Looking Back on Outdoor Experiences as a Kid

Originally aired on December 27, 2025. On this episode, Doug looks at all the festivities this holiday season, and makes a game out of it (bonus points if you had to undo your belt after eating lunch!) All these things and more, on the Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Alright, here we go. I gotta get this man. We've
got this same old headphone issue.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Frankie.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I don't know why they do this to us, I
really don't. I'm gonna have to move over at some point.
Maybe in the first break I can get there, though,
unless I have to take a phone call.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Then I wouldn't be able to hear anybody.

Speaker 5 (00:20):
Let me.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm gonna squeeze down. Boy, what a way to come back?

Speaker 6 (00:24):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Holy cow, I'm gonna squeeze down and see if this
microphone down here is gonna work better.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I may have to move.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
What's wrong with this. Oh that sounds terrible.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Hold on a minute. I don't like that. I'm undo that.
I'm just gonna stay over here, and then in the
first break i'll move. I won't be able to do much,
though I wish. What a frustrating way to come back.
Holy cow, Frankie, you don't know anything about what's been

(01:01):
going on in here, do you. I don't know what
these knuckleheads do. Talk to me, Frankie, because I don't
think I can hear you. Okay, hello, hello? Oh oh oh,
got me at all.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Now, I can't hear anything I have.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh my goodness, I don't know what's going on. I'll
tell you what though, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
plod forward here and try to figure it out. And Frankie,
if you get a chance to come in here and
try to make something out of this, because I can't
tell whether I'm going out or not. Boy, No, no
better way to know that this show's live than to
have something going on in the control room. Huh, holy cow,

(01:40):
are we are we good? Frankie, we're broadcasting now. I
can't even hear you now, Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness.
Well I am back and welcome. I'm so glad to
be back. Actually, I took this past weekend off and
I was gonna come in here, have a little fun

(02:00):
with you and talk about how oh yeah, boy, it's
good to be out here on this hot July Saturday morning,
to make you think that we were gonna be doing
another one from way back when. But no, I'm back
in here. I couldn't stay away two weeks in a row.
There's just no way. There's just no way I could
do that. I see what part of what's going on here?

(02:22):
Hang on a minute, I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of
work a little bit and hopefully try to get where
I can see what's going on with Frankie and where
he is, so I can These guys who come in
here during the weekdays, I tell you what, they just
make hot messes and walk away. They just make messes

(02:42):
and walk away. I can't even get this. Yeah, okay,
I'm gonna end up having to move to the other
end of the console at some point, and I don't
want to do it right away. We just got here,
for Heaven's sakes. When by the way, if if you've
gotten tired already, as I have and most of us have,
of the eighties in December, well give it a couple

(03:05):
of days, just like you. Only that's as long as
you ever have to wait for a weather change around
here anytime. But a couple of days from now, we're
gonna be dropping into the fifties. That's Monday and Tuesday
and maybe even Wednesday. High's in the fifties and lows
overnight lows in the thirties on I think it's Monday
and Tuesday nights, maybe Sunday and Monday. I don't know,
but it'll be chilly again. It's like I said a

(03:26):
couple of weeks ago before I bailed out for a
little while. Just put half of what's in your closet
in your car, and you should be ready for just
about anything that comes our way. I'm hesitant to give
you the phone number right now because I don't think
I can get to the phone. I don't think I
can hear. I don't think, and I can't see. I've

(03:47):
got a Oh, there's something maybe I can do here.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
At least.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, I can see the call screener, but now it
just went away.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
That's so bizarre.

Speaker 7 (03:56):
Man.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
They've left us a hot mess. Frankie, that's what they've done.
And I hope we can get this figured out. I
really do.

Speaker 8 (04:04):
There.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Now there's you, and I had you for a second,
but it goes away.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Uh yeah, you know what we're gonna I'm gonna wing
it through here for another couple of minutes and just
welcome everybody back. And I can see you, Frankie, believe
it or not. And I can see the frustration on
your head too. Good golly, Okay. I came in here ready,
just ready to go after it. I got some good,
good stuff I want to talk about too. We made

(04:32):
it through Christmas, and hopefully we'll all make it through
New Years and get started on a on a good
with a good foot forward. The holidays can be a
little crazy sometimes, lots of stress sometimes. Uh, hopefully that's
gonna lift over the next few years, especially the financial
stress that a lot of us have felt for the
last I don't know, three four years. I got a

(04:53):
good friend, by the way, if you think whatever happened
to you is bad, good friend of mine. He's survived
the holidays, but he had a heart attack this past week. Now,
this guy, bear in mind, this guy is tough as nails.
He absolutely is. And I'm talking to him yesterday about
something else and he says, oh, by, I said, how
have you been? And he said, I've been all right.

(05:16):
Oh yeah, wait, I had a heart attack a few
days ago. I said what he said, Yeah, yeah, I did.
Said I was just sitting there and felt some pain
in my left arm. Then it kind of he kind
of dismissed it. He just thought that something that was
gonna go away, and went and sat down in his

(05:36):
big old chair and then all of a sudden, the
pain kind of went across his chest, called a friend
of his, telling him he was going to and this
is a guy in the outdoors. By the way, it's
only probably the only reason I'm giving so much detail
on this story because I'm gonna I'm gonna wrap it
up and tie it all together once I'm done here.
But so he's he's feeling some more pain, so he

(06:00):
calls a friend and says, hey, man, I'm feeling kind
of like something's wrong and had never felt like this before.
I'm gonna take a shower, then going down to urgent
care and just just see make sure I'm okay. Bear
in mind, this is a grown man, and I mean
lots of miles on his tires, who doesn't even have
a doctor. It hasn't even been to a doctor probably,

(06:24):
I'm guessing in twenty twenty five years. He just he
eats pretty well, he exercises a lot, and he didn't
know what was going on with him. So he takes
his shower and as he's getting out of the shower,
drying off, trying to get his clothes back on, ambulance
and firetruck roll up. His friend called nine to one

(06:46):
one for him, and the EMTs come in. They throw
him on a stretcher or on a gurny, get him out,
get him in the ambulance, take him to the nearby place.
They they evaluate him. Yes, sir, you had a heart attack.
We're gonna send you somewhere else. In like forty eight

(07:06):
not even forty eight hours after that phone call was made.
He had a stint in his heart and I said,
how are you feeling now? I'm fine, I went, well, yeah,
he just said, I went to the ranch the other
day and did a little work. And I don't know
how this guy does this well I do, and I
have a theory that as much time as he has

(07:29):
spent outdoors, that time outdoors has prepared him for just
darn near anything. And that's one of the reasons that
I keep going outdoors. I feel like it truly does
make me feel younger, It makes me feel more alive.
It reconnects me every time I put a fishing rod

(07:51):
in my hands. Golf not so much on this part,
but if you're fishing or hunting, or just even walking
through the woods, it just makes you realize that they're
you're you're part of something so much bigger.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Than yourself, and even children.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Who are exposed early to the outdoors, which is why
I like that place called the Wild School so much.
I wish at some point, I hope, at some point
they get to the point where they can allow me
to speak for them, because what they do is introduce
young little kids, little bitty kids. There's actually kind of

(08:27):
a mommy and me version really early in the program,
where moms can stick around and and be a part
of everything. But the bulk of what they do, I believe,
is with say, from toddlers up, potty training up, basically
potty training up. And they let these kids get out
there and play in the mud and play in the

(08:48):
dirt and and climb a little bit and do some
real world problem solving at their age appropriate level. And
the folks who teach these classes tell the parents send
them with at least one change of clothes and maybe two,
because they very well may need them before they're finished.
And they're gonna come home dirty, and they're gonna come

(09:09):
home tired and sweaty, And what a wonderful concept. The
woman who put this together, Actually I'm getting sidetracked off,
my friend, but the woman who put the Wild School
together comes from she has ties to Europe, and in
Europe there are more than a few camps like this.

(09:30):
We as Americans have kind of retreated from the outdoors
over the past fifteen to twenty years a little bit,
and I don't think it's been for the better. I
really don't. There's studies that I did when I was
at the paper. Not studies I did, but studies I
researched and read about and analyzed and finally wrote about

(09:51):
showed that kids who grow up in the outdoors wind
up being more connected to the world around them, more
aware of what part they play in the world around them,
and and they score better on standardized tests just from
being outdoors kids. Which brings me back to my buddy
who got himself in a in a heck of a

(10:13):
pickle and really dismissed it, probably thought it was heartburn,
something like, oh, yeah, I must have eaten something wrong.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
But I'm I'm just thrilled he's still around. I really am.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I would have I would have grieved that man's loss
pretty heavily. It's the guy I've known for thirty something
years and and one of the best guys you'll ever
meet in your life.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
If you've met him, and if you if if I
told you who he was.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
First, First of all, it's nobody's business, and he shared
that with me, and I'm not going to share who
it was. But if I told you even what business
he's in, you'd probably guess. And you and you know him,
you'd probably guess who I'm talking about. He's that outdoorsy,
he's that comfortab in any situation outdoors and I'm very

(11:03):
proud that he's a friend of mine. So anyway, where
are we here? Where are we going to start? Oh,
here's a good place to start. Shooter's Corner. How about that.
Let's tee it up with Shooter's Corner. That's Jerry and TK.
Jerry and JTK, father and son team who have owned
that place for forty some odd years, and it's probably
forty five forty seven years now, I'm not really sure.

(11:26):
Jay came along and started helping his dad as soon
as he was old enough. And when you learn from
Jerry TK, you're automatically in the upper echelon of gunsmiths,
of people who know about guns and hunting or shooting
sports or target shooting, competitive shooting, any of that and
can help you get exactly what you need. Humble little

(11:49):
store down there Palmer Highway at twenty ninth Street in
Texas City, and it's a fantastic place to go if
you're looking for pretty much anything. Pre owned guns, new guns,
Ammo Camo reloading supplies. If you need it for the
shooting sports, they've got it at Shooter's Corner. And that's
about all. They don't sell anything else. They just sell guns,

(12:10):
Ammo Camo reloading supplies. And by the way, there's a
lot of storytelling goes on in there. There's a couple
of places you can sit down if you want to
get off your feet to listen to somebody's story or
tell your own, and that's usually happening almost every time
I go in there.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
I intend, I say, I got twenty minutes.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
I can stay there and talk to Jerry, talk to Jay,
talk to the other guys who worked there, who are all,
by by the way, very qualified to help you find
what you're looking for. If Jerry or j are out
guiding somewhere in North America. The bottom line is you
tell your story, they'll tell their stories. And if you
wear a badge for a living, by the way, you
get a discount, which I think is pretty cool. The

(12:49):
Shooters CORNERTX dot com is website The Shooters Corner TX
dot com. Welcome to Chaos only Cow Frankie want to
kick off. This has been I'm so glad to be
back in here, though I didn't like being away. I
truly didn't, and it my wife and everybody here. Even

(13:12):
Chris Gordy, our Sports Talk seven to ninety program director,
texted me last night. He said, hey, man, by the way,
are you coming in tomorrow morning? Because I'd kind of
left it up in the air right as I left.
Remember that, I said, I probably, I'll probably come in
that second weekend.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
I don't want to be gone three weekends in a row.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
I figured y'all probably thought i'd fallen off a cliff
or something. And I said, yes, Chris, I'm going to
be there, don't worry, and so all is well. Then
I come into that little situation with even even Frankie
just kind of will scratching his head in here in
a minute ago. But he had the wherewith all the
technical skills to put it all back together so that

(13:54):
at least I can work from the other end of
the console. The buttons are. It's going to be a
little tighter on button pushing, So watch me if I'm
having to turn something off or turn something on, Frankie.
But otherwise I think we're gonna be okay. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Email me Doug
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I uh, well, I gotta

(14:14):
ask you, Frankie.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
How was How was Christmas?

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Man? It was good? It was good all well in
the in the in the Westmoreland family. Oh yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
What was your coolest thing that you got?

Speaker 1 (14:26):
That's really what?

Speaker 4 (14:27):
What surprised you most?

Speaker 9 (14:30):
Well, let me think, let me think, well, uh we
uh my cousin who's like a sister to me, she
brought her boyfriend down from New York.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Oh wow, and he was awesome. I hadn't met him before.
That was really fun just making sure she's just making
sure he's the one he's got. She had to get
your approval. Oh yeah, all that stuff, that's good man.
So okay, so you got that going on. Did you
surprise anyone with something you gave them?

Speaker 9 (15:02):
Well, you know, I've been trying to be a little
bit better about giving gifts and so trying to give
my parents some gifts and.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Nice, yeah, nice, Yeah, it went well for us.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
I got my wife. I had two things that I
got for her that were totally offer She had a list,
of course, and because if I'm left to my own devices,
I'm probably gonna miss some of the things she really needs,
not necessarily wants, and I tend to I tend to
lean toward the want stuff. You know, she wants it,

(15:36):
but she doesn't really need it, so she doesn't get
it for herself throughout the year, and I tend to
go that way. So I got pretty much everything that
was on her official list. But I got one. I
got a Christmas ornament that I don't know why. It
showed up in my feed about probably two and a
half months ago as a potential holiday gift, But it

(15:58):
was a little tree ornament that is it shows my son.
It well it's not my son, but it's a figure
of a baseball player with the bat and the ball
all involved in it, and it's got his name and
his number on it, and it was It was a
very cleverly done thing. It really was. Because you get

(16:19):
to pick not only the color of the uniform, you
get to pick the number you have the last name
on there, and then for the player himself or herself,
you get to actually pick skin tone. You pick I
don't know whether there's hair color. No, the helmet covers
the hair, but you get that. And it's just it's
a very it's right down to it. It's who your

(16:40):
son or daughter is. And I think she got a
kick out of that. And then she's a big reader.
She actually graduated from A and M years ago with
a double major in English and journalism. And she so
she's got a pretty nice library of books. And I
got her an embosser with little gold so she can

(17:00):
put the she can clamp down on that paper and
it shows that it's from the library of her and
I thought that was pretty cool and that and then
I found out that she kind of realized what was
going on.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
She knew it was coming. And here's why.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
And this is one of the things I hate about
about computers and the internet.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Okay, so I buy this thing, and I got no choice.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
I can't send them cash in an envelope, so I
have to put on the credit card. But I thought
maybe they have some company name that's off. So she
asks me like a month and a half ago when
we get a credit card statement, what's this embossing company thing?
And nothing, I don't know that. Oh yeah, I think

(17:51):
that was something I bought for our son. And she goes, okay, fine,
and she just let it go. And then she said
that she starts these things in her feed on Facebook,
all these ads for book embossers. It's like you buy
a pair of shoes, you get shoe ads for the
next six months, and so she kind of knew it

(18:13):
was coming, but she was happy with it. I think
that worked out pretty well. Oh well, what was your
best thing that you scored? Yeah, no, that's funny.

Speaker 9 (18:23):
I'm a reader too, so I just got different books
about specific stuff like music or whatever, and so.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, and I'd asked for that.

Speaker 9 (18:34):
And it's kind of the same thing where yeah, we
share a thing, so it's like, oh, you know this
thing shipped.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Oh you know, I'll be surprised all the day, you know, man,
the port Amazon guy, my son made us a list
and then amended the list more than once between about
I don't know the first of November and now, and
every time I turned around there was something new that
he had ordered, and I'd say, did.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
You ask him to order.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
She said, yeah, I just eat. I told him to
get whatever he wants, just order it up, just to
go ahead and place the order and then we'll put
it under the tree, like okay. And we did.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
Oh boy did we ever?

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. It was something I
was gonna tell you, and now I slipped my mind.
It doesn't matter though. I've got all kinds of stuff
we can talk about today. And I know there's a
it's a thin audience out there because a lot of guys. Uh,
as soon as Christmas was over Thursday night. Uh, and
at least Thursday or by Saturday or Friday morning, I'll.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
Get it right.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Today's Saturday, yesterday's Friday. Thursday was Christmas, and it goes
back all the way to Halloween, I guess, or Thanksgiving
or both. In any event, Yeah, it was. It was
a it was a good Christmas overall. There's a lot
of driving involved for me and it just uh, but
we got good stuff on the way too, which I

(19:56):
kind of like. Uh, I made up this little list
here by way, let's see where am I twenty seven?
I tell you what before we get to my list.
Let me go talk to Jeff and I can get it,
I think, Frankie. Yeah, here we go. Hey Jeff, what's
up man?

Speaker 10 (20:14):
Hey Doug, how you doing.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
I'm doing all right. I survived.

Speaker 10 (20:19):
Mary Christmas and happy New Year?

Speaker 4 (20:21):
Thank you too.

Speaker 10 (20:23):
Hey, I'm I'm over here on the east side. You've
helped me a lot over here. I'll send you some
videos my granddaughter fishing.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know who you are.

Speaker 10 (20:31):
They they are getting ready to stock my little park
pond over here with rainbow trout.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Oh non, I was, and.

Speaker 10 (20:38):
I was wondering for her. Well, me too, But what
would be a good bait to use for that?

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, there's a couple of ways to go.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
The easy way and the way that I've done it
plenty of time. Well there's two easy ways. Uh, those
little trout and nibbles that come in a jar with
their oily and whatnot, and the one the ones that
I prefer when I was really fishing with my son
a lot for those things. They're white, and they're about
the size of double buckshot maybe a little bit bigger

(21:09):
than that even And the reason I like them is
that they float and so what I would do in
case there's a little gunk or something on the bottom
of the pond, what I would do is put some
split shot about maybe a foot from the hook, and
just use about a maybe a number six little hook.
You don't want anything big, but you don't want it
to be too small.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
But anyway, the long and the short of it.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Is put that about eight to ten inches above the hook,
pinch it on there, sling it out there with just
one of those little balls on there.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
You don't need to put two of them.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
And what it does when it hits the bottom, that
little ball of foam whatever it is, will raise that
bait off the bottom a little bit where they can find.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
It a little easier.

Speaker 10 (21:53):
Okay, I guess the same goes for the parch fishing.
As a little trout fishing, try to use a little
longer shink hook so they don't swallow it all the
way down to their gullet.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yeah, that's probably a good idea.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I'm the same way that you can, and you can.
If you're gonna use long shag hooks, you probably go
with something a little bit smaller. Yeah, and just in
mash the barbs because we don't want anybody having to
stop their fishing trip.

Speaker 7 (22:17):
You know.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
Holy cow, I heard.

Speaker 10 (22:18):
Some guess what you've had good luck with size eight?

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah? Long, yeah, that'll work.

Speaker 8 (22:25):
Okay, that'll work your health.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
The other thing, I'll give you one more clue too.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
When you get there, chum the place up with some
of my old, good old vanilla extract soaked corn corn.

Speaker 11 (22:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (22:39):
Well, yeah, one more question. If I was gonna throw
a little artificial some kind of little twiddletail, what what
do you think I could throw out there?

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Number one? If the water's not clear, it's kind of
a waste of time. But if it's a decently clear
bunch of water, I would throw if you can find them,
because all the people around here go looking for them.
Super duper spoons is what they're called. And they're just
a piece of metal that was three inches long and
some machine folded it in half. And then there's at

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the front end where the two ends come together, is
where the if I remember correctly, that's where the little
eye is attached like a little split ring or a
snaps wibble thing on there. And then at the back
end there's a tiny little trouble hook. Those things for
some reason, those rainbow trout love those things. If you
can't find them, then a little maybe like a a

(23:32):
very small MEPs spinner will do.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
And uh, I've caught them on both.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
But that if you can find those super dupers somewhere,
they're they're really good.

Speaker 10 (23:40):
Well listen, I sure to appreciate.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
My pleasure anytime many New Year, you bet we'll say,
all right, Jeff, Okay, let me get that. I tend
to get wordy, don't I. Frankie, He's going like, man,
I got stuff to do.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
I gotta go.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
I could sit here and talk about taking kids fit
all day long. I really, I'm just addicted to it.
I have so much fun with that. I really do,
and it's it's very genuine. I'm looking for a list
that I made, and when we get back from this break,
i'm gonna tell you, I think here it is.

Speaker 12 (24:16):
It's just it.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Oh yes, this next page, I think, yeah.

Speaker 10 (24:19):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Okay, I know what I'm going to talk about when
we get back, and that's always that's always a treat.
Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. On the way there, though,
I'm going to remind you if you didn't take advantage
of the big holiday sale at air Ride Bikes up
there in the in Tomball, in the Four Corners shopping
Center in Tomball, you're gonna find air ride Bikes A

(24:42):
R R I D. E. Wayne Errington, the man who
owns the place, has a tremendous selection of e bikes
that are They start out very simple, something you or
your kids could just ride around in the neighborhood on
maybe run an errand that you didn't really want want
to drive the car to. You gonna get a little

(25:03):
fresh air, get a little vitamin D riding around. That's
fine too. They also have three wheel bikes e bikes
for those of us who are a little older and
our balance isn't so great anymore and you'd rather just
be on three wheels for the stability it provides. It
gets you the same place as those other bikes will.
And then if you're really into it and thinking about it,

(25:26):
there's two great places that a bigger, stronger e bike
could be beneficial.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
One is on any deer lease.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Instead of walking into your stand, you can get on
that e bike. It makes no noise whatsoever. You're gonna
be easing in there very quietly. And one of the
points that he made to me a long time ago
is that you're also not leaving a human scent trail
because those little rubber tires aren't something that is going
to spook the deer and make them put them on alert.

(25:56):
You just ease on in there, quietly park your bike
and you don't have to change it to a tree.
There's nobody on your deer lease gonna come steal your bike.
Just walk up into your deer stand, do your hunting,
and then if you've have gotten the right bike and
wine can show you what your options are. You got
the right bike and you get one of the little
trailers that can be pulled behind it, you can haul

(26:17):
your whole deer out of there too, You and your
deer and these things. These bigger bikes are very strong
and they'll they've got a long range and they've got
towing power to get all of that stuff in and
out of wherever you take them. You're not going to
ride the time out of one of those batteries on
a deer lease anywhere. I don't think same. Down to
the beach, if you want to do a little running

(26:38):
up and down North Padre Island Seashore, maybe the Galveston Beaches,
surfside somewhere in there. Get that e bike on the
sand and just park it and wade out a little bit,
do a little fish, and come back. Get on your
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Speaker 4 (27:03):
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Speaker 4 (27:14):
I am a live I am here.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'm not off somewhere else doing something else. I told
like I said at the very beginning of the show,
when I couldn't figure out why our console wasn't working
over there, I wouldn't if I had taken off this weekend.
It may have been, and I'm still maybe up in
the air. I think about next weekend, but I may

(27:38):
take it off too, because I got a couple of
plans I want to try to put into motion.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
See how that works out.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Okay, I gotta go talk to Aaron, and I'm gonna
do that by pushing these little thing right here stand
by boom eron.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
Oh I locked him out? What did I do?

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Frankie?

Speaker 5 (27:54):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, there you are? Yeah, I got you man?

Speaker 5 (27:56):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (27:57):
Good morning?

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Well you can give me a little bit of static
about carrying my yellow purse waiting.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Oh my god aka bait bucket.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
Lord, for give me grief about spotting elk a mile
away and on a twenty eight thousand acre ranch, trug.
Come on, now, that's.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Pretty good if you're if you're glass a mile out,
you're on a big old ranch like that, and you
actually got one, that's not bad at all.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Then I can't tell you how many times got out
of the truck, went over the hill, try to get
in positions that are off, over and over and over again.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
But what were they do?

Speaker 8 (28:38):
Well?

Speaker 1 (28:38):
They just were they just running from you guys? Or
are they spooky where you were?

Speaker 2 (28:43):
What?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
What was the story?

Speaker 5 (28:46):
A combination of things. There was a lot of pressure
on them.

Speaker 7 (28:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
The way it works there a unit wide hunt. And
I think it's crazy, but the ranchers. Ranchers have to
let anyone who has a permit in that unit have access.

Speaker 8 (29:00):
To the range.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
You don't know who's coming through their Holy cat mind
they're in. Yeah, they're supposed to have their gates.

Speaker 13 (29:06):
Open for all then, huh, absolutely?

Speaker 1 (29:11):
What it is how many people or how many people
are permitted to be on that on that particular unit
at any given time.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
I couldn't tell the answer to that, but I can
tell you we saw thirty thirty trucks the first day.
It was ridiculous.

Speaker 8 (29:29):
Yeah, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
Yeah, but we kind of know the nicks and the
crannies back of that little far back areas of that unit,
not just that ranch, that unit, but worked out got
a little one.

Speaker 8 (29:43):
Ye.

Speaker 14 (29:43):
Yeah, that's a lot different than a hill country deer.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Isn't it.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
Yes, sir, I've seen you a picture and maybe you
can help with this. Have you ever seen a deer,
specifically a buck with its tongue hanging out?

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:01):
That's not a great sign of health. Oh that that
picture there, that deer, I mean, was it just hanging
out the whole time you were looking at it?

Speaker 10 (30:10):
Or was it time oh really.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
When he had something like, yeah, like a little clump
of trees or a little compor of leaving.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Smoking a cigar.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
That's but it looks I don't know, I have no
idea how that could have happened that deer.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
That deer looks really healthy. Okay, it doesn't look gaunt.
You can't see its rib cage. I mean it's full long.
I don't know. Maybe it just finished chasing a dough
for thirty minutes and and just is winded a little bit.
Did it seem to be panting or in any other distress.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
No, but you know, it is a second run down here,
so yeah, maybe that had something to do with it.
But his mouth was completely closed.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Oh wow, just just talking. Holy cow. Yeah, I don't
know that I can recall seeing that. I'm not sure.
Maybe somebody in the audience can hope Captain Scott's listening.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
Maybe he have a theory about that.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
I wouldn't walk around.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
Like like it was just sticking out like just barely.
I mean, everything was flopping around.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Holy cow.

Speaker 8 (31:15):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
Anyways, Hey, have a happy and process.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Yeah you too, man, you too, Aaron, go on it.
We got to go do something. Oh are you Yeah,
he just dropped that on me a little bit. Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
By the way, I got to go to Vegas for work.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
That's that's that's the best kind of trip though, when
you know you're going out there and you're gonna be
you're gonna be making money to go play with a
little bit, but just be careful about it.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Don't go crazy on me. Oh yeah, yeah, I never
was a big Yeah, I never. I don't think.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
I don't think I ever have placed a bet in
a sports bar. I just I don't know enough, you know,
I don't know enough to do it right. So I'll
sit and play a little slot machines or something like that,
just to go mind numb, and then then go back
to my room, go to sleep, and get up and
go to work.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
All right, man, save travels.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Oh he fell out. He just bowed. He got tired
of listening to me. I think, what time is It's
almost break time. Let's go ahead and take this break,
and when we get back, I'll tell you what I
was gonna do. And the first segment had everything gone
just absolutely flawlessly, which it did not. But we're up
to speed now and I've just moved down the console
a little bit. It's just something something in the wiring

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sat at my desk this morning for a little while

(34:17):
and kind of scribbled out some thoughts on point values
for what you've done this week from Monday through Friday,
with Thursday being Christmas. And I told Frankie when I
was explaining what I was going to just kind of
go through here. And you're Frankie, You're free to add

(34:38):
stuff to the list, and so is everybody else in
the audience. You can email me and uh let me
know if you think I missed something, and I'm sure
I did. There are about a million things we could
have on a list, like I'm talking about hang on,
I got to move something real quick.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
H So, anyway, here's kind of how it starts, and
I don't even know if the point values are right.
That's why I asked for Frankie's input. So first off,
so if this passed Monday through Friday, if you went
hunting or fishing at all, I'm gonna give you two points.
If you invited a friend to join you, I'll give

(35:18):
you two more points. If you invited that friend's young
son or daughter, five points because it's a kid. That
makes sense, Frankie, I can dig it.

Speaker 8 (35:29):
I can.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Now, if you took an immediate family member on your
Christmas fishing or hunting trip, then I think that's three points.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
They've probably been with you before.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
But then if you get into that friend with son
or daughter, now now you get extra points for taking
along somebody who may or may not have fished before.
And you know what, I'm going to amend the list
right now on the fly and say, if that son
or daughter that came along, or even that other adult
who joined you for a fishing or hunting trip, if

(36:04):
that was their first time ever, then give yourself another
five points. That makes sense, Frankie. Okay, so you got
like the five. If it's someone new.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Oh lord, you're gonna start adding them up.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah, I'm just kind of yeah five for add five
for brand new to fishing or hunting. Yeah, five for
it being a kid younger than eighteen because that's adulthood then,
and two just for just for inviting friend. So you
got two there, five for the son or daughter and
another fight. So that would that could be a twelve

(36:38):
point trip. Yeah, oh yeah, actually a fourteen point trip
because you went too. You get a couple of points
for that, So high marks for anybody who took a
friend or somebody else, an acquaintance, whoever it is, hunting
or fishing for the first time, that ought to be
worth more points than that.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
I think I might have might have to redo that.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Celebrate If you celebrated Christmas at deer camp or fish camp,
that's that's pretty outdoorsy. That's worth three points. I think
I'll give them three points for that. If you played
a round of golf this week, I will give you
two points. I got two points. If you play more
than one round and you are the only golfer in

(37:22):
the family, that's minus two points because this is.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
A family holiday. That makes sense.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Frankie, Yeah, yeah, you got to include the people. Man,
No really at least take them along with you and
let them ride around in the cart or something. Now
here's the issue that I ran into yesterday though, when
I went to work on my short game.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
The practice area at.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Blackhawk is about it's about seventy yards long and about
twenty five thirty yards wide, but twenty five.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Yards wide, let's call it.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
And there's a sizeable green that everybody hits their shots
to well for some reason. And there's a little scooper
thing that you can go pick up the balls after
ever other people have hit them, and they're usually just
piled up on the practice green itself, the pitching and
chipping green, and you run this thing around and you

(38:11):
fill up buckets and then you take your little bucket
and you stand wherever you want to stand to hit
your shots. Well, yesterday, when I got there, I looked
on the practice facility and there were about five grown
ups and at least five maybe six kids, ranging in

(38:32):
age from about three to about four maybe five, okay,
And they were at the far back end of the
practice area, and between them and that green there was
grass of different heights, so that real golfers can come
over there and practice hitting out of the rough hitting

(38:53):
out of the fairway lies all that stuff. Those kids somebody,
one of the parents had gone through earlier, not much earlier,
probably and scooped every ball, every single ball out of
that practice area four big buckets.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
It would be the equivalent of four.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Those buckets they have over there are probably a gallon
and a half their leather buckets. But anyway, the bottom
line is almost every golf ball that was available over
there had been picked up and put in the buckets
and taken back there and spread out so that those
little kids could hit them. Well, that's fun and cute
and all, but at the end, most of the golf

(39:34):
balls that they had hit were just scattered anywhere from
where they started short of the green, very few of
them in short grass, which is what it really kind
of takes to get them out of there with the
little device that we used to pick them up. And
when they were finished, they all got in their little
carts and just drove away and left all those balls

(39:56):
out there, and that it was just somebody else. This
is a problem, and I'm sorry, but that was that
was rude, It was unthoughtful, it was selfish. If I
had done that with my son, I would have. I
would have. First of all, I wouldn't have started so

(40:18):
far away because those little kids just they couldn't.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Hit them all the way to the green. That was
the problem.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
So seventy five percent of the balls they hit were
in grass it was about two and a half inches tall,
and it just made it impossible to pick them up.
I watched a couple of guys when I got over there,
I ran that picker upper around through and picked up
pretty much every ball that was in shorter grass and
that the device would actually get it, and then left

(40:44):
one full bucket and had one for myself. But I
was watching grown men have to come over there and
pick up balls one one at a time like they
were on an Easter egg hunt, just to have enough
to practice. And that that.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
That rubbed me the wrong way. Was I overly sensitive,
Frankie or not?

Speaker 1 (41:04):
You think I?

Speaker 11 (41:05):
Do?

Speaker 1 (41:05):
You think I was overly sensitive? That'd be a little
you know, I just don't like to I don't like
to make a mess like that and not pick it up.
And especially what are they teaching their kids? They're teaching
their kids that somebody else will pick up their mess,
and that's that's messed up. It would have been so
and the kids would have had here's a problem. The

(41:27):
kids would have had fun. Okay, how fast can you
pick up all these golf balls? And they'd have been
running around there like ants at a picnic. They'd be
picking them up. They each could have had their own
little bucket, or they could if there were enough of them,
they could have tag teamed it and put two kids
on each bucket and picked up all those golf balls
and probably in two minutes. But they just drove away.

(41:48):
Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just a grumpy old
man who knows Frankie who knows. Okay, back to the
points where are Oh, we got a couple of minutes.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
I'll get there. I got so many more point to play.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
So we got through the golf stuff. If you bought
your spouse a gift that wasn't on his or her list,
maybe I'm just doing this for myself because I did
two uh five points for the courage to do that,
because you run a risk that they're gonna open it,
and and you're just all you're leaning on the edge

(42:22):
of your chair man. Oh, I hope you like this.
I hope you like this. And they go, oh, that's yeah,
that's that's interesting. If you hear that's interesting, you know
what that means, don't you, Frankie means you missed. You
took a big swing and you missed. That's okay. Sometimes
it happens. If you bought twice as much for your
kids as you did for yourself and your spouse, ten points.

(42:45):
That's who deserves Mary, Mary, Mary, Merry. Christmas is those kids.
And my son's eighteen. Now, the all of the magic
is kind of left. But and my wife insisted on
making this because it'll be the he'll be at college
next year and so it's gonna be a whole lot different.
He's gonna have to fly back or drive back or

(43:05):
whatever from where he is, and uh, it just won't
be the same. And she wanted to make sure he
went out on a big hoorah. And boy did did
he ever? Good for him? And that's okay. If you
ever sang Christmas carols out loud in the car, I'll
give you three points if you sang them while other
family members or friends were in the car with you,

(43:26):
if you had the courage to do that, and you
know you can't sing, but you can't help yourself. That
might be worth seven or eight points. You think, do
you ever do that? Just burst into song in the car. Oh,
Frankie's on the phone. Oh holy cow, I gotta go.
I gotta take a little break here on the way out,

(43:47):
I'm gonna tell you about black Horse Golf Club.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
That camera you're's just freezing. Frank gets killing me.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Black Horse is I'll take two ninety to Fry Road,
hang a south couple of mills down the road. You'll
see the gate on the west side of Fry Road,
and pull in there, and from that point forward, anybody
and everybody you run into is going to be really,
really dedicated to making.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
Sure you have a good time there.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
If your game is kind of wonky, maybe set up
something at the far end of the range with a
big giant practice range by the way, set some lessons
up down there. If you are interested in private membership
and you live up that way. The South Course was
taking private this year and will be that way henceforth
throughout the land. And there's a fantastic deal you can

(44:31):
get with membership on the South Course that gets you
access to all five Escalante courses here in town. That
includes both courses at Golf Club of Houston, and it
includes Blackhawk Country Club, so and you get the two
at black Horse, it's a fantastic deal. The North course
still till daily fee and still a lot of fun
if you really want to get out there and swing

(44:51):
hard and see how far it'll go, and you're still
going to probably be able to find your ball on
most of the holes out there. Black Horse Golf Club
dot com is a website. Great play to hold a tournament,
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they've got plenty of room out there almost all days,
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(45:13):
on and go play at black Horse. Black Horse Golf
Club dot com.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
Where am I there? I am, Welcome back, Thanks for listening.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety second hour
starts now. I did get a response, by the way, Aaron,
if you're still listening wherever you're driving this morning. Got
a response from Scott and he's kind of like what
I thought too. I asked him if he'd seen bucks
running around with their tongues hanging out like that, Otherwise
healthy not panting even just that, and he said, yeah,

(45:47):
during the rut, every once in a while during the rut.
So that kind of confirms what I was thinking. That's
the only thing. You're just tired. You're just worn out,
tired walking around, barely can stand up and walk. That's
they expend a lot of energy chasing, more energy chasing

(46:09):
than finishing what they had the business they got on
their minds, and that that would wear you out if
you had to run miles relatively, they remember, they're not
big animals. They're really not that large, and they're not
designed to sprint all over the place except for one

(46:29):
time a year.

Speaker 4 (46:30):
Take care of business. Let me go see, let me
get this over here. I got him, I.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Thought, Yeah, there we go, Dave. What's up many a year?
Merry Christmas?

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Everything?

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Yeah, yeah, real quick on the water situation, there's still
a little bit low us eating rocks over here. Okay, hey,
but no see, you know me, I think coming down here,
and you know, I always I got a big bottle
of that vanilla extract, yeah you know, and the can,

(47:03):
you know, the can of corn. But then I throw
corn out here for you know this and that. But
the younger people that are coming over here trying to fish,
I'll tell them about that, and I throw in a
little bit about uh smashing the barb. Yeah, it's easy
to uh you know, and that's that that should help
him out. But I mean there's a lot of teaching

(47:25):
and coaching. Yeah. But then we got there, we got
and then missus Doug.

Speaker 8 (47:30):
We've got a lot of a lot of.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Young guys and gals over here coming over here there.
Like we talked before, they're trying to get practice up
for in high school, go to college.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
You know, like that's something we haven't talked about that much.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
But the scholarships that are available for bass fishing teams
in college are they're pretty good, and a lot of
colleges have.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
That now, yes, sir, And you know, even even the
young the kids that are in the neighborhood. When I'm
in over here right now, there's one young guy over
there with the oldest daughter of three, and she's wanting
to play flag football. Wow, guess what I'm yeah, I'm
trying to you know, Dad's out there with us. And
so since I played, you know, I've been teaching the

(48:17):
plays and stuff, you know, like roll out right and
chunk left or fake this and take that, you know,
so that you know you know what's going on. So
you know, I've been doing a lot of coaching. Hey,
real quick, right now out here, I'm looking straight ahead
of me. Uh north man, there's a bass boat out
there and they're chunking big time.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
And uh.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
But another thing I'd like to say, Oh, there's a
lady over here sitting on the end of the pier
just dobbing, you know, and you never know what you're
going to catch. Then yeah, and then uh yeah, And
like I said, if you don't go and you don't throw,
you don't know. I know it is, and then it

(48:59):
looks like you're as a dad and his daughter on
the other side over there.

Speaker 11 (49:02):
Good.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
And before I leave out here, after I hang up,
I'll go over there and kind of look around and say, hey, y'all,
you know I do I chum up over here and
go over there, go anywhere. You know, you never know
what you're gonna throw. Now, what's the strangest place that
you went and didn't think you were going to catch nothing,
and all of a sudden you threw down here and
there it was.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
You know, there's a lot of little bitty places around
Sugarland that I fished where I think what I ran
into a lot on the golf course was talking to
you know, people would stop and look at me and hey, man,
you catch any fish?

Speaker 4 (49:36):
Yeah, I catch a few out here.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
I don't say too much. I don't want to share
a lot of information, especially back when it was super good,
because I didn't want a lot of pressure on those fish.
But what what strikes me is they'll say, oh, yeah,
I always fish at Rayburn, or I always fish at
to lead a Bend, or I always fish down south
somewhere or way out west at Lake Fork, whatever, And

(49:59):
so they drive three four five hours to fish a
lake when as members of that club, or it's just
somebody who lives in sugar Land. There's access to water
where it grant you. It's not it's not fancy. You
don't have to launch a big boat or anything like that.
But if you like the fish as much as I do,

(50:19):
if I tried to fish at Sam Raybard every time
I try, every time I went fishing in the little
lakes and sugar Land, my car have six million miles
on it.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Hey, I tell you what. And one thing we talked
about before, start fishing where the water is.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
Well, yeah, yeah, there's that.

Speaker 7 (50:39):
You know.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
And then and then you know, I'm looking at another
boat getting over here out in that you know where
the river channel is over there, and you know this
is really cool. And oh and we got some low clouds.
I can't see, you know, there're low clouds that ain't
no black clouds, right, and then I can see all
the way over to the other side from where I am,

(51:00):
to those side of the lake, to all the houses
old there there the trees, you like. I said, I'm
painting you a Norman walk wells here and yeah this, Hey,
I wish you were here. I need I'm gonna take
the picture to send it to you. Man.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
So yeah, yeah, you know who takes the picture? You
know who takes the picture of the dam? I just
made up this joke. Who takes who? Who paints the
picture of the dam? Norman Norman Rock Wall, Norman Rock.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Hey you know what that one song the highwayman? Yeah,
I was a damn builder. Yeah he got he got
buried in the concrete man. All right, I know, but hey,
you know, all right, all right, God bless.

Speaker 4 (51:46):
Always a pleasure man.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
Thank you, Audios, thank you mercy sakes. Yeah, Norman rock Wall,
what do you think of that? Frankie on a one
to ten, I'm gonna go with the six, really, okay,
just off the fly, not like I'm sitting around as
a professional comedy, right, And I think that's pretty clear
every time I try to do something humorous, you know.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
Oh well, back to my points system for a minute.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Okay, So I'm gonna give you are going to give
anybody out there we got past singing in the car.
If you've already returned at least one gift, that's three
points because and you probably well you just didn't even
tell the person, or maybe you talked it over, depending
on how long you've been married. I got that done,
got that done. If you oh yeah, if you went

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over budget, how many points do you think that's worth?
If you were you were so filled with holiday spirit
that you just blew the budget, I might go with
a four.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
Let's go yeah, I had it higher than that.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Let's go with five, because that means you you really
were captivated by the holiday spirit of giving and then
flip this around, bought yourself a gift that somebody else
wrapped and put under the tree with your name on it.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
That's for most of the guys in the audience.

Speaker 9 (53:06):
Man, there's always a mystery when that other person opens
the gift, Like, oh, sometimes a mystery. That's a pretty
cool gift for you.

Speaker 8 (53:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
One of the guys I played golf with, we were
talking about Christmas several years ago actually, and he said,
you know, I just kind of I've.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Lost my spirit. And I said, why is that?

Speaker 1 (53:25):
And he said, well, I looked under the tree this
year and I realized that. And he's got extended family
there that the kids, the grandkids are all there, and
he said, I realized that every single golf or every
single gift under that tree.

Speaker 4 (53:41):
Was paid for by me. Like, okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
But you know, and honestly, I don't think at all
that he lost the spirit. He was just kind of
knowing this guy, that's just kind of his way of humor.
And there's no way he stopped giving gifts to his
grand kids. I guarantee you he might have pumped the
brakes on stuff that was being bought for himself knowing him,

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but he didn't. He didn't slow down at all taking
care of those grandkids. I guarantee you he's a good guy.
If you had done button your pants after Christmas dinner?
How many points you get?

Speaker 8 (54:18):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Man, that's up there. I'll go with I'll go with
the four okay. And then and it comes with an
asterisk to buy yourself some bigger pants.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
Yeah, because there's no going back from that.

Speaker 7 (54:30):
Man.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
And now here's this is different too.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Uh if you were if you were the person who
was asked to say the blessing before dinner, how many points?

Speaker 9 (54:38):
Ooh, but that that's that's pretty good though it's a position.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
Yeah, I'll go with maybe five okay. Now, and this
needs to be a higher value in my opinion. If
you were asked to say the blessing, but you're not
a guy. Okay, see how many how many moms do
the blessing? It's not it's almost always the dad or
the grand or somebody. Yeah, yeah, no, we'll go we'll

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go with seven. Yeah, give them a little seven. Yeah,
that's the person that was chosen to do that seven points.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
You know what we gotta do. We gotta take a break.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
These things are just landing like a sack of wet rocks.
It's okay, I'd say, like I told you at the
front end of the show, Frankie, I said, look, this
is humor, but it's humor that was written in like
twelve minutes before the show. I was just letting him
fly out of my head and putting them on the paper.
And I'm just having fun with this, and I'm glad

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to be back. That's why glad to be sitting here.
It was a little I got to bed a little
late last night, actually, but I was up also about
ten minutes before the alarm went off. And I'm not
rolling around here for ten more minutes.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
I'm going in. I got stuff to do.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Elkubono Cigars hand rolled down there in Texas City by
well by Manny Lopez, the guy who founded this company
in two thousand and six with his father, and he
uses only the finest tobaccos, most of them grown from
Cuban Sea down in Central America. It comes up here,
it gets held for quite some time. I learned by

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going down there, and I'm sure he would give you
a tour as well if you went down and wanted
to learn more. Go down there to the Texas City
Smoking lounge slash factory right there on Main.

Speaker 4 (56:21):
Street in Texas City. You can't miss it.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Main Street in Texas City is exactly what you think
it is a lot of small businesses, including one of
the only four dozen cigar manufacturing facilities in this entire
country of ours. That would be el Kubano Cigars. He's
also got a smoking lounge over in League City. It's
about fifteen twenty minutes from the factory.

Speaker 8 (56:44):
There.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
They do custom orders too, which I think is really cool.
This would be a great way to celebrate the new year,
to celebrate a big golf tournament, something going on with
your company, some milestone that you've reached in revenue or whatever.
It is, just anything that's worth celebrating around a bunch
of people who like to smoke cigars, call Manny Lopez,

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get him to whip you up something special. Or if
you just like cigars day to day, make sure you
buy them from him, because you eliminate every middleman that
every other company trying to sell you cigars is having
to pay off a little bit. Dollars stick here, dollars
stick there. All of a sudden, your cigars are really expensive.
Many does one hundred and fifty different kinds, and I'm

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sure he would do one hundred and fifty one if
you had something special you wanted. Knowing him, he'll even
come to your event and roll cigars for your guests.
That's how much he's into this. And every time I
turn around, he's sending me a picture some really cool place.
He is either trying to help somebody celebrate or trying
to help somebody raise a bunch of money. Elcoubanocigars dot

(57:49):
Com is the website. Go check it out. Elcoubano Cigars
dot com. A twenty one on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Dunkpike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
I am. One of the things I got that I
was really happy I got and and have needed for

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quite some time is a new golf bag, not new
golf clubs, which I kind of also need, but that's
a totally different purchase. Uh, and I'm shopping, I'm thinking
about it.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
I got to figure out how I could pull that off.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Is that's golf clubs these days are outrageously If you
buy them fresh out, brand new, it can it can
run up pretty quick. And one of the things I
do know, and I well, you know, I'll save all
that for the nine o'clock hour.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
I will.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
I'll run to the end of this list, Frankie, We'll
get we'll get through it, and then I can I
can just bury it somewhere I actually set up because
I'm at the far end of the console now. I
set up a full, legitimate three point shot with wadded
up paper. So that's where this is going to go
as soon as I get to the bottom of this list.
Where were we? Oh? What about if you had something

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other than turkey or ham for your main course? Does
that is that plus points or minus points?

Speaker 9 (59:14):
Oh, I'm gonna say additional, because could be healthy.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
Could be healthy, could be vegan? This the audience, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
I'd be curious, and I'm certainly I'm not gonna make
fun of you if you are vegan.

Speaker 6 (59:27):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
It's just it's your choice, you be you. But I'm
curious to know if anybody is, And if so, then
what are you putting on the on the on the
table A tofu turkey? I don't know, what would you
what would you have? Frankie, I guess some of that.
Can't believe it's not bee or whatever it's called. I

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don't know. Impossible.

Speaker 9 (59:51):
I know, Uh, some families, you know, they do Tomali's
this time of year.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
Nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
That's actually pretty good.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
Holy cow. Yeah, I'd be there.

Speaker 9 (59:58):
Yeah, we got a neighbor that does those, and so
we ordered a ton of a before before Christmas. But uh,
thank you, that could be good. Yeah, I don't know.
I hadn't thought about the tofu option.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (01:00:11):
Well, well, and for good reason. Yeah. I'm not a
big tofu guy. My my in laws are tofu people,
and it's just it's not me, man, I know, I know,
I don't even know what it's made of.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Do you know. Oh, he's on the phone seven one
three seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
I'm almost to the end of all this stuff.

Speaker 11 (01:00:37):
I du.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
If you watched a live sports event while others prepared
and served dinner, uh, that's kind of a minus two
or three points.

Speaker 4 (01:00:48):
You can't do that now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
If you ask permission and you're told to stay out
of the way, then you can go watch TV and
watch a game. If you ask permission and they say yeah,
But would you set the table first, or would you
put water in the water glasses first or something like that.
You should do it graciously and expeditiously so you can

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go watch football. And then the last one I have
on here is, rather than choose one dessert, you asked
for a little of both, or all three or just
whatever was available. And that one goes back to the
one about unbuttoning your pants. You you just might have
to buy some new pants if you're eating all three desserts.

(01:01:34):
So far, I've made it through some of that. Let's
go talk to David. See what's up? Click David, what's up?
My friend?

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Hey Doug, Happy New Year.

Speaker 13 (01:01:44):
Thank you you too, real quick, real quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
I wanted to dovetail into what you were and Dave
were talking about earlier, about kids and scholarships and such. Yes, sir,
one thing I had to get. One thing I had
to get my and I hope there's somebody out here
that this will benefit to hear it. I had to
give my wife a tremendou credit for making our daughters
readers at a young age. Yep, even at a young age.
I mean there's babies. She would read to them, She

(01:02:08):
got them to she got them to the point where
they were as excited about going to the library and
getting a new book as a kid would be to
get a a new toy.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
What a benefit.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
And man, I'll put it this way, I retired early
because of my kids being able to scholarship so well
in life.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
Yes, sir, holy cow man, Yeah, that's so fantastic. My
wife was the same way. She read to our son
and I did to some extent. She was with him
more than I was, and there were books all over
that house, And when the Little Book Fair came to school,
she just pretty much gave blank check, get whatever books
you want, never turn you down.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
And there's a lot of stuff out there about outdoors.

Speaker 8 (01:02:52):
I asked her.

Speaker 13 (01:02:52):
She said, she's a substitute teacher now and.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
National Geographic has a lot of stuff for kids to read.
And I don't know if the parks a Wildlife in
front of it does, but they probably have periodicals that
kids can get on the outdoors. But there's a wealth
of information out there, uh you know. And that's what
I do now. I wasn't a much read much of
a reader when I was a kid, but most of
the reading I do now is learning about hunting, pushing

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and how to stuff. But man, if you've got young kids,
get them, get them into books, and get them in
there early.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
And one of the benefits, Yeah, one of the benefits
to that too, Steve, is that when when a child
or even what you or me are reading something, we're
able to we're able to put it in our heads
and allow other thoughts to come in to build upon
what we're reading, maybe introduce something else.

Speaker 5 (01:03:50):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Well, he's thinking, maybe do it this way, but I
think maybe it could be done this way. And you
don't get that. I don't believe by watching YouTube YouTube.
It's just like sitting there looking at a lecture in college.
It's it's kind of boring because you're not out there
doing it. But if you're reading about it, you can
immerse yourself in it and get as involved or uninvolved

(01:04:14):
as you want to be.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
I like that idea, I really do. Man, those books.

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
Are well Doug, well, you know too, even in professional
life and all professions.

Speaker 13 (01:04:22):
I don't care what profession you're in. As an adult,
one of.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
The most common questions people will ask you what are
you reading right now?

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
What are you reading?

Speaker 7 (01:04:29):
M hm?

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
So make make those kids readers, get them in the
books and start them early.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
Ye know, it's kind of a thing that has haunted
me a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
After being a writer for so long, At the end
of a day, I'm not inclined to want to read
more words because I was always sitting there typing and
writing and writing and writing. But I've started to read
a little bit more now, and I've got I've got
a nice library of outdoors related books. I really do,
and maybe I need to just kick myself in the

(01:05:02):
rear end and start pulling them off the shelf at
night instead of doing crossword puzzles. It's not a bad idea.
I think you've inspired me, Steve.

Speaker 10 (01:05:11):
Real quickly, David, I'm sorry, real quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
Yeah, that I have to believe to be a good writer,
you had to be a good reader when you were younger.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Yeah, I did. I did a lot of reading when
I was young. I really did, because I was fascinated
by the outdoors. I didn't read I didn't read classics.
I read Field and Strength, you know, I read The
Outdoor Life. I read Sports a Field. Those were my
go tos every new issue that came out, whether I
was lucky enough to get a subscription for my birthday
or pluck it out of the library. But I was

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reading about that stuff all the time.

Speaker 13 (01:05:42):
Yes, I always enjoy your show, Dame.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
Thank you David. Yeah, happy new your David. Okay, let
me click that. Come on, Why didn't this thing want
to click?

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:05:55):
Fix?

Speaker 4 (01:05:55):
It hooked me up, Frankie, I can't get it to undo.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
You got me? Okay, You're you're frozen again on the screen,
and I can't tell whether you can hear me or not.
You're just like a it's like a photograph. It's not
video at all. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email on me, Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
We are at second base of the show officially. And Uh,

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on the way out, I'll remind you that Carter's Country
and after doing all the great deals they did before Christmas,
still have all kinds of stuff in their guns, Ammo
and hunting stuff all over Houston.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
Got three big locations.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
The one up on Treshwig the North Side store has
a full service range gunsmithing. Uh. You can go up there.
You can buy a gun, buy some Ammo by hearing
an eye protection, and then go right out on the
range and shoot whatever it is you want to shoot
and got plenty of sporting clays, trap and skeet. There's

(01:06:55):
five stand, there's rifle, there's pistol, all of that up there,
and again, one of the best gunsmissing Billy Carter you'll
ever run into. He's been up there a very long time.
He learned from his his dad, Bill Carter, and Billy's
as good as they get. And if you're up on
that north side of town, that's that's where you need
to go to get that gun looked at. If you've

(01:07:16):
got a real issue with it, and nobody else can
help you. Get what you need, get what you want
to enjoy the shooting sports. No matter how you enjoy him.
You're a competitive shooter, you're just a plinker. You're a
long range shooter. All all of that's covered and if
you want to start talking, really, if you're serious about
long range stuff, Billy's a good guy to know. He's

(01:07:38):
made some of the longest shots ever made and with
guns he built himself. Fascinating guy to talk to. Carter'scountry
dot Com is the website. Go check it out Carterscountry
dot Com. For a minute there couldn't find the button

(01:07:59):
I was looking for, but I found it by gosh
seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. We got to
get some bigger cups around here, Frankie. I've got three
or four of these little thimbles of coffee stacked up here,
and it makes me have to run out of here
and run back more than I need to. I guess
I need the steps. Let's look at it that way.

(01:08:20):
It's exercise, right there, you go, anything is exercise. You
are still totally frozen. Oh no, that moved. Oh I
had a moment. There was some weird anomaly going on
with my Facebook last night.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
On my little iPad.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
It would all the reels would play five seconds and
then stop five seconds and then stop and then finally
there was a little notification that popped up that said,
you know, it's us, not you, basically, And so.

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
I was not terribly worried about it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
It wasn't like I was gonna live or die without Facebook,
for heaven's sakes. Uh, But at least I got it.
It was cooking. Uh right about the time my had
hit the pillow for the last time. That son of
mine's driving me crazy. He is so independent and so
confident that nothing's gonna wright.

Speaker 4 (01:09:10):
He is truly believes himself to be bulletproof.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
I think, And so he'll just go anywhere and not
tell us when he leaves one place and goes to
the other. Not lately he doesn't come in after midnight,
which is for where he's going. And the friends he's
running around, they're all good kids. I'm not worried about them,
but they all feel that way, like they.

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
Nothing's going to hurt them.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
And hey, I grew up in this city and there
were places around town that I wouldn't go at night
and didn't want to go. And these guys just go whenever,
wherever and knock on wood. They're doing okay. He's a
good kid, he really is. And he's finally showing that
maturity and losing some of the attitude that he had

(01:10:02):
a couple of years ago and up through somewhat recently.
But the light that there's light, and it's a growing
light to It's not a faint light at the end
of the tunnel.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
It's a growing light. Let's get him brighter. He's maturing. Finally.
There's gonna be a celebration at some point.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
He's gonna do something within the next six months ire
before he gets out of school. He's gonna do something
that's gonna let my wife and me know that. Yeah,
he's gonna be all right, and it'll it'll be something
pretty cool too. I don't know what it's gonna be,
but just knowing him, because he has a really good mind,

(01:10:40):
he has a really uh he can be hard headed sometimes,
but in there is a really good kid who's going
to be a really good adult.

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
I'm pretty sure about that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
Seven one three. Not to toot my own horn or anything.
My wife did a lot of raising him too, a
lot of it because I was wor so dog on much.
In hindsight, who knows it could have been different, Keith
sent me, I bet there's a picture here. Let me
see points for Christmas surfing with your son. Yeah, you

(01:11:12):
get high points for that, man, because this is not
exactly warm water season either. Keith writes, I managed to
take my son to surf on a board he'd never
surfed in a girl's roxy wetsuit, my wife's old wetsuit.

Speaker 4 (01:11:30):
Ah it poor kid.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
On Christmas Day, after morning presents and before the evening
family gathering. That that earns extra points if you squeezed
that in and turns out his son caught what he
called the best ride of his life. You get ten
points for just even attempting to get that done, and
another ten for me for getting it done. But it's

(01:11:56):
minus five for putting him in your wife's wetsuit. I
gotta take points off of that. That's kind of messed up, man,
But it worked, and there's no way you were gonna
make it happen without it, so I'll give you those
points back. Oh, he says, I got news that my
new replacement board is ready, going to Corpus to pick
it up soon. Took two years to get the new board.

(01:12:20):
Oh that's right. Yeah, he had one stolen. I remember that.
I do remember hearing from you, and I think we
even maybe put a picture on Facebook trying to find it.
Oh man, he's got a replica of the one that
was stolen. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Good for you.

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
He got Beetles CDs for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
He's all into the Beatles now, he says. Here, all right, Keith,
hats off to you for taking your son's surfing.

Speaker 4 (01:12:45):
That's pretty cool. It really is.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Let's go talk to faux pro what's up? Uh oh
click click, come on, click click hit it, Frankie, I
can't make it work.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
Now there we go. Now I got you.

Speaker 5 (01:12:58):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
By the way, thanks for the Christmas Oh yeah, thank
you for the Christmas present. Man.

Speaker 4 (01:13:04):
I love that hate process.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
Fux Pro sent me your hat and it's it's just
a nice, clean, pure white hat with black lettering across
the front that says legalized mulligans and like, I'm I'm
into that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:19):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
Not too many, though, the trouble. If you have too
many mulligans, then you have issues. Yeah, because you can't
get a boy, you can't get a tournament stopped in time,
can't get a tournament stopped before dark. Plus those two
baby baby one minuses, I hadn't been able to find
them at all.

Speaker 4 (01:13:37):
I don't know where you found them, but hats off
and thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:13:41):
Yeah. I had a buddy of mine that's a pack
crack similar to me as a bunch of old lures,
and he likes bandit crank bait, especially fire tigers. Got
a brand new fire Tiger he kicked by as well.
I don't throw the one minus, but I will throw that, So.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Yeah, trade now, that's it's clear to me that he
doesn't fish in so because that little baby one minus.
The first time I saw one thrown, I've told you,
but was over in Louisiana, and I watched the red
fish just turn itself inside out to chase that thing
down and hit it like just like a bull going
through a brick wall. It was amazing how how bad

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that redfish wanted that baby one minus. And I've been
throwing them ever since when I can find them, not
lose them. What's going on for you?

Speaker 8 (01:14:28):
I get my one point for actually fishing. On Christmas Day,
I took myself fishing.

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
So that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
What did your what did you better? No, I can't
just let that go. What did your better half have
to say about that?

Speaker 8 (01:14:42):
Well, she's an Arizona visiting family, So go where that
will go.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
Yeah, just start driving to see water and then back
up put the boat in.

Speaker 8 (01:14:56):
But I had a question for you concerning my trip
last week, Neil man NeSSI went down the porta Ramses. Yeah,
and I know I shared some of the pictures with
you and just a little bit while I was down there,
But duck tunning, I mean, if you'd like to see
forty thousand red heads and shoot your limited red heads
where you know, I think Stevie Wonder could have shot
his limited redheads.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
Oh my word.

Speaker 8 (01:15:13):
But uh, but it was cool to see that. You know,
we had a lot of puddle ducks early whigeon and
pintail early, but they never did you could hear them
before shooting time. But one shooting time got there that
we're gone to wherever they go to. But what fascinated
me we were staying there was a little place on
Saint Charles Bay and a lighted fishing pier lighted, so
you have that plus at yeah. But but two things

(01:15:34):
fascinated me. One we caught several different species, but on
this one pier in the middle of the middle of nowhere,
special bay, we caught sixty three speckled trout off this
one dock.

Speaker 10 (01:15:46):
That's a promise, how many trout or in this bay?

Speaker 8 (01:15:51):
Sixty three on one dock. And the other thing fascinated
me that you could explain to me as a as
a bash fisherman. Primarily, you know, I have no saltwater fishman,
so I'm gonna allow the wind to dictate where the
fish may be sitting on structure or cover how they
may position themselves. So I had that idea of the
first day we fished, but there was no tide. So

(01:16:11):
we had a high tide come in pretty strong at
five pm the Friday evening before we duck on it Saturday. Yep,
And what fascinated me. And I'm throwing my thrown. I'm
fishing under bobber with a piece of shrimp, and my
bobber is going against the wind, which just freaked me out.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
Explain that now that's tide, that's the tide forest good
heavens man, you don't have wind.

Speaker 8 (01:16:34):
Was so hard it would blow that I thought it
would blow that cork and the waves would override the tide.
I was impressed at how strong that tide was. It
would push my split shot and the shrimp the opposite
way that ship was trying to go.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Yeah, that that cork's just along for the ride. If
there's tidal movement at all, that cork's gonna go with
the tide unless it's blowing a hurricane. But yeah, a
good strong tide like that gets those fish happy, chompy,
they'll start eating the bait.

Speaker 8 (01:17:03):
Gets fascinated me. Yeah, but I thought about I related
that to something you talked about deer hunt with kids,
because you know me, first time you and I went
down to the coast, I'm catching lady fishing. I'm thrilled.

Speaker 4 (01:17:14):
You're like you were having a ball man.

Speaker 8 (01:17:17):
So I go out there and catch We go out
there and catch he's sixty three you know, undersized special trap.
We had won those like fourteen and seven eights. We
had several of that twelve and traine. But that was
so cool to me to catch them. Now had and
I relate that to deer hunting. Now, had I went
out with you that first day and caught a thirty
inch trap on top on on my first cast, what what?

(01:17:38):
How exciting when those lady fishing and sixty one small
trout would have been not at all to me had
I done that first, not at all. Kind of I
was thinking about that deer hunting you talk you had
when I went out there and did that. You know,
I'm just I'm working my way up that, you know,
And that's that's.

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
Such a great way to do it. Man, Don't get
in a big hurry, you know, you don't need to
get in a big hurry. If you get it, if
you get asked to go on a trip where you
might catch a big trout by all means go. But
if you're catching fifteen sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen twenty inch trout,
keep catching them, man, keep catching them, because that's going
to make you better equipped when you finally position yourself

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to get that opportunity to take advantage of it, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:18:18):
And I'm just a big kid at heart. But we
were having a competition. He was he was throwing, he
was throwing artificial lures, which we went there to the
rock Port Tackle and we found a small pink swim
bait that ended up being a key bait for us.
And of course I was fishing the bait, so I
caught more fish than he did. But it was interesting
to see the comparison with alive. And I'm just a
big kid. I mean, if I if I could go

(01:18:39):
fishing anywhere in the world and I can use a bobber,
I'd love to see that barber go out.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
I man, Now, were you you were just using pieces
of dead shrimp though, weren't you?

Speaker 8 (01:18:49):
Yeah, A lady at the base shop showed me because
you know, I, yeah, I grew up. You'll throw a
dead shrimp out there and you use the whole shrip.
She was, oh no, no, no, sections, get your knife
and just all you need is section. Now, I say, man,
gonna catch anything all this cat?

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
Yeah, the whole shrimp.

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
Yeah, it saves you a lot of money on bait, man,
especially if you can just throw it dead fresh dead
shrimp will catch so many different things. And even going
back to the big trout conversation, Holy cow, we are
so late, aren't we, Frankie? Are we that late? Frankie?
I know we're going okay. Oh okay, I thought we
were at okay. Yeah, so we got one more break

(01:19:26):
before the top anyway. But yeah, but if you're throwing
live shrimp, you're gonna catch a lot of trout. If
you're throwing finger mullet, you can probably catch pretty good
in that amount of trout. But a lot of the
guys in South Texas especially, we'll park on a like
a drop off somewhere where they know that the trout
are moving up and down the bigger trout, and they'll

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fish with cut bally hoo, just a chunk about a
three inch chunk of bally who fresh ballet who if
they can get it frozen, if they have to, but
and and they'll just park there. They'll anchor up and
just fish that stuff on the bottom. And there have
been a lot of big trout caught, Like in the
Star Tournament with Cca, there have been a lot of
really big trout caught on Cut Valley. Who down south

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almost nobody does that up here.

Speaker 13 (01:20:13):
Different.

Speaker 8 (01:20:13):
One last question on the trout, because I know when
I get into schooling baths they tend to be the
same size, and I was wondering if that happened with
trout because I tried an experiment. I got a really
I found her little. I actually took it like a
number ten trouble hook off a little bitty spoon, yeah,
and put a tiny piece of shrimp. And we were
catching some small croaker. I took a one rod and
I threw a live croker out, you know, as far

(01:20:35):
as I could throw it, and left that thing out
there for I don't know how long we're catching all
these fish. And I'm just wondering were there are no
bigger trout or any bigger fish in that area? Was
it just an area of small trout? Is that something
you see?

Speaker 4 (01:20:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:20:48):
Yeah, a lot of times when especially like when the
fish are working under birds and stuff. You get out
there and you can catch a hundred of them that
are are undersized and never catch a bigger one. Sometimes
there are some bigger ones on the bottom because they
just they just feed on whatever falls on through and
gets beat up on the top by the little trout.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
But mostly it's gonna be kind of birds of a
feather with trout. There's schools a big trout, there's schools
a little trout, And those schools a little.

Speaker 4 (01:21:17):
Trout are so and there are so many of them.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
Even if there is a big trout out there, it's
probably already eaten one or two of those little trout
and may not even.

Speaker 4 (01:21:26):
Be hungry for a day or two.

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:21:30):
Yeah, if there's that much fun we're catching them. I
mean we had a blast. We found out once I
took my bait cashing rod cork off and put it
on my spinning rod where you could get to the
edge of the light. Oh yeah, if you get to
the edge of that light, it was that cork could
hit the water just disappear.

Speaker 4 (01:21:46):
That's well.

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
The fish are hiding in the darkness, just just right
on the edge of the dark and looking into the
light waiting for something to pass by, and that little
tasty nibble of shrimp man. All right, faux pro.

Speaker 8 (01:21:58):
Well we had a blast man, so I hope you
would have a happy New Year.

Speaker 4 (01:22:01):
You bet.

Speaker 8 (01:22:03):
All that good stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
Yeah, thank you to.

Speaker 8 (01:22:05):
Let me know when you catch one on that one minus.

Speaker 4 (01:22:07):
Oh, it won't be it won't be long. I hope.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
I'm gonna probably try and break it in on bass.
I got a place that I think I can get
one to eat it real quick for you, going gold lure.

Speaker 8 (01:22:18):
I said you, Oh yeah, your fingers, you're in your
index finger, your thumb, and wet them in your mouth
and touch touch the the eyes where the hooks go.
That's actually one of the original livis to lures when
I was on their pro staff, and it makes a
croaker type sound when it would have hit the water.
It'll automatically make that sound. You can dead stick it.

(01:22:40):
Oh wow, fish on it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:42):
Okay, pretty cool? That is cool man, Thanks all right, Barb,
Yeah man, I'll see you audios.

Speaker 6 (01:22:49):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:22:50):
Okay, Frankie, this this mouse isn't doing anything like it's
supposed to.

Speaker 11 (01:22:54):
Go.

Speaker 4 (01:22:54):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
I think I got it. Okay, that'll work. Go ahead,
throw if I've got time, Do I need to take
a break, Frankie, Yeah, let's do that. We'll take a
little break here. When we get back, I'll get Lane
Rix on the phone and talk to him, see what's
on his mind. On the way out timber Creek. Speaking
of golf, Lane Rix is a golf guy. He's on
the west side. Timber Creek's on the south side, or
actually on the east side. Let's call it that Southeast

(01:23:17):
FM twenty three fifty one in friends with that's due south.
That's on the way to Galveston. Very great, man. If
you're going down to Galveston and you've got time in
the morning to play eighteen holes before you go, Timber
Creek would be a good place to do it. If
you want to play on the way back, leave the
beach early, play a little well. You can't wait too
late this time of year. But it's a great place.

(01:23:38):
There's twenty seven holes. They're gonna be able to get
you out. That's one of the things I like a
lot about Timber Creek. Those twenty seven holes essentially enable
them to put out almost twice as many golfers and
work your way through in any of the nines. No
matter what rotation you're on, they're gonna be fun. They're
gonna be playable. Golf's never easy, but timber Creek's course it,

(01:23:59):
timber Creek's holes are very playable, and if you just
give yourself a second to seat how they all set up.
They got great food, they got a great teaching staff
over there at that JJ Woods Golf Academy, and they're
just going to be a whole bunch of people out
there waiting to help you have a good time. Timber
Creek Golf Club dot com, FM twenty three fifty one

(01:24:20):
in friends would like I said a few miles west
of the golf Freeway, timber Creek Golf Club dot com
eight fifty five on Sports Talk seven ninety all of
a sudden, we're back, and we didn't even know it
because that little grimlins in there. Mojo very quickly before
I get to lane. Mojo made a very good observation
about this lag last night with in freezing of videos

(01:24:44):
and whatnot, and attributed it to the all the new
phones and new pads and new this that and the
other electronics that were given for Christmas, and because they
were new, everybody's playing with them constantly. Makes perfect sense
to me. I wish I'd have thought of that. That's
pretty smart. Thank you, Mojo. All right, Lane Rix, what's up?

Speaker 8 (01:25:05):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:25:06):
Hey?

Speaker 11 (01:25:07):
Happy New Year?

Speaker 4 (01:25:08):
Happy New Year to you. Yes, sir, you too, Lane heard.

Speaker 11 (01:25:12):
I just heard your faux pro hang up there.

Speaker 4 (01:25:14):
I thought I came on.

Speaker 10 (01:25:16):
A few minutes ago when you were talking about your.

Speaker 14 (01:25:18):
Son, you know, and doing him him doing something good
here in the next year or so. Sure, you know,
proof of you and your wife. And I'm getting a
chance here. Uh, second weekend of January, a friend of
mine has taken me and my grandson down to Webb
County to deer hunt.

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
Baby.

Speaker 14 (01:25:36):
I'm really excited that I am not.

Speaker 13 (01:25:39):
My grandson has hunted with his dad a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
I have not.

Speaker 14 (01:25:43):
I'm not a deer hunter. I'm a bird hunter and
a fisherman. Sure, and uh, you know, so I'm just
gonna sit there and watch his twelve year old you know,
he killed a he killed a little Central Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:25:54):
Deer about a month ago.

Speaker 7 (01:25:56):
Uh you know.

Speaker 14 (01:25:57):
It weighed like one hundred and thirty pounds. But they're
taking the coal bucks off of this thing. They're taking
her like two thirty two forty on.

Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
My word, they're getting a lot of ice cream.

Speaker 14 (01:26:09):
He yeah, I mean he may be killed. He may
be killed like a you know, a big deer, which
is exciting. So but the time that I spent but
you know, back to your original point, Uh, you know,
the time that I spend with this kid is so valuable,
you know, whereas one on one either either fishing or
hunting or even just driving to the lease in the truck,

(01:26:30):
you know, I mean, and and so I I value
that like nothing else in life. So it's it's great
that we have the ability to do that with you
with your son and me with.

Speaker 4 (01:26:40):
My grand Well.

Speaker 1 (01:26:41):
Yeah, and there is nothing like that that that it
crosses generations that it allows you and his dad to
teach that kid.

Speaker 4 (01:26:52):
And especially on the drive to the lease.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
I'm glad you talked about that because a lot of
kids will just pick up their phone and bury themselves
in their phone when you drive around with them. And
and I've kind of made a habit of getting my
son to put his phone down when he's riding with
me and we're gonna talk and whether you know, it
might get uncomfortable, but we're gonna talk.

Speaker 11 (01:27:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:27:13):
No, those are I agree with you.

Speaker 14 (01:27:15):
I'm I'm gonna uh you know what, his mom's gotten
grounded from his phone, So.

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
That's gonna be an easy deal for me. You know what,
Just make him leave.

Speaker 7 (01:27:22):
It at home.

Speaker 14 (01:27:24):
I won't have to be the enforcer his mom has been.

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
Oh yeah, now, yeah, that's a much bigger threat than
dad heading to the deer lease for sure. It's great
to hear from you.

Speaker 11 (01:27:35):
Man, good, good to hear from you.

Speaker 8 (01:27:37):
Hey.

Speaker 14 (01:27:38):
Have a happy new year filled with birdies and big
catching big fish you and uh Forest both, and I
hope to see y'all in the new year.

Speaker 7 (01:27:45):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:27:45):
Yeah, I expect to report from that deer hunt too.

Speaker 11 (01:27:48):
I will send you some pictures.

Speaker 8 (01:27:50):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:27:50):
I got banned from Facebook, so.

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
I didn't coast anything anymore.

Speaker 8 (01:27:53):
I know, yeah I did.

Speaker 14 (01:27:55):
I don't even know what I did. I must have
said something bad about a you know, a form.

Speaker 11 (01:28:00):
Or vice president, female politician or something.

Speaker 4 (01:28:02):
Oh mercy, okay, I.

Speaker 14 (01:28:04):
Got I got no idea what I even did, but
they sent me things that I did. I violated their
community standards. Uh So anyway, I'll just I'll just text
them to your cell phone.

Speaker 11 (01:28:14):
I won't post him on face.

Speaker 1 (01:28:16):
Dog, that's cool. Thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:28:18):
All right, man, all right, Len good talking with you, buddy, Yes, sir,
always a pleasure.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
Audios. That's Lane Rix.

Speaker 1 (01:28:25):
He's done. He's out at High Metal Ranch where he is.
He kind of runs the show out there. Great guy,
if you're gonna go play out there, see if he's there.
If he is, shake his hand and tell him. I said, hello.
American Shooting Centers. If you want to go shooting on
the west side, that's where you need to be going.
It is the largest non military shooting facility in the

(01:28:46):
entire state of Texas. And we have a lot of
big ones, believe me. Dallas has got a couple. San
Antonio's got a huge place, but not as big as American.
More than two hundred shooting stations there with the I
guess the rifle and pistol five yards out to six
hundred yards, and nestled in the middle of all that
is a little twenty rim fire silhouette range. It will

(01:29:10):
pop up silhouettes that go all the way out to
two hundred and fifty yards. There's five stands setups all
over the place. There's ten trap in s Keep Feels.
There are three sporting clays courses, a beginner's wing shooting
area and professional instruction for any shooting discipline you want to.

Speaker 4 (01:29:27):
Get better at.

Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
This is a fun, safe, user friendly facility put together
in recent years since Eda Riggy bought the place and
Ed is an avid sporting clay shooter. By the way,
if you if somebody says, hey, you want to shoot
against Ed, We'll put a little money up. It'll be
a lot of fun. It won't be fun for you.
He's a really good shooter, and you can tell him

(01:29:51):
I've already left the cat out of the bag. I
like this guy. I've known him now for many years
and I respect him. He helped my son when he
was learning to shoot, and great guy, all around, great guy,
and he's set this place up to be what it is,
the biggest non military shooting facility in the entire state
of Texas. West Timer Parkway between Katie and Highway six.

(01:30:14):
You can't miss it. West Timer Parkway between Katie and
Highway six. American Shooting Centers dot com, American Shooting Centers
dot Com nine oh four on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Doug Pike Show, Thanks for listening. I haven't even
looked at the PGA Tour's website because I'm I'm hoping

(01:30:35):
against all hope that they that there was no tournament
scheduled for this weekend. It was Christmas, for heaven's sakes,
and I'm I'm one hundred percent sure I'm right. I
don't even know why I'm looking, but I'm going to
take a look and just see what's at the site,
just out of curiosity more than anything else where. Did
it go come back here, PGA Tour, I'm sure it'll be. Yeah,

(01:30:56):
it's got the PNC. That's history. That's a history lesson.
I'm gonna go before I talk at all about golf,
and i'd like to for a little bit, but I'm
gonna go to a picture that faux Pro just sent me,
and he's wanting to know whether this is under a
feeder and there's a big cat walking through there. Now,

(01:31:19):
this cat has a long tail, and it's either, first
of all, it's not a bobcat, faux Pro, I could
promise you that because it doesn't have it's got a
long tail. It also is either a pregnant, very pregnant
female cat of some sort, and I'm not really sure

(01:31:40):
what long tailed cat it would be I'm not really
sure where this feeder is. It's either that or somebody's
house cat just making the rounds that is being fed
double cheeseburger somewhere. That's a big cat.

Speaker 4 (01:31:59):
But it's got a belly.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
Like it needs to unbutton its pants, Like we were
talking about earlier. This is I don't think it's I
don't think it's any special cat in the camera. If
I try to enlarge it, it just gets so pixelated
I can't even tell it's a cat. But from the
full range shot, that cat's belly is almost dragging the ground.

(01:32:26):
So my gut says, either she is looking for someplace
to have kittens or he is looking for the next
drive through that has onion rings in addition to the
curly fries. That's a fat cat. For whatever reason, I
kinda hunch it's a pregnant female. And I'm not really

(01:32:48):
sure when the official mating season is, or if there's
an official mating season. I would presume that most wild
cats wouldn't be delivering kittens right going into winter, but
I'm not a cat expert. But no, that's if it's

(01:33:09):
a hunter. It's it's been so good a hunter that
it's over fed itself and made it'll lean out, probably
because that cat couldn't chase down a turtle. Doesn't look
like to me someone three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. This
is a good time of year if you're gonna make

(01:33:32):
changes to your golf game, to make them because with
the weather as wonky as it is, you're gonna have opportunities,
probably to to do a good amount of practice, but
not so much that well, you know, maybe I just
walked myself into something backwards. It may not be the

(01:33:53):
best time to go buy new clubs because it's gonna
take you a while to have enough time to get
used to them and figure out exactly what they're doing
for you. Maybe Lane still listing, Maybe he can talk
me off this ledge I just put myself on. I'm
trying to decide whether it's a good time to buy
new clubs or not. Well, there's never a bad time.
Let me just erase all that Frankie from the podcast.

(01:34:16):
There's never a bad time to buy new golf clubs.
But you've got to be careful what you're buying and win.
Not even from the investment side, but just from the
benefit to your game side, you first have to ask
yourself is it the club's fault? Because if it's a

(01:34:37):
swing issue that's keeping you from hitting the ball straight
or high, or being able to move the ball left
or right, then you need to fix that before you
blame the club. And I know so many people try
to buy try to buy a swing by just buying
the most expensive golf clubs out there because they're told

(01:34:57):
they're going to be a little bit forgiving. As soon
as you hear the word forgiveness, those aren't the top
of those aren't what really good players play. Really good
players develop a repeatable swing and get the clubs that
are best for that. I'm gonna go get on the
phone here with Mike. Here stand by it. Let's get there.
Click that. Hey Mike, what's up? Man?

Speaker 13 (01:35:20):
Hey Doug, how are you?

Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
I'm doing all right?

Speaker 4 (01:35:22):
I really am well good.

Speaker 11 (01:35:25):
Yeah. I hope you had a merry Christmas?

Speaker 4 (01:35:27):
Yes, sir, you bet, I hope you didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:35:30):
Story.

Speaker 7 (01:35:31):
Thank you for shattle story.

Speaker 11 (01:35:33):
I go down. I only go down about three or
four times a year fishing, and it has to be
perfect with I wait, fish has to be right. The
wind has to be right. I'm not gonna take a
chance untill sometimes I get Scott with that. Sure, And
I was with live shrimp, and I remembered as as
a young man. I was probably twelve at the time,

(01:35:54):
and my mother used to let me go down fishing
with a guy and he was a great fisherman. She
worked with him. He was a realtor, and I think
she knew he was an alcoholic, but I don't think
she knew what he would do. And we'd go fishing.
We would go down. You remember when you go across
the Doubts and Causeway, that first bake camp on the

(01:36:16):
right hand side, it's been there forever used to be
a bar. I think all the bake camps used to
have bars in probably.

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 11 (01:36:26):
Yeah, So we'd go in there and you have a
drink at like, you know, nine thirty ten in the morning,
and then we'd go fishing. And I swear I remember
going fishing and buy YOUU Vista when they first created it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:39):
Yeah, wow.

Speaker 11 (01:36:40):
And we would drive out and park. These Asians had
a friend and he has had a lot and we'd
park and you know what that little train trustle is.
You can kind of see it from the freeway, the
small little train trups out. We'd fish right there and
we taught everything we caught. But what he taught me
was we would do a double leader free lining shrimp.

(01:37:03):
Mm uh, we used we use trevele hooks, that's all
we use. And so I thought, you know, I haven't
fished that way in ages, and so I thought I'd
go fish that way. So, to make a long story short,
I about three weeks ago, went down. We I slayed them.
The other guys were fishing with a little split shot,
a little wait, a little shakeaways, they're fishing with everything

(01:37:25):
free lining. I slayed them. They caught maybe one troud,
limited out on trout, caught some redfish, caught a flounder.
I did the same thing last week, and it was
just it was just amazing, sometimes two at a time,
and uh, just just a unique way of fishing. I
don't think a lot of people do that anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:37:41):
No, they really don't.

Speaker 10 (01:37:42):
That pop.

Speaker 4 (01:37:43):
Yeah, that one's kind of gone by the wayside.

Speaker 1 (01:37:45):
But you know, there's so many It's like lures, all
of these old lures that used to work so well
in the I don't want to go back to like
the fifties and sixties because they were very crude compared
to what's out there now, but a more contemporary you were,
a more contemporary manufacturing process. All of the lures that
we started fishing with, let's say in the eighties to now,

(01:38:08):
they'll all still catch fish, just nobody throws them anymore
because there's there's always something new and shiny dangling on
the shelf.

Speaker 11 (01:38:16):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 4 (01:38:19):
That's why I'm having such a hard time cleaning my garage.

Speaker 8 (01:38:21):
Man.

Speaker 11 (01:38:25):
Well, I hope you have a happy new year, great
times and a safement.

Speaker 1 (01:38:30):
So same here, Mike. Yeah you too, buddy. I look
forward to your calls every weekend. I really do. Thank you.
Audios all right, click that. Yeah, I'm so glad that
whoever's listened. I don't know how many people are listening
this morning, I was telling Frankie, we analyze the day
of the week that Christmas falls on kind of dictates

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how the weekend during these holidays are going to go.
And with with Christmas on a Thursday, that meant that
a lot of guys and their families maybe took off
either Thursday evening or even yesterday morning early to rush
to the deer leaves, to rush to the beach house,

(01:39:13):
the bake camp, wherever, and get in a little outdoors time.
And if it ends up just being me and Frankie
talking through the rest of this hour, I'm okay with that.

Speaker 4 (01:39:24):
Because now, if.

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
You didn't get to go fishing today and you wish
you had, or go hunting, and you wish you had,
get in line behind me, because I didn't either. I
wanted to come in here and talk to whoever's around
still and share a few stories. By the way, I
sent that cat picture to Rick Bise. He asked about it.
He wants to take a look. And there's nobody I
know who spends more time in gray light, let's call

(01:39:49):
it dusk and dawn, just sitting there watching feeders and
watching ranches. He'll be able to analyze that photograph. But yeah,
I just I wanted to come in here. I wanted
to be here. And if you did get to go
and you hear this maybe later or for whatever reason,
you pick it up on iHeartRadio, thank you for listening.

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But being outdoors that's more important. Well I hate to
even say it out loud, but it's so true. That's
more important than listening to me. When when we're here,
when we're talking about the great outdoors, it's it's not
because we didn't want to go. It's because we had
we had an alternative. We wanted to go. All of

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us want to go. I'd love to be able to
go hunt and fish every day of the year. I'd
be okay with that. Come home for dinner, I'd be
okay with being out there for all those sunrises. And
if you've got a chance to do that and you
come back tomorrow and you start listening again, that's great.
If you're still out there in the outdoors, that's great too.
I'll catch you next week or the week after that
when we all get back together and don't have all

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this time on our hands.

Speaker 4 (01:40:55):
Kylie, I'll just waddled right into a break time.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
Speaking of golf, which we a minute ago, Kobe Stevens,
I've got to remind you of that brand and that
big new store up there on the north side is
ready to go. They had a soft opening, I believe
a week ago, maybe two weeks ago, and it should
be up and running, probably open today. I would imagine
they are golf apparel like it's as good a brand

(01:41:19):
as I've ever put on, as good a brand as
I've ever worn. I love them. I've been wearing them
now for the better part of two years, and I
continue to go for that every time. I continue to
go for that every time I'm going someplace where I
really want to look sharp playing golf. I don't even
waste them on practice sessions. I save them for real
golfer Well. Sometimes I'll pull one of those out if

(01:41:41):
they're all clean and I got enough to back it
up for the next day's golf round. Yeah, I'll go
practicing Kobe Stevens gear because it makes me feel better.
It makes me feel like I'm a little bit better player,
maybe than I even am. Beautiful stuff golf apparel in
all sizes for men, women, and children. The men's size
go up to four x, so that pretty much covers

(01:42:02):
most of us who are going to be out there
banging it around. They've got fishing apparel now, and I'm
hoping to get something going with Kobe that I can't
really talk about yet, but I will as soon as
I can. Look better, feel better. Whether you're playing golf,
whether you're practicing your golf whether you're out in the outdoors,
there's something for everybody at Kobe Stevens co O.

Speaker 4 (01:42:23):
B Y S T E V E N S.

Speaker 1 (01:42:26):
Kobe Stevens dot Com, nineteen twenty one on Sports Talk
seven ninety coffee pause. Frankie, I was I was contemplating
the Texas temperature game today, but I confirmed what I

(01:42:46):
thought when I looked and saw that it's rather boring.
And with that as the only information, I'm going to
give you. What do you think? And Bob, I'll get
to you just right away. I didn't see that up there,
and I, oh, no, never mind, I'm going to Bob.
You'll have to wait, Frankie. He'd been sitting there a
long time. Hey, Bob, what's up?

Speaker 6 (01:43:05):
Man?

Speaker 13 (01:43:07):
Hey, happy holidays? How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:43:09):
Thanks?

Speaker 4 (01:43:09):
I'm doing well. How are you good?

Speaker 13 (01:43:12):
Listen just about every weekend. And I heard you saying
you're hurting for callers.

Speaker 1 (01:43:19):
So I got a call.

Speaker 13 (01:43:19):
I gotta come on. I grew up in Port Author, Texas, and.

Speaker 7 (01:43:24):
They have a.

Speaker 13 (01:43:26):
The refineries call it main Bee Canal, but all the
kids call it Alligator by you, and we would we
would fish in that by you, and not much luck
most of the time. Uh. But basically this this canal
ran through the refineries and they done so God only
knows what is't it? And uh, one day I went
and I'm fishing near the bridge by Highway seventy three,

(01:43:49):
and I caught like ten uh callination of yellow blue cats,
good size, you know, eat the good eating signs. I
brought him home and I'm in the pitched garage cleaning on.
My dad goes, where'd you catch those fish, Bobby? And
I said, I caught him an alligator to buy you.
He goes, you can't eat those dudes. I said, why
he goes, because that that that canal is is polluted.

(01:44:13):
Oh you know, I was probably about fifteen years old
in that stage where I didn't listen to anybody but myself,
and so I went to hand to skin them, me
broiled them in the oven and shot down for a feast.
I took one bite, dude, I could might as well
have taken a bite of baziline. That's how bad.

Speaker 1 (01:44:31):
Wash.

Speaker 8 (01:44:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:44:33):
And then that same canal behind Textico Refining, which is
no longer the air courses named something different. The all
the people that worked, but they have like a game area.
You know, you couldn't hunt there, but you could fish.
So one day I took my agent, I took my
rod and reel back there, and I had an eighteen
h and I sprayed some of that, so I don't

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know what it is I've been in while since I fished.
You sprayed some kind of like fragrance on and I
was casting it, and I thought I had caught me
something big, and I was reeling it in, and as
soon as I got that, I got got it closer
to short. It was a freaking alligator. And man, I
threw my rod and reel down and ran as fast
as I I guess the gator let go and turned around.

Speaker 1 (01:45:17):
Holy cat that yeah, oh man, Yeah, alligators they'll chase
the top water down. It's kind of fun to play
with them as long as you've got good control of
your rod. But if you backlash your reel, or if
the line gets wrapped around the tip on a spinning
rod or something and that alligator gets another tail kick in,
now you got a brand new problem because they won't

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let go.

Speaker 7 (01:45:39):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:45:40):
Wow, I'm glad yours did.

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:45:43):
Bridge. Most of them started with two O two's, and
then there was a four O four and they just
got bigger and bigger till there was one of them
they made for a while that was about the size
of a grapefruit, which I just couldn't get into that.

Speaker 4 (01:45:57):
That wasn't working for me. But yeah, I remember all
of those.

Speaker 13 (01:46:00):
Man, that's the starter, real absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:46:05):
Yeah, thank you, Bob, appreciate it man audios. Yeah, hooking
alligators is that's pretty I did that once over on
Lake Houston. I didn't hook one, but i'd messed with them. I'll,
you know, i'd get them to chase the lures. I've
done it at the golf course several times. Not with
the big ones. I don't know exactly how fast they

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can accelerate. The little ones you can kind of keep
up with and just yank it away from them if
you need to where else. Boy, it's just all over
the place. Any place i'll see an alligator. If I've
got a top water on or something that's kind of
halfway up top, I'll mess with them a little bit.
But I don't ever really let it get close enough

(01:46:50):
that it's going to be an issue, because I really
do not want to lose a lure to an alligator,
and nor do I want to mess up that alligator's
day by it having to eject that lure somehow. And
once again another reason to be using barbleous hooks, because
if you're fishing a place that has little alligators in it,

(01:47:14):
and you turn your head to see if it was
a bass that broke behind you, broke water behind you,
or something like that, and a little alligator gets hold
of a hook that's got a barb in it, that's
a way different problem than one that doesn't have a
barb in it, because that alligator's probably not going to
have too much trouble getting rid of that thing. I

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heard some talk this morning about getting hooks in your
hands down the dial on the way in, and like
I said, I don't know what was it, Frankie, Maybe
six weeks ago or so, I got a hook in
my left arm up between my bicep and my tricep
on the inside of the arm, a real soft, kind
of a fleshy place unless you're flexing your muscles, and

(01:48:01):
it was do or die for my whole theory on
how easy it would be to get hooks out. I
hadn't hooked myself in years, but I had now, and
I just kind of said Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna
test my own theory about how easy it is to
get a barble's hook out of you. And I just
reached down there and grabbed it by the bottom of

(01:48:22):
the hook and just slid it backwards, and it came
out like a hot knife through butter. There was no
there was zero resistance of that hook. I pushed down
just a little bit to make sure that there wasn't
any barb that would contact anything on its way out.
I didn't just roll it around trying to catch something.
That was the last thing I wanted to do. But

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it went out. It came out just as easily as
it went into my arm, and I was quite grateful
for that. As a matter of fact, have you ever
been stuck by a hook, Frankie, thankfully?

Speaker 6 (01:48:54):
Not.

Speaker 11 (01:48:54):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:48:56):
Yeah, if you fish long enough and you don't mash
the barbs on your hooks, eventually you will have to
cut a trip short to go get a hook taken
out of you. Probably, And that's just that's the most
miserable ride, depending on where the hook stuck in your body,
of course, but it's still it's expensive, it's annoying at best,

(01:49:19):
and quite painful at worst depending on where that hook is,
and it just ruins the whole day. Or you can
do what I do and just maybe just flush it
out of there. All I did when I got that
hook out of my arm. It didn't even bleed. It
was like I'd gotten an injection of some sort, and
I thought, I'll wash it off when I get home.
And I don't recall ever doing anything to fix that

(01:49:40):
and make it better. I sure felt good to have
that barble sook on there though. Okay, Frankie, back to
the Texas temperature game. I wasn't gonna play today because
when I looked at the numbers, they're kind of boring.
What do you think is the low temperature in the
state of Texas right now?

Speaker 9 (01:49:56):
I'm the low right now now? I think boring for decent,
I think boring. Maybe I don't know. Sixty eight. Oh,
it's not that not that low. That's no, it's not
that high. Oh, this is the low temperature we're looking for.
Oh okay, Oh, so like what in the fifties and

(01:50:17):
forty five, forty five.

Speaker 4 (01:50:18):
All the way you could throw a rock into Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 (01:50:21):
Okay, but it's it's forty five up there, and that's
the only place that's in the forties and the high
right now seventy five degrees. Okay, yeah, Oh, it's just
a nice, pleasant day all over the state. Really, as
long as we don't get any clouds, any rain. I
don't think we've got any of that in our forecast.
Seventy two looks like about in Houston somewhere. Let's see,
I see some others. That's an outlier. That's wrong. There's

(01:50:44):
a seventy at hold on, I got to move this
up so I can see where it is. I hate
when they do this. It's officially seventy Where is this,
oh at Hobby Airport, and then directly to the to
the right of that, directly east of that. If this
thing will ever give me a chance to see it,
it's not even I'm so disappointed in this website, I

(01:51:06):
really am. And there's an ad. Okay, I can move
that ad, I think, and I'll get to that I want.
I'm determined to get this Cleveland, Texas Muni Airport. It's
supposed to be seventy at Hobby and fifty eight at Clear.
I guess that's about right that could be. But no,
that fifty eight is an anomaly because it's surrounded by
sixty eight seventy seventy seventy two seventy three. I'm getting bored.

(01:51:27):
I'm not going to read any more of this. Seven
one three two one two five seven nine. He email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Thank you for
calling there, Bob. I appreciate that, man. That was kind
of fun.

Speaker 8 (01:51:37):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:51:38):
If you've got a story you want to tell about
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Can you think of anything that's more g rated? Frankie,
Really not at this time. Probably not. You keep pretty clean, yeah,
because I got kids in the audience and I respect that,

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dot Com, nine thirty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Duckpike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
I got an email back. As I mentioned earlier, faux
pro sends a picture of a cat under deerstand wondering
what it is. It's not a mountain lion, It's not

(01:55:40):
a bobcat. I can rule both those out. It's not
an African line, it is not a jaguar.

Speaker 4 (01:55:47):
It is not.

Speaker 1 (01:55:50):
Any other thing than according to I sent the picture
to Rick bis and he and I agree after careful
I hope faux pro still listening. After careful examination, we
are the consensus opinion among the two of us Rick
Bison me is it's just somebody's old house cat that
belly's just dragging too far down for it to be

(01:56:11):
any kind of a wild cat. Wild Cats don't get fat.
They're doing well just to be fed. I saw a
very interesting piece actually kind of segue to this on
Facebook the other day about how the concept of eating
three square meals a day is something that was invented

(01:56:32):
by people who sell food and before food was so
readily available, and this whole notion of breakfast being the
best meal of the day, you know, the most important
meal whatever. People For many many years since we've been
walking upright, a lot of people didn't eat unless they

(01:56:55):
tracked down something and killed it and had something to eat,
or they grew something that they could eat.

Speaker 4 (01:57:01):
And there were I'm sure before crops were.

Speaker 1 (01:57:05):
Grown and when people were just having to survive off
wild stuff, and a lot of people didn't eat until
maybe the end of the day if they ate at
all that day. And of course that explains now why
a lot of us are so big, and especially in
our country, we've got this just overabundance of food more

(01:57:25):
or less, and not everybody's got access to it all.
But for people who have access to food, most of
them don't seem to be missing many meals. I'll throw
my hand in the air too. I'd like to lose
about eight or ten pounds, maybe fifteen. I don't think
I need to lose any more than that. No, I don't.

(01:57:45):
I'd be darn near back to my high school weight
if I did that, But I wouldn't mind.

Speaker 4 (01:57:51):
I've inherited genetically.

Speaker 1 (01:57:54):
My dad had a bit of a belly on him,
and I'm at the age now where it's more difficult
to control that.

Speaker 4 (01:58:04):
I'm not not having to go buy bigger pants yet.

Speaker 1 (01:58:07):
I didn't eat that much over the holidays, But yeah,
it's different. Let's just leave it at that. I'll just
let that sit there. No, I don't even want to
talk about that anymore. Seven seven nine. He got time
for another call. We've got one more break to go
in the program. I wanted to get back to really quickly.

(01:58:27):
Two things. One, I got more support than more thumbs
up than thumbs down. About how wrong it was in
my perception anyway, for those adults who brought their little
kids to the practice range yesterday and just let them
make a whole hot mess of the place and then
just walked off.

Speaker 4 (01:58:49):
Uh, those kids.

Speaker 1 (01:58:50):
Were not taught anything but that other people don't matter,
that other people don't deserve.

Speaker 4 (01:58:59):
Just kids can't be bothered.

Speaker 1 (01:59:01):
And that's for me. It's kind of a reflection of
how this last generation, and I make exceptions for people
like Frankie who are not this way. People like most
of the people everybody I work with here or they
wouldn't be here, are respectful of other people and how
their actions affect other people. And it just bothered me

(01:59:24):
a little bit that those parents taught their children that
the next person who came up there, it was okay
for them to have to take fifteen minutes to pick
up a bucket of balls. That's wrong when the kids
would have had fun doing it actually and would have
learned that that's how you take care of the next
person who's coming along. So I'm glad I got that

(01:59:45):
kind of reaction from the people who email me.

Speaker 4 (01:59:48):
Thank you for doing that, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (01:59:51):
If you're thinking about lessons really quickly before I get
to this last break of the program. And maybe you've
got some new clubs. Maybe hopefully you got some lessons
to go with new clubs if you got them, because
that's the better way to get a better swing and
start shooting lower scores. By the way, to brag a
little bit on my son, I went and he came
and played with me this past yeah, on Monday, and

(02:00:14):
that we're actually going to play again on this coming
Monday somewhere. I'm not sure where we're going to go,
but I talked to him about before we win. He said, look, Dad,
I hadn't played in more than a year. I haven't
played eighteen holes in more than a year, So don't
expect much. I said, I don't. It's gonna have some fun.
And we got on the range and we warmed up,

(02:00:34):
and I noticed that he was struggling. He was hitting
a lot of shots just pushing him right, and some
were way more than a push. It was a shove,
especially when he picked up driver, which he used to
hit really well. And I saw one thing in his swing.
I don't even want to talk. Oh, hold on, I'll
maybe get to this tomorrow. I have far more important
as these calls that are sitting here. Timmy first, then David,

(02:00:57):
we'll get to both of you before we have to go. Timmy,
what's up man?

Speaker 7 (02:01:01):
Hey, good morning morning. First of all, let me say
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your
family and all your.

Speaker 11 (02:01:08):
Listeners and to you, and thank you to me.

Speaker 7 (02:01:11):
They have a last twenty twenty six. Hey, ma, I
gotta took my first bull elt last week.

Speaker 1 (02:01:17):
Nice County, Missouri, Holy count. Yeah, good for you. That's
a lot bigger than you thought it was, wasn't it.

Speaker 7 (02:01:25):
Oh yeah, man, I got my first cowt cow last year.
And this is let me tell you this. If they
weighed out tops of six twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (02:01:33):
Oh my word, yeah yeah huge. Yeah, they only downside
to that, and you you're gonna know it soon enough
is when you get that bill for the processing.

Speaker 2 (02:01:44):
Hey.

Speaker 7 (02:01:45):
They called me over at Bellville meet Market told me
it's ready.

Speaker 1 (02:01:49):
Yeah, sit down, I'll tell you how much it costs
to get six hundred pounds of meat. Oh, Holy count right,
good for you.

Speaker 7 (02:01:58):
I want to call you and say, yeah, yeah, I
want to call you and say I always enjoyed listening
to your show, and uh, thank you for taking my boat.

Speaker 8 (02:02:05):
Call.

Speaker 7 (02:02:06):
Have a great new.

Speaker 4 (02:02:06):
Year, Timmy, send me a picture of this out man.
I want to see it.

Speaker 7 (02:02:09):
Really, what do you want me to say?

Speaker 8 (02:02:11):
It?

Speaker 1 (02:02:11):
To Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot Com.

Speaker 7 (02:02:16):
All right, I said to you this morning.

Speaker 1 (02:02:17):
But all right, man, thank you. Well see yeah, audios.
All right, let me go get David real quick. I
don't want to lose track of this, man, I'm not
I'm not ignoring anybody. What's up, David?

Speaker 8 (02:02:30):
Hi, Doug.

Speaker 12 (02:02:30):
Nice to me to the first time.

Speaker 1 (02:02:32):
Calling Mary, Thank you, Merry Christmas to you.

Speaker 12 (02:02:35):
Thank you. So I just have a quick question. I
fished down here in uh uh Steve Rookie. Yeah, around
like the golf and some of the days I fished
primarily for redfish. Yeah, but you talk a lot about
the barbless hooks, and so I was just serious to
you have any recommendations. So I used to circle hooks
because they said that was better for him. But I'm
I'm just interested in learning more about kind of the
barbleo's option.

Speaker 4 (02:02:56):
Yeah, the circle hook's great.

Speaker 1 (02:02:58):
It'll it'll lodge right in the corner of the if
you've caught a bunch of redfish on them. You know
that those circle hooks won't really grab much deeper that
they just you don't set the hook, You just let
the fish pull it tight, and that hook just nestles
right in the corner of the mouth, which is great.

Speaker 4 (02:03:14):
But if you have if you've taken your.

Speaker 1 (02:03:16):
Plyers and mashed that barb down flat, it still goes
to the same place. It still snugs right into the
corner of the mouth, and you get to fight the fish.
As long as you can keep a tight line when
you're fighting your fish, you're gonna rarely lose a trout,
a redfish, a flounder, a bass, a croaker, whatever, just
as long as you keep your line tight and unless

(02:03:38):
unless you're gonna miss a meal, if you don't catch
a fish that you're not even gonna notice that you're
fishing with barbleous hooks until you stick one in your
hand and you can just back it out of there.
I fished every kind of hook for every kind of fish.
When I started with my son with little number ten
long shank hooks, I had to get some special little
plyers to mash down that little tiny barb there, and

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I don't notice the difference anymore. I really don't. Every
now and then, OFFICI will shake loose. But my my
next meal doesn't depend on that fish, So I don't care,
you know, I just don't care.

Speaker 12 (02:04:14):
Yeah, So really all you have to do is just
take the flyers and just kind of tin that in.

Speaker 1 (02:04:19):
Yeah, just take flyers and if they I buy them
it Like the dollar store, in the even in the
good hardware stores, you can get cheap needlenosed flyers for
five or six bucks and just mash that barb down
completely flat where you can run your finger back against
it and not get stuck. You don't want to try
to try to file it down because that heats that

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metal up. If you're really talking about catching decent fish
and you're scared, you don't want to lose one. If
you heat that metal up, it can compromise the hook strength,
So you don't want to do that. But just mash
it down with a pair of plyers and if it
takes a couple of times every now and then, with
a harder hook, a more quality hook, you can kind
of squeeze it all tight and then roll that hook
back and forth within the jaw of that plier and

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it'll really it'll mash it down totally flat man.

Speaker 4 (02:05:07):
You won't miss a lit. You won't miss that bar,
believe me.

Speaker 8 (02:05:11):
Yeah, okay, awesome.

Speaker 12 (02:05:12):
I definitely appreciate the information.

Speaker 1 (02:05:14):
Oh my pleasure. Thanks for calling. Don't be a stranger man,
all right, boy, you bet? But yeah, I'm free to
I'm welcome. I love answering questions and I'm running late.

Speaker 4 (02:05:28):
I don't mind doing that. And if I don't know
the answer, I'm gonna tell you.

Speaker 1 (02:05:32):
I'm saying I'm gonna have to get back to you
on that, and I'll get off on the next break
if I can. I'll find somebody who can answer that question.
I for many years people asked me when I was
writing for the paper man, how do you know so
much about all these things? And my answer then is
the same as my answer now. I do know a
good bit because I've been around the block once or twice.

(02:05:54):
But if I don't know, I know who to call,
and that's that's every bit is valuable. In fact, it's
more valuable than trying to make something up.

Speaker 4 (02:06:03):
I'm not gonna do that.

Speaker 1 (02:06:04):
I'm not gonna just shoot from the hip and try
to tell you that what I'm telling you is the
only answer to something. If I'm not sure of what
I'm telling you, I'll tell you so. But that barblous
hook thing, man, it needs to be it needs to
be pushed a little more universally. And I'd love to
see at least one of these bass fishing professional organizations

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go to that, because if you watch on TV enough,
when you watch the way they have to really really
put pressure in rip hooks out of fish's mouths, I
guarantee some of those fish are not gonna make it
to the next bedcheck that bothers me. Hey, we got
to take a break here. Holy calm, running late, I'm
so sorry on the way out, which I love to do.

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Maybe sure, make sure you get good news about a
good place to go spend your money and have some fun.
This is a really good place. Berry Hill, down there
in sugar Land berry Hill. They're at the corner, well
not the corner. They're off fifty nine, that Sugar Creek
Boulevard going one way and sugar something else. I can't

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remember what the bottom line is. It's Sugar Creek Boulevard
and fifty nine and they're right up there's a big
strip center there and they're right up against fifty nine.
If you're going north, it's that's the side. It's on
the northbound side. If you're going south, go to Sugar
Creek exit, make a U turn and you'll see it
there in front of You can't miss it. Great food

(02:07:31):
produced by the well the two primary people who've been
in their kitchen the longest. Each of these two guys
have been in there more than ten years apiece. If
it gives you an idea of the consistency of what
you're gonna get, gives you an idea of the time
these guys have had to to fine tune their recipes.
They have some of the best fish tacos I've ever eaten,

(02:07:51):
bar none. I love them. I love the seafood Enchilada.
I one time ordered the seafood burrito it is. It's
so big that I had trouble eating the whole thing.
And like I said in the last segment, I haven't
missed many meals in the last eight or ten years.

Speaker 4 (02:08:09):
And it shows a little bit.

Speaker 1 (02:08:11):
Great people. They've been there thirty something years. It's family
owned and operated. They'll cater all over town, which they
do for us here at work some and anytime. Anything
they bring in here. Pretty much gets devoured. No matter
how much they bring, they're hardly ever any leftovers up
to and including the vanilla and chocolate trace letches that

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they do. It's to die for. Absolutely great place, great people.
If you go in there, see if Wendy's there. If
she is, tell her I said hello. And if not,
just tell the guys behind the register hello for me,
because I've gotten to know them and they're really really
good people. Berryhillsugar Land dot com is a website Berryhillsugarland

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dot com nine to fifty four on Sports Talk seven
ninety The Dugpike Show, Thank you for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. Good time for another call. If anybody wants
to jump in and ask a question or tell me.

Speaker 4 (02:09:09):
What they got for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (02:09:10):
That's really really, really cool and they just can't wait
to tell somebody else besides the person who gave it
to them how much they appreciate it. I want to
go back to the very beginning when we talked about
it being the holiday season and everybody's wishing each other
merry Christmases and this year, like I mentioned, one very
good friend of mine at a heart attack this week
and another very good friend of mine let me know

(02:09:33):
that his daughter winds up in the hospital on Christmas.

Speaker 4 (02:09:38):
Holy cow.

Speaker 1 (02:09:39):
So if you had something go sideways for your Christmas,
I hope it gets better really really quickly. And if
whatever it was that interrupted your celebration, I hope you
get through it and can dig your way out whatever
it takes. That's the something that we have to remember

(02:10:01):
that for there's a reason that all the hospitals stay
open on Christmas Day. It's because stuff happens, and especially
the well it was more long time ago than now,
I think, because we're more aware of kids getting new
bicycles and things like that, or little motorcycles or little

(02:10:23):
four wheelers or whatever. There used to be more accidents
on those. I'm glad we learned to put kids in helmets.
E Bikes actually are one of the leading causes of
injury now because a lot of these kids who are
riding them aren't wearing helmets because I guess because either
their parents don't know or I don't want to think

(02:10:46):
that they don't care. But they're not forcing these kids
to wear helmets because they think, oh, it's just a scooter.
But those little things, if you look at how fast
they're going and realize how hard concrete is. If they
fall off, that's that's where some of those kids end
up in the e RS. So that's enough of the downside.

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The upside to the season is that it's where we're
right on the cusp now of starting a brand new year.
And if you can, if you need to wipe the
slate clean from twenty twenty five, start brand new, just
make I'm not going to get into the resolution thing.

(02:11:26):
Most people who make resolutions don't keep them for more
than I think it's what two or three weeks something
like that.

Speaker 4 (02:11:31):
Frankie.

Speaker 1 (02:11:33):
Oh there, men, you got to tell me because I can't.
I'm staring at other things. I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (02:11:37):
Dave was there.

Speaker 1 (02:11:38):
Hey Dave, it's all yours man. What you got, Doug?

Speaker 6 (02:11:43):
Yes, sir, Yes, I've been a long time listener of
your program for you.

Speaker 1 (02:11:47):
Well, thank you?

Speaker 6 (02:11:50):
Yes, so yes, So what's up? I thank god, yes, sir,
I thank god that.

Speaker 10 (02:11:55):
Well.

Speaker 6 (02:11:56):
Let me tell you about my Christmas presents. Okay, I
didn't get anything for Christmas. Oh, I can't get anything
for business. But I thank the Good Lord that he
woke me up this morning. Yes, sir, and I thank
God that I'm here on this planet Earth. I thank
God that we are in the greatest country in the world,
state of America. And I believe that one day I

(02:12:19):
want to become a motivated speaker and a real estate
investor too. Get after anything as possible. It is, anything
is possible.

Speaker 1 (02:12:26):
Thank you, you know, Thank you, Dave. That's a very
uplifting call. There's a guy who understands. There's a guy
who understands.

Speaker 4 (02:12:34):
Why we're here. We're here to do good things.

Speaker 1 (02:12:36):
And whether you get a big pile of stuff, or
whether you get one thing, or whether you get no things,
there's always something to be thankful for.

Speaker 4 (02:12:46):
Thank you, Dave.

Speaker 1 (02:12:46):
That's Frankie. That's about as good a way to end
the show as I think it could possibly be. Tee
it up man, Thank you Dave. Really and don't be
a stranger man. Call back, call back. I love it
when I get calls. I really do. This is one
of the favorite parts of the show for me is if.

Speaker 4 (02:13:07):
I need to talk. You've listened to me long enough.

Speaker 11 (02:13:10):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:13:11):
I can talk for three hours if I have to.
But I enjoy conversation as much or more. And it's
like opening presents that's exactly what this. Every weekend that
I'm here is like Christmas again for me. Because I
so enjoy my regular callers, I very much enjoy brand

(02:13:32):
new callers. If you're scared to talk on the radio,
don't be. It's just you and me having a conversation.
I'll make it easy, I promise. That's the end of
the road. Okay, get outside, get outside today, have some
fun with your family. Be safe. Please and join us
again tomorrow at ted or excuse me at eight if
you can.

Speaker 4 (02:13:49):
We'll be back then. Thanks for listening. Audios