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lines, lines, lines, there'll be a line for burgers today in Bellingham at the Dick's driving food truck outside of the Yeager sporting goods. There's a crazy line in Vancouver across the border yesterday for all that Taylor Swift stuff. The merchant tent, I guess, opened down there. There'll be lines at the border back and forth for her three shows Friday Saturday and Sunday there at BC play. So our today's top three are the most memorable things that we stood in line for. Okay. In my case, one or two of these might be a little slightly embarrassing. I don't know what you have for your three, but let's hear yours. One of mine is a little embarrassing looking back on it now, but one of them was the greatest, one of the best moments of my life. So easily the top thing I ever stood in line for number one for me was when we went down and stood in line to meet Paul McCartney at the third place books in Lake City or wherever that is down in Lake City, I think it is. And it was one of those deals where it was November. It was cold. I didn't have a babysitter. I had to take my son Brandon with me. And we stood out in the cold from about eight in the morning till four in the afternoon. And then finally, the police motorcade shows up and we got to meet Paul McCartney and it was absolutely you know, it's during news. No, wait, no, you stood out there from eight until four. Yeah. It was all day long. And did you have Brandon the whole time? I had him the whole time. And he was a toddler at the time, you know, and I mean, you know, trying to keep him. And what the best part, but that ended up being the best part about it, because Paul McCartney, I mean, I've told the story a couple of times he came up to Brandon. He's like, Oh, you little guy, you're so cold. And he started rubbing his hands and blowing on his hands. It was, it was beyond it was like meeting the pope. All right. Number one, Paul McCartney. I can't top that one. Number two was, it's a different way of standing in line. It's the first time the Mariners made it to the playoffs in 1995. I was working on the Bob River show and it was one of those deals where the tickets went on sale at like 10 in the morning. And and so we had everybody on the staff on a different phone in the radio station and whoever got through to purchase some tickets, Bob would put down his credit card and buy the, you know, put it and then we'd pay him back kind of thing. And it was one of those deals where everybody's calling, calling, calling, and then someone got through and it was like, Bam. So that was kind of fun. It was like in a phone line kind of thing, but it took a while, but it was such a special moment. And then number three for me was I had been in Alaska right after I graduated from high school and I came back and my, my friends were all jacked up about the new excited, the new album that was out that everybody was excited to go see this tour coming to the Tacoma Dome for two nights. It was George Michael faith, the faith to her with George Michael and these dudes and they're like, you don't know, you don't know what you're missing, man. And so we went down to Kirkland to whatever that place is just right there where they sold the tickets where TGI Friday's was and waited in line all night in the parking garage to buy George Michael tickets. All right. I've got in my three. I have one that is as embarrassing. I think as George Michael here are my most memorable things I've waited in line for number one. It's the only time I ever like slept outside overnight for tickets. And that was in, I think it was 1982 to get tickets to see the Milwaukee Bucks play the Boston Celtics in the playoffs. So this would have been April or so. So it's kind of cold, you know, March, April, something like that. You know, it was weather sort of like this, had to sleep out overnight, got the tickets and it turns out they ended up sweeping that series against Larry Bird that we're talking bird, Mikhail Parrish, whether the all time great, you know, Celtic lineups and they swept them. So we got tickets into two games. So that was worth it. Number two on the list. Now we get to my embarrassing ones. Number two, this was probably, you know, 20, maybe 20 years ago or so. There was a guy in soccer, professional soccer, a 16 year old by the name of Freddie Adou. I remember that name. He was supposed to be like the Tiger Woods of American soccer. He played in the MLS. The New York Bulls? No, he played for the DC United. That's it. We lived in Virginia Beach at the time and, you know, the stadium was an hour or two away, whatever it was. And so Tyler was a really big soccer head and he wanted to go see Freddie Adou. So we went to the DC United game and we saw this kid. And there, I'm telling you, there was a mania around him. Nike had him in all the commercials, the whole thing. He turned out to be a flash in the pan. Yeah, but the line was after the game. Tyler wanted his, his autograph. And Freddie was on the field and people were lined up in the stands, you know, shouting at him to get to try to get his autograph. So here I am probably 40, 45 years old at the time, screaming in this line, begging for a 16 year old to get, you know, a grown man, middle aged man, begging a 16 year old for his autograph for Tyler. I got it. I ended up getting it on his shirt. I probably waited there about 15, 20 minutes and scream my lungs out, but it paid off. The most embarrassing line for me, Allah, your, your George Michael was, I waited in line, half hour, 45 minutes, something like that at a Walmart to get Kathy Lee Giffords autograph. Now this was about 20, 15, 20 years ago. I was working a morning show and a guy who produced our show was a big Slayer fan. And he, I think it was Slayer. I'm just going to say Slayer. It was one of those kinds of bands. And he thought it would be funny. We knew that Kathy Lee was coming to town. And he's like, man, we ought to get Kathy Lee Gifford to sign my Slayer CD. That's what I want. I want Kathy Lee Gifford. I'm like, all right, fine. So I go with him to this Walmart. We wait in line. And I've got the recorder with me so we can tape an interview with Kathy Lee. We wait in line for a half hour, 45 minutes. We, we, we encounter Kathy Lee. And I got to tell you, if this is not what I was, she was the nicest celebrity. I think I ever met. And it seemed really sincere. She looked at that Slayer CD and she said, what is this? I don't know. Whatever was on the cover of it, she knew it was not Kathy Lee like. And we were, tried to explain it to her. And she was at first hesitant. She's like, all right, well, do something good with this. And she signed it. And I think we ended up auctioning it off on the radio for a charity or something with her signature on it. But she was pretty, she was very, very nice. So those are my three. Kathy Lee Gifford, for me, George Michael for you. How about that? All right. You got, if you've got a story, if you got a, you know, a favorite three, you know, weird lines that you stood in line for something kind of strange or a good story that goes along with it, you can text us three, six, oh, seven, three, three, five, four, seven, six, email Brad and John at kism.com. And we'll put, and the line people will put you in line. We'll put you in the running for one of our Christmas stockings. 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