Your Dark Companion Podcast

🎙️ Sports Radio Royalty: Mike Rhyner & Norm Hitzges Talk Cowboys, Rangers & the Good Old Days | Your Dark Companion
What happens when two sports radio legends sit down to trade war stories, roast player contracts, and dissect Texas sports like only they can? You get this episode.
Mike Rhyner welcomes longtime friend and broadcasting titan Norm Hitzges to Your Dark Companion for a walk down memory lane—and a few sharp turns through the chaos of 2023 sports headlines. From Dak Prescott’s dollar signs to Josh Jung's comeback, the boys cover it all with the kind of chemistry only decades behind a mic can produce.
You’ll get expert insight, unfiltered opinions, and more Dallas sports nostalgia than a Troy Aikman highlight reel. Plus: a few gems on the evolution of sports talk radio, a detour into the CBD House of Healing, and why the Rangers need more bats and less bullpen anxiety.
🧭 CHAPTERS
0:00 – Sports Talk Royalty: Norm & Mike Reunite5:17 – KLIF to The Ticket: Inside Dallas Radio Shakeups12:15 – The Dak Debate: Contracts, Cap Space & Cowboys Drama18:58 – Cowboys Camp Worries & Joe Milton Talk32:13 – Mike’s Pain Relief Plug: CBD House of Healing35:15 – Rangers at the Trade Deadline: What’s Missing?39:00 – Pitching Woes, Offensive Gaps, and What Comes Next53:36 – American League Fortunes and October Dreams56:38 – The Evolution of Pitching in Modern Baseball
🧠 Whether you're a sports radio junkie or just want smarter takes on the Cowboys’ future, the Rangers’ playoff hopes, or how baseball pitching became sorcery, this episode’s for you.
Hit play, hit subscribe, and let the OGs show you how it’s done.
#YourDarkCompanion #NormHitzges #MikeRhyner #DallasCowboys #TexasRangers #MLBTradeDeadline #SportsRadio #NFLContracts #BaseballPitching #SportsPodcast #StolenWaterMedia

Show Notes

🎙️ Sports Radio Royalty: Mike Rhyner & Norm Hitzges Talk Cowboys, Rangers & the Good Old Days | Your Dark Companion

What happens when two sports radio legends sit down to trade war stories, roast player contracts, and dissect Texas sports like only they can? You get this episode.

Mike Rhyner welcomes longtime friend and broadcasting titan Norm Hitzges to Your Dark Companion for a walk down memory lane—and a few sharp turns through the chaos of 2023 sports headlines. From Dak Prescott’s dollar signs to Josh Jung's comeback, the boys cover it all with the kind of chemistry only decades behind a mic can produce.

You’ll get expert insight, unfiltered opinions, and more Dallas sports nostalgia than a Troy Aikman highlight reel. Plus: a few gems on the evolution of sports talk radio, a detour into the CBD House of Healing, and why the Rangers need more bats and less bullpen anxiety.

🧭 CHAPTERS

0:00 – Sports Talk Royalty: Norm & Mike Reunite
5:17 – KLIF to The Ticket: Inside Dallas Radio Shakeups
12:15 – The Dak Debate: Contracts, Cap Space & Cowboys Drama
18:58 – Cowboys Camp Worries & Joe Milton Talk
32:13 – Mike’s Pain Relief Plug: CBD House of Healing
35:15 – Rangers at the Trade Deadline: What’s Missing?
39:00 – Pitching Woes, Offensive Gaps, and What Comes Next
53:36 – American League Fortunes and October Dreams
56:38 – The Evolution of Pitching in Modern Baseball

🧠 Whether you're a sports radio junkie or just want smarter takes on the Cowboys’ future, the Rangers’ playoff hopes, or how baseball pitching became sorcery, this episode’s for you.

Hit play, hit subscribe, and let the OGs show you how it’s done.

#YourDarkCompanion #NormHitzges #MikeRhyner #DallasCowboys #TexasRangers #MLBTradeDeadline #SportsRadio #NFLContracts #BaseballPitching #SportsPodcast #StolenWaterMedia

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Creators and Guests

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."