1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: November 4th, 3:25pm - Thank you to folks in the community

Episode Date: November 4, 2021

One-On-One with DP: November 4th, 3:25pm - Thank you to folks in the communityAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We're listening to one-on-one with DP. Sponsored by Beatrice Bakery on 93-7-the-ticket and the ticketfm. Welcome back, one-on-one, 93-7, the ticket, FM. Again, 402, 4-6-4-685, you can join in the conversation. You can ask questions. You can leave comments or you can call in. Honda Lincoln Hotline at the same number. Get it off your chest, vent.

Celebrate whatever you want to do. Thank you folks who have jumped on the Sartre Haman live video stream. You guys, you're appreciated. Greatly done. You can find us on Facebook. You probably should. Just go through type 937 Ticket FM. It'll come up.

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and do that as well. YouTube, you just jump on YouTube. Real simple. We give you every way possible to engage and enjoy. And hopefully you're doing so. Let me say this. This morning, I got an invitation to speak to the Huskers basketball team. and I want to say there are a couple of things to say to this.

First of all, it's an honor, an absolute honor for them to trust me with their young people and to be able to put a little juice in the program. Positive energy, directive conversation with this team. And this is a good group. It's a good group. several things happen and and just to understand to come in and speak to this group. Five years ago today is an anniversary to me because five years ago today I had a filter taken out of my body that was to protect me from from blood clots and an embolism.

And after walking around through that and I was taking off the blood thinners and the meds. And there was a day when they pull, you know, they put the, they go through your neck or they can go below. chose my neck because I'm pretty smart. But today's a celebration, and to be able to, to them, I wanted to take the opportunity today and say thank you for everything. I wanted to say thank you for my still being here today. I want to say thank you to that young group of people who represent the state and this university and their home cities, hometowns.

these guys do work just ridiculous amounts of work to do this and I wanted to say thank you to them for the work that they put in and representing all of us so that was the base that was the basis for what I talked to them about was just saying thank you like as I get up each morning and say thank you because I've always asked for one more day and so I say thank you when it's been granted and at the end of the day, I say thank you. And then oftentimes in between throughout the day, I say thank you for little things and big things, but little things too. And to have these young people respond with thank you to you, the fan base, because they understand that, you know, sometimes your day can be affected by them and what they do. So they want it to, they want to represent you in the right way. And they're

the right group to do it. And we get caught up in the X's and O's of it. But, but the people that were in that room, the young people that were in that room today, hold you in high regard, and you impact them, and they pay attention to what you say and how you say it about them. Also, a thank you to the coaching staff

who set this up and then who were there and got to rally and represent, allowing me the opportunity to speak to these folks speak to them. Greatly appreciate it. They showed off the practice facility, the lounge, the study room, et cetera. So I got to see kind of behind the scenes and poke my head around and be impressed by it all. Also, Randit's Chuck Love from the women's program.

Nice conversation with him. He is just an incredible dude, and I'm looking forward to having some conversations with him. And then a conversation with head coach Fred Hoyberg. And he's just a personable, good-spirited, good-hearted human being and a great representative of the University of Nebraska. And I'm appreciative because he took time to just have general conversation. It wasn't basketball talk. We just talked about people and things and goodness and health and being grateful.

And we both have reason to. And so that's a conversation that we could have. And then the young people who hung around, who hung around and showed parts of themselves and the goodness of how they work. You know, they showed that, you know, these are family kids. These are community kids. Like they care about this fan base. They want to do well for you and by you.

They want to represent you in a way that you can be proud of. And we get caught up talking about, you know, the stuff of it. but the reality of it is we're people connected who are rooting for these people connected. And a part of it, we can get caught up in the finger pointing, and we can get caught up in the nastiness of it as it now tends to be. But the reality is this. It's the people. And I have to remind myself, today was a great reminder to not choose the game over the people.

It's the people that make this thing matter. The more you care about those people, the greater the care can be for them by you and them to you. A couple of thanks as well, one, to Mary Ellen's soul food, food for the soul. I let them know that I was going to be in front of these young people. And Charles Phillips, God bless you for offering to do something for these young people. He put together some food for them. He set it up and to tell you how thrilled these young people were, that one, somebody cared enough to do a very small thing very well for them.

So they all ate and smiled and laughed and celebrated. And then Moose Morrison from Moose's Mad Fresh also gave him the opportunity. And I said, please come down with me to this event. take care of these young people, let's take care of this program. And he did so. He did so. And he hung out. And he got to meet, you know, he had to have a conversation with Fred Hoyberg.

And he got to hang out with the players and the coaches and, you know, kind of see how. And he even decided to sit through my speech. We were walking through and, you know, coach is like, are you ready to give, you ready to give this speech? And he asked if he could, he goes, I can use the motivation to. You mind if I tag along? And I said, sure, come on. Hang, hang out. We have opportunities to better the space that we're in.

And today was a day where I felt like I did something good for someone else. And in turn, they would do something good for someone else. And if there were 25 people in a room who all agreed to do something good, for someone else, it was a better day for all of us. And to get young people to move in a positive light and have the young people say, hey, look, I told them to go to their phone.

There's somebody that, somebody that helped them get to where they are, somebody that loves them. And I said, just take a moment, pull out your phone and text, thank you. Say thank you to somebody that helped you get here, somebody that is proud of you being. here, somebody that worked hard for you to get here, for somebody that loves you, for somebody that you

may have distance with and you want to bridge the distance. And to know that those young people did that, today is a good day. And yet another reason to root for this basketball team with high vibrancy, to look in their eye for 20 minutes and look in their eyes for 20 minutes and see them connect and commit to it. It was pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Like I've been in some of those rooms where sometimes there's a disconnect and sometimes, you know, the people don't care.

But that was not the case in the room today. In the room today, a place where good was welcomed and good was present. Now, that's not going to help them beat Michigan. but it certainly ain't going to hurt. It ain't going to hurt. It was a good day. And with all the news around today, not all the news is good news.

So an opportunity to share good news, I wanted to take it. I wanted to take time and simply say, you have a good group of young people in the basketball program here. Yes, you do. do. And I can speak to it because I witnessed them myself. I was in the space and I saw what was going on. I saw the hard work. I saw the joy. I saw the team chemistry. I saw the respectfulness

of them giving time to me when, you know, quite frankly, they had just gone through a practice and they were exhausted. But instead, they acknowledged, they paid attention, they gave respect, They gave thanks. They gave love. It doesn't happen enough that we say, when we see something good, we say something good. Three favorite words, love out loud. It's good to be in a place where you can actually know that love exists

and they're good people working together to do good things. I mean, again, two companies that had other stuff to do today rallied. and rained glove down on this basketball team because these are somebody else's kids, right? And these two companies. And Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul and Moose is Mad Fresh.

They got up. They put themselves to work. They put their hands to work. They put their hearts to work. And they put together enough love for 25 people, left them better than they found them. Certainly left them more full than they found them, but they left them better than

they found them. And that is what we should effort to do every day. So, bravo to the community. Two great ambassadors, Charles Phillips and Moose Morrison, well done, to the coaching staff, well done, to the team. I say, well done. It was a very good day. We'll close that one-on-one on 93-7 the ticket. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One-on-One with DP on 93-7 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com.