Heightened Senses

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Saturday morning starts right now.

Speaker 3 (00:02):
Well mine started about what an hour and a half
ago or so somewhere in there, almost two Not a
bad looking day, to be honest. We've got a few
more dry days. I remember this from yesterday's forecast. A
few more dry days and then moving into the middle
of the week next week. It just there are chances
for rain, which is good. We could all use it

(00:25):
around here, I think, but not big chances. It's like
fifteen twenty percent, or well, they don't use halves, but
ten twenty I think the highest I saw was thirty
percent something like that. So if you get some rain
in your yard this week, feel fortunate that you didn't
have to run your sprinkler system again and again and again.

(00:45):
And maybe just maybe who knows, where's my pen there?
It is, maybe just maybe we'll we'll get some more
good stuff. A little worries down the line. This is
not a good time of year to be wishing for rain.
It's a little premature to think that it could cause
a you know what. But still bear in mind if

(01:09):
you're if you're feeling pretty confident about yourself and how
your oh man, all these things printed both sided. I've
got a bunch of information about big bass being caught
around the state, and I want to kind of dive
into that in a little while. But I didn't want
to see all of these things. Let me double check
this one. Yeah, they're all printed two sided. At some

(01:31):
point in the first break, I might go run back over. Well, actually,
I can do it from in here. I'll print them
one sided so I can actually use them as I
wanted to. There are some big bass that have been
caught lately. I'll get get to them in a little while.
There was some fog this morning at the house, not
a lot, though visibility at the house was probably it

(01:52):
was at least at least a quarter mile, maybe a
half a mile, maybe a little bit more than that.
Even I wasn't really paying that much attention because when
I walked out, I realized.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
It wasn't that foggy.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
But there was quite a bit of it on the
sea wall at Galveston this morning. I checked the saltwater
recon cameras it was foggy, and interestingly enough, down at
surfside it looked pretty good. For some reason, that just
that little bit of a difference fifteen well maybe thirty
forty miles. Let's call it changed everything as it was

(02:26):
at the house. Swap text with Scott and o'l last night,
by the way, and he said, thereforecast down in poor
O'Connor was for some really really thick stuff this morning.
Hopefully that didn't come to pass. He had a trip
to take this morning with some fishermen who I'm sure
will be treated some really good redfish action down there
if they can get out or when they get out.

(02:47):
That's a good thing about fogg. There are a lot
of worse weather conditions than fog, if you stop and
think about it. Fog never ripped a roof off a house.
Fog never made a tree fall down. Fog never left
you waiting knee deep through your living room or having
to crawl up into the attic to keep from drowning.

(03:09):
It's just fog. It's just a cloud on the ground,
a little little puffy cloud. Frank, Have you ever had
any scary fog experiences?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Thankfully, not good for you.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
I've been lost in the fog far more than once,
and not not to the point where I was panicking,
and and if I'd have had a panic button, I
would have pushed it. But it's just interesting how how
quickly you can get turned around because there's no breeze.
As somebody who spent a lot of time outdoors and

(03:44):
walking around in the dark in the outdoors, especially.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
You, you take a you kind of survey.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
What's going on around you when you leave from point A, whatever,
whatever go is, whatever start is. You check out the
wind direction, You check out if the sun is peeking
through at all, if there's any lighter side and darker side.
You make note of that so that when you get

(04:13):
out where you think you've walked in a straight line
as far as you want to go, and you can
turn around and come back. If you walk with the
wind in your face, for example, you know that if
you turn around and walk the other way, walk with
the wind at your back, you're probably headed back somewhere
toward where you're supposed to be.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
But I've gotten yeah, probably half a dozen times.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
I've had to stop and just sit for a minute
and think about where I am and how I need
to get back and what I should see on the way.
When my visibility is down to about twenty twenty five yards.
If that it's it's a real it's an exhilarating feeling
in a way, because unless you're really really hung up.

(04:59):
First of all, FOG's not gonna last forever either. You
don't have to worry about that. If you just sit
long enough, the fog is gonna lift during the day
at some point. But it really is kind of it's
a challenging feeling to know that where you are right then,
right there, you don't know where you are wherever that is,

(05:20):
you don't know where it is, and you don't know
how to get back to where you were. And that's
that's different from being lost altogether walking around in the woods.
That would that would concern me more than being lost
in the fog, because the fog will lift and you
can find your way out. But if all the trees
start to look the same and the trail gave up
on you two hundred three hundred yards ago in the

(05:42):
woods and now you can't really figure out where you are,
that could be pretty troublesome. Oh look at this, Thank
you so much.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
H M M M.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Erica from down there at k t RH we are. Yeah,
that's working out, that is. We both like to eat
something in the mornings, and I brought well, actually I
brought her something yesterday afternoon. I brought her fish tacos
from Berry Hill. I don't know who went and got them, Franky,
but somebody, somebody went and got berry Hill fish tacos.

(06:18):
And when they got back here they weren't They weren't
for me, they were for somebody else. And as it
turned out, our office guy, Charlie came over to me
and said, hey.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Are you hungry?

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Always yes, and he got fish tacos over there, okay,
And that's so I went and I picked up the
bag and I opened it up to see what was
in there, and somebody else who's in charge in the office, said,
just take the whole bag. So I took the bag
over to my desk and it had one of the
little styrofoam containers in there that they served or you know,

(06:52):
when you order food to go, that's what they always
put them in. And I opened it up and it
had four, count them, four fish tacos in there from
Ferry Hill, nonetheless, which really made it awesome. Also chips,
also salsa, also queso, and I couldn't eat them all.
There's no way I could have done that. And so

(07:13):
since Erica brings me food on the weekends. I thought
it was the least I could do to take her
two of those. I did eat two of them, but
I took it down there, and I'm sure she had
a nice little afternoon meal. She seemed very thankful, as
am I for this little mini muffin that just rolled in.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
You ought to butter up to her, Frankie, Yeah, we
got to talk sometime. I mean, goodness, gracious, go to
chatter up, say hi, how you doing. Yeah, if it's
just going to be food, where are those muffins?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Just cut to it.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, yeah, it's just cut to the chase, man like, okay, whatever.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh well, back to my fog.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, that's it's it's an interesting weather phenomenon, and it's
the most innocuous of them all.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
There's nothing.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Unless you're talking about people on the road driving, Okay.
That's where fog becomes dangerous if you're walking around a ranch,
or if you're fishing on the bay and your motor
is shut off and you can hear everything around you.
And by the way, your senses do become heightened when
one or more of them is taken away. There's a

(08:23):
lot of talking, a lot of research actually on that
where people who lose their sight suddenly become just their
hearing becomes super heightened and keen.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
People who lose.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
They're hearing see things differently, and all of that goes
kind of together. When you're in the fog, you'll realize
that when you can't see what's around you, everything sounds louder.
And I don't want to go I don't want to
become a broken record and talk about how you think
a little squirrel walking on acorns or walking on dry
leaves sounds like a herd of buffalo is coming through there.

(08:58):
It's true, it's a very heightened awareness of what's around you,
and everything that's moving and making noise around you sounds
like it's a whole lot closer than it is.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
But it's always fun. I love that, I frankly do.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
I always enjoy being out in that in fog, except
on the road. Like I said, that's a problem, especially
when you are being approached.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
On the road or actually on the water too.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
You're drifting across a flat, just barely moving because there's
just hardly any breeze and it's really super foggy, and
in the distance you hear that mean just that wine
of an outboard coming your way, and it's coming, and
it's coming.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
It's scary.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
It really is same on the road you can't see
them or you can't hear them coming. But on the
freeways and especially well when you've got say state, a
little back road country roads where it's two lanes and
you're going in opposite directions. And I bet Rick Bice

(10:01):
can attest to this if he's listening this morning. That's
one of the scariest things ever, is trying to navigate
a winding, hilly, foggy road and not knowing who's gonna
come flying over the hill or flying into your little
piece of the fog and just barely out of their lane.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's kind of scoop spooky stuff.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
There are also a lot of people in this world
still who do not understand that when it's foggy, you
use your low beam headlights so that the light goes
under the fog and illuminates the path farther ahead of you.
Then if you turn on your high beams, because when
you do that, then all that light does is reflect

(10:48):
off of those quadrillion septis sentillion little water molecules right
there in the air and you just you're looking at
a white curtain that you can't pull back.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Go to the low beams. You'll be much better off.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. We got three hours
to go here, and we're gonna use all every single
one of them. I've got some updates from uh well,
the the share Lunker program had a good week. I'll
tell you some of that once I get everything printed
out on boats or on one side of the paper.

(11:25):
And I actually caught a bass that I probably I'm
not gonna say I shouldn't have because I put in
my work, but I was surprised. I was every bit
as surprised as that bass was when I caught it.
And you can probably guess where it came from, because
I've been moaning and whining about how slow the fishing

(11:45):
has been there for a long time. But I got one.
I'll tell you about that when we get back. Oh
for sure, get Jimmy. I'll tee up jim West when
we get back, I know that for sure, and Frankie's
gonna take care of that. On the way out here,
I'm gonna tell you about Belleville Meat Market. Belleville Meat
Market has been out there in the little town of Bellville,
right in the middle of it all, for forty something years.

(12:07):
I don't know how many exactly, and they've always done
the same thing. They just keep doing it better and better.
They deliver to you any and every meat products you
can imagine. If the lights are on. There's a butcher
in there too. If you want two and a half
inch stick ribis, they'll cut that for you. If you
want anything else beef, chicken, or fork, the butcher who

(12:29):
is in that store will cut that for you to order.
They also have two dozen plus flavors of premium pecan
smoke sausage. They have got Good Lord homemade stuff, pork tenders,
They've got pans sausage, boot in labuchery stuffed chickens. They
have the grabbing ghost stuff, the jerkys, and the dry
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(12:51):
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If you've got a couple of frozen quarters out there

(13:11):
in your freezer in the garage that you were gonna
you were gonna butcher them yourself, by gosh, because you
just wanted to do that this year, take them out
to Bellville Meat Market.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
Now.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Let them go ahead and thaw that stuff out and
cut it up and turn it into something you can
enjoy the next day after you pick it up. Belleville
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(13:40):
Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show, Thank you for listening, certainly,
do appreciate it. By all means, please do chime in now.
Frankie said, we've got a little bit of trouble somehow with.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
The call screener.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
So if you can and you have a question, either
text me or email me, whichever you're best capable of doing,
and we can handle it that way as well. Let
me get all these things off my screen over here
so I can see what I'm looking for and see
what i'm looking at. Oh my lord, Okay, that's okay there,
you can leave that there. I'm gonna move this up here,

(14:15):
all right. Yes, while I'm thinking about it, I'm gonna
run check gum. I didn't bother reprint those things. I
just went and highlighted some stuff from the Parks and
Wildlife Department. And I am going to check my email
before I go any farther, make sure that I haven't
missed anything yet. This morning, I got to take this
off of here where I was looking for share lunker information,

(14:37):
because I'm always looking for share Luncker information. Take that
off there, push this button here. So many steps, so
many steps. I Dan weighed in when he couldn't get
through on the phone. He wighed in on the.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
On the email.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
My only pet peeve, like I said, is is headlights.
It's always sil over or white cars and you can't
see them until you're right on top of them. That
from a man who drove eighteen wheelers for a long, long,
long time and he's the blue light in the middle

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of the dashboard doesn't mean there's a sale at kmart. Yeah,
turn those high beams off. For heaven's sakes, it does
you no good. It does, you know, favors trying to
see through the fog. And on top of that, it
only makes it worse when you and an approaching vehicle
meet and get close enough that your lights are are

(15:39):
they're just blinding the guy coming at you too. Not
a very good plan, Not a very good idea. We're
still having trouble, are we? Okay, yeah, okay, the phones
are giving us trouble this morning, but this microphone's not
and that's working. And you, guys, if you know the email,
you can just get me shoot me a quick message
Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. In fact, I need

(16:02):
to return I need to return one here, so give
me give me ten seconds while I go ahead and
do this. When the person who receives this receives it,
please forgive the all caps. That's just how I print
my notes out when I'm prepping for the show.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Doesn't mean I'm mad at you. Don't worry all right?

Speaker 3 (16:25):
From an update if I may, from the lakes, that
are my testing grounds for new lures, for strategies, for whatever.
The testing grounds were I was afraid almost completely wiped out,
and they may be still. Actually, that may still be

(16:46):
an accurate description after about a good two years of
persistent cormorant invasions. Every time we have a shadthatch, because
that renders our whatever fish or whatever bass are left
in that lake have very little to eat thanks to
those birds. And the day that they become fair game

(17:12):
or they because they get a declaration as nuisance animals
is the day I go buy every shotgun show I
can find and set about where I can, where I
can do so lawfully. I'm gonna have to start removing them.
It's it's gone on too long, and I only wish somebody,

(17:33):
maybe we can get them, Maybe we can get Kennedy
over there in Louisiana. Well, no, he's on the ducks
right now. I don't think he don't. I don't think
he wants to come off the ducks and start something
else just yet. But man, if we could get somebody
to start a campaign, launch a political campaign to take
the restrictions off shooting cormorants, every little stock pond, every

(17:57):
little private lake anywhere, pretty much anywhere in the country
would benefit from that, and I don't know what benefit
we get from having that many ugly fish eating birds
flying around in the sky and making messes of every
bridge they any golf course that has this same problem,

(18:21):
if there are bridges over the lakes, you can drive
over any one of those bridges any day except the
day in the immediate hours after a heavy rain that
does tend to wash it away. But other than that,
it's as though somebody just whitewashed them with a big
old brush. And it's disgusting and it's nasty, and I

(18:42):
don't know, it may be a health hazard, and maybe
I'll look into it from that angle and see if
we can't get some remedy out where I play golf
and where in fact, well, really it doesn't matter. Any
golf course in this city, in this region that has
any lakes with any fish lift that left in them
at all, the cormorants will find them if they haven't already.

(19:03):
Seven three two one two five seven ninety email me,
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Speaker 5 (19:09):
So.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
The update from that lake, by the way, was that
after it's probably been a good six weeks, I would say,
and in in full transparency, I have stopped I just
almost all button given up there. There was a time
when I wouldn't have even driven out there if I

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didn't have at least two fishing rods and a couple
of boxes of lures in the back of my vehicle
alongside the golf clubs, and as soon as I got there,
I would load all of that onto the cart for
the past on at six weeks or so, I've been
so demoralized by what those birds have done to that

(19:51):
fishery that even when the rods are in there, I
just kind of leave them there and get my golf
bag out and go do a little chipping and putting
and then maybe some full swing stuff if I have
some time, and I just I don't even I haven't
even thought about fishing that much. I've picked up the
rod and gone out and half heartedly fished a few

(20:13):
places I would expect to have bass if there are
any left. And I went a full probably month without
a single bite on water that used to produce on
occasion thirty forty fifty bass in an afternoon for my
son and me when he was little, and I spent

(20:33):
half my time early on picking out backlashes for him.
He learned on a he learned on a spin cast
reel first, and on a spinning reel, and then couldn't
wait to get to bait casters, and honestly was He's
a pretty good study and he figured it out really
really quickly. He I don't think he was past first
grade when he started throwing bait casters.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
If he was there yet, he loved it and still does.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
He just doesn't go as much because he likes to
hang out with his buddies, and I can understand that,
having once been a teenage boy, I can understand why
he likes doing that.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
So anyway, there it was. I caught one.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
That's that was the That was where I was trying
to get with that long winded discussion. I actually did
catch one bass. I fished two different places for about
I don't know, five minutes each, and God discouraged, Oh man,
there's just still I can't find these bass anywhere. So
I changed up my routine yesterday and I went to

(21:38):
a couple of places that have always kind of looked fishy.
But it took an extra step or two to get
to him, and that extra step paid off with one
that was about three pounds. Caught him on a little
little rattle, just a little quarterounce rattle trap. It wasn't
anything special, what anything fancy. I'm pretty much I'm pretty
much kind of chill when it comes to bass fishing.

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Now here's here's a question of a day thing I've
been thinking about too, and it would it would work
way better if we had the phones working, and we
will in a little while.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I hope you think.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
They're working now, Yeah, they're working now. Oh, come on,
come back, Jimmy, come back, Dan. And here's here's what
I'm gonna throw out for this first question of today,
and if it gets the response I'm hoping it will
from some of you to who will play along. I
want to kind of I may, I may make this
something we do more than once a month anyway, So

(22:33):
the question of the day, and I'll get you know what,
I'll get Mike Bobi and to put up a good
intro for it.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
He's good at doing stuff like that. He's a very
creative man.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Question today this time is when it comes to your
hunting and fishing, are you a creature of habit or
are you someone who will just try anything, anytime, anywhere
just to see if it works. Now, I'm not talking
about devoting a month to doing something that's really off
the wall. I'm talking about just in the moment, in

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the spur of the moment.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Would you could you? And I'll go first. I'll try anything.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
So if you want me to throw top waters at
bas at high noon, under clear sky, in twenty feet
of water in January, I'll do it. Okay, let's try it.
May not do it for very long, but I'll do
it just to see if we could pull one of
those fish off the bottom. You want me to sit

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in a deer stand where nobody's seeing a deer in
three seasons and the blind is just falling apart, and
I got to go in there and shoe out the
yellow jackets. Okay, I'll do that. I'm not going to
sit in there for four days, but I'll do that.
I've always been willing to accept challenges in the outdoors,

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and I think that's part of what makes any of
us a more rounded and better overall outdoorsman than somebody
who just does the same thing every day.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Day in and day out. You know what, let's take
this break time out.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
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it's there at Shooter's Corner. It's a surprisingly small store too,
which I kind of like. It's a very welcoming, warm atmosphere.
It smells like a gun store. And if you don't
know what that smell is, just go into Shooter's Corner,
take a deep breath through your nose, and you'll have
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(24:57):
in there, as I said, everybody who works there can really.
They know their stuff, that's the bottom line. And they
weren't selling tennis shoes yesterday. They weren't selling hockey sticks.
They sell guns, Ammo and reloading supplies and optics and Camo,
and they know their stuff.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
I like to talk about it too. There's stories going on.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Every time I've been in there, somebody's been telling a story,
and darned if it hasn't happened that Almost every time
I end up telling one of mine, and it just
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(25:40):
to enjoy the shooting sports a little bit more tomorrow
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dot com. Well, welcome back Sports Talk seven ninety the
Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Let me get to a little bit of this bass
fishing news, and let's just take a look at what's
going on. I wasn't able to. There's all kinds of

(26:02):
things going on in here. There's a lot going on
with the Parks and Wildlife Department. They keep it's just
one press release after another.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
This week.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
It seemed like I need to split up some of
these papers so I can get to these things the
right way. Oh yeah, there's all kinds of stuff we
can talk about here for having sakes. Purtis Creek State
Park Lake never fished it, Ellison Creek Reservoir never fished it.
Now that the fact that I haven't fished either of
those two lakes is no knock on them whatsoever. I

(26:33):
fished a bunch of lakes back when I was doing
a lot of riding around and and a lot of
riding around and trying new water and then going back
to the water I like the most. I don't know
how many times I just let my wife know and hey,
I gotta go, I gotta go fishing again. Well, when

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will you be back? And if it was, if it
was back then, if it was fewer than about three.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Three hours away, maybe three and a half, I might
do it in a day.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
I had all the energy in the world, and boy,
I was just I was running full steam ahead. And
I could leave the house at three in the morning,
be on the water somewhere at six thirty or so
six six thirty, maybe seven o'clock at the latest, and
fish till about three, turn around, drive home in the dark,
or at least before I got home anyway, And that

(27:26):
was a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Now it's a little tougher ride.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Maybe have to spend the night and go into all that,
and maybe miss a day of work. But I'm still
I looked last year when I finished up the calendar
in late December and realized that I had for the
first ten months of the year only taking maybe a
week and a half of vacation total, and vacation time

(27:53):
I used to do things that.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Are really part of my work.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
So I'm pretty excited that I'm going to kind of
change all that up this year. Ah, Jimmy's there, now
I can go get him.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
That's good. Hey, jim how far can you see in
front of your face? Down there? Man?

Speaker 1 (28:09):
I'll tell you what. It's foggy here on the beach.
There's no win at all.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
And I got a fish the last couple of days,
and it was really foggy yesterday, but it's nothing like today.

Speaker 7 (28:20):
It got down in places where it might have been.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
Two hundred yards yesterday, maybe maybe one hundred and fifty
to one hundred and seventy five yards. But yeah, uh,
these guys I got, they're going to fish this evening.
They're coming to stay here with me, and they're gonna
fish the next three days. So that's the reason I'm here.
I'm not fishing this morning. But let me tell you something.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
This fog.

Speaker 6 (28:44):
I'm one hundred yards from Highway eighty seven up here
on the base side, I cannot see the I cannot
see the highway. Oh my, the visibility is probably one
hundred yards, and at times it was a little less
when the thing would get ri really really thick. Boy,
road is probably seventy yards.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
I can't even Hell yeah, I can barely.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
See see the road right now. I mean it is
just soon in.

Speaker 8 (29:14):
And you know what, I live down there for forty years.

Speaker 9 (29:17):
Now, I.

Speaker 6 (29:19):
See the fog as thick as it ever does get.
And it's just about as thick as I've ever seen it.
I mean it's visibilities down that's about seventy yards or so,
seventy eighty yards.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Jimmy, you know better.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
It's keptain jim West by the way, you know better
than I do. About boating rules and regulations, Well, it's
not really a regulation.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
It's just common sense in the floug Yeah, warn them
about what's gonna happen if they do something stupid.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
Okay, here, If you're gonna go out in the fog
like I did, like I ran yesterday, I don't have
a problem because I've had so much experience running in
the fog. Okay, I don't even I do not now
if I'm going to run across the bay or down
the shore line like I did yesterday where I ran
about five or six miles in the boat, and that
was at daylight, I mean just after daylight, so.

Speaker 10 (30:05):
Before sun up.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
What you really got to do is pay attention.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
To the wave action, what direction.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
Know exactly what direction the waves are are moving coming
from the southeast or if it's south southeast, or if
it's south or you know, those little increments like that,
you can motor away from the shoreline and get further away,
not see the shoreline like we couldn't yesterday, you know,
but knowing how the wind, where it's coming from.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
And I'm not talking about running with a GPS. So
you run a GPS, you got it.

Speaker 6 (30:41):
There's this you know, you're looking at your GPS, which
in turn, you're not paying attention to what's in front
of you so much when you're looking at the GPS.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
That's why.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
And another thing is running at night, because I run
at night a lot.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
I fish so dark during the winter.

Speaker 6 (30:56):
Time so many times, and I fish, I mean into it.
I'm running back at dark so many times, and I
do not like a stern light. I turned my stern
light off. I honestly, when I'm running, I don't use it,
but I use my bow life and they're actually on
my console, my red and green light.

Speaker 10 (31:15):
And I've talked to game.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Warnings about it.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
You know.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
They if you've only got.

Speaker 6 (31:19):
One of the other, they're gonna warn you you're not
gonna rich it, write your ticket, but you better at.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Least have one or the other.

Speaker 10 (31:24):
But I do that.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
I'm just being honest because I want to be able
to see what's in front of me.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 11 (31:32):
You know.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
I came out of the ball Over yacht Basin about
five or six years ago as the head of the Stingery.
It's at night, it's a dark I mean before daylight,
because I like to get out there early. I want
to be You're gonna have to get up early to
beat me to where I'm going. I yeah, I mean,
I've duck hunting for years, so you know, and I've
had three airboats in my lifetime, and I just I'm anyway.

(31:57):
So I pull out of the yacht basin, I'm in
the ic of you and I'm just barely on a plane,
and I see shimmering water right in front of me.
And I'm like, oh, and it was down and what
it was was a piling and I went over.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
To my boat.

Speaker 6 (32:13):
It didn't hit hard because I was barely running for
the bow of the boat was up.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
A little bit.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
But it completely knocked my motor out of the water.
It was a one of those poles that had a
there was a pilot.

Speaker 8 (32:27):
It was a marker.

Speaker 10 (32:29):
I see w marker, you know the sticks twenty.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Foot there and oh well yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
It just put a little.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Crease on my boat, not much of it, just on.

Speaker 10 (32:40):
The bow, just a little bit.

Speaker 8 (32:43):
Well, and that's the truth.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
So it could have been.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
You know, you're coming down fishing a tournament. You're running
full steam and a lot of these guys were running
seventy eighty ninety miles new boats.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
It would have took their lower unit plum off, sure, no.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Doubt, spin them around and throw them out of the
boat too, not.

Speaker 10 (33:03):
Have Yeah, probably just go straight ahead.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
That's a good point. Yeah, with no propulsion, all right. Hey,
thanks Jimmy. It's always a pleasure, man.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (33:13):
I thought I was listening to you. I thought i'd
just give you kind of a thumbs up, and.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
Got to really pay attention to your wave action and
just a little bit. You know, los is not just
dead flat Tom. You you only get ripples, you know,
and know what direction it is. You know, you can
look at your compass and go back to where you know,
if you kind of get disoriented, know where the shore is,
if it's to the southeast, south or whatever direction.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
But you got to really pay attention to that though. Alright,
all right, man with me? Ben's good.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Yeah, I may give you a call. It sounds good
to me too. Alright, alright, oh man, you I hadn't
talked to him in a while. I'm glad he was
listening this morning. I'm glad he came and kind of
chirped up and talked about that. Speaking of chirping up,
let me let me tell you about what's going on
with gold right now, because I want to talk about
Houston Gold Exchange.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
That's my buddy, Brad Schweiss.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
He probably since, especially since it's foggy, he's probably not
out fishing this morning. He's probably sitting by his phone thinking,
why aren't these people calling me?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Gold?

Speaker 3 (34:19):
As of yesterday was that it just went up again,
and it's it.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Can't do that forever.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
It will eventually have to fall down some and recover,
and then it'll climb right back up past where we
are now, but that could take years. Now, it's not
a bad time considering that an ounce of gold on
one little gold coin or maybe one little bar that
you got years and years ago when it wasn't costing much,

(34:47):
a little anything. Even if it's some gold chain you
bought back in the disco days, if it's a ring
you got that you don't wear anymore, the gold in
that is worth I think yesterday it closed it around
five thousand, two hundred dollars an ounce, And it doesn't
take a lot of gold to make an ounce.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
I can assure you. I can assure you of that.
So here's the deal.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Brad Schweiss, Houston Gold Exchange. He will answer his cell
phone probably right now, unless he's on the phone with
somebody else. If you're looking to sell or buy gold silver.
He loves buying Rolexes. He's got a beautiful collection of
Rolexes in the store. He's got jewelry, he's got all

(35:34):
kinds of things. And the big deal is I've got
a note here on my little sheet about him, says
and this is how fast this has gone. This is
a fresh copy that I made a little while ago.
It says gold almost at five thousand dollars an ounce.
It's at fifty two hundred now. And boy, what a

(35:54):
great time to go ahead and drop off one little
trinket and get enough money to go buy a kayak.
Put it in perspective that way, get them enough money
to go buy a trolling motor and maybe a power pole.
That's what we're talking about here. Go see him at
the store if you want to. Houston Gold Exchange is
at West Timer and Darry Ashrod at that corner. The

(36:18):
website Houston Gooldexchange dot com.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
That's easy enough as well. And here is Brad's cell.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Phone number if you want to go ahead and take
advantage of these historic prices. Two eight one eight five
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(36:44):
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started this company in two thousand and six, he came
over with his dad from q Cuba. What they did
in Cuba was make cigars. What they're doing here is

(37:05):
making cigars down there in Texas City on Main Street,
which is not it's a sleepy little town, and that
El Kubano kind of stands out when I went down
there to visit with him. Absolutely cool, fun place to
go have a cigar, or if you want, you can
kind of stand back there and watch them roll cigars.
They've been down there for, like I said, since two

(37:27):
thousand and six. They use only the finest seed, Cuban
seed tobaccos that they can get mostly from well from
just down that way. You can't get them from Cuba,
but you can get tobaccos grown from those same seeds
that grow elsewhere, and then they come up to Texas
City and they're processed and cured for a very long time.

(37:48):
I got a kind of a tour of what they
do and how they do it, and I was surprised
at how much time goes into the time that that
leaf is cut off the plan to the time it's
rolled into a cigar. But I'm getting into the weeds here, Okay,
They've got the smoking lounge in manufacturing facility in Texas City.

(38:08):
There's another smoking lounge in League City. And you can
get your cigars from them from the manufacturer and they
make one hundred and fifty different kinds now, so you'll
find one that's exactly what you want. And if you
talk to Manny, he can kind of guide you toward
what you want based on whether you want something really
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(38:28):
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special occasions. They'll even come to your event if you
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of the coolest guys I've ever met.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
No fooling.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Elcubanocigars dot com go check them out. Elcubano Cigars dot Com.
Seven fifty three on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show, Thank you for listening.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Man I wish I had some gold laying around the house,
just a little bit. It wouldn't take much to make
me happy and get me enough money to go go.
Guess something I'd like to have right now. There's a
couple of things. I've been eyeballing. I've been throwing nickels
in the jar. Need to have a big, giant garage self.
What I need to do just sell my whole garage
for one price. That's what I need to find. Somebody
can just walk around and take mental inventory and say, Okay,

(39:16):
I'll give you X, but that X is gonna have
a comma in it. It might even have two digits
in front of that. I don't know, depending on what
I I'm not even gonna get into my garage right now.
I'm gonna go talk to Brandon. Hey, Brandon, what's up man?

Speaker 2 (39:32):
I'm okay. How are you?

Speaker 12 (39:35):
It's Saturday?

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yes, Saturday's a good day to go have some fun.
What do you got planned?

Speaker 12 (39:40):
We're going? Did he tell you where I'm going to?

Speaker 5 (39:43):
The go?

Speaker 12 (39:43):
GoF?

Speaker 1 (39:44):
No?

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Are you going out there today this afternoon? Fantastic? Good
for You's your what's your favorite part of a barbecue?

Speaker 2 (39:53):
What do you like to eat.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Most the hole?

Speaker 12 (40:00):
I'm gonna see what's out there and go eat some barbecue.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
I don't know anyway, you don't have to know.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
You just get out there and if you see something
you like, ask for a little taste.

Speaker 8 (40:16):
Man.

Speaker 12 (40:18):
Yeah, joy to find the mm hmm. Now New Green's
playing Monday, March second?

Speaker 2 (40:24):
What am I doing?

Speaker 3 (40:27):
What about March second? Oh, you're asking me what I'm
gonna be doing. I gotta stay home and do some
stuff with my wife. Unfortunately I was gonna play golf,
but it doesn't look like that's gonna work out.

Speaker 12 (40:37):
Hey, if you want to watch the audio, I can
tell you the website.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
What's the website, Houston Audio.

Speaker 12 (40:44):
Yeah, trudio Houston dot com. Okay, you can do the
live stream. You can do the horse there you doing
the horse? Speaking of horse? Horse or cutting marches. They're
gonna start at nine.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Okay, what if what's your favorite event in the actual rodeo?

Speaker 12 (41:05):
I like that open Oh yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
If you could be a cowboy for one day and you.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
You would just you would wake up that one day
and be a professional cowboy?

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Is that what you would want to be doing? Is roping?

Speaker 12 (41:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
How about bull riding? Is that for you?

Speaker 12 (41:30):
No? I watched bull lighting.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
That's tough. Those are tough little guys man. They're they're
typically smaller than you think, and it gives them an
advantage over bigger cowboys. I heard and I knew some
guys when I was covering the rodeo for the paper
years ago.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
I did it four or five years in a row.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
And most of those bull riders aren't big guys, but
they are tough as nails. Man, they are absolutely tough
as nails.

Speaker 12 (42:00):
M Yeah, it's it's audio Houston dot Com. Okay, you
can you can do it wive stream. You can just
do Kenny Horses Kenny.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
That's cool too. I like that.

Speaker 12 (42:16):
Well, part of a rodeo is channel one.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Okay, all right, Well I'm right at my break time, Brando,
I got a roll, buddy.

Speaker 12 (42:27):
Okay, all right, man, if you if you want to watch,
watch watch it.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
I'll that's what I'll do.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
I'll go to Houston Rodeo dot com and follow the
follow the prompts.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Man, Thank you, brandonbody be safe. All right you too, Audios.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
All right, let's go ahead and take this break a
little bit early, Frankie, so we can set up. We're
teeing up a from phone call with Keith the Net
from Redfish Lodge down in Port O'Connor. I talked to
him for quite a while out at the fishing show,
and he he reminded me of a lot of things
that I'd kind of forgotten about Port O'Connor because I
haven't gone down there a whole lot in recent years.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
But I always enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
When I was going down there, like four times a year,
five times a year, and spent The next time I
drive down there won't be my first. Let let me
just say that, and then at some point I'll tell
you what happened to me when I was I was
in charge of driving. I think I drove it. I
didn't drive it down there. Some friends of mine and

(43:27):
I who were fishing Poco couldn't find any place to
stay because we waited too long to try to find
a place, basically, and so we rented a motor home
and somebody else drove it down there, and then three
or four of us whatever it was, drove.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Down in a car and we all camped out in
that thing.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
And then it was my turn to drive it back
after the tournament ended, and it was a pretty sporty
and interesting ride. I'll tell you about it after I
talked to Keith Keith the Net from Red Fish Logs
coming up on the other side of this on the
way out I'll tell you about American Shooting Centers out
there on West Timber Parkway between Katie and Highway six.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
It's been there forever. I was talking to a couple
of the guys that work here.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
As a matter of fact, got a new guy, Parker,
who shoots out there pretty often, and I was explaining
to him how long it's been out there and how
it's become the second largest non military shooting facility in
all of Texas, which is a pretty dog on bold statement,
since there's some really big shooting ranges around here. What
they have since ed ORIGI took over as the new

(44:29):
owner about I don't know, several years ago. I don't
know how many now three complete sporting clays courses. That's
kind of eds baby as sporting clays. He's very good too.
Don't let him bet against you. If he wants to
bet with you, just put your hand on your wallet
and say no thanks.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
I'm joking. He's a good guy.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
He'll anyway, three sporting clays courses, rifle and pistol from
five yards that's home defense. And he just quick draw stuff,
quick fast work stuff, you know what I mean. And
then all the way out to six hundred yards. That's
a long ways to shoot a bullet and hit the
targets you're shooting. Now, it's fun to watch those guys

(45:06):
actually on a calm, calm morning like it is today,
and there would probably be several people out there doing that,
and it's interesting to learn from them. Most of them
are very friendly and ask them all the questions you want.
They load their own rounds, all of that, and it's
a really complicated scientific part of shooting that's very different

(45:28):
from all the rest of it.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
If you need.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Instruction in any shooting discipline, they've got it out at
American Shooting Centers and are happy to put you out
there with a professional who can get you breaking more
clay targets or hitting more bull's eyes than you ever
have before. Great little pop up silhouette range for the
rim fire shooters. That's good for kids who like to
burn a lot of ammo. Don't have to burn expensive

(45:53):
ammo doing it. Just let them shoot the twenty twos
till they get tired of doing it still haven't spent
enough money to buy a cheeseburger. Also got a beginner's
wing shooting area, which is very helpful to people who've
never shot at a moving target. It's easy once you
if you're in a place where it's easier to learn,
to learn faster, and that's what that area is for.

(46:15):
American Shooting Centers dot COM's website American Shooting Centers dot com.
All right, second hour, the program starts right now, and
as promised, we're gonna we're gonna take a little ride
down to Port O'Connor and with the push of a button, Hey,
Keith Dinnett, how are you, man?

Speaker 5 (46:33):
We're doing pretty dark good down there. How are you?

Speaker 3 (46:35):
I'm doing well. I heard from my buddy Scott. I
think I mentioned him to you. I just texted him
a little while ago because he was either going to
be fishing this morning or fogged in and I just
put fish or fog and he wrote all clear. So
you guys woke up to a nice morning down there,
didn't you.

Speaker 11 (46:51):
We did.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
We did. Actually, that fog was here. I got in
here early last night, right around six o'clock, and then,
you know, we were kind of wondering, how, you know,
how long how dance was going to be first thing
this morning, But it did light up, you know, after
about seven o'clock. You know, it lifted pretty quick and
and everyone's out there fishing right now. It's we're gonna
have a really good day.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
Man, cow where do I want to start with you
shiny new redfish lodge?

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Man, Welcome by the way to port O'Connor.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
And what you brought to them, from what I've seen
in the pictures is something that port O'Connor's kind of
been need and hadn't it.

Speaker 5 (47:26):
Well, you know, that's exactly what they've been needing. They've
been needing a location where the community to come in
and have a very nice meal, a place that they
can stay and then for you know, families, groups, corporate
have a place that they can they can you know, eat, sleep, fish,
you know, and enjoy themselves.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
At what point in your life did you decide you
wanted to run a restaurant and a fishing lodge all
at the same time.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
Sounds crazy. It's been kind of a dream of mine
my whole life. And I don't know what kind of dream.

Speaker 11 (47:57):
I don't know if it's a nightmare yet.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
Huh good? And you know it's always that dreaming up.
You know, my wife and I we all built, we
built long range sport fishing boats, and I've literally been
commercial sport fishing my whole life. My wife and I
we bought our first first home on Marlon tournament winnings,
and the long list of of you know, things that

(48:23):
we've done in our life that's fishing related, it's been, yeah,
you know, been a long list, and we you know,
someday we'll write a book, but right now, you know,
this is what we're doing. It was one of those
things while you're traveling on the boat and you're spending
you know, you're doing one hundred day, one hundred and
thirty day stretches on a boat, not seeing home or family,
and it's like, someday, I'm going to get off this

(48:44):
boat and I'm going to build a sport fishing lodge
with a bar and a restaurant and I'm just sit
back and enjoy myself and you know, go fishing and enjoy.
So that's what we're doing.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
You know, how did you narrow it down to Port O'Connor?

Speaker 5 (49:01):
So we you know, we we had the seventy five
footer out in Magdalena Bay, which is one hundred and
eighty miles north of Tabo Saint Lucas and it's the
best fishing in the world for like forty five days.
And so I'm I'm rounding out my my my eighth
trip there and they're all three and a half day trips.
And so my son Hunter, he calls me up and
he's a guy on Lake the Cannon here in Texas

(49:23):
and he's the stripperd guy there, and he says, yeah,
let's when are you coming home. We want to go
fish red fish. And I said, well, I'll be home
in about four days, and just give me two days
with mom and I'll wash all the blood off my
clothes and.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
I'll be out there with you.

Speaker 5 (49:36):
So we did. We did a three day fishing deal.
You know, we took our own boats there and and
you know, I was just my mouse just hit the floor.
You know, the community, the people from everything from you know,
the hardware stores to the marine shops to the you know,
the restaurants in the area, and all the logistics. You know,

(49:57):
this is the fact that you know, you come into
town and there's no traffic lights. It's just very, very
very chill atmosphere.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
You struck on a really important cord right there when
you talked about pretty much everything that you come across it.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
I hadn't thought about this that much.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Not everything, but most of what you come across in
Port O'Connor is related to fishing. It's not a tourist town.
It's not there's not a put putt anywhere, I don't think,
I hope not yet. But it's a fishing town, and
there aren't many of those left, most of the fishing
most places on the Texas, on any place around the
Gulf Coast and up the East coast and probably down

(50:37):
into Mexico. Even they start out as a sleepy little
fishing town and then they become something that the originals
would never even recognize. And port O'Connor hasn't had that
happen yet, has it?

Speaker 5 (50:50):
No, it has it? And what the interesting thing is that,
you know, with the mount of space and everything. You know, yes,
we've got some great beautiful new construction, beautiful docks being
belt and marinas and everything else, but as far as
like room for like a McDonald's or you know, any
of the chain restaurants, it's just that doesn't happen. You know,

(51:12):
they really don't have, you know, a lot of room
to do anything like that. It's just it's a small town,
a great vibe. It's got just a sweet charm that
port O'Connor has.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Well, just like you just you just said it.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Everything is being built down there is either another marine
shop or another marina, or another boat repair shop something
like that. It's all boating and fishing related and I
like that keep the nut here from Redfish Lodge and
Port O'Connor. There's still a lot of tournaments going out
of Port O'Connor, and I guess on the weekends it
can get a little bit hairy, but otherwise you can

(51:49):
really still find plenty of places to go fish without
getting run over, can't you.

Speaker 5 (51:54):
Oh yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's turning it
into like literally a destination for tournament. It's on the
weekends here and and uh, you know we're seeing it,
you know, you know, and they're great. We support them all.
You know. There's there're great fishing tournaments and a lot
of them have great causes. There's a lot of them,
you know. Uh, you know, the direction of where they're
taking them is just fantastic. There's been nothing but good

(52:18):
you know here on the weekends here and you know, yes,
it does get crazy, but on the weekends it doesn't
get that busy though. I I you know, when I
first built this, I thought, wow, you know it's going
to be it's many crazy trying to get a you know,
trying to find a spot to park my boat and
get the boat in the water. There is a couple
of weekends that it doesn't It does get very busy
here during our Crawfish festival and during Fourth of July weekend,

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and it does a little bit tougher to get to
get your boat in the water. You just got to
plan a little bit planned, you know, just to get
your boat in the water an hour before before you
originally planned, and you should be good to get you know,
get going on and stay on schedule.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
It.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
Ort O'Connor has has maintained this charm while the rest
of the Texas coast really got blown out. How many
years you think Port O'Connor still got before before there
is a McDonald's, or before there is some you know,
something more a seashell shop.

Speaker 8 (53:11):
Yeah, you know, I think so very disappointed.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
When I said seashell shop, and I'm with you.

Speaker 5 (53:18):
Shops were great supporters and seashells, you know, it's it's great,
you know, it's that's the great thing is it's been
been a location for a lot of retirees that come here.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:27):
Uh, and and some of them have taken the love
for for seashells. And we've had a wonderful lady, Liz List.
She she pays seashells and we actually have her when
them have her coming into the the restaurant and you
once or twice a month, we're doing uh, you know,
getting ladies meetups and and and doing something that other
than fishing and hanging out talking seashells and painting sea

(53:47):
shells and stuff. But we know we've got you know,
it really does have everything. As far as like answering
that question, Uh, when when do we think we oversee.

Speaker 8 (53:57):
Like a McDonald's here.

Speaker 5 (53:58):
I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't
think this is the way everything's going. Really with the
town with the amount of there's not that many restaurants here,
but they're very good, great little little eateries, little cantinas
and bars and stuff, and there's enough to just spread out.
And with the growth that we see, I think with

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what is here, you know, with and then we also
have like a little seafood you know, location where you
can go pick up fresh seafood and oysters and stuff
and seasonal seasonal seafood. Yeah, which is great. And so
you know, between that and you know what we've got,
I think, you know, I think that port O'Connor has.

Speaker 13 (54:38):
Got a long time.

Speaker 5 (54:38):
I don't know if I will ever see McDonald's here.
I hope I don't.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
I didn't mean to pick on seashells, by the way,
but I was envisioning something like from down at South Padre,
where the things three stories tall and there's banners flying
all around and tourists lined up to go in there
and get something to take home. I'm normal seashell collectors.
I'm I'm one of them. I'm if I'm walking down
the beach each I'm either looking for fish or I'm
looking at my feet and just to see what I

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can see.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Didn't mean to pick on your show people.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
Oh no, never, never.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
What is your singular favorite thing about about port O'Connor,
Keith in.

Speaker 5 (55:14):
It, I think the versatility that it allows everyone to
come and be able to come and experience that you
don't need to have a bunch of money to hire
a guide or have a you know, two hundred thousand
dollars boat to go to come to Joyport or Connor.
I mean, we've got jetties, we've got tears out here, uh,

(55:36):
you know, and I built this lodge for for everyone
to come enjoy the value we go. I think we've
got I'm pretty sure we have the best value of
all of Texas when it comes to lodging and eating
and and you know, you know, and you could just
do all a cart, rent a room and relax or
or or or or you know, join the package, which

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is even better, you know. And so I think I
think this, the fact that we have peers and jetties
and beaches and places to go enjoy and relax without
having to rely on a guide to go enjoy something
is something special. And it's very very clean. We've got
some of the cleans you're in Texas. Yeah, it is

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a very very clean ecosystem here.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
All right, before we go, because I'm running a little
bit late, but I'm enjoying talking to you. What's the
best thing on the menu at the lodge?

Speaker 5 (56:29):
You know, I think it's it's tough, you know, the
our pastas, our steaks, our fish, our fresh fish that
we have every week, you know. And then we have
a Mexican flair, which is where jalisco, which is Mexican
food hits the ocean. One of our chefs specializes in
agri chiles and savices and and just and everything's fresh.

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And when you come in, don't you know, don't get
bummed out when you run in. If you get in
the lake, we run out of food because we make
everything fresh every single day, and and you know, when
things get we do we typically we run out of food.
And it's just not that we don't prep enough. It's
just we prep and we just get hit pretty hard.
And it's just it's a good feeling. It's a great

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all right.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Now you've given me another excuse to come down to
port O'Connor.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
I gotta get back there, man.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
The website is redfishpoc dot com. Go check him out,
shake his hand when you get there and tell him
I said hello, thanks Keith.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
Yeah, thank you very much, very talking to you. I
have a great enjoyable day.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (57:28):
Audio.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
All right, we got to take a little break here.
Ran a little bit long talking about port O'Connor. I
can't imagine why I would run along talking about port O'Connor.
I do love it down there. I'm one hundred percent
in agreement with him on on how it is. It
can't get a little crowded sometimes, especially on tournament weekends,
and there's a lot of them down there, but it's
still it's still kind of holds its own because there's

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only one two lane road in and one two lane
road out, so it's I don't ever see it getting
much much bigger because there's not that much traffic except
for fishermen.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
There's really not there's no other reason to go down there.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Timber Creek Golf Club, I'll give you a bunch of
good I'll give you twenty seven good reasons to go
to Timber Creek on FM twenty three fifty one. Down
there in Trenswood, a few miles west of the golf freeway.
Twenty seven holes open and wooded holes. A little bit
of water here, a little bit of sand here, but
not enough to make you snap a club over your
knee or get frustrated or anything.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
It's very navigable course.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
Okay to borrow a boating term, and if you can
hit the ball at all, you won't lose many of them.
At timber Creek. It's got a lot of trees. It's
got a lot of rough, but it's not that rough,
and there aren't that many trees that they're going to
drive you crazy. Now, if you are easily bothered by
your golf game, then just pause and go over to

(58:51):
JJ Wood's teaching academy there at timber Creek and anybody
in that place right next to the driving range, you
can't miss it. Ten building over there and go in
there and say, hey, I need help. I'm my name
is Bob, and I can't hit the ball to save
my soul. And they'll fix you up. It thinks a
couple of lessons. Don't worry, it'll get it done. Just
be patient and you'll learn. Timber Creek goolf Club dot

(59:14):
com is the website, great pro shop, great people to
make sure you have a fun time all the way
around every one of those holes if you want to
play them. Timbercreekgolf Club dot com is a website miss
make your own tea time right now. Timber Creekgolf Club
dot com. Hey twenty one on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Doug Pike Show, thank you for listening. I certainly
do appreciate it. Boy, I got I saw something yesterday.

(59:37):
Let me get let me get Ronnie on the phone,
because I saw something yesterday that caught my eye and
it kind of ties in.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Hey Ronnie, what's up man.

Speaker 13 (59:46):
Hey Doug, how's it going?

Speaker 5 (59:48):
Man?

Speaker 2 (59:48):
I'm done fine? Thank you.

Speaker 5 (59:50):
Man.

Speaker 13 (59:50):
When you were when you talking to the fellow about
port O'Connor, got you thinking about something to been wanting
to ask about. And please forgive me if you've already
talked about this in recent till recent days. But the
detail nation plant that they had proposed down in Corpus
Christie that was probably gonna basically destroy Bath and Bay.

(01:00:10):
I know they shut it down one time, but I
was wondering if you could give us any more information
about it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
Is it still?

Speaker 13 (01:00:17):
Is it still for the moment a dead issue, or
are they do you know what's going on with that?
I was just really curious if they're going to come
at us again with that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
I just I just ran a search just to see,
because you're right, it's gone quiet. And sometimes when things
go quiet, it's because they've been pushed to a back burner,
and sometimes it's just because the people who are pushing
it forward don't want you to know about it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Right now. I'm trying to see what i've got.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Let's go to Corpus Christy dot gov, which seems to
be the that would be the people who are dealing
with this and says City council. This is from This
is from February twenty fourth. Okay, so that's a pretty
recent story. It's only four days old, and the headline
is City Council approves next steps towards seawater desalination plant.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
That's not back burnard at all. It looks like to me.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Says here, the approval direct city staff to develop the
design build contract with CCDP for City Council's consideration in April.
This is a significant step forward and securing long term,
reliable water supply for our customers. That's the Corpus Christie
Water guy talking. The company that's building it here is

(01:01:36):
it's acc Io n A and Oxiona Agua Corporation. I'm
guessing is what it is has designed and built over
it should say more than that's that's just the editor
in me. Five hundred and forty water treatment plants with
a total installed capacity of nine, well, nine thousand, five
hundred million gallons per day. That sounds like it's a

(01:02:01):
pretty pretty rosy picture they paint of this thing, but
it's still it's not it's not making the fresh water
that bothers you and me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
It's what are they going to do with the waste?
And that's the problem, right all right?

Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:02:14):
I had heard back a few months ago when they
first got it got it shut down, and hats off
the people who showed up showed up and uh and
got that down, that the city council had almost unity,
unanimously voted to shut it down. And what I also heard,
and I'm not trying to get political or anything. I mean,
I'm a conservative guy, but sure, and I vote for conservatives.

(01:02:36):
But I understood that Greg greg Abbott kind of threw
a tissy on that because that apparently found out that
was one of his pet projects. And he even told
the city council that do not count on any more
state money from me. Uh, you know, real kind of
a bitter ending there to that, you know, I hate,
I was sad. I was sad to hear that, or
disappointed to hear that he kind of handled it like that.

(01:02:58):
But anyway. That's that's that. But yeah, I had just
wondered if they were going to come It sounded like
they were going to come at it.

Speaker 11 (01:03:05):
Again, you know.

Speaker 13 (01:03:06):
But uh yeah, I don't know when when do you
say when? I know, we got a lot of people
coming to Texas and we got these needs and water
and what have you and got but but man, you know,
uh man, you can't just destroy an entire ecosystem, well.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
Said the issue we have, Ronnie, and and it's a
big one, Okay. The issue we have is I saw
a video yesterday of Lake Corpus Christie, Okay, and it
was shot from the end of a pier in a
neighborhood that used to used to be the shoreline, a
little waterfront homes on Lake Corpus Christie. And the view

(01:03:45):
is back toward the homes. It pans and it starts
back toward the homes. They're just very modestly. It's not
fully developed. These are just old fishing camps and weekend
homes that had probably been there thirty to fifty six,
fifty seventy five years. I don't know however long the
lake's been there, and there is not a drop of

(01:04:05):
water along that shoreline anywhere, and then it pans out
across what used to be Lake Corpus Christi to reveal
nothing but pasture, nothing but pasture. There's a little sliver
of water I think on the horizon in that video,

(01:04:26):
but that's it, and that's their city water supply. So
they're kind of desperate times, call for desperate measures, and
that may be where they are in their own water supply.

Speaker 5 (01:04:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:04:38):
Yeah, so you think maybe the desalination plant may be
the only, maybe the only thing they can do and
just hope for the best as far as the base
systems go.

Speaker 11 (01:04:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
I hope that as they move forward, I hope that
they pay attention to where that water's going to go
and the impact it could have and try to mitigate
the damage as best they can.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
But yeah, that city can't.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
Survive on an empty reservoir, and that's that's the problem
they have right now. I don't know how much water
they got left, but it's not a lot.

Speaker 13 (01:05:11):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah. Humans definitely take presidents over everything else,
I guess, but uh, just man just just hate to see,
you know, things get so developed that uh that uh,
you know, we start losing based systems like that, you know,
I do. I don't even fish back in Bay. I
mean I would go down to PORTMANI for years, and
I've been fishing. Uh, I've been fishing Louisiana a lot. Actually,

(01:05:33):
be honest with you, man, I hate to see. I
hate to see uh. I hate to see those you know,
that system take that hit like that, you know, and
lose all those those trophy trout They work so hard
to uh you know, to build there. So but anyway, yeah,
just uh, well, I guess you answered my question. I
guess they're they're they're moving forward with doing it so.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Well it said, well, it says they're gonna keep you.
They're gonna kind of bring it back up and see
see April twenty six City Council consider final approval or
to consider approval of the final design build contract. Doesn't
say they're going to approve it. It just says they're
gonna consider it. And I hope, as much as I
can hope that enough people show up to say, hey,

(01:06:16):
just what are we going to be given up? Because
if they lose baff and Bay, they lose a boat
load of revenue. Think about all the fishermen who come
down there and stay down there and bring their boats
and and buy bait, and buy gas and and stay
in hotels. That's a major major economic factor for them

(01:06:40):
to consider. And and you got to have water. I
get that, but at what price? You can't kill an
ecosystem just for water.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
I hope not. I hope they won't do that.

Speaker 5 (01:06:50):
Really.

Speaker 13 (01:06:51):
Yeah, yeah, I try. I mean, I tried to keep
an open mind on these things. Yeah, me versus yeah,
versus you know, wildlife and fishery. But but uh, you know,
I uh man, I'm I'm.

Speaker 11 (01:07:02):
Sixty four, and I man, when I was in.

Speaker 13 (01:07:04):
My early twenties, I was going down to Fort Mansfield
and wading those flats. Oh yeah, uh just love the
love the area, the backside of the Kennedy and the
King Ranch, did all that, and uh man, I hate
to see that thing just turn into uh you.

Speaker 11 (01:07:18):
Know, just uh just dead water.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
Yeah, I'm with you, I'm with you.

Speaker 13 (01:07:23):
Yeah, all right, brother, Well I just want to I
just wanted to see if.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
You had anything else on it or uh you know, but.

Speaker 13 (01:07:28):
Uh but uh uh but uh but I just wanted
to send out a shout out to all the people that.

Speaker 11 (01:07:33):
Did show up that time. Yeah, to uh.

Speaker 13 (01:07:36):
To voice their opinion.

Speaker 10 (01:07:37):
And you know, if you don't step.

Speaker 13 (01:07:38):
Up and say something, nothing, they're just gonna people. They're
just gonna do whatever they want to do.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Exactly right.

Speaker 5 (01:07:44):
It's a life.

Speaker 10 (01:07:45):
So that's it, all right, brother, You have a good day.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Man, Yeah you too.

Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
Run.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
I'm glad you called.

Speaker 13 (01:07:50):
I appreciate you talking to me, and uh enjoy the
rest of your day.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
By way, Yeah, Ronnie brings up good points. Hey, b
and I I brought up the same point. They're kind
of at an impasse though down there in Corpus. We
may be able to get a little bit more news
on it when we get back. I got somebody I'm
gonna talk to when we do that. On the way out,
let me tell you all about and I do mean
all about Whitetail Ranch up about ten miles west of

(01:08:17):
cold Spring right now. You've heard me talking about it
for several weeks, and they had their big one day
only sale this past Saturday. But now they've shifted into Okay,
we really want to give people the opportunity to come
up here and see what we have and experience this
beautiful kind of Texas ranch theme.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
Throughout the property.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
They've got home sites from one and a half to
more than four acres, no mud taxes, concrete roads, so
you don't have to worry about having to wash your
car every time you go in and out.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
Get all the dust off of it. Beautiful, beautiful place.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
And they are now offering twenty thousand dollars off any
lot you want to buy and no closing costs. How
about that twenty thousand dollars off the lot and no
closing costs to have a piece of piece, a big
chunk of the middle of Texas, the rolling hills, the

(01:09:13):
beautiful scenery, all of that at Whitetail Ranch. It's the
only gated acreage community that is up in it. I
don't know if any others that are gated like this.
It's a very personal, very private, very relaxing place you're
going to drive into when you go through that gate.
Whitetail ranchtx dot com is a website. Go check it out.

(01:09:35):
Whitetail RANCHTX dot com. Air Ride Bikes. That's the store
owned by Wayne Errington up there in Tomball in the
four Corner shopping Center. If you haven't been there yet,
you ought to go. If you're interested at all in
an e bike. Maybe it's something for the kids to
ride around the neighborhood. Get them helmets when you buy
the bike. Maybe it's something that you want to ride around.

(01:09:58):
Most of them would be big enough. If they're big
enough to go out of the store and pedal kids
around for you. They're big enough to move you around
the neighborhood as well, or maybe you just need to
run little errands on them. There are air air ride
bikes carries bikes up from the smallest to the biggest,
and those big e bikes have dual motors that deliver

(01:10:20):
a ton of power to both wheels so that they
will pretty much get you anywhere and everywhere you want
to go, putting on a trailer behind it. They sell
little trailers that go with them too, that you can
if you're a deer hunter, you ride that thing into
the lease, or ride that thing to your stand. You
don't leave any human sent behind because your boots never
touched the ground, and then it's going to be strong

(01:10:41):
enough to get you and your deer, your big giant
buck out of that brush. You could probably put a
nilga on one of those things, if the trailer would
hold up. Air Ride Bikes is great place to find
out what e biking is all about. They also, by
the way, have three wheel e bikes. It's just for
folks who are maybe a little older, a little less
stable on a two wheel bike. You can put that

(01:11:04):
three wheel bike to work, taking you up to the
grocery store to pick up your prescriptions and your couple
of bags of groceries. Got a little basket on it,
I'm sure, and it'll be a perfect perfect vehicle for you.
Wear a helmet, no matter when, no matter where. If
you can get up there to four corner shopping center,
Wayne and Leven, lets you drive one around the parking
lot a little bit, if you want to experience for yourself.

(01:11:26):
I'd got to do that down here in Stafford actually
this past October when he came down for an expo.
There's one of those next Wednesday, by the way, I'm
gonna be broadcasting live from there at noon. Anyway, I
got to ride that thing, and I'm sold on these things.
They're really good. He can explain all about them to you,
explain how to maintain them. If you want to do
some salt water exploration up and down the beach front

(01:11:49):
or something.

Speaker 8 (01:11:50):
Like that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
It's all available.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
They're all good bikes that he carries, and he's happy
to sell you one at a great price. Air ride
Bikes dot com r r idair ride Bikes dot com.
Hey thirty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety The Duck
Pike Show, Thanks for listening. I want to get right
to Lane risk see and I need to talk. It
sounds like Lane.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
What's up?

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
How are you a good morning?

Speaker 8 (01:12:13):
Good to hear, good to hear your voice, Buddy? Everything
all right?

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Everything's fine with me? How's everything at Meadowbrook?

Speaker 8 (01:12:19):
All We're good, We're good.

Speaker 5 (01:12:20):
Man.

Speaker 9 (01:12:20):
I caught the tail end of that conversation with the
previous caller. You're talking about water issues down in Corpus
Christie and uh Man, I gotta tell you I've become
like a water expert in the last twenty years out
here in Fort ben County, and not in a good way.

Speaker 14 (01:12:36):
Man.

Speaker 9 (01:12:36):
These these water these uh these subsidence districts and these
water districts are choking, I mean literally choking private businesses.

Speaker 8 (01:12:47):
Wow with the way that they're doing business.

Speaker 9 (01:12:50):
When I started out here twenty years ago, we had
three water wells on the property and we were paying
a very small.

Speaker 8 (01:12:56):
Fee, and we used that water.

Speaker 9 (01:12:58):
Right now, we are paying four dollars and fifty cents
for one thousand gallons. So for us, for a million
gallons of water, it costs me, might say me, my
business is forty five hundred dollars.

Speaker 8 (01:13:11):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:13:12):
Now for a for a rice farmer up here, ten
miles west of me, on the other side of Fullshire.

Speaker 8 (01:13:17):
If he's got an AG exemption.

Speaker 9 (01:13:19):
And he's he's using that water for irrigation, the same
thing I'm using it for. He pays twenty dollars for
a million gallons.

Speaker 8 (01:13:26):
Wow, now and.

Speaker 9 (01:13:27):
I'm paying forty and I'm paying forty five hundred. I
get mad just talking about it. Yeah, don't there two
thirds of the earth is covered in this stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:13:36):
There's no way we have a water shortage. Okay, good point.

Speaker 9 (01:13:40):
And de desalization plants are what needs really needs to
be done, uh in in the world.

Speaker 8 (01:13:47):
But you know what.

Speaker 9 (01:13:48):
There, they would be easy to do and they would
going forward if you built a desalization plant. These water
districts are pumping, they're pumping water out of the ground
and they're they get to charge you for your own water.
It's the biggest scam. I'm telling you in history, I
have been to so many water board meetings and they preach, yeah,
we want to reuse, we want to do that. We've

(01:14:09):
been trying to get reuse water out of two mud
districts that are right here in our backyard for fifteen
years and can't get it done because they want us
to spend the money to build.

Speaker 11 (01:14:20):
The infrastructure to sell us their water.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
So they want me.

Speaker 9 (01:14:24):
To spend I say me my business Centerbrook funds. They
want me to spend two million dollars on pipe infrastructure
to take it from the mud district to my irrigation lake.
When the Texas legislature empowered these subsidist districts in nineteen
ninety four, they didn't do anybody a favor because they
are a little If you wanted to build a let's

(01:14:44):
say you want to build a three thousand home subdivision
up here west of me, you're at the mercy of
the You're at the mercy of the mud district. Whether
or not, or I mean the subsidence district or not,
whether they're going to let you get water to supply
these houses. They they literally can choke your project if
they want to wow It is the biggest scam. It

(01:15:06):
is the biggest money scam. I'm telling you that I've
ever seen. It makes me sick to pay my water
bill out here, It absolutely does.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Why don't you just grow a little corn out there?
Can you grow corn and.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
Get an egg?

Speaker 9 (01:15:20):
I've know you can't because your primary I've tried. I've
thought of everything. I've thought of growing.

Speaker 11 (01:15:25):
I literally have thought.

Speaker 9 (01:15:26):
Of literally when it's legal. I've thought about growing pot
out here to be I'm not kidding you. I've also
thought about getting.

Speaker 11 (01:15:34):
Now listen, you you think I'm nuts.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
No, you don't know. I don't. I know you're not nuts.
That's what's scary about it.

Speaker 9 (01:15:40):
I've thought about putting bee hives out here so I
could have a bee farm, so I could get an as.
I've looked at every possible way to try.

Speaker 11 (01:15:48):
To not spend two hundred.

Speaker 9 (01:15:50):
Thousand dollars a year on water, and there's no way
to do it. They are choking. Yeah, and golf clubs,
golf courses are getting the worst end of it. They really, Yeah,
I don't believe that, and so well.

Speaker 8 (01:16:03):
So is your h o A.

Speaker 9 (01:16:05):
They're sticking it to your homeowners out here in Fort
Ben County, all these homeowners, like, if we have even
a mini drought, you see all these lakes in these
really fine neighborhoods full of million dollar houses, the hoa
can't afford to put water in the lakes anymore.

Speaker 8 (01:16:18):
That's how expensive it is. That's one of these lakes.

Speaker 9 (01:16:22):
And and that's you know what that's hurting the fishing
in these little communities too, when when those lakes go
down and it is a I get mad just talking
about it, man, I really did, because it is There
are there are engineering firms and lawyer and attorneys firms
in this city right here that do nothing all day
long but have mud meetings all day long.

Speaker 10 (01:16:44):
Every day.

Speaker 9 (01:16:44):
They're lawyers who don't do anything else but just talk
about water all day long.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:16:48):
So and so you know the old thing, follow the money.
That's exactly what we need.

Speaker 9 (01:16:54):
I've been I've been wanting Wayne Delchrafino for years. I
begged him to do a study on this and just
see where the money's going. The Fort Ben County Subsidence District,
their capital budget last year was one point five billion
dollars with a b oh my gosh, one point five billion.
You go to one of their meetings and they're approving

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seven to ten million dollar projects won every thirty second.
It is the damnedest thing you've ever seen.

Speaker 8 (01:17:22):
I am not. I've gone to.

Speaker 9 (01:17:24):
Fifty of their meetings and set there and I just
sit there thinking, Oh my god, I cannot believe these
people get to spend our money at the rate.

Speaker 8 (01:17:33):
They're spending it at.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
That's crazy, man, from you.

Speaker 9 (01:17:36):
But so but I'm telling you that what needs to
happen is I wish Elon Musk would be get interested
in water because what he could do, and what he
could do in no time at all, is he could
build a desalization pipeline plant to pump water up into
the rocky mountains and then just let it naturally.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
Come back down.

Speaker 9 (01:17:58):
He could do that, And yeah, would it be expensive,
but yeah, it'd be a one time extense.

Speaker 11 (01:18:02):
Yeah, it wouldn't be an expense that it's.

Speaker 8 (01:18:05):
A one time expense. It's not an ongoing clock that
just keeps on going.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
It costs a lot of money to build it and
then you just maintain it. That's it.

Speaker 8 (01:18:13):
That one time expense. That's all you gotta do.

Speaker 9 (01:18:15):
So, man, I tell you, I heard that guy talking
about water well in Corpus CHRISTI to me to run
out of water in Corpus Christie, that's even dumber than
running out of it in Fort ben County.

Speaker 8 (01:18:25):
You got the Gulf of America right there.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
It's your point.

Speaker 8 (01:18:29):
Build build a de sous.

Speaker 7 (01:18:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
The only the the only issue, though, Lane, is that
where do you put that discharge?

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
That nasty stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:18:38):
That's what they're fighting about down there because they the
the initial pipeline says we're gonna jump it into baff
And Bay.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
So now what that's where the problem is.

Speaker 9 (01:18:51):
Surely there's this guy smart enough to figure that out. Well,
the smart I mean it's it's back to the money. Okay,
here it is.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
The smart way is to build a longer discharge line
and dump it five miles off shore in the Gulf
of Mexico.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
You just there, you go.

Speaker 8 (01:19:07):
We don't need a genius. We need I mean outdoor guy.

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
I don't doubt anyone.

Speaker 8 (01:19:11):
Have you talked to you talked to f Faux pro lately.

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
Or not many? Yeah, I'm hoping he'll call this morning.
In fact, I'm gonna call him because he's got a
story to tell. And yes, something happened to him yesterday,
and let's just say, let's just say, oh, he's still here.

Speaker 8 (01:19:30):
You know what.

Speaker 9 (01:19:30):
He's sent me a bunch of pictures some alligators yesterday. Yeah,
I saw that they related.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
They're related to what happened to him yesterday. So yeah,
either you get him I don't know, but we'll get
him here. I got to hear that story.

Speaker 5 (01:19:45):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:19:46):
All right, well, good good talking with you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
Man, you too, thanks for thanks for chiming in. I
like that information. That's good stuff. Thanks audio buddy.

Speaker 8 (01:19:54):
See all right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
We ran a little late on that one too, Frankie.
What do you know?

Speaker 3 (01:20:00):
Berry Hill, sugar Land, berry Hill, Baha Grill. It's absolutely
delicious Mexican food. I had fish tacos yesterday and I
didn't have to go get them. Somebody went and got
I don't know how that all the way out to
sugar Land, bought fish tacos, brought them back in here.

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I didn't even know about it. And lo and behold,
somebody comes walking over to my desk. I won't say who,
and he goes, hey, man, do you like fish tacos?

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Why?

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
Yes, yes I do. There's some over on the desk
over there. Just just go get them, man, just take
the whole bag.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
It's cool.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
And I went over there and lo and behold there
were four count them, four fish tacos from berry Hill.
There was a bag of chips, There was salsa, there
was caeso, and yeah, I ate two of them, and
then I gave the rest to Erica because she brings
me muffins and coffee. We have this food thing back
in Forth going on, and it's some very tasty stuff,

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it really is. Berry Hill's been there in thirty something years.
They have the two people who are in the kitchen
right now, the main two people who are making all
this food, have more than ten years each in that
same kitchen, come to work every day and just turn
out delicious Mexican food, text mex food.

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
It's more text Mexic than Mexican. The fish taco's great.

Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
The seafood Enchilada is great, Cheese Enchilada is great. Anything
they do really literally out of that kitchen is outstanding.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
They cater too.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
They've got a big old truck they can bring and
they can load it up full of food.

Speaker 2 (01:21:42):
They cook in that kitchen.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
It all gets here hot, and they've brought it here
literally several times now and just catered for the whole office,
and usually by the time they leave, there's nothing left
but ten foil containers delicious food. Berry Hill sugar Land
Sugar Creek Boulevard exit on fifty nine, and it's right

(01:22:06):
in that big old shopping center there. It's actually it's
kind of its own little thing right up there next
to the service road. The feeder as we call him
here in Texas. Burry Hill sugar Land dot com. Very
very friendly atmosphere, no fooling. Go in there and just say,
I don't know anything about Barry Hill. What's the best
thing on the menu, And people will become your friend

(01:22:27):
and tell you what they ought to what they think
you ought to order. Berryhillsugarland dot COM's website. Go check
it out. Berryhillsugar Land dot com. Welcome back, eight fifty two.
On Sports Talk seven ninety, I just sent Wayne or
Lane excuse me, just sent Lane Ricks Texas says, take
a deep breath, let's blood pressure come back down. You
got a golf course to run and then fish to

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catch and all that good stuff. And speaking of faux pro,
look you there. I look up and he's on the phone. Hey,
folk Pro, how you doing.

Speaker 14 (01:22:56):
Man, hey, calling you from beyond the watery grave.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
I'm still coughing up water, are you?

Speaker 10 (01:23:03):
I'm still it's still pretty rough.

Speaker 5 (01:23:05):
This morning.

Speaker 14 (01:23:05):
I got a I got some scrapes and bruises. I
wasn't even know where I had till I showered last night.
And then I got a left shoulders pretty pretty tight
in my back from climbing in the boat. I didn't
use my boat ladder properly. I mean I did get
in the boat using my boat ladder, but I forgot it.
I could have lowered it another foot.

Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
You didn't forget how to operate your ladder, did you really?

Speaker 8 (01:23:28):
Well?

Speaker 10 (01:23:28):
I mean, yeah, yeah, I played with it when I
bought my boat.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
No, I'll never use that.

Speaker 14 (01:23:32):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
Some people know how to operate machinery and some don't vote.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
Bro. That's good.

Speaker 3 (01:23:39):
Look, I'm just laughing now because I'm glad you got
back in the boat. For Lane, who I just talked to,
and for anybody else who's listening now. The stages yours
and you got about four minutes all right?

Speaker 14 (01:23:51):
Well, you know I was at at on my at
ol Kert Lake up there looking and uh, looking to
do some sight fishing. Had my go pro going and
the go pro poll I have sticks in where my
stern light goes in and it's on a pole that
I can die. It pretty much gets the view of
the whole boat, if you've ever seen any of my videos.
And uh, so I turn it off when i'm what

(01:24:11):
I'm moving around to say, it only has eight hours
of memory. So I go to a main part of
the lake where there's just a little spot by the
dam where I forget. These bassis spawn pretty deep sometimes,
so when I go back there, and it's kind of
blurry since I go back there after I stopped the boat,
I dropped the troll motor, and the wind is blowing,

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I guess from the motor to the point of the
boat in the direction of my boat's faces down the
winds to my back, I guess, you'd say. So I
go there to turn on I go there to lean
over to turn on the go pro, and somehow or
another of my glasses either I had them in my hand,
fall off my face or something, they hit the side
of the boat. They hit the side of the boat
in such a way the coast of sidebars just kind

(01:24:53):
of pop in, pop off. I didn't know that till later.
But uh so the boat hits the my sunglasses hit
the hit, the boat go in the water in two pieces.
So with a panic, because I've lost three hundred dollars sunglasses.
Before the panic, I reached over real quick and I
grabbed the left arms of the sunglasses and I had
to reach an extra four or five inches to grab

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the glasses, so I had both of my in my hand.
And at that point I went head first into sixty
degree water and about twenty feet twenty five feet of
water wonderful. So when I came up, you know, first
I kind of lost my breath because I hit that
cold water. Yeah, And I spent around to see my
boat going away from me down when because I kicked off,

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plus the winds going away to the boat, at this point,
it's probably thirty feet from me, thirty thirty five feet,
and so I started panic swimming. Now, had I been
willing to relinquish the sunglasses, which at the time I'm
not even thinking about this, I just had them in
my hand, I probably could have swim swam a little
bit more effectively with an open hand. So I was

(01:25:58):
about doug that I ain't gonna lie. I was about
I was about fifteen seconds away. When I didn't have
nothing left. I reached for the my lower unit three times,
and on the third time I was just able to
squeeze the tab above my prop and pull myself to
the boat. That I just kind of hung there for
about three or four minutes. I threw my cap, I

(01:26:19):
threw my sunglasses on the back back of the boat,
and to figure out how to lower my lower my
my ladder, yeah, and pulled myself up in there. And
I made a short video after I got in the
boat to kind of document it for my own own
personal that made I posted it. I've washed it yet,
but I'll tell you that I was. I was thinking,

(01:26:41):
last two or three strokes, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, Papa,
I'm about to come. I'll be fishing with you this
I'll be fishing with you this evening.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
That's a horrible feeling.

Speaker 8 (01:26:49):
Huh, that's scary.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
I mean, So, what's your takeaway? I'm glad you're with
us for So what's your takeaway?

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
I'll tell you what it is. Go out to the
garage and practice lowering that ladder ten times exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
Do it in soaking wet clothes.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
Once do it and your skivvyes once do it with
your eyes closed and know how just know that thing
like the back of your hand.

Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
Man, I'm so glad that turned out well. I really am.

Speaker 1 (01:27:18):
That spooks to me when.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
You told me that yesterday.

Speaker 14 (01:27:21):
Oh yeah, I did that when I got home. Because
so my ladder has a little pull out tab. You
just pull it out, yeah, and an arm drops down.
But I didn't realize there's a there's a tension novel
on the left side. You unscrew and it lowers it
straight down about another butt.

Speaker 2 (01:27:35):
Oh wow. Yeah, that would have helped.

Speaker 10 (01:27:36):
Hanging on the motor.

Speaker 14 (01:27:38):
So you can picture me hanging on the motor out
of breast. Try to put my foot up on this tamp.
It's about foot higher that it should be.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
Yeah, when you're in all your clothes. Yeah, man, that's hot.
That's not easy.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
It's all you're soaking wet, you're closed, weigh one hundred pounds,
and you're scared, and you're cold, and you're having to
perform physical labor like that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
That's that's a tough one.

Speaker 5 (01:28:00):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
I'm glad you made it. I really am. Buddy.

Speaker 10 (01:28:04):
Yeah, my, my buddy.

Speaker 14 (01:28:05):
That I talked to he's he's just a tick older
than me. We've been fishing together since thirty five years,
and uh, he told me, he goes man, he goes.
You scared me because I'm out here all the time
and I'm not in near the shape you were in it.
I'm no Carl Lewis by any stretching imagination. But but uh,
Michael phelps in this case, but he told he goles man,

(01:28:25):
he goes, he goes. You got one of them inflatable
life jacks. I said, don't weigh nothing to wear it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:29):
Don't you?

Speaker 14 (01:28:30):
And I said, uh, I said, I said, I said, yeah,
he goes, he goes man, we need to start wearing
that while we're fishing, because he goes, I guarantee you
I could not have done what you did. Yeah, and
I and so it don't take nothing to wear it.
You know, it ain't I'm not. It's not a fashion show.

Speaker 5 (01:28:44):
I'm not.

Speaker 14 (01:28:45):
You know, ain'tybody gonna make fun of me?

Speaker 10 (01:28:46):
Hey, you're wearing a VESI I'm also almost sixty years old,
so yep.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
Fair enough. I do have to break for us.

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
I'm sorry, man, but I got to bounce a week
and get our stuff in good story, good ending of
the story. Scary is you've probably ever scared as you've
ever been, I'm sure, man. Thank you for sharing that
with this audience. I hope it kind of wakes him
up a few of them.

Speaker 14 (01:29:08):
Yeah, be too.

Speaker 8 (01:29:09):
I appreciate you my pleasure.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
I'll talk to you again soon, all right, Foe Brody else.

Speaker 11 (01:29:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
I hate to do that to him, but I got
to get this taken care of. I want to take
care of my buddy, Brad Swice is what I want
to do. Brad has been trying, been trying to just
he's got money to burn. If you want to sell
a little scrap gold that's been laying around the house,
I don't care what it is. It might be bullyon,
it might be coins. And he can handle pretty much

(01:29:35):
any sized deal too. Just make an arrangement with him. Said, look,
I got a pound of gold I want to give him. Well, okay, fine,
let him know that he got a bar of gold.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
Let him know that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
And he can handle anything from a couple of bucks
up to a half a million dollars worth maybe more
if you really want to, if you really want to
make a move in that direction, gold silver. He loves rolexes.
He'll buy old rolexes from you. He will buy pretty
much anything of great value in the jewelry and coins

(01:30:09):
and precious metals and whatnot range and he's been doing
it for forty something years. He's very good at it,
very fair with his pricing too, I might add, very
fair with his pricing. It's all based on what gold's
selling for that day, and any day is a good
day to sell it. If you want to have some
extra money in your pocket. Any day he will. By

(01:30:30):
the way, he's a big fisherman too, and I don't
think he's fishing today. I think he's sitting by his
phone waiting to talk to you. That's all you gotta do.
I'm gonna give you a cell phone number in a second.
His stories at West Timer and Darry Ashford been there
forty years. Website is Houston Gooldexchange dot com. Call him
on his cell phone right now and set up an
appointment where you can go talk about putting a big

(01:30:50):
stack of cash in your pocket in exchange for a
little bit of gold that fits in the palm of
your hand. Two eight one eight five one three nine
five five two eight one eight five one three, nine
five five, nine oh three, Colleen, we did run a
little lady, and that break didn't me Sorry about that,

(01:31:10):
nine o three on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.
I was thinking over the break if after faux Pro's
experience at Kurse Lake where he fell out and darn
near drowned before he could get back to his boat
and scramble up back into it using as much ladder
as he could get down at the time.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
You know, I hope that.

Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
Serves as kind of a It's not a lesson. I'm
not trying to teach anybody a lesson here, but I'm
trying to just uh. I use stories like that to educate.
Hang on, I gotta fix something over here that's bothering me.
It's driving me crazy. I use those to kind of
educate and remind well, it's not education for most of
this audience, My audience, I know, knows how to fish,

(01:31:56):
they know how to boat, they know how to do
their thing outdoors, they know how to hunt safe, all
of those things. But so did Forrest until he found
himself in a situation where it was all or nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
It really was.

Speaker 3 (01:32:11):
The clothes that you wear when you go fishing are
gonna especially this time of year, if it's a little
bit cool, they're gonna weight you down, and you don't
realize how heavy they are full of water until they're
full of water. And even just trying to swim back
to his boat like he was doing, I don't know
what he was wearing. He didn't even tell me yesterday

(01:32:33):
or today. It doesn't matter, but whatever it is, it's
it's encumberment, and that encumbrance could cost your life if
you're not thinking clearly, if you're not being just being
patient and knowing it's gonna take a little time. The
first thing I would do, and I learned this a
long long time ago, if I fell in the water
like that, is kick my shoes off. Those shoes don't

(01:32:55):
do you any good.

Speaker 2 (01:32:56):
They don't. They make it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
Much harder to use your life to swim, because your
shoes full of water are way heavier and far less
efficient than a bare foot or a soft foot is
in propulsion. So ditch those things as fast as you can.
If they're lace up boots and they're tied real high,

(01:33:19):
do what you can one at a time, Hold your breath,
get underwater, unlace that boot and get them off of you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
You're not gonna need them.

Speaker 3 (01:33:27):
You just need to get back in the boat, or
you just need to get back to shore, whatever's easiest
to do.

Speaker 2 (01:33:33):
Man, it just it just it makes me run through
my little mental checklist.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
Checklist is what it does of things that, Okay, I
gotta stay calm.

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
Number one.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
You gotta stay calm.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
You can't be panicking and just start screaming and hoping
somebody hears you, because you're not gonna last long if
you do that. If you're in the water, find something
you can hold on to, if it's close enough to
the shore where you can get the water, you can
stand up in, paddle yourself very calmly and patiently back there.
Don't burn up a bunch of energy trying to sprint somewhere.

(01:34:03):
That's something you're probably not going to be able to do.
Staying calm is probably the number one. I keep going
back to it because it is it's critical to your survival.

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
You know, I was thinking about it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
He falls in Lake Kerth and Darn near Drowns or
Curth Lake, and if you fell into fell out of
your boat into Lake Corpus Christie right now. The worst
probably happened to you. Be skin your knees. There's no water.
There's just no water in ninety percent of that lake.
It looked like to me, maybe more it might be
it might be less water than ten percent of the
whole former lake. And that's that's a frightening thing for them.

(01:34:40):
They have I'm certain some source of water down there,
because nobody has died of thirst down there yet that
I know about, but they're very very close to the
bottom of the well basically, and that's that's something they
can't do. I mean, they can't survive without water. Nobody can.
And the oh ay Lane explained what's going on with

(01:35:04):
these water the people who run who rule the water.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
Let's call it that these people who rule the water are.

Speaker 3 (01:35:14):
Just granting project after project that costs a ton of
money and then laying the cost back on the people
who are using the water. And like he said, as
a golf course operator, if you don't if you don't
have an AG exemption, you're paying ridiculous amounts of money.
And this probably, I'm sure it ties into how much

(01:35:36):
all of us are paying for our water, whether it's
from the City of Houston or from I'm in Fort
Benn County, all these neighboring counties. It's just thank god
the farmers get agg exemptions and can get their water
reasonably priced. But when I heard that farmers pay twenty
bucks for the same amount of water that lane pays
thirty what was it, thirty five hundred something like that,

(01:35:59):
that's a little different. That's a little different. Seven three
two one two five seven ninety. Email me Dug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I got another release from the
Parks and Wildlife Department that I just want to kind
of read the opening paragraph.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
It'll tell you a lot of what this is.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
The rest of it is just back padding between people
from the Parks and Waldlife Department, those of whom the
people who got this done. Uh, the lead, the head
the first line in the story. For the first time
in more than twenty five years, the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department is opening the gates to a state park
in North Texas. That would be Palo Pinto Mountains State Park.

(01:36:40):
It's between Abilene and Dallas, which makes it a little
bit far away to go just to hop in the
car and run check it out from here. But the
people up there who are willing to drive to it
are going to ride themselves. Right intoup, almost forty nine
hundred acres of formerchland now open to you and me

(01:37:03):
and anybody else who wants to go up there.

Speaker 2 (01:37:06):
You can hike, you can bike. It says there's fishing.

Speaker 3 (01:37:08):
I don't know anything about the fishing there, but I'll
do some research on that. I can't help but do it.
I'd be willing to drive that far for an awesome
fishing trip. I think it'll be a little bit less,
a little bit less than a major fishing destination, but
it's bound to be any Hey, if any other place

(01:37:29):
we've got to go, fishing in Texas is welcome as
far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
The more the merrier, the more the merrier.

Speaker 3 (01:37:35):
Speaking of fishing, I got another release from the Parks
and Wildlife Department. I've got a stack of them here
in front of me. They were busy people up there in.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Austin this week. Timely rain.

Speaker 3 (01:37:45):
Speaking of water issues, timely rain is key to the
twenty twenty six white bass run. I haven't heard a
lot folk pro's mentioned him a couple of times, and
he's been kind of looking around and trying to figure
out where to go catch a bunch of them. And
we're gonna maybe put a plan together to do that.

(01:38:05):
But we haven't had much rain around here, like we've
been talking about for the better part of.

Speaker 2 (01:38:10):
What a month and a half two weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:38:11):
We had that one big old dumper rain a while back,
but it wasn't it wasn't that much. It wasn't the
kind of rain that will refill a reservoir. And I'm
not asking for one of those, you know what's in
the summertime here. I'm just saying we need some serious
rain around here to get everything greened up in a
timely manner.

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
We'll see how it works out.

Speaker 3 (01:38:33):
Angler success it says here could boil down to spring
rains across portions of the state.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
It always does.

Speaker 3 (01:38:40):
Who writes these I know they're working hard, and I
know they've got a lot of stuff to write, but
it doesn't sound like there's a lot of time being
put into Maybe they're letting AI write it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
I do need the fact I need to make a
phone call up there. I got some business I want
to tend to with them. It goes on to say
what most of us know. Each spring, white basht run
upstream from reservoirs into rivers and creeks to spawn, creating
prime fishing opportunities for new and seasoned anglers. White bass
can be targeted from the bank, motorized boat, or paddle craft,

(01:39:12):
on and on and on it goes. When I was
writing at the paper, there were still lots of people
taking horrific advantage of that spawn run of those fish
up into the creeks and rivers, because you could park
a boat in one spot and catch quite literally fifty
to one hundred and fifty white bass out of the

(01:39:34):
same little turn in a creek, and a lot of
people used to do that, and there turned out to
be way too many abuses of that resource.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
In hindsight. There was no limit for a long time
catch all you want.

Speaker 3 (01:39:49):
Go up there and catch five hundred if you want,
the problem with that, though, and these.

Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
Are tasty fish.

Speaker 3 (01:39:54):
It's not like they're just some garbage fish that doesn't
taste any good anyway. They're quite quite delicious actually, And
a lot of people on these East Texas lakes would
go out there and catch two trash cans full and
come back, pour them all out onto the cleaning table,

(01:40:14):
clean about twenty of them, and then either be too
drunk to keep cleaning fish, or too tired to keep
cleaning fish, or just not want to bother with cleaning
more fish, so they would put them back in the
cans and take them to a dumpster and just throw
them away like trash, which is abuse of a natural resource,

(01:40:37):
abuse of a very valuable resource to this state. Thank goodness,
there's limits on them now. I think it's twenty five,
which is still a whole lot of fish. But does
that you can kind of justify that the filet is
not that terribly big. They freeze pretty well, and all
in all, they're a fun fish to go chase, especially
if we have a season in which it's gonna work well,

(01:41:01):
because then you can take the kids and they can
catch a bunch of fish.

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
It might even catch one that weighs a couple of pounds.
It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:41:08):
I gotta take a break, don't, okay, Franky, I'll do it.
I'll absolutely do it. I will one more time. I'm
gonna tell you about Whitetail Ranch TX dot com. Ten
minutes west Coal Spring, and as I mentioned before, they've
got twenty thousand dollars off on all their lots. These
are one and a half to more than four acre

(01:41:29):
home sites, concrete roads, no mud taxes, absolutely gorgeous amenities
throughout this big beautiful stretch of Texas hunting ranch theme
in the middle of Texas about ten miles west Cold Spring.

Speaker 2 (01:41:44):
Like I said, and you.

Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
Got the nice hills you got, it's gonna start greening
up really fast here as soon as we can get
some rain through here, and that's gonna make it look
even all the more gorgeous. Get in it while you
can get yourself a big place to either buy it
right away and go ahead and build something on there
that you can start using right away, or just set

(01:42:07):
it aside, just hold on to that land for however
many years you want to hold on to it and
use it as an investment. It'll be a good investment.
I'd bet on that it will be. Just remember twenty
thousand dollars off on any of the lots, no mud taxes,
and no closing costs.

Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
By the way, when you buy that property.

Speaker 3 (01:42:26):
Whitetail ranch tx dot com is the website go check
it out Whitetail RANCHTX dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
That's for you, Forrest. Did you know that?

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
Do you know the tie that you just made there, Frankie,
Do you realize it? The reason he fell out of
the boat was because he had to reach for his sunglasses.
Oh when they were not cheap sunglasses. They were prescription
polarized coasters. Every time you say a word there, it's
just an extra hundred dollars. They're good sunglasses, though I've

(01:42:56):
worn them for a very long time. I'm actually looking
at another brand and to maybe strike a deal with
and I don't know whether it'll work or not, but
I like what I heard. I like what I heard
from the owner of the company at the fishing show.

Speaker 2 (01:43:12):
Maybe get to that at some point.

Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
I want to go to a little bit of golf
here because I try to keep up at least keep
you informed about the tournaments that are going on in
the PGA Tour and where they are and what they're doing.
And this week's tournament is the Cognizant Classic in the
Palm Beaches, which is being played at PGA National on
the Champion Course. By the way, I played that golf

(01:43:36):
course many many years ago on a media trip over there.
There was a time back in my former life, my
newspaper life, and newspaper and radio for several years combined,
by the way, I've been a busy boy for a
long time. In any event, I was getting to make
quite a few media trips over to Florida before I

(01:43:57):
had to take on before I had the responsibility of
the radio shows. That kind of nixed some of them.
But the bottom line is that was a It's a
beautiful facility. There's several I think there's four courses there
maybe and maybe more now. I don't know what they
would have had to tear down to build another one,
but I believe it's four at PGA National over there,

(01:44:18):
absolutely gorgeous golf course. Austin smothering Smotherman's excuse me at
eleven under par leading the way. He is two shots
clear of Nico at Chiavaria, who is at nine. That
makes sense. Taylor Moore all by himself in third at
eight underpar through two rounds. By the way, Smotherman kind

(01:44:38):
of set the bar early on on Thursday. He shot
sixty two. Now at Chiavaria's shot sixty three, but he
didn't shoot sixty two. The seven under pars tied for
for Shane Lowry, Joel Doman. That would be a j
Ewart at bo oh No, you know bohustlers at six.

Speaker 2 (01:44:59):
Along with give you them then I'll move on.

Speaker 3 (01:45:01):
Bohastler, Ricky Castillo, Lee Hodges, Christopher Writing and well, no,
that's all of them.

Speaker 2 (01:45:08):
They're six under par. They're five shots off the lead.

Speaker 3 (01:45:11):
It's Saturday, it's still almost anybody's tournament. There would have
to be some hiccups on the front end. And looking
at the scores from yesterday, there are a lot of
people in the top twenty who who did worse than
even par. So that course played a little harder yesterday

(01:45:34):
and I doubt that it's going to play any easier today.
And we'll just have to see what happens at the
Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches. I got something from
Tommy O'Brien this morning. I haven't had a time, haven't
really had time to study it and listen to the
audio on it to see what it is. But he
is he's making a lot of videos recently about putting.

Speaker 11 (01:45:57):
And.

Speaker 3 (01:45:59):
I'm I'm tempted to go and listen because I know
he's a smart guy when it comes to golf instruction.
I know he's on the cutting edge of all the
newest technology and innovation. But man, I'm just now getting
over my own set of issues with putting and feeling
like I'm making more putts and I'm scared to go

(01:46:21):
playing a new seed in my head? Has that ever
bothered any of you.

Speaker 2 (01:46:26):
You're humming along playing.

Speaker 3 (01:46:29):
Mediocre golf, and then you have a few pretty good rounds,
but there's one part of your game that just doesn't
really want to cooperate, and you finally think you got
it figured it out, and then you read something or
you see something online that says, oh, no, you're doing
it all wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
This is what you need to be doing. That's a video.

Speaker 3 (01:46:50):
And YouTube and all the instruction you can get in
fishing and hunting, in any outdoor sport you want. There
are a million tutorials on YouTube that will tell you
how to be better at what you're trying to do.
But there's two hurdles between watching the video and becoming

(01:47:11):
great at what you want to do. One is picking
the right video for you, because the more you look,
the more you're going to find fifty different people, or
maybe one hundred different people, all trying to teach you
the same result, but with slight differences in how they
want you to achieve that result, whether they want you

(01:47:33):
to start your hands back or forward, whether they want
the ball closer or farther from your body up or
back in the stance, all to hit the same shot,
and they'll all stand there and in front of the
camera do it. Might have taken them fifteen tries, but
you won't see the other fourteen, So be careful trusting.

Speaker 5 (01:47:58):
Use.

Speaker 3 (01:47:58):
I like the videos, I really do, because they inspire
me to go try something, but don't I don't fall
in love with any of them until I can actually like.
I have the real advantage of being able to go
out and say, Hey, Tommy, what was the deal in
this video? What do I need to take away from
that video? What do I need to learn from it?

(01:48:19):
And he can tell me. He can tell me exactly
what I needed to learn from that video. And I
may do that today as a matter of fact, But
just there's really no substitute for one on one lessons,
because that one person who is instructing you then is
looking at how you play the game, and the game

(01:48:40):
of golf is so individual so individualistic, that there are
no really two people who need the exact same stroke
in the exact same swing. I've wasted a lot of
time on that. I don't want to do that anymore.
I want to go talk to Dave. Hey, get dar Dave.
What's up, buddy?

Speaker 15 (01:48:58):
Hey, man, it's shaking over here. Tell you, well, we
got this Swan family over here. There's a bunch of kids.
They look like they're starting to pack up.

Speaker 8 (01:49:06):
You know.

Speaker 15 (01:49:06):
I kind of got out of here late, but it's
beautiful out here, man's and they're gone.

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
What about nine thirty is late for you?

Speaker 5 (01:49:15):
Well?

Speaker 15 (01:49:15):
Yeah, normally I get up at three thirty or four
o'clock in the morning due that's the.

Speaker 2 (01:49:19):
Middle of the night. That's not morning. And I'm joking.

Speaker 3 (01:49:23):
I'm laughing with you, because, man, if I had a
nickel for every time I got up at three forty
five to go hunt the Katy Prairie. And that was
because I lived close to where I met my hunters.
A lot of the guys were having to get up
at like three point fifteen or three o'clock like you,
and drive an hour just to come meet everybody.

Speaker 15 (01:49:40):
It's Okay, Well, I like, you know, getting up and
watching starting to you know, watch the three o'clock news
and then gets to the four o'clock local news. You know,
I believe that Jerriff Frowar used to be.

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
I don't know they're dave.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
I did not know there was three o'clock news, Franky,
did you know that?

Speaker 1 (01:49:54):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:49:55):
No, no, Channel thirteen. Okay, anyway, then I'll slip over
to there. But I know what else is going to
say is on faux pro over there. Yeah, like right
now I'm standing here on ground, but I got my
life jacket on because if I fall down in there
there's rocks, I may hit my head, you know, And
that's always kind of yeah. My dad he told me,

(01:50:17):
like I think I told you before. My Dad's like,
where are your life jacket when you get out there
on that boat by yourself? And I said, but Dad,
I can swim. No, you get your head on the boat.

Speaker 11 (01:50:26):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:50:28):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 15 (01:50:29):
And safety is the safety is the best thing, number one.
And there's a lot of and the one thing I'd
like to say, oh yeah, on that ranch deal that
you're setting, that's sewing that property over there, my wife's
probably listening and.

Speaker 11 (01:50:41):
She's probably on the line right now.

Speaker 15 (01:50:43):
Oh you're getting me in trouble.

Speaker 3 (01:50:46):
Oh boy, you just got this house over here, just
right up there and take a look.

Speaker 2 (01:50:52):
Go to the website. Just take a look at it there, David.

Speaker 15 (01:50:54):
Then Yeah, my wife she will, she's she's listening right now.
She's doing good on herney and everything good.

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
I'm so glad to hear that.

Speaker 15 (01:51:02):
Yeah, yeah, like right now though, Like I say, I
got the tube ducks. They come in pretty heavy over
there right at this time. But then I never seagulls
out here have been a real h I never really
realized there was a lot of seagulls on fresh water.

Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
Well, they come and go. They're not I don't. They
might on Conroe.

Speaker 3 (01:51:26):
They might be fixtures now because they figured how to eat.

Speaker 5 (01:51:30):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:51:30):
But usually when you see them on a fresh water lake,
it's after some big weather system comes in off the
Gulf with a really strong south southeast wind and just
kind of halfway blows them up here and then they'll
go back when they can. But it's yeah, they're not
uncommon on lakes. You'll see seagulls on a lot of lakes,
even farther inland than that. We used to chase them

(01:51:54):
on on Fayette County Reservoir when they come up there
and eat all the little shab that we're getting pushed
up by bass in the summer time.

Speaker 7 (01:52:02):
I got a picture.

Speaker 15 (01:52:03):
I'm gonna send it to you here in a little bit.
So I took a picture I found. I think I'm
pretty sure because remember I worked at the zoo. We
had that a young bald eagle and they're brown when
they're young.

Speaker 7 (01:52:13):
I found.

Speaker 15 (01:52:14):
I think I found a bald eagle feather right here
where I'm standing. Oh wow, So yeah, I took a
picture of it because I've seen him out here. Leave
that born north.

Speaker 3 (01:52:24):
I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I think it
might be illegal to to possess that feather, So don't
pick it up.

Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 15 (01:52:33):
Oh I didn't know that.

Speaker 5 (01:52:34):
I mean.

Speaker 15 (01:52:36):
Last game warding shorty, throw it out the window. Yeah,
I'll last game more than rice over here.

Speaker 10 (01:52:42):
When I think I've seen.

Speaker 15 (01:52:44):
You know, and and he'll he'll let me know. He
tells me a lot, you know a lot of things
I can do and that I can't do. Like I
had a crab trapping here, I didn't know, you couldn't
use a crab trapping here. It has to have a
smaller mouth on it, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
Oh really yeah, catch big fish.

Speaker 15 (01:53:02):
Yeah that's what I was going to do.

Speaker 10 (01:53:03):
But he says, you can't do that.

Speaker 15 (01:53:05):
You got to get the smaller. It has to have
a smaller mouth on it for the fish to swim in.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
Probably I would, yeah, I would bet because a crab trap,
I'm envisioning the hole, it's got to be big enough
for that crab to slide through sideways.

Speaker 2 (01:53:19):
That would also be big enough to catch a large.

Speaker 3 (01:53:22):
Mouth bass oft pretty decent, sound like a keeper baths
and that's that would certainly be against the laws. Yeah,
that's interesting though, I had never thought of that.

Speaker 2 (01:53:31):
Holy cow.

Speaker 8 (01:53:32):
Well, he he come up.

Speaker 15 (01:53:33):
I had it down there, and he just told he
didn't give me no ticket or nothing. You know, he's
a friend of mine actually, you know. So he just
come up and he said, no, you can't use this
in here. You have to type down the hole, you know. Yeah,
and I know they at the sporting good stores they sell,
uh you know, the cages like that, you know, for
like for the shad or something trap.

Speaker 2 (01:53:55):
Yeah, yeah, there's plenty of them, and they're very good.

Speaker 15 (01:53:57):
Yeah, but yeah, you know, we used to make them
ourselves back in the day, you know, but pig for
you know, fifty dollars that have saved my arthritic arthreatic
fingers from trying to put it off again.

Speaker 2 (01:54:12):
I understand, you know, yeah, yeah, Hey, all right.

Speaker 15 (01:54:15):
Anyway, you know, it's all right. Hey, I'm gonna let
you go. And hey, like I said, I learned. I've
been listening to the show. I actually about seven thirty,
and I've learned a whole lot in between here and
there and a full pro stay saved over here at
eight thirty in boat launch one time.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
Yes sir, all right, hey, thanks Dave, let's see audios.

Speaker 2 (01:54:36):
All right, let's take this break at the bottom, shall we.

Speaker 3 (01:54:39):
I'm gonna tell you one more time today, one more
time that if you have any kind of scrap gold,
if you have some old coins, if you have old chains,
old pendants, whatever, whenever, whatever, however, if it's got gold content,
it's probably worth a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:54:56):
Right now. It doesn't have to be a ton of gold.

Speaker 3 (01:54:59):
If it's ten gold, you stop and think about that,
that's still some gold content, and at more than I
think it's around five two hundred dollars an ounce right now,
that's gonna be worth a lot of money whatever it is.
And the guy to take it to to get the
best fairest price you can get on it is Brad
Swice over at Houston Gold Exchange. Houston Gold Exchange has

(01:55:22):
got thirty five forty years in business. I'm not sure
exactly how many he deals in precious metals, he deals
in jewelry, he does all of that, but right now,
with gold at historic prices, that's been occupying a whole
lot of his time and he would be more than
happy to help you turn your old gold into cash.

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
That's what he does.

Speaker 3 (01:55:44):
Does it every day when he's not fishing, and even
if he's fishing, he'll still pick up his phone. His
store has been at where West Timer and Derry, Ashford
for three decades or so, maybe four. The website is
Houston Gooldexchange dot com and his person cell phone number,
and he keeps that phone with him all the time,
even if he's fishing. If he doesn't have a if

(01:56:05):
he didn get a bite and he's not reeling in
a fish, he'll probably answer his phone. I bet he'd
answer it right now. If you do it, I dare
you call him and see if he'll answer. I bet
he will. Two eight one eight five one three nine
five five Turn that gold into cash. Go get yourself
a new rod and reel. Go get yourself a kayak.
If you've got a little more gold than that, maybe

(01:56:27):
you've got a full palm full of mostly gold stuff,
You'll probably get that kayak and get a troll and
motor to push it around so you can have to paddle.

Speaker 2 (01:56:37):
You can go go up at the uppity kayak. Get
yourself a motor.

Speaker 3 (01:56:41):
Two eight one eight five one three nine five five
two eight one eight five one three nine five nine
thirty eight On Sports Talk seven ninety Frankie, can you
see this?

Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
See that? See it right there? I think so. I'm
telling you, hold on, how about this now? Can you
see it? Kind of that better way to hire that it? Yeah?
There we go, Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:57:04):
I told you to make friends with her, didn't I
I told you? Seven one three two one two five
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Oh my America just brought me a nice little breakfast
taco that looks absolutely delicious.

Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
I'm not gonna chew in front of all of you.
I'll wait. I'll be patient and wait.

Speaker 3 (01:57:26):
Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety Email
me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Where did I put
my piece of paper that I wanted? There were a
couple of things I wanted to talk about. Oh my gosh,
oh thank you Erica. Oh mercy sakes, I'm loaded up
in here now. I could stay another hour and not

(01:57:46):
I certainly wouldn't go hungry. I know that I certainly
wouldn't go hungry.

Speaker 2 (01:57:51):
Let me go. Here's another I wanted to bring this
one up.

Speaker 3 (01:57:55):
It's from the actual release is from last week, but
I wanted to bring it up again because it's so important,
and that is invasive species, and I've.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
Seen a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:58:07):
I think, yeah, this past well, and actually this week
National Invasive Species Awareness Week. The press release came out
last week, but the twenty third through the twenty seventh,
which puts US a little behind now, but nonetheless, twenty
third through the twenty seventh was the week when we're
all supposed to talk about this. And Texas has more

(01:58:30):
than its share, unfortunately of invasive species. And there's one
animal I want to get put on that list. But
it's not there yet. But I'll just digress and walk
away from that one. Basically, what they're asking all of
us to do, all of us who enjoy the outdoors
to do, is just remember that some of the things
we might catch, some of the things that might wind

(01:58:52):
up stuck to your boat or to your your gear
or whatever, be really careful with it. They even go
so far as to say, look, use your bait where
you catch it, but don't ever dump it somewhere else,
because you might inadvertently be releasing something into that water
where you dump it that isn't native to that water,

(01:59:16):
and you can very easily end up spreading unintentionally aquatic
invasive stuff. And that's just that's gonna strain the native
bait fish, it's gonna strain the micro organisms, just like
zebra muscle larvae, for example. Even fish native to certain
parts of Texas, like sheepshead minnows. It says here in

(01:59:39):
golf killerfish native the coastal areas can become invasive in
other parts of the state, as upstream rivers and lakes.
They just get dumped in there. Say it's leftover bait,
don't dump it into the water. Don't take live caught bait,
says here to another lake to use. Instead, take your
bait home to use on a future fishing trip at

(02:00:02):
the same lake. I don't know if I'm going to
take home live minnows from Lake Conroe and just buying
a quarium and keep them till I go to Lake
Livingston or back to Lake Conra.

Speaker 2 (02:00:16):
Let's go take a phone call. Let's do that. Hey, Allen,
what's up?

Speaker 5 (02:00:19):
Man? Hey?

Speaker 7 (02:00:22):
Hey, you doing? Are they good? Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:00:24):
Yeah, I'm all good.

Speaker 7 (02:00:26):
Yeah, you sound good.

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:00:28):
Bro.

Speaker 7 (02:00:31):
What what power scope would you get for like such
a Texas East Texas?

Speaker 2 (02:00:38):
Uh, you don't have to.

Speaker 3 (02:00:38):
I don't how far are you going to be shooting?
And how steady hands do you have? I wouldn't go anything.
You don't need to go any higher than seven power really,
for normal regular old deer hunting around here, there's no
reason to go.

Speaker 2 (02:00:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:00:56):
Seven.

Speaker 3 (02:00:58):
The more important than the magnification really is just the
quality of the lenses. You're buying, quality of the glass,
because if you buy something and then it goes for
binoculars too, you have to have.

Speaker 8 (02:01:12):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:01:12):
I made the mistake of trying to stir my coffee
with a pen that I thought had a little plug
in at the end, and it's open, and so now
I've got coffee down the barrel of the whole pen.

Speaker 2 (02:01:23):
Good heavens so.

Speaker 5 (02:01:26):
Right and black.

Speaker 3 (02:01:27):
Now might cafe ola is what I got here, oh Man.
Back to the glass though, the quality of it. You
need to be able to gather enough light. I've seen
guys who show up with super high quality, high power
binoculars and then they've got a ten dollars scope on
their rifle and they're glassing early, early, before the sun's up,

(02:01:51):
and they're glassing late in the afternoons and looking up
into the woods because they're they're glass, can can gather
enough light to see in there, and they see this
giant buck. They put the scope or put the binoculars down,
pick up the rifle, put the scope on it, and
they can't see into the woods. So make sure that
you're getting the best quality, the best bang for your buck.

(02:02:13):
If you don't have three thousand dollars to put a
scope on your rifle, then don't spend it. You don't
have to spend that much, but spend some time online
doing research. There's all kinds of all the big major
well what's left of the big major outdoors magazines. They
at least have the digital versions of them. And every

(02:02:33):
one of those things has Top ten this and top
ten that. So looked up top ten Texas deer hunting binoculars,
and I'd almost bet you there's going to be a
long list of them there for you.

Speaker 7 (02:02:47):
Yeah, I'm sure I can get a decence. Look, I
don't hunt for a living. I'm not sure a TV show,
So I'm sure I can get a good scope for
about two hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (02:02:56):
I think you can. Yeah, it'll be Yeah, it'll work,
it'll work.

Speaker 3 (02:03:01):
You know, you'll lose, like I said, you'll lose a
maybe ten or fifteen minutes on each end of the day.

Speaker 2 (02:03:07):
That you can't quite see up in there.

Speaker 3 (02:03:09):
But hey, like you said, you know you're not going
to miss a meal if you don't kill a deer today.

Speaker 5 (02:03:16):
Yeah, that ain't going on there.

Speaker 7 (02:03:17):
If I can hit them, they're really gonna worry about
me too much. But shut up.

Speaker 12 (02:03:21):
I'm like, Okay, I'll do it.

Speaker 7 (02:03:23):
I'll do it more for just being out there.

Speaker 2 (02:03:25):
Really, But yeah, I'm the same way.

Speaker 7 (02:03:28):
Question go ahead, No, you go ahead.

Speaker 2 (02:03:32):
Oh it's you it's all you man, come on.

Speaker 7 (02:03:34):
So so I just had the good thought about, uh,
have you do you do you believe the prices of
college baseball tickets these days?

Speaker 2 (02:03:43):
Yeah, it's getting kind of well it's.

Speaker 7 (02:03:45):
I'm talking college baseball. Or I used to get buy
a college baseball ticket for maybe thirty five dollars, forty dollars.

Speaker 8 (02:03:55):
Okay, what now I'm thinking.

Speaker 7 (02:03:58):
I'm thinking I'm not paying three d sixty two dollars
for a see at a college baseball game. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (02:04:07):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:04:07):
Where is that?

Speaker 7 (02:04:10):
Well, probably boys down at Bradcawe station or the ones
at Austin.

Speaker 3 (02:04:15):
Wow, three hundred bucks to watch college baseball game. Yeah,
that's this's gotten out of control, it really has.

Speaker 2 (02:04:25):
That's that's absating.

Speaker 7 (02:04:27):
You gotta be kid, that's gonna take my daughter. I
was like, yeah, I thought I'll take it to the
game a little good time. I'm like that, I just
want to go watch a baseball game.

Speaker 2 (02:04:39):
Yeah, well I was.

Speaker 7 (02:04:42):
I was just got a floored by it. You know,
I can understand the football tickets.

Speaker 3 (02:04:46):
No, I can't even well, I can't understand that because
that's all that is is semi pro football.

Speaker 2 (02:04:51):
Actually, it's professional football.

Speaker 3 (02:04:53):
That's just a slightly lower league than the NFL, but
not for the baseball man.

Speaker 2 (02:04:59):
That's nuts. Go you know what, take her to Take
her to.

Speaker 3 (02:05:01):
A Space Cowboys game. Y'all have a lot more fun
and it won't cost you.

Speaker 7 (02:05:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, I just wanted to throw that
at you.

Speaker 12 (02:05:10):
Just see what you thought about that.

Speaker 7 (02:05:11):
I thought he was crazy myself.

Speaker 3 (02:05:13):
It is, you're You're not wrong, You're not crazy. The
ticket price is crazy, thanks Alan, My pleasure ideos three
hundred bucks to watch a college baseball game. Now, Oh
I and I'm sure those are great seats. I'm sure
that's not in the bleachers. I'm sure that's not out

(02:05:34):
and let right field somewhere. But that there is any
ticket for three hundred dollars at a college baseball game
is obscene.

Speaker 2 (02:05:43):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (02:05:44):
They're gonna They're gonna at some point price themselves out
because guys like Alan, guys like me are gonna say,
you know what, it's it's not.

Speaker 2 (02:05:54):
It's not the highest level of the sport. You can
you can.

Speaker 3 (02:05:58):
Go watch Astro's games for a lot less than three
hundred dollars a seat and get a pretty dog on
good seat.

Speaker 5 (02:06:03):
Mind you.

Speaker 3 (02:06:05):
Yeah, that caught me off guard there. I had no
idea that was coming. Holy cow ah. Here's something you
can do to take your mind off the high price
of a baseball seat. Go out to Belleville and visit
Cowboys Andamanski at Phoenix Knives. That's where he's been building
custom knives since nineteen seventy nine, some of the most
beautiful work you'll ever see. I have to ask him

(02:06:25):
sometime who taught him. I'm curious to see who his
mentor was, who his teacher was, who taught him how
to build some of the most amazing, beautiful knives on
the planet. He's right there on Main Street, been there
a long time. He moved into a bigger space year
maybe year and a half ago somewhere, which enabled him

(02:06:45):
to bring in more journeymen to work under him and
build more quality knives. And I'm talking everything from folding
knives to machetes to bowie knives.

Speaker 2 (02:06:56):
You name it.

Speaker 3 (02:06:57):
They're all out there, and they're all absolutely gorgeous. And
if you take the family out there, just go by
yourself if you want, they'll even take you in the
back and teach you how to build your own knife.

Speaker 2 (02:07:06):
Right there. On site.

Speaker 3 (02:07:08):
Let you do that, and that's that's kind of a
cool experience. It's a one of a kind thing. You
can't just go anywhere and they, well, yeah, I got
to build my own knife today. Very few people get
to say that, but you can. If you go to
Phoenix Knives Main Street in Belleville. Can't miss the place.
Phoenix Knives dot com is the website usually got about
one thousand or more knives ready for sale anytime you

(02:07:32):
go out there. Phoenix Knives dot com nine fifty one.
Holy Cow, How time flies?

Speaker 1 (02:07:37):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (02:07:38):
Nine fifty one on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Let
me sit back down here. I had a book I
wanted to get to today. I got an advanced copy
of it about a week ago, I think it was.
It's called The Best Fly Fishing Is Everywhere, Stories in
Celebration of Why We Fish, written by a guy named

(02:08:00):
Jesse Lance Robbins. And I've read a few passages in
the book. I haven't sat down and started to go
cover to cover on it yet, but I've read enough
of it to know it's it's going to be a
really good one, and I know I'm going to enjoy
the read. So I look forward to in my spare time,
whatever that is. I look forward to getting into this

(02:08:22):
book and the only thing that I.

Speaker 2 (02:08:24):
Wish it had is pictures.

Speaker 3 (02:08:26):
He's got illustrations that lead each of the chapters, but
not pictures, and that's okay. I understand why he didn't
do that, because I know how much it costs to
publish books. Well, I know how much it costs years
ago to publish books. I have no idea what it
is now, but I'm sure it's more. Although the possibility,

(02:08:48):
the graphic capability of publishers now and of self publishers
even is tremendous with AI and all the tools that
we have now to fill in the blanks that used
to have to be things that used to have to
be done by hand and then somehow printed and gotten
to the printing press and whatnot. A little easier that

(02:09:09):
part of it. At least, Oh, maybe he saved a
few bucks. There's a beautiful picture on the front by
the way of Oh Man, I want to say what
that is. It's a freshwater fish. I'm almost positive it
looks like a speckled trout. But I don't think it's
a speckl trout. In fact, I'm ninety nine percent sure
it's not. I'd be kind of curious to know what
species of freshwater fish that is. It's some sort of

(02:09:32):
a salmon maybe, or a or one of the medium
sized trouts.

Speaker 2 (02:09:37):
I'm not sure. But it's a beautiful book.

Speaker 3 (02:09:39):
Nonetheless, there's actually some relief on the cover. I don't
know how they do that. That's pretty fancy. I really
don't know how they it's kind of embossing on the cover.
It's a pretty good looking book. And like I said,
what I've read of it so far is is fantastic,
and I'm gonna keep diving in a little bit more
and a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (02:09:57):
I want to kind of wrap it up today with.

Speaker 3 (02:10:02):
What Faux Pro and I talked about earlier, and that
is his experience with falling into the water at Kurth
Lake yesterday and having a what he described quite vividly
and literally to me yesterday on the phone before we
had this conversation on the show today, as he really

(02:10:26):
wasn't sure he was going to live. He was at
that point of exhaustion, he was at that point of willpower.
His body was just just a couple of couple of
short breaths away from sinking to the bottom.

Speaker 2 (02:10:45):
I'm glad he made it.

Speaker 3 (02:10:46):
I'm glad he got through it, but I want that
to And this is a guy who has a ton
of experience in boats. He is comfortable as anybody. Probably
he realizes now he's been a little too comfortable with
fishing by himself and not worrying about what could happen.
Nothing's going to happen to me. Up there, My sunglasses
are falling off my head. I got to reach for him,

(02:11:09):
and when he reached for him, he lost his balance
and he went out of the boat in sixty degree water. Now,
sixty degree water is not it's not an you didn't
fall between two icebergs.

Speaker 2 (02:11:23):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:11:23):
I had to wear a survival suit when I fished
off the coast of Sweden because the water there was
I think three degrees centigrade, which is about probably thirty
five six maybe seven fahrenheit, and you had They told
us that if you go into the water without that suit,

(02:11:44):
you got about three minutes before you're dead, and probably
less for me because I would have gone into total shock.
I don't think I've ever been immersed in thirty seven
degree water. But the reason I'm using this time now
is just to remind every one of us. Everything we
do outdoors, everything we do anywhere, carries risk. And anybody
who's strained a muscle just getting out of bed, or

(02:12:09):
some innocuous little activity you do going up a flight
of stairs, coming downstairs, all of a sudden your acl
goes out.

Speaker 2 (02:12:19):
That's stuff that we have to be aware of. Two things.

Speaker 3 (02:12:22):
Number One, I've gotten kind of lazy about my exercise routine.
I'm gonna make a commitment to myself, and I'm telling
all of you that I'm gonna do this, and you
can follow up and call me on it if I don't.
I'm gonna start exercising hard again to make sure that
I get a lot of more mileage out of my
knees and my hips and my legs and my shoulders

(02:12:43):
and my arms. I'm gonna get stronger as much as
an old man can get stronger. And I'm also gonna
be careful when I'm out. I don't care whether you're fishing,
whether you're at the shooting range anywhere. Ah Man, I'm
putting my safety hat on again. You start the music
on me. That's okay, Frankie. I got all day tomorrow.
I got two hours tomorrow. If I have to stay safe,

(02:13:05):
will you. I don't want to lose any of you,
especially the guys I know. Man, I don't even know
half of you yet, but I want to know all
of you, and I want to make sure that you're
all here every time we do this.

Speaker 2 (02:13:15):
I'll be back tomorrow morning.

Speaker 3 (02:13:16):
Today. I'll probably go back into this just a teensy
little bit tomorrow if you can't tell already, and then
we'll see what else is going on in the big
old world of the outdoors and golf. Thank you all
for listening. I truly do appreciate it. Tell some friends
and bring them along sometime wherever you are. You can
listen on the iHeartRadio app too. Remember that is open
the app and say play Sports Talk seven ninety and

(02:13:39):
you can catch that show anywhere on the planet. That's
it for now, see you tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios

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