1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Say Thanks Before it's Too Late: November 26th, 11:25am

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

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You're listening to one-on-one with D.P. Brought to you by Canopy Street Market on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Rappado! From the text line, congratulations, Jake. I'm glad Kyle will have a little brother-assister to grow up with Scott and Jane Dunn. I appreciate that. I've done a lot of great friends of my family and my father especially. I appreciate that.

There you go. Again, Bach, if you would, please share the wonderful news. Yeah, we just went the other day. We made it official. We were pregnant. So my family is another little one on the way. I figured my son, Kyle, might need a, might need a sibling. So he's going to need a tag team partner, Doc.

That's right. Don't send him into singles titles all by himself. He needs a tag team partner. The fighting box. We got a plan for them. we're already prepared get those matching title belts yeah we'll get it in order the the the mantra for today is to be thankful to be grateful uh and to and to be loud with it to say to the people in your life the people you care about and I'm old enough that in this

radio biz shoutouts were a real thing back in the day where you could literally just call in and say, you know, thank you, love you. Well, here's your chance on the text line. We'll read it. If you have something to be thankful for, something that is a blessing, someone that is a blessing, something that you're looking forward to, something that is of value to you, then today's a day of thanks. There's plenty enough times for sports.

We'll get to it. I promise. Right? But what I, but in my heart, I want it to be. be in a space where thanks was loud. Like, and we have the freedom to do that. Like, I have the blessing to be able to go, you know what, for this hour, we're going to, we're going to talk about good things and good people and blessings.

And I've told my story several times, and so, and I tell my story to get you to connect to your story. The people like those in my story. my mother that conversation about my mother should take you to your mother the conversation about pops should take you to the men who lead you in life

who love on you in life when I speak of the black knights and the posse I'm speaking of friends who love me who have loved me for somewhere sometimes up to 55 years right I'm grateful. Not a lot of people haven't been on Earth that long,

but they have friends, have friendships that long. I spent the weekend in State College, Pennsylvania. And I shared some of that on social media that there was a friend that I had. I was part of the busing system. So think, remember the Titans, right,

where they were integrating schools. Well, that's my hometown area. Like, that's literally that one was going on in my life in 1971. 1970, 1971, that's exactly what was happening. And I was taken from a predominantly black school, put on a school bus, and sent across town to a predominant white school. And to have an ally, to have this young lady just decide that, Hey, you smile funny.

I like you. What do you like to do? Are you good at kickball? Are you good at dodgeball? And that's how friendships were built. And we became playground buddies. We became gym class buddies. We wanted to be on the same team for dodge ball and kickball and softball.

We always wanted to be on the same team. We would study together. So much so. connected at the hip that her mom came to meeting and her mom loved on me and it was so loud Bach it was so good well she later in life I mean she's moved she moved to Penn Spain she played tennis in college um she married uh someone that was a head trainer at Penn State so you know they're familiar with mat rule and the crew and we go and we have coffee or at least that was the concept but we literally just sat there and laughed at each other and hugged on

each other and reminisced and i thanked her for her friendship at a time that i needed someone like her to be my friend um and i thanked her mom because her mom Mom taught me to trust folks, people, who weren't like me. And I was on air doing the late night last week, and I was planning the trip. So we were going to leave Friday to go to State College. Wednesday. I want to say it was Wednesday night. Preparing 10 o'clock to go live with Harrison Arns.

Bach, I get a post. I see a message that, unfortunately, we lost the mom. The mom passed away last Wednesday. And I had been putting off seeing this woman. I hadn't been putting it off on purpose. It was just going to be my next trip into Penn State, I was going to get to see Ms. Kay. Right?

I was going to get to see her and thank her in person. Two days short. You know, we got a text Monday, the previous Monday. Mom's excited to see you. 94 years old. Still of sound mind. was excited to see me, this little kid that had grown into a man.

And I missed it by two days. And I was heartbroken. And she was heartbroken. My friend was heartbroken. Like, DP, we were so close. But she's such a good person and such a dear heart that we sat in a room and we shared. Her mother was in the room with us.

We were thankful for her mother. because her mother loved us enough to make us loving people and that should be the mission right like if you if you said to describe a parent's mission is to love your your people enough that they love other people and themselves right like that's how success that's when you say well done so to kay mcclellan i i was saying well done i was saying thank you for loving on me thank you for being in my life thank you for thinking enough of me and then i'd love you for loving me, how you loved me, and a life well lived, well done. This was a generous, kind, goodhearted woman, a woman of service. Everybody around her loved this tiny little

woman. And my only regret is that I didn't say, thank you, I love you, well done in person in enough time. So if you have a Mama K in your life, somebody who thought enough of you to love on you, say thank you to him today. Say thank you to them. Say thank you to him. If you have a Bobby,

a friend like that that has made it through 55 years of life with you. Or however long, Bach, who's your oldest friend? oh boy i don't know right who do you know who have you known the longest uh i guess my my good friend skyler might be we're childhood friends right still friends today right those people yeah that that have kind of seen you go through your stuff oh yeah right and you've seen them go through their stuff right but to be able to say thank you to it because to still be there because not everybody has the sky right so if you have those people take today

shoot him a text, send him an email, make a phone call. Call your mom, call your brother, call you, just even if you're mad at him, even if you're mad at him, I had to leave my knucklehead sister. I had to leave her message this morning because I was just like, you know I'm mad at you, but I love you. I really had to, but it was a steep bridge to cross.

Right? Like, you know, You know, I don't really like you today. I love you, but right now I don't like you. Well, meet those people on the bridge. That's what Thanksgiving is for, that you from wherever you are, them, wherever they are, y'all meet in the bridge in the middle. Because in the middle is where good things happen. You will take good back with you to either side.

but the one thing guaranteed is that neither one of neither one of you will burn the bridge down while standing in the middle so meet somebody on the bridge meet somebody on their bridge so that's from the text line that's an amazing story you said

because I just texted my aunt Deanne she's not related to me at all but she's the kind person who took care of us in emergencies or when mom and dad needed a week in the way aren't those people amazing those loving people those really cool people those people that i can i can do a roll call of the people who the moms and dads who sat on their porch in my neighborhood right they were the gatekeepers

right they they were the peacekeepers like they knew they knew your family rules and made sure you didn't break them when mom wasn't around like um miss spencer across the street uh miss ethridge across the street miss smith across the uh across the street um miss vizel across the street miss davis mr perry mr miller uh miss parker miss barber uh vach are the people who they would say my name in such a way to let me know that i was too close to a boundary they knew existed. Dare it! And you pop to attention?

Does your mother know? No, ma'am. Okay, you're going to take care of that? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Those people, Mr. Miller, who taught me to play guitar. Mr. Perry, who taught me to play baseball. the coaches, McKinney, Larravee, Norwood, Embrecha, Pasad, Meyer, no.

The ones who, Bach, when I was being an absolute knucklehead and knew I was wrong, the ones who call me on it and said, you're better, you're better than what you're being right now. So spend your day. sending up your bat signal to people who love on you. Magic is good to hear from you. Happy Thanksgiving early in advance. He said, I'm grateful for my family that's not blood and loves me into loving myself.

Aren't those amazing people, magic? And you are one of those people, kind of sir. Don't miss that part. That you are the people that you're talking about. you're a loving person. If you're kind enough right now to reach out to somebody else and think of them, you're one of the good ones. You're one of the good ones, magic.

Amen. Happy Thanksgiving. 2022 to now has just been one big year. Lost my wife. Best friend's mom to cancer. Lost a grandmother on top of that, two back surgeries. Without my buddy to cry things or talk it out and listen, no matter the time of day, no question.

ask, be there. Everyone deserves a friend like Travis. Hammond Beans, shout out to your boy, Travis. Shout out for being there for Hammond, being there for, for, for, for, thank you. And Ham of Beans, thanks for being strong, bro. Thanks for still being here. Thanks for still choosing to be here.

We are grateful for you. We don't want you to be a member. We want you to be an experience. Sometimes you don't have a choice. Kent says this on the text sign. He says, great, great story. My dad died in January. Today was his birthday.

It was a great time. Kent, grateful for you, happy heavenly birthday to your dad. He deserves it. Let's ring the bell in heaven for Kent's dad. He deserves it. Well done, Kent. Well done.

Eric says this. Thankful for my friends, family, and neighbors who helped me get through this year, post-back surgery. Man, Eric, again, grateful that you just come to us with such authenticity. Right. Greatly appreciate you hanging out with this every day and telling the stories and sharing who you are and to your family and friends for looking out for you. Because I can tell you, those back surgeries, it is a humbling.

But you're still young. You know how I know you're young? You still got your original bat. Because when that thing goes, everything changes. And you need people. Dearie, listen, I can tell you when it's going to be cold before it gets cold. You know why I'm a back, let's tell me. Hey, D.P, some things are about to happen.

So Eric, shout out to you and your people. Crowbeate. my dad passed away in 2020 but i'm thankful for my friends family my job and especially my mom who's the glue that holds the family together probate's mom thank you crowbait thank you thank you for being strong for your mom because your mom is leaning on you as much as you lean on her and you're the glue for her don't forget that that's why it's important that's what this season is for that's what the day is for that's what the time is for it is a time of thanks out loud on purpose come back close out the first hour of one-on-one

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