1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - DC Bar Stories w/ DP: September 30th, 2026, 1:00pm

Episode Date: September 30, 2026

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Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation on 93-7 The Ticket. Say what? Hour two! Let it move you. Let it move you, Bach. So would you play air guitar, air bass, or drums? I always like air drum. Yep, get them, Bot.

Get them, Bob! See, if you're not on the stream, it's not our fault. Hit them drums, Bot. Hit them drums. This doesn't look anything like the real drum. Right. just showed, hold on, we got to hear the wrap. I got to hear the rap.

I just showed Bach a live video of the band that we were just listening to. Bach, what comes to mind? Well, not is what I was expecting. They did not look like you thought they would. No, they did not. Yeah, the band is Sam's house. And yeah, I'm to this day, I will eternally forever be a fan of that band. again, they would play, they would play my bar, D.C. and it was always, they turned out,

the Washington Capitals came in, and this is in the Yarmil-Yagar run, and they came in for a post-Capt Games party. And imagine, if you want to, you just want to, you want to put a smile on your face, Bach. Imagine 20 hockey players, European hockey players, just jamming out to that. Right. And hockey players postgame differently than every other athlete I could possibly imagine. The beer consumption at NHL is top tier. I think it puts baseball and football to shape, as a matter of fact. I think the NHL beer consumes at a higher level than everybody else.

And let me tell you, they're in the bar. And half the bar we had carpet, right? It was a pretty nice space. Yeah, beer stains, man. always had the wet back. Always had the wet back after a caps game. Always had to wet back after post caps game. Wizards, maybe not so much.

Mystics, maybe not so much. NFL Sundays, maybe not so much. But after a caps game, man, for whatever reason, the beer spillage level goes way out. What is that, Bob? What is that? I don't know. What do you think we attribute that to?

I don't know. I've heard, I've heard before the hockey players like to, like to post game a little hard. Yeah, a little hard. Freddard Horberg has a question for us. I heard the swimmer's divers on your show before. Have you had Coach Pavel Morales? Coach came on with that group. So Audrey and Reagan Hensie, the diver, Madison. There were some folks who did the dang thing. And the same thing for gymnastics, where you had Kayla, Michaela Curtis, Kenzie, Roby. Kenzie Davis, they all came in and put their time in and told their stories. And yeah, we were trying to get it crazy. Trying to get it crazy.

And the door's open. New Gymnics coach. Again, I don't know what their schedule is. I don't know what they're told to do and what not to do. I don't control what happens in the athletic department. But I repeat, and I'll say it as loudly and

as profoundly as I can say it. every single coach has been offered an opportunity and an invitation to come down here and tell their stories and talk to their family, every single one. Every single one. So Ben says carpet on the floor. That was definitely not on U Street. Carpet on the floor was at the time,

Bockett was the MCI Center. I believe when it was open it was the Verizon Center. and then it became the MCI Center, and now it's CAP-1, Capital One. They call it the bank. But on the, and again, I wish, and this is where, Baca, I have to be careful

when I speak to things they tend to happen later. But I wish, you ready for this? Mm-hmm. I wish there was a sports bar in the venues in which sports are played. Here in Lincoln. Yes. So we had the space 10,000 square feet, and it was in the MCI Center on the, not on the main concourse level, but the second level. So which would have been club level.

but you could take, it was open to the public. So everybody, you just take, you come in the main entrance, you get on the escalator, you go at one floor, and you could walk straight into the bar. And the bar, again, 10,000 square feet, probably seating for 350, 400 folks. Full bar. Full bar.

So imagine, you know, the space over at PBA on that concourse level, on the top concourse, or the middle concourse level or the top level, that bar area, they're close to it, but that's like the club area. Well, imagine that as a bar that's open to the public and you're having events. So pregame, you would just go to PBA and there's a pregame.

So what I decided I was going to do was put a band in that bar for the pregame. So if you're coming down to party, you're coming down to party. Let's get it. 90 minutes, 60 minutes. minute, whatever it is, come get it. And you're already in the building. And you could leave my bar. So you walk

in on one side, which was the hallway. But if you left the bar from the inside, you would scan your ticket and you would be in the arena on the club level. So people that even don't have tickets could come in. People who didn't have tickets come to the bar.

So that's where people would come. If you didn't have tickets. But of course, you know, there was an in-house you know, the circuit TV in the building, so you could see what's happening in the building. You could see that in the bar. So, Bach, if you're watching the Wizards

and you don't have tickets to watch Jordan and the Wizards play the Bulls or the Lakers, you just come to the bar where the action all is in the room where it happens, and you spend your money. You spend your money. You just don't spend it on tickets. You spend it on beer and goodies and food. Was that the only bar in there?

Yes. Okay. Yes. No, there was a restaurant. So we had a steakhouse on the first floor on the corner of F Street, which is where in D.C., F. Street. On the corner of it, we partnered with Nick and Steph's Steakhouse out of New York City. And it was fine dime prime ridge dry age steak. Yeah.

Dry age, you could pick your steak out of the dry age chamber. aged to perfection, to your level of one. Different striations. Yeah, Bach, you got to, I was in the lab, bro. It was amazing. And then, so the fine dining folks, so Jordan would have his stakes, and he would actually have his pregame stakes

and his post-match stakes. Little known story. So the Rock, the Rock, loves his steak. Loves his steak more than anybody I've ever, known. The Rock would have us deliver. He came in for a match, came in the day before to do

an autograph signing, and had the steak and said, this is the best steak, can you ship? So for two years, we shipped the Rock steaks every month. Yeah. Yeah. Janet Jackson, Madonna, those are all

like, you know, we had the best side dish I've ever had ever on the planet. We had a blue cheese mashed potato. fuck just for grins and giggles next time you make mashed potatoes at home scoop out the middle pour in blue cheese crumbs cover the blue cheese up stir it'll change your world it'll change your world yeah yeah and then the sports world we did a lot of wings and burgers and all that sort of thing um and then afterwards

right so instead of you just leaving the stadium the arena you go to the bar because the band's the band that you just heard is playing in the yeah how many people took so much advantage of this i would think it would be easy to get pretty uh inebriated and then go to your seat and then come back and get more in you yeah yeah the answer is yes plenty the answer is yes The answer is yes. I hired the entire offensive line first and second team from Howard University to be security.

Just to tell you, hey, Bach, we didn't have no problems up in that, right? You hear me? We, we, on a given day, we had 3,000 pounds of security. Mm.

At every door. That's enough, sir. that's enough yeah yeah it was pretty cool but imagine that at PBA if you could just go

and I know you have the club level but you have tickets for the club level this was open to the public and we so much so that we would have bands even on nights when there was no event in the arena we would open the bar and we would have these bands that would draw we would have 3,000 people that pay $20 each just to get in on Fridays and Saturday night,

dress up, full suit and tie, whole shabangabang. Yeah, pretty cool stuff. And then imagine if there's a concert, we would have a band. So if it was a rock concert, we would have my buddies from the Eccentrics. They would play. Or if there was pop, I would call weekend excursion and have them play. Yeah. So imagine that you're just jamming out after the concert and then in walks Janet Jackson and her dance crew. Oh, hi, Ms. Jackson. Hi.

Oh, what, what can I get you? I don't know. Then we just came to dance. Okay. Dance on. My bad. This is awesome. And most, most acts who came into the arena. And again, this is, so imagine. imagine who plays a PBA. Well, that's who was playing it in that arena. And I had keys to the entire place.

So I would go down in a locker room. There were quite a few people who wanted to, who would come to the bar, hoping that I would get them into the arena. And there are sometimes when I did. Yeah, back there. Of course I did. Of course.

But there were also times where, so if there was an opening act, so imagine 311, and limp biscuit and 311's playing and then Fred Durst comes up the elevator into it and he's like

I hear you have really good wings well hi Fred how you do it? Yeah let's get you guys some wins and then he would find like the band and he would just jam with the band it was a pretty cool deal and I was there until 9-11

and then it stopped us from really having events for that run and then that's when I got called to Utah And so I took the Utah gig. So pretty cool stuff. Ben asked, did you ever throw out Rowdy politicians? So my bar was the place that politicians wanted to host their events. We had fundraisers once a month probably.

Twice a month. I would imagine we, yeah, once a month. And I met everybody, Congress, Senate, that you could, like everybody came into the bar. That's just a meeting place. Or they would come to the steakhouse. they'd come up to the bar. Or they'd come to the steakhouse and they'd send their staffers to the bar. And you better believe they talked about it.

Yeah, I mean, just imagine that I would have lunch once a week with what's untowled. So the cool thing about the MCI Center was that the Wizards practice facility is in the MCI center in the basement. And you could, you could. You could, so see how we have this window here in studio. The practice facility was right here. And you could just stand in the window and watch them practice every day. Yeah, it happened quite a bit.

Was that, Toronto was there for a few years. Yep. Remember him in there? Yeah. Think Kwame Brown top draft pick. Yeah. That's the run. And Yarmie Yaga joining the capitals.

That's the era that we're talking about. So, yeah. Mike D says, I picture bands like the busboys playing your club there. Now, Mr. Mike D, let me tell you what a home run you just hit. Because back then, the bus boys were my jam. My jam.

And the brothers who lead the bus boys. So think the boys are back in town, American worker, there goes the neighborhood, minimum wage. Like, I'm a bus boys. Listen, I saw the bus boys open for Dave Matthews in Charlottesville, Virginia. Yeah.

So on one particular event, it was Fishbone. Fishbone was playing the building and the opening band, the Bus Boys. And they did an acoustic version with just the keyboard, with just Brian, Brian, the leader, and the keyboards. but they sang the song. They just did a sing-along in the bar after the show. Yeah. Yeah.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I am a member of the original Bus Boy fan club. Love the Bus Boys. Bach, I can't imagine you're familiar much with the Bus Boys. Not too much. I looked him up. I mean, I know some of the song.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There goes the neighborhood. There's what everybody said when I moved to Lincoln. There goes the neighborhood. And now I sing it back to him. We're not hanging out with no Carol and Bob. Yeah, their band stand thing. That's the band, though.

That was the space. Bands like Deanna Bogart. We had a lot of acoustic shows. So imagine all the bands that were playing. you know the VIP meet and greet they would do those in my bar so if when Hootie came to town

they would get the acoustic stuff and invite 200 of their closest fans and friends and they would play everyone who Kane would play there Hooters 38 special I'm trying to think of the roll call Molly Hatchett did a

meeting greet there um Who else went? Who was in that era of showing up and doing events? Madonna was there. Paula Abdul did a meet and greet there. Yeah, it was pretty cool. Pretty cool.

Got to say, it was pretty good time. Eric, I'm sorry. That blue cheese mashed potato was bomb, bro. Texas says this. He says you're pretty much describing the newer funny bone club in Omaha. Funny Bone Club in Omaha. I know nothing of it. I know nothing of it.

Interesting, though. Here's where I wanted to go today. And again, Black, we can do, I can do four hours of prep and never get to what I prepped. So I apologize in full for teasing and tempting and trying to get to some of the things that we go through and teach over the course of this thing. but to a young person who takes the course, we have 50 students, Tuesday, Thursday, 930 to 1040 to 1045, and it's in the market,

it's in the business school, marketing, NIL and branding. And to a young person, they're like, my goodness, and even the folks who were there and the athletes who do shows that, my goodness, I have to take the course next year. Because it is in this day and age of NIL branding, whether it be from the branding, self-branding side, the self-promotion side, the return on investment side, right? Somebody wants to sponsor an athlete, what are you sponsoring them for? What are you identifying?

What's the return on investment? What are the best business connections and relationships that should be a part of it to teach them how to set them up and set themselves apart in the job pool, learning how to tell their story of who they are and why they would make a wonderful addition, being able to identify brand statement, brand mission, and who should be involved in it, what the legal ramifications are, how to set boundaries on these things, contracts, and making sure that you are only assigned NIL deals that you can, one, meet the return on investment to protect the ban. brand and then third protecting their brain.

And as a big part of that, the recent news and the story and our young people follow the news for a variety of reasons. They get to pick influencers. And in picking the influencers, Baca thing happens is that you find out what the young folks are paying attention to. So we asked them to pick an influencer and then tell us what it is. and then we break down the influencers and the sponsors. So either side, buyer or seller, who their competitors are,

who the substitutes for those things are, and then what are the alternatives? So if we said that you sell food, food, one specific category of food, burgers. Who sells burgers and what? What kind of burgers? And then what are you competing? Who are you competing with?

So if you're McDonald's and Wendy's, who are you competing with? And there are offsuits and versions of otherwise. And then how would you substitute within the burger space? Well, you have veggie burgers. You have lettuce wraps. You have those sort of things. And then within the burger world, what if you want a substitute? Well, pizza, taco, salad.

There are things that you offer so that you can keep the business. You keep the customer, but offer them the thing that they would want in substitution. Well, then you try to match up influencers, right? Influencers. But if I said to you, who is the greatest influencer that you can think of in the WWE? The Rock. Okay. What would a college student say? Logan Paul. I see what you say. Right? Yeah, Logan Paul. Right? Right. Mm-hmm. What would the female college student say? Maybe there's an obvious one I'm missing.

Liv Morgan. Yeah, maybe Liv Morgan. Right, but depending on what the message is. Yeah. So if you pick Ria Ripley, Rear Ripley, right? For a variety, what does, what is Ria Ripley's brand? You're a wrestling guy. Yeah, I'm like tough girl, kind of dark.

But very attractive? Oh, yeah, yeah. Right? Very popular? Mm-hmm. Very, very attractive. Just different. Yeah.

That her strength is her beauty. Now, Bach, I'm going to ask you, is there another female athlete that fits those, that type of branding, that sort of space? And I'll help you out by saying Olympic. Is there a woman that comes to mind? Because there's a rugby player, Ilana Mayer, who's gotten in commercials and got all the social media. That's the space. And then to create that thinking and to have those conversations, in a university classroom to explain to folks the bonding,

we'll do this as well, that, hey, if I said to you, Kirk Herb Street is considered an influencer. Bach, when we come back, text line, we're going to ask you who would be the alternative to Kurt Herb Street, and then who would be the substitute? Bach, I'll get your answers when we come back. We'll get the text line's answers when we come back to one-on-one. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch.

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