1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - 3 Hour of NONSTOP TicketCenter - September 2nd, 2025

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America, a 93-7-a-ticket and the ticketfm.com. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, brought you by Canopy Street Market. It is your Tuesday night sports ticket, just an invitation to all things going on in the city. and in sports the Sartre to hand me text line. 42464, 5, 685

you want to be a part of what we're doing, hit us up. We're on the stream so you know that if you want to see what's going on, you can jump over Facebook, YouTube, X. Go check it out. Go check it out. If you haven't downloaded the ticket, I'd do so.

Because as you may have heard, we have some things in the works that will be beneficial for you to have the ticket at. You can even vote on it. Follow the Twitter account, 93-7 tickets Twitter account. I know Alex has been putting stuff out there, putting some polls out, what do you guys want to listen to?

So you guys want your own say. You can always follow us on 93-7 ticket as well on X, and we'll put that stuff out there. I'll let people decide what we broadcast every now and then. Yeah, it's the thing, right, that if, If you want information, and sometimes it's not just going to be the simple information. Here's what's on what you hear in your car. You may want to hear something else that we're presenting.

Sometimes it's a ballgame. Sometimes it's a high school ballgames. It may be some of the other content that we're providing, maybe nonprofits, mentoring, health, dietary, fitness. It could be any range of things. It could be, I don't know, the Lincoln Stars. it could be. I'm excited for the stars again. Yeah.

USA show is fun. I realized I come down to Lincoln. It's fun. I love it. Well, it, here's what we, what,

what the intention was, was, was they should have a Lincoln flagship. And we can't make people, like, if you want to go and broadcast your game, uh, you know, on outside markets or if you want to do it on a rock and roll station or a country music

station, okay. But if you're doing professional sports business or you're doing high school sports, why wouldn't you want somebody that can talk about you all day, every day, and not just when it's convenient to the station? When it's convenient. I mean, Rocky Russo now has a full understanding, at his own show for three years? Three or four. He was that the old studio. Three or four, right. He started at the old studio.

And to get to know Rocky, right, which is the big thing is that you want your fans to have access to the people behind the logo, people, you want them to know the coach, right? It's easier to root for the coach if you know the coach. It's easier to root for the players if you know the players. And it also gives an opportunity to say thank you. to the billet families and the fan base the fanatics who show up the folks that fill the ice box also the you know it's a it's a mutual meeting place for fans of the same things and if you like hockey it's nice to know that there are other hockey fans in the area that can have these conversations with you appreciate you so when you see the lincoln star on a on a jersey or a sweater or a hat or a hoodie

you know that you're not by yourself Lincoln High School Sports, the ability for us to multi-stream now allows us going forward to do some things that we hadn't been able to do. So again, regular programming, but that through new advancement that we can now carry more girls high school sports. We can do more with youth league sports. It allows us to move into the space of travel baseball. It allows us to move in the space of big-time events, boxing events, you know, the next event, you know, listen, not for nothing, but Tommy R.

Arceaga, the next time you want to run it, now I understand the pay-per-view value, but if you give people more exposure to a thing, and this is what I've been trying to explain to people, pay-per-view money versus if you've paid attention to what the UFC and the WWU have figured out, That pay-per-view money is good money. Getting more fans is better money.

Giving people more access to your good stuff is more money. They will charge you less because there will be more people who you give access to. And you start to go, well, no, wait a minute, these are my people. Like, I know the athletes. I know the coaches. I know the story behind it. I know why this bout matters or this competition. So you have to give people access to it.

And those guys are figuring it out. Right. Last of a move for the UFC. Well, I mean, you know, WWE, where you're, you're walking in big, big boy water. Like this is, this is the deep in the pool and you're comfortable. Like, you belong in it. One of the bigger fish in the pool. Well, I mean, that's just it, right?

To understand that what we figured out along the way with the supernovas, right? Not necessarily a space that we had been recognized in or space that people thought of us in. but when you find out that not only can we do the flagship thing, then we can cover it and deliver it and announce it, broadcast it, support it, and then help you make more money from it by highlighting the people and the stories. Well, you know, that's what we're doing. And you have the complex.

I mean, if you've got a fight, local fight card, you know what, ticket two might be a thing. It might be your thing. you know, you have these jamborees and these three-on-three tournaments. That might be a thing. Honestly, if I'm driving home, and am I going to, who's Clyde Johnson beating up right now?

Like, I'm going to listen to the Clyde Johnson fight up with the complex on my way home. That'd be awesome. You know, if you give people things to consume, and we figure that out with Netflix, we figured it out with Amazon Prime video, we figured it out with all the,

with Hulu, that the more you give people access to, the more they will consume. Like, that's just our nature. And in this space, giving access to. A lot of times people tune out what you do and what you offer because you don't make it easy for them to get to.

Well, we're going to change that. And that's a big part of it with the NFL coming. It's here Thursday. Cowboys, the Eagles. You know, and, well, but this is where we kind of land it is, is we're trying to figure out what the priority of the station should be for its fantasy. base for our fan base. And I can say our fan base. That if we, as the wall behind me says,

Lincoln's real sports talk, that if we're going to be Lincoln based and Lincoln focused, that the things that matter to Lincoln should matter to us most, and while convenient to jump outside of that and to cover sports in general, because sports in general ultimately will end up in Lincoln, Right, we understand that the way baseball is being played nationally will end up in Lincoln. We see it at the Little League World Series. We see that the college World Series.

We see it in Omaha. We see that ultimately it'll get to Nebraska. What's going on in sports? In NIL, ultimately it will get to Nebraska. Some of it starts in Nebraska. And we have to be the voice of reason from proximity. They keep saying to people, no, no, here's what's really going on in Lincoln. here's what's really going in Nebraska.

I know what you think is going on in Nebraska and Lincoln, but hey, here's what's really happening. And to tell the story consistently is what we're offering. So we had, I hadn't even looked at the polls. So I guess I need to look at the polls. Well,

it's been interesting. I've been a little bit. And for all the Royals fans who, a little bit unfortunate for them because they're probably, you know, the Royal's fans probably listening to Royals right now on the airwaves. But you guys need some work on the voting. You want to get your Royals there.

unless it's changed, but I'm pretty sure they were in dead last, which surprised me a little bit. Well, you have to, we have to ask. And then. And then ask again. Right now there's a Royals game going on. So. But when I had the original conversation, the Royals went on. But yeah, that's true.

The Royals weren't on for, for, at 12 noon. What is number one right now then? NFL or local high schools? Let's see here. And then I got to make sure that they, uh, when I looked at, the sample size wasn't terribly small when I looked at it,

given it's not. Well, this is the part, right, that, that if you don't vote, right? Mm-hmm.

Yeah. If you're not, well, people didn't see it, so you didn't share it, which is the other thing. It has to be shared in order for it to. Right now,

high school football is leading about 45%. And this is the tweet for everybody who wants to fall. just 93.7 the ticket. We want to know which game should we play over the airwaves Friday night. And the options are Southeast versus Southwest, high school football,

Royals versus Twins, MLB, Chiefs versus Chargers, NFL. And right now, Lincoln's Sports. That's what's winning. Everyone's voting for high school football. Here's the thing. People have the opportunity to vote. You know, we give that space to it.

And if the folks aren't telling us, then you get what we give you. And there's still 20 hours to vote. I think the polls have 24 hours. Hey, here's the thing that it's the Royals on Friday, all the same time. Royals, Lincoln South East versus Lincoln Southwest, or KC in the charges. So Casey Chiefs in the Chargers. Shout out high school football for battling not only the Royals, but the Kansas City Chiefs as well.

Well, but that's the small town. That's the small town. It definitely is. I'm surprised by it still. I am. I'm impressed. You know, I mean, and there will be some times where we have to ask different questions. But so Saturday, um, while the Huskers are playing.

Now, we'll do the pre and post game show. And it'll get all the full attention and all the streams. But from 6.30 until end of game, the opportunity is either to carry the royals or we can carry Michigan and Oklahoma. And there are some contractual issues. right, streaming issues. The one thing about the NFL is the NFL says, tell you what,

if you're going to put us on the terrestrial, because that's their real, that's the real difference maker, that if you're going to broadcast games on the brick and mortar, the terrestrial radio, then we will give you permission to also stream, said broadcast. And so Thursday night, Sunday night,

Monday night when we broadcast Westwood one's NFL, you know, night football. Right. We can also put those on the stream, which is a different thing because, but also that we also can air the local programming that happens

at the same time. So if you want to get the streams, like you want to get the Ricky Simmons show, you just hop on the app and you can do that. Now, there are times that if we decide it, let's say Ricky can't make it, we can stream NFL Sunday night because that's the agreement. Then also the ability to stream yard and do some side projects with high school sports

and Lincoln Stars, but on ticket too, because the agreement would be with the stars and they have a different set of contractual boundaries and disciplines that have to be followed. but if they get clearance from the league that they're in, we will commit to airing to streaming all Lincoln Stars games on Ticket 2, which means that you need the app, you need to follow on social media, because on the app, there'll be a button that says,

if you want Lincoln Stars, click, you know, listen here. But it will also that we will have separate streams that say on X, Facebook, Instagram, hey, the ticket to is live with Lincoln Stars. And you can click it and listen.

The ticket and the ticket too. Yeah. One app. One app. Two different buttons. It must be fun. Two different buttons. Yeah, I get to pick it out. I love this time of year, DP. I'm getting excited. Two different, two different buttons. And then we're also working with them. And interestingly

enough, again, we're waiting for clearance from the lead. But number one organization though so i think stars hopefully you know not come bud got some well they the league the league has to think of everybody and so it has some agreements to folks with low hockey um contractually and i don't know how long the contract was and what the boundaries are but i asked them to ask the question ask for hockey what about the video street because one camera with the play by play the local play by play video call play by play call.

If you sync them, then on some nights, again, with permission, I'd like to put it on Allo, Channel 961, and on YouTube and on Facebook. I'd like to do that. So find out if you can do it. And then if you can't do it live,

well, here's my thing. Let's say it's a 7 o'clock puck drop. When the match, when the game ends, what if we run it? after the game where there's no live conflict. Seems like a good extra promotion right there. Well, again, you get in the car, right? You get in the car, you get to see yourself on the stream.

You get to see what you just watched or what you may have missed because you could have been at a Lincoln high school game, football game, and then you get in the car and, oh, what happened with the stars? Well, I can hear it and I can see it. And you can jump online and look at it anyway. but the idea that you can imagine on 961, hey, we're going to take you to earlier action.

Yeah, we're really, we're working. We're efforting, as they say. We are efforting giving as many options. And again, their first, I think the first regular season games ends of September. I think that's maybe preseason. Let me double check. Preseason is earlier in the month. But I think there's two or one regular season, maybe in the last one game in September, that's a regular season.

But once we get to October, then we don't have the Royals conflict. We won't have the Royals baseball conflict. So we can prioritize the stars if they allow. And you're right. It is September 20th. Two preseason games with the, can you guess which team? They've got on preseason? USA.

Omaha answers every time. It's always the Omaha answer. Well, that'll be interesting this year. It will be. They have some extra sauce in the soup. You lose your play-by-play guy. People talk to you about it. It's like, wait a minute.

What are you doing? You got to look each other different. May send a check or two. There's, uh, if we talked about it last year, you want some drama. What is the drama? What is the drama? I mean, I think they fired their coach before they even got out of preseason. I mean, you know, like coached and then they, and then the, is it a real,

rivalry in what we were right that just hasn't lived up to it i mean i'm wild answers last year just the amount of they just you know it's kind of felt like uh what nebraska's been a little bit like it's not working fire higher higher fire higher we'll just keep rolling the dice because eventually that works right and it just still hasn't never uh-huh never does is is that a real but then i look at florida state who just got a bunch of new players coordinators and then they pop off versus bama Well, I just try to, I want to try to understand the relationship. I'll call a relationship. I won't call it a rivalry.

The relationship between Omaha and Lincoln. USAL, I think the USAL just loves playing them against each other a lot. It's impossible to like each other after that point. I mean, they play each other so much every single season. What franchise has the greater history? Stars. We know that stars have been. better of late or at least last year i can look at you know maybe let me double check let me

maybe not count the answers out too quick maybe they have an epic run in the past i'm not familiar with well this is trying to understand it right that um it was a lot more competitive a while back but i want to say the stars were typically always more dominant throughout history so here's the question do do lincolnites travel to omaha when the stars play the lanes do do Lincoln nights travel to Omaha? Yes, I think they do. Not, I think, I know they do. What the numbers are, I think it kind of depends on how good at the stars.

Like last year, I think you're going to see some Omaha fans come out. Like, just living in Omaha that are stars fans. Does Omaha come down here? No, not since I've got the Lincoln, no, but Omaha's just never been, you know. And then here's, here's a legitimate question for you. Rate the Icebox experience. as a fan. What was the last time

you were at the ice spot? I went to the last, I think last year I went to the last regular season game before the playoffs. I would, for USHL for what it is, honestly,

I get in the place like an eight. That's what you're looking for. I mean, your fan experience. Yeah, you know. I mean, you have two dollar beer night.

Yeah, no, they have the pop brand. You got teddy bear night. Speakers are fun. They have the cool stars drop down there. I mean, for tickets that's maybe costing me.

Shout to Joel. Norman before who always spot us some tickets. But I think even if you buy him, what, 5, 10, we will have tickets. Yeah, it's a phenomenal deal. And then you go there, especially we've got like a big family. Yeah.

Go get there. Cheap food. It's great. I give it like an eight, easy eight. I didn't know that at the end, maybe I should be safe. Maybe you got a VIP section as well.

But I didn't know. I was hanging out. when I was the honorary captain so I got to pluck drop and I stayed because I wanted to see the uh rocky russo post the coach speak coach talk whatever thing is that happens immediately following they do it down towards that end of the of the of the ice on fans get to gather around and russo and his play by play director will sit there and they'll talk to the fans they answer questions etc but I decided to hang out when I just see what you know what's causing all this, right?

And it's pretty good, pretty good group. Like, it's full. That end of the ice is full, people hanging out. But then as I start to walk around, right, and I'm going to leave, but I'm just circling the ice to kind of see what the vibe in the building is. And then there's a moment when the movement has kind of stopped for the people who are down at the coach talk, they're still there. But for everybody else, the folks who are emptying,

out have emptied out than the people who are still hanging and there are substantial people who are hanging because you finish your beer right and if and if it's two dollar of beer night uh you get two more beer two more beers and it's cheaper than you drinking at home or at a bar in the haymarket so let's get it in while standing by the front door there's an area off to the to the left. And if I'm facing, I'm standing the front door, but at the main doors,

but I'm facing the ice. There's an area off to the left in that main area. Uh, the store, uh, the star store is, would be directly in front of them.

And this lady walks, walks up and she has this box or these two boxes. And in the two boxes, there are hot dogs and, hamburg. So whatever was cooked and left over at the end of whenever they stopped selling.

Stuff talking. This is the info that I need. Not anybody else right. Right. Like I didn't know. I didn't know. Like I didn't know. Did they know who you were? Um,

maybe that is the same. Yeah. But they weren't. They weren't just for me though. Like they were, this was people who were, you know, gathering around.

You had a couple of birthday parties they were hanging out. Group of eight. Yeah, they're just handing them out. What have I been doing where I just missed that every time? Again, I didn't know it was the thing. And then so, you know, I'm watching. Like, what's going on? Like, what do you, you know? And it is a weird human thing to, like, do you take the free hot dog? Do I know you like that? Like, do you trust? every time yeah if you're eating a dog you've already committed to some atrocities

well but and that's just straight off the grill I don't know when these are taking off the little rotator like I don't know when I don't know I don't know I don't know you have four bush lights and you do know you kill it you kill me you kill the bug

you got a lot more courage you kill the alcohol kills yeah the alcohol kills whatever's bad at the Like those are the rules. We don't make them. All right, we'll go to break. We'll come back. We'll finish this because the part two to the part two of it is what to do next.

And I have to explain that to folks. It is 937. You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Brought to by Canopy Street Market on 937, the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Welcome back. 402, 464, 565. If you want to be a part of what we're doing, again, you can, we were running a poll asking what we should air Friday.

And the choices were Lincoln High School football, the KC. Royals and the Minnesota Twins or the KC. Chiefs versus the L.A. Chargers. So you have an opportunity to put that in. And then you could also vote on Saturdays. if you just want to go off the cuff and just let us know, it's Michigan and Oklahoma or Royals twins. Right. I know where I'm going.

Where are you going? College football. Michigan, Oklahoma? That's intriguing. Well, I mean, and it's during the Husker game. So if you're multitasking or as most people tend to be. And then somebody asked us if we would just, stay live and do like a simulcast you're not doing a call you're not doing play by play well you're

not doing play by play but we absolutely can sit here and talk about you know the game without doing play by play yes we're allowed to talk about yes that we can we're 100% allowed to talk we can't just say dillon rail dropping back in the pocket you know well no you give the play by you can you can tell the play after the play um you can do anything but call the call the game live. Yeah, just do not, you know. Do not call the game. Well, we went through that.

We went through that in the Husker basketball post game. Well, remember, it went and we went into overtime. Oh, yeah. And we went live thinking it wasn't going to go to overtime, but we were already live so we couldn't get out. And then we just, you have to make sure that you're not doing play about play. You can tell the story of the game. And so that would be another poll.

is you would think most people that care, and maybe the numbers will be bigger during road games where everybody's not at Memorial Stadium. Even like a halftime show. Well, if we... I don't know if that's a big enough window. Yeah, but if you were doing half-time, you might as well do the whole game.

Might as well do the whole game, right? And we know for a fact that there are listeners who are watching the Huskers who text us during the game. Yeah, I mean. Always. There has never, in all of my time since I've been in Lincoln, not once have I been at the studio or online during a Husker game and not have people text in about the game. And if we were live, I'm positive we get more. You'd have more people because people were complaining and people were, you know, making prognostications and people were doing. doing more complaining. So we could do that.

We did it something similar a year ago. We did for the spring. Nick, well, no, Nick and Jay went to somebody's garage last year. Yeah, that's right. They did. And they did one. And, you know,

I had to keep reminding those guys do not do play by play. Like, you have to keep reminding people because it, there's some natural flow to it. Right. But if it were, this Saturday. Or maybe like three Fridays from now.

So when they play Minnesota on Friday, on the road, maybe that's a night game as well, I think. Friday night. Simulcast, you know, where we're doing that. Maybe we do that. Maybe we do it, you know. I watch the game here 90% of the time anyways. Right.

So just talking about it. Yeah, I'm not going anywhere. Right. Like us talking, just sitting here, giving the people a place to hang out and talk. Possibility. That's a lot of them. And I'm waiting.

So we're carrying Westwood One college football. And Compass Media, college football. So both. And in some cases, we just went with Westwood One because they carry more of what they both carry. But when they carry different things, sometimes you have to make

decision. But on September 20th, and we still don't have an answer yet, by the way, September 20th, we agreed to carry the game that CBS radio was offering, Westwood won. That game is Nebraska, Michigan. It's Nebraska and Michigan. Now, it will not be Nebraska's play-by-play. It'll be the national call. And because it's a sellout, there's no geo fencing on. They can't black us out. Or at least we asked if,

and they haven't responded. So here's the thing. Here's the thing. It's kind of where you hear, so you kind of go, I think we'll find out everybody else will find out when we find out. Or I'm up. Like we'll hit the switch,

you know, on September 20th. And if it goes live, if it goes live, we throw confetti. If it doesn't go live, then we, you know, we'll do something else. But we've asked. So hopefully we will find out before this. I think it's a great idea. You know, but I would, just like last week, we took great pride in broadcasting from Memorial Stadium. It was awesome.

Shout out to everyone who getting up there. Up on the main jump on the big screen. I don't know. People text to me. And well, your voice is piping through. It's cool. From Memorial Stadium through the loudspeakers. Shout out to the fans for helping it happen too.

Right. And student body was fantastic. Uh-huh. But it was, it was hearing yourself. Cool. And then they carried the full pregame show. So it's us doing our pregame show, except for, we're doing the pregame show for all the students who were in the stadium.

And everybody, the numbers were great. People missed football. So everyone got to see it. You know, on top of everyone at the morning. Pretty cool. But that was the first time that, to my knowledge, we had broadcasted live from Memorial Stadium. Since I've been alive, I'm sure that's true.

Right. Born in 99. So I'm like, it text line 4024, 64, 64, 5, 68, but I don't think the tickets been live. No, not like that. Like, not. from inside the stadium. Yeah, not, you know,

Nick doing an interview live inside Memorial Stadium, but like live broadcasting for everyone in Memorial. And literally we were the show. Uh-huh. We were the show. But what I also thought about was when I saw the schedule,

September 20th, Nebraska versus Michigan. That's going to be the game that we offer you. And I thought, Nebraska football's never been on the ticket. Mm-hmm. Nebraska football, and Nebraska football game has never been on the ticket.

So we have to make this happen. We have to make this happen. This has to happen. Listen, do you understand how unbearable we're going to be? I already, no. Right? Because we would have access to all of the radio calls.

for clips and otherwise for the first time ever ever that's such a nice privilege i don't think people understand how nice it is to have the actual real footage imagine imagine imagine and so so much oh i listen and i'm happy i i had the moment so again i've owned the station for one football NFL season right for one interseason if so here right maybe maybe not two no maybe one that i can think of yeah well but one where we had rights to nfl broadcast because we weren't do we were doing we were doing the broncos we did the broncos and the vikings maybe i don't think it was the vikings it might have been broncos back to back broncos broncos yeah so to get the national, you know, get the big, the big game.

And then I look at the schedule. I look at the schedule. Now, again, I'm a D.C. kid at heart. Harrison Arons, looking at the schedule last night, I don't know why it didn't hit me the way that, that it, I didn't know why it had, didn't hit me like this before. Talking to NFL schedule? Yeah. Okay. Pulled up.

So, week one. Opening day. Mm-hmm. So the opening day Sunday. Sunday. Sunday. This Sunday, on this radio station, if I said to 10-year-old me,

20-year-old me, 30-year-old me, 40-year-old me, 50-year-old me, 60-year-old me, Hey, your radio station is going to air Washington live. But they're going to be the commanders. Well, I don't care. I don't care that Washington, the Washington commanders will be on the ticket. Will the bears?

Yes. It is great. Like, listen, that. Listen, the poor black kid in me still exist. Right? And so proximity to the organization, when I got proximity to the organization, it was life-changing.

It was surreal to be hanging out with the art monks and Joe Thaisman's and John Riggins. And it was like, oh, this isn't real. Is this a real life? Owning your own station. Not real life. Surreal. Like on a regular basis, again, sitting at the stadium.

last Thursday watching your little station on the big screen at Memorial Stadium and looking at Brassie. Yeah, I think sometimes people would be surprised by the team. Right? Not 50 staff even in terms of like people that, not talent,

I think talent in their own ballpark and rightfully sell there's the talent for a reason, but shout out to Austin, and everybody else that does a lot of great work around here and keeps a place around them. Just up there on the big screen, just up there hanging out. and that the first game of the NFL season Sunday

will be the Washington commanders in New York Giants. And then, oh, next Thursday, next Thursday, next Thursday. What is the next Thursday? There's your commanders Packers. Okay, I'll root for the commanders in that one. Right. That's one I'll be happy to the root for. It is cool.

I think when I first got to Lincoln, I wasn't working as an intern. I used to still listen to you guys all the time. I was working for CIP. I think you only had the Bulls. It was like the only other team you guys had. They offered us the nuggets. The nuggets were offered again this year.

Nuggets are fun. But they want terrestrial. They want terrestrial. I'm selfish. I would love that. Well, I don't know if we'd have enough people. I don't think it would matter. Because the NBA, it's not only who you're playing,

but it's not who you are, but it's also who you're playing. Yeah, that is, that is true. We were offered the Lakers. But as much as I love my Chicago Bulls, I remember listening to them, just getting rocked every single night. I was listening and I kept listening.

Tough. Like we were offered the avalanche and the Nuggets. The Lakers are big, I mean, Lakers, it's so hard. I don't want to. But what you have to? Celtics? Who would? There's probably more Lakers fans

than anybody else in that state, still. Is that who we should pick? Because we can target. and and to tell you how proud I am, the fact that I did not accept an offer to be a Washington commander's flagship station. I would have been so upset. Like, we would be one of the franchise stations.

We would carry the commanders every, every week. People would be back all up in the Lincoln. Every one hell of the DC commanders. Always. Always. Always. Always. Always. Of course, Lincoln, the DC affiliate. Always. Always.

I don't, you'd have to think what you think is going to be the best story in the NBA. But, but Lakers, typically, people wouldn't listen to OECC. People wouldn't listen to it. Like, I,

I don't think they would. I don't think they would. Nuggets. I think people are intrigued by it, but I just don't know if it's enough to beat the Lakers. Celtics, sorry, Bach. I don't think anybody really cares.

But Bach would be true. Well, Bach. Buck would be through. Do you know any other Celtics fans in Lincoln? Bach might seriously be the only one I know. I thought there were a bunch. I see a lot of Celtics jerseys. I see a lot of stuff.

There's more than I realize. I don't know. And also because it's a haymarket and then it's a college chap. Yeah, I guess I'm not thinking of like college kids. Adults that I knew. But we can, we can carry college basketball.

I'm always game for college. I think the college hoops that surpassed the NBA in some levels, not talent. The decisions we're going to have to make, Harrison. I'm going to, we're going to break.

I will look. The royals are down four one in the night. Yep. Four one in the night. They were leading one nothing. Top of the ninth, angels. Angels put up two in the six, two and the seven. The royals have four hits.

I only got one run. So we have to keep saying it so that they get more hits. So we have to talk about it. Yeah, that worked the last time. They went from one to eight in the evening. So we just said it. We'll go to break. We'll come back.

Hopefully they have more hits. All right. You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Brought to by Canopy Street Market on 93-7 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. We head to the bottom of the ninth in Kansas City. The Los Angeles Angels five, the Royals won. The Royals are trying. They came into the night three games behind the Mariners.

but three and a half behind and then Yeah, three games above 500, three and a half games behind the. But the problem, the problem exists in twofold. One, you're three and a half behind the Mariners, but you are also now behind the Texas Rangers who have passed you and moved ahead of you.

And the more people ahead of you, the more difficult this bridge is to cross. So currently, the Mariners are losing as we head in the top of the eighth. and six to four to Tampa Bay. Good for the Royals. Also good for the Rangers.

We will update the scores along the way. The Chicago Cubs lead Atlanta, 4-3 in the 8th. At the bottom of the 8th, the Yankees and Astros. The Yankees lead the Astros 6-0 in the middle of the sixth inning in Houston. The Baltimore Orioles lead San Diego early, top of the first.

The Washington National somehow figured out how to win a game. They'd been on a losing streak. Talk about tanking and just absolutely no-showing. I was going to ask you about the Rockies later. Well, we'll get to them. But then that's win 5-2 over Miami. The White Sox lead,

Minnesota, 9-3, another situation where the twins are like, what are you doing? The Rockies trailed the Giants 2-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning. Game of note, Texas Ranger. and the Arizona Diamondbacks have just started. That is a game to follow. Earlier in Pittsburgh, the Pirates knock off the Dodgers 9-7,

even though Chohay Otani hit a 120-mile-an-hour laser, an absolute bomb, 120-mile-an-hour off the bat. The Mets go to Detroit and get a 12-5 win. The Blue Jays defeat Cincinnati 12-29, and the Boston Red Sox defeat the Cleveland Guardians 117. So we will update. There's no outs with a runner on first. We will keep that, keep you advised on what it means because it also impacts our programming

and to figure out what we'll do. So let's go to break and then maybe, maybe, maybe by the time we get back, top of the hour, all streams and all terrestrial radio will be on 937 the ticket. If the Royals can score five runs in the next six minutes. It's time to go one-on-one with DP. Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America, a 93-7 a ticket and the ticket FM.com. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, brought you by Canopy Street Market.

Hour two, boom. Boom, I said. Z. Sartarham and Texas, 4, 24, 6, 4, 6, 8.5. You're on the streams for now. It is in the ninth inning, bottom of the ninth in KC. Two outs. The angels are up five to one over the Royals. When we track it, we will do a quick reset, right?

We can just do a quick reset. We don't have to shut everything down. We can pause for two minutes. so have two minutes worth of commercials loaded and then you can go and just flip it over flip everybody back over to the terrestrial we will well you know we need to turn the Christmas light on and invite people to the park

there's a lot oh man right I'm just forgetting what you said Christmas I'm just like man it is worked here it's fall before I know we're going to have the Christmas well you know how you know it's fall long jeans and the long sweater it's sweater weather it's weather it's weather it's Swetherweather.

It happens. It gained 10 pounds for a little while now. Spider weather. Yeah, I, this is going to be the challenge for me. Because I want to do, I want to make sure that the ticket is on until midnight. Or at least. And here's the thing. The ideal is that it's on all the time.

Yeah. But ball game. Royals, Royals fall 5'1 to the Anaheim Angels. Uh, that's a tough one, right? Because it's Anahe. It's Anaheim's not a good, they're not a good road team. Um, there are nine games under 500.

And if you're playing for postseason, you got to figure out a way. You got one hit tonight. One hit. Man, that's tough. Okay, so let's do this. Um, we'll go to a quick break and then we'll go long. after we come back.

So we will reset. We will invite all the Royals fans who have been on the terrestrial. We will bring them into the party. Come on in, the doors open, the water's fine. That'd be a nice lot. We'll go all the way up to like 45. Yeah, we can, we can do that. So we'll be right back. We'll reset here on the ticket. You're listening to one-on-one with DP.

Brought to by Canopy Street Market on 937 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Let's get into it. JP Harrison Arns on a ticket sports night Tuesday. We do have some clips in the system from Husker press conferences. So we can dive into that pool. Yeah, we got that you're talking Butler, Holgerson from today. Yep, we definitely got that.

We got Holgersons from today. Dylan Riola spoke today. You know, you got the coaches. We had a full reign of folks and lots to talk. but in that space, Harrison Irons, pay the bill. Yep, as always, real quick, want to shout out, credible mind and safe use. The Lincoln, Lancaster County Health Department has launched Credible Mind, a new online mental well-being platform.

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stream. So if you just joined us, lots to catch up on points to be made. We had discussion over Friday night here on the ticket Thursday night on the ticket Friday night on the ticket so Thursday night being the opening day the opening day of the NFL the opening night yeah the NFL the raining defending Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles take on the evil empire and the Dallas Cowboys shout out Pete Ferguson sorry that you have not recovered from that particular are they even the evil empire they just like an evil village I here's here's where I am with the cowboys I mean like they're nasty but you're not terrified

but they don't have to be they're nuisance now yes they're nuisance um they're the flies at the picnic okay like they're just reminding you that we're literally here to annoy you we're here to make you think less of your food you food doesn't taste as good when the flies are around never does right never does um you're afraid to drink around them but you're you just are uh you Your dogs are, your dogs are bothered. You have to constantly shut the door when they're around. They don't take ends very well. Right.

They really don't. You have to burn incense. Right. You just do. You know, look, we don't like the rules. We just have to enforce them. That's just who you are. But I have to say that, and again, I have to tell people to watch the America's

team Netflix Doc because that sort of exposure and transparency changes the way

we live and think you cannot you cannot you have to almost feel sorry for Jerry Jones and I mean that

in the most sincerest of ways I know is it's I I haven't gotten all the way through but you have to watch the whole thing I know. There's a lot of Jerry Jones that people say, below your mind.

I'm just going to say that he, somebody pointed out the other day that he is the Vince McMahon of the NFL. Only because Al Davis passed away. Al Davis and the Raiders were, he was absolutely Vince McMahon before Jerry Jones. And Jerry Jones said, I want that, I want to sit in that throne.

I want to sit in that throne. I want to be that guy. So all the lawsuits that Al Davis had against the NFL, all the battles between the lawyers and all those things, right? And then the Raiders did what the Raiders do. And the Raiders have become another version of the Dallas Cowboys. Raider fans would tell you how great the legacy of being a Raiders fan is. And then you asked him, well, well, it's been a minute, bro.

it's been a minute when is their last playoff win like the logo is cool the colors are known it's almost hip hop culture and fashionista it is one of the coolest teams in the country that sucks

right but it on its fans its fans have had to listen your owners have divorced you and moved away three times and you still wearing their uniform like you're wearing the wedding ring of the people who broke up with you three times. Like,

bruh. I know, I don't know it's been bad. Therapy? Talking to the morning of Pierce now. You even mention raiders. It's not like, oh,

it hurts. It's just pure anger. Oh, oh, it hurts. Only bad, bad memories. Oh,

the pain. Does it feel like anything could be fixed in the marriage. Yeah, you got Gino Smith. Well, but you, Carol, I think he's still got some legs on him.

I'm not too worried about him. But you still have a Davis running it. And yes, even after Jerry Jones, his son, Stephen will run the cowboy. They, they, they're related. They're blood related. And by that, I mean

Al Davis and Jerry Jones. Because they, they just are who they are. Well, maybe Stephen might do all right. No. When you watch this documentary, you, oh, okay. Oh, well, because Jerry felt like he flipped in the right way and then the older he got it got worse. Think Lakers and Jerry Buss and Gene.

Oh. God. But you know the bus son? You know the son? Yeah. Yeah. If you told me that Jerry Jones' daughter was going to take over the Cowboys,

I think they would have that Renaissance, Jenny Bus, Lakers run and still go way left at immediately following. I got to figure, learn more about Steve. You have to watch this dot. The dot, it's worth every minute of it.

And then it's the same, but it's the same thing of watching the Vince McBrand doc. Like you just. What is it? There's been an absolute killing of docs coming out. Netflix. Yeah, Netflix. Netflix has been on point. Give them some credit.

But on point, man. Because telling the, I mean, they went all the way behind the scenes. There's the SEC doc too. Right. And then, and now the, the, the, the, the, the unreal doc. Yeah, that one. Right. The QB docs, the only one, they deserve some heat for.

Maybe it wasn't. Netflix. Conner Stallions, that one sucked. I think there'll be more. I think they'll get it right. I think there'll be more and I think they'll get it right. Okay. I think there'll be more. Did you watch the first one? I will keep repeating. There will be more and they will get it right. Okay, good. Because right now it's

just chapter one. And chapter one is like, look at how good this guy. Isn't it incredible? You get the Oogies, man. You fully get the uggies about like, just like, I don't know how Michigan fans could be proud of themselves. I don't know how Sharon Morris sitting there like, what the? Can I

just do the punishment already. Just grinning and smiling. And my buddy Griff is like years later. I know, I know Michigan fans. And I don't, I look at them, I'm just like,

what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? And, but that's sports fanaticism. In full, right, and Nebraska went through its run.

And you ask, do you have any? Because that was the question I asked when I got here. Is there any real interest in getting it right. And stunningly, a lot of people couldn't answer yes. Because that would mean that the

people that you entrust aren't good for you and don't care about you. They don't care enough to get it right. Like that's one of the definitions of love, right? Is the commitment to getting it right. Treating you as you're worthy. Treating you as you should be seen, not as you see yourself. That's...

Right? Did Jim Harbaugh have one of the smoothest criminal exits? could possibly have again teflon are you teflon harball kidding me like but we we know this about people now we know that for the right amount of money you can do anything here's your 10 year ban from the college football that doesn't start until 2028 but hey let's go let you go play but go run the let's give you the promotion because it's a promotion right yeah it's absolutely a promotion it's a promotion and then the NCAA sitting there in the back room's like why does nobody ever expect this anymore. It doesn't make any sense.

They're just laughing at you, bro. Like, what do you? Because they're handing out punishments three years later. And that's not even a punishment. No, it's the kids who had nothing to do with it and the coaches who are at that position. No, but here's that's why it's so frustrated. But here's the part of this thing that

so much of the conversations that we have is the repetition of, of catchphrases and narratives about it. Yeah. Here's the thing. if you chose Michigan if you chose Michigan

then you're married to Michigan and if Michigan is doing criminal stuff when it comes to this sort of thing right you can say well I didn't know I wasn't part of it okay then just not from you if you don't believe in it right 100% so in the space that we're talking about

if you're talking about Minnesota, you're talking about Michigan, you're talking about oh, listen, in basketball, it's all over the place, right? Like, it's all over the place. If you talk about the Dallas Cowboys, this doc is so resounding.

I don't even remember all of the vile stuff that went on. I don't even remember, like, I was in the game then, and I don't remember the video. of Michael Irvin in the front seat of some stranger's car doing doing line. I didn't know about the,

I didn't know about the White House. And by White House, you have to watch the dot. I'm not talking about the place in Washington, D.C. I think I heard of those. I'm not spoiled. Like I, listen, my jaw hit the, my jaw hit the table. Okay. My jaw hit the table.

I didn't, I didn't know a lot about Jerry Jones that I, like I, you forget, you knew that he and. Jimmy Jones were on the same Arkansas team. But I didn't know that Barry Switzer had played at Arkansas before they did. And that Barry Switzer was on the staff as an assistant at Arkansas when Jerry and Jimmy played together.

And then you forget Arkansas won a national title. Like we didn't even talk about, like, if I asked how many titles in Arkansas? None, I don't remember any. I don't remember any. It was the thing. And then he talked about all the risks that he took, financial risk that he took and doing business

and how many failed ventures there were. And the fact that he was on his last venture, if this oil rig didn't hit, he was done. He was done. I did. Again, there was so much in this. And the fact that they carried along the Cowboys'

opponents and rivals with them in telling the stories, especially in the seasons. I was never a Troy Aitman fan. I became less of a fan watching. Really? Unnecessary douchiness. There's no reason to be the way that he was being. Again, I wasn't in the situation.

I'm only responding and reacting to the situations that they showed. But he would tell the story that, well, I wanted to be coached a certain way. and, you know, to watch the way he talked about his teammates and the way he talked about the coaches, I was like, no, no, I'm surprised they didn't beat him up. Like, it was like, that surprises me. Oh, it was, it was some, it was some tough. And then they talked about there was a moment where,

uh, when Barry Switzer became the head coach. Now, again, a whole bunch of things in play, right? Different types of coaching, right? And each player wants to be coached a certain way. Um, and coaches will tell you that, you know, not everybody gets coached the same way. Not everybody coaches the same way, nor does everybody want to be coached the same way.

So trying to figure it out. And remember that they went from the worst team in the NFL to the best team in like four years. Like it was a quick turnaround. So they show you the process and they show you the hits and misses, right? That they missed a lot. They talked about the Herschel Walker trade, all those things,

which led us magnificently to the, Michael Parsons deal and you just went, oh, there it is, because you go back. Yeah, you go back and it tells you like, it's a repeat the soft signing, Tori Aikman, right? And then giving Troy the big contract. And then the Dionne Sanders contract. And you, again, I had forgotten how absolutely game changing the Dion Sanders contract was. The deal, breaking of the deal with Reebok.

and Dallas creating your own shoe deal. And the lawsuits that went on and on and on and the battles between the owners. Because how dare you go against the lead? Like we're all under this contract. You can't just go rebel and get your own. But they did and they fought for it. Right.

And then it changed how everybody was doing it. And then the free agency. Well, how can you sign Dion? Where's all this money coming from? Oh, you're getting just in the courtroom all the time. All the time. But that's the Al Davis. When I tell you that Al Davis, so, and it goes back further.

Because if you talk about the Cleveland Browns, Paul Brown as the owner, had to sue people in the NFL and around the NFL all the time for the Cleveland Browns to do business. And then for the Cincinnati Bengals to be created and do business in the NFL. the American Football League, he chose the American Football League rather than the National Football League to rival the team and the city, which he was born and raised, and the team that carried his name. That's why they're the Browns.

And he literally created the Bengals to flip off the Browns. There's so many reasons that I just, the Browns are hard to root for. And this is just like, well, that's a whole other doc. that's a whole other doc because I'm again okay this is why historically we we need to do a history yeah we did this the other day but you have to go back you have to go back to George Hallis okay because you have to go back to the Staley's the Chicago Staley's the Chicago the real first the real first row not the Ohio league but the right right the first the first one of it because Hallis conflict of interest uh using leverage and

union power uh to force people to do business with you in the building of stadiums and facilities, right? Because imagine in the 1900s having building stadiums built, you think that was ever done without a little greasing of the of the palms of right. Well, I know. That's how Soldier Field gets such a screwy deal. Well, historical landmark for the city.

You can tell me Memorial Stadium was built cleanly. Go ahead and tell me. Right. Right. Right, right, because where would you get all of the, all of the resource to do that? Where would you get all the material? What would they do for Devaney, tax cigarettes? Bro, what I think what I tell.

We still have the tax. Hey, man. On their deep. Devaney spent a long time ago. But this is sports, right? This is sports. People, the games are one faction of it. And people are finding that out now with NIL and Transfer Portal and all those things,

that you have to make the game the game. You have to keep the game the game and allow the business to be business because the business, and the problem was for a long time when it comes to college athletic, is that they said, oh, it's all tied together and it's all holy.

And you went, no, you've been doing, you've been doing big business the whole time and not paying people. And now, woe is me, you're going to play victim because you've been putting money aside for all this time, for the people,

not playing the game. And now the people playing the game realize that they're the, they're the talent. They're the assets. Do you think like we're going to see a little bit of a balance in college football with the powerhouses? Well, it's just saying like two years.

We're seeing it in week one. We're seeing it. We're seeing it. It's all like, huh. Well, but it's more even now. No,

but it's going to be more fluid. Yeah. Because somebody will figure out exactly what the metric is. Right. What is the proper balance between the, millions and millions of dollars and choosing the right people to run it and the right people to play in it, right? Because, again, we can say that we know that all college towns are not created equal. All alumni bases aren't created equal. And I hate to tell you, but when the

Ivy League figures out what they're going to do, everybody else needs to get. Yeah. Oh, when the Ivy League? I think that's why the Big Ten is catching some ground. Because when you look at the universities, I kind of think the Big Ten has more of the bigger tech schools. You've got the West Coast Tech, the Big Money Schools. Ivy League is going to, if they figure it out, if they want to.

Who has the endowment and the trust that they do? Undefeated Harvard thing would be crazy work. We'll wait to the Military Academy. that one's a little bit of hope out oh but those schedules are so different but who has more money than the military academies listen to me when i tell you that as it evolves and and switches you have to pay attention to it and that the cycle of it is going to be in short burst over the next 12 years that you will have three different rings of success failure growth and regrowth We're going to go full circle.

Wasn't it the Ivy League schools from day one? This is what's going to happen. And then remember that in certain cases, again, not all universities, college towns, alumni bases, financial institutions, and trust funds are created equal. Because some schools in the Big Ten have a natural competitor financially in professional sports teams. So start to look at the Big Ten

and start to look in college towns where there's no real competition for money because those are the ones that will have advantage. But then think what happens to big cities, big city college program. Well, remember, more people means more money, more people with money. money. And what do those people with money do? They take care of their people, right? Because you don't want to be in a

loser town. You don't want to live in a loser city. You don't want to do that, right? Because you can't, you can't wine and dine people. You can't bring, hey, come, come check us out. Come check out my town. This is why I'm asking you to give me $30 million. Where your town sucks. I'm not giving you money to put here. But hey, if it's Lincoln, Nebraska, and you can see the cornfields, and you can see the growth, and you can see the people smile at you and press palms, do you think those are equal? You think all resource pools, location, remember, location, location, location. If all you think all of those things are equal in the Big Ten?

Of course not. Now, you know what's going to also happen? There will be the cycles where the independent, college towns will take advantage. Can't tell if like college football. Salem, Salem, Lincoln, like they're,

where the money stays in the town. Right, right, right. And then big city folks are going to come in and go, well, let's stop a mud hole in that. Oh. And here comes L.A. in Chicago.

It's going to happen. And then it'll cycle again. Because then somebody else will figure out the metrics of it, what's in between. And remember, all athletics are under one umbrella, but they're not run and operated the same. Basketball works from a different financial base than football. So what's easier to manage? Small work groups or large work groups and different universities and different financial resources will identify those and then tag them directly.

And if I said to you, ready for this, that an athletic team with 20 athletes on it, in a small college town with no financial resistance or competitor for that team or those athletes and their success, then all of the big power money folks come running to those cities like, Nebraska women's volleyball. And Nebraska women's volleyball will change Nebraska football and Nebraska basketball. I'm just, how many girls are on the softball team? What does the roster look like?

30. 30? Is it that big? 20. I got no idea. Easy to manage? Easier to manage than the football team. What's the football team?

Cost you less than that? Yeah. Fewer coaches? Way fewer coaches. Less fewer space to manage? Fewer space, quicker matches. it will evolve. Just pay attention.

Just pay attention. The Dallas Cowboys figured out, again, you moved from Oakland to Los Angeles back to Oakland to Las Vegas and still haven't gotten it right because the person making the decision. Dallas, you moved from Arlington

to outside, right? You went to Irving. That's right. You went back out. outside, you built a place. Remember, you built a stadium where God, it was open at the top because you wanted God to be able to watch his team on something, his favorite team on something. He, he, past juicy. Hey, you closed the roof. You close the roof. God don't like ugly. God don't like ugly. Like, you have to have, it. It's beautiful to watch. That's why I watch the

docs. Because when you see not only the people in charge, the people who are making decisions and you hear them, they can't wait to tell you why they make the decision. Then you find out the people around them because those people have to allow the crazy rich dude to tell them crazy rich dude stuff

and still look sane. Even if he's your dad. Sound like the McBans? Sound like the Davises? Come on, Stephen. Sounds like the Jones. Right, right. Like I just in full, in full that you start to, you start to pay.

You have to watch the docs because they get, they pull the curtain on the wizard of eyes. And we need it. I'm telling you, I like the idea that Nebraska football is pulling the curtain back and showing some transparency to the people behind the curtain. Yeah, I don't know how we got to a point where transparency is so valued and coveted. where it acts like anything that is, you know, are not transparency, but like covering everything up. Everyone used to seem to do.

It's like, you had a fan base who's just craving, foaming at the mouth, just show them a glimmer of anything you want. And they're going to share it, love it, retweet it. Like it can be hardly anything. What else is there?

Exactly. I, to say it in full, that we don't know of any other, place in America, maybe the world who could put on a women's volleyball game and have 90 plus thousand people show up and another 10,000 just be around it just to be around it because there are no tickets left for them to get in. Yeah, just hang outside.

Let's just hang out in the haymarket. Let's hang out in downtown Lincoln. We're lucky we'll get to see Becca Alec or Jovey walk out. Just for that, right? They came from all parts of the state. Well, I think people forget, like, some of these people are coming all the way from Western Nebraska. Like my town, population, I think today, 1,300,

you can find a Husker-themed bar. You go to Fordites. I think it's like 90. You can find a Husker-themed bar. You go to a town 120. You can find a Husker theme. You can find a Husker theme. The entire state is just in love with it.

It's the easiest product to sell in the state. It's Green Bay, Wisconsin. You have owners. of it. We fully, we cannot bury the lead in that ownership of said thing makes you more willing

to commit and be emotionally invested which then allows you to be financially invested. You will go at risk and you will go in the hole if there's ownership involved. If there's ownership up from a distance, there are people,

again, we know people, people that like working at the station, but they'll go home. turn it off man ain't whatever i'm emotionally invested you become emotionally invested because you're around me enough to know geez there's there's a method to some of this madness right geez you're not to do an ear to hang out until midnight right like what you know but here but here's the thing i'm hanging out with you and i'm hanging out with them uh of course and if i don't hang out with them i can't have conversations with them thank you dan from my friend uh dan from canopies hanging out with us.

Sorry about the Royals. The Royal. Yeah, you know. I think he's a Rose fan, right? He absolutely is a royal. Like he was on the pole. Oh, that's right. Carry the Royal.

The text of me. Carry the Royals. I'm going to be mad this weekend, though, because Friday, we can't. Friday, he's going to have to watch him on on TV. On the tower's down. He's like, I got duct tape and some bailing wire. If you need me, send me up on the roof. Get up on the roof, man.

I don't know if I can do that. Get up on the roof. but I'd love to give you a shot. No, and if you have not, still Tuesdays at Canopy Street Market, Taco Tuesdays, if you have not done it, put it on your schedule, and then go bug day.

Like, just go bug day in him. Talk Royals and Husker basketball, and he'll be fine. He'll be fine. Besides, he doesn't know, I'm about to hit him up. These student athletes are back. So, you know,

we're going to need these can't be gift cards for these kids to go shopping. I need to go get some more. I love their just quick fix me. meals. They do have the best. Like if you're just looking for something that's good for you, and not even like crazy healthy in that way, just like not fast food garbage.

Great. That's going to fill you up and taste good. No, no. They have, they have the, I'll say this, Dan, and I've never said it publicly, they have the best meatloaf and mashed potato and green beans meal in length. Speaking to me, I love that. Like that. Comfort food. Well, they do Salisbury steak.

Speak to my soul. Speak to my soul with Salisbury steak. gravy mashed potatoes, green beans. Just tell me that you actually care. And you make it fresh. Yeah. You make it fresh. Um, they do.

They're, they're pasta meatballs. Like, I'm in. I'm in. Um, and low key, their salad, their fresh salads are better than the ones you get in the store.

I believe it. That place is fresh. Their salads, their salads, um, are better. and it's necessary. Like I,

there's certain places, grocery stores that I can't buy those ready made salads. I can't do it. But I can always count on canopy. So go check them out. They'll say how to Dan. You know,

pat him on the back. He's good people. He's having a tough, he had a tough day today because the Royals, no show. Now they're three games back. Another game and a half back behind. Really struggling down the stretch here.

Unfortunately for the Royals. Well, when you get hot, get hot now. You need to. Get hot now. Get hot now. you're in the final month.

Like you cannot lose the teams that you should not lose to. Their strength of schedule isn't crazy. Or it's just over the 50. Yeah. Yeah. So it's not crazy. Yeah.

We degenerates. Yeah, we do. He says you do for care. He's right. He's right. But here's the thing. And what Dan doesn't know. Okay.

So Anthony Smith, who'll join us tomorrow in studio, UFC and ESPN, Anthony Linerd Smith, he'll be in studio tomorrow. He's also a fan of Canada. I think everyone is. Dan bought some beverages. Anthony at six foot three, two hundred and forty-five pounds took all the beverages that were in the back. And I did nothing about it.

He just said nice. I was like, hey, bro, go for it. Go for it. I'm definitely not going to be the guy to tell him. Not having it up on a tattoo. You want 20 bucks out of my law? Of course. I'm not in it up on a tattoo.

I'm just like it's not, you know, like you're not going to mark me, bro. That's not going to happen. But yes, Dan, thank you,

kind of, you know where to find us. I can't. We only got like a minute left here. Did you get good meals? I'm just thinking of Dan from Canopy. He's got me thinking of food. Did you have great meals growing up in the year of high school?

It was like bringing your lunch. Oh, no. The high school was terrible. terrible school. I thought it was better back in the day. I thought I got worse. No.

No. It's a lie. Lies. Lies. Listen, I'm not from the Midwest. I don't know what you're eating here. I don't know what y'all are eating here. What I can tell you, no, sir.

First of all, I was a poor kid. I got school lunches. I got vouchers. That's the only way we could afford it. They would give us. lunch tickets. And so you got the meal that they gave pork yet. It wasn't just like, here's what we're having for lunch today.

There was alcohol that you could buy. Like, if you bought your lunch, you could buy whatever you wanted to buy that they were making that day. But, and mind you, I want to say the lunch there was like 40 cents. So, you know, relative. But again, eight kids of the family of a poor family and all of them are at school at the same time.

some difficulty. Yeah, adds up quick. And so, yeah. And so, and there was some feeling about bringing your lunch. And if you were bringing the lunch, it was bologna sandwiches or peanut butter and jelly. And, you know, you had to deal with it. You know, you get a handful of potato chips in a plastic bag. And that was it.

Maybe, you know, carton milk or something to drink. drink or you buy your milk there, you know, a nickel, 10 cents, whatever it was. But the meals at the cardboard pizza, it literally, you know, the box that the pizza comes in. If you just put sauce and cheese on top of that, that was the pizza square. I probably just put the box in the oven with the pizza. It's just not good. You hoped for Salsbury Steak Day? Yeah, that was always the cult classic over.

Cedar Catholic. We love. Right. Salemary steak thing. The fish was never good. They would hit you with the fish on Friday. Not good. I feel like our school knew. Not good.

Don't even get fish in the Midwest. Not good. Not good. What about chili? No. We never got chili. Never got chili. Y'all do chili and.

Chile and simmer rolls. No, sir. No, sir. It's got to be crazy. No, sir. We did get spaghetti, but the spaghetti was pretty much. Spaghetti noodles and ketchup.

Oh, just a water. spaghetti. Oh, terrible. Terrible. That might be the one time I don't like spaghetti. If you got that stuff, you got the noodles, then you got that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that rock, that brick of, of, of, of, of garlic bread. Oh. It's a brick. It's a brick. You're eating a brick. Like, straight to the dentist biting into this thing. And so, and no, wasn't good. Shout out Donna, the lunch lady of Cedar Catholic. I don't know if she still does it,

but I got so many fond memories. Oh, Miss Glass. Miss Glass. Miss Glass. Miss Glass and Miss Otis. Those are the two, I know them. Those are, because also, poor kid. So if you didn't have money, if she didn't see me come in line, if she didn't see me get in line, either I had forgotten my ticket

or somebody else needed it more than I did, which happened. Like, we were, I was a poor kid, I was not the poorest kid. Right. You know, if I saw somebody who, really was struggling. Plus, at that point,

I had, like, a paper out. So, you know, I would have a way to grind it out and make some money. For an extra two bucks, like I would, I picked up a whole other street. I think I made four bucks a week extra by picking up two extra,

delivering to two extra streets. And that was my lunch money. Through, through high school, through high school. And when I got to, when I was a junior, I start working with my,

with my stepdad. in construction in the summer. And I was making, I want to say he was making $7 an hour, $6 an hour. Okay. I'd imagine that. Something like that. A range.

But, but, but I was making like the $500 bucks every two weeks. And I didn't spend it in the summer because mom was like, no, this is your school money. This is where you're going to buy your new school clothes.

This is where you're going to, you know, tennis shoes, cleats for football. I was going to say, you're in sports too. That's not, 20, but the Dr. J All-Stars were $29, which was a big, huge hunk and chunk of money back then.

Pumas, white Pumas, $34. You could get the spot built joints for, you know, $9, but, did you buy them? Did I buy the white Pumas? No, George. No, I bought the Dr. J's. I did. I bought the Dr. Jays.

Oh, they were Dr. Js. Dr. J. J. All-Stars. The leather, the first of, the leather all start. The very first ones. Yeah, and our colors were blue, so we got the blue star. You still got them?

I went and bought a pair. I will wear them tomorrow. I bought a pair of the, I found a pair of Dr. J. Leather high top converse with the red star. Okay.

Ball. I wonder what those go through this day. Like a hundred and 99. And a buddy of mine found him. He traded. Like I paid $89. I paid $89. When you see him, you just go, okay, baller.

Straight baller. But in junior high, it was Canvas, the Canvas Converse, High Top Converse. We wore the white high top canvas converse all the way through. We didn't know any better. We didn't know any better. They were $14. $14.

But that was that was baller money back then. That was Baller money. I think we hit the worst trends. I'm thinking of like the money that we spent. Remember the zigzags, Reebok, Ziggs? Yeah. I was by era growing up. Oh.

They were not that. They were rush. I don't, I think the, I mean, I think I remember the, the, the, the scuff up when the Jordan's first came out, when the Jordan ones came out, because I think it was like $49. Remember I was like, well, why are you charging so much? Like different era. Didn't know what they were doing? Different here.

I want to say that my Mustang, the Mustang, Mustang, I bought. I want to say I got a 74 Camaro, no, 76 Camaro. And I want to say it was 1,200 bucks. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. Like the rent for my, for my, for my, for my, for my, for my first condo was like 350 bucks a month.

All right. We got through the break. Yeah. Just getting frustrated about how. Yeah. Hey, D.P. walked out of, I won't even say the store because it's not even. in their fault. More bags of groceries?

Over 100 bucks. I'm so sick. Of some of these prices. Oh, you know. Insanity. If I had paid 100 bucks for groceries, no. No. No.

Not happening. Not having it. I'll tell you story of what we did back then. Pretty interesting. I'll find the clip. So we'll do that when we come back. You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Brought to by Canopy Street Market on 93-7,

The Ticket FM.com. Oh, this is what's going to happen late nights here on the ticket. Harrison is, you're going down the rabbit hole. Going down the rabbit hole because there's a thing. And again, being a poor kid, that you could get a three-pound box of hamburgers, frozen hamburg for 699, 16-quarter-pound hamburger, frozen hamburger. you would get, you told me that you've never had steak. No, I had to look up a picture, but never had.

You've never had steakums. Okay, so this is when you, talking about a poor, poor kid baller, that when you got steak, then they had regular, they had the generic steak slices. So it's thinly shaved frozen steak. And they came in these boxes. Now, steak was the brand. So imagine Coca-Cola, coal, right?

red can the their version of steak for steak sandwiches came in a white box steak steak um you know how you had the cans it just said soda yeah what was the um mountain do a knockoff mountain blast i think is what it was right well murray's was the store and it was like a deli but it was all frozen meat all frozen meat you would go and get, so when I got my first job out of college, so 1984, you would go to Murray's on payday. And this is where the whole family would come to the house. So you go on Friday, you go cash a check, you go to Murray's, you would go and get, because there'd be like 20 people eating it at mom's house.

And you would go and get two boxes of the hamburgers, right? 16 hamburgers per box. those boxes were $4.99 each. Can remember, you could go to McDonald's back then, and for a dollar you get Big Mac fries soda for $0.99. And it was actually good back then. Right. It was what I hear. I don't know.

Right. I'd be wrong on that, too. No, no. We didn't know any better. We didn't know any better. I think the ingredients are also just better. I think they're using not so many things that, you know. We didn't know any better.

Dan, he says the Adidas, red striped leather superstars, not bad. I have a pair with the, with the shell toe. So that's how you know you get the right Adidas because the toe is like the shelled toe. Okay. Not the smooth toe.

Smooth toe, basic. Don't do it. Get the shelled toe. You're a ball. Yeah, Dave and Fulchin. Yeah, this is, this is the thing. Like, Harrison, you up for an hour? Yeah, I was going to go solo anyway.

So if you want to hang around for an hour, that works out. Yep, like, just to get you through, just like, I want you, I'm going to find the clips of these ads that would show up in the Washington Post. They would show up in the Washington Post. And so the Friday newspaper. And it would have like Swanson's TV dinners back then. You guys got the Swansman? Yeah, we got the Swansman. All right.

Swansman was great. That is one thing we did get. Right. So we would do that, but you could get. So did you, were you a proponent of chipped beef in a bag? What the hell is chipped beef in a bag? You're so boozy. Something like that.

So back then. Better just been all in the middle of nowhere. Right. So there was, so there was these meals that you would. They were frozen. They'd come to you frozen, but you would put them in boiling water, and it would heat them up.

And then there's this thing, like different things. So they had Salisbury steak. They had, you know, different. It's like a military meal almost. Yeah.

But you put, you don't put, so it comes in a plastic bag, a sealed bag. And the water's on the outside of it? Yeah, you put the water in the pot. Right.

And you put the bag with the food inside the bag in the water and it would heat. Well, there's this thing called Chip, cream chip beef. I don't know what cream chip beef was. Like even to this day, even to this day, like right now

I don't boil in the bag. Yep, Dan. That Crip team, and here's the thing. What they would do is you would toast bread, cut the bread up in half, sideways, diagonal, and you would pour

the contents of the bag, the heated bag, over the toast and you would eat this cream chip beef and toast and yeah banquet food frozen food right so yeah that's why you got to have a grocery food guy on your on your call list this looks awful deep i'm not impressed by what i'm looking at bra you you don't understand okay so what i'm looking at looks like two pieces of just regular bread uh-huh with this and then cheese and meat. This glop.

This glop. This glop. This glop. It is a full. The full definition of the cream chip is a glop of. Okay. We'll throw it to break. We're going to do another hour because we're going to,

I'm taking you all the way down the rabbit hole. Welcome to the rabbit hole, my friend. We'll be right back. It's time to go one on one with D.P. Coming at you live from the hearts of Lincoln America, a 93. a ticket and the ticketfm.com. Here is your host, Derek Pearson,

brought you by Canopy Street Market. Boom. Ticket late night. 402, 464, 5, 685. Dave and Fulton, thank you, Dan. We've gone down the rabbit hole. So Harrison's never had cream chip feet, which I'm now going to challenge Dan,

Swanson to find. Because I need... Put cream chipped beef on the canopy street market menu? Bro. I don't think so. Does anybody actually like that today? He just said the thing, he goes, and he just reminded me,

chicken alla king in a bag. Oh, for three. What the hell is that? Deep, I am... When it comes to cultured and cuisine. And they gave you, and the thing about with chicken alla king is that they gave you a frozen rice bag that you

had to put in water to heat up. So imagine cooking for some folks. You guys just not have microwaves yet. So everything was just like put in hot boiling water. Just like put that together. You maniac, there's no. That's like, why is all your instructions dropping in boiling water?

Oh, that's right. That's all the way. There's no microwave. You had to cook a meal, bro. Yeah, I mean, listen. What a privilege life. Oh my God. Now, mind you, back then most moms cook, like they cook but my mom was working. So, And again, there were kids in the house.

You didn't want to rely on the neighbors. You didn't want to rely on, you know, you wouldn't want to make food and put it in leftovers again. You got that way. How many siblings? There are eight kids in that. Eight kids. Yeah.

I mean, eight kids and that's a lot. And so leftovers, meat, like, so she cooked things that. So when she cooked the meals like that, one, you grilled on a weekend because you could grill more. in substance than you could cooking, right? And then the kids are outside. They're running around. They're not up under you being annoying and a nuisance.

So cooking out was for weekends, meals at home. But then it became a matter of while she worked. So she worked at the Census Bureau. And so her ride home was 45 minutes some days, some days longer than that. And the kids are hungry. So you could either rely on grandparents. to make the meal, but grandma was busy too.

Or you could have some of these frozen meals that you would. And this is the beginning of many pizzas. And at that point in time and too, it's all innocent. Right. I mean, we're not fully into the full era of like everything's super super, well, not everything. Dan is, Dan is my dude. Tostino's pizza.

Hey. Right. That's one of them. I'm aware of that. And they were, they were like 99 cents. I think you can buy them today. Like, I'm not even kidding. I think I saw them for like five for four.

It, like Tostino's to stay true. Arnold Palmer Tostino's Pizza, those two have stayed true. To tell you that the number of these things that, and again, how much they were then, I really need to find what Stakems were because you could get them in 8, 1632. packets of 32 and each one was so imagine two thinly strip thin strips of steak packed together pressed together and then they put this cellophane paper in between each one to tell you what a serving was and then if you were a baller you bought steak rolls but if you were poor it went on the white bread went on the white bread

So your steak sandwich was just a sandwich with thinly steak on it. But then if you had money or you were feeling boozy, you catch me on payday, I was getting steakums and not the generic thinly. I'm just feeling boozy eating steakums is funny. Bro! Shout out to everyone on the grind of steampums. You do not understand. You do not understand that when you could buy.

Laze potato chips and steakums and or you had arrived when you could get potato ties. Crinkle cut French fries in a bag. They used to pour the generic ones. They came in a box, a little white box and said French fried potatoes. It's a French fried, okay. I. Harrison, it was all of this was extremely humbling, I must say. I, I think out of everything he told us. The little one frozen burritos now.

Those are where they gave you a 12, right? 12 in a bag. Yeah, we got like blue, purple or. Yeah. My dad did that. Not as just being a simple man. And I was like, he's right. This is the easiest meal ever.

You just slap like, do those in there. Um, cold as hell in the middle. hot is not on the outside. I don't know what the magic was that would allow those burritos to come out cooked. Like, because you would crisp the outside and then you bite the middle of it and it's still frozen in the middle. Or stone cold. Like you've melted it, but it's still cold. I don't think Juan ever knew either.

I think they're just sending those things out. It's cheap. Who cares? You'll buy it. And it was. I bought him like all through. As soon as I got the blanket, I bought him straight for like four years. So what is your comfort food?

comfort food i'm pretty simple i give me just it didn't even be the pre-frozen i don't have to make it myself hot dogs burgers fried chicken mashed potatoes so dan said you know the hormel chili dogs oh which again poor versus bougie poor was when well mama would make the chili so she would make it with kidney beans like she you know hamburg like when you got hamburger in the chili you were just and then when you put hamburger when you got to put hamburger in the spaghetti sauce

you were living like this was this was living living um that's crazy when you got chili with beans because the other chili was the generic chili with no beans and it just had chili on the can and you would just pour it out over

the chili talk hold on people really just have in spaghetti no meat you don't understand the hardship pain. I love my mom so much. I'm hearing about having to eat spaghetti. Sounds bad. So you get the ragu in the jar. And you cook the main meal.

Oh, yeah. All that's the same. The main meal. But we got the beef ready. But for the leftover, you always had more noodle than you had sauce left. So what did you do? you ran water in the jar and then he did that up like you would run water in the jar swish it all together swish it all together heat that up and then pour that poor poor version of spaghetti sauce onto the noodles listen did were you were you were you were you an egg noodles guy.

I think you didn't eat a whole lot of pasta. I think we're just the basic noodles. Egg noodles and butter was like it would get all you have was noodles and butter. Brothers would do that just because they didn't know how they're too lazy or didn't want to figure out how to cook, cook. Just the butter. Just the butter.

Butter noodles they would have. If you couldn't afford French toes and this was my Irish buddy, my Irish best friend who didn't have much money. His dad was a construction work. And first night I went to their house, they had spaghetti. And she made spaghetti and she put the meat on like in a small dish. So rationed out the the amount of hamburger that you could put with your sauce if you so chose and then put it over the spaghetti. But I'm sitting there and this, I want to say this is like the second

time I had dinner at a white person's house. And you're at the table and I'm just kind of watching. And he did a thing. They had butter on the, on the, on the, on the table. Right. And they buttered the bread fully. So each had two slices of bread with just an entire coat of butter. And I was like, are you going to toast that?

Are you striving for French toast? Is that what we're going for? What are we, like, toast? like toast the bread, bro. And he's like, no. This way you can fold it and you can put forked, forks full of the spaghetti into the bread and eat it like a spaghetti sandwich.

And honestly? And it slapped. It slapped. It totally slapped. And I just went, but it was my introduction of white people. And I was like, okay, what are we doing? Like, what are we? Just being white deep and being proud.

I ran home and told, I told my brother, you are going to let me show you. Let me show you. They do know some things. Let me show you what I just learned. Listen, you thought I had just found the Lord of the, I had found the magic ring. Because, bro, we were eating, we were eating butter bread for the next month. You know. Yeah, Dan, he said, hell yes, spaghetti sandwich.

It's a great combination. I honestly you know if Jim and John said hey we got a new thing called those spaghetti sandwich it's garlic bread and spaghetti I'd swing for it I I it's good I'm just telling you we didn't have like you didn't the crossover like and it was so the very and this was like a dear friend and the first time I went to a white person's house for dinner and I want to say I'm 10 I'm 11. I'm 11. So I'm playing basketball. This is my, my elementary school, and it's the county basketball team. We were really, we were the county champion.

But I couldn't play with my friends. I couldn't play with my black friends. I could only play the people who I went to school with, right? This is when you had to go move over to that school, right? I was bused over. I was bust to the other side of the count. So imagine eight mile. I'm at nine miles. Don't be so smart. That part, that part.

And the first time I went to a white person's house, so again, this is the late 60s, 70s, this is the early 70s. So think, remember the type. Literally think, so you know the scene where Julius goes over to his teammates? He goes over to his house and the mom is just kind of like, well, what are we doing here? Like what are we supposed to do? and my friend pulls me to the side he goes I'm so embarrassed and I said why and he goes wait to you see what she made for dinner and I said what he goes right too and I said that's fine he goes

no we never have she goes well now he messed up because he just don't say that she did this for you And I was like, Gary Bertier. Yep, you went to Gary Bertier's house. And same deal. My guy was Jamie Carrington. So he's, and he's just, he's, he's red. He is flushed red. Like, I need to go high.

Like I, like, mom, what? What was this? And she goes, well, I wanted him to be happy. So he's the innocence that makes it somehow worse. Oh, like good intention, good intention. but this and he was the best man in his wedding. So they're like, this is,

this was my best friend through forever and ever and ever. His dad was a construction worker. Took me to my very first Redskins game ever. When they had season, they had season tickets. They would always, like I was their black son. And they would take me to all the games,

took me the circles that I would have never been in. So we figured it out, right? Like he was the first one that told me what whiskey was. Like, you know, he was like, all right, be a man. He's the construction work. So, you know, he's the tough guy,

you know, the whole thing. We figured that out pretty quickly that the next meal was the spaghetti and the spaghetti sandwich. And then from that point forward, he grilled. He grilled every time I came home. And he said, we're just going to do burgers and hot dogs.

Oh, hell. Like, he's like, we're just going to do. And then he was, he was the first person that I ever met who didn't cook their steak well done. He was the first person? He was the first person

I had never, nobody in my family, black folks was cooking steak, man, listen, we were cooking the steak. We were not, we were not doing, no, we were not doing that.

And so I was sitting at, we're sitting at the table and saw a paper plate, mind you. And he throws a steak on that. And I cut into it. I'm like, Bra?

Came me. Came me. Come here. Bro, look at my plate. Bleeding. He's like, oh, that's how we eat it.

I was like, that's how y'all eat it. This is not happening. You still eat it? Oh, no. No, no, no, no, bro. I think I was just a gross thing. Because that's a kid,

I was like, oh, cook it all the way. What are you doing? Oh, I'm a well done guy right now. Oh, okay. Well, now, never mind. I grew up. Right now. Right now.

Right now, Harrison, I am a well-done guy. It is a thing, and it is truly cultural. Depending on the parts of the country, you're raised from, the quality of meat that you were born in. So there's some cultural thing to it. If you go back in history, that slaves weren't, especially in Virginia, you weren't given fresh cuts of meat. It was usually the oldest cut of meat,

and it was sometimes tinged. There was something wrong with it. So you had to cook it all the way to kill whatever bad cells, germs were in there. And that was the only way to do it. So that makes sense. Past along, fast along that cook your meat, man. I don't like, you go to a black cookout.

That chicken's going to be on the grill a little bit longer. Just going to let you know, Harrison. Don't, don't surprise, though. Your wing's going to be a little bit crisper. I'm just letting you know. It's all right. If you come to ours, it won't be seasoning. It won't be seasoned at all.

It'll be cooked, right? It just don't taste much. it's the part right it's the part and god bless becky because becky had to like cross over and go back and she would she would when we when we got back together this is literally when i knew i'm gonna marry this girl because Becky would cook like she would work a 12 hour a day um i would come off football practice or whatever it was and she would cook and like from scratch from scratch like a full meal to the point where the kitchen's you know the kitchen's a mess well we would eat it was great and then I would go straight to the kitchen and this I think it's also when she decided she was

going to marry me because I went in the kitchen I said you cooked I got the cleaning like I got and she just sat there and she was like okay this will work like we can do this um it was the learning it was the learning and Becky Becky did it Becky did things in crossing we say meeting the bridge meet me in the middle of bridge Becky was the queen of meeting me in the bridge

that her family met me in the bridge like they met me in the middle I mean her dad's a Navy captain and mom's a school teacher brother millionaire early married a school teacher brilliant folks right

her dad would take me to Navy games and you're up there with some dudes some actual dudes, right? That he's an officer and he's with the leaders. And you're just sitting there watching football. They're leaving all of me for football. But these are people who are running the planet. Right?

You just go, yes, sir, whatever, you know. And it's like, because you know, at any moment, any one of these old dudes could have me killed and absolutely get away with it. Like, oh, okay, act funny if you want to. We'll take care of that. But Becky would go, and I live, I mean, a black neighborhood.

And this is a historically black neighborhood. This is one of Friedman's Village where the first freed blacks in Northern Virginia in D.C. had got their freedom, acquired land, built businesses, and then Robert Lee took it over. And then in the war, the government took it back. and now it they moved, removed all the black folks, put them within a boundary area in this neighborhood outside of D.C. in Arlington, Virginia, next to the Pentagon.

Friedman's Village is now Arlington Cemetery. It used to be a black community. No way. Yeah. And I don't know the cemetery because it's a popular one. Well, it's America's Cemetery. But it was originally, it had been gone down. There was several people, several white businesses,

owners who said, we need to do something for these black folks, let's sell them property. And they built houses and businesses and schools and the whole thing. And there are three different spaces. Dulles Airport was also a black community. They took it over and built Dulles Airport. Dulles as a town. Dulles did not exist. It wasn't Dulles. They took it over and called it Dulles.

But Becky would come to my neighborhood and sit on my front porch. So here's this blonde hair girl in this black neighborhood sitting on the front porch with my mom waiting for me to get done playing softball or get dressed after playing football or whatever it was. And my neighbors were like,

okay, that's a cool girl. That's a very cool girl. Did they TP your house when you were in high school? Did they do that? It was the thing that people do want to blow a moon, but no. I don't remember ever having mine or partaking in it. So as a star player at a predominantly white school, my then-girlfriend, it was her task to TP my house.

so she had to go to a black neighborhood, which wasn't safe. Oh, that's just got to be terrified. At night. Her not comfort zone. At night. Yeah. When everybody's asleep driving into a black neighborhood where this sort of thing had not happened and her and her eight friends,

they're having a party. Throwing toilet paper from the tree and over the house and, you know, well, there are people who were like, like, y'all probably should get out of here. They know the area at all? They knew that this was, but it was the first time down there, right? Because they had no reason to be in my neighborhood.

Right. I lived on the other side of the county. So, but they knew where I lived because she was dating me. So it was her task of TV. It was her task. So she decorated my locker, put candy in all the locker, cakes, cookies, pies, the holster bag. But her and her eight friends from the pep, pep club, you know, they got a T.

the house is the star running back. And they did. Well, the neighbors were like, what's the deal? And my mom came out. They woke her up.

They called the house. Hey, girl, my folks are doing stuff to your house. She comes out. I slept in the basement. And she said, Derek,

I need you to wake up. Went upstairs. I said, oh, this is the thing. This is the thing. This is a good thing. Well,

the moment I said it's a good thing. Now it's a neighborhood party. So now there's like 30 people helping the eight white girls TP my house. How's your mom doing? My mom's loving it. Like she's like, she's the bell of the ball now.

All right. Until until the following morning when everybody sees it. And she realizes somebody's got to clean up a hundred rolls, rolls of toilet paper hanging on trees and on your house. So she's like, tell your girlfriend,

so you need to grab her friends to come on back down here and clean up this yard. But then it became the thing. So any big game for the next two years, they would come to you in my house and the whole neighborhood. Participate. And it was like they would, they would bring the girls cookies and bring.

Brownies. So all these black moms in the neighborhood were bringing the girls like, oh, y'all are coming to TP the house. They would make, they'd make drinks for them. They'd make cool. Like it was the whole thing. But it's meeting on the bridge. Yeah, exactly. You have to meet people so that you get to know people, like, and go to your, go back to your space. And you tell people, hey, it's cool to go to Derek's neighborhood. It's, it's cool to have him at your neighborhood. because her mom was very welcome of me. I mean, she trusted me. A part of my friendship with Sandra Bullock was that her mom trusted.

That her mom knew that, okay, Sandy went to a party with me. She was going to get homesake. Now, there was some culture to that, right? That we wouldn't everybody go mess with DP. But they were. and if things were troubled because there were there were folks who didn't want the black dude at the party.

And so my best friend would go into the party and say, okay, Derek's here, is it okay for him to come in? And sometimes the answer was no. Sometimes the answer was, no, no, that dude can't be here. What was your reaction? Just like, whatever? I don't care. Did it bother you ever much?

Think, remember the Titans. Think remember the Titans, and the scenes where you just get, go, man, that's dumb, but okay. Just kind of over it. Well, you, like, it's not going to. Well, because I had, I was pulled from an all black school, all black neighborhood at age nine, age eight, and sent across town on a bus to an all white school where they pick it to me. The very first day of school, they picketed me.

Like me and my 12 friends, they picketed us. They were parents who were, like, calling us names and, you know, they didn't want us there. the hardest part when you have other adults. Because as a kid, it would be a little bit. Well, you know, I mean, you know, and I put it in my book. I literally told the story the first day of school that the police had to walk on the bus to walk me into the school. So again, think when I tell you, remember the Titans was set in 1971, Alexander of Virginia.

I'm in Arlington, Virginia. Literally the same thing that's happening there is happening with me, except for they were in high school. They were a little bit more fully flown. I was in elementary school. And when you go through this thing, right, that what are these people mad about? What's the forest gump scene too, right? Yeah.

Yeah, like going to school. Like, why are you mad at me going to school here? They're all mad at forest for handing the girl who dropped her book, her book back. Right. Like I'm, and there were parents, there were parents who told, so again, it was the, when I talk about the thirds, right? A third of the people are like,

you better be friends with that black people. third of the parents, you better not be friends with that black kid. And then there's a third in the middle of the table. Let's just see. Let's see if we like the kid. Yeah. If he's a good kid, if he's a good kid, if he's a bad kid, don't hang out. Right.

And that's a totally fair answer. Right. It's a fair thing. So again, all the way down the rabbit hole, but that's what late nights are for. We'll go to break. We'll come back. We'll recap the sports side of it. We'll talk more about the weird foods we ate because quite frankly,

Harrison is going to have homework of food that he needs to find. and then I need to confirm with you the story that I told the other night about demolition man. Oh, yeah. So somebody found that clip. Yeah, I was going to say, I'll hold the proof. Right? Somebody, somebody

found that clip. We'll talk about that when we come back. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 937 the ticket and the ticketfm.com. Welcome back. taking Harrison back in the day, introduce them. So you then understand that they're good people, right? I'm lucky.

I'm very fortunate. I'm very lucky. Thunder could not call and says, yeah, free TP for the year. Yeah, it was because they would do five games a year for football and TP the house. Yeah. He said, now this is the late-night conversation that I did. didn't know that I needed. I never had grits until I went to basic training. After basic, I went to a breakfast joint that's sort of real grits and blew my mind. Yeah, it's, it grits.

The one that looks disgusting. What is grits? Like shrimp in grits. I, I'll, I sound stupid. I generally don't know what grits are. You, you need to go and find a place here that makes a really good shrimp and grits. Is there a good, this is my problem. I love seafood in the Midwest. It's tough to take advantage of. Tough. Not mercados. They got good shrimp. I would think Oh, it's so good. So Grits is an oat. So you have to think, what's the Joe Pesci?

My cousin Vinny. Where he plays the Lord. You didn't watch my cousin Vinny? I'm worried about you. I'm worried about you. I'll show you what we did. If you're ever around Harrington, which would be never.

I'll show you what we do around there. So in the movie, as a part of this, one of the witnesses was saying that he noticed the getaway car because he was looking out of his window. And they said, well, why were you looking at your window? You get your window.

He says, I was making grits. And they proceeded to ask him questions about grits, right? But Joe Pesci and his New York accent said, well, he's from New York. Well, what's a grit? What's a grit? And then the judge goes, excuse me, did you just ask what's a grit? And every great southerner would tell you what a grid is and what the right way to make it. And then there's a whole process to cooking grits properly. The real debate in the world

is what you serve with your grits. Really? There are pockets of this country that if you put sugar in your grits, they will fight you, fight you. They will throw hands. There are people that if you put butter in your grits, it's the only acceptable thing and they will fight you if you don't. then in the movie the scene is well that's a long time for you to be looking out the window and he said a thing that well yeah it was six or seven minutes and they said well no self-respecting southerner would not know that it takes grits X number of minutes to make so maybe your story doesn't work they got him on the grits right they got him on the grids that well you know any any self-respecting southerner knows how long it takes still don't know what a grit is what are you eating so it is a grain it's so in the full it is a ground dried corn porridge so oatmeal and its distant cousin grits now you can have different types of oatmeal porridge grits and they all have different

Different water temperatures required, different duration of, and if you're doing true grids, they will tell you they're cooked by boiling. Some people will say don't use the process dried field corn. But there's hominy grids, which is Middle America corn grids. then there's a southern version of it that is more oat and corn mixture, white or yellow. But truly, it is a Native American maize, corn, grinded porridge type of you. And people will fight you over. I don't think I think I'm... But you're from Nebraska.

So the fact that you haven't had grits scares me a little bit. a lot of people that have grits. Really? Totally wrong. 40, 64, 6, 4, 6, 8, 5. Yeah, who in the world's eaten? I, I've never ran into a family when I was hanging over at their place where they were serving grits with anything.

Dan, Dan, you're, you're hitting my heart. He said, DP, let's go with the grilled Velvita and baloney sandwich. Now, are you a baloney person? Yeah, I'll eat baloney. How do you, how do you make your baloney? Usually pretty easy two slices of bread. The ones I get, I don't know if you get this, just like the clear circles. Uh-huh.

Yeah, just slap two. those and then depending on what I got. Do you get the roll of baloney where you slice it yourself or you want pre-sliced baloney? I just grab the pre-slice. So you've never sliced it and peeled the red? We've gotten baloney but it's like the link

sausage bologna, not like the slice or into sandwich. Otherwise I've just had like the pre-slice sandwich. Dan, what are we going to do? I say it all the time. I got fried bologna. So you've never had a fried bologna sandwich. No. Negative

it's fine i mean i'm sorry if i go too far into people black skillet black skill it uh-huh your grandmother's black skill clear fully heated get three slices of balloon two at a minimum but three cut make small thin cuts three are ideal. If you only do two, the bologna will heat and bubble. It will literally rise on its edges. The middle will elevate off the pan. So you have to make three cuts.

Two cuts? Bubble. No cut. Bubble. Three cuts. Stay flat. And it will allow you to cook it to a crispness, almost black, and it's not burnt. Flip it. Same. Belveda squared cheese. The squared

block of velvita cheese. I got the velvita square block. The block of cheese, right? Don't get pre-slice. Don't do that. Get the block. Again, roll, long roll of bologna, slice. Long block of velvita. Cheese greater. Slice. No. No. Sir. No, sir. We said blocks. No, sir. No, sir. All right. All right. Slice.

On the second side of the balloon. Muster. Do not mayo. Mustard. Mustard and bologna? Sir. We will have no. We will not.

What is the last time you made that, by the way? Oh, geez. Six months ago. Okay. I was worried you're going to say it like, I remember that when I was in high school. When I was a kid, this was the jam. This was the jammy jam.

You know better than your own DNA. This was the jam. I'm just telling you this. Fried polonis sandwiches was the jam. You, listen, we would, you would, you would sing and dance why you ate this thing. I was almost there. You put the mustard on the damn thing.

Oh, you, you didn't get a hot dog. You put mustard on it, ketchup, relish, full thing. Mustard. Cetchup. No, sir, listen, listen to me. You are a Chicago sports fan. What you just said is unacceptable. Yeah, that part.

It is unacceptable what you just said, because. So from the captains of the Midway, the most recent ambassador of this is your own Brian Erlock, your Hall of Fame, middle linebacker. And he says, and he recorded it says, your hot your chicc your wriggly dog only accepts mustard because this is chicago and ketchup is for kids it really is so much sugar and ketchup but you know what

all right we can go i got a raccoon we're going to go to break we're going to go to break i need to recover from you you you these late nights are just going to be a whole interesting thing, man. Harrison, oh, man. He didn't learn too much. I think about moving me somewhere else at the company. He was. He wasn't doing that great of a job at night.

He wasn't who I thought he was. He wasn't who I thought he was. We'll close out. I want on what. I'll free Harrison up for the night. You're listening to One-on-One-on-One with DP. Brought you by Canopy Street Market. On 93-7, the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Oh, Harrison.

Harrison, Harrison. David Fultz says this. He says, listen, mac and cheese in a box with the powder cheese. So back then, you got this craft. Now, craft was the jam, but you would get the generic. Imagine five boxes of mac and cheese for a dollar. Five for a dollar. We ate mac and cheese on regular pay.

Like, it was, let's get your carbs today? I think so. I think I did. But the powder, so then if you were boozy, you will put milk. So the cheese came in a powder pack. Yeah, I remember this. That's still how it operates today. Oh, no. I think you can get crepto-a-a-a-cheas and that's powder. No, you get the aluminum package with the melted cheese in the package. You do not, you do not use powdered cheese on your mac and cheese. Don't know. No. I think it exists, though. Oh, dear heavens. But I was growing up. I think people were still.

doing that. Oh, he goes better time. 19 cents. He says, yeah, 19 cents. Back in the 80s, 19 cents a box. Okay, so that makes sense. Yeah, five, you about 20 cents a pop. Bro, right there. Bro. This is, when you were poor, when you first got out of college, the meals were as many of these things that you could do, you were spending three or four dollars a day. You could get a case of sodas for 99. You could get 24 soda, but the generic kind for 99 cents.

You could get a hell of a deal. You could get a case of the branded soda for $199. Give me something that's been discontinued that needs to come back from your era. Well, something needs to come back. Yeah. I'm just telling you. I'm telling you, if Murray's Stakes ever came back, I'd be, look, I'd be, I'd be an owner. I'd be an owner.

It wouldn't work here in Nebraska because you have farms. You have farmers, but you could get, you could get a 12 pack of frozen steak for $4.99. Have you ever leave the ticket randomly? I'm going to be keeping an eye out for Murray's. Look for Murray steak anywhere in the catch. I knew. I knew. You're not going to know I hit the lottery, but there will be signs. There will be signs.

Murray Steaks, we back on the shelf. Oh, looks. I want to right across the street. Right across the street. Murray steak. Just for grins and giggles, I asked Becky. about Murray State. Because it was the...

So she wouldn't know about the Murray State. For 30 bucks, you could feed a whole barbecue. Like, you could, you could feed 20 people three times for 30 bucks. Incredible value. Oh, so good. And it wasn't, I mean, it wasn't, I mean, I'm not sure what kind of meat it was. I'm not sure what, like, I don't know what, it said it was hamburgers. I don't know.

You guys are alive? I don't know because you got 16 of them for $2. Like you got 16 hamburgers for $2. Like you know, but I don't know what kind of meat was. It's me. I don't know. They had a boxer of eight ribbyes that you get for $4. I don't know what kind of.

I don't know. A meat. All you must know. A meat. It just said meat. Like I don't know what it was. But they still. It's like the Burkado, but only for poor people.

And it was a line, bro. You could go do this thing. Oh, my gosh. It was so crazy. But so I got the text. I told Harrison the story about going to Demolition Man, the premiere. There were two. There was one in Hollywood and there was one in Louisville.

And that they imploded a building. Like that was the whole point. He found a building that was going to go down, you know, Demolition Man. They put the demolition logo on it and they blew it up. And somebody told the story and somebody went online and they researched this. Because you know they wanted to call me a liar. Right.

They really wanted to call me a liar. Like, yeah, you went to a movie period as Sandra Bullock's date. Yeah, sure. I wanted to believe you were lying to me. Right. Right. Right. You know, like a great story.

Because it's a great story, right? You're hanging out with Sylvester Stallone Weston. One of my heroes. Yeah. Right. Like, it's the thing. But there in the video, it is what one of the local newspapers was to tell the story. Hey, Hollywood has come to Louisville.

They're going to blow up this building. Here's the movie. Go see Demolition Man. And they're interviewing Wesley Snipes away from where the demolition is happening. The impulsion is happening. And behind Wesley Snipes,

Sandy walks by, like, we're going to the limo. We're going to the limo. Sandy, her agent, Bridget Walsh. And it's her, like, because they're stars. But she has to wave her date through.

Hey, let the black guy through. He's with them. He's with us. He's okay. And there on the video is literally standing going, let's go. Can we get in a limo, please? So I sent Harrison the video so he could see.

That's true. He could actually see it. pretty funny along the way um at least it was you know what i will say the positive of that that also means that sylvester's still on actually the cool guy it's a good he's if that story's true that also means he's he's he's again they allowed me to to to go escort them to the dc opening of planet hollywood in dc um literally we left from there to get on their private private plane again very cool story of flying from Louisville to D.C. with Sylvester Sloan, Wesley Snipes. Like, oh, Woody Harrison was also there, Demi Moore, on the plate.

Woody Harrison was there? Yeah, young Woody. Is he cool? I was going to say. He's going to be a good hang. Woody's the best. Woody's the best. As they currently stand, the Royals are two and a half back in the wildcote, but the Rangers are only a game back. And you're going to have to climb over the Rangers to get to The Mariners. Mariners, won't to lose today? The Mariners.

And it didn't play. Let's see. Texas is currently losing in the eighth inning. Mariners lost. Yes, to five to six. All right, Harrison, we'll do it again tomorrow. I'll learn out. I'll learn some more stuff.

I should say. Yeah, I was given it. It's always there. All right. Appreciate you guys listening. We'll play replay for you guys. So don't go anywhere. You can watch it on the streams.

You can listen to it, ticket app wherever to get that stuff but i'm gonna work get behind there so it's last time you'll hear my voice until again tomorrow night 6 p m appreciate you guys listening 93 7 the ticket ticket fm.com