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Peeing on the Floor: Concert Mishaps and Misunderstandings
We dive into the therapeutic power of live music and the unforgettable experiences that come with concert-going culture. Chris shares his impressive tally of 104 Umphrey's McGee shows and the unique connections formed in their fan community.
• Concerts as full experiences: buying tickets in advance, planning travel, arranging accommodations
• The mystery of Chris's friend getting kicked out of a Minnesota show for allegedly "peeing on the floor"
• Debate on concert etiquette: the passionate defense of standing versus sitting at rock shows
• How live music serves as "therapeutic medication for the mind" regardless of sobriety
• Recognition and community-building among regular concertgoers across different venues
• Stories of stage diving, crowd surfing, and other physical aspects of concert participation
• The joy of making connections with fellow fans and remembering personal details
Want to join us at an upcoming show? Chris mentions Summerfest is coming up - stay tuned for details!
Top Shelf Stories with J, chris and Tony. What do you guys want to hear about? I want to hear you do a foreign accent. I don't have any foreign accents. Couldn't I hear you try to do one? No, just try. No, you were about to. It was so cool, it was.
Speaker 2:It was like should I go Australian?
Speaker 1:You did look like you were going to try. It was so close. Should I go Australian? He did look like you were going to try. No, what would be a foreign accent? Anything but our accent. Anything outside of Wisconsin?
Speaker 2:Anything outside of the.
Speaker 1:Tri-County area Talk, not northern. So I do travel a bit. As you guys know, like to go mostly to concerts, right, oh, it's perfect intro for that too. So you guys don't go to a lot of concerts, but going to a concert is a fucking blast I feel like I go to quite a few concerts and then it's a whole event right, it's kind of like going to a sporting event or like you're talking about not just one day concert, you're talking about like a like well like if you go to, if you let's say you're going to like.
Speaker 1:In this case, I tell a story about the trip we took to minnesota for a concert can I guess the band?
Speaker 2:um freeze mcgee'm, freeze McGee so you, basically you get yourself.
Speaker 1:You got to buy tickets months in advance.
Speaker 2:What's the show about?
Speaker 1:It's not important, but it's a rock show, rock and roll.
Speaker 2:No, I'm saying our show today.
Speaker 1:Going to concerts Okay.
Speaker 2:I don't have a topic story.
Speaker 1:But so it's a whole event, right, you get yourself psyched up. You got to buy tickets in advance. You got to plan the trip. You got to get a hotel. You got to figure out, like, what are you going to do for food? Are you going to fucking hotel lobby lunch it with the microwave? Are you going to go to a bar and have some food? Are you going to go to a dinner, whatever? And like you guys were saying, I'll often go, I'll go like to four or five, two or three, one or three concerts in a row. Right, so it can be daunting, you can get. You're getting drunk all the time. You're eating shitty food. You're traveling.
Speaker 1:Sounds terrible, your wits can get about you. And then you go to the concert and you have a fucking blast. You see friends, people, things, all this. You have a fucking blast. You see friends, people, things, all this. But a lot of times what happens is you get kind of drunk because, like there's like three or four, four or five hours. You got nothing to do, but you're all ramped up and excited. So crazy shit happens on concerts. So when you get drunk do you get to a point where, uh, you feel like you don't want to eat because you want to keep your buzz going. No, no, but I often don't have an appetite and forget to eat and continue to drink I think, it's because you don't want your buzz to leave.
Speaker 1:That's the whole reason you don't eat I mean for me.
Speaker 2:That's what I do when I I don't, I'm not like that.
Speaker 1:I, if I was like, oh, I'm hungry, like sweet, I ate. Now I can pound eight more beers. True that, yes. And now I'm not a delirious, useless piece of shit stumbling over my own toes because I'm malnourished and drunken.
Speaker 2:Are you staring at me explaining myself?
Speaker 1:at some. Well to say you don't want to eat to keep your buzz going. Dude that's not who doesn't want to do that. I think you're the only one that does that. I would disagree with that. I feel there's a lot more people that do Like you get to a point in the night where you're like, okay, now I probably should eat, yeah, and then you eat and you smash and fall asleep with one foot on the floor.
Speaker 1:Then you wake up and think the world's spinning at 345 and throw up hamburger meat from your dad's shit spoon. I used to steal beef jerky at the gas station and eat that shit. Get full on beef jerky after a night of drinking. It was amazing. Miss those days, yeah. So I mean, I don't know. We go out to concerts and things get wild. Same thing with, like a sporting event or any event. Really you get wild. You eat too much food, you stay up too late.
Speaker 2:Event really you get wild you eat too much food, you stay up too late, yada, yada, yada. Well, my guy buoy, one time are we talking about the legendary mr buoy burger? Buoy burger. And just for you people at home, that is not a stage name, that's a real man, is his last name burger. Yeah, and his first name is buoy no I knew that I didn't know his last name Burger.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and his first name is Bowie. No, I knew that. I didn't know. His last name was actually Burger.
Speaker 2:How is?
Speaker 1:it spelled Is it B-E U-G, something weird. The king copied him, man. The king copied him. Are you serious? Burger King?
Speaker 2:It's the burger.
Speaker 1:Nice. So, like I don't know how to keep this story to be longer than it should be, but you don't have to keep it longer, just so you go to you go to the shows and we're we fucking rock out dude, we have a blast.
Speaker 2:So. So here's a question, because, um, so I don't, I don't have like a small band, I follow, I follow like that, like you do, like he called your band small, sure?
Speaker 1:well, I mean, I was at a house. I sent Chris a picture of a backstage pass to Umphrey's, mcgee's, whatever the fuck it is, and I was like no way there's such a big band.
Speaker 2:You can't even remember their full name right, umphrey's McGee.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember the picture. See, there's such a big band you can't even remember their full name Umphreys McGee. Yeah, I remember the picture. Yeah, I do At a very rich establishment.
Speaker 2:We're not talking about going to a Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1:Right, no, we're not.
Speaker 2:They're just different things.
Speaker 1:They play venues that fit between 4,500 and 1,500 people.
Speaker 2:They have a super dedicated following.
Speaker 1:I recognize people at almost every show I go to, regardless of what state I'm in. That's kind of crazy. That's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2:Give me just a round number. You don't have to go on your tracking app or anything. But how many shows you been to? By them? 104. Okay.
Speaker 1:Because it was just 100. Oddly specific. I just checked it because we just went to one. I added more to the tracker so there's.
Speaker 2:I mean, aside from going to work, not many things I've done over a hundred times right I thought about that today.
Speaker 1:Do you think um umphrey mcgee is? I spent like a third of one year of my life at a concert we'll have we'll have a crypto at one point and would you buy it? I don't know if they've done nft style ticketing there you go. They already did it and and uh um concert. Uh downloads I speak of crypto I speak of cryptos just because, chris, every time we come to this podcast, he talks about cryptos for about 45 minutes. They also released their album as a NFT that you could download for everyone so yeah, they would do that.
Speaker 1:They've done it. But yeah, so they. You know they fill a venue. It's a good time. That's a lot of people though. But yeah, so they fill a venue, it's a good time, that's a lot of people though. 4,500? Yeah, in the bigger places. I mean, I went to an arena show in Kalamazoo. There was probably like 4,000, 3,000 people there, 5,000? I don't know All right. Out of the 107 shows you have seen 104. 104.
Speaker 2:You're just exaggerating like a motherfucker.
Speaker 1:Two of those were accompanied by your wife, maybe like six. Why is that funny?
Speaker 2:I don't get the joke. Out of 104, that's strikeout four, if you put this as a fast baseball average, you'd be pretty bad.
Speaker 1:No team would want you. Yeah, I don't want to be on the go-to-concert-with-my-wife team.
Speaker 2:Damn.
Speaker 1:It doesn't sound like very much fun, to be honest, with you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like.
Speaker 1:I've done it and it's not as much fun.
Speaker 2:What did you say? Having somebody there, you gotta be nice to Well, someone you have to take care of. Why do you have to take?
Speaker 1:care of her you gotta make. They're part of your party and they're not a 40 year old male that takes care of themselves.
Speaker 2:I don't know when Bowie Berger has too many Miller Lights. He didn't ask you to hold his hair.
Speaker 1:Exactly, I don't care. I've literally walked this guy up the hill and had him, like dude, sit here and let him down.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't need to keep playing that game.
Speaker 2:What did you just decide not to sit on the couch? He's trying to go.
Speaker 1:My mic's not long enough, are you?
Speaker 2:sure, yeah, no, I'm good.
Speaker 1:I'll help you out bro.
Speaker 2:I almost said a bad word.
Speaker 1:So we were out at this one and in minnesota it happened to be my hundredth show and I think buoy had two. Do they shout you out on the stage? I tried to get them to, but they didn't know.
Speaker 2:A bunch of dicks how do you what kids through college I was?
Speaker 1:telling everybody about how it was my hundredth show when I had the opportunity, because, fuck, it only happens one time.
Speaker 2:That's a pretty good.
Speaker 1:Was outlined in glow tape on your back I think there was a number 100 on my back, and then people are like oh yeah, I've seen 100. I remember my 100th show. I'm like oh, fuck you, but I do remember. After the show they're like I was walking out and I saw some people I knew and I was like see you later.
Speaker 1:and they're like oh man, we were cheering for you so hard when they called out you for your 100th show, because it was someone else's 100th show that day and they did call that person out.
Speaker 2:Like Steve or something.
Speaker 1:Like Steve, for coming out for your 100th time. Those people were excited for me so do they because they have so many songs? Do they have like a giant fishbowl that people throw paper into, that chews a song and then they just pick a giant fishbowl that people throw on paper into that, choose a song and then they just pick out of the?
Speaker 2:it's not a dueling piano bar. They don't do that. I'm thinking of like, uh, what's?
Speaker 1:that pizza place down by on fucking national organ pizza where you get the fucking guy to play your song they actually take concert.
Speaker 2:Chris travels the united states to go to is a dude, like a fucking 80-year-old dude at an organ trying to play Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1:No, I always make him play a Star Wars theme song. Next time you're in there, have him play the Chattanooga.
Speaker 2:Choo Choo if you want to see some good organ. Seriously, oh yeah, dude the.
Speaker 1:Chattanooga Choo Choo. Do you know of this? Song it's from the 20s. It's an orchestra song. The guy wrote it to sound like a train coming into town. It's so awesome dude. There's shuffling of people's shoes inside this track. Anyways, you should have him play that he's pretty good at it Off our gates, so text me. He's pretty good at it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I forgot. I could just see the fucking in our text chain like a month from now. Chris you're not going to believe this shit.
Speaker 1:I'm at the Oregon Piper Pizza and I need to know what the fuck you told me on the podcast.
Speaker 2:What was that?
Speaker 1:song you told me to play, like the Nashville Hustle. I definitely already forgot it, but go ahead, chris. So we're in Minnesota, we're at the show, we're partying, we're jamming, dancing, singing, got a group together having a blast and there's like. Their shows are normally like an hour and a half hour and 15 minutes to an hour and a half First set, 15 to a half hour break hour. Hour and a half Second. 15 minutes to an hour and a half first set. 15 to a half hour break hour. Hour and a half second set. They play a long show, little three minute like thank you very much thing. They go backstage, they come back out and they'll play a track or two. Right, really getting your money's worth, I'm gonna give you a three hour show I mean it's a three, three and a half hour show.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's like a cover band. So we are, I'm standing there, I'm in, we're like five rows of people from the front. I like to stand on the left hand side by the main guitarist are there assigned seating?
Speaker 2:no it's not normally, or is it just just general? There's no seats right some venues have.
Speaker 1:Most venues do have some seats. Most of them are just open seating. Some venues will sell like tickets to the upper level that's seated, and tickets to the lower which you can just stand in. Uh, some venues do have like seated areas where you buy like seat 26a and you sit there. No one really you know hippies hang out, rock show, so so yeah, I mean this happened to be at first avenue, which is an all, I believe, all standing venue, more or less all standing couple bars all around.
Speaker 2:It's like a cube those are the best ones. Now I'm in my 40s and that just that sounds like a miserable.
Speaker 1:No, those are the best ones, my friend recently had to leave a show because we were at this venue and they had no seats anywhere, nothing to sit onto or lean onto. He couldn't help it anymore, so he's like I found myself in the bathroom on the toilet because I could sit down and he heard that from there. And then he's like I'm just going home.
Speaker 2:Just sitting down in cocaine residue? I guess I don't know, that's pathetic.
Speaker 1:He was like I'm not gonna sit anymore. No, yeah, I go to. I've never had seating at a concert I've ever been to, ever I got a good. Those are my kind of shows ever. I got a quick sidebar on seating. We were at a tool concert. You know the band tool.
Speaker 2:Of course I mean tony might not, I do I know their one good song At the Okay, sing it, hum it, something like I'm a loser, something like that. Are you thinking?
Speaker 1:of fucking. This is a rock show, weezer. You think of Weezer. They're known for their visual art, part of their whole performance.
Speaker 2:They've been around from the they're very scripted, though.
Speaker 1:The whole thing's very scripted. It's a whole show. Every show's the same On tour. If you went to two in a row, you'd see the same show twice in a row, Not 90s. It's very orchestrated and at the show it's still rock, dude. It's kind of aggressive rock, flashing lights and shit. And we're standing and some bitch got pissed off at us because we were standing in our seats. She's like can you sit down, dude? This is a fucking rock show.
Speaker 2:No, I will not sit down. You told her no, no, I will not sit down. You're such a dick.
Speaker 1:Fuck you, bitch.
Speaker 2:Stand up. I agree, you're at a fucking rock show. It's not the orchestra. No, you bought the fucking seat. No, you bought the fucking ticket To get in the door. Use it, motherfucker.
Speaker 1:You're not watching a fucking play, you're not watching a fucking Nah dude.
Speaker 2:I bet you that's what she was wishing. She was watching, yeah well.
Speaker 1:She should have bought a fucking ticket To the play then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, you don't go to a pool show no, and sit down I don't even have seats?
Speaker 1:why do they even have seats? Throw those fuckers out. So anyways, yes, so yeah, I told that girl to suck it yeah put in her face. No but shoulda. These are standing mostly, and I like like to stand. So we're up there, four or five people rows-ish from the front of everything.
Speaker 2:That's a good spot, it's where I love to be, that's where my spot is. Everyone thinks it's too crowded. How much does that cost?
Speaker 1:They're all the same price, general admission. Well, that's weird. Everyone thinks it's too crowded, but it's really not. It's the same. Just people wait a second. Is it first in, first serve or first?
Speaker 2:uh, don't, don't go to things with your wife and you'll learn how to get around by yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, find yourself up front at the show. Okay is that, but that's how it works. I don't know I don't either. It goes it goes like hey, bud, what's up? Man, hey, how are you doing? Hey, I'm doing good. Too nice to meet you, and then you just stand there too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know I imagine drink, drink in your hand, drinking hand over exaggerated white guy sway sure, back and forth hanging out bopping around balances.
Speaker 1:We're. We're now. This is like, I think, our fourth show along this little run we were on. So he's fucking exhausted. I pretty exhausted, but he had drank a little too much. Apparently he's standing behind me. It's like a guy behind me, our crew's all behind me. Show's almost over. There's like three or four songs left. Maybe I get a tap on the shoulder by this guy I know, and he's like hey yo, what's up with your buddy? And I'm like what do you mean? He goes. I don't know Some security guy came by him. He showed him his ID and then they left. I'm like what? What do you mean? He left. He's like I don't know the guy your guy booey or whatever left with the security guard. And I'm like oh fuck, that's not a good thing, right, your friend gets. I'm like, alright, thanks for telling me what the fuck am I going to do about it?
Speaker 2:What a polite crowd.
Speaker 1:I mean, they're his friends too. I know these guys. I talked to them recently again and we told stories and the story gets to that night. So I'm like what the fuck happened and I'm like I got to find out. So is this bands playing? I'm fucking text. Where the fuck did you go? Like where the fuck did you go? I don't get a response right away, but then I get a response and we chat too much. Since then it's been over a year, but I wish I could go back. It's something along the lines of the text was I'm outside, they kicked me out for peeing on the floor. Oh, I look at it. I'm like oh god.
Speaker 2:And I just put it back in my pocket. I'm like nope, I'm not doing this, like not my problem standing there.
Speaker 1:I'm like what the fuck in my head? I'm like what the fuck? And then the show ends and the guys are like what did the buoy say? I'm like I don't know. I gotta go fucking find him. He sent me this, said he peed on the floor. We had this big, great, big laugh and I'm like did you guys like you were behind me, you were sitting next to me, you noticed him get taken out of here. Did he like pee on the floor? Did you feel? Feel?
Speaker 1:anything warm sprinkle on you, like what did they? And they're like dude, I don't know, I don't, I don't know, I don't know which. I don't think that that happened, but I don't know. So I get outside and he's being like watched by this lady, like this poor lady sitting next to the front door, like just standing there by the marquee or whatever. I come out, I'm like dude, let's get the fuck out of here. It's like no, dude, I got to tell my story to this bitch, you got to hear it, and he's telling me in front of her. I'm like dude, calm the fuck, like I don't care, right, so he calms down a little bit. I'm like what the fuck happened, dude? He's like I don't know.
Speaker 1:Apparently, literally, this guy came out, he tapped me on the shoulder, he asked me for id. I showed him my id and like then he's like, let's go talk. So I went with them to talk and then they just took me out of here and he said that somebody told him that I whipped my dick out and peed on the floor. Dude, did you? Did you pee on the floor?
Speaker 2:He's like dude, really Like you think I just like my pants aren't full Like disrespect. Humphreys McGee, like that he's like dude, why would I do that?
Speaker 1:Right, is your dick that big you?
Speaker 2:can whip it out.
Speaker 1:It went on as a mystery. He didn't know why. He got kicked out of this place and he's super pissed for the whole next day and never let it go. A couple other times and ran jokes like I can't go back to Minnesota because I can't go anywhere there without them thinking I piss on the floor. What does he think now today? So I'm at a concert with Bowie about two weekends ago. Same band Okay, same group of dudes all around me, my same guys.
Speaker 1:They're from Appleton, madison area Dun dun, dun they're there too, they were going to go to Minneapolis, which is a year now. Later, we were going to go to Minneapolis, which is a year now. Later, we were going to go to Minneapolis. We didn't end up going, we went to Green Bay, then Madison. We're at Madison. This time Bowie's like in front of me, right instead of behind me. We're jamming, rocking, having a good time, yeah.
Speaker 2:so now he's just splashing your feet.
Speaker 1:Second set. He's standing in front of me, he drops his beer on the ground and it spills and leaves a big wet spot on the ground and I just thought to myself I'm like dude, this is what happened.
Speaker 2:He turns around and he goes.
Speaker 1:Oh no, not again, dude. We kept him in there. He was next to some pretty girl dude. I kept him like stuck in the spot where he was standing in his own piss for the last five minutes of this show. I kept yelling about how it smelled like urine. He kept turning around like shut up dude, this is going to get me kicked out. Do you not think that was his ultimate plan? I'm like man. How come every time?
Speaker 2:I go to Humphrey's.
Speaker 1:Someone pisses on the floor and everyone's around me laughing. Do you not think that was his ultimate plan to deceive the fact that he did not? Thought that was like I did not pee the first time. Here's what I really did. So here's this is the question I have to you. So, like 80, 90 of the times, I'm more wanting to get in the face of things and I'm in front of the guy. This time he's in front of me and he turns around and says, oops, yeah, so did he pee on the ground? He's in front of me and he turns around and says, oops, yeah, so did he pee on the ground? That's the question, of course.
Speaker 2:I think this was his version of a very long form joke. No, that he waited a whole year for the punchline. Oops.
Speaker 1:Dude. The look on his face. I'll never forget it for my whole life. I took a picture of him standing in the water so that it's on my phone in case I ever forget that. Look when he turns around and goes uh-oh, not again. He never wants to be known as the guy that pisses. Oh, he is. That's why he did that two weeks ago To clarify that. To clear his name, clear, clarify, and yeah, no, you didn't do that, but I want you guys to come with me to a show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's go An. I'm Praised McGee show. I would do one show. It needs to happen. There's one coming up. It's got to be local.
Speaker 1:I ain't going to Indiana. Okay, here, this one doesn't really count. It's definitely not in really count because it's a summer fest show. Summer fest shows are different. Because it's fucking summer fest, exactly. Everyone hates it. You got to stand on the stupid bleachers. Plus, they only give the band an hour and a half, like max maybe even an hour ten.
Speaker 2:They don't even know how to play an hour and ten set. You only like summer fest if you don't live in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1:Every song that they play at these sets is like accelerated. There's not as much jamming out, as much fun and there's only one set Sometimes the second set when everyone like gets into the groove. Then they go out and smoke a cigarette, get a beer, piss it out, come back in after talking to their friends for a little bit, that second set of music Always.
Speaker 2:So it's not the same, but Summerfest is coming. What?
Speaker 1:is your ploy. You should come. Oh, so you're asking us to go to Summerfest or otherwise? There's a camping festival in northwestern Wisconsin.
Speaker 2:If it's during the week In Labor Day, if it's during the week at Summerfest, it's not.
Speaker 1:They don't even do the weeks anymore. They only do Thursday, Friday, Saturday or something.
Speaker 2:Well, Thursdays during the week.
Speaker 1:Friday, saturday, sunday they only do. That's what it is, but it is a Saturday, it's the first Saturday, the first Saturday, and it's at what venue? I don't know, at Summerfest. No, I mean, I don't know, but you'll want to be with me all day. There's a whole bunch of good things going on. I'll need you for the whole day. We'll get in with our three times pass. Our new top shelf stories pass. I can't even say that.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, man, I could tell you guys stories about going to concerts all the time, but it's really not going to hit until you go to them and the audience. I'll bet you that, I'll bet you of all the things we've asked for in the chat in the chat. Send me a chat in the chat if you've gone to an Humphreys McGee show, and I'll bet you that there will be a lot of people there.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, because really only your people listen to our podcast. You're the only one who's got real friends.
Speaker 1:Here's another thing, though, too If I'm drinking, you don't want me there.
Speaker 2:No, I won't take care of you. I don't care.
Speaker 1:Don't do that. So what you're just like trip me into, say, watch this guy fall and then walk away from him or something. No, just don't be a dumbass and take care of yourself.
Speaker 2:I'm never a dumbass.
Speaker 1:You're the 40-year-old man you think you are. I'm not 40. At all. Yeah, you're like 42.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm 42. I 42. Yeah, I'm 42. I'm not 40. You know what I'm saying. But yeah, watch out for your friends at shows. They might piss on your leg, dude. That's that All right. So we're talking about bands going to concerts. I haven't been there to a concert in 10 years. But yeah, I know, I think I have to take you up on that offer, chris. My soul hurts for you, dude, I know dude, I know dude, it sucks. Soul hurts.
Speaker 2:When you have three.
Speaker 1:It hurts deep. Hey, when you have just one child and it's a girl, you can do it if you fucking want. When?
Speaker 2:you have three kids and a wife that will let you go when you have three boys, you can't do shit.
Speaker 1:You're lying. You have baseball Soccer Time out. Fucking basketball Time out.
Speaker 2:Fucking basketball. You have all these sports to play. Your kids ain't in any of that shit. You stop it right now Time out. They're not even in bicycle riding lessons.
Speaker 1:If I call you, there's no such thing dick. Yo, if I call you on a Wednesday or a Tuesday at 8 o'clock and tell you that I'm going to.
Speaker 2:I'm talking AM or.
Speaker 1:PM 8.
Speaker 2:PM and I'm talking am or pm 8 pm, and I'm telling you Because one of them is not going to be awake yet. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1:And I'm telling you that I'm going to go to a concert and I'll buy your ticket and pick you up and drop you off. What about drinks?
Speaker 2:Fine, I'll pay for all of your drinks. What about cigarettes?
Speaker 1:The. What about cigarettes? The concert's at 10 o'clock and I call you at eight o'clock on a wednesday.
Speaker 2:Can you go with me? I'm listening, shut up, I just. I just picture jay you pulling up to jay's house and him coming up to your window like where's the? Passenger side window. Wait for you to roll. It does like you got them smokes, All right.
Speaker 1:I'm in, I don't smoke. Would you be able to go On what day? Any day, any of them? Oh, you got to let me know ahead of time. No, how often? Or I mean, how much of an advance do I know? I'll give you whatever numbers, whatever. All right, you make up the theoretical scenario. I need, like, you make up the theoretical scenario and I'm asking you to go with me. Can you go?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I need like a year and a half advance notice With weekly reminders yes, and to the day of I need letters and signatures of your accomplishments and knowledge.
Speaker 1:I will tell you when we're going. You're going to need references. So this is a little biased, because this is my favorite thing to do. So it's a little biased, but I will tell you that I believe that listening to live music and going to concerts and surrounding yourself with other people is the most best mental health thing you can do, I agree. I agree is magic. You're right.
Speaker 1:You ever see the youtube videos where they're like sit here if you're having a bad day and all the person does is play a nice song to the person's headphone and their entire face changes, they start the one I saw recently she started playing with her little baby in the stroller and she left and she was like super happy and it took the guy 45 seconds with a beat box and eight lyrics to make her happy. Music is magic, dude, and it makes it's. If I didn't, if I was not able to go to a concert every like three months or so that I do it, or less even normally, hopefully I'd go fucking nuts dude concert every like three months or so that I do it, or less even normally hopefully.
Speaker 1:I'd go fucking nuts. Dude, I think you are a hundred percent accurate. Like I go crazy, I put on live streams on the TV and sit in my room with the lights off and fucking jam out for like an hour just to get it out. It is dance, it is a therapeutic medication for the mind it's, it's. It's something you can do without even saying it. You just feel, and you don't need to be high no.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's better to be drunk. This doesn't even have to. You don't need to be high Dude, I've done plenty of shows drunk or straight sober.
Speaker 1:Way more drunk, but plenty of shows straight sober. No, if you do really love the music, you can't be high or drunk. You have to feel it. I can go to any type of music personally too. It does not have to be my style. It can be your band, if you're sober, I got to be at something I really like.
Speaker 2:Nah, then I got to be drunk Nah.
Speaker 1:One of the best concerts I ever went to. I never thought I'd love enjoy being there was that throat-singing, screaming death metal band who, at the rave Black Dahlia Murder murderer, was the headliner there was four bands black dahlia murder is that a girl girl band?
Speaker 2:no, dude, I remember you got that shirt oh, I got two shirts it was fucking awesome time dude, I mosh pitted.
Speaker 1:I had sandals on.
Speaker 2:I lost my sandals like you would never believe the whole whole time Like you would never believe.
Speaker 1:The whole time I couldn't understand a lick of it, dude. That type of music gives me anxiety too.
Speaker 2:It makes me feel weird.
Speaker 1:It gives me this hurt inside my brain, so we know what to do when we want to hurt Chris.
Speaker 2:That would be torture for me.
Speaker 1:We get a megaphone and we go.
Speaker 2:I get all like 80. It reminds me of the Stone Temple Pilots concert I went to. What that dude did the whole fucking concert. He did the whole concert through a megaphone.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:That sounded like it was almost dead on battery.
Speaker 1:What the fuck he's screaming into the fuck. Why did he do? He's a heroin addict.
Speaker 2:That's why yeah, that was before he died, obviously, oh my God, but not that long before.
Speaker 1:Look, Chris, I will take you up on that offer and let's do fucking live Any show, let's do it live. I don't know what that means. I don't know either.
Speaker 2:I don't know what that means either let's do fucking sounds sexual, and when you say stuff like that, I kind of get why your wife doesn't want you to go to this shit how about right now?
Speaker 1:I'm willing to look up to find a concert and go right now tonight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1:I got a big job due tomorrow.
Speaker 2:I could be home by 1.30 amazing topic.
Speaker 1:Great show, chris. We love concerts. Everybody, I can agree, can be. It's a therapeutic thing. I mean to go to a concert and not have to say a word, but to listen to the music and feel good. Who wants, who doesn't want to do something like that? Yeah, I mean it's like an anal probe and not getting anally probed.
Speaker 2:I mean, I've been to like probably 30 concerts in my life, maybe 40, I don't know. A couple like two, three day things at alpine valley, yeah, shit, like that.
Speaker 1:I've been to concerts in vegas like that's something I haven't done yet as a vegas show.
Speaker 2:Like we see, it's a whole performance, it seems yeah, we've seen, uh, lincoln park before the dude killed himself nice for like the third time in vegas. Yeah, that's right, your wife likes lincoln park, loves him and tony, you hate him I wasn't always like this. She even made me go see creed Pre like 2010.
Speaker 1:I probably went to like Five concerts and then.
Speaker 2:Creed's back again.
Speaker 1:Creed's back again.
Speaker 2:But, uh, I like him, but I'm the dude who just stands there With like his arms crossed. Yeah, looks at people around me.
Speaker 1:You don't even have to tell me that I don't fucking, I'm a dancer, I can see that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm a dancer, I can see both, I can exactly see both what you are doing right now.
Speaker 1:If there's a song playing, I'm arms in the air guy, I'm pumping up. The guy next to me guy, I'm looking back at people Because I like to go to the front. I look back and get them fucking going. Guy, I'm going to start the wave. Guy, I miss the days when they stage dived and you got from the front to the back or from the back to the front of the concert. I haven't been to enough of those style of concerts. But there is a guy I go to see. His name is andy frasco, and he does that and he encourages others to do it during the song.
Speaker 2:he, he does that and it's, it is the best fucking I've never done it. I've never been up.
Speaker 1:I can't describe the fact. Okay, I'm a little guy and people can not only lift me and hold me, throw you around, they can toss me up and down like a fucking beanbag.
Speaker 2:So the one concert.
Speaker 1:Yeah, go ahead. I feel like I'm playing a game. When I'm stage driving and I'm going up and down and up and down, someone's grabbing my nuts, they're grabbing my ass I mean literally, it's all men, but they're grabbing the shit out of my body. See, I don't know if I could do that. The one concert I was at that was doing a lot of that was that death metal, and all people did, though, is they'd push them to the front. No, they always do, cause they want to push you on stage. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Why.
Speaker 1:So you can get on stage next to the band Just like over the security, but you never do that, I know. But it's the, and then the security just kicks you out right, I know, but Cause you're not. Not if I thought all those guys were just like lemmings who fell off the cliff. No because you're not intentionally jumping on stage. You're trying to get on stage from the crowd and they're trying to throw you on stage. Yeah, not about that. I love it, dude. I get on stage every time.
Speaker 1:I'd rather just wait out and try to meet the band backstage after. I mean that would be great too, but that doesn't always happen. No, it never happens.
Speaker 2:It happened to me one time Okay, so that's why you keep trying.
Speaker 1:That's why people keep throwing me up there like a rag doll Gonna get a fucking slingshot Word.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, I think for me. My version of what concerts are for you is me building something bizarre with my hands.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't have that. There we go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't have that that no one does that on concert you know and look what I made no, he's saying his like, no, like how he feels about rush situation, how they make him.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying like if you had, a show, tony, that you played, you'd come up and say I do, I do kind of get although I didn't really do anything at the end I do kind of feel like I've accomplished something. I went out, I entered, you know I uh inter interjected into other people's conversations. I made new friends, made new acquaintances. I always make it a point.
Speaker 1:You know, one of the things I learned or trained at concerts is like learning people's names remembering them remembering a fact about them, so that when you see them again because, dude, there's nothing better it makes people feel so good and you can see it in their eyes. When you've never really met them, you've only met them once or twice and they don't really recognize you, but they kind of do.
Speaker 2:You're like ah, Frank with the big cock.
Speaker 1:Dude, kevin man, did you guys win that game, dude? And they're like what the fuck dude? It makes them feel so good. And then it's one of the things I like doing at concerts. It's like I couldn't. Yeah, I don't do that, I just say what's up, man? Or like we, we hand out little fucking pieces of glow tape. I don't really do it much anymore, but I used to, and when you, when I would see somebody who has fucking glow tape, on their hat and I can light them up with my fucking light and they're like oh, dude, it's you Like fucking A.
Speaker 1:I met you in Atlanta. It's like whoa, yeah, that's where you got it Crazy. Yeah, everyone's agreeing of Chris's great concert stories, right. Yeah, word, now it's our show. Chris's great concert stories, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We're in Now. It's our show, top Shelf Story Boom Tune in every week. We're going to come out with some bangers once we get our shit lined up with the audio and there's going to be a lot of shit going on every single week. You're never going to miss us because you know what We've recorded ahead of time. Should I have said that?
Speaker 2:Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:You can delete it. Perfect. See you later. Bitches at the show. Muffries McGee, was it? That's it, huffries.
Speaker 2:Yep, you got it.
Speaker 1:McGee's McGee Nailed it McGee, we'll be right back.
