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Episode Date: October 27, 2021

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You're listening to one-on-one with D.P. Brought to you by Beatrice Bakery. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back. Appreciate you guys. Joining us on a wet Wednesday afternoon. But it is basketball Wednesday. Exhibition basketball, PBA, 6 o'clock.

And Jay and I'm going to hand over the reins to Nick and Big Sky. right about 545, 540 or so. We'll head down to PBA and see what's going on down there. And then we'll hustle back. In the meanwhile, for folks who aren't going to the game or who can multitask, you'll watch the game on TV, and you can stream Badgett and Uptown with number 43 as he talks hoops and talks about the Huskers and what's going on.

And then the post-game show, immediately following. That'll be myself, Bach, Big Sky, if he decides to hang out, which I believe he will. Connor Happer will call in from PBA after the presser to give us the news on what was said after said exhibition, and we're looking forward to. We're waiting on wrestling coach Mark Manning. He will join us shortly, and we'll get into conversation with him. But, Brian, we'll see you down there.

Brian, I know Brian's working down there. He'll be down at PVA. So again, announce your presence with authority. There will be no tackling of strangers tonight. Bring a mask. Come watch some basketball. Enjoy yourselves. That's what that is.

And then tomorrow night, we moved Buzzie's show. What's the Buzz from Wednesday from 6 to 8 to Thursdays from 6 to 8? And then the truth with C.J. Wilter and Kobe Webster will be, you know, immediately following that on Thursdays. And we'll do that as consistently as the schedule allows us to do. I'm greatly appreciated as well. A little thing of note, I had a meeting this morning with folks from teammates, and we're going to help them.

We're going to help them try to get some mentors signed up, folks who want to participate, who will have, you know, a few minutes a week just to help enhance somebody's life, especially the kids here in this space that need just a nudge, just a hug, just a smile, or just somebody to listen. And I knew from this vantage that this listener base, these are right kind of people who would volunteer up and step up and make themselves available for the young people that go to teammates and look for,

they're looking for love. They're looking for a voice to listen to be heard, those things. So we will get on that going forward as well, but I did want to say it was a very cool meeting and good to have that thing happen. And if you're interested, just go ahead and put that thing in. Kelsey says DP you should be a mentor. I thought about texting that in a couple of months ago when they told us at school about the shortage of mentors, but I figured you were too busy. Here's the thing. I am a mentor. I'm on the National Council of Mentors.

mentors.org through loveprints, which is my, my mission to teach and love through sports. The whole point is love prints, loving, learning through sports. And when I say, oftentimes I'll say that I've got kids around the country. Sometimes they're kids that I coached or the younger brother or sister or somebody that I've coached or families that I've been engaged with. and those people I still represent and help them get to where they want to get to and give them an additional positive boundary in their life. And that's not always easy to do, being busy.

But sometimes it's a 10-minute phone call. Sometimes it's 30 minutes. Sometimes it's a face-to-face over a soft beverage and just to nod and look at each other and hear them and let them say how they're doing and how they're feeling. The matter of fact, that mentorship got me invited to the White House a few years ago. So the power behind it, there's a study program that's tied to it. There's a smiles project, which it's the sole mission of people. The best way to get people to smile is to have them smile with other folks.

It's really difficult. The thing about a smile is that it is meant to be reciprocated. So within school systems, within sports clubs, within rotary clubs, within corporations. We spend time going around speaking to young people, letting them know it's going to be all right, and that we have faith in them. Just to hear them, just to hear them.

But, I mean, we have a study program that allows for anybody that's interested, and it helps kids achieve what they need to academically so they can go to college and would have that thing. And then, again, that smiles project is real. just to know that you can affect a school the way that young people need for it to be done. And while I'm at this, I would say thank you and kudos to teachers, educators and such. Who sacrifice. Yeah, they're paid, but there's a time and emotional sacrifice required in order to do that well.

And who reach all of us. like if you just take a minute and think of the teacher who helped you get through like we all know immediately our mind goes to a teacher or coach who cared a little bit more who paid a little more attention who often would tell us the truth when we didn't want to hear it and who would simply fingerpoint and tell us where to go and then tell us why

that's the whole mission behind all Like literally, sports aside, that's why we're here. We're here to be here for each other. And sports is just a way to get together in large numbers to do that. Like, we cheer because a thing or a person that we care about did a positive, wonderful thing. And then that number of people that cheer that stand in unison makes us all know that, well, look at us go. Look at what we're doing. And it's a fair representation.

like your mentor base is a fair representation of your community, of your school, of your company. And if your company isn't in that space, find some space for it. All right? Ben says we need, someone needs to mentor these parents on how to operate during an after-school pickup. Make a sign.

Hey, Ben, what you do is you make a sign, make a big sign with three simple rules of parent pickup. make the rules, put them down, put them on paper, and get at a place where everybody will see you. That's mentoring. Proactive, positive direction. You can handle it. You're the right person for it, Ben.

Have at it. Have at it. So we'll throw it to break. Break early. When I come back, we'll have Husker Wrestling Coach Mark Manning. He will join us next on one-on-one. Live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 937 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com.