1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Congratulations to this Senior Class: May 6th, 10am

Episode Date: May 6, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with DP. Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery, on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. The fastest hour in all the sports radio. Rocky by Ella. Whether it's home, business residential, they're there for you, gaming. corporate gigs, your proposals, your Zoom calls, all the best.

Your Allo. Find more information. Online, make your text. Allo is the spot for you. I kind of want to dive into the space that we're in with student athletes. with social media and access and information overshare a lot of what we end up talking about or what folks want to talk about

is the chaos the chaos we love the car wreck we don't want to be a part of it but we want to sit back and see it and talk about it from a distance but the reality is what happens with the car wreck is that as you get closer to it you recognize the people and you recognize the humanity and then you go oh it's not the same view from a thousand feet as is 10 feet like we have to be better about how we talk about sports or the people in sports talking about the games and the scores and that sort of stuff have at it right they're

to deal with that. Their personality profilers who are good at that. Talking about the numbers and stats and the records, that's fine and then. But when we talk about the people, and most of them

are people that we say we care about. Right? So we say. You know, that these are my people. These are our people. They use for we. This is what we did. We won yesterday.

We, right? It is a lot of we at certain points. So if you're going to we, then you have to be we all the time. You're going to talk about your people like they belong to you. Like they are of you. This is dismissive thing.

We spent this week talking to student athletes who won the incredible amount of work put in. Most of us will never work at anything as hard as they do both things, student athlete, right? But they do them both. Under the microscope, with the mic on,

amplified, extremely well lit. But this week is a week of celebration for those student athletes. Some will graduate next week. Think about that. Great accomplishment. The names and faces of Nebraska, Athletics will change once again because we're going to lose some senior athletes who have

just gone through it. And I'm not sure that there's any senior class in recent history that's gone through as much as they have. Think about what they've gone through as a student athlete in the last three years. They have the, I mean, there are people going to classes on campus now, but they have the last experience of going to classes without worry or fear of infection from a pandemic level virus. And then they got thrown into it and stopped classes and had to learn. And I'm sure some of them knew how to take online classes,

but some of them had to learn how to take solely online classes. Well, what about the people who don't learn that way? Oh, I hated online classes. I would have been... There are people who don't learn that way. If I was in college during this, I don't think I would graduate. I cannot do online classes. I just can't focus.

Think of the collegiate experience. The normal collegiate experience. Just meeting people in the union, meeting people on your walk, meeting people in classes and becoming friends with people that you take similar classes with. And maybe, you know, for some students, you go on to... to do internships or get jobs in, you know, bigger businesses and some of your former classmates are there. But in this current iteration of college, you've never met that person.

Maybe you've seen their face on a screen, although a lot of people don't show their faces on their screens. Maybe you've never even heard their voice. You know their name, but you don't actually know who they are. Can't really know the teacher the way, professors the way you normally do. No. I'm still pretty good friends with them. couple of my professors.

Right? I love my professors. Shout out Lee Arbittman. Shout out Ford Clark. My guy. Right. But to talk to some of the athletes, you know, like, man, this is like,

there's a huge sigh that happens. Because it's been tough, and you hear the stories. It's good to know. But my goodness gracious, for the folks who finish next week and get them walk that walk,

Bravo. Congratulations. Bravo. Bravo. Some have been extended. Some got an extra year. Some were affected. Some just simply tapped out.

Some simply was just too much. But man, oh man. By C.J. Bye. Whatever it is? Bye, C.J. Dude. Okay.

I don't get it. I feel like. Ah, never mind. He got his moment. They're making sense. Whatever. He got his moment. He got his moment.

Deuces. This is a, but this is kind of what I'm talking about. This is actually, you know what? Go ahead. Go ahead. Thank you. Thank you. Actually, CJ, for what you just texted because that's exactly who I'm talking to.

If you're bothered by us saying, Bravo to student athletes for getting through a unique and weird time, you're exactly what I'm talking. I don't proclaim or profess that. that I'm for everybody. Usually that line is easily divided. I'm rooting for people. I'm rooting for people to succeed.

I'm rooting for people to get the value of their experience. Like, why would you not want a student athlete to enjoy or a student in general just to enjoy their college experience? Because I didn't. I don't understand. I don't understand the malice and the anger and venom and people are weird if I had it hard you have to have it hard

I don't understand I don't know I don't know those are the rules I don't know there's a their circumstance I don't understand jury says this basic human interaction has changed forever it's going to be forever different insane from my collegiate athletic experience yeah that that's just it right jury that that you had a certain way

and the freedoms that were involved the last three years have been weird for everybody but I don't have to show up on national TV every week to do this thing. I'm not represented by, I'm not representing the state. I don't have, you know, a legion of people who ride or die with my success or failure. That's not, that's not my existence. But it is theirs.

I don't have microphones in my face after going to war. Right, and I just talked to, as I said, I talked to some fans this week that, I mean, to some athletes this week. And it's just, they're, they're worn down. They're exhausted. Like they are mentally and emotionally fatigued. They're physically fatigued. My wish for them is that they get to celebrate. Like spend the next eight days, nine days until next Saturday.

Some walk to stage Friday, right? Because some of them are, some of them don't have either had their finals during Dead Week or they don't have finals because their finals were massive papers or projects that they have already completed. Right. So a lot of our student athletes who do shows. you know this was i'm like listen don't worry about doing radio this is like that and they're like no we need to we need to we need to yell i'm like no just go and enjoy yourself um so what i was really saying was congratulations for getting through a very difficult time uh j and lincoln says don't do don't too

shut up uh for me from me so j and lincoln um i try not to give people who have who who spit venom on the text line air, but in some cases they need to be heard. Like, that's why they're yelling. Why are you upset that we're congratulating people for, as DP said, getting through this difficult time? Like I said, if it was me in college now, I'm not graduating. I'm probably not graduating. I can't, I need human interaction.

I crave human interaction. I need to talk to other people. I need to see other people and to just be around. Even if I'm not talking to people, I'll just go to the store and have my AirPods in and just walk around. But the fact that there's other people walking around, like, it just makes me feel, it just makes me feel better. You're like, you're not by yourself. Like you, you accidentally bump into someone. You're like, oh, excuse me, you know, I'm sorry about that.

And then you have some weird conversation about some toy that your kid just put in your cart. Like, it's just necessary for me. So if I'm taking online classes, I don't, I don't learn that way because I need to physically see what's happening and in some cases I need to do it in order to understand and know how to get through it and how to complete it. Well, that's the shared IQ and the shared experience. You know, uh, I just, listen, I find it interesting that in this day and age where everybody has voice, right, of some sort. You can go on Twitter and just yell and scream and say whatever you want and it'll be heard or at least. you hope it's going to be heard,

that you would use it to say, to spew venom. Why? And again, I'm sorry, what kind of day you're having. I'm sorry, I hope you have a great day, CJ. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

I mean that. It could be this, look, I hope you had a great weekend. This week's weather has sucked. Well, the gloom, it takes a toll. It takes a toll. And this is the worst,

it's dead week. And you've got this weather, and people are inside anyways, trying to study for finals week, and you look up stressed. You look out the window and it's cold and raining and cloudy. Well, I was laughing because Nicolin had, Nicolin Hames, from volleyball.

She's been tracking all, all season long about one of the projects that she has due for her bug, she has an insect class. Oh yeah, she has to collect bugs. And she has to collect 30, 30 some bugs, right? Weird. And it has to be done, right? It has to be done a certain way and it had to be collected a certain way.

And she texts it the other night and she's like, I'm just like this week has got. me frazzled. I'm like, there's the rain help or does it be in the bug collection? I don't know. Some places I would imagine that it is, but that's not her only exam

and that's not the only projects that's due. But you have to go out and click bucks. I mean, but yeah, but oh yeah, she's got to prepare to take this team to the national championship. Yeah.

Like now, like they've got to prepare now to do that. And I just went, well, take them week off. It's not that big a deal. Like, go hell your business. Like, even if you didn't have a reason,

it's okay to take a week off. Like you text to you're like, you're like, Ellie's sick and I'm going to bring her. I'm like, no, you're not. No, you're not. You're going to take the day off, bro. We'll figure it out. Let me just come in real quick with my daughter.

With your sick daughter. No, you're not. I had a blanket and a pillow. She was going to, I was just going to be up front. She was just going to lay on the- No, you're not. No, Rico. She was going to fall asleep on the ground while I was finished working.

No, Rico. No, you're not. I got the work done at home, and she was knocked out on the. couch for multiple hours. Yeah, it's like you are not going to do it. I had to wake her up and I was like, hey, are you okay? Yeah.

So, he's tired. Yeah, let her, let her, look, you be the dad. You all chill out. This station will go. Like, I know you. I'm very important. I know you're important. You're very important.

But, you know, we will figure out a way to get through the day. We will miss you. Yeah. We will miss you, Rico. I'm just talking about my Pop-Tarts, but it's fun. Even when I'm not here, I'm here. You're contributing, even if you don't think you're contributing. By the way.

Yesterday was an exceptional day. And again, we had a listener who dropped off some cash just in great spirit, great motivation, just to do something for somebody, particularly, you know, if we could, for student athletes. So we put that money into the stipends. We added to the stipends of what we give to the student athletes who do radio here. And then others donated on VEMO, a couple of donated on cash app for us to do that. And so there were two listeners that reached out,

privately and one they were in a real spot like they're in a tough spot you know when somebody's power you know it's important right you go okay

and I and I swear I promise that I wouldn't give their names or tell the story and they there was a big hug involved and some tears but when they showed up

it was the facial expressions and tears that people are carrying around stress, man. They're carrying around burdens. Like, put it down. You don't know what people are going through. Put it down, like, you don't know what they're going through.

So for this family, and there were three kids in the car. And so I knew. And so then I, you know, I took some cash, and I said, go get some cash, and then go down the street and get them something. And we had a voucher from Canopy Market. And I said, go get some groceries. We had a gift card for Mary Ellen's food for something. I'm like, go go get something.

And that's what the listeners did here in a good and positive space. And the second was simply helping somebody a student athlete who was trying to get home. So we did our thing. And I said we because you listeners, you guys did that. You guys did that. I'm the vehicle, but you guys did that. So there's a student athlete that gets to go home. To see their family.

Right? To see their family, to release stress, to kind of be a part of what we're doing. And there's a family that got to have a better day in a basic sort of way. Like it's not a thing that not a lot of us have to go through. But the ones that do, when you go through your thing, say you're going through the thing so the rest of us can be there for you. And then you as listeners. Thank you.

Because you guys didn't have to do that yesterday. You didn't have to do that. But God bless you for doing it because it allowed us to do a thing. Look, we talk about being community. Community is not just the good. Community is the bad. The stress times, the times of not stress. And we got to help two families yesterday.

And God bless you for it. That's awesome. Because they needed it. Because I'm telling you, the student athlete was a big deal. It was a big deal. because they had they had some embarrassment right um yeah it's like you know coach this is what's going on and you read there something's going on what's going on well i you know i got this thing and this is what's going on i'm like well tell you what i'm not i'm not going to judge you for it i'm going to help

you if i can help you like it and because i the fan base the listener base decided to be active and already have that reserve set up, we could do it. And again, it's not celebrating us. It's celebrating you. You guys did that yesterday. So listen, as you go through your day and you talk about sports and talk about the people involved, just remember a little bit that some of these folks are going through it.

We don't know what student athletes are going through. We don't know what burdens they carry. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll just Google James Madison softball. James Madison University softball. The entire season program shut down because the struggle. The struggle is real. And folks are going through it.

I want to say Tyson, Joe, Steve and Michael, thank you. Magic. Thank you for what you guys did yesterday. God bless you. Like that's the kind of community I want to be in. And that's the kind of community I want to engage in. And everybody's going through their steps. So I don't know what folks are going through on the text line.

I don't know until you, but if you just shout out and bark out, that tells me, okay, whatever you're going through, I'm sorry. I hope it gets better. I hope it's a better day. But we're here providing free entertainment. We don't charge you pay. And we offer people a chance to partner up and do great things together. And again, the folks from Canopy Market, Moose is Mad Fresh, who constantly show up when we call and deliver goodies for the student. athletes and the coaches, for Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul, for upside bar and lounge,

for all the people to come in and constantly Beatrice Bakery who constantly show up when we call to say this community could use a smile. And we can't get everybody. Unfortunately. We can't get everybody. We like to get everybody. I mean, the one family that we were able to do something for, the other family kind of ghosted because he got real.

that, oh, like, I'll have to show you. I'm like, you don't have to show me anything. I'll help if I can help. But the guilt that they felt. And I'm like, no, you don't need to feel guilty about going through trouble, about going through a struggle. Nobody chooses a struggle. Nobody.

Nobody's sitting there like, you know what? I should have my power turned off. Yeah, like, I don't want water. Well, my phone. I don't want my. Like, I want my kids to go hungry. I don't need gas in my car. You know, and I'm like, geez, you know, I'm sitting here with meals.

Like, I can go to canopy and buy meals and take care of that pretty quickly. And that's kind of how you get down and how it goes, is that you give people an opportunity to just have a moment. A moment where the sun shines, where it's not cloudy and the rain's not pouring down here, whatever burden's on your head. Moment of relief where you can, you can breathe. Yeah. And we jokingly congratulate everybody on every Friday to say, you did it. You got through it. Yeah. Because it matters. Why do you think we choose to play silly songs at the beginning of the show? It's not to aggravate Jay Foreman. It's that people need something that, you know what, for a few people, and I don't care if it's five people, that when that song comes on and they, they begin to dance a little bit and they begin to shake their shoulders a little bit. For those five people, that's who we played for.

If I can make somebody smile, one person smile every day, a pretty good day. Yeah, if you can find a reason to laugh. But being mad at sports, no, buddy. Like I said, to the student athletes, the students in general, the ones who are going to have their week next week. It's the Friday before. This is a big finals Friday. You did it.

You did it. Job well done. Congratulations. Seriously. Job well done. For you getting through your week, your family getting through the week, your kids getting through the week,

you getting through the week, your company's still surviving, your businesses, your projects. Job well done. That's what I'm talking. We'll go to break. More one-on-one when we come back. Download our app by searching 93.7 a ticket

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