1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Our long line of ancestors: September 19th, 2026, 11:45am

Episode Date: September 19, 2026

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Back to one-on-one with D.P. Sponsored by the Downtown Lincoln Foundation on 93-7 the ticket. A little Saturday harmony. Oh, my braces, man. I love a good vibrational. I just do. I just do. We'll get y'all set up by Rayleigh Co.

We'll take you here at 12 noon and interested in Wyoming. We'll take you up until the pre-A-1 pre-game tailgate. We've got a full one for you. three hours worth we got the lineup all set and it should do pretty well so come hang out we got some big brother big sisters folks who are coming in uh to hang out with us in the pregame the tailgate is open we'll be giving away t-shirts and headbands and goodies if you'll stop by on your way to a memorial walk through the peek in the glass and uh hang out i was sharing with tristan thing and it's a lot of the farmer talk and the personality talk and the people talk um a lot of folks

So they're folks who are using my genealogy as a case study. And what they, the highlight is how much we share, you know, that 99, we share 99% in the same DNA, period, all of us, all of us. It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter where you come from. We share 99%. And then you go back in time and then you realize so much that we think that we're our parents name. We carry our dad's name, but we often don't speak of our moms. We don't always

speak of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers. And I think, and you realize that generationally, most generations run somewhere between 20 and 30 years, depending on the time in American history of when people were getting married and procreating that sort of deal. Of course, that generational span increases more recently because you young folks start getting married early. And find so. Good, good deal. But if I go back 100 years, I'm back at,

so my parents are 25 years, grandparents at 50 years, 75 years, great-grandparents, 100 years, great, great-great-great-grandparents. And there is kind of the splitting of the roads and the atoms when it comes to genetics for me and that we forget that generationally the grandparents multiply. And by the time we go back to the Civil War, Civil War in America, I had 526, 528 great-grandparents. And they did a thing where they were focusing on occupation and the great census reports of the time,

and that's how they documented you know what race you were and a lot of the race has been manipulated but you'll have to figure that out on the way but of the two when we get to the level where I have 256 great whether it be great great great great grandparents and it's all the names that are tied to that and it's some names right and again dumb it's as being your name, but you carry a lot of names with you that go unspoken, unfortunately. And so my mission was to speak those names and to find out what those names were. And then I found out a thing in the occupational study that was just released of the 250-plus great, great-great-great-grandfathers, 111 of them had the same occupation.

111 of them were farmers in Virginia, in North Carolina, in New York City, in Pennsylvania, and then in Maryland. 111 farmers. So when people talk about farmers, I come from farmers. I come from farmers. And science. Science don't lie. 111.

And the names, they're working on a video of my 256 names, and then they're, you know, my 512 names, and then my 100 and, yeah, my thousand names that go back to the American Revolution. And it's life-changing. It's life-changing to recognize how many cultures you are part of you, how many names you carry with you. and how many stories you are. I'll close with this as well. This is actually the first time I've been on air since the announcement. And I'm proud.

I'm humbled. I have some people that want to call in today. They're like, when are you on air? I want to call in and say congratulations. But my high school has decided that it will honor me by inducted me into its Hall of Fame. and that'll be in October. I'll have time to kind of marinate in it.

But it just reminds me to think of the people who are going in with me. I'm not going in by myself. I'm taking a bunch of coaches and teammates with me. As a fact, when I walk in, there'll be some coaches there wait for them. On the wall, the plaques and trophies, that my picture will go up. A lot of my coaches will be. be on that wall and it means everything. It means everything to be able to be put in a place with the people who made you,

the people who built you. So if you see me smiling randomly, that's probably what it is, is that my high school thinks enough of me to do that and honor me with that. And I'm pretty thrilled. But it is game day in Lincoln, Nebraska. I'll give a report during the pregame, the A1, automotive tailgate, but let me say this before we go. Tristan, only Nebraska can beat Nebraska.

Yes, sir. I agree. Only Nebraska can beat Nebraska. Don't go anywhere for Rayleigh, go up next, ticket weekends, ticket Saturdays, all the way up to game day and post game. We'll be here until midnight. See you then.