The Doug Pike Show 4-14-2024

Doug talks hunting, fishing, and especially golf as Doug goes over stats and results from The Masters PGA. Later, Doug talks about photography in nature and during tournaments, and gives tips and advice for those looking to go into the field.

Episode Transcript

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All right, let's see if wecan get this show on the road on
this Sunday, another beautiful day aroundhere. It's going to be a beautiful
day over in Augusta as well.As they wrap up the fourth round of
the of the Masters. Hold on, let me get seated here, ah,
get a little more comfortable, andtry and figure out why when I

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walk over here and have my laptopmouse in my pocket, it opens up.
I don't know, there's probably thirtyor forty new windows opened up here.
I'm gonna try to get to thebottom of them real quick. I'm
not the best in the world atall this stuff, I'll confess to that.
But I do try technology, andI get along very well. I

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predate the four function calculator, andso I didn't grow up with all the
luxury of computation and cell phones thathave more computing power than what got us
to the Moon and back basically,but I embrace it, I really do.
And I think I hang in therepretty well going to the Masters.

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Speaking of, let me get back, see if I can get back over
here and squint and read the screen. And I want to just go over
the leaderboard briefly and give you acouple of ideas of my own. Oh
yeah, I've already asked for itonce, so I know I can find
it again there. It is solooking at what they at where everybody finished

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up yesterday, it's a pretty pardonme. So I'm stuck in my throat
this morning. A pretty solid leaderboardand there's a nice little knot at the
top. I talked about this yesterday, both on the air and off the
air with some friends, about howI would love to come into the back

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nine today in the fourth round ofthis Masters with four or five, maybe
six guys all bundled up and bunchedup and really having to have him to
sweat it out. I don't wantsomebody ahead by eight and just hitting six
irons off the tee and just nubbingit up there anywhere within a mile.

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I want some drama. I wantsomebody to have to play. And you
can't. You can't ignore at allthe play that Scotty Shuffler's had so far.
He has. He overcame yesterday adversityat ten and eleven. He was,
he was humming along pretty good.He had to be feeling pretty good
as well. And then Augusta saidme, we're gonna bring you back down

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on nach here. Scottie goes toten double bogie, goes to eleven bogies,
and then at fifteen makes an eagleto kind of right the ship a
little bit. Ends up shooting oneunder par yesterday, one of only I
want to say, two, maybethree rounds under par for the entire field.

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Well, there's see he mari kala, there's a berg. Excuse me.
There were more than part of me, more than three, but maybe
a half a dozen something like that. It wasn't very many people who shot
under party yesterday. The wind becamea factor late in the afternoon, a
little bit more, not like Thursdayand Friday, but it still was a
factor. And all of that's gonnaplay into today. There are actually Scotty

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Scheffer only has a one shot lead. He's at seven, More Cows at
six, Max Homer at five,and then Oberg and Deshamba at four and
three respectively. Anybody farther out thanthat. Xander Schaffey said two. But
I don't know that. I don'tknow that the guys in front of him

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are gonna give up enough ground.There's five guys in front of him.
Every one of whom is playing lightsout on a very difficult golf course.
It's only two people who can keepScotty Scheffler from winning the Master today,
Masters today, winning another green jacketfor his collection. That would be Meredith,
his wife, and the baby.Those two are expecting pretty much any

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minute from this point forward. Andhe made it really clear to everybody yesterday,
including Meredith. He said he's they'vehad this talk one hundred times that
if she goes into labor while he'splaying this round today, he goes into
a car and high tails it towherever she is. I tell you what
if golf, if golf needed somebodyto step into Jack Nicholas's shoes, because

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if you watched him on Thursday whenhe teed off amongst Player and Watson and
oh gosh, oh, I'm almostembarrassed. I can't remember who the other
person is at there in any event, when they did their Master's kickoff.
Nicholas doesn't look that good. He'sslowing down, and he has had an

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amazing life and career, and whatevertime we have left with him at the
helm kind of a professional golf inthis country, more power to him.
I want him there as long ashe can hang around. But at some
point somebody's gonna have to step intothose shoes, and they may not do
it really well. But the guyI look at is being able to do

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it better than anybody at this point, as both a person and an athlete.
That's the important part. As aperson and an athlete. Scotty Scheffler
might be our guy. Jordan Speithlooked like he might be that guy for
a few years, about eight orten years ago, but his star didn't

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shining as brightly as it was thesedays. So Scotti's is number one in
the world fifty four hole leader atthe Masters, and he's let everybody know
he's going to walk off the golfcourse at Augusta National if he gets that
call. So let me play dough. I didn't see Dave up there.
When I get back, I'm gonnaplay Devil's advocate and propose a scenario which

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a lot of people are doing it. It's not unique to me. I
didn't think this up even, butit's pretty interesting. Hold on a second,
let me get over here, dothat. What's up? Dave?
Hey, Hey, let me thinkyou another Let me paint you another picture.
I'm sitting out here in front ofthe hotel. There's a whole big
better roads. I stopped to smellthe roses. And I'm sitting there looking

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at one low, one lowly fishermanout there, and he's working that rod.
He's he's working a point like youknow, probably or a drop off.
It looks like, yeah, youknow, so he's been working that
usk. Yeah, you see oneguy and you think he's lonesome. He
might be out there alone deliberately.Did you ever did that ever cross your

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mind? He might have. Hemight have left his cell phone at home
accident. We'll wrap accidentally in quotes. He might have. He might have
told him he was going to Livingstonand showed up at Conroll. He there's
no telling why he's out there byhimself. But I'll bet you if you
got binoculars, he got a littlesmile on his face. Hey, hey,
he's working at Oh he's casting andworking. He's working all around that

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point. Hey. Yeah, youknow. At my niece's wedding last night,
Oh it was wonderful, man,I mean we had a we had
a big time. My three otherthree brothers were there and my cousin that
we all played in the Man forforty one years. They had a dish
jockey and he did very very well. Uh, there was a pole.
Oh, there's a there's some kindof hawk for I think that's a bald

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eagle. Could be. There's abunch of somebody there. Yeah, well
he's lucky here he's going with thatnew station. Well anyway, but then
there was a bunch of state andworld class fiddlers there and they set us
all at the same table. Imaginethat. Oh yeah, so you know

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what, he didn't even play.We didn't play nothing. We just had
a good iron, sipped on afew rooms and ate some tacos. If
they had if they hadn't seated youall at the same table, you'd have
just been hollering back and forth ateach other all night long. Anyway,
we're all seeing each other at theend of this month, and that's gonna

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be a great deal. Had agreat posting and a great that's another kind
of a charity for the nice lumbers, all stuff like that. Fantastic You
know that that that Paul he's he'sswooping down around here and there. Man,
Oh yeah, he's looking for something. Oh and I see some mother
birds going too all right, that'sin the in the clouds are going low
and real slow from the east tothe west. All right, that's my

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report for today. Thanks Dave,I'll see all right, there's Dave weighing
in from up and north. Soso back to mine, my devil's advocate.
Play here. What if Scott he'stwo shots clear this afternoon on eight
ten, He's already hit his tshot down the middle, and he has

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stuffed an iron to about twenty feetand he's walking to the green and everybody's
clapping and cheering and hooray. He'sgot it right where he wants it,
and whoever's chasing him is in thebunker or is finished and can't do anything
about it, and the phone rings. You still think he leaves or do

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you think he They've got some sortof secret arrangement between them that if it's
close, if it's close, ifhe gets that call on the fourth hole,
I don't blame him one bit forchecking out. But if he gets
that call when he's halfway down eighteenand he doesn't finish, I won't.

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I won't knock him for it,because that's between him and his wife.
But starting with his agent and goingdown the list, there's a lot of
people, a lot of people whowould hope that he might just say five
minutes, five minutes is all it'sgonna take, and maybe he jogs on

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down to the green and three puttsand grabs the jacket later. But it
would be interesting. And I hopeit doesn't happen. I really do,
because either way, if he doesend up getting that call today, if
he leaves to be with his wife, I admire him for that. If
he's close to the end and theyhave some secret agreement about letting him finish

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up, then more power to him. And they don't ever have to share
that with anybody. They don't.It's they don't owe any of us anything
about their family life, their personallives. So hats off to Scottie.
Whichever way it works out, Ido believe he's the guy to beat today.
It's gonna be tough on the golfcourse. All the wind they've had

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this week is gonna have those greenseven harder than yesterday, which is gonna
make it at least six or eightpins really tough to find. There aren't
gonna be any easy birdies out there. I don't think today Barr is gonna
be a good skill score on prettymuch every hole. The guy who wins
this tournament is good. They've beenthey've all been driving the ball pretty well.

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The guy's up in the lead anyway. They're hitting fairways, and that
first cut of rough isn't exactly it'snot jail, So they've got that working
for him. From the tee towardthe green. And if they can just
find spots on those greens where theballs will hold and keep the ball on
the green and allow themselves to puttfor birdie the most times and maybe sneak

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a couple of them in there closeaccidentally, that's who's gonna win it.
Somebody who can chip and putt isThey're gonna end up off a lot of
greens today, There's no question,no question about it. More Kala,
he's not out of it by anymeans. He's playing really well. He's
only one shot back, Max Homerjust two shots back. I got a
lot of my friends who liked himearly, and then Deshambeau. If he

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can get out of his own way, and if it's if it's anybody farther
down, maybe Shaffley, Maybe Idon't know, but that's a lot.
That's a steep hill to climb.If you're Xander Shaffley at two under and
you've got five guys ahead of you, it's it's gonna be hard. It
would be very hard for him tojump over the talent that's in front of

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him. Probably need I'm guessing,whoever's gonna win this thing will need to
be about too clear of the fieldat the turn to have any level of
comfort whatsoever. And that wouldn't bemuch if it were, say Shaffley,
if he's at eight in the closestperson out, by some miracle, he

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shoots six under on the front.That's not happening. I don't see that
at all. But if it wereto happen, and Scheffler had had a
stumble and he was at six andmore cows that I might put some money
on Shawffley to finish it off.But it's still gonna be hard. I
think the I think the winner comesout of the first two two or the

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last two pairings to go out,and that if if that's right, if
I'm right, eliminates to Shambo,and it eliminates Homer. It eliminates both
those two guys. Because they're inthe third group. They are in the
third group. It's Scheffler and moreKala Homa. Not I didn't mean Homa.

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I meant Oberg. Scheffler and moreKawa, Homa and Oberg. Those
are the first four. Then toShambau, Shawfley, Davis and Hoyguard And
no, no, there's nothing.I don't see anybody there doing anything to
kick those five or six or sevenguys out of their way. Seven one
three two five seven ninety. Emailme Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

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Yeah, we've got a fun mastersthis afternoon, and oh boy away not
a bad day to be fishing aroundhere. If that's what you want to
do, let me get us outof here to this first break of the
program. By the way, Evanis hanging in there for Adam. Where
did Adam go today? Do weknow? Man? I wish they told
me these things. Ia. He'sjust mia huh headache. Probably, you

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know. Sometimes sometimes Saturday night justgets in the way of Sunday morning.
Sorry, I don't know where heis. I'm sure he's doing something important.
Carter's Country offers two concealed carry classesper month. There's a Saturday class,
and then two weeks later it isa Sunday class, and then two
weeks later another Saturday, then twoweeks later another Sunday. You can check

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the website to find out exactly whatrotation they're on right now. And if
you would like to have that peaceof mind, that comfort level that comes
with having that card in your wallet, and what it does is it lets
laud if you ever get pulled overfor speeding, rent through a stop sign,
accidentally, whatever, If you handthem that car with your driver's license,

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they already know you're kind of somebodywho's been vetted very closely, and
everybody the tension in that situation comesdown almost immediately. Carter's Country does those
courses. In the classroom session,you learn about the legality of carrying and
or using your weapon, and thenfor the proficiency test, all you have

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to do is basically hit a pieceof poster board at twenty yards and if
that sounds difficult to you, beforeyou take your class, get a couple
of lessons. All of these classestake place at the Treshwig Store, which
also happens to have a five starrange out there. You can do all
the shooting disciplines out there, includingsomething at twenty yards looks like a poster

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board. If you poke a coupleholes in that, you're ready to go
into the classroom, get all yourknowledge, and then come back outside and
take care of your proficiency test.Carter's Country's also got a fantastic online presence
now that they've been working on andimproving pretty much since the Internet came along.
They got in fairly early. Notthey weren't the first to the party,

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but they certainly have expanded their internetpresence and their online shopping presence to
make it very easy to find anythingyou need, which is gunsmo and hunting
stuff. That's what Carter's Country's beendoing for sixty plus years, and they're
still doing it really, really well. Carterscountry dot Com is a website.
Check out the stores. Check outthe website. Carterscountry dot Com. Been

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here trying to get mine my paperworkin order. This somebody keeps coming in
here and moving everything, and itmakes it very difficult to come in and
make a kind of a smooth transfer. But I think I'm okay now seven
three two one two five seven ninety. I'm gonna take a quick look and
make sure I haven't missed a lotof emails. I'm sure I've missed some.

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Let's see, we're okay, there, we're okay. Oh that's all.
Oh. Oh, I'm in thewrong box. Change that up right
away. Now I'm in the wrongtab. All these things are just so
in my way. Okay. Isee a couple of need to take care
of, and I've got a couplefrom our news director. There's always news,

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breaking news. I saw something veryinteresting, by the way, and
it doesn't really have much to doat all with golf for the outdoors,
unless a lot of the places you'regoing seem crowded, pardon me. And
it's a story about this little looselytriangular shaped area that's being called the Texaplex.

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It's kind of Houston, Dallas,Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio
and all points in between within thatboundary, and it's just gonna keep on
growing. So if you don't likelots of people, you might want to
you might want to start packing.Here's here's the deal. Here's why it

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seems so crowded when you're trying todrive to the beach, you're trying to
drive to the lake, even ortrying to drive to the hill country wherever
we go. Whenever it is withthe exclusion, I'll I'll throw out of
Maybe early Sunday morning when I'm onthe way in here, it's not too
crowded on the freeway. Typically onfifty nine. Just yesterday, I was

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trying to take my son someplace atabout I don't know, six o'clock six
thirty, about six thirty actually ona Friday afternoon. It should have been,
and this was inbound on fifty nine. It should have been kind of
lightening up, and I'd make acorner and look up to the freeway and
it is stopped, like a holycow, what happened? And there was

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a six or seven car pile upright at Bissonet, and for some reason,
people at least one car to sayto do something stupid, and then
four or five more of them couldn'treact to it because they were too close.
There aren't many mornings when I driveinto here that I don't get passed
by somebody going one hundred, andusually it's I get two or three of

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those before I ever get to work. So anyway, that the triangle,
if you think it's getting bigger andheavier. Consider these little facts. And
I'm just telling you for when you'retrying to figure out how long it's gonna
take you to get to where youwant to go fishing or play golf today,
where do I start? In twentytwenty last time we had a census
taken and that's man, that's fouryears and a lot of people coming in

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here legally, illegally and everything else. Just in the Texas Triangle twenty one
million people. Five of the twentylargest cities in this country are the boundaries
of what we're talking about here.I just mentioned them, saying or Dallas,
Austin, Houston at that five ofthe twenty largest cities in the whole

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country. Houston has a bigger populationpop Quiz, Evan, are you ready?
How many states states have smaller populationsthan Houston? We have fifty states
in the United States of America.How many of them all together, in
their entire state have fewer people thanHouston has? And oh, were you

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listening Evan for Texas temperature? Ohoh, okay, never mind. Well,
I'll I'll defer that Evan was busydoing something else. So I'll tell
you thirty five Houston not Texas.Houston has a bigger population than Colorado and
thirty four other states. We havethe The state of Texas has the ninth

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largest economy among nations in the world. We have a stronger economy. We
are state economy is two point fourtreeion dollars. That's more than South Korea.
It's more than Russia, it's morethan Australia, and it's more than
Canada. And we have You couldbe proud or not. This is the

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reason we had so many Rangers fansat the games we just played. In
minute made part. There are twelveprofessional sports teams in the Texaplex. Twelve.
That's a lot of people, mana lot of people, a lot
a lot of teams to root for. And if you were one of those.
There was a guy in the suitenext to our iHeart suite on the

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day that two games ago, whenwe we lost so horribly, there was
a guy in the adjacent swe toours who was a die hard Rangers fan
and a big mouth and a pottymouth to the extent that he actually got
called down not once but twice andwas told if he kept it up,

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he was leaving by security. Therewere people in both directions complaining about this
guy, and he just he wasa little deep in his cups and not
he was not able to control hismouth, and his mouth almost got him
in trouble. Seven on three twotwo five seven nine. Email me Doug

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Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Letme take a look over here. Oh
man, I know this is goingto beautiful airon and his crew driving around
since current view fifty miles west ofChaman, New Mexico. Oh wow,
that appears to be a bunch ofprong horns. I can't tell for sure.
Is that prong horns or elk.It's a little bitty picture on a

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little bitty screen for me, andI haven't I can't blow it up right
now, but I'll do that duringthe break. Maybe. Yeah, let's
go ahead and take a break early. We'll do that. Then I'm gonna
go look at those pictures and seewhat he sent me an amazing. It
just reminds me that this city doesn'trepresent what the rest of the country looks
like. And we're kind of gladabout that in a lot of ways.

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But there are a lot of partsof the country that if we said we're
leaving, if they wanted to hopon our shoulders. I'd bring them along
just to be able to go tothose places. Timber Creek's a place I
wouldn't mind going if I was goingto tee it up and play today.
Timber Creek Golf Club down there onFM twenty three fifty one in Forends Wood,
about four miles west of the GolfFreeway, very easy to find,

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twenty seven holes, which helps getpeople out a little faster, helps if
you're trying to run a bigger tournamentthan usual. It's all kinds of advantage
to having that third nine, andthey take full advantage for sure. It's
a great teaching staff down there,the JJ Woods Golf Performance Center at timber
Creek, and they have done afantastic job of updating everything they have in

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there to help make you better.The downside is it takes away some of
your excuses. Maybe you could blamesomething on your poor swings, but if
you're going through the JJ Woods PerformanceCenter, you're gonna get better, and
if you don't, that's on you, not them. Timber Creekgolf Club dot
com. That's the website. Youcan go there and make a tea time

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right now. Get grab a coupleof buddies and go down there. It's
going to be a pretty day forgolf. Timbercreekgolf club dot com, eight
thirty four on Sports Talk seven ninetyThe Doug Pike Show. Thanks for listening.
So I opened up Aaron's email andI took a closer look and realize

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that there's a third photograph. AndI didn't see that when I opened it
up the first time. Even whenI went to full screen, it just
appeared that there were only two fullsized photographs. Now I've seen the third
one and all of those animals backthere in the background that looked either like
ants or grasshoppers in the first photographor elk and elk are one of my

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favorite animals on the whole continent.They really are. They're just magnificent animals.
I've had the opportunity a couple oftimes to hunt them, and the
only successful elkut I've had was atthe at the invitation of Bill Carter when
he bought cotton Mesa up there inColorado years ago, and he and I

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flew up there together in his planeand stopped just at a corner of New
Mexico a little teeny tiny airport thereand then hopped in a suburban and went
on to Cotton Mason. That wasan amazing experience, just an amazing experience.
It was the the it was thebugling season, as it were,

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and to to wake up and goto sleep to the sounds of elk bugling
was just amazing, Just amazing.That ran She's pretty amazing too. If
you've never been and have an opportunityto go, I strongly recommend looking it
up and booking a hunt. There'sall kinds of It's like they're just deer

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on steroids, basically, and theyare incredible animals to hunt. I don't
know that they're as it's hard tosay whether they're as wary as white tails
or more or less wary. They'reso dog one big. I don't think
they're scared of much. If theyhear a bear or smell a bear,

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or maybe a mountain lion, they'llclearly beat feet and try to get out
of the way. But I don'tknow that they're so worried about us.
They don't quite realize it yet.Someday they will. Fascinating animals, so
just absolutely fascinating seven one three twoone two five seven ninety email on me

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Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.I'm not so nearly scerned personally about the
wind over at Augusta as I amabout the wind along the coast for all
of us today. And I'm lookingright now at the live feed and oh,
I got to go talk to Rick. Holy cow, forgot about that.
Sorry about that, Rick, I'mjust rambling on and I look up
and there's a big old green signthat says pick it up. It's Rick.

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What's up, buddy? Hey?Just side note, I went through
Brown this morning and saw for thateighteen waiter went through that DPS offices.
Oh man, that's a mess.That is as anyway sad deal, you
know, if a well to briefanybody who doesn't know some guy who got

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got denied. This is the storyI read. Some guy who got denied
a commercial license a couple of daysago, decided he was going to get
some revenge and just plowed right intothe office that told him no, he
couldn't get his license renewed. Soand there was at least when I saw
an early version, there was onedead and I want to say nine injured.

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And I don't know if that's changedyet, but it's horrible. I
think there's more. Yeah, hestole that truck about two blocks from the
land I have in downtown Chapel Hillleast out. It's the festival going on,
the Blueboney Festival to anybody wants togo. But that's not what I

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called you about. I did aphoto. Sorry, I'm a photo satary
this morning. This is my thirdthis week. I've kind of gotten back
into it by popular demand, anduh yeah. We started with the son.
I gave them a menu. Iinterviewed these people and their experience with
a man and a wife, reallynice folks, their extent. I said,

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how much extent do you have ayou know, photography and you know
in the outdoors And this is aquote, the only wilderness we've ever been
in our life was Memorial Park AndI thought it perfect right up, my,

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that's what that was his words.Yeah, you know, it's just
the way it is. So Ifirst went through with them. The only
thing that concerned me I wanted themto dress properly. Yeah, because I
mean I went over that really goodand oh we didn't know that we'd have

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never brought that brobout. So wegot through that and we got a place
for rendezvous this morning, early atfour, and they were wanting to start
off. I gave them the menuwith you know, sunrise, and I
told them, I said, it'sgonna be perfect because sunrise on a bluebird
sky is prutty, but you know, it's kind of blithe for me.

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I mean, I don't get youknow, I want some clouds or some
haze or something, right, youknow, something that just kind of highlights
that. But anyway, man,they I really got them on it,
and they were so exciting. Butyou know, they're shooting pictures of everything,
all these flowers, and I couldn'thave the heart to tell them they're

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not flyers, they're weeds. Butyeah, they are blooming. And don't
you know what, when somebody's doingthat, just let them shoot everything.
I'm sure I never said a word, you know, and they're pointing and
they're ooing and goo goo and Goddone. So they had this trip plan
and I ain't gonna go all detailsfor what we did after that and what

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we're gonna do later, but uh, they made arrangements to meet some friends
at the restaurant in Chapel Hill andthen they're going to the Blue Moon It
Festival. And I'm out here,uh quotes scouting, and you know,
we saw some deer this morning,and they you know, oh wow,

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look at this. Yeah, we'vegotta be quiet. We got to be
still. And they just d blessthem, you know, God bless them
there. They're out there, butthey are enthusiastic. Yeah, this is
their first experience. I knew anattorney years ago who had never been out
of Manhattan in his life. Hewas born and raised in Manhattan all the

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way to adulthood, never been outof there, hadn't flown anywhere, hadn't
done anything. That's where he lived. And I got to take him onto
the Katie Prairie in the wintertime whenthere were a bajillion ducks and geese out
there, and his jaw never gotreconnected to his mouth. It was hanging
down the whole time we were outthere. It was awesome, you know.

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They they I told him, Isaid, hey, you're learning.
I said, you're learning. Igot I found a box turtle. I
just walked up over. Sure itwas a real box turtle. We see
him up here. I mean,that's not a new time of years.
I've already seen one, but youknow that they were down on the grind.
Bet they took two hundred pictures ofthat little turtle. Well that's good.

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They enjoyed every meeting of it,and that's what the deal is they
you know. I hanswer this pastweek they were a lot more professional and
they had you know, some reallyreally good equipment and they had fun.
But anyway, I just tell you, it's fun to see people experience that
I love. Anyway, how oldare you? I was early fifties.

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Yeah, yeah, and just havingtheir eyes completely open. Downtown people living
midtown, you know all that,and that's awesome and uh real nice.
Anyway, that's all I got.Yeah, I'm to do all that kind
of thing. Sure it is.I'm gonna talk more about that too later.
I'm glad you brought that up.Thank you, Rick. All Right,

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Parter Audios, we got to catchout here. We're gonna go take
a break there. When we comeback, I'm gonna what that I was
telling you about before. Dad,gumm it, Yeah, I got distracted.
I got distracted. That's okay,it'll come back to me, and
if it doesn't, we'll talk aboutwe'll talk about photography, and if that
doesn't work, we're gonna talk aboutin which it should. I got some

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things I want to say about photography, and I've shot a few pictures.
Uh. If it doesn't, we'regonna talk about the sex Temperature game,
because I got to give away sometickets to that. Moody Gardens Fly Fishing
Film Festival. CCA Coastal Conservation Associationgot the early bird hanging out there.
If you want to win an earlyprize by registering or registering early, I

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said, correctly. The twenty twentyfour CCA Texas Star Fishing Tournament coming up,
sponsored by Texas for Dealers, AcademySports and Outdoors and Progressive Insurance.
You get to fish, you getan excuse to fish from Memorial Weekend all
the way to Labor Day for achance to win millions of day prizes and

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scholarships. And if you sign upby May third, there are exclusive early
bird benefits. If you go tothe website you can find out about that.
Don't this is kind of cute.Don't let another early bird catch your
worm. I don't know if they'regiving away worms for that, but be
interesting. Sign up now. It'sa great tournament. It benefits a tremendous

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conservation cause I worked for them forten years as editor of Tide magazine,
very proudly and learned a lot aboutcca. They don't move fast, but
when they do move, it's typicallyin a good direction for the fisheries.
Long term stuff. Long term stuff. That's what their goal has been ever

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since Walter Fonning and a bunch ofguys sat down in a room one time
and said, we need to dosomething about all this redfish netting and trout
netting, and eventually they did.It took a little while, but we're
all better off for it. StarTournament dot or, that's where you go
sign up Star Tournament dot Org.A Piffy on Sports Talk seven ninety The

(35:05):
Dougpike Show, or Evan and there'ssomebody I don't know if somebody pushed a
button on him yesterday. I wonderif Evan, is there any way that
anybody could be in your position andcome in and be kind of goofing around
with the boys late in the afternoonand go, hey, let's set this
up this way. So when hecomes in and pushes that button, this
happens, is that possible. Issomebody messing with you? All right?

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Sure, hope not, Doug.I can I miss myself more than more
than enough. You don't need anyhelp. I don't need any help in
that regard, all right? Sevenone three, two one two five seven
ninety just a few minutes in thissegment. Uh, but I think I
will. I'll go back to thephotography thing. Actually, if we have

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time, let's say we can getsomebody tuned up. Who wants to go.
I've got four packs of tickets apack one package of four tickets to
the Moody Gardens Fly Fishing Film Festival, and I presume it includes both nights.
It better or I'll I'll make itthat way in any event, if
you want to go and you arewilling to play the Texas Temperature game against

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Evan, who's kind of a rookie, you're just kind of a you're like
the I'm trying to think of whichof the astros is like that. You're
like a more cio Dubon. Youcan do anything around here, and you
do it really well. But you'renot just a You're not always on my
show, or you're not always onsomebody else's show, You're just ready to
step in wherever you're needed. Right, Yeah, I'm a team player.

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Appreciate the team player. There yougo seven one three two one two five
seven ninety. You're gonna be playingsolo though here playing against a one.
It's a one on one. It'sa head to head match, kind of
like a chess game. You gotto figure out where the high temperature is,
where the low temperature is. Well, you don't have to figure out
where, you just figure out what, oh is it time for Texas temperature?

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Not yet, not until we geta player on the board. We
got to get somebody who's willing toplay and challenge you. And if it
happens, it happens. If itdoesn't, you and I'll grab a couple
of buddies and go down there.It's it's someone out there that could beat
me, Doug. That may beit. They may be scared. Seven
one three two one two five sevenninety. And I urge you, any

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of you who have ever thought aboutcalling but couldn't remember the number, to
just punch it in your phone,because sooner or later I'm gonna say something
that's gonna get your attention and bugyou or make you want to say,
yeah, Doug, you're right,or you've lost your mind, your way
off base on this one. Anyway, So while we're looking, and that's

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fine. If it's it's not thetime to play, we'll play. Maybe
the next hour or something, I'llfind somebody who wants four tickets to go
to that film festival, and happily, here's here's the deal. Most of
the time when I play a gameon this show, you can't lose.
You're not gonna lose. It's gonnabe okay. I'll find some excuse to
give you the tickets. Whoever wasthe first one there, let's get him

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going. See, that's what happens. There's also this delay on this stuff,
and that's where I get. Iget antsy one guy Lee, nobody
wants to play, and then allof a sudden that just blows up.
So who is it gonna be?Evan? Oh, he's still talking.
I'm gonna go to photography, bythe way, in the top of the

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next out, Well, first I'mgonna go to the Masters. We're gonna
look at the leaderboard kind of figureout when everybody's going and and who we
think is gonna win, and we'llget to all of that in the nine
o'clock hour and go over some ofthe things that happened yesterday that that kind
of got my attention. Brian Lopez, it Brian's Brian my player. Okay,

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let's get him up. Brian.Are you ready to play the game?
Yes, sir? Do you doyou know the rules? Do you
understand how it works? Yeah?Yeah, it's pretty simple. Don't worry,
all right, Evan? To makeit official, you can play the
music now. Evan, is itcalled we'll find out on the Texas Temperature

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Games? Because you're hot yours coldice? All right? I guess we
got That's that's all there is tothis thing, really, all right?
So, oh, Brian, doyou want to go first or last?

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Okay, you'll go last. Evan. What do you think is the current
high temperature? Current high temperature?I'm gonna guess eighty three, eighty three?
Brian, what do you think isthe current high temperature in the state
of Texas. I'm gonna say ninetyfour, ninety four. Good lord,
we'd move close to the sun.Evan, what is the low temperature in

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the state of Texas? Right now? I learned my lesson from last time.
I think I'm gonna go maybe fiftysix. Okay, I'm gonna make
it. Put a number there.I've got to put a number here that
would be hmm, that's that.Okay, Brian, what do you think
is the low temperature in the stateof Texas right now? Let's go with

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the fifty four? Fifty four?You say, okay, Sadly, Brian,
that neither one of you guys exactlymade it to the head of the
class the low temperature. And thereis there's an asterisk by the low because
there's an anomalous station somewhere up onthe Oklahoma border that is perpetually for the

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last six weeks, has been brokenor somebody put the thermometer in a deep
freeze in a restaurant somewhere. Butthe actual low that I could find,
that I believe is fifty four degreesright now, and I checked that it's
forty six, and the actual highis seventy five. So by my calculations,

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Evan had a differentiation of eighteen andBrian, because you said it was
ninety four degrees somewhere in Texas,Oh my god, I wouldn't want to
wake up to that. But inany event you were let's just say you
were a little bit off beyond whatEvan did. However, there are no
losers in the Texas Temperature Game.There are only winners. So Evan is

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gonna get your information. Have youbeen to that Plottition festival yet? I
have not. Oh, it's cool. You're gonna like it. Man,
come up and say hi to mewhen you get down there, and let
me know you made it because youjust again, grab three friends, grab
some family members. Little kids arewelcome. Nobody's gonna be screaming bad words
like the guy at the Astros gamea couple of nights ago was it'll be

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fun man. Yeah, I hopeyou can make it really so man,
oh yeah, my pleasure. Thanksfor playing. All right, let me
put him on hold and make sureI don't drop him. I think I've
got it. Hold. Is thatwhat you're gonna have to do it?
Evan? I can't. It's notworking for me. You got him?
Oh okay't realize that. All right? Well, in any event, there

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you go, Texas Temperature Game.Yeah, there's somewhere up at what hang
on, what is the name ofthat place, Perryton? I think,
yeah, it's at Perryton. Theentire state is in the fifties. I'm
looking to see if there's even anythingin the forties anymore. I just refreshed
it to see if it would change. No, it's now We're up in

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the fifties, mid fifties most ofthe state, and then the high is
in the seventies. Still. Yeah, it's only seventy five. I think
when I first turned this thing onand earlier in the program, every place
else was shown in the mid fortiesto high forties, and then it went
up to whatever I said before,seventy five something like that, but Perryton

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was ten like, No, Perryton'snot ten degrees. And i've last week
I actually confirmed my suspicion that thatparticular reporting station was broken by going to
the temperature map for Oklahoma, andthere was that same ten at Perryton Action.
I guess it sits on the borderor something and surrounded by thirties and

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forties and fifties or not even thirties, but forties and fifties. So somebody's
playing a trick on the people whoput this map together, and they've taken
their official thermometer and shoved it ina deep freeze somewhere, maybe next to
some briskets. Hopefully it's next tosome good delicious barbecue at least seven one,
three, two five seven ninety emailhe doesn't like it. Aheartmedia dot

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Com. Holy cow, we dohave to take this break. When we
get back, we'll take a closerlook at more master stuff, and we
will talk about fishing, and wewill talk about I had a couple of
other things I want to get backto on the way out. I'm going
to tell you about Belleville Meat Market, same place for more than forty years,

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out there in the middle of thelittle town of Belleville. Now they've
expanded. They've actually built a newbuilding about five or six years ago now
to aid them in processing more wildgame during hunting seat And boy, what
a streamlined operation that is. Butwhat they have out there, in addition
every day they have delicious pecan smokedsausages, more than two dozen flavors,

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beef, chicken, and pork cutthe way you want. They have eighty
five to fifteen ground beef at justthree fifty nine a pound when you buy
ten pounds or more. And theydo, of course wild game processing all
year round. You shoot it legally, you bring it to Bellville Meat Market.
They will put it together any wayyou want and package it up and
have it ready for you to go. My plan for all of you is,

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whether you're dropping off wild game orjust driving out there for giggles and
to get some lunch, make alist of what you want to bring home
with you as you drive out there. Take the whole family, load them
up in the minivan, and getgoing right now, it'd be fun time
to get out there. They startserving lunch at ten. Get out there
to Bellville, drop off the meatorder at the meat counter, and then

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go about seven steps to the leftand order your lunches. Go out on
the patio. It's gonna be abeautiful day for that, and then about
the time you finish eating, they'llhave your your big old box of stuff
to take home ready to go.They're on Highway thirty six, about fifteen
minutes north of Sily, maybe fifteeneighteen minutes south of Hempstead. Very easy
to find. There's actually a shortcutof two ninety and just watch for the

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sign as you go out that way. There'll be one of those green signs
with the white lettering it says Belleville, and with an arrow pointing to the
I think you have to exit andthen take a little beautiful winding country road
for about another ten minutes. Itmight it might even be a mile or
two longer. I don't know,but whatever it is, it's a nice

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beautiful drive, especially on a sunny, dry day. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com
is that website serving I would guesspretty much half of Texas for the better
part of forty two years. BellevilleMeetMarket dot Com. Okay, it's not
gonna do it again, is it? Adam, now that's it? Or
Evan, I'm sorry I called youhad them. I guess it's in now
we're even huh sorry about that.In any event, we're back that somebody

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messed with that console. They musthave. They must have, ma'am,
because you're you're shot. You're solidas a rock every time you're in here.
Seven on three two one two fiveseven ninety Email on me, Doug
Pike at iHeartMedia dot Com. Iwas telling Evan uh as as the train
wrecked about that texaplex thing that Iwas talking about earlier. One of the

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one of the other statistics that showedon there is that Texas A and M
University has the highest enrollment of anystudent body in the United States of America.
And Evan, what would you thinkthat number might be, now that
you've had a minute to consider it. Number? Yeah, how many students?

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How many students enrolling in A andM? Uh Man, So I'm
going to say one hundred thousand?Knock well, good lord, no,
not quite that many, but you'reyou're on the right direction. Seventy five
thousand students seventy four eight twenty nine. So go. And I'm sure there's
a couple of whoops whatever how theyhow My wife's an aggie, she could

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tell me how to say it.I think it's just a resounding whoop that
they say when they ever hear theA and M mention there was something something
obnoxious. It's not obnoxious. Don'tsay that, you're gonna get us all
in trouble. Where there was somethingelse also about Oh about the about the

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University of Texas, which happens tobe where did it go? Yeah,
the University of Texas Austin the thirdlargest landowner in the United States. Go
figure that. So hopefully they won'tbe selling off any of our prime land
to anybody who shouldn't have it fingerscrossed. Let's go to the well,

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No, let's go to the masters. There's all kinds of oh, actually
there, Oh, there's some diagram. It looks like it might be Tony
Feen now hitting a te shot.He he positions his ball at at address
kind of where I do, andtilts his spine a little less than I
do to correct a problem that Ihave, and he doesn't on the tee

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well, one of the problems Ihave on the team. In any event,
I'll go back to that leaderboard becauseI want to want to talk about
a little bit from each of thoseguys. Pardon me if I still have
it up, that's gonna be theproblem. Come on, leaderboard, where
are you there? It is ScottieScheffler, and call him Marikala go out
at one thirty five Eastern time,twelve thirty five our time. I honestly

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don't know, and I don't rememberwho it was who told me to watch
out for more Kala on Thursday afternoon. But whoever that was turned out to
be somewhat prophetic. And there theysit, just a stroke between the two
of them. When they go outthey will be chasing Max Homer, chasing

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only physically, not on the scoreboard, but chasing Max Homer and Oberg who
they're at five and four in thirdand fourth place alone, and then Brysonto
Shamba and Zender Shaffley three and twounder par respectively in fifth and a tie
for sixth. As they go out, I honestly, I'm looking down that

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leaderboard farther and farther, trying tofind anybody who could who could come get
them. And there's twelve guys atwon, twelve people under par for the
entire tournament, Scottie Shuffer at seven, and then all the way down to
Cam Young and Cam Smith at one, Ben Hoonan also at one, And

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the bottom line is those guys arejust playing for a little bit more money,
and the money in this tournament,by the way, if you haven't
looked at the purse, the firstthree guys, the first three finishers are
going to make more than a milliondollars and then it incrementally goes down from
there. But even maybe a toptwenty finish pretty significant payday for any of

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these guys, as a major shouldoffer them. But just looking at how
fast and how crazily. The moneyhas exploded. If you've got you got
a teenager at home and he ishis dream of playing in the NFL or
the NBA and working out, andyou can get a golf club in his
hands now or her hands. Eventhe women strikingly the women's side of golf.

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As a quick aside to the masters, not to take anything away from
the masters, but the women's sideof golf is actually getting a tremendously better
pay system going and more money cominginto the persons there. And in addition
to educations for young women who canmake the golf teams at the universities around

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this country, you got a chanceto make a pretty good living, a
very good chance to make a prettygood limiting. It's still nowhere near the
paydays that the men get. Andthat's just it's just an indication of the
differences in the men's and women's gamesand the attraction as for spectators to the

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men's and women's game because the sponsorsthrow the money at these tournaments because they're
gonna get seen by more and moreand more people, and the only thing
that's going to get them seen isthe best product out there. And for
now, at least. The bestproduct, according to the advertisers, is

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the men's game for the average golferwho might want to watch professionals play at
a level that's relatable. I don'tknow a whole lot of guys who are
in my age group who can hitit three twenty. I don't know a
whole lot of guys period who canhit at three twenty. I want to
say the average drive length of golfersin this country is about two hundred and

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thirty yards. Two hundred and fortyyards. Maybe I can still squeeze that
out of three wood. I can'tget it out of much less three iron.
Maybe if it's if I got alittle wind at my back. But
the bottom line is, if youthe women's game is very relatable, and
their club selections and their shot shapesand their ability to spin the ball is

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so much different than that of theprofessionals on the PGA Tour the men's tours
around the world that it's fun towatch the guys play because they just do
stuff with a golf ball that meremortals shouldn't be able to do. And
if you'll watch a lot a lotof the shots that I saw yesterday,

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it was actually interesting because they werehaving to move balls left and right significantly
a lot. There are quite afew drives end up in those trees,
and they've got to go around stuffto get back on the green, and
they're not accustomed really to having todo that. They can all do it,
but what I found interesting was thatmost of the shots that I saw

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that that required that lateral movement didn'tfind the greens. They weren't just they
can if you give them a clearline of sight, they can hit just
about anything, or at least bounceit straight through the green a little bit,
or maybe come up just a littlebit short. But when they start
having to move the ball, ifthere's any flaw, if there's any hiccup

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in the best golf the world's bestgolfers games, it's those left to right,
little low cuts out of the trees, or little hook shots around a
tree, or for whatever reason,they have to move it around something.
And I would have expected more fromthese guys in that regard. But that's

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not a criticism on them. Ithink it's just that they haven't had to
do it in a long time.They hit it so far and they hit
it so straight that they're not accustomedto having to do that, and Augusta
National is forcing them to do itwhether they want to or not. And
it was interesting to watch. Therewere some who was it, I can't
remember who it was, but somebody, somebody had to bend a shot from

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the line there was. It appearedthat there was a straighter line through the
trees then he was. He hadchosen to hit the ball, but for
whatever reasons, he opted not tohit the ball that way. And so
he was starting on the right handside in the rough behind a bunch of
trees, and it appeared that thegreen you could see the green clearly see

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the green, and it was itwas a good forty five degrees off of
the line he was hitting that ball. You had solid forty five degrees off
that line. And he ended upand this is maybe a offer for those
guys, probably in seven or eightiron, probably one hundred and eighty yards
somewhere in there, that he washitting the ball and he moved it,

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not the forty or so yards maybethat he needed to move it, but
probably seventy. He just hit ahalf moon shot and it started way left
and ended up way right down ina collection area. They can move it,
but they I don't think they havethe the touch that say, Alee

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Trevino may have had back in hisday, or somebody who who fancied himself
good at moving the ball left andright. And that was back when ball
spun a whole lot more. Itwas very difficult to keep from overspinning the
ball. Back then you had tobe very careful not to move it too
much. And now they're just inthe opposite situation and they're moving it way

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too much and ended up flying overtheir target and the ball continues to go
away from the hale. At thatpoint, all right, good heavens,
it's already time for a break.I'll do that and try to stay somewhat
on time here. When we getback from this one, I may take
a little dive into photography. Unlesssomebody's got a question about the Masters or
about golf or whatever, be happyto answer it, happy to answer.

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I want to take a look atthe beach. I don't have that yet.
I'll do that. I'll bring thatcamera up during the break and see
what it looks like down there.And in a couple of other places.
I like to check America shooting centerswouldn't be a bad place to be this
morning, especially if you'd like toif you just want to go see what
long range shooting is about. There'sprobably somebody out there. Relatively light,
breeze, relatively cool in the morninghours. That's when those long range guys

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love to shoot in at America andthey can shoot out to six hundred yards
little targets down their full sized targetlooks like a little pinhead down there,
and somehow someway they set themselves up, They load their own amma oh.
They get the finest equipment they canget their hands on, and can can

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punch those targets at six hundred yards. It's a long ways down for US
mortals. The pistol range starts atfive yards and goes out to You can
take it out to three hundred easilythere in two hundred, one hundred and
fifty, and then it creeps rightback into that five yards, which is
pretty much home defense stuff. Thereare three sporting places, courses at least

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ten trap and skeet fields, fivestands, setups, a beginner's wing shooting
area, a pop up silhouette range. It is all there and all in
a very safe controlled environment thanks toowner at Arigi. When he took it
over, he made sure that thesafety aspects of that place were unparalleled anywhere

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in the country. It's the largestshooting facility in the entire state of Texas.
It's non military. You have tohave bigger places to fire some of
the stuff the military fires, butfor us mere civilians, that's the biggest
range in Texas, and it's alot of fun to shoot there. They've
got fine guns and Ammo, theyhave got optics, they have got everything
you need, and plenty of instructionif you want that as well. American

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Shootingcenters dot com. They're on Westtim Or Parkway between Katie and Highway six.
Very easy to find American Shooting Centersdot com. Welcome back to Doug
Pleshaw on Sports Talk seven ninety ninetwenty in the morning. Who is that
titlind Artists? Please? That isa real John Misty. The song is
real love Baby, No wonder Ihadn't heard of it. How long has

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that been been around? Not long? No, I'm not too too familiar
with them myself. I just kindof got into it. Hmm. Okay,
so they're contemporary fair or no Fairdid I miss something? Was I
not paying attention? Oh? Oh, I don't want to be that all
right anyway, I'm sorry, II was. I got a I just

(58:58):
got an email from house or atext me from hell, and I may
may change my plans tomorrow. I'mjust saying I might go out there and
take a look at that new placehe's working on seven one three two five
seven ninety Email me Dug Pike atiHeartMedia dot com. I sent him a
text about a week and a halfor two weeks ago and just kind of
feeling like it was about time togo take a look, and he said,

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yeah, I need you to getout here, so I may try
and run out there or tomorrow afternoon, I may have time for that,
not too terribly far to drive.And I'd love to see the place.
Holy keo, I certainly would.Where are we were? Are there?
We are there. Let's go tophotography for a minute. I've gotten some
really good pictures for ust. Justsent me some pictures he's taken sunrise.
He likes his sunrises and sunsets.And then of course he just had to

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throw one in of a white basketthat got accidentally hooked on a crank bait
on its belly. Yeah, that'sthere's some pretty pictures you sent me here
Forest, No question about it,No question about it. I may have
to counter with a couple of themI've got on on my machine. I'll
send back some stuff to him.He caught some pretty good skies. I'll
give him that. And also tohis credit, he hasn't he hasn't eaten

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the or drank the filter kool aidthat so many people are using that which
I consider a bit of a crutch. Actually, when you're when you're shooting
pictures, if you have to filteryour picture, then to a degree,
a little bit goes a very longway when you're doing that, and some

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of the no, Rick Bie justsent me this says a really bad picture
of a kill deer. Yep,she's she's probably standing around close to a
nest. That's a neat bird.The k I L L D e e
R kill deer. Everybody calls themkill these around here. We used to
when I was growing up too.And the interesting thing about them is they

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are ground nesters. And if youare walking around on a dove hunt anywhere
where some of them are and they'vegot nests on the grind. They will
deliberately leave that nest, thinking you'rea predator that might come grab their eggs,
and even will drag a wing asthey walk away to make themselves look

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as though they are injured somehow,so that you will think that you need
to be chasing them. And justas you try to walk toward them and
get a little too close for theircomfort, well, by gosh, they
just hop up and fly away,just strong as they can be. Fascinating
how nature provides tools to all ofits animals to make the species get through

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a little bit farther and a littlebit farther. Um know this answer to
the land question. It's Mark overin Georgia listening again. Good morning,
Mark. Well you're nine to twentythree. What were You're seven minutes from
kickoff over there at the Masters.You're at least in the same state.
I'm not sure exactly where you are. How did the University of Texas get

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so much land? Oh? Thisis yeah, he's out of oil and
gas. I forgot about that.Here's the answer that came up. The
State Constitution of eighteen seventy six reinstatedthe idea of a land based endowment for
what was described as quote a universityof the first class. They were told

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they would get farm acreage. However, the state renegged on three million acres
of farmland and gave you t twomillion acres of desert. Ut had the
last laugh on state government. Itsays, the two million acres that were
given allows university the mineral rights,and the land is rich in oil and

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gas, and UT to this daycontinues to receive revenue in the form of
royalties from the property. I'll bedarned, I'll be darned could have had
three million acres just good old fashionedfarmland, which back when that was done
teen seventy six, was far moreimportant and valuable than any desert land would

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have been. Who knew what wasunderneath that desert though? Who knows what's
in this country we have. Therewas a guy I read a story about
a guy yesterday who, on alark, a fairly well healed person,
decided he would get into the coalmining business. And I want to say
he spent something like four or fivesix million dollars maybe at the most,

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on a coal mine that it wasnot depleted, it still had resource,
and he figured he would make somemoney over the long haul on this coal
mine. Well, once the inkdried, some testing was done out there,
and it turns out that coal mineis on the same land as one

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of the biggest and best rare earthmineral finds in this country's history. And
based on what they've found so farand how much land there is that's got
all this stuff on it, thecurrent value of that property is something like
thirty two thirty four billion with aB dollars. Not a bad investment.

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So first get yourself a coal mineand then you can get rich seven one
three two seven nine Email me dugpicketiemediadot com. Back to the photographs for
a minute. Uh. One ofthe beauties of the phones that we we
have, whether many of them actuallyas photographers go, is that they actually
will take outstanding pictures. Now,they can't do everything that a traditional SLR

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camera can do or digital cameras cando, but they can get you a
very nice image just at the touchof a button, rather than having you
and and something you can just pullout of your pocket, rather than having
to do what I did for twentysomething years and that carry a big,
heavy camera back around with two orthree bodies in it at least depending on

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where you were going. Half adozen lenses, two dozen rolls of film.
We used to get our film bythe brick, and I want to
say that was either one dozen ortwo dozen rolls, I don't remember,
and thirty six on a roll ifI remember correctly. Get it out of
the photo department at the newspaper.I need some color film, I need

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some black and white film. Andyou didn't get it by the role.
You just grabbed a brick of thatstuff because you knew it wasn't gonna last
long. You'd be back in therein a couple of weeks getting more.
But the digital photography today, evenon the phones, is of such quality
that the first priority I have nowas a photographer, when I'm very casually

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doing it for fun and not forprofit, is to really just get the
image. If I see something happeningin front of me, I don't have
to set anything, I don't haveto worry about anything. I just point
and push the button and get animage on the screen, and then I
can go back into it later andcrop the photograph get the bad stuff out.

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I have a very nice picture,I think of a hawk that was
eating grubworms that were coming out ofthe ground for some reason, I don't
know why the worms were doing whatthey were doing. It big old,
fat, white grub worms. Andthis hawk was on the ground just picking
them off, like playing whack themall with these things. And I saw
the bird and I was able toget in the cart that I was just

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a golf cart, and we wereriding around. I thought, that's kind
of cool that that hawk's nice looking. I wonder why he's on the ground.
And I didn't even realize why atfirst. And we got probably within
twenty yards of this bird, andit wasn't paying us any attention because it
was focused on food. And Ijust held my camera up and started pushing

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the button, and the hawk jumpsup and flies away. Well, when
I look back down at the imagesI had gotten, because I didn't have
to worry about exposure, I didn'thave to worry about all these different things
that I used to when I wascarrying the big cameras lo and behold,
I got a picture of this birdjust at full extension of its wings and

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tail, lifting off and leaving.But it's not like looking over his back
as if he were standing straight upso there's just this big, immense bird
that just after I've cropped it,I had to take out power lines in
the background in one corner. Ihad to take out just excess space on

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another side of the image. Andstill when I pulled it all down now
it wouldn't blow up to poster size. It's not that clean an image.
But just to share it with friendsand share it on Facebook and stuff like
I did, it's a darn goodlooking photograph, it really is. I
was very proud of that one.Got lucky, but I didn't have to
change the thing. I didn't filteranything in that thing. It's just it's

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nature, it's life. It's whatthe colors that God painted with that day.
And I got one down at WaterfowlSpecialties during that goose hunt that I
did with some old friends of mineback this past winter too, a sunset
photograph that was absolutely gorgeous and didn'thave to do anything with it. The
sky is it looked like what itlooks like in the photograph that I've got

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of that. And I stood thereand I moved around and I framed it
with a dead tree. I framedthe sunset and the sky that it produced
with a dead tree to give itsome character and something to something for a
perspective, and that enhanced the photographtoo. There's a lot of people don't
do that. They just kind ofget the sunset and they put it in

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the middle of the picture, andit doesn't do that sunset justice. There's
a little subtle ways you can crop. If you're not familiar with the rule
of thirds, go look up therule of thirds in photography and learn it
and use it and you'll get waybetter images. But usually a pretty good

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photograph with a little cropping can becomea great photograph. And if you're if
you're shooting people, I'll tell youthis, then I got to go to
break. If you're shooting people,then you have to instruct them. I
haven't when when somebody when I say, hey, can I take your picture
with that fish? Or hey,can I take your picture with that deer
or or whatever in front of thissunrise, sunset, whatever it is,

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they're very accommodating as a rule.And if you say, hey, hey,
put that beer can down or putthat cigarette down, those two things
cans and cigarettes have ruined more potentiallyreally good photographs than you can imagine.
And when you when you see somebodydrinking a beer and got a cigarette hanging
out of their mouth and a photographthat's kind of all you can see.

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But if you just say, hey, put that down for just a second,
Okay, I want to get areally nice picture of you, guys,
or or I want to get areally nice shot with you in the
background, or you doing whatever you'redoing, they'll always do it. They
always have and always will very accommodating. So be the director of that image.
If there's when you're trying to takea picture of a fish, if
the rod and reel is in thepicture, there's a good chance the line

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is going to be across somebody's face, across somebody's shirt. It's going to
be a distraction. Make sure thatall of those distractions are out of there
if you can control them, andthat'll get you better pictures too. I
could yap about this forever. Ilove. I just really loved taking photographs
when I was doing it for aliving, and I won a lot of
awards doing it because I took sometime and just I learned by the seat

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of my pants too. I nevertook any course or anything. I just
I just looked at what was there, And I'm going to give you another
little tip that'll help, like withwith what ricks do I know? Oh,
I know, I'm sorry. I'llstop right now and then I'll come
back to this fly fishing people,my fly fishermen or aspiring fly fishermen.

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Moody Gardens one more time. I'mtelling you again, Moody Gardens. On
the twenty sixth and twenty seventh ofthis month, that's less than two weeks
away, the third annual fly FishingFilm Festival down there at Moody Gardens.
There are going to be different filmsthis year on Friday and on Saturday,
so don't think you're gonna see itall if you just come down for one

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night. I think this is afantastic way to maybe bring the family with
you. Come down Friday afternoon,hang out at the beach, or hang
out at the hotel, or goto the exhibits they have over there,
the Penguins, all of that,and then go to the film festival on
Friday night and then stay there atthe hotel. They've got packages for this
one and two night packages available,and stay there and then the next night

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go to the other film festival.They're all on that big screen, the
biggest in Texas. Right there atMoody Gardens. You can sign up for
fly fishing lessons, you can maybehave a shot at some of the great
Raffle prizes are gonna be down there, a lot of people gonna be there.
It's gonna be a lot of funthis year. I cannot wait to
MC the event again. I havea blast when I do that because I

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got a front row seat right thereat the one of the best seats in
the house. I actually move upa little higher than from where I talk.
Moodygardens dot org. That's where youcan go for details on this.
Tickets are just fifteen bucks, justfifteen bucks, and then of course they've
got those hotel packages too. Moodygardensdot org. Moodygardens dot org. I'll

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have my famly casting the scave CarWelcome Back bug Flike show on Sports Talk
seven. Trying to find my livecoverage from the Masters, and as usual,
it's taking me forever to figure outwhere I was watching it. It's
driving me crazy. I don't knowwhy it's so difficult for me to remember

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where it was. I should havejust bookmarked the spot. That would have
been a great way to take careof that. Oh, I don't want
to watch this ad either. Iwonder if it'll actually start to play.
Ooh, it might. I'm goingto leave that up. No, I'm
not. I just got to getback to the show. I want to
go back to the photographs for aminute too. I shot photographs at golf

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tournaments. I've shot photographs at fishingtournaments offshore, and bass tournaments and trout
tournaments and all these places and peopleand amazing places that I've gotten to see,
and I truly enjoyed shooting every frameI shot. The only tragic disappointment

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I had in photography, and Ican laugh about it now, but it
wasn't funny at the time. Imade this amazing trip over to Sweden to
see the original building in which theoriginal Abu Garcia five thousand was made.
Was formerly a watch factory, andthey actually did There was a lot of

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stuff that went on over there,but the bottom line was this little watch
factory produced They shifted over to fishingreels and it was an amazing place because
the company that had bought that facilityhad no idea that it had been a

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watch factory at one point when theybought it, because it had already been
converted to something else. And thenafter a little bit of history lesson with
the new owners, a lot ofthe people who had been working there before
were told were asked, gosh,is there any we could recreate this building?
And when they were I'm skipping steps, when they had been told to

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take a part to dismantle all themachinery in that building that was the watch
factory, which was fantastic. Itwas about maybe thirty feet long and probably
twenty feet wide somewhere in there,and had one single engine that ran one
conveyor belt that went all the wayaround the ceiling of this place and turned

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about a dozen different machines, allof which were necessary to build these watches
and make the parts for the watches. And to the delight of the people
who finally craved some of that historyand wanted to share it with anybody who
came to tour their new factory,the people who had been ordered to dismantle

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and get rid of and dispose ofall this machinery confessed that they'd been sentimentally
attached to it and had just takenit home instead. They hadn't thrown anything
away, all of the machinery.Even they even went so far as to
the wood floor in that building hada lot of history too, and they

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actually vacuumed the wood floor, andthe gaps in the wood produced so many
of the parts, the tiny littlewatch parts that had fallen to the ground,
that they were able to display someof them at each of the workstations.
It was fantastic, beautiful thing.Let me get Forest real quick before
we have to go to a breakbecause we're tied on time today. What's

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up? Forest? Forest helped meout, Evan, I can't get the
call. I'm gonna put him ona hold, clicking, let me try
again. Nope, I can't gethim. Can you got me this time?
There we go bing a third timesa charm. I know somebody's been

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messing with the board in there.It's not his fault. He's good.
Probably probably the A team. Shoot, yeah, probably not much. Just
sit around. He's from Jimmy Deanand watching Bill Dance. Just sit here
thinking I've been watching him for fortyyears again, gosh o mighty yeah,
yeah him. And there's about ahalf a dozen guys who when you see
him one of your first reactions isusually, hey, he's still alive,

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exactly only cow but there they're stillgrinding. Oh for sure, man.
But hey, I sent you asecond email. I sent you about uh
I got I got called my nephewMichael, got him tuned in on the
iHeartRadio app. So he's had aboy then listening to us. I said,
he lives there to Swiss out justnorth of the Schulenberg and he's got
this, uh kind of a flatstype boat project he's been working on for

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yeah, too long probably, butI think he's finally got it ready to
get out on the base. I'mwondering from the Schulenberg area. Now.
We went down to Rockport, likeI said in the email, at duck
hunting, and we did a littlebit of messing around. I have around
Mud Island look good, but iseveryplace from shilling Bird for you know,
where we could where we could goMaybe get on the water somewhere semi closer

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and maybe just don't throw top waterplug around or trip tail or whatever.
We catch a few reds or trapget the boat out there. Let me
think for a second, there's gottabe somewhere for having sakes day. Well,
I mean, just draw a straightline to the coast. Where are
you gonna hit? What's your firstshot? Well, I don't know if

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he lives over there, but Ilike say he loves Rockport, he loves
his Rockport area. Well, thenif he loves Rockport, there's no reason
to go anywhere else. Yeah,and have you done much fishing down there?
I mean, yeah, Rockport's fine. The other anywhere from Matta Gordon
down you start looting well with withthe exception of Port O'Connor, you start
losing the crowds and gaining a littleelbow room, a little bit of elbow

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room. And yeah, it's fantastic, man, because I grew up duck
hunting and uh and do a littlebit offficial east Madigorda Bay did pretty good
over east, yeah, which iswell, yeah, I shouldn't be a
bad shot from there. No,that's a great shot from there, And
that's not a bad place to go. Like I say, it's just the
beauty of the Texas coastline is thatyou you can't you can't find a bad

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place to go, you know,you just kind of really can't. Yeah,
yeah, you'll be I've got acouple of teenage boys. He's trying
to get in the outdoors. Andyou know, so it's good for them
to get out there and do someof that stuff and get older. Now,
gonna keep them in the outdoors.And uh oh, one last thing
on on your on your Kildee thing. I was thinking about Kildes who might
to go to Bay duck hunting.We had a couple of different words for

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him. I had one buddy,they called him mock teal. Oh god,
we're all excited. And then yousaw they were because coming to big
group. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good point. Another buddy
of mine called them poof birds.If you want to guess why, No,
I don't want to know. I'mnot exactly hoping the Statute of Limitations

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is run out on why he callsthem poof birds? Hey, oh that
was this the decades ago, Iknow. Yeah, but well, we'll
try to get a trip to Yeah, I get any thing. We'll shoot
you some pigs. Yeah, I'mI'm looking kind of at a map and
trying to figure out men Matta Gordon'sclosest then, uh, anywhere from Matta
Gordon to Corpus Christie. You can'tthrow a rock without hitting a good place

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to launch a boat and go catchtrout and reds. You really can't close
to Corpus. I'm gonna be onI'm gonna be ono canyon. He's got
to go by itself fair enough.I'll meet him down there. I'll fish
with him. You gonna catch thosegreen fish and we'll go catch big old
red fish. All right, man, it's good to hear from you for

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us. I'll see you audios.All right, we gotta take the last
break of the program. Holy cow, they do come at you fast this
time of day. Shooter's Corner,Palmer Highway, twenty nine street down in
Texas City. That's Jerry and jt K father and son. Great people,
absolutely great people, always willing tohelp in their communities, always willing
to help with anything and everything todo with gun rights in this country and

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in our state and even down therewhere he is. All every level of
participation. You can imagine their neckdeep in it. If it helps the
shooting sports and if it helps theSecond Amendment. Shooterscornertx dot com as the
website. They have got guns,Ammo, they have got optics, Camo

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reloading supplies, you name it.If it's for shooting, they've got it
in that tiny little store down there. It's an old school gun store.
It. If you don't know whatone of those smells like, just walk
in the door. I talk aboutthat. It smells like a gun store
when you walk in, very familiar, very comforting smell to anybody who enjoys
the shooting sports. If you weara badge for a living, you get
a discount down there, which Ithink is very nice. They've offered that,

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I think their entire forty plus yearsnow. Palmer Highway at twenty ninth
Street in Texas City, just acouple of miles off the golf freeway.
These shoot cornertx dot com, theShooters Corner TX dot com or talk seven
ninety Masters weekend. They are outand the way over there in Augusta.

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I'm pretty sure I haven't even lookedthe I have the tea times up.
Where is it? I think Ihave it on my laptop still, and
I'll double check. Might be ableto get to it, and then I
can tell you who's out and aboutalready. See how many clicks I have
to go backward to find this?Come on leaderboard. I'm gonna give it
one more chance. Then I'm notgonna worry about it because the guys who

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are going out now are they're justenjoy Oh here it is, okay,
So on the golf course right now, if this is correct. Yeah,
they started at nine fifteen. CamillaVijaygis went off at nine fifteen. He
and Jose Maria, Olasable, JasonDay, and Richard Hendley at nine twenty

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five. Kegan Bradley JT posts innine forty five. The person that I
want to see is and he's atplus five now and holding his own I
think where he is and for whathe's experiences. Ok Shebatia. That young
kid wear's the big glasses, skinnyas a rail, hitch it long and

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straight, and I gotta hunch thiswon't be his last. Masters He's just
I just kind of like the wayhe composes himself. I like the way
he talks and his understanding of thegame. Even as young as he is.
He left he never even played collegegolf. This kid didn't. He's

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twenty two I think now, andwent straight from high school to turning professional
and made the cut, which issomething a lot of guys can't say.
There the leaders and the masters willgo off in local time here at twelve
thirty five. That would be Schefflerand Maricow. They will be preceded in
ten minute incruents by Max Homer andOborg Oberg. Excuse me that the little

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little mark I can't remember some sortof punctuation mark and I don't know what
it is in Swedish, but abovehis name changes that long ad to a
long oh in the pronunciations I've heard. And then at twelve fifteen Bryson De'shambeau
and Xander Shaffley. And from thereon you were looking at guys who were

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just just trying to get out ofthere and catch their plane home and try
again next year. The X factorcontinues to be for today anyway, continues
to be Scottie Scheffler's wife Meredith,who is expecting their child any moment.
Now. Basically, I've heard storiesof where there may be a couple of
days left and it's more drama thannecessary. And I've also seen a couple

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of stories that say the clock's tickingand let's go. And as I mentioned
early early in the program, thedevil's advocate in me says, okay,
he's three up with one to play, or he's walking down the eighteenth fairway
and the phone rings and it's timeand he's up to or he's got a

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tap in birdie putt to win theMasters. He said that whenever he gets
that call, he and Meredith haveagreed that he's going, he's leaving the
tournament. But I hope that Ijust hope that doesn't come into play today,
I really do. I hope thatthere's ample time, there's no close

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call, even no reason for anybodyto do anything but enjoy the tournament real
quickly. Mark from Georgia talking aboutall the way from Georgia, he's the
first one to acknowledge that a goodreason moving in the next month or two
to take a trip to Belleville Meatbarcause you can also stop on the side
of the road and take a pictureof your kids in the blue bonnets.

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That's some beautiful photographs that are goingto be available on the way up there.
And if you do get out andstart romping through the blue bonnets,
watch your step please. Warm weatherblue bonnets. Also the occasional rattlesnake.
Don't play around with those guys,Okay, be very very careful how you

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do that. And one more photographytip. When you're out there taking pictures,
don't just take the big picture.Don't take the whole sunset. Find
a spider in a web somewhere andthen put the sunrise or the sunset behind
that spider. Find little things,little tiny things in nature. There are
billions of them. Some of thebest shots I ever got. Some of

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the awards I'm most proud of wereof little tiny things in nature that were
surrounded by huge things. Just thinkabout that and take some good picture.
Send them to me. I'd loveto see them. I'm out of here
until Tuesday on KPRC at noon forfifty plus Live, and then I'll be
back here next Saturday seven o'clock.Figure out who won the Masters this afternoon.

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Enjoy your days, stay safe outdoors. I'll be back Audios