D Magazine's EarBurner

D Magazine's EarBurner episodes:

• 04.19.2024

  179: James Faust loves movies more than you do

  James is the artistic director of the Dallas International Film Festival, which runs from April 25 through May 2. We talked about how many movies he had to watch to pick the 145 (so far) that will screen this year....

  
• 04.12.2024

  178: Megan Kimble on why highways kill cities

  Megan spent four years researching and writing her new book, City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways. Here's what Richard Florida said about it: "City Limits is a triumph. Megan Kimble echoes Robert Caro exposing how...

  
• 04.10.2024

  177: Mike Mooney's sex-trafficking podcast

  Mike used to work at D Magazine. Now he doesn't. But he's got a new podcast that dropped April 11 on Audible. It is titled Hold Fast. Over nine episodes, Mike and two other journalists (Sam Eifling and Trevor...

  
• 04.08.2024

  176: Greg Brownderville starts a literary festival

  Greg is an SMU professor who hails from Pumpkin Bend, Arkansas. He's also the lead singer for Beekeeper Spaceman and the editor of the Southwest Review. It is under the auspices of the latter that he is launching a...

  
• 03.28.2024

  175: Joel Klatt on the new UFL

  You probably know Joel from his appearances on the Ticket and his Fox Sports work on college football. Along with Curt Menefee, he'll be calling the first-ever United Football League game, at Choctaw Stadium in Arlington, March 30, at noon....

  
• 03.20.2024

  174: Troy Aikman's many slights

  Over the years, starting in 1992, D Magazine has unintentionally caused the man grief. In this episode, Tim and Zac run through the slights—but only to properly apologize. Also to give Zac a moment to humble-brag. For reference, here is...

  
• 02.08.2024

  173: World Cup and Arlington mess

  Right here you've got another chat recorded on the shady side of White Rock Lake, at Goodfriend. The boys tackle the goofiness of what one local official said about transportation to World Cup matches in Arlington. E.g.: "[W]e wish to...

  
• 01.25.2024

  172: A giraffe death and the mayor's shoes

  We're doing a thing. Sometimes we'll have a guest on the pod, sure. But sometimes (if we stick with it), Tim and Zac will simply go to a bar near their houses (Goodfriend) and chop it up as...

  
• 01.06.2024

  171: Casey Gerald on Erykah Badu

  Casey is one of the most committed magazine writers working today. When he profiled Leon Bridges for Texas Monthly, he rented a house and bought a crazy-expensive shirt to establish a connection with the recording artist. For his profile of...

  
• 11.15.2023

  170: Tim DeLaughter Broke His Depression With a New Album

  Tim is a Lakewood dad with four kids and a wife who runs a restaurant (Lounge Here) to which he is sometimes summoned to do handyman work. He's also a rockstar, making his name first with Tripping Daisy and now...

  
• 10.28.2023

  169: Joshua Ray Walker Almost Could Have Died

  Start here if you don't know who Joshua Ray Walker is. Short version: Rolling Stone said of Josh: "country's most fascinating young songwriter is a baby-faced, 6XL guitar hero with a Dwight Yoakam voice and songs about suicide...

  
• 10.10.2023

  168: A Spy Novel by a Former CIA Officer

  David McCloskey used to work in the CIA. Now he's a novelist and does most of his writing in coffee shops on Greenville Avenue. Which ones? He wouldn't say. Even after Zac and Tim subjected him to extraordinary rendition, he...

  
• 09.13.2023

  167: A Drunken Conversation Over a Long Meal

  This one is a bit of an experiment. When we learned that Catbird, a fancy "Best of Big D" award-winning joint in downtown Dallas' Thompson hotel, was launching a 10-course tasting menu where each course was accompanied by a cocktail and...

  
• 08.10.2023

  166: The Forest Theater and Sunny South Dallas

  OK, first Zac and Tim talked a bit about how to pronounce Lionel Messi's name and whether his recent performance in Frisco (which Zac witnessed in person) is one of the top five sports moments in the history of North...

  
• 06.27.2023

  165: Life and Death and Basketball

  Michael Sorrell is the president of Paul Quinn, the oldest historically Black college west of the Mississippi. He died in 2008. True story. The man's heart stopped, and his girlfriend Natalie (now wife) performed CPR until medics could arrive and...

  
• 05.26.2023

  164: Nick Badovinus, Dallas Restaurants, and Radio

  Nick is in the pantheon of Dallas chefs. His new(ish) joint, the Brass Ram, in the East Quarter of downtown Dallas, occupies a space that once housed the broadcast studio for KLIF, one of the most important stations in the...

  
• 05.21.2023

  163: Oak Cliff Film Festival 2023

  Barak Epstein from the historic Texas Theatre joins us to preview the 2023 edition of the Oak Cliff Film Festival, which runs June 22–25. Movies discussed (some with confusing sound from their trailers!): Going Varsity in Mariachi, The Lost World,...

  
• 05.12.2023

  162: Dallas Noir Film Fest

  Once upon a time, Tim was a schoolmate at K.B. Polk Elementary with a guy named David Hale Smith. That fellow wound up becoming kind of a big-deal literary agent, even though DHS wouldn't tell us how much he earned...

  
• 04.26.2023

  161: Abraham Alexander is the next big thing

  Abraham Alexander is buds with Leon Bridges, a connection that helped him get into the studio to record his debut album, SEA/SONS, which dropped April 14. Zac profiled Abraham for the June issue of D Magazine. In this episode,...

  
• 04.14.2023

  160: The most expensive bed in Dallas

  Would you spend $500,000 on a bed? The Swedish company Hästens thinks some of you in town will. They just opened a new store in Dallas. Tim and Zac talk about that and about why Tim sleeps on his...

  
• 03.23.2023

  159: The allure of Western snap shirts

  Y'all, get ready. Tim and Zac are about to become proper influencers. For the first time, they are reviewing a product, a Western pearl-snap shirt made by a Dallas outfit called Snaps Clothing. They talk about the 1978 movie that...

  
• 03.02.2023

  158: A Vaughan bros doc and the word "bruh"

  EarBurner is still trying to find its sea legs, even after 157 episodes. In this one, Tim and Zac make a long-distance call to Kirby Warnock, out in Big Bend, to talk about his new documentary on Jimmie and Stevie...

  
• 02.23.2023

  157: Tim and Zac on Mayor Johnson's BDE

  This episode is an experiment we're calling an EarBurner Quickie. No guest. It's just Tim and Zac in the podcast kitchen, cooking up a special dish together. For an amuse-bouche, they discuss monster pickup trucks that don't belong in the...

  
• 02.11.2023

  156: Jay Jerrier knows dough

  Jay started Cane Rosso with his first restaurant in Deep Ellum 12 years ago. Now the dude employs 520 people in his pizza empire. He's got a salty mouth. He loves dogs. And his two daughters force him to spend...

  
• 02.08.2023

  155: Frank Campagna is the Godfather of Deep Ellum

  If you've lived in Dallas for any length of time, chances are you've encoutered Frank's art. He estimates that he has done more than 1,000 murals in Deep Ellum (many of them to promote performances at the old Gypsy Tea...

  
• 02.02.2023

  154: Jonathan GNO White breaks up

  GNO is a poet who not long ago put out a collection titled "101 Break Up Poems." In this EarBurner, he explains why he nicknamed himself GNO (pronounced "Gino"), what happened when he told his mom Prince wasn't a girl,...

  
• 01.12.2023

  153: Peter Johnson makes good trouble

  Rev. Peter Johnson came to Dallas in 1969 on a mission: to secure distribution for a documentary about Martin Luther King Jr., the proceeds from which would provide for his widow and family. Of the 800 cities around the world...

  
• 12.20.2022

  152: Victor Vescovo goes deep

  Victor's bio sounds like a fabrication: he has summitted the seven tallest mountains on earth, and he built his own submersible to dive solo to the bottom of all five oceans. Oh, and he has traveled to space. We talk...

  
• 12.01.2022

  151: Hawkeye has sensitive nipples

  Mark "Hawkeye" Louis has done the morning show on 96.3 KSCS for more than 30 years. He is radio royalty in North Texas. He's also a runner who has been involved with the BMW Dallas Marathon (this year on December...

  
• 11.23.2022

  150: Ken Bethea is a guitar hero

  Ken is the guitarist for the Old 97's, which is about to celebrate its 30th year together. The man himself is about to turn 60. We talk about his plans for outliving his bandmates, why he owns more than 400...

  
• 11.18.2022

  149: Mark Lamster has a deal for Dealey Plaza

  Mark is the architecture critic for the Dallas Morning News and a two-time EarBurner guest. We invited him on to talk about a new plan for Dealey Plaza that he has concocted with some of his smart friends. Mark...

  
• 11.10.2022

  148: Julie Murphy writes dirty

  Julie wrote the young adult novel Dumplin' that became the 2018 Jennifer Aniston movie of the same title. Now she's branching out into some spicy romance with her new book, A Merry Little Meet Cute, about a pornstar who is...

  
• 11.02.2022

  147: Melissa Chessher ponies up

  Melissa is the new head of the journalism program at SMU, a job she took without telling Tim, despite their 30-year friendship. So that was the first matter that had to be addressed. Then we talked about kids today and...

  
• 10.27.2022

  146: Kathy Wise rocks Collin County

  For the October issue of D Magazine, Kathy Wise, our executive editor, wrote a story that's getting national attention. It is titled "The Most Lawless County in Texas." That, friends, would be Collin County. Read the story here, and...

  
• 10.20.2022

  145: John Creuzot follows the law

  Creuzot was elected the Dallas County District Attorney in a landslide in 2018, taking 60 percent of the votes from his opponent, Faith Johnson. The two are squaring off again, with Johnson this time peddling what Creuzot calls bogus QAnon...

  
• 10.11.2022

  144.5: James Faust "After Dark"

  Bonus episode not available on dmagazine.com! For subscribers only! James mentioned in the normal episode that he has been in three car chases in his life. He tells the story of each one, with gratuitous F-bombs from Tim.

  
• 10.11.2022

  144: James Faust goes to the movies

  James is the artistic director for the Dallas International Film Festival. That means he watches about 600 movies every year. It also means that he has a great story about a wild night with Harry Dean Stanton (R.I.P.). We also...

  
• 10.03.2022

  143: Mike Rhyner gets his Freak on

  In 1994, The Ticket launched in Dallas with a lineup largely assembled by Mike Rhyner, thereby creating a radio format—guy sports talk—that would be copied around the country. Mike ended his 40-year radio career with a retirement in January 2020....

  
• 09.14.2022

  142: The D.O.C. lets the bass go

  Tim and Zac interview a legend, the man who helped write some of N.W.A and Eazy-E's biggest songs, the man whose solo debut album, 1989's platinum-certified No One Can Do It Better, pretty much says it all. If you're not...

  
• 09.07.2022

  141: Will Evans claims Big D Reads

  Will is the hyperkinetic, mustachioed founder of the publishing house Deep Vellum and its allied bookstore in Deep Ellum. He's responsible for the reissue of Jim Schutze's book "The Accommodation," about the bombing of Black-owned homes in South Dallas in...

  
• 08.18.2022

  140: Tim Ryan needs some sleep

  After 33 years on FOX 4 in Dallas, 27 of them doing the morning show, Tim is throwing away all his makeup and retiring. He tells us how the job has nearly killed him, why he doesn't have much use...

  
• 07.28.2022

  139: David Schechter goes national

  David "Schoop" Schechter worked at the Dallas ABC affiliate, WFAA Channel 8, for 16 years. This week he quit his gig to go work as a national environmental reporter for CBS. In this episode, we talk about "cheerful nihilism" and...

  
• 07.18.2022

  138: Brian Reinhart eats for a living

  Brian has been a freelance dining critic for the Dallas Observer and Dallas Morning News; now he’s the fulltime food dude for D Magazine. Did you know there might be only 20 people in the country who have such a...

  
• 06.16.2022

  137: Barak Epstein wants you to watch

  Barak is one of the folks behind the legendary Texas Theatre and a co-founder of the Oak Cliff Film Festival. He breaks down eight of his favorite flicks in this year's shindig, which runs June 23–26. Along the way, he...

  
• 05.20.2022

  136: Joaquin Zihuatanejo rhymes sometimes

  JZ is the newly chosen, first ever poet laureate of Dallas. We talk about why he loves the word "donkey," how he won the biggest poetry slam competition in the world, where Dallas sits in the literary firmament, why we...

  
• 05.11.2022

  135: Emily Zawisza takes a Four Day Weekend

  Emily is the director of corporate sales for the 25-year-old improv comedy group called Four Day Weekend. It's a boring job title for a funny woman. Emily went through Second City, in Chicago, she worked at The Onion, and she...

  
• 05.03.2022

  134: BONUS! Tim and Matt ball out

  Carpenter Park, at just under 6 acres, is now downtown Dallas' largest park. It also has downtown's first outdoor public basketball court. Tim and Matt hit the court on the morning of May 3, the park's debut, to play the...

  
• 02.24.2022

  133: Nicole Musselman's basketball diaries

  Nicole founded the Dallas fashion house KOCH under whose umbrella she and her son, Henry, have launched a new line of sneakers. So we talk about that. But we also talk about her wild upbringing traveling the country with her...

  
• 11.12.2021

  132: TCU prof Jean Brown drops a lesson

  The November issue of D Magazine got tossed out of a Dallas grocery store because its cover bears the word "Negroes." Jean, a Black woman and a journalism professor, describes how the cover came across to her and how she...

  
• 08.16.2021

  131: Alex Macon reveals his deepest fears

  Alex is the guy behind D Magazine’s new daily newsletter, LeadingOff. We had him on the podcast to promote that, a conversation that led us to his deep-seated animosity toward Axios and all who work for it. But then we...