The Doug Pike Show 10-12-2024

Today on the Doug Pike Show, Doug talks about seasonal hunting shifting in the coming weeks, learning from failure, and gets into a snake discussion with the producer and some callers.
Later, Doug shifts to PGA talk, and how small the difference is between a good and pro player.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
How many fish and our stringer, how many points on
our buck, how many feathers in our bag.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
That's how we keep score around here.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Sportsmen and women of all skill levels, Let's disconnect from
the day to day grind and stay connected to the
outdoor activities that you and your family love. This is
the Doug Pike Show, front to you by American Shooting Centers,

(00:33):
the largest non military shooting facility in Texas, and by
Carter's Country Guns, Ammo and hunting stuff for more than
sixty years.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Now here's Doug Pike, all.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Right, top of the morning, Saturday morning, son, I think
is up.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
It wasn't up on the way in, but it will be.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
And today is going to be yet another first Academy
day around here.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's it's gonna be absolutely beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Weather right through the weekend and even into the first
part of next week. I haven't looked much farther than that,
but I have a hunch it's gonna be pretty dog
one nice.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
I have a bunch of these dog on things. This
every time, I just drives me crazy. The way this
little laptop of mind works every time. And I'm glad
I caught it before it got worse it. For some reason,
when I carried it from over yonder to over here
and sat down at this console, it managed to open

(01:33):
up on its own. Now, with the mouse turned off,
it's opened up at least a dozen and maybe more
blank documents.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Thank you very much. What is that called?

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Word?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
No, it's not is that word? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I guess it is word? Anyway, I don't need any
of those. I've gotten them all removed. And that's all
we need to know about that. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety evans in here this morning.
By the way, for Melvin, Melvin's off.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
What's he doing? He's off, goofing off or having fun
or I don't know what he deserves in New Orleans
or something like all. That's right, Yeah, I forgot. Yeah,
he left town and he went.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
He went from a pretty good party town to I
think the benchmark party town.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Would you say, New Orleans?

Speaker 5 (02:19):
We don't sad a chance in that regard.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Nah, not a chance at all. By the way, speaking
of leaving town, that this little notice I'm going to
give you here is something that I there are signs.
Let me just regroup.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I haven't had a sip of coffee yet in my
mouth and my brain aren't quite in sync. There are
signs on most of the freeways around town, and I'm
sure most of you, if not all of you, have
seen them that indicate how long it's going to take
you to get to the next major intersection on the freeway.
Like I say, when I get on the freeway out
in southwest Houston, the first sign I see tells me

(02:57):
how long it'll take me to get to Beltway eight
and how long it'll take me to get to the loop.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
That makes sense. You've seen those signs, Evan, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
I should probably pay attention more to those things as
I'm in morning radio, and you know, got to check
the streets before you hit the road in Houston for sure.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Go over and overpass and see it just to see
of brake lights.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
So this morning I'm on my way in, and I
believe that those things are are regulated by some sort
of little little impromptu checkpoints they put up for cars
that have easy tags. And a car goes through there
that has an easy tag, and then when it gets
to belt Wag eight or when it gets to Loop

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six ' ten, then it registers that, okay, And that's
what shows up on the sign is how long it
took that person to get to that destination. And it's
not in real time. It's probably there's some delay. I'm
sure in any event, somebody broke a record this morning,
I do believe, and I'm glad I wasn't in that

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guy's way from the you know where the fountains is
in southwest Houston?

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Uh No, I'm not, okay, too familiar. I'm from Southwest area.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Okay, so the fountains would be. You would know where
Highway nineties.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
I know where you're talking about. There's some bars and.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, and there's a little water out
there on the next to the freeway and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
So from there, that's where the sign is. It let
me know that I could it would probably take me
about two minutes to get to the loop. Two minutes,
it said.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Now, I don't know who made that trip, but I
can assure you that if they came by, not only
would you not be able to remember what kind of
car it was, you wouldn't even know what color it.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Was going by in the flash or something.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Just and that's how long it took them. Just that
was it.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's all you'd hear you'd feel it when it when
a car went by you that fast, it would shake
your car, whatever you're driving.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
Maybe it was me on a Monday morning late for work.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
It could have been. It could have been. Yeah, that
kind of scared me. Actually, the traffic was very light
this morning, very very light. We're talking about at least
five miles, probably maybe closer to six or seven. It's
gonna take you two minutes, like, no, no, I just
said to myself, No, it's not gonna be too I'm.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Not gonna try and beat the record, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
I don't know how just before we get dive into
the outstanding outdoors opportunities in front of us. I don't
know what it's gonna take to improve highway safety, not
so long as there's young people who don't care about
other people's lives out there by the way. Also from
last night, I saw video this morning on that neighborhood
app down on Highway ninety somewhere out my way. A

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video of a woman's car stuck on the train tracks,
I think a long ninety and her car.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
She got out of it. There's the way the video
kind of plays out. It's pretty it's.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Pretty certain that the woman who is just standing by
the railroad tracks in the middle of the night while
everybody else is in their cars is the one who
left her car on the tracks and a freight train
just comes by and absolutely plows it, just starts pushing
it down the tracks, and I'm guessing, I'm guessing it
didn't stop for at least a quarter mile, at least

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a quarter mile, because the train cars just keep going
by the engines. There are two engines, and they're long gone,
and train cars just keep going by and keep going by,
and keep going.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
By, and it finally stops.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
And then this woman's just kind of still standing there,
looking pretty looking pretty dazed and confused.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
As most of this audience already knows.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Hunting seasons opening up one by one across Texas. We
have been blessed so far with some pretty dog one
good weather, great weather for bow hunting, not so great
for the teal season, so a lot of those sunny
skies could have been more cooperative, but by and large,
an outstanding start to the hunting seasons. And I'm I'm

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happy to tell you we've got another several days into
next week, I think, before anything really happens not too colds,
kind of like the what is that goldilocks? Not too hot,
not too cold.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Well, it is a little war on the warm side.
I guess that's true, but it could be a lot worse,
and we're gonna get another kind of a cool snap.
I believe it's next.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Wednesday, when the high is only going to be about
eighty four and the lows are gonna it'll be it'll
be crisp. It'll be crisp in the mornings. And that's
just that's just kicking it all off in grand style
around here. Another foray into hunting seasons in the state
of Texas. Next on the official opener list, We've already

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gotten through the dove season starts, we've got through teal season,
and next we started bow season already, and then next
coming up for Texans who hunt, which is most of
this audience, I would presume it's gonna be the October
twenty six kickoff of quail season. Then comes the November
two kickoffs for white tailed deer and ducks and geese

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over most of the state, all of which, by the way,
means that fall fishing time, which is great for those
of us who can ignore the opening of hunting seasons
is right here as well. And if you ever pick
hunting over fishing, sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don't.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
You have friends who want to go hunt. Hey man,
let's go bow hunting this weekend. Let's let's go out
to my lease. Come on, come bow hunting with me.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
And then somebody else calls you and say, hey man,
let's let's go down and fish the bay this weekend,
or let's go up and fish lake Lake Big Bass
where wherever you think Lake Big Bass is. And you
got to make a decision. You got to make a decision.
It's not always easy kind of cure. I've I've made
the wrong decision a couple of times, and I've made

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the right decisions a couple of times, probably equal amounts
of both. Because the options look really good on paper.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, you check the weather
report one more time.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, it looks like it's going to be a great
day for duck hunting.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
And then you get out there and the front that's
supposed to come in and bring the clouds in a
good breeze is it has slowed down. It's not going
to hit till noon, and you're sitting there under a
just a bald blue sky, not a breath of wind.
Your decoys look like they're in concrete, and you can't

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see a duck for one hundred miles, and you get
a call. I think cell phones have made it worse
and more difficult around generally to ignore what's going on
in the place where you didn't go, because your buddies
who are out on the bay on that day, when
you're sitting sitting in that duck line and there's not

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a breath of wind, the only thing you can hear
is the mosquitoes around you, and your buddies call from
the your buddy's call from the boat. Hey man, they're
eating top waters down here. We got about a ten
mile hour breeze on the bay. Yeah, it's it's coming
in off the golf and it's nice and it's warm
down here, but not too warm, you know. It's just

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a beautiful warning and they're smacking these top waters.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
The biggest one what was your biggest one?

Speaker 6 (10:18):
Eight?

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, about eight and a half. Yeah, we got a
lot of threes and fours and fives too. And you're
sitting in that duck bline, loaded gun just leaned up
against the brush, hadn't even been picked up yet, and
it's already an hour into the hunt.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
It happens. Share your misery, tell me a story, Let
me get let me get Dave here. What's up, Dave?

Speaker 7 (10:40):
Well, hey, I'm on eight thirty over here looking.

Speaker 8 (10:43):
At the sunrise to coming up here in Willis, Texas.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
And how's it looking.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
Man?

Speaker 8 (10:48):
It's got a little good red haze to it and everything,
and it's yes, nice, it's nice. Now. I'm not in
an area where I could see the whole thing right now,
but I saw a gentleman. He was old here at
his kayak on the back of his boat, and he's
probably listening right now. Uh, come in to get it
back eyes. And he's going to go fishing in his

(11:09):
kayak over here on Lake Conroe. And he asked me,
he was asking me, you know, how's the catfish doing that?
I said, we'll turn it on seven nine. He listened
to mister type and he'll let you know.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
That's one of the best catfish lakes in the state.
It's it's kind of hard if you chump heavily somewhere
in Lake Conroe anywhere almost Uh, it won't take long
for some catfish to find it.

Speaker 8 (11:32):
And I told him about your recipe with that's better
than that stinky sho Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, I tossed out the stink bait a long time ago.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Man.

Speaker 7 (11:44):
Uh here, yeah, catfish Charlie and all that kind of stuff. Lord,
but he now, uh, we we're still getting now we're
unpacking over here. But everything's really really cool because I'm
only thirty five minutes for forty minus. Oh you know
who was probably on that freeway sky Mike.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, I bet he's got a heavy foot. He looks
like a guy to have a heavy foot.

Speaker 7 (12:10):
Man anyway, God's true. Hey no, but I see those
signs all the time. And then the signs that if
you have a fender.

Speaker 8 (12:18):
Bender, pull get off the freeway. If it's just you got.

Speaker 7 (12:21):
Bumped, get out of there, get out of there because
it ain't cool. And uh then the other thing is, uh,
be safe. Everybody is going safety. Make sure if you're
wearing you need to wear all your orange stuff where
you got to wear it and so somebody could see
see you so that you don't get shot. Because I've
heard of a lot of over the years, a lot

(12:42):
of people just rustling around in the brush and they
think it's a deer or whatever and then they get shot.
Not good, what don't have your gun loaded and carrying it?

Speaker 8 (12:54):
Because I know the one gentleman that was carrying it
and knocked the.

Speaker 7 (12:59):
Back of his heel off not you know. Yeah, yeah,
he walked with a little he walked with a little gimp,
you know, like, yeah, who's that guy?

Speaker 9 (13:11):
On?

Speaker 7 (13:11):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (13:12):
I think I can't think of that Western show.

Speaker 7 (13:17):
I don't know, Dave, not the riffleman, not the riffleman,
but the other one.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
You know about guns?

Speaker 7 (13:24):
Yeah, fast faster, faster, No, no, no, no, that was
before him, fastest, It was fastest.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
That was his name. That was the oldest. The camp cut.

Speaker 8 (13:37):
Yeah, but before him was before him was.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Man, we're going way back, Dave. Know we're old, and
get this break, man.

Speaker 8 (13:51):
I'll give you a report if I see anything today,
and if.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
You remember that guy's name, all right, man, yeah, I'll
write it down. Audios.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Holy Cow memories memories. Yeah, the memories slide a little
bit at our age. That's okay, it's all right, Dave.
It's not a big deal. I couldn't remember it either.
Carter's Country I remember that for sure. Carter's Country's been
around for sixty plus years providing guns, AMMO and hunting stuff.
Says so right on the sign, says so right on

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the web page. And they've been doing a very fantastic
job of that, always have, always will. If you're not
familiar with the name, as a lot of younger people are,
actually are not. Actually in this audience, Carter's Country is
is the place that well actually three places around town
where you can go and get in there and just

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ask anybody in the store a question about hunting or
shooting sports or whatever. And if it's not that person
who can answer, it's somebody else in that store who
can answer your question right there, one on one, straight.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Up, face to face conversation.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Get answers to any questions you've got about something in
the outdoors.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
It has to do with guns and shooting. They've got
plenty of rifles.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Plenty of handguns, plenty of shot guns out there. If
you don't have enough yet, I was gonna say, if
you don't have one, but hey, most of this audience
we have our guns. We like our guns, and the
only thing missing is more guns. I picked up a
new gun not that long ago, and I was glad
to get it. It's a beautiful thing. Guns, Ammo and

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hunting stuff. By the way, the North Side store, you
go up there, you buy a gun, you make sure
you either buy or already have your ear and eye protection.
Buy a little Lammo and you can walk outside and
start shooting right on that full service range they got
out there, sporting clays, trapping skied, got rifle range way

(15:44):
out to plenty, long enough to get your gun dialed
in for deer season, which is not that far away.
We're looking at two weeks. That's it, two weeks of
deer season. Get out there, start shooting, get yourself some
new stuff, whatever stuff you need to.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Enjoy the hunting season's coming up.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Carterscountry dot Com is a website, got three stores.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
You got the website.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
You'll find what you're looking for and they'll they'll get
it to you no matter which way you go. Carters
Country dot Com Come back. Dogpike Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety s said, I don't know that volume seemed
oh you know what it was.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
I had it set down because of.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Spot break weather or spot break volume and spot break
volume and normal volume are different. And I don't know
why that's done that way, but it is and it
is what it is, and we'll get through it. So
I was thinking during the break about a couple of
times I was asking whether you made the right or
wrong decision when you went hunting or fishing and you

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had the option to do one or the other on
a particular weekend with equally qualified friends, with equally fun
to be around friends, and you ended up making the
wrong decision. That there really isn't a wrong decision when
it comes to a hunting and fishing trip, even if
it turns out where you don't catch a fish or

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you don't fire a shot. Now, the firing a shot
part is easy for me.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
When I go deer.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Hunting these days, I've got really specific goals in mind,
and it's either I'm out there to take a dough
or two off of a place to help somebody keep
their numbers in check, or maybe somehow, some way, I've
gotten a green light to take a really, really good buck,

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And I'm gonna be super picky about that because I
already have several pretty good bucks on the wall. Nothing
that would nothing that would stop people in their tracks
and go, oh, my god, look at that monstrous rack.
But for me and for the hunts they represent, and
how I was able to get two those deer and

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take them out, it means a lot to me. And
that's an important part of hunting as well. But I
have had a couple of times when, like I mentioned earlier,
with that with the cell phone option, now your your
buddies can tell you in real time what you're missing.
And I've had that happen to me once a friend

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of mine went went duck hunting, and I opted to
go fishing with a friend of mine down on the bay,
And like twenty minutes maybe not even twenty minutes after sunrise,
probably right around sunrise, when they'd already been shooting for
a while, I get a call from the duck blind.
Hey man house fishing. It's okay, it's okay, And actually we.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Weren't doing that well.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
We really We had maybe a couple of fish in
the box at that point. This is back when I
was still bringing home quite a few fish to eat
if I could.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
We had a couple of.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Fish in the box and we were getting some bites
and catching some smaller fish, and then I start hearing bang, bang,
bang bang in the in the background, out the out
of the duck blind. You know, so we're almost finished.
Can we come fishing with you when we're done. They
weren't that far away either, and they probably could have.
And I looked at my buddy and I asked him,

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I said, what do you think?

Speaker 2 (19:11):
He said, absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
They are not welcoming our boat, because all we would
hear about is how well they.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Did on their duck hunt this morning. And that's kind
of how guys handle stuff like that. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
I don't know how women would handle a situation like that,
whether you know one group had gone somewhere, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
I don't know. I'm not gonna step in that pile
no way.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
Evan.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Are you an outdoors person? You strike me as as
though you might be or might have been.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, No, I like, I mean, I really appreciate nature,
like I like going on the loss in the woods,
and yes, visually.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
How about state parks around here? Have you been to
any of those?

Speaker 5 (19:52):
Brass has been? Is a state park?

Speaker 8 (19:54):
Right?

Speaker 10 (19:54):
It is?

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Absolutely I've been there. I've been to a couple that
I can't remember the name, like up in Austin.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Sure, Yeah, well, the fact that you've been there.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
You don't have to remember their names when except when
you go so you can punch it into the GPS.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
That's it. That's the last time you have to remember it.
So do you have a favorite?

Speaker 5 (20:13):
No, not really a favorite. Honestly, I just appreciate whatever
I get within a day's journey. Like I mentioned, Bras's bad. Yeah,
places nearby to us?

Speaker 2 (20:22):
How many t There's a lot of trails in Brasis
beIN huh.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
Yeah, there's a lot of places to choose one. I
like seeing the gators, of course. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Boy, Yeah, that's the big that's the show piece right there.
That's the that's the what's on the marquee. Come see
our alligators. They're inside that that building down there where
they have little things that will tell you more about
the park. They also have a bunch of the snake
species that are out there. Have you gone through that?

Speaker 11 (20:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (20:48):
I come in through there. I did not like snakes though.
Those are the one animal that I kind of just
creep me out. It's not spiders, it's not anything else,
just snakes for me.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Snakes aren't that bad man. I've called a few. I'll
have to show you the picture snake I caught a river.
Been about guy. It's probably been two years ago now,
maybe three. But this thing was every bit of six
six and a half feet long and trying to outrun
me to the water. He knew I wouldn't go, he
presumed I guess I wouldn't go in the water, and
he was right.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
But I finally got ahold of him and told my
this snake. Forgive me.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
If you're in this audience and you've heard this story before,
but Evan hasn't, I don't believe. So there's this snake
just right in the middle of the fairway. He's caught,
he's busted, he's out in the open. He he knows
it too, and so I said, look, told my son
that look at that snake. Man, it's a cool snake.
And it turned out to be a big old rat snake.
So I wasn't scared of it, and I said, you

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want me to catch him? And my son said, oh, yeah,
go catch that snake, dad. And I got to thinking,
I'm not as quick as I used to be, and
I'm not sure I can catch up to that darn
thing even before he gets to the water.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
So I moved up pretty close to him with the
golf cart.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
I'm trying to chase him across the fairway, and I
jump out of the cart and go running over there,
and I'm reaching down and reaching down and just almost
diving on the ground. And every time I do, I'm
trying to catch a snake from about maybe a catch
him about a foot behind the tail or a foot
in front of the tail, and the snake is just

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fast enough that every time I reach it disappears. It's
kind of like kicking a can out from under you
when you try to reach it. And finally, I'm thinking, Okay,
my son's gonna think I'm kind of whimpy, and I'm
not gonna look good at all in his eyes if I.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Can't catch a snake.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
So the last dive I made, I was reaching for
about the middle of that snake, and I got him
and picked him up, and of course he starts having
a fit and he's trying to spin around and bite me,
and I'm I'm my instincts took over and I was
able to keep him from turning on me and actually
getting a mouth on me, and finally got him held

(22:53):
by the closer to the end of the tail and
held him up and got my son to take a picture,
and it's it's a big snake. I was really I
was really happy with that catch. I don't chase venomous
snakes around anymore. I just kind of encouraged them to leave. However,
it's necessary for two reasons. Usually I see them on
golf courses and if they if they present themselves to

(23:16):
the wrong person.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
They're gonna get hit.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
They're gonna get a seven iron across the head or
something like that, and I don't want that to happen
to them. I'm I'm perfectly comfortable with moving around with
snakes around me and just trying not to step on them.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Almost stepped on a cotton mouth.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
About three weeks ago, maybe four now, I'm talking about
like within one foot.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
I dropped my guard.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
I was I was focused on something else that I
was trying to see ahead of where I was, and
I didn't look.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Down where I was stepping. And I'm not kidding you.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
That snake was a foot off the end of my shoe,
and fortunately kind of it recognized I was there and
it kind of slithered away.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
But I just had to pause and take a deep breath.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Right then, like, oh, okay, those guys creep me out
the most. I mean, they camouflaged so well.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
And them in copperheads, copperheads, boy, I mean, and here's
a little a little seed all plant in your head.
You know what copperheads like to do to get cicadas,
because that's one of their favorite foods.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Was that they're tree climbers.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
Oh great, now, Doug, I gotta avoid the trees.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
No, you don't have to avoid the trees. Just look
at them.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Look at them very closely, because copperheads are probably some
of the best hiders.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
That's something else almost stepped on once on it during
a golf round.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
I had to excuse myself and go over to the
woods because I'd been hydrating very well that day, and
I was secluded and taking care of business. And look
down and once again, about a foot from my shoe,
there's a copperhead and he's just he's just sitting there chilling,
but he's he's looking at me, and I'm looking at him,

(24:58):
and I just called off the procedure I was in
the middle of right there, and very gently and very
with measured caution, took a step back with one foot
and then took a step back with the foot that
was closest to the snake, and.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
We parted ways.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
And I actually did go back to the cart and
grab a camera to go try and get a picture
of that thing, because it was so well camouflaged. And
when I got back, it was gone. He just said,
I'm not sticking around you coming back. I don't know
what you got in mind this time. I'm not sticking
around though. All right, on that weird note, let's take

(25:35):
a break. Somebody give me a good story about something
they ran into and almost almost got bitten by black
Horse Golf Club. I've seen some good ones out there too.
As a matter of fact, they're all over this state.
Snakes are not a big deal. Just avoid them, leave
them alone. Two ninety to Fry Road.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Fry Road, hang as south and then as you get
down a couple of mile from that point, you're gonna
start seeing.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Golf course on the right, and then a little farther
you're gonna see golf course on the left and the right.
And when that happens, put on your right blinker and
slow down and drive right into the gate black Horse
Golf Club. Two fantastic golf courses the North Course and
the South Course, both of which are extremely playable no

(26:25):
matter what your game. And if you have problems with
your game, go to the far end of the range
and get yourself some lessons. And I'm gonna talk about
that more in the nine o'clock hour. How important lessons
are if you really want to get good. In addition
to being a fantastic daily fee facility where you can
hold a big tournament and raise a bunch of money,
or you can just go out there on a whim

(26:46):
on a Saturday morning like this. Because they've got the
two courses, they can probably get you out on one
or the other within a relatively short time. You can
go make three new friends. They also have a membership option.
This I like a lot.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
You get discounts in the pro shop, you get preferred
tea times, you get access to the tea times earlier
than the general public does, and you get unlimited range use,
which is a really big deal for a range rat
like me. I've gone up there several times now and
enjoyed that option and just stood there until I felt

(27:21):
like I had had gotten fixed what I wanted fixed.
Black Horse Golf Club dot Com is a website. You
can make your own tea time up there right now,
go out and tee it up on a Saturday morning
black Horse Golf Club dot com. We've got some people
who have got some near misses to talk about. I'm
gonna take the longest waits first, so it's going to
be Steve, Dan, Kevin, and Rick. Let me get Steve

(27:44):
on the phone first. Steve, what's up man.

Speaker 10 (27:47):
Hey, good morning. I have a snake story growing up. Yeah,
when I was growing up, we had had some uh
you know way and in livestock, you know, horses, cap pigs, goats,
had a couple had a had a d the uh
d skunk skunk okay good as a pet, and also

(28:12):
had a raccoon as a pet. But anyway, what I
would do sometimes I'd roam the roam the pasture land
and at the back of the pasture we had a
bardage with a lot of cat tails in a lot
of cotton mouse. And sometimes I'd find these cotton mouse
up there up there on the property in and I
didn't want them to get hurt or anything or get

(28:33):
stepped on by by the live stock, So I'd get
a stick put it on top of their head, pick
them up behind her head, pet them a little, teed
them a little bit, then walk them back to the
bardage and let them go. Sure, And so it was.
It was kind of a kind of an interesting situation
that was my snakes.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, you were you were one of the kinder of
people in the world and and didn't just go after
him with a shovel or a hoe.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Thank you, Matt.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, did you ever get you ever have any close
calls being bitten?

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Never?

Speaker 10 (29:06):
They I just always made sure I put the stick
on their heads, right behind their head, and I was
dreading right behind the neck, and and uh, there's no problem.
And I just, like I said, just pet them a
little bit and walk them on over, just go back.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
I don't know if I don't know if i'd have
taken the time to pet him, but I like them.
You think, oh my gosh, no, I'm not gonna pet him.
I'm not gonna make them my pets. Holy cow, damn.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
What do you got man?

Speaker 8 (29:38):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (29:41):
Well, years ago, my young they were little, and I
had a cross space that I had dug out and
kind of like I made a little woodworking shop out of.
And one day they were running in and out down
there and and which they weren't supposed to do, but
you know, they did anything, okay. And and I went
down there and was going to run them out. And

(30:03):
I opened the door and right in the cinder block,
to the threshold of the doorway to the to the
little cross base that there was a big old copperhead
curled up inside them cinder blocks where my kids had
just been running. I dispatched her with a little Baretta
twenty two.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah around the kids. I can, I can. I'm okay
with that.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
But that's how I found out that the ven the
mistakes have white babies.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
I pulled her out of that. I pulled her out
of the cinder box and I put her out into
the over by the burn pile, and I stretched her out,
and all of a sudden I noticed that the down
towards the end of our end of her tail, it
was kind of butting up a little bit. And I
called the buddy of mine and he said, yeah, she's
having babies.

Speaker 5 (30:54):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
I throwed her in the wood pile.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (31:02):
So they were waiting to clock in.

Speaker 8 (31:03):
I have a good buddy.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Thanks Dan. It's good to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Man.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
All right, Let's get Kevin in. Then I'll get Rick
in before it's all done. Kevin, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (31:12):
Man?

Speaker 4 (31:13):
You been done?

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Holy cow? We just heard from the snake incinerator. Oh
my goodness. Yeah, I'm good, Kevin.

Speaker 12 (31:19):
What's another guy that was talking about picking them up?
I think I'll pass on that.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
You know, I did that some when I was younger.
I really did.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
And but now because I'm just not I'm not as well,
I'm not as brave, I'm not as stupid, and I'm
not as fast. So all three of those things count
against me picking up venom snakes anymore.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
I'm done with that.

Speaker 13 (31:42):
Well.

Speaker 12 (31:42):
I was born in Sweetwater, Texas, and I grew up
going to the rattlesnake round up there.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
Everything.

Speaker 12 (31:48):
Never had a desire to play with any of them.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
I can understand that.

Speaker 12 (31:54):
Yeah, this is my first day back in a while
up in that laid out with the quadruple bypass.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
I'm I'm looking at that email from you right now. Man,
Holy cow, welcome back. How are you doing.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
I'm doing good?

Speaker 12 (32:05):
Okay, good back to full full duty at work and
feel good. Everything's going good. It was a kind of
a long haul getting back here. But yeah, it's a
lot of rehab and stuff. Now I was able to
get out Thursday and fish for the first time in
a long time too, and very first bait out of

(32:26):
the box caught a nineteen and a half inch flounder
and then ended up missing a few others, and a
buddy I was with ended up catching a black tip.

Speaker 5 (32:34):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
One of the baits I was getting ready to pull
out of the water.

Speaker 12 (32:37):
I use a rig I call a flounder drop where
I've got a trolling way tied to the end of
the line and then I tie about about fourteen to
sixteen inches up. I tied three to four inch drop
loop and use that lead line to sinch the loops
of the loop doesn't slip, and then I thread the
loop through the hook and hooked the mullet in the
back of the tail. And as I cast him, I'm

(32:58):
actually dragging that mullet backwards.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
And he said, and they're flopping him.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, kicking.

Speaker 12 (33:04):
That's something that's I've been catching flounder like that.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
For over forty five years. Good for you.

Speaker 12 (33:10):
But I was getting ready to pull the bait up
out of the water, and a flounder came up and
actually hit the trolling weight. I put it on freezepool
and then went down to the bottom again and I
could sit there and fill that flounder with that weight, and.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
It's that was the first for me.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
I've never seen that.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Ye, that's a good one.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Man.

Speaker 12 (33:30):
Made me wonder how many times in the past that
I felt bites and didn't get a hook set if that, if.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
It wasn't happen.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Hey, I gotta go catch Rick before the break here, Kevin,
Thank you, man, I'm so glad you're feeling better. Welcome back, man, Yes, sir,
but audios. All right, Rick Bice, what you got man?

Speaker 8 (33:51):
Man the sweet Water, Texas jc's rattle steak round up, Man,
at the last from of my past.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
I remember for three years, big.

Speaker 8 (34:02):
Big deal, if it was a big deal.

Speaker 13 (34:04):
Really was.

Speaker 8 (34:05):
But anyway, I fint you some time to keep you
in my life. This morning. Ain't nothing working right, mean
telling I'm back in the truck, fisture and all that.
Uh yeah, just a little. But this. I didn't put
this stand up. It's too close to the fence. The

(34:26):
neighbors doing a bunch of crap over there, and I
can't do what we were going to do anyway. Snakes.
I've dealt with them all in Texas, I think. But
my closest encounter of getting a bit was we were
winter rising a house on a ranch and we had
a meter box with a water cut off valve. You know,

(34:47):
it's down in the ground. And I pulled the lid
off of it, and because guy's with me, and I was,
it's a valve. It's got a bunch of leaves and
dirt it And I told him, I said, we're on
our knees and and we had been working on the
trackers that grease all over. My hands are dirt and drip,
and so my fingerprints were all over that cup. I

(35:09):
had a styrofoam cup I was gonna set over that valve,
and I told him, I said, buddy, this would be
a perfect place for a copperhead. And so I said,
go over and get that stick and stirrup in here.
And I said, look, had a flashlight and everything about
a foot deep, and we stirred it all up and
uh looked clear. I mean, I said, I don't think

(35:31):
there's anything in there. And I went to stick that
styfoham cup on that valve and bam, bam, Wow, Holy cow,
that there was not one, but two copper heads. That's
how they blend in where one of them struck. My

(35:56):
pinky fingerprint is between his things.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Holy cow.

Speaker 8 (36:02):
I'm serious. I'm gonna picture of that on one of
my phones. I'm gonna send it to you. But that's
that's I'm not exaggerating. He's struck and when it went
he had a fangle on each side of my finger.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Holy cow.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
Man.

Speaker 8 (36:18):
But I mean sitting there looking at him, you know,
right there sterning up with Lee's that's how hard they
are to see.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
All right, man, Thanks Rick, glad the fog lifted for you.
Good luck with your hunting, man, I'll see you.

Speaker 8 (36:33):
No more hunting.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, I know, I is.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Yeah, he's out there trying to chase those old nasty
coyots again this morning and not having luck because the
neighbors are out there too.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Oh well, that happens, all right. We got to take
a little break here on the way.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
I'll tell you aby Shooter's Corner down there at Palmer
Highway and twenty nine Street in Texas City. This is
a store that's owned by two people I admire greatly.
That's Jerry and j t K father and son team
who've been down there for forty plus years now.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
All they do is.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Guns, Ammo optics, reloading, supplies, a little bit of camo,
a whole lot of cool mounts from all over the world,
and hunting stories. There's always stories being told in there.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
It's such a small store, really to have that much
stuff in it. It's kind of remarkable.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
When you go in, you start looking around and they're
nothing but what you're gonna like. If you're into the
shooting sports, it's all there right in front of you.
You don't have to look way back in the back,
because way back in the back doesn't exist. It's a
small gun store devoted to the shooting sports, with two

(37:40):
of the best gunsmiths on the planet willing and able
to go back there and fix whatever problem you've got
with a gun. I can't tell you how many listeners
have called and said so and so at such and
such told me they can't fix my gun. Well, call
Jerry and James for the guys on the south side
down there. And every time anybody has called me and
and I've recommended them, it's worked out really really well.

(38:04):
Nobody's come back and said, well, they couldn't help either.
What else you got. That's kind of the end of
the road when it comes to getting really specific little
things fixed on your guns.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
They'll help you out, they really will.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
These Shooters corner TX dot com is the website. You
can go there, or better yet, just go in the store.
If you've got something you need fixed before deer season,
you better get it to them like this weekend, or
you're probably gonna be waiting til the middle of deer
season to get it back. These Shooters cornertx dot com,
family owned and operator for forty years. If you wear

(38:36):
a badge for a living, you get a discount, which
I think is pretty nice.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
These Shooters cornertx dot com. That's a good stuff here.
Kevin Wade in me go back to this one.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Oh wait, I got the wrong mouse in my hands
here seven one three, two one two five seven ninety
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Oh my gosh, kevn oh Man m.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Being that I'm from South Louisiana, I'd like to share
with you and your listeners our best practices for snake identification.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Number one. Snake idea is determined at the snake's time
of death. I'm laughing because I understand a lot of
people don't like snakes.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Okay, the number two went in doubt. Refer to rule
number one. Oh my word, Oh, you don't have to
kill all the snakes, man, you really don't.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
And in Texas and probably South Louisiana, there aren't but
maybe half a dozen venomous snakes out there.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
The rest of them are not even harmful to you.
They might nip you, and if they do, you'll get
what looks like a little paper cut or something, but
they're not gonna hurt you. But what they are gonna
do is keep the rats and the mice and all
kinds of other varmints down on the farm, so you
don't have to worry about them.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Man, oh man.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
The good thing is we don't have any really giant
snakes in this country. I can't imagine loving the outdoors
as much as I do, or loving the swamp and.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
The marsh as much as I do.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
If there was an opportunity, that an occasion on which
I might step on a fifteen foot long constrictor, that
would that would decid boy about this time of my
life when I know I couldn't outrun one of those things.
I'd probably be thinking about becoming a full time fisherman
from boats.

Speaker 5 (40:39):
Yeah, that's that's where they are too. Dog Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
But snakes in the water, you know, the one thing
that's that's happening now that wasn't happening about twenty years
ago or maybe thirty years ago, I guess on the
bays and the lakes and the rivers, kind of like
Dave was talking about, this guy's in a kayak going fishing,
and I've said, I mean all kinds of videos of
people fishing from kayaks and having company coming across the

(41:07):
top of.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
The water just slither in their way.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Hey man, you might if I hop on board for
a little while and the port water moccasin or rat,
snake or whatever it is doesn't realize that you or
I or whoever's paddling that kayak might be really uncomfortable
with sharing the boat with a snake. And they're pins
some pretty pretty active sessions between the snakes and the people.

(41:34):
Usually the snakes just kind of turn and run away
after one or two discouragements if you will good swat
across the face with a paddle, or you can slap
your rod in the water, slap your rod tip in
the water in front of them, and that'll usually turn
them off. If you're in a kayak, you can paddle.
The best thing to do is just start paddling backwards

(41:54):
till it gets tired of trying to follow you and
figures out that you don't want it in your boat.
That's something else that would be. That'd be a little
tricky with a cotton mouth because they are fast, they
are aggressive, and it might just be like those little
Somali pirates going after a big old tanker in the
Gulf of what is it the Golf of Suez or

(42:15):
something like that.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
No, it's not Suez, or is it.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
It might be in any event wherever all that's happening
when there's pirates coming at the ship, I I don't
mind if you take whatever steps are necessary keep the
pirates out of your ship, even if it's not a
venomous pirate. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety What time do you want.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Me out, Evan.

Speaker 14 (42:41):
We'll get you out of here at fifty six fifty six.
That's so early, man, No, that'll break tradition. I'm usually
far later than that. Actually, you know what we could
probably do that, because this morning, I'm gonna hold on.
Let me see what Kevin's got.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
No, Kevin wade in on the rules of snake engagement.
Always walk in groups of This is for you, Evan,
because you out there, you're out there walking in the woods,
always walking groups of three. Guy number one sees the snake,
Guy number two makes a snake mad, Guy number three

(43:19):
gets bitten. You just need to figure out what number
you want to be.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
I like, I think guy number four, the guy who
sees it on runs away.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yeah, guy number four who backs off, and yeah, let's
guy number three go you go ahead.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Holy cow man, I can't tell you how many snakes
I've seen in my life.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
One of the times, and I've talked about it before,
I'll do it as quickly as I can.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
For those of you who haven't heard it.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
There's a guy named Tom Byron who played on the
PGA Tour and the Tour Champions for probably the better
part of thirty years in his career, and here and
I were good buddies when he was living here and
did a lot of outdoor things together. We did some
hog hunting, and we did just all kinds of stuff.
Walking around the woods mostly, and there was one time
when the water had come up. There had been a

(44:06):
very very heavy rain and we were walking a power
power line right away or not, or a pipeline right away,
and probably walking in about maybe an inch and a
half two inches of water had on our rubber boots.
We weren't getting all wet, but as we walked down
this power line or pipeline right away, we got probably
one hundred yards down on a three hundred yard what

(44:27):
would have been a three hundred yard trip, and I
see a little cotton mouth that had been displaced from
there's some natural flowing water in there, well, not always flowing,
but when the water's up like that, it's moving, and
so the water had risen, and all these all the
animals around there had been kind of uprooted and displaced.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
See a cotton mouth. A toime, Watch out, there's a
snake right there. And he takes a couple of steps
to his left and he said, oh, here's another one.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
Hoh, watch out, don't go this way, And before we
know it, we tried to go a little farther and
just ants around those two snakes, and all of a sudden,
we've seen like a half a dozen in a twenty
or thirty yard stretch, and they're on all sides of us,
and smart as we are, we just said, okay, we
got a backtrack because I don't know how many of

(45:15):
those things are going to be in front of us,
but I know how many are behind us, and we
have a pretty good idea kind of where they are,
and we just we did a one eighty right in
the middle of that right away and very gently and
without ever looking up again, for about fifty yards, just
kind of backtracked our way up to some semi muddy

(45:36):
and moist ground that wasn't cotton Mouth Central. Holy cow,
that was spooky.

Speaker 8 (45:42):
Man.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
All right, let's get out of here on time. We'll
do that with me telling you about Kobe Stevens Apparel.
Kobe Stevens is it's an unbelievable golf shirt brand. They've
got a new line of outdoors clothing, fishing clothing, God
pardon me, hoodies and shirts and everything you need for

(46:03):
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keep the hoodies will anyway, gonna keep the sun off
your arms, and extremely comfortable, extremely light. The golf shirts
I wear all the time, all the time. I love
that stuff, I really do. They're gonna make you look
so good that when you walk up to the first
te people are gonna stop and look your way and

(46:23):
go have I seen him on TV? Well, they're gonna
think that too, right up probably until the time you
make your first swing. And if, hey, if you're not
a good golfer, that's okay, you're still gonna look like one.
Just hang around, just kind of hang around the putt
and green hitting two footers, make every one of them. Wow,
that guy must be a pro because he's practicing to

(46:45):
make sure he doesn't miss short putts. When what you're
really doing is just styling, looking really good because you're
in Kobe Stevens stuff and not wanting to make a
farther putt, a longer putt because you probably miss it.
It's okay, it doesn't matter if you miss, as long
as you're styling. That's what golf's half about. So long
as you're styling, got your music going, you got your
cap on backwards, if you're young enough for that to

(47:06):
be something you want to do, and looking good. Kobe
Stevens Apparel, Kobe Stevens golf stuff. They've got a store
up on the north side of town, I believe, up
in Spring. You can go see all their stuff there,
or you can go online and shop.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
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good deals they got.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
They even got some shorts and pants coming in, so
check that out as well. Kobe Stevens dot com. That's
the website, Kobe Stevens dot com. All right, second hour
starts now. I'm tired of snakes. We've had so much
snake stuff this morning, and it's it's good, it's fun
to talk about, and it's a very very informative, I

(47:46):
think to some of the people who still I hope
it's informative, and I hope maybe every now and then
that I could change the opinion of somebody who who
really truly does hate snakes and wants to kill them all.
It's okay to hate them, I don't mind that. That
doesn't mean you have to whack them with a shovel,
not at all. So the fishing stuff, everything's been wide

(48:10):
open and better. Actually, I was listening on the way
in this morning to my friends down the dial and heard.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Cliff talking about how Cliff webbed my buddy.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
From down there meant the world's most awesome trout trip
we made many years ago. That story I've told enough
times that I won't tell it again unless somebody calls
us specifically asked and says they've never heard it. But
the bottom line is, you know, the fish has been
great in the surf, and I was down there two
weeks ago, and Cliff and I even laughed about it.

(48:43):
While I was down there. Fishing had been really good
before I got there. Fishing got really good again after
I left, and conditions weren't horrible when I was there,
but I just couldn't find a fish to well other
than skip jacks ladyfish.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
I caught a bunch of those.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
I caught probably fifty feet of those, and not many
of the ones I caught were even a foot long.
It was kind of crazy, honestly, but the bottom line
was it just didn't work out. It's been good, though,
It's been very good for the last little while, and
I hope it continues for everybody. He was talking this
morning about seeing red fish in the tops of waves

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when he was out surfing, seeing there had been some
snook caught, and I actually heard tell of a snook
when I was down there, but I didn't catch it myself.
All of that stuff, there's big trout in the surf,
and up here the fishing's been good as well. The
conditions for fishing are going to be far better than

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for waterfowl hunting. So I'm kind of glad duck season
is not open yet. The bottom line is, it's just
an awesome time to be in Southeast Texas if you
like the outdoors. And from here where we are, around
the greater Houston area, you're never really more than an hour. Well,

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let's give it an hour and a half, maybe two hours.
A two hour drive will get you into the rolling
hills of the hill Country a little bit. It will
get you into the East Texas piney woods, It will
get you all the way to the coast. Two hours
from downtown Houston would get you to probably at least

(50:28):
two or three, maybe four or five good bass lakes,
and we have dozens of them in this state. Just
goes on and on. Let me go talk to Will
and see what's up.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Will. That's what's going on?

Speaker 15 (50:39):
Man?

Speaker 13 (50:40):
Go and Doug? How you doing this?

Speaker 4 (50:42):
I Margan?

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Great? Where are you am? I reading? This correctly.

Speaker 13 (50:47):
Yeah, I am south of soup Ball, South Dakota, on
my way to Tuttle, Oklahoma. I'm a truck driver.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
What you hauler at.

Speaker 13 (50:57):
Right now? Frozen fresh fries?

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Oh my god, somebody somebody got a haul of.

Speaker 13 (51:03):
Uh you know you run a little uh fast food
chain called Bronze. Okay, they've got them. They've got them
up in the Dallas area as well as Oklahoma. Well,
I'm I'm hauling a load of French fries them.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Well, they're probably anticipating your arrival.

Speaker 13 (51:22):
Hopefully I'm supposed to be there tomorrow morning. So hopefully
right now I'm looking for a place to stop by
about two o'clock so I can watch the Texas OHU game?

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Good call?

Speaker 13 (51:33):
Uh see if see if Texas smokes O you this year, hopefully.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
We'll see what's some one of your rye this morning?

Speaker 13 (51:39):
Man, Well, I want to give you a little, a
little quick update on a golf tournament that I shot in.
I called a few weeks ago and I had a
little uh golf tournament that I shot in up in Fargo,
North Dakota, about two weeks ago. And UH, funny thing
is is the first time I've actually picked my golf

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up in almost ten years.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (52:04):
I thought for sure I was gonna break the bank
with a handicap, and I ended up surprising myself and
I shot a seventy nine to.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Get out of here. Good for you, you know why,
because and this is something I talk.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
About on the the psychological side of golf. You went
into that round with no expectation whatsoever. You're just gonna
go half run okay, And so you were relaxed. You
didn't have a hundred swing thoughts. You just just let
instinct take over. And because you had been a really
good player at some point, clearly it worked out very

(52:38):
good for you.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Man.

Speaker 13 (52:41):
Yeah. And the surprising thing, I was on a course
I'd never been on before, I'd never even seen before.

Speaker 8 (52:46):
But it was for charity.

Speaker 13 (52:48):
My company put it on and it was for charity
for a school up there far Ages, and so it
was for a great a great benefit. And you know,
it was a bunch of truck driver was in office personnel,
and it was just a great time all day long.
I was tired of all get out, but you know,

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I had a great time. But the other thing I
had on my mind, I was about three weeks ago
when I was at home. I lived in South Louisiana now,
but I was home and I got a phone call
from a buddy of mine who his property was was
getting overrun with hogs. SnO Wald Farrell Hall.

Speaker 9 (53:30):
Ye.

Speaker 13 (53:31):
So he asked me if I wanted to come come
help him weed him out for a weekend. I said,
you know, I ain't gonna pass up a chance to
go get a couple of hogs. So first night in
the woods, Friday night, we was in the woods and
we brought out a five hundred and fifty pound Russian
black bear Hall. He had five and a half inch tusts.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Oh my gosh, he was huge.

Speaker 13 (53:57):
And the funny thing is we didn't kill him. We
sent some dogs in. They pinned him up, and then
we've got my buddy's got another dog. He's a takedown dog. Yeah,
And we said that we sent Brutus in. Their dog's
name is Brutus. Sent Brutus in there, and he just
took him to the ground and held him, never broke
the skin or anything. We actually went in there and

(54:19):
handcuffed his feet together and picked him up the old
fashioned way on a stick and toaded him out and
put him in a uh in a pin and asked
my boss a, why why you want to put him
in a pin? He said, because I'm going to castrate
him and pat him up, put some fat on him
before before we kill him, which makes a little bit
of sense, you know, But it was. It was a

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whole lot of fun. And to to be able to
get a hold that size, I mean, we got like
three or four of them that weekend. I think we
got four that weekend. Uh you know the other the
rest of them are into two to two fifty range.
But we managed to we managed to get some uh
some pharo hogs off his property. So quit tearing his

(55:00):
his dear lease and and and everything up, you know,
because they just they destroy the ground.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Don't tell him. But there'll be more of them there
next week.

Speaker 13 (55:08):
Oh oh yeah, you can't. You might run them off
for a few days, but they're they're coming back.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
Yeah, they did, just lay low for a couple of
days to he quit looking for him.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
And then they'll be right back.

Speaker 8 (55:18):
Man.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
That's great. From what are you driving now, man? Be safe?

Speaker 13 (55:22):
Be safe, Yes, sir, I'm driving now, planning on, like
I said, plan on stopping about two o'clock. I'll be
about the Oklahoma state line by the time I stopped.
All right, and uh park this big beast and uh
enjoy some afternoon football this afternoon and hopefully enjoy it.

Speaker 15 (55:39):
All right.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Man, you guys are the lifeblood of this country.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
I really respect what you do and I'm glad you're
out there doing it.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Thank you for that, Willis.

Speaker 13 (55:48):
Oh well, thank you for for acknowledging it. A lot
of people say that we're just out here in the
way and we're calling traffic jams.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Well send me their names. I have a little conversation
with them.

Speaker 13 (56:01):
Gosh, man, I welcome them to go to Walmart and
look on the shelves that fall the truck stopped running.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
Yeah yeah, If you guys stop running for a week,
that would not be good for this country.

Speaker 13 (56:11):
I guarantee you, uh know, there wouldn't be good for nobody.

Speaker 4 (56:14):
I guarantee it.

Speaker 13 (56:16):
I appreciate you and I love listening to your show
every weekend, and it gives me something to look forward
to every Saturday or Sunday morning.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Man, Thank you so much. I appreciate that.

Speaker 13 (56:26):
Yes, sir, y'all have a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Now you too audios. Yes, sir, oh, I forgot to say.
Tell him go Longhorns. Any team that's gonna go beat Okay,
any Texas team. I'll root for any Texas team as
long as they're playing, not another Texas team because it
makes it difficult for me because I didn't go to
school in Texas. I went out of state somewhere se
one three.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Two one two five seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
I'm gonna get back to fishing when we get back
from this break and talk about kind the difference between
between becoming a better fisherman every time you go and
just just snapshotting it and forgetting about it, and the
more you kind of work on it, the better it's

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going to turn out for you. Bellville meat Market, this
is that time. Boy, What a magical time of year
around Belleville Meat Market now.

Speaker 15 (57:20):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
They're getting busier and busier every day, not in small
part because of deer season opening up. The bow hunters
are already bringing in their deer come November two. They'll
be seeing deer probably by late that morning, already coming in.
Once the rifle season opens up. In addition of course
to wild game processing year round, which they do extremely

(57:44):
well and have for many, many years.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
This is also the time of year when you got
to start thinking about the holidays. Maybe turkey's okay, And
that's a big hint right there.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
They've got those big old I think they're about eleven
eleven to thirteen pounds somewhere in there, averaging about twelve
pound turkeys that they're smoking up and getting ready for
the holidays. You can pre order one of those right now.
There's also a hint I heard this morning about maybe
a little new flavor coming out from I've got my
buddy Greg let me know that yesterday, So I'm gonna

(58:18):
talk to him again and find out what else I
can be looking for coming out of Belleville Meat Market
in the short term future. There's all kinds of good
things at Bellville Meat Market. You've got beef, chicken and
port cut the way you want, and got appetizers. You've
got these beautiful handmade to Molly's big handmade to Molly's delicious,

(58:38):
absolutely delicious.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
You've got ground.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
Beef, by the way they do this, eighty five to
fifteen ground beef that is to die for. It's delicious.
It's ground right there at Bellville Meat Market. There's no
middle man. It's just right from the basically from the
cow to the grinder to your grill, and it's gonna
be some of the best burger meat, the best stuff
you put in us too, whatever wherever you put it,

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it's gonna be the best you had. Belleville Meat Market's
been around for forty something years. Taking care of they say,
taking care of the greater Houston community.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
I say taking care.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
About half of Texas, because I've heard from people from
all over this state who go to Belleville Meat Market
on a pretty regular basis. Great processing, great meal. By
the way, every day, seven days a week, ten am
to seven pm, you can get a delicious lunch or
dinner of pecan smoke, barbecue, pull poor, homemade hot dogs, all.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Kinds of stuff.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
Belleville MeetMarket dot Com is a website there about fifteen
minutes north of Sily, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead on
Highway thirty six. Or if you don't want to drive
that far, you can't drive that far. Although I don't
know why you wouldn't go online get something sent to
your door. They'll send just about anything out of that
store right straight to your door Belleville Meatmarket dot com.

(59:54):
Belleville meat Market dot com. Right before I told you
about Belleville Meat Market, and I didn't see it before
I came on the air or before I talk to
you about them, I got another a text message from
from Greg, my buddy who works with me with them,
and basically they're not ready to reveal that new flavor.

(01:00:16):
But from what I'm reading here, Greg's had a taste
of it, and it is available at the Belleville Meat Market,
so you might want to go out there little samples
of it. Not you can't buy it yet. I think
it's gonna be another couple of weeks. But when you
get out there and get your deer processed, you can

(01:00:38):
ask them to do that new flavor for you. That
may just make me ride out there. That may just
make me ride out there. I gotta tell you, because hmm,
if it's anywhere near, anywhere near as good as all
the other ones they've been doing, oh Lee cow seven

(01:01:01):
one three two one two five seven ninety, email me
Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
I want to.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
Stay with the fishing thing, and I'm gonna talk about
the difference between making well you can make chicken salad
out of chicken feed. By approaching a fishing trip, there's
there are two outcomes that are gonna happen. Okay, It's
either gonna be a when you when you get up
not good.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Actually, whether it's a good trip or a bad trip,
it can either be can either be really productive or
really educational. And if you don't take pause after bad
trips to analyze what went wrong and why you didn't
catch a bunch of fish or well, and hunting as well,
why you didn't shoot a bunch of ducks or why

(01:01:49):
you didn't see any deer or whatever, if you'll just
take a minute, and by a minute, I mean some
serious thought time.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Put a little thought into what went wrong, what.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Decision you made, what action you took, what plan you
tried to develop that didn't work. And you could blame
it on the animals, you can blame it on the fish,
or you can blame it on yourself. But there's some
something was different about that day than some of the
other better days that you've had. And if you can

(01:02:23):
determine what that is, you can you can make notes
and tell yourself. Okay, I'm not gonna do this anymore.
I'm gonna change that. I'm gonna get in the stand earlier.
I'm gonna get on the water earlier. I'm gonna stay
on the water later. I'm gonna change lures earlier. There
are all kinds of questions you can ask yourself that
are gonna make you a better fisherman or a better

(01:02:44):
hunter or whatever, better golfer.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
But I'm sticking with the fishing and hunting right now.
Don't talk about that later. And if you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
Don't talk to any of these guides who have been
on the water for twenty thirty years, and they will
be able to tell you. And by going back and
looking first, probably if they've been on the water that long,
they started out doing hand written notes when they came
in from fishing that day. Where did I take my customers,

(01:03:16):
How many fish did we catch? What were the conditions,
what was the tide schedule, what was the wind, what
was the water? All of that is written down somewhere
and they have access to all that stuff. And now
with the advent of electronic note taking, you can I'm
sure there's a way to set up charts where you

(01:03:37):
could go back and search for days with wind under
ten miles an hour. If you set it up right,
you can or days when there was an incoming tide,
or days when there was an out going tide, days
when it was cloudy, days when it was sunny.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
All of these things can be fed into.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Your computer and I'll ump another rung ahead or another
rung up the ladder and bring AI into it. Hey,
artificial intelligence based on all this information I've shoveled into
your brain, what's the forecast for tomorrow for fishing for
specl trout on lures?

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
And it can be done. It's there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
We We have some software that we use around here
that can access just a boatload of information that used
to take hours to gather. U This this tool that
we're using gathers all that same information in seconds, and
it really is a game changer. It really truly is

(01:04:40):
a game changer. So if you're not doing that for
your fishing and hunting trips, you're you're wasting valuable time
that could have been spent more productively.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
And that's just that's a fact.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
That's one of the upsides to the new technology that's
out there now, and it start start keeping good records
of what you doing outdoors and refer to them often
and set them up as something that can be compared
back and forth from day to day, from week to week,
season to season, and just see where the see where
the sweet spots are.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
That fascinates me. That's one thing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
That that the the incoming generation, the younger fishermen, fishermen
younger than say thirty, they're already dialed into how to
use electronics, how to use AI, how to use all
of this new technology. And if they'll take advantage of that,
if they'll take advantage of that, they'll be better outdoorsman

(01:05:35):
for it. And like I said, it's never a waste
of time to go hunting or fishing or whatever it's
I don't I truly believe that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
It's just it's so soul cleansing, so relaxing for me
to be outdoors, just casting and casting and maybe getting
a bite. Maybe not.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
If I'm not getting to bite, I'll start thinking about
where I should move to, or maybe whether I.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Should go take a nap and come back later. Whatever.
But it really just.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
It It helps me unload all of the baggage I
carry around from working the way I do, and we're
saying it'll do the same for you whatever work you do,
and take advantage of that stuff. Seven one three two
one two five seven nine email on me dougpick at
iheartmedior dot com. Tell you what heaven. Let's let's go

(01:06:23):
ahead and punch out here. And by the way, if
you've got a system and you're willing to share it,
and I know I got a couple of guides listening
this morning, I'm almost sure of that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
If there's a any kind of a program you found
that helps you assimilate all this information and and bundle
it and warehouse it in one site where you can
access it easily, and you've got headers and got spreadsheets
and all that stuff, I'm curious.

Speaker 3 (01:06:51):
I'll start doing that. I do enough fishing and hunting
that I could. I could gather up some information and
make it work. By the way, speaking of technology, I'm
gonna be doing well. I've been doing some podcasts with
my friends over at Carter's Country, and when we get
a significant library put together, I'm gonna go ahead and

(01:07:12):
cut them loose. Right now, I think we have I
believe we have six already done, and when we hit
about ten or twelve. I'm gonna go ahead and add them,
and then we're gonna start adding at least at least
one a week and maybe more. And we're going to
dive into some well, the easy stuff, the low hanging
fruit would be gun safety, at range etiquette, but we're

(01:07:36):
also going to get specifically into some really really fine
print of the hunting and shooting sports. And I think
that'll be valuable to anybody and everybody who will listen
to these things.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
I'll let you know more about that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
The name we have on them right now is Things
that Go Bang, and that's going to include all of that,
just generally the hunting and shooting sports.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
We're going to cover it all before it's over, before
we hang it up.

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
It's it's all gonna get covered. I can promise you
that that's that's my commitment to them, and there's to
me seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. On the way
out American Shooting Centers Boy speaking of good places to
go shoot and learn about the shooting sports out on
the west side of town between Highway six and Katie

(01:08:25):
on West tim Or Parkway, it's the largest non military
shooting facility in the entire state of Texas. That's how
big American is. They've got three sporting clays courses. They've
got ten I think it is trap and skeet fields.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
It might be eight, it might be twelve. I'm not sure.
It's a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
They have five stands setups all over the property.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
They have a beginner's wing shooting area.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
They have a pop up rim fire range that goes
from I think twenty five yards out to two hundred
and fifty yards. If you think you're good with your
twenty two or you want to get a youngster shird.
It started on rifle shooting, try that place out for
a little while. They've also got, of course, pistol and
rifle ranges from five yards out to six hundred yards.

(01:09:15):
And the six hundred yard people, that's something you have
to qualify for to even go set up down there.
And once you do, and once you're in, if you want,
in fact, if you want to just learn something about
long range shooting, this morning would have been a pretty
good morning to do it. Little crisp Bear, little cool Air,
little calm air. Those long range people come out of
the woodwork for that, because that's ideal conditions for them.

(01:09:39):
Six hundred yards long ways down there. Just drive by
and look at the targets down there. They look like
they look like the heads of pins across a room,
But those folks can shoot them if you're having trouble
hitting bull's eyes or breaking clay targets. They've got professional
instruction in every shooting discipline out there, and it's very
user friendly, too old school stuff as you I have

(01:10:00):
to wait for a range kid to come out and
pull your targets for trapping skeeed or sporting clays, or
you have to do this, or you have to do
that and rely on other people. Not at American shooting centers.
It's very user friendly, and that's courtesy of the owner
at RIGGI who took the place over a long time
ago and vowed to make it just that still safe

(01:10:21):
as ever. If a range officer says something to you
about something you did, just say thank you for letting
me know. I'll never do that again, and remember not
to ever do that again. They're gonna make it safe.
They're gonna keep everybody safe. There's eyes on you no matter.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Where you are on that property.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
American Shooting Centers dot com, Safe fun, enjoyment of the
shooting sports American Shooting Centers dot Com. Doug flike Shaw
on Sports Talk seven ninety I've got a lot going
on in here, man, and this machine is loading just
as slow as Charristmas. Oh my gosh, come on, come on, Oh,

(01:11:00):
let me click this and refresh it. See if I can. Nope,
I'm gonna have to go sign in. I gotta sign
into something here. Hold on one second. Well, maybe I do,
Maybe I don't. It's not telling me I need to
sign in. Let me try and pop a camera here
and I'll find out, see if I can get it out.
I'm looking at the cameras down on the beach and

(01:11:22):
I'm trying to get a good view because I have
a hunch.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
Yeah, oh yeah, it looks nice. Man, woo, it looks nice.
The golf of Mexico is it's it's kind of it's wrinkled,
but it's not white cap.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
And even from the sixty first Street fishing pier of
you there. Now, there might be a little bit of
something on the beach, but oh boy, holy cow.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
If if you wanted to see the golf of Mexico
looking really pretty again.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Now might be the day.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
I am looking all the way from hold On, I'm
gonna go over to Sabine Pass, just to make sure
from Sabine all the way to and I may get
I may get all the way passable. Yeah, all the
way down into Mexico somewhere. I don't know where it
might be.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
And even.

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
I would say one hundred miles inland, maybe more. Yeah,
there's fifty miles there, so yeah, fifty to seventy five
miles inland and from Louisiana to Mexico. No double digit
wind readings Right now along the coast, I'm looking at

(01:12:36):
threes and fives and zeros and pretty much next to
nothing's all showing as out of well, mostly showing as
out of the north or northwest.

Speaker 4 (01:12:49):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Interestingly though, the general flow from offshore is coming on shore.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
But it's just nothing. It's going to be a beautiful
day on the beach, a very very beautiful day.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
You found it, Okay, I tell you what you want
to do. You think you're up for this? You know
how to play? Do you remember how to play?

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
Evan?

Speaker 11 (01:13:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:13:12):
Yeah, I got you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Okay, So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna play
an episode or an edition of the Texas Temperatur Game,
and we're gonna need a player who is interested in
playing some golf uh at one of a couple of places.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
And I also have some other prizes I have. Hold on,
let me get this envelope.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
If somebody wins, I'll just give them some options and
we'll we'll peel something out of this stack and.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Make it work. Uh, give Ebbing a call. Evan's gonna
determine which caller gets chosen. And it's a simple game,
and you're not gonna lose, Okay, it's just fun. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
Go ahead, give a call if you want to play
and earn yourself a dandye prize from the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
And we'll do it from there. We'll do it from there.
Those see, those have expired. I got to take those
out of the mix. Those have expired. They come out
of the mix. I'll have to let the guy know
who sent these to me because they had a couple leftover.
Will be good. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me, Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. So

(01:14:20):
as soon as somebody decides they want to, oh, I'll
tell you what else I have in addition to golf. Okay,
here's what you could play for golf at black Horse
Golf Club. Okay, you and a buddy go play some
golf at black Horse Golf Club. I've got Mario's Seawall
Italian and pizzeria.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
I got a fifty buck card for there, or a
little place down there also that's called Little Daddy's Gumbo
Bar if you've heard of that. And there's a oh,
the Gumbo Diner. I don't even know what the woo.
Somebody's gonna get some good stuff. Somebody's gonna get some
really good stuff. I've even got something here from Monster Fishing,

(01:14:59):
little one hundred dollars off a charter if you want
a discounted charter with some of the best fishermen down there.
I know those guys. Let's get Tony wants to play. Okay,
So here's what we're gonna do, Evan, Are you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
Ready, Tony.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
I'm gonna put you on hold of you well not,
I'll just let you hear the music too, and we'll
get all excited and we'll see what's going on.

Speaker 5 (01:15:17):
Is it hot? Is it cold? We'll find out on
the Texas Temperature games, because you're.

Speaker 7 (01:15:28):
Cold.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
All right, here we go. I gotta write this down.

Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
Hold on, Okay, I've got it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
All right, Tony, here we go. So do you want
to go first or second? I'll go first, All right, Tony.
What do you think is the current low temperature in
the state of Texas?

Speaker 9 (01:15:57):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Five fifty five? Okay? Evan, what do you think is
the current low temperature in the state of Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:16:07):
I'm gonna say sixty.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
One, sixty one, okay, Tony. What do you think is
the current high temperature in the state of Texas? Seventy nine? Okay?
And Evan, what is the high temperature in.

Speaker 5 (01:16:26):
The state of ninety six?

Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
Ninety six at eight forty in the morning.

Speaker 5 (01:16:32):
Oh, at eight forty Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Not for the year, Evan, Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:16:36):
I thought it high for the day we're talking about
right now. I mean, we'll keep it on it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
I will keep that answer, you'll keep ninety six.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
Well, well, we've just wasted our time, me and Tony.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Yeah, Tony, you did pretty good. Your hold.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
Your total differential was thirteen degrees or seventies. Yeah you were,
let me see hold on, Yeah, you're thirteen degrees. Evan
missed the low temperature by thirteen, so that that horrible
guess he made on the high temperature. I won't even
tell you how far that was from the atwell, yeah

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will twenty three degrees off. So Evan, you may have
set a record for wrong but that's okay. That helps
Tony out either way. And it's okay, Evan. It's okay.
You're rusty, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
So what are you thinking, Tony? Did you hear my choices?
And there's actually ah no, I did not. Okay, you
got a golfer two at black Horse. You got Mario
Mario's Seawall Italian in Pizzeria, I got fifty buck card there.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
You got Little Daddy's Gumbo Bar another fifty bucks, or
you got the Gumbo Diner. Or you got one hundred
dollars off of Monster Fishing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Charter Golf of black Horse Golf at black Horse. It
is okay, Evan. What you need to do is well,
I'll tell him what he needs to do during the break.
That's not a problem. So thank you, Tony, and I'll
put you on hold.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
And that way, Evan can pick you up and get
your information, and who knows, I might see you up
there at black Horse.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
I'm up there a good bit, no problem.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
Go have some fun, man, Thank you appreciate your playing.
Oh my audience is getting better and better at this, Evan.
They're getting better and better.

Speaker 8 (01:18:21):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
That's good and that's okay. You're rusty ninety six degrees.
It's the crack of dawn. Man, I don't think I
got the rules explained to me.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
You forgot Yeah, So what were you thinking, like the
high for the week or something.

Speaker 5 (01:18:37):
Oh, I was thinking like the highest of today.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
No, so you know, because we might do this again tomorrow,
so you know. So it's the current high, the current low,
and just right, snapshot boom.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
All right, So I'm gonna move on. You go take
care of him, and I'll tell you what. Yeah, it's
about time. We can go ahead and take a break
all the way out. I'll tell you about rafter v services.
If you lost fencing in Barrel or any other time,
or your fence is just kind of like ours in
the neighborhood is thirty years old in a lot of cases,
and it just looks like.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
Hard garbage driftwood.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
Check out rafter V Services, Preston Vaughn's company, and actually
he is one of the sponsors. You probably just heard
it a few minutes ago of this week in US
military history, and I greatly greatly appreciate him and his
crew and his company for doing that. He also, by
the way, is working in my neighborhood on my fence.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
He's working on my fence today. He worked on a
neighbor's fence yesterday, and.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
He still got a lot more of a pretty good
sized job to knock out in the next couple of days.
Rafter v can handle huge fence jobs. He's gonna build
me a little gate. And if you go to their
website and take a look around Raftervservices dot Com and look,
you'll see the quality of the work this young man does.
He and his crew he started just dragging a lawnmower

(01:20:02):
on a golf court or on a golf cart and
going to neighborhood houses. And he has built up and
built up his business ever since he was a teenager
to where he's one of the best in the business now,
especially with fences. He does lighting, he does he does water,
he does irrigation, water he does. You name it, he

(01:20:24):
does it. If it's gonna make your yard look better,
that's what he can do for you. But the fences
are his expertise right now, and he's certainly got room
for a little more business if you want it. I
chose him to do mine because I've seen the quality
of his work, and I'm looking at it. I'm watching
from the upstairs window, watching the others get theirs done first.
Mine's gonna be kind of on the tail end of

(01:20:44):
the job and perfect, absolutely perfect. Everything I'm seeing. They're
taking their time, they're doing it right. You're gonna love
the fences he puts up. Raftervservices dot Com is the
website Raftervservices dot Com.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
Benine on Sports seven ninety, that's my show.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
I work, boy, that's that takes me back to the
dance disco days.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Is there a hold on? Let me see if I
can guess the year on that one. That would be
nineteen and seventy eight. Can you tell?

Speaker 9 (01:21:19):
Do you know?

Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
Nineteen seventy seven?

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
Oh, that's not bad, not a bad guess, man. Yeah,
that was. That was a different life of mine, a
totally different life when I was actually DJing in some
pretty hot clubs around here.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
It was a lot of fun, and I got actually,
at one point I ended up going over to Atlanta
and opening a club over there.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
Somebody just walked up to me.

Speaker 3 (01:21:46):
After a after a shift and at two o'clock in
the morning and said, hey, we've been coming in and
listened to you for a while and wondered if you'd
want to go open a club for us. And I
ended up taking time off from where I was and
and going over there. I want to say, I was
there six or eight weeks something like that, and just

(01:22:08):
got to practically build that thing out, got to put
together the sound system, and they ordered all the stuff.
They had everybody come in and hook it all up.
Got to go to a what was then a record store,
which you there's no such thing anymore, really, because there's
not enough vinyl to go around to fill a store,
but a record store with a shopping cart, and just

(01:22:28):
filled it up with all these these yeah, just every
hot disco song there was, and had to sit there
and listen to them one by one and count out
and measure out the beats per minute, because that's how
you blended songs back then.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
And uh, yeah, it was fun. I had a good time.
I really did seven one.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
Three two one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 11 (01:22:55):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
I want to stick with the fishing part and making
sure that you you take advantage of your fishing and
get the most out of it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
And that goes for lower selection, It goes for all
of that. And I'm not talking about stopping in the
middle of a trip and pulling out a notebook or
pulling out your phone or your iPad and typing stuff in.
Hopefully you'll be able to remember enough of the day
to accurately chronicle it in your diary if you will,

(01:23:25):
and get the information there. Every one of the fishing
guides that I used to fish with back when I
was at the paper and I was young, and they
were young and they were developing the skills they have
now pretty sure every one of those guys did that,
because that's the way that you get better is by
learning from your mistakes. It's so much easier now, so

(01:23:49):
much easier for fishermen to learn a lot of what
they need to know just by going to YouTube and
going to the internet for all kinds of instructional videos,
all kinds of instructional ideas on getting better God Alan
ways in DJ what topless bar were you at? I

(01:24:10):
was at none of those. I was at none of those.
Alan for the record, that was back in the disco
days of.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
What were they like?

Speaker 3 (01:24:20):
Nylon shirts and big gold chains and platform shoes and
bell bottom pants. And that's a dreadful visual for me
right now thinking back to the way we looked when
we were out there emulating John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever. Evan,

(01:24:41):
You're lucky you didn't have to live through that generation.
That was kind of weird looking back on it, it
really was.

Speaker 5 (01:24:47):
I think that's how we all looked back to the
generations when we were growing up as kids or younger people.

Speaker 2 (01:24:53):
Are you old enough at this point to look back
a little bit to some earlier part of your life
and think, man, I looked like an idiot back then.

Speaker 5 (01:25:03):
I think even in the moment, I was like, man,
I look like an.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
Idiot every morning. That's where I am.

Speaker 15 (01:25:09):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
What happened to me? What happened to the guy who
used to be out there dancing and work un till
two o'clock in the morning, actually working till about two
thirty or three by the time you got out of there.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
And then two or three of us buddies.

Speaker 3 (01:25:24):
Of mine and I, who were all in that industry
and all absolutely love the outdoors, we would leave directly
from work, go to ihop or Denny's or whatever waffle house.
I don't even know if we had one of those
around here, but someplace and get breakfast, and then drive
straight to the beach and go fish all morning long,

(01:25:47):
and then stagger back up the highway to our apartments
or townhouses or whatever and crash for four or five hours,
and then go right back to work and do it
again if we had a good morning that morning fishing,
and we'd do it again the next day and just
keep going till we couldn't go anymore than take.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
A day off.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
But oh, it was like it was NonStop, You're either
working or fishing. And we played a little raquetball back
then too. It was good stuff, man, a lot of fun,
and the fishing clearly the park that's stuck. I've continued
to be that obsessed with fishing. I don't get to

(01:26:28):
go as often as i'd like anymore because just the
life intervenes. There's all kinds of stuff to do. I
got a thirty year old house, I got a sixteen
year old son, and so I've got plenty of stuff
going on. But every chance I get now I have
become a little more picky. I'll confess that I have started.
Even at the.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
Golf course lake, which is pretty it used to be
a slam dunk, honestly, for twenty thirty fish in an afternoon,
couple of hours of fishing. It was that good. And
since the cormorants found it and destroyed, virtually destroyed entirely,
that fit, not quite all.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
They didn't get all the bass, but they got most
of them. And now an afternoon, two hours in the
afternoon on a bad day, I might get one bite,
maybe two on a good day.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
On a good day, I might get six, eight ten bites.

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
And that's a quarter of what it would have been
on a good day. It really is. It saddens me
that the lake has become that, but it's just part
of the turnover. Those fish are regrouping and rebuilding the
population because the cormorants exhausted that population to the point

(01:27:45):
that there was nothing for all those cormorants, and by
all of those I have pictures in my phone right
now of literally hundreds of cormorants just shoving bait across
a lake and pinned up against the shoreline to where
hundreds of birds in the water, another one hundred or
so on the shoreline, and pretty much every other big

(01:28:09):
fish in the lake just ate.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
Up the food supply, ate up the food.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
Supply, and now there's nothing not enough for the cormorants.
And by the way, cormorant also will eat a foot
long bass. I've seen video of that. That disturbed me.
It really did when I realized that they were still
still poaching, as I like to look at it, still
poaching fish that large out of the population.

Speaker 2 (01:28:33):
So anyway, I think they're.

Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
On a recovery trend right now, and it may take
two years, it may take three or four. But those cormorants,
the hundreds that invaded that lake for a couple of
years when the shad hatch got to be about two
two and a half inches long, they're gone.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
I haven't seen them in a while, and I have
seen at least one more good hatch go off without
this monstrous influx of cormorants. Hope springs eternal as they say,
let's go ahead and take this break here at the
top of the hour. All right, welcome back to Doug
Pike Show on Sports Talk seven to ninety. I'll slide

(01:29:09):
into the golf golf world.

Speaker 3 (01:29:12):
Slide into the golf world here for a little bit
and tell you about what's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
Hang on, I've got to make a little note here. Okay,
there we go. Note mate, Uh, the PGA Tour has
got another event going on. You won't, at least I
don't see. I'm looking.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
Hold on, let me look a little farther down the
list to see if anybody of major note in the
golf world is in this tournament. And by that, I'm
not knocking the games of anybody who is playing in
this tournament, because I'm here to tell you the thing
that everybody on this leader board has in common is
that every one of them is better than probably all

(01:29:54):
but maybe one or two or three people who might
be listening to this.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
Program right now.

Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
They are members of the PGA Tour, and that designation
tells me all I need to know about how many
strokes i'd need them to give me to even have
a snowballs chance on a hot sidewalk of competing on
a level playing field. Even Let's see who's struggling the most.

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
They're not even through their second round, by the way,
they must have had some sort of weather delay yesterday
always probably that front that's headed our way that's gonna
make it so gloriously cool on Wednesday. I'm looking down,
looking down, tied for one hundred and twenty third, one
twenty fifth. Couple of people with drew. Some poor guy

(01:30:44):
named Dustin Volk is fifteen over par, he shot eighty
seventy seven. Guy named Martin Trainor fourteen over par seventy
eight seventy eight. Both of them have finished those second
rounds they can beat. They're packed up. They're probably at
the airport already or be left yesterday afternoon. And some
fellow named jay Don Blake ten over par. You know

(01:31:05):
what that tells me, They just had a couple of
bad days. You don't get in those fields unless you
can absolutely positively golf your ball. Now flip side to
the top of the leader board, where we find Steven Jaeger,
that's the name I've heard of. Certainly he's at fourteen.
He shot sixty five sixty three. While those other three

(01:31:26):
guys were kind of stinking it up, and it happens.
Adam Spencer and Ben Coles at thirteen, Harris English and
Sam Ryder and oh two more, Hendrik Norlander and Matt McCarty.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
There's a big pop up ad in the middle of it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:40):
They're at twelve under par, eighth, all by himself, Lee
Hodge is at eleven, ninth, all by himself, Carson Young
at ten under par, and it goes on from there
with some recognizable names.

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
For people who follow golf at all.

Speaker 3 (01:31:56):
But certainly not the ones you would expect to see
at maybe a US Open or any of the other majors,
or even a big regular and I'll wrap that in
quotes regular season golf tournament. Nonetheless, they're out there in Evans, Utah,
banging away in the Black Desert Championship and trying to

(01:32:18):
finish up that second whoa where did that come from?
Trying to hypologies, trying to finish up to say, it's
not a big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:32:27):
If that's the worst thing that happens today to me
or you, then we're gonna have pretty good days, I
would say.

Speaker 16 (01:32:33):
So.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
Anyway, that's what they're doing. They're finishing up. The cut
line on that one is at five under par, which
kind of makes those higher scores seem a little worse
than they are. But nonetheless, these guys are all pros,
and they're all Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:32:49):
I admire anybody who's ever even played in a single
PGA Tour event, because just to get that, just one
start on the PGA Tour takes a lot of ability,
much more so than most anybody around here would get.
I'll go back to a story that I've mentioned a
few times on the show over twenty four years.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
Some of them are going to come back up. It's
probably been been at least fifteen years ago.

Speaker 8 (01:33:13):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:33:14):
A guy bumps into me in the break room, the
coffee room, if you will, and says, hey, man, just
what I'm thinking about doing.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
I have no idea I'm thinking about playing, this guy
tells me, and he on the on the then called
Champions Tour instead of Tour Champions. That's how long ago
it was, it was the Champions Tour. I said, really,
how's your game? He said, yeah, yeah, you know, I'm
playing a lot better now. I'm yeah, I'm I'm getting there.

(01:33:46):
I said, well, what kind of scores you're shooting?

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
Well, I'm all the way down in the low eighties already,
and I figure, if I just put a little work
into it, you know, and and get after it, probably
could be ready to play in a year or two.

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
And I thought to myself, Okay, so you're planning on
in a year or two going from being just an
amateur who can't even probably win the low net championship
at a local club anywhere, to being able to compete
with Bernard Longer, who's out there. Just pick them, pick them,

(01:34:25):
anybody on the senior tour, on the Tour Champions it's
called now, most anybody in that field would probably beat
him by six or eight strokes even today, even if
he has practiced the entire time since I talked to him,
and I didn't have the heart to tell him how
hard it is and how accomplished the people against him.

(01:34:46):
He'd be playing against people who have won major championships
on the Tour Champions, anybody whose aspiration is to join
that tour, thinking, you know, I missed my shot with
the regular PGA, but I'll try this. How about you
just go try one of the third tier tours and
they're out there, try one.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
Of those and see how you do and see if
you can break ninety under the pressure of playing for
live for your livelihood, because you're gonna have to put
up an entry fee that's gonna be probably more money
than you've ever even bet on a golf course, and
then you're gonna have to perform with guys who have

(01:35:29):
been taken this seriously since they were probably in middle school,
maybe even earlier, who knows. That's one thing, by the way,
that if you're if you've got a son or daughter
who's aspiration is to play golf, don't put them in
golf and golf exclusively year round until they're at least
in high school. That was the That's not my advice,

(01:35:51):
that's the advice of two tour pros, too young tour
pros who I had the the great honor of interviewing
before one of the Shell Houston opens here years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
There were a lot of kids in the audience.

Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
I got to host this Meet the Players kind of
a thing that is offered to most tour destinations, most
tour facilities as a Wednesday or Tuesday evening, a Tuesday
evening affair, and the people who the players who volunteer
to sit there and answer questions and shake hands and

(01:36:24):
sign a few autographs. The players who do that get
out of the obligation to play in the Wednesday Pro Am,
which is fair, which is I think fair.

Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
And I got two really good guys one year. It
was I can't remember.

Speaker 3 (01:36:38):
I did it for several years, but it's a lot
and it was a ton of fun, it really was.
But these two particular young players, I asked specifically because
there were a lot of young people in the audience,
when that young athletes should focus on a single sport,
and almost in Unison, not in harmony, but almost in Unison,
they both picked up their microphones and said, high school

(01:37:01):
before that, it's much better developmentally. They said, to play
any and every sport you want to play. And even
if a kid wants to play golf all year round,
and I'll wrap this in quotes, encourage them to play
a different sport for at least one full season so
that their bodies can develop completely. Because if you get

(01:37:24):
really good at doing nothing but golf for your entire youth,
you're gonna have amplified the ability there, but you're gonna
have lost development of some of your other muscles, maybe
some of your other ligaments and tendons and all these
things that have to go together. And I almost have
to stop and look at Tiger Woods as an example

(01:37:46):
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
He was a golfer from the time he was old
enough to hold a golf club. And how many surgeries
has he had so far? A whole lot. Let me
go talk to Mike real quick. Then I got something
else I want to talk about. Hey, Mike, what's up?

Speaker 8 (01:38:01):
Man?

Speaker 11 (01:38:02):
Talking about robotics swings? The other day, I was thinking
way back when I used to pattern my golf swing
and putting stance after Arnold Palmer.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
That's a good one.

Speaker 11 (01:38:16):
And I was thinking about Doug Sanders and his three
quarters back swing and John Dailey that, you know, just
going at.

Speaker 2 (01:38:24):
It as hard as he going like a windmill.

Speaker 11 (01:38:27):
I'm telling you, And you know, after watching these guys
on TV, I figured, you know, I got to stop
watching these guys and pattern my swing after them. Just
go out there and swing like you know I want
to swing, yeah, and what feels natural. And after a
while you figure out what you're doing wrong and you
try to correct it, and that's when the problems starts.

Speaker 3 (01:38:49):
You know, one of the things and I'm going to
talk about this in the next segment. I'm glad you
brought that up, Mike, because one of the things that
I emphasized when I'm in the middle of a round
and some guy says, oh man, i'm hooking the ball.
I gotta fix this. I'm gonna change this and this
and this, and they start talking about making almost major
swing changes in the middle of a round of golf. Yeah,

(01:39:11):
and that's that's a really big mistake as well. That
the fix is gonna be something really unless you've just this,
it's the first round of golf you ever played the
fix of something that you some flaw that shows up
in one random swing. Maybe just to leave it alone
and ignore it and forget it and just go back
to what you know, and at worst it's gonna be

(01:39:33):
a very minor adjustment to something.

Speaker 9 (01:39:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:39:36):
Usually it's in your stance and in your back swing.

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
Oh yes, setup, it's set up, grips, dance, imposture. If
those three things are right, then you're already about eighty
percent on the way to a good swing.

Speaker 11 (01:39:48):
It's all I got, Bud.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
That's plenty. Thank you appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
Yeah, if you're trying to fix your swing in the
middle of a round other than something that you know
you I have done wrong, and well, I'm, for example,
I'm in the middle of a swing change now that
Tommy O'Brien helped me with over two fifteen minute casual
conversations on the range in the last week and a half,

(01:40:16):
it's boy, I've got I'm excited about golf again. I'm
no longer frustrated. I'm excited and I'm going to talk
to him. I tried to get him on the show
this morning, but he's at Blackhawk and the member guest
is ongoing yesterday, today and tomorrow at Blackhawk, and he said,
he said, I am booked solid with lessons from nine

(01:40:36):
this morning till one this afternoon, so that kind of
knocked him out of here. I'll have him on next
week and I'm going to talk about how he helped
me with two very subtle changes too, I mean very
subtle little changes, left everything else alone and really just

(01:40:59):
got me just to pink. I need to take a break.
I'm running a little bit late. I want to tell
you about our coffee in here too. I'll tell you
right now before I go to the break. Evan do
you drink coffee. I don't see a cup on there
in there.

Speaker 5 (01:41:10):
Now, usually drink coffee. I'm drinking some tea right now.
But I like coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
Well, this morning there's a pot of buy you Blend
to coffee in the k t H newsroom, and it's
usually pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
But this mornings by you blend is more just like Bayou.

Speaker 5 (01:41:26):
It's just a lot more by you, a whole lot more.

Speaker 3 (01:41:28):
Yeah, they didn't blend whatever they blend in, they didn't
blend in enough in this pot. It's not as bad
as there's a Guadamlin something or two, whatever it's called
that I don't that's man, that's like motor oil. That's
that's high test right there. All right, we got to
take a break on the way out. Phoenix Knives let
me tell you about them. This is a guy named
Cowboys Emanski. I have interviewed him several times over the years.

(01:41:52):
I'll probably do it again before we get much closer
to December, because the custom knives that come out of
the Phoenix Knives Phoenix Knives out there in Belleville are
absolutely incredible. He and some of the other knife makers
who work alongside him and who have learned from him
create some of the most beautiful blaze that you will.

Speaker 2 (01:42:14):
Ever see in your life.

Speaker 3 (01:42:15):
And there are knives for every function that you can
think of where you'd need to pick up a knife
and take care of it. They have beautiful knives that
you can put in a sheath and wear proudly around
your belt. Just hang it on your belt and walk
around deer camp. Let somebody ask you what it is.
Then pull that thing out of that sheath and go.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
Check this out. They're absolutely gorgeous knives. A couple of
their makers do folding knives as well, if that's what
interests you more. And he started in nineteen seventy nine
and has since grown that business to the point where
he is now. Actually, he used to be in an
original blacksmiths store out there on Main Street in Belleville,

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which was kind of cool and historic. Now he's had
to expand into much more space.

Speaker 3 (01:43:03):
He's there, I think he said, he's in five thousand
feet five thousand square feet of knife making, of clinics
and classes and seminars on how to build your there's
some of these things. You can actually go out there
and build your own knife right there at Phoenix Knives.
There are offerings of you can shadow basically Cowboys Lemanski

(01:43:26):
the penultimate knife maker, certainly in this day he's the ultimate.
He's not even the penultimate. It's a big fancy word
I misused right there. It's the best I know, that's
for sure. And there's a program where you can shadow
him for a day or two and really just immerse
yourself in the fine art.

Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
Which is what it is of knife making. They do
tomahawk throwing two. They have parties out there, they have
casual tours out there. There's a whole lot.

Speaker 3 (01:43:55):
Of things you can do at Phoenix Knives in Belleville,
in that new big place. They're open up and running.
I'm gonna get out there and see him. I gotta
do that. Cowboys Amanskie. Phoenix Knives dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:44:08):
Is the website that's p h E n i X
Phoenix Knives dot com. I want to talk about Tommy.

Speaker 3 (01:44:16):
And his and my discussion and conversations. The last couple
of times I've bumped into him out there, I had
an issue.

Speaker 2 (01:44:25):
And one of the reasons I say this is if
talking about golf in this hour and I'm gonna I'm
gonna stick with it at least through this segment.

Speaker 3 (01:44:32):
So let me get Brandon first, because I know he's
a busy guy. Stand by, I'll talk to him. Then
we'll get to the golf stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
Brand what's up this morning, buddy?

Speaker 9 (01:44:41):
Under Okay, you said golf. I haven't played golf.

Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
That's okay. You don't have to play golf to listen
to this part of the program. You can learn something
about it if you do.

Speaker 9 (01:44:52):
Yeah, I will.

Speaker 2 (01:44:56):
What can I do for you this morning?

Speaker 9 (01:44:58):
Are you doing this morning?

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
I'm fine, man, it's a good, beautiful morning outside.

Speaker 9 (01:45:03):
It's a nice day.

Speaker 8 (01:45:05):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
Indeed, I'm gonna take full advantage of it too, after
a little nap, I think though. That's for saying he's fantastic.
Man can't hardly.

Speaker 9 (01:45:14):
Keep up with him.

Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
He's well, they got I don't know. You're out of school, right, Yeah, okay,
I was in school. You were in school, and when
I was in school anyway, we didn't get well, I
don't even think Columbus Day existed when I was in school.
But we didn't get what they got. They got two
and a half days of vacation. They got out Thursday

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at noon from his school and don't go back until Tuesday.
Oh no, I don't know, well what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:45:45):
I get they start school like it in the middle
of August and finished school in the middle of May
or June or something. I don't know, but anyway they
get every time they turn around, they get a vacation.

Speaker 8 (01:45:59):
Sounds fun, huh.

Speaker 2 (01:46:01):
I wish I was like that. That'd be good.

Speaker 9 (01:46:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm done. It's cool. Golf. I'm gonna
probably hit some malls.

Speaker 2 (01:46:12):
Let me tell you what that is. That would be
a fun game for you.

Speaker 5 (01:46:16):
Do you have to do?

Speaker 3 (01:46:16):
You get you get frustrated or impatient if something doesn't
go right the first time.

Speaker 2 (01:46:22):
No, okay, perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:46:23):
Then there's a great sport for you if you will
give a little time to it a couple of times
a week. I promise you, Brandon that you'll I don't
know if you'll fall in love with the game, but
you'll like it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
I bet you will, because there's a great sense of
accomplishment that you get eighteen times when you get it
go around a golf course. It's fun, it really is.
I think you'd like the game.

Speaker 7 (01:46:44):
Yeah, I'm gonna try to get a golf game on
the five.

Speaker 2 (01:46:50):
Yeah, start there. Sure that, Yeah, get that PlayStation going
in and play golf there and you'll kind of see
how fun it is. There's I don't remember the name
of it, but my son has one.

Speaker 3 (01:47:02):
And we used to play it all the time back
before he decided I didn't know anything anymore.

Speaker 9 (01:47:06):
What PlayStation does he have?

Speaker 3 (01:47:08):
Oh gosh, I don't even know. I don't even know, Brandon, honestly, what's.

Speaker 9 (01:47:12):
The name of it? What golf game is it?

Speaker 2 (01:47:14):
I can't remember. If I remember, I'll say it during
the show here, but I can't remember what it is.

Speaker 9 (01:47:20):
Not if the numbers that as your son, and.

Speaker 6 (01:47:25):
Yeah, and I.

Speaker 2 (01:47:27):
Will find it, okay, Yeah, I'll send a text and
I'll let you know if I find it. All right,
all right, man, I was okay? Thanks? Bye bye.

Speaker 8 (01:47:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:47:39):
I think Brandon would enjoy golf. I really do.

Speaker 3 (01:47:41):
I truly do, because it's just such a it's relaxing.
It can be frustrating at times when you you think
you are going to make a good swing and you
make a bad one. But what you have to learn
to do, and it sounds like Brandon's got the patience
for it, you have to learn to just ignore that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
That was a bad shot. Maybe I'll hit a better
next time, maybe I won't. Doesn't matter because you're not
trying to make a living playing golf. Playing golf for
most of the people I know. There're a couple of
people who I know who still play golf for a
living and they have to work at it very hard.
That's their job, and they work at it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
The rest of us are going out there to have fun,
maybe to raise some money for a charity.

Speaker 2 (01:48:23):
It doesn't matter what score you shoot.

Speaker 3 (01:48:26):
Don't get frustrated by golf. I have a friend who
actually I watched him throw a driver over a mature
pine tree, through it that high in the air, through
that driver up and into the pines, as high as
the tops of the pine trees, and then let out
a sad, squatch like yell of some of the most

(01:48:50):
vulgar words that have ever been yelled in one string.

Speaker 2 (01:48:54):
And I said, Man, what's the deal.

Speaker 6 (01:48:56):
Ah, it's just.

Speaker 2 (01:48:57):
A horrible shot. I hate golf. I can't stay golf.

Speaker 3 (01:49:00):
I said, well, you got two choices, the player don't play,
but you don't have to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (01:49:06):
And I gave him the same advice I've given a
lot of people over the years. Carry your business card
in your pocket, and every time you hit a bad shot,
before you scream, before you throw something, grab that business
card quick and look at it and look under your name.

Speaker 2 (01:49:21):
And if it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
Say PGA Tour player under your name, then just get
over yourself and keep playing, have some fun, don't scream.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
And yet it makes no sense at all. So back
to what Tommy and I talked about. Oh A, let's know,
I'm gonna do that.

Speaker 3 (01:49:34):
I want to give full, full attention to this and
I don't want to have to break up in the
middle of it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
So I'm gonna go ahead and ask you to hang on.

Speaker 3 (01:49:42):
I'll tell you what Tommy and I talked about, and
I'll tell you how it helped me, not just not
just a specific instruction he gave me, but what I
learned on top of the swing thoughts that's gonna make
me a better golfer.

Speaker 2 (01:49:56):
One more time. I'll tell you about Kobe Stevens. It's
that helps me look good.

Speaker 3 (01:50:01):
I'm gonna be wearing Kobe Stevens on Monday when I
play in a tournament over at Sweetwater. I'm ninety nine
percent sure I'm gonna pull one of those shirts, because
I've actually got I think three or four now, and
I absolutely love them. They're fantastic, your beautiful golf shirts.
They have dozens of styles at the website Kobe Stevens
dot com, or there's actually a store up in Spring

(01:50:24):
where you can go and actually put hands on and
try them on to see what size fits you.

Speaker 2 (01:50:29):
And then at that point you can.

Speaker 3 (01:50:30):
Go back and just sit around on your couch watching
TV and order stuff offline because you know exactly what
size you need to wear.

Speaker 2 (01:50:38):
They have an outdoors line that's out now.

Speaker 3 (01:50:41):
It has hoodies, it has t shirts, it has a
button down shirt, a more traditional fishing style shirt that's
absolutely gorgeous and one of the most comfortable shirts I've
ever put on. I actually wore that thing to work
one day and I had two people come over and
just kind of grab the sleeve of that shirt and
rub it between their fingers.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
This kind of creepy. Really one of them. I don't know,
what are you doing, man, trying to ask me out
or something.

Speaker 3 (01:51:05):
Anyway, the long and the short of it is, he said, no,
I just noticed that shirt and it looked really soft,
and it was no beautiful shirt.

Speaker 2 (01:51:13):
Beautiful stuff. Everything Kobe Stevens has at that website. You'll like.

Speaker 3 (01:51:18):
There's men's sizes, there's women's sizes, there are plus sizes.
One of my buddies actually went to that site, and
I heard back from Kobe because he had asked, says, hey, man,
do you think they have like double XL and whatnot?

Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
I said, yeah, I'm pretty sure they do.

Speaker 3 (01:51:34):
And Kobe called me a little later in the day
and said that somebody right after that he heard it
on the show, And right after that, about ten minutes later,
somebody was on the website and ordered up a double
XL shirt.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
Good stuff. You're gonna like it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:51):
No matter what size you are, no matter how bad
or how well you play golf, you're gonna look like
you play better than you do when you're wearing Kobe Stevens.
Look for me on if you're gonna be out there,
but for me on Monday. I guarantee you I'm gonna look.

Speaker 2 (01:52:04):
Good Kobe Stevens dot com, even if I don't swing well.
Kobe Stevens dot Com, nine.

Speaker 3 (01:52:10):
Thirty six on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show,
Thank you for listening.

Speaker 2 (01:52:13):
Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:15):
So let me go back to talking about instruction generally
and my buddy Tommy specifically. Tommy sent me a nice
text this morning when I was asking if he could
do a segment on the show, and he said, he
reminded me we go back to He says, when we
were throwing golf balls at that alligator.

Speaker 2 (01:52:35):
What I remember about that story.

Speaker 3 (01:52:38):
It was out at the training station, which was a
nine hole place, which basically.

Speaker 2 (01:52:43):
Three three hole loops where.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
Jim Murphy, who's had who moved over to Sugar Creek
and has been there forever. He is a If Sugar
Creek's open, he's probably standing there on the tea line
giving somebody a lesson. He and tom Byram owned the
training station down there south of great Wood on Crab
River Road, and Tommy called me one he was an

(01:53:10):
assistant out there. Then it's that long ago, many years ago.
He called me and said, hey, man, if you want
to get some photographs of a big alligator.

Speaker 2 (01:53:18):
I got one. Now, this guy hit a ball into.

Speaker 3 (01:53:20):
The reeds and went over there to get his ball,
and this alligator came running out at him. Well, that
alligator was a female guarding a nest, and she had
no intention of letting that guy get anywhere near those
eggs of hers. And so I jumped in the car
and I drove down there. And when Tommy jumped in

(01:53:42):
a cart and took me out to where it was,
I think either that guy had just I don't know
if he'd even gotten his bag back yet he left
his He just dropped his bag and took off running
all the way back to the clubhouse.

Speaker 2 (01:53:55):
And it may have been me who had to go
get his golf bag for him. I wasn't that worried
about it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:58):
But the bottom line was when it came time for
picture shooting out she came, I got close enough, and
he had parked in the cart on the fairway, about
twenty yards behind me, and I kept walking over, walking over,
waiting to see what was gonna happen. And sure enough,
she trots into about halfway out of the bushes at first,
and then and then a little farther, and now she's

(01:54:21):
all over the fairway and mad at me and hissing
and raising her head and just doing all this aggressive
behavior trying to get me out of there. And I'm
figuring Tommy's right behind me, and I look around, and
Tommy is not just behind me, He's behind me and
getting farther behind me because.

Speaker 2 (01:54:40):
He's driving off.

Speaker 3 (01:54:41):
He's not liking that alligator at all, and so he
maybe remembers it a little more differently.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
But yeah, we did. We did. I got some great
shots at that alligator.

Speaker 3 (01:54:53):
And in fact, it was I think it was he
who came back when when the dust settled a little
bit after that first charge that that big old female
alligator made at us, and I think he did toss
a golf baller too her way to get her to
keep that mouth open for me and just stay irritated
with us in our presence. How dare we interrupt her

(01:55:14):
afternoon and her nest.

Speaker 2 (01:55:17):
It was good. I did get some good shots, though
I do remember that.

Speaker 3 (01:55:19):
In fact, I was looking through some stuff looking for
a photograph from some goose hunts years ago, and I
pulled out the alligator file, and I think I.

Speaker 2 (01:55:29):
Think that some of those shots were from that day.
So back to the.

Speaker 3 (01:55:35):
Effectiveness of golf lessons specifically, And maybe I'll do fittings
another time, because I'm already I'm yapping my way out
of time. But a golf lesson is something that can
greatly enhance your chances of ever becoming a pretty good
golfer without taking fifteen years to figure it out yourself.

(01:55:58):
A golf lesson should start art with just like I
talked about a little while ago, grip stance and posture.
Grip stance and posture, those three things are going to
establish a foundation on which it's kind of like building
a house. You got that's the slab of the house
is your stance, your grip, and your posture. And if

(01:56:20):
all those three things are set up right, then it
makes it a little easier to put yourself in positions
to go all the way back and then come all
the way through balanced in the right sequence, and with
all all your body parts moving the right way.

Speaker 2 (01:56:37):
Now for everybody, for everybody, golf.

Speaker 3 (01:56:42):
Swings look very much similar now because we have so
much information on what an ideal and I'm rapping that
in quotes, what an ideal swing looks like that teachers,
some teachers, especially younger teachers, are pretty much teaching out
of a book.

Speaker 2 (01:56:59):
That's this is how everybody should swing. The older and
more mature these teachers get, and the better they get
at their craft, and that doesn't it doesn't have to
happen at a certain age. It can.

Speaker 3 (01:57:11):
There are a lot of very good young instructors, and
there are a lot of older instructors who just never
change their ways and aren't really going to help you
that much. But a good instructor is going to, after
the first few lessons that get you in the right place,
gonna now start analyzing your ability to get yourself into
to turn a certain amount, or to stay balanced enough

(01:57:36):
to use your legs a little bit more in your swing.

Speaker 2 (01:57:40):
All these things come into play. And what Tommy was
showing me in my swing, I only had to move
my body. My stance looked pretty good, he said, he said, but.

Speaker 3 (01:57:52):
I want you to move your your head and with
it it's gonna go your body.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
I want you to move it back an inch. One inch,
thats it. That was it. And moving back that one inch,
all of a sudden, I went from hitting a very
low irons almost across the board to hitting the ball
as high as anybody on the range. And I would
have never thought that possible.

Speaker 3 (01:58:19):
And what I was doing to try to fix it, actually,
he told me, and I talked about this a couple
of weeks ago when it actually went down.

Speaker 2 (01:58:25):
He said, you know, what you're doing is gonna make
it worse.

Speaker 3 (01:58:29):
I didn't sit well with me, and it humbled me,
and it made me realize that this is why good
golf instructors become great instructors, because they can look at
something that we don't even see in a golf swing
and help you fix it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:47):
Yesterday, it was another little thing.

Speaker 3 (01:58:50):
That he seed. He planted in my head about using
my legs a little more in my swing, and within
five minutes, all of a sudden, I'm seeing I'm seeing
things I've just never seen in my golf swing, and
I'm thrilled.

Speaker 2 (01:59:05):
I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (01:59:06):
I'm really eager to get to Monday morning and get
to go work it out. I'm probably gonna go to
the range tomorrow today and tomorrow afternoon and just kind
of try to hammer some of this into my head
before I get to this tournament. Because while you're learning
a new swing, your tendency is going to be to

(01:59:26):
revert to your old swing, and the swings that are
gonna be the worst among all the swings you make
are the one where you try you got about half
the old swing and half the new swing, and that's
that's just a train wreck. The train wreck swing, the
one that looks the worst, the one that ends up
being a shank or a dead pull hook into the woods,

(01:59:50):
or you top a ball and it rolls forward off the.

Speaker 2 (01:59:54):
Tee instead of flying.

Speaker 3 (01:59:55):
That kind of stuff is what happens when you when
you're halfway into the new swing and your body says, no,
I'm gonna make the old swing. You might as well
have the head fly off the club. Good heavens, I'm late.
I gotta take a break on the way out. I'm
gonna tell you one more time about Carter's Country, which
has been around for sixty plus years, helping pretty much
in anybody who is in who enjoys the shooting sports,

(02:00:19):
who enjoys hunting to do so all the more.

Speaker 2 (02:00:22):
They have three stores around town. They have been around
since the nineteen sixties.

Speaker 3 (02:00:27):
Okay, this is a family run company that's been around
since the sixties, Which ought to tell you how dedicated
they are to doing just what it says on the sign, guns,
AMMO and hunting stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:00:41):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:42):
That's what's in those stores, and a lot of people
who know a lot about all three of those things.
They can help you with any aspect of shooting. They
have every accessory you can imagine for hunting or target
shooting or whatever it is you're doing.

Speaker 2 (02:00:56):
Mostly hunting stuff though.

Speaker 3 (02:00:57):
The original owner with the man and who founded that company,
Bill Carter, was one of the most amazing and knowledgeable
deer hunters I've ever met in my life.

Speaker 2 (02:01:07):
He has still has, the family still has.

Speaker 3 (02:01:10):
He passed years ago, several years ago, unfortunately, and was
one of my best friends up until that day. I
called on him often for help with deer hunting, and
he knew more about them. He taught me more about
them than anybody I've ever known, and the family is
following in his legacy his tradition of continuing to do

(02:01:32):
all of that.

Speaker 2 (02:01:33):
The som Burrito Ranch.

Speaker 3 (02:01:34):
Down there near Laredo one of the most incredible deer
ranches you'll ever be on in your entire life if
you get the opportunity to go there. There's Cotton Mesa
up in Colorado that's an elk hunting operation that's one
of the most amazing I've ever seen. And then of
course the stores down here where you can buy pretty
much anything you'd need to go have an incredible experience

(02:01:55):
anywhere you are in the field, whether you're at a
range shooting. They've got that range up on tresh Wheez.
You can go in there and you buy yourself a gun.
You buy yourself some AMMO, make sure you got honey
or ear and eye protection. If you need instruction, grab
an instructor by the arm and say, come on out here,
teach me how to shoot this thing. And you'll get
all of that and more. From Carter's Country you have
for sixty plus years. If you don't know the brand,

(02:02:18):
go in one of the stores, or go online and
take a look at exactly what they can offer to you.
Carterscountry dot Com is a website, Carterscountry dot Com.

Speaker 2 (02:02:28):
This is gonna be nineteen. I want to stick with
nineteen seventy six on this one.

Speaker 5 (02:02:38):
It's gonna be nineteen seventy eight.

Speaker 2 (02:02:40):
Dang it, I wanted to go seventies.

Speaker 5 (02:02:42):
When the music video was released, I don't know, maybe
okay first either way.

Speaker 3 (02:02:47):
Either way, it's still the YMCA and grown men and
women still do that if you start that music. There
was somebody had a recording of that, and I think
it was up in New York City, maybe Busy Busy
crowded street and just had kind of a big speaker
system or probably one of the little portable speakers would

(02:03:07):
have been fine, and just turned it on, just turned
the song on, and people stopped in the sidewalk and
the crosswalk, people stopped to do go through the motions
of YMCA.

Speaker 2 (02:03:20):
During that song? Would you do that? No? I didn't
think so, all right? Can you hear me?

Speaker 8 (02:03:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:03:32):
Oh, okay, I was just I was I was asking
you if you would do I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (02:03:36):
I was looking at you and said, can you would
you do that? And I didn't think about it. I
was you not realizing I was asking you. That's okay,
Oh send it, no to you. I've got him teed up.
I'll talk to him. Okay, Forrest, did you hear that?
Would you do that if somebody if you're just walking
through the middle of Alaska and somebody turned on a
speaker playing Ymca, would you stand there and go through

(02:03:57):
the motions?

Speaker 6 (02:03:59):
Man?

Speaker 4 (02:04:00):
I'd probably have to. It's like an impulse reaction. You
don't have any control over it. You've got to do
at least once.

Speaker 2 (02:04:07):
Okay, Okay, well, I'll watch I'll video it. No, I'll
post it. On your page, perfect what's going on?

Speaker 4 (02:04:13):
I did a couple of hits on that.

Speaker 2 (02:04:14):
Did you already go fishing? No?

Speaker 4 (02:04:17):
I just left.

Speaker 16 (02:04:18):
I just left me a good breakfasting over your start
like crapp You don't have to get up at daylight.

Speaker 2 (02:04:22):
That's a good point. Do you think you think you
got them now?

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
Is the temperature changed enough that you think they're gonna
get pinned down in that tree?

Speaker 4 (02:04:30):
I'm hoping so uh hope.

Speaker 16 (02:04:32):
I don't have a crappy, crappy day, but you know,
but but not, I'm gonna go give it a try.

Speaker 4 (02:04:38):
But yeah, I actually had a I'll actually update you
on that tomorrow. But I actually had a had a
golf question come something on my mind, all right, because
I know I'm trying to, you know, going.

Speaker 16 (02:04:48):
To donate my Smistonian Smithstonian clubs to some archives somewhere.

Speaker 2 (02:04:55):
Museum somewhere. Who needs those clubs?

Speaker 9 (02:04:59):
Lord?

Speaker 16 (02:04:59):
But now it's curious, what type of putter would you recommend?
Because they got so many that help you line up
the ball is yeah there, but you don't hear people
talk putting too much.

Speaker 3 (02:05:10):
It's all out there, and I would recommend to you
that you could just drive to the nearest actual golf
store or even even academy carries a reasonable selection of putters, okay,
and they'll have someplace where you can test it out
and just pick up a bunch of them. Pick up
one and make sure that it feels comfortable where if

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it's too short or too long, you'll know it, because
if it's too short, you'll feel like you're bending over
trying to pick up a nickel, and that's that's gonna
be too short. If it's too long, you're going to
take a comfortable grip on it, and there's still going
to be about three or four inches of grip showing
above your hands. So just take that putter and close
your eyes and just put your get into your stance

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what you think is your putting stance, since we don't
have anything to go on, but wherever you feel comfortable
like you'd be putting, and then just kind of look
at the putter and see where you are. I find
one that that's gonna help you be fit to it.
There's a lot of other factors, but that's something to consider.
And then almost every one of those places is gonna
have a few balls on the ground and a couple

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of little practice cups on some little fake putting surface
and just just play with a bunch of them and see, I'll.

Speaker 17 (02:06:23):
Give I'll give that tracks. I know, I know I've
got people that won't bring money to the putt.

Speaker 4 (02:06:26):
Course. I'll mean no more so I said, but on
the price is right, I guess I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:06:34):
There you go, yeah, man.

Speaker 17 (02:06:36):
Yeah, but I'll I'll get out there today and see
what you is. I don't know if I'm gonna go
back up with you and I win. I'm gonna I'm
about to drive down the boat wrapped by my house.
I may go out there and kick a poot creek.

Speaker 16 (02:06:45):
Yeah, because there's a there's a place you have to
go through a little s curb. We call it to
get up Kickapoo creek, And right now I don't think
it might be navigable.

Speaker 4 (02:06:54):
So there's a chance that my fish up here by
my house been un harassed for a little while.

Speaker 2 (02:06:58):
Yeah, okay, so.

Speaker 4 (02:07:00):
Unheassed croppy are a lot easier to catch it.

Speaker 2 (02:07:02):
I bet they are, man, I'll bet that you and.

Speaker 4 (02:07:04):
I there might be a little there might be a
little boat traffick with the holiday.

Speaker 3 (02:07:06):
This week up for you and I went, so, yeah,
that's a good point. There's gonna be more boats on
the water no matter what.

Speaker 4 (02:07:12):
Huh, yeah, well we were.

Speaker 16 (02:07:15):
You know, you're out in the middle of it, so
there's no place to hide from the boats.

Speaker 4 (02:07:18):
Get around the house today and I'll give an update tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:07:21):
All right, do that. I gotta go. You know, you
know who's on the other line that I got to
go talk to until we get out of here, which
is close. Take a guess, start with the hells. Yeah,
let me go get him.

Speaker 4 (02:07:34):
Tell I'm going to look for some stupid crappies.

Speaker 2 (02:07:36):
All right, man, I'll see you for Wayne Rix. I
bet you got tired of listening to him, didn't you.

Speaker 15 (02:07:44):
Well, I started laughing when you I have seen Forrest
do the y mc dance on the front of that boat,
you know, between troll and motor commands.

Speaker 4 (02:07:55):
He catches.

Speaker 15 (02:07:56):
He catches about two fish in a row and I
catch nothing, and he'll do the y m c. A Hey, Forrest,
I'll bring you a putter.

Speaker 5 (02:08:03):
I got thirty. That don't work for me.

Speaker 2 (02:08:05):
Josh, there you go, yeah, help him out. Will have
you seen his golf clubs?

Speaker 12 (02:08:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:08:09):
Holy can do?

Speaker 8 (02:08:10):
They should be in this. They should be in the
Smithsonian this.

Speaker 2 (02:08:13):
Yeah, I don't think any golf museum would take them.

Speaker 15 (02:08:17):
I'm heading there now with my grandson. I just left
work to fish this after Yeah, we're gonna try to
fish this afternoon.

Speaker 5 (02:08:23):
Uh but uh yeah, I'm glad.

Speaker 15 (02:08:26):
I just got in the car head and pick up
my mother and we're heading up to Livingston here to
have a couple of nights and uh wave runners and fishing.

Speaker 5 (02:08:34):
So it's gonna be fun.

Speaker 15 (02:08:35):
School's out Monday for the holiday, so you take my
buddy up there and have some fun. Yeah, man, have
a good weekend.

Speaker 5 (02:08:42):
But you too.

Speaker 2 (02:08:43):
Let me know how you do. Lane, all right, I
will all right give us call them all see men
audio sip only cow the music playing. It's time to go.

Speaker 3 (02:08:51):
I can't believe we got all the way through this. Wow,
that was fun, man, that was that turned up pretty well.
I think Adam or Evan I enjoyed it.

Speaker 5 (02:08:58):
Come on now, sorry, I just I don't know where
that came from.

Speaker 2 (02:09:02):
It's been a while. I was looking.

Speaker 3 (02:09:03):
Actually I was looking at somebody named Adam in an email,
so that was where it came from.

Speaker 2 (02:09:07):
All Right, I'm gonna get out of here. For today.
Dan Matthews is up next Sports City Saturday. I'll be
back here tomorrow morning to day. I hope you can
join me again then. If you're going outdoors today, give
me a report tomorrow morning, will you. Let's let's figure
out how all of our regular old folks are doing
with their fishing and hunting. That's it for now. Stay safe,
Please talk to you then. Audios