A little update regarding closing or selling the site.
Thought this would be fun to see how much of a P1 everyone is. For example, how often do you listen? How many radios do you tune into the Ticket (as the promo says we have to do)? Do you talk Ticket lingo with your friends and/or family? Do you speak in drops? Do you think of good drops to play while listening? Do you have ticket apparel you wear on a constant rotation? What else do you do? These type of questions…
I figured I’d start it out and show how much of a P1 dork I really am:
- I wake up and immediately turn on the ticket around 6:30am (my wife likes it on too)
- We have a radio on upstairs and one on downstairs during the morning
- When I go to the gym, I workout to the Musers…not music, like most normal people
- My radio in my vehicle rarely changes from 1310. When it does, it’s usually to 104.1 if the reception on 1310 is bad. Other times is when the main shows are off and I listen to music
- At work, the ticket is ALWAYS on, I just turn it up or down depending on whether I’m listening
- Oh yeah, I also feed another radio into my computer to record audio for this site (thanks to BabyArm)
- I spend a lot of time on this site, just for fun
- I often answer questions from friends with ticket drops
- Most of my friends also speak in ticket lingo when we’re around each other
- I used to have a ticket t-shirt, but it’s gone because I wore it out (not sexually)
- I once started singing the tune of “Captain Doodoo” while taking a dump
This is bad enough…I can keep going, but I’ll let others chime in.
Wake up, run downstairs and stream the Ticket. Dress, clean myself, brush teeth in my kitchen so I can keep listening. Won’t do anything during a segment, run around to get stuff etc. during breaks (that goes for ALL the times I listen.)
I tell everyone I know about the Ticket, tell them they should listen, spread the word of its genius.
I speak in drops and Ticket lingo. (Great success, what an amazing story, laugh out loud being my favorites – you are a P1 if you can correctly identify who is responsible for each drop.)
When I am at school I stream whenever I am in the library doing work, or have access to a computer.
When I get home I run to the computer to keep streaming.
I am a weekend P1 as well (nuff said).
I learned how to rip streaming to work for this great site. This is one of the default sites I go to whenever I am on a computer – period.
I am in radio broadcasting school because I want to work for the Ticket one day.
The list goes on….
Wake up around 6:45, turn on portable radio, listen while browsing the web and getting dressed for work. 7:30: Get in truck, already tuned to ticket from yesterday. Listen on the way to work. Get into lab, turn on radio which is already tuned to ticket. 9:30: Drive to different construction jobs, listening to ticket while watching others work. 4:00 drive home while listening to ticket, then logging on to the unticket.com to share bits my wife may have missed.
1.) Usually listen 7 to 10 hours per day.
2.) Approximately 3 radios turned to ticket when I am near them.
3.) Wife and co-workers speak in drops all the time. Use them around family occassionally with confused laughter.
4.) Always think of fitting drops during occassion. But I always try to remember: Less is more.
5.) No ticket apparel. 🙁
6.) Have the ticket book, signed by the hardline. And catch any roadshows I can when they are in the same part of town as me.
Oh, also, Fernando is a jerk, and so is that merchandise guy that is always at the table. They both ruin the whole feeling of being a p1.
Do you like this gig?
I live in san diego so usually the only shows i can listen to are bad radio, the top 10 and the hardline. Only been to one road show and that was to see the normathon and meet rayfield wright and randy white. Meeting 3 hall of famers at once was really cool. Since i dont know the next time i’ll be in dallas i grabbed a ton of stickers. Dont think i match up to you guys though
This is difficult for me to admit, but I had a blowup doll that I defaced and turned into greggo. We did drugs,partied, and had alot of sex while playing hardlines greatest hits in the background
Sigh…
I’ve got my computer set up to automatically record the ticket stream (from dick hick’s first ticker to somewhere in the middle of Chris House’s Top 10) and fart it to disk. I throw that onto my ipod and listen to it while walking around town, driving, working out, or even during work. Goes by pretty quick since I skip past all of the commercials and a most of Norm’s gambling tips.
Wait, it gets worse. I’ll listen to a bit of the tee box on Saturday, the orphanage, and pregame/postgame shows too.
This is a recent thing; I think I started listening the day after Greggo left and man, did it take me forever to piece together who that guy was and what the circumstances of his departure were (this site helped a lot with that).
I don’t even live in the frickin’ USA! Only stepped foot in Dallas once in my life! Never met a ticket personality before, but I do add a bit to Donny and Bob’s inboxes once in a while. Good dudes.
*feeble voice* someone please help me…
I have at least thirty cassette tapes of The Rant from 2001-2002, all of which I still listen to regularly. ** Top bit: Phone interview with Jerry’s old teeth and liver **
Almost 500 podcast bits dating back to 2005. **Favorite off the top of mind: Gordo goes up in the Ticket Falcon during Winter Blast ’05 **
Four radios on all day in an 800 square foot apartment (two handheld, one clock).
@S.H.S.S. ever think about putting those to mp3 and sharing?? 🙂 If you ever want to post any of your audio here, just let me know. Anyone, for that matter. I’ll give you a login to post or you can send it to me and I’ll post for you.
Also glad to hear about all the other P1 freaks like myself!
I know I listen a bunch..but the other day my kid asked for a new cell phong!
For me:
7:10 – Alarm goes off, immediately goes to the Ticket. I try to time my morning ritual based on Muse in the News, to where I am brushing my teeth during traffic, stepping into the shower as the first tones of the Muse music start to play.
7:30 – In the car, catching the last few minutes of Muse in the News as I drive my daughter to school, listen all the way to work.
7:58-8:01 Walking into work
8:02 – Stream the ticket with a earbud firmly planted in my right ear.
12:00 – 1:00 – Read in my car at lunch while listening to Bud and Dan.
1:00-4:30 – Earbud back into place.
4:30-5:00 – Listen to Hard Line on way home. Entertainment News for You starts as soon as I get in the car.
Usually once I am home, I am done for the day with the little ticket, as I have kids and have a million different things going on.
I do often get frustrated that it never fails how little I listen to the ticket in a particular day, I always seem to hear 60-80% of the Top 10, when I want to hear some of the stuff that I missed. 🙂
I haven’t lived in Dallas for almost 9 years, but my wife and I still talk in drops. When seeking extra credit for something, I drop the “Did you appreciate that? I hope you did. I hope you did very much”. When I tell the wife, “Maybe I’ll do that”, she replies with “May-be Not” in the Fake Tiger voice.
I had a conversation with a guy named Chuck a few weeks ago. Every time I said his name, all I could think of was the Fake Billy Tubbs.
Dallas friends (and San Antonio friends I’ve gotten into it) send me links to the unticket about twice a week.
I listen to Donny and marie greatest hits on a loop most of the day, then stream greggos show from 4-6 and count how many times he steps on and talks over his co host. Today it was low…24
@S.H.S.S. I LOVE the Ticket Falcon bit!
Same routine as most, but I take the bus to work. I bought a portable HD radio which works on the bus, in my building, in the gym, etc. I used to live in the Village and I took Dart rail downtown. The Cityplace tunnel irritated me because I’d lose the signal for about 8 minutes while underground. I stream at work and programmed my keyboard to mute at the press of a button, during commercials and if someone walks in my office and wants to actually discuss work.
My wife and I wore jumpsuits to ticketstock 2004.
I bought an HD radio for my car because I like the Ticket in stereo.
My commute is timed so I listen to Gordo’s corner on the way in.
I reject all 3:00 pm meetings so I can listen to WTDS streaming.
If I look at a clock at the following times, I drop whatever I am doing: 8:40, 9:10, 9:55, 12:00 (off after the open), 3:00, 3:40, 4:30, 5:15 , 6:20 on Fridays, 10 on Saturdays.
7words to prove my loyalty:
I listen to It’s Just Banter, Bitches!
Moved to Dallas in ’95…..listened to Howard Stern in the morning, a little bit of the Ticket in the afternoon. Once Howard left the Eagle (c. 1997), I went to the Musers and never left. About the same time, Gordon was contributing in the afternoon and hooked me in. Been a P2 since (can’t take more than 10 minutes of Norm). Moved out of TX in ’02…..have had to stream. God bless I Heart Radio….almost as good as being in DFW.
All radios are tuned to The Ticket unless the wife is requiring music (which is not that often) and I stream it into the earbuds to help me sleep. I would say that on a typical day I listen from 5:30am until 7pm, and from 10pm to 5:30am if you count the listening while I’m asleep. I think in Ticket lingo but don’t speak it that often because I don’t know many people that listen. My wife and father-in-law are the only 2 I speak to on a regular basis that listen. I own no Ticket gear unfortunately, besides the two Ticket koosies I never have reason to use. Being based an hour west of Ft. Worth, I don’t get to make many Ticket events or roadshows now. I did attend more in the past when I lived closer. I have picked up the Ticket on radio as far west as Abilene while traveling for work.