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The Big Honker Podcast

Episode #537: Jim Kern

The Big Honker Podcast

Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield

Sports, Wilderness

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by former Texas Rangers pitcher, Jim Kern. During his career, Jim was a three time All Star and the 1979 AL Rolaids Relief Man of the Year. He has a new book out titled, 70's & 80's Tales from the Texas Rangers, that is full of amazing stories from his time on the road as a professional baseball player. The guys talk about his time in the league, stories from the book and other great tales.

Jim's book is available now on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/70s-80s-Tales-Texas-Rangers/dp/B09RG8W9XT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=RUGGCK89HK7E&keywords=Jim+kern&qid=1645109696&sprefix=jim+kern%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the BigHonker podcast. We appreciate everybody that's tuning in.

0:04.5

This podcast is now up on YouTube. You can find us. All you got to do is type in the BigHonker podcast and

0:11.5

all of our episodes are up there now. So go check it out, subscribe, hit the like and subscribe button.

0:16.3

I bet you hadn't heard that before a million times.

0:18.8

The hunting season is over.

0:20.0

It's the boring days of the

0:22.2

waiting until September to get here. And listening to the BigHonker podcast, apparently.

0:25.6

And we do appreciate everyone for listening. We want to thank our sponsors.

0:28.5

First sponsor is Alpha Outdoor Specialties, which is also our newest sponsor.

0:32.0

And they're coming out with the stand field stool, which we released by the end of the month.

0:35.9

So as Alpha Outdoor Specialties, they can do anything. Fabrications, they got it all.

0:40.8

Alpha Outdoor Specialties, and we will have a lot more on Alpha Outdoor Specialties after we

0:44.3

release the stand field stool, which will be the new way to hunt in comfort in a frame or a pit line.

0:50.8

No more hemorrhoids. Nope, sitting on a bucket for too long. Alpha Outdoor Specialties. And then

0:55.9

let's talk about dive bomb. It is the end of the year.

0:59.4

The one of the major selling points of dive bomb is they are easy to pack away when the season is over.

1:06.2

Especially if you get the bags, like I've been telling you to do for the last three years.

1:10.1

You get the bags, you put them away, clean them off, hose them off, do whatever you got to do. Let them dry.

1:15.3

Back in the bags, back in storage. For us, we just, we cleaned out our trailers

1:21.9

and loaded them back up. So it's an easy storage solution. You don't have to take up a whole grain

1:27.5

silo like you do with those clunky-ass full bodies. To me, that is really packing them up is kind of the

1:34.6

best thing in my mind. And they're setting ready to roll next year, since we're ready to go to hunt.

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