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Episode Date: April 23, 2025

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Now back to weekly rap sessions with all American quarterback Steve Taylor. On 937 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. All right. We are back here on weekly rap sessions with all American quarterback, Steve Taylor. And he's got his guest in studio as well, Tina and Kathy and Chris, all in studio as to get the pulse of Husker Nation right before the Husker games here. Steve, I'll let you kind of get the conversation started. I like to do because you and I and all the rest of the crew,

we live in a vacuum, right? We live and die and breathe hospital. And we kind of live in a vacuum. So when I was on the big red reaction, we used to take a lot of calls from the general public to get how they feel about Nebraska football. And what's going on? So it's Wednesday.

It's only fitting. So it's Wednesday. You know what Wednesday is for me. It's Wednesday whiskey and Wednesday wings, right? Yeah. So we went to Tavern 180. Of course, my buddy, cash heavy, Chris, one of the great loan officers of Lincoln Fed.

He has like an apartment at Tavern 180, right? So he just comes on down. So we go there, and I'm upset because the Tavern 180 does not have wings, but they let me go to Tavern and order my wings and bring them over. So we do this probably every other Wednesday, if not. And we just have whiskey and wings, and we just talk. Anyway, we go there, and Chris being,

Chris knows everyone. Like, he does a gazillion loans, right? So he knows everyone in Lincoln. And I go out with him, I want to have, I just sit there incognito, right? So anyway, we're sitting there and he's ordering, what's your favorite, what's your favorite meal there? Marty grot. Monty raw.

Dude, it's the best. And old fashioned. That's what he was doing. Yeah, he goes to the old spotty, but I'm a whiskey guy, but that's whiskey too. So anyway, so we're sitting there and we're chatting and there's two young ladies, right? Thank you. To Martin, right, are sitting there and we're talking. We have to be careful because, you know, they have a great bar set up.

And so we kind of let our hair down and we just kind of. talk, right? But Chris being the outgoing gregarious guy that is, he looks to his right and he sees these two gorgeous, attractive, young ladies. I'm like, Chris, you're married? Yeah.

Anyway, right? So this is exactly how went down. So anyway, he just starts a conversation with these two, right? And so then we just start talking and one thing led to another. But

you got to hear this sweater story. Yes. Okay. First of all, I have to correct. you okay it was on Thursday and you had a makeup day oh that's right I just got back from dormit so you had to make up your wings on Thursday yeah okay yeah Thursday is my makeup day if I don't have tacos on Tuesdays on Wednesday Thursday is my makeup day we'll let that be the yeah yeah oh that's fine my wife all the time so it was a Thursday it was a Thursday right so anyway we just start talking and you know when I go out people always ask me what do you think about Husker football. What do I think? I was like, well, what do you think about Husker football?

So what do you guys think? Tell me what you think about Husker football right now. Well, I like the way it's going. I like, I do. I think that there's a lot of promise. And I, you know, I think what we were talking about. Well, first of all, this, but okay, how long you've been a Husker fan? Since 1980. So do you go to every game or? I watch him at home now. Okay. Have you gone to spring games before? No. Okay, we're going to talk about that. So you're not missing anything. Okay. So go ahead. So we were talking about like, you know, I've traveled the world a lot with my husband and he always wears his husker.

He has to wear his Nebraska pullover, windbreaker. And it's like, I bet we have every picture in every country. Is that from the 80s? Because they have a distinctive look with their apex. The 80s and 90s have a distinctive look with their apex. Okay, go ahead. I don't know how old it was, but it goes back away, not that far. But you did say at one time it was red and white.

It's red and white. But now it's like brown. It just says Nebraska across the front. Okay. And so we have pictures all over the world. But anyway, he was disappointed because we were in Amsterdam. And we left the hotel and he realized he left his deposit. And so he was like, that was his favorite piece of garment.

So anyway, I don't think he's ever replaced it. Did he sleep with it? No. No. No? No. No. No.

No. No. But you know, the hotel, you call them up. We were talking about that, Chris. because you call up those hotels and they're like, oh, no, we never found it. We know very well. But anyway, he's really a pretty good Huster fan. Well, that came up because you guys.

I went to Iowa State. Oh, okay, okay. All right. Engineering school anyway. Yeah. I don't play any football over there. Well, well, look at me. Iowa State's not a threat.

No, I've moved for Nebraska unless they pay Iowa State. They don't play them anymore. So it's like that. That is true. So did you ever track it down and find it? No. Never. So did you buy them new one for Christmas?

No, I like it. Oh, come on. Father's Day. Six weeks away. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good idea. So I hear you guys are off some, off going to some vacation.

Where are you guys going? Yeah, I was talking to Kathy about it the night that you guys overheard our conversation. No, we're just a host of it. I told her to wear, I was wearing it. It's okay. I like to. and Jack, I like to look at it. It's good. So, yeah, I'm headed in less than two, or two weeks to Italy for two weeks with some

lady friends. We rented a villa in the north in Tuscany and one down south in Phulia. So we had a call last night. We're trying to get it all put together. But yeah. My wife wants to do that. Yeah, I was going to go a couple of years ago when they had to write a couple. Yeah. And she said it's too much golf. She wasn't going to do that. But your daughter was just that way, right? They came home on the 16th. So they were, That's kind of how we started the conversation because I heard her talking about Rome. My drops.

Yeah. All the women taking all these. She had these drops to kill the wine experience or to not give her a head at it. She said, I got to get prepared to go to Rome or to go to Italy. And then she mentioned Tuscany. And I said, my wife and my daughter just came back to her. So they were over there for a couple weeks as well. You got to get some of these glasses, too.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're like my wine. All you have to do is, you know, get to. 50 some years old and not be able to see and then you have to get glasses like. My wife has some glasses like that when we go out and eat.

She wears them all the time and she gets more compliments on these bipocals that she bought from Oprah wherever they buy them from. It looks good on you though, do it. Thank you. Look good. Good. So are you going to the spring game or the spring a little game? What are you going to

I typically have always gone to the spring game. So I don't know. I Not going this year? I'm not going. I'm thinking about it. they're going either too. Well, there are going to scrimmage, right, Bach? Yeah, yeah.

I don't think they've done a great job of PR because they've originally said they're not going to and now have come back and said, yeah, we're going to. But I think if they had never said we're not going to, then I think there'd be a lot bigger crowd coming this weekend. So did you enjoy the spring games when you went? Yes, I did.

What was your favorite thing about it? I don't know. Well, a lot of people to go that the game. That's true. Yeah. And after the games, I'd like to, or after the game, might always go down and get a couple autographs. That a coffee now with NIL.

Oh. Oh, I don't know if it's me. I would talk. I don't know. What do you think? Anyway, get an autograph or get a picture with one of the players. Yeah, that's true. On the sideline.

I think that was the best part about the spring game, honestly, is the ability for those people that either couldn't afford it or couldn't travel or do that, got an opportunity to come to town. there's a lot more young kids and families that would go and make a day of it. And I thought that was their chance to kind of turn Nebraska football into a carnival for a day. My wife did say you can spend 60 bucks and get a tour. Yeah, you can. Yeah.

I'm glad they gave that. Or just call you, right? Well, yeah, I'll give for half. I feel like I'm missing out now with the NIL. That's right. I kind of recoup it somehow. Taylor charges 90s. No, no.

He'll get you in the door and go for the NIL. He'll walk you through the whole experience. I had a good friend of mine last year who worked with Nebraska title. She's a lot of work. And her dad was, was ill. And so they allowed me to bring him through it. Yeah.

So are you guys excited about this year? Yeah. Or tell me, tell me what you're thinking. Like, how are we going to do? What's your, I have my own opinion how I think we're going to do. And cash heavy, Chris, can tell us what he thinks.

But. I've been reading about Dylan Raola and how he's really conditioning a lot. But no, that's been a hot topic about him. So you pay attention to that. Yeah. Well, you know, I tried you. You know, and he was only a freshman last year. Yeah.

And, you know, he did pretty darn good for a freshman. I just don't cut your hair, though. Don't cut your hair like what's his name? Mahomes. You don't like that. No, he looks good. He looks good. No, I like his hair like how Mahomes used to have it.

Oh, how does he? The Holmes cut his hair. Yeah. Oh, he did? Yeah. He didn't like it. No. What is he going to do now?

So, Dylan, do not cut your hair. Oh. Are you listening, Dylan? Wow, what do you think? Should we have overs and unders on that? That Dylan cuts his hair? Cass, what do you think about that? I think he's probably, yeah, I bet you.

No, he will not cut his hair. He better not cut his hair. He's got everything else down, the headband, the whole, the jump, the free game. The walk, he walks. So you pay attention to that. Oh, yeah. Do you think that's okay or do you think it's okay? What do you mean?

Well, like, he's emulate. Well, part of it, I want him to be his own person. Okay, yeah. All right. But, you know, he's got somebody that he looks up to. And so maybe he's trying to follow that image, I guess. Because my wife thinks I'm a little hard on him with that. But is he just being himself?

Maybe he just seems like him that he's not. I don't know. That's why I like the general public's opinion because, you know, I tell her like, like I no way I'm going to go to that extent that that extreme to look like another you might as a young kid no no no you weren't in the drive we ever no I never walked I never walked I never dressed and cut I know not to that extent what about you like no I mean I mean obviously I'm a golfer so I try to emulate golfers but um you know but I've seen it over time like Kobe Bryant trying to be like Jordan and people of that nature.

Try to be like others or, you know, wear the same jersey number or whatever for other athletes. So I think it's a compliment. I mean, I think you do grow out of it, which at some point. But, you know, so it's unique to have somebody in his position completely follow it, like to a T. But I'm all right. You know, I think it's a kid being a kid. That's why I like to have this conversation is because. you guys bring a different perspective.

You know, I did like Turner, I wore my socks up higher. It was Turner Gill did. I did. That was, you know, we did have a quarterback there that tried to say it's cadence like,

like very similar to Turner Gill. I remember listening to that and I was like, I'm never going to do that. But, so I get what you said. Because you pay attention to quarterbacks. Yeah. You watch quarterbacks all over the league.

Now I saw it this weekend in UFL, which I might have been the only person in the country watching it, but I saw a quarterback calling Omaha. You're all in every level now. They're doing Peyton Manning's Omaha call. But that's a coach. That's a coaching. I see that.

Yeah. So they're audibling and using Peyton's, cadence or call there. And so you see it all the time. So if I tell my wife, you know, I want you to look like, give me someone famous.

Oh, you better not. No. No. Oh, no, who's Tom Brady's ex-wife? Giselle? She was all on Google with the shirt and everything. So I should say, you should emulate her or something? No.

I would not. Do not go there. You guys have a famous actress that you like? No. You should not tell your wife to be like another woman. That's a no-no? She's perfect the way she is. Yeah, I'm striking out there, right?

Yeah, I would probably say something like that. I wouldn't be more like. Yeah, you don't push it off on somebody else. This is an internal thing. All right, external thing. All right. All right. All right.

I also like that Dylan Raoul has been going to all the events. Like he appears at the Husker baseball. I think he has basketball, volleyball. So you like that too. Yeah, I do. He's supporting the Husker. That's a funny one with me because I was, because, you know, 100 years ago, I played golf for the Huskers.

And then I coached a little bit. And that's one of those things because I know rules all about it and going to the events. And I think that's a good thing for all the student athletes. But my wife says the same thing as you. She thinks it's great. And I keep thinking, like, wasted time. Like, you know, could he be in the gym? Could he be in the, you know, I know he does all of that.

And he does everything at a high, high level. But I look at it as like, you know, the discipline side. You know, I don't mind the in-town stuff, the out-of-town stuff. I'm like, really? Like, he has to go to Las Vegas to watch. Oh, yeah, that's right. And things in that nature. No, you know, I would go to Vegas.

I told my wife, I would go to Vegas if I had to pass. Especially if I had access to a private jet. Yeah, I would have done that. You know, so for 2025, I'm not going to be as hard on him when it comes to that stuff. Because I think it's great that they sign autographs. I would always sign kids' autograph. He's the next another level. But I guess I'm just going to tone that down.

I really am. You know, on the other part there that we don't even think about is that, you know, the NIL, what it's done for them financially, they have more freedom. You know, we have as student athletes, you know. I have a question for you, though. What do you think of the NIL and how does that? That's a whole other story I know, but in a nutshell. You know, I think it's great and I'm happy for the kids and it's long overdue.

I mean, who wouldn't want more zeros in their checking account, right? You know, I will love that. And I'm financially okay. I'm not rich or nothing. I'm okay and I've had my successes, but, you know, it's a different world. You know, I just saw on Google the other day, the starting quarterback, you know, I had a Lamborghini SUV, you know, and they were videotaping him. The Colorado quarterback, you know, and he's just a freshman, right? Hasn't even played it down.

It hasn't even played it down. It's the way of the world. Then my wife, I get a lot of information from my wife. Now that some institution is going to start actually holding these kids accountable and going to execute their NIL packages, which I said this was going to happen. This is going to be contractual, right? I think it's great, you know, that universities are profiting off of their name, image, and likeness. You know, I think it's great. Is it going to affect recruiting now?

Is it like some schools are going to be able to offer more in your money? Sure. You know, so. That's already happening. That's why you guys got to step up like Bach so you can get that $1.90 collected shirt. Yeah. I think the minimum donation is, what, half a million, $500? In a minute, you get actually a little pullover.

Okay. versus the red and white, you know. So we do got to go to a break though. We do have one more segment left. We continue to get the Pulse of Nation, but we'll take a quick break here on weekly rap sessions with all-American quarterback, Steve Taylor.