Born and bred in Brooklyn, New York, and a Texan since 1981, Jim Verdi is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington in communications. Jim is a radio veteran of thirty-five years across many formats, with almost half of that in talk radio, and has worked in the DFW area his entire career. Married for thirty-plus years to a fantastic wife, Toni, with two adult children, Nicolas and Mia, and a dog dad to Nola and Marley, Jim is passionate about baseball, particularly the New York Mets. He loves history, particularly American history, and is an award-winning barbecue pitmaster and smoked meat aficionado.