Earliest Outdoor Memories

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome, holy cow thing's working overtime. Whoever was
in here last had it turned the volume on. These
headphones is capable of going to blow your ear drums out.
And whoever is working in this studio, well, Cole's here
right after me.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
And then there was somebody in here late. I don't
know who it was.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Whoever it was, they need to get their hearing checked,
because man, that was loud when I turned it on.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's still kind of I'm gonna bring it down a
little bit more.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
All right, Hopefully everybody got through last night and the
thunderstorms and tornado watches. Tornado, I don't I believether. There
may have been a warning or two posted just briefly
as this big front passed through here, but at least

(00:49):
where I lived, it was almost a non event. It
got chronic, kind of crackly and popping, and a little
bit of lightning and thunder for maybe off and on
for about an hour, but no real significant threat. And
I just said a little prayer hoping I would maintain
power for a change when one of these things came through,

(01:11):
and darned if we didn't. What do you know, that's
the first time I can remember one of these big
fronts with red and yellow and orange thunderstorms in it
passing through my neighborhood and not triggering at least a
temporary and at least a brief outage. I was the

(01:31):
lights flickered once or twice, they really did, and I
thought I heard I'm sure I heard one of those
transformers try to go just that buzzing sounds like that
and then the lights go out usually, but it was
briefer this time, and the lights didn't go out. So
I'm gonna give Center Point a little bit of a

(01:54):
little bit of a thumbs up. It's just just north
of parallel to the ground, but it's a little bit up.
So hats off to them. They they got us through
this one. I hope you didn't lose power. I don't
think that many people did. This one wasn't nearly as
bad as they were saying it would be for most
of us, but a little bit farther north and all

(02:16):
the way up into Arkansas and halfway across the Midwest,
it was pretty rough. Let's go talk to Roger, shall we. Hey, Roger,
what's up man?

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Good morning, Doug. I haven't spoken to you in a
while since I was up in New York working with
my race horses.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh well, I've never had to say that, not once
in my life.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
If I had to say that, how many horses you got?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Zero? Now me?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh yeah, gosh, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
If you want to lose, if you want to lose
a lot of money, quick, get into horse racing.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I want to lose money fast.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, sir, I used to call you from from New
York with my Yankee nickname, which was voice.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, I was a voice from New York. Yeah I remember.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
But yes, but now that I'm back in Tech, since
I used my Texas nickname, which is Bubba.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Okay, all right, Bubba. Well you and half the other
people out there.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
What you got? Man?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh I just was wondering if you're talking golf today.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
I will always talk golf if there's a reason to
talk about it, and I suspect.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
You have a good reason.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Double beach.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh okay, Oh man, have you been watching that Holy Ca?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah? I work. I worked there and my ex mother
in law lives off pal Marrow between three and four,
and if I was still welcome, i'd probably be there
right now. But I did say X yeah I heard
I heard, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
He lost You lost that stay in place, didn't you?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
That?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
A little bed and breakfast? Huh Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
She was embarrassed by the fact that I'd come there
and Caddy. Okay, that's okay. Yeah, well I'm better off.
But it's going to be some extreme conditions Today should
be quite interesting. They're they're starting off early to try
and avoid the storms, but good luck.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Do they talk about it?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yesterday there was the forecast talking about wind to thirty
thirty five miles an hour. How they they just taken
the lawnmowers out of the county, the ones they would
use to cut the greens. They're going to try and
keep the balls from just blowing off the greens. What
do you think, knowing more about it than I do,
what do you think the chances are finishing today?

Speaker 3 (04:20):
They'll they'll play through horrific conditions, no doubt. And because
it's pebble and it's Sunday. Yeah, but as long as
you know four guard doesn't go off or something, you know, wind,
you just got to deal with it. You go to
a one hundred and six yard part three that plays
one eighty and you know, it just changes completely. There's

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two different courses at Pebble there's there's windy Pebble and
non windy Pebble, and it's just completely different. So it
will be interesting.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
It's not like Pebble Beach is defenseless without wind, though
there's still there's still Yeah tough, it's real tough.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
There's harder tracks out there. I prefer Spyglass actually okay,
but you know. And then the one other thing I
want to talk about real quick is is down at
Whispering Pines with the Spirit International coming up. And I
don't know if you've ever been out there.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
I've been out there and covered that tournament for many times.
I've been up there and played and yes, I know
it very well.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, I'll see you out there. Isn't it fantastic. It's
a fantastic tournament. I highly encourage everyone. You know, you
might not get a chance to play the consistently rated
top course in Texas, but you get a chance to
go out there and walk around the course and get
a feel for the course and walk around with some
of the top up and coming golfers from around the

(05:45):
world that have included Jordan spief and Scottie Scheffler and
et cetera, et cetera, Charlie Hall.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
The list really does go on and on of people
who have gone on to.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Course. So I just highly encourage.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's the place.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Oh, it's a great, great venue and a great tournament.
It's it's in an Olympic style format without the Satanic
symbols and all that.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
But uh, you know, well, well, Chris and Chris being
out there.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Chris Roe has been out there for forever, I think,
running the show when there's not a tournament going on,
and taking care of business when there is one. And
I've never met a guy more qualified to do something
like that.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
He's so good.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, and you mentioned you mentioned Chris. I used to
run into Chris Gilbert out there and we lost him
on leave recently, and uh, you know, I'm gonna miss
not seeing him out there, but I really look forward
to being out there and hope to see you there.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah if you if you look in the back of
my vehicle, you'll see two, maybe three fishing rods too.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I'm not going to say anything about why. Oh yeah,
maybe maybe not.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Gotta watch out for you, gotta watch out for the gators.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh my gosh, I saw one of the biggest alligators
I've ever seen out there in the river, and uh,
holy cow. We were playing back there along those two
holes that did go by the river, and on that
four par it's four part or five par before the
three I think it might be a five, I can't remember.
But anyway, on that one, we saw this big old
alligator in the river and then we're up on the

(07:16):
three part tea box and I heard it was dead, calm, dead, calm,
And I hear out of the river somewhere two jaws
slamming down on what I'm guessing was a turtle or something.
But it sounded like a bomb went off when that
turtle and that alligator ate whatever it ate.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
I mean, oh my god, I'm scared.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well water in there too, right up and.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Trolling.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, were you were?

Speaker 4 (07:42):
You?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Were you there when they had the the statue of
the alligator. No, it was not Oh did you hear
about that?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
No?

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Oh no, please, that was hilarious. They had a you know,
like an alligator dee boy out okay, and you the
watch out of the alley like it doesn't move. Alligators
don't move much.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
You know, Yeah they're out again. Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, I was just gonna say nice talk.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, they don't take all your time anytime.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Bubba yeah, Bubba no longer boys. Bubba is nicer than boys.
But you know, because you moved to the South, that's
why exactly. You know. Yeah, it's different up there. Yeah,
New York.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
All right, Doug, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yea, thank you.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh that was a fun call.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Man.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
I hadn't talked to him in a long time. I'm
welcoming him back to the South where he belongs. You
can tell he's he's more one of us than one
of them, I think. And with the I I haven't
seen any releases yet on the Spirit, but it seems
it seems to be about the right time to go
back up there. That is one of the most impressive

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amateur golf events. Uh well run it's it's in the
middle of the piney woods of East Texas up there
at Whispering Pines, as he mentioned. And the only reason
that it continues to go back there well a couple
of reasons. Number One, the hospitality that that entire group

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up there shows to all these athletes coming in from
around the world. They've built an entire complex where they
stay while they're here. And then on top of that,
it is one of the best golf courses. It's it's
usually rated best or second best in the entire state,
depending on how the the raiders put it from year

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to year. But if you ever get a chance to
play that golf course, I strongly recommend it, and if not,
go up there and see go up there and see
that tournament and watch those people and just walk it
for a little while. It's one of the most amazing
facilities I've ever gotten to play, and I greatly appreciate
it every time they invite me up there seven one

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three two one two seven ninety email on me Doug
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com Pebble Beach ongoing, and they've
got a heck of a tournament going on over there.
It's gonna be as we were talking about with Bubba,
it's gonna be windy today and I don't know what
time the wind's gonna start, but once it does, that's
gonna totally change that golf course, totally change it. Earlier

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in the week, and there were some clips from earlier
when there was some wind blowing, and then there are
all kinds of clips on all kinds of video online
of really windy days at Pebble Beach and the clubs
that these guys are having to hit. Uh, there are
literally some six and eight win eight club wins that

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they'll play in out there. And like I said, like
I said, I heard yesterday watching the television broadcast that
they indeed have they just they put away the all
the green mowers.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
They just put them away.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
They're they're hoping that grass grows enough to hold onto
those balls while the wind continues to climb up to
thirty potentially thirty five mile an hour. Gus, you and
I probably wouldn't play in that, But like he was saying,
unless the thunder and lightning, or unless the lightning warning
siren goes off, play on, boys, a little bit rainy,

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play on a little bit, little bit windy, play on.
It's Sunday at Pebble Beach, and they want to get
that thing done and get out of there. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Email me Doug
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, yesterday morning, we lost an entire hour.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
If you missed the show yesterday, if you or if
you tuned in at oh, I don't know. Eight eight
thirty you might not have noticed, except that I kept
mentioning it, and I kept patting Frankie on the back
for getting us back onto the air. We lost the
entire seven o'clock hour to some Did you ever get
an official, uh technical excuse or explanation of what happened yesterday?

Speaker 6 (11:59):
Frank Yeah, it was just a small little toggle thing.
At first we thought it was something a lot more
complicated than that, but uh turned out to be just
a slight adjustment. So who flipped the switch? Where was
it flipped? Where was this toggle top right of my board?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Nope? Who hit it?

Speaker 6 (12:21):
Well, eventually I did back to what we got back.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
To where we were, But who hit it away from
where we were? I mean, well, who know?

Speaker 6 (12:30):
It's been you know, one of those things where when
I was doing my basic diagnostic, that was just something
that slipped by.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Well, that's you know, and that just shows you how
complicated your job is. And thanks for figuring it out.
I don't I'm not so sure it was you, because
it was it was messed up when I got here,
and I got here before you.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
You'll take that. I don't know. We're going to find
somebody to blame Frankie. I'm not blaming you. There's no
way it could have been you.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
You worked too hard, You are too you are too
attentive to your tasks to have something like that slip
by you. But now that you know where to look
the next time somebody else does that, then you take.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Care of it. Right. Oh yeah you think do you
think awesome? Do you think you did it? Yeah? Okay,
you know that's a that's a good, honest answer. You learned.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
And this is the proving grounds man this Saturday and
Sunday before ten o'clock in the morning on KB and me. Man,
if you can get through here and and with all
the things that seem to fall apart sometimes, uh yeah,
you're gonna be fine. And I'm never gonna yell at
Have I yelled at you at all?

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yet? I don't think so? Nah?

Speaker 1 (13:43):
You know it if I did, and I can't, I
can't imagine anything you would do that would cause me
to yell at you.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
All right, let's get back to the outdoors. H after
we take this break.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Holy cow, Okay, we got the spirit covered, which I
wasn't gonna cover. We got to a T and p
AT and T Pebble Beach pro Am, which I was
gonna cover but later and now we're gonna get this break,
and when we come back, we're gonna for sure talk
about some fishing stuff I wanted to get to today.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
American Shooting Centers.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'll top it off with them West tim Or Parkway
between Katie and Highway six. They have they it is
the largest non military shooting facility in the entire state
of Texas, more than two hundred shooting stations. That would
be a lot of noise. I don't know if it's
ever been capped out filled up. I might have to
get at give at et Aurigia call and just see

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if he recalls anytime while on his watch as the
owner of the place, that it's just been full and
somebody had to stand around and wait for a chance
to shoot.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
There's always room for you out there.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Five see three sporting plays courses, five stands, setups all
over the place, ten trap and skeet fields, a beginner's
wing shooting area, a pop up silhouette range right in
the middle of the rifle range, where on that pop
up range out to two hundred fifty yards you can
plink away. You and the kids with the twenty two's
all afternoon and not burn a whole lot of money,

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and AMMO, that's a good place for kids to start.
They love to shoot once they get started. Man, if
you're shooting anything else but twenty two rounds, you're paying
a lot of money for them. They've got plenty of
instruction in every shooting discipline. Oh by the way, the
rifle and pistol starts at five yards. That's home defense,
self defense stuff, and then runs all the way out
to six hundred yards. That's that's six hundred yards. That's

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what i'd call the look what my rifle can do range.
And the people who shoot out there are very serious shooters.
If you want to learn about long range shooting, go
out there sometime and just just hang out and listen
and watch and maybe ask a few questions.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
If somebody will answer them for you. I'm sure they will.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
American Shooting Centers West tim Er Parkway between Katie and
Highway six. American Shooting Centers dot Com is a website.
Go check it out American Shooting Centers dot com. If
you're unaware, I'm gonna make thank you'll wear right now
of the fifty first Annual Houston Fishing Show coming up
this week Wednesday through Sunday in the George R. Brown

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Convention Center. That's February eighteenth through the twenty second. If
you didn't know, hundreds of products in there, dozens of
guides from just about anywhere worth going fishing, their factory
reps will be there. There are ongoing seminars throughout the
entire show. Rod's reels, lures, lines, kayaks, boats, all at

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the fifty first Fishing Show February eighteen through twenty two
and the GRB. This is the unofficial beginning of springtime,
the unofficial opening of our season for fishing, which never stops. Actually,
you and I both know that. Go to the show,
grab a bunch of new gear, and then get out
there and use it as often as you can and

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start looking forward to next year's show. This year's show
Wednesday through Sunday, George R. Brown Convention Center. Go to
Houston Fishingshow dot com to see the seminars, schedule and
a whole lot more about this show Houston Fishingshow dot com.
All right, welcome back eight twenty two on Sports Talk
seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Let
me get my.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Reading glasses on here, because I need reading glasses at present.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Frankie, I think I own. I'm looking around.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
I got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven pairs
of reading glasses, I think, in various play in strategic locations,
not in various places. In strategic locations. One in the
garage so I don't have to walk all the way
back into the house to get some if I'm out
there doing something that I got to see up close.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Uh. One in the car, of course.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
One on the night stand, one in the den, one
in the kitchen drawer.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
And I think I'm missing one, but that's irrelevant.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
I wanted to talk this morning about this kind of
a transition we're entering still technically winter, but that front
that clawed through Texas last night didn't exactly slam the
temperature down to the floor. It was it was such
a non event that I'm not even going to play
the Texas temperature game because it's just it's a yawner.
And to prove it, Frankie, just ballpark it for me

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real quick.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Let me get to this. Yeah, there's the map So
what do you think is the current low temperature in
the state of Texas if I can get this ad
off my shop.

Speaker 6 (18:24):
Oh my gosh, the low maybe like sixty five. Maybe, well,
it's colder than that. Now, hold on, we just had
a coal shrunk come through, and it is a tall state. Yeah, well,
you know, I don't know twenty eight twenty eight. Oh,
I don't even. I don't even. I don't drip anything.
I don't really cover anything.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I might put the little caps on the spigots outside,
but I'm not doing much other than that for twenty
eight degrees and the high the high in the state
sixty four. So the people in the valley have have
gotten out everything that they own to try to stay
warm because it's sixty one, Corpus Christie sixty one, Galveston

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fifty nine. There's some mid fifties, low fifties here there
and everywhere. But that's that's that's actually as big as
our state is. I would expect on any given day
a much broader range of temperature than that. I'm gonna
just put an X on that. I don't want to
talk about that anymore. Let's get back to where I was.
So a little bit of this the highs and lows

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coming up for us, by the way, lows in the
fifties behind this front, which isn't exactly frigid. So does
that mean we're done with winter? No, not hardly. I
looked it up the latest date. There's another pop quiz, Frankie,
because I know you're just sitting in there on your
hands and you got nothing better to do, which, yeah,

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you're laughing.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Like I am too.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Tell me when the latest date on the calendar is
that we've had legitimate freezing below thirty two or below
in Houston. What's the farthest into the calendar we've gotten
and still pulled one.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
Of those, like the last state that we've had this year?
Not this year, not this year, not this year in
recorded history? Is it sometime? And like, when was that
freeze a few years ago? With like twenty one, twenty
two somewhere in there. No, I mean the month in
the day, Oh goodness, month in the day. I'm gonna say,

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like it was like February sixteenth.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
How about April tenth? Okay, how about April ten? It
got to thirty one degrees in nineteen and seventy three.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
No, kidding.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, and I was. I was alive then, Frankie, can
you believe it? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Not only was I alive, I was doing all kinds
of things on my own. Yeah, nineteen seventy three thirty
one degrees in Houston, Texas. On the plus side, though,
around here now, things do look pretty good for getting
through the rest of this month without any plummeting temperaturs March.
I don't know what's gonna happen in March. That's another

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whole month plus ten days of April before we can,
I guess, before we can really put away the knit
caps and the gloves and the hand warmers and all
the things we just can't live without in this this
sub sub freezing world of ours.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
I don't understand how people make themselves comfortable year round.
I guess the little bit of spring people in states
north of.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Nebraska, let's just put it. It's in the middle.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
So we'll go draw a line from maybe Virginia to
the to Nebraska and then on over to the middle
of California somewhere. People who live north are there, especially
in the middle of our country. They get cold. It's
sub zero stuff. And I don't understand how well. I

(22:00):
guess you just you just kind of adapt to it.
But I don't want to ever have to adapt to that.
If I was ordered, if I was offered a huge,
huge race to go work in Minnesota or Michigan or Canada,
I just say no thanks. I'm perfectly happy being broke
down here. I can so anyway back to the present,

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We're looking at a great week. Spend some time indoors,
and by that, I mean, like I was talking a
minute ago, going out to that fishing show.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Don't forget about that. Absolutely do not.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
By the way I feel, I feel fairly confident, and
I think it's as accurate as any of the forecasters
could be right now in saying that we're not going
to go to thirty one degrees or lower. We're not
going to go to thirty two or lower in April
this year. We might get a cool snap, it might
get down in the fifties or forties even, but I'm

(22:56):
going to go out on a limb, and I've got
just as good as you as anybody right now calling
weather for April. I'm gonna say we're not going to
get a freeze in April. But it did happen recently
and global warming and all. You know, it's interesting how
global warming when it when all the all the predictions
of global warming just fell apart. In case you didn't notice,

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they just call it something different. It's still it's still
a horrific thing that's gonna happen to the Earth, and
it's the whole Earth's going to just implode. But now
they call it climate change because global warming didn't work,
because it got cold, it got really really cool for
a long time.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Back here in the present, we got that taken care of.
By the way, if you go out to that fishing
show and you do not take advantage of all I
talked about this with Don Martindale, the guy who produces
that show yesterday. If you go to that fishing show
and you spend your money to park your car, which
is more than the price of a ticket depending on
where you an admission ticket. In any event, you spend

(24:00):
all that money, you get the family in there, you
walk around, you buy a few things.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
You're having a great time.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
If you don't take advantage of all the knowledge that's
in that building during that whole show. If you don't
go to a couple of seminars which you can time
your trip so that you're down there when the person
you want to hear or people you want to hear
are going to be on that stage.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
And if you don't take.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Advantage of that and write down notes, and if you
don't walk to some of the walk up to the
booths where some of these guides are hanging out a
lot of times the guides are here by themselves. They
might work on one of the lakes around here. Maybe
they flew in all the way from Alaska. I think
Don said there were like five or six Alaska outfitters here,

(24:43):
got outfitters from down in South America.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
They're all going to be there.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
And if you don't take advantage of that and literally
write down notes, ask them questions about where you fish,
especially the local guides, the places you fish, there are
guides there from those places. They're on that water every day,
you're on it, every other saturday. Ask them some questions.
Ask them, and not just about what to do in

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the springtime, because here comes springtime.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Ask them about what to do next fall.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
And then put those notes someplace where you'll remember where
they are, and then come next fall you go to
your notes. You go to the spot the guide told
you to go to, or you fish the pattern the
guide told you to go to, and you catch more fish.
That's how those shows are really supposed to work. There's
a tremendous amount of equipment going to be there, there's
no question about it. Tremendous amount of equipment. And the

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people in a lot of cases who designed, built, tested,
and finally produced those pieces of gear. But those guides
the information they're sitting on and happy is lars to
talk to you about it too, happy as lars to
talk to you about where they fish, when they fish,
how they fish, and what seems to work best for

(25:57):
them under any conditions you can come up with. Try
to stump them then, I don't know. Well, now, don't
do that. Just be nice, playfair, play fun, and make
some notes. Okay, I got to take a break here
on the way out, I'm gonna tell you about Houston
Gold Exchange and my buddy bred Swice. He has for
the last two weekends he has foregone fishing. Now this
probably another good day not to go fishing. See is

(26:19):
how it's blowing fifteen twenty miles an hour around here
and a little bit more, a little farther down the coast.
But wherever he is, he's got his cell phone with him,
and I can guarantee you if you call him, he
will answer the phone. If you call him with a
question about wanting to sell some gold coins. You have
maybe a little bit of bullyon that somebody gave you
as a graduation gift fifty years ago, forty years ago,

(26:42):
thirty years ago, whenever it was that you acquired that gold.
Maybe it's just some old chains that you don't wear anymore,
something like that. Whatever it is, he will buy it
from you at gold's now historic price north of five
thousand dollars an ounce. That's a pretty good dough. Then
you can take that money to the fishing show and
buy yourself Kayaker two. It's a wonderful shade. It's perfect

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timing for gold to be that that valuable, really, and
silver silver's doing well. Ask him about that and he's
he told me number one to give out his cell phone,
which I will in a second.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Number two.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
He's perfectly capable no matter what kind of quantity you
want to exchange with him, buying or selling really the
precious metals and rolexes.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
He loves buying rolexes.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
He's got quite a few of them in the store,
and there beautiful watches, some of the older ones. Especially
in any event, you've got that going, and he said,
rest assured. He can handle anything from five dollars to
half a million dollars. Whatever the gold content is, they
measure that. There's some magic machine they have that give
the actual percentage of gold that's in a piece you have,

(27:50):
and then it weighs out based on the whole way
to the thing, how much gold can actually be extracted
from whatever you bring him, and he'll cut you check
then there. Houston Gooldexchange dot com is the website. The
store is at West Timer and Darry Ashford. His cell
number is this two eight one eight five one thirty

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nine fifty five two eight one eight five one thirty
nine fifty five. There is a new acreage home site
development going in in the middle of Texas, about ten
fifteen miles west of cold Spring. It's called Whitetail Ranch,
and Whitetail Ranch is a gated acreage community home site

(28:34):
from one and a half to more than four acres.
You're gonna have lots of elbow room between you and
your neighbors. They got concrete roads going through there, there's
no mud taxes, and absolutely beautiful amenities. It's it's kind
of a the whole place is built around kind of
a Texas hunting ranch theme, and whether you hunt or not,

(28:57):
it's a it's a really attractive, attractive presentation, and I
urge you to go check this place out. If you're
thinking about maybe buying something like that as an investment,
or buying something like that with the intention of building
right away, maybe wait a few years, wait till the
kids are out of the house and all of that stuff,

(29:18):
and then you just go up there and from for
the rest of your days, just walk out on the
back porch with a hot cup of coffee every morning
and just see what kind of wildlife's walking through your yard.
They've got early discounts available, and there's a one day
only sale event coming up next week February twenty one,
that's next Saturday, So think about driving up there and

(29:39):
taking a hard look. While some of the premium lots
are still available, because they're not going to be available
for long country lifestyle that's designed to last forever and
for as long as you're there. Whitetail Ranch tx dot
com is the website.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Go check it out.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Whitetail Ranch TX dot com. Thirty on Sports Talk seven
ninety the Dugpike Show. I had to go refill my
coffee cup. Next time I go out, I'm gonna grab
the mug that Erica from over on than KTRH newsroom
gave me a few weeks ago. These little styrofoam cups
are cute and all, but they don't really maintain a
lot of heat because the top of the cup is

(30:20):
just the heat's just rising right out of there.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
I saw that just now.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
As a matter of fact, I'd never thought of this, Frankie.
I've been sitting here watching these cups of coffee and
the styrofoam container get cold unusually fast for how many years,
twenty probably maybe more. And all I did was take
a folded piece of paper and put it on top
of the cup. There you go, little It's much better

(30:45):
insulation than just letting all the smoke come out of
the chimney.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
You know, this is gonna be a test.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
I'm gonna let it sit there for about five minutes,
maybe six or seven, before I take another sip and
see how much of the heat it retains. As to
before that, the top of these cups is so big
it literally maybe you had maybe ten minute window to
drink warm coffee. So I'll hopefully double that without even

(31:12):
having to go over to my desk, although I will
in a minute by the way, out of curiosity thinking
about the fishing show before I was. As I was
getting ready this morning, I asked Ai out of just
just on a hunch, and my hunch was pretty much right.
I asked Ai, what are the best new fishing rods

(31:33):
for inshore, salt water and for bass fishing? And it
seems AI's got an opinion on everything. Now, even though
Ai has never made a single cast. Ai has never
tied a knot, never had to punch a spinner bait
into a stiff wind, never been wide fishing. AI hadn't

(31:54):
done Diddley squat. But it's got an opinion. It's got
an opinion on and I mean right down to the
brand and model of these rods. There were quite a
few of them listed in both categories. A few of
them I'd never heard of, which isn't necessarily a condemnation
of that rod, but It just goes to show you.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
That when you have nano second.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Access to information about everything, I don't know how it,
AI is going to always have an opinion about something.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
I think it would be very hard.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Sometimes my wife and I will stump Alexa and just
I don't know how to help you with that. Well,
then you're not as good as you thought you were,
are you? But that I'm sure that information the question
we asked that that little box couldn't answer, all of
that goes back into the big database and they jumble

(32:55):
it all up again and see if they can find
an answer for next time, maybe online.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Is what I took away from that.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Is that you got to keep in mind next time
you turn to a keep that in mind next time
you turn to AI to solve maybe solve a personal problem,
make you feel better, or help diagnose a medical issue.
That's one thing that It's a recurring thing among doctors
that I interview. I'll ask them sometimes off the air,

(33:25):
how safe is it to rely on AI to diagnose
something you've got? And every one of them says, people
would be a lot healthier if they'd stay off the
internet and just try to the trick with that though,
is you've got to be able to get an appointment
and get in. If I'm feeling really, really sick, I'm

(33:46):
going to throw my symptoms on there and see what
I might have, and if it seems really serious, I'm
I'm going to try to get into the doctor as
fast as I can.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
But that's not as easy as it used to be
because now.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Doctors spend half their time battling insurance companies and the
other and half their time doing something else, and then
about thirty five, maybe forty percent of their time, if
they're lucky, actually seeing patients and helping them get well.
But I digress, I digress. Well, here's one of the
things I want I have on my list of asking

(34:16):
you is this. I'm kind of curious to know what
each of you in a fishing show theme, what each
of you remembers as your first ever fishing experiences. Okay,
what you roden, reel, cane pole, whatever it was, where
it was, who taught you, that's really important, What you caught,

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How often you got to go, Did you go more
than you wanted to because somebody who was teaching you
wanted to take you all the time, or did you
not get enough of it.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
You just couldn't get enough of it.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
That's what I was if it just before the word
fishing could get out of my dad's mouth, I would
be in the backseat of the car ready to go,
or back then actually sitting up front. Yeah, no seat belt,
no nothing, just sitting in the front about a foot
and a half away from that cast iron glove box.
What could possibly have gone wrong if we'd hit something?

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Want to know what kind of gear you had? I
want to know what you remember, I really do. I
mean that's and when we get back, I'll kind of start.
I'll prime the pump unless one of you wants to,
or a bunch of you. I really am curious where
you Where did you start fishing? And for me, it
was in little stock ponds and an ox bow of

(35:35):
the Brass River out toward Richmond. That's where my dad
and I went from Sharpstown. I'll get back to that
when we get back from his break. Right now, I
want to tell you about air ride bikes up there
in the four Corner shopping center in Tomball. This is
where Wayne Errington sells his e bikes, and by that
I mean a full line of them. Everything from just

(35:55):
little bitty ones that young people can ride as long
as they got their helmets on. Maybe they want to
go up to the playground or something like that with
their buddies when they're old enough to go by themselves.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Or maybe you need something that will.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Help a senior in your family get around somebody whose
balance isn't quite what it should be, but they and
they don't like to drive, or maybe they can't even
drive a car anymore really for whatever reasons. That happens
when you're a senior at some point, and so maybe
they could take their e bite to go pick up
a prescription from the drug store, maybe go get a
couple of bags of groceries. Those three wheel e bikes

(36:31):
are perfect for them. The big, heavy powered monster e bikes,
the ones that I like to talk about. And I've
been throwing nickels in a jar for a while now.
I got a little few more nichols to save up.
But once I get to that point, I would love
to have one of those to either work my way
to the far back of a deer lea somewhere and

(36:51):
do some scouting, do some hunting without leaving any kind
of a scent trail, without making any noise hardly.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Those things are great for that or on the beach.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
I had Wayne Errington on the program a couple of
weeks ago talking about how manageable it is to operate
this electronic vehicle on the beach in that salty environment.
So long as you just do some some pre and
post maintenance on that machine, it'll last you for years
and years and years. Run up and down a beach,

(37:23):
chasing fish, sneak through the woods, getting back to where
your deer stand is. Fantastic things they are, these e bikes,
and he only carries the best and the most reliable
and the safest. And he'll sell you a helmet too.
He's not gonna let you out of there without a helmet.
Air Ridebikes dot Com is a website a r r

(37:43):
idair ride bikes dot Com. I want to tell you
more about l Kubano cigars. Been a long long time
since Manny Lopez was back in Cuba where he grew
up his family in the cigar business. Everybody now over
in Tech City where he manufactures cigars every day, also

(38:04):
very experienced what they do. His family has grown tobacco
and hand rolled cigars. He sent me this this week,
sitting down more than one hundred and twenty years, more
than one hundred and twenty years of cigar history for
Manny and his family. I had no idea that they
they were that deeply rooted. That's like some of the

(38:26):
generational wine makers in the world. All of their cigars,
he said, are made at their factory right there in
Texas City. I've been telling you that for a long time.
The two lounges Texas City Combo Factory and Smoking Lounge,
and the one over in League City. Great place to
just sit and smoke a gar. Or they can come
by that either place really and pick up plenty of

(38:47):
cigars to take back and do whatever they do. They
specialize in private label cigars any occasion, corporate needs, whatever,
and their cigars sell for five to ten dollars a peace,
which truly is a bargain for premium hand rolled cigars.
Think about that They do on site cigar rolling for weddings,

(39:08):
for golf tournaments, trade shows, anything.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Knowing Manny the way I do. If it has to
do with cigars and you want it.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Call Manny, get online, find the phone number, call Manny
and he will pretty much do it.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
For you.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
That's the kind of guy he is. The customer is
probably going to be always right with Manny Lopez. I've
known this guy and long enough now to understand kind
of what makes him tick, and what makes him his tick.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Is happy customers. That's it.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Elcubanocigars dot Com is the website. Go check it out
more than one hundred and fifty varieties of cigars. Elcubano
Cigars dot Com. Well, I just got an email I've
been waiting on all morning.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
I was getting a little bit worried somebody who lives
in the path of that storm that came through here.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
I guess we all do really hang on there we go.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
I've gotten a couple I've gotten a couple of emails
from people who who weren't as fortunate as I was,
and their area at least got torn up pretty good.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
For me.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
It was a wind event and a medium rain events.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
I think the wind blew harder than I was expecting,
but the rain wasn't as severe as I was expecting.
Although there was one point when I had been out
working in the garage getting ready for something I'm going
to do tomorrow, and all of a sudden, the wind
just starts ripping out of the south and that exposes

(40:43):
me in the open door garage, and the rain starts
coming with it, and now it's a race to get
out of there. And we have a gate on our
driveway that we put on there when my son was
very little to keep him from riding his tricycle out
into the street, and I had to open my car door,
and my car door was facing north and in a

(41:06):
twenty to twenty five mile an hour wind gusting higher,
I had to open that car door in the rain
and put the gate down, and my entire back got soaked.
And it was just just cool enough with this thing
flipping over that it was a very minor problem compared
to what a lot.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Of other people experienced.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
But it was my little baby problem and I made
it through there. I felt so sorry for myself. I
went in and got zero sympathy. Why are you standing
in the rain? Well, I was trying to close the
garage door and trying to do this and try to
do that. Frankie, I would like for you to give us,
when you can, an update on what's going on halfway

(41:46):
around the world in Milan.

Speaker 6 (41:47):
Well at least a quarter of the way around the world.
Got some ideas yet, I think we got a little
bit of something. Let me see here, give me what
you got, yeah, let me just see what we have here.
But with the Olympics right now, I'm seeing that we
have a total of seventeen medals right now at the

(42:08):
Milano Quartina. Fantastic the February fifteenth. The upcoming metal events
that we have right now.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
Have to do.

Speaker 6 (42:18):
That's what I'm seeing here, several high profile metal events,
including competitions in biathlon, freestyle skiing, and alpine skiing. Okay,
right now, I think the thing I'm seeing the highest
metal count is Norway.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Yeah, I was gonna say, Norway is going to run
away with this thing they always do, and then and then.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
You have Italy and then the US. Okay, so that's
the same that it's been since day one, almost same.
Top three. Who's got the most golds Norway? Most gold
is Norway out eleven.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
And the total medal count also for them, right so
about twenty three now I'm gonna guess.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Just one under it's twenty fourth. Ok So you're pretty
much right on.

Speaker 6 (43:00):
But yeah, Norway's got eleven gold with a total of
twenty four overall. Yeah, Italy at eight gold total twenty two,
US is five at seventeen totals.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Oh, not bad for a country that's half warm we are. Yeah,
I'm not bad at all.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
In Norway they could probably kind of like we fish
year round. They can probably ski year round. Wouldn't you
think somewhere in that country there's got to be snow?

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
All right, all right, well, thank you, thank you for
that update from half a quarter of the way around
the world.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
At Milan. What's the other town they're calling Milan? And
what Cortina? I kept?

Speaker 1 (43:38):
You know what sticks in my head every time I
try to say it, Cilantro, No, it's not Milan and
Cilantra H.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Seven seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia, dot
cat or dot com. Excuse me.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
I was thinking of casting because I mentioned in going
out to the to the break we just had, I
talked about first experiences with fishing. I want to know
who taught you. I want to know how good they were.
I want to know whether it was a relative, a friend,

(44:13):
somebody from school, whatever it was. My my family didn't
weren't outdoors people. They really weren't. My mom was raised
in Atlanta, Georgia. My dad was raised in New Orleans,
in the city, and so neither of them really spent
much time outdoors. And then I came along, and whatever

(44:37):
combination of outdoor genetics they had between them, and there
had to have been some explorers, some hunters, some fishermen
down the line in my DNA because I got a
heap and help in of both. And once I finally
found I got old enough to be able to drive
myself to places and really get out and do it

(44:59):
with my friends. That's all we did. If dove season
was open, we were going dove hunting after school, probably
two or three days a week if if it was
spring or summer or fall, or sometimes even winter, and
we learned about someplace we could go catch fish. That's
what we would do after school when we weren't practicing

(45:22):
football or baseball or whatever.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
And I'm still the same way. I go every chance
I get.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
I'm not as it's kind of cliche, but I'm not
as mad at the fish or the ducks or any
of them to.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Just be obsessed by it.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
I've reached I've attained a lot of personal hunting and
fishing goals. I still have more and I always will.
I will to the day I die. It's kind of
like the same way I feel about golf. I want
to get better at golf. I want to get better
at fishing. I want to catch a few species that
I haven't caught yet. But back to the very early
early times, it was my dad who recognized my passion

(46:02):
for this, and rather than do what he wanted to
do most Saturday mornings, he would throw me in the
car and away we'd go out into that Richmond area
that was talking about a little while ago, and almost
I can't remember ever getting skunked. I would imagine we
probably did because the two of us both actually were

(46:23):
fishing with cane poles for the first probably three four years,
maybe three years that we fished. I don't remember him
having any direct drive rod and reel combo set up somehow.
The first rod and reel I remember us having as
a team was a Zebco two O two combo, and

(46:46):
those didn't come out until nineteen sixty one. That's when
the Zebco two O two changed forever. The fishing opportunities
for little kids was it high tech gear, No, not
at all. Did it have plastic gears in the drag system? Yes,
it did, And I watched firsthand as a leaning down

(47:07):
in Florida, a kobia that was hooked off the pier
burnt the gears out of one of those things in
about three seconds. Some guy brought one of those big
coffee can size zeb co's out there. He was probably
from New Jersey or something, and he actually knew how
to bait that rod. But he thought that was going
to be heavy enough to handle that fish, and it wasn't.

(47:30):
You could smell the plastic. You could smell the plastic
burning inside that reel. That's how fast it was getting
ripped up. Back to Dad and me, we were usually
there were a couple of stock tanks that ox bow
I mentioned, and I can I can visualize all these
places in my head.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
Still I can't tell you.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
I couldn't take you to any of them, and most
of them are probably neighborhoods now, the little stock tanks
and stuff.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
But I do think there's one place that I've.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Driven out toward the Pecan Grove area and kind of
off a ninety a little bit that I really do
think is one of the places my dad took me
when I first turned and kind of came onto that
spot as I was driving toward it, just to drive
past it on other business. I just had this wash

(48:23):
of memory come over me like that took me back
to when I was maybe five years old, and I'm
pretty sure that's where we would go to catch catfish.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
He had little.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Sunfish places and when when he was feeling rich, which
we never were. We were very middle class, barely middle class,
and always fishing with those cane poles and nightcrawlers.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
And every now and then, though I don't know what
it was, maybe Dad got a.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
Bonus or something like that and he'd cough up a
few extra dollars and get some meadow live meadows for us,
put him in a bait bucket. We'd try to keep
them alive with one of those little baby bubboy raiders whatever.
I think they had those back then. Maybe not, Oh no,
that was back when they would fill the bucket or
fill put the minnows in a bag and then put

(49:10):
a rubber band around the top and shove an oxygen
hose in there and fill it all the air space
with oxygen, and that kept.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Your minnows alive back then. That was that was good stuff.
It really was.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
I never I didn't even get to handle that two
o two. That was like the That was no that
that's for grown up son. You're gonna have to gona
take a while before you learn how to throw one
of these. And it didn't take that long because one
time he had gotten up, I think to go grab
something out of the car, which was parked about ten
yards away whatever.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
And.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Anyway, his line came tight, and his little Zepko two
o two was bouncing along the ground toward the edge
of that ox bow. And I ran over there and
grabbed it and picked it up. And it's as though
I had been fishing all my life with rods and reels.
I bought that fish, brought him in by two and
a half three pound catfish, biggest, biggest thing we caught

(50:03):
from there for a little while. All right, let me
go talk to Martin. See what's going on. Oh gosh,
I didn't realize we were that late, Martin. Hang on,
I gotta get out of here. Let's just go now, Frankie.
I'll catch up with everything when.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
We get back.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
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a long time now. I was there when it was new,
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I need to talk to him about that. See if
I can get a good deal on one, beautiful, beautiful,
beautiful clothing. It's gonna make you feel better when you
walk onto the golf course. No matter how you play,

(50:38):
it doesn't matter. You're gonna look good. Everybody's gonna think
you can play. You're gonna look like a real golfer.
Might even be time to buy a white belt. Who knows,
I'm not good enough for a white belt, but a
lot of the people who wear Kobe Stevens's brand are
plenty of stuff in all men's sizes, all the women's sizes,
kids sizes. If you're an above average size as a man,

(51:00):
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There's not a week goes by that he's not at
some tournament somewhere trying to help people raise money for
good causes. That alone is a good reason to support

(51:22):
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All right, I've learned how to read a clock, learn
how to tell time again. And I'm promising Frankie, I'm
not going to be late to a break like that. Oh,
I was just so wrapped up in it all. Let's
get to Martin. He held on and I promised to
get to him. What's up, Martin?

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Hey, Doug.

Speaker 7 (52:02):
As a kid, I was probably around seven or eight,
maybe six years old, somewhere in there, my grandfather took
me out in the in the Center Center, Texas area, uh,
some lake I don't even remember, and I caught a
bunch of it was Cam pole fishing.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yeah, man, everything was came post and uh, I caught
all these fish and we ate it.

Speaker 7 (52:27):
And I had a great time and great memory with
my grandfather in the Center Texas area. So that's that's
all I had.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Caine poles are going to be a recurring theme if
I can get some more people to call in and
talk about it, because and I encourage people to this
day to start their kids on cane poles, because the
first of all, the stuff that's there with the snoopy
rods and and my little Pony and all that stuff,
you're paying for the brand. You're paying for that character

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more than the rod and real and the stuff is
not good quality gear. I'd straight up, it's not quality gear,
and a kid's going to end up Martin hung up.
Sorry about that, Martin, thank you for thank you for
hanging on.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Man.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
A kid is not going to really want to fish
much if the first fish they catch and hook ends
up breaking their gear, and if it's any kind of
a fish, it probably will. So I would strongly recommend
using cane poles. They're still available, you just got to
go looking for them a little bit right now. Most
of what you can get is going to be two
piece things because it's so much easier for these stores

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to package and present that way. If you can get
out in the country somewhere and find some one piece
cane poles maybe ten twelve foot long, somewhere in there,
that's a great start, a great start, it really is,
and it's an easy way to fish. It teaches a
kid patience, and man, you couldn't claw me away from

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that can poll if that cork was out there and
it had a little bait on it. And I still
to this day believe that my dad, when he had
he used that cane pole as kind of a leash,
if you will, to keep me from running off into
the woods and coming back with a frog or a
turtle or a snake or whatever. And I would sit
there and I'd be staring at the cork and Dad

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was talking to me, and now all of these lessons
he was telling me, I was absorbing. And I still
to this day believe that when he when he had
something really really important to say, he waited till I
wasn't looking, and then he didn't bait the hook and
flip that cork on out there and handed me the pole,
and I'd sit there and stare at that cork and
listen to him until he was done, and then he

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would say, hey, let's check your bait.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Pick it up.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Nothing on the hook. Dang that got us, Dad. I
didn't even see the cork move. Yeah, that happened sometimes.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Son.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
It's a brilliant strategy. Really, if you want to really
teach one of your kids some very important stuff at
a young age, that had them that cane pole and
don't don't, don't bait the hook.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
I'm gonna see what Glenn sent here. The ox bow
you think about is Bill Williams Lake fed off the
Brasis River. Really don't remember how it got the name.
I got a hunch, but I don't know who. Bill
Williams was. Somebody significant out there, probably a landowner, farmer

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or rancher, says, same place for me to learn with
a cane pole, catching catfish, sometimes white perch if you
were lucky. Anyway, that was the place. I'm going to
try to figure out where that was, and if it
still exists, I might just have to ride out there
and just stand on that shoreline there would be if

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it were in its original state when my dad and
I were going out there, there would be one really
big tree about maybe thirty forty feet from the water
and about five or six feet above the normal water
line down there. Yeah, I would recognize the place. I'm

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sure it looks different now. That's probably somebody's backyard. But yeah,
if I could see that place again, that'd be really cool.
I have, as an adult, driven by my grandparents' house
down in southeast Florida a couple of times on trips
down there to fish. I went out of my way
once an hour and a half, almost two hours of
drive time, just to go by that house and let

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the memories come back to me. And there was a
lot of fun had down there, much of which most
of which revolved around fishing.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Fishing on the piers. There were two that we liked
to go to. The Pompino Beach Pier was the closest.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
That's the little city my grandparents lived in, but the
Deerfield Beach Pier seemed to have better fishing for some reason,
and that didn't really matter so much when I was
real young, but once I got to the point where
they would drive me to the pier and drop me off.
As a nine ten eleven year old with two rods
and reels, one bait rod and one reel fishing rod.

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And I'm out there nine ten years old, fishing for snook,
fishing for blue runners, all kinds of stuff and using
all my money. They'd give me a little bit of
money for bait and a little bit of money for lunch,
and nah, I didn't need lunch out there. I'd used
it all for bait, Are you kidding me? Buying live
shrimp by the piece. And it was amazing. I did

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get the opportunity during those summers. I don't remember which
ones specifically, but I got the opportunity to see two people,
not one, two people catch sailfish off those piers.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
That was kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Seven one three seven ninety Email on me, Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Tell you one more time about Houston
Gold Exchange, where Brad Schweiss has been dealing in precious
metals and jewelry for forty plus years. He's one of
us who he's probably not fishing today because it's so windy,
but he does go fishing a lot. He's been a
member of CCA forever. He was on their board for

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a long time, helped raise a ton of money for
that good cost. He is trying to help all of
us get a little more money in our pockets by
offering to buy.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
At historic prices.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
By the way, the price that he pays you for
the gold you take over to him know whether it's
bouyon or coins or jewelry, whatever, is based on today's price,
which has been for the last several weeks north most
days of five thousand dollars an ounce.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
This is historic stuff.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
And if ever there was a good time to make
hay while the sun shines, as they say, with the
fishing show coming in this week, you might want to
go put a little extra money in your hands.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Get over there and buy something fun for yourself.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Call him Houston gooldexchange dot com as the website west
Timer at Darry Ashford very easy to find. But he
wants you to call him on his cell phone, start
a conversation about what he can do for you, and
then maybe you can meet up over the store and get.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
The deal done. Here is his cell phone. He's instructed
me to give it to you.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
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you're gonna have to wait until tomorrow. But if you
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at Berry Hill out in Sugarland, Sugar Creek Boulevard, exit

(59:31):
off fifty nine, coming inbound, it's right up on the right,
next to the access road, right next to the ramp there.
You want to get off that freeway, get in the
parking lot, and work your way inside Berry Hill Baja Grill.
They have got some of the best fish tacos you've
ever had. I'm partial, quite partial actually to the seafood enchiladas.

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A full traditional menu of text mech stuff with the
extra added flare if that's not redundant, with the additional
flare of subtle hints of spice and whatnot put in
there by the two primary cooks who have been in
that kitchen each more than ten years. Apiece delicious, delicious food.

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They'll cater anywhere around town you'd like to have. It's
a very family friendly place too, family owned and operated.
Tables and booths on the left. When you walk in
a sports bar on the right, there's gonna be some
stuff on there for sure, and then all the way
outside dining.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
That's going to be really, really nice for the next
four or five days.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
Berryhillsugarland dot com is a website. I strongly recommend this place.
I've been eating there with my wife for thirty plus years.
Berryhillsugarland dot com. Hi, welcome back Doug Pike Show on
Sports Talk seven ninety. Just got an email from Travis,
who works for Centerpoint getting the power back on. They

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are out there working. He's not sitting around with his
feet propped up this morning. There still are some people
without apparently. I wasn't aware, and you know, when yours
is on, you don't know who's is off. But he
let me know that they're out there, just one by
one getting everybody hooked back up and getting them back
with some lights on. Let's go to Kevin, then I'll

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get to James right after that. Kevin, what's up man.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
What's up, dud? Good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:01:21):
I want to tell you a little bit about some
of my first fishing experiences. I was born up in
Sweetwater in West Texas, and my dad's best friend was
a game warden. Okay, so they would I was probably
about three years old. They take me out, usually cane pole.
I think they had a couple of like spinning their
type of reels, sure that they'd fish with. But I

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had the cane pole perch jerking and catching brim and
I remember taking them home, frying them up whole, and
a lot of times the smaller ones you just eat
them finn and all. But some of them they took
three years old, and I remember them taking me frog gigging.
That was another cool experience at a young age.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:02:03):
And then at one time or another, Jimmy Heffernan, who
was my dad's friend that was the game warden, had
confiscated a telephone from somebody to whenever he's out working,
and one night we took the telephone out on the
lake and I guess we did what we would be
considered a crill survey and shock the fish and watch

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him float up to the surface. Man, that was kind
of a cool experience as a young kid too.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Wow, Yeah, that brings back a lot of memories, I'm
sure for you. Holy cow, yeah stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:02:35):
Yesterday Folk Pro was talking about going to Ratcliffe Lake. Yeah,
I've actually I've actually gone up there and camped out
one weekend when of them just out of high school,
me and a couple of buddies, and the water was
crystal clear.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
It was beautiful.

Speaker 8 (01:02:49):
No, no, I've got a picture of my friend Randy
where he's got a ride boat over. We always tell
a story that he was fighting an eight pound bass,
but really he was hooked up on a stump.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Yeah, you gotta make a good sty oh man, yes, sir,
all right, hey, stay in vin. I'll let you get yeah, man,
I appreciate it. I'll let you get off to you
next week, buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Yeah, that that telephone pole stuff is, or telephone crank.
Telephones were used if if you're young enough not to know,
you put the wires in the water, spread them apart
and crank that phone. And the electrical shock that went
through there, which normally would be used to power your
telephone in ancient times, it would shock those fishing up

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they come. They still use shocking as a means of uh,
surveying lakes, but not for taking them.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
That's illegal. Hey, James, what's going on? Man?

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Good morning morning.

Speaker 9 (01:03:49):
So I grew up in southwest Houston, kind of like
you before, in towards.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Town, okay, and.

Speaker 9 (01:03:58):
My dad would give us the quarter every day, you
could buy plate lunch hib for a quarter. Man, I
figured out I could buy two biscuits and a little
half pint of milk for I think it was nine cents,
And with the remainder of that, after a couple of

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days or a week, I could go to Western Auto
and buy a little line, a little leader with a
hook and a weight. Yeah, came a little yellow wrap
up and then I'd make it came pole and or
find of old pole and go to Saint Leon. My
grandparents had a place there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
On the weekend.

Speaker 9 (01:04:40):
We'd go down there and I'd catch hard heads.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
And do some crab in there off of a pier.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Oh, man, that had to have been fun.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
That was fun that you know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
It's unbelievable how many crabs you and you and I
are very similar in that we found ways to get
the money we need We did to get the gear
we needed to go have fun.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
Man, there were there when I was in high school.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
There were kids spending dumb money on really things they
shouldn't have had. And I thank God that the outdoors
spirit was in me, because there was no way I
was gonna get hooked on drugs or something.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
When if I got ten dollars in my hand.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
At some point I was going out and buying a
rod and real I was going and buying mirror leures.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
I was going and buying something, anything but that. Man.

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
So what did your dad do?

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
He was in the oil business, Like almost everybody else here,
he was.

Speaker 9 (01:05:35):
Yeah, yeah, isn't it funny? We were all kind of
the sixties. We were all middle class and half broke,
but nobody knew it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Yeah I didn't know. Yeah, I didn't know at all that.
You know, my dad was busting his chops for us.
He was getting up at four fifteen, four to twenty
in the morning to catch the bust downtown, and that
certainly wasn't easy on him.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
I'm sure, no way. But we made it, didn't we
We made it, man, That's right.

Speaker 9 (01:06:06):
What a great what a great upbringing we had? What
a great time?

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
Oh yeah, well, well we were able to do the
things that little kids can't do.

Speaker 10 (01:06:13):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
I saw something on Facebook yesterday. It was very telling.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
It showed a picture of a place where kids were climbing,
i mean really high on a structure that looked very unsecured,
and the guy talking about it said, this isn't safe.
This isn't right for kids. And then it showed the
stuff that we grew up on with playground equipment. As
playground equipment, he said.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
This is what you need. It's it's kind of safe,
but it's not totally safe.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
And that teaches kids because think back when we were
in school, there wasn't a day went by when some
kid wasn't in a cast in his arm or his
leg or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Everybody had a cast at some point.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
And now they fast forward to this modern playground where
it might as well just be a bunch of fire
stone fire styrofoam pads and h in someplace to lie
down and share your feelings. Uh, and it's too safe.
They don't learn how not to get hurt. And I

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think that's what gets a lot of these younger people hurt.
Actually when they get older, the in when the damage
is going to be a lot worse. Uh, we had
the good age, didn't we.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
Yes, we did.

Speaker 9 (01:07:29):
You were talking about your parents drop or your grandparents
drop me off at the fishing pier. Oh yeah, while
you were doing that, me, me and my buddy were walking,
uh kind of from the Westland fifty nine area.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
To Astro World.

Speaker 9 (01:07:44):
Oh my god, and you get arrested for you know,
if your parents let you do stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
Now, I don't know if you I don't know if
you ever heard me. I don't know if you've ever
heard me tell the story. But I'll tell it again,
uh for you. When I was about four years old,
maybe five, We're living in Sharpstown, and my mom, who
was having to chase me down and entertain me, would
to give herself a little time with my little sister,

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just the two of them. There was a local bus
service through Sharpstown, and when that guy would come to
our house, she would put me on that bus with
a quarter in my hand. He would drop me off
at the drug store to go in and drink a milkshake,
and then on his next lap through there take me
back home.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Anything wrong with that today? Can you imagine? Holy cal Yeah,
different times, man, you got take care?

Speaker 6 (01:08:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:08:45):
Did you ever go to I think it was a
barrel ranch out there in Hanniwag.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
I was over there once or twice, not a lot,
because I was over on the west side when I
did most of my hunting. Yeah, I guide it on
the west side for fourteen years.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
So yeah, but that was that was a very famous place.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:09:06):
He was more of a duck hunter than a fisherman.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:09:09):
Look at me once out there when I was fourteen,
and he with all his buddies and it was like
four in the morning.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
We get out of the car and he says, come on, son,
let's go, and he was gone.

Speaker 9 (01:09:21):
You know it was survived or not?

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
Oh wow, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:09:28):
Still there was no U, no silver spoons back then.

Speaker 8 (01:09:33):
No, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
All right, well, hey, thanks for the call, James. I'm
glad we got to talk. Man audios.

Speaker 10 (01:09:38):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
I always enjoyed program.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
Thank you, Holy cow man.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
Yeah, he's bringing back some memories getting on the bus
as a as a uh maybe a kindergartener, maybe a
first grader at the oldest I think, and just going
up to the drug store.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Sitting on that bus up there next to mister Quadlebaum.
That was kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
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a new gated, oversized lot, oversized acreage home sites starting
at an acre and a half, nothing smaller, Gonna have
concrete roads all throughout the property once they're finished, and

(01:10:21):
they're working on that now. There are no mud taxes,
which is a nice thing to know. And you can
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just sit on that investment of yours as just that
as an investment, maybe something to hand off to your
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(01:10:41):
it's about ten miles west of cold Spring, right in
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ever find. They have advanced pricing. Early discounts are available now,
but there's a one day sale next Saturday, and if
you can make it up there for that one day
sail next Saturday, you'll have a chance to get in

(01:11:03):
while there are still some really prime lots left to have.
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Go to the website learn more about this place. You'll
start packing up for next weekend for sure. Whitetail Ranch
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Absolutely positively gorgeous day to gather up the family, throw
them in the minivan or the suv or the pickup
or whatever you got and drive to Bellville and get
yourself a little lunch on the way to Belleville Meet Market.
What you want to do is talk amongst yourselves and
decide what you want to bring home to eat for
the next two or three days, or two or three weeks,

(01:11:47):
or however much freezer space you have.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
They have.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
Meals. Of the strategy I like to share is that you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Get the family, you make your list on the way
out there, you stop, you get in there, you hand
off the order, and then you get in line for
lunch or dinner. They serve a delicious barbecue lunch or
dinner seven days or ten am to seven pm. Then
pick up all your stuff, drive back home, and start

(01:12:16):
planning the next trip out there.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
You'll have plenty of great food to eat.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
They have got homemade stuff, pork tenders that are incredible,
several different flavors of those. They've got stuffed pork chops, labuchery,
stuffed chickens. Wild game processing year round. That's still open.
By the way, if you've got access to exotic game,
or you're winding down the MLD program, whatever it is

(01:12:40):
on your place, they'll still take care of that stuff
for you and get that game processed. Beef, jerky, turkey, jerky, dry, sausage,
dry stick all of that, grab and go snacking. Fifteen
minutes north of Cily, fifteen minutes south of Henstead on
Highway thirty six. The only meat market and processor I
indorse is Bellville Meat Market.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Go to the website. Check it out. You're gonna love it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
Belleville MeetMarket dot com at Belleville meat Market dot Com.
Nine thirty six on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show,
Thank you for listening. Sorry for that small delay. I'm
trying to get the full leader board of the AT
and T Pebble Beach pro am, but the only view
I'm getting is one that scrolls it horiz hontally and

(01:13:22):
not vertically.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
I'll find it. I'll find it. First. I'm gonna go
talk to Mike though. What's up, Mike?

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
Morning, young man? How are you doing today?

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
I'm good man. How are things in Sharpstown?

Speaker 4 (01:13:35):
Got you better be against the law?

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
What are you selling out the back door?

Speaker 10 (01:13:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
I got a criokie for you, okay. When I was
about your age and living in Sharpstown, yeah, we did
our We did our fishing with Canepole. Oh yeah dead
the bomber. Oh man. Uh, I learned real quick, and
I thought to my You know, the big fish have

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got to be out further than I can throw this
cane pole line. Sure, so I got a real hair,
and after school every day for a long time, I'd
go around the neighborhood knocking on the doors, getting bottles
of pop and taking it up to seven Oh yeah,
for cash.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
Yeah, man, get those deposits back.

Speaker 4 (01:14:25):
Then I'd go up to monkey Wards or the local
hardware store and start picking out, you know, a fishing
pole and a reel that I could afford. And then
came the expensive stuff, the lures, Oh boy, yeah, And
the first one I ever bought was a hula popper.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
Oh man, that brings back memories.

Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
And the first time I threw that thing, I caught
myself the biggest fish I've ever caught. And you know
I was hooked after that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Oh sure, man, sure go, especially with a top water strike, y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
There's just nothing more exciting to me to this day
than a good solid fish hitting the top water loor.

Speaker 4 (01:15:07):
Well, I had to give up my my bottle of
staving chin because the school started doing paper drives and
you know how you line them up on the fence.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
Line around Oh yeah, yeah, I remember doing that, and you.

Speaker 4 (01:15:20):
Know, it took all my time doing that after school,
so my fishing suffered a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
Oh that's terrible.

Speaker 4 (01:15:28):
Other than that, that's it, kid. Yeah, a good day.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
Yeah, I'm having a great day. Everything's working, been working
since we started. Oh yeah, oh yeah, man, all's good.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Thank you, Mike. Have a good kid, Yes, sir, you too, Audios.
All right, let's go find Dave. Dave, what's up man?

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:15:48):
You know, like my mom would take us, me and
my three brothers down there the garden Os Theater and
just so happens. I saw a deal on the news
this morning. They want to save that. I thought they
made it into a church, but I think they're trying
to redo it. I don't know it or something right
on Shepherd, you know, but we watched the Legend. She'd
give us money for popcorn and drinks and we go

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there and sit and watch like three times in a row,
the Legend of Boggy Creek and the falk Monster.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
You know, yeah, man, get some cartoons before the movie,
start to what and ads?

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
Back then it was cartoons.

Speaker 10 (01:16:22):
Yeah, that's it, hey, And then you were talking about
then uh on on North Line Road that dead ends
into o'mac over there, Matt Mac.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
There was a big bido there.

Speaker 10 (01:16:31):
We'd go down there and uh and catch u some
crawfish with some bacon, you know, yes, sir, And then
we put them in a bucket and take the oak
leaves and put them on there, and then we'd take
them up to the farm up here and you or
do we bring them here to Lake Honor? Or go
up to Stubblefield Lake and in the fish for catfish
with yeah, gasper good, you know, gas love crawlfish man.

Speaker 9 (01:16:55):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
I used to catch those with some friends of mine
in the on the property behind find our house over there,
and and the house we lived in when I was
in high school, and there was a bunch of acreage
behind us, no neighbors, just a bunch of acreage, and
there were crawfish all over that place.

Speaker 3 (01:17:12):
Man saw fish ponds. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:17:15):
My uncle Lewis, well we called him Uncle Lewis, but
he had to be he had a lot of property
right before you went into where we were, right out
of the new wave here. Yeah, and uh, we would
go go that. We would walk down the road with
a bucket and get us some just a string. Didn't
even have a pole on just a streams bacon, throw
it in there, and then you just had to be

(01:17:35):
real slow getting that crawfish up out there and pull
them up. And then we'd save them up and then
go and go go catfishing or whatever. And then he
would he would, he would throw us in the truck
and get a sane and then we would go to
the minute he had bigger ponds, like we'd get shiners
and big shiners and then we go, yeah, get in
the boat and go out and the run trot lines,

(01:17:56):
you know, and man, that's the day in the life,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
That's what we did, you know.

Speaker 10 (01:18:01):
And oh look there's there's Wilburt and Gertrude.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
I just pulled up over here.

Speaker 10 (01:18:07):
I was running late.

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
The wife and I.

Speaker 10 (01:18:09):
Last night we played dominoes until eleven o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
How'd you crawl out of bed this morning?

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
Well?

Speaker 10 (01:18:16):
I did until eight thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Oh god.

Speaker 10 (01:18:20):
So I figured I'd just run down here, and then
we got to make a run up to the store.
After a while.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
All right, well, I have a great day, Dave. I'm
gonna go catch one more before I got to go
to this break.

Speaker 10 (01:18:30):
Okay, thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
After a while, okay, oh yeah, all right, man, I'll
see audios. Let me get David. David number two, you're
on the air. What's going on? Day?

Speaker 5 (01:18:41):
Yeah, Doug, real quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
And make your time. You're good.

Speaker 3 (01:18:43):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
You were talking earlier about your grandfather and your dad
really didn't hunting says, I was in the same I'm
looking back. Do you know I wish I had known
when I was learning all that I've been able to
learn since. Boy, And my question, my question is this,
you know, if we look back to when we were
learning how to hunt and fish, do the did did

(01:19:08):
the writers? It's really more of a writer's question. Did
the magazine newspapers?

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
Did the writers?

Speaker 5 (01:19:14):
Because we didn't have YouTube back in those days? Did
writers write about the the same content that they write
about today? Because everything today? I don't know if it's
because I look for it or because it's more available.
But were writers more educational when we were trying to learn?

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
Or were they more do you think so? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
All the way through a lot of what was in
the magazines, uh the big three Sports and Field, Field
and stream and outdoor Life, there was there was they
used sidebars for instruction. The features that I was writing anyway.
When I was at Field and Stream, the features were
the story, the whimsical, magical, inspirational story, and then the

(01:20:02):
sidebars are where you put how to do what we
were doing, whatever it was.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
And it was the same in the newspaper.

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
We tried to give a lot of instruction, and I
would get it from the guides I was fishing with.
I would get it from the guides I was hunting
with before I was doing that, and and and infuse
that into the story so that it wasn't just look
what I did, it's look what you could do too,
if you do this that the pro said to do.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
And so that that's the way I kind of went
at it at least, and that's what I grew up reading.

Speaker 5 (01:20:35):
Yeah, all right, then I'm gonna let you go because
I know you've got to go to break. But what
what do our writers are? They still on track? Are
there changes that need to be made?

Speaker 1 (01:20:46):
I'll leave it to that, Okay, okay, Yeah, I'll talk
about that when I get back, because I want to.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
I'm wanna give it some time. Thank you, David. That's
a good one, all right, Maye.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
All right, we got to take this break when we
get back, I'm gonna kind of go over the difference
between what the end game was when I was writing
full time and what the end game is now, and
it's really really different.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
I'll make some notes during the break. On the way out,
I'll tell you about Timber Creek.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
FN twenty three fifty one in friends Wood, a few
miles west of the Golf Freeway. Twenty seven holes, great
variety of holes too, and they're all fun to play,
and I'm gonna beat you up. They're not gonna make
you cry, they're not gonna make you throw your clubs
in the lake. You're just gonna have a good time
getting around. And if you get anywhere near that, if
you feel like you're not really doing what you want

(01:21:33):
to do on the golf course, sing swing yourself over
to JJ Woods Academy at Timber Creek, right there next
to the range and can get anybody in there, really,
anybody who's working in there under JJ. They'll take care
of you, They absolutely will. They'll fix that swing of yours.
Great teaching staff, great practice area, great place to hold
a big tournament because they've got twenty seven holes, after all,
they can they can accommodate a lot more players at

(01:21:56):
one time.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
Great grill to excellent food.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
Creek Golf Club dot com is the website you can
set a tea time right there, right now, and today
is going to be a gorgeous day for golf.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
Timbercreekgolf Club dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
Shooter's Corner, Palmer high Way to twenty ninth Street down
in Texas City, the place to go on that side
of town, the south side of Houston, if you will,
for pretty much anything and everything you need related to
the shooting sports. Jerry and Jtk, father and son, owned
that place since well together, they've owned it since Jay
was deemed old enough and smart enough by Jerry to

(01:22:32):
be in that store working, both of them outstanding at
their craft. Everybody who works in that store outstanding in
their craft, and that craft is getting you hooked up
to the right shotgun, rifle, handgun you need, the right ammo,
the right optics, anything and everything you need. Really, if

(01:22:53):
you wear a bacheler a living by the way, you
get a discount, which I think is very cool.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
Anytime you go into.

Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
Shooter's Corner, expect to see, first of all, expect to
see a friendly face ask you what they can do
for you, and then look around. Everybody else in there's
gonna be in a good mood because there's probably gonna
be a story being told. Almost every time I've ever
been down there, somebody in there, one of the customers,
telling a story. And once you hear that story, you're

(01:23:20):
welcome to chime in with one of your own. If
it's gonna take a while, there's places you can sit
down to listen or to tell the stories.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
It's just that way.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
If you don't know what an old school gun store
smells like, get down there, close your eyes, walk through
the door.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
Do that and you'll know.

Speaker 1 (01:23:37):
And the next time you go down there, they could
walk in blindfolded and you'd know exactly where you were.
Shooter's Corner Paubra Hinewa A twenty ninth tree, The Shooters
CORNERTX dot com, The Shooters Corner TX dot com, nine
point fifty on sports Sox seven ninety The Dugpike Show,
thank you for listening. Finally, at the last segment of
today's show, anyway, and I apologize a couple of emails

(01:23:58):
I've gotten here. Oh holy cow, not from around here, huh.
Lake Minta, Washta, Iowa. That's where Mojo grew up fishing.
Might have been four or five. We caught bullheads. Mom
brought her embroidery and watched over I'm gonna I'm gonna
guess it's a brother, let's see, and watched over my

(01:24:20):
baby's sister.

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
Oh wow.

Speaker 1 (01:24:21):
Dad was too busy baiting my hook and answering questions.
We didn't do it more than a couple of times.
It was not relaxing for him. I can't understand why
holy Cow, Holy Cow.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
Alan.

Speaker 1 (01:24:34):
There used to be a small sand quarry pitting Spring
Branch near kemp Wood and Guestner.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
I'm trying to think of where that was. I'm not
so sure. Mid seventies. Let's see if there's more. Oh yeah, uh.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
He and his pal Kevin, still friends today, used to
float our model battleships and shoot at him with BB guns.
I will never forget the biggest crawfish you'd ever seen,
holy cow in that pond. It looked more like a
small lobster. I bet it was close to eight inches
long and real dark red and black. Oh man, I
hadn't seen a crawfish that big, but I know they exist. Okay,

(01:25:12):
So back to what I was going to explain the
first of all, there was a reason I brought all
this up. And if you are an adult and you
know a child who hasn't had any experience in the
outdoors yet, and you can, if it's not your own child,
invite the parents to come with you while you maybe

(01:25:32):
help them learn to catch a fish or catch their
first fish. I did that so many times at the
little park over in Meadows Place with my son. There
would be families walking through that park, and because he
and I, my son and I were catching so many
little fish so fast, the little kids would naturally be
drawn to what we were doing. And when the parents

(01:25:53):
caught up, I would ask them, first of all, has
your son or daughter ever caught a fish? And when
the answer there was no, can I do that for them?

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Can?

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
Would you mind? If they want to do that? Can
they do it?

Speaker 1 (01:26:06):
And never got turned down, And we probably single handedly,
double handedly, he and I, my son and me probably
put twenty thirty little kids on their first ever fish
in the times we were over at that lake. And
it was so fun and so rewarding. Those kids were
so excited, and I hope some of them got to
keep doing it. The point I'm making is that if

(01:26:28):
you've listened to how vividly the people who have called
and to me reading some of the emails I got
on this, how vividly they remember those early experiences outdoors
with whomever taught them. If you're a grown up and
you don't know how to do it, write me. I'll

(01:26:48):
tell you how to do it. It's real simple.

Speaker 2 (01:26:50):
And don't be shy.

Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
Don't say I can't take them I don't know what
I'm doing, because you not knowing what you're doing is
an even better reason to learn together with your son
or daughter. It gives you more touch points for sharing
information and learning from your mistakes and all of that.
And I promise you there are places around here where
it won't take you. If you go to the right

(01:27:13):
place at the right time, it won't take you fifteen
minutes to get that first fished, and you can start
looking for more of them.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Okay, so back to the other question I had.

Speaker 1 (01:27:22):
I've got a couple of minutes here, and I can
explain the difference between outdoor writing back when I was
doing it full time and outdoor writing and videoing today.
First of all, we did it in the newspaper and
in magazines, not because we were trying to get rich.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
Believe me, it wasn't for the money. It was because
we were passionate about what we.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
Did and people who hired us thought we had a
knack for doing that, so they paid us to do it,
and we did it, and we tried to infuse as
much instruction as we could into what we were doing.
Sometimes we wrote a lot of instructions. Sometimes it was
more telling about where we went and what we did today.
For starters, with YouTube and all the other in Facebook

(01:28:07):
and all of that, there's a tremendous amount of redundancy
when it comes to how to do this and how
to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
There's no secrets anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:28:17):
And most of the people who get into podcasting, who
get into personal tips that they put on follow me
for more tips on catching crappie or catching bass or any.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
Of that, they're doing it to make money. They want
more follows.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
They do sometimes some outlandish stuff, some crazy stuff, and
it's all a look at me thing to get more
likes and to generate more money. There's a lot of
money to be made in video and I don't have
in podcasting, and I don't have a problem with anybody
doing that. But I want to make sure if I'm

(01:28:54):
trying to learn from those people that they're not making
posts just to get more likes, just to get more attention,
or just to make more money, but because they truly
believe in what they've videoed, this presentation of themselves, these
reels and whatever they call them on Snapchat and Instagram
and x and all of that. Once again, it's all

(01:29:16):
about the money there. The more attention they garner, the
more money they make. And that's how some of these
people who give away they look like they're thirty years old,
and they're giving away cars, and they're giving away houses
and all these things. It's because a lot of people
are spending way too much time looking at their phone,

(01:29:37):
looking at their laptop, looking at their iPad, whatever they're
looking at, than actually going outdoors and experiencing it for themselves.
It might take you longer to learn by yourself than
by going to YouTube and looking something up, but I
guarantee you if you spend more time outdoors and less
time in front of that screen, you'll be a better

(01:29:59):
person for it. The older you get and the more
you go outside, the more you experience the outdoors. The
better equipped you'll be when some son or daughter or
future grandchild comes up to you. It says, hey, grandma,
Hey grandpa, can you teach me how to fish? I
want to go catch a fish. I've seen it a

(01:30:20):
million times. I want to go catch a fish. Don't
be scared of it either. If you need some really
really beginner stuff, email me. I can tell you how
to get ready to go fishing and catch fish and
find you a place to go for less than whatever.
For less than twenty bucks plus gas, you'll have everything

(01:30:41):
you need to take a child fishing for months and
maybe a year to come for twenty bucks and gas money.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
And that's all it's going to take. All right, that's
it for now.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
I'll be back next Tuesday on AM nine fifty KPRC
with fifty plus. I will be back here at this
in this studio next Saturday morning. God Willing right back
here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thank you all for listening.
I really appreciate it. Get outside, have some fun with
your family.

Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
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