Tackling Tackle Maintenance

Originally aired on February 1, 2026. On this episode, Doug interviews Arride Bikes' Wayne Arrington to discuss proper maintainenance of your e-bike. Doug also discusses the Farmers Insurance Open, and much more. Stay connected to the outdoor activities that you and your family love, on The Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sunday morning starts right now. Thank you for joining me
wherever you are, even all the way over there in Georgia.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I bet Mark's listening. This morning. He sent me a picture,
an unusual picture.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
The line says in the subject of the email, and
the unusual nests of it. Hang one second, is that
over there? I got to deal these cards out here?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
The unusualness is the amount of snowfall he's getting over there.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's a blanket of white.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
I can't tell from the photograph whether it's a whole
lot more than we've ever seen around here or just
maybe a little more. But the bottom line is it's
cold all the way across the entire Eastern Seaboard and
some really low temperatures, some record lows being set in
a lot of places.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let me get to his email. Hang on one second, Oh,
why does it want to do this?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Brian Erickson sent out a bunch of He's our program
director for k t r H, and he sent out
a bunch of news stuff this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
That I mean, he does this every morning.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's amazing how much work that guy does just to
keep all of us who are supposed to be in
the know in the know. So Mark's picture, let me
pop it up here. I'm guessing it's not it's not
deep snow, maybe an inch and a half two inches,
but it would. It's getting the attention of marking his
neighbors wherever they are in Georgia the same way that

(01:32):
much snow would hear. It's a major event for them,
and I'm I don't know. Maybe they're a little bit
more capable of dealing with snow than we are here.
But it's still it's still beautiful so long as you
don't have to shovel it. So hats off to Mark
if you didn't. Well, I mentioned yesterday that I'd gotten

(01:54):
an email. I don't know if I mentioned it to
everybody or just to Wayne Errington.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I sent Wayne Errington.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I got an email from John and we're gonna go
over John, not John and I, but Wayne and I.
The guy Wayne Errington. Well, I'm getting off my I'm
just jabbering, bouncing around. Let me just sit and sit
and sit and relax. Breathe in, breathe out. Slow down, Doug, Gosh,

(02:20):
you can't say it all at once, for heaven's sakes.
So yesterday I got an email from John to Hey, man,
what's the deal with riding those bikes in a coastal environment.
Doesn't the salt and all of that humidity and you
know what and this that and the other say it
all of that, doesn't that tear those bikes up?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:41):
I emailed Wayne Errington, and Wayne Errington has the answers
for all of that. So rather than read you the
email he sent back, which would be handing you secondhand information,
I've just called upon Wayne and Frankie's gonna call him
at eight thirty and we'll talk about it then with
the guy who actually sell e bikes and says, yeah,

(03:03):
you can use them on the beach, and we'll tell
you how to maintain one if you've got one, or
if you're thinking about getting one, we'll get to that.
Back to this snowfall and the temperatures and such. There
was some interesting talk on the PGA Tour Network this
morning from that team that does a Sunday morning show,

(03:23):
and they talk about what happened yesterday, what's gonna happen today.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
They do it.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
They're both very high level instructors, so they spend a
lot of time talking about teaching. They don't necessarily try
to teach anybody on the phone when people call them,
but they're certainly capable and try to do their best. Anyway,
they were talking this morning about the temperatures that have

(03:47):
grabbed the East coast by the throat and just said,
we're gonna freeze out. Frankie, I'm gonna pop quiz to
pop quiz is number one? What do you think the
temperature was? And they're one of the guys on that
show down around Miami and went for a walk this
morning at like four am. Uh And that's just he's
an early riser. I've heard him talk about that before.

(04:09):
What do you think the temperature was in Miami?

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Then? Oh, gosh, maybe like fifteen?

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh lord, no, I don't think Miami. I don't know
that Miami's ever been below Oh god, no, no, no, no, no,
they would everybody in Miami would would probably pass out
and die if it got to fifteen. All of their
pipes would freeze, all of that. But you're you're on
the right track. Okay, that's that's a good stab at it.
But it was something like thirty two thirty three, right

(04:37):
at the freezing mark, which which Miami just doesn't get.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
But they got it.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Now they got a big heap and helping of it,
and then up the coast it just gets colder and colder.
They're I guarantee you there were I bet one hundred
records set this morning for low temperature in little towns
up and down that east coast.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Here's here's the other pop quiz.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
What major city in the United States has never gotten
to one hundred degrees?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh, I'm gonna guess maybe salt.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
In the mainland. Yeah, the mainland, Salt Lake City. No,
you want a couple more guesses. Let's see, Uh, maybe
somewhere like New England area. And then this is based
bear in mind on what that guy was saying. And
I don't know where he got his information, but I
do believe it when I think about it. Miami, Miami

(05:33):
gets hot, but the humidity, the humidity.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Keeps it from getting to one hundred.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
So he was talking, and it makes sense because I've
been down in Florida in the summertime, I don't know
a couple dozen times for extended stays even and it
gets hot. It gets blazing hot, there's no question about it.
But it's the heat and the humidity together that make
it feel like it's one hundred and fifty when according

(06:01):
to him, Miami's never hit one hundred. And if you
want to follow up and research that, that would be cool.
Just see the all time high temperature from Miami. And
I'm kind of curious to see if that guy's full
of bologny or not. Uh, Scott, ways in, let's see
here Captain Scott Wade in early this morning. He says,

(06:23):
the last oh, that's right, last morning of dough and
spike season.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
And of course, oh no, you've got a picture.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'm sure of a really big buck because all I
read two of the parts that says, and of course
this dude shows up best low fence coastal buck I've
seen around my place in many years. I haven't even
scrolled down to look. Oh man, what a good looking deer.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Coastal plains, coastal planes can produce some good, pretty good deer.
Scott's estimating this buck to be one forty ish.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
A nice, nice, typical.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
It looks like there's a little kicker maybe off that
it'd be the one to two I think of the
three on the left side.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
I can't really tell.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
A little bit grainy deer must have been a pretty
good way's way, still a handsome buck, Still a handsome buck.
Deer season pretty much pretty much in the books at
this point. I believe there's some MLD stuff going on
for a while to make sure that these management ranches
get their quotas of doze off of there. That's the

(07:30):
hard part I think of being part of that program.
It's a fantastic program, and it does lengthen your deer seasons,
as if we needed that.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's the one thing about Texas.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
When I talk to people from other states and we
conversation eventually shifts to deer for whatever reason it does.
We talk about season links and the guys up north
up there where they ice fish through half the winter
because that's all they've got to do if they want
to go outdoors. Some of their seasons up the whole

(08:01):
season only lasts a week or two or maybe three.
But there are years, depending on how the calendar falls
down here, and I've talked about this a little bit before.
I won't dwell on it, but there are some seasons
some years the way the calendar works, during which we
touch at least by one day, maybe the end of

(08:23):
one month, and then to the beginning of the other.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Thank you Erica. Oh boy, you read.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
My mind's Erica from over there on KTRH news desk.
She brings treats and this morning I have a Premiere
protein chocolate shake. Whatever that thing is in that little
m that looks very good. I'll have to do that
during the break. So the deer season in Texas starts

(08:49):
in the month that it usually kind of kicks off in.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
That's the odd ball.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Might be like the thirty first of August, or no,
thirty first of September, thirty day, no thirty the September,
so that touches that month, and then it goes all
the way to touch the front end of the sixth
month out, which is September, October, November, December, January, February.
And here we are on February first, ending up deer season.

(09:16):
I think this might be might have been one of
the ones that touched six months, which is incredible when
you think about it. But we have so many deer
in this state that we have to take out tens
of thousands of them just so that next year's deer
will have enough to eat. And it's a balance that's

(09:37):
very it's relatively easy to maintain so long as disease
and drought or flood don't come along, or extreme temperatures
one way or the other. But it's still something that
we have to do and something that so many people
just don't understand. Frankie, weren't you telling me that early

(09:58):
in the program, early when you already taking care of
me and keeping me on the air, that you weren't
aware of that? And it's kind of something you've learned
aware of. I hope it was you of the carrying
capacity of the land and the oh, the need for
taking out a bunch of deer.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, that was something I literally had never thought about before.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
And yet now you're one of us a little bit.
You have spent plenty of time in the outdoors. We
established that yesterday when you said you had been in
New Mexico on a big scout hike for how how
long were you all out there?

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Something like ten days?

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well, twelve days. I've never camped for twelve. I've camped
for I think it was five nights over there when
I went over to New Mexico on a trip that
ended up almost disastrous because the two guys who were
hosting us. Everything went really really well until it didn't,
which is the last night we were there. We were
gonna just roll up our tents and get out of

(10:56):
there the next morning, but because well number one, we
had to get back and get the car and drive
all the way back to El Paso to fly back
to Houston. But we also had to get out of
there because there was supposed to be some sort of
weather thing coming in. We didn't have radio contact with anything.
We were just basing that on things that they knew
about those mountains from having hiked en camped in them

(11:18):
so many times. And overnight is when that front blew
in and just a torrential downpour all night. We were
safe and dry so long as we stayed in our tents.
But turns out the next morning all the water that
had fallen uphill was coming downhill in a big dog
on hurry, and that lovely, beautiful little river that was

(11:42):
only maybe thirty feet wide, not even that up where
we were camping, was now a torrential flow that was
probably twenty yards wide. And the guy woke up. We
were all awake at that point. The rush of that
was kind of keeping us awake early early morning and

(12:03):
we're still packing up, and he go, oh, no, we'll
still be able to get out of here, just have
a couple of tougher crossings than we had coming up.
We had to cross that river like four times going up.
And so we all get packed up and this guy
is gonna lead us out of there, and he puts
his walking stick in that river, and he puts one
leg in that river and goes, we're not gonna be
able to go out this way, Like okay, okay, what's plan?

(12:28):
B Well, my buddy and I here are gonna go
sit down and take a look at this topo map
and try to figure out a way to go around
all of this and come out kind of on the
other side.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
And then we'll have to walk around the mountain. We're
gonna walk. What are we gonna do?

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'm asking, Well, we're gonna go up, but about another
four hundred or five hundred vertical feet and then we've
got to come down the other side. And so for
the next two hours, after we packed up, we climbed
on uddy slopes all the way up to a ridge
and I fell down about forty times. I was ready

(13:06):
to leave everything I had brought onto that mountain behind.
I just just dump it, and then no, no, you
can't litter on the mountain. If it's me living or dying,
I'm dumping it. They said we're gonna be we're gonna
be out, and so we'll be safe. Soon we'll be
going downhill. So I finally get up. We get out
of there. But it took us the hike. That took
us like an hour maybe to get up to where

(13:28):
we were gonna camp hour and a half because we
were all enthusiastic and half of us had never done
that before. And that it took us to get back
to the same spot where we started and parked the cars.
It took three and a half four hours something like that,
of carrying all that stuff. I don't even like to
think about that anymore. I really really don't. All right,

(13:49):
let me see it up here with El Cobano's Cigars.
El Cabano has been around since two thousand and six.
Many Lopez and his dad started the place. It's in
Texas City, right on Main Street. You cannot miss this place,
you really can't. And Main Street Texas City is like
Main Street Houston would have been in I don't know
eighteen seventy something like that, just one nice wide street

(14:13):
with very unimposing stores and businesses on both sides of it,
and El Cubano Cigars is one of those businesses, and
that is where Manny and his staff.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Rolls. Excuse me, you don't wrap a cigar, you roll
a cigar.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
They roll cigars in there pretty much all day, every
day because they ship out hundreds of them literally every
single week, all over the country. They are one of
only about four dozen cigar manufacturing facilities in this entire country,
and they do a fine job with some of the
best tobacco on the planet. They have one hundred and

(14:48):
fifty something different cigars they can roll for you, everything
from very powerfully robust to just mild and soothing. You
can go to that store, well, it's a store and
manufacturing facility.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's a smoking lounge. That's what I'm looking for.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
You can go in there and hang out with your
buddies and make new friends, a very relaxing atmosphere. The
next card game or football game on TV or baseball
game on TV.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Won't be the first in there.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
And then there's a second smoking lounge over in League
City that's more Havana style. It's more what Manny grew
up with around him. You got a nice, big place
to stretch out and have a drink and enjoy yourself.
But then there's also for the climate control in there,
not really ac or heat. It's just you roll up
or roll down the two big giant like garage door

(15:41):
openings in there to regulate the temperature.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
It's very comfortable. Great guy, Manny Lopez is.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
I told him he and I had a good talk
last week, and he said, I just don't know if
they're hearing it when I'm telling you right now, you're
hearing it. Everybody else is hearing it. And if you're
a cigar smoker or you need something for a special
event with a specific custom band even wrapped around your cigars,
he's your guy.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Manny Lopez is your guy.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
If you want somebody to come to your big event
and hand roll cigars right there in front of them,
Many's your guy. Go to the website, check it out.
When you talk to him, get on get get on
your phone. There's a phone number right there that'll take
you straight to Manny. Tell him I set to come
over and talk to you, and then let him let
him sell himself.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
He's a good man. I've worked with a lot.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Of people in this business, and he's on He's way
high on my list of the good guys. I don't
work with bad guys, but he's way high on my
list of good guys. Elcubanocigars dot com. Elcubanocigars dot com.
Hey twenty two on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show, thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Let's go see some emails. There's one I'll respond to

(16:51):
in a little ways. That one's okay. Oh wow, Frankie
proved that guy wrong. Sure it is huh one hundred
degrees in Miami according to the Internet.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Can you source that, Frankie? You know where it came from?
It just Ai.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't think it's Ai, but yeah, from what I
read Ei y I O Yai e io nineteen forty two,
it hit one hundred degrees in Miami. That's still If
that's the last time it hit one hundred degrees, it's
almost like saying it hasn't done it.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
That was that.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Either way, it's still very interesting because I would have
expected Miami to be one of those states where it's
not whether you'll hit one hundred, but just how many
days hit one hundred.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
That makes sense, Yeah, that that, that does make sense. Yeah,
it's more manageable. Yeah. Well for us here, you and
I and everybody else on.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Between the Sabine River and Victoria knows that at some
point this coming summer it's going to hit a un degrees.
It might only hit it once in two or three weeks,
and it might hit fourteen, fifteen, sixteen days in a row,
but there will come that one hundred degree temperature. By
the way, I saw something interesting not too long ago.

(18:14):
I read about it. For so long, there was all
the talk, all the talk in the world about global
warming and how that was going to melt the ice caps,
and it was going to do this, and it was
going to do that.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
And then suddenly.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
We're getting all these winter storms and the temperatures are
lower than they've ever been here and lower than they've
ever been there, and the narrative changed to what what
is it now? Frankie, Oh, I don't even know from
it went from global warming, which really didn't pan out.
Now it's just climate change, and that's just this big

(18:51):
giant blanket you can throw over anything and be right, Oh, yeah,
the climate's changing.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well it's been changing.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
If you if you start doing any research at all,
you'll see that this whole planet we're on goes through
cycles of warming and cycles of cooling, and cycles of
warming and cycles of cooling, and there's nothing you or
I can do about it. I'm pretty confident in that,
I really am. And even if there is something that
could be done until the whole world signs off on

(19:24):
the strategy to change the temperature, which we might be
able to do by a tenth of a degree or so,
well then we're just going to have to roll on.
And I'm very frustrated by the amount of.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Amount of effort.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
People who knew they would get rich if they could
just push this narrative forward put out there to do that.
That's exactly what they've done. They've made a ton of
money off of it. But we haven't changed the planet.
The planet's still doing it what it's doing, And we'll
get our winter storms, we'll get our summer store, we'll

(20:00):
get it all as we always will. Someone three two
one two five seven ninety email on me Doug pick At,
iHeartMedia dot com I was thinking this morning when I
left the house at thirty six degrees, which wasn't I
was quite pleased.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
That was the driveway temperature.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
I get in, turn on the car, tells me what
the temperature is right there, right then, right now, it
was thirty six in sugar Land. Thank goodness, I don't
have to worry about anything around the house. And even
last night.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
On the news, I hate to beat up on these people.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
But my goodness, hard freeze warning last night for a
couple of networks.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Here it comes.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
We're gonna get hammered from about midnight to nine o'clock
in the morning. Freeze warning, freeze warning, danger, danger, And
the lord I saw that.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
I thought, that's not what I was seeing all week.
Did it change?

Speaker 1 (20:48):
So I lean over, hey, Alexa, what's the load tonight?
Load tonight where you live is thirty one degrees. That's
not a hard freeze. That's a hardly freeze, is what
it is. They need to get their words right before
they panic somebody else into going out and buying thirty

(21:08):
rolls of toilet paper a day. Just wipe it off
the shelves. What was it two weeks ago we had
those two nights where it was in the mid twenties,
and you would have thought it was just the apocalypse.
I don't understand why it can't be people who are
moving here from other places, because most of the places

(21:29):
from which they're moving here are colder than here. I
would think warm weather people. Once people live in a
warm climate, they tend not to move away from it
because even though it's really toasty in the summertime, you

(21:49):
don't have to deal with that frozen stuff in the wintertime.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
I saw pictures of people up north. I talked about
this on fifty plus. There's a group in Washington, DC,
and hats off to them. They call themselves the snow
Angels or something like that.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
But there's this collaborative effort among hundreds of people who
after a big snowstorms put on their coats and their
gloves and their hats and their warm pants and shoes
and boots, and they go looking. They grab their snow shovels,
and they go looking for houses where they think or know.

(22:27):
There's a kind of a network where people can call
too of places that they just go shovel the snow
for nothing. In front of these people's homes might be
elderly people might be infirmed people, but I don't want
to live in that stuff. And if I were living
up there, I'd if I had to sell my snow
shovel to get a bus ticket out of there, I'd

(22:49):
be the first one on the bus.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
And that's not me.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
All right, Let's take this break here so we can
get a little time for Wayne.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
When we get back.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Wayne Errington's going to join us from air Ride Bikes
up in Tomball, where I bet it is blow freezing,
maybe even now. Although the freeze warning is gonna be
lifted at nine am. At anytime, the freeze is gonna
be over at nine am. That's not a hard freeze overnight.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
We'll take a little break here and I'll tell you
what I'll do.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
I'll tell you about black Horse right now, what I'll do,
because we're gonna talk a bunch about air Ride in
just a few minutes. Black Horse Golf Club been around
for the better part of I bet it's closing in
on forty years now, maybe somewhere in there. I'm pretty
sure it opened in the nineties because I went down
there with Eddie Sefcoe, who was writing golf for the paper.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Back then, he and I were kind.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Of the I was the most golfy person in the
newsroom back then at the paper. So Eddie and I
would go out and test fire these courses. Then he'd
ride about them until I started writing about them. Bottom
line is black Horse is still in an outstanding facility,
still thirty six holes. The difference now, though, is that
last year around this time, the South course went private,

(24:00):
which is fine, and it's doing very well. Membership is robust,
and the members are appreciating what they're getting now, which
is access to five golf courses for the price of
that one membership and dues. You get access to both
courses at black Horse, you get access to or excuse me,
Blackhawk Country Club out there where I live, and you

(24:23):
get both courses. At Golf Club of Houston, you have
access to all five of those pub or of those
golf courses, he said, correctly, plus a lot of other
benefits in the clubhouse and here, there and everywhere around
the property. The North course still fantastic, still an amazing, wonderful,
great place to go. Tee it up anytime you want to.

(24:44):
I may go up there next week. As a matter
of fact, if I can find a little time in
the afternoon. We're finally getting a little more sunshine in
the afternoon. Good instruction at the far end of the range.
A great grill before or after to get a little meal,
maybe a little swing. Fluid running through you. Black Horse
Golf Club dot com is a website. They're on Fry Road,

(25:05):
just a little ways south of two ninety a little
ways west of ninety nine. Black Horse Golf Club dot com.
Black Horse Golf Club dot com. Hey thirty three on
Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you
for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Let's go talk to
the man who knows all about e bikes, and that
is Wayne Errington.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Wayne, how are you man?

Speaker 3 (25:28):
I'm Doug, Great Doug and you I'm all right?

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Did you guys free? Well, I'm not no. I know
you froze last night. How low did it get up there?

Speaker 4 (25:37):
So?

Speaker 3 (25:37):
From what I saw, it looks like it was twenty
five degrees in tom Bawlow. Okay, it is a toasty
thirty one as we speak.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
You know, that's a lot better than what they were
telling us on the TV last night was coming.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
You'd have thought it was going to go to zero.
Holy cow, I'm so frustrated.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
By all that.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
So let's talk about e bikes up there.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
You got them at air ride bikes up there in
that four corner shopping center. And I had that email
from John yesterday saying, hey, you might might want to
maybe check on how how these things hold up in
the salt or in salty environment. So why don't you
address that instead of me doing it on your behalf?

Speaker 2 (26:14):
You know more than I do.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Okay, all right, no problem. So yeah, I mean there's
no question that that salt and salt air is gonna
affect your bike. Uh you know, like it affects your car,
like it affects your boat. Sure, uh you know, if
you don't properly maintain it. And that's that's the key
is you've got to maintain the bike to keep it
safe from all of that. I mean, salt air. It

(26:39):
creates those electrolytes that uh you know, create that electrochemical
oxidation that causes rust and corrosion. Right, so you know
it's gonna affect your your steel components on the bike,
your your aluminum oxides, copper wiring. And again it's all

(27:02):
about making sure that you maintain it properly. And it's
not only the salt. You know, you talked about humidity
in Miami. Uh, it's that humidity combined with the salt
that really affects it. So the key is and the
components that's going to affect is your electrical components. You're
wiring your battery interface, which can cause corrosion and actually

(27:27):
cause your battery to fail. Dry train components, your cassettes,
your chain rings, your derailler, pivots, bearings. So again it
goes back to protecting it. We put a post on
our Facebook page at air rid Bike yesterday matter of fact,

(27:48):
this titled lived near the coast Your eye by your
evite can handle it and we talk about how to
maintain it. So the important thing is when you're in
a coastal environment is after you ride it on the beach,
make sure that you wash it down with fresh water.
Now you don't want it, you don't want to use

(28:09):
a high pressure compressor on it or anything like that,
but you know, hose it down, dry it off, lubricate
the chains, use some electrical uh what they call it
dielectric grease on the electrical components. And if you can

(28:30):
keep it indoors, you know, when you're not using it,
And those are the things that are really going to help.
You'll get many years of life out of your e
bike as long as you do some simple maintenance.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
So uh, I'm noticing that very or the second thing,
dry and loud, the chain regularly. What is regularly because
to some people that might mean once a month. To
some people it might mean once a year.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
You know, it's if you're riding, if you're gonna ride
it on the beach today, I would definitely bring it
back in again, hose it down, dry it off, and
loop that change.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
I tell people, you know, if they're riding around Tomball,
you know, every one hundred two hundred miles, it's a
good idea to clean your bike and loop it.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
And where do we get dielectric? Where do we get
die electric grease? What the heck is that?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
It's a special grease that helped protect against corrosions.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, okay, I.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Would think you could pick it up at any auto parts.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, yeah, that makes it probavigate it on Amazon, Yeah, right.
The indoors is garage. Indoors enough.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Garage is good that the only problem you really have.
Would you know garage is they get really really hot
in the summertime and that has a bearing on your
batteries and stuff like that. But most of your batteries,
I mean, you can remove those from your bike and
bring those inside. So in that case, the garage would
be great for storage, to keep it away from the
salt air and stuff.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Speaking of battery Wayne Arrington from Eric air ride Bikes,
I keep wanting to say E ride bikes because yeah, air.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Ride bikes up there in Tomball.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Let's talk about those batteries for a minute, because I
still every now and then after I do a spot
for you, I'll get somebody said, don't those batteries catch
on fire?

Speaker 2 (30:15):
You want to dress that?

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Sure? Absolutely, So there has been a lot of media
exposure to e bikes catching on fire, and most of
the time, well I'm going to say probably ninety nine
percent of the time. Uh, it's batteries that are not
UL certified. It's the chargers themselves that are not UL certified. Uh.

(30:39):
There's been a number of articles out there that talk
about that kind of stuff. And that's the key. I mean,
nothing is one sure, but the key is to buy
e bikes that are UL certified, and that's basically what
we stock at air ride bikes. There's a lot of
that stuff online. I read an article res Wait about

(31:01):
the bikes being sold on Amazon and Walmart, and they
called out a specific brand. I don't recall the brand hand,
but yeah, they're causing serious problems out there, so people
just need to look for that and look for that
UL certification.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Another thing that I get every now and then is
when I talk about the bikes for hunting, I talk
about how you can get a little trailer and it'll
help you get your stuff in and out of there.
How much What kind of a load can you put
on a really beefed up, serious in the woods to
the standing back bike, what kind of load can you
put on that thing get it in and out?

Speaker 3 (31:39):
It's really going to depend on the bike, Doug. I mean,
you start looking at the motors that they put in
these bikes, like Rokia, a couple of bikes made by Rambow,
you know, some of them have seven hundred and fifty
hub motors. And then we've got our top of the line,
which is called the hell Cat, has two one thousand.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Watt motors on the ring fall will drive.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
I tell people, if this thing could get traction, it
would literally climb the wall. So on a bike like that,
you're not going to have any problem hauling.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Your deer out of the woods.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
On it, your deer, and maybe the guy who came
in to sit in the blind with you exactly side
saddle or something right right?

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Put a sidecar on there.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Now there's a there's an aftermarket you could sell out there.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
I bet you could sell some. Do they make them?

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Right?

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Do they make side saddle one?

Speaker 5 (32:35):
You know?

Speaker 3 (32:36):
I haven't seen one. I'm not saying that they don't,
but I haven't seen anything out there. We're getting ready
to launch a couple of new products I don't want
to talk about.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Today to get them in place.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
We're also opening up a new store here in the
next six I want to kind of keep that on, okay,
I don't want to alert all of my competitors.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
That's a good idea. They're not a sign out there yet.
Is that what you're telling me.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
That there is not?

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Right. I haven't actually signed the lease yet, but I've
got a general area and by that I got you're.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Talking about all right, Well, man, I hope it's near me.
I'm not going to say anything else that'd be fine
with me.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
Oh, be the first to hear about it.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Okay, good.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Let's let's flip back because I got a couple of
minutes here and I want to take advantage of this
if you don't mind, But let's flip back to where
at the opposite end of the spectrum, the little commuter
bikes and kid bikes and stuff like that, How how
reliable and how what's the best way to stay safe
on one of those?

Speaker 3 (33:41):
So how reliable?

Speaker 5 (33:42):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (33:43):
You know, it's all.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
About the components that they use in their bikes. We
carry a couple of different brands of bikes, so we
carry that low end, entry old bike, but from a
reliability standpoint, it's not going to be as good.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
As the high end bikes.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Sure, And I explained that.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
To people when they come in, like, Okay, this is
an entry level bike, our mid range bikes. I can
tell you all the name brand components in it. I
don't have a clue what they put in this bike.
So you know, it's all about the bike that you
actually purchased.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
There, what was the other part of that, say, yeah,
safety helmet should everybody ought to be wearing a helmet,
shouldn't they?

Speaker 4 (34:23):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Absolutely absolutely so. I actually hand out to people and.

Speaker 5 (34:28):
Especially kids, because you see.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
So many kids on these dirt bikes and e bikes
today and they don't think anything about safety now. They
don't know anything about the the street laws, regulations and
that kind of stuff. So we have a program that
I hand out to all the parents. I said, look,

(34:52):
have your kids sit down and watch these videos.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
It talks about what.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
An e bike is, how it performs, how you should
maintain it. And the important thing that they talk about
in this training is the street lows, uh, you know,
regulations from from riding them on the street, and what's legal,
what's not.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
That sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Good to know, very good to know. You don't want
your kid walking home with a little ticket. You got
to go pay, that's for sure. Wayne Errington Air Ride
Bikes a double r ide up there in Tomball four
Corner shopping Center. If you know where it is, go
seem if you don't figure it out and go get
your bike.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Wayne, Thanks a lot, man.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Hey appreciate your time.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Do pleasure? Yes, sir? All right about that? Now we know?
Now we know, all right, and now it's time to
take a little break.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Actually, boy, I don't know how much more I could
say about air ride bikes that Wayne and I summed
it up pretty good. Just remember the four Corner shopping
center in Tomball. Don't forget that. That's where you need
to go. And you can tell from listening to him
that he knows what he's doing. He's gonna get you
exactly what you need to accomplish what you want to
do on your e bike. Let's tee it up with

(36:05):
a Houston Gold Exchange. How about that Houston Gold Exchange
where my buddy Brad Swiss has been dealing in precious
metals and jewelry and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
For forty plus years.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Big on the gold and silver now, man, that gold
price is all over the place, But the bottom line
is it's through the roof compared to where it was
a couple of years ago. If you hesitated then to
sell whatever scrap gold you might have around the house
wherever it is, however you got hold.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Of it, go ahead and do it. We've got the
fishing show coming up, okay.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
And if you take your scrap gold to Houston Gold Exchange,
what you're going to exchange it for is a check,
and it's going to be a bigger check than you
probably think it should be, but just accept it gladly.
Go get some money for it and start buying your
new fishing tackle when that show comes to town. We
bred he's listening to the show right now. As a

(36:59):
matter of fact.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
II.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I got an email from him a little while ago.
He said, tell him just call me. Just tell him
to call me. He's listening because he wants to help
you and anybody else who wants it get that gold
converted into cash. Now, a lot of people use gold
as an investment. They want to use cash to buy gold,
and that's fine for long term, but in the short term,
if you've got little pieces that are you're not wearing anymore,

(37:22):
or nobody really remembers even where they came from. Somehow
you inherited this thing and you think it's gaudy, but
Aunt so and so or Grandma so and so thought
it was beautiful and handed it to you, And I
don't know. It depends on how centiment you are. I
guess on that part. Bottom line is Brad Schweiss is
waiting for your phone call right now so that you

(37:44):
can bring in coins you bring in silver coins, you
can bring in scrap gold of whatever origin it is,
and he'll he'll turn it into a nice little something
to get you out of the doghouse if you need that,
or just for whatever other reason you need to go
and have a little extra cash in your pocket to
take care of business. Big Cca guy too, No hard sell.

(38:05):
He's not gonna he's not gonna try to manipulate you
in any way. He's just gonna say, Okay, here's the goal,
here's the price. This is what I can give you
for this goal because it's this much quantity of pure gold.
Darry Ashford at West Timer his cell phone calling right now,
no kidding, he'll answer and he'll talk to you about this.
Two eight one eight five one thirty nine fifty five

(38:27):
two eight one eight five one thirty nine fifty five
eight fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it, as
you all know already. Let's go to the phone. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety I love talking
to you guys, I really do, because we we we're

(38:49):
all in some way, shape or form, living vicariously through
each other. Some of us get to do more than others.
Some of us already have already done a lot and
got lots of cools story to tell, and the rest
of us are just waiting for the next adventure to
go on. And I'm gonna find out what Aaron's adventure
was right now, Aaron.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (39:10):
Hey, good morning, how are you doing.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
I'm well, good morning.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Good good well. My next adventure will be in Alaska
and Anchorage and yeah, from there the Puget Sound, then
back here for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know
what there is to do an anchorage this time of year, but.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
We'll stay warm.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
Albut fishing or maybe I don't know. We'll see what's
going on up there.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
That's why you're going just for the helmet.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Yeah, well, I'm gonna jump up on my stop boxes
for a minute here. Man, How great would it be
to have one of those epikes? That sounds so fun? Well,
one of the girls I was dating in college, she
was starting to be a speech pathologist, and she said,

(40:05):
you know, most of their work and someone correct me
out there if they're wrong. Most of their work involving
the speech rehabilitation involved falling off of motorized vehicles, and
she said most of it was preventable with helmets.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
So surprised at how many kids out there that their
lives were shattered because their parents didn't want to buy
them a helmet. So you know, let's all do us
a favor, and you know, make sure that we see
anybody adultal child where that helmet you know, yeah, almost
it runs thirty fifty bucks, but come on.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Well, yeah, it's that or half a million dollars in
a child who's near death and having to relearn how
to tie his shoes. I got a good friend of
mine's son had to go into the hospital for a
pretty extended stay. Not for something like that, but this
is when this kid was about ten eleven years old,
and the entire wing he was on had I don't know,

(41:03):
maybe twenty twenty five kids, and of those twenty five,
she said, something like sixteen or seventeen of them were
head injuries.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Jeez, you know, it's it's just so sad. It's so preventable.
Off the bike, hit.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
The curve and enjoy it, yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, and
get after enjoy it. But I got to help it.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
The excuse that most of those parents give, isn't it
even about money, is well, we didn't wear helmets, and
we're fine. Like, if you're not putting a helmet on
your kid, you're not fine. Let's just look at it
that way. You got lucky. But there's a whole lot
of Sadly, there are a whole lot of grave sites
in cemeteries where kids lost their lives because they weren't
wearing a helmet.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
And I hate that. I just too. I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Man, it happens. They get out there and enjoy it.
But yeah, well please, all right, hey, you have a
grave rest of your weekend, you too, man.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Always good to hear from you.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah, I want to hear about this Alaska stuff. I
want pictures. I want the whole nine yards, man, I know,
I see you audios. All right, let's dig back into
the notes I had prepared for this morning, and I
was just so so gonna follow, but I never do.
Every time I've been asked to do public speaking, I
don't do a lot of it. I would like to

(42:18):
do more of it, I think, but I'm just there's
no really good reason why I don't anyway. So with
the temperature in mind, again, I'm wondering, as we were
in winter now and I wonder if there's anything you're
gonna do between now and spring that's that's an annual

(42:39):
ritual involving taking care of your rods and reels and
lures and lines and whatnot, any sort of specific maintenance
on your fishing gear. It's been And really the reason
I don't think most Texans do that is because we
don't have an off season. There's not a time when
it's just really not right to go outside and go fishing.

(43:01):
It's sort of hard to circle a weekend or two
and call them spring tackle maintenance. Just write it into
your calendar, leave yourself an electronic note on your calendar. Okay,
this weekend, we're not gonna go fishing. We're gonna clean
out the garage and and the tackle room and and
make sure that everything, every hook, every split ring, every
everything is in ship shape. We don't have that time

(43:24):
kind of time, as far as I'm concerned. We gotta
go fishing. And I'll be the first to admit that
since I'm I'm I'm not the best at preventative sporting
goods medicine. I tend to wait until there's an issue
the least little squeak or hitch or hesitation in a
in a real in, or some some little nasty looking

(43:47):
rusty hook. Now some of my hooks are rustier than others.
And because I'm not doing this to prove a point
to anybody, I don't really I don't really get worked
up over that. But I still it's it's it's the
fishing equivalent of getting your annual physical. This is what
a lot of people up north, friends up north, I'll

(44:08):
see these stories in national magazines a lot.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Time to clean out that tackle.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
You're time to take care of your tackle now, well, no,
it was time to take care of your tackle every day,
and some of us do that better than others. I'm curious, though,
if you have a like a system that you follow
and would be willing to share with the class, that's
always always paid off for you, because when the big
fish bite comes and it's it's you and that rod

(44:35):
and reel fighting, you want to have everything one hundred
percent going in your favor.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
I don't get worked up if if my line breaks.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
I don't get worked up if a lure hook, a
hook fails somehow or straightens out whatever on a fish.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
It's just part of the game.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
And if you play that game long enough, if you
fish long enough, everything that possibly can happen will And
if some of the things that people tell you happened
to them and to keep them from catching a big fish,
they'll tell you that whole story, and you'll think, well,
that never happened to me. You just haven't been fishing
long enough yet. Take a little break here on the
way out. I'm gona tell you about Kobe Stevens golf apparel.

(45:13):
This is the gear that I wear most often. I'll
probably be in a Kobe Stephens shirt tomorrow morning.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Maybe not the shorts, but certainly the shirt.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
And I'll have a nice little shirt over or under that,
either a T shirt under that or a quarter zip
above that, and I'll be feeling pretty snazzy. I gotta
tell you, I do like the way that stuff makes
me feel when I walk onto the golf course, when
I'll drive onto the property, even it just puts me
in a different mindset. It makes me feel like I

(45:44):
belong there, like I ought to be playing golf. Some
of the people who play golf. Don't care, but I
do a little bit. I'm still I got that little
vein running through me and I really enjoy wearing this gear.
I got a new shirt from Kobe as a matter
of fact, just this week he brought some down for
some of us and just to say thank you for

(46:05):
our participation in his golf tournament. What was the name
of that organization, Frankie Mosaics. Mosaics, Yes, I keep I
have prism in my mind, but that's not it. It's
Mosaics up in Montgomery County. They take care of mental
health issue, people who have mental health issues, people who
have addictions, and I got to meet them and talk
to them. Interviewed one of the ladies who was with

(46:27):
Mosaics on fifty plus And that's the cause that he
chose to support himself this year. But almost every time
I called him to go try to do something, he's
at some other charity event helping other people raise money
for good causes. That's the kind of guy he is,
and he deserves our support and all the better. His
products are top quality and really nice men's sizes up

(46:51):
to four x, plenty of women's apparel as well kid stuff,
You're gonna look good, You're gonna feel good. He probably
not two strokes off your score just by where in
Kobe Stevens gear. I can't guarantee that, but you'll feel
better when you make that triple bogie. Kobe Stevens dot
com is a website c O B Y S T
E V E n S Kobe Stevens dot com.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
All right, second hour starts. Now, let's do that, shall we.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
And I promised early early in the year that I
wasn't going to talk as much about golf unless it
was a major event, and so I'm gonna stick to
that promise. But I'm also not going to ignore cool
things that are going on in golf, one of which
is let me get this this website up here so
I can speak intelligently about it. I want to open

(47:38):
that up a little bit. Oh man, something kind of
defaults to its own homepage. I don't know why the
PGA Tour site. In any event, the Farmer's Insurance open
out there in San Diego at Tory Pines, playing the
North in the South as always. The bottom line is
today's the last day. And Justin Rose, who who has

(48:00):
he's been in the game, a very long time. He's
not the youngest guy in any field that he's played
in in a while.

Speaker 5 (48:08):
And he is.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
As some of the pros are apt to say when
someone's running away with something.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
I heard one of them yesterday.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
I can't remember who was being interviewed, but he said, yeah,
Justin just playing a different golf course than we are.
He is six shots clear of Joel Doman. Justin Rose
shot sixty two, sixty five, sixty.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Eight so far to be at twenty one under par.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
And he had three bogies if I'm not mistaken, on
the back nine yesterday, three bogies on the back nine
and he's twenty one under par for three days of play.
Domin's at fifteen, Rio Hisatsuni is at thirteen, along with
Seawoo Kim, Max Grievy McGreevy is at twelve. Sounds like

(49:00):
Middleton's past the gravy, doesn't it. Max McGreevy is at
twelve under par, Steven Jaeger eleven under par, Maverick McNeely eleven,
Seema's Power eleven, a mini van full of tens and
it just goes on from there. But Justin Rose, if
he doesn't trip over his shoelaces and spraying an ankle.

(49:21):
Probably will. I think he may even go I don't
know if he'll go super low today, but he'll he'll
shoot a few under par probably and end up winning
it at twenty four to twenty five under par.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Who knows.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
It's just crazy how good these guys are, and crazy
how well they're playing. And it's not it's not their clubs,
it's not their practice regimens. It's it's just a hot hand,
and more of them are getting hotter hands that they're
putting in the work. I'm not saying that they don't
practice enough or that they practice just the right amount.
These guys, these guys pound golf balls. But again, I

(49:59):
heard on the PGA Tour Network this morning. When Justin
Rose goes out and practices, he doesn't waste any golf
balls in the bucket or the bag or whatever's there.
Every shot he makes is with a purpose. Every shot
he makes on the practice range is with a determined result,
and if it doesn't get the result he wants, he

(50:20):
just pulls out another one and keeps hitting until he
does get it. And he is so dialed in, just
absolutely dialed in. The other story was that of Brooks Koepka,
who's coming out of being on the Live Tour for
a while and back to the PGA Tour. They accepted him.

(50:41):
Why wouldn't they one of the best players on the planet.
Although he found out this week he did make the cut.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
He'll be out there today.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
But we found out this week that his He said
in an interview after his round that he felt comfortable
with the way he after the first day he had
to tweak his driver swing.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
He got comfortable there.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
He's comfortable with his iron plates, comfortable comfortable around the greens.
But his putter, it needs to be thrown into the
ocean after today, or at least he needs metaphorically.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
I doubt that he'll do that.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
What he needs to work on his stroke and his consistency,
because he wrapped up yesterday with a three putt, and
that three putt came from about I think the first
one was about maybe three feet, second one was four
feet and missed that one coming back up the hill,
and so he taps in for a three putt, and

(51:36):
I'm sure he's not happy about the way he finished
it all. He sounded like he was he was okay
with where he was uh competing again on the PGA Tour.
He's been away for so long, not a decade, but
he's been away long enough that it was a different
routine for him. He's become accustomed to a shotgun start,

(51:57):
for example, at about the same time. Every everybody out
at the same time on lipgolf, which is an interesting
way to look at it, and I think it actually
works for their model. But going back to the PGA
Tour model, where tea times are set by your performance,
those early early tea times aren't fun to have. And

(52:17):
he's when he was out there at his prime.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
He was used to.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Getting to sleep in a little bit on Saturday and Sunday.
Not the case anymore. They'll all be okay, and we
don't need to talk about them anymore, not right now anyway.
But if you got if you got a nickel, and
somebody will take the bet, bet that Justin Rose is
gonna win today. I don't see him not winning, and
it'll it'll surprise me. Now he lost in a playoff
last year at the Masters, but it'll surprise me if

(52:44):
he can't come through from six six out in front
of the whole pack. That's that's a lot of go.
It's two sleeves of balls, he's ahead and strokes. Let's see,
that's cool. I want to go back to this maintenance
tackle maintenance thing for just a little litle bit and
try to find somebody who has a system that they work.
I'm sure Scott n Ole does, but he may be

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he might be fishing today, who knows, and maybe he
doesn't have time to call.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
And that's all fine.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Anybody out there even and more at the recreational level too.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Let's let's give Scotty a break.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
I talk to him a lot, and I don't want
to bother him right now if he's doing something important.
But maybe just one of the the you and me's
out there who fish for fun and not because we
make a living that way, I'd be curious to know
what you do with your tackle and how far you
go into a reel before you feel like you've taken
off enough parts and you don't want to wind up

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putting it back together and having one still sitting on
the bench. That actually happened to me one time. And
what I do now, if I want to dig into
a reel is every time I take a part take
a part off the reel, I put.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
It down like it.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
They just line up and you don't put on You
don't put another part back until the one in front
of it is put back on it. If you do
it that way, there's very little risk of losing anything,
and there's very little risk of putting something in.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Backwards or sideways or whatever.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
One thing you do want to do too, I think,
is put some sort of cloth down to work on,
and not on a hard bench, not on an old
countertop that you had in the kitchen and you cut
it down the size and took it out in the
garage and made your fishing tackle work bench. If you
drop hard metal parts onto a hard surface, they're going

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to bounce, and they're going to spring off the table
invariably and go to the floor, and when they hit
the floor, they're gonna bounce again. The best thing to
do is use something and not something fluffy, and not
shag carpet, for example, because tiny little parts could a
little screw could find its way into that stuff and
you may never find it again.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Maybe just a bed sheet.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
That you place on there and anchor on there that
keep stuff from bouncing off of it at least and
maybe make it a little more enthusiastic about trying to
take a part a reel all the way down to
its to its belly. If you will seven one three
two one two five seven ninety email me Doug Pike

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at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh, there's something else that's kind
of fun to do, much more fun than cleaning a reel.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Cleaning a reel has purpose, and that makes it kind of.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
It's enjoyable, and and the reward you get from that
is that your stuff doesn't break down when you're out
there in the middle of a good bite. But the
other thing that's even more fun to do is to
experiment with and we used to do a ton of
this stuff.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
The original the original.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Lure tweaks that I remember go back to the soft
plastic the introduction of soft plastic days when you would
buy uh tails, let's say a strawberry Kelly wiggler back
in the day. And then somebody I wish I knew
who was first, but somebody said, you know what, I

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wonder if that would catch more fish if you just
if the tail of it was white, that last little
the paddle at the end was white.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
So everybody rushed out and bought.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
White paint and dip those things in there and painted
that tail white, and wow, they caught more fish, so
it seemed. And then it became okay, there are different
colors of these depths for different tails and different Everybody
started trying to tweak what was already being tweaked at
the manufactory level, hopefully to catch more fish.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
And then out came the painted eyes and the painted gills.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
You get the little nail polish out, you put in
big red eyes, or you go to the hobby store
and you can buy those googly eyes and you put
the super glue those to your lures.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
There's so many ways you can tweet. I did an
entire feature.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
This is back when field and streams features were like
twelve hundred and fifty or fifteen hundred yards. I did
one on tweaking lures back in the in the eighties,
I guess it was.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
And one of the.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Things that was mentioned in that is tweaking the lips
of crank baits with just a little bit of filing
or a little bit of manipulation, tweaking the eye of
a spinner bait or a crank bait to where you
can throw it down a shoreline and it will. It
will even from an angle, it will stay at that

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same angle and hug the edge of the shoreline. There's
all kinds of things you can do to manipulate your baits,
And if you found something that you think definitely changes
and makes you catch more fish on that bait, I'd
love to hear about it. Putting red gills on there
makes them look like they're kind of messed up and sick.
There's what is that there's some only available on TV

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tackle pack with these little lures that have a red
throat painted onto them or died into them, I'm not
sure which. There's all kinds of things you can do
with lures to make them catch more fish, or you
can just keep buying different lures at the store.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
I used to be kind of into that.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
I'd sit out and just dip one hundred tails while
I was watching a football game or something, or paint
on eyes or glue on eyes on different lures. And
the bottom line is, if you put the right lure
and buy the right wen, it could be any of
one hundred in front of a hungry fish.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
It's gonna eat in front of.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
A defensive fish like a sow on a nest somewhere,
big female bass on a nest. She's gonna pick that
thing up and at least move it out of the nest.
You may not be trying to eat it, but there's
all kinds of things you can do. And if you've
got something interesting and tweaky you want to share, that'd
be great. We'll take a little break now and go
to the gun store. Well, not the gun store, how
about the shooting range. American Shooting Centers. It's kind of

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a gun store too. They carry a nice selection of
high end rifles and shotguns. They've got plenty of AMMO
and all the boutique calibers, all the traditional calibers, enough
amo to keep it pretty loud and having fun and
busting targets and punching bull's eyes all day, every day,
for many days to come.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
If you want to go do that.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
There have more than two hundred shooting stations at American
Shooting Centers, which is on West Timber Parkway by the
way between Katie and Highway six.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Really easy to find.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
It's the largest non military shooting facility in the entire
state of Texas, and there are some big ones.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
I've been to most of them.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
There are some really big ones, but this one is
the biggest, thanks in great part to Darrighi's vision when
he bought the place I don't know eight ten years ago,
a little bit more maybe, and decided he was going
to make it bigger, more user friendly, safe as it
could possibly be, and make sure that he had good
service out there with instruction in every shooting discipline. He's

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got a couple of really good gunsmiths. If you need
stuff done and you live on the west side of town,
a fantastic guy to know, fantastic guy to know in
a fantastic place. Go shoot sporting clays, three courses, trap
and skeet, ten fields, five stands, several places on the property,
beginner's wing shooting area, check pop up silhouette, rimfire range,

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check out to two hundred and fifty yards. When you
shoot your little two, Well, I said it right, Really,
you shoot your little twenty two at a pop up
silhouette two hundred and fifty yards out? Yeah, you could
go make a sandwich and eat it before that bullet
gets there. It's kind of fun for the kids though,
because it doesn't waste you a ton of money.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
On the AMMO.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
American Shooting Centers dot com is the website American Shooting
Centers dot com. A general reminder, if you've got a
little scrap gold around the house and you want to
turn it into something that you can fold up and
put in your money clip, go check with Brad Schweiss
at Houston Gold Exchange.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
He's listening to the show this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
He told me to give you his cell number in
case you've got some gold you want to sell, in
case you got some silver coins laying around the house,
you want to sell anything and everything of value.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
He moves it through his store.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
And whether that's one thousand dollars worth of something, which,
by the way, a quarter ounce of gold, a quarter
of an ounce of gold right now is worth more
than a thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
Think about that. That's a quarter ounce sinker. Think about
that lead sinker.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
If you've got that much scrap gold that's worth a
thousand dollars, you can convert that in any sporting good
stores to some really cool stuff. If you've got a
little more than that, you can get a little more
than that. Brad's ready to handle any kind of a
transaction you have like that. In precious metals up to
it from one thousand dollars up to one hundred thousand
dollars or more. He's ready. He's done this for forty

(01:01:39):
something years, and he can handle big deals in small
deals and make sure that you're going to get a
very fair price for what you're selling, or he's going
to give you a good price on whatever you might
want to buy. There's never really a bad time to
buy or sell gold. It fluctuates, and it's fluctuated a
bunch in the last week or so, but it's still
at just a stud high price. Look around the house,

(01:02:02):
look in the old jewelry drawer whatever that is, or
deep deep into the back of the closet wherever you
keep stuff like that, and find some stuff that you
don't really use anymore and take it to bread. Give
him a call. He's at West Timer and Darry Ashford.
That's where the story is, Okay, West Timer, Darry Ashford,
Houston Gold Exchange. Call him on his cell right now.

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He's listening. He wants to hear from you, and he'll
help you turn that that GOLDI years into something you
can take to a sport in good store and turn
it into something fun two eight one eight five one
three nine five five two eight one eight five one
three nine five five.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
I'll give it to you one more time because the
third time sticks.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Two eight one eight five one three nine five nineteen
twenty three on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show, Mercy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Let's go to the phones. Let's do that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
Let's we're gonna get Dave. We're gonna get Forest here
one after the other. Dave's up first, clickity click.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
What's up? Dave?

Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
Hey, I wish we had a nickel for every time
we covered that song. Hey on the Hey, on the
on the on the I miss I must have misspoke.
Maybe not sixty, but it may have been sixty pounds,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Okay, I'll buy sixty pounds. I'll go for that. That's okay.

Speaker 6 (01:03:17):
He and uh and and now on the the other
thing is that I'm going to have to send you
a moonshot going down on what Conrad And.

Speaker 5 (01:03:30):
Yeah it was it was looking good over there.

Speaker 6 (01:03:33):
And then uh, other than that, you know, I just uh,
I lost my concentration on what I called you about?

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
What what about the bottom boat bottoms? That's where you
were going.

Speaker 6 (01:03:44):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, waxing, Yeah, waxing the bottom of Yeah,
waxing surfboards in the bottom of a boat.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Well yeah, the fiberglass dries out if it sits in
the elements forever and ever.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Uh. And I'm looking right now.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
I went to the old Google just to see what's
out there, and there are a hundred I just type
boat hull restoring products, and there are one hundred different stars.
You got Starbright, something called Fountain of U, something called
Marine thirty one, what else. There are a bunch of

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them that basically just kind of rejuvenate that fiberglass. Now,
I'm not a boat guy, and I would strongly recommend
if you're gonna if it's a DYI project, I'd call
one of the boat dealers here in town and say,
I got a boat that needs a little do it
yourself polished. I don't really think I can afford a

(01:04:39):
whole new bottom on it, But what should I use?

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
And I think.

Speaker 6 (01:04:44):
That my buddy Samson, you know, he was over there
grinding stuff all you had to cleaned up on his
back down there. I said, well, I can get on
one of them roller things and empty polish it up. Yeah,
we were trying to figure out exactly what we needed
to put there.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
There's a ton of products in there, and I would
I would look for ratings like that. Starbright has one,
Promax has one. They're just I mean there, the list
goes on and on, instant, whole cleaner, hole cleaner. It's
just they're all out there and they're all gonna do
about the same thing. And now they're not all priced. Yeah,

(01:05:19):
they're all priced about the same price. Maybe eighteen to
twenty five hours a bottle somewhere in there.

Speaker 6 (01:05:25):
Oh I got hey, well yeah, you know, and I
even being on stage and being on radio a lot
of times sometimes you get the stuttered you know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Oh man, yeah, yeah, that's normal.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
All right. How did you watch your board? What did
you watch your board with?

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Well, I just kept my board out of the elements
and my my surfboard stay in climate control so that
that's not a problem. We wax the top of the
board so that we can stay on it when we're
riding it with actual wax, actual wax. Sun carry a
bar wax in your in your pocket and before you

(01:05:59):
go out, you put a bunch of wax on the
top and then while you're out there. If you've been
surfing a long time and you've ridden a lot of
waves and mess some of it up and got a
slick spot, you just pull that stuff back out of
your pocket and hop off the board, float around for
a few minutes, and wax it back up again.

Speaker 6 (01:06:17):
Wow, that's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
Yeah, different different waxes, different waxes for warm water and
cold water too.

Speaker 6 (01:06:25):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Oh, yes, all kinds of stuff. Man. All right, Dave,
I'll see man.

Speaker 6 (01:06:30):
Audio, different different strings for different things.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
There you go, spoken like a true guitar Man. All right,
let's go get forest while we have time. Forest, what's up?

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
What is up? Man?

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
Out here?

Speaker 5 (01:06:44):
Strategically placed outside in the place of the suns on
me and the winds not it's actually comfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
You're looking huh.

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
But yeah, well, yeah, I got on the lake Friday
in a man find find one tightly concentrated school of crappie,
and yeah, I figured out they wanted all of jig
and the lightest lines and the slowest presentation you could possibly do.
They caught some good fish, but on the real cleaning

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kide of things. I have a little I have a
little system that I put in place and I generally
do my reels once or twice a year. Yeah, and
it's usually on a day where mother nature says you're
not going to fish in the day, so it's the
perfect time to spend. The amount of time you would
spend on the water cleaning and reels, that's a lot
of time. And I include my rods in that too,
So I normally carry you see my boat, I normally

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carry in the neighborhood twenty to twenty four rods in
my boat. You know what I'll do with that bad weather,
I'll take everything out of the boat, rod and realwise
sometimes just reorganized and before I put them in, basically,
I'm just taking I keep a gun Rag seventy and
bu Garcia real real loop and I'll just take the

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side plates and the schools out and anywhere something that turns,
touches anything, I'll put the real lube. Yeah, and I'll
take a key tip on the parts of the room
you can't order to get y'all's played that Q tip
with w D forty, and I'll get under the real seed.
The uh they're your lying guys, all that kind of stuff.
And of course you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna put

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some old on the on the uh worm gear. Yeah,
and then also chip and I'll go through all the
eyes of my rocks. A lot of people neglect to
clean the eyes of their rods out, but they'll know
they'll they'll build up with grime and grit and stuff
like that. To you be surprised when you do that.
How much farther you'll cast the next time you chance that? Basically,

(01:08:38):
use the bad weather to take time to clean your robb.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
Really, man, you you're really into it. How deep will
you go in a reel?

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:08:48):
Usually I'm just taking the right plate off in that's generally.
That's generally it, unless I have an issue with the
real because I keep my reels pretty much stay in
the boats pretty much stabbed the elements. If I fished
salt water deeper into it, sure, but uh, but.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
You don't take the handles off.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
You don't take the handles off and get get into
that side of it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
On spinning reels, I will, I'll take this handles off
the spinning reel. Yeah, wheel or like when I go
down there to the salt water, I'll get back and
I'll take a real scrubber gun scrubber. It's the same thing,
it's a different name. Yeah, I'll take that and I'll
go outside and I'll slay that real scrubber in there
really really a long time. And then I'll I'll go
in there and replay that with the I like, I

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like actually like to remon oil.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
Yeah. Good, I don't have a problem with that. Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:09:37):
I'll stray rim all in there, all right? Man?

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
So how cold was it up there this morning?

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:09:44):
When I turned on your show, I looked at my
phone and it was a barly twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Okay, Yeah, I was pleasant. I surprised.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Actually I got in Uh, I got in the car
probably I don't know, six forty five something like that,
and it was thirty six degrees already at my house.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Wow. Yeah, you know you just go ahead and take
that extra layer off, huh. All right, man, Yeah, you
know you gotta rethink.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
You gotta make sure all those reels are put together
because you're gonna use them today.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
All right, man.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Always a pleasure, you know that. Thanks for your input.
I appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:23):
Talk to you soon.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
You got it, idios?

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
All right, we gotta take a little break and taking
that break. On the way out, I'm gonna go to
Bellville meat Market, which all of you I would recommend
you know, this w one't be a bad day.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
It's kind of nice outside.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
I think it's pretty sunny and cool, which means you
could drive all the way to Bellville meat Market and
by the time you get there, time you get everybody ready,
get them in the minivan, jump on the freeway, and
go out toward Bellville. It's gonna warm up some and
by the time you get to Bellville, it's gonna be
a nice day to go, sit out on that patio
and eat one of their delicious barbecue lunches and or dinners,

(01:10:55):
depending on when you get there. Every day, seven days
a week, ten am to seven pm, full menu smoked
barbecue with all the sides, all the trimmings, all the fixings,
and it's absolutely delicious. The first time my son ordered
up something out there, the serving was I thought, there's

(01:11:15):
no way he's gonna eat all that, but he was
growing and he ate everything basically but the plate, and
I'm kind of the same way out there.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
It's delicious.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
They're actually they're just they're sliced beef sandwiches, or to
die for.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
They're very, very good.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
They got homemade stuff, pork tenders out there. They got
stuffed pork chops, pans, sausage, boot and loube, the buchery,
stuffed chickens, and of course wild game processing all year round,
and the grabbing ghost stuff too, Beef, jerky, dry sausage,
dry stick, turkey, jerky. It's all out there so you
can have something to nibble on on the way home.

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The best thing to do when you do it do
this is is make a list of everything you want
to bring home, and then when you get their hand
that off and then go get your lunch, go sit
out on the pad, and by the time you're finished,
they'll have everything put together and boxed up, and you
eat some jerky on the way home. Belleville Meat Market
Highway thirty six Bout fifteen minutes north Sealy, fifteen minutes

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south of Hempstead.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
Been there forty something years. I'm not really sure.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
Only meat packet, meat market and processor that I'm endorsing,
and there's good reason for that, because they're really good
at what they do. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com is a website.
Bellville MeetMarket dot Com timber Creek Golf Club twenty three
fifty one FM twenty three fifty one in Friends would
twenty seven holes. Great variety of holes too, and they're

(01:12:35):
all fun. They're challenging, but not so much that you're
gonna scratch your head or say a bad word on
any of them. It should be kind of pleasant and
fun to get around. All you gotta do is just
stand on that tea box for a few seconds and
you'll see where you're supposed to hit the ball. If
it's not going where you want it to go, swing
by the JJ Woods Golf Academy at timber Creek and
let somebody in there help you knock the rust off

(01:12:57):
whatever swing you have right now. Great food in the clubhouse,
great teaching staff, great pro shop staff, nice practice area
where there's plenty of room to get a lot of
people hitting balls. Timbercreekgolf Club dot Com down there in
friends Wood been there for guys since around the turn
of the century, believe it or not, and that's a
long time ago.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Now, Holy cow, I'm getting old.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Timbercreekgolf Club dot com is a website you can set
a tea time for yourself right there, right now Timbercreekgolf
Club dot com nine thirty eight on Sports Talk seven
ninety The Duckpike Show. I just sent Wayne Errington an
email that copies or I guess I shared with him
something that faux pro sent me a.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
Little while ago.

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
There's a guy on an e bike and he's running
down the road, probably in some rural community where it'd
be safe to do what he's doing. He's pulling his
little John boat behind his e bike. He's got this
this rigged up e bike with a legitimate full size

(01:13:59):
trailer hitch on there, and he's got his little about
of ten or twelve foot probably twelve foot John boat
back there, a little small outboard on the back, and
this cat's going fishing. This guy's going fishing. He's riding
his bike and pulling his boat. Now, that boat doesn't
weigh much, I can assure you, and I got a

(01:14:19):
hunch that most of the e bikes out there could
probably pull even a little bit more. But if you're
in a community where that would be a safe thing
to do, to leave your e bike park somewhere, Man,
what an easy way to get.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
The boat to and from the water. I'm just wondering.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
I'm so jaded really because of all the crime that
happens around a city the size of Houston, all the
theft that happens, all the just the bad stuff and
the bad people out there. That first my first instinct is, oh, man,
how do you keep your boat or how do you
keep your bike safe when you're out there on the boat.

(01:14:59):
And I don't know the answer to that in Houston,
but I know that this guy's got it dialed in
pretty good. He doesn't have to fire up the car,
the truck, anything, He just hitches up to the e
bike and gets on down the road. That's pretty impressive.
I gotta say. It really is so back to what
to do during the cold season, and especially in places

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where there is real cold weather. And first of all,
I'm not really sure I could live someplace where fishing
was just pretty much off the table for an extended
period of time because the weather was too cold. Even
way up north though, when the lakes are frozen solid,
they just drive their trucks, literally their trucks out onto
the ice. They're towing a shanty that's got a heater,

(01:15:42):
it's got a TV in it thanks to the generator
that's in the back of the truck, and they just
sit out there and enjoy themselves. I did hear somebody
ask somewhere recently how they keep the ice from melting
in the shanty if they've got a heater in there.
And what they do is they raise the floor of

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the shanty about a foot above the ice, and then
the air between there and the ice float just goes
through and keeps that ice cool and doesn't allow the
heat's gonna rise and go out through the vent at
the top, but it stays in there to keep the
people warm and doesn't impact the ice. And the funny

(01:16:27):
thing that I heard the person say who was talking
about that, was yet it almost always works. You got
it raised up, you got the heat going out the
top and not so much getting out the bottom and
affecting the ice. And to tell me that it almost
always works means that at some point somebody in a
heated shandy watching a football game suddenly hurt a little.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
And went straight into.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
The water, and at zero degrees outside and on a
lake that's got probably a foot of ice on it,
maybe more. To hold up a truck, I don't know
how much it takes. I don't want to be in
the water even for a nano second.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Seven on three.

Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
Now, you know what, let's take this break early, let's
do that. Well, this is the last break of the program.
It's going to be time for a couple of calls
when we get back. I'd be happy to have them,
I always am. So feel free to throw in your
two cents on the great out of doors. In the meantime,
I'm going to tell you about Shooter's Corner, Palmerhart at
twenty ninth Street in Texas City.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
Jerry and JTK on the place they have. Well, Jerry's owned.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
It since he started at forty five years ago now
probably something like that. Jay's been in there with him
ever since he was old enough to be in there
with him, working on guns, helping people get the right gun,
the right ammo, all the things, the right optics. Reloading
supplies if you want those. That's kind of a fun
way to pass an afternoon too. That's kind of the
Shooter's maintenance program. It's reloading until you just run out

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of supplies and then you go get some more. Shooter's
Corner is a fantastic place for brand new shooters too,
because everybody in there knows a lot about the shootings
and can help make sure you get the right gun
for what you need, the right everything you want, iron
ear protection, you want, all of that. Even if it's
a home protection gun that you're looking for, they can

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help you with that as well. Shooters Corner, Palmer Highway
at twenty ninth Street. If you wear a badge for
a living, you get a discount, which I think is fantastic.
I wish more businesses did that, honestly. The Shooters Corner
TX dot com. The Shooters Corner TX dot com. Okay,
the good news is, I'm gonna tell you about a great,
great restaurant where you can take the whole family.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
You don't have to get dressed up.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
You don't have to do anything but show up and
have a wonderful Texmex meal that's got little it's traditional
textmax fairy with a little flare because the same two
people in the kitchen primarily cooking, have been there ten
plus years and they've added a little of this, a
little of that to make these dishes their own. The
bad news is Berry Hill out in Sugarland is closed

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on Sundays, so you're gonna have to wait until tomorrow
to go out there. But tomorrow's going to be a
much better day, even be able to eat outside tomorrow evening,
I would imagine, be pretty nice all day, every day
except Sunday, churning out some of the most delicious Text
Mex food you've ever eaten. The left side of the
restaurant is family style kind of tables and boosts. The

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right side is the sports bar area, and then of
course that outdoor is dining if you want to take
advantage of that too. And if you have a party
coming up, you need a caterer. They've catered for us
here at iHeart I don't know how many times now,
and it's absolutely to die for. About the only thing
left when they leave is the little aluminum foil.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Containers that a lot of the food came in. That's it.
We eat it all, We gobble it all because it's
that good.

Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
And it starts with whatever your traditional favorites are, and
always it should end with some trace letches, and they
do a chocolate and vanilla version of that, so just
you know, if it's for the table, get a couple
of both and then just split them up on your plates.
Berry Hill Sugar Land dot com thirty plus years doing
this and they're darned good at what they do. Burry

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hillsugar Land dot Com, nine forty nine on Sports Sox
seven ninety Dugpike Show. Thank you all for listening. I
certainly do appreciate it. I'm playing golf tomorrow and it's
gonna be a beautiful day. The group that I play
with almost everybody in in because we've been away from
it for quite some time now. It's been a little
bit too cold. It hadn't been too wet for a

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long time. I'm gonna go out this afternoon and turn
my sprinkler system back on. I drained it out for
those two really cold days a while back. Even though
I have one of those super deluxe covers on it,
I don't know. I'm a Belton Suspenders guy. When it
comes to potential for a busted Bell valve, which be
way more expensive than it was when it was really

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expensive about fifteen years ago when I busted one.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
Now it's probably been more than that. I bet it
was twenty five years ago or so.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
We've been in that house thirty two years and then
a neighbor busted one and ended up flooding the yards
more recently than that, but still a long time ago.
But so far, so far, so good with my freeze prep.
I don't know how much you do about that. I
talked to my plumber friend CJ. Yesterday and I asked him,

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I said, how bad was that front? I was kind
of curious as far as for or how good was
it for the plumbing business, because as soon as the
pipe breaks, you got to call your plumber. And he said, really,
it wasn't that much different than any other day. The
modern plumbing in these homes is so much better. I
was talking to somebody else the other day about the pipe. Oh,

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I know who it was. It was Ralph Tarantino, and
you'll I'm gonna be talking for one of his businesses
here coming this week, actually were starting this week in
fifty plus, and Ralph and I were talking. He used
to be in that business up in New York and
there was some apparently some pipe coming in back in
this seventies and eighties. I think it was coming up

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from Mexico that was very fragile and freezes would just
snap it like twigs. And that's what was in a
lot of especially starter homes, kind of lower end homes,
value homes.

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
If you will.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
You got four good walls and a nice roof on it,
but the plumbing in the attic wasn't insulated and wasn't
anywhere near ready for a freeze, and that stuff was
just horrible. The stuff that's being used now, and I'd
say in the last at least in the last twenty
five years or so, and maybe even thirty, because mine

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haven't given me any knock on what again, given any
problems yet. But this stuff is better, and the codes
are better and all the construction is better, and so
thank goodness for that. But he said it was just
twenty something degrees and it just wasn't that big a deal,
So that's good. I don't want to be I don't

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want to have to give up a day of potential
fishing or golf or anything like that to sit around
the house and wait for a plumber. CJ's a good guy.
If you ever need a really super good plumber, knows
what he's doing, let me know and I'll hook you up.
Back to that that whole winter thing. I just don't
think I could live in a place where fishing was
off the table for months, even up there and and

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these the shandies are cool. They're they're like if you've
seen pictures of and I'll wrap a quote around this
tournament kayak fishing boats. Okay, not just some guy going kayaking,
because the guys who who are a little more casual
about it, they don't have two forward facing sonars on
their kayak. They don't have trolling motors on their kayak.

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Necessarily they don't. They don't have a lot of the
stuff that those guys do. And it's the same with
ice fishing. Some people want the shandy, they want the
bells and whistles, the heater, the TV, all of that stuff.
And then I see lots of videos as to a
year of guys just bundled up to where you can
only see their eyes and their nose in their mouth,

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and they're sitting on a bucket on a frozen lake.
Got a hole they dug in the ice, and they've
got little several holes. Actually, now they get pretty high
tech about it because they've got these electric or little
gasoline powered augers where they can drill the holes through
a foot ice and they just watch for those little
flags to tip up. Oh I got a fish and

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now the equipment, I'm not so sure about that either,
that like two and a half foot rods and all tiny, tiny,
tiny stuff, and hey, more power to them. I heard
a guy talking about how he'd gone out ice fishing
the day before something was supposed to go down up
there and caught himself to walleye for dinner, and he

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was just excited as heck.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
Couldn't, just couldn't. He was beside himself, he was so
happy with that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
I've never tasted walleye, and I'm sure it's good because
it's a very popular fish to catch up there. But
from a sports standpoint, a sport fishing standpoint, apparently, I'm
told because I've never caught one, and because of what
I've heard, I don't really care if I ever catch one,
except to maybe check it off a list.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
But they don't fight particularly well either.

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
I've they've been liking to reeling in a wet sock
by a couple of people who have done it a
long time, and I get the thrill, I guess is
just catching big ones. In fact, it was walleye, if
I'm not mistaken, that were the subject of a big
hullaballoo in professional fishing when this one guy, or I

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think it was two guys maybe kept winning tournaments and
finally got busted because they were loading their fish with
big lead sinkers and for some reason, nobody'd caught them
for a long time. They made a lot of money
on that. They also got in a whole lot of
trouble too. Though I don't recall their names, I'm not
gonna go looking for them because they've endured a ton

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of shame. It's not like I wouldn't say them if
I knew them, but I'm not gonna waste my time
looking up the names of cheaters who have been caught
and been punished for their foul play. I don't understand
why people would, well, I guess it is it's all
about money. Anything and everything these days you can trace
it back to the money, and that's what these guys

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were doing. They were making money by cheating in fishing tournaments.
There's all kinds of ways that have been tried in
the past too. Some people used to they would stick
ice cubes down into a fish's gut, and ice cubes,
while they don't weigh a ton, would influence They would
definitely change the weight of the fish, there's no question
about it. And then by the time anybody got suspicious

(01:26:46):
and started looking around, wait a minute, we got to
go check that fish. Well, it's the ice is melted,
and they don't find anything in the fish.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
They don't.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
Wait again, they don't find anything in the fish. And
that's the way you could bust those Weigh them now
and way them later. Most of those fish, though, as
soon as they're weighed officially end up going back into
the lakes, which.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
Is where they belong. Anyway, where they belong.

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
I would hope that at some point more of the
billfish tournaments would go to catch and release, catch, verify,
and if we do it by length, it's just so simple.
If you do all of this by length rather than wait,
it's something that's easy enough to figure out. You bring
the fish on board, or you measure it boat side

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or something like that, and depending on how big it is,
and then you just unhook it and let it go.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
I like the way.

Speaker 1 (01:27:43):
Major League Bass is getting those fish weighed by the observer.
But I talked about this a little bit yesterday. There's
really no way to do this in big saltwater tournaments
or even the Big bass tournaments because you just don't
have enough observers, and the observers in some cases possibly
could be influenced as well. So that wouldn't that wouldn't

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be the best way to go. It's all about for me,
at least at this point in my fishing life, it's
all about just enjoyment. I'm not going to go out
and try to do better than fishermen half my age
who are who grew up with YouTube tutorials on every

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sort of fishing, all kinds of podcasts on fishing, all
of that information that gives them the opportunity to learn
everything at the speed of light, compared to what my
generation learned relatively to the light of a candle. He
just had to read and read and read and talk
to the old people, talk to the guys who came

(01:28:47):
before us. Now, most of these young people would rather
go to the coolest, hippiest web videos and learn from that,
and hey, as long as they're having fun and playing
by the rules, I'm all for it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
I don't care how you learn to fish.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
I just want you to enjoy fishing, which brings up
a conversation or a conservation message.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
Maybe we can talk about next week.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
All right, we got a long spell of not super
cold weather coming up. Get outside, get your vitamin D,
start enjoying life outside again. For Heaven's sakes, however you
want to do that. That's it for this week. I'll
be back Tuesday on KPRC at noon.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
I will be back this coming Saturday, right back in
this chair. Thanks for listening. Audios