Freeze Life Hacks

Originally aired on January 24, 2026. On this episode, Doug interviews Captain Pip Bauerlein from TowBoat US to discuss boat maintenance. He also dicusses black carp, and winterizing your home. All this and more, on The Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, here we go. You know what's going on outside.
I know what's going on outside because I drove a
half an hour through it to get here, and it's
gonna be around a while and we're just gonna plod
on through. Just got an email from Mojo forty six

(00:21):
and raining. Yeah, I got to hunch that and raining
thing is that's just kind of standard ops now for
the next twenty four to thirty six hours. It'll come
and go. I was awakened by some pretty heavy patter
on my own roof this morning, and once I got

(00:43):
up and got moving, I thought I still had about
twenty minutes on the alarm, and I was tempted to
just roll back into bed and curl up a little bit,
but thought, no, I don't want to have to drive
through a torrential downpour and be in a hurry. So
I just piled out and headed on down. Didn't have

(01:04):
much trouble. There were only I would say, there were
only two idiots on the freeway coming in. And what
I did notice though, And if somebody would like to
tell me that that I'm right, and yes, that's we
see it that way too. If you were on the
freeway or you're on the freeway right now, and in

(01:24):
one of those areas where they've used asphalt instead of
concrete to resurface the road. Let me put this over here.
I would like to know whether or not you had
a difficult time seeing the painted white stripes between the lanes.
But because the way the light hits that sheen of

(01:47):
the water on that asphalt, it was. It was difficult
this morning for me, and I've never experienced that before.
But this is a new play a new stretch of
freeway where they've done that. It's pretty slick, it's nice
and quiet that asphalt is and it's all brand new
except where they've scraped it and haven't put the asphalt

(02:07):
down yet. In any event, yeah, I had a problem
with that, I really did, and I made it that
I've been driving that freeway forever. I have a pretty
good idea I could probably close my eyes and get
halfway here without hitting anything. I don't dare try that,
but nonetheless, in any event, so here we go, and

(02:28):
it's going to be cold nearly across the entire state
for the next what three days, and only going to
get colder in the next twenty four thirty six hours.
If you've got freeze hacks, by the way, to share
with the group things that you can do around your
house to keep anything from bursting that many of us,
or some of us at least might not know about.

(02:49):
By all means, feel free to share them, because that
anything you can do to keep any of us from
having to stay home and wait for a plumber means
that's more time we can get out and get back
in the outdoors. I'll go first. Okay, if you've got
to spigot outside or actually anywhere in your house too,
because I had one that needed this attention a while back.

(03:11):
If you have one outside that, well, I have one
on a on a north facing wall, okay, and that's
that's where my little problem child spigot is. But I've
come to uh, I've got a better solution for it
now than I did then. So if you're still just
putting that standard foam cap on on your spigots against
the walls out around the perimeter of your house, and

(03:35):
one or more of them, when the temperatures get colder
than just a little light freeze tends to seize up
the water freezes inside there. I have found and been
successful every time knock on wood. Uh. The former way
I got out of that pickle was to use uh.

(03:59):
I have a pitcher. I'd take a picture, and I'd
run warm water, fill the picture, walk back outside in
the freezing cold, pour that water slowly over that pigot,
and then hope, hope it. I'd just stand there and
stare at it and see if that was enough, and
if it wasn't, I'd go back inside and I'd get
another picture of water and come back out and do
that again. Sometimes it took three or four pictures. Sometimes

(04:21):
it took twelve or fifteen minutes to get the dog
on thing to thaw out, but it did. Now I
only have to go out one time, because when I do,
I open the pigot and then I take one of
my little pocket hand warmers and open it up and
shake it. And then I'd take a little either a

(04:43):
washcloth or a handkerchief, or a very small micro towel
or something like that micro Farber towel, just something small
enough or big enough that you can put that on
it and maybe fold that cloth one time and then
fix it where the handwarmer is underneath the spigot and
in touching hugging the pipe. And then at the top

(05:06):
you can either you can seal it, put it on
there and make it stick with a rubber band, a
zip tie, a hair clip. I don't care what you do.
I don't care how you affix it. But you put
that on there and walk away, and then just go
inside where it's toasty warm and count to ten. Basically
once that thing warms up. And one of those actually
you can use if you have to to get more

(05:27):
than one spigot going, you can. It'll it'll stay warm
for hours. Oh you could you find one? Someone some
neighbor calls it's, oh my pigot's frozen over. I'll be
there in a minute, and that two hours, three hours later.
Those little things are very handy for other than just
putting them in your pocket to keep your hands warm.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email

(05:49):
me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. By the way, when
I went out to buy some more of those, some
backup hand warmers to the few I had left at
the house from various things, I went to one of
the bigger, the big giant box sporting goods store, and
there were only two pack I take that back. There

(06:10):
were three packages of them left, and I bought two
because I know between now and the end of winter,
I'll use them up either on a golf course, on
a fishing trip, for another freeze. Whatever it is, we'll
get it, we'll get by. We'll be okay, we will
be okay. So what I would really like to do
this morning is kind of, first of all, if anybody

(06:31):
else knows any other hacks like secrets to keeping all
the stuff in your attic insulated, I'm gonna go up
and do that work. And it's just a it's a
maintenance check today more than anything else. I keep foam
around almost all the piping in the attic, and it
should be where I left it last year, but I
always go up there, and it seems like every time

(06:52):
I do every winter, when this first freeze comes along,
I've got something that where the I don't know what
makes that stuff move, but it just seems like little
pieces are exposed. And I'm gonna I'm gonna tidy that
up and then just sit back and relax and hope
the hope the AC stays on the heater, hope the
electricity stays on uh center point nine we need to

(07:15):
have a talk, because just this past week our power
went out twice. No, two weeks ago, I guess it was. Yeah,
I think it was two weeks ago. In any event, Yeah,
for no reason. I'm laying there in bed in the
middle of the night and that was actually up. I
had to go to the bathroom to come back. I'm
lying there before I go to sleep out here outside,
and you know what that means. A transformer blue And

(07:38):
in the instant that sound stopped, the power went off,
stayed off for about an hour that time, came back
on for about an hour, went back off for about
another hour. And there's nothing we can do about it.
Nothing we can do. I'm on a little bitty grid too,

(07:59):
but it was only about sixty five or seventy customers
on this little grid I'm on, which means we're always
last to get patched back up because we have the
fewest people to yell at them. And I don't think
that's fair. I think it ought to be a rotation.
One year, the big grids go first, the next year
the little ones go first. Because we've been hammered for years,

(08:21):
ever since I've lived in that house. Everybody else's power
comes on before hours. Frankie, have you ever had or
have you had many power outages up your way?

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Few every now and again, but thankfully not anything too frequent.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
What about when that big cold freeze what do they
name that thing uri or something like that.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
I don't remember it now but five years ago, but yeah,
I remember that was definitely one that we had the power.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
We had no We had no power for three days,
that thing none. And well, I also I look back,
it got down to thirteen degrees in Houston, and we're
going we're not gonna tap that with this one. And
it's not gonna be that cold for that long either.
It was well below freezing, not a little bit. It
wasn't like thirty one degrees. It was a lot colder

(09:09):
than that back when that thing came through here and
it stayed that way for days. That's the thing we're
gonna be. Tonight's gonna be pretty cold, Tomorrow night and
Monday night gonna be cold er, I think, is the
way it goes. We've got one. Tonight's gonna be the
one that's kind of cold, a light freeze. Let me
let me just get this thing up here real quick,

(09:30):
and I can tell you just yapping away and I've
got the actual the actual site that I want. If
it a load, come on, you can do it. Okay,
here we go. Let me back up here, all the
way up here and there it is so tonight thirty degrees,
No big deal. I wouldn't have done anything to my
pipes for thirty degrees. And then there comes Sunday night,

(09:52):
which is twenty two for low, and then Monday night
twenty one for low, and those numbers have been kind
of bouncing back and forth. And I'll tell you this too.
Sugar Land always at least one degree cooler, not more
than two, but at least one degree cooler than Houston.
For some reason. I think it's just because we don't
have as many big buildings and quite as much concrete
and all of that. We're more we're more out in

(10:14):
the in the in the country kind of. And I
can prove that theory or not if I just go
look at the temperatures for Richmond. They should be even
one degree cooler. Then if I'm right, then sugar Land. Oh,
by the way, I'll tell you we're gonna go to
this break here in just a second. And when we
get back. I want to play the Texas Temperature game,
and I want to play it early, and I'm going

(10:36):
to use the numbers I've had since I mean, like
ten minutes ago I checked it. And so nobody go cheat.
But you'll be playing for six, not four, tickets to
the Fishing Show in February, not the autobotive show, the
fishing show, which is coming up in February. And hopefully
the weather will be oh so much nicer by then,

(10:57):
and I'm pretty sure it will be. We can we
can only hope, and it can only get better. That's
kind of the way it's going to be. We got this.
I don't know if any of you are, If any
of you are kind of concerned and worried, give a
call and let's talk about your concerns with this cold
and where you think it's going to affect you. And no,
I don't want anybody to call and say, I'm thinking

(11:17):
about going duck hunting tomorrow. You know, back when I
was guiding, we actually had people who would show up
on days like this morning and on days like tomorrow
morning when it's going to be freezing, and stay that
way almost all through the day, and a lot of
them were from out of town. Most of the locals
just knew there would be better days to come, and

(11:41):
you might want to check your season dates too. On
the way out Houston Gold Exchange, just Brad Schweis and
his crew. Mostly Brad. He has dealt in precious metals
and jewelry for forty plus years. Right now, gold is
creeping up. I haven't looked this morning, but at the
end of the week. It just yesterday gold was just

(12:02):
tickling the chin of five thousand dollars an ounce. It
was forty nine and a big chunk more. I can't
remember exactly where it peaked yesterday, but I won't be
surprised if I go look during the break and I
see that it went above five thousand dollars an ounce.
I used to talk on this show a lot about
when gold was a lot less, a couple of thousand dollars,

(12:26):
maybe twenty five hundred dollars an ounce, something like that.
I talked about on fifty plus two, where you know,
that's enough money. If you got a little scrap gold
around the house, you might be able to buy yourself
a rodden reel. Heck, if you got a little bit
more than a little bit of scrap gold around the house.
Now you could buy a used truck, you could buy
a little boat, little polling skiff maybe, and just live

(12:50):
the life you want to live and had a lot
of fun. Brad is happy to help you. He also
deals in coins, though. If you've got silver, you've got gold,
whatever you got that, you would like to take advantage
of this very high price right now, give him a call.
Here's his cell phone. This is the deal. He told me.

(13:10):
Give him my cell phone. I want to talk to him.
Whatever it is you're thinking about, whether you want to buy,
you want to sell, just call Brad.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
He'll call.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
If he doesn't answer, he'll call you right back. He's
either probably he's either talking to somebody else or he's
catching a fish. Two eight one eight five one three
nine five five. He's also, by the way, a lifelong
member of CCA, served on their board for a long time.
A really good friend of the friend of the outdoors,
as it were. Here's his number. Two eight one eight

(13:41):
five one three nine five five seven nineteen on Sports
Talk seven ninety to Dugpike show. Thank you for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it. It's so nice to be
back to full voice too. Man, it will scratch you
for a while. I found out that what I have
is something that's going to take a while to kind
of deal with up there in my throat and all
my vocal cords and all that stuff. But it's not contagious,

(14:03):
it's not it's not an infection. It's just a condition.
And we're gonna get it out of there. We're gonna
get it all cleaned up, and the golden throat will return,
right Frankie, Oh yeah, you know, I hear if when
I'm listening to the radio driving around. I hear my
voice every now and then Do I sound like that?

(14:26):
Do I really? And then it's it just dawns on me.
That's just it. That's what everybody's it. And it used
to be that to almost it was almost a prerequisite
in radio that you had to have that big, deep
baritone voice. And now it's just it's just what you
can say, what you have to say, not how you

(14:46):
say it. And that's what it should be anyway, that's
what it should be for everybody. It doesn't matter how
you say something, what you look like saying it, what's
in your brain about politics when you're saying it. Just
as long as you're saying something nice about people, that's
fine with me. I just don't like mean people. I
really don't, and I'm not run into too many lately.

(15:06):
I'm my social experiments continuing. I do it at the
golf court. The golf course is kind of a not
the right place to measure that because everybody's out there
having a good time. But in the grocery store, get
gas stations, I'm still doing my just kind of a
casual smile and how's it going good afternoon, And percent

(15:30):
of the time, maybe more I get a positive response.
There are still a few people who just will will
crane their necks, and they would I think they would
put on blinders if they could, and would have looked silly.
Maybe that'll be the next thing. Behind the eyelashes. There'll
be blinders now so people don't have to look out
of their peripheral vision and dare make eye contact with

(15:52):
someone who's trying to say something nice. But it's still
I have faith in everybody. I have faith in everybody
until they prove me wrong, and then I just ignore it.
I don't make a fuss over it. I don't I
don't say, why didn't you say hello? I just just
a tally mark in that in that little category seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Email me

(16:13):
Doug Bike at iHeartMedia dot com. I looked at the
cameras this morning along the beach front ninety first Street piers,
specifically to see if this wind we're getting now was
enough to blow the water off the beach again like
it did a week or so ago when we had
all that north wind. And the very interesting thing I

(16:35):
found is that we don't have any north wind yet.
We've got east wind. And well I take that back.
It's it's turned north now up inland a little bit more,
but along the coast and then which is why the
ninety first Street pier camera made it look like there
was a hurricane coming. It is pounding that shore from

(16:56):
the east twenty five twenty seven, and then these wind
directions are colliding as you get in inland about maybe
I don't know, fifteen twenty thirty miles. Everything from about
let's see, there's Galbleston, there's Sandless Pass, there's Matta Gordon.
Everything from about Matta Gorda down is all north wind

(17:17):
and up where we are there's still a hair east
in it. Actually, no, now it's changing. That just kind
of flipped over. It's more north northwest wind now and
then it's but it's a train wreck. It's it's blowing
hard fifteen eighteen, twenty twenty two at whereas at Wharton

(17:39):
fourteen that's not horrible. That's at at Jones Creek wherever
that o us center point. That's a center point lookout station,
I guess, And it just gets it's a lot of
north wind. It's gonna impact us for several days here.
It's already clabber in the country. I would just love
for somebody to call and take these tickets away from

(18:01):
me to go to the fishing show coming up in February.
All you got to do is beat franket we You
don't really have to win. You just have to play.
That's all you have to do. You just have to
play the Texas Temperature game with me and I will
hand deliver to the front desk. Six not four. I
just feel like six tickets is more of a fishing

(18:23):
show kind of person thing than four tickets. Four tickets
that would be to see something at a small theater,
maybe in a tiny town or no, not a small
theater in downtown Houston somewhere, or maybe in the Heights
or the Montrose areas some where it's artsy. Maybe four

(18:44):
tickets to a museum. But this is a fishing show,
and I think the six pack of tickets is far
better than the four pack of well, like, what are
those things called white claus? I said that last week, too,
didn't I. I wanted to reiterate, just because I'm very
happy that, first of all, that Don Martindale, the guy
who puts that show on, has given me enough tickets

(19:06):
that I can do that. I have no problem at
all doling out six tickets to somebody who can even
come close to beating Frankie if you can get within
five degree. And Frankie, I already told you. I put
him on notice, don't look. And the same goes for
whoever wants to play. Don't look. It's a game. It's fun,
that's all it is. And I'm gonna give you the
prize no matter what, So don't be a cheat. I'm man,

(19:31):
you know what, Frankie you It's gonna be you and
me a lot this morning because everybody's I don't think
anybody's going fishing today. That's a very safe bet. But
I think what they're doing is maybe sleeping in this
morning and just kind of getting ready, just getting ready
for or or they're all finished up and they're relaxed
and chilling. I'm expecting a couple of calls this morning,

(19:54):
and we are going to talk to Captain Philip Bowerline
about tobot us at eight point thirty. It's an interesting
thing he does and one of the things we kind
of joked I talked on the phone with him today
or this week. I said, what, what's kind of one
of the common misconceptions. And we might get into this
a little bit more on on in the interview, but

(20:17):
he said, I just want to make sure everybody knows
we're not We're not a rescue service. We're a towboat service.
If you've got if you've got somebody hurt, then then
you need to call the Coastguard or the Parks and
Wildlife Department to get somebody from there, maybe a sheriff's county,
the county or the sheriff whatever and get them to
do that. See if that's a brave soul who thinks

(20:39):
he's tough enough to beat you, Frankie seven one three
two seven nine, email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
A question I'm gonna ask once or twice more during
the show, and I'll ask it right now is it's
a fill in the blank. This kind of a day
is a great day to what, This kind of a

(21:01):
day when clearly you'd be foolish to be outside, this
kind of a day is a great day to what?
And know, Scott, I don't want your email about cleaning
the garage. I know that my garage needs cleaning. My
wife and I are talking about perhaps even hiring professionals.
But the crazy part for me, the crazy part for

(21:24):
me is that I know that when I get out
there and start this process, there are gonna be some
really good, perfectly fine, brand new, never been wet lures
that are gonna have to go, and it would take
hours and hours, if not days, to get all that
stuff sorted. So I'm either gonna have to just close

(21:46):
my eyes and just dump buckets of stuff into the garbage,
or I'm gonna have to sit out there until Valentine's
Day to try to sort it out. You got him
ready for Frankie, Let's see him up, man, let's see
him up at the phone ring. It's okay, you got it. Oh,

(22:07):
he's still talking to somebody. Man, you're oh you there, Mike, Mike.
Oh well, oh, Jeff's up there. Okay, Oh, I see
I didn't read my under Mike and says no temperature game.
I'm sorry, Jeff, don't worry. You're the man. Okay, So Frankie,

(22:27):
start the music. We're gonna endure that.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
Is it hot or is it cold? Well, put you
to the test on the Texas temperature game.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
All right, here we go, Jeff. You want to go
first or second? Okay, Frankie. For all the money in
the world and the camper, what is the low temperature
at present in the state of Texas.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
I'm gonna go with thirty four?

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Thirty four? Jeff, what is the low temperature in the
state of Texas.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
The low temperature is probably about.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Fourteen fourteen, you say, Frankie, what is the current high
temperature in the state of Texas?

Speaker 4 (23:24):
Gonna go with fifty fifty okay?

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Let me Okay, I got that, Jeff. What is the
current high temperature in the state of Texas?

Speaker 7 (23:37):
Oh, Franky, so mine. So I'll go fifty one. I'll
go one up fifty one. Okay, that would be a
differential of that. Your number is that in Frankie's number.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Oops, it's not enough. Frankie's number is that? How far
off do you guys think you are? How close do
you think you came? You think you came within ten degrees?
Jeff Yester, Frankie, you think you came within.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Ten Uh, we'll see Jeff.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
The low temperature currently in the state of Texas is
minus two degrees.

Speaker 8 (24:12):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
The high temperature in Texas is seventy five. This may
be the biggest differential I've seen, and it's because well
it's for obvious reasons. We all know why. But I
would have bet money it wasn't below zero this morning.
So in the worst, the worst possible game that we've

(24:36):
ever played in the Texas temperature game, Jeff, you missed
by forty and Frankie you missed by sixty one. But
that's okay. You know that just shows how honest you
two are. Ah man, Yeah, I could. I told. I
emailed Frankie. I think before I maybe when I got here,
Before I got here, whatever said, we're going to play

(24:57):
that Texas temperature game early man, we got to do
this all right. Well, thank you for playing. Look, Frank,
you'll let you know how to get your tickets and
I'll make sure that they get to the front desk
with your name on them. Thank you, Jeff. That's a
bit very fun man. Okay, you got him for Oh yeah,
safe and safe and safer, man, that's what I'm gonna
be doing. Okay, he's got that. I'm gonna go talk

(25:17):
to Mike. Now, Hey, Mike, what's up, buddy.

Speaker 9 (25:21):
Well, it's nice to hear those tones of old.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Oh. I feel one hundred percent. And there's just a
it's a little issue that I got to deal. It's
a reflux issue. It's something called like silent reflux or
something like that, and it's it's got a fancy name,
but it takes me about two minutes to say it.
So I'm just go with what I got.

Speaker 9 (25:40):
Stop eating just before bedtime, you know.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, I'm starting to eat dinner earlier. There's a lot
of things I gotta do. I have to give up caffeine.
I'm giving up soft drinks. I'm giving up chocolate. Can't
do that. It's got caffeine in it. And I think
there's something else and anyway, it's it's basically it takes
away all your fun food. But it's it's it's not permanent.

Speaker 9 (26:03):
Watch it, son, I.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Know I'll be shaking in the corner.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
You know.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
I'll tell you this though. It's been ten days now,
I think since I saw that doctor and she said
you got to do this, this, this, and this, And
I haven't had any caffeine in ten days. And I
used to be like five cups of coffee. Man, We've
got decaf coffee here, thank goodness.

Speaker 10 (26:23):
So I'm drinking out of Yeah, I'm proud of you.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
I'm hanging in there.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
Man.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
I think I might have even lost like four pounds,
so that's all I'm eating me.

Speaker 9 (26:33):
That was the other thing I was gonna touch on,
how it is the battle of the bulls going, you know.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
I think with that the exercise and I dropped it
a couple of days because I injured my shoulder somehow.
I don't know. It's it's not permanent. It's just something
that's finally better enough now that I'll probably get back
to the exercises and I'm not going to a gym.
I've read a lot about how going to the gym
at my age isn't going to do nearly as much

(26:59):
as just doing some some simpler exercises at home. It's
still with some weight resistance and whatnot. But I think
it's working. I think it's working.

Speaker 9 (27:08):
I have a question now that we had this, now
that we had this front coming in, how good is
the fishing just before the front.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Well, just before the front's too late now typically in
the in warmer months. Yeah, right before front, the fish
go crazy. One of the best days I ever had,
and I'd stayed out about ten minutes too long by
myself in a flat bottom boat all the way about
halfway down West Bay, and I had launched it at

(27:36):
the causeway, so it's a long ways back, but I'm
drifting over this place and then coming around and drifting
and coming around and drifting and catching three and four
pound trout. It was a long time ago. Every cast,
every single cast, and I couldn't make myself stop. And
I see this black wall on the horizon, and I

(27:57):
hear the rumbles coming and all of that, and finally
I took off and I didn't get one hundred yards
back toward the causeway before the wind hit and it
was right in my face, and I'm I'm in this big, wide,
flat bottom boat, catching all the air and bouncing all
over the place. If I'd had somebody with me, I honestly,
it was bad enough that I would have just pulled

(28:18):
up on an island and flipped the boat halfway over
and just hunkered down and waited for it to quit.
But I thought, it's only me and and I think
I can make it.

Speaker 9 (28:27):
So I thought, and I did, Yeah, that's that's the
time you asked you to say I've had the strongest swimmer.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Am I Yeah? How far is the shoreline? How fast
can I get there? And that would that would not
have been a good plan because I was I was
just skipping on top of waves. I really was. I mean,
it just it was. It was blowing right into my face,
and I tried going kind of slow and I was
just getting pounded. It wasn't getting anywhere, so I just thought, Okay,
I'm just skipping like a rock off a pond.

Speaker 9 (28:55):
I got a little tip for you folks trying to
go out and and get your tire pressure checked on
your tires real quick, because that sure makes the difference
when you're out on that slick road.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
It does and well, and a lot of people's little
tire gauges are going to go off when when this
cold hits, because that air compresses, and my wife's car
is notorious for that. In fact, it was even worse
when we had nitrogen in there. Believe it or not.
It seemed like every time you turn a corner one
of those.

Speaker 9 (29:24):
Lights would come on so much we're in there gas.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, we just we yanked that stuff out of there
two years ago, three years ago.

Speaker 9 (29:33):
That's all I got.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
But yeah, thanks Mike. Stay warm yourself, buddy. Oh it's
gonna be cold. And by cold, I mean the forecasts
have kind of stayed pretty consistent. Be if we have upside,
and we do, there's plenty of it. The upside is
that the forecast amount of ice down here where we

(29:57):
are has been reduced the the last time I looked,
and I may look during a break here just to see.
And I'm no weather man, Okay. All I can do
is just kind of read what they write. But the
amount of ice that we're supposed to have down here,
let's call it just the greater Houston area and certainly
south of it ten where I live. It's like a

(30:19):
tenth of an inch, and that I think is doable.
I really do. Now, Frankie, you come in from up
north right. Oh, he's back on the phone again. That's okay.
I'll get to you in a minute. Frankie's up around Kingwood,
I believe. And so the farther you go up that way,
the more ice there's going to be because of all
this rain coming down in temperatures in the twenties, it's

(30:43):
gonna hit and it's gonna freeze. And hopefully it won't
be as bad as what I saw, because I saw
predictions of up to a half inch and in some
cases even a little farther north three quarters of an
inch of ice. And I'm not talking about north to Dallas.
I'm just talking about like north to Huntsville maybe. So
road travel with even a quarter of an inch of

(31:05):
vice is gonna be treacherous here. We don't know how
to drive in that stuff. We really don't. Let me
go talk to David stand by, David, what's up.

Speaker 10 (31:14):
Man, Good morning, Doug.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (31:17):
I'm great? Thank you.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
I'm a longtime listener.

Speaker 11 (31:22):
I listen on Saturdays when I'm out driving around to
you all the time.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
I just never called in before.

Speaker 10 (31:29):
Go ahead, Okay, I have a question.

Speaker 11 (31:31):
I live up nor and I'm I have a one
major main water line that comes.

Speaker 10 (31:37):
Into the house.

Speaker 11 (31:38):
Okay, okay, I'm thinking about and I've really never done
this before, just turning it off, yep, and so there's
no water in the house.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
Whatsoever.

Speaker 10 (31:48):
You your thoughts.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
If you yeah, if you back when we had that
big freeze five years ago.

Speaker 10 (31:53):
It throws my pipes froze.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, okay, that's what I was doing. I'd go out
at about ten o'clock at night and just turn it
all off and then open up all the faucets. Yep.
That's exactly what I do. That wouldn't be a bad idea.
It's it's it's a it's a safeguard that that's that's
the number one way to just if there's no water
in the house, water in the house can't free Yep. Yeah,

(32:15):
go for that.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
I really thank you for the advice.

Speaker 8 (32:19):
I reiate you love your shop.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Thank you, David. I appreciate it. Buddy, audios man Ah
Frankie told me I'm a little bit late. Just got
chat chat chatting after that temperature game and I'm running late.
We'll catch you up, Frankie. I promise Kobe Stevens Golf Apparel,
go look at it online today. Don't go play golf
today or tomorrow or the day after. All the golf
courses are going to be closed, which makes it actually

(32:43):
a pretty good time to just chill a little bit,
PLoP back in your favorite chair, get online and go
look at Kobe Stevens dot com. Great men's apparel, great
women's apparel. Kid sizes. The men's stuff goes up to
four x, so it's going to cover most of my audience,
that's for sure. The fitness freaks that we are, you're

(33:04):
gonna look good. I don't whatever size you are. If
you're wearing Kobe Stevens stuff, you're gonna look good. He's
got pants, he's got shorts, he's got shirts, he's got caps,
got t shirts, all cool looking stuff, and all offered
to you by a guy who's a huge supporter of
this community in which we live. Every time I turn around,
I'll call him, try and get him go play golf.

(33:24):
I don't care what day of the week it is,
what time it is. I'd love to, man, but I
gotta be at a tournament, go help and raise some money.
That's the kind of guy I want to buy my
stuff from. That's the kind of guy I've been getting
stuff from for the better part of two years now
and really pleased with everything. Everything I've got that's got
the Kobe Stevens brand on it, Kobe Stevens dot Com, Co,

(33:45):
B Y S, T E V E N S, Kobe
Stevens dot Com. Maybe not today, not the best day,
But once all this stuff gets out of here, wouldn't
you like to have a little fun, Go do a
little shooting out at American Shooting Centers. It's the largest
non military shooting facility in the entire state, and rightfully so.
They got three full sporting class courses, ten trapping skeet feels.

(34:10):
I'm looking around, five stand setups, a beginner's wing shooting area,
a pop up silhouette range that goes from about it's
a rim fire range, twenty twos. Bring the kids, bring
the twenty twos and just shoot all day for like
fifteen twenty bucks. Get over there and have some fun
with them. Then maybe go to the actual rifle and
pistol ranges, which are start at five yards. Go out

(34:31):
to six hundred yards if that's what you like to do.
These cooler mornings too, by the way, cool calm morning
which we'll have again soon, are perfect for those long
range guys. And if you've never done it before, go
out and just kind of sit beside one of them
and talk to them and ask them what they're doing.
They're usually pretty friendly about it. American Shooting Centers dot
com taken over by Ederige many years ago now. He

(34:54):
vowed to make it more fun, more user friendly, and
safer than ever. And he's checked all three boxes as
long as I've known about him. Great guy. If he's there,
when you're there, tell him I said hello, please. American
Shooting Centers dot Com. They're on West tim Or Parkway
between Katie and Highway six. American Shooting Centers dot Com
seven forty four on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Good heavens, Frankie.

(35:17):
If we were really on time, we'd be breaking right now,
wouldn't we. I'm gonna have to spread them.

Speaker 8 (35:21):
Out real quick.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
This will be a very short segment so I can
get Frankie back on time. Because Jeff and Frankie and I, well,
I really mostly spent way too much time on that
Texas temperature game. I did, by the way, Frankie, go
back and check with Erica in the newsroom to see
if she could do any better, and not much. She's
been talking about the weather so much. She got a

(35:43):
report from somebody I think up in Huntsville, and I said, well,
we're already pretty much feeling it. We're feeling the super cold.
So it's it's marching its way down the state as
we all knew it would. Let's see if there's any
change up here. Yeah, No, that hadn't changed. I can
see where it's coming though, and it's going to just

(36:06):
slowly deteriorate through the day. Will be a light freeze
tonight and then tomorrow and Tomorrow night and Monday night.
Pretty hard hard freeze is down around twenty ish twenty
two to eighteen, I'll say for most of us around here,
maybe a little bit colder as you get up to

(36:27):
the northern extremes of what we call Greater Houston. You
know what, Frankie, Let's get back on time pause. Everybody,
go get a cup of coffee, you go get a
donut or whatever you want to eat in this next
segment to just sit back and chill and stay warm
and toasty in your house. Don't do too much going
outside if you don't have to. And if you do
have something you need to do in the next couple

(36:47):
of days, do it today, because tomorrow's when we start
talking about icy roads, and none of us need to
be out tomorrow. Frankie and I are kind of on
a standby mode because neither of us want to drive
in a bunch of ice trying to get here from
where we're coming from. And I don't want any of
you on the road doing that either. Let me tell
you about a trip you can take once the road's clear,

(37:09):
and that would be to Belleville. Go out to Bellville,
go to Bellville Meat Market. There you will find all
sorts of delicious meat products. Now there are rubs and
spices and things like that as well, but you're not
going to get a salad out there. You're not going
to get much of anything that's not either omnivore or carnivore. Now,

(37:31):
the omnivore part mainly applies to what comes with the
delicious lunch and dinner they serve from ten am to
seven pm every day, seven days a week. By the
way pull pork available, homemade hot dogs, traditional whatever you're thinking, ribs, brisket, sausage.
All of that's there, and then all the sides for
that all day long. Now you can either take advantage

(37:54):
of that after you've dropped off a deer, if you're
still available or you're still able to hunt deer on
your place, you can take the whole family out there
and create the order on stuff you want to bring home,
and then sit out there and have your meal while
they box it up for you. You can find a reason.
It doesn't take long to figure out a good reason
to go to Bellville Meat Market. Just be ready when

(38:16):
you get there. Just clear a spot in the back
of the vehicle, because you're going to be loading it up.
Delicious stuff, pork chops. They've got all kinds of stuff,
pork stuff, pork tenders, several different flavors of those. Got
boot an pans, sausage, labuchery, stuffed chickens, and wild game
processing of course all year round. Beef, jerky, turkey, jerky,

(38:37):
dry sausage, dry stick. Everything for that grabbing ghost stuff too.
On the way to and from wherever you like to
go in the outdoors, the only meat market that I
and processor I endorse right now and with good reason,
been with them for a very long time, very long time.
Belleville Meatmarket dot com, fifteen minutes north of Sily, fifteen

(38:58):
minutes south of Hempstead on Highway thirty. Belleville Meatmarket dot
Com seven fifty three on Sports Talk seven ninety The
Doug Pie Show, Thank you for listening, certainly to do
appreciate it. On this cool and about to get cold
Saturday morning, I got a long way to go to
get through this thing, but not as long as that won.
A while back, I was so glad I needed to
run up to the grocery store yesterday evening after dark.

(39:22):
It was I was kind of concerned that I might
not be able to get what I needed. I really was.
I had seen a lot of panic buying going on.
I'm in the grocery store a couple probing well more
than that, probably three times a week, maybe more, just
for little short runs. I don't like to wait until
we need five hundred dollars worth of stuff. I just

(39:42):
I just go and kind of fill in the blanks
with whatever my wife puts on the list and stop
it at about maybe tops fifteen twenty items and two
days ago. This is Saturday, and then Wednesday and Thursday
both I had to go for a little short runs
and people were stacking stuff up. There was one guy

(40:03):
I talked about it on fifty plus. There was one
guy who had like five of the giant packs of
toilet paper. I said, man, if you need that to
get through what we're about to go through, you need
to go to the doctor. That's what you need it.
Just there was no reason to hoard water, no reason
to hoard toilet paper. This is not a pandemic. Just

(40:27):
pump the brakes, find you get yourself enough stuff that
you can eat for a couple of days comfortably without
worrying much, just in case you lose power or or
and it would even require to not be able to
get anything to eat, would require all the stores to
also be closed, which I don't think is coming with

(40:47):
this one. I don't and I maybe proved entirely wrong,
said it a million times. I'm no weather man. Okay,
I get it, but I don't. I looked at a
comparison between this and Yuri or whatever it was, the
big winter storm five years ago, and that was a doozy.
My wife and I were without power for several days,

(41:12):
but this is just not going to be that severe.
The temperatures are not going to be that low. It's
a doozy, all right, It really is. There's no question
about it. And if if we lived farther up in
the state, I'd be a little bit more concerned than
I am. But right now I'm looking at that Texas
temperature map and still there's up The whole Panhandle has

(41:34):
no temperature higher than about well, it depends on what
you call the panhandle. Let's just take it all the
way to the top. If you get to that little
part of the Red River where it starts where it
meets Texas up in the due north, if you start
there and go straight west, there's not a temperature there
that's above seven degrees. But we are not in that zone.

(42:00):
Looking around Dallas and Fort Worth, teens already mid twenties,
low twenties, depending on where you're looking. This thing has
given me these fits that it used to give before.
When I was trying to see one place and see
what actual sight it is, I have to move this

(42:20):
cursor all over the place. There I can see a
couple of them. Now. Bottom line is it's not going
to be it's not going to be record breaking cold here.
It would have to get at least seven or eight
degrees cold IRV than it's predicted to do, and the
predictions have been coming up a notch for the last
couple of days, which I was glad to see even

(42:40):
one or two degrees, depending on how you fix your
house now. I talked with David a minute ago about
draining the water out of the house. That's absolutely if
you can do that, and you and your family are
comfortable doing that, it's a great David. I can't remember,
but you can do that, and it certainly that's if
they're there's no water in the house, it can't freeze.

(43:02):
I got an email just a second ago from who
was it? Let me check it real quick, and I'll
tell you kind of a little asterisk behind doing that.
Where to go? Where to go? Where to go?

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (43:15):
It may it may have been Allen who sent it,
And if I'm wrong, I apologize in any event whoever
it was. Oh no, there, it is right, David's right there.
Don't forget to flush all the toilets. If you're gonna
drain your pipes, and there's water in that line too,
and if you don't get all that out of there,
then that can freeze. So you've got to be you

(43:35):
got to really want it, because you're not going to
be able to flush all night, and you're not gonna
be able to do much of anything through the night.

Speaker 8 (43:43):
Now.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
The only way you could do that is keep a
couple of big pictures of water or a big juggle
water or something and just load it in and flush
it one at a time. You have to have quite
a few for me. Yeah, middle of the night going
in there. It happens all the time. Alan, This is
a coin to phrase here, the new bird along the

(44:06):
Texas coast with the the onset of they're not even
name in this storm. That's how little the weather people
think about it. But the people who are always afraid
that they're actually being dubbed a new bird. You know
what they're called, Frankie, No, what are they called? Pannikins?
They're panickins.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
It is. It is. I'm gonna steal it, you know,
I'm gonna mention it again next time I'm on. It
may not be tomorrow, by the way, Frankie and I
are talking about this, and we talk with management because
both of us, neither of us lives around the corner,
So it may be that we just have to run
a best of tomorrow, and if so, I know Frankie
will have a good one, and I'm not worried about that.

(44:47):
We've got an interview today, Frankie. If you can stick
it in there for tomorrow, Frankie, that would be pretty good.
We're gonna talk to Captain Phillip barro Line from toboat
Us on the way out real quick. El Kubano Cigars.
My buddy Mannie Lope and I've been talking and he
is ready to do whatever you want to get your
private event kicked off to hell. He'll come to your event,

(45:12):
set up a little table, a little awning, and wrap cigars,
roll cigars for you and your guests. He will build
you any kind of cigar. Everything he's got made with
very fine Cuban seed tobacco mostly that's grown in Central America,
so it's legal to bring it in. He brings all
that tobacco in cures for many weeks actually, and then

(45:35):
they start rolling and by day I mean him and
a couple of other Cuban people of Cuban descent who
have come here to participate in Manny's business, El Cubano Cigars,
and make sure that all of you get the best
cigars at the best prices. You're gonna find tariffs, he said,
are hurting him a little bit, but he's holding his

(45:55):
prices to make sure everybody can still get those cigars
without paying any middleman. By the way, I told him
on the phone the other day, I said, man I'm
gonna send you some more people, and I would really
strongly recommend if you like cigars, or you know people
who like cigars, or you you're hosting a big event
where there's gonna be a bunch of cigar smokers, maybe
a golf tournament of you a shooting event, get in

(46:17):
touch with Manny.

Speaker 6 (46:18):
Will you.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
I really want you to do that for me, because
he's one of the best guys. He's one of the
most accommodating guys I've ever met, always got a smile
on his face, and whatever it is you need, he
will help you do that for me. Man El Cubanos
Cigars dot Com is a website. Show him, show him
you're out there. Lcubano Cigars dot Com Second Hour starts now,

(46:40):
and in about thirty minutes we're gonna talk to Captain Pip. Now,
he is the guy who runs our Boat US or
tow boat Towboat US. I guess it's not a franchise.
It's is the business here on Galveston Bay. We're gonna
get some stories out of him, I hope, and then
some some good advice because he sees. What he sees

(47:04):
is people who somehow something busted on their boats. Maybe
it was due to poor maintenance, maybe it was due
to no maintenance. Maybe it was just a mechanical failure.
But he knows what goes wrong most and talking about
those kind of things might help keep some of us
from having to call him. Ever, he's basically gonna spill
the beans on how to put himself out of business. Dave,

(47:27):
what's up?

Speaker 6 (47:29):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (47:29):
I tell you what your question was.

Speaker 11 (47:31):
What am we going to do on a day like today?
My wife she went out of knee surgery. Oh, I'm
going to be helping her all that time today?

Speaker 6 (47:37):
Are we actually?

Speaker 11 (47:39):
I snooke off right now and I'm looking at the
water over here at thirty there's nobody here. I got
one truck over here, So everybody's kind of staying out
of the way.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Doesn't that tell you something about what you're doing? Dave,
you're the only.

Speaker 10 (47:53):
Guy out there.

Speaker 11 (47:54):
I'm just sitting there looking the game board.

Speaker 6 (47:57):
Here a couple of days ago.

Speaker 10 (47:59):
Okay, wait, here comes here comes another truck.

Speaker 8 (48:01):
Money.

Speaker 11 (48:02):
Wait, maybe that's the game warder checking them. No, it's
not anyway. Know what I was going to tell you
is that, Uh yeah, on the on that. Remember, here's
one of my buddies that comes over here and reads
a book and looks at the water and so and
he's pulling up in front of me. But remember when
you flush all everything out of your house and everything,
get some five gallon buckets, yeah, or else if you

(48:25):
got big pots and pans and put them in there in.

Speaker 6 (48:27):
That way, you can flush reports.

Speaker 10 (48:28):
Yeah, that's you know, go there.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
You know that's important.

Speaker 11 (48:32):
But oh, and then don't be talking no more about
hiring somebody to come and clean all my stuff out,
you know, out of the out of my bedroom or
out of my out of my tackle shop or something
like that.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
The garage. And it's just I've had to throw in
the towel. I told my wife. I just said, look,
I might have to get somebody to come help me
with this, because it's so I have such a hard
time throwing away a new lure in the package. Yes, sir,
you know, it's just it just goes against the grain
for me. But they're they're scattered in so many places

(49:08):
and so many, so many subsets of different you know,
swim baits and this bait and that bait and crank baits,
and I really don't have near as much as I
used to have, but it's just gotten disorganized more and
more over the years. Instead of having just boxes of
top waters, boxes of crank baits, boxes of this, that

(49:30):
and the other, I would I would peel three or
four baits out of each of six or seven boxes
and create this one box that I was gonna take
on a bass fishing trip or a trout wade fishing
trip or whatever. And so now it's just it's hodgepodge,
that's what it is.

Speaker 11 (49:47):
Well, I'll tell you, hey, and it's mind boggling. Hey,
I know I don't have anything.

Speaker 10 (49:52):
Compared to what you've got.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (49:54):
What I've got is to a lot of the band
stuff and a lot of the fishing stuff, I've got
some stuff, probably priceless, man, you know, And that's why
I want to set stuff up in my room or
donat or to give it to somebody, you know. You know,
that's just on my goal, you know, that's on my
bucket list, is just to have something like that because

(50:15):
I just don't want it to be sold at a
garage seal for five.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
I saw something, you know, really along those lines. This guy,
it's just some guy sitting in a chair, and he says,
you know what, when I die, I just hope my
wife doesn't sell all my fishing gear for what I
told her I paid for it.

Speaker 11 (50:36):
Yes, how much you think of Bengo Lures works?

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Now, Oh man, there's a lot of stuff in that
garage of mind, and I set aside. I used to
get boxes of stuff from a lot of the lure manufacturers,
for example. And I learned too that the colors that
you look at and think, god, those will never catch fish.
Those are horrible looking. That's the ones you put away.

(51:00):
You don't fish those, you talk them away because they're
the ones that are going to be made. The fewest
of those will be made. The ones that sell like hotcakes,
that you could still find them all over the place.
But the weird ones, the odd balls that got actually
manufactured for a short run and then they quit because
they couldn't sell them, those are the ones that become collectible.

(51:21):
And I've got some of those out there, but I
don't even know, you know, I kind of know where
to look, and then I kind of don't. And so
that's my issue.

Speaker 11 (51:30):
You know, Hey, I got some I got some lures
that I got from Johnny Smith before.

Speaker 10 (51:35):
The hurricane took his boy away.

Speaker 11 (51:39):
Yeah, yeah, man, you know, and that's and that's he
I went into this house over there and he had
to hang them up all they were hanging up.

Speaker 10 (51:47):
All over everywhere.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
It was like it was amazing, Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
It was organized though.

Speaker 10 (52:00):
Well that's why I'm saying, we.

Speaker 11 (52:03):
Get organized, to get disorganized, to get organized.

Speaker 10 (52:06):
Yeah, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 11 (52:07):
And one of my theories is I have a method
to my madness. You know, when I start over here,
I go here, and then I try to put it
over here. But sometimes it's not supposed to go there.

Speaker 8 (52:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (52:17):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Another thing I've seen isad with some guy. There's a
picture of everybody's probably seen everybody in this audience. He
got like two hundred three hundred rods and reels under
a carport. And he said, I don't have a hoarding problem.
I have a storage problem.

Speaker 11 (52:33):
No, no, no, oh man, you know what, And I
think I only have about, uh maybe sixteen seventeen rods
and reels and uh and then uh, you know, and
I still and they all need to be kind of
refurbished and redone and everything. But that's kind of like
a project that I could sit there and work on
and then I'll neighborhoods or something like that.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Don't those rods and reels you just know, walk to Yeah, yeah,
there you go. That's a big difference from what you said.
And I'm laughing with you, man, because I'm in the
same boat. I got reels that need clean, desperately need cleaning,
and for some reason, when I go out there with

(53:17):
that in mind, I just grab them and go.

Speaker 10 (53:20):
Fishing, you know, right, right hey.

Speaker 11 (53:23):
And you know the other thing is the old put
put a pencil in between your knees to change your
line out so that you.

Speaker 10 (53:30):
Can reel it up.

Speaker 11 (53:32):
And you need somebody on the other end of the
line so you can get it in there. Schooled in right, yep.
Oh man, you know that's that's that's pressure stage right there.

Speaker 8 (53:40):
You know.

Speaker 11 (53:41):
And and uh, well, when when my night, when my wife.

Speaker 10 (53:44):
Gets all dolled up and ready to.

Speaker 11 (53:47):
Go, then I'll sit on one side of the living
room and she can sit on the other side of
the living room.

Speaker 10 (53:52):
And hold my line.

Speaker 11 (53:53):
Hold the line over there, and then I can reel
it in and then I'll get it all spooled up
on my school and then I'll be ready to go
with some fresh line.

Speaker 10 (54:00):
That'll be good and should be glad to help me.
She she loves fishing, believing.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Yeah, yeah, my walls.

Speaker 11 (54:06):
You get a pontoon boat, oh wow. And I'm like, no,
let's just get a let me know, let's just get
a get a guy who will go out here away
caro and you go home.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
That's way cheaper than getting a pond tomboat.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
You know.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
All right from you many.

Speaker 11 (54:24):
And everything's going goody, and the wind was pumping a
little bit out of the north.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Yeah it should be by now.

Speaker 10 (54:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (54:32):
The flags were going right here where I'm at, right
here at eight thirty and and uh right here looking north,
I'm looking north right now.

Speaker 8 (54:41):
All right.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Thanks always always a pleasure man. All right, we're gonna
take a little break here on the way out, I'm
gonna tell you about air ride bikes. Uh again, maybe
not the best day to ride out there to tom Ball,
to go to the the four Corner shopping center and
look around at air rid bikes, but I would imagine

(55:02):
the way the weather is. He's open, Wayne Harrington, I
bet is at the store right now. He's got a
fantastic selection of electric bikes, everything from the little just
putter around the neighborhood. Kind might see some kids on them,
maybe some adults going to pick up a prescription at
the pharmacy, maybe a little bag of groceries to get
back home. He's got everything from them all the way

(55:25):
up to those big, super high powered heavy duty e bikes,
the kind that have a motor to work each wheel.
You get two wheel drive out of those things. And
like Wayne told me one time about one of them,
I think it was at t Rex, it would it
would climb a wall. If it could get traction, it
would climb a wall. That's how powerful these things are.

(55:45):
And in between there are many, many different models, all
of which are from top manufacturers. The safest, most enjoyable
bikes you can get, including, by the way, three wheel
models where you if you're if you're old enough that
you're bout isn't quite what it should be. You don't
feel comfortable on a regular bicycle, get one of those
three wheelers to go run your errands. Air ride bikes

(56:07):
dot Com. When you get up there, he'll let you
try one out there in the parking lot for a
little bit. Big bike, strong bike, smaller bike, more more
easy to maneuver and get around on. He's got them
all up there. He'll put the thing together for you
to make sure it's all done perfectly and you can
enjoy years and years and years of just pedal once

(56:28):
and then boy, that engine kicks in that little motor
and it's something I'd never experienced that until he's let
me try one, and I'm hooked now. I'm throwing money
in a jar every day, getting ready to go by
myself and eat bike. Air ride Bikes dot Com a
r R I D E A R R I d
E air ride Bikes dot Com. I'm surprised, Frankie, that

(56:49):
you haven't played any cold weather songs, any cold themed
songs today or have you?

Speaker 4 (56:56):
And I just missed it well, cold as ice.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Oh oh yeah, that's true. Yep, yep, yep. I was
tapping my fingers on the imaginary piano in here when
that came up. That's an easy one. Oh well, it's
not important. I almost don't want to be reminded of it,
although it just go in one ear and now with
the other faux Pro. Look at faux pro hanging on standby.

(57:20):
Faux pro was up.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
What is going on?

Speaker 1 (57:25):
You know, I'll tell you what's going on. It's freezing man.
I don't know if you were listening early, but Frankie
and I played the Texas Temperature game early because I
wanted to make sure that I got a chance to
use the numbers we had. Did you hear that? By
any chance?

Speaker 6 (57:39):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (57:39):
You know me?

Speaker 13 (57:40):
I got a long set for six Sunday, So yeah,
I'm on when you're on.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
How about negative two in the north and seventy five
in the south. That's the greatest swing I've seen ever.
I think I just can't.

Speaker 13 (57:53):
Imagine what your listener I was. I was guessing the
you know, low scene something like that. But I would
have never guessed negative too. I would have guessed fourteen
fifteen like he did. Maybe seventy eight down south? Yeah,
seventy seven degree third pretty sigistic.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Yeah, I guarantee you if I'm if I'm driving down,
I tend west right now. And I got a choice
of where I'm gonna spend the next week. I'm taking
a left. I'm going south until I'll run out of
the United States of America. Man, oh man, I don't
like this stuff. How cold is it gonna get up
by you guys?

Speaker 13 (58:23):
Well, it's thirty nine when I woke up to thirty
eight now, so it's supposed to get down into about
twenty seven maybe tonight, right, and then it's gonna kind
of stay there all day, all day Sunday.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
So yeah, are you're gonna have loads in the teens.
I'm sure at least huh.

Speaker 13 (58:38):
Yeah, we're supposed to get seventeen to eighteen I think
Monday morning something like that.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
So dang man, that's not that's not horrible. We're getting
too I'm surelyand's supposed to get two nights at nineteen
for having sakes, what the heck? We need more concrete.

Speaker 13 (58:53):
Kind of definitely need more concrete. But yeah, I was,
I was pretty upset yesterday. I kept looking at the radar,
looking at the radar, thinking, you know, yesterday I should
have been out there.

Speaker 6 (59:03):
I could have destroyed Crappy yesterday.

Speaker 13 (59:05):
Oh I bet the weather it was in the fifties, overcast.

Speaker 6 (59:09):
I can't see the rain.

Speaker 13 (59:10):
Kept seeing the rain, and I just I hate getting
in to the rain.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Oh I know, man, I don't blame you. I don't
blame you a bit.

Speaker 13 (59:14):
But it never rained.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
So yeah, it was yesterday was kind of and even today.
I think it's going to be a little more intermittent
than it is steady. And by later this afternoon it's
it's gone by bye. There's just nothing but cold air
hanging around then. But there, well, I take that back.
There's supposed to be some more rain tonight and that's
what's going to make that ice. You need to stay

(59:37):
off the road. You need to quit thinking about fishing
until this goes, man, because you have ice a lot.

Speaker 6 (59:41):
I'm not going there.

Speaker 13 (59:43):
I'm not going anywhere. I got my buddies call me
some names. Yesterday. They're actually up on the north end
of Talita Bed and ten years ago i'd have been
up there with some of the duck blinder year. But
I'm just not that mad at him anymore.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
You're finally seeing some ducks.

Speaker 13 (59:58):
No, yeah, I mean every pod between luskt and all
Alaska by had had significant birds on it based on
what I've been seeing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
You know what, if we get if and I'm betting
we will, if we get a big push of ducks
behind this front right here, that'll just that'll lock it
in for me that what they've done up in the
Midwest with the cornfields and flooding them all and and
hunting over the hunting over bait basically all season long. Uh,

(01:00:27):
That'll that'll sense it for me that they're just they're
cheating and they're changing the entire flyway. Those ducks don't
want to stay up there. Those ducks genetically, their DNA says,
keep going south. But when you stop and you roll
up on a five star hotel, why are you going
to keep driving to come down to maybe a holiday inn.

(01:00:48):
I'm so irritated by that, man.

Speaker 13 (01:00:51):
I mean I looked at all the ancestral holes, like
you know, you and I both seen in that one
set of you know you're gonna be getting hold of
you know, I'll see the cistral places where I've gone on.
I was like, man, what can we go shoot a mallard?

Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:01:02):
I thought we can go shoot a couple of dollars.
Then I'll see as like Cajun Buddy calls them. I
see gray ducks or gadwalls. But if you see a bountle,
it's like it's like a ten pound bass. There's a mallard.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
No, you know, well that in fairness, way down here, Okay,
we're we're kind of tore the bottom of the flyaway
basically that Katie Prairie. For example, when we had bajillions
of ducks, we didn't see that many mallards until it
got really really cold, which would have been like mid December,
late December, and in whatever piece of January we still had.

(01:01:34):
If it was if they'd had four or five good
hard fronts up there, even the mallards were bailing out,
they would come all the way down here. Now, they
wouldn't hang out with the big rafts of pintails and
all that stuff. They'd go to the little bitty ponds.
Little bitty ponds, man, And that's where we just go
sit two three guys. If we didn't have a hunt
that morning, didn't have to work. We would go sit

(01:01:55):
on a mallard hole somewhere and end up shooting limits
of mallards if we sat there long enough.

Speaker 13 (01:02:01):
You know, like tomorrow be one of them days if
you had a place you can get to safetly and
you're going out there breaking that breaking that shore line.
Ice up me. But find time. I'll tell you a
quick story about my brother in law. But you might
be up against it, but.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
I'm good right now.

Speaker 6 (01:02:16):
Go okay.

Speaker 13 (01:02:18):
So this is years ago, back in the heyday. I
guess you'd say probably twenty twenty five years ago. I
set up scaffold blinds all Overlake Loudlyston when I was guiding,
and I took my brother in law never shot a mauntard.
He's from Mississippi up around Tupoulo. So it's one of
them days. It's you know, it's sending the teens and
all that kind of stuff. So he shoots this beautiful

(01:02:38):
mallard drake, I mean, one of his big one of
their mountains, and uh, he's all excited about it, and
uh he goes, man, I don't want to put this
on the strap. So my blind is made by had
two by six shelves all the way around it. So
he set that mountard on it two by six shelves,
you know, so we wouldn't get on the strap and
get tore up. So, of course, daylight comes and you've
seen them, you've seen blinds just turn the ice at daylight.

Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
Yeah, So we went to leave.

Speaker 13 (01:03:02):
Later he went to pick up his mallard and the
moullard was warm rose of the board, so when he
grabbed it by the they he picked it up, he
ripped all the downs out of the chest of that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
Oh no, he was, oh, oh man, oh well.

Speaker 13 (01:03:18):
I thought he'd gonna cry, grow grown bad cry.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
That was Yeah. Those are pretty Dutch.

Speaker 13 (01:03:23):
So we got another one the next day.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
So that's good. That's good, all right man? What's good
to hear from you? How much prep do you have
to do up there? I mean, when it's going to
go down into the low teens and stuff like that.
Is there any special prep everybody does on their houses
up there?

Speaker 13 (01:03:42):
I know what I do. I have two outside picketts.
I took an whole blanket years ago with a cut
an old blanket down the middle with the scissors, I
wrapped that pipe around the blanket and then I'll get
one of the big trash yard black bag keep and
I put that black bag over and send it around

(01:04:03):
the bottom. Yeah, And to me, that works better than
any of this foam stuff you can buy at the
hardware stores than a inside. Occasionally we'll leave the cabinets open.

Speaker 8 (01:04:11):
Yep.

Speaker 13 (01:04:12):
Do that in the kitchen that the house house there,
get you your.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
Deal, Yeah, knock on that. I've been lucky so far
and I haven't had to do anything drastic that. The
one thing I will tell you is if you ever
have anything freeze up on you. But you heard me
this morning, if you were listening those little handwarmer packets, man.

Speaker 6 (01:04:31):
Just just oh yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
One in a put one in a washcloth or something,
fold it up and where the packet comes up to
that pipe and hits it, and send it on there
with a rubber band or a hair clip or whatever,
and just let that heat do the work for you
and not have to worry about it. And it'll slowly
melt it away. It's not going to bust a pipe.
I don't think I've never had one bird.

Speaker 13 (01:04:52):
So the best thing we do we'll put up our
faucets because I don't turn the water up we'll put
up our faucets into a steady stream. I'd rather have
a high ticket a water bill for what and tell
you a plumber that dripping thing. I let it stream,
I let it stream pretty good, cut loose, Huh, I
mean not crazy, steady, solid streaming.

Speaker 6 (01:05:10):
I'd rather pay.

Speaker 13 (01:05:11):
I'd rather pay double water building or plumber any answer.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Yeah, no, kidding, it's gonna be a lot cheaper. I
guarantee you. I don't care what water gets, so all right, partner,
It's always a pleasure my friend. You got it? Audios
man oh man? Yeah, I Uh. Part of that conversation
I have with my friend who just doesn't do much
of anything to the house down here, uh, was that

(01:05:36):
he made it so understandable. But why we have such
problems down here with our pipes and whatnot? Up north
where obviously it gets so much colder. Uh we have Well,
hold on, let me get Rick and then I'll come
back to that maybe later. Rick, what's up?

Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
Man? Real quick?

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
I know you got to go.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Got a couple of minutes you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Got you got my email and my text on on
that boat.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Cow Yeah, Texas and fishing team. That guy I bet
his daddy's doing all.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
Right, be sure and look at what it says on
the side of that truck, on the side of that boat,
and then look at the truck.

Speaker 8 (01:06:16):
Oh yeah, the boat.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
Check that out.

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
I didn't realize, what are they different?

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
They're different.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
Oh yeah, the truck pulling the boat is not the
one that anyway. Well, I called you about folk, you know,
you hear things, and I'm sitting here waiting on somebody,
and and he was talking about the duck freezing.

Speaker 6 (01:06:40):
To that board.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Of course, the keyword for me on that was freezing.
It made me remember something I had long forgot. But
one time we were wrapped up deer lease and then things,
you know, how the deal goes. You get get in
the prank.

Speaker 6 (01:06:56):
Mode, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
And I wasn't a party to this, but it was muddy,
rainy and all and it was extremely cold, blue freezing,
and two guys they were really getting on each other.
We we got stuck up there because of the weather.
So we now we're you know, it's it's added misery
start and one of the guys took a five gawn

(01:07:21):
bucket and put the other guys. He went in his
room and got his socks, all his underwear, his under armor,
and his tennis shoes and put them in a five
gawn bucket and filled them up with water and set
on the outside outside on the porch.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Good, heavens pro solid, Holy cow, man, how.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Are you gonna freeze it? Bet it on fire?

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
I guess man.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Brought it, brought it in the house, said it didn't sink.
And you know, we didn't really have a stove, but
we'd run up, we'd run out, so we had to
sit there. He had to sit there and let it
all out. How long did that take when the temperature
never got a both freezing gart.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
Yeah, I guarantee it took a hot minute.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
Oh my god, I will be on the receiving end.

Speaker 10 (01:08:12):
Of that night.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
Stay warm, partner, audios man, all right, we gotta take
a little break here. On the way out, I'm gonna
tell you about Berry Hill. Sugar Land. Barry Hill is
at Sugar Creek in fifty nine on the inbound side.
Very easy to find once you managed to find that exit.
And inside well, first walking in you'll see the outdoor dining,
which I don't recommend today and probably not tomorrow, but

(01:08:36):
you have inside and by the way. They are closed
on Sunday, so every Sunday, so weather it doesn't matter.
But inside when you can get in there and it's
usually it's got. It's a hopping kind of a place.
On the sports bar side, for sure, there's always most
of the tables are covered there. And then on the
family family dining side, the tables and boosts, it's pretty

(01:09:00):
They steady going in there because they've got delicious Textmex
food with it's their own twist. Their own twist refers
to the two people in the kitchen who have been there,
the main two cooks in there each for more than
ten years. They've developed recipes that are just absolutely to
die for, but still falling well within the standard Textmax Fair.

(01:09:25):
The fish tacos are awesome. The seafood inchilada is one
of my favorites. Straight up cheese cheese enchiladas really really good.
I've had some of them lately too. Berryhill Sugarland dot
com is a website family owned and operated for thirty
something years. Really good. People go in and see if
Wendy's there. If she is, tell her I said hello,

(01:09:46):
They'll cater your event all over town too, if you
want that Berryhillsugarland dot com. Hey thirty five on Sports
Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening
on this. It's not quite frosty yet. There's still time
to get out and do some stuff outside if you
need to cover some plants or whatever. But in this segment,
we're gonna talk about something else. We're going to talk
about boats and boat maintenance and just common sense stuff.

(01:10:09):
They'll really well if everybody does what we're about to suggest,
my guest here wouldn't have much to do most days.
I suspect with that, I'm gonna bring in Captain Philip Barrelyne.
Actually Captain Pip is what we're gonna call him, because
that's what he likes to be called. From Towboat US.
Welcome aboard, Captain Pip. Huh oh, I didn't know. Let

(01:10:31):
me get him on here. Now I got you. What's up, skipper?

Speaker 8 (01:10:36):
Oh, good morning. We're glad to be here, Glad we
could be part of your show today.

Speaker 1 (01:10:40):
My pleasure man. Is it fair to say that today
isn't a good day to be on the water and
tomorrow's not looking much better?

Speaker 8 (01:10:47):
Oh, I'd say the next two or three days would
not be a good day.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
Well, so, so first talk about talk about what you
do and maybe in how often your phone rings.

Speaker 6 (01:11:00):
Up?

Speaker 14 (01:11:01):
You know, to about US clear Lake, and now we're
to about US Galveston.

Speaker 8 (01:11:06):
What we do.

Speaker 14 (01:11:07):
We're the largest tobout US is the largest assistance towing
company in the United States.

Speaker 8 (01:11:15):
And what we do is there's three hundred ports nationwide.
We have something like eight hundred thousand members.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:11:22):
What we do?

Speaker 14 (01:11:24):
And it depends on where your ports are because each
port is locally owned and operated, So it depends on
what we do. As far as you know, how many
calls we get our area, what would you say, Holly,
we get maybe I'd say on average we probably get
over the year, you you know and say we get

(01:11:46):
like two calls a day.

Speaker 6 (01:11:48):
Wow. Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:11:51):
They don't always come that way.

Speaker 6 (01:11:52):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:11:52):
What happens is we get four or five calls in
one day and then we have today where we don't.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Understand that's okay, averages and when you when when the
call comes in, what's the most common reason somebody needs
you to come out and drag them back to port?

Speaker 14 (01:12:09):
Uh? The most common reason is basically just what they
call engine failure.

Speaker 8 (01:12:18):
Yeah, it would be anything a debt, battery to you know, bad.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
Fuel, and they don't know enough to tell you what
it is. Really just a b the boat won't start right.

Speaker 8 (01:12:29):
A lot of times that's exactly it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
You know, that's fine, that keeps you in business. How
often you get people who run aground?

Speaker 15 (01:12:39):
Uh?

Speaker 14 (01:12:41):
A couple of times, you know, a couple of times
a month, maybe more, depending on what time of year.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
And so my audience actually, I guess most of my
audience already knows this. But talk about the time it
takes you from the time they call and then you
got to go go to the boat. You got to
run your own checklist and then get to where they are.
It's not like you're calling a cab to just come
from down the street right.

Speaker 10 (01:13:05):
Right right.

Speaker 8 (01:13:08):
It It can't.

Speaker 14 (01:13:10):
You know, we're usually within fifteen twenty minutes away from
leaving the dock when we get a call. Yeah, ead,
But the run down to the boat, double check everything,
make sure we're ready to go, get our life jackets.

Speaker 8 (01:13:21):
On things like that.

Speaker 6 (01:13:24):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:13:25):
Then Galveston Bay is a pretty big complex.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
So it is.

Speaker 14 (01:13:32):
It can take us an hour, hour and a half sometimes.

Speaker 8 (01:13:36):
To get to somebody.

Speaker 14 (01:13:39):
It could take longer if you have a couple of
callshead of them on a busy Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 8 (01:13:45):
You know, if we have three or four.

Speaker 14 (01:13:47):
Calls come in at one time, it can take uh
over an hour, but most of the time we're there
in less than an hour.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
Less solid Yeah, that's you know, if somebody, if it's
their own fault, which I suspect it probably is as
many times as not, they may need to sit there
for an hour to let it sink in and not
do it again. Captain Pitt Barline on the Dug Pike Show,
Let's let's talk about making sure that important stuff is ready.
Your your battery, your radio, your PFDs, your anchor, your

(01:14:19):
fire extinguisher, all that stuff is there. Who's got the
best checklist for these guys who just haven't owned boats
long enough to really know what they need to have
on there.

Speaker 14 (01:14:31):
The Coast Guard used to have a checklist of stuff
that you put out, but since they've gotten away, they're
more of homeland security. I guess that list is still available,
I just haven't seen it anywhere right off hand. You know,
Towboat US any one of the towboat US ports can

(01:14:54):
tell people the things they kind of.

Speaker 8 (01:14:56):
Need to have call what they want.

Speaker 14 (01:14:59):
You know, the big thing, the big thing you need
to make sure is, of course the coast guard requires
that you have UH, flares and life jackets and make
sure they're in life jackets are in good condition because
they do wear out people. They have the new hybrid
what they call Type five life jackets which are inflatable,

(01:15:21):
but they only count as a life jacket if you're
actually wearing it when you get stopped by.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
The Okay, that's good to know.

Speaker 8 (01:15:29):
Bring that life jacket for it to count as a
life jacket.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (01:15:33):
But the things you want to do, you know, flares expire,
They make flare they make a electronic flare clip kit now,
so you don't have to get by the old style
flares all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
If you don't want that's then.

Speaker 8 (01:15:47):
You know, the things you want to do. You want
to make sure you're you got good batteries in the boat.

Speaker 14 (01:15:54):
You know about three to five years is all you're
going to get out of a boat battery.

Speaker 8 (01:15:58):
Uh, you want to make sure that before the season starts.
You want to be sure you got good fuel filters.

Speaker 14 (01:16:05):
You want to get oil change in both the motor
and the lower unit for the outboards. Inboard motors, people
kind of tend to forget about, you know, changing the
oil in those sometimes or fuel filters because they take, oh, well,
we don't.

Speaker 8 (01:16:21):
Use the boat that much. Well, you still need to
take care of that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
Yeah. Absolutely, again, kind of knowing that most of my
audience knows this already. Talk about the importance from a
safety perspective for everybody on board of a float plan
before you go somewhere.

Speaker 14 (01:16:40):
Well, a good float plan, uh, you know, it doesn't
have to be a super written out this is what
we're going.

Speaker 8 (01:16:49):
We're going here, we're gonna be a different It just
needs to.

Speaker 14 (01:16:52):
Be some information that you leave with a friend or
a relative letting them know, you know, we plan to
go out here, we plan to fish in this general area,
we plan on being home with.

Speaker 8 (01:17:05):
Such and such a time, And that's really all it
needs to be.

Speaker 14 (01:17:10):
As long as somebody on land has an idea of
what you're doing and where you're supposed to be.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
Yeah, we're going to be in West May and if
you haven't heard from us by seven o'clock, callum basically
it Yeah, that's all we need. And speaking of where
you're going to be You're gonna be at the Houston
Auto Boatis Show next weekend, aren't you.

Speaker 8 (01:17:28):
We are correct, We are going to be there. We're
easy to find. Just look for the big red tent.

Speaker 14 (01:17:35):
The big red flags say tobo US on them. We'll
be offering a fifty dollars discount on all membership sign up.

Speaker 1 (01:17:45):
That's nice.

Speaker 14 (01:17:46):
That's new members and renewals begetting a fifty dollars discount.

Speaker 8 (01:17:51):
So the cost for.

Speaker 14 (01:17:52):
Membership is one hundred and sixty five dollars at the show.
It covers any kind of breakdown if we have to
tow you in. Covers what they call a soft un grounding,
so if you run up on the sandbar, or if
you're fishing and the tide kind of goes out and a.

Speaker 8 (01:18:09):
Little close to the shore. You know, it gets that.

Speaker 14 (01:18:13):
Covers battery jumps, fuel drops for smaller vessels, then we
get it also covers any boat that you own, borrow, rent,
or charter, as long as the you know, you're not

(01:18:34):
doing it as a professional captain and you're out on
a because the owners of the boat should have their
own membership at that great.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
Yeah, I got you. I'm saying, what can you remember
just one especially unusual call where as soon as you
got there, you're just looking and say, oh, I'm going
to talk about this one for a long time.

Speaker 8 (01:18:56):
You know. It's kind of funny.

Speaker 14 (01:18:57):
We get several call like that, so I just trying
to think of one off the top of my head.

Speaker 8 (01:19:04):
You know, we got one. The guy was up in
the trees.

Speaker 14 (01:19:12):
They were like somehow, he said, they were turning the
corner in the creek.

Speaker 8 (01:19:16):
They lost steering.

Speaker 14 (01:19:18):
And right at the bend of the creek, so when
he went to turn, the boat didn't turn, and.

Speaker 8 (01:19:24):
They were about I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:19:26):
Ten fifteen feet up on the embankment, about thirty or
four inland from.

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
The god, oh my gosh. Lucky to be alive.

Speaker 8 (01:19:38):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Wow. Well on that charmful, charming note. And by the way,
I'll let everybody know for you, you're not a rescue service.
That's the coast guardion. You're like an ambulance for the boat,
but not for the people on board.

Speaker 8 (01:19:50):
Right correct, I mean we're just water towing.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
Serface.

Speaker 14 (01:19:55):
When you buy your when you buy a tobo US membership,
you're not buying I mean, you're not buying boat insurance.

Speaker 8 (01:20:05):
Your boat you're buying towing.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
Yeah, sure, yeah, there you go. That makes sense. So right,
all right, Captain Pep. Where can they find you online?

Speaker 8 (01:20:16):
Uh? We have.

Speaker 14 (01:20:19):
Is it tobot us clear lake dot com?

Speaker 8 (01:20:25):
All right, then they can also.

Speaker 14 (01:20:28):
Uh get us on our Facebook page?

Speaker 8 (01:20:33):
Have Uh So.

Speaker 14 (01:20:39):
One thing I did want to say, you talking about
some safety equipment may get out there.

Speaker 8 (01:20:44):
So many people get out there.

Speaker 14 (01:20:45):
And they we call and they say, well, you got
to come get us. We're adrift, and we tell them
to put their anchor out. Say they don't have an an.

Speaker 8 (01:20:55):
I mean it's not required. It's not required, but it's
something something every boat should have absolutely. And something else
every boat should have is they need to have people.
Cell phones work great all over Galveston Bay.

Speaker 14 (01:21:11):
Yeah, that spam, But what happens when that cell phone
gets wet or.

Speaker 8 (01:21:15):
The cell phone batterie dies, or you lose something overboard?

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
All right?

Speaker 8 (01:21:21):
Handheld VHL.

Speaker 1 (01:21:22):
I gotta run cap'n pip. I'll try to. If I'm
out at the boat shore, if I come to that
automotive autoboative show, I'll be there. I'll for sure find
those big red flag and come say hi and shake
your hand. Thank you for your time.

Speaker 8 (01:21:33):
Man, I'll be there Sunday for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
All right, I'll try to get out, thank you, Captain Audio. Yes, sir,
all right, we're running a teeny bit late again. Sorry
about that, Frankie. Yeah, towboat US dot com will get
you there, and then type in clear Lake maybe Galveston,
either one and you'll find him one more time for
Houston Gold Exchange. I'm actually gonna during the break, I'm
gonna try to call and see if I can't get

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Brad on the phone. He sent me an email or
a text just a few minutes ago. He said, Man,
whatever you do, absolutely positively. Oh yeah, he's traveling in
a van back to Guatemala today. Never mind, he's been
down in Central America fishing. But what he did say
is that gold and silver are super crazy high. Gold

(01:22:17):
is about to hit that five thousand dollars mark like
I was talking about. Silver is one hundred and three
dollars an ours right now. Time to sell, that's what
he's talking about. Go ahead and get that money in
your pocket while that rate is as high as it is.
I don't know what he knows that maybe we don't know,
But what goes up must come down, and who knows

(01:22:38):
when it will. But right now you can get a
boatload of money for scrap gold or maybe for some
old silver quarters and dimes that you got laying around.
See what you can find, maybe some old some old
silver that you inherited from somebody that you really don't,
really don't want and really don't understand why you got it.
Now'd be a good time to turn that into something

(01:23:00):
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dot com. They're at West Timer and Darry Ashford. Brad
said to call his cell phone now. You might be
able to catch him on it today, Maybe not, depending
on where he is in the middle of Central America. Uh,
but he'll be back I think tomorrow and then certainly

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dot com eight fifty four on Sports Talk seven to
ninety The Dougpike Show, Thank you for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. I got a call or an email from
Alan asking about an old friend in the mind. I
don't know where he's working. Ah, there you go, there's
your answer. Oh Lee faux pro volunteering. Now that I've

(01:25:11):
kind of let the cat out of the bag that
I have some I have a lot of lures out
in the garage that haven't even been wet, he says.
I say when and I'll come or leave you of
all your excess fishing or hunting goodies. Uh huh, Yeah,
there'd be a line I think for that. And it's not.
It's not what you think. There's not a lot of
new stuff in there. I don't. I don't ask fishing

(01:25:35):
tackle manufacturers for gear. I really don't anymore. I haven't
well I never did. Actually, I just I tested stuff
when there was an opportunity to test it. And I
still would if somebody wanted to have me test some
gear and give an honest opinion of it. And here's
what I told people. They said, we don't want you,

(01:25:56):
you know, if you don't like it, I don't want
you to say anything bad about it. Well, if there
was some things that I tested that I didn't think
were up to snuff over the years, and what I
would do is just call the manufacturer and say, hey, man,
I use this and it had this issue and I'm
not comfortable endorsing it right now, but if there were

(01:26:18):
changes made to fix that, then we could talk again.
But I didn't bad mouth anybody's stuff. Don't want to
do that. That's I don't think that's fair to the manufacturer.
I think that's because that's just one person's opinion. But
if you're you're a person who whose opinions impact lots
of other people, and you got to be careful you

(01:26:40):
do anything I tell you that I like on this show,
I really do like. I really do like all of
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(01:27:02):
you're a movie buff, are you not? In addition to music?

Speaker 8 (01:27:05):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
Yeah, what now this may be out of your your
realm here, but do you have a favorite fishing related
movie or outdoors related Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:27:17):
The first thing I think of.

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
Is a river. Yeah, that's that's low hanging fruit. Can
you name another one?

Speaker 4 (01:27:24):
I can't think of it right now.

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
You know, honestly, I'm not a movie guy either. I couldn't.
We might have to. We might have to get John
in here. Yeah, honestly, I bet he'd have one. Yeah, Oh, mercy,
I may I may see if I can round him
up after the break or during the break here at
the top of the hour, and we could do a
little discussion of that. By the way, I'm gonna I'm
gonna lean back on the way out here into this

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whole situation with the ducks. It's really a problem.

Speaker 9 (01:27:52):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:27:52):
And when we get back, before I go, man, I
wanted to talk about this earlier. I got a minute
and a half. I'll tee it up and if somebody
want to go deeper into it, give a call and say,
let's talk about it a little bit more. There's a
bounty on some carp. Now they're not in the state
of Texas per se. They haven't been documented in any
water body that's exclusively in Texas. However, they're up there

(01:28:17):
on the on the Red River, and that's where we
got to start working on getting them out of here.
It's a it's called the black carp and I'm not
going to read the the Latin name for it. It's
just too big. But it's a big old mollusk and
snail eating fish from East Asia that was introduced here
in the seventies and eighties to control snail in aquaculture ponds.

(01:28:42):
They got out, just like the the big old grass
carp dead out of Lake Conrod. Now they're all over
down this way, established populations in the Mississippi River basin,
posing a severe threat to native muscles and snails, it
says here, which they consume in large quantities. So, like
I said, not in Texas, they're getting closer to that
Red River watershed and so far have been caught in

(01:29:05):
eight states and they're making a mess. The good news
is that there's in Texas right now one hundred dollars
price tag on their heads, and you can turn in
as many as ten of them a month if you
can catch them. The bad news is that they're rarely
caught on Roden reel. But here's the deal. They eat snails,

(01:29:26):
and I'm going to try to draw a parallel and
see if it works. These black carp eats snails, and
sheepshead eats barnacles, and sheepshead also absolutely love crickets, and
I got a hunch that those snail eating carp would
eat a cricket just as fast any angler who catches one.

(01:29:49):
By the way, go look at the pictures of these things.
They're very odd looking. You'll know if you catch one.
If you catch one in the Red River, you are
asked to kill it, put it on ice, and then
turn it over to the Parks and Wildlife Department, because
they if they get into our water bodies, Uh, that's
gonna be a big old hot mess we've already got. Well,

(01:30:09):
maybe they could do something about some of the snails
we got. All right, we'll take a break here, we'll
be right back and we'll see where we go. Timber
Creek Golf Club not gonna play today, not gonna play tomorrow,
probably not gonna play on Monday. But when it finally
settles out again. Timber Creek is gonna be a great
place to just go by yourself or maybe grab a
few friends. They got twenty seven holes out there. They'll

(01:30:31):
they'll take care of you. They're on FM twenty three
point fifty one, about four or five miles west of
the golf Freeway. You'll see the gate. Well, you won't
see it exactly. There's a there's a high school on
one side to the left side, and a convenient store
to the right. When you see that, right past the
convenience store is the road is. There's a light there.
Take a right there and it'll take you right into

(01:30:52):
the gate at timber Creek. Great food in the in
the grill, great people all over the facility, all the
way way down to the far end of the range,
well the side of the range over where where JJ
Woods and his academy are if you need help with
your swing. Just a just a great place to go
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(01:31:13):
a website. Go set yourself a tea time now, only
not too soon. Timber Creek Golf Club dot Com. All right,
third and file out of the program starts right now.
Thank you all for listening. Let me get something tapped here.
I've got to go look at something right about. There
we go. It popped up the wrong thing a minute ago.

(01:31:34):
Let's go talk to David. Shall we see what's going on.
He's been holding a while, David, what's going on?

Speaker 8 (01:31:38):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
How are you doing?

Speaker 6 (01:31:41):
Mister Doug?

Speaker 8 (01:31:42):
Fun?

Speaker 6 (01:31:43):
Everything waiting to come in?

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
Oh yeah, I'll bet it's it's coming. Believe me, it's coming.
It's still two degrees below zero up in North Texas
right now, so it's come. So well, how's this? How's
the shrimp business?

Speaker 6 (01:32:00):
This is good?

Speaker 16 (01:32:01):
Shrimp prices last year after a lot of efforts have
been up approximately thirty percent. They need to come up
quite a lot more. And authenticity rates in restaurants have
improved just.

Speaker 6 (01:32:18):
A little bit.

Speaker 16 (01:32:18):
We just we just retested Galveston and there was one
or two restaurants that converted over to the domestic tramp
from important tramp.

Speaker 6 (01:32:29):
We're we're happy. We're happy about that.

Speaker 16 (01:32:33):
We have we have legislation, a secondary legislation hopefully happening
in Texas to actually have some form of enforcement on regulations.
And the same is true in Mississippi. So we're going
along the coast and we're trying to make a difference.
We've also now got approval to start designing a test

(01:32:55):
to identify imported oysters. Wow, Okay, basically basically most of
the time when you have a oyster pool, boy, unfortunately
the oysters come from China as they are sup breaded
in China, and I don't think anybody really knows about that.

(01:33:16):
And we're going to create We're going to create some
awareness because there's been a huge hole in the oyster
industry because of that. So we're de scarting to do
that and we're trying to move.

Speaker 6 (01:33:30):
Into different areas and stuff.

Speaker 16 (01:33:31):
But the more interesting thing is I'd like to give
you a bit more information on the cup situation.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
Yes, please.

Speaker 16 (01:33:39):
The black cup is one of the species of cup.
All the cup that we have in this country invasive species,
including the common cup.

Speaker 6 (01:33:52):
The common cup we're introduced quite a long time ago.

Speaker 16 (01:33:55):
The only thing that is sort of native that is
similar to this fish it's called a buffalo, very very
common in Louisiana. But we've been looking at the problem
of invasive cup in Louisiana specifically, and the problem is

(01:34:15):
absolutely monumental. We did a approximate, approximate analysis of how
much cup could be harvested in Louisiana without making a
dent on the population, and the actual industry could be

(01:34:35):
of a similar size. To find it's huge, huge area.

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
What kind of market, what kind of market is there
for commercial cart fishing?

Speaker 8 (01:34:49):
Well.

Speaker 16 (01:34:49):
Cup were introduced because as a food product, and most
most people in this world like cup, and a lot
of the big river systems in the world that do
contain carp, like the Yangsee and the rivers in India
quite polluted and they basically have a limited amount of

(01:35:14):
fifth and also the rivers that polluted.

Speaker 6 (01:35:20):
So there is a there is a strong market. It
just needs to be got behind.

Speaker 16 (01:35:26):
Just the same way as the soy bean market is
supported by the US government. We actually worked out that
you could harvest over fifty forty foot containers of carp.

Speaker 10 (01:35:42):
Per week, oh my gosh.

Speaker 6 (01:35:46):
Without affecting the population.

Speaker 16 (01:35:48):
So fifty fifty if you imagine the volume.

Speaker 1 (01:35:51):
Of that, Yeah, that's pretty significant.

Speaker 16 (01:35:54):
One hundred as hundreds of thousands of tons of products. Yeah,
and this, this fish needs to be controlling out of
our river systems because once it gets in, particularly the
big head cup and the silver cup, which at the
plank tis they basically outcome pete ale the native species.

Speaker 1 (01:36:15):
Yeah. They take the take the first wrong of the
food flatter and just devour it.

Speaker 8 (01:36:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:36:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:36:22):
And then you know, other cups do other things, like
the big head cup are specialists in eating mollusks and
stuff like that. They were introduced to stop worms in
catfish and the other harvested species. It's it's it's a
it's an interesting situation, but you know it's with every

(01:36:45):
disaster comes opportunity, and if anybody is able to do
anything about starting a market up, this is where it
needs to happen. Yeah, I'll give you some more information
on that. I'll get over. I'll get a publicity to

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tell you some stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:37:07):
Wonderful.

Speaker 6 (01:37:07):
Thank you giving you a little bit more of an insight.

Speaker 1 (01:37:11):
No, no, no, no, I really I want to hear
about this stuff. I do so, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:37:16):
All right, all right, all right, we'll go bless.

Speaker 1 (01:37:19):
Stay in touch, okay, all right, all right, boy, all right,
let me go catch Brandon here and talk to him
in a while. Brandon, what's going on?

Speaker 8 (01:37:26):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:37:28):
Good morning, Doug?

Speaker 14 (01:37:28):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
I'm fine? Where in the world have you been.

Speaker 11 (01:37:32):
I am going to the fantast.

Speaker 10 (01:37:38):
Today, outstanding.

Speaker 1 (01:37:39):
What time did it start?

Speaker 10 (01:37:41):
Heaven?

Speaker 6 (01:37:42):
So four?

Speaker 1 (01:37:44):
Nice? What where is it? I guess it minutes? Okay?
What who do you want to see out there?

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
I think last year I saw our catcher the.

Speaker 1 (01:38:02):
OL that'll be fun. You know what kind of activities.

Speaker 10 (01:38:07):
They have.

Speaker 4 (01:38:10):
And I we can learn what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
Learn it fantastic. Well, I'm glad it's today and not
tomorrow because it would be very hard to get there
probably tomorrow, but it'll be It'll be okay. Driving around today,
I think, Yeah, are you guys prepared for this big
coal front?

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:38:31):
We got some waters the power before the power goes up.

Speaker 1 (01:38:36):
Yeah, I think we'll be okay. I do anything that
happens I hope will be temporary and not affect many people.
The electric people have had plenty of time to figure
out how to make this work, and I think it's
going to work this time. Fingers crossed though, huh man,
it is so good to hear from you again. I
appreciate the call.

Speaker 15 (01:38:57):
I told him, Hey, if you mind talking about the
fast better today talking.

Speaker 8 (01:39:04):
About what the fantast Oh, yeah, I'll look it up.

Speaker 1 (01:39:10):
I'll see if I can find a little bit more
on it and I'll talk about it if I can.
Thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:39:15):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:39:15):
So good to hear from you, Brandon, Thanks a lot, man.

Speaker 9 (01:39:18):
If you don't, yeah, if you.

Speaker 1 (01:39:22):
Don't, okay, what yeah, I got a bounce. I'll see
you later though. Great to hear from you. Buh bye bye.

Speaker 8 (01:39:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:39:30):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:39:30):
We hadn't heard from him in months. That's crazy, all right, Kyle,
do me a favor. Hang on, I'm gonna go through
this break as quickly as we can, and then you
will be first up with a nice full segment to
play with when we get back on the way out.
Phoenix Knives out there in right there in Belleville, right
on Main Street. Been there now. He's been in Belleville

(01:39:50):
on Main Street since nineteen seventy nine. Cowboys Zamanski has
at Phoenix Knives. That's the guy who founded the place.
He's moved into a bigger space though in the last
couple of years. Is just able to teach all the
more journeyman how to do what he does, and to
teach any of us who want to drive out there
and just walk in and say, hey, show me how
to build a knife, and they will. One of his

(01:40:12):
journeymen probably will do that for you, as long as
there's nobody in front and nobody else who needs help
at the time. They got a minute or two, they'll
walk you through the process and you can actually physically
build your own knife. He's got every kind of bladed
thing out there. You can imagine. There's tons of stuff
going on out there all the time. It's just a

(01:40:33):
wonderful company and run by a wonderful man and his wife,
Cowboy and Elena Zamanski, great people. Since nineteen seventy nine,
he's been doing this a long long time. Phoenix Knives
dot com is the website. Go check it out and
see what's going on. There's a big newsletter. There's all
kinds of things you can see there. Phoenix Knives dot

(01:40:56):
Com nine nineteen. On Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show.
Let's get to Kyle. He waited patiently through that. Kyle,
what's up, buddy, Good morning.

Speaker 10 (01:41:06):
You're worth the wait, my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:41:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:41:09):
Hey.

Speaker 15 (01:41:09):
Uh, we talked last year.

Speaker 6 (01:41:11):
You know, I'm over apparently, and I was.

Speaker 15 (01:41:13):
Asking you about some places to to bass fish, and
I was gonna tell you a little.

Speaker 6 (01:41:18):
Tell you a little story. I did some exploring and.

Speaker 15 (01:41:21):
I got into some bass. But you know what I
really call I had a couple of pawns that were
just loaded with crappy and I mean, have you ever
heard of that?

Speaker 1 (01:41:30):
I bet that fa pro sat up. No, I don't
know where those ponds are, but I'm curious.

Speaker 15 (01:41:37):
Well, no, they're they're they're I'm not going to tell
you right now, but I'll be happy to show you,
but I have to blindfold you. But but I was.
I was able to catch quite a few with which
is a little court. Do you know any place around
here that sales minnows?

Speaker 1 (01:41:51):
Gosh, I don't know. If you really want to go, look,
go to a pet store because they sell standard issue
shiners as food for bigger fish, and they don't get
a lot for those just food fish.

Speaker 10 (01:42:08):
I thought about that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
Yeah, and you don't have to tell them what you're
using for. They don't care. Frankly, they'll just just call
the supplier and say I need another hundred or whatever.
But yeah, that's that's gonna be your best bet in
this modern ace in which we live.

Speaker 15 (01:42:24):
And I was surprised because I was expected maybe catch
as small as I had, some up to fourteen fifty nice.

Speaker 1 (01:42:31):
Well, yep, but it probably don't get fished that often.
That's what's going on.

Speaker 15 (01:42:34):
No, people were throwing big plugs, you know, trying to
get the bath I downsized with a little beetlespin and
and a little roostertown.

Speaker 8 (01:42:43):
And they were in there.

Speaker 6 (01:42:45):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
Oh, Matt, Yeah, I just wanted to.

Speaker 15 (01:42:48):
Relay that story to you, but I just won't see
how you're doing.

Speaker 10 (01:42:50):
You sound good, I feel good.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
Do me a f I'm serious, send me a little
bit of information. You don't have to tell me your
whole secret, but just kind of point me in the
right direction. I'd like to go try a place like that.
And I'm not gonna keep any of them. You know that.

Speaker 15 (01:43:05):
You know, I think it's not too bad. I think
if you don't keep them, they're gonna start studying.

Speaker 6 (01:43:09):
I don't want that. I want to get you out
there to eat.

Speaker 15 (01:43:11):
I think you got I read somewhere you don't want
to throw those things back, so you know, there's there's
plenty in there.

Speaker 6 (01:43:18):
But I'm not gonna keep too many.

Speaker 15 (01:43:19):
Just just enough for a little little.

Speaker 1 (01:43:21):
Snack, yeah every now and then. Okay, Well, yeah, I'm
really I'm you piqued my interest in our secret will
be secure. I can promise you I never give up
anybody super all right, man, I'll be I'll be watching
that email.

Speaker 10 (01:43:34):
Okay, all right, but.

Speaker 1 (01:43:35):
You see, man, holy cow, I'm gonna get some inside scoop. Man,
I'm gonna get some inside scoop. Dude a dude. Uh okay, Frankie,
you and I we're gonna play the Iowa temperature game.
And since I already know I can't play, but I'm
really kind of curious. Oh man, did I keep that

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thing up?

Speaker 8 (01:43:56):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:43:56):
No, take that back? Not Iowa, Nebraska? Then the Nebraska
come on? Pop up? No, I don't want that to
close that. There we go, all right, Frankie, you want
to you want to try for the high temperature of
the first chapter or the low first?

Speaker 4 (01:44:11):
Yeah? What's first?

Speaker 1 (01:44:13):
Okay, Well, we'll go with high, then low, and if
you can get within fifteen degrees, I'll be impressed. For
the total for Iowa, no Nebraska, for Nebraska.

Speaker 4 (01:44:27):
Okay. For the high okay, let's go with seventeen.

Speaker 1 (01:44:35):
Okay, hold on, okay, okay, and what is the low?

Speaker 4 (01:44:40):
The low? Okay, we'll go negative, go underneath.

Speaker 3 (01:44:44):
Uh I'm gonna go with twenty five negative twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:44:49):
Minus twenty five I don't know. Okay, then that's fine.
You you did better with the low than you did
with the high.

Speaker 4 (01:44:59):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:44:59):
The high in Nebraska right now is one. Wow, it's one.
The low. I was actually impressed. The low is actually
minus twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:45:10):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:45:11):
Oh you ended up with a twenty one, which, under
the circumstances, isn't all that horrible. Yeah, it's just weather.
It's crazy. I love this site. It really is kind
of fun to just go from state to state. What's
north of Nebraska?

Speaker 4 (01:45:25):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:45:25):
Off hand, yeah, I'm trying to think it might be
Illinois even.

Speaker 17 (01:45:29):
Huh oh wait is that right hand side? Yeah, of
the US, it's it's right up the middle. You know what,
I'm just gonna plug in. I'll plug in Illinois.

Speaker 1 (01:45:40):
We're gonna we're gonna do this live and just see
how bad the people in Illinois have it.

Speaker 4 (01:45:45):
Tap tap, I'm curious to see.

Speaker 1 (01:45:49):
I'm really I'll be stunned if it's more worse than
twenty below zero, holy cow. Okay, let me scroll down,
and the number is oh they're ballmy only eleven below
for a low and twelve degrees for a high. Wow.
So this thing, yeah, this storm is west of there.

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That's where the bulk of it is. Oh man, I
hate to keep doing this while we're trying to do
everything else.

Speaker 4 (01:46:17):
No, it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:46:18):
The role to Colorado now.

Speaker 4 (01:46:21):
Oh yeah, that that that will be.

Speaker 1 (01:46:22):
That's got to be the kicker. That's going to be
the super low when I think it's almost got to
be right yeah, no, no, oh my gosh. The state
low in Colorado when Nebraska is at what did I
say twenty under? Uh there's minus six and the highest
thirty two. Hmm okay, yeah, so there you go. That

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shows what we know about the weather. Huh.

Speaker 8 (01:46:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:46:48):
I mean because isn't it like kind of northeast.

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
Uh yeah, it's it's well, Colorado is west of where
we were just talking about Illinois and Nebraska.

Speaker 4 (01:46:58):
Right, M Yeah, you know storm in general.

Speaker 1 (01:47:01):
I guess I don't want to bore everybody, but I'm
gonna do one more. I got a hunch. I'm gonna
play a hunch. Tap tap tap erase race race Wyo,
M I n G. And we have Yeah, that's another
pretty cold state. Eighteen below zero there and high of ten. Yeah,

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nobody's beating Nebraska though. That's that's right where the bulk
of it all is. I don't want to live anywhere
where it gets to negative something right, that's just that's
just too much, man. I think that's happened a few
times in Texas. I don't know that it's happened in Houston,
and I might look that up during the break when
we get to the bottom of the hour seven one
three two one two five seven ninety email me Doug

(01:47:45):
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm perplexed by the whereabouts
of that pond that has not only some pretty good
bass but also big old crappy in it. It reminds
me of the lake I used to fish more often
out where i Plague Golf until the cormorants got there.
And I'm still that's between that and now I've got

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to worry. Well, I'm not worried about black carp They're
not even in Texas per se yet except along the
Red River a little bit. But once they, if they
were ever to get in here, they just disrupt ecosystems.
Even like David was talking about, carp, aren't almost all
the carb species except for the buffalo, which is kind
of an offshoot, is invasive. They were brought here to

(01:48:31):
solve a different problem, but when they get in here,
just like the grass carp. The grass carp were released
into Lake Congo many years ago to control the hydrilla
that was in there. But whoever was in charge when
all that was going down, the Parks and Wildlife Department
made recommendations on how many carp to put it, how

(01:48:52):
many grass carp to put in that lake to maintain
a better healthier lake with a little bit less vegetation,
and it's dead. Somebody said, you know, if ten of
them are good, let's do about forty. And I'm just
bouncing numbers off. The number they put in there was
way too many, though, And all of a sudden, all
of the cover that the little fish had in that

(01:49:13):
hygh drilla for so many years and were they were
able to hide, and the populations of everything were doing
really well, the little fish got eaten up. And for
a while it was a great big bass lake because
the medium sized fish and the few big ones they
had were just gorging themselves. They didn't have to go
looking for food, they didn't work for it, and it

(01:49:35):
was right there in front of them because there was
nothing to hide behind. It got so bad those grasscarps
ate up everything but the lily pads. They wouldn't touch
the lily pads. I guess it's just too bulky and
rough for them. But all of that hygh drilla just
about was wiped out, all of that stuff they were eating,

(01:49:55):
literally eating. When maintenance people would go along the bulkheads
of lake houses and resorts and whatnot, running lawnmowers and
blowing all that cut grass into the lake, the grass
carp were responding that kind of a Pavlovian response. They
heard it, they understood it was food, and they would

(01:50:17):
go to that sound and that vibration in the water.
They knew that there were gonna be grass clippings and
they would show up to eat them. Just crazy, absolutely crazy,
But that's what was going on up there years ago.
They also, those grass carts were supposed to be unable
to replicate themselves, unable to breed, which turned out to

(01:50:39):
be a load and they got out somehow a flood
whatever washed them over the dam and or under the dam,
or through the dam or whatever. And now if you
go stand on the banks of Bray's bio. You can
see them up on that little lip that's there before.
There's a main trough, and then there's kind of a

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secondary lip and then the big wall that comes on
up higher in the developed part of that bio, and
you'll see grasscarp in there, anywhere from about two to
maybe ten pounds. I used to go catch them all
the time. Joe Doggett and I did that a lot.
And that's another carp story gone wild and just it

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kind of messed up Lake Conro for a long time.
It's coming back, though, it's coming back. I'm pretty confident
in that. All Right, we're gonna take this break at
the bottom here, and in it, i'm gonna tell you
all about the Houston Autobotive Show that's January twenty eighth
through February one, next weekend, basically out there at NRG Center.
There's a whole ton of cars going to be there.

(01:51:44):
Old cars, new cars, trucks, RVs, not RV's. I don't
think they have any RVs in that show. Excuse me,
they have SUVs. That's what I meant to say. They
have a really cool set of things that you can
do too. For the all for the price of admission.
You just buy one ticket, you get in there. You
got a park that's going to cost you some more money.

(01:52:05):
You buy a ticket, you get in there, and then
when you learn about all these different things you can
do some inside and some outside. There may be a
little bit of a line, but they will be really
fun and interesting and educational experiences. Heavy emphasis on the fun,
even off road adventures with Polaris and Ram and camp Jeep.

(01:52:26):
Five acres of the new boats. Now you can't take
a boat ride. There's no water out there, but you
can find the right people to help you find the
right boat for you. That's what you're looking for. It's
all there, all there, and one under just under one roof.
And I'm talking about acres and acres of display space.
Plan on spending most of the day out there when

(01:52:47):
you go. If you're really serious about maybe a boat
or a car in the next year or so, spend
the time out there to take advantage of the opportunity
to really compare side by side. You might have to
walk two acres to get to the other side and
find the other car boat you're looking for, but it'll
be there and you can do it at the Auto

(01:53:07):
Boative Show. Autobotive show dot com is a website Autobotive
show dot com. Welcome back, nine thirty four on Sports
Talk seven night at the Doug Pike Show. Thank you
for listening. I knew somebody know a place to go
get fish bait, but I don't. Yeah, these would work,
These would work. Faux proweight in uh. He says, you

(01:53:28):
can get feeder goldfish at Petco. And I presume they
come in all kinds of sizes, and I presume they're
pretty dog on chip cheap chip cheat. They're pretty cheap.
And the good news is I don't know that those
crappie have ever seen those, but I bet they would
look good to a crappie. Yeah, that's not a bad idea.

(01:53:51):
Those are probably the ones that just aren't pretty enough
to sell, maybe not big enough to sell. I don't
know what designates what differentiates between a feeder goldfish and
a display pet goldfish. I guess it's just they're all
basically one flush away from being feeders. Seven one three,

(01:54:12):
two one two five seven ninety Email me Dugpick at
iHeartMedia dot com. I want to take a quick look,
just just briefly now, at the golf tournament. Now, where
did it go? Oh? There it is. Hold on, I've
got the wrong mouse in my hand, toggling back and
forth between all kinds of different screens at the American
Express in Lakinta, California. Now they play a bunch of

(01:54:36):
different courses and it's it's a hot mess. It goes
the bottom line. Let's just let's just cut to the chase. Here.
Scotty Scheffler is leading. He's tied actually with a guy
named Blades Brown. I'm not familiar with Blades Brown, but
he's tied with Scottie Scheffler at seventeen under par through

(01:54:57):
the first two rounds of the event. Blades got the
with a sixty seven on Thursday and a sixty yesterday.
Scheffler a sixty three and a sixty four. Kind of
yawners for him. Really, he's back in the saddle. He's
apparently humming along. Third place all alone Seewoo Kim at

(01:55:17):
sixteen under par Is s. H Kim. I'm not sure
the first two parts of that name, but that's what
they have here is Shkim and Matt McCarty both at
fifteen under par. And then it's Eric Cole, Ricky Fowler.
I'll read all of these fourteens, Nico Hivaria Wyndam Clark,

(01:55:38):
Jacob Bridgman, and Nick Taylor at fourteen and then it
kind of goes from there and that these scores after
two rounds, they tell me that the courses these guys
played weren't set up super hard. They're playing on three
different courses, so there's and they're not all difficult courses.

(01:55:58):
I'm looking and there were as man any people on
one as the others. Now, the people who were on Lakenta,
it looks like maybe well I was going to say
they had higher scores because I'm seeing more of those
designations a little lower on the leaderboard. But the bottom
line is they're all gonna end up. Whoever ends up
playing on Sunday tomorrow is gonna be at Lakina or gosh,

(01:56:23):
where did it go? Hang on? I don't think that
that's not the finishing course in any event. They're all
going to play the same holes the same amount of times.
Maybe I think they do the stadium course on Sunday.
I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I think that's one and that'll
be set up super tough. But by then the top
ten guys in this field are probably going to be

(01:56:45):
at twenty two twenty three under I would say at
least yeah, yeah, Scheffler and Brown both could get to
twenty two pretty easy. That's only five more than they
have now. These guys are playing so well, and I
don't know who's going to come along to dethrone Scottie
shufferd nobody's really making a charge of him. Let me

(01:57:06):
go talk to David. Holy cow, I didn't see that
phone call up there, and yeah, I got time, David.
What's up?

Speaker 17 (01:57:12):
Man?

Speaker 12 (01:57:14):
Hey Doug, how's it going, buddy?

Speaker 1 (01:57:16):
I'm good.

Speaker 8 (01:57:16):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:57:19):
That the advice you uh.

Speaker 2 (01:57:23):
Told me?

Speaker 12 (01:57:24):
I took the advice and and I'm making it happen.
But about that, I'm making it. I'm making it happen.

Speaker 1 (01:57:33):
I am so glad to hear that.

Speaker 12 (01:57:35):
Manh Yeah, Yeah, I'm making an effort. I'm trying to
be able to cope with, cope with the situation that
I'm in good and I hopefully God Woman's I'll be
able to I'll find.

Speaker 6 (01:57:54):
Some positive role models in my life.

Speaker 1 (01:57:56):
Yes, sir, my.

Speaker 12 (01:57:57):
Father wasn't My father wasn't the very.

Speaker 1 (01:58:01):
I remember. Yeah, Okay, Now let me ask you this.
Have you ever tried fishing?

Speaker 12 (01:58:09):
Oh yeah, okay, my Thoma Pastor used to. I'm not
going to mention his name, but Pastor, he he's a
fishing you.

Speaker 1 (01:58:20):
Don't want to mention. Is he not very good at fishing?
Is that why you don't want to say his name?

Speaker 14 (01:58:26):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (01:58:26):
Well, no, I don't. I don't want to embarrassing that.
That's that's why I don't want to say his.

Speaker 1 (01:58:31):
Man, I'm just kidding with you, man, Yeah that you know, honestly,
you know, everybody's been through stuff in their lives, maybe
not as much as you went through. But if you
go fishing for me, at least when I got crazy
stuff going on, I grab a rod and reel and
I go fish somewhere and I can just lose myself
in fishing and I don't won't worry about that stuff
for a little while. Yeah, do some of that, man,

(01:58:54):
Do some of that?

Speaker 6 (01:58:55):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (01:58:56):
Well, you know, uh, that's a good idea. You know,
fishing will will get me off of my problems. Sure,
I'll just go out and fish and just just you know,
just think about the things positive. Yeah, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:59:13):
And if you don't you know. If you don't feel
better the first time, you know what you gotta do it.
You gotta go fishing again. And if that doesn't work,
I suggest you go fishing one more time. I'm telling you, man.

Speaker 12 (01:59:23):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, all right. I just want
to say something positive real quick.

Speaker 10 (01:59:29):
Yeah, come on, well, uh, the problems and.

Speaker 12 (01:59:33):
Situations go people go through in life. Sure, don't be temporary,
that's right, you know. But but the bottom line is
it's not your fault.

Speaker 10 (01:59:45):
That's right to the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:59:47):
That's right too. You're gonna be all right, man. I'm
glad to hear from you. I'm no fooler, I really am.
Thank you, David. Thanks for calling.

Speaker 12 (01:59:53):
Man, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:59:54):
I've been thinking about You've been praying for you, all
right man, audios. Yeah, that's good man. I'm glad. God
fella's been through some stuff and I'm really glad to
hear from him. I really truly am. That's fantastic. Huh, Franky,
that's all right, man, Yeah, it was really good to
hear from him. Oh, no doubt, no doubt. Okay, let
me peel back over here to this page. I got

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through to that oh the fishing movie that we couldn't
come up with. Apparently, just sitting here, we got stuck
on a river runs through it, and that river wouldn't
let us out, and we missed jaws are kidding me?

Speaker 4 (02:00:31):
Oh come on, I can't believe.

Speaker 1 (02:00:33):
Oh man, I don't know, but that that, and that,
Trump's all the others. There's nothing. I don't have a problem.
I don't have a problem with all at all with
fly fishing. I love fly fishing. I do a lot
of it, okay, But when it comes to great movies,
when it comes to great drama, there's a whole lot

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more drama when you're shark fishing than when you're trying
to catch a little brook trout out of a on
in New York or a little stream set. I've told
this story before, but I'll tell it real quick and
we'll get to the break back. When I was on
field and Streams Masthead, we used to gather all the
mast Head people would gather once a year and go
do kind of a just a sit down to talk

(02:01:16):
about the state of the state of the state with
the magazine and what we were going to write about,
what the hot topics were, all that stuff. But we
would meet in very cool places that had very good
fishing opportunities, and one of them was up in upstate
New York, some sort of fishing resort. I don't remember
exactly what it was or there was just fishing available there,

(02:01:37):
and I'd never caught a brook trout before, so they said, yeah,
we can, we can set you up with that. I
got this little four weight fly rod in my hands,
and I'm standing on the banks of a creek that's
not any wider than this studio, and this guy's with me,
and he's saying, yeah, just lob it over to the
other side there and just watch it drift down and

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when you see the line kind of tighten up, just
pick it up and set the hook. Well, all I'd
been doing was saltwater fishing, Okay, I saltwater fly fishing,
and I know what it takes to set a hook there.
That'd bass fishing too pretty hard hook set to get
that point buried in a bass's mouth. Well, I'm watching

(02:02:18):
my line, and second or third cast, the line kind
of twitches and tightens up a little bit, and I
set that thing like I was setting it into a tarpin.
And the last thing I remember seeing before the guid
started laughing out loud. Was this little bitty fish about
maybe six or inches six or seven inches long, come
flying by my face, tail just fluttering in the wind,

(02:02:42):
and it went all the way back like I was
just back casting it and using it for bait. In
a billfish fishing trip off Mosset Lawne somewhere. I've done
that too, and I had flies that were bigger than
that little trout. And that little trout got put back
in the water with a really cool story to tell

(02:03:02):
all his friends. He learned to fly that day, and
I'm happy to have helped him. Tiny little old fish man.
They wouldn't even make good jackfish bait over here. But
if that's all you've got in the stream you're on,
then we're gonna go catch a bunch of them. Cast
some bigger ones. Actually, later in the day that was like, okay, woo,
this one's almost a foot long just from here from

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Texas foot long. Yeah, now we're talking about some decent bait.
But a light horse golf club out there. Take two
ninety to Fry Road, Hang a south, Go south about
three four miles. You'll see golf course on both sides.
Hang a West and that will lead you right into
the clubhouse, not directly into it, you'll have to park
and walk in. Once you're in there, though, you'll realize

(02:03:50):
you're just in a step up a good, solid, daily
fee course, which is what the North Course is still.
And then you have the option of joining the South Course,
which is membership only now so, and if you do that,
by the way, you get access actually to five golf courses,
the two at Golf Club of Houston, the one at

(02:04:11):
Blackhawk Country Club, and the two at black Horse. You
can become a member of all five for that one
price of becoming a member at black Horse's South South Course.
Great people in there, they really are. Craig Hicks runs
a place and he told me right before this happened
at the beginning of last year what was going on,
and I was kind of excited and he was too,

(02:04:33):
because it's still a fantastic daily fee facility, still has
all the advantages of that. But the other course, the
South Course, brings something new to the table for anybody
and everybody, and it's very affordable. It really is. Check
it out, go out there, ask for a little tour,
get an idea of what it would cost him. If
it's what you want, get a membership there. You can

(02:04:56):
also still become a member of the black Horse North Course.
It's that a lea feed type of membership that gets
you better access to the practice facility, gets you preferred
tea times, discounts and the pro shop, things like that.
Blackhorse Golf Club dot Com is the website. Go check
it out. Black Horse goolf Club dot Com. One more
time for Houston Gold Exchange. I can't tell you enough

(02:05:18):
how emphatic, brashwise from Houston Gold Exchange. It's at dry
Asher and West Timer, how excited he is for the
price to be as high as it is of gold
and of silver because he wants to buy it. He
wants to buy your scrap gold. He wants to buy
your scrap silver. And what he does is just hold
on to it for ten, fifteen, twenty years until it's

(02:05:39):
up pretty good again. Right now, it's it's pretty dog
gone good, considering it was only about four thousand and
then three thousand, maybe six months ago, and a year ago,
all of a sudden, it's just right, just nudging right,
just right under the chin, five thousand dollars an ounce
for gold silver is at one hundred and three dollars

(02:06:01):
an ounce. You need to sell that stuff. You're gonna
need some new fishing material or fishing gear. You're gonna
need a new shotgun, new rifle. You don't need. Man,
if you've got a half a little bit more than
that hanging around the house. You got some scrap stuff
that you just don't wear anymore. There's a story behind it. Whatever.
You got a few ounces of scrap gold, you're talking

(02:06:24):
about getting enough money to start thinking about buying a boat.
Holy Mackell is certainly a great You can put a
heck of a kayak together for two ounces of gold,
maybe three. If you got three ounces of gold at
fifteen grand to put a kayak together, I think you
could do that. Just look at it that way. Look
at all the outdoors gear you can get by just
selling something to Brad that you don't even use anymore.

(02:06:46):
You haven't seen it in months or weeks or years.
Houston goold exchange dot com is the website there at
West Timer and Darry Ashford his cell phone and he
encourages people to use it. If you're ready to do
something like that. Two eight one eight five one three
nine five five, two, eight, one, eight, five, one three

(02:07:08):
nine five five Give them a Call nine fifty three
on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show final
segments starts right now. Holy cow, uh credit where it's due.
Mark from over in Georgia was the one who politely
reminded Frankie and me that we totally stepped over and
around and failed to mention Jaws when we were discussing

(02:07:32):
great fishing movies. I looked online just to kind of
see what's out there, and there are the first eight
or nine titles that came up. I've never even heard of.
The River runs through. It kind of shows up in there,
and Jaws shows up, and then from there it's just
stuff that's b rated. As far as I'm just not

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mainstream cinematic brilliance in any way, shape or form. Never
got to be some better fishing movies in that. And
there have been a few spoofs of fishing made where
the stereotypes, the comedic stereotypes of fishermen are exploited, usually

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not very well. If the audience is all fishermen, they're
just kind of sitting there in their chairs, squirming and
cringing a little bit because fishermen often are portrayed in
a very as not knowing much about anything, not being this,
not being that, when in fact, in today's fishing game,

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there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff you
have to know in electronics, there's a lot of stuff
you have to learn about in navigation, where you don't
have to learn too much because you can just punch
stuff in, but you have to know how to run
the equipment. You have to know how to run the
machines to take advantage of the technology. And most of

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the people I know who are fishing do Now is
that to say that there's nobody out there fishing in
a little bitty boat with a little bitty trolling motor
on it and just putting around the lake and chilling
and being out there just because that person loves to fish. No,
that's me. I'm out there fishing because I love to fish.

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I don't own a big fancy boat. I don't want
a big fancy boat. Right now, I'm not. I'm just
that's not where I am. That's not what I want
to do. But what I do like is fishing. And
I'm still convinced and always will be that anybody who
is fishing, whether they're on a seventy foot sport fishing

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boat halfway out one hundred miles out in the Gulf
of Mexico, or they're sitting on an upside down bucket
on the side of a little bar ditch somewhere with
a cane pole in their hands. Have you got your
license and you're using lawful means and methods to try
to catch a fish, You're in the same same category

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as anybody else who's fishing. The people who can afford
it have really cool stuff, and the people who can't
do the best they can with what they got. I
guarantee you there are some really good fishermen I've met
on the jetties who didn't have much of anything. I've
met on little ponds around sugar Land and just really

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all over the country. I've had the opportunity to fish
in places where people from all walks of life hang out.
There was a little jetty that I fished over in
Florida several years ago at one of my son's baseball tournaments,
and I met and talked to probably two dozen different
people over the course of a couple of days who

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were all out there fishing and all doing their best
to do just what I was doing, was catching Spanish
mackerel on little plugs, and that some of them had
super cool gear. Some of them had just a couple
of lures in a paper sack tucked in a shirt pocket.
But we were all catching fish, having fun. It's what
it's about. What it's about. We're not gonna have to

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do any ice fishing around here. I don't think it's
not gonna be that cold. But if somebody could find
a little pond, you know what, north of here, we
might be able to find a little pond that's iced
over enough to maybe have a light person stand on it.
I'd love to see that picture. Just don't get yourself
in trouble and fall through the ice. Okay, get outside
when we can again, when it's safe, when it's comfortable,

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or if you're tough enough, go somewhere today try and
catch a fish. I'd love to see a picture of
somebody catching a fish today. That would impress me, or
tomorrow even better. No, I don't want you on the roads.
If it's icy, don't go. If you got someplace in
your backyard where you can go catch a fish, show me.
I like seeing your pictures. That's it for today. We'll
be back here. Well, I don't know. I may or

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may not be back. It's a game day decision tomorrow
for Icy Roads. Either way, I'll see as soon as
I can. Idios