1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - 1-ON-1 W/DP is BACK! - February 19th, 6:00pm

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. On 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. You know when you hear cult of personality by living color that I'm on one, it's good to be back. It's going to be back out of air trying to play catch up on a lot of different things at the same time.

And, of course, trying to keep it moving forward and up because that's where all the good things are. I appreciate you folks hanging out at 6 o'clock on a weeknight. And just so you know that over the course of going forward that, I'd like to bring one-on-one back. Matter of fact, I don't really have a boss. So if you want to bring it back, but the idea is to find a partner, the folks from Mary Ellen says,

have other obligations and things. So I'll need to find a partner for this. I'll need to find a corporate, a local corporate sponsor. And Austin, Norman, thank you for hanging out and making sure this gets up and going. Gladly.

You'll be my first one-on-one. Yeah, you'll be. You'll be the sounding board for these long diatribe driven hours. And it's so insane that each and every day at 6 o'clock, there'll be a different direction, a different vibe, a different mood, different topics. Some days we will spend it laughing. Some will spend it crying. Some we will try to make things better.

And all of them, we will be considerate of the good things in the world and what's going on. So 402, 464-5-685 is the Sartagabary text line. If you want to be a part of this hour and you have something to say something, this would be a really good day to ask questions. And here's what I'll promise you. Here's what I promise you. Through my time here in Lincoln, especially on one-on-one, I lead with this. Do I have your permission to tell you the truth?

And that, once that's done, then we can begin having some meaningful conversations. And if it ever gets to the point where you don't feel like the truth is being spoken, then the GPS comes on and we get to say, hey, it appears that we have gone away from truth. The other thing is be positive, be nice, be kind, and be authentic, be you. and so you know say things like what i tell people constantly is that i will never say a thing about anybody in public that i would say to them in private face-to-face or even in a closet with no lights on because there's there's there's there's a whole lot of falseness in conversation there's a whole lot of fake in conversation there's uh that that access provides people some false

of the right to just say anything to anybody at any time without retribution, without responsibility. And talking about sports, and I say this about sports, is that sports is a wonderful vehicle for conversation, and it's a great mirror to our humanity. Like that, if you want to know what's going on in the world, pay attention to sports, sports will tell you what's going on. And whether you like it or not is entirely up to you. You don't have to always like what the world is saying. Then you can get a choice to either do something about it in a positive way or not.

and one of my mentors gave me a thing saying that nature abhors a vacuum, that we all have individual and shared vacuums that exist, and you can either put something good in the vacuum, and it will occupy the vacuum, or you can wait and let nature decides what's going to be in your vacuum. And nature has a sense of humor. So if you don't put something good in the space, space tends to giggle, snort, chuckle,

and throw something negative into your vacuum that will occupy you and your vacuum. And as a coach, one of the signs that I had, no matter whether it was a basketball locker room, football locker room, baseball locker room, whatever, what are you putting in our vacuum? what are you putting in our space? And the challenge was to each player and to each coach,

put something good in the vacuum. Put something good in the vacuum. Like, what are you putting in my soup? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you putting in my soup? And they're players, basketball, there's 12 players, and that means that there are 12 chefs cooking at the same time, and some are working hard at being efficient and productive,

and some are just occupying space, and that affects everything. And most times in sports, whether it's a team or an organization, there are people who drive the vacuum, and they're constantly pushing for good, that they want a standard that, who they are and what they're about. And remember, coaches and administrators work

in the space of their character, not in their knowledge. There's a difference. There's a different. So think of you as a boss or think of you as a partner in life that you respond respond and work in your character,

and that when you hear about great players, what they will tell you about Michael Jordan was that he worked at such a high ethical rate of accountability to himself and his teammates. Nobody ever said Michael doesn't work hard enough. Nobody ever said that Larry Bird didn't work hard enough. Nobody ever said that Duke basketball doesn't work hard enough. hard.

I've said that a time or two. In reality, right? Have Duke at their, Duke basketball at their worst has worked harder than 99.9% of the population that judges Duke basketball. Like, I've never, even as a player and as a college athlete, I never worked as hard as Duke works in an ACC basketball game. Like, that's a fair thing, right? and that we get into standards. We get into standards. And what I hope we root for,

that we, individually and collectively, what we root for represents us at our character level. Right? So when somebody says, hey, I'm a fan of so-and-so, what that tells, immediately what that's, says is you identify with so and so, and they speak and act for you.

Because you're wearing their colors, they're names often, right? That, oh, oh, that's me. Like that, I'm a, yeah, I'm a, that's a me team right there. Is that fair in that you root for your community, because that's a statement of you. you root for non-community that you identify with that you'd like to be part of potentially and that you want to be a part that you want to be like is that fair so text line

if I asked you to identify who you root for right because those are our superheroes those are our North Stars right and then you know what you know until you know something else. So being a kid of Northern Virginia, and I'm old enough that there was no direct TV, there was no cable TV,

there was no nothing. Like you, I listen to the old Washington senators on a transistor radio that barely worked some of the time. Like, I'm old enough that I would go to my grandmother's house. And Austin, have you ever seen the console radio, stereos? They sit on the floor.

In the middle of it, there's a record player. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then these two huge speakers on the end, and then on top or at the bottom of the record player is the radio. Now, this is in the old wire. antenna day and if that wire got disconnected or it got old, you couldn't find a station. That's how we consumed baseball or football. Because if you were in Washington, D.C., and there was one game on in the NFL,

mind you, I'm old enough to where there was the NFL and the NFL, you, I'm old enough to where there was the NFL and the AFL, right? And you got one game on the NFL first. And then, so one o'clock, you got the NFC. You got the NFC. Usually, right, back then, you would get. And this is so weird now that I think about. that Washington, Dallas, St. Louis,

Philly. Were they the Rams of the Cardinals? They were the St. Louis Cardinals of the old Jim Hart, Mel Gray, Terry Metcalf, Conrad Dobler. I totally know all those names you said. Right, right, right, right, right, right. That Jim Otis, Jackie Smith, before he goes to the Dallas Cowboys and breaks hearts.

against either the Vikings, Packers, Lions, 49ers, Rams, bears. Like, it was, there was a smaller nucleus of teams. And you got what you got. You got one game. And it was the best game of the week. And if your team stunk, which Washington often did, you didn't get Washington's game, which is why they sold out every game.

first of all, because you had to go. You had to go. You had to see the stink. You had to see. Hey, man, you weren't. You couldn't dismiss. You couldn't disconnect from it. But you would then go to the radio.

And I can literally feel seven-year-old me sitting in front of my grandmother's stereo, listening to the call. of Washington Redskins football against whoever. And if you felt froggy, you could get in a car and drive to Baltimore. Right? And you'd get Johnny Unitas or Bert Jones or, right, Marty Domres, like I'm that dude, right?

I remember. So you knew the best teams and the worst teams. You missed a lot of in between. We got our highlights. You ready for this? Late on me, DP. Oh, man. Oh, man.

There was no ESPN. There was no ESPN, my friend. Mm-hmm. So you got a sports, you got a sports highlight Sunday news at 11 o'clock at night that told you and showed you, 15 seconds of every game. That's all you got.

That's all you got. That's all we get on social media now anyways, DP. You're ahead of the game. But at least now you get it right away. Because there was no internet. There's no computer. Like you sat in front of your eight. Okay.

So there was ABC, NBC, CBS, and maybe a public broadcast channel. A PBS. Yeah. Yeah, four channels. This is before Fox. This is before Fox. Yeah, I'm old.

I'm like I'm hearing that out loud. That you got, that's what you got. And then you would get, so you got Jimmy the Greek, Brett Musburger, Jane Kennedy or Phyllis George, depending on your era and your like, Irv Cross. You're looking live. And that's how you knew.

You found out anything was that you would see in black and white a flash of each stadium. With Brent Musburger telling you, you're looking live at Lambeau Field. You're looking live at RFK Stadium. That's all you got. That's all you knew of it. Right? And then the four of them, the three of them, would sit there and talk for 30 minutes. and Jimmy the Greek would give you this board.

And it's old school board, man, of checks. Jimmy Greek, getting a check from Jimmy the Greek was the biggest thing you could imagine. Because he would go through and you'd say, okay, it's Washington and Dallas. He would have quarterbacks. And he'd give a check to one of the two teams. So is it Sonny Jurgensen or Roger Stalback? Who gets the check? Who's playing better running game?

You know, is it Tony Dorset? Is it Calvin Hill or Larry Brown? Or, you know, Tony Dorset or John Riggins. And the answer is always John Riggins, right? No. No, because Jimmy the Greek didn't like us like that. And there was a lot of that. Like, just like you think, like today, you go,

oh, they don't like Nebraska. Yeah, we, everywhere you lived, you thought that they didn't like you. They didn't like you and your people. And then finally, he would come down and then intangibles. And he would always put intangibles at the bottom. And that was usually the difference maker, right? Just a gut feeling. Jimmy the Greek would go, you know what?

Vikings and Packers are dead even. The intangibles, Bud Grant. Check. It was then as it evolved, you'd get that version. Then at 3.30 or 230 here. you would get the kickoff on NBC of the AFL or the AFS, it was the AFL.

And I remember Jim Simpson, Kurt Gowdy and Al D. Regatus. Now, Kirk Gowdy, I know. Let me tell you, Al D. Regatus was the smoothest, most buttery dude ever. Just crisp on the microphone. But they had, and then they, as Merlin Olson's career ended, he became the guy. and of course, you know, different evolutions of the broadcast teams. Before Madden, it was Tom Brookshire.

It was Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshire. And the joke was, like, my uncles would talk about, well, how many beverages do you think they've had so far? Like you, what are they doing? Like, what are they doing? Right? And you didn't realize that the other games weren't being broadcasted. They're being recorded.

And radio is doing a call, but you're not getting. Here comes the NFL. So the NFL was grinded, mud out. Hey, we're just going to run the ball, three yards that Kyle does. If you watched, I think the Packers, there were, There were weeks, consecutive weeks where Bart Starr would throw 15 passes in the game, right? And then Frank Tarkin should come on and scramble and you go, okay, at least there's that, right? At least there's that.

Billy Kilmer. So imagine watching Bart Starr and Billy Kilmer where they throw 28 passes in a game. Okay. And then 4 o'clock would happen. And here comes the AFL with, if they ran it 14 times, it was a record breaker. because Daryl Lomacher the Mad Bomber and Lenny Dawson were about to put in work

or John Hedle like if you got there we go yeah if you got the Chargers and Raiders buckle up 48 47 let's get it bring it

like let's get it and you didn't know like how many times Belindicoff and branch with any version of the Chargers Kellen Winslow Charlie Joyner

like it was just insanity it was just oh chef's kiss it was beautiful so then you as a kid you start to identify like wait a minute like i know i'm a dc guy but i kind of like that points like they're offense like they're a point right like they're a point and then you couldn't it hit me not at the first super bowl but at Super Bowl 3. Because back then, the Colts were in the NFL. And here comes, I'm going to throw it 40 times, Broadway Joe, name it, with the white pumas.

This dude had white pumas on. Like a quarterback, a white dude with white pumas. I was like, oh, okay, now we're cooking. Like he's going to throw it. Dude's chilling on the sideline, he's injured. He's sitting on the, there's the, there's. There's the iconic picture of him sitting on the sideline in New York and for a coat. Okay, Joe.

Okay, Joe. Okay. You realized that the grinded out NFL wasn't for everybody. Some people... Right? Right? Right? And then you think back in time because where was Nebraska in the college

football pantheon of this is a run-ed program. This is, right? Do you have the core? Like, oh, we really ain't, we really ain't trying to throw the ball. No, we, no.

It took a while for Nebraska to figure out what to do with Vince Ferragamo. Like, wait a minute. Hey, bro. Like, hey, bro, like, wait a minute, pause, pumped the brakes, pumped the brakes. But the rest of the country, you're getting, again, imagine you're getting, getting, I don't even remember ACC football being on TV as a kid.

I know that Maryland was on because I recall seeing it. Also on that front, lefty. Yeah, oh, we'll get to, we'll get to the left-hander. We'll get to the left-hander. But I don't remember. So you would get, and it wasn't the Southeast Conference of the Southwest Conference. And you would get like an Arkansas, Texas game. Rice.

Right, you get. I don't ever remember seeing rice on TV. Really? I really don't. Hmm. I, like, you survived. I don't.

Like, I don't, well, here's the thing. When they got the Super Bowl, they played it at Rice. Mm-hmm. And by far,

the worst stadium of Super Bowl has ever been hosted at is Rice. Rice Stadium. If you want to, listen, there are high school fields currently in Nebraska for, for, for, for,

for, for eight-man that are better suited for Super Bowl than Rice Stadium. It is a thing thing. Like, oh, my goodness. Oh, it's terrible. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's so bad.

But you would get Notre Dame against somebody, right? Notre Dame being an independent could get anybody. I don't know what the middle of the country was getting because I think they, had options. I think you had options. But DC always chose the biggest game. So DC didn't care. Like it wasn't like Maryland could be playing Clemson and they didn't care if Nebraska was playing Oklahoma. When Nebraska was playing, you know, Missouri.

Notre Dame USC. Yeah. Like whatever whatever they get like so this is the thing though. I never saw bad football. I never, for all the old heads, right? I don't think they can sit back and go, oh, that was a terrible stretch of football because you never saw the bad football. Here in the Midlands, you saw Nebraska run it up on people, but I'm pretty sure that I'll ask this,

text line to help me out. In the 70s, in the Johnny Ross, Rogers, Jerry Taggy 70s. Were all of those games on TV locally? I don't know. So text line helped me out. Did you see every Huskers game growing up? Or did you have to go to the stadium?

Or did you? Like, I know you could go to the games, but were they on TV? I know they were on the radio, but I don't know if they were on TV. And that was the whole thing. Austin, you grew up in the era where all basketball games were available. Have you, were all Husker games always available to you? Some of them were pay-per-view. I'd buy the box and everything.

I remember that. Cable box. So you had the cable box, but you had to, you had to buy specifically whatever network was doing Husker basketball. Most of them were on TV, but I remember a couple times picking up a box into remote. just to watch the Husker game. Where did you get the box from? I don't know. I do not know.

I have to ask your mom. I will. Yeah. But basketball never had a problem. And is the same for baseball? I'm actually running into more problems with baseball now. Yeah. All games were played at 1.30 at home.

Only select games were on TV, and he says he's 43. Ohio Husker says he's he's 43 and only select games are you actually 43 or are you 43 in the way that Jay Foreman just had his 40th birthday yesterday he's 43 and he saw Jay Foreman in college he was in class with Jay Foreman in college

yeah I mean as it evolves sports evolves and we find different things that appeal to us and so yeah Big Birds has all we had was the rabbit ears

and most memories were Saturday sponsored by Philip 66 that's fantastic yeah it was Big 12 sponsored by

Phillips 66 or motel 6 you occasionally had oh what was the other one so usually it was a gas station a hotel and a restaurant

yeah right like in most places Philip 66, Motel 6, and... Like Washington, it was National Bohemian beer. Natty Bo. Natty Bo. Like, you could get in the...

I remember. In Centerfield, they had another beer, and it was really bad. Black label. Calling black label. That was the stuff. And then cigarettes was always the sponsored thing. Cigarettes. Marlboro Man sat in the middle

In most stadiums Marlboro Man was out there Like dude was just out there chilling And it had usually the mobile one Yeah Sean says Waterberger Where were you Sean? Was that here?

Waterburger's a Texas thing Right I'll say he wasn't here Because Mahomes was trying to get one to Kansas City Hey Patrick Build it! You have the money You'll make it back tomorrow What are you doing?

The Mahomes Burger if he owned the Baham's water burger, he opened it in Kansas. Like, what are you even doing? Like, if you have that much money, do what you want. If I was, listen, if I wanted a water burger, you know what? I'm going to think about that.

What's the one thing that I wish was in Lincoln, Nebraska that I would just buy and eat on a regular basis? Austin, if there's any restaurant that you could build your own here, in Lincoln. Is there a restaurant that you would just, Waterburger makes sense? Yeah, in and out, it's okay.

I kind of miss A&W. I want, you know what, here's a low-key thing that I love and I don't know if it exists here, but if it doesn't, I'd like that and if it does, my apologies, Johnny Rockets.

No. Johnny Rockets makes the best hamburger and milkshake, and you can only find them in, like, shopping malls now. I think there's one at Mall of America up in Minneapolis. Yeah. Johnny Rockets. Oh, that's a jam. Oh, Johnny Rockets is a thing.

Yeah, that, if I could do it, that would be one. Okay, text line, you have the break to let us know what you would, what you would do. Folks are saying that Waterburger, Casey has a Waterburger. But yeah, what would be the thing you would bring and what's missing? but also what was the thing that made you love like we talked about it we've talked about the moments that made you love Nebraska football and what I was getting to was what you grew up and what were the memories based on so Austin I'll ask you your first Husker basketball game live what do you remember about we'll get that answer when we come back