committed to tommy lasorda. >> and tommy canceled. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: the hell with it -- >> keep same bead, we're not redoing the beads. >> jimmy: i remember the look of confusion on everybody's face, they look at them, huh? >> do you remember which parade it was? >> jimmy: it was one of the bad ones. >> oh, yeah, yeah, across the river. >> jimmy: it was a side parade. >> you went metarie? oh, man. >> jimmy: let's put it this way, i didn't have a dukal around my neck. [ laughter ] i was not wearing a crown. i was throwing out a zip-loc bag of tommy lasorda. >> pretty much, pretty mach. >> jimmy: when you get older, when do you get to go really participate in the mardi gras festivities? how old? >> 18, 19 is when you kind of, you know -- you break away, you go -- like for landy graw, the day before mardi gras. the french quarter, you have food, they have stages out there. that monday when is it get hopping, like school shopping. you out there, it's all for you that day. >> jimmy: were you popular at those events with the ladies? >> wow. just specifically the ladies? [ laughter ] y