Your Dark Companion Podcast

Tonight on Your Dark Companion, Mike Rhyner and Shoopy welcome local legend, chaos coordinator, music scene archaeologist, and human wildcard Kevin Fox — better known as Expo.
This episode has everything:Stories from a life lived at full volume, the kind of Dallas music history that never made the press releases, and maybe just a little therapy disguised as a conversation.
Mike tries to understand Expo.Shoopy tries to wrangle Expo.Expo… just tries.
Whether you know him, think you know him, or have only heard the stories, brace yourself — this one’s an instant classic.
Laugh, cringe, reminisce… and then question why you listened to all of it.
CHAPTERS00:00:00 — “Oh boy… here we go again”  00:01:37 — Expo enters the chat (and the danger zone)  00:04:55 — Deep Ellum: When it was loud, weird, and alive  00:09:22 — The music stories that probably shouldn’t be public  00:15:48 — Mike tries to do journalism (results vary)  00:21:30 — UFOs? Ghosts? Concussions? Hard to say.  00:27:19 — Bands, bars, burns, and bad decisions  00:34:02 — Expo’s Best/Worst Life Advice  00:40:50 — The Dallas scene: then vs. now  00:47:33 — “Wait, is this still recording?”  00:51:56 — Closing thoughts, confusion, and questionable wisdom  00:53:20 — Mike says goodbye & probably removes his pants

Show Notes

Tonight on Your Dark Companion, Mike Rhyner and Shoopy welcome local legend, chaos coordinator, music scene archaeologist, and human wildcard Kevin Fox — better known as Expo.

This episode has everything:
Stories from a life lived at full volume, the kind of Dallas music history that never made the press releases, and maybe just a little therapy disguised as a conversation.

Mike tries to understand Expo.
Shoopy tries to wrangle Expo.
Expo… just tries.

Whether you know him, think you know him, or have only heard the stories, brace yourself — this one’s an instant classic.

Laugh, cringe, reminisce… and then question why you listened to all of it.

CHAPTERS
00:00:00 — “Oh boy… here we go again”  
00:01:37 — Expo enters the chat (and the danger zone)  
00:04:55 — Deep Ellum: When it was loud, weird, and alive  
00:09:22 — The music stories that probably shouldn’t be public  
00:15:48 — Mike tries to do journalism (results vary)  
00:21:30 — UFOs? Ghosts? Concussions? Hard to say.  
00:27:19 — Bands, bars, burns, and bad decisions  
00:34:02 — Expo’s Best/Worst Life Advice  
00:40:50 — The Dallas scene: then vs. now  
00:47:33 — “Wait, is this still recording?”  
00:51:56 — Closing thoughts, confusion, and questionable wisdom  
00:53:20 — Mike says goodbye & probably removes his pants

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Host
Mike Rhyner
Mike Rhyner… "a little on the bumpy side, but rather likable"…so stated famously by a grade school teacher in Oak Cliff, where Mike grew up. A complicated guy, yet a guy who can do long division and remember call strike three to A Rod. Probably best left unattended. Don't expect assistance from him if a medical situation arises.

What is Your Dark Companion Podcast?

"Whatever I want it to be about on a given day; is what it is." Your Dark Companion couples your familiar friends from radio, Mike and Grubes! Mike brings his classic interviews that draw you in, and Grubes—The Devil—drops…well the drops, and throws the occasional grenade. Mike likes to draw on his fascinating acquaintances and friends allowing them to tell their stories as you've never heard them. But he also goes outside his network, sharing Grubes' network, and often outside of both, to bring you those they don't know, but believe have a story that will make you laugh, make you think, think differently, or just entertain you…"that's what we are trying to do here."