Your Dark Companion Podcast

Here for a nostalgia bender with a side of chaos? Mike welcomes his former exponential intern—now mild-mannered bookkeeper and certified drop doctor—Expo (aka Kevin Fox). In between lightning strikes, monkey breakouts, and Cowboys eye-rolls, they roast the “Tom Laundry” typo, unravel the Great Curtain Conspiracy at AT&T Stadium, pour one out for the Edmund Fitzgerald (29 times? please don’t), and dig through the infamous Ticket “graveyard” of nameplates. We get the untold Brett Hull prank, a dominatrix-says-what?! studio dump, Rush regret, and the gentle art of being “not fired, but also… don’t come back tomorrow.” It’s witty, wheel-off, and weirdly heartwarming—like a three-TV living room where only one is actually hooked up.
Chapters
00:00:05 – Cold Open: Lightning, Baseball, & “Gen X Jerk-Off Set”00:01:10 – Roll Call: Mickey Six, Becca, Shoopy, Ashley… and Expo/Kevin00:02:20 – Origin Story: From “Exponential Intern” to “Expo” (no, not that kind of exposé)00:04:40 – Words vs. Numbers: Mike can’t long-divide, Expo can’t five-syllable00:05:04 – “Last Show?” Barrel: officially scraped00:06:09 – Time Warp: Wait, Expo’s 53?!00:07:29 – What He Does Now: Bookkeeper for big-screen wizardry (not an accountant™)00:10:04 – Mike’s TV Count: “Three.” “It’s four.” “Well, screw me then.”00:10:48 – Plano Pride & Alan Tudyk Sidebar00:12:02 – Class Size Flex: 1,186 grads… because of course he remembers00:14:18 – News Grenade: 43 lab monkeys on the loose (what could go wrong)00:17:28 – Cowboys Despair: From “why bother?” to kicker-is-MVP energy00:19:04 – “Tom Laundry” on the Jumbotron: Spellcheck is undefeated00:20:28 – Curtain Conspiracy: Sun, sound, and Jerry’s evil master plan00:21:38 – Concerts at AT&T: Sounds like a rumor from far, far away00:23:09 – Tin-Foil Time: Is Jerry… selling?! (Probably not, but let’s fight about it)00:26:34 – Franchise Math: $11B x 2.5 = $27.5B (thanks, Expo)00:28:18 – Edmund Fitzgerald: 29 chimes, zero 29-shot challenges please00:32:02 – Ticket Tales: The freestyle drop montage that became legend00:35:22 – The Brett Hull Prank: Two days of glorious chaos00:38:21 – The Pen Click & The Dominatrix: Dump button, activated00:41:08 – Insurance Talk: The least fun admin hat00:43:31 – Charity Challenge, Modano intel, and inside-baseball radio lore00:46:48 – Cap Life & The Non-Firing Firing00:49:26 – The Graveyard: Mike’s morbid-but-iconic nameplate wall00:52:07 – “Three Versions of the Story”: Told, Thought, and Truth01:00:24 – Doctor of Drops: How live drops became blood sport01:04:20 – First Live Franken-Drop: “Mighty Mr. Ship”01:06:01 – The Bra-with-Glue Challenge (yes, really)01:09:22 – Rush Regret & Final Shows01:14:00 – Chaperoning a 13th Birthday (security, but make it tipsy)01:18:03 – Rearview Mirror Rule: Everything’s better back there01:20:32 – Mike’s Radio Shoutout: The forgotten king-maker01:24:30 – Credits, Handles, and Pants: Optional
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Show Notes

Here for a nostalgia bender with a side of chaos? Mike welcomes his former exponential intern—now mild-mannered bookkeeper and certified drop doctor—Expo (aka Kevin Fox). In between lightning strikes, monkey breakouts, and Cowboys eye-rolls, they roast the “Tom Laundry” typo, unravel the Great Curtain Conspiracy at AT&T Stadium, pour one out for the Edmund Fitzgerald (29 times? please don’t), and dig through the infamous Ticket “graveyard” of nameplates. We get the untold Brett Hull prank, a dominatrix-says-what?! studio dump, Rush regret, and the gentle art of being “not fired, but also… don’t come back tomorrow.” It’s witty, wheel-off, and weirdly heartwarming—like a three-TV living room where only one is actually hooked up.

Chapters

00:00:05 – Cold Open: Lightning, Baseball, & “Gen X Jerk-Off Set”
00:01:10 – Roll Call: Mickey Six, Becca, Shoopy, Ashley… and Expo/Kevin
00:02:20 – Origin Story: From “Exponential Intern” to “Expo” (no, not that kind of exposé)
00:04:40 – Words vs. Numbers: Mike can’t long-divide, Expo can’t five-syllable
00:05:04 – “Last Show?” Barrel: officially scraped
00:06:09 – Time Warp: Wait, Expo’s 53?!
00:07:29 – What He Does Now: Bookkeeper for big-screen wizardry (not an accountant™)
00:10:04 – Mike’s TV Count: “Three.” “It’s four.” “Well, screw me then.”
00:10:48 – Plano Pride & Alan Tudyk Sidebar
00:12:02 – Class Size Flex: 1,186 grads… because of course he remembers
00:14:18 – News Grenade: 43 lab monkeys on the loose (what could go wrong)
00:17:28 – Cowboys Despair: From “why bother?” to kicker-is-MVP energy
00:19:04 – “Tom Laundry” on the Jumbotron: Spellcheck is undefeated
00:20:28 – Curtain Conspiracy: Sun, sound, and Jerry’s evil master plan
00:21:38 – Concerts at AT&T: Sounds like a rumor from far, far away
00:23:09 – Tin-Foil Time: Is Jerry… selling?! (Probably not, but let’s fight about it)
00:26:34 – Franchise Math: $11B x 2.5 = $27.5B (thanks, Expo)
00:28:18 – Edmund Fitzgerald: 29 chimes, zero 29-shot challenges please
00:32:02 – Ticket Tales: The freestyle drop montage that became legend
00:35:22 – The Brett Hull Prank: Two days of glorious chaos
00:38:21 – The Pen Click & The Dominatrix: Dump button, activated
00:41:08 – Insurance Talk: The least fun admin hat
00:43:31 – Charity Challenge, Modano intel, and inside-baseball radio lore
00:46:48 – Cap Life & The Non-Firing Firing
00:49:26 – The Graveyard: Mike’s morbid-but-iconic nameplate wall
00:52:07 – “Three Versions of the Story”: Told, Thought, and Truth
01:00:24 – Doctor of Drops: How live drops became blood sport
01:04:20 – First Live Franken-Drop: “Mighty Mr. Ship”
01:06:01 – The Bra-with-Glue Challenge (yes, really)
01:09:22 – Rush Regret & Final Shows
01:14:00 – Chaperoning a 13th Birthday (security, but make it tipsy)
01:18:03 – Rearview Mirror Rule: Everything’s better back there
01:20:32 – Mike’s Radio Shoutout: The forgotten king-maker
01:24:30 – Credits, Handles, and Pants: Optional

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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."