1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - January 28th: 10:25am - Big Sky is still here, lets talk about his journey

Episode Date: January 28, 2022

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And you can chat with them online at allofiber.com. What's going to happen today is you're going to get a barrage of pictures of this crew when they were young. And it's spectacular. Where's Marks? Look at, look at Little Mark.

Look at Onweiler. Look at you. Yeah, that's got to happen. You should grow your hair out again. Put a hat on. I want to see the hair coming out from the sides of the hat again. Go with the full mullet. Are those curls?

Is that what's going on? Yeah, what is that? Is that mullet or curl? Get on the mic. Get on the mic. Curlette. A curleet. I'm interested.

Grow your hair out, Mark. A curleet. For all of us. So we will all post pictures of your choosing. You get to choose which pictures you post. As opposed to. That's cool, guys. I just can't wait to ambush Nick when he gets here because I've seen pictures of baby Nick.

Oh. Little baby Nick still got the same face he got. It just has a beard on it now. He really, they could just draw a beard on eight-year-old Nick. It's like, oh, look, it's Nick. So Big Sky, this is today's your last day. So let the folks know what you're going to be doing next. I'll be a sports reporter in Waterloo, Iowa for the Waterloo-Falls Courier.

It covers the entire Cedar Valley, which is Cedar Falls, Waterloo, and Evansdale, 17 prep high schools, a U.S.HL hockey team, and the University of Northern Iowa, who plays the Nebraska women's softball team. The very first week I'll be on the job. Oh, so you got insider. Well, yeah, Courtney was on up the middle to this week, and she said, we'll be playing Northern Iowa in two weeks. And I was like, oh, okay. There you go. There you go.

So what's the move calendar? So my mom is currently driving here because I ask for a little bit of assistance in the move because I am the worst packer slash mover of all time. I get very stressed and I just kind of have a lot of anxiety. So I just asked for a little lifeline this time. How much stuff do you have? Not much stuff. I'm just really bad at packing efficiently and effectively. So I'll just like throw it all in a box and then I won't have enough boxes because I didn't move them around enough to make it sure everything fit.

and then my I just will just be super stressed and I won't sleep well be really irritable not a happy guy to be around so I just asked for a little lifeline so she was getting in tonight I will pack Saturday and Sunday have to rest some games on Saturday and then Monday we're going to get the U-Haul we'll pack it in the U-Haul make it fits if not get another U-hall and then Wednesday we'll make the if I'll make the drive over and I'll move in on Wednesday so describe this job this writing job the your focus You're storytelling, are you game recapping, or you're being a beat reporter? What are you doing? So it's an afternoon published daily in Waterloo. So that leaves uniqueness in terms of newspapers. So I'll cover a game story. I'll go to a game and then I'll write the game story for web. And it'll likely find this way into print.

But what they're looking for is a feature on the game as well. So I'm writing two articles per game that I attend. and so there'll be, you know, the straight facts of this is what happened in the game. This is how many points this person scored. This is the story of the game. But then there's also going to be the story behind the story of the game. You know, maybe this athlete, this high school athlete had this happen in their life this week. And that is something that we need to tell the readers.

So I'll be doing a lot of writing. I'm now going to test and challenge you. give me the bookmarks of a story. The bookmarks of a story? Yes. Give me the placeholders, the road map to a story. Well, if you're just talking about a story, you have the beginning, which is like setting, characters,

you're establishing those certain different types of things, and then just following along the plot line, you have rising action that leads to an ultimate climax, and then you have falling action in a resolution that ultimately is your end. So you have the setup at the very beginning, the rising action that builds up to the ultimate, you know, thing that you're trying to get the reader, you're excited about, and then just wrapping up the story after that. What about after the wrap-up? Well, you have the resolution, which is explaining what happened, and then you keep your eye on that character. What happens next?

That's usually part of the resolution, I would say. You set up what happens next. Remember our favorite word, friction. Friction. I love watching Big Sky's brain work. I think they're lucky to have you. We're going to miss you, but we're rooting like crazy for you. To a person we can say we're proud of.

Thank you. Because the journey has been here. What's been some of your favorite moments here? You've got to see kind of all the shows evolve, and you've been around for a lot of mornings, a lot of late nights. What are the things you take with you from here? I have certainly had an opportunity to meet a lot of really unique people and a lot of major players in the Lincoln Sports Landscape,

the Hustard Sports Landscape. And so I'll take all of those relationships that I've been fortunate enough to build with me and continue to grow them from afar as best as I can. and the most valuable pieces of information nuggets I've learned is, you know, engagement of any kind is good engagement. So even though the mud dog hates me, I can still make sure that that person gets to the text line every time I'm on. And so I know that not everyone's going to like what you have to say,

but if you're confident in it, you'll ultimately end up correctly predicting the Husker's record prediction or the record for the season. And you did. And you just got to stick to your guns. And if you can fully flesh out your idea and get across why you believe it, and they're all valid points, even if it's ultimately wrong in an opinion, you shouldn't feel bad about the opinion you formed in the end.

RICO, if you had to give a scouting report to Waterloo, Iowa about what to expect from Big Scout when he gets there, what would you say? Well, I don't know. I'm going to have to change my scouting report now. It's been a long 40 minutes. It's been tainted in the last 40. Uh, just extremely hard worker. He's, if you give him something to do, it is going to get done and is going to be high quality.

He's sort of a perfectionist, which might be, uh, a flaw, but you could look at it as, as, as a positive because when things get done, they will get done with very high quality. Um, and he's got, he's going to stick with you. He's, he's very loyal. I need Mark to step in here. He did my intern interview, so Mark's known me longest of anyone at the station. This is why we're going to have this conversation, because Mark can give us insight and intel to what this journey has been about. So if you had to give a scouting report to Waterloo, Iowa sports fans, what are they getting? Oh, sorry, I was going through old high school photos of myself. Oh my. Yeah, we're going to post. We need to get to those too.

I think I should choose all the photos that get posted. No. Back to the topic on hand, which is Ethan. Yeah, Ethan. Ethan, I don't know what you guys said, so I apologize if I repeat. But Ethan, Ethan's a hard worker. He's a, what I like about him is I don't have to ask him to do the things. He just does the things. He anticipates needs. So that's, that's much anticipated. I say this all the time. My favorite people are the people who don't tell me why something can't happen.

They find ways to make it happen. And Ethan fits that to a T. He's never saying, no, we can't do that. And here's why he does it. And he finds ways to McGuiver his way through things and make it happen. Things that we've asked for and things that we didn't even know we needed yet. Like a YouTube stream of our high school sports featuring a scoreboard that he cobbled together with four different programs because he thought it's something that Lincoln needed to

have with their high school sports. So that's what they're getting out of Ethan. He mentioned the interview, the first interview. Oh, how'd that go? I think I... No, when you interviewed him. Right, right. No, I know. Yeah, I don't remember it. So how'd that go? I think I just spent the entire time begging for an opportunity, honestly. I was like, I know my resume sucks, but I need an opportunity.

Well, you got it. You begged really well. Look, you wrote for the Grand Island Independent. All right. For 10 weeks. And I also wrote for the Sydney Herald in Sydney, Montana. A great, beautiful, twice-weekly publication in eastern Montana. Gorgeous.

Twice weekly? Yes, Wednesday and Sunday. What'd you write? I covered a local high school beat, not sports, just, like student life. Just the high school? Yes. It was club. Like a gossip call?

or what? No, not a gossip column. It was like, what are the clubs doing? What are, what are, like, the students who are excelling in academics? Was it like a burn book? It was not, no. Because we had a sports reporter, so I wasn't able to do high school sports, but I did cover also the hockey team that I played for, hashtag conflict to interest. And then also the women's hockey team, who was featured six young ladies that I had in French class with me and the daughter of my French teacher. So Monday was not for French. Monday was for critiquing Ethan's ability to cover a game story for a game. He was not able to attend. I'm looking forward to the rumors that we're going to start about Ethan tomorrow. Oh yeah. It's necessary. Are we waiting that long? Well,

we want him, we want him to be. He has to at least be out the door. Yeah, like to be able to sit here. I think I kicked it off because we all know that the real reason I left the station is because I hate Nick. Oh, it's 100% Nick. No, that's going to be the next second. He's there. He's getting water right now. As we do the spillover, we'll, we'll, no, no, we're going to throw the break. We'll give Nick his three minutes to, to roast Big Sky. Anybody got a picture of Nick? Oh, we can do that. Have you seen his driver's license? I have not. Well, now I need to. Yeah, you do. I remember there was a time when his sister and his mom were sending pictures of baby Nick in. It was amazing. Those were good times. That was a great day. I hope they're listening.

So we'll throw it a break. We'll come back. We'll bring in Nick and let him, uh, see him, uh, see. send Big Sky off with his greatest regard or by his worst. We'll be right back. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 937 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com.