April 29, 2025 • 51 mins
We reminisce about our Bucks game experience that highlighted the joy of camaraderie, unexpected challenges, and shared adventures. Through mishaps and laughter, we reflect on the sensation that sports create, bringing friends and memories alike as we navigate modern-game experiences.
• The episode explores the logistics of planning a game night with friends
• The experience of attending a live Bucks game is discussed
• The evolving nature of ticketing, food, and drinks in sports venues
• Anecdotes of public transportation adventures before and after the game
• Reflections on the significance of shared experiences in urban life
• Encouragement for listeners to share their game-day memories
If you could do just that, that'd be great.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Top Shelf Stories with Jay, chris and Tony.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yo, yo yo.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
What is up?
Everybody's chris, jay and tonyand this is top shelf stories
and I got a tale for you guystoday.
You were there, we went out?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
are you telling me after all these years we had a
shared experience.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We kind of did, because I was on the exact
opposite side of the arena fromyou two.
We didn't ride in together, wedidn't do much together.
You did come say hi, and thenwe didn't leave together.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The story behind is actually amazing.
Tell the story about you buyingthe tickets and then asking we
went to the bucks game and forthose of you at home, that's
milwaukee bucks.
Yeah, everyone knows if you saybucks, there's not sure.
Isn't there a football team?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
famous, the buccaneers that everybody calls
oh yeah, okay, okay, all rightI'll give you that, the boxs, if
you type in Google right now,if you talk to text Bucs score,
it's going to give you theBuccaneers, bet you not.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Our basketball team is so aggressive.
Our mascot is a white-taileddeer.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, Named Bango.
They strap him to whatever theywant and they lift him up 30
feet in the air and throw himaround like a ragdoll.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
He's the best mascot in the NBA, probably in
professional sports.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Do you think it's only one guy or do you think
people interchange?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I know for a fact that there's a well documented
history that includes the factthat there's some elusiveness to
the whole fact.
But there are people who wereit, who were.
I was bingo for 12 years, andthat's that guy.
And I was bingo for 18 what'shis name?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
again, I heard him say it, but just bingo, bingo,
bingo the buck.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I yeah, I don't know.
She's the best mascot in theworld.
I got a bobblehead with hisautograph on it is it worth?
Anything, I don't know.
It's a mascot signingautographs.
I don't know.
It's Bango the Buck, it's amascot signing autographs.
What when I was in the costume?
It's signed as Bango.
Not like Jim, he's not like afamous mascot guy.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
No, I thought it'd be pretty cool seeing those guys
throwing the shirts around.
I mean, if they got paid goodmoney, I would love to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
There's guys coming down our aisles because we were
up high.
What did they call it?
The hoop troop?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
they still call it the hoop troop so in every
professional sport I'm justgoing to go off of what I know
basketball, it is pretty muchevery sport.
But so the way I watch the gameis I got this little like, uh,
I don't know, black box I.
(03:09):
I get like every channel.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Everyone should be telling everyone that they have.
They're legal.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You can buy them on amazon, okay they have a lot of
problems with them when they buythem on amazon, because I'm
part of a facebook group, butnonetheless.
So the way I get to watch mylocal sports is the local
channel to the away team, and soit's really bizarre.
(03:34):
So if we're playing um, no, Iget it, sacramento, kings or
whatever, I get all sacramentosinteresting local commercials I
would not like that um everysingle sporting event.
Local city has a lawyer thatadvertises like crazy, crazy
(04:01):
during, and their number isalways insert area code four,
four, four, four, four four,four.
We have an all sevens guy intown we have an all sevens, but
so ours is a, a gentleman nameddavid gruber.
He's fours, all four, I thinkhe's fours, all fours.
(04:23):
I think he's fours, I don'tknow.
Call it, I'm not, I'm not, I'mnot.
But he has all these like wackypromotions through the game,
and one of them is every time athree-point shot is made, they
come out and launch T-shirtsinto the crowd At the Bucs games
(04:44):
.
At the Bucs games.
At the Bucs games you know JimPlimpton, down in Utah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's t-shirt time.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Who wants a David Gruber t-shirt?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
from the Bucs.
My wife sleeps in one that I'vegot at the game probably 25
years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You know, and this David Gruber does this at
everything His advertisingbudget must just be unlimited
and 85% t-shirts.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Like you go to a fair , a festival, there's like a
Gruber booth where you can get at-shirt.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
My wife and I play.
We count Gruber shirts anytimewe go to a public setting Like a
fair or something like that.
It's powerful.
One year at State Fair we broke50.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I believe it, at State Fair.
Half of them might have gottenthem that day even.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
That's crazy.
I bet you, I couldn't find 50people wearing Puma shoes.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
No, I got 50 pairs of Puma shoes.
No, I got 50 pairs of Pumashoes.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I know you do.
It's probably the only thingthat fit them.
Skinny little feet Shut up.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So we decided so.
Back to the box game here,right Go back to this.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
This is going to end up being like an hour long
episode.
I bet that's fine.
But so I was out with a friendI hadn't been to a box game.
We used to him, me and thisother friend we go to the box.
We used to go to the box gamesall the time, but we haven't
been able to.
Life catches up to you,whatever.
So we were out having a beerand I was like hey, we should go
(06:19):
to a box game.
I bought tickets.
There were 20 bucks.
I was like, cool, that's great.
I get home.
And the next day, Tony here,who is an owner of what?
Is it?
A quarter or a half season,yeah a quarter.
Okay, so he's got a bank oftickets that he goes to random
games every once in a while, andhe hasn't invited me to a game
(06:42):
before that I recall.
But he happened to call me thetime I already just had gotten
tickets, Like what are thechances right.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Maybe he's got a hidden microphone or some type
of hearing device in your phone.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
He was the automatic no ask.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
He's like I'll ask when I know he can't go.
Yes, I don't have enoughtickets for Chris but I'm still
going to ask him.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So here was my plan.
My wife and five-year-old weregoing to come to this with us.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
This is like a week or two before.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
It's like two weeks before and yeah, we're old.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
We fucking plan ahead two weeks to go to the ballgame
.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
They're like OK.
Well, she's like well, we gottickets for this game next week
and that one starts a little bitearlier, that one.
She's like I don't want to gethome at 11 o'clock with a
five-year-old who's got to go toschool in the morning.
So she's like just take Chase,invite somebody else.
(07:43):
And I'm like, well, I don'thave any friends, so I'm like
I'll invite the podcast boys.
And so first thing I do is Icall Jay Anytime I'm going to
invite either one of you, toboth you guys to something.
(08:04):
I'm calling Jay first andthat's because he needs
permission from his family to godo stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I still do too.
Why would that make you call me?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
first, what's the?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
reasoning behind that .
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Well, because you got to get permission and find out
whether or not you can.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
But you wouldn't go.
So you wouldn't go unless Iwent.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I would have invited you guys to a different game,
but you wouldn't go.
So you wouldn't go unless Iwould have invited you guys to a
a different game had youcouldn't call.
Oh, so I wanted to get jay's.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, this is going to be good, we'll do it you were
knowing that I likely am like95 a goal on almost anything.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The only way you couldn't call is if you had
already bought tickets.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I can't think of another reason.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
really, that's really the only reason.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well, in that case, you should have called Chris
first and then invited us to adifferent game like today's,
where you get a free hat.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I don't think I would have gone two days in a row.
I don't have tickets fortoday's game.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, he doesn't have a ticket for today.
I don't understand why you haveseason tickets or whatever and
you don't get the same game whenit's home again.
I don't know, it doesn't makesense.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So one of our first, if not, well, not our first, but
one of our we while to go outand do anything Like, probably
like since the Renaissance.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Renaissance fair or comedy show.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
We might've did the camper once after that but we
haven't done a bunch Right, sobut it's one of my biggest
regrets in life in in this whichone doing the comedy show in
this particular example, we wereper.
we were going to participate inthe same event.
Because a basketball game, it'san event, right, it's a thing
you go do Because you could justwatch it on TV.
(09:49):
You could go to a bar orrestaurant and watch it on that
TV if you wanted to make it asemi-event.
You could stay home, talk onthe phone if you really wanted
to Watch it separately.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Whatever right, Skype your boys.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But we're going to go do this thing.
But we're going to go do thisthing, but we have different
journeys.
Right to get there, I came frommy house, I Ubered there, you
guys drove, I imagine you maybepicked Jay up, I picked.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Jay up.
Well, not totally.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Not from his house.
Okay, so you scooped him.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I wasn't going to pay for the tickets.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You park and ride it or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And drive a half hour out of my way.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Hey, you already had the tickets.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So you came from one part of town.
They weren't free, motherfucker.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So what?
What are you going to sit byyourself, then?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You could resell them back right on the app, I think.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, I would have brought my brothers.
I paid for parking One of myuncles, I think.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So here we are.
I'm in an Uber, this guy that Itook.
I looked at this guy's statsbefore I got in the thing he had
given 34,000.
Some odd rides, dude.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I started talking to him in the cab.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I started talking to him in the cab.
He said yeah, you saw that.
Yeah, I am the number one Uberdriver in the entire state of
Wisconsin dude.
He's like yeah, they email meall the time His car had like
300 000 miles on it.
Oh, but it was like a 2022cheap wrangler or some shit,
(11:15):
like it was not that old and itwas a.
It was a nice truck, like atruck.
It looked brand new in theinside but it had all these
miles, but, but anyway.
So then I went what I did afterthe Uber.
We went and got a couple beersmet up at the Brat House me and
DeVore did and then we walkedover to the game.
We got in buy tickets.
(11:36):
I didn't pay attention, Ididn't have them downloaded and
shit, because you know you can'tbring a physical paper ticket
anymore.
No, no matter, they don't haveit, they don't do that.
They don't even barcode.
It was like a Wi-Fi scan out ofyour wallet, right?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I don't put them in the wallet you have it in the
app.
They try to make me put it inthe wallet and I always just go
app.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So think about this for a second.
You cannot participate in thisevent without fully doxing and
identifying yourself 100%, likethe world can find.
That's where you are yeah, likewe all kind of are that with
our phones in our pockets, butliterally you can't go into
(12:23):
unless, I guess, as a a guest.
My friend didn't have to.
I scanned my thing twice so hewas in there.
But what?
Why is that like?
Why is that?
Do you know?
I don't know is it for ourconvenience, because it sure
didn't feel very convenient withme and three other people while
we were trying to go throughhad to fumble through our phones
to try to figure out, because Ionly put one of the tickets in
(12:46):
my wallet, apparently not two.
So then I had to go back,re-sign in, do the log and I'm
looking at and there's like 15other people doing this on the
entrance of the game so it does.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It does bother me quite a bit that you can't have,
you know, like a physical stub,analog ticket as a keepsake or
whatever you want to do with it.
But I did think about this.
I recently, really like a weekago bought tickets to another
show at the Riverside, and theRiverside is a small local
(13:23):
theater, you know like 1800 seator something.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, it's my favorite place in the world.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
It's one of mine too, but I haven't been there in a
couple years, and when I woulddo, you had to buy the tickets
online.
I mean, that's been like a10-year thing.
You can go to the box office,yeah, I know, but I'm saying
it's just you buy your ticketsonline now.
But there was always an optionfor will call tickets and that's
(13:51):
what I did.
So I paid for them, I put myname down, I get there, I go to
the box office, I show my id,they hand me my two or four
tickets, whatever, yep, and I go, get in line and now that at
the riverside is a six dollaradd-on, a convenience fee, yeah,
(14:12):
so it's six bucks to get willcall tickets you can pay a
convenience fee.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
If you go to the counter and buy tickets, you
have to pay a counter fee.
It's called.
I'm not lying.
Yeah, it's called.
I'm not lying to you.
The cheapest way to get ticketsstill is to go to the place and
buy them there.
But you do pay additional fee,called the counter fee.
It's like $250 or something.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
How do you buy a ticket for something like this?
Just like a normal person, likea scalper, Like you?
Can't do it anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I think that's why they got rid of physical tickets
.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Because of scalping, so people can't stand outside
and sell them anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Why can't you?
You certainly can.
It's much harder.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You can transfer them to anybody anywhere anyhow,
they're just making it hardernow, like it's validated, now
it's right through the Bucks app.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But imagine giving someone a piece of paper and
then be like okay, instead ofthe paper, now you got to turn
your phone on, you got to loginto this app.
You don't have the app, youcan't.
Blah, blah, blah.
All these things you have tojump through.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Have you ever bought a scalper ticket and then went
to scan it and the fuckingbuzzer's red, not green, and you
can't go in?
I never bought a scalping I'vehad that happen before that's
wild, because they can justprint out a hundred of them and
sell a hundred even thoughthere's only six tickets, and
they get the heck out of thereeverybody bought the same seat.
That's why, most of the time,the ticket scalping game is run
by a group of people who arethey're like yeah, man, you can
(15:40):
go buy it from some other guyhere, but but you know my shit,
it's legit, I'll be here nextTuesday too.
I'm a scalper guy, but you justbuy it off some guy in the
parking lot two blocks from thestadium.
Hey, I got an extra ticket,buddy, here's $7 for it.
Okay, cool, denied.
That won't happen with theelectronic ticket.
(16:00):
I don't like it.
I didn't like it.
Electronic ticket I don't likeit.
I didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I don't like it either, and I don't like also
that now, when you go online tobuy tickets, if, if, something
gets released, you know Tuesdayat 10 AM and you're waiting in
line to get tickets online andyou, finally, you finally get
through and then you pull up themap of the place to pick out
your tickets.
They're all gone and threequarters of them are already
(16:24):
verified.
Resale.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I think it's a good thing I like it Saving the
planet.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Let's save the trees, man.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Okay, get the paper back in the tree.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So we get to the Bucs game.
We're all set.
You guys are already in there.
I presume You're texting me.
Where are your seats?
Where are your seats?
I'm trying to get in the door.
Still, we were in there at 6o'clock and inside the stadium
the stadium is freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Tony took a picture of you and zoomed in on you to
show me that you were sittingover there, sweet I showed him
the picture you sent me.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I dig it.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Oh, that's what it was.
So, uh, what was I saying?
Oh, because so we walk in there.
The stadium's awesome, dude,it's all white in there.
It's awesome, dude, it's allwhite in there, it's all open.
There's big pillars and there'sbig tall escalators you got to
take to go upstairs.
So I jump on the escalator to myleft, I ride it up and then we
(17:23):
circle around and go up the nextescalator and you get to the
top and it says like, basicallyall sections over here to the
left.
So I just start walking to theleft, I get about five, six
walking to the left.
I get about five, six sectionsinto walking and I'm like, dude,
you got to go all the wayaround this stadium.
Like, should we turn around?
So we walked all the way aroundthe whole stadium is.
(17:43):
The national anthem was goingoff and the whole player
introductions were happening.
Um, then, yeah, we got to ourseats.
We got these pretty cool seats.
We were up in the aisle, satthere and, like I had a table in
front of me and bar top, highsituation you didn't get a
bartender or a waitress, did you?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
no?
But you can order in the app,did you know that?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
and they send it, they bring it down to you even
beer and it's probably likeinstead of $16 it's $26 a beer
so I go to grab my seat and it'sin the walkway of the stadium
and there are in the stadiumopen seats where you can just
stand at the bar, like you're astand at the rail there and
(18:25):
watch the game.
There's like standing room onlytickets, but not these ones.
These were reserved.
I go to sit there and thiswoman comes by me and she's like
I got to see your ticket.
Like what?
These are my seats, you don'tneed like what?
Okay, I'll show you my ticket.
She moves the little.
Don't sit here.
(18:46):
Sign over to the next seatsover.
Show her my ticket.
And she's like I got to see histicket too.
Like what?
Okay?
So then show her my ticket andshe's like I gotta see his
ticket too like what okay.
So then again I have to get myphone out, go into this app,
bring it up, find it, blah, blah, blah, whatever, instead of
just going to my pocket andgiving her the top, the stub,
right, so whatever.
I'm kind of perturbed by thiswhole interaction, because it
(19:07):
was so like hello, this is, I'mhere for the event you work here
.
Be a little nicer to me.
I felt like, and so now I'mturning into like this old man
yells at the sky attitude aboutthings here at this event.
So I go, we get set up, gooddeal.
I go to get a beer and I lookbehind me and there's no people.
(19:29):
There's no.
There's, there's food up on therails, but there's no people,
because everything here isself-checkout.
Do you have all self-checkoutby you on your side too?
It wasn't just me.
So this self-checkout there'slike not even really any
instruction.
There's just this you can'tcross this line, exit over here.
(19:51):
There's people, there's twoemployees that are not paying
any attention to any of theguests there at the event.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
They're texting.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
They're just standing there Like yeah, they were all
in all black, like they weren'teven there.
So I'm like, okay, I guessthey're just watching.
So I get myself in there.
There's nobody else there atthis point, so there's like it's
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just like you see somebodystanding in the a window behind
you see all this food likenachos, tacos or whatever hot
dogs, chicken tenders, sodas,coolers full of beer, all this
shit.
So you just go in there in theline and I grab it out of the
shelf.
I go to this thing and there's abox on the table.
It's just put your items here,separated from each other, with
space between them, and then onthis screen, boom, there pops up
(20:41):
what you got.
But my machine doesn't doanything because I'm purchasing
alcohol and so there'sapparently another step.
So it's just sitting there andthis lady comes up to me and
she's like I need your id.
I'm like, well, hello, hi, howare you?
Like?
Come on, she doesn't make eyecontact in any way.
(21:04):
I look at her, she looks at myid, but she doesn't look at me.
She gives it back to me and shescans this like like piece of
paper with like a barcode on it,and then the machine goes happy
, I pay my money and I walk awaywith my goods.
I was like that was one of theworst and I'm $30 less.
(21:27):
I got two beers.
I got $28.50 out of my account,like it's gone.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Why is everyone hating on you?
When we came by, you seemedpretty spry.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh, I was fine.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I was just acknowledging that this no, but
like everything you're saying,they're like yelling at you.
This lady, the people, likethat lady was yelling at you,
yes, and the one that you weresitting down and yelling at you
at you and the one that you weresitting down yelled at you yes,
and the lady that was was not.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
She was pretty friendly, not super frustrated,
but kind of frustrated that Ididn't have my ticket ready on
my phone too, and that my friendhad already gone in because I
scanned a ticket.
He had gone in and she's likewhere's your friend go?
I'm like it doesn't matter, Iscanned his ticket, he's inside
I don't know.
Well, you need whatever.
So the second time around, atthe beers, I'm like, okay, my
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buddy didn't have his card orsomething, all he had was cash.
So he was paying for some ofthe beers, but he I had to go
get them each time.
So now I'm up for round two.
I go up there and now I get theidea of the system right.
So I'm like, fuck, I don't needthese people, right?
But then I remembered I needthem for the ID part.
So she, the thing, beeps orwhatever.
She acknowledges that there's aproblem.
(22:36):
She comes over and she slamsthis.
She looks at me this timebriefly, notices that I'm 42
years old and just slaps thepiece of paper up against the
barcode.
The screen turns green.
I pay for the things.
I walk away.
But as I walk away she goes hey, you need to open those.
Yeah, they make you open them.
(22:57):
Yeah, I just walked, I justcontinued to walk did you chase?
I'm like I'm with an eye shot.
And when I did open them, whenI set it down and put my koozie
in it, cracked it open, shecould.
I mean it became a non-issuebecause I opened it.
I don't know if it was an issue.
I don't know if she followed me.
I don't know if she was coming.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah, she's here running after you.
You turn around.
I didn't turn around.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It's the caps.
Nobody's allowed to have caps.
No, it's because it was a fullbeer.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I could throw the whole thing.
It was a ounce can.
That that's what I was told.
That might be photos.
Yeah, they're like you cannothave caps.
Yeah, because they're afraidyou're gonna throw them.
It's gonna become a weapon.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
That's how we're treated at these events that our
sodas are gonna be a weapon, oror they think somebody's just
gonna buy a 12er at their pricesand leave with it right, Right
or something right, like you'regoing to take it out.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Do you think that Holy?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
shit, $14.50?
.
What a fucking bargain.
Let me get 20 of them.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You can throw your beer better when it's closed
than when it's open.
I would think so.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Is that?
The logistics of it, that's theidea that it would cause more
harm if you did.
I never heard of that, so whenthey started, taking the soda
tops away from you, like atMarcus Amphitheater specifically
and Summerfest specifically.
I carried in with like three,four different kinds of tops,
one for a 20 ounce, one for awater and I was a fucking hero
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for people, Because if you get abottled water for $7 at
Summerfest and you don't get afucking top for it so you can
smash it into your back pocketand walk around it's a bottle of
water you might.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I mean start your own business, bring, bring a bag
full of caps in there you haveto drink it faster.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, that's part of it too, I'll bet, okay.
So now we are it's halftime.
Uh, you guys stopped over.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, my kid was really worried about whether or
not we were going to come findyou.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Why he?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
asked me two times on the way there.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I was really excited that you guys came by to be
honest with you.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, I saw Tony run at you and you were about to hug
him and you were like Ishouldn't do this in front of
the kids.
Oh no, we hugged.
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh, I didn't see that so, yeah, I want to end this
story line, or this line ofstory of this self checkout
thing.
So I'm I'm kind of perturbed bythe whole thing.
I'm thinking I'm spending afreaking three hours of my wage
on a fucking beverage every 25minutes here and I can't even
get eye contact.
I can't even get eye contact.
I can't even get a hello.
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I didn't like the whole idea.
I started thinking about howthe food's not even made there.
It's probably made in thecentral kitchen to the bottom of
the stadium.
They just bring it up and slideit down the little rail.
I kept thinking about how muchfucking food gets wasted.
And all this whatever thirdtime around it's a self-checkout
.
I know how this bitch works.
I grab my beers, I go to themachine, I grab that lady's
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little piece of paper, I scanmyself as 21 years old.
I walk away after paying forthem.
She's yelling again aboutsomething you didn't, something,
I don't know.
I sat down.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
That was the end of it.
When they do the self-checkoutthing, they don't ask for a tip,
do they?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
That was the one thing I enjoyed about this
experience is that there was abutton in the lower left-hand
corner of the checkout screenwhere it showed all your items
and how much they cost, whereyou could push to tip.
But it didn't prompt me ever totip and I was appreciative of
that, I will say I think, Ithink the the companies are
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realizing people don't like it,that's not gonna I think that
the amount of people who areafraid to hit no tip or afraid
to hit other and just smash the18% that's glowing is too high
for them to ever stop doing it.
Too many people would just belike that's normal.
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I think I bought, I'm atMcDonald's and I got to give $7
tip for my $32 McDonald's Likewhat.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's crazy.
I think I bought like fivebeers there and every time I did
not tip, no way.
And that guy I went to the sameguy.
Did you get a tapper guy, orwhat was it?
I went to the guy that's juststanding there with the bucket
of ice and shit.
You know Sure.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Just by himself.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And he's got so used to me that he actually would
sign my name for me and thenhe'd continue because he'd want
me just to get out of my way andif somebody else come there and
tip him, cause he knew I wasn'tgoing to tip, so he signed my
name every time.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So my rule of thumb at at events like stadium events
or concerts is if you have a,if you go up to a bar and you're
having them make you a cocktailyou have to tip oh that's a
different story.
You have to tip.
If you're going up to the barand you're just grabbing a beer,
you don't have to tip everytime, but you should probably
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tip pretty good the first time,especially if you're going to
come back, because then you getlike what you said, where the
guy just knows what you're doing.
He understands what's the ruleon that.
But at an arena or Bucks game,brewers game concert, where
you're just going to the man inthe ice bin, if it's cash you
give him the change or you givehim the extra dollar, but if
it's a card you don't.
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That's my rule.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
That's where it goes, I don't know man, I think with
how, because they're makingmoney.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I mean, they're making a decent wage.
They're not there as tippedemployees like they are at a bar
.
If you go to a bar, thatbartender or bartenderess is
probably making $5 an hour plustips, and so the tips is like
90% of their wage.
Right Versus at the Bucks game,the guy's making $32 an hour.
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Dude, like I'm not kidding you,they're all union paid.
Dudes Like you get paid Becauseyou're only working four hours
a night though.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Dude, I went to a Brewer game last summer and they
had this big beautiful like barright in the middle and I'm
like, oh, dude, old-fashioned,I'll grab an old-fashioned
michelle's.
Like grab me one too.
So we got two uh tall oldfashions and it was 54 dollars,
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yeah.
And I'm like this is fuckinginsanity, yeah.
And then, and then you can'tpay with cash and you swipe your
card and it's like how aboutyou tip 25 percent?
It's like how about you go fuckyourself?
You just charged me literallyfor two bottles of corbel, a
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fucking case of soda.
Yeah, you can make like 50.
And then you're like, oh, comeon, man, let me get a little
more.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I mean that's the thing.
But those drinks I mean theyare pretty strong drinks
normally at these events theydon't really mess you, weaken
you up.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I feel like they overcharge so much and then they
try to pity you and like, oh,come on, man, just like three
more dollars.
No, you spent nine dollars onthis pretzel, right, but three
bucks, man.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
This guy had to hand it to you yeah, but the game
though, man, the game was fun.
Our seats, perspective wise,were phenomenal.
Where I was sitting, I had agood angle on everything.
The sound was really cool.
In fact they played the radiobroadcast in the hallways so we
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could almost hear both, whichwas pretty cool.
Actually, we were up 47 to 22at the end of the first quarter,
so it was like game's over.
It was an ass-whooping.
But even Tony told me 47 tolike 22 at the end of the first
quarter.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So it was like, oh, it was over, it was an ass
whooping.
But uh, even Tony told me likeI was like, dude, this is gonna
be a record breaking night at 47points at the first quarter.
So I was like, just wait, twoquarters in, they're going to
have 10 more points and it'sgoing to be tied.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, I mean they only won by like 12 or something
.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, they just like they don't give up, but they
just like lose steam.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I mean not that I've been to every Bucs game or
watched every Bucs game.
You know a lot more now thanyou really did before.
It's so fucking wild to half,uh, their third quarter.
They're so fucking good likethey.
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Just the bucks have always beenpretty good in the third, but
if they're ahead in the third atat the half, by the time it
gets to the fourth they'rerarely still ahead yeah, like
they throw away the thirdquarter if they're ahead.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
That makes me always think about how it might be
scripted.
You know Like they want thesegames to be close.
They want them to go fourquarters.
They don't want people turningoff their TV sets, they don't
want people turning away fromyou know, thinking the game's
over.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I don't know when other teams are putting a real
hurting on us.
Their third quarters are prettysolid.
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I don't see it.
So do you guys?
So before the game I said wewent and got a couple beers at a
local drinking hole just a fewblocks away from the stadium,
just those few blocks wasfreezing cold.
It was like seven degrees, sixdegrees out yesterday, with wind
chills in the negatives, Ibelieve.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I mean it was really cold.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
So then after the game, we file out of there and
we're like, okay, he's like I'mhungry, I'm like all right.
So we walked to Ian's Pizza,which is probably like about a
third of a mile maybe.
So cold, dude, there's a hotelSt Kate Hotel, I think it's, or
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Kate Hotel.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I was like we got to stop there, dude.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Maybe that was after we got pizza.
Yeah, dude, so cold.
So we got some pizza and thenwe had to walk to.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I took the bus home and he took the bus home so we
had to walk to, we had to walkto wisconsin in water so he took
, you took city publictransportation.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We took separate city public transportation I would
have.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I would have fucking shoehorned you into my truck.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I don't care I enjoyed it, so we had some pizza
and then there's nothing betterthan taking public
transportation.
The walk dude was so cold, dude, so cold you have no idea how
fast you start walking.
When it starts to really like,your jeans become sheets of ice
and are slapping against yourfucking legs, oh man it was so
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cold.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
You're so much more adventurous.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
So then, I'm waiting at the bus stop.
My bus shows up, he's.
I zoom past him.
He's still waiting for his bus.
Like I could see him waiting,I'm like, oh, it's so warm in
here, bro.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
It's like 80 degrees did.
So you guys went and sat inseparate little three-walled
igloos.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, yeah, on different opposite corners of
the street, because he was goingsouth and I needed to go west.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
How long does it?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
take you, so my ride is the best bus ride in the
planet.
It's called the Blue MountainRapid Transit, the Connect One
bus, and it only stops atspecial stops that they built
that don't have to have the buskneel down.
They stop only if there'speople at the stop and it
freaking cruises, dude.
So it goes straight upWisconsin.
It's got its own lanes andeverything.
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It's phenomenal.
And guess what?
They don't ever make you payfor it.
They don't ever make you payfor it.
They don't have a way toprepare something.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
But they have that thing that you have to tip them.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
So you pay at the kiosk, which is what I did, but
then it doesn't, yeah, anyways.
So the ride takes about fromWisconsin and water to my house.
Yes, well, the stop by my house.
It takes about 16 or 18 minutesdepending on how many times it
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stops.
It runs every 25 or 20 minutes.
There's another bus All the wayup until like 1.15 in the
morning is the last one leavingdowntown towards my house.
So I rode the bus.
It was nice and warm in there,got my nice seat to put the
radio on my head.
People coming on, coming off orgoing through the hood Cause
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you're going up Wisconsin Avenuethrough like where all the the
housing is and all of like, thehomeless shelters are and all
this stuff, and it was like what?
Probably 11 o'clock, 1130 orsomething by this time Cause you
had grabbed pizza and whateverwalked Dude, get out to my spot.
Sometimes I can get the busdriver to stop right on the
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corner for my street where Ionly have to walk like six, five
blocks maybe and it's alldownhill.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
But this time the driver didn't want to stop.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
So then the driver she drove to the bus stop, but
the bus stop is another, likeseven or eight blocks.
So, now I'm almost a half amile walk from my house.
So the bus to get on it thestop isn't closer, but this one
goes down towards the medicalcenter a little bit off of Blue
Mound.
So now I'm a block and a halfor so from Blue Mound.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Then I got out from 95th to 92nd and then not lay
down whatever I'm doxing myfucking location bro, I felt bad
dropping jay off at his carbecause I pulled like a car, a
car width away from his car.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
No dude, when I got out of your warm ass car and
trying to even start my car wasa fucking nightmare.
We, my son and I, was shiveringin that fucking car, half
frozen, and I don't think theheat actually got warm until I
got home.
That's how fucking well.
And then you had to walk up.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I mean at your, did you just run like fuck it, you
just run home so yeah, um, Istarted walking and there's two
guys got off the same stop as meand I passed them right away.
I'm like I'm cooking dude,they're like lackadaisically
walking.
I, there's two guys got off thesame stop as me and I passed
them right away.
I'm like I'm cooking dude,they're like, lackadaisically
walking.
I'm like you guys, where areyou even going?
Like it's weird to have anyoneget off.
It would be normally they goall the way onto the medical
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center.
If they made it that far, whichthey normally don't, normally
have the bus to myself, like thewhole way.
It's pretty legit.
I start walking.
I got the pizza tucked under myarm, my hands are in my pockets
, I got my hood on, my hats on.
I'm, I'm cruising, I'm I'mmaking a good pace and I'm like
man, is it freaking cold?
so now I'm cutting corners likeI jaywalked across the blue
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mound and I cut through thechurch hot church parking lot
quick and I kitty corneredthrough this guy's yard and I'm,
and now I'm it's downhill, Iknow it's not a path now it's
getting cold.
I can tell the speed of my legsis, like subconsciously,
speeding up.
I'm starting to get ahead ofmyself just cooking, cooking,
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cooking.
Now I can see my house and I'mstarting to count it down in my
head.
I'm grabbing for my key.
I got this pizza.
I'm balancing still.
I grabbed my key as soon as Igot to the right in the house
well, we would.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
We would have warned you if you died if you didn't
make it home, dude, if you justgot like a block away from all
dead with the pizza in your hand, oh, my gosh like I would.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
I would have died.
I'll bet you, when I put thatpizza in the fridge for the
night, it was probably almostfrozen already.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
It made everything in the refrigerator colder.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
But man, part of the event was talking to the Uber
driver, 35.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
So why didn't you just?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Uber home.
So I could have Ubered home,saving money.
I could have Ubered home,it's's free ride a couple things
about uber, and home was one.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I would have had to wait in my spot for the uber and
I was not inside.
I guess I could have called itfrom ian's pizza, but my guy was
riding.
He wanted to ride the bus andthey, they they saw they charge
you a lot more.
It an uber to get there waslike 17 bucks I mean to get back
, to get home at that hour.
Yeah, well, because I wasn'tnear the event hour anymore, it
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had been an hour and a half orso there was no one around
downtown.
I probably would have had towait 15 20 minutes for a cab or
uber to get there is she waitingsomewhere warm?
And then, uh, the uber itselfwould have cost me, yeah, 20, 25
bucks because they charge alittle more at night, I think,
and so this was zero dollarsfaster.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
So how, how many times were you thinking to
yourself as you're walking homein this freezing cold
environment?
I should have just got afucking uber.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Um, not at all, not really, really yeah, I was glad
I took an Uber down therebecause that ride walk there.
I would have had to walk.
Yeah, it would have sucked todo it there, but I don't know,
dude, sometimes.
So I've taken an Uber ride downWisconsin Avenue hundreds of
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times now Like it's yeah, it's15, 15, 20 bucks every time.
And you take that into accountbecause I don't drink when I go
out drinking, I don't drive, Ijust don't.
You just take the freaking theuber, you know, uh, but the the
cost.
I'm like this bus is here now.
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It's like the first citytransit bus.
That's like built for meBecause I like go down with like
the Riverside all the time.
All the time you could gostraight down to Wisconsin or to
Water Street.
Grab the other bus up and downWater Street and you can find
yourself anywhere in all ofdowntown and it's $2.
, $2.
(40:56):
I thought it was free.
Well, it's free.
This brt system bus, for somereason, is still not all the
buses have the machines thatwork for something to collect.
I don't know, maybe I'mstealing the ride.
I don't even know.
If I am, I'll pay it, I don'tthis fucking guy again train not
paying, but I noticed nobodyelse does, so I don't get it.
(41:19):
I got the app.
I'm supposed to be able to scanthe app.
There's nowhere to scan it, soI don't know what to do, so
maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
I guess I'm pretty privileged.
I've only taken the city buslike twice in my life.
I take it for choice like whenI travel somewhere.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
I love taking other cities.
Public transit absolutely loveit.
Me and my brother once oncewent to Chicago and we decided
that we were going to take allpublic transit, no Ubers, no
taxis or whatever.
So we were on, we took a bus,basically, and then the train.
We took the bus and the trainand we rode it sitting backwards
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the whole time, because on thetrains and the buses they have
seats that sit the wrong way,because the bus, the trains for
one, they just go back and forth, they don't turn around, just
go forward and then go backwardsand that's it.
And so everywhere we rode, werode backwards for an entire day
through chicago.
It's kind of cool yeah, I meanway more adventurous than me.
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You're what's?
What was your story?
So you guys did what.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
We drove down there, found, found, jay.
Correct me if I'm wrong we werethe second closest person to be
able to park to the stadium.
Yeah, we're really close.
There's one car behind me thatwas technically three steps
closer.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
And so they parked pretty shitty, shitty and Tony
made sure to park better, youknow, in the spaces so some
everyone could fit, more carscould fit, and I was like
there's no way someone's goingto fit in front of you.
Parallel parking is, but this,the space in front of them looks
so tiny.
And then, two seconds after Isaid it, fucking guys backing up
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, reversing and bump it, hittingthe curb going forward.
Again, hit the curb going,starting straight.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Now a little bit more in this good spot, dude, and
I'm like tony, could you do?
That in one pass, oh yeah didyou have to pay for this parking
?
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Yeah.
So rule of thumb downtown is ifyou find a meter and it's after
6 pm, that meter's free.
Yes, a lot of people don'tunderstand that or realize that.
And the meters will let youcontinue to plug them, correct,
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but they do not Park.
Parking enforcement stops atsix, correct?
For meters uh, the ones out infront of the bucks arena, it's
it's now two hour parkingbetween 6 am and 6 pm, and from
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6 to9 it's unlimited parking,but still metered.
So it's basically the citysaying well, everybody else is
charging for parking, so we'regonna too.
So I told Jay because Jay hasthe parking app and I don't he
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had to pay for parking and hegot really upset because they
wanted $2 an hour.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
I think that's normal .
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Yeah, Actually, I had no idea what they wanted.
I just didn't want to do itbecause it was cold.
Then I'm like Tony, I need toknow your license plate number.
I can't just fucking putanything I want there Shit.
We had to go back to the carbecause he doesn't have it
memorized.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
I don't think he has to put the license plate.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
You do Well when I did it.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
I had to.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
It asks for it, but I don't think you actually have
to.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
You don't have to Because my dentist pays for my
parking when I go to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
He doesn't either.
Maybe he knows your licenseplate is over.
Maybe he's looking out thewindow.
All right, make sure I got thatX and L Down eight floors.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
No, he can't see me, yeah, well you know, I don't
know, Damn parking man we got.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
I've only been that lucky one other time.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
So when I lived downtown, I had a balcony.
It was on the fourth floor andI would sit out there.
I smoked cigarettes at the timeand on Saturdays I'd have
coffee, and Sundays, coffee andcigarettes out on the patio.
It's the sun coming up,watching all the people walk
around.
But my civic duty, my goodwillfor the day, was yelling down to
people on the street.
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You don't have to pay the meter, it's Saturday.
Oh, thanks, man.
Like you'd see them going backin their car digging through
their purse and like you don'thave to pay today.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
oh shit, that's great I don't even think these meters
had slots for coins.
Yeah, they do did it yeah butthey prefer you just put your
credit card in there or use theapp use the app and, yeah, pay
well.
I mean, it's easier.
It shows you a countdown onyour phone and then it tells you
oh, oh, your time's coming, youbetter.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Do you ever see them collect the money out of the
meters?
No, it's a special little boxthey use.
They pull the little box that'son a dolly, they pull it up
next to the meter and thislittle thing comes out and they
jam it into the shoots, all themoney into the box, and then
they can't pull the thing offuntil they lock the meter again
and you can't get into the thingto the money.
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So that makes the people theycan't steal it.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
That sounds super sexual, doesn't it Not?
Speaker 1 (46:30):
though, does it not?
Though, so that you can't stealit Cause you wouldn't you
imagine the meter made personcould like steal tons of
quarters, man you can't steal,because you wouldn't you imagine
the meter made person couldlike steal tons of quarters, man
, like I'm emptying them out.
Nope, sorry boss, there wasonly eight in there today and no
cameras, but yeah, that's awhole operation.
Dude, they still have to do itbecause there's still cash yeah
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no no, it was.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
It was wonderful parking the lot that we parked
at the entrance of that watched,watched me park in a spot.
It's charging 40 I think it was50 in that lot.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
It's ridiculous that's the other reason why I
take ubers and stuff down,because there's nowhere to park,
even if you wanted to you justgotta be willing to pay so the
uber driver and I picked me up.
He's like, yeah, I was justdropping somebody off at uh,
then the I forget the name ofthe bar right now Uh, brewskis,
I guess they do a shuttle on thebucks game.
I'm like, yeah, I'm going tothe bucks game.
He's like, oh go to brewskis.
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So I was like I thought about it, actually of the game fucking
cancel ride.
Give them a bad review so thenyou guys just drove home.
Then right just that'swonderful drove home.
So you didn't get an adventurebecause you didn't have a public
we can't get in the biggestadventure children, was jay
buying his kid a jersey?
Speaker 2 (47:55):
a hundred dollar jersey for a child, a youth,
medium?
Yeah, I mean, if I looked at itthis way, which T at which?
Speaker 1 (48:06):
part.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
I spent less on his Jersey than I did on beer.
There you go, you're a good dad.
What's?
Speaker 3 (48:10):
the, but the thing is Jay is is you made a lifetime
core memory for him?
Pretty?
Speaker 2 (48:18):
much.
What T?
What player?
Uh, well, of course, the honestoh, you got to be honest, is he
?
Speaker 1 (48:23):
well, I mean, I just whatever he wanted and the good
thing is, you were telling usearlier that he's scrawny and
doesn't eat, so he'll never growout of it true that?
Speaker 2 (48:32):
yeah, I told him get a little bigger, just in case it
grows.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Yeah, no, for the medium instead of small, this
time, buy a youth large so youcan have it all through your
adulthood.
Yeah, that's true too.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Like I have an old, I put it.
I took it off a hanger justrecently and put it in a drawer,
but I got this old Padresbaseball jersey that used to be
huge on me and now I can barelyfit.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Wear it in the summertime to one of the casts.
That's basically what I wear.
Wear it in the summertime.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
That's basically what I wear to the beach or whatever
I don't even have to button ittwo years ago I bought Chase a
Giannis jersey and at the timehe was in he was in a kids large
so I took him in.
We got it at a sporting goodsstore, I took him in, I had him
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try it on and it fit perfect.
And I'm like you know what fuckthis?
We're getting a men's small.
He tries it on.
He looks like dude, he lookslike fucking puff daddy.
In 1998 jump it's down to hisknees.
Yeah, he had to wear like afucking sweatshirt under it, so
(49:44):
it didn't look so like a dresson him just have him use it as a
blanket for the first coupleyears and then last year.
It fit great on him.
There you go and I was likeperfect man, we got a whole
nother year out of it.
I'm like it'll probably stillfit him next year.
He fucking put it on this yearstill huge, with no shirt on
(50:07):
under it and it's like fuckingskin tight, no way so he grew
too fast anyway, so he never hadit fit right last year it fit
good, he leave this year.
Man, it was too tight.
I had to get him a fuckingmen's medium.
Yeah, these kids grow up fastman.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
Well, that's it.
That's the top shelf story ofTrip to the Game.
We went together-ish.
We shared the experience-ish.
Speaker 3 (50:36):
I hope in life I get to run into you guys more in the
real world.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
It is odd we get together every week but we don't
hang out much outside of thepod.
Yeah, top Shelf Stories we'recoming in every Tuesday.
This one is a long one.
We appreciate you stickingthrough it.
Hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
Yeah, tell us on the internet about experiences you
had with your bros.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
No, but for real.
If you go on Apple Podcasts andyou write us a review, it
actually helps us a lot.
So if you could do just that,that'd be great.
Top Shelf Stories with Jay, chris and Tony.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yo, yo yo.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
What is up?
Everybody's chris, jay and tonyand this is top shelf stories
and I got a tale for you guystoday.
You were there, we went out?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
are you telling me after all these years we had a
shared experience.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We kind of did, because I was on the exact
opposite side of the arena fromyou two.
We didn't ride in together, wedidn't do much together.
You did come say hi, and thenwe didn't leave together.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The story behind is actually amazing.
Tell the story about you buyingthe tickets and then asking we
went to the bucks game and forthose of you at home, that's
milwaukee bucks.
Yeah, everyone knows if you saybucks, there's not sure.
Isn't there a football team?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
famous, the buccaneers that everybody calls
oh yeah, okay, okay, all rightI'll give you that, the boxs, if
you type in Google right now,if you talk to text Bucs score,
it's going to give you theBuccaneers, bet you not.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Our basketball team is so aggressive.
Our mascot is a white-taileddeer.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, Named Bango.
They strap him to whatever theywant and they lift him up 30
feet in the air and throw himaround like a ragdoll.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
He's the best mascot in the NBA, probably in
professional sports.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Do you think it's only one guy or do you think
people interchange?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I know for a fact that there's a well documented
history that includes the factthat there's some elusiveness to
the whole fact.
But there are people who wereit, who were.
I was bingo for 12 years, andthat's that guy.
And I was bingo for 18 what'shis name?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
again, I heard him say it, but just bingo, bingo,
bingo the buck.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I yeah, I don't know.
She's the best mascot in theworld.
I got a bobblehead with hisautograph on it is it worth?
Anything, I don't know.
It's a mascot signingautographs.
I don't know.
It's Bango the Buck, it's amascot signing autographs.
What when I was in the costume?
It's signed as Bango.
Not like Jim, he's not like afamous mascot guy.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
No, I thought it'd be pretty cool seeing those guys
throwing the shirts around.
I mean, if they got paid goodmoney, I would love to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
There's guys coming down our aisles because we were
up high.
What did they call it?
The hoop troop?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
they still call it the hoop troop so in every
professional sport I'm justgoing to go off of what I know
basketball, it is pretty muchevery sport.
But so the way I watch the gameis I got this little like, uh,
I don't know, black box I.
(03:09):
I get like every channel.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Everyone should be telling everyone that they have.
They're legal.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You can buy them on amazon, okay they have a lot of
problems with them when they buythem on amazon, because I'm
part of a facebook group, butnonetheless.
So the way I get to watch mylocal sports is the local
channel to the away team, and soit's really bizarre.
(03:34):
So if we're playing um, no, Iget it, sacramento, kings or
whatever, I get all sacramentosinteresting local commercials I
would not like that um everysingle sporting event.
Local city has a lawyer thatadvertises like crazy, crazy
(04:01):
during, and their number isalways insert area code four,
four, four, four, four four,four.
We have an all sevens guy intown we have an all sevens, but
so ours is a, a gentleman nameddavid gruber.
He's fours, all four, I thinkhe's fours, all fours.
(04:23):
I think he's fours, I don'tknow.
Call it, I'm not, I'm not, I'mnot.
But he has all these like wackypromotions through the game,
and one of them is every time athree-point shot is made, they
come out and launch T-shirtsinto the crowd At the Bucs games
(04:44):
.
At the Bucs games.
At the Bucs games you know JimPlimpton, down in Utah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's t-shirt time.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Who wants a David Gruber t-shirt?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
from the Bucs.
My wife sleeps in one that I'vegot at the game probably 25
years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You know, and this David Gruber does this at
everything His advertisingbudget must just be unlimited
and 85% t-shirts.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Like you go to a fair , a festival, there's like a
Gruber booth where you can get at-shirt.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
My wife and I play.
We count Gruber shirts anytimewe go to a public setting Like a
fair or something like that.
It's powerful.
One year at State Fair we broke50.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I believe it, at State Fair.
Half of them might have gottenthem that day even.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
That's crazy.
I bet you, I couldn't find 50people wearing Puma shoes.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
No, I got 50 pairs of Puma shoes.
No, I got 50 pairs of Pumashoes.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I know you do.
It's probably the only thingthat fit them.
Skinny little feet Shut up.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So we decided so.
Back to the box game here,right Go back to this.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
This is going to end up being like an hour long
episode.
I bet that's fine.
But so I was out with a friendI hadn't been to a box game.
We used to him, me and thisother friend we go to the box.
We used to go to the box gamesall the time, but we haven't
been able to.
Life catches up to you,whatever.
So we were out having a beerand I was like hey, we should go
(06:19):
to a box game.
I bought tickets.
There were 20 bucks.
I was like, cool, that's great.
I get home.
And the next day, Tony here,who is an owner of what?
Is it?
A quarter or a half season,yeah a quarter.
Okay, so he's got a bank oftickets that he goes to random
games every once in a while, andhe hasn't invited me to a game
(06:42):
before that I recall.
But he happened to call me thetime I already just had gotten
tickets, Like what are thechances right.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Maybe he's got a hidden microphone or some type
of hearing device in your phone.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
He was the automatic no ask.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
He's like I'll ask when I know he can't go.
Yes, I don't have enoughtickets for Chris but I'm still
going to ask him.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So here was my plan.
My wife and five-year-old weregoing to come to this with us.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
This is like a week or two before.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
It's like two weeks before and yeah, we're old.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
We fucking plan ahead two weeks to go to the ballgame
.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
They're like OK.
Well, she's like well, we gottickets for this game next week
and that one starts a little bitearlier, that one.
She's like I don't want to gethome at 11 o'clock with a
five-year-old who's got to go toschool in the morning.
So she's like just take Chase,invite somebody else.
(07:43):
And I'm like, well, I don'thave any friends, so I'm like
I'll invite the podcast boys.
And so first thing I do is Icall Jay Anytime I'm going to
invite either one of you, toboth you guys to something.
(08:04):
I'm calling Jay first andthat's because he needs
permission from his family to godo stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I still do too.
Why would that make you call me?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
first, what's the?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
reasoning behind that .
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Well, because you got to get permission and find out
whether or not you can.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
But you wouldn't go.
So you wouldn't go unless Iwent.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I would have invited you guys to a different game,
but you wouldn't go.
So you wouldn't go unless Iwould have invited you guys to a
a different game had youcouldn't call.
Oh, so I wanted to get jay's.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, this is going to be good, we'll do it you were
knowing that I likely am like95 a goal on almost anything.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The only way you couldn't call is if you had
already bought tickets.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I can't think of another reason.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
really, that's really the only reason.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well, in that case, you should have called Chris
first and then invited us to adifferent game like today's,
where you get a free hat.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I don't think I would have gone two days in a row.
I don't have tickets fortoday's game.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, he doesn't have a ticket for today.
I don't understand why you haveseason tickets or whatever and
you don't get the same game whenit's home again.
I don't know, it doesn't makesense.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So one of our first, if not, well, not our first, but
one of our we while to go outand do anything Like, probably
like since the Renaissance.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Renaissance fair or comedy show.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
We might've did the camper once after that but we
haven't done a bunch Right, sobut it's one of my biggest
regrets in life in in this whichone doing the comedy show in
this particular example, we wereper.
we were going to participate inthe same event.
Because a basketball game, it'san event, right, it's a thing
you go do Because you could justwatch it on TV.
(09:49):
You could go to a bar orrestaurant and watch it on that
TV if you wanted to make it asemi-event.
You could stay home, talk onthe phone if you really wanted
to Watch it separately.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Whatever right, Skype your boys.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But we're going to go do this thing.
But we're going to go do thisthing, but we have different
journeys.
Right to get there, I came frommy house, I Ubered there, you
guys drove, I imagine you maybepicked Jay up, I picked.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Jay up.
Well, not totally.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Not from his house.
Okay, so you scooped him.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I wasn't going to pay for the tickets.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You park and ride it or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And drive a half hour out of my way.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Hey, you already had the tickets.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So you came from one part of town.
They weren't free, motherfucker.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So what?
What are you going to sit byyourself, then?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You could resell them back right on the app, I think.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, I would have brought my brothers.
I paid for parking One of myuncles, I think.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So here we are.
I'm in an Uber, this guy that Itook.
I looked at this guy's statsbefore I got in the thing he had
given 34,000.
Some odd rides, dude.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I started talking to him in the cab.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I started talking to him in the cab.
He said yeah, you saw that.
Yeah, I am the number one Uberdriver in the entire state of
Wisconsin dude.
He's like yeah, they email meall the time His car had like
300 000 miles on it.
Oh, but it was like a 2022cheap wrangler or some shit,
(11:15):
like it was not that old and itwas a.
It was a nice truck, like atruck.
It looked brand new in theinside but it had all these
miles, but, but anyway.
So then I went what I did afterthe Uber.
We went and got a couple beersmet up at the Brat House me and
DeVore did and then we walkedover to the game.
We got in buy tickets.
(11:36):
I didn't pay attention, Ididn't have them downloaded and
shit, because you know you can'tbring a physical paper ticket
anymore.
No, no matter, they don't haveit, they don't do that.
They don't even barcode.
It was like a Wi-Fi scan out ofyour wallet, right?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I don't put them in the wallet you have it in the
app.
They try to make me put it inthe wallet and I always just go
app.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So think about this for a second.
You cannot participate in thisevent without fully doxing and
identifying yourself 100%, likethe world can find.
That's where you are yeah, likewe all kind of are that with
our phones in our pockets, butliterally you can't go into
(12:23):
unless, I guess, as a a guest.
My friend didn't have to.
I scanned my thing twice so hewas in there.
But what?
Why is that like?
Why is that?
Do you know?
I don't know is it for ourconvenience, because it sure
didn't feel very convenient withme and three other people while
we were trying to go throughhad to fumble through our phones
to try to figure out, because Ionly put one of the tickets in
(12:46):
my wallet, apparently not two.
So then I had to go back,re-sign in, do the log and I'm
looking at and there's like 15other people doing this on the
entrance of the game so it does.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
It does bother me quite a bit that you can't have,
you know, like a physical stub,analog ticket as a keepsake or
whatever you want to do with it.
But I did think about this.
I recently, really like a weekago bought tickets to another
show at the Riverside, and theRiverside is a small local
(13:23):
theater, you know like 1800 seator something.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, it's my favorite place in the world.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
It's one of mine too, but I haven't been there in a
couple years, and when I woulddo, you had to buy the tickets
online.
I mean, that's been like a10-year thing.
You can go to the box office,yeah, I know, but I'm saying
it's just you buy your ticketsonline now.
But there was always an optionfor will call tickets and that's
(13:51):
what I did.
So I paid for them, I put myname down, I get there, I go to
the box office, I show my id,they hand me my two or four
tickets, whatever, yep, and I go, get in line and now that at
the riverside is a six dollaradd-on, a convenience fee, yeah,
(14:12):
so it's six bucks to get willcall tickets you can pay a
convenience fee.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
If you go to the counter and buy tickets, you
have to pay a counter fee.
It's called.
I'm not lying.
Yeah, it's called.
I'm not lying to you.
The cheapest way to get ticketsstill is to go to the place and
buy them there.
But you do pay additional fee,called the counter fee.
It's like $250 or something.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
How do you buy a ticket for something like this?
Just like a normal person, likea scalper, Like you?
Can't do it anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I think that's why they got rid of physical tickets
.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Because of scalping, so people can't stand outside
and sell them anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Why can't you?
You certainly can.
It's much harder.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You can transfer them to anybody anywhere anyhow,
they're just making it hardernow, like it's validated, now
it's right through the Bucks app.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But imagine giving someone a piece of paper and
then be like okay, instead ofthe paper, now you got to turn
your phone on, you got to loginto this app.
You don't have the app, youcan't.
Blah, blah, blah.
All these things you have tojump through.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Have you ever bought a scalper ticket and then went
to scan it and the fuckingbuzzer's red, not green, and you
can't go in?
I never bought a scalping I'vehad that happen before that's
wild, because they can justprint out a hundred of them and
sell a hundred even thoughthere's only six tickets, and
they get the heck out of thereeverybody bought the same seat.
That's why, most of the time,the ticket scalping game is run
by a group of people who arethey're like yeah, man, you can
(15:40):
go buy it from some other guyhere, but but you know my shit,
it's legit, I'll be here nextTuesday too.
I'm a scalper guy, but you justbuy it off some guy in the
parking lot two blocks from thestadium.
Hey, I got an extra ticket,buddy, here's $7 for it.
Okay, cool, denied.
That won't happen with theelectronic ticket.
(16:00):
I don't like it.
I didn't like it.
Electronic ticket I don't likeit.
I didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I don't like it either, and I don't like also
that now, when you go online tobuy tickets, if, if, something
gets released, you know Tuesdayat 10 AM and you're waiting in
line to get tickets online andyou, finally, you finally get
through and then you pull up themap of the place to pick out
your tickets.
They're all gone and threequarters of them are already
(16:24):
verified.
Resale.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I think it's a good thing I like it Saving the
planet.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Let's save the trees, man.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Okay, get the paper back in the tree.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So we get to the Bucs game.
We're all set.
You guys are already in there.
I presume You're texting me.
Where are your seats?
Where are your seats?
I'm trying to get in the door.
Still, we were in there at 6o'clock and inside the stadium
the stadium is freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Tony took a picture of you and zoomed in on you to
show me that you were sittingover there, sweet I showed him
the picture you sent me.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I dig it.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Oh, that's what it was.
So, uh, what was I saying?
Oh, because so we walk in there.
The stadium's awesome, dude,it's all white in there.
It's awesome, dude, it's allwhite in there, it's all open.
There's big pillars and there'sbig tall escalators you got to
take to go upstairs.
So I jump on the escalator to myleft, I ride it up and then we
(17:23):
circle around and go up the nextescalator and you get to the
top and it says like, basicallyall sections over here to the
left.
So I just start walking to theleft, I get about five, six
walking to the left.
I get about five, six sectionsinto walking and I'm like, dude,
you got to go all the wayaround this stadium.
Like, should we turn around?
So we walked all the way aroundthe whole stadium is.
(17:43):
The national anthem was goingoff and the whole player
introductions were happening.
Um, then, yeah, we got to ourseats.
We got these pretty cool seats.
We were up in the aisle, satthere and, like I had a table in
front of me and bar top, highsituation you didn't get a
bartender or a waitress, did you?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
no?
But you can order in the app,did you know that?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
and they send it, they bring it down to you even
beer and it's probably likeinstead of $16 it's $26 a beer
so I go to grab my seat and it'sin the walkway of the stadium
and there are in the stadiumopen seats where you can just
stand at the bar, like you're astand at the rail there and
(18:25):
watch the game.
There's like standing room onlytickets, but not these ones.
These were reserved.
I go to sit there and thiswoman comes by me and she's like
I got to see your ticket.
Like what?
These are my seats, you don'tneed like what?
Okay, I'll show you my ticket.
She moves the little.
Don't sit here.
(18:46):
Sign over to the next seatsover.
Show her my ticket.
And she's like I got to see histicket too.
Like what?
Okay?
So then show her my ticket andshe's like I gotta see his
ticket too like what okay.
So then again I have to get myphone out, go into this app,
bring it up, find it, blah, blah, blah, whatever, instead of
just going to my pocket andgiving her the top, the stub,
right, so whatever.
I'm kind of perturbed by thiswhole interaction, because it
(19:07):
was so like hello, this is, I'mhere for the event you work here
.
Be a little nicer to me.
I felt like, and so now I'mturning into like this old man
yells at the sky attitude aboutthings here at this event.
So I go, we get set up, gooddeal.
I go to get a beer and I lookbehind me and there's no people.
(19:29):
There's no.
There's, there's food up on therails, but there's no people,
because everything here isself-checkout.
Do you have all self-checkoutby you on your side too?
It wasn't just me.
So this self-checkout there'slike not even really any
instruction.
There's just this you can'tcross this line, exit over here.
(19:51):
There's people, there's twoemployees that are not paying
any attention to any of theguests there at the event.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
They're texting.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
They're just standing there Like yeah, they were all
in all black, like they weren'teven there.
So I'm like, okay, I guessthey're just watching.
So I get myself in there.
There's nobody else there atthis point, so there's like it's
(20:20):
just like you see somebodystanding in the a window behind
you see all this food likenachos, tacos or whatever hot
dogs, chicken tenders, sodas,coolers full of beer, all this
shit.
So you just go in there in theline and I grab it out of the
shelf.
I go to this thing and there's abox on the table.
It's just put your items here,separated from each other, with
space between them, and then onthis screen, boom, there pops up
(20:41):
what you got.
But my machine doesn't doanything because I'm purchasing
alcohol and so there'sapparently another step.
So it's just sitting there andthis lady comes up to me and
she's like I need your id.
I'm like, well, hello, hi, howare you?
Like?
Come on, she doesn't make eyecontact in any way.
(21:04):
I look at her, she looks at myid, but she doesn't look at me.
She gives it back to me and shescans this like like piece of
paper with like a barcode on it,and then the machine goes happy
, I pay my money and I walk awaywith my goods.
I was like that was one of theworst and I'm $30 less.
(21:27):
I got two beers.
I got $28.50 out of my account,like it's gone.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Why is everyone hating on you?
When we came by, you seemedpretty spry.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh, I was fine.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I was just acknowledging that this no, but
like everything you're saying,they're like yelling at you.
This lady, the people, likethat lady was yelling at you,
yes, and the one that you weresitting down and yelling at you
at you and the one that you weresitting down yelled at you yes,
and the lady that was was not.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
She was pretty friendly, not super frustrated,
but kind of frustrated that Ididn't have my ticket ready on
my phone too, and that my friendhad already gone in because I
scanned a ticket.
He had gone in and she's likewhere's your friend go?
I'm like it doesn't matter, Iscanned his ticket, he's inside
I don't know.
Well, you need whatever.
So the second time around, atthe beers, I'm like, okay, my
(22:16):
buddy didn't have his card orsomething, all he had was cash.
So he was paying for some ofthe beers, but he I had to go
get them each time.
So now I'm up for round two.
I go up there and now I get theidea of the system right.
So I'm like, fuck, I don't needthese people, right?
But then I remembered I needthem for the ID part.
So she, the thing, beeps orwhatever.
She acknowledges that there's aproblem.
(22:36):
She comes over and she slamsthis.
She looks at me this timebriefly, notices that I'm 42
years old and just slaps thepiece of paper up against the
barcode.
The screen turns green.
I pay for the things.
I walk away.
But as I walk away she goes hey, you need to open those.
Yeah, they make you open them.
(22:57):
Yeah, I just walked, I justcontinued to walk did you chase?
I'm like I'm with an eye shot.
And when I did open them, whenI set it down and put my koozie
in it, cracked it open, shecould.
I mean it became a non-issuebecause I opened it.
I don't know if it was an issue.
I don't know if she followed me.
I don't know if she was coming.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah, she's here running after you.
You turn around.
I didn't turn around.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It's the caps.
Nobody's allowed to have caps.
No, it's because it was a fullbeer.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I could throw the whole thing.
It was a ounce can.
That that's what I was told.
That might be photos.
Yeah, they're like you cannothave caps.
Yeah, because they're afraidyou're gonna throw them.
It's gonna become a weapon.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
That's how we're treated at these events that our
sodas are gonna be a weapon, oror they think somebody's just
gonna buy a 12er at their pricesand leave with it right, Right
or something right, like you'regoing to take it out.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Do you think that Holy?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
shit, $14.50?
.
What a fucking bargain.
Let me get 20 of them.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You can throw your beer better when it's closed
than when it's open.
I would think so.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Is that?
The logistics of it, that's theidea that it would cause more
harm if you did.
I never heard of that, so whenthey started, taking the soda
tops away from you, like atMarcus Amphitheater specifically
and Summerfest specifically.
I carried in with like three,four different kinds of tops,
one for a 20 ounce, one for awater and I was a fucking hero
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for people, Because if you get abottled water for $7 at
Summerfest and you don't get afucking top for it so you can
smash it into your back pocketand walk around it's a bottle of
water you might.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I mean start your own business, bring, bring a bag
full of caps in there you haveto drink it faster.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, that's part of it too, I'll bet, okay.
So now we are it's halftime.
Uh, you guys stopped over.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, my kid was really worried about whether or
not we were going to come findyou.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Why he?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
asked me two times on the way there.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I was really excited that you guys came by to be
honest with you.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, I saw Tony run at you and you were about to hug
him and you were like Ishouldn't do this in front of
the kids.
Oh no, we hugged.
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh, I didn't see that so, yeah, I want to end this
story line, or this line ofstory of this self checkout
thing.
So I'm I'm kind of perturbed bythe whole thing.
I'm thinking I'm spending afreaking three hours of my wage
on a fucking beverage every 25minutes here and I can't even
get eye contact.
I can't even get eye contact.
I can't even get a hello.
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I didn't like the whole idea.
I started thinking about howthe food's not even made there.
It's probably made in thecentral kitchen to the bottom of
the stadium.
They just bring it up and slideit down the little rail.
I kept thinking about how muchfucking food gets wasted.
And all this whatever thirdtime around it's a self-checkout
.
I know how this bitch works.
I grab my beers, I go to themachine, I grab that lady's
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little piece of paper, I scanmyself as 21 years old.
I walk away after paying forthem.
She's yelling again aboutsomething you didn't, something,
I don't know.
I sat down.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
That was the end of it.
When they do the self-checkoutthing, they don't ask for a tip,
do they?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
That was the one thing I enjoyed about this
experience is that there was abutton in the lower left-hand
corner of the checkout screenwhere it showed all your items
and how much they cost, whereyou could push to tip.
But it didn't prompt me ever totip and I was appreciative of
that, I will say I think, Ithink the the companies are
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realizing people don't like it,that's not gonna I think that
the amount of people who areafraid to hit no tip or afraid
to hit other and just smash the18% that's glowing is too high
for them to ever stop doing it.
Too many people would just belike that's normal.
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I think I bought, I'm atMcDonald's and I got to give $7
tip for my $32 McDonald's Likewhat.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's crazy.
I think I bought like fivebeers there and every time I did
not tip, no way.
And that guy I went to the sameguy.
Did you get a tapper guy, orwhat was it?
I went to the guy that's juststanding there with the bucket
of ice and shit.
You know Sure.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Just by himself.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And he's got so used to me that he actually would
sign my name for me and thenhe'd continue because he'd want
me just to get out of my way andif somebody else come there and
tip him, cause he knew I wasn'tgoing to tip, so he signed my
name every time.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So my rule of thumb at at events like stadium events
or concerts is if you have a,if you go up to a bar and you're
having them make you a cocktailyou have to tip oh that's a
different story.
You have to tip.
If you're going up to the barand you're just grabbing a beer,
you don't have to tip everytime, but you should probably
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tip pretty good the first time,especially if you're going to
come back, because then you getlike what you said, where the
guy just knows what you're doing.
He understands what's the ruleon that.
But at an arena or Bucks game,brewers game concert, where
you're just going to the man inthe ice bin, if it's cash you
give him the change or you givehim the extra dollar, but if
it's a card you don't.
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That's my rule.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
That's where it goes, I don't know man, I think with
how, because they're makingmoney.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I mean, they're making a decent wage.
They're not there as tippedemployees like they are at a bar
.
If you go to a bar, thatbartender or bartenderess is
probably making $5 an hour plustips, and so the tips is like
90% of their wage.
Right Versus at the Bucks game,the guy's making $32 an hour.
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Dude, like I'm not kidding you,they're all union paid.
Dudes Like you get paid Becauseyou're only working four hours
a night though.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Dude, I went to a Brewer game last summer and they
had this big beautiful like barright in the middle and I'm
like, oh, dude, old-fashioned,I'll grab an old-fashioned
michelle's.
Like grab me one too.
So we got two uh tall oldfashions and it was 54 dollars,
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yeah.
And I'm like this is fuckinginsanity, yeah.
And then, and then you can'tpay with cash and you swipe your
card and it's like how aboutyou tip 25 percent?
It's like how about you go fuckyourself?
You just charged me literallyfor two bottles of corbel, a
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fucking case of soda.
Yeah, you can make like 50.
And then you're like, oh, comeon, man, let me get a little
more.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I mean that's the thing.
But those drinks I mean theyare pretty strong drinks
normally at these events theydon't really mess you, weaken
you up.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I feel like they overcharge so much and then they
try to pity you and like, oh,come on, man, just like three
more dollars.
No, you spent nine dollars onthis pretzel, right, but three
bucks, man.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
This guy had to hand it to you yeah, but the game
though, man, the game was fun.
Our seats, perspective wise,were phenomenal.
Where I was sitting, I had agood angle on everything.
The sound was really cool.
In fact they played the radiobroadcast in the hallways so we
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could almost hear both, whichwas pretty cool.
Actually, we were up 47 to 22at the end of the first quarter,
so it was like game's over.
It was an ass-whooping.
But even Tony told me 47 tolike 22 at the end of the first
quarter.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So it was like, oh, it was over, it was an ass
whooping.
But uh, even Tony told me likeI was like, dude, this is gonna
be a record breaking night at 47points at the first quarter.
So I was like, just wait, twoquarters in, they're going to
have 10 more points and it'sgoing to be tied.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, I mean they only won by like 12 or something
.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, they just like they don't give up, but they
just like lose steam.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I mean not that I've been to every Bucs game or
watched every Bucs game.
You know a lot more now thanyou really did before.
It's so fucking wild to half,uh, their third quarter.
They're so fucking good likethey.
(31:39):
Just the bucks have always beenpretty good in the third, but
if they're ahead in the third atat the half, by the time it
gets to the fourth they'rerarely still ahead yeah, like
they throw away the thirdquarter if they're ahead.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
That makes me always think about how it might be
scripted.
You know Like they want thesegames to be close.
They want them to go fourquarters.
They don't want people turningoff their TV sets, they don't
want people turning away fromyou know, thinking the game's
over.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I don't know when other teams are putting a real
hurting on us.
Their third quarters are prettysolid.
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I don't see it.
So do you guys?
So before the game I said wewent and got a couple beers at a
local drinking hole just a fewblocks away from the stadium,
just those few blocks wasfreezing cold.
It was like seven degrees, sixdegrees out yesterday, with wind
chills in the negatives, Ibelieve.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I mean it was really cold.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
So then after the game, we file out of there and
we're like, okay, he's like I'mhungry, I'm like all right.
So we walked to Ian's Pizza,which is probably like about a
third of a mile maybe.
So cold, dude, there's a hotelSt Kate Hotel, I think it's, or
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Kate Hotel.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I was like we got to stop there, dude.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Maybe that was after we got pizza.
Yeah, dude, so cold.
So we got some pizza and thenwe had to walk to.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I took the bus home and he took the bus home so we
had to walk to, we had to walkto wisconsin in water so he took
, you took city publictransportation.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We took separate city public transportation I would
have.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I would have fucking shoehorned you into my truck.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I don't care I enjoyed it, so we had some pizza
and then there's nothing betterthan taking public
transportation.
The walk dude was so cold, dude, so cold you have no idea how
fast you start walking.
When it starts to really like,your jeans become sheets of ice
and are slapping against yourfucking legs, oh man it was so
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cold.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
You're so much more adventurous.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
So then, I'm waiting at the bus stop.
My bus shows up, he's.
I zoom past him.
He's still waiting for his bus.
Like I could see him waiting,I'm like, oh, it's so warm in
here, bro.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
It's like 80 degrees did.
So you guys went and sat inseparate little three-walled
igloos.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, yeah, on different opposite corners of
the street, because he was goingsouth and I needed to go west.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
How long does it?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
take you, so my ride is the best bus ride in the
planet.
It's called the Blue MountainRapid Transit, the Connect One
bus, and it only stops atspecial stops that they built
that don't have to have the buskneel down.
They stop only if there'speople at the stop and it
freaking cruises, dude.
So it goes straight upWisconsin.
It's got its own lanes andeverything.
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It's phenomenal.
And guess what?
They don't ever make you payfor it.
They don't ever make you payfor it.
They don't have a way toprepare something.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
But they have that thing that you have to tip them.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
So you pay at the kiosk, which is what I did, but
then it doesn't, yeah, anyways.
So the ride takes about fromWisconsin and water to my house.
Yes, well, the stop by my house.
It takes about 16 or 18 minutesdepending on how many times it
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stops.
It runs every 25 or 20 minutes.
There's another bus All the wayup until like 1.15 in the
morning is the last one leavingdowntown towards my house.
So I rode the bus.
It was nice and warm in there,got my nice seat to put the
radio on my head.
People coming on, coming off orgoing through the hood Cause
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you're going up Wisconsin Avenuethrough like where all the the
housing is and all of like, thehomeless shelters are and all
this stuff, and it was like what?
Probably 11 o'clock, 1130 orsomething by this time Cause you
had grabbed pizza and whateverwalked Dude, get out to my spot.
Sometimes I can get the busdriver to stop right on the
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corner for my street where Ionly have to walk like six, five
blocks maybe and it's alldownhill.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
But this time the driver didn't want to stop.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
So then the driver she drove to the bus stop, but
the bus stop is another, likeseven or eight blocks.
So, now I'm almost a half amile walk from my house.
So the bus to get on it thestop isn't closer, but this one
goes down towards the medicalcenter a little bit off of Blue
Mound.
So now I'm a block and a halfor so from Blue Mound.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Then I got out from 95th to 92nd and then not lay
down whatever I'm doxing myfucking location bro, I felt bad
dropping jay off at his carbecause I pulled like a car, a
car width away from his car.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
No dude, when I got out of your warm ass car and
trying to even start my car wasa fucking nightmare.
We, my son and I, was shiveringin that fucking car, half
frozen, and I don't think theheat actually got warm until I
got home.
That's how fucking well.
And then you had to walk up.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I mean at your, did you just run like fuck it, you
just run home so yeah, um, Istarted walking and there's two
guys got off the same stop as meand I passed them right away.
I'm like I'm cooking dude,they're like lackadaisically
walking.
I, there's two guys got off thesame stop as me and I passed
them right away.
I'm like I'm cooking dude,they're like, lackadaisically
walking.
I'm like you guys, where areyou even going?
Like it's weird to have anyoneget off.
It would be normally they goall the way onto the medical
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center.
If they made it that far, whichthey normally don't, normally
have the bus to myself, like thewhole way.
It's pretty legit.
I start walking.
I got the pizza tucked under myarm, my hands are in my pockets
, I got my hood on, my hats on.
I'm, I'm cruising, I'm I'mmaking a good pace and I'm like
man, is it freaking cold?
so now I'm cutting corners likeI jaywalked across the blue
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mound and I cut through thechurch hot church parking lot
quick and I kitty corneredthrough this guy's yard and I'm,
and now I'm it's downhill, Iknow it's not a path now it's
getting cold.
I can tell the speed of my legsis, like subconsciously,
speeding up.
I'm starting to get ahead ofmyself just cooking, cooking,
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cooking.
Now I can see my house and I'mstarting to count it down in my
head.
I'm grabbing for my key.
I got this pizza.
I'm balancing still.
I grabbed my key as soon as Igot to the right in the house
well, we would.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
We would have warned you if you died if you didn't
make it home, dude, if you justgot like a block away from all
dead with the pizza in your hand, oh, my gosh like I would.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
I would have died.
I'll bet you, when I put thatpizza in the fridge for the
night, it was probably almostfrozen already.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
It made everything in the refrigerator colder.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
But man, part of the event was talking to the Uber
driver, 35.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
So why didn't you just?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Uber home.
So I could have Ubered home,saving money.
I could have Ubered home,it's's free ride a couple things
about uber, and home was one.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I would have had to wait in my spot for the uber and
I was not inside.
I guess I could have called itfrom ian's pizza, but my guy was
riding.
He wanted to ride the bus andthey, they they saw they charge
you a lot more.
It an uber to get there waslike 17 bucks I mean to get back
, to get home at that hour.
Yeah, well, because I wasn'tnear the event hour anymore, it
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had been an hour and a half orso there was no one around
downtown.
I probably would have had towait 15 20 minutes for a cab or
uber to get there is she waitingsomewhere warm?
And then, uh, the uber itselfwould have cost me, yeah, 20, 25
bucks because they charge alittle more at night, I think,
and so this was zero dollarsfaster.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
So how, how many times were you thinking to
yourself as you're walking homein this freezing cold
environment?
I should have just got afucking uber.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Um, not at all, not really, really yeah, I was glad
I took an Uber down therebecause that ride walk there.
I would have had to walk.
Yeah, it would have sucked todo it there, but I don't know,
dude, sometimes.
So I've taken an Uber ride downWisconsin Avenue hundreds of
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times now Like it's yeah, it's15, 15, 20 bucks every time.
And you take that into accountbecause I don't drink when I go
out drinking, I don't drive, Ijust don't.
You just take the freaking theuber, you know, uh, but the the
cost.
I'm like this bus is here now.
(40:36):
It's like the first citytransit bus.
That's like built for meBecause I like go down with like
the Riverside all the time.
All the time you could gostraight down to Wisconsin or to
Water Street.
Grab the other bus up and downWater Street and you can find
yourself anywhere in all ofdowntown and it's $2.
, $2.
(40:56):
I thought it was free.
Well, it's free.
This brt system bus, for somereason, is still not all the
buses have the machines thatwork for something to collect.
I don't know, maybe I'mstealing the ride.
I don't even know.
If I am, I'll pay it, I don'tthis fucking guy again train not
paying, but I noticed nobodyelse does, so I don't get it.
(41:19):
I got the app.
I'm supposed to be able to scanthe app.
There's nowhere to scan it, soI don't know what to do, so
maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
I guess I'm pretty privileged.
I've only taken the city buslike twice in my life.
I take it for choice like whenI travel somewhere.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
I love taking other cities.
Public transit absolutely loveit.
Me and my brother once oncewent to Chicago and we decided
that we were going to take allpublic transit, no Ubers, no
taxis or whatever.
So we were on, we took a bus,basically, and then the train.
We took the bus and the trainand we rode it sitting backwards
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the whole time, because on thetrains and the buses they have
seats that sit the wrong way,because the bus, the trains for
one, they just go back and forth, they don't turn around, just
go forward and then go backwardsand that's it.
And so everywhere we rode, werode backwards for an entire day
through chicago.
It's kind of cool yeah, I meanway more adventurous than me.
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You're what's?
What was your story?
So you guys did what.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
We drove down there, found, found, jay.
Correct me if I'm wrong we werethe second closest person to be
able to park to the stadium.
Yeah, we're really close.
There's one car behind me thatwas technically three steps
closer.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
And so they parked pretty shitty, shitty and Tony
made sure to park better, youknow, in the spaces so some
everyone could fit, more carscould fit, and I was like
there's no way someone's goingto fit in front of you.
Parallel parking is, but this,the space in front of them looks
so tiny.
And then, two seconds after Isaid it, fucking guys backing up
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, reversing and bump it, hittingthe curb going forward.
Again, hit the curb going,starting straight.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Now a little bit more in this good spot, dude, and
I'm like tony, could you do?
That in one pass, oh yeah didyou have to pay for this parking
?
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Yeah.
So rule of thumb downtown is ifyou find a meter and it's after
6 pm, that meter's free.
Yes, a lot of people don'tunderstand that or realize that.
And the meters will let youcontinue to plug them, correct,
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but they do not Park.
Parking enforcement stops atsix, correct?
For meters uh, the ones out infront of the bucks arena, it's
it's now two hour parkingbetween 6 am and 6 pm, and from
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6 to9 it's unlimited parking,but still metered.
So it's basically the citysaying well, everybody else is
charging for parking, so we'regonna too.
So I told Jay because Jay hasthe parking app and I don't he
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had to pay for parking and hegot really upset because they
wanted $2 an hour.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
I think that's normal .
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Yeah, Actually, I had no idea what they wanted.
I just didn't want to do itbecause it was cold.
Then I'm like Tony, I need toknow your license plate number.
I can't just fucking putanything I want there Shit.
We had to go back to the carbecause he doesn't have it
memorized.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
I don't think he has to put the license plate.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
You do Well when I did it.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
I had to.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
It asks for it, but I don't think you actually have
to.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
You don't have to Because my dentist pays for my
parking when I go to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
He doesn't either.
Maybe he knows your licenseplate is over.
Maybe he's looking out thewindow.
All right, make sure I got thatX and L Down eight floors.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
No, he can't see me, yeah, well you know, I don't
know, Damn parking man we got.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
I've only been that lucky one other time.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
So when I lived downtown, I had a balcony.
It was on the fourth floor andI would sit out there.
I smoked cigarettes at the timeand on Saturdays I'd have
coffee, and Sundays, coffee andcigarettes out on the patio.
It's the sun coming up,watching all the people walk
around.
But my civic duty, my goodwillfor the day, was yelling down to
people on the street.
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You don't have to pay the meter, it's Saturday.
Oh, thanks, man.
Like you'd see them going backin their car digging through
their purse and like you don'thave to pay today.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
oh shit, that's great I don't even think these meters
had slots for coins.
Yeah, they do did it yeah butthey prefer you just put your
credit card in there or use theapp use the app and, yeah, pay
well.
I mean, it's easier.
It shows you a countdown onyour phone and then it tells you
oh, oh, your time's coming, youbetter.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Do you ever see them collect the money out of the
meters?
No, it's a special little boxthey use.
They pull the little box that'son a dolly, they pull it up
next to the meter and thislittle thing comes out and they
jam it into the shoots, all themoney into the box, and then
they can't pull the thing offuntil they lock the meter again
and you can't get into the thingto the money.
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So that makes the people theycan't steal it.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
That sounds super sexual, doesn't it Not?
Speaker 1 (46:30):
though, does it not?
Though, so that you can't stealit Cause you wouldn't you
imagine the meter made personcould like steal tons of
quarters, man you can't steal,because you wouldn't you imagine
the meter made person couldlike steal tons of quarters, man
, like I'm emptying them out.
Nope, sorry boss, there wasonly eight in there today and no
cameras, but yeah, that's awhole operation.
Dude, they still have to do itbecause there's still cash yeah
(46:52):
no no, it was.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
It was wonderful parking the lot that we parked
at the entrance of that watched,watched me park in a spot.
It's charging 40 I think it was50 in that lot.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
It's ridiculous that's the other reason why I
take ubers and stuff down,because there's nowhere to park,
even if you wanted to you justgotta be willing to pay so the
uber driver and I picked me up.
He's like, yeah, I was justdropping somebody off at uh,
then the I forget the name ofthe bar right now Uh, brewskis,
I guess they do a shuttle on thebucks game.
I'm like, yeah, I'm going tothe bucks game.
He's like, oh go to brewskis.
(47:33):
So I was like I thought about it, actually of the game fucking
cancel ride.
Give them a bad review so thenyou guys just drove home.
Then right just that'swonderful drove home.
So you didn't get an adventurebecause you didn't have a public
we can't get in the biggestadventure children, was jay
buying his kid a jersey?
Speaker 2 (47:55):
a hundred dollar jersey for a child, a youth,
medium?
Yeah, I mean, if I looked at itthis way, which T at which?
Speaker 1 (48:06):
part.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
I spent less on his Jersey than I did on beer.
There you go, you're a good dad.
What's?
Speaker 3 (48:10):
the, but the thing is Jay is is you made a lifetime
core memory for him?
Pretty?
Speaker 2 (48:18):
much.
What T?
What player?
Uh, well, of course, the honestoh, you got to be honest, is he
?
Speaker 1 (48:23):
well, I mean, I just whatever he wanted and the good
thing is, you were telling usearlier that he's scrawny and
doesn't eat, so he'll never growout of it true that?
Speaker 2 (48:32):
yeah, I told him get a little bigger, just in case it
grows.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Yeah, no, for the medium instead of small, this
time, buy a youth large so youcan have it all through your
adulthood.
Yeah, that's true too.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Like I have an old, I put it.
I took it off a hanger justrecently and put it in a drawer,
but I got this old Padresbaseball jersey that used to be
huge on me and now I can barelyfit.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Wear it in the summertime to one of the casts.
That's basically what I wear.
Wear it in the summertime.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
That's basically what I wear to the beach or whatever
I don't even have to button ittwo years ago I bought Chase a
Giannis jersey and at the timehe was in he was in a kids large
so I took him in.
We got it at a sporting goodsstore, I took him in, I had him
(49:22):
try it on and it fit perfect.
And I'm like you know what fuckthis?
We're getting a men's small.
He tries it on.
He looks like dude, he lookslike fucking puff daddy.
In 1998 jump it's down to hisknees.
Yeah, he had to wear like afucking sweatshirt under it, so
(49:44):
it didn't look so like a dresson him just have him use it as a
blanket for the first coupleyears and then last year.
It fit great on him.
There you go and I was likeperfect man, we got a whole
nother year out of it.
I'm like it'll probably stillfit him next year.
He fucking put it on this yearstill huge, with no shirt on
(50:07):
under it and it's like fuckingskin tight, no way so he grew
too fast anyway, so he never hadit fit right last year it fit
good, he leave this year.
Man, it was too tight.
I had to get him a fuckingmen's medium.
Yeah, these kids grow up fastman.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
Well, that's it.
That's the top shelf story ofTrip to the Game.
We went together-ish.
We shared the experience-ish.
Speaker 3 (50:36):
I hope in life I get to run into you guys more in the
real world.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
It is odd we get together every week but we don't
hang out much outside of thepod.
Yeah, top Shelf Stories we'recoming in every Tuesday.
This one is a long one.
We appreciate you stickingthrough it.
Hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
Yeah, tell us on the internet about experiences you
had with your bros.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
No, but for real.
If you go on Apple Podcasts andyou write us a review, it
actually helps us a lot.
So if you could do just that,that'd be great.
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