1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Bronny to the Lakers - 6/28/2024

Episode Date: June 30, 2024

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Broughts you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. On 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Congratulations. You're on. Yeah.

Yeah. There we go. You're on. Congratulations for making it. It's Friday. Some of you are in your cars. headed to happy hours. Some of you are headed home from work after a long week. Some of you are headed to travel and enjoy this this warm weather weekend. Some of you are already home. You're chilling.

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You guys understand that we could end up anywhere. Where we start is not where we finish in the course of this hour. But what I wanted to do was to start with the Bronny. and LeBron conversation. All right. That have gone on and there are a couple of things that fall in play. One, I am old school. I am old school.

I am old enough. Just like this show. That I know enough of the history of sports that I don't always think of things in the present tense. Mm-hmm. Some things in sports may be new to people, but they may not be new to old heads. And the old heads who are out here, the folks who are listening in the car, you old sports heads, you

silver beards, have enough understanding that not everything is new and not everything requires immediate immediate change of direction or change of thinking. With Brony and the Lakers, and a couple of things that are in

play, and one, that talent, from a talent standpoint, is one thing. Then being drafted is another, being drafted to a team with your father on that team. And then having your father be elite in that space and having some say so about the business of that team going forward. I don't particularly have a problem with Brani's career because what you're choosing

is talent. It is not the achievement of said talent. It is the talent. It is the core level of talent. And often in drafts, you're talking about unfinished, unpolished gems. You're talking about unfinished products. Nobody that was drafted in the previous two nights in the NBA is a finished complete project. No. Just to be clear and to understand it. And then when you're choosing somebody, and so in my CBA basketball days, in my ABA basketball days, and being on those draft nights. The draft was often about the things, the peripheral things that people deal with. Everybody that's on your radar has talent. Anybody who has played at a high division one level, you can kind of imagine what they've gone through, the amount of work that they put in,

the type of systems they run, their ability to travel, live on their own, away from mom and dad, away from home, all those things. You have some basis for those situations. You also understand that all of them have flaws. There's nobody picked in the first two days of

NBA draft who are perfect. There aren't none. They don't exist. Those athletes come along once generational. When you hear the phrase generational talent, it's so elite and so finite. that, listen, Kobe had work to do when he got drafted.

We knew about Kobe because of his dad, Joe Jelly being Brian. We knew about Kobe. We knew the athletic gifts that his father possessed and that were passed down. We had watched him from the time that he was four years old, be around NBA caliber players working out at a different, learning four different languages, learning what the NBA life was about. He was more advanced than any other high schooler in that era.

That's what it was. We understood it. Kevin Garnett, when he was drafted out of high school, was not a finished product. He was a tenacious dog. He had every athletic gift at 6'11.5. We understood that, but he was not finished. was a development project.

So it didn't matter. Ken Griffey Jr., the kid, we watched him at Mueller High School. We saw him as a football player. We knew that he, you know what, he could have gone to any Power 5 football program in the country and play wide receiver,

and he would have excelled. You could have penciled him in for the NFL draft four years later. Not a problem. What he did was he chose the thing that he was more familiar with, traveling around his father, He spent his early days in the practices with Joe Morgan, Pete Rose, et cetera. Tony Perez.

Listen, you're around the programs. You're around it. So when the Seattle Mariners took a leap and every draft selection is a leap, what they knew was that junior had athletic potential. And they knew that there were things. One, he had somebody else in his life who could make his friends. pro-life easier. He had a dad who was a veteran in the league and was a coach on the field for the

marriage. They knew, like, those are the benefits. We're going to have to do less coaching with Ken Griffey Jr. than we do with John Smith. We absolutely know that, one, he'll have somebody to go to to learn about the life of a major league baseball player. He had somebody to talk to about. about what it takes from a dietary need and requirement,

somebody that could tell him how to get out of a struggle. We also knew about Jeannie Bus. We knew about Jeannie Bus. Was Jeannie Bus in the executive super program? Was she a basketball player who had gone through the process, knew what a player's life was like? No. She was born into the bus family.

And as the bus family learned, she learned. And her acumen, her IQ, her basketball IQ, increased because of the circle that she was in. And it wasn't the first time. You'd think that Jeannie Bus created enough wealth to buy an NBA team, especially in Los Angeles? Not a chance. Tell me that Dan Rooney of the Steelers

had generated enough money in his life on his own without his dad art that he could own the Pittsburgh Steelers. No. I don't understand why this is the thing that people are now getting mad about like nepotism and everything like that. Like why is this the thing?

Is it just because people don't like LeBron? So here's the thing. Like it can't be brawn. It can't be that people don't like brawny. Here's the thing. if we are a country that likes to put things in the soup that don't belong, your personal feelings about somebody that you don't know, and let's be clear, the people who are LeBron hating don't know LeBron.

They don't know LeBron. They don't know Brony. As a matter of fact, is there anybody who's been hating on LeBron that knows more basketball than LeBron? is there anybody hating on LeBron who, quite frankly, is in LeBron's basketball IQ space, in his universe? Mm-mm. Is there anybody who's as good at what they do as LeBron is at basketball?

That's talking about it? Yeah. No. So to tell me, and then let's add Jeannie Bus to this conversation and say, being in the space with Kareem Magic, Luke Walton, etc. Right? And Luke Walton's another name that if he's Luke Smith, he probably doesn't get the opportunity that he got for being Luke Walt.

I mean, there's so many examples. Right. The examples exist that Jalen Brunson plays for his dad. His dad is an assistant coach for New Jersey. Why did he pick the Knicks in the first place? In New York. Why did New York pick him? Right.

If there's a conflict of interest. and quite frankly there is, but you're willing to make that professional decision because there is some greater benefit for you to have Jalen Brunson in the Knicks organization, even if you don't know that he's going to grow into being an all-star. And nobody had a clue that Jalen Brunson was going to be an all-star. At the level that nobody knew he was going to play the level he's playing.

There's people making fun of the move. Like you just go, what are you thinking? So we have to, like, we have to say often that the people who are criticizing executives in professional sports

just pump the brakes a little. Feel how you feel. You don't have to like everybody. You don't have to like anybody. I kind of wonder why people don't like people they don't know. Like that's a weird thing to me. And that's just, I mean,

probably just stuff. they hear. Well, but there's a word for that. Yeah. Right? There's a word for that. And the fact that you're criticizing somebody who has put more into the thing that you supposedly love. There's not one fan out there that's put more into basketball than LeBron James. No. There's none of the people out there who coached against Brony, played against Brony, or seen Brony train, who are criticizing him because those things from the people who know him. And literally the Lloyd family was just here,

and they played on the same high school team as Brom. That was the back court. Ramelle Lloyd Jr. and Bronte. They played their games in an NBA facility. They played their high school games. They traveled that way. They played in front of NBA crowds. They worked out as pros.

Now, if you tell me, well, he only averaged five points. Let me ask you. Any idea how much the kid from Paris averaged a game in the pro league over there? The guy that first round pick, wasn't it like 10? Yeah. And he was the first overall pick. First overall pick. And you can go through it.

There is legacy to this. And my thing is, listen, don't let your personality profile get in the way of your fandom. The two aren't, they can't always be connected. Historically, this has happened in other sports. It happened in football. It happened in basketball. Happened to hockey. Do you know, okay.

So back in the day, Gordy Howe, Gordy Howe, who's one of the top 10 hockey players in history, easily top 10, maybe top five. Played until he was over 50. Over 50. As a matter of fact, when he was 52 years old, he scored 16 goals in the NHO at the age of 52. Played with both of not one of his sons, both of them.

Both of them. And what are you going to tell me? The older son scored 80 points that year. And there were people. who thought they knew more about hockey than the Howl family. Yeah. It's just people that act like this is the first instance of like this happening. Well, that's why we're here to remind them.

Like even in the NBA, just the NBA, just take just the NBA, front office, ownership, coaches. I mean, even Wode said this on ESPN. It's like there's nepotism all over the week in the NBA, not just the NBA. It's all sports leagues. Like this isn't like it's just because this is LeBron and he's a huge name. That's why this is getting so much publicity. Here's the thing, Ben. Yes.

What does your father do for a living? Works for Frontier, phone company. Okay. So if your father said, I want my son to go in business with me, how much pride would it give your father to be proud of you and work side by side with you? Yeah. Right?

It would mean a lot to him. Mm-hmm. And your father's, he's competent enough to make a decision that he's not going to ask you to do a thing that you can't do. Yeah. Why? Because it would affect his resume, his reputation. And it would affect me. Right.

Like, he's not going to put you in a situation that you can't succeed. Mm-hmm. Now, who better to get you to work hard enough at your job than dad? Yeah. Right? That, hey, here's the thing. I can tell you with zero reservation that if my daughter decided she wanted to stop her career and get into radio, guess what? She'd have a show the next day. She'd have a show tomorrow.

Yeah. And I would train her and teach her because you know what? What I know about this business? I could teach her because I teach people every day. It's literally what I've done for the last 35 years is to teach people how to do this. What do you, one question I want to ask is what do you, the one argument that I do kind of see is people saying,

why wouldn't Bronte you want to kind of spread his wings to get away from the bronze shadow, you know, kind of try to make his own path? If, again, you're talking about one of the great basketball IQs ever. Yeah, in LeBron, yep. Ever. He's on the Mount Rushmore of basketball IQ.

Maybe, I mean, also talent, probably. And talent and fiscal business. Yeah. And the psychology behind it. Everything when it comes to. Every, in every facet of pro basketball, LeBron's elite, why would you want to learn from somebody

who's less than your father? Yeah. Cal Ripkin Jr. was a young player and Cal Ripkin Sr. was in the Orioles organization. Cal Ripkin won the starting job

and was a rookie shortstop for the World Series championship. Baltimore Orioles. Two years later, that manager stepped down, and Cal Ripkin, senior, who was the third base coach and had been in the organization for almost 30 years, became the manager. In the minor leagues, there was Cal's little brother, Billy. But Billy was the best second baseman in the organization. So what did they do?

They brought up Billy. play with Cal Jr. for Cal Senior. Not one word. Crickets. Now, people talked about it because there's a year where they got off to a terrible start. But the reality was Cal had invested his entire adult life into the Baltimore Orioles and baseball. Was there anybody out there that knew more about baseball than Cal Ripkin Sr.

The answer was no. The answer was no. Why would you want to go somewhere else where they're not going to look out for you at the high at the same level that the Lakers would? Yeah. I mean, if you, let's say he'd get drafted by the Hawks.

Like, they're not loyal to Trey Young. What makes you think they're going to be loyal to Brony? Yeah. Like, I mean, I'm going to be honest. I mean,

it's probably the best place you couldn't land it. It's home. It's home. You live there. You live there now. and your dad's on the team. Your dad's on the team. Your dad's friends are on the team.

You know the area because you've been coming in the, you've been working out at those facilities for the last three years. Your high school team played there for crying out, it's tailor-made. But there are people who are upset because they want to be upset. And I'll say this to you. Here's a weird thing for me that you can like or not like, LeBron. But to not understand the business decision that was made is a weird thing.

Yeah. It just is. With order to break, brick and mortar, we're going to jump over to the Royals, get you set for a night of Major League Baseball, and the Royals on the streams. Stay with us. We'll get it to the families behind sports. I want to jump into it because wrestling is a space where families matter. Generationalally, there's talent that stays in place, and those decisions are made. And then I want to talk about one of these families, the Alloo family, the Alloo family, where a similar situation happened, that more here on one-on-one. You're listening to One-on-One-on-one with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul, on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com.

One Nation, under a groove one-on-one on a Friday again. Congratulations for getting through your week. We did it. man it listen there are times you're not real short like you go okay um but i always said that you know my my uncle used to say this thing um every day like the first thing he would say good morning you're undefeated who you're undefeated if you if you made it to the morning you're undefeated um the thing that you worried about the thing that bothered you the thing that you stressed over,

the thing that hurt you, the thing that just was in the way, nothing got. Mm-hmm. Nothing got you. And it was maybe one of the most empowering things that I've ever heard. When somebody just, just from, like,

when in doubt, remember that you're undefeated. People take it for granted, just making it one day at a time. You're undefeated. That there are people, I saw that today. There are people you're a,

who didn't make it today. Mm-hmm. You know, they didn't get there today. And it's a thing. It matters. My mood's usually pretty good. On a Friday, you know,

it's beautiful. It's warm out, but it's beautiful. Yeah, it's not, it's not like hot like it was earlier in the week. Yeah,

this is a nice day. It's a nice day. Well, here's the beauty of being down here at the corner of 11th, no, is that we can see out the window, and the tree out here

always tells me the truth. Okay, interesting. That tree, like, I pay more attention to that tree than the weather report. If, well, because I know that when I walk out there now, there's a slight breeze. Yeah, trees are good at telling that. Right. It'll, again, this is a pretty sizable tree. Yep.

Even, and then the different levels of the tree will tell me that there's different level of breeze going on how it's being affected. So if the bottom branches are moving, it's a heavy breeze. Mm. and it tells me direction. Like when I walk out here, I'm not walking into a surprise. It's like, oh boy, like last night, walking out right before the storm,

it was letting me know, hey, bro, things are about to get busy. Yeah. Walk with a quickness. Get home, get home. There, we were talking families, and there's some really cool families in sports. And I think it's a big part.

Like, we miss it. Yeah. And we talk about coaching. and children. But what if I said that you said, why would you want to play for your dad? That's what people are asking. Well, but remember this.

The greatest women's tennis player ever played for her dad. Richard Williams did the work for Venus and Serena. that turned out pretty well. That's an understatement. Right? And that they advanced, right? That gave the foundation. Yeah.

And then they went on, they have other coaches now. Yeah. But the foundation was family. The foundation was family. And this station, we do a lot of wrestling talk, but it's mainly because some of the best stories, some of the greatest lessons, come through wrestling. Pro wrestling's been really good about telling some of these stories.

And there are, wrestling is such a generational thing. Some of the family names, and like now the Atoi family with Roman Reins with his birthday. But his father just passed away, who was Sika, I don't know why. And Sika was a part of one of the greatest tactics. teams at him and his brother, Afa and Sika. They were known as the Wild Samoans. All right. And they were trained by the high chief of Samoa, Peter's Maya Vian.

All right. So imagine that wrestling is so much in your culture that the high chief is there. And of course, it's a part of the bloodline story now that the high chief is the head of the table. But that it's been passed down and that that family is, connected to the Rock. Yeah. And the Rock's dad, Rocky Johnson, was a world tag team champion. Mm-hmm.

Now, again, who do you want to be trained by? Who's going to love you best? Yeah. Your family's going to get you through and it'll teach you. And there are times when you need to separate. Yeah, I agree. Like, eventually he's going to want to get out of his shadow. Right?

And it always happens. Yeah. But that's the best shadow to get out of. True. That's that ideally most dads that are listening would love to take their son under wing and have them do what we did and then do it better than we did. Yeah. Like rules of the game of engagement as a parent. Like young Skywalker.

Right? You want your young one to take your best features. Make them better. And make them better. You want them to have fewer of the flaws. I tell my daughter this all the time. And I'm honest with her about, look, her dad, I'm like, I was not always the same. So I would say, I made mistakes so you don't have to.

I made these mistakes so that you don't repeat them. That's literally, as a coach, me telling young people, listen, I'm going to give you some lessons, don't repeat the mistakes. Like, I made those mistakes. Like, I, listen, I, I made a, I made a choice on, you know, where I was going to go to college and why I was going to go to college, how I handled high school and education and academics. I mishandled it. I mishandled it because it wasn't, I didn't recognize the importance. I didn't have somebody in my family who had higher education who could tell me the value of education. I was identified.

I don't think I've ever told this story on it. Go for it. I was identified at age eight of having an IQ of 151. 151. And as a part of the busing projects, I was pulled out because of this testing. but I wasn't applying it. I wasn't applying the brain.

I was just disinterested. I was bored. I go to school and I would create trouble because I was bored. I wasn't being taught the way I wanted to be taught. And when I got to high school, that became a problem. It was a problem because I had a teacher, my English teacher, and shout out to Ms. Bullock. right now. I had an English teacher who told me in week number one that if I was so disinterested

in her class that I didn't have to come to class because I would be a distraction. She would let me know. She would send word when I had an exam or a quiz that I had to participate in. And I would come in for those days. And if I passed, she would, that was good enough because her class would go more smoothly if I wasn't in it. devil, right? Went through a whole year of this, whole year. I get a B. I take the final exam, I get a B.

And I think I'm done, like I'm good. So if I get a letter from Arlington County that says, I didn't attend enough classes to get credit for that, for that class. I didn't spend enough hours in class to get credit for it. So I, with a B, had to go to summer school. Yeah, wasn't happy, but it taught me a lesson. Trust the process.

Go through it because I didn't want to give up those two months. I don't want to give up those two months of summertime. Oh, yeah. Now you can tell me instead of one hour of English a day, I have to do it for four hours for two months. Oh. During the summertime. During the summer, my friends were playing ball.

were travel baseball, you know, they were going to the pool. And there I was sitting in an English class listening to a guy tried to explain to me the values and virtues of the poetry that is Simon and Garfunkel. Sounds like a blast. Oh, oh, I knew the sounds of silence back and forward because he, that was his, that was his jam. And, and, and, and, and, you, that, that was his jam. and you had to learn it. And so you just go, wow. So I always tell people from that standpoint, I didn't have that.

My older brother was my icon. And once he went to college and he came back and would tell me, okay, here's what you need to do. Like, if you want to go to college, you're going to have to, you're going to have to buckle up. Like you just are. My senior year, I got it right.

But because I waited to my senior year, rather than doing it as a sophomore, I was behind. People were trying to recruit me, but I hadn't put in the academic. I didn't have the academic resume. I had the test. So my SAT score was fine.

1140, which isn't great now, but for a black kid in 1980, that was I was doing okay. Like I could get in any historically back college or university to place. But if I wanted to go to UVA or VCU or tech, I need to get my grades up. And I had to do that.

And I had to learn. What a terrible mistake. But my brother was like there to lead me. My oldest sister was a librarian. She was an athlete. They finally got to me later in the game. And you go, man, some of my friends had families who were second or third generation college student.

It's always hard to be the first. To not have that base. if I'd had a parent who could teach me that, it would have made all the difference in the world. All the difference in the world. So it's a big part of it. Like sports is really good about handing it down. Scott Frost used to talk about the fact that he had athletic parents.

Weren't both of his parents in the Hall of Fame here? I'm not for sure. I'm pretty sure that his mom is. But imagine having that. Yeah. that Jay having Chuck Foreman in the family and that they came from even around Chuck Foreman, Jay being around the NFL and being around football and being around pro athletes gave him an advantage that nobody else was going to.

And I guarantee you it helped in his recruiting because, oh, that's Chuck Foreman's son. I mean, yeah, this isn't just sports. The fear this is like everything when it comes to life, you know? Like it's easier to get a job somewhere if you know someone that's there. Jay's biggest job. Yeah. Jay's biggest endorser was his father Chuck. Yeah.

Like we can kind of see what Jay's going to grow into. People are going to take advantage of it. And I believe that one of his first offers was his dad's alma mater, the University of Miami. Yeah, he's talked about that. Yeah. I don't know why people want to act like this is a big deal. Like the what if you went there. Listen, it's through a thing.

that in each sport, Steve Alford, son of a coach, Bryce Drew, son of a coach. There's so many coaches who are the sons of, they just went into the business in the same space that they were in. Yeah. And I don't know, there are tons of,

I mean, we were joking about Buddy Ryan with the Eagles, as the elite developer of defenders, with that Chicago Bears. Well, his sons are coaches. Do you think that if their name was Rex Smith, that they would get the same attention and same credit as if their last name was Ryan? What about the Mannings?

Right. Listen, Archie was a dude. Archie was a dude. Archie went to Ole Miss. Peyton chose Tennessee because he wanted to do it on his own. Eli said, you know what? I'm just going to go where dad went. Because it makes sense.

We know how to operate at Ole Miss. We know how to do that. There's a reason why this stuff exists. It's not new to the James family. It's not new to basketball. It's not new to sports or anything. It's not new to business. Listen.

That stuff has always been. We can rattle off a whole list of companies that are power companies in Nebraska, in Lincoln. And it was passed down. Oh, yeah. from dad or granddad to son to dad to son. That's just how it works. Or granddad or grandmom to mom to daughter.

It happens. It's happened in sports at Nebraska. A lot of those names that are on that Hall of Fame down there had daughters who came through here for the very same reason. So stop it. It's just weird. Yeah. And they're just pointing out this brawny and LeBron incident.

It's just like getting all the headlines and making people. Yeah, they'll figure it out. I think it's more LeBron than it is the situation. Well, I still haven't figured out the whole LeBron hate things. I don't get it. I mean, he's not my favorite player, but like I. What is he done to anybody in Lincoln, Nebraska? It's not like he played at Creighton and you're mad at that or he played in the Big Ten and you're mad at that.

Look, he could have gone to Ohio State. He chose not to. He hindered that entire basketball program, which they thought they were going to get him. Yeah, he bought him new tennis shoes. You can be mad about that. But he bought Ohio State tennis shoes. Okay, we don't like you. I don't, I don't like.

I don't know. He's one of the, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's one of the 10 best players. I mean, people argue that he's top two or even the best ever. Top two, top. Right. Yeah. And if you said for what he's done off the court, that his ability, one, to build a school, to give people scholarships, to send people through to make their high school

experience better than that. You ain't got to like him. I don't understand the hate. Maybe they don't like him because Space Jam wasn't good. Yeah, I'm a little bothered that Space Jam 2 was made. But again, I can't even be mad at that now because that dude's going to be wearing a Husker, Husker jersey in the fall. So, yeah.

Hey, man. Look, look, every Husker fan, you might have to go back and watch Space Jam 2 now. Just got to let you know that a Husker is, uh, is LeBron's son. in the movie. You're going to have to, you know, you're going to have to do that. We'll go to break. We'll come back and close out one-on-one on a friday. You're listening to One-on-One-on-one with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 937, The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Final segment on a Friday. I was supposed to be in Vegas for UFC.

It's UFC. It's their fan festival. And it is three days of just, it's amazing. It's like their Super Bowl. Their fan fest is like their Super Bowl. So imagine the same crowds that you have for Super Bowl. They sell tickets. We were there last year. I was going to take Nick this year.

Rico and I went last year. And it is, they had us set up to broadcast from there. Okay. And they deliver you fighters. Deliver. Yeah, they literally just, they will line up. Anybody that's there going into the UFC Hall of Fame, they bring to you.

And you can interview them. Then anybody that's fighting that week will come to you. And that's pretty amazing. And then fans. And it's such a great event. And tomorrow's car is going to be a great event. And tomorrow's card is going to be a great one. Of course, they had it

playing that it was going to be Connor McGregor, but Connor is not fighting. And Anthony Lionheart Smith from Nebraska. Nebraska City stepped up. Yep. He stepped up and made himself available. Short notice.

Anthony's everybody, I've made it clear. Anthony is one of my favorite people. And for him to go through this thing, which is to put yourself through the torture that is, UFC weight cut to do this thing. But they sent the list of the people that they had assigned for us to interview. And it's a who's who of the UFC.

It's literally, I mean, it's Holly Home. It's like, Connor is not going to be the Chandler. All the, anybody who holds the title out of Sonia, like it's a full list. Mm-hmm. And to miss it, kind of,

me because it's your chance to sit out and have conversations with the best in the world. Yeah. One-on-one best in the world. Mm-hmm. And so I'm a little sad because I wanted to be in Vegas, but we had other stuff going on. So I was like, okay, fine. Yeah. We'll do this.

But if you get a chance, again, if you're looking for a place to watch UFC 303, you can head down an upside barn lounge. Say how to Elena. her and the crew will take care of you. Elena's good people and they've turned that bar into a really cool spot. It does very well. She won't bite. She may yell. She may bark. She may bark. Like if you're misbehaving, she won't bite though. Yeah. Yeah,

they've got a pretty good menu these days down there so you can do that. Of course, just Perera versus Pajasca. It's a rematch. Pereira took Battle 1. It'll be a good one. But those, again, they filled in. They both took it. short notice as well because they were not supposed to be the features for this event. So Bravo to that. That would probably be the plans. What do you have planned for your weekend, Ben? Well, I'm going to be here tomorrow to one. And then I don't know. I don't really got too many plans because I'm going to Colorado on Tuesday this next week. So kind of just going to be chill until then.

Okay. Well, that's good. Look, it sounds like a plan. I'm excited for Fourth of July. Yeah, it's going to be good. And we're, for the record, we're, I believe it's the fourth and fifth that we're off. Yeah, we're off the fourth and the fifth. So folks will have that. I think the Sunday shows will be there. We will probably work for Sean's camp on the sixth. Yep.

Sunday shows should be good as long as they come. So we'll have live and local broadcasts Saturday, the sixth and Sunday to seven. But the fourth and fifth will probably go national or maybe. Maybe we'll run replays and we'll figure it out next week. Again, in closing, through all of this, a monumental and loud shout out to the three young men from the stars that over the next couple of nights, their lives may change. Now, they've all committed to verbally committed to colleges to play,

pending said draft tonight and tomorrow. So first round tonight. Um, there is a Lincoln Stars player that is considered top 35, uh, in the draft. And so that's, you know, kind of the range, um, for those that can be there. And then, um, of the three, I would imagine that two of the three or maybe all three, um, get picked up tomorrow. Uh, so either today, tomorrow, uh, this would be good news for the Lincoln Stars. Again, congratulations to those three young men. Congratulations. Um, congratulations. Um, congratulations. Congratulations to Rocky Russo, Coach Rocky Russo in what he's done. He had quite the draft success a year ago, his development and his love for those young people. And then sidebar to the families, to the Billet families who allow these young people to move from their homes, stay with them, grow, develop in a community of safety of and support. The Billet families of the Lincoln Stars, wherever you are, whoever you are,

thank you for doing this for those young people. Yes, those are big nights for you as well tonight watching your babies move along and get the success. So good luck going forward again. Be safe on a Friday night. Ben, thank you, kind sir. Thank you, D.P. For what you're doing. And y'all enjoy your Friday.

That's it for one-on-one here on 93-7. Peace out.