Has the Avian flu reached Texas? Could this explain why we don't see any ducks?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike. Dide I can find this microphone?
Where is it?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Here?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
It is?

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Hold on?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
This has all got to be rearranged. Who said Adam
wexa sits here? Or Clinton? Usually? Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Adam Wexler and Adam Clinton. I always thought they should
have been called the Adams family instead of the eighteen.
But nobody listened to me. You know, I thought so,

(00:41):
even I even recall I suggested it. I said, you know,
there's an alternative to what you're talking about here. And
this was long before any imaging was done. It could
have been done both saying very loud in my ear,
stand by one second, let me turn this down just
a bit. Right. I've got that taken care of. I'm
still having trouble and I don't know why Melvin trying

(01:01):
to get this document printed that I would like to
have in my hands. So what I'm going to do
now is hopefully share this with you as Oh lord,
this is just so complex, it's really really almost impossible
to do. I may not worry about it until the
break I can wind my way to there. I'm pretty

(01:22):
confident and by the way, feel free this morning. This
is I'm gonna take next weekend off. I'm taking all
next week off from fifty plus and then I'll take
next weekend off. And I'm not really sure what I'm
gonna do or where I'm gonna go. I've got a
couple of ideas that I might float and see if
I can get some bites. I actually do have a

(01:44):
duck hunt scheduled next week, a duck slash goose hunt,
and we're going to talk about that well actually pretty quickly.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
Let me give you the phone number.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Let me make sure you have my email in case
I say something that triggers you to want to communicate
with me somehow. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
We have got we get so many odd weird.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Things with our email and with our just stuff around
here that I almost don't know whether this is one
of the company's intentional kind of baiting UH tricks to
get me to give up personal information, or whether it's
a real thing. I don't know. Let me go talk

(02:32):
to Mike. That'll that'll take my mind off of all
this garbage. Hey, Mike, what's up?

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Merry Christmas? Young man?

Speaker 6 (02:39):
Mary?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Hi, But I'm doing all right, believe it or not.
I've got technical issues in here, but it's not a
big deal. What's going on?

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Well, I just said i'd call and say I have
it happy and wanted to let you know that I'm
headed out the day after Christmas with a couple of
old friends. Uh two twenty Swift and a two fifty
seven Roberts.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Good for you and Taylor Swift. Yeah, and what was
her name, Julia Roberts. That wouldn't be a bad draw.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
I'm telling you, going on my annual meat haul of
pillow freezer.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
So how big a freezer you got?

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Oh, it's big enough for two big ones.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Nice. Good for you.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'll be thinking about you and your duck hunt. I
don't do that anymore. It's it just gets too cold
on the water for me.

Speaker 7 (03:29):
Now, you know.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's I'm finally at my age, finally starting to feel
it just a little bit. It didn't bother me for
the longest time, and not at all when I was guiding,
And it's not like I was a teenager when I
was out there doing that. But it just, I don't know,
my metabolism just burned very strongly and brightly. And I

(03:50):
just I tried and tried and tried to not have
fun out there goo something on wallering around in the mud,
but I always did.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
It gets me in my It gets a little.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Stuff that's not fun at all. Yeah. And if it's
not fun, if you're hurting when you're out there, you
can't concentrate. Really, you can't enjoy the experience like you
used to. So curl up in a box blind. You'll
be better off.

Speaker 8 (04:14):
You'll be good.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
You got this steer, I got a heater just in case.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
That's not a bad idea.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Well, listen, I'll let you go. I know you got
a busy day. You have a good no.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, thanks man. I appreciate the call, Mike, I really do.
Merry Christmas to you and your family as well. Take
care by Anyboddy audios. He's probably headed to the rains.
Got to go sight in the girls, Swift and Roberts.
That's not a bad little reference I made there? Do
you like that one? Melbourne? Of course? Julia Roberts and

(04:48):
who was it Taylor Swift? Yeah, that's right, Kelsey. I
think there was some photograph I saw the other day
of her wearing a ring not on her ring finger,
but on I think it might have been even on
her middle finger. And the sensational attention grabbing headline was

(05:09):
and there was a circle drawn around the ring on
our banger, proof positive that Taylor and Travis are engaged. Well, no,
that's not how they would do that. I don't think
that's not how that happens. So just leave them alone.
They'll be all right. I did want to mention, and
I've got an email or a text message out to

(05:30):
Mitchell Holder down there in El Campo. It was this
past week that oh good, he's responded. It was this
past week that Mojo actually sent me word that there
was a significant outbreak of avian flew up in the Midwest.
And I did some research on that and sure enough, boy,

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they were hundreds, if not thousands of dead birds and
all kinds of birds, by the way, just geese or
ducks or anything as we had with the avian colera outbreak. Well,
there were some others, but mostly geese. When the avian
collar outbreak in the eighties hit that was a horrific
fast forward to now though, pretty big issue in the Midwest.

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And then as those birds have migrated on down here,
sure enough, there they are showing up in Wharton County,
in Harris County. And let me fast speed down a
little bit lower into my message I had out here
Galveston County, Wharton, Galveston and Harris Counties, and I did
get a text message from Mitchell just a few minutes

(06:38):
ago that says, Yep, I've heard there's been some dead
geese picked up off roost ponds around here, not in
the past two weeks after we got some cold weather
and fresh water though, So that would be the best news,
really is if it was confined to only a few birds,

(07:00):
and if they have indeed freshened those roost ponds, because
that's where that flu bug just festers and boils and
then weakened somehow. Compromised birds get in there and they
pick that stuff up and it kills them pretty fast.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
So fingers crossed.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
That it's not going to be a major issue, because
if it becomes a major issue, it can wipe out
lots of geese, and at least in this part.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
Of the flyway. We don't have a lot we can
give up.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
We need we need every goose we have out there
on that prairie wherever it might be, to make it
look like a sky full of geese, which it's actually
not that bad if you can get in the right areas.
I know you've heard me talk ad nauseum about how
many geese there were on the prairie back in the
day this, and back in the day that.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
And all of that is very true. But the experience now, it's.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Back when I was out there, it was like a
photo album.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Every day.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
You could go out there and fill a photo album
with pictures of lots of geese in the air. Now
it's more like an opportunity to, if you're in the
right spot, get kind of a snapshot, a little one
or two frame peak at what it kind of used
to be like. And I've seen I've seen some video
even from this year, in fields where you're just set

(08:30):
up in the right place, you're in the right place,
the birds are coming. They're coming hot and heavy, and
it reminds me of what happened almost all the time
back then, and it doesn't happen as frequently now. But
when it does happen for the people who are experiencing
it in twenty twenty four, it's pretty darn special because

(08:52):
it isn't something that just happens every day. If you
miss them today, you might not be able to get
them again for two weeks. Back when I was hunting,
if you missed them today, I would We'll get them tomorrow,
don't worry, and probably could pull through for a clients
who came in here for two or three days if
their first day was kind of rough, we could shift

(09:13):
spots to a far more promising not potentially more promising,
but as close to slam dunks as you could get.
And it was really it was really a special treat
to live back then. But it's still special now in
that there are still geese down there. There are bajillions
of sandhill cranes, and not bad duck hunting at all

(09:36):
on these prairies either, pretty good rice production down there
in Wharton County, and so that's what's drawing the birds.
The older birds in these flights have been coming here
for many, many years and likely won't stop until they're
either knocked out of the sky by flu or something

(09:59):
or twelve age steel pellets or other non toxic shot.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
There's a lot of birds are there? Really are?

Speaker 2 (10:08):
And the duck numbers at least that little snapshot that
I got with my friend Ta and Jacob a few
weeks ago. Holy cow, there's no shortage of pintails on
that prairie. I can assure you of that, absolutely no
shortage of pintails. That was the most pintails I've seen
in a long time. And we saw a lot a

(10:28):
year ago. When that group and I got out there
and shot the video with Mitchell and his guys for
Ducks Unlimited, there were a lot of pintails flying around.
Then there were a lot more flying around just three
weeks ago. So fingers crossed, I've got a hunt coming up.
Mitchell's gonna be out there every day. If you want
to go hunt with him, just shoot me an email.

(10:49):
I'll be happy to give you his number. He runs
a really good show, he truly does. He's got good
guys working for him. They've got enough places to hunt
that they can rest spots when they need to, and
they can get in and get after them when what
they're looking for is there. It's a fantastic operation he

(11:10):
runs called waterfowl specialties. I'm looking for my emails here
real quick. I want to check something. This thing asked
me for a password one more time. I may lose
my mind. There's just no reason for that. I don't
know what this dialogue box open is either. My email
is functioning perfectly, but about every five minutes it's coming
up and telling me I need to provide a password.

(11:31):
And why I don't know. That's just that's simply not true.
It is simply not true. Friday. Oh, you know what,
my email is not working right now. My email is
not working on my laptop, but I bet it's working
on my phone. Let me check that real quick. There
should be no reason. Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday? What the heck? Oh,

(11:54):
it's telling me I have to sign in, and I'm oh,
this is not good. Really not sure. I gonna try
this password real quick, dut and see what happens. They
saying my password 'rorong. This is gonna be difficult because
I don't know that I'm gonna be able to see
emails today. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
Let's take a little break here, see if I can
figure this out. On the way out of ninety this.

Speaker 9 (12:15):
Is sports Talk seven ninety Houston Sports Online at Sports
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Speaker 8 (12:21):
Back to the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
All right, welcome back.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Be paying attention to the music that's being played, because
after all, later in the program we will be shuttling
out to a winner if they get it right. A
nice little basket from Brasis River Provisions. I had a
peanut butter and jelly. I found out that boy there,
I think it's three there's three berries mixed into this

(12:47):
one jelly, and it is absolutely delicious, absolutely delicious, and
it pairs well with Jiff. What's up, Rick?

Speaker 10 (12:58):
I just son just popped when I was talking to
Major Melvine. It just popped where I can see it
now now. I came home to see oh boy, wait, hey, listen,
we've got an all points bulletin a major situation here.
We've got a we got to spread the word and
get some help from people listening.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
What you got.

Speaker 10 (13:19):
We've got a situation here. I'm listening all the sheriffs,
the game Martens, everybody.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
I'm still listening over here where.

Speaker 10 (13:28):
I'm at right now in Austin County. That's Belleville, Bellville
Meat Marketing. Meat market in the world as everybody knows
we have a situation where there is and we're kind
of let all the hunters know and anybody that's listening
in the whole general area. We've got a kangaroo on
the loop.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Oh that's right. Yes, I do know about the kangaroo.
I've forgotten about that. Yes, I do know about it.
Dana Tyson. Actually I think saw the thing up there.
She was on the way back into the hill country.
So it's still missing. Am I A?

Speaker 6 (14:03):
I said, what I understand?

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Am I A?

Speaker 10 (14:05):
And you know, the hunters are out, which there's not
a lot of hunting pressure in Artson County anyway, But anyway,
they just said watching he's her. I don't know what
it is. You can probably walk up to him close,
but you don't want to try to bet him because
he or she could hurt you.

Speaker 5 (14:21):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 10 (14:22):
I always remember watching those Time and Jerry cartoons, you know,
with the kangaroo.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
I do remember all that's tough, Yeah I do.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Man.

Speaker 10 (14:33):
Yeah, I thought that was just kind of an interesting
little deal. Somebody's gonna spot him and uh and left
something gets him.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid.

Speaker 10 (14:42):
A little small I've got pictures I've had game word
and send me pictures because they know I'm out and
about and I've sent it to suit. They're tough around here.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
They're tough animals too.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think I think uh, a kangaroo, a grown kangaroo,
could fend off several coyotes.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
I really do. I don't think he'd have a problem
with that.

Speaker 10 (15:04):
Well, he'd have to be tough to live in the
Australian outback.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 10 (15:10):
That's the truth of the dingoes.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, oh yeah, I'm.

Speaker 10 (15:14):
Like to find out if somebody listening knew if a
dingo could take down a kangaroo. We probably need to
explain what a dingo is.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Yeah, it's a dog. It's a wild dog.

Speaker 10 (15:25):
It's a wild paral dog. And Australia's covered up with them.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
That's correct.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Kind of like.

Speaker 10 (15:34):
Our faral Hall infestation. They have a dingo infestation.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
True enough.

Speaker 10 (15:42):
Anyway, everybody keep drives up before a kangaroo sitting on
your picnic table.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
You got it, Rick, thanks man?

Speaker 10 (15:48):
See it.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
All right. I'm gonna tell everybody straight up, I have
a zero I have zero access to email. So if
you're emailing me and wondering why I'm not emailing back.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
I can't, I can't get in. I'm signed into.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
I'm gonna check another thing and see what Just I'm
trying to figure out exactly what might be wrong here,
and I'm really not sure, so I don't know what's
gonna happen for the rest of the show. I know
I don't have email, not on my phone, not on
and this thing's telling me I need to change my password,
but my password still allows me into my laptop. So

(16:28):
it's a it's an outlook issue, and I don't know
what it is, but I'll try to find out at
some point.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
Seven one three. We'll have to do it the old
fashioned way.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Text met well those aren't old fashion, they're fairly new fangled.

Speaker 5 (16:40):
But phone call do what? Yeah, I'll mail you a letter.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Well, we'll rely on the US Postal Service to get
it here on time before the end of the show. Somehow,
I don't feel like that's going to be the issue.
I really don't. Holy cow, I've got a big old
mess here to deal with.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
So do it the old fashion way.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
I use a text message, and a lot of you
have my text text number, and if you don't, man,
if you know somebody who does, and you don't just
call them, text them and let them know that you
have a question. What a mess, What a gosh awful
mess this is going to be. I'm really disappointed. And
on top of that, we're having printer issues as well,

(17:22):
so I'm scrambling. I'm scrambling to make everything work, and
I really truly hope it does. There was something else
beyond the avian flu. Well let's stick with that for
a minute, because it was something that.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
Really nobody expected.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
I don't need to say that, do I. I'm going
to put it down.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
I've got so much going on here that I'm going.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
To have to deal with, and it's not going to
be easy to do my work after the show either
if I don't have email access. Bird flu showed up
in Texas in the eighties, and as I mentioned last
week when when I first talked about this, it was
all hands on deck. There were bajillions of waterfowl on

(18:09):
that prairie, and geese were dying by the thousands, and
the only remedy was to completely pick up all those carcasses,
get them out of there, and either bury them or
burn them, and then drain the roost ponds get all
down to practically the last feather out of there, because

(18:30):
anything in there that still had that disease on it
could have been a problem.

Speaker 5 (18:34):
Got to drain them, dry them, and then refill them.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
With fresh water, which wasn't cheap then and it isn't
cheap now.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
If you have to have it. And there was an
army of.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
People showed up out there to get to work. The
Houston Autobon Society showed up in force. Birders showed up
in force, waterfowl hunters showed up in force, and we
all rolled up our sleeves and got to work and
got it done. You know who was missing? Animal rights people?
Not a single one, Not a single one showed up

(19:05):
in rubber boots with rubber gloves on and a shovel
in hand or a rake. Not a single one of
them wrote a check for so much as a dime
to refill the roost ponds. These are the people who
profess to be so so in favor of animal welfare.
They couldn't have cared less about that. All they care

(19:26):
about when you cut through the garbage is shutting down
recreational hunting, shutting down meat consumption of any kind. They
want us all to eat berries, and I get I
don't know whether bugs count. There's a big movement now,
especially over in Europe, to eat more bugs. It doesn't
interest me much, Melvin, you think you could ever, can't

(19:49):
just quit eating what you eat now and just live
on bugs? No way, nice and crunchy like potato chips
with a little juice in the middle.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
I could probably do a few crickets.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Could you roast it?

Speaker 11 (20:00):
Maybe I've seen something on TV to whear it looks
kind of but they were like flavored.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
Yeah, I've seen all that, but it still doesn't appeal
to me.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get online and see
where I can get a bucket of crickets. No, no,
not like that Kentucky fried crickets battered in seasoned perfection.
I can't wait. No, No, Melbourne, I'm not. I'm not
a bug eater. No, I'm not. Even when I was
a little kid, there weren't a lot of things that

(20:32):
scared me. But I wasn't gonna eat bugs.

Speaker 11 (20:35):
I tell you what. I'm a runner, okay. And when
you run at night and you have the headlight on,
yeah yeah, oh yeah, they come to you.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Don't.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
They come straight to you and you will eat a
few bugs.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Why are you?

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Why are you running with the big old headlight on?
It makes it hard to see?

Speaker 11 (20:52):
Do you realize it walks a cricketing You don't want
to you know, Well, yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
That's fair enough if you're not running on a trail
like a manic cured trail or something. But yeah, that's
one thing that used to bother me as a goose guide.
These guys just show up and the first thing they
do when they get out, they all turn on a flashlight. So, man,
if y'all have turn those off, we'll be able to
walk all the way out to the field, all the
way through the mud and the water and everything else

(21:18):
with no lights if you just give your eyes five
minutes to acclimate to the darkness, because it's not truly
now on a heavy, cloudy, overcast morning pitch dark an
hour and something before sunlight, Yeah, yeah, that's possible that
it could be a problem. But when you have a

(21:41):
normal sky cloudy partly cloudy, and you have normal stars
in the sky, which is every morning, you'd be surprised
how well you can navigate, how well you can get around.

Speaker 5 (21:53):
If you just don't turn on that light.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
And what really used to drive me crazy is when
one of them have one of those head lamps on
and I'm out there working with no light at all,
because it's just so much easier on me and you
don't have to worry.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
About losing a flashlight.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
And one of them would call my name and I'd
turn and they would turn their heads and shine that
giant beam right into my wide open pupils, and it
was like just getting laser beams in my eyes, and
that made it impossible to see until I could start
from scratch and let my eyes re kind of reassign
their duties.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
All right, I got to take a little break here.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Boy, I had notepaper out and everything when Rick called
about this tragedy going on in Austin County, the missing roue.
And if you're up that way driving around, keep your
eyes out and don't try to approach that little guy.
Apparently it's very friendly around and very will it will
respond and come to its owners, but it's a little

(22:51):
shy around strangers. So just if you see it, just
call somebody.

Speaker 9 (22:56):
We are Sports Talk set of ninety Listen Online's Sports
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Speaker 2 (23:04):
Hi, welcome back Dougpike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety
I still have no access to my account, and I'm
going to have to work on that after the show.
I guess it's just too quick, unfortunately during breaks to
really sit down and concentrate on this. So no email,
no email whatsoever. There's one person to whom I owe

(23:27):
a good morning, and if that person is listening and
has sent me that traditional email, then sorry, I can't
respond that way. I really don't. I really don't get this.
I really truly don't. It's kind of scary. It's like
I've got some weirdness going on only with email too.
My password that's supposed to be pretty universal throughout the

(23:50):
iHeart system works just fine when I restart my computer,
my little laptop here. Not so much for email and that,
and that's a that's an outlook problem. I guess I'd
ask for somebody to send me an email. I'll explain
what's wrong, But huh, I can't get email. So let's

(24:10):
go back to kind of some of the little things
I wanted to talk about on this. What are we
four days from Christmas? Now? Five?

Speaker 12 (24:19):
Four?

Speaker 2 (24:20):
However many it is it's gonna come at us like
a train, and we better be ready, obviously. And I
got a couple of things I want to First of all,
I'm kind of curious if somebody's and my hands in
the air on this, Okay, my hands in the air.
A long time ago, like when I was a little kid,
probably I was ten, My sister was eight. He has

(24:43):
an August birthday, and we were down in Florida at
my grandparents' house and for her birthday, with my dad's approval,
but not my mom's looking back anyway, for her birthday,
I bought her a shiny new still shrink wrapped onto
the plastic and the cardboard, a Zebco two O two comebo.

(25:08):
But looking back, it may have been done with like
twist ties back then, I don't even think shrink wrap
was a thing.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
That long ago, one way or the other.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
She got a rod and reel because I had convinced
myself and my dad was kind of in on it,
and he was.

Speaker 5 (25:25):
Okay with it. I mean, we took care of her later.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
But I bought my little sister, who had no interest
whatsoever in fishing, a rod and reel for a birthday.
And I'm wondering if any of you ever had the
courage to actually do that. I bought your wife a
new rifle when she's never hunted a day in her life,
or a new fishing rod when she's more of a
reader or an exercise fan, something like that by somebody jerky,

(25:51):
knowing full well they're vegan. That would be uncool, I guess,
but more for you. In the end, I'm kind of wondering.
And in that same line, I hope you're paying attention
and giving people idea, the people who want to shop
for you, unless you just go out and buy it
for yourself and then hand it to them to wrap

(26:12):
and put under the tree.

Speaker 5 (26:14):
Be very explicit with.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Your instructions on what you want, not just I don't
don't tell anybody you want a new fishing reel, don't
tell anybody you want a new gun, unless you're prepared
to get something that you'll never use, you'll you never wanted.
Because there are thousands of subsets to each of those
categories fishing, reel, rod, lures, lines, guns, ammo, binoculars, way

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you name it. There there are no easy options. And
if you send somebody who's not familiar into the fray,
they're gonna end up getting the wrong thing. One of
the most one time I was most disappointed in a
retail tailer recommending gifts to someone who was shopping.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
And that's something else you have to be careful of.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
And that's I hate to even repeat this story. And
I'm not going to tell you where it happened. It
doesn't matter where it happened. But it happened in a
place that sells firearms, Okay, And that's all I want
to say, because it would be easy enough for everybody
to figure it out if I said anymore. So firearms

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are sold here, firearms and accessories. And a woman walked
in wanting to get her son a new shotgun because
her son loved to hunt birds. And so she was
shown a youth Model eleven hundred, a little shorter stock,
a little lighter overall good choice for a kid. And

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looking around the store at other stuff too, and with
help from a salesperson, and on Christmas morning, boy had
this long, skinny box and opened it up and there
was this brand new, beautiful Remington eleven hundred youth model shotgun,
twenty gauge, perfect for him. I'm a ten twelve year

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old kid whatever he was, and Grandma, with oh so
much excitement in her in her voice, said open the
other present too.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
And when he opened the other present, he.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Looked at his dad, and his dad looked at him,
and they both looked at Grandma because they had been sold.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
She had been sold and had wrapped up so excitedly.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
A scope or a scope to put on top of
his shotgun. And that was just somebody who was I
guess maybe being paid commission, somebody who also hadn't a
clue or whatever. So if you're buying something and you're
out of your comfort zone before you buy it, at
least have a friend you can call so as not

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to alert the gift receiver.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
Of what's going on. At least have somebody you could
call and say, hey, is this right? This doesn't feel right?

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Is this right? Because you don't put a scope, You
don't put a rifle scope on a youth model shotgun.
It just no, that's not how it should have worked. Brandon,
what's up my friend?

Speaker 10 (29:20):
All right?

Speaker 12 (29:20):
Doug? How are you?

Speaker 2 (29:21):
I'm good? How are you?

Speaker 12 (29:23):
Christmas?

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Gross very close? Merry Christmas is just a little bit
in advance today. What's on your mind.

Speaker 12 (29:31):
Did you hear the good news?

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Which good news I got sold? Oh? Fantastic, fantastic. So
you guys now, you guys are in the new house, correct?

Speaker 12 (29:44):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Oh, good god, good good. Well that'll that'll kind of
button it up now that the old one's sold.

Speaker 12 (29:50):
Yep. And we did had a party for the house,
the old house.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
Good party for the old house or the new house.

Speaker 12 (30:00):
The party for the old house got sold.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Oh yeah, well that's good. You know, it's a proper
goodbye for the old house. How long were you in there?
I don't know, a lot of years. Huh yeah, a
lot of good memories. Fantastic man, fantastic player. Yeah, we
got a couple of them, I think, did we not?
Like first and third base? Got that covered?

Speaker 13 (30:20):
Now?

Speaker 12 (30:22):
Uh base? First base? Way they get covered? The guy
from the Dying.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Backs, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw a picture of him,
you know, in a story I was looking at yesterday
about the Astros picking him up. I think there's another
guy too, somebody who probably we could slide right into
third base, That's what I'm guessing. So and I got
there's not much of a chance at all that we'll
see Alex Bregman here next year. And you know, as

(30:51):
much as we like to think that that people are
loyal to the you know, got to dance with who
brung you and all that stuff, where there's any loyalty
at all, there's really not in professional sports anymore. Maybe
a Jose Altuve and they paid him enough to keep
him around, and rightfully so.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
But these guys really truly show their colors.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
They're all about the bag, and I can't blame them.
If somebody were offering me twenty five thirty million dollars
a year and the team I was on that day
offered me six or ten or fifteen or even seventeen
or eighteen, hard to walk away from millions of dollars.

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If they were apart by thousands, I think it'd be
a pretty easy decision. But when you're talking about multi
year deals worth that kind of money, how could you
pass it up?

Speaker 12 (31:46):
Yeah? Hey, did you did you get into Charlesesbury?

Speaker 2 (31:53):
I did not get in to talk to them yesterday,
As a matter of fact, No, I didn't. Sorry about that.
I wish I could have. They were busy. I was busy,
and and yeah, it's just that time of year when
it's everything's crazy here here, I do this.

Speaker 12 (32:06):
I would tell Trip to schedule, schedule you in.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
I'll see what I can do. I'm off next week.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
I'm on vacation next week, so it won't be next week,
but maybe the week after.

Speaker 12 (32:18):
I was thinking Monday.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
Monday's my only day off.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
I'm not coming in on Monday to hang out with
them or anybody else. I wouldn't even hang out with
Melvin on Monday. And he's a good dude.

Speaker 12 (32:31):
I might come up. I might come up there.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Come on, come on, we'll show you around. Hey, I
got to take a break now. I do need to
do that.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
Ron, all right, I'm.

Speaker 12 (32:45):
Gonna drink coffee with with you and what's of the.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Okay, Yeah, we'll see. We'll see what we can make
that happen. Buddy.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Hey, I got to run, I really do.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
I'm sorry, Brandon, but I gotta cut you down and
hit this brake a little late.

Speaker 5 (33:02):
Thanks for calling man. Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
All right, we gotta take.

Speaker 14 (33:06):
A little break here on the way out for FDIC,
your Rockets and Astros live.

Speaker 8 (33:10):
Here we are Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 9 (33:14):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
All right, welcome back, hope you're paying attention to these rejoins,
because at the end of the program, somebody who's hung
around long enough to figure out the theme of them all,
we'll have a shot at a really nice little basket
of goodies from Brass River Provisions Company. And they are
indeed goodies, I can assure you. Melvin suggested that I

(33:40):
turn it off and turn it back on. How you
think I've waited long enough, Melvin? Or should I wait
another minute or so? Or should I? You might want
to unplug it too, just or just throw it out
the windows. I could do that as well. Okay, so
it's unplugged. It is shut down. Oh at least let
me well, I can't see who that is?

Speaker 15 (34:01):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Who is that is that?

Speaker 10 (34:02):
Dave?

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Yeah, crank him up. I bet he'll talk for a minute.
Let's get him up. What's up day? Where are you? Man?

Speaker 16 (34:14):
Well, I'm out here. I'm down here at the boat
launch right now watching this boat. It's a StarCraft. To
believe it is like it's a looming nice and it's
a nice looking. Yeah, it's a nice looking boat. It's
not huge, but it's adequate for what these two guys.

Speaker 6 (34:30):
You want to go do project.

Speaker 16 (34:32):
Yeah no, no, you know, I could be fishing right now.
But I'm still working on bringing stuff from Houston to
a warehouse, I mean a storage room I got over
here and throwing a bunch of stuff away and finding
stuff that I wow, I forgot I had?

Speaker 5 (34:50):
Oh yeah, got don't even man my garage.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
I'm going to find stuff that I couldn't throw away
ten years ago and it's still out there. No, don't
even know I have.

Speaker 16 (35:01):
I got you. I found like a small port will
uh it's a cassette FM radio on it. It's kind
of like a walkman, but that's not the person anyway,
I don't I was gonna get some batteries here in
a little wall to see if it's still works. I
got a ton of cassettes, but I think I'm gonna
buy me that's what I want for Christmas. Play yeah,

(35:25):
because they they're making them. And I have thousands of
cassettes man like AM Sessions and everything.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Go to any Salvation Army store and you'll be able
to choose from a dozen of them. I bet for nothing.

Speaker 16 (35:39):
Hey, wait a minute, there's a good wheel across the
road here or something.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, go over there.

Speaker 16 (35:45):
I bet they got some yeah, and you know, and
and growing up with them and you know, using them
and music business.

Speaker 7 (35:54):
You know.

Speaker 16 (35:54):
I guess you should say, you know, we had we
had to run them and rewind them and go over
that again and then think, okay, hey we get this perfect.
But now everything's doing good, you know. I mean, this
weather is killer here today. I'm gonna be here today.
I gotta run back to Houston tomorrow and then I'm
probably gonna turn it around and come back out here.

(36:14):
But I am going to be doing some fishing over
here in a little bit.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
What I need to see him, I need a picture
of some fish you catch.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Man. You're telling me you're talking a mean game out
there day, but I hadn't seen that shit.

Speaker 16 (36:27):
I'll just show u. I haven't been skunked this many
times in a long time, but but I've.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Been, you know.

Speaker 16 (36:33):
But I'm basically I've been doing a lot of scouting,
you know, when I'm going to find that one spot
and I want to know where it's at, or like
like my brother found that spot in the National Forest
over there, way over here, and you tell it peg
leg And I heard somebody else refer to that the
other day, you know, yeah, because it was a guy
that had a one wooden leg it peg leg and

(36:55):
it was way up there on Lake Conrade and the
way past the jungle third Jones. Yeah, No, everything's going fine.
I just thought Hollered, Joe and b this water is
just kind of real goods like rippled to it. Yeah,
and it's not white captain anywhere or nothing good. Okay,
but hey, y I wish everybody a Marrik christ Yeah,
I'll see what's going on tomorrow. Well now I'm going

(37:17):
to be leaving out of here probably at four o'clock
in the.

Speaker 10 (37:19):
Morning, so.

Speaker 16 (37:22):
Well, well, no, I need to get over there. I
need to clean up that park a lot as soon
as I can and then get back over here, all right, partner, Yeah, okay,
thanks again you David.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
It's great to hear from you. Merry Christmas, man, Merry
Christmas ship. But all right, audios, getitar Dave. He man,
he's got he's trying to do a lot of fish
and do a lot of this, do a lot of that.
But he's a newly wed. He's got to remember that too.
He's got other things to think about now. He better be,
He better be dialed in, right. Huh, Well, I guess

(37:55):
if you know, the two of them got married at
their age, A probably already figured out what each other.
Oh there are, that's not gonna be a big deal.
That won't be bad at all. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. I'd offer you my email address,
but it's still not fixed yet. And there there's just
really there's something going on with this thing, and I
wish I knew what it was because it's driveing me crazy,

(38:18):
absolutely driving me crazy. This is going to be that
same prompt box, isn't it. All Right, Let's get out
of here. We're gonna take a little break at the
top of the hour, regroup, rejoin, and be back in
a little while. On the way out.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
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Speaker 14 (38:41):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, welcome board. Whooh, I
think I got connected? Okay, hold on, I'm making progress here.
Maybe let me see what's going on. Maybe this will
let me in and maybe I'll be able to get email.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
I'm gonna try and send something to you, Melvin, standby
a stand anybody. Yeah, I know it might be a while,
little tests, little test and send, let's see what happens. Well,
I guess logically if it was gonna work. Yeah, this
thing's just doing nothing for me. This is not the

(39:17):
do Outlook, I know that's correct. Yeah, it's not doing anything.
I don't believe this is so, so said eight o'clock
hour starts now, not your baby to rock. I'm not
gonna ask any of you to rock it. Oh holy cow,
I've got Wait a minute, No, that's still from yesterday.

(39:37):
Oh but it's refreshing. Access denied. Wow. Okay, this is
worse than I thought. TikTok, TikTok. I'm not gonna I
promise thirty seconds and I'll bail because it's asking for
my password and that better do it. And oh my god, Okay,

(40:04):
I'm just gonna have to bail on this for now.
Seven one three two one two five is seven ninety
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Well, never mind
on that for now. Hopefully I'll get this fixed before noon.
At least. I've got I've got things to do, and
I'm trying to take vacation next week. And of course
I have a lot of I have a lot of stuff.

(40:26):
I have a lot of stuff that needs to be done,
and I can't do it without internet or without email.
So we'll see, we'll see. It's asking one more time,
and I'm gonna try to be a good boy and
knock it out one more time. They're still saying it's
temporarily locked. That's horrible. I'll find a way. I will

(40:46):
find a way getting in. Let's go back to the outdoors.
I know I can get that. Let me bring up
my notes that I was making earlier, because there's a
couple of more things I want to talk about. Oh,
this thing is just so so full of baloney, just
so full of baloney. I talked yesterday with some guys,
and then actually I heard my friends down the dial

(41:08):
talking about fishing in current this morning, and I want
to I'm want to throw some stuff in there on
that along that line. And I greatly appreciate what they
do and know all those guys, really, I've known most
of them for the better part of thirty five or
forty years. We were all young and full of ourselves
when we first started in the outdoors business, them as

(41:30):
guides and me as a writer, and it was really
fun for me to learn from.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
I thought I was a pretty good fisherman.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
I fancied myself one when I started getting to fish
with those guys, and I realized how much I still
had to learn. And I kept my eyes and ears
open every time we went somewhere. And I owe them
a debt of gratitude, all of those guys who let
me jump in their boats with them and go fish here, there,
and everywhere up and down the Texas coast. And it
was a good experience for me, and it made me

(42:02):
a better writer and a better fisherman. And I still
use those skills today. And part of that, as far
as fishing and current goes, relates to lure presentation. And
there's there's a tendency around here if you're in a
little deeper water, if you're if you're in a significant current,

(42:23):
to immediately go to a much heavier jig head than
you normally might got to get that thing down there
on the bottom. That's where all the fish are there,
down on the bottom, out of the current. And unless
that current's just like a Category four rapid coming down
a mountain or something. That's not always the case, and

(42:47):
you got to figure out where the fish are and
what they want to see. And these fish we tend
to we tend to shake and rattle and roll the
of our rods, just constantly flicking that rod tip, flick
that rod tip, like so many Texans do. It's like
you're trying to flick a bugger off your fingertip, okay,

(43:10):
and when you do that, you're you're imparting in some
cases a fairly unnatural look. A shrimp doesn't doesn't do
the hokey pokey on the way down the channel. A
shrimp doesn't do any of that stuff. Now, some of
the little baitfish, if they're injured, they might flutter and

(43:31):
flip a couple of times. But we tend to overwork
our lures. And I think most of the guys out
there would agree that in rare instances, you got to
you gotta make it move, Okay, it needs to look
like something twirking down there on the bottom. You know

(43:51):
what I mean. And you don't have to explain it
to the kids. But what I'm talking about is lures
that were designed I'm sure gifting over to a specific
lure type now okay, designed to be fished in current,
designed to look like fish food, designed to act like
fish food in the water. And the one that comes

(44:13):
to mind first for me because I learned how to
use it from the guy who designed it.

Speaker 5 (44:18):
Is DOA's Shrimp.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
A very simple looking bait, but it's balanced in a
way that when it is just moving on the tide,
you throw it out uptide and just let it sweep
down tide. It looks like a shrimp, and that's what
the fish are looking for. They're not looking for the
thing that's moving the fastest or jumping up and down
like a like a jack rabbit. They're looking for something

(44:44):
that looks like food. And most of the true shrimp
imitations not things that are designed to look like a shrimp.
And a mud minnow and a finger mullet and a
pogy and a saltwater eel.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
Not something that's just kind of generic looking.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
But something that's built to look like a shrimp is
going to get their attention, and not necessarily better or
worse than any other soft plastic.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
All the soft plastics catch fish.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
I can assure you that, under certain circumstances, every soft
plastic ever made commercially will catch fish, but if you're
in light current to medium current, let's say, depending on
how you want to rig this thing. And I proved
this to myself years ago down at Packory Channel and
Corpus out there on the island, there were trout, in

(45:34):
sand trout and speckled trout kind of buried up in
the in the current in the middle of the channel,
and I was throwing that doo shrimp as.

Speaker 5 (45:41):
Far as I could throw it up current.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
And then just letting it sweep down is almost like
fly fishing for rainbow trout in the Colorado River. You
just let that thing sweep down and I would just
be holding my fingers on the on the real and
a little bit of all the sensitivity I could muster
out of that bay caster and I just feel this
little bump and then set the hook and it would

(46:05):
be either a speckled troutter or a sand trout. And
I caught a significant number of fish while people around
me who were and I could see what they were throwing,
they were throwing much heavier jigheads in belief that those
fish had to be under the current, but they weren't.
They were about halfway down, and that worked out very well.

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It really did, it really really did. It was like
I said, it was kind of like how I learned
to fish for rainbow trout in a river somewhere, only
just it was way better because it was salt water
and it was speckled trout. The rainbow trout is still
out there for anybody who's looking for something to do
with kids over the holidays, or just for yourself, if
you truly like fishing for relatively small their farm raised trout.

Speaker 5 (46:51):
Okay, I'll grant you.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
They're going to be from anywhere from maybe six or
seven to maybe twelve inches long, and if you can
find one the places where they're gonna be dumping those
fish the next batch. A lot of places get multiple
stockings over the course of this stocking season, and if
you can time it out to be there either late

(47:14):
in the afternoon after they've put the trout in in
the morning, or it's a twelve to twenty four hour window,
I would say that's gonna be optimum because those fish
are gonna show up hungry probably and they're gonna start
looking for food, and if you can throw them something
that looks like what they've been eating. That's a little
hint or something that they would eat in nature, that's

(47:36):
just in their DNA to eat. You'll probably catch some.
Joe dogg and I used to chase those fish all
over town. We fish probably a half a dozen spots
that were actually pretty good if you got there at
the right time and you knew what you were doing.
We fly fished for them. Sometimes we'd throw little, tiny
little spoons.

Speaker 5 (47:55):
We would throw little minnow imitations.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
If I had my son with me, I'd bring some
some of those prepared little stinky, nasty salmon egg looking things,
and all of it works. And again check the whole
water column though, because they may be up high, they
may be down low. But if you don't have a
bait from top to bottom when you start, then and

(48:19):
you pick wrong, if you put them all, if you
put all your eggs in the same basket, then it's
not gonna work. And I go back to my chumming too,
which is a handy thing to raise the odds of
actually catching some fish. Not only not only the rainbow
trout that were stocked in that lake, but the catfish
that were in that lake before, the panfish that were

(48:40):
in that lake before, and just carp, even big carp
will suck up a kernel of corn soaked in Banila
like there's no tomorrow. Give yourself a chance. Make it
fun for the kids. You're not out there. There are
a lot of lakes I could go to if it
were just me and I wanted to try to catch
a pretty good bass. I could think of ten or

(49:00):
well place is just off the top of my head
where I could go and spend an hour trying to
catch a bass and have fun that whole hour, whether
I caught one or not. With little kids, you got
to be a little more enthusiastic about getting that quirk
to go down or getting that line to come tight,
and chumming certainly helps in that regard. If you have
no idea what I'm talking about, that's okay. I will

(49:22):
be happy to send you an email once I get
back up and running, more than happy to send you
an email and see if we can't get you tuned
up and dialed in to get these little kids some
fish seven one three, two one two five seven ninety
Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'd be
happy to hear from you, and we'll continue to work

(49:45):
on this email situation. I got to figure out who
to call who will actually answer my call, and then
it won't be the person I call who's going to
put me in touch with the right people. Uh, but
I'll get somebody to do it for me. I got
to have that access back pretty quick. Let's take a
little break.

Speaker 9 (50:02):
We are sports Stock seven ninety Houston Sports where you
go with iHeartRadio.

Speaker 8 (50:08):
Now now get more Doug.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
All right, welcome back. Hope you're paying attention to the rejoins.
Because it's the end of the program. Somebody's going to
win some delicious gems and jellies and sauces from Brass
River Provisions. I'll tell you more about them in just
a little while, just a little bit of a wall
seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Don't

(50:33):
bother emailing because I'm still locked out and have no
idea how I'm gonna get locked back in so that
I can go on vacation at some point between now
and New Year. Yeah, this is very frustrating. I've never
had this happen, and it's a it's a Microsoft issue,
It's not an iHeart issue. I don't believe I think

(50:54):
it's an Eye or a Microsoft issue, because that's what's
flagging as it's not available. I've got access to the Internet,
I've got access to all kinds of things, but I
can't get into the email that I so desperately need

(51:15):
to get into. It's never asked me for a password
before to get into email, and that's what concerns me.
I don't know how this thing flipped, but it did.
I got an email from Forrest from Faux Pro Forest,
who put down the fishing rods and decided to go
duck hunting this morning. And in thirty five degree air, dead,
still dead, calm, no dead ducks. Said he heard a

(51:42):
group shoot once right at dawn. He heard a couple
of wood. He's flying over the treetops early. And that's
about it so far. And if there's no pressure on
those ducks that are up that way, and if there's
no wind to stir them up a little bit, it

(52:03):
might be time to punt. It might be time to
fire up the boat and get back out of that
little whatever slew you're in and go find a go,
find a fireplace somewhere and warm up. Thirty four degrees
good heavens, that's I'm not a big fan of anything
below about forty, to be perfectly honest, and I've re

(52:26):
rethought my golf tolerance to cold. I actually, I actually
will still go out and tee it up in a
little bit warmer weather or a little bit cooler weather
than I used to because the clothing that we have
available to us now for hunting, for fishing, for golf,

(52:49):
any outdoor activity in cooler weather is so much more
sophisticated and so much more efficient at keeping us warm.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
I don't have a problem at all now. Used to
be about like.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Fifty two fifty four, i'd start thinking in I don't
know if I really want to play that bad, I
don't know if I really want to go fishing that
because I've done a lot of fishing and cold and hot,
a lot of hunting and hot and cold, and I
can be a little more choosy now if I want
to be. But the way I can deck out for

(53:22):
whatever I'm trying to go do now, it's really it's
right down to about freezing before I'm even gonna worry
about it at all. And even then, if I can,
if I can get back out in the garage and
find what I'm thinking about in my head. I don't
even have to worry about looking for gloves at thirty degrees.
It's chilly out there if you don't have anything on

(53:43):
your hands. But what I'm using, and if I can
find it, I'm I'm gonna have it ready for next
weekend just in case. Is one of those little hand
warmer muffs that you attach to your waist. They just
kind of have a little one inch web belt that
naps in when you bring it around your waist. It's expandable.

(54:04):
And then you got this big fuzzy thing that you
put in front of you and you can put hands
in each side of it. And what I do is
use two of those bigger hand warmers, not the little ones,
not the little tiny ones. They don't really they don't
really generate that much heat.

Speaker 5 (54:20):
But for about a buck.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Apiece, you can use two of those and put them
in that handwarmer muff. And anytime you need to keep
your hands warm, nothing going on, you don't need to
grab your gun, you don't need to grab duck calls
any of that. You just keep them, keep your hands
in there, and they stay nice and toasty warm. And
then when a duck comes along, or it's time to shoot,

(54:41):
you bring your hands out, you shoot, and you shove
them right back in there. One of the things about
those handwarmer packets that a lot of people make a
mistake with too, is if they wait until they get
in the field to start those things up, they will
stay warm for eight ten hours. They'll stay warm for
eight or ten hours. And if you wait until you

(55:04):
get in the field, it's gonna take them thirty minutes
to get warm. So you're already gonna lose that much
time and be uncomfortable with your hands for that long.
Why not go ahead and when you leave the house,
shake them up. Just shake them up and set them
on the seat next to you, set them on the dashboard, whatever,

(55:24):
and let that air circulate through all that chemical, that
dry chemical inside there, and get it generating heat. And
that way, from the minute you step out of the car,
put that little hand muff around your waist. Your hands
are gonna be warm whole time. Your hands are gonna
be warm. Stay warm, makes a whole lot of sense.
I used to see guys do that all the time.

(55:46):
They'd get out there, and I'd be perfectly comfortable. I
figured that out decades ago, and they said, man, I
got handwarmer packets, but my hands are still cold and
these things aren't really warming up. I said, well, when'd
you open them? Guy, it's got five minutes ago. Well,
it takes longer, so be careful with that stuff. All

(56:06):
the technology is great if you know how to use.
It's kind of like me with its email issue right now.
It's great technology, but I don't know how to access
it right now, and there's no reason. Gosh, it's what's
driving me crazy. I did the same exact thing when
I left here yesterday that I always do the same way.
I put that thing to sleep so that I knew

(56:26):
when I came in this morning it would be fine
and ready to go. And I turned it on and
I looked at my emails and I had no new emails.
And that's never that doesn't happen. That doesn't happen for
an hour. Unfortunately, I get one hundred and fifty or
so a day, and I try to keep up with them,
but I can't.

Speaker 5 (56:45):
It's very difficult.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Oh, Melbourne, tell me the last time. What have you
taken your son fishing?

Speaker 10 (56:52):
Yet?

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (56:54):
I have okay?

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Good?

Speaker 5 (56:55):
And and he was excited. Did he catch a fish?

Speaker 2 (57:00):
No? Did you go to the lake where we've been
talking about going? No, not that one. We did a
charter boat. Oh my gosh. And you didn't catch a
fish on charter boat?

Speaker 17 (57:11):
No.

Speaker 11 (57:11):
Well I caught a few, but okay, it was so
small we just had to catch and release. But we
had a great time. Yeah, it's still good fun. Where
y'all go, good experience.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Where did you go?

Speaker 5 (57:21):
Galveston?

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (57:22):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Oh it was it like a bay trip or a
jetty trip? Yes, it's okay. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes those things
they stumble on to a lot of fish, sometimes just
a few, and that that's a that's a.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
Tough little it's a tough nut to crack, it really is.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
It's timing is a lot is involved in those kinds
of trips, and you have a bunch of strangers around you,
and maybe they can fish, maybe they can't. Anyway, Well,
that was a good experience though, and it's good to
get them out there around the jetties. That's a that's
a big place. Gulf of Mexico is a big place
for a little kid. Oh yeah, huge out there, all right.

(57:56):
We got to take him over to the other lake though,
and get him on those catfish and trout double check
if you. In fact, I'll do it during the break
when we get to one here in just a second,
I'll take a look at the trout schedule and see
when that lake is going to be stocked, because it
gives you the dates that it's supposed to be stocked.
And then there's also a phone number you can call
for all of these where you can find out when

(58:18):
they're gonna stalk and if indeed a scheduled stocking is
going to go on on time, you can put him
on if you want, because I know who that is,
and I know I got a hunch what he's gonna
do is kind of mess with faux pro a little
bit SEB one three two one two five seven ninety
See ready can I click him? Come on? Oh they're

(58:39):
still chatting away. They are still chatting away in more
power to them. Is he going to oh finally, holy
cow man blowing me up? What's up?

Speaker 8 (58:49):
Lamee?

Speaker 7 (58:50):
What's up? Done?

Speaker 6 (58:51):
Pike?

Speaker 2 (58:52):
You know I'm I'm having an email issue here. I
haven't I can't see any emails from today at all,
and I know I have some and it tells me
I'm locked out of there because I've been trying too
many times to put in the right password, but it
doesn't recognize it for some reason.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
So I'm kind of a part time I'm a part
time IT professional.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
How are you now?

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Have you tried powering it off and then powering it
back on?

Speaker 5 (59:19):
I'm yawning already, Yes I have.

Speaker 7 (59:23):
I love that? Is that all you got to pay
this company?

Speaker 3 (59:27):
Oh my god, I paid this company a lot of money,
this IT company to help me, you know, at the club.
And every time I have an IT issue, I swear
this guy's like, have you tried powering off.

Speaker 10 (59:37):
And then powering back on?

Speaker 7 (59:38):
I just I want to reach you the phone and
just choke this.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
I'll help you if you figure out a way to
do that, because I've done everything. It actually gave me
the option either forgot password or you know your password.

Speaker 5 (59:52):
But you just can't sign in.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
So I hit that and it says, okay, we're going
to send you a code to your cell phone. You
enter that code, then we'll.

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
Unlock it for you. Don't you worry. And I did that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
It's still nothing, man, It's a Microsoft issue too. It's
not iHeart it's Microsoft.

Speaker 7 (01:00:09):
I'm listening to I was listening to you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Here a couple of minutes ago, talking about the temperature
and trying to stay warm.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
Yeah, I see.

Speaker 7 (01:00:16):
I'm telling my wife this morning. You know, I said,
we did, we did.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
We were right on the verge of having a frost delay,
you know, getting the when you get up in the
high thirties and you know the sun comes out, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:00:28):
Sometimes you get a frost tolay.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
I told my wife, I said, you know, I call
the shop. They said, we don't have a frost slay.

Speaker 7 (01:00:33):
But I said, there are people standing on.

Speaker 6 (01:00:35):
The first tea right now at seven o'clock.

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
Getting ready to tee off and it's barely forty degree.
Oh it is barely forty degree. And I'm like, oh
my god. I mean, I remember the day when I
used to jump out of bed and want to do that.

Speaker 7 (01:00:47):
But I'm like, I'm about fifty degrees are above.

Speaker 8 (01:00:51):
It's kind of my number.

Speaker 7 (01:00:52):
I just can't do the forty.

Speaker 6 (01:00:54):
I can't do it at my age anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
And you know, so it but you're right that the uh,
the technology of some of these garments that we have
now versus what we had, you.

Speaker 7 (01:01:03):
Know, twenty or thirty years ago.

Speaker 8 (01:01:05):
You know, it's pretty amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
It is, and and something else. You got to take
into account that some of the people on your tea
box might be from Minnesota down here on vacation, Christmas vacation.

Speaker 6 (01:01:16):
Oh oh, that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
That, I mean, there's a lot of that this time
of the year between you know, during the holiday.

Speaker 8 (01:01:22):
School that's out.

Speaker 7 (01:01:24):
But I'm just I'm making a donut run here for
the boys. I thought i'd give you a shout out.

Speaker 6 (01:01:29):
Merry Christmas. Yeah, I like well to see buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that, Lane, I really do. Man,
Merry Christmas to you and your family as well. I'll
come see you soon.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Let's let's me and you and Faux pro get a
suffishent deal going sometime this spring.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
You got it. You got it, man, fifty degrees or better.
You got it.

Speaker 10 (01:01:48):
Man.

Speaker 7 (01:01:49):
I'm in.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Audios. That's Lane Rix. He's a head man out there
at Meadowbrook Farms, just off belt or nothing, not the Beltway,
but ninety nine there and Katie great track. I really
do like it out there. It's fun, it really is.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety don't
bother with an email because it's not working, and I'm

(01:02:11):
I've kind of I've come to the conclusion that I'm
just exercise. It's an exercise in futility until after the
show when I can really sit down and try to
hit this thing with a bigger hammer somehow, because what
I'm doing and working, yes you have something to oh yeah,
right after the show, it'll just magically come back on.

(01:02:34):
It's it's confusing because the password I use for getting
into my laptop on just for anything, just starting up
my laptop, it's the same one I use for for Microsoft,
the same one I use all over the place, and
it's it's complex enough that I don't think it's been hacked,

(01:02:56):
but I'm wondering why it won't recognize as me now.
And the problem I have is that iHeart support doesn't
recognize weekends as when anybody important is doing anything. So
it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough, but I'll
get it done. And when I do, I don't know

(01:03:17):
what I'll do. Maybe I'll put a Facebook post up
that says it's fixed, email me away. It's gonna be
like when it finally it's when it finally opens up,
I'm gonna get a boatload of them all at once,
kind of like if you if you pinch.

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
The hose and then you wait and wait, wait, and then.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Let it go and all the water comes out at once.
That's what's gonna happen to my emails, because I guarantee
you they're stacking up, and and not just from folks
listening this morning, which I greatly appreciated. I'm sorry that
we can't communicate, but just all the other stuff I get,
I'm really glad. Frankly, I got the Parks and Waldlife
Department's uh email yesterday about the bird bird flu coming

(01:03:57):
all the way down here into uh War in Galveston
and Harris Counties. And again, it doesn't just kill ducks
and geese. There are a lot of other birds will
be affected. And the best thing you can do if
you really like the birds that hang out in your
yard is make sure you don't have any damp food
out there. Make sure that whatever water feature you might

(01:04:19):
have for them is cleaned out. And they even recommend
every few days putting like a one to ten mixture
of chlorox and water just to kill anything that's in
there that might be a pathogen and start killing birds,
because once they get it, if they go from place
to place to place, there's a higher risk, a pretty

(01:04:42):
high risk actually, of infecting other birds. And like we
saw back in the eighties, man, if it gets out
of control, out of control is ugly. They're only going
back to the Oh good lord, look at me. How
late I am. I'm so sorry. Let me breathe for
a minute.

Speaker 9 (01:05:00):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the Goal with
iHeartRadio Friends.

Speaker 8 (01:05:06):
You've got to try.

Speaker 9 (01:05:06):
The conversation continues, this as the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Well, the good news is I'm not an idiot and
I didn't do anything wrong on this whole email thing, Melvin.
The bad news is I can't fix it right now,
but I might be able to get it fixed before
we end up off the air today. And what I
have found out, Oh boy, here's Captain Scott hold On.
His stuff's way more important than mine. I like this.

(01:05:34):
I like this, and I hope I hope Lane's still
listening to Regarding morning temperatures, says Scott, I saw it
posted the other day. If the temperature is below my age,
I have no interest in participation.

Speaker 7 (01:05:55):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
I like that a lot, and I'm going to consider
that now.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
That would that would rule me out on a lot
of days when actually I would be pretty comfortable because
I'm an old goat man.

Speaker 5 (01:06:07):
It would almost you'd almost have to.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Require sunscreen if you're only going to go out whin
the temperatures above my age and yeah, t shirts at
flip flops. But I like that maybe three quarters of
my age or something like that, I could. I could
set the limit there, but then I'd have to do
a lot of quick math in my head. That'd be
all right too.

Speaker 5 (01:06:29):
So the good news is this poor guy.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
I finally got a guy in it to answer the
phone on air support and he said, relax, which is
the last thing you want to tell somebody who's having
any kind of an issue like this. But very quickly
he said, you and hundreds of other people, thousands throughout
the company, but hundreds he's talked to already in the

(01:06:54):
last twelve hours or so, because we had an issue,
some sort of hiccup in the system yesterday or last night,
and now it's being dealt with. I do have to
go reset my password, but that's not the end of
the world. So if I can during the during the show,
I will. If I can't, well, then it'll be tomorrow.

(01:07:15):
But I should be back up and running, Steve, what's
up my friend?

Speaker 7 (01:07:20):
Good morning, Doug, Good morning.

Speaker 15 (01:07:22):
Yeah, I'm sitting in my duck bly and and I
haven't fired my gun. I haven't seen.

Speaker 6 (01:07:31):
But I'm combination.

Speaker 15 (01:07:32):
Kangaroo hunting too, because I'm about a mile and a
half away from my last sighting of that kangaroo.

Speaker 5 (01:07:38):
No, don't you dare, don't you No.

Speaker 15 (01:07:41):
I'm just I'm trying to help him. If if I
see it, I'll alert the lady.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
I didn't know whether you were planning on kangaroos too
for Christmas or what.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:07:51):
Let me scared a little bit, Steve.

Speaker 15 (01:07:54):
No, once upon a time I needed to work in
the oil business. I ate some kangaroo when I was Australia,
like venison, but I wouldn't shoot one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
No, I couldn't do that. There's no way. I was
just choking with you. I knew you weren't gonna do that. Yeah,
I hope they find that thing. I really do me too.

Speaker 15 (01:08:11):
I'm I'm I'm South, I cam though on the last
sighting was north. I can I got kangaroos can get
across ian but that would be, uh.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
That'd be a pretty sporty and ambitious move on the
on the part of a kangaroo that's never never experienced
that kind of traffic and that kind of noise and speed.
I bet it would. I bet it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:33):
Wouldn't try to cross.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
I ten. And that's a good thing, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:08:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:08:38):
They said it's nocturnal though, so maybe it's look across
through a culvert or something.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
We have no idea. We don't know anything about kangaroos
over here. Yeah, I know, yeah, all I all I
know about kangaroos is what I've seen on Facebook and
and Marlon Perkins and and who was that guy the anyway?

Speaker 15 (01:09:01):
Oh yeah, alligator guy.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Crocodile, Yeah, crocodile. Dundee, he knew something about them. And
then there was the guy Steve Irwin is his name,
I can't remember what his his TV name was, but
he knew a little bit about him. That's all we need.
So no ducks at all.

Speaker 15 (01:09:19):
No, I heard him like your buddy up. I heard
one volley riot shooting time.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
Wow, that was probably the last wood duck going going
out of the roost. I didn't have. On Thursday, I.

Speaker 15 (01:09:35):
Had a big old water green wing teal come in
about good.

Speaker 10 (01:09:39):
Maybe they're starting to show up.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
Yeah, I've heard the same report. Early last week.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
I got a couple of text messages and phone calls
from people who are seeing more tell generally, and this.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
Little front that pushed through here now.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
Is going to bring more birds. Sadly, I think that's
what brought that av and flu too, So.

Speaker 15 (01:09:59):
Yeah, you know, yeah, all right, I remember, go ahead,
all right. Oh, I was just gonna say, watch out
for that slew all right, take care.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
Yeah, no, kidd, thank you for the call, Steve. I
really appreciate it. Good luck with the rest of your
duck hunt.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
I got my fingers crossed.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
If you see some ducks now, really at about about
nine o'clock, I wouldn't be surprised if you start seeing
some pintails.

Speaker 5 (01:10:23):
So don't don't give up until nine thirty.

Speaker 10 (01:10:26):
Yeah, I'll be sitting.

Speaker 15 (01:10:27):
I got a nice I still got some coffee left,
so I'll put it out, all.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
Right, man, Yeah, keep me posted. Thanks a lot, sir,
you bet audios all right, let me uh yeah, let
me get.

Speaker 5 (01:10:37):
To George real quick before we go to break.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
What's up, duck?

Speaker 13 (01:10:41):
Good morning? Yeah, heard about that kangaroo getting.

Speaker 5 (01:10:43):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (01:10:46):
And and when I was a senior in that school,
we had a traveling show come through and they had
a sick kangaroo. Oh no, and they had two or
three of them. They were there a couple of days,
so of course it drew a crowd. And that is
is until you see when you really don't have an appreciation.
But that tale ure a picture a baseball bat.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
Oh yeah, you could just.

Speaker 15 (01:11:12):
Point that will yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:11:14):
Uh, phenomenal.

Speaker 13 (01:11:16):
And so they couldn't figure out what was going on
with this kangaroo. So they called Australia and said, look here,
we got this sick kangaroo. We don't know what to do.
What do y'all do? And they said, well, we'll shoot
that one and go get us another one.

Speaker 10 (01:11:35):
So I've heard this.

Speaker 13 (01:11:38):
I heard this statistic just the last day or two.
There are more tigers in captivity in Texas than there
are in the wild in the world.

Speaker 5 (01:11:48):
Well that's comforting, isn't it. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
Yeah, that's an animal that can jump from a standing
even a mountain line, could jump from a standing start
onto your garage. And I believe a tiger's got close
to that same vertical leap. Maybe I had.

Speaker 13 (01:12:11):
I had a classmate in school that worked in a zoo,
and that Carol cap cervical captain, I believe it was.
He said that thing could be thirty forty feet away
and before you could blink your eye he was on
top of him.

Speaker 5 (01:12:29):
Oh, no, doubt. They're so fast, it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
I don't want any part in that.

Speaker 12 (01:12:33):
There, No.

Speaker 13 (01:12:35):
And then there are reports in India of tigers with
a you know, one hundred and fifty and eighty pound
and i'll open their jaws jumping up ten feet.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
Yeah, they're remarkable animals, they really are. Man, and I
don't want them loose in Texas. As long as they're
behind bars, that's okay. But man, oh man, that'd be scary,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:12:56):
Barnum and Bailey brought a truckload of tigers to all
my senior year when I was sick, and they kept
that flat bed truck in the in the back of
the VD school and the cages were covered coming right
up to the edge about chest high, and the cages
were covered with the tart except for about a foot
or so at the bottom. I go after and look

(01:13:18):
at them, and their paws were as big as a
steering wheel, and they would they would stop and drop
their head and look at you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
I get shivers to this day.

Speaker 13 (01:13:31):
And you knew you wasn't nothing, But you knew you
wasn't nothing but a sandwich.

Speaker 5 (01:13:35):
Yeah yeah, And that's that animal scares me.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
Uh. A lion scares me, A grizzly bear scares me.
A mountain lion scares me and really gets my attention.
I'm ah, yeah, I don't want to run into one.
Let's just let's just not think about that, George, good golly, Doc,
that we.

Speaker 13 (01:14:00):
Had We had to have a bigger brain, or we
will wouldn't be in existence.

Speaker 5 (01:14:04):
That's for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
That we would have just been snacks man for about
half of what lives on this earth, in the water,
on the land, everywhere. All right, Doc, thanks a lot, man,
No kidding, I'll see. We gotta take a little break.
Holy Cay, I'm a little bit lately.

Speaker 9 (01:14:22):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at sports seven
ninety dot com.

Speaker 8 (01:14:27):
Now more Doug Fight.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
All right, welcome back. Hope you're paying attention to all
those all those rejoined songs. I don't have the theme.
I don't have it yet, Melvin, and I know it's
it's right in front of me. I'm sure it is,
but I can't figure out exactly what it is yet.
Seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety. The

(01:14:55):
good news, hopefully, is that in the next break at
the top of the hour, I'm gonna have regained access
to email. And I just tried to set my new
password and it told me I didn't do them both
the same because I was in a hurry. I'm watching
the clock countdown on coming back to the show. What
a pain this is. How it just shows how dependent

(01:15:19):
we are on social media, on the internet, on email,
all of these things that my generation anyway, grew up
completely without. I can't imagine anybody younger than thirty being
able to function even without their phone. They wouldn't know

(01:15:42):
how to get around, they wouldn't know how to get
in contact with people that they needed to contact. It
would just they would just be in the dark. They
literally would be in the dark, and that would be hard.
Speaking of there was a time we were talking about
fishing in colder weather now and hunting in colder weather,
playing golf, in colder weather. There was a time when

(01:16:06):
I had no problem weighed fishing in the middle of
the night.

Speaker 5 (01:16:11):
My buddies and I would we would.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
We had several places we liked to go, and we
would go out there and wade and throw black top
waters in the middle of the night, just to see
what was going to happen, and more often than not
we actually did fairly well. The reason we threw blacktop
waters is because the sky is going to be brighter

(01:16:35):
than the water, the light that's penetrating the water.

Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
There's light coming from the sky, kind of like when
I talked.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Earlier about being out there waterfowl hunting and letting your
eyes adjust. There is light if you let it get
in there. And so we would use that black top
water because the light above the water was greater than
the light below the water, and any fish that was
looking upwards to see what the commotion was would be

(01:17:03):
able to silhouette that black lure against the relative, albeit
very little relative, lighter condition in the sky.

Speaker 5 (01:17:14):
And it worked and it was fun.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
The only time we ever got concerned, and this was
a billion years ago, down at Rattlesnake Point at Redfish Lodge,
a long long time ago, a couple of guys that
I decided to make a nighttime wage off the peninsula there,
and we were a good We were well beyond the

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lights of the of the facility there, of the lodge,
and out just in dark, dark water on the on
the bay, and we heard splish, splash, splish plash, splish plash,
splish blash, splishplash, and there were a bunch of hogs
swimming across the bay. I don't know where they'd start,

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I don't know where they were headed, but it kind
of seemed to us like their path was going to
come right through us. There were three of us out there,
and those hogs seemed pointed at the guy in the middle.
I don't know. I was on one end. I don't
even remember which end, but all three of us just

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rallied around, We circled the wagons. There was nothing we
could not have outrun those things. We didn't know how
many were coming, we didn't know how big they were,
we didn't know whether, we didn't know why wild hogs
were crossing the bay, but they were, and it felt like,
for what seemed an eternity, that they were just going

(01:18:44):
to come right into our waiters and chew us all
up and kill us.

Speaker 5 (01:18:48):
And of course.

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
What you hear in the dark but can't see typically
isn't nearly as dangerous as you think it's going to be.
And that was the case this time. To the sound
kind of turned the other way. Maybe they got wind
of us and whatever, but they just went another way.
But holy cow, just for a minute or two there,

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the three of us were kind of what do we do?
What do we do? Do we yell? Do we is
it like a bear? Do do we need to yell
and make ourselves sound big? Should we just shut up
and hope they think we're pure pilings? What do we do? Man?
And yeah, that was one of the few times I've
been a little bit concerned for my own safety because

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standing out there in waste deep water, it wouldn't have
taken much to disable one of us.

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
A couple of good bites from a hog.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
And you're in the middle of the bay. You're not
running away, you're not getting away. You're just gonna sit
there and eventually sink. I guess anyway, all's well, that ends. Well,
anybody want to one up me on that? What scared
you in the woods? What scared you in the water,
and it's happy endings. Welcome here. Mine was a happy ending.

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I didn't get hurt, thank goodness. That's something else that
would scare me. I think I had another incident with
a hog once. I might tell you about it. I
can tell you real quick. I don't only have a
few about a minute left to tell you, but I'll
do it. Bow hunting once, I shitted myself up into
a little tree on this place and was absolutely nothing
was happening there. I was bored to tears. Wasn't seeing

(01:20:26):
any hogs. This is a big place that had big
hogs on it. And I finally decided I was going
to move. I come out of the tree, and as
I hopped down to the ground, it was about, I
don't know, a three four foot fall from the from
the final limb that I was able to be on.
And when I went down, I kind of leaned forward
and a couple of my arrow knocks in my quiver

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on my bow touched into the muddy soil below me,
and so I got.

Speaker 5 (01:20:53):
Mud my arrowknox.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
That's not good. I want to get it out. So
I don't know. I think I grabbed a little twig
off the ground or something. And I'm picking at these
things and being meticulous, getting all the mud off my
arrow knox. And behind me, I hear like that, and
I mean a real one, A big, big something is
behind me.

Speaker 5 (01:21:13):
This wasn't a little We ain't meeting none of that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
This is a big pig. And I turned around and
I was face to face with probably in hindsight, probably
two fifty maybe three hundred pounds.

Speaker 5 (01:21:26):
It looked like a cow with short legs.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
And it looked at me, and I looked at it,
and we had just this moment of mental telepathy in
which we agreed to turn and walk away from each
other slowly and just meet up in the woods again
some other day. And we did. But that one, that
guy had me dead to rights, just dead to rights.

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We gotta take a little break.

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
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Speaker 8 (01:22:00):
And now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
Well, I'm in. I'm in on my laptop, but not
yet on my phone. And I'm kind of hoping that
doesn't take much longer, because now it's still just saying yesterday.
But oh it's circling, it's working. Yeah, there we go.
It was just choking on all the emails I got. Okay, okay,

(01:22:29):
that's fine. Well, sorry, Gary, I'm sorry. I'm just kind
of sharing what's going on in my life. I'll be
happy to talk more about Somebody didn't like that, and
I'm frustrated in here, and I just I let it
come out and I'll try to check some of that.
Just trying to share what's going on. It happens to
all of us, so I didn't realize it was bothering anybody.

(01:22:51):
But I'm back up and running now and happy to
get back to the outdoors, happy to get back to
golf talk. Playing golf in the cold weather can be
an issue. It certainly can be, but you the main
thing is, as long as you're dressed for it, it's
not that big a deal.

Speaker 5 (01:23:08):
And I'm not gonna dwell on this.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
I'm just gonna kind of ricochet off of it because
tis the season, after all. And anytime you're kind of
complaining about playing in forty forty five degree weather, lane
me you whatever, just remember that we can play year
round here so long as we're not under frost delay,
which can really be dangerous to the turf on that

(01:23:31):
golf course if they're golf carts and whatnot driving all
over it when that grass has frost in it, and
it'll just kill it if you smush it and walk
all over it. Even But what you do need to
remember about your game during the cooler days is that
that golf ball is not going to compress the way
it does on a warm day. That golf ball is

(01:23:52):
not going to fly as far as it does on
a warm day, and you got to take that into account.
I did that.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
I think it was what two weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
We had that first pretty chilly day and I went
out and played with my friends and I but the
first three holes I had already told myself on the
way there, and I just don't forget, man, you're gonna
have to take one more club on a lot of
your especially your longer iron shot, part of your longer
iron shots. Don't forget to do that. And I'm okay,

(01:24:20):
I'll be fine. First couple of holes. I think about it,
but I don't really pay attention. For some reason, there's
just this part of my brain that says you can
overcome that by swinging harder, which every golfer in the
audience knows that's not really the great plan. You're gonna
end up making a bad swing if you're trying to
overswing to compensate for either wind or cold or whatever.

(01:24:45):
And once I finally got myself a reality check, I
kind of pumped the brakes and went back to playing
the way I should have been playing, and went back
to getting balls all the way to the pin, to
getting decent putts and not horrible putts, all things considered.

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The weather, so long as you can stay comfortable, especially
on a Sunday day like this, the weather, it's actually nice.
It just kind of makes you feel alive. PNC Championship,
pardon me, PNC Championship underway out in Orlando over at
the Ritz Carlton Golf Club. And it's a pretty pretty

(01:25:28):
fun team event, just kind of a casual thing that
I think a lot of these guys do just to
have a good time and maintain some connection to the game.
Tiger and his son are playing. They go out today
at nine forty four. I'm relatively certain all of it,
and that's Eastern time. I believe relatively certain all of
this stuff's going to be televised later in the afternoon.

(01:25:52):
Currently leading that event at two underpar through two holes.
Team immlman.

Speaker 5 (01:25:58):
It really they're just getting star so there's no reason
to just go crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
It's just a two day event, team format and mostly
family stuff. You got the coachers there, you got the
layman's there, the Trevinos, Mark O'Meara, Padrick Harrington, Gary player,
Nick Faldo, Stuart sink On, a Kasarean stam. I root
for her anytime she plays. She was nice enough, and

(01:26:23):
I've talked about it here before. She was nice enough
to give me about twenty minutes of her time when
she and I were in the same town. I doing
remote broadcasts from a very nice country club there and
she hosting a kids event at that same country club
on the same weekend, so our paths crossed, and I

(01:26:45):
actually I saw her there the first day when we
arrived on Friday, and I asked, I want to say
it probably it was either Al Farber or Michael Connor
who was producing for me over there, and whomever it was,
I asked them to go ask Honica's team if she
could do a few minutes with me the next morning
and the next morning. We set up and things are

(01:27:06):
going fine, and the show's going all along, and I'm thinking, well,
you know, it was worth a try anyway, and there's
anaka in the parking lot and.

Speaker 5 (01:27:13):
She makes a bee line.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
She walks straight over to the empty chair I had
sitting next to me, sat down and just said how
you doing?

Speaker 5 (01:27:21):
And I had materials.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Set, I had questions for her, and she was polite
enough to just sit there and talk to me for
a solid twenty minutes, two good segments.

Speaker 8 (01:27:31):
At least.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
It may have been more.

Speaker 5 (01:27:33):
Let me go talk to Bob. I bet he can
fill up some time.

Speaker 17 (01:27:35):
What's up, Bob, I'll be glad to toil up a
little time. Come on ball Melvin earlier, Mary Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
Yeah, same to you.

Speaker 5 (01:27:43):
Thank you very much for that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
I appreciate that. Bob.

Speaker 17 (01:27:47):
You know you're talking about golf balls not being you know,
compressed very well, I'm gonna say you over forty years
ago we used to play in cold weather up north.

Speaker 7 (01:27:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:28:00):
I would always do is take five or six gumballs
and wrap them in those hand warmers.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
Oh yeah, keep them just a fresh ball in the
air all the time.

Speaker 17 (01:28:08):
Huh yep. And I would rotate, but it worked good.

Speaker 16 (01:28:12):
We put them in like.

Speaker 17 (01:28:13):
A a ziplunk bag and then wrap the yeah, handwarmers
around them.

Speaker 8 (01:28:17):
In your bag.

Speaker 17 (01:28:18):
But that's a good little trick if anybody wants to
try it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:21):
Man, Yeah, going out in.

Speaker 17 (01:28:22):
That cold weather. If I had to wait, if I
had to wait till my age, I'd have to wait
till a t almost avy degree.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
So I'm not far behind you, man, Yeah, oh you're.

Speaker 8 (01:28:35):
Way behind it.

Speaker 17 (01:28:36):
Yeah. Okay, that's even too hot anymore. I'm like you though,
that's sixty five degree. You know, no wind, It's beautiful.
I love it down there in the winter.

Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
Sure I do too. I just want to share that
with the thank you.

Speaker 17 (01:28:50):
Anybody wants to have some, you know, warm up their
golf balls, that's a good way of doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
Yeah. I like that idea, I really do. Those hand
warmers are good for a lot more than just warming hands,
aren't they.

Speaker 17 (01:29:01):
Yeah, said good way ahead of time, because I used
to do the same thing. Get out in the woods,
then heat them up, and then boy, I've been frozen
down there.

Speaker 5 (01:29:12):
Yeah yeah, what a way?

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
Best sitting in a boy in a box blinder, or
even worse, a tripod sitting on a tripod waiting for
those handwarmers to warm up. Oh my god, man, And
you know.

Speaker 17 (01:29:24):
Now they have where you can put them in your boots,
which really makes it nice.

Speaker 5 (01:29:28):
You know, we're still into those yet. I'm okay, I
got good socks, I got good boots.

Speaker 18 (01:29:34):
I do too, but I don't.

Speaker 17 (01:29:36):
I don't have the rever. I don't hunt very much anymore,
especially in cold weather. I don't need to. But uh yeah,
it's something I like. I like having an electric socks.
I never did like.

Speaker 5 (01:29:49):
No, I don't like that I did at all. I
really don't.

Speaker 17 (01:29:52):
All right, but thanks you going Merry Christmas to your
your listeners also.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
And to you Bob. Thank you man.

Speaker 5 (01:29:59):
I appreciate it, buddy, all right, yeah, thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
Okay, let me click that. Take care of that, Kylie.
We're already at this break. When we get back, I'm
gonna answer Steve's question I got by email about the
Katie Prairie. And then I'm gonna keep rolling down these emails.
All of a sudden. Man, I've got, like, I don't know,
a bunch and.

Speaker 5 (01:30:19):
I will address each of them.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
If there's an outdoors question in them, they'll get a
little special attention, as they always.

Speaker 5 (01:30:25):
Do around here, all the way out.

Speaker 9 (01:30:28):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, Facebook dot Com, slash
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Speaker 8 (01:30:34):
Back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
Welcome back nine to nineteen on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. I'm so
confused by this morning scene. There's only one. There's one
that just stands out, is very obvious, but I don't
know if that's gonna be it. We'll have to figure
it out later on. So Steve sends this question about
the Katie Prairie and let me let me scroll down

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real quickly.

Speaker 5 (01:31:00):
I want to see if they Okay, this is perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
It's a good, good question, and I'm gonna answer it
the best of my ability, and I think I'm fairly
qualified to answer it. Says the question about the Katie Prairie.
I know it used to be a good place for
duck and goose hunting, and it's not so much anymore
because of development. My question is where did they go?
Where did all the ducks and geese go? Well, a
lot of them. It's not so much that they went

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somewhere else. They just well, yeah, that's kind of what
I was gonna say is confusing, so I'm not gonna
say it.

Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
What they're doing, many of them is stopping short.

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
Now. Back in the heyday of the Prairie, of the
Katie Prairie, of the in the in the prairie to
the east side of town too, all that ground over
there just almost as fabled for its outstanding waterfowl hunting
as the west side, and a lot of the east
side guys would tell it was better over there, and

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they would know what they had. I know what we
had on the Katie Prairie, and it was second to
none globally for waterfowl hunting, There's no question about it.
I've made goose hunts up in Canada, I've made goose
hunts through the Midwest, made goose hunts down here more
than I can count.

Speaker 5 (01:32:20):
And that was overall as good as it gets.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
Every place where waterfowl hunted, you get some good hunts
and some bad hunts. But down here, back then, that
was it. That was the top of the heap. And
I would include the east side on that as well.

Speaker 5 (01:32:40):
Somewhere between the Sabine River and.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
Oh gosh, how far west you want to go, all
practically to San Antonio, and there were a lot of
ducks and geese whacked every year.

Speaker 5 (01:32:52):
So here's where they went.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
While all that was going on, they were making not
NonStop trips down here, but very few stops on their
way from the nesting grounds all the way up in
the far north of North America and a bunch of Canada.
They were making their way down here. Every time there
was a north wind. They'd get up there to twenty

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five thirty thousand feet literally, that's where they can navigate
and migrate, and they catch some really powerful winds that
just kick them right in the tail and get them
down here as fast as they can get here. They
might stop somewhere in the Northwest or the Midwest. They
might not. They might stop in Oklahoma, Arkansas, any of

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the cornfields if they can find roost water. They don't
like to they're not going to sleep on dry ground.
They'll feed on dry ground, but they won't sleep there.
And nobody was messing with them on the way down.
They were just something that passed through, not unlike we
admire hummingbirds when they come through seasonally, but we don't
shoot them. So everybody just looked at the geese, looked

(01:33:58):
at the ducks. There was some duck hunting throughout the Midwest,
but not much interest in the geese. Well. As more
and more people found out that you could you could
decoy these geese with torn up newspapers, with torn up
bed sheets, them with banquet cloth. That was awesome stuff
in rice stubble. You just take an eighteen inch wide

(01:34:21):
board that was three and a half feet long and
roll one hundred yards of banquet cloth onto it, cut
one time, and you've got one hundred three foot square
goose rags. Anyway, so now everybody finds out about that.
They start taking our tactics farther and farther north, and
suddenly all this crop that's left up through the corn

(01:34:44):
belt and soybeans and everything else they grew up there, well,
these geese don't mind eating that. And then the farmers
realized that people would pay to hunt the geese up there,
and so they start leasing land. And they realize that
they have to have permanent roost water to hold those
birds as long as they can, so they start putting

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bubblers in lakes. They start doing everything they can do
up there to short stop those birds and short of
a winter when the temperature gets to about zero up there,
there's no reason for them to fly down here anymore.
They don't come all the way as far. Every time
they beat their wings, they use up energy, they burn calories,

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and to regain those calories, they got to stop and
eat something. If they can find enough food and clean
roost water in the Midwest to get them through winter,
whatever winter throws at them, why would they fly all
the way here now? A lot of those birds are
still flying here, especially down to the southwest side of

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town where I've been hunting with Mitchell Holder at Waterfowl Specialties.
There's a lot of snow geese down there. Not eighties numbers,
but there are a lot of snow geese down there.
And many of those birds or birds that have flown
down here for maybe a dozen or more years, maybe
fifteen or twenty years, and they keep coming back, and

(01:36:09):
they'll keep coming back so long as there's food.

Speaker 5 (01:36:12):
So long as there's food.

Speaker 2 (01:36:13):
The birds that are stopping short now in North Texas
and Arkansas all the way up through the flyway are
stopping there because they've never been down here. They're young birds.
They follow the lead of older birds to start that
tradition in their bloodline to start to shortstop and not

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have to come down here. And it makes perfect sense
if I if I pass six restaurants on the way
to another restaurant, and I'm having to pay a high, high,
high price for gas. Why am I going to go
to that farthest restaurant every year every week when I

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can just stop at the one, two, three, four restaurants
along the way that it doesn't cost me as much
to go to. They get the same.

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
Food whether they stop here or whether they stop in Arkansas.

Speaker 2 (01:37:06):
They get the same food whether they stop here or
whether they stop in Iowa. So they stop where they
can get their food, where they can get their shelter
in the form of a roost pond. And there's no
reason for him to come here. It's not that they
don't like it. Now, if we were to, if we
were to go back to producing millions of acres of
rice each winter, it wouldn't take but four or five

(01:37:29):
winters for a lot of those birds to show back
up at the at the at the at the nesting
grounds up north. Couldn't spit it out, show it back
at the nesting ground. Say hey man, we went back
to that Katie prairie. Holy cow, it's loaded with rice
again this year. They're back, they're back to full production.
Come on down with us. Yeah, there's some neighborhoods, but

(01:37:51):
there's a lot of rice, and we would see more
birds come down. I think the ducks are good indicators too,
that there's I'm not kidding you. I saw more pentails
out there hunting with Mitchell a couple of weeks ago
than I've seen in years on that prairie in years.
We might even get an extra one next year. I
think that'd be kind of fun. I'm not hesitant because

(01:38:14):
I don't want, you know, I don't want to turn
a good situation bad and by taking advantage of it.
But I will believe the biologists if they say that
the pressure on those pintails won't hurt that current population.
We've been rebuilding that thing for a long time, rebuilding
that population for a very long time, and if we've

(01:38:36):
got it up high enough where it can withstand one
more bird on a strap, then okay, let's go for it. Steve,
I appreciate this, man, I really do. I'm sure most
of you can tell that I have a passion for
that Katie Prairie and just a passion for waterfowl hunting
across the board. And I love talking about it. I

(01:38:58):
really do. Try two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. The internet email crisis
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Speaker 5 (01:39:14):
We'll take a little break here, be right back.

Speaker 9 (01:39:17):
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Speaker 8 (01:39:24):
Back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:39:26):
Nine five on Sports Talk seven to ninety. I think
maybe we play the game now. You think you've given
them enough hints, Melvin, I think I have. If one
of you dares think that you have, you have discovered
what Melvin has put together as the theme for today's

(01:39:49):
jams and jellies. Uh, and you want a shot at
winning some of the most delicious stuff you're ever gonna
put on on a on a gosh, I'm trying to
think of where you put it that ship, well, a chip, No,
it goes further than that. It goes to Venison, It
goes to backstraps of fine delicious meats. It goes to

(01:40:15):
the jelly for example. Man, next time I do that.
I'm gonna go full out and I'm gonna scramble a
couple of eggs. I'm gonna sizzle up some sausage. I'm
gonna toast some bread. I'm gonna put just a little
bit of that jelly on the bread. I'm gonna put
a little butter on the other slice. And then I'm
gonna put the the scrambled eggs and sausage and some

(01:40:39):
cheese right in the middle of that thing. And I'm
just gonna go to town. It won't last. It's not
gonna last long. I can assure you.

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
Seven seven ninety email me, Doug pick At, iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:40:52):
Gotta get to Nick here. He waited a long time. Nick,
what's up, buddy, Good morning. I'm okay, Thank you.

Speaker 18 (01:41:00):
Hey.

Speaker 19 (01:41:00):
I heard you were talking to the guy from Meadowbrook earlier.
I grew up playing golf and Katie. I played at
Katie High School, and I remember when Meadowbrook first opened.
But such an amazing golf course for the price of
it these days. I grew up on Stopping Point. I'm
not sure if you ever got a chance to play there.

Speaker 5 (01:41:20):
I did, Yeah, I did a couple of times. I
like it too.

Speaker 18 (01:41:23):
It was a tough course for a seven year.

Speaker 2 (01:41:25):
Old, I bet it was.

Speaker 5 (01:41:28):
Did you do any bass vishing at Falcon Point?

Speaker 19 (01:41:32):
I did later on after I graduated and moved out.
I wasn't a big fisher younger on as a kid,
but as I got older and ended up hunting outdoors yet.
But the lakes around the ninth hole in the twelfth
hole had some pretty good, pretty good bass from there.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
But we don't know about that.

Speaker 18 (01:41:51):
No, I wouldn't know.

Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
I didn't, I didn't just heard about it.

Speaker 19 (01:41:55):
Yeah, that's a great time. But uh now I'm on
my way out of the ranch for Christmas with the family.
But I just want to call and say Merry Christmas.
And uh I don't live in Juston anymore, but uh
i've been listening to you for about eight years and
usually every Saturday road trip.

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
Well I greatly appreciate that, honestly, I really do.

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
Man.

Speaker 19 (01:42:16):
Yeah, I sent you an email about a couple of
weeks ago of a follow buck I shot.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
Yeah, I saw that. Holy cal did I not respond?
I'm sorry, I'll go back.

Speaker 19 (01:42:24):
Okay, I just didn't know how it goes, that's all right, No, no.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
No, yeah, yeah, when you start the back and forth,
it can go forever until somebody gives you a thumbs up.

Speaker 5 (01:42:32):
That means that means we're done.

Speaker 19 (01:42:35):
Yeah, so I'm out. I'm heading out through this weekend,
all right, uh for five days and hopefully going to
try and get a cold bull elk.

Speaker 5 (01:42:45):
Nice, send me another picture if you do, holy cow.

Speaker 8 (01:42:49):
Yeah, we'll do, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
All right, thank you, Nick. I appreciate the call, man,
I really do. Bye bye, Merry Christmas your family audio.
All right, all right, we'll let him go. Let's go
catch up with Rick. What's that Rick?

Speaker 7 (01:43:02):
Hey?

Speaker 18 (01:43:02):
Yeah, there's Rick and Liberty aka Ronald Rick. You'd go
into the other show anyway?

Speaker 10 (01:43:10):
Uh?

Speaker 18 (01:43:11):
Talk about the golf balls?

Speaker 2 (01:43:12):
Yeah, that's what.

Speaker 18 (01:43:15):
Well, we can't now, but one of hell Alan Shephard
warm goes up the one that he used.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
Boy, I didn't think about that, Holy Kain. I doubt
he needed to warm them up. There wasn't anything at
stake there, not at all.

Speaker 18 (01:43:29):
Yeah, they said they showed it sailed them out of
the side over the horizon, but I've always questioned that.
And to tell you the truth, I went to school
with his daughter in Roberts Elementary and I had met
him several times, and I've always had a you know,
steaky suspicion with all these moon conspiracies about not going.

(01:43:50):
And I always wondered if if we didn't go, I
wondered if that was him trying to tell us that
he that we didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
Boy, now you're really man, you've gone through four rolls
a tenfoil already.

Speaker 18 (01:44:01):
I know, I know, I've always I've talked to people
about They've always said, huh, I don't know. So now
I'm muta tell a million people that that'd be.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
A mighty big story to have to hold.

Speaker 10 (01:44:13):
And what talk?

Speaker 18 (01:44:14):
What talking going from? You know? He set that thing
down even if he had it in his pocket, Yeah,
a pocket, all that thing you tell contemperatures in a
vacuum of two hundred and thirty degrees below ZrO fahrenheight,
the four hundred and fifty degrees above zero farenheight, that's
enough to make paper parn It is it is, And

(01:44:38):
that radiation from the sun that's not like I put
in there. Another one are putting that to a fire.
But it makes me wonder when he smacked the ball
and he wrote, I just a little kid, And I said,
how did that happen? That's a golf story. Yeah, war war,
Their golf balls up and smack it. But anyway, I

(01:44:58):
don't I don't want to get into your content.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
No, we'll find somebody. All thank you for the call.
How did we get to how did we get there?
To the moon warming? The balls up on the moon?

(01:45:20):
Oh my god, we are out of this world, out
of our minds. All right, We're still looking for somebody
who thinks they might know. And it is possible if
none of you know what that theme is, that Melvin's
just going to have to reveal it right before we
go off the air, so you'll get an idea of
how his mind works. I'm not going to just leave
you hanging. I'll tell you, or he'll tell you right

(01:45:42):
before we go out if nobody calls and dares want
to guess. But if you think you might have an idea,
even if you've only heard one or two of the
songs he's played, there is method to his madness. I
don't know how hard he's made it. I don't know
how easy it is. I don't ask before him what
theme is gonna be because I don't want to know.
I'm trying just like you guys are. But I can

(01:46:04):
tell you this, it would be well worth coming to
pick up that gift basket that he's offering if you can,
If you can figure it out, there's gonna be.

Speaker 5 (01:46:13):
One more rejoin after this break.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
That will be your final opportunity to get in and
get ready and play the game.

Speaker 5 (01:46:20):
And even if you don't want those sauces, which.

Speaker 2 (01:46:24):
You will, you can give them to your friends and
they'll they'll think you're they've got a lot higher place
on your list than they realized.

Speaker 5 (01:46:33):
Seven one three two one two five, seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
That's where you're gonna call if you figure it out
with this one when we get back. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. More of the Dog
Pike Show coming up in just a bit.

Speaker 9 (01:46:45):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, breaking sports news on
Facebook twenty four to seven.

Speaker 8 (01:46:51):
We'll get that information to them. This is the Doug
Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
I'm totally confused, Melvin, All good, no question, all good,
But dang, dang, dang, dang. I'm not sure what you've
got cooking in there, but I know it's gonna be
It'll be worth It'll be darned sure, worth the gems

(01:47:18):
and jellies that somebody's gonna win. If you've got an
idea what it is, take a swing. Just take a
swing at it. I told you from the time we
started this game that it wasn't going to be an
automatic win. Uh, like some of my games have been.
You're gonna have to pay a little bit of attention.
And I know that not all of you can listen
to every song, but even if you can just catch

(01:47:39):
a couple of the breaks and a couple of the rejoins,
you should be able to get them.

Speaker 5 (01:47:44):
Is that correct, Melbourne.

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
It's not that hard, is it. No, it's right there
in front of.

Speaker 5 (01:47:48):
It, like we're playing checkers, not chess here.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
We're playing checkers. Okay, yeah, Well they hadn't figured it
out yet. Uh, just somebody's chewing on the king what
they're doing for some reason. Steve wade in he called
a while ago at about I don't know, around eight
thirty or so and upset that he hadn't seen any
ducks to shoot at this morning. And I told him

(01:48:11):
to wait around for nine thirty the pintail flight, and
he sent me an email at nine twenty nine. Ittchy
trigger finger I've taken my safety off waiting for the
nine thirty pintail flight based on your advice. And then
at nine forty five he said back and no kangaroo

(01:48:34):
sighting yet. I tried really hard during the break to
send him a picture of a kangaroo.

Speaker 5 (01:48:39):
I almost was if I could have made that.

Speaker 2 (01:48:42):
Work at all. I was going to send him a
picture of two of them and tell him I hope
he hadn't been drinking because he might be seeing double.
I had all these great plans and great ideas that
wouldn't work because apparently the software didn't support the image
in the plain text email. I don't know. I don't

(01:49:04):
understand that. But anyway, no kangaroo picture, no more kangaroo
sightings as yet today. And I hope they do find
that little animal. And I say little. They are mean
by the way they can. They're strong, and they will
beat you to a pulp if they're given a chance.
I've seen one email or one video where a guy's

(01:49:27):
dog has been grabbed and is basically being choked out
by a kangaroo and he's not going to let it.
And this is about a forty five to fifty pound
dog and he's not going to let it get killed
by that kangaroo. And he just jumps right in the
middle of it and peels that kangaroo off of that dog.
The dog disappears as fast as it can get out

(01:49:49):
of the frame, and this guy takes takes a couple
of licks from the kangaroo. They can support their body
weight with that tail, and then they've got those big
giant jack rabbit legs on top of that.

Speaker 5 (01:50:03):
It's pretty impressive. They're impressive animals.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
I had a friend who was transferred to Australia many
many years ago and participated in a couple of kangaroo hunts.
I know the kangaroo sympathizers in the audience don't like
to hear that, but they're kind of like they're edibles. Certainly,
that tail meat is supposed to be really, really good,

(01:50:26):
and I'm sure other parts of a kangaroo would be delicious,
just as beef and white tailed deer and such are.
But I don't know that. I don't know if i'd
eat a kangaroo. It's just it's too close to something
that kind of looks like a pet to me. And
I know they're big, wild animals that run all over Australia.

(01:50:47):
But that's just just not my cup of tea. Same
with big cats. I'm not a fan of taking out
big cats. We have do we have one more break?
Am I running? Later? Am I early? Where? Am I
right on time? Okay? So just keep rolling? One more brakes?
We do have one at the turn break at the
top where we wrap up what bottom bottom of what?

(01:51:10):
Get Mark on the phone. We'll let him figure it out,
all right? Seven one, three, five, seven nine. Now I
do have time, I know for a couple of more calls.
I just thought maybe yeah, No.

Speaker 5 (01:51:19):
We're good.

Speaker 2 (01:51:20):
Yeah, we we're headed round in third and headed home.
Summary time. I guess if you will talked about a
lot about the prairies.

Speaker 5 (01:51:28):
Well, let me get some mark and then I'll yeah,
oh do we now?

Speaker 2 (01:51:32):
Mark? You think you know what it is? Don't tell
me it, don't tell me, don't tell me. Okay, hold on, Melvin,
you have to play the official stuff. Are you not ready? Melvina?

Speaker 20 (01:51:50):
Now a taste of Melvin's Chams and Jelly's on the
dunk bike shoulders, deliciously spread for you by Ross River
Provisions locally me gor Met Jams, Jellies and sauces for
all occasions.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
All right, if we had a drum, roll, If I
had a drum, i'd roll it.

Speaker 15 (01:52:11):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:52:11):
You're you're all the way over in Georgia, aren't you?

Speaker 8 (01:52:14):
I sure am, sir?

Speaker 21 (01:52:16):
Okay, well, I have to say I have to listen
to you because it's such a beautiful thing going into Christmas,
because it's a tradition like none other. And I appreciate
you so much in Melbourne as well.

Speaker 4 (01:52:30):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
I can tell you this that I know Mike well
enough to know that if you win this thing, if
you pull this off, then he'll he'll ship you those
gems and jellies. I promise I'll make that. If I
have to pay for the postage, we'll get them over
to you because I know you'll enjoy them. So for
all the jelly they've got in the basket.

Speaker 5 (01:52:50):
What do you think the theme was today?

Speaker 10 (01:52:53):
Okay, so I have to go by the two that
I know.

Speaker 21 (01:52:57):
The first song, Black Betty was done by a band
called jam Jam, and the last one with Bob Barley
is Jamming with You. What I happened to say is
Melbourn is the subject for today.

Speaker 7 (01:53:12):
Jam It sure is.

Speaker 5 (01:53:14):
Jollle you had me.

Speaker 2 (01:53:16):
I had no idea. However, what did you do? There
was one jelly? Was there?

Speaker 5 (01:53:21):
What was that one that was jelly? Roald Martin? Oh okay, yeah,
well that's over my head.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
All right. Well, Mark, i'll tell you what. I'm gonna
get Melvin to get your address, and I will let
my Mercado know that you'll be looking for those things
and we'll make sure that they get bundled up and
sent out.

Speaker 5 (01:53:40):
He ships stuff all over the country.

Speaker 2 (01:53:41):
I'm sure that little basket he'll put together for you
will be wonderful.

Speaker 10 (01:53:47):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 21 (01:53:49):
And again I appreciate you, guys, because for every year
that Christmas comes around, I always listen to you think,
and you've always been so thoughtful to the veterans and
so thought to the hospital and so forth. I just
love you, guys, and thank you so much. I consider
myself still a Saxon because of you.

Speaker 6 (01:54:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:54:11):
Yeah, your family. You're definitely family, Mark, no problem at all. Man.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, and keep an eye
out for your mailbox there.

Speaker 21 (01:54:20):
All right, will so much, and thank you guys so much,
and let's all have a great safe Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
Amen. We'll see a letter Mark, well done, thank you audios.
All right, that was pretty good right there. I'm glad
you did that mail because I almost hit the drop button.
Came real close. I did. All right, good, everything's good Mark.
Mark's a great guy. He moved to Georgia several years
ago and has been listening ever since.

Speaker 5 (01:54:49):
I'll get random emails.

Speaker 2 (01:54:50):
From him at least three or four month Yeah, I'm
listening this morning, and what's going on? Or I have
a question, whatever it is. But I'm so glad to
be part of his weekend routine and all of yours,
and going into the Christmas season, I wish I could
just give you all a gift of some sort.

Speaker 5 (01:55:12):
I don't know what that would be.

Speaker 2 (01:55:13):
I don't know how to cover all the bases that
we cover here with one thing, except, of course, maybe
jellies and jams. Those are all. Those are universal delights,
I would think, and Brass's Forever Provisions does a fantastic
job of putting those things together. It's worth a definitely
worth a look at the website Burprovisions dot com. And

(01:55:34):
if you're out Rosenberg Way, it's only gosh, that's only
twenty minutes from my house. I told Mike, I'm going
to get out there pretty soon, maybe on the way
home from this duck hunt I've got coming up, because
I'll pass right by there, and I do want to
see the place. I was kind of laughing with him
the other day. He said, we're not some giant, stainless steel,

(01:55:57):
monstrous vat of jellies and jams and sauceays, We're just
kind of a little family run company. I said, that's
what I want to see. I want to see what
makes Brass River Provisions what it is, and a lot
of that's just that homemade touch that he and his
wife I believe works with him out there, and whoever

(01:56:18):
else he's got working in there putting all that stuff together.

Speaker 5 (01:56:22):
Whatever they're doing, they're doing it right.

Speaker 2 (01:56:23):
Because everything I've tasted so far has been absolutely delicious,
and I gotta hunt. You guys will agree with me.
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:56:31):
We're rapidly winding down.

Speaker 2 (01:56:33):
I will be back here tomorrow, by the way, I
will be back here tomorrow, and then after that I'm
out all the way until January the second. Melbourne is
going to take care of next weekend with some segments
from some of the shows we've done recently, Will Melbourne
will take care of fifty plus while I'm out, and
he does a fine job of that. And moving forward,

(01:56:57):
we'll just keep going. I don't know how many shows
I've done of this show, of the Doug Pike Show
since I started here, but I do know that just
in nine years, I think it is nine years of
fifty plus and only a year or so of doing
it daily on Thursday or Tuesday through Friday, I've got

(01:57:20):
more than seven hundred and forty episodes of that show
on podcasts. So if you're looking and just go look
and you'll find some subject you'll like and want to
hear about. Same with this one too, Melvin, would you agree, Well,
I have a homework assignment for you, Melvin. See how
many episodes we have on podcasts. I sure, I'm kind
of curious. That'll work. All right. That'll wrap it up
for today. If you can't join me tomorrow because you're

(01:57:42):
traveling or hunting or playing golf or whatever, thanks for
listening today. I will be back. Like I said on
the second, stay safe, stay happy, and have a wonderful,
wonderful Christmas. And if you can be back tomorrow, we'll
do it all over again. Then thank you so much,
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