think too were in
LA or maybe the opposite, but no, I think we
were in control of that series too. I felt like
for the most part the spots, I was coming into
her a little bit lower leverage, but I felt comfortable

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and it was pretty It was pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Set yourself.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
There is no leverage in the postseason. That's a little
bit lower.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I'm a low leverage broadcaster. The great Ben Casparius. The
age of Casparius.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Is upon us. That's right.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
A thoughtful, measured pitching conversation.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
On a Monday, that's what we want. And a big
thank you to our.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Friends at Marango Casino Resort and Spotless in ninety minutes
down to ten from wherever you are celebrating twenty years
of good times, Casparius. What we really want to know
is after pitching in the postseason, after going up and
having success. After everybody in the global baseball world saw
you there in a Dodger UNI hosing guys down. What

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was the off season like going back to Connecticut. I
bet you were strutting around Connecticut like Travolta. I mean,
I bet it was something special. What was that off
season like Casparius?

Speaker 4 (14:41):
It was pretty short, especially and yeah, you guys had
to go to Korea. Yeah, so definitely the shortest offseason Japan. Yeah, Japan.
So I stayed in LA for about five days after
we won, went back my parents live in Connecticut, went
home to just kind of settle down for a little bit.
Ended up staying home for I think four days, and

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then Goat went back out to l A for about
a month just to kind of enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
That was the like victory Lap where it was like
a prom king kind of thing where you parade, you know,
Pontiac and drive drove around and what was it?

Speaker 3 (15:17):
What was it like?

Speaker 1 (15:18):
I mean, I would have felt pretty good about myself
walking off and started the World Series.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
I didn't feel I didn't feel bad, but I slept
for I slept a lot. I think I was and
I think anybody can on the team can attest to this,
but I was we were so run down at that point.
I think just going back and forth from LA to
New York for two, you know, two straight series and
that so I was exhausted. I took a few days
just to kind of relax my family and then came
back out to LA and it was it was fun.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Sleep in your childhood bed. It's like a race car
bed and your your bedroom you grew up in, like.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Where where you sleep.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
It was.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
They moved a couple of years ago, so it's actually
kind of a normal. It's like a normal Yeah, it's
not the not the race car room.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
But I could for death when the gal goes into
the room and there's all this sweet football stuff.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
That's the goal one before he became a mercenary.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, speaking of mercenaries, are there fake Casparius friends now
in Connecticut walking around claiming Casparius when they never had
anything to do with the age of Casparius and what
you went through to become a great player. Are there
a bunch of fake friends now Casparius?

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Who didn't say fake? I don't I've gotten some interesting
texts from people that wouldn't normally text me asking for
tickets yeah, so coming out of the woodworks a little
bit just.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Ignorm or do you let them down easy?

Speaker 4 (16:32):
What do you say, I don't I don't answer.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, you can't prove that you ever got the text
if you don't spot.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, and they don't ask for tickets. They always have
an icebreaker, exactly. So what's the ice breakers? Talking a while?

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Been a minute or been a while? A great job?

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Remember that summer on the Lake?

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Yeah, okay, I need ten tickets for the Yankees game
or whatever it is. But yeah, it.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Can't be easy, Casparius, to deal with the fame.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
It's not it's not it's not hard. It's not as
hard as a few other Hall of famers on our team.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Watching that, it's got to be pretty interesting, you know,
because I mean, you literally have guys that make you know,
two hundred million dollars or something. You know, Tony walks
around like I mean, he's like a moving conglomerate, and yeah,
it's wild. And yet you know he's in the same
uni as you, and you know, I don't know if
he hangs out in the bullpen with you guys. But

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but what is it like watching these guys kind of
carry them? You know, beyond being an inspiration, they're human beings,
you know, just like the rest of us, and and
your teammates.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
You know, how does that measure out for a young guy?

Speaker 4 (17:35):
It's cool. I think that was probably the biggest surprise
for me. You know, like the first couple of stints
I had up with the team was just you know,
watching them and you know, go about their day. And
I grew up a Red Sox fan, so like MOOKI
was one of my favorite players growing up. So just
to share the locker room with him, We've had so
many good conversations just about the game in generally so smart, calculated,

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but yeah, every day I kind of get to just
witness a lot of greatness across the board.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
You when you're a fan and you grew up in
Connecticut and you're you know, I guess you could have
been a Yankee fan, but you become a Red Sox fan. Like,
how quickly does that? Nobody's perfect the second you the
second you get drafted by the Dodgers, is it gone?
Is it gone before that? Because you're kind of tracking
toward being a major league player, and you're like, I
can't have any of this fan as that's bs kind
of like when does when does it leave you? I
think or has it?

Speaker 4 (18:22):
I think part of me? It just kind of like
represents my my childhood a little bit, so like we
grew up going to games, and it helps that we're
a National League team. So I guess if I was
to root for a team in the AL, it would
be them, or at least want them to do, you know,
better than the Yankees. But uh yeah, I haven't really
given too much thought about.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
That or right, yeah, I don't. You don't think of
fan stuff.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
No, I don't really keep track of how they're doing anymore.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Today's the uh the thing in a row in a row? Yeah,
you know that ten in a row for them, and
you're gonna you're gonna face them in the third series
coming at it? So is that one you circle like, Hey,
when are we are we going there? They come in here?

Speaker 4 (19:02):
Yeah, we'll see you're gonna go there, right, yeah, we'll
see what happens. I actually I have a few close
friends coming for that series too, so they get tickets.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Now, you were a hitter, yea, you were a hitter
when when you kind.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Of bald out hitting at North Carolina, Come on, and raise.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Up bald out. So when you were kind of like
figuring out this major league thing, was that your vision
was like, Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna bang some doubles
off that Green Monster. Is that kind of what you
and vision happening.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
A little bit? Yeah, I always thought it was going
to be as a hitter. I think pitching was definitely secondary.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
I just think that it.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
I think I was so raw at it and didn't
put much work into it that it hitting into pitching.
Pitch wow, that it was more appearing. I had a
good arm growing up in high school and then obviously
going to college where I just focused on pitching my
last year. But for the most part, I think like
I saw myself as a hitter my whole life, and
then I think that the script kind of flipped pretty quickly.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Let's say they still had the rules as God intended.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
I wish they did. Yeah, I would they did.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
I mean I feel like you could step in there
casparious and not be super helpless like Bartolo Cologne.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
He he he.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Exactly, he just you know, he didn't look you know,
fluid granky could swing it.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yeah, remember here that two homer game Cyndergaard kersh, Yeah,
I think. I mean, I haven't taken VP in a
long time, so I don't really I can't give a
like an idea, but I think, like I think hitters
used to take rounds during VP at some point or
at least a couple of times a week, so that
would have been I'd pay some money right now to
take a to take a couple of rounds at daughter

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stadium for sure.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Do you think any circumstance would probably not no, no,
like nothing ever, like somebody like it would have to
be like a catastrophic event.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Well, I got asked the other day, I think we're
I think it was Saturday in San Francisco or a
bullpen coach was like, hey, if you know a pictuer
got in that bat in the game and it wasn't
you like, how would you feel about that? And I
said I'd be pretty devastated.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, well I think that one shot like what Yamamoto
is getting killed? You know, like who's going up Tanner
Scott with his Hawaii He's gonna what is he gonna
the swing?

Speaker 3 (21:10):
A coral reef?

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Yeah, I don't forget it. I think Jack Dryer could
put together a good at bat. He he had a
game I think it was high in twenty two or
twenty three. He I don't think he got a hit,
but he didn't strike out in three at bats. He
played left field. I don't really know why or what happened,
but he like.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
He looked good between you and yeah, fun time is
what happened. Yeah, So what would you do? Would you
saw it off? Would you just choke the hell up
on that bat and try to just put it in play?
Are you going to take big swings and just go
for glory? Like, how do you approach it?

Speaker 4 (21:40):
I think it's take the first pitch, I get the timing,
and then just absolutely just try to jump ship on
a fastball to happen. Yeah, and use the lightest bat
that they have.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Because you were you can do a pitcher. Would you
throw them any fastballs or would you throw them all?

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Like?

Speaker 2 (21:53):
What would you do?

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Fastballs?

Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's all you would do? Yeah, just try to blow
it by I think too, just.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
In general, like I'm banking on the fact that they're
hopefully not going to hit a home r off me,
So like get yourself out a couple of pitches.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Is that the worst thing ever? That could happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
the worst case scenarios.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Spara is very matter of fact, Yes, yes, that's the worst.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
I like this, Uh, this is good stuff, and we're
having a great time together, Casparius. You're nice and comfortable.
You feel good about these people and wonderful before we
let you go for break and then.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
We'll come back.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Got a full hour here, we Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
It's a really this is your life, Caspari.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
But uh, a lot of a lot of our sales types,
you know, because they're corporate and they all all these
people have really nice cars, and I think that's part
of being in sales, you know. I see them in
the parking lot and I'm like, damn, look at that car.
You know, the jewelry. I mean, like I know how
much that that necklace cought? You know, uh, but a
lot because of that, some of these people like you
East Coast types, right, A few of you guys. Yeah,

(22:53):
there's a couple East Coast types and Ed Chef Tell
who's become a staple in Las.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Vegas as an East Coast guy.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
And it doesn't get more East Coast than Kinnecticut, My god,
for sure, you know, being out here in Los Angeles
and I know that. You know, you're pretty buttoned up
and you guys, you know, live a very a very
professional life. But you know you hate everybody out here?
Does it bother you? The way we speak, our accents,
everybody's laid back attitude, the chicks with the big water

(23:21):
bottles walking around all over the place, Like, how does that?

Speaker 3 (23:24):
How does that strike you?

Speaker 1 (23:25):
CAUs you could be honest with us because we don't
like anything either.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
I mean, I'm gonna nobody, nobody outwardly bothers me. I
don't think it's different, Like for sure, I'll take the
weather here, got what Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna claim
the Northeast food, though I think I have to.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Like what like clam showder or he's.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Just I think the like Italian food's better.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
But what about you know, Mexican food, burritos, The Mexican
food is better here. I would I mean, you know,
I would hope.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
So yeah, and we have a lot of it too,
So yeah, I'm not I'm not overly.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Bothered anything about California yet kind of traded your your
your lifestyle, like you drink the green juice now or
you know you go to pilates go to Arawon.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Oh there we go, well, almost every every day for
what what's your what's going to be?

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Dollar slice? Kiwis I?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
What's the drink? Wheat grass, carrot juice?

Speaker 4 (24:21):
And unfortunately a superstition now is that I have to
get a nineteen dollars SMOOTHI every single morning before I
go to the field. Okay, unfortunately every day, every day?

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Every day?

Speaker 4 (24:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:30):
What's in it?

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Customer? Is it just off the menu?

Speaker 4 (24:35):
I think it's like it's strawberry collagen, something coconut and like, honey.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
The cock can tell your cheeks are full. The collagen's
really working. It looks great, man.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
I take colostrum. It's really good.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
I think that's in there.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
I don't even know what it is.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
It's the same stuff from the boob.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, right when the seriously, right when the mom gives birth.
It's not breast milk, it's colostrum. And now you can
put it in your body every day.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
I feel like, hopefully, yeah, hopefully that's working.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
But it absolutely is.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
That's become a staple in my routine.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
I yes, I call it. Now.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
We've talked to some of the weirdos in the bullpen
with you, Tanner, Scott Kirby, Yates, guys like that Vessia,
uh Robleski we talked to the other day, that sharp
nose gentlemen. And uh I I I'm always interested in
how much caffeine is being consumed back there.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
A lot.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
And these guys are all just tweaked out, you know.
I mean it's all over the.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Counter, but yeah, tweaked Red Bull and whatever else. I mean,
is it a lot of nerves in there? I mean
a lot of tweakers in the bullpen?

Speaker 3 (25:34):
How does that? How does that work?

Speaker 1 (25:36):
I mean, because we heard how much Red Bull Kirby
drinks and it didn't sound I gotta be did not sound.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
I mean yeah, I mean I think drinking caffeine at
night anyways in that capacity is just bad in general.
You're right, I don't even know if it's really working anymore.
Sleep at night and like a decently reasonable hour. But
it's a lot. It's a lot.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
And that goes for you as well. Yeah, And is
it the sports drink, the energy drinks or is it
straight coffee.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
I'll drink usually like one coffee during the day and
then probably a Scooper, maybe two scoops of pre workout
before the game or during the game. But it's a lot.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yeah, it kills the chicken in your heart. Yeah, yeah,
you know it kills the chicken.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Does the free workout still still give you the tingles?
It feels like there's pins on the end of your
finger that.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
I missed that though. That's kind of where I'm trying
to hope over that. Yeah, I need that back. But yeah,
we kind of just I think it's red Bull. We
drink these accelerators too. Oh yeah, they're pretty good now.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
That bomb Pop accelerator is a good one. One of
those yesterday, Yeah, good stuff.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Yeah, actually had two of those yesterday.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Okay, that's a lot of.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Hellish worked out.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
He wasted on the youth the seventh inning. Uh Like,
just just in case, can my name is getting called.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Let's say let's say, you know, you might have to
pitch in a game. You have a hankering for a
cold brew or something. Will somebody run and get it?

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Like? Is there a runner? I think like on a production,
you know, Tom wants a kale salad. Somebody's gonna get it.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
The runners me, I'm the runner.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
You're the runner.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Come prove I'm the runner you start a World Series game.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah, but I'm the youngest guy on the team.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
But you could get called at any time.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Though.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
You could get called in the third, you can get
called in the dead like. That does not That's not
the case for Scott.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Partly it's because for the most part, I've pitched multiple innings,
like if I am coming out of the bullpen, So
there will be days where I have a down day
where I know I'm not going to pitch, and then
that case I I'm there.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Get in your car, drive over to Echo Park and
pick up coffee for everybody in your uniform.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
That doesn't seem right.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
No, not that, but run into the clubhouse and get
the accelerators. Yeah, exactly, like as fast as Shean's doing
that now though, right, he's younger than you in me
Yeah he's I think he's he's a little younger than me.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
You the great Baktisparius, ladies and gentlemen, Dodger, right hander,
he survived the big chunk.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Part of the interviewed you survived that, And now we're
gonna say sailing for me. Yeah, you're good.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
We're gonna talk about Staples High School next home of
the records and just who is their most famous alum
of all.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Timespurious no Doc Brown. We're gonna find out.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Don't you talk about that porn stark Caslon Chambers.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Well, how you do. We'll get it. You're gonna check
out some Google about forty minutes, we'll be.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Right back, Petro.

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Speaker 1 (29:14):
Ben Casparius Dodger right hander has been here and he
got through.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Now it's just the silly season.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
You know, he got through the hard part of the
interview and now it's just you know, now we're all
just icing on the cake now for Casparius.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Might drink that model.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
He made his.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Major league debut last August, part of the Dodgers twenty
twenty four playoff roster played yesterday and extra innings. He's
been great and pitching so many innings for the Dodgers
as such a young man out of Connecticut. Now, a
lot of guys and we we do have Andy Wise
on in the next hour. Who's the head coach of

(29:52):
Corona High So where Dino Ebles kids played and they
had three first round guys.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
And it was two in the top ten.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, it's incredible, unprecedented stuff as a guy who you know,
battled it out in college, you know, kind of found
your baseball identity there, which is a place where a
lot of people do. You had a crazy route North
Carolina and you had success there, transferred back home to Yukon,
but then you got hit with the COVID season. How

(30:22):
hard is it to develop?

Speaker 2 (30:23):
You know?

Speaker 1 (30:24):
I mean you still ended up where you wanted to be,
But how much of a setback was that?

Speaker 4 (30:28):
It was interesting. I think in my case, honestly, I
think the I couldn't play that year, the COVID year,
so I my waiver didn't go through, so I'm kind
of loser. I'm lucky though, where I only missed thirteen
games in a season that got washed in. I think
COVID for me personally, was probably the best thing that
could have ever happened in my career because it was

(30:50):
a time where I got to go home. I kind
of knew that things were kind of transitioning to the
picture side of things. I never really started tailoring my
work in the weight room and get on a throwing
program up until that time, so I had Originally it
would have been March until October when we went back
to school to start fall ball, I would have been
you know, I had all that time. But I was

(31:10):
able to kind of put the pieces together from March
to June, and then a couple of summer leagues were playing,
so I went to New Britain. I think I threw
in five games in New Britain, had a lot of success.
My stuff was really good that summer. My arm was
still really fresh at the time as well, so I
think that was the first time the Northeast Scouts that
I had relationships with in high school kind of saw me,

(31:33):
you know, like three years later, four years later, from
you know, being an eighteen year old to being a
twenty one year old and there it just kind of
gave them a little bit of like, oh, you know,
he's you know, putting all the marbles into the pitching
side of things. And then when I got back to Yukon,
I was still going to two way and then I
kind of just sat down with the coaching staff and
was like, listen, this is kind of where the scouts
and these teams see you as like I don't want

(31:54):
to see you know, rounding first base you hurt your
ankle or something. It takes away from you know, what
you could possibly do on the mountain. So that was
a really big developmental period for me. And obviously, you know,
there's nothing else going on in the world, so for me,
it was just you know, finish up some school stuff,
kind of start putting together like a plan to you know,
map things out on the mound. And I think that
was kind of what got me to this point.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
You could have listened to us.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
We were doing four hours a day by the way
the first time your Connecticut accent showed up there.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Have you actively tried to distance yourself from it or
has it happened naturally? But you said New Britain drinks
that green drink it. Have you noticed that you've lost
it when you go back home and they're like, man,
you don't even sound like yourself anymore. I honestly don't know, really,
I know what happened to you. When you're playing in
the independent league. That's different than a minor league team.

(32:45):
It's a it's a totally different deal. What is like, Yeah,
what is that? Like? What kind of dudes are in
the independent league? Is it people that are expected to
be in the draft? Is it a lot of old
dudes that are still hanging on?

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Like?

Speaker 2 (32:57):
What's the independent league? Like?

Speaker 4 (32:59):
So, the the New Britain League, it was just a
college summer league.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
OK.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
So for the Yeah, the Cape wasn't going on that summer.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
You played the Cape Cod League, right, I did.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
I played for I think it was twenty nineteen summer,
which was.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
A belief that it's a party.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Ye Jesse deal.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
That was a great experience, But I think it was
just you know, anybody that got the opportunity and wanted
to play a little bit extra and you know, luckily
they were able to put that on during COVID and everything.
So it was good, and there was there was talent
in that league Selfreel Likeck was in that league, Ben
Rice was in that league. It was the few I'm
pretty sure it's the futures League, okay, and so there
was there was good talent. I think for me for

(33:38):
the most part, it was just like, Hey, I'm going
to go out there, you know, get five starts in
or whatever it was. I think I was built up
to maybe three or four innings or so and just
kind of see where I was at, get you know,
let people see me for the first time on the
mound in a long time, and it kind of just
propelled everything going into the fall.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Share share with the listeners. The Cape Cod League, we
hear about it all the time. It's people from everywhere,
the best college players go out to the Cape and uh,
we had a family friend that pitched for Katuit like
two years ago, and just hearing the stories. You shack
up with a family, it's not like you're in dorms.
Like walk us through what that summer is like.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah, it's it's pretty amazing. I think I think that
playing in the Cape is the closest thing to Pro Bowl.
It's and obviously it's at the back end of a
college season, so everybody's pretty tired out. But I think
that's when you know, scouts in these front offices want
to see what guys are doing that late in the year,
that late after a season. And yeah, so I lived with.

(34:36):
My roommate was Zach Brisky, who's a reliever for the
for the Nationals. He's in the big leagues, which is
pretty cool. I think he debuted. I think it was
late last year also when we we had an absolute blast,
great group of guys. I I think our our host
dad was a cook in the military.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
So we're eating good and then obviously just like we're
go the.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Guy who had got cut off acalyps map.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
But no, it was a lot of fun. We were
right on the water too. Folmouth is a is a
great spot, so it was awesome.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Lobster rolls all night, baseball all day. Jessica Biel and
what was that guy's been on the show? That actor,
the guy that played in that movie Fever Pitch about
the Cape League Lillard, matt.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
There you go, Yeah, Sag Matthew.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
We got to ask you there, Casparius, Uh of of you?
Because I see I like, I see like somebody talking
to Show hey, and he's like, yeah, dude, like he's
speaking English, and and and I could tell. And Fernando
he lied forever. Fernando Aalezuela spoke English beautifully and and
bamboozled us all just because he didn't want to talk

(35:46):
to anybody for like decades, not for like a year,
forever his whole career. Uh, who speaks better English? Between
Otawni and Yamamoto? And I mean, are they really speaking English?
Like the sons of Beaches, you know or anything like that?
Like what's going on in there? People want to know.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
I think I think he almost speaks better English.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Interesting. I'm pretty sure that's an interesting But.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
I've had more conversation, I've been around him more just
with being in the dugout for both not pitching or
and shows obviously his life and just you know how
much he has going on out see him nearly as much.
But I think, honestly, I think Rokie might he might
speak better English than both of them, or at least
for how little time he spent in the US like

(36:30):
he he We were all pretty surprised how good as
English was when he got here.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
A lot of a lot of swear words.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
No, like I mean, is Will the thrill sort of
like a appendix, Like you don't need him in real
life because they actually speak English.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
No, Will's really good at his job. He's actually like
he he does so much behind the scenes. I think
he's And I found this out a couple a couple
of weeks, so I didn't realize he's been with the
organization for I think close to ten years maybe.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah, with him, it was uh he was with Uh
was it for you that? No, that was Korean guy.
He was Maeta. Yeah, he was his translator.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Yeah. So I mean they speak they speak pretty good English.
But again, like I don't think it's perfect. And they
definitely need Will for sure for interviews.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
So we did the Independent League, the CACUT. What about
the miners? We love the minor leagues. We were just
out in Rancho Kook celebrating Joe Kelly getting his bibble
head out there. You made every stop, right is the loons?

Speaker 3 (37:26):
The uh?

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Then you have what Tulsa, Oklahoma City I don't know
if I'm missing anything in there.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
No, it's I think it's those four.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, So what kind of walks? Which the best one?
Which one did you did you enjoy the most? How
different are they from one another? What's it like being
a great lake loon?

Speaker 4 (37:41):
I I did not enjoy Michigan.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
I did not enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
The the beginning of the season's freezing and then honestly,
the I think the switch from the freezing cold to
the humidity out there is tough, and I think the
town itself is a little bit desolate too. But my
favorites were I loved Rancho. I had a really great time.
I didn't. I wasn't there very long, but I loved
to be Like, the weather was great, and obviously it

(38:05):
was super new for me being the first level, so
I had a lot of energy and was excited to
be there. And then Tulsa for sure told the field's great,
the city's pretty awesome. I think we we probably drew
I think like five thousand and six thousand on average
night too, so like it felt like a real like
great atmosphere and obviously, like you know, right up the
road is okay. See and then obviously like travel gets

(38:26):
a little bit better. You're kind of, you know, playing
against a lot of big league guys for the first time.
You're you know, as a twenty five year old. I
think I was in the clubhouse. I wasn't exactly you know,
like the oldest guy around too, so I was considered
pretty young for that team also. But it's a grind.
It's a grind for sure. But I think, you know,
like top to bottom, we have, you know, such a

(38:46):
good coaching staff across the board. You know, our front
office is is so smart. They know what guys need,
they know, you know, next steps for development, this and that.
So I felt like I was taking.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Care of day.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
I never got into I had.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
I mean, just something.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
A lot of guys are a lot of them crossables still. Honestly,
I think a lot of guys are still crushing across
the west.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Tulsa is the Austin of the North. That's what they say. Uh,
we're gonna do one more. In the next segment, Ben
Casparius is gonna interview us.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
What I'm just kidding, Uh, we'll.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Be right back and you know, any questions he asked
for us, though, we will answer In the very next segment,
Ben Casparius almost out of the woods on the inside
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Speaker 3 (39:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Everybody will be right back with a great Dodger young pitcher.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
What a guy. Fundly everybody wants crying and welcome back. Mercifully.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Coming to an end is our interview with Ben Casparius.
Mercifully for him, he's been great Dodger right hander. Our
boss Paul Corbino just explained to me the opponent, Westport, Connecticut,
is like he said, it's a nice play tony. He said,
hi brow, which you know I mean, I could see that.
The only time I heard Consparius's voice change to where

(40:11):
he looked like he wanted to bow up on somebody
was when we asked about the hitting, you know, and
then it felt like, you know that that your even
keel nature became a little bit competitive. And I do
have to ask because it seems like the most badass
thing in the world is striking a guy out and
they throw the ball around and you're just kind of
standing there and they throw the ball back to you

(40:31):
and the next guy's got to walk up there, and
you know, you're all casparious out. How do you how
do you, uh, how do you keep yourself from getting
too geeked like Vessia? You know, because one of these
days somebody's gonna get mad at Vessia. You know, he
gets all geeked up, and you know if you do, yeah,
somebody's gonna you know, So how do you because I
could tell you're you're.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
I'm trying to I'm trying to be I'm trying to
just be calm because I know that like I'm a
high energy guy, Like I'm like moving around for the
majority of the game, whether you know, going in earlier late,
but just like honestly, just focusing on breathing, just try
to relax and just look normal.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
When do you start sweating? Because it seems like every
picture that takes the mound by the time they throw
that first pitch, that the sweat is just pulling off the.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
Bating like the day.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
So probably like the minute I get outside them, no
matter what the temperature is. Yeah, well, no, like you
were just in San Francisco, You're going into the tent.
It's a high leverage situation. You sweat me out there.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
It was a day game. I was sweating. It wasn't
terrible though. Okay, it's been worse for sure, all right,
and the humidity doesn't help in some places.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
So let's uh before because we got about I don't know,
three minutes here. This is a little technical just watch yeah, right,
every day. I can't wait. I looked up the casparious
pitch mix. Four pitch mix? Is that right? I see
four seam halfa on the TV sweeper? Uh thirty two
percent of the time, cutter twenty percent of the time,

(41:56):
curve fifteen percent of the time.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
That's a good arsenal.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Uh, walk me through the sweeper versus the curve when
you throw it? Who comes up with when you're gonna
throw something? How you're gonna throw something? Do you trust
will Smith and Dalton? Implicitly? Do you have your own approach?
Like how do you how do you come up with
this mix here?

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Yeah? I think obviously for you know, different teams have
different philosophies, But for the most part, we do a
lot of we do a lot of game planning in
terms of, you know, can we get guys out going
like a more north south attack with the fastball and
the curveball, or is it more, you know, an east
west attack with the slider. But I think for the
most part this year it's been more it's been curveball

(42:33):
over the slider against lefties. Like I haven't really thrown
a ton of sliders to lefties unless it's for chase.
But yeah, I think I think it really depends by
team and then obviously by guy and who handles what,
and you know what are they Are they going to
chase the slider below the zone? Are they going to
chase the fastball above the zone? And just kind of
just going throughout the game and at bats, like how

(42:53):
do we get to certain counts and what can we
use in those counts.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
I saw I was watching I think it was Sunday
Night Baseball that had it. It was Terrek's schooble and I
can't remember who he was facing, but it was the
first batter. I don't know if you saw this, but
it was like he has thrown a fastball as his
first pitch for like a hundred consecutive starts or something,
and this guy has swung it fastball on the first
pitch every single time, and he threw his first curveball
of the season on a first pitch. Are you that

(43:18):
tuned in? Like, do you is that? Does it get
that deep into the scouting report when you guys get
ready to go out there?

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Yeah? I think so, I think so. I mean there's
a reason he's doing. I mean and then again too,
like you're looking at you know, how aggressive is a
guy in oh accounts? Is he you know? Does in
you know? Does he is he auto taking on curveball
or slider or spin his first pitch of the bat?
Are they super aggressive? You know with runners in scoring positions?
So there are all these data points that kind of,
you know, at least give us an idea of what

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is the best option.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
When you're sweating out there.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Yeah, it's a lot.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
And for all your parents that are ruining your kids'
lives with travel baseball year round. No, this Casparius not
only a hitter, also a pitcher and a hooper in
high school as well. Casparius at Staples High in Connecticut.
Most famous alarm.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Well, what does Casparius think the most famous alarm? Yes,
I don't say the porn star.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
I didn't even know that.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
So, but that God, that's like what porn star and
I said the name was.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Like, yeah, I was like gesus fifty eight many fifty five.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
I think I think Paul Newman went to Staples.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Who right, well, that would that would that would be
the most famously I mean, he's arguably the most famous
connetic maybe Connecticut.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
No Christopher Lloyd, you know who? That is?

Speaker 2 (44:39):
No Showscape from Taxi Back to the Future, Doc Brown,
the Scientists, but ye comes twenty Yeah, maybe the.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Future is prevalent, is it? I'd like to think so.
I guess Paul Newman.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
I told you he didn't go to Staples.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Claiming Newman hold on no bull of lums, Lindsey Adario,
photo journalist Britt Baron, some actress guy named Ben Casparius.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Ever heard of him?

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Marilyn Chambers.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
There it is, yes, see freaks, it was a different time.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Kevin Conroy, the actor, I'm feeling like he does like
Batman voiceover, let her go.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
So I'm feeling like.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
If Newman went there, yeah, I know, he'd be at
the top of the list, right.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
I don't know. Somebody told me that though, So there
it's their fault.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
I went through life believing a lot of things if
people told me they were not true, but we know
one thing to be true, Matt. We appreciate Ben Casparis
most definitely.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Round of applause Ben Casparius, and a big thank you,
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you are and those of you who are watching on
the IG, A big thank you to Modelo again. We
helped take them to number one and we're helping him
stay at number one. Modelo especial the fight and spirit
for those that like to fight like Ben. If you
want to take the bat out of his hands.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Here's the best part.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Paul Newman, not even from Connecticut's an Ohio guy right
Shaker Heights, Ohio Shaker Heights High School.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
You tell them who told you that?

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (46:36):
What a star have a great All Star break. What
a champion you are.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
Thank you guys, Thank you guys.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
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