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July 14, 2025 • 38 mins
Petros and Money give you a fun fact and then Quick Hits plus Dead and Alive Guy!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's why you dve TiO, you dight Smart, Grice, Nova.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
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(00:32):
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weekend between now and then, four hours, sixteen hours over
four days of the Petros and Money.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Show nineteen over five.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Exactly right.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
You can call me when I'm on my way to Vegas. Ah,
it is time horses. Yeah, well, I'm not breaking anything
except for bread with Uncle Mendenhall. That's true. Broun, good
to see it again. I love Bronco. Who doesn't I
don't know, but probably the people in New Mexico since
you know he left. But uh, one of the most

(01:12):
interesting coaches I've ever spoken to. Bronco Mendenhall big dude,
very yeah, not as big.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
He looks big.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
He looks big, He looks very stoic, Yeah, and remains stoic,
but professorial light in his delivery either way.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Looks like he'd punch a hole right through you.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah. Good, well, you know, with the help of the
Mormon God certainly, and the Mormon Mormon God got nothing
from MODELO. It's but it's a modello. Meets a lot
of Monday here State Side. It's not a real meach
if it's not made with MODELO. I mean State Side,
you know not Utah Okay, Adam Okay. Ace Bailey is

(01:50):
not the only one that likes to drink. It's not
made with MODELO. It's not a real meach. It's a
reward for those with a fighting spirit. And I don't
know if you heard that, but that peanut butter skin
did not get renewed.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
No, those mounds and that peanut butter he will not
have to worry about workplace confrontations of a sexual nature.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Work there anyway.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
So yeah, so there's that hell.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I work over there, and I never even see peanut
butter skin. I see the peanut butter Wolf. Make sure
you check out the Instagram Live for the Ben Casparious
thing that we did earlier, brought to you by Modello
and our good friends at Marongo Casino Resort and Spa.
And a big thank you to our friends at the

(02:39):
Doghouse as well. It's time for the fun facts effect.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, we're three fun fun fact speaking of horses and
Ben Casparius you mentioned, joined us from the four to
five o'clock hour there from inside the locker room here
at iHeartRadio. Did you know Connecticut, the birthplace of Ben,
is also the birthplace of the motor vehicle speed limit.
In nineteen o one. They recognize things were a little unruly,

(03:08):
so in an effort to quell the carnage, they required
drivers of a motor carriage to slow for horse drawn
carriages or stop entirely if horses appeared frightened.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
You know, that's where it started. Matt started there with
the speed limit, right and next thing you know, they
say you gotta wear a helmet when you're ride a motorcycle.
Then you can't drink a tall boy. And look where
we are now. They take sixty percent of our money.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
They then took it a step further, like you said,
you know, it's just fun.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Stop and said go home and have a couple shooters.
You come back and you're a different lady.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
All motor vehicles had to limit their speed at twelve
miles an hour in the city and fifteen miles an
hour on the country road.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
We used to be a proper country.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I believe we still are. I believe we still are
a proper country.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Not now with laws like that, Matt.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Not that that's.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Taking half the money. The state's taking all our money
down with nothing. It's time. It's time for the quick hit.
Some to the ms quick hits. Come make it quick, y'all. Yeah,
he needs to cut British throats just for a three
percent tax on tea. And now we just bend over

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and wear it.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I feel like we don't have a choice.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, it's like crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Unless you want to go live off that grid.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I mean, they're gonna come and take your stuff if
you don't pay them it to Wesley.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Snipes got out to Joshua Trup, but they did the snipes.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
The demolition man pulled home and they demolished his whole body.
Lawyers got his hair died back Dodgers and Angels both
offer the All Star like we need to tell people.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
That they're off the Star break. I thought a couple
of teams kept playing.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I hate All Star Week.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Dodgers are five and a half games up in the
NL West. The Angels are nine games back in the
AL West, but four game was back of the wild
card spot in the AL. Well.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's a good update on all things baseball.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
According to your favorite Beard, Matt, there is a new
ESPN report about.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah. Dave McManamon, while standing courtside in all white like
he was playing at Wimbledon, shared that in poking around
uh that Rich Paul James's agent was contacted by four
teams with interest in trading four time MVP. Which four

(05:34):
teams he would not say. Speculation though suggests.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I'm not a virgin. You don't know her. She's Canadian
and phone at camp.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
They're they're amish, they have no phones.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's impassive social footprint.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Clippers, Warriors, Cavaliers, and Mavericks reportedly are the teams that inquired.
Lebron was offered a chance to speak on TV at
the Lake Or Summer League game over the weekend, but
much like he told us, Oh, I don't do radio
off Mike.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
He said, I ain't got nothing to say.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
We are, I ain't got nothing to say. I'm Jabron Lake. Yeah,
and then I got none to say. On social media
there's like the people taking pictures of all the media
taking pictures of Lebron. They're like, leave them a watch
that he got forced to draft here and while we're
talking about the NBA, Adam sitting over there with like
a look on his face. You know what Adam look
on his face is like, you know what the bully

(06:32):
and idiots, the bully and Napoleon dynamite. That blonde guy
every time Napoleon's do it every day.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
It looked like he was sixty.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, He's always like this, this sucks. Like he's all
reluctant to clap, you know after the dance. That's what
Adam looks like. Whenever we talk about the NBA, like Clippers.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
No way, it's no chip. What are they gonna trade?
What's the package?

Speaker 1 (06:50):
And it can book where Brook Lopez wanted to play.
Chargers train You want to crack the bike? No, it's
it's blowing. The Chargers training camp is underway at el segundo,
it's bloony. Every rookie except for one reported to the
Bolt number fifty five overall pick, Brodnie James wide receiver

(07:13):
Trey Harris had an old missus a no show because
of the whole second round thing.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, the NFL media reporting second round pick. This was
Ian Rapaport, who shared that he was officially a training
camp hold out. Why, as you said, he was drafted
in the second round. And the captain as you like
to call him, Captain America, Carson Swesssinger and Jaden Daniels,
the wide receiver out of Iowa State, were handed fully

(07:37):
guaranteed contracts by the Browns. Seems like they got themselves
into a bit of a mess with a fully guaranteed
contract earlier.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Higgins, is that the guy, Jaydon Higgins?

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I'm sorry, Yes, And who's that? The other guy's the
basketball player Jaylen Williams. Still, you know Adams in my head?
I can't get the NBA up my brain.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
You said, Jayden Daniels, did I? Yeah, got I'm an idiot. Well,
you know, there's a lot of a lot of strands
in the old Duder's head. You know what I'm saying,
I got a lot of guys out there floating around
point being.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Two people got guaranteed contracts, the other thirty don't want
to sign until they get a guaranteed contract.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
If you got not gonna happen, this is a great
year to get picked in the second round. Indeed, if
you betty, you're gonna pay me, not paying you. Me
and my friend Browny James want to get paid.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, then I ain't showing up.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Okay, don't show up.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Oh you with your team centric attitude. I'm a player.
I'm player first. I'm a player's broadcaster. That's what they
call me, like a player's coach. Thinking Browns man, you
screwed up for everybody with Deshan Watson to know you
do this. You're making it so these rich owners getting
not as rich.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
They deserve to keep all that money.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
John Alway is not gonna face charges related to the
death of his longtime friend, which I'm sure it is
good adjustment. Great news, yes, but probably still a tough
time yes for Jeff Spurbeck, who died in April from
injuries suffered when he fell off a golf cart that
Elway was driving in Riverside County. Specifically, I believe lakinta.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Your neck of the woods. Well, I'm sure Fred covered it,
but he doesn't really know what goes on in the
desert and that's coming through in the real According to
some locals out there, that.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Is what my uh my brother's mother in law said,
Courtney Keel, his mother, Joyce.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Keel, he said he doesn't know the desert.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
He doesn't understand the desert.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's one of my favorite stories.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Is that sit at the table's show.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
He doesn't understand the desert.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
ESPN understands league executives. They surveyed them and coaches and
scouts to help us rank.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Hey, coach the top.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Ten players and eleven different positions from quarnerback to cornerback.
Today was quarterback Patrick Mahomes rank number one. What?

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yes, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Kermit the Frog is the number one Muppet. Patrick Mahomes
is the number one quarterback? What? Followed by Josh Allen.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Again, what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Joe Burrow? What?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
This is the craziest list I've ever heard.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Mattine Idol, Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Listen, not enough people are talking about how a tracted
he is.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Why did they talk about Garoppolo? Right.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
You got Garoppolo and Joe Burrow and everybody thinks their
heart throbs. What about Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Jaydeon Daniels, who was just mentioned playing a different sport,
and Matthew Stafford sixth.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
I wonder what Kelly thinks about that she.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Burned her private parts trying to wax herself. I heard
in the podcast you heard it or you heard about it.
I heard about it, and then you heard the clip.
I didn't listen to the clip. I couldn't bring myself
to click. Herbert was ranked seven, really low. Jared Goff

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and the guy that won the Super Bowl, Jalen Hurts
and Baker Mayfield round out the top ten. You'd think
the guy that just won the Super Bowl would be
a little high higher.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, but especially since they built the offense around his
particular skill set.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
I guess they have they have an idea about what
he's like.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Man, did you see Baker shot gun and beers out
there in Tahoe?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Tim?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Are we going up to Tahoe for the celebrity golf tournament?

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Man? I saw that Aaron Rodgers. Some kid is like,
you almost hit me with your club, Aaron Rodgers. He
was like almost just a count kid. He's got like
a big vodka crat.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
I was like, wow, he freaking quiz some other kid
that wanted an autograph. Where did I go to college?

Speaker 1 (11:29):
I don't know. Out the son of that. It's like, geez,
so close to Tahoe. You know you should have said something.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
I guess the marriage isn't going that well. Stripe and
Discord at home?

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Was she the caddy? Who day one of the SEC
media days? Former Alabama quarterback? What if it's a dude.
What if some dude like Michael Sam's boyfriend Vito Veto Veto,
they're all making out of the sideline. What if the
freaking tunnel opens open the season in Pittsburgh and Veto

(12:03):
comes pransing out there?

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh yeah, Veto upgraded from Michael Sam Aaron Rodgers. That'd
be sweet.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
I can still see it in my mind's eye.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Who Veto Samy? I remember Vito? Former Alabama quarterback and
current ESPN analyst Greggie McElroy said today that he spoke
to someone who's adamant Nick Saban will return to the
college football ranks. I'm very much in the no person
that I have a lot of respect for spent a
lot of time around and really really admire. They seem

(12:34):
to think Nick Saban is not done coaching. Well, he
works at your network. I guess you could just call
him and he played for him.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Right, Hey, miss Terry, your husband want to get back
in is your Is your source?

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Nick Saban or Miss Terry? It feels like that's your source.
It feels like Miss Terry's your sort.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I'm destined that maybe Nixie's old Jordan over there with
Bill Belichick at seventy three and he's like.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Maybe maybe it's time I get back into this game.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
I don't think Nick is gonna Miss Terry. On a day,
former NFL quarterback turned high school football coach Teddy Pendergrast,
I mean Teddy Bearridgewater was suspended from Miami Northwesterns best
singer providing impermissible benefits to his players. Well, what's the

(13:20):
point of planning in the NFL for a bunch of
years if you can't buy your high school football team
a bunch of crap they don't need, right, He revealed
in a Facebook post Sunday, You're wearing gloves.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
I don't want to wear gloves.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
You're wearing gloves.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
May stem from a post Bridgewater put on Facebook last week.
In the post, he revealed that he covered uber rides, meals,
and recovery services for his players last season. He asked
fans to donate and cover those expenses this year so
they wouldn't have to come directly from his pocket, and
that drew attention.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Apparently you can't pay for your players uber rides, meals
and recovery So I mean.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
I guess you can, but try not to bring anybody's
attention to it, right because you got away with it
until you brought it up.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Pender Gas, well, I think Pendergas maybe just not Pendergrass
and Bridgewater, all of them perhaps don't know the rules allegedly,
you know, they're just not familiar with the rules.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
And we'll be back. We know the rules. The Petro
somebody show on m five seventy LA Sports your Home
of the Dodger. Yes, forever We're on till seven.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's you're saying money in five seventy LA Sports Lab
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app four o'clock hour, we were
graced with the presidence of Ben Casparius joined us inside
the locker room. A full hour production courtesy of our
friends over at Morongo Casino Resort and spot if you
missed it, decided to give you a little bit of
a best of ben here in the six o'clock hour.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
So five years ago, Casparius was still a pretty young guy.
How old are you right now, Casparius twenty six? Five
years ago during COVI? That's right, twenty are you twenty six?
Go ride? Well, you're in the same age. But being
a young guy and being a professional has got to

(15:06):
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 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

(15:26):
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 (15:35):
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 one hundred miles an hour, like, there's people, you know,
chasing after your job. So I think for me, that's

(15:57):
my motivation just to you know, stay on the team,
help the team win in and I know that it's
you know, it's a competitive sport for sure.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
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, and I'm
sure you deal with different guys that have all kinds
of different levels of confidence going about their jobs. But
are you surprised with your ability to, like you say,
stay on the team, have success, come in and support

(16:24):
of guys like shoe hail tany come in in extra
innings to finish off the the first half. You know
that that's a lot of responsibility for sure.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
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 I 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

(16:58):
terms of the communication 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 (17:06):
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. It's like a video game. We put him

(17:27):
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 (17:43):
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 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

(18:04):
ever 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
back 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

(18:26):
do well, do 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 (18:33):
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 doa like how detailed? I if I say, hey,
walk us through that first appearance.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
What was it?

Speaker 4 (18:52):
I faced faced Jock Peterson and you float to right
on a slider, No pearls. I didn't strike anybody out.
That was a bummer. And then I know Peven Smith
flew out to right center right on a fastballping.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
In and between those two was.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
Oh it was it was Guryel Yes and Tommy I
hadn't made a diving playing kind of in center.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Field, so you can you can see that in your
mind's eye. Yeah, we 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 (19:27):
I got the ball, and I got the I got
the lineup card too, and I.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Got the win.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Right, You got to win in your first appearance. That
was pretty cool, I would say, so. Yeah. 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

(19:53):
the CS.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
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 S game against the Mets.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
But how different did that feel against the Mets, if
at all, then it did against the Diamondbacks in August.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
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.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Like I knew.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
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
pitched against the Mets in New York and I think
it was Game two. I want to.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Say, yes, or I pitched it three times against you
pitched three times against them?

Speaker 4 (20:38):
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 and it was pretty It was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Set yourself short.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
There is no leverage in the postseason.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
That's a little bit lower.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
I'm a low leverage broadcaster. The great Ben Casparius. The
age of Casparius is upon us. That's right. A thoughtful,
measured pitching conversation on a Monday, that's what we want.
And a big thank you to our friends at Marongo
Casino Resort and spotless in ninety minutes down to ten
from wherever you are celebrating twenty years of good time. Now.

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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 hard is it
to develop? You know? I mean you still ended up
where you wanted to be. But how much of a
setback was that?

Speaker 4 (21:36):
It was interesting? I think in my case, honestly, I
think the I couldn't play that year, the COVID year,
so my waiver didn't go through, so.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
I'm kind of clearing house loser.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
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 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

(22:09):
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 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.

(22:29):
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,
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

(22:51):
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
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,

(23:12):
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 1 (23:24):
You could have listened to us. We were doing four
hours a day reading.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
By the way, the first time your Connecticut accent showed
up there. 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

(23:50):
the independent league. That's different than a minor league team.
It's a it's a totally different deal.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
What is like? Yeah? What is that? Like?

Speaker 2 (23:57):
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 1 (24:04):
Like?

Speaker 3 (24:05):
What's the independent league like?

Speaker 4 (24:06):
So the the New Britain League, it was just a
college summer league. Okay, so for the Yeah, the Cape
wasn't going on that summer. You played the Cape Cod League, right,
I did? I played for I think it was twenty
nineteen summer, which was Aunbelieva.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
That's a party, yeah, Jesse deal.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
That was a great experience.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
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. Selfrelick
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

(24:45):
for me for 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 (25:03):
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
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 (25:22):
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.

(25:44):
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 think our our host dad
was a cook in the military. Nice so we're eating

(26:04):
good and then obviously just like we're government, but no,
it was a lot of fun. We were right on
the water too. Falmouth is a is a great spot,
so it was awesome.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
When we return. One last segment gets You're Dead and
a live guy Birthday of the Day. Then we'll hand
it over to Fox Sports Radio Tonight with Jason Smith
and Matt Harmon.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Thank you for listening to the Petro Sayd Money Show.
It is a Modello meet you a lot of Monday.
A big thank you to coach Andy Wise from Corona
High and Ben Casparius for the Age of Casparius and
our friends at the Dog House. Thanks to the Dog
House for the game changing hot dogs this Wednesday. Gets

(26:46):
yours free on National Hot Dog Day with the House
Rewards app you want it.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah, that's a good dog. There's no doubt about It's
an exceptional dog. Enjoy it with a Modello fighting spirit.
Celebrating also Maroango Casino Resort and Spa twenty years at
good Times And Matt, we're back out of tomorrow at
three o'clock, three to seven shows this week as it

(27:12):
is the All Star break, and we make our way
toward a Friday return to the Gallpin Motors broadcast booth
for a first pitch at seven to ten against the Brewers,
but the Dodgers off. So four hour shows today through Thursday.
And you know what that means. Three hour shows for
Rogan and Rodney right before us. You're gonna get a
lot of great sports. And down to seven.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Pm, Rodney was able to wax poetically about how cool
it was to watch the Godfather on Magic's boat moored
right outside of the island of Sicily.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
You know what that's like?

Speaker 1 (27:45):
No, I gotta be honest, I don't know how that is.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
You think our boss does what?

Speaker 1 (27:53):
No?

Speaker 3 (27:53):
I think our boss I don't.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
I don't. You know. He's a Kansas City guy.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
You that's the story you got.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
He's landlocked.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
I tuned in to Rogan and Roddney earlier today. Rodney
was talking about one of his classmates that only had
one testicle. That's the conversation I got on Rogan and
Rodney earlier today.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
You're a dead guy. Birthday of the day. Well, they're
ready for They're ready for the rest of the week.
Try Irving Stone. Irving Stone believes I've celebrated this man before.
You know what, Once you clean up your mind, I
can't heard the one ball. Irving Stone one hundred and
twenty two years old today, real name Irving Tennenbaum in

(28:31):
San Francisco. He was born took Stone his stepfather's surname.
Where's my music? It was a good reader. Went to
cow Berkeley before the alle Well, you don't know what

(28:55):
he does. You don't know what he did for a living.
Might ended up being a cal Worthington guide or cal
State you know north rig Sure now he went to
cal Berkeley. Pre acc Berkeley, he traveled to Paris with
his first wife, and in that time he was doing
research on Vincent van God and went as far as

(29:16):
to make friends with Van Goh's old doctor that treated
Van go became close with him and started writing about
van Go. He left his first wife for his secretary,
but not before his first wife help him name his
van Go historical novel, which was named I'm Worth a

(29:38):
Million in Prizes, No Lust for Life. It was named
Lust for Life, which is why you have that title
and the iggy pop song and all that was rejected
by seventeen publishers before it was published in nineteen thirty four,
and it was a huge success. The ex secretary new
wife became his editor Lust for Life My Wife. Game

(30:00):
a movie won an Oscar for Anthony Quinn, but Kirk
played Vincent van Go.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
He won the Globe, was only nominated for the Oscar Douglas.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Is there any other Kirk Cameron? It was not Kirk Cameron.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Matt, you know, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
I mean, what am I doing?

Speaker 4 (30:20):
No?

Speaker 2 (30:20):
I'm sorry? It's high art.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
How dare I exactly right? Wait?

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Do you see what I'm coming with speaking at?

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Leave me alone? I'm doing mine. Geez, you didn't play
by the rules anymore.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
TAM's the rules.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
His other most famous biography or historical fiction work was
The Agony in the Ecstasy, probably his most famous book
written about Michael Angelo, or as Matt would call him
I love it. In nineteen sixty one, Michelangelo was played

(30:58):
by Charlton Heston and the Pope was played by Rex
Sir Rex Harrison. One of the greatest movies ever made,
where Heston just screams and my heart let me create
my heart, the agony and the ecstasy.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
I wish he'd show more emotion in his act.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Not enough, No too robotic. Yes, he did bios on
Jack London, John and Abigail Adams, Freud, Earl Warren Darwin,
very prolific. Wrote fiction, two lots of biographies and historical
fiction kind of mixed in there. Some of them are
technically one or the other, but lots of stuff on

(31:37):
many many prolific topics. Had a book on the Discovery
of Troy that became a famous German movie. His papers,
my work papers, my various employment papers and what is
it that you do, sir, I'm unemployed. His papers are
kept at the Bancroft Library on campus at count He
died in la in nineteen eighty nine at the age

(32:00):
of eighty six. A great twentieth century biographer, Irving Stone
and before you get to your big.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Thing, Oh, I really got high brow here.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, you better chill it. You better spit the bit,
because I have Michaelangelo as Charlton Heston being shown the
roof of the Sistine Chapel by Rex Harrison and given
the assignment of painting it. Your commission is to decorate
the ceiling absorbent your father a sculptor, and another pater.

(32:58):
Can it be that you are afraid?

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Do you doubt your ability to complete such a tis?

Speaker 1 (33:03):
I'm not afraid, Holiness, but nothing, Holy Father, pretty well,
but this you will be paid three two thousand suckets
less the rent of the house I will provide for you.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I want to see it. I want to see the
rest of it right now, three or four times the
rest of it right now.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
What do you got?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
A live guy? Hit it, Adam, let's go, Daniel Smith.
Am I a huge Basteelee fan? No, but I like
the cut of this guy's.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Chip Oh Pompei.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
As catchy as hell. And it was one of the
biggest songs on the planet in twenty thirty.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Oh very high brown.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Hey you a comp right, and one of the biggest
songs of the year globally.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
We're gonna celebrate you.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
And again the interviews I like this guy, and I
do remember him, probably courtesy of Tim Kates repurposing his content,
being very positive and prevalent during the COVID lockdowns, like Hey,
let's let's make some beats together, let's bond, let's hang out.
Virtually this sucks, but let's make the best of it. Huh, people,

(34:28):
So happy thirty ninth to our guy Dan.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
It was so cool when they were ripping surfers out
of the ocean and arresting.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah, it made so much sense. Come out of the ocean. No,
but you have to No, no, come back in your house. No, No,
release the murder hornets.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
You guys out there, get away from each other.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
No.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
He was born in London, King's College, Wimbledon, University of Leeds.
One of your people, pee and English lit.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Nature.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
We all hang out, th es you do.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
He was the student news Afer's film in literary cred
if you wanted to be a filmmaker, but said he
realized quickly he was not good at it, So starts
playing the piano, starts writing songs, gets into the computer
beats on his laptop and it was a hobby until
a buddy at university says all night now that Leeds
brought Young Things competition. Hey he did, and he took

(35:19):
it all the way to the finals fight Jamaica, and
from there in his roommate decided maybe this band thing
will work out. He graduates and who's back to London.
He forms Past Steele in twenty ten. A year later
his muse David Lynch. His single Laura Palmer hits the
clubs and takes off and Virgin immediately signs him. He

(35:39):
gets put on the festival circuit, sets up their first
pop electronic single, also homage to David Lynch. Overjoy huge
in the UK. Their album Bad Blood's Doing Okay put
out three singles, none of really hit it big Top
twenty types.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Hey that table take it right?

Speaker 2 (35:56):
This was their fourth single. It took him four songs
on the album to get to this and again he
was hung.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Over and he just stepped on the synthesizer on his way.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Number one in the UK, number two in the US,
won the Breakthrough Artist Award at the Brits. They've done
five albums, sold eleven million albums, Still working, still throwing.
Bastille of course, named after today best still Day dance Birthday.
They do a lot of covers, and you'd probably hear
that they are not how should we put it now?

(36:28):
They are not protective of their songs. They are in
quite a few commercials, television shows, it was, and it is.
They do covers that are licensed. Killing me softly dancing
in the dark. Can't fight this feeling by Rio showed
up on a law firm advert that I took in
on the YouTube.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Well, you know, I mean, wait till your fourth single
to break, you know, I feel like might not happen again.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
I'm gonna be an optimist about this.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
I tell you, I'm gonna sell it all.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
We're gonna settle it, is what we're gonna do. Dan,
We're gonna settle it by saying happy thirty nine. Way
to go with Bastile and POMPEII.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
I don't see why they don't just write about English stuff.
You freaking brit You have no right to write about
an Italian disaster. Kind of you to talk about a
French jail.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
How am I going to be an optimist about Pompei?

Speaker 1 (37:18):
You're an idiot, right, something about freaking Birmingham?

Speaker 3 (37:20):
You freaking I saw that statue of the dude touching himself.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Stupid bloke all right, a nice guy you know.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Not to me, well you don't know.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
But after listening to you something you don't know him
like I do, automatically against him.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
You don't know Daniel Smith like I do.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Everybody lockdown, band together.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
I didn't take time in the way you're talking about
me there, bloke.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
I want to miss him in this situation we currently
found ourselves in.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
How A'm gonna be an optimist about this by stopping tomorrow.
We'll be back at three. Have a great night everybody,
and thank you Adam and Katie for helping with the show.
This Contigua nine with the bo
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