The Doug Pike Show 4-20-2024

Doug talk hunting, fishing, and golf with callers. Doug also talks about chronic wasting disease, fleas and ticks, music, and more.

Episode Transcript

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This is the Doug Pike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers Guns
Shooting an instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike. I'm in
here trying to well. First ofall, Adam and I are going to
have to do some detective work tofigure out who the heck is coming in
here, turning on the TV lightsand then leaving and manipulating about twenty or

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thirty other things in here, andthen just walking out without putting them back
the way they were. I'm notsure who's doing that, but we're going
to find out. I'm going tofind out whether I can actually get into
this studio and carry my laptop overhere with my mouse in hand. I
didn't. I'm already deleted about fortynew documents that somehow between the thirty steps

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I took coming over here created thatmany. Oh my gosh, there's still
more of them. They just keepcoming. I have no idea I should
have. I should have laid abet Adam on how many it would be,
because it's turning into a train wrecknow. They just want all go
away. I may have to closethis whole machine out. I bet it's
one hundred or more that are stillsitting here every day. Every time I

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click one and try to make itgo away, another one pops up in
its place. Finally I got tothe bottom of the pile. All right,
let's get started, shall we.Sorry for that, it's just the
internal stuff. It draws me absolutelycrazy in here. Oh, by the
way, Adam has company in histiny baby studio. Where did Melvin go?
Is he? There? He's here? Oh? There he is off

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camera? There he is. Allright, welcome a boy, Melvin.
Melvin sat in and watched Will Melbournewith me during fifty plus yesterday. He's
going to be coming into help outonce we get him up speed, which
I don't think is gonna take verylong. I have a gut feeling every
time, Melvin, about people whocome in here to be the new producer.

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And over twenty four years, I'vebeen through probably forty producers, and
I can tell my gut says,you're gonna stick. I'm betting on you,
Melvin, to be the one whostays and actually does a really good
job around here. You've really hadforty probably, Yeah, you had some

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of them for like three days though. Yeah, Well, the most recent
one we had for one day.Yeah, remember he got just vanished and
he was in the wind. Ohyeah, got a new job. Okay,
that's fine, be that way.But no, I've had them and
they come and go for various reasons, mostly the ones that I've looked at

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and said, oh boy, I'mgonna regret losing that guy someday. Mostly
they end up moving up the ladderin this industry, and some of them
have their own shows now. Someare producing for serious ExM some are doing
very well. And I just havea feeling about people when they come in.

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Adams one of them. I'm losinghim. That's why he's training Melvin.
Uh. It's so frustrating. Sometimesyou get somebody really good, you
get a good cadence and rhythm withthem. You're gonna have to teach him
how you play the Texas Temperature gametoo, Adam, that's gonna be pretty
important. So he's gonna have tocarry that mantle all by himself one day.

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And that's a that's a very it'sa very complex game, Melvin.
Adam will explain it to you.Takes years to master. You think Adam
is the or is that too much? I've only been here other years,
so I can, and we're notsure you've mastered it yet. I like
to imagine I have. Yeah,so often I would say, I would
say you are You're far beyond Journeyman, Texas Temperature Game Player. By the

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way, we're going to be playingtoday for a four pack of tickets to
the fly Fishing Film Festivals. I'mgonna say that plural, because there are
on Friday night and Saturday night thisnext coming weekend. I'll be down there
m seeing and there are two entirelydifferent lineups, one for Friday, one

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for Saturday, all of which everyone of these individual films contained within those
festivals is going to be just absolutelyfantastic, absolutely fantastic. I can based
on last year's films. I'm goingto just go out and say that they're
going to be really, really,really really good. All right, there's

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a whole lot to talk about thismorning, and we will get to fishing
as soon as I can. Butthere are a couple of other things that
I feel compelled. And by theway, the fishing has not been bad,
not at all. I even caughtfish this week. But what's weighing
more heavily on me right now isa story that I saw, and the

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most recent information I saw about thatstory just this morning about there was a
where do I start with this?It was about two days ago I had
a couple of people send me astory about how two men had died from

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eating venison from a deer that hadchronic wasting disease. If that were the
case, and I'm going to goahead and let you guys off the hook
now it's not, but if ithad been the case, that would have
sent shockwaves throughout the deer hunting industry. So if you've seen that story and

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you're worried at all, right now, don't give up your dear least just
yet. Okay, So what itwas? There were several stories. One
of them was in the what isit called The Daily Mail, which is
a British tabloid if you will,that really does find some good stuff sometimes,

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but there it leans toward exaggeration insome cases. And on Thursday it
published a story that was titled twohunters become first Americans to die from zombie
deer disease after eating infected venison.Well, no, no, it didn't

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happen. Pump the brakes, everybody, relax everybody sit back and just chill.
What happened was that these two mendied actually from something called Kruschfeldt.
Whereas it I haven't written down hereis I wanted to get it right now,
I can't see where I typed it. I'll find it. Hold on

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there, it's in here, somewhere, I'll get to it. But then
chrischfelt there. It is Chrischfeld Jacobdisease c j D, which is very
genetically similar to CWD and actually generatedthe same, roughly the same symptoms that
a deer might show if it hadc WD, but not the same No

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evidence yet that CWD has made thejump at all from animals to humans.
So everybody just relaxed a little bit. If if the people in your circles
have been talking about this and wonderinghow that was going to affect deer hunting,
it's just not. Basically. OutdoorLife published a story just a couple

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of I think a day or twoago, and it pretty much debunked that
whole original contention about those two guysdying from chronic wasting disease, and what
it looks like more and more isthat they died from what I said,
CJD. And the basis for thestory that lit the fuse on this whole

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thing wasn't even an official medical study. It wasn't in any way, shape
or form official. There were threeneurologists and one physician in training I read
who came up with this. Gee, I wonder what's going on with this
and whether it could happen, Andthat whole story blew up based on three

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hundred and forty four words taken froman excerpt of a research abstract from back
in early April. That's all itwas. And you know how rumors spread
like wildfire and everybody panicked and men, I had people blowing me up all
week. Oh my gosh, twoguys died from chronic wasting disease. And

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I even made the mistake of sayingthat it may have been true to somebody.
I know it wasn't. It wasn't. I didn't publish it at all.
I was going to still do myhomework. But that's what it looked
like based on what I had seenup to that point. And I'm glad
I kept digging. I really am, because, like I said, that
would have sent shock waves throughout thedeer hunting industry, and it would have

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also given anti hunters yet another reasonto tell us we shouldn't be doing what
we're doing, when in fact,what we do as recreational as sport hunters
represents the most effective, most efficientwildlife management tool that's available to pretty much
any bio wildlife biologist in the country. That's the only way that we can

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measure how we balance these populations sothat they don't exceed the carrying capacity of
the water or the land in whichthey live. Oh. I could get
up on a big old soap boxabout carrying capacity, but I won't.
Right now, let me go talkto Brandon real quick before we have to
take this break. Hey, Brandon, what's up, buddy? Good morning,

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morning, what's up? How areyou? I'm good? What can
I do for you this morning?Brandon? I'm doing okay. As we
got the rain, So what doyou think Have you gotten a fish yet?
Now? Come on, I'm gonnaI'm gonna lay that way when we're

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gonna go fishing. Okay, good, fishing is good. I'm gonna be
fishing. Uh, probably not thisafternoon because I have to do some stuff
around the house, but maybe tomorrowI'll probably fish tomorrow. Okay, what
else can I do for you?You didn't hear me, said astros One?

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Well did who said that? Didthey win last night? They better
have? No? We won?Good? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
I can take that. I don'tcare how. I don't care the numbers
really as long as it's a wbecause we need a whole lot of those.
We need to stack them and runthem. Just run about two dozen

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wins off to get balanced back towhere we should be right about now.
They're off to a slow start,and it's not the first time that's happened.
And I think with with Verlander comingback and with the pieces of the
puzzle, finally he did, didn'the It's good? I hate her?
I do. I did. Heworked on the he started with trouble,

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and he worked on he got stuffoff the trouble. So well that and
that's exactly what a good pitcher does. A good picture is gonna get rocked
every now and then, and they'regonna kind of figure him out or maybe
his he just doesn't have his beststuff that day. But the best pitchers
in baseball figure out a way towork around that. They'll manipulate a different

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pitch. They'll they'll change something tomake it to bring the advantage back to
them. That's how the past one'sdoing. Yeah, we're playing oh okay
at three today. All right,I'll go check it out. Holy man,

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I'm already gonna break Brandon, Igotta run, buddy, all right,
all right, man, I'll seeyou soon. Hey. If it's
the uh traffic guy comes on,tell him I said, I I know.
Oh awesome, Okay, thanks,I'll do that. I see him
all the time. I'll tell himyou said, hello, Brennan. All

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right, buddy, we gotta run. All right, man, all right,
we gotta take a little break here. On the way out. I
will tell you that Carter's I willremind you I've already told you many times.
I'll remind you that Carter's Country doestwo concealed carry classes a month,
one on a Saturday, then twoweeks later one on a Sunday, then

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two weeks later one on a Saturday, back and forth like that all year
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your classroom session, walk right outthe door, right onto the range,
put your ear and eye protection on, and then pass your shooting proficiency test,

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which is a little intimidating to somepeople actually, but the truth of
it is all you have to hitis a piece of poster board at twenty
yards and it's not really that hard. If you can't do that, then
by all means, get yourself somelessons until you can. It shouldn't be
too difficult to hit a piece ofposter board at twenty yards. It really
shouldn't, and I suspect that peoplein this audience probably won't have any problem

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at whatever that is you're trying todo. And back to those classes real
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is going to teach you where youcan and cannot do that in the state

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of Texas and anywhere else for thatmatter. Got to be very careful with
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I hope, And I'm gonna mentionthis a couple of three more times
during the show, because I'll havepeople coming in and out who who don't
realize that the story that their buddytold them about these guys dying from infected
deer from eating infected deer is alreadydebunked, and it's already everybody just pumped

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the brakes, take a deep breath. Nobody died from chronic wasting disease.
Not yet anyway, And I hopethat that that disease never makes that jump
from from from deer to from serviansto people. Hopefully not at least,
And if it does, I'll youand I and everybody we know probably be

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long gone by then, anyway.Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dotcom. It really does. A story
like this really does prove that thatpeople are And I kind of got halfway

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caught up in it myself. Ishared that story with somebody and before I'd
really had a chance to do anyresearch on it. And I'm glad I
did it again and and really tooka harder look at it. The old
reporter and me kicked in. Isaid, wait a minute, I'm gonna
go look around a little bit.And that's all it was. It was
just it was just an exaggeration ontop of some embellishment that got out of

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hand and it just caught fire.And because we have instant access to the
entire world as media, you geta couple of people thinking weird things and
and all they have to do istype out two or three sentences, send
it out, put a picture ofa deer on the page, a sick

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looking deer, and then all ofa sudden, you've got a story like
that. Didn't happen. It's okay, nothing to see here, folks.
I'll tell you the other thing thatI wanted to talk about. A hold
on, I've got to kill somethingout of here, and I got to
take care of something. This won'ttake long typing two words and two words
only other in all caps for wherethey're going. So sorry about that.

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I'm just I was doing some showprep and I like to type in all
caps, and so I can justread everything a little bit better. So
the other story I wanted to getto, and this one is more positive
news, much more positive news outof Washington, d C. As if
that's not some sort of oxymoron.A the good news. The Biden administration

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just recently and more than once inhis term, has tried to block government
funding for school shooting courses. Nowwe're talking about archery programs, We're talking
about trapping, skeet shooting programs,hunting programs, all of these things that

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get kids outdoors, teach them areally valuable skill, connect them with nature,
they teach conservation in these hunting courses. There are courses up north that
involve the processing of meat, everythingfrom field dressing to butchering. And our

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president and his crew were doing theirdarnedest to take funding away from schools that
we're trying to promote those programs untiluntil the House got involved and forwarded and
passed the Protecting Hunting, Heritage andEducation Act, which was voted in four

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hundred and twenty four eyes to onenay this past summer. Right well,
recently, the restriction weired its uglihoodagain, the attempt at restricting it anyway,
just this past summer, just thispast summer, they kept trying.
They kept trying to find a wayto take money away from schools that were

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teaching really down to earth programs thatwill teach kids that they're part of something
bigger than themselves and their buddies thatthey hang out with. I talk about
this probably more than I should onthis program. No, it's not more
than I should. I probably don'ttalk about it enough. That kids who
are brought up in the outdoors,kids who are in introduced to hunting and

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fishing and farming and ranching and allthese things at an early age, consumptive
use of the outdoors, consumptive useof natural resources. They realize how valuable
and precious those resources are. Theycome to realize that they are part of

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something much bigger than themselves, andthat the earth doesn't rotate around them,
which is something that's lost on alot of kids these days. And they
just become better people. They tendto get along with other people better,
they tend to score higher on standardizedtests. Go figure that out. Maybe

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it's just because they're a little calmerand a little more understanding of their place
in the world. And I'm soglad to see that get done. There
was some who said this representative MarkGreen, a guy from Tennessee. Hunters
and fishers are the best conservationists.He said, hunting, whether it be

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with a firearm or bow, isone of the most effective ways to control
wildlife populations, protect our beautiful lands, and connect with nature. My Protecting,
Hunting, Heritage and Education Act iscritical for our children. End quote.
Yes it is. Yes, itis that there is no wildlife biologists

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in this country worth his or hersalt, if they're honest about it,
can give you any other better meansof controlling populations. I opened up with
some of this controlling wileye populations.Controlling fisheries then measured take by recreational fishermen

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and hunters. The issue we've got, I've got a beef with somebody on
Facebook. I'm not gonna say whoit is, but I was a little
bit disturbed and disappointed. This guy, a friend of mine, posted a
picture of three fish on a stringer. Three trout, Okay, three trout,
stringer, that's the new limit,and just made kind of a I

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think he was kind of tongue incheeks, saying, it doesn't take long
anymore to get you know, toget get your fish. And that's true.
It's three now, and it's notit's not five anymore. It's not
ten anymore. It's not twenty anymore. It's just three. That's all you
get. And that's okay. Doesn'ttake long to get a limit under the

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new rules, No it doesn't.That's okay. But and then behind that
came this guy who who said,well, it's the Parks and Wallach Department
had done its job from the start, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Well, no, that's not entirelytrue, Parks and Wildlife Department didn't cause

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the freezes that we've been through.The Parks and Wildlife Department doesn't cause chemical
spills. Parks and Widlife Department canonly react when something like that happens in
hopes of learning from whatever the resultis of its actions against one freeze,
one spill, one whatever, andthen fine tuning its policies as it goes

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along. Managing a resource as bigas the specled travel on the Texas Coast
is no easy task. It's notand for somebody to say they should have
done their jobs. I came realclose to responding and asking this person,
exactly what would you have done differentlythat you could guarantee me more trout today

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than there were here five years orten years ago. Exactly what would you
have done that guaranteed that and therewould have been crickets? Just there is
no answer to that question, couldbecause it's impossible to answer. But what
they've done by making the limit threeis go ahead and just rip the band
aid off and say, Okay,we're going to fix this, and we're

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going to increase the numbers of bigfish, and we're going to increase the
numbers of little fish, and atsome point the people who think that all
these fishing for them are going toreap the benefit and hopefully learn more about
fishing. If all you're out therefor is the fish you're going to bring

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home, you're you're out there forthe wrong reason. You really are,
And I hope nobody in this inthis audience is like that. You're you're
just not connected to fishing like someof us are in fishing. If you
if you truly have a passion forfishing, there's no goal line, there's
no goal, there's no home plate, there's no way which She's just a

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game played in an area that oftime and space. It has no end,
really it doesn't. There's no clock. There's most of us, if
we had absolutely no other obligations inthe entire world, most of us would
fish all day and all night.We'd stopped to go to the bathroom,
we'd stop to eat. That'd beabout it. Some of us fish as

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long as we do now when weget to go, because we do have
so many obligations back at work andat home. It's an opportunity. Oh,
I know, Adam, I know. No matter how tight you get
wound up by work or personal pressure. Fishing with the right attitude can unwine
that whole mess and really lift allthat weight off your shoulders. Try it

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sometimes, see if it doesn't work. And if it doesn't, there's always
pickleball. Black Horse Golf Club twoninety at Friar Road, two golf courses,
the North and the South. Outstandingcourses, both of them. I've
played them, I don't know,dozens of times. I don't know that
I've played either of them one hundredtimes, but it's been dozens. There's
no question about that. They've gotgreat food, they've got great instruction down

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at the far end of the range, great place to hold a big tournament,
great place to jump on if you'reby yourself and you just look outside
and think, you know, it'snot raining. My golf clubs are a
little dusty. I'm going two ninetyto Fry Road, hang a south three
four miles down that road. Thereyou will start seeing golf course and then
the gate. You turn west intothe gate if you're coming south, and

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you go to the clubhouse, andfrom that point forward there's going to be
a parade of people who want nothingmore than for you to have a good
time out there. There's a membershipoption that gets you preferred tea times,
gets you discounts in the pro shop, and most importantly, unlimited range time.
You can hit all the golf ballsyou want, and then they'll come
refill that bucket and you can hitthat many more if you're tough enough.

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Black Horse Golf Club one of myfavorite places up there on the northwest side
of town. Black Horse Golf Clubdot com. This is Sports Talk seven
ninety on the go with iHeartRadio.Friends. You've got to try the conversation
continues. This as the Doug PipeShow. My goodness, we've got people

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we need to talk to here too. Let me get to you. I'll
start with Skeeter. Skeeter, what'sup man, Hey Douglas, what's going
on? Good morning? I'm scaredto ask, but where are you and
what are you doing? I'm inUnionsville, Missouri, Northern Missouri, turkey
hunting. Okay, it's beautiful uphere. Yeah, it's thirty one degrees

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up here and rolling beautiful land andthe turkeys. It's kind of funny the
turkeys. All the females are togetherand the males are kind of a part.
So I guess it's a mating seasonor something. But having a good
time. And I'm here with someof my friends from the from New York.
So anyway, it's really good.I cooked brisket and brisket and egg

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tacos this morning and then I hadbagels and yeah, and guess what all
they did is eat the bagels.People. I don't know what the hell
is going on, So just kickedout of camps. Peter. I hear
you, I hear you. Gotbrisket the people. Yeah, brisket and

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egg you know, rolled up ina flower tortilla bagel. Yeah, they'd
rather have the bagel. That justsomething I know about New York right there.
Bagel and cream cheese. That's whatthey want, New boys. All
right. So the hunting has beengood, bad one. It's been really
good. Yeah. Their turkeys areeverywhere, and there's deer out here too.

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It's kind of like College Station,Brian College Station, Land Rolling Hill.
And they got a bunch of rainearlier this week. So the farmers
are aren't aren't, can't really doanything in the field, so they all
run around and there it's just alittle farm town and they run around in
their ATVs, with an ice chestfull of beer and visit all their friends
and everything else. So it's gotkind of a laid back place, you

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know, but kind of like golfcarts in our neighborhoods down here, they're
on their ATVs. They're on theirATVs ATVs and they don't they don't even
some of them don't. You know. One guy doesn't even have his driver's
license. He just drives his tractoreverywhere. What percentage of these guys wear
shirts when they drive around? Well, it's pretty cold out. The bubbled

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up pretty good. But anyway,but I just yeah, the turkeys are
great, they're high. And thedeer up here, it's good deer hunting
too. It's pretty good sized deer. But they're just not as many of
them. So you just call Iget it, Okay, I hear you.
I hear you. But anyway,hey, thank you. But I'll
be back on Wednesday or Thursday,so you get it. Then, Yeah,
I will be guy. Yeah,save travel Skeeter's great to hear from

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you, man, always is.I'll see you all right, let me
go talk today. What Yeah,you're talking about teaching archery and gun and
shooting and stuff like that. Inschool. And now we didn't have any
classes like that, but you know, I graduated in seventy nine, right,

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and I had to have well,I had a gun rack in there
and and had my shotgun in there, especially on a Friday if we didn't
have a football game or something,you know. And then as soon as
I got out of school, I'mon forty five hiding and be wavery yeah,
I mean, I'm out of there. I'm out of there. But

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yeah, you know that that's ayou know. And then I was fortunate
to have like my mom and mydad and then my uncles and cousins that
were all police officers, you know, and I knew how to shoot,
so we got we got a lotof schooling, you know, and and
I'm just really fortunate on all that. And and that's kind of how we

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fed our selves too. We didn'thave to go to the grocery store that
much, you know. But yeah, you know, but that's that's you
know that that's a time. That'sa lost time. That's a lot,
you know. But I mean,I hope they do keep that stuff in
there. And if I see anythingcome up that I have to vote on

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for that, I guarantee you.I'm going to vote that we sull keep
it in our schools, you know, define for sure? All right,
Yeah, it's great to hear fromme. Yeah, I'm doing okay,
Yeah, oh I got I gotthree shots a day before yesterday. And
man, I don't know exactly whatthey were all for, but uh man
my left uh upper arm in myright upper arm. Oh, Ben,

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you talk about the pain. I'mbetter now, I'm better than that.
That's okay. Heating pad and Isaid, down, you know, so
I'm better. Okay, all right, we'll see all that. Thank yes,
buddy, word of my there itis boo oo bird is everybody sent

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me a picture and I've been studyingit, not a lot. I've been
looking at it though a little bitof a deer that was. I don't
think it's a deer. What Ithink it is, actually, the more
I look at it is a youngelk, and I'm basing that on the
way the antler comes out at almosta ninety degree angle off the top of

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its head and pointed straight forward towardits nose. It looks like on both
sides it's hard to tell the tragedythat this animal suffered is. I can't
imagine what happened is that this isit's a photograph taken from the skeleton of
the animal, essentially, and thatskeleton is dangling beneath the antlers, which

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got the animal stuck between two bigwell between one big cut in a boulder,
a rock formation the sides of oneside to the other is probably a
couple of feet, maybe two anda half three feet, whatever it is,

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and this animal somehow slipped and fellinto that gap between the rocks,
and the only thing that stopped itfrom going all the way in was its
antlers, and it because of thenature of its hoofs and how they're built,
they weren't built for climbing out ofrocks. And that animal, boy,

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nature just so mean and so cruel. Sometimes that animal just hung there,
hung there by its antlers until iteventually died. And who knows how
long ago that was, because allthat's there now in that spot is the
skeleton. Let's go see what's up. Man, tell me more about that
picture. What do you know?I don't really know anything. I've got

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it from Clayton, but I knowit's not where he's at right now,
so I don't know where I don'tknow, go back and look at it
again. I think it's an elk. I really do, a young elk.
It's well, I mean, Itell you that's the freakiest looking set
of horn in its own way.But what I want to know is I
know that that meat and that hide, if it would have dried, just

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air dried, it would still behanging. Something got on that thing.
I like to know what got inthere and ate that thing right now to
every little jever was left of it. I think probably some some animal that
can can hold on went in thereand ate as much as it could,
and then I think the bacteria andsmall smaller and smaller and smaller animals got

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their piece until there just was nothingleft. It's such a it's such a
a great example, such a greatsnapshot into how nature just says, no,
this isn't your day, and whennature wants you, buddy, it'll
get you. And it got thatpoor in. I think it's a young
elk. I really do. Lookright at the base of the skull and

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look at that one antler that goesstraight out. That's that's that's an elk.
Man, that's elk characteristic. There. Maybe I think he must.
I think he must have been runningand you've jumped over some brush or something.
And when he jumped on me whereverhe jumped, he went right in

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that. I mean that's a bigthat's a big snout canyon. Or mean
it looks like a big fault thatyeah, yeah, exactly about a two
million years ago, you know.Yeah, but boy, when he landed
was a surprise. And like Isaid, any any of the servants who
they're just not built for climbing rocks. He couldn't get any action whatsoever trying

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to get out of there. That'stoo straight up and down. Anyhow,
that speaky deal. I was gonnacomment on the the thing about school,
uh, sports and rifles and dunsand things. Yeah, real quick because
I was in high school. Realquick. When I was in high school

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in Houston, h I s Dthe R O T C. Yeah,
and we had an inn no shootingrange, oh yeah, okay, yeah,
not the only one, twenty twoaliber twenty two caliber. Yeah.
I remember they used to raise theirmoney by having a little turkey. They
call it tur It was hard.It was target shooting, yeah, yes,

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exactly, I remember all of that. You go to a turkey shooting.
Bring your shotgun and if you puta pellet in that in that middle
circle, just one pellet in themiddle circle, a little, tiny little
circle. You want a turkey.They were shooting twenty two sharks. Oh
wow, But it had had abackstop, you know. Yeah, sure,
the whole building. It was aportable building, but it was made

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for that. Yeah. But anyway, right, all right, riggie.
Well, thanks man, it's greatto hear from you. Thanks for that
picture. It was. Yeah,I'm gonna keep looking at it. I'll
figure out what that is. Bye, gush, all right, thanks Rick,
save travel buddy audios man. Yeah, it's I'm not gonna post it
because we have really strict rules aboutposting pictures that we don't we don't know

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where they came from, because somebodyturn around and sue you for using their
picture. But yeah, I may. I may share it with a couple
of friends and just see what theythink. All right, Belleville Meat Market,
let me tell you about them.They would have known exactly. Well,
I don't know. It's it's toughfor the picture. My guess is
that's an elk. If you ifyou do go up north somewhere and shoot

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an elk, and you need toget all that meat process and you want
to make sure it gets done right, and you can get it back cold
to Belleville Meat Market. I guaranteeyou they'll do it right. The next
elk they see won't be there firsteither. Bellville Meat Market's been processing meat
for the better part of forty fourforty five years now, and what they

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do in the wintertime is devoted entirebuilding which they built about it's probably been
about five or six years ago now. They built an entire building for wild
game processing in the wintertime, inthis time of year and all the way
through about September October. What theydo is use that building for other types
of processing so that anybody and everybodywho comes out there can get the Bellville

(38:37):
Meat Market delicious products or you canget them at your grocery store. In
many cases, in that meat marketthey have two dozen plus flavors of premium
sausage samples available for a lot ofthem every day. They have eighty five
fifteen ground beef at just three pfifty nine a pound if you buy ten
pounds or more. And honestly,what family with a couple of teenage boys
couldn't go through that in a fewdays. They have got Oh gosh,

(39:01):
man is it? Where do Istart? All the appetizers, the cheeses,
the spices, handmade tomalies that areby biggest junior footballs. These things
are outstanding, excellent food products,excellent sitting at no salads, they don't
do salad. Lunch and dinner servedevery day from ten I think ten to

(39:22):
seven. Let me see if Ican find it all. Yeah, ten
am to seven pm. That includespulled pork, it includes sausage, it
includes brisket, It includes all ofthe delicious things that you can imagine that
might be in a barbecue dinner.And the sides. They've got all the
sides to Belleville MeetMarket dot com aboutfifteen minutes north of Sealy, fifteen minutes

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south of Hempstead on Highway thirty six. Very easy to find. Just roll
into Bellville, roll down the windows, and then just follow your nose.
If you like barbecue, you'll recognizethe smell when you do. Drive into
the wind and there will be BellevilleMeat Market. Belleville Meat Market serving I'll
say it, half of Texas andthe rest of Texas will figure it out

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soon enough. They can ship stuffanywhere you want to Belleville, MeetMarket dot
com. This is Sports Talk sevenninety online at Sports seven ninety dot com.
Now the more Doug fight. Myson's been playing baseball all baseball season.
I guess for school, and theydo all right. We lost yesterday

(40:28):
on a controversial call at second.I'm pretty sure that the umpire got it
wrong, but we were on theother team's home field and maybe maybe they
just maybe the umps just wanted toget out of the parking lot, you
know. And I'm joking with allof that. It was a close call,
and it was kind of a bangbang play. Very interesting way to

(40:53):
end the game, and an unfortunateway too, is it was pretty tight
all the way through. Let mego get here and see what's on his
mind. What's going on? David, Hey, Doug, thank you for
taking my call real quick. Isent you. I sent you a link
to a news article. It's thenkind of it gets to my point.
I'm gonna make sure these girls takingbears out of a tree to take selfies

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with them baby cubs taking bear cubsout of a tree. Yeap, Oh,
that's not really smart. We're seeinga trend, and maybe I'm late
to the show, but there's atrend of people using wild animals, especially
as clicking bait. Yeah, Icreate these videos and I've been seeing and

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I guess we're part of it ifwe click on it and see what it
is. But sometimes it's just curiosity. He gets the best of you.
But I look at some of thesethings, Doug, and I say that
that was staged. I mean,I saw one where they're digging the fox
out of the ground, and I'mthinking, now, how did a fox
get down out of the ground out? Maybe it went down in a hole,

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but there didn't seem like there wasany evidence that there was a hole
there at the time. Yeah,I'm thinking people are creating a staging,
the taking these animals and staging thesethings to create these videos just as clickbait.
Yep. And it's it's dangerous,it's it's it once again. It's

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just so they're so entitled, they'reso egotistical that they think the world revolves
around them and that anything they dois okay. And that's really really a
bad lesson that somebody has taught thesekids. Don't let anybody tell you you

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can't do something. You just dowhatever you want to do, and that's
just entirely messed up. Taking abat. I sent you the link.
You can look at it. I'mlooking at it right now and I'm commenting
on it. I think it's horrific. I think they ought to go to
jail. If they're old enough togo to jail, they ought to go.
And if they're not, their parentsought to go. It's just anyotic.

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What a tremendous disrespect for wildlife thatis? You know? Yeah,
wow, I always enjoy your show. You ticked me off, David.
Bye, Gosh, that's a goodthing. No, that's a good thing
it is. That's okay, thanksman, I appreciate it. Audios.
Yeah, I'm looking at boy,just dumb as rocks. These kids are,

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I swear. Who teaches people thatit's okay to pull baby bears?
And we're not talking about they didn'tclimb a tree. These these little bears
are just in a shrub, alittle short oak tree. It looks like
maybe and here along come these kidsand just take them down. Let's take

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some pictures with the baby bears.And they are first of all, they're
lucky that mama bear wasn't around,because she'd have ripped them apart. I
just don't understand how anybody can thinkthat's okay. I don't understand what kind
of parents would would let a teenagerget to the teen ages without teaching them

(44:20):
better. The only explanation is thatthis is now. These teenagers I was
looking at in this video are nowa second or third generation of people who
just have no blooming clue about theoutdoors, about wildlife, about their place

(44:42):
in wildlife. What's gonna happen eventually. What's gonna happen is that one of
these kids is gonna reach up andgrab a cub, and just as they
put their hands on that cub,mama bear is gonna come along and rip
them to shreds and kill them.And then the Wildlife department is gonna have

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no other option, unfortunately, thanto take that killer bear out of the
They's gonna have to euthanize that bearfor no good reason, no good reason
except the idiocy of some young personwho wasn't taught any better because their own
parents don't know anything about wildlife.They've been watching too many cartoon movies,

(45:34):
They've been watching too many documentaries thataren't really documentaries. They're staged stuff,
a lot of which is designed,just like David said, to generate clickbait.
And boy, oh boy, I'mjust I'm staring at this in disbelief.
No charges, it says, aftervideo shows people handling bear cubs,

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How can there not be a charge? Well, there's got to be once
again, it's just still it's notquite yet a crime to be stupid,
but holy cow, this is felonylevel stupidity if it were available to us.
And these are just teenage girls.They thought it'd be cute to grab

(46:21):
these bear cubs and take them downlike that. And they're lucky the bears
weren't a little bit older, becauseat some point, at some point in
the Bears DNA, it goes frombeing a cute, cuddly cub to kind
of a ticked off adolescent bear thatsomebody's trying to drag out of a tree.
I don't know why no charges aregoing to be filed. I may
write them a letter and just say, hey, why not, where was

(46:45):
this? I want to see whereit was real quick. Boy, I'm
just I'm out of time. Asheville, North Carolina. While officials say no
charges will be filed after several peoplewere caught on camera pulling black bear cubs
out of a tree and taking selfieswith them. Shame on them. Thanks

(47:07):
for pointing that out to me.I'm so glad I found those pictures.
I'm gonna be talking a lot aboutthat. Mark your calendars. One week
from today, I will be wakingup. Actually, I'll be doing my
show live from down at Moody Gardensfollowing the first night of their two night
fly Fishing Film Festival. Different filmswill be shown, and by films,

(47:30):
I mean multiple films. They're shorts, basically fifteen twenty minute films, and
we'll see plenty of them on Saturdaynight, plenty of them on Friday night.
This is the Doug Pike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers
Guns Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eightynine. Now here's Doug Pike. Oh

(47:52):
my goodness. All right, I'mwatching something I don't want to watch this
morning. Thank you, Rudy.I'll check in on that in a little
while. I'm going back to thisbear thing and who was it? Somebody?
Somebody didn't like me saying that thatought to be against the law,

(48:14):
and there ought to be charges filed. I think that it eventually, nature
will keep up with people who areare grabbing wild animals and taking selfies with
them. I really that will happen, there's no question about it. But
there's a disconnect somewhere. And thisis why these classes in junior high school

(48:40):
and highwell middle school they call itnow and high school are so important to
teach people how fragile and how valuablethese resources are to us. And by
resources I mean wildlife and fisheries andthe plants, really everything, the trees,

(49:00):
everything out there is important. Ifyou understand that without it, you
don't make it. You can't ifwe change the atmosphere a little bit too
much in the wrong direction, theway so many tambourines are being banged to

(49:21):
get us to do. If wetip that balance just a little too far
and remove just a little too muchCO too from the atmosphere. But it's
only it's a fraction of one percent, that's all it is. And by
the way, China has something likea bazillion coal fired plants, and until

(49:44):
those are gone, we're never goingto stop CO two emissions in this world.
Along the short of it, isif we take it down too low,
then the plants and the trees startdying, and if they die,
what's going to make oxygen for us. It's just it's so far fetched and
so hard to believe that people areeven talking about some of the things they're

(50:07):
talking about these days. And it'sI think in great part because so many
young people now have not been havenot been given a proper education in fisheries
and wildlife and forestry and the relationshipbetween plants and animals, and they've not

(50:32):
been taught that we're a part ofit. They've taught that we control it
and it's up to us to controlthis, and up to us to control
that. We can't control really anyof it. I think it's just so
so egotistical for people to think thatthey can they can change this planet when

(50:52):
the planet's been rolling for a waylonger than we have. The planet's going
to do what the planet does,and I don't know. It's very frustrating,
it really is. Seven seven ninetyEmail me Dugpick at iHeartMedia dot com.
Let's see. Oh, Kevin's headedto it to Rosenberg from League City

(51:13):
for a baseball tournament. Boy,raise your hand, if you're driving your
child to a baseball game this morning, actually, if you're already there,
you just pulled it into the parkinglot, and you're ten minutes late for
your eight o'clock game because you hadto drive seventy five miles to go to
a baseball tournament. I got sotickled, uh Adam, I've talked to

(51:37):
you about the car I drive.I drive an exped Explorer now, non
expedition. I'm tired of driving big, giant vehicles. I got kind of
bored with trucks and I just wantedto go old man. And you know,
I'm rolling in an Explorer now.And I got tickled because I bought
the thing a couple of years ago. When my my F one fifties transmission

(51:57):
just quit at i'll finger quotes aroundhighway speed. It went from sixth gear
to fifth gear all by itself.Just felt like doing it. I thought,
aging making home, and I'll justturn around, I'll shut down my
plans for today. I'll turn aroundand I'll drive home. And then it
went from fifth gear to fourth gearand now at thirty miles an hour without

(52:19):
or maybe thirty five without really overrevving it. I didn't feel like driving
the twenty five miles I would havehad to done and trying to find surface
streets and taking two hours to gethome on a thirty minute drive. I
just parked it. And the scarypart was when I tried to back it
into a parking spot, I pulledforward, and then I was going to
back in so a tow truck couldjust pull it out by the nose.

(52:44):
And when I put the put thetransmission in reverse and off the break,
it went forward. So anyway,I'm in my Explorer. And this has
been during the bulk of my son'sbaseball tournament career. Still more to come
this summer too, but he's goingto have his own be hicle by then.
They sent me from the dealership.Hey, if you'd like to trade

(53:05):
in your car, we'll be gladto give you full big time value on
it. We're guessing you got aboutthirty six thousand miles on that thing right
now, Adam gets how many Igot? Are you paying attention? Or
no, I'm sorry, I'm pullinga Will Melbourne. You're gonna have to
say it again. Oh no,no, So I get I get a
little card from or an email fromthe dealership that sold me. My explorer

(53:29):
says, hey, if you'd liketo trade it in, man, we
make you a heck of a deal. We're we're presuming it's worth this much
money because we're thinking you got aboutthirty six thousand miles on it. Guess
how many I got on it?Mostly baseball mode at least, right seventy
oh wow, seventy where? Man? Yeah, I'd drive everywhere, man,

(53:49):
And that's going to come to agrinding halt here as soon as possible.
I think I got about fifty sixon my car. How long have
you had it? I've had itsince I was sixteen? Oh good golly,
man. Just like selling my wife. She her car is not that
old, and it it doesn't haverelatively any miles on it might as well
be brand new. But not mine. No, not the everywhere we go

(54:15):
vehicle. And I'm I'm still comfortablein it. It's not that big a
deal. Although if I could,if I could find something different, I
might try it for a little while. Seven one three two one two five
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got the global? See? Yeah, this is this is the information that
pops up if you really go lookingfor it. Thank you for this,

(54:38):
Edward. By the way, theglobal CO two levels are point zero four
percent. We were at point zerothree percent for the longest time and just
got up to point zero four atpoint zero two. And bear in mind,

(55:02):
your government in mind wants us toreduce CO two emissions as fast as
possible. If we get them downto point zero two, plant life dies.
And if the plant life dies,here comes an ice age. So

(55:22):
net zero is a depopulation agenda.That's getting into some that's getting into some
conjecture I would, I would say, But nonetheless, it's not. It's
not this country that's causing any kindof major issue with CO two. It's

(55:43):
not. It's simply not. Gotalk to China and all and talk to
them about their coal fired plants andand look at some of the differences and
ask yourself why, Ask yourself whywe're sending money all over the world and
making all and spending it to buystuff to go green when going green's gonna

(56:08):
kill us. I don't know.I don't want to get into that.
I really don't. Let's go backto fishing, shall we well, go
back to fishing when we come backfrom this break. I could go for
a long time on that, becauseI've read done a lot of research on
it, but I not in thisprogram. And maybe a little dabble into

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that on fifty plus every now andthen weekdays at noon on KPRC and turned
it a little different page. Infifty plus two, I tried not to
dwell on things a long time.A lot of midday talk show hosts and
AM and PM drive talk show hoststend to lash onto something like a dog
on a bone, and they won'tlet go, and they just keep going

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Back to the Doug Bike Show.Well, I was just talking to
Nicky Courtney down in the newsroom,the KKRH newsroom. I went, I
went and made a fresh pot ofcoffee, so everybody's happy again. And

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she grew up in Alaska, andshe also spent some time in North Carolina,
where that bear story came from.And the interesting thing that she said
to me was that when she grewup in Alaska, the thing about bears
they said was if you if youencounter a bear and you need to you

(59:52):
feel the need to run, Usuallycan just scream and holler at them and
they'll turn and go the other Butif you feel the need to run,
she said, they were always taughtto run uphill, Just run uphill.
Bears are cumbersome. They can't runuphill is they can catch you on flat
ground, Which is great advice forall the the marathoners and triathletes in the

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audience. But I don't know whocame up with that stupid advice for folks
like me. How far do theythink I can run uphill? How long
before I'm just gonna have to askthat bear to call a time out?
No, I'm it doesn't do youany good to climb a try. I

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guess you just say a prayer aboutall you can do. There's all kinds
of jokes about running into bears andwhatnot, but it's not a joke when
people are pulling their cubs out oftrees and taking selfies with them. I
don't know whether there is any lawthat they could have used to charge those

(01:01:04):
young women for doing that. Iwould think that I there's not one.
Now, somebody, somebody who understandswildlife in that state will come back and
create one, because that's messed upand sets a very dangerous precedent. Like
I said before, and I toldNikki, at some point somebody else is
going to try to do the samething, and the mama bear is going

(01:01:25):
to be really close, and themama bear is going to come out and
attack and either violently maul or killthe person who thought it'd be cool to
get a selfie, you know,just like those other girls did. And
if that mother bear, in defenseof her cubs, can be located because

(01:01:47):
it has attacked a person, atthat point, they're going to euthanize it.
Not the bear's fault, Not thebear's fault. Let me go get
the Robert, Robert up. Igot you, a stupid man. There's
a there's a pretty good chance I'veheard it. But as long as it's
clean, I'll let you tell it. It's clean. Okay, go ahead.

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You know how come bears can runso fast? No? Because they
run barefoot. Oh No, I'venever heard that. I've never heard that.
I love the simplicity of it.Yeah, Adam, how do you
rate that joke on one to ten? You know, it's it's it's it

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wasn't the best joke I ever heard, but it's getting a seven. Yeah,
dad, joke, I'll do that. I'll give you a seven on
that one, Robert, because becauseI didn't see it coming, I've never
heard that one. That's pretty good. Rode Barefoot. Oh yeah, we
should have been better to see thebear than that joke. I guess.
All right, man, thanks Robert, all right, man, I'm just

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I'm totally taking a back. Idon't know where to go from there.
There is the well, you're youngenough, you may not have heard about
all the people on never mind,it's just running from a bear, and
yeah, you don't have to outruneverybody. And this guy turns to his
friend and says, I don't haveto outrun everybody. I just have to
outrun you. So the bear catchesyou and not me. It's a it's

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a much longer joke that takes along time to set up, but it's
it's pretty funny too, but notit's not barefooted funny. Robert Tall's pretty
good. I enjoyed that seven one, three, two, two five seven
ninety. He took the time toactually call us and tell us that I
think that's pretty cool. Call usand tell us that meares Allen weighing in

(01:03:43):
on population. And I'll do this. I'll dabble here and then we'll get
to fishing. Uh. Everything I'veseen lately shows world populations in decline.
I would agree. Actually, warmerclimate produces more food. If the planet
cools too much, plants will dieand we will have no food. Uh
that God did that? Oh mygoodness. He goes on to to talk

(01:04:09):
about some other stuff that n notat breakfast time. Someone three two one
two five seven nine email me,Doug pie can iHeartMedia dot com. Back
to speckle trout, specle trot andredfish are becoming easier and easier. And
by the way, Mike, thankyou for calling in. Let me know
you're going fishing for two months.And if you can share the secret of

(01:04:30):
how you clear that with a wife, I think you would be doing the
the guys in this audience who areyour age to my age, a tremendous
service by figuring out that, byunlocking that door and letting us know how
you can walk out the door atone point and say I'm going fishing.

(01:04:53):
I'll be back in two months.I I that's I don't know how you
do that, but I'm curious.I'm interested by the way my buddy Robert
down it in Galveston. Different notthe Katie Robert, the Galveston Robert sending
me pictures of two redfish to keepher reds and one speckled trout keeper that

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he got off the pier. There'sa there's an update from down where he
is. Man one of the neighbors, one of the one of the neighbors
installed lights on a nearby pier thatit gives Las Vegas a run for its
money. It really does. AndI understand the guy's reasoning when when Robert

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told me why he had done it, and I get it, But boil
boil boy, it's going to changethe nightscape down there. Be hard.
You could, you won't. Youwon't have to turn on any other lights
to read a book, to landan airplane anything. They some people that

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might be some pilot come rolling inthere one night. I think he's looking
at the runway a little farther awayand try to land right down that pier.
It's lit up that well. Ahmercy, Okay, So back to
these trout The fishing ass actually hasactually been pretty good across the board.
The interesting thing that I've heard recentlyfrom some guides and from some you can't

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really hardly call them amateurs. Theseare grown men I know who have other
jobs but just absolutely love to fish. They absolutely love to fish and are
very good at it. And generallythe fishing has been good depending on what
you're looking for. If you're lookingto go catch speckled trout, pretty good.

(01:06:45):
If you're looking to dial in onfish six seven pounds in heavier,
you're gonna have to work a littleharder for now. But going back to
the new limits and how they're goingto impact trout fishing with that, With
the new limit and the new sizerestriction, there are going to be a

(01:07:10):
whole lot more speckled trout slipping throughthe gauntlet of top waters and swim baits
and jerk baits and slow sinking plugsand all of these lures that were throwing
at these fish and croke. Goodheavens, the croker fishermen are must just
be in shock. They're not goingto spend all that money to go catch

(01:07:33):
three fish, but one way orthe other we're going to end up with
a whole lot more trout and awhole lot bigger trout, and I'm going
to be excited about it. Hada sneeze come on me there and I
just didn't barely got to the button. You could probably tell right when I
was trying to say a word andit sounded weird. On the way out

(01:07:55):
to this break, I'll tell youabout Cca. There's something in here affecting
my affecting me allergically, and Idon't know what it is. And if
I have to sneeze again, I'llpush the button right before it so you
don't have to hear it, andthen I'll be right back. If you're
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(01:08:17):
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(01:08:39):
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This is Sports Talk seven ninety aHouston sports fan on air and on Facebook.
They contact back to the Doug FikeShow. I after I sneezed a
couple of more times and had tohit the had to hit my microphone off
button to cover a sneeze or two. That I'm having an allergic reaction to

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something called spin and that's the acronymand it stands for stupid people in nature.
I hear these idiots taking baby bears. I may write an email over
that way and find out exactly whythere's no charge it, why no charges
are being filed, Because somehow,some way, we've got to teach young

(01:10:36):
people that that's wrong and if there'scurrently no law against it, somebody needs
to write one this is just andno, you don't you don't do that.
Oh, I got a hunch whatI'm about to look at. JTK
sent me a something says, here'sa bear selfie for you. Oh my

(01:10:56):
lord, is that you? Whatdo you own? Never mind that bears.
I'll wrap this in quotes that bearsasleep. Yeah, Jay Jay's seeing
his share of grizzly bears as aprofessional guide all the way through the tallest
parts of North America. Ten footbrownies, he said, I don't know

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what that person was saying about abear climbing a hill. I've seen ten
foot brownies scale a mountain like uswalking up a set of stairs. Yeah,
I'm not you know who that is. That's somebody who doesn't run very
fast, but who wants the bearto be distracted from them and have something
else to chase me. Yeah,that's I'm not falling for that. I'm

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with you, Jay. Yeah,that's a that's a darn big barrier kind
of curled up next to too,isn't it. Holy cow, those animals
are just enormous. I've never huntgrizzly bears, I've never hunted brown bears,
but that that would have been onmy bucket list. Now I got

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a son. I got to gethim old enough and successful enough that he
can take me on some cool hunts. That's what I need, and I
need to do it fast, becauseI'm not getting any younger. Seven one
three seven ninety. Email me Dougpikeat iHeartMedia dot com. One more from
the Spin category and feel free ifyou've got video or you've got a story
about somebody who did something really stupidin nature. And I don't want anybody

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to die from doing something stupid,but maybe they just got their just reward,
as did this one guy. Ihadn't even thought about this story for
several days now, but I Iflashed back to it just a few minutes
ago, thinking about that stupid peoplein nature acronym. There's video of a
guy somewhere, not in North America. I'm pretty sure it's in Asia because

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the the stingray in question is notHe doesn't look like it doesn't look like
one of our stingrays. And it'sin very shallow, very shallow water like
inches of water, not even reallycovered, and on some marshy looking flat,
and there's a guy in a pairof shorts walks up and is kind

(01:13:18):
of just tapping his foot on theback of this stingray and tapping it and
tapping it again and tapping it again, and finally the stingray just says,
you know what, you know what, stupid, I'm just gonna teach you
that you shouldn't do that. Andthe stingray whips that tail around it stabs
that guy in the back of theankle, and he goes down and just

(01:13:41):
starts wailing like a baby, justwailing like a baby. He got exactly
what he had coming to him.That's the kind of guy will try to
pull a baby bear out of atree. Probably that was just so.
I don't know. I can't Ican't find any justification whatsoever for using wild

(01:14:04):
animals as props for selfies and clickbait. Let me just relax a little bit,
so back to it. Fishing hasbeen pretty good, and there have
been some big trout caught up anddown the coast. There will be more
big trout caught up and down thisentire coast as we move deeper into the

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results of the new limits. Isit going to happen overnight. No,
trout aren't going to magically grow anextra foot this year just because we change
the limit. But over the courseof three or four or five years,
given the chance, the twenty three, twenty five twenty seven inch trout that
are out there now that are goingto be spared the ice chest and the

(01:14:56):
skillet are going to be twenty eightthirty inches long. Not in a long
time either. They grow most rapidlyearly in age, kind of like kids
do, but unlike us, wherewe stop growing and actually shrink when we
get older. That's a horrifying thought. These fish are going to keep growing

(01:15:20):
and keep growing. And that takesme right back to my little tambourine.
I like to bang about using lengthand not weight to determine who caught the
best fish. Trout get heavy.Every animal gets heavier and lighter and heavier
and lighter almost on a daily basis, especially trout. If a trout goes

(01:15:41):
out and eats a pound and ahalf mullet and you catch it just afterward,
and they will continue to feed alittle bit sometimes after, even when
they've got big stuff in their gullets. If you happen to catch one just
after it eats, and I catchone that's exactly the same length, but
it hadn't eaten in three days,your fish is always going to weigh more

(01:16:04):
than my fish. But if Icatch one that's a half inch longer because
it's six months older, then I'vereally caught the better of the two fish,
because that fish that I caught hadsix more months to get smarter and
to elude me and to not getfooled by my lure unless I present it

(01:16:30):
just ever so perfectly. So yeah, I'm all about length and plus that's
something that you can you can usevideo to validate. Everybody's got a phone.
Everybody's phone has a camera. Everybodycould be in any tournament, could
be issued a specific measuring stick akaa yard stick. Really, for a

(01:16:55):
trout tournament, if anybody catches onelonger than thirty six inches, they ought
to just win by default, everybodyelse go home. But you could measure
trout on it and just buy howevermany entries you have, that's how many
you get each entry, each entrantto add two or three dollars whatever it
costs you to get those metal yardsticks, and everybody gets dealt one that's got

(01:17:18):
a specific symbol on it to notethat it's part of the tournament. On
and on and on. There's justways to make it valid and consistent throughout.
And then you've got yourself a wayto measure the true accomplishment of catching
a particular fish rather than weight that'sjust arbitrary. Bass blow up two or

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three pounds. Big female bass willput on three four pounds during the spawn.
Doesn't make them smarter. They justput on a lot of weight.
The same fish after the spawn's goingto weigh several pounds less. Does it
make it a less valuable fish?No, not at all. And actually
I think the Sharelooker program, bymaking it a minimum of thirteen pounds kind

(01:18:08):
of puts a little extra pressure onthose fish during the spawn when they're the
fattest. They've just developing their eggs. They've got that layer of fat on
them from wintertime and whatnot. Howabout just make it length. The fish
ain't gonna shrink after its spawns,but it's gonna weigh less and it won't

(01:18:28):
make the cut. It may bethe best potential giant bass maker in the
entire state, but if it doesn'tweigh thirteen pounds, it doesn't make the
program. And that's a little bittwisted too. Seven one, three,
two two five seven nine Email onmedugpick at iHeartMedia dot com. We'll take
another break here. We'll be rightback on the way out. I'll tell
you about Primo Doors. I gotword from Jason, the guy who owns

(01:18:49):
the place that my door, myfamily's new door, is back at their
shop for the final preparation before installation, which shouldn't be long. Now we've
got there's a couple of more stepsthey're gonna have to go through over there,
special stuff for my wife, andthen once that's done, that door

(01:19:10):
is on its way and I can'twait to see it. If you have
been thinking about the front of yourhouse and you stopped out there while you
were watering something a week or twoago, and you looked at your front
door thought, holy cow, thesun did that to my door. Where
was I when all this was happening. If your front door looks like an
old piece of plywood out behind awarehouse somewhere, it looks like driftwood washed

(01:19:33):
up on the beach, it's becausethe elements here are very harsh. And
if you don't maintain your front doorin a short time, you look up,
you haven't looked at it in six, eight, ten years, and
all of a sudden, you lookup at it looks like garbage. That's
not very representative of you and yourfamily. No, go to Primo Doors.

(01:19:53):
Well, the first thing you doget yourself excited about the search.
The first thing you do is grabyour your irs refund check if you got
one, and if you don't haveto spend that on groceries, think about
spending it on a brand new frontdoor, iron door, fiberglass door,
wood door. They've got thousands ofchoices, and so here's the here's the

(01:20:15):
timetable. First you look at thewebsite Primo doors dot com, and you
get yourself all excited about a frontdoor. Look at them before and after
pictures. You're excited. Now,holy calot, look how good our house
could look. And then you setan appointment over at the warehouse or the
warehouse showroom aka mostly showroom and justbeautiful stuff in there. Sit down,

(01:20:35):
talk to somebody in there who canhelp you decide from all those choices.
They'll help you pick the handle set. And by the way, if you
drop my name over there, theywill give you that handle set that will
save you hundreds of dollars. Hundredsof dollars just by mentioning my name.
Sit down with them, let themhelp you make your selections, and then

(01:20:58):
just sit back and relax and waitfor your new front door to arrive and
get installed by professional installers. Don'tgo to some box store, some big
giant hardware store and pick one oftheir doors, because the installer they send
to you may not do just doorslike the ones that Primo doors do.
My bet, we got a let'ssee here by we got a refrigerator at

(01:21:19):
this house. Then we're gonna installa front door. Then we're gonna go
help a guy build a shed.No, get somebody who does doors at
nine doors at noon, doors atthree, doors all day long. That's
all they do. And I've seensome amazing photographs of some really difficult installations
they did that were just absolutely spoton, perfect family owner and operated for

(01:21:43):
thirty plus years. Go check themout. Promo Doors dot com. They're
open today. I actually tend totwo. You can swing by and say
hi. I tell Jason, Isaid hello, Primo Doors dot com.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety breakingsports news on Facebook twenty four or seven.
We'll get that information to them.This is the Doug Fike Show.

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Cadam Scott sent me a picture fromhis trip up to Alaska where he got
to shoot bear pictures of his own. And there's an interesting one he sent
me because it looks like there's abig, old grizzly bear kind of sneaking
up on him. But in trueconfession, it's and I've been in situations

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like this before as well, whereit looks like something's a lot worse than
it is. But he said,we were shooting from the edge of the
river when this board decided our spotwas a perfect place to dine on his
salmon. So that bear just said, you know what you guys are kind
of in my way, but I'mnot going to bother you. I just
want to eat my fish. Thankgoodness for that. Better better that bear

(01:22:47):
who brought his own lunch to theto the table than one that's hungry and
too slow to catch a fish.That would have been a potentially different outcome.
Thanks for the picture, Scott,Thanks for making me jealous that you've
got to go up there and shootbear pictures. Mercy sakes, um that
I don't need to check that.Let's see what this is. Pardon me?

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Oh yeah. Alan makes a verygood point here, and it's one
that I've made kids cartoons these dayspush way too hard that animals are humanistic.
They aren't. And that's that's thewhole pert or purpose of this kind
of discussion is hopefully somebody who maybestill thinks that way, like we can

(01:23:35):
all just get along and wild animalsaren't really that wild. There are friends
and all of that stuff. Thereare animals out there that would just as
soon bite you, sting you,beat you up, rip you apart as
to look at you. They're wildanimals. They are not your friend,

(01:23:59):
and they're not your enemy, whichis true. They're not your enemy.
So long as you don't provoke them. And provocation to an animal doesn't mean
you have to beat it over thehead with a stick. If a mother
bear senses that you or anybody elsedumb enough to mess with her cubs is

(01:24:23):
a threat to her cubs, andthat won't take much, believe me,
just getting between some of the biggerbear species up like in Alaska, like
what Jay just sent me, Youget between that female in her cubs,
and that might be the last moveyou ever make. They don't they don't

(01:24:45):
rationalize anything. They are every wakingmoment wild animals have, they're in survival
mode. They're either eating to maintainthe strength to run away from a threat,
or they're running away from a threat. They don't they don't get a
lot of off time, and theydon't take a lot of time to judge

(01:25:08):
whether you're kind of friendly or kindof an enemy, or you might be
a little bit of a threat,or maybe not a threat at all.
They react instinctively, not rationally,and it's it's knee jerk reaction from wild
animals that gets people in trouble.They don't know any better. Their brains

(01:25:30):
aren't built for making complex decisions,and you don't think that's true. Go
out there and step on a stingray, or go out there and and grab
a grab a rattlesnake about halfway downits body. You when you walk up,

(01:25:50):
be sure to tell it you're hisfriend, and then grab it halfway
down its body. And please,you know, I'm not suggesting anybody go
try to pick a rattlesnake, butI'm just speaking in of something really dumb
that could get into a lot oftrouble. Don't know. Just don't mess

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with wildlife unless you unless you absolutelyknow what you're doing. Don't do that
because it's gonna cost you. It'sgoing to cost you a lot if you
pull that stunt, and in somecases around the world every year it cost
people their lives and make bad decisions. Oh look at that bear. Look
at that bear, he's so cute. Look at that buffalo boy. Yellowstone

(01:26:40):
National Park, Yellowstone. There aresigns everywhere. Don't get anywhere near these
animals. Don't get near the elk, don't get near the bears. Don't
get near anything just to take apicture or just to say you did,
because it could get you hurt.And people get hurt there all the time.

(01:27:00):
Routinely the stories. I doubt thatthey even publish some of the stories
anymore. It just gets so boringto keep reading that somebody from way down
South or wherever, somebody just hadto get close to a bison. Oh,

(01:27:20):
look at that beautiful thing. I'veseen them on Nichols, but I've
never seen a real one. Andso they get closer and closer, and
all of a sudden, that eighthundred nine hundred thousand pounds animals says,
huh, you're a little bit tooclose for comfort, and drop kicks them
then fifteen twenty feet in the airand lets them just fall on their backsides

(01:27:42):
and snap a few bones. It'sit's just a fool's errand to think you
can just mess with wildlife like that. They're not your friend, and they
will let you know. And thesigns are there, signs are everywhere.
Don't do it. And that's justmost recently there was somebody said don't and

(01:28:03):
they did. All right, we'regonna take a little break here on way
out. I'm gonna tell you aboutShooter's Corner. This is man one of
my favorite speaking to JTK listening thismorning and sending me a picture of him
next to a grizzly bear that oneof his customers took. Shooter's Corner has
been down at Palmer highwa in twentyninth Street for more than forty years now,

(01:28:26):
started by JTK or Jerry TK,Jay's father, and the two of
them are probably, i would say, two of the best guns missing at
least the state of Texas, ifnot in the South. They build amazing
custom rifles. They have a fineselection of both new and pre owned shotguns,

(01:28:47):
rifles and handguns. They have agreat selection of Ammo, optics,
Camo, everything you could need,reloading supplies, everything you could possibly need
to be a better shot or enjoythe shoeoting sports, more and stories galore,
and no matter who's in there,whenever wherever you walk in and wait

(01:29:08):
about ten seconds, you'll realize you'rehearing a fantastic story about the shooting sports
somehow hunting or competitive shooting whatever.And then after that person's done, you
get to tell your story. Smellslike a gun store. I talk about
that, it smells like a gunstore, and if you don't know what
that is, you haven't been ina real gun store. Go down there
to Shooter's Corner, and check itout. Palmerhighway twenty ninth Street, Texas

(01:29:30):
City. The Shooters CORNERTX dot com. If you wear a badge for a
living, you get a discount,which I think is really good. D
Shooters Corner, TX dot com.This is the Doug Pike Show, brought
to you by American Shooting Centers,Guns, Shooting and Instruction since nineteen eighty
nine. Now Here's Doug Pike Thirdand final hour. The show starts right

(01:29:55):
now. Hang on one second.I got to turn this back up in
here, even I don't know whatit's like the car, Uh well,
I do. I hear it whenI'm driving around, but the volume in
here goes up significantly when we goto breaks, and it just it kind
of drives me a teeny weedy,little bit crazy because I'm in here talking
to Adam or talking to Melvin nowor just trying to get something going on,

(01:30:19):
and all of a sudden, Holycow, what's going on? I
got to figure this out because it'sso loud. My head's about to fall
off. I got it now,Okay, I'm going to the Yeah,
I'm double checking this to see what'sgoing on. RBC Heritage Underway Tom hog
Sepstraca, Colin Morikawa JT posting allat eleven under par. And then from

(01:30:45):
there, let me see, Isee Aberg's name, Patrick Rogers at ten
uh a berg at or excuse me, oh Berg. They've got that little
that little symbol over the a.That's one that I'm not familiar with.
It's it's a Swedish deal. Butanyway, lud big oh Berg is that

(01:31:08):
he's tied for fifth at ten underpar with Mackenzie Hughes. And it goes
on from there most of the well, Scottie Scheffer's there. He can't stand.
He's gonna keep playing. He's gonnastay on a roll as long as
he can. He's an eight underpar, just three shots off the lead
with thirty six holes to play.I'd say that'd be all right. Let
me go get George. See what'son his mind, George, what's up?

(01:31:28):
Man? Hey Doug, it's beena while since our call. Just
dropped in and see what condition mycondition was? That's all right? Yeah,
Mickey Newberry, that's Mickey Newberry.He was from born and raised in
Houston, p Yeah, that's rightafter. Actually, Kenny Rogers in the
fifth edition had a big hit withthat song. Yeah they did. But

(01:31:49):
uh, you know, I calledin because you're talking about those bears.
You know. Last summer, Doug, you had a show and you post
question to your listeners what is theoutdoors mean to you? And it was
a great show, a lot ofresidents and everything that your listeners and callers

(01:32:11):
called in to share. And Icalled in and I shared a poem by
Nabari Scott Mama Day. He wasa native poet. He won a Pulitter
Prize in nineteen sixty nine as aNative American. He was the first Policer
Prize in literature, believe. Butanyway, he passed on January twenty fourth

(01:32:32):
of this year, and I quoted, I read almost the entire poem,
the delight song of I think it'sI can't remember. I don't know how
to say his name, saol tally, But you really liked the you know,
the poem because you've got the affinityfor a bit more like myself.

(01:32:53):
And anyway, you know that showsa lack of awareness what those young folks
were doing very much, you know. And there's another poet named real K
Rainier Maria real K, a Germanpoet and an excerpt from one of his
uh I think it's called the Songsof I Forget, But anyway, the
excerpt was, these things that liveon departure, fleeting, looked for rescue,

(01:33:18):
and something in us the most fleetingof all. And that's that's the
symbiotic relationship, because who's good whenyou go out? And that's what we
talked about. And I called in. And if you read his poem,
he talks about how he is thethe nice guy, and you know,
all these different things in nature.I am a feather on the bright sky,

(01:33:41):
on the blue horse that runs inthe plane, on the fish that
rolls, shining in the water,on the shadow all as a child,
the evening light, the luster metals, I'm the eagle plane with the wind.
I am a cluster beans he goeson and all you see, I
am alive. I am alive.I stand in good relation to the earth.
I stand in your relations God.That's what we need to understand is
and like Laos Sue said, thekey to growth is to introduce greater dimensions

(01:34:06):
of consciousness into our awareness. Andyou're right. If that's a reflection on
those those children, it's their parents. It's a reflection that that's a real
and so we got to get back. I think, you know, we're
reaching a point. You look atwhat's happening with our trout fisheries and we're
reaching a point where we all evolveand we're looking at more you know,

(01:34:29):
uh, having more ethical because unbrokenlaws did not constitute ethical behavior always.
Because I remember years ago, twentyyears ago, they called in the probably
learned that and it was the tentrout limit and these guys were talking about
how they'd been up fishing overnight andthey caught like eighty trout to get there

(01:34:51):
on live shrimp to get their tinfishing, you know, the limit of
the piece. And you know aswell as me, a lot of those
trout would they hit that trip.They stuck it down and they're not going
to survivalated. So that's not ethical. And I don't get off my man.
And I appreciate your show, Dougand everything you do. Yeah,

(01:35:13):
thank you, George. Really you'repen sees and you know that's this is
what your show is. So it'samazing. I'm a farmer. I'm a
farmer, George. There you go, man, Hey, spread the seeds
man, you got it. ThanksGeorge and Adam, and you know,
I'm gonna hate to see him.I know, the thing with music and

(01:35:34):
it's such a big part of mylife, you know. And yeah,
but I've got his email address andI'm gonna be okay, good, all
right man, Thanks George. Yeah, alright, let's get somebody lined up
to play the Texas Temperature game.I've got those passes, four passes to
Moody Gardens to see that fly Fishingfilm festival. You and three friends.

(01:35:56):
You can get one of them todrive, get one of them to buy
around the beers, get another oneto drive or to buy another round of
beers if you have to, andcome down and watch some cool movies with
me. It'll be a lot offun, I can assure you. So
seven one three two one two fiveis seven ninety. Use that number seven
one three two one two five sevenninety and I'll bet you we can squeeze

(01:36:17):
it in before the break, Adam, if we can get somebody to play.
I'm I'm still I'm contemplating, uh, maybe doing that again and just
kind of seeing what kind of answersI can get to. Asking that same
question that George mentioned, what doesthe outdoors mean to you? What does

(01:36:40):
the outdoors mean to you? Andto me? The outdoors is my It's
not an escape, it's a return. I'm not running away from something when
I go fishing or hunting or playinggolf, even I'm running to something.
And everybody's got stuff in their lifethat they have to deal with, and

(01:37:03):
everybody deals with it differently. Ilike to deal with it by going to
a place, and by a place, I mean anywhere that I can cast
a lure. I want to goto a place where I can do that,
so that I can and I knowit's temporary. I know when I

(01:37:23):
get there, when I start fishing, that I'll have to stop at some
point. Usually it's usually it's eitherdark or this time of year when the
Nats are just driving me crazy.I went looking for a little squeeze bottle
last night, as a matter offact, trying to hope, hopefully get
some of that. Adam, haveyou briefed Melvin on on what goes on

(01:37:44):
here? Okay, good, Soyou two are going to tag team it
against Travis. Let's get the musicstarted, Let's get going. Is it
hot? Is it cold? We'llfind out on the Texas temperature game because
you're yours Colne. All right,Melvin, if you were expecting more,

(01:38:12):
you're not gonna get it. That'sit. Let me get him fired up
here, all right? Travis?You ready to go, buddy? Yes,
they're gonna team up on you,which could work in your favorite could
work against you. I don't know. And in full transparency that that station
at Perryton is still broken it itshows an outland is throw it out temperature.

(01:38:38):
I have found what I believe tobe the second lowest temperature on the
board, and that's what I'm goingwith as the actual load. Do you
want to go first or second?I'll go second, You go second,
okay? Adam and Melvin, whatdo you think is the current low temperature
in the state of Texas? Well, we just did some debating, huh.
I think we're going with fifty eightfifty eight. Travis, what do

(01:39:02):
you think is the current low temperaturein the state of Texas. I'm gonna
say fifty five fifty five. Okay, that's gonna put you at that number.
Adam and Melvin, what do youthink is the current high temperature in
the state of Texas. We're gonnago win eighty six, eighty six,

(01:39:29):
And Travis, what do you thinkis the current high temperature in Texas?
Eighty one? Eighty one? Okay, I shouldn't reward either any of you
three people at all for trying toplay this game this morning. Oh my
gosh. Okay, so you guysguess fifty eight and fifty five is the

(01:39:51):
low temperature in the state of Texas. The actual low is forty one.
So Adam, you and Melvin missedit by seventeen. Travis only only missed
it by fourteen. We always neglectthe panhandle. Yeah, well, yeah,
the Perryton things shows one, butwe know that's wrong. Gotam,
I got forty one. Hold on, let me see where it is real

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quick, forty one at Dumas.So there you go. The high temperature
in the state of Texas isn't eightysix, and it isn't eighty one.
It's sixty degree. No, that'swrong. Hold on them. Then it's
no way, oh no, no, no, no, no, yeah,
I'm countering that too. It's eightyone. So Travis nailed it and
you only missed it by five,So that's better at least. Yeah,

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So, okay, I put downthe wrong number. That's okay, but
I fixed it. So Travis shouldwin anyway for getting at least one of
them exactly right. But he winsalso because his total difference was fourteen and
your total difference was twenty two.So Travis, I will see you at
the film festival, my friend.Yeah, come yeah, come on,

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say hello, bring your friends over. I'm going to put you on hold
so so that my two losers inthe production room can get your information.
I won't be that mad well Melvin'sI'm breaking him in pretty hard. It's
a fun game, Melvin. Don'tworry. You don't lose anything for not
winning this game. I'll put youoff to Travis. Yeah, and that's
off to Travis. He did prettywell. All right, He's back on

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hold and I need to take abreak, and I'll do that right now.
Boy. Speaking of Moody Gardens,how about this Moody Gardens Film Festival,
The Fly Fishing Film Festival. Filmsfrom around the world, two entirely
different lineups for each of the night'sFriday and Saturday, April twenty six,

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April twenty seven, And I reallywould love to see you guys down there.
This is beautiful films, and it'sthe only place that you're going to
be able to see both the Internationalfly Fishing Film Festival and the fly Fishing
Film Tour at the same event.And by the way, on the largest
screen in Texas. That's that MGthree D screen. It's a beautiful theater.

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It's amazing. Actually, what's inthat building? You won't You have
to walk in there and just seehow big that thing is to appreciate it.
Probably going to run into some oldfriends, welcome to make some new
ones over the weekend. Great foodtoo, and again that cash bar that
you can enjoy until you run outof cash, so long as you're not
driving anywhere, which brings up thehotel room packages they have put together for

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this event, which is a greatway to really immerse yourself in it for
the weekend, just have some fun. There are fly fishing lessons available if
you register beforehand. Going to bevendors from all kinds of great local and
national companies, and me on themicrophone hoping to make sure you guys all
have a great time like I didlast year doing this. The film fest

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tickets are just fifteen bucks apiece andthere are what April twenty six and April
twenty seven. Next Friday and Saturdaynights, you answer asking for a friend,
All right, that's gonna do that. Go to Moodygardens dot org.
You can find out everything you needto know about this whole thing. Moody
Gardens. It's next weekend Friday night, Saturday night. And then you can

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just go play golf or something duringthe day, or go fishing. That's
even a better idea. Moodygardens dotorg ninety. This is Sports Talk seven
ninety Houston Sports Online at Sports sevenninety dot com. Back to the Doug
Fike Show. We've just barely scratchedthe surface of fishing. I know a

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guy who's caught at least three thoughin the past few days. Hold on,
let me get the correct mouse overhere on this path so I can
find him. Sub Robert, Hey, what's going on, my friend?
How you doing good? Where areyou headed? Actually it just came back
in from Uston at two jobs more. I was about to hit the island

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back up. So are you done? Are you done for the day or
do you just have to wait aroundfor the phone to ring again? Technically
done? I got jobs tomorrow morning. Mind up already. Okay, you
know every day is Monday. Ohmy gosh, if only because that's my
day off. So yeah, Iwish that was Monday. I guess you

(01:44:25):
wish. Yeah, Oh yeah,sure. I know you enjoy what you
do and you're very good at itand that that makes it all a lot
easier. Try so tell me,So tell me what what'd you catch a
fish on last night? I tellyou last night. So my buddy,
he was hitting me up last night. He's like, hey, we want
to go fish, and I'm like, I mean, I really didn't have
any any urgency to go, butI was like, oh yeah, that's

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fine. And I had a bunchof did shrimps still my freezer. And
I'm like, you know, becauselately the bait camps of that just the
shrip has just been really too bigand I'm like, I don't want.
I don't like to use them whenthey're that big. So anyways, I
told him, I said, hey, come over whenever you want. I
said, I'll be out back.Got some dead trip, we'll get rid
of it. Maybe we'll catch somebait and use those four baits. So

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you know, I mean, that'sthe way I think so I, you
know, tossed out some lords.But man, that win. It was
coming out of the southeast. Itwas already at seventeen miles an hour last
night, and I'm like, man, it was whipping. So I was
already kind of in a in alittle bit of a mood because I'm like,
man, this is gonna make ita little miserable. You don't have
to do that. No, no, exactly. So but I could tell

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you wanted to come over. Sosure enough him it was going friend came
over and uh but man, I'lltell you what. And I had looked
at the forecast with the you know, the tie charts and all that,
and it showed high activity around nineto thirty, between like nine thirty and
a quarter to midnight. And soI was like, well, I had
to be up early. I'm like, I ain't gonna be out that late,
but we'll see what the bike does. Sure, And uh, I'll

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tell you what. So didn't takeme long to hook up into a pinfish
for sure, you know, especiallyon dead shrimp. Yeah, and uh,
man, I had one even aboutthe size of my my palm.
So I hooked him and threw himout there and let him sit out there
and marinate for a bit, andI thought for sure. I'm like,
well, probably catch a gar onthat size and uh. And it won

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too long. Man that pulled thatpulled boat over and I was like,
okay, I let it sit fora little bit because I'm like, well,
it's got to take a good,good bite out of that and uh.
And then it started pulling. SoI was like, all right,
I put I picked up the rodand I still let him pull some more.
And then man, I said tolook on that thing and it took
golf and I was like, oh, boy, I swear I thought for

(01:46:43):
sure it was a gar. Thatthing was heavy, and I'm like,
so I only damn. My buddykept saying, he's like, oh,
that's a car. I'm like,I guess because we couldn't see it.
And then he started splashing a littlebit and we're like and by then it
was dark. Well, man,I tell you what. We got that
thing up on the dock and fortwenty six inch red, he was fick.

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It was like eight pounds. Yeah. So I'm like, normally I
don't weigh them, but I waslike I had to weigh this one.
So and then then my buddy's girlfriendtook her a while, but she landed
her first little speck sixteen inches,so she was pretty thrilled about that.
And we were showing her how toshe was getting a little frustrated because she

(01:47:26):
was filling filling the bites, butshe just couldn't sit in the hook and
we're trying to teach her, butshe's getting the hang of it a little
bit. So that was good thatshe got it in. And and I
landed a small little black drum thatwe let go, and then my buddy
hooked up into a car and webrought it all the way to the dog
and I went to go gapp himunderneath the jaw, and as soon as
I smacked him, he took offand broke the line, just like you're

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gonna get him. Yeah, you'regonna get one chance at them. If
you don't get him, they're gonnabe gone. So yeah, but it
was cold to see him. Andthen uh, and then man, I
hit a about twenty one a halfinch red on a small little piece of
dead shrimp. I'm like, whatthe heck man? But they were out
there, I mean that way,and sort of died down a little bit

(01:48:09):
about I say, closer to ten. It probably went down to about thirteen
fourteen, but you could tell thatyou can still feel the difference even that.
A little bit of break sure,and uh man, I'll tell you
it just when you least expect it, and you go out there with no
like, yeah, whatever, mycat's out, my cats and I don't.
I don't, and all of asudden you have a stringer full of

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that A pretty good night. Yeah, ends up there for a while.
Well, good for you, man, it's up for you. So yeah,
I'm like, yeah, I know, I suit you some pigs like
that's been a little bit, butuh, I'm looking forward to that fly
fishing. Uh that's gonna be funto fit down here. I definitely want
to check it out. So yeah, it'll be good. Bring it up
man nowhere. I'll be uh yeah, you believe me. Yeah, I'm

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well, he's not gonna be ableto make it. He's got his last
baseball game of the season on Fridaynight and I can't make it. I
gotta be at the film festival.Yeah. I kind of hate it for
him, I do, but he'she understands this. You know. I
gotta go to work and when Igot to work. I gotta work.
I'll be sneaking peaks at the gamechanger app see what they're doing. They'll

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be all right, I got you, all right, man, save travel.
Yeah, I'll see you next week, all right, yeah man audios.
On his way home, he's beenon board some big ships somewhere up
here in the Houston Ship Channel,making sure it's safe to come in and
out and get work done inside thethe The just big bellies of those ships

(01:49:38):
that I've seen some of the pictureshe sent me, and it's amazing how
big they are on the inside,as big as they look from the outside.
If you're inside it walking around asa little teeny tiny old human,
it's a totally different perspective. It'sbeen interesting learning about the job he does.
Seven one three two one two fiveseven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia

(01:50:01):
dot com. I'm gonna wait untiltomorrow. Maybe actually I'll ask now,
and if we can get a fewanswers going through the rest of this program,
I'm happy to get them asking whatdoes the outdoors mean to you?
You don't have to call and answerthat question, or you can ask your
own question. If you've got acomment you want to make about something we've

(01:50:23):
talked about already, you want tobring up something new. All of that
is fair game on this show.It always has been, always will be,
And I'd love to hear from you. But what I want to know
what does the outdoors mean to you? And like I said, outdoors for
me is not running away from something, it's running to something that I know

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for me is is kind of therapeutic. Alan, what's up, buddy?
Say? You're right, You're exactlyright. Remember I told you a while.
You know, I go into thewoods to just unwind and spend time
and enjoy what God created. Anduh if I if I kill something or
catch something, that's just a bonus. Yeah, yeah it is. I

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could I carry a rifle into adeer stand a lot of times and never
even picked it up and watched tonsof deer. Yeah. Just I spend
more time walking around just looking atthings, yeah, than I do really
stalking deer. I understand. Imean I got one of the deer in

(01:51:29):
my friends are now, but itwon't stop me from going out and you
know, enjoying the woods, rightO? Kidding? What can I do?
Uh? Do you know what theymake. I don't think they do,
but I'm wondering, Uh, dothey make a free of tick block
for deer? Not unless you couldhang it on their ankles? Probably,
where are you gonna try? Andhow are you gonna get it on them?

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No? No, no, notmedicine like a like a like a
mineral block. Oh oh, somethingthat they could just chew on and be
protected. I I don't know thatanswer. Maybe one of my veterinarian guys
could do that for us, ifhe's listening. I should wish somebody would
have bed something like that. Ithink that'd be a game changer. Yeah,

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you know, that's not a badidea. Just protect them on the
fly, protect them, just hangsit out there, let them lick on
it a little bit and be protectedfrom fleas and ticks. I guess the
only the only concern might be dosagewhere they might get too much or too
little of it. But yeah,that's not a bad idea. Yeah.
I was looking on the internet lastnight, but I didn't really find anything.

(01:52:33):
I was like, man, suresome smart guy come up with that
already. Maybe I have to dothat. Looks like you're gonna have to
be that smart guy. So butbut so I'm I'm seeing around sixteen protein
to me too. If your bodyis healthy, it fights off a lot
of diseases that might be called fromfleas and tics. So if that's kind

(01:52:56):
of my thinking that someone invents moreof them blocks, Yeah, I'll tell
you what, if you'll let mego, I'm going to bring up the
guy who just called in, andthat's the guy who knows the answer,
and that's the guy who I hopewas listening. Let's try. That's good,
all right, man, thank you, I'll see you. Can you
let me talk to George before wehang up before we go to the break?

(01:53:17):
Come on, you can do it. Hey, George, what's up?
Man? I was hoping you werelistening. What's going on? So?
What do you think? Doc?Uh? The miracle advancement in this
profession since I walked in the frontdoor. Suppression of nineteen said it was
a once a month ive remectin basedheartworm preventative, but I've expanded that to

(01:53:40):
include the Flea Kick and mange Miccontrol products. Okay, the hair on
my next stands up. This stuffis so good and plenty of these are
oral. Now, the biggest questionwould be what is the species difference?
For instance, cats tolerate some medicationsto a much less degree. Come you
have to use, so there wouldbe a species difference in how these critters

(01:54:03):
would would be controlled. But I'mtelling you this stuff is phenomenal. I
don't even check a dog for mangeanymore. Here. Put them on this,
It's going to go away. Wow, So give it. Is there
any way that this could be putinto like a mineral block or something like

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that where deer out free range deercould come around and get some of it
and be protected well plenty, Sothe only issue that I would see with
there are a couple of issues thatI would see with that is palatability.
Can you get it in a palatablebase? For instance, plenty of plenty
of these are in a beef base, part guard and next guard or like

(01:54:45):
a little block of beef. Yeahyou so, and then figuring out the
dosage, and plenty of these areextremely safe. So you know you got
a deer that keeps coming back,and you know you'd be concerned about possibly
overdose. Right, But number one, species difference in how they handle medications.
Number two getting it to where itwould be accepted free feeding and then

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number three, any overdoses concerns.Yeah, okay, we had a we
had a local veterinarian in Missouri City, probably thirty years ago. Quit private
practice, went to work for thestate. I believe, seating oral rabies
vaccines. Yeah, I remember thatfor the for the Kyles. Yeah,
yeah, okay, yeah, interestingGeorge. I'm so glad you will listened

(01:55:34):
this morning. All right, thebill will be in the mail for coming.
Oh no, man, don't sendit to me. Well, if
I'm going to do your job,I won't you chem. All right,
let's see, I'm gonna have togo over there and groom some animals,

(01:55:56):
I guess. Get out of myget out of my debt to the to
the good man. Yeah, thatmakes sense. I was concerned about overdose.
I wasn't thinking about the species tospecies stuff. We're running late now.
I don't want to do that anymore. Timber Creek Golf Club twenty seven
holes, great place, great funplace to go play down on the south

(01:56:18):
side of town. FM twenty threepoint fifty one. Hang a west from
the golf freeway and you'll be therein about five minutes. Just shoot down
that road a little way until yousee a high school on your left,
and then take a right next doorto the convenience store, and that will
take you right into timber Creek GolfClub. Been down there for better part

(01:56:39):
of thirty years now, I think, and absolutely gorgeous, all twenty seven
holes, absolutely gorgeous routing through thewoods and along the creeks and whatnot.
Got a little bit of free standingwater out there that I'm told might even
have a few baths in them.I haven't fished those lakes, I don't
believe. Maybe once I take thatback, I did. Thank your staff.

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Talk seven ninety. Are you ready? Listen online at Sports seven ninety dot
com. Now more Doug Fike justtelling Adam and Melvin about this ego stroking
I got yesterday going to my son'sbaseball game. I'm in a very short
line of people trying to get in, and you have to and now they
don't take cash anywhere anymore, youhave to you have to do that what

(01:57:50):
is that a you what code isthat you have to scan? What are
they called a QR code? QRcode? You have to scan a QR
code into your and then pay onyour phone into whatever however they do it,
I don't know, but the bottomline is you have to put your
credit card number in all that.I'm really not comfortable with that. So

(01:58:10):
anyway, the people in front ofme were a guy in his forties and
his mother, and they got hismoney, and she said what about me?
And they said no, no,seniors get in free. So they
go on and I said, seniorsget in free. Good, how about
me? And the woman looks upat me and says, no, you
have to be sixty five, andI just kind of said, well,

(01:58:33):
actually no, I'm a little olderthan that. Even she goes no way,
and I whipped out my ID,which I haven't had to do in
about, I don't know, fiftyyears, almost and she said, well,
i'll be and I said, yeah, i'll be too. I'll be

(01:58:54):
a lot older than you probably,So anyway, I felt very flattered by
that. I'm not gonna lie.It made me feel pretty good. I
try for an old man. Itry real hard to not look old,
and I could probably do better atit if I paid more attention to what
I eat and got more exercise thanI do. But I'm still humming along.

(01:59:15):
I said, who was it?Ed? Edward sent me something pretty
funny. It's and I've actually seenthis before, Ed, but I've never
set it on the air, andI'm gonna do it. It's a four
panel cartoon. And this woman isleaning over the couch and saying I had
noticed you hadn't been playing golf lately, and the husband looks up and says,
I don't. I don't have anybodyto play with, And she said,

(01:59:36):
well, what about Clyde? Andhe says, well, would you
play with somebody who cheats on thescore and moves the ball when nobody's looking?
And she said, I guess not, and he said, well neither
will Clyde. That's pretty good,I think seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety. Emailme Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

(01:59:58):
I'm still kind of go went backto last week and watching the Masters and
how much fun that was and howit Scotti Scheffler just almost made it look
effortless. This guy is, heis in a zone. He's in a
zone, and he is I think, handling it very well, handling it

(02:00:24):
extremely well, and just pushing forwardit. And I wouldn't bet against him
this week. He's not that faroff the lead at the RBC, and
yeah, I'm gonna go play.I haven't heard whether or not he and
his wife have had their baby.Meredith is her name, and that was
something that was kind of hanging overhis head and pretty much everybody's at the

(02:00:46):
Masters last week, really on Sunday, because he had already told everybody,
Hey, if I get that phonecall, no matter where I am on
that golf course, I'm leaving.I'm going to be there for the birth
of my child. And fortunately forthe world of golf and pretty much anybody
and everybody who was who was watching, it didn't happen, and he got

(02:01:11):
to win that tournament. And nowwho knows. I need to check during
the break. I want to takethat break in just a minute. Let
me go talk to Danny first andthen I'll go from there. Danny,
what's up, buddy? Oh Doug, I got a real problem. I
got real bone hit it one night, trying to tell you off of somebody
trying to break in my apartment.Got a thirty thirty okay, sussing around,

(02:01:32):
got a thirty six shell gym,didn't it trying to load it in
the dark, Oh lord? Andnow I took it to a dunsmith in
California. He did get to athirty Hodt six round out okay, But
the hammer on the things stays cocked, and I'm a little afraid to shoot
that thing because, yeah, youknow, well is it not the chamber's

(02:01:57):
empty, Yes it is, Okay, so it's not going to go off
on you. If you pull thetrigger, You're scared it's gonna damage the
hammer or the firing pin or something. I'm afraid it's gonna blow up in
my face. I'd like to havethat gunsmith you mentioned. You said this
guy was an expert. Yeah,what part of time? Then I'm in

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the third Ward in Houston, justsouth south of the U of eight,
hop on forty five and just rundown south to Palmer Highway. I can't
remember exactly what the number is orwhatever it is, but Palmer Highway at
I want to say twenty sixth street. Let me just double ship because I
don't want to send you the wrongblock. Even Palmer high at twenty ninth

(02:02:41):
that's what it is in Texas City. And yeah, run it down to
Jerry and JT. K. They'regood as they get and that'll be an
easy, easy drive for you.Just make believe you're going to the beach
and then about two thirds of theway there, take a left. Yeah.
Oh yeah, they I guarantee youfix that, gun. I guarantee
you they'll fix that. Boy.I'm trusting any word. That's why I

(02:03:04):
called in. I heard you sayit, but I didn't get to write
it down, so I called into get the info. So what doing
what you're doing? You're a blessing. You're a real blessing. And what
happened with the burglar man? Howdid that happen? Holy count vedro Okay,
well, h we had a newborn, uh thank you, about

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three months old at the time,and uh, I just had a frustration
when I when I couldn't get thegun, you know, to load the
cartridge. Yeah. I turned thelight home and I grabbed a barrel.
I was known beating across the headwith the with the thirty to do what
you gotta do. It's that orknife. Ye will give me some distance

(02:03:45):
between us and and uh, blessingfor me? He run off. Good,
good, blessing for both of you. Yeah. We were looking on
the first floor and a three storyapart. We moved up to the third
floor. Yeah, a good call. Make them walk up. I don't
park my car on the ground levelin our parking, on any parking garage

(02:04:08):
if I can help it. Really, if somebody's gonna steal my stuff,
I want him to have to workfor I want him to be huffing and
puffing, all right, party,Oh, thank you you too, Danny,
see buddy, all right? Yeah, run it down straight down south.
That's an easy one to get tosouth side of town, Palmer Highway,

(02:04:29):
twenty ninth Street. Jay, beexpecting him, and see if you
can. It's not gonna Yeah.He just wants to make sure that gun's
doing the right thing. And Iknow you guys can take care of it
for him, all right. We'regonna take a little break here on the
way out speaking up now other partsof town. I'll probably send it to
Carters Country, and that's a greatplace to go, the trash Week Store.
That's a long way from south sideof town, okay, but the

(02:04:53):
trash Week Store is where they've gotthat big range as well, and that's
where they're doing the classes, theconcealed carry classes at Carter's Country every other
Saturday and Sunday every other weekend.So it's kind of like a Saturday this
week and a Sunday next week,and it goes back and forth like that
in every other weekend to make surethat anybody who needs that course can get

(02:05:15):
it. And really, as agun owner, you probably ought to go
ahead and get the certification that will. What you learn in the classroom session
is the legality of carrying and ordrawing and firing your weapon where you can
where you can't do that, andthen you also are going to be assessed
as to your proficiency with that weapon. And the reason they do it up

(02:05:40):
there in spring on trash Wig isbecause they've got that big range up there,
and anybody who's worried about oh gosh, I don't know if I'm a
good enough shot to pass the course. First of all, if you have
that concern at all, take somelessons, get some confidence with that weapon,
fire it more than once or twicebefore you go into that class.

(02:06:01):
You need to be comfortable, andyou need to be confident in the loading
and unloading, in changing magazines andall of that. And that's basic stuff
you ought to be able to dowith your weapon. And then make sure
that all you all you have todo to actually pass the course is hit
something roughly the size of a posterboard at twenty yards. It's not that

(02:06:25):
hard. And once you can,once you can do that, which should
be pretty easy. Most of thisaudience, I don't think we'll have a
problem with it. If you do, like I said, take some lessons,
you'll be fine, And then you'llbe a lot more confident. You'll
feel a lot safer, whether it'sprotecting your family at home or trying to
stop an immediate life threatening situation somewhereout in public. That happens, I

(02:06:48):
pray to god it never happens tome or anybody in this audience, but
if it does, I want somebodyto be able to stop that threat before
people get hurt killed. That's whatthis course can do for you. And
by the way, Carter's Country,Yeah, they kind of got everything you
could possibly need, guns ammo andhunting stuff. That's the way Bill Carter
described it when he was alive.And the story has been there sixty something

(02:07:13):
years and it just keeps on goingbecause that's what they do, guns ammo
and hunting stuff. Now online too. You don't even have to go to
the story. You can just getonline to check it out. Carterscountry dot
Com is the website. Carterscountry dotcom. Your rockets and astros live here.
We are Sports Talk seven ninety.The conversation continues. This as the

(02:07:33):
Doug Fike Show, Big Day,all kinds of stuff going on. I'm
gonna stick with it, and I'mgonna expect to see some emails maybe throughout
the day. If you get achance and you think about it, give
it a few minutes of thought,and then shoot me an email to tell
me what the outdoors means to you. As we talked about earlier in the

(02:07:55):
program, I did this a coupleof years ago. Maybe I got some
pretty good answers, and I'm reallycurious and I'm hoping that some younger people,
and maybe those of you who areparents of teenagers or people in their
early twenties somewhere in there, maybethirties, kind of curious to see whether

(02:08:18):
the answers are different for them thanfor us. Because, as someone who
grew up in a time when wetook our shotguns to school because we were
going dove hunting right after baseball practice, or we didn't think twice about somebody

(02:08:43):
carrying a gun through a parking lotover their shoulder. Didn't feel uncomfortable at
all about seeing shotguns or rifles inracks, in pickup trucks, in school
parking lots. It was an entirelydifferent time. Nothing even close to that
would be acceptable. People would bescared to death to see something like that,

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when in reality that should be comforting. It should tell you that the
people who brought those guns to schoolhave no intention of doing anything with them
other than using them for their intendedpurposes after school. It's dove season.
That's why there's a shotgun in therack. I saw an interesting story two

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stories out of Tennessee yesterday. Onewas kind of weird in that the state
of Tennessee has now outlawed keem trails, which are not a real thing,
mistaken mistaking them for the real thing, which is a con trail, and
con in that case stands for condensationwhich causes those streaks in the sk way

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way up high where the big jetlinersgo. They might as well have outlawed
unicorns and leprechauns and all of thatas well in the same bill. On
the other hand, Tennessee also hasvoted to allow educators to carry guns in
school. I don't have a problemwith that, because a person who is

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intent on doing harm doesn't want tobe confronted, doesn't want to have any
opposition to going and doing that harm. And that's where this whole notion of
gun free zones. If you lookback over the past eight or ten years

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or more, a lot of thesituations that involved people with guns doing dreadful,
horrible damage to unsuspecting people was donein places where guns weren't allowed to
be carried by good guys. LemMe go try and catch a couple of
these called holy cow all blowing inBrandon. What's up man, Hey,

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mister Pike, how are you thismorning? Good? I'm gonna try to
get to a couple of calls.Quick what you got. Yeah, I
know we're running on a short time. I just I just wanted to comment
on on the things that you weretalking about. And yes, I am
fully uh how supportive of people thatteachers that are packing and as long as

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they have the proper training. Andthen and the the other thing was,
I remember very when I was veryyoung, my grandfather took me. We
I was on various ranches, veryfish the corporate Christie ship channels. So

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I mean it's I mean those thingsyou think you're not planning to seed when
I mean, but those thieves cameback up to grow into beautiful flowers.
And I mean that's you think youthink it doesn't have an impact on young
people. Yes it does, yetit does later in life. Yeah,
I'm gonna go catch one more.I gotta do that. Boys. I

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got about a minute for you,buddy, what's up? I'll talk fast.
Graduate Memorial High School. We usedto have shotguns in our and our
gun racks and our pickups. Friendof mine's father, David Cummings, velpsinco
ranch and that used to be sandpitched up there. We got almost good
out there, Oh almost an eaglelake was a goose cap in the world.
You can't find you geese anymore.I'm in New York. I'm in

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New York state. Oh my gosh, thanks for listening. Yeah, and
you have to carry you have tocarry a card with you that lifts all
the guns that you own whenever you'recarrying a firearm. That's ridiculous. It's
ridiculous. Yeah, I'd like totalk to you some more. Shoot me
an email. Let's ask you acouple of questions. Thank boys, I
sure will, all right, adios. Well there you have it, listening

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all the way up in New York. I don't know who else is on
the line, and I'm sorry Icouldn't get to you. I gotta make
way for Dan Matthews. He's comingup next on Sports Talk seven ninety Adam,
where is he today? See onvacation somewhere? Who knows? All
right, I gotta get out ofhere. Tomorrow we will do it again.
I'll ask that question again. Whatdoes the outdoors mean to you?

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I'm sure glad it doesn't mean mehaving to carry a card for all the
guns I have. A lot ofTexans would have to carry a book we'll
be back tomorrow. Get outside,have some fun, stay safe. I'll
see at eight o'clock. Audios