WEBVTT - My Favorite Dodgers Employee - Mike Choi 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.200 You won the Rookie of the Year. Now did that 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.680 involve breaking your arm and suddenly being able to throw 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:06.080 one hundred mile an hour fastball? 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:08.880 Cash show. 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:18.960 Cosh shot to show. All right, welcome to another toss show. 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:28.040 Let's do roll call Eddie, President Dylan Here, Pete. You 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:33.120 went to get lunch, went to get lunch. A ride? John, Yo, 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.720 John's here? Oh, how you feeling John? 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:38.800 I'm here John. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:44.120 He just underwent first of all every week. Uh, you 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.360 have to ask John, like, how you doing? And then 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.400 you have to be you need to block out thirty 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.720 minutes because something horrible has happened. He does something like 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.240 so cursed. Yeah, he some weird stuff happens to his 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.040 body anyway. Yeah, I saw him there day. I was like, 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.280 why are you dressed like that? And he's like like 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.400 what And it just the way he was walking. He's 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.520 just stiff and he's like, Oh, I just had an 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.640 operation on my testicle. Yep, you had a vasectomy, a 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.000 successful vasectomy. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:11.800 Correct, Oh yeah, nothing down there. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.520 Then how many days later did you find out that 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.280 you had a bunch of righteous kidney stones? 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.319 Two days later? 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.520 Did you pass the kidney stone or you just knew 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:21.280 that you had them. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.240 I thought something was wrong. I had to go to 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:23.720 the er. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.800 I thought you thought something with your visectomy had gone haywire. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:28.839 Turns out you just had kidney stones. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.319 Yeah. So basically I went to the er. They're like 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.840 peeing this cup and it was like chai masala. It 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.920 was very red and gross, and they're like. 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.959 Oh, you're urine was bloody. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:39.200 Oh it's covered in blood. 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.200 This is not newsworthy. This is just this is a 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.280 normal day in John's life. Is normal. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.560 I mean, it's an abnormal day. It never happened to 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:48.280 my entire life. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.320 Shell maybe this hasn't, but there's always something, something crazy 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:52.920 is going on. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.080 Well, the Lord works in mysterious ways. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.880 That is true. That is true, and it's all part 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.200 of this plan. Now, because of the kidney stone, you 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.840 are probably pushing aggressively and one of your testicles, what 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:05.320 did it do? 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:05.560 It? 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:06.440 Tors it? 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:08.960 Tors Now, how do you spell torst? 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.960 It's like horse with a D at the end, but 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.040 the t or the. 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.680 That's not just somebody that can't spell. You can ever 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.560 be Oh, it's like horse, but there's a D at 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.760 the end and then there's no h and and what 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.240 do you do to unthorst a ball. 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.000 It had been like this for weeks after the vasectomy. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.640 When I went to out of town, we were staying 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.120 at a hotel. We're up visiting Tarika's family. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.400 I mean, I feel like you can't tell the story 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.280 that you just say your wife, because as soon as 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.519 you say Tarika, we're gonna have to spend forty five 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.079 minutes explaining that that's a name. 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.240 Yeah, okay, So I married someone with an ethnic background 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:49.840 who has a name that's not American. Yes, my wife. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.040 So anyways, I mean, I still can't wrap my head 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:58.040 around it. At first, I learned the word thorst and 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.280 Tarika so she called her rother. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.399 He took me to the er. What's his name? Why? 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:03.760 Why? 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:07.920 What's her brother's name? That's a good question, Eddie Adam Adam? Oh? 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:08.240 Oh? 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:09.160 So ethnic? 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:11.799 It's please I don't. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.639 I don't want to get in trouble with with the 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.400 Qoran right now. Yeah, So they diagnosed you immediately that 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:18.480 your ball had twisted. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.040 So they took me in and did an ultrasound. They're like, hey, 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.640 your testicle's upside down and twisted. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:25.920 And how do you know if a ball is upside 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:26.440 down or not? 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.200 That's that's what the ultrasound is. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.239 Was it actually on top of your penis? 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.840 No? No, no, it was it was in the top. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:34.960 Wait were the beans on the franks? 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.800 This does sound like something about Mary. It's just everybody 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.000 coming in to like get a look at your ball. Exactly, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:42.000 Holy shit. 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:43.520 They called in the specialist. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:44.960 Well, sure he wants to see it. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.480 He described that he'd have to cut open my scrotum 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.160 and untwist the ball, remove it if it was dead, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.000 and then sutured me back up. I freaked out. He's 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.560 like every second counts, and then he left for an hour. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.600 Why would you freak out? It's like not cancer, who 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:00.320 gives it? 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.600 I didn't know about testosterone levels. 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.720 Sex cares. You know, much more productive you'd be if 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.880 you would knock it off chasing Terika around the place. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.760 Right, Frank Thomas still takes pills, he gets plenty. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.280 Tee Doug flutie. Yeah, he's still he's still pounding out. 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.320 All he does is like a simple smoothie every morning, 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.279 and he's horned up and ready to go, ready to breed. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.640 Hold on, let me ask a serious question that's gonna 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:30.320 sound ridiculous. Could have you successfully jacked off during this moment. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.400 Never if I would have sent in like I'm talking 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.120 a ten thousand dollars horre. I'm telling you, she couldn't 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.080 get you aroused. This was the most excruciaty. I don't 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:41.880 think you've ever seen a ten thousand dollars horrer. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.520 Twenty thousand dollars, fifty thousand like, keep going, they. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.200 Would, They couldn't get you aroused. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.159 Walking was excrucia. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.320 I get she's not walking my scenario. 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.280 You're saying you couldn't have gotten a boner. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.599 No, no way, huh, no way. 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.000 I've never been in that kind of pain. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.719 The kidney stone was the worst pain. I'd take kidney 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.320 stone every day for a month. Over two hours of 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:03.840 this all. 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.360 Right, anyway, So he on twisted, he cut your ball open, 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.040 and it wasn't dead. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.440 Wasn't dead. I woke up. I had both my balls. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.480 He didn't take any of it out. He said they're fine, 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.240 he said they're great. So you made the whole thing up. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.520 Yeah, it's all a big lie. None of this happened. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.479 Well, how come it wasn't dead. 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.359 I don't know, man, I'm glad it wasn't. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.360 I don't understand why you were so attached to this testicle. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.520 You take one of your balls right now. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.680 If they had it cut open, I'd say take them 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.920 both out while you're there. What do they do? I'm 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.039 fifty years old. I have no idea what my balls. 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.320 I know that I don't want them to get kicked 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.599 or cut out, and I'd love it if they weren't there. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:49.960 Speaking of balls, today's guest specializes in basket and bass balls. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:58.880 Enjoy cast Sha. My guest today has three or four 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.520 part time jobs. He works for both LA's number one 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:06.240 baseball team and it's number two basketball team. He's also 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.160 an ace with a T shirt cannon. Please welcome, Mike. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:10.960 Hey, how are you? 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:11.359 Thanks? 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:13.640 That was that was great? That was beautiful. 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.360 I don't do uh the the cannon? 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.040 I wish I Have you ever fired a T shirt cannon? 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:19.360 Hire? 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.080 Not not yet. They haven't in trusted me with the 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:22.680 T shirt. Ever fired a T shirt? 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.360 No? No, but that's on my bucket list. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.480 Okay, first question, Yes, do you believe in ghosts? 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:28.400 Generally? 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.479 No, but I have had a couple of different instances 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.680 that would prove otherwise. But one might just have been 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.800 a case of sleep paralysis and the other one might 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.839 have been just like an old lady with catlike reflexes. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:42.800 Give me the second story. I want to know about 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:43.760 the old lady of the cat like. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.200 Well, this is just like a couple of years ago 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.840 in Sherman Oaks. I'm walking down the street. There's an 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.720 old lady walking kind of a little bit closer than 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.560 I would like her to walk. You know, I look 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.640 a couple of different times behind, and then the last 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.640 time I look, she is like she's completely on and like, 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.200 you know, there there were apartment complexes on the opposite 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:05.120 side of the street. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.520 But again so she might have just lived there. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.359 Yeah, but again, this lady's like eighty or ninety for 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.320 her to have Like for the amount of times I 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.560 looked back to like kind of size her up. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:15.640 You was a slow walker? 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.240 No, no, no, no, general no, no, I'm actually I'm 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.320 a very fast, fast walker. Again, like the third time 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.520 I looked back, like I'm not, it's still like I get. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.600 Goosebumps, thing like she was completely gone. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.040 I mean, you're not a little man. Why are you 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.440 so scared of an old woman? I wasn't scared of 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.120 like over your shoulder or something. Yeah, yeah, well she. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:35.760 Kind of gave me the creeps and now, like I said, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.160 then the third time completely vanished. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.960 Man, that's a ghost. You were born in Korea and 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.080 then moved to Chicago. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.400 Yeah, born in Korea until I was two. The reason 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:50.600 we moved over eventually, my dad was getting his master's 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.760 at the University of Mississippi, So that was kind of 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.640 odd that he chose Mississippi. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.400 Of hall place, beautiful place I've never been. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:58.720 You've never done the Bible Belt. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:03.080 No, I'm very, very scared of of of going east 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.200 of what wait, what is the Bible Belt. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:11.080 Technically, well, it's it's I'm I'm going to say it's Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Uh, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.760 South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia. I might as well throw 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:15.680 Missouri in there. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.880 Yeah, all of those. I'm kind of a part of 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:18.240 the belt. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.080 Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana. 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.560 Oklahoma's part of that because I think, okay. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.480 They're they're like, you know, like the buckle there pretty 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.280 much the Bible Belt. You haven't been to any of 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:29.920 those places? 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.160 No, No, actually I have, I've been to I was Oh, 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.400 this is probably why I never wanted to go back, 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:41.120 because uh, I went to Myrtle Beach for uhrle. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:44.319 Fucking Yeah, that's a good spring break. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.520 Yeah yeah, no, not not for me, not for me. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:48.640 Did you watch Magic Mike two? 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.120 No? No, that was about Myrtle Beach? Was that said 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:53.040 in Myrtle Beaches? 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.839 No? For me, I felt very awkward. I felt very 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.439 othered when I was. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.000 In the South. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.959 Yeah, and and so yeah, that kind of left the 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.400 sour taste in my mouth. So I've I've never been 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.440 east of of Illinois or Indiana pretty much ever since. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.839 You go back to Chicago about once a year, twice 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:11.400 a year. You know. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.520 I have a two year old now, so we don't 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.719 travel as much obviously in these last couple of years. 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.480 So I know you have a couple of kids. Is 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.319 your your daughter's two wish too? 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:20.040 Yeah, she's too. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:24.200 Yeah, my mine just turned to last money. So that's us. 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.600 For having children, to just say no to other people's plans. 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:28.240 Yeah. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.160 She is kind of a built in excuse or at 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:31.679 the very least leaving early. 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.360 Pretend that's why I leave early at a Dodgers game, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.080 I'm like, I got kids. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.840 Wait, what time do you normally arrive? 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.280 I try to miss the national anthem because I don't 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.720 like to take my hat off. Okay, that's one. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.640 Okay, then what's that that's respectful? 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:46.040 Thank you? 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:46.360 Yeah? 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:51.160 Yeah, yeah, and then I I definitely leave. The second 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:53.319 take me out to the ballgame is sung? 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.320 Okay, make it seven. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.680 And then some people say, oh, that's not good. Well, 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.680 the games don't matter if you're gonna if you're gonna 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.640 play a under nay games, then then me leaving after 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.880 the seventh inning of one game shouldn't affect things. 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:06.000 No, I totally agree. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.240 But the thing that's crazy, so now that we've had 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.320 like the pitch clock these last couple of years, so 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.520 you know, the games are yeah, like two and a 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.199 half hours, you know typically, so we still have fans 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.319 who I won't arrive until like they get there like 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.440 at the fifth, sixth inning, and it's kind of like 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.840 I that always blows me away. You're spending all that 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.360 money to come out to the game, dealing with parking 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:26.840 and so forth, and by the time you're actually in 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.280 the stadium, like you have maybe like three innings left, 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:30.480 I don't know them. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.640 By the way, I get free tickets, do you yes? 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:34.720 Do you? Uh huh? 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.040 You know. I don't ask a lot. I asked usually 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.120 once a year. I want to go, and I like 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.680 to go before it gets boiling hot. By the way, 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.640 in Chicago, yes, were you You weren't a Dodgers fan. 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.160 No, I was really a white Sox fan. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.719 So it's been are looking the camera right now and 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.440 say fuck the Cubs out? 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:54.679 Oh? 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:58.160 Easily fucked the Cubs? No? No, wait, but let me rephrase. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.959 I will never root against the Cubs are any team 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:01.600 from Chicago. 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.560 So I want everyone to do well. Okay, but push 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.880 comes to shove. Yeah, I'm a white Sox fan for sure. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.679 Explain to people because you were in a show business 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:09.880 for a. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.559 Bin, Yeah, I post production. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.320 I mean, I guess technically accounts as show business, but 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:15.760 it's not. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:16.960 You're working on television. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:18.880 Yeah, it's not the glamorous side of the business, that's 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.720 for sure. You know you're stuck in a dark room. 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.000 And there's what you went there because it was they 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.800 paid more than the other side. Well, the dark rooms 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:26.240 pay more. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:27.040 You know. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.520 I was a post production corninator before making this this 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.960 uh this sports switch with a couple of post supervisor 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.319 and associate producer credits. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.680 Well, you worked on the sing Off and I was 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.800 a fan of that show. Real Nick was the host. 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.319 It was on like only it was on a short run, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.560 like right before the Christmas holiday, and I always thought 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.640 this was a great show. The singing was wonderful. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.680 That show has disappeared, well, you know, it actually like 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.760 I don't know, if you're familiar with group Pentatonics, they're 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:55.760 kind of like, are you kidding me? Yeah? 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.600 Yeah, I only listened to them during the holidays, but. 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.000 But yeah, yeah, I mean they came from the show, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.719 so it really hit like that bubble when like it's 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.720 weird to say when a cappella singing got huge, oh yeah, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.640 but it kind of hit that little hit that bubble. 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.640 So because that was right around the time what was 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:11.400 that movie. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.679 With with the Cups? 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.160 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, that was right around in 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.360 that era, so it was like there was just this 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.480 zeitgeist of a cappella singing going on, and I feel 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:21.679 like we were on the forefront of that. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.800 So I know the show was good. And what's his name? 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.680 I was always liked Sean from Boys to Men? 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.319 Yeah, yeah, I was a For me, that was extra 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.839 special because I was a huge Boys and Men fan 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:33.959 grown up, so then you know, being able to interact 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.520 with them as a judge that was like, that was 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:36.240 kind of surreal. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.000 So what made you want to transition from a career 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.160 in the entertainment industry to sports? 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.760 Ultimately, I was so burnt out from working in the 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:50.600 entertainment industry. I knew I wanted to change, get a 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.120 change in kind of pursue something different. I mean, as 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.960 a kid, everybody, I mean, who doesn't love sports growing 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:57.120 up as a kid, right, so. 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.040 I know a few people. We get a name for him, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:02.360 but we're not supposed to say it in this day 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.480 and age. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.880 But yeah, a huge sports fan growing up, you know. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.480 So fast forward to after COVID, it was like, oh, 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.040 maybe that's something I want to pursue. 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.680 Right, Talk about how the conversation went when you told 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.360 your wife you were going to quit a steady, decent 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.760 pay job to start over as a Dodger usher. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.160 No, it went well. So no, honestly, no, no. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.920 Right when I was making this decision, we were either 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.280 just engaged or just you know, prior to getting engaged. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.240 And on top of that, we were talking about starting 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.440 a family. Were kind of in that process and also 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.520 wanting to buy a house because we wanted a family. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.320 All credit to my wife, she was supportive right from 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:43.920 get go. She's like, if this is what you want, 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.880 if this is what's going to make you happy, you know, 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:46.640 let's let's. 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:47.160 Let's do it. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:51.040 The usher thing was right around that time, the Dodgers 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.400 have posted like an open house interview for their usher 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.800 staff and showed up to this interview, and it is 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.240 like one of those cattle call interviews. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.840 Is like literally like speed dating. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:00.439 Yes. 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.000 And so the first lady if you look. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:04.800 Around at the other people that were doing this and going, 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.440 oh my goodness, yeah, because you know, it's significantly younger 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.400 or significantly older, yeah. 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:11.400 Oh yeah, yeah yeah. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.360 And on top of it, like you know, there were 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.640 kids showing up just wearing T shirts and I'm not 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.080 joining like T shirts and sweats. I'm like, in my mind, 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:19.880 like what is this world I'm getting into where it's like, 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.360 you know, I was in a tie, I was, you know, 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.280 like it's like, yes, the interview, even though it's an 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.000 open house, it's an interview. And so the first lady 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.160 sees my resume and she's just like, are you sure 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:30.840 you want to be an usher? I'm like, I just 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.240 want to get my foot in the door. You know, 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.080 Hopefully this leaves other things. She's like, all right, passes 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.560 my resume on to the next person, and then looks 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.560 at my resume and he's like, yeah, you're not going 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:41.840 to be happy being one. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.280 Of our ushers, but you know it's not much better. 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.880 But are you interested in joining our fan services team? 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.080 And so interviewed with our fan services manager pretty much 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:51.720 got hired on the spot. And I don't know if 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.760 you're familiar with that department, but where that team is 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.720 basically the team that's like man's the help desk, so 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.920 we're there to like kind of answer questions about percep 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.200 policies so forth, where like Dodger dogs are throughout the stadium. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.200 But we also that department was the department that also 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:11.280 fields all the complaints about like, oh why didn't I 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.040 get like this, Baba, why didn't I get this? 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:13.360 Uh? 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:14.560 And people can be mean there. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.160 Oh yeah, Like one time it was Father's Day we 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.160 were giving out bucket ats. First forty thousand people were 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.120 getting Father's Day bucket ats. So I'm at one of 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.400 the stations, and invariably when we run out of these 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.920 bucket hats, people come to our stations to yell at 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.320 us why don't you guys have enough bucket ats. And 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.320 this was the first time, and in any aspect of 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.640 my life, that I've ever had somebody say, do you 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.480 know who so and so is? To like be like, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.520 you know, so he pulls the It's not just that 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.560 he's family or he's like I'm the cousin of Jason Bateman. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.840 I'm not gonna argue with you. I think I think 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.040 he deserves a bucket hat. Come on, Dodgers do the 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:48.600 right things. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.840 But because I don't feel like cousin at a certain point. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:52.680 Cousin's bad. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:53.720 Yeah. Yeah. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.800 For those who may not fully grasp what happens during 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.400 live sporting events, please describe what a typical shift looks 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:00.800 like for you. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:01.200 So. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.840 I'm under the marketing promotions department. My team specifically takes 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.400 care of If it's not baseball, we're taking care of 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.680 every other aspect of entertainment that happens. The national anthem, 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:14.000 the DJ, the bobbleheads, any of our video games up 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.160 on the scoreboard, any of our video hits. 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:16.960 We get to the game. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.800 Roughly three hours before we show up for our briefing. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.240