The Doug Pike Show 6-16-2024

On this episode of The Doug Pike Show we talk all things Father's Day and share some meaningful storys along the way. 

Episode Transcript

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All right, Sunday ed issue ofthe program starts right now. It is
Father's Day. Father's Day, itis, man, I can't even see
that. It's funny. I cansee into the studio. But whoever's in
there standing up there he is nowhe's sitting down. All I could see
was the bottom of Cow's beard andhis Champions Golf Club shirt. Good for

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you on that. Your phone isin here, by the way, did
you hear me say that? No, it's not gonna go anywhere. Holy
cow, what a day? Huh? We are We have the good fortune
today to be on the tail endof a nice string of good weather.
Of course, when I couldn't getmy roof done, and of course now

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that the roof was scheduled for tomorrow, not looking so good on that or
the rest of the week. Sowe'll just have to figure that out.
It's we're gonna get one soon enough, and hopefully this little thing that's popped
up down in the right at theCampeachy Yucatan Gulf of Mexico corner, basically,

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we'll see what happens. The weatherforecasters here have been talking about this
now for the better part of aweek, and I hesitate to say it,
but then I don't either. They'vebeen going all chicken little on us.
The sky's about to fall, thesky's about to fall. Pay no

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attention to the National Hurricane Center's mapbecause there wasn't a yellow X down here
yet. But the sky's gonna fallnext week. That's what they told us
all this past week. And asit turns out, now, finally today
the National Hurricane Center has recognized thatpiece of weather with its tiny little x,

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just a yellow X down there.Not much going on for forty eight
hours, and it might in thenext five or six days develop into something
as it moves westward onto the mainland. We're gonna get some breeze, we're
gonna get some wind up here.We're gonna get showers, those outer band
things, if that were a biggerstorm. But it doesn't look like it's

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going to amount too much except forrain and high tides. Now, we've
had enough rain events around here latelyto last a lifetime. I get that,
I get it, and this oneprobably is just gonna be Actually,
I don't think it'll be even nearlyas bad as what we've had lately.

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But it's gonna rain and the wind'sgonna blow a little bit on shore flow
by the way, which will pushtides up considerably. They will, they'll
be higher. And actually, asthe tide comes into the bay systems,
fishing's gonna change, the red fishespecially, and then the bigger tree out

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will follow them, will push deep, deep into that marsh to find every
little thing that's being flushed out bythe higher tide. Now, when that
tide starts to fall, that's whenit's that's when it's going to turn on
pretty good. All the little drains, everything coming out of the marsh,
every ambush point there is is goingto be occupied basically shoulder to shoulder by

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predators just waiting for something to comeflushing down the pike. I have to
tip my hat to anybody who raisedmore than one child. I'm having enough
trouble. My wife and I aredoing that. And so Happy Father's Day
to every one of you who movehelped raise the child. And special recognition

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goes to any dad who's had toraise a family alone for whatever reasons,
whatever puts you in that position,you were there and you did the best
you could. And Okay, likeI said, my wife and I just
have the one. He's sixteen yearsold now, by the way, and
he is full on sixteen. Ifyou know what I mean. I heard

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a comedia explain it this way,he said to the audience. He said,
if you have a question about anythingin the world, anything at all,
no matter how complicated it might be, no matter how many people you've
already asked, just ask my son, because you can say it with me.
He knows everything they think they doanyway, And it wasn't for me

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anyway. It wasn't until I wasprobably at least thirty that I realized how
little I knew when I was sixteen. And by the way, one more
Father's Day note, and of courseFather's Day stories as yesterday. Welcome all
the way through the program today.If you want to acknowledge something cool you
and your dad did at some pointfive, ten, twenty thirty years ago,

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I'm happy to listen, happy tohear the story, happy to let
you share it with the audience.That's fine. I want you to do
that. And I'm not trying tobe a but I'm gonna tell you something
that I saw this morning that absolutelybroke my heart. It absolutely broke my
heart. On fifty nine inbound alongthe feeder between Bisonett and Gesner. Police

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were doing something they probably hate doingas much as we hate seeing it,
investigating a fatality accident. Okay,there was a twisted up motorcycle at one
spot on that feeder street, andabout fifty or sixty yards down a little
white Sedan little whites imported Sadan thatwas all twisted up and had slammed head

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on into one of those sound barrierwalls. And just like that, at
least one man's Father's day will neverbe the same for him. I don't
know how many people perished in thatcrash, but even once too many on
Father's Day, especially any any day. Any crash that takes a life is

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bad enough. But I can't imaginegetting that call on Father's Day. You
had plans gonna go to dinner withyour young adult son, you hadn't seen
it in a while, and thephone rings at four or five in the
morning, or you get a knockon the door and you see a police
car in front of your house.Oh. I so feel for that family,
those families, whatever, whoever's involved, Please please encourage your kids to

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slow down and do the same.I see a lot of grown men just
flying down the freeway thinking they usedto they were teenagers at one time and
they probably drove like that. Thenset a good example so that they can
be there for you for a longtime to come. You're gonna need them
someday, just like they need younow. Oh, set a good example.

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Okay, let's step away from that, look ahead to what promises to
be a very nice day to celebrateFather's Day for most of us. Lots
of sunshine, a little bit ofa breeze, which didn't help the surf,
by the way, I looked atthe cameras down there, a little
bit a little bit iffy, Iwould say, for surf waiting unless and
I haven't looked at surfside yet.It depends on the I've got to get

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Oh, I'm gonna get back inhere and find out exactly what direction that
wind's blowing, because there may besome protection in a few places where you
could sneak away from the waves andlet me TikTok TikTok. Whereas wind surf
there it is that's what I wantto see, thing dead on shore straight

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onshore winds. So not a lotof protection in Galveston being offered by the
rock groins. Not any protection reallywhatsoever at surfside is blowing right up the
channel, right up the channel,so what you see is what you get.
There won't be any place to hidebut back in the bay if you
want to go wade somewhere, ifyou're and believe me, there'll be plenty

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of boat traffic out today. Everybodyknows that this week is about to fall
apart weatherwise. Seventy eighty ninety percentchance of rain something like that tomorrow,
up to an inch maybe an inchand a half in some places, according
to what I looked at just alittle while ago. So just be careful,
Okay, be careful. Get outthere, have your fun, but

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keep your head on a swivel,because there are people who everybody celebrates differently,
and a whole lot of people ona day like this are going to
celebrate with alcohol. And when youmix that with roads, when you mix
that with the water where there areno traffic lanes at least to offer some

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suggestion of of civility and direction whenthe water is a very dangerous place.
And like I've said many times before, I'm hoping to live long enough,
and I don't know that I willnow that so many more people are moving
down here to go through an entirejust a summer, not even a whole

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year, a whole summer with noboating fatalities, and then later on a
whole winter with no hunting related fatalities. We've come close on the hunting side,
We've come down to one, andthere may have been I can't recall
exactly it may have been a zeroon the hunting side this past season.

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I'm not sure. I will tellyou this as optimistic as I am and
believing strongly that this just does indicatethat I might make it to my goal.
Fewer and fewer of these accidents,these horrible injuries that are happening have
alcohol involved. The stereotypical drunk hunteror drunk fisherman is being replaced by someone

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who I'm not saying a whole lotof these guys don't have a beer at
all while they're out there. Butit is less and less an issue when
there are problems on the water,and that's indicative of just I think people
straightening up when they're driving boats thatdo seventy eighty ninety miles an hour.

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You can't you can't drive a boatdrunk any better than you can drive a
car drunk. And if you doget caught doing that, you will be
in a heap of trouble. Absolutelyyou will be seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Holy cow. I look up to the screen.
I'm just staring at my wind thinghere, and I got two calls waiting
on me. Let's go. Who'sbeen waiting the longest. That's Brandon.

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I'll catch Brandon real quick and theni'll get you loop. Brandon. What's
up, buddy? Hello Brandon?Oh maybe it's not working this morning.
Let me put him on hold.Can you try him? Cal There we
go, Hey Brandon, what's up? Man? I'm right happy Sunday?
Thank you. I appreciate that.What can I do for you? A

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happy fother's day? Thank anyway?Thank you? I appreciate that. Man,
I'm doing I do you know whattype of gun should I get?
You know, I'm not sure.It would depend on what you want to
do with it. So that's that'swhere we would have to start. I

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would you know what I would do? I would talk to somebody who knows
a lot about them and just justsit down and tell them what you want
to do and where you'd like togo with it, and whether you're gonna
be hunting, whether you want itto just target shoot whatever. Take somebody
with you who can help you makethose selections and figure it out. Just
take it step by step, man, don't be in a hurry. I'm

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gonna move. I'm sorry. WhatI'm gonna wait because we're gonna move to
cornro Oh okay, yeah, there'ssome good places to check up there too.
Hey, let me go catch Lukebefore I have to go to this
break. Okay, all right,well, thank you. I appreciate that.
Brandon, all right, let meI'm gonna try this one. No,
you're gonna have to do them calall the way through. Thanks.

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Hey, Luke, what's up,buddy? Not much? I'm sorry.
That's where run into the gulf rightnow. I don't how is you're out
there now? No, we're headingup there. Okay. Where are you

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going? Oh good, you're gonnafish the beachfront? Are you going out
out out beach front? Oh no, it's a little bumpy, I'll tell
you right now. It's not blowinghard. Hold on, let me go
back to wind surf. Where didit go there. It is, it

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is. It's eleven miles an hourdown there, nine ten eleven, so
it's not gonna kill you. It'sdead on shore too. Boy. I
hate to even say it and thinkabout it, but it because I know
it's gonna be crowded as can be. The surf side. Jetti might be
a choice if you can find elbowroom. I haven't looked at the pictures
down there yet this morning, butI know it's going to be super crowded.

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And you sound like a fairly youngguy tough enough to wait out in
that surf. That might not bea bad plan. There's gotta be fit
that surf, even if it's alittle off collar, there better be.
Yeah. I think you'll be allright down there. I really do.
It's and like I said, it'sthis. There's gonna be some waves.
You're gonna walk out to the secondbar and be willing to jump over a
few of them, but you shouldbe all right. Fingers crossed. Be

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safe, man, don't don't messup. Don't mess up on Father's Day.
Who you going with? My mywhole family, my parents, and
my brother. Nice. Good foryou, man, Good for you.
When was the last time you weredown there a month. It's not bad.
Yeah, you're ahead of me rightnow. Then nice, good for

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you man. Have some fun.Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that.
Man. Audios we got holy cow. We gotta take a break,
don't we. We do? Allright, see all right, we got
to take a little break here onthe way out. Let me tell you
about boy, you talk about aplace to go. If you don't have
any plans today, you just you'rejust gonna wing it, wing it on
out to Belleville Meat Market. Takethe whole family out there, have a

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little lunch on the patio, dropoff your father's day meat products order,
and then go have that lunch onthe patio. And by the time you're
done, they'll have everything all packedup, boxed up, ready to bring
back home. Belleville's been out thereforty something years and serves people from far
and wide, not just far orwide. And why do they come there

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so often? Because there are thosethirty plus flavors of premium pecans, smoke
sausage samples always available on the countertop. There are appetizers and cheeses and spices
and handmade to the huge handmade toMolly's mushroom caps and jilapeno pepper stuff with
cheese wrapped with bacon. Pretty muchanything in that store can be set to

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your door too. If you don'tfeel like driving on Father's Day, you
can go online and check it out. It's an easy dry though. It's
a very comfortable drive ten out toSealy or fifty nine up to Hempstead technically
because it's on thirty six about midwaybetween Ceely and Hempstead. But there is
a little shortcut if you go outthat two ninety route that will wind you

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through some beautiful just the kind ofedge of the hill country topography out there.
It's a nice, comfortable country driveand the reward, of course,
is that you get to Belleville MeatMarket. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com is a
website. By the way, eightyfive to fifteen ground beef just three fifty
nine pounds and a ten pack,and if you've got a family full of

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kids eating hamburgers, that's not abad way to go to keep that freezer
stocked up with delicious fresh ground beeffrom Belleville meet Morcot. Belleville MeetMarket dot
Com is a website. Belleville MeetMarketdot com A twenty one on Sports Talk
seven to ninety The Dugpike Show.Thanks for listening, certainly to appreciate it.
On this Father's Day. Hope,if you have plans with dad,

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or if you are the dad,hope you're family. He's got plans for
you that you will enjoy. Idon't ask for much. I really don't.
I don't want things. I haveso many things. It's very and
my wife it's very hard to buyfor you as it is for her.
We've been together a very long time, and we know each other very well,

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and she knows that she couldn't pickme out, pick out for me
a fishing reel any more accurately oreasily than I could pick out for her
a purse or a pair of shoes. It just doesn't work that way.
So we work it out. Wework it out. Let me get get
this mouse here and go up.I'm gonna try it again. No,

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it's still we got to adjust somethingin their count. I have no idea
what they do when that's messed up. Hit him there he is, Hey
Dave, what's up buddy? Heymen? Yeah, man, socks and underwear
is always a good present. No, it's not. Don't say that out
loud. Somebody's gonna believe you.My dad, dude, my dad,

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he taught us everything. So Iknow what I was going to tell you
along the lines of that accident.He saw my dad. They were doing
some maneuvers and him and my uncleSonny were both master sergeants over there at
Fort Hood, and they were doingsome practice stuff and somehow a live grenade
got in there. Yeah, andone of one of my dad's troop.

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He didn't get killed. I mean, he came out all right, but
man, my dad said the backof his shirt was just shredded. And
well, my dad had to gointo temple over there and knock on the
mama's door door and tell her,you know, tell her what happened.

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I can't. Well, well,hey, my dad he was he was
strong. He was a tool anddie maker. He made the tools to
make the tool to build a machineto do this tools, you know,
and yeah, man, you know, he was very good at uh,
plastic fuel fuel, plastic injections,you know, like for computers or Clorox
bottles. I remember going to fredI don't tell me where he worked,

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and seeing all these Clorox bottles comingoff the line. Wow. Yeah,
and uh, the ladies would thatwould be down there inspecting them. If
something was wrong with him, theywould throw them away and then they would
take that plastic and recycle it againand go again, you know. Fascinating.
Yeah, hey, you me andmy dad man, he taught us

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how to hunt fish, how toact act right, and like you were
saying, when we were teenagers.Yeah, we gave them, like my
dad told my mom, Margie,and these boys ain't saying so. But
anyway, we we did good.And and he gave us the great opportunity

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to learn music as my mom did, and be able to entertain people,
and uh, you know, andand show respect the people. Yeah,
yeah, show respect. Open thedoor to an older person, yep,
or a lady, you know,and and you know what, just anybody
at my age, I'll hold thedoor for anybody. I I don't care,

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you know, I'm standing there.I got nothing to do but be
nice to somebody, so off holdthe door. Yeah yeah, I understand.
Yeah, yeah you do. Yeah, I know you do. But
young people don't. Now. Well, no, that's what I was gonna
say. Surprisingly for me a fewtimes around here. Uh, I've got

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I've got them that will open thedoor for him. You know, I
agree. They don't even want money. Yeah, on second thought, I
would agree with you. I thinkthere's a swing back in the right direction.
I really really do. You're exactlyright the more I think about it,
Well, thank you, David.It's good to hear from you.
Man. Yeah. Hey, uh, I'll never forget when my dad first
started teaching the side of fish,he would just have a hook with one

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coat off of a mina on acane pole and the junk it out there
and just slowly drift and I'll neverget that little big cane pole. He
hooked a five pound bass, Ohmy word, and he was coming around
the pier. This is on oneof our stock ponds, and he's coming
around the pier towards the bank,and then the pole broke. My dad

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jumped in the water and grabbed thatfish. Holy cow, you know,
speaking of teacher, speaking of bigfish on cane poles, have you ever
watched one of any of the videosfrom the old school tuna boat days where
they used big, big, heavypoles and heavy line and just would they
get into these schools of tuna andchum them up and then they throw these

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jigs off the side on this heavyline, just one. There's no real
it's just a pole and a linelike a cane pole set up. And
there's not even a full barb onthe hook. It's just about a half
a hook. So that they couldthat would it would grab the fishes lip
and mouth and they could flip thosethings up and they would go over their

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heads and land back on the deckand somebody else. As soon as it
hit that the line would come outof the fish's mouth, so they could
throw it back into the water immediately. And it's it's impressive to watch.
It's worth it's worth five minutes ofstaring at the screen. It really is,
man, you know what I doremember that, Yes, I remember
that, just slinging, just standingup the big man. Those guys backs

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had to just been just been stronglike bulls, you know, they had
to be. I don't know that. They put some ben gale. Don't
you know it? Man, don'tyou know it? Yeah? I hope
you're gonna have one to tell yougive your son a for me and you

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right, yeah, boy, fingerscrossed, Dave, he's a kid,
is lord. You got your handsfull I do. Yeah, his little
truck. I think it's about sixseven weeks old now something like that.
He's already got I don't know,like twenty five hundred miles on it something.
Oh, he's going hard, man, I'm gonna put a track.

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Dad. He'll cuss on all thatstuff too. And he taught us how
to do mechanics and stuff on yourvehicle. Nowadays you can't even touch nothing.
Computers hard enough, just open thehood. Yeah. When my dad,
he used to work on Model a'sand bottle teams. Oh yeah,
how are old? Are you?Dave? Good? Lord? Well,

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I'm sixty three, but my dadpassed away at seventy four, and that's
been fifteen years ago. Yeah,I understanding. Yeah, I lost mine
longer than that ago. I did. Man, all right, buddy,
Hey, happy father, everybody,Happy father, everybody. We'll see all
right, ideos Okay, let mesee if I can do this part of
it. And the answer is now, God coming. Let's get Aaron up

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there real quick. I can dothat. What's up, Aaron? What's
up? Man? Good morning?Good morning, good morning? How are
you? I'm good? How areyou? Oh? Pretty good? I'm
oking here at the rock forward drapewaterpier had the peer to myself all morning,
but nothing fighting. I'm hoping you'regonna bring me some luck here.

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My fingers crossed. Man, whatare you throwing? Well? I threw
uh some popwaters that at daybreak,not even strikes. I switched over to
uh. I not be happy,but croker's Oh god, I'm not.
I'm not upset with you for throwinga croker. Do what you gotta do?

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Man? Well, dang, andI took a sting uh yeah,
yeah, yeah. In exchange forthat stinger a hit you get, you
get a pass on a couple ofcrokers. That's fine. Tape one to
the stay ray wing wound. Maybethat'll help. Oh my gosh. Yeah,

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I didn't want to say anything,but it didn't look real good when
I saw that picture. Mmmm,that's a that's a special shade of red.
That was man. Man. SoI've read that doesn't even now.
Nea Prem won't stop, Nea Premwon't. You've got to get sting ray
boots if you really want to dealwith them, right, you know,

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and they will bust you. Theyneed to go over the cats. Yeah,
it's not a bad IDEA armor comesto mind if it wouldn't rust.
Yeah. Uh, Paul's days stories. First fish ever calls off of ball
pier was a pumping. My dadand I two the exact same time,

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and I was easing the zep springing. Hey, bet, Eric, can
you turn away from the wind alittle bit, a little bit better?
Yeah? Okay, Oh that's waybetter there. Yeah, man, we're

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all so proud. I'm sure catchingit off. Yeah, that's kind of
cool. Anyway, we'll shoot someluck luck my way, all right,
I will. I'll work some luckymojo for you despite your using croakers.
All right, I'll see buddy audiosman. All right, Mike, I'm

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hoping you'll hold on for me.I've got to take a break here.
I want to stay on time forCal and me and so we can bail
out of here. I'm going toa baseball game in a little while.
I am Father's Day baseball game.Watch my son play. I hope,
I hope they do well. TimmerCreek Golf Club if you wanted to go
do that, you could do it. FM twenty three fifty one down there,
just a few miles west of thegolf freeway in Friends would twenty seven

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holes fantastic food that JJ Woods GolfPerformance Center at timber Creek is a great
place to go fix up your gameif you're having trouble with it. If
what they're doing on TV this weekendjust seems impossible to you. With enough
lessons and enough time spent working onyour game, now you still won't be

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able to do it, but it'sstill fun to dream. Timber Creek Golf
Club man twenty seven holes. Thinkabout this. If you go down there
right now, there will be twogroups going off every tea time because they've
got the twenty seven holes, sothey can rotate everybody through there. Everybody
has more fun, lots more peoplehave more fun, and you might sink
a couple of good birdie putts,maybe a par putt, even if it's

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a bogie putt. If that's goodfor you, then happy Father's Day to
you. You did something you hadn'tdone in a while, and more power
to you. It's a great wayto spend Father's Day with your family.
If you get a chance, geton down there. I bet you they
could squeeze you in. Timber CreekGolf Club dot com is a website.
Timber Creek Golf Club dot Com Heythirty six on Sports Talk seven to ninety

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The Dougpike Show. Thank you forlistening, certainly to appreciate it. Cal,
the wizard that he is with technology, came in here and figured out
how I and UH, without anyhelp, can bring calls up now,
so watch this. Poor Mike's beenstaying there forever and bam and it didn't

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work. Huh, let me putit back on hold. So you're not
as smart as you thought you were. Cal, But now you got to
figure out how to bring him upbecause he's on hold. You there,
Mike, I can hear you.Yay. It's a two man Yeah,
it's a two man show again.But we got you. What's up?
Well? I wanted to say HappyFather's Day. Yeah, thanks. I

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wanted to let you know that mydad, when I was quite young,
taught me a dying art, whichis how to keep my mouth shut and
be quiet in the field. Boy, isn't that's so true? Holy cow?
You know, and that that's alesson that will that will serve you

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well in life too, Isn't it? If you listen more and talk less,
you know, the more you openup your pile hole, the more
you show your ignorance now, becausethat's about right. You're not wrong on
that, Mike. The other thinghe taught me was how to use the
tools before I actually got out onthe water or in the field. Yeah,

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that's a good idea as well,isn't that the truth? Or on
the road. You know, ifyou've got a box of tools in your
car or your truck or whatever,unless you actually know how to use them
and when to drag out which onefrom the box, you might as well
just be carry around bowling balls.Yeah. Yeah, a diamond, a
screwdriver. Don't cut it anymore.Boy, They used to, didn't they.

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I'm calling you, That's all Igot, buddy, okay, man,
thank you so much. I appreciateyou hanging on. I really do.
It's always good to hear from you. Yes, sir, audios.
All right, let me see ifwe can figure out how to get Mike
up here. Help. I needan assist there he is? What's up?
What's up? Mike? How youdoing? I'm good? How are

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you? I got a fantastic happyfather. Say to everybody. Thanks,
thank you, sir. Hey,I just want to share a story about
my dad I had. My dadwas a character it's a very nice man.
Uh never achieved anything world history.Notice er. Hey, well no,

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yeah he did. He raised you, up raised you, right.
He did a good job. Buthe's got some funny stories. He came
up in Louisiana and Alexandria. Twoquick stories. He went to this scout
camp, right, and the scoutcamp was on his private and the guy
said, hey, you know,y'all can fish over there. You can
do whatever you want, but donot fish in that private pond over there,

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because that's where they stuck these monsterbathrooms. Yeah, so his buddy
said, come on, Jack,let's go over there. And and my
dad wasn't a great fisherman. Heliked to fish, but he wasn't.
So they go over there, right, and and and they're fishing and uh
and actually I don't know if theyhad there. They were going to fish,

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and the guy come over. Hesaid, hey, both, you're
not to go over there. Youcan go fish over there, and they
said okay. So the very lastday his friend convinced him to go over
and fish in that pond. Sothey go, they fish that pond and
he catches this massive bass. Hebrings in a spout an eight pound bath
mats big fish he's ever caught.And he and he read he takes him

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off his line, and his friendlooks up and way off in the distance,
this guy starts walking toward him.So and you know how and you
know in Louisiana it's kind of slopinghill floating the pine tree. He took
that bass and he just clows itup into the pine straw. And so
here comes this guy. He walksup and he's just shaking his head and

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just boys, I'm so disappointed.And she came over here. You know,
I told you not to come overand fish over here. Well,
while he's talking, he's got backto the lake and he's looking at the
man. He's looking this bad startsslopping riding down. Anyways, make along
the short there's this guy's talking tohim. Here comes this They tell him,

(31:32):
you know, we were just castinga little bit, you know,
we're catching his back. No harmdone. And this bass floats down at
this guy's street. He curts around, there's this big old bass, blows
his legs. Just get the hellout of here. Anyway, that was
that was a pretty funny story.And then the other one, of course,
he just Uh. One thing Ilove about my dad is even though

(31:55):
he he I don't think he likedfishing like I did. I'm fishing in
Wimberley from the time I was likethree years yars old with string a little
pole in the hook, and Ifished the all day long, caught up
for brim and I've never stopped fromthere on out. But any vacation we
went on, he would find away to get me the water to fish.
So it was depth though thirty threeand graduating all on us. And

(32:15):
many times he wouldn't catch fish,but he took me there. And it's
about fishing, not catching, right. That's exactly right with your dad.
So to all the dads out there, man, it's just it means so
much, you know, uh thatyou do that for your kids. Yeah.
The kids may not realize it now, but they will at some point
in their lives. And that's whyit's important to keep doing it, even

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if it kind of feels like it'snot really making an impression on them.
It is. It is. It'sburied down and way way deep behind all
that testosterone. For a while.Yeah, I there was one one more
a quick little story. Remember thoseworms They started years ago. They had
these little, big thick worms,was like two hooks in them and a

(32:57):
spinner and they yeah, and uh. He said, well you have your
choice. You can either have thisor you know, do something else.
You know, really fine. Isaid, well, I want to go
fishing. And says okay. Sohe buys me this lory. We go
in Monroe, Louisiana. Have youever been to monroeis? I have?
You bet that lake on the left, it kind of goes around westwid we

(33:19):
fish and I threw that thing allday long there CALLI thing, but meant
a ton to me. I'll neverforget that. Yeah, he was willing
to. Yeah, it's especially whenmy dad gets you something. It really
is. All the dead's out there. Father's Day. Thanks man. Yeah,
I appreciate it, I really do. All right, we need to
take a break. That's what weneed to do. And on the way
out, I'll tell you about VipAuto Glass. It was about probably gosh,

(33:43):
it's been about five weeks ago now, I would say maybe five or
six, around the same time myson got his truck. I'm driving along,
we're driving back from somewhere. Soit was a couple of days before
I got him that car of hisand I heard that sound. You know
the sound I'm talking about too.You just driving along, you get that
little one of those on the windshield, Oh no, and you scan every

(34:08):
square inch up right after you sayabout five or six curse words, very
loudly. And I didn't see anything. And I asked my son, do
you see any cracks anywhere? Heknows what we're talking about. He knows,
and he doesn't see anything either,And I thought, Wow, we
really dodged one there. And thenext morning I go out to my car
and there's about a six inch littlesquiggle coming off the very left hand edge

(34:31):
of the windshield where it's got thatblack stuff around it that, it turns
out, I think is part ofyour sensory stuff. That all the safety
sensory rain and lane change, allthis stuff is up in that windshield now
somehow. And when you get yourwindshield replaced, not only do you have
to replace the glass, now youhave to get the whole car recalibrated for

(34:55):
that safety stuff. And it's notcheap. But what I I found with
doing some my due diligence to getthe best deal I could find, because
I the first call I made.It was like buying a new car,
it seemed like. So I keptlooking and I kept calling, and I
got referred to VIP Auto Glass,and I made the phone call. They
told me how much it would cost, and it was actually the lowest,

(35:19):
the lowest bid I'd gotten on it. They told me they could have a
technician come right to my office orto my house if I wanted whatever,
and they would take care of itthere in a couple of hours, and
just like that, within well,we had to have one extra day for
some stuff, but within two hour, hour and a half, really,

(35:39):
while the guy was here at theoffice, he got it all fixed up
faster than I expected. Actually,I had more prep time for my show
fifty plus I was doing a showat noon, and I was worried that
he wouldn't get done before before Ihad to go on the air, and
that would have meant he would havejust had to wait an hour longer for
me to finish. But he wasdone before before schedule and perfectly done.

(36:02):
The windshield's good, I'm good,Everything's calibrated just right, lame change,
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Sports Talk seven to ninety The DougpikeShow, thanks for listening, certainly to
appreciate it. If you've got you'vegot golf plans today, today is going

(36:49):
to be your day. Don't waituntil tomorrow. I got somebody here at
the office, got a tea timeTuesday at ten, actually Tuesday at ten
ten, and I got a hunchthat one's not gonna pan out. So
well, if you're gonna play,try to play today because tomorrow is a
I think, let me go check, let me get an official rain forecast.

(37:15):
Then I'm also, oh, whereI can take that one down?
Yeah, I don't need to lookat that. I'll do this and I'm
gonna go to my little weather forecastthat I like to check and see what
they say about the forecast for tomorrow. It better not have come diving down
either. No ninety percent chance ofrain tomorrow, only a seventy percent chance

(37:37):
on Tuesday, and only a sixtypercent chance on Wednesday and Thursday. So
basically what they're telling us it's goingto rain for a while. Let me
check the extended forecast and see ifit gets any better. Actually, there
is some sunshine, sunshine, andno rain predicted for a week from today,

(38:02):
partly cloudy, high near eighty nine. The only good part about what
we're getting is it's gonna cool usoff a little bit. We're gonna see
highs in the eighties, which iswhich is really not bad. And so
we've got that one day, thetwenty third, when there's no rain,
and then back to rain forty percentchance on Monday the twenty fourth. Oh

(38:29):
my word, forty percent chance onthe twenty fifth. And if any of
you believes any of that one weekout, then you gotta just start.
You gotta find another hobby then listeningto forecasters, because they don't know,
They just don't know. They baseit all on past models of barometric pressure,

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and low's moving here and high's movingthere and interacting with each other and
they keep having to recalculate, recalibrateall that stuff because it changes almost every
time. I don't know. Ithink probably the most affected industry by the

(39:15):
relative inaccuracy of weather forecasts is golf. It really is. People set tea
times three, four, five daysin advance, or maybe a week in
advance in some cases, and thena forecaster comes on on Monday night and
says there's a thirty percent chance ofrain on Friday, and they can't cancel
that tea time fast enough. Oh, we can't go play Friday, it's

(39:37):
gonna rain. And then Friday isnot a cloud in the sky. And
that's what makes it easier for impromptugolfers, for oh, let's just go
play golf. We don't have anythingbetter to do, Let's go play golf.
There's almost always an available tea timebecause people saw an inaccurate forecast four
or five, six, seven,eight days out and base their plans,

(39:59):
their their fun time on some dudein a coat and tie standing in front
of a green screen telling you it'sgonna rain a month and a half from
now. Not gonna happen. Arewe gonna get rain Monday tomorrow? YEP?
Probably so probably, So that's insideforty eight hours. They can be
relatively right on the chance of rainfrom Huntsville to Victoria. Yeah, they

(40:24):
can get that one. And I'mnot knocking them. They're doing the best
they can with the tools they got. I wouldn't want to have to try
to do that. But they're justbasically running programs, running models, and
most of them now using actually thesame sources for their forecasts. And ah.

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They do what they can with thetools they have, and I be
hard to knock them. There's someI trust more than others, the ones
that are always a little bit chickenlittle, a little bit too sensational is
the word. And those I don'tlike when they tell you it's gonna be
catastrophic and you get a sprinkle atthe house, Let me check, let

(41:08):
me check, let me check.Hmm. I'll send a reply to that
one. Oh yeah. Steve Dean, when I was talking about Belleville Meat
Market, highly recommends. He saystheir brisket rub. Yeah, as do
I. I think that's a goodone. I'm not gonna respond to John.

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No, that's not the kind oftruck. I bought him. Alan
a great memory for him. Oneof my best memories with Dad was shooting
one under at tin Wood. Dadhad just finished recovering from open heart surgery.
He insisted on walking, So Idrove our cart. Why didn't you

(41:52):
walk? That's okay, Dad navigatedthe course. No problem is best power.
Richard kept score, and Richard announcedmy score. I don't know to
whom. Maybe the squirrels and thecardinals, and the and the snakes.
Maybe everybody hit the nineteenth toll.That would have been nice. Everybody in

(42:16):
the locker room finds out that Allenshot one under that day. Yeah,
if I next time, if ever, My low score ever was two under,
and that was at Golf Club ofHouston on what's now the Member course.
And I'll never forget that day.It was a lot of fun.
I remember getting a lot of luckybreaks too. I just absolutely center punched

(42:39):
a wrought iron fence and had theball not hit one of the tiny little
one of the three quarters of aninch bars vertical bars on those little fences
in the backyard, if it hadnot hit that thing squarely and bounced all
the way back into the fairway,which it did, if it had gone

(43:00):
through that fence, I would havebeen looking at hitting three from a very
horrible place. Actually, I wouldhave been looking at hitting back off the
tea box, but instead I wasin the fairway and ended up burning that
hole. Um, that's that.That's that the tropics. Yes, I
got that, all right, Allgood on that part, and we're garned

(43:22):
near to the end of the firsthour. Holy cow. When we get
back, I'm going to address theUS Open ongoing at Pinehurst number two over
North Carolina. It's been a reallygood tournament and there is a lot going
on, a lot going on,Dan waying in. Some dude just got

(43:42):
stopped at the light here in Paarlandat the light in Paarland. Uh oh
on a Harley cranking out Tina Turnerrolling on the river. Well, man,
turn it down just a little bit. I don't know why those guys
have to All they have to dois put in the earbuds and they can
listen as loud as they want.Not everybody wants to hear your music,
whatever that might be. Not everybody, And that's another lesson young people have

(44:07):
to learn. We didn't have earbudsgrowing up. We didn't have a way
to listen personally to our music.You get in a car with a bunch
of teenagers. Now, if there'sfour of them in there, they're probably
all four listening to something different.Now, my son and his buddies actually
use their radios, and more powerto them. More power to them.
I'm glad they do. You knowwhat I'm gonna do here, I am

(44:30):
going to let's go ahead and getto one on time. Cal what do
you think he and maybe even beforetime a little bit. It's Father's Day.
I'll do a good solid for allthe fathers who are listening and trying
to get the family somewhere, tryingto get to the beach, trying to
get to the lake, trying tojust get wherever it is you're going the

(44:51):
golf course to go have some fun. I'll give you a little break to
breathe and talk amongst yourselves for asecond on Father's Day, which is,
if you'll do that, If you'lldo that for the next two minutes,
have a meaningful, little short conversation. Consider that my gift to you on
Father's Day. We'll take a littlebreak here. We'll be right back.
The Doug Pike Show on Sports Talkseven to ninety second hour of the program

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starts right now, Kala, justsend you an email if you get a
chance, open the video in theemail and take a look at that Tune
of fishing from the racks. Marksent it to me. He's over in
Georgia again, by the way,that's where he lives now. I bet
he finds his way back to Houstonat some point. But that's the video

(45:37):
that I was referencing earlier when Italked about tuna boats and tune of fishing
that way, and it is somekind of amazing even fast forward to about
the three to four minute mark tosee what they're really doing. You don't
need the history of the boat andall that stuff. At the bottom line
is, man, those guys backshad to be some of the strongest of

(46:00):
anybody ever because they are essentially canepolling with a cane pole or some sort
of pole. I presume they're canethat probably weighed a significant number of pounds
in and of itself, and thenthey are just lifting out of the water
fresh hooked tuna that weigh anywhere fromprobably forty to seventy five pounds and just

(46:25):
slinging them back over the deck.It's impressive. It's impressive. Someone three
two one two five seven ninety emailmeet Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
You are welcome, absolutely welcome anytimeyou like to share a story about your
dad, something cool that your daddid for you while you were growing up,

(46:47):
or just a good memory from thatchildhood of yours. And if you
don't have any you don't have tosay that. And maybe maybe you're you
and your dad got sideways. ButI think buying large, I think most
dads do the best they can withthe tools they've got. Some people have
a lot of money, some peopleshare more time because they don't have as

(47:09):
much money maybe, and others justmake a few mistakes along the way.
We all do. We all do. But there's only one person who brought
you into well, there's two people, mom and dad who brought you into
the world. But dads are different, way different than moms, and I
think there's there They balance each other. That's what it's got to be.

(47:31):
It's got to balance be a balancethat works out pretty well. So onto
the US Open ongoing at Pinehurst numbertwo, which is getting pretty crispy.
They have been feeding that grass justenough water that after the tournament they will

(47:54):
be able to bring it back tolife, bring it back to green relative
quickly. But for today's round,it's gonna be pretty dicey out there.
These these guys are not gonna beable to do much to keep balls on
the green if they don't put itin exactly the right place on that green.

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Boys, see Thigala just hit agood shot. He just hit a
really good shot. I'm not sure, pardon me what hole he's on,
but he's stuck one in the rightplace. That's what they're gonna have to
do. The guys who are inthe later tea times, we'll see how
it works out. I have ahunch there are only where's my list here?

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There are only eight players under park. The winner is gonna be one
of those eight players. Even BrisonDeshambeau doesn't have to do much today to
win it. It's his tournament tolose, though. If he doesn't,

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if he doesn't take on a strategyof he's gonna have to be a little
conservative, and sometimes that backfires onthese guys. They take a little off
a shot, They don't challenge thegolf course like they have for three days,
and you can't really challenge Pinehurst twowhen it's as dry as it is.
But nonetheless he's gonna have to reallythink his way around the golf course.

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He's done a good job of itso far, done a very good
job of it so far. I'mlooking and very quickly do not see anyone
else who has all three rounds inthe sixties. He is. He's the
only one sixty seven, sixty nine, sixty seven to find himself seven under
par with a sleeve lead, afull three shot lead over Matthew Pravone and

(49:46):
Rory McElroy and Patrick Cantley, allof whom will be nipping at his heels
all day long. He does havethat cushion. And if he can actually
come out and and get it toeight in the first three holes somehow,
no mistakes and at a birdie,I think it's his tournament to win.

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If he doesn't, and if Pavonor McElroy or can't lay, or even
Matsuyama or Oberg come out and tackon one or two in the first six
holes to their scores go one ortwo shots better, Suddenly Deshamba has to
look over his shoulder a little bitmore often. It's gonna be good.

(50:32):
It's gonna be very good. Ihated to see what Tony Fenw did yesterday.
I really hated what twenty four yearold Ludwig Oberg did yesterday when he
went out and shot seventy three.There were quite a few triple bogies put
up yesterday. And when you dothat at a US Open on a Saturday,

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especially unless you've mounted some huge leadin fat cushion, throwing away three
shots is not going to help you. Birdies are very hard to come by
on that golf course, they reallyare. Hence, these guys have been
playing for three days and we gotone guy at seven, two guys at

(51:15):
four, three guys at four,and a pair at two that would hold
on. I want to see somethingreal. Well, you take the all
four of the top four guys sevenfour four four. That's nineteen under par.
I bet you at some point therehas been somebody nineteen under on his

(51:35):
own ball through three rounds in thelast two years. And if not,
there certainly have been some of themat fifteen sixteen. Because it's taken twenty
plus to win. The US Opendoesn't play that way. The US Open
makes it extremely difficult. I don'tthink the course is unfair. I really
don't. This is just those DonaldRoss greens, the little domes that they're

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playing on, and there are littlepockets of safety on relatively large greens.
But for every hole, every teaplacement or whole placement, there's only a
very small landing area where you cankeep that ball where you want it.
And if you miss that landing area, you can be penalized by two,

(52:22):
three, four shots. If you'reon the left side of the green and
you've run off and you chip ita little too hard and cross over that
little ridge wherever you are, yougo off the right side, maybe into
a bunker, maybe into a wastearea. Who knows, you might end
up farther away from the hole thanyou were when you hit the shot.

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And that happened a lot of timesyesterday. We'll see, we'll see.
I don't know Tony Feen now,but I really feel for him because he
was on a pretty nice roll andthen the wheels just fell off. For
now, he's just he's out fora Sunday stroll. Basically, he did
that, can't they? McElroy,Pavone, Basiyama Oberg all of them did

(53:09):
it to themselves. It's not likethey had to scrape and fight and claw
to get up to the number wherethey are, like Deshambo did. These
guys. These guys had it thereor better yesterday and then then just made
mistakes. They made mistakes mostly Ihesitate to call them mental mistakes, because

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these guys are pretty good at thinkingtheir way around that golf course. But
there are little choices maybe they maketo where they play a shot a little
too aggressively, hoping for a miraclewhen an up and down, a simple
up and down and maybe sacrifice onestroke somehow would have served them better than

(53:58):
losing two or even three, Andsome cases on one hole. That course
doesn't allow you to do that withoutsevere risk. You can't. You can't
get aggressive around those greens at allwithout really risking just a train wreck of
a result if you. Some ofthese players may feel like they have to

(54:21):
go all or nothing. It's eitherit's either take that chance and get lucky,
or don't take the chance and losethe tournament. And for a lot
of those guys, they're competitive,juices are gonna flow today, and if
they can control those and not letthem get carried away by thinking they're better

(54:44):
than they are or thinking a shotis easier than it looks or whatever.
They got a chance. Bryson deShambo's in the driver's seat though, three
shots clear, and all he hasto do. I think all he has
to do on the front nine isjust play it even don't don't don't lose
any strokes. You don't have tomake birdies on the front to win this

(55:06):
tournament, Bryson. You might haveto make one or two coming in in
case somebody starts chasing you pretty hard. But until Pavone or McElroy or can't
lay, I just don't see maziYam and Oberg coming back and doing anything.
But who knows, it's golf.But until somebody really makes a move,
all de Shambeau has to do ismake pars and in the first at

(55:30):
the first sign of I think ifsomebody gets it to five pretty quick,
he doesn't. He still doesn't haveto do a whole lot. He still
doesn't have to do a whole lot, and just just keep an eye on.
That's all Bryce's got to do.And he gets to watch every shot
they well on the leader boards.He gets to see every shot they make.
He sees every move they make,so he'll know when to pull the
trigger. And he's he's veteran enough, he's seasoned enough and smart enough that

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I don't think anything's gonna get inhis way mentally, I don't. And
if he drives it like he droveit yesterday, oh my god, that
guy hit balls. There was one. I think the announcers said, either
somebody lip red it or he saidit to someone who was close enough to

(56:14):
share it with the booth. Hehit one drive. I don't remember where
it was, but he turned tosomebody and said, I had no I
Dick had hit it that far.Even he didn't know the boy he was
threadning the needles with him yesterday.He put golf balls in places I don't
think anybody else did yesterday. Shotsixty seven, shot sixty seven, three

(56:37):
shot lead after fifty four holes atPinehurst. It's his one way or the
other, all right. Speaking ofgolf, if you want to come down
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Fill them up. They got greatfood, have great lessons at the

(57:20):
far end of the range. Theyhave a fantastic membership option too, which
is really nice. You sign upand become a member for a small monthly
fee, really and what you getin return is discounts in the pro shop.
You get preferred tea times, youget to make your tea times before
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(57:40):
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(58:05):
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Dougpike chew on this Father's Day gotthe US open on the television. In
here, I may just stay inhere to do some work after Dan's not
coming in after this is a studiosopen. It's cooling here. Over at

(58:30):
the desk at which I normally work, it's about I don't know, eighty
five degrees. They turn the ACoff for the weekend. Here and now
in the studios we have separate power. We have because if you're in here
working it needs to be comfortable.But over there where the commoners hang out
during the week, no AC baby, not where col sits, not where

(58:53):
I sit, and so it's quiteuncomfortable. I'm I am closest where I'm
set up to an east facing window, which means the sun just beams in,
beams in. Here's a Father's Daystory for you, Cal And I'm

(59:14):
not gonna tell you who sent it, because it doesn't matter. My dad
actually delivered me. Our doctor wasa World War Two veteran and an ether
addict. He had mom knocked outand was enjoying it himself and offered Dad

(59:34):
a hit. Dad declined and said, I thought one of us should be
awake. This man had experience deliveringnot human babies. He was a farmer.
This guy was and had had donewhat he had to do to help

(59:58):
bring a lot of calves into theworld world and such, and figured he
could handle what he the task beforehim and did and and and did a
good thing. He did a goodthing. I can assure you, Uh,
this person, the person who sentthis story is straight up good people.

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One one we've never met in person, but from the emails I've gotten
and exchanged, Yeah, this isgood people. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Email me DougPockett iHeartMedia dot com. There are so
many fantastic stories about dads that neverget told. Stories that a lot of

(01:00:42):
times, by the time a childrealizes what their dad had done for them
under a certain circumstance to help themto in a lot of cases, you
have to just step aside and letthem learn something the hard way, because
if you don't, they'll just keepmaking the same mistake. And I fortunately

(01:01:05):
haven't really had to do that withmy son just yet. But if it
ever, if that ever happens.And if he ever needs to learn a
lesson the hard way and comes comeswhining to me and wanting me to bail
him out of something, Nah,nah, I don't think so. And
that my dad, my dad hada lot of things he taught me,

(01:01:29):
and I'm very grateful for that Ilearned. I learned an awful lot from
him and my grandfather. Actually Ididn't know my father's father, but my
mother's father taught me an awful lotabout basic tools. I was very young
when he and I got to meet, but he would bring me out into

(01:01:50):
the garage where he actually, fora couple of summers down there, had
a boat that he had built,a hydroplane. He raced hydroplanes, and
he physically he built the boats inhis garage. And then he would go
and get a junkyard motor out ofa little sports car, bring that home
and resurrect it from the dead andmake it all good to go. And

(01:02:15):
he taught me as much as hecould. He taught me what tools to
hand him and how they worked whenhe got him in his hands. And
yeah, both of them, mydad and my mother's dad, my grandfather
down in Florida, great people,great people. My dad had some issues.
I've talked about them before on theshow, but he conquered them,

(01:02:35):
conquered them long before he died,and so we got to kind of rekindle
our relationship some and I'm so gladwe did. Let me go get to
Bob here. Okay, you gonnalet me try it cal one more time?
No, all yours? Hold on, let me put him back on
home and there we go. What'sup, Bob, Hey? Got a

(01:02:57):
couple stories if you have time.My dad. I remember one year my
dad was head of security for JackNicholas up there up your field. And
Dad were pretty they were pretty goodfriends. And my Jack Dad told me
says, one time Jack asked meto take you fishing because Jack wouldn't allowed

(01:03:19):
to fish as one pond of hisbrother in laws. But Jack said,
hey, Och, when are yougonna take me fishing? And I said,
well, Jack, when are yougonna take the golfing? That Monday
and I were playing nine hold withJack. Pretty cool. Yeah, my

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dad was a character. He didsome things you wouldn't believe. I went
up one year to Ohio. Helived in Ohio, and we went to
Bob Eman's farm to hunt, andhe dropped me off. The snow was
going sideways. He dropped me off, and what I was supposed to do
in about an hour work my wayover to his staying. Yeah, okay,

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you know, so about an hourlater, I get out and I
walked all the way over there,a mile or so to his stand.
I get over there and he's notaround. Oh no, his tire tracks
never pulled in, and they wenton down the road and he went to
the restaurant he did. He didstuff like this all get breakfast, you

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know, drop you all. That'shilarious. Yeah, he was. He
was a good guy. He wasgood to everybody. And I wish he
was here there. Wish happy Father'sDay, but I wish you yesterday,
but I wanted to even wish youagain today. Yeah. Thanks, I
really do appreciate that. Thank youso much. Yes, sir, audios.

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Holy cow. Okay, Yeah,there we go. Ah, that's
tough to that's tough to beat.That reminds me of a story from years
ago when one of the guys thaton field and streams Masthead with us was
one of the first And I've sharedthis before, so please forgive me for
repeating if you've heard it. Buthe was one of the very first to

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get to field test handheld GPS andwas so proud of having that technology that
nobody else had. And he alsowas a member of a group of about
five or six guys who came downfrom New York to bow hunt with long
bows and recurve bows in South Texasdeer hunting. They still hunted. They

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would just get out, they'd parkedthe truck way before dawn, get out,
start walking, and then work theirway back, whether they had a
deer or not around, you know, three four hours whatever, whatever it
took, however long they wanted tostay out go out in pairs, which
was smart really if you're doing thaton the ground. And so because this

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guy bragged so much about his hiscool new GPS, the rest of the
guys in camp, being guys indeer camp, decided to play a little
trick on him. And so onemorning after he and his hunting partner got
out of their truck and started towalk, and he had punched in his
little position on his GPS unit aboutforty five minutes later, when they would

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have been far enough away not tobe able to hear a truck start.
One of the other guys in campwent out and moved that truck about one
hundred and fifty yards, just movedit down the road about one hundred and
fifty yards, parked it in similarproximity, similar kind of bushes and whatnot.
It's all South Texas scrub brush looksthe same, especially in the dark

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when you're getting out to bow hunt. And on their way back from their
hunt, this guy, I can'tremember which one of the guys it was.
I wish I could. If Icould look at an old field and
stream mass that I could tell you. But anyway, they're walking back and
he's got it. Yeut fifty feetfrom here. We'll take a left around
this bush up here and truck willbe right there. Don't worry. Well,

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he turns the corner and his truck'snot there, and he looks around,
he can't find it, and theywalk a little bit. They just
they're sure they parked it there becausethe GPS says it's supposed to be there.
Well, the bottom line is theydid this to this guy like three
straight days in camp, and atthe end of the third day he's getting

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really kind of angry with the GPSpeople, thinking his unit is messed up.
It's flawed somehow, there's a glitch. They better not release this stuff
to the public because the public's goingto be mad if they can't find their
way back to their truck. Andso he gets home and they still haven't
said a word. They all gohome. He calls the manufacturer. The
manufacturers by all means if it's messedup, send it back to us quick

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and we'll reprogram it and make sure. So he gets a call from them
a few days later, there's nothingwrong with your unit. It's working perfectly,
nothing wrong with it. They stilldon't tell him, and he's told
all of them. They say it'sworking, but I don't think it is.
They left this guy on the hookfor about two or three days into

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the next season's hunt. He hadbeen stewing over this all this time,
and it had worked, The unithad worked perfectly after they left deer camp,
and so clearly that the problem wasin the satellites or whatever, and
they had to get it fixed.Well. They finally did let him off
the hook. They finally did tellhim that they had been doing all this,
and he had some choice words forthem, and I'm sure he got

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even but imagine the frustration. ImagineOh good, heavens, let me get
George on the phone, help meout. I'm back. A similar story.
Guy bodying some gas efficient car,probably Volkswagon. He was bragging about

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how much mile did you get?Guys in the office got tired of hearing
that, and they went out thereand started putting gas in the car.
Mane hundred and sixty miles to thegallay. This went on for about a
mile. Then they went out thereand start ciphling it all even better.
Oh, it's just funny, yeah, man, yeah, boy, funny.

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What reminds you of stuff, isn'tit? Yeah? Really? Well?
And then it's it's amazing how ifyou put two or three guys in
a couple of beers in a room, or a few fingers of scotch,
you can come up with some reallygood practical jokes. Man, You get
what you ask for. You haveno one to blame you. That's why

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never, never brag about anything infront of a bunch of guys. Don't
do it matter? What what doesthis mean? You don't even ask me
who it is? And I getright on first thing, is that a
kind of a status I should beit? Absolutely Yeah. I said I
have the honor doctor George. That'swhat it says. Hey, I tell

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people if you if you hear merefer to myself as doctor Woodley, that
means I want something. Yeah.Yeah, you just try that around all
right. It's great to hear fromyou. Happy Father's Day, man,
I'll see you audios. Oh mygoodness, we got to take a break
here. Let's do that. We'lltry to stay on time. I'm a

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little behind, so i'll jump rightout. You're listening on this Father's Day
to the Dougpike Show on Sports Talkseven ninety. We'll be right back nine
thirty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety. Oh, I'll go five minutes in
this segment. Don't came back alittle bit late. That's on me.
I've been yapping away. I'm listento some really good Father's Day stories.
If you've got one you want totell, by all means, please do

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share it. Steve. Steve wadedin by emails. My dad was not
a fisherman or a hunter, butmy most fun fond memories are of him
and me underneath my first car.We spent countless hours under that nineteen This
is for the fifty plus listeners inthis audience. Nineteen sixty nine. Buick

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Le Saber. I know what thatcar looked like. I would have been
fourteen at the time, almost anyway, paid three hundred dollars of money I
earned second groceries. That's a lotof grocery sacking to make three hundred dollars
back in the day. Holy cow, that was back cal when the minimum
wage was probably I don't know,buck and a half two dollars an hour.

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Maybe. He says. He learnedmany lessons lying on his back underneath
that old car, and I wouldnot trade them, he writes, not
trade those memories for anything. Ilove you, dad. It's a good
tribute to a dad that really tookcare of him and taught him something that
matters in life, taught him somethingthat he could use and take with him.

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It still would not hurt a lotof these young kids to learn how
to change a tire, to learnhow to change the oil in their cars.
That'll save them fifty bucks every timethey turn around, and the price
of things right now, saving fiftybucks wouldn't be a bad idea. Instead
of pulling in someplace, and boy, that oil changes that I'm getting now

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are cost to me a fortune.It's crazy. You got to get synthetic
oil. Granted that lasts a littlelonger, but it also costs a lot
more. So anything you can doon your own car can save you money.
Anything you can do around the house, if you're handing up I'm finally,
I'm just telling my son, comein here and help me with this

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project we're going to do here.You need to learn how to do this,
anything from unclogging a toilet, tochanging little things electrically to just whatever.
Painting, just basic skills that cansave you a lot of money over
time. There was a professional painterI knew, a house painter, not

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an artist, a professional house painterand just handyman kind of guy who said
he got calls from some of thevery wealthiest neighborhoods in Houston, from wives
who would call him to their homesto paint over just little smudges and stuff

(01:13:24):
around light sockets or around light switches, little things. Oh, just paint
that whole wall while you're here.There's a little smudge on there. And
one of the kids wiped a littlesnot on the wall. Just go ahead
and just paint the whole wall whileyou're here. And he made a great
living taking care of things that somebodyin that house should have known how to

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do. Even back before all thesewashable paints. You didn't have to paint
a whole dog on room just becausesomebody wiped a little sneeze off the wall.
Dan ways In, I remember whenminimum wage was three dollars and fifteen
cents an hour, nineteen eighty two. He remembers that because that's when he

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got out of the army. That'swhen he got out of the army.
Thank you for your service, myfriend. I did not end up in
the army, and I'm thankful thatI didn't have to go over there and
witness what those people did. Butthe men who fought in Vietnam, especially
that was my era, and someof them came back and shared some of

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the stories. Some of them didn'tever want to talk about it. But
anybody who goes into that environment whereyou have to shoot at people or they
will shoot at you until they hityou, that's got to be hard.
And I have the utmost respect andI'm still as a very quick aside then
we're going to go to this finalbreak of the program. But I'm still

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just just I cannot understand why,cannot understand why this country at present does
so much more for people who aren'teven here legally than it does for its
veterans. And I could go onfor hours. Listen to fifty plus you'll

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hear me talk about a lot ofthat stuff. Matt wayhs in Happy Father's
Day to me. First of all, thank you, Matt. I appreciate
it. My dad writes, Mattwas the one who got me into golf.
Matt's neck deep in golf. He'sgeneral manager of one of the clubs
here in town and a pretty dogone good player. As a matter of
fact. Without him, Matt continues, and us going to play golf and

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getting me in golf, I wouldn'tbe the golf pro I am or the
person I am today. All thosetimes with Dad and me on the golf
course. Oh there's more, holdon, let me get it. Yeah.
Great memories, great memory I'm soglad you have those, Matt,
and don't ever forget them. Manif Dad still wi you, I don't

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know if he is or not.If he is, and you don't call
him today. I'm gonna personally comeover there and punch you right in the
nose. Take care of your dadtoday. If your dad's still around,
even if you haven't talked in awhile, even if you still got a
couple of things you don't like aboutthe way he brought you up. If
you're successful and you're feeling pretty goodabout the way your life turned out,
he had a hand in that somehow, some way, even if it was

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teaching you what not to do,look at it that way. Examples are
what we learned from good and bad. So maybe dad, your dad had
a hiccup somewhere along the way andmaybe made a bad call, but it
helped make you a better person somehow. If you're a good person today,
give him a call, Go givehim a hug if you can. We'll

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take a little break here. We'llbe right back on the way out.
Shooter's Corner Harbor Highway at twenty ninthStreet in Texas City has been there for
forty plus years now, run bya father and son team. As a
matter of fact, Jerry and JayTK two of the finest human beings I've
ever known. If Jay turns outanything like Jerry, Jay will be proud
of who he is for the restof his life. Jerry's great guy.

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Jay's a great guy. And theyare amazing gunsmiths. That's all they do
is guns and hunting stuff in shootingsupplies and optics. If it's got something
to do with shooting sports, handgun, rifle, shotgun, if that's got
something to do with self defense,they'll take care of you there. And
as I mentioned, two of thebest gunsmiths I've ever known. I cannot

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count how many people I have setdown there when they've called me and said,
you know what, I'm really I'mat a crossroads. I don't know
whether just throw this gun out thewindow or go ahead and pay all the
money that I've been told I haveto pay to get it fixed, and
said, before you do that,take it down there to shooter's corner and
let them take a look. Manytimes, many times they have called and

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said, oh, it was somethingsimple. We just took care of it
for him, no big deal.A few times it's been well, they
were told it was going to takethis five hundred dollars repair, but we
were able to fix it for halfthat or a third of that or whatever.
It's not always going to turn outthat way. But I've never had
anybody call me back and say,do you have anybody else I could take

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it to because Jerry and Jay atShooter's Corner couldn't do it. They've always
been able to take care of whateverthe problem was, even down to somebody
who who brought them a handgun yearsago. I remember this that another gunsmith
had just boogered up trying to getthat screw out of that gun. He'd
torn up the head of that screw, and when he got it back from
Jerry and Jay, it looked likebrand new. I don't know how they

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do that. I do know thatthey've got machining capability down there that's far
beyond the average gun store. Whenyou're doing something for forty plus years,
you get pretty good at it.The Shooters Corner TX dot com is the
website. Go check it out.If you wear a badge for a living.
By the way, you get adiscount at Shooter's Corner, which I

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think is very very nice. HappyFather's Day, Jerry and Jay to you
if you're listening, I hope youare. Man The Shooters Corner t X
dot com ninety nine on Sports Talkseven ninety this Father's Day edition of The
Dug Pike Show. Thank you forlistening. I certainly do appreciate it.
Uh On, I've going to gota couple of minutes. I had somebody

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email me earlier and I've I've heldoff on replying until i throw this out
there really quick. Needs reels repaired, doesn't He doesn't say what kind of
reels, he doesn't say what conditionthey're in. I'm gonna just presume,
which you know can get you intotrouble. I'm gonna just presume that they

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are standard issue, either bake castersor spinning reels, bay gear maybe bayfishing,
lake fishing, whatever, and theyjust have been sitting around for a
while and he needs them polished upa little bit. I have a couple
of places in mind, But butif any of you know of somebody,
a tinkerer who has a small shopsomewhere that does a great job of refurbishing

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your reels when you take them there, I'd kind of like to know,
not only for Galen, but formyself. I've got several reels that with
a little bit of TLC can beput back into service, and I want
them taken care of that way.I got a couple of them that I'm

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just yeah, I don't know.They may not make the they may not
make it very very faint pulse inthose reels, but still under the right
hands, with the right tools,most of these reels can be brought back
up to speed. Now on thediscussion side of that little topic, a

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lot of these older reels that youremember being so smooth when you bought them
and so far ahead of their timeat this time, maybe even if you
can get them back to almost originalcondition, still not what's out there now.
And if you have a choice ofended up spending a lot of money

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to get a real repaired or cleanedup, and you have a choice of
putting a little bit more with thatand getting a brand new reel to put
in your quiver, it may betime to go ahead and invest in something
new, because the new reels arethat much better. After covering the fishing
show, the boat show, whatused to be the hunting and fishing show,

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all of these consumer shows of sportinggoods, and going to ICST,
going to all of the just allof these big shows, both the trade
shows and the consumer shows. Forso many years. Just when you think
it can't get any better, itdoes. It all gets better. Lures

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are lures are a bit of adifferent story. There are variations on similar
themes that date back one hundred years. The materials that are used are better,
The hooks that are on these luresare better. But with rods and
reels, I don't know. It'ssomething akin to the way golf clubs are.

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The golf clubs from ten years ago, when it was ten years ago,
were amazing, and boy you hadto have that. And if you
looked at one of those now,you would think, hmm, compared to
what we have now, not sogood. In fact, speaking of I
saw a story yesterday about there isrumbling now we already have an issue with

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golf balls that are going to bedummied down and softened up to where you
can't hit them as far in afew years. And now I'm reading and
I'll do some research on this beforeI get it it, really, but
now I'm reading that there is talkof toning down the equipment, of taking
it back. And one of thethings, one of the things that made

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the golf ball roll back not sohard to swallow, was that by the
time we were being told that bythe time the golf ball rollback occurred.
Now it's not going to be anybig deal. The equipment's going to be
better. Well if they take outboth and if my driver suddenly doesn't hit,

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if my brand new driver doesn't hita brand new golf ball two hundred
yards, I'm not gonna be realhappy about that. I've worked pretty hard
to maintain the swing speed I haveand to maintain the distance I can get
out of my clubs. And justto tell me that because the pros hit
it too far and too straight,I can't hit it far and straight anymore,

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that's some I think that's messed up. I really do. I just
think it's messed up. I don'twant that to happen, not at all.
Thank you very much. Seven onethree, two one two five seven
nine. He got time Maybe forone more call, if somebody wants to,
if somebody wants the honor of buttoningup and wrapping up on this Father's
Day edition of the program. OtherwiseI will just spend this time reminding all

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of you that you didn't get hereby yourself. You didn't get where you
are by yourself, and Mother's Dayis already coming gone for this year.
So today go ahead and acknowledge theperson that taught you how to work on
a car maybe, or taught youhow to how to fix something that you
took apart. I was one ofthose kids. Boy, if you put

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a screwdriver in my hands and anythingelectronic in front of me, I would
I would start. I'd take theback off of it and look around inside
it. I wasn't one to takeit down to all it's as far as
it would go and just have apillow ca he covered in parts in front
of me. I wouldn't do that, but i'd I'd take the back off

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of anything and just to see whatit looked like inside. And back when
I was growing up, we're talkingabout CALLI. Have you ever seen the
inside of a TV that was operatedby tubes? Do you even know what
that means? Oh? You do, really? But well, your grand

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grandparents told you about them. Yeah, you know that's what happened. You
can say it. It's okay,I can. Oh my god, all
right, Well, more power toyou. You are living in a fantastic
age as well. All Right,that's gonna wrap it up for this Father's
Day edition. Of the program.I will be back next Tuesday for fifty

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plus at noon over on KPRC.I will be back at this console come
next Saturday. God willing to sharesome more outdoors news with you. We
will know who won the US Openby then, and honestly I have no
idea, but I'm going to keepan eye on it all day. Thank
you all so much. Happy Father'sDay to every one of you who qualifies.

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Have a fun day, have asafe day. We'll see you then. Audios.