1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - A Hockey Show Coming To The Ticket? - 6/22/2024

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

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Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 937, The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. It's your boy on a Saturday. It happens from time to time where talent can't make it, but you know what? I love the opportunity to talk to you all. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to spend the next hour covering some of the hot sports news, just some concepts and ideas, things that are going on as well.

402, 464, 6456, 685. That will let you know we're actually live. So you don't have to worry about it. You can contribute. And this would be a really good day that if you want to. I get asked all the time. Why don't you have a show where you just answer questions? Well, I'll offer that today.

If you're out and around, you're driving around. and you have questions about a particular sports thing or maybe it's just, you know, music or whatever it is. But over the course of the next hour, we're in a full range. And if you know me that when I get on one of some of the one-on-ones and it's just me, I could end up down any rabbit hole. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Any rabbit hole that we can go down. We will go down over the course of this thing.

So a couple of things. 402, 465, 685 is the Sard of Hammond tax line. If you want to be a part of this next hour, greatly appreciate you. At 1 o'clock, we're going to run Ben, how to sit down with the folks from UBT, some great opportunities to answer questions about financial literacy, conversations to have with your young people. And if you're young people, questions to ask people with knowledge of some answers.

and they have a lot of resources that are available. And that's a really good thing that they do is providing resource. They may not directly resolve your issue or answer your question. They know where to go. They can send you to the right places. So that's important. And Kurt Rohn came in. They've been really good over the course of the year,

supporting our coverage of Lincoln High School sports, the supernovas, et cetera. And then what they do in the community is across the board. exceptional. We'll go through some some hot topics as well. And then I'll use it today as an opportunity to kind of set the tone for some things that in the space of financial literacy, there are several assumptions made about my situation. And there are people that think, you know, man, how does this happen? Well, to tell you that from a financial literacy standpoint, point. My background is such that there were no finances to be literal, to have literacy

about. There's an assumption that people all share the same information. We know from our own space. And we think everybody, what we live as a norm is common, that the people in Columbus, Nebraska and the people from Arlington, Virginia, and the people from Los Angeles, California, and the people from Atlanta, Georgia, and the people from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the people from Chicago, Illinois, that they're all the same, that they all have the same experience.

They all have the same knowledge. And that's just not true. And so we have to get on common ground to understand that systemically, there are people who have had access to information, and living near a college town certainly has some advantages in pushing buttons. being able to create a curiosity.

Hey, maybe there's some information out there that I don't know. So for me, it was, I came from a big family, but we were, we were, we were not well off. So when you had conversations about savings, they were different conversations than people who had money. We, we weren't in the saving business. We were in the survival business. We were trying to have enough for right now. Paycheck to paycheck.

Yeah, I mean, it's not even paycheck to paycheck. It's day-to-day action-to-action trying to figure out how where is the next meal coming from, not about where the next set of meals are coming from. It is from being in a negative environment where there is no surplus. There's no bank. There's no, there's none of that. And so there are people in the country who, quite frankly, are asking for information. And it's pretty, it's pretty informative to know that there are people out there.

I had to find people around me. And Becky is a great resource because she has access to greater resources than I ever had. And she has an insight that I don't have. We work differently. I am a creative thinker. She's a linear thinker. And so she works from the process. I work from the energy.

Like I need to, like I, I, I, I'm creative and I can see a thing that doesn't exist. Yeah. And I can take a thing that exists and color it up and draw it up. Becky is a mover of, of, of ideas, concepts, and operation. Getting it done. Right. And she has a line to get it done. and I'll come up with an idea and she'll say, okay, that's a good idea,

but here are the potholes, here are the detours, here, here's the friction. And then I figure out from that, okay, stay focused, be the GPS. It says you're trying to accomplish this thing. It appears you're doing something else. Or maybe you got distracted. It's an important thing.

I can tell you, I can totally tell that from being around you guys. Yeah, I mean, that literally makes sense. Well, but I mean, most things are better from both ends of the spectrum. meeting in the middle. Neither one is right. Yeah, it's always, no,

we're both right. You need, I know, I know, well, you know what I mean. In our own space. Neither one is wrong.

Right. Well, we're, we, I jokingly say that in sports talk radio, you, you, when asking for opinion,

you can't be wrong in your opinion, but the likelihood that you get it 100% right is minimal. If you're talking facts, then, or knowledge, a thing that you actually experienced, you're right. If you're talking about how you believe a thing exists or how it works, if you're not speaking about actually how it works, you're just giving an opinion.

And in sports talk radio, I try to tell people, and a part of why I choose different spectrums of people who work here, people who know, who through knowledge have played the game, practiced, built their bodies up, figured out how to recover, knew what to eat, can tell you how meetings existed, how game plans work, those things. And the other side of it are people who may not have that sort of knowledge, but they have a curiosity about all of those things. My thing is that you don't have to play the game to know and love the game.

there's a part of the game that only people who play it can know. So you need those people to keep the people who don't know in check. You need to tell us, you know what, that's not how that works. I know how you think it works. Here's how it actually works. But on the other side, to have fans who become scholars of it, and I don't need students of it, I need scholars of it, people who are obsessive. There's a difference.

Right? the obsessive person who wants to go in and say, okay, I heard the person who knows. Now I need to understand. And there are not enough people who want to understand. They want to know enough to feel like they know enough. But then there are people who are obsessive about a thing. And the idea and the concept, the operation, the heart behind it,

the action behind it, the result of it, right? And we can get caught up in all of the different things, right? So it's amazing in that, from the text on it I do want, and we'll bounce on it. Who do you think raises Lord Stanley Cup? Listen, you, okay, so I'm a much bigger hockey fan than I lead on. Really? Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, I, so I go through.

So I'm a D.C. kid. Yes. And hockey in D.C. when I was a kid, when I was young, it existed in a space where there were fewer teams. So you knew more about those teams. Expansion does a thing. It's growth and it has reach. But it was much easier.

for me to know the Mahavlovich brothers, for me to know Bobby Orr and his tendencies, Phil Esposito, Gary Cheever's, to know what was happening in Hockey Town with Gordy Howe and the Red Wings, to understand what the Blackhawks and Bobby Hall were going through because it was concentrated. And the NFL was that way, the NBA was that way. There were fewer teams,

and it was a higher level of talent at the bottom of the, NHL and the NBA and the NFL because there were fewer people who were allowed in the space. It was more elite. It was more elite that if in a day where there were eight hockey teams or eight NBA teams, that means there were 95 pros. The 95 best players in the world played in the NBA. Now, if you're over 200, it doesn't say that you're not the best, but. Listen, there are guys at the bench who don't have every skill, but they have some.

Yeah. So you find roles for them. And they master it. Right? In D.C., they got the caps in the 70s. And here's the thing. They weren't good. They were not good.

There were some substantial losing going on with the caps. This was a bad franchise. single digit seasons. Single digit winning season. Not good. Right? First year 1974. And it was expansion and it wasn't good. So it said they were awarded the franchise in 72.

They joined the season in 1974, 75. They were owned at the time by a Poland who also owned the bullets. And they played, they were put in, I was in Northern Virginia. They were playing in Landover, Maryland, which is a 30-minute drive across the bridge. That's kind of how the DMV works. And we would, if you were a Caps, if you were a hockey fan in D.C., you became a Caps fan, but you were a hockey fan because of the other teams.

Yeah, that makes sense. You were, you, listen, I needed to know, like, who the Boston Bruins were and the New York Rangers. Yeah. Right. There were, a lot of the franchises that exist now didn't exist that. Mm-hmm. And you saw, and you got maybe one night of hockey back in the 70s. Okay.

Like, there wasn't a lot of, yeah. Television, again, three channels. Yeah. Like every sport. Right. But it was Canada-based. It was not, this was not the American sports. It was, thank goodness for the Philadelphia Flyers and the Broad Street bullies, right?

Because they gave us some personality to deal with. And where hockey has evolved and what it has evolved to is it's so cyclical. there are no dominant franchises who will go on a run. Like you'll have a series and you'll have a couple of years where you're doing well. But young talent and the evolution of developing talent in hockey, oh my goodness, the octopus has long reach now because it's an international game. There's an international pool of talent that you have to go over to Europe and really seek. you have to really dig.

The finesse of hockey, as it currently stands in the NHL, there is a more athletic game being played. It used to be a cerebral game. Then it was a physical game. And it evolves. Now it is more, there's more technical, there's more movement. Hockey is a, the NHL is now a space sport.

And by that I mean, spacing is vital. Proper spacing is vital. What Edmonton does is they take advantage of the athletes that they have in space, and they put the puck on the stick of the most athletic players at the most critical times. Florida is more consistent in that they run what they run, they get their shots from where they get their shots. and they defend in a way that makes sense for them.

Not everybody can defend the way Florida does. And then them in the special teams, you know, penalty killing, being able to do that, this series, this series should have been over. There's no, there's no way this series should still be going on. Edmondson should have been eliminated game four, game five. Yeah, Florida was dominating. It was just, and Florida's been exceptional in the last years of being consistent and being good in critical moments. Their playmakers are better in crisis than everybody else's.

Except Florida has gotten a come up and it's been fun to watch. So this series has been so good that it made me watch more. Because I kept thinking, oh, wow, like, this is going to be a beatdown. I was comparing it to Boston Dallas in the NBA. Yeah. That Boston was the better team. And this is how this was going to go. All you had to do is watching.

Yeah. And I thought this was, this was, this was crazy. This was crazy. Dalton goes, wait, what? I always get negative feedback when I ask you guys to talk about the playoffs. No, you don't ask me about the playoffs. You may be asking the wrong people. You're asking the wrong people.

Here's, okay. And again, I keep explaining the folks during one-on-one that we go down several rabbit holes because it's a chance for listeners to be heard in full. I think you're talking about anything. Like the best... Almost anything. Well, I am a sports guy. And there are people who say they're sports guys.

No, there are people on the station who are football people. There are some that are Husker football people. There are some that love baseball. There's some that love Husker sports. There's some that love Creighton. I'm beholding and responsible for knowing as much about everything as humanly possible. And it's always been that way. I'm not a pro, I'm not a former pro athlete.

So my way in, indoor and to get into this door. And again, a place like the ticket didn't exist in the 70s. It didn't exist. There wasn't a place where the person, you had to find there was a small, again, the NBA, the sports conversation, that it was a smaller pool of job opportunities. Yeah. You think it's small now. It was smaller back then.

Well, listen, we expanded from four shows to 52 shows, giving people opportunity in Lincoln, Nebraska, to talk about what they love. I'm not asking them all to know everything, especially when it is a student athlete. I need the student athlete to focus. First thing first thing first, you're a student and you're an athlete. Those are first things first. The hour that you come in here, I want you to share the other thing. tell me about you being a student and an athlete. If you're a scholar or athlete,

tell me about being a scholar and being an athlete. For fans, why would you not speak out about what you love? That's the whole point of this. We have people that told me, listen, we want to hear about UFC. Okay, we're going to talk UFC. We have people who say we want to hear about pro wrestling.

Okay, we'll give you pro wrestling shows. We talk about bowling. We talk about soccer. We talk about swimming and diving and going into the greater details of what it takes to be a swimmer and a diver, especially at the high level and at the University of Nebraska. I would spend my winters in Reykjavik, Iceland, because the caps would send the broadcast team over to Iceland to lecture and to, you know, kind of be. be available. So I would go with the great, so one of the best Hockey NHL announcers, Joe Beninati for the Caps, and that broadcast team of him and Craig Lachlan. Well, Lockers, you know, biscuit in the, he puts the biscuit in the basket. And I, they would teach me more about the game

than anybody else. Now, Rocky Russo, that's why we have a stars show. Because not only they're explaining hockey, but they're breaking down the process how young stars become NHL players, where they're from, who got them to the point where they were good enough to play for the Lincoln Stars. Like, because all of that's a story. Every single, like Blake Montgomery is, look, he went to high school with my daughter and he's playing for the Lincoln Stars, but he comes from a hockey family. and a person of color from the DMV who manages to put himself on the national hockey level stage

on the way to the NHL, those stories have to be told. Hockey does a really good job of doing that. So if you're, I don't care what hockey team you love. If you love hockey, you have a home at the ticket. Like I've offered that. I have a buddy, Steve Lauginessa back in D.C. who he and I did a back before you could do podcast. We did a radio show, a local radio show in D.C.

about hockey. And we would go on the road. And we would go to Philly and we'd go to Boston. And we'd drive up and down the coast. And this was before Carolina had a team. And then Carolina got a team. And that made it easier us for having another place. But the Stanley Cup playoffs,

I think there's some tweaking that should be done. and how they seed and reseed or not reseed. And then the networks that they chose to deal with, because there's a time when Gary Betman just did everything as difficult as possible, when he could have put it on the networks, paid the difference, made the additional revenue, and given the sport exposure and love that it should have had. But Betman, Betman's a different dude.

the NHL, one, making a decision, one, to get it on a prominent network, and then two, making sure that they weren't on a night when it was, you were competing against college World Series and you're competing against NBA finals and you're, no, alternate with them. Like dance to where the NHL got the spotlight. And here's the deal. I can make a promise next year on the ticket. There will be a hockey show. There will be a hockey show. Once a week, there'll be a hockey show. And there's enough.

And I don't mean, I mean, the stars will have their show. And truth be told, without, as they say, without talking outside of school, that the stars should be on the ticket. their games should be on the ticket. Yeah, you've brought that up before. Their games should be on the ticket so that hockey fans have a place. Like we work with them to get, one, get more people aware of the stars, who the people are, who the players are.

Two, give them more reason to get into the icebox and have a reason to know who they're going to root for. And to be a part of it. But also, in that circle, we're going to find our people who love talking hockey. And that's how we're going to do it. That's how we're going to do it. So with the order to break, I'll take more of your of your text. If you have them, 402, 464-5-6-8-5 DP, been on a Saturday in Lincoln, Nebraska, on the ticket.

You're listening to One-on-One with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 937, The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back, one-on-one. on a Saturday, DP, Ben's with me running the board. Appreciate that. Hello. Hello.

Ben, as we talk about it again, we'll go all over the place on these one-on-ones, especially when it's just us sitting in the room. One-on-one. Yeah, Harrison's figured out that he has to buckle up when I'm, like, if I'm doing a one-on-one and I don't have a guest, if I have a guess, if I have a guess, it's an easy hour. Yeah, he just, he just presses the on button for the mics and let it go. Let it go.

But if I'm here by myself, we go down, I mean, it's any rabbit hole. And but it's also, and I've been told this before, and I need to honor it because I have, there are listeners who have asked, you know, hey, have an ask DP power. Like, well, we can just literally ask questions because there's a lot of stuff in play.

And this is what we used it for. Back to the text line, BIB, how you're doing, bro? It says it takes the special breed of human to play hockey. But to play goalie as extraordinary. Those guys are touched in the head, if you ask me. Yeah. So Donnie Boprey and Ron Lowe were the Capp's first star goalies.

And then Olaf Kozig, Oli, the goalie, also had a major run in D.C. While I was there. And meeting goalies, goalies, we were talking yesterday about there. There are different sports that have special players, special positions that don't really exist in another, like a pitcher having the ball in his hand, standing behind the rubber, the mental process of a pitcher, knowing that he controls the outcome of this game. More than anybody else, a pitcher, that the pitcher, as he is about to tell the rubber that he has to know, pitch for pitch, throw for throw, batter for batter.

he has control of how this is going to go. Catchers also fall into that category. And then quarterbacks. Quarterbacks in football, there are 22 pieces that they, chess pieces that they have to be aware of at all time. goalies in hockey, and goalies in soccer, because if you talk to, Sarah Hawke, in her discussions, she's really clear about the process of staying, it's much more difficult for her mentally than it is physically. The physical demands of playing goalie are different than the mental ones.

Yeah, I've talked to Sammy Ock before. Yeah, and Sammy's got a great foundation for how she approaches playing goalie. And again, getting beat in soccer or hockey as a goalie is a different deal. Each one process is it differently? Yeah, she, I mean, you can just, there's so much of it where, I mean, when I talk to it, it's like, you can just take so much of the blame on yourself. Like, you do. And then when she wins, then she praises all of her teammates.

She doesn't give herself that enough credit, I feel like. It's like, you know, when they lose, I think she puts a wad on her. And then when they win, I don't think she gets the credit. Well, it's, it's, those are the positions. Yes, that's what it is. There's certain positions in sports. And it doesn't exist like that in every sport. Like, I can't recall hearing an offensive guard being blamed for loss in football.

Unless he had like an exceptionally poor performance. Right, but even then Yeah. There's so many other things that have to happen. Or they blame the whole offensive one. Right. It's not like one. Right.

Like it's it's really a thing, right? And then in baseball, it's rare that a right fielder gets blamed for losing a game or a team being bad. Right? It different. Goal is, especially in hockey, there is an athletic arrogance required

for you to accept a solid rubber frozen puck being lasered at your at your body at the velocity that NHL players arrogance that's the word right there's an athletic arrogance all right I like that well but but again those are the special positions that where that sort of thing is required I feel like in football would that be like kicker a little bit we're like you know I think kickers can be completely blamed for games though if they miss like a game winning field goal or something. Well, it's not at the same degree. Well, we always, as a coach in football, it's my fault for putting.

In that, yeah, you never weave the game to the kicker. Yeah. Yeah. No, like, no, there are other ways for me to win. Because a kicker will play 11 play. I'm more saying, you know, fans blame. Yeah, well, well, low hanging fruit. If you don't understand that the offensive guard has way more to do with the result of a game

than a kicker. but if you're blaming the kicker, you missed the memo. Like you missed the memo. In hockey, there are angles and there's a confined space that goalies have to work from. Yeah. Right. And again, there is an athletic arrogance. There is a mental.

I like that. Well, the idea is to know that I as a coach, I can remove whatever percentage of things that can go wrong from my team. Great coaches remove a higher percentage than not great coaches, depending on the sport. Yeah. Depending on the sport. Tennis, the arrogance that you can, that you are a great return of serve is phenomenal.

That somebody's going to laser something at you and that you can not only see it, read it, react to it, get it back in play, and gain some advantage from it. It's just, it's alien. Yeah, it's every time the ball. It's not like baseball where you can be like, oh, I'm just going to let it go this time. Yeah. Every time you have to.

It is the thing. It's in play. NHHO goalies, maybe. No, I can't, I can't go in that space. They're more concussed. from taking shots to the face. Interesting. Like football?

You're saying like they're like football? Because there's a lot of concussive action in being a goal. I don't think people understand how physical hockey is. Like people that don't watch hockey that much, I don't think they get it. Well, most people can't do what hockey players do on dry land, let alone on thin skates on ice. Like that was a frozen water.

Like you can't, you know, you can. To understand the athletic arrogance required to be able to take on a 220-pound man flying at you at 40 miles an hour against a plexiglass board. Yeah. And then still make a hockey play, which is difficult to do if you're just there standing on ground, moving a puck off of a curve stick. Like you do in PE. Right. Like we forget. So I'm a fan.

I tell people go and try to move backwards in skates on ice. I can't even move forward on skates. Like I understand that it's brilliant. I could hockey's like the ones sport. I nowhere in the realm that I could possibly do that. I when I was younger again, I still and I finally I know I'm old now. But there's a time up until like 55 where I thought athletically arrogantly I could still do a lot of the things that I once did.

I'm past that now. I now have that emotional maturity to say, wow, look at y'all go. Look at y'all go. Oh, that's impressive. And I'm always impressed by people who can do a thing that I can't do. Like, if I can do it, I kind of devalue it. Like, okay, running the route tree, being, get separation,

catching one-handed passes, that sort of stuff. I'm never impressed by that because I can still do those things. relatively speaking. I can't run routes anymore. So now I give route runners all the credit because you're doing it with friction, you're doing it at a higher pace, high speed. To have somebody,

if you've never had somebody want to put the pads on, which I got the chance to do, but they allowed me to do it without putting the skates on. Yeah, I don't want, don't put those skates anywhere near me. I don't want them.

Well, but they give you, they give you the guards, which allow you to walk on them and not look like a moron. but I also had a carpet that walked me out to the goalie spot. You didn't have to go on the ice. Right, right, right. Well, you don't go onto the ice until it's time for you to go and go because I wanted to have somebody shoot a shot at me.

Why? To know what it is. Why would you do that to yourself? How else do you gain knowledge? You have to know. You have to know. I'm just willing to accept. that I'll never know what that feels.

But see, that's, I think that may be a defining thing in who I am. Yeah. In that. No, that's impressive. Right.

That I have this weird curiosity. I'm too scared. I want to know what it took to put a TV show together. Yeah. To put a movie together. To put a radio station together. Put a lineup together. To draw up a football play,

to run, you know, time out, drawing up a basketball play, a game winning. shot in baseball, calling the right pitch at the right opportunity to get the desired result to put a game plan together, a practice playing together. I wanted to know all those things so that when it came time to talk about it, I had

some actual knowledge of it. And so I'll tell the story a quick before we go to break. That curiosity, while beneficial for knowledge's sake, puts me in tough situations. I've told this story before on this station that I'm a pro wrestling fan. Yeah. And I wanted to know what it felt like to be in the ring. You're a crazy man. I wanted to know what it was like to bounce.

I wanted to know what it was like to take a slam. I wanted to know what it felt like to go off the ropes. I wanted to know when we come back, I'll tell the story. All right. Of my getting in the ring with Rick Flick. I couldn't do it. I'll tell that story when we come back and finish out 101. You're listening to One-on-One with DP, brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul, on 937 the ticket and the ticket FM.com.

Final segment. It's appropriate to have the Johnson-a lead in. So the knowledge part of this thing, and again, there's a curiosity. And it's probably why I am a pretty good coach is that. I have a curiosity about things. Like I need to know. Like I need to have the grass in my hand, the dirt in my hand. I need to know rather than guess.

And I said part of that was I was telling you the story of going one on one with with guys from the NBA and the and the space between mortals and NBA players. And like you say like act like NBA players aren't mortal. Yeah. Like just like you have to just go, no. No, they are people. They're barely people. They're barely people. Anthony Smith from UFC,

talked to him all the time. And if you've ever had a UFC fighter put his hands on it, you realize they're barely human. They're a version of humanity, but guess what? They ain't like you. No. Kendrick Marr is telling the truth. They're not like us.

It's a reality. They are not like us. And so when I was in Charlotte, I actually lived across the street from Rick Flair. Literally, we were both on the corner in a cul-de-sac, and we were the two houses that said side-by-side. And so we would do things together, and he'd come on. He was a big football fan, of course.

And because of my TV show, I got to sit with him. And a big part of it was I wanted to know about wrestling. I wanted to, like I had heard stories and that sort of thing. thing. But I wanted to know what it feels like. So we met at a gym, local gym that he and the great Ricky steamboat

owned, the gold gym and had a wrestling ring in it. And I had my camera person who would whatever I did a vignette somewhere she would shoot at Sheila, chouch out. And

on this particular day, we're in the ring and we're just kind of on the ropes and just kind of talking because it's pretty like if you're going to talk to a wrestler you want to kind of be in there in there in their center and he goes have you ever just run across the ring i was like no he's like okay uh-oh now when they when they start training pro wrestlers the first thing they do is to see how how you come off the ropes can you run across the ring put your back, turn your body, get your back against the rope, push off that rope, gather yourself, be under control mid-ring, so you can do whatever thing you're supposed to do

mid-ring, or get to the other side and do the same thing. Then it's how many times can you do it without getting tired? Because if you're going to make a mistake, it's because you're tired. Yeah. Then they add stuff to it. hey, can you do a backdrop? Can you jump over another wrestler and get to the other side of the rope? And you don't have the legs for it.

If you're not a wrestler, there are pro athletes that can't do this. Plus, if you go against the rope wrong, it rips your skin off. So imagine every time a wrestler puts his back, his bare back against this rope. if he does it wrong, it is going to tear it's like a rug burn. Yeah. On your back. Yeah, those hurt.

Yeah. Those hurt. So he allowed me to do that. And then he allowed me to do one time where he dropped to the middle of the ring and I had to jump over him, which I fell because the first time somebody flops and you're one, just trying to keep your cool. But Rick Flair's renown for slapping you across the chest. with the back of his hand.

Flair's chops are renowned. And as a wrestling fan, I know that. So I want to know what it feels like to be chopped by Rick Flair. So I get in the corner and he goes, you sure? And I'm like, yep, I got to know.

My camera person is literally laughing at the car wreck that's about to happen. You know, and she's looking at me like, like you're an idiot. You're an idiot. Flare loads up. and chops me across the chest, and I'm just going to tell you my life flashed before my eyes,

because he's hitting you across the heart. Yeah. And I was in shape. I was in shape. So I was like, I can take it. I've got packed up. No. And I mean, the violence of that,

it's worse than a heart punch because he gets to build up to it. Do you think he gave full effort in it? No. And it still hits me. No, no. And here's the thing. My legs were done. My legs were like,

Hey, bro. What are we doing? Your legs were talking to you? What are you doing? Like, we're about to bounce. Like,

are you an idiot? Like, we're not here. We're telling me, you're an idiot. But the real difficult part was, and Flair asked the question. Are you good?

And I'm like, no. In my head, I'm like, no. But what came out of my life was yes. And he goes, you want another one? Every grown adult would have just said. There's no way you said yes. Everything, any adult would have said, no, bro, I'm good.

Did you say yes? I, what came out of my mouth was yes. Oh, my. And my camera girl is in tears. years laughing. He hit me again and my legs left and I collapsed. And to tell you that three weeks later, my chest was still blue and purple. But I now know that when when somebody gets slapped across the chest, I know the price they pay. I know it. I don't have to, I don't have to ponder it. Nope, I know. I know. He's a different breed. Oh.

Yeah, dumb. Maybe a dumb breed at times. A dumb breed, yeah, dumb breed. Oh, absolutely. Look, look, they say being courageous is a question. Thanks for hanging out with us on one-to-one. UBT financial literacy, Ben will take us through that hour. Then we got art show.

And then we've got art from the inside. Just community-wise, there's a big art festival last week, as a matter of fact. So I want to ask Jerry about that. do that two o'clock that'll be the program for the next two 30 and then royals at 2 30 here on the ticket on d p we're out