1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - How DP ended up in Lincoln - May 8th, 2024

Episode Date: May 9, 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. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. All right, welcome back in. Once again, Ticket Weeknights with Harrison Arns. If you guys want to join in, this is one-on-one with D.P. 402-464-5-6-85.

You can put a face to the voice as always. Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, and ALO channel 961. We got DP back, back from the road. And today we're just going to do a little deep dive on DP's schedule and everything that's been going on here at the station because it's a wild one at the very least. But DP, just in the inaugural year of the Omaha Supernova, since we are coming down to the end of the stretch here,

just to you, what has stood out is some of the most exciting things so far throughout the season, just key memories that you've already had locked in. it's it's funny too because i one we didn't know what to expect like we didn't know i'm i've been on flagship stations i've been the flagship station um but it was the first time in Nebraska in lincoln that we were the flagship station and then there's some things that you had to jump through the opportunity came up it was well why why couldn't we do that is the thing that hadn't been done it was the thing that people were, you know, well, no, that's not a thing the ticket could do. And then there's a solution to everything.

And there's only a problem if I allow it to be. There is a solution to all things. And the things that we had was to find out, one, would it be worth the work, right? As J. Foreman likes to say, is it worth the squeeze, right? Does the juice match the squeeze? the amount of effort that would be required. Again, we didn't know what effort was going to be required. Trying to find partners to carry the signal and become affiliates.

And again, for a radio station to say that it wants people to carry its content. And then to have people who often would consider you competitors say, no, we will partner with you, was a statement that I needed to hear. Was that, no, there are radio stations and radio affiliates, media companies that were willing to carry this product across the state on their airwaves as well. And the answer was a resounding yes. I mean, even people, there are some people that unknowing people

would consider competitors of the ticket. And I repeat, the ticket doesn't have any competition. competitors. We're here trying to work from our own standard and own space. So it doesn't matter what anybody else is really doing. I don't judge my talent that way. I don't judge, like, I'm just not, if we do our job, nobody can do what we do. Like there's no 18-hour radio stations live in Lincoln that are Lincoln owned and Lincoln operated. I like the fact that all money sent to the ticket stays in the state of Nebraska. Yeah. And you can't say that about a lot of media companies.

is in the state. So we found partners who said, yes, DP, we will partner with you, will carry your signal. Then it becomes, okay, who's going to call it? And I've called pro football, pro basketball, pro baseball, pro-track, pro wrestling. I've called him. But calling pro volleyball, calling volleyball at all wasn't a thing for me. but there are some people who know me well enough to punch me in the chest and say, listen, you have enough time.

Are you telling me you can't learn volleyball? Like chest punch. Like, okay. Yeah. I do got to say, is that, where does that rank so far in calling? Because volleyball does seem like a tough one.

It's tough. Because you're not, you don't, it'd be easy to kind of predict the plays that they're coming down, which is the last thing you want to do. It causes you, I mean, one,

learning the verb. Yeah. And not being a beholden to catch phrases, et cetera. And then the rule one of Play-by-Play or radio,

hosting, podcasting, whatever is be authentic. Be you. And I don't need to sound like other volleyball play-by-play people. I need to sound like me calling volleyball. And so, you know.

And shout out Renee Saunders. great partner to have alongside with you. I will say. Well, I mean, she's a teacher. She's a teacher. It bleeds through. I'm just calling those games. She's a teacher.

And the thing, again, we shared it earlier. We came up with great coaches get coached while coaching. And there are times when I just shut my mouth and let her drop all of that knowledge, nine consecutive state volleyball championships and a two sport division one athlete. And so she knows how to. push herself as an athlete. She knows how to push herself as an educator. She knows how to push humans within the game and then tell the story of the game. Nobody's sharper with their words than a coach because she's got to say, she's got to call, play and get everybody on the court

moving as one with very few words. So she's been a great teacher through all of this. And sometimes she'll do it on air live. And sometimes she goes, no, no, no, that's not what that's called. Oh, okay, cool. Thank you. Like, oh, my bad. But they've been very genuine in teaching me the sport and having some of the best athletes in the world tell you how they think, my goodness, like, woof. Yeah, like to hear Betty talk about spins

that she can put on the ball and different thoughts in training to have the assistant coaches break down what they're tracking during matches and it practices, to have the nutritionists tell you all the things that they have to go through, to have Coach Byrd be willing to share her philosophies. Like it's pretty cool to learn. And above all things, like, I'm still a student of the games that are being played around us. So I just have to listen.

Then you get into the schedule and the practice and the travel and, you know, trying to eat well on your own, it's in their, it's in their, in their makeup and how they operate. Like the teams are set up so that they get post-match meals delivered to them. They're healthy and they're good. Broadcasters, we don't. So often we're calling a match and then trying to get back to the whole team hotel and try to find something.

not all, they're all supposed to be five star hotels. Yep. So that you can get fresh food made. Right. Adequate service because you're quick on the road. Right. You don't have to be in and out. But not all teams have,

have honored that. And it's not exactly the restaurant of your choice, right? So, you know, then you're eating late at night. You're getting up sometimes at 4 o'clock to catch a 6 o'clock flight. the following morning after a match. Well, try spending your time at a five-set match, getting back to the hotel,

doing an hour post-match after the game, after a five-setter, trying to come off the adrenaline rush, right? Because you're dancing with the athletes. Right. And trying to calm down, get yourself chilled enough, one, to eat, two, to get some sleep. Mm-hmm. Because it could be 12, 30, 1 o'clock.

before you chill. And you're trying to make your show the next day. And you've got 4 o'clock call for the bus going to the airport. And then you're trying not to eat airport food, right? But there are times you have to. You're certainly not trying to eat airplane food. No. Right?

So then you get into another city. You probably have an hour because we don't fly out of Lincoln. We fly to Omaha. Yep. So you get that hour going and coming. Um, yeah, there's an in luggage, of course, everything. Yeah. And you're traveling as a group.

So it's one thing that if you're traveling by yourself, but you're traveling as a group. And so the moods of 25 to 35 people, like some of them, fuck, what are the odds? Everybody's having a good day all those days. No, man. And then these women are recovering from playing five sets. So they're fatigued. They're sore. I mean, how many times does Kendall White hit the floor?

in the course of a five-set match. Well, I think that numbers, if we ever tracked it, and I probably should ask her, but 30, 40, 50 times in a full tumble every match. And that's just huge, or how many shots you take off your wrist, or how many, you know, how many, yeah, like how many spikes get sit at your head or your shoulders.

So to watch all that and then see how good they are, how strong they are, how athletic they are, And Omaha got, did a really good job. I don't want to say they got lucky. They did a really good job of purposely setting the roster with people of a like mind and work ethic. This team actually likes each other. You can see that when they play. They like each other.

I mean, they've had, I mean, it's pro sports. If you get 30 people together, not everybody's going to be best friends. And I wouldn't say that about this. but I would say that they all like each other. As a matter of fact, I'd say they all love each other. There are times when they don't like each other. Because, again, each of them is elite. Each of them is one of one.

But imagine that your job every day is competing with your libero and you're competing against one of the top 10, top eight other liberos in the world. It's going to be some friction. In the world, you've got to practice against each other. If you're one of the, one of the two, if you're two of, if you're two of, of the 10 best blocks, middle blockers in the world, and you've got to compete against each other every day. So they managed to keep it professional, to keep it business.

I'm humbled. I'm humble to watch the best in the world do this thing that I can't possibly do. We've talked that before. Only seven teams, not just Omaha, but a man, all of those teams are loaded. that's what you're talking about those long it's five sets but someone else I mean it gets up to 30 32 before the match actually finally ends

because those teams are going back and forth that much we got a little bit of time left and since you know we're gonna flip on the table a little bit here and I got the opportunity to interview of you I'll kind of tease it here then we'll get on the next side of it we'll really dive into it but I do think a lot of people just need a reminder

how does the guy like DP even just land in Nebraska buy a radio station takes the job not as the boss but starts at the beginning just working there, taking less than what he was probably worth, just to be a part of this community. So we'll kind of start just getting down to Lincoln, when that I'll start for you and why. And then we'll dive into you really taking over the station and the goals and dreams you have for it. Because I mean, it's already, I've been here, man, two years and I wasn't expecting any of this.

Like before I even knew that you owned the place, I was working here. And man, flash forward just a couple years. Way different game. We're doing better. Meeting all the athletes. It just seems like we keep growing. So when did it even start for you? When were you like, okay, you know what?

Me and Rebecca, we're heading down to Lincoln. She was ExxonMobil, Mobile 1, and she was consulting. We were in Houston. Well, she was in, we were in Houston, and then I was in D.C. And she was in Houston. I was working USA Media, which under normal Clementate, under normal call words voice of America. And I managed seven language services there in D.C.

Back and forth to Houston, had settled back to Houston, but Becky was coming here as a consultant for Talent Plus here in Lincoln. And she, the phrase was she was looking for her tribe, right? She was looking for her people. And she'd come here and she'd come here. once a month, twice a month, for several months. And she just said, I think I like Lincoln. I think I like it.

And you haven't seen it yet, right? Like she was... Yeah, I didn't have it. I had connections to Lincoln, but my connections to Lincoln were players. People that I had met in other places, Kenya Hunter, Tony Farmer, Geron, Donne Piersenel. There were a ton of folks who were from Nebraska or played here that, I knew either in Utah, D.C., etc.

So I was like, well, look, I'm done. Like, I've had a full 30-year run of both broadcast and coaching. And coaching, look, if you coach one sport for 30 years, that's one thing. But I was coaching three sports for those 30 years. That's 90 years of coaching. It's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot of that.

And she said, well, let's visit. And so she was coming and she picked, I believe it was Michigan State. Michigan State, it snowed the weekend over here. This was the 9-6 Huskers Michigan State game five years ago. Okay, yeah. Five or six years ago. And to see, I saw Lincoln in the snow and I saw how people engaged. and there are some places where if you get that kind of snow on a football day,

it shuts the place down. But Lincoln was fully functional and everybody was really civil and connected and they looked out for each other. We went to the game. She introduced me to a couple of folks. And I'm like, okay, you know, yeah, it's a good visit. And she said, well, what about if we, instead of going on some of the other trips that we take, we just come to Lincoln a couple of times a year, watch some football,

I'm like, well, they got basketball, they got baseball? Cool. Yeah. Whenever that is. We came back when the weather was nice. And the salt dogs were playing. I didn't know anything about the salt dogs. I went down to the hey mark.

I bought a ticket online, went to the ballpark. Season starting soon for anybody out there. Yeah. Yeah. They're scripted in this week. Yep. Yeah. And I didn't really know.

But I'm like, okay, they got baseball. They got basketball. They got basketball. And she said, okay. So instead of like us getting, you know, vacation homes, let's get a place in Lincoln. And if we're going to take some trips, we'll come watching football. I'm like, okay. It was really just that easy for you?

Because Lincoln, I'm biased. I can do, I can do sports anywhere. Okay. I can live anywhere. Fair. I mean, I've lived in some places. Is that just because of the tough times that you've had in the past or just? Well, no.

I mean, these were all, these were all successful things. They were all different and difficult. Charlotte was the Bible Belt. if you're walking into Billy Graham territory and they weren't used to having people who looked like me on air so that was the thing So you've just kind of learned to adapt regardless of where you are

I shouldn't say adapt but Well no but but I'm not changing Well no I was a part of the of the original busing project So go back to 1970 When you think remember the Titans Well that was my that was my actual life Alexandria, Arlington, Virginia, that was us.

And I was one of seven kids in my school who were pulled from an all-black school after third grade and told that you were going to go to a predominantly white school on the other side of town the following year for fourth grade. And I didn't know what that, but I couldn't. At age eight, I couldn't understand what that meant.

but was put on a bus and we arrived at the school and there was a picket. They were picketing. The fact that we were coming. They knew our names and they picketed us. Imagine that. At eight years old, nine years old,

being picketed. Did you understand what the reason was for you at that point? Yeah, because my family had told me. Okay. So you understood. That when I was picked for the project, I knew they made it clear. And just think Jackie Robinson and Branch Ricky and him saying,

okay, we're going to ask you to do a thing that we're not asking everybody to do. We're asking you to do it. And there's some responsibility to it. And you're saying this to an eight-year-old that you're not going to be able to fight. You're not going to be better than they are at the same things. And you're not going to get credit for it. Right? You're going to have to be better academically.

You're going to have to be better. Like, well, they chose me because of the academics. and that was the big thing. And it's like, you're going to be as smart as anybody in that class. But you're not going to be treated that way, and you may not get credit for it. This is when standardized testing had just begun, and I was put on the bus again picketed.

First day at resource, ran outside. There were kids whose parents had told them, do not play with that black kid. Do not play with him. but there were also parents who told their kids, yes, you absolutely have to play with the black kid. Now, I didn't want either to be.

I just wanted to be a kid and have people. Like, okay, whoever likes me likes me, but because it's because it's me, not because parents told them to or because it was uncomfortable. So, yeah, it started early on that you get used to. I went from a black school in a black neighborhood

to a white school, where I was the black kid in my grade. I was because there was like any, was it just how big school or seven of you? It's a big school, but it was one per grade. So fair to say it's like less than one percent of school. Oh, absolutely.

Okay. And I knew like I'm immediately the people that I'm best friend, like George May, Mickey Higden, Eddie Miller, Patricia Roman, were the people, Bobby McClellan, were the people who made a point to be my friend and I'm still friends with them today

because they did a heroic thing for the black kid that they didn't have to do, right? They didn't have to do that, but they did. Like they looked out for me and they co-signed for me and they kind of told me how things work. And the teachers, Ms. Davis from there, Ms. Green, Mr. Torbick, I remember them like yesterday, like Dr. Johnson, who was the principal who walked on the bus with the police to get me off the bus and walk me into school the first day.

And that happened every day for the first week. And the standardized testing, it was back then and you did math. So you did addition on day one. So everybody, every grade, every class did the test. And you had, I want to say that you had 50 questions or whatever. you finished it within a time frame. If you got it right, you got to advance to from addition to subtraction to multiplication division.

And each day, the pool became thinner of people who got it right. And so this was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and I advanced each day. So Friday, they said, okay, these people report to the principal's office. Uh-oh. Well, no. those were the people who had passed all four of those tests. And when everybody else was testing, we got to go to the playground. So there's like six of us.

And I was the youngest one. And we sprinted down the hallway in this elementary school to the playground. Except for there's only six people on the playground. Right? And there are parents who are standing around the fence just hanging out. So imagine that at an elementary school that their parents are hanging out to watch interaction and engagement, right? Weird, but okay.

When I got to school on Monday, I was called back to the principal's office because I thought, oh, I get to go recess again, right? Because people still got to take the test. Except for they said that there were parents who doubted that I passed the test. They doubted that I was one of the six who got it all right. So they needed for me to take those tests,

again in front of parents. Oh, so you actually had to retake it. I had to retake the test with the parents watching for a window. So, yeah. I wish I could say that was longer ago, but it really was. No, bro. But nonetheless, we got a threat to break here, but we got DP. We got an inside look on DP's life on the next two segments.

We'll get a deeper dive on why, Lincoln, why this radio station in particular. And what's the goal? What's the vision for it as we continue to grow here? If you guys want to join in, shout out to Jeremy. The Grillmaster says, what's up, D.P. Love your brother and what you're doing with the ticket. Don't we all here? But again, you guys are always welcome to join in through the streams as well.

We'll throw out to break. We'll talk to you guys in just a little bit. You're listening to One-on-One with DP. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7, the ticket and the ticketfm.com. All right, welcome back into one-on-one with D-P. You guys are always welcome to join in on the show doing a deep dive on D-P. Switching the script here. I'm actually interviewing him.

you guys can join in as well. 402, 464-5-6-85. You can put a face to the voice, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, and Allo Channel 961. Shout out to everybody texting in here. Kind words, as always. We'll try to get to him here.

But, DP, we were kind of talking about you past. We have some people reaching out. You know, kind words as always. But you don't come across this guy with a lot of resentment. Despite everything, you probably have a lot of reasons, excuses why you can lean that way. But you don't. You stay pretty happy.

You got the love prints going on. Yeah. coming to Lincoln, you're still this upbeat kind of guy. And I know a little bit of the story. You take a position, just being honest, you're overqualified for. Yeah. You take it anyways. Because why?

Why did you decide to do that? What was it? Just because you like the business, were you getting bored? Or is it I see something here that I want to do? I have a very supportive wife who said, do the thing you want to do. Like it doesn't happen. None of this happens without Beck. And one, we wouldn't, it wouldn't be Lincoln.

Two, you wouldn't have the support. To tell you that it was minimum wage, I had to interview seven times. You didn't interview seven times for this job. No, just once. I had to interview seven times, and I had to be vetted by several, five different people, to see, one, whether they thought I was legit,

two, to give time for vetting, three to figure out what it all meant and then four to develop trust and shout out to Tom Stevens for stepping up and saying you know what put him with me put him with me um yeah he may he may regret it um well because Tom unfortunately Tom I mean I try to explain to people Tom had never met anybody like me for whatever that means yeah no that's I think that's a neutral statement that's right like I mean I can say that about Becky Becky's never like like I'm a different, like, I'm a handful. I've never met a person like you.

I'm a handful. Like I understand it, but because I've experienced a lot, I've gone through a lot, that I know things when I see them because I've seen them in such high repetition and such a high vibrancy that I recognize it to my core the moment I see it. So somebody can tell me, hey, this is not what this is. Nope, that's exactly what it is. It always is. That's what that is.

And not saying that Ron Romero and company were doing it from a racist standpoint, because I don't think that was a part of it at all. Their thing was, why would you, like, you should be working for ESPN. You should be, you could be doing a whole bunch of other stuff. You've worked in the NFL. You've worked in the NBA. You've worked directly with Joe Gibbs, with John Thompson, with Urban Meyer. You've done Jerry Sloan. Why would you want to come work for this little tiny radio station in Lincoln?

And I said, because you need a radio host. You asked me if there's anybody that wants to talk sports two hours a day. And I said, yes, what you paid me really wasn't the thing because I was going to get enjoyment out of it. And that's what happened. Like it was, I can say it now. I was making $10 an hour. $10 an hour. And truthfully, so Becky's the lowest paid employee of the ticket for the first.

amount of work that she puts in, Becky receives nothing. She takes no money from the station. That's a great boss. Right. She works like somebody that all the time. And we say this to people so you understand. We're not in this to make money. Money wasn't the inspiration.

It wasn't. It's the fact that we get to make Harrison Orange life a little bit easier. We get to make Rico's life a little easier. We get to make Nick's life a little easier. We get to help out strict. We'll put some more money in 80s pocket. We'll make, you know, Raff gets some enjoyment. Farley gets to live a better life.

For Sean gets to the better life. Jay gets to the better life to do. Like, we pay full-time wages for part-time work. And every dime, like we could have stayed at 48th and just pocketed money. But no, we wanted to add something to Lincoln. Like, we wanted to give something to Lincoln. Like, the whole point of love prints is just leave it better than you found it. and Lincoln sports fans deserve to hear from Amman

they deserve to get to know Jay Foreman. They get to hear the stories of Bill Bush to get to meet the athletes. And that wasn't even the plan then. The plan was just, I was going to go to work and do two hours each day. I would be challenged to learn Nebraska athletics. And I love that challenge.

And then it was, oh, well, okay, how about we do this? this thing. So why don't we talk to more athletes? Why don't we talk to current athletes? Why don't we talk to coaches? Why don't we talk about the community? Why don't we talk about the people who do nonprofit work who are out here trying to help raise our kids? Why don't we talk about teammates a little bit more? And then Ron Romero, you know, COVID hit. Of course, that changed a lot of things for everybody. But think about it. How many businesses closed because of the pandemic? We grew. We literally multiplied.

and to go from six hours local, seven hours local to 18, he said, listen, it's time for me to get out of it. I'm going to sell it. And he was going to sell it and turn it into a country music station. He was going to sell it to a country music to people who were going to turn it to a country music station. I'm not a country music guy. Well, but it was also going to reduce opportunities for the people who are already in the building. Absolutely. And he said, do you know any aspects?

who might want to buy it. I was like, I'll talk to Becky. We might do it. And he was like, really? Yeah. Well, it can be a lot of money. Oh, okay. And there's some things that you have to go through,

the difference between podcast and FCC regulator, things you have to go through. But I happen to be married to a woman who's very built for keeping track of the things that are required. to do those things. She's functionally, she's the most sound rock solid person I've ever met. Yeah, she's a walking spread Excel. Right, right.

She's got everything locked in. Like I'm joking, like to tell people that listen, yeah, I could ask you what we spent in Gatorade the last 14 years. She'd probably be able to tell us. But she's built that way and she's wired that way and she's come

from the high corporate space, but she also cares about people. And we've mutually agreed. Like we, it wasn't about taking money. It was, who can we help? How can we make the space that we're in better? And so she worked it out and she made it happen.

And I couldn't have made it happen on my own. There's no, there's no chance. Yeah, I mean, I have the history behind doing the work. But she was the one that foundationally set the foundation for how we were going to do it and then what the rules of engagement were. And, you know, that's her heart being active. And, you know, it's pretty amazing to deal with. And then, you know, we thought, I love what it was.

Never going to speak begrudgingly to what it was. But once asked, okay, what's the ideal? what's the vision like what do you see oh okay now now we're cooking in crisco because we didn't see daylight down there yeah and that's uh that's a real statement like i wanted to see people in daylight i wanted engagement i want people to be able to walk in the door and say hi i want people to be proud of it i want people to go hey look look look at what lincoln has look at what lincoln did um i want people to to get to know their heroes I want there to be a space where people who love the Huskers can come and meet.

People who love sports can come and meet. You don't have to have a reason to walk in here and have a cup of coffee and sit and talk to Eric Strickland. You don't need a reason. And I can tell you that you certainly would never have dreamed. If we said five years ago, that you're going to, on any given night, here's the list of people that you're going to sit and have conversations with. And those people are your family now. Yeah, that's crazy. Right?

That, okay. And then the listener. and I don't think that all the listeners have really grasped what I'm shooting at here that why would you, if you're in Lincoln, if you're in town and you listen to us or you watch us, and I said, I'm going to give you every way possible to consume this. So if you're an app person, got it. Streaming person, got it.

Amazon person, got it. YouTube person, got it. Facebook, got it. cable TV. You want to watch? Got it. That was the greatest while. I'll never forget.

The 6 o'clock D.P. is like, hey, look up. You're on TV. Right. Like, don't figure out what's going on. Right. Got it. But what I,

there will come a time in the short future when the fans will start to realize that they can just walk in here and hang out with their favorite Husker. Mm-hmm. And then to use it to help Husker athletics and the University of Nebraska be the greater version of themselves.

Think about that. I was told, nobody's going to listen to female athletes. I was like, okay, watch. Insert speed and power and podcast on low numbers. Here you go, right? Right? Here you go. Nobody wants to hear bowlers talk. Nobody wants to meet gymnasts. Nobody wrong.

Okay. Then here comes all the pioneers, right? And let me shout them out because there's so many student athletes and parents who trusted me with the idea of this being this simple. One, introducing them to themselves. Two, introducing them to Husker Nation. Three, allowing them the experience of being heard. And then four, representing the athletic department and their families.

And so we said, okay, students, if you're going to do a show here, hear a couple of things. One, you got to get permission from me, coach. Two, you got to get permission from your families. Week one, I need your parents on the show. Right? So they'll know what it is, they'll understand it. Two, at some point, have your coach on the show. So you can have those conversations.

Then have your teammates on the show so you can share who some of these fantastic people are. And if you go through it, that, Brandt Banks, Nory, Reagan, Henzy, Nicklin Haymes, Yeah, Kenzie, Kenzie Knuckles, Nicklin Hames. Gwen and Amara for what they were doing. Then you get into, it starts to evolve and there's Camp Chick and Bryce Matthews, right? Kobe Webster and C.J. Wilter. People who trusted the vision.

Because what's coming next for the ticket couldn't happen. It wouldn't happen without those pioneers. And that's why in this building, we have those jerseys of the people who walked us through from the get-go and trusted the little station that could to become a greater version and open the door for other student-athletes to, one, build their brand, to be heard. And what we learned in it more than anything else was that they're much better people than we gave them credit for. I could speak on that personally. I spent a lot of time with these guys. With that being said, we'll throw it to our final break here. And on the last segment, we'll just talk about what's next for the ticket one-on-one with D.P.

Harrison on the ones and twos, don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. You're listening to One-on-One-One with D.P. Sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7 the Ticket and The Ticket.com. All right, welcome back in final segment of one-on-one with D.P. Harrison-on-1 and twos, of course, the host, D.P. in studio with me to my left. I want to do a quick shout out to our sponsor, Soul, Full, Kucina, great food there. Check it out if you haven't already.

But, DP, since we got a little bit of time here left, we just got to ask, what's next? You can't, I won't make you give away all the secrets and all your friends, but this place grows at an incredible rate. And I can say that, because, again, I think I've worked here for two years, going from the basement. Now having the weeknight shows with three former Huskers, not to mention all the student athletes that there to begin with. Like, it just keeps growing. So without giving everything away, what's next? What's on your mind? Well, there will be some additions soon.

And the additions are legendary. Some of the additions are going to be remarkable and that it's going to, it's my intent to not only grow this. So we know that we're going to expand the production of advertisers and commercials like that we have the podcast studios and folks that want to come in and do a professional podcast right with video and streaming and the full thing where it looks the part you can go in and use our secondary studio um to do that which is such a luxury by the way yeah right and and to be able to record commercials any day like if you are having a event you're having a

party. You're having a fundraiser and you want to record something professional. You'll be able to do that at the ticket. And to be able to do that and then there are some new shows that are coming that are just exceptional. Just to tell you that game-changing exception. And I'm honored by them because there's some really good people in Lincoln who have stories to tell.

if you are listening and you have a nonprofit and you want to promote it open invite like let's go through let's sit down and talk about ways to get your events put out there i mean what we figured out with cedars and teammates and junior achievement and uh link to literacy and big brother big brother and united way and all of that right malone center a big part of that is just putting good stuff back, the stuff that exists in the community that's good, just putting a light on it. Like just highlighting the fact that Lincoln has a lot to be proud of. There's some really good people doing really good things.

And the other sort of news and the other sort of podcast, that stuff is available where it's negative. And there's enough places for that. It just won't be here. Like I want Lincoln to have a place that's proud of. And then when you come in that we tune in, that we're having a good time. We're educating and entertaining.

Sometimes we will. bicker like as brothers do just to because sports is kind of led to that yeah you get uh j forman eric strickling on a lebron conversation yeah oh man three hours of non-stop yeah like yeah i mean but you know but again that's that's family stats and that that's what that is and there's no venom really tied to it no so some of the shows that are coming uh have been working on for a while to get them um of course we've got high school baseball i get the state tournament coming up we'll carry that all week. The final four of Pro Volleyball Federation,

not only are we going to be there covering the Supernovas and broadcasting for the Supernova's Radio Network, but we're going to do that as well for Pro Volleyball Federation. So we will be there, no matter what happens, we'll be there for all three games. We'll broadcast two Wednesday next week. There'll be two matches.

We'll broadcast them both. Myself and Coach Saunders, we'll do the call. And then the final four. And then UFCX, which is in Vegas. Last year they gave us a booth down there to interview UFC fighters. We're going to do that again.

Oh, let's go. We're going to do that again. Back on tour a little bit with UFC, WWE, bringing those stories and bringing those people. I can say that we have an agreement in place with Anthony Lionheart Smith from the UFC. Let's go. To do a weekly show.

And if you, again, you can catch this stuff currently. He's all over the place. But his work with ESPN is, is renowned. But one of Nebraska's own out here having an impact. He and I talked yesterday. Of course, he won his last fight last Saturday. First round submission, choked the guy out,

the second round, undefeated fighter, who they were sending to retire, Anthony Lyon Hart Smith, and he put him to sleep. You know, so we'll have more UFC coverage. We'll have more coverage of other sports.

And to tell you that there's a coach. that wants to have his own show to share stories. And I'm rather excited about it. We'll announce it probably next week once it's official. There you have. Lots of plans in the word. Yeah. No DP at this point.

It's almost a guarantee. It's always on the next move. But nonetheless, that's going to wrap it up for one-on-one with DP, a little bit of an inside look on how he got here on what his dreams and goals are for this radio station. Harrison Arons on the ones and twos, but don't go anywhere. We got live content all the way until midnight.

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