shaun white had this.t is a side effect. yes. >> jimmy: so this is something that -- we called you and asked you to come do the show. >> yeah. >> jimmy: because of that. and you drove down from mammoth mountain where you were working i assume. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and thank you for doing that, by the way. >> of course. yeah. >> jimmy: at last minute. >> yeah. it was a mission to get down. we actually -- i take an old car to get up there. and so the starter wouldn't work at the gas station, and then all of a sudden we're getting down and i get home and my electronic keypad won't work at the house. so i had to get a hotel. but i made it. i made it. and our flight got canceled. >> jimmy: oh, my god. >> so i'm here, though. >> jimmy: well, thank you for being here. >> of course. >> jimmy: i really appreciate you being here. you were born with basically the same heart disease that our son was born with. >> yeah, exactly. >> jimmy: how old were you when you had your operation? do you know? >> i was probably just b

mehmet oz, olympic gold medalist,shaun white, and music from kings of leon. and now, thank goodness, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you for watching. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to the show. i have -- that's very nice. i have a story to tell about something family last week. i'm sorry. you know, i try not to get emotional, but it was a scary story. and before i go into it, i want you to know it has a happy ending. okay? so when i'm telling this, don't get too upset. leave that to me. but a little over a week ago on friday, april 21st, my wife, molly, gave birth to a boy. a baby boy. his name is william john kimmel. [ cheers and applause ] thank you very much. we call him billy. it was an easy delivery. six pushes, he was out. and he appeared to be a normal healthy baby. until about three hours after he was born. we were out of the delivery room. we moved to the recovery room. our whole family was there. and we introduced him to his 2 1/2-year-old sister. she was cute with him. we were happy. everything was good. my wife was

mehmet oz, olympic gold medalist,shaun white, and music from kings of leon., thank goodness, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you for watching. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to the show. i have -- that's very nice. i have a story to tell about something

mehmet oz, olympic gold medalist,shaun white, and music from kings of leon.nd applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you for watching. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to the show. i have -- that's very nice. i have a story to tell about something

mehmet oz, olympic gold medalist shaun white, and music from kings of leon., here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you for watching. [ cheers and applause ] i appreciate that. welcome to the show. i have -- that's very nice. i have a story to tell about something that happened to our family last week.

. >> reporter: after sharing his story, kimmel welcomed snowboarder shaun white, who was born with theo, my son is going to be a snowboarder. >> that is a side effect, yes. >> it makes me believe my son, too, is going to win olympic gold medals for the united states of america. >> reporter: a grateful father already bragging about his already bragging about his joe fryar, nbc news, los angeles. >> that will do it for us on a tuesday night. i'm lester holt, for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. news, thank you for watching and good night. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. all for $79.99 per month online, for the first year with a two-year agreement. it's the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of their download speeds. p