1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - The Time DP Hung out with Sylvester Stallone (HOUR 4) - September 1st, 2025

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America, a 93-7-the-ticket and the ticketfm.com. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, brought you by Canopy Street Market. Our number four, I had to catch myself. This is four hours' street, one-on-one. Still rocks to be flipped over. Yeah, we're, oh, no, there are rabbit holes to jump up.

All the way down. All the way down. All the way down. Just jump all the way down the rabbit hole. In full, 4-2, 464, 5685. The Sarder-Haman text line. We appreciate you following on all the video streams on social media, et cetera. Lots of things to cover in the course of the day,

Of course, we're eyes on the U.S. Open. Again, it is America's championship. So. Also, Marlins down, 02, top of the 8th. It's a big deal in watching. We just recently got the report on, you forgot to say who they're down to, first of all. National, sorry.

Yeah, sorry. Come on, come on. Give me that. I always forget. Give me that. Um, Guardians and Red Sox tied it three in the fourth, bottom of the fourth, which matters to,

to Royals fans. Astros leading two nothing over the Angels early. Later, it's the Royals. Yep, there'll be six o'clock pregame start here, I believe. Okay. And then paying attention to the Mariners, who play the Rays, they're going to face Bazz

at 8 and 11 tonight, Castile versus Bazz with an opportunity to move up and get it done. But then... Oh, actually, sorry, apologies on the Royals real quick. They do not play tonight. They don't play tomorrow.

Yeah, so tomorrow, 6 o'clock, there's no Royals tonight. Rangers are out west against the D-Bats at 7 o'clock East, 7 o'clock. local time. So both of those sitting in full range of Mariners ahead of the Royals and the Rangers tied with them.

Of course, those things. The Rangers have a chance to move ahead of the Royals with a win tonight. So we'll track both of those games. They did a study. They released a report this afternoon. Based on the contenders, Major League Baseball contenders,

and then their road to the place. playoffs. Uh-huh. And they get into the schedules. I mean, they're going to look at it and goes, okay, you know, with whoever's in play, uh, the tigers, uh, who, who, who were just rolling along, almost guaranteed 20th playoffs, 99.9%. Strength of schedule rest of the way, teams are sub 500.

So they're expecting that. Mm-hmm. Um, key series in place, September 9 through 11 versus the Yankees. And the Blue Jays, also a 99.8% chance of, of making the playoffs. And strength of schedule for their opponents, just a smidge above 500. Yankees, 98.9% opportunity. Their strength of schedule, uh, 0.495. So 49.5%.

Red Sox Currently sitting at 93.9% There's strength of schedule 505.5. So half percentage Over that, the Astros sitting at 88% probability.

Strength of schedule, probably the toughest of all the teams we mentioned at 510. Mariners at an 80%, percent odd to get in. Strength of schedule, 494. Rangers, this is where it gets spicy. So they're thinking the Mariners get in. Yep,

a pretty good percentage. He said 87. 87%. They said the key series is the series, September 11th through the 14th versus the Angels. Angels again, not a wing. They play the Braves who

haven't won well. and then the Angels. The Rangers sitting at 14% playoff. Chants. Their strength of schedule, 0.507.

They have a match up with the Astros coming up. Of course, Astros Brewers, Mets, devax for the Rangers. The Royals, 10.7%. Probability. Strength of schedule, 0.499, just under 500.

So they got them, they got the better schedule at least, but. Better schedule, but Angels, twins, guardians, Phillips.

A lot lower than I thought, at only 10%, but I guess with the Mariners doing what they've been doing lately. And then the guardians with a 5% chance of probability, a strength of schedule,

they've got the weakest schedule of the bunch. With the Red Sox raised, Royals and White So when those two teams meet the Royals and Guardians, some business will be taken care. Pretty interesting. Guardians need to win. They need some favors and they need to go beat Kent City on top of it. Well, I mean, you're still at a point where you're controlling your own destiny.

Get on a roll. Get on a roll and all things play out. Royals were on a roll until they meet those pesky white socks. I mean, that was kind of the end of the run there. They lost. That may be the definition of being on a roll is can you, can you not be stopped by the White Sox? What happened?

Like, can you just? I think there was 16 and 2 heading in, rolling into that series. Can you not lose to the White Sox? You know, I feel like Ross from friends. Can you not? No.

Almost two nights. Well, I think what they went. I have to look at it now. I think they won the third one, but I think they dropped the first two. it's a real thing that if you're talking about they have the angels for three games twins for three games guardians for four fillies for three and again Phillies may be in a different place with their need to be productive in those in those games again if they clinch and lock up then you have some freedom

you have some freedom and then looking at the world so they were on a heater they only dropped one game to the white socks not what you and me were on air. 7 to 0. Then they came, they almost dropped the second one after hardly having any hits whatsoever. But they went at 5 to 4, and then they're kind of back on a roll here. But they did lose the last one to the Tigers,

5-0, but they won two out of the three in that series. And the Phillies, the Phillies are locked. Yep. But here's the thing. If you're locked up, then you're not going to play all your best players in that final September 12th, 14th series.

And ideally, that's a benefit to the Royals if they've handled their business prior to that. So probability, the Royals sitting at... It's the over 10% I think. That's what you said. Well, I mean, you know, they are at 10.7%. Almost 11% probability. And... Better than zero.

The Rangers... are at 14%. And those are the two that are battling for it to catch the Mariners who are at 87%. And the Mariners play the Rays for three nights. The Braves for three, the Cardinals for three, the Angels, the lowest winning percentage of the bunch. Things to pay attention to there.

First set to Naomi Asaka at the U.S. Open. They're going at it. Good to know, though. Good to see that sort of activity taking place. Were you always big on women's tennis growing up? Yes. Well, so raised in a house where Althea Gibson is a guy. Okay.

She's a goddess in my mom's house. Arthur Ash. Arthur Ash being from Richmond, Virginia. And I actually went to his tennis camp. uh when i was nine you played tennis growing up uh-huh um i was quick

it was tiny quick yeah i guess lateral quickness yeah i was quick and um did pretty well at it until i had just at some point you can't play every sport well and we talked about Peter

he talks to peter talked to peter coel about that tennis is a beast of a sport to get into once you get to these upper levels like if you're going to do it you got it a lot like i would have had to gotten into it deeper

Yes. At that age. Because he was multi-sport and he only got to go to the Ohio State University off of like, you know what, you're a local state kid, we'll take a chance on you. And it worked out wonderfully, but because he was a multi-sport athlete. He wasn't doing all the tennis stuff that everybody else was doing to go get recruited. Yeah, and I didn't, I mean, you knew, I knew about the Gibson and Arthur Ash. There weren't others.

There weren't others. But I became a fan of the sport because you followed and it's like, well, who, is who's ash going to have to beat and compete with to to to to to win and then you learned everybody else I learned rod labor and illy nastazi and of course beyond be on beyond Borg and that more uh, Ivan Lundel proceeded a little bit later after that. Um, and then on the women's side, uh, the Algea Gibson reference led you to understanding and I became, uh, first of emotionally invested in in Billy Jean King

because the iconic radio because her brother was a baseball player for the Reds. Okay. Moffitt. So her maiden name is Moffin. And her brother, I want to say Randy, pitched for the Cincinnati Reds back

in the day. But the Virginia Slims, you know, we paid attention because they were the first sponsors of the women's tour. And then of course the Bobby Riggs match played into it and that was a national TV event and that was a big deal

and I didn't understand a lot of the conversation of why it was so important for her to beat Bobby Riggs or why it was necessary. How much of that conversation before the match was like being heard? Because I mean we oh

it was everything. It was everything and we understand like you I was too young to really understand that it was right think pro wrestling promo more to sell tickets. and that sort of deal. Which they killed. They killed.

They killed. Playing at the Astrodome. Playing at the Astrodome, right? Big deal. And it was national TV, no less. I can still hold the records. Right, but to be able to understand why it was important for her to have success. And I remember my stepdad explaining that it was more important for her to have success than him.

it was built for him she needed help she needed support she needed people to realize that don't think less of me just let me play right let me play uh and then yvonne gulagong call calli who i found out later in life wasn't my kind of person but then she was her margaret court Ivan Goulogon Culli, Billy Jean King, then Chrissy Everett, who was the Ice Princess. Then you got into the

Andrew Yeagers, and then here comes Martina from Czechoslovakia. And Martina, the Martina we knew later was not the Martina that showed up on the tour. She was a bit chunky

and she wasn't in the kind of shape that she was going to be in. Then she started hanging out with Nancy Lieberman, the basketball player. and I've told the story a hundred times that she got in basketball shape. She got in shape by playing full court basketball

against dudes, like just running back and forth, back and from so much the point that her and Nancy Lieberman beat me and my best friend in a two-on-two in 1979. And I felt terrible because, like, I didn't want to play them, and I was right. Like, I was right, because we played two-on-two, full court. Oh, yeah.

No, don't do that. That's a maniac. Don't, no, no, don't do it. They were there for conditioning. Oh, but they were competing on a different level. They were just, they just were. And then you followed along and I became a Bjorn Borg fan. Then Yonik Noah came along, who was,

Joachim Noah's dad. But seeing, you know, French players, guy Chip Hooper, who I went to his camp, who was 6'4-6 and was a really good baseball player. But they figured out that his 90-mile-hour fastball and baseball translated to a ridiculous, like, 100-plus-mile-hour serve in tennis. He never really got over the line. And then Zina Garrison and Lori McNeill coming along.

And so, yeah, I was always a fan of, Wimbledon U.S. Open, Virginia Slims tour and tournament. And so, yeah, I, which is why I'm intrigued now that it, some of that is lost. I mean, I, you know, the, the, the, Martina, first it was Billy versus Chris. Then it was Chris versus Martina.

And then Martina went through the, the, the back and forth. And then here came Steffi Graff. here came Andrew Yeager, Tracy Austin came through, Pam Schrever came through. There was just a ton, and then the exposure, then it just blew up. Monica Sellas before her stabbing, you know, before some maniac, you know, jumps on the court

and stabbing the back as she's in the middle of a match, you know, which just ruined that. At that moment, she was as good as anybody on the planet. That's not going to talk about. Yeah, she was, she was the best, she was the best women's players. Oh, these are in the 90s,

I would imagine. I haven't never heard of this. You've never heard of the Monica Sello stabbing? Never in my life. That sounds horrific. It was because we really didn't have answers for it.

Like, and it changed, but it changed sports. It changed 1993. Ninety-three, she was stabbed between her shoulder blades by a fan. So she was playing Steffie Graff, who was, again, those were the two.

Right. But the guy was a fan of Steffi Graff. And I want to say in between games? She's just sitting, she's just sitting court, like she said, in her chair. And you know, he was

doing this so that he would help Steffi regain number one. Steph, Monica, had taken it. And the, the stabbing was, he said the injury was relatively minor, but the incident forced her to take a two-year break. Like, she just... Don't blame you. Like, she never won another grand slam.

I don't know how you kind of get that out of the back of your head in the middle of a match, not in the middle of it, but in between at the very least. Well, this, I mean, this was, and I want to say she was, I want to say she was 18 at the time. like she was number one in the world at a very young age. I mean, she came through early. And there was a run where young tennis players were kind of taken over the thing. And again, there was, oh, my God, Jennifer Capriotti at the same time. Gabrielle Sabatini at the time.

There was this influx, just a huge infusion of young tennis talent. Right. And the stabbing, I mean, in the era of like ESPN, you know, blossoming. But they do, but two years, two years out of it. As a matter of fact, it led to, so Celis was six foot tall. She's six foot tall.

Like she was a tall and a, well, 510 is what they described at, but. Still tall. Ranging, yeah, tall, left-hander, right? Two-handed backhand, smooth serve. Never won another major. Another one, another grand slam. again. And then she went, Monica was a part of the Hollywood, what's the, Planet Hollywood,

where they had the, so Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Monica Sellas, they were part of group, they would open these sports entertainment restaurants around the country. And they were part of it, so they all pitched in. and they did very well for a period of time, and then they became too overblown and they shut it down. But as a matter of fact, I opened one in D.C. Weird times, bro.

Weird. Then I think about that. That's like 95. That whenever demolition men happened, we were at the movie premiere in Lexington, Kentucky. where they blew up a... So when Demolition Man movie premiered, going to the premiere,

and then they did another event in Lexington, Kentucky, where they were going to blow up this old hotel. And they put Demolition Man, they put the logo on the side of this building, and then they blew up the building. They... Yeah, control demolition. Demolition the building.

But all the stars from the movie, so Stallone, Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, they're all there. and we go to the event and you do the event and then we go to eat and then I'm going to fly back to D.C. to go to work and they hear this conversation and Stallone and Snipes are flying to D.C. to open a planet Hollywood and they're like, well, why are you, why don't you fly with us? We're going to DC. Why don't you fly with us? I'm like, sure, right? Is that I imagine? Crickets. I couldn't, I couldn't say. like I couldn't say it.

And literally we're in the car, in the limo going to the airport. Like the dropping me off. I'm like, well, why are you getting on a plane? You can just ride with us. So, and this is, again, before cell phones are crazy and all that sort of thing. I get on the plane with them. And we fly back to D.C. And I'm like, so what do I do?

Like, what do I do? And we land in D.C. We get in a limo. We drive to the plane of Hollywood. which was a big opening like red carpet the whole shebang and this is i want to say this is a year after the redskins win the super bowl so it's a big deal cloud nine but i'm walking the red carpet with them and my family's sitting at home going is that derrick i thought he was in kentucky like i thought he was flying back they're like what is happening here he's is he walking on

the red carpet with so so sloat and wesley snipes and so course the whole neighborhood's calling They're like, Liz, your son's on TV because they're covering it. It's a big deal. And I'm walking in and it's a VIP, VIP event. And I'm walking in. And as I'm walking on the red carpet, there's Gary Clark and Art Monk and Dexter Manley who are trying to get into the VIP of this opening. Jack Wagon named D.P.

He's walking by. And they're after me to get. them into the VIP. As a friend, I would have been upset. Oh, I was so, oh, you don't understand. This was because I had been, you know, the guy that would go, like, they would get me in their events. Right. But now I'm like, okay, like, okay.

We got to, we got to do this. We got to get them in. And so we did. So, yeah, but Monica Sells was there. She was part of the ownership group. How cool is Sylvester still in? He's what he's like, I love, love Rocky movies. Okay, so, so in full, so my introduction, this was Demolition Man.

So Sandy's in the movie with him and they make the movie, but she flies me out for the premiere. And pull up to the, pull up to the, get to the airport, and they're waiting for me. I was telling Austin the story when we were in Vegas. They're pulling up, like I get off the plane and I'm just going to taxi to this hotel. I have the name of the hotel written down. And I get there to the bottom of this escalator, there's somebody holding, the guys holding sign up with my name on it.

And I'm like, you sure? And he goes, yeah, you're supposed to go with me. And we get an alum out. Like, he picks the bags up.

He's like, nope. And he goes, sir, you're supposed to put on this blazer. And there's a blazer hanging. You had to put on this blazer on. And we pull up and we get to this hotel.

And paparazzi's all over the hotel, like they're all around. And I, hear them buzzing and they're clicking the hotel the entire hotel staff the the brown hotel and they're lined up in a row to to to receive me and everybody's like who's this who's this and they're like oh it's just somebody you know just somebody's date right now who's date and they're like oh so they're taking pictures and I'm like what do you like what do you like what do you want like I felt like Wayne's world like what are we doing and we get inside and they won't they wouldn't let me

hold a key. They wouldn't let me touch anything like, we got you. I had an assistant for the four days that we were going to be there. We're going to take a break. I'll finish the story. I'll finish the story because going into the hotel, it's a full, it's a full deal.

Like, it's a full deal. More one-on-one when we come back. You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Brought to by Canopy Street Market. On 93-7, the ticket and the ticketfm. again we we tried to warn you all the way down the rabbit hole all the way down the rabbit hole also does that's about sylvestre stollone yeah well so again but he's such a cool guy that he he would he would fly offer to fly you on his private charter to a party he's going to that you're not even invited to and then invite you to the party and let you go hang out always knew he

was awesome right and and somebody he had just met a couple of days ago um literally i'm in so i get to the hotel um they're having a press junket and they they walk me so i changed i'm supposed to change clothes they had clothes laid out supposed to go to this press junk and i'm sitting i walk they walk me into this room i'm sitting in a room and there's all this food there's just food on top of food on top of food and they're like yeah help yourself and i'm like okay what's going on And I hear this, yo, so you're the, you're the guy that he walks in. And I'm like, does he talk just like he does in the movies? Is that not a, no.

Okay. No, it was, it was, it was clean. It was Chris. Still course. But still, but still, yeah, just, but still. You know, it's stolen. Right. And he's just like, okay, so, you know, we got to hear stories.

Like, we need to hear stories about Sandy. And I'm like, okay, well, you know, I don't know what to tell you. And he's like, yeah, like, you're here. There's the reason. I'm like, well, no, I went to high school with her. Three minutes later, Wesley Snipes walks in, sits down, and they're eating off this massive tray of food. They're just, you know, picking at it with their fingers. And you go, okay, well, that's what we're doing.

But it's just a real moment. You're eating grapes and cheese and salami with. Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone. Sandy comes in, she's like, okay, let's get out of here. They're going to go get something to eat. We end up at a country and western bar that opened just for us. We hang out there.

We go to dinner that night at this really cool Italian restaurant in town. Again, you know, he was everything. you would imagine. I mean, much smarter than than portrayed. I can see that. Much, much smarter. And a dude.

Now, Wesley Snipes was my guy. I was like, okay, we, we best friends now. And then we spend, you know, you go to the, you know, the demolition event. You go to a movie watching there in town. You go back out to dinner. You go to this house that he was staying in because he wasn't staying in a hotel. I mean you get to a certain level kind of sense. And, you know, then it's, you know, what do you want to, you know, what do you want to do?

And then, again, you invite me back to the party. He's so cool that I saw him four years later. And he remembered. Like, he remembered. He was like, Derek. I was like, okay. And my friends were like, okay. you're officially the coolest dude ever.

So yeah, he's, it's good when you meet people like that who are who you want them to be. I was just going to say this. What's the saying is like, don't meet your greatest heroes. Yeah, don't meet your heroes. But most of the people that I've met that you want to meet, you actually wanted to meet. I can't, I literally can't think of the only person that I wanted to meet that I was disappointed when I met them was Anthony Davis. Really?

Anthony Davis was the only... He seems like a really nice guy off the gate. Listen, man, I'm just telling you, and Becky will confirm this. We were... So my buddy Big Shot is the equipment manager for the Pelicans, right? He's been there for 30 years, but he was in Charlotte with the Hornets and Panthers first, but this is a guy I played Little League football with. This is like, I've known this guy our whole lives.

And so whenever I go to New Orleans, I go hang out with him. makes me around. And Davis's rookie year. I'm invited to this event with Big Shot and as a guest of the Pelicans. And I'm just walking through and they're doing an autograph

signing, right? And I didn't want an autograph. I just wanted to shake his hand. I was like, I'm not going to do the fan thing. I'll just shake your hand. And he was like, look at this guy. And Becky looked at me like, you know, she literally put

hand on my arm to because my natural reaction was about to say something. Yeah. Like, excuse me. Like, what is your, dude? Like, what is your problem? He was sitting there with the guys on the team. And one of the other guy goes, hey, that's big shots. Boy.

And he was like, well, who's big shot? Like, he was new there. He didn't know that big shot was a big deal. But it wasn't even that. It was, why was it even necessary? Yeah, that drives me up a wall. Right. And so that always feels like the most respectful thing I can do for

an athlete is like they don't find anything. I don't want a picture. I don't want an autograph. I just want to shake your hand and say welcome to the league. Congratulations. Whatever it was. That's like the most respectful thing. Yeah.

I mean, I thought I was being that dude. I agree. Yeah. And to this day, if you bring up Anthony Davis to Becky, that's her reaction was, yeah, that dude wasn't. He wasn't it.

I don't, I can't, I literally can't think of another guy that I didn't want him, that I should, I wish I had not met. I can only think of one. I won't say. I will say this, though, out of all the Husker's student athletes,

I've been pleasantly surprised. You have to have one bad interaction with any former or current Husker athlete. Yeah. Most Husker athletes are genuine people. And that's a part of the Nebraska term that it disarms people. Right? Which is why we're able to give Husker fans access to them because they're disarmed and they're really not believing the hype

and they're not carrying themselves in that way. Like Bud Crawford falls in that category. Anthony Smith falls in that category. Guys who are world known and not caught up in it. We got the state of Nebraska. We need to do more for Crawford. How much he does for the state. Crawford is one of the best individuals we could possibly have represent Nebraska.

Well, but I mean, you know, Matt Ruhl. He's done a good job. Yeah, Matt Rule engaging that and showing up. He was at the sendoff this week, last week. Yeah, he was, right? He made sure that you talked about it. The speech he was like, I made sure I told defensive line.

It's like, we got to go win this game because I got to go see Crawford after. Right. Like, I'm not going to look at him 0-1 because he's going to look at me. Like, what the hell did you guys do? Right. To show up. I mean, for him to go to basketball practice, to go to football practice and do those sort of things. But, I mean, you know, the Johnny Rogers, the Rich Glovers, the folks that really,

I mean, I'd love to see Glover today. Yeah, I mean, I saw, it was funny. He was the first person I saw when I came to Nebraska. Really? Literally, he was right down the street. There was a place that used to have a, there used to be like a Nebraska apparel shop right here. Yeah, I can't remember that.

I know what I'm from. Yeah, and he was there with Rose ear. And my first day here, the first two people I met were Rosier and Glover. Roseier and Glover. Do you the best to do it here? Oh, but that was when I was like, okay. this will work. It's a sign.

Like this will work. And at this point, we hadn't really committed to being here. But they were so cool to us. I mean, Rosia, you know, let me wear his ring. Like, I was like, oh, okay, these are cool folks. Maybe this is for me. But that was Nebraska, that most of the people were so welcoming. And I really thought Nebraska Nice was really the way.

now it's not always that way but they were and huskers that i've dealt with um have been so that's that's kind of where we stand in it is that the fact that they're so kind and welcoming not everybody is you know i mean geez you know even scott frost was was was kind um might not not agreed with everything but he wasn't going to tell you off in your face right like it wasn't he wasn't he wasn't malicious or any of that i haven't run into any of those people quite frankly um you know i get more grief on the text line than i do anytime i talk about packers i get mississippi muddog and anybody else or my bears but it's fun right like i get it you're a packers right it is fun there's something about

the packers bears fans that we need each other as much as we think we hate each other yeah it's it's the cowboys thing they're the evil empire and i understand that that i need an enemy to Every superhero needs the villain. Like every single one. And both worlds were the heroes. They're the villains. And in their world, there's the hero. That is the story we're telling.

That is the story we are sticking to is that we are the heroes and they are the villains. But that's a part from the sports thing. I mean, these Nebraska coaches have been warm and welcoming. The Husker athletes, of course, have been amazing. And the Husker fans have been amazing. again it's mainly a few six people on the text line yeah like literally of of the thousands of texts that we get i can think of six that i just went okay we need to go nose to know like you and you you and i need to have a conversation um or not but otherwise you know

depending on where they're well the other block thing right is just i i just don't want to deal with you because i don't have to um but to be warm and cordial it is a true in Nebraska thing. Nebraska athletes whether it be across the across when they leave here you talk about you know I mean whenever I see Bryce McGowan's it's it's family great guy right it's just family

um to watch it Bryce Matthews Max Anderson Kyle Perry these are folks that when you go somewhere I mean again when we Becky and I went to the basketball tournament in Hawaii Gwen Maya like took me to breakfast she was like I was right

she took me to breakfast yeah she took me to breakfast You know, we met her and her boyfriend, and we went, they picked a place, local island place. Amazing. Oh, you know they're going to pick something good. Amazing. So it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it really is warming to know that you're in a place that, the people are good people, just to be good people, not because there's some advantage to being a good person,

but they, they just want to be good people. And then most of the. the celebrities and most of the, I mean, there are celebrities and athletes who gave me a hard time. Dirk Novitsky notoriously would give me a hard time. What was his? Oh, he would give. Well, so I did the, I did for the, when I was working with the Utah Jazz flagship, I was always in the visitor's locker room for, for the simplest of reasons.

They knew me in Utah. Let me paint the picture. in Utah there was a black reporter it made sense to put the black reporter in the visitor's locker room to get better interviews pre and post game because they knew me

and would go okay it was a bit disarming hey what because it was always at that point in time it's either it's either hey hey DP or what are you doing here like it literally was the thing but Dirk when he was with Dallas

and it was him and Nash. Steve Nash was there. They were there at the same time. And for whatever reason, Nash got to start, and it was Nash versus Stockton, and we're having the discussion.

But Dirk and Nash's locker rooms were side by side. But I was the first reporter in, so I was always in there before everybody else. And then I was the one that led the pool. I got the microphone, and I'm just, I'm live with Steve Nash,

and Dirk is just egging me all the way on. Terrible question. Horrible. Not Derek. Oh, you know, you know,

but that's like the most nice guy I would take a long swing at it. Right, but he would just pick at me. And then, yeah, I would go to him and I'm like, okay,

tough guy, what, what do you have to say about this? And he would give me the most well thought out insightful response that he could give. But while he could give me

the business, he would give me the business. And he would do this for the first two years. Well, once Nash left, and it was his locker room. Oh, my goodness.

Dirk was amazing. Like, he'd walk off the floor and he would see me standing there and he would just walk up to me and we would start the interview. We would even, you know, we'd fist bump and start talking. But the first couple of years, oh, my goodness. Feels like that was just part of the gig at that point. Oh. We're here to give each other crap and then you'll get what you need. It really was.

Like, it felt like, and he was that way. Don Nelson was that way. Don Nelson, when he would see him because he would just roll his eyes. Because he knew he was going to get four questions, right? And everybody else would follow up. And he goes, why do they not just record you? Because they're going to ask the same thing you asked. And I said, I don't know what to tell you.

So there's certain coaches that enjoyed it. A lot of coaches would come to me first. Because, again, I was the flagship station's lead guy. And it just made all the sense in the world. so there's most but most athletes and celebrities were good people and if you ever get one that says not in a good mood bring a kid to the interview have the kid asked the question works every time i've seen uh and they actually ask good question allan iverson iverson with the sixers this is sixers ibs no this was denver iverson

okay this was denver iverson coming to utah and Utah media had not been nice to him. Of course. Again, for all the reasons. A lot of the NBA was not nice to AI. Right. In that era, right? And, but he, I was a Georgetown guy.

In his mind, I'm a D.C. guy. Like, he knew me from Georgetown. So it was like, like, and he would, AI would have conversations that had nothing to do with the game. Like, he was just like, so what's going on here? Like, what? That doesn't surprise me. Like, how did he treating you?

Like, yeah. get those sort of deals, right? Who was the last time you talked to Zelle? What was like, that was, and that was it. But the one day they hadn't treated him well at the shoot-around. I forget what the controversy was. There was some controversy. His shorts were too long.

Something, right? Something stupid, brother. And he was not feeling the interview, but there was a kid that I knew who was there who really wanted his wristbands. And I said, I interviewed, I stopped the interview. Well, I didn't stop it. I just kind of paused it and go, let me introduce you to, to, so-and-so. Or do you remember his name?

I mean, it's a way back. I know his last thing, but because his dad coached with me. And I was like, let me introduce you to so-and-so. And literally, AI lit up. He lit up, and I'll tell you, I'll go one step further in the story. It was during the holiday season and they had two days off after they played Utah

and he stayed in Salt Lake City an extra day and the next day he called he called the jazz asked for my number we met got in the limo went to a department store

went in the back door went up to security watched on the security cams watched families coming through and Alan Iverson bought Christmas presents for 10 different families at that. Never once told anybody. Never once said a thing, never did a thing.

But, you know, this is, again, it's the stuff that you know, away from it. So we'll throw it to break. We'll come out. We'll close it out and get it over to old school. You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Brought to by Canopy Street Market.

On 93-7, the ticket and the ticket FM.com. I would like to Thank you all for hanging out on Labor Day. Greatly appreciate you spending time with us in full numbers. Thank you. Yeah, nice to see what the daytime cruise up to as well. Right. I mean.

Talking to AD and AD called me the vampire and he said, I think I've grown a couple inches since last time. Since last time he saw you. Shout out to AD. He cracks me up. Well, he, you know, he limped in, still adjusting, right? Mm-hmm. Again, the back is no joke, man.

Shout to him for still pulling up to do his job, though. Yeah, you know, we keep... On Labor Day. We keep... I'm going to keep shouting out the people that... Listen, let me say what I need to say here. Now I think about it. We're very fortunate

to get to do what we do. And it is a part of the sportscaster code is to spend time with your people. It's football season. It's the first Monday of football season. I did not want to give mail-in a recorded day of sports programming when we have people who would love to sit with y'all and have conversation. We're undefeated across the board pretty much. Right, right. Like, you know, to be able to like we get to do this and I wanted to spend Labor Day.

I mean, yeah, I'm, you know, I got stuff to do. But seven hours of sports radio and then, yeah, I got to talk to you and figure out what we're going to do tonight, right? But there's lots going on. Huskers news and again, shout out to Nick Sainert for getting up

at the hour and Jay Foreman getting up at the hour and Luke coming in at the mill Harrison coming in, Austin coming in, just to hang out for a bit and to keep some normalcy and have some normal voices on this station. So thank you for hanging out, right? Just for hanging out. So I just want to say that.

It's a blessing, and I want to say that it is. Appreciate y'all hanging out. Don't go into your old school. Austin Norman, Jay Foreman. Harrison will be around and I think you should take a break and then come back. Something like that. Yeah, something like that. We'll see what he does.

But y'all enjoy the rest of your labor day. And we'll come back and give you the regular schedule tomorrow.