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

Episode Date: October 4, 2024

Tim Heidecker joins The Andy Richter Call-In Show this week 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.

Conan O'Brien Radio! Conan O'Brien Radio! Hi! Andy Richter here. This is the Andy Richter call-in show, in case you didn't know. 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, PH, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like somebody at a Tom Petty concert

getting a salmon thrown at them. It's PH, I-S-H. And you can call in if you got some. Our number is 855-266-2604. 855-266-2604. 855-266-266. It doesn't help if you'd say it twice and then you fuck it up. 855-266-2604.

And I'm really, really happy to have Tim Heidecker in here with me today. Genuinely. Genuinely. You're not putting the audience on. Not at all. I feel it. I'm not a bullshitter. Genuinely. You're not putting the audience on. Not at all, 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, but I'm very happy that you're here. And do we want to talk about last night? Mwahahahaha.

Yeah, I- This could be so boring for everybody. I know. But it was kind of cool to me. It was exciting, yeah. No, I, a friend of mine, Brian Kiley, very funny, stand up, had tickets to the Dodgers game and he took me and Dan Gore, there was all Conan writer people, Dan Gore who was a creator of Brooklyn Nine-Nine,

worked on Parks and Rec and was on the Conan show. And Mike Sweeney, stalwart, long time head writer of the Conan show. And so it was like a fun night for us. And 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... You remember that shot of Rob Lowe with the NFL hat? Yes, NFL, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I love seeing you and I consider us friends. We've known you for a long time. Absolutely. But I don't see you ever, really. I don't know, the last time I saw you, it's been a long time.

I don't leave the house much. Yeah, and I'm the same way. It's rare that we bump into each other at something. And it's the day before I'm coming in to do this show, which was strange. But yeah, so I was in Generic Bay, 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 gonna go to the game, do you wanna 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 gonna 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,

he said, I'm gonna bring a friend, he's a Dodgers fan. He goes, that's cool, but can he not wear the hat and everything, and what am I gonna say? No. Right, I know. I'm gonna wear the hat, fuck you. But the point remains. I told you this and you're like, this is stupid.

That's so dumb. If I was the, I mean, are they really that insecure? I think they are. It's so weird. I think they take it really, we were saying like, really? He's like, it's actually very serious. I remember. And I was like, fine, I'm not gonna, yeah, sure. I'll sit there, I'm gonna like quietly golf clap on our 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 a triple play. 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 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 were, it was more Dan Gore. Dan Gore was like, I have something to do tomorrow. I was like, I have nothing. Yeah. I have nothing. Is it the end of the world to sit in the little traffic and like, that's not the, yeah.

No, and I often have done that, but it's also kind of nice. Sure. On a, what, Tuesday night to get out. And I also too, I am enough of a Dodgers fan that that was an annoying game. It was an annoying game. They kept hitting the gap,

they hit the end of the gap like six times. The Padres had some great defensive plays too. So it was, but I'm becoming- They played really great. I'm becoming a Padres fan. Oh no! But, but I'm, 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, we were sitting right behind the Padres dugout. And there was this man who was, I think he was there by himself, and his whole role, his whole meaning in life at that game was to taunt Manny Machado,

who was a big enemy of the Dodgers. Yeah, the Dodgers hate Manny Machado. And he was, Manny, you're a bum! You know, it was like that kind of thing. 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, it's just one guy.

And eventually the security came over and it was right, I 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. And the security, it was so fun to watch. The security guards is like, now you can say you're a bum. Okay. I'm going to,

I'm okay with that. It was like, all right, all right. That now we have somewhere, now we can work with that. Like I can work with that. How about a dirty bum? So now that's too much. 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 sweating and just like they were negotiating nuclear arms deals right in front of me. And when security leaves, does the guy just start right back up? They just start right back up. And there were two- Under 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 boundaries, but it was fascinating to him. I think that a baseball player can have someone thrown out, if they're like bugging him, they can just go get that guy out of here. Cause it's not like... They were making fun of Manny.

Manny 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. Yeah. That's awesome. All right, well we're talking concert stories today. Give us a call if you got one, 855-266-2604.

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. Yeah, I mean- Unironically. Unironic, well no, yeah, unironically, for sure. I mean, I don't- Like, you're not doing like funny joke songs

that are meant mostly to be funny. No. Sometimes, I mean, I don't... Like, it's not, you're not doing, like, funny joke songs that are meant mostly to be funny. You're... 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, my stuff.

So, yeah, I've been touring for the past couple years with a band, the Very Good Band, and it's a great, fun show. I just opened for Waxahatchee. Nice. And I was just playing music. That's great. It's like really fun.

Is it kinda like, do you kinda 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 one of these summer stages,

and it was just emanating out onto the boardwalk and around the whole, and it was totally surreal. Like, what am I doing here? How did I get here? But it's, you know, I think anything you do it enough, you get better at it, you get more comfortable doing it. 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 between songs, I'm gonna goof around, I'm gonna make jokes and try to do what I, just be myself. So... Has there been craziness that happened? Craziness? Of course, I was trying to, I'm thinking of some good examples.

I do, this is the one I wanna share with you, is I will do a Q and 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 kinda had like a Tourette's-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 in a bit. But this was a little more of like a medical condition. And so everything I said got this like, I'm saying is supposed to be funny in a bit. But this was a little more of like a medical condition. And so everything I said got this like.

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. With like seven, like there's like 70 other people in this room. Yeah, yeah. And you know, it just made you like stop, are you like, hey, you know. But the other one at one of these Q and A's, 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, that 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. 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 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, we had Marilyn Manson on Awesome Show, our sketch show on 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 wanna 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.

I happen to know people that were affected by him and I have real contempt for him. I think he's like a terrible person. So I told her that. I was like, in a nice polite way, I said, listen, I have to be honest, cause I'm not just talking to you, I'm talking to this whole room.

I said, I don't think he's a very good person. I didn't particularly enjoy working with him and kind of regret it. And she looked like she was a little stunned. 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, this is not a good guy. You don't wanna be lumped in, like, you're my two favorites, and like, oh, the abuser? Yeah, yeah. Okay.

The guy with the dungeon? Yeah. I do wonder though, if I did the follow-up of during a sad song, did you hear? Yeah. So, that was what I was, I mean, that's what I'm thinking during the Q&A, like, here we go,

this is gonna ruin the night. My tour manager, JP, had a talk with him, he was very apologetic, he said he would stay in the back and it was not a problem, believe it or not. Somehow it was okay, but yeah, that was my fear. Keep it in your pants, all right. All right, let's go to the phones, that's the whole point here.

Yep, we talked long here, so let's keep these calls punchy, kids. Love ya. Peter from Miami. Oh, I got- 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 Knight 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. And so we got really good tickets, like fifth row. And he's, you know, he only played one Smith song, How Soon Is Now, started off with it, and then it was all solo stuff.

And then he got to a point about midway through where he takes off his shirt and balls it up and he throws it into the crowd. And it just 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. And it just 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 like clawing at me and stuff. My wife is like, just let go of the shirt, like who cares? And I'm like, oh, I got it.

It's the principle. 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. 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 his encore break, and I guess to put a new shirt on, and then they play Meet is 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, factory stuff. And it's long, it's like 10 minutes long of like, just like animals getting, dude it's long. Like there's pigs and chickens and cows and murder and I'm just like, okay I just got attacked. And I'm watching. That's 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. When I watch it, it's, yeah. I saw Morrissey once at what was then the Staples Center. Okay. And it was interesting that all,

there was no meat in the venue. Oh. All of the venues were vegan, which is a very interesting thing. But what's funny to me, and I would never have known this before coming to Los Angeles, but how popular he is with the Latino community,

or the Latinx community. Yeah. And- My brother's name is Hector. Oh really? I would love a documentary. Maybe there's one out there about the origins of that. How did that happen? Yeah. Well, 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, 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. Wow. There's just, you know, I mean, I'm merely reporting the facts, but it's like 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,

he 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. Or maybe Johnny Mars got the right idea of shittin' it out.

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 just canceled it. Like, all the stops. Wow. Cause he had a cold or something? Yeah. Yeah. He got, he said he got a, like some sort of a laryngitis or something.

And so he was like, Christine Young, my opener, she sucks. She got me sick and sorry, it's all canceled out. Oh my God. So, you know, 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. And I hope 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 held. You can't stop people from biting. 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 youadena. 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. Yes, it is. You ever go to Pine Burger? Yeah. 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 San U Humphreys. Uh oh. I know where this is going. You do? I do.

I mean does it involve me? Uh, I mean no, but maybe, kinda. Oh boy, this is exciting. So, hey honey, my wife is listening. Hey honey, turn off the radio, would you? Mrs. Heidecker, put on mute go ahead go ahead Nina Okay, so yeah, I was at 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 um they wouldn't 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 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 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 You did yeah, I was talking straight to him.

And so they threw the guy out. But I've always blamed Tim a little bit, because Tim, you opened and you did some of your piss-related songs, and I think it inspired him. That's true. Yes, I was waiting for that. I was like, does she know that I played? Did she come late?

His piss suite of songs? I have some songs under, it's a band called the Yellow River Boys. And I'm obligated to play a few of their songs, yes. I'm so sorry that happened. But I have to tell you, one ray of light, it was an outdoor venue, correct? So it's not like he was peeing inside.

That really is not a mic. 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. Well, this guy sounds like a real creep. Did they, was he roughly removed? Not roughly, but he was finally removed and I, I had to like, I complained to the ventilator

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. You got pissed on again. I would have been ironic if one of them was piss con you know. Oh I'll go to piss con. Well and well 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. Now do you think all in all do you feel like it was a square deal? In other words, would you get pissed on again for free Dana Carvey tickets? Maybe not. Maybe something a little better. Who 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? And 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, I would, that's a fair deal. That's a good one. We'll work on that.

Yeah, don't tell Joni, but you know. Oh. Oh gosh,, don't tell Joni, but you know. Oh. Oh. Oh gosh, I don't even know. I don't have anybody. I don't wanna see anybody. I don't care. Yeah, yeah. You don't care that much?

No, not for a live experience. I think to get peed on, it would be someone that would have to be revived from the grave. Like, you know, like yeah, it'd have to be a dead person. Like, you know, James Brown in his prime or something like that. It may be like Paul McCartney, but in my living room.

Yeah, yeah, that too. Yeah, like intimate, not like the Hollywood Bowl or the kind of venue where I'm sitting there 20, 50 yards away or something. Right, like, Bon Scott ACDC, but like at a Raising Canes so we can get tenders at the same time. Like that's worth P.

How about like the original lineup of the small faces at like a small club? Oh, that'd be fucking awesome. Right. That'd be amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Nina, thank you so much.

And if you see me at the grocery store, say hi. For sure. Also wanted to add, I'm on my way right now to go see Father John Misty at Pappy and Harriet. Uh oh. Once bitten, twice shy. Oh boy, be careful. Cause 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. Oh, you can't get enough of this Father John Misty. Yeah. Apparently so. Well. Give him my best if you tell him. Tell him we said hi. I first heard a little. Thank you Nina. All right next up, we got, well here I'm going to give you

the number 855-266-2604. I'm here with Tim Heidecker. We're talking crazy concert stories. Next caller from Montana, Dan. I see that like Nina from guys. So you know and from Montana Yeah, Dan from Montana Nina Pasadena, you know now we'll need you know, Louie from st. Louis Stewie from St. Louis guys We're riffing right, 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 partying all the way there and then we proceeded to party in the parking lot.

What does partying mean for you, 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 was just, I don't want crystal meth or anything. This is, 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 a Skid Row or somebody like that. So we just stayed, we stayed't really care about the opening act. I think that maybe it was Skid Row or somebody like that. So, 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 gonna 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! And what happened? He died, he's calling for help. Oh no. Well it hurt a lot but I stayed for the concert. There was no way I was going to miss the concert. Yeah, yeah.

And 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. Wait, 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 was a great show from what I can remember. I'm sure the beers helped. It wasn't your butt wiping hand, was it?

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

peak Beck, Odellay Beck, you know? Or Midnight Vultures Beck, maybe. But my friends had floor tickets. I had, I was by, I got in late, or got into the ticket buying late and got seats up on the sides of the arena. And I said, well, I'm just gonna go down to the, I'm just gonna go and jump over the little railing there

and get onto the floor and meet up with my friends. I go down there, jump over the thing, second I land, security guard guard comes I'm out I get fully kicked out right away as soon like as soon as I got there he saw nothing saw nothing and this was pre cell phones and stuff so I had no way to tell anybody because that was the plan I was like yeah you just jumped down get and I was just kind of waiting outside in 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 do me a favor and let my friend know that 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-rimmed glasses and big sideburns and black dyed hair, you know, like you're not gonna 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, yeah, walk out. And this homeless guy's like, Eric, Tim's all right. He's home. He headed back home. It's like a small town for you. 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. All right.

You know what? I have actually a real quick, I'll do it quickly, 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. And this is early 90s. 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 Kiss, 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 gave them the attention, but I did go and film some backstage stuff with them and saw them again.

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. Destroyer. 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. You don't notice it from the stage, or when he's on stage, but it's like when you're close up, it's like, oh yeah, that's my dad's thigh right there.

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? And she's like, yes, that did just happen. Paul Stanley just pointed at 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? It could all end right then 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, if you ever get a chance to go backstage to a kiss show, do it. It's pretty fun. Let's go back to the calls.

855-266-2604. We've got Audi from Wisconsin. Is that a real name, Audi? Audi? Oh, hi. Hi. Is that a real name, Audi? Audi? Oh, hi. Hi. Is it Audi or Audie? Oh, it's actually Audie.

Audie, OK, I know. Yeah, it's just, it's spelled like the car on my screen, so. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of people get that, and it's good, because they remember my name that way. Yes, exactly. Hey, it's like, you know, if your name was BMW, people would remember you. I know, that would be a tough one.

Well, Adi, tell us your story. What concert story? You got me and Tim here. Oh, yes. Hi, Tim. Hello. So, the story is, it's about a concert which concerns Tim. It was Tim's concert in Milwaukee last year. The two Tim's show, 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. It was the best show I ever attended. Get out of here. That's so nice. I do want to admit something to you. I do that every night. Oh, okay I was gonna ask I Was gonna ask does the medication allow you to remember that? Yes. 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, Audie? So I live in Madison, but you know, I drove 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. Mono, pretty white.

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

Did I say divorce? Oh God, I'm so sad. I'm not really. But Audie, you were 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 and picture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Audie, I'm so happy you had a great time. Oh, yeah, that was, the guy you might close your eyes and picture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Audie, 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've been 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 Audie's ever seen. Yeah. That'll be at timheidecker.com. I know you're coming to Madison in January. I'm trying to buy tickets this, either today or tomorrow. Get to the front.

Get to the front. Yeah, maybe you'll come up again for an encore. Yeah. I don't know, the majestic doesn't seem to have a signed seating, so I think it's just like general standing only. Well then you got, it's even better. It's when you line up at seven in the morning.

Yeah, yeah. Or just weasel your way in. Yeah. Say health emergency, health emergency, and then just bust through. All right, Addy, thanks for the call. All right, hey, thanks again. And yeah, take care, both of you.

All right, thanks. All righty, next we've got Tyler. Tyler, you got Tim and Andy. Hello. Hi. Where are you calling from, Tyler? Hi. I'm calling from Fargo, North Dakota.

Ah, 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 found that out, because I just became a fan of your guys just like two or three years ago, and I saw that you guys came here, and I was like, no! I saw the big beef boys walking in the middle of the street on a Friday night plastered out of their minds in Fargo was something to see.

It was like just the biggest, biggest men. Plow horsemen. They all look like linebackers. Yeah, yeah. Just like zombies. Yeah, it's kind of insane. Am I right? Yeah, I live pretty close to downtown,

so that's a regular, regular occurrence kind of a strange. Am I right? Yeah, I live pretty close to downtown, so that's a regular current 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 gonna go. We got general admission tickets to, it was at a kind of smaller stage outside. It's meant for like performing arts, theater thing. But 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 the seated people. So we still though, we were like, okay, we're gonna get there 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 it? Should I know the phrase? Do you know the phrase?

I don't know the phrase. Okay, thank you. It sounds kind of familiar. That's funny. They have that song like How to Save a Life. What kind of, what genre is it? Like rock and all? According to, yeah, it's like alternative indie sort of rock, yeah.

Yeah, we were the only people there till 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 wanna help us? And we're like, sure. So 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. We realized, you know, it's like 6 PM 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 not gonna 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 fray.

And then we went in to- Just to find out who they are. And it's so funny. I kinda thought that they were kind of like a household name, so. Well. Funny that they aren't. I have to tell you, I'm very old.

Tim's not as old as me, but I'm very old. I'm getting there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, oh here, we're hearing it. First reactions, we'll do those first reaction videos. Oh, there we 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? Here, we have a crack staff. Wow, they're moving quick, no? A what, a billion?

Okay. One billion? Yeah. With a B. Hey, 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 Rowan. I was like, I've never heard of her before, never. Three weeks ago, suddenly I'm like, I'm supposed to know who this is. And then I did and it's whatever, it it's fine but it's not for me but no yeah it all sneaks up on you and it's like 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 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 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 wanna know cause I feel like a creepy old man. Right. Like cause it's for like young people. Yeah. Like I remember when everyone was talking

about the show Euphoria, I watched one episode. And I felt like, I was like, I cannot watch this. I felt like that was- I was alone, you know? It wasn't like anybody saw me watching it but I was just like, I have children. I do not feel right watch this. I felt like that was- I was alone, you know? It wasn't like anybody saw me watching it, but I was just like, I have children. I do not feel right about this. You gotta watch the front line or something.

Yeah, yeah. Sorry, you should finish your story though. Yeah, yeah, we did hijack your story. Nope, that's okay. I feel like I'm giving a lot of context, but also it's slightly important, but I'm getting to the fun stuff here. So we go inside, we're in the general admission area.

We're like, we really thought that we were gonna 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, 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. We were 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. 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 are probably in their thirties 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 they kept making little comments we could hear over our shoulders there about how like oh my god You guys stole our spot. Mind you, they were nowhere near us the first time around. 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. We are actually wrenched in their beer. And then they're like lighting cigarettes, they're'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. You know, 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 don't know if it was me or one of my friends. We turned 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 wash this.

And then they kind of took a little step back, but we were just, oh my goodness, yeah. They definitely brought us to tears with just how I'd never seen anything like that before. I love when children make adults look like children. Yeah, yeah. Wait, we talked over you. You're saying you finished the last thought you just had? It was just amazing for us because we were like, we'd never experienced people acting like that. Yeah, yeah. Especially like, and we've been to a lot of concerts, but now these ladies were just,

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. Well, 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? Ugh, fucking makes me, I hope somebody from the fray is listening.

Oh, they are. Yeah. Well, Tyler, thank you so much. And, uh. Thank you, guys and Thank you guys. Yeah, and Let's go to the next caller here. We've got C C for Minneapolis. Hi C. Hi C Here with you're here with Tim and Andy I like the guy guys excited to talk to you. Thanks for calling Yeah, I'm excited to share a concert story.

Fucking letter rip, man. Alright, 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 got it. 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 was 16. I had never done anything I was not going to smoke marijuana, but to the two of these other guys who are 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 him a little fopkin' too, and walks away. Shouldn't have been that big of a deal, but again, we're 16 years old, so not really used to the effects I think and I'm looking at my buddy, he turns to me and I mean it's almost like looking at somebody like on a badass trip or something. It's just his face, the muscles had gone slack, red eyes and he he just looks terrified. And he's telling me, that pipe wasn't mine. That was my friend Danny's.

We gotta get that back. Danny's gonna kill me. And I'm thinking, what am I gonna 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.

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, tapped him on the shoulder and said, hey, so my buddies were smoking and you grabbed the pipe from them. And I understand, I get it, they were smoking marijuana, not allowed. I don't approve. But don't approve but the pipe

but the pipe is legal right there i think you can get those you smoke tobacco out of them it's just the marijuana that was illegal so if we could get that pipe back that would be a great surprisingly that uh... wasn't that wasn't enough that didn't happen uh... but uh... it was a younger security guard. And I think I just kind of had the the chutzpah, 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, and the you're 16 and you had the nerve to say that using the Constitution on him. Did I think maybe I was trying to show off to my friends or something. Good for you. But the security guard said, well, I find that 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 now 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 if we don't get this back I'm gonna file a complaint here and it's gonna be a whole lot of stuff for you to deal with I think you should really just try to get that back for us. 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 hot 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 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. Was that guy? Paul Harvey. It's one of those kind of stories. Wait, so did you, and did your friends fire that one up too after he left? Oh, they did.

And we knew it had to be the people down below us that, so we were smoking their weed, looking down at them. This needs to be an illustrated children's book. Well I 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 C. 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 gotta take it.

Krista, hello Krista. Hello. Hi there. The reason I have to take this call is because you were at a Death Clock Metalocalypse concert. And- I sure was. And my friends created that show.

Tommy Blatcha, who's one of the creators of that. Oh yeah. Was one of the creators of that, was one of the, and Brandon is a friend of mine too. So I gotta hear about this, because Brandon 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 conceit of the show is that Death Clock is like, it creates more business than most countries, the industry of most countries. Yeah, massive, massive. Taylor Swift, but. Yeah, they control the world, so, and it's very funny. But it's based also too,

cause Brandon Small, who one of the creators of it is an amazing guitar player. Yes. Like Ingve Malmsteen level. So Krista. Yeah, he shredded. Yeah. So tell us what happened.

So yeah, this has happened 15 years 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 and they have to finish their set, they're amazing performers. And so then, Boneface 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. So after Boneface gets off the stage,

all of a sudden they kick on the intro to metal occalips which is this like just heavy riff yeah and the next thing I know I completely blackout 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 gonna 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. Like between me eyes knocked out cold. Yeah. Was he, was he moshing or whatever that?

Was it like an accident? No, 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 him, so my friend is like, are you okay? He got knocked out.

And I noticed they're all beating the crap out of him. Oh my God. In the pit. 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 what I'm into these shows, but. That could have been disastrous. It was great. This is what animated metal does.

Cartoon metal. It makes people crazy. Yeah, it makes people nuts. So 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, it happened so quick. or something like that, like he was mistaking you for somebody else? Wow. No, no, this dude, I didn't even, it happened so quick. I didn't even see him run across the pit to hit me. Wow. I'm like, 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. Yeah.

I'm like, how on earth could he have seen me? It was crazy. Well, you must have some kind of charisma that draws that sort of attention. And now, have you been to many metal shows since? I was gonna say, this happened to her at the Eagles show she went to. It happens at all shows.

Yeah, no, I think I'd take that off my list. No, I've gone to like probably 50 metal shows. 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 so much for calling. She's a jolly person. Thanks guys, 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 really liked one.

I did like, I mean, it's unpleasant, but the peeing on the legs. Loved the peeing. Cause that had a personal connection. Yeah. I do faintly remember that. Yeah, yeah. Being there that that was somebody was,

I remember somebody backstage like, somebody's peeing on people. I remember that. Yeah, yeah. So personal connection there. well folks that's it for the Andy Richter call-in 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, if you like call-in shows, you'd love Office Hours.

You've done it. It's a lot of fun. Yeah, I've been there. It's really fun. And I'm going to be on tour with a very good band, Neil Hamburger, DJ Duck Pound, in January, 25th is our first show, or end of January of the year 2025. Alright. Check out timheidecker.com for those tickets. All righty. Okay.

Thanks everyone. See you next week. Bye bye.