The Three Questions with Andy Richter - Jimmy Pardo: Sports Fight Stories (The Andy Richter Call-In Show)

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

Comedian, actor, podcast host, and longtime CONAN warm-up comedian Jimmy Pardo joins "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" this week to hear your sports fight stories! In this episode of Andy’s weekly SiriusXM radio show, callers share stories about hockey brawls, insane little league parents, weird injuries, and much more.Want to call in? Fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER or dial 855-266-2604.This episode previously aired on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio (ch. 104). If you’d like to hear these episodes in advance, new episodes premiere exclusively for SiriusXM subscribers on Conan O’Brien Radio and the SiriusXM app every Wednesday at 4pm ET/1pm PT.

Conan O'Brien Radio! Conan O'Brien Radio! You guys, it's time for the Andy Rick to call in show. This is the only hour a week that I come alive. The rest of the time, I'm a bummer. Ask my family. I barely speak. But here on the radio with you people, this is where I'm at.

You're my family. And speaking of which, I have a part of my extended show business family here today. Jimmy Pardo is here with me. Hi Andy. Am I considered part of the family that you don't like talking to or are these new friends of yours on the radio that you do enjoy speaking with? No, no. You're absolutely part of the family that I enjoy talking to, but I don't like talking to anybody. You don't like talking to anybody.

You don't like, you'd rather be alone with your own thoughts. That's right. Do you go to the movies alone? I do. I love it. I do, I do, absolutely. I love it, no worry, you don't have to worry

if they're enjoying themselves, you don't have to worry about where you sit, it's all about me. Absolutely. And especially when being underemployed, it's like I'm gonna go escape from everything for a minute at three o'clock at the Alhambra Regal. I saw the Elto Kings yesterday, the new De Niro film,

which is getting horrible reviews. The what, Kings? I just think it's Elto, A-L-T-O. Is it about a musical group? It's mafia. Oh, oh, oh, okay. It's not the low end of the female part of the course. I believe it's like it was a bar or something that they hung out at, or a social club or

something. Sure, sure. It's getting horrible reviews, but to your point, I went and for two hours forgot about the rest of the world, which is collapsing around us. And you can go to Blue sky, which is more positive, but it's still collapsing around there as well. Absolutely. But they're very proud about how it's not negative

while it's all negative. It's really hard though. It's really hard to compartmentalize 100%. how fucking awful it is and to just kind of, you know, and then to also to not, you know, be like, I'm going to be part of the people who are, you know, microscopically examining every nuance

of how the world is a piece of shit. Like it's like, no, no, I get this sort of like, I get it. Yeah, I don't have to be that. And I'm not hiding or anything, but really I do feel like when it comes time to start throwing molotovs, I very well might be out there throwing molotovs. You'll be there.

Yeah, yeah, but until then, you know, all the... Where would we go? Here in Los Angeles, because I'm with you. I'm ready to go. I did the marches in 2016, or 17 rather. I did everything there that I thought was proactive. I was doing something, did nothing, he's back, and why won't he get hit by lightning? But, and that's it. Thane, you're a comedian. Shut up. Where do we go now? First of all, it's got to be somewhere with

parking. You like to park. Oh yeah, it's got to have parking. I'm going to take a Waymo. Oh, you're going to take a Waymo. That's good too. I'll take a Waymo. Yeah, yeah. That way I don't have to talk to anybody. I got a driverless car. Exactly. Exactly. And then I get in and I'm safe. Right, right. Or you can talk all you want. Yes. And you don't get any pushback. You know what? I don't really audition for anything anymore

because show business has left me behind. But in the old days I would rehearse my either monologue or scene in the car. Sure, of course. Waymo's the perfect spot for that. You're in the back doing your little skit. Have you ever done a Waymo? Oh yeah. Oh you have? Oh, I love it.

And it works, is it comparably expensive to a Lyft or an Uber? It might be, sometimes it's less, and sometimes it's more. I see. My son takes them all the time, and he loves them. It's like being in Disneyland, and you get in those cars, and it just kind of takes you around.

I love it. It's magic. It is kind of good, I guess, to put a kid in a Waymo too, because... There's no creep in the driver's lane. Yeah, you don't have to worry about the past offenses of the driver. Yeah, wow.

Yeah, so we... And also it's good too, that you're raising him to offenses of the driver. Yeah, wow. Yeah, so we... I know it's good too that you're raising him to be anti-social. Well, he's legally not allowed to drive. Right, oh really? Yeah, he's got really no choice to the matter. He's got to, I guess we could put him in Uber or... Is he 16 or?

He is 17. Oh, okay. About to be 18, ought to graduate high school. And he just hasn't learned or is there... When he had his permit, he sideswiped a guy not too far from this studio. Oh wow. And that rattled him and then also made my insurance rates

quadruple because he's underage. And so we have to wait that out and then we gotta wait for him to maybe get his confidence back. Yeah, yeah. In the meantime, there's a train and there's Waymo. He really doesn't need it. Absolutely, no, my older daughter, she didn't sideswipe anybody, but she definitely went through all the steps

and then pulled back, just like pulled out of the nose dive into driving herself. And okay, you know, I mean, there's part of me that's like, you know, Midwestern, like you gotta learn how to do these things. 100%. And I'm sure you're the same way, but then again, it's like, all right, whatever,

you know, okay, I'm not gonna nag you. I also, I was not a good teacher in teaching him how to drive. I wasn't the, didn't have the greatest of patience. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, you gotta. You gotta. You gotta. My mom had great patience in teaching patience. Yeah, yeah. And you gotta. You gotta. You gotta. My mom had great patience in teaching me.

And my dad didn't. And true to that, Danielle, my beautiful wife Danielle, had great patience with Oliver. I did not. Yes. And now he takes a train. Yeah, yeah. So with my ex-wife, it was a flip flop of you guys

where both kids were like, I'm not driving with mom again, just because she get, you know, too, too like, oh my God, you know, and like, my God, you know. Whereas I, I'm very conscious while a kid is learning to drive of like really being judicious about when I yell. You know what I mean? Yeah, when to overreact or yes. Yes, when you really gotta say, Break, break, break. Or just like scold, you know,

because they do something stupid. Right. So yeah. My son's never done something stupid, so I've never had to scold him. You know what, I guess it's just, yeah. Not a true statement, of course. The music, or the water in Burbank was just bad. You had bad water?

Yeah, yeah. It made my kids dumb. Well, we're here today. Yes? We're talking sports fight stories. Oh, is that right? Yeah. What does that mean?

Because this is the Andy Richter call-in show. The phone number for you people out there is 855-266-2604. And today, I don't know, we come up with a topic. But if somebody calls in and they want to tell me about their grandma's funeral, and it's funny because those things usually are, I'm going to listen. We call those wild cards.

["WILD CARDS"] Thank you. We got some sort of a phaser sound for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, whenever you say wild card... There's a delay and then something happens? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Depending on who's riding the button.

I forget that young man's name. He's fresh to the scene. Yes. What was your name again, buddy? Brendan. Brendan Byrd. He gave us a full name. Oh, wow.

Another fucking Irishman. Okay, but nobody said wild card. I got too many goddamn Irishmen around. No, but, yeah, Brendan is filling in today for Rich, who fucking Irishman. Okay, but nobody said Wild Card. I got two goddamn Irishmen around. No, but, um, yeah, Brandon is filling in today for Rich, who normally does it, so when I, first time I said Wild Card, the fact that he was there for it. Rich did it. Rich was ready to go. Rich, oh, Rich would, yeah, yeah, pretty much.

But now Brandon's ready to go. Unless he's like at the other side of the board and then I surprise him with it, you know. Then you get on a skateboard and you move over. I don't, listen, I can't. I disagree. I don't have the energy. I've tired of Rich already. Oh my God.

I don't like him on the right side of the board. I just, you know, it's like, when I say wild card, it happens or it doesn't. I'm not gonna get wound up by it. If it did bother you, you'd be out of your mind. Oh, absolutely. If you're like after the show you went, oh, this is not gonna talk to you.

I did say wild card and you missed it once. You should be thrown underneath a bus if you did that. Fuck it, we'll do it live. Just a lot of that. Yeah. So anyway, sports fights. You don't know what that means. Does it mean the team's fighting

or I'm fighting in the stands? It's such, oh, it's like poetry. It can mean whatever you want it to mean. It can mean like, yeah, a brawl in Comiskey Park. All right. It could mean parents at a little kid's soccer game. It could mean like, what it brings to mind to me was, and I was not there for this,

but my stepfather had seasoned Cubs tickets. And they were like, they were on the first baseline. there for this, but my stepfather had seasoned Cubs tickets. And they were like, they were on the first base line. He got them like in, he split them with his brother in 1972 or something, when they were literally like $4 a seat, you know, for each game. And he had, so it was like second row, first base side. And apparently he was there with my mom

and two of their friends. And there was some drunken guy sitting down on the fence, like at the bottom of the aisle, blocking everyone's view. And he was being an asshole and not moving. And people were yelling at him. And somebody behind my stepfather called him and this is so funny to me because it's so like late 70s early 80s.

So I think it was late 70s because I think I was in grade school. Somebody called him a clown said sit down clown and and that set the guy off like you call me a clown, which I get. You know, like, if you got a problem with clowns and you might have every reason to, but of all the things, you know, you clown. Oh, and it seems like that used to mean more. Well, late 70s, it could have been John Wayne Gacy.

I don't think it was. He was like, it's a clown. I know, I know. It's a clown who loved baseball. I believe this fellow was younger in the story that was painted, was like, it's a clown. I know, I know. It's a clown who loved baseball. I believe this fellow was younger in the story that was painted, the picture that was painted for me. Fair.

But so he got in my stepfather's face. The clown? Yeah, the clown. Said, you call me a clown, you call me a clown, and was like was poking him. And my stepfather's arm, you know, had a fist clenched and my mother was holding his arm, and, Stan, come on, calm down, Stan.

And apparently he punched this guy really hard, and the guy went flying over two rows of seats. Stan's got a punch. Yeah, he sure does. And I remember asking my mom, really over two, and she said, oh, yes. Like a cartoon, like Popeye hitting somebody. Off his feet.

Yeah. And that apparently at the rest of the game, my stepfather did not have to pay for beer. Like just people were just bringing him snacks and beers and everything. Rick Russell came off the mountain. Yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Late 70s Cub reference. Yeah, exactly. You're welcome. Jose Cardinal was like, muy bueno. I once drunkenly, Jose Cardinal was the first base coach for the Yankees. Yeah. And I, we had a bet on what his career batting average was.

Right. And he, players are so used to getting yelled at, they ignore you when you yell at them. And eventually I just drunkenly went, hey Jose, we seriously wanna know what your career batting average was. And he goes, oh, let me tell ya. And he walked over and had a conversation with us.

And what was it? I was like 267 or something. Growing up he was one of my favorite players. Me too, me too. Yeah, yeah, that was the era where I knew who they were. Yes. I don't know, and then it kind of lost traction, you know. I went through that.

I play fantasy baseball now, so I know them all again. Yeah. But they're children now. And they just seemed like men back in the day. Yes. Because we were, I at least was a small child. Absolutely. But I knew them all.

I knew the numbers. I knew the players. If they were at the mall, I could recognize them. Yeah. It was exciting. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Then we get into other interests, I guess.

We sure do. That took a sad turn. That's all right. That's all right. The grave awaits us all. How's Stan today? Stan is not alive. Stan's passed away.

Yeah, Stan got Parkinson's disease. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, no, but he had a good life. He's my younger brother and sister's disease. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, no, but he had a good life, you know? He's my younger brother and sister's dad. They're my half brother and sister. And so, yeah, he got, after my mom got remarried, and you know, he's a plumber, had a good career. Did you keep in touch with his dad over the years?

I mean, I would see him at holidays, but not, yeah, we weren't super close or anything. Yeah. So, anyway, let's talk about your fucking family. Jesus, Jimmy. What do you want to know? Nah, honestly, nothing. You got me. I'll tell you this. I was at the, I was at the, when interleague baseball came into play, the White Sox were playing the Cubs. Yes.

And I drove from... Crosstown Classic. That's exactly right. I drove, I was doing standing up comedy in Buffalo, New York. So I drove the night, I drove all night long so that I could make the day game at what was then, you know, Cellular Field or whatever it was called at the time for the White Sox playing the Cubs. And I get there... You drove from Buffalo, New York to Chicago? Yeah. Wow.

I must see that game. And you were more of a Sox fan, correct? I am a White Sox fan. They are the worst team in baseball at the moment, but I am a diehard White Sox fan. I will, if they are a good team, I will try to watch every game. I enjoy, it is my one, going back to like the movies thing,

I like to just, it lets me escape. Yes. And also Death Scroll while I'm watching the baseball game. So I'm multitasking. Of course, of course. So I get there and this was back in my drinking days. I'm now sober going on 26 years. Congratulations.

Thank you very much. I guess. No, it's a congratulations. Okay, all right. And I get there and I'm not a tailgate guy. That's not my bag. Right. You know, that's a whole different mindset

and it's kind of a little bro-y for me and that's not me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the people that I was meeting, they liked the tailgate. And so I got hammered pregame. And then I get into the stadium and I meet some guys got a Steve Dahl shirt, not a, I apologize, he's got like a loop shirt on. And I said-

Which for people that don't know, that's a Chicago classic rock station, and Steve Dahl was sort of the Howard Stern of the Midwest. I'd like to say he was Howard Stern before Howard Stern. Yeah, but I mean, you know, I don't wanna fight. Well, that's kind of what plays into this. Okay. I am, Steve Dahl is in my five people

that I consider a hero. Okay. Steve Dahl is in my five people that I consider a hero. Steve is very influential in my comedy. Steve and Gary, Steve Dahl and Gary Meyers, that radio show very much influenced me as a young man. Yes, me too, I would say. Right, it's hard for it not to have been. They were funny, they were irreverent. Yep, listened every day.

Every day, and whether they were on in the morning or the afternoon, I followed them and I listened to them and they let me laugh for four hours a day. And so the guy had a loop shirt on and I'm already drunk and I said, oh, the loop, Steve Dahl. And he goes, well, I'm more of a Kevin Matthews fan. I'm like, Kevin Matthews sucks. And he goes, and by the way, I don't think he does.

Yeah, he was the mid-dague. But I'm drunk. Right. And he goes, I don't like Steve Dahl. I go, I don't like he does. Yeah, he was the mid-digger. But I'm drunk. Right. And he goes, I don't like Steve Dahl. I go, I don't like Kevin Matthews. And this guy's, you know, I'm five foot four and that's a lie by half an inch. Yeah, sure. And tiny.

I know. I was going to let it go. But I'm a tiny man. And so I'm literally yelling at this guy, you're out of your fucking mind. Steve Dahl's a thousand times better. And just fight, baseball by the way, baseball, you know, crack of the bat, there's a ground out to third. Yeah, yeah. Steve Dahl's better any day than Kevin Matthews.

And I'm yelling and my friend Mike Schmidt, who is a giant, like yourself, a big guy, you know, six something and just a man comes over, puts his arm over his head on my shoulder, which feels like literally like just the hand of God really, just so big. And he goes, what are we doing here and I go Mike he's saying Matthews is better than doll and he goes Jimmy clearly dolls better but who cares yeah yeah and I go I cared he goes we don't care and then he got me out of it and then he goes yeah I had to get you out of there cuz about to kick your ass right right so there that is my sports fight story. Yeah, yeah.

See, on topic. See, and it is like the booze makes it a problem. Yes. Because I have never, I have never been, I mean, I've been in altercations, but I've never been in a physical fight in my adult life. No. Because I've just had never found,

like no one ever threatened my children. You know what I mean? Like, there's never been anything important enough to, like, have a fight about. And in fact, there have been a couple times where I've been asked, like, do you want to step outside? And I have said, no, because I am a grown-up. Good for you. Yeah.

No, I do not want to step outside. I, when I was a younger man, middle school, high school, yeah, when somebody wanted to, quote unquote, kick my ass, because I said something funny in class that maybe made them look foolish. Yes, yes. They would then follow me home to want to beat me up, and I would go, and there was one guy,

Barry Zelinski was this gentleman's name, the one with the fucking asshole. Another guy, Dean Pusateri, those are the two that wanted to kick my Oh, that one's fucking pricks. Those are excellent names. Arthur X-ray names. Perfect bully names. Yes, yes.

And I would say, I basically would say, I go, what do we do? You know you don't want to beat me up. You know you can take me. Yeah, yeah. Why do it? What would it prove? What would it prove? And then, oh, okay.

And same with Barry Zelinski in high school. I go, Barry, what's the point? You know you can do it. Yeah, yeah. And then, so let's just say you did it. And he's like, oh, okay. And same with Barry's Lansing in high school. I go, Barry, what's the point? You know you can do it. And then so let's just say that you did it. And it's like, oh, okay. And then it's over. So I saved getting my ass kicked by just really being a wuss,

I guess is the best way to put it. But I didn't get hurt. Presenting rearward, I believe, is what that is called sometimes. I don't know that phrase. Yeah, yeah. But I will use it now. Do you're gonna do it, do it. You know?

I believe that's a Susan Atwood phrase, presenting rearward from the Handmaid's Tale. Isn't that Margaret? Did I say, what'd I say? You said Susan Atwood. Margaret Atwood. You're thinking of Susan Anton, the supermodel of the 80s. I am, I always am.

Of course. Always, always. Is it Margaret Atwood? It is, it is Margaret Atwood. Yeah, okay, good. Because, boy, I locked up like I'm the dumbest man in the room. That's all right. Which I am. You've been on Celebrity Jeopardy, I have not.

Look, I don't want to get on that, sidetracked on that. I'll talk about that for hours. Yes, I know. No, I won't. We gotta go to the phones. Once again, it's 855-266-2604. We are talking sports fights. Joe Sherman Oaks.

Yes. How are you? I can't believe you mentioned, I'm good. I can't believe you guys mentioned Steve Dahl there a second ago. I have a sports fight thing, but I did a week as Steve Dahl sidekick in Chicago, but it was only two days.

Cause I, cause I talked too much. They cut you loose Joe? I'm gonna get into our fight story in a second Yeah Let me get the elephant out of them. I I don't know Andy, but we both were in Chicago as improvisers He knows my ex-wife. I'm pretty sure Susan from the annoyance. You know that oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay I know you are also plays into these fights, too. Yes. Yeah, Susan messing so yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, that's exactly right. So I'm an improviser in Chicago at the Annoyance Done shows at

the same place as Andy did a little afterwards. And so Steve Dole, I think after he split with Gary Matthews, I guess Gary Meyer for some sidekick. So Meyer rather. Yeah. Do you think that's why he kicked you off? You didn't get his name? No, he kicked me off because, well, you guys know this guy. He would do his show and I didn't really know. He'd say something and then there's like eight seconds of dead air. So he's like, white sucks suck. And I'm waiting to fill that. So I start saying stuff and everything.

So there's a couple days of that. I think I'm doing all right. And then I'm supposed to the third day, they're like, yeah, he doesn't need you. So that was, that's that story. I got fired for talking too much. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You know, if I may, as an improviser,

you come from comedy, jazz that story up next time. Let's add a little flavor to that thing. That thing laid flat. Right, but it's okay. I mean, you know, it's a good point, but you know, but that's also that's a difference I think I can make it up in this story All right, and it's setting a little bit of background that I talk too much and I can't keep my mouth shut

Okay, so Andy, you know what 16 inch softball is. I sure do Like I'm not from Chicago Jimmy's from Chicago, too. So yeah, forget you know what, you know you know and to your credit I saw yesterday you called somebody a garbage pail on blue blue sky. Yes I did. And the guy deserved it. I called him a talking garbage pail. And you're good and good on you for that so I don't associate you with Chicago as much because you're a stand-up and Andy's an improviser and I feel like stand-ups are usually you're not. We'll get past it. Look Jimmy's just Jimmy's hot. He's hot all the time. I'm humorously hot. Got a hair trigger. I'm fake hot. No, no, 16 inch softball. We called it mush pounder.

I never called it that. It's more of a well well, that's what, I don't know. I mean, but we did play it out in the rural areas of Illinois, but it's mostly a city thing. You don't even need a glove. No. Because it's basically a little smaller than a volleyball. And it's a different game in that the people that are best at it, they don't hit home runs. They hit weird spinning grounders that no one can handle.

That just keep going on and on. And I started playing that sport in Chicago with the Annoyance Theatre, which is a very hateable team. And Andy, you know a lot of those same people. Comedians, shit talkers. And some of them rageaholics. Yes. Oh, all kinds of aholics at that place actually.

Yes, absolutely. Yeah, I mean, you aren't an a-holic, that theater had them. I'm sure you could do hours on that. Yes. But I'm in LA, it's an industry league. So it's co-ed, it's an industry league, been going around for 10 or 12 years or whatever. I've been in it for five, six, seven years. So nothing has happened.

There's been a couple of little fights, you know, skirmishes, but just like an NBA fight where it's all arms sticking out and nobody really making contact other than Kermit Washington. So then we're playing a game and the team is a double header for the team before us and the team leaving that had just played goes, hey, watch out, these guys are assholes. Which no big deal, there's always assholes. I am an asshole on my team. And often if there's some kind of argument, that's the line I'll say, I'll say every team is an asshole. I'm my teams. Do you know that you are your teams? And that's something I'll say to people. Yes. So this is all setting up me getting my ass kicked, obviously. So in this game, I'll just give you a couple of things that incited it.

First thing, you can't run into women. There's no contact. Their guy ran into a woman and it was called out. So they start getting bitchy about that. And I'm in the outfield and I just yell, you can't run over her. And they yell, shut out. Shut up. You can't run over her.

This goes back and forth for a little while. I'm yelling, they're yelling, so things are heated. Now here's where I maybe made a mistake. As we're coming into the dugout, the ball is on the mound there and their pitcher, who was kind of an asshole, he's going to get it and I got to admit this was a bad move on my part. I give the ball a little kick and kick it over the fence so he couldn't get it. So now things are getting a little kick and kick it over to the fence so he couldn't get it. So now things are getting a little angrier, but I am not somebody who, I'm

not somebody who throws first punches, but I can't keep my mouth shut is the problem. So our team is up. A woman hits a comeback or to the pitcher. I'm coaching first base and rather than throw to first base to get the woman out on a little grounder, he wings the ball as fast as he can at my head. Yeah. Does not hit me, but basically gives up the out so he can try to hit me in the head of

the ball. Well, I'm very competitive, so our runner gets third base and I just start mocking him for his stupidity. Right. One, you tried to hit me in the head. Two, you didn't hit me. So things are fairly heated and this is when the that's when the game should have ended. Yeah. That's when the umpire is now at fault because

when something like that happens we we got to shut it down right you can agree with that. Oh they would do that they would just say games over everyone go home. Well I at this point if I were the umpire this game that's what I would have done right but as a player i'm not going to stop see i think i might have just thrown you out you've got that power now earlier yes earlier throwing me out of a game would have probably been wise and that had happened to me in the past and those annoyance games okay good well at least you didn't learn your lesson now oh i didn't i will i once wrote an article years before this saying how I'm done fighting in softball games. It sounded like Men's Health and it was published and now I get in another fight. So I don't learn a lesson.

So what happens? Do they just settle, the water breaks and now comes the fight baby? It continues. Yes. We'll just cut to the fight. play at second base, their shortstop, basically clothesline dark eye rounding second base. So then this is when the brawl starts. I run out to help my teammate. I kind of overrun the shortstop so I got to come back. He swings at me and then the rest is what I've been told happened. So I get him on the ground and then apparently the pitcher and the rest of their team, this is where I realized I'm somewhat at fault. They

just all go after me and so they are all I guess punching and beating me up. Now these are ringers, not softball ringers, these are fight ringers. Oh boy. Because again, what I'm told is that as each person tries to pull someone off of me, whoever on our team tries to do that, then gets the living shit kicked out. I promise you there was not a scratch on any of their players. And there were many of us who were bloodied. I had to go to the hospital. So the other team, you know how there's sometimes fields that are, you know,

kitty corner from each other, big, big field. And there's one down there. The entire two teams from the other game had to come to finish breaking up this whole fight that would happen. Wow. And now here's the really bad sportsmanship thing. And Jimmy, I guess you're a White Sox fan. I am a Chicago White Sox fan. Yes, sir. Joe. OK, so the shortstop on the other team got in the fight.

This is my bad sportsmanship. He's wearing a White Sox hat. So after this whole thing is done and we're walking away and stuff, I just start ripping white socks players and tell them Canerico was a juicer, you know, Burleigh's the most overrated. I don't believe any of this stuff. Burleigh's the most overrated pitcher in history. I kept going on about the white socks, how they were all, you know, and I don't even dislike the white socks. And I think Burleigh's actually underrated, but I just knew it would drive this guy nuts. So then he starts throwing rocks at me and then then then everything breaks up. Have you, that's my softball fight.

Have you learned your lesson at all, Joe? Well, I don't do sports anymore, but that also might be because I'm in my 50s and would, I can't promise it wouldn't happen again. That's the bad thing. I gotcha. Now the good... I'm not on Adderall anymore. I'm on Ritalin, which is better. Okay. I blame the Adderall a little bit.

Good. Good. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you got to get the right kind of speed. Yeah. Before you. That's exactly right. Drugs need to be right. All right, Joe. Well, thanks for the call. No problem. Thanks for talking, guys. See you later. Talk to you later. Nice talking to you. Seemed like a nice young man.

He did. I say young, he sounds younger than me. Well, he probably... Yeah, I think he is. You think so? I think he is. How old are you? I'm not comfortable saying. I'm 58.

I'm 58 too. Happy birthday. We're the same age. Yeah, yeah. I believe... Is yours in August or in June? October. October of 66. Yes. That's right.

And you? July of of 66 I'm a little bit older than me yeah I knew it yeah right I knew it just look a little yeah yeah more together I'm didn't know how dare you no no I think that I'm just I seemed fresher you know do you oh absolutely okay like a daisy John from Maryland hello hey how are you'm good. Jimmy Pardo and I are here ready to hear your story about Little League, I guess. Hi, John. Yeah, hey, I am excited to tell you guys about how my Little League coach fought a parent. So when I was about 11 years old, like 1998 or thereabouts in New Jersey my little league

coach fought a parent outside the dugout so it started when from an opposing team from the opposing team or from your you guys's team he fought a parent of one of the players on the other team okay okay so it started when a player on my team got thrown out of the game. We were at that. He got thrown out for arguing with the ump. And my coach did not like this. He was a big beefy guy. He ran a landscaping company in our town.

So he didn't like that our player got thrown out. He starts arguing with the ump, yelling at him, the whole deal. Mind you, this is 11-year-olds playing little league. Of course. And a dad from the other team did not like that my coach was yelling at the ump like this. And so he starts heckling my coach and saying, let the kids play, let the kids play. And his dad was right behind our dugout. So all of us kids are sitting in the dugout because we're at bat. The coach, my coach and this parent are basically arguing right over our heads and my coach finally has enough and says the

classic thing that say that one more time to this guy and so of course this dad says let the kids play again and my coach just fully loses it. He throws his clipboard at the chain link fence. He yells, you motherfucker, and runs out of the dugout and tackles this guy. So this dad was in a full suit. He had clearly just come from work. My coach is in like a t-shirt and sweatpants. And they proceed to get into just an absolute full on like movie style fist fight.

Like standing up and training blows not, they're rolling around or they're standing up fighting Clint Eastwood style. They are rolling around in the dirt and my coach proceeds to absolutely get his ass handed to him in this fight. By a guy in a suit. Who's the guy who wins? Absolutely get his ass handed to him in this fight By by a guy in a suit and Meanwhile an assistant coach on our team The only one who apparently remembered that there were kids there

Gets all of us kids out of the dugout and lines us up on the first baseline And tells us to look out into the outfield so that we're not watching these two grown men fight You know, this is the most exciting thing that's ever happened in our lives. We're 11 years old in 1998 and these are two grown-ups fighting each other at a baseball game. Yeah, yeah. It was great. Of course.

But he lines us up, tells us, look into the outfield so that we don't see the fight. It all breaks up and they disperse. And then my coach gets suspended for a couple of games. How about forever? Not banned from coaching. I guess it was the 90s and he gets suspended for a couple of games and proceeds to attend those games and watch them from like a lawn chair outside of the outfield fence. I guess to let us know that he was still there and still the coach.

What a tool. And then he ended up being my little league coach for like three more years after that. Wow. And you have a story for life. Wow. Yes I do. My son who's 24.

My son is 24. Unbelievable. I know it's wrong. But he, when he was, I don't know, like six, seven, eight, whatever age, he had one of his best friends was in a soccer league. And I was, you know, trying to show him, you know, like, what sports do you want to play? Which is not a natural, like, I'm not one of those dads. I'm kind of like, we literally used to go out in the yard and I'd feel the guilt of like,

oh, I should be throwing a ball around with my son just being an American dad. That's what you're supposed to do instead. We would, no, we would do it for like five minutes, three minutes and then my son would go, do you want to just go in and draw or something? And I went, yes, I do, please. And so we'd go in and draw.

But I took him to his friend's soccer game, and at the end of it, I said, would you wanna do something like that? And he said, I don't wanna do anything where there's other parents yelling at people. Good for him. I was like, that is a very prescient point of view. I didn't say that because, you know,

a fucking idiot didn't know prescient at that point. But I was like, I totally get it. And so he, I mean, until he was in junior high and played tennis, which is, there's not a lot of rage-a-holic tennis parents. Right, just that one thought. Yeah, just, you know, there's players, but not, but yeah, it's just amazing to me. That assistant coach though, John, is a better, has a better dad kind of urge than I

would have because I would have been, I would have never, I would never have had the presence of mind to think this is a traumatic thing that these children should not see. It wouldn't occur to me at all. Yeah, this dad was clearly the only one who remembered that this was about kids. Yeah, yeah. The irony of this happening today is I have to take my son right now to his first ever Little

League practice to try to channel Mr. Erdman as not my coach. Yeah, Erdman not the coach. I'm there watching. All right, we'll let you go, John. Thank you for the call. Thank you, John. Yeah, thank you guys.

When I was in Little League, again, this is the south side of Chicago, a city called Hometown. Yes. Very clever name. And I was not a good player. And I got, in fact, this is true, at that point I was the only player in the history of Little League baseball to be traded. That is 100% true story.

That is so humiliating. It was, but it was warranted, because here's what happened, I was me. I was funny, but if you're just a dude, you don't think the kid's funny, you think he's a smart ass annoyance. Absolutely, yeah, yeah. So I would be funny, the coach didn't like me being funny.

He felt everything was at his expense, even if it wasn't. Right, right. The other, my friends would all, oh, Jimmy's doing his thing, and you know. So one time. Nothing a dumb, insecure adult hates more than a smart kid. That's what it is. And at the end of the day, this kid probably,

this coach probably was 15, 16 years old, just a little bit older than us. Sure. Maybe 18, making three dollars to maybe coach the team. Oh wow. This is the late seventies. It's not even a dad. Not even a dad.

Oh wow, it's like a park district person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he, I'm being me, it's annoying him, the more that it's annoying him at that age, I just keep going. Of course. And he said, all right, that's it for today for you, Jim. I want you to come back tomorrow with a cool head.

So what do I do? I come back the next day with ice under my hat. And he goes, what are you doing? I go, uh, that's ice. You told me to come back with a cool head. He goes, get out of here! You get out of here! And he went nuts on me.

Wow. And then the next day was Saturday. Was it just because it was too corny? Uh, listen, let's be fair. Alright, alright. I'm 12. That's genius. Okay, okay, okay.

And it's prop work, which I'm not known for. Right, exactly. So, Saturday morning, there's a doorbell rings. Also, too, did your parents ask you, why are you taking ice to? Why are you putting ice in a bag? Yeah, yeah. They were... It's a bit, Mom.

Oh, okay. I wish I could have said yeah. They were... It's a bit, Mom. Oh, okay. I wish I could have said that. They were busy working trying to provide. And Saturday morning, doorbell rings and I'm like, well, who's here at the morning? And then there's that guy with another team's uniform in his hands. He's like, hey, this is gonna be weird. You've been traded. I think it's best for both of us.

And I'm like, okay. And then I went from... So he just talked to... your parents didn't get involved at all? No, they were, again, late 70s. Parents weren't really involved. It was, you kind of told them what was happening. So I got traded, and I showed up,

and I'm in the Aces and not the Deuces. And they're like, what are you doing? I've been traded. They're like, what? And so yeah, I was the... Wow, but the coach knew about it. He was there with the uniform, giving it to me. No, yeah, I was the only... Wow. Yeah. But the coach knew about it. He was there with the uniform giving it to me. No, no, I mean the other coach, the coach of the Aces.

Yeah, he lost. I don't know. I always say I was the only guy to be traded, but clearly there had to be another kid that I was traded for. Right. So I don't know who that kid is. Right, right. Maybe you weren't traded, you were just given away. I was just given away.

Were you dealing with this, A-hole? You were just... Yeah, that's possible. You were just orphaned and then adopted. I don't blame him. In retrospect, he was right. I was annoying. And I'm pretty sure I lasted maybe three more games

than I just kind of went, you know what? I'm more into music and stuff now. So that changed everything. And then you went straight into just listening to Journey in Rush, right? 100%. I knew it. Nathan from Ontario.

How you doing today? Oh, wow, he's on screen. We're getting on screen. This is nice. We're on Zoom workplace. That said, he's Canadian. I'm not sure we're friends with those people. Oh, I love the Canadians.

No, not my president. Tell me not to. Please, my president. You guys seem OK. Thank you. All right. We'll throw a chair off your way at some point. Well how you doing?

Good, good. I, yeah, just getting ready to head home after work and yeah, I guess you guys are talking sports today. And I bet yours is a hockey story. How did you know? I could just hear it in your voice. Yeah, yeah, I've had a few, you know, back in the day playing junior hockey, you see a lot of strange things and a lot.

Yeah, it's a pretty aggressive game at that level too because, you know, everyone's trying to make it up to the big leagues and yeah, it can get pretty rough. Yeah. So tell us about the incident you've called about. Well, there's a couple actually. There was, you know was the first one, like kind of a rite of passage, losing your first tooth in hockey. So it was a... And these are adult teeth.

These aren't like baby teeth. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, at the early ages, you don't get too rough out there. But 16 and up,'s you're constantly you know dropping the gloves and like they say like elbows up right? Yeah. So it's uh yeah

like it was playing for a junior team in Grimsby near Hamilton Ontario and we're playing this team Rockton up on the mountain and they you know first period I'm heading you know up ice and ice on the left wing and I'm waiting for a pass and I turn my head back for just one second as the pass comes to me, they call it the suicide pass. And you turn around, turn my head and the other team's defenseman just comes flying in and just clocks me and breaks my front the cage in half the cage I didn't even know I was seeing stars literally and you know got up right away and the play kept going

because I got up and I was like I blacked out for a second but I skated to the bench and I sat there and I was literally you know literally seeing stars and the coach goes well it looks like your modeling career is over and I said why I went and I looked down and I was just covered in blood like just completely covered and I realized at that time I'd lost the front tooth and the half of the tooth beside it. So you know it just like... When does the pain set in? Well the adrenaline was still pumping right yeah you know so I'm sitting there on the bench and it was just like, you know, just overwhelming, like you just angry, right.

The thinking that I lost my tooth. And so, you know, he took me to the, you know, the change room and helped me out, gave me, you know, put some gauze in there and they wanted to send me to the hospital. But I wanted to get the guy back, you know, right. Right. He went to the hospital. And you also don't want to you don't want to you don I wanted to get the guy back. You know, right. He went to the hospital. And you also don't want to you don't want to you don't want to waste a bloody Jersey. Once you've got that fresh blood, you got to get back out there on the ice.

You know, you get that flavor, you know, that yeah. Yeah, that kind of fits with the second story, actually. But yeah, yeah. The sort of thing. Let you get back out. Yeah. Yeah. So they they actually you know, this was 24 years ago or so so it was uh, you know before they really gave a shit about concussions. Yeah you know which I did have and

but anyways, I went in and yes, I went back to the dressing room and gave me a couple of percadans and shoved some gauze in the hole where my tooth was and sent me back on the ice. And the second period I went out and then just, you know, gave it back to the guy and just cleaned his clock. And yeah, it was kind of a nice end to the game anyways for me. They kicked me out of the game, but then afterwards we all went out, you know, for beers. And so I went to the bar and I had blood all over me and my teeth out and got home around two in the morning

and I was actually staying at my folks place at that time and I walked in the door and my mom was just horrified. She looked at me and said, what the hell happened to you? And my dad was laughing, you know, he was a hockey player too. And, but the, so they ended up taking me to the hospital because my neck had swollen up to the side, like noticeably large. And they actually, when I went to the hospital, they thought I had broke my neck. So it was, uh, you know, I had a severe concussion, all this, but it was like, you know, really, you know, I didn't really feel any of the pain until the next morning. Yeah. And then, you know, the nerve was exposed and it was just, then it set in right where it was. Yeah, like it was

Yeah, exactly. Yeah Yeah, that was the first one anyways, but it was uh, yeah there was a you know, very rough league, right? So I ended up, you know going to another team up north and that trying out for the junior a team Which was a step up from the B. I was at so the you know went out for the junior a team which was a step up from the B I was at so the you know went out in the first You know first practice and my grandfather had played pro hockey and you know He recommended like soon as you go out there because I wasn't really known for you know being a goal scorer

He said just find the biggest guy and and take him down So I did. A prison mentality. Yeah, yeah. That's the idea. Yeah, exactly. Look for the guy that's going to send a message. And so I ended up doing that and knocked the guy down and then we got in a big fight and

it was a pretty equal fight. Like we were both feeding each other and the refs jumped in and pulled us down to the ground and as he did that as you know they got us on the ice the this other guy stuck his finger in my mouth and kind of fish hook you know like that and started pulling the cheek pulling the cheek away from the bone and so as he's doing that I just you know impulse just bit down that boy and you know just didn't think I keep screaming away and the refs are grabbing us and everyone's going nuts. And again, the adrenaline, you know, you're not really, uh, you know,

focusing on the pain or anything. Um, but then, uh, so anyways, you get, you know, go into the bench and they ended up taking him off. I don't know, didn't know what happened to him. And, um, I ended up going back out and playing cause it was, you know, tryouts for the team so they didn't stop anything or to him and I ended up going back out and playing because it was you know tryouts for the team so they didn't stop anything or I wasn't suspended or but later that day I got home and I was drinking a cup of tea and felt something in my tooth and I

Take it out. I you know look in the mirror and I pull out the chunk. It was a little chunk of the guy's finger It hit in my mouth. Oh, that's hot I mean, no, that's bad. Yeah Flesh is bad. It's not something you want it, you know, I'm actually I'm a vegetarian now I don't know if that had anything to do with it. Oh my god. Yeah I don't know if that had anything to do with it. Oh my God. Yeah. It was one of those moments where you just look at yourself, oh my God, is that what

I think it is? Yeah, yeah. Well, I hope you've learned to, you know, I mean, it's good, the vegetarianism. You've obviously learned something. Yeah, yeah. That was my first and last taste of human flesh. Well, good. All right. Well, thank you for the call, Nathan. Yeah. Nice talking to you guys of human flesh. Well, good. All right.

Well, thank you for the call, Nathan. Yeah. Nice talking to you guys. Good talking to you too. Bye-bye. I'll say this about Nathan, being able to see him. The coach said his modeling career is over. He's a handsome young man.

He's a handsome fellow. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. He's got a model. Sure. He's got the model shades on. Sure. Very handsome.

Right. From Canada. From Canada. He's up there, he's listening to Rush like you talked about. Oh, absolutely. Tragically hip. And Murray. It's, it's, it's law. You have to listen to Rush and Neil Young. Yeah, yeah.

And Bryan Adams. And, uh, Bare Naked Ladies. Eh, are you cool if I don't do that? It's the law. Okay. Once you escape up there. And I'm gonna be up there soon. Are you?

I'm going up, yeah. Oh, good. Good, good. 855-266-2604. Are you? I'm going up, yeah. Oh, good. Good, good. I'm going up, yeah. Oh, good. 855-266-2604, that's the number here at the Andy Richter Call-In Show. We're talking sports fights. And we got Dan, Dan from Alberta.

Another guy with more some hockey, more hockey fights. I have a feeling that we could do a whole hockey fight show. Yeah, that could be very specific. Right, right. What's up, Dan? Hey, how are we doing today? You guys put out a show and you put out a call for people talking sports fights. Of course, Canada is going to show up.

Elbows up. That's an excellent point. Elbows up. Love it. So what do you got for us, Dan? Well, you know, like you said, you're looking for hockey or you're looking for sports fights. I just happened to be running a website called hockeyfights.com for the last seven years. It was a site that was started by a gentleman named David Singer back in 1999.

I happened to be looking through my stats the last little bit and found that I have clipped over 2,300 fights in my seven years of covering it. But yeah, I was asked to come on and just talk about fighting. So I'll take you back to a time where right now we're in a little bit of a news cycle in hockey where referees and the linesmen are stopping goalie fights from happening. You know that hockey fights can happen. It's allowed within the rules. But it's a special moment when the goalies looking across that 180 foot distance across the ice

decide to fight each other. It's been over five years since we've seen a goalie fight in the NHL. Just this week, the referee stopped Darcy Kemper and Jeremy Swainman from trying to fight. Last season we had Jordan Binnington and Mark Andre Fleury of the Minnesota Wild trying to have a fight we had Jordan Bennington and Mark Andre Fleury of the Minnesota Wild trying to have a fight and the Lionsman stopped it just

before they got together at Center Ice but but yeah. Can I just interrupt because I'm not a big hockey fan I mean I understand the game and everything but what what prompts someone you know the length the ice away, what prompts them to fight each other? You know, it just seems like just they're in such distant proximity, you know. Well, it's a great question. Thank you. I know. And that's a real good follow-up question. That emotional value, that emotional excitement that you get from, I kind of harken it back to a family

and watching your siblings, watching your teammates get pushed around by the other guy. And I think that some of these goalies tend to, you know, find themselves just in the, on the sidelines and in the background of some of these melees and and the one that I was going to talk about is it happened on february the first 2020 so just before the world shut down between the the calgary flames and my beloved Edmonton oilers we call it lovingly up here the battle of Alberta and they were there was a bit of a skirmish that kind of broke out in front of the flames goaltender camp out there

and uh... the you'll play in the oilers that they tend to do uh... came together and and a shopping match in suit sam gong a uh... kind of is the one that i would pick out of the crowd is being the initiator of it he grabbed mark your data and and punched him a few times as that was going on of course everybody seems to find a partner to dance and pair off with and this is where I think it comes back to answer your

question about the goalies where yeah the goalies are just kind of feeling left out of the dance so uh so Ethan Bear and Matthew Kachuk uh they they paired off and they actually had a fight that was was officially registered as a fight uh but in the meantime, while they were fighting, and you can go and check it out on our website, but you can see the Oilers goaltender, Mike Smith, sitting at centre ice, leaning on his stick, just kind of watching everything go on, but he's not allowed to cross that red line without taking a penalty unless there's mutual combat about to happen, which thankfully the Flames goaltender saw Mike Smith standing there and rushed out to fight him. And so we had these just absolute space marines of human beings in their full goaltender equipment throwing punches

at each other. I think the beauty of hockey fights to me is that most of the time there's nothing that really comes of them. Most of the time there's not a huge amount of you know seven and eight punches connecting at a time. It's one lot of flailing or or a couple of a sequence. Yeah and it's a lot of pulling and pulling and chugging and and and that's what we see now with the website where, you know, I'm asking people to come, we ask people to come and rate the fights and it, it turns into this huge argument of, you know, well, that fight sucked because this guy fell down or that fight sucked because this guy didn't connect.

When really it is just the, it is just the, to me, the spectacle and the funness of seeing two guys that are just willing to fight for that crest on the front of their chest more than any other thing in the world. And then like the caller before said, they can have a beer at the end of the game and be good with each other. Dan, as an expert on hockey fights, what's the worst injury that's ever been incurred from a hockey fight? Well, I mean, as an expert on hockey fights, I appreciate that, but I will caveat that I am not a rocket appliance by any means or a rocket scientist.

You're the only one I got, so go ahead, just assume the mantle. Yeah, absolutely. There is definitely a lot of major injuries have happened we'd your previous caller mentioned teeth being spit out uh... the worst i saw recently actually just happened to be a shell one punch and unfortunately the player went down to the ice and smash their face off of

the ice big pool of blood they actually ended up canceling the rest of the game because it was such a just a jarring yeah, I think for everybody. And that is the reality with hockey. I mean, there's players have had their jugular is cut by a skate in the middle of the game and they've had to cancel the game. So it's a, or sorry, I guess they've had to play those games, but, but yeah, it's,

it's, there's some gnarly, gnarly injuries that have happened. Most of them happen when a player is knocked out on their feet. And again, that's a very rare occasion. Over the 2,300 some fights that I've done, I can count maybe on two hands the number of like two. Yeah, well, you're on skates and you're on ice. And thank you so much, Dan. Thanks for the expert. Be an expert. Yeah, you are an expert and I appreciate it. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. I'll make sure that holds up in court. All right, we got time for one more. We have Aya from Pasadena with I guess more of a question than a story. And we are the two guys to answer sports questions. I

am. I'm going to really try and be a straight guy here. Hi Aya, how are you? I'm great, how are you? Good, good. So tomorrow we've got baseball season opening day. Right. So I just had to ask what is your favorite ballpark snack, treat, meal, beverage? Oh boy. You see that's, you were, it was intimidating to see that you had a sports question on like my board, but when you, it's not a sports question. It's a food question. It's a snacks question.

And boy, we're ready for that. All of it? You go ahead. The spectator, it is the most important choice you'll make. Yeah, yeah. I'm a classic guy. I like to get a hot dog and a drink and then I may get a second hot dog in the third inning and then I may, there's no may,

I will get an ice cream in the seventh inning. I've got my little routine. Hot dog to open, hot dog in the third, ice cream in the seventh. Definitely a hot dog. And there aren't like, the hot dogs at Wrigley are, they do stand above other hot dogs. Like they're better than Dodger.

You don't like the Dodger, you don't like the... It's okay, it's okay. I like the grilled Dodger dog. You get the beef one and it's much better. But now they have actually top quality Japanese stuff at Dodger Stadium now. But I'm not going to a baseball game for that. I know, I know, but you can. I understand that.

If you want to. But that's not my bag. Right, no. But I mean they have like Takoyaki, which is fried octopus balls. Okay. They're fantastic. Yeah, which is fried octopus balls. Okay. They're fantastic. Yeah, I'll take your word for it. They're really quite good.

I believe you. I'm not going to eat that. I don't eat seafood. There was a chicken katsu sandwich, not as good, but there's just a, and they have saki, you know, it's fun. I like the whole, and when you go to Dodger's- Have you had the Korean fried chicken bucket? I have not at Dodger Stadium.

Yes, it's in a big helmet and it comes with like waffle fries. It was delicious. All right, I'll keep that in mind. I have had the nacho helmet. That's fun. That's fun. Yeah, big bucket. That's always fun.

Yeah, shitty like, you know, vegetable oil nachos. But there's still. That's not really cheese, but I don't care, you know. My son will eat those and just pay attention to that so that he avoids the game. Yeah, yeah. He's got his project, which are the nachos. Right. And then who won, Dad? He has zero interest. Zero. When I was a kid, the ritual was always hot dogs, Cracker Jack, and then I don't remember what it's called. The malted? Malted cup, yeah, like a cup,

it was like a malted ice cream. Do they even have that anymore? In fact, when I say ice cream in the seventh, I'm talking about that. Oh, and they still do have it. The chocolate malted is in the little cup, you'd use the wooden spoon, it breaks about halfway through.

Right, of course, yeah. Then you get a splinter in your tongue, which is a great song. Oh, splinter in the tongue. Oh you need to get those as a little kid at Dodger Stadium. Yeah, yeah. I'm actually going tomorrow. You're having a good day.

Yeah, my brother-in-law invited me. Good for you. Yeah, yeah. Enjoy it. It's gonna be fun. I will, I will. We went to a game. We did. Yeah, it was wonderful.

We did, we went to a game. We were at two games, you and I. We've been to two games together and I always tell people, cause one of them was in, I believe 2017, and you just, apropos of nothing, because Trump was newly elected, apropos of nothing, at least five times during the game,

we'd be watching the game, not even talking to each other, and next thing you know, just here, you gotta give him a chance. Yeah, that was my roadie joke. Just give him a chance. You know what, I'm gonna give him one more month. Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna give him another month,

let's see what he does. It's already a disaster. You gotta give him a chance. Yeah. Delightful. Well, the Dodgers are giving him a chance by visiting the White House. I know, I heard that. Wait, what?

The Dodgers are gonna visit the White House. All of them? There's no holdouts? I doubt that it's all of them, but I... I always have respect for the holdouts. You never want... In this... You want to know what your baseball players particularly your white baseball players What they got going on in their head besides baseball. I'm gonna say 80% are not in agreement with you and I That's my guess. Okay, whatever, but I just I don't want to know either. I don't want to know

I don't want to know who you voted for I don't want to know, you know, like I just don't want to know. I don't want to know who you voted for. I don't want to know, you know, like, I just don't want to know. Agreed. Yeah, yeah. Well, I- It's not my business. What's your answer? What's your favorite? I really love to start with a hot dog as well.

I lifelong Los Angeles resident, dog your dog. That's what I'm used to, you know. I actually went to Angel Stadium recently, and they have an amazing chicken strip situation there. I was shocked by it. But yeah, I've Dodger Dog. I love to get a salted pretzel halfway through. Just hold me over.

Sometimes, when I was little, the bang for your buck when I was little and would just go with like a $20 bill in my hand was peanuts and you're just eating the whole game. Yes, yes. Just enjoying yourself. Yeah, that is fun. And then I agree, you know, now they do the little soft serve in the helmet and that is just, that's everything.

Yes, it is. That's worth the price of admission. Very good. Yeah, there's a few of those little helmets in my daughter's bathtub. My five-year-old's. Just floating around? Well, just in with the bath toys. I understand.

Yeah, and it's good for rinsing the shampoo. Yes! Yeah, yeah. It's nice. Well, Aya, thank you so much. Bye, Aya. Thank you. Bye.

What a delight. Go Dodgers. Go Cubs. I'm... And white socks. Jimmy, let's be realistic. No, I'm a Cub fan this year. I'm going for the Cubs. Good, good, good.

No, I mean, God bless them, the White Sox. They're rebuilding. It'll only take a decade. I can't even imagine. It just stinks to know your team isn't good going in. I know. Well, let's see. We usually pick a favorite story.

I think my vote is probably Nathan. Nathan was the coach that beat up the guy. No, Nathan was the hockey. Oh, I'm going suit guy then. Oh, suit guy. OK. I'm going to go suit. That's a good one.

Although Joe's story ended up being good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like Joe's story. I'm getting his ass kicked. It doesn't really matter. They don't win anything. You know what? They got the joy of saying they were

their favorite story of the day. That's right. Well, here, let me, uh, they're all my babies. Let me tell people this. Jimmy, that's the other guy that's been talking for the last hour. Uh, he's the host of the award winning podcast, Never Not Funny, which I've been on numerous times, which is hilarious. Thank you. You are, and I often cite you as like truly one of the pioneers of podcasting. Thank you. You were in on it. I think I was probably on your podcast and the first time I was it. I think I was probably on your podcast and the first time I was on I was like,

what is a podcast? Yeah, what are we doing here? Yeah, I don't even know what the fuck this is. You've been featured on Comedy Central, Tonight Show Conan, much more. You can find his tour dates at jimmypardo.com and he's one of the funniest people I know so go check him out.

I'm gonna be back next week with more of this, a different topic we haven't decided yet. But stick around, Lori Kilmartin's got Conan's stand-up next. I'll be back next week. Thank you Jimmy. My pleasure, thanks for having me. And thank all of you for listening. Bye bye. you