Bow Hunting Season Continues

Originally aired on October 4th, 2025. On this episode, Doug interviews Wayne Arrington, President of Arride Bikes, to discuss how incredible an e-bike can be for your outdoors experience. Doug also talks about Washington DC challenging a gun-related state law in Hawaii, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's doug bike. All right, let's tee it up,
shall we? Saturday morning? Oh goodness, what is all this
on this screen? I think I hit about two dozen
xes and I'll make all this goal away. I can't
even see my little phone screener thing. Now I can, though,
I'm set fully one hundred percent Saturday. It is second

(00:20):
weekend of the bowseason, and I'm hearing some pretty good things.
And you tell me if you're not seeing deer. It's
been so warm they're not gonna move a whole lot.
But once we get another good snap of cooler weather,
I think these these big old bucks will start moving around,
and the does will start moving around, and Darry will
start hitting the ground, and then we'll just, one by one,

(00:43):
all the new seasons are gonna start keep these things
coming to I love the pictures when you guys send them.
I'm especially fond by the way of really big, clean
eight point bucks. I got one myself years ago on
a on a big hill country place. Actually lends Burton
Will on that trip with us, and or I was
with them. I guess I was kind of the I

(01:06):
got an invitation to join a bunch of really good
people and a big group of good friends, and they
allowed me into their inner circle for that weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
It was a blast. It really was.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
If you also love those giants, more power to you.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm so proud of having one myself.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
That one. I took it on that hunt with Lance,
and it actually came from out of the truck. Uh
there were the guy who owned the place was trying
to take out everything but ten's and better, and I
was lined up on one. We stopped and we were
glassing the edge of some woods and he said, there's

(01:48):
a pretty good one right there, and I'm looking at
it through my scope.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I was.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Five seconds from pulling the trigger, and he said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait what that's a good looking at it. I really
that's what I was out here trying to get. And
he goes, no, look about ten yards deeper into the
woods off his left shoulder.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
That shit was off his right shoulder.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
And I did. I moved the scope a little bit
and his eight pointed big brother was back there a
little bit deeper in the woods, and and that's that
was the last thing that deer remembered. Really look good
looking animal. They are big eights for me. Are like that,
the ogs of white tail deer. They're the original gangsters
of white tails. They're the ones that have got enough.

(02:33):
A big eight has got enough antler mass to take
on even bigger tens and twelves maybe. And they don't know.
You got to remember, they can't see what's on their
what's on their heads. They have no idea what kind
of rack they got. But those eights, I think are
the They're the they're the thugs, they really are. I've
seen a lot of really giant bucks, not a lot,

(02:55):
but a couple that have been taken so far this year.
And once they get out past a certain size, a
certain mass, a certain number of points and whatnot. And
I don't know where that number is really for me,
but they tend to start looking somewhat grotesque, and that
an unnatural. It almost looks like it's a major burden

(03:18):
for the animal to be carrying around all that bone
on his head.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
So those aren't my favorites.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
But if they are for you, if that's the ones
you like to go after, by all means, go after them.
We're very fortunate in Texas to have just a staggering
number of white tail deer. We count our white tail
deer in the millions, and we have to take we
have to take several hundred thousand a year just to

(03:45):
keep the population for becoming so great that it threatens not.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Being able to get enough food.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's that old carrying capacity phrase, which means that the
carrying capacity of the land is how many animals it
can support without supplemental feeding.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's what's your play.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
If you got a ranch, get one of the county
biologists to come out there, Get one of the Parks
and Wildlife Department biologists to come out there and take
a look at it and see what native, what deer
food grows on the place naturally, and what doesn't. More importantly,
and you'll get an idea of about how many deer
your place will support. And I think there's a lot

(04:23):
of people who have manicured their places, let's call them
medium sized places, manicured them to make them look prettier,
look a little bit more like the law, and they
have at their home, at their house back in town.
And unfortunately, that takes a lot of food for deer
away and limits the number of deer that can be

(04:43):
actually healthy and hearty on that place. I didn't get
started into deer season or into deer hunting until I
was a young adult, actually, but I fell in love
with it. And I probably haven't shot as many deer
as some of you have, but I put in a
lot of hours and learned from from some of the
best in the business. Probably the best ever that I

(05:05):
got to hang out with would have been Bill Carter.
I can't think of anybody else who taught me more
about deer hunting than Bill Carter. And I don't know,
I don't know why he gave me so much of
his time, But several times we rode around that som
burrito in the feed truck and he would he would
point things out that I hadn't. He'd point things out

(05:25):
a minute before I saw him, or he would let
me miss something and then pointed out to me as
we drove away from that spot. You saw these dos
out in the road, but you didn't see that big
old buck behind them in the brush. Didn't see that
big buck in the shadows or wherever it was. And
the more I learned about where big bucks by big,

(05:48):
I mean older bucks. Older bucks learn a lot from
the mistakes of their peers. And yeah, there was just
so much. It was just fascinating was sitting in that
truck and listen to him and watch as we because
the sarm Burrito is a very unique and beautiful place,
and it's got a lot of deer on it.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's got a.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Really good, strong herd of native Texas deer, and they
they have so much room to run. It's not like
you're hunting in a food plot. I mean this thing
that ranches five figures of really rugged natural South Texas brush.

(06:30):
Got the mesquite, got the prickly pear, got everything, got
the snakes, It's got everything. Got big indigo snakes too.
I've seen a few down there, beautiful place, and riding
around there with so many deer to observe, and sitting
in stands with so many deer to observe, you pick
up a lot about their behavior. This was so fascinating,
so fun to be down there. Holy cal every one

(06:52):
of us in Texas really is just so fortunate to
be hunting a state that's got literally millions of deer.
Like I said a minute, go we shoot as many
white tails in a season just to keep the population healthy.
We shoot as many deer as there are deer all together.
In several states in this country, and oh, by the way,

(07:15):
they are delicious. And our season is longer than most too.
There are a lot of places only get a couple
of weeks, maybe three weeks of deer season split once,
and what we get is a season including MLD starts,
including youth only hunts, including muzzleloader, and just all the

(07:35):
frills and the bells and the whistles that are attached
to white tail deer season. Depending on how the calendar
falls each year, many years there are open deer days
that touch six months on the calendar, start up in
like the last day of September and run right into September, Ocober, November, December, January, February,

(08:02):
and that's and there are days in those months. A
few of those months it's wide open all month long,
but a few of them only have a couple of days.
But nonetheless that counts. And there aren't a whole lot
of states that can talk about a six month dear season.
I love living here. I just do it. I don't
know why I would. I've thought about moving when I retire,

(08:26):
and I don't know why I would, except just to
get away from the big city. I would prefer a
little more rural setting. I would prefer to have a
little bit of dirt that I can play on. I'm
not looking to I'm not going to try to buy
a giant ranch. But what I would do is get
someplace that's out closer to that kind of land and

(08:47):
maybe share a big, old giant pasture with several other
people who have smaller pieces. That's how it's all being
sold down any day as small pieces. But if you
throw a feeder out back, and maybe we spread some
stuff on the ground for him, they'll come through there
and hang out. That'd be fun just to watch them.
Fun just to see all those deer coming through there

(09:09):
on the other side of that beach. Water kind of
chopped up for the last couple of days. I looked
at the surfcam picture or not surf cam, but what
is it saltwater recon picture yesterday late afternoon, not picture
but video, and it was bumped up pretty good. The
water color was good about from about one hundred and

(09:31):
fifty maybe two hundred yards out, probably about past third sandbar.
Maybe it greened up real good. And there were some
bunch of people on the end of the jetties out there,
probably catching some trout, but it was just really blowing
and nasty and choppy. And it's supposed to keep that
up for four or five days. Northeast and east winds,

(09:52):
mostly northeast, some of the some some.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Close to pure east.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
But the velocity that the wind speeds sixteen to twenty
miles an hour. And you know, if you've lived here
long enough, and if you fish the coast long enough,
you know that when it says eight to ten, it
means eighteen, and when it says sixteen to twenty it
might be thirty thirty five miles an hour gusting down
there by the time the sun gets up. Good today

(10:19):
just always is that way. It's not going to do
anybody any favors inshore, and well maybe just I wouldn't
advise going off shore today unless you got a bunch
of boat under your feet. It's going to be a
pretty bumpy ride, and it's not going to get any
better for.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
About three days, maybe four.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
By the way, I woke up this morning speaking of
wind and weather, and I looked at the National Hurricane
Center map, and for the last four or five days,
that little orange blob, well I say little. The first
time they put that blob on the map, it was
bigger than the Gulf of Mexico. And why they do that,

(10:58):
I don't know. It just it makes it looks like
every little wine, every little thunderstorm out in the Atlantic
Ocean is gonna be doomsday because they just put these big, giant,
colorful things on there to scare you. I guess. I
don't know why. But I looked again yesterday, and I
looked the day before, and I was watching this thing

(11:19):
and it was trending pretty hard like it was gonna
dump into the Gulf of Mexico and be a problem
for somebody. It's not gonna be that big, obviously. That's
just that's kind of the scope of where it might
go under any possible circumstances. They haven't tightened that one
up yet because it's just too early to tell. But

(11:39):
this morning it had the cone, if you will, had
shifted more northerly, like it was gonna miss us. Hang on,
I'm gonna go take a little I'm gonna confirm real
quick before I open my big mouth, and it is
where is that darn thing?

Speaker 4 (11:57):
What?

Speaker 1 (11:57):
I don't like the way this new setup is on
these on these laptops of ours. I can't. I can't
take one thing off of a tab and put something
else on it. I have to open a new tab
to get get what I want to get, and it's
a bother.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Now, this thing looks like it's going to track more
more northwest as it gets into the Atlantic Ocean a
little bit farther, and there's a second X.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Good heavens now what oh? I like this part.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
There's a second X just right off, just due south
of Louisiana and south southeast of Galveston. It's out there
pretty far, several hundred miles. But nonetheless, I scroll down
and look long enough, and you see development of this
system is not expected due to strong upper level winds.

(12:48):
Thank you, upper level winds, Thank you very much. All Right,
we're gonna take a little break here. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety is the phone number.
Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'll check
that during the break, and at eight o'clock. By the way,
I'm gonna interview a new member of the family, a
guy named a guy named Wayne Errington who owns a

(13:08):
ride bikes up in Tomball. These are electric bikes. These
aren't the kind you have to pedal. Well, you can
if you want to, but you don't have to. And
he's got a new one he wants to talk about,
and we'll kind of talk about some of the others
and find out what improvements have been made in them
since a while back. El Kubono's Cigars. This is Manny

(13:30):
Lopez and his crew down there in Texas City. They
are one of only about four dozen cigar manufacturers in
the whole country, and we happen to have one right
there in Texas City where he's got a smoking lounge
and he's got and he's got another one in League City.
So if you like cigars, if you want to enjoy

(13:50):
a good cigar, maybe make some new friends, watch a ballgame.
The next poker game that breaks out at one of
these won't be the first, that's for sure. Or buy
cigars for yourself and maybe for gifts. One of the
cool things that Manny does, pardon me, since he's a manufacturer,
is custom banding. He built some cigars for us with

(14:14):
the iHeart logo banded onto the cigars, and he can
do the same for you. Whether it's a charity tournament,
whether it's a promotion for somebody, whether it's somebody's retirement party,
whether it's you name it. If you've got a special occasion,
you're gonna have a bunch of cigar smokers. Get Manny
to build some cigars especially for that occasion. Or he

(14:34):
can even come out, put up one of those little
canopies and a six foot table and a couple of chairs.
He'll bring some fresh tobacco and actually roll cigars for
you and your guests. While you guys are having all
the fun, he'll be sitting there rolling cigars, which is
fun for him too. One hundred and fifty different kinds.
Really really nice guy. You can go down there and
buy all the cigars you want anytime at either one

(14:55):
of those lounges, or you can get on the phone
and just go to the website for fure out exactly
what you want and then get on the phone and
get Manny to build them for you, and he'll ship
them right to you. He ships out hundreds, if not
thousands of cigars every day. Elcoubano Cigars dot com is
a website. Elcoubano Cigars dot com. All right, if you're

(15:17):
gonna start playing good songs. You're gonna have to, You're
gonna there's gonna be a contest between you and you
and Frankie at some point. I don't when. Yeah, you're
you're one up on him today. By the way, Frankie's out.
Where did he go? He was going somewhere for like
two weeks?

Speaker 4 (15:32):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (15:33):
I think he has back to back weddings. Oh that's right. Yeah,
he's in that age group. So are you? So just
be ready. I'm just out of that age group, thankfully.
You think you are feels like the ones that the
ones that never should have done it in the first place.
We're going. We'll be going through round two before you
know it. All right, let's go talk to George. See

(15:55):
what's on his mind. George, what's going on?

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Man?

Speaker 6 (15:58):
Hey guys. Yeah, I've been stuck at vintav Hospital with
my doctor right now, and yeah I've been here for
three weeks. But when I get out, I'm gonna take
that much of you.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
A break in the wood, hold it down.

Speaker 6 (16:13):
Yeah, it's in rough and it just has the story.
But I'm going to go to a little fish upon
It's got snapper catfish, and I think some kind of
other white fish, barbecue.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Have corn.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
You know you want to do something outdoors, don't you.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
I do, And I'll I got a bunch of tests
that starting four. But then I'll go to the hospital.
I mean, I'm sorry. I'm going to hospital first doctor. Okay,
then I'm going home and you know, hots was care.
But I have my I'm gonna buy the house.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
So I'll be good.

Speaker 6 (16:49):
But my question is, it's been like twenty years since
I fished first, So I do my little ones. They
fight and I can't.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
So I used to.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
When the Rockets lost the Simmons in the eighty state, Yeah,
I was there couching catfish, but didn't hurt.

Speaker 7 (17:07):
They hit.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
It's been sitting that long since I'll fish. I'm gonna
buy a pole, string it up. I just mean to
know how you stringing up and learn like you have
a resource.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah. The good news, George is the fish haven't gotten
any smarter since you quit. Okay, there's tail dumbest stumps
if you take care of them.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Where are you fishing? Where is this little pond of yours?

Speaker 6 (17:32):
That's how Joyavar parked and water?

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Oh okay, yeah, I know exactly where that is.

Speaker 6 (17:37):
Yeah, it's a na so change.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, what I would what I would, what I would
recommend by yourself, just a just a run of the
mill fishing rod with a reel on it and a
little bit of nice line, and get yourself go ahead,
and if you want, especially if you like eating catfish,
go ahead and target them, because they're pretty much the
hungriest and the easy is to fool. And then I

(18:02):
would just I would figure out where you want to fish,
where you can put a chair, where it'd be in
the shade, in the afternoon shade or whatever. And then
I would buy a bunch of corn and canned corn,
and I would soak it in vanilla extract, and I
would throw two big handfuls out in front. And then
oh yeah, bat them up, man, bait them up. They'll

(18:24):
come to you. You don't have to sit there and
wait for them to swim all the way around the
lake looking for something deep. You put that chum out
there and they'll come to you and you'll almost certainly
catch enough to fill a frying.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Pan and more.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, well.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, on all that stuff's gonna work, George.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Okay, but if you're using that corn and I use
these I call them kale hooks. Some some people call
them collie hooks. They're kind of they look kind of
like a boomerang. You don't even have to set the hook,
you know, you don't have to have any kind of timing.
You when you see that line start to tighten up,
just hold the rod and lift it and lightly slowly

(19:06):
and let the line come tight and then just start
reeling and that hook will go right into the corner
of the fish's mouth. You don't even have to worry
about missing him on the strike. You're gonna catch him.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Man.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
And is there he did to my homemade targe sauce.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, baby, yeah.

Speaker 7 (19:23):
I would.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
If the water's more than about four or five feet deep,
I'd fish at least one rode on the bottom, and
then I'd take another one and put it about halfway
down on a cork and just try to figure out
where in the in the water column those fish are.
But once they find that corn on the bottom, they're
all gonna be on the bottom and you might catch
a big carp you might catch some panfish.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
There's all kinds of stuff that'll eat.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
That corn, and it does steak. It's not messy, none
of that stuff. Man, I'll take a take a picture
and send it to me. I want to see the
before and the after. The before is when you're at
holding up the fish. The after is when there's nothing
but a couple of little bones and a tail left
on the plate. All right, all right, get healthy and

(20:12):
get strong enough to catch a big old catfish, because
you're gonna get one.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
Oh I'm ready to go back to Titchi.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
And oh man, that's a that's a good, lofty goal.
I'm glad to hear it. Thanks George.

Speaker 6 (20:25):
It's out in TikTok payments. But okay, I have a
good one.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
All right, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Oh man, that guy, I don't know what he's been
through in the hospital, but it sounds like he's he's
right toward the end of it, and he's he's gonna
he's got a lot of things he wants to do,
got a lot of things he wants to do. I
can't emphasize enough how much easier it makes fishing, whether
you're whether you're just getting back into it after four

(20:54):
or five years, like George, or you've got kids you
need to take fishing and you want to make sure
they get some bites. All of that stuff. Start start
with trying to catch smaller fish with smaller hooks, because
there's a whole lot more little fish out there, and
the only way they'll ever get big is if they
just eat ed. Eed'd eat all day long, and you're

(21:14):
happy to accommodate them. The corn is a little bit
tough with with bluegills and red ears and green sunfish
and all of those guys, because they are they are pickpockets.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Man.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
They will slurp that bait right off that hook. And
there's another way you can go target those still chumming
with the corn, But to actually catch them there would
be a different strategy. But when you're talking about those catfish,
when I used to do that stuff with my son routinely,
after about maybe thirty forty five minutes of throwing a

(21:47):
little bit of chum and then keeping baited lines in
the water and maybe throw a little bit more chum.
After about twenty thirty minutes, you'd catch one of these
catfish and look at its belly and you could see
the imprints of corn kernels inside that they're so stuffed
and you can feel the corn in their bellies. They're
just gorging themselves on this stuff, and they don't know it.

(22:09):
When a hook's in one of them, they just gobble
it up like the last one, and then low and
behold they get yanked right out of the water.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
I get fired up when somebody's going fishing for the
first time in five years, whether it's a five year
old or whatever age George is, because he's gonna get
that excitement. He's gonna get that fun back, and just
in multiples of however much effort he puts into it.
Most of these lakes around here around the Greater Houston area,

(22:38):
they do have fish in them, And of all of
them that have fish, almost every one of them have
mostly catfish.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Catfish are really hardy.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
They can live through cold, they can live through heat,
they can live through low water. They flourish when the
water's up and things are getting washed into the lakes,
and catch them right along the shorelines. Then I've caught
out where I'm fishing in the Golf Club Lake, golf
Course lakes, I've caught as many catfish on Spinner base

(23:11):
as I have bass. Almost when, especially in the spring,
they get right up on that shoreline. Man and guy,
you could just wear them out. Still still mourning the
loss of thousands of fish out there too, in one
particular lake. Thank goodness, it's all by itself and doesn't
feed into any other water on the property.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'm convinced now that it.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Was a pesticide or not pesticide, but a herbicide that
was used to knock down some of the vegetation around
that lake lake, and I think over used, unfortunately, and
that's what that's what became the demise of several thousand fish,
enough that they had to get boats out there to
get the fish out because they were stinking up a place.

(23:53):
It didn't you know. It was interesting because some of
the guys who play out there regularly were talking to
me about it and saying, man, and it just stinks
to how heaven, it's so horrible out here. I can't
stand it. I don't even know if I can play.
And I'm thinking, you know, it just to me, it
just smells like a bake camp or someplace where maybe
down wind of a cleaning table, not even on a

(24:14):
hot day where something's been out there all day. It
wasn't that, it wasn't that off putting or unpleasant. But
then again, I spent a lot of time around the water,
and those are just those smells bring back good memories
for me. If I just close my eyes and smell that,
I'm not even realizing there's a about five hundred dead

(24:34):
blue gills in front of me. I'm just thinking that
smells like some something to do with fish, and anything
to do with fish makes me happy. Saegleb Break. America's
shooting centers is getting kind of busy these days. We
are fast approaching the opening of rifle season for whitetail deer,
fast approaching.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Approaching the duck and goose seasons.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Fast. They're all coming at US freight trains right now.
Quail season, everything season is about to open up. And
if you don't have your guns dialed in, if you
don't have your shooting eye polished up and seeing clearly,
you better get out there to America and take care
of business. They've got more than two hundred shooting stations
out there, so just bring all your guns and you'll

(25:19):
be able to go shoot one of them at least
somewhere on that property. Rifle and pistol from five yards
to six hundred yards. They've got a pop up silhouette
range for rim fire shooting. Keep the kids out there
shooting all day for not a whole lot of money,
which is good if your kids like shooting as much
as mine does. They have got three sporting class courses
thanks to Edorigi, the owner who took over about I

(25:41):
don't know about eight or ten years ago. Now I
think and is I consider him a world class He
would say otherwise, but I consider him a world class
sporting class shooter. They've got that. They've got five stands setups.
There's a beginner's wing shooting area with slower, closer targets
and professional instruction for anybody who wants to get better faster,

(26:02):
which is not a bad IDEA Well, West tim Or
Parkway between Katie and Highway six. You cannot miss those
big burns that have been stopping rifle and pistol rounds
for gosh, the better part of close to thirty years now.
I bet American Shooting Centers dot Com is the website.
Go check it out there, American Shootingcenters dot Com seven

(26:27):
five on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show. Thank
you very much for listening. I'll see who's up there.
Let me go kick him on. What's up, Dave?

Speaker 7 (26:37):
Well, I'm out here, Porter rases. We made it out here.
I'm on the horse.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Callwell, Pierce, Oh good heaven. You're not on Lake Conrad
at all, are you?

Speaker 5 (26:47):
No? Oh? My nerd?

Speaker 7 (26:49):
Hey, I got two rods. I just rigged one up
with a hot ride.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay, kind of got a.

Speaker 7 (26:54):
Pink top to it, and uh uh yeah, it's a
it's a. It's Brazil.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
I think anybody catching any that?

Speaker 7 (27:04):
Uh now, well, a couple of guys come by, they said,
they call it a few, but yeah, probably about twenty five,
twenty five or thirty people. You know how everybody goes
and walks all the way to the end of the
tea down there, Well, I'm right here at the first
good I hadn't even choked in yet. But uh yeah, man,
I'll just kind of work my way, you know, a little,

(27:25):
a little bit at a time when you're watch her
and everything is.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Just watch watch for bait, fish, watch for you know.
I hate to be that way, but on a on
a pier, watch for bent rods. If people are catching
fish fifty yards down the pier from you, to pack
up and move, dude, Now, don't go in there and
just elbow them out of the way that you know
how to do that.

Speaker 7 (27:44):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, I see I see you a little
bit of tapping down there, okay on some of the rods.
But hey, also we got surfers out here, ten or
fifteen surfers out here. Okay. After a while, the wife
she's at the at the the bed and breakfast deal
over there, and then I'm gonna go get her, and

(28:04):
then we're gonna go down the beach and then you know,
set up the beach umbrella and all that, and I'm
going to do a little wave wave fishing.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
All right. How much How hard is the wind blowing.
It's got to be pushing pretty hard down there right now.

Speaker 7 (28:16):
Huh yeah. And right here I can't oh wait, that
is the sun rises in the east. Okay. So let's
say the sun's rising over here in front of me,
to my left, it looks like a cloud of water
coming in the front. Oh wow, I might you know
that may stir the fish up a little bit. And
I ain't worried about getting all wet. I'll just take

(28:38):
my phone and wallet and put it in my bag and.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Zip it up.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, that's a good thing to have at some play.
You know, a lot of people don't think about that,
but that's a really good thing to have tucked away
somewhere as a place to put all your stuff that
you don't want to get soaked. Right, look at the weather.
Channel'll see if there's anything. I'm gonna look at the
radar and see what's going on down there. See if
you need to run, just hang out, let me just anything.

Speaker 7 (29:05):
Not tonight. You were here it all night.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Oh lord, I got here.

Speaker 7 (29:10):
Oh you got here at three in the morning. Okay,
we got a lot of We got a lot of couples,
you know, like I guess their honeymoon and where walking
up and down the pier and all that kind of stuff.
You know.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, there's one little there's a.

Speaker 7 (29:25):
Lot of people out on the beach.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Oh well, well they're gonna be there come no matter what,
they're gonna be there. There's gonna be people on that beach.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Man.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
I'm looking at one little shower off the coast right
about where you are. Let me, let me trigger this
motion and we'll see where it's going.

Speaker 7 (29:42):
It looks like it's heading out from the east and
it's going by, you know, to my left, So that
would be what to the Yeah, from.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
The it's going to left, it's going to the left,
and you're facing the beach off Calwell Pier.

Speaker 7 (29:56):
Yeah, yeah, mosting at the sun's right in front of me,
and this cower is to my left. Oh, here's a guy.
He's surfing on his own surfboard.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Very cool. There's a whole lot going on down there now.
Most of this rain it looks like it's gonna stay offshore,
and that's what the forecasters were talking about last night
for up here around Galveston and whatnot. And even Galveston
I don't think is gonna get any rain today. This
thing's going all the way out to one o'clock. I
haven't checked the twenty four hour when, but there's nothing

(30:28):
that's gonna win at Galveston.

Speaker 7 (30:31):
And the wind over here is it's a it's clicking
a little bit. But yeah, that that's kind of you know,
that's really way far away from me. Because one of
the guys that walked by me hollered at me, Hey,
they you know, look over there, and uh, oh it
only cost me three dollars to get on the pier.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
That's nice. Yeah, that's reasonable.

Speaker 7 (30:49):
Yeah, I think they gave me the guitar days theirs.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
You know, That's what I'm going to ask more next
time I'm down there.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
Hey. And then at that place where we're staying at,
they got barbecue pits out there, and so I got
all the stuff for that. We got a couple of
tea bowl stage and I'm on marine before we go
to the men. And then later on the scevening they
got a swimming pool, movie stars and everything else.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
All right, all right, man, we'll have fun, Dave. How
long you down there?

Speaker 7 (31:20):
Uh, we're gonna be uh leaving a Sunday at eleven
heading back.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Good for you, many, enjoy yourself down there.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Give me wait a minute, catch a fish and call
me home.

Speaker 7 (31:32):
Wait. Wait, there's the guys that are next to me,
and one of them they're going fishing in the tournament
right now, and they're probably listening right now because I
told them. You know, there's another guy just got up
on a surfboard and fell off. Yeah, they're probably listening,
all right, man a later.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yeah, audios. Oh he's a hoot. Man, Holy cow, that
guy LTD. Living to dream, just going He got remarried
about what was it? Maybe not quite a year ago,
maybe somewhere six eight months ago, and.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Just got his coat tail in the wind. He and
his wife down there on the beach always.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
I fully expected him to be at Lake Conrad and
tell me about his ducks walking by.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
But that kind of took me by surprise.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
And it's a pleasant surprise for him, because I know
he likes how much he likes to be on the
water anywhere. And to get a little of that salt
water flowing through your salt air flowing through your lungs,
that's that rejuvenates me. If it was not blowing today,
i'd probably go down to surfside, but it is, so
I probably won't because it'll be blowing smack into that

(32:44):
jetty too, makes it it makes it hard to fish that.
You can go to the Quintana side if you're down there,
but it's still when it's blowing as hard as it's blowing.
He let me see what it's doing way up here.
I was looking down south more. Where's that mouse there?
It is?

Speaker 5 (33:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Oh well I don't want any part of that.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Where is this one?

Speaker 7 (33:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Freeport twenty one miles an hour out of the mostly
east Galveston jetty seventeen out of the east northeast, and
you got a fifteen, you got a fourteen. I'm going
down the beach. It's actually a little bit calmer relatively
down the beach. The high point is Freeport at twenty

(33:27):
one miles an hour, fifteen miles an hour down at
Port O'Connor, and let's go all the way to the bottom.
Why not? Oh my, how about three miles an hour
at Laguna Madre, at the North Laguna Madre station wherever
that is, I don't know, but all of the wind
values excluding excluding the port of Ramses Pier, okay, fourteen

(33:50):
out of the northeast. There everything from there south to
the border single digit wind. There's I guarantee it. Down
there on Pod Island, South Padre Island, there's gonna be
some fish caught in the surf this morning.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Holy cow, already have been.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
I'm sure the sun's been up a little while down there,
not long, but it's been up three miles an hour.
I can't it's Laguna Madre north three miles an hour,
all the way down at South Padre Island US Coast
Guard station six miles an hour. That's a banner man.

(34:27):
That's that's epic down there. That's half of what the
typical would be, not even half good. Heaven, it's usually
about fifteen to eighteen down there, all all the way
back up to about Port O'Connor. Sometimes it seems all right,
enough of that, we gotta take another little break here
on the way out, I'll tell you about timber Creek
Golf Club down there in Friendswood off FM twenty three

(34:48):
fifty one, twenty seven holes, a nice variety of holes too,
that none of them are gonna beat you up. I've
said this about timber Creek many times, and I mean it.
It's it's chap, but it's not intimidating, if that makes sense.
You'll have to hit some pretty good shots to post
a pretty good score, whatever your handicap is. But you're

(35:11):
not going to be overly penalized. You're not going to
turn a bogie into a triple bogee just because you
made one little hiccup shot. You'll be all right. And
if you're not, go back into the grill, get yourself
some of that food and just use it to wash
away your troubles.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Maybe put an adult beverage with it. If you're of age.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Got a great teaching staff too, with JJ Woods and
his crew in the academy just next to the driving range,
good place on your own, good place to hold a
big fundraising tournament if you'd like to do that, and
just good people all around. They really are. I've been
associated with and known these guys for good heavens twenty
something years now. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com is

(35:51):
the website timber Creek Golf Club dot com. I'm talking about,
you know what I'm talking of seven nine on Sports
Talk seven nine The Doug Pike Show. Thank you all
for listening. I certainly do appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. In
about ten minutes when we turn the corner on the
eight o'clock hour, I'm to bring in Wayne Errington from
up there at a ride bikes in tom Ball. I'm
looking forward to this. I got some pretty good questions
for him, I think, and and I want. What I
want to know is, uh, basically, how much more reliable

(36:27):
and dependable have these things gotten since they were the
batteries were catching fire and garages and that that was
a long time ago, that was early early in the
in the introduction of e bikes, but it's still probably
on some people's minds, and I'm hoping he can he
can talk us off that ledge and focus on the
efficiency of these things and the real value to people

(36:51):
who love the outdoors. Just think, if you're a little
bit older, for example, what my hand goes in the
air every time somebody says that or says that. If
you are a little bit older and you would love
to do a mountain hike or a love to walk
a big, long, long trail around a lake in the
mountains somewhere, or just walk from one end to the

(37:13):
other of North Padre Island. You're not gonna do it
on foot, can't make it. But if you have a
bike like that, I think I think it'd be an
awesome tool. I don't think for surf fishing up here,
because you have to wade out so far into the water,
you'd have to leave your bicycle unattended on the beach.
But down at South Padre or even North Padre Island

(37:34):
where Cliff webinar fish a few times, I could see
having that bike and just parking it and walking out
shin deep or so on the right morning, there's plenty
of water under that lure, even if you don't even
get your feet wet to catch some good fish, and
you could certainly cover ground a lot faster and a

(37:55):
lot more efficiently than having to load back into the
truck every time you wanted to move. Seven seven ninety
email on me, Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Got that
taken care of, Got that, I'll put this page. Yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna take that all the way down, by the way.
Faux Pro sent me something early this morning. If you'll remember,

(38:19):
back in April over on Smith Lake and Alabama, during
a major league fishing tournament, one of the participants in
that tournament crashed into another boat at high speed and
three people wound up dead, and faux pro sent me
the story was from CBS four and WIAT in Birmingham,

(38:42):
which the story shared that pro angler Flint Davis has
been indicted on three counts of reckless manslaughter, two countsil
first degree assault, and I think three other charges less
severe charges. A couple of civil suits filed after that
thing and wake of that crash, there's a one of

(39:03):
the participants in the tournament had a GoPro or some
other camera running just constantly in his boat to document
what he was catching, and it actually caught the impact
and aftermath of that crash, and it's it's just horrifying
to watch and so so sad to watch, knowing what

(39:24):
the outcome was. Boy, speaking of outcomes, I'm on the
way to work this morning. I'm feeling good. I'm on time.
I'm out of the house right on time, feeling good.
Let's go and I get over. I wasn't even to
Guestner yet. On fifty nine, coming in from Sugarland. I
think it was probably around Yeah, I guess it was
around the fountains that I look up.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
That's where I get on the freeway.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
And as soon as I top that first overpass, I
look and see nothing but break lights. Like, oh no,
somebody one of these high speed drivers Friday night, trying
to get home before they turned into a pumpkin knuckleheads
has wrecked out and taken somebody else with him. And

(40:08):
it turned out that there was a way for us
to get off, and everybody was doing it. We were
just kind of bailing off the freeway at just before Guestner,
and then we were able to get back on just
past the wreck, and just from the rent that gets
back on fifty nine before you get to Guestner, And

(40:30):
it worked out very well. It wasn't but maybe a
five minute delay, but you could see the cars just
there were at least two and maybe a third involved.
And before I had been on the freeway for another
mile and a half, here comes somebody else going by
me at about one twenty. I don't know what it
is that I guess maybe it's just natural selection, you know,

(40:54):
maybe these people just weren't meant to have a long
life because they're just doing stupid stuff on the road constantly.
Friday nights are about the same in the number. Friday
Friday night Saturday morning has more traffic than Saturday night
Sunday morning, but they're still about the same number of idiots.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
And on Friday nights.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
The idiots have more chances to hit somebody because there
are just more cars on the road. And if you're
driving along in a lane, there in coming up behind
you and you see them coming, just hold your lane,
don't try to get out of their way, because they're
so dumb and such bad drivers that they're liable to
just change lanes right as you're changing lanes and wipe

(41:39):
both of you out. I spend a lot of time
on the freeways and I see a lot of stuff
like that, and it really frustrates me that people are
so inconsidered of the chance they're taking with other people's lives.
It'd be one thing if there was nobody on the
road and somebody wanted to just air out their new
muscle car and see what it would do. But when

(42:01):
there's traffic, moderate traffic, when you ramp up your speed
about close to twice what the lawful limit is, you're
gonna encounter people who are doing sixty, You're going to
encounter people who are doing seventy, and you're gonna encounter
people who are doing forty or forty five. And it's
just these people's brains just aren't that way. They can't

(42:23):
function that way. They're not smart enough to get away
from the traffic and not kill somebody. I don't think
this one was a fatality. I really don't. It just didn't.
I've seen a lot of those when I've been driving
to and this didn't look that way.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
Man.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
I can't imagine trying to tow a boat to the
beach and having to having to dodge these people, or
just pray that they dodge you. That's the risk when
you're trailering something is you don't. You lack a lot
of maneuverability that you have when you're just just in
your truck or just in your suv or whatever it
is that you would normally pull a boat with. When
the boat's not back, you might be able to evade

(43:01):
something like that if you can see it coming, but
not when you're pulling a trailer. You just got to
hang on and hope they miss, and sometimes they barely miss.
And that's scared of the jeebers out of me.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
I'm not scared to drive fast.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
I don't. I'm not scared of being out there on
the roads. But what I'm scared of is people who
haven't driven more than a million miles in their lives
trying to act like they have seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. I'm gonna get out of
here now so we can get weighing on the phone
here in just a minute and talk about bicycles. Don't
have to worry about high speed collisions on them, I guess,

(43:36):
unless you go mountain biking and just cut your brake
cables on the way down somewhere. Phoenix Knives out there
in right in the middle of the little town of
Bellville's where it is, been there since nineteen seventy nine.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
It's a long time ago. Man, nice new space out there.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
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than a thousand knives available, and I'm talking about every
kind of knife, not just pocket knives, not just hunting knives,
every kind of bladed thing they have at Phoenix Knives,
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If you want a good, unbelievable custom knife for somebody

(44:14):
to give them around gift given season, coming into Thanksgiving
and Christmas and all that, you might want to get
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Cowboys of Meski a long time to make a good knife,
which it should. If he could churn them out in
fifteen minutes, that wouldn't be so special, would it. But
his work, his quality of work, takes a little bit longer.

(44:35):
And the beauty of it is he's training some people
out there now to be to walk in his footsteps
when he decides to retire someday. You can go out
there and build your own knife go out there, take
the whole family. Say hey, we want to build a knife.
Can you help us?

Speaker 2 (44:49):
They'll say yes, we can.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
They'll either say it's your turn, or we'll get you
back in there just as soon as this other family
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little knife to take home. Take a couple of knives
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All kinds of wonderful things out there, wonderful gifts for
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(45:14):
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seven ninety The Duckpike Show. Thank you for listening. Well,
I missed by thirty minutes. I thought we were talking away,
and at eight Brett called him. He was at breakfast.

(45:38):
It was eight thirty. And now that now that Brett's
telling me that and I'm hearing it, I remember eight
thirty Saturday, Brett. It's in my calendar over on my desk.
Eventually we're there now, you know, we're Yeah, it's better
than it was supposed to be. Seven thirty and he
left town. That wouldn't have been good, not at all.

(45:58):
He's are you ready? Oh gosh, ugh, okay, now I'm back.
So here's something I found that was pretty interesting as well.
Up in Washington, DC, the Supreme Court is going to
review a challenge. This is all Second Amendment stuff Hawaii.
He's got a law right now that prohibits anyone from

(46:20):
carrying a handgun onto private property that's open to the
public unless they have the owner of that property's express consent.
In other words, that covers grocery stores, it covers some
private parks, It covers a lot of places, shopping malls,

(46:40):
things like that, where we've seen on the mainland here
instances where it really mattered that a civilian was armed
so that they could stop the threat of someone who
was bent on shooting up a mall or a church.

(47:01):
And I think that I hope that the Supreme Court
rules that that rule can be relaxed a little bit
to somehow some way allow people who have state approved
concealed carry permits to go ahead and carry a weapon
into that place because the people who have these permits

(47:23):
have been vetted, have been checked out to make sure
that they are not a threat to people, and in
fact are probably the most qualified in any group to
stop an imminent threat. I don't like the idea of
not being able to defend myself or other people like
we can here in Texas, and like has happened many

(47:45):
times in Texas. Back in twenty three, the Supreme struck
down in New York law. By the way, I remember
this case pretty vividly, that it required people who wanted
a special carry permit, Okay, they wanted If you wanted
a carry permit in New York City or actually in
the whole state of New York, you had to basically

(48:08):
prove to them that you needed one, that you had
some special need to defend yourself.

Speaker 8 (48:17):
I e.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Maybe you're a jeweler and you're carrying samples of your
work from place to place. Maybe you're a courier for
some private security company and you're picking up money, picking
up cash from small businesses, whatever it was. Those were
the people who were usually allowed a permit to carry

(48:42):
a gun, but special need that wrapping that in quote
stood in the way of everyday people like us who
were just fearful of walking the streets of New York
City alone or at night or both. It was pretty
helpful to people who carried money, but it didn't help
the average person who was gonna end up losing a

(49:05):
phone and a necklace and maybe a ring, maybe a watch,
a wedding ring, whatever, when just having that gun on
him and having a moment to produce it probably would
have spooked off somebody who was about to hit him
with a screwdriver or a knife or a hammer or whatever.

(49:26):
How do you prove that you need a gun up
to the exact time a thug pulls one on you,
and then it's too late. That the defense has to
be proactive, not reactive. It should be proactive and not reactive.
You should be confident that you can defend yourself when

(49:46):
you put your when you have to put yourself in
harm's way and the streets of New York City now,
and even worse, if Mom Donnie wins that election, that's
a dangerous place. And if the bad guys know you
can't get a gun without a permit, then guess who
they're coming after. That's just crazy. It really is. I

(50:07):
don't understand states that are are so willing to put
their own citizens in harm's way, and that's all they're doing.
They know they're doing it. They do when they pass
laws like that, they know exactly what they're doing. And
the pitch they make is just give them what they want.

(50:28):
Just give them what they want. Let your insurance cover it. Well, no,
your insurance isn't going to cover most of that stuff
for starters, And if you get robbed a second time,
you'll never get insurance again on your personal property. It's
just it's crazy. We're not a we're not a society
that allows people to just take your stuff and you're

(50:49):
supposed to just lump it. No, we're especially here in Texas.
If you want to take my stuff, you better come
ready to take my stuff, because I'm not gonna I'm
not gonna put up with that for very long. Seven
one three, two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I think it's horrific that that

(51:11):
politicians who have security around them almost any time they
leave the house tell us that we don't need it,
We don't have to worry about that our streets don't
have any crime on them. Well, yeah, they kind of do.
They got a lot. Most major cities in this country
do so much for the gun talk for now, anyway,
I'll be back to it at some point. I bet

(51:32):
I wouldn't be surprised that all got that here.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
I got this here. I'm gonna move this over to here.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
I keep wanting to do something, by the way, on
on binoculars, and I actually have had printed out for
a couple of weeks. Now, let me see who's who's
information it was. This was from meat Eater Gear, the
best binoculars for less than five hundred bucks. It says

(51:59):
under five hundred dollars. But that's that's a poor use
of the that's use of the wrong word. You can't
put something under five hundred dollars. It's less than five
hundred dollars. Spatial versus physical or versus what's the other one?
I can't remember. I'm gonna get to that, but I
don't know if it's gonna be now. I don't know

(52:20):
if it's going to be now. I want to go
back to the safety thing too, By the way, that
boat crash, because boat crashes happen all year round. And
kind of like I'm doing with with gun safety. I'm
still waiting for a year when we can make it
through a whole summer, a whole winter, a whole spring,
a whole fall. I'll just take a full season with

(52:41):
no fatalities in the outdoors in Texas. That would be
pretty awesome. And I don't know that we've had one
in a while now. The hunting side, honey accidents have
gone way way down, and I think we had one
one year where gosh, I want to say there were
no fatalities but a few accidents. I'd have to go
back and look pretty sure we achieved that goal. I

(53:02):
just don't remember what year it was. But they're just
there's so much, so many ways that little things can
go wrong, and so many things you have to remember
as a gun owner and a gun user that you
should never allow yourself to start getting complacent over gun safety.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
I know people who have fired.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Millions of rounds, millions of rounds, and yet I've never
seen any of them make a slip up and make
a mistake with a gun. And it's just it's it's
in them, it's in their DNA. They just don't do
stupid stuff. With guns and it's it's second nature to them.

(53:44):
The guy I've talked about this before, and if you're
one of these people, I want you to pay really
good attention. If you're someone who's done a little shooting
but not a lot in your life. If you go
once a year, if you you've only shots, you've gone
on two duck hunting trips, and somebody invites you on
a duck hunting trip this year, that doesn't mean you

(54:07):
know everything about gun safety and a duck blind. You've
made it through two hunts, that's great. You didn't do
anything then, but you still don't know. It's so cliche.
You don't know what you don't know. And if something
startles you in a blind and you react poorly and
a barrel swings past a person and the dog jumps

(54:30):
on the gun at the same time, something very bad
can happen. You have to be It's just kind of
like I was talking about with security, personal security. You
have to be proactive. You have to be proactive. You
have to look around where you are in that duck blind.
You have to know where everybody else is. You have
to kind of watch their tendencies when they come up
to shoot ducks. That's a the first couple of times

(54:53):
ducks come through a spread. On a lot of my hunts,
I won't even shoot. I just want to watch everybody
else and kind of see how they look. I want
to see whether they could be a problem. And back
when I was guiding, I'll go back to that too.
And you can do this with whoever, whoever's the most
experienced person in the group, even if you don't have
a professional guide in there with you. If you're not

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one hundred percent comfortable and one hundred percent confident that
your skills are such that you're not going to make
a mistake, then find the one who is. Say hey, man,
I'd like to sit next to you, because I want
to make sure I don't make a mistake. I want
to make sure I don't hurt anybody. And it's not
it wouldn't be that you don't know anything. It's just

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that you're proactive enough for the safety part that you
don't want to learn anything the hard way. And anybody
who's in that blind who teases you about that, don't
ever hunt with him again. Anybody comes up to me
and says, hey man, I'm a little bit I'm a
little bit rusty on my gun safety.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Can I sit back here with you? Absolutely, you can
pull up a chair.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
You and I are gonna be think of Steeves all
the way through this hunt, and I'm gonna make sure
that both of us get out of here clean. I
used to, really, I really appreciated it when one of
my hunters would say, you know, I've been a couple
of times, Doug, but I'm really you know, I'm not
an expert, and I'd just pull him back there with
me for a little while and see if they were
ready to be up on that front line. Sometimes they were,

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sometimes they weren't. The ones who scared me were the
ones who, when I'd ask go, because everybody experienced it,
duck Hunt, Oh yeah, yeah, right here, look at me.
I'm mister duck Hunter. And the guy's been three times
in his whole life, and twice when he was a
kid with his dad, and once more eight years ago
when the boss asked him to go. I don't want
him up there in the front I really don't. And

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he never shoots out in the off season either. That's
not the kind of guy you want when in the
hairy part where everything's going off. Gun's going off everywhere,
dogs running through the spread, people standing up to cheer
a good shot, and you just never know who's looking
at a bird flying through out of nowhere and swinging
on somebody. Oh, I've just yapped and yapped and yapped.

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Safety matters to me. Can you tell we'll take a
break Carter's Country. Most of you who are anywhere near
my age, I'd say, if you're older than forty five
or fifty, you absolutely and you've been around here that time,
through your whole life or most of it, you do
know about Carter's Country. If you're younger, you don't know

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that Carter's Country. Pardon me, that's something in my throat.
Carter's Country's been around for more than sixty years. Made
sure I got that number out clearly. Guns ammo and
hunting stuff. It's just that's all they do every day,
Guns ammo and hunting stuff. No snorkels, no footballs, no sneakers,
no tennis rackets, just the stuff you and I need

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and want to enjoy hunting and shooting and being outdoors.
They've got a full full service range at the tresh
Week store, the Flagship store. If you will Gunsmithing served.
This is available there as well, and two more locations
in town to make sure everybody can get whatever they
want for the season starts. If you don't know where
your nearest Carter's Country is, that's okay. They have gone

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to great links to create a very user friendly and
very complete website or online site online shopping where you
can find pretty much anything and everything, including all the
red tag sales that are going on right now on
stuff that's really really good, and you probably will want
about half of what you see that's red tag price
right now. And all they're doing is making room for

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new inventory that's going to keep coming in and coming
in and coming in. This place sells a lot of guns,
sells a lot of Ammo, sells a lot of Camo,
anything and everything to do with hunting, guns, Ammo and
hunting stuff. Carterscountry dot com. That's the website. Start there,
Carterscountry dot com. Hey twenty on Sports Talk seven to ninety.

(58:57):
We'll get to Wayne ericson soon enough. By guys, gosh,
I can't believe I had him all died up in
my head for eight o'clock and we interrupted his breakfast
and now I'm a little bit jealous.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
All I have was some little.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Egg and cheese and sausage croissant that was okay, but
it had been in the freezer for a while, and
nothing wrong with it with it coming from the freezer.
I think probably half the ones that people buy at
fast food places that get microwaved more than they get cooked.
They're already cooked. I would guess seven one three two
one two five seven ninety Email on me Dougpike at

(59:33):
iHeartMedia dot Com to go run look at the let's
see what's going on. Oh yeah, okay, let me get
to my emails here, Captain Scott, Oh wait, I want
to I want to open this up. I don't like
the way it's configured right now. This is much better
right here, uh, Captain Scott weighs in. Been a group
of guys camping out on the beach over by the

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lighthouse on Mattagorda Island fairly regularly. They all have e
bikes and use them to run the beach and fish
to serve amen. Holy call, he said, I've seen them
all the way down past the Darlington. I don't know
who's packing the extra batteries, but that's a long ride.
On a knee bike. I guess they know better than I.
I'm gonna find out from Wayne what the range is

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on these things, and I can see, I would foresee,
and Captain Scott correct me if you think I'm wrong.
E bikes are the land borne version of a kayak. Okay,
guy doesn't have enough money to buy a big, old
fancy dune buggy, but he can buy a knee bike.

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Guy can't buy one hundred thousand dollars bay boat, but
he can buy a kayak. And they still get you
to wear the fishing's good and get you back home.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
And that's all I'm looking for.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
I would love to have one of those to run
that North Padre Island beach down past the park Coally Mackerel.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
That would be fun. You can just get you get.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Where you're going so much more efficiently, so much more quietly.
And that's one thing that Cliff taught me about. Those
fish up on the north up north of where I'm
talking about. On the other on the north side of
Packery Channel or the east side, depending on how you
want to look at the compass. Uh, all the all
the car traffic, cars and motor homes and everything else

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that's going up and down the beach. He's convinced really
kind of spooks those fish out a little deeper pretty
early in the morning. But if you're sliding down that
sand on a knee bike, you could sneak right up
on him. Just grab him by the tail, Just grab
him by the tail. How about that? Seven one three
two seven ninety. My brain comes up with some really

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weird ideas sometimes. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot
com as we get a little deeper into the program.
Coming up around nine o'clock, I'm going to talk about
the Sanderson Farms Championship going on over in Jackson, Mississippi.
That town has been hosting PGA Tour events, Little old Jackson.

(01:02:00):
It's not a major city at all. I mean it's
there and it's Jackson, but it's not Houston or Dallas
or New York City or anybody any place out on
the East West coast. It's just humble little Jackson, Mississippi.
And I actually got to play in the pro am
for that tournament once years ago, many years ago, and

(01:02:22):
I was very young and just into covering golf and
really hadn't become accustomed to how cool it was to
be around all those guys all the time. I was
somewhat starstruck because I was really working on my own
golf game and hoping I could get better, knowing full
well I would never be as good as those guys.
I just started too late and probably don't and even

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then maybe didn't have the skill even if I'd have
worked on it to be a professional golfer. I'm decent
at it, but I'm no pro. And so it was
fun just walking through the hotel early in the morning
and seeing face is that I'd only seen on TV
up to that point. That's pretty cool. We also for
the Wednesday pro am the time I was over there playing,

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we drew the seven am T time, thank you very much,
which means that you're going to be on the range
at six am, even before the sun is up, long
before the sun is up. And on that particular day
it was cool and damp and kind of windy and

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practicing and warming up to be I think we were
like the second team, second group out. It just reminded
me once again how dedicated to golf you have to
be as a profession to answer those early tea time
wake up calls. Most of those pros, I would imagine

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we're up probably at four point thirty maybe five at
the very latest, to make sure that they could get awake,
they could get a good breakfast, they could get stretched out,
they could go work on the range and loosen up.
That's some I didn't mean to jump into golf in
the eight o'clock hour, but I kind of did. And

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I have the utmost respect for those guys now that
I've met and known as many of them as I have,
I understand their work ethic, and I understand just how
hard it is and just the time they have to
spend away from their families. They're gone sometimes for weeks
and never even get to hold their kids, never get

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to get to get a big hug and a kiss
from a wife or a husband or whoever, depending on
what tour year on. Yeah, it's a tough struggle. At
least a fishing guy gets to come home every night.
Most of them do. Anyway. There are more and more
guides i've heard just kind of following the fish and

(01:04:55):
not really focusing on staying home. And I admire the
one who can stay home and continue to make a
living because it tells me two things Number one, they're
not scared of fish in any season in their home water.
They know how to find fish out the back door
without having to drive three, four or five six hours.
And number two, they're comfortable kind of in their own skin.

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And that's what I would like to learn as a
fisherman who lives where I live. Is not how people
way down the coast fishing. Unless I'm just going there
for fun one day, two days, maybe three at the most.
That would be fun to do, but I'd like to
do it with somebody who lives down there, because when
and I've heard that, I've heard it and written about

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it probably for twenty five thirty years now, when people
from out of town start hauling their boats and their
customers into other people's and I say other people's water.
It's all public, Okay, you can't stop them, but that's
kind of an intrusion. That's not really fair to the
people who are trying to earn a living out of
those little, smaller places where there's not much crowding, because

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suddenly you're just turning them into a crowded place like
Galveston Bay is good Heavens, We're almost you touch you
what I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna go to
this break now, Brett, so that we can be sure
to have some time with Wayne now that he's finished
with his breakfast. I hope you're listening, Wayne, and I
hope you saved some breakfast for us. You know, he
didn't say anything about bringing it here, did he not

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that he mentioned, Yeah, it's probably not gonna happen. So
whatever you can find in that refrigerator, if you dare,
warm it up and eat it. Man, I do have
another one of those little croissants if you want it. Oh,
I'm good, thank you, but I do appreciate it all right.
Speaking of food, Belleville Meat Market out there on Highway
thirty six, about fifteen minutes north of Sealy, fifteen minutes

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south of Hempstead, right there in the middle of the
little town of Belleville. If you have no idea where
Belleville Meat Market is, get into Belleville, get to what
looks like the middle of town, roll down your wind,
and at some point right around a little bit, and
you're gonna smell delicious barbecue, and then just turn into
the wind and you'll see it pretty soon. It's not

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a big town. You can't miss it. Bellville Meat Market
has been out there forty plus years and they have
a wonderful selection of custom pecan smoke sausages. They have beef,
chicken and pork cut however you want. They have got
hot dogs. They've got original and cheddar cheese hot dogs.
They've got Hamburger patties, those giant chuck Wagon patties that

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are a half pounds of beef beef with seasoning and
just loaded with cheddar cheese. They got stuff, pork tenders,
stuff peppers, stuff mushrooms, and that's basically how you're gonna
be After you start eating all the delicious stuff there,
you're gonna be stuffed too. They even serve a delicious
barbecue lunch or dinner seven days a week from ten
am to seven pm. Go out there, take the whole

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family out there, drop off the order that you concoct
on your way there from wherever you're starting, put that
on the counter, and say, hey, would you box all
this up for me? My family and I are gonna
go over here. We're gonna grab some lunch. We're gonna
sit on the patio for a few minutes, and then
we'll be back to pick it all up and take
it all home. Works just as easy as that. They've

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got snack stuff too, the turkey jerky and beef jerky
and dry stick. Drystick's one of my favorites. For the
hunting bag, for the tackle bock. Well, I carry a backpack. Now.
The next bag of dry stick I put in that
backpack won't be the first, that's for sure. Belleville Meatmarket
dot Com is a website. If you can't get there,

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and a lot of people can, it's pretty good drive
unless you live on the west side of town worth
every mile, I'll guarantee you. But it's still a pretty
good drive. So do this. Just get online and they'll
ship anything in the store pretty much, I guess, short
of maybe a whole cow, but pretty much anything else
they'll ship right to your door. Bellville MeetMarket dot Com.
That's Belleville Meet Market dot com. All right, welcome back,

(01:08:59):
Doug blike show on Sports Talk seven ninety eight thirty
four and has promised falsely earlier because I messed up
on the time, has promised. I'm going to click us
into Wayne Errington from air Ride Bikes. What's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
Wayne, how's it going today?

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
Doug.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
You know I'm doing all right, And just I like
to introduce my new sponsors to this audience with a
kind of a good, solid interview so they'll know who
they're dealing with, just like I feel really confident that
you're going to take care of them. By the way,
were you able to ride to breakfast this morning? I'm
just kind of curious.

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
Yeah, you know I didn't. Yeah, I need a group
of guys every Saturday morning for breakfast.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
So yeah, I did not ride in them.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
That's okay, that's perfectly all right. It would have been
so cool if you had, but it's certainly not required.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
Right right, Well, you know, twenty nine to twenties kind
of busy road, and that's what I.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Oh my gosh, I wouldn't like.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
Okay, I don't want to get a run over it
no work.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Okay, So I'm going to issue a bad pun alert here.
So tell me Wayne, how long you been peddling electric bicycles?

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
So I started this project, Doug, about two years ago.
A quick story here. I owned several other businesses and
I had just sold My previous business was on the
Tennessee River at the boat show. Wow, and this guy
had an electric bike there and I'm standing there looking
at this bike. Is Man's really cool? And he walks
up about that time he says, have you been on

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an electric bike before? I said, man, I hadn't been
on a bicycle in thirty years. And he's like, okay,
would you like to take a test? I said, love
to well. Being in Tennessee with the hills and everything, yeah,
I got on this e bike and up the hill
with very little effort. I was blown away.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
That's kind of nice.

Speaker 4 (01:10:54):
Wow, Wow, I got to have one of these. And
so the rest of the story. Now I'm selling e bikes,
you know, So so you had quite an experience to
try one.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
So just in that little short time even I'm I
know there have been improvements made, but what bring us
up to speed on if you'll recall, and I'm sure
you read about it and saw it like everybody else did.
For a while there it looked like a lot of
these things. There were fire hazards in the garage, there
was all kinds of problems with them. Talk about how

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they've been improved since that they're early stages.

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
Right, well, and there's still a lot of that that
goes on, Doug. And the key to that is is
for the batteries, you want to make sure when you're
buying an e bike that did it you L certified, okay,
because there's a lot of those bikes being sold online
today that still had that issue. So so that's the key.

(01:11:51):
When you're you're getting an e bike, you want to
make sure that you L certified.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
Yeah, that's UNDERRUNNS laboratories. That's that's a big deal in electricity.
If you don't see that on there, it probably came
over here about eight nine, ten thousand miles on a
ship in a big old box. There you go, man,
and we make sure all of the bikes that we
carry RUL certified. So you're not gonna have that problem
with fires and you're burning your house down. I don't

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even talk about that, Wayne, So let's jump ahead. The
whole reason you called me last week was to talk
about these new hunting bikes you've got. Let's kind of
start right there with them. And there's a lot of
features on this particular model you're talking about that would
make even the heavyweight hunters among me and my audience

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take note.

Speaker 4 (01:12:40):
Right, absolutely absolutely, So I just picked up a new brand.
We carried three different brands of e bikes in here,
and I picked up a new brand here a little
over a month ago called Rambo Bikes.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
Sounds good.

Speaker 4 (01:12:53):
And this is an awesome, awesome bike. If you remember
the movie, you know, the bike's a lot like that, Okay,
and you can't beat it. Uh, we're talking about a
bike with all wheel drive. Has two thousand watt motors
on this bike. Good lord, I mean it's putting out
one hundred and eighty newton meters a tort whereas the

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typical E bike starting out twenty five thirty newton meters
a torque could have. I mean, if this bike could
get traction, it would literally climb the tree for you.
Oh so full suspension, h you can switch between front
wheel drive, rear wheel drive, or all wheel drop. And

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it's just an awesome, awesome bike drive.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
One of the things you and I talked about on
the phone was the and this is not only is
it stealthy, you're just gonna you're gonna sneak up on anything, absolutely,
but you've also got the power if you're up in
there with a little I don't we You and I
talked about those little trailers you can put on these
bikes now and yep, all a big old buck on there,

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who cares? Throw a second hunter on there, who cares?
Because that bike's going to be able to get both
of you into the woods and out of the woods
with your deer, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:09):
Absolutely? And not only the trailer to haul your game
out with. They also make a trailer you can put your.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
Kayak on well, going up the beach ye.

Speaker 4 (01:14:22):
Down out of Matagorde or something like that, you throw
your your kayak on the back of that and get
back into the back country.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:14:31):
I mean the range on these things are incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
Yeah, how far can you go with?

Speaker 4 (01:14:36):
So they come with they come standard with a twenty
ant battery and they quoted as I haven't actually tested this,
but they're saying you can get somewhere between sixty five
and one hundred and ten miles.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
On good lord, Now I'm not going that far deer
huh ever?

Speaker 4 (01:14:54):
Right right? But you know, it really depends on how
your riding is.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
Yeah, of course, either the.

Speaker 4 (01:15:01):
If you're an all wheel drive, you're not going to
get as much mileage out of it as sure just
using rear wheel drive on But you can bump that
up to a thirty amp battery, and they're claiming on
a thirty amp you can get ninety five to one
hundred and forty miles on these.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
Descrive to Dallas.

Speaker 4 (01:15:19):
Oh my gosh, absolutely, just absolutely incredible on distance with
these bikes.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
Wayne Errington from air Ride Bikes here on the Doug
Pike Show, brand new sponsor of the program on this
second Saturday of BO season. These things are just ideal
I think for bow hunting, and long time ago, many
many years, probably thirty years ago now, Joe Doggett wrote
a piece called Biking for Bucks for Field and Stream,
and I was mad at him because he thought of

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that title first. It's a really good title, and not
only is it convenient, it like that story of his said,
you're you're sneaking up on deer in places where you
wouldn't want to try to drive in there on a truck.
You wouldn't want to try to walk in two miles
in the dark before dawn. But on that bicycle you

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can cover that ground. Well, I guess as quick as
you can keep the little headlight in front of you
from showing you a big tree in front. Huh, Right,
how fast do those things go?

Speaker 4 (01:16:21):
You know, that's an excellent question, Doug. So most most
e bikes that are what we call street legal are
regulated to a maximum speed of twenty eight miles an hour. Okay,
but these being off road bikes, they're they're really not
street legal because the one thing is the thousand watt
motor capacity and you're having dual motors on it, where

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street legal bike is maximum is seven hundred and fifty
watts on it. Speed wise, I mean, I've had this
bike up to thirty miles an hour in a holy
one hundred yard run and I ran out of roads down.
But on the control panel it looks like when they

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tested out, I said the maximum speed on what they
call the hell Cat was thirty seven point eight miles
an hour. Good goy cruising on a bicycle, ye, it
is holy cow.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
I don't know if I want to do thirty seven
miles an hour on a bicycle, especially in the woods.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
That might be a little tough. Maybe on the asphalt
road to get to the gate.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Right, I'll tell you what. Let's let me do this.
Can I put you on hold and then come back
because I got another five or six good questions I
want to ask you about it. Yeah, about more of
the cruising bikes since we're coming up into the holiday
season and whatnot, and maybe buying one for ourselves or
buying one for a family member. Wayne Errington from Air
Ride Bikes, I'm gonna put him on hold and we're

(01:17:49):
gonna take a little break here. Hang tight, way and
I'll be right back. Man, All right, push that button.
He's going there. I'm going to black Horse Golf Club.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
I could see myself with a little bag of clubs
over my shoulder, maybe ride my bike around the golf course.
I don't know if they'd let me do that, but
that'd be kind of cool. Black Horse is on Fry Road,
just a little ways south of two ninety. Take two
ninety out to Fry Road, hanging south about three miles down.
You're gonna see golf course on the right. When you
see golf course on both sides of the road, turn

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west and you'll go right through the gate and then
up to the clubhouse. And from that point forward, pretty
much anybody you see who's got a name tag on
is there just to make you happy and help you
have a good time.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
They've got lessons available.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
Down at the far end of the range, they've got
a giant practice range where you can get a big
tournament started pretty soon. You can get everybody warmed up
almost depending on the size of the tournament, almost at
one time. Two courses up there. The North is still
daily fee as it always has been. The South was
taken private this year and that's going very well. Both

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sides are are still enjoying. Everybody who's playing is enjoying
what they're seeing. In fact, I need to go back
up there and see what's going on on that South
course where they've been making a lot of improvements. North
course has its own maintenance budget too, so it's always
in good shape. Black Horse Golf Club dot com. Great
place for you to go up and just tee it
up and make three new friends. Great place to hold

(01:19:11):
a big old charity tournament. Black Horse goolf Club dot com.
You can make a tea time right now, black Horse
Golf Club dot Com. Right along we are on Sports
Talk seven ninety the Dougpike Shows. Thanks for listening. You
couldn't find bicycle built for two.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
G's in there somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
It's coming up. Just just just toss you a softball.
All right, man, let's get Wayne Arrington back on the
phone from Air Ride Bikes. Wayne.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
Thanks for sticking around, buddy. I appreciate it, man.

Speaker 4 (01:19:46):
Yeah, no problem. Glad to be here, dog.

Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
So let's get go ahead real quick here.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
Sure you're talking about the black Horse golf course. Yeah,
I'm actually working on a device right now. Pull pull
cart behind and you're oh, and I'm hoping to get
that out to the golf courses here real soon. So
when you're talking about using your e bike on a
golf course, you're actually speeding up play. So I'm sure

(01:20:14):
golf courses will be able to get more people through
the course throughout the day if they put them on
e bikes. But again, that's something i'm working on here.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
Okay. I like the way you think, no question about it.
So let's get out of the let's get out of
the woods and kind of back on the street and
talk about how just these kind of bikes can make
it simpler to get to the grocery store for bread
and milk or just a ride around when weather gets nice.
How many cruising models you got out there?

Speaker 4 (01:20:44):
Oh wow, that's a good question. So I'm going to
say probably, I mean what I call street legal cruising models.
There's several different ones in there. I've probably got sixteen
different models. Wow, I call street legal. I mean some
of those or fat tire bikes. Some of those are

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folding bikes, some of those kids bikes. Some of are
what we call true commuter bikes designed to go to work.
We have what we call two up bikes, where you
can have two people on them. We have cargo bikes
that you know, to go to the grocery store with
all your family on the back of it, kind of

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like a second suv.

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
Yeah, wow, So.

Speaker 4 (01:21:31):
A lot of options.

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
Probably breezier, but you know again, in the fall of
the spring, it'd be really nice to be just riding
behind the driver of an e bike, get a little
breeze in your face. Let me ask you this. You know,
you kind of went on. Let me jump in here
before I forget this. You you glossed over the fold
up bikes. What are the advantage in the disadvantages of

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folding e bike?

Speaker 4 (01:21:58):
So we sell a ton of folding bikes to our veers.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
Oh yeah, okay, want.

Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
Something that they can fold up and put in a
big plastic tub and and shoving their rv Uh. That's
probably our number one selling bikes today. Uh. And it's
the r veers that are by them so matter of
fact that we've got a couple of people coming in
this morning to look at them.

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
How how small do they fold up? Can you what?
Can you put it into a small a small car trunk?
Could you put it in like a Prius trunk? Since
we're all electric here?

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
Previous trunk? I'm not sure how big that is. Definitely
get them in the back of a small sue V. Sure, yeah, yeah,
I I forget the exact dimensions on it, right, twenty
nine inches high? People put them in a fifty gallon
plastic tub. Oh okay, put them in on the RVs

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and stuff. But you can certainly get them in the
trunk of most cars.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
Okay, fair enough.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
And let's talk about price.

Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
Now we haven't mentioned money, but there's got to be
a range of pricing on e bikes that you consider
quality enough for you to have them in your store.
What's country level and what's all spruced up with a
giant rambow? Because I already got a friend of mine
who emails that I'm eyeball in that thing wherever it is.

Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
Right right, So our bank store, I mean, we start
up with kids bikes. We've got an electric bike that's
made by Rambo that starts out about seven hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:23:34):
Oh wow, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:23:36):
Our most popular bike that we sell is twelve ninety nine,
and then we charge one hundred and fifty dollars to
set it up and everything. So that's probably our best
selling entry level bike. And then when you start getting
up into the Rambow busco, come on, we have six yeah,

(01:23:57):
they have sixteen different models. Uh and I say starting
out at that sixty nine. Now, the top of the
line is what they call the Hellcat, which we spoke
a little bit about every.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Bell, every whistle. That's what I want.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
You got it a little over six grand, okay for
that pickle bike.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
Yeah, what's the what's the longevity of these things if
they're well maintained.

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
Which they should be.

Speaker 1 (01:24:21):
And by the way, I like the fact that you
you put those things together. It costs a little bit
of money, but I would I wouldn't want to end
up trying to put my own e bike together and
look down and there's a part left in the box.

Speaker 4 (01:24:34):
Yeah, we get some people bringing those in here at
least once a week that they've tried to do it
to the bells and it just didn't work out for them.
It's not like putting a picnic table together for my Kia,
is it right, nurse's sake? So, but talking about longevity,
So we carry a bike made by Troxus. This bike

(01:24:56):
carries a five year warranty.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:24:58):
Fender defender on this bike. Wow, it is an awesome
built bike. They can only do that because the quality
components they're using in them. We're using buffet motors, Shimano
shifters and trailers, tectro hydraulics, brakes, Samsung sell batteries.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
So it's a quality no doubt.

Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
The only thing I hate about it is when I
sell it, I don't ever see it again because it's
not breaking down.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
Yeah, that's like buying a lure that never breaks down
and never falls apart exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:25:34):
So that's the disadvantage of me selling that bike. I
don't see that service revenue coming back again. Too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:25:40):
Well, yeah, that's good and bad. You know you know
what I'm talking about. Right, So, where exactly are you
on Tomball Parkway?

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
So we're in the four corner shopping center in Tomball,
which is at the corner of twenty nine to twenty
and two forty nine business. There's a movie theater in
that shopping center. THERE'SU Specs, which everybody knows about in
the shopping center. So yeah, that's where we're at. We're
open here on Mondays. I bowl Monday morning, so I

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don't open the shop till two thirty, but two thirty
to six on Monday Tuesday. We're Tuesday through Thursday. Were
open from ten to six Friday and Saturday ten to four. Okay.
The actual address is two eight four eight five TX
to forty.

Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
Nine to forty nine. Sounds good. What kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
Bowler are you?

Speaker 4 (01:26:35):
I'm an average bowler.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
Oh that's a sand bager for sure, right yeah, average,
you know it just something his average. Have you ever
heard of a guy named Red Shrum?

Speaker 4 (01:26:50):
Name sounds familiar. I can't play.

Speaker 1 (01:26:52):
He and I went to high school together, and he
was probably one of the only kids who really bowled
a lot and ended up becoming really really good at bowling.

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
And still I'm sure he's still that. He may be
bowling this morning. Who knows.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
If you if you competitively bowl, which it sounds like
you do, but you're not really talking about it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
You've probably bumped into him somewhere around town.

Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
No, actually, I bowl in a senior league.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
Okay, boy, he would be too, right now, I guarantee
you right.

Speaker 4 (01:27:21):
So yeah, my wife and I started this about a
year ago. Oh wow, I hadn't bowled. It's been forty
years since I bowled. And then we started with this
league here about a year ago. So it's been a
lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
I thought I was going to try to do that
a long time ago. Today i'd probably have to bowl
an eight pound ball. Man, I'm so tired and weak.

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
I'm hitting little white balls. I love hitting golf balls.

Speaker 4 (01:27:42):
So, oh, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
I'm gonna leave the I'm gonna leave the bowling to you.
I don't know that my shoulder could take that anymore.
Wayne Errington air ride bikes up there on two forty nine,
just right there in tom Ball. You can find him.
I would call first. Those hours are a little bit
a little bit confusing, but I think that at your
age and with all the other businesses you run, they're

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pretty generous so that somebody wants to get in there,
they'll certainly find you find the lights on. Huh right,
absolutely wonderful. Well, welcome to the family, man, I'm glad
to have you on.

Speaker 4 (01:28:17):
Thank you. Let me give you my website, really, quol,
let's do that. Well, it's air Ride Bikes. So that's
spelled A R R I D E H E I
K E S dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:28:28):
Yeah, you beat me to it. Don't worry. I'm gonna
be saying that a lot, and I'm probably gonna get
more emails than just the one I got so far,
because I think I think I look at air ride
bike or not air ride, but just I look at
e bikes kind of is out of sight, out of mind.
But every time somebody starts talking about them going, you know,
I kind of want to look at that, especially for

(01:28:49):
these little for hunting and for fishing. Unbelievable for somebody
who's a little bit older and can't walk very far
through a state park, through uh anywhere, that there might
be some nice scenic views at the end of a
long hike, jump on an ee bike and let the
bike take you up the hill. That's I really like.

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Go ahead for.

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
Those people that have a little hard time getting around
or aren't quite balanced. We also carry a trike.

Speaker 1 (01:29:19):
Oh nice, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:29:21):
Which makes it really really nice for those people that
may have a handicap.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
There, I understand. Yeah, it's it's the industry has come
a long ways in a very short time, and I'm
really glad to now I know that with that, the
UL listed batteries, the underwriters laboratory batteries are the ones
that are gonna work, and the other ones are coming
in from god knows where around the world where they
don't care whether an American garage catches on fire or not.

Speaker 4 (01:29:48):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
I appreciate it, Wayne Is. This is gonna be fun.

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
I'm gonna take care of you by looking forward to it.
My pleasure. Thanks, man, See you all right, have gatiuh
huh oh you too. Man. He's gonna go bowling, you
know he is. He's got a breakfast in him. He's
wrapped up this that he needed to do this morning.
That closest bowling alley is gonna be he's gonna be

(01:30:12):
screeching tires getting over there. All right, We're gonna say
a little break here at the top of the hour.
When we get back, we'll go back into a little
more golf. I'll tell you what's going on over there
in Jackson, and yeah, that's a good tournament. It really
is Sanderson Farms Championship. It's been to Sanderson for I
want to say since twenty thirteen. Maybe somewhere in there,
doesn't matter. Good guys over there playing golf will tell

(01:30:34):
you what they're doing. Shooter's Corner Palmer Highway at twenty
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ever met. They built awesome custom rifles too. Shooter's Corner
old school gun store. Okay, they know their stuff. They're
gonna take their time, they or anybody else who's in there,

(01:30:57):
because coming up soon, Jerry and Jay both are going
to be off guiding people on big game hunts all
over North America. That's what they do in the wintertime.
And the store gets manned by very qualified, very capable people.
So don't worry about if you miss them. You're not
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(01:31:18):
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a badge for a living, you get a discount, which

(01:31:41):
I think is pretty cool. The Shooters cornertx dot com.
All right, welcome back nine oh four on Sports Talk
seven to ninety Duckpike Show. Thank you for listening. I
certainly do appreciate it. Certainly appreciate Wayne Errington for coming
on too and talking about these electric bicycles. So I'm

(01:32:03):
not going to tell you who, but when we when
Wayne and I were talking about what it takes to
get one of those the fully completely decked out Rambo bikes,
this guy just kind of flipped back. That might be
too much swallow, right now. I know that guy well
enough to know that he's got so many toys and

(01:32:24):
he's so invested in those.

Speaker 2 (01:32:26):
Hmm, darn, I missed this. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
During the interview, he was going to ask him about
the different tires that are available and that would certainly
be a question I would have asked had I thought
of it and seen it or seen your email. Sorry
about that, I apologize, But there definitely are a variety
of tires you can get for these things that are
either better for running to the grocery store or trying

(01:32:53):
to ride down a soft sanded beach. I'm not so
sure i'd want to take one into deep mud, but
maybe I'm wrong. I have never ridden an electric bicycle.
I've always fancied myself perfectly comfortable with peddling a bicycle.
But when you start talking about uphill or you start

(01:33:13):
talking about long rides on soft ground, yeah, that soft
beach sand, it's something else where you'd want that power
under your seat to get you through all that stuff.
Fascinating little things that are coming around. These are some
of the better innovations I think for outdoorsmen. I think
it's too early to put e bikes on the list

(01:33:36):
of top maybe even a top ten of things that
have been introduced to the outdoors in the past, say
ten or fifteen, twenty years, But over time I think
they will gain more favor and gain more advocacy amongst outdoorsmen,
especially the hunting side of it. I really like that

(01:33:56):
for riding through the beach or riding through the wood
trying to get to a deer stand, because as long
as that deer, as long as that road or trail
between wherever you're gonna park, and really on most ranches,
on almost all the ranches I've been on, it probably
half a dozen ofhing that are bigger and would chew

(01:34:17):
up a lot of miles. I can't think of many
ranches where you couldn't start at one corner and go
to the opposite corner and back without messing up anything
and or losing power before you got back home. I
also like the idea of those little trailers. Wayne and
I we're talking about that he's gonna get him in stock.
He's I don't think he stocks him now, but he

(01:34:38):
kind of can points you to where to get him.
And once he gets him in stock, he's gonna sell
a lot more of them, a lot more. Before I
go to the Sanderson, let me go talk to Aaron. Hey, Aaron,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
Man?

Speaker 7 (01:34:50):
Hey, Doug hadn't talked to you in a while, not
just the old God Serp reunion today.

Speaker 1 (01:34:56):
Well, now you tell me what the heck.

Speaker 5 (01:35:00):
Year thing, you know, paddle out and.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
Well, give me a little notice next time. Maybe I
can come down there right now. That I mean, as
long as I can find electricity, really I can. I
can do a show from darn near anywhere. Oh maybe
I'll have to tune that up next year, and I'll
paddle out with you later on, right.

Speaker 7 (01:35:19):
Yeah, I hope I see Joe down there today.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
You just might. There's no telling with him.

Speaker 7 (01:35:26):
Yeah, but it's a bit. It's a big deal.

Speaker 9 (01:35:28):
It's all day, you know, paddle out and they've got
getting money for charities and you know, benders and oh yeah,
it's a it's a big deal. And and the ladies
are welcome all sure, because.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
They've always been welcome on the beach. You know it,
and I know it. Don't try to fool me. Er,
You're still in biting them, aren't you. Yeah, give me
a little time next time. Next year. I might. I
just might be able to get back where I can
jump up on a surfboard before a bottom out at
the bottom of the wave.

Speaker 7 (01:36:02):
I hear you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
I'm so sadly out of shape right now.

Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
I would get out there and I would get after
it and I would try to muster all the old
stuff in the back of my brain about surfing that
I knew when I was really at it, and would
I would just go till I'm exhausted, I promise. Once
I'm back in the water, I know I'd want to
just keep going all day.

Speaker 7 (01:36:24):
Man, Yep, it's hard to do when you get out
of practice.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
Tell me, tell me man. All right, thanks Aaron, I
appreciate it, buddy, Yes, sir, Yeah, my pleasure. Audios. Surf
re union down there at Surfside today. You won't be
able to miss those. It'd be a bunch of ballheaded
guys and some gray haired guys and some ladies I'm
sure who are from the same era we're from. Let

(01:36:52):
me get to Alan real quick about e bikes and
then I'll get to the Sanderson. Hey, Alan, what's up?

Speaker 5 (01:36:57):
Man?

Speaker 7 (01:36:58):
Hey, good morning, Doug.

Speaker 5 (01:37:00):
What was the name of that place again?

Speaker 1 (01:37:01):
It is called air Ride Bikes A ride, excuse me,
a ride and it's a r R. There's two rs.
That's how it's tricky. It is to a r R.
I d e air Ride Bikes dot Com.

Speaker 5 (01:37:17):
Yeah he's in tom Ball, right he is.

Speaker 1 (01:37:18):
Yeah, he's in Tomball, right, on two forty nine.

Speaker 5 (01:37:22):
Yeah, I've been looking at them bikes on TikTok because
you know I hunted East Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:37:27):
Oh yeah, And.

Speaker 5 (01:37:28):
From where my camp is to where where I hunt
is about a mile and a half two miles ride
my baby, I can't walk at you, but it's all
up here. I don't mind walking it. But but they
usually drive my truck about halfway and then walked the
rest of the way. But I've always thought if I

(01:37:50):
could just get one of then e bikes. Because I
said I've been looking at them on TikTok, Yeah, I thought, no,
that might be slinging my rifle over my shoulder and
rolled through the wood and to get one because I thought,
you know, I'm gonna look into one because I really,
I really think it would be a benefit to me.

Speaker 1 (01:38:08):
Well, definitely, I would say, definitely talk to Wayne before
you go buying one on on TikTok or eBay or.

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
Anything like that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:18):
No, I'm gonna go talk to him for sure. Yeah,
I'm glad you had one.

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
He knows what he's doing. He really does, man, he
really does exactly, all right, Okay, sir, I appreciate Yeah,
thank you, my pleasure glad to help Audios, glad to
help him, glad to help Wayne at the same time.
How about that, Alan Wade in by email, I was
thinking about single player golf carts while playing last weekend. Yeah,

(01:38:43):
that's what this would be. And I don't I honestly
with the big tires now, not with smaller tires, because
that could be a problem on even damp ground, for
the superintendents might have take issue with that. But those
bigger tires would just one person pulling one golf bag
on a little cart behind. I think that would be

(01:39:08):
really cool, and it would speed up play a little
bit because each player would be going to his or
her own ball, rather than what I see so much of.
You got somebody sitting in the cart waiting on one
guy to hit, while their golf ball is only twenty
yards away. But they wait until that guy hits, comes back,

(01:39:29):
fills his little divot with sand, comes back, wipes off
his club base, and then they drive twenty yards to
the other guy and he starts his routine, has no
idea what club he's gonna hit, has no idea about
anything until they make that little ride. But if everybody's
going to their own ball, I guarantee you could speed
it up. It'd be so fun, and it just looks

(01:39:50):
so cool. It would just look so cool having little
e bikes out there. Get a little kind of a
full hand size kickstand to bring down something soft that
wouldn't lean into the turf at all. Man this, Yeah,
they're onto something. If anybody needs a test pilot for

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one of those, I'm in. I would love to do
it that way. I really would. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Let me jump over here to the
tournament real quick and see what's going on.

Speaker 7 (01:40:23):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
I gotta go back up here and find where I
put it there.

Speaker 1 (01:40:25):
It is Sanderson Farms Championship ongoing in Jackson, Mississippi. Garrick
Higo thirteen under par through the two rounds they've played
so far, a sixty five and a sixty six for him,
Eric Cole and Taylor Montgomery at twelve. Each of them
got there a different way, but that's where they are.

(01:40:47):
All by himself in fourth place Danny Walker at eleven.
The tens include Vince Whaley, Tom Kim, Frankie cappin the
third and then the Nines, Yeah, I can read them.
There's only three of them as well, David Ford, Stephen Fisk,
Bryce Garnett. If you're wondering why you haven't heard any
big names, this is not a big name event really,

(01:41:11):
but you would if I kept reading and kept going
a little farther down the list, you would recognize probably
at least for the average golfer, you probably recognize at
least half of these names as showing up on showing
up on leader boards from time to time. So that's
what it is, and that's a good way for these

(01:41:31):
good these guys to earn points, to earn really good paychecks.
Even the smallest events on the PGA Tour play really
pay really nice persones now. So the guys who who
have eked out a living and held onto their cards
behind the top forty or fifty players every year, this

(01:41:54):
is their chance to go out and have a better
shot at finishing ahead. I'm pretty sure I didn't see
his name anywhere, but I'm pretty sure Scottie Scheffer's taking
the week off after the Ryder Cup and all of
those guys, more power to them. And I like the
opportunity for these guys to get a good shot at

(01:42:15):
a good paycheck too, because they earn it. Like I
said said earlier, a lot of times these guys are
just grinding all day and all night, and then they
get to these tournaments and pull us seven o'clock tea
time on a Thursday. The good news is they flip
them on Fridays. But nonetheless, you gotta be up and
out unless you're in about the top five. Let me

(01:42:36):
go talk to Oh, you know, I'm late, Kevin. Hang on, please,
I want to. I want to stay kind of on
time here, and I promise I'll get back to you
as quickly as i can. On the way out, I'm
gonna tell you about Kobe Stevens golf and outdoors apparel,
more golf apparel than outdoors apparel right now, but that
may be changing fairly soon. We're still talking about some
things that I think would be very fun and very

(01:43:00):
beneficial if we can get this horse out of the
barn right now. I would just wear wore one of
his shirts yesterday. In fact, no, this one's not. This
was what I grab because I just coming here. I
don't get seen. I'm not showing off my wardrobe here
like I try to do on the golf course. I
try to look really good because I think that's part
of playing well. I think it makes me I want

(01:43:21):
to live up to the image that it looks like
I can play when I'm wearing Kobe Stevens stuff. So
I try to come up to that standard. It's way
above my ability grade, but nonetheless I'm trying. It'll make
you look good, it'll make your family look good. They
have kids sizes, they've got women's apparel. They've got men's

(01:43:43):
sizes up to four X. If you're a big guy
and you need something that big, you're gonna love Kobe
Stevens golf apparel. There's a store up in Champions. You
can look it up online at the website see exactly
how to get there and what they've got in there.
They also have some cool stuff on sale from top
to time. I know Foux Pro takes advantage of that,
especially with some of the outdoors gear. Kobe Stevens dot

(01:44:06):
Com is the website. You'll never meet a guy Kobe gallic.
You'll never meet a guy who's more involved with his
community and giving back more than Kobe. Every time I
call him, Hey, man, can you play golf? Monday. No,
I've got a tournament I gotta go do. I'm gonna
go help these people raise money for whatever. That's just
the kind of guy he's been for probably all his life.

(01:44:27):
That's the only way I've ever known him. Given back
about twice everything he gets in. I don't know how
he does it. I know why he does it because
I've talked to him. But he's a good man and
his his golf apparel is second to none. Kobe Stevens
dot com c O B y st E V E
N S Kobe Stevens dot com nine one Doug Pike

(01:44:52):
Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. We've covered a lot
of ground. He'd cover it faster if we were on
e bikes, couldn't we. Let's get to Kevin. I promised
I get him in first, and here he is.

Speaker 4 (01:45:01):
Kevin.

Speaker 1 (01:45:02):
What's up?

Speaker 5 (01:45:02):
Man?

Speaker 8 (01:45:03):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (01:45:04):
Doug?

Speaker 1 (01:45:04):
How are you doing this?

Speaker 4 (01:45:05):
Point?

Speaker 7 (01:45:08):
Man?

Speaker 8 (01:45:08):
The weather's beautiful down here in Missouria County. It's nice,
a little bit cooler, and well, I'm just leaving West
Columbia and towards Brazoria now. And when I was at
my park at West Columbia, the flags were laying limp there.

Speaker 1 (01:45:21):
Really.

Speaker 8 (01:45:22):
I know it sounds like it's blowing pretty good at
the beach right now, but I hadn't had that direction.
I'm playing on going down that way when I get
off this afternoon for you. I got a nephew and
his wife, and my great nephew and great niece and
great nephew that are down there camping out on the

(01:45:42):
beach this weekend, so I'm gonna go out and go
out and visit them. He's out there trying to catch
something in the surf.

Speaker 1 (01:45:50):
Sure, why not?

Speaker 8 (01:45:51):
But I texted you, emailed you a picture of a
gigging trip that I went on Tuesday. Budd He got
a last minute call thirty minutes before he was going
to leave and asked if I wanted to go, and
I can't pass down pass up.

Speaker 1 (01:46:05):
A free gate drill.

Speaker 8 (01:46:08):
We ran down and ran down the Brass River a
little bit and tides strong incoming tides with that equinox,
it was made the visibility pretty rough. But we found
a couple of some clear patches down towards the mouth
and stuck a few nice fish, got home, cleaned them up,
made me a batch of savici and I ended up

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keeping five and I gave two of them to my
father in law and he ended up grilling them on
the grill. Oh wow, nice, But it felt good to
finally get out and.

Speaker 1 (01:46:40):
Yeah, you got some good fish, man, No doubt. Holdly cow.

Speaker 8 (01:46:44):
Yeah, I'm looking forward. I got a ten day vacation
scheduled to the last last ten days of the month
and looking forward to getting out and catching some on
riding rail.

Speaker 1 (01:46:55):
Good for you, man, Is it time? Are you feeling
like it's time to get after it? Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:47:00):
Yeah, it's been past time. I've just been so busy
with work and honeydews at the house, I hadn't had
a chance to break free.

Speaker 1 (01:47:08):
Oh man, you know, I'm I'm the same way. I
posted something on Facebook last week said, man, I'm gonna
I'm gonna get into making way more posts and doing
a lot better job of kind of sharing what I'm doing.
And I just ran into a buzzsaw of work this
week and didn't get out and do hardly anything. I'm gonna,

(01:47:28):
I'm gonna make a point to get out. That's tough.

Speaker 8 (01:47:32):
It seems like the older you get, the less hours
of the day you've got to do the things that
you want.

Speaker 2 (01:47:38):
Oh yeah, No, doubt, no doubt about it.

Speaker 5 (01:47:41):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
Yeah, well go catch me going.

Speaker 8 (01:47:46):
I've been seeing a lot of deer driving around here
in Brazoria County when I'm going from park to park.

Speaker 1 (01:47:51):
Oh yeah, lots and lots of deer.

Speaker 8 (01:47:54):
Unfortunately, some of them fell victim to the automobile collisions.

Speaker 1 (01:47:59):
You know, that's what You've got a great deer herd
in a state as big as Texas, people are gonna
bump into them from time to time. I hate seeing that,
but it's just, you know, they're just not that smart,
I guess, and we're not that acting.

Speaker 8 (01:48:15):
From what I hear, Brissoria County has got one of
the larger deer herds of any county in the state
of Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:48:20):
You know, I've heard that. I've read that really years
ago somewhere, and I didn't put much stock.

Speaker 2 (01:48:25):
I didn't think that much about it.

Speaker 1 (01:48:26):
But yeah, I've heard that before. A lot of coastal prairie. Yeah, yeah,
there is a lot of coastal prari that coastal prairie.
Back when, back when I was hunting the Kadie Prairie
actually from there all the way to the coast, there
were little pockets of really good deer, and I mean
good numbers and good quality bucks. There were some really

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good genetics on some of these places. I'll tell you. Actually,
the Attics Reservoir, I can't remember the name of the
ranch on the south end of that thing. It's a
big development now with the same name, but I can't
remember what it was. But there were rumors. I never
tried to hunt in there, but I heard reliable rumors

(01:49:08):
that there were some monstrous bucks in there and people
were going in there bow hunting them. Yes, sir, I
didn't get any of them. Unfortunately, do you deer hunt
it all? You know, I haven't.

Speaker 8 (01:49:20):
I'm such an avid flounder fisherman and founder flounder fishing
falls during the hunting season mostly, and I haven't hunted
in years.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
That's fair enough for everybody else.

Speaker 8 (01:49:33):
I grew up hunting being from West Texas, but once
I moved to the coast and started saltwater fishing as
a young boy, kind of gave up my hunting.

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
You know, honestly, I'm I'm kind of in that same boat.
I still love to hunt, I really do, and I'll
go at the drop of a hat. But what saltwater
fishing for me is it's so. I can't say it's
relaxing for me because I'm still pretty intense about it
and I want to catch fish, dang it. I'm not
just going to stand there and cast into the same

(01:50:01):
spot a thousand times and say, oh, it was okay,
I didn't catch a fish. I'm moving up and down,
I'm moving left and right, I'm changing lures. I'm doing
everything I can to improve my success ratio. But still
it's just so calming for me inside to be thinking
about what lure to pick rather than what chore I

(01:50:22):
have at the house or what's going on here at
work or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:50:27):
It just it takes me away, it really does.

Speaker 8 (01:50:30):
Yeah, there's not some lot being out on the water.

Speaker 1 (01:50:32):
Amen to that, my friend. All right, well go catch
another big old flounder. Catch one and eat one for me,
will you?

Speaker 8 (01:50:39):
All right, Doug, you have a good week, Kendah.

Speaker 1 (01:50:41):
Thanks Kevin.

Speaker 2 (01:50:41):
It's always great to hear from you.

Speaker 5 (01:50:43):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
Audio, that's a good man right there. He is way master.

Speaker 1 (01:50:50):
I don't know how many tournaments he does a year
as way master down there in Bissouri County, but he
if there's a tournament going on, he's probably gonna be there,
and he's probably going to be the guy the scales.
I don't care whether it's little kids or adults or whatever.
He just he has a passion for that. And it's
people like him who who instill that same passion, and

(01:51:12):
so many more people I don't know. Who knows how
many people he's influenced to become outdoors people over his years.
And we all owe a tip of a cap to
people like that, because without them, there are a lot
of people in this world now who don't grow up
around the outdoors. They don't care about the outdoors, They

(01:51:33):
have no stake in the outdoors. And when politicians are
making decisions that could change something in the outdoors, if
we are not represented, the decisions are going to be
made by and influenced by people who don't think, don't
think it matters whether we have deer. They don't care
if we have doves, They don't care if we have quail,

(01:51:55):
They don't care how many redfish there are, because it
doesn't impact.

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
Their daily lives.

Speaker 1 (01:52:00):
But all of these natural resources we have in Texas
are worth protecting, every single one of them, every single
one of them. And we got to keep bringing people
in and at least introducing them to it. You're not
going to convert every adult who's never fished into becoming
somebody who goes out and buys a bay boat and
buys a kayaker two and a couple of e bikes

(01:52:23):
and just one hundred rods and reels like faux Pro's got.
You're not gonna get them all. But I have yet
to meet anybody who said, no, I just hated that,
I'll never do it again. They're at least more open
minded to it, and they at least learn that. Fishermen

(01:52:43):
these days are very conservation minded. Most of the guides
I know and fish with don't their clients, and they
don't keep more than a handful of fish a year.
They go out and catch probably hundreds a year, but
they only keep half a dozen. Maybe you know if

(01:53:07):
somebody just I could fish all day and I could
catch a thousand speckled trout, all of them keepers, and
I would throw them back, Just throw them back, that's fine,
Let them grow up, let them get bigger. I'll go
catch them again and again and again and again until
they're so fat I can't get them in the boat.
Have speckl trout the size of manatee someday, wouldn't that
be kind of cool and scary?

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
Don't try to lip one of those.

Speaker 1 (01:53:30):
The bottom line is we, as stewards of these resources,
have to protect them, and protection these days means voting power.
If you don't have voting power, you can't protect anything
in the system we're in right now. You have to
be sure that the people in power, even if they
don't really participate in what you're doing and what you're

(01:53:51):
talking about, at least they understand it. At least they
understand it. Good Heavens, I gotta take a break. On
and on and on I go. But that's all very
important to me. Berry Hill sugar Land also pretty important.
We had a catered meal from berry Hill this week
right here in the office, and for the first time
in a long time, all the food was set up

(01:54:12):
before Will, my producer for fifty plus and I had
to go on the air. It was all set out,
all ready to go, and we got a nice full
plate I did, anyway of absolutely delicious, delicious text Mex
food from berry Hill. I had fish tacos, I had
a beef faheta, I had what else? I had guawk

(01:54:34):
and chips and salsa and beans and rice and tresleches,
of course to wash it all down. Berry Hill is
at Sweet White, not Sweetwater, Sugar Creek, all that sweetness
out there in sugar Land Sugar Creek Boulevard in fifty nine,
been there for thirty years. The two people primarily involved

(01:54:55):
with all the cooking that goes in goes into the
delicious text Mex food they'd served there have been in
the kitchen more than ten years. Apiece, delicious, consistent product,
great people. It's a very family friendly atmosphere. You don't
have to get all dressed up. There's no tablecloths when
you go in. There's boosting tables, family stuff to the left.

(01:55:17):
There's a sports bar area to the right, and then
as the nights get cooler, outdoor dining and you'll just
see that when you're walking toward the front door. Very unopposing,
very unimposing, and very friendly people. If you've never been
to sugar Land, never been to Berry Hill, I promise you,
because I've seen it happen, walk in there and just

(01:55:39):
look across the sports bar and say, hey, I'm brand
new to this place. Anybody want to make a new
friend tonight and somebody will call you over there. Somebody
will say, hey, come have a seat, man, let's watch
this game together. Be sure you're rooting for the right teams. Now,
this is a pretty loyal audience out there, I'm going
to tell you right straight up. Berry Hill sugar Land

(01:56:01):
dot com is the website. Go look at what they
have to offer, Look at the menu at bury Hill
and see if you don't want to go out there,
berryhillsugar Land dot com nine five on Sports Talk seven
ninety The Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening. It's tee
it up with the phone call. See what's going on
with Mark? What's up Mark?

Speaker 3 (01:56:23):
Hey? Does this is Mark Tardo down here at the
L's Rights is ranching into.

Speaker 1 (01:56:27):
Now what's going on down there? Man?

Speaker 3 (01:56:31):
Well, the other day I saw Buck nose to the crowd,
running running the dough boy here we go. Didn't think
much of it. But this morning I found a fresh
scrape and I'm like, whoa, Okay, So I'm just I'm
wondering what.

Speaker 1 (01:56:46):
You thought about it?

Speaker 3 (01:56:47):
What do you do? You think they're going to early
rep this year?

Speaker 1 (01:56:49):
Maybe, well, at least that one Buck is Yeah, he
might be the first one in the bar, so who knows. Yes,
they'll all be there at some point, but that yeah,
it seems a little bit early for me down where
you are. Yeah, if you were talking about the Gulf
Coast Prairie, it's pretty much over up here. Holy cow, man,

(01:57:10):
that's the first reut in the state. And it used
to drive me and my my friend Philip when we
had access to a place down on the Brazis River
up here, that by the time we'd get in there
and get both stand set up and all that, the
rout was pretty much done down there.

Speaker 3 (01:57:25):
That's yeah, I can imagine because these Texas we got
a ranch out in Centerville and they started running early there,
but I never would expected us down here. And now,
I mean, what.

Speaker 2 (01:57:38):
How did the deer look overall down there?

Speaker 1 (01:57:40):
Mark?

Speaker 3 (01:57:41):
Oh, they're looking real good. I mean, we feed a
lot of protein and it's all no genetics. Is one
pure natural uh, South Texas whitetail buck. Do you ever
find any anything like that, any genetics in this deer?
And they're looking real healthy. I mean we go through heck,
I guess h five or six tons I mean tons,

(01:58:01):
I'm sorry, barrels full of hoppers every two weeks full
of so they're going through it. They've got a really good, healthy,
healthy population down here, and heck, I'm excited to see
what the hunters get when they come in. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:58:14):
You got good antler development overall too, because you had
a good growing season, right.

Speaker 3 (01:58:19):
Yes, sir, Oh yeah, yeah, we got we got some
good rain that we sure needed in The antlers are
looking really good, I mean really good. You got some
You got some young bucks out there. That boy, you
can't wait till they get get of age.

Speaker 5 (01:58:31):
You can tell them, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:58:33):
And it when I talk to somebody like you who
understands the genetics and understands letting bucks grow, it's just
so refreshing because there are still some places where and
not necessarily down in your region of the state, but
in our state and other regions and certainly in other states. Man,

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if it's got antlers, it's hitting the ground.

Speaker 3 (01:58:57):
Oh no, I know, that's it's kind of hard for
for somebody you know that uh that doesn't get to
go out much and don't understand the process or something
like that. You know, of course they got an itchy
trigger finger, you know, they just want to do that.
But use that you pay it pay off in the end.
You let him get bigger and yeah and call, you know, calling.
My main thing I think about growing big deer is uh, uh, nature, habitat, routine,

(01:59:23):
and uh and calon. I mean those are pretty much
the three biggest things. Of course, there's a lot of
little in betweens in there, but you know, if you
keep on that plan, you could get you some good deer.

Speaker 2 (01:59:32):
I'll never forget. It was years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:59:33):
I don't know exactly how it may have been one
year either way on this, but back when the som
Burrito or when the what was it Mouie Grande contest
Bill Carter won. He had a deer he had his
eyes on and he ended up winning that contest one
year with a deer that I want to say was
nine and a half years old. Oh yeah, wow, you

(01:59:55):
would think that just on on his last leg, gray
hair all over his head and like probably like Bill
did at the same time. But yeah, he had he'd
been wanting that bucket. He got it and it ended
up winning the contest for him. And that deer was
old man, just had nothing for teeth left.

Speaker 3 (02:00:11):
There you go, you know, plus you get him. He
spread his jeans you know around here. Keep him down
the line, you know something. Ain't nothing wrong with that, dug.

Speaker 1 (02:00:20):
No, sir, no, sir. So do you guys are you
are you on your own place? Or do you guys
commercially hunt? What what's your operation?

Speaker 5 (02:00:28):
Well?

Speaker 3 (02:00:29):
No, this is ah, this is a commercial hunt.

Speaker 9 (02:00:31):
They do.

Speaker 3 (02:00:32):
Uh, they do commercial hunts out of here. And I'm
just a rancher here. I'm just a rancher here, so
I get to see all them, I get to see
all the fun stuff. Yeah, man, there's old a lot
of birds flying. Man. We have some hunters here now,
some dove hunters, and they're popping little baby kickens out
the sky.

Speaker 1 (02:00:48):
That the old fat was, big white wings. You got
white wings down there, I'm sure, yes.

Speaker 3 (02:00:52):
Sir, yes, yes, they did pretty good yesterday evening. I
probably cleaned thirty or forty of them.

Speaker 1 (02:00:59):
Lordy, you know we had what Parkson Wallleche department called
it a record hatch of doves this year. And everything
I'm hearing and seeing, I know there were some bad
spots somewhere, but I'm seeing a whole lot more good
hunts than bad ones this year. And it's it's a
refreshing change and It just goes to show that with
good management practices and a little bit of rain, we

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can we can still grow anything and everything just maxim out.

Speaker 2 (02:01:27):
And I'm so glad to hear your deer donn it.

Speaker 3 (02:01:29):
What's the name of the ranch again, It's called Las
Rasis Ranch. It's been here, took if they've been having
a thirty forty years generation. Wow, And like I said,
there's no gene. They're one hundred percent natural free. Well,
people build ranch fences, but they fenced in this ranch. Owners.
They were fenced in. Somebody fenced them in. The neighbor

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fenced them. And it's about a four thousand acre ranch,
so they're still pretty wild.

Speaker 2 (02:01:53):
Yeah, that's a good sized place.

Speaker 7 (02:01:56):
Yeah, they run everywhere.

Speaker 3 (02:01:58):
And we got we got a pretty good family neighbor,
Old Jeorge Strait is a neighbor on the east side.

Speaker 2 (02:02:02):
Oh my, look at you nave dropping.

Speaker 3 (02:02:05):
That's what I tell my friends all the time. They
go borrow a couple of milk from George. But you know,
it's a pretty good operation. I'm very honored and proud
to work here at this place. Well, it's one of
the best places I've seen.

Speaker 1 (02:02:19):
Good management like that does rep rewards like we were
talking about. Man, you got good bucks down there. Yeah,
shoot some pictures up here.

Speaker 3 (02:02:26):
I'd love to see them, man, Okay, I sure will.
And you know, goes out to the Barrett family. They're
the ones that put all the hard work into this ranch.
And shoot, I'm like I say, I'm honored to be
with them.

Speaker 1 (02:02:35):
Yeah, it's fun to be around people who really know
what they're doing and understand what it takes investment wise
to really build out a good, solid herded deer. It's
not it's not a cheap undertaking. I understand what they're
putting into it. Hats off to them for it. Man,
all right, great to hear from you. Don't be a stranger. Man,
Have you ever called before?

Speaker 4 (02:02:57):
I have.

Speaker 3 (02:02:58):
I'm going to call last year when I when I
missed that. Now guy over and.

Speaker 1 (02:03:03):
Yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 3 (02:03:05):
As a at the Santa Maria or we have you know,
that's our ranch in center real. Yeah, that won't happen again, dude.

Speaker 1 (02:03:13):
Okay, don't never say never. Man, all right, Mark, great
to hear from you again. Man, you audios what a Yeah,
what a great guy. Man, What a great guy. And
he's he's also kind of Ltd. In it, living the dream,
working on a ranch in South Texas. Got another place

(02:03:35):
he can go hunting, Neil guy, that's pretty fun. It's
good stuff. This whole state of ours is just loaded
with great people who greatly appreciate the outdoors, and I'm
just so thrilled and proud to be a part of it.
Air Ride bikes. Remember we talked to Wayne a little
while ago. I owe him one, and I'm gonna give
it to him right here. A great place to go

(02:03:56):
see what E bikes are about. Electric bike's been around
quite some time now. I learned already today that the
batteries of some of the imported bikes aren't up to snuff,
and that's why they've caused problems in the past and
still do in some cases. But if you buy one
from Wayne, you're gonna be buying a bike that's not

(02:04:17):
gonna have that problem. You're gonna be buying a bike
from someone who has local expertise, who has a good selection,
who is inactively involved in some local cycling clubs and
charities and community events, and every bike they sell gets
backed by professional assembly, and so you know that you're

(02:04:37):
not gonna have extra part don't try to build it yourself,
don't try to put it together yourself.

Speaker 2 (02:04:41):
Just let Wayne take care of it for you. They've
got those.

Speaker 1 (02:04:44):
New Rambo hunting bikes in there with a there's one
that's got a powerful like dual engines. Okay, there's a
there's a battery for each a battery and engine for
each of the wheels. And he calls it all wheel
drivers only. To it, it's just a bicycle, but it's
still you're delivering power to both wheels that can haul

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you and your heavyweight buddy and maybe a couple of
year deer out of the woods, even uphill. I would
imagine if you just go into full power mode. A
really amazing little store up there in Tomball Off two
forty nine. You can find it easily enough online, and
I know he would be glad to see you. I
know he would. We talked at length. If you didn't

(02:05:26):
hear the interview with him a little while ago at
eight thirty between eight thirty and nine, go back and
listen to it on the podcast.

Speaker 2 (02:05:32):
I've already had several people email me, where's this store again?

Speaker 1 (02:05:35):
Who can I talk to? Wayne Errington? Air Ride Bikes
dot Com a r r ide air ride That's how
he pronounces it. That's how he spells it a r
r ide bikes dot com, air ride bikes dot Com.
I'll hand it to you, Brett. All of these songs

(02:05:57):
I can sing along with them.

Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
I know the words. I've heard him for thirty forty years.

Speaker 1 (02:06:03):
However long. They're called classic for a reason.

Speaker 2 (02:06:06):
That's exactly right, man, And I'm in that.

Speaker 1 (02:06:08):
I'm in that.

Speaker 2 (02:06:10):
Wheelhouse. I'm in that generation.

Speaker 3 (02:06:12):
Well.

Speaker 10 (02:06:12):
I wanted to throw up some santana because he gets
woefully underplayed.

Speaker 1 (02:06:17):
Fantastic guitar player due Holy cow, Carlos, good guy?

Speaker 5 (02:06:24):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:06:24):
Is he still alive? Yes? And performing?

Speaker 10 (02:06:27):
I actually, oh my god, he has to You know,
he's sitting in a chair wheeling him out. No, he
he is in a non wheeled chair, but he is
in a chair on stage. Who's gonna go first?

Speaker 5 (02:06:40):
Him?

Speaker 2 (02:06:41):
Or or Mick Jagger?

Speaker 3 (02:06:43):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (02:06:44):
Man, I mean really, I'm surprised of the Rolling Stones.
How is Keith Richards so one?

Speaker 1 (02:06:49):
Yeah, that's the one that man some sense, because but Keith,
he may be an alien.

Speaker 3 (02:06:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:06:55):
Let me go talk to Brandon before he gets bored.

Speaker 1 (02:06:58):
Brandon, what's up, man, I'm doing good.

Speaker 4 (02:07:02):
Good.

Speaker 1 (02:07:05):
What's on your mind? You there? Brand?

Speaker 4 (02:07:17):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:07:20):
Oh we lost him? Call me back. Call me back, Brandon,
call me back. I have what I was gonna propose,
And maybe maybe we'll continue this discussion tomorrow, because I
think it would be kind of a fun one. If
you bought an e bike for outdoor adventure whatnot? What

(02:07:42):
accessories would you put on it? Cause when kayaks came out,
everybody was just kind of happy to have a kayak
and they drop a rod and reel in there a
little tackle box and just paddle away and go have
a lot of fun. And now if you look at
the at the kayaks of people who take kayaking really seriously,

(02:08:07):
they have full displays of electronics, they have multiple rods
and rod holders, they have ten tons of tackle, They've
got all kinds of gadget. It's amazing, you can It's
kind of like the space that's available for them to
actually fish is very limiteds like crawling into an F

(02:08:29):
one cockpit or something. They just can barely get around
all their gear to get in there and push the
button to start their trolling motor. Which I don't know,
and I respect that, and I would I would love
to have a trolling motor or at least pedal power
on a kayak. I don't know that I would. I

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don't know that my shoulders could get me very far
in back the way I am at this point in
my life. I'm not out of shape, but I'm not
in the shape I was when I the very first
time I jumped in a kayak and paddled off and
thought I could paddle around the world, which I had

(02:09:12):
learned that I couldn't. But nonetheless I'm not there anymore. So, yeah,
a little extra power wouldn't hurt my legs. Still, I
think my legs could still go certainly farther than my arms.
I don't know what happened to Brandon, and I hope
he calls back. Hope he's okay. Anyway, some of the
things that Brett and I. Brett's in here, by the way,
because Frankie's out. As we talked about in the first hour,

(02:09:34):
He's got back to back wedding weekends to attend, neither
of them his own. To the best of my knowledge,
he's not getting married, is he, Brett? I don't believe so. No, okay,
but he's been invited and he is in that age
group as we talked about. So some of the accessories
we're gonna need on our e bike just off the
tops of our heads. I'm gonna put saddle bags on

(02:09:56):
the thing for all of miscellaneous junk I'm gonna drop
into it.

Speaker 3 (02:10:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:10:01):
Brett brought up the gun rack that's absolutely got to
be on it, a little a trailer hitch, and perhaps
the little trailer to throw your friend in there who
didn't have the have the foresight to buy his own
e bike and he wants you to drag him all
over the ranch. Oh, in that van, you could have
a sidecar sidecar. Oh gosh, Oh, I don't even know

(02:10:24):
if that's available yet. But if it's not, then you
and I need to start a little sidecar business, a
little side hustle sidecar business for e bikes. Somebody's got
to make one of those already.

Speaker 4 (02:10:35):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:10:36):
It's gonna have to have some independent lighting.

Speaker 10 (02:10:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:10:39):
But do the question I have on that is do
you do you just run it off of your bike
battery or do you provide independent power for it? Well,
I'm gonna have to get Wayne on again. I can
see that now. And something else that I don't think
very many people would think of to put on this
e bike, but because it's not gonna really impede your

(02:11:02):
progress at all, a legitimate first aid kit. Okay, that's
that's the safety sam in me. You gotta have a
first aid kit because you're gonna be a long waist
with that e bike. You're gonna be much farther away
than you would be if you were walking, much farther
away than you would be if you were or farther
away from help at least. Then if you're just being

(02:11:23):
dropped off by somebody, you're gonna be out there on
your own, and as long as you don't get too
far from that bike. The beauty of these bikes is
you can just drive them right up under a stand
and just hop onto the ladder and get up in
that deer stand, park them right there on the beach
and start casting all kinds of cool stuff. And Brett,

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for some reason, I'll use the exact two words you used, brett.
A cushier seat, damn cold. What Why do you need
a cushier seat? What are you trying to say? I
wouldn't want one of those one of those banana seats
that they have, like on the tour de front bicycles

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that would be horribly uncomfortable hunting in hunting gear.

Speaker 10 (02:12:12):
It seems like those seats are designed to be painful.
I'm sure there must be some practical thing make you
want to finish faster and put a little thumbtack in it.

Speaker 1 (02:12:24):
What I could see though, is I could almost see
converting to an old school like sixties and seventies banana
seat on the bike on a knee bike for that,
because I don't know why, but it just seems like
it might be more comfortable, or at least one of
the bigger padded seats like you see on some of

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these off road beach bicycles and whatnot. And then Captain
Scott Wade in a little while ago talking about tires
for these things and the different types of tires. I
haven't heard back. I don't think I asked him. How
wide would you think the tires would need to be

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for beach and for woods? I don't think I'd be
riding around and yeah, Scott Wade, back wider the better.
Most are in the four inch range with an off
road knobby tread. That makes perfect sense to me. And
if they ever made one I think they could. They
could probably do well, especially beach wise, with something with

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about a six inch tire, but that six inch tire
would have to be accommodated under a wider frame, and
I doubt that any of the manufacturers is going to
be all gung ho about about having to retool the
front ends and back ends of their bicycle frames. So
there you go. Let's see this right on the site.

(02:13:54):
Different names. Okay, yeah, yeah, I'll check into that, Billy.
There's all kinds, all kinds of bicycles or e bikes
out there, and I'm glad that we found somebody who
can take care of this audience of ours.

Speaker 2 (02:14:10):
Guy Lee, We're almost out of time, aren't we.

Speaker 1 (02:14:12):
Holy cow? Okay, I'm gonna dig into the first aid kit,
the saddle bags, and the a basic toolkit I put
on there too. Because little mechanical things can go wrong,
something loosens up on you somehow, it would not hurt
since you're gonna have room for it. It would not
hurt to have a small toolkit available because you are

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talking about something mechanical. It'd be like like driving your
car down the street and not having a jack. That
wouldn't be a good idea or a lug wrench, not
that I'm gonna be well, you're not carrying a spare tire.
If your an e bike gets a flat and the
battery goes, dad, you're just out of luck. You're walking back,
and you're just walking back and getting somebody to drag

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you back out there in a truck. Go pick up
your old, tired, tired, dead e bike.

Speaker 3 (02:15:03):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (02:15:03):
I really like this concept.

Speaker 2 (02:15:04):
I'm fascinated by it.

Speaker 1 (02:15:06):
I might have to get one of those. I think
it sounds fun. All right, I'll be back tomorrow at
eight am, bright and early, gentlemen's early. This is that's
quail hunter early. That's breakfast time for quail hunters. It's
not duck hunting early. I guarantee it. That's more like
three hours earlier. Anyway, I'll be here at eight. I
hope all of you are back with me. If you
can be and be thinking about what you put on

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your e bike, I would really be curious to know
if I've.

Speaker 2 (02:15:30):
Missed anything essential.

Speaker 1 (02:15:32):
That's it for now. Thanks a lot, get out and
have some fun with your family. Be safe, please, above
all else. Audios