The Three Questions with Andy Richter - Tim Heidecker: Crazy Concert Stories (The Andy Richter Call-In Show Re-Release)

Episode Date: July 3, 2026

We're revisiting a classic Andy Richter Call-In Show episode this week, featuring the new face of InfoWars (yes, really!)... Tim Heidecker! Tim joined The Andy Richter Call-In Show in October 2024 to talk Crazy Concert Stories! In this episode of Andy’s weekly SiriusXM radio show, we hear stories about an angry mob at the Morrissey concert, the time Tim lost Eric Wareheim at a Beck show, getting busted at the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the “pee guy” in the Father John Misty crowd, getting knocked out in the Dethklok pit, and more. Plus, Tim hears The Fray for the very first time. 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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Conan Oprah. Coney an old bro. This is the Andy Richard Collin show, in case you didn't know. In case you didn't know. Because now you do. And we are live. We are live. So give us a call.

Our topic today is crazy concert stories. And I have to forewarn everybody. It's mostly fish stuff. It's at this point. Ph. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not like somebody at a Tom Petty concert getting a salmon thrown at them. It's P-H-I-S-H.

And you can call in if you got some. Our number is 855-266-2-6-0-4. 855-26-26-6. It doesn't help if you'd say it twice and then you fuck it up. 855-266-2-4. And I'm really, really happy to have Tim Heideker. in here with me today. Genuinely.

Genuinely. You're not putting on, putting the audience on. Not at all. I feel it. I'm not, I don't, I'm not a bullshitter. I know. You know what I mean? I'm polite, but I'm not a bullshitter.

And if I was, you know, if it was, I mean, I'm happy for everybody to come in here. Yeah. But I'm very happy that you're here. And do we want to talk about last night? Yeah. This could be so boring for everybody. I know, but it's kind of cool to me. It was exciting.

Yeah. No, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, A friend of mine, Brian Kylie, very funny stand-up, had tickets to the Dodgers game, and he took me and Dan Gore. There was all Conan Rider people. Dan Gore, who was a creator of Brooklyn Nine-N-Rack and was on the Conan show, and Mike Sweeney, stalwart, longtime head writer of the Conan show.

And so it was like a fun night for us. Guy's night. We get out of like the stairwell, And there you are. There I am. There you are. In generic baseball garb. Well, let's get to that in a second.

But I... Remember that shot of Rob Lowe with the NFL hat? Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I love seeing you and I consider us friends. I've known you for a long time. Absolutely. And, but I don't see you ever. Really?

I see you, I don't know the last time I saw. He's been a long time. I don't leave the house. Yeah, and I'm the same way. It's rare that we bump into each other. You don't bump in. And it's the day. before I'm coming in to do this show, which was strange.

But, yeah, so I was in generic, I'm a big Dodgers fan. But I was the guest of, I happened to be going to the game that night as the guest of Kyle Mooney, who's a very big Padres fan. Yes, because he's from down there. He's from San Diego. And we were saying, hey, he said, my dad's in town. I'm going to go to the game. Do you want to come to the game?

I said, I'd love to go to the game. any opportunity to go to a baseball game. Me too. And he said, well, here's the deal. We are getting very good seats because we have a connection with the Padres. And we're going to be sitting with the vice president of the team and the CEO of the team of the Padres. And he said, and the guy I talked to said, if he said, I'm going to bring a friend. He's a Dodgers fan.

He goes, that's cool, but can he not wear like the hat? hat and everything and what am I going to say no right I know I'm going to wear the hat book you but the point remains but you I told you this and you're like this is stupid that's so dumb if I was the I mean are is it are they really that insecure you know I think they are I think it really we were we were saying like really is this or he's like it's actually very serious and I was okay I was like fine I'm not gonna yeah sure I'll sit there I'm going to like quietly golf clap when we're team. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But if you, the game was incredible because, and I was sad to see the Dodgers lose, but the game ended with the, with a triple play. Yeah. A triple play to end the game for the Padres to win, which is, you know, whenever you get to see a rarity like that. Yeah. On the field is pretty cool.

I was gone by them. You're like a classic Dodgers fan who leaves. Whatever. Yeah, whatever. No, and I wasn't really. there was there was there was uh it was more dad gore dan gore was like let's put the traffic i was like i have nothing yeah nothing is it the end of the world to sit in the little traffic and like that's not the no and i often have done that but it's also kind of nice sure on a whatever

tuesday night so to get out and and i also too i am like i am enough of a dodgers fan that it was an annoying game it was an annoying game hitting the gap they hit the end of the gap and like six times. The Padres had some great defensive plays too. So it was, but I'm becoming really great. I'm becoming a Padres fan. Oh no. God, that's why they, that's the first step in not wearing the hat.

So we were sitting in great seats and then we can, you know, it's your show, but I feel like we can move on. But I do want to tell you this. One last thing. The, uh, we were sitting right behind the Padres dugout. Yeah. And there was this man who was his, he was, I think he was there by himself. and his whole role, his whole meaning in life at that game was to taunt Mani Machado.

Yeah, yeah. It was a big enemy of the Dodgers. Yeah, the Dodgers hate, the Dodgers hate. And he was, Mani, you're a bum, you know, it's like that kind of thing. Oh, and really loud. And he's like 15 feet away from the dugout. So everybody in the dugout can hear this guy. It's not like a lot of people doing.

It's just one guy. Yeah. And eventually the security came over and it was maybe like five feet away from this encounter. and I watched a negotiation between the security guy and this gentleman about, well, you have to tell me what I can say and what I can't say. I'm happy, like they were negotiating what was allowed, what taunting was appropriate. Right. And the security, it was so fun to watch.

The security guards just like, now you can say you're a bum, okay? I'm okay with that. It's like, all right, all right. Now we have somewhere, now we can work with that. Like, I can work with that. How about a dirty bum? Can it be a qualified bum? That's disrespectful.

And it was the best. Oh, that's great. Two fully bald men, no offense to the bald men community. But two bald men like sweating and just like they were negotiating like nuclear arms. Right, right. And when security leaves, is a guy just start right back up. And there were two. His new mode.

Yes. And then they had to come back again and it got a little heated. But he stayed on the, you know, he kind of knew his boundary. but it was fascinating to work. I think that a baseball player can have someone thrown out of it. They're like bugging them. They can just go get that guy out of here. Because it's not like...

They were making fun of Mani. Mani has kind of big ears or his ears kind of flop out a little bit. So he's going after the ears. I think that's over the line maybe. That's awesome. All right, well, we're talking concert stories today. Give us a call if you got one. 855-266-2-6-0-4.

Do you have any good crazy concert stories? I mean, you're now... I perform a lot. Yeah, you're now a professional touring musician. Unironically. Unironically. Well, no, yeah, it's unironically, for sure. I mean, I don't... Like, you're not doing, like, funny joke songs that are meant mostly to be funny.

Sometimes, I mean, I have a wide discography of serious sad songs and funny songs, and so I mix them together. I think appropriately, but it's not a, it's not spinal tap, I guess. Right, right. It's my work and my stuff. So, yeah, I've been touring for the past couple of years with a band, the very good band, and it's a great fun show. I just opened for Waxahatchy. Nice.

And just playing music. That's great. It's like really fun. Is it kind of hard? Like, do you kind of have to pinch yourself that it's happening? I was playing in Asbury Park, like right behind the Stone Pony. And I'm a big Bruce Springsteen guy. Yeah, yeah.

And I did a Springsteen cover, and it was at this, one of these summer stages, and it was just emanating out onto the boardwalk and around the whole, you know, and it was, yeah, it was totally surreal. Like, what am I doing here? How did I get here? But it's, you know, I think like anything, you do it enough, you get better at it. You get more comfortable doing it. Yeah.

So I'm learning my little moves, and I'm getting to be a better player, I think. But I'm still me, and so, like, between songs, I'm going to goof around. I'm going to make jokes and try to do what I, you know, just be myself. Has there been crazy, craziness that happened? Craziness. Of course, I was trying to, you know, I'm thinking of some good examples. I do, this is the one I want to share with you is I will do a Q&A before the show for an extra couple of bucks, you know what I mean?

It's a little, it's a VIP experience. Yeah, come on in. And you get some interesting experiences there. I had one guy who kind of had like a Touretz-y-style laughing problem where everything, and some people don't, it's a little mix of like, I think this was an actual condition, but some people aren't used to me just talking normally and being myself a little bit. And so they think everything I'm saying is supposed to be funny and a bit. But this was a little more of like a medical condition.

And so everything I said got this like, with like 70 other people in this room. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, it just made you like stop. Like, are you okay? You know? But the other one at one of these Q&A is there's a young, like a 20-something-year-old girl with her father. And it was in Arizona.

And I could tell there was something off. It felt like there was a little bit of a Trump voter vibe from the dad. But they're at the VIP and they're like, they pay money to be there. Yeah. So I'm like, they must know me enough to know that. Or it's an indulgent father. Maybe, yeah.

I'm just so curious about what the awareness level is of me when you're making a purchase like that. But she, her question was, what was it like working with Marilyn Manson? Because you and Marilyn Manson are my two favorite artists. Oh, my God. Right. And the truth is, he's in a pod. I did work with it. We had Marilyn Manson on awesome show, a sketch show, an adult swim.

And I was blessed to be, it was a sketch where my eyes were sealed shut the whole time. Because these crows had pecked them out. That was the sketch. And I was so glad because I didn't really want to hang out with Marilyn Manson, you know? So it was awkward to be in a room with somebody who can't see. And so he was like, left me alone. So we didn't really hang out. And so I said, and then all this other.

stuff came out about him, of course, recently. Unpleasant. I happen to know people that were affected by him. And I've real contempt for him. I think he's like a terrible person. Yeah. So I told her that. I was like, in a nice, polite way.

I said, listen, I have to be honest, because I'm not just talking to you. I'm talking to this whole room. Yeah. I said, I don't think he's a very good person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't particularly enjoy working with him and kind of regret it. Wow. And she looked like her, she was a little stunned.

Really? And I don't think they were very happy. And I don't think they were there in the second half of the show. They were left. But I felt like I just, I can't say, you know. Yeah, especially with somebody like that nowadays. Now when you know what you know, it's like, you don't want to be, not a good guy.

You don't want to be lumped in. Like, you're my two favorites. Yeah. Oh, the abuser? Yeah, yeah. Okay. The guy with the dungeon? I do wonder, though, if I did the follow up of during a sad song,

did you hear. So that was what I was, I mean, that's what I'm thinking during the Q&A, like, here we go. This is going to ruin the night. My tour manager, JP, had to talk with him. He was very apologetic. He said he would stay in the back. And it was not a problem. Somehow it was okay.

That was my fear. Keep it in your pants. All right. All right. Let's go to the phones. That's a whole point here. Yep. We talked along here.

So let's keep these calls. Punchy kids. Love you. Peter from Miami. Oh, I... Hi, Tim. Hi, Andy. Hi, there.

I'm already gonna like this because it's a Morrissey story. Oh, God, yeah. Oh, in 2014, my wife and I, we went to see Morrissey at the night concert hall in Miami. And that's kind of like a fancy venue, you know, and we were on this kick of like,

okay, we got to see some people our last chance to kind of see them. You know, Morrissey was one of those. Yeah. And so we got really good tickets, like fifth row and he's you know he only played one smith song uh how soon as now he started off started off with it and then it was all solo stuff and then he got to a point about midway through well you know he takes off his shirt and balls it up and he throws it into the crowd and it just like

it was like a perfect pitch like right at me and i'm standing on top of my chair it's like a fancy concert hall like for orchestras and stuff so it's all seated yeah and uh it just hits hit hits me right in the hand, and about a second afterwards, I just get mobbed by Morrissey fans. I get pulled down to the ground. They're all clawing at me and stuff. My wife is like, just let go over the shirt, like, who cares? And I'm like, oh, I caught it. Like, it's the principal. It was a clean, yeah. And then, so I'm fighting a little bit, but then I get bit on my arm. Oh, my God. Oh. It bites me. And I'm like, okay, that's enough. All right, let it go. And those people keep wrestling on the ground, the cops tackle them, they rip the shirt to shreds,

and they all get arrested. And I'm like, whoa, that was like really intense, you know. It was like fancy venue, you know, and all that happens. And then Morrissey takes this encore break, I guess to put a new shirt on. And then they play Meat as Murder, like just like a track. And then there's like a PETA video of like just like really heavy like animal mutilation farm activity factors. stuff. Yeah.

And it's long. It's like 10 minutes long of like, like, just like, you know, animals are getting shit. Dude, it's long. Like, like, pigs and chickens and cows and murder. And I'm just like, okay, I just got attacked. And I'm watching. At the encore break.

Like, that's towards the end of the night. Right. Exactly. And also to show, to make people like, stick around. Yeah. By watching this. Yeah. I saw Morris.

He wants it. what was then the Staples Center. Okay. And it was interesting that all, there was no meat in the, in the venue. Oh. All of the, all of the venues were, were vegan, which is a very interesting thing. But it's, what's funny to me, and I mean, and I would never have known this before coming to Los Angeles, but how popular he is with the Latino community or the Latin X community.

Yeah. And my brother's name is, He has. Oh, really? I would love a documentary. Maybe there's one out there about the origins of that. How did that happen? Well, like, I just posted, I reposted the other day, a mariachi version of this charming man, which is just so, it's like, that story's about a kid getting picked up by a man

on a, you know, when his bike breaks down and, you know. Well, it makes you feel, it makes me feel as an art as somebody that makes things, like anything can happen. Yes. Anything is possible. Yes. But I have, I've seen Morrissey multiple times, and they've all been out here. And they are by far, there is the most concert violence at Morrissey shows that I have ever seen.

There's just, you know, I mean, I'm merely reporting the facts. But it's like one man's account. At the Staples Center, you know, again, and it's Morrissey and waiting in line. And I was there with a friend who, while I was waiting in line, he had gone to the bathroom, it came and joined me in line. And this guy behind us gets really fucking hot about, hey, man, you can't cut the fucking line. I'm with him. He's like, I don't care.

Jeez. Oh, okay. Well, maybe Johnny Mars got the right idea. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, and you almost were a victim of that Morrissey-related violence. Yeah, there's a deep love for Morrissey. Like, it's a cultish thing. And I guess the last bit of the story is that he canceled the tour after one show.

It was the beginning of the North American tour. He canceled the entire tour and blamed it on his opener. Christine Young was like, oh, she got me sick and this canceled it. Wow. Wow. Because it was like a cold or something? Yeah, yeah. He said he got like some sort of laryngitis or something.

And so he's like, Christine Young, my opener, she sucks. She got me sick. And sorry, it's all canceled now. Oh, my God. It was my one chance to see Morrissey. I got bit, but it was worth it. All right. I have another Morrissey story, but we really got to move on.

Thank you so much, Peter. Thank you so much. I'm glad you didn't get rabies. No, I'm touring in the end of January of 2025, and we have a no-biting policy with our audience. Oh, good luck with that. No, it's helped. We've had it for years, and it really works.

All right. Next call. Oh, this is so poetic. Nina from Pasadena. Nina from Pasadena. Hi. Hi, Nina. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I'm a Pasadena, you know.

I did not know that. I do. I moved there last year. How do you like it? I love it. It's a really, it's a beautiful town, and I'm very happy to live there. You ever go to Pie and Burger? Up here. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So you got a Father John Misty story for us?

Yes, I do. So a few years ago, I went to go see Father John Misty down in San Diego at the venue Humphreys. Uh-oh. I know where this is going. You do? I do. I mean, does it involve me? I mean, no, but maybe kind of.

Oh, boy. This is exciting. So, hey, honey, my wife is listening. Hey, honey, turn off the radio, would you? Mrs. Heideker. I was kidding. Put it on mute. Go ahead.

Go ahead, Nina. Okay, so, yeah, I was out of the show. I was, like, pretty close to the front of the stage. There was a real weird dude who was bugging people. The whole show, we kept on trying to get security to get rid of the guy. But they wouldn't do anything. And then Father John Misty comes out for, I mean, well, he started playing like a quiet slow song on acoustic guitar. It was really quiet.

Everyone was like really, you know, into the music. And then suddenly I feel, I hear what I thought was someone pouring their drink out behind me. And then suddenly the back of my legs got very hot. And I turned around. And there was a man with his penis pointed straight at me. peeing all over me. It was the annoying guy. And I screamed and was like trying to, you know, move through the crowd to try to get away from him. And he kept on following me with his dick and his hand pointed at me for some reason peeing on me.

And Father John Misty, like, stopped in the middle of his song and was like, what's going on out there? And I was like, I'm being peed on by some crazy dude. And did he hear you? he did yeah i was like talking to hit like straight to him um and so they they threw the guy out but i've always blamed him a little bit because tim you opened and you did some of your you know your piss related songs and i think he inspired him that's true yes i was waiting for that i was back does she know i was does she know that i played did she come late his piss sweet of songs i have some songs by under it's it's a it's a

band called the Yellow River Boys and I'm obligated to play a few of their songs. I'm sorry, so sorry that happened. But I have to tell you, one ray of late, it wasn't outdoor venue, correct? So it's not like he was peeing inside. That really is not. That doesn't make anything better. Whether your skin is inside or outside, when the urine hits it, it doesn't matter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, this guy sounds like a real creep. Did they, did they, was he roughly removed? Not roughly, but he was finally removed. And I, I had to, like, I complained to the venue later because I was like, you guys, I got peed on. We kept trying to get this guy out of here. Can I get a refund for my ticket? Can I get, like, tickets to a free show later on? And they gave me a list of shows that I could pick from to get free tickets to.

And it was all stuff that I, like, had no interest in except a Dana Carvey show. So I went to go see Dana Carvey. We got pissed on again. It would have been ironic if one of them was PissCon, you know. Oh, I'll go to PiscCon. Well, and how was Dana Carvey? It was great. I went with my cousin who lives nearby around the same age as me.

I'm 30. We were the youngest people there by decades. It was great. Now, do you think, all in all, do you feel like it was a square deal? You know, in other words, would you get pissed on again for free Dana Carvey tickets? What would you get pissed on by four? Oh, yeah, that's a good question. Who would you get pissed on?

Who would you get? Well, Nina, you go first. You're the caller. Who would you get? I mean, I don't mean, I mean the same kind of peeing. Like on your legs and you're running away. I'm not talking about a drenching. Right.

So I think if someone peed on me so I could go see Joni Mitchell at the Hollywood Bowl Oh yeah that's a good one That's a fair deal That's a good one Don't tell yeah don't tell Joni But you know

Oh gosh I don't even know I don't have anybody I don't want to see anybody Yeah yeah you don't care that much No not for a live experience I think they get peed on they would It would be someone that would have to be revived From the grave Like, yeah, it'd have to be a dead person.

Like, you know, James Brown in his prime or something like that. Maybe like Paul McCartney, but in my living room. Yeah, yeah, that too. Yeah, like intimate. Not like the Hollywood Bowl or like that venue or I'm sitting there 20, 50 yards away. Right. Like, um, uh, uh, Bonscott ACDC, but like at a raising canes so we can get tenders at the same time. Like that, that's worth pey.

How about like the original lineup of the small faces at like a small club? Oh, they'd be fucking awesome. Right. That'd be amazing. Yeah. Well, Nina, thank you so much. And if you see me at the grocery store, say hi. For sure.

Also, I wanted to add, I'm on my way right now to go see Father John Mischdi at Pappy and Harriet. Uh-oh. Once bitten twice shy. Oh, boy, be careful because you're out in the desert there. Although, you know, that's, you know, you can just roll around in the sand after you get peed on. You can't get enough of this Father John Misty. Yeah. Apparently so.

Well, give him my best if you tell to him. Tell him we said hi. I for sure. Thank you, Nina. All right, next up. Well, here, I'm going to give you the number 855-266-2-404. I'm here with Tim Heideker. We're talking crazy concert stories.

Next caller from Montana. Dan. I see that, like, Nina from Pasadena, Dan, from Montana. Yeah, Dan from Montana, Nina Pasadena, you know, now we'll need, you know, Louis from St. Louis. Stewie from St. Louis. How's it going, guys? That's better.

That's better. We're riffing. Is it rewrite, you know? Hi, Dan, what's up? Tell us your concert story. Well, this was quite a while ago. This was the late 80s, and I was in college in Bozeman, and a bunch of friends and I drove up to Billings to see Aerosmith. Nice. And being teenage kids, we were. we were partying all the way there, and then we proceeded to party in the parking lot.

What is partying mean for, like, for, you know, the, for the Bozeman crowd? It was drinking a lot of beer and probably smoking pot. Okay, that's good. I mean, I just, I don't want crystal meth or anything. There's kids listening to this. Oh, no, no, no, no. Yeah. So, we didn't really care about the opening act.

I think that maybe it was Skid Row or somebody like that. Nice. We just stayed in the parking lot and kept on having a good time. And then all of a sudden we realized it was getting late. It was probably time for Aerosmith to be on. So we went running into the venue and like a bunch of wild animals. And we had tickets for the floor. So we had to go down a couple flights of stairs to get down to the floor level.

And we're rounding the corner. And I see the last flight of stairs has this chrome banister. And I, you know, just to put a little Kevin Bacon on it, I think I'm going to hop up on this railing and slide down and never miss a beat. Like on your feet? On your feet or on your butt? No, on my butt. Oh, okay.

And I hop up on the railing and just went ass over tea kettle right over it and fell about 10 feet down on the concrete. Oh. Oh. And what happened? And he died. He's calling from hell. Oh, no. Well, it hurt a lot, but I stayed for the concert.

There's no way I was going to miss the concert. Yeah, yeah. And I just, I just cheered with one arm. You know, I couldn't really do the double devil horns, but I could do it with one arm. Were you, what? Did you go to an emergency room or anything? I mean, were you seriously injured? I didn't go till the next morning.

I wasn't sure that it was broken until I got home that night, and I couldn't turn the doorknob to get into the house. Oh, yeah. That's when I knew something was seriously wrong. Right. Oh, boy. It wasn't here. It was a great show from what I can remember. I'm sure the beers helped.

It wasn't your butt wiping hand, was it? It wasn't what? It wasn't your butt wiping hand, was it? It was my butt wiping hand. Oh, my God. That's a, that is a tragedy. I, in the 90s, probably around this same time, I went to go see Beck in Philadelphia, peak Beck, O'Dillay Beck, you know?

Yeah, yeah. Or Midnight Vultures Beck, maybe. But my friends had floor tickets. I had, I was by, I got in late and, or got, got into the ticket buying late and got seats above out of the, you know, up on the sides of the arena. And I said, well, I'm just going to go down to the, I'm just going to go and jump over the little turn, little railing there and get onto the floor and meet up with my friends. Yeah. I go down there, jump over the thing.

Second I land, security guard comes. I'm out. I get fully kicked out. Wow. Right away. Like, as soon as I got there. You saw nothing. Saw nothing.

Oh, wow. This was pre-cell phones and stuff. So I had no way to tell anybody because that was the plan. I was like, you just jumped down and I was just kind of waiting outside of Philadelphia outside the arena. And like I was with Eric, my partner, Eric. Yeah. And he's a distinctive looking person. Yes, he's very tall.

So I found this homeless man who was outside who was collecting cans and stuff and like the guy that's always out there. And I asked him, I had some money on me. I said, could you, could you do me a favor and let my friend know that I got, I got. out of here, I got kicked out and I'll meet him back home. I said, what does he look like? And I said, well, he's like giant with big horn runne glasses and big sideburns and black dyed hair. You know, like, you're not going to miss him. And sure enough, Eric gets home later.

He's like, yeah, walk out. And this homeless guy's like, Eric, Tim's all right. He's home. It's like a small town feel. Yeah, it was so cool. It's kind of worth it. All right. Well, Dan, thank you for the.

call. I hope your arm's better. It's all good now. It only hurts if I have to hammer a bunch of nails or something. Well, don't do that. I'll try to avoid it. Yeah, get a nail gun. Good idea. You know what? I have actually real quick, I'll do it quickly, a concert story

that I, because I, you know, I like to think about what the topic is and if I have one. And one of the coolest things that ever happened to me happened at a concert. And it was back in the late night with Conan O'Brien days. I had done a remote piece from a Kiss convention. Oh.

And this is early 90s. And have they put the makeup back on yet? No, they have not. They have not. But it was still, it was at the Roseland Ballroom. It was, you know, it was just, it was really, it was kind of weird because kids, they weren't on the tip of everyone's tongue at that point. No, no, no.

And they were there. And I interviewed them and, you know, and got along fine with them. And then when they did announce the tour. for the makeup and the reunion and all of that. They did it on the aircraft carrier that's in, that's parked in Manhattan. The Intrepid or something like that. The Intrepid, yeah, for some reason they picked that to do the announcement.

And they had, motherfuckers, had Conan host it. It's like, I'm the one that was, I'm the one that gave them the attention, you know. But I did go and film some backstage stuff with them and saw them again. Yeah. So when they went on tour, their first date in New York, which I was excited because I never saw them when I was a kid in the full makeup with all of the, you know, pyro and all that. Yeah. So I was excited to see them, but I was gone from New York because I think they kicked it off at Madison Square Garden. And I wasn't there.

A couple of months later, I went to Indiana to visit family and they were playing at the Hoosier Dome. Okay. So my ex-wife, her sister, and her ex-husband, a lot of divorce in this story, guys. As is with most kiss audiences. But we went to the show, and before the show we went backstage, and I got to see Gene. And it was fantastic to see the cutouts in his tights. You could see underneath there, oh, yeah, that's like a 64-year-old man's leg. Yeah.

You don't notice it from the stage, you know, when he's on stage, but it's like when you're close up, Oh, yeah, that's my dad's thigh right there, you know. But we had good seats, about third row or something like that. But I hadn't seen Paul. And at one point in the show, you know, he's playing and it's like it goes into a chorus or something. And he locks eyes with, he looks, locks eyes with me and points and goes, Andy Richter! And I had to turn to my wife. and say, did that happen?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's like, yes, that did just happen. Paul Stanley just pointed to you and said, Andy Richter! It's a good kiss word to say. It was unbelievable. It was like, I was like, you know what? Can't explain that to your 10-year-old self.

Yeah, and I would have been fine. Can't explain that to your 10-year-old self. That whole night is a longer story, too. There's a lot of, it was, it was, if you ever get a chance to go backstage to a kiss show, So do it. It's pretty fun. Let's go back to the calls. 855-266-2-604.

We've got Audi from Wisconsin. Is that a real name, Audi? Audi? Oh, hi. Hi. Is it Audi or Audi? Oh, it's actually Audi. Adi.

Okay, I know. Yeah, it's just, it spelled like the car on my screen. Oh, yeah, yeah. A lot of people get that. And it's good because they remember my name that way. Yes, exactly. It's like, you know, if your name was BMW, people would remember you. I know.

That would be a tough one. Yeah. Well, Adi, tell us your story. What concert story? You got me and Tim here? Oh, yes. Hi, Tim. Hello.

So the story is about a concert which, you know, which concerns Tim. It was Tim's concert in Milwaukee last year. Yes. The two Tim's show, you know, the comedy and the music. So I was sitting in the front row, and Tim actually called me up on stage. So me and another person from the audience, we both got to be on stage with Tim and, you know, actually danced.

And in the beginning, I was feeling really shy. And then Tim taught me a step. And, you know, it was so awesome. Oh. Well, yes. show I ever attended. Get out of here. That's so nice. I do want to admit something to you, Adi, I do that every night. Oh, okay. I was going to ask, I was going to ask, does the medication allow you to remember that? Yeah, do you remember that? I do. It's just like, it's part of the pattern.

Yes. I mean, let me say this in a way that I, let me be careful with this. Where are you from, Audi? So I live in Madison, but, you know, we draw over to Milwaukee for the concert. But you've born here, or did you emigrate here? No, no, no, no. I was born in India. Yes. So I'll be frank about my audience demographic is as very embarrassingly pretty monoculture.

Pretty white. Yeah, yeah. So when I see people that don't look like me come to my shows, I'm excited. Yeah, yeah. I want that. I mean, of course we all want that. We want a divorced world. A divorced world.

Did I say divorce? Oh, God. I'm so sad. I'm not really. But, Audie, you are so sweet to come up and play with us and dance and it was a treat. I remember it fondly. I guess that's sort of the point is I definitely remember Audie coming up on stage because sometimes it's a guy that I will easily forget because he looks like, you know,

the guy you might close your eyes in picture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, Adi, I'm so happy you had a great time. Oh, yeah. That was, like I said, that was the best concert I've ever been to. And I'll be a fan of yours and Eric's since, like, 2008. Well, I will be on tour again if anyone else wants to see the best concert Audi's ever seen. Yeah.

That'll be at Tim Heidecker.com. I know you're coming to Madison in January. I'm trying to buy tickets this. Get to the front. Get to the front. Yeah, maybe you'll come up again for an encore. Yeah. I don't, I don't know, the majestic doesn't seem to have assigned seating.

So I think it's just like general standing only. Well, then you got, that's, that's, it's even better. It's when you line up at seven in the morning. Yeah. Or just weasel your way in. Yeah. Say health emergency, health emergency, and then just bust through. All right, Adi, thanks for the call.

All right. Hey, thanks again. And, yeah, take care, both of you. Bye, bye, thanks. All right. next we've got tyler Tyler Tyler you got tim and Andy hello hi

where you calling from Tyler I'm calling from Fargo north Dakota nice what's the weather like today it's actually really nice it's been a very warm September it's like 75 out oh wow that is nice Greg Turkington and I played Neil Hamburger and I played in

Fargo a few years ago so I was so mad when I And I found that out because I just became a fan of your guys was like two or three years ago. And I saw that you guys came here. And I was like, no. I saw the man, the big beef boys walking in the middle of the street on a Friday night plastered out of their minds. And Fargo was something to see. It was like biggest, biggest men, just big plow horsemen.

It all look like linebackers. Yeah, yeah. Just like zombies. Yeah, it's quite a bit of strange. Right. Am I right? Yeah, I live pretty close to downtown, so that's a regular, regular occurrence I get to see. Well, Tyler, tell us about your concert story.

Okay, so this happened like 10 years ago, I think. I was 15 at the time, and I went to, well, we don't get all that many, like, large, larger bands, like bigger names here. So especially not 10 years ago. So 10 years ago, the fray was coming here, and we were like, oh, my gosh, we have to go. So me and my best friend and her twin sister, we were like, all right, we're going to go. We got general admission tickets to. It was at a kind of smaller stage outside. It's meant for like performing arts theater things. So like the general admission isn't like right in the middle, like right in front of the stage. It's kind of off to the side because all the seats are in the

middle because they're usually performing seated people. So we still though, we were like like, okay, we're going to get fair at like 10 a.m. Because any other time we went to concerts, we would have to drive four hours to Minneapolis and, you know, people would line up hours early. So we were used to getting the shows super duper early in order to be anywhere near the front and be able to see. So we're like, all right, 10 a.m. should be a good time here in Fargo. And we were like the only people there until about 3 p.m.

Like no one else came. No, yeah. Can I interrupt for one second? I don't know the phrase. So what kind of music is the... Should I know the fray? Do you know the fray? I don't know the fray.

Okay, thank you. It sounds kind of familiar. That's funny. They have that song, like, How to Save a Life. What genre? What genre is it, like, rock and rock? According to... Yeah, it's like alternative indie sort of rock.

Yeah. Yeah, we were the only people there until about two, except our local radio station, they pulled up, and they were like, hey, we got out of our car, and we were just hanging out at that point. They're like, hey, do you guys? want to help us and we're like sure um so we we spent like the next few hours sitting there trying to get people to sign up to um win a jet ski i don't know some radio show stuff you know and then

we realized you know it's like 6 p.m and we're like shoot we got here so early and now we like there's so many people already inside like we're not going to be anywhere we're not going to have great thoughts whatever but then the radio surprised us with like meet and greets to the fray which is super cool so we got to meet them. I'd love to meet the friend. And then we went in to just to find out who they are. So funny.

I kind of thought that they were that they were kind of like a household name. Well, I have to tell you, I'm very old. Tim's not as old as me, but I'm very old. I'm getting it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, oh, here we're hearing it. First reactions. We'll do those first reaction

videos, you know? Oh, there you go. Oh, my God, yes. Sounds like the counting crows. Yeah. Or just like any of those fucking bands that are all about feelings. Oh yeah, that does sound kind of familiar. How many Spotify plays is their top song?

Can you see there? We have a crack staff. Oh, they're moving quick. A billion? Okay. One billion? Yeah. With a B.

There's so many things that are super, super popular that I've never heard of. Like three weeks ago, I was going somewhere and suddenly I see which now I guess I don't know

maybe it was I was on the cusp of it or something but Chapel Roan I was like I never heard of her before never yeah yeah

three weeks ago suddenly I'm like I'm supposed to know who this is and then I did and you know it's whatever it's fine

but it's not for me but yeah it all sneaks up on you and it and it's certain but how does everybody know how do you know to love the fray

I don't know how to love the fray I didn't know I was supposed to love the fray I didn't know I was supposed to love the fray I, you know, I don't know. I don't know. And it's the kind of thing, too. There's a lot of stuff like that that I sort of feel like,

I don't really want to know because I feel like a creepy old man. Right. Like, because it's for, like, young people. Yeah. Like, I remember when everyone was talking about the show Euphoria, I watched one episode. And I'm not like, I was like, I cannot watch this. I felt like that way. I was alone, you know, it wasn't like anybody saw me watching it.

But I was just like, I have children. I don't feel right. about this. You got to watch the front line or something. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, you should finish your story, though. Yeah, yeah, we did, we did hijack your story. No, that's okay. I feel like I'm giving a lot of context, but also it's, like, slightly important, but I'm getting through the fun stuff here. So, we go inside, we're in the general admission area. We're like, we really thought that we were going to be, like, so far in the back. We still ended up being in, like, the second row. So we're like, oh, cool. And then the opening band comes on, but then it starts storming so,

badly that they're like, okay, everyone has to go. You guys can go stand by the building over there, but we'll see if we're going to cancel it or not. So like 15 minutes go by and they finally were like, okay, you guys can come back. We're going to go on with the show. So then we had to like stand on the sidewalk and then when they like blew a whistle or something, they were like, okay, now you can, that's when you can walk back to your spot. So we may or may not have like run down the hill a little bit to get to the front area pretty quick. Um, because we were We're like, you know what? We've been here longer than anyone else.

We deserve a little spot in the front. Okay, we were in the second row. Now we're in the front. Wow. Okay. It's really not that much of a difference. But these ladies behind us, so again, we were 15 at the time, and these ladies behind us, it was like three or four women who were probably in their 30s.

They, I don't know. They must have been maybe a little drunk or maybe they're just this awful, completely sober. Well, I don't know. Just kidding. They were, they kept making little comments. We could hear. over our shoulders there about how like, oh my god, you guys stole our spot. Oh.

Mind you, they were nowhere near us first time around. Yeah. Like we actually had no idea what they're talking about. And then they started like, well, then the concert starts. And then they're like accidentally filling their alcohol down our back. Oh, geez. Like we are actually wrenched in their beer. And then they're like lighting cigarettes.

They're like threatening to light our hair on fire and making loud jokes. about it. Just all this crazy stuff for like a good 20 minutes. We're 15. We're trying to enjoy the show, number one. Number two, we're not conference people. We're children. These people are literally twice our age. But finally, they were saying just such crazy things that I, I don't know if it was me or one of my friends. We turn around and we're like, do you guys feel good? Like, we're children. Do you guys feel good about bullying children here? Like, we're trying to watch this. And then they kind of like took a little step back but we were just oh my goodness yeah they they definitely brought us to tears with just how um oh i never seen anything like that before

children make adults look like children yeah yeah wait we we talked over you you're saying finished the last thought you just had it was it was just amazing folks because you were like we'd never experienced people acting like that yeah yeah especially like and we'd been for a lot of concerts but no these ladies were just uh they would not let it go and It's not like they couldn't be super tall people. And I do like, though, that you did. Like, it's always so, so rewarding when you can see that you break through an asshole's behavior to make them see like, oh, shit, I've been an asshole, you know. Oh, I think the fray has to come out and address this.

Yeah, yeah. That's the other thing. This is not what the fray is about. That kind of energy that they were putting out. That is not the fray. Right. Oh, fucking mix me. I hope somebody from the phrase listening.

Oh, they are. Yeah. Well, Tyler, thank you so much. Thank you, guys. Yeah. And let's go to the next caller here. We've got C. C from Minneapolis.

Hi, C. Hi, C. I like to drink. You're here with Tim and Andy. I like the regular. Hi, guys. I'm excited to talk to you. Thanks for calling.

Yeah, I'm excited to share a conversation. A concert story. Fucking let her rip, man. All right. So this is the second concert I ever went to. It was a big arena show in Minneapolis, and it was in the late 90s. And back then, of course, marijuana was illegal. You couldn't do that anywhere in public.

Of course. But a couple of friends had brought, they brought a pipe, and they brought a little marijuana to go see the red hot chili peppers gun. You got it. So we go to the show. Yeah, you got it. So we go to the show, and there's four of us. Two of us are not smoking.

I had 16. I had never done anything. I was not going to smoke marijuana, but two of these other guys we were with brought this pipe. So we go to the show. The opener is good, and the foo fighters come on, and that's great, but the lights go down when the foo fighters come on. So the pipe comes out, and these guys are smoking, getting high. And sure enough, security guard walks right up to him, grabs the pipe, gives them a little talking to and walks away. Shouldn't have been that big of a deal.

But again, we're 16 years old, so, you know, not really used to the effects, I think. And I'm looking at my buddy, at my buddy, he turns to me. And, I mean, it's almost like looking at somebody like on a bad assid trip or something. It's just his face, the muscles had gone slack, red eyes, and he just looks terrified. And he's telling me, that pipe wasn't mine. That was my friend, Danny's. We got to get that back. Danny's going to kill me.

and I'm thinking, what am I going to do? But I know I wasn't smoking. And I figured if anyone had a shot, I might as well shoot my shot. Yeah, you had the negotiation skills. Yeah. Well, I was at least sober enough to try. So I went to the security guard. I walked down the stairs, found the security guard.

I tapped them on the shoulder and said, hey, so my buddies were smoking and you grab the pipe from them. and I understand I get it. They were smoking marijuana. Yeah. Not allowed. I don't approve. But the pipe, but the pipe is legal, right?

I think you can get those, you can smoke tobacco out of them. It's just the marijuana that was illegal. So if we could get that pipe back, that would be great. Surprisingly, that wasn't enough. That didn't convince them. But it was a younger security guard, and I think I just kind of had the Hutzpah, the try. And so I said, well, I said, you know, you're going to be in trouble if you don't get that pipe back because you're not supposed to confiscate that. Oh, good.

You're 16 and you had the nerve to say that? You're using the Constitution on them. I did. I think maybe I was trying to show off to my friends or something. Good for you. But the security guard said, well, fine, but I already gave it to somebody else and they put it away in a locker. I can't get it back now. So I said, oh, no, you're going to be in trouble then.

So I explained to them that, well, now there's evidence that you took this thing you're not supposed to take, and it's locked away. And, you know, if we don't get this back, I'm going to file a complaint here. And it's going to be a whole lot of stuff for you to deal with. I think you should really just try to get that back for it. Wow. And the security guard said, I'll see what I can do. and I went back to my seat.

So we're watching the concert. Red Out Chili Peppers come on. Now we're really into it. But my friends are still just, you know, it's like they're on the bad trip. They're just in the negative space. And lo and behold, the security guard comes walking up the stairs,

taps me on the shoulder and says, hey, I wasn't able to get that pipe back, but I did grab this one. They had confiscated somebody else's pipe, brought it over to us. They didn't even clean it out. It had marijuana in it. And that's the rest of the story.

Paul Harvey. It's one of those kind of stories. Wait, and did your friends fire that one up to you after he left? Oh, they did. And we knew it had to be the people down below us. So we were smoking there we. Looking down at them. This needs to be an illustrated children's book.

We enjoyed the show looking down. Well, I hope. hope you went into the law as a profession. Maybe I should have, although I probably end up like Saul Goodman. I think that was, you know, maybe a shady practice. All right. Well, thank you so much, see. Good for you.

You know, sometimes the little guy does win. All right, let's go. This is probably our last call here. But I got to take it. Krista, hello, Krista. Hello. Hi there. The reason I have to take this call is,

because you were at a death clock Metallocalypse concert and my friends my friends created that show Tommy Blatchettia who's one of the creators of the video was one of the and Brendan is a friend of mine too so I got to hear about this

because Brendan is a shredder oh yes yes very talented for people that don't know for people that don't know there was an adult swim cartoon called Metalocalypse and it was about a legendary metal band called Death Clock. And the concede of the show is that Death Clock is like,

it creates more business than most countries, the industry of most countries. Taylor Swift. Yeah, they control the world. And it's very funny. But it's based also too, because Brandon Small, who one of the creators of it, is an amazing guitar player.

Yes. Like Inve Malmsteen. level. So, Krista. Yeah, he shredded. Yeah. So tell us what happened. So, yeah, this has happened 15 ago. So I was like a fresh baby in college, 18 years old. And it was my first metal show ever. I was seeing death clock and mastodon. And I think it was a great. It was either a Gramercy or Hammerstein in the city.

and mass out and finish their set, they're amazing performers. And so then Bone's face comes on, does his little spiel about how not to knock into people at the show and how to be respectful and wear deodorant and stuff. Yeah. So after Bone's Face gets off the stage, all of a sudden they kick on the intro to Metal Ocalypse, which is just heavy rift. Yeah. And the next thing I know, I completely black out.

And I wake up on my ass. And I look around me and all of a sudden I see an open pit. And I'm like, oh, crap, they're going to do a wall of death on me. But I looked around quick. And I noticed that my friends were like hovered around this guy who was on the floor kicking his legs. And one of my friends, John, he turns over and he goes, oh, my God, are you okay? And I'm like, what happened? He goes, this dude came out of nowhere and just slammed his fist straight into my face.

Oh, no. Into your face? In my face, yeah. Oh, my God. Knocked you out. Knocked out. Yeah. Was he, was he moshing or whatever that?

Was it like an accident? So it wasn't even an accident. The guy literally saw me from across the pit and ran towards me. and just knocked me out. I don't even know why he did it. But I turned around and I looked at it. And so my friend is like, are you okay? You got knocked out?

And I noticed they're all beating the crap. Oh, my God. Wow. So I was like, holy crap. I'm glad I'm not that guy right now. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it was crazy. Security came and I was fine and I wasn't even bleeding or anything.

I was just seeing stars. And then I got to enjoy the rest of death clock. I probably have some brain damage after that. That's why I'm finding to these shows. That could have been disastrous. This is what animated metal does. Cartoon metal. It makes people crazy.

Yeah, it makes people nuts. So there was, you never got any sort of inkling. Like he didn't say, like he didn't go like, you know, like, I miss you, Terry or something like that. Like he was mistaking you for somebody else. Wow. No, no. This dude, I didn't even.

happened so quick. I didn't even see him run across the pit to hit me. Wow. And meanwhile, I'm not like a giant tall person. I'm like five foot four and like I was standing in like a black metal shirt. I'm like how on earth pretty have seen me? Wow. It was crazy.

Well, you must have some kind of charisma that draws that sort of attention. And now, have you been to have you been to many metal shows Since. I was going to say she like, this happened to her at the Eagles show she went to. It happens at all shows. Yeah, no, I think I think I take that off my list. No, I've happened to like probably 50 metal shows then. Wow.

My last being Alice in Chains when I was nine months pregnant. Oh, wow. Yeah. Get that baby used to it. All right. Well, cool, Krista. I'm glad you were okay. Me too. All right. Thanks. much for calling. It's a jolly person. I love the show. She's a jolly person.

Yeah. Happy to be hit. Well, that's the show, Tim. That was a lot of fun. Thank you. We usually sort of sit around and opine as to which was the favorite call. Do you have a...

I think the pipe story just was so endearing. Yeah. I really liked that one. I did like, I mean, it's unpleasant, but the peeing on the legs. Loved the story. Because I had a personal connection. Yeah.

I do faintly remember that. Yeah. Like being there that that was somebody was, I remember somebody backstage, like somebody's peeing on people back. I remember that. Yeah, yeah. So personal connection there. Neat. Well, folks, that's it for the Andy Richter-Callens show for this week.

I'll be back next week. So call back. Be a part of it. It's a happening. And thank you, Tim. Thanks, Andy. You want to do a plug going out? New record, slipping away coming out.

Office hours, if you like call-in shows, You'd love office hours. Yeah, I've been there. It's really fun. And I'm going to be on tour with the very good band, Neil Hamburger, DJ Doug Pound in January, 25th is our first show. End of January of the year 2025. All right.

Check out Tim Heidecker.com for those tickets. All righty. Okay, thanks, everyone. See you next week. Bye-bye.