1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Ring Announcer at The Complex / RIP Bill Walton - May 28th, 2024

Episode Date: May 29, 2024

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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. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Happy Tuesday, Lincoln, Nebraska, DP, Harrison Arns, man in the board for you, cleaning up on a Tuesday, shouting out. At some point we need to have like a battle of barbecue,

a Lincoln Battle of Barbecue. Well, I got a little bias with the plate in front of me right now. Well, just to say, what I'll say is this, right? You can't go wrong because they're both friends and family. But Soulful Casina and Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. If you haven't figured out what you're going to do for dinner, those are really good choices. although on a Tuesday night,

Mary Ellen's isn't open, so for Casino is probably the move. And Chubbs, Brough, went over there today. He, of course, provided some gift cards for family, a four for a fundraiser.

And so I wanted to take care of that, and then, you know, I said, let me put some extra in the pool to have you deliver some goodies. And Harrison, you just did a quick sample

of the goodies. did he deliver or did he deliver? Yeah, DEPA, I love doing the show with you, but I wish I had about an hour here not to sit behind a board and get all the I got to be very careful here. But yeah, everything in my power wants to go both hands in, just start ripping this apart. But we got a nice expensive board here in a nice studio.

Don't want to get things greasy. But well done. This is fantastic. So good. I wanted to, there are a couple of things in play that I want to talk about. Of course, you can be a part of what we're doing 402, 464, 5685. you want to you want to text in but here's the thing to know that so Saturday night I had the the opportunity to be the ring announcer at the complex and what's that you'll Yolanda

Avenue I forgot the address of it yeah Yolanda Avenue for a lot of people trying to yeah they're trying to figure out where it's that Yolanda Avenue well apparently everybody figured out where it was I heard his back because it was packed and this was the first big event that Tommy Osteria, R.C.A.G. put together. And shout out to Tommy Osteraga and his wife, because, again, through what they're doing. And having built this station, you understand what you have to go through to get a place. Find the place, get a place, go through all of the different versions and machinations you have to go through, to get it approved, to come up with the budget, to get the right investors, to get the banks on board,

if that's necessary. Some cases it is, some case it isn't. Deal with all the regulation or all those things. You know, imagine the living proof that you're going to not only do, renovate an old building into a boxing training center, home of South Side boxing, of course, but that you're also going to set up so classes can be held there. And then there are some counseling things that have to go on in that space

because boxing is renowned for finding young people and giving them an outlet, a positive outlet. And with Southside boxing, it is in full a thing of why they want to do what they're doing, which is to give young people a place to take some of that energy and some of that pain and put it into something productive and kind of change their lives with it. And it becomes a meeting place. One, it became a training place because you can work out some things, you know, on a punching bag, kickboxing or otherwise.

boxing being the feature that through its history, no matter where it is in what pocket of the country, it draws young people and it gives them a place to do, be positive about themselves. It teaches discipline. It teaches to have better conversations with yourself. Nothing moves friction like that real friction, which is an opponent,

which is often yourself, right? Getting yourself up, go to the gym and work out, eat better so that you can actually get the workout in. Measuring yourself by another boxer who would mean something too, knowing that you both made sacrifices. You had to make weight. You had to put good fuel in your body. You had to put down some of the negative things in your space.

And to have a place like that in Lincoln, Nebraska. And then to say that on a night there were nine amateur fights and then three professional fights. and to walk into that space and see the crowd, that there were like 20 person bleachers on the side, those were filled, that there were people lined up along the walls on every wall, that the seated area around the ring were sold out,

and then the flat general admission seats are preferred seating was sold out. And the general admission in the space beyond that. But what I saw was 18 amateur fighters who listen, I don't know

how many amateur fights they've had, but to put that name on your shirt on your back and then put that head, that head gear on and to walk out in front of a community of people and to show to be proud of yourself. Like, more than anything else,

to know that it really wasn't about the wins and losses. It really, like, you'd already won. Those young people had already won because they weren't on the couch playing Xbox. They weren't, like, they weren't out in the club. These were folks who were competing on a Saturday night in front of a crowd. And it was cool to be proud of them.

It was cool for them to be proud of themselves. And then to watch a community of folks. Clyde Johnson was the feature light heavyweight, well, cruiserweight. And he won his four round bout to close the night. And he was kind of the star of the evening. And to see, and he's been on the ticket several times over the last couple. And that was his professional debut, right?

to officially go one or no because he was 50 and four as an amateur as an amateur and to go through but to have the crowd show up for him um there were several people in place uh Melanie Timco from Omaha uh she was uh in the in in the second bout pro vow of the evening and then georgiana Myers who put on a great show uh in in her event But then there were several young people, and one of them was kind of the moment, the, the moment, pivotal moment of the evening. Because in local events, sometimes the local crowd gets a little too involved, right? A little too emotional, a little too fired up. And this, so the young man, Carter Michael House, I believe, was a high school student in the area.

went through some things. And to see him with a full support crew there to cheer him on. Like, these were some of his dudes. And they were there cheering him on. They were loud and they were proud and they were rooting on. And then this battle, and the young man that he was fighting was from, I want to say it was from Cardi.

Okay. And to tell you, when they took the ring, I was like, oh, this, these are two square jaws. Like these are two square jaws and they're about to have at it, right? And so the hype squad in the building, you knew because the Carney kid had a full round of people there with him as well. So before the match, you know, I kind of said, oh, who's from?

And the Cardi people showed up. And I was like, okay, okay. Go ahead. Show up, young man. And somewhere in round one, McElhouse either. either breaks the guy's nose, but he certainly bloodies it. And I don't mean bloody. Like, I'm there ringside, and I've got pen and pack because I'm making notes for the next card that I fight that I have to announce.

And I'm looking down, I've got yellow index cards. Except for it's not yellow anymore. What does it do all there? Yeah, man. There's like blood flying everywhere. And I'm like, wait a minute. And then I look at my blazer, and it's all over my blazer. well here's the thing and you get used to it in UFC you kind of pay attention um but there's body

bodily fluid just raining down oh yeah on on on on on the ring side and i'm thinking first of all i hope i don't get sick tomorrow right that's why they got to get all the test before you can fight and get the ring right that's a real possibility right but then it was just sitting with my jaw on on on the table because these two young men, and I, maybe 18, 17, 18, 16, 17, 18, they are throwing hands. And I'm trying to not be a fan because I'm just supposed to announce. I'm not supposed to be emotional, robot, robot, robots. Except I'm watching these two young men just get in, you say, get in the closet and just work it out. Right?

Not a lot of room required. Right. man didn't need a whole lot of conversation. But the young man, Macal House has bloodied this guy's entire face. So he's wearing the head, the head gear. But within the frame of the head gear, it's all crimson. It's all crimson.

So do they guy break his nose? I would imagine that he had to be it. Yeah, his cartilage had to get smashed. Like it was, it was tough, right? And, but again, uh, don't know about you. But if my face is bleeding like that,

and I'm still fighting, I'm a bad dude. I'm a bad dude. So it goes to a decision. And to tell you that I knew how the decision was going to will be a lot. Like on most of these fights at night,

I was like, don't know. Don't know who they're going to give the decision to. So it's a good card. Through and through a bunch of great fights. Great, a bunch of great fights, a quality young men, but they give the fight. the decision was a unanimous decision.

So it wasn't just a split decision. It was a unanimous decision for bloody numbers. And the people lost it. They were not happy. They let it known. Now, as the ring announcer, it's my job to announce on behalf of the venue and the promoter.

But there's a part of me that immediately, you've heard me say it that I wish there are times when I didn't feel the need to be the grown up in the room. Yeah. Right? That I don't, like, I just want,

like, let them boo. Like, let them boo. But I, all I could think about was these two young people who just, I mean, you hear every cliche, put it all on the line. Nick says, empty the tank.

They did everything and what they deserved at the end, end of it was applause. Neither of them deserve to hear booze. And if you're booing the judges because of the decision and not, you remember that the young people hear the booze too. And so I just said, pump the brakes. Let's remember why we're here. This is an amateur fight. We should not be carrying this kind of anger. Yeah, especially that you just got that type of entertainment off some great amateur fights. Right.

So just applaud. And you don't need to attack the judges. So I said, hey, let's just remember why we're here. Well, there's a gentleman who stood up and literally hit me with a word combination that I had to pause. Because there were some word salad up in there. There's always that one guy. He's going to stand up. He put him together.

And I said, okay. I'm not sure why you feel what you feel, but let's just remember why we're here. When people talk like that, do you feel sad or angry about them? Because that's always one where I feel different. I'm like why you like that? Like what happened to where you're so much better?

Well, I know that it wasn't about the decision and it wasn't about the judge. First of all, the young man wasn't going to get a contract because of the fight, the amateur fight that he had in Lincoln, Nebraska on a Saturday or Memorial weekend. Yeah,

It might be part of the road, but it's not the end all deal. Like, no, it's not. No one amateur fight is that important. Yeah, unless you're getting to the Golden Gloves conversation. But that's that's the, you're getting away from even the amateur then. Well, you're going against what Golden Gloves is about. Yeah.

If you're there barking like that, then you've missed the message. You've missed the message. So I was just like, okay, well, fine. Again, one of my favorite blessings is the ability to just go, Okay. And that was my response was, okay, you're upset. Get it out. And then we'll move along. And thank you for Tommy Astyaga. He was like, next fight. Like, let's, like there's two more young people waiting for their moment. Do not let the fans ruin this evening for these young people. Because that's who it was for. It wasn't for the boxing fans. We're appreciative of the boxing fans. And we're glad that this thing exists. But it's about the young people putting themselves out there trying to be better, try to better them lives or whatever.

And there is that. So shout out to Southside boxing. Shout out to Tommy Arceaga for war building a third place where young people can go and find themselves. They can redefine themselves. They can build themselves up that you can work out. You can find a skill. that suits you, you can find a conversation with yourself that will help you with other things in life. And that's why you play sports.

Literally, the reason why if the accolades is why you do it, you're going to struggle. Because the accolades only come on game nights when it goes well. Yeah. Right? I mean, right? The cheers. Well, even if you get to like a great level, people always said it was Zach. Levine's career. Great stats, bad team.

You just wasn't going to, even unless you're winning. At the end of the night, right? In the night. So it's the process. It's the conversations you had. Hey, I'm working on my craft. I'm working on me. Yeah. It's the discipline you get along the way. That's the value in it. That, that I can put down negative things. Some of these fighters have, again, who've gone through some real friction. But now they have a place and there are people that they, that they can and should trust to lead and guide. them through this sport.

And I always say sport is the vehicle. But good people find themselves in positions of leadership in sports and then they lead through sports. Literally the idea behind love friends was loving and learning through sport. It's not my job as a coach

to win games. I will win games by being present and teaching young people. I can't be there just to win games. If that's what I'm doing, I'm going to be a terrible human being. Like I'm missing all the relationships and missing on that stuff. So to know that Lincoln has a

space that can have those sort of events, I believe he said he was going to have events soon. So, but at some time in the next couple of weeks, we'll have Tommy on one-on-one and allow him, we'll probably go back to the gym and just have conversations

about space. All brand new equipment, brand-new piping, brand-new ventilation, brand-new, really cool. I had a bunch of bars around it so you could go and celebrate and, you know, they were selling, I can tell you, there were a lot of buckets on the table. There's a lot of bucket on them tables. But the fights, doors opened at six. We got out of there at 11.30. And I know there were some issue because he was like, wait a minute, this is my first liquor license. And we need to have all these

folks out here. And it was enough people to go, okay, we really need for y'all to find your way home. Good thing Uber still exists. Right. Like you find your way home. Y'all, it was perfect. And so shout out to Tommy. Shout out the Southside boxing. There was, again, to all the young people who bought, who boxed on Saturday. And then all of the incredible people, Andy Avila is a DJ locally. He came up and shared stories. And as a matter of fact, took videos and took pictures. Russ Jones from Midwest Championship. He was there. He was sharing stories. And otherwise, There were just some great people in the building.

And there were a lot of ticket fans who were there who stopped by and tapped me on the shoulder and said, look, I don't want to bother you. I know you're working, but I want to say hi. And so the next time there's an event at the complex in South, Southside boxing, make plans. It'll be worth your while. Great event, great card, good stuff all the way around. So definitely got to check it out. Yeah, because that is something. I always go on the spiel.

but when it comes to UFC boxing, like those people always have utmost respect from me. Different level. Different level. It's different level of discipline. Like when you get to that point of where, I mean, you can legally have your arms be considered firearms because you just get to be that lethal with them.

But it shows like a lot of restraint and respect. And a lot of that, it kind of feels like we're losing at a times, but to have that strength within you and still just be able to control it, be a good person. You see a lot of the people in that world end up being really humble, just good overall beings,

despite being some of the most powerful people on the room. I mean, it's just a guy you don't want to pick a fight with. Yeah, but you can become aware of it. Everybody's got ego and practically get punched in the jaw. And to watch, I mean, the young lady, Georgina had, George Gimeyers, had such a great performance. Melanie DeMcoe, again, great performance. And watch them see how skilled they were, how well coached they were,

how disciplined they were and what they did. And again, you know, it's four round basketball. out so knocking somebody out isn't always the thing it happened but these were great exhibitions uh great showcases for what they need to work on what what they're doing well how to evolve they're all being better shape uh one of my there's a young man who was from al paso texas who came out in a full skin he's from alpaso and he came he had a full skin this is the amateurs not yeah this is the amateur and he had the full skin on like he had a full animal skin and did he did a native dance and I just said okay I don't want to fight that guy

I don't want to fight that guy like I don't want to fight that guy and he was maybe 5 3 5 4 when someone's fighting for their culture they get scary and the guy that he was fighting was like a six footer and there was no metric for this guy beating him except for that young dude threw hands to them ribs and it was and when they gave they all three judges awarded the shorter guy the fight And I was just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's, because some of them from south side, they fight somebody from south side.

And you wanted them to have success because they're local, and that's what it was. But there's not, Kobe Wilson was another six-footer that had great boys. They had, Ibrahim, I believe he's the Lincoln high school kid who put in his work. So again, to all the young people, if you went out and put in the work to do that sort

thing. And then if you're looking for something for your young people, like if you look, you've got a young man or woman in the house and they've got some angst and they got some things to work out. Get them down to south side, man. Get them down to car. Yeah. Hey, that'll fix a whole lot of, you know, going down there and throwing them hands for, for an hour. Biggest misconception and won't make them more violent. No. They'll find a way to filter out. And even if that's if they have that pent up energy, especially with the people that we've had the pleasure of having swing by the station representing it is good people. up there. Yep. So I would recommend that I wanted to take first segment and shot that out.

We'll go to break. When we'll come back, I do want to talk about Bill Walton. And I shared a story and somebody asked me to tell the story. So I'm going to tell the story of my first meeting with Bill Walton. We'll tell that story when we'll come back to one-on-one. You're listening to One-on-One-on-one with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul, on 93-7 the ticket and the ticketfm.com. Welcome back to one-on-one. We've got a decent night for you here at the ticket on the streams. The Royals were on the brick and mortar,

but on the streams, I can tell you, so DeMorne Piercienelle from 7 to 8, and then from 8 to 10, for those of you who have been around the station, you know the name Brett Baker. And Brett Baker is persona number one when it comes to Hot Ones, and the Hot Ones Wings Challenge.

So much so that Russell Brand made a song about Brett Baker. So you probably need to load that song. Right by Russell. Russell Brand. He wrote a song about that Baker. He wrote a song about Brett Baker. And on a version on one of the episodes of, well, he didn't write it,

he just came up with it. He created it. So he's doing the Hot Ones Challenge. and he said, I don't want my performance to be so bad that the Brett Baker guy doesn't like me. Because Brett Baker would review all of the episodes. And then as he's sitting there, eating wings, he decides to sing a song that he's making up in his head about Brett Baker.

And it's somewhere along. It's pretty good. But Brett has become an ambassador for it. And again, Brett is a local teacher. He teaches debate. And, I mean, he's been in media for decades. But when we need to have a wings challenge here at the ticket and it's become a part of our rotation and what we do.

So Megan Walker says she wants to do the wing challenge. On our own. Okay, Megan. and then the 8 o'clock hour is Megan's show and then 9 o'clock is chancellor and so they said okay we'll both do it we'll do it we'll do it together and then they invited some folks down who will be a part of it. Brett Baker, they reached out to Brett Baker, Baker says I'm in. It's a ticket, I'm in. So he's gathering all the sauce. We have somebody delivered. Austin's actually going to pick up wings. Yep, Austin's are delivering man. Right. Pick up the wings.

Brett Baker. He's splitting shortly after he drops those bad boys off. He wants no part. He wants no part of it. And I guarantee you DeMorne will not be in the building tonight, right? He's zooming in. No, he's going to be streaming in. Oh, yeah, 100%.

From a distance. Maybe tomorrow, though. We'll do that. Maybe tomorrow, it could be a lot of fun. I'll put that out there. Right. And then, uh, so they've invited friends and they're going to do this thing. Now, Harrison, you, you, you're a veteran now.

Yeah. You're a veteran now. Now, am I wrong in saying that the women athletes? tend to handle this better than the men after it yeah i looked like a i looked like a fool for a better word right i looked ridiculous uh because i think the first time i did it you saw me i mean i was gross i had oh it was not oh i was crying it was all pouring out of me meanwhile while i'm in the back behind the window um you know it looks like i'm bawling the girls are just in there wing six wings and i missed like three wings tiny little gymnast tiny little gymnast and amara and

and when Kyle parry chunk of milk goes He can't handle. Noorri and Brett Banks just, just taking it. Like, they're chugging ice cream. Like, chugging ice cream to try to get through. And I'm like, nope, that is such a monumental mistake because

that's lactose. And guess what? You're going to feel this twice. Yeah. That's talk. Like, it is, and there are always, of course, to text the next morning. Oh, bro, you were right. You were right. Part two is way worse than part one. Yeah.

And so we'll have that tonight from 8 to 10. So get on the stream. Get on YouTube. Get on the app. But I'd say get on YouTube or Facebook and actually see the video stream. I'd recommend YouTube because I'd imagine there's going to be some key points. And I feel like YouTube's always the best way to kind of rewind a little bit if you want to. Yep.

There's going to be some rewind moments. Oh. So I'd probably roll with YouTube on this one. 100%. Right. That hour one is a lot. Wings one through five. is a lie.

Yeah, they make you hungry. You're like, oh, it tastes pretty good. It's a lie because one through five is human. Those are human wings. Those are, oh, hey, man, I'm going to the local sports bar. Yeah.

I'm getting wings and you could put this sauce on it. And then I'm the man. Yeah, I like my wings spicy. Hey, I like mine spicy. I, I, so Scoville units is a degree of hotness, right? And regular buffalo, hot buffalo sauce is 90

Scoval, 90 of these heat units. 90. By the time they get to wing number 10, it's like a million Scoval units. Let's just go here. This is 2023. Okay. And it gets

what was your guest for the hot ones they actually own this one too it's called the last dab i don't think the last dab what's your guess and i'll see if you're in the ballpark so it's outrageous i know that the bomb is six figures so the bomb is the one that shatters ego uh it's actually about seven is when it gets scary right before the button right before debom yeah so seven six is a step up five and six or five is the first one when you go, okay, now we're playing for keeps. The biggest stuff, just looking at these numbers, it makes sense because I've gone through it a few times now. It's that biggest jump is, because I do remember this, you go from, it's that six to seven, you take about 30,000, Skullville jump. And you're like, okay, 30.

So again. And then it's that nine to 10. The nine to 10 is insane. Like to go. So the bomb, I would 130, something like that. Number nine. Then this is. 2023. It might be different, but they have, it's called Dawson's and it's 620,000 Schollville. Then the jump to 10 is the hot ones, 2,693 Skullville. So we're jumping about 20 to 30,000 schoolville. And then from 9 to 10, you're jumping about 2 million school. That is 2 from 90. So 620,000 to 2 million 693. Yeah, but the regular wing hot sauce, the regular one that people go, woo you're sitting at the bar yeah i want the hot original is 1800 yeah you're so hot buffalo sauce about 1,800 yeah and really spicy 2 000 if you're a dare enough who so it's gonna be

quite the night is what i'm gonna say because they're husker athletes you want to find out how like i i've i've warned people yeah i hope they weren't listening to that that right there well no but just to explain that they are about to meet themselves they don't know themselves, you will have conversations with yourself that you've never had with yourself at any other point in your life. Yeah. Like, I try to explain it that imagine stubbing your toe and the amount of sheer pain shooting through your body that you can't control, except for imagine that it's all 10 toes.

at the same time. It feels like gout in your stomach. I don't know how to prescribe, but it's just like every, even if you like, at least for me, it was like the next morning, still could feel like just the heat

and it just like every movement. It's like, oh my Lord. And it's that middle of the night paint. Yeah, wake up, sweat. Oh, that your body is going,

I don't know what you were thinking. I don't know what you were thinking. Like, bro, do you not know me? Do you not? And you see how quickly Austin's moving. Yeah. Like he wants no eye contact.

He does not want us to wave him in. He does not want any part of this. So that's going to be from 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock, so be sure. I wanted to spend a little time and telling the story of Bill Walton and what he means in my space. Now, mind you, I'm old enough to have seen Bill Walton in college. and seeing young Bill Walton with the Blazers. I'm actually old enough to remember. Ready?

There's a jersey I have in my closet that not many people have. I have Bill Walton's rookie L.A. Clippers, San Diego Clippers. No way. Yes. That's got to be, is that your rarest jersey? Not value-wise, but I mean, that's got to be up there in rarity. There aren't. You don't see many of them.

No. But the Clippers Walton is a do. It's right up there with my Julius Irvin, Virginia Squires, Jersey. Well, I collected those ABA jerseys from back in the day. I've got a George McGinnis Pacers, but ABA Pacers. I have a George Gervin, Virginia Squires jersey. Now I just want to see who has the coolest the ABA jersey. collection. That's probably got to be one of the coolest things to go and look at. Yeah, I had, so I had

a Dan Isle, Kentucky Colonels, a David Thompson, Denver Nuggets, because the Nuggets were ABA before they were NBA. I had a Rick Berry, Washington Capitals. Oh, that is sick. Now, he, remember, so before hockey, there was the Capitals ABA team that lasted maybe two years. Yeah, so it was, because they want the the capitals. They had the bolts for a little bit of one point. But this was before this is. So this is like purely aBA. The bullets were the bullets were in Baltimore at the time. That's right. And the only reason they came to DC was that the capital showed that they could pull this off. The squires were technically a Norfolk team, but they played in Richmond.

They moved around Virginia. So they would play the Richmond Coliseum. They played the Norfolk scope. So imagine a team that was so good. so Larry Keenan who played for the Spurs was on the Virginia Squires team with Dr. Jay. So Billy Paltz, who had a long run in the league. There were guys like Monty Tao who played in the ABA.

Some of the other jerseys, there were pitchburg teams that had some great jerseys. Moses Malone played first in the ABA. Actually, people miss that Moses Malone, they think of him with the Rockets and the Sixers. But he, I want to say that he played for the Buffalo Braves for two games. The Buffalo Braves had two of my favorite players, Marvin Barnes, who was one of the great underrated scores in NBA history. But they had my favorite point guard at the time, who was a guy out of Providence.

his name was Ernie D. Grigoreo. And so if you're familiar with white chocolate, Jason Williams. Oh, yeah, some of the best highlights. So before, hey, you thought Jason, he was not the first. Hey, it was the first time we have color for something like that. No. No? Ernie D.

Gregorio played at Providence, played for the Buffalo break. Go on YouTube and catch some highlight films of the passes. Ernie D. was so good off. The only way to attack him was to call him Ernie NoD because he couldn't defend because he was six-foot tall. Okay. But he could shoot the lights out behind the back pass from half court. He may be made the greatest pass in NBA history. So because he was in full transition on the right side of the court and mid court and went behind the back, not with a dribble, but with a pass, a behind the back pass that one hopped and was turned into a.

up with no dribble. Maybe the greatest pass ever thrown in the NBA. So how does his name get lost in history? Was it the defense? Because White Chocolate's always the turnover thing, eventually killed his career. Well, they were the same player. Now, mind you, even before Ernie D. Rourio, I mean,

there was Pistol Pete and before him was Bob Coosie. Bob Coosie was the magician. Bob Coosie. That's another guy, which I could watch more of. Oh, no, no, no. Go. You can find those clips are available online. I mean like a whole game. Oh, no, no. The Bob Cousy era of the Celtics,

you can go and see, look, dude was a magician. Really? What year is that? Why am I thinking? Bob Coozy, look, oh my goodness. Cousy, before he became a coach and a mentor and an advisor, Cousy was, there was a stretch that before Oscar Robertson, Bob Coozy was the best point guard in history.

Yeah, there's 4K footage on YouTube. Yeah. They buffed it out. So, yeah. Yeah. I'll watch that. No, no, no, no. There's a stretch.

that, I mean, if you went through the progression of point guards in basketball, pro basketball, that, especially when it comes to flash a certain style of play. But Bob Coosie really upset a lot of local coaches, high school coaches, because he would dribble between the legs or pass behind the back. And they were like, no, don't do that. And Bob Coosier was like, yeah, don't listen to them. I'm just winning titles every year. Don't worry about that.

And then Oscar came and changed the point guard. our position. Tiny Archibald was the next, again, another name that we don't talk about enough that a six-foot point guard led the NBA and scored. Before Iverson, before, no, I'm not talking about top. He was the top top. Yeah, that's insane at six foot. Like tiny was, and he played right in Kansas City. At an era we're shooting threes wasn't the thing. No, so he's going to hit the cuff. Didn't exist. It didn't exist. It didn't exist. But he played right before the monarchs left. So the monarchs, I want to say, they had Scotty Wedman, Sam Lacey, were amongst the group of players that they had in the final run of the Omaha slash Kansas

City Royals. Imagine Omaha with an NBA team, which I think they could do now. I think they could go back and revisit that. But there were players. And you miss so much of the history of it. And that's a thing that I want to, I keep planning to do this and to pull some of the old basketball heads into these conversations by positions and kind of you know how how there's a the evolution of man yeah i'd love to do the evolution of positions in each sport right that from its origin its first great quarterback because the first great quarterbacks i mean you're this is a different especially the modern era like you have to start the modern era with sammy bob but there was something to the said luckman's and along the way people that were great pitchers like

alone. I mean, the Walter, Cy Young's and Walter Johnsons have evolved over time of what starting pitchers look like. And they change constantly. But I would love to do, yeah, Derek, give yourself another show that you have to commit to once a week. In between flights.

Fine. Fine. Knucklehead. What is wrong with you? Right now, Becky's screaming, no, not another show. But I think that that would be a part of it. And as a part of it.

So here's what we do. Go to break. And I'll tell the Bill Walt. story because I think it's one worth telling because again, I like to pay tribute to people who helped me get to where I am. And Bill Walton is certainly a part of that conversation. We will tell that story when we come back to one-on-one. You're listening to one-on-one with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Final segment before we hand it over to DeMornais,

let him break it down to him for sure he's got some basketball on his mind and some things that he want to talk about. But I wanted to share this story while I could. And so in my previous life, I ran sports bars and nightclubs in D.C. And one of those was the one. It was the place, right? that I had Super Bowl champions. You know, this is where Riggins and Dexter Manley would hang out.

This is where Thysman would hang out. And Thysman had his own sports bar. He would hang out in mine. He had his own right down to street. It was a nice bar then. It really was in this crazy era, Tyson's Corner, Virginia. And in that, so athletes would come to town, and they would come by my bar.

And at night, it turned, went from sports bar to nightclubs, to dance floor and DJ and the whole thing, big patio outside. We also had satellite so we could we could beam in all sorts of sports events. We were the home of the Texas Aggies and the Steeler Black and Gold Club. And, you know, even the Husker alumni in D.C.

would come to Tyson's Corner to watch their games. But because of that, we would have shows, sports shows would come and broadcast from the bar. And I mean, these were some names. I mean, Jim Lampley was there, Andrea Kramer. Well, it sounds like a big scene where celebrities are going to be. It was a thing. Big athletes are going to be rolled through.

MTV, when they were doing their Super Bowl shows, they would come to this bar. They were broadcast from our little bar and do our thing. And that's the back then MTV. A lot bigger deal than I had to say it the current day. It was a big deal to have ABC, CVS come in. John Madden, that sort of thing. So one night on a weekly show,

and it's Larry Michael, who was the voice of the Redskins. Doc Walker, of course, the tight-in on the lead on the, on the Riggins touchdown, you know, Rick Doc Walker, that guy, Gary Clark, Monty Coleman. A bunch of guys who did the show, Rudy Martsky from USA Today. And they would have the guests come in and I, I would greet them and then I would set them aside and I'd make sure that they had food and drink and just chit chat a little bit and show that, you know, we weren't sports idiots and we didn't know what was going. Show them some hospitality. Just a little bit, right? And this one night, the book was called. called nothing but net.

And it was written by Bill Walton, and he was the guest. And again, this was a different time where you didn't have, you couldn't DM Bill Walton. You couldn't, these meetings, these sports meetings were different because people were authentic. There were no cameras. And, you know,

there weren't 14,000 cell phones taking pictures of you, recording you, right? You could come in and be human. Yeah, they didn't know if you were there just like secretly trying to record Bill Walt. Yeah, like, like, well, his thing was, was so disarming and he was so natural in his humanity that you recognize all right away that Bill Walton's different he's different he kept me up for those late pack 12 games I'm

like a lot like some people didn't like it for late game it was like kind of perfect he's like I wake you up with Bill Walton no he was different and genuine though I I respected I watched him with 21 of 22 against Memphis in a NCAA final go 21 of 22 the greatest offensive of performance in NCAA tournament history. Nobody. 21 or 22, 13 boards ran out Larry Finch and Larry Keenan Memphis team on a team that had Jamal Wilkes and Larry Farmer and Swin Nader and Dave Myers, like they had a team.

And then I watched him destroy Philadelphia in the NBA finals when he was with the Blazers and he was at that moment the best player in the universe. But as he came in in 40-some years, he had finished his time with the Celtics, and he was just getting into broadcasting and writing the book. And we sat and talked for 30 minutes,

and we did not talk basketball. We talked, well, we talked about John Wooden, and his philosophies and his pyramid, which has become such a big part of my life. And he talked about life and people and the joy that he found in everything. Like, he just was happy.

He would say, I'm the luckiest man alive. And that lands. Well, he meant it. That's what always got with me. Like everything, he was incredibly genuine.

And that's how you can put up with the zanist because that was him. Well, it wasn't zany. It was just him. It was authentic. To me, it was zany. Yeah.

Because like when you, you know what I mean, though. It's like you go from the very button up collar, play by play and color commentary to you go to Bill Walton. And he just brought a different type of element to it. It was different, uniquely him.

Well, I mean, there was no, first of all, there was no, there was no other player like Bill Walton. So there couldn't have been no. Absolutely not. There couldn't have been another man like Bill Lawton. And we talked for 30 minutes.

And then when it came time for him to make his appearance on the show, they call for him and he stands up. He unfolds, right? But he offers his hand to me. He says, all right, let's go. And I'm like, no, I don't go on air. That's just for them. I'm just your, he goes, wait a minute.

You're not a part of the show. I'm like, no. He goes, well, you know, sports. as well as we do. So let's go. If you're not going, I'm not going. Okay, so we look at Larry and Michael and he waves like, come on, you know, DP,

we love you, bro. Come, sit down. And they asked me a question. And the first thing that said is my dear friend Larry Michael goes, wait a minute, I didn't know you had pipes like that. First of all, whoa, okay. So maybe you should be doing this, DP.

And because of Bill Walton and that experience. They invite me back the next week, and then the next week, and then the next week, and then as that radio show becomes a TV show, other TV shows come up because they're a part of Redskin Magazine.

So they pull me over to Redskin Magazine, and from my bar, I'm doing weekly segments for Redskin Magazine from my bar. And that leads to me getting the Panther show and the Wizard Show and all those things. So I say all that to say, this. He found me years later. We were in the same media room and he literally just stopped and

said, Derek, get over here. How many years later was that? Oh, this is at least 15 years later. That's genuine. This I'm talking about. And he did the thing and listen, I called him Mr. Walton through all that time. I will call him Mr. Walton today and say rest in peace, Mr. Walt. Don't go anywhere. Good morning, Pearson. Now, up next on the ticket and ticket weeknights.