Hunting for Ants!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now Here's Doug Fike. I left tee it up on
a Sunday. Holy cow, what a difference of day makes
huh man, oh man. If you have not been outside yet,
stay inside until you can put on one, at least
one extra layer of clothing before you step through the door.
And I don't know who was in this studio yesterday

(00:22):
after I left and before I arrived back here, but
somebody jacked the thermostat up to seventy five degrees and
I felt like I'd walked into a little easy bake oven.
I was just four or five chocolate chips away from
coming out of cookie. It was, Yeah, it's hot in here.

(00:43):
I've cracked the door and left it open, and the
only people here pretty much are me, Frankie Erica from
the KTRH News who's producing for her?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Frankie, do you know?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Oh no, I don't know that, okay, and a mystery
producer for KTRH. And that's it. On three two one
two five seven ninety Email me Dug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. We've got a coal front, well a cool
front slash coal front, depending on where you live. And
understanding that I don't I reserve the word cold for

(01:14):
temperatures of freezing or below. It's not freezing here, but
it's uh, it's gonna be a little bit nippy when
you walk outside this morning on this what is this
the second day of the second half of duck season.
It is flounder eve if you're watching, because tomorrow is
the restart of flounder fishing and retention, Well, you A

(01:39):
lot of people have been fishing for flounder to make
sure they knew where they wanted to go tomorrow morning.
And I would be willing to bet that I'm gonna
give an over under. The over under number is about
thirty percent of people who were gonna go flounder fishing
tomorrow are rethinking that decision and maybe gonna postpone that

(02:00):
for a day or two or maybe three. And if
they can postpone it for three and a half or
four days, they might be able to fish when it's
eighty something on Thursday afternoon. Again, what a mess? Huh,
let's some I do want to play the Texas temperature game,
and I want to play it as early as we
can this morning. I think I think it'll be an
interesting one. You want to wait frank or you want

(02:21):
to try and tee it up right now, we've got
it loaded, you know. Yeah, somebody who wants to play
golf either at River Plantation or at Oakhurst up there
on the north sides of town.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Both of them are up on the north side.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
They're both onn by a good friend of mine who's
generous enough to give me rounds to use his prizes.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
And I'm not talking about golf for you.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
I'm talking about golf for you and three buddies at
either of those courses. Whoever wants to jump in line
and play, let's go. You pick whoever is going to play, Frankie,
and and then we'll get somebody teed up.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
I think it'll be a lot of fun. And it's
on the honor system.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Now, you can't go, you can't go scurrying electronically to
the weather channel or to your favorite forecast site. This
is based on This is based on living around here
long enough to know that the weather is crazy and
you're just going to have to take a guess at
what the high and low temperatures are right now. It's
very simple. I can't wake them up, Frankie. I can't

(03:19):
wake them up. I don't know what's going on. Somebody
will want this. It's free golf for four for Havn's sakes,
at least get it for a friend. If you don't play,
get it for a friend. Really good trout fishing this week,
by the way, if you haven't, if you haven't heard,
and that, it was pretty much across the entire Texas coast.
I don't recall getting an email or seeing anything online

(03:44):
from anybody that just took a picture of an empty stringer.
It's been pretty good. Depending on where you are, the
trout might be a little bit bigger, a little bit smaller,
but overall it was a good week. And who knows,
maybe the fish know what's coming. We're getting a major
cool down along the coast though, one way or the other.

(04:04):
And it's not a freeze. Like I said, it's not
gonna be cold. I don't use that word, uh just
I don't just throw that word around willy nilly.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
That's an old man's expression. I reserve it for thirty
two degrees or lower. Is that is that our guy?

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, that's the guy.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Okay, tee it up, let's go frank, Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Hold on, let's see here. And this and that, and
here we go. Is it hot sweat or is it cold?

Speaker 1 (04:37):
You can see my own here?

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, but you to the test on the Texas temperature game.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
All right, here we go. I have Cameron on the line.
Let's let's get him on the line. Hold on, you
got him, right, you got him?

Speaker 2 (04:54):
You taking Frankie?

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Is he there?

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Cam there?

Speaker 4 (04:58):
All right?

Speaker 5 (04:58):
All right?

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Good, good good? Oh Cameron? How long you lived in
southeast Texas?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
About thirty years? Okay?

Speaker 2 (05:06):
So you know what's going on, don't you.

Speaker 6 (05:09):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, it's pretty simple, it really is. So what we're
gonna do here is I'm gonna ask you and I'm
gonna ask Frankie to tell me what the high and
low temperatures are in the state. And then hang on,
I have to write down two numbers. I have to
write down the magic numbers here, okay, And that's that
all right. So and then the difference between your guess

(05:29):
and the actual number we will add together for the
high and the low, and whoever whichever of you has
the best the lowest differential will win.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
This is that simple. Do you want to go first
or second? Cameron?

Speaker 6 (05:42):
On a second?

Speaker 1 (05:43):
All right, You're gonna put you can put Frankie in
the hot seat. Frankie, you've never been in the hot seat,
have you? In a second? Okay, Frankie, what do you
consider to be the low temperature in the state of Texas?

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Oh, gosh, let's see. Uh, we'll go with I'm going
to go with thirty five thirty five?

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Cameron, what do you think is the low temperature in
the state of Texas with.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
The cold front? I'm going a lot lower.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
Let's go twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Oh, Frankie, he's put you to the test man. Okay, Uh, Frankie,
what do you think is the high temperature in the
state of Texas right now?

Speaker 6 (06:22):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Considering this, considering that, let's.

Speaker 7 (06:25):
Go with Uh.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'll go with forty forty.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
The high temperature in the state of Texas is forty
I'm not letting you change your guests eat at a second.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh I just processed that and I'm not walking though.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Okay, hold on, do we do we give him a
second chance? Cameron? Or no, no, no, no, no, no no no.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Okay, yeah, just just run with it.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Just run with it, Frankie, and just go ahead and
start running toward the door.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh yeah, okay, forty.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Cameron, pick a number between one of the and you're
probably gonna win.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
What's the high.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Temp with sixty five?

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Sixty five?

Speaker 1 (07:05):
You think? Okay, hold on, let me do a little
bit of math here, okay, and Frankie's forty Okay, Frankie,
it was close. The camera's rightfully laughing. I'm surprised you're
not laughing. More so the actual high temperature, Cameron, you

(07:25):
nailed it, almost actual high temperature in the state of Texas. Oh,
actually you did. It's nineteen degrees. It just lay nineteen degrees,
which you said it would No, wait, no, you said twenty.
So you lost that one by one. You said the
high was sixty five, it's actually seventy two.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
You missed that one by eight, for a total of
nine degrees.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Frankie on the other hand, Frankie on the other hand,
said thirty five for a high or for a low.
You missed that one by sixteen. And if you add
sixteen to the to the thirty two he missed, Pike
on the high temperature, it's a total of forty eight.

(08:07):
That may be a record, Frankie, that may be a record.
Swinging a miss Yeah, well, no, we don't ding that.
I can't do that to you. Yeah, I'll make him
dig himself in a little while, Cameron, that was one
of the better efforts I've ever seen, by the way.
I have to may have to put you in the
Texas Temperature Game Hall of Fame for that.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
So I've been listening for a while.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
So yeah, you know when I told Frankie yesterday, I said,
I don't want to play it today. I want to
wait till tomorrow, till till this front really gets it,
gets its teeth into Texas. And that those seventy two's
are all the way down at Brownsville and just I
mean the bottom thirty miles of the state. There's three
of them down there, and then the seventy twos are

(08:50):
where is that can't even find them.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
I don't know where.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I'm sorry. The seventy twos are at the bottom and
eight hundred miles away at the top. There are one, two,
three nineteens in the state of Texas, and a whole
lot of twenties and thirties and forties all the way
to Gallas. And it's in the sixties now, and that's
gonna drop in a few minutes too. Forties up starting
around Huntsville probably and moving forward. Hey, Cameron, that was

(09:16):
one of the better efforts, really for sure, Thank you man.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
That was good.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
That was fun. I appreciate it, sir. Stand by, Frankie's
gonna get you in. Let you know how to come
and get your prize, all right, Holy cow, thank you man.
That was awesome. Forty degrees high in the state of Texas, Frankie.
In fairness to Frankie, he's a little green at this game.

(09:40):
He's not a veteran yet. He's not a veteran, and
as a young man, I don't know how much temperature
or how much how much attention he's really paid to
the temperature over the years his few years on this
planet so far. He'll get the hang of it. Though
he's a player. He'll figure it out, no question about it.

(10:02):
Let me see what this is going to be? An
interesting picture on my word? Uh yeah, Mojo sent a
picture that her sister sent to her all the way
from over in Arizona, and I actually that could have
been me when I was a little kid. This is

(10:24):
a significant kind of one and a half story house
in Arizona somewhere, who knows, and whoever the little boy
is who lives in that house, is standing on the
peak of the roof.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
He's got something in his hands.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
It looks like it might even be a potato chip
bag or something like that, and he has found his
way onto the roof and on to the top of
the roof. And who knows, in this day and age,
might be on a cell phone talking to a friend
of his telling him, Hey, look back toward my house.
Tell me what you see. That's something out of done.
When I was now this this boy looks about ten eleven,

(11:04):
ten eleven years old somewhere in there. And it's not
super super tight shot. It's shot from a couple of
hundred yards away probably, but it's very clear that there's
a kid who's climbed out on the roof, which I
did numerous times. We would get up on the fence
between our house and the house next door, and then

(11:26):
you had to kind of halfway jump and halfway claw
and get yourself onto the roof. The roof was very
close to the fence. In hindsight, it wasn't it wasn't
a terrible task to get up there, although you did
end up And this is this will tell you how
old I am.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
We had wood shingles.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Everybody had still still had those split wood shingles on
their roofs.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
There was no.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
There was no at what are these shingles made of? Asbestos?
And I don't know, dreams whatever shingles are made from now,
I can't remember the material they're using, but whatever it is,
we didn't have that. We had wood shingles. And boy,
you talk about a sight to see. After Hurricane Carl
I came through in the sixties, there were tens of
thousands of wood shingles on the ground everywhere throughout the

(12:17):
city of Houston. And then for about the next I
don't know, for about the next six months, all you
heard all day long was shingles being nailed back down
onto roofs. That was a different time, very different time.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
And yeah, we did.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
We'd climb up on the roof and then jump down,
and then climb back up and jump down again.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
It felt like forever.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
When you you shinnied your you kind of shimmied yourself
out to the very edge of the roof. You had
your little you had your towel tied around your neck
so you could be Superman, and then you just jump
off the roof, and at least I learned very young
and very early, uh not to just land flat footed
on your legs, but you had to hit and you
had to drop and roll when you hit the ground,

(13:00):
kind of like paratroopers were taught to do back in
World War Two when they were making their first real
parachute jump over enemy line somewhere. The last thing you
wanted when you needed to hit the ground running was
some snaping ankle and be stuck somewhere. How do I
get on these tangents? Holy cow, we need to take
a little break here on this Sunday morning. Lots of unpack.

(13:23):
I've got some golf stuff I want to talk about
too later, not now, but later, and I'll get to
it when it's time. All the way out, I'll tell
you about Shooter's Corner. You got hunting plans and you're
thinking about a new gun. You're thinking about Ammo, you're
thinking about optics, Camo reloading supplies. There's a problem with
a gun that you need to get fixed. One of

(13:44):
your favorite guns is doing something wonky and it's not
working right. Take it to Jerry or JTK over there
at Shooter's Corner. Or really because they're out so much
this time of year. Honestly, now, if it's something really
specific that needs to be done and it's a very operation,
it's major surgery on this gun, wait for Jerry or

(14:05):
Jay to get hold of it. But the guys who
also work there with them are excellent at what they
do as well, and honest enough to tell you, you know,
this is a job for Jerry, and wait till he
gets back.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
I've sent so.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Many of my listeners to Shooter's Corner over the years
for gunsmithing work when they've been told that now we
can't fix this, or you got to put a whole new,
whole new deal on it, a whole new this, whole
new that, or just just I'm sorry, we can't fix
this gun. Let me tell you another one. When other
people are telling you that, before you do anything else,
take that gun to Jerry and jtksee if they can't

(14:39):
fix it, and they will. Family will operate for forty
something years. If you wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount at Shooter's Corner and be prepared
when you walk through the door to a listen to
somebody else's shooting sports story and B have a seat
in the either on the sofa or in that big
old fluffy chair and tell your own story. Anybody who's

(15:01):
there will be respectful enough to listen to your story
unless they get called off to a uh someplace where.
If it's law enforcement, they may have to leave early.
But the people who just come in and out of
that store on a daily basis some of the friendliest
people I've ever met. They all want to meet you,
they all want to talk to you, and uh, just
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Oh you have no music? Oh that's what you mean. Okay,
So are we clear on.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
This with Bill? Are we good?

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Just hang tight?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Okay, Yeah, I'll hang tight. Seven one three two one
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Speaker 2 (15:44):
That may be a joke that he wants to.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Tell, and if it is, I know the joke and
I'm not gonna let him tell it on the air.
Tell him that yeah, flounder e I want to go
back to that for just a minute, because the tons
of flounder are moving all the way out to. We
talked about it ad nauseam or here into one hundred
feet of water off shore to go do their spawn. Yeah,
that's see. I know what he was working toward. I

(16:08):
know what he's working towards. It's based on an old joke.
And I'll tell you the joke later on, but not
not in front of the kids. Where else do I
want to go? My goodness, I can tell you that
pretty much whatever water fowl we're going to get is
probably either already arrived riding on this north wind or

(16:31):
on its way riding on the north wind.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
And we'll be here shortly.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
And that's It's kind of a vague way to say
what I'm saying, but this one, this is the front
we've been waiting on. I want to find the wind.
Hang on, let me find my little wind thing here.
I gotta scroll down down down there we go, I
win surf. I want to see how much wind we've
got popping off his coast out of the north northeast

(16:58):
along the beachfront, Good Heaven, thirty down there in Galveston,
well at the west end of the island, twenty five
out of the east northeast at the Galveston Jetty and
then the inland the inland values. It got twenty miles
an hour up on the north side of the of
the six ten oh, that's Beltwey eight twenty up there,

(17:21):
fifteen sixteen, twenty one, twenty sixth down at Port Levaka.
The north wind, which is carrying all this cold weather,
is just pouring, absolutely pouring into the state. There's one
little odd area here. I'm not really sure what that is.
That may be a little pocket of warm air. I'm

(17:41):
not sure. All the way down the coast, Corpus Christie
twenty eight, it hasn't really gotten quite down to the
tip of the state yet.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Five miles an hour four five.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
There's an eleven at Laguna Madre North, and then from
there it starts walking twenty two, twenty eight, sixteen sixteen,
twenty four. Where is that Orange Grove? Twenty four miles
an hour out of the It had a little west
in it. Actually, I'll be darned that's an anomaly though
the Trent. The actual wind, the way it's really blowing

(18:18):
is north northeast, and that's going to continue pretty much
all day. It's going to settle down a little bit
for tomorrow morning. It's not going to be blowing like this,
and in the thirties it's going to be one of
the other probably wherever you are along the coast, and
just hold on tight, just hold on tight if you
want flounder that bad, so badly, if you've waited these

(18:40):
loath these six long weeks without being able to bring
a flounder home, and you just can't stand it anymore,
and you be you, okay, and just grab onto everything
you can find and put it on your body, get
some hand warmers and stuff them in your pockets, and
then go stand in line to buy your mudnes and

(19:01):
there will be a line to buy mudmenis and finger mullet,
because there are that many crazy people in Texas who
will fish under any conditions to get a shot at
a really good fish.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
And you'll have that shot tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
They haven't been bothered those by and large, the flounder
haven't been messed with, as we say here in Texas,
in six weeks.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
They've enjoyed a free ride.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
They can go wherever they want, eat whatever they want
without fear of being yanked out of the water until tomorrow.
And when tomorrow hits, there's gonna be a lot of
yanking going on seven one three, two one two five
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I'm hoping that that everybody who continues to feel like

(19:47):
the like the duck season and the goose season aren't
just gonna are gonna be no good. I'm hoping they'll
get out in the next week or so and see
more birds than they even might be coming down this
way because this front I'm gonna I'm gonna try to
find during the break here coming up, I'm gonna try
to find a national well I know I can find it.

(20:09):
I'll pull up a national weather map and I look
at the temperatures in the Midwest, where most of these
missing waterfowl they're not. They don't vanish from the face
of the earth. They just go somewhere else to live.
And a lot of them have been staying in short
term airbnbs, if you will, in the Midwest, waiting for

(20:33):
the weather to get so cold they just can't stand
it anymore. And somebody, somebody told me the other day,
and it makes sense. The birds, these birds are coming
down not based on temperature so much as really as
the length of the days their DNA is imprinted with
signals that they recognize in the length of the days

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and in the snow line. The snow line is what
impacts their migration as much or more than the temperatures do,
because once the snow covers all that food, it becomes
very difficult for them to eat. And this is what
I heard, and it makes sense. It could be freezing cold.

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And how many times you've seen pictured. You don't see
it much here in practice, but in photographs and in
video you'll see all kinds of videos where ducks are
walking around on an ice covered pond, where they're walking
on frozen ground doing all of this stuff. But as
long as they can find food, theyn't hang around there

(21:42):
for a little while. Once that food's covered up with
snow and all that grain that was left on the
ground just looks like a big white blanket. It's underneath
that big white blanket. They go farther south so they
don't have to go rooting around through the snow to
find a piece of corn or a grain of rice,
or a soybean or what try to dig up a peanut.
They don't have to do that if they come down here,

(22:04):
and this one I'm really, really confident is gonna bring
them calm down, you know what. I'm scrolling up the
eye Windsurf site and I'm able to see wind values,
and I'm up around Dallas Fort Worth and I'm seeing
a thirty twenty one, most of them in the teens

(22:26):
actually up around Dallas. There's some more twenties getting into
the hill country Waco. Just a little west of Waco.
It's twenty three miles an hour, and this is all
just hammering hard north wind. Most of that is behind
the front. It's down into the teens again, and I
think that will be probably as high as we'll get tomorrow.

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We're gonna have north wind. It's gonna be cold, there's
no question. Well, it's gonna be very chilly. To correct myself,
it's not supposed to freeze down here now, a little
bit north of here, maybe even in Montgomery County, a
very light freeze. They're gonna get it, for sure. I
know I can find that map I'm looking for. Let

(23:06):
me see if I can scroll this thing up possibly
and see something new. Now, the Texas temperature map won't
give me Oklahoma or Arkansas or or any points north
of there, but you know what, I got a way
to go. I know how to do this. I'm gonna
go back into the name of this site and I'm
gonna erase Texas. Let's go back, back, back, back back,

(23:32):
and do Iowa just for giggles and see what we get. Yeah,
here we go. We're in Iowa now. In a in
a blink, we moved from Texas to Iowa. Every number
on the board, Frankie, this is I take that back.
There's there's one. There are two places where the number

(23:52):
on the board in Iowa right now is not a
negative number. That's cold the warmer, Frankie, to redeem yourself
from the Texas temperature game, what do you think is
the high temperature? Giving Having just given you clues, what's
the high temperature in the state of Iowa right now?

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Well, I gotta be honest, I'm I'm I'm trying to
get some of this stuff here for this contest winner.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
So I was hearing some of.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
That, Oh okay, so well yeah, then then nothing do you?

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Oh you oh so you're working on that. Okay, I'm
working on so anyway, So a.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Lot of negative numbers in Iowa right now.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
But what's the state high.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
In Iowa right now. Oh God, and you will redeem
yourself entirely if you can get within five degrees.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Okay, okay, well let's go with uh. Oh goodness, the
high right now? Is that what you say?

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, what's the high right now?

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Oh wow? Uh we'll go with uh, We'll go with
forty three.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Oh god, Frankie, Frankie, Frankie, Frankie. The high temperature in
the state of Iowa is one.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Oh well, there it is. It's one that's kind of
like what you deal with Texas.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah. We may, you know, randomly throughout the day or
throughout the morning. I may just pop quiz you on
another state and see what you think the high temperature is.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
We're gonna get you dialed in. Man, this surprises me.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
What I was what I was saying while you were
getting that information buttoned up for me, and I appreciate that,
of course. Is that every number on that they register
a temperature on in the state of Iowa right now
is a negative number. I'll take that back. There's a zero,
so that counts as not a number at all. I
guess there's a zero in two ones, and they are

(25:40):
basically along the southern edge of the state.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Everything else is don't go outside.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Minus seventeen minus eighteen, minus thirteen, minus fifteen, another seventeen
below zero.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
I don't want to live in Iowa.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
If that's what I'm gonna wake up to in the December,
I want no part of it. I don't want to
travel there on the risk that it might be seventeen
below zero. Huh huh, no, thank you very much. How
do these people survive this stuff?

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Frankie?

Speaker 1 (26:14):
And there's a half a country, but above that, and
then above that is all of Canada, and it's just colder.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Still. I couldn't do. That's just not me, man.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
And I know you.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Oh, if you dress right, it's okay. You get used
to it now.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
I'm not gonna get used to negative numbers across the
whole state. If I were if I lived in Iowa
and I woke up this morning and it was eighteen
degrees below zero minus eighteen, I'd be packing. I'd be
in the house packing, And that's all I do. We
got to take a break on the way out there. Actually,
if you don't mind a little cold breeze, you could

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play golf today down at Timber Creek. FM twenty three
fifty one in Friends with a few miles off the
golf freeway. Sure, go ahead, play golf. It's not going
to be that bad. At least you don't live in Iowa.
Timber Creek's got twenty seven holes, beautiful plays, a very
playable layout, a lot of fun. I've played down there
probably I don't know one hundred times over the course

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of its history and had a great time every time
i've been down. All the people there are nice. I've
known people who have worked there half their lives, and
I've known people who The GM's been there a very
long time, and he's there because he runs the right ship.
He runs a very tight, friendly, customer oriented ship. If
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(27:58):
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listening certain to appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Let's I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
I'm gonna go to Kevin first and then I'll get
to Dave and we'll move on through here with some
phone calls. We'll see what happens.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Kevin, what's up man?

Speaker 5 (28:12):
What you up to?

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Doug?

Speaker 2 (28:13):
You know, just trying.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
To figure out where the lowest temperature in the whole
country is now that I found out, there's the high
temperature in Iowa right now is one degree.

Speaker 8 (28:22):
Oh my, you know I used to live in I
used to live in Iowa and it is nothing nice. Well,
you know, it's a lot drier climb it up there.
So sure, even when it's colder, it's not as cold
as it would be if it was one.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Don't start with the dry cold stuff in the dry heat.
No minus where is it minus seventeen? Minus eighteen that's
what it is for a low that's cold man.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yeah. I was an electrician up there and we would work.

Speaker 8 (28:48):
I was working at Procter and Gamble plant and it
was minus twenty degree windshield and I was running four
inch rigid pipe in a pipe rack and we would
run ten foot of pipe take us fifteen twenty minutes,
and then we'd have to go into a heated building
for about thirty to forty five minutes to warm up
enough so that we can go back out and we'll.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Do another ten minutes of work. Oh, what's on your mind?

Speaker 8 (29:11):
But I wanted to I wanted to talk to you
about the drone situation. And you know, Red Snapper, You've
got a federal regulation of two out out beyond the
regio state waters in federal waters, but Texas waters you
can keep.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
Four and it's there's never a closure.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (29:30):
Why why if it's a federal regulation, does Texas have
to adhere to it when you don't have to adhere
to it for the Red Snapper.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, you know, I haven't seen any release yet on this,
but there's a lot of talk on social media that
the Parks and Wallefe Department isn't is going to look
the other way on the drone thing, and.

Speaker 8 (29:51):
I, well, you know, go ahead, no, you go not
Not that I would not that I would really care
because for me going out surface, and especially for the
bigger fish like that, part of the thrill of it's
weighing out chest deep and having your big surf. Fraud
and trying to chunk four to six ounce spider weight
as far as you can out there, and then walking

(30:13):
it back in and putting it in the ride holder.
That's that's all part of the fun of.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
It for me, that that is part of the fun.
It is, Kevin. But here's the deal.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
The guys who are using drones mostly aren't using aren't
aren't fishing for a big drum or big red fish.
They're fishing for big sharks. And I don't care who
you are, and I don't care what rod you build.
And you can't cast ten pounds of bonito, you know,
they've got big, big baits they have to put out
for big, big fish. And that just makes it. I mean,

(30:43):
they can still use little boats. They can still paddle
them out themselves on a surfboard like we used to do.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
They can still do all that.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
But I just don't have a problem with using a
drone to take a fish bait out. That's not helping
them catch fish unless they can put a camera on
it and drop that big old chunk of meat right
off that shark's nose.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
And they can't do that.

Speaker 8 (31:07):
Yeah, Whenever I was working down at the Pass of
the County, park down there. I met some guys one
winter that had come up from Chili down in South America,
and that's all they did was drone fish for sharks.

Speaker 7 (31:20):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
Sure.

Speaker 8 (31:20):
And they actually had the camera where they would go
up and fly it around and find where they seen
saw a shark and then drop it right where the
shark was.

Speaker 7 (31:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
See that that I don't have a problem with saying
no to, because that's kind of that's not fair, Chase.
But all this other stuff that the what about the
forward facing sonar, that's more that's more pinpoint. Let's go
catch a specific thing right there then dropping them chunk
of banita in the in the water. Yes, sir, they

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got to figure this out.

Speaker 6 (31:54):
Man.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
It's good to hear from you as always.

Speaker 8 (31:57):
Oh yeah, it's kind of slow time of year for
fishing tournament and everything, so it'll be a couple of
months before I get started doing any.

Speaker 7 (32:05):
Of that again.

Speaker 8 (32:06):
But I'm just doing my thing, riding around for the
taking care of inland parks for the county down here.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Maybe we ought to start something like Kevin and Dougs
round up cold weather, bundle up, catch them up kids
fishing rodeo.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
I think we can get all that on a T shirt.

Speaker 8 (32:27):
Get them to go out and catch some of them,
trout that they release that tom bass.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh man, that'd be fun. Yeah, that'd be fun.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Kevin.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Thanks man. It's always a pleasure.

Speaker 5 (32:35):
Hey, no problem. But take care, buddy, all right, All.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Right, man, I'm just gonna keep taking them in line.
I got got a full plate here, Dave.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
What's up my friend?

Speaker 7 (32:47):
Hey? Hey, yeah, that that car show yesterday wonderfully good.
I'll send you some pictures here after a while. I
got one of them little liar birds are from him
here on Lake Donroe, okay, around and we got we
got a little bit of uh every once in a while,
see a white cap out of here. But that wind
is honking out of the north.

Speaker 5 (33:07):
Yeah, buddy, you know. And but hey, uh no no.

Speaker 6 (33:11):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (33:11):
One of one of the things I was gonna talk
about is on the flounder fishing. Yeah, you know, I
was fishing on the April Sounds Pier over there back
when it was there, and uh, there was a really
nice old black lady over there, and he was diving
around over there, just right down the pilelines and stuff,
and all she had was a salt plastic uh, strawberry

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with the white tail.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
That's a great way to catch flounder. A lot of
people they'll fish off a pier with flounder, very structure oriented,
and they'll be sitting on a pier and got their
bucket of mud mints or or finger mullet or whatever,
and they'll put on on a hook and they'll sling
it as far away as they can from the structure.
But if you just walk those pier pilings and bounce
a little jig or bounce a mutton boy, bounce ad minutes,

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you'll get one and just straight down, don't cast at all,
just drop it and then walk up and down the
pier and bounce it around.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
You catch more flanner doing that.

Speaker 7 (34:09):
Yes, sir, hey, And you know like me, You know,
I chunk out right here behind me, and I got
my buddies coming over here right now, because I'm not
gonna fish the day. I got a lot of stuff anyway. Yeah,
they're gonna fish over here to where I bait out.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
With them, uh with the range.

Speaker 7 (34:26):
But then I've got some guys that just go right
on them piers over there and put some blood bait
on there and drop it straight down.

Speaker 5 (34:33):
Boom, they got a captive, you know it.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
You gotta have you gotta When you get one, you
gotta say boom too. That's important, Hey, boom, got one.

Speaker 7 (34:44):
Sometimes they don't have a net, and then and they
just drag it up to where the boat launch is,
drag it up to where they put the boats here,
and then get it out of there, grab it and
put it in their eyes here.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
You know so it.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Sounds good to me.

Speaker 7 (34:56):
Damn all right, man, I got I gotta run to
a break by one, God bless Mary Chris.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
All right, man, all right, folk pro Brandon, hang on,
I'm gonna run through this break pretty quick, and well Frank,
he's gonna run through it quickly. I'm gonna tell you
about Carter's Country first, and you guys are first up
when we get back.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
I promise Carter's.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Country, if you don't know, is guns ammo and hunting
stuff has been for more than sixty years thanks to
the good work of a very wonderful guy who knew
he taught me tons. He probably taught me seventy five
percent of what I know about whitetail hunting. And I
haven't forgotten anything that man ever told me. I got
the honor to meet and be friends with Bill Carter,

(35:40):
and to this day I still I hold him in
the highest regard. He passed many years ago now, but
the legend and the brand lives on guns, ammo and
hunting stuff.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Anything you need up to and included. You go to
the North Side to.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
The Treshwek store and you will be able to go
in there, go buy gun, buy some hearing protection by
some eye protection by some ammo, walk right out the
back door to the shooting range, whether you bought a shotgun,
a handgun, a rifle, whatever it is, and you'll be
able to start shooting that gun back there and get
better and better with it before you have to go
use it for whatever you're going to use it for

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in the shooting sports or self defense.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
They've been around that long.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
There are two other locations, one on I ten, one
down in Pasadena, where you're gonna be able to get
anything in everything you need, and you're gonna be able
to talk to people who understand your language. They don't
sell snorkels, they don't sell whatever tennis rackets. At Carter's Country,
it's guns, ammo and hunting stuff and has been and
always will be.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
If you're not familiar with the.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Brand, whether you're young or you just moved here, and
you just drive down a corner to the first little
gun store you see, you're missing. You're missing the point
of what Carter's Country is about. You're missing the point
of what Carter's Country is about. If that store hadn't
been there more than twenty years, then maybe go to
someplace like Carter's Country where the people who are there

(37:05):
have socks older than most gun stores. Carterscountry dot Com
is a website. Most anything in the store can be
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you for listening. Certainly do appreciate.

Speaker 5 (37:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
I want to get to these phones because these two
guys have been waiting since Biden was in office. Fouk
pro your first, Brandon, you'll be next. What's up, faux pro.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
Man, I've been waiting since Frank he got the weather right, I.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Don't remember that happening. Well, exactly, what's up?

Speaker 6 (37:43):
Man? I'm not here. I'm matter respiking down the old
ladies inflatables in the front yard. Out here. They contended
to wander off a little.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Bit last night, your little breezy did it?

Speaker 6 (37:53):
Yeah, a little bits. I tried to readjust your decoys.
When the wind changes to the opposite direction overnight and
you come back into a cluster on the water.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
What you're talking about? Holy cow?

Speaker 4 (38:01):
Man?

Speaker 2 (38:01):
So how cold is it up there where you are?

Speaker 6 (38:05):
It's actually not bad, even though I'm probably the only
person that texted doing something you and Frankie were doing
earlier that I was sweating earlier. Man, it's about it's
about fifty with a fifteen twelve to fifteen fifty.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yeah, you're in pretty good shape in it. It'll you're
you are going to get a little freeze tonight.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
Right, Yeah, it's supposed to get down that they stay
up a twenties tonight, twenty eighties or something like that tonight.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
So that doesn't scare about, No, I got it.

Speaker 6 (38:30):
I got to client about fifteen minutes out. His daughter's
been on it for some crappie and he ain't quite
got his boat back all night. Man, you mind taking
me out catching crappie. I said, I'll tell you what, man,
we'll go out. We'll go out. I don't know what
we're gonna do. I gotta see it. We're sitting there
to catch him a little bit. Yeah, I said, but
one thanks for sure, you ain't going home without croppis.
I got to always keep cropping the freezer for clients
that don't catch them. But I always make sure they

(38:51):
take home a few bags of crompety. They are gonna
go home empty anty.

Speaker 5 (38:54):
No matter what.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
What is it? What is it about this particular weather
set that makes you kind of hesitant to go crappie fishing?

Speaker 6 (39:06):
The only thing I'm hesited about is the sudden temperature drop.
It'll congregate the crappie, but it like it takes them
a day or so to really acclimate to get back
hungry at the front. Yeah, but being there it was
this time yesterday it was seventy four. Yeah, I'm thinking
they're still they still try to eat up a little
bit before looking at the pressure today, the pressure is

(39:27):
not going to rise again till like five o'clock. Yeah,
but I think we've got a window. They're gonna try
to They know it's coming. They're gonna try to eat
up a little bit. But like tomorrow, I wouldn't even
venture forth.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yeah, if you can. You know what, if you can
hold your nose till Thursday, it'll be eighty again.

Speaker 6 (39:42):
Yeah, that's you know. We'll be down there and we'll
talk to you about it. We'll be there at Port
O'Connor froy. Do do it a throw something dead on
the bottom of the bottom of the bay and see
what eats. Took kind of fishing trip and then duck
hut Saturday. So but I would prefer this.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
I'm sorry from that. Yeah, you're having fun, all right, man,
let me go get Brandon before we bail here. What
will you what will you throw at those crappy today?
I'm just kind of curious, crappie.

Speaker 6 (40:08):
I'm throwing a thirty second out jigs is what I'm
going to start with, the thirty second ouse jigs. And
day like this, I'm going to stick with the shartroops
and pinks on a cloudy day like this.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Okay, I'm in, I'm in, all right, ma Hey, thank you. Yeah,
let me know when you're going down south, there's an
outside like a one and a hundred chance, but there's
an outside chance I might bounce down there for a
little while.

Speaker 6 (40:34):
Yeah, better than a lot. It was last night to
one point one to do. And so you and I
ain't going to South America for a month. Just ship.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Did anybody win it?

Speaker 6 (40:42):
I don't think so. It's whatever.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Heck I might I may throw in now, why not?

Speaker 3 (40:48):
You know?

Speaker 6 (40:49):
All right?

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Let me go, Let me go catch Brandon man. Thanks
po pro but I'll see men. Oh alrighty, there we are.
What's up, Brandon?

Speaker 6 (40:59):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
If I hear you, you know I'm feeling much better.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
I was just telling Frankie I'm about ninety percent back
with the voice now, so I feel pretty good.

Speaker 5 (41:07):
That sounds good.

Speaker 6 (41:09):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
No, I wanted to tell everybody I much rather you
had a caller before, uh, the other one. And I
much rather hunt and have a sense of the wild
and the weather conditions and everything like that. Under a
high fence. I'm sitting here looking at snow geese and

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Wharton County. Oh nice that that's yes, it is, and
I'm sitting here watching them funnel in.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Cool.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
But I mean a high fence. That's fine. If that's
what you want to do, that's fine. But the sense
of getting out there and watching the weather and hunting
it actually in the wild is an amazing deal.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
You shoot him or not.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
Yeah, I mean it's you got to. I mean it
puts your you know, I mean put your man skills
in the in emotion.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
It does.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
It really does.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
The high fence thing, I have a I don't. I
don't have a problem with big, high fenced ranches. I
kind of draw the line though, when I hear people
and I've heard it before, Yeah, I got I got
one hundred acres and I went ahead and high fenced
it and put some exotics in there. That's that's as

(42:25):
Bill Carter once told me about a place out in
West Texas that somebody was buying and I was asking
him about that was a full section, a couple of
one hundred, two hundred acres behind a fence.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Bill what Bill would have said?

Speaker 1 (42:40):
And he told me about a whole section out that
way where where land just goes forever.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
It's not enough room to park a car.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
And that's that's a it's a really that phrase really
tells how much room people who truly value wildlife will
give them. That it's not a petting zoo. It's not.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
You don't have to hem these animals in so much.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
And that's if it's a really small place and they
put a big old fence around it. I'm kind of
that's just not my cup of tea. If it's that
person's cup of tea, I don't have a problem. Once again,
it's legal. You can put a fence around a half
an acre if you want to, and put elk in
there if you want to.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
But I prefer that an animal.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
If the animal wants to run and run till it's tired,
then it needs to be able to do that.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
That's what I'm looking at. And honestly, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
I don't want to put a number on it, because
I know a lot of people who have high fence
ranches of different sizes, But I just I don't like it.
If it's too small, too.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Small, Well, that's and I understand what you're saying. Like
I say, I much rather hunt, Like I say, you
see a big buck or whatever it may be, water
fowl or a trophy trout or whatever it may be.
If you're I mean in the wild. It's it's the
sense of like, you know what, it's the hunt. That's

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what the hunt is.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Cold, yeah, fair chase.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
You might get them, you might not get you, you
know what, much rather mother nature take care of its course.
But it's a beautiful this front here. I hope everybody
has a great hunt with the ducks and the geese
because it's nice to see snow geese here in Wharton County.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Holy cow, that made my day, just to know that
you got a bunch of them dinner. You got any
idea can you estimate that.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
I'm sitting here watching them funnel end? I mean, it's
it's this cool. This cold front came here and pushed
some birds down. Oh no, everybody has no doubt.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
When I'm looking at Iowa, there's no place land in
Iowa where they're going to be able to find food.
If there's any if there was any precept with this
front that the whole state's covering snow right now. It's
below zero all over that state blows. Let me say,
thirty minutes ago, the high temperature in the state was one.
I'm gonna refresh it before I have to go to
the breakwey the high temperature now, Oh it's warmed up.

(45:08):
We can take off our sweaters.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Brendan. It's already five degrees in Iowa right now.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Oh my gosh, they can have that.

Speaker 4 (45:17):
No wonder we have snowbirds with the snow geese.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Man, I'd be way ahead of the geese leaving that. Thanks, man,
I see you right, all right, yeah the audio. All right,
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I want to shake his hand. Doug Pike says, Manny
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(47:17):
All right, second hour, second and final hour of the
show today starts right now. Thank you for listening. I
certainly do appreciate it. So here's the deal. I was
thinking during the break about something that I've not heard
mentioned before, But I feel it's almost impossible that I'm
the first person who ever thought of this, and somebody
has to have have tossed it around. We talk a

(47:40):
lot on this show, and by we, I mean all
of us. We talk a lot about high fence ranches
for deer and for elk, and for whatever four legged
animals you want to put behind them, black buck, access buck, fallow, deer, psycha, dear,
all those things.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
We have those all over the place.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
And if you want, and if you can put up
the right price, you can go in there and you
can take a trophy animal. You can get a trophy
animal off this high fence place. You can send it
off to the taxidermis. Get it all worked up. Why
isn't there yet the high fence equivalent for trout and bass?

(48:24):
Why are there not places? Especially in fresh water? It
would be very easy. You just build a lake, you
grow bass in it, giant bass. You call out all
the fish that are smaller or lighter than ten pounds,
let's say, or lighter than eight pounds, and then you

(48:45):
have a scale, a pay scale where if you want
to catch it, Let's say you want to catch an
eight pounder Okay, that's going to cost you five hundred bucks.
You want a ten pounder, that's a thousand bucks. Fifteen pounder,
fifteen thousand dollars. People would pay it, I bet to
go catch that fish. I really don't recall anybody ever

(49:08):
talking about that before, but it would be a very
easy thing to set up. And I told Frankie during
the break, rather than do that, if somebody really wants
a trophy fish that badly, that they would go in
and pay a pay to fish it out of a
pin like the little rainbow trout at fish Rama at

(49:30):
the old outdoor shows that used to come through town
where there would be just this backyard swimming pool about
a foot full of water and loaded up with two
or three hundred rainbow trout swimming in circles, and you
were giving a little tiny four foot cane pole with
four and a half feet a line on it, a
little fly at the end trying to catch one of

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those fish.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
And I think the reason is that fishing.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Well, no, I'm not really sure that would be the
I don't know exactly why why it is what it
is with fishing, but the truth of it, like I
told frank is.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
If you want to.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
If you want a fifteen pound bass on your wall
and you want to go ahead and make up a
story about how you caught it, all you got to
do is call a taxidermist, say, hey, I need a
twenty nine inch long bass that would have weighed nineteen pounds,
and I want you to mount it up and paint
it up and make it look really, really good, and

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then I'm gonna hang it on my office wall and
talk about it to everybody who comes through the door.
And it's just fantasy, is all it is. But it
would look right. The taxidermy work that's available these days
is just absolutely incredible.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
Now.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
With an asterisk, you get what you pay for.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
If you're if you're shopping a deal on a big
speckled trout or a great duck mount or anything like that,
you're probably gonna get what you pay for. I've seen
really good taxidermy. I've seen really horrible taxidermy, and it's
easy to tell the difference between the two.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
The best taxidermists I've ever.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Worked with when they hand you something, when they pull
it off the wall or off the table and hand
it to you, it looks like that animal could just
If it's a duck, it looks like it could just
stand up and fly away. If it's a fish, it
looks like pour a little water over its head, it
would just swim right through that and swim off the wall.

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The paint jobs are that good. You're paying now with
taxidermy more for the art of taxidermy, even with the
skinned animals, just the effort that goes into a really
good one. They all kind of buy their same forms
from the same companies more or less. But what I
learned from working and watching the work of a lot

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of really good taxidermists is they'll take that foam form
and then spend an hour or two applying little dabs
of clay, little dabs of putty here, there and everywhere
to that mimic the muscle, the muscle structure under the

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skin when that animal in real life is in that
real pose. And the cheap stuff, when they just stretch
the skin over the form that they bought.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Online from some form sell.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
You know, taxidermy forms are us, and they get it
shipped down to them, they just stretch it over, they
sew it up and call it today. And those animals
kind of look like they've been botoxed. There's no wrinkles.
They have no wrinkles under their skin or in their
skin because there's no muscle. And I'll wrap it in quotes.
It's just putty in a mountain.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
But you'll see it.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
You'll see it if you go into a taxidermy store sometime,
go into two go into a place where you know
that people getting good stuff and they tell you, yeah,
if you ever want to get something out of you,
take it to that guy right there. Go into that
store and look around at what's on the walls, and
then go somewhere else and look at what's on the walls.

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Look at the color in the paint jobs on fish,
look at the expressions and the relativity of whether or
not something really looks lifelike. Does it look like somebody
just stretched a skin over a.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Mannequin?

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Or does it look like that deer could just walk
through the wall and run out the shop? Holy count,
I'm just yapping away. Yep, yep, yep, ugh, get the yeah,
high fence, how about high fence fishing?

Speaker 2 (53:41):
Who's for that? Who's against it?

Speaker 1 (53:44):
And there would be people, I know, there would be
people who if you opened a place and said Okay,
you can come to my place and you can catch
a fourteen pound speckle trout, a thirty five inch fourteen
pounds speckle trout.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
A live fish is going to eat your gonna.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
We're gonna put the forward facing so onar wrong. We're
gonna go out and find you a twelve pounder and
you can catch that fish right below you. You just
dropped that live shad down there, and I guarantee you
a twelve pound fish. A lot of people would do that.
I think they would. I don't like that that's where
we are, but I think they might. I would much

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prefer like what Cliff Webin I did a million years
ago and battled through some really nasty weathers. It wasn't
like what we have today because the weather we were
in was dead calm and foggy, and when it wasn't foggy,
it was kind of misty raining.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
It was a nasty day.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
And that's why we were the only recreational fishing boat
on the water in baff And Bay on that day.
Because we had the courage to go down there, and
we were dumb enough. Because GPS really wasn't as good
as it is now. We were just dumb enough to
take a shot on maybe being able to get back
or not. We stayed probably in hindsight, probably a little

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later than we should because by the time we got
back to the dock, it was damn near dark. It
was just almost dark. But there you have it, all right,
I'll tell you what we're gonna do. Let's go ahead,
and let's go ahead and take this break and all
the way out to that break.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Kobe Stevens dot com.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
That is the apparel company for whom I've spoken now
for the better part of almost two years now.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
I think and I believe in at one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
That's what I wore to the Saint Jude Children's Research
Hospital tournament we did on Monday. That's what I'll probably
be wearing the next time I play golf in the
time after that. They have an incredible selection of shirts.
They've got shorts now, They've got men's sizes all the
way up to four X. They have all kinds of
gear in women's sizes and styles. They have kids stuff.

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It's all out there. All you got to do is
go to the website and take a look, and very
soon there's gonna be a big new store opening up
up there on the north side of town where you
can go go hin you can go to put hands
on all this stuff and look at yourself in a
mirror trying something on.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Look how good you look? Just look at that look
in the mirror.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
You know what he needs to do with his mirror
is have a backdrop behind you that shows like maybe
you're standing on the eighteenth green at Augusta or something
like that, where you'd you'd really look like you were
a real golfer at a real golf course, or just
use Golf Club of Houston. I bet they'd let him
do it. I'm sure they would. Some golf course somewhere.

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Kobe knows his way around, he'll find he'll find the
hole he wants to represent that and you're gonna feel good,
You're gonna look good. You probably gonna play better too.
Is it just listens to me? It lifts me up
when I wear this stuff. It really does. Also got
some fishing apparel. You can go check that out online
and see what he's got going on there. Great guy too.
He gives back to the community almost as much as
he probably makes off this stuff. He's always every time

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I turn around. He's I can't play golf this week, Doug,
because I got two tournaments I gotta go to.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
That's just who he is. Kobe Stevens dot com c O.

Speaker 6 (57:02):
B Y S T E V E N S.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Kobe Stevens dot com. If you're looking for a better
way to get to the deer stand from the camp
or maybe from halfway there, you want to get in quiet,
you don't want to leave a scent trail. I would
strongly recommend going and visiting Wayne Errington up at Air
Ride Bikes in Tomba and letting him show you one

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of those.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Truly, they're just beasts that that's all they are.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
They're a beast of an electric bike that will get
you over any terrain uphill, downhill, whatever.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
And not only will it get you where you're trying
to go.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
They have these things that the ones I'm talking about
this Rambow and Troxist. Those things they have independent motors
for each wheel, so they are they are really generating
a lot of power and enough so that Wayne says,
you get one of these little trailers he has and
you could you and your buddy on the bike and

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drag out a couple of deer along with all of that,
all your gear, they're that strong. Now. If you don't
need something like that, if you just want something to
ride up to the drug store on, or maybe take
a quick run to the grocery store, there are plenty
of commuter type models for that at air Ride bikes
as well. And for those of us who are a
little bit a little bit shaky on our feet and

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our balance, get a three wheeler. He's got three wheel
electric bikes that will take you anywhere you want to
go on. It was really I got my first experience
on one just a few months ago, and I was
so pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to figure
out how it worked. And you just pedal a thing
once or twice to kind of let it know you're

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there and you want to go somewhere, and you've already
preset the speed you want it on, and it just
goes for a while, and then when it decides okay,
I think maybe this is far enough, it'll kind of
power down a little bit and you just hit those
pedals again one time and boom, off you go again.
The one that I rode was capable of going about

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forty something miles an hour May I don't know, maybe more.
He had it set on one, it goes to five
on one. I was really impressed. Air Ride Bikes. They
got a big sale going on all the way up
to right to the through the holidays. If you want
to go up to four Corner Shopping Center up in Tomball,
it'll even let you take a test ride on one,

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like I got to do. And it won't take much
to convince you that you got to have this. When
you take that into your deer stand, you leave no
human centrail whatsoever, because no part of your body touches
the ground. It's just those little rubber wheels, and deer
aren't going to be spooked by rubber. They don't know
what it is.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Four Corner Shopping Center in Tomball.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Air Ride Bikes dot Com a r r ide air
ride Bikes dot Com. Nine twenty on Sports Talk seven
ninety Pike Show, Thanks for listening. Certainly, do appreciate that.
I want to get to some golf stuff I overheard
on the PGA Tour Network this morning. There's a good

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little talk show on there on Sundays, and I think
starts right at seven, and I don't know how long
they go. It gets me from roughly roughly belt Way
eight to the office. I listened to that, and on
the way in there was talk about managing expectations around
the golf course, especially for higher handicappers, which most people are.

(01:00:35):
If you've ever broken one hundred, you're already and I'm
talking about playing by the rules. If you've ever broken
one hundred, you're already ahead of the game, farther than
you think. Probably not many people really can do that
on a real golf course, playing by the real rules
of golf. So what they were talking about, though, is

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people who are sixteen, eighteen, twenty twenty two handicaps that
almost get a stroke a hole, or maybe even a
little bit more than that. A couple of the guys
in the group I play with all the time are
are in that boat. They're older, they don't hit it
very far, and they don't score well. Usually every now

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and then they have their day in the sun, or
at least they're nine hole score or maybe a couple
of good holes around and that's what keeps them coming
out that and just because it's a fun game to play.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
But what they were talking about is.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
The people who are in that boat and have truly
high handicaps, but who expect more out of themselves in
their games than their game and themselves are really able
to produce. If you're off the tee and you can
see your golf ball where it stops, that's not a

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bad T shot for you, if you're a high handicap.
Now I'm not talking about something you top and it
rolls twenty feet forward and stops and grass. But if
you get the ball of airborne and it goes about
as far as you usually hit it, and you can
see it where it stops, that's probably a good T shot. Okay.

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The only the only bad might be if it rolled
up right behind a tree or something like that. But
it's out there, you can still between you, between your
ball and the green, there's nothing but air. Then you've
hit a pretty decent shot for you, and you have
to appreciate that, and you have to take that as

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a small victory. Even though it's maybe ten yards off
the fairway and in a little bit of rough, that's
still better than being in the trees. So now you've
got your approach shot and you've got enough club if
you hit it dead square to get it to the
green and on the green, but you miss it a

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little bit to the toe or to the heel, okay,
and it winds up twenty yard short.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
That's okay, that's okay. You can still get there from
where you are.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
You can get up and down and make par If
you even hit a halfway decent chip or pitch shot,
you're gonna make bogie it worse you get it on
the green somehow, Just hit whatever. If you're twenty yards
out and you're a little bit scared to hit because
it's kind of damp and then a really thin lie
that used to scare me to death. And instead of

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instead of trying to force myself to hit what would
look like a cool shot, I'll take a putter out there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
I'll put it and I'll get it on the green
somewhere and probably.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
Be able to two putt. Now, if you've got super
giant greens and you're leaving yourself ninety footers, then maybe
you work on your pitching game. But the bottom line
is that there's really no shot you can hit. That's
the worst shot you're ever gonna hit. Everybody who plays
the game ends up hitting bad. And that goes from

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Scotti scheffer on down to a thirty six handicap and
they're out there. But the reason they have a thirty
six handicap is because they're playing by the rules and
they're not giving themselves anything and they're really trying to
work on their game. Maybe you had an approach shot
in the bunker. Okay, that's great, you know why, because

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it didn't go in the lake and it's not in
the woods. And there's a pretty good chance if you're
making full swings from anywhere outside one hundred yards. If
you make a full bad swing, it could be in
the lake, it could be in the woods, it could
be anywhere. But if it'sn't a bunker, at least you
can find it and hit it again. You got to
kind of take small victories in golf, because that's really

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all golf will give you. Most times that you swing
the club, it'll be a little victory that you might
misinterpret as a mistake. And if you can't teach your
brain to applaud little mistakes when the potential was for
a big mistake, then you're you're kind of missing the

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recreational side of the game. You know, at least I
didn't hit it in the lake. Yeah, that's a positive.
Like darn, it's in the bunker, that's a negative. Now,
bunkers aren't that bad. You ought to be able to
get out of a bunker. But not hitting it in
the water is that's the that's the reward for hitting
it in the bunker, And that's a positive thing. Almost

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any shot you hit in golf could have been worse.
And that those guys were talking about that that's what
most high handicappers don't take into account. They chunk something,
or they scull it, or they shank it or whatever,
and they still see their ball.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
They only hit it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
There are one hundred yards off the green. They hit
it eighty yards and it's just it's on the right,
just below the green. And oh, that's a horrible shot.
It's terrible. Well, there's a lake ten yards past there.
And then if they'd hit it the other way, shanked it,
they might have gone in the woods or over the
fly it over the green into a horrible, impossible bunk

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or short sided. A lot of things can go wrong
with every shot you're hitting golf, and if you consider
any little mistake wrong, you just taking all the fun.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Out of your golf game. Small victories, man, small victories.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
If you've got a seventy foot putt and you don't
practice your putting much and you get that putt within
eight feet of the hole, that's kind of a small victory.
You've read it well enough to get it within eight feet.
Now it's just kind of a speed problem, or maybe
it's eight feet right, but it's a whole high Congratulations.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
You hit the right speed on that putt. You just
misread it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
Put a little more work into that next time. If
you've never broken a hundred, you're gonna mishit a lot
of shots. Most of the time you swing the club,
it's gonna be a mishit. But so long as you're
gaining ground, well, then so what, they're probably not as
bad as you think. You got to change your mindset
to have fun with I've had learn to do that,

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I really have. I am so competitive and still am,
even with myself against the golf course. I'm so competitive
that I just hate it when I hit a bad shot.
Now I've learned I don't have a bad temper when
I hit a bad shot. I might mutter under my breath,
I might kind of slap the club head down, on
the ground from about shin Hi. But I'm not gonna

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throw a club, and I'm not gonna roll up in
a ball on the ground and go into a temper tantrum.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
It's just golf.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
I'm just playing for fun. And if I take into
account the positive of any shot I hit and discard
the negative, and if you go back and look at
your round based on those criteria, then all of a sudden,
you played better than you thought you would. If your
handicap is if you're an eighteen handicap and.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
You shoot eighty nine, that's not bad, not bad at all.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
You broke ninety for having sakes.

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
Good for you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Give yourself a little grace. You're gonna hit some good
shots to every round.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
And when you hit one of those good shots, put
that in your memory bank and toss out a couple
of stinkers you've been hanging on to that you hit
three weeks ago on that same hull. Oh my god,
when I was staying on the tea box. I've heard
guys do this to themselves. Man, two weeks ago, I
hit the worst t shot I've ever hit off this
hole right here, just dribbled t yards, came straight over

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the top of the ball and it just barely got
off the tea box.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
Don't plant that seed in your head.

Speaker 6 (01:08:34):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
Four weeks ago, I just absolutely striped one right down
the middle.

Speaker 6 (01:08:38):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
I can still see it in my head. And if
you can see it, you can do it again and
again and again, get and again seven one three two
one two five seven ninety email on me dugpick at
iHeartMedia dot com. Unless you're gonna take a lot of
lessons and practice a lot of times during the week,
improvements never gonna come, or at least not at any

(01:09:00):
speed you want. It'll be slow if it comes at all.
Just be out there being enjoying friends and family on
a golf course. Some people hit more good shots than others,
some people hit more bad shots than others, but they're
all golfers and as long.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
As you're not slowing anybody down.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
This is the thing that I tell beginners all the
time who say they're embarrassing and they don't want to
embarrass themselves. Nobody cares what you shoot, but you you're
the only person in that foursome who cares about your
golf game. The rest of them are always caring about themselves. Now,
there are people in our group who will be very
quick to walk over and say, you know, if you
would just turn your shoulders this way, or if you

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would just grip the club a little stronger, a little weaker,
you just or lean back or lean forward, or stand
on one foot. They always want to give advice, but
the only reason they do that is to take their
minds off their own game. Just remember that they're trying
to distract themselves. They're not trying to help you. They're
trying to distract you or distract themselves. And it may

(01:10:01):
be even in their minds they may be thinking I
can help him hit a better shot. But really, unless
they're instructors, they're kind of not qualified to tell you
what you're doing wrong because they may make a bad
situation worse. Just say thank you for the tip. I'll
try to do that this time, and then just move on,
play your game, have your fun. Your bad shots aren't
that bad period. They all count as one stroke too.

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There's no negative credit for you don't get a two
stroke penalty for shanking a ball. Enjoy the game, quit
worrying about it. Mercy American shooting centers. That is American
shooting centers is one of the safest, one of the
biggest fact that the largest non military shooting facility in
all of Texas, and we have some big ones. There

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are more than two hundred shooting stations out there, it
might be two twenty something like that. They've got three
sporting clay's courses. They've got ten trap and skeep peels.
They've got rifle and pistol from five yards to six
hundred yards, a beginner's wing shooting area, a pop up
silhou range for rimfire shooting, all of which are fun
and enjoyable. Maybe not so much fun on day like

(01:11:06):
today when the wind's blowing like crazy and it's cold,
but otherwise a very fun afternoon or morning or whatever
for you and the family to go out there and
enjoy the shooting sports however you like. There's instruction if
you want to enjoy it even more by hitting more
bulls eyes or breaking more targets, professional instruction and all
the shooting disciplines. They're on West tim Or Parkway between

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Katie and Highway six. You can't miss the place, really,
just these giant mounds of dirt that have been there
for thirty years, collecting bulls Eyes basically and Aaron shots
as well. American Shootingcenters dot Com is a website, very fun,
very enjoyable, very safe place to enjoy the shooting sports.

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American Shootingcenters dot Com. Belleville Meet Market. If you haven't
been there. If you've never been to Belleville Meet Market,
do yourself a favor. Drive out there sometime this week. Okay,
go out there, walk through the doors. Here in the
middle of the little town of Bellville, fifteen minutes north
to Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead. Very easy to find,

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and if you still can't see it when you're driving
around town, just roll down your windows to smell barbecue
and then drive up wind. It's that simple. All year round,
they are out there serving up a delicious traditional barbecue
lunch or dinner ten am to seven pm, seven days
a week. They've got dozens of flavors of pecan smoke sausage.

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They have got grabbing ghost snacks like jerky and dry
stick and dry sausage. They have homemade stuffed pork tenders.
Those are delicious in five or six different offerings. They've
got boot an, They've got pans sausage. They've got stuffed
pork chops, labouchery, stuffed chickens, and then of course the

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wild game processing all year round, all year round, this
time of year. There are three lanes actually of processing available.
You just drive up to whatever space is open in
one of those three lanes. Somebody's gonna come running out
with a big cart to haul all the meat out
of the minivan or the pickup or whatever, take it inside,
and then you walk in. You park right there and

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you walk in and you get head of this big
giant menu of options for processing all that meat you
just brought in. And a few days later, it's like magic.
You get a phone call or a text says, hey,
your deer's ready. You go out there and you pick
up the meat from your deer. I have to meet
from somebody else's deer. You pick up the meat from
your deer and you take it home and you start

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eating on it, and when you're done, you go get
another deer and start all over.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
Belleville.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
MeetMarket dot com is a website Belleville MeetMarket dot com
nine nine on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show,
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it, certainly
to appreciate all the emails I've been getting this morning.
I'm responding to them as fast as I can. Yes,
I got yours too, man, and I like that. I

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haven't gone there yet, but that's gonna be in my
favorites before the end of the uh before eleven o'clock anyway.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety email
me Doug Pike Adiheartmedia dot com. I promised Frankie I
would tell him the story of the ants, and here's
my deal.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
I came in this morning.

Speaker 7 (01:14:21):
We had a.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
We had the radiothon for Saint Jude, by the way,
for the third year in a row now between the
golf tournament and the radio thon. Thanks to help from
thousands of you literally who all got on board to
help us raise money for Saint Jude for the third

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year in a row. In this week, between just the
golf tournament and the radiothon, we wrote a check to
Saint Jude for more than a million dollars. How about that, Frankie, Yes,
sir out that. So they had they had meals delivered
for the people who were working up here, breakfast, lunch,

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and dinner on both days Thursday and Friday. And on
Friday we had a Mexican food buffet up here, and
that Mexican food buffet came with about a oh an
eight by ten inch by two inch deep giant aluminum
thing a pan I suppose you'd call it full of salsa,

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that was still on the countertop out there yesterday and
still on the countertop this morning until I emptied it out.
And then I had to look around and find the
source of the creatures that were on that giant top
out there where the entire buffet had been laid out,

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And I had a golden opportunity to enjoy my first
ant hunt in a long time. I don't know what
the limit is on fire ants, but I may have
exceeded it. And this was all hand to hand combat too.
I didn't use a salt gun or anything like that.

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It was I curled up my fists and went to
smacking ants and spent the better part of time I
normally would have spent prepping killing ants. And then I wondered,
at best gas it was probably it wasn't that many,

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But then you then again you have to ask yourself
just how many ants can climb to the seventh floor
and find food here.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
How did they find they must compartment.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
My throat's trying out. Let me get little sip coffee.
It's almost like they it's like climbing Mount Everest, Frankie,
think of it that way. These ants are on the
ground and they're looking at this Mount Everest across the
street and thinking. There's some of them at least they
are thinking, you know, we got to climb this. Most
of them are thinking, no, we just got to go
to work back and every day we got to get

(01:17:09):
up and go to work. But the young adventurous ants
are going, there's something up there we're seeing. So they
start climbing, and they start climbing, and they get to
the sixth floor and their little ant sense goes off.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
You need there's something to eat on the seventh floor.
We can smell it. And now they've set up base camps.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
That's the only thing Erica and I could figure out
is it's like climbing Mount Everest. They have a base camp,
and then they have these little interval camps where they
stop and rest to gather the strength it takes to
keep climbing. Their little ant bodies their little six legs
and they get up on this floor and holy cow,
there it is salsa and cheese, a little bit of

(01:17:49):
dried cheese from when people dipped into the giant bucket
of caso and spilled it on that countertop, which I
had to clean up yesterday. By the way, I wipe
that stuff off with Clorox right wipes, thinking maybe that
would kill anything. It'd kill all the germs certainly, and
hopefully discourage the ants. At least they would probably get

(01:18:11):
high off of smell in a Clorox right wipe. The
bottom line is this morning, and I tried to find
where they were coming from, tried to backtrack them because
there's a clear path that they were taking to get
to that salsa thing that was like the holy grail
for them, and then backtracked them all the way down
to the floor. But I can't find where they got

(01:18:31):
in from the concrete. It's a concrete floor. There aren't
that many ways they could get in. And it's just
it's a marvel. It's a marvel among marvels that an ant,
this this creature is what an eighth of an inch long?
Maybe certainly not, don't I didn't see any of them
looks like really trophy booting crocod ants. They were all

(01:18:54):
just little regular ants. They're the one to twenties of
the antler world in deer hunting. They're just normal little
baby ants. And they're on the seventh floor of a building.
Somehow found food here somehow, so they're camped out somewhere.
They're hiding, and we're gonna get the exterminator in here.
I'll let let Sylvia know and let a professional hunter

(01:19:17):
come in here and get them. I'm I'm just a rookie,
that's all. I'm gonna go back and look though. And
the break we took, we took a little while ago.
I went over and looked and there were two of
them walking right through the lysol wipe stuff. So apparently
that doesn't slow them down at all. I honest, honestly, goodness,
I probably got forty or fifty of them this morning.
And yeah, I mean there were that many. But well,

(01:19:39):
the issue was they were coming up on the the
far well. Let me get my compass right for where
we are, that's the north They were coming up on
the the edge of the from the floor up to
the countertop on the north end and that salsa and
cheese that had been spilled were on the south end,
So I mean even that would have been a long

(01:20:02):
walk for an ant man. You know, times are tough.
I guess in the ant world too, they must have
had a They must have had the wrong president for
a while as well. I guess. Huh seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. I told Frankie when we started this segment,
I was gonna get a whole segment out of my
aunt hunt.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
And I did. I don't know how or why, uh,
but I did. It was kind of fun. I'm gonna
go see it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
I'm gonna get into this break and I'm gonna run
outre and see if there's any any more little outliers
that got past me earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
On the way out, I'll tell you about black Horse
Golf Club.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
I'm sure there's an ant bed out there somewhere, but
those answer, those are outdoor ants, and they're smart enough
to just go a little deeper underground. They'll be fine.
You're not gonna have to worry about them while you're
out there playing golf. Black Horse has got the two
courses North in the South Norse still Dami feel like
it always has been a great fun place to go,
and it'll it will sob less accurate drives, let's say,

(01:21:02):
pretty easily. South Course a little bit more difficult, not
a lot, but still very playable. I love them both.
And the South Course was taking private this year, which
was a good idea, it turns out because a lot
of the members up there, now I have always kind
of wanted this, but they never got it until Craig
Hicks took the bull by the horns and made it happen.
Fry Road just a little south of two ninety, very

(01:21:24):
easy to find, great food, great instruction at the far
end of the range, and just great people from top
to bottom. Black Horse Goolf Club dot Com is the
website black Horse Goolf Club dot Com. Nine fifty On
Sports Talk seven ninety, the Doug pikeho thank you for listening.
So Frankie and I got to talking about the ants,

(01:21:46):
and I went back to look and see what was
going on. And Frankie, you know, Frankie, for is little
up until five minutes ago, you'd never hunted anything, had you. Yeah?
But now he took to it like a duck to water,
and Frankie gets over there. I've got a paper towel

(01:22:06):
in my hands, and I'm slapping ants and stacking them
up inside my paper towel for disposal later take them
to the processing house. And before a note, I look
up and Frankie's got a paper towel and he's killing ants.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
How many think you got, man? That was your first hunt,
wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
Yeah, so you know, a little bit on the lower side,
but we got some in.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
It's okay, Yeah, you didn't get a limit.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
I got probably an, Honest to goodness, I got probably
about another two dozen.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
But it was Frankie. He did some tracking too.

Speaker 1 (01:22:34):
He says he was the first one to see one
on the concrete floor when we were over there. He's
got better eyes than I do, and we backtracked them
to see where they were coming from. So we know
the source, we know where they're getting in on the
seventh floor. I wonder if it would even be possible, Frankie,
for an exterminator, for a real ant killer, to spray

(01:22:57):
the perimeter of this building sufficiently that it would prohibit
any ants from even getting in to climb to the
seventh floor. Yeah, that's possible.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
They had to get in somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
And as you pointed out, when we saw them, when
we started trailing them back to the source, they were
still free wheeling it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
There were a lot of them that got the message late.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
And I think I did a good job, a good
enough job of killing all the ones I could find
this morning before they ran back and told the rest
of them not to come on up. The message that's
moving through the ant community now is hey, there's there's
salsa on seven in the iHeart space, and that's all
they know right now. So I'm gonna kind of keep

(01:23:44):
it on the low down and not let them know
what's happening. And maybe we can go out there and
do a little more hunting after the show. Maybe, you know,
someday you might graduate to I don't know, roaches. Move
it on up a little bit that I'm not even
going to tell you what we found in the corner
up there, that's messed up. Yeah, Frankie's the hunter now.

(01:24:07):
He's first blood. He's drawn first blood on a couple
of fire ants in the kitchen. He did spot him.
That was that was a good spot. That's like my
son's eyes, he sees like an eagle. He yeah, he's
he's pretty good. He had a good day on the
baseball field yesterday too. I think he. I even got
a text message from one of the dads who's a

(01:24:28):
friend of mine, from Henry or not Henry, but David.
David Branch text messages me say, hey, man, your kid's
raking at the plate. And I found out from my
son yesterday evening he went five for five yesterday.

Speaker 6 (01:24:41):
That was not bad.

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
And I said, how'd you hit? He's pretty good?

Speaker 1 (01:24:45):
I mean, like, what for what he is?

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
I think it was five for five. That's not bad.

Speaker 1 (01:24:51):
So off he goes into whatever he's gonna do when
he gets older. He wants to play baseball. Maybe he will,
maybe he won't. But even if he doesn't play baseball,
he'll be one of the best guys on the softball
team that the Saturday night softball leagues or wherever that
goes on anymore, if it still does. Seven one three,
two one two five seven ninety email on me, Dug
pick Atiehartmedia dot com. Let's see what Kevin Wade in

(01:25:14):
with here. He had drown down to the past. Oh yeah,
has stayed at our Indian beach place and drove down
to the past. Holy wind, Batman. Yeah, it's blowing, there's
no doubt about it. Rudy sent me a map, by
the way that I'm going to add to my favorites
that shows the temperatures across the entire country. In fact,

(01:25:36):
I'm going to click on that thing now and just
kind of see what the layout is. Come on website,
pop up and if I can give you some values.
Oh yeah, you know, I've seen this before, but I
didn't know where it was or how to find it.
I think this, Yeah, this is from US Airnet. That's
the same one that I get the state ones on.

(01:25:57):
But I'm looking at the entire country right now, and
across the entire country. Man, oh Man, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana
got negative numbers. There's a whole lot of states got
those minus signs out in front minus thirteen, minus eighteen. Yuck.

(01:26:19):
And interestingly enough, all the way in the far northwest,
way at the tippy top up there, Washington and Oregon
or Washington and that Oregon. What's the other I'm drawing
a blank up there? What is that darn what is
that darn state? Hold on for no, never mind, it
doesn't matter. But they're in the fifties. They're in the fifties.

(01:26:42):
And then just go straight east to where that front
is that came it's coming through here now, and you
get straight dead east over to minus eighteen hole lee Cow.
Yeah it's Oregon. Yeah, Washington, Oregon. I just couldn't get it.
I just had to think about it for a second
and make sure I was right. I don't know why
I didn't get it the first time. Twenty one degrees

(01:27:05):
somewhere in Arizona, sixteen degrees somewhere in New Mexico, and
back to where we are.

Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
You got those very low values right up there in
the tippy top of the state. And then, yeah, I
like this map.

Speaker 6 (01:27:22):
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
Can I wonder if I can, let me see if
I can kind of make it bigger or smaller. No,
it's just a one size fits all. Unfortunately, I'd like
to be able to zoom on that map. But that
still gives us a ballpark.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
Thank you, Rudy.

Speaker 1 (01:27:35):
That's a great map to have. I'm gonna tuck that
one away and hang on to it for quite some time.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
Seven on three.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
No, we don't have time for a phone call. Dew
We Frankie, Uh, all right, mat Yeah, we got to go.
You know what, you need to go get a hunting
license before we go back in the kitchen. I don't
know if they're on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Departments list,
but ants or ants, it's lawful any by lawful means
and methods. I guess that means stepping on them. That's
as far as I'm I'm concerned it does. Yeah, you know,

(01:28:01):
I got a few with my feet earlier, so I'm
gonna count them too. I probably my total strap advants
this morning was about probably forty, maybe fifty, maybe a
little bit more.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
Frankie got what half a dozen or so?

Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
Yeah, we'll go with that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
It's not bad for your first hunt.

Speaker 1 (01:28:15):
All right, here comes to Chili willy weather butter up buttercups.
Tomorrow is gonna be pretty chilly for the opening of
flounder season. If you're tough enough, go get one, and
if you really like me, send me a couple of fila's,
will you. That's it for now, get outside, have a
little fun with your family. We'll talk about holiday gifts
maybe next weekend too, see if we can find some
good stuff that hunters and fishermen might like. Oh, this

(01:28:39):
was fun. I'll talk to you guys later. Thanks for listening.
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