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Weather Guy on Sports Cry Theory, Losing 130 Lbs & Clearing August | Jesse Hawila | Ep 256 · Your Dark Companion Podcast

• Nobody would have thought that I would be the one. Ryder, sports talk. Baseball. Baseball. Baseball. Baseball. Baseball. Baseball. Oh, with the big mic. Oh, okay. Alright. Yeah. Okay. Now I get it. We got a lightning strike, boys. What happened over there, Grego? We had a little lightning strike right outside the window. Alright. Alright. Here's a tip for all these Americano League teams. Don't what? You said tip. Yeah. Tip. Okay. With a p. Keep jamming. The the ticket colon. Nothing but a big X jerk off set. Is this a cool night or what? I wish somebody would hear that and go, bullshit. I'm back. I'll teach you soon. An inexpensive proposition. I like tacos. Because they're up there. What's his name? Well, hey. We're we're live. We're aware. Yeah. I know. I know. Just calm down. And another we don't know it. Always tell a woman to calm down, especially if she's actually If she's being if she's being hysterical, you just tell her to calm down. It's a joke, guys. Please. Give her some chocolate. Whose idea was she anymore? Like, all of ours? Because we needed someone good. No. No. No. Kidding. Just joking. Joking. Joking. Love you Ashy. You know we do, right? Oh no, Yvonne messed things up. Know what, he's the majority, he doesn't mess anything up. We respect him. Oh, I know. I know. Yeah. He can do no wrong because he'll he will run over us. Yes. He will. But the way he does it and the way she does it, even though the end game is the same, the way to it is different. We It's all about how you get there. In this relationship with me and Yvonne do. But it's not about the journey. It's about the destination. I just definitely wanna hear you keep talking, so I'm gonna flip it and give her a She wants us to keep talking. Is it on me right now? Yeah. Gross. Zoom in. We're on. Sorry, everyone. Zoom in on him. Sorry about me. Is my camera on? Hey. Yes. Your camera is Okay. Alright. Yeah. Keep it on him now. This is episode number which? Six. Oh. Two fifty six. Wait. Yeah. Here on this, the August 31. Mhmm. Tomorrow, we leave August. We clear August. We clear August. Mhmm. I didn't know if we were going to, but but if things go well for the next, I don't know, what, nine hours or so, whatever, however long we got. There's no way to know. God willing. There's no way to know. Then Oh, seven hours. Oh, seven hours? Seven hours to do? It's 05:00 because we're live at five. Keep that in mind. And it's always 05:00 somewhere. Like, it's here. Yeah. Yeah. Here we are. Right. That's right. We clear August once and for all. Big man. And I can scarcely think of anybody I would rather have on here on this as we watch August fade away into nothingness and wave bye bye to it then our good pal, the great Jesse Hoelho. Yes. Did we determine episode number seven for him? I believe so. That's pretty incredible. Awesome. Yeah. That means we like you. Well, you know, that's that's an honor. And as I said, honestly, just hanging out with y'all is that's the fun of it. You're like, oh, thanks for coming on. Like, it's cool to just hang out with you guys. It is. Especially on the last day of meteorological summer. Yes. That's right. Now you all see Jesse doing the weather on WFAA channel eight. He is phenomenal at it. Yes. Weather. Right. Drop cracks me up every time. I know. But it's been a hot minute since we have had you on. So how you been, man? Been doing fine. Been doing fine. Just wasting away. Wasting away. I must say you are looking great. I really appreciate that. This is good time to say this, you know, losing weight in the public eye is is funny because the mix of comments are fascinating. Some of them are really nice and some of them mean well. But I'll give you an example. A lot of people are like I'd say most are just like, well, you look great. Congratulations. Thank you. Appreciate it. Then there's there's a few that are like, you used to be so fat. You look great. Thank you. And some are like, man, you were just so fluffy. I'm so glad you lost the weight. I'm like Yeah. Don't have to adjust the aspect ratio on my screen anymore. A lot of left handed compliments. There's some weird ones and they're like, thank thing. And then there's the ones that are like I don't wanna hang out with the people that you're around. Well, is You need better friends. Comments on, oh, no. These aren't my no. No. These are just like Yeah. It's just like social media stuff. Don't wanna hang out I wouldn't wanna hang out with them either. So but I really appreciate it. It's Yeah. We love you, man. I love you. What do your friends say about it? Yeah. People that you are near and dear to you. The ones that are near and dear to me, man, you used to be so fat. I'm so glad you lost that weight. But they're all very supportive. I said, I'm not at the finish line yet, but I can see it. That's what I that's what I was saying earlier. Can see it. Yeah. Because your goal is ninety four pounds. My goal is to weigh ninety four pounds. So I'm almost You were on your way. I'm getting close. Your goal is to be a fifth grader. That's really the goal. Do you love me yet? Did you did you set a goal for this when you set out on it? Yeah, I started two years ago. It's been a long journey. So, you know, I'll save everybody all the details. The weight gain was not a luxurious, oh, I just decided to stop trying and just gain weight. That wasn't really how it worked out. It was some medically involved stuff. And then I got over that. And then two years ago, almost to the date, actually, I was like, I'm ready. And I started. The the thing is though, I I've I've likened it to being on top of Mount Everest, looking down and going, how did I get here? And how do I get down? Yeah. And it's one step at a time. Hell, yeah. And that's what we started doing. I started I broke up my long term goal into fourths, so every 25 felt like a huge victory and It is. Damn right. It is. So we're getting closer and closer. But, I've been trying for two years. Can we ask how much you're down now? Yes, you can ask. How much are you down now? Oh, okay. Thought you're were just asking permission. But yeah. I wanna make sure that it's okay. I'm not ashamed. I'm down a 130 pounds. Hell, yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That that is awesome. Yeah. That is just awesome. Damn. That's a lot of hard work. People ask yeah. People ask, you know, how did you do it? Did you do this, that, the other? And honestly, it's I've just done the one meal a day approach, the 1,500 to 1,800 calories a day, which is probably I should probably be eating a little bit more for weight loss, but I wanted to accelerate it just so I could feel some sort of victory. And it's kinda it's really the extent of it. High protein and count every single calorie. That's bottles of water? See, remember that water? Someone put up this is an average Yeah. Normal American sized water. His hands didn't get bigger. That's what it is. That's just a normal sized water bottle. Pretty sure. That's what's that supposed to mean over there? Hell. I don't know if I like that tone. I don't either. It's nice to see You're generally not gonna like her tone. You treat him like that. Yeah. Yes. Exactly. But I appreciate it. Well, you excited for the end of meteorological summer? It's been yes, I am actually. It's been I'm I'm a guy that likes the heat, but this back half of summer has been pretty rough. It's been pretty It feels like it's a little different than the past few summers too. Are. We are. What was it? Literally no rain so far? And I guess this entire month of August? I've got some stats that I wrote. I'm so Numbers. Numbers. Numbers. I spent some time digging through stats. Are you ready to be bored? Hell yeah. Never. Oh. So I'm a baseball guy. So yes, I am. I will have stats. I might have said this before, but I've I have said this to Mike Leslie. Sports guys are just as nerdy as weather guys. Yeah. Y'all love stats. Oh, no doubt. Yeah. So that's like, you know, you you would think it's like the nerds and jocks. Nope. Nope. Nerds and nerds. Different paths, but same nerd dom. Same nerd dom for sure. We're all a little broken. You wind up at the end of Nerd Road. That's right. Let's so you you said it's been not this is the ninth time on record that DFW has not had measurable rain in August. Which is impressive. It's the tenth longest dry streak. We've we're now forty seven days of this recording without measurable rain at DFW. Gross. It is gross. That's awful. We've had thirty seven days of triple digits. That's the thirteenth most in a year. It's the sixth hottest summer on record. The third hottest August on record. The twelfth hottest summer just based on highs, and interestingly, the second warmest summer based on our overnight lows. You all asleep? Do we where do we stand up to the summer of nineteen eighty? But you know, in some sense so the overnight lows have been much warmer than they were in 1980, and we certainly did not have as extreme heat for as long. But, you know, we're we're getting, I would say, into the territory. I you know, I know 1980 was obviously brutal. 2011, 1980, even 2023. Mhmm. Those are like benchmarks. This one was certainly in the running for being a memorably hot summer, but not quite that bad. Not quite 1980. I remember 1980 because I was living in an upstairs duplex that had no AC. Oh my gosh. And in addition to that, I did not own at that time a pair of shorts. That is just insane. I didn't own a pair of shorts and I was long sleeve. I also wore a lot of long sleeve shirts. Now I would bow down to the weather by rolling up the sleeves a little bit And not wearing underwear. Me look like more of a tough guy, you know. Right. But quit trying to get everyone on that train. We're not gonna do it. Alright? He knows it's true. He went commando for most of that summer, I bet. I might have. See? I'm you know I'm right. Yeah. I went through a commando phase for a while. I was I could never do that. It's it's stupid. To this day, I I don't know why I did it. And honestly, I've never admitted that to anybody before until now, but I did. I'm honored. And I don't know why and I was that just shows what an idiot I was. But, yes, the summer of nineteen eighty is do that soon. Is quite memorable. No. It is. How many pairs of jeans did you have? And how often did they get washed? Probably every week. That's not bad. But I had like, I don't know, three, four, something like that. Okay. So you had a decent rotation. Yeah. I had a decent rotation. Alright. I'm just trying to get a feel for this and mister Commando. Commando in jeans? That sounds not good. Me and jeans. Yeah. You were so Or was it sounds I don't know if I don't know if that was a commando period or not. Okay. Dermatologists right now are like, ah, yeah. They're wincing. Mean, we all are. Yeah. Everybody's wincing. No one's enjoying this. Thinking about it. I'm wincing over how stupid I was. Hey. And I'm wincing over how could could I ever arrive at the idea that that was something cool to do, you know? Well, that's when you had the swinging bachelor pad with the weird spool chair thing. Right? He had some sort of a weird chair. Like, was it made out of a just metal spool or I swear that's in my mind. Maybe I'm wrong on that. Or cinder block or something. Was it one of those big wooden spools that Oh, maybe. Yeah. But I mean, you use those for coffee tables. Coffee? Coffee. Yeah. Did you ever have a that when you were in your college dorm or anything? You know, I can't say that I did. I'm trying to think of the No. I don't think I was going commando. Was extremely weird. Hey. He's used to it. Oh, I'm very used to it. He signed up for this. Don't you worry. I've heard worse. I don't know where the line is. Well, you know, as a Find out. Well, I would say as a local news guy, I have a line that I I certainly can't cross. Boy, do I want to so often. I ever so often I wanna do it and I'm like, no. No. No. Don't do it. Don't do it. Yeah. Be professional. Yeah. You'll only make a mess for yourself. But I'll just say, just know this if you're a viewer and you think, wonder if Jesse's thinking x y and z like super inappropriate. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's why we get along. But and I don't say yeah, exactly. You're like, well, didn't say that. But he is one of you. Yes. Now don't say that. That's not nice. So one thing I've been amused by is watching you and watching Pete have to tell basically the same story every day and figure out a different way to dress it up a little bit. Certainly hard, to be honest. Yeah. I'm sure it I'm sure it is. Especially when it's, you know, it's four minutes and I gotta talk about that for four minutes and Yeah. I'm sure these are not easy times for you guys. No. I will tell you though, I love it. Some people people like on social media are like, oh, you probably love when there's storms and when it no. Give me the drought. Just less stress. Less stress. But yeah, it it is hard. But that's where the stats come in. You tell that story, and that is kind of becoming the story is you've got the fire danger, we've had no rain, we've been so incredibly hot. And that's, you know, that's not necessarily sexy stuff, but It's what's happening. That's what's going on. You're just reporting the why news. The weather. You're there. Or just the messenger. Right. That's right. That's all I am. You're there to tell people what's going on and you're damn good at it. I appreciate that very much. We had a lady, she sent us a video that she posted on social media. I did it a reel on it. And she called out. She's like, to Pete, Jesse and Greg, stop telling us the news. Like until you have new news, do not speak a word and just telling us to like start praying about all of this and it's very funny. I think she actually used to be in radio around here. Oh. Named CeCe. Shout out CeCe. She's awesome. I'd to find that video. Don't recognize a CeCe. CeCe. I like her pizza. Good pizza. Yeah. Not a few cc's in my day but I don't think any in the radio game. No? Okay. Maybe some other market she was in. That could be. Yeah. That could be. You know, we had another colleague of yours on here recently. You did? We did. And I must say, and I hope nobody hates me for this, especially him, But I always been kinda I don't know. Always been kind of lukewarm on him, and I wasn't really sure if I wanted him on or not, but we did it anyway because we will do anything on this thing. Mhmm. And, man, he won me over. I just love the guy now. Which one is this one? This would be Mike Leslie. Ah, Mike Leslie. Shoopee never had high thoughts of Mike Leslie. Yeah. And and and it's totally unfounded because I I didn't know the guy at all. Didn't know anything about him. He did a story about you when you retired. Well, yeah. I mean, he did that, but I mean, he comes in and does a story and that's that. You know? You don't really get to know the guy Yeah. Thing. You don't get to be BFF like we are. Yes. Right. But You know what he wants to do? Well, yeah. I mean, we had him on. He he was great. I love the guy. He is he is awesome. Smart as a whip. He knows his stuff. Yes, he does. I say something, he knows it. High school, college, professional, doesn't matter. He's he is a smart, smart guy. Yeah. Very good at what he does. You tell he does the work too. Yes, he does. Oh, yeah, he works all the time. It was the other day we had breaking news. It was it was on the weekend. There was a fire in Southeastern Dallas County. And it's like one in the morning, still at the station. And he walks into the studio. He's like, oh, why are you guys still here? And I thought, why are you still here? Yeah. But that's normal for Mike. Mike's Mike's a really hard worker. Yeah. He stays up there a lot. Yeah. What the hell is he doing up there? I have no idea, to be honest. Didn't care to ask. Doesn't he have a he's got a younger kid, doesn't he? He does. There you go. Yeah. Right. His baby was trying to take him out. Yeah. I gotta stay a little bit late. There's some Yeah. Sorry. There's some sports and fire school things here we gotta get under control. It's good to do that. Yeah. But no, I'm I'm glad he won you over. He's a he's a good dude. Yep. He is a good dude. And like I say, I'm can't wait till we have him on again. Yeah. Boy, WFAA has just been a a happy hunting ground for us. They made it really easy to book for this show. Like, let's say we can't get someone. Well, let's check who's on the Channel eight roster right now. Channel eight roster. I know you had Jason Wheeler. Yeah. Did. And Howerton. Matt Howerton. Yeah. And That's right. Yeah. Yep. You know, we need to we had a a cancellation or something. Something weird happened. Yeah. And we needed somebody quick and shoot. He rang up Matt Howerton and boom. We down from the right down the street, you know, down five Monster Energies and was ready to go. Is that all? Must have ran out in the morning. What's great is every one of them leaves saying, I wanna come back with Jesse. Oh, that'd fun. Yeah. Hell yeah. We can get a round table going. That'd be good. A round robin type of love thing. That. The channel eight round table. Let's do it. Yeah. It'd be awesome. Unhinged. It would be. The the guys that you've had on I mean, I love all of them. I love everyone I work with. But they're they're very talented. Wheeler Jason Wheeler, his pieces are so good. Mhmm. I love it. They're so good. Don't tell him I said it. And then, you know, you got Howerton. He's incredibly funny, high energy, really incredible journalist. Mike Leslie, like we just said, so good. Then Can you tell Joe Trahan to respond to my emails? I've emailed him like three times and Oh, absolutely. I thought we were cohorts or acquaintances at the least, but I think he hates me. That might be. That might be. Yeah. So But he shouldn't take it out. Right. I'm just I'm just shoopy. I don't deserve this. He's just shoopy. I'm shoopy. You're shoopy. Right. We're all shoopy. So yeah. So if you can ask him to check his email every now and then, that would be appreciated. Oh, he checks it. Yeah. Like I got one out of office from him, that was an auto response. So that doesn't count. There wasn't an auto response. He just like I know you know about office. Mean, Cowboys training camp in That would be a great bit. Oh god. I don't wanna respond to this person. I'm out of office now. Okay. I need you guys mind. Dallas Morning News have been, you know, really cool with us. Yeah. And Much appreciated. Yeah. Channel eight. Very much appreciated. What? Channel eight? Mhmm. Yeah. No. We're saying Dallas Morning News and Channel eight. Dallas Morning News. The two of those have been very eager to come on and do this. Yeah. We continue to have more. Appreciate you both. Damn Legacy journalism in in the Dallas Fort Worth area, man. It is not dead on YDC. I can tell you that. What's that? Journalism is not dead on YDC. No. It is not. I mean, look at all the journalism going on in here right now. So much journalism. So much. Going commando. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Weather numbers. Yeah. All of a sudden, feel like my journalism degree is getting me somewhere. There you go. Finally. They said you'd never use it. That's right. And here we are. In his seventy sixth year, he finally gets to use it. Finally. Yeah. It comes See, I won. Damn right. You crazy shoopy. Okay. So what else has been going down down at channel eight? Give us some good yeah. Channel Give us some good Channel eight gossip. Yeah. Hot gossip. Man. Where where to start? Pete Delkus? Oh. He's the easy target. He's the easy target. Yeah. No. I just I love Pete. I can't even knock the guy. I'm sitting here. I could joke about him all day. And that's the thing. I love Pete. He's awesome. We're working on getting him on like schedules haven't quite lined up, but he's very interested and willing and able. It's just not quite worked out. He's a busy guy. Very excited to have him So good at what he does. Hell yeah. Just ask him, he'll tell. You know he played minor league baseball? I do. I got his baseball card actually. No way. Did I ever tell you the thank you note story? I might've told you this story. So when I when I interviewed here at WFAA, I wrote a handwritten beautiful thank you note to Pete Delkes. I thank you so much for having me. You know, all the give me a job. Give me a job. It was like five or six years later, we go over to Yonge Street, which is where our, you know, headquarters Right. We were broadcasting out of Victory Park forever. But for some reason, was over at Yonge Street and there was just this pile of mail dressed to Pete Delkus with dust on it. And in the middle is my thank you card. So I still have it. I took it. So whenever whenever I leave or he retires or whatever, I'm gonna I'm gonna read that thank you. Who do you think is gonna go first? To the afterlife or to to To anything. Whichever comes first. It's actually both kind of the afterlife in, you know, slightly different ways. Right. Different world once you get out of the once you get out of broadcast and right. Sweaking a test. I don't know, man. Pete's an institution. That guy is, you know, he's so well loved here in the I think I don't know what the city would do when Delkis retires, but it would not be. I think weather just stops. Weather just stops. Everyone in McKinney comes back to life. Everyone in McKinney Not is anymore. But he's one of greatest way into it too. He's good at it. Yeah. How long has he been with Channel eight now? Do you know? Let me see. This is a off the I'm gonna say twenty three That feels right. Ish. I know that one day when you guys were at Victory Park and so were we. Mhmm. He came up there one day and Mhmm. Was on the show with us. Remember that Shoofy? I do. Yeah. That's awesome. June 2005 is when he started. So Wow. His career here is old enough to drink. '21. Yeah, that's right. It's pretty good. Not bad Shoopy. Good run. We'll see how long he goes. He's catching up with me. Man's an institution. He is. I say this about him a lot and what I love about him is how he does the weather and what he he doesn't take it so seriously when it doesn't need to be taken seriously. And I think that matters a lot. Yeah. You know, and that's why I think people love him so much is because they get to see personality and the real him. Yeah, yeah, he can talk about unleashing the gates of hell like he is right now. But as soon as you see those sleeves roll up. Yep. That's what's great about him. Stuff's happening. Yeah. He stands out. Yeah. That's why I like to work that's why I really enjoy working with him is because that's always been kind of my style. That wasn't super accepted in other markets that I worked in. People were like, hey, woah, woah, woah, just read the news guy. Don't do that. But here Don't make it entertaining. Yeah. Right. Don't well, who are you, a human? Don't keep the listener the viewer engaged. Right. So I don't see how anybody can not like that. Man, it takes all sorts to make this world turn and Yeah. Think about all the people that have talked to him about his weight loss. Yeah. There's that and just Those people exist too. Don't forget that woman who screamed at him. Oh, God. There's We some still got that. Yeah. Social media, you see so many cool people, but man, there's some there's some weird folks out there. None of y'all. Uh-huh. But Nobody Yeah. I've still got Jesse's voicemail if you wanna hear it. Oh, absolutely. It's always it's an all time my favorite thing to listen to. That's not Cece, is it? That is not Cece. Cece's too sweet. Wow. That's strong. That is that is strong. Yeah. Man. She calls you every day. Yeah. That was my wife actually. That was actually my personal voicemail. Yeah. Sorry. Do you get that kind of thing often? Yeah. Thankfully, the voicemails kind of stopped to to to Just mean tweets. Now it's just tweets. Yeah. I guess people don't voicemail that much anymore. They just they just tweet. Yeah. I got a mean fax the other day. Oh, did you? No. No. No. I'm just Fax fodder. Yeah. Someone fired off a mean fax. So nobody faxes anymore either? Is that what you're telling me? I'm Should be willing to tell you that. Yes. Well, screw me, man. Yeah. That's why you're not having any content is because you just direct everybody to fax you and no one has one. Yeah. That's it. There's that minor detail. We don't get any feedback. There's a landline. Yeah. Does this place have a landline? No. What? This place? No. No. No. We got no landline. Okay. Well, that's why you're not getting any faxes. That's okay. I'm standing. Yeah. I can live without it. It's easy. You got TikTok. Yeah. You love TikTok. No. I don't. I know. I don't know how to do TikTok. I don't think any of us do. Me either. Yeah. You don't know how to do TikTok? I I just recently started within the last year doing some like Instagram stuff and TikTok stuff. Trying Dude, your Instagrams are fire. Thanks, man. They're busting. You. I'm trying. I it's not a format. I'm you know, I'm not I'm not even super old to be saying that, but I just don't know. Right. There's people have some people have really figured it out. So I'm to get somebody to teach me TikTok, but nobody can. You gotta dance. Nobody will. You gotta dance. Yeah. We've we've had a few of his dances on TikTok before. Yeah. Show some leg. Do some dancing, Dan. We had you I'll show you some leg. Damn right, you will. Those gams. That's right. You're stacked. Yeah. I've been trying to figure it out, but I can't. I need somebody to to walk me through it, but nobody will. Yeah. I think Ashley tries, but then you kinda lose interest and She doesn't. She doesn't try. Oh, okay. Knows I'm hopeless. Uh-oh. Oh, dear. Yeah. Whatever. Time ago. Yeah. Okay. That's fair. So I gotta find some, I don't know, young chick or something like that to walk me through it. Maybe Brie can help. There you go. Who? Brie. Do I know? Another producer. Yeah. She doesn't really work with us a whole lot. She's Ashley's second in command. Oh. No. That's one. Well, fair. Yvonne's Yvonne is no one's second in command. He's the majority. That's right. I'm gonna call him and tell him that. He believes it anyway. Absolutely not. You start talking about him being second in command, you got a problem on your hands then. You hear any good tunes lately? Oh. Yeah. You know what? I can tell you about the concert I went to. It was maybe the best concert I've ever gone to. It was the Electric Cowboy concert that I talked about and Oh, yeah. They played at oh, goodness. What's it called? I guess someone help me out. I get confused on the venues. Southside Ball Southside Ballroom, maybe? That sounds right. Southside. Okay. It was Southside. Yeah. Good. I felt that was awesome. That was one of those I needed that type of concert. My wife for the first time got to see me mosh. Oh, hell yeah. And she didn't get the ick, so I appreciate that. That's good. That's good. But boy So this is a German electronic metal band. This is their collab with baby metal. It which is Oh, yeah. You like you feel so that. Yeah. It's a Japanese three girl group. You know, I think I've heard this somewhere. You know what? I think we might play this in one of Jesse's other appearances with you. I love it. Guys, I love this band. It has become one of my favorites. But you haven't heard Taylor Swift or Olivia or Rodrigo? No. No. Still haven't heard a Taylor Swift song. Yeah. I haven't heard it not knowing or haven't heard it knowing what it is. You know that Taylor you know that Taylor Swift song. You know? Yeah. That one. Here I am going to Mando sitting on my stools. He came in like a tornado. Nice. He played football and he was a really big star. Remember that? Yeah. Are you, are you saying she kind of has a certain style of singing? No, that's that's a song. Oh, that's an actual song. Yeah. Really? Yeah. I don't believe you. Did you believe me for a second? Briefly. Okay. Briefly. Not quite a second, but briefly. I didn't believe you. Is a strong. Oh, so good. It's a very strong song. Who else? Anything else floating your boat? What's floating my boat these days? Man, you know what I really have gotten into is you scroll Instagram and you find some of these like artists who don't have a following of much. And there there are some talent that exist in this world that needs to be seen. Oh, yeah. Broadway, whether it's indie rock, whatever their their vibe is, there are some seriously talented people that deserve some fame and I hope they get it. That's kind of been my thing lately is just going through Instagram and finding these random artists that people are just putting themselves out there and Used to do like a Jesse's jukebox type of thing. That's a good idea. You're welcome. The alliteration. How about you? You got any what are you jamming to these days? Uh-oh. Just just old stuff. Steely Dan. Yeah. Who doesn't? I'm Good by b b rexxa. Playlist on. Yeah. Yeah. He he listens to a lot of stuff. I got a playlist of we're now up to just about 2,500 songs. Sounds about right. And every few days, he'll post his walking playlist. Yeah. My my watering playlist. Oh, it's watering. I'm sorry. Okay. Yeah. Fair. Smart. Yeah. We need them around. No. No. No. I just I I do that just to, I don't know, get some a little bit of music banter going on Yeah. You know, on Facebook. I love it. Just to because I I miss that. I miss having music banter with people. You know, we used to have it all the time back in the day and that's I don't I don't miss much about it, but that's one thing I do miss. Well, we got Jesse so Yeah, that's right. There's a there's a band called All Get Out. Have you heard of them? They are sharp. All Get Out? All Get Out. I saw them I like the name. Yeah. They're great. I saw them in Middle of the Map Festival, which is in Kansas City. Middle of the Map. It was back in I want to say 2015. They opened up for, my favorite band, Manchester Orchestra. I remember watching them and thinking, these guys are awesome. And I hope they they played at three links a couple years ago. I think they're actually coming back by to AMFM. Have you heard of that venue? Yeah. Yeah. Just opened. Right? Yeah. It's by Rodeo Goat in the Design District. Yeah. They're playing there, I think, in November. November 4, I'm seeing? I'd like to go to that concert. Good crew. Alright. Yeah. I'm kinda feeling this. Can dig it. They they used to be Texas based. I think they moved. Not sure where they are now. Yeah. They have a song called ATX. They I think they might have used to live in Austin. I'm not a 100% sure on that. There it is. When are we all gonna go to a concert together, I think is the question. Not soon enough, I'd say. That is a question. I think that'd be a blast. Hell yeah. Feel bad that we missed out on the last one. It was on our calendar at some point and then I think we all were like lazy. Yeah. Which one was oh, yeah. That's funny because we were looking at the tickets and everything. Yeah. Which concert was it? I think it was the Electric Cowboy? Yeah. Man, that was they sold out quickly here in Dallas. It was a packed house and it was it was one of those shoulder to shoulder sweaty on sweaty type of deals, but not sure that anyone's into it. Southside Ballroom, like, I like the venue, but as a short king, it's tough to see anything because it's all standing room only, basically. So I generally don't go to many concerts there because I just wind up looking at someone's butt. No room for the short king. Apparently not. No. Not at Southside. God. I guess the last concert I went to is the Speaker Wars. Right? Damn one good one to go to. Yeah. The Kessler. That young lady at closing bell or opening bell just two weeks ago. Who's that? Made out. Jay Joyce. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I really want a concert per se, though, was it? Mean, the speaker wars was. To listen to public music. Yeah. Was she doing, like, spoken word? Or No. No. She was singing. Okay. Just maybe a little more intimate type of show? Really cool, very bluesy vibe rendition of the Springsteen song that you were, like, blown away by. It was crap. Oh, yeah. I I I remember seeing that now, and I can't think of what it was. I can't remember. She she was very good. She was really good. Yeah. Yeah. Otherwise, you have to always yeah. Wars. They were really good too. Yeah. Speaker Wars was with Stan Lynch, Tom Petty's original drummer. Yes. With the Heartbreakers. Yeah. It's his new thing now and he's got a couple of guys from here in our Fairburg doing it with him. Yeah. I think literally the whole band is DFW based. No way. Yeah. Way. Yeah. They actually produced it and put the album in Denton at a place. Yeah. Really nice studio out there, by the way. Really? We did the show from there with Stan and yeah, like they had just gotten done with a big rehearsal, getting ready for the show that they were gonna do at the Kessler and yeah, that was pretty magical. That's awesome. I highly recommend a rehearsal space if you can put one in your house. Man, I I've been wanting to start a band again. I've been wanting to do it for a while and Well, you got a drummer and a half ass guitar player over here. So I would be the I I would have We to be have two drummers. Do anything else but oh, then we're screwed. Yeah. I'm the drummer too. That'd be fun. That's what I'm saying. We can start a drum line There you go. For something. People watch eye and horn players. Drum line. Yeah. Those are always popular. Yes. Looking for drum lines. We're looking for horn players. So There you go. Alright. This is a great Jesse Hoila. You see him on WFAA. He is the weather guy. Weather. And he's our good pal. He's back with us once again today, and we'll have more with him for just in just a second. Weather. That's right. But right now, it is time for that dreaded and feared mid show read. Alright. What have we take two. Three, two, one. Good job. Thank you. What have we today, Shupi? I don't know. We just have Dudley's. Yeah. We have Dudley's, and you have your the the tournament. The Dudley Moss thing? Okay. Said you were gonna do your own thing. Alright. Let's talk about Dudley's a little bit first. I hope you've been to Dudley's by now. We have their We go party there. We go to the one on Henderson because that's kind of an East Dallas vibe, and I like the East Dallas vibe. But Dudley's, if you're into watching sports on TV and let's face it. Who is not? Well, Dudley's is the place for you. TVs? Yeah. They got them. Food units? Check. Beverages? You betcha. They got it all for you at Dudley's. It's a really cool, comfortable place. It's at 2927 Henderson, just off of Central. Shuby and I go there a lot. We dig it. We think you will too. So get your head right with ball and beverages and everything that goes with it at Dudley's. And your fantasy football draft. And your fantasy football draft. Is Lobsterfest still going? I think it just oh, last call for Lobsterfest then. At the Rockwall. Hell yeah. Alright. Yeah. There are two of them. One in Rockwall, but we tend to favor the one here in the in the hood. Alright. Now, also, we've got the fifth annual Giving Moss golf classic coming up here. We had Mike Keating on with us a couple weeks or so ago, and this is something that they do every year. And it is they do it in conjunction with the Dallas Amputee Network as well. This year. Oh, that's that's this year? Yeah. Okay. It is September 24, 8AM at Tennyson Park Golf Course. It does benefit Giving Moss and the Dallas Amputee Network. And if you would like to play, then they would love to have you out. I will be out there for part of this thing, I'm told, and Ed Belfour will be joining us as well. And you know wherever Ed Belfour goes, there's always a good time. And whiskey. And whiskey. That's right. His whiskey. Yes. His whiskey. So join us for the fifth annual Giving Moss golf classic benefiting Giving Moss and the Dallas Amputee Network, 8AM, September 24 at the Tennyson Park Golf Course. So come by there. Check him out. Check us out and do a little golfing while you're at it. Mhmm. That wouldn't be a bad thing to do, would it? No. Is there anything else? No. You nailed it. Okay. Did Dudley's did giving Moss? Damn right. Did giving Moss. Alright. We're all good. Leverage. Hold your direct party at Dudley's. Yeah. Better get it done too. NFL's kicking off pretty soon. Couple weeks, man. Just a couple weeks before football is upon us. Now not being from this part of the world, who is your football team? You guys are gonna hate this. No. I'm not gonna hate it. The Cowboys? The Cowboys. Yeah. Right. That's good. Alright. I do hate it. Yeah. This is not a poser deal, but it's the Chiefs. And some people are like I lived in Kansas City. That's why. We'll give you that. When I worked in Kansas City, our station was the home of the Chiefs. And fell in love with that organization while we were there. My wife and I, she was a reporter. She was always there at Arrowhead doing stuff in the morning show. And so we became, you know, intimately familiar with the Kansas City Chiefs. And that that's really kind of become our team. My wife's from Chicago, so she's still kind of a Bears fan. No. But your Chiefs all the way? I would say, yeah. I would say if I'm rooting for a team, it's the Chiefs. Well, I will tell you. If there is one team in the NFL that I really have a little bit of a spot far in here, it would be the chiefs because they were formerly the Dallas Texans. Oh, And I was a card carrying member of the Dallas Texans Huddle Club. Nice. By which, if you got your old man to take you out there, you could bring, I don't know, two friends and and they could all get in free with one paid adult or something like that. Woah. But, yeah, they started here and played here through 1962. And the greatest sports day of my young life up until then came in the nineteen sixty two AFL championship game when Tommy Brooker kicked a field goal in overtime to beat the Houston Oilers. And then about a month later, we found that the team was moving to Kansas City. Oops. It's a tough one, pal. Oh, painful. Yeah. Crushed. It still affects him to this day. It does. I mean, I think about it, and they're somewhere in that dusty old soul of mine, there's a little twinge of sadness over it Shoopy. Sorry. Do you do you need a Whopper junior? I think I do. I think I do need old Whopper. We'll see what we can do. Back old DoorDash one for you. Got a burger team. Yeah, it's always tough when teams move, you know? It just doesn't feel right. Yeah, I I suppose to be a a landmark, you know? Yeah, I mean, if your team's your team, they're supposed to stay, and they can't ever move. I couldn't believe it when the Houston Oilers left. That was one of the biggest single sports bummers that I've ever seen because those are good fans down there. And it was one of those things because of the stadium. Owner wanted a new stadium. They wouldn't give him one. So he took his toys and went to a much smaller market. Was that Tennessee? That's Tennessee. Look at me. That's really good, Jesse. I grew up in Houston. I kinda remember Oh, fair enough. They became eventually became the titans. Is that right? They did. And they still are too. They're crushing it. Yeah. And football has is a brown ball. Yeah. Like made out of pigs. Guys. Yeah. Kinda odd shaped. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. It's hard to throw and hard to catch Uh-huh. Compared to baseballs Mhmm. Basketballs. And Houston's a city in Texas, you know? Yeah. You are on fire. I know. Right? Like the weather here. I don't recall it Houston. Yeah. There is Houston. I, you know, I I always joke. I I say this because I would be the most the most casual sports fan. Like I always admit, I'm never gonna pretend to be something I'm not. But I have come to this realization not terribly long ago, how incredibly important sports is. Are? I don't know. You're the Is talker. Sports is are. I start, you know, I don't know how I just ignored it. Maybe I was just being arrogant or something. So I don't like sports, whatever. It's not I don't not that I hated it or anything, but I see the unity it brings to communities, the excitement it builds in thousands and thousands of people and how deeply like you're saying, with teams, how deeply attached to some of these teams people get. I didn't realize it until that until super recently. So I love it. What made you realize it? I'm not really sure. I remember being in the studio one night and I think it was watching this couldn't have been it had to have been before this, but most recently reminded when the Knicks won. And I know people were super emotional about it and you see the amount of people it brought together. And I don't I don't know if there's really anything in this world right now that brings people together quite like sports. Politics? Yeah, that's really doing it. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's the big uniter. Right. Why it took me that way? Politics. Yeah, I don't know why it took me so long to see Yeah. Like, you know, weather's always kind of been your lane. And like you said, you kind of have your weather nerds and your sports nerds and they generally don't intertwine too much except for like Mark Falwell, but yeah. Mark's a huge have you met him at all? Is he ever. No. Mark. Dude, I've not met you yet. Why? I know you We need to work on that. Yeah. We gotta work on that. We we go back a ways with Mark. Him, especially. And That was his first sports anchor for the ticket. That's right. And when he was up there, I used to love it when we would have big weather. Oh, yeah. Because we would just throw it to Mark. Let him take over. And he was great at it. Doesn't he now have some sort of a meteorology, at least minor or something like that? I might have to check-in with him, but I swear, like, part of his reason for going back to college was, like, meteorology related. Really? He's dad in the weather. That's so cool. Maybe he'll take your job, Jesse. He can add it. Maybe I'll take Pete's. He can add You need to keep your job. Pete's made enough money. Yeah. That that is true. That that is very true. Thank you. I think I know the answer to this. Yeah. But have you been storm chasing any lately? No. We've been can't get anything to can't even chase a raindrop around here anymore. No. You the other thing too is with kids, you get so busy. Yeah. Yeah. Kids have a way of kids have a way of dominating their their influence, don't they? They do. They do. You know, now, now my daughter's in kindergarten, I was saying before before we started the podcast, how much more emotional that was than I thought it was going to be. Oh, yeah. I didn't expect it because she went to pre k. So I was like, yeah, it's the same. You know what the tough one for me was? What's that? First day of the first grade. Really? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Did it just feel real? That was a lot tougher than than, you know, kindergarten because it was just like, okay. We've crossed some sort of threshold here Mhmm. To where now she's going into this different situation. Mhmm. And we're not going to see her for a few hours. Yeah. You know? It's not gonna be go to kindergarten for an hour, an hour and a half, or whatever, then you come get them and go from there. Yeah. We're going to be without her. She's going to be under the control of somebody else. So Jordan had half day kindergarten, the shortened kindergarten? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. He did things. His daughter did. The boys didn't. The boys had full day kindergarten. Yeah, it shows. It does show. Got off to a slow start and it just stayed. Stayed in second gear. Half day first grade. Yeah. Three second. Just let yeah. Work release. But, yeah, first day of the first grade was a tough one for me. Yeah. You know? And now we've had all kinds of other stuff since. You know? Now she's got two kids, and she's Wow. You know? Yes. He gets On her way. Breakfast now. Yeah. Yeah. I I get to do pops things with her and everything. Oh, that's wonderful. With them. And that's all great and everything, but, you know, the that that first big marker, whatever it might be, man, for me, it was first day of the first grade for somebody else. Might be something different, but that big marker, you will know it when you hit it. And when you hit it it will affect you. You're so right. It will affect you. I it's like burned into my memory, man. Like, I looked at sat her down in the chair, we walked out of the classroom. The first day you can bring her bring her in and through the glass, was looking at us with tears in her eyes. Aw. And I was like, I'm not an I am not an emotional human being. I'm just not. Holy you know what? Oh, yeah. No way. You could cuss for me. Right? Shit. Holy shit. It it was I did I did not care for that. Oh. It hurt. Went and blasted some heavy metal in your car to get back. Blasted heavy. Yeah. Yeah. Started ripping cigs. Get back to devil Jesse. Yeah. That's right. That's right. I'm not real emotional either, but that was a tough one for me the first day of the first grade. But you know what else has been tough? What's that? Seeing her with her own kids now. Really? Yeah. I don't know if that's tough or if it's emotional. Well For him, it's For me Yeah. For one who is not emotional like me, that's tough. Okay. Fair. When was the last time you cried? Eons. When Charlie was born. No? No. Rangers World Series? No. No. I don't sports cry. Sports cry. No. I don't sports cry. A lot of people do. I don't. I sports cry. Do you? Oh, yeah. He cried. No. No. I I would I would love to. I would love to be able to, but I I just don't. You just don't feel. Yes. I do. But I'm I'm just You're stoic. I'm just not a big it it just manifests itself some other way. We're gonna make you cry on this show. That'd be mean. We're gonna we're gonna get those tears rolling. I don't know but we're gonna find it figured out. Or something. I'm sorry. Are you telling you're telling us your goal is to make Mike cry? Yeah. Alright. Just want the We'll find a way. I wanna make sure there's Yeah. That's your goal. By hook or It's by gonna happen. Just wanted to be clear. Yeah. You know what? He he cried and laughed a couple of times. No. We've definitely yeah. We've gotten laughter tears, but Those are fun. That's not the same. No. That's not gonna the same. Make you sports cry. Okay. I don't know how, but we will. No. You won't make me sports cry. Okay. There's nothing that can happen in sports that will make me cry. I was gonna ask what would We're be losing our rangers. I was thinking the same thing. Get them to believe that. What would that do? Okay. That would piss me off. Yeah. Yeah. But you'd get so mad and you'd cry. No. No. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. That would but that would flat out piss me off. I mean, even when teams that have been entrenched in an area just haul off and move for the hell of it. Even if I have no connection to the team, that pisses me off. Yeah. That makes me sports pissed. You're getting close. I know. I'm telling you. Keep going. Got another one? Let's see. No. Y'all y'all keep talking about stuff. Just we'll get you. Yeah. You'll see. We'll get you. Alright. We're about Yeah. It's Yeah. I just can't stand it when teams move. Yeah. And and just You do sports spite. Yeah. Yeah. I get sports pissed. Yeah. I get sports pissed a lot in a lot of different ways over a lot of different things. Mhmm. But never so pissed that I start crying. Gotta be sports It is a really funny mental image though. You gotta be sports sad to cry. His face gets all red and Yeah. Can't believe. I want that. I was gonna read the title of this episode. Sports cry? What? It's Mike's sports cry. Yeah. Mike's sports cries. Just to that'll get people tuned in. Oh, yeah. I feel like he sports cried? I never knew that. No. If I'm gonna cry, it's not gonna be sports cry. Okay. I don't I don't think I'm capable of that. Okay. Hit your soul in the dead. Some would say. Yeah. Little rough around the edges. I I would differ with that, but some might say. Are we about out of time here today? I think we're about out of shit. Yeah. We're running out of shit. Yeah. I feel like you wanna cry. Yeah. No. I know. Yeah. Does does Let's all cry. The end of this show make you wanna cry, Shoopy? No. No. It doesn't mean that. Not even a little bit. Just look at him. Look at me. Just look at me. I know. I mean, you don't I love this man. You don't look at Grooves every day and think this is the guy I work with that doesn't get you teared up a little bit. Yeah. I love Shoopy. See? I love all these people. You've got a good you've got a good crew. I do. We do. We know it too. Show was clear. See, wiping your eyes. Even though what? Tried to kick you out of the show earlier. Kick you out of the show? Yes. He did. He did. He tried to run her off. He did it. I almost I did not. One of these days, that might make other big groups do it. For just 10¢ a day, you too could save the life of 30 dogs. Please call now. There's Ashley Sports crying. 180787132. Line them up. You too could feed a Shoopy? Yes. You too could send him a Whopper junior. Not asking for much, folks. Yeah. Yeah. What's a Whopper Junior like? 01/29? I don't know. Even with inflation? You just buy them. Yeah. Got me like $3. Yeah. Fair enough. He's got Whopper Junior money. He does. I've never had one. Look at this place. He he just offers them to everybody Yeah. When their sports crying. Yeah. They need me to get him a Whopper Junior, and I will gladly do it. I think he wanted to cry at the luncheon on the nineteen ninety six Rainbows team. Yeah. I believe that. That was neat, but it didn't make me wanna cry. You didn't see Ken Hill walking across the room and you're like, oh my god. No. No. Didn't. I didn't. Okay. Becca? Did do that he? Yeah. It's Rusty. No. I didn't. I came nowhere near sports crying at that thing. I think he was gross. Wait. We know. Alright. All of sudden this is turning into way too much about me. This is way too much me. It's your show, man. This is an intervention. Yeah. You just didn't know it. Yeah. All of your friends. All Tom? Yeah. Where's Mike Leslie? Oh, man. That was fun. It was fun. No escort. No storm chasing. There's never been any storm. There's nothing storm cry? I don't think I've storm cried. Oh. I don't know. Okay. I'll put that on the bucket list. We'll make that happen then if we can't get the sports cry out of Shoopy. Yeah. We wanna force some other crying. Yeah. We'll make you wet the cry. Peppers cry? I have. Have you? Yeah. Every time I've seen them live. Yeah. Really? I've cried at some point within the first five minutes or so. They're That's awesome. They're jammed to start the show. Really? Oh, yeah. I swear. I'm not I'm not afraid to jam. Say Damn right. They do. Then they go into usually can't stop or around the world and away we go. Then I'm rocking so hard all my tears fall out of my body. I'd love to see that. God, I'd love see Hopefully we get another chance. I think they're gonna tour in the next year or two. You think? Yeah. They're right new music apparently. They're still together? They're still together. Everybody's still Somehow. I don't know how that band is still alive, but they are. At least the current iteration. The power of California. Yeah. That's how. That's gotta be it. It's the power of California. Here we go. Jesse, thank you, man. I love you, Jesse. I love You are trip as always. And man, you are our favorite. You're also their favorite. I just they tell us they like you. That's very sweet. Finally, more Jesse. Yeah. That was a comment. That's again my wife. The same lady that left that voice mail. So thank you for that. Oh, I love being here. My wife's name is John. I love him. One day, John. John, if you're watching, it could be. Yeah. Love you, John. Okay. Everybody's got their own thing. Right. We we respect we respect all Sure. Sure. We respect all flavors. That's right. That reminds me of a sorry, I'll leave I have no I feel like you're trying to say shut up, but that reminds me of coach Glenn Stretch Smith who comes into WFAA and and does the the sports special with Joe. One time he said, oh, you go to your church, I'll go to mine. And I remember that saying because I thought that was so very Texan of him and I loved it. So I don't even know if he's from Texas, but he's definitely from the South. There you go. That's great. I promise you that cat's from Texas. He sounds like it. I don't know him. I don't know where he came from or anything about the guy, but that cat is from Texas. I love him. I just saw him last night. Yeah. I did This is the time of year we run into each other. Yep. That is. He's good people. Alright, here's the great Jesse Hawila. Yay. Love you all so much. Love you, You are the best. Alright, that's it for YDC for today. We thank you very much for watching no matter if you're watching live or gonna watch it later or next week or whenever. Just watch. Okay? That's all we want. Just watch. And if you like what we're doing here, then what we would appreciate is you telling your friends about it. Share it out there on your social media app and get us going. Spread the word about little YDC. You do that for us. We'll keep doing it for you. Thank you, Shupi. Thank you, Ashley. Thank you, Becca. Thank you. Till next time, bye. Alright. I'm gonna go take my pants off. You're Dark Companion is a stolen water media presentation.