{"id":37344,"date":"2015-09-24T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=37344"},"modified":"2017-10-24T15:40:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:40:46","slug":"off-the-mic-sam-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/09\/24\/off-the-mic-sam-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Off The Mic: Sam Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off the Mic<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sam Davis<\/strong>\"IMG_0353\"<\/a>
\n<\/span>Major KJHK Contributions:<\/strong> Online Sports Director, Voice of Kansas Softball, Jayhawk Network\u00a0Intern, play-by-play announcer, FM show host
\n<\/span>Major:<\/strong>\u00a0Broadcast Journalism
\n<\/span>Minor:<\/strong> American History
\n<\/span>Favorite Color:<\/strong> Navy blue<\/span>
\n<\/span>Hobbies:<\/strong>\u00a0Listening to podcasts, playing with his cat, buying books but never reading\u00a0them, professional wrestling, watching sports, reading articles,\u00a0trying to make people laugh<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ethan Graham: First question is what\u2019s your favorite color and why?
\n<\/b>Sam Davis: My favorite color would have to be navy blue, I like all shades of blue but I’d have to narrow\u00a0it down to navy. I grew up at a\u00a0lake and that\u2019s the color the water is when the sun sets and you\u00a0can relax.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"IMG_8841\"<\/a>EG: That is a good reason to like navy blue. So next question would have to be what is your quest?
\n<\/b>SD: I have many quests, I\u2019m not going after a\u00a0ring or anything like that but I want to inspire others and try to\u00a0leave every life that I\u2019ve touched a bit better. I ultimately would like to go into broadcasting and be that voice that makes you think or laugh on occasion. Not the voice that tells you what to think but the voice that tells you what to think about. <\/span><\/p>\n

EG: My next question is about music. When did you first figure out what you liked in music?
\n<\/b>SD: I was never really into music, I played an instrument though. I played the trombone, the most romantic of all the instruments, from 5th grade until\u00a0my senior year of high school and there was a\u00a0time that I thought I might want to do that for the rest of my life and\u00a0even teach music. But as far as the music I actually listen to, whenever I rode around with my dad as a kid I was never allowed to change the station. If I did, he\u2019d promptly change it back to classic country. But now when I drive around I have\u00a0a Jim Croce cassette tape and Johnny Cash ready to go. That\u2019s the music that I listen\u00a0to and that’s my backing track. <\/span><\/p>\n

EG: That\u2019s not a bad backing track, Let\u2019s move on to an album that has an emotional connection to you or a memory.
\n<\/b>SD: My favorite musician would have\u00a0to be John Mayer. I saw\u00a0John on his “Born and Raised” tour after I graduated high school and right\u00a0before starting college, so I can listen to that album and\u00a0go back\u00a0to that time. Dudes with guitars is usually the music I like:\u00a0Jim Croce, John Mayer, James Taylor, B.B. King. <\/span><\/p>\n

EG: Great, Why don\u2019t we move right on into sports, as a general sports question, what got you into sports?
\n<\/b>SD: Growing up I had great parents, but\u00a0when I was younger I wasn\u2019t allowed to watch a \"IMG_1890\"<\/a>lot of television. I watched mostly Disney movies but\u00a0I also watched\u00a0a lot of news and sports. Now I want to go into broadcasting so that might be the initial reason, the desire to consume media. I started watching Peyton Manning when I was a kid and now his career is coming to an end just as mine is beginning. My dream would be to a call a game with Peyton Manning as my\u00a0color commentator.<\/span><\/p>\n

EG: A\u00a0lot of retired athletes do seem to go into broadcasting and calling games. What is your favorite sport? To watch or play?
\n<\/b>SD: Definitely basketball, but my first favorite was football. My favorite sport has\u00a0to be basketball and I\u2019m in a great place for that. It all started with college basketball, but the season would end and it wasn\u2019t enough, so I discovered the NBA\u00a0pretty quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n

EG: Great, now to the question that was given to me.\u00a0How has wrestling changed your life?
\n<\/b>SD: So my roommate has many interests\u00a0and they’re\u00a0always changing. When he started to get into professional wrestling I laughed as many non-wrestling fans would but he kept on insisting that I watch it. He had me sit down and watch one of the larger events, Summerslam 2015. It just went\u00a0viral with me. It’s a TV show about a sports TV show. It wasn\u2019t an immediate click\u00a0for me. It was, “Hey, I\u2019ll watch Raw tomorrow, or Hey, I\u2019ll read an article.” I totally see where people come from and understand the way they react but once you\u2019re on the inside it\u2019s a pretty fun party. It\u2019s still so new to me.\u00a0I’m only a month in\u00a0but I haven\u2019t missed a single event.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"IMG_8844\"<\/a>EG: So last question for reals, who\u2019s your favorite superhero and why?
\n<\/b>SD: Superman. He\u2019s from Kansas and he can do anything. He\u2019s got that whole color scheme that I like. He\u2019s from another planet. I was never into the whole comics thing until pop culture became\u00a0immersed in it, but there are some people who don\u2019t like Superman. <\/span><\/p>\n


\nEG: Oh yeah, there are many out there who just think he\u2019s too powerful.
\n<\/b>SD: Lot\u2019s of people think that makes him boring but no matter how strong you are or prepared you are, you still have problems no matter how super you may be. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

EG: I read a version of his origin where he\u2019s a freelance journalist, instead of just a reporter for the Daily Planet. He is just traveling the world writing stories where he can.
\n<\/b>SD: Yeah, he\u2019s a journalist.\u00a0Maybe that’s\u00a0another reason I like him. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Off the Mic Sam Davis Major KJHK Contributions: Online Sports Director, Voice of Kansas Softball, Jayhawk Network\u00a0Intern, play-by-play announcer, FM show host Major:\u00a0Broadcast Journalism Minor: American History Favorite Color: Navy blue Hobbies:\u00a0Listening to podcasts, playing with his cat, buying books but never reading\u00a0them, professional wrestling, watching sports, reading articles,\u00a0trying to make people laugh   Ethan Graham: First question is what\u2019s your favorite color and why? Sam Davis: My favorite color would have to be navy blue, I like all shades […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":886,"featured_media":37491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3224,15,610],"tags":[3593,87,314,123,3144,2456,256],"class_list":["post-37344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-interviews","category-featured-on-kjhk","category-sports-articles","tag-director","tag-kansas","tag-kjhk","tag-ku","tag-off-the-mic","tag-sam-davis","tag-sports-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_8841.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}