1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-on-One with DP: December 29th, 3pm - Changes coming at 93.7 the Ticket

Episode Date: December 29, 2021

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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, presented by Beatrice Bakery on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. It's been a minute. New York City was great. Not long enough, but it will do, Nick. If you would, sir, I am in a vibe. I'm in a mood. and the only way to re-enter

is this. Good to be back. Lots going on and had a little godfather in my mood today. In my mood today, just to say, it's good to be back. 9370, the ticket. 4-2-46-4-6-85-6-85.

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There's a social media challenge. Tevin Campbell sings a song, Can We Talk? Can we talk? And folks are all trying to sing, and nobody can sing Kevin Campbell, so it's a bit of a train wreck, but it's been busy since I was gone, and lots going on. And so some of you may not have heard the goings on around 937 the ticket changes that are taking place. And with all changes, there are adjustments and recalculations and redirections.

So we'll go through some of those over the course of the next hour before Jay Foreman gets in here at 4 o'clock. We dive in old school. But as for one-on-one, you guys can do a couple things you can do. And you guys, here's what I know now, that you guys know where my Twitter and my Instagram are and my Facebook. You guys know where those are. So I know that you guys can communicate. Right.

Some of you have gone out of your way to communicate over the last couple of days. I'm like, I'm on vacation. I was on vacation. Like I haven't had a vacation in forever. Forever. And I was like, let me just put the station down. it's in good hands, you know, autopilot. Let me walk away from it for a few days.

Except, except life moves, life happens, and changes come up. And so right before I left, I was informed that it's been several different situations all accumulating at once. rules of the station and kind of the mission and standard, that's the word I want to use, standard. For how business is being done is, I'm not for rumor, whispers, and outright lies. Like, we need to recalculate that if we don't know what's going on, it's okay to say, I have no idea and just wait for the people who know to tell

you. But goodness gracious, man, some of the stuff that was put out and just put out as absolute. When here's the thing in this business and in this space, verify and confirm. Verify and confirm. And if there is a story about DP, you might want to ask me before you say why I'm doing what I'm doing. Like, I deserve that. You deserve that.

Like, how would you like it for me to put your name out into social media space with some BS that you have no idea about what people are talking about? Because you didn't say it or you didn't do it. And if you're going to speak on 937 the ticket and its business situation, you might want to ask the owner. Because that's what that's what grownups would do. If I want to know something about Nick, I ask Nick. I don't have to go to Pius 10th and find somebody and go, hey, what do you know about Nick?

No, be a grown up and ask Nick. And so I was inundated with, and look, I'm an open book. Ask me a question. I told you. I like to start things by saying, do I have your permission to tell you true? So when that happens, what I, what I'd hoped for, for is a mutual agreement that we are going to treat each other as as decent, decently and kindly as possible.

And this business is about truth. Like when the microphone on the responsibility of being amplified is that you, you can pass along as many absolute truths as possible. And yes, listeners have the convenience of being able to say, well, this is what I think. Well, okay. but then does that mean I don't have to listen to you? Because there's no truth based on what you said.

And quite frankly, in some cases, I was stunned. In other cases, I was just right out disappointed. Because I heard some stuff about me that, whee, some things that I supposedly said that, no, never been, those words are never come out of my mouth. And people speaking about this station as though they know it. No, you don't, you have any idea. you what's going on behind the behind the scenes.

And here's the reality. I love this. I love this business. It is a joy and a blessing to be able to have a place that we can meet and high five and co-miserate and make fun of each other and picket each other and still be humane,

civil, and decent. I mean, if we're in the lane of stuff that we want to do where people just want to rant and rave and fingerpoint, do something else. I'm cool with, hey, you just need to do something else. But if you want to come and, again, we can laugh at each other and we can pick at each other because we're supposed to be family. But don't be the part of the family.

Remember the family that goes and spread rumors. Like, it's amazing to me. Like somebody actually texted me or they tweeted, they tweeted, They DM'd me and said, hey, I heard you're turning us into a hip hop station. Okay, can I just point out how ridiculous and how absolutely lame that is? That somebody would, one, share that, that anybody would believe that. Like, what? And here's the real part.

I try not to do this part of my job from the owner's standpoint. I try to do this from the entertainment standpoint. Again, we're either educating or entertaining. You're either educating or entertaining. And through that, like I don't, like Mark knows, I don't want to ever have to be the boss in this space. I want things to run and everybody is happy and everybody gets what they need and everybody's, you know,

they're getting better at their craft and all those things. And I never have to, it never has to be whispered about who the boss is. Where I pop up is where, you know, when things are needed and I'm the only person who can solve it. And so I don't know. Like, I'm assuming that everybody here is at some point at least know somebody that switched jobs. Like, it happens. And there's no malice. Like, I have no malice towards Connor and Mike and Tom.

And they don't have any malice towards me. At least that's not what I, at least that's what they've told me. I can go by what they've told me. And it's pretty simple that there are times when you want to do something different for yourself or different than what you're currently doing, which we're all entitled to do. Like I'm not even mad at Connor Schaefer and Tom. Why would I be? If I'm a legitimate dude, I'm rooting for him.

It's like being a head coach and your assistants and coordinators go on and take head coaching jobs or decide to retire. What am I going to be mad about? If I'm a decent person, I'm a human to them. Like, I need to be a human to them. I'm like, high five, Connor, way to go. Go kick tail, man, do you think. Schaefer, man, whatever you're doing.

Listen, man, I just want you happy. Tom, look, man, we can come on. You've been doing this a long time. When you're ready to step away, you know, for whatever reason, step away. step away so that being said

just I'd like for this and Big Slim what's up what's up Big Slim says welcome back thank you enjoyed it I got to watch some MBA got to watch go go see to kill a mockingbird on Broadway

and then everything around around us in New York started to close down you know started closing down restaurants start closing down shop start closing down.

And then we got the word that airlines were shutting, you know, they were canceling flights. And then we would have been just stuck and isolated in New York City, you know, in a pandemic with nothing to do. So we were like, okay, let's put it all down. We'll leave that time. We'll do this again another time. But let's find a flight.

Let's get out of here and get home. And give ourselves enough time to put our feet up for a little bit, eat some bad food recharge and reboot which is what we did for the most part except for having to deal with whispers and rumors about the station

gave ourselves some time to check and make sure we didn't bring you know we didn't bring any cooties back with us from New York City and we're good had our meetings this morning with the existing staff that you know put some information information in their space, right?

Good stuff. Good stuff. There's some good stuff coming. Now, it wasn't ideal to have to, you know, to do this, to find a new roster, et cetera, new talent in 10 days and have it ready for next Monday because there's a whole bunch of stuff you have to do before that. The onboarding is pretty extensive. but you know I'm tasked every day to get you guys entertainment from 6 a.m. until 8, 9 or 10 p.m., whatever it is that we are doing that particular day.

And we'll have some more information on that as well. So I need to find folks who want to do this and want to do this for us. And that's what we're going to do. Yeah. you know, it's, I'm looking forward to what's coming next. I don't, you know, I didn't want to make changes. I didn't want to make changes. I wouldn't have made changes.

But when asked to make changes and when forced to make changes, I could either make changes or sit on my, my hands and wait for Monday to show up and go, wow, we don't have any programming, which is not why we're here. and there are people who have said, and let me get to this part. This is, okay. So the people who say that they're done with 937 ticket without knowing what's going on

or what the follow-up would be, that wasn't about the station at all. It wasn't. And look, that whole adage that the customer is always right. that does not speak to listeners. Look, I'm not right all the thought. But when it comes to what you say about the space that we're in,

we're trying to create a space for everybody will have something over the course of the hours that we're open that intrigues them, that includes them, that considers them. Now, the idea that we could put together, you know, 14, 18, 20 hours of local sports programming, which you don't have anywhere else, mind you, that we could do that and make everybody happy all the time. Just not possible.

Just not possible. But what we're trying to do is give you a meeting place for people to come and talk about the things that they care about, the things that they're passionate about, the things that they're curious about, and have a space where you're known, we know you, you know us, and we can kind of get through whatever. We can celebrate when we need to celebrate.

We can raise our, we can pump our fists when we want. We can, you know, roll our eyes when we hit that crazy point, and we can all exhale together. This is a sports radio station. You have no enemies here, and we have no enemies in you. Like nobody hears your your villain. So let's put all that down. And then let's get a grip.

Right. I mean, it's simple. Also to the text line, I'll get to you guys. So let me jump that real quick. What's up, Jeff? I said, don't get cut up in the vocal minority on social media. I trust you guys have a solid plan going forward. I think we do.

We have a plan and then another plan and then another plane. There's that. AEDP, leave Nashville tomorrow for New Year's Eve and the first NFL game Sunday Titans, Dolphins. I'm going to finish my vacation is what I'm going to do. Once I get the new stuff in place as it should be, it needs to be, then I'm going to spend Friday night watching the two playoff games. I'm going to watch whatever the New Year's Eve games,

I'm going to watch the NFL, and then I'm going to come back Monday and be prepared to kick your tails with some good radio. What's up, DP? What's up, PKMPI? Hopefully you were able to decompress a little, looking forward to the new lineup

because I'm usually a 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. listener, thanks. And thank you for hanging out all day, because, you know, we're trying to provide just a place to turn your brain off or on, to let your blood pump a little bit, you know, get your heart rate up a little bit, let you be slightly curious in what we're doing. Harold's Fier says, what's up? What's up, Harold's Fier's.

Just a quick note on the departures of the, is the departures of some radio host? Yeah, I can't read that. I'm going to miss the crap out. However, I'm sure looking forward to what you got coming down the pipe. I ain't going anywhere. Appreciate you. Appreciate you, appreciate you. What's up, Godope guy?

I missed you guys too. Tom says, hey, DP, I just learned today that you and your wife own 93.7 FM. I read an article online post to September 25th, 2021. Congratulations. Since you own the stations, you can do whatever you want with it. Just saying. And let the church say, amen. What I want to do is to give you guys.

a place to hang out while you're puttering around or why you're working or while you're driving or you're just chilling at home or you want the latest news or you want you want your you want to be distracted but yeah this is what it is thank you time hey d p love your positivity and vision i enjoy listening online from afar oh and thanks again for the sine cooler the night of the iowa game i know exactly who this is i was the person with the picture with Dean from 83. Well done, brother. Merry Christmas. And yeah, I'm glad we could do that for you.

Joe says, welcome home. D.P. Miss you, love you. Hope the crew left you some cheesecake. No, they did not. No, they did not, Joe. No, they did not. Now, see, this is the thing, right? This is the part.

I am a grown, bleeping man. Now, when you jump up, in the text line with, and I'm going to read this for the folks who can't see it, don't understand. Don't mess with Sip and Jay. Are you telling me what to do? Are you not familiar with how this works? See, the text line, again, if you're texting and adding to the conversation, but if you're

just going to yell at me and then yell something that's, quite frankly, not your place, I'm going to address it. Chill. Everybody understand, like hit me with, say, hey, what's up? at least say hi. Say hi. And then tell me I'm a jerk. But say hi first.

Like, we're having a conversation. You yelling from down the hall. You riding out of the street yelling at me? I'm a grown man, dude. Say hi first. I mean that. I really do. And that's a simple,

decent respect kind of thing. What's up, Brian T. Appreciate you, man. said I got to welcome new people to spend my workday with excited to what y'all got in store though hey big man guess what guess what big man tomorrow you can find out who you got to get to know and who you're spending your day with and I'm going out on a limb and I think I just think you might like them you might like them I love you guys so much that I'm going to make sure you got really cool people to hang out with and hear stories

from and the conversation with every day and every night and a week. And a week. And post games. Mark, sir, would you please step up? Step up, kind, sir. Hey. Yeah, man. Well, I wasn't going to say anything unless Joe brought it up. But there is a cheesecake in the freezer for you. See? I was kind of hoping he would slide under the radar. But since Joe brought it up, we saved you some chest. Give me my cake.

So it's there for you. Give me my cheesecake. Also, just to piggyback on what you were saying. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to have some fun. Right? Yeah. Like, so tomorrow, we're going to spend a lot of time remembering the careers.

of Connor and Mike and Tom here at the ticket. We're going to have some fun that way. We're going to look back. It'll be great. I'm sure we'll all get sentimental and cry. And like you said, there'll be tissues at the door because we're going to need them. And then we're going to look forward and it's going to be a whole lot of fun. It's going to be different.

Let's be clear about that. It is going to be different. Oh, it's definitely different. But it's going to be a whole lot of fun. Like, we deserve to pat each other on the back. Okay. Because what you enabled us to do, yesterday.

Like, I'm out, chill it. What you enabled us to do yesterday, what we accomplished yesterday was kind of some draft day. We were in our own separate war rooms. Right, right. Yeah, we were doing some work. Right. Like, this was some serious transfer portal coaching carousel, mega puzzle

thousand pieces put them together to fit to make a picture that was worth seeing with a ticking clock going right behind you right like it's just it was like we went through we we never panic

but we did have moments of what in the what in the wide wide world of sports because it's I don't care what anybody says. Two weeks is not a lot of time to put together a new station, a new lineup. It's tough when you're replacing one. Right.

Just one person. It's like, look, I know what I went through to get the one job that I got. To be fair, we put you through the ringer a little bit. Yeah. Like, Nick, this is how funny it is, right? So I had previously verbally committed to another station. Oh, I haven't heard this story. Didn't sign the NLI.

Right. But verbal commit. You did not fax it. Verbal commit. And then this is ring a bell, right? The ring a bell, right? That in the 23rd hour, two things happened. One was like, he's too big for this.

Like we did. We need to, and they did the other thing, which was, let me get somebody that we know. Like, we can go big or we can do the safe thing. And they did the safe thing. And they did it in like the 23rd hour. Remember, we had already had the house built. So I was moving to Lincoln anyway. And that was kind of the introduction.

It was like, hey, let me introduce myself. I'm coming to Lincoln. I might want to do this. Nick, I'm like, you know, three people. First one was like, nope, oh, thank you. You're our guy. Like, we have a thing. Timing's perfect.

23rd hour, they're like, and I'm like, well, I'm coming, even if it's just to retire. And I'll be the, the 60-year-old grumpy dude yelling at coaches on the sideline of Oscar Sports. You had your spot picked out at him like the park and everything. Yes. Right behind the first base up.

Yes, I was ready to just put my feet up and chill. And then I get this notice. I'm like, what's this other thing? And I'm like, well, who's the boss? Let me go to the boss. I'm like, hey, listen, Mark, sir, you don't know me, but I'm coming to town. I'd like to be a part of what you're doing. Nick, it took four phone calls and two face-to-face meetings, three face-to-face meetings.

Oh, I think we had five face-to-face meetings. I'm almost positive. Seriously, right? Right. And then he's just like, eh, you sure? No, every single interview we brought in somebody new and that new person every time said, okay, but why? Why here?

Why us? And, you know, that's the question you get daily, right? And the answer has never changed. The answer has never changed. My wife was coming here on a regular basis as a consultant. And finally, one of the trips, she said, hey, you want to watch some football. Oh, twist my arm. Don't make me watch Nebraska football.

I'm all in. Let's go. Now, what I was doing at the time was something entirely different, but I was ready to dismount, just like Connor was. Hey, there was nothing wrong with it. I was just ready to do something else. We come to visit 9-6, Iowa, Michigan State game in the snow. Oh, I was at that game.

Right. And we sat outside in the club area, but we could go back and forth. But at one point, we sat there and got covered in what it seemed to be six inches of snow. and nobody freaked out. I watched that game at home. Yeah, and nobody freaked out. And I was like, oh, I dig this. Because in D.C. and Charlotte, when the snow happens, it shuts down.

Like, it's nasty and everybody's angry and nobody knows how to drive and nobody knows how to deal with it. And we were just sitting there. And the people around us was just totally, hey, welcome to Nebraska. Welcome to Lincoln. And, hey, this is what's going on. And everything was cool. Well, it's funny because everybody's happy. but nobody can drive in it anyway.

Right, but we were just, we were staying in the hay market, so we were going to walk anyway. And everybody, there's a train of people walking back and forth. And everybody was cool and went to the three, went to two or three bars. And the people that was hosting us, like they were like the bars were cool. And this was pre-pandemic. And then we came back again. And then she says, hey, what do you think? Like instead of us just going on these, these vacation trips, why don't we just buy a place in Lincoln?

And we'll just like when we want to. want to get away. We just come here. And we got a place, right? We're not wasting money on hotels. We're just going to have a place. And we will do Husker stuff. And I'm like, bet.

And as a matter of fact, I showed you pictures of me at my previous job wearing Husker gear a year, two years before I got here. Like, we were already doing it. And then when the opportunity came up and then finally he goes, so my boss wants. know why. And I'm like, I told you why. Need to hear it from you. I look, man, this is cool.

Like, this is my, I get to come talk ball, hang out and, like, that's my jam. I'm good. Okay. And that's how I'm here. Had no intention on buying a station, had no intention on anything, the other stuff that happened. I'm still not convinced it wasn't some sort of sinister plot that you had preordained. Can I, can I be honest?

Can I be completely honest for a second? The first time you came in and you did your trial run with Happer. I was sitting here and I go, these are my white people. Well, there's that thing, right? Was the Saturday Live bit, Key and Peele where the guy goes in and he goes, no, we already got a black dude. We already got a black dude, man. Nope. We already got a black dude.

We already got a black dude. I'm like, well, now. And again, I'll share. These are my friends. All right, white folks. The rule, the joke always is. If there's more than two, than one black person anywhere where there's a bunch of white people, they say, hey, they're having a meeting. So whatever that is.

These are my white people first. Right, right. Like this is. And then I said, as I told you then, for now. Okay. For now. You say so. You know, because at some point, these are my people.

So through all of this, this crew, especially this four crew, I mean, the folks who are remaining at this station. are going to remain at this station as long as they want, as long as they want. We are going to buckle up, look, to do more high school sports, to give you greater coverage and greater access to Husker athletes and coaches, Husker Legends. We want to be the place where you can just come and hang out

and talk sports, even if it's sports you don't like. And you can yell, hey, DP, I hate NBA. I'm cool with it as long as you say, hey man DP at least say it just don't yell at me like don't do it

I don't want to do that like just say hey man this is what we're doing and then we will try to make it better and look we had a meeting with Rico and Nick earlier today and say listen

we're going to ask more of you because we need you we can't be the version of the station that we want to without you and Mark again I'll say it publicly God bless you bro

for carrying, like, the journey from when we first found out the station was going to be sold to going through the, with the FCC and all the filings and all the applications. Love those guys. Right, like, oh, my goodness gracious, right? Shout out the FCC. Oh, my goodness gracious. Oh, my goodness gracious. Just in case they're listening, I love you guys.

Right, right. Like, you just go, wow. And if you have never gone through the process of trying to own a radio station in America, let me tell you, look, on the short list of things to never do. because they want to know everything. And you just bought a little one. Right, right. I've only gone through like once or twice.

Yeah, you're right. It's very problematic. But this is the part. You go, listen, just to understand, people are like, you own a radio station. If you don't understand what it took for me to own this radio station and why we did it, because it would be some other sort of station now.

Oh, yeah. And you wouldn't I be happy with it. Yeah, some people might. You wouldn't I be happy with it. So we fought. This crew in here, Ad Jake, Ed Connor, fought to keep this as Lincoln's sports radio station. And it is, and it's yours, and we want to do more. We want to be at your events.

We're going to be at fairs. We're going to be out and about. And if you have something going on in Lincoln that you want us to talk about, look, the door is open. I just, I'm thrilled at this. It was stressful, but it's another sign. And Mark understands us better. than anything, right? That I am, I listened to the universe and the universe put me here.

Somebody says, why are you in Lincoln? Because this is where I'm supposed to be. I chose you. If you still doubting me after, and Mark could probably tell you what I was doing before this and you go, if I chose you over that, if I chose you over everything else, it must be important. It must be right. I think that folks are going to find that's a common theme with the people that are being brought in, too.

Because I kept hearing that as I was having conversations yesterday, those same, it was, it was DP's words coming from somebody else's mouth. It was, it was crazy. I think that's going to be the common theme is I want to be here. I choose to be here because it's really cool talking to you folks over the airwaves every day. That, you know, it hit me, my brother and minister, my older brother of minister, said to me just the other day. when the chaos started to happen, he goes, oh, so now you officially own a radio station. Like, you're going through the stuff.

Now you're officially going through it. And man, let me tell you. Had to get your radio drama. Right? Like, it was like, oh, like you had to make it. Well, I say it all the time. Greatness requires friction. Well, there's the friction.

And how you come out on the other side, says a lot about you. We came through it positively. We came through it with love. We're patting everybody on the back on the way out. We'll welcome them back in when they have time and when they want to come back in. But in the meanwhile, we will continue to work to be here for you. And hopefully you enjoy what's coming next.

We'll throw it to break. We ran late. We'll go two short segments to get out of one-on-one. Appreciate you love you. More. 93-7 the ticket one-on-one when we come back. Download our app by searching. 93.7 the ticket in your app store.

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