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This episode dives into the complexities of online privacy and the paradox of anonymity in the digital age, examining how we navigate sharing personal details while protecting our identities. We discuss parenting in a world dominated by fleeting social media content, the impact of modern communication, and the funny realities of our unconventional daily routines.

• Exploring the paradox of online anonymity versus personal sharing 
• Discussing the influence of social media on our lives and interactions 
• Evaluating the implications of parenting in the TikTok age 
• Notable reflections on our daily routines and intimate lifestyles 
• Sharing a humorous story about chaos in urban life

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Chris (00:00):
Top Shelf Stories with J, chris and Tony.
Isn't it weird how people getso private when they go on the

(00:26):
internet.
They think like they can't showtheir face.
You ever notice that or no?
Not on Facebook, eh I feel likethat's a Twitter thing, I think
.

Jay (00:33):
I feel like people scale themselves back when they speak.

Chris (00:36):
I think you In real life.

Jay (00:37):
I think you scale yourself back a little bit In real life,
yeah, like when we do thepodcasts.

Chris (00:53):
There's certain things that I don't think I let loose
man, I talk about my asshole.
I mean, how much more of my uhsocial in the world recorded
forever?
Tony talks about like I givethe people like 98 of me, though
I don't like, I don't lie ornothing I don't.

Jay (01:01):
I mean no, I don't.
I don't think you lie, Idefinitely don't think you lie,
but it's just like yeah, youleave out some of the
interesting things, it's notstuff about me.
No interesting parts About me.

Chris (01:17):
I don't think so.
Maybe if it involves somebodyelse who's like my wife or my
kid or something I'm not goingto go go deep into, or something
.

Jay (01:26):
Oh and yeah, I wouldn't ask you to do that, but what it?

Chris (01:31):
You're giving me a weird look.
But people get like that on theinternet, right?
They don't even want to showtheir face, Like if you had a
podcast where someone had tolisten.
They had to show their facewhile they're listening.

Jay (01:39):
Oh yeah, no, People don.
People don't like to be in thelimelight when they're not
wanting to be in it.

Chris (01:47):
The internet is wild man.
I don't know Watching my kidplay on the internet.
It's fucking wild dude.

Jay (01:53):
It's pretty annoying sometimes, though, cause the
kids will walk like.

Chris (01:56):
I can't wait till she goes out of the phase she's in
now.

Jay (02:00):
What.
What was that?
Well, you were just going tosay well, you were just going to
say, well, you're a kid.
Well, I assume Tony's just likethis.
Once you start watching aTikTok or whatever, it skips you
to the next relative one andyou keep going over like just
nonstop, like a loop of videosthat just suck you in.

Chris (02:19):
My kid watches nonstop shorts.
Right now it's like nonstop Ithink that's what every kid does
.

Jay (02:24):
What is that?
It's like non-stop.
I think that's what every kiddoes, Cause that's what is that?
It's the worst.
I'm like what in the hell it'skind of entertaining, because if
you get, sick of it within acouple of seconds you.
All you have to do is swipe tothe right oh, it's so bad.
And then you go to the nextvideo.
And then usually in short reels.

Chris (02:45):
They're all less than like there's never really many
of them that are long.
Yeah, I mean minute, twominutes.
I will watch them with my kidand she'll be watching them and
it'll be like one, that's like25 seconds and it'll be like
look, I make these things and Iuse these ingredients and I put
them all together and I put themin this thing and.
I put them in the thing and Iwent over here and, oh my gosh,
my dog, and it'll get to thepoint where they're like no,

(03:07):
let's look at the figure swipe.
Look at the final product.
Swipe, it's gone oh, you don'tever.
Even I'm like what happened.
Why don't you want to wait?
Whoa what?
You actually gave that 20seconds and then you actually
died on it.
You didn't even even what wouldhappen go back to that.

Jay (03:19):
I want to see what she'll go.

Chris (03:21):
she'll be like what?
Okay, she'll go back becauseshe isn't even paying attention.
She's just staring deep, deepinto the iPad.
It doesn't even exist.
She's not even listening towhat's actually on the screen
and then it starts over and youhave to watch the whole thing.

Jay (03:35):
Well, what my kid does now is he has my wife and I in a
group text and he'll text usevery video.
So I get about 15 videos a day.
You got to see this Of eithersomeone making something out of
candy a new toy Godzillapreferably or somebody getting
yelled at in school.
Which kid is it?

(03:56):
The youngest lock eight?
He's got a phone.
No, he's got a tablet connectedto Wi-Fi.
And if you have Wi-Fi, you canactually send texts if you're
connected to Wi-Fi.

Chris (04:10):
I'm at the point.

Jay (04:10):
I got to get my kid a phone .

Chris (04:14):
It's tactically inefficient to not have one.
That's the problem.
I'm seeing my kid's eight goingon nine, oh yeah, but I think
like next soon, because she'sgoing to be.
You know, when you send yourkid out in the world, you want
her to have the availability ofgetting a hold of you, right?

Jay (04:31):
I agree nowadays.

Chris (04:32):
Yes, I mean back in the day there's not a pay phone on
every third corner there's nopay phones.

Jay (04:37):
You find a pay phone, take a picture of it and you're
always like oh, you take it to.

Chris (04:41):
You know she knows who to talk to to get help.
There's not help on everycorner either.

Jay (04:46):
Sometimes you need that remember when this is before
beepers?
Remember when you would call upone of your friends or a girl
you liked or something.
Can I talk to?
Blah, blah, blah.
Then you have to wait for himto come, or the person that
answered the phone would lookthroughout the entire house for
about two minutes and be like,oh, he's actually not here,

(05:07):
right.
How different shit has happenedwhere I can just hit a button
and then poke Tony to call me orsomething like that.

Tony (05:18):
My customer slept all day today, and when I was leaving I
didn't want to go knock on herbedroom door like some fucking
weirdo.

Jay (05:28):
So go up to her bed and just leaned over her head.

Tony (05:33):
Are you up?

Chris (05:34):
tony, is that you, anthony?

Jay (05:40):
walk in there with a piece of tile.
Do you like this tile Question?

Tony (05:44):
question.
So I had to wake her up todayby calling her from about seven
feet away from her, on the otherside of the wall.
I mean it's privacy and sheanswered the phone.
You could hear her, hello.

Jay (06:12):
Good morning Fucking 3, 3, 30 in the afternoon.

Tony (06:13):
Well, she's like a nurse or a doctor, or late.
No, actually.
Um, she doesn't work.
I don't.
I don't know that she's workedin some time at least like 20
years.
Um no, she said we were talkingabout it because when I got
there yesterday, she's like I Ihad to go to another job first
and I got to her house at like10 o'clock and she's like oh my

(06:34):
god, you guys start so early 10.

Jay (06:39):
Yeah, she would love me.
I'll come there at like 2, 3 pm.
I'm like I'm ready you home.

Tony (06:45):
Good morning so she said that coffee in one hand donut.
She said that since she was akid she stays up all night and
pretty much sleeps all day.
And I'm like it's the dream?
What's your normal bedtime?
And she said that it's anywherebetween four and six am.

(07:06):
All right.
So, uh, who's the?

Jay (07:07):
breadwinner.
She's single.
How the fuck is she gettingmoney to do remodeling her house
?
She got parent parents thatwell she was married.

Tony (07:17):
I don't know if she has an inheritance, but I'm assuming
she got some kind of lifeinsurance she blackmailed
someone.
Her husband died like 20 yearsago?
I think yeah, and she doescurrently blackmail a few people
.

Chris (07:31):
Is she?

Tony (07:32):
old or young?
No, she's not that old.
Oh, she's like 60.

Chris (07:37):
Okay, she blackmails people.

Tony (07:40):
You said yeah, that's just a few, select few tell us more
about that, tony, yeah well, shehas all these children chained
up in her room right and uh, theparents got to come drop off
ten thousand dollars to gettheir kids back, and that's
something that happens allthroughout the day that doesn't
sound like blackmail.

Chris (07:59):
That sounds more like like Like a ransom almost.
Yeah, yeah like rent.

Tony (08:03):
She does ransom.

Jay (08:04):
Okay, is this in the suburbs?
It's downtown.
Okay, I heard downtown has alot of cock fighting in the
basement.
Is that something she's doing?
Do you hear a lot of cocks inthe basement running?

Tony (08:15):
around.
No, my cock was the only onethere today.

Jay (08:20):
I tried to give you something, to make a little
jokey joke, but it wasn't thatgood.

Tony (08:24):
Okay, but yeah, I couldn't imagine being on that kind of
just natural schedule.

Jay (08:33):
I mean I do like to stay up late because it's quiet, it's
peaceful.

Tony (08:36):
But 6 am.

Jay (08:37):
No, yeah, that's obviously a little ridiculous.

Tony (08:40):
I imagine I would be up around 6 or 7 am the first time
I ever try cocaine so if you'restaying up that late all the
time, then it's not weird foryou though yeah, what the fuck's
wrong with you 20 why you gottatalk shit about people and you
don't even really know them?
Oh, I know this lady very well,but this is the second time

(09:01):
I've worked with her it'sliterally the opposite of the
rest of the world so is

Jay (09:05):
she on the internet a lot now I don't know, tony's never
met her face to face onlythrough a wall over the phone.
He's only heard her voice.
He has no idea what she lookslike.

Tony (09:17):
We talk through a wall.

Chris (09:18):
That's not because I'm sure there is a lot.

Jay (09:21):
Tony goes to the door, it does a little secret code of
knocks Knock, knock, that meanswe're here and three knocks
means we're done.

Chris (09:33):
I imagine it causes a lot of these type of problems if
you choose that late nightlifestyle where everyone else is
sleeping.

Jay (09:40):
Well, if you still get your eight hours of sleep, does it
matter.

Chris (09:42):
When it is, no, not for you personally, but if you want
to get pizza delivered for yourlunch and it's 3.30 in the
afternoon or whatever you know.

Tony (09:52):
I guess I don't know For your lunch.

Chris (09:54):
What's the difference?
So you're telling me she goesto bed at four and wakes up at
four in the afternoon.

Jay (09:59):
Well, her lunch would be like midnight.
That's 12 hours of sleep,though, yeah, this girl's
sleeping too much.
So six to like three, that'swhat.
That's 10?
10 hours, right, yeah, no.

Chris (10:13):
Because if you want them to flip the script, yeah, I
guess that's about right.
I haven't been sleeping eighthours in decades, a decade.

Jay (10:22):
Yeah, I don't either, and I don't go to sleep before
midnight, like ever.

Chris (10:27):
Yeah, I don't really much .

Jay (10:29):
Really I feel like you'd be a person that'd be right to bed
.

Chris (10:36):
Well, I mean, like I go into my bedroom at a reasonable
hour, you sleep with your wifein the bed, because I know Tony
doesn't.
We haven't shared rooms in awhile, no, you sleep somewhere
else.

Jay (10:42):
Where do you sleep?
On a couch?
No, she prefers the couch, ohso she sleeps in the living room
on the couch.

Tony (10:48):
She's that disgusted by you, apparently Nice, nice.

Jay (10:54):
What size bed do you have?
Queen size bed, so you canspread eagle.

Chris (10:59):
Yeah, I got a door on my room too, dude, yeah, I got a
door on my room too dude he'slike got my phone hooked up to
the TV where I can watchanything, but I don't.
Yeah, I dick around on theinternet and do other said
things and shit and watch TV andwhatever.

Jay (11:15):
You're dicking somewhere, hey.

Chris (11:16):
Yeah, hey, now and then, I don't know, I guess not
midnight, like 1130.
Typically I feel like I'mfalling asleep, yeah, but then
I'm getting up by like six, Idon't know, I guess not midnight
, like 1130.
Typically I feel like I'mfalling asleep, yeah.
But then I'm getting up by likesix.

Jay (11:27):
I don't know how you do that, dude Fucking my well, I
mean, that's six hours of sleep.

Chris (11:34):
That's a reasonable amount of sleep.
Okay, here's the thing You'rein a grown adult Like you're,
not a baby.

Jay (11:45):
Babies get.
Babies get 10 hours.
Hey, I'll get up.
Grown adults get six.
Listen, I'll get up, but I'llgo back to sleep.
There's a difference.
I'll wake up, but I won't getup.
Get up, I'll know what's goingon at 6 am.

Chris (11:53):
Yeah, yeah I'm not terribly lazy in the morning,
like I'm pretty productive inthe morning, I don't know.
Fine, here's what I do.
It's weird me hear it.
It involves are you a creatureof routine?

Jay (12:05):
No, no no.

Chris (12:08):
Do you notice that you get dressed in a specific way?
Or going to and out of theshower, specifically?

Jay (12:12):
Sometimes I try to throw pants on with both legs at the
same time.
That doesn't bother you much.

Chris (12:17):
So, I notice myself get into these routines and it
doesn't bother me to change them.

Tony (12:20):
Hold on a second.
Jay does a hop into his pantsAt the same time.

Jay (12:24):
Yeah, hey, I follow the bed into my pants.
Get the fuck out of here.

Chris (12:30):
I know what I'm doing.
So, yeah, so I'll change upwhat I'm doing in the morning's
routine, and then that'll be theexcitement to get up.
All right, cool, but then onceyou get going, literally your
brain's moving Plus do no, Idon't drink coffee.

Jay (12:40):
See, caffeine does it too.

Chris (12:41):
It's like cocaine If you're just a coffee guy not a
cocaine guy.

Tony (12:46):
My morning routine is so specific.
His wife beats him never to getawake.

Chris (12:52):
Yeah, see, that would drive me fucking nuts.
It happens to me where I noticeI'm like dude this is the
fourth day in a row I've donethe exact same shit.
This is fucked.
I'm getting out into the showerand I'm brushing my teeth,
instead of brushing my teeth andgetting in the shower.
I gotta switch something.
This is fucked.
I'm doing the same shit everyday and I'll even take it to the
point of the curtain on theshower.
I'll start getting it in theother way fucking savage.

Tony (13:15):
You can't get in from the control side.
Do it, can't do it done.

Chris (13:19):
It's impossible.
Did it this.

Tony (13:20):
Then your hair gets wet first.

Chris (13:22):
It doesn't fucking matter , tony, you didn't even wash
your hair.

Tony (13:26):
So my morning routine is so fucking specific.
It starts with I wake up fourminutes after I have to leave.

Jay (13:35):
That's fucked.

Tony (13:36):
From there.

Jay (13:37):
I thought your wife wakes you up.
She does With a BJ.
Yeah, no, but seriously, Ithought she has to wake you up
because you have a 80 sleepparalysis thing.

Tony (13:45):
Well, 80 of my sex happens in the morning yeah, but I
thought you had a sleepparalysis thing, tony.
That's not what makes me late.
Trust me, I'm fucking in andout taking my shit within five
minutes taking this, but I getout of bed immediately.
Go take a shit as soon as I'mdone taking a shit.

(14:06):
You're a shitter immediately.

Jay (14:08):
You're a morning shitter immediately and then how does
that happen?
How do you do that?
Because I want, I wanted tohave that ability, because I
hate having to look for abathroom or holding it in during
the work hours.
I don't know, man, I guess I'mjust lucky okay, you can't time
your balls it.
No, how do you time your balls?

Tony (14:24):
The second.
I'm done shitting you, talk tothem.
I turn the shower on to warm upand then I go brush my teeth.
Then I jump in the shower.
I don't care, I'm alreadyfucking bored.
Then I jump in the shower, getback, I get out of the shower, I
dry off in a very specificmanner.
That's fucking stupid.
Listen top down, who cares?

Chris (14:43):
You always go top down, never start bottom up.
You don't have to think aboutit.
You might sometimes dry yourfeet, though.

Tony (14:50):
Then it's underwear, socks , shirt, pants pants.

Chris (14:57):
Before that wait belt, do you drop in the shower or do
you get out of the?

Tony (14:59):
shower draft.
Wait, what did you say?

Jay (15:00):
underwear underwear, pants on.
That is underwear shirt, pants,belt, shoes.
Who needs the belt when you gotpants that fit?

Tony (15:08):
I'm disgusted with real real man I'm disgusted with your
morning real men wear beltseverywhere they go.
They don't wear fucking girlswear belts too.
They don't wear children'slounge pants out in public, dude
these are.

Jay (15:21):
They wear a belt.

Chris (15:22):
These are prime puma premium, premium edition uh 250
slacks these this bet with thispair of jeans that I have on
taking the.

Jay (15:31):
Having a belt on it makes it a little less comfortable yes
, all I have to do is pull twostrings to get a little more I
gotta wear a belt.

Tony (15:42):
You never know, you never know if you gotta stop somebody
from bleeding out.
You gotta spank a child.
That's weird.
You have to have a belt.
Never know men, men belt,wallet keys that.

Chris (15:56):
It's never been that.
But.

Jay (15:58):
I do count the things that are in my pocket to make sure I
did not forget something.
So, yeah, that makes sense.

Tony (16:04):
So then, when I'm done getting dressed.

Chris (16:06):
Dude, I started falling asleep.
What are you saying again?
I called this beautiful hair.
Yeah, you got to have air onyou, go make coffee.

Jay (16:12):
Take my dog out, get my truck and get, get to wherever I
need to go about 15 minuteslate.
Tony, how does your hair justnot?
You wake up and your hair islike that.
It does look like this in themorning.
Yeah, so you don't have to.
You don't touch your hair.
Well, your dog is still aliveoh yeah, that's good, oh yeah, I
thought they don't live thatlong, they don't how old is it.

Tony (16:34):
She's on borrowed time.
How old is she?
No, she's not.
You didn't.
You didn't borrow it you mighthave financed it, but you didn't
borrow the time.

Chris (16:42):
No, she's five okay you might have financed the time,
but yeah, does it still?

Jay (16:46):
I'm still on a payment plan .
Yeah, I was gonna say I wasgonna talk about the dog, but
we'll skip that.
Um, yeah, so that's basicallywhat I do too.
Yeah, I'm always rushing to getout and get to the.
I'm always late, you know, I'mnever on time.
I'm never savvy, savvy.
Um, so you aren't on time.
Then is that you're saying?

(17:06):
yeah, I mean I'm on time, maybelike 25 you know like the
craziest part about this is Iworked for him for like two
years and he yelled at me forbeing late every time and he's
never on time well see, when Isend my employees someplace, I
expect them to be there.

Tony (17:22):
When the fuck I?

Jay (17:23):
told them.
So what if the boss is supposedto be at some place and he's
not there?

Tony (17:26):
if there's some place I need to be at a specific time,
I'm there, uh but it's justbecause you're late.

Jay (17:31):
98 of the time you just said yeah, but so you
contradicting your?

Tony (17:36):
life right now, setting the time it, you know.

Jay (17:39):
So when you tell them the time you're like anyway, between
8 and 10 am I'll be there a weenergy style range.
I will be there on the morningof tomorrow, my employee will be
there at exactly 805, not 804,not 806 805.

Tony (18:00):
You know all the all the years you worked for me.
I did nothing but make you looklike a hero I am a hero.
I told every customer 8 30 am.
Jay will be there at 8 30 amand I told jay it's very
important that you get there ateight so when he got there at 10
after eight, they're like holyshit, man, this guy shows up 20

(18:20):
minutes early to work.

Jay (18:21):
I thought you're a fucking guy loves his job.

Chris (18:23):
I thought you say when jay gets there at 10 he's like
what if I'm late to someplace?

Jay (18:29):
it was fucking on purpose, so I don't know how you cannot
not be late.
How are you late to?
Accidentally?
What do you mean up?
What the fuck are you doing?
You wake up and you're like itfeels good in this bed.
Let's just take another littleresty.
I'll wake up in 10 minutes, butthen 10 minutes turns into an
hour.

Chris (18:48):
And then you're like, fuck, I'm late.
You got to realize that that'snot your time.

Jay (18:58):
That's Someone else's time.
You promised them, true, that,and I am respectful, but not in
the morning.

Tony (19:02):
That's it If you're getting it at 5 pm arrival time.
I'll always make that.
Start your construction job at5 pm, Working under the lights.

Jay (19:15):
Customers love it when they're putting their kids to
bed.

Chris (19:26):
You're a wet saw going.
You got a saw going in theirbathroom.
They love it.
Yeah, dude you guys want tohear crazy, crazy story.
Someone told me yeah, it wasalso on the news apparently.
So this girl I know she managesapartment complex downtown
Milwaukee and I'll name it CauseI think it's in the story.
It's the shore quest hotel, buta lot of it's permanent
resident.
There's this guy wearing like alike a soccer uniform or a

(19:53):
football uniform or something,running down the street with a
mask on and he was around therefor like a couple days and then
one of the days he brought in agas can and spilled a bunch of
it and tried to get inside butcouldn't get through the atrium.
So he just spilled a bunch ofit, lit it on fire and ran and
it fucking blew up.
Bro, in this little like marbleand glass, enclosed, like you

(20:17):
know, telephone beep yourfucking people in room in this
1600 unit weird building dude,or maybe not that many, but so
if they need any marblerestoration, tell them to hit me
well, can you believe it, dude?
somebody lit off a fucking bombbasically for no reason.

(20:40):
The cop said he's just crazy,he's going to jail and shit
though, because they're recklessendangerment of like all those
lives I mean, it sounds like amovie dude, your shit's broken
down here.
Bro tony's fucking with thisthing.
It's because it's not in thefucking good dude put it in
there.

Jay (20:56):
He's fucking idiot.

Chris (20:56):
He's done he's not in.
The fucking Dude.

Jay (20:57):
put it in there, he's done, he's done for no, you took the
fucking thing that tightens upout already you fucked it up.

Chris (21:04):
You can't believe this.
Nobody was hurt, though, but itcaused a whole shit ton of
damage All right, we startedthis story off on electronics.
You just hit record and we juststarted fucking talking.
That's what happened.

Jay (21:20):
Should we end this episode?
Let's end it.
Hey guys Go ahead, chris,you're the ender.
This is another.

Chris (21:27):
Top Shelf Stories random we shouldn't have been recording
this shit yet.
Episode.

Tony (21:32):
It's good.
I like it Tune in next week forour discussion on qr codes.
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