The Doug Pike Show 4-29-2023

Doug talks hunting, fishing, and golf with callers. A caller wins the Texas Temperature Game. Doug also has an interview with Chris Dornan about golfer Jim Nantz recieving the 2023 Dave Marr Award.

Episode Transcript

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a bore on Saturday morning. Wegot a little more rain last night.
I don't know if it's going topostpone my tree pruning today. There was
a little more that needed to goon. The guy just ran out of
time. I guess it was abouta week and a half ago. He
was over there. About a weekago. He was over there and took

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out some major limbs on one ofmy oak trees. And hopefully he'll be
able to come over and finished thejob. We're making room for sunlight to
get onto the yard, and it'sdriving me absolutely crazy trying to get this
done to where I can keep grassfor more than about three years. And

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part of it, part of itstems from the perimeter outside my purview,
outside my house. There's some thingsI can do and some things I can't
do, and some things I cancontrol, some things I can't control.
And it just keeps that yard shadeda little more than it needs to be.

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But I think we're gonna get wherewe need to leave. This thing's
a loud. You got any oilin there, Adam, And looks Canada
w D forty. Maybe I wishI need to carry it everywhere. Oh
my gosh, listen to this.Wait a minute, there he goes.
Oh, it sounds like me tryingto get up and walk around the first

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thing in the morning, just crackingand crunching and basically falling apart. Where
do I start the Let's start withthe wind. Let's start with the weather.
We've had what three or four reallysignificant thunderstorms pushed through here. You
were telling me, Adam, youguys got hammered pretty good on the south
side of town. Oh yeah,yeah, I woke up to the apocalypse.

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Oh god, how long? Howlong did that last? That probably
like an hour. It wasn't toobad. What time did it get to
you guys, Like twelve thirty orone maybe? Oh no, that was
already through sugar Land. I'm prettysure by then if it wasn't, I
slept through it, and I usuallydon't. I'm kind of a nervous nelly
about thunderstorms and high wind and allthat stuff, and it'll it'll keep me

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awake and concerned and wondering if I'mgonna. I've had little stuff blow over.
And it actually woke up one morningand found one of the trash cans.
It was the day after pick upday, so this thing was just
sitting out there empty, and ittipped itself over somehow and was about ten
feet from where I left it thenight before. That. That's a significant

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trash can. It must have takenpretty good wind to get it going there.
The worst one, the worst onerecently, was not this last night
because we were It was about tenthirty too maybe or about nine thirty maybe
to ten. Then it was anissue and then it just was light rain
and that that'll knock you out asfast as anything. But it was Thursday,

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was a Thursday morning or Thursday nightthat had crackled so hard because it
man, it kept me up forabout four hours. I think it was.
May have been Thursday, may havebeen Tuesday. It may have been
last month, I don't know oneof the month. The most recent thing
that really bothered me is we hadsome really heavy, really fast rain hit
my neighborhood enough to put some waterin the street temporarily. And when water

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fills up in our street, itflows in a certain direction, and everybody
who's lived there more than an hourand a half knows which way it goes.
We've seen it happen many times,not enough to scare anybody in their
homes, but it's just enough tofill the street. Well, it was
garbage day that day, and thegarbage pickup back when that happened was earlier

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than late it was. They pickedup around I want to say, we're
like seven thirty seven forty five,and all the cans on the street are
empty. The rain comes, thestreet fills and there are trash cans I'm
heard later on just floating down thestreet and they're following the current. And
I come home and my can ismissing, my garbage cans missing, and

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I start going all the way everywheredownhill and can I find my garbage can
and somebody who somebody who's can floatit away rather than try to go find
their own. And they all kindof are similar. I'll give them that,
But I ended up just kind oflooking over the entire neighborhood pretty much,

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and there was no extra can anywhere. Somebody had wheeled my can and
their's. I would guess up totheir house and says, huh, I
could use a spare. I'll justtake this one now. To the disposal
company's credit, they got me anew one, I want to say in

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I don't know. It was afew days, but we got it done.
But why on earth anyone would steala trash can. If you need
an extra trash can, all youhave to do is call them and tell
them yours is gone, or justtell them you need an extra one or
a bigger one. They'll bring itto you. That's part of what they
do. That's part of what wepaid for. You don't have to steal

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my trash can. I need toget off this little soap box. Huh.
It's kind of it's very just it'sfrustrating, and it's it's disappointing that
people would actually steal trash cans.If the flooding comes and the trash cans
all get piled up at one endof the street, just take one home,

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but leave one for the rest ofus. Holy cow, that was
just so unnecessary, so unnecessary.Seven one three two one two five Steven
ninety email on me, Dougpike atiHeartMedia dot com. I've got a lot
of things going on. The InspirityInvitational on going up at the Woodlands.
We'll talk about that in the nineo'clock hour, unless somebody wants to just

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jump in and saw something amazing upthere yesterday or whatever. We'll talk about
fishing. We'll talk about one ofthe things I had on my list this
morning. I've got I've got twobold faced talking points I want to get
to. One of them is goingto be just kind of a fluffy little
thing about what your favorite season isto be an outdoorsman in Texas. And

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by that I'm I'm saying we're gonnaraise the anti on this and say,
Okay, if I could only gooutdoors and do what I love to do
in one season winter, spring,summer, fall, I'll give you the
option to pick three in the threeconsecutive months. You got three months to
do what you love to do.Now the hunters have to pick stuff within

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the within the confines of hunting seasons, obviously, but for fishermen, and
that gives you about a four orfive month window. And actually there was
a there was a year. Idon't remember when it was. It was
a while back. It was whenI was might have been even when I
was at the newspaper, but therewas a year during which our early seasons,

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our youth only and just the earlyjust a hunting season. Well that
always September one is the earliest,but I think it was our deer season.
I was looking at the opening dayof deer season and the official closing
day of all the little knick knackpatty whack seasons, muzzleloader and youth only,

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and all of that touched six monthsof the calendar, didn't not fully
were like the last day of onemonth to the first day of that month
at the end, and it coveredsix months. I told some friends of
mine up north that who, Ican't remember what state this guy was in.

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People I talked to all the timefrom back in the day when I
was when telephones were really telephones,and that's the way you communicated with people.
But I was talking to those guys, and they were in a state
that had, I want to say, like a two week deer season,
some ridiculous thing like that, whichis kind of like trout fishing up there
where that you wait and wait andeight all year, and then opening day

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comes of trout killing, catching,eating season, and people are lined up
down the river banks and stream bankslike they're waiting for Taylor Swift tickets.
And I, for the love ofme, I don't understand how anybody can.
I guess if it's all you've gotand it's all you know about fishing,

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then standing next to another one hundredstrangers and everybody just casting straight ahead
and straight back and straight ahead andstraight back, maybe that appeals to them
because it's all they know and it'sall they have. But man's that's not
for me. They're part of meas a fisherman. Part of me goes

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fishing to get away from all ofthat, to get away from the elbowing
and shoving and pushing that goes onin professional life. It goes on sometime
just about anywhere we go traffic.I don't want a traffic jam on the

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river bank that keeps me from beingable to move up and down the river,
keeps me from being able to casta little bit left or a little
bit right. The closest things likethat come around here would be the surf
side jetty when the trout really geton that jetty pretty hard, which is
not going to be long if they'renot already. They're already. Are plenty

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of trout on that jetty, andthey're catchable, and there's some big ones
out there too, and they're catchablewith live baities a little harder to and
it's it takes immense patience to beout there and throw artificials at those fish
because they're they're few and far between, and they're very patient eaters. For

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some reason, how did I getfrom there to hear? So, if
you have a favorite favorite season,I would love to hear from me.
I would be very curious to knowhow many of you. And even let's
just say it's only for fishing,I'll concede that if you're a hunter who
also likes to fish, I'll giveyou your hunting whenever you want to go.

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But I want to know what yourfavorite fishing season would be. Then
what let me go, let mego take this call. Holy cow,
what's up, Dave? What areyou looking at? What are you doing?
Well? First thing, my shouldersdoing better. I've been doing it,
you know, yeah, doing thetherapy. Okay, all right?

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When they cut them tree limbs offover here. When I first started working
in drywall, drywalls made of jips, gypsum, yep, okay, So
if you go to the flower storeor whatever, get your bag of gypsum,
go out there and spread it allaround out there, and then take
your golf shoes and spikes and thenkind of oh yeah, you know,
and then aer rate because jypsum itcomes out of the ground, but it

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aerates the soil. And my questionwas when for me was to somebody else
when I first started, was whatwe're out here in this n ice cream
saying augustine grass and and you knowthis ain't gonna kill it. I don't
know it's gonna grow better. Andsure enough I had my tree limbs in
my back I trimmed all them off. I put I was washing my tools

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up in the backyard and everything withthat jips and drywall mud and stuff like
that. And then the next thing, you know, I had saying Augustine,
du Yeah, I'm doing okay.My question for you is where are
we gonna find metal spike golf shoesanymore? You're gonna have to get on
some European antique website because unfortunately callup rolling you know the ones you took

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tea. Yeah, he's bigger.He's bigger than me, and he's everywhere
you can check around. Yeah,I'll tell you what there actually are.
I'll tell you real quickly. ThenI'll let you go to your deal real
quick. There are shoes designed forthat, and the spikes on them are
about an inch or an inch anda half long. You look like a
crazy person walking through your heart orjust use us to walk to the mailbox.
That was scared people. So what'syour other deal? Hey man?

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You know, hey everyone, Iwas telling you about breaking out of prison,
ut of prison. I didn't knowyou did that day. Oh no,
I'm talking about them guys breaking outof prison and my mom had the
shotgun and we're in the middle ofthe National four Lord. Yeah you know,
so anyway, but the guys thatbroke out of prison, man,
they caught that one year in Ustonthe other day. But if you remember,

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you know Bob Greene man on FayetteCounty. Yeah, yeah, he
was a police officer, retired policeofficer, and both of his sons And
when that dude broke out of prisonright here on Park Road in forty five
at the hotel right across the freewayover here, his sons tracked him down
all the way over here. Wow. Wow, Yeah, that was a
real cool deal. And they caughthim in everything, And I thought that

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was a boy. Tell me Bob, as a dad, wouldn't be proud
that his sons tracked him all theway around Austin. Gott have been very
golf shoes. He might could haveclimbed a tree and got away. I
know you ever used those spikes.I used those spikes. I wore him
years ago, but I never usedDonna put a telephone pole up tree spikes.

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No, I've never worn those.Huh Yeah I have. Yeah,
they're they're uh yeah, they're they'rekind of hard on you a little bit,
but hey, they do work.Yeah, they'll get you up that
tree. They're not good for yourtrees, h Well, no, but
it would be good to spike inthe ground. Yeah all right, man,
thank thank you. Yeah, audios, Holy can I want a character

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man, it's good dude. OhI'm late, Mike. Hold on,
please, Mike. I got gotcaught up in Dave's breaking out of prison
story, and um, we gota little late. I'll catch you right
as soon as we come back,I promise. Shooters Corner Palmer Highway,
twenty nights Tree down there in TexasCity. I've been telling you about these
guys for years now, and I'mso proud to keep telling you about them

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because they are exactly what it soundslike. It's a gun store, that's
all it is. No washing machines, no tennis shoes, just guns,
Ammo optics, shooting supplies, reloadingsupplies, and a bunch of people who
work there who are expert in whatthey do. They'll make sure that you
get the right gun. They'll makesure that if you need work done on

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the guns you have now, itgets done professionally. I'm talking about Jerry
and JTK, specifically, the ownersof the store, father and son team.
I've known for got the better partof don't I've known Jerry at least
I bet good Lord probably thirty years. I've known that man, fantastic store
run by a fantastic family of people, and I have never had anybody come

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back to me after I sent themto Shooters Corner for some gunsmithing work.
Nobody's ever come back and said,you know, that didn't work out well.
It always works out well because they'regonna stick with it till they get
it right. Shooters Corner, PalmerHighway, twenty nine Street. If you
wear a badge for a living,you get a discount at Shooters Corner,

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which I think is pretty cool.The Shooters Corner TX dot com d Shooters
Corner TX dot com. This isSports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
ninety dot com. Now there's moredug by I'm man deep far Why paid?

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Good lord? How deep did youdig? Define this? Very?
Oh yeah, very number? Morning? Is it? I guess it's gray
enough? Was it? Song?Oh yeah, it's a little gray this
morning. It's supposed to it's supposedto clear out more like it's kind of
like yesterday, froggy in the morningand then got better as time. More

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on, Let's get back as Ipromised to hold on, like find the
right mouse. Here we go Hey, Mike, what's up, buddy?
Morning young man? Good morning.More Oh, Hank can make you spike
your coffee in the morning, Kenny, Yeah, Hey, listen, I
got just a few minutes and Iwanted to run through this real quick.
After fifty years of hunting and fishingon the coast and South Texas, I

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have come up with the ideal timeto go, and it's when dove,
quail and deer season over lap oneanother. When you do that, you
get your meat home, You getout of there, drive over to Baffing
Bay for a two day book fishingtrip. You go home with a freezer

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full of meat, and you're donefor the year. Boy, a one
stop shop home, Mike, youbet you. I've spent enough, you
know, in between to find outthat's the easiest time to do it all.
If you try to piece meal timeand whether kill you all the time,
what are you gonna do with theother ten months of the year.
Eleven months and two weeks of theyear? Fish local not a bad plan,

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really, Hey, I got Igot a quick question for you,
then I'll let you go, allright. Being in the paper business for
so long, when did the storieshave to be in for print the next
day. For a morning edition.The deadline for the writers was about they
wanted our stuff a little bit earlier, about three o'clock. The deadline.

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The standard deadline line was around fiveish, five thirty. Now for stuff
that's or breaking news, whatever's goingon, if it was something that was
really timely, especially you had toyou had to wait for a late Astros
game before they could go to press, so that could stretch out to even
as late as nine thirty, ten, ten thirty at night. But boy,

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when when that happened, that betterbe the last piece in the puzzle.
And as soon as they fired thoseprinters off, that paper went to
going out. The rolls of thatpaper, if I remember, were something
like six or eight miles long,and those presses ran at thirty miles an
hour. So if you got throughthe draft, what time would you see

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the results day later? There's well, yeah, there's there's almost impossible.
You can't. You can't hold upthe entire paper. If if a draft
went late, let's say back inthe eighties or nineties or even the early
two thousands, if a draft wentlate, they would just have to post

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what they had and then wait forthe next edition. There's no other,
no other way. Lest let likewhen the shuttle blew up, that was
a different situation entirely, and thatwhole newsroom in sports department, everybody was
running And it was only maybe threehours later that there was an entire special
edition of the newspaper out on thestreets. But that was some fast work,

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kind of like a two day recapthem. Huh yeah, well yeah
yeah. And you know what thesad part is that now that's all irrelevant
because you can get it in realtime no matter what time it is.
Hey, I gotta run. Takea couple more. Thanks, Thanks Mike
boy. All right, let mego get to Rick and then I'll get
to Joe. Watch this, I'mgonna get them all. What's up Rick,
frog digging? You're still beating upthose frogs? Well, I'll sent

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that. I saw a little bit. Yeah, that's a lot of eyeballs
and the lights man only cow.Well, I bet there was over a
thousand of them. Oh my gosh. So I didn't get over there till
late. I got to call lightsaid, how you need to check this
out? So let me tell youwhat I did. I got three guys,

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I got me these two boys thatcan skin a bullfrogs faster than you
can throw it in a Bucky.And I had a sixty cordass chest and
I thought, buddy, this isgonna be bullfrogs shocking all right here.
And we went back over there thenext night and Doug, there was not
no one, kirt, How dothey do that? I don't know.

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We had a lights, you canyou know? I mean, they're not
there. And my buddy says,hey, I've got a thermal scope in
the truck, a pellet brifle twentytwo cow pellet, right, wo,
get that thermal because their body tentsgotta be warmer than Yeah, sure have

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waters and not a nothing. Andwhen I say a thousand, it might
have been more than a thousand,Holy cow, it was. It was
deafening to just get within one hundredyards of that lake. Clearly a UFO
abduction. I had them, Ihad earplugs in Holy calory. I was

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loaded. I'm ready, nuts man, you know, Yeah, you're came
out of me. I'm ready togo. And there was not a frog
in that leg. Yeah, it'snot like they d away. I'm sure
that I didn't drag you out thereabout to be talked about. Yeah,
man, you got anything else,I'm gonna go catch you. I want

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to catch Joe before the bottom.You're good, okay, Well let me
know when you find those frogs ad. I'll say it later. Holy cow,
you go from the thing. Yeah, that's kind of like fishing,
kind of like hunting a big bunchof geese and they just disappear on you.
Joe. What's up man? Hey, not much. I was just
gonna tell you today's MS one's good. Oh, I know, Holy cow,

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nothing like a little wind to makethe MS one fifty kind of exciting.
Huh Oh, it's brutal. Itis a northwest wind and we are
heading northwest. It's oh oh yeah, you're not gonna make a whole lot
of time. Where's my there's mylive wind. Let me see. I
gotta move closer because this screen isso bloody small on this laptop. Yeah,

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you got a dead head wind allthe way up. Yeah, yeah,
it'll be nice. You know,it'll be a south. I think
it's a southeast, so you knowthat'll be cake. But this is yeah,
I'm already starting to cry. Butyou know what, they'll stop opping.
That's all. Are you do youthink you're gonna make it up there

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today, Joe. Oh, I'mright, yeah, yeah, I'm having
that way right now. What timedo y'all start? Eight o'clock? Yeah,
you'll make like you'll make it.The black Horse probably would be about
it by dark. Yeah, justjust yeah, I'm making the Belleville one
fifty. Do that, man,and think just least you got a pretty

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good deal at the end of therainbow. That'll motivate you to pedal up
over that last hill. Oh mygosh. Yeah, it's great to hear
from you. When I saw MSone fifty and Joe, Okay, I
know who this is. You're theonly person I know who's crazy enough to
ride a bicycle to Austin and turnaround and ride it back. Well,
you know that's because I'm young.Yeah, yeah, you know, like

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I said, you're crazy a littlebit. All right, man, it's
great to hear from you. Thanks, Jo, Yeah, good luck,
buddy. Odios. Oh, they'rein for a pedal today, those MS
one fifty years, Yes, theyare in for quite the pedal. Northwest
wind all the way as far asthe eye can see on my little map

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here, and we're talking about fifteenmiles an hour, eighteen miles an hour
if they can, if they canget into if they can get seventy five
miles north of Houston, it's gonnadrop down to single digits or maybe ten
or twelve miles an hour, butmostly all the way there, it's gonna

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be in their faces. It isa northwest wind all the way there.
They're starting southeast of their target,or yet I almost due southeast of their
target. Ah, that'll be prettysporty. What they need is a chopper
to just take all the bicycles upto Austin then jump on them up there
and ride back here, and thatwould make a lot more sense and be

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a lot easier. But it's fora good cause, and anybody who's riding
in that race knows why they're there, and that should motivate them, that
should get them going. Seven onethree two one two five seven ninety email
Meet Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.Oh well, what a coincidence. I
guess what I get to tell youabout now? Black Horse Golf Club.

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So here's the deal. If you'rein the MS one fifty and you're not
sure you're gonna make it, asyou leave when you start on your bicycle,
just go ahead and throw your golfclubs on your shoulder and ride the
black Horse, just like I wastelling Joe, and then just pop off
there and play round to golf.Two courses they've got, the North Course

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to South Course. They're totally differentin personality. The North Course is a
little more freewheeling, launch it andgo, get it and hit it again.
South course makes you think a littlebit more. It's a little bit
tighter, and not unplayably tight,not crazy tight, but just a little
bit tighter. Both are great tracks. Both are always in good shape,

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and if you don't like the scoresat the end of your round, you
can always go down to the otherend of the range and jump on for
a lesson or two from one ofthe instructors down there. Under Marty Fleckman's
control, I'll play a lot oftournament black Horse, always have, and
love it up there. Love itup there. The new the new general
manager. By the way, CraigHicks is an outdoorsman. If you happen
to see him walking around there orsomething, getting to tell you some of

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his old fishing stories from when hewas a kid back east. He and
I the first time I went upand I ran into him first. I
went up there specifically to meet himand talk to him, and we sat
down talked golf a little bit,and I don't I don't remember who said
fishing first, but once that happened, it was just like, Okay,
We've got into a thirty minute conversationabout fishing and hunting and whatever. Great

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guy, he runs a great,wonderful facility up there. If you're looking
for someplace to go play some golfon him. What's finally going to be
a pretty good day here in alittle while. Go check out black Horse.
They're on Fri Road, just alittle way south to ninety black Horse
Golf Club dot com. That's blackHorse Golf Club dot com. This is
Sports Talk seven nine Facebook dot com. That's slashing sports Talk seven ninety eight.

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Back to the Doug Pike Show.Okay, we'll go with that.

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Welcome back the Doug Pike Show onSports Talk seven ninety nine o'clock this morning.
By the way, I'm gonna grabChris Dorning. He has been He
oversees media for the Inspirity Invitational andother tournaments that go on. Good guy
got to play golf with him andRichard Dean, who is still writing,

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still grinding columns out and doing alot of good sports work. And it
has been since since I knew himat the paper many many years ago.
That was the first time he andI played golf in together, and probably,
gosh, I bet the better partof twenty years. Just don't run
into the guy anymore. But Iwas glad to do that with him and

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Chris. And Chris another left handerby the way, he's much younger and
much stronger than me, and itjust drove me crazy that he was out
driving me on media day up there. But it was a lot of fun
we had. We had a prettygood score, I would say, for
the work that the three of usdid. Anyway, we'll talk about the
Inspirity Invitational in the nine o'clock hour. I want to come back to what

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we've been talking about a little bit. Let me go check emails. Actually,
I saw a couple I want tosee who wants to go where?
I asked what season? He basically, if you could only hunt one season
of the year, what season wouldthat be? And hold on, let
me get this thing up here.Rudy, Oh, thank Junior I gotta

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go check that out. And thereso I have two votes for two votes
for fall actually, which kind ofmight be my vote. And then we
had the one do it all theSoutheast Texas do it all and just get

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it all over. I don't Idon't know. I think I'd prefer to
stretch it out. Actually, Mikeor who was that was that? Um?
That wasn't Mike? Who called?Who was that who called? And
did that at him? And saidthat I thought it was making they had
been Joe was it? No,it wasn't Joe. Joe's riding his bicycle.
Joe's gonna ride a bicycle to Austinend of the wind, which he

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might on a on any normal day. It'd be like riding to Dallas.
He's gonna have his work cut outfor him. He must have like calves,
like two tree trunks. He's he'sa pretty fit dude. He's a
he's around my age. He's aroundmy age. He's quite a fit man.
I'll give him credit for that.He uh, he rode that bicycle.
He's got the he's got the leotardthing and the cereal bowl helmet,

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all that he's got, all ofthat, he probably. He may even
have sponsor patches on his jersey.I think they call it a jersey.
I call it a leotard because I'mnot a biker. I'm not a by
sight, there's a big difference betweena cyclist and a biker, you know,
like a just this enormous gap betweenthe two. Captain Scott weighed in

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actually dropped a good bit. He'stalking about the wind velocity in the past
couple of hours, which is goodbecause when we started out it was blowing
a gale. I've got that upon the screen. I've got to go
back to it. Yeah. Downon the coast, it's still honking pretty
good up here anyway, twenty fourmiles an hour out of the north northeast

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at the North Jetty, going downthe coast, it's not quit yet down
around Captain Scott right now at PortO'Connor. And this is a snapshot and
Scott Scott maybe getting a I don'tknow if this is a gust maybe,
I don't know, but it's showingthirty all around that though. Now that's
going to be an anomaly because allaround it seventeen seventeen, eighteen eighteen offshore.

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Interestingly, enough at the little themarker called brass five thirty eight thirty
nine miles an hour out of thenorthwest, so smooth ride for about the
first two miles offshore, and thenon the way back you're gonna get pounded
if you go. I don't knowmany people who would have gone off shore

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today. It's gonna be brutal andjust absolutely nasty out there. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninetyEmail me Doug five and iHeartMedia dot Com.
I thought about spring as a greattime to be a fisherman anyway,
and it is, there's no questionabout it. But the problem with spring,
specifically with April, is just whatI'm looking at on this map.

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It's so bloody unpredictable. Now ifwe get into May. As we get
into May, the wind velocities shouldkind of mellow out a little bit,
become a little more consistent. Wealso should get fewer of these extreme storms.
I'm not a big fan of anyof that stuff. Like I said,
I'm kind of a whimp about thunderand lightning, especially when I'm lying

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in my own house just waiting,just waiting for the dog on power to
go out, which it hasn't lately. Knock on wood. You used to
have real problems with that in myneighborhood and in my house. Holy cow,
Hank Williams Jr. Standing next toa log cabin, got a big
old cigar, got his camo fullcamo on, got a shotgun over his

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shoulder, and next to him fromone of the little support beams across beam,
a dead turkey. Good for him, Turkey hunter. Rudy sent me
that picture. That's pretty cool.That's very cool. Seven two ninety.
Email me Don Pike and iHeartMedia dotcom when we get back from this break,

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Adam, why don't we go aheadand play the Texas Temperature Game for
someone who is looking for golf fourthemselves and three friends. They could invite
me, but nobody ever does.It doesn't take much to get me out.
Now. I do have to workaround my schedule, but it doesn't
take much of a good cause toget me on a golf course, or

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for just no cause at all,or just because it's Saturday or Tuesday or
whatever day it is. Well,we'll get somebody lined up to play the
Texas Temperature Game against Adam. Iam not going to tell you anything about
what the current temperatures are, butI'm looking at them right now. Now.
This is an Honor System game.So if you're gonna play the game,

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and you're gonna call seven one threetwo one two five seven ninety,
if you're gonna play, you gottapromise scouts on or pinky swear that you're
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This is Sports Talk seven ninety BayHouston sports Fan on air and on Facebook.
Contact Back to the Doug Fight Show. Okay, composer and year uh

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pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Yes, that'scorrect. Eighteen twelve overture full in E
Major. The eighteen twelve overture.There's a there's a part of that.
That's um, that's iconic. Butthis isn't it. It's a very long
event. Yeah, this is buriedup in there somewhere in the middle of
think wow, classical music. I'ma little bit not that much. So

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let's go fire up. Yeah,we'll go from Tchaikovsky too, or Campbell
sometime today camboh I said, nowyou get it and dumb yeah, Shray
Campbell? God? Remember is ithot? Is it called? We'll find

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out on the Texas Temperature games?Because you're hot, yours cold? Is?

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All right? Here we go,Pat, are you there? I'm
here? Are your windows rolled up? How big a truck tires? Do
you have? Pretty good? Nowit's not that. Then there's twenties.
They're standards. Oh. I don'tknow why it sounded like, oh this
isn't bad. It's actually whatever itis now it's much better. So yeah,

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you're good. Okay, stop likeoh perfect, okay? All right.
As the contestant, do you wantto go first or second? I'll
go first? All right, Pat, what do you think right now is
the current low temperature in the stateof Texas. I'm gonna go with thirty
eight thirty eight Adam, what doyou think is the current low temperature in

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the state of Texas? Who thirtyIt's a good guess, but I'll go
with thirty five thirty five. Pat, what do you think is the current
high temperature in the state of Texas. Let's go with sixty four. Sixty
four? Adam, what do youthink is the current high temperature in the

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state of Texas. Ah, I'llgo with the just seventy even seven seventy.
This is um, this is theI'm just telling this stuff's heating up.
Man. So I got that there, I got that there, and
that's that, and I got thatthere, and I got that there.
Adam, you got smoked, notreally smoked. Pat, you one,

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hands down you. If I hadten prizes to give away, I might
give you all ten. Here's whatyou did. You miss the low temperature,
Pat, by only the low tempaturethirty four. You missed it by
four degrees. The high temperature inthe state of Texas currently where you guess
sixty four is sixty four. Younailed it, and that rarely happens,

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my friend. Adam, you didwell. You scored a seven. You
only miss the low by one,but you miss the high. You just
you keep thinking it's balmy all overto we had this front blow through.
You gotta remember. Put this inyour memory, Banks Adam. When there's
a north wind and a coal front, that cool air. If it's blowing
twenty or thirty up here, it'spushing a cold air all the way south.

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Hey man, Pat, that's awesome. So what do you would you
prefer? River Plantation or Oakhurst?Where is ok? Yeah? They're both
up north. River plantations in aRichmond area. Nope, river Plantation that
you're thinking of. River Point riverPlantation also up north. So you're what

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are you from pasadaen or something?You don't want to make the drive?
Man, I live in Katie,but I don't care. I got o
some guys from golf. If youowe guys golf, Yeah, we're gonna
hook him up and get one ofthem to drive. You just sit back
and getting read. Which one wouldyou play? You know what? I
did a river Plantation last week.I know the guy who owns both courses.

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The guy's name is David Chrysler,super nice guy. I'm gonna send
you to Oakhurst and he'll probably ifhe's there. By all means look him
up his name. Just ask forDavid, Say is David here? And
if he's there, just you'll you'llbe treated to meeting one of the nicest
guys on planet Earth. How's thatperfect? All right? I'm good.

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I appreciate it. Oh yeah,man, how many people you owe golf?
Are you gonna be? You cantake three of them. So my
best friend he hooked us up ina tournament, a wildcat abuse, and
we ended up we ended up gettingtwo free rounds out there after that.
They do that. Yeah, heput in the bill for that one.
You know, we didn't sweet youknow, it said, that's okay,

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these are the guys I gotta getmy half of a stroke the whole.
So well, what kind of handicapyou carrying? Oh? It was right
now? About a thirteen? Okay, I had a eight eight nine.
I'm thweet eight and nine. It'swhen I was playing a lot. But
it's you know, work gets inthe way. Yeah, don't telling about

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it in the way. Let metell you what gotten. Before I started
doing fifty plus on weekdays, Ihad weekdays I could go, I could
get ahead on my stuff for theweekend and get other stuff done around here.
And then I could get out andgo play golf with clients or friends
or whatever. But now when I'vegot to do a show from twelve to
one on Tuesday through Friday, it'slike, oh, man, I can't

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go play in the morning because notime to prep, and I can't get
out quite in the afternoon, atleast in daylight savings time. I'm saved.
Man, I'm out there playing allthe time in the afternoons. Now,
well, look, I'm gonna sendyou guys to Oh Curse. You're
gonna love it. If David's upthere, by all means tell him hello,
We'll thanks again. Yeah, ohyeah, my pleasure. That's probably,
by the way, that is thecurrent Adam correct me if I'm wrong,

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the current low score standard to beatthat. Nobody's ever gotten a four,
have they? No? What?I don't think so. No,
So you you're now the current recordholder. Way to go, Pat,
Thanks for the championship round. Yeah, we na have to do that.
We'll get a turn into the championsgoing. All right, I'm gonna put
him on the hold. I'll letAdam go take care of him. Man,

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A four, Adam, that's um, that's impressive. I'll tell you,
well, why don't we go aheadand go to the break and give
you a couple of minutes to takecare of him, and we'll get back
on time. All that good stuff. That was Um, that was the
most I'm sitting here when I knowthe numbers and when I see him come

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up that good, I have tojust kind of maintain McCool while the other
guy answers. But yeah, whenhe scored a four on the low and
then no difference whatsoever on the high, low score wins in this game.
Pat is the new record holder inthe Texas Temperature Game with a total difference.
I'm gonna have to tell Ryan Moneyabout this. He'll be impressed.

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A total difference of four. Thanksfor playing, Pat, Thanks for listening.
We're gonna take a little break here, come right back. More of
the Doug Pike Show once we getthrough the top of the hour. Guns
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Push that button runt there here Iam Thanks for listening to Doug Pike
Show on Sports Talk seven ninety Adam, that may be the the closest we
got to an on time absolutely justslam dunk break in the history of the
program. I'm usually not nearly sopunctual, but there was. It was
a good stopping point coming off ofthe high of this incredible score that Pat

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scored in a Texas Temperature game.And I didn't want to I didn't want
to flatten it out totally by goingto something boring or whatever. I got
worried by the way from from Mojothat if you're gonna dig so deeply into
the country music, well you needto look up some Bob Wills. Okay,

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can you do that? Of course? Yeah, yeah, let me
know. Yeah, we'll take alook and see what we can find.
Any chapstick. Here we go.Now, I'm much better. Ah.
I was in the newsroom, thekhrt's newsroom a few minutes ago, and
I wouldn't bring it up. AndI don't want to drag there's so much

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I'm looking at something here real quick. There's so much going on in the
outdoors right now. I don't wantto belabor a point. But the point
I want to make right now isthat we still have way more of a
mental health problem in this country thana gun problem. Nikki Courtney's sitting down
there just shaking her head, saying, Kellie, I cannot believe somebody else

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shot up people again, and someallegedly up in Cleveland. Here's what happened
overnight. Some guy who has ahabit in his neighborhood of going out in
the front yard and shooting his gunwas asked last night allegedly to stop doing

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that because it's keeping his kids awake, keeping this neighbor's kids awake. And
that guy, allegedly intoxicated, allegedlywent over to their house and pretty much
killed the whole family. And thatis really really messed up, there's no

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question about it. But it's amental health problem. It's not the gun's
fault. There's so much. There'ssuch this great effort to take away everybody's
guns because people misuse them, andthat would be like making us all give

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up our cars, because some peopledrive after they've been drinking. And unless
both happen, then it makes nosense for either to happen. You control
the behavior of the person who commitsthe offense. You don't blame an inanimate

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object for being used to hurt somebody. That really it just it really does
rub me the wrong way. Youwatch, the news will come out,
the news will come out, andgosh, we got to do something about
these guns. There's nothing to do. There's a very old thing that's been
on It's been on Facebook one hundredtimes, it's been it's been around social

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media for years. It says,if you put a gun on your front
porch, you can leave it therefor a year and it will never shoot
anybody unless some crazy person picks itup. And that's when it becomes a
problem. That's when it becomes aproblem. Seven one three, two one

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two five seven nine. Email onme Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I
don't want to dwell on that,but it's very frustrating because the mainstream media
latches onto things like that and usesit as uh and they're not even speaking
for themselves in many cases, they'rethey're working a long term goal of taking
guns away from Americans. And Ireally don't hope that. I told Nikki,

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I can't win a fistfight anymore.If somebody comes up and wants my
stuff, I have a right todefend myself and I can't do it in
a fistfight anymore. I'm I'm anolder guy, okay, not tough and
strong as I used to be.And even at that point, at my
peak, I wouldn't take somebody awhole lot bigger to probably have taken me

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out, because I just I'm nottrained in fighting, and my instinct wouldn't
be I don't know what my instinctwould be, actually, but it wouldn't
work out for the other person.Yeah, if something happened to me,
it would be only after a lothappened to them. Let's get off of
that subject right now, unless somebodyelse wants to bring it up. Hey

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Buck, what's up? Hey?Quick question, Doug. I've played golf
there and then how to play someincome and would have played at the River
Plantation golf course there in Conrow.And now I hear you say the name
River Plantation yeause has been closed foryears. So where's the where's the name
being used? I'm pretty sure itis a revival of that course. Hold

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on, I'll look it up here. All that clicking, that's what I'm
doing. River Plantation Golf Club,Conrod. I found it in conro On
Lane. Yeah, yeah, evenAdam found it. He was looking for
it. It is up there.It's on Country Club Drive in Conrow,
and it has been around. It'sbeen around, like you said, and
a guy named David Preiser took itover and he redid the clubhouse. I

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was up there for the kind ofofficial semi official re grand opening of the
place, and David go ahead,I'll be darn. I just yeah.
The last time I remember looking overthere, I passed by there frequently.
It still had trees growing in themiddle of fairway where it's been closed for
probably ten years. Yeah, Imay have, but it's it's wide open
now and has been for probably twoyears. The last time I was there,

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watched this, watch this opportunity fora name drop. Okay, the
last time I would well, actuallynot the last time, but two times
ago I was up there were thatkind of a grand reopening of the place,
and David invited one of his betterfriends in the whole wide world,
the guy you probably heard of namedMatthew mcconniughey. And Matthew was there,
so I got to hang out withhim a little bit too. Well.

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Lobby did a good well. Thatcourse was built and opened. I think
in sixty seven. Yeah, andthe guy that used to be the pro
at River Oaks came up there andtook that over and uh and then they
let's see one year later. Strangelyenough, after that course there was only
open a year. They had theTexas State Amateur there. Wow, and
and how Underwood won the first UhAnd Uh, I got a funny story

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there as like high school golfer.You know, we we've got to go
and play all those other places aroundConro. And I got two funny stories.
One is, Uh, I wasleaving River Plantation one afternoon and uh,
in my little sixty three and ahalf forward and there was a Cadillac
with a flat tart on the boyclub driver. I pulled up behind it

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and got out, walked over andit was Jimmy de Merrit. Oh.
Wow. He was not three sheetsto the wind. He was maybe sick.
I doubt that all he did wasall he did was pop the trunk.
I changed the tire, you know, gave the keys back to him.
He didn't even say thank you andjust drove off. Wow. The
other one and the other one heis at Panorama one afternoon. Our golf

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coach told us we were playing toconrade Country Cliff. He said, y'all
aren't playing today, You're going upto Panorama and he said for what He
said, y'all were going to becaddies for a special group that's up there.
Oh wow. And I was thenumber one guy that we said who?
He said, I don't know,just go up there. So we
got up there and the guy thereat the Panorama said you okay, you
walk out. You do it bynumber one and the team and walked out

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there and turned around. I caddiedfor Ben Hogan. Holy cow, what
a great opportunity that was. Ohman. He was really an impressive fella,
so nice. Contrary to all thethings that you've heard about Hogan's attitude,
he was the nicest man. Youknow. Back in the day,
they used a turn flat belly andhe said, okay, flat belly,

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how do you shape your shot?And I said, all back then,
I was trying to you know,hit a hit a draw, well in
holes. I'm going to convince youthat's the wrong way to play golf.
Oh well, boy, he did. He was from tea to green.
He was fantastic. But his littlehands, but his heart would just shake
like he had. Oh he mayhave, you know, but it was

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something else. And I was soyoung and stupid when I finished, you
know, he started to pay andI said, oh, no, sir,
And I was so excited to gethome and tell my dad. I
didn't even ask for an autograph.Now stupid was he had a little bit
star struck. Were you in justa set? Just a tad? Holy
cow, buck, what a greatstory you have to tell every time you
get to tell it. Man,I'd be telling that story every chance I

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had. It was. It waswonderful. So what did you take away
from his game? Well, hereally convinced me that I needed to fade
the ball. And and he's youknow, here's of course description. It's
just very much like what's driving thepros right now, he said, you
know, like Treno used to say. He said, you can talk to
a fade but yeah, hoo won'tlistening. Yeah, you're right, and

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uh and he was right. Everytime I had put up a big number
back in the day, that wasthat was my problem. You know.
It was, you know, drivingthe ball into place where you couldn't get
to it. You know. That'syeah, that's something I think a lot
of and I am. I've beenfighting for probably I don't know, two
three years now to get off.I just always relied on that little fade

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shot and I got tired of itbecause it wasn't pretty and it wasn't you
know, this big booming fade thatmy son's hitting now as a freshman in
high school. And so I've beentrying to change. And for the life
of me, I can do iton the range a little bit. But
if I get when I missed thatwith that draw shot, buddy, it's
a snap man and it's gone,and just before I can blank it out

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in the woods. The ten ofthe st Real Story. Now, let
you go on the very first holesof part five, the panorama, and
these other guys are talking and thenhits this down there just about where I
would hit mine. And these otherguys were saying, there's a lake in
front of that part five hole,at least there was then, and but
it's featable. And he asked me, he said, can you reach this
and too, I said yes,sir. He said, do you do

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it? I said yes, sir, And he said well, he said
the pen was in the back righthand corner. He said, okay,
we're here, flat Billy. Hesaid, I'm about to show you.
He said, I'm gonna see thebig oak tree that was just you know,
left or the left or the green. He's aiming the ball at that,
and I'm gonna fade it toward theflag. And I'm sitting there saying,
sure you are. And Peter saidyou that is what he said and

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rolled it up there and uh andof course his pudding was just so awful.
But anyhow, it was quite aquite an adventure. That is wonderful.
Thank you for sharing that, Buck, I really appreciate it. Man.
That's awesome. Thank thank you.Bye. Wow. Got to caddy
for Ben Hogan. That's pretty coolthere. That guy could golf his ball

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a little bit. Guys. NowI'm I'm now, I'm halfway tempted to
go back to where I was.I think what I'll do. I think
it's it's about it in the middleof the bag. When that that draw
becomes an issue for me With mylonger irons, I have a little trouble
drawing the ball and with but Ican hit kind of a straight shot or
maybe just a little little soft fadewith those things and not give up.

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Really anything in yardage, and Imay just kind of go ahead and run
what I brung, because that's justwho I am and how I swing.
With the longer clubs up up toabout seven iron, six iron, maybe
sometimes I can still turn it overa little bit. It's real pretty to
watch and all that stuff. ButI'm working so hard to get that change

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made that it might be easier justto settle back. My handicap was actually
about two shots lower than it isnow, back when I was just relying
on that fade too, and that'ssomething I ought to look at and think
about. It's about enough golfer rightnow. We'll get back to fishing when
we come back, or maybe ifsomebody wants to talk about now, I'm

(57:12):
gonna get off of that. Thatshooting, that's just nut. That's not
what we're going to talk about heretoday. I might bring it up on
fifty plus next week, but nottoday unless somebody else wants to. If
you guys want to talk about it, I will. If you don't,
I won't. I'll be back ina little while. On the way out,
I'll tell you all about Duck Camp. Duck Camp is it's a store,
well actually, Duck Camp is acompany that produces a line of the

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most incredible outdoors clothing I put onin a long time. Everything in the
store. They do have a storeover on Morningside in Rice Village, and
in that store you will find prettymuch anything and everything you could possibly want
to outfit you comfortably so that youcan stay out in the outdoors all day
long and enjoy yourself. Hot,cold, mild, doesn't matter what the

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temperature is. It doesn't matter ifit rains. There's something in that Duck
Camp store that will get you throughthat day completely comfortable and able to enjoy
whatever nature throws at you. Theyhave got some incredible bamboo hoodies, this
bamboo fabric. I'm not sure howyou make fabric out of bamboo. I

(58:21):
don't care. All I know isthat some of the most comfortable stuff I've
ever put on. They have foulweather gear, they have hunting pants,
they have fishing shorts, they havet shirts, they have caps, they
have jackets, they have all thethings you need, as I said,
and it's all very carefully put together. This is not just something somebody made
a trip across the ocean and pickedout a few items that everybody makes These

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are garments that were put together witha lot of thought in mind. Go
in the store, ask for alittle it's not a big place. It's
not going to take you ten minutesto get a tour. Okay, they'll
off your beverage, a beverage ofyour choice, and then walk around and
just ask why is that a snapclosure on that pocket instead of a button

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or a zipper, And there'll bea good reason. Put on one of
the jackets and close your eyes andthen imagine that it suddenly there's a burst
of cold wind or maybe a littlebit of rain, and just close your
eyes and put your pocket and putyour hands where you think the pockets ought
to be, and your hands aregoing to go into the pockets. That's
how tightly that stuff is built.I'm really impressed, I truly am.

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Ducamp dot com is the website.It's an Austin based company. There right
up the road. Maybe joke andgo by there and grab something to ride
home on his bicycle from the MSPEfifty. Go in there, check the
store out. If you can't dothat, at least get online and take
a look. But hands on,it's the best way to experience the duck

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Camp brand, Duckcamp dot com,Duckcamp dot com. This is Sportstock seven
ninety breaking sports news on book twentyfour or seven. We'll get that information
to them from them. This isthe Doug Fight Show. Deep Within My
Heart a song wearing Dreams and Livethe Stars Alone. That's gone. I

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found the album my special request Strangea little Bob Wills for a very long
time listener. Thank you, andI hope you enjoy lunch with mom.
As they say, Oh, KevinScott waited in last night. He said
weather down there around where his hismega ranch, cool place to live,

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is got pretty sporty. And forhim to say it got pretty sporty means
it was really blowing. It wasjust something that probably could have been named,
and maybe should have been named,at least briefly, only it came
from the wrong direction to get aname. Is as they say, what

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it is still pretty windy and cool. According to Rick Basse, I'm not
sure where he is, but I'mgonna just take a stab at northwest of
town somewhere. That's okay. Alot of new birds, a lot of
new doves and ducks moving through.Yeah, ducks are packing it up and
going to the house. The fewthat are left, most of them have

(01:01:35):
already long gone. I'm not surequite where Rick is right now. Rudy
home. What you got here?First? Wund winner? Oh yeah,
there's a there's a parson Wallets Departmentdoes a contest. Let me see what
the first place winners work? Lookslike these are I'm presuming this is the
youth art contest. Oh no,it's photo contest. There's one of the

(01:02:00):
winners. It's the whole family.Oh my goodness, one, two,
three, four or five of themstacked on top of each other, kind
of the mom and all the kidspiled up, and it's kind of a
it's a cute picture, I'll giveit that. And then they've got their
labradoodle puppy on the top. Iwonder. I saw somebody walking a labradoodle

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last night and wondered if they're stillin vogue. If you will, there
are lots of other dogs that,it seems to me, are becoming the
dog dujure, the hip cool petto have, and I'm not sure what
they would be. Labradoles are kindof cool, but they're also from my
experience anyway, I don't own one, But I know a lot of people

(01:02:43):
who do. They can tend tobe, oh what is open, They
can tend to be a little bit, a little bit rambunctious might be the
word Adam, check your phones hadtwo people calling, and he's in there
working apart. You're working on somethingelse. I know what you're doing,

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playing wordle or something. Seven.Well, no, I'm not going to
overburden him. He's already got acouple of them to take care of.
We'll get through them, hopefully.In this break, I wanted to kind
of jokingly go back to this wholefavorite hunting or fishing season of the year
and wonder if there would ever beany snowball's chance, which the answers already

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know, but it sure seems kindof cool to me. A lot of
employers over the past few years,especially since the pandemic, had offered the
work at home option and flexible hoursand all of that to accommodate their staffs
so that they could keep their companiesrunning. And I'm wondering, and I
haven't done the math, because it'snot gonna happen anyway, but it would

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be kind of fun to play with. I wonder how many twelve hours shifts.
You could work if you worked twelvehours a day, seven days a
week at your job job for let'ssay nine months, you just you held
on tight and for nine months youdid that, you made twelve hours or
six days a week. You gottahave a day off even I get one

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day off Mondays. So six daysa week, you're working twelve hour shifts.
That's seventy two hours in a week. And I wonder how many of
those you have to put in beforeyou could take off like two or three
months straight. Now, of courseeverybody in the company would have to adjust
their schedule so that the company couldstill function all twelve months of the year.

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But in this dream I had,it was like, okay, yeah,
you work nine months and then youget three. Oh wait, you
know what that is. That's calleda school teacher. Now that if you
love to fish, that's not abad profession. I just thought about that.
Let me go talk to Aaron.What's up, Aaron? Ay,
good morning from Roswell. How areyou doing. I'm doing Roswell. When

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you're going out there to put upa warehouse, an area fifty four whatever
it is, just driving through itwas thirty thirty nine this morning. Man,
Yeah, just as as whitney asit was yesterday's as still as it
is today. Are you driving rightnow? Oh? Yes, sir.
Well here's the deal. I wantto point out the example of how quiet

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your truck is versus some of theones that I get. It's just like
you're sitting in the school. Wow. Yes, like you're sitting in a
living room somewhere. What's on yourmind? Man? Well, we talked
briefly about about doing some marland fishing, and uh, if you had a
year, how would you prepare physicallyfor as a forty six year old pan

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to go? Try to go?First of all, I have to try
to remember being a forty six yearold man. I would do a lot
of core work, okay, andstrengthen your back and your stomach and your
legs. Your arms are only reallythere to kind of just hang onto the
rod. You're gonna be wrapped inif you're if you're doing it right,
you're gonna be strapped into the rodand reel and your back is your back

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in your legs or what you'll useto lean back, and then your right
hand is just gonna be to crankon the way down, so you don't
have to, you know, Iwouldn't. It's gonna tax every muscle in
your body, Okay, And ifyou if you hook a decent sized fish,
at least a teenager sized fish,like maybe two fifty three hundred pounds

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somewhere in there, it's gonna workyou hard, and it's gonna work you
for a long time. And Iwould also I do a lot of you
know, the rowing machines. That'sgreat, because that's kind that's basically what
you're doing. You're pushing back andleaning back and trying to get trying to
get that rod up at least straightup to your top of your head or
at least maybe a little bit behindyou even and then crank down like crazy

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to try to get some lineback onthe reel. I would also do some
meditation exercises because what's gonna drive youcrazy is that fish is gonna take that
first run. And like I sentyou in the email, the very first
Mordelin I caught had peeled so muchline off the reel when we kind of
finally slowed, and the captain's gonnaspeed the boat up and it's gonna make

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to set the hook and that's gonnamake that line come off the reel even
faster, and you're gonna go crazy. And so they get the hook set
for you real good, and allof a sudden, I'm looking out to
my left and two hundred and fiftythree hundred yards off to my left,
with the line still leaving the reeland going straight behind the boat, this
fish comes up jumping. I said, wow, look at that. There's

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another one over there, and theysaid, no, that's your fish,
Like, oh great, I gottareel all that in. And you'll realize
you're only getting what maybe a footfoot and a half two feet a line
on a crank, and the fishis three hundred yards four hundred yards out,
So you know it's gonna take along time, and you're gonna get

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a lot of that line back,and you're gonna start feeling really good and
you're keeping the pressure on the fish, and then out of nowhere, it's
just gonna say, and now I'llbe back in a minute, and it's
gonna run off about another hundred yardson you. And all that work you
did and all that effort you putinto getting most of the line back on
the reel just gone gone, Sobe ready for I would have thought to

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exercise the corb. That makes alot of sense. So yeah, yeah,
you're gonna need your stomach, andyou're gonna need your back. You're
gonna need all of that. Andagain you can you can take your hand
off the rod and because you're gonnabe strapped into it and it's gonna be
locked into that gimbal at the baseof the chair, and you can kind
of take that left hand off therod if you want to to rest yourself

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a little bit. But just rememberevery minute that you rest is a minute
that fish is resting. And you'rein a fight with something that outweighs you
two three times, and it's allmuscle. That's muscle and bill and gills
and stomach and that's it. Well, yeah, I do. Oh,
I hope you get the chance.I really do. Man, It's it's

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just such an experience, and there'ssuch amazing fish. They really are.
It's just it's it's impossible to describethe excitement of catching your first marlin,
especially a blue marlin. Yeah,he punched out on me. He's driving
trying to focus. I hope Ididn't talk him. And there's no way.
I talked him out of it.I've talked to him enough times to

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know he's committed and he wants thisto happen. Yeah, just I would
prepare because the time the first oneI caught, I could barely move my
arms after it was finally tagged.And I don't know if we tagged that
fish. I think we just cuthim loose. We may tag him,
I don't remember. But the guywho was the captain of the boat,
a guy named Mike Canino what it'scalled Abercadabra, came out of Galveston Forever,

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and Mike congratulated me, and hehanded me a bottle of champagne,
and I reached for it with myleft arm, the one I'm tanded,
and it just happens, that's that'sa arm you got on the on the
rod. And I'd been working sohard to pull that rod toward me with
that arm that my forearm and myshoulder were so spent. I when I

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grabbed that bottle of champagne and helet go, I had to throw my
right hand underneath it or I wouldhave dropped it because I had nothing,
nothing left in my left hand,no strength whatsoever. It was just pretty
cool stuff. A lot of fun. Yeah, that was I had some
great trips with him on that boat. All right, we're gonna take a

(01:10:36):
break here on the way back.When we get back, I'm gonna shift
gears and talk about something that youguys may not have thought about. That's
entering. It's entering the whole world, and it definitely is going to impact
outdoors life and fun and all thatgood stuff. We'll be back in a
minute. The Dog Pike Show onSports Talk This sport Stock seven ninety,

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Houston Sports Online at sports seven ninetydot com. Back back to the Doug
Fike Show. Trailer for sale,rent rooms to late fifty cents, no
phone, no pool, no pits. I ain't gotten no cigarets of but

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two hours of pushing room biser,but twelve four bid room Mama man,
who wouldn't be no one's fine?But I could sing all the lyrics to
King of the Road. I heardthat song so many times growing up,
so many times. It was superhot on the radio for quite some time,

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and um my parents would have theradio on and listening the AM radio.
By the way, pardon me speakingof while I'm thinking about it,
there's this move afoot by several automakersto take AM radios out of vehicles,

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their cars, and their trucks,and there's no real reason for it except
that I honestly don't know they've comeup with. I think the electric car
makers are clamoring over some interference orsomething with their batteries. I have no
idea what it is, but itmakes no sense at all to be taking

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AM radios out of cars, becausethat is especially in an emergency. Never
mind just the value of the programmingthat we get on AM radio across the
country. I'm not just I'm notpatting myself on the back. I'm just
I'm one of thousands of people whohave talk shows on AM radios. But
in an emergency, when the poweris out at your house and you're trying

(01:12:54):
to figure out what the heck's goingon, you can at least go to
your car, which you filled upright before the storm, because that's what
you do, and you can turnit on for a few minutes, listen
to say, for example, KTRHand get a storm update, a real
live storm update, not something onyour phone. Oops, because your phone's

(01:13:14):
out of power because you've been outof power in your house for twelve hours,
so the phone goes down, thehouse is down. You can't ask
Alexa anything, but you can goto that AM radio in your car and
you can get the current information.You can get up to date information even
if your radio or your phone isworking. You're gonna get text messages.
What good are they? They're oldnews by the time you get them,

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as a rule, and what youneed is right now stuff. Where can
I go to get some gasoline?Where can I go where's a grocery store
open? Where can I get somebottled water? When is this crazy storm
gonna be finished? All of thatyou can get through live feed of AM
radio in your car, no matterwhat's going on with the electricity in your

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neighborhood or your block or wherever.Here's how you put a stop to all
at text the letters AM to fivetwo eight eight six, and from wherever
you are, wherever you are registeredto vote, I guess it is,
or maybe your address that's on thatphone. That's the representatives in Congress who

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are going to receive your request forthem to not let this happen. AM.
It's very simple. I did it, and the next day I got
responses from my representatives in Congress.AM. Just text those two letters am
to five two eight eight six,five to eight eight six. It's just

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that simple. Coming up in thenine. By the way, we're gonna
talk to Chris Dornan from up thereat the Inspirity Invitational on the TPC course
in the Woodlands. Free general admission, by the way, which I think
it's nice. I think that's that'sone of the things that really appeals to
me about that tournament. They don'ttry to they don't try to get you
for anything walking in the door,and it's such a good close up experience

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too. It's so much fun tobe able to you can walk a little
closer to these people. You canthe players I'm talking about, you can.
They'll they'll walk over toward the ropesas they go up holes a lot
of times depending on who they areand wear their position, but they'll walk
around there and joke a little bitwith people and make it. It's just
more fun and it's a more relatablegame for most of us than what the

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PGA Tour players are doing. Theseguys have, they've made their money.
They're just out there enjoying a gamethat they truly love and and their attitudes
typically reflect that. It's pretty fascinating. Anyway, I wanted to get into
in this segment artificial intelligence, Adam, I know you're familiar with that.

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Does anything about artificial intelligence scare youor bother you at present? Oh?
Yeah, definitely. Have you seenall these videos of people like getting celebrities
to say stuff? Yeah, yeah, yep. And the problem with that
is that it puts words in people'smouths in video that is so accurately done

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that you can't really tell whether ornot that person said it. You can
the photograph. The photography is spoton. Now it's almost virtually impossible to
distinguish between an AI image and areal image, and the same with the
video. There was an example ofthat done on America's Got Talent. Two

(01:16:42):
guys used AI to create a videoof Simon Cowell's singing a song that he
didn't sing, He couldn't have sung, but in his own voice and in
perfect pitch on this video he didit. So where does that play into
the outdoors. Well, let's saylet's say you're a fishing guide and you

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want to be known as the guywho catches a big fish every day.
Well, you can start creating videosthat make it look like you catch a
big fish every day, or abunch of big fish. You can do
that with deer hunting. There's anyanything you can imagine with artificial intelligence can
be brought to life if you will. And there's a scary side of it

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too, honestly, and I'll justkind of make sure all of you are
aware. For example, if youanswer your phone now and say, who's
calling? Why are you bothering meat this number? What's the deal?
Why don't you just call somebody else? If you call, If somebody calls
you and they have their equipment hookedup with AI, they can record that

(01:17:56):
part of your voice and then useit to create eight an audio of any
words they want to type onto acomputer being said in your voice. And
it's already being used to to fakeout parents, to scam parents into believing
that a son or daughter has beenkidnapped. It's been used to say,

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for example, you know, yourbanker gets a call that sounds exactly like
you saying, Hey, I needyou to move some money over here to
this, that or the other,and all of a sudden, your bank
account looks a little different. It'svery scary for people in my business for

(01:18:41):
obvious reasons. Holy cow, whatam I supposed to do? My voice
is out there all the time.I gotta be super careful. Hey Brandon,
what's up? Man? Hey Doug, good morning. How are y'all
this morning? Great? Thank you? Adam's great to Yeah, get I
like go Adam anyway. I justwant to say, speak on what you're
talking about. Artificial intelligence? Whatis uh? What is it? What

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is it called? Again? Right? Artificial intelligence? Right? So what
is what is a definition? Iwould like for the younger generation to look
up what does artificial mean in theWebster dictionary? And it shouldn't be artific.
I mean, it shouldn't be intelligence. It should be stupidity. Because
the reason the reason why I saythat is because I was born and raising

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the outdoors. And if you're not, if you don't have any common sense
at all, then you're I mean, you have no way of getting around
life. If you just accept somethingfor what somebody says, well, then
you know it's not intelligence. Youhave to have common sense. And that's
that's really I mean, that's that'swhat That's the reason kids there need to

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be born and raising the outdoors becauseit teaches them common sense and they have
to know how to navigate life.It's going to be very That's the reason
I love to outdoors. I do. I mean a kid needs to learn
to fish hunt, just I meanventure out on his own and just to
learn things on his own. Therewas a lot of research doing about ten

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or probably about fifteen twenty years agoactually now on the differences even in test
scores of kids who are raised aroundthe outdoors, the differences in their understanding
that they're part of something bigger thanthemselves, and in every measure, in
every metric, kids who were raisedto appreciate and respect the outdoors and enjoy

(01:20:30):
the outdoors did better even on standardizedtest scores, which is pretty impressive.
Man. Yeah, buddy, andthat's God. God put that in their
heart. There you go, that'sthe way God wired them this. Indeed,
thank you, Adam or Brandon.I appreciate that. Man, All
right, cool about it, yes, sir, Yeah, that's the outdoors

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is important. The problem with AIis that it makes it virtually impossible for
you in me at least, Idon't. I'm sure that somebody in a
forensic lab somewhere could determine the differencebetween AI and reality and video or in
a photograph, but you and Iwon't be able to tell the difference.
And that just opens up a hugecan of stuff that could be used against

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anybody. Imagine if a video ofyou showed up, of you doing something
outrageous or outright illegal, and allof a sudden, it looks like you,
it sounds like you, but youknow it's not you. You didn't
do that. That's what artificial intelligencehas the potential to do. And that's

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why some of the people who arein that field are saying, enough is
enough. We need to stop untilwe can We need to stop the development
of this until we can make surethat it can be monitored and distinguished from
reality, because if we cross thatline, it gets kind of gets kind
of wonky and weird. Let's justsay that. Tell you what to do.

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Here, I am going to tellyou about the boatyard. The boatyard
is down and came one. Yeah, I believe that's right. One.
You go down there, you takea look around, and what you're gonna
find is a tremendous selection of boats. What you're gonna find is a fantastic
bunch of people who would like nothingfive eighteen. That's what it was.

(01:22:23):
I knew that what I said waswrong. It's eighteen. They have new
and pre owned boats. They havea tremendous service department that can do just
about anything anywhere for your boats.You want to an accessory on there,
you want to an electronic put overhere instead of over there where it traditionally
might go, or some sort ofyou want your trolling motor mounted differently,

(01:22:47):
they'll do that. They'll work withyou to make sure that you get your
boat looking the way you want itto, with what you want on it.
None of these guys for several yearsnow and everybody else sent down there
has given them a rave start.When you walk in and say, hey,
where's JT starting there? Find JT, tell him I sent you down
there, and then tell him whatyou're looking for. Whether you want to

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buy a boat, you want tosell a boat, you want new outboard
power. They've got to Hotsu outboardsdown there, all the way up to
two hundred and fifty horsepower. Ifyou're not familiar with the Tahatsu name,
it is it's been known around theworld for a long long time. They're
working their way into North America nowand doing a bang up job of it.
Actually, you'll start seeing more ofthose out there the boatyard. Go

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tell them, I said, hello, Go grab a few things, talk
to them about what you want todo with your boat, talk to them
about what kind of boat will suityou best, and you'll walk out of
there with a big old smile onyour face. I can promise you that
Eagles Boatyard dot com is a website. Eagles Boatyard dot com. We are

(01:23:53):
sport Stock seven ninety. Are youready listen online at sportsnet dot com now
or Doug Fike an eight team footteam. It took the little trip along
with Colonel Jackson, down the body, missus soup. We took the little
Beacon. Then it took the littlebeans, and they caught the bloody British
in the town in New Orleans.Send a British trip. There was videas.

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There was another one. Adam evenknows the words. How do you
know the words of this song?Uh? You know listening to Willie's Roadhouse
grew up in the South. Ohyeah, that one's been around a long
time. Man. That's kind ofweird and creepy. Didn't we have we
had somebody on the phone. Ithought, oh well, Dennis, Yeah,
okay, cool. Dennis waged inlistening on AM right now when I

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was talking about this effort, forall the effort being undertaken, not about
to come. It's it's happening.Some of the carmakers are going to yank
AM radios out of cars and that'sjust such a not good idea. Adam
and I were talking about AI overthe break and he let me know that
that same kind of a ploy waseven even launched on his own und telling

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that story, is it okay?Yeah? Problem? Yeah. So his
mom gets a call in the nighttimesays, hey, it's me. What
was the scenario they put up?I think like I was in an accident.
Yeah, it wasn't my fault,but I got arrested and needed money.
Wired? Oh wow, wired yeahme with you know quotation marks.

(01:25:30):
Sure. Yeah. And the onlyreason she was saved from having to endure
that that level of stress, endurethat worry over her son is because he
was upstairs asleep at the time.So like, hang up and just no.
And now, like I told him, it bothers me. It concerns

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me for his generation. On theone hand, because they're going to grow
up not being able to trust anythingthey see or hear unless it's right in
front of them. Imagine how awkwardthat makes navigating the world. Somebody calls
you, somebody you've known for twentyyears calls you and says they need money,

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and now you don't know if it'sreal. And if it's real and
you don't respond, then they're stuckand in big trouble. If it's not
real and you do respond, thenyou're out hundreds, if not thousands of
dollars. That's kind of tough,and it's it's gonna bleed into the into
the world of outdoors too. Allthese tournaments that are going to photography.

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Now you got to take pictures ofthe fish you catch on the measuring board.
Well, so you got the rightcomputer on board, you can take
a picture of the six hundred poundblue marlin you caught an off. It's
bio and nobody will be the wiser. You won't be able to distinguish it
from reality. That's kind of crazy. That's real crazy. Seven one three

(01:27:00):
to five seven ninety Email Medugpike atiHeartMedia dot com. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, this is exactly right.Billy Stoker weighed in on River Plantation.
The reason that a lot of peopleweren't aware that it had reopened and
I had forgotten about this is thatoriginally had three nines, and Billy reminds

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me that the nine you can seefrom the highway has been closed. The
other two nines a little hidden byall the trees up there toward Conrow,
are up and running and fun toplay. That's a that's a pretty tight
little golf course right there. Now, that's a pretty tight little golf course.

(01:27:44):
Also a good one though, sevenone, three, and Billy all
the way down. He's a gemdown at bay Forest, by the way.
He knows his way around. He'sbeen at a lot of other good
clubs. He's landed at Bay Forest. I think it was about maybe I'm
gonna guess three years ago, Billy, if you're still listening, I gotta
be curious if I can get aresponse from you. Hopefully it'll be you
and not AI emailing me. Now, good heavens, when are we going

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to figure out how to navigate allthat garbage? Rick weight in Oh,
he's out, yeah, feeding stillpretty windy and cool. The weather has
not changed much since we went onthe air. Let me run back over
here and I'll get some I wantto get an update on the wind,
the live wind, because it's beenkind of crazy. I'm gonna need to

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update this site and lean in alittle bit. That's the noise you hear
is me having to move this microphoneso I can get in here and see.
Yeah, still still twenty five milesan hour at the North Jetty.
Still twenty five miles an hour atPalashus. Still thirty well, yeah,
thirty one miles an hour. Thatis down actually at Port O'Connor and that

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little station. I don't know whatit is about that station. It's got
more west in it. Seventeen milesan hour in Matagordon, twenty three at
Port Ransas Offshore. That northwest flowis a smooth thirty one and thirty three
where I've got reporting stations. Andthen there's one out in the middle of

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the Gulf of Mexico somewhere at GardenBanks. Yeah, sixty eight is the
number on that spot, five milesan hour out of the west. I
bet my buddy Joe would much preferto be dealing with that wind and whatever
wind he's got. I wonder ifthey're on their bicycles yet. They probably
leave at nine, That's what I'mguessing. So they're strapping on those leotards
and ready to rock. You better. I would have an aerodynamic suit and

(01:29:39):
helmet on. I wonder if itwould be cheating to ride an electric bike
to Austin. Also wonder how manytimes you'd have to stop and recharge that
battery, especially into a blazing headwind. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety. Email me Dougpike atiHeartMedia dot com. Let's go talk to
Frank, shall we what's up?Frank? Uh? Yeah, I was.

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I got my little grandson. Iwant to take him fishing. Yeah
cool? And uh, I was. I brought him in a little three
or three zip code he set up. How old is he? Uh?
Ten? Oh cool? Yeah,he's perfect for that. H That's a
good set up for him. AndI put a little slip clock on it.
Yeah, you know. And Uh, I was trying to find a

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place to know where I might actuallycatch a fish. I was thinking about
going to task the seat the spotthere are I would I'm not a north
side guy. I'm all the waydown on the southwest side in sugar Land,
so up there, I'm not reallysure whereabouts are you, and I'll
try and get somebody in the audienceto give us a spot. You just

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want to go catch anything, isthat right? Yeah? I just want
to get him started. You know, if you catch one, then I'm
making one of them do again.Oh yeah, I mean yeah, yeah.
I'll gotta tell you what I'll do. I'll get you an idea overall,
and then we'll see if we canfind somebody that can narrow it down.
Find any place where you can goand park and walk over to a

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body of water that's been there awhile. And before you leave, do
what I used to do with myson every time i'd go fishing for catfish,
is take a can of corn,dump the water off of it,
pour it in a zip lock bag, put some vanilla extract in there.
Take that to where you're gonna fish, zip it all up, keep it
nice and tight. You don't wantto spill in the car, although it'd

(01:31:31):
be nice and smelling delicious. Anyway, when you get there, take a
handful of that stuff before you rigup your rods. You got you gotta
find something that'll burn about ten minutesa time, okay, maybe fifteen.
So take a handful of that cornand throw it out in front of you
as far as you can throw it, maybe at second handful, and chum
the heck out of that space,and within twenty thirty minutes, for sure,

(01:31:57):
there are gonna be whatever catfish orin that lake are gonna be on
that corn. And then you candrop in something under that slip cork that'll
sit maybe if it's if it's onthe bottom, it's fine. If it's
a little off the bottom, allthe better. But that's been the and
perchill eat that stuff. Most carpwill eat it. I caught a friend
of mine, one of my friend'ssons, I took with my son once

(01:32:21):
caught about a I don't know,a ten or twelve pound carp on one
kernel of corn. So that's that'sa good go to bait to catch just
about anything. But chum it up. Use that corn scattered out there.
It's it's cheap, you know,Take two cans, take one big can
of it, chum the heck outof it, and never a catfish there
will be there. Okay. Iwas like close to the uh Greenspoint area,

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Okay, so I was I wasthinking maybe the closest is probably uh
the sea, maybe breathe that either, you know, I don't know.
I got Well, there's there's gottabe some just local even new neighborhoods water
that you can find. I'll throwthis out to the audience, see if
they can help us. I gottatake this break at the top though,

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And if I do get somebody onwho's got a spot to recommend for you,
we'll get you there. But don'tdon't spend all day driving. Just
get him on the water as fastas you can and throw that corn out
there, and if there's a fishwithin a hundred yards, he'll be on
it. Hey, I appreciate you, man a weak up every Saturday morning
with MC coffee City and listening tofishing. I don't get to go fishing

(01:33:34):
and regular as some of the otherguys you boast, but I don't even
right now, so I can stilllisten at you and maybe one day somebody
will say something to Wack and say, oh, I'm heading over there.
I'm going fishing. We're gonna findyou a spot. We'll find you a
spot. Don't worry. Thanks Frank, all right, do it. Yeah
you too, Audios. All right, we're gonna take a little break here.

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We'll be right back and we're gonnatalk to you. If you got
a place for him to go,let me know. In a couple of
minutes, we're gonna get Chris Dornanon the phone from up at the Inspirity
Invitational, Adam, when you callhim, let him know. I'm gonna
take Robert's call first, and thenwe'll go to him, and then that's
it. We'll be back. Thisis the Doug Pike Show, brought to
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by taking Vegas dot com or twentyyears helping sports investors make better, more
informed decisions. Now here's Doug Pike. All right, nine o'clock hour starts
now nine oh five officially on SportsTalk seven ninety. Thank you all so
much for listening. As promised,I'm gonna go talk to Robert, and
then once we're done with Robert braggingabout the fishy call last night, then

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I'm gonna go talk to Chris Dornanfrom up there at the Inspirity Invitational.
Robert Mornan my man. How'd itgo? Man? Y'all get you got
him last night, didn't you?Well? You know, I hit a
couple of slots. First of all, real quick, I want to hey,
if your buddy Frank is still listening, you let him know that to
give you a call back. Andanytime he wants to come down to Galvison,

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look me up him up, allright, geting my info and I
look him up. So second,yeah, man, I just wanted to
Uh, it was really cool yesterday. I just wanted to get out there
and fish because I knew the weatherwas going to be changing. And yeah,
and I'm like, you know itwas. It was gustin good southeast
winds. I mean, man,it was probably at least fifteen sixteen.

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Some them came out manasily and I'mlike, I'm just gonna throw them out
there, so U But yeah,I caught them two slots right right against
them rocks, and I figured.I figured, I was like, hey,
yeah, that winds pushing any baitthat's around, it's just pushing them
up right into those rocks. Uh. You know. Unfortunately, no other
big bites after that, but youknow, it was just interesting to like

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kind of be out there first long. I mean I was out there about
four hours because by the time Ishut out about eight eight fifteen. It
was just interesting to like really seethe winds laid down and then you can
see that storm was a coming andhow things were just going to start changing.
And I was like, you knowagain, I mean I wouldn't really
catch him much, but just tobe out there and see the elements and
how everything's changing it. Yeah,so kind of kind of the bites and

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all that, and I'm like,no, it's ay again, like we've
talked about for a while, justkind of fine tuned that game and seeing
what works and whatever. But thelearning experience, Yeah, good for you
man, that's awesome to better Ihave any more pictures for you yesterday.
But hey, like I said,at least I got some bites. Yes
you did, all right, Hey, thanks good, great to hear from
you. All right, as promise, I want to go now. I

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want to click this and get himon the phone. I might even kind
even just sticking around if we don'tfinish what we're gonna do. Chris Dornan,
how is the Inspirity Invitational doing?How much water the track get last
night? Not much. I wouldhope. No. Actually, you know
it rained obviously. I guess itwas around nine o'clock ago. I started
roaring in and we had prepared forit. Actually, yesterday morning you knew

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it was coming, and so youknow, original tea times were still see
at seven thirty this morning, anduh, you know, tour officials made
the call yesterday afternoon that we're goingto bump things back to nine twenty day
and go off to the tea.So we're ready for it, no,
no damage. You're both to beup here in ten minutes and we're ready
to rock and roll. A bigday out here. Fingers crawl, Yeah,

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you got a big day out there. How's the leaderboard looking? What
do you like on it? Whatdo you see that tells you anything about
who's going to win this thing?Well, I don't know about who's gonna
win, but I'll tell you thistournament a tournament director's dream of what the
leaderboard looked like yesterday. You got, you know, a little a little
mix of young and all of you, you know, are our favorite texting

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and new rookie on the PGA TourChampions Justin Leonard climbing to the top of
the leaderboard for the first time andin his rookie season, and and then
you know, called Montgomery probably havingone of the rounds of his season moves
over the last couple of years.You know, yeah, he was you
know, he was seven underbringing ateighteen and the shot on um. And

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then you know, you mix thatin with Steven Alker, who's our defending
champion, throwing a six hundred aswell. So you know, when David
Thomas isn't far away. He's thenumber one ranked player on tour this year.
So um, it's shaped up tobe to be a great week.
You know, going through the leaderboard, I'm like, my god, there's
not one, you know, oneguy there that is not a big name.

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But that's what happens when you knowwe've got the top thirty in the
world in the field. Yeah,and frankly, every pretty much everybody on
that tour. If if anybody's beenwatching golfer enjoying the tournaments on TV every
now and then, everybody's a bigname. They have already made their names
in golf, and it's fun togo watch these guys because they can still
play. That's one hundred percent,right, you know, anywhere a reoccurring

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to emails here this week is adiscussion around the hardest thing to do out
here is to get on the tourand stay on it. Um, you
know, it's it's obviously a verylaid back social tour, but I can
tell you these guys they can stillplay and they're you know, once you
put the pa in the ground,they're they're also competitive for sure. Yeah,
buddy, talk about having Anica andand that crew out there. Oh

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gosh, it's you know, it'sso great every year to have have the
greats of golf out here. We'vegot you know, sixteen legends of the
game, including Anica and Anthy Lopez, Julie Angster, Jack, Gary Lee,
Um, Dave Stockton's out here.So you know, they came in
Thursday. We had our annual PlayersDinner Thursday evening, which is what's hosted
by you know, Houston Zone JimNantum. You know, it was a

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really nice evening and um, youknow, they did an outing yesterday and
then today they come over and takecenter stage here at the Woodland Country Club.
They'll be putting the tea in theground around I guess there'll be around
two o'clock this afternoon and they'll playthey'll play nine holes off the back night.
So it's going to be a greatafternoon. You know. The cool
thing is when and where else canyou come and watch the greatest names in

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the game of any sport for free. And so we've got free admission all
weekend. We just want people tocome in and enjoy this great opportunity to
see the best players in the world. Talk about Jim Nance winning the Dave
Mar Award, I can't think ofanything anybody more deserving. Certainly, Yeah,
it was so cool. You know. Brighton Augle, our executive director

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of the tournament, I guess itwas about thirteen years ago. He partnered
with Dave Mar junior on. Davemah Senior was a mentor of Brian's and
he wants to do something to recognizeand honor him. And so year after
year, for the last thirteen years, we've always recognized someone in the game
let's you know, exemplifies the traitsof the late Dave Mar and you know,

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honest, the integrity, sportsmanship,and so Jim Nance has been part
of that ceremony year after year forover the last decade. And so we
were preparing with him this year,and he actually thought the award was going
to Marco Mara. Oh wow,And so we announced it as little he
was bringing Marco Mera up on stage. Oh that's awesome. Mark. Yeah.

(01:41:10):
Mark takes the podium and then heshifts the whole presentation and so you
know, it's it's rareness to seesomeone so smooth as Jim nance get caught
off guard. But he was absolutelyfloored, and his sister was in the
crowd, and it was it wasjust such a wonderful evening to to be
able to honor him and you know, talking about sort of where it all

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began for him, right here andHeaston on a local radio station and he
was talking to the other night justhis first guest was actually Dave Marr and
so it was really cool how itall came full circle. Boy, that
is fantastic. That really is neatAnd what a great group to come watch
this one. The first two namesyou mentioned, by the way, Anica
and Nancy. I had the opportunityto interview both of them. Um,

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I may have told you the storyabout an I could just walk it up.
Happened to be at the same placeI was doing a live broadcast down
in Florida years ago, and shejust came walking up and sat down.
I had asked if if we couldget her, but I didn't even know
as I went on the air.And then she comes up to the parking
lot and I see her walking upthe sidewalk. I thought, wow,
maybe she'll maybe she'll stay high orsomething. And she just came in,

(01:42:19):
plopped down and sat with me forprobably ten fifteen minutes. I don't know.
It's fantastic. And then Nancy Upezhere. I got to interview her
over at river Oaks Country Club.I don't recall why she was even in
town at the time, it doesn'tmatter, but I had twenty thirty minutes
with her. It's fantastic. Yeah, great, too generous with their time.

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They are one of four people,and you know, I think it's
just so cool to be around someonelike Nancy Lopeuse. Yeah, just so
much for the for the women's gameand going to win the game. And
then you know, a new generationwith with Autica coming in and she's got
a young girl's clinic. Actually she'ssticking around here the whole weekend. She's
going to do a Young girls aclinic with with young girls out here on

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the driving range and they're going towatch the final round together. And that's
really what it's all about. It'syou know, it's it's that's the cool
thing about this Champions Tour. It'sthis blend of you know, honoring and
um having to the opportunity to seeyou know, the Gates, the greats
of the game or in the backgroundof their careers, but you know,
sort of rekindle those old memories thatwe all have. But then sure,

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you know, parking ruins and inspiringthe next generation to come up. And
they're so social and they they're graciouswith their time and um. So that's
actually think it's such a special tourto be able to blend thost of those
two things together. No question.They really do exemplify why I and and
so you and so many other peopletry to bring young people into golf because

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it is something you can play yourwhole life. It's something you can do
to meet people to advance your career. If you want to look at it
as a business resource, it's kindof hard to talk about a big business
deal from opposite sides of botennis court. Let's face it, you know and
well, yeah, you think abouthow this whole thing, this whole event

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started twenty like we're in our twentiethanniversary. Yeah, it all started twenty
years ago. Was John Mahaffey,you know, a PJA tour pro here
living in the Womnthum, just kindof having this idea of maybe we should
have an event here, you know, and just having initial conversations with you
know, business executives of Asperity andBrian Nougle and the PJA Tour, and

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you know, he's got one ofthe most successful traditions of actual taking place
in the community. So holy cantwhat have we done? Yeah, we
actually had John yesterday. We hada little a little nice opening ceremony on
the first te and we had Johnhit the opening t ball and kick things
off here from local connection. Allright, So today and tomorrow free general

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admission you can get in. There'ssome upgrades you can do too, but
the free general mission is such asuch a wonderful thing that Inspiity has offered
for I don't know how many yearsyou'll have done that now, but it's
it's great. It's really an opportunity. Yeah. I think actually where it
goes back to was Hurricane Nink thatyou know, weeks or her just shortly
before the tournament. And I thinkin two thousand and eight when they,

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you know, the economy kind oftook a bit of a tank, and
um, you know, Insparity waslike, you know, we need to
help people out and give them theopportunity to come out and enjoy entertainment in
their own community for free. Um, as a result of everything that community
the economy was going through. Andthen they're like, you know what,
let's let's keep this going. Andfifty years later, here we are that

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year after year Insparity wood Forest andHew Packer, they they provide free admission.
And so I don't know, I'vebeen to a lot of golf events
across North America and this is theonly one I know of that's that's free
admission. So especially good opportunity.All right, sir, Well, next
time I need a long hitting,straightly and left hander, I'm gonna give

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you a call. Left gosh,we outnumbered. We outnumbered the right handers
in our group, didn't we Therewas only three of us. Pretty awesome?
Yeah, all right, Chris,thanks for telling man. I'm hoping
to get up there, but it'sgonna be close. I got some family

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stuff going on I got to dealwith. But I may call you back
tomorrow morning. We'll see what theleaderboard looks like. Then no problem at
all. Appreciate the Spartan you bet, thanks, Chris see man. Yeah,
that's Chris Dornan. He's one ofthe better media people in golf and
has been at it a long time. If you couldn't tell in his accent,

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he's got a little Canadian in hisbackground. And um, like I
said, a long hitting left hander, he's pretty comfortable and strong off the
tea and he helped our team,no question about it. It was a
boost. I'm still left handed,but I don't hit it that far anymore.
Timber Creek another good place to playgolf. We're gonna go all the
way from the north side down toTimber Creek on the south side FM twenty

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three fifty one in Friendswood, whereyou will find twenty seven really fun,
really interesting holes. Timber Creek isset up to where if you stay there
on the tea box and just giveyourself a minute to think as a golfer,
you'll realize where you're supposed to hityour t shots. So whether you
hit it there or not, it'sup to you. And if you're not

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hitting it there, check in atthe Timber Creek Golf Club Academy run by
guy named David Pilsner who kind ofsort of knows what he's doing. He
and his staffle knock whatever issues arein your swing out of your swing,
get you hitting it straighter again.Great food, great people all the way
around, and with those twenty sevenholes, they can get a lot of
people out in the morning. Soeven if you wanted to run down there

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right now, I would suspect thatby the time you hit a bucket of
practice balls to loosen up, it'dbe your turn to go off on one
of the two tea boxes they usedto get everybody started in the morning.
Great place a lot of on FMtwenty three fifty one, about three miles
west of the Golf Freeway. AsI mentioned, timber Creek Golf Club dot
Com is a website timber Creek GolfClub dot Com. Your rockets and astros

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live here. We are Sports Talkseven ninety. The conversation continues, this
is the Doug Pike Show seeping outof Timbo Keep song on the radio.
Keep lookin twenty two on Sports Talkseven ninety Adam, that is the freakiest

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thing I've never heard of. Poppingyour sternum. We were I was in
here moving around and stretching and crackingthings that I didn't even know could crack.
It goes, I can crack muststern them. No way, you
can't do that, and he said, yeah, and there you go.
It pops. Really, it justkind of pops. Yeah. It feels
so good too, like, waybetter than cracking your knuckle. Is there
anything cracking your knuckles doesn't feel?Although I have one. Once again,

(01:49:24):
when you get old, life playsthese cruel tricks on you. After playing
golf or hitting a lot of balls, my left handle kind of tighten up
some and one of the knuckles isarthritic enough that it'll just say no,
I'm not going any farther than that. And as I start to bend it,
it gets a little more painful,a little more painful, and then

(01:49:45):
pop and it's back to normal.Which is not normal because it, like
I showed you on the camera,the knuckles of the two hands in my
left hand don't go all the wayto the pads of my fingers. Which
the only issue with that. Ican still grip a golf club the same
I can still a baseball bat.Any of that, I can still grip

(01:50:06):
it like I always have. However, when I'm tying knots with fishing line,
I didn't realize how important those twolittle finger to pad connections was,
And now I've had to come upwith new ways to tie and cinch my

(01:50:27):
knots, my fishing knots because ofthat. So every time we do the
show, I learned about some newthing that's going on with your hands.
Oh yeah, my hands are sobeat up. Yeah, I dislocated pretty
much every finger. My son willcome in and say, oh Dad,
I kind of dislocated or not dislocated, but sprayed one of my fingers,
And I'll just show him my handsand like, why doesn't anything go in

(01:50:49):
the same direction. And I've knownguys whose hands are way worse than mine,
mostly football players, acts NFL players, former NFL players. You find
yourself some former NFL lineman and askthem, ask to see their hands,
and it'll just look like just thishodgepodge. Of First of all, most
of them have hands about the sizeof catcher's mits and then the fingers just

(01:51:13):
all go in different directions, becausethose guys back in the day, back
when I was growing up, ifyou dislocated a finger in a football game,
you just taped it to the nextfinger and went right back in the
game. Now they're going to beon the ir for two weeks because they
got a hangnail when they were gettingtheir manicure. And yes, someone not
so much in football really as inother sports, but some of these i'll

(01:51:40):
wrap it U quote injuries that takepeople out for a week two weeks.
The one that kind of made megiggle the most about how soft some of
these guys had gotten was a springtraining injury that took out a player years
ago, and the reason giving orhis neck discomfort, The reason they gave

(01:52:02):
was that he had slept on hispillow wrong and he was out for like
a week recovering from that. Dude, take some ibuprofen and pick up your
glove and get on the field.I'll never understand how you get out of
work because you slept on your pillowincorrectly. That's soft some of these folks.

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Seven one three, two one twofive seven nine. Email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot Com. I amso thrilled that I am. Now see
first, let me check email beforeI go into this. Okay, that's
a news alert. You already knowabout that. Oh wait, m this
is in the Houston area. Somethingelse going on? Good heavens. Okay,

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Okay, I'll get to that later. I'll check with Nikki on that
and see if I need to sayanything about it. I probably don't.
I'll rick wait in for Frank ona fishing spot. Frank, I hope
you're still listening. I really do, grab your grandson and taking to Burrows
Park br R O U G hS Park Public Access, County owned.

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And I'm sure that if you usethat vanilla soaked corn, there will be
some catfish in there that would morethan be willing to come over and gobble
it up along with the baits thatyou put on your hooks. That corn
thing. You don't necessarily have touse little bitty hooks either, just because
you're using a kernel of corn.All depends on the size of the fish

(01:53:36):
you want to catch, and ifyour eyeballs are set on seeing one and
a half to maybe three pound catfishor one pound of three pound catfish the
last time I did that, Iactually went to a three ought kale or
collie, depend on what you wantto call it. I call it kale
khl e. That little thing thatlooks kind of like a boomerang hook.

(01:54:00):
You put two kernels of corn onthe end of that thing, and even
though it's pretty big, those catfishwill just snap it right up. And
yeah, go to Burrows Park,chum a spot, pat yourself, a
nice spot along the shoreline somewhere.And the bonus right now is actually those
catfish are still kind of up onthe shorelines. They're doing a lot of

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eating, they're doing a lot ofother things on those shorelines, and it
makes it a lot easier to catchthem because they're just moving around. And
I'm experiencing that still with little eighthspinner baits. If you go to a
bigger spinner bait and the catfish areon those shorelines and eating them up.
The problem is that their mouths don'treally enable them. Like a bad bass

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opens that mouth up, and adecent sized bash you could drop at least
a baseball into, and maybe abigger bass a softball. But that catfish
has those that horizontal mouth that doesn'topen terribly far, and a lot of
times they'll slam that spinner bait that'sbeen driving me crazy. They'll slam a

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spinner bait and miss it. Thegood news is they're dumb enough to come
back and try to eat it again. I had one fish that I caught
yesterday, so help me. Onecatfish I threw down the shoreline. I'm
bringing it back and bam, Iget this hard hit and then nothing.
Oh that's a catfish, because thiswas an eighth pound spinner bait, even

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a half a pound. Bask andmanage to find a hook on that.
I'll throw right back down the samepath. Bam, he hits it again,
misses it. Make a couple ofmore casts from different angles, the
fish doesn't eat. I wait,I cast it in a different direction,
four or five casts, maybe nothinghappened. Go right back to that very
same spot where that fish had been. Bam, he finally got the hook.

(01:55:48):
He finally found the point, andthat fish was about a solid two
pounds. But yeah, that corn. The one and only time that I
tried corn in that particular lake,I ended up catching nine fish in twelve
minutes and said, yeah, thisis working pretty good. I just I
left them. There was no reasonto stick around. They were biden all

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right. On the way out ofhere, I'll tell you about American Shooting
Centers, which is the place thatI and my son go when we go
shoot. He's been out there withhis buddies before and dads and whatnot.
Fantastic place. It's owned by aguy named Eda Riggy who bought the place
several years ago now, and essentiallyhe wanted to make it easier and more

(01:56:33):
enjoyable while maintaining the safety of ashooting range, which you certainly have to
do, especially when you're running thelargest non military shooting facility in Texas.
They have three sporting clay's courses.They have five stands setups all over the
place. They have trapp and skeetfields. They have a beginner's wing shooting

(01:56:53):
area. The pistol range starts atfive yards, which is home home protection
range, and goes out for therifles all the way to six hundred yards.
There's even a little rim Fire twentytwo range, which is a lot
of fun. These little pop upmetal targets out there all the way to
two hundred and fifty yards. We'llsee how good you really are with that

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twenty two years? A fun place, also a very safe place. And
if you're not hitting the target likeyou want, if you're not breaking enough
clays and around a sporting plays,get some instruction. They have professional instructors
in any shooting discipline you would liketo pursue. American Shooting Centers are on
West Timer Parkway between Katie and Highwaysix. Very easy to find online too

(01:57:39):
at American Shooting Centers dot Com.American Shooting Centers dot Com are sports dot
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here seven one three, two onetwo five seven nine email me Doug Pike
and iHeartMedia dot com. Rounding thirdand heading home in the Doug Pike Show
this morning, it's nine thirty.We'll be out of here at ten.
It's been an interesting morning. Iwant to go now to the PGA Tour
and what's going on down there atthe Mexico Open. I need to put

(01:58:35):
my glasses back on where they go. It's so difficult to read this tiny
tiny Gotta lean in gotta lean inTony fen Now having himself a heck of
a time down there at the MexicoOpen, he at thirteen underpars through two
rounds, a sixty five and asixty four. That is solid history says

(01:59:02):
that he may not do that againtoday. The average result for somebody who's
just put up two rounds in themid sixties is gonna be at even par
or so. But if anybody canpull it off, who knows, Feenale
might just run away with it andgo lower today. Eric Mounroyan Brandon wo

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at twelve under par, easily withinstriking distance and still on a Saturday morning,
not out of it by any means. I would have to put the
eights in the nines nine under par, Andrew Putnam, Will Gordon, Eric
Cole, Austin Smotherman, and AshkabeBatilla. The eights, there's only three

(01:59:47):
of them, Jimmy Walker, CameronChamp, Ben Martin, and now John
Rom's back there lurking six shots offthat thirteen under par lead at seven.
But nonetheless, somebody like Rom,it'd be kind of hard to, kind
of hard to just dismiss him outof pocket. Bow Hustler in that same

(02:00:10):
bunch at seven Trevor were below RoolParretta, and then the sixes go on
from there. I'm looking for notableswho might have the firepower to jump up
from farther back. But I'm nothonestly finding anybody whose name jumps off the
page at me as someone who couldshoot a sixty three today and really light

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it up. Low score for thefirst round, by the way, if
I can get it. Oh,it doesn't want to load. Why does
it not want to do that forme? It doesn't want to do it?
Not my problem? Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety
Email me dugpikeet iHeartMedia dot com.The PGA Tour totally revamped its its website

(02:00:54):
and now there's some features that won'tnecessarily work as well as others. Round
round one, No, it won't. It won't. Let me look at
the low score for round one,unfortunately, and I don't know why.
All right, moving forward? Healso down at the Mexico Open. I
believe this was in Thursday's round,and I got tickled by it. There

(02:01:15):
was a video that came out likeholy count and one of the headlines on
one of the stories relative to thisoh, hold on, we got something
more, far more important than whatI was about to tell you. Kevin's
got something I want to get toright now. Hey Kevin, what's up?
Man? Hey? How you doing? Does? I'm great? Thank
you? Yeah? Um, nextweekend, I know you. Frank called

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in earlier. By it. Kid. We got a kid fish event that's
coming up down at Freeport. Okay, it's a Port Freeport's twenty third annual
take a Child Fishing Eventum. Theyhave the Municipal Park there in Freeport.
It's the dead end of the oldBrass River where they diverted the river channel.

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Yeah. Okay, And it costsa ken good eye them for the
kids to get in. Every kidthat comes and fishes it gets a T
shirt with the logo design for thatyear's event, as well as a backpack
goodie bag that's got all kinds ofdifferent things in it, everything from like
take measures to um hats and differenttowels and fishing essentials we call it.

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And then um, they fish fromnine to eleven. That point they do
provide the dead shrimp form to fishwith waterful and eleven o'clock they sound a
horn and everybody, all the kidscome around and get in line, and
I'm up on the stage weighing theirfish for them, and they get a
lanyard with the number on it.As they're standing in line, they call

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out numbers and they have about twohundred door prizes they give away to the
kids, everything rods and reels,landing nets, tackle boxes, to snow
cone machines, ice creams, makea fully cow. I want one of
those lanyards. Man, I wantin on that deal. It's a it's
a really great event. And thenonce I weigh the fish for the kids.

(02:03:01):
Phyllis Sataf who's the port director.She's up there on the stage with
a microphone and she interviews each oneof the ships. It's a great event.
What kind of turnout do you get? Oh, it's it's pretty generally,
pretty amazing, numb anywhere from twoto three fifty. Oh my word,
that's fair. To two different agecategories. Um, they've got a

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Blue Fin which is a younger kidsfrom three to eight, and I think
Yellow Finn is nine to fourteen,all right, And they compete for first
prize in each each of the twodifferent categories. Is a Dell laptop with
a printer. Dang man. Secondprize is a two hundred dollars gift card.
In third places one hundred dollars giftcard. You guys aren't playing around,

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are you. Yeah. It's areally good event. And the kids
can keep up to thirty fish Ithink it twenty five or thirty fish per
kidd. I'll take like a floatrolland whenever they and the most of the
that they're catching are like piggy perchand curs and stuff, they'll put them
in the in the floatrolls and ifthey catch more than they're twenty five,

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then they start culing and go back, get the littlest little piggie out of
there. And every now and thenyou'll see one that'll catch a drum or
a flounder, yeah, something likethat. But mostly it's a little bunch
of little pan fish. But it'sall right for stack up Holy cow.
Yeah. For a lot of kids, it's their first time to day ever
even experienced fishing. Good way toget them outdoors, yeah it is.

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Do you ever chill that little shorelinethey use? You know what? They
they've got so many kids out therethat are throwing shrimp in there. You
don't have to. That's a goodpoint. Yeah, they're coming anyway,
aren't they. Yeah. I've seenkids catch drum that we're in the forty
inch range. It's shame they catchone like that though, that they've got
to throw it back because it's notin the limit. That's right. And

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we do do here to all TexasSparks and Wildlife regulationships. Yep, that's
what you gotta do, teacher,right, Can you send me something on
that. I will doug the registrationfor us at eight o'clock there at the
Pavilion and Municipal Park and then theystart fishing right there over the Levey from
there around nine o'clock, nine toeleven. Got to grind it out,

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man, get hooks in the waterlines. In nine o'clock, let's go.
Yeah, yeah, please, thankthank youre harybuddy audios. Wow,
two hundred to three hundred and fiftykids sitting along and bank fishing with dead
shrimp. Who knows what's going toswim through that gauntlet? Man? Oh

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man, Yeah, I bet theydo get some interesting catches. It's a
snapshot of everything in the Gulf ofMexico. Basically, what a fantastic event.
I'm glad I did that back tothe I'll tell you what not quite
yet, back to the Mexico Openit be done to. What we'll do
is take this last break of theprogram, and then when we come back,

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I'm gonna tell you about an outdoorsexperience that these guys had at that
tournament. If you haven't heard aboutit yet, that it's sort of exposed
that not many, not all ofthem at least on this tour, are
familiar with the outdoors. Because theirreaction to something that's very common and harmless

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really was something to see on video. I'll leave it at that. On
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The conversation continues. This is theDoug Pike showing night. Ye love
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on Sports Talk seven ninety. Acouple of things going on. I'll tell
you about the incident down there inMexico, and then I'll correct something I
actually said earlier in the program abouta breaking news story. And I realized
something that I didn't know before andI haven't seen. I don't know that
I've got any emails on it.Let me check real quick to make sure.

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No no no, no, nono no, okay, oh wow,
that's interesting from Captain Scott. I'dforgotten he said something about this the
other day. I'll get back tothat in a second. First of all,
down at the Mexico Open this week, I think it was on Thursday,
there's video of the passing across thegolf course of a huge swarm of

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bees, honey bees, just followingthe Queen. It's moving day for them.
They're moving from wherever they were towherever she decides to set up shop.
Hopefully not in the eve of someone's house, has happened to my
neighbor across the street many many yearsago. But nonetheless, this entire swarm,

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a whole hive of honeybees, thousandsupon thousands of them, is passing
across the golf course. And thevideo is of foursome maybe it's probably a
threesome of players and their caddies andmaybe some official or whatever, all of

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them. But one person, asthese bees moved through there hits the ground
as though they were trying to crawlacross some battlefield and we're being strafed by
machine gun fire. They're just honeybees. They're just moving. They're not vicious

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Africanized bees, and they were justthey were just going from point A to
point B. I actually had.There was one guy all in that group,
but one guy flat planed out onthe ground like they're trying to melt
into the grass. One guy takesa knee and just watches. He's just

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cool, as cool as a cucumber. I had actually happened to me at
Oakhurst, actually David Preisler's place upon the north Side, years and years
ago. I was up there fora charity event and I don't even remember
which hole we were on, butwhichever hole it was, All of a
sudden, you could just hear youstart hearing this year, Wait, what

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is that? And then you lookup and there goes a bee and another
bee, and another bee and anotherbee. In thousands of bees all of
a sudden are just blowing through wherewe are, And we just kind of
parked the cart, sat there andlet them fly around us, through us
whatever. Didn't bother them. Theydidn't bother us, but I certainly I

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didn't even It didn't even dawn onme to prone out on the ground at
that time. Just oh, they'rejust changing locations. And that's that's when
you understand nature, when you understandthe difference between something that's attacking you and
something that's just moving through. It'spretty cool to watch. Really. There

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was one headline about that said whatwas it? Let me see if I've
got it still on here. Ihad it somewhere. Oh it's on the
other page. Yeah. Headline said, um attacked. It said attacked by
bees? Like no, that didn't. Never happened, all right. The

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story I need to correct is theone I said talked about earlier about the
shooting of five people in Cleveland.When Nicki Courtney told me about it,
my presumption was that was that itwas Cleveland, Ohio. In fact,
it was Cleveland, Texas, rightup the road, right up fifty nine
from us. And it is anabsolutely horrific event, There's no question about
that. And I have words justI'm almost at a loss for words.

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I could either I could either justlet you know that I've corrected it now,
or I could go on for hoursabout my position on this. And
it always will be that the problemwe have is not with the guns.
It's it's with mental health in thiscountry, and in this case, apparently
apparently and allegedly, but there yougo, a pretty high level of intoxication

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was involved and this guy just wentoff and decided that he didn't want to
be complained about, and and justabsolutely ruined the lives of a whole lot
of people. And it's it's verysad, very sad. Here's somebody else
who was calling. Let's see forFrank as guy who called asked for Yeah,
that was Frank, good, good, good, good good good and

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good and good awesome. Okay,yeah it was Frank. You got that,
Adam, that's from you. Heck, so who's number? Oh yeah,
we'll talk when we finish. I'llfigure it out. That's not a
problem now, Captain Scott weighed inabout the AI issue. Not just a

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voice you have to worry about.Listen to this, said a friend who
writes for a local fishing magazine,Short on time with the deadline sun visiting,
showing the AI writing app doesn't matterwho it was, I don't know,
and I'm not even gonna tell youwhat the subject of the story was
because then it might wrap the guyout. But holy cow, artificial intelligence
basically, and this is going tobe a really frighteningly common occurrence now in

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education. The young people are goingto use AI to write their term papers.
Because this guy was able to throwin a couple of keywords, even
on fishing, and the computer spitout a full full, a full story,

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AI, Captain Scott points out,and I would have to agree,
is straight up plagiarism. That's notgoing to get caught. That's not going
to get caught. The only wayit might get caught is if two people.
And it would be easier in educationto get caught than in real life,
because in education AI has to catchup with dozens, if not hundreds

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of students in some cases wanting apaper on the exact same schedule or the
zac same subject and typing in thesame keywords. That could happen, and
if it does, shame on them. They should be doing their own work
anyway. Yeah, that's sure goingto be a game changer, no question
about it. Sure you're going tobe a game changer. Almost out of

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time, what we got like threeminutes adam yea or so I have.
I'm so thrilled that we finally andI don't know why it was on hiatus
for a while, but I'm finallyreceiving again the Parks and Wildlife Departments game
warden Field notes, which are alwaysvery interesting, and it just it's kind

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of a snapshot into their world andhow many weird and bizarre things they look
at. For example, says here, patrolling a popular lake for nighttime hunting
violations, mcclellant mcclennan County game wardensfound an illegal bonfire on a dead end
roadway with a large group of underagesubjects consuming alcoholic beverages before making contact.

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And you young people who are underage and have some little secret spot out
in the middle of nowhere that yougo to have your bonfire and drink your
beer, let it be known thatthese wardens, before they went and contacted
these kids, actually snuck up andstayed in the darkness and overheard some rather
interesting conversations, one of which wasa couple of guys talking about a hunting

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incident that was illegal. And sowhen they finally walked up with all these
kids, who I'm sure most ofthem just scattered to the four wins,
but they did pull these two kidsaside and asked them a couple of more
questions, and turns out they hadkilled a buck, a whitetailed buck illegally
with a twenty two with a twentytwo at night off a public road,

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not supposed to do that. Noneof those three things works. They identified
three subjects, suspects they call them. Found the whitetail buck carks dumped in
a large culvert pipe with its antlersremoved and cases file charges pending. And
that's gonna stack up, Oh my, that's gonna stack up to a pretty

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high fine for those kids. Familiesdon't do stupid stuff. And I know
almost every teenager out there will doso I'm stupid between then and the time
they realize how stupid it was.But just try to Let's try to meet
it out. Let's just let's justmeet in the middle somewhere. Okay.
I want all of you to livelong, happy, wonderful, enjoyable lives

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in the outdoors, to get todo everything you want to do. So
just keep yourself out of trouble,keep your nose clean, get outside,
have some fun, and remember thatyou're part of something bigger and you need
to take care of that bigger thing. Get outside, have some fun with
your family. Today it's going tobe a beautiful day again, and for
the next several at least three orfour of them. Anyway, that's it

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for me. I'll be back tomorrow. At eight o'clock. Thanks for listening. Audios