Critters in the Car!

Originally aired on January 3, 2026. Doug welcomes the listeners into 2026 by encouraging first time callers to dial in to the show. Doug and the callers tell stories where there may have been some unwanted passengers in your personal vehicle. All this and more, on The Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug Bike.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Oh mercy me, Frankie. When I called you yesterday, I
was all fired up, and like I told you, I
wanted to come back in here. I didn't want to
be going another weekend. I didn't have any solid plans
any place I had to be or wanted to be.
It was just gonna be kind of a lazy weekend.

(00:23):
Just said, just just sit around, hang out, maybe go
do something here, do something there, but nothing really formal.
And I thought, why don't I just go on in
and do the show. Why not? Why take another weekend
off when I don't really need to, don't really have to.
And so I called Frankie last night, said, hey, man,

(00:45):
are you going to be in there in the morning.
I don't want to make you come down there for
no reason, but I'm thinking about coming in and doing
the show instead of taking another vacation weekend. He said, well,
I'm probably going to be there. I got stuff to do.
And it's like Frankie heat He's always got something to
do around here. And so I said, well, I'll tell
you what. Let's just let's just do the show live.

(01:06):
We'll do it live. And so here I am. And
when I I'll straight up to you. When that alarm
went off this morning, Frankie, if i'd have had if
i'd have had a hammer in my hand and i'd
have smacked it, I could have gone back to sleep.
I was sleeping better than I have in a long time, too,

(01:26):
And that's the frustrating part. So I've had trouble sleeping
for quite a while and it's partially my own fault.
And part of that fault was that I haven't been
doing enough exercise to really get myself tired. There's kind
of the old joke about there aren't a whole lot
of roofers and construction workers with insomnia. You know, if

(01:47):
you work hard enough doing physical labor all day, you're
gonna fall asleep and you're gonna stay there until the
alarm goes off. So I started. I started back to
really moving and stretching and doing things that I need
to be doing to maintain this this atlas like physique
that I carry. What are you laughing at? In any event, Yeah,

(02:11):
I was tired last night. I went to sleep, fell
right to sleep, only got up twice in the middle
of the night, which is not bad for me. And
when that alarm went off this morning at five point thirty. Like, hmm, okay,
now I tipped my cap to the guys who are
still getting out of bed at three thirty four o'clock
in the morning. I'm sure you got up earlier than

(02:34):
I did. Well, you probably get up around the same
time for today, Frankie, or no, just a little bit earlier. Okay, Yeah,
you had a little bit more of a drive maybe.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, yeah, I think think about half an hour. But yeah,
it was like hardly anybody on the road, so thank goodness.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, In any event, here I am and I am
glad to be here, no kidding. And this here's what
I'm kind of looking at today. I made some notes
last night before I went to bed, and like I said,
I was going to take another vacation week, but there
were some things that I wanted to kind of work on,
and it wouldn't have been as effective if I had

(03:11):
waited until next week to try to pull this off,
because what I want to do is talk. First of all,
I want to talk about your greatest hits from last year.
If you still want to go with that. We did
a little bit of that last week, but if there's
still something that you missed or you just kind of
were too shy to call and talk about whatever. That's fine,

(03:33):
bring it on today. And then today I want as
many of us who as possible to kind of talk
about what you want to work on in the outdoors
or in your own golf game, or just whatever you
want to do this better or more than you did
in twenty twenty five. It's pretty simple. And I'm also,

(03:55):
I'll tell you straight up, i want to see how
many first time callers we can get to this show.
And I'm I'm hanging myself out there. I know that
might not get any first time callers, but what I
want to do is try to bring more people into
these conversations that we have. I love all the guys
who are calling, everybody who's called, everybody who called last year,

(04:18):
call some more, keep coming because I've got a really
good bunch of people on that list. Would you agree, Frankie.
They're all pretty good callers, Oh yeah, and they bring
something to the show. That's what I'm trying to find
is more people who are like that. And when I'm out,
when I'm talking to people just at random, at gatherings wherever,

(04:40):
a lot of them. I'm kind of shy. I don't
want to talk on the on the radio. It'll scare me,
it makes me anxious, it makes me whatever. Well, just relax,
it's just it's just you and me just chatting. That's
all we're doing. We're talking about something cool that happened.
You can tell me a story about something awesome that
happened all the way back to your childhood. Keep it

(05:02):
in the outdoors or golfy. Let's try and make sure
that we stay on topic around here. But also with
the with an asterisk that says, hey, if it's a
good story and you want to tell it, maybe you
got a great memory about your dad when he shared
his favorite pocket knife with you when you were a
little kid. That would have to actually, that would have

(05:24):
to go back a long ways because right these days, Uh,
if a dad gave a kid a pocket knife and
he carried it to school proudly to show it at
show and tell, they'd probably uh, there'd be a teacher meeting.
You can you parent teacher meeting. You know that kid
might get suspended, you'd have they'd send him to an
alternative school because he was a danger to society.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, And that's where we are right now. Seven one three,
two one two five seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike
at Eye to Heart, iHeartMedia dot Com. Very simple. I'll
be watching those throughout the program. And if you've listened
long enough, you know that sometimes I'll go in half
an hour without checking emails. That I apologize for that,
but it's just there's a lot of juggling going on

(06:07):
in here as I'm doing right now to try and
get something off my screen that I don't need on
my screen, and there's another one I don't need, and
what's going on here? Okay, I've got that off there. Uh,
this may be one of those times when what's going
on I think I may have carried my mouse over here. Yeah, no,

(06:29):
it doesn't look like what. I'm just gonna take all
of that off, get off my screen, beg one. There
we go. That's much better. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Email on me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot Com. I'm hesitating. I've got two pretty good
stories already from the new year, Frankie, not from last year.
I'm talking about I started the year with a bang

(06:51):
two days and I got two good stories, and I'm
debating whether or not to save one or both for
later in the program. And it's kind of a build
up thing. You got to hang around to find out
what happened. I'll tell you half of the first story
for now. Yesterday was the day that I had to

(07:14):
take all the stuff back to storage, from all the
Christmas decorations back to storage. Okay, so my son and
I get out there, we load up my vehicle back
to front. And by the way, he's got plans with
his friends, so he can't go over and help me unload.
I'm gonna have to unload all that stuff myself. That's okay.

(07:37):
He's got big plans all the time. Usually they usually
revolve around things that I need his help with. So
he's getting better about it though. To be honest, I
mean he did. He stayed a little longer than he
should have or could have. I'll let him off the
hook this time because he is a good kid overall.

(07:59):
By the way, his great came out yesterday, the second
first semester grades I guess brought is He's rock solid,
rock solid, Frankie, I'm not I'm not worried at all
about that kid's grades. I haven't been since he was
a little bitty kid. He's always done well. He scared
us a few times, all these progress reports. Were you, Frankie,

(08:19):
certainly you were. You were the kid who did all
your homework way early, weren't you. Weren't you mess up?
I don't know about that, but well, I'm gonna leave
a little balance in the universe then, because mine would
wait till the very last minute. And he he is
notorious for calculating how much extra credit he might get

(08:41):
if he goes ahead and does a late assignment, because
if it's one, that doesn't count much. Even if he
turns it in, it's already late, so he's not gonna
get much credit. So he just says he'll just focus
on the bigger response, the bigger assignments, and darned if
he doesn't. He National Honor Society and all that stuff.
So more power to him. But he's very calculating, and

(09:04):
he does things like that. He weighs the benefit over
maybe going and hanging out with his friends, like you
got to learn not to hang out with your friends
as much as you do. But again, he's eighteen, he's
having fun, and he is he is very responsible. I'll
give him that. He's gonna come into the second story,

(09:25):
by the way, the first story. So the car's loaded
up front to back. I got drive and Explorer, and
I'm out of pickup trucks. I don't know if for good,
but I'm out of him for now anyway. And they
just and there's a long story behind that that I
told you three years ago. Now I guess almost four.

(09:45):
In any event, I'm over there. I get well, I'm
not even there yet, not the storage yet. I get
in my car and I look in the passenger seat
where normally, if my son hadn't had a major rush
to get to his friend's house or something they were
doing later, I wouldn't have noticed. Well, he would have

(10:07):
been in that seat. Guess what was in that seat, Frankie,
I don't know. What about a six inch brown lizard?
Oh yeah, riding shotgun? Okay, there's this lizard. And instinctively
I reach over there and try to catch him. No
free rides, man. I reach over and try to catch him,
and he scampers, scurries. I don't know exactly what to

(10:30):
call it, but he h tails it out of that
front seat and disappears under it gone. Okay, I'd like
an idiot. I put my head down over on the
floorboard and get my phone out and look under there.
He's already found a hiding spot. I don't know where
he is. Okay, there's more to this story, and I'll

(10:51):
tell you what. I'll tell you that when we get back.
I'm gonna go ahead and get to this first break
because I've led up to the next chapter in the
Lizard story and I don't want to I don't want
to try to rush it. In any event, El Cubano
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(11:14):
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on the planet. And he just happens to own one
of only four dozen cigar manufacturing facilities in the entire country.
And it happens to be in Texas City, right there
on Main Street. If you've never been to Main Street

(11:36):
in Texas City, it's not big and hard to navigate.
It's just right there in front of it. This is
a small town main street and there it is Elcubano Cigars.
You walk in, it's just a nice, comfortable smoking lounge.
In the back is where they manufacture all those cigars,
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(11:57):
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(12:19):
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(12:43):
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(13:04):
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Speaker 4 (13:18):
Eighteen on the third of January twenty twenty six, with
a handful of people who still write checks, you'll write
twenty twenty five, two or three times before you don't
make the mistake anymore.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
All right, Frank, you want to get back to this
lizard story, Let's do it, and as soon as soon
as I tell you where it happened. So anyway, so
here's the deal. Let's recap real quickly. When I head
to the storage facility yesterday, sit down in my car
and look, and I've got a six inch brown lizard

(13:56):
riding shotgun. And by the way they've taken they've taking
up residents. I'm gonna have to put a stop to this,
I really am, because they've taken up residents and all
the little wheepholes along the bricks at the where they
meet the slab. You know what I'm talking about. I
do not. It's like a condo complex. Well, your house
has to breathe, okay, there's got to be air getting
in and getting out. Houses down in the south are

(14:18):
built to expel heat. Houses in the north built the
hold heat. And anyway, if you look along the slab
where the slab and the bricks meet, about every two
or three bricks, there's gonna be a gap where there
should where you would think there should be grout. You
know what I'm talking about now, right, yeah? Yeah, those
are the wheepoles. Okay. And these lizards they showed up

(14:40):
about I don't know, four or five, six years ago,
maybe ten years ago. I can't recall. Oh look there's
a little brown lizard to go with the green ones,
and I know what it and OLDI is. I know
they can change colors and all that stuff, but these
are clearly a different species. They've got racing stripes on
their backs and stuff. And now there's a lot of them,
and it is it's like they've got an apartment complex

(15:01):
going with all these wheepoles. There's lizards in every one
of them. And there's one big place where I've actually
seen them coming and going on a routine basis. This
is like that, maybe the manager's office or something like that.
So anyway, we've got these things, and clearly enough that
one of them has just had it and he wants out,

(15:24):
so he jumps in when I leave the door open.
I don't know how this thing got into the car
to get into the front seat, other than the fact
that we had it left open for a little while.
But what on earth would inspire this creature to jump
six eight times its body length vertically. It's not a
mountain lion, and it jumps in the car. So I

(15:49):
can't find it. I can't find it. I can't find it.
And I'm driving to work this morning, and I'm just
about to get on the freeway. I'm accelerating. I've got
my eyes on my rear view mirror to make sure
there's nothing coming up, and so helped me. Something runs
across my leg, just runs across my leg. Now, if

(16:11):
I hadn't if I hadn't seen that lizard in the
car yesterday and that had happened, I may have just
driven off into a ditch. It would have been some
sort of who knows it would have It would have
made TV. I would have I would have to send

(16:31):
my story and just swear that it was some sort
of manifestation of something. I don't know what it would
have been, but it if I hadn't known that lizard
was in the car, and if my mind weren't still
as sharp as it is, or my wife would tell
you differently. I realized in probably a tenth of a second,

(16:53):
I'll be first to tell you. As soon as I
felt those little, teeny tiny lizard feet on my leg,
I wasn't sure, but then it just like, oh wait, yeah,
I got a passenger, And like an idiot, I spent
about twenty seconds trying to find him when I got
to work here, but I needed to get on in,
and I thought, really, he's got so much more room
to cover, he has so many hiding places in there,

(17:15):
and that dark vehicle in a dark parking garage, almost
dark parking garage. So I just came on in. So anyway, yeah,
I had a lizard first of all, just joined me
for a ride to the storage facility yesterday. And now
it's out there in our garage and I'm not sure
I can find him when I'm done, and if he

(17:37):
runs across my leg one more time. I'm not going
to be responsible for what I do to him. When
I catch him. He might just he might just have
to spread his wings and fly. Let me go. See
what's on Dan's mind? Dan, what's up? My old friend?

Speaker 5 (17:54):
A Happy New Year photo?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Happy New Year?

Speaker 5 (17:57):
Oh no, This a friend of mine and it lives
up between Mountain Home, Yeoville, Arkansas. Yeah. One day he
got a beat up four wheel dive picked up. One
day he was on his way into town, and just
out of the corner of his eye he noticed something.
He looked over and there was a big old rat
sitting on the back of the seat, just sitting there, riding.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Down the road like a dog. Wood like where we going.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
He got his head out the window, little ears flapping.

Speaker 6 (18:25):
It was funny the way he told it.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
It was just funny, funny thing the new Year. We'll
see all right, dad, Thanks, I'll see you only cow,
oh a rat? What else have you had in your car?
There's no way that Rick Bise hadn't had a snake
or some other animal in his truck. He's had these

(18:48):
trucks of his. He keeps him for three hundred, four
hundred thousand miles. There's no way if he's listing this
morning and not sitting in a deer stand somewhere, there's
bound to been something crawled in with him. Uh, what's
the over and under? The over and under? I think
he's going to be like possum or or raccoon. He
may have had if he left the doors open. He

(19:10):
may have had a raccoon in his truck. I'm I'm
going with raccoon. You want to go with something else, Frankie.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
I got to think about this for a little bit,
but yeah, I had I heard his story a long
time ago from my uh my grandfather who would go
out into the oil fields where. Yeah, no, it was
I think they had a Oh no, no, no, no, it wasn't that.

Speaker 7 (19:34):
It was.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
It was to do I think with the Baylor Bears
and the Aggie Say.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
I think it was.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
That they took one of the mascots and then they
got right back after them, and sure, something to do
with a bear in a car and oh no.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, it was something like that.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Oh my word, I don't remember all of it, but
you know they got it.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I bet they don't either, to be perfectly honest, it
was something like that. I was like, it's crazy the car,
but yeah, yeah, I'm not going. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (20:14):
You know.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Somebody emailed me the other day asking if we had
bears again in black and Black Bears in Texas, and yeah,
we do out in the Big Bend area there far
West Texas, yes, far East Texas. Yes, inside the Loop no,
but there are there are bears in Texas again. And
there was something significant about the story. I can't recall

(20:37):
what it was right now, it'll it'll come to me. Yeah, Dan,
I love that story about the rat. I can just
see it just propped up on the on the little
arm rest with it with its little paws on the
window sill, and just just lean it out like a
dog and his little ears just flap and away. That'd
be pretty cool. Seven one three, two two five seven

(20:58):
ninety Email me. Doug pick at Ihart media doc. Appreciate
that call from Dan Man. He's been listening for years
and years and years. He used to be a long
haul trucker And like there are others. I know there
are some out there because I get calls and emails
from them every now and then. Who listen all over
the country. I guess almost almost Aaron would qualify as

(21:18):
a long haul trucker because he drives a big old
pickup truck and he man. Not too many people log
more miles than he does doing the work he does,
building building out the interiors of giant warehouses with amazing
expertise by the way he and his crew. He's sent
me pictures for years of the work that they do,

(21:41):
and it's pretty amazing. Anytime you see a video in
a newscast or something about the inside of a giant warehouse,
whether it's one of the shipping places or just an
any company that needs a giant warehouse, that's what he
does is to make those things operates smoothly and create

(22:02):
as much storage as possible. They're working off of plans.
They don't just walk in and say let's try this,
but man, it all has to be done to extreme detail.
And that's that's what Aaron and the boys do, and
they do it all over the country.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
Man.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
When he at the height of his traveling, I was
getting a little he showed me a map once. Actually
he sent me a map of where he'd been that year,
and it was like somebody just dropped a big bag
of red marbles on a map of the United States,
just everywhere seven three two one two five seven ninety
email and we Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. It's

(22:42):
it's really when I woke up and got up and
started moving, I think, oh man, I wish I would
have just slept, but already just hearing from Dan. I
hadn't talked to him in a long time, and some
of the emails I've gotten this morning. Yeah, I'm glad
I came in here. And the coffee start to kick
in now too. I don't drink coffee other than down here.

(23:03):
I rarely will have a cup of coffee other than
when I'm here, and so when I do drink it,
and when I've been away for a little while, it
hits me like a freight train. And I'm already I'm
about a third of a about half a cup in
right now. And yeah, there's by the way, there's some
big breaking news. I just talked to Erica in the newsroom,

(23:27):
and I'm not really appropriate for here, but there is
big breaking news and might want to go get online
or something like that and just take a look at
what's going on in the world. Pretty interesting, very interesting development.
If I do say so myself seven one, three, two,
two five seven ninety email me. Oh there's another email, Okay,
I'll take care of that during the break. I'm not

(23:48):
going to do that now, Frankie, we teed up with
that one. Or no almost. Oh, he's talking to somebody.
He's gonna let me know who it is and then
I'm gonna bring them up first time or I hope
I'm like I said right when I came in looking
for first times and all, this is no first time.
Or here here's this is right? Here is a frequent flyer. Andre.

(24:08):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Man?

Speaker 8 (24:10):
Hey, man, I could be better? Okay, God that I
survived or falled in my house?

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Oh no, what'd you break?

Speaker 8 (24:21):
I didn't break anything?

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Oh oh man, oh man.

Speaker 8 (24:29):
I'm embarrassed and bruised.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
But why are you embarrassed? People fall down all the time.

Speaker 9 (24:36):
You know.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
That's something that I think folks our age. You and me.
We got a few miles on our tires, okay, and
every now and then we're gonna trip over a throw
rug or just make a misstep, And as long as
you don't break anything, it's it's almost like a it's
like no foul, you know, it's gonna hurt. Okay, you
already know it's gonna hurt.

Speaker 10 (24:57):
Oh no, why and when you have to tell your
kids and your break here, Hey, uh, this is what happened.

Speaker 8 (25:08):
Hey, they they laughed like crazy.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
But hey, you know why they're laughing.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
What the reason they're laughing, Andrea is because you're Okay,
That's why they're there, you know, and that Thank God
they better. Thank God that you didn't break anything, you.

Speaker 8 (25:24):
Know, exactly. Good luck gave me sixty one years back
the first week of December. So hey, I'm grateful. I
am grateful.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
I'm so glad to hear from you man, what you
got on your mind.

Speaker 8 (25:40):
Parachute, Colorado, Okay city, Sitting in my truck, windows down,
nice beautiful day in the mountain and Bambabad flies in
it and lands dead top steering wheel and I have

(26:06):
emptipids because I'm allergic.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh no, I gotta hit that EpiPen.

Speaker 8 (26:14):
If you could have seen me trying to get that.

Speaker 9 (26:17):
Oh my word, I ad nine thousand feet above sea
level and I mail like this truck and the oxygen
just comes off and I passed out.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Oh my gosh, holy cow.

Speaker 8 (26:35):
You know when you're at that kind of elevation. You're
not used to it, and you make something news, your
oxygen level just goes to zero.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh my gosh, holy cow.

Speaker 11 (26:49):
But I passed out.

Speaker 8 (26:51):
Wow, thank god my son was with me.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Oh yeah, you've had little angels on your shoulders all
your life, haven't you. Wow.

Speaker 8 (27:05):
My grandparents. When my grandfather passed at eighty nine years old,
they had been married years.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Oh my gosh, we call.

Speaker 8 (27:16):
My grandmother passed at one hundred and six months four
days old.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
I've been blessed you have, Andrea, you have man, so
good to hear from you.

Speaker 8 (27:27):
I think I'm good to talk to you and let
you know that still, And I don't people go be
waking up. Man, loved it.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
I'm a I've been laughing since you started. Man, Thank you, Andrea.
It's great to hear from you. Happy New Year's.

Speaker 8 (27:42):
Man, take care of happy New Years.

Speaker 12 (27:45):
All right.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
See, all right, we're gonna take a break when we
get back. I'm gonna see it up right away with Jim,
who's been patiently waiting for a little while. Already sounds
to me, according to Frankie's got a pretty good story
to tell. Mary shooting centers out there on West Timer
Parkway between Katie and Highway six. Very easy to find.
Can't miss those big old berms out there that have

(28:06):
been accepting rifle and pistol rounds and shot gun led
flying through the air, breaking targets for the better part
of close to I'll say, close to thirty years. I'm
not sure exactly how long. Edar Riggy bought that place
about six eight, ten years ago maybe, I think, and
vowed to make it more user friendly, better than ever,

(28:28):
with more opportunities, and he has. It's the largest non
military shooting facility in the entire country, excuse me, in
the state. There may be some bigger somewhere else. Nothing
bigger in Texas, I know that much. Got two hundred
plus shooting stations, three sporting plays courses, ten trap and
ski fields, five stands set up all over the place.

(28:48):
Partridge in a period, No, No, that's the wrong story.
There is the rifle and pistols start at five yards
and go out to six hundred yards, a special wing
shooting area for beginners. There's a pop up silhouette way.
Ain't silhouette range for rim fire shooting. Just a fun, enjoyable,
absolutely safe place to enjoy the shooting sports and there's

(29:09):
plenty of instruction available if you're not breaking targets or
hitting bulls eyes the way you want. American Shooting Centers
dot Com is a website. Go check it out. American
Shooting Centers dot Com seven thirty seven on Sports Talk
seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening,
promises made promises, kep Let's go talk to Jim. Hey, Jim,

(29:32):
what's up man? Thank you for holding on. I really
appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (29:35):
Oh you bet, Now you got perfect timing. I just
finished my ship Ley's bowld As Klotche, So that was good.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Time, right, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (29:44):
But I heard y'all talking about the critters and all that.
It reminded me of time way back in the seventies.
A bunch of us guys were out there deer hunting
in Atlanto area, you know, just having a good time
and more than more and more camaraderie than anything. But
we decided after the hunt that we'd run to the
town and get some adult beverages, so to speak, and

(30:08):
came back and saw an armadilla. So we tried to
catch its armadilla and we ended up catching one of
the smaller ones, and we left him in a little
box in the.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Bronco and.

Speaker 7 (30:22):
Came back later and had forgotten about him. Woke up
the next morning and remembered, well, he wasn't in the
box and we couldn't find him, so we couldn't figure
out if we'd let him out or not. Well, later
on that afternoon we started to pack up and leave
and the guy starts up his air conditioner and it

(30:43):
wasn't working quite right, and he was kind of looked
a little closure in the vent there and you could
see that armadilla's nose. He had crawled up in the
dash and we tried to get him out, but apparently
he was kind of locked.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Up in there, you know, flash and everything.

Speaker 7 (31:01):
I finally convinced the guy today you need to take
him the mechanic and yeah, and because there's no telling
what kind of wiring and stuff he'll pull out if.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
You that's a good point.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
But oh yeah, it was.

Speaker 7 (31:15):
One of those fun times, you know, those stupid fun
times when you're young, you know that you have a
wild hair and decided to sure have a little bit
of fun. You know, I'm sure you've had more than
a couple of handfuls of those.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Lord, yeah, yeah, we all kinds of crassy stuff and
army tella though that that's so far that's the largest
thing that's been in anybody's car. I take that back.
Who was the bear? Frank? Is that bear story real?

Speaker 3 (31:42):
That? That's an old nineteen fifties story where some aggies
went and stole the bear.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
It was? It was a Baylor bear. Yeah, oh bear cub. Okay,
Well that's better than just having a big old grizzly
bear getting your car.

Speaker 7 (31:55):
All right, hey, Jim, about half grown, So it wasn't
it wasn't too big, but it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Big enough to you you wouldn't want it to die
in your dashboard.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Oh heck now.

Speaker 7 (32:07):
And then I kind of remember it too, because some
of my buddies and my brother passed hom So it
reminds me of good times with you.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yes, indeed, man, that's that's boy. We had some fun
in the seventies, didn't we.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 7 (32:20):
Oh yeah, Actually I've talked to you several times. I
used to hunt with you and bow all the time.
Oh wow, yeah, out on the Katie Prairie, sir.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, I remember that game. Pray pretty well too. Well,
I'm glad to hear from you, Jim. That's a good
one man.

Speaker 7 (32:33):
Thank you for hanging on you bet, Thank you, Doug.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yes, a happy new year, Happy new year to you.
All right, let's go talk to Dave. Hey, Dave, how
those ribs?

Speaker 13 (32:43):
Happy?

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Happy new year, Happy new year, buddy.

Speaker 13 (32:45):
We're doing pretty good.

Speaker 9 (32:47):
You know.

Speaker 13 (32:48):
I'll tell you about that in a minute. But hey,
I just took a picture and send it to you.
The Texas A and N boys going out. But boy,
they got a lot of sponsors on that boat, let
me tell you. And it was two of them going
out at eight fma thirty over you're heading out on
Lake Conrod.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Have they got they got a college tournament going on?

Speaker 12 (33:05):
Then I take it no, I guess from practicing, you know,
but I mean, you know how they got a practice
and repractice, you know they know, no on the ribs.

Speaker 13 (33:17):
What happened was un you know, my stomach. I had
some stomach problems, and all of a sudden, I just
I got it got hurting so bad that it split second,
you know, I couldn't blacked out a little bit, and
then I spended my side and then I got my
my my elbow stuck into my ribs, so I broke

(33:37):
seven and eight. Yeah, and anyway, they pumped me with
antibiotic they let me out. But the good thing of
the story is I get home on New Year's Eve afternoon,
and uh, I go in the house and everything, and
I took stuff in and you know, I was doing okay.
I mean, I had the whole side crushed eight years ago,

(33:57):
so this ain't nothing. So then the doorbell ring and
then I so by the time I got back out
the garage, there wasn't nobody there. And I looked across
the street and the three sisters across the street. They're
like in fifth more than third grade, and they were
standing there and the dad was behind them, and I
walked across the street. They handed me three little bags

(34:18):
of potato chips, and I folded up a piece of
paper with some mens in it, and they said, get well,
mister Dave, and I said thank you, and I turned around,
and when I walked to the driveway, I heard them
behind me say we love you. Oh hey, listen to this.

(34:39):
So on this card, it's a handwritten card to Guitar
Day from the girls to Guitar Days. I hope you
feel better, and thank you for the Christmas presents we
had been praying for you. To get better with a
big heart and happy New Year's.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
The girls your dave get well. Man, I'm not gonna
make you laugh because I know that would hurt your ribs.

Speaker 13 (35:04):
Hey, I tell you what, I'm gonna frame this man,
because that's that's that's like a trophy, buddy. No other
than that, I'm not ready to go back fishing, you
know me. I'm getting all my gear together and go
for it.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Go for it, man, just if you need if you
get catch a really if you hook a really big fish,
you're gonna have to holler for help. Those ribs are.

Speaker 13 (35:24):
Not I know that's right.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Get them that she's a smaller hook and a smaller
piece of bait, and hope for the best day.

Speaker 9 (35:31):
You know what.

Speaker 13 (35:32):
Another thing I've thought about, I'm gonna talk to their
dad and then oh that about coaching, Yeah, because I mean,
the oldest girl she's gonna be, she's wanting to play
flag football. So I've been coaching her with her dad
over there on plays and stuff and this and that,
and then uh, then I'm thinking I'm gonna come down
here and get everything set up one day and then

(35:54):
I'll call him and he don't even have to have
a fish advice, just bring them down here as long
as he don't sure. Then they just set up and
now you can help them catch Put the barbers on
here and catch them perk.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
That sounds good. All right, man, I got a bouncey.

Speaker 13 (36:08):
I know you got to go.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Happy New Year, dave, Yes, sir, thank you you bet audios.
All right, we got to take another little break here.
On the way out, I'll tell you about Timber Creek
Golf Club. Timber Creek's been around the better part of
it's close to thirty years. If it's not. It's kind
of like American, kind of like all a lot of
places that were popping up back in that era, and

(36:32):
it's it's fantastic. Twenty seven holes over there off off
FM twenty three p fifty one in friends With about
three four miles west of the golf freeway. Very easy
to find, great food in the cafe there. People all
over the property just riding around. Want to make sure
you're having a good time. Make sure you got something
to drink, make sure you got little snacks to eat.

(36:54):
If you need them and an excellent teaching staff thanks
to JJ Woods teaching a cat to me at timber Creek.
JJ moved in there, i want to say, about two
years ago now, somewhere in there, and I've heard nothing
but good about what he's doing with the folks who
are taking advantage of him and his staff down there
at timber Creek. You can make yourself at a tea

(37:15):
time right now, and it probably won't be a very
bad day. It's a beautiful day outside right now. It's
gonna be a little windy like it has been for
a little while lately, but it's not gonna be eighty
seven degrees. It's gonna be nice today. I think I'm
not sure exactly what the high is later on this afternoon,
we got a little weather coming in, a dry front.
It's gonna cool things off again and get more wintry.

(37:35):
Not real winter, but Houston winter anyway. Timber Creek Golf
Club dot Com is the website. Go make yourself at
tea time, go play Timbercreek goolf Club dot com. Seven
fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dug Pike Show.
Thanks for listening. I don't know who that was. Who
was just trying to call, but call back. I can

(37:56):
get you on early quick, not quick, not early, but
quick at least. I'd love to have some more calls.
And like I said at the very beginning of the program,
I'm looking for new callers. I wish there was some
kind of a prize we could give out to new callers.
I had some little chocolate bars that were kind of
left over from from sand Is stocking for my eighteen
year old son, for whom my wife continues to buy candy,

(38:19):
although she did buy a lot less candy, mostly because
he laid out a pretty exhaustive sand A wish list
on us.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
And you know, we're taking care of him. Last hurrah
as a as a kid more or less. And then yeah,
next year it's gonna be a little different. We're gonna
pump the brakes a little bit. Son one three, two, one, two,
five seven nine to email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot
Com that kid hadn't been cheated, that's for sure. As

(38:50):
for sure, all right, let's s okay. So about at
the end of the first hour recapping, I started the
show saying I want to get some new I wanted
to get some new callers, some first time callers in.
I really do. And it's not scary, it's not tricky.
There's nothing nothing weird about calling. Just just call and

(39:11):
tell me a story that's something about something from the outdoors,
maybe something from golf. It could be old all the
way back to when you were a little bitty kid,
or back to the seventies, which we were talking about
just a minute ago with Jim and the armadillo in
the dashboard. Not just in the car, but a little
medium sized armadillo crawled up in his buddy's dashboard and

(39:33):
was poking its little trying to poke its little nose
out of the air vent. Which that's when you got
to do exactly what Jim talked about. You got to
take it to the mechanic. So anyway, first time stories,
anything to do with the outdoors, anything to do with golf.
I just want to I just want to establish some
more people who aren't scared to call and just speak

(39:55):
their piece. And if I tell you, if I say
something that you disagree with, don't be scared. Don't just
sit there and yell at the radio or change the
station or something. Pick up the phone, call me in
let's talk about it. Don't get me started on cormorants.
If you've got a T shirt that says I love cormorants,
I'll talk to you. I have no problem with them.

(40:16):
Probably can't be friends, but i'll talk to you. Man,
oh man, they're back. I posted I posted or put
a reel up yesterday at Facebook. I'm fairly semi new
to all this social media stuff, but that that reel
that I put up yesterday went to one hundred thousand views,

(40:40):
like poof, and I was kind of surprised at that. Honestly,
holy cow, that's that's more attention than I expected. But
at least it starts conversations. And that's one of my resolutions.
If if you could call it that, it's just something
I want to do. I don't hesitate to call it

(41:00):
a resolution, because resolutions tend to get broken a lot.
But I am going to focus a little more intensely
on trying to find exactly who needs to get the letters,
who gets the petition, some way that something can be done,
because not only are they eating all the fish where

(41:24):
I'm posted putting up these video where I'm getting these
videos to put up, they also make a nasty, nasty
mess of the bridges. This is at a golf course, okay,
And there's bridges between a couple of holes over the
lakes and whatnot, and those birds get on there and
they do exactly what you can imagine them doing, and

(41:44):
I mean too extreme. There are hundreds of birds, and
each of them has to do what it has to
do to purge its system, and a lot of that
winds up on the bridge, which seems to me almost unhealthy.
So that's another reason that we ought to be able
to control those things somehow. I just I can't find
the redeeming value to outdoorsmen, to bird lovers, anything when

(42:10):
you realize that these birds are just takers. That's all
they do is take They take fish away from What
about little kids? Grandpa wants to take them fishing? Yeah,
come on, I'm gonna take you to the secret spot
where I used to take your dad when he was little,
and man, we used to catch thirty forty fifty fish
a day out of there. It was great. And take
them there now and you see one hundred cormorants swimming

(42:34):
around in a circle. And you sit there for all
day and don't catch anything. You say, well, we'll get
them next time, and the kids are still a little
bit excited. Then you bring them back to the same
lake where grandpa and your dad used to catch thirty
forty fifty fish, and you still don't catch anything, And
now you don't like fishing because and you think your

(42:54):
grandpa's a liar. That's messed up. And I'm blaming cormorants
in some instances for that. Oh, don't get me started.
Let me try and find something else talk about. You know,
I've never had a cormorant in my car, Frankie, So
I guess there's that. Boy. I tell you what that
would be. The last place a cormorant would want to

(43:14):
be is that close to me within arms reach. By
the way, in case you don't know what these birds are,
look them up and look at how much they eat,
and look at what they can eat can't eat. I
used to accuse them mostly of taking just the food
fish for let's well, this one particular lake was a
great bas lake. I used to think, well, they might

(43:36):
get the young of the year baths, they're getting all
the shad, they're getting the sunfish and all of that.
Until I saw a video of a cormorant eating about
a twelve or thirteen inch bass, and that little neck
of theirs stretches like a rubber band, just just opens
up and down the hatch that big fish goes. And

(43:59):
that really that explained a lot, because I thought that
the bass in the lake had just been kind of
wheedled down because they maybe died of starvation because they
couldn't get enough to eat after the cormorants came in.
No cormorants ate all their food and then ate all
those little skinny bass Just what you need. Oh, that

(44:20):
lake was so good too. I don't want to go
over all that anymore. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. Even when we Dug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot Com, I'm gonna I'm gonna scratch out this cormorant stuff,
so I don't go back to it. They're just ugly birds,
and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I
get that some people just like all birds because they're

(44:41):
birders period. They love birds, and I by default, I've
been a birder almost all my life. I can't I
can't see movement out of the corner of my eye
without looking to see what it is in the sky,
in a tree whatever. I'm listening for birds. I'm looking
for birds. I love most of them because they don't

(45:02):
do anything really bad. But cormorants, they crossed the line. Okay,
Is that enough of that, Frankie, I think, so I'll
just stop. I have to stop. Might scratch that out.
I'll get off this soapbox. Now, how can I get
this lizard out of my car? Frankie, That's something else
I need somebody to I don't know how you bait

(45:25):
for a lizard to get it to go to a
certain spot. I don't want to wait till it just
passes out and dies of starvation, because then number one,
that's just kind of creepy. I don't want to find
a lizard skeleton in my in my car someday. But
I don't know how to coax it out because every time,
and I probably I think the reason that lizard ran

(45:48):
across my leg was it was running toward light. It
saw light, and it didn't even know that we were moving.
I don't know how it would have known that something
something's fishy. We'll figure out. Ah, god Lee, already through
the first hour, tea up Carter's Country real quick here.
Carter's Country has been around for sixty plus years. They

(46:10):
sell guns, they sell ammo, they sell hunting stuff, they
sell reloading, they sell pretty much anything and everything to
do with the shooting sports. And that's all they've done.
They don't have other stuff there. It's just guns, ammo
and hunting stuff, exactly what you need to enjoy the
shooting and hunting sports and the great outdoors full service

(46:34):
range and gunsmithing up there at Treshwig. That's the the
full service flagship store right up there north of the
airport a little ways. And they got two more locations
down here in town, well, one in on IT ten
West and one down in Pasadena where you can find
everything you need. If you can't get to the store,

(46:57):
you can shop online to see all the latest deals
that they've got there too. And maybe you don't want
to go to the store without knowing if you can
get XYZ and you can just get online and see
if they have it in stock, or call the store
and see if it's in stocking and go over there.
If you're not familiar with Carter's Country, I urge you
to go in and just walk around and talk to

(47:17):
somebody in there and see if they don't talk your language.
If you love the shooting sports, you're gonna love the
folks at Carter's Country. They know what they're doing. They're
gonna help you get what you need, and they're gonna
get it at a really good price. Carterscountry dot Com
is website, Carterscuntry dot com.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Now here's Doug Fike Fye.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Welcome by second hour starts. Now, thank you very much
for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Phone calls are
always important, and once again, I'm looking for first time callers.
I really am. Now the old callers. If you've called
one time, two times, three times, ten times, fifty times,
one hundred times over the past twenty five years, call again.
I have no problem with that. I'm just trying to

(47:59):
find some new people to talk to and welcome kind
of officially into the family. It's not well, it's not
like you you're not family just because you're not calling.
But I love hearing from you guys. All right, So
Samy's gonna be first and we'll get to Kevin. Stand
by Kevin, Sammy, what's up man, Hey.

Speaker 14 (48:18):
Man, how's it going?

Speaker 2 (48:19):
Uh?

Speaker 14 (48:20):
I heard you on it, some first time callers, so
here I ain't.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Ah, yes sir, thank you Sammy. So what's going on?
What can I do for you?

Speaker 9 (48:29):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (48:29):
Yes, sir. So we got a duck hunting trip coming
up and port O'Connor this coming weekend and was seen
if y'all had any like reports on how they've been
doing down there.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
You know, my gut tells me that after not this
little front we're getting right now, but the one that
came through just last week, there's gonna be ducks down
in port O'Connor. In fact, friend of mine was down
there not that long ago. There were a bunch of
ducks and finally I saw a strap that had a
lot of different ducks on it too. Hey, they do

(49:01):
shot some mallards down there from one report I had. Yeah,
I think you'll be all right, I really do. And
I don't where are you going soon or I guess soon?

Speaker 14 (49:10):
Yes, sir, next weekend. But okay, I mean we've always
we've always shot a lot of redheads and stuff like that. Yeah,
there's yeah, that place is flooded with redheads.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
No man, it is, Yeah, and you're gonna see.

Speaker 14 (49:24):
Don't worry we got about twenty people going, so we
should get a wow, good little.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Stringer of a picture, I would hope. Yeah, man, lay
them out and take that picture, send it to me.
I'd like to see it.

Speaker 15 (49:36):
See what you got, y'all bless one.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
And you gotta tell me, you gotta tell me how
twenty guys are getting together to go duck hunt. Is
that a company thing?

Speaker 14 (49:46):
No, sir, So what it is is my buddy's dad
puts it on every year.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Oh nice.

Speaker 11 (49:51):
And I work out of town. I work a lot
in the woolfield, so uh, I actually was able on
whenever my hits gets off next weekend. I'm actually free
to go this year, so oh nice. It's gonna be
a good deal.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Good for you, man, Shoot them up, shoot a big
pent tail for me, will.

Speaker 16 (50:07):
You, yes, sir?

Speaker 15 (50:09):
Yes, or we'll do all right.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Thanks Sammy. It's great to hear from you, buddy. Yeah, yes,
or thank you. He's so polite, such a well mannered
young man. Thank you, Sammy. Thanks for that first timer.
You're the first first timer today.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Kevin.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Let me get to Kevin. Kevin. What's up man? Happy
new year, Doug, Happy new year to you, my friend.

Speaker 14 (50:32):
I've got a.

Speaker 17 (50:33):
Couple of different things. You're talking about things we want
to do different that's coming year. Yeah. Two years ago
I had a quadruple bypass, and last year I think
I only fished three or four times. And for somebody
that used to fish five and six days a week, yeah,
that's quite an adjustment and lifestyle. I'm hoping, hoping to

(50:53):
be able to to get get out and do wead
a line a lot more in this coming year, and
it'll be a few years and I'll be retiring and
hopefully I.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Can do it a lot then good for you.

Speaker 17 (51:04):
And the other other thing I wanted to talk about
is talk about something in your car. This wasn't anything
that was very big. I had an old International Harvester Scout.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Eighty pick up.

Speaker 17 (51:17):
It had a little bitty short bed on it looked
like an Elmer Fudd mosile. And I was driving it
across the bridge in Rockport. It didn't have rolldown windows,
had little half slides, and I had the half slides
which didn't have ac and driving over that thing and
a bumblebee flew into the oh and you know that

(51:39):
bridge is long, and there ain't no way to stop
her turn, no way to stop or turn around. So
I had just struggle all the way across the bridge,
and finally the thing flew out one of the side
windows and I was free. But there for a while
I was dancing my seat.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
God, I guess that's all you can do is just
freeze up. There's nowhere to go on that bridge at all.
Holy No, not at all. Yeah, it's just push comes
to show if you just park the car and jump out,
take us take a swelling. Yeah, holy cow, I'm glad
you made it, Kevin.

Speaker 17 (52:14):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, and uh enjoy your show as always.
Of course I've I've had not my time, first time
to call up. No, I know, call quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
I'm glad you do. You always got something good.

Speaker 17 (52:27):
Tournament season will be coming along and I'll be calling
you and plugging the kids tournaments whenever they come around.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Every time they come around. You let me know, Kevin,
thank you man. All right, both, yes, all right. I
got one for my emails and I'm gonna share it
with you now. It's from Glenn. Picture this, Frankie. If
you can a time when there were no cell phones.

(52:58):
I know you're shocked, aren't you. It's real they haven't
been around all that long when you get right down
to it. So Glenn weighs in good morning. Back when
cell phones were not available, we used cordless phones in
our house, as most people did after they finally got

(53:18):
rid of the princess phone hanging on the wall by
the refrigerator, and maybe the little one phone. Back when
I was a little kid, we had one phone, and
it was on a little small, about a waist high,
little table in the hall, and it was attached to
a cord. And if you wanted privacy, it was attached
to a long court so you could walk it back

(53:40):
into the bedroom and close the door. And that's how
it worked back then. Glenn was in Cali. Well that
fast forward to the cordless phones. Okay, we're back into
the modern age of cordless phones. Now. I was in California,
Glenn Rightes, talking to my wife while she was outside

(54:03):
in our hot tub using the cordless phone. While talking
to her, she suddenly screamed and the phone went dead.
He's in California. She's in Houston in the hot tub,
hanging out with the cordless phone. I'll pick up from there.
After a while, I was panicking, trying to call the

(54:26):
neighbors for their help. She finally called me back on
another phone and explained that a lizard heard of them
this morning swam across her shoulder, which caused her to scream,
I'd probably done the same thing and drop the phone
into the hot tub, said. We both laughed and still

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tell that story, and I've told it again for you. Glenn.
That's a good one, man. Have a great new year,
my friend. I like that one. Oh man, you know,
I'm pro. I'm like Glenn, probably was you hear You're
just having a conversation the hot tubs outside, so you know,
anything could happen outside there. There could be a bad

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guy running around. There could be a cat, a dog, anything,
and you're just chatting away, chatting away, and all of
a sudden, a scream and then the phone goes dead.
In your mind, as a husband, or as a father,
or as anybody with somebody you care about on the
other end of the line goes in a million directions.

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It was a lizard. It was a lizard, but out
there with the bubbling water of the hot tub, and
just yeah, that would be scary, man, that would be scary.
Holy cow, hand wade in on what Kevin might have
done on that bridge. Yeah, yeah, just set your flashers

(56:00):
and jump out. Just bail get in front of the
car so if somebody hits it from behind, it doesn't
mess you up. Get way out there. Keith's waiting out
and there's no telling what Keith talking about.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
I see.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Oh my gosh, here's another credit story. Let me put
make a little note here. I'm gonna keep these. We
might bring a couple of them back up tomorrow. Ah,
this is like what Franky? What TV show was it?

Speaker 5 (56:26):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (56:28):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Gosh?

Speaker 12 (56:30):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Who's the guy who took over for Leno?

Speaker 9 (56:33):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Jimmy Fallon?

Speaker 7 (56:34):
Yea?

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Is it Fallon? Who does the stories? Where he is?
He just kind of breaks into it. Once I had
this or once I had that. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of do it like that.

Speaker 9 (56:45):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
And this is Keith's story. I once had a cat
have her litter of kittens in the back of my van.
Oh though this is a trilogy here one two three,
two three two two of them a pair, as they say.
Another time, my sister in law had a pet rat

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that got loose in the car. That's two rats, Frankie,
and two bumblebees and two lizards if you count mine
and and Glenn's. So all these things are happening in Paris.
We don't have a pair of armadillos yet, but he
who knows so oh, Keith. He attached a picture of

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his new surfboard. He lost one, it got stolen a
couple of years ago. And let me see what this
new board looks like. Open up up. Oh that's beautiful, man,
that is a beautiful board. Good for you. You got back
exactly what you wanted, and I'm sure it will. Oh yeah,

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he's planning on taking it. You're gonna take that board
to Hawaii, aren't you. It's he and his son are
going to share this board. It took him two years
to get it. That's that's amazing. Pulled off the road
between Corpus and here for that picture. Headed to the
beach this morning. Thank you for listening, Eith. I really
appreciate it. Man seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'll

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take another look at emails after I get through telling
you about air ride bikes. That's those electric bikes up
there in tom Ball, at the Four Corners shopping Center
in tom Ball, to be specific. And once you get there,
you walk in there and say, Hey, where's Wayne. I
want to talk to Wayne. Wayne Errington owns the store.

(58:33):
And I got to meet him actually all the way
down here in Stafford at an expo for seniors, and
he had come down and brought some bikes and he
let me test one out in the parking lot. After
we finished up in there, I was doing a lot
broadcasts from there, and I fell in love with the thing.
I really did. I want to get one of these
things now. I just don't know when it's going to
be in the cards, but once it is, I will

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have one at some point in my life. I fell
in love with them. I really did.

Speaker 8 (59:01):
Now.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
Up there at the store, he has everything from little
small commuter e bikes that you could just use to
ride up to the drug store real quick to pick
up a prescription or something like that, maybe go to
the grocery store and pick up a couple of bags
of stuff, all the way up to some really heavy
duty models that will get you over the river and
through the woods to your deer lease that will get

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you up and down the soft sand of the beach
if you don't want to try to drive your primary
vehicle up and down there, and you're going to be
moving quietly to That's one of the things. Even the
best fishermen down there on North Padre Island talk about
how important it is to try to not be around
there when there's a lot of car traffic, because the

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fish react to that vibration. If you're just riding a
bicycle up and down the beach powered by electricity, they
don't know you're there. Same with the deer in the woods,
they don't know you're there. And those bigger bikes, the
ones you would use for hunting. You can even get
a special trailer attachment that allows you to not only
get yourself in there and out of there without leaving

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any human scent, by the way, because your feet never
touched the ground, just a little whatever is wafting off
of you maybe, but there's no actual trail. Those trailers
will help you get that deer back out of the
woods if you shoot, even a big one. Great fun
to ride, and three wheelers to speaking of. Some of

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us are a little older than others, and our balance
may not be as good as it used to be.
Just get yourself a three wheeled e bike. That way,
you don't have to worry about balance and you can
just enjoy the breeze. Get yourself some vitamin ds, riding
around the neighborhood, riding around a park, whatever, air ride
bikes a r r ide air ride Bikes dot Com

(01:00:46):
up there in the Four Corners shopping Center and Tombaugh
air Ride Bikes dot Com. Hi, welcome back A twenty
one on Sports Talk seven ninety darn near to the
midway point. Frankie, we're almost a second base. Holy cow man.
Nothing ever crawled in your car, nothing ever crawled out

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of it that you saw. Oh gosh, I don't you know?
You know something's been in there? Oh I know. Ants? Yeah,
And that's answer a totally different thing, because you're not
gonna panic if you see one or two ants. But
like what we saw in the kitchen. You saw that

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with me, right right, ants? Yeah, Well, little sugar ants
are even worse. They're they're just like a what is
that Pac Man game? They're just all over the place.
But the red ants, that's those were red ants in
the kitchen, and how they got to the seventh floor
of this building, and what what spurred them on? Think

(01:01:50):
about how long it took them to get from I
don't think anybody brought in an entire colony of ants now,
and I don't think that anybody would even inadvertently bring
in a queen and two or three others. So that's
something they plotted and planned from ground level, wouldn't you agree?

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Oh yeah, I mean you think about how you got
all that coordination already that they have, Yeah, yeah, and
then you go all the way up there, and for them,
you know, are miles for them is like you know,
obviously it's still a mile, but it's a long way
for them.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Like walking the Appalachian Trail, you know, Yeah, I mean
it really would be walking halfway across the country or something.
Think of an and is what maybe three millimeters long,
maybe a big one four millimeters that's about it. And
they managed somehow, not just one or two of them
to get up here, But it looked like they had
come up and established established residents. They're squatters basically, and

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they were gard near taking over the whole floor. We
got rid of most of them. I think I'm sure
that they they've been handled now, but that was that
was startling to me to see that. And it's no
wonder that. Have you ever seen the pictures of ant beds?
And this is just fascinating to me, And it's not

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I don't really I'm not bothered by the fact that
ants maybe died for that. In fact, I think what
they do is they show away or kill all the
fire ants first, and then they pour molten lead into
the in the top of the mound. You've seen. You
know what I'm talking about, don't you.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
It's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Yeah, And once once all that lead is solidified and cools,
then they start hosing away all the dirt from around it.
And some of these things are when they bring them
out of the ground and flip them over, they look
like a tree, just a big old tree, and it's
it's amazing how elaborate those tiny little animals are with

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their skills in building things. Just fascinating. Nature has so
many they're not unknowns to everybody. It's because somebody's studying
almost everything there is. But for the average person and boy,
even some or might be a little above average based

(01:04:20):
on some of the things I see on Facebook about
how little young people. There are so many people your age,
Frankie who just don't They can't add two plus two.
I see these stories about asking the very simplest of
questions that you and I and most people who actually
paid attention in school would have learned, and these people

(01:04:40):
can't answer those questions. There was one asking what state
something was in, and I can't remember exactly what that
landmark was, but it was a simple one. It was
a very instantly most people would know the answer to
that question, and this one person, actually there were two
of them together and they were just rattling off states

(01:05:03):
and one of them finally said, well, uh, Mexico as
an answer to what state this landmark was in, Like,
how can you be that dumb and get out of school?
You're not paying attention And it's just baffling to me.
Seven on three two one two five, seven ninety And

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I know there's lots of things I don't know, but
I'm not gonna guess if I don't know. That's just
that's stabbed in the dark is not the way to
get through life. Scott weighed in, Captain Scott to you
and me, holy cow, yeah, management hunt on a low
fence south of Katula. That's not a bad management buck,

(01:05:45):
right there, my friend. Well done. Picture number two, Oh
a giant eight. Wow? How cool? This is an eight
point buck with probably twenty one twenty one across. How
wide was that deer the second one's got? I'm kind
of curious. Oh there's another beautiful eight. Wow, big tall eight.

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Not quite as wide as the other one. But the
G twos on it are probably the twos and the
threes are big on the left side. That G two
has got to be a foot long right at it? Anyway, Wow,
you got some pretty good dear for Coles, as they
say on that ranch, a lot of I don't know. Yeah, okay,

(01:06:27):
I got that, I got that taken care of. Go
got this? Oh wow? Years ago, Travis waded in by email,
So I'll read this one too. It just came in
a few minutes ago. Oh no, this is Is this
a text? I think it might be a text? Yeah
it is, Travis. Uh, years ago, I got time for this.

(01:06:48):
Don't worry. Frankie. A buddy snapped a shot at a
mountain lion while we were mule deer hunting out of
I think it's right Rigel or maybe right hell. I'm
not sure it would be ry hell if it was
down here. Probably Anyway, A couple of other buddies found
it the next day, frozen. My buddy got a mule
here that day and was partaking of some spirits afterward.

(01:07:10):
I guess, Oh no, he didn't, did he? I guess
he did. This is what people do. This is what
guys do to their friends when they're getting into the spirits.
As he said, listen to this, Frankie, I put that line.
Remember the frozen mountain lion, the frozen dead mountain lion. Yeah, okay,

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this is what Travis did. I put that lion in
his sleeping bag and covered it up. When he laid
back and felt it and pulled the covers off and
saw that snarl frozen in place, he jumped and almost
hit the ceiling. My gosh, that was so funny. We
still talk about it forty years later. It's one thing, Frankie,

(01:07:58):
to have the guts to do that to a buddy
in a hunting camp. The true, the true test of
your of your confidence that things will be okay afterward,
is whether or not you would do it to a
girlfriend or a spouse. Oh yeah, there's Not a chance

(01:08:22):
that Travis would have the courage to do the same
pull the same prank on his wife. Not a chance
I wouldn't. I'm smarter than that. And I'm going to
tell you if nobody's ever told you, don't do something
stupid like that thinking it's going to be funny, because
it would take a It would take a special special

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two people too, if they are a husband and wife.
It would take a special pair to both see the
humor in that. Not a chance I would do something
like that. I'm smarter and I know I yeah, I'm
smarterven But Travis hay Man in deer camp, all bets

(01:09:04):
are off. In mule deer camp, whitetail deer camp, duck camp,
fishing camp, all guys, all bets are off. And if
they can't take it, then it's okay. They can be
upset as long as they want. But everybody else is
gonna be still still laughing for a while. I bet
they still laugh when they tell that story. Holy mackerel,

(01:09:26):
a lot of people are. There's some good stories coming
out of today. And I still haven't told my golf
story yet. I'll do that in the next hour. All Right,
We're at the bottom of the eight o'clock hour. That
means we've made the halfway point. And at halfway I'm
gonna tell you about black Horse Golf Club that goes
full out. Make sure you have a good time when

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you're on that property playing golf. Black Horse is on
Fry Road, a few miles south of two ninety. Actually
h very easy to find once you Once you turn
south off two ninety on to Fry Road, just drive
until you see golf course on both sides of the road,
and then put on your west blinker and turn into

(01:10:09):
the gate there at black Horse, And from that point forward,
pretty much anybody you can find who's wearing a little
name tag is only there to make sure you have
a good time, from the pro shop staff to the
folks in the grill, to the folks down at the
far far end of the range where they do all
the instruction. You have to drive your own car down there.
It's that far. There's a way to go around, is

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what it is. It's a much easier thing than trying
to drive a golf cart all the way down there.
They have membership options for the South Course now North
Course still daily fees, still a great track to really
air it out. If you like to swing hart at
your driver and still be able to find a ball,
that course is for you. It absolutely is going to
make you a happy person. The South Course membership has

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been in effect all year long and is doing their
gathering members almost daily, because that membership also gets you
access not only just to the both of the courses
at black Horse, but also to both courses at Golf
Club of Houston and to Blackhawk Country Club, So you're
basically getting five for one, and the five are all

(01:11:14):
great tracks. Black Horse Golf Club dot com. You could
tee it up on the North course right here, right now.
Just go make yourself a tea time. I bet there's room,
black Horse goolf Club dot Com. A thirty five on
Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening.
We should have let that song play a little bit longer.

(01:11:35):
I'm yapping over. That's all right, thank you. I like
that one, Frank. It's nice and mellow. It'd be good
driving music. I don't. I don't like I used to
when I was younger and in driving tired a lot.
I used to like some really up tempo, pretty loud music.
As most teenagers do. It's different now. It's all base.

(01:11:56):
Now it's just the whole car shake, and your car
shakes too if you're within twenty yards of the one
at the light that's doing that. That's not my cup
of tea. But I'll confess that my friends and I
all played our music very loudly growing up and driving
around Houston seven one seven ninety Email me Duck pick

(01:12:19):
at Iheartmeeta dot com. Billy my buddy, Billy Stoker weighs in.
This is kind of funny. He is down at Golly
Bay Forest. That's where he is, Bay Forest Golf Club,
and it's out of nowhere. Apparently they didn't. They weren't
there when when he took over down there. But they've

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got a bunch of those Egyptian geese that people send
me pictures of on a fairly regular basis and say,
what kind of birds are these? They're beautiful birds, they
really are, and they were imported a long long time ago,
and now they're down there. Yep, now they're down there

(01:13:00):
his place. Let me see if I can get the
picture to come up. I can't do that. Those aren't
Egyptian geese? Well, oh no, I got the whole Oh yeah, okay,
I got the whole club link there, that's what I got.
Send me a picture of these geese, Billy, I like

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seeing those things. They're pretty birds, they really are, and
they pop up. We've got some at one of the
lakes fairly close to my house, about five minutes away.
There are a dozen or so that hang out with
the squealers, the tree ducks, and there's a couple of
wayward mallards on that lake. And they're all flight capable,

(01:13:45):
but have learned that if they just stick around here,
they won't really have to deal often with temperature extremes
except the heat. I guess that would bother those birds. Probably.
Oh well, here's Travis and he's out in the wood.
Now what's he doing. Oh, he's got his dog out
there doing a little duck hunting, doing a little duck hunting.
Got a couple of wood ducks sitting there. Beautiful, beautiful,

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Thank you for that. I'm hunting vicariously through you guys today.
Not Able to get in the woods, not able to
get on the bay or out on the prairie this morning.
And that's why one of the reasons I came on
into work. I had some invitations, but yeah, I just yeah,
I just wanted to just kind of relax a little bit.

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It's not as easy as it used to be to
just pile out a bed at about two thirty or
three o'clock in the morning and drive somewhere. My strategy,
I think going forward is going to be to find
a little motel somewhere close to where I'm gonna hunt
and then just go camp out there and pile out.
And that's actually that's one of the things we used

(01:14:51):
to do when I was guiding on opening day, especially
to make sure everybody was going to be there. Katie
Prairie Outfitters then Eagle Lake and Katie Prairie Outfitters. Larry Gore,
the guy who ran that place forever for several seasons
in a row, coughed up enough money to get enough
hotel rooms down at one of the little motel rooms

(01:15:13):
down close to where we were going to be meeting
all our hunters to make sure that everybody was there
on time, and that seemed to help out, and then
once we got into the routine, it wasn't necessary anymore.
But yeah, it's kind of priming the pumps. So to speak. Oh,
Travis is weighing in, he's gotten news more news. Caveat

(01:15:34):
into the mountain lion story. I skinned that cat out
and cut steaks off of it, and we grilled them up.
Not too bad a rifle Colorado, Okay, Yeah, I wondered
what you were. Yeah, now I understand.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
I got it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Yeah, the spelling was different, but I understood the pronunciation.
I don't know, Frankie, would you be interested in mountain
lion steaks?

Speaker 3 (01:15:58):
I mean, if somebody had cooked it up and they're like, hey,
you want to try it, then sure, take a bite.
I wouldn't necessarily go seek it out. I wasn't even thinking.
I didn't even think that you could do that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
I didn't even know. So, yeah, it meets meat. I
guess if you're hungry enough, have you ever been to
one of those? Try it before you know what it is?
Kind of a meal things. I think that's kind of
gone by the wayside. I haven't heard of anybody having
one lately. But what people would do is at kind
of like in the middle of summer or something, it'd
be time to clean out the freezer, and a lot

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of people had a lot of different meat in the
freezer from different animals, and some of it might have
been fresh roadkill. Who knows. Nobody knows what it is.
But it's sitting there on a little plate and you
just you have to cut off a little chunk and
try it. And it's all sanitary, well semi sanitary back
in the day when they were doing it. But the
long and the short of it is, you can't turn

(01:16:55):
over the card that says what you're eating until you've
eaten it and swallowed it. Would you do that?

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
Huh? I mean it could be fun. Yeah, I'd be
I'd be.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
Game for that, No pun intended, but you I mean,
it might be roadkilled possum, it might be skunk, it
might be armadillo. It might be rabbit, it might be quail,
it might be anything deer hog. But it might be
something that you really weren't intending to eat ever in
your life. And once it's down, it's down. So you'd

(01:17:29):
be game.

Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
I think i'd be game.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
I would too. I would too. Maybe we should try
to organize one of those and just randomly nutrient Would
you eat nutria? I don't even know what that is? Okay?
Oh man, oh you're so green? This is easy. No,
it's and it's no, it's no knock on you. It's
just not where you know, it's not where you are.
So in Louisiana and in Texas, uh, but mostly in

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Louisiana where it was a major problem. A neutria is
essentially an eight to twelve pounds rat basically okay, And
what they do is just absolutely destroy levies and disturb
the foundation around the marshes and stuff, to the point

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that Louisiana actually put a bounty on him for a
while and also created a competition among chefs. And this
was probably twenty years ago, maybe a little bit more
even maybe twenty five, but they had a competition in
which they selected eight or ten of the best chefs

(01:18:39):
in the country and said make your best nutrient recipe
and we'll we'll splatter it all over the country. So
this one guy, the guy who won, was the recipe
name was I believe in apologies if I mess up

(01:19:02):
the French raton and bruschette, which translates to big rat
on a stick. And it was just a skeward something,
I think, But that was the winning recipe and the
guy wont a bunch of money for it, and then
all of a sudden people are killing nutrius right and left,
And to this day there are still a ton of

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nutrients all over the South and they still cause a
lot of damage. They're kind of lo weezy at his
answer to wild hogs. They've got tons of them, and
they destroy the landscape and make a mess of things,
and you can't kill them all, you just can't. We
need to take a break. Whoever that is Frankie, ask
them to hold through the break, and I'll get him

(01:19:43):
as soon as we get back. All the way out,
I'm gonna tell you about Belleville Meat Market out there
on Highway thirty six, fifteen minutes north of Ceily, fifteen
minutes south of Hempstead. Very easy to find, and if
you can't seem to find it, just drive to the
mill of Belleville and then ride around in a circle
till you smell barbecue smoke, and then drive up wind
and you'll probably pull right into the parking lot. Once

(01:20:05):
you get inside, what you're gonna find is two dozen
plus flavors of premium con smoke sausage. You're gonna find
pork tenders, You're gonna find stuff, pork chops. You're gonna
find pans, sausage boot and stuffed chickens from Laboucherie. They
do wild game processing year round, by the way, and
something else they do year round, and Belleville's got one

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of the most streamlined processes for getting that meat out
of your vehicle and into their coolers. It's amazing, it
really is. They built a separate building for it, three
years ago, five years ago, whenever, it was maybe five
or six. It's been a while now, and it's just
a constantly moving machine. They get the meat out of
your vehicle, they take it inside. You walk inside to

(01:20:52):
basically a giant menu. You'll be handed on processing options
and you pick what you want, what percentage of the
meat you want done. And then a few days later,
magically you get a texture call. You go pick your
meat up, and you have another enjoyable day at Belleville
Meat Market picking up stuff you want to bring home.
They serve a delicious barbecue meal with all the sides,
all the fixings, seven days a week, ten am to

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seven pm, lunch, your dinner, whatever you want to call it.
Take the whole family out there. You'll love Belleville Meat
Market and everything they have in there. Belleville MeetMarket dot
Com is a website. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com eight forty
nine on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show. Thank
you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I am going

(01:21:38):
to open up this little radar thing here and get
that and take a good look at what's going on
in a great state. Yeah, there's nothing scary at all
on the weather map. It's absolutely beautiful. That's front blowing
through here, and it's gonna be nice, very very nice.
Let's get on the phone. Go talk to Mark. Hey, Mark,
what's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:21:58):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
Uh oh? I think his phone went goofy again? Anything
on your end? Nothing? No, no, no, I'm not getting
anything a Mark. From what Frankie told me, I'm gonna
you know what, I'm gonna put him on hold and
then i'll try it again. Mark. You there, Okay, calls
about Yeah, he bailed, he's got a messed up phone system.

(01:22:25):
Where he is and where he is then a deer
stand somewhere from what I'm told, Is that right, Frankie? Yeah,
he's looking at Bucks. So he's looking at Bucks somewhere,
and I want to know where and all Frankie was
able to gather is that he's looking at deer and
it's a beautiful day in Texas and looking at the
state that I'm looking at on the radar. Yeah, it's

(01:22:46):
a beautiful day all over Texas. Basically, I wouldn't mind.
Know there's some rain right of course, right under this
box that has the timer in it. I got to
back out a little bit more so I can see
there's what I can do. Can do that. Now, I
can bring it up a little bit better, up a
little bit more so that it doesn't get cloudy, and

(01:23:06):
we're gonna take it all the way back to here
start this. I got nothing as far as bad weather
anywhere in the entire state of Texas. There's a little
bit of rain between kind of in East Texas, scattered showers,
I would say, starting due north of here about maybe
up around Huntsville. And they're moving across or they will

(01:23:32):
be moved. Well, there's yeah, they're moving across and headed east.
They're not gonna affect us. I don't believe at all.
So sunny day feels like sixty four a day. This
is not right. It says, oh, this is for central
Now that's for Houston says the daytime high of eighty four.
I don't think it's going to eighty four today. And

(01:23:52):
if it does, shame on it. It shouldn't. Texas temperature map,
I've got that. Oh I did check the Texas temperature. Ohthough,
he's market. Let me go get him. I'm chasing Mark.

Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
You there, Hey, Doug, Yay, Happy New Year.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
Where are you? Man?

Speaker 8 (01:24:11):
Good?

Speaker 15 (01:24:13):
I'm down here in ins and now?

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
Oh nice?

Speaker 9 (01:24:15):
Right?

Speaker 15 (01:24:17):
And uh yeah, I'm back here feeling froteen feeters up
and that dog and I you know, you got to
stop sometimes to get good signaled. I apologize, that's all right.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
What do you how the deer look down there this year?

Speaker 15 (01:24:30):
Oh, they're looking really good. I'm telling you. It's it's
a good time to be in South Texas right now.
There's the bucks are running with their nose to the ground,
and I'm sure horns are broken, and it's greats everywhere,
and uh, it's just a great time to be down
here to see all this action. It's just something else.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
Isn't that's the truth? You've seen any ship?

Speaker 15 (01:24:49):
Oh yeah, I've seen two fights. I saw one nice
twelve warner, he's good. Probably one forties, one fifty twelve
or short short times.

Speaker 16 (01:24:57):
Yeah, the short times.

Speaker 15 (01:24:58):
But I see in the name saying he had any
gash all the way across his back.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
Oh my god. Yeah, he picked the wrong fight, didn't they?

Speaker 15 (01:25:07):
Yeah, yes, I think they're they're they're they're clashing right now.
They're clashing, which is a good part of South taking,
I'll tell.

Speaker 1 (01:25:14):
You you know.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
I think a lot of people don't realize how violent
those fights get, isn't it. Those bucks Neither one of
them knows what the other guy's got on it, what
they have on their head. All they know is what
the other guy's got, and it doesn't matter to them.
They're fighting if they're If there's a dough around and
she's kind of receptive and the two of them getting

(01:25:35):
the same within eyesight of each other, it's on and
they they're gonna fight, and they I think everybody should
get an opportunity to see a legitimate deer fight, just
to see how mean and tough those little guys are.

Speaker 15 (01:25:52):
Yeah, I mean it takes a lot of breaking at
in there. You can try on the concrete, are you wanting?
You might break it, But then when you see him breaking,
you're like how much power being put behind that, you know,
and I can just I feel bad for them, for
the for the for the one on the losing, and yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
You know what though, that's that's nature. That's the strong survive.
That's what it.

Speaker 16 (01:26:12):
That's what it comes down to with everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
You see many pigs down there, so well.

Speaker 15 (01:26:21):
You know, I think likes just here. They got a
really good control on the pigs. I mean, I do
three pigs all year. I don't know where they killed
two little babies the other day. I don't know where
they come from because I do all the feeding and
all the cameras and I don't see them. I don't
know what they're doing a real good job now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
Yeah, well, whatever they're doing to keep those pigs out,
good for them, man, because that's not an easy thing
to do.

Speaker 15 (01:26:46):
Yes, I'm very surprised if most branches have been worked on,
been on, they floaded with pigs down here. They're doing
really give them like I love sorry, okay, I love,
I love. I love hunting pigs because they're I think
they're a lot smarter than deer in a way. You know,
the big big old boards.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
Oh yeah they are, they really are and I don't
think they go into a rut like. I'm sure there's
some and I've heard some really nasty pig fights in
the dark right before daylight, you know, and that that'll
raise the hair on the back of your neck. Want it?
Holy cow, man, don't.

Speaker 15 (01:27:23):
Be glad you're sitting up in the tree.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
Oh yeah, I just wish I was in a taller
tree sometimes. Holy cow.

Speaker 15 (01:27:30):
Well, well, thank you for taking my car. I just
want to wish out happy New Year. And uh, it's
I'm down here, like, I'll give you a call if
I see anything else, and I'm gonna see some photos
through Facebook if I can.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
Please you. Bet, I like to send them up. Thank you.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 15 (01:27:46):
Mark all right, buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
Yes, sir audios, haven't you all right?

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
I finally got that call to go through South Texas. Uh,
a lot of parts of Texas, actually, but mostly down
that way where it's just a little less populated and
things are a little farther apart. In other parts of
the state, sometimes the cell phone service isn't so great.
That's blame friar mood. He'll tell you. I can remember
when I was calling him pretty regularly years ago. This

(01:28:16):
time of year. He's down there and he's running a
lot of country and putting out a lot of deer
hunters in a lot of places, and in most of
those places, cell phone reception just kind of isn't the
thing because there aren't any people within the distance that
a normal cell tower could even reach. So you just

(01:28:36):
have to ride around till you can find get a
bar or two, maybe get out of the truck, maybe
stand in the bed of the pickup truck. And there
are these signal boosters. Now, I hadn't seen one around
Houston until I started looking for him and knowing what
they actually were. They just kind of looked like somebody,
I don't know how to describe them. You'll see him

(01:28:56):
in the back of a pickup truck, usually connected right
at the front of the bed, and it's just a
pole that goes up about maybe four or five feet
and then has essentially what looks kind of like a
black tall boy can on top of it. And that's
a little signal booster that I didn't know existed. Are
you aware of those, Frankie? Uh uh? Just watch as

(01:29:19):
you drive around town when you see pickups, just look
and see if there's anything up above the top of
the cab, and if it is, it'll look like a
oh about a broomstick sized thing coming up, and then
that can like thing at the top of it. And
that's to help these folks who are way out in
the middle of the country. You don't see them much
in Houston because most of these trucks don't ever get

(01:29:41):
out of Houston, Frankly, but real you get out in
farm country and ranch country and you'll see them all
over the place. And that's what those are. I didn't
even know that. Learn something every day, Learn something every day,
and it'll make you a better person. And don't stop
when you learn one thing. You just can't quit, you know.
You know that, Frankie. There's always something to learn. I
learned something every week from these from these shows I do,

(01:30:05):
especially on fifty plus two, I've learned so much interviewing
people who are at the top of the medical game,
who are at the top of travel, who are at
the top of finance, all of these things. I've learned
so much just from doing that show and so much
from doing this one from people like whoever you are,
wherever you are, you know something that I don't know

(01:30:27):
about the outdoors, about golf, and if you want to
share it, I would love to hear it, and you
can share it with a lot of people if you
tell it to me on the air. I talked about
it very early in the program. I'm looking for as
many new time, first time callers that I can get.
So far, I've only had one that was Sammy, and
thank you, Sammy for that. Appreciate it. I want to

(01:30:49):
get to more than one. If you've listened to this
show for a few times, or maybe you're a first
time listener too, but you're just a little hesitant to call,
it's nothing to be scared of. It's nothing to be
you and me having a conversation, and we're sitting around
a campfire, okay, and there's a few more people listening.
They're all friends. Nobody's gonna nobody's gonna insult you, nobody's

(01:31:10):
gonna make fun of you for any opinion you might
have about the outdoors, even if you disagree with me.
I love I love it when somebody calls and says,
I'm not so sure I agree with you on that.
And I got that air a fair amount. When those
new trout limits came out, I'm still I'm sticking to
my guns with that one. I do believe it's gonna
be long term beneficial in a big way, not just

(01:31:32):
a little bit. I think once we get these year
classes filled out and say two maybe two seasons from now,
barring any kind of weather anomaly, they're gonna be in
really good shape. Speaking of good shape, if you need
something for your shooting sports are whatever, your arsenal, whatever
you have, maybe guns, am O, hunting supplies, reloading supplies,

(01:31:56):
new and pre owned firearms. Little shooter's corner right now there,
Palmer High Wind, twenty ninth Street in a strip center
at the corner property and a strip center down there,
very easy to find. Been there forty something years. I
think it's forty four now, maybe forty five. Gosh, it
could be almost fifty. I have to call Jerry and
ask him. I talked to him last week about some
other stuff. In any event, everybody who works there knows

(01:32:22):
a ton about guns now. Jerry and JTK, the people
that's father and son team who own it, they know
as much or more than anybody I've ever talked to.
And I thank Jerry again when I talked to him
last week for making sure that my listeners get help
with any kind of an issue they might have with
a gun. I have sent people down to them for

(01:32:44):
the better part of fifteen years now and making sure
anybody down on that side of town, for sure, that's
where you need to go. If you've already been told
by one or two gunsmiths that there's just nothing they
can do for you without replacing a barrel, maybe replacing
a receiver, whatever, or maybe just you you need to
buy a new gun. Let Jerry and Jay take a
look at it and see if they can't help you out.

(01:33:05):
So far, knock on Wood, nobody's ever called me back
and said, hey, you got anybody else they couldn't help me.
Jerry and Jay spend a lot of time out of
the store now this time of year because they're helping
people find big game opportunity all over the country. Jerry's
mostly South Texas. Jay he likes that in North Country,
and I think Jerry mentioned he might be making an

(01:33:27):
Alaska trip in the not too distant future. But if
you can catch one of them there or anybody there,
really go in. Tell a story. Tell your story. There's
places to sit down because it's kind of just a
hangout for people who love the shooting sports. A lot
of law enforcement hangs out there too, because they get
a discount. If you wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount at Shooter's Corner, which I think

(01:33:49):
is pretty nice. Forty five years or so, right there
in that same spot, Palmer High we at twenty ninth
Street in Texas City. The Shooters Cornertx dot com. The
Shooters Cornertx dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:34:01):
Now Here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
Third and final hour of the Doug Pike Show this morning.
I wasn't supposed to be here. Frank and I talked
a couple of weeks ago about this, and I was
gonna I was gonna take off the week before before Christmas,
and then do the one between Christmas and New Years,
which was this past weekend, and then take this weekend

(01:34:25):
off again. And I just couldn't do it. I couldn't
stay away. I enjoy being in here too much, I
really do. And as long as as long as I
can answer the alarm, I'm gonna keep coming in here.
It's a lot of fun. So I promised a story,
a golf related story, because I'm two days into twenty

(01:34:46):
twenty six or actually three now two and change, let's
call it. And I already have two pretty good stories
working now, the one with the lizard in my car.
If you missed it earlier in the program, that's e
exactly what happened. I was taking stuff back to storage.
The Christmas decorations had to go back to storage yesterday.

(01:35:07):
And when I got the car loaded up, and sat
down and started the car, I looked over and riding
shotgun was about a six inch long brown lizard. And
of course, the minute I tried to reach over and
grab it, it just it had to sink in for
a minute that it was actually a lizard in the
front seat of my car. And by the time it

(01:35:28):
sank in and the time I could reach over to
try to grab it, you know how fast though, they're
way faster than the little green and Oley's we get
around here, and they have moved those lizards out. I
haven't seen one of them in a very long time,
and they used to be pretty common in my yard.
So now it's all these little brown ones, and this
is one of the bigger ones I've ever seen. And

(01:35:50):
in any event, I tried to catch him and never
even got close, and he just disappeared. He jumped onto
the floorboard, took a rite and went somewhere. And this morning,
driving in in the dark, just minding my own business,
getting on the freeway, accelerating, got cars little ways over there. Okay,

(01:36:10):
that's okay, they're not gonna be a problem. Checked my
rearview mirror, checked my side mirrors. There's no nothing to
tell me, there's anything in the lane next to me.
Everything's going okay. And then I get this lizard runs
across my leg. So that was the story I told early.
And if I hadn't seen the lizard yesterday, it would

(01:36:31):
have been horrifying. But I knew that's what it was,
and I I should have just opened the window and
held my leg up and said jump, but he wouldn't
have done it. He was enjoying the ride. So anyway,
here's the golf story. My son and I went and
played golf yesterday with a couple of other friends of mine,

(01:36:53):
and we're having a good time. We're having a good time,
and my son actually is a better golfer than he'll
let on when he focuses and when he's when he's
really on his game. He played for his school for
a season and did well. And had he not decided
to go full on baseball and stuck with golf, he'd

(01:37:13):
probably be a pretty good player. And he sometimes he
hits great shots, sometimes he doesn't, but his short game
has always been solid. I wish I had his touch
around the greens. I really do. He's just for whatever reason,
he's He's better than I am at that, that's for sure.
And so we got to ten. We're on eleven. We're

(01:37:36):
up close to the green, neither of us on I'm
in what on eleven is called the Valley of Death,
which is basically just a it's not a bunker, but
it's just this big, deep depression with rough in it,
and it's it's hard to get out of. It's hard
to get out of it. And I'm there and my
son is behind me a little ways. He's probably twenty

(01:37:58):
twenty five yards off the green and needs to hit
something up there, and I'm presuming that he's going to
hit a great shot. So I don't know whether I'm
looking down at the grooves and my sand wedge trying
to make sure everything's clean, or whether I was distracted
by a bumblebeer or an owl or a crow or whatever.

(01:38:21):
But I'm not looking at him because I presume he's
going to hit a good shot. And then I hear
contact with a golf ball, and immediately I hear heads
up and before up really got out of his mouth. Good,
I took one. Fortunately he didn't. He bladed it and

(01:38:46):
kind of bladed and shanked it, and it came out
about well, I could tell you exactly how high it
was by where it hit me in the left side
of my shin, in the meaty part, not in the
bone that would have hurt like crazy, but it hit
in the meaty part of my shin about I'm checking
it now with my fingers, about seven or eight inches

(01:39:08):
above my ankle. And since he since he since he
bladed it, since he chunked it, well, he didn't chunk it,
he bladed it. It came at me pretty hard. It
would have gone over the green had I not been
standing there, over the green and into the woods. And yeah,

(01:39:29):
it's stung for a minute, and not just he was
all apologetic, which good call, uh, But and I hopped
around a little bit and acted like it really really
hurt for a second, and then I said, it's Okay,
I'm not hurt, no harm, no foul, no blood drawn,
no bones broken. But it startled me and it caused
me two things. I've seen other people get hit once

(01:39:55):
by a golf ball, and I actually hit a shot
that hit somebody old a seven iron. I'm left handed,
and it was at black Horse Golf Club, and I
actually the group in front of us had walked off
the green over to their carts, and from the green
to the carts on this particular hole, they're twenty five

(01:40:16):
yards right of the pin. I pulled the ball twenty
five yards right of the pen with a seven iron
and hit this woman standing there mining her own business,
and pal caught her in kind of a meaty part
of her back, not in her backbone, thank goodness, but
just in a kind of the meaty part, some meaty part,

(01:40:40):
like up around the shoulder or something. And immediately I
get in the cart and I'll be back in a minute.
I drove up there because I wanted to get to
them before they drove away and let them know that
I was deeply sorry and buy him a drink or something.
And I got up there and I just apologized profusely,
and she just kind of shook it all. She just

(01:41:01):
acted like it was no big deal, like she'd been
hit twenty times and like, Okay, well, I thank you
for that. I appreciate that because I really felt badly
about That's the first time I was playing well, there's
no reason to think I would do that, and yet
my mediocrity rose right to the top and just center
punched her. The other time. To drop a little fun reference,

(01:41:24):
I was in Hawaii playing golf. I can't remember. I've
been in there a couple of times doing that. And
I didn't get hit and I didn't hit the guy.
But Mike Buddy and I were standing literally standing in
the middle of the fairway and in the distance we
hear somebody's hollering for from way away and the guys

(01:41:50):
on the tea box one of them had teed it
up and we weren't going anywhere. We were stuck behind
other people. There was no reason whatsoever for them to
tea off other than that one of them was a
jerk and didn't realize that well he may or may
not have known that we were in range. But the
guy I was playing with, I don't even remember where

(01:42:10):
he was from. It was a media trip, so we
had guys from all over the country down there. He
got hit in the calf because we were standing, we
were facing the green, and he got hit right in
the calf by this guy airborne, not two bounces or something,
just right in coming, hitting right in the back of

(01:42:32):
the calf man, and he dropped like a stone. I
didn't know whether he'd been hitting the head. I didn't
know whether he was hitting a neck. And as soon
as he dropped and stopped and realized what was going on,
he got up and started holding his calf. And as
soon as he took his hand away from it, and
you could see exactly you could see dimple marks where

(01:42:54):
that ball hit him. I mean it, it's smoked him.
And the bruise didn't get any better. I've got a spot, Frankie.
I'll show it to you later. Let me see it actually,
believe it or not. It doesn't look so bad. And
I thought it was gonna turn into more of a bruise.
I'm kind of a little bit disappointed because I could
have used that to make some brownie points with my
son if it really looked bad. But right now it

(01:43:17):
just looks like I maybe just kind of skinned it
a little bit rubbed up against something, you know, like
a piece of furniture. I rubbed up against it a
little bit too hard, and it kind of read I'll live.
Believe me, I'll live. But I don't bring it up
every now and then when we're playing. We're supposed to
play again Monday, I think, and when and if we do.

(01:43:39):
As soon as I get an opportunity where he's a
little bit behind me, I'm gonna look back and see him,
and then I'm just gonna run off to the side.
Not again, not again, please, It still hurts hun. I'm
just glad one of his drives because he generates a
lot of clubhead speed, and I'm just happy it wasn't
one of his drives taught me all right, we got

(01:44:01):
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man who he was one of the originals on Forged

(01:44:23):
in Fire if you remember that show, and he has
been making custom knives all his life, basically for many,
many years, since nineteen seventy nine. That's long enough. I
would say. He's got that new space, so he's brought
in more people to learn from him, all of whom
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(01:44:45):
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They will do that. All you have to do is
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wait a few minutes. But they'll take you back there
and actually show you how to make a basic knife. Now,

(01:45:09):
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(01:45:30):
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you for listening. As I mentioned a little bit earlier
in the program, I you know, one part of me

(01:46:18):
wanted to kind of hang out at the house and
just relax and sleep late, not answer an alarm. But
I don't care whether there's an alarm set or not.
I'm waking up as soon as the first crack of
light comes through. That's just that's been me since I
was in high school. I didn't like to sleep late.
I really didn't. I probably did more than I remember.

(01:46:41):
But if if there were waves, I was going surfing.
If there were no waves in the summertime. I was
probably gonna try to run down there and fish during
the wintertime as a young adult and into well into adulthood.
All winter long. I was up at about three point fifteen,

(01:47:03):
three point thirty meeting up with a bunch of people
out in Katie to go goose hunting or duck hunting,
and did that for wow, gosh, fourteen seasons, I think
it was. It's a pretty long haul of getting up
every morning. And interestingly, back then, we were all tough
enough that if you caught a cold, if you had

(01:47:25):
any kind of a wintertime malady, you just you just
went through it. You just kept going until it finally passed.
And a cold will do that, it won't knock you out. Now,
in hindsight, I don't know whether any of us had
the flu or any of us had anything else, but
a lot of times we'd just show up looking just

(01:47:47):
half gone, basically, and you just get out there on
that prairie and go to work and call birds and
run your dog and do all that stuff, and a
few days later you feel better. And we would just
go and go and go. Every now and then you'd
have one day where you just couldn't get out of bed.
You just make a phone call, Hey, I can't, I
just can't get there today. I'm done. And you go

(01:48:09):
back to bed, and you wake up at like two
thirty in the afternoon, and you feel fine, You're done,
you got your rest, you got healed back up, be
right back after in the prairie in the morning. There
were some mornings when you kind of wished you hadn't
got out of bed. Front blows through, or you slip
and fall and get all wet, and you've got four

(01:48:29):
guys who are still dry and comfortable looking to you
to make sure all these birds come in that are
flying around. You just do what you gotta do when
you're waterfowl god. Same with fishing gods, anybody who guides
people for a living in the outdoors. People who anticipate
something to put in the freezer when they're done, or

(01:48:51):
to put on the grill, whatever, if you're a hunting
guid or a fishing god. Now I'm not talking about
tour guys who just take people on nature hikes through
the woods. I'm talking about people who are expected to
call game in close enough or get them within casting range.
If you're fishing and then actually have those fish bite

(01:49:12):
or those animals give you a good shot at them.
That's hard work. It's really hard work. And if you've
never done it, just try to remember me telling you
about it. When it comes the end of the hunt
and you're trying to figure out how much to tip
that person, and they do rely on that lot, and

(01:49:34):
the thing that you've got to remember is that you're
paying for that person's best effort. You're not paying for
what's on the string or what's in the box or
on the strap. At the end, you're paying for entertainment.
You're paying for some education. Hopefully you'll be open minded
enough to listen to the person who's been doing it

(01:49:55):
for ten or fifteen years and maybe learn something from
it that you can take out if you want to
go with your friends next time and not have a guide.
All of that matters, and I hope that the next
time you go you remember that. Now. If I had
an experienced once a media experience, which I never would

(01:50:15):
have expected, we were the guests. I and probably a dozen,
maybe fifteen eighteen other people in my business when I
was writing for the newspaper were down. And I'll just
call it along the Texas coast, way down there somewhere,
it doesn't matter where. But we were assigned to guides
in the morning and the guy that I was fishing

(01:50:36):
with and I had said, we'd like to throw lures
and so find as somebody who's willing to throw lures
and will be good. And we got in the boat
with this guy and just kind of took off from
the dock and he pulls up to a spot and
he puts the anchor down, and I'm thinking, well, that's
unusual one. What kind of spots he got where we
can do it this way? And we said what should

(01:51:00):
we throw? And his first words to us, really because
we kind of had to hustle out of there to
get where he wanted to go, were oh, no, we're
throwing live shrimp. And my buddy and I looked at
each other each other and said, well, we wanted to
throw lures. Well, this is a shrimp spot and that's
that's what I'm throwing today, So jump in, let's go,

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let's catch some fish. And we were kind of well, okay,
we'll play this game for a little while, then maybe
we can go throw some lures, right, and he'said no,
this is my spot. And we weren't catching much, if
at all, if I remember, at least not for the
first thirty forty five minutes, and said, do you think

(01:51:41):
we should go to a different spot, and he's like, no,
they'll turn on here pretty soon, and they didn't. And
another hour of that was about all we could take,
and we finally just said, spool him up, take us in.
We're done. And this guy never I never saw him again,
and I don't know whether he's still I doubt he's

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still in the guide business. This was a long time ago,
probably retired or whatever by now, or just got ran
off enough customers from not doing what they wanted to do. Yeah,
that was tough that I got a couple of minutes
before this break at the bottom. So I'm going to
use them to talk about when you fish with a
guide in twenty twenty six. Understand that they have a

(01:52:26):
lot of expenses. Understand that they have a lot of
responsibility for the people in their boats or the people
in their blinds, and all of that has to be
taken into consideration. When you get into the field or
into the boat with somebody like that, you're going to
be with them for six, eight, ten hours and beforehand

(01:52:47):
on the phone, at least before you even meet these people.
You need to make sure you're going to get along
and just ask them a few questions and see how
they respond and see how flexible going to be. Tell
them exactly what you want out of this trip. If
you want a sack of phalaise out of the trip,

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if you want fish to take home for dinner, let
them know that, and then let them decide how you're
going to make that happen. It might be with lures,
it might be with bait, but let them decide. If
you want to learn how to use a particular type
of bait, then tell them that, or a particular type
of lure. Tell them that, and dedicate some time during

(01:53:31):
the trip to learning the presentation of that lure or
learning why they do this or why they do that,
or why they went here, why they went there. Learn
from that trip. For heaven's sake, you're paying for an
education as much as you are for those fish, And
even if you're not going to be using it yourself.
The next time you get in the boat with a guide,

(01:53:53):
maybe you could just say, hey, what about trying this?
If you want to try something different, and the guide
in turn need to be a little bit flexible, and
some are and some aren't, and you'll figure that out
on the phone. If that guy had told my friend
and me, well, no, I'm just gonna throw bait and
I'm going to one spot it's my go to spot.
I'm gonna throw bait there all day long. That's what

(01:54:16):
we're gonna do. We could have bailed out and gotten
another guide. You'll find somebody you can get along with.
I guarantee you that guides are like anybody else there.
They all have different personalities, and once you dial in
with one. This is why sometimes when you hear guides
talking amongst themselves, they talk about the same people who

(01:54:37):
who keep coming back and coming back. It's because they
get along very well and they understand each other. And
you don't have to be a great fisherman to get
along with a guide, or a great hunter to get
along with a guy. I took lots of guys hunting
a lot of times who were horrible shots. They burn
up fifty sixty seventy rounds in a duck hunter a
goose hunt and have half a dozen birds on the ground.

Speaker 1 (01:55:01):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:01):
I'm talking about per guy. They'd shoot up three boxes
of shells and at the end of the day, I'd
look around and we'd have like eight geese and two
ducks something like that. Not very good, but we all
had fun and they learned and they got slightly better,
not great better, but they got slightly better. All Right,
whoever that is, Frankie, tell them I'll get them as
soon as we get back from this break. We've got

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nine thirty six on Sports Talk seven nine at Doug
Pike Show. Thanks for listening. Good Uh. I'll catch up
with that one later. Frankie, okay uh seven on three
two one two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I got that taken care of.
That taken care of, and that taken care of.

Speaker 15 (01:57:27):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:57:27):
Oh man, I'm still looking for two things I guess
we started with and I'll stick with through this segment.
I'm looking for I'm looking for first time callers. I'm
looking for but somebody's got a story about the outdoors,
somebody's got a story about golf. Uh, something to share
or and actually three things first timers. We kind of

(01:57:51):
ran the theme of critters in cars today and I
let off early with my lizard in the car, And
it turns out we ended up with two different bumblebee stories,
two lizard stories. Now, the second one wasn't in a car.
It was in a hot tub. Poor Glenn's wife in
a hot tub while he's in California and she's in

(01:58:13):
Houston and a lizard swims over her shoulder and she
drops the phone in the hot tub. And this is
way before her cell phone, so he can't call her
and he's scared, he's a thousand miles away or more.
And long story short, as everybody was okay, but they
still tell the story. And the other thing I'm looking

(01:58:33):
for is things that in twenty six you want to change.
Things you want to change in twenty six for me,
And maybe it's a golf rule, Maybe it's hunting and fishing.
Maybe you don't like the new trout limit and you
want to try to turn that around somehow. I personally

(01:58:54):
think that's going to be good in a long run.
I don't want to mess with that at all. But
whatever it is, I'd love to talk to you about
it and try and figure it out.

Speaker 14 (01:59:04):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:59:05):
I'm gonna make one phone call after the show too.
I'll I'll take care of that one then yeah, seven
one three two one two five seven nine email me,
Dug Packet. iHeartMedia dot Com my golf game, and I
use myself kind of as a barometer, uh and as
the kind of I feel like a lot of people

(01:59:27):
are in the in the boat I'm in trying to
get around with with golf, and that is we wish
we had more time to practice because we're convinced that
we could get better if we did. And I'm still
at that point and I'm still learning things. And the
frustration comes in once you grab faux Pro there. If

(01:59:47):
you can't, I see, yeah, grab faux Pro there, and
I'll talk to him. The frustration for me comes when
I get something shown to me. I work with Tommy
O'Brien out at Blackhawk, and I get very frustrated sometimes
when I can't get something to work, and so I'll
go to Tommy and he'll show me how to fix it,

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and I'll plant that seed in my own head and
try to fix it. But I'm not able to get
out there often enough, especially this time of year when
it gets dark at lunchtime basically. And so I'm getting
there though, And I guess I think that the main
thing is you just have to kind of stick with
it and just keep going and keep going and keep going.

(02:00:31):
You just got to stick with it and practice as
much as you can and not have too great an
expectation that things are going to turn around really quickly.
Does that make sense, hope? So let me go get
Dave here. Hang on, Oh okay, yeah, I'll get I'll
get faux Pro. Hey, faux Pro, what's up man, what's

(02:00:53):
going on? Jumping around taking care of business.

Speaker 6 (02:00:59):
We're on our way to west side of a conversation
to late Christmas stuff with some Angie's friends. We stopped
this little Mexican restaurant. Wee always stop at a Huntson's,
got some really good Breakfast's been there for one hundred years.

Speaker 2 (02:01:10):
That sounds good.

Speaker 6 (02:01:12):
Oh yeah, so you're.

Speaker 2 (02:01:14):
Not hunting or fishing today? Holy cow? What what's the occasion?

Speaker 9 (02:01:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (02:01:18):
This honeydew day.

Speaker 6 (02:01:19):
I guess you know you got to get down for
the wife here every now and then again, Just that
way I can keep fishing.

Speaker 2 (02:01:24):
So you bet, yeah, you better do that every more
than every now and then, for Heaven's sakes.

Speaker 6 (02:01:28):
Oh yeah, we were over there and get our days
there again yesterday yesterday out of Lake con Road, and
I guess that bright sky, a little different wind direction
and then cold nights we had previously all our It
took us up, took us a better part of the
day to figure out what the fish moved. But the
fish all moved off the really shallow stuff and got
on the They were still shallow, but on the creek.

Speaker 8 (02:01:47):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:01:47):
Pretty much river bends with the river or deep water
touch the banks and had to slow down a little
foe inch or chech a grig worm to get bit.
But but it ended up having a pretty good day.
No biggest thunder, the four pound or biggest fish our.

Speaker 2 (02:02:00):
Inch, Texas rigged worm. I don't know that I've got
the patience to do that.

Speaker 6 (02:02:06):
Yeah, it was pretty much. Had one tree. We had
one tree last week and we had a really good
day on spinner baseball. I sent you those buddy mine
got broke off on this one river bend big trees
on the big trees for three hundred yards either way. Wow,
and he got broke off by you know, sub bay
powder went back to that tree, I got broke off.
Oh yeah, it'll be the same fish. So we went

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back about three or four hours later, and I put
the poles down, power poles down, and sat there and
I bet I threw it that thing thirty times and
finally caught two baths of big gas for you off
that tree.

Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
So godle good for you, Good for you.

Speaker 6 (02:02:45):
Yeah, it was definitely, it was definitely, it was definitely patient.
It was moving that worm about an inch, letting it
sit a minute, and moving it an inch, letting it's
not a minute, you know, said a few seconds. Yeah,
but I did see something yesterday. I never as Justin
Wilson would say, I did see something yesterday I never
saw before a given my life, and I've seen a
lot of outdoor stuff like I'm sure you have. Yeah,

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but we we would, we would. We made a run
to a bigger part of the lake just to fish
some bigger main lake late lay downs, and we pull
up and I see something splashing around in the water.
Looked like I thought it was a duck or something
like that, and I think, how they'll bathe in the water.
But we got closer, I couldn't get close enough to
get any good pictures or videos. There's the bald eagle
out there in the water taking a bath.

Speaker 1 (02:03:25):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:03:26):
Wow, yeah, I guess they got a clean up too
every now and then.

Speaker 6 (02:03:30):
Oh yeah. My nexhew was saying something about bald eagles
that long as you do that about once a week.
But there's the rarety of seated. I don't know if
he was just talking off his head or he knew something,
but we sat there watching the bald eagle bathe for
a good twenty minute. So we walk up on the
bank and they go back out in the water. But
this is the coolest thing I've seen in the outdoors
in the wall.

Speaker 2 (02:03:48):
So well, good to hear from you.

Speaker 9 (02:03:49):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:03:50):
I'm gonna catch one more before I go to the break. Okay, yes, sir,
you and yeah you and you have fun. Man, I'll
talk to you soon. Thanks, Joe bro Yeah, by boy,
huh get that okay? Yeah, very quickly. Foux Pro sent
me a hat. He sent me a few lure too.
He found a couple of baby one minuses he had
to trade off something very valuable for and he sent

(02:04:12):
those lures to me. And they sent a hat that
says legalized mulligans, which yeah, I may have to start
wearing that one. Let me get Bob real quick before
we have to go to break. Bob, what's up man?

Speaker 16 (02:04:25):
He does be talking with you. Hey, my wife and
I met you. I know they advertising with you. So
I'm going to say at Burry Hill, yeah, he cam,
I remember You're nice as can be.

Speaker 8 (02:04:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (02:04:37):
Hey, anyway, so I've listened to you forever and never called,
so I said, oh, first time college anyway, Uh, me
and me and a bunch of buddies. Uh back in
just after college, back in probably the nineties. We went
hamping over in the Big Thicket and we're in a
flat bottom aluminum to news and my buddy, who a

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little bit about Actually he's like two hundred and fifty
pounds two seventy five somewhere in there, okay, and he'd
had knee surgery, so he didn't wait in the back
of the canoe. He's sitting back there fishing. So we're
paddling around and it was it wasn't our canoe, so
we weren't familiar with it. And so it's flat bottom.
Well there's cypress trees everywhere, Oh god, cypress stumps. So

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we're paddling. So we're he's fishing. All of a sudden,
we hear thunder in the distance and we're like, man,
we got to get the hell out of here. To
get the heck out of here, And so we start
paddling and we're making a good flip. All of a
sudden we just bottom out because we had a good flip,
we were stuck on that stump. They're sitting there and

(02:05:47):
it's like, okay, so we're trying to push with the paddle.
He's worthless because he can't maneuver because of his knee
and I'm trying to push us off that thing with
the paddle, and I'm like, okay, this isn't gonna work.
There's a there's a length of rope in there, just
straight rope, and so you know to to tie off.

Speaker 2 (02:06:07):
Yeah, And so.

Speaker 16 (02:06:09):
Anyway, I fashioned a little loop. It's just barely bigger
than a cipress stump. And there's a cipress stump I
don't know, eight feet nine feet away from it. Oh
and it was dead wintertime, so there's no getting in
the water. So I start. I started like, hey, I'm
going to make this loop. I'm afraid of us snap

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the rope or the dump. I pull us off that thing.
So from then on with all my buddies, that was mcgiver.

Speaker 8 (02:06:39):
So it was.

Speaker 16 (02:06:40):
It was the birth of a nickname.

Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
Oh man, no doubt.

Speaker 16 (02:06:45):
It's a happy memory, of fun memory. We didn't start
out that way. Man. When you hear thunder and the
longer we tried to push off that thing, lighting gosh
die out here.

Speaker 7 (02:07:00):
All right.

Speaker 16 (02:07:02):
Hey anyway, hey Doug, have a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:07:05):
Yes sir, you too. Merry Christmas or not Merry Christmas,
but we're done with that. Happy New Year. My friend.

Speaker 16 (02:07:12):
By the way, I gotta share with you. I'm one
of those guys I don't really owe my families.

Speaker 2 (02:07:20):
This is sure.

Speaker 16 (02:07:22):
I'm an outdoors I'm camping hike and that's me good.
And but I listen to you every weekend, man. I
enjoy fall back.

Speaker 2 (02:07:30):
And tell me some camping stories. All right, all right, man,
thanks Bob. You'll see ideos.

Speaker 14 (02:07:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:07:38):
I remember meeting him at Barry Hill, I really do.
Speaking of on the way out Berry Hill, Sugarland down
there off the sweet Water or not Sweetwater, but Sugar
Creek Boulevard exit of fifty nine outbound, I think inbound
it might be something different or outbound it, you know, inbound.

(02:07:58):
I can't remember exactly what it is. But the bottom
line is on the outbound side Sugar Creek, make a
U turn and it's in that strip shopping center there
on the northbound side of fifty nine. Very old school,
very casual Mexican food, traditional recipes with the twist, if
you will, of the two people who have been the

(02:08:20):
primary cooks in the kitchen for more than ten years apiece.
They have refined and tweaked those recipes to where everything
in there has got a little little special touch that
they put on it over the years, and it's absolutely excellent.
Fantastic fish tacos. I'm partial. If you've heard me talk
about them, you know, to the seafood enchiladas. I love those.

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They have all kinds of traditional stuff and then a
few little specialty items on that menu, all of which
are absolutely delicious. They'll cater anywhere around town. And that's
one thing that we do here at iHeart. We get
them to bring in lunches for special occasions over here,
and there's usually not much of anything left but the
containers by the time we're done with what they bring

(02:09:04):
in from Berry Hill. You'll love it just as much
as I did, just as much as Bob has since
I met him down there with his wife about I
don't know, three weeks ago, whatever it was. Berryhill sugar
Land dot com is website. Go check them out, Barryhillsugarland
dot com.

Speaker 1 (02:09:23):
You willie to.

Speaker 2 (02:09:24):
Sat all right, welcome back Dougpike Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
On this what is this Saturday morning? What he was
supposed to come in this morning, just randomly decided late yesterday,
call poor Frankie and change your plans. Frankie, I'm coming in.
He had it all set up, had it all set

(02:09:46):
up to be all okay, and suddenly we change. So
all right, Seve one three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I may
have time for another call or so maybe not. In
any event, Yeah, I just I'm going to kind of
run the same traps tomorrow. I want to focus a
little bit more tomorrow still on first time callers. I'd

(02:10:08):
love to get some more first time callers, I really would.
But I'm also looking for the things that are on
your mind, that are things that you would like to
see changed a little bit. Maybe in hunting or fishing regulations,
maybe in golf rule. Boy, there's a lot of golf rules.
Some of the rules that I'm seeing on videos online,

(02:10:34):
I don't really think are accurate. I think it's just
some kind of spoofs that people are doing. I'm not
really sure, and I haven't taken time to look them up.
What I might do at some point is is contact
the PGA and see if I can't get a copy.
They've got a big book of the rules, not just
the rules, but real life examples of how they've played

(02:10:58):
out in golf tournaments that are run by USGA and
USGA and RNA rules. There was used to be a
book that it was probably an inch and a half
two inches thick of real time examples, and I would
thumb through them and find one and read it each
week and play a little game, whether it was real

(02:11:18):
or not. And most of them I was making up,
or most of them I was using for that game,
were absolutely true, and there's some really specific circumstances. I
guess the bottom line of what I'm talking about here
and why I'm talking about it is because if you
really know the rules of golf, then you can use

(02:11:39):
those rules a lot of times to advantage. If you
don't know the real rules of golf, you're probably going
to be more happy playing the game. It's really golf
is to be enjoyed. Ninety nine percent of the players
who play golf, maybe more than ninety nine percent, don't
actually play every shot specifically by the rules of golf.

(02:12:02):
That's just that's just the way golf is. It's it's
supposed to be relaxing, it's supposed to be entertaining, and
if you if you have somebody in the group who
is a stickler for every single rule, it'll drive you crazy.
You're not playing in the Masters, you're not playing in
any organized eventis just three buddies in you out there

(02:12:22):
dinging it around for a couple of bucks a hole
and it's it's okay. The group I play with on
Mondays and anytime any other time I can, that's Monday's
my day off. So I get to go out and
play with these guys. And it's really interesting because there's
kind of an that's good on And bear in mind,

(02:12:44):
we're playing in four man teams against other groups that
are four man teams, and they're making up their own
rules as we go along. And it's kind of a
running joke that some of these guys will call a
putt good when it's two feet away or shorter, and
will sweep them off and say that one's good when
it's three four feet from the hole. So you never

(02:13:07):
know what you're up against.

Speaker 14 (02:13:08):
You.

Speaker 2 (02:13:08):
I just go out there and I let them make
the calls on all of that stuff. I don't automatically
sweep something away unless it's about six inches from the hole.
I let them make those calls and live with it.
Not that big a deal. Play golf for fun. Man,
oh Man. I had to tell one of the guys
I work with here one time, hey man, just don't
get upset when you make a bad golf shot. You're

(02:13:29):
not a professional golfer. You're not anywhere near a professional golfer.
You probably never will be. I didn't say that to him.
I don't want to burst his bubble. He's still pretty
young at the time. But the bottom line is, when
I make a great shot, I'm happy about it. When
I make a bad shot, I'm upset about it. But
I don't throw clubs. I don't stalk the ground. I
don't slam clubs into the ground anymore. I might tap it,

(02:13:51):
might tap it on the ground, just to let everybody
know I'm still alive. But hey man, a bad SHOT's
a bad shot, and I'm still out playing all that's
That's the main thing to trying to find my way through,
even through adversity. You just find your way through and
keep looking for the light on the other side. You know,
it's a little that makes it a little easier to

(02:14:12):
do when you simplify it. Just a bit and just
take one step at a time.

Speaker 1 (02:14:16):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:14:16):
That's gonna do it for today. I'll be back here
tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, so we'll frank you and
we'll tee it up again. See what we can figure
out to do in twenty twenty six that we probably
should have done in twenty twenty five and just didn't
get around to. That's it for today. Stay safe, get outside,
have a little fun with your family. William Idios