Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "John Caparulo Returns"

It's Rock 108 Morning Show.

I first talked to our guest when he was on the Vince Vaughn Wild West comedy and then the blue collar next generation.

I mean, we're talking mid 2000s.

John Caparillo, welcome back to the Rock 108 Morning Show.

Hey.

Good to talk to you.

That was a hell of a run in the mid-2000s, and I think you've learned a little bit more out there on the road than maybe I have, because I'm

still

here.

Yeah, probably more than I wanted to, but yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, I got some miles on the odometer, yeah.

So, since then, you've done so much.

I mean, you've done late night, and now you're coming back to the First Avenue Club, and what is it about that particular place that you love so much?

I was, like, coming to the Midwest as people, you know, seemed to relate to me.

know, I'm, uh, I'm kind of fat and angry.

And I get, you know, a lot of people relate, I think.

So

I don't

know if it's, uh, I don't know what it is, but yeah, people tend to laugh.

So that's, that's always a plus.

Uh, it'd be my second time coming back there.

So yeah, it went well enough the first time.

So yeah, let's do it again.

Yeah.

And I relate to you cause I see you wearing a ball cap all the time, which has typically what Kent State University on it, right?

Yeah.

Well, uh, it did.

And then I started making my own, uh, hats.

Uh, cause I, the, I, well, at first I stole the Cleveland Indian C

and then, uh,

I thought, you know what, let's, uh, let's avoid legal trouble.

So then I've made my own C, but yeah, you know, but yeah, there's, there's been a lot of Kent state that in the past, Kent state, uh, Cleveland Indians, things like that.

Yeah.

You know, I was digging around and edurank.org has 98 notable alumni of Kent state.

Have you done this, uh, this deep dive yet?

No, I haven't.

Michael Keaton.

Batman 89 Steve, Steve Harvey's on this list.

Yeah.

I know Steve Harvey and Drew Carey and Arsenio, but I didn't know Michael Keaton went to Kent State.

I know he was used from Pittsburgh where, you know, I did a lot of, I started a lot of my standup career, but

I don't

know.

He went to Kent State.

You know, Chrissy of the pretenders, Joe Walsh of the Eagles, Dolph Ziggler, pro wrestler.

And I'm looking at number 98, Mary Ansher, who was like a jewelry designer.

And I feel like there's one.

Like, desperate omission here.

I don't see your name on this list.

Why?

I'm not on there, really?

No!

Why?

Oh, man, that looks like I'm gonna be... Maybe it's because I'm late on my student loan payments.

Maybe because I have an outstanding bill.

I don't know.

But yeah, that's probably it.

But no, I thought I'd be there.

Yeah, I mean, they welcomed me back and everything.

Uh, was on Chelsea lately.

That's where I met my wife, everything.

So yeah, I don't know.

But, uh, maybe we need to talk to that website.

I don't know.

Yeah, we get you.

Yeah, there

should be 99.

You know,

there we go.

Come on.

Yeah.

John Caparillo, our guest, First Avenue Club tonight in Iowa City.

Tickets still available for this one.

You can get General Mission, get yourself a table.

FirstAvenuClub.com.

What was your major at Kent State?

I didn't know if I knew

this.

Uh, my major?

pick up basketball.

Yeah, that was a problem too.

Yeah, I didn't really get much out of that education.

I had a personal policy was like, I'll either go to class or I'll buy the book.

But I'm not doing both.

You

know, it's like, you know what I mean?

Like, it just always seemed like, like, if I, I'm not going to spend a hundred bucks on the textbook, if I got to get up at 11.

So I

couldn't hear that you guys say, do you talk to me about the same stuff?

So, you know, but that, you know, that's

That's probably why I didn't get much out of my education.

But no, I majored in actually radio TV production, which yeah, and then every radio station I've gone to do interviews and stuff that I'm like, I don't recognize any of this stuff.

So yeah, it's it was the stuff I learned was obsolete within about a year.

So

Yeah, I paid $8,500 to get involved.

And somebody told me one time, yeah, you got a degree in that.

No, I got a completion certificate.

And I think I think you win.

Hey, yeah.

Well, if I win, that's a sad thing for you.

I don't know.

When you play college towns, I mean, Iowa City is a huge college town, University of Iowa.

And you know, because you've been here before.

Do you change up anything?

Does the set change at all when you play a college town?

You know, like if I go to a college itself, sometimes like there's like, you know, certain restrictions and things like that because, you know, I mean, they're still students and they got to worry about like what parents say and stuff like that.

But I mean, when it's just a club, you know, it's still just a club.

So it's like, you know, if it's just if it's university adjacent, you know, it's no big deal.

I can, you know,

I'm still going to cuss a lot, so yeah, no big

deal.

You have to make sure that you have your earmuffs if you don't like swear words

everywhere.

Right, if you don't like cussing, this probably isn't the show for you.

John Caparillo is our guest.

So besides the show tonight at the First Avenue Club in Iowa City, which begins at eight o'clock, what else do you have coming up, John?

I live in Las Vegas.

We've been here for a few years.

I have a show every Wednesday night at the Jimmy Kimmel Club if you're ever in Las Vegas.

coming to Iowa and then, uh, you know, anyplace else in the, uh, in the, in the general vicinity.

Um, yeah.

Check my website.

Your site again for P one nation.

Oh yeah.

John caparulo.com.

If you could spell John caparulo, you're good.

Yeah.

So yeah.

J O H N C A P A R U L O.com.

Do

it.

John, it's great to talk to you again.

It's been so long.

Thanks brother.

Great talking to you.

The rock 108 morning show.

with Brian Marshall.