1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Off Script Radio leads us to conversations about DPs grandma: June 3rd, 10am

Episode Date: June 3, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the compel Chevrolet GMC Studios, here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery, on 937 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com. Happy Friday. Well done. Well done. Well done.

Two of my favorite words. Well done. accomplished, mission accomplished, task completed. You got through. Good stuff. Rico, this hour of radio, what do we call? This, ladies and gentlemen, friends of the show, is the fastest hour in radio sponsored by Allo. Allo Communications and the Mill Coffee are pleased to announce the return of the much-love summer concert series in Lincoln's Telegraph District, 330 South 21st Street.

The live, yeah, the live, lit, live at Telegraph series will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday beginning June 1st and will run through August 3rd. Members of the community are invited to enjoy free local music featuring a variety of genres. Live at Telegraph is a free community event with food and drinks available for purchase starting at 5 p.m. courtesy of the mill. A different local brewery will be present each week to help you beat the summer heat. Not only is this a family-friendly event appropriate for all. ages, but dogs are welcome as well. Parking will be available for each event in the Allo parking lot. This Wednesday's

entertainment is Spare Change. Join Allo in bringing the community together to celebrate local artists, food, and businesses. Do you know who spare changes? I do not know who spare changes. Do you know who spare changes? No, we're going to have to Google. We will. Let's look up some music.

Play it. It would be amazing. I went with a name like Spare Change. I find that the weirder the band name, the better the music? We need to actually come up with, like... There's got to be some type of correlation. Really cool...

...that haven't been used yet. Everyone else's all, people just say things, and it's like, ooh, that sounds good. Well, something from a movie? Is there a movie title? Like, I think, like, Die Hard would be an amazing band name. Yeah. Yeah, probably. Good burger. like if good burger was on the marquee you're you're going to see good burger right you're

even if you don't know who they are you're curious good burger home of the good burger sorry I had to I apologize don't 4246465 starter hamann text line honda lincoln hotline getting a live video streams by starter hamann are up facebook YouTube Twitch and the Twitter um you can just join in the conversation you can share. As a matter of fact,

we need to rally up on a spare change promo video. Okay. On YouTube. So I'm going to... Okay. Well, do we know what it says, though? You have to preview that one. I don't know what it says, so I'll have to listen to it in the break. You'll have to... Yeah. Because that could be a problem. So we'll do that way.

We don't know. Well, from the fan base, from the listeners, is there anybody that knows anything about spare change? Not like spare change you find in your pocket or your couch, but the band. change. Well, yeah, not what your grandma gives me. Their promo video says, it says, we specialize in bringing the party to your party. Okay. Okay. So it's not, it's not what your mom, your grandmom pulls out of her little coin, her little, do people still have those? The little coin pouches? Some people do. My grandma used to have one that, it didn't like click. It was just like, it was like, no, it was like, like, magnet.

like rubber and you should just push the sides and then it opens. Like it's not magnetic. Oh, so she had one of the rubber ones. Yeah, you just push it and it opens. Oh, yeah, yeah. The ones. Couldn't hold much change. Right, right. Because everything had to be flat. Yeah.

In it. Everything was sideways. It would mess up. And it usually had a little chain on the end of it. Yes. We got it from the zoo. Had a little change on it. And then my grandmother had hers was like this gold glitter. Oh.

Fancy. Right. Gold glitter. And when, when, what would happen. Is that where you got your pizzazz from? Oh,

absolutely. Oh, my, my grandmother was a real southern grandma, southern black grandma. Her name was Hattie Sue. Oh, yeah.

Haddy Sue. Oh, yeah. Right. Haddy Sue. Right. So, and my grandma,

I want to go over to her house to eat. Oh. Oh, Sunday at Haddissus. Haddysu. Yeah. You. You go to Haddie Sue's for some delicious meals. Look, look, look.

There was some. If you're named Haddy Sue, you have to know how to cook. You have to. You have to, right? And she, like, she started Saturday night. Oh. She started Saturday night. It was good.

And then all of the cookouts were in Hadishu's house. Of course. Right. So Hadishu was born in Southern Virginia, this little town called Lunenburg, Virginia. And she was, she was made back in those days in the South.

So you know what that was, right? And I didn't recognize until later in life all of what she carried with her. Right? When you start asking grandparents about their life, she would share some things and you go, wow. Like I could have only, been born at the time in America when I was born.

Right? Was a maid and then went to work for the U.S. moved to D.C. Went to work for the U.S. government and worked there for 40 years. Wow. 40 years. And she lived a little better than the rest of us for all of us. Like she had the nicest house in the family.

But it was the house that everybody gathered at. It's where you learn to barbecue, you learn to grill, you learn to, you know, she took you to church and she took you to church all the time. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, what Steve Harvey say, Bible study.

You get, like, all the days. Like, all the days. Not just Sunday. Right. Every day is the Lord's Day. Oh, she would tell you, right? And then there was always gospel music playing at my grandmother's house. It had a zoo's house.

There was some Reverend James Cleveland on. There was, you were going to, the staples were always going to be on. But she would start cooking Saturday evening if she wasn't, if the family was getting together and grilling, she was in the kitchen. not only serving but then also setting up for the next day. So you knew on Sunday there's going to be there's going to be chicken. There was going to be greens. There was going to be mac and cheese. There was going to be probably a sweet potato pie or maybe an apple pie.

You knew that there was going to be a ham was going to be present, right? And if everybody was coming, everybody took some with them. and if they weren't, what would happen is she would send. So there's a stretch. I lived, first of I lived, our back to back. Our houses were back to back. So my backyard was her backyard, like attached to her backyard. So if I was ever getting in any nonsense in the backyard,

the window, I would get to shout through the window. And if I was doing something really bad, this little woman would stomp out on the back porch. and you knew heaven and earth were about to come together, right? She was a disciplinarian. My father feared her at a high level. This little five-foot-tall woman, and she was a giant until I grew up, right,

only to learn that she was five-foot tall. Same. Right. My grandma's like four, seven. I don't know how tall. She's short. Right. Like I rest my chin on the top of her head.

Yeah. And I'm short. Yeah, like she was a giant. Like she was the only human who could make my police officer stepdad step down. Like even when he was in uniform. And all she would do is she would bite her bottom lip. And we all knew once the bottom lip disappeared, all bets were off. Everybody's in trouble.

Like whatever was going on, chill out. Better stop. Chill out right now. But she would start cooking on Saturday night, Sunday, Sunday, morning you would get there. You go before church because that was a meeting place. Then you go to church and then when you look, I, you're just sitting in church's stomach grumbling because you know.

Mad. Because you know. Mad. I'm like, listen, Reverend Robinson, you need to finish this because you know what's waiting for me. Do you know what's waiting for me? I need you to speed it up immediately. Immediately.

And then the only thing that would happen is during football season, during NFL season, even back then. the church figured out to put a TV in there and have people bring like brownies and cookies. So at least you were appeased for a little while while you had to do that. But then, yeah, Hattie Sue. And we shared the same birthday. So we were both born on the same day. I was born on her 50th birthday.

And I used to tell people I'm her favorite. And she said, you kind of are because you were my 50th birthday present. There you go. And then when I was in junior high, for the three years of junior high, I lived with my grandmother to help take care of her and more so to help take care of my grandfather. You know, and my grandfather went through his stuff. But, you know, it was interesting that I was the caretaker at age 13 for my grandfather, who would go, he'd go drink.

and I get the call, hey, he's over here 20 seconds, you come get him. Okay, I got you. And then as much as I hated those phone calls, in retrospect,

those were some of my favorite moments because whenever I would walk him home with his arm over my shoulder, he would drop wisdom. Like he would drop bombs, man. Like he would drop bombs. Like he was one of those ones that would, while,

chewing you out, he would elevate you. Like, he would tell me, like, you're not going to be one of these, use your hand people. You're smart. I don't ever want to see you under a car. I don't ever want to see you pushing a drum. I want to see you changing things.

You know? And I'm like, okay. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And it was a respect thing. Because you'd hear the history, right? You'd tell his history. him being born in a different part of southern Virginia.

And then they met and then they moved to Northern Virginia to an area in Northern Virginia that was only for black folks. It was bought by, remember there's a Jewish man who bought all this area near Robert Lee's mansion. And he said, I'm only going to sell these to black folks so they can learn how to, well, they have the ability to buy homes and grow. And that's that area. It's a high-powered political area just around the Pentagon.

And it was strong. So it was there. But she was also the one that engaged me. So she brought me first football when I was, man, six years old. And Sunday morning after church, before football would start, I'd go out in front of her house with the football. and I would play the entire game that was whoever Washington was playing that day, I would play against them with the Redskinned players, but just me. And I would do the play-by-play as I was playing.

And so I was Sonny Jurgensen to Charlie Taylor. To Roy Jefferson. Yeah, you know, I'm Pat Fisher picking off a pass. I'm Ron McDowell getting a sack. It's necessary. Right, right? and and and she she engaged it she's like how we doing i see are they winning how's the game going what's the score yeah because some grandparents are going strange little boy weird

strange little boy what are you doing strange little boy so uh but she engaged it and if you know i'd walk in a house and there'd be a glass of fresh lemonade like you know you put in work today how to go and man, I think about it. That was a special woman. You know, right? Like all the neighborhood kids just going, yeah, that Pearson kids out there doing play by playing. Look at him.

Just playing football by himself again. Yelling at himself. Intercepting himself. I don't know what's going on right now. His grandma's hanging him on. I don't know what's happening. Yeah. Well, I had my crowd.

Right. I had my crowd. I mean, look, from six to probably 13, I picked off Joe Namath. I picked off Roman Gabriel. I picked off Fran Targit. Like, you know, like, you know, think about it. Right. Like I put off friend targeted. I got you. I got you. The great friend targeted through no touchdowns on me. So. Well. And another shut out. Look, right. Like, where go, Pat Fisher. You know, Chris Hamburger. Look, to think about that two of my childhood heroes were Nebraska Huskers, and I didn't even know it. Right.

So when I got here and then you started having a conversation about Pat Fisher and Ron McDowell, it was like, wow. And I was like, no, you know, they played here, right? And then Tony McGee, who played with Pat Fisher, told me a story that Pat, when they ran scout drills for the Redskins, Pat Fisher would play quarterback. And he said, that's not weird. And they said, no, because Pat played some quarterback here when he was in Nebraska. So it was always, like I said, I'm always intrigued by that thing here.

Racist, you're getting me in the feels here. No, I mean, right, like we have those things in our. in our past that kind of direct us. Sanders said you did the exact same thing. Yeah, and your grandmother was there. Same as well. Like just standing, like, again, she's making meals and she's catering to people,

but all the while she's peeking out the front door. And just... Make sure everything's good. You know, everything good. Like, you know, I guess she was waiting for the day we were going to take a loss. You know, that was going to be a difficult day.

You can imagine. You beat yourself. Yeah, you just walk in the house. head down, she goes, what's wrong? They lost. The game hasn't, no, we lost. Oh. Like, it was like the most.

Fran Target was just on fire. Like, I remember in 70, I remember in 72 when Washington was playing the dolphins in Super Bowl. And I remember that day, it was important for me to win so that I did my part so that Washington could beat the Dolphins. Every time I win, they win. They went. Well, it worked through through the playoffs. Like it worked against Green Bay. Obviously. Like it worked against the Dallas Cowboys. It's me. Like I am the difference. No, like, like you really, you know, at age 10. Yeah. It matters. You're just sitting there like, uh, you're welcome. Thanks Washington. I did my part.

Like I'll be waiting for my Super Bowl. Oh, like, you know, like I would run like Larry Brown. Right. Like I would run like and then Charlie Taylor like so Charlie Taylor did a thing that when he caught a touchdown Charlie would just turn he didn't spike the ball he would just turn to the official and he would raise his hands with the football in one hand and just he would just stand there in the touchdown pose and so at age 10 like that was a thing I'm going to catch his touchdown pass and then boom hit hit it hit it got it and I just remembered that my friends I had a friend named Jerome who witnessed all of

the insanity. Right? But he was not that dude. Like he was not going to participate, but he would... Look at this kid. Like he would sometimes, you know, but he'd at, like he didn't, like after we'd play, after the game was over, we'd come out and replay the game. And, but he would just look at me like, that

is remarkable. Well, after they lost the Super Bowl, we all ran out in the streets, right? And everybody was kind of depressed. Mm-hmm. And he goes, did you win in the pregame you shut up like it was somehow my fault yeah are you did you

did you win by enough that like you know well I didn't do the I didn't do the Gary your premium muff that's what it was your goal I didn't put all that in you didn't include the important parts that well I did in the post game what we did so in the game

Washington got the 14 to 7 and they had one final possession with like two minutes left but earlier in the drive before that in the drive to first half it's Billy Kilmer because Sunny Jurgensman was hurt so Billy Kilmer's leading them and Billy Kilmer who was not the world's most

effective passer again former college halfback, tailback back in the day okay right so now he's Washington's quarterback and Jerry Smith is wide open in the end of it wide open to the back of the end zone.

And Kilmer throws the best pass he's ever thrown. It's a dart. And Jerry Smith has his hands up and he's ready. Except for back then, the goalpost was on the goal line. Oh, no. It was on the goal line. And Billy Kilmer hit the crossbar. If you hit the crossbar, it plays dead.

It would hit the ground. It just hit the ground. It went down. Like I was if it hit it and went up. Smith was in the back of the end zone. And the crossbar sits at like 10 feet. Yep. And he had it perfect angle.

And go to him. If Billy Kilmer had tried to hit that crossbar from 20 yards out, he would have gone one for 20. But the one. This was the one. And it was in the Super Bowl. In the Super Bowl. And it ranks up there with me with the Jackie Smith drop in the end zone. It's just there.

He's just like, were you aiming for the, I wasn't aiming for the crossbar. He wasn't aiming for the crossbar. Like he's never hit the crossbar before. And he hits the crossbar and nothing. And I was depressed. And so in the post game, as we're playing, you know, you had to just drop it. You just had to drop the ball. It dropped the ball.

So anyway, I don't know how we got on that. I don't know how I got on that tangent. I don't either. It's amazing. Cross the script. Bob. Whatever. That's not where we're going to talk about.

We're going to talk college softball. That's what we're going to talk about. College World Series. Softball, baseball, we'll go through schedules of what's happening here. There's lots going on this weekend. Let's talk about it here on one-on-one when we come back. Download our app by searching 93.7. The ticket in your app store.

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