1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Which Jersey Was Your First + How Many Shoes Do You Own?: July 29th, 11:25am

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

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Welcome back one-on-one on a Tuesday. Hold up. I appreciate you guys giving the details. Bob, do you remember the first thing you purchased that you were proud of? I have to think. I mean, I do. Like I said, I was into basketball. So I remember I bought this Air Jordan jacket that I brought to school. It was like 100 plus bucks.

That was a pretty big deal for me back to the day. Yeah. What was the first job you had? I did do tasseling for a few days. For a few days. Well, they fired me, I think. I think there was too many kids or something. Okay, I was going to say, I was going to say, you get fired from de castling.

But then I worked. My first job was at BK, have it your way. Okay, that's fair. Claytona Johnson Johnson's mom would patch the jeans. But when those didn't last, nothing worse than when she'd, yeah, she cut up the jeans and, Oh, I'm a Torn of a jean shorts. George was a statement. George was a statement.

Listen, to say that that's who you, that George's life, man, this is before Cena made him sexy, right? And there's a time where Gene Shorts became a thing. But my goodness gracious. And we did, I did love, do you remember painter's pants? So there were these jeans that were painter pants that had, it had a hook on the, like a little hook where you would apparently like put hammers. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I actually loved those. Painter's pants were awesome. My high school, even in Virginia, overalls was a thing. As a matter of fact, girls love the overalls in the thing. And then here's the other thing. We didn't wear jerseys. Texers, Ben says, you know, the Ron Santo jersey. We didn't, we didn't.

We didn't wear pro sports teams jerseys like we do now. Like the business side of it is happening. You would get like a Redskins t-shirt, right, where they would put a number on it, right? You'd get a t-shirt. But buying jerseys? No. No.

I don't even remember. I remember the, I'm trying to think of the first jersey I ever had. was actually like a, I think it was a Cowboys Pearson jersey. And then I got a Sonny Jurgensen jersey from my uncle. So I don't know what that was. And Barney's just talking about shoes and jobs. I saved my money up to buy the Shaquille O'Neal Pump Shoes. Yeah, that was like the thing to get to, yeah, carpenter's jeans.

Yep, full bat traps says we called them carpenter jeans. Yeah, we call them painters' pants. Curtin, northern Kentucky, that's hilarious. that the parachute pants think Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills cop walking down the street. It was like you could get the leather pants, like the leather suit or the fake leather suit. And it's the scene where he's walking down the street. He's from Detroit. So he doesn't know that that's really a thing in L.A.

And he sees a guy out there with this red leather suit. And he just stops because he's never seen it before and he just laughs. but those are those are my dance those are my dance contest closed i literally would buy every paycheck i would buy an outfit to dancing because on friday nights me and my dance partners we would start in richmond we drive to richmond for the nine o'clock dance contest be done by 10 get back in the car get to dc and dancing the after midnight dance contest wherever that was. And you needed two outfits.

You couldn't wear the same outfit. So, yeah, I was worried out, man. It was a whole thing. But I was winning and I was making a lot of money. A lot of money. Yeah, the T-Cert jerseys are way more economical. Yeah, that was the thing, though, right? And then there was a time when I crossed the line where I did not want to be T-shirt jersey guy.

I wanted to be Jersey guy. I don't know when it happened, but yeah, Bach, that was like a statement. And then I became a jersey snob. And if you got a silk screen jersey, oh, I would, I would make noises at you. Like, I would tis tissue. I would shame you. I would silk screen jersey shame you. Like, you know, that's not real, right?

you know that's and you know who's more judgmentable poor people people who used to be poor I was too it was like oh the silk screen jersey people here that's like the canvas people tennis shoe people versus the leather shoe people

oh you're a canvas shoe guy it it was a thing um so when do you think people started wearing jerseys because i i was interested about that because i thought the t-shirt there's like a kind of king you know everything in in style comes in waves or whatever but i thought the t-cert uh what do they call them shursies shirt jerseys yep i thought that was kind of a a newer thing but that was before um jerseys were property. That's what people were. I would, one, they weren't available. Like, they just weren't available.

I don't remember, I'm trying to think, I'm pretty sure my first, when I started hanging out with pro athletes, I want to say that maybe my first jersey was actually an Atlanta Braves, Dale Murphy Richmond Braves jersey because again we were the field crew for the AAA Braves and I shared a locker

with Brett Butler so Braves in Cleveland Indians and Dodger fame he was the center fielder for the AAA Braves I was the center fielder for the college team and so we would share lockers and then you know and at the end of that well he got called up

and I was there when he got called up for the first time. And it was, he was like, like it was kind of the Joe Green commercial thing. Here, D. Well, yes, sir. Yes, sir.

But then Dale Murphy, we had kind of identified that Dale Murphy was the bigger star. Dale Murphy came back down to Richmond. So Richmond would play the Atlanta Braves in like an exhibition game. And Dale Murphy had one of the, oh, fuck,

the powdered blue Atlanta Braves. Oh, yeah. 1980. One. Yeah, with the big red A on it. And then that changed me. Because the pride that I took and wearing that jersey. And then I want to say Art Monk, 1985.

Somewhere along there. So, no, Joe Thaisman. It's the Thaisman jersey. It's the Thaisman jersey. And I wore it. it. God, I was that guy. Bach, I wore the thighs. Joe Thaisen when he was starting quarterback, he had started, he had a sports

bar at a restaurant in Northern Virginia. I wore his jersey into his bar and he was there. So the conflict, right, the conflict of being the guy that wears the shirt to the right, the uncoolness, but the coolness of him

happening to be there and seeing me wearing his jersey he signed it and it made it no longer wearable. Oh, yeah. it was no longer wearable. So, yeah, I don't know. I don't know when it transitioned. But do you remember, you remember your first jersey? I was lucky when I grew up in the in the 90s, my mom was able. I don't know how she got a hold of all these jerseys, but I was always in a basketball jersey sometimes from maybe guys that had went to a different team type of thing. Yeah. So you'd find, find them at the thrift stores or

whatever. Yeah, yeah. You reached the special rack. So I had a lot of thrift store jerseys, and that was awesome. I couldn't name my first. I had like a Dennis Rodman Spurs jersey. Scotty Pippen was the one. Yeah, wasn't that like a number 91 or something? He was number 10 with the Spurs. I know he went, yeah.

He went to the 90s often and there's other adventures. Like the Lakers, I think he made with a weird number. Between those and starters jackets in the 90s, that was good to go. The starters jackets in the, especially in the Georgetown starter jacket era, right? The Georgetown was a cultural movement. starter jackets, they had the shoe game, the Nike. Those George, I get teary when I see those Georgetown Nike shoes from the Patrick Ewing days. Those are amazing.

Those are amazing. Like I have a pair of my closet that I refuse to wear. I have a pair of the white leather convice, the Dr. J. Philadelphia 76er red, high top leather, all stars. Fuck, I've never worn them. I just have them. I just have them. And, like, I can't bring myself. Like, I thought I could wear it with, like, husker stuff.

But it's converse, and I just don't want to cross over. How many pairs of shoes do you think you have at home? Oh, you're just going to, right now, Becky's Spider-Sense just went off. Her, wherever she, she's in Biasch, she's at the bakery today. And I promise you, right now her ears just, bing! The hairs in the back, her neck just stood up. In truth, I have too many. In truth.

In reality, I can never have enough. I'm going to say I have five pair of boots. I have six pair of dress shoes. So I'm going to say 10, 11, 11. grown-up shoes. And then tennis shoes, I probably have nine pair of Husker Adidas. And I have seven pair of Air Jordans and eight other assorted Nike. Do you have a whole closet for them all? They're on one spot? It's its own piece of the wall.

It's its own box. I'm, okay, so in my heart, I'm proud of it. I'm so proud of my accomplishment. I'm so proud of my accomplishment. Let's say this 30 pair, 35 pair, 40 pair. There you go. I'm proud. Like that, that means more than a lot.

But privately, I'm like, you know you have too much. Like, you know you have, you know. But I will never admit this to Becky. So Anthony Lines-Hartsmith will join us. He's going to stream in at noon. So he'll kick off the new. All right. We'll close that.

We'll read your text. Tell me the first jersey you had. Or more importantly, tell me your favorite jersey that you've ever owned. I think that's a better conversation is what's the best, what's your favorite jersey that you've ever owned? We'll talk about that when we come back to one.