East Texas Podcasting

ETP Daily Sports for Wednesday, Sept. 30th  - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Wednesday, Sept. 30th - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

Big Dumb Sports Podcast S1E7 - DFW Fans' Very, Very Bad Weekend - The Cowboys went to Brazil and still found a way to lose like they were in Arlington. Everybody touched the late-game dumpster fire — Dak, Schoony, the kickoff, the defense, the timeout, and whatever remains of the coaching staff's pulse. Then we do what Jerry does: shop for a corner like it's Black Friday and the Steelers left Joey Porter Jr. in the cart. After that, we take the Rangers to the woodshed after another “almost a .500 team in a terrible division” season, because Chris Young just called their grit into question, and we refuse to let batting average die so launch-angle priests can feel smart. Plus a Mavs target that actually makes sense, and a Friday Night Lights Week 5 wrap that reminds you high school football still has more urgency than half the pros. It's Season 1, Episode 7 of the Big Dumb Sports Podcast. Bring snacks. Bring rage.

ETB Daily Sports for Tuesday, Sept. 29th - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETB Daily News for Tuesday, Sept. 29th - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

Big Dumb Podcast S2E7 - Food Divorces, Breast Milk Gym Bros & Other Things We Can't Unsee - This week on the Big Dumb Podcast, we watch spies who actually know how to drink (Slow Horses), hit the cafeteria at Hillman College (A Different World), and ask whether Best Medicine is actually good medicine. Then Ben Affleck tries to be Tom Brady's wingman and immediately face-plants; we settle some food divorces, stare at the Taylor Swift–Tom Cruise timeline like it owes us money, hear a gym bro story involving breast milk that we cannot un-hear, and pitch an old-timey Super Bowl halftime show that involves brass bands, actual horses, and zero lasers. It's Season 2 Episode 7. Bring snacks. Leave your dignity at the door.

ETP Daily Sports for Monday, Sept. 28th  - Trevor Beck with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Monday, Sept. 28th  - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

ETP Daily Sports for Friday, Sept. 25th  - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Friday, Sept. 25th - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

ETP Daily Sports for Thursday, Sept. 24th  - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Thursday, Sept. 24th  - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

ETP Daily Sports for Wednesday, Sept. 23rd  - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Wednesday, Sept. 23rd - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

Big Dumb Sports Podcast S1E6 - Cowboys, College FB, Rangers and HS FB Week 4: Cowboys vs Commanders this week, thumbs up/thumbs down on the usual suspects, then we peek ahead to that Ravens game like we actually know something. Texas college football gets the full “why is this happening to us” treatment. Rangers still clinging to the playoff cliff with 6 games left. Stars already playing hockey in September because, of course they are. We wrap with Friday night lights from around here because somebody has to care. Season 1, Episode 6. Come get your weekly reminder that we watch sports so you don't have to pretend you understand them.

ETP Daily Sports for Tuesday, Sept. 22nd - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Tuesday, Sept. 22nd - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

ETP Daily Sports for Monday, Sept. 21st  - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Monday, Sept. 21st  - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

This week on The Big Dumb Podcast we binge-watch like it's a second job (Lanterns, Lioness, and whatever else we half-finished), then clock Ben Affleck volunteering to be Tom Brady's gold-digger early-warning system. Ed Sheeran's tour implodes because somebody said two words on a stadium stage. Eric does the Constitution. Blake does J-Lo. Again. Then we find out there are companies whose entire business model is writing your “I quit” letter so you don't have to. We wrap with the Emmys, where the only surprise is that anyone still pretends to be shocked.

ETP Daily Sports for Friday, Sept. 18th - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Friday, Sept. 18th - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

ETP Daily Sports for Thursday, Sept. 17th - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Thursday, Sept. 17th - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

ETP Daily Sports for Wednesday, Sept. 16th - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Wednesday, Sept. 16th - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

Big Dumb Sports Podcast S1E5 - Cowboys Lay an Egg, Horns Steal a Miracle, and a Kneel That Wasn't - The Cowboys opened 2026 the way Dallas fans have come to expect: with Super Bowl talk in August and a prime-time face-plant in September. Sunday Night Football in the Meadowlands ended 28-20 Giants. The “new” defense got marched on, Dak tossed a momentum-killing pick before the half, and Brian Schottenheimer's first big 4th-and-inches decision was a punt. What's next? Washington at home this weekend, and a whole lot of “we'll clean it up” press conferences. College football delivered the opposite movie. No. 4 Texas trailed No. 1 Ohio State 23-3 late in the third, then scored 21 unanswered in the fourth. Hollywood Smothers punched in the winner with 25 seconds left. Largest fourth-quarter comeback against an AP No. 1 in the record books. Sark and Arch just rewrote the script. The Rangers sit 74-76 and open a nine-game homestand tonight against Boston, then Toronto and the Mets. Globe Life, nine games, ten days. It's now-or-never season: win this stretch or start thinking about next year's rotation. Quick hits on the other Dallas teams: Stars camp and prospect tournament are underway while the arena soap opera (stay at AAC or chase Plano?) keeps humming. Mavericks training camp and media day land in about two weeks — Kyrie back, Cooper Flagg era officially beginning. We close local. Northeast Texas high school football, and the ugly one from Friday night: Life Oak Cliff dropped 105-14 on Bonham on homecoming. The QB ignored a kneel signal and threw one more TD with seconds left. Sportsmanship debate, coach excuses, and a 91-point margin that nobody needed. That's the show: Cowboys hangover, Horns miracle, Rangers last stand, Stars/Mavs teases, and a high-school scoreboard that should've been turned off.

ETP Daily Sports for Tuesday, Sept. 15th - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Tuesday, Sept. 15th - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

Red River Valley Today with guest Paris Community Theater's Alaina Downing - Eric talks to Alaina about the just-wrapped "Lend Me A Soprano." They talk about upcoming shows, season tickets, the Plaza Theater, and children's theater classes. 

ETP Daily Sports for Monday, Sept. 14th - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Monday, Sept. 14th - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

ETP Daily Sports for Friday, September 11th - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Friday, September 11th - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

ETP Daily Sports for Thursday, September 10th  - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Thursday, September 10th  - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

It's HERE! The Big Dumb Sports Podcast S1E4 - This week the boys did what they always do: talked football like it owed them money, baseball like it might vanish, and college ball like it already has. Season's here. Thumbs are broken. Captains got rearranged. Michigan needed divine intervention. Kiffin is thriving. And if the big leagues lock the doors, we'll be in Frisco eating $6 nachos like the smart people we pretend to be. Come laugh at us. We already picked the games.

ETP Daily Sports for Wednesday, September 9th - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Wednesday, September 9th- Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

ETP Daily Sports for Tuesday, September 8th - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Tuesday, September 8th - Dave Kirkpatrick with today's local and state news. 

Big Dumb Podcast S2E5 - Pheromone-Maxxing & the Roomba of Justice - The Big Dumb Guide to Being Weird - Blake and Eric are back to examine another week of humanity's ongoing descent into madness. They discuss the greatest sandwich ever put on film thanks to Spanglish, what they've been streaming (Tires, Chad Powers, and The Gentlemen), and Blake's apparently bottomless supply of J-Lo hate. Plus: a husband who weaponized his Roomba to catch his cheating wife, the disturbing phenomenon known as “pheromone-maxxing,” an entire California town that's apparently for sale, the worst bosses imaginable, and five fictional characters we desperately wish were real. Basically, another completely normal conversation between two adults.

Red River Valley Today with guest Johnny Williams of the RRVVM - Eric sits down with Johnny Williams of the Red River Valley Veterans Memorial — Vietnam vet, vice chair, and the voice behind a lot of those Memorial Day programs in Paris. Ring of Honor, VA help for local vets, and the new museum going up by the Eiffel Tower. Freedom isn't free. We also talked about the upcoming Neal McCoy concert in October fundraiser. 

ETP Daily Sports for Friday, September 4th - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Friday, September 4th - Clint Cooper with today's local and state news. 

ETP Daily Sports for Thursday, September 3rd - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Thursday, September 3rd - Clint Cooper with today's local and state news. 

ETP Daily Sports for Wednesday, September 2nd - Blake Hickerson with today's sports. 

ETP Daily News for Wednesday, September 2nd  - Clint Cooper with today's local and state news. 

Season 1, Episode 3 of The Big Dumb Sports Podcast is a Texas-sized buffet of roster chaos, split-personality baseball, campus PR disasters, and Friday night scores that will not go on the recruiting brochure. The fellas unpack the Cowboys' cutdown week and the Joe Milton plot twist that left Sam Howell as Dak's backup after Milton lit up the preseason. Then they treat the Rangers like two different clubs sharing one laundry room: the one that actually wins at home, and the one that goes 44-3 whenever it bothers to score four runs. TCU's season opener gets a look, but the real horror show is off the field—the locker-room mess and the decision to ban the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the paper founded by Amon Carter, the same guy whose name is on the stadium. They wrap with local high school football: Paris, North Lamar, Cooper, and Prairiland, because somebody has to keep score when the big boys are busy cutting QBs and banning newspapers.

ETP Daily Sports for Tuesday, Sept. 1st - Blake Hickerson with today's sports.